'Woke' up call? Army misses recruiting goal by 25%

WND

...or else

. . ."Meanwhile, as Breitbart News reported in July, an Army training instructs soldiers to shower with transgender members of the opposite sex, even if they have not undergone a surgical transition. In February, the Army began discharging soldiers who refused to be vaccinated with the experimental COVID-19 vaccine, despite the fact the shots have proven to be ineffective in stopping infection and transmission of the disease. In addition, Department of Defense data indicate a massive spike in serious injuries and illnesses among military personnel coincided with the vaccine rollout in 2021.". . .

The article ends with this:

EDITOR’S NOTE: With what has been called the “Sovietization” of the Biden administration – including the shocking criminalization of dissent and massive weaponization of the FBI against political opponents – America is being increasingly compared to a third-world or communist dictatorship. Yet America still has one sacred institution that dictatorships from Zimbabwe to communist China don’t have: ELECTIONS. And in reality, there is no reason, despite the regime’s all-out efforts at election rigging, that the tens of millions of decent, right-thinking American voters cannot stop the Biden administration’s ever-expanding madness this November. For that reason, the September issue of WND’s critically acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine insightfully covers the most electrifying and important races, illuminates the biggest issues, reveals how the latest federal takeover of elections actually violates the law, and much more.". . .

Speaking of wokeness:

Biden’s Orwellian ‘Naming Commission’ Recommends Renaming USS Chancellorsville   "Its woke leaders want to erase all memory of Confederate Civil War victories."

"In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, there are echoes of today’s cancel culture:

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which th  Party is always right.

What else can you do after you've torn all the statues down?

READ IT: FBI’s Brutal Draft Letter Firing Disgraced Agent Peter Strzok Revealed

"Strzok-stroke-smirk"

 Daily Wire    "A top FBI official accused Trump-hating former agent Peter Strzok of doing long-term damage to the bureau’s reputation with a “sustained pattern of bad judgment” and “selfishness” in the newly released draft of the 2018 letter firing him.

David Bowdich, who was deputy director of the bureau when he penned the brutally harsh draft of the dismissal letter, told Strzok the damage he caused to the bureau would last for years. He referred specifically to Strzok’s use of “an FBI device,” an apparent reference to the shocking text messages sent on bureau cell phones between Strzok and his 
paramour, Lisa Page, in which vowed to stop former President Trump from being elected in 2016.

“While there is no doubt your 21 years of service to the organization cannot and should not be erased, it is difficult to fathom the repeated, sustained errors of judgment you made while serving as the lead agent in two of the most high profile investigations in the country,” Bowdich wrote in the August 8, 2018 letter. “Though the Office of the Inspector General found no evidence of bias impacted any of your or the FBI’s investigative actions or decisions, your sustained pattern of bad judgment in the use of an FBI device has called into question for many of the decisions made during both the Clinton e-mail investigation and the initial states of the Russian Collusion investigation.”

“In short, your repeated selfishness has called into question the credibility of the entire FBI.” . . . 

The Shocking Degeneration of America - WND -

 The Herland Report

"The fall of Rome in 410 AD happened at the hands of enemies that had long wished for the death of Rome, writes Hanne Nabintu Herland, historian of comparative religions, author and columnist at the largest Conservative news network in America, World Net Daily. (Feature photo: Rev. Billy Graham, famed preacher is pictured in a 2005 photo in New York. Reuters)

"Arguably the most famous Christian leader in modern American history, ecumenical Billy Graham concluded at the end of his life, that America had become a Sodom and Gomorrah. In a commentary in Decision Magazine, he warned of dark days ahead:

“ 'Our nation was founded by men who believed in prayer. When our government was being formed, Benjamin Franklin addressed the chairman of the Constitutional Convention meeting at Philadelphia in 1787, saying, “I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, it is probable that an empire cannot rise without His aid.”

“ 'Today the world is being carried on a rushing torrent of history that is sweeping out of control. There is but one power available to redeem the course of events, and that is the power of prayer by God-fearing, Christ-believing people.' ”. . .

Joe Concha’s Hilarious Roast of Biden’s Horrible Presidency -

 The American Spectator | USA News and Politics  “By every metric, America has arguably the worst president of the television era residing in the Oval Office (at least when he isn’t in Delaware).” So asserts Hill columnist Joe Concha in his new book, Come on, Man!: The Truth About Joe Biden’s Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Presidency. He makes his case by citing the Biden administration’s 40-year-high inflation rate along with record-high gas prices, skyrocketing crime, illegal border crossings, and an “extremist education agenda.”

"Concha believes that these horrible statistics are the result of a progressive program and that President Joe Biden’s gaffe-laden footprint is just part of the plan: “Biden may seem like a doddering idiot, stumbling from one mistake to the next, but it is funny how these mistakes always hew closely to liberal dreams for American policy.” Despite its title, Come On, Man! is less focused on Biden than on the political environment that spawned his presidency. Concha makes the well-trodden argument that Biden, who had a track record of incompetency and dishonesty, starting with the plagiarism scandal that derailed his 1988 run at the White House, would never have become president under ordinary circumstances. The 2020 presidential election, with the Democratic Party and the liberal media laser focused on extricating then-President Donald Trump from the Oval Office, provided the extraordinary circumstances that enabled Scranton’s native son to unseat his predecessor. ". 

"Concha is critical of key members of Biden’s senior leadership team, arguing that some of them were selected based on their political leaning as opposed to their professional experience. In the chapter appropriately dubbed “We Were Promised Adults in Charge,” Concha takes issue with the appointment of former Michigan governor and CNN analyst Jennifer Granholm as secretary of energy. He references a now infamous interview where she responded to a question from Tom Keene of Bloomberg about her plan to increase oil production in the U.S. by saying, “That is hilarious! Would that I had the magic wand!” He also finds fault with Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas for “insisting that the border is closed” while also pointing the finger at the Trump administration for the surge in illegal migrants, which under Biden’s watch is forecasted to exceed four million by the end of 2022. ". . .

The Tunnel Wall: Recall Joe Biden -"We simply cannot wait until after the 2024 presidential election."

The Reckless Inauthenticity of Joe Biden - American Thinker

10 Famous College Grads Who Prove How Smart College Makes You

  Babylon Bee

"Yes, college is expensive and will saddle you with crushing debt in exchange for no useful life skills, but it's worth it, because it will make you smart.

"Not convinced? Check out this list of brilliant college grads who will prove how helpful college is!

1. AOC: One of America's foremost intellectuals, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has knowledge, wit, and wisdom that is as deep as it is wide. All thanks to her economics degree from Boston University!
2. David Hogg: He's so smart, he knows guns are bad. Not everyone knows that. That Harvard education really paid off.
3. The Unabomber: Another Harvard prodigy!
4. Kamala Harris: In college, she learned all 12 of the words she uses in a speech.
5. Lex Luthor: Thanks to his biomechanical engineering degree from Princeton, he gave Superman a real run for his money! What a guy!
6. Everyone making your latte at Starbucks: Thanks to college, these bright young minds are probably the most educated people on earth who have ever made coffee.
7. Joy Behar: She studied sociology at Queen's College, and it shows. Her brilliant insights on culture and the human condition are unmatched.
8. The guy on the street corner with the sign saying "will work for food": Every word on the sign is spelled correctly!
9. Judas Iscariot: The only disciple who went to Harvard.
10. Joe Biden: The smartest president who ever lived. Thanks, college!

Here comes the October surprise!

 

American Thinker  "The tactic described as the October surprise holds the juiciest fruits of opposition research until late in the election cycle.  The key is to save the reveal until it's too late to elicit an effective response.  With the modern plethora of media outlets ready, willing, and able to leak campaign secrets or propaganda, the problem has been to keep the scoop under wraps long enough to limit the target's response.  With the pitiful slate of Democrat candidates and the party's failed policies wreaking havoc on our nation and the economy, it seems the Dems have been emptying their bag of tricks prematurely.

"You still know it's coming soon — even though those wacky Dems have already launched their September surprise.  And their August surprise.  And their June and July surprises.  They would have a daily surprise if they could keep their weak sisters in the media up to speed. 

"They need something like the leak of the Supreme Court reversal of the Roe decision to yield a sufficient "surprise."  They've already pedaled their Student Loan Forgiveness surprise bomb.  If Merrick Garland could have held his horses a bit longer, the FBI's raid on Donald Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago could have been the perfect October surprise.  Launched prematurely, the raid has been exposed and turned into a liability for the Dems.

"Maybe it's a bit nostalgic to call these mostly fictional bombshells surprises anymore.  The biggest surprise would be for the Democrats to run honest campaigns and lighten up on the slander and libel.

"Here are some suggestions for the Democrats, who seem woefully short of them these days. . ."

Surprised?

Ken Burns Is Not Worthy of His Own Best Vision

 "This is mere political propaganda, an imposture of moral authority rather than the real thing. It contaminates and poisons the moral message."

The American Spectator | USA News and Politics  . . ."The story of America and the Holocaust has been told well before. The 1994 PBS program America and the Holocaust, part of The American Experience series, already went over much of the ground covered here, having learned from many of the innovations Burns had introduced into documentary film and video. That earlier show, if anything, was more pointed and unsparing than Burns is in portraying America’s role in denying shelter and protection to Europe’s Jews as the horror of the Nazi genocide fell upon them, step by step. Spurred by the scholarship of historian David Wyman, that show was unsparing of Franklin Roosevelt, of official American complacency, and of the ineffectuality of the establishment American Jewish organizations. It was unsparing of liberals and conservatives alike, and thereby established its moral credentials.

"Burns retells that story, though with a lighter hand on FDR. Fair enough. As far as that goes, it was excellent.

"But Burns stumbled badly in trying to preach a moral lesson at the end. Not that such a lesson could not or should not be made. As mentioned, America and the Holocaust succeeded in drawing a searing moral lesson by its even-handed presentation of the faults of the actors of that day and allowed the viewers to connect that and apply that to the politics of the moment as they would be moved. That show trusted its viewers and their conscience.

"It is not that any attempt to directly and forthrightly connect a moral lesson learned from history to the politics of the day must fail. It is only that it runs the risk of exposing political bias in such a way that the moral lesson becomes muddled, compromised, and made subservient to a political vision that is not the same as the moral vision it likes to claim it is. And here is where Burns has failed.". . .

Ken Burns’ film ‘The US and the Holocaust’ erases the American Jewish masses - JNS.org

*Although ignored by Burns, massive numbers of American (and British) Jews from the working- and lower-middle classes vehemently demanded that Britain “open the gates of Palestine” to Jews fleeing persecution. On March 23, 1933, the Jewish War Veterans of the United States (JWV) presented an appeal at the British consulate in New York that called on the British government to set aside restrictions on Jewish immigration to Palestine. In November, Pierre van Paassen, whose column was widely syndicated in American newspapers, endorsed honorary president of the American Jewish Congress Rabbi Stephen Wise’s call for settling 150,000 German Jews in Palestine, but warned that unless such a plan were carried out at once, “there will be no 150,000 German Jews left to settle in Palestine.” As America kept its doors shut, many Jews saw Mandatory Palestine as their best—or only—hope.

UPDATE: A Holocaust Mystery: Ken Burns Gets Lost in a Bermuda Triangle - The Lid (lidblog.com)   . . ."The Bermuda Conference was one of the era’s most vivid demonstrations of the Roosevelt administration’s abandonment of the Jews, as well as a pivotal moment in stimulating stronger American Jewish protests against the Holocaust.

How, then, could Ken Burns have omitted any mention of Bermuda from his six-hour-long PBS series on “The U.S. and the Holocaust”? Was it because one of the themes of the series was to minimize President Roosevelt’s responsibility for America’s harsh refugee policy, and the Bermuda Conference conflicted with that narrative?

For now, this question remains a mystery. To date, no interviewer has asked Burns about this glaring omission, and he has not volunteered any comment. Is he hoping that, like ships disappearing in the Bermuda Triangle, his own Bermuda omission will vanish from public view before anyone notices?

For The Love Of God, Would You Please Stop Being Stupid?

Issues & Insights   "Think about it:

"Democrats are supporting men participating in women’s sports and being in girls’ bathrooms. Democrat district attorneys are releasing criminals without bond who go out and commit theft, murder, and rape.

"Democrats are letting in tens of thousands of illegal immigrants and giving them thousands of dollars.

"Democrats are causing the biggest rise in food prices and gas prices in 40 years.

"Democrats are imposing censorship on television, the internet, in schools and businesses.

"Democrats used the COVID farce to destroy people’s livelihoods and destroy small businesses.

"Democrats are forcing people to take defective vaccines that have killed many.

"Democrats have turned television networks into propaganda outlets.

"Democrats are conducting drag queen shows in schools and libraries.

"And are Republican candidates forcefully bringing this up in ads?

This is Not America: Political Censorship Campaign Unconstitutionally Targeted Millions of Americans

 This is Not America: Political Censorship Campaign Unconstitutionally Targeted Millions of Americans (trendingpolitics.com)

"The United States government is unconstitutionally targeting millions of Americans for their political speech by directly contracting with private ‘third parties’ that flag their viewpoints for alleged ‘misinformation.’

The federal government has contracted with at least five private companies or public non-profits to ‘flag’ Americans’ views on everything from Covid-19 to the 2020 election.

In an editorial at Just the News, John Solomon and Greg Piper reported on four of these groups, but the report suggests that the radical left’s operation to chill free speech is just the tip of the iceberg.

“A consortium of four private groups worked with the departments of Homeland Security (DHS) and State to censor massive numbers of social media posts they considered misinformation during the 2020 election, and its members then got rewarded with millions of federal dollars from the Biden administration afterwards, according to interviews and documents obtained by Just the News.”

“The Election Integrity Partnership is back in action again for the 2022 midterm elections, raising concerns among civil libertarians that a chilling new form of public-private partnership to evade the First Amendment’s prohibition of government censorship may be expanding,” the report adds.

Enemies list? Fed-backed censorship machine targeted 20 news sites

  Just The News   "Just the News, New York Post, Fox News, Epoch Times and Breitbart were identified among the "most prominent domains" whose election coverage was cited in tweets flagged by the Election Integrity Partnership and its collaborators.". . .

Outsourced Censorship: Feds Used Private Entity to Target Millions of Social Posts in 2020 – Forbidden Knowledge TV   . . ."Websites for Just the News, New York Post, Fox News, Washington Examiner, Washington Times, Epoch Times and Breitbart were identified among the 20 “most prominent domains across election integrity incidents” that were cited in tweets flagged by the Election Integrity Partnership and its collaborators.

The Washington Post, New York Times and CNN also appeared on the list, though the consortium’s after-action report emphasizes most of the mainstream media reports “were referenced as fact-checks” that played a “corrective role” against “misleading narratives.”

The report also identified the 21 “most prominent repeat spreaders [of misinformation] on Twitter,” all of them politically classified as “right.” Actor James Woods led that group, followed by The Gateway Pundit blog, Donald Trump Jr. and President Trump himself. The report emphasized 15 were verified by Twitter.

“Repeat spreaders” of election “misinformation” on Twitter

Election Integrity Partnership"

Two Years After Russia Hoax Disproven, Hillary Claims Russia Wanted Trump To Win…

 Two Years After Russia Hoax Disproven, Hillary Claims Russia Wanted Trump To Win… | Weasel Zippers    "This woman man. She just can’t shut up.

Via JTN:

*Russian dictator “decided that he didn’t want to face me as president,” said defeated 2016 Democratic presidential nominee. “So he did all the things we now know he did that are well cataloged.”

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former President Trump’s opponent in the 2016 election, said on Thursday that she thinks Russian President Vladimir Putin was waiting for Trump to pull the U.S. out of NATO if reelected, leaving Ukraine defenseless against a Russian invasion.

“He got his dreams fulfilled when Trump was elected,” Clinton said at a symposium at Georgetown University honoring the diplomatic legacy of the late Madeleine Albright. “And I believe that if Trump had been reelected, Putin would have waited for Trump to do what he said he was intending to do, which was to pull us out of NATO.

“And that would have created such a vacuum that invading Ukraine, which he thought was going to be easy anyway, would be a fait accompli.”

Clinton said Putin didn’t want to face Clinton as president so he meddled in the 2016 presidential election.

Keep reading…

*Emphasis mine. TD

The public can see the obvious immigration lies

It is not the Republicans' fault in Congress that illegal immigration has doubled during President Biden's time in office.  It is not the Republicans' fault that more migrants are penetrating what Harris considers a secure border.

 The public can see the obvious immigration lies - American Thinker  "What has become apparent with the Biden administration is that officials apparently feel like they can say anything.  Why?  Because they know that the media will cover for them and their leftist policies, acting as though what they say is the truth even when facts present a contrary view.

"A recent example of this is Vice President Kamala Harris's interview on Meet the Press.  Harris told NBC News host Chuck Todd that the "border is secure."  She went farther and blamed the Trump administration for what she admitted is a "broken immigration system."

" 'There is no question that we have to do what the president and I asked Congress to do.  The first request we made: pass a bill to create a pathway to citizenship.  The border is secure, but we also have a broken immigration system and particular[ly] over the last four years before we came in, and it needs to be fixed," she said.

"The border is secure?  The apprehension of illegal aliens entering the United States has nearly doubled since President Joe Biden assumed office in January 2021.  As of July 2022, Border Patrol agents encountered 1.9 million migrants at the southern border in the fiscal-year-to-date (FYTD) 2022, which begins in October, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP).  That is already more than 1.73 million illegal aliens encountered at the border at the border in 2021 with three month still to go.  In July alone, CBP agents apprehended 199,976 illegal immigrants.  In June, the number was 207,933.". . .