Have you ever read the Constitution? Show us where she diligently followed the Constitution of the U.S.

Former AG Barr blasts 'foolish' efforts to remove Trump from primary b****ts
"As a legal matter, states do not have the power to enforce the disqualification provision of the Fourteenth Amendment by using their own ad hoc procedures to find that an individual has engaged in an i**********n," he wrote.


By Ben Whedon
Published: January 2, 2024 8:02pm

Former Attorney General Bill Barr on Tuesday called on the Supreme Court to shut down efforts to remove former President Donald Trump from the 2024 b****t, calling such endeavors "foolish" and "politically counterproductive."

The Colorado Supreme Court in December determined that Trump's role in the J*** 6, 2021, Capitol r**t amounted to "engaging in i**********n" and thus disqualified Trump from reclaiming the presidency under the 14th Amendment. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows subsequently concluded that Trump was ineligible along a similar line of reasoning.

In an op-ed for The Free Press, Barr insisted that such conclusions lacked constitutional legitimacy and that the 14th Amendment provided minimal guidance as to determining Trump's eligibility, given he has not been convicted for inciting an i**********n.

"As a legal matter, states do not have the power to enforce the disqualification provision of the Fourteenth Amendment by using their own ad hoc procedures to find that an individual has engaged in an i**********n," he wrote. "If the Justice Department, in pursuing its criminal case, had found that Trump had engaged in i**********n, it would be another story. But it has not."

"Obviously, there has to be a fair fact-finding procedure before someone can be branded an i**********nist. But what should that process be? The Fourteenth Amendment is silent on this," he went on, further noting that the amendment provided Congress the authority to enforce it through legislation and that the legislature had passed such measures.

"The point is that in present-day America, under existing law, the only way to disqualify someone under Section Three is through criminal prosecution under Section 2383. The federal government, which has painstakingly examined the events of J****** 6, has not charged President Trump with i**********n or even incitement," Barr added.

America’s Current Government
By: Chet Nagle

December 16, 2023

Vivek Ramaswamy, a Republican candidate for the U.S. presidency, made a significant comment during the recent 4th primary debate. He exposed what he called the "dirty little secret" of America’s government by stating, "The people who we elect to run the government are not the ones who are even actually running the government."

If he’s right, then who does run our government?

Is it billionaires who steer our domestic and foreign policy? They certainly are trying to control our speech, health, food, use of energy, and the information that we see, hear, and read. They’re also trying to give that power to the United Nations (UN), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the World Economic Forum (WEF) – organizations they control through massive donations. For example, in a recent speech in Basel, Switzerland, Dr. David Martin said Bill Gates controls the WHO because he donates 88% of their budget! In return, global WHO programs enhance his plans to depopulate the world and his profits from v*****e investments.

Nevertheless, those billionaires can’t routinely call Cabinet members and senior White House officials to direct the handling of America’s plans and policies. It is Barack Obama who makes those calls.

How does Obama do it? Members of the intelligence community assure me that Obama has a Network Operations Center (NOC) in his Washington D.C. mansion, his mansion on Matha’s Vineyard, and in cities in politically sensitive states like Florida and Texas. Those NOCs have fiber optic cables and satellite links that give him total communications security with the White House and across the United States.

President Trump did not fully grasp Washington’s political axiom: “personnel is policy.” His poor understanding of the personnel process resulted in a multitude of personnel changes and issues that plagued his presidency. On the other hand, Obama fully understands that personnel choices drive policy decisions.

The Biden t***sition team, largely appointed by Obama, also understood the axiom. With a few changes, they created the Biden administration by using all the senior officials of the Obama administration. They are still with us today, acting as Obama’s third term as president. Once you realize Obama runs the show, the disastrous decisions of the Biden administration begin to make sense. Those decisions are designed to support Obama’s promise of “fundamentally t***sforming the United States of America.”

Immediately after his inauguration, Obama began the t***sformation by dismantling our oil and gas industries. In 2008 his Secretary of Energy announced, “Somehow, we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe,” (then $9 to $10 per gallon). Obama’s plan was then launched for the massive redistribution of wealth in America in the name of c*****e c****e. He then went on to illegally cancel offshore drilling leases. Does that sound just like the Biden administration’s plans to ban oil, natural gas, and coal

Obama then used his p**********l powers to refuse to enforce i*********n l*ws, allowing hundreds of thousands of aliens to cross the border with little fear of being deported. Today, Obama’s control of the Biden administration has changed those hundreds of thousands into millions.

If you still don’t believe the Biden administration is composed of Obama personnel who follow the orders of Barack Hussein Obama, the list below shows their background

There is growing doubt that we will have an honest e******n next year. But if we do, remember the dirty little secret.

CABINET MEMBERS & KEY ADVISORS

National Security Adviser

Jake Sullivan: Obama’s Deputy Assistant and Director of Policy.



Secretary of State

Antony Blinken: Obama’s Deputy National Security Advisor (2013-2015) and Deputy Secretary of State (2015-2017).



Secretary of Homeland Security

Alejandro Mayorkas: Obama Director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services. He also managed staffing the DoJ Criminal Division



Director of National Intelligence

Avril Haines: Was Obama’s Deputy Director of the CIA then Deputy National Security Advisor. Biden promoted her to DNI in 2021.



Ambassador to the United Nations

Linda Thomas-Greenfield: Obama’s Director General of the Foreign Service and Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs.



Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

Samantha Power: Obama’s t***sition team for the State Department and his UN Ambassador (2013-2017)



Deputy Secretary of State

Wendy Sherman: Obama’s Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs. Retired July 2023 and replaced by Victoria Nuland (acting)



ECONOMIC POLICY & FINANCIAL OVERSIGHT

Director, National Economic Council (replaced in 2023 by the Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve, Lael Brainard.)

Brian Deese: Obama's senior White House advisor, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, and deputy director of the National Economic Council. Subsequently. Deese was Global Head of Sustainable Investing at BlackRock before joining the Biden administration.



Secretary of the Treasury

Janet Yellen: Obama’s Chairman of the Federal Reserve and Biden’s appointment as Secretary of the Treasury.



Chair, Council of Economic Advisers

Cecilia Rouse: Obama member of the Council of Economic Advisors promoted to the Chair by Biden in 2021. Replaced by Jared Bernstein in March 2023, she will be President of the Brookings Institute in 2024.



Deputy Secretary of the Treasury

Adewale "Wally" Adeyemo: A Nigerian, Obama’s Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics and deputy director of the National Economic Council, then head of the Obama Foundation.



Member, Council of Economic Advisers

Jared Bernstein: VP Biden economic advisor during Obama years, then Biden appointed him Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors.



Chair, Securities and Exchange Commission

Gary Gensler: Obama Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission then Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2021



Attorney General

Merrick Garland: Obama nominee for Justice of the Supreme Court after death of Antonin Scalia. Senate refused to v**e on his nomination. Biden then made Garland U.S. Attorney General in 2021.



Secretary of Agriculture

Tom Vilsack: Obama Secretary of Agriculture, appointed by Biden in 2021.



Secretary of Veterans Affairs

Denis McDonough: Obama’s Deputy National Security Advisor, then Chief of Staff. Biden appointed him in 2021.



Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy

Eric Lander: Obama’s advisor on science and tech. Elevated to Cabinet in 2021. He resigned in 2022 for bullying, replaced by Alondra Nelson.



Deputy Attorney General

Lisa Monaco: Obama Homeland Security Advisor, appointed by Biden to Deputy Attorney General in 2021.



Associate Attorney General

Vanita Gupta: Obama Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. promoted by Biden to Associate Attorney General in 2021.



Surgeon General

Dr. Vivek Murthy: Obama’s (and Trump’s) Surgeon General, reappointed by Biden in 2021.



Chairperson, Council on Environmental Quality

Brenda Mallory: Obama General Counsel of the EPA, then promoted by Biden to Chair of Council on Environmental Quality.



WHITE HOUSE AIDES

Chief of Staff

Ron Klain: Obama Ebola Response Coordinator. Replaced by Jeff Zients, Obama Director of OMB and Director of the National Economic Council.



Director, Domestic Policy Council

Susan Rice: Obama’s National Security Advisor and UN Ambassador



Special P**********l Envoy for Climate

John Kerry: Obama’s Secretary of State.



National Climate Adviser

Gina McCarthy: Obama Administrator of the EPA.



Director, Office of Legislative Affairs

Louisa Terrell: Was Obama’s Legislative Aide



Counsel to the President

Dana Remus: Obama Deputy Assistant and Deputy Counsel for Ethics, then general counsel for the Obama Foundation and Michelle Obama.



Comptroller General of the US

Gene Dodero (appointed by Obama and still in office)

An unelected person makes a unilateral decision that ignores the e*****rate and the will of the people does not follow the Constitution of the United States. Totalitarians such as yourself are the most dangerous kind of people in this country. How about we let the v**ers decide?

Want the t***h? Here's the t***h:

7 of the top 10 most dependent states are red states. 71% of our GDP comes from blue counties. Look at infant mortality. Maternal mortality. Life expectancy. The gun death rate. The murder rate... In every category the @GOP are on the wrong side.

But that is not all.

7 of the 10 states with the highest murder rates are red and gun deaths are almost 2x as high in red states.

The Supreme Court has stripped women of their liberty and let red states replace it with mandated birth.

They ban books, silence teachers and make it harder to v**e in red states.

The reason Republicans like Ron DeSantis are fanning the flames of culture wars is to distract from the fact that Florida has higher murder rates, worse education, and worse health care outcomes than states like California.

That's the t***h.

- Gavin

https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1734638558252618211

Maine Bumping Trump? Hardly
Posted on Tuesday, January 2, 2024
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by AMAC, Robert B. Charles
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Shenna Bellows is suddenly famous, a registered Democrat, non-lawyer, former ACLU activist selected by Maine’s Democrat legislature to be Secretary of State. Within her purview is candidate eligibility. She just ruled Maine’s 1,039,517 registered v**ers cannot v**e for Republican p**********l candidate Donald Trump. Does that end the discussion? Hardly.

Based on a half-day hearing, “u-tube” videos, and a law professor’s brief, she finds Trump “not qualified” to be a candidate, but an “i**********nist” barred by Section 3, 14th Amendment.

Where does one start? This pretense to “legal authority” is a bare-knuckled attempt to block an opposing p**********l contender from b****t status. It is a farce, makes a mockery of the democratic process and fair, impartial administration of e******ns under Maine’s Title 21-A.

The sheer political t***sparency, venting of spleen, personal animus toward Trump by this officer should disqualify her from running the State’s 2024 e******ns, if not her post. She mocks the law.

Any lawyer in her inner circle – including the Governor, Attorney General, and state legislators could have told her this will look like a cheap trick, no legal chance of holding up, and undermines trust in Maine’s e*******l process, fair play, things Mainers expect of their officials.

If any tried, they failed, a mark against them and this self-absorbed state officer. In after-the-fact interviews, she virtually beams, is positively giddy, seems to bask in her newfound fame.

As someone who grew up in Maine, lives here now, has family and friends all over the state, knows the value of trust and fairness, spent time with oldline Republicans and Democrats, Margaret Chase Smith, Ed Muskie, Bill Cohen, Susan Collins, this makes me look at my boots.

Here are the arguments against this anti-democratic move, which any thoughtful Democrat or Republican – if Ms. Bellows speaks with Republicans – might have brought to her attention.

First, even if you h**e Donald Trump – and he has created an A-frame of sentiment – he is entitled to all the rights of citizenship, due process, equal protection, confronting his accusers, and more deference as a leading challenger to Ms. Bellow’s obvious favorite, Mr. Biden.

What does that mean? It means no state ruling – particularly on p**********l eligibility – can proceed without a dispositive ruling on whether Mr. Trump’s speech on J****** 6th was part of an “i**********n.” That determination lies not at the state level, but with the US Supreme Court.

Moreover, this preemptive gut punch to democracy imagines the rest of the 14th Amendment, its history and Section 1, endowing citizens with “rights and immunities,” is somehow irrelevant.

They are not irrelevant. Historically, Section 3 – which mentions “i**********n” – was specifically inserted to prevent Confederates who k**led 620,000 Americans in the Civil War from running after a pardon. It had specific origin and meaning, was never a meant as a partisan sword.

To that point, most legal scholars believe Trump’s speech on J****** 6th was, if provocative, hardly an “i**********n.” It is protected “political speech” under 1st Amendment caselaw.

If that speech is viewed as “i**********n,” political speech is dead. That cannot be.

In short, for one state partisan to conclude she will “say what the law is,” decide who cannot run for president, put on Supreme Court robes, is comic, arrogant, impertinent, and ignorant.

What this ruling betrays is venality and partisan opportunism, what happens when a state labors under one-party rule, is dominated. Bluntly, she disrespects both the judiciary and democracy.

In Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Laos, half the dark globe, things like this do happen. F**r e******ns are thrown by blocking candidates. As Assistant Secretary of State to Colin Powell, I saw it happen often, but never here; preempting democracy does not work here.

What else makes this cringe-worthy, partisan nonsense? For starters, Maine’s e******n laws do not envision – nor does legislative history – a Secretary of State taking it on herself to bump candidates, except for failure to get sufficient signatures, inventing reasons to call the shots.

Imagine if that were true, if state appointees or judges could shape reasons to remove candidates from e******ns, forcing long legal battles to restore a candidacy. Our republic would end.

You would have all manner of partisan claims for candidate disqualification, say dementia or stroke, mental or physical fitness, lies and unproven crimes. That was never what our founders – or the 14th Amendment’s drafters – envisioned. Never.

Now add a few more facts. Last month, congressional investigators found the J****** 6th investigating committee – run by Democrats – hid and destroyed films, exculpatory evidence.

During a court trial, so-called Brady or Jenks evidence, film, documents, photos that help defendants must be produced. We now know such evidence existed and was destroyed. A parallel case, one equally important for J****** 6th culpability, is also at the High Court.

Finally, we know – just common sense – if this kind of tomfoolery, a single state official bouncing who she dislikes, lots of press, were allowed, f**r e******ns end. We may not like those who qualify to run, those who one party selects, but democracy is like that – about v****g, not preemptive strikes. That, well, that is just hot air in the bellows.

We'll see who the s***es are after the next e******n. L*****ts are already the sheeple.

Joe Biden’s Silent I**********n
Posted on Tuesday, January 2, 2024
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by AMAC Newsline

By Aaron Flanigan

According to early reports, December was the worst month on record for i*****l i*********n, with more than 300,000 border crossings – capping off what was by far the worst year on record in 2023. While Joe Biden and his media allies continue to ignore this crisis and insist that Republicans are all “i**********nists,” these numbers again make clear that the real i**********n threatening the country is happening at the southern border every day and is a direct result of Biden’s policies.

In total, there were more than 3.2 million illegal border crossings in FY2023, which ended in September – easily surpassing FY2022 for the most ever. And of course, that number only accounts for those who were caught and apprehended by border officials. By some estimates, there have been more than 5 million “gotaways” since Joe Biden took office, among them untold numbers of terrorists, drug dealers, and human traffickers.

The news about December’s border numbers comes on the heels of the release of November’s statistics, which the Biden administration quietly posted the Friday before Christmas – raising significant questions about Biden’s willingness to own the consequences of his disastrous border policies and take responsibility for the crises he is actively causing in American communities.

“By strategically holding the release of these numbers until the Friday before Christmas, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is unabashedly showing the full measure of his duplicity. These numbers are so bad, he wants as few Americans to see them as possible,” said Rep. Mark Green (R-TN), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, in a press release.

Although the December numbers won’t be official until later this month, this time the Biden administration won’t have a major holiday to bury the news. With even Democrat mayors of “sanctuary cities” now feeling the pressure of a surge in migrants and publicly voicing their concerns, Biden is now facing criticism from both parties with the 2024 e******n looming – although the media has remained shamefully silent.

Despite inheriting the most secure border on record from former President Donald Trump, in a matter of mere months, Joe Biden singlehandedly and deliberately created the conditions for a crisis of previously unimaginable proportions.

Immediately upon entering office, Biden reversed nearly every policy that secured the border during the Trump years—including border wall construction, deportations, and “Remain in Mexico” (which ended the practice of “catch and release” and forced i*****l a***ns to wait for their court hearings in their country of origin). Biden also mandated a functional shutdown of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)—going so far as to implement what the administration calls “protected areas” which ICE is not permitted to enter.

Given the unprecedented scale of the invasion on our southern border, conservative leaders have increasingly discussed policy solutions that would likely require an invocation of the 1807 I**********n Act to stave off further disaster.

The p**********l campaigns of former President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, for instance, have advocated for using the law’s provisions allowing the president to deploy military forces to quell i**********ns and domestic disorder. As even some left-wing entities have noted, the I**********n Act would indeed grant a president the authority to use military forces to get the border under control and deport i*****l a***ns, among other border security measures.

Meanwhile, Republican governors in border states have continued to take innovative steps to mediate the effects of the border invasion in their communities. Texas Governor Greg Abbott, for instance, recently signed legislation that empowers Texas law enforcement officials to arrest anyone suspected of entering the country illegally.

As a part of Operation Lone Star, Texas’s statewide border security initiative, Abbott has also signed bills that make it a state crime to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, increase the minimum sentence for smuggling i*****l a***ns, and allocate funding toward the construction of border barriers. “Biden’s deliberate inaction has left Texas to fend for itself,” Abbott stated.

On the p**********l campaign front, DeSantis has called for the use of “deadly force” against i*****l a***ns suspected of bringing in drugs—an idea of questionable practical viability to be sure. Former President Donald Trump, meanwhile, has unveiled plans to invoke the “Alien Enemies Act,” as well as “wage war” on drug cartels and launch what he calls “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.”

Despite all the dishonest talk of “i**********n” coming from the left, it is Joe Biden’s open borders agenda that amounts to the greatest i**********n since the Civil War—and with every passing day, it continues to imperil our safety, our culture, and our national security.

Anyone who h**es America, the Constitution, federalism, separation of powers, limited government, freedom, and liberty, and loves socialism, c*******m, Marxism, f*****m, totalitarianism, authoritarianism, globalism, leftism, and the Anti-American Democrat Party would think Trump is a fruit loop. That's who because you just listed most of Joe Biden's traits, and left out plagiarist, grifter, and p*******e.

California Expands Free Health Coverage to Undocumented Immigrants
By Jim Thomas | Saturday, 30 December 2023 11:29 AM EST


As California grapples with a looming $68 billion deficit in the upcoming fiscal year, the state is set to usher in the new year by extending free healthcare coverage to undocumented immigrants eligible for its government-operated health insurance initiative.

California has consistently broadened access to its Medi-Cal health insurance program for low-income residents. Initially, the program included undocumented children in 2015. Under the administration of Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom, it was later expanded to encompass undocumented adults aged 19 to 25 and those above 50, reported the New York Post.

Effective Jan. 1, California will become the inaugural state to grant free healthcare coverage to all qualifying individuals, irrespective of age or immigration status.

In May, Democrats in the California Legislature marked a budgetary milestone with Newsom and state lawmakers, leading to the latest expansion of Medi-Cal. This expansion is expected to provide complete coverage under the program to approximately 700,000 undocumented immigrants between the ages of 26 and 49.

State Sen. María Elena Durazo, D-Los Angeles, lauded the move, stating, "This historic investment speaks to California's commitment to healthcare as a human right."

Assemblyman Miguel Santiago, D-Los Angeles, echoed the sentiment, describing it as a "game changer" and one of the Legislature's most pivotal pieces.

However, critics, including healthcare experts, express concerns about the wisdom of expansion amid unprecedented state revenue shortfalls and healthcare resource constraints.

Sally Pipes, a healthcare policy expert and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, a California-based think tank, criticized the move as irresponsible, particularly given existing challenges in finding doctors willing to treat Medi-Cal recipients due to low reimbursement rates.

Simon Hankinson, a border security and immigration expert affiliated with the Heritage Foundation, anticipates federal intervention to rescue the program. Hankinson remarked on X, "No surprise [California], despite budget deficit, will give i*****l i*******ts subsidized health care.

"The question is how and when they'll get the federal taxpayer to bail them out. NY, IL, and MA want to know."

The California Senate Republican Caucus joined the chorus of critics, cautioning that the Medi-Cal system, "already strained by serving 14.6 million Californians," will face intensified challenges accommodating an additional 764,000 individuals, potentially "exacerbating existing provider access problems."

The expansion of Medi-Cal comes with a price tag of $2.6 billion annually, raising questions about the financial sustainability of the program amid ongoing economic challenges.

I choked on a carrot this morning, and all I could think of was, "I'll bet a doughnut wouldn't have done this to me."



Nothing spoils a good story more than the arrival of an eyewitness. (Mark Twain)



I finally realize why I look so bad in pictures. It's my face.



It only takes one slow-walking person in the grocery store to destroy the illusion that I'm a nice person.



One thing no one ever talks about when it comes to being an older adult is how much time we dev**e to keeping a cardboard box because it is, you know, a really good box.



I like to make lists. I also like to leave them laying on the kitchen counter, and then guess what's on the list when I am at the store.



My kids say they want a cat for Christmas. Normally I serve turkey, but, hey, if it will make them happy.



Ask your doctor if a drug with 32 pages of side-effects is bad for you.



I just read a book about marriage that says treat your wife like you treated her on your first date. So, tonight after dinner, I'm dropping her off at her parent's house.



The best way to get back on your feet is to miss two car payments.



I love bacon. Sometimes I eat it twice a day. It takes my mind off the terrible chest pains I keep getting.



As I watch this generation try to rewrite history, one thing I am sure of is that it will be misspelled and have no punctuation.



Driver: "What am I supposed to do with this speeding ticket?" Officer, "Keep it. When you collect four of them, you get a bicycle."



I asked a supermarket employee where they kept the canned peaches. He said, "I'll see," & walked away. I asked another & he also said, "I'll see," & walked away. In the end, I gave up & found them myself in Aisle C.



I told my physical therapist that I broke my arm in two places. He told me to stop going to those places.



I put our scale in the bathroom corner & that's where the little liar will stay until it apologizes.



When I was a kid, I used to watch the ‘Wizard of Oz’ & wonder how someone could talk if they didn't have a brain. Then I got Facebook.



Apparently RSVPing to a wedding invitation with "Maybe next time" isn't the correct response.



A guy walks into a lumberyard & asks for some 2x4s. The clerk asks, "How long do you need them?" The guy answers, "A long time. We're gonna build a house."



I just burned 1,200 calories. I forgot the pizza in the oven



Never trust an electrician with no eyebrows.



My neighbor knocked on my front door at 3 am. 3AM!!! Luckily, I was already up playing the bagpipes.



Instead of cleaning my house, I just watch an episode of "The Hoarders," and think, "Wow! My house looks great."

One cannot change as long as they have a victim mentality and blame everyone for their problems. You can't express gratitude if you have an entitlement mentality. When you finally realize that your problems are self-inflicted and the only person to blame is yourself, then you'll begin to take responsibility for your actions. The left continually panders to the victim crowd. They have an entitlement attitude that breeds ingratitude. Politicians feed this by coddling those who feel they are victims, giving them a sense of entitled resulting with ingratitude.

The First Family is the most dysfunctional family to ever live in the White House. Joe whispers, psst, "Pay your fair share."
Yet the Biden family is one of the biggest scofflaws when it comes to declaring income or paying taxes. Serial plagiarism, hair sniffing, groping, lying, pandering, c***ting, grifting, and a whole host of other character flaws are finally out in the open for everyone to see. How much longer will those of you who v**ed for lunch-bucket Joe from Scranton continue with this charade? The worst president in history is destroying America. Your failure to confront the t***h is destroying America. No more excuses. No more coddling. Tough love is needed, and it is needed now. For once you have to be honest with yourself, or you won't and can't be honest with anyone else.
Before you can love America, you need to learn to love yourself.


Our Razor’s Edge
December 28, 2023
Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness

At the end of the year, we are on the razor’s edge of many things that soon may blow up.

Americans are far beyond President Joe Biden’s serial unt***hs of some eight years that he never discussed H****r B***n’s various get-rich-quick schemes.

All were predicated on the perception of foreign interests purchasing from the Biden family the influence of then-senator, vice president, and possibly soon-to-be President Joe Biden.

The Bidens now risk exposure to criminal charges of multimillion-dollar tax fraud, perjury, influence selling, and bribery as congressional committees and a special prosecutor unravel years of tangled-up quid pro quos.

A newly indicted H****r remains reckless and unpredictable. He continues to publicly blame his mounting legal problems on everyone and everything other than his own selfish excesses.

H****r deliberately involves his family and may even bring down his own father. His tax lawyers have previously threatened to call President Joe Biden to testify on his behalf under oath.

He continues to court public scandal by hawking amateurish “representational” paintings to the quid-pro-quo wealthy and wannabes wishing clout with the White House.

His laptop messages reveal a prodigal son angry that his bagman services were never fully appreciated by his familial beneficiaries.

H****r’s wayward laptop is a felonious trove of drug-addled, illicit Petronian excess and sex, interspliced with his self-incriminating family communications on the distributions of pay-for-play payoffs.

H****r’s business aides will be called back to elaborate on their already incriminating testimonies.

The contents of Joe Biden’s various alias emails will soon see new scrutiny.

Given Biden’s physical and ethical frailties, age, and bad polling, the left-wing media and Democratic hierarchy may cease circling the wagons around him. Instead, some may fuel the effort to sandbag a 2024 Biden candidacy by releasing or even leaking incriminating evidence.

Harvard President Claudine Gay’s tenure is even more tenuous than Biden’s. Harvard can either claim to be the nation’s preeminent academic institution or continue to protect a plagiarist as president—not both.

It can profess to be at the center of academia’s moral and intellectual universe, but not if its president cannot punish those on campus who daily call for the destruction of Israel and the genocide of the Jewish people. Gay cannot lie to Congress that Harvard in the past has also allowed “h**e speech” against entire groups the way it now allows against Jews.

Nor is it sustainable for Gay to fob off calls for her resignation as “r****t.” In fact, the more the public learns about her academic career, the more she seems to be a lifetime beneficiary, not a victim of racially-weighted policies.

Since the October 7 Hamas massacre of 1,200 Jews, anti-Israeli/pro-Hamas protests, often violent, have swept the Western world, particularly in the big cities and on campuses of America.

Protestors no longer distinguish being anti-Israeli from being anti-Jewish. Now they just openly mouth anti-Semitic chants and harass individual Jews.

Almost every hallowed monument—from the Lincoln Memorial to the White House gates, nearly every cherished national icon from the famed Christmas tree in New York’s Rockefeller Center to New York’s Naivety scene, and our most famous infrastructure from the Manhattan Bridge to the Golden Gate Bridge—has either been swarmed, defaced, or disrupted by pro-Hamas demonstrators.

Americans are growing weary of these escalating protests for a variety of reasons. Most remember that the October 7 war started not with Israeli preemptive attacks on an independent Gaza, but only after Hamas k**lers launched a sneak attack to commit atrocities against Jews residing in Israel.

The current war is waged between a constitutional state of free e******ns and a cruel, autocratic terrorist clique.

Indeed, Hamas has refused negotiations over a ceasefire that would have led to internationally conducted free e******ns for the people of Gaza—something forbidden by enriched Hamas kingpins ensconced in luxury abroad.

Many of the loudest and most violent anti-Jewish protestors in the U.S. are immigrants, green card holders, or on student visas. That fact is confusing to Americans.

Why would those who have fled despotic regimes in the Middle East to study, work, or reside in a free America, once safely here, rally for the very dictatorships they left behind and apparently do not wish to return to?

Why trash the very foundation and values of their American hosts that ensure their newfound freedoms?

For weeks, the American people have been relatively silent as they digested these ongoing catastrophes. But at some point, their patience will run out.

Americans will then collectively conclude that Joe Biden has never been t***hful about vast ill-gotten funds that have enriched his family; that Harvard is no longer preeminent or even prestigious; and that people who do not like us, our laws, and our values should try cheering on the work of Hamas from their own homes.

THAT COLONEL IS ONE SMART DUDE!!!

Remember when Playboy magazine reportedly offered Sarah Palin $4,000,000 to pose nude in an upcoming issue?

Then, Michelle Obama was offered $50.00 by National Geographic?

And remember when KFC offered a "Hillary" meal, consisting of two small breasts and two large thighs?

Now, KFC is offering the "Biden Cabinet Bucket." It consists of nothing but left wings and assholes.



Just keeping you up to date...

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Teething problems abound with new electric powertrains.
JONATHAN M. GITLIN - 11/29/2023, 10:13 AM


Widely accepted wisdom has it that electric vehicles are easier to maintain than those with internal combustion powertrains. It seems intuitive—EVs have many fewer moving parts than cars that have to detonate small quantities of hydrocarbon fuel thousands of times a minute. But the data don't really bear out the idea. In fact, according to data collected by Consumer Reports, EVs are significantly less reliable than conventionally powered cars.

CR is known for buying cars for its own test fleet, but for its annual auto reliability survey, the organization cast a wider net. Specifically, it gathered data from 330,000 owners of vehicles from model year 2000 onwards, and it uses that survey data to generate reliability scores for each vehicle and model year.

The results are a little inconvenient for the EV evangelist. EVs had 79 percent more reliability problems than a gasoline- or diesel-powered vehicle, on average. Plug-in hybrids fared even worse; these had 146 percent more issues on average than the conventional alternative. But simpler not-plug-in hybrids bucked this trend, with 26 percent fewer reliability problems than conventionally powered vehicles.

PHEVs also had the greatest number of potential trouble areas. A conventionally powered car, truck, or SUV has 17 main problem areas, according to CR, including minor stuff like trim rattling and more significant areas like the engine or t***smission. PHEVs have all these plus electric motors, a high-voltage traction battery, and charging to contend with.

Hybrids have 19 potential trouble areas—all the above minus the charging problem—and EVs have just 12, since they go without things like internal combustion engines, fueling systems, or t***smissions. (Yes, if you want to be very pedantic you could point out the Porsche Taycan and Audi e-Tron GT have two-speed t***smissions, but no one will be impressed.)

Electric motors, charging, and battery problems make up most of the EV reliability complaints (and those are charging problems with the car, not with home or public charging hardware). The relative rawness of most EVs on sale is a big factor in this, and CR has some good advice for potential EV buyers: Do not get seduced by that launch edition vehicle.

"EVs are still in their relative infancy as mainstream vehicles, so it’s really not surprising that manufacturers, by and large, are still working out the kinks. That said, we are seeing signs of movement in the right direction. And as our data has consistently shown, reliability-minded consumers would be best served by forgoing brand new vehicles in their first model year," said Jake Fisher, senior director of auto testing at CR.

"Hybrids continue to surpass EVs and ICE vehicles for reliability even though hybrids are more complex with gas-powered engines supplemented by an electric drive system. This is because hybrid technology is now over 25 years old and is offered mainly from the most reliable automakers."

At first, CR's data looks like it's in conflict with one of its earlier reports; in 2020, its data showed that EVs and PHEVs had lifetime maintenance costs that were about twice as cheap as for an internal combustion-powered vehicle. But Fisher noted that the earlier study was looking at cost rather than reliability. Since the EVs and PHEVs were mostly under warranty (and EV powertrain warranties are typically much longer than regular powertrain warranties), many repairs did not cost the owners.

Who did well?
Different brands are having different reliability issues. Tesla, despite a legion of horror stories, finds itself very middle of the pack in terms of overall reliability, and in general it builds dependable EV powertrains—less so bodywork, paint/trim, and climate systems. It's the second-highest ranked domestic automaker in CR's list, and its two volume offerings, the Models 3 and Y, have average reliability, according to CR's data and predictions.

EVs from other automakers mostly tell the opposite story. These brands know how to assemble and paint cars, and they can build climate control systems that don't cause too many headaches. But there are many more complaints about their electric powertrains. CR says that the Ford Mustang Mach-E is a notable bright spot, "which has shown enough improvement in its EV battery and charging system to now be rated average for predicted reliability and is eligible for CR’s recommendation."

Meanwhile, PHEVs are the worst of both worlds. As an example, the conventionally powered Chrysler Pacifica minivan is one of CR's recommended picks this year, based on its reliability. But the plug-in hybrid Pacifica is well below average, thanks to plenty of problems with its hybrid drivetrain and charging system.

Those reliability problems affect different manufacturers differently, though. By contrast, Toyota's RAV4 Prime was one of the most reliable vehicles in the entire survey, despite being a PHEV.


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In general, the Asian OEMs dominate the upper end of the reliability chart, although Mini, Porsche, and BMW also made the top 10. As noted, Tesla placed pretty solidly mid-pack, along with other domestic brands like Buick, Ram, Cadillac, Chevrolet, and Dodge.

From there, things got progressively worse. Ford is in 22nd place overall, and many of its best-sellers like the F-150 and Bronco suffer from below-average reliability, as does the F-150 Lightning and the F-150 hybrid. (The Ford Maverick and Edge stick out from the rest of the range with above-average reliability ratings.)

But bottom of the heap came Chrysler, which also took the honor for the least reliable vehicle overall, the aforementioned Pacifica Hybrid.

BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: OUR THREE PREREQUISITES FOR PEACE




We must destroy Hamas, demilitarize Gaza and deradicalize the whole of Palestinian society.



By Benjamin Netanyahu Dec. 25, 2023




Hamas must be destroyed, Gaza must be demilitarized, and Palestinian society must be deracialized. These are the three prerequisites for peace between Israel and its Palestinian neighbors in Gaza.


First, Hamas, a key Iranian proxy, must be destroyed. The U.S., U.K., France, Germany and many other countries support Israel’s intention to demolish the terror group. To achieve that goal, its military capabilities must be dismantled and its political rule over Gaza must end. Hamas’s leaders have vowed to repeat the Oct. 7 massacre “again and again.” That is why their destruction is the only proportional response to prevent the repeat of such horrific atrocities. Anything less guarantees more war and more bloodshed.


In destroying Hamas, Israel will continue to act in full compliance with international law. This is especially challenging because an integral part of Hamas’s strategy is to use Palestinian civilians as human shields. Hamas places its terrorist infrastructure inside and underneath homes, hospitals, mosques, schools and other civilian sites, deliberately putting the Palestinian population at risk.


Israel does its best to minimize civilian casualties by dropping leaflets, sending text messages and using other means to warn Gazans to get out of harm’s way. Hamas by contrast does its utmost to keep Palestinians in harm’s way—often at gunpoint.


Unjustly blaming Israel for these casualties will only encourage Hamas and other terror organizations around the world to use human shields. To render this cruel and cynical strategy ineffective, the international community must place the blame for these casualties squarely on Hamas. It must recognize that Israel is fighting the bigger battle of the civilized world against barbarism.


Second, Gaza must be demilitarized. Israel must ensure that the territory is never again used as a base to attack it. Among other things, this will require establishing a temporary security zone on the perimeter of Gaza and an inspection mechanism on the border between Gaza and Egypt that meets Israel’s security needs and prevents smuggling of weapons into the territory.


The expectation that the Palestinian Authority will demilitarize Gaza is a pipe dream. It currently funds and glorifies terrorism in Judea and Samaria and educates Palestinian children to seek the destruction of Israel. Not surprisingly it has shown neither the capability nor the will to demilitarize Gaza. It failed to do so before Hamas booted it out of the territory in 2007, and it has failed to do so in the territories under its control today. For the foreseeable future Israel will have to retain overriding security responsibility over Gaza.


Third, Gaza will have to be deradicalized. Schools must teach children to cherish life rather than death, and imams must cease to preach for the murder of Jews. Palestinian civil society needs to be t***sformed so that its people support fighting terrorism rather than funding it.


That will likely require courageous and moral leadership. Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas can’t even bring himself to condemn the Oct. 7 atrocities. Several of his ministers deny that the murders and rapes happened or accuse Israel of perpetrating these horrific crimes against its own people. Another threatened that a similar attack would be carried out in Judea and Samaria.


Successful deradicalization took place in Germany and Japan after the Allied victory in World War II. Today, both nations are great allies of the U.S. and promote peace, stability and prosperity in Europe and Asia.


More recently, since the 9/11 attacks, visionary Arab leaders in the Gulf have led efforts to deradicalize their societies and t***sform their countries. Israel has since forged the historic Abraham Accords and today enjoys peace agreements with six Arab states. Such a cultural t***sformation will be possible in Gaza only among Palestinians who don’t seek the destruction of Israel.


Once Hamas is destroyed, Gaza is demilitarized and Palestinian society begins a deradicalization process, Gaza can be rebuilt and the prospects of a broader peace in the Middle East will become a reality.

Just like working with electricity, you must make sure it is turned off before messing with it.

Terror at Tesla as robot 'attacks' engineer, leaving 'trail of blood'
Metal claws in violent encounter inflict 'open wound' injury
By WND News Services
Published December 26, 2023 at 3:23pm

By Jim Hoft
The Gateway Pundit

A robotic malfunction at Tesla’s Giga Texas factory resulted in a violent encounter where an engineer was attacked by one of the company’s robots, resulting in significant injuries and leaving a ‘trail of blood.’

According to the Daily Mail, while working on software programming for non-functional Tesla robots, the engineer was suddenly pinned against a surface by a robot tasked with manipulating aluminum car components, with its metal claws inflicted an injury that left an ‘open wound’ on the worker’s left hand.

“Two of the robots, which cut car parts from freshly cast pieces of aluminum, were disabled so the engineer and his teammates could safely work on the machines. A third one, which grabbed and moved the car parts, was inadvertently left operational, according to two people who watched it happen. As that robot ran through its normal motions, it pinned the engineer against a surface, pushing its claws into his body and drawing blood from his back and his arm, the two people said,” The Information reported.

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Quick action was taken by Tesla workers who intervened and triggered the emergency shutdown button to halt the malfunctioning robot and prevent further injury to the engineer.

This incident came to light through a 2021 injury report filed to Travis County and federal regulators, which Daily Mail reviewed. Tesla is legally required to report such incidents to ensure the continuation of state-provided tax incentives.

Despite claims by Tesla that the engineer did not require time off following the event, an attorney representing the factory’s contract laborers suggests otherwise. Evidence hints at possible underreporting of workplace accidents, casting doubt on the official records.

The injury report, which Tesla must submit to authorities by law to maintain its lucrative tax breaks in Texas, claimed the engineer did not require time off of work.

But one attorney who represents Tesla’s Giga Texas contract workers has told DailyMail.com she believes, based on her conversations with workers there, that the amount of injuries suffered at the factory is going underreported.

This underreporting, the attorney said, even included the September 28, 2021 death of a construction worker, who had been contracted to help build the factory itself.

‘My advice would be to read that report with a grain of salt,’ the attorney, Hannah Alexander of the nonprofit Workers Defense Project, told DailyMail.com.

‘We’ve had multiple workers who were injured,’ Alexander said, ‘and one worker who died, whose injuries or death are not in these reports that Tesla is supposed to be accurately completing and submitting to the county in order to get tax incentives.’

Elon Musk has yet to issue a formal statement in response to these allegations.

Just recently, Tesla revealed the second generation of its humanoid robot, Optimus Gen 2.

Optimus Gen 2 stands at a height of 5 feet 11 inches and weighs in at a light 121 pounds, shedding 22 pounds from the first model. It’s not just its frame that’s been upgraded; this robot can reach speeds up to 5 mph, which is a substantial 30% increase in velocity.

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Rising baby-name trend could become the new normal: Is America in danger?
'Sanitizing baby names pushes the l*****t habit of using language to control reality to the next level'
By Kellen McGovern Jones, The Western Journal
Published December 25, 2023 at 3:55pm

In 2013, Katie Hopkins appeared on British TV show "This Morning" and got into a bit of a tussle over children's names, but now, a decade later, she has been proven, at least somewhat, right.

First, she said baby names are getting crazier. True.

Second, she said rude children are often named Tyler. Also true. But one thing she did get wrong (at least in 2024) is assuming that Tyler is a boy.

G****r-neutral baby names are projected to be all the rage in 2024 for American girls while boy names will favor g****r-neutral surnames, the New York Post reported.

“I’m seeing a lot of whimsical, g****r-neutral surnames being given as first names,” Steph Coffield, a Minnesota-based baby consultant, told Yahoo Life. "We’re seeing girls’ names becoming more masculine and boys’ names becoming softer, too."

“The way things are going, with more acceptance of non-binary people, parents aren't afraid to give boys softer more feminine names. We're already there with girls being more masculine, and that will continue," she added.

"Some parents will come to me asking for one that works for a boy and a girl ahead of time, then they can stick with it, wh**ever the g****r."

So what will these new baby names look like?

According to Yahoo Life, some of the most popular projected baby names for 2024 are Collins, Sloane, Maddison, and Spencer for girls and Cameron, Carter, and Waylon for boys.

This trend is a natural extension of a greater cultural sanitation of sex and g****r, a continual homogenization of the g****rs into one indistinguishable mish-mash.

Although English is unlike Spanish where nearly every word has a g****r, English has many g****red words. Often these words describe a profession. For decades we have seen attempts to g****r-neutralize professional names. Stewardesses are now flight attendants. Congressmen, chairmen, spokesmen, foremen, policemen and firemen are all names that the progressives deem to be passè. Now, it is congressperson, chairperson, spokesperson, foreperson, police officer, and firefighter. Even friendly phrases like "bud" can draw the ire of the politically correct g****r police.

Sanitizing baby names pushes the l*****t habit of using language to control reality to the next level. It is similar to requiring people to declare their pronouns or use the preferred pronouns of others under penalty of termination from their jobs, and it continues the nonsensical notion of someone's g****r being "assigned at birth."

G****r can not be "assigned" at birth or any other point in someone's life. It is also not a "guess" by the doctor as one first-grade teacher recently told a student. G****r is determined by the c********es you are given by God at conception. You remain male or female from conception to death, and there are no tricks of language or medical interventions that can alter this reality.

Progressives have been straining against biology for more than a decade now, but they can not overcome what the reasonable know to be true. You do not need to declare your pronouns because your name and g****r foresignify it.

Embracing this trend only allows progressives to continue to bolster their positions by giving declared pronouns a necessity. Imagine you are a school teacher examining the roll sheet for next year's incoming class. Since names are another manifestation of people's g****r, you know Hank is a boy and Eleanor is a girl without ever having to see them.

From this information, you see that you have more boys or girls in one particular class, and you can make arrangements for curriculum accordingly. More boys this year? We are going to need more structure and activity. More girls? More creativity and discussion-based material.

However, with a classroom full of Collins Smith and Sloane Williams, you no longer have this information. You can no longer pre-prepare material as effectively, and it is now a necessity that students declare their pronouns because their names no longer indicate it.

Further, neutralizing names continues the unfortunate modern severance of people from their ancestry. It atomizes people and removes a sense of connection with all that proceeds them.

When you are born male or female, your g****r opens you up to a certain pool of names. Within this pool, parents often choose to pay homage to many great traditions. Many of my male friends are "juniors" or the third/fourth/fifth of some great familial succession of male names. Most of the Catholics I have known name their children after the Saints or Popes "Cecilia", "Agnes" or "John Paul," and the Evangelicals draw their names from Biblical figures "Enoch", "Esther", and "Naomi." Especially in the South, it is common to select names that pay homage to great figures like southern generals or statesmen.

G****r-neutralizing names entrenches the isolation of modernity that progressivism thrives in. It allows you to become nothing more than a historical vagabond, merely free-floating in the moment without connection to all that produced you. In this void, ahistorical absurdisms like t*********rism can slip in and manifest.


In an a******l time, when men believe they can breastfeed, being normal is suddenly a radical act. We should pray this push to take g****r ideology to children will provoke the same response from rational parents that it has in public schools, that it should be rejected outright and that it will spur a reinvigorated interest in traditional values. We must be continually wary of creating men with no connection to themselves, their faith, or their people.