While the Rally for January 6 prisoners was a bust, it still mattered a lot

 American Thinker   "On Saturday, there was a rally in D.C. to bring attention to the plight of those people arrested on January 6 and still held in solitary confinement in D.C. jails. President Trump warned people in advance that the rally was a no-win situation and he was right. It was poorly attended and it seems that many of those who did appear—perhaps intending to act as provocateurs—were law enforcement agents trying to “blend in with the crowd.” Most importantly, though, this failed rally revealed that non-leftists in America are losing their First Amendment right to protest.

"During an interview on Thursday with The Federalist, Trump spelled out precisely why the planned rally was going to fail:

“On Saturday, that’s a setup,” Trump said, referring to the rally. “If people don’t show up they’ll say, ‘Oh, it’s a lack of spirit.’ And if people do show up they’ll be harassed.”

"He proved to have been right on both counts. The Daily Mail (which I usually go to first because it’s more honest than the American media), described the protest as “sparsely attended,” with perhaps 400-450 genuine protesters present. However, said the Daily Mail, the police were out in force:' ". . . 

Armed Person Detained at J6 Rally is Undercover Agent, Pulls Out Badge (VIDEO) (thegatewaypundit.com)  . . . "There were more police, reporters and undercover intelligence agents than protesters in Washington DC.

"The only armed person arrested on Saturday was an undercover agent.

"Reporter Ford Fischer caught the whole thing on video.  

Ford Fischer on Twitter: "Earlier at "Justice for J6" defendants rally: Police surround masked man reportedly armed with a firearm. He tells them where the gun is, and they pull out his badge. He's undercover law enforcement. Without disarming or handcuffing him, police extract him from the event. https://t.co/F1n4PeuXkt" / Twitter

• More: Police Detain Man for Having a Gun at J6 Rally in DC, but There's a Big Twist – RedState
• EXCLUSIVE: Trump Calls Sept. 18 Rally A 'Setup,' Says McConnell Should Be Fired (thefederalist.com)
• “Justice for J6” Entrapment Rally was a Bust (legalinsurrection.com)

ELIJAH SCHAFFER tweeted:

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Can You Name a Worst Job Than Javelin Catcher? How About Any Biden Administration Spokesman?

 Diogenes' Middle Finger   "To go along with two horrendously bad Pentagon press briefings and another at the State Department, the White House joined in Monday afternoon with another shellacking at the hands of the press corps on Afghanistan.

"For this installment, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Press Secretary Jen Psaki took fire from all angles, ranging from Fox News to NPR. Led by Fox’s Peter Doocy and Real Clear Politics’ Philip Wegmann, Team Biden was grilled about whether Americans have been “stranded” by their own government, whether Americans outside Kabul will be rescued, and how can the U.S. take to heart anything that emanates from the Taliban.

"Sullivan first stepped to the plate and, after ducking introductory questions from CBS’s Nancy Cordes, CNN’s Phil Mattingly, and two others, NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe fired off a heater about “why didn't the administration prepare the American public” for the “rough” and “very chaotic scenes” inside Afghanistan if such images of death and heartbreak were inevitable, regardless of when the U.S. withdrew. 

"Fast-forward a few minutes to the one-two punch of Doocy and Wegmann, which featured the latter telling Sullivan that Biden “has criticized his predecessor,” “the Afghan army,” and “the Afghan government for all of their failures,” but not the Taliban. Sullivan responded to this humdinger by insisting Biden “has been very clear about his views of the Taliban” in not trusting them (even though they’ve said they need their help to get Americans and Afghan allies out of their clutches)."

[VIDEO] Jen Psaki Just Accidentally Blew Biden's Entire New "Afghanistan Narrative" at Today's Presser (waynedupree.com)

Team Biden is now trying to spin that they’re doing a historically amazing job of evacuating people from Afghanistan…of course, that’s not true, but they’re spinning their wheels like mad to try and make people believe it.

Joe Biden — The Definition of the Peter Principle

History doesn’t lie; his missteps and failures were predictable and are clear evidence of the Peter Principle at work. The question is, what does America do now?

The American Spectator

The Peter Principle warns of the dangers of advancing leaders to positions where they prove to be completely inept.  

"Incompetence personified defines our current leader of the free world. Back in 1969, Peter and Hull wrote what they thought was a half-serious little book, The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong, to poke fun at businesses which were promoting their leaders to levels of incompetence. The Peter Principle warns of the dangers of advancing leaders to positions where they prove to be completely inept. Little did they know, that not only did they nail an actual problem within all hierarchical organizations, but they also predicted its occurrence in politics. We now have the most significant and tragic example of the Peter Principle in modern political history — President Joe Biden.

"How has the Peter Principle tangibly played out in Joe Biden’s life? Well, let’s take a candid look at his track record and his personal acumen.

"In 1972, at the age of 29, after serving two years on the New Castle County Council, Mr. Biden was elected to the U.S Senate from the state of Delaware. He was re-elected to that same position six times. During this extended period of being a professional politician, he had very few noteworthy legislative accomplishments. During the duration of his senatorial career spanning 36 years, his ultimate and only true notoriety was being tagged as the “attack dog” of the Senate. Numerous flares in the night sky provided a warning that Biden had reached his career ceiling and that the Peter Principle had already occurred in his political occupation.

"During his senatorial post, he ran for president two times. He overwhelmingly failed at both. The first run in 1987 proved to be humiliating. It was confirmed that he had plagiarized speeches from four recent political figures. He also provided false information about his family background and his educational achievements. These profound examples of a lack of judgement and character resulted in his dropping out of the race. Twenty years later, Biden threw his hat in the ring again. This campaign, based on his self-proclaimed excellent foreign policy experience, resulted in abysmal showings in the caucuses and the polls. Biden dropped out of the race and emphatically stated that he would never run for president again. Democratic voters continued to see the Peter Principle at play as they voiced their consistent concern regarding Biden’s vision of becoming president.". . . 

Starlifter • a month ago:  And the ‘surrender monkey award’ goes to Joe Biden and his cabal.

Apologies to the French, once the Vichy allies of the Nazis. The French had Marshall Petain and America has the Democrats with Joe Biden. Video  TD

California Voters Get What They Deserve - Michael Barone

Newsom's maskless appearance at the expensive ($350 a plate) French Laundry restaurant, celebrating the birthday of a Democratic lobbyist, was an unforced error, perhaps characteristic of a politician whose core constituency has been San Francisco billionaires.

 

 Jewish World Review   "The nation's largest state has just voted in an election triggered by one of the nation's weirdest recall processes, and the results have come out just about where they've been before.

"California Gov. Gavin Newsom was elected governor in 2018 by 62% to 38%, a result that was, unsurprisingly in an era of straight-ticket voting and strong partisan allegiance, almost identical to President Joe Biden's 64% to 34% margin over Donald Trump in 2020.

"As of this writing — and it has taken California weeks to fully count its votes in recent general elections — incomplete returns show 64% of Californians voting against recalling Newsom and only 36% for removing him from office.

"That result makes the second question on the ballot about who should replace the governor irrelevant. But it did enable Democrats to spend enormous sums linking Larry Elder, the conservative radio talk host who led in polls on the replacement question, as a clone of Trump.". . . 

America is a Paper Tiger |

 NoisyRoom.net

Rowley is not a conservative or a neoconservative. She ran for Congress, after being forced out of the FBI for whistleblowing, as a Democrat. She later left the Democratic Party, concluding it was corrupt.

"On the anniversary of 9/11, I am used to seeing the claims that Dick Cheney bombed the World Trade Center in an “inside job” designed to drag us into war. This is the Alex Jones school of thought. What’s worse is the tendency to “remember the victims” but refuse to admit that our nation has truly failed to remember them by avenging their deaths. China Joe has forgiven the killers and now wants to do business with them. Shame on the United States, a paper tiger.

"I asked former FBI special agent Coleen Rowley about the absurd “inside job” claims during a recent interview. She said the “inside job” nonsense is a lunatic response to those who wanted to use 9/11 for political purposes. She said these people believe those who wanted 9/11, the “new Pearl Harbor,” to happen, were those who were behind it. That’s faulty logic. The real problem is a national security state that refuses to protect the American people.

"She said it’s important to ascertain the facts about what happened. And those facts are that a Muslim terrorist group by the name of al Qaeda was on American soil plotting to attack the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and possibly the White House or the Capitol building.

"Rowley is not a conservative or a neoconservative. She ran for Congress, after being forced out of the FBI for whistleblowing, as a Democrat. She later left the Democratic Party, concluding it was corrupt.". . . 

The Taliban? Didn’t they just defeat the United States? It looks like our soldiers died in a noble cause but it was in vain. It looks like our enemies are winning.

Hillary Campaign Lawyer Michael Sussmann Indicted for Allegedly Lying to FBI in Russia Probe (legalinsurrection.com)

 Posted by Mary Chastain

He’s accused of not telling the FBI he was working for Hillary’s campaign when he pushed the government to investigate ties between Trump and Russia.

"Who, ME? What'd I do"?

"A federal grand jury indicted DNC/Fusion GPS/Hillary Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmamnn for allegedly lying to the FBI during the Russia investigation.

"It turns out Sussmann’s lies initiated the investigation into Trump’s campaign.

"From Fox News:

Sussmann, whose firm had previously represented the Democratic National Committee, told the FBI’s James Baker in Sep. 2019 that he was not representing a client when pushing for an investigation into Trump. Sussmann denied any wrongdoing, while withholding the fact that he was working on behalf of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

Lawyers for Sussmann say that he “has committed no crime” and that prosecuting him “would be baseless, unprecedented and an unwarranted deviation from the apolitical and principled way in which the Department of Justice is supposed to do its work.”

“We are confident that if Mr. Sussmann is charged, he will prevail at trial and vindicate his good name,” they said.

..."Sussmann's false statements were part of an effort to start an FBI investigation of Trump, create media outrage, and tilt the election to Hillary.

"All while billing Clinton."... 

Her Royal Masklessness, AOC's dress and her famous behind

 

Michael Ramirez

Maskless AOC Wears Dress With 'Tax The Rich' On It To $30,000 Per Ticket Met Gala (clashdaily.com)   

Dave Portnoy

 commented: “Tax the Rich”……But first I’m gonna go have the time of my life partying with them all at the most extravagant over the top party of the year that is essentially a celebration of richness."

Sorry, AOC: The rich already pay their fair share (nypost.com) . . . "Polls rarely ask these people what a “fair share” looks like. Is a quarter of someone’s earnings enough? A third? Because the rich have been shouldering an increasingly larger share of the cost of government.

"The United States already has one of the most progressive tax systems in the free world. Those who make over $207,350 now pay 35 percent in income tax. Those who make $518,400 or more pay a 37 percent income-tax rate. At some point, taxation should be considered theft."

No, progressive taxation isn’t socialism. But the justifications made for tax hikes these days certainly are. Ocasio-Cortez is a fraud, of course, but it’s her retrograde economic theorizing that’s the real problem. And in this age of populism, increasing numbers of Americans are accepting Marxist conceptions of American life, in which the successful are parasites and everyone else is a victim of their greed....

 Artist says AOC's 'tax the rich' Met Gala dress was a rip-off (nypost.com)

...AOC was also lampooned for touting James, 36, as a “Black woman immigrant designer” who got her fashion start at a NYC flea market, after it was revealed that the couturier grew up in a wealthy Toronto suburb.

 Bill Maher on AOC's 'Tax the Rich' Dress: 'Let's Not Lie, the Rich Pay a Lot of the Taxes' (townhall.com)  ..."HBO's Bill Maher criticized Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) over her "Tax the Rich" dress she wore at the Met Gala, and her recent comments that alleges menstruating is not exclusive to women.

"Maher first blasted the Met Gala where all of the event staff were wearing masks while the lawmakers and celebrities in attendance did not.

" 'There's something about this that's not liberal to me," Maher said. "Do the germs know who the good people are?"

"He then critiqued the message on Ocasio-Cortez's dress and outlined that "the richest 65,000 New Yorkers out of 8 million people pay 51 percent of taxes.' ". . . 

The Left’s Masked Servants (townhall.com) . . ".During Monday night's annual Met Gala in New York City, where individual tickets cost $30,000 and tables go for $270,000, socialist Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez showed up in a designer white gown with the words "Tax the Rich" in red lettering on the backside. When asked about the message she was trying to send she said, "What it means to be working-class women of color at the Met." Immediately, she exposed herself as a fraud."...

John Kennedy: Trusting Biden Admin with Immigration Is Like 'Trusting Harvey Weinstein with your Daughter'

 Breitbart  . . . “ 'Look, I regret having to say this, but when it comes to illegal immigration, you just can’t trust the Biden administration. It would be like trusting Harvey Weinstein with your daughter,” Kennedy declared. “When it comes to illegal immigration, the Biden administration lies like they breathe. They’re like timeshare salesmen. I mean, they’re peerless. The truth is that the Biden administration has an open border policy. The truth is that this year we’ll have well over 2 million people coming into our country, allowed in by the president, and we don’t have the slightest idea who they are. And I believe that the reason that they’re limiting drone usage is because they don’t want the American public to know, and I think this is illegal. And I think they are also misreading the American people. The American people support legal immigration. That’s why we welcome about a million of our world’s neighbors every year to become American citizens legally. That’s more than any other country in the world, but we do not support illegal immigration.”

“ '[W]e now have an open border policy,” he added. “The nutjobs are in charge in the Biden administration.' ”

Scrappy Fox News teaches Biden administration's censors a lesson

  American Thinker  "In the crudest crypto-censorship since dictators made newsprint unavailable, the Biden administration tried to shut down Fox News's coverage of the border crisis by cutting off its drone access for camera shots, depriving the network of the ability to broadcast the actual news in pictures as it was happening on the ground.  The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which has never been misused in this way, claimed its two-week shutoff was all about public safety.  Thomas Lifson wrote about the sorry spectacle here.

"Here's the real reason: Fox News's original reporting, done by Bill Melugin (a must-follow on Twitter), documented a historic crisis building at the border as tens of thousands of migrants swarmed into the U.S. near Del Rio, Texas.  The photos were shocking and embarrassing to the Biden administration.  The Bidenites wanted those pictures shut down.  Coverage like Fox's was clearly making an impact on public opinion and had potential to force the Bidenites to take action to halt the unprecedented invasion or else face voter consequences.". . . 

"That's grit.  That's winning.  That's journalism as it ought to be known. And Fox deserves all the kudos out there for outwitting a band of thuggy de facto censors who thought they could shut off news photos from the public, no matter what was going on.

"Fox was practicing what's called "reporting," and it's a refreshing spectacle.". . .  

BREAKING: Just wrapped up a helicopter ride with Texas DPS at the international bridge in Del Rio, TX. What we saw was absolutely stunning. There are at least 10,000 migrants under the bridge who crossed illegally, and a constant stream of hundreds more crossing over. @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/IADqBzb3qn

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) September 17, 2021

Byron York's Daily Memo: George W. Bush's dreadful 9/11 speech

Tony Branco

 Washington Examiner   "President Joe Biden was silent during Saturday's 9/11 commemoration events. So were former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. Former President Donald Trump visited a New York City police precinct and fire station, where he made a few impromptu remarks.

"The only president who delivered a formal speech on 9/11 was former President George W. Bush. And it was terrible.

"In two ways. First, Bush's speech was as much about decrying today's political divisions as it was about remembering the events of Sept. 11. But Bush showed an astonishing lack of self-awareness of the role his own actions played in creating those divisions. And second, Bush helped widen those divisions by endorsing a Rachel Maddow-esque argument that an equivalence exists between the plane-hijacking, murderous terrorists of Sept. 11, 2001, and the Capitol rioters of Jan. 6, 2021 — a comparison that has no basis in fact but has done much to sour the national debate.

"Bush spoke at ceremonies for Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. It was the site of perhaps the most heroic of many heroic acts by Americans on Sept. 11. The passengers who fought back against the hijackers sacrificed their own lives to save the victims the terrorists were targeting. In the process, they likely also saved the Capitol, or perhaps the White House, from attack.

"Bush praised their courage. He praised the courage of Americans who volunteered for the armed forces in the years that followed. And he praised the selflessness of Americans who helped one another at the time. There was great unity in that moment, Bush said. "In the weeks and months following the 9/11 attacks, I was proud to lead an amazing, resilient, united people," Bush said. But now, those days seem far, far away, and a "malign force" is at work in American life:". . . 

Is Dubya Really an Effin' Moron? - Greg Crosby (jewishworldreview.com)

"When Bush condemns domestic extremists,' he's NOT talking about Antifa or radical BLM rioters. He's talking about the Deplorables, about us," former Trump campaign senior adviser Steve Cortes wrote. "He also assails the very people he sent to fight and die in his disastrous wars," he added. "He's the worst president ever.' ". . . 
. . . "Dr. Sebastian Gorka, radio host and former deputy assistant to former President Trump, wrote, "I didn't think George Bush could disgrace himself any more than he already has, I was wrong,' ". . . 

Biden Administration BUYING American Hostages |

  The Black Sphere   

As predictable as Hunter Biden’s next meetup with a prostitute, the “Big Guy” negotiated a deal for American hostages left in Afghanistan.

"Of course that’s not how the media is spinning this story whereby Biden sent $68 million to the Taliban. But make no mistake about it; incompetent Joey Demento exited Afghanistan like a bitch, and now he must buy back Americans.
"Thus, along with “leave no man behind,” Biden also obliterated “I will not negotiate with terrorists.” Sure. Unless it means saving face politically.

"As The Daily Mail reported,

The Taliban has thanked the world for pledging more than a billion dollars in emergency aid to Afghanistan, and urged the US to show ‘heart’ by donating more.

Amir Khan Muttaqi, the regime’s acting foreign minister, told a press conference the hardline Islamist group would spend donor money wisely and use it to alleviate poverty.

He was speaking a day after the United Nations said a total of $1.2billion in aid had been pledged to Afghanistan, $64 million of which came from the US."...

...On my radio show and elsewhere I said that the Taliban would use the Americans left behind as bargaining chips. And that the Biden administration would say that money sent to Afghanistan was “humanitarian aid” in order to get Americans back. Biden learned this little trick from his hero, Baby Black Jesus. We all know what Obama did with a plane full of money. It was the largest blatant money laundering scheme in American history.   

 Kevin Jackson; blacksphere.net/

Biden Administration Blacks Out Media Coverage Of Border Crisis –

10,000+ Illegals Flood Into Del Rio Texas, Turning It Into Garbage Dump… | Weasel Zippers

Def-Con News (defconnews.com)   "The Biden administration is finally doing something about the border crisis Joe created but it’s not what you think. The FAA has essentially blacked out media coverage of a massive border surge in Texas, banning the press from flying drones that show 10,000+ illegal aliens storming our country. Out of sight, out of mind.

"A few days ago, there were 4,200 illegal aliens at the international bridge in Del Rio, Texas but now that number has grown to over 10,000. Fox News’ Bill Melugin had been using a drone camera to document the scope of the crisis but the Biden administration has put a halt to that:

NEW: We’ve learned that the FAA just implemented a two week TFR (Temporary Flight Restrictions) over the international bridge in Del Rio, TX, meaning we can no longer fly our FOX drone over it to show images of the thousands of migrants. FAA says “special security reason”. pic.twitter.com/aJrjAPO2Pz

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) September 17, 2021