How a $3,700 ad campaign may have saved the United States Senate

 American Thinker  "Republicans and conservatives often rely on political "experts" who are expensive and ineffective.  One example is the prominent Republican consultant who was hired to win the two Georgia U.S. Senate races in January.  It is rumored that he had a $100-million budget at his disposal.  Well, we all know how that turned out." .  . .

. . . "So it is not the size of your budget that is the key, but how you spend it.  Here is how they spent their $3,700.

"First, they created a website, JoeKeepYourPromise.org, which asked the senator to do just that.  They purchased the website URL on April 1st for $19.  Designing the website cost nothing because it was only a couple of JPEGs of a proposed newspaper advertising insert.  The insert was printed on a single sheet of 8.5 x 11 paper, on both sides.  The JPEGs of the insert contained everything the website needed.

"The group did some research on West Virginia newspapers and struck with several of them in different parts of the state.  These small West Virginia weekly newspapers, the kind that people pay to read, distributed the insert.  These were truly small newspapers.  For example, one newspaper had a circulation of only 1,500, and none of them had a circulation of over 4,000.  As a result, only 17,000 copies of the insert had to be printed." . . .

"The insert was simply worded, and it made sense.  It said West Virginia values are not Washington, D.C. Democrat values, and it asked readers to call all of Senator Manchin's regional offices and remind him of this crucial difference.  The insert also cited the website we created." . . .

Opinion: Joe Manchin: I will not vote to eliminate or weaken the filibuster

"The filibuster is a critical tool to protecting that input and our democratic form of government. That is why I have said it before and will say it again to remove any shred of doubt: There is no circumstance in which I will vote to eliminate or weaken the filibuster. The time has come to end these political games, and to usher a new era of bipartisanship where we find common ground on the major policy debates." facing our nation.

America, what have we done to this nation?

A nation gets the leaders it deserves!

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Joe Biden takes a page from the playbook of the world's tinpot dictators  "If you want a sense of why COVID with its mask and lockdown requirements is so very, very, important to the Biden administration, take a look at some of its curiously repressive actions in just this past week:

A well known veterans' POW/MIA group called AMVETS was denied a parking permit from the wokester Pentagon for its 34th annual Memorial Day motorcycle rally called "Rolling to Remember," on COVID concerns — after a delaying any response at all to the group for nearly a year.  The parking denial left the group, which has leased the Pentagon parking space for decades, less than 30 days to secure another one somewhere else.  They'd obtained the complicated permits for other parts of the event from six other local, state, and federal government agencies, so too bad about that. 

The state of South Dakota was denied a fireworks permit in the vicinity of Mount Rushmore for Independence Day, once again on COVID concerns.  That follows a failed promise from the Biden administration to "circle back" on an already-established Memorandum of Agreement about how to do the event COVID-safely, and then not doing it.  After that, they issued the flat-out rejection, because COVID.  South Dakota's governor, Kristi Noem, is suing.

"What do these two denials of permits have in common?" . . . 

Alan Dershowitz Claims Giuliani Raid Was Political Revenge, Likens U.S. to ‘Banana Republic’  . . . “ 'In banana republics, in Castro‘s Cuba, in many parts of the world when a candidate loses for president, they go after the candidate, they go after his lawyers, they go after his friends,” Dershowitz said. “That’s happening in America now. They’re going after Rudy Giuliani.”

"Dershowitz, who served on President Trump’s impeachment defense team, claimed that a subpoena would have been more appropriate than a search warrant for Giuliani’s apartment. The attorney said he agreed to help represent Giuliani in his case.

“ 'A search warrant on a lawyer or a doctor or a priest? You don’t use search warrants,” Dershowitz said. “You don’t use search warrants when people have privileged information on their cell phones and in their computers. You use a subpoena. The difference between a subpoena and a search warrant is like night and day….It’s just not constitutional.' ”

A Left Turn Toward Biased Ignorance

 Issues & Insights

"With the extreme left culturally ascendant, many of our most treasured and valuable national institutions have become houses of progressive Groupthink. Meanwhile, our nation’s founding principles, basic morality, values and even science have come under sustained hostile ideological assault by both the media and academia. Bias and ignorance have been institutionalized. Sadly, according to a new report, voters bear much of the blame for this.

"No question, America is a mess. But how did it get that way? The simple answer, the poll of voters suggests, is ignorance, along with pervasive media and political bias.

"The study is based on a survey of voters taken shortly after the 2020 presidential election by Just Facts, which describes itself as “a non-profit institute dedicated to publishing comprehensive, straightforward, and rigorously documented facts about public policy issues.”

"The group’s most recent study is eye-opening." . . .

A public school district has declared that government speech is untouchable 

. . . "The more "educated" people are in America, the less they know.  That's because our academic institutions aren't really "educating" people about their government, math, science, or history.  Instead, they have dedicated themselves for decades to indoctrinating children with leftist doctrines. However, here's the good news: at least 75 million (and, I believe, many more) people voted for Donald Trump.  We need to harness that energy, beginning with restoring knowledge to our schools.  There are practical ways to achieve that goal, some of which are set out in this article."

Will the United States become a third world country by 2020?  . . .Keep reading...

Virtue Signaling About Beef Is Not Going To Save The Planet

The Federalist

"On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, founder and executive director of Power the Future Daniel Turner joins Senior Editor Chris Bedford to break down cooking site Epicurious’s decision to ditch beef and prohibit it from the brand’s recipes, articles, and newsletters in the name of saving the planet.

“ 'This attack on food is the most misanthropic position and that is the environmental left, that is the sustainability movement, that’s the environmental movement. They are truly anti-people. They are joyless. They don’t like humanity. They don’t,” Turner said. “When you look at something like this saying ‘we can’t have a healthy planet unless we get rid of beef, that is just purely unscientific and stupid but they’ve fallen for it.” 

 "Turner said he is tired of this unscientific approach and the left’s attempts to ignorantly virtue signal about what they believe will delay climate change." . .

Biden’s Dismal Start; His first 100 days show that he is a captive of the far Left.

Biden’s America measures progress not by growing adherence to its founding principles but by contemptuous departures from them.

Tony Branco

 The American Spectator  "Joe Biden’s presidency is engulfed in a border crisis, a mushrooming mess that has revealed his inability to discharge one of the most fundamental duties of his office. One would think this might figure into any evaluation of his first 100 days as president. But it hasn’t. The media is giving Biden absurdly high marks for his performance, largely out of gratitude for his reversals of Trump’s policies.

"Even though the media sold Biden as a moderate, it thoroughly approves of his ambition to be the “most progressive president” ever. In his first 100 days, he has made a number of down payments on that promise. Only his botched handling of border issues has caused him to hesitate in this progressive agenda. Last week, he considered, for a moment, maintaining Trump’s cap on the number of refugees flowing into the country. But he quickly abandoned that consideration after his left-wing puppet masters yanked on his strings. Woke Democrats howled in protest, and Biden reversed his reversal. So much for presidential leadership. It was a pitiful moment, providing a classic illustration of Biden’s status as a captive of the far Left.

"Biden could have struck a blow for common sense, but he chose instead to pander to the America Last lobby of his party. AOC and company routinely put the interests of foreigners ahead of Americans and call that progress. Biden’s deference to that delusion makes it impossible for him to fulfill his presidential duties. If the Republicans recapture the House of Representatives in 2022, that will be due in no small part to Biden’s ideological frivolity on border issues. An insecure border is bad policy and bad politics, and a president in the end is judged on whether or not he executes the essential functions of the federal government." . . .

During Biden's speech, Sen. Cruz checks his eyelids for pinholes

 

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Sen. Cruz Sleeps Through Biden’s Address To Congress  "A video of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) seemingly falling asleep during Joe Biden’s address to Congress has gone viral.

Thousands have now seen the video of Cruz caught on camera Wednesday night, appearing to be resting his eyes and struggling to stay awake.

"As Biden spoke about the migrant crisis, cameras panned to catch Cruz’s reaction as seen in the [Video] . . .

Even better than this article is the section containing reader comments. TD

The Democrats' Increasing Struggle with Wokeness Is Just Another Sign of the Political Realignment

PJ Media

"Fox News is reporting that the Democrats’ struggle with wokeness is expanding. It started directly after the 2020 election with losses in the House that many purple district Democrats attributed to the radical proposals of the Squad, especially around policing and the summer riots. These more moderate Democrats, responsible for the bulk of the blue wave in 2018, may be in for a startling comeuppance again in 2022. The radical proposals are now coming from President Biden, and Americans are taking note.

"Biden’s 100-day approval numbers showed the only majority support his policies have gained are in response to COVID-19. The administration’s scores on race relations, taxes and spending, China policy, and gun policy are all underwater with Americans. The first to put out a figurative distress signal was longtime political consultant James Carville. When Vox asked him to comment on the first 100 days of the Biden administration, he quickly turned to conversation to his concerns regarding the Democrat Party by criticizing “faculty lounge” politics:

You ever get the sense that people in faculty lounges in fancy colleges use a different language than ordinary people? They come up with a word like “Latinx” that no one else uses. Or they use a phrase like “communities of color.” I don’t know anyone who speaks like that. I don’t know anyone who lives in a “community of color.” I know lots of white and Black and brown people and they all live in … neighborhoods.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with these phrases. But this is not how people talk. This is not how voters talk. And doing it anyway is a signal that you’re talking one language and the people you want to vote for you are speaking another language. This stuff is harmless in one sense, but in another sense it’s not." . . .

CNN Poll: 64% Say Voter ID Requirements Make Elections ‘More Fair’

Hannah Bleau  "A majority of Americans believe basic voter ID requirements, such as requiring a valid photo ID prior to casting a ballot, would make elections “more fair,” despite the steady stream of mischaracterizations from top Democrats, who contend that such requirements are oppressive and akin to the Jim Crow era.

"The survey provided a series of potential rules a state could implement regarding voting and asked respondents to rate if the suggested rule would make elections “more fair,” “less fair,” or the same."

"Notably, 64 percent of respondents said requiring voters to provide photo identification before casting a ballot would make elections “more fair,” compared to 17 percent who said “less fair,” and 17 percent who said it “would not make much difference.' ” . . .

The Trump-Hate Coalition Is Crumbling

The most asinine legislative initiative in the modern history of the country ensued: the impeachment of the president for an incitement he did not utter to an insurrection he did not seek—and, indeed, one that did not occur—in order to remove him from an office he no longer held. . . .

  Conrad Black

The wheels are coming off the rickety anti-Trump coalition in all four directions.

"It is remarkable to see how quickly the unified opinion against former President Trump and for the alleged necessity of removing him from the White House has cracked apart since that goal was achieved. Following the inauguration, there were endless purposeful assurances that the former president would be pursued to the ends of the earth for his iniquity. Even hard-bitten Fox News commentators like Brit Hume felt compelled to toe the line and denounce claims that the election had been rigged as discredited bunkum. 

"Questioning the integrity of the election result was considered tantamount to an attempt to continue the quest for insurrection, and questioning whether Trump had attempted to generate an insurrection was itself a racist offense. The president-elect assured us that the January 6 assault on the Capitol was a white supremacist attack bungled by white supremacist Capitol police. Racism, like treason with Russia four years before, was everywhere.

"Andrew Weissmann, the egregiously rabid prosecutor who desperately tried to torque the Trump-Russia collusion fraud into an obstruction case, solemnly declared that the prosecution of the outgoing president would have to continue. (It was not clear what prosecution this might be since there has been none, though there have been numerous breathless revelations of visits to the Manhattan district attorney by former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen for the subornation of doubtful evidence against the ex-president.) " . . .

. . . The rabid Democratic media outlets that made the campaign for the semi-comatose candidate are largely in a state of upheaval. Leading media Trump-haters such as MSNBC president Phil Griffin and CNN head Jeff Zucker have gone or are going, and despite frantic attempts to appease them, many of the great anti-Trump newsrooms are being overrun by belligerent white-hating minorities.

A dazzling new ride at Disneyland runs afoul of the woke crowd

 Andrea Widburg

. . . "The new ride is much richer visually and less scary. If I weren’t boycotting Disney for being a relentlessly leftwing company that is indoctrinating young children, I think I’d enjoy seeing the new ride. As it is, this video will give you a sense of the ride:

. . . "I hope you paid attention to the video at the 40-second mark. That’s the moment at which the full lack of wokeness slaps park guests in the face. 

"What? You didn’t notice it? You just thought that Snow White, who had fallen in love with the prince at first sight in the movie’s opening scene, was awakened from a deathly sleep by her true love’s first kiss. You sweet, innocent fool, you. That was pure sexual assault, at least according to the woke scolds at SFGATE:

The new ride includes a more comprehensive storyline — but that's also the problem. The new grand finale of Snow White's Enchanted Wish is the moment when the Prince finds Snow White asleep under the Evil Queen's spell and gives her "true love's kiss" to release her from the enchantment. A kiss he gives to her without her consent, while she's asleep, which cannot possibly be true love if only one person knows it's happening.  . . .

 Disneyland Reopens in California — 293 Days After Disney World Reopened in Florida

I cannot say if this is relevant, but California is governed by Democrats including Gavin Newsom; Florida by Republican Ron DeSantis.

Gov Noem Sues Biden for Canceling Mount Rushmore Independence Day Fireworks

Neon Nettle

Governor outraged as National Parks Service notified South Dakota of decision

. . . "Gov. Noem filed the lawsuit on Friday after the Biden admin canceled the fireworks celebration without consulting the governor's office.

"The suit demands the court "expeditiously" issues a permit for the event to take place as originally planned.

"The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota Central Division.

" 'Mount Rushmore is the very best place to celebrate America’s birthday and all that makes our country special," Noem writes.

" 'After telling us they’d ‘circle back,’ the Biden Administration has not responded to our request to uphold the Memorandum Agreement between the State of South Dakota and the National Parks Service to host a safe and responsible national celebration and fireworks show." . . .

Calls Mount for White Democrat to Resign for Calling Tim Scott 'an Oreo

 Neon Nettle

"Texas Dem official hit was major backlash over racial slur"

"Gary O'Connor, the Lamar County, Texas, Democratic Party chair, has been hit with a severe backlash for calling Scott "an Oreo" in a social media post.

" 'I had hoped that Scott might show some common sense, but it seems clear he is little more than an oreo with no real principles," O'Connor wrote about the black senator in a now-deleted Facebook post.

"He was referring to Scott’s rebuttal to Joe Biden's Congressional address on Wednesday." . . .