Inside the Democratic Machine | Evan Barker

Former Democratic Party insider, Evan Barker, left the Party, posted a Tik Tok resignation which went millions viral. She talks, with The Free Press, of her experiences as a fundraiser, in the heart of the Democratic Party.

“Trans Murderous CULT!” The Rise of TrAntifa: A DANGEROUS Fusion of Extremism And Trans Ideology | Winston Marshall & Andy Ngo

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Winston Marshall talking to Andy Ngo. I've known both for some time. Andy longer than Winston. I've know Andy since I started following the stories he was posting from the front lines of the riots going on over in the western states, like in Portland, Oregon. Andy did a lot of brave reporting, and nearly got killed for it. He wrote a book, which I've read, called "Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy".

How Winston came into the picture is that he recommended the book to his followers. He was then promptly driven out of the rather famous band that he was founding member of -- Mumford & Sons. He's since made this online career for himself.

A lot of things I didn't know, come out of the above video, for me.

Like:

Trans are only around just under 1% of the population, but they were around 15% of the arrestees during the 2020 BLM riots around the US.

They are a major part of those identified in recent bombings, burnings and shootings of Tesla building and cares.

I didn't know about this Zizian gang. Like a kind of Manson Family, for Trans.

I didn't know that the violent Trans, of which there seems to be lots, are disproportionately smart, top-end academically. Some folks like that make stuff, like Elon Musk. Some folks like that destroy stuff, like the Zizi dude.

This is all like a resurgence of the crazies during the middle of the last century. The Baader-Meinhof gang in Germany, the Red Brigades in Italy, the xxx in Japan, the Weather Underground in the US. All returning, with a vengeance, and with souped up tools via the internet.

From the intro:

Anti-Elon Musk arson and vandalism targeting Tesla’s have erupted up and down America and across the world. Far Left anarchism is back.

And it turns out that Trans are over represented amongst alleged perpetrators. Or as journalist Andy Ngo calls them: Trantifa.

Andy Ngo, a journalist and author, discussed the rise of far-left extremism, particularly the over-representation of transgender individuals in recent attacks on Tesla dealerships across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Ngo highlights that these attacks, which include arson and bombings.

With Winston they examine to what extent they are coordinated, by Dogequest for example.

Andy also detailed the Zizians, a transgender, transhumanist, rationalist cult linked to multiple violent deaths, including the murder of a Border Patrol agent and a double homicide.

Ngo criticises the mainstream media for downplaying the ideological aspects of these extremist groups and their transgender identities.

And Winston and Andy discuss how their lives have become entangled.

Some more about Winston and Andy's relationship, below the fold:

Democrats criticise electronic voting machines in 2019!

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Then Senator Kamala Harris, Senator Amy Klobuchar,  Senator Ron Wyden (D Oregon). All sounding off in the video above, around 2018 and 2019, about how dangerous and hackable electronic voting machines are. But when that was mentioned in the wake of Biden's win 2020, you're not allowed to mention it, on pain of being labelled an "election denier" or "insurrectionist"! When Fox mentioned it, they were sued and lost a shiteload of money. 

But, video above, it's the Dems saying so, before the Biden win, and saying that there was plenty of evidence for the machines being imperfect and hackable, after "exhaustive studies". 

Imagine that!

The simple way to secure elections is to make them paper-baased and to require ID. Simple. It's what most countries in Europe either always did, or have returned to doing. 

The Dems not requiring ID and (now!) supporting voting machines that we know are hackable has only one explanation: that they plan have people with no IDs voting and to hack the electronic voting machines to sway the election. Just that 2024 turned out to be "too big to rig". 

By the way, I voted in the 2024 US election from here in Hong Kong, despite being (a) not American and (b) having no ID. I went on to a site -- I wrote about it here -- that allows voting in US elections from overseas. When it comes to the ID section, if  you click "I don't have one", it lets you go on. Then it asks you for a voting district, a county, in the US. It's easy to fill in a fraudulent one after five minutes on Google. (I did it)/

I did everything BUT click "Send". I need to be clear here: I did NOT in the end vote! Because I'm a person with morals, and a respect for the law and what's right and wrong. BUT.... It was clear that all I need have done, to vote in the US election from here in Hong Kong is to press "Send" on the form that I got online from a website done by Democrat activists. That's all it would have taken. 

And yet Democrats demand -- demand !-- that we say the election is clean and proper in all ways. At least when they win, like 2020. They're not so sure when the Reps win, like 2016 and 2024. In any case, they demand that we all agree on the perfection of the US election system, when everything else in the United States is to some degree or other either broken or corrupt. 

The Biden Crime Family | Miranda Devine

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Here are the dots. Feel free to join them up.This is going back to the second Obama term, so around 2012-16.

• Burisma is a Ukrainian energy company. Widely believed to be the most corrupt company in a very corupt country. 
• New Ukraine government attempts to tackle corruption so it can join NATO.
• Appoints clean-skin Viktor Shokin as prosecutor.
• Shokin goes after Burisma. Remember: the most corrupt company in a corrupt country. 
• Burisma puts Hunter Biden on its Board and pays him and his partner Devin Archer, $2 million pa, while Joe Biden is Veep to Obama in charge of most foreign affairs including Ukraine. 
• Burisma demands Hunter ask his father to call off prosecutor Shokin — and demands a phone call with Joe, which Hunter arranges.
• Joe visits Kiev, demands Shokin be fired, holding back $1 billion in aid as a threat. 
• Shokin gets sacked.
• Burisma is happy
• White House is not happy. Because it's not a good look.
• They cook up a story that it was Europe wanted the sacking of “corrupt” prosecutor Shokin 
• Western media swallows the story.
• Biden, father and son, get away with it. 

Does Biden get impeached ? No, he does not. Does Hunter get punished? No, he does not.

President Trump tries to find out what was going on. Makes phone call to new Ukraina president Vladimir Zelensky.

Trump gets impeached for his troubles. Gets impeached for trying to find out about Biden corruption which is itself impeachable. 

Hah! 

And that’s just Ukraine. There’s also China and Romania. Where Hunter is the face of the Biden Crime Family. The Bag Man. For “The Big Man” (Joe). The Big Man who is due 10% of every deal that his son Hunter does while his dad is Vice president. 

Aussie star reporter for the New York Post, Miranda Devine has a new book about it. “The Big Man”. Talks to ex Mumford & Sons banjo man Winston Marshal.  “it’s a rip-roaring story in itself. The lack of curiosity by the legacy media is amazing”. 

I'm Australian but I just registered to vote in the US elections!

My completed application for a Ballot in the US election
which I've redacted some details. I did NOT send this in

I'm Australian living in Hong Kong. I don't have dual nationality. I'm a simple Aussie.

But I registered to get a Ballot to vote in the US election. 

It was super easy. 

To be clear; it was to apply for the Ballot form, which would be sent to me by email. I did not go through the process to actually get the Ballot and to send it in, because that would've made me liable to criminal penalties. But I can imagine that there may be plenty of people out there, beyond the reach of US law, who may be quite happy to go ahead and get the Ballot and to vote however they are paid to do so. 

I Googled "voting in the US from overseas" and got various sites that allow you to apply for a Ballot. I tried two -- "Vote from Abroad" and "US Vote Foundation" . I filled them out -- for the swing state of Pennsylvania --  and got as far as the Affirmation Page, where I was to sign (jpeg of signature was fine!) that I was who I said I was on pain of perjury. At that point I stopped because I didn't want to do anything illegal. All I was doing was to see if it was as easy as I'd heard to register for a Ballot from overseas. And I proved that it was.

And it was quick. It took me only about ten minutes. You could streamline an operation down to minutes per application. 10,000 people in call centres overseas could do 10 million Ballot applications in a week. 

Kaaa-raaay-zeee!

Imagine how many people there may be overseas who would be quite happy to invent names and to Affirm they are who they say they are, and to then get a Ballot. And to fill in the Ballot for whichever Party they've been paid to fill it in for. 

Once you've got the Ballot, you then send it -- by email if you want -- to the County in which you've chosen to vote. 

This is in contrast to Australia. Where I actually am a resident. Last year I wanted to vote in the Voice Referendum. I had to prove that I'd lived in Australia sometime in the last three years. I had to prove it by some form like a Proof of Address, Passport or the like. I couldn't do that, so I couldn't vote. It was way stricter than the US. 

The two US sites I tried couldn't have been easier. 

At first I baulked at the requirement for ID. But I thought, let's try it anyway and maybe I can try to use fake numbers. No need. Because when I got to the end of the form, and there's the ID bit, there's a choice in the drop-down menu: "I don't have an ID at this time". Clicked that and I was good to go!

Next it asked me to Affirm that all I'd filled out was true, on penalty of perjury charges. There I stopped. Because I'd used fake addresses in the US and in Hong Kong, and a fake name. 

But consider this: how easy would it be to find Call Centres in places like the Philippines, India, anywehere in Europe... or just about anywhere really. And to pay them to fill out fake names and addresses and to Affirm and then to email them to the selected County electoral office and to get the Ballot sent back to fake email addresses. 

The Democratic Party has said that it plans to the maximise overseas vote. The two Voter Registration sites I used were both Democrat leaning, even though they claimed to be "non-partisan". What's to stop them doing some funny games as above?

Consider that an audit of the overseas ballots for Georgia in the 2020 election found that they voted 93% Democrat. That's the sort of number you only get in North Korea. Something fishy there.  

Thinking about it, it's not even necessary that this be done from actual real-life overseas as I did. You could just use a VPN in the US and look like you're applying from anywhere overseas. 

Given that it seems the Democrats are on top of this, if the Republicans want to stop it -- or at least match it -- they need to focus on auditing. This probably needs to be done at the County level, asking to audit every overseas Ballot and to work out ways to check if they're real or not. 

Note that in Philadelphia some of these overseas ballots -- for "Civilians who intend to return" -- are valid until a full week AFTER the election day. This is crazy. Why would they allow this to stop a final count for a full week after the election day? See below screenshot. 

This sort of nonsense used not to happen. It arose out of the mess of the 2020 Covid-influenced election.As Victor Davis Hanson says, the Republicans have to "emulate and master" this. It's too late to change the big mess of voting and Ballot handling "radical, revolutionary changes".  All to benefit of Democrats. See him talk it here. 

What's needed? Simple. As proposed by Vivek Ramaswamy.  Single day voting. A holiday on the day of voting. Paper only voting. Locked and secure Ballot boxes, which have a clear chain of custody. ID required. No early voting. Absentee voting much stricter that it is now. VDS above, notes that the European States continue to have paper only voting and to get results in one day. Which used to happen in America. 

But the Democrats have staunchly refused any such reform. They've in fact gone the other way, as in California which just passed a law to specifically NOT require ID. 

Prepare for the Big Steal. 

"CIA And FBI Spread Disinformation And Interfered In 2020 Presidential Election” | Michael Shellenberger

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The Dems think -- or at least they tell us, non-stop -- that this is all so much hooey. It’s not. It’s substantial. 

For a start, Joe Biden and his son Hunter should have gone to jail for it. At the very least Biden should not have won the 2020 election, because of the gross interference, or if he had, he should have had to resign. 

Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 for the “crime” of hiding the break-in to the Watergate building. Which was a bunch of bumblers trying to find Oppo dirt on the Dems, at the then Democratic National Convention. IOW, he resigned not for the crime but for hiding the crime. 

In the case of Joe and Hunter, they not only did the crime -- by all the evidence in the “Laptop from Hell” -- but they hid it as well. And yet are walking free. Joe is even still president of the United States. Or so some say. Or so it is alleged. Or so it is believed be some in the media. 

What about the 51 Intelligence chiefs, past and present, who signed the now infamous letter saying that the Hunter Laptop was Russian Disinformation? They knew it wasn’t. They knew it. They lied. It affected the 2020 election. Why are they all still free? Why are they still on “respectable” media outlets like CNN, still pontificating, instead of rotting in jail? 

"Everything WRONG With The Modern World” | Sam Harris talks to Rich Roll

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Oh dear. Sam Harris again. I do have a thing about him. I’d say I’m a once and maybe future fan. I have all his books. I was a subscriber to his podcast until I wasn’t cause I got so pissed off at his TDS, which broke his brain. 

He does criticise the craziness of the far-Left in the United States in supporting the death cult of Hamas. He’s spot-on there. Meaning: he agrees with me. 

But at the beginning of the pod above, talking to Rich Roll, he goes on again about Covid. About which (I think) he was wrong on nearly every count. 

Over at his podcast in March of 2020, when the pandemic was still new, he talked to Nikolas Christakis. They both shared views at the extreme end of the panic spectrum. They were both alarmist and what they were pushing for turned out to be the worst policies. 

I kept this blog all during Covid,  which I would line up with Sam’s at any time -- and I’d be shown correct in my take on it. Which was, simply: don’t panic. I was also pretty quickly “lockdown skeptic”, because the data. Some of which I generated myself with figures from Oxford University on the severity of the Lockdowns worldwide, vs. the death rates per country, which showed no correlation. I was also right about schools closures being wrong, and about masks being ineffective. But, for Sam, Sam’s right. 

At the site over there, I made a comment just now: 

I’m back here 4 years later coz Sam is back on some pods saying pretty much the same thing as he said then: namely that he got it all right and everyone else was wrong. That is itself Wrong! 

From the first few minutes of the pod above I note the following mistakes in what Sam Harris says “these ar the facts, that I hope we can agree on”:

1) Covid much worse than Flu, says Sam. No. Covid IFR was 0.02% cf. Flu of 0.03%. So slightly more for Covid than flu, but with Covid skewed significantly to super-elders with comorbidities. 

Children just as much at risk, says Sam. No. Not in the United States, nor here in Hong Kong from where I’m writing this, nor anywhere else in the world. The stats simply do not bear this out.

2) Social distancing “essential”, says Sam. No. Fauci now admits that there was no scientific basis for the distancing measures. And to the extent they kept people indoors, they only led to increased transmission. Best thing we could have done is to encourage people to go outside. And to get fit. And to lose weight. None of which was suggested by either Sam or Fauci, or the CDC.

3) Schools everywhere should be closed, says Sam. No. The Europeans were already reopening schools by the time of the above pod, and Sweden had never closed them. But Sam and the Left simply smeared those who pointed this out, at the time. 

School closures were dramatically bad for students. The closures were restricted to public schools, while private schools, the likes of which Sam’s kids probably go to, were kept open. Grossest hypocrisy. Which we knew then, not just now in retrospect. Unless you were Sam Harris. In which case you didn’t know it, and remain to this day proud that you didn’t.

That’s in the first five minutes. I can’t bear to go through the rest.

I did listen to this pod in real time, at the time 4 years ago, from here in HongKong where we were close to the epicentre of the outbreak, up in Wuhan, and I thought Harris and Christakis were both way over-panicky at the time. 

And we’d been though the SARS epidemic of 2002, which was more deadly than Covid. 

Let’s be plain. Sam got it wrong. He’s never come close to even hinting that he might think so. 

But he did. He got it wrong.

ADDED: I just remembered: that the reason they closed schools in mid 2020 was that Trump had said that schools should be open. For a political gain, for a political point, for TDS-broken brains, they harmed millions of school children. That alone should be cause for investigation. Shame on them. 

AND: they delayed the roll out of vaccines to past the election in 2020, because they didn’t want Trump to have an “October surprise”, by releasing a vaccine. Again, shame on them. 

“Biden’s Using Your Tax Dollars To Turn Out Democrat Votes” | The Federalist

Wow!

People have been wondering: given the Trump lead in the polls what could the Dems do to trip him up.

Maybe this is it. “Biden’s Using Your Tax Dollars To Turn Out Democrat Votes” by Dan Weingarten.

Note that voting by post is one aspect of this . Before Covid there was no postal voting. After it was used to great effect by the Dems during the 2020 Covid election, there's no way the Dems will ever allow the system to go back to pre Covid in-person voting only (though there are good reasons for doing so).

One to watch. Don't count on the Reps to be in top of this one. They were well behind the 8-ball on the postal voting in 2020. 

“Does Biden’s Sabotage of Israel Remind You of Anything?” | Andrew McCarthy

Impeach Biden!

The GOP might want to hold back on the grounds that "we're not going to do tit-for-tat". That it's not good for the country to launch spurious impeachment cases just because your opponents did. Very well.

But at least they ought to make some noise about it. That the Dems sought to impeach Trump for exactly the same thing that Joe Biden is doing now to Israel. 

This point about Biden doing exactly what they accused Trump of doing was made on CNN last night! Amazing. 

Snip, from the great, the reliable Andy McCarthy: 

I

‘m old enough to remember when House Democrats impeached and Senate Democrats voted unanimously (though unsuccessfully) to convict and remove a president for withholding congressionally approved, taxpayer-funded aid from an allied country — one that desperately needed the aid while fighting a defensive war against a barbaric enemy — in order to pressure that desperate ally to help the president get reelected.

You're old enough, too — this happened less than five years ago.

And the Democrats who impeached and sought to convict and remove then-president Donald Trump are pretty much the same Democrats now holding House and Senate seats. Read on...

ADDED: Senator Ted Cruz on the Biden Betrayal.  At the end of the Trump presidency, Iran had around $4 billion in their coffers, according to the IMF. In country terms that’s like being on your uppers. After Biden had been in power for three years, Iran had over $100 billion, according to the IMF. That has allowed Iran to fund the terrorism by Hamas, by Hezbollah and by the Houthis. And for Iran to strike Israel with over 300 missiles. That’s what the Biden administration enabled. Facts. 

Who “won” the first Republican Primary debate?

Or rather who did best?

I watched it all on Rumble, the YouTube for folks that don’t like censorship. 

Somehow Rumble got the exclusive rights to stream the debate. On cable, it was with Fox. Which we no longer have in Hong Kong, and we don’t bother to stream.

Below my hot take before watching any of the pundits.

First Trump didn’t bother to show up. He’s so far in front, in the primary polls that it was beneath him, I presume. 

I don’t think the rest of the candidates laid a glove on Trump, in his absence. They should have. Cause he’s a loser. He lost the 2020 presidential, including losing the Senate because of his idiotic hissy fit, telling Reps not to bother voting in the Georgia Senate race; he lost the 2022 midterms for the Reps, by his poor choice of candidates to endorse; and is now under four indictments, three of which are completely unnecessary, as he brought them on himself. 

Not to say that the Dems are not overreaching and prosecuting shameless partisan law-fare on Trump, because they most surely are, but that’s another issue. Trump is a loser and should have been hammered in this debate. He wasn’t. Trump was not even in the debate, yet didn’t suffer, at least at the hands of these milquetoasts.

The winners, according to me. 

Note: These have no relationship to those that I think should be the Republican Presidential candidate. Which IMO ought to be one of: Ron DeSantis, Tim Scott or Vivek Ramaswami. A Latino, a Black or an Indian-American. That’s the depth and diversity of the Republican bench!

Still, this is who I feel did best:

Mike Pence: Trump’s VP. And Mr Boring. But came out swinging, powerful, clear, forceful. Definitely performed beyond expectations. Mine, at least. 

Nicky Hailey: She was clear, forceful, fought back when attacked. Said strong stuff about actually getting things done, like a Federal law on abortion, post the overthrow of Roe v Wade, and also on the Ukraine war. She lingers in the memory after this debate. Where before she hadn’t made any impression. On me, at least. 

Tim Scott: I’m going to say that he performed as I’d seen him perform before, in that he’s a powerful eloquent voice for working hard and making your own success: born dirt poor, of a poor single mum, nothing handed to him, but made it to community college, started and sold a successful business and is now a Federal Senator. That’s quite a resumé. A powerful message of non-victimhood and he got that across well in this debate. At least according to me. 

That’s it for the winners. I’ll give all three a B-plus. 

Now for the ones that underperformed: 

Ron DeSantis was pretty much as we’ve seen him before. Steady, resolute, solid, dependable. But nothing out of the box. He gets a steady C from me. Which is my definition of underperforming. Because he had to do better, to break through to the top. To get near Trump.

Vivek Ramaswami: I’ve really liked what he’s been doing on the campaign trail, but I don’t think he gave us the best he can be. And he came across as sometimes crazy: like his “kill the Deep State” ideas. The other candidates really hit him hard, like he’s the main danger, especially Chris Christy, and Vivek didn’t take it well. Didn’t handle it as well as I’ve seen him do in the many appearances on podcasts and on cable, including in “enemy” territory, like CNN and MSNBC. He was on The Breakfast Club pod, very left wing, and did well. Killed them. Not here, not this time. He gets a C-minus from me. 

Chris Christy: what to say? Nothing much. He’s supposed to be the Trump-killer, but no verbal homicide in this debate. He’s the B-minus bluster-blubber.

The two others there, I can barely recall. Asa Hutchison, ex (I think) Governor of Arizona (I think) only said stuff, mainly about Trump, which got the crowd booing. Rightly so, as he supported all the indictments, which to many-most Republicans, and to us here in this Hong Kong household, are clear cases of unequal treatment under the Law, no matter how much one might bleat “no one is above the law”. Right. Except Hillary (her emails), Joe (Ukraine, China, Romania, etc, etc...). 

And there was another dude, a Governor, of somewhere mid western, I didn't catch, but was big bundle of nothing. Nothing I recall, anyway, ‘cept for something he said that the crowd really, really didn’t like. So I’m hoping he and Asa will go the way of the wisp. D-s to both. 

There we have it from me. I wonder how the pundits see it. No doubt different from me. Then, that’s what they’re paid for. And many of them real smart cookies. And I’m just a fat old Aussie dude here in Hong Kong. What do I know?

Except this: that at the end of these primary performances, it’s going to be like they say about Germany v England in the Football (Soccer): play for 90 minutes and Germany wins on penalties. That’s how it goes. And with these Republican primaries it’s: you have the debates, and at the end Trump is the winner. 

Sigh... and CYA!

ADDED: It was a pretty spicy debate! Fun to watch. Quick moving. The moderators (Martha MacCallum and Bret Baier) kept it pretty much under control, but also let it flow when needed. I thought, while watching: the best of democracy, the best of what the US does, open, transparent, even if -- of course! -- we don’t get to hear any detail, almost don’t get to hear any policy at all. But we do get to see how the would-be president of a great democracy handles themself, under tough questioning, in front of a large crowd. That takes some gall, and also takes high performative skills. 

Greenwald v Goldman | Burisma v Shokin | Hunter v Devon | And Joe

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Wonderful stuff!

We know the Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin was after Burisma Co, and that Burisma desperately wanted Shokin sacked, because they, Burisma, told us they wanted Shokin sacked. 

Hunter Biden partner Devon Archer did not say what Daniel Goldman told CNN he said — that Burisma had Shokin “under control”.  Archer said the opposite — that Burisma wanted Shokin gone. Which was the case. And that was why Burisma paid Hunter & Co $US 1 million a year. To get his dad, Dear Old Joe, to sack Shokin. Which Joe did. And boasted about it.

As Glenn Greenwald reads from the transcript of Goldman v Archer in the Congressional hearings. 

Trump indicted AGAIN | a full review with Megyn Kelly

 

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Both sides presented by Megyn.

Taken together with what’s not happened with Democrat election denial makes for unequal treatment under the law. 

End of video: the “Blood lust” to see Trump behind bars.

Another take from the Right by Shapiro

A legal analysis from Alan Dershowitz, a registered Democrat, and alumnus professor of Law at Harvard, who taught law for 45 years.  

"Reporter Who Broke Hunter Laptop Story TESTIFIES!” | Jimmy Dore

Another in “you won’t see this on CNN” series. 

And I know you won’t because I’ve been watching CNN a lot more recently. To see what is and what’s not on the channel. To get an idea of what people who only get their info from CNN know about the world. It’s eye-opening. As in what you don’t know. Like the above. As Jimmy says at the end “I bet there are many Democrats who still think the Hunter Laptop is Russian disinformation”. I think so too. I know mates who still think that there was Russian Collusion. That Russia elected Trump. 

By the way, how do we know that the FBI knew the “Laptop from Hell”, Hunter’s laptop, was real? Because they have told us -- in the Congress, under oath -- that they knew it was Hunter’s laptop because they matched the laptop’s serial number with Hunter’s Cloud number. They knew. In October 2019. One year before the election. One year before Anthony Blinken organised 50 ex intelligence folks, ex heads of the CIA, FBI, Homeland Security, to say that it was “Russian disinformation”. This ought to be a HUGE scandal. But it’s simply not covered, not on CNN or MSNBC or ABC, or any other of the mainstream media. 

Kurt and Jimmy quote Sam Harris: he said to the Triggernometry lads that he didn’t care if Hunter Biden had had “the corpses of children in his basement". That was not as bad, said Sam, as Trump and his Trump university scandal. So anything to stop Trump was ok, Anything. That’s what drives the whole of the Democratic party, it seems to me. Real, genuine, fear. Misplaced fear, one could argue, cause after all what did Trump do in the four years of his presidency that was dictatorial, or neo-Hitlarian? But still, a real fear. That lasts to this day. And drives the campaign against him. 

A new look at Jan 6: When does the FBI “keeping an eye” on things, become the FBI created things?

Who thinks what happened on Jan 6, 2021 was good thing? Answer: No-one. Not even most Republicans. Who knew there were so many Feds involved in the demonstration? Answer: The Washington DC Chief of Police. 

There were 44,000 hours of video on that day. But all we saw out of the Jan 6 hearings -- which were held, let’s recall, with only Democrats (and Dem-adjacent like Liz Cheyney) on on the panel -- were randos smashing windows to get in. They were a small part of it, as wider viewing of the videos shows. And the Feds were a bigger part of it, than the videos show. There were FBI informants and undercover agents -- of course there were, that’s their job -- and there were UC’s from other departments, like Homeland Security and the Capitol police, as we know from other FOIA requests. 

Jimmy Dore lets it out. 

How does the CIA get away with it?

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“How does the CIA get away with it?“ Because they support Democrats. 

The gall of putting out a letter about Hunter Biden’s laptop being “Russian disinformation”, signed by 51 former intelligence officials, when they knew that that story was false — that it was not Russian disinformation — is take-your-breath-away shocking. Yet you won’t see this in CNN or New York Times. I have friends, in China, who watch only CNN, read only the Financial Times and who, to this day, have no idea of this! Because it hasn’t been covered. Yet it influenced the 2020 election -- towards Biden. The earlier “Russia hoax” of the 2016 election, disproven by the Mueller Report, has never been acknowledged by the media that did most to spread it. Amazing! 

These guys above — Aaron Maté and Kurt Metzger —  at the Jimmy Dore podcast are not Republicans, let alone Trump supporters. They’re Bernie bros. But they are a couple of the very few on the Left who are upset by the clear, proven, blatant interference by the Intelligence apparatus, especially the CIA, in two elections, 2016 and 2020.

Earlier there’s this from a former CIA insider, John Kiriakou, talking to Chris Hedges. Kirikou reckons the CIA should and could be disbanded. So did JFK…. As Chuck Schumer said of Trump going after the “deep state”: “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.” True, dat; as we see what happened to him. Which ought to be more scary than perceptive. 

“What’s next for Tucker Carlson after leaving Fox News?"

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Biden told intelligence officials to lie about son’s laptop

Elephant? What elephant?

For those of us who have written about the Hunter Biden scandal and the family’s influence-peddling operation for years, it is routine to read media stories denying the facts or dismissing calls to investigate the foreign dealings. However, this weekend, the Associated Press made a whopper of a claim that there is no evidence even suggesting that President Joe Biden ever spoke to his son about his foreign dealings. I previously discussed how the Bidens have succeeded in a Houdini-like trick in making this elephant of a scandal disappear from the public stage. They did so by enlisting the media in the illusion. However, this level of audience participation in the trick truly defies belief. [Read on…]

Jonathan Turley, via Althouse. (Law professors both). 

But could anything be found to stick?

It’s the Ballots, stupid!

A week after election day and Arizona still hasn’t finished counting

Add to all the excuses/reasons for the Republican failure to “Red Wave” in the mid-terms, a new one: That the Dems concentrated on getting Ballots, while the Republicans concentrated on getting Voters. 

Sounds right to me: Reps have been very successful in enticing new voters: they gained for example in minority groups, especially Hispanic and Black. Both had big increases. And overall they got 5 million more votes across the country than the Dems.

But the Dems concentrated on the Ballots, getting that vote into the box: the early ballots, the mail-in ballots, the harvested ballots, etc... They got those ballots into the boxes and that’s what counts.

This began in a big way in 2020, when Covid led to new ways of voting: increase -- a huge increase -- in voting by mail. Which the Dems treated seriously and the Reps, for reasons known only to them, did not. And it cost, dearly. In Georgia that year we had Trump being churlish and calling on Reps to not vote by mail cause you couldn’t trust the system; so they didn’t vote and both the Senate seats, which were predicted Red, broke Blue. Blame Trump, blame also the Reps system (RNC) for not treating it seriously. 

If the Reps don’t treat getting ballots in the box, as much as the Dems do, they won’t win again. 

Victor David Hanson, senior fellow at Hoover Institution, has more on this. 

ADDED: I’ve voted here in Hong Kong over the last 20 years. We don’t vote for our Chief Executive (yet!), but we do have votes for the District Councillors, and I’ve even chaired a campaign. Our elections are truly competitive, are in-person, on the day, require ID, have been verified by international election inspection bodies as thoroughly credible. I agree. It is a good and fair system. 

The US should move back to where it was before: mostly in-person, on the day, (with some absentee balloting). But it won’t. Because the Dems clearly gain too much from the trickle in votes, the mail-ins, etc, to ever agree to change.... 

“Democracy is on the ballot”

People in the Left are in more of a bubble than
those on the Right (Gallup Poll)

“Democracy is on the ballot”. That. And racism. That’s the latest Dem scary talking point. And why you should vote for them. 

But neither lands. You can believe “democracy is in the ballot” if you believe that voting Republican will lead to loss of democracy. And you can believe that only if you think January 6 really was an insurgency and that “election deniers” will be in office. And you can believe those propositions only if you are in a liberal media bubble that repeats them to you. But January 6 was not an insurgence. Or if it was, it was the most incompetent ever; a bunch of loonies in bison hats. If that scares you, I’d say grow a pair, but won’t coz it’s rude. And “election deniers” are those that wanted due diligence. In any case why should Republicans and independent voters be lectured on “election denial” by those that have practiced it themselves since 2016. This is “whataboutism” for sure, but needed, to call out rampant hypocrisy. The hypocrisy of Hillary saying from 2016 right up to the other day, that Trump was “illegitimate”. Or Stacy Abrams saying from then to now that she was the real winner of Georgia, when she lost by 50,000 votes.

As for racism, I follow right wing media as well as the left (ie mainstream media) and I can’t think of any that’s racist. Fact is, most people in the US, right or left, are not racist. Of course there are racist nutters in both ends, but most folks are not. Today the New York Times ran a story about a Republican candidate “playing the racist card” when all he was doing was telling a story of how some town folks helped a truck driver who happened to be African American. It was supposed to be a feel-good story but got twisted, deliberately or otherwise.

So now awaiting results of the November 8 midterms, to see if any of that narrative has worked. I think not. But let’s see…