FLASHBACK: Disgraced Twitter counsel James Baker was one of the architects of Russian collusion hoax

The Post Millennial

Baker, during his time at the FBI, was involved in the discredited Steele Dossier as well as Russiagate.

. . .According to the Washington Times, Baker had connected Michael Sussmann, a friend and lawyer, with FBI top investigators in 2016, where Sussmann passed along the claims that Donald Trump had colluded with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election.

Baker’s time at the FBI ended in 2018 after he resigned, with the agency’s former counsel being eyed for potentially disseminating classified information to journalists regarding the Steele Dossier, according to the Washington Examiner.

Oh yeah and he also finally got fired from the FBI for leaking classified national security information about the Trump administration to the media.

He went from spying on Trump to censoring the Hunter laptop to secretly reviewing the Twitter files before their release.

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 6, 2022

Hat tip to Revolver News

The Clown World Administration

 Patriot Retort

"It isn’t as if we need more proof that the Biden administration has turned the federal government into Clown World. But here goes.

"One of the Biden administration’s diversity hires was arrested after he stole a woman’s expensive suitcase at the airport in September and then proceeded to continue using her suitcase on subsequent flights.

"The guy’s name is Sam Brinton. He serves in the Clown World administration as the deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition at the Department of Energy.

"Only Sam Brinton identifies as “genderfluid,” which means he should really consult with a mental health professional who can help him work out his gross emotional problems.

"And because this is Clown World, the news reports about Brinton’s arrest are careful to describe him as “they” and not “he,” which is all manner of confusing for anyone with a firm grasp on the English language and grammar.

"Like this sentence from the New York Post:

Brinton initially denied stealing the suitcase to police officers, but later claimed they took it by mistake and still had it in their possession. . . .

 

Warnock win over Walker lays out the case for new GOP leadership

And that makes the case for new GOP leadership. GOP leader Ronna Romney McDaniel is a fine person, a reliable conservative, a person who can get along with any fractious branch of the Republicans, who has never insulted conservative voters, but she's now presided over the loss of the last three election cycles, plus this last fiasco in Georgia. . . 

 Monica Showalter   "The Democrats extended their grip on the Senate and rendered the potential dissent of Joe Manchin irrelevant with the victory last night of Gabriel Warnock over GOP challenger Herschel Walker for Georgia's Senate seat.

ATLANTA — Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock defeated Republican football star Herschel Walker on Tuesday in Georgia’s Senate runoff election, NBC News projects, handing President Joe Biden and his party a key win.

Warnock’s victory will give Democrats an outright majority in the Senate after two years under a 50-50 divide, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting tie-breaking votes.

The win cements President Joe Biden's unexpected midterm success, allowing his party to grow the majority in the Senate.

"What a sorry situation that was, given that the contest seemed so winnable ... and wasn't.

"What does the Senate do?

"According to The Policy Circle:

The Senate has two important and specific duties. Senators are empowered to conduct impeachment proceedings of high federal officials, are tasked with exercising the power of advice and consent on treaties, and play an important role in the confirmation (or denial) of certain appointments including ambassadors and judicial court justices.

"Now Biden will have a free path towards nominating the craziest of the crazy left Supreme Court justices, be in a position to squelch potentially bipartisan legislation, end the filibuster, provide advice and consent on U.S. treaties (Hellooo, United Nations rule!) and serve as jury for votes on impeachment. This Senate, with its 51-seat majority, will be in a position conduct considerable mischief, all without having to worry much about John Fetterman being absent for health reasons, or Joe Manchin getting a case of the willies from his constituents. Nor will it have much use for Kamala Harris to break ties, which frees her up for more selfies, Vogue photo shoots, and campaigning for president in Joe's stead, particularly if Joe experiences a full lights out. Lastly, Republicans will no longer have dibs on half the committee seats, which are there to determine whether legislation should go forward, it's winner take all with that Warnock seat majority. . . ."

‘I’m Pissed’: Laura Ingraham Lashes Out at Republican Leadership Following Herschel Walker’s Defeat

The Fox News host proceeded to throw shade a Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel after she oversaw the GOP’s poor midterm showing. “We don’t change anything,” Ingraham continued. “We have the same people in place in leadership, same people in place apparently at the RNC, perhaps that’s not changing. But we just keep doing the same thing over and over again. I’m pissed tonight, frankly. I’m mad.”

Harry And Meghan Announce Netflix Special About How Much They Want Privacy

 Babylon Bee

MONTECITO, CA — The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have announced a brand-new Netflix docuseries entitled Harry and Meghan that talks about why the famous couple wishes they had more privacy.

"Our groundbreaking series, which drops on December 8, covers the trials and tribulations of constantly being in the public eye with no privacy," said Meghan to reporters. "Most people — the rustic farmhands and lowly milkmaids of America — haven't a clue how difficult it is to be as wealthy, famous, and oppressed as we are. We hope you enjoy walking through all six hour-long episodes in our shoes."

"Reception of the announcement has been mixed, with reactions ranging from those asking who "Harry" is and others who are asking what the heck a "Sussex" is.

" 'We hope everyone will watch this new peek into our lives so we make some money, and please give us some bloody privacy," said Harry. "For goodness sake, leave us alone! This isn't fair! I can't do this anymore! PLEASE!!"

"At publishing time, Netflix's hopes for strong viewership were dashed when Meghan told Oprah that white people watching the show was an act of racist voyeurism."

In Heaven's name, NEVER vote DEMOCRAT! How obvious does this have to be?

 Biden’s Wokeness Infesting and Weakening U.S. Military

"The left is steadily undermining the U.S. military with woke ideology, filling the heads of cadets and soldiers with gender identity politics, anti-white ideology, and anti-Americanism instead of fostering their military readiness.

"FOR ONE, J. A. Cauthen, a graduate and former faculty member at the Naval Academy, is warning that wokeness is destroying our military readiness". . .

MSNBC Hater Joy Reid Falsely Claims Georgia Limiting Voting To Honor Robert E. Lee  "There’s a reason MSNBC is referred to as the official network of nasty liberal rage, hate, and stupid, lying liberal propaganda. Actually, there are a lot of reasons. But one of the most recent was provided by racist conspiracy theorist Joy Reid. She falsely claimed that Georgia was limiting voting to honor Confederate General Robert E. Lee.". . .

MSNBC host Joy Reid is a bigot, but we’ve also learned she can be nasty. While stupid is terrible and nasty is awful,  the combination of stupid and nasty, like Joy, puts a person beyond repair.

Dummy Wokesters Want Diverse Dummies

Biden Education Official Claims Democracy Is ‘White Supremacist’

Ishmael is not the only Biden operative who hates democracy, hates white people, and wants to inculcate anti-American racism into our education. All of the people Biden has infested our government with.

Now Daylight Savings Time Is Racist "For the next page in the book “everything is racist,” CNN now says that Daylight Savings Time is “racist” against minorities.  "No, really. They are serious. You stop that laughing". . .

Woke Craziness-Canadian Girl Scouts Dumps ‘Brownies’ Name Because It’s ‘Racist’  

It has no basis in fact, reality, or morality. It’s just empty, woke lunacy tearing down our culture.But this is the real goal. The left doesn’t care about making people feel better. Its goal is to destroy our culture.

All from The Lid 

German study: COVID-19 vaccine killing otherwise healthy people

 Hot Air

"First things first: there is no way to know for sure how common this is due to poor screening and reporting, but German researchers have decisively demonstrated through autopsy that the COVID-19 vaccine-induced myocarditis was the cause of death in 5 patients they autopsied after sudden deaths experienced shortly after COVID-19 vaccination.

"The study was published in the peer reviewed journal Clinical Research in Cardiology. The doctor sharing the study is a Johns-Hopkins professor and graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health, so not a nobody in the public health world.". . .

Biden Was Asked Why He Isn’t Visiting The Border While He’s In Arizona – His Answer Proves That He’s A Traitor And Shows Where His Allegiance Lies

Defiant America

"President Biden today visited Phoenix, Arizona, for semiconductor manufacturer TSMC’s announcement to increase its chip investment in the state to $40 billion.

"Taiwan-based TSMC will also announce its commitment to construct a second fab that will produce three-nanometer chips.

"Apple CEO Tim Cook and Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su will also be in attendance Tuesday. Cook and Su will both be sourcing significant chips from TSMC’s Arizona facility, White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese said in a briefing.

"Deese said TSMC’s announcement furthers Biden’s economic agenda that he says goes beyond semiconductors.

"But it seems it’s all about money when it comes to the big guy!

"When Biden was asked why he isn’t visiting the southern border while he’s in Arizona, he revealed that he isn’t worried about the Fentanyl and the children that are being trafficked through our southern border.

"He doesn’t care about the patriots that have their homes invaded every day!

"He says there are more important things and that money comes first when it comes to him!

"Doocy: “Why go to Arizona and not visit the border?”

"Biden: “Because there’s more important things going on.' ”. . .

And that's his word as a Biden.

How Corrupt Is a Corrupt Media?

Victor Davis Hanson  "The current “media”—loosely defined as the old major newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post, the network news channels, MSNBC and CNN, PBS and NPR, the online news aggregators like Google, Apple, and Yahoo, and the social media giants like the old Twitter and Facebook—are corrupt. 

The result is that the public cannot trust that the news it hears or reads is either accurate or true. The news as presented by these outlets has been carefully filtered to suppress narratives deemed inconvenient or antithetical to the political objectives of these entities, while inflating themes deemed useful. 

This bias now accompanies increasing (and increasingly obvious) journalistic incompetence. Lax standards reflect weaponized journalism schools and woke ideology that short prior basic requisites of writing and ethical protocols of quoting and sourcing. In sum, a corrupt media that is ignorant, arrogant, and ideological explains why few now trust what it delivers.

Suppression

"Once a story is deemed antithetical to left-wing agendas, there arises a collective effort to smother it. Suppression is achieved both by neglect, and by demonizing others who report an inconvenient truth as racists, conspiracist “right-wingers,” and otherwise irredeemable. 

"The Hunter Biden laptop story is the locus classicus. Social media branded the authentic laptop as Russian disinformation. That was a lie. But the deception did not stop them from censoring and squashing those who reported the truth. 

"Instead of carefully examining the contents of the laptop or interrogating Biden-company players such as Tony Bobulinksi, the media hyped the ridiculous disinformation hoax as a mechanism for suppressing the damaging pre-election story altogether.". . .

DoE's Granholm hands out $200 million greenie grant to lithium battery company -- controlled by the Chinese

Give me your votes, then forget about what I promised about Made in America. That's his "word as a Biden."

 “I know China very well; China, China, China, China, China, China.”

Monica Showalter

What's disgusting is that Granholm billed it as "Made in America" when in fact only the money shoveled out is Made in America. The greenie enterprises are foreign, they are Chinese, they thrive on subidies, and they gather to the states like bums encircling a chief drug dealer in a homeless encampment for their succor. 

. . .According to Alana Goodman at the Washington Free Beacon:

President Joe Biden's Department of Energy is touting a grant to a lithium battery company as a move that would help herald the shift to green energy and ensure the United States is cultivating domestic sources of energy. It did not say, however, that the Texas company receiving the grant operates primarily from China and is under scrutiny from American financial regulators.

Decoding the recent California reparations proposal

 

Rajan Laad   "Recently, Fox News reported the following:

The California Reparations Task Force's five-member economic consultant team reported that under the initiative, qualifying Black residents in the state could qualify for $223,200 per person.

"The Reparations Task Force was formed by legislation signed by California governor Gavin Newsom in 2020.

"The panel, comprising primarily African-American members, voted 5-4 to limit reparations to descendants of enslaved African Americans or of a "free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century."

"It would be up to the California Legislature to act upon the recommendations.

"California was a state that fought with the Union during the Civil War and never engaged in widespread slavery, but that's irrelevant to Newsom.  It also isn't the only state attempting the exercise.

"Back in 2021, officials in Evanston, Ill., a Chicago suburb, approved $10 million in reparations in the form of housing grants.

"Also in 2021, officials in Asheville, N.C. committed $2.1 million to reparations.

So let's dig deeper.

"The panel says that only Black residents will qualify to receive reparations.

"Since slavery ended around 157 years ago, these Black residents are likely to have a percentage of slave heritage.

"The first question is who decides the cutoff percentage of qualification.". . .

Will those convicted of smash-and-grab robberies be forced to deduct the value of what they stole from the reparations? Those convicted of the near-fatal assault on Reginald Denny during the LA riots may be asked to pay his medical expenses?

The only way to deduce slave ancestry is for all California residents to submit to a DNA test. This will be a massive undertaking and will probably cost the state millions of dollars, but that is the only accurate way to do it.

When Does a Right Become Bullying – That May Be the Supreme Court’s Biggest Question to Answer in Religion and LGBTQ Case -

 The Conservative Era   "One of the purposes of the Supreme Court in the US Constitution is to provide clarity to contentious situations. Over the last several years, the high court has dealt with several issues related to religious rights. It seems the issue of faith has become a more legal issue than in the past, especially when it comes to the intersection of discrimination.

"On Monday, justices heard a case involving religious freedom and free speech discrimination. Lorie Smith owns a custom website design firm in Colorado. She is an evangelical Christian who says it violates her conscience and faith to design wedding websites for gay couples. She proactively challenged a Colorado law prohibiting businesses from discriminating against LGBTQ customers.

"So, the question is, does the First Amendment protect the rights of religious and LGBTQ persons when there is a contradiction? 

"The challenge is that everyone has a right to be respected. Yet, when is a line crossed? For either side, does the issue become discriminatory or bullying at a certain point?  Here is the answer, in my view.

"The Bill of Rights has three provisions pertinent to this case:". . .

. . ."The very definition of bullying is trying to coerce or intimidate someone into doing something they don’t want to do or find objectionable. Is that what Colorado is doing? Smith has a guaranteed right to choose who she wants to do business with on religious grounds. Perhaps she’s not making a good business decision, or maybe she is — either way, it’s her choice and that of those who choose to do business with her or not because of her beliefs. Colorado also had a choice. They could have respected both sides and worked as a fair mediator to balance Smith’s rights. The hypothetical couple could also find another person to make the website. In America today, many people would gladfully serve them.

Our glorious free press

In sum, there is no media. It has ceased to exist, and the public plods on by assuming as true whatever the Pravda-like news outlets suppress and as false whatever they cover. Victor Davis Hanson(below)

Media Tailspin Continues As Trust Hits Record Lows: I&I/TIPP Poll

It’s hard to build trust when there are abundant signs that you are no longer trustworthy. Some big media, social media, and news sites are at least acknowledging criticism. But will that be enough?

. . .“Elon Musk, Twitter’s new owner and CEO, just dropped a bombshell that has no known parallel in American history: The Biden administration and the Democratic National Committee colluded with Twitter to swing the 2020 election to Joe Biden and his Democrats,” wrote William Sullivan on the American Thinker site.

"Musk himself ripped liberal news media for “deceiving the American public” and for “not being truthful” in ignoring the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, while journalist Matt Taibbi posted an epic thread on Twitter showing the evidence for Twitter’s electoral shenanigans.

"Not only did liberal journalists not congratulate Taibbi, they vilified him for speaking out.

"Here’s some of the other self-inflicted media misery:

• New CNN CEO Chris Licht laid off hundreds of people, and all but admitted his network’s political bias had gotten out of hand and vowed his network will pursue “truth” in the future.
• Disney, owner of several media properties along with its iconic theme parks, brought back former CEO Bob Iger following a series of movie flops and ongoing “woke” disputes that have dampened traffic at the company’s parks.
• Apple has been accused of helping the Chinese regime quell anti-government demonstrations by shutting down a key app used by many of the demonstrators.
• TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media site favored by younger users, has come under fire for its ties to China’s government and concerns that Xi Jinping’s regime could use the app to influence future elections.
• Facebook, likewise, has been harshly criticized for biasing social media mentions on its popular site and for letting government and law enforcement officials request censorship of posts via a special “portal.”. . .

Glenn Greenwald torches CNN’s ‘Twitter Files’ spin: ‘Like the rantings of any #Resistance maniac’   "Ever since “The Twitter Files” dropped on Friday, media firefighters have been working overtime to explain why there’s nothing to see there.

• Ben Collins’ pissiness over Matt Taibbi and Elon Musk’s ‘Twitter Files’ speaks volumes about modern MSM

How Corrupt is a Corrupt Media?  Victor Davis Hanson

The media has ceased to exist, and the public plods on by assuming as true whatever the media suppresses and as false whatever the media covers.

"The current “media”—loosely defined as the old major newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post, the network news channels, MSNBC and CNN, PBS and NPR, the online news aggregators like Google, Apple, and Yahoo, and the social media giants like the old Twitter and Facebook—are corrupt. 

They have adopted in their news coverage a utilitarian view that noble progressive ends justify almost any unethical means to obtain them. The media is unapologetically fused with the Democratic Party, the bicoastal liberal elite, and the progressive agenda. 

"The result is that the public cannot trust that the news it hears or reads is either accurate or true. The news as presented by these outlets has been carefully filtered to suppress narratives deemed inconvenient or antithetical to the political objectives of these entities, while inflating themes deemed useful.". . .