If your only sources of news came from the major broadcast and cable networks, excluding Fox News, you’d think Joe Biden just had the first major triumph of his presidency. According to CNN, he defiantly stared down Vladamir Putin in a show of force not seen since Reagan’s speech in then-West Germany. In reality, Biden was just too senile to understand it was time to look at the cameras.
Here’s a taste of the fawning to get the ball rolling on this article.
Of course, what you see on left-wing cable news, as per our usual arrangement, is not real life. Rather, it’s a carefully curated propaganda effort meant to keep Biden from looking like the unqualified chump of a leader he is.
That leads me to my major point here — Joe Biden got absolutely rolled by Putin at their summit and everyone knows it. It’s just a matter of whether everyone will admit it.
Seriously, let’s look at the facts. Biden, for reasons that make sense to no one who has any understanding of foreign policy, decided to go into the meeting with no real plan at all. What was on the table to be gained? What were we hoping to get the opposition to give up? These are important questions that should be asked anytime a president holds a summit with an adversary. Yet, it was clear Biden’s only real plan was to wear aviators and eat ice cream.
Putin, on the other hand, clearly had goals. He got to present himself as an ascendant leader in the face of the bumbling Biden. Further, Putin was afforded a golden opportunity to hold an hour-long press conference where he chided the United States and generally ran circles around the unprepared reporters asking him questions. Truth be told, Russia is a third-world dump with a GDP less than Italy. But after this past week, they once again were afforded the position of a “super-power,” even if a faux one.
Let’s also note that on substance, Biden folded like a wash-and-wear suit in the face of the Russian strongman. Putin’s biggest priority, not just now but for the last decade, has been to finish Nord Stream 2. Donald Trump had placed sanctions preventing the completion of the strategic and lucrative pipeline from Russia to Europe. Yet, for absolutely nothing in return, Biden just handed it to Putin while committing the United States at NATO to pay for Germany’s defense from the very enemy they are enriching. What great diplomacy, right?
If that weren’t bad enough, Biden then gave Putin an actual list of major targets in the United States to not attack with cyberattacks. In doing so, he might as well have hung a giant “please hack us” on America’s most important infrastructure.
Biden was embarrassingly unprepared for his supposed showdown with Putin. Just as bad, his weakness was apparent for all of our other adversaries to view. Does anyone think China fears Biden at this point? “But he wears aviators and talks tough,” the media say as they melt into a giant pool of partisan goo.
In the end, empty words matter not in the face of actions and results. That was a lesson the left and some on the right were unwilling to learn during the Trump era. Being “tough” in your rhetoric is meaningless if you are handing your enemy everything they want. That’s exactly what Biden did. He performed for the shallow, squealing hacks at CNN, but he gave into Putin where it really counted. Now, we will pay the price for his weakness.
Missouri gov, attorney general fire back at Biden DOJ over 'federal overreach' on 2nd Amendment rights
DOJ says that Missouri's law 'conflicts with federal firearms laws and regulation'
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson and and state Attorney General (AG) Eric Schmitt fired back on Thursday after the Justice Department (DOJ) sent a warning to the state over Parson's recent bill he said protects residents' Second Amendment rights.
"Missouri
is not attempting to nullify federal law," Parson and Schmitt wrote in a
letter to Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian Boynton of DOJ's
Civil Division. "Instead, Missouri is defending its people from federal
government overreach by prohibiting state and local law enforcement
agencies from being used by the federal government to infringe
Missourians’ right to keep and bear arms."
"Missourians’
and Americans’ Second Amendment rights are enshrined in the
Constitution – I will defend those rights at every turn," AG Schmitt
said in a statement. "Our letter to Biden’s Department of Justice sends a
clear message: we will fight any attempts from the federal government
to encroach on Missourians’ Second Amendment rights."
Governor Parson added, "The Second Amendment Preservation Act is
about protecting law-abiding Missourians against government overreach
and unconstitutional federal mandates."
"We will reject any
attempt by the federal government to circumvent the fundamental right
Missourians have to keep and bear arms to protect themselves and their
property. Throughout my career, I have always stood for the Constitution
and our Second Amendment rights, and that will not change today or any
day."
In a letter sent Wednesday night and obtained by The Associated
Press, Justice officials said the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause
outweighs the measure that Parson signed into law Saturday. The new
rules penalize local police departments if their officers enforce
federal gun laws.
Boynton said the law threatens to disrupt the
working relationship between federal and local authorities, they said in
the letter, noting that Missouri receives federal grants and technical
assistance.
"The public safety of the people of the United States and citizens of Missouri is paramount," Boynton wrote in the letter.
President Biden
has made gun control laws a priority of his administration, and the
House has passed two bills requiring background checks on firearms sales
and an expanded review for gun purchases, though they face a tough road
in the Senate. But states, including Missouri, have increasingly worked
to loosen gun laws, including abandoning requirements that people get
training and pass background checks to carry concealed handguns.
Missouri’s
law would subject law enforcement agencies with officers who knowingly
enforce any federal laws to a fine of about $50,000 per violating
officer.
Republican lawmakers who worked to pass the bill have
said they were motivated by the potential of more restrictive gun laws
in the Biden administration. But state Democrats have argued the law is
unconstitutional and have predicted it would not pass a challenge in the
courts.
The
Justice Department argued in the letter that the state lacks the
authority to shield any Missouri businesses or citizens from federal law
or to prevent federal law enforcement officials from carrying out their
duties.
Boynton said the bill "conflicts with federal firearms
laws and regulation" and federal law would supersede the state’s new
statute. He said federal agents and the U.S. attorney’s offices in the
state would continue to enforce all federal firearms laws and
regulations. He asked that Parson and Eric Schmitt, the state’s attorney
general, clarify the law and how it would work in a response by Friday.
Do you smell their fear rising over the competing reeks of Prius new
car smell, of kale, and of the armies of shambling, squatting hoboes
that have come to symbolize modern liberalism? That eau d’ uh-oh
is the scent of progressives realizing that maybe pushing an ideology
that tells the majority of America “You stink!” is not going to lead to
the sweet smell of success.
Everyone
hates CRT, critical race theory, that bizarre, ridiculous, and morally
illiterate hodge-podge of Marxist mumbo-jumbo blended with a healthy
dose of the kind of racial hash that would make Democrat David Duke
beam. Even the lib wine moms, who were so ecstatic about the recent lack
of mean tweeting – ironic that the only man able to give them pleasure
was Donald Trump, and he does it by not doing anything – despise this
Marxist pestilence. The guys in the campaign business I talk to are
giddy and often burst into spontaneous jigs of pure glee at the poll
numbers they are seeing. Hey Congress, congratulations! Thanks to CRT,
there’s something America hates even more than you!
Normal America
is fighting back – on social media, at school board meetings, in the
states, and even in Congress. People are sick of this crap, and its
purveyors are baffled. They thought enlisting in the cultural lynch mob
was going to get them nothing but kudos and it’s not working out that
way. Even the mighty are taking hits. Secretary of Defense That Guy from
Raytheon took a break from losing wars to testify before the Senate the
other day only to lose there too. Former Army guy Tom Cotton read him
some snippets of the works of Henry Rogers, who ridiculous people call
“Ibram X. Kendi.” Ibby, as his friends probably call him, is one of the
brightest lights of race hustling, which is the world’s lowest bar. The
SecDef was forced to repudiate George Wallace Kendi’s position of
“discrimination now, discrimination tomorrow, discrimination forever,”
and then he tried to wiggle out of Cotton’s net by denying that he had
even read Kendi’s slim – if not physically, then intellectually and
morally – tome. Which was super-awkward because the war-losing,
ship-colliding, zampolits of the brass have been ostentatiously
putting this noxious trash on military reading lists. You might want to
know what the hell you are teaching young officers, one would think,
but then I would also think our military ought to be fixated on victory
instead of declaring war on the weather and on trying to out-do the
faculty lounge at Oberlin in the PC arms race.
So, clearly not everyone hates CRT. Jerks like it, and
there are several flavors of jerks. There are the go-along, get-along
saps in the military, academia, Hollywood, and the corporations who push
it because they know their masters want them to push it. The Democrats
love it, or at least thought they did before people started learning
about it and the polls plunged. Naturally, the gimp media is in 100
percent because CRT is the Official Narrative, and the media’s job is to
pimp the official narrative.
And, of course, you can send in the
clowns, like Hank Kendi or whatever his name is this week. They’re
getting paid $$$$ for supervising struggle sessions where guilty white
libs who never owned slaves ritually abase themselves to people who
never were slaves. There’s a creepy BDSM vibe to the groveling of these
people of pallor – the shame, as the great Ace of Spades has observed, is part of the kink.
Speaking
of pasty submissives who take a Toobinian delight in their own
humiliation, the Never Trump sissies of Cruise Ship Conservatism have
anchors aweighed-in on CRT too. Apparently, True Conservatism™ not only
requires that we don’t fight back against CRT but that we actively run
interference for it. What would William F. Buckley do? Apparently,
apologize for his privilege and commit to doing the work of tearing down
the cis-patriarchal paradigm whilst standing athwart history, tearfully
confessing, “I am complicit.”
So, their backlash to our backlash has begun. You have
the blue check chuckleheads doing it, the media morons doing it, and,
naturally, the David French connection doing it because of course the
unread Birkenstock-lickers of Team Ahoy would flack for the left. The
problem is not CRT; the problem is normal people rejecting CRT and
therefore, the elite who invites these pipsqueaks onto MSNBCNN where
they, for a sweet, shining moment, get to pretend that they are back in
2005 when people with influence took their calls.
If you are
looking for coherence in their pathetic bleating about America’s
rejection of their garbage race fantasies, keep looking. One of their
favorite flexes is to try to seize on things we Americans like and that
they don’t, such as freedom of speech, to convince us to submit. So, we
are treated to the spectacle of super-serious and concerned protectors
of Muh Democracy bewailing the terrible attack on freedom of speech that
is our refusal to allow unionized teachers and unelected bureaucrats to
indoctrinate our kids with their bigoted balderdash. Let’s unpack this
notion a bit, not that it matters because they aren’t serious people.
Stay with me here. Something has to be taught in schools. And that means
someone has to decide what that is. And CRT shills contend that the
right to decide what that is belongs to…uh, wait a sec. Unionized
teachers and unelected bureaucrats, and not American citizens? What ever happened to Muh Democracy?
I know, I know: “Shut up, racist!”
Next is the argument
that CRT is too complex and subtle for our little minds to comprehend.
Well, leaving aside the question of why we would want to teach such
advanced concepts to little kids, let’s explore the idea that we’re only
attacking CRT because we don’t understand CRT. Does that mean CRT does not
hold the position that America is a bastion of white supremacy, that
all white people are racist, and non-white people can’t be racist?
Because if that’s not CRT, a bunch of people are teaching
not-CRT and calling it “CRT.” Why don’t you pinkos get your story
straight and get back to us on what CRT is – in the meantime, we’ll
stick to teaching kids how to read and count and love their country.
But, to be honest, when you do get back to us, we’re still going to tell you to go Toobin Zoom yourselves.
Yeah, I know: “Shut up, racist!”
We
conservatives should actually be glad about the left’s CRT fetish.
After all, these dummies have handed us a giant Louisville Slugger to
use to pummel them. The best part is that they are surprised we’re
upset. Maybe they should get out more. Maybe they should meet some
normal people. And it’s not just normal people of pallor who are on
their last nerve. It’s all sorts of normal people - black, white,
yellow, brown, whatever, united in their refusal to hate their neighbors
in order to provide a short-term political edge to a pack of elite
fools and scammers. It’s not merely that normal people understand that
Balkanization leads to the Balkans, and that the Balkans are not a role
model (I was there – trust me, you do not want a society where ethnicity
is everything). It’s that normal people know that this is evil, that to
judge one by the color of his skin instead of the content of his
character is un-American and un-Judeo-Christian, and probably un-every
other religion except Marxism.
I’d be ashamed that some in our society were drawn toward the
siren song of bigotry if I wasn’t so proud of my countrymen for so
overwhelmingly rejecting hate in favor of truth, liberty, and
Americanism.
Let’s purge this political pathogen from our society
and hold the Typhoid Marys of wokeness – whether corporate
collaborators, DC denizens, Tinseltown twerps, media mediocrities, or
pinko politicians – accountable. CRT, KMA.
The western and central United States are suffering through a massive
heat wave putting nearly 50 million people under either a heat advisory
or an excessive heat warning. Health officials are urging people to be
extra alert now after months of pandemic lockdowns and restrictions.
“This year has brought all kinds of changes in routine, lots of
stress, lots of fatigue,” stated Jessica Strong, community health
manager at Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital. “And so, that
combined with the record temperatures we’re experiencing right now,
unfortunately could be a recipe for disaster.”
According to the National Weather Service, widespread excessive heat
warnings and advisories are in effect for California, Nevada, Arizona
and Utah. Meanwhile, Salt Lake City set a heat record for the second day
in a row after peaking at 107 degrees Tuesday. This is its hottest
temperature ever recorded.
Meanwhile in Texas, the scorching temperatures have sparked another
round of power plant outages for the Electric Reliability Council of
Texas (ERCOT) as temperatures topped 100 degrees on Monday. ERCOT issued
an advisory calling on Texas to reduce electric use as much as possible
through Friday while urging there is a “very concerning” amount of
power plant outages ongoing as a result of the heat waves. Roughly
10,000 ERCOT customers of lost power, in turn, causing stress and panic
among Texas residents.
“It’s frustrating because I’m working from home,” stated Texas
resident Paula Than. “I have a dog who needs power, so it’s very
frustrating to not have any answers.”
This comes as temperatures have already broken dozens of record high
across the region, including California, Arizona and Montana with more
expected to fall this weekend. The National Weather Service is warning
that both daytime and overnight temperature records are likely to be
broken by next week.
The agency also urged pet owners to be attentive to animals when out
for walks and when in cars. It also issued fire danger advisories while
noting such conditions can be dangerous and in some cases fatal.
In an unsettling development, the administration of Joe Biden is asking American citizens to betray friends and family who have different political views, and report them to the government for allegedly being “radicalized,” as reported by Breitbart.
During a teleconference with the press, a senior administration official said that they were seeking “to improve public awareness of federal resources to address concerning or threatening behavior before violence occurs.” “This involves creating contexts,” the official continued, “in which those who are family members or friends or co-workers know that there are pathways and avenues to raise concerns and seek help for those who they have perceived to be radicalizing and potentially radicalizing towards violence.”
In addition to seeking tips from American citizens to turn in their friends and loved ones, the official also said that the government would be working with tech companies to increase surveillance on alleged “radicals.”
“Any particular tech company often knows its platform very well. But the government sees things, actually, threats of violence, across platforms,” the official claimed, with no evidence. “They see the relationship between online recruitment, radicalization, and violence in the physical world.” To this end, the official said that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would begin implementing “digital literacy” and “digital fitness” programs, enabling the agency to detect “malicious content online that bad actors deliberately try to disseminate.”
The official concluded by noting that “we are investing many agencies of the government and resourcing them appropriately and asking our citizens to participate. Because, ultimately, this is really about homeland security being a responsibility of each citizen of our country to help us achieve.”
These declarations are indicative of the administration’s determination to double down on the debunked conspiracy theory that “far-right” and “White supremacist” domestic terrorism is the top security threat to the nation. Although Biden repeatedly made this false claim in his inaugural address, his first address to a joint session of Congress, and a press conference on June 1st, there is no evidence to back up this assertion. Many critics have instead described these claims as an attempt by the administration to justify cracking down on political opponents, namely supporters of President Donald Trump.
A Second Amendment Showdown Is Shaping up Between Missouri and the Biden Administration
Missouri has a Republican super-majority in both its House and its
Senate. Given that, you’d think that passing legislation that aligns
with the Republican agenda would be a given. That isn’t true on all
issues, but it was borne out this year when the legislature
passed the Second Amendment Preservation Act (“SAPA”) — which was then
signed into law by Missouri Governor Mike Parson on June 12, 2021.
This follows similar moves by local governments, such as Newton County, as reported by my colleague Jennifer Oliver O’Connell earlier this year.
In 2013, then-Governor Jay Nixon vetoed an
early incarnation of the Second Amendment Preservation Act. Ultimately,
the House overrode the veto but it failed in the Senate by one vote. In
subsequent years, similar bills ran into insurmountable hurdles
including intense law enforcement opposition and Republican leadership too squeamish to take a stand against the feds.
But activists and supporters of the Second Amendment in the Show-Me State kept pushing, and with the leadership and support of Dave Roland at the Freedom Center of Missouri, they kept improving the legislation and pressuring legislators.
So, what exactly is SAPA? In a nutshell, it’s a law that
prohibits the enforcement of federal provisions that infringe on the
right to keep and bear arms. More details:
The bill includes a detailed definition of actions that qualify as “infringement,” including but not limited to:
taxes and fees on firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition not
common to all other goods and services that would have a chilling effect
on the purchase or ownership of those items by law-abiding citizens;
registration and tracking schemes applied to firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition;
any act forbidding the possession, ownership, or use or transfer of a
firearm, firearm accessory, or ammunition by law-abiding citizens;
any act ordering the confiscation of firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition from law-abiding citizens.
The law defines a “law-abiding citizen” as “a person who is not otherwise precluded under state law from possessing a firearm.”
Under the law, infringements on the right to keep and bear arms
include the National Firearms Act of 1934, the Gun Control Act of 1968,
Pres. Trump’s bump-stock ban, proposed federal “red-flag laws,” and any future gun control schemes implemented by the federal government.
So, a nice win for the Second Amendment in the Show-Me State.
Oh, wait — “Not so fast!” says the Biden Justice Department.
The Justice Department is warning Missouri officials that the state can’t ignore federal law, after the governor signed a bill last week that bars police from enforcing federal gun rules. https://t.co/GvsoLAGYu5
WASHINGTON (AP) —
The Justice Department is warning Missouri officials that the state
can’t ignore federal law, after the governor signed a bill last week
that bans police from enforcing federal gun rules.
In a letter sent
Wednesday night and obtained by The Associated Press, Justice officials
said the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause outweighs the measure that
Gov. Mike Parson signed into law Saturday. The new rules penalize local
police departments if their officers enforce federal gun laws.
Acting Assistant
Attorney General Brian Boynton said the law threatens to disrupt the
working relationship between federal and local authorities, they said in
the letter, noting that Missouri receives federal grants and technical
assistance.
….
The Justice
Department argued in the letter that the state lacks the authority to
shield any Missouri businesses or citizens from federal law or to
prevent federal law enforcement officials from carrying out their
duties.
Boynton said the
bill “conflicts with federal firearms laws and regulation” and federal
law would supersede the state’s new statute. He said federal agents and
the U.S. attorney’s offices in the state would continue to enforce all
federal firearms laws and regulations. He asked that Parson and Eric
Schmitt, the state’s attorney general, clarify the law and how it would
work in a response by Friday.
Sounds like this is setting up a bit of a showdown. Who’s got the
winning hand here? As noted above, this legislation has been in the
works for years — it wasn’t just thrown together haphazardly. And I
anticipate our Attorney General, Eric Schmitt, who’s been a bulldog when it comes to taking on the current administration, will have an appropriate response.
Cam Edwards, over at our sister site, Bearing Arms, had this to say about the constitutionality of the provision:
There’s nothing unconstitutional about the new Second
Amendment Preservation Act. In fact, it fits squarely within the Court’s
precedent in Printz vs. U.S.,
which held that state and local law enforcement are under no obligation
to perform the duties of federal law enforcement. Missouri’s Second
Amendment Preservation Act is comparable to California’s Sanctuary State
law, which forbids state and local governments from cooperating with
ICE in most cases. The Supreme Court upheld California’s law last summer, and if they have the opportunity to weigh in on the Missouri law, I’m sure the justices will do the same.
The parallel to sanctuary cities in the immigration context is hard
to escape (I suspect intentionally so). A similar comparison could also
be made to states who have opted to legalize marijuana. In that context,
the feds have recently declared enforcement of the federal prohibition
against it is no longer a priority. (It’s almost as if DOJ has a political agenda?!)
So, how will this all play out? I’m sure it will prove interesting.
How cute. An overbearing federal agency which has a tenuous grasp of the constitution and the law that #moleg passed and @GovParsonMO signed is threatening Missouri with a good time.
President Biden’s first foreign trip wasn’t just an embarrassing disaster, it heralds the return of the disastrous foreign policy of the Obama-Biden era.
The most important takeaway from the recent G7 and NATO summits in Europe isn’t President Biden’s many embarrassing and unsettling mental lapses, long pauses, and rambling non sequiturs, but the clear message coming out of these meetings: the United States is returning to an Obama-Biden era “America Last” foreign policy that puts the interests of multilateral institutions and international partnerships above the interests of the American people.
That policy shift was perhaps best encapsulated in a quip from President Emmanuel Macron of France, who said of Biden, “It is great to have a U.S. president who’s part of the club and very willing to cooperate.” And of course it’s true. At the close of the G7 Summit, Biden boasted that America is “back at the table,” and described the summit as “extraordinarily collaborative.”
So what did this extraordinarily collaborative club manage to accomplish? One of the G7’s most pressing tasks heading into the summit was what, if anything, it would do about an aggressive and intransigent China. What the group settled on was doing almost nothing.
With each passing week it becomes more obvious that COVID-19 almost certainly originated in a lab in Wuhan, China. We can’t say for sure because the Chinese Communist Party has been blocking efforts to discover the origins of the virus ever since the outbreak began. But at this point, with zero evidence that the virus emerged naturally, the answer seems obvious enough.
Yet all the G7 could manage was a tepid call for a new World Health Organization-backed study on COVID’s origins, as if another investigation by the compromised WHO will yield something more. The G7 also cooked up a plan to dump $40 trillion into infrastructure (a bill likely to be footed largely by American taxpayers) for the developing world to compete with China’s Belt and Road initiative.
At the summit’s close, the group’s final communiqué made no mention of China’s systematic persecution of Muslim Uyghurs or other minority religious groups, and made no real commitment to combat China’s use of forced labor. Instead, the group weakly called on Beijing to respect “fundamental freedoms, especially in relation to Xinjiang.” Yeah, that’ll show them.
Or consider the Biden administration’s plan for dealing with Russia. Biden’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week comes hot on the heels of recent cyberattacks against U.S. infrastructure likely backed by Moscow, as well as Biden’s capitulation on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which will give Russia remarkable leverage over Germany’s energy supply.
Democrats complained endlessly that Trump wasn’t tough enough on Russia, but so far Biden has projected nothing but weakness toward Moscow. The president also doesn’t seem up to the task of dealing with Putin.
Ahead of the much-anticipated meeting, Biden gave a bizarre press conference on Monday, pausing for an uncomfortably long time and seeming to lose his train of thought when asked a basic question by CNN’s Jeff Zeleny about whether Biden still considers Putin a “killer.” In the end, he essentially said nothing.
But Biden need not say much of anything on Russia. The idea that warmed-over Obama-ism is going to give Putin pause is a joke. Recall that it was on Obama’s watch that Moscow began a permanent occupation of Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Georgia, annexed Crimea, started a war in southeast Ukraine, intervened in Syria, established operational bases in the Middle East, and gave shelter to Edward Snowden.
Biden said Monday that in his meeting with Putin this week he’s going to “make it clear what the red lines are.” But after eight years of Obama and Biden’s disastrous foreign policy the whole world knows exactly where the red lines are — and exactly what they’re worth.
In all of this, Biden maintains the long trajectory of his abysmal foreign policy record. Over the past four decades the world has changed much, but Biden hasn’t. He has been wrong on almost every major international issue of his time, often for shallow, partisan reasons.
Indeed, his reflective hostility to President Trump’s foreign policy is reminiscent of his hostility toward President Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy. After a Biden speech at Harvard in 1987, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen remarked that Biden “has a reputation as a politician whose intellect is no match for his glibness.” Biden’s problem, wrote Cohen, is that he purports to tackle difficult questions like when the United States should use force in pursuing its foreign policy goals, but then never bothers with the details.
He set out three criteria: (1) Only if our vital interests are threatened. (2) Only if the intervention is ‘right.’ (3) Only if the use of force has a ‘high probability of succeeding.’ All of that sounded good, but Biden never bothered to explain his terms. He mentioned Nicaragua as an example of where the Reagan administration had failed to apply those criteria. But these happen to be precisely the criteria the president says he has used. Reagan says Nicaragua is vital, that the fight against an avowedly Marxist regime is ‘right,’ and that the effort to topple the Sandinistas would have ‘a high probability of succeeding’ if only Congress would fund the effort. Similarly, Biden characterized U.S. escalation in the Persian Gulf as reactive, which surely it is, but he did not say what he would do differently if he were president. Several times, he said the containment policy, first enunciated by Harry S Truman, is outmoded. But he never acknowledged that the Reagan administration agrees — and has set out to roll back communist advances.
Today, Biden seems similarly out of touch. One of the reasons Trump quickly gained so much support in the 2016 GOP primaries, and continues to enjoy broad support among Republicans, was his willingness to criticize the failures of a bipartisan, multilateralist foreign policy that has dominated Washington for decades, and that particularly dominated the Obama White House.
Trump criticized America’s endless wars and interventions overseas, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan, even if it meant going after fellow Republicans. He questioned the usefulness of NATO and argued that America’s allies weren’t paying their fair share. He eschewed multilateral treaties and agreements, preferring to deal with other nations one-on-one. In other words, Trump directly attacked the foreign policy establishment in Washington — the “blob” — and it resonated.
Why? Because such attacks tapped into a general sense among many Americans that, whatever the original justification for entities like NATO and the United Nations and the WHO, they no longer serve the interests of the American people, and our leaders should stop pretending that they do.
Biden, by contrast, wants to return to the foreign policy of the Obama era, in which being “part of the club,” means deferential multilateralism that places the American national interest behind the interests of a vast array of allies and partners and international organizations all across the globe. The very notion of national interest, let alone a foreign policy that serves the national interest, is anathema to the foreign policy blob in Washington.
And so it is once again. The Obama-era foreign policy that Biden is trying to resuscitate — weakness toward China and Russia, deference to a comprised WHO, money for Iran, more U.S. troops and NATO funding for Europe, climate change and wokeness at the State Department and the Pentagon — is not for Americans, it’s for the global institutions and interests that benefit from maintaining a pre-Trump foreign policy status quo that puts America, and Americans, last.
The FBI's role in the Jan. 6 Capitol fracas is absolutely disgusting
Do
you remember how conservatives went out of their way to separate
rank-and-file FBI agents from the corrupt actions of Jim Comey, Andrew
McCabe, Bill Priestap, James Baker, James Rybicki, Peter Strzok, Lisa
Page, and others as more evidence came to light revealing that the top brass at the bureau had worked to create an "insurance policy"
that could be used to overthrow President Trump from office? Writers
and television pundits would always couch any criticism of the bureau in
some respectful language like "we're only talking about high-ranking
officials here, not the FBI, itself, which is filled with the best
agents in the world who are always looking out for America."
I
think we can dispense with the overly protective pleasantries at this
point. The FBI is a goon squad of un-American thugs who have taken the
worst elements of East Germany's Stasi police state and Cosa Nostra's organized
crime and turned them into a blueprint for exercising and keeping
illegitimate power over their enemies. They aren't a law enforcement
organization, and they certainly don't give a rat's rear end about
justice. They're regime enforcers with badges.
If
the stated reason for the FBI's inception was to pursue federal crimes
that might otherwise be unenforced or overlooked in the interstate
wilderness separating local jurisdictions, J. Edgar Hoover wasted no
time turning the bureau into a personal domestic intelligence force
capable of intimidating political enemies and insulating himself from
potential removal through the use of blackmail. Before Jim Comey was
secretly leaking to the press and using Hillary Clinton's "Russia collusion" dossier in
an operation to take down President Trump, Mark Felt, the FBI's
second-in-command at the time of the Watergate scandal and the anonymous
"Deep Throat"
who made Woodward and Bernstein famous, actually succeeded in secretly
bringing down President Nixon. In this way, the FBI has at least as
much experience overthrowing American governments as it does any enemy
state.
You'd think it was sufficiently clear, as evidence mounted over the last five years, that Comey and Co. had undertaken a mission (with John Brennan at CIA, Bruce Ohr at Main Justice, Nellie Ohr and Glenn Simpson at Fusion GPS, Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice,
James Clapper, and Christopher Steele, the Russia hoax dossier author
and former Russia desk head at Britain's MI6) to frame the sitting
president of the United States as a Russian asset by repeatedly filing fraudulent FISA affidavits with America's secret surveillance court, among other unprosecuted crimes,
to spy on Donald Trump and his associates. But there were also the
efforts of Rod Rosenstein, Andrew Weissmann, Robert Mueller, and their
army of fifty FBI agents who spent two years trying to entrap President Trump on phony "obstruction of justice" charges during a bogus special counsel witch hunt.
Just as the FBI has subverted justice in order to "get Trump,"
it has gone out of its way to provide the Democratic Party and all its
"intersectional" tribes general immunity. After disgraced FBI director
James Comey laid out the elements for a prosecutable case against
Hillary Clinton in 2016 for storing top-secret material on a bathroom
server easily accessible to China and Russia, he immediately dismissed
the idea of criminal charges, insisting that no "reasonable prosecutor"
could obtain a conviction — an admission that either federal prosecutors
or federal juries are incapable of punishing Democrats. When the Russia hoax was
finally revealed as an Intelligence Community operation run out of the
Obama White House to spy on the Trump campaign and implode his
presidency, nobody in charge was ever held accountable. And Black Lives
Matter and Antifa have, more or less, run roughshod over America with
the FBI's blessing and backing
— leaving no doubt that the U.S. has an intentionally rigged two-tiered
justice system that protects Democrats at all costs while persecuting
Republicans without remorse.
However,
if a century's worth of nostalgic television and film propaganda
portraying the bureau as a collection of "white hats" committed to doing
good lulled anyone into still believing that the FBI is anything other
than irredeemably corrupt and malevolent — from Director Wray down to
the lowliest parking attendant — then an exposé in Revolver
News detailing the FBI's probable infiltration of the January 6 voting
rights protest and political rally in D.C. and the likelihood that
undercover agents instigated and actively participated in the events at
the Capitol that day should put the matter to bed once and for all.
Revolver went through the available indictments filed against Americans for breaching the Capitol and noted numerous
"unindicted co-conspirators ... all playing various roles in the
conspiracy" who have been neither named nor charged. What Revolver tees
up with its reporting, Tucker Carlson smashes onto the green with his blunt conclusion:
"It means that in potentially every single case, they were FBI
operatives[.] ... So FBI operatives were organizing the attack on the
Capitol on Jan. 6, according to government documents."
Armchair sleuths have been analyzing available footage of that day for months, and many have provided convincing evidence that members of Antifa and Black Lives Matter had
not only covertly infiltrated the pro-Trump rally crowd, but were
actively breaking glass doors and pushing into the Capitol
Complex. There's even video of
a small cell of initial trespassers dressed all in black from head to
toe operating in an organized fashion as they entered the premises that
has gone viral as purported evidence that the mayhem on January 6 was
due, at least partially, to the actions of a classic false flag
operation meant to undermine Trump-supporters.
What Revolver's analysis of
the DOJ's charging documents shows, though, is that not just BLM and
Antifa, but also FBI undercover agents were almost certainly up to no good that
day. That's a lot of outside interlopers pretending to be Trump
rally-goers for the FBI to insist that the same MAGA crowd that has
never once engaged in violence or property damage over the course of
hundreds of similar events during the last five years — dressed in
patriotic garb and draped in American flags — spontaneously turned a
festive, carnival-like party into a "siege" and "rebellion" against the
United States. And it's especially suspicious when video footage shows cops waving protesters into the Capitol Building and when the only person killed that day was an unarmed Air Force veteran at the hands of a yet-unidentified Capitol police officer.
Democrats,
the U.S. military, the Department of "Justice," Liz Cheney, and the
official state-controlled press have steamrolled the country with
endless smears and hyperbolic claims against Trump voters, painting them
as murderers and traitors and framing the Capitol incursion as a
historical event of carnage and nefarious intent equal to America's
darkest days — the Civil War, 9/11, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Yet
the FBI was on the ground stirring things up the whole time.
Attorney General Merrick Garland pushed this false claim farther by standing before the nation and declaring that
the nation's greatest threat comes from Americans who advocate "the
superiority of the white race." As proof for this outrageous assertion,
the highest law enforcement officer in the land pointed repeatedly to
January 6. Clearly, the FBI and DOJ have decided that targeting
President Trump for five years is no longer sufficient. All Trump
voters must be destroyed now, too.
If that doesn't tank the FBI's reputation, then what possibly could?
Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on Wednesday called for FBI Director Christopher Wray to “fully disclose” any role the FBI may have played in instigating the breach of the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
Gaetz’s request comes after a Revolver News bombshell report on Monday suggested FBI informants, and/or undercover federal agents were heavily involved in the planning of the riot, and seemed to be the most violent participants of the riot. According to Revolver News, there are over 20 unindicted co-conspirators mentioned in the Oath Keepers indictments who played various roles in the “conspiracy.” These individuals have not been charged, even though they engaged in some cases in much worse activities than the other rioters who are now languishing in the D.C. “deplorable” jail.
We at Revolver News have noticed a pattern from our now months-long investigation into 1/6 — and in particular from our meticulous study of the charging documents related to those indicted. In many cases the unindicted co-conspirators appear to be much more aggressive and egregious participants in the very so-called “conspiracy” serving as the basis for charging those indicted.
The question immediately arises as to why this is the case, and forces us to consider whether certain individuals are being protected from indictment because they were involved in 1/6 as undercover operatives or confidential informants for a federal agency.
In his letter to the FBI Director, Gaetz asks the three key questions posed by Revolver news.
Revolver News is willing to address the matter directly in the following three questions:
1. In the year leading up to 1/6 and during 1/6 itself, to what extent were the three primary militia groups (the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys, and the Three Percenters) that the FBI, DOJ, Pentagon and network news have labeled most responsible for planning and executing a Capitol attack on 1/6 infiltrated by agencies of the federal government, or informants of said agencies?
2. Exactly how many federal undercover agents or confidential informants were present at the Capitol or in the Capitol during the infamous “siege” and what roles did they play (merely passive informants or active instigators)?
3. Finally, of all of the unindicted co-conspirators referenced in the charging documents of those indicted for crimes on 1/6, how many worked as a confidential informant or as an undercover operative for the federal government (FBI, Army Counterintelligence, etc.)?
Congressman Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) on Tuesday had the opportunity to query Wray about the suppressed surveillance footage from Jan 6th, the “assassination” of unarmed Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, although, predictably, he received no satisfactory answers. Gosar also took the opportunity to enter into the record Revolver News’ explosive report about the FBI’s infiltration of the riot.
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson also covered the Revolver News story in his opening monologue, Tuesday night.
“We know that the government is hiding the identity of many law enforcement officers who were present at the Capitol on January 6—not just the one who killed Ashli Babbitt,” Carlson said.
According to the government’s own court filings, those law enforcement officers participated in the riot, sometimes in violent ways. We know that because without fail, the government has thrown the book at most people who were in the Capitol on January 6. There was a nationwide dragnet to find them, and many of them are still in solitary confinement tonight. But strangely, some of the key people who participated on January 6 have not been charged.
Carlson noted that the two people responsible for organizing the riot have not been charged with anything.
“Why is that?” he asked. “You know why. They were almost certainly working for the FBI. So FBI operatives were organizing the attack on the Capitol on January 6, according to government documents.”
