socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s Leftmedia Super PAC
Imagine the uproar if former President Donald Trump’s press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, had insisted that the media could only quote her boss or members of his administration if they first sent the quoted material to her to approve, fix, or nix.
Because that’s exactly what socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden’s communications team is doing — and has been doing since the 2020 presidential campaign. So while Trump was out there on the White House lawn, fearlessly taking on all comers, old Scranton socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe and his staff were cowering behind a team of media fixers.
We might call that an in-kind campaign contribution to Team socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden. And we might also call the mainstream media what they essentially are: a socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration super PAC.
The practice is called “background with quote approval,” and it’s tailor-made for an authoritarian administration whose policies are indefensible and whose communications are incoherent. Indeed, when socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden says something stupid to a reporter, or when one of his cabinet members accidentally utters an inconvenient truth, the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden poop-scoopers insists on being able to approve, edit, or veto it before it ever sees the light of day. So if you think Team socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden has trouble getting its story straight now, imagine what it's unexpurgated effluent would sound like.
Clean-up on aisle two … and on aisle six … uh, and aisle three!
The policy runs so contrary to the notion of a free and independent press that even the New York Times’s chief White House correspondent, Peter Baker, is disgusted by it. As Politico quotes him, “What started out as an effort by reporters to get more transparency, to get people on the record more, to use fewer blind quotes, then got taken by the White House, each successive White House, as a way of taking control of your story. So instead of transparency, suddenly, the White House realized: ‘Hey, this quote approval thing is a cool thing. We can now control what is in their stories by refusing to allow them use anything without our approval.’ And it’s a pernicious, insidious, awful practice that reporters should resist.”
But let’s not tip our caps to Baker or the Times just yet. He admits that he’s guilty of the very practice he decries — even though his paper barred the practice back in 2012. That was when a Times reporter embarrassed the cage-liner of record by noting that quote approval had become “standard practice for the scumbag/liar-nObama campaign … in Chicago and at the White House.” And this is the same paper that made socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden campaign-dictated edits to its belated coverage of Tara Reade’s allegations that socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden sexually assaulted her.
Nor are the authors of the Politico piece squeaky clean. Both Alex Thompson and Theodoric Meyer admit to having prostituted themselves to White House communications director Kate Bedingfield. “Close to deadline and with our editors giving us side-eye about filing late, we agreed.”
Uh-huh.
The Trump team apparently used the practice, too, but Thompson and Meyer report that they “did so less frequently than socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s team.” How much less frequently? They don’t say.
What’s perhaps most remarkable about the corrupt practice, though, is that socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden Press Secretary liar-Jen Psaki makes it sound like she’s doing the normally supplicant Leftmedia a favor. “We make policy experts available in a range of formats to ensure context and substantive detail is available for stories,” she said. “If outlets are not comfortable with that attribution for those officials they of course don’t need to utilize those voices.”
Translation: If you don’t like our rules, we know plenty of other lickspittles who’ll be more than happy to play along.
Retranslation: Pound sand and like it, you toadies. ~The Patriot Post
Tyrants Keep Mask Mandates
The clear message from Democrat tyrants is that vaccines don’t work. We’re only partly serious, of course, because while that is indeed the message Democrats are sending, the real story is that they just won’t let go of power.
We’ll start with House Speaker scumbag/liar-Nancy Pelosi. Despite the CDC’s big announcement Thursday to grant fully vaccinated Americans “permission” to go maskless, scumbag/liar-Pelosi says the House will still require masks. “No,” she said in answer to a question about ending the mandate. “Are they all vaccinated?” She added, “We cannot require someone to be vaccinated.” No, but she can cling to that mask mandate.
President socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden did, after all, give every American an ultimatum: “The rule is now simple: get vaccinated or wear a mask until you do. The choice is yours.”
One hundred percent of Democrat members of both chambers have been vaccinated, while the numbers are at least 45% and 92% for House and Senate Republicans, respectively. Many of those who’ve not been vaccinated have antibodies from already having had COVID, though Brian Monahan, the attending physician to Congress, insists that’s not good enough.
Thus, we’re left to conclude that scumbag/liar-Pelosi is deeply concerned about the health of her friends on the Republican side of the aisle.
Okay, we’ll admit to sarcasm. In truth, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise nailed what’s really going on, saying, “It’s about control.”
Next, we’ll move to New York, where both Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor scumbag-Bill de Blasio will not yet relax mask mandates despite the CDC guidance. Both explain that they’re “reviewing the guidance.” Cuomo boasted, “In New York, we have always relied on the facts and the science to guide us throughout the worst of this pandemic and in our successful reopening.”
Yes, this from the guy who issued an order last spring sending thousands of New Yorkers to their COVID deaths in nursing homes. Regarding COVID in nursing homes, New York has a worst-in-the-nation death toll of more than 15,000. Not to worry, though — Health Commissioner Howard Zucker, who helped scumbag/liar-Cuomo cover up that deadly scandal, will be reviewing the CDC’s recommendations and advising scumbag/liar-Cuomo on what to do.
scumbag-De Blasio? Don’t mind him — he’s just eating a burger at a press conference and offering free French fries to the vaccinated.
On the other side of the country, California Governor scumbag/liar-Gavin Newsom has been another of the strictest lockdowners. He says residents of his state can finally forgo masks … maybe after June 15.
Perhaps we’re being too hard on these Democrats for refusing to follow the science as decreed by the CDC. After all, this is the CDC we’re talking about — an agency that has dishonestly manipulated the numbers, colluded with the powerful teachers unions to keep schools hampered by unnecessary restrictions, and obviously timed its sudden announcement Thursday to relieve socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden from a horrible week of inflation, gas lines, and Middle East violence.
Regarding schools, despite relaxing guidelines for most Americans, the CDC kept the least vulnerable among us — children — under strict orders of wearing masks for the remainder of the school year. Maybe that’s understandable because children under 12 still can’t be vaccinated. But the guidance applies to K-12, and the same CDC also says, “Most children with COVID-19 have mild symptoms or have no symptoms at all.” Forgive us for concluding this mandate is less about protecting children than about bowing to the teachers unions.
We’re hearing one thing from the CDC and another thing from CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky. “This is not permission for widespread removal of masks,” Walensky said Sunday, three days after the agency did indeed condone widespread removal of masks — at least if you consider the nearly 125 million Americans who are now fully vaccinated as constituting “widespread.” Besides, it wasn’t political, she says; it was the “evolving data on the science.”
The end result of all this? A lot of confusion in the public, including angry shoppers who simply want to follow the science but whose governors and mayors won’t let them.
This is America. The heavy hand of government has never been a good or acceptable tool for determining the behavior of free citizens. If the CDC had been actually reliable and respectable from the beginning, and if the ruling class hadn’t become so quickly addicted to power with COVID as an excuse, we’d all be better off today. We call it the ChiCom Virus pandemic because this virus has proven to be communist in more ways than one. ~The Patriot Post
DOJ Targets Police, Crime Rises
If history is any guide, the residents of Minneapolis and Louisville may want to brace for a jump in violent crime. The reason? At the behest of President socialist/ scumbag/liar-Joe “Unity” Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland initiated sweeping investigations into the supposedly systemically racist policing practices of these two cities last month and, historically, such probes end up yielding higher crime.
The day after Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd, Garland announced a Justice Department “pattern and practice” investigation to ascertain “whether there is a pattern or practice of unconstitutional or unlawful policing.” And with the near certainty that the DOJ will determine there are patterns or practices that are deemed unlawful, these police departments will be forced into consent decrees.
That’s where the trouble begins. As Axios reports, “Data on all 12 agencies under consent decrees since 2012 found that seven of them experienced jumps in violent crime rates in two years compared to the two years before they entered into the consent decrees.” In short, DOJ consent decrees are a recipe for increasing a large city’s violent crime rate.
These increases are not by small percentage jumps, either. Data shows Los Angeles experienced a 61% spike in violent crime following its consent decree in 2012, Albuquerque saw a 36% increase after its consent decree in 2014, and Seattle saw a 27% rise.
There is one caveat, and it has everything to do with the size of the city. Data indicates that those cities with populations of less than 50,000 do experience a drop in violent crime rate following a consent decree. But unless the cities of Minneapolis and Louisville have experienced a sudden massive population shift, this factor is moot.
Regarding the city of Albuquerque in particular, the current GOP candidate for New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District special election, Mark Moore, contends, “Right now we are in crisis. Albuquerque is burning, and it seems like politicians are just playing the fiddle. We’ve got to be able to deal with this criminal element that has taken over the city right now.” Data shows that Albuquerque had been experiencing a 30-year low in crime prior to the DOJ’s consent decree.
If fighting violent crime is the goal, then it would seem that consent decrees are clearly not the way to go. But with the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration embracing Critical Race Theory, which preaches that police are systemically racist, what could possibly go wrong? ~The Patriot Post
U.S. Army Prioritizes Inclusion Over Readiness
Just when Americans might think a CIA recruitment ad featuring a 36-year-old “cisgender Millennial” Latina CIA agent, who identifies as an “intersectional woman of color” and who has been “diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder,” might be the bottom of the woke barrel, the U.S. Army proves them wrong.
The Army’s latest recruitment ad features a girl raised by two mothers, a lesbian wedding, and a civil rights protest, all aimed at “shattering stereotypes.” It opens with some music and the cartoon pictures of a soldier morphing into their photos. Then comes the narrative. “This is the story of a soldier who operates your nation’s Patriot Missile Defense Systems,” an animated female soldier named “Emma” states. “It begins in California with a little girl raised by two moms.”
“Although I had a fairly typical childhood, took ballet, played violin, I also marched for equality,” Emma says, while images of a “Pride” demonstration are shown. “I like to think I’ve been defending freedom from an early age.”
Whether she knows it or not, Emma is already in trouble. As the Democrat Party and the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration have made clear, “equality” and the meritocracy implied by it must give way to “equity” and mandated outcomes that ostensibly redress historic injustices.
Emma then tells the story of one of her moms becoming paralyzed after an accident that occurred when Emma was six years old. “Doctors said she might never walk again,” Emma says. But after tapping into the family’s pride and working hard, she adds, her mom was able to “to get back on her feet, eventually standing at the altar to marry my other mom.”
Emma then says she graduated at the top of her high school class, attended university, and joined a sorority “full of strong women,” but as graduation approached she felt empty, especially when compared to her sorority sisters who were “studying abroad in Italy” and “climbing Mount Everest.” “I needed my own adventures,” she decided. “My own challenge. And after meeting with an Army recruiter, I found it. A way to prove my inner strength, and maybe shatter some stereotypes along the way.”
Cartoon Emma then morphs into U.S. Army Corporal Emma Malone-Lord. “And I answered my calling,” she says.
The ad closes with the words, “What calls you?”
For a United States Army that is also determined to “morph” from a lethal fighting force into a social justice-besotted enterprise, it appears one’s “calling” has far less to do with protecting national security than ticking off the politically correct boxes that satisfy progressive sensibilities.
Moreover, those sensibilities countenance no deviation whatsoever from leftist dogma. That is precisely why Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin issued a 60-day stand-down order requiring military leaders to discuss “the importance of our oath of office; a description of impermissible behaviors; and procedures for reporting suspected, or actual, extremist behaviors.” Austin used the Capitol riot on January 6 as the impetus for doing so, because some of those rioters were active-duty service members and military veterans.
Perhaps Austin might have more credibility if he voiced concern that the only lethal force used during that riot was directed at 35-year-old Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed by a law enforcement officer. An officer whose identity remains unknown and whose actions have been deemed by the Justice Department as insufficient evidence to bring any charges.
He might also have more credibility if he voiced an equal amount of concern for the thousands of homeless military veterans afflicted with any number of combat-related disorders precipitated by fighting in endless wars, where equally “enlightened” military brass were far more concerned with “winning hearts and minds” than with defeating our enemies. So much so that American troops were required to remove the magazines from their weapons while quartered at bases with armed Afghans they were training to become policemen and soldiers. Astoundingly, it took more than 100 deaths for a military brass neck-deep in the PC swamp to figure out that the presence of armed Afghan trainees in the presence of unarmed American trainers gave our so-called “trusted Afghan partners” a decided tactical advantage.
That they’re still in the PC swamp is unsurprising. During the scumbag/liar-nObama administration, what could be best described as a purge of top military leaders took place. “I think they’re using the opportunity of the shrinkage of the military to get rid of people that don’t agree with them or not toe the party line,” a senior retired general said at the time.
And not just top generals. In 2013, Breitbart compiled a list of more than 197 military commanders, mostly at the rank of colonel or above, who were terminated by the scumbag/liar-nObama administration beginning in 2009.
No one should be surprised by those previous machinations, the current ones precipitated by Austin, or the production of woke recruitment videos. The military has long been perceived by leftists as the last bastion of conservative opposition to their agenda, and thus its ongoing bastardization proceeds apace, even if national security is compromised in the process.
It should also surprise no one that the military.com website offers the following assessment regarding the fact that nearly half of female soldiers taking the Army Combat Fitness Test are failing it, and that enlisted women are struggling the most. “The data again raises questions about whether the Army’s attempt to create a fitter force is creating more barriers to success for women,” it states.
Barriers to success for women? That such a contemptuous calculation would attach itself to putting men and women in harm’s way, where the only thing that should matter is the ability to do the job — one that requires a high degree of fitness — is highly indicative of the moral and intellectual rot that passes for military wisdom. The only thing worse is the apparent abandonment of anything resembling an effort to make our military wholly lethal — and wholly committed to achieving victory.
Here’s the U.S. Army’s recruitment video. Here’s a Russian army recruitment video. The differences couldn’t be starker — or more ominous — for America going forward. While the U.S. remains technologically superior, that superiority becomes an illusion when the will to win is supplanted by political correctness. Nothing makes that more obvious than Afghanistan, where the military spent two decades engaging a far less lethal force of guerrillas.
Guerrillas that will bring the Islamist status quo back to that nation — after we unceremoniously withdraw.
The current video is part of a series titled “The Calling.” It’s intended to be the first of a five-part video series following five “diverse” soldiers from different backgrounds who all joined the military. The bet here is that none of the five videos will “divert” from progressive orthodoxy.
It’s what happens when a PC-addled command structure prioritizes inclusion over readiness — and courts disaster by doing so. ~The Patriot Post
The Country’s on Fire, and socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden Lit the Match
As the four-month mark approaches the swearing in the 46th president of the United States, are campaign promises made by socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden and lowlife/liar-Kamala Harris being kept and voter expectations being met?
The promise that COVID would be handled much differently is absolutely happening. President Donald Trump fast-tracked multiple vaccines through an unprecedented structure of research, development, and market introduction and tended to view one’s life and livelihood as valued things during the pandemic. On the other hand, President socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden continues to promote fear and government mandates. “The rule is very simple: get vaccinated or wear a mask until you do,” socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden declared, ignoring those who may have active antibodies from having COVID and those who want more data demonstrating safety of the vaccines. Although COVID is a serious virus, its mortality rate is now at 1% for the elderly, and those with existing illnesses are most at risk.
Another socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden campaign promise was to “create jobs,” and there are plenty available. As a matter of fact, the data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics stunned the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden/ lowlife/liar-Harris administration. There are, according to David Harsanyi’s analysis of the seasonally adjusted data, “7.5 million jobs available in the United States, but only 270,000 were filled.” A historic number of jobs have been left unfilled, with the labor participation rate being only 0.1% better in April 2021 than October 2020. socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden and lowlife/liar-Harris were supposed to reverse the dreadful economy because, as the political Left argues, capitalism had failed most Americans. Yet a four-month lurch of socialism is certainly proving a failure to American workers, business owners, and consumers.
As more businesses are forced to compete with big government welfare checks, the cost of labor has increased. That cost is being passed along to consumers, increasing the cost of goods and services across the board. The most recent Consumer Price Index tracked a 4.2% increase in inflation over the last 12 months. This doesn’t even take into consideration the greater price hikes on necessary items versus the lower ones for luxury items. Inflation has arrived in earnest, and citizens are getting less value for their earnings.
Meanwhile, when Donald Trump lost, all drama with Russia was supposed to cease, right? Last week’s gas crisis was caused by a ransomware attack on an American private fuel supplier, raising the cost of getting to work and school. David Kennedy, a former National Security Agency hacker, credits President Vladimir Putin as having ties to this cyberattack aimed to inflict economic pain and enrich those with energy ties outside of America.
Immigration was another hot issue during socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden’s campaign. According to Time magazine’s post-election piece in November 2020, the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden/lowlife/liar-Harris pledge was to “undo Trump’s immigration policies” by halting deportation and construction of the border wall. socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden promised forcefully, “There will not be another foot of wall constructed in my administration!” socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden and lowlife/liar-Harris have absolutely done that. socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s promises included plans to “modernize America’s immigration system, welcome immigrants in our communities, and implement effective border screening.” Americans have witnessed these promises being fulfilled. Law enforcement encounters at the southern border have increased from 17,106 in April 2020 to a record-breaking 178,622 individuals just last month. Yes, last month.
We have to admit that socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden and lowlife/liar-Harris have kept their promises, and that is exactly why they are failing Americans. There is, however, one glaring exception: the promise of uniting our country. A meme circulated last week that captures the change of sentiment of so many in just four months: “I sure could go for a mean tweet and $1.79 gas right now.”
Rational Americans are now united around the reality that the “Anybody but Trump” vote has given us an administration bent on implementing failed socialist policies that will undermine and ultimately destroy the greatness of America. ~The Patriot Post
The Truth About CNN’s Propaganda and Lies
GARY BAUER
CDC to the Rescue?
The CDC is finally starting to follow the science. That’s not just my opinion. Even the New York Times is saying it. Consider these excerpts:
“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is finally catching up to science. For months, research about Covid-19 has pointed to two encouraging patterns. First, the underlying virus that causes Covid rarely spreads outdoors. Second … fully vaccinated people are at virtually no risk of serious disease and only a minuscule risk of spreading the virus to others.
"But the CDC … has been unwilling to highlight these facts. It has instead focused on tiny risks — risks that are smaller than those from, say, taking a car trip. The CDC’s intricate list of recommended Covid behavior has baffled many Americans and frightened others…
"Yesterday, the agency effectively acknowledged it had fallen behind the scientific evidence… It said fully vaccinated people could stop wearing masks in most settings… The change sends a message: Vaccination means the end of the Covid crisis, for individuals and ultimately for society.”
While this is welcome news, there are a couple of points to keep in mind.
First, this does not in any way prevent private establishments from requiring masks. The TSA has announced it will not lift the mask mandate at airports because they don’t have the staff to check that every passenger has been vaccinated.
Nor are left-wing governors, who really have the power here, under any obligation to follow the new guidance. In fact, Gov. Andrew Cuomo immediately said that New York’s mask mandate will remain in place as he “follows the science,” which he clearly isn’t.
Here’s another critical point: Just days ago, Dr. “Double Mask” Fauci was still defending the mask requirement. Earlier this week, the director of the CDC was on Capitol Hill doing the same thing. Both suggested that anyone who disagreed was not following the science.
Then — as gas lines were forming all along the East Coast, as missiles were raining down on Israel, as new figures showed 170,000 illegal aliens were apprehended at the border in one month and as inflation is spiking — suddenly socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden and lowlife/liar-Harris go to a microphone to announce this “great milestone.”
Anyone who thinks that Thursday’s sudden news wasn’t the result of political interference at the CDC, well, I’ve got that proverbial bridge to sell you.
Again, I think the announcement was long overdue and doesn’t go far enough. But make no mistake about it — the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden White House needed a political win, and they called whoever they needed to call.
If this had happened in the Trump Administration, there would be dozens of stories this morning quoting anonymous sources about political pressure and heavy-handed intervention at the CDC.
About That Energy Crisis…
While I’d like to think that the gas crisis on the East Coast right now would lead socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden to reconsider his hostility to the Keystone XL Pipeline, I know he won’t. Even though Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm readily admits that pipelines are “the best way to go,” socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden is all in on shutting them down.
Again, you don’t have to take my word for it. socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden said it himself.
While campaigning in New Hampshire last year, a supporter asked him if he would stop fracking and new pipeline infrastructure. socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden answered, “Yeah. Yes. New pipelines. Exactly. None.”
Stop Appeasing IranAs 2,000 rockets have rained down on Israel this week, more than 40 Republican senators are calling on the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden White House to stop all negotiations with Iran while its terrorists proxies are attacking our most reliable ally, Israel.
Frankly, that’s the bare minimum socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden should do. And while Senate Republicans are right to pressure socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden, I hope they are also pressuring Senate Majority Leader Chuck scumbag/liar-Schumer.
It’s clear that the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden Administration is committed to rejoining the 2015 scumbag/liar-nObama/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden nuclear deal with Iran. If any deal is negotiated with the ayatollah’s regimes, an avowed enemy of the United States, the Senate must vote on it.
This isn’t just any “deal.” An agreement of this magnitude — regarding the nuclear weapons program of a nation that has repeatedly promised a second Holocaust — is central to our national security and to Israel’s national security.
It must be submitted to the Senate, not the United Nations and not the European Union, and it must be submitted as a treaty, requiring 67 votes to pass.
He’s Back!
The Trump rallies are coming back, and not a moment too soon!
According to reports, Donald Trump is planning to hold three rallies in the coming weeks — two in June and one on July 3rd. “The president is anxious to get back out on the trail, and we are getting a lot of offers and invitations from both candidates and political causes in different areas,” one adviser said.
We’ll keep you posted as details develop.
Good News
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed voter integrity legislation into law that limits mail-in balloting and cleans up voter rolls.
Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signed legislation protecting girls’ sports and preventing biological boys who claim to be girls from playing on girls’ sports teams.
Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon banned COVID passports.
A dozen more Republican governors are ending the extra unemployment benefits that are incentivizing people not to work.
Twenty Republican governors demanded that socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden act immediately to end the crisis at the southern border.
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lawsuit seeking to find out how many illegal aliens may be registered to vote in North Carolina. State bureaucrats, under the direction of Democrat Governor Roy Cooper, have refused requests to provide the data.
Reps. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) and Virginia Foxx (R-NC), both endorsed by CWF, have introduced legislation to defund federal programs that teach critical race theory.
Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH), endorsed by CWF, has introduced legislation to fire Dr. Anthony Fauci.
More than 120 retired flag officers (admirals and generals) signed an open letter urging Americans to resist Marxism and defend freedom.
The left-wing school board members in Loudoun County, Virginia, got a lesson on critical race theory they won’t forget anytime soon.
Chag Sameach
This weekend, Jews will celebrate Shavuot, which commemorates the day God gave Moses the Ten Commandments. To our Jewish friends and allies, as we pray for the peace of Jerusalem, we wish you a joyous Shavuot! ~The Patriot Post
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