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This is an example of how we know the Democrats fear any black man who might lead others out of the shackles of party dependence.  

 

 Andrew Stiles • April 29, 2021 12:08 am

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Sen. Tim Scott (R., S.C.) delivered a powerful and inspiringly diverse response to President Joe Biden's congressional address on Wednesday, causing professional journalists and other liberal ideologues to lose their minds.

Scott argued that Biden—a "good man" whose speech was "full of good words"—had failed to deliver on his promise to unite the country and "lower the temperature" after his victory in the 2020 election. "The Biden administration has pushed us apart," he said, praising the bipartisan COVID-19 relief legislation passed under former president Donald Trump and the success of Operation Warp Speed. The radical policies Democrats have proposed, he argued, were not intended to find "common ground."

Invoking his personal story of being raised in poverty by a single "prayin' momma," Scott challenged the lockdown policies backed by Democratic politicians that have closed down the institutions that aided his improbable rise, including schools and churches. He spoke of his experience as a black man in America and his struggle to be taken seriously by Democrats and their supporters.

"I get called ‘Uncle Tom' and the N-word by progressives, by liberals," said Scott, who also called out the Washington Post for publishing a widely condemned fact check suggesting "my family's poverty was actually privilege." He challenged the prevailing corporate and cultural norms regarding issues of race, denouncing those who are "making money and gaining power by pretending we haven't made any progress at all."

In contrast to Biden's rambling tirade, Scott envisioned a "joyful springtime for our nation," where his illiterate grandfather "saw his family go from cotton to Congress in one lifetime." This was precisely the claim that Post chief fact checker Glenn Kessler, whose grandfather was a Dutch steel magnate, dinged for lacking "nuance."

Nuance was certainly lacking from the liberal response to Scott's speech. MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace said the speech was "delivered from a planet where facts don't matter." Democratic analyst Jason Nichols, in a since-deleted tweet, called Scott a "clown" whose "ancestors are ashamed of him." At least one left-wing media personality had to apologize for "an ironic joke" using racially charged language. The term "Uncle Tim" was trending on Twitter.

Let’s Not Give Statehood To The Third World Country Of Washington DC

To repurpose a poetic line from former president and wordsmith 

Donald Trump, the District of Columbia is a 'sh-thole country.'

Kylee Zempel writing for The Federalist

In their latest leftist power-grab, Democratic lawmakers in the House of Representatives voted last week to admit Washington, D.C. as the 51st state in the union, tossing the measure to the Senate, where it faces an uphill battle. That’s because, as even some Democratic senators know, conferring statehood on the District of Columbia is a horrible idea — and not just because the founders wouldn’t approve.

Washingtonians who have ever bothered to crack the Constitution (likely a minority of them) know D.C. statehood is unconstitutional. Article I of the Constitution grants the federal government the power of “exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever, over such district … as may, by cession of particular States and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States” even before the location of the district had been decided. As last summer’s mayhem and rioting illustrated, not only would granting statehood to D.C. give this one state a disproportionate amount of power, but it would also prohibit the federal government from eliminating threats and disorder there. 

“Lawlessness in capitals poses a unique danger to a nation, which is among the reasons the federal government has exclusive jurisdiction over the federal district,” wrote Kyle Sammin here at The Federalist. “[A]llowing D.C. to become the 51st state would enable one local government to hold the nation hostage through inaction — or even endorsement — of riotous disturbances.”

But the biggest reason never to admit the District of Columbia as a state isn’t that it would violate our treasured founding documents. D.C. lawmakers gave those up long ago, anyway.

It’s that Washington, D.C., despite its stately marble halls and rich history, is a Third World country. That’s right: America would be better off giving statehood to Somalia. At least we could try fracking it. D.C. is no fracking good at all.

District of Disgust

Behind the facade of regal septuagenarians and activist lawmakers who don’t know the difference between insurgents and a surge, the brunching leaders of the next generation drunk on bottomless mimosas and blind ambition, and the dweebs in gingham button-downs overcompensating for their stature with a very important job at Deloitte or in some no-name congressman’s comms office, exists the Wild Wild West of Washington. 

Over here on the right, you’ll find the beautiful Lincoln Memorial. And here on your left, enjoy the whimsical vinyl wigwams of the homeless encampment that has commandeered your neighborhood park. When you ride the Metro, don’t stand too close to the edge of the platform — or to the deeply disturbed and erratic person shouting profanities to your right.

Union Station, the talk of the town during the holidays with its larger-than-life wreaths and abundance of twinkle lights, becomes what I like to call Cat-Calling Central after the snow melts. If you keep your head down, you can ignore most of the jeers, but the one particularly vocal gentleman without pants is difficult to unsee.

Some neighborhoods feel like San Francisco Lite. While most dog-owners clean up after Fido, the humans who sometimes defecate on the sidewalk prefer to leave those treasures for the shoes of the less-vigilant passersby. Similarly, every single Starbucks bathroom is strewn with enough stray toilet paper to supply a quarantined family of five for a week, and the floor is so wet, it resembles the floor of a community pool locker room after swimming lessons — only stickier.

Crime Spree

All that degeneration was all going on before rogues took over downtown during the riot season of 2020, setting fire to churches, looting convenience stores, and obliterating exposed windows. 

We don’t need to cross any borders to witness a failed state — or at least a dysfunctional wannabe state. The 68 square miles of Washington D.C. have it all: a pathetic education system, federal security that is a “shocking failure,” law enforcement that stands by while mobs set fire to their squad cars, and lots of poverty and illiteracy — one in four adults in the District struggles to do basic reading, and one in three can’t do simple math. This is to say nothing of the city government, which is known to be fraught with corruption.

With its shock troops around the Capitol and its show trial for a sitting president, Washington D.C. is basically a banana republic. Not that federal lawmakers would know, but outside the privilege of the Capitol complex, so recently fortified with barbed wire and National Guardsmen, communities are a little more vulnerable.

This brings us to the out-of-control crime. Homicides were up 19 percent in 2020, as compared to 2019. Now since last year, they’re up another 43 percent in 2021 to date. Carjackings have also skyrocketed. Motor vehicle theft was up 50 percent in 2020 and another 32 percent in 2021 to date.

Just last week I watched an attempted carjacking right in front of my own car in a “safe” neighborhood just after the sun went down. Thankfully, the owner of that vehicle wrestled his van away from the crook, but these attempts are all-too-common, and not all victims are so fortunate. 

Just last month, a Pakistani immigrant and UberEats driver was murdered by two teenage girls when they tased him and stole his car with the owner still hanging off the side. The teens are getting a plea deal that includes no prison time for murdering a father of three.

COVID has made everything worse. Isolation has exacerbated civil tensions and driven many restless Americans to the breaking point. The mentally ill are sicker still, and the corners of the city once populated by tourists have been overtaken by vagrants.

Meanwhile, while the crooked D.C. mayor spray-painted left-wing political slogans on a city street she designated as a gathering place for the mob, she also banished faithful believers from their houses of worship. And now instead of merely the usual overflowing trash cans, you can find dirty masks littering the sidewalk.

To repurpose a poetic line from former president and wordsmith Donald Trump, the District of Columbia is a “sh-thole country.”

Washington’s Wasteland

Despite their snarky license plates, DCians have more representation in federal government than anyone else in all of America. Heck, as far as the corporate media is concerned, the country extends only to the perimeter of the Beltway, and congressmen and women who move to the swamp often work far more for the residents of Capitol Hill and Georgetown than they do for their constituents back in civilized America.

After watching an attempted carjacking, running for my life after hearing “active shooter!” in a crowded theater, and getting stuck in my apartment building when police surrounded my block to close in on an armed bank robber, I’ve had enough excitement in this capital wasteland for a while. Wisconsin, a real state, is calling.

For the love of all that is good and holy, don’t admit Washington, D.C. as the 51st state. The rest of America doesn’t deserve to deal with the incompetence and barbarism of this awful place.

Petition urges US First Lady Jill Biden to restore White House garden to 'former glory'

 

More than 50,000 people have signed an online petition calling for US First Lady Jill Biden to restore the Rose Garden at the White House to its "former glory".

Ex-First Lady Melania Trump had some trees and some of the more colourful flowers removed last year.

According to the petition, the changes amounted to "a boring tribute to herself".

Presidents often use the garden for addresses and press conferences. 

 

 Although the petition says Mrs Trump had "the cherry trees, a gift from Japan" removed, US media have pointed out that they were in fact crab apple trees and were replanted elsewhere in the grounds

 

The petition organisers go on to urge Ms Biden and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff - who is married to Vice-President Kamala Harris - to "take this on" and restore the garden to the previous design of former First Lady Jackie Kennedy.

Mrs Kennedy oversaw a major renovation of the garden in the 1960s.

"Jackie's legacy was ripped away from Americans who remembered all that the Kennedys meant to us."

Mrs Trump was criticised at the time of the changes for going ahead with the renovation when the country was in the thick of the Covid crisis and some 150,000 had already died.

 

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56942349 

 

 The Rose Garden pictured in 1963 on the left and after the 2020 changes on the right

 

 

 

 

Article by Robert Arvay in The American Thinker

I cannot imagine their mindset

Many of us recently saw an online video of a young teenage girl brandishing a knife, large enough to be a deadly weapon, attempting to stab another young girl.  Just in the nick of time, a police officer shot the attacker, who died.  

While this is the most extreme video I've seen, there are many other instances of similar behavior, mostly unrecorded by media.  Somehow, we have become a nation in which literally thousands of young people are walking around, ready at a moment's notice to react with violence, sometimes deadly violence, at the slightest provocation, or none at all.  I have myself seen more than one incident in which a simple misunderstanding erupted into a situation where one angry young man was about to launch a violent attack.

Bear in mind that the military learned a long time ago that training a combat infantryman requires more than physical conditioning.  Experience has shown that men, even in the heat of combat, their own lives in peril, will hesitate — will actually hesitate — to shoot at a charging enemy.  Why?  Because most of us find the thought of killing anyone repulsive enough to risk our own lives to avoid ending another's.  As soldiers, our mindset needs to be changed.  

Yet, with no formal military training, an astounding number of young people pose a real danger to the public, at the drop of a hat.  

Fortunately, most incidents do not end in death, such as the recently posted video of a brawl at Miami International Airport.  Even so, the violence there was appalling.  It involved kicking and stomping another person on the floor, which can easily result in severe injury or even a fatality.  

Other incidents involve only destruction of property, such as trashing a fast food restaurant because of dissatisfaction with a meal.  By comparison, that seems minor, but one should find it inconceivable conduct.

Everyone has a theory of how it came to this, and about how much worse it will get.  Videogames, rap music, and depictions of violence in movies — all have some influence.  Fatherless households are surely a significant factor.  No one of these, however, can entirely explain the unmoored mindset of so many young people.  

For most of us, cultural norms are enough to moderate our actions, even when we feel enraged.  We learn to suppress, or channel, our violent tendencies, even when we are not required to do so.  A dangerous percentage of people, however, do not respond to cultural norms, or at least not to the norms in our parts of the culture.  

Why?  Where do so many people get the idea that violence is the acceptable first resort after feeling offended?  Why is no one teaching them the right way to act?  

The problem is spiritual.  While we have always had our national sins, including the one that caused hundreds of thousands of deaths in the Civil War, I trace the beginning of the current debauchery to the 1973 decision that legalized abortion.  At first, the decision was narrowly applied, but as with all departures from morality, the slippery slope soon became the ground for an avalanche.  Additional symptoms, if not themselves the cause of moral decline, include the normalization of homosexuality, which in turn cascaded into transgenderism and into the practice of inviting flamboyant, gaudy, sexual perverts to speak to children in elementary school classrooms.  We now have a presidential appointee who is a man who thinks he is a woman.  

In other words, the problem is not small; it is not easily isolated into a single cause and effect.  That is the reason why the left can wield such disingenuous arguments against "legislating morality."  What business of yours is it whom I marry?  My marriage is an isolated circumstance that has no effect on anyone else.  Really?  That same argument was applied to voluntary single motherhood with disastrous consequences for the victims, the offspring.  It is now infringing our freedom of speech.

There is no single facet of the problem and no easy solution.  But one place to start is understanding that separation of morality from government is fatal.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/04/i_cannot_imagine_their_mindset.html 

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Article by Alison Nichols in The American Thinker

No, Joe -- You are Not a Nice Guy

No, Joe, you are not a nice guy. Despite your need to keep telling us, we know the ugly truth. You are a pretty nasty guy. You are pugilistic, a plagiarist, a documented racist, a race hustler, creepy with woman and children, the "Big Guy" of a crime family, and have thrown a wrecking ball into America.

Your pugilism is epic. How many times have you garnished your weakness with the threat of taking someone behind the gym?  There is a difference between a bully and a tough guy. The truth is you are the archetypal man of the pampered class. If reporters dare to ask uncomfortable or "unfair" questions, you either freak, cop a few alligator tears, or hastily leave the podium. Mostly you hide.

If you are as bright as you think you are, why do you have a history plagued by plagiarism? Was it necessary for you to commit fraud in law school to get by? And who can forget your plagiarizing leaders such as Neil Kinnock? Do you realize that you were stealing his life story? The curious are wondering what was missing in your own life story.  Adding that to your plagiarism of Hubert Humphrey and the Kennedy brothers classifies you as a first-rate charlatan. And stop taking credit for what Trump did to make vaccines available in "Warp Speed." It is his success, not yours.

Your not-so-thinly veiled racism disgusts the most. You have the nerve to smear our underpaid, overworked police force as systemically racist. It is they, Joe, who risk their lives every day for the safety of all Americans. There are a few bad cops, just as there are bad people in all professions-politicians, teachers, physicians, attorneys, and yes, clergy. The police force is not systematically racist. And the backlash from all your anti-cop rhetoric is that retirements are up and recruitment is down. Is that your intention, Joe? Oh, of course, it was the hero of the hard left, Karl Marx, who signaled that a "socialist society has a withering police force."

Your racism goes way back, Joe. During your political career, you praised segregationist George Wallace, opposed school busing in the 1970s because, as you said, it would lead to a "racial jungle," admired and eulogized a former KKK kleagle, voted for  the 1994 crime bill, and praised Barack Obama as the "first mainstream African American who is articulate, and bright and clean." It is a repulsive record, Joe. A racist record.

For a documented racist, your constant race-hustling from the Oval Office is particularly disturbing. Time and time again, your Marxist ideology dictates your efforts to divide Americans to incite ethnic and racial tension. The Jim Crow reference concerning the new Georgia voting laws outstrips human decency. Your Marxist rhetoric is not only a lie but an insult to every Black American. Joe, you are not a nice guy.

Creepy with women and children is an understatement. Who goes around sniffing women's hair and continually invading a woman's space? And what would you say about another older man who tells the story about the hair on his legs turning blond in the sun and then letting kids rub his blond hairy legs? Sick comes to mind. You are not a nice guy.

While the media and intelligence have chosen to protect you from the investigation, it is clear to most that you are the "Big Guy" of the Biden crime family. Your family has an impressive rap sheet. They have had severe scrapes with the law but never pay for their crimes. How come, Joe? And you, what is your role in making your family millions? How often did you monetize the vice presidency? Anyone with an IQ above their body temperature can figure out what is going on.

Your "Trump Derangement Syndrome" compelled you to reverse the effective border policies of the previous administration. As a result of your derangement, there is a humanitarian catastrophe at our southern border. Do you even care about the miserable conditions? It appears not. And your socialist economic policies are egregious and smell like inspissated bile. How long will it take for America to become Venezuela?

No, Joe, you are not a nice guy by any stretch of the imagination. Please stop trying to convince us. Niceness is akin to money and sex. If you have it, there is no need to brag.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/04/no_joe__you_are_not_a_nice_guy.html 

 

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President Trump Says He Would Consider Running in 2024 With Ron DeSantis as Vice-President

Yesterday President Trump gave an interview on Fox Business with Maria Bartiromo.  Fox is censoring the full interview; however a few segments have been released.  In this segment President Trump discusses the possibility of selecting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as his running mate in 2024.

 

Article by Andrea Widburg in The American Thinker

The dark night of fascism has finally landed in the United States

Tom Wolfe famously quipped, “The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.” Certainly, that was the case during the Trump presidency, when leftists insisted he was Hitler, yet were unable to point to a single instance in which he’d engaged in conduct actually associated with fascists. However, in the topsy-turvy world that is 2021, Wolfe’s saying has been turned on its head. With the advent of the Biden administration, America is heading into a purely fascist future. Meanwhile, Europeans are insistently demanding freedom, whether it’s generals and other civil servants pushing back against Critical Race Theory and Islam, or ordinary people singing and dancing in the streets.

In America, people who committed a misdemeanor by entering the Capitol without permission are still rotting in jail in solitary confinement without ever having had a hearing. The situation is so dire and un-American that Senators Elizabeth Warren and Dick Durbin, both proponents of total government, protested:

Most of the 300-plus people charged with participating in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot have been released while they await trial, but dozens of those deemed to be dangerous, flight risks or at high risk of obstructing justice were ordered held without bond. D.C. jail officials later determined that all Capitol detainees would be placed in so-called restrictive housing — a move billed as necessary to keep the defendants safe, as well as guards and other inmates. But that means 23-hour-a-day isolation for the accused, even before their trials begin.

And such treatment doesn't sit well with Warren or Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), two of the chamber's fiercest critics of solitary confinement.

“Solitary confinement is a form of punishment that is cruel and psychologically damaging,” Warren said in an interview. “And we’re talking about people who haven’t been convicted of anything yet.”

(So far as I know, no Republicans have done the same, and shame on them if I’m correct.)

On Wednesday, Federal agents flashing open-ended warrants conducted a 6 a.m. raid on former New York mayor current Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani to seize his electronics. The ostensible reason was that Giuliani violated a law requiring Americans who represent foreign nationals to register as foreign agents. This is a law that is enforced only against Republicans close to Trump – and Giuliani is adamant that he’s never represented foreign nationals.

The agents ostentatiously refused to seize copies of Hunter Biden’s hard drives, which Giuliani possessed, even though they were obvious electronic devices. Giuliani contends that the hard drives’ contents establish not only that Hunter and Joe Biden acted as unregistered foreign agents, but also that Joe Biden and his family took millions in bribes over the years and that Hunter Biden was engaged in child pornography. Since Giuliani still has the hard drives, perhaps he should make all the information on the drives public.

Giuliani told some of his story to Tucker Carlson:

On the evidence available, what’s happening to Giuliani looks like typical fascism: an incoming regime uses unequally applied law and a complete absence of due process to purge all political opposition.

And in the perfect public-private partnership that makes fascism a different kind of socialism from communism, the tech tyrants continue to act as the federal government’s censorship arm. Just today, YouTube censored an interview that Dan Bongino conducted with former President Trump, calling it “spam” and a “scam.” You can see the interview on Rumble.

Meanwhile, in Europe, over 1,000 French military personnel, including 20 former generals and 100 officers published an amazing open letter:

It accused the French government of kowtowing to destructive ideologies such as anti-racism and Islamism, which it said were being leveraged for the purposes of sowing unrest in French communities and risking a descent into full-blown civil war.

The signatories expressed grave concern with the government’s push to deconstruct and decolonize its own history in an attempt to placate a growing Islamism that has wracked the nation with violence and argued that radical Islam is being used to subject neighborhoods to dogmatic rules that go against the French Constitution, creating an unconstitutional parallel Islamic state.

“Perils are mounting, violence is increasing day by day,” the letter warned. “Who would have predicted ten years ago that a teacher would one day be beheaded when he left school?”

The signatories also attacked Critical Race Theory, which is making headway in France.

Meanwhile, Basel, Switzerland, was the latest European city to have a flash mob demanding freedom from masks and lockdowns. You can read all about this Insurrection of Joy here. Then, spend a few minutes watching this video from a Swiss train station, as people in the station go from bewildered to celebratory:

We need a non-partisan song for Americans to do the same.

At the end of the day, unless we want the dark night of fascism to become a permanent fixture in America, we’d better act to stop the Democrats from using the unequal application of our laws and the manufactured fear of COVID (a virus that more than 99% of us will have survived) to gain total power.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/04/the_dark_night_of_fascism_has_finally_landed_in_the_united_states.html

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Lawfare Groups Ask For Federal Intervention in Arizona Ballot Audit – Send Letter to DOJ Asking for Immediate Involvement

After the Democrat Secretary of State failed to get the Arizona State Attorney General to initiate an investigation of the audit; and after a Democrat state judge rejected the Democrat effort for a temporary restraining order; and after all other efforts have failed…. now we see three outside left-wing election groups (claiming bipartisanship yet led by lawyers from NYU) asking the DOJ to intervene in the Maricopa County, Arizona, ballot audit.

The audit started on April 23. A judge on April 28 rejected the attempt by Democrats to halt the process.

The Brennan Center, Protect Democracy and The Leadership Conference have signed a letter to the civil rights division of the DOJ asking them to get involved.

The arguments within the letter [pdf here] are identical to the arguments made previously by other Lawfare groups, including Perkins Coie, to a state judge.  The state judge rejected the arguments because there was no evidence submitted to the court to back them up.

Obviously there is a great amount of fear amid the network of Lawfare and leftist activists about this ongoing ballot audit.  The letter only highlights the worry they carry that Arizona’s election fraud might be demonstrably proven the the wider U.S. electorate.

WASHINGTON DC – A group of election security and administration experts are asking the Justice Department to send federal monitors to Arizona as the Republican-led state Senate carries out an audit of 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County in the state’s 2020 presidential election.

In a letter to the top official at the Justice Department’s voting section, five elections experts from the Brennan Center for Justice, Protect Democracy and The Leadership Conference expressed deep concerns about how the audit is being conducted, warning that it has put ballots “in danger of being stolen, defaced, or irretrievably damaged.”

“They failed to ensure the physical security of ballots by keeping doors unlocked and allowing unauthorized persons to access the ballot storage facility,” the letter reads. “They also risk compromising the integrity of the ballots themselves, using materials and technologies that will cause the ballot paper and marks to deteriorate, such as holding ballots to ultra-violet light without gloves. (read more)

Here’s the Letter:

AZ Letter to DoJ - 04.29.21 by The Brennan Center for Justice

Palletized 100 dollar bills. And that's "only" ONE trillion! We're talkin' 'bout six of them piles!

 

Article by Bryan Preston in PJMedia

INFLATION: Reality Sets in Amid Biden's Incomprehensible Spending Sprees

Joe Biden has been president for 100 days. Wednesday night he called for yet more government spending, on top of the trillions he has already called for and gotten Congress to pass.

All told, Biden has called for $6,000,000,000,000 in spending during his first 100 days in office, according to the New York Times. That’s six trillion dollars — a 6 with 12 zeroes following it like a flock of baby ducks.

Except baby ducks are cute and harmless. All those zeroes are not.

Divided by 100, Biden has asked America to spend $60,000,000,000 over and above ordinary spending — per day, over the course of his first 100 days. He’s showing no signs of slowing down and has no realistic plans to pay for it.

There’s simply no way for the media, let alone the average American citizen, to keep up with all this spending. It’s reached a level surpassing what’s comprehensible.

Broadly speaking, the COVID relief bills weren’t mostly about providing relief to Americans suffering from COVID lockdowns. The infrastructure bill isn’t mostly about repairing or building new infrastructure. We’re winding down wars (at least, until the consequences of that may force us to wind them right back up, as happened at the end of the Obama administration). Much, most, of Biden’s spending is unnecessary and wildly irresponsible. It’s packed with political buyoffs and giveaways.

Biden pledged to tax only Americans who make more than $400,000 per year. This was always an unsustainable and unbelievable promise. There simply are not enough Americans in that income level to pay for all of his spending, even if he confiscates every cent and every single thing they own. The wealthy know he won’t do that; they’ll see to it. They also never believed his $400,000 promise. Spread evenly across 330 million people, his plans amount to forcing each American to pay more than $18,000. That’s just to cover the spending he has called for in his first 100 days. We have a long, long way to go.

Reality is setting in. Biden’s cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline and his decision to order a moratorium on drilling on federal lands is contributing to the swift rise in energy prices since he took office. States reopening their economies is also contributing, as demand rises from the historic demand crash of 2020 when the economy was partially shut down to slow COVID’s spread.

Some of us have been predicting that the relentless printing of money to pay for unprecedented spending with no end in sight, plus tightening energy supplies, would result in energy prices rising, which would in turn feed inflation broadly across the media. Like predicting violent crime would rise with the defunding of police across the country, it was an easy prediction to make.

Here we are.

Procter & Gamble, Kimberly-Clark and Coca-Cola have all warned that they’ll raise prices on many of their products as raw material costs rise. Plastic, paper, sugar, grain and other commodities are all getting more expensive as demand outpaces supply. Companies are also paying more for shipping as fuel costs rise and ports experience longer delays because of congestion.

The report notes that inflation arrives just as the economy returns partially to normal. This could be expected to some extent just because demand will rise. Biden’s policies will add to the pain and amount to a tax that will rob Americans of their savings and force them to work harder and longer just to break even.

Soda giant Coca-Cola has said it expects to raise prices to fight higher costs, while Procter & Gamble is raising prices for baby, feminine and adult care products.

U.S. consumer prices increased a sharp 0.6% in March, the biggest uptick since 2012, while inflation over the past year jumped 2.6%. Some of the increases have been anticipated by Wall Street as the economy improves and inflation increases with it. The pace and size of inflation increases still remains a concern.

America hasn’t seen real inflation since the Jimmy Carter years. Then, as now, statist policies dominated the federal government, and the projection of weakness fed perceptions of America’s inability to keep the peace around the world. Ronald Reagan ran against and defeated Carter and ushered in an economic renaissance that helped crush the Soviet Union.

But in the present case, we had the economic renaissance first, followed by shutdowns that badly damaged the economy, and a Carter-esque retread has been swept into office imposing statist ideas with unsustainable spending. China is not the Soviet Union; it’s far stronger economically and even more aggressive than Moscow tended to be. Thanks to globalist policies that put much of the world’s manufacturing power in China, that nuclear-armed communist state now has the world’s largest navy including three aircraft carriers — one on a par with our supercarriers — and recently commissioned three warships in a single day. China builds up while Biden instigates a politicization of our military which will surely weaken it, while his spending will weaken our economy and his stubborn emphasis on imposing critical race theory will divide the country.

Joe Biden may make Jimmy Carter seem like Reagan in comparison by the time he reaches 200 days in office.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/bryan-preston/2021/04/29/inflation-arrives-with-joe-bidens-incomprehensible-spending-sprees-n1443613

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Johnson And Johnson Rolls Out New 'No More Clots' Vaccine

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WASHINGTON, D.C.—A spokesman for the FDA announced Friday that it was lifting the pause on the Johnson and Johnson COVID vaccine after the company reformulated the product into a trademarked No More Clots™ formula. Shares of the company jumped 5% after the announcement. 

“We are pleased to announce that Johnson and Johnson’s new vaccine formula has passed all of the rigorous safety testing we could do in three days,” an FDA spokesman said. “Plus, it says ‘no more clots’ right there in the name! What could possibly go wrong?” 

A spokeswoman for Johnson and Johnson said the company worked extensively with scientists in their baby shampoo division to make sure the new COVID vaccine was safe. “Our new No More Clots™ formula is as gentle to your platelets as pure water,” she said.

“It’s also 100% soap-free, dermatologist-tested, and hypoallergenic.” 

The spokeswoman noted that the vaccine was tested extensively by the company’s herd of koala bears, which confirmed that the vaccine not only eliminates the risk of deadly blood clots, but also made their hair softer, shiner, and more manageable, all while maintaining a fresh smell.  

There Are No Longer Three Branches of Government, and DC Doesn’t Need a President to Operate The Modern System of U.S. Government

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1.) When I was in DC, doing deep research on the issues around spygate and trying to understand the depth of corruption within the legislative and judicial branches, I ran into a guy...

2.) DC was locked down at the time (May/June 2020), so there were very few people around. However, this guy's credentials within the DC system were impeccable.

I checked him out afterward & was stunned at how he spent his entire career in/around the IC and related apparatus 

3.) After a lengthy and casual introduction and discussion, I was genuinely shocked at the severity of his warnings about the FBI, DOJ and various other agencies.

However, in hindsight, after checking him out, I realized he was certainly a person to understand. 

4.) His warning was direct, devoid of emotion, very deliberate and very cold. But behind his eyes and words was a guy telling the truth; the quiet part that no-one inside the bubble says openly. 

5.) What he said was that not a single person of honor or integrity can survive inside the DC institutions we were discussing. The system itself is designed to remove them... All of them... every-single-one. 

6.) He laughed at the term "honorable" rank and file. But it wasn't a snarky laugh; it was almost like a resignation laugh... a genuine look toward the sky and compassion for a view I held that his honesty would destroy. 

7.) He wasn't bitter, angry or jaded; and I would not call him cynical. He was very genuine, very wise, held decades of knowledge.... and was a "just the facts" kinda Joe Friday guy. 

8.) I found out a few days later his job within the system was sending him overseas again. Perhaps that's why he apparently wanted to tell the genuine side of his story and experience. Dunno, but I will never forget it. 

9.) I still held the belief there were three branches of government.... and there were "checks and balances"... and there had to be some way for a good person to expose corruption.

He quickly dispatched those beliefs (with examples). 

10.) He explained the "checks and balances" I spoke of did exist at a time when there were three branches of government. However, that time has long passed.

There is only one overarching DC eco-system now. The three branch concept is gone. Doesn't exist. 

11.) As he explained, the levers of power are all controlled by the same system, and behind that system are positions - not people. "Positions" 

12.) People are evaluated based on their ability to support and protect the system. Their skill level is what moves them into position.

Position. Evaluation. Next Position. Evaluation. Etc. 

13.) The system more like an institution. Within the institution there are divisions. The divisions are what we used to call "branches".

The divisions (branches) are not independent from the institution of DC. The divisions are operated by people in power who hold positions. 

14.) He identified the timeline of this institutional creation as a slow build (over decades), but most visibly increasing in publicity after 9/11/01 and the patriot act. 

15.) Once the patriot act made the government responsible for total safety; the previously embedded bad actors took full control. One office of particular note was the creation of the ODNI.

As he noted the amassing of surveillance power. 

16.) once that Rubicon was crossed, everything after was downstream and unstoppable. The institution of the total intelligence apparatus now had full control.... over every branch (which again, he said is more like 'divisions'). 

17.) When he explained about the Inspector General part, I understood why the IG's offices (all of them) are compromised.... and why there can never be a whistleblower against the system.

Remember the "positions" part. Yeah, the IG's are key on that aspect. 

18.) When he explained the legislative committee heads, he also explained how 'advise and consent' is used to keep the (executive) positions staffed only with particular people who have passed the institutional evaluation. 

19.) He would know... his experience was deep in the part of the system that does the evaluation.

Think about what is needed to move into a position. A background check right? A clearance right?

Control of the people in the system, is done from the place where checks are done 

20.) This is the place where people of honor and integrity are weeded out. They are a threat; or really not so much a threat, but just the "wrong type" of people. Said with a very matter-of-fact acceptance. 

21.) One of the key institutions who do the background checks is The FBI.

That is why the FBI had to be compromised first in the structure of the new (post 9/11) system.

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22.) Once you realize there is only one party, the UniParty, the next step is to recognize there are no longer three branches within government.

Then everything that has previously created frustration starts to make sense. 

23) The discussion about there no longer being three branches of government was an eye-opening part of the talk... But if you think about it, it makes sense.

The executive, the legislative and the judicial branches all defer to the Intelligence Community.

24) Here's the exercise he sent me away with. If you doubt this thread, apply the scientific method to the hypothesis.

Show me a single example where they don't. 

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