Sunday, September 25, 2022

The Case for Impeachment Gets Stronger

Republicans should drag out impeachment hearings for a year and feature an array of credible witnesses to testify how Joe Biden has worked to destroy the country.


Over six months ago, I made the case here at American Greatness for impeaching Joe Biden. The case has only grown stronger in the interim. Not only has more information come to light about Biden’s illegal conduct, but he also has pushed a number of new policies that are constitutionally suspect at best and deserve intensive congressional scrutiny—assuming the Republicans don’t blow the midterms in November.    

I argued that the impeachment effort should be about educating moderate voters, independent voters, and even working-class Democrats about the stunning number of unconstitutional actions undertaken by the Biden Administration. It doesn’t matter if the GOP doesn’t have the two-thirds vote necessary in the Senate to convict and remove Biden from office. That’s not the point. After all, a successful impeachment and removal would put Kamala Harris in the Oval Office, and she may be even worse.   

Some pundits claim that impeaching Biden would hurt the GOP politically. That’s nuts. The Democrats impeached Trump twice and used those hearings to convince many former Trump voters to abandon him in 2020. Along with all the “2000 Mules”-type cheating, it worked. 

Similarly, the GOP should drag out the impeachment hearings for a year while they feature an array of credible witnesses to testify how this man has declared war on the American middle class and brought our country to the brink of economic collapse. Try as they might, such political theater would be difficult for the media to ignore. 

Biden’s impeachable actions include his refusal to enforce immigration laws; the debacle in Afghanistan; the nuclear deal with Iran; the Hunter Biden scandal; using the COVID epidemic to illegally accumulate power; weaponizing the FBI and Department of Justice against Americans; violating the rights of January 6 protestors; and working with Big Tech to censor the First Amendment rights of Americans. 

Indeed, unlike the two phony impeachment hearings held by the Democrats, the GOP’s impeachment hearings would feature real crimes by Biden, involving bribery, treason, and “high crimes and misdemeanors” that many constitutional experts define as “abusing the public trust.”   

On illegal immigration, we now know Biden’s Department of Homeland Security has deliberately flauted federal law by refusing to deport convicted criminal aliens. In a memo, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas stated, “The fact an individual is a removable noncitizen therefore should not alone be the basis of an enforcement action against them.” In the same memo, Mayorkas claimed DHS has “discretion” due to the criminal’s “advanced or tender age,” “lengthy presence in the United States,” a “mental condition that may have contributed to the criminal conduct,” a “physical or mental condition requiring care or treatment,” or the “impact of removal on family in the United States, such as loss of provider or caregiver.” In other words, an illegal alien who commits murder can remain in the United States if he’s a senior, has a mental illness, or if removing him does harm to his family. 

In fact, the DHS has no such discretion. This policy was simply made up and violates federal law. Indeed, the Biden Administration’s concern for poor criminal aliens does not extend to American citizens who have been victimized by them. The First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered Biden to correct this, but so far, there is little evidence anything has changed and the administration is appealing the decision. Furthermore, documents uncovered by Florida’s attorney general show that Mayorkas knew Biden’s policies would help the cartels and hurt American citizens.

On the Afghanistan front, whistleblowers are now revealing that the Biden Administration brought 324 Afghans to the United States who are on the terrorist “watch list” and apparently didn’t care.   Again, like illegal alien criminals, this has already led to crimes against American citizens, but Biden seems unperturbed. 

As for Biden’s ongoing effort to strike a deal with the Iranian mullahs bent on acquiring nuclear weapons, Biden has dropped even more demands so that the final deal would not curtail Iran’s nuclear ambitions. The deal is shaping up to be a suicide pact. 

Over the last few months, new information has come to light in the Hunter Biden scandal. Joe Biden has consistently claimed he never discussed his son’s foreign business deals. He lied. Hunter’s dealings were clearly illegal “pay for play” schemes, and Biden not only knew about these deals but was involved in them. “The Big Guy’s” involvement in his family’s financial entanglements raises questions of whether he has been compromised by hostile countries. If bribery or treason were involved, Biden’s lies are clearly impeachable. Indeed, Biden has already sold 950,000 barrels of oil from America’s Strategic Oil Reserve to a Chinese government-controlled company. Hunter sits on that same company’s board. How is that not illegal? 

Then, of course, there are Biden’s COVID policies, in particular his refusal to grant religious exemptions from mandatory vaccinations to federal workers, including military personnel. Even the Defense Department’s inspector general has concluded that such mandates violate the First Amendment. Moreover, it appears that the Pentagon has illegally coerced service personnel to take the vaccination. 

On the Big Tech censorship front, we now know the Biden Administration violated the First Amendment by colluding with Big Tech to censor conservatives.   

Then, of course, there is the weaponizing of the FBI and the Department of Justice against Americans, which has escalated dramatically on Biden’s watch. The Justice Department propaganda tarring parents as “terrorists” was a lie. The raids on Americans involved with the January 6 protests is like something we’d see in  a Third World country and cries out for investigationCoupled with illegal spying on Americans, the FBI under Biden is becoming the enforcement wing of the Democratic Party. 

Biden has refused to hold Black Lives Matter or Antifa accountable for the billion dollars in damages and two-dozen deaths their riots caused over two years ago. His Justice Department has also ignored acts of terror directed toward pregnancy counseling centers and pro-life groups. One Justice Department official even smeared these groups as if to encourage more violence against them.

Biden has also violated the free speech rights of psychologists by issuing an illegal executive order calling upon federal agencies to put a stop to all counseling aimed at aiding people to overcome same-sex attractions. Bear in mind, most of these are people who have voluntarily approached psychologists for help in leaving the homosexual lifestyle.

If the GOP retakes control of Congress in January, MAGA activists cannot rest. Patriots will need to make it clear to Republican leadership that they will be expected to not only follow the America First agenda but also to hold Joe Biden accountable for his unconstitutional actions. 




X22, And we Know, and more- Sept 25

 




 Yup, the important 2 week mark. That means it's officially full blown promotion time. I expect the trailer to come before Wednesday (maybe even tonight), then the press release for Episode 2 titled 'Of Value' will be coming this week as well, along with photos. Then either this week or the next, a few interviews, along with TV Line's long awaited preview of the first few episodes, (there could be new info!).

Either way, before this month ends, I may finally have my decision on my 'skip or watch' dilemma! And hopefully 1 long and very eccentric article with new Hetty content detailing how excited I am. (well, hopefully)

Here's tonight's news:

The History Books Will Prove This is an Industrial Example of The Great Pretending



This is epic. This is like listening to Grandpa rail against the Federal Reserve and central banks without realizing the motive behind what the Federal Reserve and central banks are doing.   This is the best example of the misconception behind ‘The Great Pretending,’ to date.

U of Penn, Wharton Business School professor of finance, Jeremy Siegel, rails against Jerome Powell and the central bankers for raising interest rates into a collapsing western global economy.  Everything, everything he outlines, is essentially accurate about the damage being done to western economies. …. Except the biggest realization and acceptance is missing…. It’s being done by design.  The people he outlines are not making a mistake, they are doing it on purpose.  First, WATCH:


The U.S, EU, CA, AU and western economic central bankers did not respond sooner to the inflation crisis (2021) because the central banks were waiting for the politicians in their systems to establish the energy policy that their pre-planned action was intended to support.  [<- Reread that if needed].

Once the collective Build Back Better/Climate Change energy policy was established (2021), and after the resulting inflation created the justification for the central bank action, then -and only then- did the central bankers trigger the next phase of raising interest rates (2022) to reduce western economic activity and support the Build Back Better agenda.

All of this was by design.  None of this was by mistake.  The process, strategy and timing were all part of the Build Back Better agenda.  Purposefully created inflation, the result of the energy policy, was planned and used by the central banks to justify the rate increases.  It was a self-fulfilling prophecy built into the Build Back Better roadmap.

Now these ‘bankers’ are trying to collapse the economy to meet the reduction in energy production.  The bankers are supporting the political motives of the politicians.  This is all intentional.  Jeremy Siegel misses this core and fundamental aspect.   However, some of the lesser ideological western leaders (politicians) are starting to get ‘cold feet.’

The U.S, EU, Canada and Australia/New Zealand are ‘all-in.’   Joe Biden (U.S.), Justin Trudeau (CA), Jacinda Ardern (NZ) and Ursula von der Leyen (EU) are unwavering and all in.  All of their central bank control officers are also all-in, including Christine Legarde (EU).  These unflinching ideologues are not going to budge, but some of the politicians within their economic systems are starting to get cold feet.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was the first to express reservations about the collective goal to sink their economy.  German Chancellor Olaf Schultz is also realizing he may not survive unless he cuts the cord tying him to the Build Back Better anchor of un-survivable renewable energy policy.  The recently installed British Prime Minister Liz Truss is also trying to untangle the knot tied by Boris Johnson, as her nation now suffers with double digit energy price increases.  These are the first fractures in the coalition since the Build Back Better agreement was made.

Jeremy Siegel is correct as to the outcome, but he -like almost all western financial pundits- are blind to the true motive.  Siegel is blaming it on incompetence, instead of going back to the original Build Back Better design as openly expressed by the central banks and politicians in 2020.   They were not hiding it.

The collective western leadership openly said this exact scenario was what they were going to do coming out of the useful COVID-19 pandemic.

The Western leaders openly stated they were going to use the time of lowered economic activity (created by the pandemic) as a gauge to measure and deploy a permanent change to the global system of energy development.  They were going to exit the pandemic with a new focus on climate change and new energy systems.

That pandemic “exit” was the gateway into the “economic transition” that all of the western leaders then began describing.

Throughout 2021 traditional oil, coal and natural gas exploitation was reduced by policy.  Inflation skyrocketed while the central bankers waited like kids playing double-dutch jump rope.  Wait,…. summer 2021…..  wait, fall 2021….. wait, winter 2021… wait, spring 2022…. and then, after the energy policy cemented,…   “NOW” run in and jump – Summer 2022, with the rate hikes.   The timing was by design.

Can you see it now?



Joe Biden Fiddles While Rome Burns


Bonchie reporting for The Federalist 

On Saturday, Joe Biden departed for yet another vacation to their Delaware beach house. That marks 242 days spent on rest and pleasure since the president took office less than two years ago.

The evening before his departure, the White House hosted a massive party to mark the passage of $6 billion in taxpayer money on AIDS and HIV research and prevention. All the stops were pulled out, with a large glass and metal awning being erected, lined with state-of-the-art sound equipment so Elton John could perform live. The crowd cheered and the champagne flowed as the smart set partook in the spoils of the beltway.

That stood in stark contrast to the events of the day, including a stock market crash that dropped the Dow Jones Industrial Average well below where it stood the day Biden took office. With it went trillions in retirement savings that people had spent years, and in many cases, decades growing. To date, most retirement accounts are about 25 percent off their highs under Biden.

Meanwhile, the economic fundamentals look horrific as inflation continues to run historically hot, wages decrease, and interest rates skyrocket. Short of a miracle, it is just a matter of time before the jobs market begins to decline as well, eliminating the last excuse used by the administration to claim the nation isn’t in a recession.

On the border, over two million illegal immigrant apprehensions have occurred in 2022 alone, and that’s not counting the nearly a million estimated “got-a-ways” that were never taken into custody. A humanitarian crisis has reached its pique, both for those making the dangerous journey to cross and for those overdosing on fentanyl brought over by the drug cartels.

And you know what? Joe Biden couldn’t care less.

Like Nero in 64 A.D. as Rome burned, the president is too busy having a good time to care about the welfare of those he ostensibly leads. He’s living the dream, having finally conned enough people to send him to the White House after decades of failed campaigns. If he wants to go to Delaware, he’s going to go. If he wants to spend your money on a bloated White House party, complete with an appearance by Elton John, then that’s what he’ll do. All the while, you struggle to pay your rent and afford groceries for your children.

The optics of it all are terrible, but why would Biden worry about that? He’s got a compliant press ready to spin everything in his favor. Accountability? Don’t make the president laugh. Sure, the nation is crumbling on his watch, largely due to his chosen policies, but that’s not important. What’s important is that Biden is enjoying himself. So the fiddling will continue.




How Red States Can Save The American Republic From Self-Destruction





The United States of America as it was founded and as many of us still imagine it is gone. It has been taken over by an ideology that has created a government with characteristics in direct opposition to the founding principles of the republic.

Many common folks now fear they cannot change the course of our nation through the ballot box, because all Democrat and most Republican politicians accept this anti-constitutional government. Indeed, many in our country now embrace a system of government that denies American citizens their original constitutional rights.

Primary features of our current federal government that are contrary to the American founders’ principles include: 1) Immense federal powers of taxation, 2) immense regulatory power outside the legislative process, 3) the collection, then mass redistribution, of tax dollars to individuals and companies, 4) judicial processes that clearly make, rather than interpret, law, and 5) unrelenting participation in foreign adventures.

In general, the ideology that has instituted all the above unconstitutional federal activities is the progressive movement, an elitist approach to governance. It is not exclusively Republican or Democrat, although the Democratic Party has contributed substantially more to the process than the Republican Party has.

The Electoral Process Has Been Broken

The approach for erasing the founders’ America has been surprisingly simple: Have the government give people all sorts of things, from cell phones to retirement benefits to “free” health care, and tell them they deserve all this and more.

The typical citizen does not consider two absolute truths that might cause him to reconsider. First, power does corrupt, and the greater the power, the greater the corruption. Second, a government that has the power to give you everything has the power to take away every one of the things they choose to give you.

At some point, the government will take away its “gifts” if a particular citizen does not fall in line with the authorities. Those truths explain why every elitist government in the history of the world has become tyrannical and eventually produces violent revolt by the people subjugated to the rule of the chosen few.

You can contend, as uncountable others have through history, that we are different, that this elitist rule will succeed. But it never has been and never will be different. Human nature does not change.

Controlling Americans with Our Own Money

The federal government now controls our country through the power and intimidation of law: Pay your taxes or go to jail. They also control our country through what is essentially extortion. They take money from the citizens of each state and then tell those citizens what they must do in order to get some of that money back. Should a state be so foolish as to deny the mandate of the federal government, they will be denied funds at best, and charged with a crime at worst.

It does not matter how contrary a federal mandate is to the best interests of the citizens of any state, it applies to everyone and is undoable, outside of rarely overturning executive orders and costly, lengthy court battles the federal government often wins. We need only consider some of the immigration mandates President Obama imposed on states as examples of the process.

Essentially, the federal government has grown into an immense, all-consuming bureaucracy that is staggeringly inefficient and ineffective in administering the vast programs over which it has taken charge. That bureaucracy will never limit itself but will, by nature, make every effort to increase its power, control, and influence. It has accomplished that goal to an alarming degree. 

What Can Be Done?

How can a state break free from federal management that is detrimental to its citizenry?

Every part of our country does not have to go down with the larger ship. A state, or group of states, could choose to remove itself from federal processes. By that, I am not recommending secession from the union, but deciding to forego all federal monies and thereby reject the federal control that comes with federal funds.

A change in taxation would be essential, of course. The state or states involved would collect federal income tax from their citizens. The citizens would pay federal taxes for only those federal services they continue to use.

So, they would pay taxes to support the military, international relations, debt retirement, etc. They would not make contributions to Social Security, welfare, food stamps, Medicare or Medicaid, the U.S. Department of Education, or any of the other social or regulatory federal programs.

If taking this path, the states must assume responsibility for those federal programs important to their citizenry. So, obviously, state taxes would increase on some level, while federal taxes would decrease dramatically.

The Way Out of the March to Socialism

The states would gain, of course, control over those social and regulatory programs they choose to bring under state management, and they can discontinue as many programs as their voters desire to stop paying for. This can accurately be viewed as a return to the self-government and federalist structure on which the country was founded, and restore systems of operation that are far healthier than the current arrangement.

Removal from federal programming is the only alternative to the ever-increasing reach of the federal government. If a state or states can make the numbers work, this approach could result in saving the republic. Thus, states choosing to remove resources from the federal government may be the best hope for the survival of the republic.

At the very least, this would provide the option of living in this country outside the constant reach of an all-powerful federal system. Personal responsibility and liberty would be the hallmark of those states. That seems to me a great place to live — kind of like the entire United States of America was just a few decades ago.




Joe Biden's Old Man Filter Goes Haywire Again


Bonchie reporting for RedState 

Fresh off calling out a woman in the audience of a speech and stating, “we go back a long way, she was 12, I was 30,” Biden appeared with Elton John on Friday evening at a White House event to celebrate the passage of money to fund AIDS and HIV work.

Naturally, The New York Times made it about Donald Trump.

Apparently, it’s supposed to be a total own that John didn’t want to play for Trump but that he played for Joe Biden. You know, because it’s totally unusual and not at all standard fare for leftwing celebrities to shun Republicans. No, it must be because Trump is uniquely evil or something.

Regardless, in short order, Biden managed to frame his praise of the iconic singer in a way that raised eyebrows.

Now, before the Post’s Glenn Kessler, who recently made an absolute clown of himself falsely claiming ultrasounds convert electrical activity into fetal heartbeats, slaps me down here, I’m not suggesting that Biden is actually meaning to make a homophobic inference that Elton John, a gay man, is responsible for AIDS. In fact, I’m well aware that what the president is actually trying to say is that John is an advocate who has lobbied Congress to spend this money.

That’s all well and good. The problem isn’t Biden’s intention. It’s that he’s a senile, old man with a persistent habit of having his filter break. There are certain things you don’t say, and telling a gay guy that the need to spend money on AIDS and HIV is his “fault” is the kind of thing you don’t say.

I’m going to delve into the most overused cliche in politics at this point, but could you imagine if Donald Trump said this? Heck, could you imagine if Kevin McCarthy, Ted Cruz, Ron DeSantis, or any other Republican all the way down to dog catcher told a gay man that they are at “fault” that the country is spending $6 billion on AIDS and HIV prevention and research? The accusations of stigmatization would flow non-stop.

In other words, I’m not really writing this as a slap at Biden because I know his framing was just his typical fumbling. He’s an old dude with a mouth that just spews whatever comes to his mind without any thought for how it might come across. That’s why we shouldn’t have 80-year-old presidents.

Rather, it’s the double standard of the press that really gets me in this context. The same “journalists” who will try to shoehorn Trump into completely unrelated stories because they simultaneously hate him and are sustained by him won’t even comment on things that they would have lambasted any other Republican for.

I can hear the libs now. “Oh, Bonchie, you are just being hyperbolic. The press would never take something said by Trump that is completely innocuous and twist it into something it’s not.” Here’s CNN’s Jim Scuitto showing how right I am.

If you watch that clip, what Trump was actually saying was that he was physically in the room with China’s Xi Jinping at a meeting, not that he shared the same ideology “with” him. The former president was telling a story about the fierceness of our adversaries and the need to have a president who stands up to them. Yet, the press (Scuitto wasn’t the only one) rushed to frame it as Trump admitting to his own supposed authoritarianism.

So yeah, don’t tell me there’s not a double standard when it comes to how the news media reacts to framing issues between Democrats and Republicans. Biden gets a pass because he has the “right” politics. If he were a Republican, the calls for the 25th Amendment would be deafening.




The lengths they go to protect Stacey Abrams

When it comes to protecting Stacey, it’s all hands to the pump.

The lengths the corporate media and the Left will go to protect Stacey Abrams makes the efforts expended to protect Barack Obama look half-hearted by comparison.

Even the Clintons never got this level of air support.

I just don’t get it.

This woman was an unknown state politician who has never won statewide or national office. But these guys protect Stacey Abrams like a Secret Service agent jumping in front of a bullet to protect the president.

Abrams never conceded defeat in her 2018 race for Georgia governor. She’s spent nearly four years peddling her own “Big Lie” about rigged elections. But rather than declare her as an “election denier” who must never hold office, the media and the Left go out of their way to protect Stacey.

And this week, we learned that these guys are willing to become “Science Deniers” just to shield this woman’s fat ass.

The same corporate news media that loses its mind over every supposed “conspiracy theory” from the Right, this week went out of its way to give Stacey cover over her claim that there is no fetal heartbeat at 6 weeks and the ultrasound machines create a “manufactured sound” of a fetal heartbeat just so men can control women’s bodies.

Well, that’s just lunacy.

The corporate news media probably would have preferred to ignore Stacey’s BlueAnon conspiracy theory. But because her lunacy was immediately met with pushback, the Left and the media rushed in to save her.

Planned Parenthood updated its website to reflect Stacey’s lunatic claim.

The abortion mill used to say that during the 5- to 6-week mark, “a very basic beating heart and circulatory system develop.”

But after Stacey’s remarks, Planned Parenthood change it to read that at the 5- to 6-week mark, “a part of the embryo starts to show cardiac activity. It sounds like a heartbeat on an ultrasound, but it’s not a fully-formed heart — it’s the earliest stage of the heart developing.” [bold emphasis Dianny’s]

Meanwhile, “fact-checkers” in the media were quick to protect Stacey as well.

In response to the RNC posting the video of Abrams on Twitter, Washington Post “fact-checker” Glenn Kessler tweeted:

FWIW, “fetal heartbeat” is a misnomer. The ultrasound picks up electrical activity generated by an embryo. The so-called “heartbeat” sound you hear is created by the ultrasound. Not until 10 weeks can the opening and closing of cardiac valves be detected by a Doppler machine.

Radiologist Pradheep J. Shanker, a National Review contributor, replied to Kessler:

Glenn… This is scientifically and medically incorrect. 100%. Ultrasound can’t detect electrical activity. Who told you otherwise?

Ultrasound only detects density and motion. It cannot detect any electrical activity at all. This is a scientific fact.

It is true that the valves in the heart develop later. However, the cardiac muscles that are located in the embryological heart are contracting. They are in fact moving inward and outward. That is how you define a beat.

Is the beat the same as a fully grown adult beat? Of course not. We’re talking early and biological development. However, the cardiac tissue is contracting, which is literally what a beat is. To say otherwise is scientific misinformation, and cannot be treated otherwise.

I recommend @GlennKesslerWP you largely delete this post, completely correct it with somebody who knows the science and actually understands what they are talking about, and issue an apology because this is really a pathetic scientific document.

I can’t believe I have to report a fact checker to Twitter for misinformation. This is what we’ve come to.

We’ve come to this because the corporate media, for reasons I simply cannot understand, is willing to go to any lengths to protect Stacey Abrams.

In a way, I could understand the media’s full-throated defense if Stacey Abrams was the sitting Democrat governor of Georgia or a sitting US Senator. But she isn’t. She’s just a big-mouth Democrat activist who has yet to win statewide office.

The lengths they are going to protect this woman go far beyond the corporate media’s need to protect the Democrat Party’s embrace of unfettered abortion.

Keep in mind, Stacey Abrams has received this level of air cover since she lost her gubernatorial bid in 2018.

Remember how every Democrat presidential candidate traveled to Georgia to kiss her ring in 2019? Come to think of it, that’s what prompted me to dub her “The Female Al Sharpton.”

Every wannabe Democrat nominee repeated the claim that Stacey Abrams was the true winner of the 2018 gubernatorial race. Every single one of them.

For heaven’s sake, the media was even floating this woman as a possible running mate for Joe Biden.

I’m thinking if the media was forced into a Sophie’s Choice situation between Stacey Abrams and any other Democrat, they’d happily sacrifice anyone, including Barack or Michelle Obama, just to protect Stacey.

And I’ll be honest with you. I just don’t get it.

Can somebody explain to me why the media will go to such lengths to promote and protect someone like Stacey Abrams?

Aside from the fact that she is one of those dreaded “Election Deniers,” Stacey has only a razor-thin resume and the political instincts of a rotten banana.

This woman’s political future is so uncertain, I don’t even know if its heartbeat could be detected on an ultrasound.

And yet whenever Stacey’s gap-toothed gob gets her into trouble, these lunatics rush in to provide air cover while the rest of us look on in mystified disbelief.