(Ken Silva, Headline USA) He was a member of the self-described Western chauvinist Proud Boys, the white nationalist Patriot Front and the neo-Nazi group The Base.
Michael Alan Jones was also reportedly a convicted sex offender and an FBI informant.
That’s according the left-leaning news site Raw Story, which reviewed a public dispute between Proud Boys members on the social media app Telegram last month. Raw Story said it independently confirmed the allegations made on the Proud Boys Telegram channel.
The accusations reportedly surfaced in a dispute within the Proud Boys Charlotte chapter.
“Also, whose chapter did the informant come out of?” a Proud Boy known as “Tanky” reportedly asked. “Yeah, that’s right — the old Charlotte chapter. Who also had a pedophile inside their chapter that they allowed to go to other brothers’ houses in front of their kids. Oh yeah, that’s the old Charlotte chapter. S—, not a good look.”
“They created a whole new degree of f—ed-upness,” another member identified as “Jimbob Smith” reportedly added. “It’s a fed-ophile. It was a fed informant mixed with a pedophile. Only Charlotte can do that!”
Raw Story clarified that Jones’s sex crimes were for sleeping with a 15-year-old and a 14-year-old when he was 19 and 18, respectively—which technically doesn’t make him a pedophile, as that term is a reference to being attracted to prepubescent boys or girls.
But the accusation of Jones being an FBI informant is accurate, according to Raw Story, which said it independently confirmed that fact. The FBI reportedly declined to comment.
Raw Story also reported that at various points over the last several years, Jones “recruited for the white supremacist terror network the Base, attended rallies with the more public facing white supremacist group Patriot Front, and fought with the police alongside the Proud Boys at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.” Jones has not been charged in relation to J6.
Jones was, however, charged last year with unlawfully possessing a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon.
That charge stems from a March 2022 traffic stop in upstate New York, where police officers allegedly found him in possession of an illegally modified AR-15. Jones’s New York charge triggered a federal case against him for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
Jones struck a plea deal last December, in which he’ll plead guilty in exchange for the Justice Department recommending a 24- to 30-month prison sentence and a fine of $10,000 to $95,000.
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) The recent polls showing record plunges in patriotism and a loss of faith in the values that once defined America should come as no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention.
The country has come hopelessly under attack by corrupt, globalist threats both domestic and abroad—and it has exhausted every remedy that the U.S. Constitution has to offer.
On one hand, attending a good ol’ fashioned baseball game and Independence Day fireworks display on Tuesday helped to restore my faith that the qualities that make us fundamentally American—our shared culture and national identity—remain somewhat intact, even as neo-Marxist subversives seek to tear them down.
On the other hand, walking among some of the less boast-worthy elements of the U.S. population made me wonder just how well equipped the public at large is for the struggle to defend the republic—or how many are even fully aware of the dire circumstances that confront us.
Indeed, to celebrate the inception of our nation on the very day news broke that cocaine was discovered in the White House—and on the heels of other stunning presidential “firsts” that have set dangerous precedents and opened the floodgates for future political and cultural entropy—did feel a bit like being serenaded by a Neronian string symphony.
But it is not just the low-information hoi polloi one has to worry about. In fact, it is the über-literate idle classes who seem most oblivious.
BIDEN BAIT-AND-SWITCH
While those who have some direct stake—through financial gain or social status—in the systemic dismantling of America might, understandably, wish to betray their unwitting compatriots, it seems most are simply being duped into acting against their interests as the result of their own brainwashing, hubris, intellectual laziness or some combination thereof.
A perfect example of the sort of mental manipulation taking place may be found in the July 4 New York Times article “Biden Sidesteps Any Notion That He’s a ‘Flaming Woke Warrior.'”
The article enticingly baits conservatives into its rhetorical trap, wherein they will argue steadfastly that President Joe Biden is just such a “warrior,” or else be forced to concede that he is clearly a moderate.
“Republicans have tried to pull him in, but appear to recognize the difficulty,” writes Reid J. Epstein. “When G.O.P. presidential candidates vow to end what they derisively call ‘woke’ culture, they often aim their barbs not directly at Mr. Biden but at big corporations like Disney and BlackRock or the vast ‘administrative state‘ of the federal government.”
“Deftly avoided”? No, he hasn’t. The NYT is just creating this narrative to cover for him. They had to ban a trans person from the WH! pic.twitter.com/oWJQDBukSu
Of course, this is all strictly a canard to cover up the fact that Biden is utterly devoid of any guiding principles except those that serve his own private interests.
In fact, while Biden spent the vast majority of his 50-year political career opposed to current leftist causes mentioned in the article—such as racial equality, the LGBT agenda and abortion—the drastic actions his administration has taken to overcompensate on all those fronts has made it difficult to pin his past to him.
The only thing that has truly characterized Biden’s position on major issues is his willingness to flip–flop—or, as he himself put it early in his career, to “prostitute” himself.
“You run the risk of deciding whether or not you’re going to prostitute yourself to give the answer you know they want to hear in order to get funded to run for that office,” Biden said in 1974, according to the Free Beacon.
QUID PRO JOE
We now know with absolute certainty who owns Biden, courtesy of recent bombshells from the House Oversight Committee.
With the help of whistleblowers, it uncovered WhatsApp messages of Hunter Biden extorting a top Chinese spy official while sitting in the same room with his father, traced the geolocation of the messages back to the Biden home in Delaware, and then noted the transfer of millions of dollars to Biden family accounts just days later.
U.S. President Joe Biden, right, walks with Chinese President Xi Jinping before their meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit meeting. / PHOTO: AP
If we find ourselves struggling to grasp why the U.S. military and State Department might shrug off allowing a Chinese spy balloon to fly over sensitive sites where it clearly was engaged in data collection, the Treasury Department’s “suspicious activity reports” tell the story.
If it might otherwise have been an enigma what motivated the decision to risk war with Russia and expend billions in American tax dollars on an eastern European country with which we have no formal alliances, Hunter’s laptop from Hell has the answers.
And suffice it to say, nobody need ask why the Justice Department and every other lever of federal law-enforcement has been weaponized against President Donald Trump and his supporters, framing any opposition to the official State narrative as an Attack on Democracy. Only by accusing their rivals of the very crimes they, themselves, have brazenly committed do Democrats hope to avoid the inevitable political and legal fallout.
This may strike some as reckless behavior, but that is only because they misunderstand the stakes as Biden and his fellow leftist scavengers see them.
The end is not to act with integrity in the best interest of the American citizens who ostensibly elected* them; nor even to effect, by any means necessary, some half-principled set of “woke” policies that could potentially be reversed by a future administration (if not thwarted by Congress or the courts).
Rather, it is to commoditize whatever they can from the authority they now occupy and then discard whatever husk remains. It does not matter to such powermongers whether the remnant be democracy, socialism, fascism or something else, provided it affords a level of impunity and insulation for its permanent elites.
To paraphrase Oprah: When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
In his Holocaust memoir Night, Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel wrote, “I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.”
The Nazi leader’s contemporary American counterpart, #PedoHitler, has done exactly the same.
From Day 1, Biden and his family have been screaming to us about what degenerates they are, practically flaunting it in plain sight. And yet, professional gaslighters like the New York Times, consumed with their own sense of vanity, have made it a parlor game to insult our intelligence by propping them up.
Consider it an alternative national pastime for those too precious and haughty to be caught dead in the bleacher seats at the local baseball stadium.
Bush, a self-proclaimed socialist, and Hannah-Jones, an infamous far-left activist, made statements that propagated narratives of systemic racism within the country, which have been widely disputed.
In a now-viral tweet, Bush wrote, “The Declaration of Independence was written by enslavers and didn’t recognize Black people as human. Today is a great day to demand Reparations Now.”
The Declaration of Independence was written by enslavers and didn’t recognize Black people as human.
Similarly, Hannah-Jones drew backlash for her claim about the nation’s history. “You can’t understand 1776 if you don’t understand 1619,” she claimed in a tweet. “July 4, 1776 when the colonists declared independence, 1/5 of the population of the 13 colonies was enslaved. They would not gain freedom for a century. This, too, is the 4th of July. This, too, is the story of America.”
Prominent voices on the conservative side were quick to challenge the claims made by the two controversial Democrats. Political commentator Gunter Eagleman tweeted, “F–k your reparations,” in response to Bush’s demands for reparations.
GOP Presidential candidate Nikki Haley also criticized Bush’s statement, saying, “My husband and his unit are deployed right now defending the greatest country on Earth and protecting every American’s freedom… including this ungrateful congresswoman’s right to hate on America.”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., blasted Bush, saying, “Just stop. You voted to send $113 Billion to the white people and white Nazi army of Ukraine.”
Just stop.
You voted to send $113 Billion to the white people and white Nazi army of Ukraine. https://t.co/aFtTH4Bhnb
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) July 4, 2023
The criticism extended beyond Bush’s radical statement, with one Twitter user stating, “All credible historians have said the 1619 project is a rewriting of history.”
Christopher Tremoglie, a reporter from the Washington Examiner, responded to Hannah-Jones’s post, saying, “Cool story. Now do the history of black people owning slaves in this country. Now do South America’s history of enslaving people.”
Cool story.
Now do the history of black people owning slaves in this country.
Now do South America’s history of enslaving people.
Now do the countries of Africa and their history of enslaving people.
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) In an interview with Just the News, Art Del Cuello, the vice president of the National Border Patrol Union, stated that border agents are rallying for the impeachment of embattled DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
“It’s obviously the majority,” Del Cuello said when asked whether border officials would support the ousting of Mayorkas. “When you start talking about impeachment, the problem is this: that you’re going to end up with having who replaces him. At the end of the day, it’s the same policies that are going to be pushed down. But obviously, people need to be held accountable.”
Later in the interview, Del Cuello criticized Mayorkas for his constant lies regarding the border crisis and advised the secretary to at least claim that he is taking action to fix the issue. “That still would be a lie, but it wouldn’t be just a blatant lie,” Del Cuello added.
The union leader warned, however, that the American people have witnessed the self-inflicted chaos at the border.
“Not that it makes it any better, but I think that’s where the problem is in that. That’s where the issue is, not just for agents but for the American public is they realize how bad the border is. They’ve seen it. It happened on day one,” Del Cuello stated in the interview.
Del Cuello did not hold back in criticizing President Joe Biden’s disregard for the border crisis. He said, “It’s frustrating to have the president say everything is good, the press secretary saying everything is good. Politicians that are on the far-left saying everything is good, and definitely, someone with the leadership like Secretary Mayorkas to say everything is under control.”
Del Cuello’s scathing remarks followed the formal announcement of a five-phase probe into Mayorkas’s presumed “dereliction of duty” by the Republican-led House Homeland Security Committee.
“Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has been willfully derelict in his duties as Secretary of Homeland Security,” said Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn. “He has disregarded his oath to the Constitution by ignoring the basic tenets of that Constitution.”
While several Republican members of Congress, including Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, and Clay Higgins, R-La., have introduced their own impeachment bills, the official proceedings would be processed by the House Judiciary Committee, led by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.
On the other hand, Mayorkas has dismissed the impeachment threats, telling CNN in May that he was more concerned about the threats of climate change instead.
(Headline USA) Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., raked in $8.1 million for his Senate bid during the second quarter of fundraising despite being censored by the House for his role in the Russia-Gate hoax.
Schiff, who is running for Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s, D-Calif., Senate seat, which is set to open in 2024, was condemned by his colleagues last month for “misleading the American public and for conduct unbecoming of an elected member of the House of Representatives.” The vote was 213-209.
“As chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff launched an all out political campaign built on baseless distortions against a sitting U.S. president at the expense of every single citizen in this country and the honor of the House of Representatives,” said Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., who introduced the censor resolution, said.
However, it seems the censor motivated Democrats to contribute to Schiff’s campaign. Politico reported on Wednesday that Schiff’s campaign recruited more than 144,000 unique donors in the second quarter, as well as 233,000 donations from all 50 states and 58 California counties.
The average donation was $34, with 98% of the contributions coming in under $200.
Schiff was quick to use the House’s censor as a fundraising tool, claiming he was being attacked by the GOP for standing up to former President Donald Trump.
“This is a badge of honor,” he said in a statement after the vote. “They go after people that are effective. I expose the corruption of the former president. I led the first impeachment trial of the former president to the first bipartisan vote to remove a president.”
Immediately after the House held its vote, congressional Democrats rallied around Schiff, chanting “Adam! Adam! Adam!”
Schiff’s biggest primary opponent in the race, Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., had a successful first quarter, bringing in $4.5 million.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., endorsed Schiff over Porter for the California Senate seat earlier this year.
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) A white University of Southern California professor emerita came under fire at a July conference for female historians after claiming she would have had it easier in life if she were black.
Anti-white feminists who attended the event were not prepared for the statement and were shocked.
“Well, the Berks plenary just took a turn. A white senior scholar at the 50th-anniversary plenary VERY publicly, and unapologetically, said that she wished she was Black so her professional life would be easier,” a Ph.D. candidate Stephanie Narrow wrote on Twitter.
“She was immediately called out for her blatantly racist remarks and refused to apologize, let alone listen to the reason why her remarks were horrifying wrong,” Narrow added.
In response, Banner said that she won’t change her mind because she is 84-years-old and, therefore, doesn’t care about the leftist mob that may “cancel” her.
In the eyes of the “white allies” with their enormous white guilt, the situation was also bad because Banner gave her speech after an address by Rutgers University’s Deborah Gray White about black women in academia.
Deirdre Cooper Owens, another black feminist academic, responded to Banner’s speech by condemning her from the safety of the leftist “bubble.”
“The Berks Conference was a beautiful one until it was soiled by Lois Banner’s hatefully racist comments. Yes, I did speak out forcefully against her vitriol because she needed to keep Black women’s name out of her mouth,” Owens wrote.
Conference organizers responded to Banner’s statement, claiming they didn’t “condone or support the inappropriate remarks” that were made by her and were holding a “talking session” to discuss Banner’s comments the day after the event.
“The board and trustees listened, took careful notes, and are planning action. The conversation is not over and the board will have a statement and a concrete action plan soon,” they tweeted after the meeting.
Another woke indoctrinator, University of Colorado assistant professor Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders, also responded to Narrow’s tweet, suggesting that Banner’s speech should not be dismissed as “comments from a bygone era.”
“Many of us have heard similarly from grad colleagues or faculty colleagues. Many, many more think the very same silently.”
(Headline USA) The mass shooter in Philadelphia this week who is accused of killing five men and injuring two children has been identified as a leftist transgender.
Kimbrady Carriker, 40, was arrested on Monday night after shooting up the city’s Kingsessing neighborhood. According to police, Carriker was wearing a bulletproof vest and was armed with a rifle, pistol, extra magazines and a police scanner. He began the rampage in the middle of the street before chasing the last victim down and killing him in his home. He shot two children, a 2-year-old and a 13-year-old, in their legs.
Philadelphia locals said Carriker was a well-known leftist activist who regularly participated in Black Lives Matter protests. He posted frequently about BLM on his Facebook page, including one post in which he expressed support for workers who protested in the Strike for Black Lives in July 2020.
In May 2020, Carriker also posted a video to his Facebook of a burning Philadelphia police car that had been smeared with graffiti, including the letters “ACAB” — an acronym for “All coppers are b—–ds.”
“I was there; where were you? #we matter,” he wrote.
His Facebook page also shows him wearing women’s clothing, including a bra and women’s top and earrings, just three months before the shooting.
— PhillyCrimeUpdate (@PhillyCrimeUpd) July 4, 2023
Carricker was also a repeat offender who had been previously arrested on gun charges. In 2003, he was arrested and charged with possession of a weapon without a license, carrying a firearm in public, and drug possession, according to Philadelphia court records.
In their coverage of the mass shooting, leftist media outlets have declined to refer to Carricker as a biological male, instead using “gender-neutral” pronouns.
The Daily Beast even accused conservatives of focusing too much on Carricker’s trans-identity, even though he is the second mass shooter this year to identify as a gender different than his sex.
OPINION | Right-wingers conveniently overlooked the Philadelphia shooting suspect's body armor, AR-15, and gun-nut posts. Instead, they focused on a trio of selfies showing accused killer wearing a bra and women’s clothing four months ago. https://t.co/3e8UY7e88U
(Headline USA) Ben & Jerry’s could face a Bud Light-style boycott after the company posted an Independence Day tweet blasting the U.S. for celebrating “stolen land.”
The company’s official Twitter account called for customers to commit to “returning” land “stolen” from indigenous people this Fourth of July, starting with Mount Rushmore.
“This 4th of July, it’s high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it,” Ben & Jerry’s wrote.
This 4th of July, it's high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it. Learn more and take action now: https://t.co/45smaBmORHpic.twitter.com/a6qp7LXUAE
The company linked a blog post explaining its thoughts further.
“Ah, the Fourth of July. Who doesn’t love a good parade, some tasty barbecue, and a stirring fireworks display?” the company wrote.
“The only problem with all that, though, is that it can distract from an essential truth about this nation’s birth: The US was founded on stolen Indigenous land. This year, let’s commit to returning it. Here’s why we need to start with Mount Rushmore.”
Customers immediately called for a boycott.
“Make @benndjerrys Bud Light again,” singer John Rich wrote, referring to conservatives’ successful boycott of Bud Light in response to its partnership with controversial transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
Another user responded: “Long overdue for the Bud Light treatment. You hate the country, fine. We won’t buy your product. All good.”
Someone else quipped that Ben & Jerry’s should start by returning its own property to the indigenous people that once inhabited it.
“I look forward to the virtue signaling Ben & Jerry’s returning their factory’s land to the Abenaki and Mohican Native Americans that have lived in Vermont for 10,000 years,” the user wrote.
Ben & Jerry’s has come under fire multiple times in the past several years for pushing leftist ideology onto its customers. Last year, for example, Ben & Jerry’s announced it would no longer sell its product in Israel’s West Bank region in protest of the nation’s alleged treatment of Palestinian residents.
(Headline USA) Attorney Lin Wood, who filed legal challenges seeking to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss, is relinquishing his law license, electing to retire from practicing rather than face possible disbarment. Multiple states have weighed disciplining him for pushing Trump’s claims that he defeated Joe Biden.
On Tuesday, Wood asked officials in his home state of Georgia to “retire” his law license in light of “disciplinary proceedings pending against me.” In the request, made in a letter and posted on his Telegram account, Wood acknowledges that he is “prohibited from practicing law in this State and in any other state or jurisdiction and that I may not reapply for admission.”
Wood, a licensed attorney in Georgia since 1977, did not immediately respond to an email Wednesday seeking comment on the letter. A listing on the website for the State Bar of Georgia accessed on Wednesday showed him as retired and with no disciplinary infractions on his record. A spokeswoman for the Bar confirmed that the Bar had dismissed its two complaints involving Wood. In a court filing, its Office of General Counsel said it “believes that it has achieved the goals of disciplinary action, including protecting the public and the integrity of the judicial system and the legal profession” by achieving Wood’s inability to practice law.
In the wake of the 2020 election, Trump praised Wood as doing a “good job” filing legal challenges seeking to overturn his loss, though Trump’s campaign at times distanced itself from him.
Officials in Georgia had been weighing whether to disbar Wood over his efforts, holding a disciplinary trial earlier this year. Wood sued the state bar in 2022, claiming the bar’s request that he undergo a mental health evaluation as part of its probe violated his constitutional rights, but a federal appeals court tossed that ruling, saying Wood failed to show there was “bad faith” behind the request.
In 2021, the Georgia secretary of state’s office opened an investigation into where Wood had been living when he voted early in person in the 2020 general election, prompted by Wood’s announcement on Telegram that he had moved to South Carolina. Officials ruled that Wood did not violate Georgia election laws.
Wood, who purchased three former plantations totaling more than $16 million, moved to South Carolina several years ago, and unsuccessfully ran for chairman of that state’s GOP in 2021.
In May, a Michigan watchdog group in filed a complaint against Wood and eight other Trump-aligned lawyers alleging they had committed misconduct and should be disciplined for filing a lawsuit challenging Biden’s 2020 election win in that state. A court previously found the attorneys’ lawsuit had abused the court system.
Wood, whose name was on the 2020 Michigan lawsuit, has insisted that the only role he played was telling fellow attorney Sidney Powell he was available if she needed a seasoned litigator. Powell defended the lawsuit and said lawyers sometimes have to raise what she called “unpopular issues.”
(Headline USA) A judge on Friday awarded more than $1 million to a black church in downtown Washington, D.C. that sued the far-right Proud Boys for tearing down and burning a Black Lives Matter banner during a 2020 protest, as BLM riots raged across the country.
Superior Court Associated Judge Neal A. Kravitz also barred the extremist group and its leaders from coming near the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church or making threats or defamatory remarks against the church or its pastor for five years.
“Our courage and determination to fight back in response to the 2020 attack on our church is a beacon of hope for our community and today’s ruling showed us what our collective vision and voice can achieve,” said the Rev. William H. Lamar IV, pastor of Metropolitan AME, in a statement from the church’s counsel on Saturday.
“While A.M.E. refused to be silenced in the face of white supremacist violence, that does not mean real trauma and damage did not occur – merely that congregants and the church have and will continue to rise above it.”
The burning of two BLM flags contrasted to hundreds of American flags burned and desecrated by BLM and Antifa rioters and looters who took to streets in cities across the country, leaving a trail of vandalism, death and destruction in their wake.
The ruling over the burning of two BLM flags was a default judgment issued after the defendants failed to show up in court to fight the case.
Two Black Lives Matter banners were pulled down from Metropolitan AME and another historically black church and burned during clashes between pro-Donald Trump supporters and counter-rioters in December 2020.
Metropolitan AME sued the Proud Boys and their leaders, alleging they violated D.C. and federal law by trespassing and destroying religious property in a bias-related conspiracy.
“The attack against Metropolitan A.M.E. was an attempt to silence the congregation’s voice and its support for black life, dignity and safety. It represents just the latest chapter in a long history of white supremacist violence targeting black houses of worship,” said Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, in the church counsel’s statement. “These attacks are meant to intimidate and create fear, and this lawsuit’s aim was to hold those who engage in such action accountable.”
Proud Boys leader Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, of Miami, publicly acknowledged setting fire to one banner, which prosecutors said was stolen from Asbury United Methodist Church.
In July 2021, Tarrio pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor criminal charges of property destruction and attempted possession of a high-capacity magazine. He was sentenced to more than five months in jail.
Tarrio and other members of the Proud Boys were separately convicted of seditious conspiracy charges as part of a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
