16 thoughts on “News/Politics 12-6-23

  1. Wray continues to lie under oath.

    And the DoJ continues to run roughshod over pro-lifers, for political reasons.

    It should go. It’s only used on pro-lifers. The DoJ and FBI have done nothing and charged no one when actual attacks against pro-life centers happen. They aren’t even trying.

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  2. We have to be really careful when we try to cover up a Democrat’s crimes is what he meant to say.

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  3. dj: So you believe the man with an ax to grind (“gaggle of crackpot lawyers”) when he says that Pres. Trump asked him “to literally reject votes”?

    Mike Pence repeatedly argued that he did his constitutional duty by certifying the 2020 election, and that he had no option or pathway to refrain from doing so. If that is the case, why does the certification exist at all?

    Not investigating the 2020 election was VP Pence’s big mistake – there was every right to do so constitutionally. With thousands of reports of ejection fraud in key battleground states, he could have had the electors sent back for review in those key states. He could have even referenced the Electoral Count Act of 1887. The Dems claimed that there was no such provision in the Act, but then they proceeded to push for and pass the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act (2022), proving that there was indeed such provision. Dems don’t want elections to be questioned, unless it’s them doing the questioning (which they’ve done over and over).

    In that certification role, the VP is not just supposed to be a file clerk. That’s not what our Founding Fathers had in mind when they placed the VP in the position of certifying the election.

    We needed a courageous man of integrity to ensure and verify that no fraud had occurred before allowing the certification process to continue. Someone who would look into the 2,000+ affidavits (many by Dems pointing out the irregularities). Instead, the Big Guy was fraudulently installed, and disaster ensued. The American voters were greatly let down – they deserved to have an investigation!

    Even if the outcome hadn’t been changed, Pence would have displayed the courage required of a potential future leader. It’s actually quite arrogant for him to assume that his candidacy would be well-received by GOP voters after his betrayal to the constitutional process in the 2020 election. He has no political future, and he will now be remembered for certifying a fraudulent election while claiming it was his constitutional obligation.

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  4. AJ, I think Pence chose to do what he thought was the ‘safe’ thing—the thing all other VPs have done, and treat the function as ceremonial whether it was intended that way or not. It would have taken extraordinary courage and graciousness to have done otherwise, and he did not have that to give—perhaps few of us would. And now he is doing the human thing and he’s defending his reputation. It’s not particularly admirable, but it’s understandable and probably predictable.

    As an aside, I think we dodged a bullet with Pence. If the impeachments had worked and Pence had become president, we would probably be in a hot war somewhere right now. I don’t think he ever had a real domestic policy. Or if he had a domestic policy it was an afterthought; he didn’t present anything at all in the first debate/interview with Tucker.

    Debra

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  5. Solyndra 2.0, working as well as Solyndra 1.0, for Dem politicians that is. Dump a ton of taxpayer dollars on unicorn farts and fairy dust, get some of that cash laundered back to your campaign coffers. Lather, rinse, repeat.

    Everybody wins! Except taxpayers.

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  6. Truth.

    “October 7 and the Touchstone of Hate

    The almost immediate posting after October 7 of the BLM poster glorifying the hang-gliding murderous entry into Israel only confirmed what most of us knew anyway. Black lives matter and the entire diversity/equity/inclusion conglomerate rabidly hate Jews. Their response to October 7 revealed their pseudo-education in “anti-colonialism”, “white supremacy”, and “settler” oppression.

    It is hard to find a major university where an academic on news of October 7 has not vented hatred for Jews. And that loathing is growing, as we witnessed the recent mobbing of a Jewish restaurant in Philadelphia (“Goldie, Goldie, you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide.”)

    So much also for the leftwing myth that being anti-Israeli is not anti-Semitic, as if a Stanford instructor first asked Jews whether they were pro-Israel before separating them out in his class, or as if UCLA students who hit a pinata screaming “Beat that f—ing Jew” forgot to say, “that f—ing Israeli”.

    Most recently, Christine Blasey Ford-era feminist Rep. Pramila Jayapal called for balance in contextualizing the mass rape of Israeli women (“However, I think we have to be balanced about bringing in the outrages against Palestinians ”) and claimed stuff just happens in war (“I think we always talk about the impact of war on women in particular”).

    But Israeli women were not just raped in a time of war by soldiers, horrific as that would have been. They were mass raped, mutilated, executed, and desecrated by Hamas thugs who broke into Israel at a time of holiday and peace and deliberately fixated on the unarmed, the elderly, children, infants, and women to do their precivilizational worst, from sexual torture and mutilation to decapitation and necrophilia.

    Only a moral monster would seek to equate all that to the collateral damage to civilians. Gazans are deliberately used as shields by Hamas, while warned, with leaflets and texts, to vacate the war zone by uniformed soldiers responding to a mass, unprovoked killing spree by invading terrorists.

    All the UN’s feminist groups, the architects of #Metoo, and the university gender studies crowd are mostly silent about this daily mounting evidence that one of many sick terrorist strategies of Hamas has been to sexually torture and injure Jewish women to incite fear and promote terror.

    Now we learn that one reason why Hamas broke the ceasefire and stopped the terrorists-for-hostages-exchanges was fear of discovery that younger Israeli female captives in their custody have been sexually assaulted.

    Given that Hamas survives mostly by its international propaganda machine, it apparently feared such disclosures might incite a smidgeon of doubt from its Western leftist useful idiots (it likely would not) and thereby lessen pressure to call off the IDF.

    The one common denominator to all this anti-Semitic hatred expressed by BLM, the international socialists, the Middle-East student organizations, and the DEI university faculties is freedom to spread venom as protected classes of victims, despite their own privilege, tenured careers, subsidized education, and elitism.

    That special exemption is best exemplified by cowardly college administrators. In response to overt anti-Semitism on their campuses, they on spec retreat to the notion that, while they would like to stop it, they just cannot, given their principled devotion to free speech.

    In fact, most of them long ago made sure there was no free speech at all on their campuses. And we all know that if any unhinged group substituted gay/trans/black/Latino for Jews in their venomous demonstrations they would have been long ago expelled with the tag-along boilerplate “this is not who we are” letter to the faculty from a careerist dean or upwardly mobile provost.”

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  7. Oh look, yet another Green Scam wasting taxpayer dollars…..

    “After Congress Allocated $7.5 Billion for Electric Vehicle Chargers, Exactly Zero Have Been Built

    Turns out the green in “Green Energy” is money.”

    https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/12/after-congress-allocated-7-5-billion-for-electric-vehicle-chargers-exactly-zero-have-been-built/

    “Politico has just published an absolutely fascinating update on funds the US Congress set aside for electric vehicle (EV) chargers, ultimately to support a program connected to “net zero” climate cult goals.

    Congress at the urging of the Biden administration agreed in 2021 to spend $7.5 billion to build tens of thousands of electric vehicle chargers across the country, aiming to appease anxious drivers while tackling climate change.

    Two years later, the program has yet to install a single charger.

    States and the charger industry blame the delays mostly on the labyrinth of new contracting and performance requirements they have to navigate to receive federal funds. While federal officials have authorized more than $2 billion of the funds to be sent to states, fewer than half of states have even started to take bids from contractors to build the chargers — let alone begin construction.

    There are several reasons this is important. Without a network of chargers, traveling significant distances becomes problematic, and Americans love road trips. Just ask our Secretary of Energy, who attempted to use an EV for her own road trip.

    But between stops, Granholm’s entourage at times had to grapple with the limitations of the present. Like when her caravan of EVs — including a luxury Cadillac Lyriq, a hefty Ford F-150 and an affordable Bolt electric utility vehicle — was planning to fast-charge in Grovetown, a suburb of Augusta, Georgia.

    Her advance team realized there weren’t going to be enough plugs to go around. One of the station’s four chargers was broken, and others were occupied. So an Energy Department staffer tried parking a nonelectric vehicle by one of those working chargers to reserve a spot for the approaching secretary of energy.

    That did not go down well: a regular gas-powered car blocking the only free spot for a charger?

    EVs won’t run when they run out of the energy stored in the batteries.

    More recently, almost 4,000 car dealerships begged Biden for help, as they want him to use his pen and phone to undo the ridiculous EV mandates that have popped up across the nation…thanks to green energy pseudoscience and climate cultists. Part of the reason for the plea is that technology is not where it needs to be to support EVs entirely replacing fossil fuel vehicles.

    People will be less inspired to shell out the mountain of money required to purchase EVs if they don’t trust they will have the ability to recharge their cars readily.

    There are also hints that plopping down a network of chargers may be more complex than it looks. In the European Union, electric vehicle drivers hoping to top up their batteries at one of 1,600 Spanish charging stations might be disappointed, as nearly half are lying dormant because they have no power connection. This is a problem all across Europe.”

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    Meanwhile those funds are eaten into for the “administration” of the program.

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  8. This explains the sudden interest in Haley, and note it’s not from R voters.

    Can you say sell out?

    I knew you could.

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  9. Lying, to protect the pedophile’s other friends in Congress.

    “Fox News’ @hillary__vaughn asks Dick Durbin why he won’t subpoena the Jeffrey Epstein flight logs

    “I know who Epstein was but I don’t know anything about the issue.”

    He then says “it’s never been raised by anyone” despite
    @MarshaBlackburn’s requests in the Senate to subpoena them.”

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    Never Trumpers just can’t vote for Trump, so they will just let the pedophile party have this election too….

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  10. Understatement: This election will be difficult. We will continue to (seriously) disagree on this site as the year progresses. Let’s do it thoughtfully and respectfully. We’re believers, right? That comes first. We are to be different from the world. Thank you. -dj

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  11. I’d think believers would have other core issues that might/should belong in that discussion, but the piece (I think) covers well the (secular) divide among political conservatives right now. -dj

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  12. It’s not the main point of AJ’s post about Biden and Proterra, but I’m puzzled by Daniel Monroe’s tweet that Jennifer Granholm’s actions in selling her Proterra stock were illegal and should be investigated. What did she do wrong?

    Now that she no longer owns the stock, any action she takes as DOE head that benefits or hurts the company doesn’t directly benefit or hurt her. That’s eliminating a conflict of interest. Isn’t that what they’re supposed to do?

    (Don’t take this to mean I’m a fan of Granholm, my former two-term governor. I just don’t understand this particular criticism.)

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  13. Always bring receipts.

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  14. “In fact, here are 16 occasions in which Joe Biden met with Hunter’s foreign business associates:

    🔴 November 2010: Joe Biden had a sit-down meeting with Eric Schwerin — the president of Hunter’s private equity firm — in the West Wing.

    🔴 November 2011: Joe Biden met with Chris Heinz — a co-founder of Hunter’s private equity firm — in the West Wing.

    🔴 March 2012: Joe Biden met with Andres Pastrana Arango — the former president of Colombia who Hunter was doing business with — at his personal residence.

    🔴 December 2013: Hunter flew with Joe Biden aboard Air Force Two to China where he introduced him to Jonathan Li, a Chinese businessman.

    🔴 February 2014: Joe Biden had lunch with Hunter and two of Hunter’s Mexican business partners and was pictured giving them a tour of the White House.

    🔴 April 2014: Joe Biden met with Devon Archer — another co-founder of Hunter’s private equity firm — in the White House a week before Archer joined the board of Burisma.

    🔴 June 2014: Joe Biden met Manuel Estrella — Hunter’s Latin American business associate. After the meeting, Estrella emailed Hunter: “Hunter, I just met your father! So exiting! [sic]” Hunter replied: “I’m glad it all finally came together.”

    🔴 August 2014: Pictures show Joe Biden golfing with his son, Hunter, and Devon Archer while they were both serving on the Burisma board.

    🔴 April 2015: Joe Biden attended a dinner in Washington, D.C. with Hunter’s business partners from Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.

    🔴 November 2015: Joe Biden hosted his son’s Mexican business partners — Carlos Slim, Miguel Aleman Velasco, and Miguel Aleman Magnani — at his personal residence.

    🔴 February 2016: Biden flew Hunter and Jeff Cooper — a family business partner — to Mexico City for a business trip aboard Air Force Two.

    🔴 May 2016: Joe Biden met with Eric Schwerin — the former head of Hunter’s private equity firm — for dinner in Washington, D.C.

    🔴 September 2016: Joe Biden attended a fundraiser for Francis Person — a business associate of Hunter’s and a former advisor in Biden’s VP office.

    🔴 May 2017: Joe Biden met with family business partner Tony Bobulinski TWICE.

    🔴 June 2018: Joe Biden texted Hunter saying that he was with Jeff Cooper — a family business partner — and that Cooper wanted to “do some work” with him.”

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