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“If you can’t get the votes … you can’t [legislate] by executive order unless you’re a dictator. We’re a democracy. We need consensus.” —bumble/socialist/ scumbag/liar-Joe Biden in October

President bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden caved to the radical leftists running the Democrat Party, giving them what amounts to a major political victory this week. Reversing an earlier decision, the president announced Tuesday that he will (unconstitutionally and illegally) extend the home rental eviction moratorium until October 3. Heck, even bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden admitted while extending it that the moratorium is “not likely to pass constitutional muster.” It already didn’t in court. (More on that below.) bumble/socialist/scumbag /liar-Biden has flagrantly violated his constitutional oath.

If anyone was puzzled about who’s pulling the strings at the White House, they weren’t paying attention.

When the China Virus lockdown began wrecking the economy last year, Congress passed a temporary moratorium on home rental evictions to protect those who had lost their jobs due to the tanking economy. Which, if you’re keeping score, tanked because of the aforementioned lockdown.

The charitable view is that it was a well-intentioned measure to help less fortunate tenants. (Never mind how shredding rental contracts hurt cash-strapped landlords.) Well over a year later, however, it should be obvious to everyone that it was always a power move that amounted to state-sanctioned theft.

Congress’s temporary eviction moratorium ended in July 2020, but President Donald Trump called on the Centers for Disease Control to weigh in. Interpreting a broad spectrum of authority not previously thought possible, the CDC — an agency tasked with studying and containing infectious diseases — issued a temporary moratorium on rental evictions that was renewed three times by both Trump and bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden.

On June 29, the Supreme Court finally stepped in and … sidestepped the real constitutional issue. Though Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote that the CDC had “exceeded its existing statutory authority,” he reluctantly let the moratorium stand, because, he said, it would end “in only a few weeks” anyway. But he explicitly stated that after the CDC eviction moratorium ended on July 31, “clear and specific congressional authorization (via new legislation) would be necessary” to renew it.

Well, House Speaker scumbag/liar-Nancy Pelosi didn’t have enough Democrat votes to pass a new moratorium. So she called on the White House to reinstitute the ban through executive action, which bumble/socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden initially refused. The CDC was reaching way outside its purview in the first place, and White House lawyers wisely advised the president that neither he nor the CDC had the legal authority to institute a new eviction ban.

The White House first turned to the states, which have been sitting on billions of dollars in aid to help tenants pay their rent — $25 billion from Trump in December, and another $21.5 billion from bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden in March. Less than 10% of that money has been distributed. Only 36 of 400 state, county, and municipal recipients report having spent the funds. This should be more than enough to cover the nationwide rental backlog, which Moody’s recently estimated at $27 billion.

Leftists don’t give a rat’s rear end about constitutionality and Rule of Law. All they crave is absolute power, so the whole argument about legal authority blows like so much wind between their ears. They accused bumble/socialist/ bscumbag/liar-Biden of dragging his feet over what they label a crisis that could put millions of people out on the street. The so-called “Squad” even camped out on the Capitol steps to draw attention to their message. They want the moratorium continued until they are satisfied the economy is stronger. How much stronger, none of the Squad members will say, though their policies will only make it weaker.

In the end, it doesn’t matter. bumble/socialist/scumbag/ liar-Biden caved, dipped back into the totalitarian toolbox, and issued a lawless decree he publicly admitted he didn’t have the legal authority to make. The rationale is that Biden is hoping to stir the states to start spreading money around before the courts move in and shut down the moratorium. Whatever his “good intentions,” he has knowingly and willfully violated the Constitution and his oath to protect it.

This is no way to run a government. Again, it’s an arguably well-intentioned action to protect tenants from eviction because they lost their job due to a nationwide health emergency. But government meddling in the economy never produces good results. In this case, it threatens to bankrupt millions of property owners. It also means fewer prospective landlords will buy property or build housing.

Meanwhile, it creates a permanent underclass of renters who live on taxpayer money. For them, this amounts to an extension of “unemployment” checks. If you don’t have to pay rent, why go back to work?

We all know which road is paved smoothly with good intentions. The unconstitutional rental moratorium is good for a few miles on that bad road. ~The Patriot Post

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bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden is being ill-served by his handlers. Whoever told him to hit Florida Governor Ron DeSantis about his state’s growing COVID caseload clearly hadn’t taken the measure of the Sunshine State’s chief executive.

Of course, COVID caseloads are growing not just in Florida but in states across the country due to the newer Delta variant of the Wuhan coronavirus. However, our nation’s doctors and hospitals have learned and adapted, and much of the hysteria is being driven by leftist control freaks and their mainstream media trucklings.

In any case, an attack from bumble/socialist/scumbag/ liar-Biden is a clear sign of desperation and a see-through attempt to distract folks from the many miserable failures of his own administration. Unfortunately for Scranton  bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe, Ron DeSantis punches back. And that’s precisely what he did yesterday at a presser, after bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden called into question his “leadership” and his willingness to “do the right thing” and “save lives.” Said DeSantis:

I think the question is, we can either have a free society, or we can have a biomedical security state. And I can tell you: Florida? We’re a free state. People are going to be free to choose, to make their own decisions about themselves, about their families, about their kids’ education, and about putting food on the table.

And bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden suggests that if you don’t do lockdown policies, then you should quote, ‘get out of the way.’ But let me tell you this: If you’re coming after the rights of parents in Florida, I’m standing in your way. I’m not going to let you get away with it.

If you’re trying to deny kids a proper in-person education, I’m gonna stand in your way and I’m gonna stand up for the kids in Florida. If you’re trying to restrict people, impose mandates, if you’re trying to ruin their jobs and their livelihoods and their small business, if you are trying to lock people down, I am standing in your way, and I’m standing for the people of Florida.

Then came the knockout punch: “So, why don’t you do your job?” said DeSantis in closing. “Why don’t you get this border secure? And until you do that, I don’t want to hear a blip about COVID from you.”

The pathetic leftists at CNN, which went all of last week without attracting a measly million viewers to any of its shows, had their own hot take on DeSantis,  dismissing his fiery words as purely political: “The confrontation was the latest sign of how DeSantis — who is expected to be a top contender in the next Republican presidential primary if former President Donald Trump doesn’t run — is weaponizing his stewardship of the emergency to further his own political aspirations, previewing a possible 2024 White House matchup if  bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden seeks reelection.”

CNN has it wrong, though, and DeSantis clearly understands the battle lines that are being drawn. The choice that confronts the American people is one of freedom versus state-sanctioned biomedical overreach.

We’re reminded of what Ben Franklin said long ago: “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

The choice, then, is between Liberty and tyranny. Same as it ever was. ~The Patriot Post

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A bipartisan group of 20 senators introduced their $1.1 trillion “infrastructure” package on Monday, but the bill is anything but balanced in addressing the concerns of both Republicans and Democrats. That much is demonstrated by its heavy new spending on leftist agenda items, including essentially creating a first installment of the economically disastrous Green New Deal.

The spending bill does nothing to address our skyrocketing national debt, instead only adding to it. Moreover, it piles more burdensome regulations and costs onto the American taxpayer, serving to further limit individual freedom, innovation, and economic upward mobility — all under the guise of repairing and updating the country’s aging infrastructure systems.

But this $1.1 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, 2,702 pages in length, is merely the first installment for Democrats. Several of them, including President  bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden, have already tied it to further spending. Senator socialist/commie-Bernie Sanders also makes this case in a Wall Street Journal op-ed titled, “Why We Need the $3.5 Trillion Reconciliation Package.”

For example, he advocates for the government, which of course means American taxpayers, to pay for a laundry list of expanded schemes to redistribute income — universal child care, community college tuition for all Americans, guaranteed paid family leave and medical leave, expanding Medicare and Medicaid to essentially include everyone, affordable housing, citizenship to illegal aliens, and energy regulations that force Americans off fossil fuels and toward “sustainable energy to combat the existential threat of climate change.”

Of course, socialist/commie-Sanders knows that Republicans won’t go along with socializing America, so he advocates that Democrats must pass this monstrosity on a party-line vote. “If Democrats can’t get Republican support for these reforms,” he writes, “then we have to do it alone through the reconciliation process.”

While falsely asserting that Republican tax cuts primarily benefited the rich and larger corporations, socialist/ commie-Sanders contends that the Democrats’ use of reconciliation is necessary in order to “support the middle class and struggling families and, in the process, create millions of good-paying jobs.” It’s a lie that tax cuts only help the wealthy and hurt the middle and lower class, but repeating this class warfare falsehood continues to help Democrats get elected.

The best thing Congress can do is sit by and let the economy recover from the pandemic without interference from legislative “good intentions” that more often than not stunt economic recovery and growth. Rather than promising more handouts, lawmakers should be encouraging people who are not working to go out and fill the millions of job openings. Of course, socialist/commie-Sanders and his socialist posse know that doing so would prevent greater reliance on government, and in turn less opportunity for government bureaucrats to assert ever more control over Americans’ lives.

Politicians promising government-provided economic salvation is the road to authoritarian dictatorships and economic ruin. ~The Patriot Post

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Over the past weekend, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) refreshed its recommendation for all people to mask up, regardless of vaccination status.

It was slightly ironic, then, when during an interview with CNN on Monday, one of President bumble/socialist/ scumbag/liar-Joe Biden’s former top advisers, Dr. Michael Osterholm, admitted that cloth and disposable masks don’t work. His solution? We need better masking in the form of N95 respirators. In his words: “We know today that many of the face cloth coverings that people wear are not very effective in reducing any of the virus movement in or out. … We need to talk about better masking. We need to talk about N95 respirators, which would do a lot for both people who are not yet vaccinated or not previously infected.”

The bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration won’t want to admit it, but Dr. Osterholm is most likely correct regarding cloth and disposable masks. But what about his N95 remarks?

Masking has been controversial from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. If you recall, Dr. Anthony Fauci first stated that masks were ineffective, then flip-flopped. Study after study cropped up debating the efficacy of masking. In the spring of this year, the bumble/socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden administration finally admitted that if you are vaccinated, you don’t need to wear a mask. Then the Delta variant reared its ugly head, so masks are once again being recommended. School is just around the corner. Should kids be masked in the classroom? Should parents mask up to protect their unvaccinated kids? The Left would say yes.

Many conservative pundits were up in arms this week restating the major talking points on masks. Many of them conclude that masking is not at all effective in preventing the spread of COVID-19.

Podcast host Liz Wheeler broke down the studies — some of which the CDC even wrote — to debunk the efficacy of masks. After reviewing 20 studies in peer review journals, almost all of them said that masks do not work as personal protective equipment (PPE) or as a source control (wearing the mask to protect others). These findings predate the COVID pandemic. Some of the studies are even about the efficacy of masks used by surgeons. Even medical-grade N95 respirators were found to be dubious in preventing the spread of aerosolized particles. Ultimately, her findings suggest that the only kind of mask that would prevent the spread of infection would be those that basically suffocate the wearer. Talk about the cure being worse than the disease.

Adding important credence to Wheeler’s research, Dr. Jim Meehan, a surgeon and former medical journal editor, wrote in March:

Although surgeons do wear masks to prevent their respiratory droplets from contaminating the surgical field and the exposed internal tissues of our surgical patients, that is about as far as the analogy extends. Obviously, surgeons cannot “socially distance” from their surgical patients (unless we use robotic surgical devices, in which case, I would definitely not wear a mask).

The COVID-19 pandemic is about viral transmission. Surgical and cloth masks do nothing to prevent viral transmission. We should all realize by now that face masks have never been shown to prevent or protect against viral transmission. Which is exactly why they have never been recommended for use during the seasonal flu outbreak, epidemics, or previous pandemics.

Suffice it to say, even N95 respirators don’t appear foolproof. And even if they did, good luck getting 330 million Americans to sport them.

As our Nate Jackson observed back in April, “Perhaps the biggest problem is that you can find research backing up whatever opinion you choose to hold.” Ultimately, a trademark of the Left has been to use terror and bad science when dealing with COVID. When confronted with the truth — or even questions — they deem it misinformation or bend the studies to suit their agenda. One has to question the end goal of this latest flip-flop on masks. What is the efficacy of masks?

Is the mask push merely another shameless power grab? Almost certainly. Is this ultimately about bumble/socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden’s presidential legacy? Almost certainly. Is it an excuse to bolster Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections through reinstating the emergency voting alternatives? The timing sure seems suspicious. Whatever the case, it has nothing to do with the effectiveness of masking, which is hardly settled science.

Just ask socialist/commie/liar-AOC. ~The Patriot Post

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“You’ll eat much less meat. An occasional treat, not a staple. For the good of the environment and our health.” —from the video produced by the World Economic Forum (WEF) advocating for The Great Reset to one-world governance

It has often been said that California is a bellwether for the rest of the nation. If that is the case, the latest voter-approved regulations should warm the cockles of globalist oligarch hearts everywhere. Beginning next year, the Golden State will begin enforcing “The Farm Animal Confinement Proposition” that mandates more space for breeding pigs, egg-laying chickens, and veal calves. It was overwhelmingly approved by voters in 2018. Veal and egg producers across the nation believe they can meet the new standards, but a scant 4% of hog operations can currently comply. Absent court intervention, or the state temporarily allowing noncompliant meat to be sold in the state, California will lose almost all of its pork supply, much of which comes from Iowa. In addition, pork producers will face higher costs if and when they try to reenter the market.

In short, bringing home the bacon may become exceedingly difficult.

California already had a law regarding “cruelty-free eggs” that stated egg-laying hens, breeding pigs, and calves raised for veal must be given enough space “to turn around freely, lie down, stand up, and fully extend their limbs.” The new regulation gave farmers until the beginning of 2020 to provide each egg-laying hen at least one square foot of floor space. Beginning in January, all hens bred in California need to have completely cage-free housing.

When the proposition passed in 2018, Kitty Block, acting president and CEO of the Humane Society, was ecstatic. “California voters have sent a loud and clear message that they reject cruel cage confinement in the meat and egg industries,” she said at the time. “Millions of veal calves, mother pigs and egg-laying hens will never know the misery of being locked in a tiny cage for the duration of their lives.”

Currently, Californians consume approximately 15% of all pork produced in the country. Yet while California restaurants and groceries use about 255 million pounds of pork a month, its farms produce only 45 million pounds. Moreover, the time needed to build new facilities and inseminate sows makes it highly unlikely the pork industry will be able to adequately supply California.

The National Pork Producers Council asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture for federal aid to underwrite the costs associated with retrofitting hog facilities nationwide to fill the gap. Hog farmers reveal they haven’t complied due to the costs involved — and because California has yet to issue formal regulations regarding how the state’s new standards will be administered and enforced.

The California Department of Food and Agriculture rebutted those assertions, noting that even if the final details of the law remain unfinished, the main elements of the law have been known for years. “It is important to note that the law itself cannot be changed by regulations and the law has been in place since the Farm Animal Confinement Proposition (Prop 12) passed by a wide margin in 2018,” the agency stated in response to queries by the Associated Press.

Regardless, the costs associated with the mandate are not insignificant. According to Barry Goodwin, an economist at North Carolina State University, a farm with 1,000 breeding pigs would see costs rise 15% per animal. A study by the Hatamiya Group, a consulting firm hired by opponents of the state proposition, paints an equally daunting picture, noting that if half the pork supply was suddenly lost in California, bacon prices would jump 60%. Thus a package currently selling for $6 would rise to nearly $10..

Lawsuits have been filed by the pork industry, which is also asking Governor scumbag/liar-Gavin Newsom to delay the new requirements. And the Producers Council is also hoping meat already in the supply chain could be sold, which might delay shortages. Josh Balk, who leads farm animal protection efforts at the Humane Society of the United States, isn’t buying it. “It says something about the pork industry when it seems its business operandi is to lose at the ballot when they try to defend the practices and then when animal cruelty laws are passed, to try to overturn them,” he stated.

Restaurant owner Jeannie Kim, who kept her San Francisco diner alive during the coronavirus pandemic, sounds the alarm. “Our number one seller is bacon, eggs and hash browns,” said Kim, who has run SAMS American Eatery on the city’s busy Market Street for 15 years. “It could be devastating for us.”

She’s not alone. In Iowa, where approximately one-third of the nation’s hogs are raised, farmer Dwight Mogler estimates the changes would cost him $3 million, as a space that now holds 300 pigs could only hold 250 pigs going forward. As a result, Mogler said he’d need to earn an extra $20 per pig, yet as of now, processors are offering far less. “The question to us is, if we do these changes, what is the next change going to be in the rules two years, three years, five years ahead?” Mogler asked. Slaughterhouses are undoubtedly pondering similar questions as they will be forced to design new systems to identify and separate California-compliant hogs from pork that can be served to the rest of the country.

Consequently, analysts believe prices will soar in California but remain little changed in the rest of the nation. Yet they also believe that because California consumes so much pork, the rules imposed in that state may soon become the national standard.

In short, every American can expect already rising meat prices to soar even further into the stratosphere. And no one will be happier about it than those forever seeking to “improve” the lives of the “benighted” masses, even as they remain largely immune from those same “improvements.”

In this particular case, it will inevitably become, It’s bacon for me, but not for thee. ~The Patriot Post

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In the year since George Floyd’s death, a question arises: What is the actual legacy of the career criminal-turned-martyr for the so-called Black Lives Matter movement? For one thing, data specifically related to law enforcement and crime shows a decided downturn in society writ large and, more tellingly, in Floyd’s home city of Minneapolis.

The protests that erupted in Minneapolis following Floyd’s death quickly devolved into rioting, looting, and massive amounts of property damage, costing the city and business owners hundreds of millions of dollars. However, worse than the property damage — the majority of which, ironically, was contained in black neighborhoods — has been the subsequent spike in violent crime and homicides. The killings have left the city branded with the moniker “Murderapolis.”

In 2020, Minneapolis experienced a 58% increase in murders over the previous year, with 185 people killed, surpassing the former record high of 183 set in 1995. Much if not all of this spiking crime can be laid at the feet of leftist city leaders, who responded to the bogus narrative of “systemic racism” by voting to defund and otherwise limit law enforcement, all in the name of promoting “social justice.”

Not surprisingly, active police presence throughout the city decreased significantly, resulting in a growing crime wave. As Just the News reports: “Carjackings increased  537% year-to-date in November 2020. More than 550 people were wounded by gunfire in 2020, exceeding a 100% increase over 2019, Minnesota Public Radio  reported, while people shot more than 24,000 bullets in Minneapolis in 2020.”

Floyd’s legacy isn’t limited to Minneapolis. Major cities across the nation have witnessed similar escalations in violent crime. For example, in the nation’s capital, homicides are killing more people than COVID. Fox News notes, “The number of homicides in Washington D.C., surpassed coronavirus deaths in the city by a nearly 3-to-1 ratio in July as the nation’s capital continues to grapple with an uptick in murders.” Fox adds that DC “recorded 100 homicides by July 10 — the earliest the city has hit that number since 2003.”

The most unfortunate aspect is that most of the victims are black Americans — and black Americans are also the primary culprits. It would be more accurate to classify most of this dramatic rise in crime as black-on-black violence.

And it is this aspect of Floyd’s legacy that may be the most ironic. The face of BLM’s cry against supposed “racial injustice” has only served to ensure that more black Americans are left more vulnerable to crime, violence, and economic deprivation than they were before Floyd’s death.

Floyd’s true legacy is that his death has been used by devious and deceitful anti-American racist revolutionaries to attack law enforcement and the very core values of individual rights and liberty upon which this country was founded. It was those very values that served as the justification and motivation to end our nation’s dark legacies of slavery and Jim Crow. Legacies Americans rightfully lament. Yet it appears that Floyd’s legacy will be yet another chapter in U.S. history for which future generations should shake their heads in disbelief and shame. ~The Patriot Post

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Inquisition, n. An ecclesiastical tribunal for the suppression of heresy. A powerful office set up to root out and punish heresy, infamous for the severity of its persecution and punishment.

Seven months ago, hundreds of unruly protesters, some of whom were accurately characterized as rioters, trespassed into the U.S. Capitol building. Their intent was to disrupt the election certification proceedings of bumble/ socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden and his sidekick,  scumbag/liar-Kamala Harris. Disgracefully, some Capitol and DC police suffered mostly minor injuries during the confrontation.

Democrats have steadfastly refused to move on from this regrettable event, which is their best weapon for perpetuating their condemnation of Donald Trump and anyone who ever supported his policies.

It was a disgraceful and sordid affair, though far less deadly and destructive than any of the 574 riots by violent Marxist insurgencies – the leftist Demo-constituent Black Lives Matter and antifa mobs that besieged our nation for the six months prior to the “Capitol insurrection.” There were almost 50 murders directly associated with those violent riots, including several police officers — and  billions of dollars in damages.

Of the estimated 800 protesters who entered the Capitol building, about 550 have been charged and 27 have pleaded guilty. They should have been charged — as should every rioter across the nation.

Despite the Demo rhetoric, none of the DC rioters have been charged with “insurrection,” or anything of the sort. Yet many are still languishing in jail.

By way of contrast, regarding all the aforementioned burn, loot, and murder mobs across the nation, Democrat governors and mayors issued police stand-down orders so they faced limited resistance. Of the rioters who were actually arrested … remember these headlines:

In Minnesota, the epicenter of those riots: “Most Charges Against George Floyd Protesters Dropped.”

In New York: “Charges Against Hundreds of NYC Rioters, Looters Have Been Dropped.”

In Oregon: “Portland Drops Charges for 90% Arrested During Recent Riots.”

Apparently, those Demo governors and mayors have the same “catch and release” policy the bumble/socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden administration practices with the more than one million immigrants who have crossed our southern border in the last six months.

And in Washington, DC: “Nearly All Rioters Freed from Jail in D.C., Most Avoid Felony Riot Charges.”

Not only did DC release the SJRs (social justice rioters) last year, but recall the violent rioting thugs in our nation’s Capitol protesting Donald Trump’s inauguration in 2017 — of the more than 200 felony indictments, all charges were dropped.

Democrats are very politically selective in regard to the crimes they want to prosecute. Their message: When our constituents riot inside or outside the Beltway, no problem. When Trump constituents riot, “INSURRECTION”!

On January 6th, unfortunately, there was one death — a Black Capitol Police officer shot and killed a White, unarmed, 110-pound Air Force veteran, Ashli Babbitt. Imagine the scale of riots if this had been a White officer who shot and killed a Black, unarmed, 110-pound female veteran, who was a Biden constituent?

For months, House Speaker scumbag/liar-Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck scumbag/liar-Schumer insisted that protesters had murdered Officer Brian Sicknick, but that was a BIG lie.

scumbag/liar-Pelosi and scumbag/liar-Schumer desecrated Sicknick’s death by using it as political fodder for what they hoped would be a “9/11-type” commission, ostensibly to investigate the “insurrection.” Senate Republicans wisely blocked the formation of that theatrical charade, but a month later scumbag/liar-Pelosi established a House select committee to investigate, saying, “The timeline will be as long as it takes for them … to do the investigation of the causes of this … the white supremacy, the anti-Semitism, the Islamophobia, all of the rest of it.” Ah, yes, all those “white supremacists” as opposed to all the “black supremacists” the Demos coddle.

Of course, the high priestess of the inquisition would be the “devout Catholic” herself. And scumbag/liar-Pelosi hand picked her inquisitors: Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) to lead the clown show, and she included two Republicans, rino-Liz Cheney (R-WY) and rino-Adam Kinzinger, both of whom loathe Trump and voted to impeach him over the “insurrection.”

scumbag/liar-Pelosi launched her theatrical production last week, with claims of a “coup d'état, though it was most assuredly not that. As political analyst David Harsanyi notes: “It wasn’t the ‘worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.’ Nor did it veer anywhere near the vicinity of being as dangerous as 9/11. Nor was it a ‘coup’ or an ‘insurrection.’ It wasn’t a putsch. Nor did it, as Rep. Bennie Thompson claimed, come ‘dangerously close to succeeding’ in upending ‘American democracy.’ That’s all a myth.”

The irony of the coup d'état claim is rich — given the fact there were actually two Demo/deep state coup attempts  to take Trump down.

Nor were they “terrorists,” as noted by former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy in his indictment of the inflammatory language used by committee witnesses.

In fact, New York Times opinion writer Christopher Caldwell best described the events that day as “a political protest that got out of control,” in his rebuke of how Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley characterized Trump and the protesters.

I still think the most fitting description for the vast majority of those who entered the Capitol building on January 6th was my original assertion: They were “jackasses.”

Two standout remarks on the opening day of scumbag/ liar-Pelosi’s tribunal’s inquisition set the tone of what’s to come in this theatrical drama…

In his opening remarks, Bennie Thompson said, “While our institutions endured, and while bumble/socialist/ scumbag/liar-Joe Biden is the legitimately elected president of the United States … a violent mob was pointed toward the Capitol and told to win a trial by combat.”

Actually, no they weren’t.

rino-Liz Cheney insisted: “We must know what happened here at the Capitol. We must also know what happened every minute of that day in the White House — every phone call, every conversation, every meeting leading up to, during, and after the attack.” Short of those answers, she claimed, “We will face the threat of more violence in the months to come, and another January 6th every four years.”

Actually, no we won’t.

That being said, those rioting outliers who battled with DC and USCP officers deserve nothing but our strongest condemnation. The impact on those officers, many of whom, like Brian Sicknick, were Trump supporters, has taken a heavy toll. That toll may be connected to the four police suicides in DC since the Capitol riot.

Law enforcement officers have the highest suicide rate of any occupational group. The USCP are, basically, well-trained security guards, and totally unprepared for the events of January 6th, or the intense focus on their “failures” that day. That, combined with all the Demo-defund hatred directed at police in the last year, and stress of low manpower because so many officers have quit, has made the last year the worst on record for cops.

As for why the USCP and DC Police were unprepared, Rep. Jim Banks (R-IA), one of the Republicans whom Pelosi barred from the committee, declared: “Due to the rules of the United States Capitol, the power structure of the Capitol, scumbag/liar-Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, has more control and authority and responsibility over the leadership of the Capitol Police than anyone else in the United States Capitol. So she doesn’t want us to ask these questions because at the end of the day, she is ultimately responsible for the breakdown of security at the Capitol that happened on January 6.”

At best, this lack of preparedness, despite the warnings, constitutes “willful negligence,” and at worst, it’s a strategy to maximize the political fallout. Everything Pelosi has done to politicize the protest since implies the latter. One objective of that strategy may be to bait more violence.

For the record, the Capitol Police budget is $460 million — more than twice the size of the entire budget of the Atlanta PD and $100 million more than that of the Detroit PD. Of the law enforcement presence in DC, seasoned journalist Brit Hume noted: “I grew up in Washington and lived there most of my life and it is the most policed city in the United States with more different police forces active. I mean, you have the DC Police, you have the Capitol Police, and that’s a very large force when it’s deployed in, you know with everybody out. You’ve got the Park Police, which is no small force either. You’ve got the FBI. You’ve got the Uniformed Services Division of the Secret Service. You’ve got the Aqueduct Police. I mean, you’ve got the U.S. Mint Police, it goes on and on and on, and the total budget for it has got to be absolutely staggering.”

Hume added: “It doesn’t surprise me that the Capitol Police budget would be so large. What’s surprising is that so few of them were there ready and fully prepared to meet the onslaught that came in the aftermath of the Trump rally when those people went streaming down to Capitol Hill, and there’s a lot to be investigated here. … Why it was that they were so unprepared and undermanned, under-armed, and so forth to deal with that because had they been properly deployed, I think, we could all agree that these people would not have gotten into the Capitol and what happened would not have happened.”

Indeed, there are three questions that need to be answered but won’t be: Why did scumbag/liar-Pelosi fail to ensure the Capitol had adequate protection given all of the advance warning? Why did Pelosi lie about the death of Officer Brian Sicknick? Why does scumbag/liar-Pelosi continue to conceal the identity of the shooting officer and other circumstances of Ashli Babbitt’s death?

In his studied assessment of the inquisition, legal analyst John Hinderaker declared: “I don’t believe the Democrats are fooling anyone. The current ‘investigation’ is a joke, and I think everyone understands that. The New York Times et al. may pontificate about the ‘insurrection,’ but the whole thing is a farce.”

Finally, just before scumbag/liar-Pelosi’s inquisition opened, a Rasmussen Reports survey found that less than half the country supports her investigation. However, 66% of Americans want investigations of the BLM and antifa riots. As the survey revealed: “Majorities of every racial group and political affiliation support a congressional investigation of last year’s protests. … 67% of whites, 64% of blacks, 66% of Hispanics and 62% of other minorities think Congress should investigate the 2020 riots in U.S. cities. 75% of Republicans, 60% of Democrats and 63% of voters not affiliated with either major party say Congress should investigate last year’s violent protests.”

Meanwhile, the most dangerous person in DC the day of the Capitol riot, an actual terrorist, has not been arrested. The FBI and BATFE are offering a $100,000 reward for information to convict the person who left pipe bombs outside both the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquarters the night before the protest. ~The Patriot Post

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