Pelosi's Little Big Horn

Don Surber

I blame Afghanistan. Biden's sudden, confused, and disorderly flee from Kabul showed he is old, incompetent, and out of touch.

"Democrats have discovered something worse than having a septuagenarian as president: having an octogenarian as House speaker.

"Nancy Pelosi just suffered a week from hell. (Unkind people would say a taste of her future.)

"First, Joe Manchin stopped if only temporarily her party's Only Fans donors spendathon. In response, the AOC (Already Openly Communist) Crowd stopped the bipartisan Only Everyone's Donors spendathon.

"Business Insider reported, "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday pulled a vote on President Joe Biden's $550 billion infrastructure bill. It's a major setback for Democrats as moderate and progressive feuds deepened over Biden's domestic agenda.". . . 

Habitual Liar Joe Biden Confronts the Winds of Truth

Joe's lying is said to be "habitual". Hillary's was called "congenital". They are Democrats so either is operative. TD

The explosion of knowledge and of freedom in modern times has made the world immensely more complicated than the world our grandparents knew. Yet for liberty to be for all and not just the few, the commitment to knowledge and truth for all is of first importance.

The American Spectator  "In the way that the last president was enamored of hyperbole and name-calling, the current president is enamored of outright lies. The $3.5 trillion “infrastructure” bill won’t cost anything; the generals all agreed with his assessment of Afghanistan; no American will be left behind; the exit from Afghanistan was a great triumph; as well as the many false assertions he has made about his own life that cross into the bizarre.

"Lying by American politicians is not something new. It was said by White House reporters of that day that when Lyndon Johnson lied, he gave it away by a motion of his body. No, it wasn’t pulling his ear that indicated a lie was to follow, nor was it the blink of his eyes. The telltale sign, they said, was when his jaws moved.

"But there is a major difference between LBJ’s ’60s and now. The institutions of home and of faith were still overwhelmingly strong back then. There was a robust consensus of what was decent civil behavior that covered the vast majority of Americans, whether conservative, moderate, or liberal. When the government’s lies began to be exposed during the grind of war and social upheaval, there was a powerful wave of revulsion that would sweep Johnson out of office, radicalize the Democrats, and see the end of the era of consensus, civility, and shared national purpose that had seemed so powerful after our victory over fascism in World War II.

"Lying shows the contempt or the fear a politician has of his constituents. Contempt, because he believes his audience is gullible enough to believe him; and fear because he believes that he could not have the power and influence he wants honestly.

"So many of the fundamentals of Western democracy are based on the biblical tradition. Ancient nations had their priesthoods and god-rulers, whose power was all the evidence needed that they were divine and their power legitimate. Knowledge was tightly controlled. Hieroglyphics and pictographs could only be mastered by an elite few. Literacy and knowledge were dangerous, for if everyone could know truth, the elites would lose their monopoly and wealth and influence would have to be worked for much harder.". . . 

Every morning we must dread what Democrats will do to us next

REPORT: Democrat Infrastructure Bill Contains Pilot Plan To Tax People Per Mile Driven   "Do you like the idea of being taxed for every mile you drive? Democrats do.

"Buried in their massive infrastructure bill is a pilot for just such a plan. Think of it as a dry run.

"This idea has two benefits, as Democrats see it. First, they get a new source of tax revenue. Second, they discourage people from driving their own cars, which helps fight climate change. This is actually the way they think.

"The Daily Mail reported:

"Pilot plan to tax drivers per MILE hidden in Biden’s $1.2 trillion deal

"American drivers could soon trade paying taxes on gas at the pump for owing the government annual ‘per-mile user fees,’ under a new pilot program recently passed by the Senate in Joe Biden’s $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal.". . . 

Immigration officials worried about "catastrophic surge" if Trump-era policy is lifted 

As opposed to what they have done already? 

. . . "According to Politico, DHS is able to deport migrants much more quickly under this rule, citing the COVID-19 pandemic as the reason.". . . 

Lauren Boebert

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Did you ever think you’d live to see “government of the people, by the people, for the people” become government AGAINST the people?

Lancet Journal Apologizes After Referring to Women as ‘Bodies With Vaginas’ in Latest Edition Allie Beth Stuckey:

You rarely hear men referred to as anything other than men. And yet we constantly hear women reduced to their anatomy - “people with uteruses,” etc. How do you not see the objectification, the erasure, the misogyny? How? How are people’s brains so incredibly mushy?

Immigration Activists Stalk and Ambush Sen. Sinema in a Bathroom "The left is ticked at Sinema and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) because they do not want to vote for the $3.5 trillion pork bill. Therefore, the loud and rambunctious people will harass them whenever possible.

"Immigration activists ambushed moderate Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) in a bathroom at Arizona State University."   Doing what Maxine Waters wanted.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom Imposes Nation’s 1st Coronavirus Vaccine Mandate for Schoolchildren   "Bypassing the parents’ decision-making process for this vaccine and insisting all schoolchildren get shots is not based on public health or sound epidemiology."

Hollywood Celebrities Rally for ‘Abortion Justice’: ‘Support Womxn and Non-Binary Bodies’  Silly voters bring us ridiculous leaders.

The Squad Brings Islam To America   "Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and other Squad members have been voted into representational positions. But they are not who they profess to be. Ungrateful for the opportunities, they are not here to Americanize, but to Islamize America, beginning with sowing the seeds of hate and discord. Such is the purpose of the jihada."

Wait! Isn't it sexist to place the letter "a" at the end of a noun to feminize it? TD

The Obedient, the Brainless, and the Woking Dead   "Being “woke” must be exhausting. If I had worn a t-shirt five years ago that read “All Lives Matter,” I would have taken first place at the Mark Ruffalo “Enlightened White Guy” Contest. Janeane Garofalo would have slept with me (eww) and then made me a tofu sandwich. Today, such a shirt would get me fired for being a bigot."...

https://www.terrellaftermath.com/

Gender Ideology Run Amok ... "How did we get to this point? How is it that we are all supposed to pretend that the only way you can know I’m a woman is if I tell you my pronouns? How did we get to an America in which a 13-year-old in the State of Washington can begin “gender affirming” therapy without her parents’ consent? How did we get to an America in which a 15-year-old in Oregon can undergo “top surgery”—elective double mastectomy—without her parents’ permission? And what can we do about it?"...

I’ve spoken to families at top girls’ schools who attest that 15, 20, or in one case 30 percent of the girls in their daughter’s seventh grade class identify as trans. When you see figures like that, you’re witnessing a social contagion in action. There is no other reasonable explanation. 

Biden’s Dishonesty And Dementia Are Causing Problems For Him – And The Nation

As a physician, I strongly suspect a connection between Biden’s cognitive decline and the acceleration of his dissembling and bumbling. People who are suffering from dementia often make up things to fill gaps in their memory and ability to reason. Then again, it could just be that a long and illustrious career of lying is hard to shake off. 

Reality Bites

 Issues & Insights  "As both a baseball fan and an observer of politics, I often hark back to Yogi Berra’s memorable quip, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” However, I think I nailed it in this concluding paragraph of an April article:

One thing is for certain; we can expect to see continuing validation from President (Joe) Biden of the old quip, ‘How can you tell when a politician is lying? His lips are moving.’ But in the same way that you can’t take your eyes off a train wreck in progress, it will be fascinating to see whether the salient feature of Biden’s presidency will be his mendacity or his dementia — or some incendiary admixture of the two.

"It seems clear that we’re seeing the effects of both.

"First, some recent examples of Biden’s ongoing unfamiliarity with the truth. His insistence that there was “unanimity” among his civilian and military advisers about the disastrous plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan and about the “success” of his border and immigration policies is patently absurd. Military leaders understand how to conduct strategic withdrawals, and our southern border leaks like a sieve. The president’s Sept. 24 comments about the costs of the massive “infrastructure” legislation favored by the administration were both ludicrous and barely coherent, both of which are current Biden trademarks:

“ 'We talk about price tags. The – it is zero price tag on the debt.  We’re paying – we’re going to pay for everything we spend.  So they say it’s not – you know, people, understandably – ‘Well, you know, it started off at $6 trillion, now it’s $3.5 trillion. Now it’s – is it going to be $2.9? Is it …’
 
“ 'It’s going to be zero – zero. Because in the – in that plan that I put forward – and I said from the outset – I said, ‘I’m running to change the dynamic of how the economy grows.’” 

"A zero price tag? As Gerard Baker observed in a Wall Street Journal column, “The Biden bill is paid for by the largest tax increase in history. You are entitled to argue that is a cost worth paying, but you can’t argue it costs nothing.” The Babylon Bee offered this amusing take on the Biden claim:

Wife Claims $3.5 Trillion Spending Spree At Target Actually Cost $0

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Pathetic: White House Dubs “We Love Joe!” Chant in Video of Congressional Ballgame Appearance to Make Biden Seem Popular

 The Gateway Pundit  "In an apparent effort to counter the nationwide trend of “F*** Joe Biden!” chants at sporting events around the nation, the White House released a video Sunday morning of Joe Biden’s visit to the Congressional baseball game in Washington, D.C. last Wednesday night that opens with overdubbed girlish voices chanting “We love Joe!” as Biden entered Nationals Park."

And at NASCAR:   "After his victory, Brandon was interviewed by NBC hack who tried desperately to run damage control for the Biden regime as the crowd was chanting, “F*** Joe Biden!' ”

NBC reporter attempts desperate damage control as crowd chants “F*** Joe Biden” pic.twitter.com/1iYZel4zFT

— Jewish Deplorable (@TrumpJew2) October 3, 2021

Did the NBC lady really think the crowd was chanting "Let's go Brandon!"  And did NBC think the rioters burning cities -peacefully - were "a merry caravan"? TD

Donald Trump Jr.

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I’m pretty sure they’re not chanting “Let’s go Brandon” as the NBC reporter is telling us. What do you hear? #fjb

The battle for America’s soul requires spiritual strength

 Solomon St. Lightstone; (pseudonym)   "Our country is on the verge of a great war, one that will be ugly but that we must fight, because it is a battle against evil. This is not a war of physical arms, although I have taken up arms before to defend my country. This war, with God on our side, is one to defend life—all life (even our enemy’s)—for life is precious to me.

"Still, we do not have to be passive, even as we pray for and forgive our enemies. Jesus took a cat o’ none tails to the money-changers corrupting the Temple. He was not in a good mood!

"Even Paul, the apostle who wrote the greatest chapter of love in the New Testament, I Corinthians 13, cursed Elymas the sorcerer with blindness.

"In everything I do, I try to remember how our great God views us, as well as the fact that we are not to sit in judgment on others, even as we do what we can to protect the innocents. Always, though, we must choose peace and reconciliation between opposing forces if possible. Anarchy, which the left seems to desire, is something I would always avoid.

"But still, watching the news every day, I feel that things are going to get a helluva lot uglier than what any of us want to see. But on this Sunday, the Lord’s Day, I remind myself that He is quite organized and knows all of His works from the Beginning or He wouldn’t be God without fault."

CNN: Harris In ‘Frantic Damage Control’ For Applauding Student Accusing Israel Of ‘Ethnic Genocide’…

 Weasel Zippers

Iranian state media aired TWO videos of Kamala Harris this week, including a clip of Harris refusing to dismiss a student's claim accusing Israel of "ethnic genocide." pic.twitter.com/u0j7t6MGLZ

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 1, 2021

 The vice president’s team reached out to a prominent pro-Israel group and at least one member of Congress to clarify how she handled the incident.

Israeli news outlets jumped on the comments. “VP Harris to student who accused Israel of 'genocide': Your truth must be heard,” went the headline in The Jerusalem Post. The Times of Israel also chimed in: “Kamala Harris doesn’t reject US student’s ‘ethnic genocide’ claim against Israel.”

The Washington Times: George Soros is Still on a Quest to Destroy America

Investigation: Soros-Funded District Attorneys Help Criminal Illegal Aliens Escape Deportation

 Washington Times  "George Soros is 89 years old, but by gosh, before he dies, he’s going to see to the internal destruction of America. At least that’s how it seems. How else can we listen to his words in Davos, Switzerland, track his funding of American political races and pay attention to what he says about President Donald Trump, capitalism, and the leftist causes he backs and the leftist Open Society Foundations he runs, and come to any other conclusion?

"In the last few years, Soros has taken to trying to take over local law enforcement agencies by pumping massive amounts of money into candidates he favors in key district attorney races.

" 'George Soros’ quiet overhaul of the US justice system,” Politico reported, way back in August of 2016.

"It continues in present day.

" 'PAC funded by George Soros pumps nearly $1 million into local races for prosecutor,” The Washington Post reported in June, about the money from the Justice and Public Safety PAC that went to the left-leaners of both Arlington County, Virginia, and Fairfax County, Virginia, commonwealth’s attorney races."

Soros-backed DA hires public defender with history of anti-police rhetoric and limited experience as high-ranking prosecutor

Soros Backed District Attorneys’ Silently Destroying Justice System From Within

The investment made by progressive groups has paid off… as American citizens are the ones who are paying. 

THREAD: I've confirmed D.A. George Gascon has hired public defender Tiffiny Blacknell to his administration as a Grade 4 prosecutor. Blacknell served on Gascon’s policy committee during his campaign. She has called LAPD "barbarians" and says prisons should be abolished. @FOXLA pic.twitter.com/lJG20sLIvX

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) February 25, 2021

The Progressive Left Is Threatening To Destroy Sinema…

 Weasel Zippers

"They can’t understand, senators represent states, not the country at large. Sinema is a AZ SENATOR. Arizona doesn’t want this bill.

"Via [the hardly sympathetic] Rolling Stone:"

WASHINGTON — Ro Khanna is fed up. The typically mild-mannered congressman from California isn’t trying to hide his frustration with the state of play in Congress over two key pieces of legislation, a trillion-dollar roads-and-bridges infrastructure bill and a far more sweeping $3.5 trillion package that contains most of President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda.

The focus of Khanna’s irritation is a member of his own party, the centrist Senate Democrat Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. It is Sinema whom Khanna and many other Democrats believe is dragging out the negotiations over President Biden’s sweeping domestic policy without any end in sight, and with no clear reason or demands.

“This is the U.S. Congress and she’s not demonstrating the basic competence or good faith of a member of Congress,” Khanna tells me. “I’m just totally perplexed by her. As is every colleague I’ve talked to, moderates, progressives, you name it.”

Keep reading…

Confederate Soldier Interview on Southern Sentiment, why the South fought; with General Julius Howell

"Julius Franklin Howell (17 January 1846-19 June 1948) was a Confederate veteran and commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans after the American Civil War."

Howell during the war

The Civil War Diaries (S01E03) "In Today's episode of the Civil War Diaries we listen to a Confederate Soldier Interview on Southern Sentiment and why the South fought with Pvt. Julius Franklin Howell. Howell was born on January 17th 1846 and at the age of 16 enlisted with the Confederate Army. He served with Company "K" of the 24th Virginia Cavalry until
he was captured at the battle of Sailor Creek in 1865.

"His unit fought around the Black Water River boundary until his regiment was called to defend the Capital City of Richmond in 1864.   After the evacuation of Richmond his unit moved west under the command of General Ewell until its capture at Sailor Creek in April of 1865.   He then was taken as a prisoner to Point Lookout prison in south eastern Maryland where he was held for three months and then upon taking the "Oath of Allegiance on June 13, 1865 he was released. "Howell bore witness to the Civil War, World War one, World War Two and the first atomic weapon before dying at the age of 102 years old on June, 19th 1948."

24th VA Cavalry roster

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Louie Gohmert shares reassuring update on jailed Marine after visit

https://www.lucianne.com/

Washington Post  ..." 'There are people in that brig that like Stu, and so please know that," Gohmert told Scheller's parents, who say they have not talked to their son since he was thrown in the brig on Monday, on Hannity.

. . . "Scheller garnered attention in August when he posted a video on social media calling for accountability from military leaders over the United States's pullout from Afghanistan. He later said he was "relieved from duty" after his comments went viral and that he expected to be jailed over it.

"Scheller Jr. is currently in pretrial confinement as he awaits a hearing, which has not yet been scheduled. He has not been charged, but four charges will be considered during his hearing: Article 88 (contempt toward officials), Article 90 (willfully disobeying a superior commissioned officer), Article 92 (failure to obey lawful general orders), and Article 133 (conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman)."...

Michael Yon: Taliban Hanging Victim from American Black Hawk   "The United States military is part of the problem. They knowingly and willingly left Americans at the airport gate within the last few hours. I and others worked hard and personally to get American troops to come to the gate or call their Taliban counterparts to let them in. TALIBAN WERE WILLING TO LET THEM IN.

"I contacted all the right people. They all failed. Including Lieutenant General Erik Kurilla. Courageous in battle. Morally corrupt. All failed. Don’t call me. Don’t contact me ever again.

"We will work with Afghans and veterans and private real Americans and others to get people out. We don’t need you. We don’t want you."

Modi’s Visit to the U.S. comes at a Critical Juncture

Reality Bites by Broc Smith.

 Caroline Glick "Next week, alongside the United Nations General Assembly opening session, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have his first in-person meeting with President Joe Biden. He is also scheduled to meet with Vice President Kamala Harris.

"These meetings will arguably be the most important ones that Biden and Harris will have during next week’s marathon of meetings with world leaders gathered in New York. Their greatest challenge will be to demonstrate that the U.S. is a credible ally to India. This is no menial task. Aside from the Afghan people themselves, India is arguably the greatest casualty of Biden’s catastrophic surrender of Afghanistan to the Taliban.

"Although India did not deploy soldiers to fight in the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan, it equipped and trained the Afghan army and police. India also supplied the U.S.-backed Afghan government with some $3 billion in civilian aid, making it Afghanistan’s largest provider of civilian aid. India was the first country to recall its diplomatic personnel from Afghanistan after the Taliban surrounded Kabul.". . . 

. . ."In the 1990s, the Taliban and Pakistan transformed Afghanistan into the largest terror training camp on earth. Following the U.S.’s withdrawal from Afghanistan and Biden’s effective coronation of the Taliban, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan hailed the Taliban’s renaissance as “breaking the shackles of slavery.” He went further, likening Afghanistan’s attempts to adopt Western culture during the two decades the U.S.-led coalition was in the country as “worse than actual slavery.”

"With the Taliban back in charge, Afghanistan has reverted to its previous role as a Pakistani terror base. And this is a boon for anti-Indian jihadists. Syed Salahudeen, the leader of an alliance of Kashmiri terror groups, hailed the Taliban victory as “extraordinary and historical” and said he expected the Taliban to aid the terror groups once more.

"Salahudeen declared that just as the Taliban defeated the U.S., so “in the near future, India too will be defeated by Kashmir’s holy warriors.”

"Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen told the BBC that the Kashmiri terrorists are correct to be excited. The Taliban, he said, have a right “to raise our voice for Muslims in Kashmir, India or any other country.”

"Indian officials assess that much of the U.S. arsenal that was abandoned to the Taliban will end up equipping Pakistani-backed terrorists in their war against India." . .