(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has introduced articles of impeachment against U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves, citing his “malicious” prosecution of J6 Capitol Hill protestors at the expense of going after the violent crime running rampant through DC.
Greene introduced the articles Tuesday after making an impassioned speech against Graves, who was testifying at a House Oversight Hearing.
“Mr. Graves, your decision to not prosecute 67 percent of the crimes in DC is criminal in itself. People who were charged with murder were arrested on average 11 times before, because you refuse to keep them in jail,” Greene said. “You’ve maliciously prosecuted more than 1,000 January Sixers and you recently announced you’ll arrest at least 1,000 more.”
Greene was referring to a recent report in the Washington Post, which said last month that Graves’s office chose not to prosecute 67% of those arrested by police officers in cases that would have been tried in D.C. Superior Court—roughly double from 2015, when prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office declined to prosecute 35% of such cases.
As for his “malicious” prosecution of J6 protestors, specific cases cited by Greene included that of Matthew Perna, who faced multiple charges for peacefully walking through the Capitol for about 20 minutes on Jan. 6. Perna committed suicide in February 2022 before his sentencing—two weeks after Graves reportedly was pushing to increase the severity of the man’s sentence.
Another case cited by Greene was the recent arrest of a grandmother who was peacefully inside Capitol Hill for about five minutes on Jan. 6.
And earlier in the hearing, Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., criticized Graves for seeking 14 years imprisonment for Oath Keeper Thomas Caldwell, a 68-year-old disabled Navy veteran with no criminal record before he was found guilty of sedition.
“Doesn’t that seem like a death sentence for Mr. Caldwell, who did not commit a crime of violence that day?” Biggs asked.
Graves declined to respond to Biggs, despite the fact that Caldwell has already been found guilty and there’s no jury to influence. Graves said he wouldn’t speak about Caldwell in a “public forum”—even though a federal courtroom is a public forum—because he hasn’t been sentenced yet.
Greene later accused Graves of weaponizing the DOJ against political dissidents.
“The time for weaponizing the DOJ needs to come to an end. Because you refuse to prosecute real criminals who are committing all the crime here in DC … And because of that, I am introducing articles of impeachment on you Mr. Graves,” she said.
A woman who claims to be a former employee is suing the ex-New York City mayor and Donald Trump confidant in connection with various allegations revolving around “abuse of power, sexual assault and harassment, wage theft, and other misconduct.”
The plaintiff in case, Noelle Dunphy, claims that Giuliani hired her in January 2019 as director of business development.
The 70-page complaint filed on Monday in Manhattan Supreme Court (which, in the Empire State, is actually the trial court) contains 22 counts, including battery, and seeks $10 million in money damages.
Among its many tawdry allegations is perhaps the principal claim that Giuliani, 78, pressured Dunphy into a sexual relationship.
Making matters worse, the ex-mayor allegedly stiffed her, as it were, on her $1 million per year salary for two years on the job, supposedly because he wanted to keep the hiring quiet while his divorce settlement was pending.
Rudy offered her another perk, free legal advice, the complaint asserts.
“As an added inducement, Giuliani also offered to provide pro bono legal representation to Ms. Dunphy in connection with an ongoing dispute arising from an abusive ex-partner,” it says.
“To Ms. Dunphy, the chance to work for an influential politician once dubbed ‘America’s Mayor,’ combined with the prospect of free legal representation by a former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, was a rare opportunity that was simply too good to pass up,” it adds.
The seemingly prestigious job allegedly turned out to hardly be the typical employer–employee scenario, the filing claims.
“Unfortunately, Giuliani’s seemingly generous offers were a sham motivated by his secret desire to pursue a sexual relationship with Ms. Dunphy—in total disregard for the restraints that should have protected her as his employee and client,” the complaint alleges.
The complaint indicates that she recorded her purported boss making various offensive comments of a “sexist, racist, or anti-Semitic” nature and details various other kinds of his alleged lurid misbehavior, including trying to sell presidential pardons.
The lawsuit names Giuliani personally, as well as several companies for which he has an ownership interest, as defendants.
The complaint also includes a still photo of an embarrassing sequence from the 2020 Borat sequel that seems to show Giuliani in a compromising position.
Obviously, the satirical Borat films made everyone look bad who didn’t catch on to what prankster Sacha Baron Cohen was doing as his alter ego, although the left-wing British comedian has shown a particular affinity for targeting and lampooning American conservatives.
Giuliani’s team previously denied that Dunphy was ever an employee.
In a statement, one of his advisors upped the ante:
“Mayor Rudy Giuliani unequivocally denies the allegations raised by Ms. Dunphy[,] and every news outlet covering this story must include the fact that an ex-partner accused her of being, ‘an escort that fleeces wealthy men,'” it said.
Giuliani further claimed that Dunphy had taken part in “prior schemes to defraud high net-worth men,” citing a 2016 New York Post story.
Dunphy supposedly “‘bragged about extorting $5 million’ from the son of a successful Wall Street investor, with a fake rape claim in 2011,” said the statement. “Mayor Giuliani’s lifetime of public service speaks for itself[,] and he will pursue all available remedies and counterclaims.”
(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) A zip code in Seattle with 49,000 citizens will no longer receive mail because of skyrocketing amounts of theft, particularly in apartments and townhouses.
According to the Post Millennial, several thieves managed to obtain a master key that can get into mailboxes all over the 98118 zip code. The United States Postal Service could not give a definite report on how many people are not receiving their mail.
Seattle’s US Postal Inspector announced the beginning of the investigation, but in the meantime residents reported that they must pick up their mail at the post office until early June.
Surveillance videos of the crimes showed the suspects stealing mail with relative ease. They were able to grab mail from every box in under a minute using the master key, also known as an arrow key.
USPS recently announced the drastic increase of mail robberies, which already rose by nearly 50% this year.
“There has been an increase in letter carrier robberies nationwide where criminals are targeting letter carriers for their Arrow and Modified Arrow Lock Keys,” USPS said in a statement.
A 2020 audit revealed that USPS does not know “the number of arrow keys in circulation” and “local units did not adequately report lost, stolen, or broken keys.” The audit recommended putting together an inventory of keys.
As a reaction to the increased thefts, USPS said it is swapping 49,000 arrow locks with electronic locks. Seattle USPS did not clarify when those changes will be implemented.
Mail thieves can face up to five years in prison, or up to ten if found possessing, concealment or disposal of mail.
Seattle USPS also faced an increase of gas thefts from delivery trucks, resulting in thousands of dollars of damage and severely damaged equipment.
The city overall broke crime records in 2022 with a 4% increase compared to 2021—the year that set the previous all-time high.
Over 600 police officers left the local department after the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots and the city’s defund the police movement, faced termination for refusing to comply to vaccination mandates, or simply retired or transferred.
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) No American had been convicted of seditious conspiracy prior to 2022, but that changed with the recent guilty verdicts against members of the right-wing Oath Keepers and Proud Boys for their actions on Jan. 6, 2021—leaving many to wonder: Will the DOJ prosecute Donald Trump next?
Left-wing media outlets have claimed that the “walls are closing in” around Trump so many times that it’s become an internet meme.
But in this case, some of the most vocal proponents of the theory that the DOJ will pursue sedition charges against are coming from conservative media. After all, if the DOJ is trying to sell to the American public that there was a widespread conspiracy to steal the election on J6, then it’s only reasonable to assume that prosecutors will accuse Trump of being the leader of such a scheme.
American Greatness writer Julie Kelly, who covered the Proud Boys trial, is one of the proponents of this theory.
“When he is indicted … which I think the chances have increased tremendously after today, I think he might get ‘pretrial detention’—what they did to every defendant charged with seditious conspiracy. So now they have a precedent for courts to sign off on,” Kelly said in the wake of the Proud Boys convictions.
As Kelly and others have noted, during the closing arguments of the Proud Boys trial, prosecutors played to the jury a video of Trump’s infamous remarks at a September 2020 presidential debate, when he told the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by.” The DOJ also cited this remark when announcing the convictions—suggesting that Merrick Garland’s Justice Department views Trump as a player in the so-called J6 conspiracy.
Trump’s innocuous remarks at a presidential debate may seem too tenuous to serve as a basis for seditious conspiracy charges. But conservative legal analysts have noted that the bar has been lowered for proving seditious conspiracy.
“The jury [in the Proud Boys trial] was told that seditious conspiracy didn’t merely mean overthrow the government through force; it had the much broader meaning of interfering with the government by use of force,” Rachel Alexander, a former assistant attorney general for the state of Arizona, recently wrote for Townhall.
“[The judge] ruled that jurors could convict on conspiracy even if they found there was no plan to disrupt the certification of the election, but merely an ‘unspoken agreement’—whatever that means—to do so.”
And if Trump’s case were to be tried in Washington DC—as the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys were—Kelly, Alexander and others think there’s a more-than-likely chance that he is convicted.
“If anyone thinks it’s beyond the pale for this Justice Department to portray Trump as the American version of Osama bin Laden, think again,” Kelly said.
(Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations) While it’s bad enough the debunked dossier the FBI used to spy on the Trump campaign was paid for by the Clinton campaign and authored by a foreign FBI informant and his carousing researcher, the newly released report of Special Counsel John Durham strongly suggests a top Justice Department official and his wife had an early hand in shaping the political rumor sheet.
According to the 306-page report, former Justice Department prosecutor Bruce Ohr’s wife Nellie Ohr first plowed the ground for the dossier with a series of a research reports she wrote for Fusion GPS, the D.C.-based opposition research firm the Clinton campaign commissioned to dig up dirt on Trump and Russia.
Obtained by Durham, her reports zeroed in on Sergei Millian and his connections to Russia and Trump, falsely portraying him as a key intermediary between the Kremlin and the Republican candidate. They would later provide the foundation for the dossier’s many fictions.
“Fusion GPS records demonstrate that Nellie Ohr first identified Millian,” Durham states in his report. “All told, Ohr prepared at least 12 reports that discussed Sergei Millian.”
She wrote her first Millian report in April 2016, the month before Fusion GPS hired former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele to put his imprimatur as a supposed former “spy” and “Russian insider” on the dossier.
“This report was prepared just ten days after Fusion GPS was retained by [Clinton campaign law firm] Perkins Coie to conduct opposition research on Trump,” the Durham Report states, “and prior to Steele being retained by Fusion GPS.”
Durham suggests Nellie Ohr planted the seeds of sourcing for the most explosive allegations leveled by the dossier against Trump, including the oft-cited notion that he and his campaign were engaged in a “well-developed conspiracy of cooperation” with the Kremlin. The dossier attributed this, falsely, to Millian. Durham found that the Belarusian-American realtor was never a source for the dossier and was simply invented as one, along with the allegations attributed to him.
In fact, Durham says that Millian initially wasn’t even on the radar of Steele and his dossier “collector” Igor Danchenko, a former Brookings Institution analyst who’s admitted much of the information he provided Steele was alcohol-lubricated gossip. Millian was called to their attention by Nellie Ohr, who the prosecutor said “implicated” Millian through her own reports. Durham suggests Steele and Danchenko merely followed her leads.
Meanwhile, the prosecutor added, Bruce Ohr, an anti-Trump Democrat, pushed his wife’s reports that cited Millian — 12 in all — onto the Crossfire Hurricane team at FBI headquarters that was investigating Trump and his campaign for possible espionage. Agents used her reports as a source of corroboration for the Steele reports they received in the summer and fall of 2016, even though it was circular reporting.
“The reports prepared by Ohr and others at Fusion GPS were ultimately provided to Crossfire Hurricane investigators by Ohr’s husband, Bruce Ohr,” according to the Durham Report.
Durham notes that Danchenko was tracking leads on Millian from Nellie Ohr within “approximately one week” of Fusion GPS retaining Steele to compile the dossier. He concludes that this “strongly supports the inference that Fusion GPS directed Steele to pursue Millian.”
In other words, Steele was not the catalyst behind the dossier’s central claims. Rather, it was Clinton’s contractor Fusion GPS — but more specifically, the wife of a senior DOJ official who worked for Fusion. So the FBI wasn’t really investigating “Crown reporting,” as officials referred to Steele’s dossier, implying it was British intelligence. More accurately, it was investigating information from inside its own department that was laundered through Steele and his dossier.
On page 97 of their book, Crime in Progress, Fusion GPS co-founders Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch maintained that it was Steele who identified Millian as “one of the key intermediaries between Trump and the Russians.” Durham’s report shatters their claim.
The special counsel also found that Simpson worked with Bruce Ohr to pressure the FBI to investigate the dossier allegations.
On Aug. 22, 2016, Simpson asked Ohr to call him. About an hour later, Ohr emailed the FBI agent handling Steele as an informant to, as he said, “check in.” Ohr and the agent, Michael Gaeta, spoke over the phone on Aug. 24. During their call, Ohr inquired if the FBI was going to do anything with the dossier reports that Steele had pass along to Gaeta in July. In response, Gaeta “told Ohr that a group at FBI headquarters was working on them,” according to the Durham report. This undercuts the official FBI timeline of when HQ first received the dossier. For years, the bureau has insisted it did not receive the reports until a month later — Sept. 19, 2016.
Fusion GPS also pitched the press the false narrative that Millian was a key intermediary between Trump and Russia. For example, on June 27, 2016, Fritsch sent an email to Franklin Foer, a reporter at Slate magazine, stating “this dude is key” and claiming “he is clearly kgb.”
The next month, Simpson reached out to ABC News producer Matthew Mosk about Millian. Mosk emailed Simpson and reported back that he was “making arrangements to interview Millian on camera” and that he and Simpson “should chat.” On July 29, 2016, Millian ultimately was interviewed by Brian Ross, formerly of ABC News, who questioned whether Millian was a Russian spy.
On Sept. 13, 2016, Mosk emailed Simpson and asked, “What’s the most official thing we have showing Millian tied to Trump? That would make it hard for the Trump org to disavow Millian?”
Ross later left ABC after being suspended for erroneous reporting on Russiagate, while Mosk has moved to CBS News.
Throughout the summer and fall of 2016, Fusion GPS also promoted to the Washington media the false allegation the Trump campaign maintained a secret hotline to Moscow through Russia-based Alfa Bank. In an attempt to tie Millian to the Alfa Bank allegations, Durham found that Fusion GPS sought the assistance of Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, who in turn contacted D.C. tech executive Rodney Joffe to determine if Millian had any ties to Alfa Bank.
On Aug. 20, 2016, Joffe emailed federal computer contractors at Georgia Tech a document titled “birdsnest-1.pdf’ that contained “known associates” of Trump. Included in the attached document was a description of Millian along with his past mailing addresses; various email addresses; websites; and IP addresses that were associated with him. Joffe, who was recently fired as an FBI informant, described Millian as “the most likely intermediary” between Trump and Russia.
On Sept. 27, 2016, Simpson and Fritsch emailed IP “look-up” information for one of Millian’s websites to then-New York Times reporter Eric Lichtblau, whom Fusion was pressuring to write a story about the Trump-Alfa Bank allegations. In the email, Fritsch pointed out that “Alfa” was the website service provider for Millian’s website. However, Durham determined that the relevant IP information did not indicate that “Alfa Bank” was the service provider, but rather Alfa Telecom — a Lebanese-based telecom company, which appears to have no affiliation with Alfa Bank.
Fusion GPS and Steele also provided the substance of the Alfa Bank allegations to Bruce Ohr, the DOJ official, who passed the false tip on to the FBI. The Crossfire Hurricane team used Ohr as a conduit to continue to receive information from Steele about Trump throughout 2017, even after the FBI had to terminate Steele as an informant for leaking information about its investigation to the media.
BMW, Volkswagen, Mazda and Tesla removed radios from the design, allegedly due to sound interference from electric engines.
Some manufacturers, such as Ford, are removing radios from all of their new vehicle models—both EV and gas operated.
Critics say this decision by automakers could be fatal to the radio industry, and will likely take out hundreds of the U.S.’s 4,185 stations.
Radio provides a substantial amount of news, political updates, weather coverage and foreign language programming to Americans across the nation.
Moreover, the shift away from radio also disproportionately affects conservative talk show hosts—eight out of 10 of America’s most listened to talk show hosts are conservative.
“The automobile is essential to liberty. It’s freedom,” conservative radio host Mark Levin said on his show.
“So, the control of the automobile is about the control of your freedom,” he continued. “They finally figured out how to attack conservative talk radio.”
A study done by the National Association of Broadcasters revealed that 82 million Americans listen to AM radio stations every month.
Several experts, including Michael Harrison of Talkers, argued that the disposal of AM radio is premature, despite the aging listener population.
“From a purely economic position of self-interest, it is understandable why car manufacturers might consider AM radios expendable and are willing to toss them out like cassette players, eight-tracks and CD players,” he said.
“However, what they are failing to understand are the cultural aspects of the longtime symbiotic relationship between AM (and FM) radio and automobiles—a culture still adhered to by a large, still-living segment of the population to whom this relationship remains important,” he added.
Harrison argued that several radio listeners are still purchasing automobiles, and asked why the automobile manufacturers are in such a hurry to dispose of the radio.
“Radio has long been supportive of car culture in America and deserves special consideration,” he said. “It’s been a two-way street! Not only is this decision premature, it is a betrayal.”
Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., sent a letter to several automotive makers requesting that they reconsider their adjustment.
Feminist comedian Ilana Glazer teamed up with Miller Lite in March to mock the bikini-clad women of former beer advertisements, demanding instead that beer companies apologize to women for objectifying them and give them credit for the success of the beer industry.
“Centuries later, how did the industry pay homage to the founding mothers of beer? They put us in bikinis,” Glazer said, walking past old beer advertisements and throwing one away. “Wow. Look at this s**t! Wild!”
The advertisement also suggested that Miller Lite felt that it is its duty to clean up the advertising of the entire beer industry to serve women who brew beer.
“It’s time beer made it up to women, so today, Miller Lite is on a mission to clean up not just their s**t, but the whole beer industry’s s**t,” Glazer said. “Miller Lite has been scouring the internet for all this s**t and buying it back.”
Some on Twitter noted that we should not be surprised at the marketing gaffe, given that the job of marketing departments is not to respond to markets, but to change people’s desires actively.
Now you might be asking yourself "How could they be stupid enough to do this?"
They just saw what happened to Bud Light, go woke go broke right?
But that's because you still think the purpose of corporations and advertising is to respond to the market instead of engineer it https://t.co/B9QxvtyqLU
In a remarkably similar situation to the Bud Light debacle, a marketing executive decided that the beer company needed to transform its customer base, this time into a customer base less interested in attractive women.
The Daily Caller noted that Sofia Colucci, the chief marketing officer of Molson Coors Beverage, which owns Miller Lite, is a supporter of numerous woke causes ranging from gun control to George Floyd riots to illegal immigration.
Adam Collins, Molson Coors’s chief communications and corporate affairs officer, stood by the ad campaign.
“People can take issue with our ads or our brands, and that’s everyone’s right,” he wrote. “But we have thousands of hardworking people from all walks of life who are only doing what millions of other Americans do every day, working hard to earn a living, and we will always support them in their work.”
(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Federal prosecutors have dropped charges against alleged crackhead Andrew Gillum, the former Democratic mayor who lost to current Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2018, Fox News reported.
Gillum, 43, had previously been on trial for 17 counts of fraud allegedly committed during his run for governor.
The former Tallahassee mayor’s charges included allegedly pocketing campaign funds, illegally receiving gifts (including theater tickets to Hamilton) and lying to FBI agents.
However, a jury previously acquitted him of one count of lying to the FBI and had failed to reach a verdict on the other counts, leaving the decision with Attorney General Merrick Garland’s politicized Justice Department as to whether to continue its pursuit of a conviction.
The failed gubernatorial candidate had previously asserted that he was the victim of selective prosecution because he was a black candidate for governor.
U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor, a Trump appointee who presided over the trial, had previously refused to throw out the charges, ignoring Gillum’s claims that the trial was politically motivated.
Winsor did not issue a ruling following the prosecution’s motion to drop the charges.
Gillum can now “resume his life and public service,” said one of his attorneys, David O. Markus.
“Andrew Gillum had the courage to stand up and say ‘I am innocent.’ And that is finally being recognized,” Markus wrote in a statement. “We want to thank the hard working jury who did their job and explained to the government why it should drop the case.”
Gillum’s troubles extend beyond the charges, however.
The former rising star was discovered heavily intoxicated with two other men in a luxury hotel room by Miami police in March 2020. Police had been called to the scene to investigate a drug overdose.
Photos of the hotel room showed stained bed sheets and empty pill bottles strewn across the floor.
Gillum called the incident a “wedding celebration” when speaking to media after the incident.
“I was in Miami last night for a wedding celebration when first responders were called to assist one of my friends,” he said.
He later checked himself into a rehabilitation facility, taking a long leave of absence from public life.
No, not in the 2016 election against Donald Trump, but rather in the 2008 primary election against Barack Obama.
Readers old enough to remember (and still young enough not to have forgotten) the primary campaign from 15 years ago will recall that “Operation Chaos” was coordinated largely by the late, great Rush Limbaugh.
The rationale was that in a low-enthusiasm election year—when then-Sen. John McCain of Arizona had already all but clinched the GOP nomination and secured a general-election loss after the cascading catastrophe of the George W. Bush administration—voting in the Republican primary made little difference.
However, disaffected Republicans still had the power to sow disarray in the Democrat primary by drawing out a long and nasty fight between Obama and Clinton.
At first, the aim was to elevate the relatively unknown Obama. But as the cult of personality around him grew to diva-size proportions, it became clear that Hillary was the weaker candidate who needed buoying.
To some extent, leftists and their pro-Establishment allies have since borrowed the strategy. In the 2022 primary season, many registered Democrats migrated over to the GOP primaries—although accounts vary whether they were attempting to block Trump-endorsed candidates or to help amplify far-right candidates whom they deemed unelectable.
Whatever the case, it is now time for conservatives to reclaim the old playbook.
Despite the political circumstances being vastly different from what they were in 2008, the upcoming 2024 race may be a critical opportunity for Republicans to help pick the opposing candidate most capable of de-platforming the extreme Left and its empty-suited avatar, President Joe Biden, from their bully pulpit.
That means doing the one thing many would consider even greater anathema than casting one’s vote for a Clinton: doing it for a Kennedy.
Robert F. Kennedy campaign buttons
ALL THE RIGHT BOXES
It should come as no surprise to readers that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. isn’t like the other members of his family, who for decades were the public face of limousine liberalism—as well as the hypocritical sense of elite entitlement and bad behavior that accompanied that mindset.
If Kennedy himself is not a rare breed among the Hyannis Port clan, then it only goes to show how drastically the political dynamics have shifted since radical leftists began to embrace, as their own, the corporate special-interests and military–industrial complex once monopolized by globalist neocons.
The Democrat Party’s migration to its former fringe has now made strange bedfellows of traditional liberals and everyday, middle-class Americans who once scoffed at their out-of-touch, bleeding-heart pomposity.
Yet, all things considered, RFK Jr., who has become best known as a leading vaccine skeptic, seems downright conservative according to today’s standards, if only by virtue of his shared opposition to the corrupt deep state.
That much became clear on a recent interview with fellow red-pilled liberal Russell Brand, the British comedian who has since become a podcaster promoting anti-establishment viewpoints.
Trying to recap the May 9 interview’s 68-minute final cut hardly does it justice. (Note: Brand says even more segments of the conversation are available exclusively via his page on Locals.com.)
Suffice it to say, Kennedy checks all the right boxes for MAGA listeners in a three-part discussion that delves into the assassination of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy; the U.S. government’s role in pushing the COVID pandemic; and the way that America’s shadow-war with Russia has victimized the Ukrainian people.
JFK Assassination
RFK Jr. already has gone on record stating with unequivocal certainty that it was the CIA who killed JFK.
He recounted during the Brand interview how assassin Lee Harvey Oswald had close ties with the CIA and had worked on projects to help develop the U-2 spy plane before his 1959 defection to Russia (which itself may have been a CIA operation to uncover a mole).
RFK Jr. also suggested that perhaps an executive order from JFK to bring home the relatively small delegation of military advisers in Vietnam might have inspired the CIA’s decision to dispatch with the rogue president.
The Making of the Pandemic
The podcast also addressed the conspiracies surrounding the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the CIA’s work in coordinating outbreak dress-rehearsals like the October 2019 “Event 201,” which was intended less as a public-health response than a test run for how to clamp down on information and curtail civil liberties.
Kennedy pointed out that atop of the organizational chart for Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration’s vaccine development program, the two lead organizations were the National Security Agency and the Pentagon, rather than health-related groups under the Department of Health and Human Services.
Kennedy, the bestselling author of The Real Anthony Fauci, further noted that Fauci, the former COVID czar, had received a major salary increase from the Defense Department that was expressly tied to his work in bioweapons development in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorism attacks. Fauci later moved the program to Wuhan after Obama halted gain-of-function research domestically.
Shadow-War with Russia
Finally, Kennedy put into context the provocative actions that the U.S. and its allies had taken against Russia in the years since the fall of the Soviet Union by further pushing eastward their expansion of NATO.
He said that since the 2014 color revolution which would lead, eventually, to the installation of ultra-nationalist Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the U.S. had effectively victimized Ukrainians by supporting a shadow war, the goal of which was simply to weaken Russian President Vladimir Putin and his military forces.
Meanwhile, globalist investors like BlackRock, and weapons companies like Raytheon, Lockheed and Battelle are among the few continuing to flourish in the Biden economy, while taxpayers are bearing the extreme financial burden of Biden’s Ukraine war.
STILL A DEMOCRAT
Kennedy’s deep understanding of the political arena from a lifetime spent observing it would undoubtedly make him a formidable statesman, while he could potentially prove more effective than a Swamp outsider like Trump or Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at dismantling the very system he was raised in.
President John F. Kennedy visits with his nephew, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. / PHOTO: Abbie Rowe. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
Of course, conservatives are right to have their own reservations about his campaign. Even if he is not a radical progressive, the longtime environmental lawyer is still a liberal at heart, and likely to funnel more money into a Green New Deal agenda while blocking key energy exploration that is crucial to driving economic prosperity.
He likewise supports big spending on government subsidies and welfare programs—continuing the Biden-era trend of high unemployment, even in a robust job market.
Still, it marks a step up from the depths to which his party has plunged under Biden—and even before that during the race-baiting Obama administration.
“Our operating principle is not guilt for the sins of one’s ancestors, but rather compassion,” says his website, conjuring the spirit of his father’s fellow slain contemporary, Martin Luther King Jr. “We will invoke the authentic desire in all Americans, white and black, liberal and conservative, to improve the condition of our Black and Native brothers and sisters.
Kennedy’s appeal to traditional American values—if not conservative and libertarian principles—is strong enough that some have floated the possibility of a coalition ticket involving him and one of the GOP frontrunners.
That seems unlikely, but Kennedy nonetheless carries tremendous potency as a disruptor to the Democrats’ game plan, whether that strategy is to run the incumbent Biden or pull a last-minute bait-and-switch.
Already, RFK Jr. is polling in the ballpark of 20% among Democrats—enough to convince the party leaders that he should never set foot on a Democratic National Committee debate stage.
Given the DNC’s efforts to thwart his campaign, seeing Kennedy continue to gain in stature and poach votes from the moderate middle would be devastating when they find themselves faced with the prospect of trying to pitch four more years of feeble dotage from the Emperor of Ice Cream.
In the wake of a school shooting, Joe Biden says he came down to speak because he heard there was ice cream and gets distracted by “good looking kids” in the audience. pic.twitter.com/7d3Utjn0Uv
Thus, freedom loving Americans, whether they would welcome an RFK Jr. presidency or not, must empower him to rise above the censorship and become his party’s nominee.
GOP: OK EITHER WAY
Some stalwarts will likely object to switching parties for the primaries with a potentially tight race on the GOP side.
But while others may have a strong preference between Trump and DeSantis, both would be just as good in my book.
Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump converse. / PHOTO: AP
The two leading Republican contenders have discernibly different styles but are cut from the same cloth. Indeed, I have both fluctuated in my support and been reluctant to enter the fray since taking sides does more harm than good.
On one hand, Trump carries with him all the legal baggage and bombastic rhetoric that his supporters know and love—but he also has the weight of having lost, on his watch, the past three election cycles, all because his presence in the election cycle mobilizes those who really don’t like him.
DeSantis seems to support largely the exact same policies as Trump but is more measured, for better or worse, in his approach. Yet, he lacks the showmanship and charisma that Trump brings to the table, and he also has found himself hitching his wagon to members of the GOP establishment, including Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and the Bush family.
At this point, there would be no reluctance to get behind either nominee, but for both of them the general election fight will be formidable, even if Biden is (by some unlikely chance) the Democrat nominee.
A WIN–WIN SITUATION
Unlike Operation Chaos in 2008, supporting RFK Jr. is not necessarily because he would be the weaker Democrat option, but rather because he would be the more palatable one in the event that the Left’s powerful chokehold on election integrity proves too overwhelming for Trump or DeSantis.
The absolute worst of Kennedy’s policies couldn’t be worse than any of Biden’s, while at best he stands a genuine shot at restoring the relative political normalcy that existed in the Camelot era.
Seeing Kennedy, as a Democrat, square off against either Trump or DeSantis would be a win–win compared to the alternative.
In many states that hold open primaries, unaffiliated voters may not even need to switch their party affiliation to vote in the Democrat primary. However, it is a good idea to check with the local registrar for the specific requirements of a given locality.
(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Newly-installed Chicago Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson wasted no time setting the tone for his administration with an inflammatory inauguration speech that sparked further concerns about skyrocketing crime, the city’s horrific public school failures and an increased focus on divisiveness driven by race-baiting, partisan politics.
Johnson, a far-leftist union organizer and former school teacher, opened his inauguration celebration with a performance of the so-called black national anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing, along with a rendition of TheStar Spangled Banner and an ancient African tribal dance from the the Mantu Dance Theatre.
Backlash was fast and furious for Johnson, who promised to heal the racial divides of Chicago but launched his administration with an inauguration that focused heavily on further dividing Chicago.
Did we just hear Chicago's poet laureate utter: "nightsticks to dodge?"
— Chicago Contrarian (@ChicagoContrar1) May 15, 2023
Just minutes ago Brandon Johnson was sworn in as Chicago's 57th Mayor. Part of the inaugural festivities included a rendition of the Black National Anthem, a hug for former Mayor Lightfoot from Johnson, a demand by Rev. Otis Moss that the city not be divided by ethnicity or… pic.twitter.com/X7kHr8M6bA
— Reporter William J. Kelly #thatreporter (@Williamjkelly) May 15, 2023
The backlash continued when Johnson, who has consistently backed defunding police, claimed he was serious about restoring law and order in Chicago, mainly through increased funding for mental health care, violence prevention programs and police accountability.
We doubt the CTU will be as smug and sanguine in two years when Chicago suffers higher homicides and the policy prescriptions @ChicagosMayor advances only exacerbate the problems they were intended to solve.
— Chicago Contrarian (@ChicagoContrar1) May 16, 2023
“A safe Chicago means a safe Chicago for all, no matter what you look like, who you love, or where you live,” Johnson said, while at the same time insulting the city’s police officers.
Who would want to put on their vest & duty belt, kiss their family goodbye, & risk their lives dealing with Chicago's worst, when the new mayor (& your boss), Brandon Johnson, equates the killing of a fellow Chicago Police Officer to that of a thug? #twillhttps://t.co/DiJszcntAc
The new mayor, who pulled an upset win over his predecessor, Democrat LGBT activist Lori Lightfoot, and former Chicago schools CEO Paul Vallas, relied heavily on union support to bolster his campaign, raking in nearly $6 million in donations from teachers unions.
He vowed to produce a return for the investment by promising to fix the city’s beleaguered public school system by funneling more money into its coffers.
Johnson said he planned to redistribute the wealth with increased taxes on businesses and entrepreneurs, both of which are already fleeing the city at alarming rates. One of his schemes, taxing financial transactions, was so far leftist that even Illinois Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzker refused to back the proposal, which would require approval from state lawmakers.
After listening to Mayor Brandon Johnson's inaugural address, we are convinced in four years Chicago will be a post-industrial wasteland.
God help Chicago.
— Chicago Contrarian (@ChicagoContrar1) May 15, 2023
