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Biden is Cooking up a Crisis

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Have we ever had a president who in mere months made so many dumb, intemperate decisions, thereby precipitating major crises?  You’d think that the Afghanistan and border fiascos would suffice for one four-year term.  But the smart money is that we haven’t seen the last of Biden-manufactured crises.  Biden is a nightmare version of Pig-Pen of the Peanuts comic strip.  A perpetual cloud of incompetence, conceits, corruption, and shabby political motives swirls around him.  

Per Richard Fernandez at PJ Media, September 27:

As Niall Stanage of the Hill put it, “President Biden’s biggest vulnerability isn’t any single issue. It’s the risk that he could be seen as losing control of events.”

The dissolution of the landscape means the Biden administration isn’t plagued by any one malady anymore but by multiple organ failure.

What’s perilous to the nation isn’t likely any one crisis, as Fernandez and Stanage alluded to, but some combination.  Afghanistan and the border crises aren’t that combination — at least not yet.  But both do threaten to be part of a toxic mix leading to greater crisis during Biden’s term.   

Other potential areas ripe for trouble are the economy, a new round of COVID lockdowns, the 2022 midterm elections, and leftist instigated unrest.  An economic downturn would be a big domino falling, setting off a chain reaction.  The other three areas are likely intertwined.  More in a moment. 

Afghanistan wasn’t a one-off, in that what happened there stays there.  Afghanistan again becomes a staging area for Islamic terrorism, which threatens the homeland.  Biden’s surrender there promises to spin off threats to American interests and national security elsewhere. 

America’s principal adversaries — Xi, Putin, the mullahs, and Kim Jong-un — know, like most Americans do, that Biden is in over his head.  More, the U.S. is divided and conflicted.  Reported the Epoch Times on September 28, compounding homegrown troubles, the PRC is engaging in subversion here through their “3 Warfares” doctrine.   

The greatest peril is open conflict, particularly with the PRC.  Taiwan is increasingly a flashpoint for a Sino-American war.  Biden’s bungling stupidity over Afghanistan can only stiffen Xi’s resolve to conquer Taiwan, sooner rather than later. 

Or Biden may not prosecute a war with the PRC in Asia-Pacific, however necessary to defend America’s vital interests. 

Biden appears to be compromised with the Chinese, via the influence-peddling schemes that he and his family operate.  How and when Xi decides to leverage Biden’s corruption are open to Vegas-style wagering.  Could Xi force Biden to stand down over Taiwan?     

The border crisis is a metastasizing cancer, deliberately so.  Two million illegals are anticipated to cross into the U.S. this year.  Then there are the out-years, ’22, ’23, and ’24 to consider. 

The manifold stresses that this diaspora will place on communities are only in their earliest stages.  This represents an insidious, evolving assault on society.  While Biden’s ham-handedness certainly plays a key role in the border meltdown, Democrats have long advocated for open borders.  This crisis manifests a perverse and destructive fulfillment.   

The four other areas — the economy, a new round of COVID lockdowns, the 2022 midterm elections, and leftist instigated unrest — could precipitate crises that impact and exacerbate one another.  

The economy is a linchpin and crisis watchlist worthy. 

Inflation worries are in the news.  Economists tend to split on inflation.  Is it transitory, attributable to supply chain issues arising from last year’s lockdowns, or will it persist and worsen?  Some analysts claim the global supply chain crisis will abate by next summer.  Or will it?  

But inflation fears are attributable to more than supply.  Biden’s policies and legislative goals point to stagflation, says the New York Post’s editorial board. 

Consider conventional energy, which is the lifeblood of modern economies. 

As of January 20, 2021, the U.S. was energy independent.  Kudos, President Trump.  Energy was affordable.  The Biden administration signaled its hostility to conventional energy development and production from Day One, shutting down the Keystone XL pipeline (killing thousands of jobs in the process).  

Pander, Biden does, to the delusional cult of environmental zealots who’ve been prophesizing climate cooling, warming, or whatever else sounds dire since the early 1970s.  Earth doom is always just 10 years away. 

Drivers have suffered dramatic gas price hikes since Biden assumed office.  As of January 2021, the average national cost of a gallon of gas was $2.249.  As of September, the cost has risen to $3.176 per gallon, on average. 

Biden’s solution to greater energy demands and spiraling costs is to beg OPEC to up output, a request that has been denied to date.  Evidently, ruining the earth’s climate from Saudi Arabia and other OPEC member states is okay.

The mounting cost of energy drives up the cost of everything, including food.  Then there’s the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion run at big government socialism, slyly named the “Build Back Better and American Families Plan.”  Infighting is waylaying the measure, but desperate Democrats aren’t giving up.  They can’t.  It’s pivotal to their fortunes.     

This legislation’s profligacy and taxing provisions aren’t only economy-cripplers, but attacks on private enterprise, society, and liberty.  The Heritage Foundation’s Tommy Binion told the Daily Signal (September 29):

I believe that the reconciliation package, which is the socialist wish list of today’s Democratic Party, [$3.5 trillion] in spending, cradle-to-grave welfare, everything they want on climate change, everything they want on immigration, all packed into one bill, is the most threatening legislation in our lifetimes.

The last three areas for possible crises — COVID lockdowns, the 2022 midterm elections, and leftist instigated unrest may intertwine.        

Democrats appear to be headed for a shellacking in the 2022 midterms.  Losing control of the House and Senate — or just the House — would scuttle their agenda.  Congressional Republicans could roadblock many Biden administration’s executive actions, provided McCarthy and/or McConnell have the stones to fight. 

Election integrity remains an outsized concern.  Will battleground states, in particular, have sufficient election reforms in place next year?  The GOP is lawyered-up and ready to litigate and plans for stronger election monitoring challenges, reports Truthout, a vexed left-wing outlet.  But the chances for Democrat election chicanery: strong.         

With Democrats likely facing awful elections prospects might the Biden administration push COVID lockdowns? 

Draconian blue state lockdowns led the way in crippling the national economy last year, which had as an aim hurting Trump’s reelection prospects.  The lockdowns were, in part, a pretext to blast out ballots across states (so much for chain of custody and ballot security).  Proof that Democrats want rigged elections in perpetuity is found in their “For the People Act of 2021.” 

Democrats must be watching Australia’s slamdown of its citizens with covetous eyes.  Getting away with lockdowns will be harder, but Democrats aren’t hesitant.        

Lastly, Antifa and BLM stoked urban riots in blue cities last year.  Unrest in 2022 would again create a national atmosphere of fear and tension.  As Democrats hoped last year, they’d hope again next year: That “protests against racial injustice” would damage GOP election chances.  Or, if not that, some other excuse to foment unrest.       

Should a national crisis emerge, the culprits are likely a convergence of crises.  When has the nation been confronted by so many threats in so many different ways simultaneously?     

“These are the times that try men’s souls,” wrote Thomas Paine.  “The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”         

Are we ready to stand? 

J. Robert Smith can be found regularly at Gab @JRobertSmith and occasionally on Parler, again @JRobertSmith.  He also blogs at Flyover

The Psychpathology of Fascism-Communism

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He actually said it. The Biden regime attorney general actually said, “While spirited debate about policy matters is protected under our Constitution, the protection does not extend to threats of violence or efforts to intimidate individuals based on their views.”

AG Merrick Garland is referring to parents voicing opposition to mandating masks for school children, as well as teaching them Marxism (“critical race theory”), in government-run schools throughout the country.

That dissension is not violent. Yet dissension from Garland’s side — from BLM on down — most decisively is. In today’s morally and cognitively inverted world, everything is labeled and treated as the EXACT OPPOSITE of what it actually IS.

In the minds of all totalitarian regimes, dissension is violence. That’s why AOC breaks down in tears and says she has to go to therapy for “PTSD” — all because millions of people apparently do not share her Communist and fascist views.

To a weak-minded person who’s at war with facts, common sense and objective reality — and who despises liberty — the very existence of dissenters makes him or her literally crazy.

The way the craziness manifests is through psychopathological anxiety. In order to reduce the anxiety, the intolerant authoritarian must gain back a sense of control. In our twenty-first century world, the best way to do that is through a combination of government and social media. Control what’s said, and control what people do, and then you gain the sense of pseudo-control that buys your authoritarian, irrational psyche some relief … for now.

These control freaks in our government and media will never get enough control. They’re like heroin addicts that way. That’s why the “15 day” COVID controls became permanent, and expand relentlessly (now through vaccine mandates). And even those controls will never be enough. The psychopathology spreads like a malignancy.

Parents dissenting against absurd and unjust masking and indoctrination of children are the enemy, according to the control freaks who seek to lower their anxiety and raise their narcissistic sense of “self” to levels not seen since the time of Hitler and Stalin. Enter Merrick Garland, Biden, and all of the rest of the freak show (in the corporate and entertainment worlds, as well). The sickest have risen to the top. That proves society is deeply, deeply sick.

We — the rational, the decent, the liberty-loving — are in the midst of trying to survive in a civilization dominated and run by psychopathology and sociopathy of the worst kind. It’s amazing we’re all still standing, much less thinking. We should pat ourselves on the backs. And show kindness and empathy not toward our enemies, but toward our fellow thinkers.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

The Vaccine, not COVID, is the Threat

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October 4, I presented Dr. Richard Fleming’s verdict that the Covid Vaccine is a greater threat to humanity than the virus itself. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2021/10/04/is-the-covid-vaccine-a-bioweapon/

Today I present a study by 26 scientists that people vaccinated with the Covid “vaccine” are “more likely than unvaccinated persons to be infected by variants.” This is consistent with country data that shows that most hospitalized Covid patients are vaccinated. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.19.21262139v1

The medical establishment has avoided researching the connection between the vaccine and the emergence of variants and breakthrough cases, just as the establishment denies the high rate of adverse vaccine reactions including deaths. The study’s conclusions confirm scientist Geert Vanden Bossche’s conclusion that the vaccine suppresses the body’s natural antibody response, instead taking control of the immune system and defending, if it does, only against the targeted virus. Variants are not recognized by the vaccine antibodies, and the vaccine has programmed the body’s natural antibodies to shut down.

As the vaccine itself creates pressure on the virus to mutate, the Covid vaccine results in variants immune to the vaccine, and the vaccine has shut down natural immunity. This is why, contrary to the CDC, NIH, WHO, FDA, presstitute and Biden propaganda, the “breakthrough pandemic” is among the vaccinated, not the unvaccinated. According to the UK data, the weakened immune response of the vaccinated is why 63.5% of Covid deaths are among the fully vaccinated.

There is no doubt whatsoever about this, so why are “breakthrough” cases afflicting the “fully vaccinated” being blamed on the unvaccinated? How can anyone believe this blatantly obvious propaganda that serves agendas unrelated to public health? Clearly we are being indoctrinated into an agenda that does not serve public health.

Note that real science, not the voodoo bullshit you get from Fauci, Biden, and the whore media, concludes that the vaccine (1) shuts down your natural immune system and (2) creates variants that the vaccine does not recognize. In other words, the vaccine creates endless profits forever for vaccine companies to create boosters for each new variant, and each booster will create endless new variants. All the while your natural immunity is destroyed just as Dr. Fleming concluded.

Humanity will be sick forever, and Big Pharma’s share of the budget will exceed the trillion dollar share of the military/security complex.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/10/03/there-it-is-study-finds-predominance-of-antibody-resistant-sars-cov-2-va

Paul Craig Roberts

Dissenting Parents Upset Over Critical Race Theory, Masks? Send in the Troops

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The National School Boards Association (NSBA) has written a letter to Joe Biden, requesting “federal law enforcement and other assistance” to cope with angry parents concerned about their children wearing masks in school all day and learning concepts of Critical Race Theory (CRT).

Wow. It just keeps getting better and better.

Biden’s response, as with 100 percent of everything else his party has been doing, will be affirmative. We know that, because collectivism and statism are based on coercion.

Education, of all things, is based on the mind. The mind cannot be forced into thinking. Education should be a context for reasoning and persuasion. At a minimum, the intellectual alternative to Critical Race Theory should be offered at schools. It should be offered at higher level schools, like college, rather than elementary schools where children are too young to fully grasp the concepts.

Public schools are, in the minds of most people, operated with the full consent of the parents. Large numbers of parents object to critical race theory; similarly large numbers of parents object to the permanence of masks. The response of the schools is not to try and persuade them, or to negotiate with them. The response is to send in the troops. The federal troops, no less.

Public schools are government schools. Government is wired and designed to arrest and detain criminals. Governments are not wired to educate, negotiate or persuade. We’re right to have a military, and police forces. The military and police should be used to defeat perpetrators of armed violence. The military and police are NOT supposed to be used to violently and physically crush dissension of parents who do not wish their school-age children to be indoctrinated from a specific (and exclusive) ideological point-of-view. Nonviolent citizens are not criminals. Not in a free society. But as you can see, we are no longer a free society, not in practice.

The government has dropped the pretense. Notice that the same totalitarian DemCom ideologues who wish to “defund the police” simply love the police and armed forces when it comes time to crush the dissent of parents who don’t want their children taught to be Communists.

Watch Joe Biden’s response. It’s not difficult to predict.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

The Eclipse of Europe

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For centuries up to and including the 20th, Europe seemed the central pivot of world history.

Then came the Great Civil War of the West, our Thirty Years’ War (1914-1945), where all of the great European powers — Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia — along with almost all of the rest, fought some of history’s greatest battles.

Result: Europe’s greatest nations were all bloodied. All of Europe’s empires fell. The colonial peoples were all largely liberated and began the great migration to the mother countries. And Europe was split between a U.S.-led West and a Moscow-dominated Soviet bloc.

Yet, even during that four-decade Cold War, Europe was viewed as the prize in the struggle.

By the time that Cold War ended in triumph for the Free World, a European Union modeled on the American Union was rising, and almost all of Europe’s newly freed nations began to join the NATO alliance.

Yet one senses today that Europe’s role in world history is passing, that the American pivot to China and the Indo-Pacific is both historic and permanent, and that as the past belongs to Europe, the future belongs to Asia.

Asia, after all, is home to the world’s most populous nations, China and India; to six of the world’s nine nuclear powers; and to almost all of its major Muslim nations: Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Turkey and Iran, as well as to the world’s largest economies outside the USA: China and Japan.

And Europe?

In 2016, Great Britain voted to withdraw from the EU. This summer, the British joined the Australians and the U.S. in an AUXUS pact that trashed a cherished French deal to build a dozen diesel-powered submarines — and to replace them with British- and U.S.-built nuclear-power subs.

Paris saw this as a “betrayal,” a “stab in the back” by allies whom Gen. Charles De Gaulle had disparaged as “les Anglo-Saxons.” Yet AUXUS was also an undeniably clear statement as to where the Australians saw their future, and it was not alongside France, but the USA.

Still, this was the worst U.S. affront of our French ally since President Dwight Eisenhower ordered the British and French out of Suez.

But, at least then, Ike could say in 1956 that he had not been alerted to the British-French invasion of Egypt and that our NATO partners had acted without his knowledge or consent.

To protest the treatment of France in the submarine deal, President Emmanuel Macron recalled his ambassador to the U.S., something that had never been done since France recognized the American colonies and came to their aid during our War of Independence.

Indeed, the submarine agreement forced cancellation of a grand party at the French embassy in Washington, D.C., to celebrate the 240th anniversary of the Battle of the Capes.

This was the critical British-French naval battle at the mouth of the Chesapeake in 1781, where a French fleet prevailed, enabling it to provide Gen. George Washington’s army cover as it surrounded, shelled and compelled the surrender of Gen. Lord Cornwallis’ army at Yorktown.

But if the British are out of the EU, and the French are estranged from their NATO allies, Germany yesterday held an election, where, for the first time in its history, the Christian Democratic Union of Konrad Adenauer, Helmut Kohl and Angela Merkel was reduced to a fourth of the national vote.

The new leader of Germany, after months of negotiations, may be the leader of the Social Democrats, in concert with the Greens. But even that government may not be cobbled together by Christmas.

Neither of the prospective chancellors for the Christian Democratic Union or the Social Democratic Party has the stature of Merkel, who has been both leader of Germany for the last decade and a half but also de facto leader of Europe.

And consider the present condition of NATO, once celebrated as the most successful alliance in history for having deterred any Soviet invasion of NATO Europe for the entire Cold War.

In 2001, invoking Article V about an attack on one being an attack on all, NATO joined the Americans in their plunge into Afghanistan to deal with the perpetrators of 9/11.

This August, 20 years later, all our NATO allies pulled out as the Afghan army crumbled and vanished and the Afghan regime collapsed. Our NATO allies thus shared in the ignominy of the American retreat and defeat.

Not only is the center of political gravity shifting from Europe to Asia, European unity seems a thing of the past.

As Britain has left the EU, Scotland is considering secession from England. Catalonia is still thinking of secession from Spain. Sardinia is considering secession from Italy. Poland and Hungary are at odds with the EU over domestic political reforms said to be in conflict with the demands of the bureaucrats in Brussels.

As for the southern-tier EU and NATO nations, Spain, Italy and Greece, their main concern is less an invasion by Russia than the ongoing invasion from across the Mediterranean from Africa and the Middle East.

Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever

It’s Time for Civil Disobedience

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The $3.5 trillion-dollar spending bill I warned about the other day is revealed as a communist takeover in this excellent article. No one in this audience is fooled by the idea of elections, knowing the method for years, unveiled in the 2020 election because of the desperation of the left. It might startle some of those less attentive, however. Your Republican senators are willing to vote for this, which shows the contempt they have for not only the American people, but the American process, the republic itself.

Understand, this is at a time when Joe Biden’s approval is at 42% of likely voters and 52% disapproval. On the border issue, Biden’s approval in the largely Hispanic border counties is at 39%. There is no mandate to do things like $3.5 trillion Green New Deal legislation that secures Democrat elections forever and still, Republican representatives and senators are waffling around, unable to vote against it. This is a time to hammer this back down the Democrats throats and refuse to vote for anything that is not America First, and still they won’t do it.

So, the question then becomes what can be done about a pack of jackals in the seats of power who have thrown off any restraint whatsoever, who cynically nod and smile about elections, but are really just gaslighting and coercing donations? Knowing what “should” happen is not the question, that’s a word that means nothing, because it suggests that the obligation to act rests with someone else.

The problem with the entire right, is that it seeks solutions to problems, whereas the left only seeks the optics of solutions, the end game always being the destruction of the present in favor of their better future (communism). Each side gaslights its people in order to coerce what money they have not taxed out of their pockets to be forfeited under threat from the other side. But there is no “other” side, it is all one side and it is all communist.

The tendency to seek a restoration of the republic, while commendable, is either impossible under the current system, or impossible all together. Instead of clinging to what was, it would serve everyone better to define what will replace the communist government once it utterly fails as it must.

Wayne Allyn Root

More than Slogans

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The $3.5 trillion-dollar spending bill I warned about the other day is revealed as a communist takeover in this excellent article. No one in this audience is fooled by the idea of elections, knowing the method for years, unveiled in the 2020 election because of the desperation of the left. It might startle some of those less attentive, however. Your Republican senators are willing to vote for this, which shows the contempt they have for not only the American people, but the American process, the republic itself.

Understand, this is at a time when Joe Biden’s approval is at 42% of likely voters and 52% disapproval. On the border issue, Biden’s approval in the largely Hispanic border counties is at 39%. There is no mandate to do things like $3.5 trillion Green New Deal legislation that secures Democrat elections forever and still, Republican representatives and senators are waffling around, unable to vote against it. This is a time to hammer this back down the Democrats throats and refuse to vote for anything that is not America First, and still they won’t do it.

So, the question then becomes what can be done about a pack of jackals in the seats of power who have thrown off any restraint whatsoever, who cynically nod and smile about elections, but are really just gaslighting and coercing donations? Knowing what “should” happen is not the question, that’s a word that means nothing, because it suggests that the obligation to act rests with someone else.

The problem with the entire right, is that it seeks solutions to problems, whereas the left only seeks the optics of solutions, the end game always being the destruction of the present in favor of their better future (communism). Each side gaslights its people in order to coerce what money they have not taxed out of their pockets to be forfeited under threat from the other side. But there is no “other” side, it is all one side and it is all communist.

The tendency to seek a restoration of the republic, while commendable, is either impossible under the current system, or impossible all together. Instead of clinging to what was, it would serve everyone better to define what will replace the communist government once it utterly fails as it must.

More Evidence That They Know the Covid Vaccine Is Killing and Maiming People and Yet They Continue Their Death Program

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Here is the link to the video and text at Project Veritas as the YouTube posting will likely be taken down: https://www.projectveritas.com/news/federal-govt-whistleblower-goes-public-with-secret-recordings-government/

Here is a doctor and chief RN in a US Department of Health & Human Services Hospital reporting that the official protocol is NOT to report adverse reactions to the vaccine, NOT to treat Covid patients with safe and effective Ivermectin, indeed, it is impermissible to do so and you are fired if you save lives with Ivermectin, and NOT to permit staff to refuse inoculation based on informed consent from seeing the deadly effects of the vaccine on patients.

In this video you can witness the doctor and nurses speaking about the evil of the Health & Human Services federal hospital intentionally killing people and preventing doctors and nurses from saving the lives of patients. This is not happening from incompetence and lack of knowledge. People are being systematically murdered, and Covid is being blamed. All adverse vaccine reactions are blamed on Covid, not on the vaccine, and this lie is used to justify not reporting the adverse event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obdI7tgKLtA You had better watch the brief video before it is taken down as “Covid disinformation.” It is a video of doctors and nurses on the front line discussing what they see and experience.

It has also emerged that the medical establishment arranged a “test” of HCQ’s effectiveness by waiting until patients were in the last stage of the disease before administering HCQ. They did this despite knowing that HCQ is effective in the early stages of Covid infection and arrests the progress of the infection. In the later stages of the disease, HCQ is not effective, or not nearly as effective.

Having rigged the test in this way over the dead bodies of betrayed patients, the medical establishment used the arranged failure of HCQ to prevent the use of Ivermectin, which is effective at all stages of the disease.

This is still the medical protocol in American hospitals despite the fact (1) that Ivermectin has cleared Covid from entire areas of India where it is used as a Covid preventative, (2) that the Tokyo Medical Association has recommended that Japanese doctors use Ivermection for the prevention and cure of Covid, (3) that large areas of Africa where Ivermectin is regularly used as a preventative and treatment for River Blindness have few Covid cases, (4) and that the vast majority of Americans who are cured of Covid by treatment are not cured in hospitals but by doctors in private practice administering HCQ and Ivermectin.

The evidence is overwhelming that the US medical, political, and media establishments are perfectly comfortable knowingly enforcing unscientific and counterfactual death policies on the American people.

Paul Craig Roberts