Monday, May 20, 2024

Lessons from COVID Totalitarianism


The COVID police state revealed Western governments’ zeal for totalitarianism.  Forced masking, forced experimental injections, forced school and business closures, forced isolation, and forced compliance provided Western citizens an opportunity to see the tyrannical inclinations hiding just beneath the surface of their supposedly beneficent “democracies.”

None of it was pretty.  Mass propaganda disguised as medical expertise (remember when Joe Biden and his CDC army of Goebbels clones demanded that we wear three or more masks outside?) and mass censorship of social media conversations (because, we were frequently told, disinformation kills!) proved that — when push comes to shove — Western governments will quickly dispense with protections for free speech.  Wannabe dictators (intent on protecting “democracy” by being authoritarian) embraced their true “Do as we say!” dispositions and branded the public’s rights and liberties as “enemies of the State.”

Officials summarily punished anyone who resisted COVID’s descending Iron Curtain.  Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau seized the bank accounts and property titles of Freedom Convoy protesters.  Videos from Australia and New Zealand showing police forces blocking roads, securing quarantine camps, and pushing citizens back into their homes looked like scenes from a Mad Max movie.  California Democrats buried skateparks in sand, cordoned off jungle-gyms with yellow crime tape, and arrested lone surfers paddling in the ocean.  Abandoning moderation and constitutional constraints, Western totalitarians embraced intimidation, coercion, and surveillance on a wide scale.  

Throughout the West, governments prohibited places of worship from conducting religious services, recorded license plate numbers of congregants, and issued excessive fines to clergy.  Those same governments prevented families from comforting hospitalized loved-ones and forced spouses, parents, and grandparents to die heartbroken and alone.  In other words, Western officials tore families apart, inflicted tremendous emotional pain upon the most vulnerable, and denied the anguished any access to spiritual refuge.  It is no surprise that such intentional government malice produced skyrocketing rates of alcohol and drug addiction, lifelong psychological traumas, and a burgeoning epidemic of suicide.

So-called Western “democracies” masked their rank authoritarianism behind trite catchphrases such as, “We’re just following the Science,” or “We’re working at the speed of Science,” or “We trust the Science.”  For all intents and purposes, politicians, health professionals, and media personalities encouraged citizens to mindlessly follow orders and obey Science as this century’s Führer.  Herr Science did his worst.  Economic destruction, social breakdown, and medical apartheid naturally followed.  And while Western governments continue to censor public discussion of these serious issues, the “Reign of COVID Terror” represents the largest international conspiracy to commit crimes against humanity.  If justice as a juridical principle were still alive and kicking, a vast number of government officials and bureaucrats would be defending themselves before Nuremberg-like prosecutions today.  

It should also be noted that while many of governments’ most egregious abuses against citizens are now treated as if they never happened (e.g., it is all the rage these days for politicians and medical professionals to claim that nobody was ever forced to take the experimental clot shots), there are still ample reminders of the West’s foray into COVID totalitarianism.  The world’s largest social media companies (which have all been exposed as surveillance systems and propaganda platforms that variously do the bidding of China, the European Union, or the United States) continue to censor scientific debate regarding the origin of the virus (shocker: it leaked — intentionally or not — from a Chinese lab conducting biological weapons research bankrolled, in part, by the U.S. government), the efficacy of the so-called “vaccines,” and growing evidence that these experimental injections cause a large number of harmful (if not outright deadly) side effects.  Joe Biden stands by his vitriolic attacks against un-“vaccinated” Americans and his dire warning that they would be held personally responsible for the country’s “severe illness and death.”  The Pentagon persists in punishing servicemembers who refuse experimental injections.  The CDC and other health bodies remain ambivalent toward alternative treatment options that do not put big bucks in Big Pharma’s coffers — including long-prescribed drugs such as Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine and common-sense recommendations regarding diet, vitamin intake, and physical exercise.  The World Health Organization (and its globalist sponsors in the United Nations and World Economic Forum) remains committed to using the public’s irrational fear of COVID as a suitable pretext for ratifying a broad international pandemic treaty that obliterates national sovereignty and places unprecedented economic and regulatory power into the hands of a few imperious “elites.”  Always lingering in the background is the totalitarian craving to issue pandemic passports and institute a digital tracking system on a global scale.  Western governments were so close to electronically tagging citizens during COVID that you can feel the worst offenders’ consternation at having not entirely succeeded.  Make no mistake, the WHO, WEF, and UN will not be happy until we are all branded with this century’s version of the Holocaust tattoo.

Finally, even after four years of viral doomsaying has exhausted most, it is still all too common to find left-leaning businesses in left-leaning cities displaying guilt-tripping signs that beg customers to “mask up” or otherwise obey.  It seems that for those who bought the COVID Hoax hook, line, and sinker, no amount of medical quackery or Big Brother heavy-handedness will convince the indoctrinated to come up from their rabbit holes or back through the looking-glass.  As many a poker player will tell you, if you look around the table and can’t spot the sucker, then you are the sucker.  Unfortunately, too many COVID suckers in the West are still losing while playing at the government’s crooked table.

As Western officials target their own populations with cognitive warfare meant to shape perceptions and manipulate preferences, their use of positive and negative reinforcement on a grand scale has become pervasive.  Under these standard conditioning procedures, authority figures derisively dismiss people who use their brains to evaluate research and make informed decisions as “anti-vaxxers” or “anti-science” rubes.  Conversely, self-described “experts” pat the most obedient among us on the head, tell them how smart they are for believing everything they’re told, and roll out new booster shots as a kind of pharmaceutical reward.  Raise your hand if you’re still standing six feet away from fellow shoppers (even after the “experts” admitted to fabricating that rule out of whole cloth), wearing a mask while driving alone in the car, and injecting your body full of experimental goop.  If so, you’re a boob!

For those who long ago saw through Western governments’ calculated strategy of applying electric shock therapy to freethinkers while handing out toxic cookies to the perpetually-vaxxed, here is something else to ponder for the future.  What we experienced during COVID felt like pure insanity.  Medical doctors betrayed their ethical duties by pushing unnecessary and experimental medical treatments on young and healthy individuals without advising them of potentially catastrophic long-term side effects (otherwise known as obtaining informed consent).  Instead of encouraging people to go outside, engage in physical activity, get some sunshine, and breathe fresh air, municipal tyrants closed playgrounds, ticketed joggers, and trapped people indoors.  When cities such as New York began requiring “vax cards” to move around, a lot of worried people saw what was over the horizon and ran to their local farming store looking for seeds for their home gardens.  Amazingly, some of these stores closed their seed supplies to the public — ostensibly because COVID authoritarians wanted to curtail outdoor activity.  

The next time scientists release a bioweapon, Western governments will return to their 2020 mindset.  They will make a hard push for mandatory injections and digital vaccine passports.  They will cultivate citizens’ dependence on government services by limiting their ability to sustain themselves.  They do not want people growing their own food.  To fight totalitarianism, then, grow a freedom garden.



90,000 jobs added to economy in April, but the numbers may be misleading, economists say

 Last week, Statistics Canada released April’s employment numbers, reporting that Canada’s unemployment rate had remained stagnant at 6.1%, up 1% from April 2023.



https://tnc.news/2024/05/18/jobs-april-misleading-economists/

However, economists say that the headline figure of 90,000 jobs added to Canada’s economy is not as impressive as the Liberal government would suggest. 

In a comment to True North, Fraser Institute economist Matthew Lau said that Canadians should not be impressed with April’s job numbers, as much of the job growth has not come from private sector growth.

“In the past 12 months, there has been 5% public sector job growth vs. 1% combined private sector + self employment,” said Lau.

“Where employment growth comes from matters because in the private economy, people are employed producing goods and services people demand – whereas in the public sector, people are employed producing goods and services that politicians think people ought to demand.”

According to a report from the Fraser Institute, the share of government workers in the total workforce has risen to 21.2% as of 2022, higher than it has been for decades. 

Lau noted that the growth in the public sector has become a trend since Justin Trudeau’s Liberals formed government in 2015. 

“That the public sector continues to drive employment growth is an unhealthy sign: since the Trudeau government took office, the public sector employment growth rate has been more than double the private sector + self employment growth rate, and the economy has clearly underperformed.”

Despite adding 90,000 jobs in April, the unemployment rate increased slightly since Canada’s population growth averages out to more than 100,000 newcomers per month.

The Trudeau government has drastically increased the amount of new immigrants and non-citizen residents they would welcome into the country, ballooning Canada’s population to over 41,000,000. 

Furthermore, the rate of growth for hourly monthly wages have been decreasing, cooling from 5.1% to 4.7% in April. 

Canada’s economy also lost 11,000 jobs in the construction industry, a key sector for provinces and the federal government, as they set ambitious targets to increase the country’s supply of housing. 

The Canadian Housing and Mortgage Corporation projects that a drop in housing starts in 2024, and that rates of new construction from 2025-2026 won’t reach 2021-2023 levels. 

Both Prime Minister Trudeau and Ontario Premier Doug Ford  set ambitious targets to build new homes, pledging to build 3.9 million and 1.5 million homes respectively by 2031. 

BMO’s chief economist Douglas Porter warned that April’s job numbers may lead the Bank of Canada to reconsider dropping interest rates come the next interest rate announcement on June 5th, and that the inflation rate must drop if there are hopes the central bank will drop rates.

“Today’s showy headline jobs increase will give the Bank of Canada some pause, since it reinforces the point that the economy is clearly not rolling over,” said Porter.

“Markets are now back to viewing the June rate decision as a toss-up, with the April CPI on May 21 looming even larger.”

Despite the less-than-stellar assessment of Canada’s economy in the wake of April’s job numbers, the Trudeau Liberals continue their optimism.

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said that the job numbers were “great news” and that their government’s plan is working.

“Today, 1.3 million more people are employed in Canada than before the pandemic,” said Freeland, without acknowledging Canada’s population growth.

“Our economic plan which ensures fairness for every generation is working!”

X22, And we Know, and more- May 20

 




The Deep State and Globalism


Theodore Roosevelt spoke of an invisible government in his presidency (1901-1909). He was alluding to a hidden power behind the visible government that today is referred to as “the deep state.” It is the unofficial target of blame for action against the will of the people. A finger pointed at it in the last century that signaled a change to America that would end its freedom and independence. The following touches on that “dot” among the many that help explain the drive toward a “new world order.”

Among the “dots” associated with such an extraordinary change to America are a couple that helped lead the way toward global governance. One was the social turmoil that erupted in the 1960s, a false alarm for radical change that was aided and abetted by Marxist activists and by funds from the Soviet Unionduring the so-called “world peace/anti-war” movement. By 1980 it was hardly a secret that change agents had infiltrated major American institutions, intent on undermining this country’s culture and dismantling the America we all knew. It triggered a culture war, and as the 20th century waned it became evident that the drive to change this country included grooming Americans for life in a global society (a project for the U.N.?).

That objective was in fact announced publicly in 1991 by President George H.W. Bush when he declared (with a straight face), that a New World Order was coming that would end wars and establish peace throughout the world. In essence this was a recycling of the mission of the 1920 League of Nations that failed because the U.S. would not sign on. In 1945 the idea of global governance was resurrected with the launching of the United Nations, resuming the challenge to national sovereignty.

I watched, dumbfounded, as the commander in chief of our country stood ready to cede the sovereignty of the United States to a ruling authority above it. This would be an act that would sidestep the Constitution and terminate America’s independence and freedom. If this was what we were to expect, then the United States would cease to exist as one nation under Godindivisiblewith liberty and justice for all.

Were we to live in a world with no borders, governed by unelected officials? Enough such officials autocrats in history had turned their backs on their people and on God to make everyone wave red flags. Such a deficient vision of progress as announced by President Bush would certainly reverse any actual progress made in ending the master/slave social paradigm of past regimes. For an American president, sworn by oath to defend the Constitution of the United States, this was a treasonous position.

The move to establish a world order in defiance of the Constitution persisted, however, as differences between the political parties began to fade and morph into a “Uniparty,” and as baby-boomer professionals filled positions of influence and authority in industry, politics, school, church, entertainment, and the arts. We inherit the resulting changes in American culture and in many fields of endeavor that had been positive indicators of a thriving and vibrant America. It may be asserted with confidence that a continuing decline in the quality of life for Americans has been noticed by most of us.

And where has the “watchdog press” of this country been all the while? Was it not their job to investigate and report on evidence that Americans were being indoctrinated against their basic beliefs, traditions, and way of life – in school, in church, at work, in entertainment?

America’s decline from a previous high mark in the quality of life of its citizens was a topic that was not covered by the mainstream media. Today that decline needs no reporting, for it stares us all in the face. The pretense of leftist VIPs that America is a better place than ever and on the right track shows the quickness of leftists to lie.

The drive toward a new world order, since its presidential proclamation in 1991, is obviously not taking us to a world fit for human habitation. It is a world certain to be run by men with no real interest in humanity, as the World Economic Forum demonstrates. Such leaders as these are unfit to govern anyone, let alone everyone.

Millions are noticing a world that is not on the right track and is not headed toward a better place than ever. They are seeing a world on the wrong track and rapidly growing worse than ever, a world where – to borrow a phrase from William Shakespeare – “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”

The growing disorder, worldwide, the untimely death of millions on account of mindless and heartless policies and senseless wars, the increasing chaos and violence, have their roots in disordered minds of individuals who, like George Soros, Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates and numerous other mindless and heartless leaders push “progress” toward ever greater heights of insanity. They speak often of imagination, yet cannot imagine how far from reality their visions for the world and for people may in fact be.

A lesson they may yet learn is that when people, truth, and God unite, they must face a power that is insurmountable.



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The Left’s Funny Definition of Fascism


According to weirdos, Donald Trump’s likely return to the White House will usher in an age of fascism unprecedented in American history, which is odd since a Trump presidency was recently precedent in American history, and that interregnum of constitutional governance brought us our only respite from nascent fascism – as defined by people who know what fascism is – in the last fifteen years or so. We heard this in 2016, too, and in 2020 as well. Hysterical warnings about Trumpussolini are all the rage again, only they are more hysterical than before as it dawns on the left that maybe renominating a corrupt, desiccated old pervert publicly sundowning his way to Senility City even as he wrecks the economy, betrays our allies, kills our soldiers, prosecutes political opponents, and invites the entire Third World to camp out on our collective lawn makes for a president whose popularity going into the election is comparable to that of colon polyps and lung cheese.

Leading the way is The New Republic, with a typically subtle illustration of Trump glowering with a Hitler mustache because the parallels between the genocidal Bavarian house painter and the Playboy bunny-tapping Queens playboy are obvious to anyone with an agenda or a brain defect, or both. The venerable magazine recently devoted an entire issue – they actually still print this thing? – to the idea that the rise of Trump is the death of Our Democracy. This might be true. Correctly focused, the Trump 2.0 administration could be the death of Their Democracy and the resurrection of Ours. While the commies are right to fear that a conservative-populist government led by a now-experienced president fresh off multiple attempts to frame him into prison for the rest of his life will shatter all their pinko dreams, their notion of how this equates to fascism is a bit odd in the sense that none of the things they purport to fear constitute “fascism” in any sense of the word other than the one whispered into their brains by the voices in their heads. It is performance art, without the art and with typically flaccid performance. The issue is written by the political commentary equivalent of a lonely hard-5 sophomore at an expensive but generic liberal arts college whose daddy and mommy just don’t get her and who obsessively scribbles florid prose into her dream journal about the injustices she has suffered, raging at how the world refuses to accept that she is special, damn it, and deserves attention. But she doesn’t deserve attention, and to the extent The New Republic’s toobinesque fantasy of coming oppression – would that be so! – deserves attention, that attention is justified only as part of a comprehensive campaign of mockery. 

Let’s look at what TNR says constitutes “fascism,” but not to point out that leftism makes no sense to the rational mind. To do so would be to misunderstand the essence of leftism, which is that nothing matters but leftism. They might or might not know their definition makes no rational sense, but what they objectively know is not the point. Leftism frees you from the surly bonds of facts; it’s liberating when you need not concern yourself with petty bourgeois conceits like consistency and making sense. This is why we get “Queers for Palestine '' eagerly stanning the Seventh Century sociopaths who would eagerly toss them from the nearest rooftop, and why you get this cracked and kooky version of fascism. We, the base, get that it’s entirely insane, but we are neither shocked nor appalled. We accept the enemy as it is. But normal people will be shocked and appalled until they too are based, so, to the extent we observe that the communists crying fascism are not actually decrying “fascism” but embracing it, we do so to freak out the squares and inspire them to join us in our campaign to purge the hateful stain of Marxism from our country and then from the world.

So, what is the fascism that Trump will rain down upon us? Here’s a juicy one: “On law: Trump could make use of the discretionary powers available to the executive branch to direct the FBI and the Department of Justice to target his political rivals as well as private businesses and media organizations.” Yeah, imagine a president who made use of the discretionary powers available to the executive branch to direct the FBI and the Department of Justice to target his political rivals as well as private businesses and media organizations. Man, that would be awful.

Or how about this? “On politics: Hungary’s Orbán is a muse of Trump, the GOP, and the Heritage Foundation for his success at a brand of authoritarian governance that Trump’s second administration would seek to consolidate: personalist rule.” You know what country I think of when I think of authoritarianism? Not the one Biden left $80 billion in weapons to, or the one whose mullahs get billions from Biden. No, it’s the one that has free elections where the people reject the EU’s determination to turn them into yet another rainbow flag Third World freeloader destination. Nothing says “fascism” louder than an elected leader rejecting society-changing decrees by extra-national bureaucrats!

Here’s a doozy: “On the border: Trump’s promise to round up undocumented immigrants in the United States and to place them in vast, militarized detention camps near the border, most likely in Texas, to await, without any due process, their deportations.” Nothing screams “fascism” like enforcing the laws enacted by the people’s representatives in Congress. TNR fails to explain how it’s a “democracy” if one guy simply decides, on his own, that he will not enforce the laws. I thought one-man rule by decree was bad. I guess it depends on the one man.

And look out – Trump’s going to be mean to the media and suppress dissenting voices! “On the media: Trump is vowing to investigate media outlets that challenge him. His fans have been primed for revenge and for freedom from fact. If the chill descends in 2025, no one can claim to be surprised.” We can only hope that Trump does not cooperate with media outlets by enlisting, say, 51 members of the Deep State to silence stories about his corrupt family, or to suppress dissenting medical information, or stuff like that.

And think about this chilling reality under Trumphitler: “On culture: Trump and his political-media operatives prefer manufactured outrage directed at the cultural ‘garbage’ served to the aggrieved activists more than they do difficult legal efforts to outright proscribe texts and artistic events.” Book bannings will abound under Trump – imagine a country where perverted texts are not available to fourth graders!

Watch out – the Army is coming! “On the military: Trump is fond of military pomp and circumstance, and fonder still of power. He has signaled his desire to use the U.S. military to suppress domestic protest and aid in mass roundups and deportations of undocumented immigrants.” With Trump as commander-in-chief, we might not invade East Wherethehellistan! Nor will we use our drones and F-16s on Americans with AR15s!

He will muzzle the teachers! “On education: Bringing educators under gradually more intrusive laws restricting their freedom creates a climate of fear and intimidation. When laws target anyone who challenges the greatness of a nation, it’s not a positive sign for democracy.” Nothing says “fascism” like elected representatives instead of unaccountable bureaucrats determining what is taught in public schools – “educators” have a right to your money to pay them to spread their ideology to your kids! And what kind of monster wants schools teaching about the greatness of our nation?

Remarkably, the big danger is that, under Trump 2.0, our daily lives will not change! “On daily life: If the worst comes to be, and democratic liberalism begins to fray in America, daily life will always go on, as it did under the worst regimes in history. We’re going to live through it, but it’s going to be harder on us.” Remember, “fascism” is when it is harder on them – “democracy” is when it is harder on you and me.

Well, that’s a chilling vision of the future. Not. In fact, that’s pretty much the greatest pro-Trump advertisement I’ve ever read. The only way it could be better is if it had Trump promising communists free helicopter rides. 

No, this issue of The New Republic – like all these “TRUMP IS GONNA FASCIST US SO HARD!” ravings – is an in-kind contribution to the Trump 2024 campaign. And the fussy, femmy fanatics at TNR better disclose it as such to the Federal Elections Commission or the Trump Department of Justice might just send in the FBI to arrest them all for campaign finance violations. 



I Can’t Stand These Democrats, Part 1


That title makes it sound as though it is limited to a few Democrats, the ones I will mention in this column. That’s not the case. It’s all of them; every last worthless, anti-American, corrupt, perverted, divisive, accusatory, manipulative, hypocritical one of them. They are some kind of special jackasses who can talk about how they’ll “bring the country together” while calling half the country Nazis, they’ll talk about working across the aisle while insisting they’ll “stop those MAGA Republicans.” I don’t blame them as much as I blame the people who fall for it and vote for them, but I still blame them a whole lot, because I can’t stand any of them. So I thought I’d highlight some of them in various columns before the election, starting with Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware.

I had never heard of Lisa Blunt Rochester until this morning, when I opened by email to see one pretending to be from her. Apparently, she’s a Member of the House of Representatives from Delaware. There are 435 voting Members of the House, most of whom you’ll never hear of because they’re irrelevant back-benchers without any legislative accomplishments. Rochester is one of those. 

After a short time in the House, she now wants a promotion to the Senate, since another worthless Delaware Democrat – Senator Tom Carper – is calling it a day. 

She has only been in office since 2017 and literally has zero accomplishments – you know you suck when even your Wikipedia page, which you can have staff manipulate and can claim to have “led the fight” for whatever bills you may have co-sponsored, offers nothing as legislative accomplishments. Seriously, all it basically says is she voted to impeach Trump twice and had a viral moment at a committee hearing. She’s been paid $1.2 million over her few years in office, and will get a nice pension, and she can’t even cook up something to lie about on an open-source platform where the word of Democrats is taken as gospel. Pathetic.

She’ll fit right in with other Democrats in the Senate.

Why will she win? Well, she’ll win the Democratic nomination because the party machinery is working for her. She’s the chosen one. As evidenced by Carper’s existence and Joe Biden having held the job for decades, the party machine in Delaware likes them stupid. Once they tap a candidate, the election is a formality. 

She’s also “a woman of color.” 

Yep, she’s running on the “I’m a minority, vote for me” platform, essentially. A fundraising email from her, which is really for the Senate campaign of Adam Schiff in California and they’ll split the money 50/50 (even though they’re both basically safe and don’t need the money for anything other than subsidizing their lives as they cosplay candidates), opens with, “Friend, this is the document that granted my great-great-great grandfather the right to vote in 1867. The significance of this is not lost on me – 146 years later, I’m running to become the first woman and person of color to represent Delaware in the Senate.”

There’s a picture of her holding up an ugly scarf with what appears to be a voter registration card printed on it. I assume that’s the document she’s talking about. 

It’s from Georgia, and she doesn’t mention that she’s a member of the party that, just a few years later, stripped her grandfather and people like him in the south of that very right through Jim Crow law, poll taxes, etc., after Democrats successfully ended reconstruction and brought back oppression of black people. But why let the facts stand in the way of a good story?

Her email continues, “I carry the story of my ancestors with me every day. It means so much to me that my sister Thea made it into a scarf. The day I was sworn in, I carried that scarf. It was surreal – knowing how far my family, and so many families of color, had come. All the way from being enslaved, to finally getting the right to vote, to being elected to represent the First State. I also carried that scarf on the day of the January 6th insurrection. On such a dark day for our democracy, my scarf served as a reminder that every effort to undermine our democracy has been met with voices of power and reason.  And I intend to carry that scarf when I’m sworn in to the Senate.”

 Her hands are free to carry almost anything, unincumbered by legislation she’s championing or anything else an effective elected official might carry.

It’s an ugly scarf that she, apparently, never washes, because she’s got it with her all the time. Prop comics always have their best props with them.

That was it, by the way. That was the whole reason she gave to give money to her campaign it doesn’t need – that she’s black and has this scarf. Glossed over is how she’s worth about $10 million and led a pretty privileged life of private schools, schools abroad, and living overseas. Nope, no need to mention that – just that someone in her family tree long before she was born, someone she never met and likely never really thought of as more than a political prop, left a paper trail she’s able to exploit. 

Poverty tourism – when a wealthy politician goes and visits a poor area like it’s a zoo – annoys the hell out of me. Frauds and phonies annoy the hell out of me. And people who use things they had no control over, like their gender, skin color, etc., to get ahead annoy the hell out of me. 

Lisa Blunt Rochester hits the trifecta. 



Tim Scott Reminds Americans of Joe Biden’s Association With a KKK Member

Sarah Arnold reporting for Townhall 

As President Joe Biden scrambles to gain back black voters ahead of the 2024 election, his past may crawl back to bite him. 

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) is reminding Americans that Biden has close ties to “racist” and known member of the Klu Klux Klan (KKK), Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV).

He criticized the media for suppressing the story, that had it been a Republican, the press would be eating it up. 

Scott said Biden’s words and actions are a “disgusting reflection on who he is,” accusing him of dividing the nation rather than bringing unity. 

“The thing that is the most unbelievable to me and if it were a Republican probably would be career-killing, which is him partnering with his friend and mentor, a former Klansman to stop the integration of public schools and busing,” host Sean Hannity said. “Even Kamala Harris criticized him for that — in that — that presidential primary debate in 2020. I was that girl, I believe she said, and because he didn’t want public schools, his words, to be racial jungles. Am I like the only one in the country that dares to bring this up and ask incredulously why doesn’t anyone care about that?”

“You know, they’re not playing that on CNN,” Scott replied. “You know they’re not playing it on MSNBC. They are not sharing the truth of who Joe Biden has always been. We should run commercial after commercial with Kamala Harris telling Joe Biden what he did in the 1960s, and in addition to that, we should make sure that his words of the jungle, what a disgusting reflection of who he is. I will say this without question, jobs and justice are moving more Black folks toward Donald Trump, because we want fairness and what we hear from Joe Biden over and over again is a pandering tour. But your have 100% right, to associate with a racist, a KKK member, and to celebrate it, you can only do that when all of the national media goes dark. They won’t cover any negative news on Joe Biden.” Via Breitbart News. 

Recent polling average found that Biden’s support among black voters declined by 12 percent since 2020. Meanwhile, more than double of black Americans— 22 percent— indicated their vote would go to former President Donald Trump. 

A New York Times/Siena survey found that Trump is winning more than 20 percent of Black voters in the poll -- which, according to the NYT, would be the highest level of Black support for a Republican presidential candidate since the Civil Rights Act was enacted in 1964. 



This Graph on the Economy May Be the Most Damaging for Biden for the 2024 Election


Nick Arama reporting for RedState 

There are a lot of things that Americans may consider when they go into the voting booth and pull the lever for their candidate. 

But one of the most important issues for voters is always the economy. 

The problem for Joe Biden? Most Americans have given him very low marks for Bidenomics and what he's done on the subject. It's not hard to understand why, with inflation crushing people and everything costing more. 

Biden's take on the whole thing? Well, the polls are wrong and Americans just don't get it. He went into poll denialism on Saturday in Atlanta during a campaign event.

However, telling Americans they're dumb and what they feel in their wallets isn't real hasn't been a winning strategy for him so far. But Joe Biden isn't exactly the sharpest tool in the drawer:

Now the Wall Street Journal is out with a couple of graphs that former President Donald Trump should use in an ad because the view is stark and it just says so much. The graphs deal with household net worth: what it was under Trump, then what it is under Biden. And the killer part is the "adjusted for inflation" one: 

The WSJ notes that the total household net worth rose 19 percent through Biden’s first three years in office, but it was higher, 23 percent, through Trump’s first three years. But the real kicker was after doing the adjustment, under Biden, net worth only goes up 0.7 percent through his three years versus 16 percent through Trump's. 

So under Biden, factoring in inflation, it was basically flat. 

This explains why people are feeling crushed -- because they are, whether Joe Biden admits it or not. 

You can see it still goes up for a bit after Biden comes in, still riding off Trump's economy. But it levels out, and then takes a dive when the Bidenomics and inflation start kicking in. 

How can anyone argue in favor of Biden in the face of this? That's why people are feeling that the differences are so stark. This is one of the main reasons why Trump is leading in the polls and picking up steam. People can tell how comparatively well off they were then, and how they're behind the eight ball now with less money. 

Joe can talk all he wants, but this is the reality. There's a reason he's hemorrhaging voters, and why states no one thought would be in play are now in play: 


Judge Aileen Cannon Is Concerned, Disappointed in Jack Smith's Treatment of Sealed Materials


Susie Moore reporting for RedState 

So much of the focus on former President Donald Trump's legal matters has been on the Manhattan case of late — for fairly obvious reasons: The trial is ongoing, and possibly due to wrap before Friday. But while the other three criminal cases against Trump currently sit in limbo (for a variety of reasons), the parties are still filing pleadings and arguing motions before Judge Aileen Cannon in the Southern District of Florida. 

Cannon is overseeing the classified documents case, which was filed following the infamous raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in August of 2022. Special Counsel Jack Smith leads the prosecution in that one (as he does in the case pending before Judge Tanya Chutkan in the D.C. Circuit over purported election interference). The parties have been wrangling over the necessary redactions in pleadings filed, with that issue being particularly thorny given that the case involves classified documents. 

As RedState reported earlier in May, Judge Cannon has indefinitely postponed the trial in the case due to the Department of Justice's mishandling of evidence. Around the same time that mishandling came to light, it was revealed that Smith's top prosecutor, Jay Bratt, met with White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain back in September 2021, almost a year before any classified documents were discovered at Mar-a-Lago. That revelation came about compliments of a newly unsealed motion. 


Jack Smith Confirms He Tampered With Evidence, Admits to Misleading Court

Judge Indefinitely Postpones Trump's Classified Docs Case


Now, Cannon has issued an order further clarifying certain pleadings to be filed and redactions she's granting (and denying) in them as to both parties. The full order may be viewed below, but one key takeaway from Cannon's ruling is that she's concerned about the Special Counsel's representations in relation to the redactions for which they were advocating.

After setting forth her rulings as to redactions requested by Trump's legal team, Cannon turns her focus to those requested by Smith's team, noting: 

In closing, the Court deems it necessary to express concern over the Special Counsel’s treatment of certain sealed materials in this case. 

...

In response to those inquiries, counsel explained that the Special Counsel took the position on unsealing in order to publicly and transparently refute defense allegations of prosecutorial misconduct raised in pretrial motions. Fair enough. But nowhere in that explanation is there any basis to conclude that the Special Counsel could not have defended the integrity of his Office while simultaneously preserving the witness-safety and Rule6(e) concerns he has repeatedly told the Court, and maintains to this day, are of serious consequence, and which the Court has endeavored with diligence to accommodate in its multiple Orders on sealing/redaction. The Court is disappointed in these developments. The sealing and redaction rules should be applied consistently and fairly upon a sufficient factual and legal showing. And parties should not make requests that undermine any prior representations or positions except upon full disclosure to the Court and appropriate briefing.

(Emphasis added, citations omitted.) 

I don't know about you, but there was little worse when I was a kid than having my parents express disappointment in me. I doubt it feels much better to have a federal judge do the same. Not a banner day for Jack Smith.