Memo to Trump: Call Joe Manchin
Apparently, President Post Turtle, his heir-apparent puppeteer lowlife/liar-Kamala Harris, and their cadre of Democrat Party leftists now think it would be a good idea to “end the filibuster”! That is the only obstacle to establishing complete autocratic control of the nation.
You may recall, as political analyst Rich Lowry reminds us, “Back in 2017, more than 30 Senate Democrats, including lowlife/liar-Kamala Harris, signed a letter urging the tactic be preserved.” But I can assure you that lowlife/liar-Harris, as the Senate’s 50/50 tiebreaker, would punch that “yes” button in a microsecond!
The number two Demo in the Senate, scumbag/liar-Dick Durbin, now protests: “The filibuster is still making a mockery of American democracy. … It’s not the guarantor of democracy. It has become the death grip of democracy.” First, we are not a “democracy.” Second, the scumbag/liar-Durbin Demos make a mockery of our Republic when they abjectly violate their solemn oaths to “to support and defend” our Constitution.
Now, ostensibly, the only person standing in the gauntlet between Harris and ending the filibuster is Demo Joe Manchin of West Virginia, with Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema in his shadow.
A few days after the November election, but long before the upset Republican loss of both Senate seats in Georgia, Manchin promised, “I will not be the 50th Democrat voting to end that filibuster or to basically stack the court, and in all the other things you’re hearing about.” Asked about DC statehood, Manchin said, “I don’t know enough about that yet. I want to see the pros and cons. So, I’m waiting to see all the facts. I’m open up to see everything.”
So, will he now stand in the gauntlet? When it came to Manchin’s promise that he would only support a “bipartisan” pandemic “relief” bill — which the larded $1.9 billion blue-state bailout was not — Manchin folded.
In addition to DC statehood, Manchin may well fold on other lowlife/liarHarris/socialist/scumbag/liarBiden/scumbag/liar-Schumer/scumbag/liar-Pelosi measures, like their HR 1 bulk-mail balloting legislation to establish a perpetual Democrat majority in the future. That legislation is now before the Senate.
I can assure you that when the filibuster comes up, Chuck scumbag/liar-Schumer and scumbag/liar-Durbin will make Manchin and Sinema, in the inimitable words of Don Vito Corleone, “an offer [they] can’t refuse.”
If the filibuster falls, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says that all Republicans would withdraw from the Senate, preventing a physical quorum for controversial votes, which require the presence of at least 51 senators. And lowlife/liar-Harris doesn’t count, as she is not a senator. Such action would essentially shut down the Senate. As The Wall Street Journal editorial board observed, “A quorum without unanimous consent is 51 Senators, and there are only 50 Democrats. If Republicans kept their nerve in opposition, Democrats couldn’t confirm nominees or vote on legislation. The scumbag/liar-Nancy Pelosi/socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden agenda couldn’t move any more than if there were a filibuster.”
But there is a path to protect the filibuster, and in fact the entire nation, from the frontal leftist assault now underway.
In 2018, Manchin was reelected by a narrow three-point margin, winning a plurality of the vote by 49.57% because of a Libertarian spoiler who received 4.17%. Notably that year, no other West Virginia Demo congressional candidate came within 10 points of winning, and Democrats running for state seats were defeated by even larger margins.
Given that backdrop, recall that Donald Trump won the presidential contest in West Virginia by a whopping 39 points. Yes, 39 points. And Republican Senator Shelly Moore Capito beat down leftist Democrat Paula Jean Swearengin by 43 points.
If former President Trump wants to take a HUGE step to ensure the future of American Liberty today, he should fly Joe Manchin down to Mar-a-Lago and have a discussion about launching a recall vote in West Virginia – unless Manchin switches parties – thus representing his constituents and restoring Republican control of the Senate. ~The Patriot Post
Dems Roll Out the Immigration Welcome Mat
Millions of American citizens remain unemployed after a yearlong “15 days to flatten the curve” destroyed their jobs. There’s a crisis at the border as hundreds of thousands of illegals — including roughly 14,000 unaccompanied minors currently in custody — pour across at the behest of socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden’s administration. So, what better time for the House to pass amnesty for millions of illegals?
House Democrats (and nine Republicans) figuratively put up a giant neon welcome sign at the border when they passed the American Dream and Promise Act, granting 2.5 million people a pathway to citizenship and making another two million eligible for lawful permanent residence. These are the so-called “Dreamers” that Barack scumbag/liar-nObama worked to legalize under his DACA order. Meanwhile, 30 Republicans joined Democrats in passing the Farm Modernization Workforce Act, which would establish a pathway to legalization for another one million illegals doing agricultural work.
Speaker scumbag/liar-Nancy Pelosi crowed, “We say to the world we are making a very big difference in how we value the diversity of America.” How about valuing the jobs and wages of American workers?
The merits of these two bills are almost entirely beside the point. socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden has been president for less than two months and he’s already thoroughly torpedoed Donald Trump’s work to get the border under control. socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s press secretary, Jen Psaki, may want to refer to the “challenges” rather than the “crisis” at the border, but make no mistake: Crisis is the word to describe it. And it’s a man-made crisis.
This is not the time to be considering what to do about pathways to citizenship. “When you have a crisis at the border,” said GOP Whip Steve Scalie, “the last thing you should do is make it worse.”
But that’s exactly what congressional Democrats and the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration are doing. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has previously told migrants not to come “right now.” On Thursday, he continued the contradictory messaging to those sending minors across the border. “We say ‘do not come’ because it is dangerous,” he said. But then he added, “Some loving parents might send their child to traverse Mexico alone, to reach the southern border, our southern border. I hope they don’t undertake that perilous journey, but if they do, we will not expel that young child. We will care for that young child and unite that child with a responsible parent. That is who we are as a nation, and we can do it.”
Si, estamos abiertos. (Yes, we’re open.)
Did we mention that Mayorkas admitted to releasing illegals into the U.S. without COVID tests?
South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, for one, has had enough. Team socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden “has lost control of the border” and Mayorkas “doesn’t have either the will or capability to fix the problem.” In fact, Graham said, “It is time for DHS Secretary Mayorkas to change course or change jobs.”
The trouble is, Mayorkas is doing exactly the jobs Democrats want him to do. ~The Patriot Post
Will socialist/scumbag/liar- Biden Hold the Line in
The United States’s number one geopolitical foe is not Russia, as many on the Left would now have Americans believe. Rather, it’s China, or more specifically the Chinese Communist Party. The party in control of the world’s second-largest economy is champing at the bit to become number one, and it has been and continues to engage in a massive propaganda campaign intended to convince Western political leaders that Beijing is only interested in fair play. In reality, of course, fairness is the opposite of what the ChiComs are seeking — they’re after global dominance.
Yesterday began the first China-U.S. high-level summit under the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration, and clearly Xi Jinping is seeking to get socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden to back off from the aggressive stance Donald Trump initiated against China over its long-running trade abuse. The Wall Street Journal reports, “The measures China wants reversed include limits on American sales to Chinese firms such as its telecommunications company Huawei Technologies Co. and chip maker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp.; visa restrictions on Communist Party members, Chinese students and state-media journalists; and closure of the Chinese Consulate in Houston.”
In short, China wants to get back to a pre-Trump relationship with the U.S. While the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration is eager to continue its Trump-reversal campaign, there’s a particular lack of backbone when it comes to China. It’s difficult to ignore Beijing’s current human rights abuses — the concentration camps filled with minority Uyghurs and the crackdown on Hong Kong. But if the ChiComs can count on anyone, it’s socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden.
However, of all the items on the summit agenda, the biggest glaring omission is COVID-19, a.k.a. the ChiCom virus. Democrats, including socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden, have repeatedly derided Trump for calling out China for unleashing the global pandemic, ridiculously asserting that Trump was stoking anti-Asian racism. In fact, the Biden administration has decided to go all-in on this racism narrative, in part with the Atlanta murders, as a way to deflect criticism when socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden softens on China.
Interestingly, socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s recent comments essentially calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a “killer” may also be intended as a deflection tactic. Blaming the Russians is an effective dog whistle for the mainstream media, for one thing. Furthermore, it may serve to distract from a newly released U.S. Intelligence Community Assessment which found that China sought to influence the 2020 election in socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s favor. The report assessed “that China did take some steps to undermine former President Trump’s election chances, primarily through social media and official public statements and media.” That sounds … kind of like how Russia allegedly sought to influence the 2016 election.
socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden wants to appear tough on both China and Russia, but actions matter most. And on that front, we’re betting Biden will capitulate far too much to Beijing. ~The Patriot Post
How Big Business Got 'Woke'
These days, we’re bombarded by political messages wherever we go.
Here’s a scenario that’s becoming commonplace: When you pick up morning coffee, the baristas are wearing Black Lives Matter T-shirts. You arrive at the office to find the boss has brought in a special “antiracism” speaker during lunch. And on the drive home your favorite radio station plays a message announcing the station’s commitment to environmental and racial justice.
There’s one question everyone seems to be asking: How did this happen? Well, serious political movements take time, effort, and persistence, and American businesses took decades to become “woke” thanks to the tireless work of leftist activists.
Stephen Soukup, author of the new book The Dictatorship of Woke Capital: How Political Correctness Captured Big Business, argues, “These corporations are part of a movement that has been going on in the West and in this country in particular for the last roughly 100 years to move the culture very consistently and very aggressively to the left in order to more or less make ready the path for the revolution.”
Unfortunately, corporate heads sometimes don’t realize the revolution will force every decision they make to go through the approval of the woke mafia. Companies will be handcuffed by ideology, and they’ll lose customers.
Soukup describes what can be called ESG (environmental, social, and corporate governance), which “seeks to change companies, to change their boards of directors, to change their management, to change their bylaws in order to force them to comply with certain political beliefs.” Unfortunately, he says, “ESG has become a very pernicious and driving force in American business.”
Tellingly, those seeking to blackmail American companies into political submission have no issues when China clamps down on political dissidents or ignores criticism of its rampant violation of human rights. Apple doesn’t blink an eye when China asks it to shut off apps to keep citizens from organizing a protest in Beijing. And Disney doesn’t blanch when thanking the very ChiComs who are committing genocide.
In fact, too many businesses in America embrace the Chinese Model here at home. In recent years, some companies have threatened to take their business out of states that pass laws unacceptable to their new ideology-driven corporate culture. (Georgia, Hollywood, and abortion come to mind.) In China, corporations must adhere to an approved political ideology.
But capitalism isn’t supposed to work this way in America.
The relationship between business and consumers should rest on an exchange of supply and demand that’s free from politics. Customers have always been free to shop or invest elsewhere if they believe a particular company doesn’t represent their values.
But the current shakedown of American companies is only the beginning. Self-proclaimed “equity” scholars Erin Dowell and Marlette Jackson wrote in Harvard Business Review last year that companies need to take the next step by changing the culture and structure of entire organizations. Simply “‘woke-washing’ your company,” they insist, “won’t cut it.” They lay out a strategy for implementing wokeness that includes transparency, justification, compliance, and enforcement. And it must run top to bottom: “Fostering organizational justice will require a deep institutional commitment at the industrial, executive, and individual level.”
In other words, they want power.
Think about it. In less than 10 years, even Chick-fil-A transformed from a company supporting traditional marriage and the Salvation Army into one that donates to leftist causes while declining to donate to Christian charities. Companies of all sizes now feel pressured to stamp their culture-warrior-approved political values on restaurant menus, storefront windows, and websites. They hand over millions of dollars to the SJW mafia, but it’s never enough.
Unlike these fringe groups effectively holding guns to the heads of America’s companies, the unwoke masses just keep to themselves and hope it’ll all go away. “I don’t expect or want corporate America to embrace conservative causes,” Dave Seminara writes at The Wall Street Journal. “The March for Life shouldn’t be brought to you by New Balance. Unlike liberals, most conservatives don’t try to bully and boycott companies that cross us.”
But maybe that’s the problem.
Maybe it’s time we start fighting back. Perhaps that’s the only way to win a culture war being waged to politicize our society and turn Main Street businesses into purveyors of the Left’s radical, dangerous agenda. ~The Patriot Post
After-Effects of Washington Post Fake News
It happens too often to be a simple mistake. Major media outlets lead with a screaming headline implicating a popular figure in wrongdoing, which turns into days of media amplification — until the story begins to fall apart. But by that point the collective has moved on to the next thing, and if the bogus story doesn’t fall into the memory hole entirely when the correction finally comes, it’s buried on the proverbial page 25.
We told you on Tuesday about The Washington Post sheepishly “correcting” its bombshell of President Donald Trump trying to cajole officials in the state of Georgia to “find the fraud” in the 2020 election, but the story of this correction continues to gather steam as an indictment of the mainstream media regarding its laziness in actual fact-checking and over-reliance on “anonymous sources.” (At least, as Steven Hayward at Power Line teases, the Post doesn’t have to return a Pulitzer Prize for this one.) In this case, we’ve also learned that the anonymous source quoted originally was Georgia Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs, who had an “existing relationship” with one of the Post reporters with a byline on the story.
But the sad reality is that finding examples of these “mistakes” has become like shooting fish in a barrel. As for this case, veteran journalist Mark Hemingway described the fallout:
In sum: The Washington Post anonymously printed fabricated quotes they knew were from a second-hand source in the office of a political enemy, couldn’t confirm the quotes with additional sourcing, still attributed them to the sitting president of the United States, used those quotes as a basis to speculate the president committed a crime, and the Democratic party would later repeatedly cite the bogus article when attempting to impeach Trump for “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
While the Post now admits it got things wrong, what about every other outlet that ran with the story, claiming that they each had independently confirmed it? That incestuous relationship between media outlets was enough to get longtime political observer Glenn Greenwald to ask, “How Do Big Media Outlets So Often ‘Independently Confirm’ Each Other’s Falsehoods?” His own answer was unsettling:
All of this highlights the real crisis in journalism, the reason public faith and trust in media institutions is in free fall. With liberal media outlets deliberately embracing a profit model of speaking overwhelmingly to partisan Democrats who use them as their primary source of news, there is zero cost to publishing false claims about people and groups hated by that liberal audience. That audience does not care if these media outlets publish false stories as long as it is done for the Greater Good of harming their political enemies, and this ethos has contaminated newsrooms as well. Given human fallibility, reporting errors are normal and inevitable, but when they are all geared toward advancing one political agenda or faction and undermining the other, they cease to be errors and become a deliberate strategy or, at best, systemic recklessness.
We believe it’s the Leftmedia’s deliberate strategy.
It’s interesting, too, that our most recent previous president was rather restrained in his statement regarding the Post’s correction, although that wasn’t true of everyone. Yet there’s one particularly important truth the president reiterated in his statement: “You will notice that establishment media errors, omissions, mistakes, and outright lies always slant one way — against me and against Republicans. Meanwhile, stories that hurt Democrats or undermine their narratives are buried, ignored, or delayed until they can do the least harm — for example, after an election is over. … This latest media travesty underscores that legacy media outlets should be regarded as political entities — not journalistic enterprises. In any event, I thank the Washington Post for the correction.”
In our humble shop, we don’t depend on anonymous sources to do our daily news analysis, and we will cheerfully admit our bias is toward a conservative, constitutional mindset. And we know from our collective knowledge of history that American yellow journalism is as old as our nation itself, with competing newspapers and publishers printing their version of events up to and including libelous accusations on the character of those the publisher didn’t like. It was up to readers to be discerning on how much trust they put in the information provided, and the same holds true today.
Thomas Jefferson once wrote, “Newspapers … serve as chimneys to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.” Perhaps someone at the mainstream media outlets should open their damper because it’s beginning to stink in there. ~The Patriot Post
GARY BAUER
The Left's Big Plan
We’ve been telling you about all the things the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration is saying that are encouraging illegal immigrants to head to the border. White House Press Secretary liar-Jen Psaki did it again Wednesday.
She was confronted by a reporter who asked if there was a limit to the number of children showing up at the border that we would take in. liar-Psaki’s answer was essentially, “No.” She said:
“We are taking steps to ensure that when kids come to the border, we look and see if they have a phone number in their pocket so we can call the family member [in the U.S.] and get them to those family members as quickly as possible. Our policy continues to be, we are not going to send a 10-year-old back across the border.”
So, there you have it — yet another huge green light for migrants to quickly rush their children to the border.
Once that illegal migrant child is in Omaha, Nebraska, the legal process to bring in their parents is set in motion because the child is the “legal” anchor to bring in other family members.
By the way, President socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden conceded the other day that most of these “children” showing up at the border are not young kids. They are in fact 16- and 17-year-olds. Even worse, some are adults claiming they are 17.
socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s election and his executive orders repealing President Trump’s border security policies predictably created a crisis at the border. And now we’re all arguing about the word “crisis.” But we’re not even talking about the same thing.
To conservatives, who believe that border security is national security, the crisis is that hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens are pouring into our country, largely unvetted. The crisis is that our borders are not secure and are, effectively, meaningless.
But many on our side seem to be falling into the trap of thinking that socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden stupidly made an error when he repealed Trump policies and is compounding it by using the wrong rhetoric.
My friends, this was not an error. socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden and the progressives know exactly what they are doing. They know exactly what they are doing when they say things like liarPsaki said Wednesday. None of that is a crisis to the left. It is its intended public policy.
Many progressives proudly proclaim that “demography is destiny,” and they want to demographically transform the United States. By doing so, they can politically flip state after state, as we have seen in Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, and now even in Texas.
That’s not a crisis for the left. Massive immigration into the country, whether legal or illegal, is the goal. Again, you don’t have to take my word for it.
That’s the whole reason the left is all in for open-borders policies.
That’s why so many Democrats want to decriminalize illegal entry.
That’s why so many Democrats want to abolish ICE.
That’s why so many Democrats are eager to offer healthcare to illegal aliens.
And that’s why Speaker scumbag/liar-Nancy Pelosi is ramming through two amnesty bills in the House of Representatives.
The Left’s PR Crisis
The crisis for the left is that none of this is popular with the American people, but it is happening so rapidly that the average American is noticing it. In other words, for the left this is merely a public relations crisis that needs to be quickly contained.
But make no mistake about it: socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden and other administration officials are not incompetent. They’re not saying, “Don’t come now so we can build more border wall and hire more Border Patrol agents.” They’re saying, “Don’t come now because we can’t welcome you and process you fast enough.”
The only unintended consequence is that the illegal immigration is happening too fast and is too obvious.
The bottom line is that Democrats are putting the demands of non-citizens and their political self-interest ahead of the American people. They are bringing in massive numbers of people who will compete for American jobs and burden taxpayers, all with the goal of securing political power.
McConnell’s Warning
I am glad Senator Mitch McConnell made his speech Tuesday warning Democrats against eliminating the filibuster. But I think one of his arguments is a dead end.
He said that majorities are “never permanent” and that someday Republicans will be “back in the saddle.” He then rattled off an agenda that would please every conservative that could be passed with just 51 votes the next time the GOP takes the Senate.
I hope Senator McConnell doesn’t actually believe that. If Democrats get rid of the filibuster, they will ram through things like HR 1, which would nationalize election laws and make permanent all the things that enable widespread voter fraud.
They will severely restrict religious liberty and Second Amendment rights. They will pack the courts and pass a massive amnesty.
If Democrats can pass these bills, it will be very difficult, if not impossible, for conservatives to win another election. And that’s exactly why they want to eliminate the filibuster. This isn’t about policy. It’s about raw partisan power politics.
Exploiting Another Tragedy
As you know, there were terrible murders Tuesday at several Georgia spas or massage parlors. Eight people, including six Asian Americans, were killed.
Many on the left attempted to exploit the tragedy by blaming Donald Trump. socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden and Chuck scumbag/liar-Schumer immediately planted the idea that this was another example of white supremacy and racial hate crimes against Asian Americans.
The Atlanta police have said that there is no indication — none — that this had anything to do with the fact that the victims were Asian. The perpetrator was mentally disturbed. He had been visiting these parlors and claimed that he was addicted to sex. When he cracked, he brutally murdered the women he felt were causing him to sin.
So, why would the president and the Senate majority leader not wait even one day before blaming it all on America’s “systemic racism”? Well, that’s just part of the left’s general narrative now. It wants to drive home the idea that we are a racist country and that white supremacists are the danger.
By the way, the data does suggest that there is an increase in hate crimes against Asian Americans. It’s occurring mostly in urban areas that are liberal bastions of Trump haters.
Most big city mayors won’t release the data on who is committing hate crimes in cities like New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. But periodically surveillance video is released, and those videos show that the attackers of Asians are often other minorities.
Sadly, there’s a history of such attacks that goes back many years. That’s not Donald Trump’s fault. Nor is it evidence of America’s “systemic racism.” It is evidence of sin that has no skin color.
Fighting Back
More than 20 state attorneys general are suing the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration for canceling the Keystone XL pipeline. Their lawsuit claims that socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden exceeded his constitutional authority in canceling the project, which had approval from Congress.
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen blasted socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s order canceling the pipeline as “empty virtue signaling,” adding, “It shows socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s contempt for rural communities in Montana and other states along the pipeline’s path that would benefit from and support the project.”
And kudos to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis! The governor is proposing to revamp the Sunshine State’s civics curricula, and he drew a hard line against the radical left, saying:
“Let me be clear: There is no room in our classrooms for things like critical race theory. Teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other is not worth one red cent of taxpayer money.” ~The Patriot Post
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