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Daily Broadside | Would You Be Able to Tell if Joe was a Sinister Commie Plot to Wreck Us?

Daily Verse | 2 Samuel 24:24
“I will not sacrifice to the Lord my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.”

Monday’s Reading: 1 Kings 1-4

Monday and for those of you who are reading through the Bible with me this year, we’ve completed the first quarter of the plan. You can download and print it here if you’d like to join us: Bible Reader 2022. Better late than never!

I know that I don’t have to convince any of you that Resident Brandon is, without doubt, the very worst man to ever hold the office we call “president.” He has been compared unfavorably to Jimmy Carter and to Barack Hussein Obama, who some claim are two of the worst presidents we’ve ever had. I’m not going to argue that claim either way, because the brain-dead moron we currently have in the White House has done more damage to these United States than any other in our recorded history.

Richard Condon’s bestselling novel, The Manchurian Candidate (1959), is a story about a platoon of U.S. soldiers fighting in South Korea who are captured by the Soviets and sent to Manchuria in China. There they are brainwashed to believe that one of their own members, Sergeant Raymond Shaw, single-handedly saved their lives in combat. After the war he is awarded the Medal of Honor when his story is told.

In reality, Shaw and the platoon were conditioned as part of a long-term operation by the communists to infiltrate the American government by planting one of their own in the White House. The plot is discovered, disrupted and the threat is eliminated, so we never see what would’ve happened had the communists succeeded in installing one of their own at the top of the American government.

But you know what? If Joseph Robinette Biden had been ambushed by communists and taken to a secure location where he was brainwashed by Soviet operatives who would install and activate him as their secret agent at the pinnacle of global political power, he’d look a lot like the blithering fool currently residing in the White House.

End our newly found energy independence by killing the Keystone Pipeline and end drilling or fracking on federal lands?

Check.

Beg dictators and hostile regimes to increase production and sell us their oil, even though we have enough in our own country to supply what we need with enough left over to export on the global market?

Check.

Drive up the price of gas, contributing to record inflation in the U.S., then release fifty million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve—meant to provide energy security in the event of a catastrophic event—even though there was no supply disruption, just high prices; then authorize an emergency release of another thirty million barrels, followed by the release of up to 1 million barrels a day for six months, or a total of about 180 million barrels—the largest release in the reserve’s history.

Check.

Tell citizens who can’t afford the high price of gas to purchase a $55,000 electric car.

Check.

Revive a very flawed and potentially very dangerous agreement (JCPOA) with an extremist anti-American foreign power (Iran) which is trying to develop nuclear weapons with which they can destroy the “Little Satan” (Israel) and the “Big Satan” (America) and solidify their hegemony in the Middle East.

Check.

Reduce barriers to entry including a wall, police powers, and a public health provision so that foreigners from third-world countries can invade our land unmolested, thereby driving down wages and increasing the welfare state, requiring more taxes from working Americans that are distributed to an imported welfare class dependent on the largesse of the government for whom they will keep voting.

Check.

Oppose any kind of law that requires voter identification, even though we require a photo ID to purchase airline tickets, buy alcohol, open a bank account, apply for welfare, apply for a job, apply for a mortgage, purchase or rent a car, get married, purchase an “M” rated video game, cash a check, buy a gun, or purchase a cell phone—claiming that asking for a photo ID in order to vote is somehow a violation of civil liberties or an attempt to prevent people from voting.

Check.

Support the indoctrination of our youth so that they loath themselves and the country they live in by teaching them to criticize everything around them. That way they aren’t motivated to defend the land they despise.

Check.

Support the indoctrination of our youth by exposing them to sexual perverts who want to groom them starting at five-years-old so that by the time they’re in college they’re mentally confused about who they are and reject the biological reality of their physical body. That emasculates the boys and forces the girls to defend themselves from men pretending to be women.

Check.

Alienate children from their parents by calling parents who protest what public schools teach their children “domestic terrorists” and keep secret from parents the grooming that goes on in the classroom.

Check.

Divide the American people by claiming that “systemic racism … is a stain on our nation’s soul,” implying that white citizens are morally bankrupt because of the color of their skin.

Check.

Reduce the fitness standards for our military services so that more women can remain enlisted, thereby reducing the military readiness of our armed forces.

Check.

These examples are more than adequate to make my point, every one of them chipping away at our cultural cohesion and national security. What’s the difference between this Joe Biden and one that was installed by our political enemies?

The commies could hardly have done worse if they’d planned it themselves.

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Daily Broadside | Rich Guy Tells the Plebes It’s Patriotic to Pay More for Gas

Daily Verse | Joshua 11:20
For it was the Lord himself who hardened their hearts to wage war against Israel, so that he might destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Monday’s Reading: Joshua 13-17

Monday and we’re really beginning to feel the voter effect of #NeverTrump and the Democrats, and the insane globalist, racist, cultural Marxist, biology and science-defying, climate-terrified Covidiots who think utopia is just over the horizon if only we get rid of the historically reliable capitalist means that have created the once-greatest nation in the history of the world and replace them with a Tyrant.

They owe us an apology for their short-sighted and media-infected rejection of president-in-exile Donald J. Trump, who had gotten us back on our feet and made us energy-independent until the Fool they put in office cancelled the Keystone Pipeline and banned fracking on federal lands while demanding we all turn ourselves into lab rats for a medically-unnecessary jab for a virus that mainly killed the elderly and the obese while withholding proven treatments that would’ve save a lot of lives.

The allegedly 81 million Americans who voted for Biden in 2020 got played, hard. And they owe the rest of us a big apology, and a promise to never screw our nation over like this again.

Yes, Trump was a jerk. You know what he wasn’t? Dangerously incompetent. Or barely kept motoring with a personalized daily slushie of embalming fluid.

It’s time for the Americans who saddled us with this embarrassment of a president to realize that they did exactly what they self-righteously accepted from mass media they were saving our nation from: voting for a four-year national disaster.

One of my daughters sent me a picture of her latest fill up at a gas station, along with appropriate gratitude to the one who made it possible.

Gas is now over $4/gal. where I live and jumped to over $5/gal. where one of my other daughters live. She is now seriously thinking about moving to a lower-cost state.

Then there’s the self-righteous, no longer relevant George Takei, who’s worth $14M, telling us plebes to take one for the team. I won’t link you to this moron’s account, but the responses have been blistering, and rightly so.

It reminds me of a co-worker who once told me she was willing to pay more taxes to take care of illegal aliens. Government creates problems, frames fixing them as a moral virtue, then takes your money to “fix” the problems.

And if you complain, you’re EVIL.

The problem is … the problems are never fixed. And there are always more problems to be fixed, requiring more of your hard-earned money to fix them.

Meanwhile, our politicians laugh all the way to the bank.

These people are absolutely shameless, yet they claim to be champions of the poor, the minimum wage earners, the less fortunate.

You know who Brandon’s policies are absolutely decimating? Yeah, the poor, the minimum wage earners, the less fortunate.

I’m solidly middle-class, and I’m feeling the pinch. But the very people progressives claim to be fighting for are the very ones who can least afford this administration’s policies.

The Democrats are in for a shellacking this November but unless we take back all three branches of government, nothing will change. We’ve got to wipe the Democrats out—I mean, COMPLETELY OUT—in November, and then put Trump or DeSantis in the Big Chair two years later.

Then we need to go on a total law-making tear that lock in truly patriotic goals, like term limits, teaching authentic American history to our children, a balanced budget law, making socialism illegal, mandating voter ID and in-person voting on election day, completing the wall on our southern border, and outlawing the Democrat party.

I jest on that last one. Or do I?

If you want to see the change, get out there and either run for office yourself (start local) or work on behalf of a trustworthy candidate. Knock on doors and donate what you can.

It’s the only way back.

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Daily Broadside | No One But Dems Think Brandon’s SOTU Speech Was Honest

Daily Verse | Deuteronomy 32:47
They are not just idle words for you—they are your life.

Thursday’s Reading: Joshua 1-5

Thursday and Resident Brandon’s State of the Union speech is being panned all over the internet. I’ve written before that Democrats lie all the time. I used to do a “Democrats Lie Daily” post on Facebook and was never at a loss for content. They lie, they obfuscate, they redirect, they avoid, they ignore. And Brandon did that in spades on Tuesday night, well beyond what I wrote about yesterday.

From Issues & Insights: Joe Can’t Change the Subject, So His SOTU Leaves Us Wishing to Change the President.

And it’s another time-honored tradition, this of crisis communications, that when you can’t change the facts, you change the subject.

There’s one problem: the facts of Slumpy Joe’s failures loom so large that even larding 11 minutes of characteristically stumbling (Putin will “never gain the hearts and souls of the Iranian people”) dime-store Churchill at his oration’s opening could only delay the moment of reckoning.

From The Federalist: 17 Absurd Lies Biden Told During His State Of The Union Speech. Here’s a couple of them.

Biden told Americans, “I will be honest with you, as I’ve always promised,” but The Federalist’s regularly updated lie tracker proves that claim is far from the truth.

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Biden touted the rising U.S. job record as one of the highlights of his first year in office but failed to mention that the only reason the job rate is growing is that millions of people are returning to work after tyrannical bureaucrats shut down the economy for months in the name of stopping the spread of a virus.

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Biden claimed that the solution to inflation is for businesses to “lower your costs, not your wages,” but anyone with a brain knows that in order to stay open, companies must raise their prices to pay for increasingly expensive goods. If businesses are forced to raise their wages, they will also raise prices for consumers who have to bear the burden or suffer the consequences of understaffing.

From The Patriot Post: SOTU 2022: Fact-Checking Biden’s Big Obfuscations and Lies.

Upon entering the room, Biden handed Speaker Nancy Pelosi the official copy of his remarks. She did not tear up the pages, one by one, as she did Donald Trump’s last SOTU remarks in 2020, when the state of our union was great. However, tearing up Biden’s speech would have been the best thing she could have done for her party’s midterm prospects. (BTW, our criminal complaint against Pelosi for tearing up that official document is still pending.)

From Based Politics: 3 Big Falsehoods in President Biden’s State of the Union Address. Here’s one:

During the State of the Union address, President Biden repeated his false claims that his agenda only involves increasing taxes on the rich.

“Under my plan, nobody earning less than $400,000 a year will pay an additional penny in new taxes,” he said. “Nobody.”

This is completely false. Since taking office, Biden has put forward multiple tax proposals that would increase taxes on Americans earning less than $400,000.

These include a new tax on nicotine products which would hurt poorer Americans hardest, increased corporate taxes which workers would bear through lower wages, and more. Even liberal-leaning think tanks and analysts have acknowledged that Biden’s pledge simply isn’t true—and parroting it yet again at the State of the Union doesn’t change this.

From The National Interest: Biden Didn’t Mention Social Security During the State of the Union.

Another indication that the federal government isn’t prioritizing the health of Social Security? It was not mentioned in President Biden’s State of the Union address Tuesday night.

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The president did announce plans in December to improve Social Security’s online services, and while Biden touted various achievements of his administration’s first year, that was not among the ones mentioned. 

And one more from The Daily Wire: ‘F***ing Pandering 101, Full Of S***’: Border Patrol Agents React To Biden’s State Of The Union Immigration Claims. (Hey, I report, you decide.)

Former acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf tweeted, “That mention of border and immigration security was lip service. Nothing more. No vision, no strategy. Just a wish list and another hollow push for immigration reform legislation. I think the President may have forgotten he has authority to fix the crisis NOW.”

As I wrote yesterday, the speech was focus-group tested and polled to get it just right. As Samuel Goldman put it:

The purpose of the speech was to bring independents who lean Democrat to their side in November. Centrist talk about bringing manufacturing home and cutting taxes and “fixing” the border are meant to alleviate the anxieties of the leaners or those who are ready to leave the Democrat party after getting red-pilled.

But we’ve seen enough to know what we’ve got. His speech will change nothing.

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Daily Broadside | Biden Channels “America First” As His Numbers Tank

Daily Verse | Deuteronomy 28:47-48
Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity, therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

Wednesday’s Reading: Deuteronomy 31-34

Wednesday and it’s the morning after.

After what, you ask? After the terrible kabuki theater that was passed as a State of the Union speech last night by Brandon.

True, all SOTU speeches tend to be similar and have shriveled to simple laundry lists of topics du jour that have polled well (or not) among Americans. But listening to the Fool deliver an address that insults my intelligence adds insult to injury.

I can’t possibly cover everything in his speech, but let’s start with the most overt lie that he told all night when he said, “And unlike the $2 Trillion tax cut passed in the previous administration that benefitted the top 1% of Americans, the American Rescue Plan helped working people—and left no one behind.”

That trope, that Trump’s tax cut only benefitted the top one percent of Americans, has been disproved by countless outlets, including the Washington Post, which gave it four Pinocchio’s. Brandon has been pushing this lie for the last three years.

The fact that the Resident led with that lie when talking about the economy undermined any credibility he might have had for the rest of the speech. Why believe anything he’s saying? He’s willing to lie on national television to one of the largest audiences there is.

Brandon started the night by bragging about how the U.S. has worked with 30 other nations to “release 60 million barrels of oil from reserves around the world,” including 30 million from our own Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

That sounds like a lot, but the United States burns 20.5 million barrels of oil EVERY DAY. 60 million barrels is a whole three days worth of oil.

Joe failed to tell us how that 60 million barrels will “blunt gas prices here at home.” Here’s how it’s going on the world markets, which will eventually show up at the gas pump:

On Wednesday morning, global benchmark Brent crude blew past $110 per barrel, rising more than 5.8% to $111.09, its highest since early July 2014.

That 60 million barrels really impressed the market!

Hey, how about getting the Keystone Pipeline up and running? How about getting us off dependence on foreign oil like Trump made us? How about supporting fracking and drilling again instead of catering to the tiny minority of ecoterrorists that somehow punch above their weight?

A lot of his speech seemed very Trumpian and “America First,” which is a strange pivot for Democrats who spent four years demonizing Trump and his “nationalistic” policies. Brandon told us that we should bring manufacturing back home, and highlighted chip maker Intel, whose CEO was at the SOTU. Intel is going to build a $20 billion semiconductor “mega site” in Ohio.

I can applaud that. Should’ve been done years ago but it’s only because of “increasing automation in chip factories and potential government funding [that] Intel is able to reshore some of this manufacturing and still be cost-effective.”

Brandon also broke with his own party by addressing crime with, “The answer is not to Defund the police. The answer is to FUND the police with the resources and training they need to protect our communities.” He has the audacity to pretend that #DefundThePolice wasn’t a Democrat thing.

Why the sudden change, Brandon? Could it be that Americans are sick and tired of the Democrat double-standard and are ticked that the Dems have made America less safe with their radical ideology?

The topic that aggravated me the most, though, was when Brandon brought up immigration.

And if we are to advance liberty and justice, we need to secure the Border and fix the immigration system.

We can do both. At our border, we’ve installed new technology like cutting-edge scanners to better detect drug smuggling.

We’ve set up joint patrols with Mexico and Guatemala to catch more human traffickers.

We’re putting in place dedicated immigration judges so families fleeing persecution and violence can have their cases heard faster.

We’re securing commitments and supporting partners in South and Central America to host more refugees and secure their own borders.

We can do all this while keeping lit the torch of liberty that has led generations of immigrants to this land—my forefathers and so many of yours.

My gut twists when I hear that empty rhetoric, the dead cliches, the completely insincere suggestion that he wants to “secure our border.” If he wanted to secure our border, he would’ve finished the wall that Trump started. He wouldn’t demonize our border patrol agents as mercilessly “whipping” border jumpers from their horses. He’d threaten the hordes that make their way up through Mexico. He’d stop flying them around the country and dumping them on unsuspecting communities in the middle of the night.

We’ve had nearly 2 million people illegally cross our border since Brandon took office, the most in 35 years. That’s enough people to be the fifth largest city in America, replacing Phoenix, AZ (Population: 1,743,469).

What’s really galling about all of this is that every problem Brandon brought up was created by Democrat politicians. The impact of Covid on developmental delays in children who were kept out of school and wearing masks; closed businesses; the war on cops and the spike in crime; the foreign invasion on our southern border—you name it, the Democrats created it.

Every. Single. One.

And now they come to us and tell us they are going to fix it with their solutions that will cost the rest of us more money.

It’s an outrageous scam.

I’m tired of being scammed. Aren’t you?

Plus, note that Brandon didn’t mention the January 6 protestors who remain locked up. I thought that was a slam dunk for them. Also, I didn’t hear anything about ending our involvement in Afghanistan. Wasn’t that a triumph of Brandon’s spectacular leadership?

Huh, how ’bout that. Nary a peep.

Finally, to top it all off, Brandon fairly yelled during the closing lines of his monologue, as though he were trying to inspire a football team at half time. Maybe he thought that’s what he was doing, because he ended his entire speech with “Go get ’em!”

Go get ’em?

Conclusion: nothing will change as a result of his speech.

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Daily Broadside | Brandon is a Cockwomble and We Need Rescuing

Daily Verse | Deuteronomy 22:5
A woman must not wear men’s clothing, nor a man wear women’s clothing, for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this.

Tuesday’s Reading: Deuteronomy 27-30

Tuesday and the first of March. In like a lion, out like a lamb?

I wish I had seen this before yesterday’s Broadside:

I know that’s Justin Brandeau pictured, but it applies oh, so very aptly to Joe Brandon. I still think “fool” is the most appropriate moniker for Biden, but “cockwomble” is now running a very close second.

While that’s funny, what’s even more hilarious is our Fool’s disapproval ratings.

Economic discontent is hurting [Resident] Joe Biden and his party’s midterm election prospects, with six in 10 Americans reporting inflation hardships, three-quarters saying the economy’s in bad shape and a nearly 20-point lead for the Republican Party in trust to handle it.

Biden has other problems, with underwater ratings for his handling of the invasion of Ukraine, a split on the pandemic and weak scores on personal attributes including leadership, handling a crisis and mental sharpness.

But 40-year-high inflation leads his headaches: Americans are twice as likely to say they’re worse off than better off under his presidency, by 35-17%.

The result: A career-low 37% of Americans approve of Biden’s job performance overall, with 55% disapproving. That includes just 30% approval among political independents and 10% from Republicans. Even in his own party, nearly a quarter of Democrats either disapprove of Biden (19%) or are withholding judgment (4%).

That’s an 18-point spread.

Let’s. Go. Brandon.

What the H-E-double-hockey-sticks did people think they were getting when #81MILLIONLOL voted for the cockwomble? I mean, at least Putin respects him, amirite?

I still can’t believe it was so close, it was close enough to cheat.

When will people learn that Democrats are little more than a political version of the mob, except that Al Capone dressed better?

Analyzing data going back to Harry Truman’s administration, only two presidents have had approval ratings this low heading into their first State of the Union address, which Biden delivers Tuesday. Those two were Donald Trump, at 36%, and Gerald Ford, at 37%. Disapproval has been higher, by a nonsignificant 3 percentage points, only for Trump. (More were undecided about Ford, then just five months in office.)

These people can’t quit Trump. How about Trump had the entire Washington and media establishments (but I repeat myself) working overtime to undermine his administration with the treasonous Russia! Russia! Russia! collusion hoax airing 24/7 on every channel?

Brandon’s got nothing but the entire Washington and media establishments (is there an echo in here?) blowing wind in his sails and propping him up and HE CAN’T EVEN TREAD WATER. So what’s his excuse?

Here’s Five Thirty Eight’s persistent calculation of all polls as of February 28.

That’s a 13-point spread between approve and disapprove.

Or here’s Real Clear Politics assessment:

A 14-to-19-point spread.

Yeah, Brandon’s in trouble. And his catastrophic performance means we’re all in trouble. But it also means that citizens are ready to throw out the trash. We still have three years of Brandon to go, but we can start this November by kicking out the old party apparatchik political hacks on both sides of the aisle (looking at you, Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney) who have destroyed our Constitutional order and have sat on their fat keisters for decades collecting their fat paychecks while they tell us what we can and can’t say, what we can and can’t do, who the winners and the losers are, and taking more of our money and freedom along the way while they attend all the best Washington parties.

It’s okay to be angry and to fight for what matters. While reading through Deuteronomy, I came across this passage:

But if out in the country a man happens to meet a girl pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die. Do nothing to the girl; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders his neighbor, for the man found the girl out in the country, and though the betrothed girl screamed, there was no one to rescue her. (DT. 22:25-27)

The scenario implies that if the girl had screamed while people were nearby, she could’ve been rescued. And what do you think a rescue would’ve looked like? Rape is a violent crime that may require a violent intervention fueled by anger over the injustice.

Sometimes righteous heroic action is necessary.

If you love our country and want to see her prosper again, you might think about getting involved. Write checks and volunteer to knock on doors for constitutional-friendly congressional representatives and local elections. Reading blogs doesn’t count, not even this one, which is just a speck of light in a universe of bright stars.

Go. Do something heroic.

The wind is in our favor.

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Daily Broadside | Brandon Is Incompetent, But It’s More Than Just That

Daily Verse | Deuteronomy 21:17
That son is the first sign of his father’s strength.

Monday’s Reading: Deuteronomy 22-26

It’s the last day of February 2022. That was quick.

You may remember that during the presidential election of 2020 enthusiastic Trump supporters spoke of getting on board the “Trump Train.” It felt like we were barreling down the track with nothing but daylight between us and the White House. Four more years to build on the successes of the first four. Businesses were bringing their money and jobs home, we were building the wall, the stock market was on fire, China was outmaneuvered, NATO was ponying up, Lil’ Kim was behaving, and peace was breaking out in the Middle East.

But somewhere along the line, someone threw a switch and we slid to a dead stop on a siding and Brandon blew past us on the main rails while we watched in disbelief.

Just over a year later, we’re on a train barreling down the track with a crew requisitioned from the Locomotive School for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, not to mention the enthusiastic yahoos in the dining car taking bites and sips as they lift and lower their masks, toasting the demise of #OrangeManBad while simultaneously blaming him for the latest outrage happening here and around the world.

And those outrages come one right after another, defying even the low expectations we had of Brandon when he assumed his stolen post. Which brings me to the point of this broadside.

During the train wreck of Brandon’s Residency I’ve been pondering what one word best describes him. The word I’ve used most often is “incompetent.” It’s also the one I’ve seen used most often in other opinion pieces critical of his administration. But incompetence, which is accurate, still leaves me dissatisfied, as does its close cousin, “inept.”

Brandon is both inept and incompetent. But those words don’t fully sum up who he is.

I’ve also seen him described as a puppet or a cipher, both of which imply that he is simply being manipulated by a hidden hand. That’s certainly true, too. How many times have we heard him talking about how he’s been told to do this, or not to do that, or watched the press be shut down by his handlers even as they yell questions to him and he sits there smirking and picking his teeth?

There’s no doubt that Brandon is not an independent actor who’s in charge of himself.

He’s been called brainless, frail, corrupt, weak, narcissistic, an idiot, an empty suit, a failure, and out of touch. Whatever modicum of truth each possesses, none of them seem to encompass all that the guy is.

But I finally landed on one that I think gets at the core of who Brandon is and one that explains nearly everything else about him.

Fool.

When I say “fool” I don’t just mean the dictionary definition of “a person lacking in judgment or prudence,” although that is part of it and completely true of Brandon. Nor do I mean the kind of gibbering idiot known as a court jester whose job was to amuse and provoke the king. That was deliberate silliness and calculated nonsense.

What I mean by fool is a man without a moral center who is led left and right by his desires rather than by a set of principles informed by experience, tradition and common sense. In the book of Proverbs and elsewhere in the Hebrew scriptures, the word fool means “one who is morally deficient.”

The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice. (Proverbs 1:7)

The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple [fools] keep going and suffer for it. (Proverbs 27:12)

It comes down to this:

The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” (Psalm 14:1)

To be morally deficient is to defy God and to ignore what He says is right and true and good. If you ignore what is right and true and good, what is wrong, false and evil will characterize your life. It’s bad for you personally, and it’s also bad for your family. It’s even worse if you’re leading a nation.

For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. (Romans 1:21-23)

Joe Biden ignores God. In addition, he ignores political wisdom, cultural realities and common sense, and he seems to do it with malice, greed, pride and, sometimes, an empty stare.

Brandon is a fool. And “to be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool” (Octavia E. Butler, The Parable of the Talents). That’s perhaps the greatest travesty of the whole debacle.

See you in March.

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Daily Broadside | Big Talk Is Only Big if You Can Back it Up

Daily Verse | Deuteronomy 10:12-13
And now, O Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to observe the Lord’s commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?

Friday’s Reading: Deuteronomy 13-17
Saturday’s Reading: Deuteronomy 18-21

It’s Friday and by some accounts, we are now on the cusp of World War III. Russia has indeed invaded its neighbor and former satellite in a campaign to reunite with so-called breakaway regions of eastern Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called Ukraine part of “ancient Russian lands” in an address on Monday.

While I’m doubtful that the Russian minor incursion invasion will lead to a broader conflict, all bets are off if Putin pushes beyond the western border of Ukraine where lie Poland, Slovakia and Hungary, all of whom are members of NATO. If Russia crosses the border of any of these nations, it would be considered an attack on all members, including US and the UK.

But never fear! Brandon reassured us that with him in charge, ol’ Putin would be shakin’ in his boots.

And there was also this before that:

Biden similarly said in a Twitter video in October 2019 that Putin’s “days of tyranny” would be over when he was president.

“I’m going to stand up to him, he’s a bully,” then-presidential candidate Biden said.

“Putin knows that when I am president of the United States his days of tyranny and trying to intimidate the United States and those in Eastern Europe are over,” he continued.

How’s everybody liking the end of Putin’s tyranny?

I’m not sure Putin was as impressed going toe to toe with Biden as Biden was going toe to toe with Putin. In fact, Brandon is rather enamored with himself, isn’t he?

Like everything else that Biden says, it was empty rhetoric, his words hollow theatrics that he could never live up to, the boasting of a feeble-brained idiot who has no moral center—unless you call enriching himself on the backs of taxpayers a “moral center.”

What has Brandon done to dissuade the Russian tyrant? Besides supporting Germany in shutting down the Russian-led Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline (which Biden had green-lighted while shutting down the Keystone Pipeline on his first day in office), the Resident is now introducing sanctions specifically targeting Russian financial markets.

Biden said that the sanctions will target Russian elites, banks, and technology exports which he claimed will cripple Russia’s ability to modernize its military and will damage the Russian economy.

Say, do you think Putin might have anticipated such a response? Here’s what Putin has said about anyone thinking about interfering with his “special operations.”

“To anyone who would consider interfering from outside: If you do, you will face consequences greater than any you have faced in history. All the relevant decisions have been taken. I hope you hear me,” Mr Putin said.

Does anyone doubt that he has the manpower, willpower and firepower to back up his Trumpian-style threat?

Still, what we should be concerned about is not so much what’s happening in eastern Europe, but what the fallout will be here in the U.S.

The Russian attack caused the price of Brent crude to spike more than 8 percent to as much as $105 a barrel. The price of U.S. crude also jumped 7.5 percent to about $99 a barrel. Russia is the world’s second largest producer of oil, and the second largest exporter of crude oil. Europe is particularly reliant on Russian energy.

How will that translate into the price of filling up your car?

The price of gas continues to soar in this era of Bidenflation. It is getting so bad, some experts are warning that we could see prices as outrageously high as $7 per gallon in some parts of the country.

The current high prices are not new, either. Gasoline has been on the rise for seven straight weeks, according to GasBuddy data reported by Fox Carolina.

“Veteran energy strategist Dan Dicker said he can see gas prices going up to $5 a gallon. Dicker said some areas might even get to $6.50 or $7,” Fox Carolina added.

GasBuddy noted that the national average is almost twenty cents a gallon higher than a month ago and is nearly a dollar higher than one year ago.

In just over a year we went from being energy independent and a net exporter of oil to reverting to 70’s-era gas pricing.

Norms restored!

Just know that the Democrats and their accessories in the media will blame the war in Ukraine for the rising gas prices. But don’t let them.

Left-wing news sources continue to lay the blame for these skyrocketing prices at the door of Russia’s threatened invasion of Ukraine.

Indeed, the Associated Press is only worried over the high costs of gasoline because it will likely have a political impact for Biden and the Democrats in the 2022 elections, which are only seven months away.

“Americans are already dismayed by Inflation at a 40-year high, and Biden is warning that gas prices could get higher if Russian President Vladimir Putin chooses to invade. It’s a recognition of Biden’s own risks ahead of the 2022 midterm elections: Inflation has become an albatross for Democrats despite the nation’s strong economic growth last year,” the Associated Press wrote last week.

But this is misleading. Gasoline has been rising since Biden took office, and the Russian threat to Ukraine was not great enough to impact gas prices when Biden entered the White House in January of last year.

Brandon is a colossal failure, putting America and the rest of the world at risk. He failed in Afghanistan, he failed in our energy independence, he’s failed on our southern border, and he’s failed in uniting the country.

And now he’s failed to deter Putin from mischief in eastern Europe. Biden might think he went “toe to toe” with Putin, but it turns out he was only tripping over his own feet.

Have a good weekend.

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Daily Broadside | Canada Should Be a Warning, Not an Example

Daily Verse | Deuteronomy 4:39
Acknowledge and take to heart this day that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other.

Thursday’s Reading: Deuteronomy 9-12

Happy Thursday and welcome back to me! Sorry to go radio silent for a week with no warning, but we had plans to visit friends in the southern U.S. and had to skedaddle a day early to avoid the crazy Midwest weather patterns that prove climate change is real! We went to Texas where the temps ranged from the mid-forties to the mid-eighties, the skies were blue, the rain was brief, and the smell of freedom was everywhere. Plus, there was a lot of LGBFJB attitude, which we very much enjoyed.

Thanks to those of you who checked in on me.

The Brandon administration lurches from one failure to another, all the while blaming Trump and white supremacy for the results of his insane policies. (Well, they’re not actually his policies. He doesn’t know what he’s saying or what he’s endorsing. All of his policies are made up by the junta in Washington and he just nods along.) And while the nation is focused on the misdirection of Ukraine and Putin’s laughter at Biden—the only guy to go toe-to-toe with him!—we have some truly alarming developments to our north as Justin Brandeau goes full dictator — and the Canadian Parliament backs him up!

As things have developed, Canada has, in the idiomatic sense, become a joke, that is, a bad one, in effect, a joke that is not a joke. In other words, we never expected the unexpected, a liberal democracy transformed almost overnight into a fascist dictatorship, a travesty of a former assumption. Just yesterday, who would have thought that truckers’ operating licenses would be revoked. Or Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson would intend to sell confiscated rigs under the Emergencies Act. Or that banks can freeze accounts of individuals and corporations involved in the protests without a court order, as announced by Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland who, as Michael Walsh points out in The Pipeline, sits on the board of trustees of the World Economic Forum, “the most dangerous threat to real democracy and freedom in the world today, and whose journalist grandfather was reportedly a Nazi collaborator.” Or that a thrice-elected prime minister and darling of the electorate would assume the mantle of a totalitarian despot. Or that people would be savagely beaten by masked police without badge numbers and jackbooted RCMP officers think they are “living the dream” at the prospect of “police horses trampl[ing] peaceful protesters.”

Robert Spencer, who runs the Jihad Watch website and writes a lot about Islamist extremists, their threat to liberal democracy and has, himself, been banned from Britian over his views, writes this:

The death of freedom in Canada went by a party-line vote Monday evening, with the ruling Liberals and the far-Left New Democratic Party voting in favor of Justin Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act, and the Conservatives voting against. The vote on Hitler’s Enabling Act, which ended the Weimar Republic, also went along party lines, although most of those who weren’t National Socialists were too intimidated by that point to do anything but go along. In Canada, none of the Liberals and New Democrats who voted for the Emergencies Act appear to have pondered the lessons of the Left’s history and how this whole thing can backfire on them so very easily.

Trudeau claims that he needs emergency powers to seize the bank accounts of his opponents and hound them in other extraconstitutional ways because even though the Freedom Convoy has dispersed, it could gather again any time, you see. Another threat to “our democracy,” as Leftists in both Canada and the United States refer to their hegemony, is just around the corner. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh claimed Monday that the Freedom Convoy “came here to overthrow a democratically elected government. It is a movement funded by foreign influence, and it is fed on disinformation. Its goal is to disrupt our democracy.”

If that reminds you of the Democrats’ rhetoric about their fictional Jan. 6 “insurrection,” that’s because Canada’s Liberals and the Democrats in the States are working from the same playbook: demonize their opposition as insurrectionists and restrict their activities accordingly.

It’s that last paragraph that sums up my alarm over the developments in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (all under the British monarchy), ostensibly liberal democracies where freedom is valued. It’s amazing how quickly each devolved into a dictatorship, imposing unlawful “emergency” police powers on their citizens and cutting off any opportunities to resist or object by word or behavior.

The reason for my concern is that the United States has been seeing more and more of its laws being circumvented or ignored with unending mask mandates, vaccination requirements, school closures, BLM rioting and looting and murders, J6 protestors being jailed without bond or charges, elected officials saying that white supremacy (read: Trump voters) is the greatest threat to “our democracy,” Critical Race Theory being taught to our kids, attempts to surveille our bank accounts, the invasion happening along our southern border and so much more.

Imagine that the truckers making their way to the U.S. capitol in our own Freedom Convoy are arrested and held without bail; that anyone donating to the cause or bringing them food or water or gasoline has their bank account frozen or are arrested as accessories to an attempted “overthrow” of the government or a threat to the “elected” leader of the US—exactly how many of us will be in the streets demonstrating and demanding that the government stand down?

The answer is none, I’m afraid.

The reason I think that is because there haven’t been any for the J6 protestors; there haven’t been any against the rioters and anarchists in various Democrat-run cities. I’m not sure what it’s going to take to disabuse Resident Brandon of his unhinged policies.

The American people are armed and have been arming themselves at a record-setting pace for a few years now. (The 393,347,000 estimated number of guns is from 2017 and doesn’t include the most recent data.) Neither Canada, Australia nor New Zealand have liberal gun laws. Canadians are allowed to have guns but there is no legal right to possess a firearm; in Australia, private gun ownership is strictly regulated; and in New Zealand, only a quarter of their citizens have a firearm.

Even with our top-heavy gun ownership, I’m not sure what we can expect in the face of tightening controls.

Interesting news just breaking:

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has revoked his use of the Emergencies Act, the quirk in Canadian law that allowed his cabinet to have the power to freeze the bank accounts of Freedom Convoy protesters and use tyrannical police power to break up the vaccine freedom protest.

I don’t know why Brandeau has taken this step, but it seems to me that the damage is already done by invoking the Emergencies Act to begin with. What’s to stop him from using it again on another citizen protest?

And what’s to stop something similar from happening here?

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Daily Broadside | The Secrets of the Russia Collusion Lie Are Being Revealed

Daily Verse | Numbers 15:30
‘But anyone who sins defiantly, whether native-born or alien, blasphemes the Lord, and that person must be cut off from his people.’

Wednesday’s Reading: Numbers 13-16

Wednesday and where do I start? Sandy Hook and Remington? Thousands of invalidated baptisms? The 30 Democrats leaving the House at the end of this term? The BLM supporter who tried to assassinate a mayoral candidate in Kentucky?

Nah.

Let’s go with the most recent developments in the RUSSIA! RUSSIA! RUSSIA! collusion narrative that the Democrats and MSMSNBCNN alliance reported on pushed for years — that President Trump was a RUSSIAN agent and puppet of Putin and he was selling the United States out to RUSSIA! RUSSIA! RUSSIA! and our precious democracy was in Danger, Danger, Will Robinson!

It was all a lie, just as we knew it was.

Special Counsel John Durham continues to unravel the Trump-Russia “collusion” story, and his latest court disclosure contains startling information. According to a Friday court filing, the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign effort to compile dirt on Donald Trump reached into protected White House communications.

According to Fox News:

Lawyers for the Clinton campaign paid a technology company to “infiltrate” servers belonging to Trump Tower, and later the White House, in order to establish an “inference” and “narrative” to bring to government agencies linking Donald Trump to Russia, a filing from Special Counsel John Durham found.

The tech company had privileged access to the servers which held non-public data. In other words, they were paid to exploit their access to private, non-public, secure information in the hopes of finding dirt on Trump.

Durham’s filing states that in July 2016, the tech executive worked with Sussmann, a U.S. investigative firm retained by Law Firm 1 on behalf of the Clinton campaign, numerous cyber researchers and employees at multiple internet companies to “assemble the purported data and white papers.”

“In connection with these efforts, Tech Executive-1 exploited his access to non-public and/or proprietary Internet data,” the filing states. “Tech Executive-1 also enlisted the assistance of researchers at a U.S.-based university who were receiving and analyzing large amounts of Internet data in connection with a pending federal government cybersecurity research contract.”

“Tech Executive-1 tasked these researchers to mine Internet data to establish ‘an inference’ and ‘narrative’ tying then-candidate Trump to Russia,” Durham states. “In doing so, Tech Executive-1 indicated that he was seeking to please certain ‘VIPs,’ referring to individuals at Law Firm-1 and the Clinton campaign.”

This after years of smears coming from the likes of Adam Schiff-for-Brains who claimed that “he has seen ‘more than circumstantial evidence’ of a Trump-Putin conspiracy” … a truly delusional and lying piece of Schiff. Don’t forget MSNBC’s star, Rachel Maddow, who was “the most prominent TV host to push the Russia collusion narrative.“

Fox News’s Gregg Jarrett, who wrote a book about the hoax, “Witch Hunt,” writes,

The stunning revelation that lawyers for the Hillary Clinton campaign paid a computer technology company to surveil a sitting president, Donald Trump, shows that more than half a dozen crimes may have been committed to advance the false accusation that he colluded with Russia.

It’s likely true that no one of any importance will get jail time for this, least of all Clinton.

As with any well organized criminal exercise, it is exceedingly difficult to nab the person at the top. Hillary Clinton is no different.  She carried out her machinations in smart and clever ways. She had others do her dirty work for her and maintained a distance separated through an elaborate chain of people. It was akin to a money laundering scheme, except dirty information was being washed.

Unless people in the chain break their silence and implicate Hillary, she will likely escape culpability.

Evidence of her role has slowly emerged from declassified records. It was July 26, 2016, when Clinton personally approved the plot to vilify Trump with the bogus collusion claims, according to CIA documents.  The genesis of the smear came from Hillary herself as a strategy to distract from her own email scandal.

Two days later, President Obama was alerted but appears to have done nothing except keep the matter concealed. Intelligence officials then sent an investigative referral on Clinton to then-FBI Director James Comey and his deputy, Peter Strzok. Predictably, it was buried.

Make no mistake –it was Clinton who invented the elaborate collusion hoax, financed it, and directed the process by which it was circulated to the media and the FBI.  Her false claims were then disseminated by a cadre of cronies and dirty-tricksters working secretly in the shadows.

Neither the White House nor Hillary herself responded to requests for comment in the wake of the Special Counsel’s revelations. This even as Democrats want Clinton investigated:

[N]early three out of four Americans want to see Hillary Clinton investigated for her connection to the efforts to frame Trump for ties to Russia. That number includes 66 percent of Democrats.

It’s hilarious to me that Clinton is making noise about a comeback in 2024 for a third run at the White House. But I’m not stupid … the Democrats put an empty, self-promotional, racist grand-stander with zero brains in the White House in 2020, so I wouldn’t put it past them to do the same with Felonius Milhous Pantsuit (as Kurt Schlichter calls her).

I admit that once Trump was out of office, I expected that the Durham investigation would die a quiet death, simply fading from view without notice. The fact that he’s been chipping away all this time is encouraging and I hope—I hope!—that he can prove that the only collusion going on was between Hillary, Obama, Biden and the rest of the Democrat cabal, including the MSM.

Our republic is counting on it.

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Daily Broadside | Brandon Gives Brinton the Recognition He Longs For

Daily Verse | Numbers 4:20
“But the Kohathites must not go in to look at the holy things, even for a moment, or they will die.”

Monday’s Reading: Numbers 9-12

Monday and we’re off to a new week in the ever more increasingly bizarre clown world that is the Brandon administration.

Politico reported last week that Sam Brinton, an LGBTQ+ activist and drag queen “pup” fetishist, has been appointed to serve as deputy assistant secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition for the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy (ONE).

Behold your new high-level official of a key federal department:

There’s no doubt the “non-binary” man seems capable of his job.

According to a biography Brinton provided to the LGBTQ Religious Archives Network (LGBTQ-RAN), he holds a dual Master’s degree from MIT in engineering systems and nuclear science and engineering, is the founder of “Core Solutions Consulting that provides technical expertise on topics ranging from nuclear waste management to advanced nuclear reactor innovation and nuclear non-proliferation policy to advanced nuclear companies,” and has advised Congress on related issues.

But there’s more to Sam Brinton than his degree, and I’m not going to spend any time on his “pup” fetish or his interest in sex with animals. You can find that on your own if you’re interested. What I’m more concerned about is his activism and what this unprecedented step means for the future of our government and nation.

However, the biography also details Brinton’s work as an adviser to the Obama administration on LGBT issues and an activist for campaigns to ban talk therapy for unwanted same-sex attraction, such as the BornPerfect Campaign and 50 Bills 50 States, ostensibly driven by his experience as a “survivor of a traumatic and torturous conversion therapy experience.”

This is the key. Perhaps you wonder what his sexual proclivities have to do with his ability to do his job.

Nothing. He can (apparently) do the job.

The problem is the agenda that comes with Sam Brinton.

He also openly says, on his website, that he uses his nuclear background to gain access to senior corridors of power, to influence leaders to accept the full panoply of sexual deviance:

You might believe that Brinton’s capacity to do the DOE job has nothing to do with his kink activism, but he doesn’t share your belief. He believes that it is good and right to gain access to senior levels of government, and use that access for advocacy. Anybody inside DOE who has to work with this guy now should be on notice that he is going to be watching them for signs that they don’t affirm him in every way — and he will make trouble for them. Guaranteed.

Here’s the thing: Brandon and his cohort of activists don’t care about you and your conservative norms. The appointment of Sam Brinton is so in our face, so depraved, so contrary to what has been considered “normal” and “moral” for generations, that it offends the sensibilities of Normal Americans.

But “normal” Americans are a dying breed. Brinton is not universally seen as a perverted and mentally unwell person. As Rod Dreher writes, “We live in a culture in which Brinton is not seen as a failure, but as a success.”

It is going to be quite interesting to see how official conservative Washington responds to the Sam Brinton hire. I bet response is muted to positive. Why? Because though what Brinton represents is being championed by liberals, and he is a progressive hero, objecting publicly to people like Brinton and what they represent is something that is no longer done in elite circles, even among conservative elites. By the time the Boomers and the Xers die out, there will be no one left to object.

Meanwhile, as I’ve said, this is radically changing our society. Read the Rensselaer Polytechnic story: the young are being taught, and accepting the teaching, that perverts like Sam Brinton are liberating and sympathetic figures, figures that incarnate possible futures for themselves. Is this what you want for your children? Because we are all going to get it.

We need to all realize — and I’m talking to myself here too — that classical liberalism is not going to save us from this decadence. I have long resisted the implications of this conclusion, because I really do want to live in a world of relative tolerance. I am not as confident as others that this is the natural end point of liberalism, because we lived within classical liberalism for centuries without this kind of thing. What is becoming clear to me is that this is what classical liberalism is when separated from Christian faith, or at least from a metaphysical/religious structure that sets boundaries within the classical liberal framework. This is what the Founding Father John Adams meant when he said:

“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.”

And here we are today: post-Christian, and plunging into decadence because we have unbridled our basest passions. If Sam Brinton kept his base passions hidden, that would be one thing. But he parades them, has built a lucrative public profile and career on them, and openly exploits them for cultural and political hegemony. When Brinton was in short pants, his predecessors in the movement appealed to liberal values of tolerance and individual dignity to open the doors to people like him. Now that they are in command of the culture, there will be no more liberal tolerance, only compelled affirmation of the kind of deviance that was unimaginable a generation ago to most people.

Giving Brinton a highly elevated role in the federal government validates his sexual perversions, his debased morality, and his mental unwellness. It also pokes a very large finger in the eyes of what’s left of a modest and largely Christian culture.

But this is our country now and it’s defining deviance down further than we ever thought possible.