When Leaders Get Scared -The US Retreat Has Huge Implications

 Stephen Bryen (substack.com)  "While it may look like the United States is being tough and forceful in Ukraine, the reverse is true.  The US is showing incredible weakness, and it is wearing it on its sleeve.

"Let's start with Ukraine.  The US has gone all out to try and help Ukraine win a victory over the Russians.  The Biden administration wants this to happen for two reasons: to show that Biden is not a wimp and won't cut and run like he did in Afghanistan (and on this the 20th anniversary of the War in Iraq, like his predecessor Obama did by pulling US forces out of Iraq) and that he wants to "strengthen" NATO by eventually putting a NATO army in Ukraine.  

"The reason for not wanting to look like a wimp is self-evident and does not need any further explanation, other than to say that Washington elites have bought into the false narrative that Ukraine is a glowing democracy and we should defend it.  Of course, the US disrupted Ukraine's free politics and pushed the rebellion against a properly elected government.  Likewise the US also has kept its mouth shut about the political repression in Ukraine, the jailing of political opponents, and the complete takeover of all the media in the country.  Ukraine also has mistreated the Russian speaking population, essentially putting pressure on Russian speakers to leave the country. The latest twist on this highway of suppression is Zelensky-led attacks on the Russian Orthodox Church, with the most recent manifestation closing a centuries-old monastery and forcing out the Orthodox Monks from the property.  Zelensky, to make Washington happy, is pretending to go after corrupt officials in a country famous for corruption (both under the old Soviet leadership and the post-Soviet Ukrainian regimes).". . .

Are any Democrats repulsed by their politicians?

 Democrats transform America into a third-world country. TD

Most underreported story: Evidence of the Biden family’s $ millions from China now documented with bank records - American Thinker   . . ."But the media silence won’t stop the flow of records, and won’t stop the depositions and testimony to come. I take Comer at his word that the Biden camp assumed the bank records would never come to light. They know what kind of money is involved, and they must realize how toxic this could become.

"Whether or not the case of Alvin Bragg against Trump is an attempted distraction – a very successful one so far – doesn’t really matter. An enemy funding a president with millions of dollars is a story that can’t be contained.

"Here is the full interview: 

"If anyone thinks conditions will improve soon, just wait until this same Justice Department indicts Trump for “inciting” the events of January 6"...Julie Kelly

. . .Before January 6, 2021, an American political leader who called for mass protests would not be heard as calling for violence. Trump, in fact, did not encourage his followers to behave violently.. . .

The Death of Dissent; American Greatness, Julie Kelly  "The lead prosecutor in charge of the January 6 investigation, the largest probe in Justice Department history, just confirmed what American Greatness has reported for months: the number of criminal cases related to the Capitol protest is expected to at least double before it’s all over.

"U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves, an advisor to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign who took over the powerful office in late 2021, sent a letter to the chief judge of the D.C. District court warning up to 1,200 more individuals could face charges. 

"“We expect the pace of bringing new cases will increase, in an orderly fashion, over the course of the next few months,” Graves told Beryl Howell, who ended her term as chief judge last week. Graves’ office just surpassed 1,000 total defendants in what he renamed the “Capitol Siege” investigation—which means the final caseload might well exceed 2,000.

"Graves also indicated his team would ramp up the number of felony indictments; the overwhelming majority of charges so far are low-level offenses, including the laughable “parading in the Capitol” misdemeanor. The Biden regime clearly wants to juice the numbers before the 2024 election season.". . .

. . ."Regardless of the disparate responses from both political sides, the clear winner here is the Biden regime, and the Justice Department in particular. The ongoing manhunt for Trump supporters is yielding victories of all sizes, not the least of which is the elimination of once-cherished rights to petition the government and redress grievances without being considered a domestic terrorist.". . .

NYC on Alert as Potential Trump Arrest Loom

 NYC on Alert as Potential Trump Arrest Looms | Newsmax.com 

   "New York City officials reportedly are preparing riot police for possible civil unrest this week with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office potentially bringing charges against former President Donald Trump.

"NYC workers on Monday began erecting barricades near a courthouse in lower Manhattan.

 A Tuesday arrest has been rumored since Saturday, when Trump initially referenced it on his Truth Social app. "Trump's messaging, via Truth Social: "Illegal leaks from a corrupt and highly political Manhattan District Attorney's Office, which has allowed new records to be set in violent crime and whose leader is funded by George Soros, indicate that, with no crime being able to be proven, and based on an old and fully debunked (by numerous other prosecutors!) fairytale, the far and away leading Republican candidate and former president of the United States of America, will be arrested on Tuesday of next week," wrote Trump. "Protest, take our nation back."

"Since that pronouncement, many Republican officials have defended Trump, characterizing the potential charges against him as false and/or politically motivated.". . .

Impeach and arrest Trump? Remember Bill Clinton?

 

PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON Paid Paula Jones $850,000 To Shut Up About Sexual Harassment Charges While He Was In Middle Of Impeachment Hearings For Affair With 19-Yr-Old Intern...Why Was He Never Arrested? (100percentfedup.com)

. . ."While all of this was going on, there was no raid of Clinton’s attorney’s offices. Despite multiple accusations of SEXUAL ASSAULT by women, including Jones, Clinton’s friend Kathleen E. Wiley and, of course, Juanita Broadderick’s very credible accusation that she was raped by Bill Clinton. Yet, curiously, there were no threats of Bill Clinton’s arrest  His attorney at the time was Robert S. Bennett.". . .

John Kennedy Has Advice for Trump Supporters Upset With Possible Indictment

Prepare for accelerated gloating on the TV talk shows.

 Julio Rosas (townhall.com)  "Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) added his voice to the calls for calm ahead of the possibility for former President Donald Trump getting indicted and arrested at the behest of Manhattan's District Attorney Alvin Bragg over alleged payments to Stormy Daniels.". . .

. . .Trump posted on Truth Social he was going to be arrested on Tuesday but his 2024 campaign says they have not gotten confirmation if such an event will take place tomorrow. Nevertheless, the news of Trump potentially being handcuffed over something that prosecutors have chosen to not pursue in years past has riled up his base. Trump has called for protests to take place.

"Kennedy was asked about the issue on Monday during an appearance on "Fox & Friends."

" 'I just wanted to ask one tiny little question to wrap this up, and that is, after he announced on TRUTH Social that he supposes he’s going to be arrested tomorrow, Donald Trump said, people should protest, protest, protest. Kevin McCarthy came out and said, ‘Don’t protest.’ Where do you come down on this?" Steve Doocy asked.

"Well, in America, you’re — you’re free to protest. You’re not really free if you can’t express yourself. But do it peacefully. Don’t — don’t — don’t be a knucklehead and — and — and riot. Do it peacefully," Kennedy answered.

"Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said people should not protest if Trump is arrested but made it clear what Bragg is doing is not in the name of justice.". . .

Stanford Law students that shouted down federal judge demand reporter hide their names and obscure their faces

 Stanford Law students that shouted down federal judge demand reporter hide their names and obscure their faces - American Thinker  "Apparently, you don’t have to be that bright to get into Stanford’s law school, formerly regarded as highly competitive and demanding in its legal education. The budding totalitarians there who don’t believe in free speech for people with whom they disagree also apparently believe that they have to right to control news coverage of their heinous acts.  Are they ashamed of what they did, or do they just worry that they may not be able to cash in after graduation with lucrative offers or prestigious clerkships?

"Washington Free Beacon reporter Aaron Sibarium “appeared Sunday on Fox News and shared his blunt response to "hypocritical" Stanford Law School students who have demanded their names be removed from his reporting about their controversial activism.”

https://twitter.com/i/status/1593747760775315457

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Judge Duncan describes his 'struggle session' at Stanford Law – HotAir

. . ."Many people have seen the video showing the disruption of his speech by students and a DEI dean. In his account, Judge Duncan explains the hostility started before he even entered the building.

When I arrived, the walls were festooned with posters denouncing me for crimes against women, gays, blacks and “trans people.” Plastered everywhere were photos of the students who had invited me and fliers declaring “You should be ASHAMED,” with the last word in large red capital letters and a horror-movie font. This didn’t seem “collegial.” Walking to the building where I would deliver my talk, I could hear loud chanting a good 50 yards away, reminiscent of a tent revival in its intensity. Some 100 students were massed outside the classroom as I entered, faces painted every color of the rainbow, waving signs and banners, jeering and stamping and howling. As I entered the classroom, one protester screamed: “We hope your daughters get raped!”…

The protesters weren’t upset by the subject of my talk—a rather dry discourse on how circuit courts interact with the Supreme Court in times of doctrinal flux. Rather, I was their target. While in practice, I represented clients and advanced arguments the protesters hate—for instance, I defended Louisiana’s traditional marriage laws. As for my judicial decisions, among the several hundred I’ve written, the protesters were especially vexed by U.S. v. Varner. A federal prisoner serving a term for attempted receipt of child pornography (and with a previous state conviction for possession of child porn) petitioned our court to order that he be called by feminine pronouns. As my opinion explained, federal courts can’t control what pronouns people use. The Stanford protesters saw it differently: My opinion had “denied a transwoman’s existence.”

America’s Uncle Joe has his own Beria

 

'When I saw the news yesterday that Attorney General Merrick Garland was appointing a special counsel to once again target Donald Trump, the first thing that popped into my head was that famous quote attributed to Stalin’s notorious henchman Laventiy Beria: “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.”

“Uncle Joe” Stalin had Laventiy Beria. Uncle Joe Biden has Merrick Garland.

'But tell me again how Republicans are the authoritarian tyrants.

"Now, according to Attorney General Beria, the reason he appointed former federal prosecutor Jack Smith as Trump’s Grand Inquisitor three days after Trump announced his 2024 run for the presidency was to ensure the ongoing investigation into Joe Biden’s political opponent remained “independent.”

"That made me laugh out loud.

"So, too, did hearing that hapless dimwit press secretary Karine Jean Pierre say this:"

KJP: "WE DO NOT POLITICIZE THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE." pic.twitter.com/VCLtLquE3A

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) November 18, 2022

. . .Listen, nobody, not even that dope Karine Jean Pierre believes that this Justice Department isn’t politicized.

"Joe Biden certainly thinks his DOJ is there to go after his political opponents. Last week during his pyrrhic victory lap over the Democrats not being obliterated in the midterms, Biden was asked how he could reassure America’s allies that Donald Trump wouldn’t return to power and undo everything Biden has done.

"This is how the loose-lipped Joe answered the question:

“Well, we just have to demonstrate that he will not take power by — if we — if he does run. I’m making sure he, under legitimate efforts of our Constitution, does not become the next President again.” [emphasis Dianny’s]

"You can always count on that old coot to let the cat out of the bag.". . .

he FBI Has Now Just Become A Weaponized Apparatchik Of The Presidential Administration." (100percentfedup.com)

FBI agent Steve Friend opted to become a whistleblower exposing the corruption in the agency. Friend said that individuals at the top of the Bureau are pushing a political agenda and that it is causing a divide between FBI officers and upper management.

 

The Tunnel Wall: Most underreported story: Evidence of the Biden family’s $ millions from China now documented with bank records

 The Tunnel Wall: Most underreported story: Evidence of the Biden family’s $ millions from China now documented with bank records

Most underreported story: Evidence of the Biden family’s $ millions from China now documented with bank records

 

Most underreported story: Evidence of the Biden family’s $ millions from China now documented with bank records - American Thinker

"It comes as no surprise that the propaganda arm of the Democrats called the “mainstream media” has no interest in informing the American people of the gravity of the evidence piling up that Joe Biden has been bought off by the Chinese Communist Party. Thanks to the efforts of James Comer, we already have bank records of $1 million flowing to Biden family members through a cutout named Rob Walker, shortly after Biden left office as VP.". . .

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Everything Biden has done weakens America and strengthens China. A partial list: crippling our oil and gas industry, detonating an inflation bomb in the form of the Covid Relief Bill, turning our border over to Mexican human smuggling and drug cartels, weaponizing the DoJ and FBI against its own citizens for purely political purposes, and pushing toxic and divisive woke ideologies.

China openly declares they intend to destroy America and replace us as the world’s only remaining superpower. Hopefully they will ultimately fail, but in the meantime, Biden is making sure they get their money’s worth.

William H Dexter II  I suspect this is the reason for the timing of Trump's pending arrest. Nothin' to see here, folks. Speaker McCarthy, you're up!

Xi Jinping Rises as Biden Dithers

 Xi Jinping Rises as Biden Dithers | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)

It all began with Biden’s disastrous decision to abruptly withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan in August 2021. The move came as a thunderbolt, telegraphing Biden’s weakness and incompetence to the world. And he’s done nothing since to alter that perception.

 The utter failure of the Anchorage, Alaska, meeting between top U.S. and Chinese diplomats held in March 2021 set the tone for relations going forward. Diplomacy flew out the window at the get-go and did not return. The hostility coming from the Chinese was impossible to miss. It was made immediately and abundantly clear that then-Chinese Director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs Yang Jiechi had neither fear, nor respect, for U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. 

"It was especially disturbing because the situation with former President Donald Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had been so completely different. In the photographs below, the same Yang who displayed such contempt for Blinken and to the United States of America, is shown smiling and bowing before Pompeo. 

"Since that time, the weakness exhibited by the Biden administration on the world stage has only emboldened the Chinese and their undisguised goal of surpassing the U.S. as the world’s greatest superpower is moving forward with surprising ease.

"Last week, we learned that China had brokered a deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia to restore diplomatic relations. According to the Wall Street Journal:

The deal signals a sharp increase in Beijing’s influence in a region where the U.S. has long been the dominant power broker, and could complicate efforts by the U.S. and Israel to strengthen a regional alliance to confront Tehran as it expands its nuclear program. It comes as the U.S. has been trying to broker a peace deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel, an effort now clouded with uncertainty.. . .

MSNBC Wants Baseball Moved Out of Florida Over DeSantis’ War On Woke

 MSNBC Wants Baseball Moved Out of Florida Over DeSantis’ War On Woke… | Weasel Zippers

MSNBC: home of: "Mostly peaceful" Ali Velshi and Reidout Joy Reid