"Twitter File" #7 tells inside story of suppression of Hunter's laptop
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DAILY BIBLE VERSE
I have set the Lord always before me;
Because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved.
Psalm 16:8 NKJV
Winter storm update
That Christmas week winter storm I warned about yesterday has started and will be spreading across the nation. If you’re in its path, please keep a close eye on weather news and take all precautions to keep yourself and your animals safe.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-braces-arctic-christmas-weather-winter-storm-warning-issued-washington
Good news for Republicans
One of the greatest services that serial losers “Beto” O’Rourke and Stacey Abrams performed for America was in sucking mountains of Democrat donor money away from races where it might have helped Democrats win and setting fire to it. You’d think that as much cash as Abrams raked in for her Hindenburg-like campaign, she would at least have some left over, but money management is not her strong suit.
https://www.westernjournal.com/ap-kari-lake-will-get-make-case-election-misconduct/
Despite raising over $100 million, Abrams’ campaign is scrambling to deal with over $1 million in debts to vendors. Her fulltime staffers who thought they’d be paid through Christmas are complaining that they were cut off shortly after the election and can’t pay their rent (to be fair, it’s not as if they did a great job.) Axios reports that Abrams is so hard up for cash, she had to resort to selling her donor and voter contact databases.
But as the linked article notes, Abrams will likely remain a powerful figure in the Democratic Party, just because she checks off so many identity boxes that it doesn’t matter that she can’t win an election or even stay out of bankruptcy when she starts with $100 million. She just keeps failing upwards, which is actually good news for Republicans.
The CDC and guns!
One tactic the left has mastered, with the complicity of biased media and social media outlets, is to bolster their arguments by simply censoring any counter arguments or evidence. We’ve seen lots of that in the Twitter data dump, and here’s another example:
The gun rights website The Reload obtained emails showing that gun control activists got the White House and Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin to introduce them to the CDC. They then got the CDC to remove a study from its website that estimated that privately-owned firearms are used up to 2.5 million times a year to prevent crimes. The anti-gun activists claim that’s a false, debunked study, but then, they only count a crime prevention incident if there’s a police report, which isn’t common because the crime was PREVENTED. This is part of a growing problem with the CDC misusing its powers as a health agency to ban legal gun ownership the way they targeted cigarettes.
The author of that study stands by it, and calls the removal of it “blatant censorship.” He said, “CDC is just aligning itself with the gun-control advocacy groups. It’s just saying: ‘we are their tool, and we will do their bidding.’ And that’s not what a government agency should do.”
I agree, but it seems to be what all of them are doing these days.
Pastors should read this
One of the panels at this week’s TPUSA Amfest gathering in Phoenix was called “Biblical Justice Isn’t Social Justice.” It focused on how to get local churches to stand up against the radical left political movements that are replacing Biblical principles in too many churches. This article has a good recap of what was said, and it’s well worth the read:
Situational Ethics 101
Democrats are demanding an investigation of newly-elected New York Republican Rep. George Santos after the New York Times claimed that much of his resume is fictitious (Santos denies the charge.)
I guess they think that if the voters aren’t fully informed of all negative information about the winning candidate, then the election is tainted and the winner needs to be investigated and possibly thrown out of office. The chairman of the New York Democratic Party even said, “I think that had voters seen this information, understood the ramifications and how egregious it really was, I don’t see how he would have won the race.”
As you might expect, this sparked commenters to repeat the same three words over and over: “Hunter Biden’s laptop!”
Portland, Oregon breaks a record
As 2022 draws to a close, many people are tallying up numbers and making year-end lists. One is the uber-liberal city of Portland, Oregon, which can boast that for the second year in a row, it’s set a new homicide record, with 90 killings so far and 11 days still to go.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/lawlessness-cataloguing-portlands-year-violence
Portland is also plagued with high levels of violent crime, property crime, thefts, vandalism and “frightening encounters with people experiencing mental health crises” (and that’s just the local political leaders you see at city council meetings.) Businesses are moving out, lawlessness abounds, and one resident complained that it’s as if the police have “almost disappeared.”
Gee, if only there were something that residents could have done about bringing law enforcement back, maybe on a Tuesday in November…
Proof that wokesters are running out of things to pretend to be offended by
Film critic Kathia Woods is being justly mocked for tweeting that the new “Avatar” movie is racist and guilty of cultural appropriation for having white actors portray people of color: the fictional, blue-skinned, nine-foot-tall, catlike Na’vi people of the planet Pandora. My favorite comment was from Andrew Kerr of the Washington Free Beacon:
"James Cameron didn't even try to find native blue people to play these roles.”
January 6th Kangaroo Kommittee sputters towards expected end
As expected, the January 6th Kangaroo Kommittee sputtered to its end not with a bang but with a whimper, as it finally issued what we all knew was coming from the very beginning: a recommendation that the DOJ indict former President Trump on at least four charges, including obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to make a false statement, and insurrection. (FYI, I love the irony of this bunch, which includes Adam "Liar of the Millennium" Schiff, wanting to prosecute Trump for conspiracy to make a false statement.)
They claim that the evidence they’ve gathered supports these charges, which would be a neat trick considering they've shown no evidence of any of that. It would also be a neat trick for Trump to have incited an insurrection considering that nobody who’s been jailed in connection with the January 6th riot was charged with insurrection.
The Kommittee also recommended multiple charges against former Trump attorney John Eastman, who, as this story puts it, “drafted a plan for Trump to cling to power by falsely claiming then-Vice President Mike Pence could reject legitimate electors during the Jan. 6 certification of the vote.” Well, no bias in that write-up!
None of the recommendations are binding on the DOJ, which is free to ignore this one-sided political circus and certainly should. That doesn’t mean, of course, that they won’t indict Trump, which they probably will, despite the terrible banana republic precedent it would set and the lack of evidence (although they might want to think twice before opening themselves up to Trump’s attorneys getting discovery rights and digging into all of their communications on this case.)
And if Trump can’t get a change of venue, he’s almost certain to be found guilty in DC, where juries routinely convict Republicans and let Democrats skate despite mountains of evidence against them. It’s clearly a politicized prosecution to keep Trump from running for President again. Will it work? I’ll let Trump answer that for himself:
I especially like his renaming of the FBI to the DBI ("the Democratic Bureau of Investigation.") Sounds like he might be getting his nicknaming mojo back.
Supreme Court temporarily pauses lifting Title 42 border restrictions
There are several major court decisions to cover today. The biggest came from the Supreme Court, which put a temporary stay on President Biden lifting Title 42, the pandemic-era order requiring asylum seekers to remain in Mexico. It was set to be lifted on Wednesday, and border states were bracing for a massive influx of illegal entrants, dwarfing even the previous massive influx of illegal entrants under Biden. The SCOTUS ordered the policy to stay in effect while a lawsuit by 19 states to keep it in place is adjudicated.
Meanwhile, former President Trump issued a statement on the attempts to end Title 42, Biden’s open borders policy, and how to clean up the disaster he’s wrought and ensure that it never happens again. This is the type of policy statement that he needs to be making if he wants to show he’s really serious about making another run for the presidency. I strongly recommend that you read the whole thing:
And the Biden White House made clear that it will continue its current policy of firmly denying reality.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/karine-jean-pierre-faces-backlash-claiming-border-open-bold-faced-lie
In a victory for Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and election integrity efforts in general, a judge denied a motion to dismiss her lawsuit against Democrat Katie Hobbs and Maricopa County election officials and ruled that a trial will be held on Wednesday and Thursday.
https://www.westernjournal.com/ap-kari-lake-will-get-make-case-election-misconduct/
Lake’s attempt to get a redo of the embarrassingly botched election in Maricopa County is still a longshot, and the judge dismissed a number of constitutional claims that I think do need to be addressed. But this is a welcome sign that courts may finally be growing a backbone and will stop shirking their responsibility to ensure honest elections for fear of being accused of “wading into politics.” Sometimes, that's necessary when the politics trample on the law.
The defendants claim Lake is misrepresenting how they conduct elections and there’s nothing untoward about it (they also tried to claim that Hobbs shouldn’t have to comply with a subpoena and testify – I thought Democrats believed subpoenas were sacred? – just as she thought she didn’t have to debate during the campaign. She's a queen, apparently.) But Lake claims to have 270 exhibits of evidence, eyewitness testimony from multiple whistleblowers and expert testimony from a top cyber expert that system-wide failure of the ballot printers one day after they were tested could only have happened intentionally.
I think Hobbs’ best response to that would be that you should never underestimate her ability to screw things up.
But we’ll see where this goes. Lake promised further updates at today’s Turning Points USA AMFEST meeting in Phoenix, so stay tuned.
In a 4-3 vote with the liberal majority carrying it, the North Carolina Supreme Court struck down the state’s requirement to show an ID before voting.
Even though the prevailing judges admitted that most voters have at least one form of ID (I’d go out on a limb and say “all of them”), and that the law “appears neutral,” nevertheless, its intent is to discriminate against black voters. I would say that not only requires them to have amazing psychic abilities to read the minds of the people who passed it and divine their “secret” intentions, it’s also incredibly racist in itself.
What are they implying? That black voters are too stupid to know how to obtain an ID? Or since they admit that most voters have an ID, that they are too stupid to bring it with them to the polls?
I fail to see how requiring everyone to show an ID to vote, just like you have to do to cash a check or enter a government building, is racist. But this ruling is positively dripping in racial condescension. In fact, this ruling, not the voter ID law, just might be the most racist thing to come out of North Carolina’s government in years.