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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 | It’s My First Post of 2023 …

… and yesterday was New Year’s Day (Observed) at my office, so I had another day off. I hope your Christmas and New Year’s celebrations were wonderful and meaningful and full of warmth and pleasant memories …

… because it might be a new year but it’s the same-old same-old in the world of politics and culture and faith. Just because everything is “merry and bright” doesn’t mean we begin with a completely clean slate once the calendar turns a new page. Well, unless you’re in Christ, then “his compassions never fail. They are new every morning” (Lamentations 3:22-23) and, by extension, every year.

We’ll have to learn how to live in a country that is not just fraying at the edges, but is tearing down the middle. The FBI is still the Gestapo we learned about over the last six years; the Democrats are still the political mafia they exposed themselves to be; the GOP is not the opposition party but part of the swamp (with a few notable exceptions); our economy is being destroyed by the Church of Perpetual Climate Fear as war is waged on our abundance of natural gas and oil resources for some fantasy of “carbon-neutral” energy (go back to nuclear energy!); the border is still porous and getting worse because we live under a lawless regime whose sole purpose is to destroy the United States as founded; the judiciary has become a court of rubber stamps that enable progressive lawlessness; our elections are no longer free or fair, but hopelessly suspect; the DOJ and Brandon himself have demonized patriotic Americans and keeps hundreds of them locked up in violation of their due process rights; and normal Americans should be gathering by the millions to protest and agitate against all of it but such behavior is only allowed on the Left and prosecuted against the Right.

My political awakening came a couple of decades ago and I’ve invested more time in speaking out against the lawlessness than I ever have over the last three years. I sometimes see myself as a guy running up and down the brow of a rocky island jutting up out of the sea, waving a red flag, setting off flares, and yelling at an approaching luxury cruise ship, trying to get the attention of anyone on board, warning them that they’re about to run aground and sink the boat. Unfortunately, even though I’ve gotten the attention of a few people on the promenade deck, the captain and crew don’t seem to notice or care.

It’s dawning on me that there is no solution that will immediately fix the dire circumstances we find ourselves in. What I didn’t want to grant, but what has become most apparent, is that our freedoms and homogenous cultural assumptions can no longer be taken for granted. Speech is being curtailed by political and technological ideologues; deeply evil people lie and conspire to get the political outcomes they want. The spirit of our Founders once held us together as a nation, along with deeply religious communities of faith. Those have now been relegated to specialized institutions like the Heritage Foundation or Hillsdale College or to the church or the synagogue or the mosque. You’re certainly not going to find them in the halls of congress or our schools, which regularly and naturally reinforced our national values.

The Lord foils the plans of the nations;
    he thwarts the purposes of the peoples.
But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever,
    the purposes of his heart through all generations.

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
    the people he chose for his inheritance.
From heaven the Lord looks down
    and sees all mankind;
from his dwelling place he watches
    all who live on earth—
he who forms the hearts of all,
    who considers everything they do.

Psalm 33:10-15

Nothing escapes the Lord’s notice. He’s aware of all that is taking place in our country’s capitol, in each of the legislatures in each state, of every person in a position of authority. He’s aware of the lies, the cheating, the oppression, the hatred, the incitement conflict among the people, of the favoritism and the graft and the greed.

His purpose among the nations will prevail because his plans “stand firm forever.” How I wish that we would be known as a “nation whose God is the Lord.” But those in power disingenuously say they fear a “theocracy,” even though a return to the Judeo-Christian principles that this nation was founded on would be the right thing.

They reject them at the cost of their own destruction. They are blind fools and, one day, they will shrink in horror and shame as the full weight of their foolishness bores down on them.

In the meantime, Christians should be doing three things: actively opposing the evil being done in this nation, preparing for persecution, and winning as many to Christ as they can, while they can.

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Daily Broadside | Rep. Chip Roy Rips Democrats for Anti-American Deception in the House

Daily Verse | Revelation 13:18
If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man’s number. His number is 666.

Thursday’s Reading: Revelation 14-16

Thursday and I found this five-minute video of Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) absolutely ripping the Democrats for what we all know is happening — backroom dealing with no debate, discussion or time to hammer out a budget. He and his colleagues are accused of “not coming to the table” and are just expected to vote on the monstrosity.

This isn’t a photo op or some grandstanding on Roy’s part. He’s a prophet shouting in the wilderness. I’d love a coalition led by Chip Roy that results in the overthrow of the anti-American forces at work in the federal government.

You want to know how our government operates? Take the five minutes to listen.

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Daily Broadside | The Lying Liars Know We Know They’re Lying And They Don’t Care

Daily Verse | Mark 7:8
“You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to the traditions of men.”

Friday’s Reading: Mark 8-10
Saturday’s Reading: Mark 11-13

Friday and the end of another week. When we reconnect on Monday, we’ll be on the back half of October already.

One of the reasons I loathe the Democrats is their propensity for lying. It reminds me of what Jesus said about the devil: “When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies” (John 8:44). Lying comes as naturally to Democrats as breathing.

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas backed up the Biden administration’s narrative last year that Border Patrol agents whipped Haitian migrants even after he knew the narrative was false, according to emails obtained by the Heritage Foundation and reported by Fox News.

DHS assistant secretary Marsha Espinosa alerted Mayorkas on Sept. 24, 2021, to a news article that said the photographer who took the images did not see any whips. “Espinosa highlighted the comments from the photographer where he directly says he did not witness any whipping,” Fox noted.

Mayorkas that same day nevertheless decided to join a Biden administration press conference that pushed the debunked narrative, and he even went so far as to call the images “horrifying” and an example of “systemic racism.” President Joe Biden, meanwhile, made a whipping motion with his hand as he said the photographs depicted “people being strapped.”

This isn’t an “unforced error” or some innocent misinterpretation of photographs. This was a deliberate hoax employed to reinforce and further the narrative that the US is irredeemably racist. As the NY Post puts it, Mayorkas must go: He smeared border agents despite knowing they hadn’t whipped migrants.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has to go. In a bombshell revelation, the Heritage Foundation obtained emails showing his own staff told him last year that reports of border agents whipping migrants near Del Rio, Texas, were false — before he went to the White House and publicly smeared his own agents as racists anyway.

Mayorkas flat-out lied. Just two hours after being informed the very photographer who captured the viral Sept. 19, 2021, pictures of mounted Border Patrol officers confronting Haitian migrants said no whipping occurred, he declared: “Our nation saw horrifying images that do not reflect who we are. We know that those images painfully conjured up the worst elements of our nation’s ongoing battle against systemic racism.” 

This is an impeachable offence. We can’t have a peaceable and ordered society when those in charge deliberately corrupt the truth.

But as an executive I once worked for said, “Speed of the leader, speed of the team.” Here’s Brandon flat-out lying that we aren’t in a recession even though we are very clearly in a recession.

He and his whole illegitimate administration are trying to gaslight their way through the miserable state of affairs they’ve forced on the whole nation.

Let’s not forget his fabulism over his son Beau. President Biden incorrectly told an audience in Colorado on Wednesday that his late son Beau “lost his life in Iraq.” His son died in May 2015 at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.

His entire Residency is a lie. 81 million votes, the most ever in history, for this shambling poser!

Right.

It’s no wonder that trust in our government is now below 50 percent across all three branches of government.

A recent Gallup poll shows that less than 50% of Americans have trust in either of the three branches of government — President, Congress, Supreme Court — and that this marks the “first time that none of the three branches is trusted by a majority of Americans” …

For the Judicial Branch, 47% said they had trust in the institution; the Executive Branch only earned 43% trust; and only 38% of those surveyed said they had trust in the Legislative Branch. 

This isn’t the sole doing of the Democrats; Republicans rightly share blame for the lack of trust in our government. But the Democrats are shamelessly lying and don’t even try to hide it anymore.

We see what you’re doing. You know we see what you’re doing. And we know that you know that we know.

Why do we put up with this?

Have a good weekend.

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Daily Broadside | Red, Blue and The Color of Politics

Daily Verse | Matthew 1:5-6
Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab,
Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth,
Obed the father of Jesse,
and Jesse the father of King David.

Tuesday’s Reading: Matthew 5-7

Tuesday and enquiring minds want to know: why red for Republicans and blue for Democrats? Who made that decision?

I think we can all agree that the red and blue have their origins in our flag of red, white and blue. Blue was also associated with the north during the Civil War, while gray was associated with the south. But how did we get to the current associations?

I always thought the designation of red for Republicans was because both red and Republican start with the letter “R.” Easy to remember.

But then there’s blue and Democrat. That doesn’t work. Where’s the alliteration?

I tried to name a color that starts with “D” but not “dark.” Red, yellow, green, blue, black, white, gray, orange, brown … there really isn’t a common color that starts with “D.” I had to go to a box of 64 crayons to find “Dandelion,” which is a muted yellow that leans orange, or “Denim” which is a vivid blue.

But no one is going to refer to, “red states and dandelion states” or “red states and denim states.” The first sounds like Democrats need to weed their garden. I mean, they wouldn’t do it themselves, but they’ll pay Pasquale who just crossed the southern border to do it. The second raises the question of whether Democrats wear jeans. They do if they are these jeans.

The point is that it’s not about alliteration. So, how did the colors come to be associated with each of the parties?

In the presidential election of 1976, our bicentennial year, NBC was the first network to debut an electronic electoral map using light bulbs that could turn red or blue. The colors followed the scheme used in Britain, where red was associated with liberal parties and blue was associated with more conservative parties.

The bulbs on NBC’s map turned red for Jimmy Carter, the Democrat, and blue for Gerald Ford, the Republican—exactly the opposite of what the colors mean today.

Over the next 25 years or so, multiple TV networks offered colored maps of the states during an election, with each network choosing its own color scheme. That proved confusing for the general public, since they could watch one network with one set of colors, and then see another network with a different set of colors.

That all came to an end in the 2000 presidential election between Al Gore, the Democrat, and George W. Bush, the Republican. That was the election of the hanging chads in Florida, and it dragged on for weeks while each side fought a legal battle over how (and if) the ballots would be counted.

As coverage of the controversy continued with persistent graphics over many weeks, a consensus emerged among the major networks to use the same designations with blue for Democrats and red for Republicans.

The red and blue designations cemented themselves in the mind of the public and has remained that way ever since.

Red is for Republicans; blue is for Democrats.

With the deep political divide in our country, the two colors are an efficient way to refer to states which tend to consistently vote one way or the other. It’s too broad a brush, of course, because even “deep blue” states, like New York, have hundreds of thousands or even millions of conservative voters living there—much to Kathy Hochul’s dismay who, if she had her way, would empty the state of them. And even deep red states, like Arizona, have liberals living among them who (*ahem*) “flipped” the state blue in 2020.

But the associations of red and blue have stuck. Not only are they an efficient way to designate the general voting patterns of a bloc of people, they also represent a way of life or a political philosophy.

If I say, “Texas is a red state,” I mean that it is a conservative, patriotic, fiercely independent, Second Amendment-loving population, even if Austin is a sour blueberry in a strawberry patch. If I say, “California is a blue state,” I mean that it is a smug, liberal, anti-American, fascist-loving, ideologically driven land of fruits and nuts on the Left coast.

Guess where I’ll move if I am forced to choose between the two?

The red and blue designations reinforce the divide between Americans of different political persuasions even as they are helpful as shorthand to talk about our differences.

Vote red in November.

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Daily Broadside | Have We Restored Our Norms Yet? Oh. Never Mind

Daily Verse | Hosea 4:12
My people consult a wooden idol,
    and are answered by a stick of wood.
A spirit of prostitution leads them astray;
    they are unfaithful to their God.

Thursday’s Reading: Hosea 8-14

Thursday and we’re at the halfway point of September. “Thirty days hath September …”

When I say that the Left is all about sowing chaos and shattering norms by forcing their warped vision of “norms” on the country, I mean things like Resident Brandon’s appointment of Dr. Demetre Daskalakis as the White House National Monkeypox Response Deputy Coordinator.

This guy seems helpful and informative.

Oops, wrong media. My bad.

This guy seems … disturbed.

Just like “Dark Brandon” is the jokey side of the Resident, so here we have Dark Demetre. But this isn’t funny. The National Pulse has an in-depth article about Daskalakis.

Daskalakis is known for his efforts in the world of HIV and other diseases affecting the LGBTQ+ community, having attended New York University Medical School, followed by a residency, fellowship, and additional masters degree from Harvard Medical School. In an interview with The Atlantic in 2014, he said “I learned my bedside manner from East Village drag queens.” He attended Columbia University as an undergraduate and was a “general and religion double major.” Raised by Greek Orthodox immigrants in Arlington, Virginia, a review of Dr. Daskalakis’s social media presence reveals a penchant for pentagrams and other Satanic symbolism, The National Pulse can reveal.

Daskalakis’s social media presence is disturbing, to say the least. Alongside his partner Michael MacNeal, the pair launched a “goth” gym in New York, which originally ran out of the high-profile Equinox gym chain, before spinning off into its own brand based in a former gay nightclub that in turn had taken over an old church in Manhattan: Monster Cycle.

Monster Cycle’s social media pages are full of references to Satanism, the devil, burning crosses, and pentagrams, and more. While the gym got fawning coverage from the New York Times (below) in 2014, its review on “SweatConcierge” made references to “alarming” imagery and “terrifying” co-ed locker rooms.

Daskalakis’s appointment is consistent with this administration’s hiring proclivities. From Rod Dreher at The American Conservative:

Are there any limits to the weirdos this Democratic administration will hire for important positions? You might have thought the baldheaded cross-dressing sadomasochist Sam Brinton was the outer limits (Biden appointed him to head an office within the Department of Energy). And, of course, transgender assistan Secretary of Health Rachel Levine:

Image: The American Conservative.

It’s bizarre. These men—all are biological males—apparently have strong capabilities in their areas of expertise but are perverted and just … weird. As Dreher asks, “Why?” Why does Brandon insist on elevating these people to positions of influence? I mean, he can appoint who he wants, but all three are sexually depraved in the extreme.

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis cofounded a gym called The Monster Cycle. A Facebook post on that page from 2014 says, “We’ll Steal Your Soul.”

That’s what Daskalakis peddles.

And they call us extremists.

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Daily Broadside | Illinois Leads the Ranks of States with Insane Crime Bills

Daily Verse | Daniel 4:17
“The Most High is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and gives them to anyone he wishes and sets over them the lowliest of men.”

Tuesday’s Reading: Daniel 7-12

Tuesday and if you live in Illinois like I do, have you heard that The Purge will be a 24-7-365 reality starting January 1, 2023?

This is, in fact, very real. It’s called the SAFE-T Act which, as all laws the Democrats produce, is nothing short of a monstrous lie. Here’s how Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau describes what’s coming.

The new law eliminates cash bail for 2nd-degree murder, kidnapping, and armed robbery. Any criminal with an ankle bracelet can’t be pursued for 48 hours if they don’t show up in court. Talk about a head start! As Pekau says, “They can almost drive to Alaska, before we can even look for them.”

Worse for private residence or business owners, police will no longer be able to remove trespassers who decide to squat on your property. Ominously, Pekau says, “Someone could decide to live in your shed, and all we can do is give them a ticket. You have to decide what level of force is required to remove them. And whether or not it’s legal.“

This is more of what the anti-American, anti-law, anti-Constitutional criminal party of mobsters known as the Democrats are doing to destabilize society and sow chaos. It’s not unreasonable to say that Illinois residents now feel less safe than before.

On January 1, 2023, Illinois will open the prison doors and release anyone charged with almost any crime but who can’t make bail. Think of the victims of rape, or assault or robbery. Their attackers will walk free.

Furthermore, this denies crime victims their constitutional rights. Article 1, Section 8.1 of the Illinois Constitution, codified in the Rights of Crime Victims and Witnesses Act, mandates that crime victims shall have the right to have their safety and that of their families considered in denying or fixing the amount of bail, determining whether to release the defendant and setting conditions of release after arrest and conviction. Eliminating bail clearly contradicts previously established and superior law, places crime victims at a greater risk to be re-victimized, and unnecessarily subjects witnesses to threats and intimidation.

Chicago has always been corrupt, but this is taking it to another level entirely. It’s spreading the joy across the whole state.

And why?

To level the ground for all criminals. As the thinking goes, “Why should some criminals get to pay their way out of a cell, but others can’t?” It’s so perverted and twisted and warped, catering to criminals at the expense of the law-abiding, exactly the opposite of a safe and well-ordered society.

Don’t be surprised if you see a mass exodus out of Illinois in coming months. In the meantime, if you live here, arm yourself, buy ammo, and get networked with your neighbors. When everything falls apart, no one is coming. Or, if they do, there’s not much they can do.

You’re on your own.

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Daily Broadside | “Democrat” is Now Just a Euphemism for “Communist”

Daily Verse | Jeremiah 20:9
But if I say, “I will not mention him
    or speak anymore in his name,”
his word is in my heart like a fire,
    a fire shut up in my bones.
I am weary of holding it in;
    indeed, I cannot.

Friday’s Reading: Jeremiah 21-25
Saturday’s Reading: 26-29

Friday and I’d like to end the week with a synopsis of a short essay by Steve Rose over at American Thinker. In it he touches on an idea that has been forming in my head but hadn’t crystalized yet. As I was doing my daily reading, I came across the title of his article which immediately resonated with me.

Yes!

“Stop Calling Them Democrats. They’re Communists” accelerated my coalescing thinking, bringing clarity to many statements I’ve made over the last few years. I’ve called the Democrats “cultural Marxists.” I’ve called them “anti-American.” I’ve called them tyrants. I even wrote a column that called Democrats “Communists.” I’ve called for the Democrat party to be outlawed. I’ve even said that I’d rather be an American than a Democrat.

But Rose’s title-statement is a bold declaration that we’re no longer dealing with Americans who have a slightly different view of how to govern this great land. We’re dealing with an altogether different creature when we talk about today’s Democrats.

This is no longer the party of FDR, JFK, or even Bill Clinton, and it’s time to start calling a spade a spade…

One of the many challenges real Americans now face is to start calling “Democrats” what they actually are. They’ll protest. But if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and acts like a duck, we need to call it a duck.

We’ve been conditioned to believe that communism is just a myth, that it isn’t real, or even if it is real, it only exists in faraway places like China, and anyone who mentions it is a conspiracist who deserves ridicule.

I think he’s right that it is very difficult for the average American to wrap his or her head around the reality that there are functional communists who are not just living among us, but who operate in the highest levels of our society and its institutions. They have their hands on the levers of power.

I think we all know that we’re not living in our father’s America, but it’s really difficult to accept that it is, in fact, happening. But, as Rose writes, you only need to look at what the Democrats are doing to understand who they are. As the old adage goes, if you want to know what I believe, don’t ask me, watch me.

  • They’re raiding and jailing their political opponents.
  • They’re turning the FBI, CIA, and IRS against American citizens.
  • They’ve come out against freedom of speech, religion, press, the Second Amendment, and other core American ideals.
  • They’ve abandoned the rule of law, and now have one set of laws for themselves and another for the rest of us.
  • They’re deliberately trying to bankrupt us—sometimes directly (through shutting down businesses), sometimes indirectly (through wasting trillions of our dollars.)
  • They’re indoctrinating our children with radical ideologies.
  • They celebrate infanticide.
  • They’re making secret deals with foreign entities against our interests.
  • They’re deliberately keeping our borders wide open to erase our national identity.
  • They mandate groupthink and conformity and punish anyone who doesn’t parrot their chosen narratives, however absurd.
  • They’re purging the best from our military and converting what’s left into a tool of Wokeism.
  • They’ve transformed our once-great American cities into crime-ridden hellscapes.
  • They relentlessly stoke division between everyone and never miss the slightest opportunity to accuse someone or something of being racist, sexist, phobic, supremacist, etc.
  • They constantly work to slander, cancel, and erase our Founding Fathers, American heroes, and America itself. (E.g., they removed the statue of Theodore Roosevelt from the American Museum of Natural History.)
  • They want to defund the police, release criminals from prisons and disarm the rest of us.
  • They defend terrorists. (Joe Biden: “Antifa is an idea, not an organization.”)
  • They’ve ignored the first principle of the Nuremberg Code, which was written in the aftermath of WWII, and which explicitly prohibits coerced consent for experimental medications. (See, e.g., here or here.)
  • They’ve tried to corrupt elections on a national scale.
  • They’ve openly stated their desire to abolish the family structure itself.
  • They’ve threatened to abolish the filibuster, pack the Supreme Court, and dismantle the electoral college system.
  • They’re criminalizing normality on multiple fronts.
  • They’ve taken down American flags and raised other flags in government buildings and city streets, symbolizing their stealth political takeover.
  • Their leaders have literally kneeled to one form of the cause they actually serve in the Capital building.

As he acknowledges, there’s lots more that could be listed here, including the shocking six-year harassment of President Donald J. Trump that continues almost two years after he “lost” the fraudulent 2020 election. This list is unprecedented law-breaking and social norm-busting in which the highest law enforcement branches in the land have been weaponized against one part of the population — conservatives and MAGA supporters.

The problem is that while we can see what is happening, no one knows what to do about it. It’s become dangerous and risky over the last few years to express dissent from the imperial rulers’ official narrative, which is concocted by Democrats and amplified by Democrats through their Democrat mouthpieces in the media.

So concerned citizens are reluctant to point out what they see happening and for sure don’t want to speak out about it. Yet, that fear is exactly what communists want.

Tyrants don’t simply announce themselves openly and honestly. “Hi! I’m trying to become a tyrant, and I’d like to enslave you. Will you start obeying everything I say?” The serpent in the garden of Eden didn’t say, “Hi! I’m trying to turn you against the Almighty. Eat this, please.”

Instead, they make lofty, inspiring speeches. They promise free things. They appeal to our sense of hope, fairness, and justice. They claim to hold the solution to racial harmony, violence, and the literal death of the planet. They bribe the corrupt, seduce the gullible, and slander, disarm, and imprison everyone else.

Once they’re in power, the mask comes off. But by then, it’s too late.

That’s why I have been warning for years about some kind of open conflict erupting, and I’m not at all inclined to change my mind. In fact, I’ve only grown more certain that such a conflict is coming. How it will happen and what form it will take are unclear, but it only takes an incident like Mar-a-Lago to ignite the simmering anger of those it represents.

And if Trump is indicted — and I’m hearing that the DOJ is moving that way — I’m afraid that will set off a nationwide outburst that will lead to the government cracking down on we citizens in what will become a military-style lockdown. Think of the protesters who were at the Capitol on January 6 and did nothing more than wander through the hallways taking selfies. The vast majority of them are still held in jail without due process.

Think the State won’t do that to you if you’ve so much as voiced an opinion contrary to the current junta that’s in power?

You say they wouldn’t?

Why not? They’ve already gotten away with jailing the January 6 protesters. What’s to stop them from expanding their definition of what constitutes a threat to our precious (*spit*) democracy?

If they do it, who’s going to stop them?

I think Rose is right, that we’ve got to start calling them what they are. In the same way we’ve been calling transactivists and other members of LGBTQUERTY+ “groomers” for trying to corrupt our children, it’s time to call the Democrats what they are: communists.

We’re definitely under threat in the United States, but it’s not from foreign adversaries. It’s from right here among us. Their name is “Democrat”, but they are thoroughly communist. Make them own it.

Have a good weekend.

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Daily Broadside | Our Only Option is to Go Scorched Earth on the Democrats in 2022 and 2024

Daily Verse | Isaiah 58:4
You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high.

Wednesday’s Reading: Isaiah 60-62

Wednesday and the audacious attack on Trump under the flimsiest of legal cover in our multi-tiered system of justice continues to astound and shock. Any illusions that America as founded still exists was shattered with this latest in-your-face jackbooted stomping of precedent and the rule of law.

How anyone can still believe we’re not at least approaching DEFCON 3 is beyond me. If sabotaging 2016’s election results with the Russia! Russia! Russia! collusion hoax, the two counterfeit impeachment trials, the rigged and stolen election of 2020, the January 6 Reichstag fire and illegal sham trials haven’t convinced you that unconstitutional covert operations designed to short-circuit our liberties are being run out of formerly trusted institutions, I’m not sure what will.

What makes this even worse is who hasn’t been raided by the DOJ and its mini me, the FBI.

Hunter Biden and Joe Biden: The FBI has been in possession of Hunter’s laptop since 2019, which contains evidence that Hunter used Joe’s position to conduct lucrative foreign business. He also cut his dad into deals and commingled their funds.

Hillary Clinton: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton mishandled classified information on a private server she likely used to hide efforts to use her office to raise money for her family’s foundation. She was infamously excused by the FBI…

Black Lives Matter: Amid evidence that the left-wing group has been abusing its charitable status, even liberal states issued warnings to the group. But though the movement’s scope is nationwide, the FBI or DOJ have yet to do anything about it…

By contrast, Trump allies past and present — such as Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Peter Navarro, and others — have been subjected to spectacular raids, often leaked to friendly media ahead of time, over relatively minor or unrelated allegations.

I’ve warned for years now that we were heading toward Civil War 2.0. The unprecedented invasion of a former president’s and most likely future presidential candidate’s and current private citizen’s home on the pretext of searching for “classified” documents from his time as president pushes us a great deal further toward that eventuality.

I wouldn’t be surprised if that was part of the calculus involved in planning the raid. The great danger is that some far-right activists or MEAL Team 6-types will take the provocation as permission to plot a counterattack. But as one of my favorite bloggers and pastors, Douglas Wilson, wrote in a discussion about this very thing,

“And so the takeaway lesson for conservatives is: don’t take the bait. Under no circumstances should we take the bait. I think I may have mentioned before that we should not take the bait.”

You should read the whole thing and you should also not take the bait. So should the extremes on the Right.

What we can do is really the only thing legally permissible right now, and that is to vote out the grifting ankle-biting dead weights who are part of the problem, who say they’re Republicans but act like Democrats. People like Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, and any of the 14 House Republicans and 15 Senate Republicans who voted to interfere with our Second Amendment right to bear arms because teenage criminals don’t obey our laws.

Fortunately, voting them out that seems to be happening, especially in races with Trump-endorsed candidates.

Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (Wash.), one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump last year, has conceded in her tough primary contest against Joe Kent. Kent is a Green Beret endorsed by the former president and is expected to advance in Washington state’s all-party primary…

Herrera Beutler, who voted to impeach Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, would be the third such House Republican to lose in a primary this year, joining Rep. Peter Meijer (Mich.), who was defeated last week and, Rep. Tom Rice (S.C.), who lost last month. Two Republicans have advanced — both from all-party primaries: Rep. Dan Newhouse (Wash.) and Rep. David G. Valadao (Calif.). Four others decided not to seek reelection.

The final House Republican to face a primary is Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.), who will go before voters Aug. 16. She faces a challenger running to her right who is backed by Trump.

I don’t believe that we can simply vote our way out of this but, apart from the unmentionable, it’s the only option we have right now. To some degree, it’s being effective. And at least one observer thinks the Deep State’s days are numbered:

But even if the Deep State were to succeed, they have already burnt their bridges by creating this precedent. The path is now wide open for either a returning President Trump or a newly minted President DeSantis to investigate Joe “The Big Guy” Biden and his possible history of pay for play. What a rich target, given Hunter’s lack of discretion about how the family became so wealthy on a government salary. Ditto for Nancy “I Rip Up State of the Union Addresses” Pelosi, the most amazing investor in stock market history. And what about those sexual harassment charges against old Joe?  No more “let the defeated opposition party leave town in peace” after they lose an election. When you play this high-stakes game, you had better come with very clean hands. While Trump may have been too much of a Mr. Nice Guy when it came to prosecuting his opponents, Gov. DeSantis can play hardball with the best of them.

Couple that with the ascendancy of conservative lawmakers and you have the makings of a tool that can be used to pry the shadow government out of its hole. And then whack it over the head.

The Democrats have demonized half the country’s voters for the last decade or more, with Barack Hussein Obama starting the practice with his “bitter clingers” epithet, followed by Hillary’s “deplorables” comment, and Brandon’s “dregs of society” insult. We’ve suffered their slights with patience, believing (perhaps naively) that we’d eventually have our say.

It could be coming, starting with the mid-terms and following it up with a strong showing in 2024. But the victories must be decisive and overwhelming. They must absolutely wreck the Democrat Party of Soviet Suck-ups. And we must put people in place who are willing to go scorched earth on those players and organizations that have acted like the tyrants they are.

After the raid at his home, Trump posted a video that captures what a majority of us are probably feeling.

I’ll leave Paula Bolyard with the final word.

Now that we see clearly what the problem is, where do we go from here? Sure, we can peacefully protest, send angry emails, or post diatribes on social media, but that’s not going to fix the problems that are eating away at our republic. The answer lies in winning elections. Decisively. First the midterms and then the White House in 2024. As I wrote last week, Trump did the country a great service by exposing the deep state and making Americans aware of the corruption within our government. Unfortunately, he wasn’t able to drain the swamp — in part because it was constantly investigating him. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis last week dropped a political bomb on the ruling class by suspending woke Hillsborough County state attorney Andrew Warren, who had announced he would refuse to enforce Florida laws he didn’t like. Once we regain control of the White House and Congress, this should be our template going forward.

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Daily Broadside | Biden Fiddles with Semantics While the Economy Burns

Daily Verse | Isaiah 15:27
For the Lord Almighty has purposed, and who can thwart him?

Wednesday’s Reading: Isaiah 17-20

Happy Wednesday, my friends.

Silly.

That’s the word that comes to mind as I consider the gyrations that the current administration will go through to avoid taking any responsibility for the circumstances we find ourselves in. The latest twist by Resident Gumby is to redefine the longstanding definition of “recession.”

It is widely expected based on available data that the report from the Bureau of Economic Analysis on Thursday will show that the country’s real gross domestic product shrank again in the second quarter of 2022. That will be the second quarter in a row of negative growth, which means it will come with the additional determination that the United States has been in a recession since January.

This prospect has the Biden administration in a comical sort of falling-all-over-themselves panic. That’s because President Joe Biden’s defenders are now attempting to massage the definition of “recession” so that the current economic contraction no longer qualifies.

Never mind that the term “recession” has referred to two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth each of the last ten times we’ve experienced it.

But Brandon and his Council of Economic Advisors are trying to get ahead of Thursday’s numbers, which are expected to show that the economy contracted again in the second quarter. That’s why the White House published a blog post that is meant to sow doubt on what a recession really is.

The gambit is so transparently obvious that you have to wonder who they’re writing this stuff for—the average American, who knows better, or the Left’s base, who cheer any semblance of a rational answer to the corners they keep backing themselves into.

As I say, it’s silly. But it’s also Orwellian. The cultural Marxists are corrupting our language in a bid to hide the destruction they are wreaking on the country. It’s been going on at least since William Jefferson Clinton said, “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.”

The bottom line is that Americans on both sides of the aisle aren’t going to buy what Brandon is selling. We feel the effects of inflation and frankly, we don’t care whether we’re in a recession or not. Right now, everything is too expensive, and the squatter in the White House is to blame.