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Daily Broadside | 21 More Things I Believe as a Political Conservative

Yesterday I started a list of convictions I have as a political conservative. I realize that they set me apart from a lot of other political positions that people take in our country — even others who would call themselves “conservative.”

What’s amazing to me is that I haven’t changed that much over the years in my political leanings, even as my understanding of politics has grown. But our culture has changed … a lot. Whereas in my growing up years I would’ve considered myself a center-right conservative, our national culture has moved so far to the left that I’m now considered a far-right, ultra-MAGA bitter clinger extremist by people who probably think they’re the centrists. But my political beliefs have remained pretty stable over the years.

I remember waking up to the grift that Republicans engage in, dialing for donors whenever there was some “crisis” that lent itself to fund-raising. I had finally had enough and told the caller from the RNC that I wasn’t going to donate anything to the GOP until I saw action that matched their words. She protested that they were, in fact, conservative, and I countered by telling her that they weren’t, but that I was, and that “I didn’t leave the Republican party, but the Republican party left me!”

That’s exactly how I feel about my conservatism. I didn’t move right — the country moved left, including the GOP, leaving me on the “far” right.

Fine.

But I won’t compromise my convictions just to keep up with the cool kids who are headed Left.

I believe that at the core of conservatism is the drive to preserve order in society and in personal character.

I believe that a transcendent moral order exists and that humankind thrives when it conforms to that moral order.

I believe that our society has acquired its habits, customs, and conventions over centuries of trial and error and it is arrogant to assume that we somehow “know better” than our ancestors when it comes to morals or politics or taste.

I believe that the rule of law provides a stable and ordered society and that all men stand equally and impartially before the law, the just application of which is dependent on the moral character of the authorities.

I believe that because human beings are irredeemably imperfect (i.e. sinful) there can be no perfect society or system of government and anyone who tells you that utopia is within reach if we just do this is a liar.

I don’t believe a woman can be a man if she just declares that she is.

I don’t believe a man can be a woman if he just declares that he is.

I believe that anyone who believes that cosmetically presenting themselves as something other than their biological sex makes them that thing suffers from severe spiritual and mental corruption.

I don’t believe that biological men should compete in women’s sports.

I believe that the physical mutilation of the human body in service to delusions about biolgical reality is the natural outcome of critical theory and godlessness.

I believe that insisting on your own pronouns and demanding others refer to you with them is an attempt to force compliance with your personal mythology.

I don’t believe that the United States “owes” anyone in any other country access to our prosperity, land or way of life. It was developed by us and should be thoughtfully extended to others only in limited ways that are non-destructive to our culture and society.

I don’t believe that white men are the source of all of society’s ills.

I believe that “diversity,” far from being a strength, fractures our society because we no longer have a shared set of ideals that make us uniquely American.

I believe that like all governments, ours is only as virtuous as the men and women who occupy it.

I believe that our country’s leaders have a moral responsibility to eliminate reckless spending and keep federal spending within our means.

I believe that all men have the right to protect their family and property, with violence if necessary, from anyone who would do them harm.

I believe that entitlement spending creates a welfare class that is dependent on the government and that such an arrangement is detrimental to human flourishing.

I believe that all civil and/or political authority is derivative, being delegated by God through the people to govern according to his will as revealed in scripture.

I believe that the institution of marriage between one man and one woman, for life, is the keystone of the foundational building blocks of a thriving society — the family.

I believe that all men are created in the image of God and that you have never locked eyes with anyone who doesn’t matter to God.

These 21 statements along with yesterday’s 21 is only a partial list of things I believe. What do you believe? What would you add to the list?

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Daily Broadside | 21 Things I Believe as a Political Conservative

Most of you know that I’m a die-hard, rock-ribbed conservative, but it’s possible that some of you may not, especially those of you who have recently joined me here. I thought it would be a good exercise, and somewhat instructive, for me to clearly state where my convictions lie.

First and foremost, I’m an evangelical Christian. That’s the lens through which I try to view everything that I comment on. I may not explicitly tie an observation on a cultural or political development back to scripture, but I will when I can and it’s the backdrop to my life. That’s key to understanding my political and cultural outlook as a conservative.

I believe that a conservative’s first responsibility is to conserve — protect and preserve — the first principles of the American founding.

I believe the U.S. Constitution is the greatest political document ever created.

I believe that the United States of America as founded is the greatest country ever to exist.

I believe that America is exceptional among the nations.

I believe that the gathering of the Founding Fathers in that exact moment of history was orchestrated by God for a unique purpose unrivaled in any other epoch other than the creation of Israel.

I believe that America succeeded in its early days because it sought to honor God in its national life.

I believe that government should be limited at both the federal and state levels and that local government is most important.

I believe that our current tax system is legalized thievery and the government should get its hands out of our pockets.

I believe in strong national borders.

I believe in personal responsibility.

I believe free market capitalism, rightly understood and pursued righteously under the authority of God, is the greatest economic system devised by man.

I believe that communism, socialism, facism and Marxism are all oppressive ideologies that are antithetical to American freedom and opportunities.

I believe that government exists to protect all citizens’ personal rights.

I believe that all men are created equal.

I believe that all men should be free to pursue their “happiness” within boundaries that do not impose a burden on the rest of society.

I believe that all men are entitled to equal opportunities but do not believe all men are entitled to equal outcomes.

I believe that the worst U.S. presidents have been Joseph Robinette Biden, Barack Hussein Obama, and James Earl Carter, Jr., followed closely by Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

I believe that no-fault divorce was one of the greatest moral failures of our national character.

I believe that legalized abortion was one of the greatest moral failures of our national character.

I believe that individual property rights are key to all personal freedoms.

I believe that the administrative state in the form of so-called “alphabet agencies” is illegal and unconstitutional, and that Congress outsourced their lawmaking power to distance themselves from the laws and regulations created by these unelected and entrenched bureaucracies.

I’ll follow up tomorrow with 21 more things I believe as a political conservative.

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Daily Broadside | Another Tip to the FBI and Another Missed Opportunity to Take Down a Terrorist

You might remember that earlier this month I wrote about a terrorist attack in Fargo, North Dakota, that got very little national attention. The attacker, Mohamad Barakat, killed one police officer and wounded two others. He had an AK-47, 1,800 rounds of ammunition, explosives, a grenade and propane tanks in his car and was apparently on his way to a large event in the city center where he planned to kill lots of people.

I bring this back up because, wouldn’t you know it, the FBI had received a tip about this guy long before he went on his murderous rampage.

The FBI received a tip about the cop-killing, Syrian gunman plotting a mass casualty attack in Fargo in 2021, DailyMail.com can reveal.

The gunman, Mohamad Barakat, 37, was shot dead by Fargo police officer Zach Robinson on July 14.

Before finally being brought down, Barakat shot and killed rookie cop and Afghanistan veteran Jake Wallin, 23.

The article goes on to talk about the tip.

In response to inquiries from DailyMail.com about whether or not he was on any form of watch list or was known to police, the FBI today revealed that agents received an anonymous tip in 2021 about how many weapons he owned. 

They however forwarded the matter on to Fargo Police Department, whose officers visited his home three times in 2021.

They had received a tip from a concerned member of the public.

The cops spoke with Barakat once, during which time he insisted he had ‘no ill-intentions’ despite his enormous weapons inventory.  They then decided not to pursue any kind of action against him. 

‘During this visit, FPD detectives observed Barakat had several firearms in the apartment; however, none of them were illegal. Barakat was not prohibited from acquiring or possessing guns. 

This is hard to wrap my head around. The cops get a tip from a concerned member of the public, they visit three times, talk with him once (he’s not home the other two times?) and when he says “nah, all good bro'” they decide not to pursue anything? I mean, not even a short period of surveillance to see what he’s up to?

But the red flags were there. “He was permitted entry to the US in 2012 as a political asylum seeker from Syria.” So we bring in a man from an unstable country with radical beliefs under the rubric of “political asylum.” He stockpiles arms and some citizen raises their hand to say there might be a problem with this guy. The authorities ask some routine questions, decide there’s no issue, and then the killer unleashes hell on a quiet city because … we still don’t know why.

Little is known of Barakat, who had no social media presence and worked odd jobs in Fargo and surrounding areas. 

At one time, he worked at Fleet Farm, a firearms store in Fargo. He also frequented gun ranges and was seen there in the hours before the shooting on July 14.  

It’s unclear if he had a family before or after he moved to the US, and federal immigration officials are yet to share details of his political asylum application. 

Before Tuesday’s incident, his only crime or infraction was a speeding ticket. 

North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley said there was a ‘suggestion’ he may have been on an FBI Guardian list. 

Unfortunately, this sounds all too familiar.

The latest FBI transgressions resulted in some of the deadliest terrorist attacks since Islamic jihadists carried out their plots in 2001, killing thousands of innocent Americans. They include the 2009 massacre at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas, the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, the 2016 mass shooting at an Orlando, Florida nightclub and the 2017 attack at the Fort Lauderdale Airport in south Florida. In 2011 the FBI opened a counterterrorism lead into Nidal Hasan, the perpetrator of the Fort Hood shooting, but the probe was closed five months later after agents evidently determined that Hasan did not pose a national security threat. Months later he massacred 13 people at a U.S. military post. The Orlando shooter, Omar Mateen, was also under FBI investigation before he carried out his attack for making statements that displayed his radicalized ideology. Less than a year later the probe was closed after agents ruled the information to be unfounded. Mateen killed 46 people.

You want to know why so many Americans don’t trust our national departments of law enforcement like the FBI and the DOJ? Because they’re too busy pursuing the bogeyman of “domestic terrorists” while ignoring true threats to our safety like Mohamad Barakat.

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Daily Broadside | An Important Moment Is Coming and You Will Have to Decide What You Will Do

I’m not going to comment on Wednesday’s “debate.” Still too early. Any analysis will only hold for a few days and then it will all be different. Suffice to say that Trump, once again, is doing things his way.

What is important to note is that the structure of the United States is still there. We’ve got the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the three branches of government, the election cycles, the free press, our educational system, our military, and independent states.

But that’s all it is: a structure. It’s been hollowed out and suffers from an infestation of dry rot brought on by a class of termites that no longer honor the law or the freedoms that we are guaranteed by our national charters. We are slowly but surely being choked off from our freedoms; we are being told what we can and cannot do, what we can and cannot say, what we can and cannot know.

I’m not the only one who feels this. (HT: JJ Sefton)

A coup d’etat is when a small group of people suddenly try to take power and subjugate a nation by force.

A coup du publique is when a small group of people already in power try to further subjugate an entire population by methodically taking away whatever rights they may have left.

That global sense of unease, that nearly audible universal skincrawl taking place across the planet, that unquestionable deprivation of the right to ask questions, that which is happening right now: that is the coup du publique in action.

In a run-of-the-mill coup d’etat, it is axiomatic that the people staging the coup seize the radio station, usually even before they track down and meat hook the unfortunate Great Leader of the People and Terror of the Nation’s Enemies and President For Life and replace him with some other Grand High Dirtbag.

OK, so we have a name for it: “coup du publique.”

In a sense, a coup is the opposite of a revolution in that it thrives not on the active involvement of the citizenry, but its passive isolation, unlike in popular uprisings and protests.

For example, besides the fact that it was over in time for dinner, that Jan. 6 participants called the next day asking if they could stop by to pick up jackets they left behind, that a significant percentage of the participants were being paid by certain government agencies to be there, that participants stood around taking pictures of statues, and that the police on scene may have allowed a large proportion of the protestors in is why the tragic stupidity of January 6 was not a coup or an insurrection or anything more than a stupid thoughtless gift to the Democrats and their deep state allies.

But what if you flip that script just a tiny bit and make sure that – before any other planning, ally recruiting, etc., is even started – you made sure to quietly, incrementally take control of the information infrastructure first?  A few years ago, that meant radio and television stations and phone company HQ – today that means the internet as it is all three in one.

And if instead of overthrowing a government, you did this to ensure a government’s survival and expansion – the public be damned.  Then you would not have a coup d’etat but a coup du publique.

This explains what we’re experiencing. But it doesn’t tell us what to do about it. For that, we turn to Michael Walsh at The Pipeline.

Perhaps one solution, then, is to abandon primaries altogether and return to the days of the smoke-filled rooms, during which the pros and cons of each candidate can be weighed and judged by party elders and officials; after all, the U.S. was never meant to be a plebiscitary democracy, and a system that produced Lincoln and Grant ought not to have been discarded so lightly, especially when it has since given us Romney and McCain. 

Desperate times demand desperate measures. You can find all four of my Epoch Times columns on this subject linked at the bottom of the last in the series, “What Is to Be Done? Preparing the Information Battlespace,” which include numerous suggestions for fixes and improvements. Remember: principles, not programs. Let’s discuss these ideas in the weeks going forward; please feel free to add your two cents in the comments below. Until this, chew on this:

What does the GOP stand for? The party fought Trump every step of the way, double-crossed him constantly, feebly supported his policy positions, undercut his authority via the media at every opportunity, and otherwise made it clear to the conservative electorate that in the GOP establishment they had an enemy every bit as dangerous as the Democrats.

This is not the place to argue the merits (non-existent, in any case) of the two bogus impeachments. Rather it is to force the GOP to act more like the Leninist/Stalinist Democrats and speak with one voice, in the pursuit of a single objective: winning. In these fraught times, “comity” is luxury only congenital losers can afford, and the sooner the party purges itself the better off both it and the country will be. As Barry Goldwater famously offered: “a choice, not an echo.” Now’s the time to take him up on it.

Or perhaps it’s finally time to start thinking beyond party boundaries and consider a unity ticket that dispenses simultaneously with Trump, Mike Pence, Biden, and Kamala Harris: and changes the equation at one stroke:  DeSantis/Bobby Kennedy, Jr., anybody? No revenge, no “identity” tickets, just two men either of whom could be a plausible presidential leader, even if you don’t agree with both of them in every particular.

I think most voters are beginning to realize that there isn’t a GOP cavalry coming to rescue them. That boat sailed while Paul Ryan was House Speaker.

(2) Parties vs. uniparty

There has been a seismic shift in the way Republican voters see political parties.  After Obama forced government-controlled health care on America, the Tea Party movement began a desperate fight against socialism’s advances.  From the energy of that movement, Republicans eventually took back the House and Senate.  Despite those triumphs, Paul Ryan rubber-stamped Obama’s budgets, while refusing to build Trump’s border wall.  McConnell’s Senate Republicans, who had run on repealing Obamacare, cemented socialized medicine with McCain’s decisive betrayal.

Grassroots voters finally rejected Establishment Republicans and catapulted outsider Donald Trump into office.  In response, Republicans quietly assisted Democrats in their attempt to remove Trump through the Russia hoax.  In the space of a decade, most Republican officeholders were outed as RINOs, before voters properly concluded that they were actually part of a single D.C. Uniparty all along.  

What will you do, indeed?

Have a good weekend.

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Daily Broadside | Will You Comply This Time Around?

You might recall that last week I described myself as being sick and having to take a couple of days off from work. I figured it was a head cold, as I cycled through a sore throat, then a cough, then it moved up into my nasal cavity, then sneezing, then having a couple of days of blowing my nose, then congestion, then, finally, most of that clearing up but feeling a bit winded.

I told myself that if it didn’t go away within a week, I’d go get myself tested for the Fauci-funded Chinese Bat Flu. I had a couple of friends ask me if it was COVID, but I really didn’t think it was.

Now I’m pretty much back to health and it’s only been nine days since I had the first symptoms, so I didn’t go get tested. But I’ve now heard that at least one person I know experienced the exact same thing as I did and thought it was a cold, but later confirmed that they did indeed have COVID.

That makes me think that I probably had COVID, too.

If you haven’t heard, new strains of the Chinese Lung Pox are making a comeback this summer.

A second American tested positive for the new highly-mutated BA.2.86 Covid variant that has been causing global alarm over its rapid transmission.

The positive case was detected in an asymptomatic patient in Virginia who was tested August 10 after returning to the US from Japan. 

Oh noes! A whole two Americans have been identified with the variant and one of them wasn’t even showing signs of illness!

Batten down the hatches!

Scientists identified the case in a database that contains test samples from a small number of travelers entering the US. Independent experts told DailyMail.com they believe the new strain is spreading more widely and in more US states.

The new variant, also spotted in Michigan last week, is causing concern because it stems from an ‘earlier branch’ of the coronavirus, so it differs from the variants targeted by current vaccines.

That concern, combined with an uptick in positive tests across the US, has spooked an Atlanta college and the Hollywood studio Lionsgate into mandating face masks again. But while Covid rates are rising in the US — hospital admissions are up for the fifth week in a row — they remain at near-historic lows.

COVID hospitalizations have risen for the last five weeks, prompting the implementation of mask mandates by Lionsgate studios, who also require employees to self-test before going to the office.

You know, because it worked so well the last time we all did that.

There are reports circulating that colleges and offices are beginning to reinstate COVID mask mandates and contact tracing despite no new cases of the virus being reported.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Monday that Morris Brown College, a black private liberal arts college has reinstated the measures as part of a “precautionary step.” 

The report notes that students and staff will all be asked to mask up while on campus, only one week after classes began.

A communication issued by the college claims there have been “reports of positive cases among students in the Atlanta University Center,” a consortium of black colleges and universities located on the western side of Atlanta.

And the timing is amazing as the presidential campaign season kicks into high gear. And we all know how that worked out in 2020.

Here’s my advice: say no to the mandates. Any mandate.

None of that slowed the spread of the virus. Not the masks, not the social distancing, not the “vaccines,” not any of it. We would have been better off letting it run its course without any of that.

The worst part of it is the government overreach. Led by Fauci, courtesy of Trump (probably his worst mistake) and followed by Brandon, these monsters wrecked our society and killed thousands by their insane demands.

No more. We’ve been down that road once and I, for one, am not going down it again.

I will not mask. I will not vaccinate.

I will not give our overlords the benefit of the doubt again. They lied to us for profit and power.

Not just no. Hell, no.

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Daily Broadside | My Name Isn’t Alice And I Don’t Live In A Rabbit Hole

When gays and lesbians agitated for their “rights” to fornicate with others of the same sex without prosecution, they argued that it was nobody’s business what went on in the privacy of their own bedrooms. Once they got that, they argued that they weren’t represented in mainstream America and they couldn’t be discriminated against. So they began to show up holding hands in public and appearing in commercials as though it were the most natural thing in the world. Then they argued that they had the right to get married, along with all the benefits and privileges that came with that station in life. It didn’t “hurt” anybody, and they were the victims of oppression since marriage should be open to everybody. Love is love, right? And when the Supreme Court agreed, they demanded that Christians bake the cake, bigots!

Now the “T” people in the LGBTQANON+ conglomerate are arguing that they have the right to participate in life according to what they declare they are, not what their biological sex has determined that they are. Mostly men pretending to be women want to use the same bathrooms, go to the same prisons, and play the same sports as females.

This sickness is so pervasive that it has radically changed the nature of our culture to the point that a young woman speaking out of her “lived experience” (a favorite phrase of the cultural Marxists) is shut down at a public library for “misgendering” not anyone in particular, but in general, for talking about biological men participating in women’s sports.

This is delusional. We are not just sliding down the rabbit hole, but being forced to live there. And all of our natural rights, including the freedom of speech and of religion and of the right to assemble peacefully and to petition the goverment for a redress of grievances, are being subverted by irrational, specious, weak-minded anti-American cultural Marxists.

I, for one, will not play that game. You don’t get to have your own pronouns, you don’t get to decide you’re a “woman” and demand that I treat you as one if you’re a biological male. I live in reality, and I will not bend to the absurd.

As Christ followers, we cannot deny the truth, even it if causes someone to feel “unsafe” or they claim it’s an act of “violence” to misgender them.

This occurs at a public library, where all over the country drag performers are welcomed and given a platform to perform for the public — especially children. But when an organization that has a different viewpoint wants to use the public facility to share their story, they’re shut down.

Free speech for me, but not for thee.

If you can bear it, watch the whole surreal, nauseating thing.

This isn’t the America I knew.

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Daily Broadside | All the Single (Chinese) Men Put Your Hands Up

There’s never a shortage of outrageous topics to choose from to write about when I review the news every day. Everything from the latest prosecution persecution of Donald J. Trump to the latest tale of corruption and scandal of Resident Brandon and his corrupt progeny to the latest attempts of the far-leftists to mis-educate our children to the administration selling off unused parts of the border wall to the woke nonsense that likely led to the Maui wildfires that killed dozens and destroyed an entire town.

But the one that deserves your attention today happens out of sight, is under-reported, and could be a serious national security threat to the United States.

Border Patrol agents recorded a roughly 800% increase in Chinese migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, according to federal data updated Friday.

There were roughly 17,678 illegal migrant encounters of Chinese nationals between October 2022 and July, compared to 1,970 in all of fiscal year 2022, according to the data. In March, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) sent a memo exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation to agency officials warning of a surge in Chinese migrants.

Chinese immigrants? Coming over the southern border? That seems rather indirect.

Apparently, some of them claim to be escaping religious persecution, specifically those who are Chinese Christians.

“According to CBP, custodial interviews indicate that Chinese citizens are requesting asylum claiming religious persecution by the Chinese Government due to their Christian faith. Additionally, Chinese nationals reportedly make their own smuggling arrangements for most of their journey, only utilizing elements of smuggling networks to cross the border,” the memo stated.

I’d be one of the first to welcome Chinese Christians to the U.S., but I still think they should be crossing the border legally, at formal checkpoints. In fact, this claim makes me scratch my head a little bit, because Chinese Christians are known for faithfully meeting in secret house churches in spite of the persecution they experience. I’m not saying there aren’t any that try to escape to the U.S., but a “surge” doesn’t seem to be in keeping with what is known about the underground church in China.

Another report quoted Dr. Kenneth Allard, a retired Army Colonel and former Dean of Students at the National War College.

“Totalitarian governments like China are great exploiters of opportunity,” Dr. Allard told Breitbart. “They recognize weakness and capitalize on it immediately. What we are seeing reflects a deliberate policy choice by the regime.”

When asked about the potential for China to take advantage of the current crisis along the southern border, Allard says the regime most certainly recognizes the weakness President Biden has exhibited on the international stage, adding “its obvious he is not entirely in control at present, China realizes that as well.”

What little information that is retrieved from the migrants would indicate most are fleeing the repressive regime due to the aftereffects of the extreme COVID-19 lockdowns imposed by Xi Jinping’s government. Another reason cited by the migrants is the negative economic effects of China’s strict COVID-19 policies regarding the exportation and importation of goods.

One of the most worrisome aspects of the surge in Chinese immigrants is that the majority of them seem to be single adult men. It is the same concern that we observed early on in the migrant caravan crisis, that so many of the migrants were single young men.

Nearly three-quarters of those in the caravan of Central American migrants traveling through Mexico to the United States are adult men, a senior Border Patrol official told the Washington Examiner.

Families and unaccompanied children make up “about 20 to 30 percent” of the caravan, according to Roy Villareal, deputy chief patrol agent of the Border Patrol’s San Diego Sector.

“The rest of that is single, adult males,” Villareal said during a recent tour of the region.

I don’t have any evidence that any of the young adult Chinese males are here on a nefarious mission, but why aren’t we being more cautious? Why do we put up with the erasure of our southern border? Why do we open ourselves up to the possible threat of sabotage from one of our greatest enemies militarily and economically?

For all we know they’re sending carriers of some new disease cooked up in a Chinese lab.

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Daily Broadside | There’s “No Evidence” of Voter Fraud Until There Is

Most of us who supported Trump in 2020, and plenty of those who opposed him, believe that there’s enough evidence of voter fraud to invalidate that election, but we’re constantly told that there’s NO EVIDENCE of fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

REPORT: Trump White House Official Confirms Knowledge of Muskegon, Michigan Voter Fraud Report in 2020 – CLAIMS THERE WAS AN ARREST and that BILL BARR Allegedly Killed the Investigation

On Thursday, former Trump administration General Counsel Personnel Police Operations Andrew Kloster joined Steve Bannon on The War Room to discuss the Muskegon, Michigan 2020 voter fraud scandal.

Andrew Kloster said he notified Bill Barr’s DOJ – and Barr and his cronies smacked him down and killed the investigation.

The investigation had been buried by politicians, government investigators and the press.

On October 8, 2020, only one month before the 2020 general election, Muskegon, MI City Clerk Ann Meisch noticed a black female, whose name was later redacted from the police report, dropping off between 8,000-10,000 completed voter registration applications at the city clerk’s office. Clerk Meisch immediately noticed that the stacks of registrations included the same handwriting, non-existent addresses, and incorrect phone numbers.

The Muskegon Police Department was contacted and asked to investigate. On 10/21/20 First Lieutenant Mike Anderson was contacted by Tom Fabus, Chief of Investigations for Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s Office. According to the MI State Police report, Fabus asked for Michigan State Police assistance with a joint investigation of alleged voter fraud being conducted by the Muskegon Police Department and the AG.

An investigative task force was formed, and an investigation was initiated.

During their investigation, the state police discovered the women worked for GBI Strategies. This was included in their police report. The group had temporary offices in numerous Michigan locations. The police also identified Gary Bell as the head of the organization.

You know why there’s no evidence of fraud? Because most of it has gotten ignored or swept aside for long enough that people have lost interest or think it no longer makes any difference.

What ended up happening is my understanding, I reached out and spoke with some local law enforcement. What happened was there was a woman, my understanding is basically loitering outside of a dropbox all day, and she gets picked up by a junior guy and arrested because he’s like, what are you doing? You’re stuffing this box. What’s going on? So they arrest her, and she basically spills the beans. She’s a democratic operative. She’s got filled-out ballots, like 7000 is what I was hearing, and they arrested her. Now, the senior guy, my understanding was off at the time. So the junior guy who picked her up, got her statement and released her, and she went back to Detroit… She went back to Detroit. The senior guy comes back in the next day or later in the day and says, what the know? You had her dead to rights. Why did you release her? And starts trying to get an extradition order from Detroit, because this is before the election. We’re hearing there could be voter fraud. And here you’ve got someone basically copping to it and caught with her hand in the cookie jar.

If you have time, I encourage you to listen to the entire conversation, and especially Andrew Kloster’s comment about Bill Barr. Barr was supposed to be this paragon of integrity and experience who would lend great credibility to Trump’s administration.

The signals I got both through the White House and through the Department of Justice and through the careers at the Department of Justice, was, it was the same story over and over and over again: “Leadership is not interested in this. We’re not even going to make a phone call.”

There’s plenty of evidence; there’s just no will to pursue it.

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Daily Broadside | I Should’a Been A Truck Driver

I had the unfortunate development of a head cold and sore throat after this weekend. I missed yesterday and I’m still not at 100 percent, so today’s post is a short one. Hope to be back to normal by end of the week.

One of my uncles drove truck for BASF for 21 years after starting as a technical illustrator. He made more money driving a rig than he did drawing, but I’ll bet even he wouldn’t believe the amount of money that UPS drivers are now making.

After the Teamsters union secured a win guaranteeing that UPS delivery drivers would make $170,000 in salary and benefits by the end of a 5-year period, people in tech and other white-collar workers had a lot to say about it. As the wife of a UPS driver, so do I.

Let’s start with the facts. The $170,000 is not a base salary — it takes into consideration healthcare and pension benefits. But that’s not even what bothers me most about people’s reactions, which range from wondering why drivers would make that much money to calling them overpaid and undeserving.

I really want people to think about why they believe UPS workers don’t deserve to be fairly compensated. It seems like a lot of it has to do with the snobbery white-collar workers feel toward blue-collar workers. I’m a hairdresser so I see it in my work, too. Some people just feel like they’re better than us and that we don’t deserve nice things or stability.

What’s remarkable is that this UPS driver’s wife goes on and on to justify his salary and benefits, criticizing white collar workers, CEOs and capitalism. None of her reasons truly “justify” that salary and benefits package. It just “is” and good for them.

It would behoove people who are blessed with such material wealth to be thankful for it and stay quiet.

But that’s just me.

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Daily Broadside | The US Ship of State is Swamped and in Danger of Sinking

I hate to miss posting, but this past week was absolutely packed with activity. One of the little’s is getting married this fall, and there were all kinds of tasks associated with hosting guests and putting on a bridal shower that was a beautiful event for all involved. We’re getting to know the future in-laws and some of their extended family, too. I’m slightly more of an introvert than extrovert so expending that much energy with so many people tends to deplete my reserves and will take some time for me to rebound.

But I couldn’t not post with all that’s going on in this bizarre country called the United States of America. At one time the envy of the world, it has been twisted into a grotesque, unrecognizable parody of itself, claiming all the virtues of a free society but acting like a third-world banana republic.

We’re being led by a doddering, angry, dementia-riddled, imbecilic fabulist whose natural language is lying. He’s bought and owned by the Chinese, the Russians and the Ukranians. He’s done nothing worth remembering in his fifty years in government, but we will remember him because of the immense damage he’s inflicted on the economy, politics and the culture in the two-plus years he’s been in office.

Our political elites have weaponized the Constitution and are conducting open lawfare on the previous president while ignoring the crimes of the current one and his family. Lawfare is even being conducted at the state level against conservative politicians, like Texas AG Ken Paxton.

We’re being swarmed with some 7 million foreigners who have crossed our non-existant border illegally without vetting and are actually shlepped around the country to large “santuary” cities, so much so that even hard-left mayors are complaining that they can’t handle the influx and are now asking citizens to open their homes to the invaders.

The Chinese float spy balloons over mainland US with impunity and are apparently behind an illegal biolab full of diseased mice, pathogens, blood, coronavirus, HIV, hepatitis and herpes and other infectious agents that was operating in secret without a permit in California, and an illegal police station in New York City to hunt down Chinese dissidents. We’re dependent on China for our pharmaceuticals. It’s shameful embarrassment to our sovereignty and safety.

The chucklehead in the White House printed $4 trillion and set off the worst inflation in 40 years. Interest rates have tripled and gas prices are doubled.

Our cities, once the envy and destination of the world, are turning into third-world $#!+holes full of crime and drugs, homelessness and death. Stores and businesses are closing because it’s unsafe to operate in those fetid markets.

Americans are fleeing “blue” states to “red” states in an effort to escape the insanity that progressives have unleashed in their states. We’re segregating ourselves into “rational” and “irrational” populations — and it depends on which one you identify with that shapes your definition of “rational.”

Our military is more interested in being woke than in being prepared as evidenced by dismal recruiting that has left us thousands of soldiers short. In addition, we are short on munitions and are far behind China in naval readiness.

As Victor Davis Hanson writes,

We are in the midst of one of the most radical revolutions in American history. It is as far-reaching and dangerous as the turbulent years of the 1850s and 1860s or the 1930s. Every aspect of American life and culture is under assault, including the very processes by which we govern ourselves, and the manner in which we live.

The Revolution began under the Obama administration that sought to divide Americans into oppressed and oppressors, and then substitute race for class victimization. It was empowered by the bicoastal wealth accrued from globalization, and honed during the COVID lockdown, quarantine-fed economic downturn, and the George Floyd riots and their aftermath. The Revolution was boosted by fanatic opposition to the presidency of Donald Trump. And the result is an America that is unrecognizable from what it was a mere decade ago.

There’s little that one person can do to fight the assault on our way of life. It will take a critical mass of citizens who have decided they’ve had enough and are ready to fight — and sacrifice for — the survival of America.