Election Day in Georgia
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Election Day in Georgia
Early voting has been going on for over a week, but today is officially Election Day in the Senate runoff in Georgia between Herschel Walker and Sen. Raphael Warnock. Most polls show Warnock with a slight lead within the margin of error, and record early voting is considered a good sign for Democrats. I fear that too many Republicans think this race doesn’t matter, since Democrats already have 50 votes in the Senate and Kamala Harris as a tie-breaker. But in fact, it will make a big difference, as this article explains.
With a 50-50 tie, both parties share power on committees, and the Democrats have to deal with centrist swing vote Joe Manchin, which at least puts some brakes on their more radical ambitions (Yes, I know that Manchin caved, but maybe he’ll be less likely to get rolled again now that he’s been stabbed in the back, as I predicted he would be.)
With 51 votes, Chuck Schumer controls the committees. Even though the GOP House won’t be sending any more far-left bills, anything that’s handled entirely in the Senate, like approving Biden’s radical nominees, will be much easier for the Dems to pass. Many of those nominees will be swinging pickaxes at the foundations of America and making our lives miserable for the rest of their lives.
Republicans who didn’t show up to vote in 2020 in Georgia gave us the 50-50 Senate, and look how much damage Democrats have done to America just with that. I implore them, do NOT let it happen again. You can’t prevent the continuation of that 50-50 Senate, but you can save America from having to deal with an even more empowered group of radical leftists. Your nation – at least the part of it that thinks and works and cares about America's future – is counting on you.
Twitter's James Baker: the "Kevin Bacon" of election interference
Former President Donald Trump recently said on Truth Social that the “same sleazy people” have been involved in the various hoaxes created around him. As ill-advised as some of his social media rants might be, he’s certainly correct about that. And one of the names that has just turned up again is that of former FBI general counsel James Baker.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-officials-jim-baker-lisa-page-resign-from-bureau
Baker played a big part in the Russia Hoax surrounding the 2016 election, and later, as deputy general counsel at Twitter, he was also involved in the Biden laptop cover-up surrounding the 2020 election.
Law professor Jonathan Turley has a new column about Baker’s involvement, in which he calls Baker “the Kevin Bacon of the Russian collusion scandals,” sort of the common touch-point. (As we did, Turley also ties in the Brookings Institution, where Baker landed after the FBI and before Twitter.) I'd say that also makes Baker the Kevin Bacon of ELECTION INTERFERENCE.
https://nypost.com/2022/12/03/twitter-files-reveal-james-baker-in-hunter-biden-laptop-scandal/
“For censors and political operatives in Twitter,” Turley writes, “Baker likely seemed like a ‘made man’ for a company committed to systemic censorship. He would be working with the chief legal officer at the company, Vijaya Gadde, who functioned as the company’s chief censor. Gadde was widely reviled by free speech advocates for her dismissal of free speech principles and open political bias.”
Of course, Twitter’s rejection of the laptop story was echoed by so-called “journalists” who were all too eager to accept the false narrative that the laptop was “Russian disinformation.” As NPR said after the story broke in the NEW YORK POST, “We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.”
The real waste of time would have been listening to NPR. Or getting politics from Twitter. Unless, of course, you just wanted to feel informed while remaining ignorant. Those of us who really want to be informed --- especially before we vote --- should be infuriated.
As you know, the idea that the laptop might have been hacked was just an excuse for Twitter not to go with the story, as they did have a policy not to publicize materials that had been hacked. The FBI knew good and well that it was not hacked, as they had the full story after spying on computer repair technician John Paul Mac Isaac as well as Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani and NEW YORK POST investigative reporter Miranda Devine. (That’s how they knew the laptop story would be breaking in October 2020.) The staff at Twitter figured out right away that this was just pretext for quashing an inconvenient story. So it was one of those nudge-nudge-wink-wink situations. And as Matt Taibbi tweeted last Friday, “...No one had the guts to reverse it.”
Although James Baker did NOT hesitate to spread the fake Steele “dossier” story when he was at the FBI –- knowing it could not be verified, even after Steele had been offered $1 million to do so –- he stood in the way of the real laptop story at Twitter, saying in a “privileged and confidential” memo, “I support the conclusion that we need more facts to assess whether the materials were hacked. At this stage, however, it is reasonable for us to assume that they may have been and that caution is warranted. There are more facts that indicate that the materials may have been hacked, while there are others indicating that the computer was either abandoned and/or the owner consented to allow the repair shop to access it for at least some purposes. We simply need more information.”
One surprising aspect of John Paul Mac Isaac’s story, as told in his highly recommended book AMERICAN INJUSTICE, is that before he passed the contents of the laptop to the FBI, he went through and outlined all the revelations (besides all the porn and drugs) that they would find interesting –- the memos that dealt with the influence peddling, shady business dealings and internal financial arrangements of the Biden family, including then-VP and future President Joe Biden. So the FBI KNEW from the start what they had, and they’d had it for almost a year before the 2020 election. They also had the service slip that showed Hunter had left the laptop for over 90 days and that it was therefore considered abandoned and the legal property of Mac Isaac. And once the story broke, there was also the interview given by former Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski.
But as we now know, the FBI was meeting weekly with social media executives, warning of “hack-and-leak” operations “likely” coming in October when they already knew the imminent laptop story was real and not hacked.
And, yes, they apparently specified that the story was about Hunter Biden. They were even lobbying to get social media companies to change their terms of service to be able to do more censoring of content. Big Tech and Big Media were working in service to Big Government --- and, for the most part, still are, with their treatment of the Twitter story. Believe it or not, as recently as Sunday (!), THE NEW YORK TIMES was referring to the laptop as “stolen.”
The major Sunday news shows on ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN devoted a total of seven seconds to the story. Musk called them out.
Here’s how CNN reported the story on Monday. Pathetic.
And the WASHINGTON POST’s condescending attempt to defend itself backfired in an amusing way.
Mac Isaac, who understandably has been maintaining a low profile, appeared on Sean Hannity’s show Monday night to express gratitude to Elon Musk and what he’s doing at Twitter to get the truth out. He said he'd told the FBI when he handed over the contents of the laptop in 2019 that there was concerning material about Ukraine and “what the Biden family were up to during that time.” And then when President Trump’s first impeachment got underway and there was no mention of the exculpatory (for Trump) material on that hard drive, he realized “that the FBI had no intention of ever doing anything with that laptop.”
“I just assumed that it was at the bottom of the Potomac,” he said.
For two years, he’s been waiting for justice, he added, “and Elon...has probably delivered me the most justice I’ve been able to witness, and I support him 100 percent. I have no intention [of] revisiting my lawsuit with Twitter, even though now it’s apparent that they were cheating. I don’t want to stand in the way of what Elon’s building over there.”
Also on the show, Kentucky Rep. James Comer, the incoming chair of the House Oversight Committee, announced that on Tuesday morning, the committee would be sending letters to the three Twitter employees --- Gadde, former “safety executive” Yoel Roth and (yes!) Baker --- who have been implicated in the cover-up of this story, calling for their presence at hearings in January. The big question: “Who told you to do this?” (Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan pointed to fired FBI agent Tim Thibault; I’d suggest looking higher, perhaps to deputy AG Lisa Monaco in the U.S. Attorney General’s office.)
Speaking of Yoel Roth, he defended suspending Libs of TikTok and the satirical BABYLON BEE. Eye-opening reading...
As for the White House, their reaction to the exposure of the conspiracy to censor the “Biden, Inc.” story is about as lame as it gets. How’s this for predictable, from White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre: “Look, we see this as an interesting thing –- or a coincidence, if I may –- that, uh, uh, that...Twitter would so haphazardly push this distraction, uh, that is a, uh, that is full of old news, if you think about it, and, uh, at the same time, Twitter is facing very real and very serious questions about the rising volume of anger, hate, and antisemitism on their platform.”
She also said this focus “won’t do anything to help a single American improve their lives.”
Well, not unless Americans wish to exercise their right to free speech. And here we also have the familiar “old news” dodge. I think this is a bit of “old business” we must take up immediately!
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RELATED: There may have been yet another cover-up related to Hunter Biden, this one by the Secret Service. Thanks to the characteristic persistence of Judicial Watch, the Secret Service has finally “found” documents relating to their role in investigating the incident in which Hallie Biden, the widow of Hunter’s brother Beau with whom he had a relationship, threw away Hunter’s .38 revolver. Details here.
https://ussanews.com/2022/12/04/another-biden-family-corruption-cover-up-is-unraveling/
Another landmark case is before the Supreme Court
Monday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in what could be a landmark court case. Once again, it involves a Christian business owner being pressured by Colorado (same state that’s relentlessly persecuted Christian cake artist Jack Phillips) into designing websites that celebrate same-sex marriage, even though she says that would be compelling speech that violates her religious beliefs.