An end-run around the corrupt media

 

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And now for something a little more upbeat.  Kira Davis has the encouraging words at RedState:

The progressive legacy media never did take too kindly to the rise of conservative media, understandably but it rarely felt dangerous. More like…temper tantrums.

But what has been happening in progressive circles since Trump was elected is increasingly disturbing. Trump rocked their world. He was a complete outsider who wasn’t even supposed to be a serious player in the game, let alone the winner. It was too dangerous to have an outsider in the White House who wouldn’t respect the hierarchy and rules of Capitol Hill life. He had to go, and they spent four years doing everything in their power to make sure he would.

You’d think they’d be happy that they won. They got their guy. Even though Joe Biden is the strangest and saddest President I’ve ever experienced in my lifetime, the point remains…he’s their guy. Why don’t they seem happy?

Instead the progressive left has ramped up censorship and raised the flame underneath political discourse to near unbearable levels. Their figureheads- people like Joy Reid and AOC – go on tv and accuse conservative voters of being murderers, white supremacists, baby Hitlers. They have no ability to view their ideological opponents as humans anymore. Even the reasonable conservative pundits that they used to like are still the victims of their hate speech, because these days it isn’t about what you said and what your words and actions can prove about you. It’s about nothing more than the vote you cast.

The progressive left has decided that anyone who isn’t them is the enemy, and therefore the enemy must be eliminated by any means necessary.

Their preferred means is silence. The goal of the progressive left is to make sure we can’t participate in the public conversation, our ideas can’t be heard, our opinions can’t be considered. They truly believe that if they make the mouthpieces of conservatism go away that they’ll magically “solve” the problem of conservatives.

After all, you idiots are just little robots with no thoughts of your own! If we weren’t here to feed you your ideas you would simply stop thinking.

Obviously I’m being sarcastic, but that’s actually how the left views their own, and they project it onto us. They can’t defend their ideas. The only way to be influential is to force competing ideas out of the market.

Let’s face it. The real problem progressive leftists have with the right is that we don’t need them anymore.

They aren’t the gatekeepers of information and communication anymore and it really burns their gluten-free buns. They can’t stand that no matter what they try, we keep making end-runs around their stupid, childish barriers. . . .

More here.   

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Military transports at Burke Lakefront

 

One of our friends has a bird’s eye view of Burke Lakefront Airport.  Over the past week, he has observed large military transports coming into land.  Hmmm.  Shortly after the August 15 Afghanistan catastrophe, former Cleveland Councilman Joe Cimperman, now president of Global Cleveland, announced that (via Cleveland 19):

“You’re welcome here in our city.” “That’s the message non-profit Global Cleveland is sending to Afghan refugees during this crisis.”

Here’s an update from Cameron Fields at msn news from late August:

Afghan refugees are beginning to arrive in Cleveland after landing in the U.S., and those involved in the effort said they are working as quickly as possible to bring more to America.

More than 30 refugees have already arrived in Cleveland from Afghanistan, and more are expected soon, Global Cleveland president Joe Cimperman said. Cimperman said he believes the city is ready to welcome and support them.

Last month, the New York Post reported

There’s a reason the Biden administration is using secret flights to small airports to move unaccompanied minors who illegally crossed the border. 

They don’t want voters to know just how many people are being waved right into the country, because President Biden understands that open borders might be the policy of progressives, but it’s not popular among the majority of Americans. 

But you know who does realize these flights are happening? The people of Central and South America. Word travels fast that no one is getting deported, and that’s why they are paying money to smugglers to take their children on a perilous journey north. 

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Just guessing . . .

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The Destruction is Deliberate

 

At American Thinker, the pseudonymous columnist Ed Sherdlu makes the case that the destruction of America is the goal of the Biden administration.  And he considers the nomination of Saule Omarova as evidence.  He starts off:

The comptroller of the currency is not another one of those do-nothing Washington jobs.  The person filling this critical role controls all federally licensed banks, credit unions, and foreign banks operating in the United States and similar institutions.  Normally, you would think receiving your postgraduate education at the University of Moscow (in the USSR) and writing your doctoral dissertation on the advantages of Marxism over free economy capitalism might be a disqualifier for this all-powerful position.  But not in the Biden administration.

To Biden and his cronies, the fact that their nominee for comptroller is a lifelong Marxist is not disqualifying.  In fact, to the radical Democrats pulling Biden's strings, Russian-born Saule Omarova's dedication to hardcore communism is one of her strongest qualifications.  Ms. Omarova makes no attempt to hide her radical leftist political and economic feelings other than to try to prevent the Senate committee considering her confirmation from accessing her other "academic" works.

As noted yesterday, some conservatives digging into Omarova's recent past may have found the wooden stake to drive through the heart of her nomination.  In a newly unearthed video clip, this woman who Biden wants to control all our nation's finances told her audience, "In order to prevent climate change, we have to bankrupt all the coal, oil, and gas companies."

Under other circumstances, we might consider this utter foolishness to be little more than the drunken utterance of some Ivy League sophomore.   Unfortunately, in this case, the threat and intent to completely bankrupt American energy producers came directly from the mouth of a person who might be given the power to do just that!

And Mr. Sherdlu concludes:

In looking at Omarova's nomination and everything else this administration has done, from the border to Kabul to the supported terrorists, including Iranians, receiving de facto permission to build their atomic bomb, I believe we are forced into one inescapable conclusion: the Biden/Harris administration's actions are not the result of ineptitude.  They are a carefully thought out, well-planned, and almost flawlessly executed plan to ensure the destruction of the United States as we know her.  It is being viciously implemented by Obama acolytes such as Susan Rice and hundreds of others who are the people really running our country under the Biden administration.

. . . Omarova's nomination leaves little doubt as to their intentions.

The full column is here.  I would like to think that Mr. Sherdlu is wrong, but it's hard to argue with his points. 

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Thank you Veterans

 

Steve Breen cartoon via Townhall

From Randall Martin at Townhall:

On this Veterans Day,
I Celebrate My Brothers And Sisters in Arms

Today we celebrate Veterans Day, a holiday that honors all American veterans, living or dead, who served their country honorably during war or peacetime.

On the “11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month” in 1918, the Allied nations and Germany agreed to an armistice, ending World War I, which is generally regarded as “the war to end all wars.” It became known as “Armistice Day,” and is commemorated by many countries.

One year later, in Nov. 1919, President Woodrow Wilson declared Nov. 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day. On June 4, 1926, Congress passed a resolution that stated, “Whereas it is fitting that the recurring anniversary of this date should be commemorated with thanksgiving and prayer and exercises designed to perpetuate peace through good will and mutual understanding between nations.” But it wasn’t until 1954 when the 83rd U.S. Congress renamed Armistice Day, striking the word “Armistice” in favor of “Veterans,” and President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the legislation and later issued the first “Veterans Day Proclamation.”

. . .

Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero once said, “Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that, having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.” These days, we’re bombarded with ever-changing, media-created heroes. But they pale in comparison to the real American heroes: my fellow men and women of the U.S. armed forces, who took on the duty of protecting our freedoms, our homeland and the defenseless around the world.  

Let us be a nation that remembers and honors all those who have served our country, not just on this Veterans Day, but every day for the heroes they are. 

So from one veteran to all the rest: God bless you, and God bless the United States of America. 

Full column is here.

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Babylon Bee: Oscar The Grouch vs Big Bird

The headline at The Daily Mail:

Biden congratulates Big Bird
 for pushing COVID vaccine for kids
 after Ted Cruz called it 'propaganda
 for your five-year-old'

And here’s the response from The Babylon Bee:

Oscar The Grouch Refuses The Vaccine,
Stocks Up On Ivermectin

The Bee’s report includes the following:

Oscar the Grouch, who often listens to Joe Rogan without earbuds—inflicting the podcast on whoever is near his trashcan—has instead stocked up on Ivermectin—the preferable way for a grouch to treat COVID-19. “Yeah, you sheeple line the pockets of Pfizer while the vaccine does who-knows-what to you,” said Oscar. “Me, I’ll be here with my alternative treatments, being perfectly healthy and perfectly grouchy.”

Click here for the rest of the fun.

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The Power of the Parallel Economy

 

Our household buys coffee from the COVFEFE because they actively support America First policies, including most recently the defense of Kyle Rittenhouse.  Yesterday, we received an email from them as follows:

Hello, Deplorables!

We want to share some information and a call to action, but we want to share some thoughts before we get to that. As the tug-of-war for America continues or, for that matter, the free world, a change is on the horizon. It's going to either be a change for good or a change for the worse. But, with the stakes being higher than ever, it is having a galvanizing effect for the America First movement.

People are being forced to have skin in the game now since the ruling class is down a zero-sum game path. Based truck drivers are replacing 20-year incumbents, anti-white curriculum is being banned, election audits are being demanded everywhere, alternative social media is booming, the parallel economy is developing, "Let's Go Brandon" chants are everywhere, and Covid non-compliance is growing. Though the media will tell you otherwise, the America First movement has significant momentum and energy right now. The best thing to do now is to keep advancing and doubling down.

Thanks to continued support from our beloved Deplorables, we at COVFEFE have been so proud to financially contribute to several organizations that have helped carry out some of these aforementioned wins. Our next mission is the trial involving Kyle Rittenhouse. Since the time of the unfortunate events that befell onto Kyle, we have only publicly defended him. Therefore, we are proud to announce that we made our largest donation in our company's history to the Kyle Rittenhouse Defense Fund.

The Kyle Rittenhouse Defense Fund is a legal defense fund created and run by his mother, Wendy Rittenhouse. The Defense Fund has a highly detailed and informative website. The website gives you all the facts, a live stream of the trial, and a link to donate.

Not only does Kyle deserve a normal and happy life, but our gun rights depend on this case as well. The NWO needs their boogeyman to wage their next assault on Americans and have a rigged system in their favor to get it done. Please consider donating to the Kyle Rittenhouse Defense Fund and help give Kyle a fighting chance to enjoy Christmas a free American.

The America First movement is creating an ecosystem that has real power and is getting results. Deplorables are galvanized as ever, and all we want to do is win, win, win. We have to win politically and culturally. The America First parallel economy and parallel culture have to replace the System where the current VP, the "judicial system," and a Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream can bailout billion-dollar violent criminals.

Nobody is coming to save us. We must seek strength and courage from God, roll up our sleeves, and do good in this world. SET KYLE FREE.

Many people are asking – but what can we DO??  I decided to post this since it is something that Deplorables can do - if one so chooses.  And if you’ve haven't been following the Rittenhouse case over at Legal Insurrection, you can access reports by Andrew Branca such as here and here.

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Cloward-Piven Plan is happening now

 

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Wayne Allyn Root is a contributor to Townhall.  He’s taken controversial positions in the past, but I personally find his logic and reasoning in this article to be persuasive.

Vaccine Mandate Is Cloward-Piven Plan To Destroy USA and End Capitalism  

Mr. Root starts off:

Back in the 1980s, I was a Columbia University student learning about a plan to destroy America and end capitalism. It was called Cloward-Piven -- named after a Columbia University husband-and-wife professor team. Their insane goal was to turn America into a socialist, communist hellhole.

They planned to do it by overwhelming and collapsing the U.S. economy with massive debt, created by getting as many Americans as possible to depend on welfare, food stamps and unemployment benefits. In the ensuing economic catastrophe and collapse of our country, every business owner would get on their knees to beg government to save them.

At that moment of crisis and chaos, we would become a socialist, communist country.

Don't look now, but it's happening. The communists of Columbia (and every other elitist Ivy League school) have tried for decades to force a majority of Americans to rely on welfare benefits. They failed. But they won't give up. They've modified the plan. It's now a powerful one-two punch.

First, they've opened the borders to let millions of migrants and refugees into this country -- almost all of whom want cradle-to-grave welfare. Also, don't forget they all need free health care for themselves and their kids, and their new babies, and their extended families. That alone could overwhelm the system and collapse the economy. That's before welfare and food stamps. And then there's free public school for all their children and expensive English-as-a-second-language programs that cost billions of dollars but make teachers unions filthy rich.

Open borders is Cloward-Piven strategy updated for 2021. 

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Part Deux of Cloward-Piven is the vaccine mandates. . .

Read the full column here. As I said, I have a hard time finding a flaw in his reasoning.  More scary stuff.

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