Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schummer (D-NY) demonstrated the quiet part out loud, waving a Chinese Communist Party flag at a Manhattan China Town parade that seemed to be celebrating the CCP as much as Chinese culture.
The Senator demonstrated why this writer refers to the DNC as the DNC-CCP, for the CCP and the DNC are frenemies united in their fight against the common enemy, the American people and their republic.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) waved the flag of communist China over the weekend in New York City after the organizers of the city’s Chinese Lunar New Year Parade played China’s national anthem.
National Review reported that the incident happened on Sunday and that Schumer appeared on stage with “Huang Ping, a hard-line Chinese ambassador who publicly denies Beijing’s human-rights abuses, and Wu Xiaoming, a senior consular official linked to China’s secret police station in New York.”
While the Chinese national anthem was playing, Schumer briefly held his hand over his heart. He later picked up the Chinese flag with one hand and the American flag with the other and waved both flags.
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New: Senator Chuck Schumer waved the People’s Republic of China flag onstage at a Lunar New Year event on Sunday.
He and other top New York politicians appeared onstage at a rally, preceding an annual parade in Manhattan’s Chinatown, alongside Huang Ping, a hard-line Chinese… pic.twitter.com/seqf0RhOl0
On January 24th 2024, Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a statement, concerning the right of the State of Texas to defend itself from invasion, because – quoting from the statement – the Federal Government as a body and specifically, the administration of President Joe Biden, have broken the Compact between the Several States and the Federal Government (the foundational concept that underpins the notion of the “United States of America”) by not simply pointedly and openly declining to defend the nation from a literal “invasion” at the southern border, but in actively taking measures to prevent the State of Texas from defending itself.
Abbott specifically cited the Biden administration failing to fulfill its duties under Article IV § 4 of the Constitution, which has now required Abbott, as Governor, to invoke Article 1 § 10 Clause 3 of the Constitution requiring him to take measures to defend the state.
This statement was issued on the heels of a frankly stunning decision by the United States Supreme Court on January 22nd, which allowed the US Border Patrol to remove razor wire barricades emplaced by Texas National Guard troops assigned to defend Texas’ border with Mexico along the Rio Grande River. In effect, the Supreme Court sided with the Biden administration in suborning an invasion of the United States.
The massive influx of illegal aliens is a subject we have discussed here previously. The fairest “neutral” assessment of the impact of illegal immigration comes from, of all places, Wikipedia:
However, given the reactions of “sanctuary cities” – most of them longtime strongholds of the Democrat Party – to having waves of “migrants” dumped (waves that are not even comparable to the numbers being dumped on Texas) on their doorsteps, not just by Republican-led states such as Texas and Florida, but by the Federal Government itself, it is clear that the staggering numbers are having an immediate, clear and disproportionate impact on the nation (leaving aside said migrants frequently complaining bitterly about the aid and shelter they are given, including appeals to citizens to house illegal aliens in churches and private homes).
In response to Governor Abbott’s January 24th statement, many politicians have begun to hysterically demand that President Biden federalize the Texas National Guard to halt the Texas program to stem the flow of illegal migrants, and to restrict them to using the legal crossing points, and to follow the established legal processes.
This situation (which has been building for well over a decade as of this writing), and the breathless demands to invoke the Insurrection Act to stop Texas’ actions, has brought the nation perilously close to an actual “civil war”, for the first time since 1860. This is because, as of this writing, some twenty-five state Governors have definitively stated their support of Governor Abbott and the state of Texas.
Actually federalizing a state’s National Guard against the wishes of their state’s governor has been done before, famously in 1957 in Arkansas in regards to the “Little Rock Nine”. A popular misconception is that a state’s National Guard cannot be federalized without that state’s governor consenting to the mobilization. As demonstrated in Arkansas, this is patently untrue.
The National Guard was created by the Militia Act of 1903, known popularly as the “Dick Act” after its sponsor, Ohio Congressman Charles Dick (R), in response to the severe manpower shortage in the US Army in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War (1898) and the subsequent campaigns against Filipino guerrillas in the Philippines Insurrection (1899-1902).
This latter campaign was hampered by American volunteers – who had been enlisted for a period of two years – insisting on being sent home after the conclusion of the war against Spain. As those who had volunteered specifically for the war against Spain were technically still a part of the Militia of the United States, they could not be required to serve longer than the conclusion of the war unless they specifically volunteered to do so.
This manpower issue came from Article 1, § 8, Clause 15 of the “Militia Clauses” (which includes Clause 16 of the same Article and Section) of the Constitution, which strictly limits the call-up and use of the Militia to executing “…the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions…” As a result, the United States quickly found itself significantly hampered in the Philippines by not having enough troops.
The “Dick Act” was written specifically to bypass the restrictions of the “Militia Clauses”, in order to create a new military entity in the form of the National Guard (and later, the Air National Guard). In effect, the “Dick Act” created a type of reserve formation for the US Army (before the creation of the actual “Army Reserve”), which (ultimately) would be equipped and trained by the US Army, but which be paid for by the states, who would also be allowed to use the military formations within the state, at the discretion of its governor. However, if the Federal government decided that they needed to mobilize the National Guard, they could do so at any time…whether a governor agrees with the Federal government or not, as was demonstrated in 1957, in Arkansas.
In the context of the hysterical demands of partisan political hacks, this would mean that President Biden would have to declare the State of Texas to be in rebellion against the United States – something that has only happened once in United States history – in order to force the Texas National Guard to disregard the orders of its state Commander in Chief in the face of an active invasion of their state.
Stop, and consider that implication.
If President Biden were to take such an ill-advised action, that would place the Texas National Guard in the position of obeying either the Federal Government – and allowing a massive invasion of their home state by massive numbers of “military-age males” who certainly did not walk north from homes in Mexico, or Central or South America, because “economic asylum seekers” do not buy airplane tickets from Africa to Mexico, in order to walk north…
…Conversely, the Texas National Guard could refuse orders to federalize. This would constitute “Mutiny”, under Article 94 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ, the legal code of the US armed forces), at the very least. This would place the Federal government in the position of having to arrest up to 19,000 peopleen masse.
In like manner, there would then be the question of the reactions of the various states and governors who have expressed their solidarity with Governor Abbott’s actions…
This perilous situation is the ultimate outcome of decades of neglect, political pandering and the abject failure of successive Federal governments to execute the most basic of their duties, duties that the Several States voluntarily allowed the Federal Government to maintain authority for, as a condition of their joining the Federal Union in 1789. Leaving aside the obtuse legalities of this situation, the reality is that the American Left – led primarily by the Democrat Party – has driven the nation to a potential breakpoint, where the States may well declare the sitting Federal Government to no longer be a legitimate body. Such an action could go in several directions, none of them good, and all of them highly dangerous.
And while pundits and armchair-warrior-gamers may believe the nearly incoherent ramblings of President Biden, the reality is that the United States military and law enforcement establishments are not able to enforce any nationwide martial law order; in fact, it is questionable if they could enforce such an order over any large metropolitan area, given what happened the last time Federal troops were deployed under “Operation Garden Plot” was engaged.
…In the end, this writer has no solution to this problem, other than telling the Federal government to do its job in securing the borders of the United States, which it has consistently failed to do for over forty years.
The alternatives are not desired by any sane person.
The Freedomist — Keeping Watch, So You Don’t Have To
The Governor of Texas, Greg Abbot (R-TX) has served notice to the Supreme Court that the Constitution of the United States trumps their rulings when their rulings so blatantly violate the constitution. The issue emerged when SCOTUS ruled 5-4 to allow the temporary injunction on the Feds’ efforts to remove border barriers to be reversed in reflection with a lower court ruling.
Abbot has fired back, citing Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3, which gives states the right to defend their territory in time of invasion when the Feds fail to meet their constitutional obligation, as Abbot alleges the Feds have done by allowing the planvasion of millions of illegal aliens across Texas borders.
So far, the response from the left is to send out one of their most virulent, bigoted spokespersons out to call for the Biden administration to attempt to federalize the National Guard. Meanwhile, one state, so far, Oklahoma, has come out to support Texas.
Perhaps the most telling part of what is likely to become an historically significant document to American history, should we survive this constitutional crisis that has been brought on by a rogue party that has been coopted by anti-American revolutionaries, is the first line of Governor Abbot’s letter: “The federal government has broken the compact between the United States and the States.”
This clause here is a de facto statement that the federal government, under the Biden administration, has gone rogue, is no longer honoring the social contract between Federal power and the 50 sovereign states.
While this letter concentrates on the Feds’ Planvasion as evidence of the violation of the compact, the social contract that gives government its right to rule in the first place, this letter opens up a can of worms for other states, including Texas, to pursue other claims of compact agreement violations with the states across multiple fronts, including efforts by the DNC-CCP to strip us of our right to bear arms (through “common-sense” gun control laws) and our right to free speech (through “common-sense” hate speech control).
The Democratic Party’s own policies and platform openly reject America’s rule of law, constantly denying the right of the individual to define and pursue their own version of happiness, which must include a right to be “wrong,” especially publicly, lest the compact be broken and no civic government at any level has any good reason to recognize the authority of a Federal government that is openly pushing for policies in direct violation of the agreement that makes our Union possible in the first place.
They push DEI, which is racism and bigotry aimed at heteronormativity, binary sexuality, and “whiteness,” all in the name of destroying the mythological white devil, who invented evil, and therefore it and everything it created, including this republic, must be destroyed lest the white devil murder us all.
This is an unhinged conspiracy theory that is seditious at its heart, aimed at justifying the creation of a de facto homosexual, non-white, non-binary theology of hate, fear, and fake hope that DEMANDS the end of the right to free speech and the right to bear arms to assure its imposition on a species, the human species, that is fundamentally wired in opposition to its very designs.
This is the Democratic Party.
Governor Abbot’s declaration of dependence on the Constitution as the final and only true ruler in our lands is the first step towards challenging the very legal legitimacy of a party, the Democratic Party, that wildly opposes the very republic it now controls, through the state mechanisms it has infested and the corporate ones it has laid waste to.
The next step from Texas, and those states not controlled by DNC-CCP anti-American revolutionaries, is to declare the Democratic Party a terrorist organization, a seditious foreign invader, and remove all Democrats from all government offices, immediately. You can bet the house on this; the Democrats are already preparing to do the same to the GOP.
For we Christians, it is not our place to advocate for, let alone use, violence as a means of throwing off the shackles of oppression, unless we are part of a civic government that has the authority to do so (as Texas and the other states already do, should they choose to use it).
Where the civic fails to challenge tyranny from within, we as Christians must assume this tyranny is a righteous judgment from God. David, when Saul wanted to kill him, did not sit by idly and let Saul kill him. He fled, along with his supporters, and essentially functioned like their own mobile government. Yet when David had an opportunity to kill Saul (twice), he refused to kill God’s anointed. Biden is anointed to be President so it is civic authority that must remove him, not citizens with no civic authority to do so.
This writer prays the civic authorities empowered by our Constitution to defy the breech of contract this Federal government has made under this rogue regime do their constitutional duties and rightly recognize what the Democratic Party has become, a vehicle of power for people, foreign and domestic, who wish to destroy our republic and replace it with tyrannical governments who no longer recognize the right of the individual to define and pursue their own happiness, publicly and privately.
The DNC-CCP must be destroyed, but it is only the civic authorities that can do so. For the rest of us, we repent of our sins and call on the Lord to deliver us from our oppressors, for only He and He alone can deliver us from a judgment, the Democratic Party, we brought on ourselves by rejecting God as a nation. If it is our lot to suffer in civil disobedience against an anti-Christ authority, then we do so with love and gratitude that our God chose us to live closer to Christ’s way, who suffered and died for us while we were still enemies of God ourselves.
There are wars, and rumors of wars, all over the world as 2024 dawns. Russia and Ukraine continue to bludgeon each other relentlessly. Israel’s war against Hamas grinds on, threatening to expand into the southern territory of Lebanon under the control of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror group. To the south and east, the Houthis in Yemen are waging a “pin-prick war” that has diverted some 12% of the world’s commercial shipping, forcing extensive delays and threatening to log-jam global trade on a scale that rivals the dislocations of the COVID pandemic, as their backers in Iran rattle their own sabers and threaten the oil export structure of the Persian Gulf.
Across the Red Sea from Yemen, wars rage in Sudan and Ethiopia, while Ethiopia’s own actions threaten wars with Eritrea and Somalia. To the north, Egypt and Jordan – for different reasons – are on the verge of internal collapse. Throughout the rest of Africa, nations struggle with internal, interminable and seemingly unsolvable issues, with many states facing continued attacks from radical jihadist militias. In Myanmar, the military government is clinging to power by its proverbial fingernails. In South America, Venezuela continues to threaten the annexation of Guyana, while Bolivia and Ecuador are the new battlegrounds in the war of the drug cartels.
Naturally, with all of these long-running – or suddenly appearing – conflicts, most of them remote, obscure and obtuse to outsiders, there are other conflicts that get lost in the shuffle…but those conflicts are no less important; in fact, many of them are not petty in any way, with the victims not simply being on the short end of the stick, but who were actively abandoned to the whims of ‘realpolitik’.
The war in Kurdistan is just that kind of conflict.
The wars and depredations inflicted on the Kurdish people for over one hundred years have largely been caused by the West, primarily Britain and France…but the United States hasn’t helped. And that war continues, not only against Syria and Turkey, but against Iran.
While the Kurdish nation has been noted as a separate and distinct people since the 11th Century, when the term “Kurdistan” was noted by the Seljuk Empire, it was only after World War 1, and the last, vile gasp of debased European imperialism – the Sykes-Picot Agreement – that the real agony began.
Neither Kurdistan nor its people were given more than lip service by Britain and France. Bolshevik (Communist) Russia repudiated any Russian claims associated with the agreement after the revolution that unseated the Tsar, as they had far more pressing problems. The signatories, channeling previous agreements covering African and Asia, cavalierly split what they, themselves, knew to be ethnically Kurdish areas between themselves to rule. While subsequent, limp-wristed treaties “graciously” allowed for the possibility of a Kurdish state (despite several Kurdish states being organized from 1918 to 1930), the European powers threw up their hands in 1923, and washed their hands of the Kurdish areas, for the most part, with the Treaty of Lausanne, which made no mention of the region at all, condemning the Kurdish people to be split between what is now Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. The Kurd’s only ally of significance was Winston Churchill, who argued for a separate Kurdish state, but his political influence in the 1920’s was very limited, compared to what it would become in later decades.
Lt Col Francis R. Maunsell’s map, Pre-World War I British Ethnographical Map of eastern Turkey in Asia, Syria and western Persia, 1910. Kurdish regions are in yellow. Library of Congress.
The 1920 Treaty of Sèvres was a draft treaty between the Ottoman Empire and the Principal Allied Powers. It was ultimately shelved because of Turkish non-ratification and was replaced by the Treaty of Lausanne. Map by User:Zero0000 CCA/4.0
But the Kurds wouldn’t give up.
The Kurds sent a delegation to the San Francisco Peace Conference of 1945, which would form the United Nations, to argue for an independent state; they were, of course, refused. But, armed Kurdish groups continually waged low-level guerrilla wars against the states they had been relegated to; the wars’ ferocity depended on how intense the ruling government’s programs to suppress Kurdish culture were at the time.
However, this would occasionally swing into full-on war crime territory, as happened in the Halabja Massacre of 1988, when the Kurdish village was attacked with lethal “war agent” chemicals weapons, primarily mustard gas, but also with a mix of nerve and blood agents. It is generally assumed that Saddam Hussein’s government was responsible for the attack, although allegations have long been made against Iran.
When the 1991 Persian Gulf War ended, US President George H. W. Bush made casual, off-hand remarks, that left many in Iraq – including the Kurds – believing that if they rose up to overthrow Saddam Hussein, they would get at least some help from the United States. Unfortunately for them, the Kurds in the north and Shi’a Iraqis in the south read far too much into the first Bush’s words, and were left stunned (assuming they lived) then they rose up…and the United States barely lifted a finger, seemingly completely surprised that the subject peoples of a brutal dictatorship might actually have the gall to rise up in armed revolt against said brutal government.
The absolute cheek of little people.
Shamed into doing something, though, the Bush administration launched “Operation Provide Comfort” to protect Kurdish refugees fleeing the Iraqi Army units not destroyed fighting the United States and its allies in Kuwait.
Quite unintentionally, this would be the first real break for Kurdish autonomy since 1918. The strict limiting of Iraqi military abilities against the Kurds left the northern people able to organize in safety, and begin building a formal military organization, the Peshmerga, from scattered guerrilla forces. While remaining in “recognition limbo” – without formal recognition as a sovereign state – the Kurdish authorities could not legally purchase military weapons on the open world market, forcing them to develop a “cottage industry” for making weapons, alongside reusing weapons captured from Iraqi forces when the government in Baghdad drags its feet on providing any, buying weapons on the black market and the occasional under-the-table crumbs offered by a scattering of Western states.
With the overthrow of Saddam in 2003, and the resulting upheaval in the aftermath, this organization became much more formalized and professional, at least compared to where it had been. It still has serious internal issues, a reflection of thirty-odd years of disordered and fragmented political organization, leading to a fragmented command and operational structure.
Kurdistan deserves better, not least because they have carried the United States water in the region with little return for their money. Kurdistan, from 2003 onwards, made themselves into a safe area for the US and its allies, doing what it could against Al Qaeda-aligned jihadist groups, for very little return.
Kurdistan remains split between four nations, with no prospect of real help from anyone else. Syria, still embroiled in its decade-and-a-half long civil war, has no intention of allowing its Kurdish regions to leave the country; the autonomous region known as “Rojava” formalized in 2018 is nothing more than a convenience for Bashar al-Assad’s government in Damascus.
The United States is unlikely to attempt to rein in the extreme excesses of Turkey’s operations in its own Kurdish areas, nor the northern parts of Syria and Iraq. This is because Turkey, as a member of NATO, is vital to European security…even as the Turkish state keeps expanding its influence throughout the world.
Likewise, Iraq is not about to allow its own Kurdish areas to actually leave, as that would remove a large oil-producing area from the country, fundamentally weakening the shaky government in Baghdad.
And then – there is Iran.
The mullahs in control of Iran view its Kurdish population as a useful foil that allows them to accuse any number of nations of trying to undermine them, while occasionally killing people wholesale to intimidate all of its ethnic minorities.
Now, however, with wider wars exploding throughout the region, as well as the rest of the world, the faint glimmer exists that the Kurds may soon have a chance to finally establish themselves as an organized state. The chances are remote, and it will be neither easy nor bloodless, but the chance is there.
The question is: Can the Kurd’s leadership come together to capitalize on the opportunity?
If they can, the United States should help make it happen – that’s not “imperialism”. That’s helping your actual friends, who have sacrificed to help you in the past, with no prompting.
The Freedomist — Keeping Watch, So You Don’t Have To
It would seem that 2024 is off with a bang, if the Reader will forgive the pun.
Beginning on October 7th of 2023, of course, Hamas launched its suicidal Don Quixote war with Israel, showing that the debased savagery of the Islamic State is alive and well. Shortly after, on October 13th, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abey Ahmed announced what can only be termed a policy of “lebensraum” for Ethiopia, demanding free access to the Red Sea. And, as if on cue, the Houthi rebels in Yemen began attacking any unarmed commercial vessels they could draw a bead on in the nautical chokepoint of the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, controlling the southern access point to the Red Sea.
Now, as the second week of January 2024 closes, Iran has entered the fray, seizing the oil tanker St. Nikolas off the coast of Oman, in the Arabian Sea, significantly widening the security problem – and potential naval combat area. Iran’s explanation for the seizure is a flimsy claim to Iranian ownership, a claim even flimsier than the excuse of the Houthi’s for attacking ships in the Red Sea.
Obviously, as we reported last week, all of this military action has begun to significantly impact world commerce, as increasing numbers of shipping lines abandon the critical Red Sea route, opting for the much longer transit around the Cape of Good Hope.
The question for most Readers is, obviously, “Where is the US Navy in all of this?” Good question.
The United States Navy is, unquestionably, the most powerful navy the world has ever seen. Disputing that statement is, frankly, ludicrous. The United States currently operates more aircraft carriers for fixed-wing operations than the rest of the world, combined…and this is before the various US Marine Corps aviation squadrons are added to its figures. It operates some seventy-six Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, regarded as the most capable destroyer class ever designed. Likewise, the US Navy maintains amphibious and supply forces that no other nation can match, giving it a truly global reach. It is not an exaggeration to say that a US Navy carrier battle group can deploy more firepower to a region than can be mustered by most nations’ entire militaries.
So – handling the Houthi’s, or even Iran, should present no great trouble for the United States, right?
Well…it’s complicated.
While the United States does, indeed, have a vast and capable military, like the armed forces of Great Britain before it, it has a major problem. It is not really a question of how good your weapons are; the greatest warship ever designed is completely useless if it isn’t where you need it to be, when you need it to be there.
The US military, and specifically the US Navy, cannot be everywhere at once. Aside from the chronic, military-wide problems with both recruiting and retention of personnel, the political leadership of the United States has, for the preceding forty years or so, almost uniformly failed to make even reasonably good choices in economic, military, social and foreign policy decisions. These failed policies have led to critically short numbers of personnel in almost all of the armed services, which translates into too few forces being available to deal with multiple threats. Indeed, while the US Navy, as of 2019, had some four hundred and eighty ships in commission, it could only deploy about two hundred and ninety.
What does this mean in the modern day, of January 2024?
As US and Western industry still struggles to supply the war in Ukraine, that situation is now worse, as the limited supply of ammunition is further divided to support Israel in its war against Hamas. Added to this, is the double threat from Iran and it’s Houthi proxies, a threat that is already damaging world commerce.
And then – there is Communist China…more on that, later.
Many people fail to grasp the impact of world shipping. Like it or not, everything you rely on is tied into global commerce in some way. Even if nothing you directly interact with physically transits the Red Sea, the major delays created will affect the prices of the everyday item you pay for. Likewise, the rising interest and insurance rates caused by the fighting will impact the Reader in a very real way, as those industries have to spread out the damage.
The end result of actions like this, is universally bad for the capabilities of a nation’s military forces, overall, as it significantly hampers military initiative, in favor of rigid obedience to political dogma – translation: Scare your military enough, and they will be too busy avoiding being shot by your political officers to fight your actual enemies.
However, there are many forms of warfare, and Communist China has learned that throwing money at a problem can make that problem either go away, or at least not bother it…and undermining an enemy while doing so is icing on the cake.
The bottom line? The West is failing. It is failing partially from it’s own success, but mostly from too many decades of throwing pasta at walls to see what sticks. The desire for profit beyond the dreams of avarice has led to a simultaneous weakening of Western industry, and to “good enough” levels of technological and industrial capacity leaking out to nations and groups who hate the West.
In a word: they hate you. It’s not so much that they hate you, personally – but they hate the society you grew up in, and are more than happy – and capable – of burning the world to the ground to spite you.
As of this writing, there are two hundred and ninety-seven days to the 2024 election. One way or another, you need a plan for what happens when we get there.
Assuming, of course, that we get there.
The Freedomist — Keeping Watch, So You Don’t Have To
Evidence suggests the Biden White House is the one that is coordinating, directing, and enabling the current lawfare assault on the DNC-CCP’s chief rival, Donald Trump. From meetings with prosecutors in Georgia, to the waving of Trump’s rights to enable raids on Mar a Largo, the Biden White House appears to be the main driver of this lawfare assault.
From the beginning, the Biden White House, through their avatar Joe Biden and the minions of the administration, has been denying any role in what any American can clearly see is political targeting of Donald Trump using the DOJ and DNC-CCP State DAs as the weapons of war in a fight for the heart of America.
Athena reported that a motion “was filed on behalf of Michael Roman, a former Trump campaign official who oversaw Election Day operations in 2020, by his attorney, Ashleigh Merchant…” alleging that “Willis met with the White House about the Trump RICO case.”
Roman produced Wade’s receipts.
It literally says “conf with White House Counsel” in May of 2022
This is Fulton DA Fani Willis lead prosecutor in the Trump case billing taxpayers $2000 to talk to Joe Biden’s White House about prosecuting Biden’s political opponent pic.twitter.com/oCGjx7j3bA
Remember, it was Deputy White House Counsel Jonathan Su who waived President Trumps claim of Executive Privilege on behalf of President Trump that led to the unprecedented, unnecessary, unlawful home raid on President Trump for the presidential records he’s allowed to have under the Presidential Records Act.
These are but a few of the instances in which the White House, the Mass Mailer President Joe Biden Committee, has been directing and colluding with lawfare assassins to attempt to destroy Trump before he can destroy them in the polls (assuming he can win by a large enough margin to overcome the DNC-CCP corruption of our election process).
Jack Smith himself moved in December to attempt to muzzle President Trump from being able to claim these prosecutions are the result of Biden collusion in an effort to eliminate “his” closest rival.
Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a motion Wednesday morning seeking to bar former President Donald Trump from arguing he was targeted for prosecution by President Joe Biden in his federal election interference case, an argument Trump has repeated throughout his 2024 campaign as the former president’s legal woes continue to mount.
In his motion, Smith argued the federal court should keep Trump from “introducing evidence, making arguments, or framing questions to advance a theory of selective or vindictive prosecution.”
Smith claimed in his motion that through “public statements, filings and argument in hearing before the court,” Trump has “attempted to inject… partisan political attacks and irrelevant and prejudicial issues” in the trial.
The Forbes piece is clearly written by a Progmerican (which is no American at all), but it still covers the “facts” and exposes, whether it intends to or not, Jack Smith’s efforts to silence Donald Trump so that he cannot justly defend himself against a lawfare assault clearly orchestrated by the Mass Mailer President Joe Biden Committee.
As a last note, it should be understood that the Democratic Party is setting precedents that would put them at risk the first time a true opposition party has the same powers they currently have. Their actions, to this writer, suggests the DNC-CCP intends on never having to face any real opposition again. They hope, and believe, they are close to finishing off the republic and replacing the “state” with the “party” so that no other party will ever have the same powers they have that might one day come back and cost them.
This should show Americans how treasonous and unhinged the Democratic Party has become at this point, wholly and completely coopted by anti-American revolutionaries who have more in common with the CCP than with George Washington. It is time for the GOP-controlled states to move to criminalize the DNC-CCP before they criminalize you (and trust me, we’re close to that happening).
On Monday, January 8, 2024, the latest round of the Epstein Files was released, with testimony from witnesses and victims suggesting both Donald Trump and Bill Clinton were guilty of having sexual relations through their mutual shared connection to Jeffry Epstein, the accused pedophile who allegedly killed himself while awaiting trial in prison.
One witness alleged, “When my friend had sexual intercourse with Clinton, Prince Andrew, and Richard Branson, sex tapes were in fact filmed on each separate occasion by Jeffery.” One victim, Sarah Ransome, alleged Donald Trump had sex with “many women” in Epstein’s NY mansion, though she later retracted her statements, stating concerns for her family’s wellbeing.
To be sure, this same witness did not claim Trump had sex with underage girls, nor that there were any sex tapes of him made by Epstein, as she asserted there were of Clinton and others. It should also be noted that she did retract all her statements, though she claimed to do so under duress, not because her claims were not true.
Though the evidence presented seems to more damning as it relates to Clinton, with Ransome even asserting she was approached “by Special Agents Forces Men sent directly by Hilary (sic) Clinton herself, in order to protect her presidential campaign,” the fact that Trump was mentioned at all tests the potential loyalty to Trump by his followers, many of whom are self-identified Christians.
We are presumed innocent until proven guilty, so this writer is not asserting we should assume Trump of being guilty of what Ransome accuses him of doing, of having sex with women (which might not be illegal, but would be immoral, especially given the fact he was married during these alleged incidents).
Still, to completely dismiss the charges which most who support Trump would readily support as they relate to the more serious accusations against the Clintons, would represent a lack of the same type of character they rightly accuse the Clintons and the Democratic party of lacking.
This writer will wait to see what more facts might emerge before asserting with any certainty whether Trump is guilty or not. What remains in his favor is this, the Democratic Party has been using every lawfare tactic they could to try remove Trump from power, and now prevent him from returning to power. If these accusations were true, one doubts they would have waited so long to reveal them, unless in so doing they would reveal even worst about themselves (which may or may not be the case here).
The latest installment of the Jeffrey Epstein document dump dropped on Monday, revealing explosive new allegations.
According to the newly unsealed files, which were released on Monday, victims have confirmed that Epstein made sex tapes of powerful elites which he used to bribe them.
The bombshell testimonies assert that the tapes clearly show the faces of Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, and billionaire Richard Branson.
“When my friend had sexual intercourse with Clinton, Prince Andrew, and Richard Branson, sex tapes were in fact filmed on each separate occasion by Jeffery,” the witness alleges.
Computers from Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion were removed before the FBI conducted a search of the property.
In the latest batch of Jeffrey Epstein documents, a woman claims that Donald Trump had sex with “many women” in Epstein’s New York mansion. It’s one of several bombshell allegations made by Epstein victim Sarah Ransome — all of which she later retracted, citing concerns for her family’s wellbeing.
Ransome wrote a slew of emails to a New York Post reporter in 2016 linking former presidents Trump and Bill Clinton to Epstein’s “seedy inner circle.” A sampling of emails released Monday includes claims that Epstein recorded sex tapes of Clinton, Prince Andrew and other prominent men to keep as blackmail, though none has ever been publicly uncovered.
Representative Clay Higgins (R-LA) is accusing the FBI of doing more than encouraging an insurrection on January 6, 2021, he is accusing the seemingly politically compromised agency of leading it with an army of 200 agents.
He stated, “We believe that there were easily 200 FBI undercover assets operating in the crowd, outside the Capitol, embedded into groups that entered the Capitol or provoked entry of the Capitol.”
He elaborated, “Given the scope of the operation and the number of doors where entry was allowed or even encouraged—and the number of people that were actually outside the Capitol and that entered—we believe 200 [is a] conservative number.”
He made these assertions in an interview with Tucker Carlson, who responded to the statement by saying, “It’s shocking what you’re saying and confirms everyone’s worst suspicions about this.”
The FBI, in essence, metaphorically burned down the Reichstag and blamed it on the political opposition, just as Hitler and the Nazis did in 1933 when they burned down their own Reichstag and blamed it on their political opposition.
According to Higgins, the FBI agents were dressed as MAGA supporters, and many of them were present inside the capitol before the doors were suddenly allowed to be opened and many MAGA supporters found themselves being guided inside the capital by the guards themselves, only to still find themselves arrested and imprisoned later.
So far, more than 1,500 Americans have been targeted by the DNC-CCP-controlled Department of Justice, directed by the chief Democratic Lawfare Assaulter, Merrick Garland, who proudly declared, “Since the Jan. 6 attack, the Justice Department has engaged in what has become one of the largest and most complex and resource-intensive investigations in our history. Our work continues.”
The “our” in that history is not American history, its Progmerican history, which is no history at all. The Progmericans are the righteous judgment of a land that turned away from God, who will themselves face righteous judgment from God in his time, through a people that might one day be the American people reclaiming their lands through peaceful means, should they repent and turn their hearts back to the Lord.
In the week before Christmas of 2023, there are several large-scale wars going on, with several more potential wars in the making: Russia-Ukraine; Israel-Hamas/Hezbollah; the ongoing offensive of pro-democracy rebels closing in on the fascist junta in Myanmar/Burma; the never-ending battles across the African Sahel region, and the potential Venezuelan invasion of Guyana.
But, lurking in the background is another potential conflict, one that may be impacting and aiding the neo-con agenda: Ethiopia vs. Eritrea.
Ethiopia is unique in history, as the only African state that was never colonized by any European power. Although conquered and occupied by Italy in the years immediately preceding World War 2, that occupation was short-lived, as the country was fully liberated from Italian rule by 1943.
A truly ancient state, Ethiopia maintained its status as an imperial monarchy until 1974, with the Communist revolution that placed a brutal Marxist-Leninist government in charge of the country. This government would, in turn, be deposed in another revolution in 1989, as part of the wave of Communist states around the world that collapsed as the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact imploded, leaving Communist “economies” to wither on the vine.
In the aftermath of the Derg’s collapse, Ethiopia was left unable to stop a popular referendum in one of its most critical provinces – Eritrea – that resulted in that state becoming independent in 1993. While this may seem like a random “factoid”, it is actually of enormous significance.
Eritrea – long part of Ethiopia – occupies the coast of the Red Sea, and as such, was Ethiopia’s only access to world commerce…and after a series of wars in the 1990’s and early-2000’s, Eritrea has effectively blocked Ethiopia from using its Red Sea ports. With a population of over one hundred and seven million, Ethiopia ranks 13th in the top fifteen nations in the world by population – and is the only one of those states that is completely landlocked.
This translates to Ethiopia being forced to pay exorbitant, even “extortionate”, fees to export its goods to market through its only access to the Red Sea, via the Port of Djibouti, which handles an estimated 95% of Ethiopia’s foreign commerce.
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, takes this issue seriously…seriously enough, that he made statements on the 13th of October of 2023, that explicitly underlined Ethiopia’s ‘right to access’ to the Red Sea. Understandably, this rattled every other nation in the “Horn of Africa”, all of whom are vastly outnumbered in both population and military capacity by Ethiopia.
These remarks came less than two weeks after the Hamas terror attacks on Israel that commenced on October 7th. As a result, the wider world – obviously – paid little the comments little attention. But then, the Iran-backedHouthi rebels in Yemen chose to insert themselves into that conflict on the side of Hamas, on October 19th…clearly a coincidence, surely.
And then, on January 1st, Ahmed dropped another bombshell, announcing that Ethiopia had inked a deal with the breakaway Somali province of Somaliland to use their port of Berbera to access the Gulf of Aden – well outside the current shooting gallery – reputedly in exchange of recognition of the breakaway state. This has obviously infuriated Somalia, which has never relinquished its claim to the province, despite the region being de facto independent since 1991 and the region’s independence being ratified in a referendum in 2001.
Now, in the first week of 2024, the Houthi missile attacks and piracy have attracted the attention of major powers around the world, many of whom have joined “Operation Prosperity Guardian”, in an attempt to guarantee safe passage through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait…albeit too late for world shipping giant Maersk, who announced on January 5th that they were ordering all of their vessels not already in the Red Sea to divert around southern Africa’s Cape of Good Hope, to avoid the fighting. While this, alone, will cause serious disruptions to global trade, many more cargo carrier lines are virtually certain to not take the risk and divert their vessels, for the same reason as Maersk. This could easily lead to a reprise of the shipping disruptions that happened at the height of the COVID pandemic.
As a result, there are increasingly serious calls within Washington circles to attack Iran directly, as they are the Houthi’s major source of money and weapons. This would be a Godsend to neo-con chickenhawks desperate to finally get the United States into their long-desired war with Iran…
…Which brings us back to Ethiopia’s moves on its future access to the Red Sea.
Ethiopia has three options: they can a) maintain the status quo, with limited access to world shipping solely through Djibouti’s port; b) conclude their deal to access breakaway Somaliland’s ports; or – c) invade at least part of Eritrea, to capture at least that nation’s port of Assab.
Obviously, the status quo is not working for Ethiopia; if it were, there would have been no need for the deal with Somaliland. Djibouti’s port is increasingly limited in capacity, and has little physical room to expand operations, which will soon severely stunt Ethiopia’s economic output…Conversely, the deal with Somaliland risks war with Somalia, as recognition of Somaliland’s independence would almost certainly gut Somalia’s hopes at stabilizing their nation, which was only reunified in 2012. Somalia would have to launch a military campaign to invade the territory to bring it to heel, presenting Ethiopia with the option of going to war with Somalia in support of a breakaway province, something Ethiopia would be loath to encourage, considering recent history.
As well, invading Eritrea to capture Assab carries significant risks on its own, because – all other things being equal in the absence of the current conflict in the Bab-el-Mandeb – Ethiopia could well face a UN-led coalition of military powers “riding to the rescue” of what has been described as the “North Korea of Africa”.
None of these seem like viable solutions, on their own…Unless the world is focused on a different series of conflicts that would combine to divert attention away from Ethiopia “readjusting” the local map, and allowing Addis Ababa to present the world with a fait accompli in the aftermath of the Houthi’s inevitable neutralization, as well as the likelihood of a massive US-Iran war…
…While the foregoing may sound like the implication of a dastardly plot on Ethiopia’s part, it is not…well, mostly “not.” But, the timeline of Ethiopia’s rhetoric regarding its right-to-access to the Red Sea is certainly suspicious, and indicates some level of foreknowledge of events beginning ion October of 2023, and having active plans and options ready to go.
There are plenty of players in this global chess tournament, and too many “leaders” in the West – and elsewhere – are arrogantly blind to the knives in the dark, thinking that “bit players” cannot harm them.
…Rather like Britain, France and the United States from the 1950’s to the 1980’s.
Word to the wise.
The Freedomist — Keeping Watch, So You Don’t Have To
In an apparent signal to at least half the country that Rule of Law is dead to you, the Colorado Supreme Court unironically committed an insurrectionist act against the American republic by declaring Donald Trump cannot be on a Colorado Presidential ballot because he is, in fact, an insurrectionist.
The ruling shows that leftists live in Progmerica, which is no America at all, and when they call us insurrectionists, we who reject the cult of death, the party of hate, fear, and fake hope that has no respect for the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, or Individual Rights, they are right. We are insurrectionists in their nation, Progmerica, which is no America at all.
In our nation, America, which lives in our hearts, it is the DNC-CCP who are the insurrectionists, as this unjust, and treasonous ruling proves.
The next step for Republican-controlled states SHOULD BE to declare the DNC-CCP a terrorist organization, a seditious foreign power, and remove all Democrats from all government positions, but this writer is skeptical that will happen given the nature of the go-along-to-get-along party of appeasement.
ED.NOTE: It goes without saying that the “judges” who ruled in this insurrectionist manner should be arrested and charged with high crimes and misdemeanors, a capital offiense against the American republic, something that can and should be done by Republican states, It also goes without saying that violent armed responses to this unjust ruling by non-government actors is as unjust as the ruling itself is. It is up to Republican-led states to recognize the overt acts of sedition, insurrection, being perpetuated by the DNC-CCP.
The Colorado Supreme Court declared former U.S. president Donald Trump ineligible for the presidency Tuesday under the U.S. Constitution’s insurrection clause, and removed him from the state’s presidential primary ballot.
The move set up a likely showdown in the country’s highest court to decide whether the front-runner for the GOP nomination can remain in the race. Trump’s attorneys had promised to appeal any disqualification immediately to the U.S. Supreme Court, which has the final say about constitutional matters.
The decision from a court whose justices were all appointed by Democratic governors marks the first time in history that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment has been used to disqualify a presidential candidate.
“A majority of the court holds that Trump is disqualified from holding the office of president under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment,” the court wrote in its 4-3 decision.
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