I can’t be the only one uneasy in the knowledge that the people responsible for America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan just a few short weeks ago are now pursuing regime change in a nuclear armed Russia.
A Clock-Drawing Test From The Presidency
Is she actually drunk? pic.twitter.com/iWeOdGaozG
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) March 21, 2022
Come Back Pizzagate!
It’s now clear why the Biden administration does not want this side of [SCOTUS nominee] Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s history to get out. Jackson’s record shielding child predators from the punishment and justice they deserve should trouble every sane person. Judge Jackson went to bat for those who prey on the most vulnerable members of society. Judge Jackson must explain herself at her upcoming hearing. If she fails to adequately justify her disturbing record, every senator who votes for her must be held accountable,” said Mike Davis, Founder and President of the Article III Project.
According to the A3P research, Ketanji Brown Jackson consistently said sentences and punishments for sex offenders generally were too harsh and stigmatizing. Specifically, when she worked on the U.S. Sentencing Commission, Jackson declared that mandatory minimums for sex offenders targeting children as “excessively severe and might be applied inconsistently.” Additionally, she believed reforms for these minimums will “bring these guidelines into the 21st century,” in spite of several reforms to the law already enacted during the 21st century. The full research document can be found here.
“Whenever you hear people saying ‘he’s mad’ – that’s lazy.”
13 minutes of truth bombing.
Ten Percent For The Big Guy
I think we’re done here.
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
“Chinese companies, particularly CATL, have secured vast supplies of the raw materials that go inside the batteries,” The New York Times reported in December. “That dominance has stirred fears in Washington that Detroit could someday be rendered obsolete, and that Beijing could control American driving in the 21st century the way that oil-producing nations sometimes could in the 20th.”
By increasing our use of electric cars, the United States will require more lithium batteries and will further rely on China to sustain our supply. While the current energy crisis could be an opportunity for America to increase our energy independence, the current administration refuses to take advantage.
As The Federalist’s Tristan Justice reported in August, Biden’s electric vehicle plan “is a big win for Beijing.” Despite our capability to become independent and profit from American-made energy, Biden has no plans to trump China’s mass energy production, even as China continues to flaunt the rigid “green” standards that hold our own producers back.
Funny that Biden would do that.
The DeSantis Doctrine
You gotta hand it to a guy who convinces Democrats to die on the hill of defending perverted groomers talking about sex with little school kids.
DeSantis is now, as he slowly gains parity in popularity with Donald Trump, worse than Trump. They fear him because he does not have the mean tweets aspect that allows the left to attack him for something other than his actual deeds. They have to defend their freakshow agenda because he gives them nothing to change the subject to. And if they want to make it a fight over whether or not skeevy sex pests can have at your little kids, well, that’s a battle we’re delighted to fight.
But here’s the thing. They do want to fight over the bizarre and repellent pillars of modern liberalism. They do want to fight over whether perverts can groom your kids. They do want to fight over whether you can abort your kid 30 seconds before they’re born. They do want to fight over the need to strangle our energy industry so that you are paying $10 a gallon for unleaded. They want to fight over their desire to coddle criminals, let hobos defile our sidewalks, and send your kid to fight their war in Whogivesadamnistan.
They want to fight over a bunch of things that are awful, and far too many Republicans have shied away from not merely saying so but from actually doing something about them. Every GOP governor talks about wokeness or boys dominating girls’ sports. But far too many, like Kristi Noem, default to the Chamber of Commerce agenda and do zip. Not DeSantis. He not only wields power; he enjoys it.
All The News That’s Fit To Suppress
Where does America go to get her election back?
A comprehensive report about the ongoing federal probe into Hunter Biden’s tax filings published by the New York Times on Wednesday night confirmed the existence of the first son’s infamous laptop.
In October 2020, The Post exclusively reported on the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop that he ditched at a Delaware repair shop in April 2019.
The laptop’s hard drive contained a trove of emails, text messages, photos and financial documents between Hunter Biden, his family and business associates — detailing how the president’s son used his political leverage in his overseas business dealings.
The repair shop owner reported the laptop to the FBI, which seized the device and its hard drive.
As part of their investigation into Hunter Biden, the Times reports, federal prosecutors have looked into emails between the first son and his former business associates that were recovered from the laptop.
Some of the scrutinized correspondence was between Hunter Biden and Devon Archer, who had served with the first son on the board of Ukraine energy company Burisma, the report said.
Permanently Unexpected
Last week, Nancy Pelosi brought Build Back Better up again when discussing ways to bring down inflation. After blaming high gas prices on Vladimir Putin, the Speaker of the House actually told her fellow Democrats that government spending is the answer to fighting inflation.
The World Is In The Very Best Of Hands
This is real.
Unedited.
Actually happened.
pic.twitter.com/VKMjKQnI2s— Rising serpent 🇺🇸 (@rising_serpent) March 11, 2022
Temporarily Unexpected
CNBC's Rick Santelli on the latest inflation numbers: "so anybody who's looking at the month-over-month and year-over-year making comments that 'well the rate of change is slowing down, these numbers are coming down' – not accurate."pic.twitter.com/JjzrjmHB8U
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 9, 2022
Coulda Had A Pipeline
“Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates refused to take Biden’s call as he sought increased oil production to help lower gas prices in the US, the Wall Street Journal reports. Ostensibly, the snub relates to a demand for support against Iranian proxy terrorists, but it goes deeper than that on both ends. . .
Related: … the U.S. is in a commodity crisis that is giving rise to a new world monetary order that will ultimately weaken the current dollar-based system and lead to higher inflation in the West.
Nothing Says “Safe and Effective” Like 9 Pages of Side Effects
Withheld from the public until now.
But the hair-sniffing cadaver in the White House will be letting you know during SOTU (in between slurps of pudding) that the pandemic is miraculously over so don’t worry about it, get over it, etc.
Margin Of Fraud
With mid-terms approaching, undermining the democracy is cool again.
Ukraine’s Deadly Gamble
After all, Putin’s reputation until this moment has always been as a shrewd ex-KGB man who eschewed high-risk gambles in favor of sure things …
That Ukraine has allowed itself to be used as a pawn against a powerful neighbor is in part the fault of Kyiv’s reckless and corrupt political class. But Ukraine is not a superpower that owes allies and client-states judicious leadership—that’s the role of the United States. And in that role, the United States has failed Ukraine. More broadly, the use of Ukraine as a goad against enemies domestic and foreign has recklessly damaged the failing yet necessary European security architecture that America spent 75 years building and maintaining.
Why can’t the American security establishment shoulder responsibility for its role in the tragedy unfolding in Ukraine? Because to discuss American responsibility openly would mean exposing the national security establishment’s role in two separate, destructive coups: the first, in 2014, targeting the government of Ukraine, and the second, starting two years later, the government of the United States.
In the last year there have been two attempted “pro-democracy” inter-elite coups in pro-Kremlin states on Russian borders: Belarus and Kazakhstan. Both of those so-called “color revolutions” failed, but Ukraine represents a much more pressing concern, especially given the country’s push for NATO membership, which Biden officials like Secretary of State Antony Blinken publicly encouraged last year with no intention or possibility of actually making it possible. Yet rather than compelling the United States to rethink the wisdom of planting the NATO flag on Russia’s border, Putin’s escalating rhetoric—and troop movements—only made the Biden team dig in deeper.
This is a game that Biden and key figures in his administration have been playing for a long time, beginning with the 2013-14 Obama administration-backed coup that toppled a Russia-friendly government in Kyiv. This was the so-called Maidan Revolution, a sequel of sorts to the George W. Bush-backed Orange Revolution of 2004-05. Much of that same Obama foreign policy team—Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Victoria Nuland, Susan Rice, and others—is now back in the White House and State Department working in senior posts for a president who personally ran Obama’s Ukraine policy.
What did all these figures have in mind for Ukraine? The White House and U.S. foreign policy experts from both parties are united in claiming that Ukraine is a U.S. ally, a democracy, and a beacon of freedom, which are no doubt fine words to hear when you have been left to fight Vladimir Putin on your own. But to understand what Ukraine truly is, we must start where all geopolitics begins: by looking at a map.
Grab a coffee. This is a good one.
The World Is In The Very Best Of Hands
"Americans presented Chinese officials with intelligence on Russia’s troop buildup in hopes that President Xi Jinping would step in, but Chinese officials rebuffed the U.S. and shared the information with Moscow."
I would have called this a double-cross, but that's just me.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) February 25, 2022
Richard Fernandez’s Twitter feed is a good follow for updates on the Ukraine. Posobiec, too.
Coulda Had A Pipeline
Just to be clear, both Canada and the US will continue to import oil from Russia. Because our national governments consider the construction of oil pipelines from western Canada a greater threat than Russia, apparently. pic.twitter.com/dx5XGIjMBd
— Scott Moe (@PremierScottMoe) February 25, 2022
South of the Border
Something very interesting is happening in America. One wonders if President Brandon will be so quick to threaten these truckers and their supporters as easily as #BlackFaceHitler did to their Canadian neighbours.
Update: Live views this evening
The Honking Will Continue Until Freedom Improves
Safe And Effective ®
Meet FDA Executive Officer Christopher Cole, in a blockbuster Veritas drop.
“So, you’ll have to get an annual shot. I mean it hasn’t been formally announced yet, cause they don’t want to rile everyone up.”
FDA describes the work of the Medical Countermeasures Initiative here.
Predictions on How/When This Will End?
In this very interesting discussion, Ezra Levant shares his predictions on how the Canadian Freedom Revolution is going to come to a successful end and much quicker than anyone realizes:
If Ezra is correct, I must confess that the impetus for this ending coming via an external source is one I would not have predicted but his logic seems very sound.
There is a strong counterpoint to Levant’s theory. It’s one I’ve heard from several different sources. Here’s a piece by Alexandra Bruce of why Trudeau or his successor will not succumb to the demands of the Freedom Protest anytime soon. h/t “J West”
Finally, here’s a comprehensive analysis of all of this by Giles Hoffmann. h/t Brian
Whatever occurs, it’s going to take agreement from two parties for this all to end:
- The federal Canadian government and all (most?) provincial governments
- The truckers and other protesters
Who precisely constitutes group #2 is quite nebulous since this is a truly authentic grassroots campaign.
Several days ago, I summarized my own ideas into a two-part list of requirements that I think should be met before things end:
- Minimum requirements that are non-negotiable
- A list of additional things that should occur
I’ve deliberately held off on publishing these ideas because I think it’s much too early. My individual thoughts are unimportant; it’s the ideas of those on the frontlines that matter. But if the protesters were to ask you for your ideas on the Non-negotiable and Negotiable requirements, what would you tell them?