Monthly Archives: August 2023

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Daily Broadside | Woke Scold Leads U.S. Team to Early Exit — and Americans Cheer the Loss

This week is going to be light on posts due to family obligations.

For as long as I can remember, I have been proud of my country and proud of being an American. I don’t know how I “got” it, but from a young age I seem to have had a sense of how great our country was in the history of the world. I remember decorating my banana-seat bike with handmade decorations for the July 4 bicentennial celebration in 1976 and riding up and down the neighborhood street, proud to display my patriotism.

Some of the most moving memories I have are when American teams dominated competitions against other countries, like in the Olympics or in international competitions for a specific sport. For instance, I remember when the American hockey team beat the Russians for the gold in the “Miracle on Ice” at Lake Placid in the 1980 Olympics, one of the greatest upsets in sports history.

Still gives me chills.

The guys on that team were our standard-bearers, the heroes of our country, for being the upstart David against the seasoned Goliath. Jim Craig, Mike Eruzione, Mark Johnson, Rob McClanahan — they did us proud, and we all celebrated with them as they defeated our arch nemesis. I’ll never forget the sheer joy of that moment and the unbridled pride associated with it.

My patriotism has been so consistently strong that recently, while I didn’t actively root against an American team, I found myself cynically hoping that one would lose. Why? Because the team I’m thinking of has been infected with woke nonsense that leads them to stupidly complain from their privileged platform about how terrible America is, while kneeling and refusing to sing the National Anthem.

The perennial top-ranked team in the world and two-time defending champion, which was trying to win a record third cup in a row and an unprecedented fifth overall, was eliminated by Sweden in a pulsating match that needed 120 minutes of play in the field and a record seven rounds of penalty kicks before Sweden prevailed, 5-4.

Sweden, ranked No. 3 in the world, advanced to face Japan in the quarterfinals Friday.

For the U.S. women, it was their earliest exit in the 32-year history of the World Cup, having advanced to at least every semifinals before this distinctly devastating disappointment.

Now, the USWNT is left with many questions about itself and the direction it takes from here.

Good. Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving group of females. The attitude and disrespect for citizens like me (after all, what is a country but its people?) who love this country has soured a lot of us on their team.

Most glorious of all is the karma-like exit for Meghan Rapinoe, the blue-haired lesbian activist (who some say bullied other players into kneeling for the national anthem) leaves the game with an embarassing performance on a clutch play — a penalty kick — that with her experience should have been as natural as tying her boots.

I don’t revel in her humiliation. What I enjoy is that her failure diminishes her stature as an anti-American voice. If she had been the heroine of the game, scoring on that kick and thereby winning the game, she would have been fêted and given a platform from which she could spew her anti-America garbage. This way, she’ll be asked about how it felt to lose the game for the team.

I joke. No one’s going to ask her that.

But they will ask her about the loss and how it felt to choke and the pressure. Any interview she does will be from a position of failure, not success. And while she has had a stellar career that will maintain her credibility, she will always walk under the shadow of going out a loser. And no one cares what you say if you don’t perform.

She humiliated the country with her woke garbage and now she has to live with her own personal humiliation. Not that I expect it will humble her at all.

Women’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe, who has been accused of poisoning her teammates with her toxic attitude, was lambasted by critics after she missed a crucial penalty kick that resulted in the US team being eliminated from the World Cup and then laughing about it.

Rapinoe, a notorious “woke” scold, was playing in what would be the final game of her illustrious career, and in a defining moment when she could have come through for her teammates and the country, the 38-year-old lesbian not only completely missed the net on the free kick, but was caught by the cameras snickering about it before crying as her defeated team walked off of the playing field in Melbourne, Australia.

A lot of Americans are unhappy with the team. A sampling from X and from the NY Post.

You know what they say. Get woke, go broke.

And good riddance.

If they’re smart, the team recalibrates now that Rapinoe’s gone and they contemplate the “many questions about itself and the direction it takes from here.”

Maybe they can start with love of country.

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Daily Broadside | We the People Are Getting Fed Up

It’s no secret that our country is descending into lawlessness what with George Soros DAs refusing to enforce the law evenly or even at all in many lefty cities. The worst of it are criminals who simply walk into a business of some kind and shamelessly steal products without batting an eye.

Here’s a story about Dale Hardware in Fremont in California’s Bay Area, whose owner’s grandfather started the business in 1955. Guess how much they’ve lost in the last year?

We’re flirting with anarchy and it’s anybody’s guess how much your average citizen is going to take before taking matters into their own hands.

We’re starting to see hints that we’re reaching a breaking point.

“You shall not steal.” Exodus 20:15

There’s a reason it’s one of the Ten Commandments.

Have a good weekend.

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Daily Broadside | Terrorist Attack in Heartland Gets Virtually No Coverage

In the early 2010s I started warning my Facebook community to pay attention to the occasional attacks by Islamic jihadis in America. Most of them were lone wolf attacks, like the attempted car bombing in Times Square in 2010, or the beheading in Oklahoma in 2014, or the multiple stabbings in Minnesota in 2016, or the one in New York in 2023.

There’s lots more like those, but generally, you don’t hear about jihadi attacks that often. You’d think that if there were one, you’d hear about it.

At a news conference on Wednesday, North Dakota authorities said that the shooter responsible for the death of a Fargo Police Department officer and the injury of two other officers used 1,800 rounds of ammunition, a grenade and other explosives to unleash a “murderous barrage of fire.”

Mohamad Barakat, 37, was fatally shot by Officer Zachary Robinson, 31, authorities said. Officer Jake Wallin, 23, was killed, while officers Andrew Dotas, 28, and Tyler Hawes, 22, were critically injured. A woman was also shot, but authorities have not said who shot her.Fargo’s police chief has said Barakat’s motive was unclear.

Fargo’s police chief has said Barakat’s motive was unclear.

“In the wake of Mohamad Barakat’s murderous, unprovoked attack, Officer Zach Robinson’s use of deadly force was reasonable, it was necessary, it was justified, and in all ways, it was lawful,” North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley told reporters. “Mohamad Barakat engaged in a savage attack. … He unleashed what can only be described fairly as a murderous barrage of fire. But that isn’t to say it wasn’t precise. In fact, it was.”

Did you know that an Islamic jihadist attack had happened? No? You’re not alone.

It’s all been hush-hush.

In the week since the July 14 attack took place, authorities have resisted providing any specifics about the Muslim terrorist or his motive. Flag Family Media, a local radio station, had its request for information about Mohamad because it had already all been turned over to the FBI.

Mohamad’s neighbors in the Fargo housing complex claimed that he was quiet and refused to interact with them. “He didn’t want to be around you and of course that made you not want to be around him.”

Why then was Mohamad in America? As previously revealed by a Front Page Magazine investigation, decades of aggressive refugee resettlement has fundamentally changed the face of this quintessentially American city. 8% of Fargo is foreign born and Somalis, Iraqis and other Muslim refugees outnumber Hispanics in the school system. The nearby mega-mosque, blocks from where Mohamad carried out his attack, and Muslim businesses attracts other arrivals.

Our best boys at the FBI interviewed Mohamad in 2021 but didn’t see any threat.

The heavily armed man who killed one Fargo police officer and wounded two as they were investigating a traffic stop earlier this month had been interviewed about his guns in 2021 after the FBI received a tip, but it was determined he had done nothing illegal and no further action was taken, authorities said Thursday.

In a statement in response to questions from The Associated Press, the FBI and Fargo Police Department said the FBI received an anonymous tip about Mohamad Barakat in July 2021 in which the tipster expressed concern about Barakat’s mental state, saying he had access to a “significant number of firearms” and had used threatening language.

But no worries! He hasn’t done anything illegal — yet. Besides, we’ve got Trump to frame and sidewalk counselors at abortion clinics to harass and they haven’t done anything illegal either!

All I’ll say is that our so-called “leaders” haven’t learned anything about the nature of Islamic jihadists or, if they have, don’t want to face it because it causes tension over their goals of diversity, inclusion and equity (DIE).

Pay attention.

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Daily Broadside | Leftist Lunacy in Illinois Gives Foreigners Policing Powers

Of all the insanity and intentionally destructive acts of the anarchists who hate America and the rule of law, I give you Illinois Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzger’s latest defilement of common sense and respect for the citizens of this formerly great country.

Illinois Gov. Jay Robert Pritzker has signed into law a bill allowing non-citizens to become police officers over the objection of the biggest police union in the state, which called it a “potential crisis of confidence in law enforcement.”

Mr. Pritzker signed HB3751 into law on July 28, allowing non-citizens to apply to become police officers in Illinois with immediate effect, provided that they’re legally authorized to work in the United States.

Foreign nationals who are legally authorized under federal law to work in the United States or any foreign national who “is an individual against whom immigration action has been deferred by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services under the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) process” but who is authorized to possess a firearm can now apply to become a police officer in Illinois, according to the text of the bill.

Federal law states that only U.S. citizens can serve as police officers and deputies but laws and legislative efforts in a number of states have changed that in the face of staffing shortages.

Any guess which states are having “staffing shortages”?

The biggest police union in Illinois calls it a “potential crisis of confidence in law enforcement.” You bet it is — just as the Leftists have planned. It’s just the capstone atop demonizing and defunding the police at every turn since St. George Floyd died of drug induced stress after trying to pass a forged $20 at his local Cup Foods for a pack of cigarettes in May 2020.

The Chicago Police Department (CPD), alongside many other departments across the United States, is hemorrhaging officers faster than it can find qualified applicants. Data suggests that the CPD has lost more than 3,300 officers and staff between 2019 and 2022, but has hired just 1,600 people to fill vacancies after a wave of quits by officers demoralized by the anti-police riots and calls to “defund the police” in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death.

Now that the anarchists’ have achieved their cause célèbre and Democrat-run cities are dealing with a shortage of officers and out-of-control crime — like Chicago — what better way to replenish their forces than with illegal aliens who will do the jobs Americans aren’t allowed to do, like enforce the law?

Perfect!

Not only are Illinois elites ignoring federal law, precedent, and common sense, but they’re giving the big double-barreled middle fingers to the citizens.

Can you imagine an armed foreigner pulling you over and demanding to see your license and registration? How about arresting you for demonstrating outside an abortion clinic, now that Pritzker has also signed into law the “Deceptive Practices of Limited Services Pregnancy Centers Act” targets crisis pregnancy centers using “deception, misinformation, or misrepresentation to interfere with access to abortion services or emergency contraception.” Of course, what any of that means is left ambiguous, not to mention that abortion service providers are exempt from the law.

The new policing law, which gives to non-citizens the power of law enforcement over American citizens, turns any sense of civic order on its head. It would be as if I moved to Spain and was given the power and the authority — a gun and a badge — over the nationals themselves without being a citizen myself. Imagine how offensive that would be to native Spaniards.

Well, same here. It’s like outsourcing law enforcement to the U.N.

Giving foreigners a gun and a badge is not only offensive, but it is troubling, too. If J.B. Pritzker and his minions in the Illinois government are willing to flaunt federal law in favor of non-citizens, what other laws are they willing to flaunt? If a foreigner makes an error in enforcing the law, will the Illinois system of justice favor the non-citizen or the citizen?

If you have to ask, you haven’t been paying attention.

Some Illinois Republicans pushed back on the bill, but only seven out of 40 House Republicans in the 118-member chamber opposed the amended bill after it passed the Senate 37-20.

During the debates on the Senate floor in May, Sen. Chapin Rose (R-Mahomet) said, “To hand the power to arrest and detain a citizen of this state, or a citizen of any state in the United States, to a noncitizen is a fundamental breach of democracy. It is antithetical to the police power of any state.”

Giving people who do not have legal status to become the enforcers of U.S. laws also diminishes the citizenship of native Americans, and I don’t mean American Indians. What does citizenship mean if a foreigner can exercise authority over a natural citizen?

If we’re giving police power to a non-citizen, what’s next? Can a non-citizen run for elected office? Why not? Pritzker has already given illegals driver’s licenses and has considered giving them some limited voting rights.

I have an idea. Let’s have a non-citizen run for governor to replace J.B. Pritzker.

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Daily Broadside | On Brand: Devon Archer Testifies That Joe Biden Was On 20+ ‘Business Calls’

He also testified that Burisma wanted Hunter Biden on their board because Biden’s “brand” would help them be successful.

Former Hunter Biden business partner Devon Archer told Congress Monday that Hunter referred to President Biden as “my guy” while connecting his dad to foreign associates nearly two dozen times — as Republicans move closer to starting an impeachment inquiry.

Archer said during a four-hour House Oversight Committee interview that Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings paid Hunter up to $1 million per year to serve on its board because of his family’s “brand.”

Archer met with then-Vice President Joe Biden in April 2014, within days of joining Burisma’s board alongside Hunter, and told lawmakers that “Burisma would have gone out of business if ‘the brand’ had not been attached to it,” according to a readout from panel Republicans.

You know what a “brand” is? Most people think of it as a logo, but a brand encompasses the entire experience that a consumer has with a company or a product or, in some cases, a person. It’s essentially the personality of the product or business with a distinct identity and its own unique attributes, all from the consumer’s perspective.

Now, when it comes to Joe Biden, I can’t imagine that’s the definition of “brand” they’re using. If that were the definition, it wouldn’t be a benefit to have him associated with a company like Burisma.

Joe Biden’s “brand” is smarmy moron and stair-tripping fool. Or in the words of B. Hussein Obama, “don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f*** things up.” That’s Biden’s brand.

What the founder of Burisma was after wasn’t so much brand, but name recognition and power. If the vice-president of the United States, Joe Biden, was associated with Burisma, it would lend an air of credibility (and intimidation) that might advance their business. They could boast that they had a Biden on board.

Hunter Biden’s business partner Devon Archer told Congress in bombshell testimony the ‘Biden brand’ helped keep Ukrainian firm Burisma from going bankrupt and revealed Joe was on the phone or present in-person at least 20 times while his son who called him ‘my guy’ was talking with foreign associates.

Republicans claim Archer’s testimony added to mounting evidence that the then-Vice President was involved in Hunter’s overseas deals that raked in millions from nations including China and Romania. Democrats claimed the phone calls were innocent and did not involve business.  

Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., confirmed Archer told the House Oversight Committee that Joe had been on speakerphone multiple times while his son was talking with business partners – but insisted they were talking about ‘niceties’ like talking about ‘the weather, “what’s going on?”‘

Yeah, see, Hunter just included his dad — the “big guy” — on his business calls just to say “Hi.”

These people are BIG FAT HAIRY LIARS.

Goldman also contended that Joe Biden’s interactions with his son’s partners were innocent.

“He described what the weather was,” Goldman said of the president’s role in foreign business relationships. “It’s kind of a preposterous premise to think that a father should not say hello to people that the son is at dinner with, and that’s literally all the evidence is.”

But former FBI official Chris Swecker, who led the bureau’s criminal investigations division from 2004 to 2006, said that things didn’t look good for President Biden, noting the many alleged speakerphone calls.

“As head of the criminal division, we saw this quite a bit in bribery cases, it’s called stream of services,” Swecker told Fox News as Archer left Capitol Hill.

“You sell access or something of value and you get something back in return, but it’s not an express quid pro quo. It’s just an understanding, but if you can match up the services within a reasonable period of time — with the thing of benefit, in this case, $10 million, or whatever it is — then you then you have bribery,” Swecker said.

It’s about time that the Biden’s were scrutinized over their malfeasance. If all goes well, their will be an impeachment inquiry. Of course, that leaves us with the prospect of that cackling nightmare, Kamala Harris.

The Marxist-infused America haters have really put us in a great position to thrive as a nation, haven’t they?

Norms: restored.