op ed review 1/31
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Impeachment: Democrat Prospects of Convicting Trump in Senate Fade Away
The Left playbook this week is to make Trump supporters synonymous with insurrection, sedition, and terrorism:
CNN’s Jim Acosta: Trump supporters, Fox News remain 'a threat to our democracy'
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/25/jim-acosta-trump-supporters-fox-news-remain-a-thre/
MSNBC’s Jason Johnson: Democrats Need to Say Republicans Are 'Terrorists'
In a discussion about “domestic terrorists”, MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace floats the idea of drone strikes: “the way you attack terrorism..is to kill those who incite it.”
Pelosi warns of GOP threat: “Enemy is within the House”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/enemy-within-house-pelosi-warns-gop-security-threat
Dept. of Homeland Security issues nationwide terrorism alert over 'violent extremists' motivated by election results, COVID lockdowns and police activity
Google suspends donations to lawmakers who voted against certifying election
Former Obama AG Eric Holder Urges Democrats to Pack Supreme Court, Says Federal Courts Are Stacked with (conservative) Ideologues "Who Reach Rulings Based on Stunted Mindsets"
The Democrats' First Bill of 2021 Is to Lock In Fraudulent Election Maneuvers and Steal Elections in Perpetuity
Democrats Introduce Legislation To Make DC The 51st State
FBI arrests “alt-right social media influencer”, charging him with interfering in the 2016 election for allegedly fraudulently telling Black supporters of Hillary Clinton, they could vote by text..” Faces 10 years in prison.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/27/douglass-mackey-charged-2016-election-interference/
Last honest Democrat Tulsi Gabbard warns: “Dems' New War on Terror Will Target Conservatives”
Tulsi: “Brennans, Schiffs, and Big Tech Oligarchs More Dangerous than Mob that Stormed Capitol”
Gabbard warns: Leftists Are Plotting 'KGB-Style Surveillance'
New GOP Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene introduces articles of impeachment against Joe Biden; outraged Democrats demand her expulsion from Congress.
Joe Biden Once Suggested Only "Dictators" Legislate By Executive Order, Then He Sets Record, Signs 33 In His First Week.
Democrats Want Biden To Be The Dictator They Said Trump Was
https://issuesinsights.com/2021/01/28/democrats-want-biden-to-be-the-dictator-they-said-trump-was/
Joe Biden has halted the sale of F-35 stealth jets to the UAE, even though they were promised as part of the Abraham Accords. New administration's punitive decision could lead Israel into bombing Iran's weapons-making facilities.
https://asiatimes.com/2021/01/biden-halts-uae-f-35-sale-in-nod-to-iran/
Biden Appoints Susan Rice To Drive Racial Politics Deep Into Federal Bureaucracy
Joe Biden to sign executive order to reverse transgender ban in military.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/24/joe-biden-sign-executive-order-reverse-transgender/
Media lovefest: CNN Slobbers Over 'Impressively Productive' Biden-Putin Phone Call
All border wall construction stopped Tuesday night.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/all-border-wall-construction-stopped
Following Biden's Lead, Schumer Plans Bypass of GOP to Enact Progressive Agenda
Biden’s Energy Nominee Divvied Millions In Taxpayer Funds To Alternative Energy Startups That Went Bankrupt
https://dailycaller.com/2021/01/27/jennifer-granholm-michigan-energy-companies-bankrupt/
Blue State Bail Out: Biden Executive Order Opens The Door For US Taxpayers To Foot The Entire Bill For San Francisco Homeless Hotels
For years, Democrats have railed against anonymous campaign contributions as a uniquely corrupting political force — even as President Biden benefited from a record-shattering $145 million In “dark money”
John Kerry Says Sudden Job Losses in Oil & Gas Are Not Biden's Fault
https://rumble.com/vdbk9p-john-kerry-says-sudden-job-losses-in-oil-and-gas-are-not-bidens-fault.html
Kerry admits even zero US emissions won't make any difference in climate change.
https://nypost.com/2021/01/27/kerry-zero-emissions-wont-make-difference-in-climate-change/
Maybe that’s why John Kerry still flies in his private jet..
https://nypost.com/2021/01/28/john-kerry-still-has-private-jet-while-fighting-climate-change-report/
Mitt Romney demands Republicans publicly announce President Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election legitimately “to achieve national unity.”
Mitt Romney Shares His Picks for the Future of the GOP, and Laughter Abounds
Romney twice as popular with Utah Democrats as Republicans.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/utah-mitt-romney-republicans-democrats-popular
Chris Christie: 'Shameful' Republicans Keep Pushing Election Lies to Score 'Political Points' with Trump Base
Arizona Republicans censure Cindy McCain, Doug Ducey and Jeff Flake
MI County GOP Unanimously ‘Censures and Condemns’ Rep. Fred Upton Over Trump Impeachment Vote
GOP largely votes against holding Trump impeachment trial
https://apnews.com/article/trump-impeachment-senate-eeff16bd40a4fe3b65b5efc9f1582289
Sen. Rand Paul SLAMS impeachment attempt and 'incitement' of violence by Democrats.
200 Republicans Pledge Support For Hyde Amendment As Biden Takes Aim At Pro-Life Legislation
https://dailycaller.com/2021/01/26/republicans-hyde-amendment-biden-abortion-jim-banks/
New GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert Moves to Block Biden Executive Order on Paris Treaty by Demanding Senate Confirmation
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, ex-Trump press secretary, to run for Arkansas governor
Kristi Noem and Mike Pompeo, eyeing 2024 White House bids, to headline CPAC
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/2024-contenders-noem-pompeo-headline-cpac
Portland protesters burn dumpster, hurl rocks at feds
https://nypost.com/2021/01/28/portland-protesters-burn-dumpster-hurl-rocks-at-feds-video/
Seattle and Portland finally decide they don’t want rioting, but bail reform could hurt clampdown
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/bail-reform-antifa-portland-seattle-arrests
Antifa smashes Tacoma in rampage over cop driving into crowd
https://nypost.com/2021/01/25/antifa-smashes-tacoma-in-rampage-over-cop-driving-into-crowd/
Journalist Andy Ngo flees Portland, says police wouldn't protect him
https://thepostmillennial.com/journalist-andy-ngo-flee-portland-says-police-wouldnt-protect-him
Antifa protestors in Portland demand “no borders no nations”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9181643/Anti-ICE-protests-turn-ugly-Portland.html
Antifa trouble in Bellingham now.
Triggered: gun store hilariously announces they ‘don’t have guns or ammo for Biden supporters’
Arizona, aren’t you proud of your Senator? Kyrsten Sinema wears purple wig and zebra-print shawl to swearing in of Sen. Mark Kelly
Taking Cara Babies Founder Bullied And Doxed For Supporting Trump
Literary Agency Fires Employee for Using Parler and Gab
https://news.yahoo.com/literary-agency-fires-employee-using-171202099.html
The U.N. Says America Is Already Cutting So Much Carbon It Doesn’t Need The Paris Climate Accord
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COLUMN(S) OF THE WEEK
Kurt Schlichter 1/28
Ditching the GOP is a bad idea born of justifiable frustration, and we need to stop being emotional and start being ruthless in our campaign to retake this country from these liberal establishment aspiring fascists. A third party is not the way. It is a bad idea, one that is technically impractical and which is strategically inept. It will lead to disaster. And the Democrats know it, which is why they love this third party palaver. The only thing that makes the tooting likes of Eric Swalwell coo in delight harder than some mediocre Chi Com honeypot is the thought of us conservatives committing ritual suicide by splitting our half of the country in two because some of the 50 percent of Americans in our camp are insufferable sissies.
News flash, folks. We’re going to have to suffer the sissies forever. The question is whether they run the party apparatus, or whether they are consigned to the fringes…..
Let’s look at the big picture. The design of the Constitution essentially mandates a two-party system. A third party has never won the presidency, and one rarely wins legislative seats. Usually, such candidates call themselves “independents,” but Democrats know they are really Democrats and understand this is just a ploy to appeal to the suckers.
There is always going to be a party of the left, and a party of the right, with the battle over the middle. A party getting 55 percent of the vote is considered to have won in a landslide. America is that closely divided. For our sins, the party of the right is the Republican Party. And math says we are stuck with it. You cannot divide the 50 percent of America on the right up and hope to beat the 50 percent on the left. It does not work, and all the hopes, dreams, and krakens of a million outraged conservatives on Twitter will not make it so. Politics must be about addition, and that implies we need to add people who are not as conservative as we are. If you want purity, date a nun. This is politics, and if you don’t win, you lose. I propose we win…
Trump himself seems to understand, walking back the “Patriot Party” stuff in order to settle in as a GOP kingmaker. He knows he loses in 2024 running as a third party candidate – 50 percent of people already hate him and some percentage of the GOP will stay GOP out of habit if nothing else. You can’t expect to win if you start off, best case, losing 50 percent + 1. But by remaining in the GOP – as its most popular figure by far – he has real power to influence events.
The third party talk also ignores the practical reality of the GOP’s irreplaceable infrastructure. A competitive national political party is a Broadway play, not a show some kids put on in a barn. While some imagine a sort of spontaneous, math-defying movement materializing out of the political ether, the reality is that a party structure performs essential tasks and there is no substitute for it. Who has the donor lists, the volunteer lists, the organization to drive get out the vote efforts? The party. You can’t patch one together overnight out of fervor and contempt for the squishes.
There are many things that are critical that go into a campaign and go on behind the scenes that most of us never even imagined. For example, who are the lawyers who worked for the GOP who know election law who will be leaving their GOP contracts to come and keep the “MAGA Party” candidates out of jail?....
But hey, you’re angry so you gotta cater to those feelz. That’s stupid and weak. Tighten up. Yeah, the GOP establishment sucks – and no, you’re not the only one who has noticed. We are always going to have people near the center who frustrate us. That’s the reality, and being angry about it is like yelling at clouds. But what we can do – and have done – is slowly force the party to conform more closely to our vision. It’s like turning the Titanic, an apt metaphor if there ever was one, but it is happening already.
Look at the GOP just five years ago and look at it today. Yeah, we have…tiresome goofs like Mitt. We have others who alternate between establishment-curious moderate wimpiness and coming through for us at many key junctures – Collins, McConnell and Graham. But look at what we don’t have – Jeff Flake is gone. Jeb! is a flabby footnote. And as hard as Nikki! is trying to make herself happen, she’s not happening. The GOP has shifted our way – on wars, on culture, on tech, on playing to win. We have earned the support of Americans of all races in unprecedented numbers because we have focused on people who – remember this? – work hard and play by the rules. That’s progress. Not enough, not nearly, but to deny the progress because you are angry only empowers the people you are angry at. We can’t throw out what we have already achieved simply because we have much more work to do.
We need to do more. We need to infiltrate the infrastructure and remake the Republican Party from the inside into a party for working Americans of every demographic who love their country and demand their rights, as opposed to the 2015 party that shafted working Americans so Democrat-donor big corporations can rig the system and let SJW twerps endlessly hassle us for the crime of being normal…..
Here’s your action plan. If you are a registered Republican, stay that way. If not, register Republican. Then vote in the primaries to rid ourselves of squishes. Then take the next step. Find your local GOP organization and join, then run for local party and then government offices. We need to build our farm team, and that means traveling along the American cursus honorum from GOP precinct captain to county GOP committee member to city council to state assembly to Congress and beyond.
Gee Kurt, that sounds like hard work. It is. It’s a lot easier to declare you are never ever voting GOP again on Twitter. But I was under the impression that we are the faction that is not averse to hard work, especially when it is our country at stake. So, this is a test – if you’re serious about winning, you stay GOP.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2021/01/28/stop-the-third-party-insanity-n2583768
The Conservative Purge Isn’t Over, It’s Just Getting Cranked Up
https://issuesinsights.com/2021/01/25/the-conservative-purge-isnt-over-its-just-getting-cranked-up/
Sen. Hawley: It's time to stand up against the muzzling of America
https://nypost.com/2021/01/24/its-time-to-stand-up-against-the-muzzling-of-america/
“This is a message for Democrats. Not progressives, or socialists, or communist sympathizers, but real, old-school, Democrats. The kind that love the United States of America and only differ from Republicans because their vision of government is as a benevolent entity meant to help fellow human beings. Your party is gone. Really, It’s Gone. The party that took over the White House on January 20th is a very different party, and if you don’t get wise to it soon, it will be too late.”
https://stream.org/a-message-for-democrats/
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TUCKER
“The American government is at war with its own people…Left compares half the country to terrorists..…Democrats erect a permanent steel prison fence around the US Capitol…...”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdA-4eiCIe8&feature=youtu.be
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PROGRESSIVE WATCH
Antifa supporter in Portland explains: “For generations like mine and the one after, we have been told our entire lives that the world is about to end if nothing is done immediately, and that all of the evils of our world—climate chaos, racism, the ills of capitalism, and more—are all inexplicably linked. If the world is ending, some people are going to act like it….It’s amazing to me that liberal Democrats really do believe that we are on the brink of something like Armageddon and then are shocked that some people behave like it. What did you picture Armageddon to look like? Public testimony?” Thanks education system!!
Seattle Public Schools indoctrinate children against police, deny violent riots.
Disney+ blocks under-sevens from watching 'racist' Peter Pan, Dumbo and The Aristocats
Thousands of San Francisco residents are banning together to stop the city from renaming 44 schools that honor so-called “racist” historical leaders — including Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson,
https://nypost.com/2021/01/28/san-franciscans-push-back-on-bid-to-cancel-lincoln-washington/
Black Lives Matter movement nominated for Nobel Peace Prize????
https://thepostmillennial.com/black-lives-matter-movement-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize
Leftists mount #NoHoneymoon campaign to force Biden to enact far-left agenda
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/27/leftists-mount-nohoneymoon-campaign-force-biden-en/
“What (Biden and Rice) promise is racial quotas and preferences in every conceivable program, in every possible corner of American life….the specific policies announced were less important than the word “equity,” invoked 19 times by Rice and nine by Biden”…..for Rice and Biden, “equity” requires not equality of opportunity but equality of results. That’s one of the fundamental tenets of critical race theory training banned by outgoing Trumpites and reinstated by Biden on Day 1.”
Seriously??: New York Times claims “Biden Most Religiously Observant Christian President in Half Century”
New York Times Worships Joe Biden's Heretical Faith
https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/28/new-york-times-idol-worships-joe-bidens-heretical-faith/
Setup? Anti-Trump Leader of Group Who Marched With BLM, Claims Group Helped Storm the Capitol
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/01/25/315965-n315965
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COVID
World's richest ten people 'are half a TRILLION dollars richer since Covid-19 pandemic began'
Can Democrats deprogram the pre-election Covid fear they instilled in the masses?
Right on Schedule, COVID Pivots for Biden
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/01/right_on_schedule_covid_pivots_for_biden.html
CDC Apparently Changed COVID Criteria That Inflated Fatalities 10-Fold
New York AG accuses Gov. Cuomo of underreporting nursing home deaths by up to 50 percent
Steve Hilton finds stunning Covid 19 connections: 'Specific activity that Dr. Fauci funded and it is terrifying…..'
Reckless ‘Gain-of-Function’ Experiments Lie at the Root of the Pandemic
“Dr. Fauci is the highest paid out of 4M federal employees, made $417,608 in 2019.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/dr-fauci-highest-paid-federal-employee
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ARTICLES
What happened to the Stop the Steal effort? Insider Patrick Byrne offers this infuriating inside view of the dysfunctional Trump legal team. “How DJT Lost the White House”. Why Sydney Powell was ousted. Does Rudy drink too much? Long but informative article by former CEO of Overstock.com, now suspended from Twitter.
https://www.deepcapture.com/2021/01/november-3-december-23-all-the-presidents-teams/
“It's one of those things that has to be taken on its own merit since it is the opinion of one man, but it has a lot of very interesting inside information……It has to be taken with a grain of salt, but then when lined up side-by side with other accounts, a very real picture develops of what was going on.”
Now that the election is over, it’s safe for Bill Maher to say racism in America is exaggerated
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/01/25/bill-maher-says-racism-in-america-is-exaggerated/
Greenwald: new domestic war on terror is coming (targeting trump supporters)
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-new-domestic-war-on-terror-is
Surveillance Capitalism: How To Prepare For Coming Crackdown
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/how-to-prepare-for-coming-crackdown-live-not-by-lies/
Joy Pullman: How To Stop Using Google Search On Your Computer And Phone
https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/25/how-to-stop-using-google-search-on-your-computer-and-phone/
Prager: Let us begin with this fact: The left always suppresses speech. Since Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917, there has been no example of the left in control and not crushing dissent. That is one of the important differences between liberal and left: Liberalism and liberals believe in free speech. (The present leftist threat to freedom in America, the greatest threat to freedom in American history, is made possible because liberals think they have more to fear from conservatives than from the left. Liberals do not understand that the left regards liberals as their useful idiots.)
Study: marijuana lowers IQ in teens.
https://www.studyfinds.org/teen-marijuana-use-drops-iq-later/
National Review and All its Many Ways of Insulting Conservatives
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SATIRE
Biden Tells Freezing Troops Sleeping In Garages To Be Patient Until He Can Get Them Shipped To Iraq
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OTHER STUFF
How a Bunch of Redditors with $600 Stimulus Checks Outsmarted Wall Street Hedge-Fund Managers
Candace Owens shares pic of newborn son: 'The whole world stops when your child is born'
Seventy years after the first B-52, the world's most brutal bomber has an awesome new role
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