Biden Intelligence Community Breaches Authority to Target the Right

Townhall

 Julie Kelly

Instead of prioritizing resources to confront the menace posed by America’s foreign adversaries the IC is devoting most of its time to pursuing Americans on the political Right.

"The freshly reelected Republican senator from Nebraska had kind words this week for Joe Biden’s intelligence chiefs. “The American people are blessed to have an [intelligence community] as serious as ours,” Senator Ben Sasse said during Wednesday’s Senate Intelligence Committee hearing. He called the group, which included FBI Director Christopher Wray and CIA Director William Burns, “heroes” and wanted a chance to “say thank you” in front of the American people.

"Sasse, who is supposed to act as a fierce skeptic not a fawning cheerleader of the world’s most powerful intelligence apparatus, singled out Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines for praise. “Your opening statement . . . was incredibly strong,” Sasse swooned. 

"Haines, the top deputy to former CIA Director John Brennan during the Obama Administration, undoubtedly marveled at winning such a groveling endorsement from a sitting Republican senator—or perhaps she internally laughed at winning over yet another reliable GOP dupe. (In fairness, most Republicans on the committee joined in Sasse’s praise for Haines.)

"But Senate Republicans should have been outraged rather than starry-eyed over Haines’ opening statement as well as her conduct in office since taking the reins of the intelligence community the day after Joe Biden’s inauguration. Haines is wasting no time accelerating the weaponization of a sprawling organization that is supposed to identify threats to the homeland by foreign actors, not target Americans with the wrong political views." . . .

Ben Sasse Rips Biden's 'Taxpayer-Funded Door Stopper' Commission on Supreme Court 'Reform' by Reagan McCarthy (townhall.com)

Gender-Neutral Mr Potato Head Proves Unpopular with Public, Polls Show

 Neon Nettle

Morning Consult survey reveals majority of public disapproves of the move

"Hasbro’s recent decision to go "woke" and introduce gender-neutral branding for the iconic Mr. Potato Head toy has proved to be widely unpopular with most members of the public, a new poll has found.

"During a Morning Consult survey conducted Feb. 26 to March 1, over half (52 percent) of the 2,200 adults who responded say disapproved of the recent change.

"Twenty percent approved of scrubbing "Mr." from the name and about a quarter (28 percent) had no opinion on the new "Potato Head" branding. 

"The results suggest Hasbro has “[created] a strong net negative sentiment for the new brand name,” Morning Consult noted." . . .

Putin's disrespectful treatment of Joe Biden

Think Pelosi's sixteen-year-old voters will pick more competent national leaders than what we have now?

How to Start a War – PJ Media  . . . "Putin earlier had concluded that Trump was dangerously unpredictable, and perhaps best not provoked. After all, the Trump administration took out Russian mercenaries in Syria. It beefed up defense spending and upped sanctions.

"The Trump administration flooded the world with cheap oil to Russia’s chagrin. It pulled out from asymmetrical missile treaties with Russia. It sold sophisticated arms to the Ukrainians. The Russians concluded that Trump might do anything, and so waited for another president before again testing America.

"In contrast, Biden often talks provocatively — while carrying a twig. He has gratuitously called Putin “a killer.” And he warned that the Russian dictator “will pay a price” for supposedly interfering in the 2020 election.

"Unfortunately, Biden’s bombast follows four years of a Russian-collusion hoax, fueled by a concocted dossier paid for by the Democratic National Committee and the campaign of 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton." . . .

 Ukraine standoff: Putin will bear 'very painful consequences' if troops cross border | Daily Mail Online Biden learned to be a world leader from Obama.

'Washington should realize that it will have to pay a price for the degradation of the bilateral ties,' Zakharova said, adding that 'the responsibility for that will fully lie with the United States.'

"She said the ministry has summoned the U.S. ambassador for a 'hard conversation,' but wouldn't immediately say what action Russia will take. " . . .

 "The response by the UK and US would be heavy on rhetoric rather than military action, thereby providing Putin with another propaganda victory in time for the Russian parliamentary elections later this year. As this game plays out, London and Washington appear impotent, all words and no intervention – because there is simply no desirable course of action for Nato's leading partners to embark upon to influence Russia's affairs.

"This lack of options is as obvious to Putin as it is to anyone else. The reality is only he is in a position to call the shots.

WATCH: Biden Says He Really Gave Putin What-For Over Alleged Election Interference, Proposed Summit This Summer – RedState; Kinda like Obama telling us he told Putin to "cut it out"?

Vladimir Putin Rejects Joe Biden Invite to Meet in Person (breitbart.com)

Insanity Wrap #188: While Biden Bumbled, Putin Went on War Footing on Land and Sea – PJ Media   "With the taking of Crimea in 2014 on Obama’s watch, and Russia’s effective blockade of the Kerch Strait while Biden bumbled, Russia has annexed Ukraine’s biggest port and has now put several others out of business.

"Putin just scored his first big win against a vacillating new administration. It reminds Insanity Wrap all-too-much of the time Kruschev did something similar against JFK in his first year in office, and then decided it would be simply fabulous to put nuclear missiles in Cuba.

"We all know how that turned out." . . .

Biden Declares Threat from Russia a 'National Emergecy' | Neon Nettle

"Joe Biden has signed an executive order to officially declare the threat from Russia a "national emergency."

"Biden signed the declaration on Thursday as the White House hit Russia with fresh sanctions.

"The U.S. Department of State also said it is expelling ten Russian officials from the Kremlin’s bilateral mission.

"Today, we announced actions to hold the Russian Government to account for the SolarWinds intrusion, reports of bounties on U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, and attempts to interfere in the 2020 U.S. elections," Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced.". . .

Let what is happening under Joe Biden ‘be a lesson’

Sky News Australia The “chaos of illegal arrivals” has started up again after Joe Biden scrapped Donald Trump’s work on illegal migration, according to Sky News host Peta Credlin." . . .

“Since the change of president in January, over 300,000 people… have crossed illegally from Mexico into the United States,” Ms Credlin said. 

“ 'In their quest for open borders and global government, the left thrives, on the generosity of good people – and the reality that most people don't know all the facts about refugees, illegal migration, and a nation's right to secure its borders.

“I was not always a great fan of the former US President Donald Trump, but his determination to build a wall with Mexico and stop the waves of illegal migration, at least meant that the flood had slowed – under his term - to a comparative trickle.

  'But because Trump was all bad according to the new president, of course, and his Democratic colleagues, just about all his works had to be scrapped, even the ones that had succeeded, such as his efforts to hinder illegal migration.”

"Ms Credlin said the result of this was “absolutely predictable - this trade in human suffering, particularly in relation to young children” started up again after Joe Biden’s inauguration.

“ 'Let what’s happening in America be a bit of a lesson,” she said.

“' Government’s can’t let misplaced compassion drive their border protection policy. And voters need to be very careful about electing political parties that are conflicted on this issue.”

Democrats (who destroy everything they touch) Set to Introduce Court Packing Bill

National Review’s David Harsanyi dug up a quote from the Roosevelt era that pretty much sums up the whole thing.FDR’s Court-packing scheme, wrote the Democrat-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee in 1937, “is a measure which should be so emphatically rejected that its parallel will never again be presented to the free representatives of the free people of America.”

FDR tried packing the court but was rejected by a wise congress

 Why the Left Is Wrong to Attack Justice Breyer on Court-Packing | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics  "Justice Stephen Breyer needs to get with the program. At least that’s what many on the left think after last week. In remarks made for Harvard Law School, the Supreme Court justice threw cold water on progressives’ desire to expand (i.e. pack) the court. His remarks gave several reasons against it, saying he wished to get those favoring such measures to “think long and hard before embodying those changes in law.” Adding to his transgression was timing; these critiques came out the same week that President Joe Biden took a small step toward court expansion, establishing a commission to study it among other proposals for judicial reform.

"Many progressives set a high priority on adding justices to the nation’s highest bench." . . .

How Could Democrats Defy Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Wishes by Trying to Pack the Supreme Court? – RedState  . . . "Well, fun fact that’s surprising no one: Democrats don’t actually care what Ruth Bader Ginsburg thinks and are more than willing to go against her wishes if it means more power for them." . . .

And So It Begins...Democrats Set to Introduce Court Packing Bill – RedState "House and Senate Dems are ready to introduce a court packing bill that would expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. The bill is set to be announced on Thursday by Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts and Congressmen Jerry Nadler, Hank Johnson, and Mondaire Jones." . . .

Israel Demolishes Super-Secure Iranian Nuclear Facility, and the Biden Bunch Was Not Given Advance Warning

Contempt for the US; no sign of embarrassment in Democrats and their press.

The Iranian official stressed that such an operation takes years, saying “the design of the enemy was very beautiful.”

  RedState  "On Easter Sunday, a massive explosion ripped through the top-secret Iranian nuclear weapons research facility at Natanz. There were some interesting aspects to the explosion. In a way, this was deja vu because, in July 2020, the same facility was hit by a cyberattack that damaged the centrifuge production plant inside the Natanz facility.  Just days before this current event, Iran brought online new centrifuges that violated provisions of the corrupt Iran nuclear deal that Biden is trying to bring back from the dead. The day before, Iran had brought some state-of-the-art centrifuges to accelerate their illegal enrichment program. The notable thing about the explosion was that it took place some 50-meters underground in an electrical substation designed to be impervious to conventional air attacks.

A power failure that appeared to have been caused by a deliberately planned explosion struck Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment site on Sunday, in what Iranian officials called an act of sabotage that they suggested had been carried out by Israel.

The blackout injected new uncertainty into diplomatic efforts that began last week to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal repudiated by the Trump administration.  . . .

More...

Attack On Iran’s Top Nuke Site “Destroyed” Thousands of Centrifuges, Senior Regime Official Admits (legalinsurrection.com)   "The attack on Iran’s top underground nuclear weapons facility appears to have done more damage than previously reported. Sunday’s explosion may have seriously crippled Tehran’s ability to move ahead with large-scale production weapons-grade uranium, a senior regime official admitted.

"The breach left “several thousand centrifuges damaged and destroyed,” the head of Iran’s parliamentary research center, Alireza Zakani, told a state-run broadcaster.

"Following the breach on the weekend, Iran’s most secure nuclear weapons facility has reportedly been knocked out of operation. “The attacked damaged an unknown number of centrifuges – sophisticated machines that make uranium usable for nuclear purposes – and has stopped work at the facility for now,” the BBC confirmed on Wednesday.

"The revelations come as Iran sits on the negotiating table with President Joe Biden’s administration with hopes of restoring the Obama-era nuclear agreement.

"The Times of Israel on Tuesday reported the Iranian admission:" . . .

Fans Are Tuning Out on Woke Sports

 

USA News and Politics  "Last Friday, after President Biden, left-wing activists, and the national media spent weeks peddling lies about Georgia’s new voting law disproportionately impacting people of color, Major League Baseball (MLB) commissioner Rob Manfred caved to the radical mob and decided to move this year’s All-Star Game out of Atlanta.

"In the name of equality, Manfred’s decision will cost Atlanta, a city with a 50 percent black population, an estimated $100 million in economic losses. The game will now be held in Denver, Colorado, a city that is only 10 percent black. As nonsensical as Manfred’s decision was, no one should be surprised by it.

"Over the past few years, it has been fairly obvious to any impartial observer that the higher echelons at MLB, along with those in charge at the National Football League (NFL) and the National Basketball Association (NBA), have made a conscious decision to alienate a large percentage of their fanbase by conceding more control of their sports to the demands of social justice warriors and the tyrannical Left.

"“Silence in the face of injustice is unacceptable,” Sam Kennedy, the Red Sox President and CEO said last year in the wake of the George Floyd protests. In addition to now displaying “Black Lives Matter” on the bleacher seats and on the Green Monster at Fenway Park, Kennedy and the Red Sox have created a “Social Justice, Equity & Inclusion Advisory Committee” that seeks to conduct a “bias audit” of its HR policies, “enhanc[e] ballpark messaging related to racial and social justice causes,” and partner “with an organization with expertise in racial equity and restorative justice.” Many teams have taken similar actions.

"But those in power in the sports business world may soon come to regret their woke decisions, which have begun to alienate fans." . . .

Climate "Emergency"...The next wave of leftist propaganda is hitting America's shores

. . . "Scientific American, a thoroughly woke magazine, convinced multiple major media outlets to reframe "climate change" as a "climate emergency."

Andrea Widburg   "On Tuesday, Project Veritas released a video showing a CNN technical director named Charlie Chester who cheerfully spilled the beans: under the leadership of Jeffrey Zucker, CNN is a pure Democrat propaganda outfit that worked hard to get Trump out of the White House.  With that mission accomplished, it's going to change its propaganda to pushing climate change because "fear sells."  Also on Tuesday, CNS News reported that numerous news sites have promised that, henceforth, they'll be calling climate change a "climate emergency."

"In the Project Veritas video, CNN technical director Charlie Chester explained with great specificity how CNN played the game.  CNN's game isn't reporting the news in an unbiased fashion to help educate people.  Instead, its job is to support Democrats.  "Look, what we did, we [CNN] got Trump out."

"When it came to anything Trump, the point was to paint a negative picture.  Thus, a shaking hand was a neurological disaster.  "We were creating a story there that we didn't know anything about.  That's what — I think that's propaganda."  CNN did the same in reverse for Biden, hiding the decline and showing him as a "young geriatric."

"CNN has a new plan now that it's succeeded in getting Biden into the White House?  Chester explained:" . . .

If CNN is corrupt and devious, isn't MSNBC at least corrupt?

Gaetz Turns It Around on CNN Journo After Network Exec Says Their Coverage of Him is "Propaganda"   "CNN has breathlessly covered purported allegations of sexual misconduct against Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and the FBI investigation into said purported allegations, and now, thanks to Project Veritas, we know that a great deal of that coverage is driven by a desire to destroy Gaetz. CNN Technical Director Charlie Chester said the network is “going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him,” because “He’s a problem for the Democratic Party because he’s so conservative.”

"As my colleague Bonchie covered, Chester said that CNN’s “focus” in the 2020 election “was to get Trump out of office” and that Chester and his colleagues were “more than keen to take credit for putting Joe Biden in the White House.” Chester even went so far as to add a bullet point to his now-deleted LinkedIn account claiming he “played an integral part in the 2020 Presidential elections.” . . .  Much more on this CNN-Matt Gaetz story here: Gaetz Turns It Around on CNN Journo After Network Exec Says Their Coverage of Him is "Propaganda" – RedState

WATCH: Leaked Video Shows CNN Director Admit s Matt Gaetz Stories Are Democrat Propaganda. (thenationalpulse.com)  In a stunning admission, Charlie Chester admits, “If the agenda say, is to like get, like Matt Gaetz right now, he’s like this Republican. He’s a

problem for the Democratic Party because he’s so conservative and he can cause a lot of hiccups in passing of laws and what not. So it would be great for the Democratic Party to get him out.”   

 "Chester then admits, “So we’re going to keep running these stories to keep hurting him and make it so that it can’t be buried and just like settled outside court just and like, you know, if we keep pushing that, it’s helping us (CNN).”

"The news comes one day after CNN published demonstrably false information about Rep. Gaetz soliciting a meeting with President Trump. No meeting was sought, and both parties denied it, but CNN – true to Chester’s words – kept the story on its front page for 24 hours." . . .

Minnesota Resident Blames CNN For Creating BLM Riots On Air…

#CNN (#ClownNewsNetwork) #sarasnider is told what she can do by a protester. #protest #brooklyncenter #minneapolis #DuanteWright #officer #curfew #stateofemergency #BrooklynCenter #riots #Teargas pic.twitter.com/6oyd2jdJmw

— Sn00pster (@sn00pdad) April 13, 2021

From the comments to this post: Altair 

The propaganda ministry needs to hear it from everyone.
"Get the hell away from us and don't say a damned thing. WE want nothing to do with you."

CNN staffer caught on tape admitting network tried 'to get Trump out of office'

“Our Focus Was To Get Trump Out Of Office”

Youtube: A CNN staffer has been caught on camera admitting the network tried to undermine Trump during the 2020 election, calling his own employer a "propaganda" outlet.  "Charlie Chester, a technical Director at CNN, was secretly filmed while on a series of fake Tinder dates with a woman who was an undercover journalist for right-wing group Project Veritas.

"Mr Chester, who was filmed without his knowledge, said the network helped defeat Mr Trump.

" 'Look at what we did, we got Trump out,"Mr Chester said.

" 'I am 100% going to say it. And I 100% believe it that if it wasn't for CNN, I don't know that Trump would have got voted out."

"Project Veritas released the full secret recordings on the group's YouTube account.

"Conservatives have slammed CNN and claimed the tapes showed the network's endemic bias against Republicans.

"CNN has not yet released a statement regarding the story, nor has the network confirmed if Mr Chester is still an employee."

Project Veritas caught a CNN director telling the partisan truth  "Every conservative who's ever watched CNN has known with certainty that the media outlet is acting as a propaganda arm of the Democrat party.  However, when we point that out, we get gaslighted.  We're told that we're paranoid, that we can't distinguish facts from our delusions, and that we're sore losers.  That's why conservatives reveled in Tuesday's Project Veritas video drop because it vindicated them completely.  Charlie Chester, CNN technical director, openly revels in the network's "propaganda" to "get Trump out of office."

"Sadly, when CNN talks, people still listen.  The mere fact that Joe Biden is in the White House, despite a storied career of lies, plagiarism, vulgarity, viciousness, creepiness, and continuously bad foreign policy decisions, tells you that the people who voted for him (and there were real, legal voters who did vote for him) were on the receiving end of some heavy-duty indoctrination.

Latest Assault on Tucker Carlson Over Replacement Theory Backfires

The American Spectator

ADL’s Greenspan, CNN’s Lemon wind up targeting progressives. 

"You can’t make it up.

"The other day, Fox’s Tucker Carlson had the nerve — the nerve! — to make the points quoted below in a discussion with Mark Steyn. The topic: replacement of voters and one culture with a population of new voters and another culture. Said Tucker (bold print for emphasis supplied):

I’m laughing because this is one of about 10 stories that I know you have covered where the government shows preference to people who have shown absolute contempt for our customs, our laws, our system itself and they are being treated better than American citizens. Now, I know that the left and all the little gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term “replacement,” if you suggest that the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate, the voters now casting ballots, with new people, more obedient voters from the Third World. But they become hysterical because that’s what’s happening actually. Let’s just say it: That’s true …

If you change the population, you dilute the political power of the people who live there. So every time they import a new voter, I become disenfranchised as a current voter. So I don’t understand what we don’t understand cause, I mean, everyone wants to make a racial issue out of it. Oh, you know, the white replacement theory? No, no, no. This is a voting right question. I have less political power because they are importing a brand new electorate. Why should I sit back and take that? The power that I have as an American guaranteed at birth is one man, one vote, and they are diluting it. No, they are not allowed to do it. Why are we putting up with this?

""Like clockwork, Tucker’s left-wing critics attacked. Here’s the headline from the Washington Post:

ADL demands Fox News fire Tucker Carlson over anti-Semitic trope: ‘This has deadly significance’

"The story focused on the remarks of the Anti-Defamation League’s Jonathan Greenblatt, the chief executive and national director of the ADL (and, no accident one suspects, a former operative in both the Clinton and Obama administrations). Mr. Greenblatt told CNN’s Brian Stelter that “I think we’ve really crossed a new threshold when a major news network dismisses this or pretends like it isn’t important. This has deadly significance.”

"Also on CNN was my former colleague and anchor Don Lemon with a similar attack on Tucker. Said Don:" . . .

NCAA won't hold championships in states that bar biological males from competing in women's sports

 The Christian Post  "The National Collegiate Athletic Association announced that states with laws or policies prohibiting transgender-identified biological males from competing in women’s sports will lose opportunities to host championship events and tournaments.

"The NCAA Board of Governors released a statement Monday stating that it “firmly and unequivocally” supports “transgender student-athletes” being able “to compete in college sports.”

“ 'Our approach — which requires testosterone suppression treatment for transgender women to compete in women’s sports — embraces the evolving science on this issue and is anchored in participation policies of both the International Olympic Committee and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee,” stated the NCAA.

" 'Inclusion and fairness can coexist for all student-athletes, including transgender athletes, at all levels of sport.”

"The statement explains that NCAA policy “directs that only locations where hosts can commit to providing an environment that is safe, healthy and free of discrimination should be selected.' ” . . .