Simon Ateba Stands Up for Values the US Press Once Held

 Simon Ateba Stands Up for Values the US Press Once Held  (independentsentinel.com)

Our media is corrupt, and so is this administration. As if that isn’t bad enough, Biden, the figurehead, our own Jefferson Davis, is running again.

"The African reporter, Simon Ateba, asks some tough questions. As a result, Karine Jean-Pierre (KJP) rarely calls on him and is rude when she does. KJP is a notorious liar who never answers a question. Mr. Ateba reflects the values Americans and the American press used to have."

"Peter, really? Is that a question? Really, Peter? That's really uncalled for Peter," scolded the first gay black Press Secretary. "You should frankly know better than that. You are being rude to the rest of the people in this room who are here to do their jobs of handing me pre-screened softballs which I then hit out of the park with the killer lines in this binder someone gave me." Babylon Bee

. . ."Mr. Ateba tweeted this today:"

“As I keep pressing for answers, she keeps protecting the President. @PressSec Karine Jean-Pierre dislikes me 99 percent of the time, and likes me 0.0001 percent of the time. The worst part is when we meet at that restaurant outside the White House.

“After a big fight in the briefing room, what do we say to each other? It’s always awkward. The next day in the briefing room, she calls on the person on my left, the one on my right, the person right in front of me and the one right behind me. Then skips me as I raise my hand.

“She makes it clear that she is calling on everyone around me except me. Then other reporters who don’t want to face the same consequences begin to tell her ‘Thanks Karine’ after she answers their questions. They become submissive, thanks for calling on me, thanks for answering my questions, thanks for doing me a favor.

"Reporters shun him."

“In the briefing room, they try to keep their distance from me, being associated with Simon means maybe not getting called on. One reporter blocked me from taking an empty seat during Biden’s speech, I just pressed forward and sat down." . . .

Louisville bank shooter reportedly massacred innocents in an effort to justify more gun control in America — and Democrats were ready to oblige him

TheBlaze "A neighbor of the shooter told the New York Post that the apparent gun-control activist's 13-page manifesto was discovered by his roommate Dallas Whelan. It is now in the possession of the Louisville Police Department.

"The Daily Mail reported that the manifesto made three key points: "He wanted to kill himself, he wanted to prove how easy it was to buy a gun in Kentucky and he wanted to highlight a mental health crisis in America."

"If accurate, then Democrats may have made use of the slaughter of Josh Barrick, Deana Eckert, Tommy Elliott, Juliana Farmer, and Jim Tutt Jr. as their killer intended.". . .

Sturgeon reportedly hoped to showcase how easy it was to buy a gun in Kentucky and wanted to highlight the mental health crisis in America. He also planned to end the slaughter by suicide — a wish that was granted when he was shot to death by police officers when he brandished his firearm. Sturgeon’s manifesto is reportedly in the hands of the Louisville Police Department.

Family of Louisville bank shooter wants his AR-15 rifle destroyed | Fox News

DeSantis Destroys Trans Ideology, Deems It ‘A Total Fraud’

 DeSantis Destroys Trans Ideology, Deems It ‘A Total Fraud’ - DC Enquirer  "Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has once again made his way into the headlines through direct and vocal criticism of the ascendent ideology of the transgender agenda. After openly criticizing Anheuser-Busch’s decision to partner with transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney the governor described the trans movement as “a total fraud.”

"According to The Daily Wire, DeSantis was asked in a clip for ‘The Benny Show‘ with Benny Johnson if the transgender movement constitutes “an existential threat to women.”

“A total fraud,” he replied in a video posted to Twitter Tuesday by the DeSantis War Room"

“If you take a man and they dress up as a woman and you tell me I have to accept that they’re a woman, then you're asking me to be complicit in a lie,” @RonDeSantisFL tells @bennyjohnson.

“I refuse to do that.”

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— DeSantis War Room 🐊 (@DeSantisWarRoom) April 18, 2023

Hunter Biden investigation infected by ‘politics’ and ‘preferential treatment’: IRS whistleblower

 Hunter Biden Reportedly Getting Preferential IRS Treatment, Per IRS Whistleblower (legalinsurrection.com)  "An attorney for an IRS Whistleblower has approached Congress seeking to have this client disclose information under Whistleblower protection to Congress. While the letter doesn’t say who is the target, CBS News is reporting that it is about Hunter Biden.". . .

. .."Specifically, the agent has provided evidence that at least two Biden DOJ political appointees in U.S. attorneys’ offices have declined to seek a tax indictment against Hunter Biden despite career investigators’ recommendations to do so and the blessing of career prosecutors in the DOJ tax division.

"He also alleges that Weiss told agents on the case that the Delaware U.S. Attorney asked to be named a special counsel to have more independent authority in the probe but was turned down, according to interviews.

"The agent also alleged that specific DOJ employees placed strictures on questions, witnesses and tactics investigators may be allowed to pursue that could impact President Biden, according to the interviews.

"The sources said the agent’s decision to blow the whistle was prompted by sworn testimony from Garland that Delaware U.S. Attorney Weiss had full authority, free from political pressure, to pursue a case against Hunter Biden in any part of the country, according to interviews.". . .

Former CIA Chief Admits He Was Pressured By Biden Campaign To Orchestrate Letter Claiming Hunter Laptop Was Russian Disinfo   "According to bombshell* new testimony, former acting CIA director Mike Morell says that he was told by the Biden campaign to squash the Hunter Biden laptop story in October of 2020.

"With pressure from the Biden, Morrell then orchestrated the infamous letter from “50 intel agencies” claiming that the story was nothing more than “Russian disinformation”.

"Here’s the bombshell story from the NY Post:". . .

*I loathe that word, "bombshell"; it was done to death by CNN and MSNBC during Democrat-led House Judiciary Committee hearings. TD

More here: Biden campaign pushed spies to write false Hunter laptop letter (nypost.com)

Morell, identified as a potential CIA director under Biden, said he organized the letter to “help Vice President Biden … because I wanted him to win the election.”

Critical race theory has arrived at medical schools. What could go wrong?

  Legal Insurrection

The promo for my hour-long interview on Tucker Carlson Today was supposed to run several weeks ago, but was bumped and then bumped again and then bumped again by the Trump indictment circus news cycles. It finally dropped today.

"I previously wrote about my hour-long interview on Tucker Carlson Today, the most intense interview I’ve ever done, “Sir, your presentation was far and away the best Tucker has aired to date”.

"That post has a couple of excerpts from the transcript, including Tucker’s kind opening:

Tucker: Welcome to Tucker Carlson Today. One of the saddest developments in the past 20 years is watching the total destruction of American journalism. Journalism is protected explicitly by the First Amendment for a reason. It’s what keeps our system at least theoretically free, open and fair. And it’s pretty much dead. It’s now an instrument of one of the two political parties. But the good news is that real journalism has emerged in its place to fill that vacuum, and it’s being practiced by people who aren’t strictly speaking journalists.". . .

 And one of the best journalists of our time is about as far from a trained journalist as you can get. He’s a law professor at an Ivy League school. His name is Bill Jacobson. He runs Legal Insurrection, and he has been one of the people covering the woke destruction of education for the rest of us.

Biden Is Even Worse than Obama

 Biden Is Even Worse than Obama › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)

Unimaginably, Joe Biden is a worse president than Barack Obama, a complete phony and a disaster in every way possible, as is the deep state that controls much of his agenda.

 

Like every writer at American Greatness, and probably most of our readers too, I was not a fan of Barack Obama. It was obvious when his presidency ended that he was profoundly destructive, one of the worst presidents in living memory. 

"Sadly, he was not the most ineffective, as he intended a lot of the destructive results that he brought forth. 

Obama Was a Very Bad President

"Obama’s most obvious failure was of the missed opportunity variety. Optimism surrounded his election, and even many opponents were hopeful that his victory would demonstrate to both white and black Americans that extreme racial tensions were a thing of the past and no longer a consuming national problem. 

"Thus, Obama’s greatest demerit was his manifest failure to foster greater social peace on race relations. Rather than using his status as the first black president to encourage a moral renewal in the black community, he instead flattered its worst members—racial rabble rousers like Al Sharpton and Ben Crump—as well as the black criminal underclass more generally. 

"Weighing in on the Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown shootings, he showed complete indifference to legitimate fears about crime in black neighborhoods and instead encouraged distrust of and hostility to police and to white people. He never hesitated to criticize white Americans in general, nor our country’s glorious and heroic history. In the end, he was a racial arsonist, and race relations were noticeably worse at the end of his term than they were at the beginning of it.

"In other areas, he advanced social leftism, including a dim view of American history and the promotion of boutique identities like “transgenderism.” He began ridiculously to promote transgenderism within the military and in public schools during his second term.
 "Obama’s signature “achievement,” the Affordable Care Act, turned out to be a major failure, even on its own terms. This law dragooned those actually paying for their health insurance into subsidizing poor, urban, and young people. It ended up making healthcare more expensive, with the only beneficiaries being reliable Democratic Party constituencies. 

"Now more than 10 years into Obamacare, health costs have doubled, with middle-class people outside of the subsidy zone paying obscenely high premiums coupled with obscenely high out-of-pocket limits if they should get sick. ". . .

Obama is loved by Stephen Colbert: ‘I Just Want To Take A Moment To Drink You In’: Colbert Praises Obama During Interview | The Daily Caller      

. . ."Obama then offered praise for Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, saying that he expected them to meet the coming challenges.

“You know, we’ve got the potential of returning to a presidency that is actually paying attention and trying to do right by all people and not just some,” he said.". . .

A shocking judicial rebuke to Bragg's anti-Trump persecution machine

 A shocking judicial rebuke to Bragg's anti-Trump persecution machine - American Thinker  "Right from the opening paragraph of her order and decision upholding the subpoena issued by the House Judiciary Committee to depose Mark F. Pomerantz, Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil let the hardcore left have it — hurling that battle cry "no one is above the law" back at them.

The request by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg Jr. for a temporary restraining order, enjoining enforcement of the subpoena issued to Mark F. Pomerantz by the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States House of Representatives, chaired by Congressman Jim Jordan, is DENIED. The subpoena was issued with a "valid legislative purpose" in connection with the "broad" and "indispensable" congressional power to "conduct investigations." It is not the role of the federal judiciary to dictate what legislation Congress may consider or how it should conduct its deliberations in that connection. Mr. Pomerantz must appear for the congressional deposition. No one is above the law.

"And that was just for openers.

"After referring to the anti-Trump book Pomerantz wrote on leaving his volunteer position in the office of the Manhattan district attorney, Judge Vyskocil sharply criticized the Bragg complaint against the House Judiciary Committee as, mostly, "a public relations tirade against former President and current presidential candidate Donald Trump" that constituted "a motion to quash a subpoena dressed up as a lawsuit.". . .

Former Biden Nuclear Waste Chief Sam Brinton Will Undergo Mental Health Evaluation to Avoid Jail Time –

 RedState

Try to unsee this!

"Former Biden Administration deputy assistant secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy Sam Brinton, who was caught stealing women’s luggage from multiple airports and then parading around in purloined outfits, has agreed to undergo a mental health evaluation for stealing baggage in Minneapolis—even as he avoids jail time in Las Vegas for a similar crime (as Redstate’s Bonchie reported)."

"He was relieved of his duties after news of his thefts broke, but as our sister site Townhall exclusively reported, the paychecks kept coming:..."

More evidence that Biden will not be allowed to run for re-election in 2024

Forgive us, Mr. Franklin!

 More evidence that Biden will not be allowed to run for re-election in 2024 - American Thinker   "Now that we live in a political system run by the shadowy figures, we have to look to indirect indicators of what is really going on among our rulers. The people who decided that since Bernie Sanders would lose to Donald Trump in 2020, they would install dementia-afflicted 3-time presidential loser Joe Biden as the Democrats’ nominee, and manipulate election law to ensure that he was elected, signal to their media lackeys what their priorities are.  

"Much as Kremlinologists used to analyze the power dynamics of the ruling clique by observing who stood next to whom in the reviewing stands for May Day parades, we have to analyze the inner workings of our genuine rulers by watching what their flunkies in the media decide what is and what isn’t worth publicizing.

"There is strong evidence that a decision has been made to ensure Biden does not run in 2024. Up until now, a vow of omerta (silence) has been the guiding principle for handling news of Hunter Biden’s criminality and the implication of his father in the scandals. . ." 

IRS whistleblower claims he has PROOF Biden administration is 'improperly handling' Hunter probe | Daily Mail Online . . ." 'It's deeply concerning that the Biden Administration may be obstructing justice by blocking efforts to charge Hunter Biden for tax violations,' he said. He said his panel was following the 'Biden's tangled web of complex corporate and financial records.'" 'It's clear from our investigation that Hunter and other members of the Biden family engaged in deceptive, shady business schemes to avoid scrutiny as they made millions from foreign adversaries like China. We've been wondering all along where the heck the DOJ and the IRS have been. Now it appears the Biden Administration may have been working overtime to prevent the Bidens from facing any consequences.'

"Biden has not been charged with a crime."  

'Radical feminist' groups break with Biden, join GOP in support of women's sports bill: 'Height of hypocrisy' | Fox News

Human tidal wave is waiting for border to open May 11 -- Biden has no plan to stop it (nypost.com)   "Yet he has no plans to deal with the flood of newcomers the move will unleash — with as many as 40,000 now already massed on the Mexican side, alarming officials."

Biden Is Even Worse than Obama › American Greatness . . . "Unimaginably, Joe Biden is a worse president than Barack Obama, a complete phony and a disaster in every way possible, as is the deep state that controls much of his agenda." 

Then There Were Nine: Comer Alleges A Wider Range of Potential Biden Beneficiaries from Possible Influence Peddling – JONATHAN TURLEY  "House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has revealed that there are not three but nine members of the Biden family that may have benefitted from suspected influence peddling efforts. For those of us who have long criticized the corrupt practices of the Biden family, the identity of these other family members is intriguing after the Committee secured new bank and financial records. Democratic members again insisted that there is no need to investigate such influence peddling.

"The new information on the Biden family is due largely to the takeover of the House by the GOP. Previously, Democrats blocked efforts to investigate influence peddling by the Biden family for years.". . .

We must know and fear this Democrat party, its members, and those of the American public which selects them to run this formerly great nation. TD

Afghanistan Inspector General report condemns Biden administration after WH blames Trump –

  One America News Network (oann.com)

"A government watchdog claims that Biden’s botched pullout from Afghanistan has left tens of thousands of Afghan allies behind, and the president’s efforts to rescue and relocate them are being undercut by “bureaucratic dysfunction and understaffing.”

“The U.S. promised to resettle its allies in safety, but the United States is failing,” stated the stark assessment from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). 

"The SIGAR 2023 High-Risk List report was published on Wednesday, which details the significant threats to the $8 billion that the United States has given to the Afghan people after its withdrawal in August 2021.

"The report was released as Afghanistan experiences a “humanitarian catastrophe” brought on by the violent Taliban government, which seized power after the United States withdrew.

The hearing is titled “The Biden Administration’s Disastrous Withdrawal from Afghanistan, Part I: Review by the Inspectors General,” and it is taking place before Congress on Wednesday. Inspector General John Sopko and watchdogs for the Defense and State Departments, as well as the U.S. Agency for International Development, will be the participants testifying.

"They will be providing legislators with updates on their individual analyses of how the Biden administration handled the pullout, which resulted in the deaths of 13 U.S. service members and the displacement of thousands of additional Americans and Afghan allies.". . .

Bragg’s Obsession To Pin A Crime On Trump Deserves Disbarment And More

 The Brief: Bragg's Obsession To Pin A Crime On Trump Deserves Disbarment And More | Gregg Jarrett (thegreggjarrett.com)  "The consensus —even among Democrats who despise Donald Trump— is that Alvin Bragg has made a colossal mess of things.

"Recently, the Manhattan District Attorney compounded one legal blunder with another.  This should surprise no one.  Bragg is the kind of guy who could screw up a free lunch.  Incompetence is his métier.

"In his brief tenure as DA, he has managed to increase the number of criminals terrorizing the streets of New York City by refusing to prosecute many of them or dropping serious felonies to petty misdemeanors.  Innocent victims of the rampant crime fume and rage against Bragg, while prosecutors in his charge have abandoned ship.

"Like the crazed captain in Moby Dick, Bragg is obsessed with harpooning Trump, his white whale.  In the DA’s twisted mind, all evil in the world is personified by the former president.  You can almost hear Bragg channeling Ahab’s words, “They think me mad, but I’m demoniac, I am madness maddened!”

"Instead of getting a mental health check-up, Bragg chose to indict the former president based on a transparently invented crime that is wholly unsupported by the law and contradicted by the facts.

"His warped theory goes something like this: Trump supposedly violated campaign finance laws by paying money to a lying accuser in exchange for a non-disclosure agreement, which is legal.  Forget that the transaction itself does not count as a campaign contribution.  The federal prosecutors determined it doesn’t.  So did the Federal Election Commission.  Both reviewed the matter and concluded that no laws were broken.". . .

Illustrations by Moby Dick 1 Digital Art by Jerry LoFaro - Pixels; Conde Nast Art - Fine Art America

Tucker [blasts] Eric Swalwell's Career With Brutal Takedown ; Babylon Bee helps out

He was removed from the House Intelligence Committee in January by incoming Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy over his involvement with a suspected Chinese spy who successfully placed an intern in his office. 

 Trending Politics  "Fox News host Tucker Carlson didn’t hold back in crucifying Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA) over his latest financial reports showing luxury travel to Miami and New York paid for by campaign donors.

“ 'When he’s not shagging Chinese spies, he gets to travel all over the world at his donors’ expense,” joked Carlson, referencing Swalwell’s relationship with Christine Fang in an alleged Chinese honeypot operation.

“ 'If he wants to he can hang out on the beach in a Hawaiian shirt with an umbrella drink, gold chains, and a chest wig.”. . .

. . ."Swalwell, who has been a co-chair of the House Democratic Steering Committee since 2016, hasn’t been shy about reporting his jet-setting excursions. Last summer he reported renting a limousine and holding a fundraising event at the five-star Ritz in Paris, far from the 14th congressional district southwest of San Francisco.

Chadwick Moore, a contributor at The Spectator, joined Carlson to dive deeper into the congressman’s spending habits.". . .

Security Concerns Raised As Eric Swalwell's Girlfriend Revealed To Be President Xi In A Wig | Babylon Bee  - "Security concerns were raised over how bad Chinese spying has gotten after it was revealed this week that Eric Swalwell had been secretly dating President Xi Jinping in a wig.

" 'Hey, wait a minute!" said an FBI agent as he saw Rep. Swalwell holding hands with a woman who looked suspiciously like President Xi in light makeup, a dress, and a wig. "That's that Chinese guy! Get him!" Pulling the wig off, the agent revealed the Chinese woman to be Xi himself.

" 'Cheryl... why? Why did you lie to me? We had something great!" Swalwell said, tears in his eyes, as President Xi activated his jetpack and escaped.". . .