While We Were Sleeping, Ted Cruz Saved America from Democrats' Election Takeover

“It would strike down virtually every reasonable voter integrity law in the country, including voter ID laws supported by the overwhelming majority of this country, including prohibitions on ballot harvesting, again widely supported by people in this country.

The Western Journal  " At 3:30 on Wednesday morning, following 15 hours of amendment votes on the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion human infrastructure bill, morally bankrupt Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer tried to force a vote on the For the People Act by unanimous consent, according to The Houston Chronicle.

"Nice try, Chuck.

"Immediately, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas took to the Senate floor to deliver precisely the smackdown that Schumer deserved.

"The Chronicle reported that Cruz “objected repeatedly,” calling the legislation “a federal government takeover of elections” and a “massive power grab by Democrats.” The “back-and-forth” with Schumer lasted for about 15 minutes.

"Cruz told colleagues, “This bill would constitute a federal government takeover of elections. It would constitute a massive power grab by Democrats. It would disenfranchise millions of Americans and it would do precisely the opposite of its nominal title, ‘For The People.’ It is, instead, for the politicians because it entrenches politicians and ensures that the people cannot vote them out of office.". . . 

FOR THE PEOPLE ACT: In the dead of night, Sen. @tedcruz successfully blocked Democrats' For the People Act from passing in the Senate. pic.twitter.com/XeWRux2YXf

— Forbes (@Forbes) August 11, 2021

Remember when Democrats stormed a capitol building?

 ...“The protesters ran amok, chanting ‘­This is our house!’ and ‘This is what democracy looks like!’ ” we wrote. “And they then began searching for the Republican senators who had dared to defy the will of the unions.” ...

Opinion: Democrats were for occupying capitols before they were against it  “Thousands of protesters rushed to the … Capitol Wednesday night, forcing their way through doors, crawling through windows and jamming corridors.” That is how one newspaper described the storming of the Capitol — not the one in Washington last week, but the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., a decade ago.

"Back then, thousands of pro-union activists — many bused in from out of state — rampaged through the historic building in an effort to stop a vote on collective bargaining reform legislation. So, when I saw the images of a pro-Trump mob rampaging through the U.S. Capitol last week, my first thought was: What is Scott Walker thinking right now?

“It’s like I’m having PTSD from a decade ago,” the former Republican governor of Wisconsin texted me.

"Most conservatives have condemned the right-wing mob that assaulted the U.S. Capitol. But 10 years ago, Democrats embraced the left-wing mob that occupied the state Capitol in Madison. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) praised the occupiers for an “impressive show of democracy in action” and tweeted as they assaulted the Capitol that she continued “to stand in solidarity” with the union activists. In other words, Democrats were for occupying capitols before they were against it." . . . 

Remember when lefties stormed into and occupied a Senate office building in 2018 and the Wisconsin State Capitol in 2011?   

. . . The Wisconsin rioters did substantial damage to the state capitol, primarily with graffiti to the white marble. At the time, I was outraged (as I am outraged by the violation of the U.S. Capitol yesterday), but the mainstream media did not use it as a cudgel to attack unions or leftists.

Thiessen: Remember, Democrats occupied Wisconsin Capitol

   . . . Thankfully, no one was killed. But during the course of the occupation, Walker received a steady stream of death threats against him and his wife, including onethat promised to “gut her like a deer” and one threatening to kill his sons. Police found dozens of .22-caliber bullets scattered across the Capitol grounds. The occupiers drew chalk outlines of fake dead bodies etched with Walker’s name on the floor, and carried signs that read “Death to tyrants,” “The only good Republican is a dead Republican,” and one with picture of him in crosshairs with the words, “Don’t retreat, Reload.' ”

You knew this would happen: Biden Blaming Donald Trump for Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan

Only one thing to do: impeachment!

 Breitbart  

 . . . "The officials complained that Trump only left them with 3,000 troops in Afghanistan, forcing them to withdraw because there was no way to keep the peace with such a small force, according to the report.

"There was an early peace in Afghanistan, team Biden argued, only because Trump agreed to leave on May 1.

"That was an argument that White House press secretary Jen Psaki used in July, noting Biden believed the Taliban “would have been shooting at U.S. troops again after May 1.”

“ 'The withdrawal deadline negotiated by the previous administration kind of set that timeline,” she said." . . .

Joe wouldn't say this if it wasn't true, you know.

‘We Are Powerless’: Joe Biden Official Deletes Social Media Post Admitting Failure in Afghanistan  "A senior Biden official at the State Department expressed sadness Friday that the administration was “powerless” to protect women and girls in Afghanistan from the Taliban.Deputy Assistant "Secretary in the State Department Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Molly Montgomery shared her thoughts on Twitter early Friday morning after reports demonstrated the swiftness of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan." . . .

“I personally had discussions with top Taliban leaders whereby they understood what they are doing now would not have been acceptable,” [Trump] said, noting that if he was still president, he would have focused on a “conditions-based” withdrawal.”

The Biden Doctrine: Beg

So after 20 years of warfare, the United States of America is reduced to begging the Taliban to spare our humble embassy so as to save America the humiliation of having a desperate, Saigon 1975–style rooftop evacuation as the communists close in.

Monica Showalter "Joe Biden is begging the Taliban to spare the U.S. embassy when they knock down the Afghan capital of Kabul and overrun the country.  And with the fall of Kandahar, Herat, and all the other big Afghan cities, that could be any day now.

"Here's the lovely story from the New York Times:

. . . 

"The Taliban is out doing victory dances like this.  They're hanging collaborators like this.  They've fired up the kidnap/sex-slave rackets and are hunting down local journalists.  They've already been issued stern warnings from the U.S. embassy in Kabul about this to no effect, and $2 trillion's worth of warfare from the U.S. over 20 years has had no effect, either. 

"Think they'll take to Joe Biden's call to spare our embassy to ensure no hurt feelings and public relations problems?"

Taliban fighter dances in the office of the governor of Ghazni. pic.twitter.com/m6lGqMtWEX

— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) August 12, 2021

 CODE RED: Afghanistan Is Lost. Don't Leave Our Allies Behind

"There are hundreds of interpreters who aided us and need our help before that failed state falls back into barbarism. We were never going to turn Afghanistan into a democracy. I fear what we are seeing is a replay of Saigon 1975 with us leaving our friends and allies to find their own way out of hell.

"Before we see people hanging from the slicks of Hueys, as helicopters depart from the roof of another US embassy, I hope Biden opens up our doors and welcomes the people who fought for America.

"We cannot save Afghanistan. We can save the people who helped us." . . .

Did Cuomo open the door for Tara Reade?

  Silvio Canto, Jr.  "As a wise man said, be careful what you wish for because you may get it.  Will Gov. Andrew Cuomo's exit open the door for Joe Biden's accuser, Tara Reade?  Well, Tara is hoping it does. 

"This is from The Daily Mail:

Tara Reade demanded shortly after Governor Andrew Cuomo's resignation on Tuesday that her sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden be fully investigated and that the president also step down.

'My heart is with the brave Cuomo survivors who endured attempts to discredit them like I did coming forward about Joe Biden with the help of nonprofits that were supposed to help women like Time's Up,' Reade told Fox News.

'May there be some measure of justice for the survivors,' she added.

 'Now, let's call for a real investigation into Joe Biden and expose the corruption protecting powerful predators.'

The 57-year-old revealed last year her accusation that Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993 in a Capitol Hill office when she was a Senate staffer.

"Let me take a guess and say "yes."  In other words, Tara may finally get her turn.

"First, I don't know whether Tara is telling the truth or not.  At the same time, "truth" was never a consideration when the press and the Democrats went after Brett Kavanaugh with all those phony stories.  So let the lady make her case.

"Second, and more important, the media are bored with President Biden.  Worse than that, no one is watching, so a lot of reporters are scared to death that their jobs may be on the line.  President Trump was great for the people who sold air time.  Biden is the exact opposite.

"What better way of getting people to watch than to start talking about another woman and another politician?

"The media are desperate for something, and Tara may just be the answer."

Biden accuser Tara Reade, 56, says watching inauguration was 'exceptionally hard' and accuses Dems of being 'complicit' with misconduct after she claimed he sexually assaulted her  . . . "Reade who now identifies as a 'progressive independent' after previously describing herself as a lifelong Democrat, says she feels conflicted about Biden's presidency.  

" 'Yesterday was exceptionally hard on many levels, because the media, certain media outlets made it so clear that I was to be smeared, ignored, and erased. And they were pretty successful in doing so,' Reade told Fox News on Thursday." .  .  .

Reade said in 2020 that Biden digitally penetrated her and groped her in the basement of a Capitol Hill office building in spring 1993. Biden has vehemently denied her claims, and current and former Biden staffers say they cannot recall such an incident 

GUEST COLUMN: Yeah, I Threw Myself a Massive Party at My Island Estate in the Middle of a Pandemic, And There’s Nothing You Worthless Plebs Can Do About It

 Washington Free Beacon

"MARTHA'S VINEYARD — If you're reading this, you probably aren't important enough to be invited to the massive party I just threw myself to celebrate my historic existence and countless intellectual contributions to the human canon.

"We're all pretty hungover, to be honest. Between LeBron's tequila (a little underwhelming, like his NBA Finals record), Willie Nelson's choom plug, and Hunter Biden's "rocket sauce," we partied pretty hard. If I wasn't a multimillionaire who can afford to hire an army of professional cleaners, my island estate would be a mess. I bought the place from a Democratic donor for $11.75 million in December 2019. Today, it's worth more than $17.5 million. Happy Birthday to me!" . . .

Prominent Anti-Semite Attends Obama Birthday Bash, Jewish Comedian Snubbed   Al Sharpton, the prominent anti-Semite and verbally challenged MSNBC host, was among the "sophisticated crowd" of guests who attended former president Barack Obama's 60th birthday bash on Martha's Vineyard over the weekend. Jewish comedian Larry David was not."...

Sharpton, who was photographed arriving by private jet, was a central figure in the Crown Heights riot of 1991. His anti-Semitic rhetoric and inciteful actions fueled what would become the worst outburst of anti-Semitic violence in modern American history. Yet "Reverend Al" remains a ubiquitous figure within the elite subset of liberal activists, Democratic politicians, professional journalists, and other celebs. 

If Biden explains economics and none of us listen to him, does he still make a sound?

 With Biden and AOC shutting down America's energy independence in favor of getting oil from the Middle East, the costs of shipping food to stores will increase as well. Why on earth do people still vote Democrat? ...Oh, yes; climate change fears! Yet proponents still buy mansions on the sea shore. TD

https://www.terrellaftermath.com/

Grocery Prices Could Rise 10 to 14 Percent By October, Grocery Chain CEO Warns 

. . . "While we can’t know for certain, Catsimatidis said rising costs could mean an astounding 10 to 14 percent specific increase in grocery prices by October. That’s truly a shocking amount. But this warning offers more than insight into the grocery industry. It’s a painful reminder of how price inflation hurts everyday Americans.

"When we hear terms like “Consumer Price Index” or “expansionary monetary policy,” the conversation surrounding inflation quickly becomes inaccessible for many people, whose eyes understandably glaze over amid discussion of the abstract-seeming phenomenon. But at its core, price inflation is simply a question of our purchasing power being eroded. Because what really matters is not the number on our paychecks, it’s what that number can buy us. " . . .

Harvard Economist Breaks the Bad News: Bigger Paychecks Under Biden Made Useless by Spiraling Inflation  

. . . How did that happen? The good news is that compensation went up 2.8 percent between March and June. But the good news ends there.

Producer price inflation, which tracks how much producers receive for goods and services, rose 7.8 percent over the last 12 months ending in July, according to CNN. This is the highest measure ever recorded since it first began being calculated in 2010." 

 Biden: CPI Showing Prices Rising At Fastest Pace Since 2008 Is ‘A Good Monthly Report’…

DACA: Degenerate Arsonists? Come Aboard!

By “global surveillance,” the Times means “cameras.” It’s one thing to have cameras recording cops 24/7, but when cameras are used to catch criminals, well, gentlemen, we’re looking at a civil rights case.

Ann Coulter;  "The New York Times recently ran an indignant article on the Department of

Justice’s arrest of two fugitives in Mexico who were accused of involvement in a mostly peaceful arson during the #BLM protests in the Twin Cities last year. As the Times described it: “One night in the Twin Cities, shortly after the killing of George Floyd, someone set a fire in a Goodwill.”

"Why would law enforcement authorities be so obsessed with such a minor offense? “To fellow protesters,” the Times explained, “it’s part of an extreme crackdown on those who most fervently demonstrated against America’s criminal justice system.”

"A former FBI agent, Michael German — now working for the anti-police Brennan Center for Justice — confirmed that former Attorney General William Barr’s Department of Justice had pursued BLM protesters “very aggressively,” adding, “It wouldn’t surprise me that this case would have been a high-priority one.” (Do any FBI agents support law enforcement?)

"Luckily, that’s changed under President Biden!

"Whereas the Times was upset that the perps were caught, my takeaway from the story was: HECKUVA JOB, IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES!

"It seems our arsonist heroes are Jose Angel Felan Jr., a Mexican immigrant with multiple felony convictions, and his accomplice, Mena Dyaha Yousif, an Iraqi generously taken in by this country as a child because of a war in her own country.  (Of course, our government won’t just come out and tell us when criminals are immigrants, much less illegal immigrants, but the Felan family’s specialization in transporting illegals across the border is a pretty good hint.)" . . .

Well, he's not "Andrew the Pius"

 Melissa DeRosa, Cuomo’s Chief Toady, Jumps Ship  . . . "Ouch. But the AG report also documents how Melissa DeRosa tried to undermine the credibility of accuser Lindsey Boylan.

Lindsey Boylan was the first woman to accuse Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment. In December, 2020, Boylan tweeted that the governor had “sexually harassed” her over her looks. She also called him “one of the biggest harassers of all time.” Melissa DeRosa and Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi quickly went into damage control — not by defending the governor’s name, but by smearing Boylan.

"The two sent Lindsey Boylan’s personnel records, which included some complaints, to various news outlets. Not only that, but DeRosa also circulated a proposed op-ed written by Cuomo that contained “personal and professional attacks” on Boylan. DeRosa later shared the letter with former and current Executive Chamber employees.

"The AG report also notes how Melissa DeRosa, along with other top aides, were slow to report the complaints of former staffer Charlotte Bennett. Bennett had said that Cuomo had asked her if she was monogamous, and if she had sex with older men." . . .

Andrew Cuomo's Shameless Resignation  . . . "And that is why I am finally reaching the last of the dry heaves over the shameless kabuki by Andrew Cuomo, who fell on his, ahem, sword on Tuesday and graciously announced his departure from office for the greater good. The man who lamented the fact that the discussion was not about facts, truth, or thoughtful analysis but the product of a political system driven by extremists. He moaned that rashness has replaced reasonableness and that loudness has replaced soundness. Who exactly didn’t give him a break? What unreasonable faction brought about this noble man’s downfall? His brother? MSNBC? NBC? CBS? The New York Times? Bueller…Bueller?" . . .

Ian Macfarlane

 Alec Baldwin Blames Cancel Culture for Cuomo Resignation: 'This Is a Tragic Day'

   Regardless of what you think of Cuomo, this is a tragic day. Party politics in this country draw ambitious but ultimately isolated, even socially maladjusted men and women who, given the current cancel culture, will likely have their shortcomings exposed and magnified             

The Great Reset: The Global Elite’s Plan To Radically Remake Our Economic And Social Lives

 Noisy Room

. . . Table of Contents

• What is the Great Reset?
• Is the Great Reset Real?
• Grooming for a Police State
• The Sky is Falling: Climate Austerity and the Great Reset
• The Great Reset in Action: Blackrock Creates a Nation of Renters
• The Great Reset in Action: Social Credit
• Why the Great Reset?. 

. . . "Whether one thinks that the COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions were a good-faith response to a public health emergency or not is irrelevant. The fact of the matter is that it accustomed Americans and Westerners to significant restrictions on their freedoms, including freedom of movement. More than that, it showed those in power that people that if you created enough fear, Americans would tolerate the restrictions.

"Thus, consciously or not, global elites were grooming the world population for a police state. Fortunately, there has been some pushback and vaccine passports are encountering stiff resistance from both elected officials and the general population at large. For most of 2020 and 2021, the most freedom-loving people on earth – Americans – were walking around with dirty, useless masks on to comply with a government mandate. A mandate that after further scrutiny, made no sense. Americans even allowed their children to be subjected to this as a condition of attending school." . . .

End Run Around Constitution? Biden Admin Pressures Facebook to Censor Americans: Report  "President Joe Biden is at odds with the First Amendment. His administration has reportedly pressured Facebook for several months to censor Americans who post views contradicting the administration’s COVID-19 narrative.

"The First Amendment prohibits the federal government from restricting the right of Americans to freely express their beliefs. However, in an attempted end run around the Constitution, the Biden administration has pressured Facebook to adopt the government’s position on “misinformation” concerning messaging about COVID-19, according to The New York Times." . . .

Biden Administration Turns to OPEC for Increased Oil Production After Cancelling American Pipelines

Tony Branco

 American Greatness   "On Wednesday, the Biden White House asked the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to increase oil production and exportation in an attempt to reduce rising gas prices in the United States, the Daily Caller reports.

"Biden’s National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, released a statement saying that “higher gasoline prices, if left unchecked, risk harming the ongoing global recovery. The price of crude oil has been higher than it was at the end of 2019, before the onset of the pandemic.” . . .

Among these was the Keystone XL Pipeline, which was approved and began construction under President Donald Trump, but halted by Biden immediately after he seized power. Biden also ordered the suspension of all new oil and gas leases in the country. During the Trump presidency, the United States not only became energy independent, but also became a leading exporter of oil and other natural gasses. As a result, the nation was no longer dependent on foreign oil from the Middle East and other volatile regions, thus leading to a reduction in prices due to resource stability.

. . . 

 Joe Biden broke America's oil production — and now he does this  . . . "At The Conservative Treehouse, Sundance has a pithy summary of all the things that Biden has done to destroy America's oil and gas sector — a booming sector that was making America energy independent and lowering the price of all goods and services:

(1) Shut down oil and energy development in ANWAR {LINK} which would increase use of the Alaska pipeline. (2) Blocked the Keystone Pipeline from completion {LINK} (3) Banned energy development on federal lands {LINK}. (4) Shut down the sale of energy leases in the Gulf of Mexico {LINK}. and (5) Blocked energy development in Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico and Alabama {LINK} 

"Thanks to Biden's decisions, tens of thousands of workers in the energy sector are now unemployed, and fuel prices have increased by as much as 60%.". . . 

Too bad about those worker wage gains, Biden's inflation has already wolfed them down

Rising prices on everything from groceries to gasoline have eaten away the wage gains workers have seen since the start of the year, leaving most Americans earning less than they were before the pandemic began and derailing the White House's argument that paychecks have grown under President Joe Biden's tenure

OMG! You won't believe what Hunter Biden told a prostitute. Adults only article.

Remember, again, that the tech tyrants and the media conspired to withhold from the American public any news about Hunter Biden's predilections.  Many went to the polls utterly unaware that Joe Biden's son is not only a gross excuse for a human being, but also someone whose perversions run so deep that his father may not have any free agency when it comes to America's enemies, whether at home or abroad.

 Andrea Widburg   "Hunter Biden is an incredibly disgusting human being.  We know about the drugs and the prostitutes, but there have long been rumors that he's done worse than that.  Here's the bad thing for America about Hunter's debauchery: while we merely suspect those terrible things, Hunter's confession in 2019 to a prostitute suggests that if he really did unspeakable things, America's geopolitical enemies — whether Russians or Chinese — may have proof.

"Hunter liked creating his own pornography, and the contents of the hard drive he abandoned at a computer repair shop in Delaware suggest that he compulsively filmed his sexual encounters with a variety of prostitutes.  Knowing of his affinity for prostitutes, rumors have abounded for a long time that, when Hunter was in China with Joe in 2013, the Chinese had the bright idea to supply him with children for sex.

"It's easy to believe that Hunter would agree to this perversion simply because he grew up around a man who, at least in public, can't keep his hands off little girls.  Moreover, we know from Hunter's own texts that he was warned away from being sexually inappropriate around a minor and was no longer allowed to be alone with her.  It's also possible that Hunter was too drugged out to know whether he was having sex with a child, a woman, or a sheep.

"It's also easy to believe that Hunter would film those encounters for his later viewing pleasure.  That's what he does." . . .

That's why it matters greatly that Hunter, during a tryst in 2019 with a prostitute, told her that he'd had an 18-day bender in Las Vegas, during which he spent up to $10,000 a night — and that Russian drug-dealers stole one of his laptops:

'The Russians have videos of me doing crazy f***ing sex!' Hunter Biden is seen in unearthed footage telling prostitute that Russian drug dealers stole ANOTHER of his laptops WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT

"Hunter's claims raise the possibility that he was targeted as a vulnerable conduit to Joe Biden as part of a foreign intelligence operation." . . .

"The prostitute asked Hunter if he was worried the Russian alleged thieves would try to 'blackmail' him.

"Hunter replied: 'Yeah in some way yeah.'

" 'My dad [inaudible] running for president,' he told her in a hushed voice. 'He is. I talk about it all the time.

" 'If they do, he also knows I make like a gazillion dollars.'

"Hunter appeared to be dismayed that if the video was sold by the alleged thieves to porn or news companies he would be unable to cash in on the explicit videos himself." . . .