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Today
@FDRLST
we have a report on a widespread cash-for-votes scheme in Nevada, where Native American voter advocacy groups broke federal election laws by giving away gift cards, electronics and other "prizes" in exchange for Democratic votes.
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Fani Willis is basically our entire ruling class: corrupt, stupid, entitled, power-hungry, and contemptuous of anyone who questions them. You can't have a republic with a ruling class like this.
Keep an eye out for this talking point, bc you're going to hear it a lot if Biden drops out of the race: he's a good & decent man, devoted his life to public service etc.
Nonsense. He's deeply deceitful and corrupt man who has subsisted as a parasite on the body politic for a
My heart is breaking for President Biden. If the rumors are true, let’s be compassionate. A good man who has devoted his life to serving his country. Regardless of your party, this is a human moment. This is as tough as it gets.
Tucker Carlson on Fox News just now is exactly right: no matter who wins tonight, the biggest story of this election is that the GOP under Trump has become a working class party. People are voting based on economics not "intersectionality" and woke identity politics.
Many of the Haitians now in Del Rio have been living in Mexico and S America for years. Why did they so many of them decide last week to take buses to Acuna and walk across the Rio Grande? Will even one member of the corporate press ask that Q? Does it even occur to them to ask?
Understand that what’s happening in Canada is the criminalization of dissent. It means the end of liberal democracy.
Also understand that what’s being done there will be tried in the US. It will not go well. For anyone.
The Durham report is damning. It shows the FBI operating as a disinformation shop for the Clinton campaign, ignoring its own rules, and blatantly & maliciously interfering in a presidential election. The Steele dossier was fake, and FBI knew it all along.
One of the most amazing twists in the pandemic is that NBA players have emerged as the most cogent and principled defenders of liberty and conscience and basic civic decency in America, to the point that they're having to explain these things to a corrupt and hostile media.
Draymond Green on why he doesn't pressure his teammates to get vaccinated: "We’re dealing with something that to me feels like has turned into a political war"
We forget how much Obama did to tear apart the social fabric of our country. His time in office inaugurated a new era of racial strife, class warfare, and civic distrust. And all the people who should’ve spoken up at the time were silent bc they didn’t want to be called racist.
Imagine being a NY Times reporter and thinking that it's Trump who has "thrown accelerant on distrust of institutions" and not, you know, media outlets like the NY Times or the pre-Trump political establishment.
One thing to consider amid the caucuses snafu - the president has thrown accelerant on distrust of institutions, and this is another one. He has highlighted the Dem party ills around this caucus in tweets. It is in contrast to Obama silence on the Romney/Santo mess in 2012.
If it’s not about one officer, why did you post a pic of one particular officer, accompanied by what nearly amounts to a “true threat”? You’re the one creating hate. Think before you tweet next time.
I’m so damn tired of seeing Black people killed by police. I took the tweet down because its being used to create more hate -This isn’t about one officer. it’s about the entire system and they always use our words to create more racism. I am so desperate for more ACCOUNTABILITY
To understand why the White House would ban horse patrols at the border, you have to understand that the administration’s entire approach to the border is pure theater. They are concerned with optics, not reality.
Most people don't realize how small the staff of
@FDRLST
really is. We are about the size of a large nuclear family (and often feel like one). Losing Bre Payton is simply devastating. She was not just a smart and incisive reporter, but also a sweet, kind person. RIP.
My question is why are journalists pretending NOT to understand why Trump, or anyone else, would call it Chinese Virus or Wuhan Virus? It's a pretty transparent act they're putting on here. We all know why: it comes from China.
John Kerry admits in interview with French TV that Joe Biden had no idea about the fallout with the French from the AUKUS sub deal.
"He literally had not been aware of what had transpired"
The trend of people getting fired for criticizing the BLM movement is going to accelerate. Unopposed, it will become mainstream, and if you want to participate in mainstream American life you'll have to affirm what they ask you to affirm. This is already happening. Pay attention.
Americans will never again obey lockdown orders from public health experts. The experts have only themselves to blame. They burned their credibility to the ground.
This narrative is such horseshit. No one was deceived about Biden’s decline. It was obvious. Reporters just had to tell the truth but they weren’t willing to do that for ideological and partisan reasons. Now they want to pretend they’re some kind of injured party? Nope.
Axios: "Hell has no fury like a press corps deceived. Reporters feel duped — and some probably embarrassed —and are scrambling to unearth new evidence of decline."
See how this works? If a mob attacks the Capitol bc they support Trump, Trump & Republicans are to blame. If a mob attacks the Capitol (or anywhere else) bc they hate Trump, Trump and Republicans are to blame. Simple.
This is the kind of thing a person says who doesn’t know anyone who does blue-collar work for a living. If you’re a mason, carpenter, roofer, plumber, electrician—anyone who uses their body and back for a living, then yes, at some point before age 70, you’ll want to retire.
Ben Shapiro:
"No one in the United States should be retiring at 65 years old. Frankly, I think retirement itself is a stupid idea unless you have some sort of health problem."
When the media ask Trump to denounce white supremacy, it’s not a question — it’s an accusation. That’s why they won’t accept his many denunciations of white supremacy. The point isn’t to get a clear answer, it’s to smear Trump as a racist.
@FDRLST
Okay so the debate has just devolved into ABC shithead moderators arguing with Trump while Harris just spews the most obvious, debunked lies with no pushback at all. This is such a farce.
Lots of people / GOP reps are tweeting about Republicans not being allowed in as poll watchers. As the Fox News correspondent says in this report, "That's not true."
Paxton should immediately indict President Biden for his role in the criminal human trafficking conspiracy at the border.
The only way to make Democrats stop is to do to them what they're doing to Trump.
This verdict is an outright assault not only on President Trump but on every American who believes in justice and the rule of law. This is a battle of good versus evil and let me be clear: the political elite may think they've won this battle, but President Trump and the
Exactly this. The idea that we should all just sit back and be patient and wait for the Tammany Hall-esque Democratic machine in friggin PHILADELPHIA to "report all the votes" is ridiculous and insulting on its face.
The ruling class just lied to the nation for a year about the polls and stats and percentages. They've lied about Trump for four years. So, no, we aren't going to accept the fact that now we need to trust corrupt Democratic blue city political machines to be honest re the vote.
There's a very ugly class divide apparent in all these BLM-police interactions that the mainstream press mostly ignores because white college-educated BLM protesters taunting multiracial groups of police officers is a very bad look.
Black Lives Matter protesters at the NY CHAZ brag about their college educations and mock the police for being uneducated, working class, illiterate rubes. They also call a black cop “black Judas” or race traitor.
Here's a column I wrote in October about the mainstream media's collective refusal to cover the Hunter Biden story, which Anne Applebaum laughably called a "psy-op" that's too complicated to understand.
Do you understand it now, Anne?
When otherwise intelligent and honorable people don't agree with me about Orange Man Bad, it leads me to the sorrowful but inescapable conclusion that I was wrong about those people, and that they're really just corrupt hacks with no principles.
The difficulty is that Republicans have so thoroughly subjugated themselves to Trump that even if/when an honest, respected statesman-type like Hurd makes a decision that shields the president, it’s nearly impossible to believe it was done for the right and defensible reasons
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Forget about the election for a minute. After tonight we should all be asking the same question: who is running the country? Who is calling the shots, especially on foreign affairs? Because it isn't Biden.
To reiterate: if you don't know that "coyote" is a term for a human smuggler at the border, then you're too ignorant of how the border works to be outraged by anything that happens there, and you need to educate yourself.
This is like when CNN's Jim Acosta went to the US-Mexico border, picked a random spot outside McAllen, looked around at the vast expanse of empty scrubland around him and, seeing no smugglers or migrants in the bushes, declared there was no border crisis.
This makes zero sense. If Claudine Gay had high ethical standards she wouldn’t have plagiarized, hence there would be nothing for
@realchrisrufo
to expose.
It’s not a “trap,” it’s sunlight, and the institutional left hates it.
"This is the kind of trap Rufo specializes in exploiting.
"He attacks targets with high ethical standards, which he himself doesn’t care about at all, forcing them to choose between maintaining their standards and resisting his nakedly political agenda."
Twitter isn’t a neutral platform, and
@jack
isn’t an unbiased facilitator. Like all social media companies, Twitter is publisher with a decidedly progressive editorial slant. It’s time to start treating it like one.
@FDRLST
Imagine the lack of self-awareness you'd need to be a CNN talking head worrying about echo chambers and people being "fed a diet of lies," or thinking that conservatives opening Parler accounts is a "threat to democracy." What a bunch of clowns.
.
@brianstelter
: "Conservatives are saying they're leaving Twitter and Facebook going off to Parler because they believe Parler is a safer space for them.
What we're seeing is even more of a bunker mentality in right-wing media."
@PamelaBrownCNN
: "It's a threat to democracy."
My visit to the border confirmed that we have a real immigration crisis. The solution is a high wall with a big gate — but a smart gate, writes
@TomFriedman
.
About the kneeling groups of white people professing their guilt: What is now a voluntary and seemingly spontaneous public affirmation of progressive ideology will in time become a requirement. You’ll have to profess allegiance to the cultural left.
No,
@JudgeEckhardt
, you didn't say something "disagreeable," you said something appalling. You said Gov. Abbott "hates trees because one fell on him," and you did so bc you thought you were among friends and could speak freely. If I hadn't reported it, would you have apologized?
If you think what’s happening in America right now is crazy, you’re not alone. It’s true that a cultural civil war is underway and escalating. But it’s not true that BLM is a majoritarian movement. America didn’t fundamentally change overnight.
@FDRLST
A friendly reminder that the people who are telling us we have to go on lockdowns again have no credibility, they don't care about science, they're willing to trade public health for woke virtue-signaling, and they definitely don't care about your safety.
Something very shady is going on in Detroit with the counting of absentee ballots. Which, if you know anything about the history of election fraud in Detroit, is no surprise. New report up now
@FDRLST
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So according to WaPo, all you have to do to be “deeply Catholic” is attend Mass, cross yourself and “use rosary beads” (??). Never mind, you know, actually believing what the Church teaches and submitting to its authority. For these people, religion is an affect, nothing more.
The president is an observant Catholic — regularly attending mass, crossing himself and using rosary beads.
He’s also a liberal, and that’s stirring up the Catholic bishops fighting cultural battles within the church.
I was locked out of my Twitter account a year ago for saying that Rachel Levine, a high-ranking official in the Biden administration, is a man. Levine is "trans," and Twitter wanted me to delete my tweet and admit that I had engaged in "hateful conduct" by "misgendering him." 1/
The media lied about the Russia collusion hoax. They lied about the Mueller probe and Brett Kavanaugh and Mike Flynn. They lied about the impeachment farce. They lied about the coronavirus and the lockdowns. And now they’re lying about the riots.
@FDRLST
Trump is exactly right: countries that won't take back their own foreign nationals, illegal immigrants we want to deport, will lose aide and favorable trade relations with the US. That's an immigration policy that serves the interests of Americans first.
Here's a little explainer about how the border works, why "coyote" isn't a slur (it's a term for a human smuggler), and why Joe Biden, like a lot of Twitter blue checks, doesn't understand what's going on with family separation and reunification.
@FDRLST
Trump need not have said a word about the well-documented problems with the election for millions of people to come to the conclusion that it was not free and fair. McConnell tried to wave this all away as so many “conspiracy theories.”
"Fact-checking" is a baleful development in journalism, a direct result of reporters and editors not doing their jobs and, by masquerading their biases behind a veneer of "fact-checking," have burned their credibility to the ground.
This is a pretty weak excuse, in part because no one believes these WaPo reporters would have tweeted out "merry impeachmas!" if a GOP House had impeached Hillary Clinton.
Just admit you're biased. Everyone knows it anyway.
I’m deleting a tweeting tonight that is being misinterpreted by some as an endorsement of some kind. To be absolutely clear, we at the Post are merely glad we are getting a break for the holidays after a long 3 months. I will retweet the group photo w/ a better caption !
The driving imperative for the large majority of GOP voters isn't "resentment" or "grievances," it's a desire to be left alone, and they know an increasingly radicalized Democratic Party won’t ever leave them alone.
This should be swiftly condemned by Democratic leaders, especially if they want to retain a shred of credibility when it comes to denouncing divisive rhetoric or inciting violence. What Rep. Castro has done is far worse and more dangerous than anything Trump has ever said.
Democratic Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro, who chairs his brother's presidential campaign, publicly posted the names and employers of Trump donors in San Antonio
As statues of George Washington come tumbling down, this column from
@RichLowry
, published two days ago, hasn't aged well.
Wake up, folks. This was never about Confederate statues.
The Supreme-Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei has ordered the Iranian Armed Forces to launch a Direct Strike against Israel, as Retaliation for last night’s Assassination of Hamas Chief Political Leader, Ismail Haniyeh in the City of Tehran.
The fact that CBS did this, and won't publicly explain or "report" on why it did this, which is of itself an indisputably newsworthy event, sort of confirms that it's not a news organization. (It hasn't been for a long time.)
REPORT: After firing investigative reporter Catherine Herridge who was investigating the Hunter Biden laptop story, CBS reportedly seized her belongings.
Nothing to see here.
The network reportedly seized all of her belongings including files, computers and most importantly,
The media can repeat "there is no evidence of fraud" all they want but it doesn't make it so. The number of people who have come forward with sworn and signed affidavits alleging illegal activity by election workers in Detroit is growing. See for yourself.
I don’t think it even occurs to Big Tech the ways in which their conduct has contributed to and accelerated what’s happening now. Same for corporate media, Hollywood, Wall Street.
This is an emergency situation and we are taking appropriate emergency measures, including removing President Trump's video. We removed it because on balance we believe it contributes to rather than diminishes the risk of ongoing violence.
Breaking News: Twitter has decided that investigative journalism is in violation of their terms of service -
@Project_Veritas
has been temporarily suspended from posting for tweeting internal communications from
@Pinterest
which show them calling
@benshapiro
a "white supremacist"
The monoclonal antibody treatment is free—and everyone, including
@chrislhayes
, knows it.
(But don’t hold your breath waiting for Twitter to flag Hayes’ false claim as “misinformation” or append an “additional context” warning to it. All that goes in one direction only.)
“Go to a kickboxing class, have a margarita” might as well be the slogan of the Democratic Party, which is by now so obviously a party of and for the upper managerial class it’s unspoken slogan is “crush the poor.”
Psaki on voting rights bills failing: "My advice to everyone out there who's frustrated, sad, angry, pissed off, feel those emotions, go to a kickboxing class, have a margarita, do whatever you need to do this weekend, and then wake up on Monday morning, we gotta keep fighting."
Mark Robinson didn't deny the Holocaust. He didn't say he wishes we could go back to when women couldn't vote. He's not a deranged conspiracy theorist. Everything the corporate press has said about him is a lie.
The amazing thing about this exchange is that what Vance is saying here isn’t complex and doesn’t require specialist knowledge. Anyone just passing curious about illegal immigration & its effects is well familiar w what he’s saying. Yet it’s totally over the NYT lady’s head.
It won’t be enough simply to impeach Biden if GOP lawmakers don’t also go after DOJ and FBI leaders who have been hiding evidence against Biden, covering up his corruption, and obstructing investigations into the Biden family business.
7. Anyway more thoughts later. But: Whether you think what Biden's doing is a sincere/legal/noble effort to fight the pandemic or a tyrannical outrage or a cynical media strategy, IT WOULDN'T BE HAPPENING IF EVERYONE WAS VACCINATED. Get vaccinated, ffs.
What's the word for collusion between govt & industry? You know, when industry supports a govt's political goals and in turn govt enacts policies that benefit those industries? I can't quite remember, but I know it starts with an F and kind of rhymes with "schism."
Trump's mention of a "favor" was obviously in the context of asking for help with an investigation of the Russia collusion allegations and Clinton's server. Biden didn't come up until later in the call. This isn't hard to follow. The media is being stupefyingly dishonest.
Biden needs to stop talking about why we went to Afghanistan in 2001. Almost no one thinks we should stay. That's not being debated. The criticism is about HOW this withdrawal has been conducted. Why has it been such a disaster? He needs to explain that, if he can.
Biden is flat out wrong. Many of those unaccompanied children, and children who were separated from parents (or alleged parents), did in fact come over coyotes and cartels. In addition, some of these parents have resisted reunification. It’s complicated, but Biden is wrong here.
This column hit a nerve, and for good reason. The officials telling us we have to stay locked down and keep schools & businesses shuttered are the same ppl who didn't care about lockdowns when it came to mass BLM protests. They have no credibility now.
So many illegal immigrants are coming across the border right now that cartels have created a wristband system to track who has paid, how much, and where they're going. It's not just a crisis, it's a massive black market industry ramping up volume.
He doesn't have to offer a reason for recalling or dismissing executive branch officials who work for his administration. These are legitimate exercises of the president's powers, which no one in the media questioned until Trump came along.
This is some of the most anti-American garbage a major Democratic candidate has ever spouted in public. In a few sentences, Walz repudiates the foundation of the American dream: that whoever you are, whatever your circumstances, you can make something of yourself in America.
Governor Tim Walz on JD Vance going to Yale University:
“None of my Hillbilly cousins went to Yale, or went on to become venture capitals, that’s not who people really are.”
Walz enrolled into a Harvard University teaching program abroad in China.
Trump voters worried about the freeness and fairness of the election aren't cray conspiracy theorists or traitorous Nazis. They actually have good reason to be worried about election integrity, mostly bc of the mass expansion of mail-in voting this year.
The ballot counting in Philadelphia is being overseen by a deeply corrupt Democratic machine. That machine, one insider told The Federalist, that has a lot more in common with “a living organism” that doesn’t need instructions “to know how to breathe.”
The next time you read the NY Times or Atlantic, watch MSNBC or CNN, or listen to NPR, your default assumption should be that what you are reading, watching, or hearing is not true, that you are being lied to. Because you almost certainly are.
What do you call it when the NSBA coordinates with the WH before asking the admin use the FBI to target dissenting parents as “domestic terrorists,” and 5 days later the DOJ tells the FBI to do just that?
The old-fashioned word for it is corruption.
Sort of leaves one wondering what other kinds of “nationwide mandates” Biden thinks we need, and under what authority he would try to impose them.
Btw that’s the sort of question he should be asked at, say, a debate or a press conference, but never will be.
I think we’ve had quite enough of the fiction that social media giants like Facebook are simply neutral platform providers. They’re not only publishers, they’re deeply biased publishers.
BREAKING:
In possible retaliation against a letter from US Senators to Mark Zuckerberg,
@Facebook
just sent ANOTHER alert to thousands of our followers saying
@LiveAction
’s content is “false”—using the “fact check” by two abortionists. They also added a “violation” to our page.
According to Anne Applebaum, the Hunter Biden story is for suckers. Smart people who “live outside the Fox News bubble” do not “need to learn any of this stuff”—it’s just a conspiracy theory for the rubes. Her take embodies the condescension of the elites.
This is precisely my point in
@FDRLST
: The Democrats’ impeachment inquiry increasingly looks like nothing more than a disagreement between President Trump and a coterie of career State Department bureaucrats about U.S. policy in Ukraine.
One disturbing trend from these impeachment interviews - it seems much of the testimony from career bureaucrats centers around their policy disagreements with the President.
If you disagree with the President on policy, go run for office. That's NOT a cause for impeachment.
Here’s a first-hand account of election fraud in Detroit. GOP poll challengers are being harassed, blocked, and kicked out of ballot-counting rooms for trying to do their jobs in accordance with Michigan law.
This is the most damning commentary on Pete Buttigieg's campaign you'll see. The Democratic Party base has moved on from Obama. They don't want more of these tired platitudes, they want a revolution.