A Cry of Defiance Against the Deep State

Hollywood needs more people with the courage 

of the crew who made “My Son Hunter.”

by Mark Judge for American Greatness

In Witness to Hope, his magisterial biography of Saint Pope John Paul II, George Weigel describes an incredible scene about art in defiance of tyranny involving the young future pope in 1941. Karol Wojtyla, then 21, had founded the Rhapsodic Theater, part of the Polish Cultural Resistance under German occupation. In Gift and Mystery, Pope John Paul wrote, “it was essential to keep these theatrical get-togethers secret; otherwise we risked serious punishment from the occupying forces, even deportation to the concentration camps.” The company had over 100 rehearsals and 22 performances of seven plays.

At one point when the company was rehearsing in Krakow, the sound of Nazi tanks could be heard approaching. As the sound got louder, Wojtyla kept raising his voice as he read dialogue from a scene. The sound of the tanks grew louder and louder, and the young actor met the clanging with his own powerful delivery. Finally, the tanks passed by, and Wojtyla calmly continued on with the scene.

There is an analogy to be made between this episode and “My Son Hunter,” a film that will be savaged by the media and the Left, who will try and smother it. Just as Karol Wojtyla would not be defeated by the sound of the tanks, the questions and facts raised by this film—questions that the media will try and shout down—are deeply disturbing and need to be addressed. Director Robert Davi, writer Brian Godawa, and producer Phelim McAleer all deserve credit for their bravery in bringing this film to the screen. This is genuine resistance, not the phony Hollywood brand.

“My Son Hunter” is a drama about Hunter Biden, the president’s son. The very existence of the film is remarkable, considering the censorious and socialist forces—including those in the media—that would love to see it shut down. 

Of the questions the film raises, one of the most important has already been answered. Yes, Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop was real. He left it in a repair shop in Delaware in 2020, and it was full of shocking information about Hunter’s business deals and drug escapades. The media ran a disinformation campaign, ironically claiming that the laptop was a Russian disinformation opp. A horrible montage at the end of the film shows one cable news pundit after another lying about the origins of the laptop. This is a central focus of the film, zeroing in on questions about Hunter’s influence-peddling in China and Ukraine.

“My Son Hunter” is uneven as a film (the score is sometimes comic when it needs to be serious), but it is generally good and moving. This is particularly true when it focuses on the relationship between the two leads. Laurence Fox brilliantly plays Hunter, the boozing, womanizing, crack-huffing son of Barack Obama’s vice president. Emma Gojkovik is his love interest, Grace Anderson, a stripper who meets Hunter at a wild party but develops feelings and a kind of pity for the uncontrollable addict. 

“It is full of true stories and dodgy dealing and corruption in some very strange places . . . in this case truth is stranger than fiction and it makes the movie all the more watchable,” producer Phelim McAleer told the Daily Mail when asked how much of the movie is based in truth. Screenwriter Brian Godawa said: “I drew dialogue from actual incidents or documents, transcripts or emails reported in the media as the base language of Hunter and Joe’s characters, many of them actual quoted lines. And many of them were taken from Hunter’s actual emails from his laptop. I drew from Hunter’s eulogy for his brother Beau for his own description of his relationship in the movie.”

That last part, about Beau, is key. One of the most touching scenes in “My Son Hunter” is when Hunter opens up to Grace about the losses he has suffered in his life—the death of his mother and sister in a 1972 car accident and then the loss of his brother Beau to brain cancer in 2015. This is a lot of trauma for one person, and Fox and Gojkovik play these scenes so beautifully that you almost feel sorry for Hunter. You also understand what so many addicts do—that behind so much of the crazy behavior is the frantic attempt to bury pain.

That said, for some of us, that meant drinking ourselves into a lost weekend, not making billion-dollar deals with foreign governments—or having a relationship with your dead brother’s surviving wife. One scene explores the genesis of Hunter’s board seat on Burisma Holdings LLC, a Ukrainian natural gas company, by introducing former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and his Minister of Natural Resources Mykola Zlochevsky, who co-founded Burisma. After talking about their need to forge connections with the U.S. government through then-Vice President Joe Biden, Zlochevsky and his associate are dramatized discussing with Hunter his role on the board while they all three are having sex with prostitutes. “I believe that my assistance and consulting with Bursima over matters of transparency, corporate governance and responsibility will benefit both the economy and the people of Ukraine,” Hunter says as he, uh, takes care of business.

Gojkovik is just wonderful in her role as Grace, the moral core of the movie. She goes from simply doing an unpleasant prostitute’s job to dating Hunter to slowly realizing that the Biden family is corrupt—and that the press should know about it. In one depressing scene, Grace meets with a reporter to give him information from the laptop, only to have this independent thinker from the fourth estate promptly and forcefully tell her that there is no way he is going to pursue the story of the Bidens. It’s not exactly “All the President’s Men.” Dejected but knowing that she wants to salvage her soul, Grace walks away and back to her father, a lawyer who opens his arms to the daughter who got involved with the wrong crowd.

Finally, special mention should go to John James, who plays Joseph Robinette Biden, the nasty, crooked, and demented leader of these United States. From his hair-sniffing to his tall tales about Corn Pop to his smug cockiness about the media being corrupt and in his pocket, it’s a very funny and all-too-real performance. Hollywood needs more people with the courage of the crew who made “My Son Hunter.” This film deserves your support.

X22, And we Know, and more- Sept 6

 

I saw something amazing today: For the 1st time ever in, can't remember how long because well, it's been too long! A cast member finally mentioned Hetty in a post. Today in 1 of his IG posts, Eric name dropped Linda when he popped into his trailer.

Just name dropping the name of a co worker that many fans want to see again after so long, is quite rare! And it kind of begs the question if it really was just a casual mention, or a sly hint of something that might happen in the near future. 😉

Here's tonight's news:

The FBI Exposed

One man’s experience demonstrates how the FBI needs to be exposed for what it has become and how it has betrayed the nation and its very own motto.

by Theodore Roosevelt Malloch for American Greatness

It saddens many of us that the FBI, unfortunately, has become more akin to the KGB than the independent and efficient arm of the Department of Justice it was intended to be. To the surprise and horror of the American people, among it’s many failures, the FBI has repeatedly failed to protect Americans (remember 9/11) and the U.S. Constitution.

The FBI has framed good patriotic citizens, misled the FISA court, doctored evidence, planted materials, leaked confidential documents and accounts to their friends in the left-wing media, shown bias and favoritism, failed to prosecute their political allies, engaged in censorship, election interference and rigging, spied on people, suppressed information, used a fake dossier, and utilized its’ undercover agents to coax people into acts of insurrection or kidnapping. And now it has attempted yet another coup of President Trump with its illegal and illegitimate raid on his home. All of this for one, and only one, reason: to insure he can’t run for office again and finish what he started in his first term.

For over a generation the FBI has been running downhill and exposing itself as corrupt, incompetent, and at times, even criminal. Look at its executives on top—Louis Freeh (1993-2001), Robert Mueller (2001-2013), James Comey (2013-2017), Andrew McCabe (2017), and Christopher Wray (2017-present). This is a stupefyingly horrible band of leaders who, together, have destroyed the Bureau. A simple change of leadership, while necessary, will not work to fix a badly broken system and thoroughly rotten culture.

The motto of the FBI is “Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity,” which has become a farce. The truth is we no longer trust the FBI.

When I was deputy executive secretary (ambassadorial level) at the United Nations in Geneva from 1988-1992, the wall fell and the geopolitical realities completely shifted. During the end of the Cold War my office was bugged, my house was bugged, my car was bugged, and I had a death threat. It wasn’t Tanganyika. It was the KGB. Consider the reality recently for us Trump supporters—it wasn’t the KGB or another adversary up to no good. It was our own FBI.

It is hardly surprising now to hear many conservative and law-abiding people, as well as some brave political leaders, say the FBI should be broken up. Its abilities could be reassigned, in parts, to other federal agencies or cut from appropriations altogether. It could be radically downsized. It may be the only way to deal with what has become an extrajudicial, politicized, and rogue agency—totally out of control and lacking oversight. It seems every day we get more and more evidence to that effect—and there are whistleblowers galore.

My Personal Experience with the FBI

I have had only one set of dealings with the FBI. On March 27, 2018 I flew on a long international flight into Boston’s Logan International airport. I was to connect to a domestic flight enroute to my in-law’s house, just outside of Cleveland, Ohio for the Easter holidays.
After exiting the plane, I was escorted to a special line for passport control. There, I was formally detained and asked to wait, along with my wife who was traveling with me. They would not say why, and I found it most curious as I was a frequent flier and went back and forth between the United States, U.K., and Europe and elsewhere many times a year. I never had such treatment.

After about 20 minutes left waiting, we were taken by a TSA official and an FBI agent to a separate hall where they thoroughly checked my suitcase and asked about any electronic devices, phones, or computers I had in my possession.

This all seemed very foreboding and I have never experienced anything like this before, unless you include trips to Communist China or in the old world to eastern bloc countries as a diplomat.

What’s going on, I thought?

When they found nothing suspicious and would not answer my questions about why they were detaining me, they separated me from my wife and told her to wait in a lounge, without explanation, while I was to be interviewed. That is all they said. Naturally, this left her in a state of total confusion and near panic. 

What had I done? Why me? Why this arrangement and detention?

I was then escorted to another building and into a secure conference room with padded walls where two FBI agents introduced themselves to me. They said I was being detained to answer questions regarding the Department of Justice Special Counsel probe and showed me their identification and badges.

They seemed to know everything about me and had my color photograph and personal details and said in intimidating ways that it was a felony to lie to the FBI. I stated that I realized that, and I would readily, in fact gladly, cooperate with them. They never allowed me to call my attorney.

I did, however, find it objectionable to be treated in that way, as I was entering my home country, where I am a citizen and have served at the highest levels of government. They did not need to use such tactics or intimidation. I am a United States patriot and would do anything and everything to assist the government and I had no information that I believed was relevant.

They asked for my cell phone and any laptop (I didn’t have a computer on me) and produced a document, marked “warrant” in bold print, to seize it and perform forensics on it. I signed permission and asked if at least I could keep my drivers’ license and credit cards. They said yes, and they gave them back to me. They then demanded the code to open the phone and I was told I would be held in contempt, if I did not offer it. One of the agents took the phone into another back room and downloaded items but returned to say they would need to keep it and take it to Washington, D.C. for a full assessment. I asked when I could get it back. They assured me in a few days they would definitely get it to me—one way or another. That did not happen. It took months and it was altered.

The other agent then proceeded just short of about two hours to interrogate me and involved himself in various disarming chit-chat about my career, sterling academic credentials, top-secret codeword government clearances from an earlier era, and my being a fan of the championship Philadelphia Eagles. All well and good, I presumed. What did they really want? Why me? And why in this underhanded fashion? What had I done? I should state at this point, and they knew it, that I had taken both the month-long course on intelligence and the two week one on negotiation, when I was at the Department of State during the Reagan Administration, given by the Foreign Service Institute. I knew their game.

The questions got more detailed about my involvement in the Trump campaign (which was informal and unpaid); whom I communicated with, the whole list; whom I knew and how well—they had a very long list of names, starting with Steve Bannon and running the gamut.

They seemed to then focus more attention on Roger Stone (whom I have met a grand total of three times and only briefly and in company); Jerome Corsi, a journalist who had been the acquiring editor of a memoir I had written some years ago; and about Wikileaks, about which I knew nothing.

“Had I ever visited the Ecuadorian embassy in London?” they asked again, and again. They were trying to break me down and catch me up, which is a very old and tested interrogation technique.

No, I replied truthfully. They already knew that and surely had all the CCTV tapes from that very place.

I was unfazed and very dubious about why they thought I knew anything. I couldn’t help but wonder: had they read a copy of my soon-to-be-released book, The Plot to Destroy Trump: How the Deep State Fabricated the Russian Dossier to Subvert the President? The timing of this interrogation along with the nearing publication date just days off, seems to me to suggest, yes, they had read it. Closely, and with a fine-tooth comb.

Then they served me with a subpoena, which I noticed had only been issued that very day by an Obama appointed magistrate, not a judge, in Boston. I was to appear before the Mueller grand jury in Washington, D.C. that Friday. They said I could telephone the lead attorney on that team, Aaron Zelinsky, and make necessary arrangements.

They shook my hand and had agents take me to my wife, who was very alarmed and in disbelief. They then escorted us to the adjoining terminal to catch our delayed domestic flight. I have to believe they delayed it.

I called the special counsel’s office the next morning and they said it would be better to appear later, which we agreed would be April 13 and they would pay for my travel, room and board. I told them I had legal representation and asked that they establish contact. For the record, that excellent counsel, over months and months, ended up costing me about $60,000.

The deep state was sending a signal and had no doubt read my detailed book which implicated them. They wanted to intimidate me and knew well that I had no connection whatsoever to Julian Assange.

What could they want from me, a professor—a policy wonk, and philosophical defender of conservatism and Trump? Well, I had endorsed him in a 2015 Forbes article, saying we needed another TR and the economic nationalism that made America great. 

I am not and have never been an operative, have no Russian contacts, and—aside from appearing on air and in print often to defend and congratulate our Donald J. Trump—have done nothing wrong. What message does this send? I will tell you—stay clear of Trump and all things Trump or the globalists and deep state will get you as they say, “seven ways to Sunday.”

I have written in this publication about “My Time in the Tank” being interrogated by the FBI and their panels for days, and then hauled before the Mueller Grand Jury. In the end, that failure found nothing and the Russia hoax was called out for what it was.

Only recently, was the full affidavit behind the warrant declassified and unsealed, with redactions, and released. 

What’s the Upshot? 

The lead FBI special agent in my case, Curtis Heide, has now been reprimanded and is under investigation for misconduct. It is notable that he was a lead agent in the notorious operation “Crossfire Hurricane.” He bragged about it. 

Heide’s direct boss was one, Peter Strzok, need we say any more? Why isn’t he in jail? 

The FBI told me, and my lawyers, I was only a witness never a target. The affidavit says otherwise. They lied. Clearly, they wanted to “Papadopoulos” me, to turn a surname into a verb. 

The FBI surveils people constantly, without their knowledge, without authority to do so, and even if you are outside the country. The Fourth Amendment is out the window. 

In my case, the issue seems to have centered around a single email Roger Stone—through a third party, no less—had forwarded to me. I never answered it or did anything about it at all. It was a ridiculous request and one I would never take up under any circumstances. “Get to Assange” was outside my wheelhouse or capability. But I was for Trump, so they had a predicate. 

The document shows the great lengths to which the FBI had gone to try and show Trump had ties to the Russians and their election influence and cyber ops. Yet, he did not. 

The FBI said I offered to go to the Cleveland Republican National Committee convention as a Trump advisor. I did, admitted such, and I guess that was a significant crime in their eyes, as well.

Finally, this proves not only a strong political bias on the part of the FBI, against Trump, and against anyone remotely on his team, but it shows just how much the FBI knows about all your details, doings, GPS tracking, emails, telephone and FaceTime calls, videos, financial transactions, the cache in your computer and related devices, travel plans, workplace, networks . . . everything. Scary stuff. 

I was not charged with anything because I didn’t do anything wrong. 

The FBI needs to be exposed for what it has become and how it has betrayed the nation and its very own motto.

As America Self-Destructs With Green Energy, China Preps For War With Coal

The West’s insistence on the widespread implementation of green energy may backfire as China continues to use coal in preparation for war. 

Chuck DeVore reporting for The Federalist

In Aug. 25, the California Air Resources Board, the state’s air quality regulator, announced a ban on the sales of new gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles by 2035. 

Less than a week later, a heat wave threatened California with seven days of power shortages. So the state’s grid operator asked electric vehicle owners not to recharge when they come home from work. 

This is all a painful part of the energy transition, we are told — needed to save the planet. 

In its effort to wean itself off fossil fuels, California has found a willing and enthusiastic partner in the People’s Republic of China. Most batteries, solar panels, and wind turbines that make California’s green dreams possible are made in China. 

California leaders — from former Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to former Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown, and current Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom — have traveled to China to tout their green cooperation with Red China. 

The push for electric vehicles (EVs) by California and China raises an intriguing question: Are both sides really weaning themselves off fossil fuels to save the planet and reduce pollution, or might there be an entirely different intention — at least for China?

U.S. climate czar John Kerry, a former senator, former secretary of state, and the Democratic nominee for president in 2004, epitomized American elite opinion when he said on Aug. 30 that China has “generally speaking, outperformed its (climate) commitments” and that the U.S. and China can make a difference for the world by “working together.”

When policymakers and strategists erroneously ascribe to others the same motives that they have themselves, it is called the Mirror-Image Fallacy. Opponents in warfare seek to deceive — the best deception plans are those that show the enemy what the enemy wants to believe. Mirror-Image Fallacy and deception plans can work hand-in-glove. 

If China was truly going all-in on EVs to reduce pollution and curb its greenhouse gas emissions, one would expect to see that in its energy consumption profile. Instead, we see something different. Yes, China has been adding wind, solar, and nuclear power, but coal use is also increasing. 

From 2010 to 2020, the amount of electricity produced by coal in China rose by 57 percent to 4,775 terawatt hours. From 2010 to 2021 — the latest year available and 2020 having been depressed by the response to Covid-19 — American coal use to generate electricity declined by 52 percent to 899 terawatt hours. U.S. coal power peaked in 2007. China surpassed U.S. coal use in 2006 and never looked back. 

Today, China generates more than five times the electricity from coal than the U.S., with construction underway or planned in China to build the equivalent of more than the entire operating U.S. coal fleet. By this one action alone, China will wipe out all projected U.S. reductions in greenhouse gas emissions — and then some. 

Last year, China consumed 54 percent of the world’s coal. This is the main reason that China emits more greenhouse gasses than all the world’s developed nations combined — which shouldn’t be a shock given that America, Western Europe, and Japan outsourced much of their manufacturing to China over the past 20 years. 

Apologists for China’s one-party communist government often cite the fact that China is still a developing nation, with about 200 million Chinese living on $5.50 a day as recently as 2018. It takes energy to be prosperous and prosperous people use energy — lots of it — for cars, air conditioning, heat, air travel, and the internet. 

Prosperous people, and those who expect to be, don’t typically try to overthrow their governments, either. For the Chinese Communist Party, this is key. 

While the Western elite vanguard of the war against climate change sees greenhouse gas emissions as the singular existential threat, the Chinese Communist Party sees greenhouse gas emissions as the necessary byproduct of wealth, power, military might — and compliant subjects. 

Were China’s leaders interested in growing their economy while improving air quality and holding the line on carbon dioxide emissions, they’d turn from coal to natural gas. If China expected to be an honest participant in the post-World War II liberal order, then it would have no qualms about increasing its dependence on natural gas. 

But China has scant natural gas reserves, and the nearest large exporter, Russia, has built most of its pipeline capacity to serve Europe — which it is now cutting off, showing the danger of relying on foreign suppliers. Other major exporters in the Pacific include the U.S., Australia, and Indonesia, but China’s aggressive foreign policies have alienated these nations. Qatar has significantly increased its liquified natural gas exports to China, but these shipments are vulnerable to interdiction in the event of a conflict — it’s doubtful that much in the way of Chinese imports would make it past the Straits of Malacca.

This last point leads to a final, stunning, and very troubling conclusion. For years, strategists have assumed that China would never start a conflict that would deliberately involve America as an enemy because China imports some 72 percent of its oil, with about 85 percent of that imported oil transiting the Straits of Malacca.

But what if our policy experts have gotten China’s energy strategy all wrong? What if their efforts to reduce their reliance on oil had nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with energy security — with being able to fight a war indefinitely while being blockaded?

In 2019, 45 percent of the oil used in the U.S. was refined into gasoline for cars. Another 29 percent was made into diesel and jet fuel — applications less immediately replaceable by batteries since hydrocarbon fuels have about 100 times the energy density of lithium-ion batteries — one of the reasons why long-haul trucking and commercial jets aren’t likely to be electric anytime soon. 

China is well into a program to go electric with respect to passenger vehicles. In China, this practically means that EVs are mostly coal-powered. That still leaves more oil demand than China’s modest domestic oil production can handle, risking the depletion of China’s reputed billion-barrel strategic petroleum reserve in 200 days or so. 

Of course, with the onset of Covid-19, China perfected complete control of its population, shutting down travel at will and confining people to their homes. But a war can’t be won on lockdown, and people get restless. Here’s where China’s hidden ace in the hole comes in: coal gasification.

With a technology that matured in the 1920s, Germany under Hitler invested heavily in coal gasification to make gasoline and other fuels — Germany has a lot of coal and very little oil. On the eve of war in 1938, Germany produced just under 10 percent of its oil needs from domestic crude while importing 60 percent from overseas and about 8 percent from overland routes within Europe. The remaining 20 percent of Germany’s need was answered by converting coal to liquid fuels. By 1943, German synthetic fuel production had more than tripled to 42 million barrels annually. 

In the 1940s, German synthetic oil was up to 20 times more costly than abundant American crude oil. But wartime necessities required its production. Today, deriving synthetic fuel from coal is about half of the cost of oil at $90 a barrel — but the process to manufacture it produces about double the greenhouse gas emissions by simply refining crude oil into fuels. Simply put, it’s cost-effective but bad for the climate — and China is investing heavily in it to reduce its reliance on imported oil. 

A holistic look at China’s energy sector indicates a nation concerned only with energy security and not at all concerned with climate change. That has grave consequences for America’s ability to deter China from an ambitious campaign of military aggression.

Insects loaded with parasites! Why eating insects is bad news in 2022

 

It seems every day we’re being bombarded with more and more “thinkpieces” about how we should – and will – be eating lots of insects in the future, instead of traditional sources of protein – which would alarm bodybuilding aficionados more than any other group!

Bugs are already making a splash as they have begun to make their way into processed foods, sweets – and chatter of bug-based supplements becoming the future.

In Canada, for instance, the Canadian government is funding the construction of the world’s largest cricket farm, for human consumption.

But the unpleasant truth, beyond the fact that eating insects is hardly appetizing for most people in the West, is that insects are also loaded with potentially harmful parasites, according to scientists.  

A parasitological evaluation of edible insects and their role in the transmission of parasitic diseases to humans and animals,” reveals some very nasty potential problems with bug consumption:

The experimental material comprised samples of live insects (imagines) from 300 household farms and pet stores, including 75 mealworm farms, 75 house cricket farms, 75 Madagascar hissing cockroach farms and 75 migrating locust farms. Parasites were detected in 244 (81.33%) out of 300 (100%) examined insect farms. In 206 (68.67%) of the cases, the identified parasites were pathogenic for insects only; in 106 (35.33%) cases, parasites were potentially parasitic for animals; and in 91 (30.33%) cases, parasites were potentially pathogenic for humans. Edible insects are an underestimated reservoir of human and animal parasites.  

Our research indicates the important role of these insects in the epidemiology of parasites pathogenic to vertebrates. Conducted parasitological examination suggests that edible insects may be the most important parasite vector for domestic insectivorous animals. According to our studies the future research should focus on the need for constant monitoring of studied insect farms for pathogens, thus increasing food and feed safety.

There is also significant uncertainty about whether chitin, a substance that is an essential part of the exoskeleton of many insects, is edible and whether consumption could be implicated in the a variety of harmful conditions, from auto-immune responses to cancer.  

https://herculeanstrength.com/insects-parasites/  

Chile Rejects Proposed Progressive Utopia, American Liberals Seethe in Response

Bonchie reporting for RedState 

A proposed progressive utopia was on the ballot in Chile as the nation went to the polls to vote on whether to adopt a newly drafted constitution or not. The measure was supported by Bernie Sanders, among other Americans, and seen as a test case for the idea of guaranteeing far-left “rights.”

Chileans had other ideas, though. They soundly rejected the new constitution, sending a message that they won’t see their country turned into Venezuela in order to make some people living in New York City happy.

Chile’s president, Gabriel Boric, is part of the country’s communist party, and there was fear he would be able to get the newly drafted constitution through. The voters, schizophrenic as they may be, left no doubt in the margin, though. It wasn’t close, and now Boric will have to go back to the drawing board wounded by a loss that seems to have energized his opposition.

Oddly enough, while Chileans celebrated, it was those in America who seemed to be the most upset with the result. The New York Times put out multiple headlines decrying the failure of the “left-leaning” constitution that would have guaranteed “rights” like universal healthcare and abortion.

It’s always those who won’t have to deal with the consequences who yell the loudest, is it not? The reporters at the Times will almost certainly never set foot in Chile in their lifetimes, but they’d see another country turned into a dystopian nightmare if it meant a meaningless “guarantee” of healthcare and abortion was pushed forward. Why? Because that’s exactly what they want in the United States with no care for the actual results of such policies.

Contrary to the delusional rantings of Sanders, the Times, and others, there is no free lunch in the world. No nation can simply turn everything into a “right,” including services that must be provided for by other people, and survive. At the end of the day, self-determination and freedom must undergird the better part of a society or you end up with financial collapse, dictatorship, or both.

For a moment, sanity has prevailed in South America. How long it will last is anyone’s guess, but this is a setback for the global progressive movement. Still, this isn’t the end of the fight, not by a long shot. Those who think they are best equipped to completely control the lives of others never stop in their quest for power.

Angry Joe Biden Shouts He Beat Big Pharma This Year, by Providing them Billions and Forcing their Vaccinations on Americans

Joe Biden was in Milwaukee, Wisconsin yesterday, to shout at forcibly assembled union workers and celebrate Labor Day.  In the middle of his prepared remarks to the crowd at Laborfest, where labor unions and their members gather annually, Biden exploded in an angry rant proclaiming he had defeated Big Pharma this year.

Even if you overlook the unstable nature of the delivery, it is somewhat of an odd outburst given the fact that his administration gave tens of billions to Big Pharma in the past 20 months, forced American workers to accept Big Pharma vaccines, and facilitated the biggest windfall profit for Big Pharma in history.   If that’s what Biden considers “beating big pharma,” well, I certainly can’t fathom what winning would look like.  WATCH:

Jamie Raskin Shows Us Who the Real Fascists Are During Interview

Nick Arama reporting for RedState 

Joe Biden has been attacking MAGA Republicans accusing them of being “semi-fascist” and a “threat” to the foundation of the nation. Of course, when you have the alleged leader of the Democratic Party inciting the left against millions of Americans, that might just smell a little bit like Joe Biden is the true fascist he trying to label others as.

Now, we also have a little help on the question of who is the real fascist from Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD). Raskin told CBS during an interview with “Face the Nation” on Sunday, “Two of the hallmarks of a fascist political party are, one, they don’t accept the results of elections that don’t go their way. And two, they embrace political violence.”

Now, that’s not the definition of “fascist.” But if he wants to use that definition, he’s telling on his people.

As we’ve previously noted, Democrats including Raskin objected to electors being accepted in 2017 when President Donald Trump won. Raskin objected to Florida’s electors being accepted.

In addition to having Democrat members of Congress trying to block the electoral count, the electors received death threats. They also faced pressure and efforts to suborn their votes to prevent Trump from being elected. There was even an effort to try to have the intel community push the Russia collusion hoax to the electors, hoping they wouldn’t vote for Trump as a result. Close to 70 Democrats boycotted the inauguration and, of course, there was rioting in the streets of D.C. Sure looks like an “insurrection” to me.

But most of the over 200 people arrested in that rioting had their prosecutions dropped, unlike the Jan. 6 riot.

As we reported earlier, Raskin also sowed “election denialism” about the 2000 election when in 2003, he claimed that the Supreme Court had “thwarted the will of the people” and given the country its first “court-appointed president.” He even pushed the false claim that votes weren’t counted. Not to mention Hillary Clinton is still throwing fits over 2016 and Stacey Abrams claimed she won in Georgia. Democrats have denied election results since at least 2000.

So thank you, Jamie Raskin, for helping us to understand who the real fascists are here.

Unearthed Clip Completely Exposes Top January 6th Committee Member

Bonchie reporting for RedState 

It’s hard to pick the most grating member of the January 6th committee. I think for pure hysterical unseriousness, you’d have to go with Adam Kinzinger. He’s so bad that even the other members rarely acknowledge his existence publicly. Of course, Liz Cheney is in the discussion, though she manages to be a bit more cunning in her dissolution of all the principles she claims to hold dear.

But as far as the Democrats on the committee go, the choice is easy: Jamie Raskin takes the cake.

Raskin obviously learned from Adam Schiff’s behavior during the farcical and wasted effort of the Robert Mueller investigation. He’s spent the last year and a half promising bombshell after bombshell that he and his cohorts never deliver. All the while, he carries himself with a sense of unearned moral superiority that is made all the more ridiculous by his own past.

You see, Raskin objected to the certification of the 2016 election in an attempt to stop Donald Trump from assuming power. He’s never once apologized for or reframed his efforts. Instead, he’s acted as if they simply never happened, and certainly, the news media has shown zero interest in pressing him on the matter.

All the while, even some on the right have tried to assert that Raskin’s actions were different. You see, he didn’t “deny” the election, they say. He simply objected on procedural grounds with no actual thought of overturning the results.

That’s what makes a newly unearthed clip from 2003 brought forth by the RNC so damning. It’s not just about his actions, which he would later take in 2016, but it’s a window into his intent over a decade prior.

Raskin’s language in the clip isn’t ambiguous. He outright accuses the 2000 election of being stolen, an allegation he now maintains is the gravest of sins. “Election denial” has become a phrase du jour on the left, and it’s been one the January 6th committee has used repeatedly to describe a segment of people they openly disdain and want to punish. Yet, here’s one of the committee’s top members claiming a presidential election was stolen, with George being a “court-appointed president.”

He goes further, though, delving into the false conspiracy theory that all the votes weren’t counted in Florida. The votes were counted multiple times in Florida following the 2000 election. Gore saw fit to try to force recounts until he won, and the courts finally said enough.

How do you square that with Raskin’s current proclamations and grandstanding? The answer is that you can’t square it, though he won’t be asked to do so. Instead, Raskin will continue to pretend he’s somehow better than those who have questions about the 2020 election despite his past claims that each of the last two Republican presidents cheated their way into the White House.

The point is this. Everything these people claim their enemies are, they actually are. Hypocrisy undergirds the January 6th committee and the Democratic Party. Raskin and others started the trend of denying election results before any Republican ever even entertained the idea. That continual tearing down of our system grew over decades into the skepticism we now see spread across the political spectrum. It didn’t have to be that way, but the lack of accountability, and the attempts to rewrite history, have only caused more doubts.