There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —Soren Kierkegaard. "…truth is true even if nobody believes it, and falsehood is false even if everybody believes it. That is why truth does not yield to opinion, fashion, numbers, office, or sincerity–it is simply true and that is the end of it" – Os Guinness, Time for Truth, pg.39. “He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.” – Blaise Pascal. "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily" – George Washington letter to Edmund Randolph — 1795. We live in a “post-truth” world. According to the dictionary, “post-truth” means, “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Simply put, we now live in a culture that seems to value experience and emotion more than truth. Truth will never go away no matter how hard one might wish. Going beyond the MSM idealogical opinion/bias and their low information tabloid reality show news with a distractional superficial focus on entertainment, sensationalism, emotionalism and activist reporting – this blogs goal is to, in some small way, put a plug in the broken dam of truth and save as many as possible from the consequences—temporal and eternal. "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." – George Orwell “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
Today, we’re talking about why apologetics is important. You may ask, “Carl, why do we need apologetics? Aren’t most people in America already Christian?” Well, according to researcher George Barna, ONLY 17% of those who consider themselves believers and attend church regularly actually have a Christian worldview. And that doesn’t even include people of other religions or atheists!
So, how could most people who claim to be Christian not think “Christianly”? Well, most Americans today have been influenced by postmodernism. “What is postmodernism?” you may ask. It is a false philosophy that teaches there is no objective right and wrong, and it has permeated education, entertainment, and social media.
This is where apologetics comes in! Romans 10:14 asks, “How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?”
People in our postmodern culture need to hear the truth in a convincing, articulate way. God’s plan is for us to tell them. Apologetics – the giving of sound reasons for our faith – is a way to earn a hearing, a way to share the Gospel, and a way of declaring God’s TRUTH!
There’s another reason that apologetics is important, but we’ll have to address that at another time. Until then, find more apologetic resources at debunked.org. Stay bold!
Carl Kerby is the founder of Reasons for Hope and co-creator of the DeBunked apologetic video series. His radio feature, Fast Facts, is heard weekly on VCY America, Saturdays at 9:25 AM Central.
Although persecution has been the norm for faithful believers throughout history, many Christians believe this cannot happen in America. But in a culture that is increasingly intolerant of those who identify with Jesus and His teachings, now is the time to prepare.
He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant. (Psalm 111:5)
Those who fear God need not fear want. Through all these long years the Lord has always found meat for His own children, whether they have been in the wilderness, or by the brook Cherith, or in captivity, or in the midst of famine. Hitherto the Lord has given us day by day our daily bread, and we doubt not that He will continue to feed us till we want no more.
As to the higher and greater blessings of the covenant of grace, He will never cease to supply them as our case demands. He is mindful that He made the covenant and never acts as if He regretted it. He is mindful of it when we provoke Him to destroy us. He is mindful to love us, keep us, and comfort us, even as He engaged to do. He is mindful of every jot and tittle of His engagements, never suffering one of His words to fall to the ground.
We are sadly unmindful of our God, but He is graciously mindful of us. He cannot forget His Son who is the surety of the covenant, nor His Holy Spirit who actively carries out the covenant, nor His own honor, which is bound up with the covenant. Hence the foundation of God standeth sure, and no believer shall lose his divine inheritance, which is his by a covenant of salt.
“Since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off EVERYTHING that hinders…” Hebrews 12:1
It’s a new year and the slate is clean. Although some of our resolutions may already be broken, we truly do want to begin again. We thrill to the grace of God which not only forgives but gives power to live by the Spirit of God. But can it actually happen?
And then comes that whisper of the Spirit: “This is the way; walk in it.” We hear the whisper, we even see the way laid out before us, but past experience with our own weakness and the toughness of life in general makes us hesitate. “I’ll follow, but…” “I’ll obey, however…” “I’ll speak, except…”
The Old Testament—given as an example “to keep us from setting our hearts on evil”—is filled with vivid illustrations of those whose lives were filled with buts, excepts and howevers.
Solomon showed his love for the Lord by walking according to the instructions given him by his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high place. (1Kings 3:3)
He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord…The high places, however, were not removed… (2 Kings 15:34, 35)
He did what right in the eyes of the Lord, but not wholeheartedly. (2 Chronicles 25:2)
“That is too high a standard,” we exclaim. “No one can attain—and maintain—that kind of life.” And that is exactly what God is waiting to hear. The only One with no buts, excepts or howevers in His life was Jesus and He, living within us, promises to give us the power to present ourselves as living sacrifices, ready and willing to experience all that He is ready to give.
“Fools mock at making amends for sin, but goodwill is found among the upright.” Proverbs 14: 9-10
A young girl visiting our home with her mother was getting bored so my wife led her to our billiard table and gave her free range to knock the balls around. She was thrilled. Sometime later her mother noticed that she kept touching the end of the cue, and mum asked her to stop. She removed her hand and declared, “I’m not touching it!” Again mum caught her, and requested her to stop, and again she boldly claimed “I’m not touching it!”
My wife winked at the 10-year-old and said, “Do you know what’s on the tip of that stick? Blue chalk. If you are not touching it, then your hand should be clean.” The youngster opened her hand to reveal a Smurf-blue palm. She froze, and made no comment. And never did.
Putting oily hands on cue tips is a small transgression; the larger problem was the girl’s stubbornness to admit her fault. Even when caught blue-handed she refused to make amends for disobeying her mum.
Have you met people who refuse to deal with sin in their life, who cross their arms and huff “I’ve done nothing wrong!”? Our pride makes it particularly hard to admit and confess our sin.
And yet consider God’s great love for us, prideful as we are. Romans 5:8 says, “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
God’s show of goodwill in providing Christ as a sacrifice for our sin is a wonderful gift. The humble person will admit their sin and accept Christ’s gift. A foolish person will continue on with crossed arms believing they don’t need forgiveness.
God’s sacrificial love is here for the taking. Have you confessed your sin and welcomed his forgiveness?
Dear God, my hands are blue with guilt for things I know displease you. Forgive me, and help me live responsibly in the joy of your forgiveness. Amen.
Thought: Confessing to friends or family kicks in accountability to stay clear of future sin. Open up with someone close to you about sin in your life.
With NASA’s Flock Of CubeSats – Blinky, Pinky, Inky & Clyde – Space Enters The Era Of Swarm Satellites Four 6U CubeSats were launched into Earth’s orbit by NASA in July 2023. The “Starling” mission, which will last at least six months, will test the satellites’ ability to work together autonomously without receiving real-time updates from mission management. Each satellite is spaced roughly 40 miles apart, positioned at about 355 miles above Earth.
Germany set to miss net zero by 2045 target as climate efforts falter German goals to cut greenhouse emissions by 65% by 2030 are likely to be missed, meaning a longer-term net zero by a 2045 target is also in doubt, reports by government climate advisers and the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) show.
The world is becoming multipolar With the U.S. basically absent globally, new powers have emerged; China continues to strengthen its political and economic role in the Middle East, and would be happy to replace the US as new mediator in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
Syria reports Israeli air strike in Damascus area The official SANA news agency reported that an explosion was heard in the vicinity of Damascus. The Saudi Arabian TV channel AlHadath reported that the air strike targeted a shipment of Iranian weapons that was making its way to Damascus.
Iranian-funded wave of terror in the West Bank is ‘just the beginning’ Israel expects recent terror attacks across the West Bank to be “just the beginning” as Palestinian terror group Hamas appears emboldened by internal divisions within Israel, security establishment sources assessed on Tuesday morning, according to Army Radio.
Russia’s Medvedev hints at future Russian invasion of Georgia The deputy chair of the Russian security council Dmitry Medvedev said Moscow may annex Georgia’s breakaway regions South Ossetia and Abkhazia. “The idea of joining Russia is still popular in Abkhazia and South Ossetia,” Medvedev, a former Russian president, wrote in an article published early on Wednesday by Argumenty I Fakty newspaper. “We will not wait if our concerns become closer to reality,”
Iran unveils armed drone, says it could potentially reach Israel Iran’s Defense Ministry unveiled a drone on Tuesday resembling America’s armed MQ-9 Reaper, claiming that the aircraft is capable of staying airborne for 24 hours and has the range to reach the country’s archenemy Israel.
Palestinian attacks kill 35 Israelis so far in 2023 – the worst terror wave since Second Intifada The murder of Batsheva Nigri in front of her small daughter on Monday brought the number of Israeli terror victims to 35. Following the attack, Yehuda Fox, commander of the IDF Central Command, told the media that Israel is in the midst of “a wave of terror of the kind we haven’t seen in a long time.”
Pope Francis appoints pro-abortion friend to leadership post in new Vatican institute Pope Francis has appointed his longtime friend and fellow Argentinian Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni to a Vatican position, despite Zaffaroni’s controversial record and his support for homosexuality and abortion. Announced August 18 by the Holy See Press Office, Pope Francis formally recognized a group first created in 2019 and made the peculiar move of designating it as a private association of the faithful.
Tropical Storm Hilary left California desert roads covered in water and mud Hilary, the first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years, flooded roads, toppled trees and forced a rescue by bulldozer of more than a dozen older residents trapped by mud in a care home Monday as it marched northward, prompting flood watches and warnings in half a dozen states.
Tropical activity heats up in busy Atlantic as NHC tracks 1 storm, 3 disturbances As the peak of hurricane season approaches, the National Hurricane Center is watching five areas in the Atlantic basin, including Tropical Depression Harold that weakened from a tropical storm but still delivers flooding rain across South Texas.
NY AG, Education Chief: Schools Can’t Ban ‘Lewdness’ from Classrooms The Attorney General of New York, Letitia James, and the state’s commissioner of education, Betty Rosa, released a joint guidance statement this month, warning schools that it would be illegal to ban inappropriate sexual content.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN AFTER AMERICANS ARE HERDED INTO HIGH-DENSITY, PRISON-LIKE 15 MINUTE CITIES? . LAHAINI, MAUI IS HAVING ITS PRIVATE LAND BEING REZONED AND IT WILL BE REDISTRIBUTED TO DEVELOPERS LIKE BEZOS. LAHAINA WILL BE A 15 MINUTE CITY, DEVOID OF FREEDOM AND OPPORTUNITY. ARIZONA HAS A BILL, PROP 400, WHICH PLANS TO MAKE THE STATE A MANDATORY 15 MINUTE STATE. THAT MEANS THAT ALL CITIES WILL BE REQUIRED TO BECOME 15 MINUTE CITIES AND ONE CAN ONLY TRAVEL 15 MINUTES FROM ONE’S HOME WITHOUT THE RISK OF BEING FINED AND IMPRISONED.
Blue Users on X Will Need to Send Selfie & Data to Israeli Software Company X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, will now require X Blue users to submit a selfie alongside a photo of a government-issued ID, according to PC Magazine. The move is apparently “part of a drive to add an additional layer of security against impersonation and fraud.” Will there be anyone on the X platform who will happily hand their data to a tech firm that allegedly has links to the intelligence unit of the Israeli Occupation Forces?
Fourteen Major American Cities Selected By ‘C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group’ To Ban Meat, Dairy And Private Ownership Of Vehicles By 2030 If the question is ‘is there a plan by highly-funded and shadowy organizations to use climate intimidation to take away all animal products, fossil fuel and private vehicle ownership?’, the answer is an absolute and resounding ‘yes!’ It is happening all around us, and in fact, they people behind this aren’t really trying very hard to hide it. The UN brags about it in their ‘Agenda 2030’, and King Charles has already called for a ‘military-style campaign’ costing trillions of dollars to make it happen.
Major Supply Chain Issues Are Starting To Develop All Over The Country Supply chain problems were supposed to be a thing of the past, but instead our supply chains just keep getting hit by issue after issue. Have you noticed that it has become really difficult to acquire parts and get things repaired? It isn’t just your imagination.
The Next Major War Is Reportedly About To Begin, And “D-Day” Has Already Been Chosen …There is no peaceful end to the war in Ukraine on the horizon, China is making preparations to invade Taiwan, and the “shadow war” in the Middle East could easily erupt into a full-blown regional conflict. But in this article I am going to focus on the next war that is reportedly about to begin. A group of nations in western Africa known as ECOWAS is preparing to invade Niger with the approval of the EU and the Biden administration, and CNN is reporting that “D-Day” has already been chosen…
“I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.” —Benjamin Franklin (1766)
Fellow Patriots, on this day in 1775, the American colonies were officially in a state of rebellion according to King George III and his undeniable keen sense of the obvious. In today’s news, Americans still nurture that spirit of rebellion from time to time. —Mark Alexander
One woman shares her experience with food stamps but misses the song’s actual message.
Emmy Griffin
In an article for Christianity Today, Hannah Anderson expresses her disappointment with Oliver Anthony’s viral song “Rich Men North of Richmond.” Her particular grievance is with the part that describes people on welfare.
Anderson herself is from Appalachia/coal country. She also has experienced firsthand what it’s like to deal with food scarcity and food stamps. As a young mother of three and a pastor’s wife, this was her life for a while. It was a cause of great shame to her because of the stigma attached to people who use food stamps.
The particular lyrics she takes issue with are these:
Lord, we got folks in the street, ain’t got nothin’ to eat/ And the obese milkin’ welfare/ Well, God, if you’re 5-foot-3 and you’re 300 pounds/ Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds.
When you single out these words, it’s understandable that Anderson’s mind went back to those memories she’d like to forget. However, it is a woeful misunderstanding of the entire song. Anthony is critical of those who are able-bodied and choose not to work. They instead will leech off of welfare. Then, via unhealthy food choices on which they use their government resources, they further the need for government supplementation by developing obesity-related diseases. (Thanks, ObamaCare.)
If you take an even wider view of the song, it adds a whole other dimension of meaning to that particular section. The song is about being controlled by the government and what a darn shame that is for everyone, especially blue-collar workers. Government welfare sucks people in, and few can get out. Anthony is commenting on this government-induced dependency and underscoring how it causes the infantilization of some people who use the welfare system as an excuse to be slothful and gluttonous as well as slaves to a system.
This point in emphasized in his next line when he says, “Young men are puttin’ themselves six feet in the ground/ ‘Cause all this d*mn country does is keep on kicking them down.” Those who resist or try to get out of their poverty-stricken circumstances by working a low-paying job can’t catch a break. In other words, the system is against them. It ties back into the first verse’s complaints about inflation and being overtaxed.
Anthony is intimately familiar with these poverty-induced circumstances himself. While working in a paper mill in North Carolina, he endured a head injury and was on unemployment for six months, and that fostered a drug and alcohol problem leading him down dark paths until he was saved by the Lord and became a Christian.
His song is not despising people on welfare. It is despising people using a system meant to help with food security in ways that are not judicious or good stewardship of those funds (which ultimately come from other people’s taxes).
Christians are supposed to care about good stewardship, self-discipline, and good work. It’s not loving to let your neighbors continue in what the Bible clearly describes as sinful behavior.
It also prompts another question on the other end: Is it loving your neighbor to be slothful, gluttonous, and slovenly of resources granted to you out of charity? The 5’3″, 300-pound person eating fudge rounds and not working has something to answer for under those circumstances.
There are many people like this as well. How many stories did we read about during the pandemic of people refusing to pay rent or stealing COVID relief money? Their greed was at the expense of not only the people they have cheated but others in poverty-stricken circumstances who are making responsible and hard choices. Oliver Anthony’s commentary would not even apply to Hannah Anderson’s personal story.
At the time of their experience with food stamps, Anderson and her husband were working. Her husband was an assistant pastor, and they had three young children to take care of. They weren’t sponging off of welfare. They are not the people Anthony is criticizing at all.
In fact, the sort of people Anthony is championing are those in the next lyrics about young men dying because, despite playing by all the rules, they are still trapped in poverty. People like Anderson and her husband.
There are people in poverty who cannot get out, but it’s not for lack of trying or lack of industry. There are also people who are poor and have no inclination to change their circumstances. The latter are just going to waste their lives away and use taxpayer money to do it. That is wrong, and that’s what Anthony is protesting against.
My advice to candidates is to speak directly to the American people and not be obsessed with how they look relative to other candidates.
Star Parker
As I noted in my column of several weeks ago, it’s a plus for everyone that Donald Trump will not show for the Republican debate.
And now it’s official. He’s not showing up.
Now we can have a debate about issues and not about Trump.
Let’s also keep in mind, regarding the debate, Republican voters must be able to walk and chew gum at the same time.
That is, although the most immediate focus is who will be the Republican nominee, the point of the whole exercise is winning the presidency. It doesn’t much matter if Republicans nominate a candidate who makes them happy but who is unlikely to win the big prize — the presidency.
Although Trump maintains a massive lead in polling among Republicans, the debate presents an opportunity for the other candidates to establish their credibility and viability of their candidacy in the general election.
Let’s recall that Trump’s final approval rating at the conclusion of his presidency was 34%. This is an approval rating that essentially guarantees a victory for the challenging party in the election to follow.
Most recent RealClearPolitics polling shows Biden marginally ahead of Trump, but not in a statistically significant way.
RealClearPolitics betting odds shows Biden at 35.1% and Trump at 26.9%.
It is not without reason that Democrats are doing everything possible to increase the likelihood that Trump is the Republican candidate.
The good news for Republicans is that there remains general dissatisfaction with the state of affairs in the country; only 18% are satisfied, per most recent Gallup polling.
President Joe Biden’s approval, measured by Gallup, hovers at 40% and disapproval at 55%.
So, fundamentals look positive for a change in party.
Additional fundamentals that point positive for Republicans is that on issues that are of most concern to Americans, generally Republicans are viewed more positively regarding their handling of these issues.
In recent polling from Pew, Republicans are favored by 12 points on the economy, by 10 points on crime, by 10 points on immigration, by 8 points on the deficit and by 4 points on foreign policy.
Democrats are favored by 14 points on climate change, by 12 points on abortion, by 12 points on health care policy, by 10 points on race, by 8 points on LGBTQ and by 4 points on education.
Of these issues, of the top 10 that poll as “very important,” Republicans are favored in 8 of the 10.
The top issue rated “very important” is inflation, which might be understood as the economy in general, and Republicans say this is very important by a margin of 25 over Democrats.
What should these Republican candidates who will be taking the stage in this debate be thinking about?
My advice to candidates is to speak directly to the American people and not be obsessed with how they look relative to other candidates.
Jean Monnet, the founder of the European Common Market, which evolved to become the European Union, observed that there are two kinds of people: those who want to be someone and those who want to do something.
Aspirants to the nation’s highest office should be asking themselves why they want it. Do they want to be someone? Or do they want to do something?
The American people are looking for a leader whose motivation is the mission of country, its operation, and the quality of life of American citizens. They are looking for a leader dedicated to fixing and improving our country and not someone who really, deep down, is trying to solve some kind of personal need for fame and recognition.
The problems of the nation are great. Voters can sense those who genuinely care about the country and about them and who have the right ideas.
This is what candidates should have in mind. Those with an honest and sincere heart and a right-thinking mind will connect positively with voters.
With bad news and scandal all around him, Joe Biden is taking yet another long vacation.
Douglas Andrews
Having limped back to Lake Tahoe after an awful trip to the Maui wildfire disaster zone, Joe Biden and his family are now safely holed up in the privacy of lefty billionaire “environmentalist” Tom Steyer’s $18 million lakeside mansion — whose luxury accommodations are enough to make a FEMA bureaucrat blush.
In case you hadn’t heard, around 1,000 Federal Emergency Management Agency staff have been toughing it out in $1,000-a-night five-star Maui hotels while local residents look for shelter amid the desolation of a devastating wildfire that consumed their homes and just about everything else in the historic town of Lahaina.
Yep, it’s good to be the king — or, in this case, part of his court. At least that’s what we’ve been told.
As for Biden, for all his sleaziness and decrepitude, he too has definitely been living like a king, adding another nine days of downtime to his already impressive all-time presidential vacation record.
Frankly, we can’t blame him for wanting to get away and stay away, with all the bad news swirling around him — from terrible polling numbers to a blown-up plea deal and a sweetheart special counsel appointment for his wastrel son Hunter, and the looming threat of impeachment from congressional Republicans. “It is appalling what we have learned,” said House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. “It is different than what President Biden told us.”
McCarthy went on to say that if Team Biden continues to stonewall on documents being requested by Oversight Committee Republicans, “We will move forward with an impeachment inquiry when we come back into session.”
Clearly, Biden needed to get away. But before moving into the Steyer mansion, the president and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, Ed.D., took time out of their busy schedules to make a quick stop in Maui, there to inspect the estimated $5 billion in damage done by a wildfire whose death toll has hit 114 and continues to climb.
Biden was also there to do damage control for his callous “no comment” comment of a few days earlier, and there to lend comfort to the beleaguered people of Lahaina, whose homes were burned to the ground. (And, no, climate change wasn’t the cause of it.)
Lucky for local residents, the president came bearing gifts — including a whopping $700 one-time payment to each of the affected households. We’re not sure whether you’ve checked the price of a dozen eggs or a gallon of milk in Maui lately, but that money won’t last long. Nor will it even pay the $900 tab that each American family owes for our $113-billion-and-counting venture in Ukraine.
The consoler-in-chief looked old and tired and out of sorts in Hawaii, perhaps feeling the effects of jet lag and the disruption to his delicate sleep schedule. While there, he petted a rescue dog and made a joke about how hot the ground was, then he tried to find common ground with some of the 4,500 or so residents who’d lost everything. He did so by falsely claiming to have lost his own home years ago due to a lightning strike and subsequent fire.
As happens all too often with Joe Biden, though, the truth didn’t survive his verbal assault. Far from consuming his home, the fire was contained to the kitchen area of his house. This was just the latest in a litany of lies our Mittyesque president has told to make him appear to be someone he’s not. Just as was the case when he told Gold Star families of the 13 American warriors who were senselessly murdered at Kabul Airport’s Abbey Gate that his son Beau lost his life in Iraq.
To be clear: Finding common ground with one’s constituents is a good thing — a very good thing. But telling bald-faced lies in order to do so is a very bad thing.
Let’s hope the Biden Crime Family enjoys their stay in Lake Tahoe. Because what now awaits them back in Washington, DC, isn’t going away anytime soon.
Bemoaning the fact that conservatives actually take the meaning of words seriously, CNN recently published an article titled, “How conservatives use ‘verbal jiu-jitsu’ to turn liberals’ language against them.” Wow. That is an incredible case of projection.
Of course, CNN was not making the case that conservatives treat words as having actual meanings that can’t merely be changed on a whim. Words like “gender,” “sex,” “woman,” “mother,” “female,” “science,” “democracy,” “racism,” and “fascism” all once had universally agreed upon definitions.
Instead, the article laughably claims, “Republicans are masters of verbal jiu-jitsu,” a term CNN apparently believes it is free to redefine to support its argument. CNN defines the problem as “a form of linguistic combat in which the practitioner takes a political phrase or concept popularized by their opponent and gradually turns [it] into an unusable slur.”
However, according to most definitions that are more than 10 minutes old, the phrase verbal jiu-jitsu has a positive rather than a negative connotation. In essence, like the martial art, it is the skill of using appropriate language (not redefining terminology) to win over an opponent into a mutually satisfactory agreement. In other words, to use verbal communicative skills to enlighten and hopefully win over someone who initially disagrees.
Given that older and more accurate definition, yes, there are some Republicans who are masters at that practice. But unlike CNN’s misleading definition, the objective is not to deceive people but to enlighten them to the truth. “Taking the red pill” might be a more hip phrase — a nod to the scene in “The Matrix” where Neo takes the red pill instead of the blue one so as to remain in reality and not in a coma-induced dream world.
The charge of projection comes from the fact that CNN, like so many Leftmedia outlets, practices a form of disingenuous newspeak with the objective to deceive and manipulate people into embracing the Left’s preferred political narrative.
This initially subtle and now more blatant effort to redefine words as if they were wax noses meant to be freely manipulated into a more politically convenient shape is seen as perfectly fine, even advisable.
One of the greatest examples of this wax nosing at play is the newspeak of “preferred pronouns.” No longer are pronouns to be used in accord with the antiquated rules of the English language as mere generalized identifiers of sex/gender. Rather, now we’re told that pronouns are subject to the felt identity claims of a gender-confused individual.
CNN’s article continues its disingenuous charge by claiming that conservatives disarm “a liberal phrase by transforming its meaning.” The example then given is the term “social justice warrior,” which CNN defines as “someone fighting on behalf of the poor and exploited.” Conservatives turned it “into something else: a ‘whiny,’ self-righteous progressive who can’t take a joke.” That SJWs are whiny, self-righteous, and can’t take a joke is not what conservatives “turned them into.” It’s a rather accurate description of how they comport themselves in trying to further socialism.
Critical race theory is another term CNN bemoans as having been “redefined” by conservatives. Yet there again, conservatives didn’t redefine CRT. They merely exposed to the American public what it is — an agent to redefine the widely understood and well-defined term “racism.”
The article then whines about how terms such as “diversity” and “equity” have become “dirty words.” CNN quotes none other than one of the leading woke race hustlers, Robin DiAngelo, who trades in term-redefining for a living. Conservatives are seeking to “silence the conversation and to protect the status quo,” she insists. “It doesn’t have to make sense. It just has to work and get race off the table and prevent any challenges to the status quo.”
No, conservatives have not been the party of censorship. Rather, they have exposed and challenged the attempt to indoctrinate Americans into a Marxist worldview.
Freedom of thought demands principled and accurate definitions. Terms aren’t up for grabs for anyone with an agenda to redefine to suit their own predilections. This is why when Leftmedia outlets like CNN engage in the Orwellian practice of newspeak, more and more Americans simply refuse to take them seriously.
Finding an affordable car is now a mirage. No, seriously, the Mitsubishi Mirage is it.
Nate Jackson
And then there was one. One new car left in America that still sells for less than $20,000 — the base model Mitsubishi Mirage.
One year ago, there were a dozen vehicles still under that price point. Now, there are 32 models that sell for more than one … hundred thousand dollars.
Here are a few other eye-popping numbers from this week’s report from Cox Automotive: The average price for a new car is up 25% from before COVID and is now more than $48,000. The average for the highly vaunted (and subsidized and mandated) electric vehicles is closer to $60,000. Even so, 7.7 million new vehicles have been sold in the U.S. so far in 2023.
Clearly, a lot of Americans are biting the bullet and buying that needed car anyway, but why buy new? In part because used cars are difficult to come by and their prices are up 30% from two years ago. The average used vehicle retails for $27,000, which is about 30% more than that new Mitsubishi.
The other reason for new over used is interest rates. Buying a new car with 0% interest feels like a distant memory, though that wasn’t an uncommon offer a few years back. The average new car loan now carries an interest rate of 9.5%, while used cars run more than 13.7%. The Federal Reserve almost certainly isn’t done raising rates, either.
Not only that, but the average car loan term is now almost six years. Even then, average monthly payments for new cars topped $750, more than what many folks paid for a mortgage not that long ago. And the typical American now needs 42 weeks of income to pay off the loan, instead of the pre-pandemic 33 weeks. Consequently, loan defaults are surging.
Clearly, the car market has turned into a demolition derby for family budgets.
There are many reasons for the shift, and some of them are even driven by consumer choice. For example, Americans have gravitated toward trucks and SUVs for the last couple of decades to the point that GM, Ford, and Stellantis (formerly Chrysler) no longer offer much in the way of small cars. Even Toyota and Honda aren’t selling many subcompacts anymore. Small cars have small profit margins, and if customers don’t want them in high volume, there’s not much incentive to make or sell them. Just 5,300 of the nearly eight million new cars sold this year were a Mitsubishi Mirage — a 44% drop from last year — which is why Mitsubishi plans to stop making it in the next couple of years.
Bigger cars — with a lot more bells and whistles — are in high demand and manufacturers make a lot more money on them.
We mentioned EVs above, and that’s another factor driving up prices. EVs are taxpayer subsidized and are on the path to being mandated, which means automakers can charge more for them. That provides more cushion for pricing gas-powered cars higher as well.
Modern cars generally require a lot more semiconductor chips for all those fancy features, and that’s yet another reason for the price spike. Supply chain disruptions led to huge shortages of chips and therefore fewer cars on dealer lots. Ergo, higher prices.
Dealers couldn’t keep cars on the lots a year ago, as customers immediately snatched them up. Now, skyrocketing interest rates mean dealer lots are filling up with cars people can no longer afford.
Which brings us to our title assertion: Joe Biden wrecked the car (market). Obviously, it’s not all on one man, but he led the charge for a slew of totally unnecessary “pandemic relief” spending in early 2021 that caused inflation to rise from about 1.5% to a high of 9.1% before settling to the current rate of 3.2% — and only then because of soaring interest rates severely suppressing demand. We often reiterate that the cumulative inflation rate is nearly 17% since January 2021, and that’s just on the “basket of goods” measured by the Commerce Department. As the car market illustrates, some areas are way beyond 17%.
Cars are becoming more unaffordable all the time, but hey, at least Joe didn’t lose his ‘67 Corvette in that infamous house fire.
There will always be bad apples, but schools must do more to protect kids from predators.
Samantha Koch
If you’ve been paying attention for at least five minutes to the overall tone of today’s society, you may have noticed that fundamental morality and a basic sense of right and wrong have been on a rapid decline.
Among the many questionable positions that directionless people have adopted as rational is that of abandoning our responsibility to protect children and their innocence. Some folks see no reason to shield kids from people who would inappropriately break boundaries with them or intentionally cause emotional and/or physical harm.
Yet somehow, perhaps in the name of “progressivism,” there are individuals and groups that view protection of the innocent as oppressive and outdated. As articulated within gender ideology and queer theory, any boundaries regarding the interactions between adults and children are a social construct that unnecessarily oppress children. The protocols that most of society have acknowledged as imperative for the safekeeping of the most vulnerable are believed by these activists to be doing more harm than good.
On the list of safety procedures being abandoned by today’s “progressive” movement is the vetting process by school administrators of the individuals they hire for the specific responsibility of teaching children, as well as guiding their academic success and social development.
A glaring example of this abdication of responsibility by administrative staff came to light when Homer Community Consolidated School District was put on blast by the infamous X (Twitter) account Libs of TikTok. It was revealed that the district had hired an elementary teacher who had publicly posted about a personal battle with psychosis and mania, which sometimes led to episodes of violence and harm.
This person ranted: “I am NOT my disease. I am ME! And I know ME! And I LOVE ME!” That was directly above an image depicting symbols that would indicate a predilection for satanism.
Just a few days following the public exposure by Libs of TikTok, a vote was conducted during a school board meeting for the district, and the individual was fired.
The questions that need to be answered are as follows: Why was this person hired in the first place? Had widespread attention not been shone on this person’s deeply concerning social media posts, where parents were able to demand the removal of this teacher and force the school board to respond? How long would these students be under this person’s care? And what would the consequences have been?
It is understandable that not every potential negative scenario can be considered and planned for in the hiring process. However, in the age of oversharing and the addiction to validation in the form of social media “likes” and followers, there is a lot that can be easily discovered with a simple sweep of Facebook, Instagram, X, and TikTok that could expose these crucial red flags that there is no excuse to miss.
Teachers have become more brazen in vocalizing their contempt for parents, laws, and boundaries. They are not shy when it comes to creating videos in which they demonstrate their intention to break any rules that might stop them from indoctrinating children into their brand of activism, regardless of what parents want. And they often find it amusing to add a dance or costume to their message, as if to let parents know that they are not concerned about any potential backlash.
Another post on the Libs of TikTok account showed a librarian of a Tulsa Oklahoma Elementary School dancing toward the camera with the message, “POV: teachers in your state are dropping like flies but you are still just not quite finished pushing your woke agenda at the public school.”
Hopefully, a vote on the fate of her job will be carried out soon, and the appropriate determination will be made.
These are just the incidents that have been exposed, but this is happening in every school district in the country to some extent.
Schools are abandoning parents, and if we are not the ones demanding and enforcing a vetting process for those who spend hours every day with our children, it looks like no one will.
FedEx snake handler, back in masks, “follow the science,” and more.
Thomas Gallatin & Jordan Candler
Cross-Examination
American Spirit: FedEx snake handler: A dangerous prairie rattlesnake hanging out on a front porch was put out of commission by an alert FedEx driver. Delivering a package to the home in Sumner, Nebraska, FedEx driver Matt Govier spotted the lethal reptile and elected to go above and beyond the call of duty, quickly dispatching the critter with tools from the nearby garage. Govier then texted the home owner: “I hope you didn’t have a pet rattlesnake at your front door because I killed him. Sorry about the blood.” The homeowner, Christie Jones, responded by calling for Govier to be named the “FedEx employee of the year.” She also noted that she wasn’t home at the time, “but my daughter had just left out this front door 23 minutes before it slithered up my step. Eeeeek.”
Back in masks: Several universities and colleges, as well as at least one Hollywood studio, are reimposing mandatory masking over reports of a minimal uptick in COVID cases. Morris Brown College in Atlanta is requiring students and staff to wear masks at all times, except staff can remove their masks “in their offices while alone.” Rutgers University and Georgetown University are requiring “indoor masking” as well as proof of vaccination for all students. Out in Hollywood, Lionsgate studio is requiring that “employees must wear a medical grade face covering (surgical mask, KN95 or N95) when indoors except when alone in an office with the door closed, actively eating, actively drinking at their desk or workstation, or if they are the only individual present in a large open workspace.” Maybe Lionsgate can be given a pass for this masking theater since it is a movie company. But make no mistake: It is theater. COVID has become endemic, and many randomized controlled studies on the efficacy of masking during the pandemic found that “wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference” for the transmission rates. In other words, these masking mandates are not being driven by science or data but by the desire to impose a political ideology that eschews individual liberty in favor of rule by a class of self-declared authoritarian elites.
How many are gang bangers? A recent analysis conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 2021 set a record of 4,752 minors killed with firearms. The analysis unsurprisingly noted that over 80% of those killed with a firearm were males 19 and younger. Of those males killed with firearms, a higher percentage of black males died due to homicide, whereas a higher percentage of white male deaths with guns was attributed to suicide. Pushing the anti-Second Amendment lobby’s false talking point that guns are a “public health crisis,” pediatric trauma surgeon and lead author of the study Dr. Chethan Sathya asserted: “The most likely reason that your child will die in this country is at the hands of a firearm. That’s not acceptable.” That’s not rational or realistic; it’s simply fearmongering. Of course, the biggest problem with this claim is one of missing context. How many of these minors — the vast majority of those killed (82.6%) were age 15 to 19 — were engaged in criminal activity? Furthermore, the misleading “gun violence” term is used to dismiss the notion of individual culpability. This is not a health crisis but a behavioral one. The issue is not firearms. The issue is a growing number of young people are motivated to kill others or themselves. This analysis justifies the objection of Second Amendment advocates to allowing the CDC to conduct firearms-related studies. Firearms are not a disease, nor are they health related. They are simply tools.
“Follow the science”: Science is not religion, but a recent study found that science is increasingly being used in an effort to establish dogma. According to the study, over the last two decades, scientific literature has increasingly embraced language that implies certainty rather than the more scientifically accurate and humble language of possibility. For example, the study notes that the frequency of words like “might” and “probability” used in scientific papers has decreased by 40%. Some fear that this trend will lead to an increasing number of unreliable and exaggerated claims. Indeed, the history of unreliable and exaggerated claims of many climate change scientists would appear to confirm this fear. Looking at the study, linguist Ken Hyland contends that one of the likely motives for this change of language used is “an increasing reluctance to undersell one’s research in a competitive academic world.” In other words, if making grandiose claims is the way to get noticed, then it might explain why this rhetorical game has gained traction within scientific literature.
$80K or else: Thanks to Bidenflation, the annual salary demand for workers being wooed to switch to another job has risen by 8% in just one year to an average of $78,645. That represents the highest one-year jump since the data set was first collected back in 2014. Since COVID, the average salary demands for switching jobs has risen 22%. Most of this increase can be tied directly to increasing cost of living. At the same time, the likelihood that people would switch jobs has fallen down to 10.6% from 11% a year ago. Meanwhile, the amount of money that companies have to entice workers to switch jobs is drying up, as companies have been decreasing the size of salaries offered.
Headlines
What to watch for in Wednesday’s GOP primary debate (Just the News)
With church salary, Raphael Warnock blew past Senate’s outside income limit in 2022 (Free Beacon)
Mortgage rates hit their highest point since 2000 (CNBC)
Oliver Anthony makes Billboard history with “Rich Men North of Richmond” (Daily Wire)
Denmark joins the European “gender-affirming care” backpedalers (National Review)
Policy: Biden’s hostage deal would boost Iran’s threats (Daily Signal)
Humor: Following tropical storm, California’s homeless begin the hard work of re-pooping all the sidewalks (Babylon Bee)
The Best Time to Be Alive — Are you worried about your future? Turn on the TV or scroll through social media and it’s hard not to be. But is there a brighter side to the story?
Have We All Been Blindsided? — Michael Oher is claiming that his adoptive family never really adopted him and instead exploited him. Let’s break down this whole situation.
Biden’s Home Fire Story — Joe Biden told victims of the historic Hawaii wildfires that claimed at least 114 lives and destroyed entire neighborhoods that he “has a little sense” of what it’s like “to lose a home” after a small 2002 fire in his kitchen.
About the Maui Fires — Here’s what they don’t want you to know about the wildfire in Hawaii.
“I don’t want to compare difficulties, but we have a little sense, Jill and I, what it’s like to lose a home.” —Joe Biden in Lahaina, Hawaii
“I think it’s important to remember that the president has been there from day one.” —Principal Deputy Press Secretary Olivia Dalton
Hot Air
“This is climate change. We’re seeing it now in all of its forms, in, you know, the wildfires in Canada, what happened in Maui, the flooding rains that we’re now seeing in California.” —University of Pennsylvania professor Michael Mann
Lack of Self-Awareness Award
“Yes, there’s a right to bear arms. But our kids and educators also have the right to live freely without fearing for their lives in a classroom. It’s time for Congress to pass commonsense gun safety laws.” —Joe Biden (“Imagine if a criminal got ahold of the illegally purchased gun that your son’s sister-in-law-lover dumped in a trash can directly across the street from a school.” —Dana Loesch)
Pot Calling the Kettle Black
“How conservatives use ‘verbal jiu-jitsu’ to turn liberals’ language against them.” —CNN headline (“These are the people who use term like ‘degrowth’ for the economy and ‘chestfeeding birthing parents with bonus holes’ for women. These are the people who rewrite actual dictionary words to make sure the definitions fit leftist ideology.” —Joel Abbott)
Swampthink
“To say that … somehow the entire military went woke because [of] a handful of drag queen shows that shouldn’t happen to begin with I think is an overstatement. Same thing with critical race theory.” —Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley
“‘Wokeness’ … I personally think that it’s overstated.” —Mark Milley
For the Record
“When Biden was running, the narrative … was that Biden was the standard-bearer of empathy because he had lost his first wife and daughter early in his career in a car crash and lost his son Beau to glioblastoma while he was vice president. And yet despite all of the empathy hype, when it comes to the people he serves, in particular the working class, he has failed miserably in conveying he feels their pain.” —Salena Zito
Re: The Left
“My favorite part of Biden’s Hawaii trip was when he talked about the small kitchen fire he had in his home and compared it to people losing everything, including loved ones. And Hawaii will keep voting for Democrat trash like that.” —Tim Young
“A generation of Americans now exist who have forgotten or rather were never taught the inherent value of their Liberty heritage. They’ve been taught to believe that since they are not feeling or experiencing happiness, the America of their forefathers is a failure. As the government has inevitably failed to deliver on the promise of happiness, leftist politicians point the finger of blame at those backward conservatives for standing in the way of ‘progress.’” —Thomas Gallatin
And Last…
“Joe Biden … dared the press to find just one of his policies/objectives that has not worked. Silence followed. Perhaps it was polite to say nothing, given even the media knows almost every enacted Biden policy has failed.” —Victor Davis Hanson
In response to reports of COVID restrictions, including social distancing and masking being reimplemented by colleges and offices, Senator Rand Paul asserted that those pushing the measures again “have no shame.”
During a Fox News interview, Paul described the move as “hysteria” being pushed by the leftist media to financially benefit their corporate pharma owners.
“These people are so conflicted,” Paul said, adding “It’s so dishonest to put people like that on the air to promote a product that they make more money from … promote this hysteria. This defies all logic. It defies science, and it defies common sense.”
“To see this coming up again, these people have no shame,” Paul continued, pointing to Morris Brown College in Atlanta, a black private liberal arts college that has reinstated the measures as part of a “precautionary step.”
“That university that’s wanting to mask up and do all this testing — zero cases,” Paul urged, adding “But even worse than that, even when COVID was really more potent in 2020, the death rate for young, healthy people turned out to be close to zero.”
“We don’t know for sure because the CDC won’t release it, but we do know that Germany released all of their data, and not one young, healthy person died. So, it’s a crime to mandate masks. It’s a crime to mandate vaccines, which do have some risks for young, healthy people,” Paul further noted.
The Senator urged that Americans are “not going to lay down and take it again,”adding “there will be more resistance” this time.
“We will fight back, and we will point out that they are making money off of this. These are not high-minded people. They are making money off of us and making money off of generating hysteria,” the Senator asserted.
The recent tax and gun case against Hunter Biden is a prime example of this. What initially seemed like a sweetheart deal was just the tip of the iceberg. And if the Bidens thought public outrage was bad before, they ain’t seen nothin’ yet. We are just beginning to understand the lengths to which Biden’s Department of Justice was planning to go to in order to protect the First Family’s crimes.
According to two reports, one from The New York Times and the other from Politico, the Biden DOJ was so determined to end this nightmare for Joe and Hunter that they were planning to drop all charges and let him walk away scot-free. What stopped this from happening? The answer lies with the brave IRS whistleblowers who unveiled the extent of Hunter’s evil deeds. These same whistleblowers, who courageously revealed the truth about Hunter, now find themselves targeted by the Biden DOJ. All of a sudden, the concept of “whistleblower protection,” which was paraded around during the Trump era, seems to have vanished. Now, they want to imprison whistleblowers.
Collin Rugg, co-owner of Trending Politics, had this to say about the breaking bombshell:
BREAKING: U.S. attorney for Delaware David Weiss was planning on ending the investigation into Hunter Biden and letting him off with no charges until the IRS whistleblowers spoke out.
Holy s***.
“Earlier this year, The Times found, Mr. Weiss appeared willing to forgo any prosecution of Mr. Biden at all, and his office came close to agreeing to end the investigation without requiring a guilty plea on any charges,” The New York Times reported.
“But the correspondence reveals that his position, relayed through his staff, changed in the spring, around the time a pair of I.R.S. officials on the case accused the Justice Department of hamstringing the investigation. Mr. Weiss suddenly demanded that Mr. Biden plead guilty to committing tax offenses.”
President Joe Biden, we keep hearing, is a deeply empathetic man. It is that empathy that brought him to the presidency—his deep and abiding capacity to connect with others. In “What It Takes,” Richard Ben Cramer’s detailed blow-by-blow of the 1988 election cycle, Cramer describes Biden’s ability to “connect” as his greatest supposed skill.
This has been the pitch for Biden for decades: Not much in the way of brains, not a tremendously resourceful politician, awkward on his feet—but he cares. In the words of Mark Gitenstein, Biden’s 1988 speechwriter and a four-decade adviser, “His ability to communicate with people in pain is maybe his most powerful strength.”
Or maybe, just maybe, Biden was never an empathetic man. Maybe he simply trafficked in ersatz empathy, all the while feeding his own narcissism.
That story certainly looks more plausible these days.
This week, Biden visited Maui. He did so nearly two weeks after the worst wildfire in modern American history killed over a hundred Americans. Meanwhile, Biden vacationed in Delaware on the beach, telling reporters he had “no comment” on the situation; he then jet-set off to Lake Tahoe before finally heading to Lahaina.
Once he reached Hawaii, he proceeded to explain that he felt the pain of those whose family members had been incinerated. After all, he said, one time he experienced a small kitchen fire.
“I don’t want to compare difficulties, but we have a little sense, Jill and I, of what it was like to lose a home,” he jabbered. “Years ago, now, 15 years, I was in Washington doing ‘Meet the Press.’ … Lightning struck at home on a little lake outside the home. Not a lake—a big pond. It hit the wire and came up underneath our home, into the … air condition ducts. To make a long story short, I almost lost my wife, my ’67 Corvette, and my cat.”
In reality, back in 2004, lightning caused a kitchen fire in Biden’s home that was put out in 20 minutes with no other damage.
If this were an isolated incident, we could chalk it up to Biden’s encroaching senility. But it isn’t. After presiding over the botched pullout from Afghanistan that resulted in the return of the Taliban, the murder of 13 American servicemembers, the abandonment of hundreds of American citizens and thousands of American green card holders, and the subjugation of some tens of millions of women, Biden essentially shrugged. Then, when faced with the families of wounded and killed American soldiers, he attempted to “feel their pain” by invoking the death of his son, Beau.
According to Cheryl Rex, whose son died in the Abbey Gate bombing of Aug. 26, 2021: “His words to me were, ‘My wife, Jill, and I know how you feel. We lost our son as well and brought him home in a flag-draped coffin.’”
Biden has cited Beau in similar instances multiple times.
In the Jewish community, the death of a loved one is followed by shiva, a seven-day period of mourning. During shiva, mourners don’t leave their homes; they are instead cared for by the community, provided with food and communal prayer. Members of the community visit the shiva house to provide comfort.
The first rule of visiting a shiva house: Don’t talk about your own experiences with death or pain. It’s gauche and irrelevant and trivializing.
Yet this is Biden’s first move.
Empathy is the quality of putting yourself in the place of others. But Biden isn’t an empath. He’s someone who believes that everyone else’s pain is merely a reflection of his own.
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Doctors were offered cash bonuses from Big Pharma-linked health insurance companies, with the payouts increasing on an incremental scale as the number of vaccinated patients grows.
Those who successfully convinced large numbers of their patients to take the injections we pulling in thousands of dollars a day in cash bonuses.
Due to the scaling nature of the bonuses, doctors were incentivized to peddle as many jabs as possible and to keep the momentum going in exchange for cash.
Your doctor took the bribe if he told you to get the covid19 vaccination. Here's the schedule of the payment program. pic.twitter.com/QVVlicXjp8
Yahoo news reports: Harvard requires all students who will be on campus to have primary vaccination for COVID-19,” reads Harvard’s website. “As we work to continue the high levels of vaccination needed to protect our community, Harvard highly recommends being up-to-date per the CDC definition for all Harvard community members.”
This despite top medical scientists at Harvard concluding that the “vaccine” is risky to health and life and does not protect or prevent transmission. Moreover, the new variant we are promised is said to be mild and not dangerous, which means the booster is a high risk without benefit.
Additionally, new risky “vaccines” are being approved by the FDA, essentially a Big Pharma operation as the revolving doors between the pharmaceutical industry and its “regulator” indicate. One of the latest is a “vaccine” for pregnant women despite safety concerns from the FDA’s advisers. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-pfizer-rsv-vaccine-pregnancy/ During clinical trials, there was a 20% higher rate of premature birth among vaccinated mothers and 12 infant deaths. Medical experts said the “vaccine” is unnecessary and has no benefits worth the risks. Nevertheless, the FDA is expected to approve it.
The director of the CDC, also like the FDA and NIH, a Big Pharma operation, is advocating yearly Covid “vaccination” despite the massive and mounting evidence of deaths and injuries by the “vaccine.” And the presstitute media, flush with Big Pharma advertising revenues, is pushing the institutionalization of annual vaccination. NBC and the other presstitutes are pushing the narrative of Covid’s return, which helps the CDC encourage the public to continue taking boosters, by asking why isn’t the government ready with a booster. https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/its-really-happening-mask-mandates-contact-tracing-re-implemented-colleges-offices
In other words, all that we have learned about the extremely high risks and ineffectiveness of the Covid “vaccines” is being totally ignored by regulatory agencies that are supposed to protect the public’s health and by universities which are supposed to be collections of intelligent people.
Some of us understood that the continuation of the profit-and-power-driven Covid protocols would be the consequence of the failure by Congress, media, and the medical establishment to hold accountable those responsible for the Covid Deception. (See: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2023/08/16/the-covid-pandemic-a-case-study-of-money-trumping-integrity/ ) The presstitutes and social media continue to censor the truth about Covid and the vaccine and continue to turn a blind eye to the mounting deaths and injuries from the “vaccine.” We now have a medical establishment that is inhumane and cannot be trusted with human life.
President Joe Biden’s official government email alias in 2016 raised concern among Republicans, who question why “Robert L. Peters” received an email that cc’d Hunter Biden about Ukraine.
ATLANTA, GA — The Center for Disease Control warned Americans this week to resume all contact precautions due a new and rapidly-spreading “Electionyearicron” Covid variant.
CDC director Bob Cohen spoke with reporters Wednesday to announce the new variant. “‘Electionyearicron’ is thought to be the most disruptive variant yet, and will be here all through 2024 until approximately November sixth,” said Mr. Cohen. “So everyone, stay home and get ready to vote by mail!”
The White House hosted an immediate press conference to address the dangerous new variant. “We’re thrilled – I mean, um, alarmed – to hear of this deadly new ‘Electionyearicron’ variant,” said White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. “The President says we’ll probably just go ahead and cancel the general elections next year as a precaution. It’s the only way to really flatten the curve. You don’t want to kill grandma, do you?”
The CDC has released guidelines once again encouraging social distancing and the wearing of masks. “It’s the best way to love your neighbor,” said Mr. Cohen. “The government will let you know just as soon as it’s safe to end quarantine, which we project to be immediately after the next election is over. Just to give Americans an extra sense of assurance, we are calling Dr. Fauci back out of retirement so everyone knows they can trust our word. Stay home, stay safe!”
As of press time, millions of middle-class liberal women had already sewn their N95 masks directly onto their faces as a precaution.
It is super important to know your stuff when it comes to debating ultra-MAGA Republicans about guns.
On Tuesday night, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told Sean Hannity, “It’s ironic that Donald Trump’s being charged under RICO [Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act] when in fact, Joe Biden has been running an organized crime operation. I think if you watch The Sopranos, take out the murders … you’ll understand the Bidens.”
Of course, any sane person would draw a similar conclusion. But with the arrival of former President Donald Trump on the political scene in 2015, the legacy media abandoned the practice of real journalism and became the communications team for the Democratic Party.
But the revelations of the Justice Department’s flagrant abuses of power over the past month may have become too much for even the party’s most loyal hacks to defend. In a sign that the Left’s tolerance for the Biden administration’s corruption may have reached its high water mark, CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig said he’s “perplexed” by the DOJ’s actions.
It’s really inexplicable to me. First, we had basically five years of behind-the-scenes investigation with no transparency, no action, and some questions being asked, what’s taken so long?
But in the last couple of months, we’ve seen a pattern here. … DOJ moves toward a very lenient disposition. They’re just about to lock in that lenient disposition, and then there arises pressure, either through whistleblower testimony or through public scrutiny and then DOJ backs off and says, ‘Actually, we’re not going to do that since it’s been called out. We’re gonna try to up it a little bit.’ Then that happened again.
And then, they go all the way to appointing a special counsel, the same guy who’s been presiding over the case for five-plus years already.
I genuinely am perplexed by what DOJ’s doing here.
I think they’ve made a real mess for themselves and now they’re going to have to deal with the consequences of it.
NEW: CNN makes a shocking pivot, says they're 'perplexed' by the corruption coming out of the Department of 'Justice' as they continue to cover up for the Biden Crime Family.
Honig’s remarks came on the heels of CNN host Jake Tapper’s admission that “Trump was right” and “Biden was wrong” about Hunter Biden in the October 2020 presidential debate.
Jake Tapper admits ‘Trump was right,’ ‘Biden was wrong’ about Hunter Biden in 2020 presidential debate https://t.co/cZgyOaHGv4
There are no mavericks in the Democratic Party. From the White House to the federal agencies and the media, all arms of the party move in lockstep. All the time.
At the risk of reading too much into Honig’s and Tapper’s remarks, it seems to me they’ve been given the green light by party leadership to turn on Biden.
Is the DNC setting the stage to give Biden the old heave-ho? It’s sure starting to look like it.
The House Republicans’ dogged campaign to expose the Biden family’s influence peddling business has clearly borne fruit. New revelations are coming out on a weekly basis. These efforts, combined with the spectacular collapse of Hunter Biden’s sweetheart plea deal and his former friend and business partner Devon Archer’s admission that then-Vice President Joe Biden had appeared both in person and over speakerphone at meetings with his son’s foreign business associates, have pushed the situation far beyond the DOJ’s (or the DNC’s) ability to contain it.
Democrats have lost control over the narrative. Although replacing Joe Biden with a new nominee comes with its own set of problems, the party’s hand may be forced.
It would be foolish to dismiss Honig’s and Tapper’s remarks as mere coincidences.
As FDR once famously observed: “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley stated that Hunter Biden special counsel U.S. Attorney David Weiss has no credibility and called for “a special counsel to investigate this investigation. And that includes the actions of U.S. Attorney Weiss, Attorney General Garland, the statements made to Congress, the letters sent to Congress.”
Latest results and forecasts from retailers ranging from Macy’s to Foot Locker are showing fresh signs of U.S. consumer spending remaining under stress heading into second half of the year.
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