I am testing this blog because I have tried four times to load up a blog post contrasting CPAC with the America First PAC (AFPAC). Each time, the blog post has been theoretically accepted but has not shown up on the blog itself, so I am posting this to test the upload mechanism.
Sorry for the aggravation.
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Right Side Broadcast Network [RSBN] is live streaming from CPAC 2021 in Orlando, FL. President Trump will deliver his remarks today, Sunday Feb, 28, in the afternoon, sometime after 3:00pm (CPAC schedule specifies 3:40pm). Conservative Treehouse has the live-stream link here.
UPDATE at 3:47: One America News is broadcasting live as well. 3:58pm: President Trump's speech is evidently delayed. 4:49: One America News is cutting in and out of CPAC. The livestream link at Treehouse, above, is carrying it.
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In her American Thinker essay “RINOs: The Scourge of the
Republican Party,” Patricia McCarthy speaks for many:
How clueless are the swamp
RINOs? Very, very clueless. So confident that they can
dismiss President Trump like last week's news, a select few of them are
hilariously destroying their own brands — as if the 75M+ people who voted
for Trump are just going to forget Trump, the best president they've had in
decades, and go their establishment way. This scenario could be a
sitcom; that is how comical people like Liz Cheney, Mitch McConnell, Nikki
Haley, Adam Kinzinger, Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Pat Toomey,
and Mike Pence are at this sad moment in time. They all thought,
perhaps still think, that by denigrating President Trump, they will win over
those 75M people. They thought that by blaming him for what happened
at the Capitol on January 6, they would be rid of the man who so threatened
their cushy, establishment lives.
How can these lifelong pols be so
deluded? Because they live in a bubble of their own
making. They presume without thinking that they are smarter than
"we the people." Proceeding from that fixed belief, they
have no doubt that they can mesmerize us to forget Trump and all the good he
did, the promises he kept, the economy he built, the jobs he created, the
energy independence he made possible, the control of the southern border he
commenced, the wars he did not start, the rebuilding of the military after
Obama, the sex-trafficking he interdicted, and much more. The man was
and is the best kind of warrior for America.
No wonder the left has hated and
feared him with the "white hot intensity of a thousand suns"
(h/t Cheers). Donald Trump was and is their worst nightmare; he
actually does care about "we the people." That, for the
leftists, is a deal-breaker; the "people" are nothing more than units
of labor to the left. They should not have a voice or a
vote. For all their touting of their concern for "the
people," they have exactly none.
. . .
We are experiencing tyranny by executive order, and most of
the Republicans are sitting still for it when they should, as a group, be on
the steps of the Capitol every day warning the American people about what is
happening.
Read the full article here.
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Jeffrey A. Tucker at American Institute for Economic Research has some predictions about the COVID-19 denouement:
There is a sense in the air that
the pandemic is winding down, and the toxic culture of division, fear, and
hatred along with it. Cases are down dramatically.
Deaths too. Hospitalizations are no longer irregular. Restrictions are being
repealed. You can follow all the action daily at the CDC’s new and unusually
competent landing
page on the virus (it only took them a year to build this).
Despite all the talk of a new normal
and infinite mandates, there is hope that it could all unwind quickly, pushed
by force of public impatience and frustration with restrictions, and a
political scramble to avoid responsibility by running away from all that they
did for the last year.
The list of signs and symbols could
be made very long.
The people who have committed their
careers and lives to this pandemic and the policies surrounding it might soon
need to find a new raison d’etre.
Then the clean up begins – how did this happen, who did it, how to make sure it
never happens again – and does not end perhaps for decades.
The full
article is here.
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Time to tear a page from a Burbank restaurateur. Carl Durrek at NOQ Report has the inspiring development:
Civil disobedience has been a
staple of American culture since before the nation broke free from England. It
is a necessary component of our freedom as government tends to lean towards
authoritarianism whenever it sees a clear path. Covid-19 has opened up such a
path for many authoritarians across the nation with California leading the way
towards a dystopian near-future.
The city council of Burbank,
California, has been in a mini-war with businesses from the beginning of the
pandemic. One business in particular, Tinhorn Flats Bar and Grill, has
chosen to fight back. Following yesterday’s unanimous vote by the city council
to shutter the oldest bar in the city, the response from the local business was
short and sweet:
As promised, the bar opened for
business as planned. An hour after opening, there had been no word from the
city or visits by law enforcement. So far it appears the civil disobedience is
happening unimpeded. But that likely won’t last long as the strongarm of the
law will soon step in. Very similarly to the infamous Hank Rearden speech in Atlas Shrugged, owner Baret Lepejian believes if government wants to stop
them from doing business, they’ll have to do so with more than just an order.
“The pathetic-losers on the Burbank
City Council had obviously made up their minds way before the ‘meeting'” ever
started,” the bar posted on Facebook. “This was nothing short of a vicious mob
with pitchforks coming for that who stands against their campaign of fear. I
WILL NOT COMPLY AND I WILL NOT CLOSE MY BUSINESS TO THESE PATHETIC, UNAMERICAN
SOCIALIST COWARDS. If need be, I will go down with my ship..”
This isn’t the first attempt by the
city to shut them down. Last month, they revoked the restaurant’s public health
permit in hopes of bullying the establishment into shutting its doors. But as
noted by attorneys for the bar, they have never had a health violation. This
latest move to revoke their business license has brought the city and bar
national attention. Burbank City Attorney Amy Albano said that if the
restaurant’s owners do not comply a lawsuit will be filed and a court order
will be sought to close the business.
We wholeheartedly stand with
Tinhorn Flats Bar and Grill as they fight to keep their rights to operate
safely and within reasonable guidelines that follow medical science. Their
story is America’s story. Their fight is our fight.
Which is why I posted this.
We’ve let the owners of our favorite neighborhood bistro know that if they
want patrons who will refuse to wear a mask or to practice social distancing,
we’ll be there. In the meantime, I continue to wear my [useless] mask like a
beard across my chin.
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From the CPAC website (mark your calendar):
Sunday, Feb 28: President Donald Trump will speak at 3:40 pm
Sundance at Conservative Treehouse is no fan of CPAC. He has many reasons, but every Tea Party member will remember this:
I do not forget when we gave
Republicans control of the House of Representatives; and when Paul Ryan took
over as speaker; and Ryan passed another three trillion omnibus spending bill
with full support of Democrats…. and then showed up to a standing ovation at
the “conservative conference.” WHAT the HELL was being conserved?
The time is now for CPAC to
reform…. OR the time has come for CPAC to be abandoned in favor of a national
convention that supports the 75 million+ Donald Trump voters. CPAC is not
that convention… not even close.
Nevertheless, President Trump’s CPAC keynote speech will attract
a huge audience. Expect RSBN to live
stream; links to follow.
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More state censorship is on the way. Brandon Morse at Red State reports:
House Democrats Are Going After Cable Providers and
Streaming Services for Hosting Channels Like Fox News and OANN
When going after advertisers wasn’t
enough to sink channels that hold conservative opinions, Democrats began
shifting their attention to other methods of fascistically silencing their
ideological opposition.
According to The Hill, Democrats are now going after streaming services
and cable providers for playing host to what they call “misinformation” and for
breeding “radicalized individuals.” The companies they’re going after include
Comcast and Verizon, as well as streaming companies like Hulu and Roku to
question their “ethical principles” . . .
Mr. Morse’s report concludes:
This isn’t about misinformation.
This is about narrative control. This is fascism trying to do what fascism
always does; silence the opposition and reign supreme in both state and media.
Much more at the link here.
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Glenn Reynolds, a/k/a Mr. Instapundit, makes a good case:
Media’s censorious
gatekeepers are mad —
because they’re losing power
With Donald Trump out of office and
de-platformed, you’d think mainstream media gatekeepers would be happy. You’d
think wrong.
Though the media-Big Tech regime is
doing its best to silence opponents and seize control of the high ground, the
news from within is grim. They aren’t happy with how things are going.
That’s because they know they’re
losing. Some are losing audiences and revenues. But more important, they’re
losing control of the narrative.
And since control of the narrative,
and the power and self-importance that accompany that control, is the most
important thing in their lives, they can’t be happy.
Consider the cri de coeur of Washington Post public editor Hamilton Nolan, inspired by
Tesla’s decision to scrap its media-relations department. How could that
happen?
Nolan knows how, and that’s what bothers him: Tesla scrapped its media-relations department because the media don’t much matter to it. Tesla has plenty of ways to get its story out without relying on the media, and that makes the media much less important — and much less powerful. And it’s the power part that hurts the most.
. . .
I hope it’s true.
Read the rest here.
Photo credit: abc11.com
William A. Jacobson at Legal Insurrection has the announcement:
Irreplaceable
Just announced by his wife on his
show. I suspected something was up when he repeatedly cancelled out of shows
recently.
It’s an understatement to say that
we have lost a giant. He was so much more. He was a cheerleader and
clairvoyant. In the face of mainstream media lies and collusion, he was a voice
of fresh air that kept our spirits up. He was the target of cancel culture
before we even knew the term.
Full article with photos here. Sundance has more wonderful photos and
tributes here,
UPDATE: Mark Steyn has a wonderful tribute here.
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In an article “Normalizing the Forever Pandemic,” Jennifer Oliver O’Connell at Red State sums it up:
We have gone from 15 days to slow
the spread to 333 days with COVID still active, along with new strains. We went
from only those most vulnerable should wear masks in March, to we’re masking up until 2022 to
“save lives.” Candidate Biden blamed Trump for COVID deaths and poor response
to the pandemic, and said he would work to create a plan to end the pandemic.
Apparently, plans to end the pandemic have been put on pause, if not given up
altogether. What we have is forever pandemic language, with its symbol being
normalizing Mask wearing—and maybe wearing several.
It seems it doesn’t get better.
Biden said in that same Thursday
conference that the “end goal” is “beating COVID-19.”
But with each new press conference,
he keeps moving the goal posts, and the American people have noticed.
. . .
Part of making something “normal”
is to make it ubiquitous and also trendy. Everyone you see, from your waitress,
to your news anchors, to your favorite television characters are wearing their
masks. We now have masks in fashionable colors and designs to match your
outfits, emblazoned with logos and representative statements — or better yet,
you can market your work or product instantly!
. . .
The “forever pandemic” message only
takes hold if we accept it as normal.
If we insist on a society of zero
risk forever, people will never see their elderly parents again. The forever
pandemic and the zero-risk society bear heavy costs.
Read the rest here. (It's not just the Biden administration. The CDC, Drs. Fauci and Birx et al were moving the goals posts in month 1 of the "forever pandemic.")
So we all thought that Parler would be a viable alternative to Twitter. Alas, Shane Trejo at Big League Politics reports:
The alternative social media
provider Parler is back online after inexplicably relying on Amazon to provide their
initial web hosting, but apparently the operatives behind the platform have not
learned their lesson for the relaunch.
Parler’s new hosting provider,
SkySilk, has a
blanket ban on all “hateful material” without specifying what that
term exactly means.
“We specifically reserve the right
to refuse to provide the Service to customers or End Users engaged in
dissemination of material that may cause us to be subject to attacks on our network,
or that while technically legal, run counter to our corporate principles,”
SkySilk wrote in their terms of service.
So Parler, while advertising itself
to be a free speech platform, will really be operating off and dependent on the
“corporate principles” of a far-left tech company.
The full report is here. The online definition of Parler at not-so-reliable Wikipedia is here and it's not pretty.
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“We Should Celebrate Individual POTUS Birthdays.” Jeff Dunetz at The Lid has a point:
Monday, February 15, has been
designated as Presidents’ Day, another fake holiday seemingly meant to tear
down American heroes and replace them with a meaningless day off work (for
some). But I urge you, America, to reject this sham holiday.
In New York, where I grew up, we
celebrated the birthdays of two of our greatest presidents in February, Abraham
Lincoln on the 12th and George Washington on the 22nd. Lincoln’s birthday was
never a federal holiday (southern states still weren’t happy about losing the
Civil War). In 1968 congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, which moved
Washington’s big day to the third Monday in February and changed it to
Presidents’ Day. A celebration of all presidents.
It’s right to celebrate the
presidents individually, sure, but not all 46 of them on the same day. I mean,
it isn’t celebrating any of them if you are celebrating all of
them.
Read the full piece here.
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Pam Key at Breitbart reports:
Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), who voted to convict former President Donald Trump at the conclusion of his second impeachment trial, dismissed the long-term implications of opposing Trump by telling ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday that the Republican Party was “more than just one person.”
And Sundance at Conservative Treehouse expands on the
report:
After republican Senator Bill
Cassidy voted to impeach President Trump, the Louisiana leadership voted to
censure the self-serving DeceptiCon. Today Bill Cassidy appears on This
Week to explain his vote. In essence Cassidy voted to support the
UniParty agenda because he feels the era of Trump is over…. the cocktail class
republicans are looking forward to getting back to the corrupt system of Wall Street
financed graft.
“I think [Trump’s] force wanes. The Republican Party is more than just one person.”
The GOPe fails miserably not only because
they are just one wing of a UniParty bird, but also because at their core they
operate in an isolated elitist echo-chamber. The Democrats play
lip-service to their base; however, the Republicans have never attempted to
hide their disdain for middle America values and the working class
conservatives.
Read the rest here.
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Robert Zimmerman blogs at BehindTheBlack. Yesterday, he posted “The Lie That Was COVID”
(h/t Instapundit), and he highlights the government's perpetually moving goal posts. Since there was a “share” option and it's short, I am posting
the entire thing:
This humor story at the Babylon Bee on February 8th is sadly
100% accurate and illustrates the utter lie that is at the foundation of
everything we have been told about COVID-19:
Nation
Prepares To Celebrate 1st Anniversary Of Two Weeks To Flatten The Curve
“This time of year we like to come together to remember the historic
day one year ago when we put on masks and locked ourselves down, trusting that
the lockdown would be over in just two weeks,” said local man Paul Christof as
he stared out his window longingly, his three masks securely in place. “This
year, I’m going all out with a Zoom party with no more than five of my closest
friends — I mean, closest, figuratively speaking, of course. We’ll be literally
far apart, because I want to stay home and stay safe, and I don’t want grandma
to die.”
From day one, nothing we have been
told by government health officials has been reliable or trustworthy. First we
were only to lock-down for two weeks in order to slow the spread of the virus
slightly so that hospitals would not be overwhelmed. We were also told that we
shouldn’t wear masks, because a century of research clearly showed
them useless and possibly counter-productive if used improperly, and proper
use was unlikely if used all the time.
Then we were told we needed to
lockdown for months, because we wanted to stop the spread, a goal
that was utterly impossible to meet. At that same time, suddenly health
officials decided that the previous half century of research about masks was
all wrong, and that we must wear them all the time.
These new rules were only going to
be necessary until a vaccine was available.
Now, a year later, a vaccine is
suddenly not enough to allow us to be free humans again. We must wear
masks, with
two masks being even better, and normal activities such as attending
parties, sports events, shows, and concerts must
still be forbidden.
Along the way, a lot of evidence raised legitimate
questions about the way coronavirus deaths and cases were
tracked, with much of it suggesting the numbers were being manipulated for
political purposes.
The result today is that a very
very large percentage of the population no longer trusts anything said by these
health officials. And for good reason. They have lied, repeatedly, and liars should
never be trusted, ever.
Not that it makes much different.
These liars are firmly ensconced in power, and can say and do anything,
including fines
and punishments for not obeying their commands.
America is no longer a nation dedicated
to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” It is now a place of
lies, edicts, petty dictators, blacklists, and increasing oppression. All
largely prompted by an irrational over-reaction to a virus that is really
nothing more than a variation of the flu.
Our household is split; one will get the vaccine, the other
won’t. And Mr. Zimmerman’s blog is here.
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Florida postcard via Sundance
Conservative Treehouse's Sundance has another important posting, “Citing a Need for
COVID Compliance JoeBama Administration Weighs U.S. Travel Restrictions on
Florida” – i.e., just another excuse for shredding our constitutional rights. He begins
The vast majority of the Florida
economy is essentially open and not impacted by the COVID-19 virus and state
mitigation efforts. Factually visitors to Florida are stunned at the
seemingly little impact the COVID scamdemic is having on the state.
Everyone is going about their business as normal enjoying freedom, and there is
no undue chaos or concern.
The common sense within Florida,
the lack of actual economic damage and the absence of panic amid the citizenry,
is adverse to the interests of those who have weaponized the fear of COVID to
attain power and control over compliant citizens. Governor Ron DeSantis
is considered a rebellious troublemaker who must be dealt with by JoeBama’s
Federal agencies and authorities.
But Sundance gets down to what we Americans can do to push
back against not only the scamdemic but also against the fraudulent election coup
that aims to take away our remaining freedoms:
Do not feed the system that is
designed to destroy you. Move your money away from big massive banking
institutions and put it into local banks and credit unions. Spend your
income in smaller businesses on Main Street. Do not shop at multinational
corporations.
We are going to have to get out of
convenience mode, or we will ultimately destroy ourselves. Do not use Amazon or
related convenience systems for purchases. Do as much local purchasing as
possible. Buy made in America products; it is an investment in our own
economy. Economic patriotism is how we defeat globalist
economic expansion.
Defeating the “Great Reset” is a
choice each individual has to make.
Read the full posting here.
Some of the comments are also worth scrolling through.
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image credit: New York Daily News
Sundance at Conservative Treehouse has more bad news, this time on
emerging restrictions and regulations on domestic air travel – and more . . .
Transportation secretary Pete
Buttigieg (aka Alfred E Newman), made a rather stunning statement during an
Axios interview today.
When discussing domestic travel and
transportation as it related to COVID-19, the transportation secretary said:
“there is an active conversation within the CDC now” about requiring COVID
tests prior to air travel inside the United States.
This ridiculous position was
unfortunately one of the issues CTH predicted might happen.
COVID is not a virus inasmuch as it
is an opportunity to achieve social-change goals advocated by the far-left. Remember, one key element within
the Green New Deal was to ban airplanes altogether.
The kindergarten class of
tree-shouting, algae-cake-eating, everything must be sustainable and stupid, i.e.,
leftist moonbats, are the ones offering actual policy suggestions.
Much more scary stuff at the link here.
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Bookworm Room (a/k/a Andrea Widburg) has a posting on what computer experts did or did not know about the hacking of the 2020 election. The article is here. Reader Pat posted this comment:
Perhaps there was manipulation of
vote totals by hackers and there were observed odd changes to vote totals being
displayed by networks on election eve. I recall Bookworm Room blogged on this.
However, I think most of the manipulation was done using fake mail-in ballots
in the early hours of November 4th. We have the sworn affidavit of a USPS
contractor who shipped as many as 288,000 completed ballots from New York to
Pennsylvania. The FBI interviewed the contractor but treated him as the
suspect. We have video of poll workers in Georgia pulling boxes of ballots out
of hiding and counting them, sometimes multiple times, without any observers
present. GWP obtained video of two van loads of ballot boxes being unloaded at
the TCF center in Detroit. We have witnesses who saw piles of mail-in ballots
that showed no signs that they were folded and, in some cases, with a vote for
Biden and no one else. Another witness saw piles in exact serial number order,
a statistical impossibility. In the battleground states, counting was paused
late on election night, when Trump was leading, and then we saw dumps of
hundreds of thousands of votes that overwhelmingly favored Biden. If these were
genuine mail-in ballots, the distribution should have matched the earlier
patterns - a Trump lead. Seems to me that the counting pauses were required so
the Dems could figure out how many ballots they needed to give Biden a
plausible win.
Audits should focus on the ballots
themselves, assuming they haven't been illegally shredded.
It is appalling that all this is still not resolved.
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image credit: The Right Scoop
Mike Lindell has put together a documentary about the massive election fraud in the 2020 election. Title: Absolute Proof. He’s produced it on his own dime and paid for airtime on One America News (OAN) over this weekend. You can access the broadcast schedule here. (Note: OAN runs a complete disclaimer prior to the program; Dominion has been suing anyone pushing these, ahem, "conspiracy theories" of voter fraud, and OAN is obviously protecting itself from legal attacks. YouTube has already taken down the documentary. But OAN is running it multiple times this weekend.) Or you can click here for The Right Scoop blog report with some video.
I found the documentary a bit slow-going, and if you’ve been
following the endless videos, sworn testimonies, anomalies, etc., you will
already know much of the evidence of fraud.
But if you have not followed it, it is a good resource.
Our household doesn’t need more sheets and pillows, but we bought
some anyway from My Pillow. Thank you, Mike Lindell!
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Image via
Conservative Treehouse
Via Conservative Treehouse (and have a hanky at hand):
My days on earth are numbered; But
before I fade away, there is something important I need to say. It may not be
important to anyone else; but it’s important to me. Win, lose or fraud
President Trump, I just want to say thank you for the last four years.
Thank you for making it cool to be
an American again. Thank you for showing us that we don’t need to be under
China’s thumb anymore economically, or any other way. Thank you for one of the
strongest economies we’ve ever experienced in my lifetime.
Thank you for all you have done for
the minority communities, and the outstanding decrease in the unemployment rate
you had. Thank you for making it feel good to love our country and to be a
proud patriot again.”
Thank you for supporting our
Nation’s flag and the men and women who fought for the freedom that stands
behind that flag. Thank you for supporting our nation’s law enforcement
organizations, and understanding how difficult their job really is.
Thank you for quelling the flood of
illegal immigration, and bringing to justice the thousands of criminals that
flood brought us. Thank you for giving corporations a reason to come back to
America to make our own products and put Americans back to work.
Thank you for bringing our troops
home from endless deployments that presented us with little more than body
bags; and for your commitment to strengthen our military.
Thank you for operation warp speed
and keeping your promise to bringing the Covid 19 vaccine to us in less than a
year. Thank you for your never-ending attempts at bringing peace to the Middle
East and your support for Israel.
Thank you for your Tax relief, and
thank you for our energy independence. Most of all though…
THANK YOU for taking a damn rotten
job that you never had to take!! Thank you for caring enough for this country
to want to try and make a difference.
Thank you for showing America how
little Career Politicians actually work for their constituents; for showing us
how much those politicians despise you for showing America how easy it is to
build a great nation, rather than rape her to line their own pockets and stock
portfolios.
Thank you for allowing us to
experience a President that wasn’t a lifelong politician, but a lifelong
American. THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT… YOU DID YOUR BEST…”
Wow. And thank you,
El Rushbo.
# # #
P.F. Whalen at GenZConservative has some thoughts about Super Bowl Sunday. He concludes:
This Sunday, there will undoubtedly
be millions of fans who tune-in to watch the Super Bowl. They will check the
printouts of their office pools every time a team scores, hoping that the
current score will pay off with a nice chunk of change and bragging rights.
They’ll pay closer attention than normal during breaks in the broadcast for
fear of missing a clever Budweiser or Doritos commercial. And at halftime, some
will enjoy the show more than the game while others take a moment to socialize.
But there will be less of such
folks; much less. Ratings for the NFL have been plummeting since 2017, including Super Bowls. The
Thursday Night game during week four of this past season saw ratings drop a
whopping 70% compared to last year, and ratings for both the divisional and
wildcard rounds of playoffs were down double-digits for every game. Compare
those numbers to 2017, and the drops are even more significant.
Less Americans are tuning in to the
NFL, and that trend is sure to continue. And you should consider being one of
those viewers who change the channel this year. The NFL doesn’t care about you,
and they don’t care about our nation. They’ve got an agenda that aligns with
the most radical leftists in our country, and that is their top priority. There
are plenty of other shows to watch or things to do this Sunday that won’t
result in you rewarding leftist radicals with your loyalty and financial
support. It might seem impossible to imagine watching anything but the Super
Bowl, but it’s not that difficult; and it’s the right thing to do.
Mr. Whalen’s full article is here. At our house, we’ll be grilling gala burgers,
with or without football.
# # #
Most of us thought that NewsMax and One America News (OAN) were viable alternatives to the mainstream media, including, sadly, Fox. Now NewsMax has gone to the dark side. The clip of My Pillow guy Mike Lindell attempting to discuss Dominion voter fraud prompted the host, Bob Sellers, to walk off the set; you can watch the video on OAN here.
Even One America News can present conflicting reports. Yesterday, Dan Ball on Real America reported that DC Officer Brian Sicknick’s death was caused by having been struck in the head during the DC riot on January 6 by someone wielding a fire extinguisher. But we also read that the officer in fact died of some other cause, perhaps related to interaction with a chemical irritant; see John Nolte’s report at Breitbart here. Kara McKinney reported on TIpping Point that the Officer's cause of death was uncertain.
It is getting more and more difficult to distinguish between
media lies and reliable reporting on television or cable news. Now NewsMax is crossed off of our list. Our household relies more and more on online sources
and aggregators.
# # #
David Horowitz is always worth reading or listening to. Yesterday, he had a piece at FrontpageMag addressing the wide political divide in America. Here’s part of what he has to say:
The problem is not that we
disagree. We are not suffering as a nation from healthy disagreement. We are
suffering from a Tsunami of Hate emanating from the Democrat Party that seeks
to demonize, criminalize and extinguish dissent from the 75 million supporters
of Donald Trump. It is now official Washington dogma that to question an
election result – something the congressional Democrats have done in the face
of every Republican presidential victory since 2000 - is now “insurrection” and
“domestic terrorism,” or the incitement thereto, and needs to be prosecuted and
suppressed.
You can’t have a democracy if this
is the attitude of a party that controls all three branches of government, is
enabled by a corrupt and compliant media, and is determined not just to defeat,
but to humiliate, destroy and expunge from the record an ex-president who is supported
by a greater segment of the American electorate than any American leader before
him.
There is Democrat-sponsored
legislation pending that would prevent any public building or artifact, even a
“bench” from being named after the 45th president of the United States.
There is a farcical witch-trial to impeach the same villain even though he has
left office and is now a private citizen. There is even Democrat talk of
stripping Trump of his pension, despite the fact that he gave his entire $1.6
million salary as president to the American people - something no president
before him has done. If ever there was a public lynching, short of stringing
the victim from the nearest tree – and there are no lack of leftwing calls for
that – the Democrats’ unrelentingly vindictive assault on the defeated Donald
Trump down to the last petty detail is it.
But what is in effect a total war
is not merely a war to cancel Donald Trump. If it were, it would be
reprehensible enough, but not a threat to the nation itself. This demonic hate
directed by the Democrat Party towards Trump is also hate for the 75 million
Americans who voted for him. And there is no shortage of reminders of that.
Ordinary Americans in all walks of life who happen to think that Trump’s
presidency – which included record employment and record economic growth,
delivered benefits for all Americans, particularly American minorities, secured
America’s borders, defeated America’s terrorist enemies and led to an
unprecedented reconciliation between Arab nations and the State of Israel – was
a worthy achievement are treated as social pariahs, have their careers
destroyed and (shades of the Kremlin) are regarded as mentally unfit and in
need of deprogramming.
In a March 2020 interview
with Axios, James Clyburn – the third ranking Democrat in the House and
the political figure most responsible for Biden’s primary victory - raised the
specter of Hitler when speaking about Trump, calling the president a racist and
likening modern-day America to Germany during the Nazi Party’s rise to power.
“I used to wonder how could the people of Germany allow Hitler to exist,” said
Clyburn. “But with each passing day, I’m beginning to understand how. And
that’s why I’m trying to sound the alarm.”
A Tsunami of Hate – not
“divisiveness” – is the root cause of our political crisis and the most
existential threat we have faced since the war to end slavery.
Read the rest here.
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Most conservatives have modified their social media preferences and buying habits to reduce support of Marxist and Never-Trump businesses. Our household makes every effort to NOT buy through Amazon and is no longer on Facebook, Watt’s App, etc. Below is a link to a list of products and services that conservatives might want to avoid. It’s a long list, and some of the company names will undoubtedly surprise you. Some sure surprised this household. We use Bing or other search engines to avoid using Google, and yet both Bing and DuckDuckGo are on the list – just not in the “WORST” category. Anyway, you might want to bookmark the list for reference.
Consumer Watchdog Website: click here.
Link: https://investingadvicewatchdog.com/Liberal-Companies-Boycott.html
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Evan James at Big League Politics reports:
The second annual America First
Political Action Conference (AFPAC) took place Friday night in Orlando,
Florida, the same city where CPAC has been holding its own conference.
The speakers at AFPAC included
political commentator Vincent James, reporter Jon Miller, bestselling author
and columnist Michelle Malkin, former congressman Steve King, sitting
congressman Rep. Paul Gosar, and political commentator and activist Nick
Fuentes.
AFPAC is a conference specifically
for the dissident wing of conservative politics known as the America First
movement. The movement held its first political action conference last year in
Washington DC as an invitation only event, but this year’s event opened to the
public and sold tickets on a first-come, first-served basis.
. . .
The evening’s third speaker was
Michelle Malkin. Continuing the tradition of building her major political
speeches on a work of poetry, Malkin on this occasion chose William Ernest
Henley’s poem “Invictus.” Per
usual she delivered a fiery speech that pulled no punches. She tore into
globalist “conservatives” like Matt and Mercedes Schlapp, lobbyists and
organizers of CPAC, and she ridiculed the recent attempts by the GOP establishment
to coopt the term “America First.”
. . .
All of the speeches from AFPAC II
can be watched in their entirety below [at the link above]:
Full report is here.
President Trump made it clear in his CPAC speech that he
does not intend to launch a third party;
he is trying to drag the GOP back to the right. CPAC vs. America First PAC is the debate of
the day: many conservatives are not
optimistic that the GOPe can be reformed from within. I have bookmarked Vincent James’ website TheRed Elephants.
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Evan James at Big League Politics reports:
The second annual America First
Political Action Conference (AFPAC) took place Friday night in Orlando,
Florida, the same city where CPAC has been holding its own conference.
The speakers at AFPAC included
political commentator Vincent James, reporter Jon Miller, bestselling author
and columnist Michelle Malkin, former congressman Steve King, sitting
congressman Rep. Paul Gosar, and political commentator and activist Nick
Fuentes.
AFPAC is a conference specifically
for the dissident wing of conservative politics known as the America First
movement. The movement held its first political action conference last year in
Washington DC as an invitation only event, but this year’s event opened to the
public and sold tickets on a first-come, first-served basis.
. . .
The evening’s third speaker was
Michelle Malkin. Continuing the tradition of building her major political
speeches on a work of poetry, Malkin on this occasion chose William Ernest
Henley’s poem “Invictus.” Per
usual she delivered a fiery speech that pulled no punches. She tore into
globalist “conservatives” like Matt and Mercedes Schlapp, lobbyists and
organizers of CPAC, and she ridiculed the recent attempts by the GOP establishment
to coopt the term “America First.”
. . .
All of the speeches from AFPAC II
can be watched in their entirety below [at the link here]:
Full Report is here.
President Trump made it clear in his CPAC speech that he does not intend to launch a third party; he is trying to drag the GOP back to the right. CPAC vs. America First PAC is the debate of the day: many conservatives are not optimistic that the GOPe can be reformed from within. Meanwhile, I have bookmarked Vincent James’ website The Red Elephants.
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