The Continued Awakening: The FBI is the Enforcement Arm of The Fourth Branch of Government

Sundance reporting for Conservative Treehouse

More people are awakening to the uncomfortable reality that the FBI is a domestic enforcement mechanism for the Fourth Branch of Government.  The most recent awakening is being driven by the brazen FBI raid on Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe with the intent to leak the information to their allies at the New York Times.

Make no mistake, this is one long continuum of FBI activity that is only growing increasingly more obvious as they consider themselves unaccountable to anyone except their own ideological interests.   Who is the check in the U.S. justice system to provide oversight over the FBI?  The uncomfortable answer is no one.

Remember, the oft reported relationships surrounding the divisions within the Fourth Branch:  ♦The CIA uses The Washington Post. ♦The State Dept uses CNN, and ♦the FBI uses The New York Times.

James O’Keefe is currently in a lawsuit against The New York Times.  The FBI raids the home of O’Keefe and then passes along the confidential communication between Project Veritas and their legal team to the New York Times.  With a large audience, Tim Poole is realizing what CTH readers have been discussing for a decade:

Absolute power ends with absolute corruption.  The day after Christopher Steele appeared on ABC news to construct the defensive position against the information later released in an indictment by John Durham of ‘Trump-Russia’ conspiracy promoter Igor Danchenko.   The very next day, the FBI raids the home of Oleg Deripaska.

Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska was the former employer of Christopher Steele {Go Deep}.  The timing of the raid was transparently political.  George Stephanopoulos interviewed Steele, because the Clinton operation in 2016 was at risk.  Stephanopoulos’s interview was risk mitigation.  Deripaska’s raid the next day was cover.

The FBI raid on O’Keefe was done for the same ideological purpose as the raid on Deripaska.  This is all one long continuum.  All of this is coordinated by political operatives using the DOJ and FBI as their enforcement mechanism.

October 19th, Representative Thomas Massie questions AG Merrick Garland about the FBI involvement in the January 6 DC protest.   October 20th, Chris Steele appears on ABC to shape a defensive narrative around Clinton’s involvement.  October 21st, the FBI raids Oleg Deripaska.  Two weeks later, November 4th, the off-year elections are held, and the DC system is delivered a stunning rebuke.  The next day, November 5th, the FBI raids Project Veritas and leaks the information obtained to the New York Times.

Washington DC houses the Fourth Branch of Government, an unaccountable and abusive control vehicle; rusted to the core with metastatic corruption.  Unfortunately, Bill Barr was the bondo application, and John Durham appears to be the spray paint. The clear objective is to cover up the corruption from public view.  The FBI is to Washington DC what the FSB represents to Moscow.

♦ For all the Tim Pooles of the world now starting to see this, let me remind you of where this is going.  The DOJ and FBI now claim “anti-law enforcement violent extremists – pose the “greatest threat” domestically this year and likely into 2022″, the narrative continues.  WHY?….

Perhaps I am wrong, but the only time I can recall in modern U.S. history that aggressive and illegal federal activity was halted mid-effort, was the example of the Clive Bundy ranch in 2014.  Armed citizens forced federal authorities, including the FBI, to back down.   In response to their loss, former AG Eric Holder vowed to revive “a domestic terrorism task force.”  Contemplate that response against the 2021 statements of the FBI saying domestic violent extremists (DVE’s) represent the greatest threat.  Can you see the connective tissue?

From the worldview of the DOJ/FBI, law-abiding U.S. citizens  – pushed to the point of taking up defensive arms against federal agents – are a threat.  Ergo, the newest definition of “Domestic Violent Extremists, or DVEs”, to define who the FBI view as their most substantive enemy.  Two years after the Bundy Ranch standoff, the FBI shot and killed LaVoy Finicum, fulfilling their promise to eliminate extremists as defined by their worldview.

The FBI was fully aware of the Boston Marathon bombers, the Tsarnaev brothers, before they executed their plot.  The FBI took no action.  The FBI knew about the San Bernardino terrorists, specifically Tasfeen Malik, and were monitoring her phone calls and communications before her and Syed Farook executed their attack killing 14 people and leaving 22 others seriously injured.  The FBI took no action.  The FBI knew Colorado grocery store shooter Ahmad Alissa before he executed his attack.  The FBI took no action.

The FBI knew in advance of the Pulse Nightclub shooter (Omar Mateen) and were tipped off by the local sheriff. The FBI knew in advance of the San Bernardino Terrorists (Tashfeen Malik). The FBI knew in advance of the Boston Marathon Bombers (the Tsarnaev brothers) tipped off by Russians.  The FBI knew in advance of the Parkland High School shooter (Nikolas Cruz). The FBI knew in advance of the Fort Hood shooter (Nidal Hasan), and the FBI knew in advance of Colorado grocery store shooter Ahmad al-Aliwi Alissa.  The FBI took no action.

Consider the case of the first recorded ISIS attack on U.S. soil in Garland, Texas in 2015.  The FBI not only knew the shooters (Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi) in advance, the FBI took the shooters to the venue and were standing only a few yards away when Simpson and Soofi opened fire.  Yes, you read that correctly – the FBI took the terrorists to the event and then watched it unfold.  “An FBI trainer suggested in an interview with “60 Minutes” that, had the attack been bigger, the agency’s numerous ties to the shooter would have led to a congressional investigation.”

Remember, shortly before the 2018 mid-term election, when Ceasar Syoc – a man living in his van – was caught sending “energetic material that can become combustible when subjected to heat or friction”, or what FBI Director Christopher Wray called “not hoax devices“?   Remember how sketchy everything about that was, including the child-like perpetrator telling a judge later than he was trying to walk back his guilty plea because he was tricked into signing a confession for a crime he did not create.

Or more recently, the goofball plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer that involved 18 suspects, twelve of them actually working for the FBI as the plot was hatched?  And we cannot forget the January 6th. DC protest turned insurrection effort, which is clearly looking like an FBI inspired and coordinated effort.

Have we forgotten the Atlanta “Olympic Park Bombing”, and the FBI intentionally setting up transparently innocent, Richard Jewel?

Then, there’s the entirety of the FBI conduct in “Spygate”, the demonstrably evident FBI operation to conduct political surveillance against Donald Trump using their investigative authorities; and the downstream consequences of a massive institutional effort to cover up one of the biggest justice department scandals in the history of our nation.   The original effort against Donald Trump used massive resources from the DOJ and FBI.  Heck, the coverup operation using the Mueller/Weissmann special counsel used more than 50 investigative FBI agents alone.

And of course, the FBI still had 13 extra agents available to rush to a NASCAR racetrack to investigate a garage door pull-down rope that might have been perceived as a noose; but the serial rape of hundreds of teenage girls, eh, not-so-much effort – even when they are standing in front of the FBI begging for help.

[At this point, I am increasingly convinced, by evidence, the FBI themselves are the perpetrators involved in sex trafficking, human smuggling and abduction as part of their operational mission.]

It is important to realize exactly what happened in the case of the Olympic gymnasts and the rape of hundreds of teenage girls.  When the victims and parents told the FBI about what Larry Nassar was doing, the FBI did not bungle the investigation, the FBI did not investigate.

But worse…. after the parents kept coming back to the FBI to ask what was going on; and report that other parents were now reporting that new rapes and assaults were ongoing; the FBI told those parents an investigation was ongoing.  Except it wasn’t. The FBI was lying.

As the FBI was telling the victims they were investigating Larry Nassar, the FBI was doing no such thing.  The FBI was lying to the victims and their families.  The FBI was not taking any action whatsoever to address the multitude of claims against Nassar.

After the FBI was caught lying about their conduct, they then lied to the internal oversight, the OIG, about everything surrounding their conduct.    The FBI didn’t make a mistake, or drop the proverbial ball, they intentionally and specifically maintained the sexual exploitation of teenage girls by doing absolutely nothing with the complaints they received.   This is not misconduct, this is purposeful.

Then, as if to apply salt to the open wound of severe FBI politicization….what did the FBI do with the Hunter Biden laptop?

[Notice I’ve set the issue of the disappearing Huma Abedin/Anthony Weiner laptop –in the known custody of the FBI– over there in the corner, next to missing investigation of the Awan brothers.]

♦My point is this…

What the Federal Security Service (FSB) is to the internal security of the Russian state; so too is the FBI in performing the same function for the U.S. federal government.

The FBI is a U.S. version of the Russian “State Police”; and the FBI is deployed -almost exclusively- to attack domestic enemies of those who control government; while they protect the interests of the U.S. Fourth Branch of Government.  That is the clear and accurate domestic prism to contextualize their perceived mission: “domestic violent extremists pose the greatest threat” to their objective.

Put another way, “We The People”, who fight against government abuse and usurpation, are the FBI’s actual and literal enemy.

Let me be very clear with another brutally obvious example.  Antifa could not exist as an organization; capable to organize and carry out violent attacks against their targets; without the full support of the FBI.   If the FBI wanted to arrest members of Antifa, who are actually conducting violence, they could do it easily – with little effort.

It is the absence of any action by the FBI toward Antifa, that tells us the FBI is enabling that violent extremist behavior to continue.  Once you accept that transparent point of truth; then, you realize the FBI definition of domestic violent extremism is something else entirely.

The FBI is not a law enforcement or investigative division of the U.S. Department of Justice.  The FBI is a political weapon of a larger institution that is now focused almost entirely toward  supporting a radical communist agenda to destroy civil society in the United States.

Anyone who continues to push the fraudulent “honorable FBI rank and file talking point”, is, at this point in history, willfully and purposefully operating to deceive the American people on behalf of government interests who are intent on destroying us.  It is not a difference of opinion any longer.  It is a matter of just accepting what is staring us directly in the face….

…Learn How The 4th Branch of Government Operates  – HERE !

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Speculating About Trump’s Future

Trump’s move into high tech may be more significant for Trump’s political future than the possible effects of the Virginia election.

by Paul Gottfried for American Greatness

In a jubilant commentary for this website, Conrad Black announced that Youngkin’s victory in Virginia “paved the way” for a Trump presidential win in 2024:

Republican NeverTrumpers and non-Trumpers claimed to see in Youngkin the possibility of a non-Trump Republican returned to the White House. This was Trumpism without Trump, which has always been a fraud unless Trump does not seek the nomination. But the facts are that over 80 percent of Youngkin’s supporters are also Trump supporters and if primary elections were held in the Republican Party now, Trump would win all of them.

Any observer of this month’s election result in Virginia needn’t be a Trump enthusiast to notice that Black is mostly right. The National Review-NeverTrumpers, led by their editor, conjured up a “bad night for Trump” in Virginia, where Glenn Youngkin won the governorship while carefully staying away from Trump. But this account is open to question. Although the triumphant Youngkin did not invite Trump to campaign for him in a state that the former president lost by 10 points last year, he also didn’t repudiate his endorsement. Further, while campaigning in southwestern Virginia and in Richmond suburbs where Trump did well last year, Youngkin narrowed his distance rhetorically from someone who remains by far the most popular Republican presidential candidate. 

Rich Lowry makes much of the fact that Youngkin won in Southside and southwestern Virginia by higher totals than Trump. Supposedly this proves Youngkin “needed to get them out [the MAGA voters] and did, without Trump campaigning for him and barely mentioning his name.” But Youngkin won in those areas as the beneficiary of Trump’s exuberant recommendation and after eight months of a disastrous Democratic administration. One can’t omit from consideration that Trump’s successor has gone down to a 38 percent approval rating and his vice president to an even more dismal 28 percent.

Trump did not have these factors working in his favor when he won in areas that Youngkin won by more. According to polls taken while the Virginia election was still going on, Trump increased his popularity among Virginia voters since last year by only a few percentage points. Meanwhile, Biden has gone from majority support to becoming an object of contempt.  Virginia voters on Election Day were sending an emphatic message of disapproval to Washington. In areas where Trump won, the voters were even more energized than before to vote against the Democrats.

Lowry is also not being credible when he tells us, “Trump’s magic was to a large extent based on running against a very unpopular candidate and in a race where he could lean on the Electoral College.” As Patrick Basham shows in a detailed article for Chronicles “Biden’s Inexplicable Victory,” Trump picked up 12.1 million more votes in 2020 than he garnered against Hillary Clinton. According to Basham, so many statistical improbabilities characterized the electoral results, e.g., looking at where Trump won overwhelmingly in places that every presidential winner captured for many decades before, that we are justified in questioning last year’s official figures.

As far as I can determine, Trump did not lose support as a result of the Virginia contest but may also not have gained much because of it. His popularity as a Republican presidential contender for 2024 has hovered around 80 percent,which may have been where he was before Youngkin’s victory. Much will depend on what he does going forward. His decision to launch his own social media platform, after high tech magnates threw him off their platforms to destroy him politically, was an excellent idea.

But how this venture turns out will depend on how Trump develops it. He should not use his new media opportunity to voice his unending complaints about election fraud in 2020. That fraud may well have occurred, but prospective listeners may not want to listen to him rehash old laments. Others should state his case with appropriate documentation at opportune times. Trump or Jason Miller, who is heading the project, also should not fill his platform with daily celebrities borrowed from Fox News or other Republican media outlets. This is not the best way to build up one’s discussions. Trump and Miller should be looking for new voices and faces to represent their populist message.

Sixty percent of Republicans already express eagerness to avail themselves of the Trump media. It is up to Trump to give these devotees exactly what he promised, when he claimed to be “fighting cancel culture, defending free speech, challenging social media, and creating a marketplace of ideas.” This move into high tech may be more significant for Trump’s political future than the possible effects of the Virginia election. Of course, whatever happens with the new platform will have no effect on NeverTrumpers. They will go on fuming over someone whom they are paid to denounce, no matter what the future may bring him.

Don’t Cede the Streets to Violent Communists

Make no mistake about it: when these rioters whip themselves into a frenzy over the next dead criminal - and they will - we will once again be on our own.

by Peter D’Abrosca for American Greatness

An annoying number of commentators on the political Right are insisting that Kyle Rittenhouse shouldn’t have been out in the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin on the night of August 25, 2020. 

Take the perennially wrong Quin Hillyer over at the Washington Examiner, for example. 

“Rittenhouse is at clear moral fault for the two deaths. He went into Kenosha that night expecting trouble, and he grievously exacerbated the trouble he found,” he lamented in a Wednesday opinion column called “Don’t cry for Kenosha Killer Kyle Rittenhouse.” 

To be fair to Hillyer, publishing contrarian opinions for rage clicks is his brand. It’s what keeps him paid, and thus, contriving lame takes will forever be his lot in life. 

But keep in mind that Hillyer and others like him are also card-carrying members of the “well-regulated militia” club. These are the “constitutional conservative” types (who have managed to conserve nothing, ever) that we’re talking about here. 

It seems to me that Kenosha Kyle was simply exercising his Second Amendment rights without infringement, as strictly dictated by the Bill of Rights. One could argue that he was legally too young to carry a weapon at the time of the shootings, a Class A misdemeanor in Wisconsin, but I’m having trouble squaring the “constitutional conservatives’” fawning adoration of the phrase “shall not be infringed” with their messaging on Rittenhouse. It doesn’t make any sense. 

By the way, Kenosha Kyle is not “at clear moral fault for the two deaths,” unless people like Hillyer are prepared to argue that the moral thing to do when faced with imminent death, as Kenosha Kyle clearly was, is to roll over and die. And let it be known for the record that one of the dead Communists was a pedophile. The other was a domestic abuser. While we’re arguing morality, those two details ought to be included in the discussion. 

Never mind that, though. There’s a more basic point to be argued here. 

Nobody, especially not anyone on the political Right, is required to cede the streets of their communities to violent Communists who intend to burn them to the ground. Kyle Rittenhouse and his friends had as much of a right to be out on those streets as the violent Communists, as the reporters, as the casual observers, and as anyone else did. 

People who claim otherwise might as well thumbtack an invitation on their foreheads for Antifa to come riot in their neighborhoods. And don’t worry that the thumbtack might injure their frontal lobes causing brain damage, as they clearly have no use for that organ anyway.

If the authorities are unwilling to protect our livelihoods, our property, and our lives, it is our responsibility to step up and do it ourselves. Absent law enforcement to quell violent riots, the only outcome will be total leftist anarchy. If defending our communities ourselves or watching enraged, misfit delinquents take a torch to them are our only options, give me the 17-year-old with the AR-15. I’d choose him every single time.   

If they so choose, the Washington think-tankers and opinion columnists can let their businesses burn down. Except they don’t have to worry about that. They’re busy pontificating on the internet from their Beltway cubicles, their hands uncalloused from an honest day’s work. 

Perhaps after more than a year of relative peace in the streets, the pontificators have forgotten quite how violent the cities were in the summer of 2020. Nobody in Washington has ever been accused of having a long memory. Remember when the neoconservatives plunged us into the Iraq war? They sure don’t!   

This isn’t the space to recap all of the violence, which is public record. But there was a lot of fighting, burning, smashing, breaking, looting, and even killing during the 2020 “Summer of Love.” There were “autonomous zones” where street thugs declared their city blocks sovereign from the United States. That ought to have elicited at least some kind of response from federal law enforcement, if no one else. It didn’t. 

Make no mistake about it: when these rioters whip themselves into a frenzy over the next dead criminal—and they will—we will once again be on our own. 

Do you think the Biden Administration is going to do anything to stop them? Or the FBI that has all but deputized these black-clad Marxists to be their soldiers in that agency’s war on the Right? Of course not. Joe Biden doesn’t know what planet he’s on, and the FBI hates you. 

Local law enforcement, I’m sad to say, will likely be just as worthless. The people in charge of these contentious cities and suburbs are nearly always Democrats, ready to give a stand-down order to local police at a moment’s notice. 

Whether Rittenhouse is acquitted—and he should be—does not matter. 

Don’t turn your community over to the mob. 

Biden Derangement Syndrome

George Will, once called “the best writer on any subject,” is the latest victim to this specter now stalking the land.

by Lloyd Billingsley for American Greatness

In the battle for NeverTrump stardom, the fiercest fighters have been those once known as leading conservatives. Consider, for example, former Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, who contended that Virginia Republican Glenn Youngkin “fundamentally is unwilling to break with Trump and Trumpism.” On the other hand, with Joe Biden, “I agree with things this administration’s done, distinct things Biden has done or Biden’s proposed,” without much detail as to the “things.” 

Consider also David Frum of The Atlantic, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush, credited with the “axis of evil” pronouncement. Frum, who supported Hillary Clinton in 2016, is on record that Trump was “a president who plausibly owes his office at least in part to a clandestine intervention by a hostile foreign intelligence service”–classic Russia hoax boilerplate. In Frum’s view, Trump got “favorable, flattering news coverage” and “the mistakes are precisely the reason people should trust the media.” 

Consider now George Will, once hailed by the Washington Post as the “best writer, any subject,” and the “dean of conservative journalists” by Andrew Ferguson in the Weekly Standard. Will waxed eloquent about the “studied elegance” of Barack Obama, a contrast to “Donald Trump’s visceral vulgarity.” 

In 2020, Will voted for Joe Biden without reservation. A year later, the NeverTrump stalwart shows evidence of Biden Derangement Syndrome (BDS), the belief that one of the least distinguished men in American political history could be an exemplary president. In his November 5 column, “Revived or comatose? Biden’s presidency one year from now,” Will takes issue with Biden’s “you name it” to governance, but there’s more to the man. 

Biden’s “incompetence in Afghanistan,” Will contends, is a “stain on an administration that promised a restoration of executive branch professionalism.” The second problem is the southern border, which has “vexed many administrations.” Not much detail on Biden’s essentially open-border policy, monetary rewards to illegals, and such. Will quickly moves on.

“Biden’s third problem,” he writes, “which is his insufficient aptitude for the performative dimension of the presidency, can be surmounted if his aides will serve him, and the nation, better. It is political malpractice for them to put him in situations that require skills that he—always garrulous, rarely fluent—has never possessed.”

Readers have a right to wonder if “insufficient aptitude for the performative dimension of the presidency,” means Biden is not capable of executing the duties of the presidency. That job requires skills Biden has “never possessed,” but for Will the problem is not Biden’s. 

The “political malpractice” comes from aides who put Biden in situations that require the skill Biden has never possessed. Trouble is, nobody voted for those “aides,” shorthand for Biden’s handlers on the far reaches of the Left. Will does not name the nefarious aides but dares to compare Biden with previous presidents. 

In regard to “Silent Cal” Coolidge, “Biden should consider this theory: The less we see of presidents, the more likely we are to admire them.” That would seem to be the strategy of Biden’s aides. They keep him under wraps as much as possible but his poll numbers plunge and across America people yell “Fuck Joe Biden!” for the cameras. Will also compares Biden with a more recent president, the man who played a major role in taking down Hitler’s National Socialist regime. 

“Dwight D. Eisenhower was sometimes syntactically challenged when speaking extemporaneously,” Will contends, “and sometimes his foggy sentences disguised his guile.” Readers might want to review Eisenhower’s farewell speech for signs of fog. 

“Throughout America’s adventure in free government our basic purposes have been to keep the peace; to foster progress in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity and integrity among people and among nations,” Eisenhower said. “A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction.” 

On the other hand, “In the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” 

It’s hard to find anything comparable in the record of Biden, who never served in the military. In 1987 Joe Biden plagiarized a speech from pro-Soviet British Marxist Neil Kinnock. In 2020, Joe Biden proclaimed that America’s primary adversaries, the Communist Chinese, were “not bad folks.” 

To adapt a phrase from Ray Bradbury’s afterword to Fahrenheit 451, Joe Biden has never said or written anything that would make a sub-moron’s mouth twitch, except perhaps in derision. Recall Biden’s proclamation that “we choose truth over facts,” and confusion about his own location. As for “visceral vulgarity,” recall Joe Biden telling an autoworker “You’re full of shit!” After nearly half a century in politics, the Delaware Democrat ought to know. 

George Will, best writer on any subject, concedes that Joe Biden “never possessed” the skills to be president. George Will, dean of conservative columnists, still believes that a “politically buoyant” Joe Biden could be “remembered fondly as the bridge to a better politics.” Readers might see Biden Derangement Syndrome  as subsidiary of a broader dynamic. 

“The problem with the modern world is that stupidity has begun to think,” wrote Jean Cocteau. And as William F. Buckley titled his December 3, 1981 “Firing Line” episode, “Why are our intellectuals so dumb?” 

COVID-19: Austria to impose lockdown on all unvaccinated people from midnight

 

Austria is putting all unvaccinated residents into lockdown from midnight on Sunday, the government has said.

Anyone over the age of 12 who has not been double-jabbed will only be allowed to leave their homes for work, school, exercise and buying essential supplies. 

The lockdown will affect about two million of Austria's 8.9 million population and last for 10 days before being reviewed.

On Friday, the government announced plans to lockdown the unvaccinated in two regions - Upper Austria and Salzburg - but this has now been extended to the rest of the country.  

Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg told reporters in Vienna on Sunday: "It's our job as the government of Austria to protect the people. Therefore we decided that starting Monday... there will be a lockdown for the unvaccinated."  

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-austria-to-impose-lockdown-on-all-unvaccinated-people-from-midnight-12468578  

Media Calls for 'Rules' Treating Republicans as Not 'Normal'

Nick Arama reporting for RedState

While we see media going to all kinds of Orwellian lengths to defend the failures of Joe Biden, the opposite side of the coin is how much media will spin reality to attack Republicans.

Now, we’ve seen bias when it comes to media. But the Washington Post’s Jen Rubin exceeds bias and moves right into outright lunacy with this mad rant at Republicans.

First, she falsely claims that the Republican Party has been endorsing violence. But then she gets to the meat of what she wants to say — that the media has to have “rules” for how they treat Republicans. Now, I will give you a “Jen Rubin” warning going in. You’ve been warned.

“You have to have new ground rules for the media,” Rubin whines. “They have to stop treating Republicans like normal politicians. They are not normal politicians … This is a party that spends its entire time cooking up ridiculous culture memes & fanning violence & coming up with outright lies.” Then the MSNBC host completely endorses the crazy idea, shaking her head ‘yes’ and telling Rubin she’s completely right.

Rubin is not living in reality. Notice she even includes as somehow offensive that Republicans dare to defend parents who are being targeted by the DOJ. The Biden Administration is just concerned about violence, Rubin claims, although the DOJ and Attorney General Merrick Garland can’t seem to present data supporting that there is violence justifying their intervention.

Has Rubin been missing for the last few years, as Democrats like Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) have encouraged violence against Republican officials?

>Was she paying attention when Republicans were harassed and attacked because Democrats demonized them in the fight over healthcare, and the GOP baseball practice was shot up by a Bernie bro? Did she miss the radical leftist attacks on our society over the past two years that were downplayed by the media and Democrats? Did she notice the DNC endorsing BLM at their virtual convention last summer, or Kamala Harris and Biden staffers contributing to a fund to bail out people during the rioting? Yes, let’s really talk about who is behind violence here.

Beyond that, when did you ever think that you’d have an alleged journalist wanting to come down in favor of restrictions on speech? And while she’s talking about “fascism,” does she get that imposing rules to limit the speech of the ruling party smacks a lot like creeping fascism? But she’s saying that quiet part out loud — the thing that media would like to do — not allow the dissident opponents to speak.

How does she think Americans will view this take? And it’s not just her take — it’s the MSNBC host completely agreeing with the idea. Do we really want to talk about who is upending norms here? Democrats and media would not fair well in that analysis.

Ted Cruz Thrashes the Biden Admin for Their Failure to Adhere to the Law

Nick Arama reporting for RedState

The 5th Circuit took Joe Biden to the woodshed on his “workaround” of using an OSHA rule to impose a vaccine mandate on private businesses with 100 or more employees in their ruling upholding their stay against the imposition of the rule.

In so doing, among the things the 5th Circuit looked at was the intent behind what the Biden Administration did. They noted Biden was against a federal mandate before he was for it, and that they had hardly been treating the need for a mandate like the “emergency” they claimed – not planning on actually imposing it until almost two years after the virus started to hit in the U.S. The Court basically called it an excuse to impose the vaccine on more people. The Court even pointed to the Ron Klain retweet of MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle calling it the “ultimate workaround” as an indication of the Biden team’s intent.

Now some predicted that back on September 10, that the courts were likely not to miss Ron Klain’s tweet, and could look at that when considering the intent of the Biden Administration, including this site and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).

Here’s what I wrote at the time:

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) saw that retweet and then pointed out how this shows intent which would likely be considered in the upcoming legal battle over this mandate by federal courts, that Klain had just stepped in it, big time. “Important,” Cruz tweeted. “Foolish RT from WH chief of staff. He said the quiet part out loud. Biden admin knows it’s likely illegal (like the eviction moratorium) but they don’t care.”

Cruz noted today that he called what was going to happen, retweeting his spokesperson’s tweet about saying it last year.

Cruz also dispensed with Dan Rather’s effort to spin the smackdown that the 5th Circuit gave to Joe Biden.

It says a lot about how incompetent the Biden Administration is that Ron Klain didn’t understand the possible consequences of his retweet. But more problematic was that they didn’t care anyway.

The point that Cruz made back in September is an important one to remember. The Biden Administration knew that the eviction moratorium was likely illegal but Biden himself acknowledged they were simply doing it to buy more time and they didn’t care about disregarding the law. They know it was wrong to do the vaccine mandate this way — they acknowledged it was the ‘ultimate workaround.” Previously Biden even said they would not do it, and the White House said was “not the role of the federal government.”

As we noted earlier, even after the 5th Circuit’s initial decision to grant the stay last week, in which the Court said there were “grave statutory and constitutional issues,” the Biden administration still said they were advising businesses to go ahead with the mandate, disregarding the clear indication from the Court. With that move, the Biden Administration revealed the point was to stampede the businesses into doing what they wanted, regardless of the law or the facts. They didn’t care if that left the businesses hanging out on a limb with the consequences of ordering their employees to get vaccinated, or if that hurt their businesses or cost them employees. That harm means nothing to the Biden Administration. It’s all about pursuing Biden’s goal.