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State of the Union 2024 – pack of lies By Terry A. Hurlbut Last night (March 7), Resident Biden gave the traditional State of the Union address – about a month late. It was, without a doubt, the biggest pack of lies in the history of State of the Union addresses. Worse than that, Biden turned the event into a campaign rally – the biggest campaign rally he has ever held. Only the memorial service for the late Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.) was in worse taste. This event almost makes the case for asking Presidents to discontinue addressing joint sessions of Congress and instead transmit their reports to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. But as long as the Resident made a public display of himself, someone has to tell fact from fiction. History of State of the Union reports and addresses Article II Section 3 of the Constitution reads in relevant part: He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient. Beginning in 1790 with George Washington, “from time to time” has meant “at least once a year,” with some exceptions. George Washington and John Adams addressed joint sessions of Congress. But after Adams left office, no President did this until Woodrow Wilson in 1913. Beginning with Thomas Jefferson in 1801, Presidents sent written reports. Calvin Coolidge sent one written report in his last year, and Herbert Hoover sent only written reports. The real modern tradition of addressing a joint session of Congress began in 1933 with Franklin D. Roosevelt. Harry S. Truman (1947) was the first to broadcast the address on television. Lyndon B. Johnson (1965) began the tradition of scheduling the address in prime time. And in 1966, Sen. Everett Dirksen (R-Ill.) and Rep. Gerald R. Ford (R-Mich.) inaugurated the tradition of rebuttals to the State of the Union address. These joint sessions always take place in the chamber of the House, the only room big enough to hold all the various dignitaries. The Senate sits in two rows at the extreme left, and Justices of the Supreme Court sit front and center. Members of the Cabinet also have assigned seating on the floor, along with the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps (the oldest serving foreign Ambassador to the United States). With such august attention, one expects these addresses to have a corresponding dignity. The 2024 State of the Union Address did not. State of the Union 2024 Herewith the official White House prepared transcript, and Time Magazine’s full transcript of the actual remarks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V01QvlQels Before Biden even got to the Capitol, pro-Palestinian protesters blocked his motorcade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXSPEdF4kbo The protesters are calling for a cease-fire in the Fourth Arab-Israeli War. Of course they did not dare call for what they really want – but one can readily guess that from how that War began. Presaging a particularly untoward remark by the Resident, Justices Samuel A. Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, and Clarence Thomas did not attend the State of the Union address. Johnathan Jones of The Western Journal reported on that and included these X posts: https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1765920985432088681 https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1765921204928442472 https://twitter.com/BehizyTweets/status/1765940601839566983 https://twitter.com/daily_wire_fan/status/1765924547683914231 https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1765920486955843911 About halfway through his address, Biden appeared to threaten the Court with an unspecified exercise of women’s political power. And with all due respect, justices, women are not without electrical power. Excuse me, electoral or political power. You’re about to realize just how much you… At that Biden trailed off as the House and Senate Democratic Conferences erupted in cheers. Those remarks appear to be extemporaneous. The prepared transcript didn’t have them, and Time Magazine edited out that entire exchange. https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1765930182135648542 https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1765931794518421507 But that wasn’t the only untoward exchange, or even the worst. Your correspondent sat through it, and estimates that it contained one-third lies, one-third empty platitudes, and one-third conflation. The conflation reflects Biden’s continued cognitive decline, which became evident in the last fifteen minutes of the address. If any President since Wilson would have been better advised to submit a written report, it’s Biden. State of the Union? A litany of lies Shawn Fleetwood of The Federalist counted thirty statements in the State of the Union address that he knew were false, or at least lacking in context or supporting evidence, or equivalent to loaded questions. In reply to these statements, your editor says: Ukraine America is not in any leadership position in the world today. America is instead a glove, and the World Economic Forum is the hand inside the glove. It is high time – and way past time – to bring that master-slave relationship to an end. Donald Trump did not actually tell the Russians to do what they wanted. He did, however, threaten to say that if NATO continued to expect a military free ride. Russia ended the “threat to the free world” when she abandoned communism. Vladimir Putin might be trying to “redeem” certain lands where ethnic Russians now live. As to Ukraine, Putin doesn’t even care for all of it – only those areas that speak Russian. And not only is that not our fight, but it ill befits anyone to defend a country that: • Is not really a country. Nikita S. Khrushchev cynically pretended to call Ukraine that, to score an extra vote in the United Nations General Assembly. • Played host to biological weapons development laboratories, with American funding, and American direction, and American staffs. January 6, reproductive issues, etc. The January 6 event was a false-flag pseudo-operation. Concerns about election integrity are real, and foundation for them becomes stronger every month. To suggest that voting on paper, requiring I.D., replacing absentee ballots with in-person pre-registered proxy voting, and junking The Machines would “pose the gravest threat to democracy since the [War Between the States]” is worse than ludicrous. These things pose the gravest threat to the Democratic Party as we know it today. And that’s a good thing. The Alabama Supreme Court did raise concerns about the callous discarding of embryos as part of in-vitro fertilization. That Court declared that those embryos are persons within the meaning of the Constitution. But they did not issue any injunction against IVF. Since then, Alabama’s legislature passed, and Gov. Kay Ivey (R-Ala.) signed, a hasty measure to shield IVF clinics from liability from the perishing of such embryos. Abortion tourist Kate Cox was never in danger of dying in childbirth from having a child with Edwards Syndrome (Trisomy 18). Furthermore that child might have lived. True, most Edwards children die within days – but not all. That child deserved a chance. Then again, Democrats will see no abortion unperformed, and that’s why Biden threatened the Court (see above). Biological sciences, economy, drug prices Again in his State of the Union address, Biden returned to the boast that his administration would “cure cancer.” Then he actually said the COVID vaccines were now “help[ing] beat cancer.” Not only is that false, but the opposite is true. Patients who took the vaccine are often reporting – and dying from – runaway cancers. People going back to work with the lifting of COVID quarantines do not represent new job creation. Inflation in the U.S. today is worse than in several countries throughout the world. And consumer confidence is shrinking, not “soaring.” Drug prices are rising, and your editor has no brief for Big Pharma – but under Biden the problem has gotten worse, not better. And the unlawful COVID vaccine mandate was a favor to Big Pharma, not a victory over it. Concerning student loans, lay aside for a moment that the Supreme Court enjoined Biden’s program. In fact that program shifts the burden onto taxpayers who never attended college. (Or if they did, they paid for it out of current funds or paid back, with interest, whatever they borrowed.) Taxes, spending, and immigration Biden has increased, rather than decreased, the federal deficit. And while large taxpayers might pay a lower proportion of their income or profit than most individuals, they still pay the lion’s share of tax in absolute amounts. The Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 benefited everyone, not just “the top one percent.” Trump did increase the national debt – by agreeing to COVID lockdowns when he should have followed Kristi Noem’s example instead. But Obama, not Trump, increased the national debt the most. Not once has Biden proposed any measure that would in fact exempt those earning less than $400,000 from income tax. Biden’s estimate for “1000 billionaires” could be a convenient resort to lack of precision. (Forbes counts 735.) But even leftists dispute the notion that billionaires pay an effective 8.2 percent tax rate. The so-called border bill would have made the southern border invasion worse, not better. In fact the only people slowing that invasion down are the Texas National and State Guards – no thanks to Biden. Republicans frankly don’t go far enough with election-integrity measures that mandate voter ID (always with an option of free issue). They should mandate voting on paper, as the French do it. Even so, this does not constitute “voter suppression,” nor does it even have that effect. (Or at least, not suppression of the votes of the living, except for attempts to vote where one moved out.) If you’re going to say her name, at least pronounce it properly! Marking books, videos, or other resources as “for adults only,” and refraining from reading such a book to children, does not constitute “banning” of books. No one is talking about sending a fire pumper loaded with fire accelerant instead of water, and its crew, to: • Grab armfuls of books off library shelves and carry them outside, • Dump them into a quickly assembled portable grill in the parking lot, and then • Douse them with a flamethrower, as one sees in the opening sequence of the motion picture Fahrenheit 451 (1966). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9iyKI2pJbE Biden unforgivably mispronounced the name of murder victim Laken Riley as “Lincoln” Riley. Moreover he insinuated that legal immigrants commit more murders than do illegal. A statistician might easily dispute that. Trump did tell the survivors of a recent school shooting in Iowa that, though he felt for them, they should move on. Biden not only left out the “feeling” words, but also returned to the same-old, same-old gun-control theme. Even if he could accomplish the confiscation of all privately held weapons, that would violate the Second Amendment. (As would his “assault weapons” ban.) And no record exists of Biden ever teaching about the Second Amendment. Foreign policy Biden carefully acknowledged Israeli civilian killed, wounded (including sexual wounds), and missing in the Fourth Arab-Israeli War. But he attributed these to “a terrorist group called HAMAS,” as if they were not the duly constituted Gaza government. Furthermore he quoted Gaza casualty figures that come from HAMAS. Such figures are never trustworthy. Even the International Committee of the Red Cross, not exactly trustworthy themselves, do not claim independent verification of HAMAS’ truth claims in this area. Biden claimed to be “in a stronger position to win the competition … against China.” He also claimed that Trump did nothing against China. Neither statement is accurate. In fact, the Chinese (and, for that matter, the Russians) are planning to build Lunar cities with nuclear generators. Whether RosKosmos could possibly accomplish that feat is an open question. The Chinese are in a better position, however. And with a nuclear generator, they could build a mass driver that could pelt the United States into submission with artificial meteors. Finally, Biden accused the whole country of never living up to the ideal of all humans being created equal. Not only is that slander, but under Biden, clearly some people are more equal than others. Other reviews of State of the Union 2024 Erick-Woods Erickson – no friend of Trump – poured contempt on Biden’s State of the Union address. He flatly accused Biden of being “hopped up on drugs.” (And in fact, your editor, drawing on his medical training, recognized last night the signs of one under the influence of methamphetamine, dextroamphetamine, or a similarly acting stimulant. It must have worn off at about 10:15 p.m. EST.) Erickson said a number of other things, with which your editor agrees. Biden’s State of the Union address was “beneath the dignity of [his] office.” Biden showed Democrats that they dare not think of replacing him, and he has the stamina for a long campaign. And independents won’t like his “angry man yelling” routine. Furthermore, Democrats are kidding themselves if they think Blacks and Hispanics will “come home” to them. Dick Morris said yesterday that Donald Trump is pro-actively encouraging Blacks and Hispanics – Democrats’ core constituents – to follow him instead. Not only is this working, but Biden can do nothing to stop it. And that screamfest last night won’t help. Donald Trump did rebut the State of the Union speech – ahead of time. https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1765796289848004981 WorldNetDaily quoted him: Joe Biden is on the run from his record and lying like crazy to try and escape responsibility for the horrific devastation he and his party have created. All the while they continue the very policies that are causing this horror show to go. We cannot take it any longer as a country. Maybe Erickson is right when he said Trump, not Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.), should have delivered the official rebuttal. Even Dr. Steve Turley didn’t like that performance, seeing it as a missed opportunity. Moving forward The only people who will appreciate Biden’s State of the Union address are Democrats and their Deep State masters. This speech, even more than Biden’s pre-Midterm speech of 2022, represents the last gasp of a regime that wanted to be dictatorial. So says “Doctor Steve,” and so said your editor, comparing That Speech to Cicero Against Catiline. More to the point, Biden made his worst mistake at the beginning, by invoking Ronald Reagan. Evidently he forgot that Reagan first asked, “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” The answer is no, and even the Democrats’ traditional constituents cannot say yes. Furthermore, last night’s address is remarkable for what Biden did not mention: the Alphabet Soup movement (except for “book bans”). He and his handlers must know that most Americans now regard that movement with monumental disgust. Americans now need to see to election integrity, and take all necessary measures to ensure it. Election fraud is now the only way Democrats can win. If anything, last night’s speech proves that. Link to: The Constitution: https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/ Transcripts: Prepared: https://www.whitehouse.gov/state-of-the-union-2024/ As delivered (and redacted by Time): https://time.com/6898705/read-president-joe-bidens-2024-state-of-the-union-address-full-transcript/ Video of the address, per C-SPAN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V01QvlQels Video: motorcade blocked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXSPEdF4kbo Posts about Alito, Barrett, and Thomas JJ not attending: https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1765920985432088681 https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1765921204928442472 https://twitter.com/BehizyTweets/status/1765940601839566983 https://twitter.com/daily_wire_fan/status/1765924547683914231 https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1765920486955843911 On the abortion issue: https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1765930182135648542 https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1765931794518421507 Article in The Federalist counting thirty lies: https://thefederalist.com/2024/03/08/biden-lied-30-times-during-the-state-of-the-union/ January 6 event keyword search link: https://cnav.news/keywords/january-6-event/ Article about how France votes on paper: https://cnav.news/2023/06/24/editorial/talk/france-votes-paper/ Video: Fahrenheit 451 opening book-burning sequence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9iyKI2pJbE Donald Trump’s “pre-buttal”: https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1765796289848004981 Articles about Biden’s 2022 speech (and Cicero’s In Catalinam): https://cnav.news/2022/09/02/accountability/executive/president-divider/ https://www.loc.gov/item/tmp92004278/ Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Super Tuesday changes everything By Terry A. Hurlbut Super Tuesday played out two days ago, over fifteen States. Donald J. Trump gained at least 758 delegates, to move within striking distance of a mathematical clinch of the nomination. His rival, Ambassador Nikki Haley, received 46 delegates, most in States no one (yet) expects Trump to carry. But by morning, all that ceased to matter – because Nikki Haley bowed out of the race. But she refuses to endorse President Trump, the only one of his now-defeated nomination rivals to so refuse. Anyone who expects her to go home and sulk for the rest of the year, has forgotten the time-honored aphorism about the fury of women scorned. Or about who’s pulling her strings. The Super Tuesday sweep-stakes Before Super Tuesday began, Amb. Haley captured all 19 delegates in the District of Columbia primary on Sunday (March 3). Trump dubbed her “Queen of the Swamp” after that showing. The next day (March 4), he captured all 29 delegated in the North Dakota caucus. Super Tuesday saw primaries and caucuses in Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont and Virginia. (American Samoa held its Democratic caucus today and will hold Republican caucuses on Friday.) This schedule shows what contests have taken place, and still remain. This delegate tally sheet shows which candidates have how many delegates, in the order of Republican contests. Nikki Haley swept only one contest: the Vermont Primary, for 9 delegates. (Another 8 remain to be allocated.) Her other delegate awards came from Arkansas (1), Colorado (11), Minnesota (12), North Carolina (7), and Virginia (6). Whereas Trump received all allocated delegates from Alabama, Alaska, California, Maine, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah. How Nikki won anywhere The Town of Ashland, in Virginia’s Hanover County, presents a typical case of how Nikki Haley could win anything. Ashland is home to Randolph-Macon College, where the politics are as leftist as they come. Moreover, most town residents are just as leftist in their thinking. The last State-wide Republican to carry Ashland was Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-Va.). He won after former Gov. Terence McAuliffe actually said parents surrender their rights at the school perimeter. Democrats have carried Ashland in every State-wide contest since, and also in U.S. Senate, State Senate, House of Delegates, Board of Supervisors, and other local races. In short, Ashland is a Democratic town. Yet primary participation in one precinct (Ashland downtown) consisted of 102 Democratic votes and 286 Republican votes. The final tally in the Republican primary was: Candidate Votes Donald J. Trump 161 Nikki Haley 121 Ron DeSantis 4 These results can have only one explanation. Substantial numbers of Democrats – perhaps more than half the Democrats living in Ashland – crossed over into the Republican primary to vote for Haley. Virginia does not enforce Party voting patterns in primaries. That’s why Virginia Republicans nominate their candidates in State and District conventions, or “firehouse primaries” (unassembled caucuses), whenever possible. But the law provides for Presidential preference primaries, which, by definition, are open. So for Democrats to “gimmick” the Republican primary is absurdly simple. Yet despite that, Nikki Haley could achieve no better result than this, in a Democratic town! (Except, as noted, in Vermont and D.C.) Nikki Haley suspends campaign In fact, the only victories Nikki Haley achieved on Super Tuesday were from Democratic crossover in Democratic States and Districts. She needed to achieve much broader-based victories than that – and as Ashland illustrates, she failed. The only places where she did well in Virginia, according to The Republican Standard, were: • Northern Virginia (Arlington, Alexandria, and Fairfax County), • The City of Richmond, and • Albemarle County, which surrounds the City of Charlottesville – home of the University of Virginia. The first clue that Amb. Haley would suspend her campaign actually came Tuesday morning. The Associated Press reported that her schedule from Tuesday night forward was empty. By 9:05 p.m. Eastern Time, with defeats racking up and California still voting, Nikki Haley had decided to quit. (Source: Associated Press.) She in fact did so at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, in Charlotte, North Carolina, according to The Wall Street Journal. Laura Loomer shared a short clip: https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1765394947681718653 Cullen Linebarger at The Gateway Pundit carried this summary of her remarks. Amb. Haley touted old-line Republican positions, including especially intervention in Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. She also asked Trump to court those who supported her. That’s a strange thing to ask – because her support came from Democrats who would not have supported her in November. (In fact, they said so!) Moreover, she somehow interpreted an aphorism by Margaret Thatcher to justify that request. Jim Hoft, editor-in-chief of TGP, carried a full transcript. https://rumble.com/v4hlt05-nikki-haley-suspends-campaign-vows-to-support-ukraine-.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Trump consolidates his victory Donald Trump, for his part, was declaring victory within hours of the closing of the Eastern Time polls. But he wasn’t talking about Nikki Haley, but about Joe Biden. In fact he repeated an incredible story about 325,000 migrants flying into America from abroad at federal government expense. Jim Hoft broke that story shortly after polls opened, citing The Daily Mail. https://rumble.com/v4hj2yi-trump-super-tuesday-victory-speech-joe-biden-is-the-worst-president-in-the-.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 (A furious Elon Musk, replying to that report, accused the administration of flying in reliable Democrat voters.) https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1764979672129909177 Soon after Nikki Haley announced her suspension, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Minority Floor Leader, finally endorsed Trump. This from a Senator who once said he would never speak to Donald Trump again. It is abundantly clear that former President Trump has earned the requisite support of Republican voters to be our nominee for President of the United States. It should come as no surprise that, as nominee, he will have my support. I look forward to the opportunity of switching from playing defense against the terrible policies the Biden administration has pursued to a sustained offense geared towards making a real difference in improving the lives of the American people. Cullen Linebarger, quoting a fundraising link, carried Trump’s response to Haley’s speech. Trump called for a united effort to defeat Joe Biden, and now seems reluctant to mention Haley at all. But Trump also issued an immediate challenge to Joe Biden, on Truth Social. https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112050574571343856 It is important, for the Good of our Country, that Joe Biden and I Debate Issues that are so vital to America, and the American People. Therefore, I am calling for Debates, ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE! The Debates can be run by the Corrupt DNC, or their Subsidiary, the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). I look forward to receiving a response. Thank you for your attention to this matter! After Super Tuesday, what next? Nikki Haley obviously prepared to quit the race as voting on Super Tuesday was beginning. Losing every primary except the Vermont Primary should have made no difference. (She was never going to win a caucus, which by definition is closed.) If she had the money, she could have stayed for next Tuesday’s primaries in Georgia, Mississippi, and Washington State. And stayed for many more primaries and caucuses to come. So why hasn’t she? Possibly because her real role was to have enough pledged delegates to offer herself as an alternative. On April 25, the petition of Trump v. United States will come to oral argument before the Supreme Court. That case will decide whether Trump enjoys immunity from prosecution for the things he actually said on January 6, 2021. (What he actually said, and what overwrought Secretaries of State like Jena Griswold of Colorado misquote him as saying, are two different messages.) The shadowy megadonors who gave Haley her orders, still think they can bring Trump to trial before Election Day. When they find out they won’t be able to do that, they will attempt an assassination. (They could even, like the fictitious Sen. John Yerkes Iselin (R-N.Y.) and his wife Eleanor in The Manchurian Candidate, attempt an assassination at the Convention.) Publicly, Trump can say nothing else than what he has already said. Super Tuesday turned out to decide the nomination. But privately, the fight might not end so easily, and he should remember that. Link to: Schedule and spreadsheet: https://www.uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2024-primary-schedule/ https://www.270towin.com/2024-republican-nomination/polls/delegate-totals-by-candidate Video: Nikki Haley suspends: https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1765394947681718653 https://rumble.com/v4hlt05-nikki-haley-suspends-campaign-vows-to-support-ukraine-.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Transcript of Nikki Haley’s speech: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/nikki-haley-suspends-campaign-vows-promote-ukraine-refuses/ Video: Trump’s victory speech: https://rumble.com/v4hj2yi-trump-super-tuesday-victory-speech-joe-biden-is-the-worst-president-in-the-.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Elon Musk on the immigration replacement plan: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1764979672129909177 Trump challenging Biden to debates: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112050574571343856 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

A Great Awakening for America By Terry A. Hurlbut America badly needs another Great Awakening – a return to the faith that informed the earliest settlers. This applies to both groups of early settlers – the Captain John Smith expedition and the Pilgrims and Puritans. For too long the United States government has maintained ambivalence at best, antipathy at worst, toward the Christian faith. This has resulted in practices that would certainly shock both Captain John Smith on one hand, and Elder Brewster and Governor William Bradford on the other. And that this result should come from an interpretation of the earliest Articles and Amendments to the Constitution, would shock the Framers, and especially the Second President of the United States. Without another Great Awakening, America will fall – and for reasons one old atheist historian actually admitted in his text. The first Great Awakening Historians recognize at least two Great Awakenings in early American history. Nevertheless, of the two, the first Great Awakening was the significant one. Spanning the period from 1720 to 1740, it was a protest against the atheistic or “deistic” Enlightenment. It was also an attempt to unite three disparate religious blocs among the American colonies: • Congregationalism in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and other New England colonies (New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island), • Anglicanism (forerunner of the Episcopal Church in America) in the South (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia), and • Quakerism, Lutheranism, Dutch Reformed, and Presbyterianism in the Middle Colonies (New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania). This division weakened the idea of faith, and men turned to their wealth, social standing, and “reasoning ability” for comfort and answers. Jesus Christ famously said, No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth. Matthew 6:24, NASB How true that was, and is. Men like Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield reminded people of this and other facts. Whitefield especially preached to all persons, “great and small, rich and poor, free and slave,” as St. John of Jerusalem might have said. (See Revelation 13:16.) In essence, they told their listeners: • Everyone falls short of the glory of God, and therefore • Everyone needs salvation, without which they will die permanently separated from God. Happily, • Salvation is open to everyone who will freely confess their sins, and ask God to forgive them, relying on Divine Grace. • Ideally, one’s relationship with God must not be formal and rigid, but personal. Effects – and decline The First Great Awakening set forth many ideas that evangelical preachers preach today – especially about personal relationships with God. Not everyone agreed with these things, and that caused a split in the Christian community into “new lights” and “old lights,” depending on whether they embraced Edwards’ and Whitefield’s ideas, or not. This might also have informed the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment. But it also informed the “Black Robed Regiment” spectacle during the American War for Independence. And it led to the expansion of the Ivy League beyond its first two institution, Harvard and Yale. (Cornell would begin in 1865, the last year of the War Between the States.) Historians point to a Second Great Awakening in the last decade of the eighteenth century, largely in New England. This led to the founding of colleges like the Little Ivies. An alleged Third Great Awakening, from 1850 to early in the Twentieth Century, would see the founding of Cornell University. If some historians doubt that the Third Great Awakening amounted to anything, that’s because it ended with the accession of atheism as an unofficial policy of government, and prevailing theme in higher education. The Roaring Twenties likely ended it, as once again great wealth intoxicated the people. Among the Seven Deadly Sins, those of Envy, Gluttony, Greed, Pride, Sloth – and Lust – predominated. The role of Wrath is less clear, as most acts ascribed to it actually proceed from Envy, Greed and Pride. Current dark spiritual state Today America is in a dark spiritual place. From Charles Darwin comes the ultimate appeal to Pride, which its practitioners call Modern Science. The essence of Modern Science begins with the Theory of Evolution, which gives rise to Eugenics – the ideology of National Socialism in all its forms. Pride combines with Lust to yield the ideology of abortion on demand. Wrath waits in the wings, ready to induce people to endorse murder to protect this “right.” Greed and Envy work together to produce (non-national) socialism and its most extreme form, communism, in which the State owns everything. The Greed part manifests either as crony capitalism or as people seeking “pull” to get material rewards. Or else an official operates on Wrath to make others’ lives miserable as a primary gain. These officials also appeal to Sloth, at least in the early stages of their “revolution.” But let us not forget Gluttony. Gluttony has produced a population having the lowest average health in history. The British statesmen who revived the Olympic Games must be spinning in their graves, despairing that anyone would qualify for these Games by the standards they laid down in 1896, the year of the First Modern Olympiad. Will Durant, author of The Story of Civilization in eleven volumes, repeatedly said: Religion attends the birth of civilization; philosophy accompanies it to its grave. Though he never believed in any religious precept, neither did he ignore the salutary effect of religion, and the detrimental effect of prideful, anti-theist philosophy, on civilization. Laying aside Divine authority In fact, independent filmmaker Rich Christiano illustrated brilliantly, in 2002, one very likely reason the so-called Third Great Awakening failed. In Time Changer, with D. David Morin, Gavin McLeod, Hal Linden, and Jennifer O’Neill, Christiano flatly accused late nineteenth-century Christian apologists of disconnecting the Teachings of Christ from the Christ of the Teachings. Which they likely did – because the problem with sound moral doctrine is that it doesn’t lend itself to instant fulfillment. Gratification in the Christian system is delayed, almost by definition. Now compare that to Modern Science and its centerpiece, Evolution. Evolution is all about instant rewards for behavior most would deride, even shudder at, as criminal. And today those realizing the ill-gotten gains know it. That’s why men like James G. Blaine, the Huxleys, John Dewey, Horace Mann, Roger Baldwin, Antonio Gramsci, and Karl Marx worked so hard to chase God from the public square. Recognizing this, Christiano said to himself, I would love to pull one of those smug Bible professors one hundred years into their future – and our present. Which is exactly what he did in Time Changer. A professor presents a manuscript that proposes to teach Christian morals apart from Christ. A colleague, under rules requiring unanimity, says, in effect, “Veto! I forbid it!” But this colleague knows the secret of time travel. So he sends the writer forward a hundred years. What this person sees, has him completely revising his manuscript upon his return. Toward a real Second Great Awakening Obviously, had a thing like that happened, the prevailing conversation about morals and social “justice” would be far different. That’s why the so-called Second and Third Great Awakenings were not Great Awakenings in the sense of the First. They were aftershocks, like the aftershocks of any earthquake. And in the nineteenth century, a movement arose to put religion to sleep, or even to death. A real Second Great Awakening must have all the energy of the First, and re-emphasize all the ideas that Edwards and Whitefield put forward. But it must also attack directly the ideas of Modern Science and the philosophy behind it. Modern Science, and Marxism, insist that God does not exist. Behold the devastation they have wrought! Hence the need to promote Creationism – an observational model that says, quite simply, that the universe is not a Great Craps or Baccarat Table or Roulette Wheel. The universe had to have a Master Builder – the literal translation of the word Architect. This might seem scandalous to clergymen (and, ironically, clergy women) who insist that faith alone is sufficient. Sadly, the academic establishment, including the Ivy League, has fully embraced Modern Science, and its close cousin, Marxism. And they have had more than a century to tell people that God is not Real. To have a relationship with Him, one must know that He is Real. And one must apply His teachings to political, educational, and other questions. A new Great Awakening must happen to reintroduce these teachings. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/03/05/civilization/christianity-today/creation/great-awakening-america/ Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Trump to stay on ballots – SCOTUS By Terry A. Hurlbut The Supreme Court has acted in the Colorado ballot access case involving Donald J. Trump. This morning at 10:00 a.m. EST the Court reversed the Colorado Supreme Court’s order to keep Trump off the ballot. In so reversing, five of the Justices set forth a clear rule that Congress must pass any enforcement legislation if Amendment XIV Section 3 is to have the force and effect the Colorado Supreme Court thought it had. As one might expect, the Liberal Bloc objected to that – but not enough to dissent from the reversal. An opinion-issuance day The Court signaled its possible intention by declaring, early yesterday afternoon (March 3), that it would issue an opinion. Such “opinion issuance days,” in which the Court would release an opinion or opinions without formally taking the bench, were very common during the “COVID era.” They have been unknown since the lifting of most quarantines. Instead, the Court schedules a “non-argument day” in which it issues the opinion. But the Court is in an apparent spring recess until the week of March 18. Yet they marked their electronic calendar with a day to issue orders, and to release an opinion. This, according to Christina Laila of The Gateway Pundit, was on very short notice. https://twitter.com/joshgerstein/status/1764365783398764702 https://twitter.com/lawrencehurley/status/1764353195902435791 The Colorado Supreme Court ordered the Colorado Secretary of State not to put Trump’s name on any primary ballot. But they carefully stayed their ruling until the ballot deadline, which was January 4. Furthermore, the stay would self-extend automatically if Trump sought U.S. Supreme Court review. He did, and the Court held oral argument on February 8. The nine Justices offered no solace to the respondents at oral argument. So as expected, the Court unanimously reversed the Colorado Supreme Court. The unusually terse twenty-page opinion is available here. It comes just in time for Super Tuesday – and Colorado is a Super Tuesday State. Trump wins – and the win goes further Again, recall the wording of Amendment XIV, Section 3: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability. But recall also the wording of Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. The Supreme Court found that last section critical. Only Congress may enforce the provision of Section 3 as to federal offices. Congress did so enforce, in the Enforcement Act of 1870. A State may pass its own statutes to exclude “insurrectionists” and “rebels” from holding State offices. But a State may not presume to enforce that section on candidates for President or Vice-President, or Presidential Electors, or Senators or Representatives in Congress. And yes, just as Jon Mitchell, attorney for Trump, argued, the decision in U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton governs. States cannot impose additional restrictions, such as term limits, on its representatives in the federal government beyond those provided by the Constitution. Perhaps the overriding principle is that Amendment XIV changed the balance of power in favor of the federal government. That this same Amendment would grant to any State an enforcement power over the election of a President, strains credulity. So Chief Justice John Roberts suggested, and so this opinion ringingly reads. The Enforcement Act of 1870 works by letting United States Attorneys sue to remove nonlegislative “insurrectionist/rebellious” officeholders from office. It provides no enforcement mechanism against a President. Therefore (though the Court did not say this) the proper sanction against an “insurrectionist/rebellious” President is impeachment. The grounds would be even simpler: treason. Finally the Court held that the inevitable differences in qualification standards among the States – with different laws on the books – would produce a “patchwork” of different standards for the validity of votes cast. That, the Court would not tolerate. Majority and concurring opinions In summary, a clear majority – consisting of Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Thomas – have absolutely forbidden any State to keep Donald Trump, or any other candidate, off the ballot on this ground. These five issued a per curiam opinion – one without signatures. So the recent decision by a judge in Cook County, Illinois – overriding the State election board – cannot stand, either. Nor can a similar decision in Maine. Perhaps the Court sought to draft a decision that says, in no uncertain terms, “Don’t waste our time.” Such decisions – more common than people think – often produce very terse subsequent decisions called Grant, Vacate and Remand orders. One can probably anticipate that such orders will be swiftly forthcoming in the Illinois and Maine cases. Amy Coney Barrett seemed to feel, in her two-paragraph concurrence, that the majority had delivered their judgment with an unseemly stridor. The Liberal Bloc (Jackson, Kagan, and Sotomayor) seemed to want to leave a way open for ballot-access challenges less “messy” than the Colorado case. In this they make a serious logical inconsistency. They state: All the Reconstruction Amendments (including the due process and equal protection guarantees and prohibition of slavery) “are self-executing,” meaning that they do not depend on legislation. That might apply to Amendment XIII. But Amendments XIV and XV both have “Congress shall have the power to enforce” sections. Why have them, if those Amendments are self-executing? Reaction from Trump and others Indeed they leave open the question of exactly why they concurred in the final judgment. They indicated their concurrence, but only because Colorado relied on no uniform procedure and therefore “winged it.” But who do they expect to draft that uniform procedure? The Liberal Bloc didn’t say. So by virtue of what standard do they propose to uphold future Trump ballot access challenges? Again, they won’t say. Julie Kelly, a frequent defender of Trump, highlighted the last page of the per curiam opinion and the unanimous judgment. https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1764668067814965583 President Trump had an even simpler reaction: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/112038026037364851 Trump also appeared on Howie Carr’s radio program to offer more detailed reaction: https://twitter.com/HowieCarrShow/status/1764686237686731004 Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), Speaker of the House, offered this: https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1764687750240833893 Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) reacted slightly more strongly: https://twitter.com/VoteMarsha/status/1764675832700719581 As did Sen. John Hawley (R-Mo.): https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1764674890014089262 And Sen. J. D. Vance (R-Ohio): https://twitter.com/JDVance1/status/1764674570680693096 Trump appeared ready to concentrate on Super Tuesday – and today’s North Dakota primary. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/03/04/foundation/constitution/trump-stay-ballots-scotus/ Two posts anticipating the opinion: https://twitter.com/joshgerstein/status/1764365783398764702 https://twitter.com/lawrencehurley/status/1764353195902435791 The opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-719_19m2.pdf Reactions: https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1764668067814965583 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/112038026037364851 https://twitter.com/HowieCarrShow/status/1764686237686731004 https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1764687750240833893 https://twitter.com/VoteMarsha/status/1764675832700719581 https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1764674890014089262 https://twitter.com/JDVance1/status/1764674570680693096 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Trump continues to sweep up delegates By Terry A. Hurlbut Donald Trump continues his delegate “sweep-stakes” as Super Tuesday approaches. Yesterday he made an almost clean sweep of three closed contests. These results leave him with twenty percent of the delegates he will need to win the nomination. The Trump sweep Election Central maintains a schedule of primaries, caucuses, and conventions for both Parties. In addition, the site 270 to Win has this running delegate spreadsheet for Republican candidates. The Trump Sweep began in Missouri, where he won all votes cast in its caucuses. According to The Gateway Pundit, the Associated Press called the race around noon Eastern Time. Missouri will send 54 delegates to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in mid-July. Three will be uncommitted, per the rules. The Party awarded eleven delegates at-large and five from each of eight Congressional districts. As seems to be a default rule, any candidate winning fifty percent or more of the vote in any contest gets all the delegates. Trump won all fifty-one delegates at stake in Missouri’s caucuses – a broad-based victory across all Congressional districts. Michigan held a primary last Tuesday (February 27). Republicans offered sixteen delegates in that primary, and Trump won them all, with 68 percent of the popular vote. Yesterday Michigan held caucuses to award the remaining thirty-nine delegates. TGP had two reports from Michigan, one in the afternoon and the other in the evening. The final results showed Trump with fifty-one delegates and Nikki Haley with four. The Team Trump account announced at 7:08 p.m. EST that Trump had swept Idaho as well. https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1764079865328808400 Idaho will send 32 delegates to the Convention. As with the other States, Donald Trump won them all. Laura Loomer posted the results: https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1764101627504373770 Nikki Haley refuses to quit Nikki Haley spent her time campaigning in the Super Tuesday States. She campaigned in Richmond, Virginia on Friday (March 1), and in North Carolina and Massachusetts yesterday. But she had the bad sense to post video from her Raleigh, North Carolina rally. That was a mistake, because that rally was very poorly attended. https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1763992715618881969 Trump’s rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, provided a sharp contrast – in his favor. https://twitter.com/RSBNetwork/status/1763994703853187582 Furthermore, as of this moment, Trump has 244 delegates, Haley 24, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), 9, and Vivek Ramaswamy 3. DeSantis and Ramaswamy have both suspended their campaigns. They picked up all their delegates in Iowa. Any other candidate would probably quit when the situation became mathematically impossible. But not Nikki Haley. Even after Trump made her Not The Favorite Daughter of South Carolina, she made her position insultingly clear. https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1761572239340618053 The latest New York Times/Siena College poll has her earning only 20% of the vote, to Trump’s 77%. Furthermore, nearly half her supporters are Democrat crossovers. https://twitter.com/amyewalter/status/1763981584674218028 She also refuses to commit to supporting the eventual nominee, if she’s not it. https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1763670196034633742 And her excuse is that the Republican National Committee has changed, after Ronna McDanial resigned. What are the Democrats saying? The Democrats are talking half trash, half crazy, suggesting that a second Trump term frightens them badly. Mike LaChance at TGP quotes MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch as lamenting that rank-and-file voters aren’t as frightened as he. https://twitter.com/MikeSington/status/1763915996673577433 One voter says the Democrats’ problem is that they inspire fear – of themselves. https://twitter.com/Robeno/status/1763955540881727585 Given that, Nikki Haley’s crossover campaign is likely to lose more votes than she gains. In Richmond, Virginia, the Mayor – the same Mayor who erased Monument Avenue – cut a video saying, “Trump, you’re not welcome!” https://twitter.com/LevarStoney/status/1763939420510593242 https://twitter.com/JennMcClellanVA/status/1764043260752789659 https://twitter.com/raven_txwarrior/status/1763990431153406107 But when a Nikki Haley billboard truck drove past a line of people waiting to get into Trump’s rally, the people in line cried, “Boo!” https://twitter.com/thadgreen/status/1764019011539370394 All this illustrates Nikki Haley’s problem. Republican rank-and-file have adopted Trump’s battle cry: “Make America Great Again!” But she, having drunk too much of the tap water at Turtle Bay when she served as our Ambassador there, wants to make the United Nations great. And to do that, she needs Democrats – the same Democrats who are behaving like schoolyard bullies. Nor would they vote for her in the general election, anyway. Super Tuesday – with its dizzying variety of ways to allocate delegates – will tell the tale. 865 delegates will be on the line in 15 States. Trump will need another 971 delegates to win, so he cannot “clinch” the nomination mathematically on Super Tuesday. But he might be able to do so on March 12, with 160 delegates at stake. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/03/03/news/trump-continues-sweep-delegates/ The schedule: https://www.uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2024-primary-schedule/ The spreadsheet: https://www.270towin.com/2024-republican-nomination/polls/delegate-totals-by-candidate Announcements of results: https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1764079865328808400 https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1764101627504373770 Competing rallies: https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1763992715618881969 https://twitter.com/RSBNetwork/status/1763994703853187582 The “Soviet-style election” crack: https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1761572239340618053 NYT/Siena finds half Nikki Haley’s supporters are crossovers: https://twitter.com/amyewalter/status/1763981584674218028 Nikki Haley on Meet the Press: https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1763670196034633742 Video clip: Donny Deutsch’s call for a scare campaign (and reaction): https://twitter.com/MikeSington/status/1763915996673577433 https://twitter.com/Robeno/status/1763955540881727585 Democrat leaders in Richmond react (badly) to Trump’s rally: https://twitter.com/LevarStoney/status/1763939420510593242 https://twitter.com/JennMcClellanVA/status/1764043260752789659 https://twitter.com/raven_txwarrior/status/1763990431153406107 Boo on Nikki Haley’s billboard truck: https://twitter.com/thadgreen/status/1764019011539370394 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Election integrity scores a small, but key, win By Terry A. Hurlbut Two principles, of supreme importance to the American republic, won a small, but very important, victory this week. First – as every lawyer knows and in which every commentator can take comfort – truth is a complete defense against the familiar “lying and bad-mouthing” charges of libel, slander, and defamation of character. Second – and more important still – election integrity matters. Two front-line defenders of election integrity pushed back against a voting machine warehouse keeper accusing them of lying about him. They won – because, to paraphrase the incomparable Laura Loomer, they had the receipts. Their victory, while small in the grand scheme, sets precedents in election law and in patriotic tactics in organized societies. Important election integrity roles The two most important roles patriots can play in ensuring – or reestablishing – election integrity are poll watchers and poll workers. Poll workers are the precinct-level Officers of Election, and their chiefs and their assistants. An Officer of Election might greet you at the door, check you in, hand you a ballot, wave you to a booth where you can mark it, or guard a scanner-tabulator or Ballot Marking Device while you use either machine. Chiefs and their assistants, in many jurisdictions, have the authority to register you to vote that day, hand you a provisional ballot, or override some machine function in case of machine or human error. The chief also runs the tape on the scanner-tabulator and reports the vote to the registrar. (Thus when a news organ says, “with such-a-percent of precincts reporting,” that’s what they mean.) A poll watcher is an observer, which his unit Party committee has accredited in advance to the Registrar of Elections. He may sit where he can observe everything except information personal to a particular voter. If he knows someone is voting improperly, he may complain to the chief. And in theory, his presence ensures that the chief and his crew will not “pull any funny business.” This case involves two poll watchers who went above and beyond the call of duty. A senior election official alleged that they exceeded their authority. The particular election integrity case Delaware County, Pennsylvania, sits on the eastern third of the “hump” that is the Pennsylvania-Delaware border. Jim Hoft, editor-in-chief of The Gateway Pundit, has a summary of the case, and appropriate links. Last year, Brian Lupo filed another report while the case was still ongoing. This case involved the Election of 2020. Mr. James Savage, the Delaware County Voting Machine Warehouse Supervisor and Chief Custodian, sued: • Then-President Donald Trump and his campaign, • Attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, and Phillip Kline, and Mr. Giuliani’s law firm, • The Thomas More Society, and • Two Republican poll watchers, Gregory Stenstrom and Leah Hoopes, for libel/slander, defamation of character, putting him in a false light, and civil conspiracy. Savage v. Trump et al., Case No. 211002495, Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, Civil Division, October, 2021. Mr. Savage buried Stenstrom and Hoopes’ names in the middle of the defendants’ list. But those two, without question, are at the heart of this case. (See also this report from The Delco Times.) Mr. Stenstrom and Ms. Hoopes accused Savage of tampering with the Universal Serial Bus (USB) “v-cards” to add 50,000 votes for Joe Biden. Biden allegedly carried the State by 80,555 votes – but Trump had been ahead by 700,000 votes at least. This allegation was one of many Stenstrom and Hoopes made at “The Gettysburg Hearing” of November 25, 2020. At that hearing, Mr. Stenstrom said this part, relevant to the case: So I personally observed … USB v-cards being uploaded to the voting machines by the … voting machine warehouse supervisor on multiple occasions. I saw this personally. I brought it to the attention of the deputy sheriff who was there stationed who was a senior law enforcement officer, and I brought it to the attention of the clerk of elections… I objected, and I said, “This person is not being observed, he’s not part of the process that I can see,” and he’s walking in with baggies which we have pictures of, and that were submitted in our affidavits, and he was sticking these USBs into the machines. So I personally witnessed over that happen twenty four times, over twenty four times. We have multiple other witnesses who saw it including Democrat poll watchers… And we were told, the next day by … the attorney that we had secured, that they said every election they leave a couple of USBs in the voting machines and they’re brought back and generally the warehouse manager comes over and puts them in. So in talking to US Attorney General McSwain and other law enforcement officers, I found out that was not the case. That generally uh, you know, more than more than two is unusual. So they denied they did it, but um as of today 47 USB v-cards are missing, and they’re nowhere to be found. So I was told personally that these 32, these 24 to 30, cards that were uploaded um weren’t there, those cards I demanded that they, they didn’t update the vote live time, they only updated it about once every two or three hours, I demanded they updated the vote so I could see what the, the uh, what the what the result was, and it was … 50,000 votes. And I think as a computer scientist, an American, and a patriot, it doesn’t matter who those 50,000 votes were. I’ll tell you they were for Vice President Biden. But what was shocking to me, as an American, as someone who has gone to sea, gone to war, that that could even happen… You know, people ask me all the time, “how do people commit crimes,” um I know there’s a lot of theories here and I always look for the simplest thing. People that stuff, you know, sticking USB sticks in, putting ballots in, very simple thing. So we have a situation where we have 100,000 ballots to 120,000 ballots, both mail in and USB, that are in question. The fight continues History cannot determine whether those allegations might have been proved, had the United States Supreme Court taken the case of Texas v. Pennsylvania. Mr. Savage denied flatly that he did, or even could have, altered the Delaware County vote total. In his lawsuit, Savage alleged that he suffered two heart attacks, and had certain persons unknown threaten him with bodily harm. But whether he would have had the wherewithal to file this action on his own, is an open question. No disinterested observer can doubt that whoever paid Mr. Savage’s legal bills, sought to shake the testimony of two poll watchers to some of the most serious types of election fraud that took place on November 3-4, 2020. Why the Thomas More Society maintains no landing page about Savage v. Trump, though they were defendants, none can say. Incredibly, the two poll watchers represented themselves in this case. Somehow this case dragged on for two and one-third years. In May 2022, Stenstrom and Hoopes appeared on podcasts to explain their positions and their continued fight for election integrity. https://twitter.com/CannConActual/status/1660704351130664960 https://twitter.com/CannConActual/status/1660704354381209614 https://twitter.com/CannConActual/status/1660704357317238784 https://twitter.com/CannConActual/status/1660704359032692754 https://rumble.com/embed/v2klg3q/?pub=4teej https://rumble.com/embed/v2lrpde/?pub=4teej https://rumble.com/embed/v1zhsok/?pub=4teej Note that Stenstrom also has information about the story by Jesse Morgan, a United States Postal Service contract truck driver. He drove a load of about 250,000 ballots from New York to Pennsylvania. After he parked it for a night’s rest, trailer and load disappeared. See also these posts, from June 2023: https://twitter.com/MrSausageGet/status/1668069639484481537 https://twitter.com/MrSausageGet/status/1668073151345950720 https://twitter.com/MrSausageGet/status/1668073835411767296 https://twitter.com/MrSausageGet/status/1668074745223413760 https://twitter.com/MrSausageGet/status/1668075380501106689 https://twitter.com/MrSausageGet/status/1668075828742111233 https://twitter.com/MrSausageGet/status/1668077917878861824 https://twitter.com/MrSausageGet/status/1668078980711194627 It was all true – and the plaintiff has effectively admitted it The rest of this information comes from two posts on the Patriot Online social-media platform, from Gregory Stenstrom’s account: https://patriot.online/@gregorystenstrom/posts/AfLqvtimEDDVbcW7G4 https://patriot.online/@gregorystenstrom/posts/AfMSKj02vLrlthIQXQ On January 10, 2024, someone, presumably through Savage’s lawyers, offered Stenstrom and Hoopes a settlement. Under it, Stenstrom and Hoopes would be out of the case, and Savage would proceed against Trump and Giuliani only. Obviously those two were the “big fish” and “deep pockets.” Nothing doing, said the two poll watchers – who then proceed to file an impressive archive of documents at this link. https://cloud.patriot.online/s/WCiSBwADGfK7WaK Five days ago they filed this massive trove of video clips of what, apparently, they had seen. https://cloud.patriot.online/s/wXZgb9oPyXH5dX4 They were prepared, apparently, to show at trial that Savage took part in the destruction and obfuscation of evidence. Obviously this would have been monumentally embarrassing to Mr. Savage – and to various State and federal officials. Perhaps his financiers abruptly served notice they would throw him under the bus if he continued. In any event, the poll watchers filed motions for summary judgment and monetary and other sanctions. On Wednesday, February 28, less than twenty-four hours before the summary-judgment hearing was to take place, Savage withdrew his complaint. The judge accepted that and canceled all remaining hearings – after citing Savage’s attorney for unprofessional conduct. What can we take away First and foremost, this case demonstrates the role of poll watchers in maintaining election integrity. Had they not been present, and made nuisances of themselves, Mr. Savage would have gotten away with his misconduct. But let no one suppose that this misconduct was Mr. Savage’s idea. A tremendous rot of ideological corruption exists in many county and municipal election offices. As important as poll watchers are, poll workers are even more important. Patriots must sign up to be poll workers, and work their way up the ladder. This case revealed corruption at the top of the election-official food chain. But that no poll worker ever questioned it, should shame their pride. Poll watchers like Stenstrom and Hoopes can take falls for the team, but their authority goes only so far. Poll workers – as Dr. Steve Turley told your editor directly – are “in the belly of the beast.” Better to be a poll worker than to complain about their conduct afterward. True patriotic poll workers might also have made Mr. Savage think twice before doing what he now admits to doing. As Stenstrom said in his Patriot Online posts, truth is a complete defense. Your editor learned that as a senior in medical school, from no less authorities than associate members of the venerable law firm of Fulbright and Jaworski. (Yes, that Jaworski, as in Leon, the Special Prosecutor who took Nixon down.) Savage’s whole case depended on showing those poll watchers were lying. They weren’t, and his case fell apart. The objective Besides all the above, the most important thing to decide, in going to literal or figurative war, is: objective. In this case, patriots must have a goal. Sadly, it cannot be canceling out more than three years of an illegitimate Presidency. The Supreme Court threw away the only chance to change that result – because the Chief Justice feared riots on First Avenue Southeast, in front of the Supreme Courthouse. The objective must be to make sure nothing like this ever happens again. And to achieve that, requires absolutely the elimination of electronic voting machines. Electronic poll books might remain, so that voters don’t have to sort themselves into, say, the A-K and L-Z lines. But scanner-tabulators and Ballot Marking Devices must go, so that future Messrs. Savage positively cannot do what he did. And under no circumstances must electronic poll books connect to the Internet! We must also abolish mail-in voting – no more transporting ballots across State lines in mail trucks! France votes on paper, and in person, even allowing pre-registered proxies. The United States can – indeed must – do the same. Nevertheless, election integrity scored a significant victory this week. It is the first case in which the “Trump position” won the day. Patriots need to follow up on this, and recruit both poll watchers and poll workers. Then we can start drafting city and county ordinances to get rid of The Machines. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/03/02/foundation/constitution/election-integrity-small-key-win/ Gateway Pundit reports: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/massive-win-trump-pa-voting-machine-warehouse-official/ https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/still-fighting-one-only-remaining-2020-election-cases/ Savage v. Trump complaint: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21098745/savage-v-trump-et-al.pdf The CannCon thread: https://twitter.com/CannConActual/status/1660704351130664960 https://twitter.com/CannConActual/status/1660704354381209614 https://twitter.com/CannConActual/status/1660704357317238784 https://twitter.com/CannConActual/status/1660704359032692754 Podcast videos: https://rumble.com/v2n6vje-sitrep-ep-29-thur-900-pm-et-.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 https://rumble.com/v2od4t2-live-at-9pm-with-greg-stenstrom-and-leah-hoopes-on-their-active-pa-2020-law.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 https://rumble.com/v223xjq-tony-shaffer-on-the-deep-state-the-2020-election-steal-in-pa-and-former-ag-.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Mr. Sausage posts (not as a thread): https://twitter.com/MrSausageGet/status/1668069639484481537 https://twitter.com/MrSausageGet/status/1668073151345950720 https://twitter.com/MrSausageGet/status/1668073835411767296 https://twitter.com/MrSausageGet/status/1668074745223413760 https://twitter.com/MrSausageGet/status/1668075380501106689 https://twitter.com/MrSausageGet/status/1668075828742111233 https://twitter.com/MrSausageGet/status/1668077917878861824 https://twitter.com/MrSausageGet/status/1668078980711194627 Gregory Stenstrom’s posts on Patriot Online: https://patriot.online/@gregorystenstrom/posts/AfLqvtimEDDVbcW7G4 https://patriot.online/@gregorystenstrom/posts/AfMSKj02vLrlthIQXQ Mr. Stenstrom’s Patriot Cloud directories: https://cloud.patriot.online/s/WCiSBwADGfK7WaK https://cloud.patriot.online/s/wXZgb9oPyXH5dX4 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Presidential immunity and leftist anguish By Terry A. Hurlbut Last Wednesday (February 28) the United States Supreme Court agreed to decide formally an issue most people took for granted. They will decide whether or not a President of the United States enjoys immunity from ordinary prosecution for his acts while in office. Presidential immunity should never have been in doubt, and the doubts some are raising amount to ex post facto law. And if people studied ancient history, they’d know how hazardous not granting immunity can be. Indeed, at least one leftist news commentator played with fire in her comments on the subject. Presidential immunity and the January 6 case The Supreme Court handed down a Miscellaneous Order near day’s end in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s “January 6 case.” What is now Trump v. United States, Case No. 23-939, will present this question: Whether and if so to what extent does a former President enjoy presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office. The most salient effect of this order is that the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia must withhold any further “mandate” in the case until the Supreme Court rules on that question. The Court set petitioner’s, respondent’s, and friend-of-the-court briefing deadlines, and scheduled oral argument for the week of April 22, 2024. Special Counsel Smith accuses Trump of inciting the alleged attacks on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Trump’s lawyers filed motions to dismiss, asserting presidential immunity. Judge Tanya Chutkan of the District Court for the District of Columbia denied the motion. Trump appealed – and drew the short straw, in the form of three judges, two Biden appointees and one Bush Jr. appointee. They ruled, 3-0, that a former President does not enjoy presidential immunity for his acts in office. In their ruling, they actually said: We have balanced former President Trump’s asserted interests in executive immunity against the vital public interests that favor allowing this prosecution to proceed. We conclude that “concerns of public policy, especially as illuminated by our history and the structure of our government” compel the rejection of his claim of immunity in this case. This is another in a disturbing line of appellate cases that courts have decided, or declined, on public-policy grounds. First was Texas v. Pennsylvania, in which Texas sought Supreme Court intervention in the Election of 2020. Chief Justice John Roberts allegedly harangued his colleagues into declining that case, in fear of riots outside the Supreme Courthouse. The opinion by these three judges smacks of a similar extra-legal “concern.” Immediate consequences Christina Laila at The Gateway Pundit continued her coverage of the Supreme Court’s action yesterday. This included an interview with Andrew Weissmann, a prosecutor with a reputation for hating Donald Trump. He took note that the case of USA v. Trump is already postponed indefinitely. Naturally the postponement must last even longer, given the Supreme Court action and the announced briefing and argument schedule. In an interview with MSNBC, Weissmann said this: https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1763277139540152735 Ms. Laila also criticized Weissmann for saying Smith had charged Trump with “illegally staying in office.” Neither Smith nor any other prosecutor has actually alleged that. Apparently Weissmann further accuses the Supreme Court of delaying the case. In fact, the Biden administration timed the case to have a trial during election season. Perhaps they even thought to see Trump in a federal (or State) prison. Neither thing is likely to happen now. Smith has another case pending against Trump, though in the Southern District of Florida. This is the Documents Case, arising out of the FBI raid on Mar-A-Lago in August of 2022. Now Smith wants a trial of that case by July 8, according to CNN. https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1763337691935244307 Even that is a postponement for a trial set to begin May 20. Smith’s exact motive for such a delay is unclear. Leftist and media apoplexy While this has been happening, two media personalities have vented their apoplexy at the idea that the Supreme Court will consider presidential immunity as a valid concept. According to Jim Hoft, MSNBC brought in Elie Mystal from the radical-left magazine The Nation to vent his spleen. He called on Democrats to “deal with” the Supreme Court – but made himself clear as mud on what that meant. https://rumble.com/v4ge5ol-msnbc-hack-elie-mystal-threatens-supreme-court-calls-on-democrats-to-strip-.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 His hostess referred to a “bulletproof ruling” from the Court of Appeals, that the Supreme Court nevertheless agreed to review. In reply, Mystal called the Court’s members (outside the Liberal Bloc) “corrupted political actors who act in bad faith.” Then he said: And at some point, people in the media, people at home, and people sitting in the White House have to stop pretending that the Supreme Court is some kind of benign ‘trying to do its best’ institution and start to realize that there are six Republicans, not conservatives, Republicans on the Supreme Court, who view it as their job to help the Republican Party. And until we do something about that, until we take away that power, until we draw the line on them there, they will continue to do this. They will help Trump. They will take away abortion rights. They will end affirmative action. They will liberalize gun rights. They will do all of it until we stop them. And somebody needs to start listening in the higher echelons of the Democratic party, because we will keep losing every day we allow these six Republicans in robes to rule over all of us. Again, he did not say how he proposed that someone “take away that power.” Of course he referred to decisions that have struck at the heart of leftist ideology and orthodoxy: • Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, • Students for Fair Admissions v. Trustees of Harvard College [and] University of North Carolina, and • New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen. Curiously he forgot to mention: • Carson v. Makin, • Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, • West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, • 303 Creative v. Elenis, • Sackett et ux. v. Environmental Protection Agency (the judgment in which was unanimous), and • Biden v. Nebraska (the student loan case). Jim Hoft actually accused Mystal of incitement to Justicial assassination. (Like Antonin Scalia? Or Brett Kavanaugh?) But as Cullen Linebarger reported, that wasn’t the worst! Rachel Maddow plays with fire Rachel Maddow, who has her own show on MSNBC, lamented that (perhaps) Trump might never face trial. (If the Supreme Court upholds his presidential immunity claim, or if further proceedings delay a trial until after the Inauguration, then, no, he will not.) But then she suggested that, if Trump ever becomes President again, “he will never leave.” https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1763045727759204498 She then accused the Court of “dilatory” proceedings “to help [their] political friend.” https://twitter.com/allinwithchris/status/1763014265156346205 The rest of what she said amounts to classic throwing-off (the fancy Latinate word is “projection”). Saul Alinsky specifically recommends projection in his Rules for Radicals. For it is the left, not Trump or the Originalist Bloc of the Court, that is turning the United States into a country, not of laws, but of well-connected people. Mike LaChance reported on similarly unhinged posts from other celebrities. Some of the posts he gathered, are not embeddable on a site for polite company. This post is at least embeddable and repeatable, though incomprehensible: https://twitter.com/StevieVanZandt/status/1763212216302460981 As are these: https://twitter.com/MrJonCryer/status/1763234663546716502 https://twitter.com/BarbraStreisand/status/1763266291626885276 https://twitter.com/robreiner/status/1763190232663339423 But none of them, least of all Rachel Maddow, seem to understand the heat of the fire they’re playing with. Without presidential immunity, no head of state worth his salt dare even hold the office. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of the State of Israel surely understand that. But so did another head-of-state when his legislature pushed him to the decision point. An ancient case for presidential immunity Go back in time to the Consulship of Gaius Claudius Marcellus and Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Crus – 49 B.C. About four days before the Ides of January, Junior Consul Lentulus Crus stood up in the Senate of Rome – then meeting in a temporary venue – and introduced a declaration of national emergency against the power of intercession – the veto power – of the Tribunes of the Plebs. Everyone knew this was actually part of a broader strategy to attack Rome’s most successful general – or field marshal. At once the Tribune with the loudest voice – no other than Mark Antony – stood and cried out, “I forbid that!” (In Latin the word translating “I forbid” is: Veto.) Lentulus Crus ordered the sergeants-at-arms – the Lictors – to eject him, and a fellow Tribune who rose to his defense. Antony and his friend rushed to the Well of the Comitia, displayed their dishevelment, and told the people what was happening. Then when a troop of Lictors marched toward the Well to arrest them, they left Rome. But they sent a fast horseman to carry a message to their patron, who waited in Ravenna in Northern Italy. When that message arrived, its recipient ordered his staff to mount up, and to prepare an entire division to march. Then, with a jaunty cry of “Let the dice fly high!”, Gaius Julius Caesar led Legio XIII across the Rubicon. That is what a republic risks when it threatens its heads-of-state with specious charges on pretended offenses if they leave office. From ancient to modern And that is what Rachel Maddow inadvertently revealed as the plans the Democrats have for Trump. Nor is that the only threat any liberal has made. Whoopi Goldberg actually encouraged Resident Biden to order the arrest of all Republicans, should the Supreme Court uphold presidential immunity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kex7H6KiYI Brandon Tatum accused Goldberg of “going full Hitler.” But she did not emulate Adolf Hitler; she emulated Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Crus. Given this man’s ancient example, Goldberg and Maddow are behaving with gross irresponsibility when they make such statements. In fact, the Sackett precedent, plus the recent oral argument in Trump v. Anderson, suggest that Maddow and Goldberg have totally blown the gaffe. None of the Court members were even willing to allow that an insurrection had occurred. (Only Congress can declare an insurrection, because “insurrection” is treason, therefore war, which only Congress may declare.) And the only way that Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and civil officers are subject to “indictment, trial, judgment and punishment,” is upon conviction following impeachment. Article I Section 3 Clause 7 of the Constitution spells that out. The Democrats tried impeachment after Trump left office – and failed. Now they want a do-over? That’s ex post facto – another thing the Constitution forbids. Article I, Section 9, Clause 3. (Nixon resigned with three Articles of Impeachment pending against him – and Gerald R. Ford merely wanted to stop all arguments.) If the Originalists follow the Constitution, and the Moderates remember recent and already pending cases, they will vote for presidential immunity. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/03/01/foundation/constitution/presidential-immunity-leftist-anguish/ The cert order: https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/022824zr3_febh.pdf Citizen Free Press’ post: Andrew Weissmann interview: https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePress/status/1763277139540152735 Kyle Cheney’s post about a desired trial date in the Documents Case: https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1763337691935244307 Video: Elie Mystal interview: https://rumble.com/v4ge5ol-msnbc-hack-elie-mystal-threatens-supreme-court-calls-on-democrats-to-strip-.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Two posts with parts of Rachel Maddow’s monolog/interview: https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1763045727759204498 https://twitter.com/allinwithchris/status/1763014265156346205 Four posts with leftist outrage: https://twitter.com/StevieVanZandt/status/1763212216302460981 https://twitter.com/MrJonCryer/status/1763234663546716502 https://twitter.com/BarbraStreisand/status/1763266291626885276 https://twitter.com/robreiner/status/1763190232663339423 Video: Analysis of Whoopi Goldberg interview by Brandon Tatum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kex7H6KiYI Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Mitch McConnell stepping down By Terry A. Hurlbut Sen. Mitch McConnell, Minority Leader and senior Senator from Kentucky (emphasis on senior), announced yesterday that he is stepping down from Senate leadership. Moreover he will likely not seek reelection to the Senate in 2026. Legacy media organs are making much of his being the longest-serving Party Floor Leader in the history of the Senate. But his (so far) voluntary laying-down of leadership affords a time to reflect on the mixed results of his tenure. It also affords the last chance for Republicans to retake the Senate – hopefully this time with an uncompromising Leader. Mitch McConnell makes electrifying announcement Christina Laila at The Gateway Pundit broke the news of the impending announcement at 11:40 a.m. EST yesterday. Commentator Benny Johnson also broke the news on X: https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1762892770019004919 Then at 3:32 p.m. EST, the Associated Press carried the formal announcement. Mitch McConnell entered the well of the Senate to make the announcement everyone expected him to make. https://twitter.com/SawyerHackett/status/1762895846230602121 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEgd6ylqM20 One of life’s most underappreciated talents is to know when it’s time to move on to life’s next chapter. So I stand before you today … to say that this will be my last term as Republican leader of the Senate. I'm not going anywhere anytime soon. However, I'll complete my job. My colleagues have given me until we select a new leader in November and they take the helm next January. Madeline Hubbard at Just the News carried a further quote: Father Time remains undefeated. I am no longer the young man sitting in the back, hoping colleagues would remember my name. It is time for the next generation of leadership. Henry Rodgers at The Daily Caller quoted him further as saying he would serve out his current Senate term, “albeit from a different seat in this chamber.” Unlike the Roman Senate, United States Senators who are not currently in leadership do not have permanent “front bench” privileges. McConnell, who entered the Senate in 1985, has served as Floor Leader since 2007. Mary Margaret Olohan at The Daily Signal had more of his speech. Why is he stepping down? His aides insisted that Mitch McConnell is not stepping down by reason of his health. That might or might not be true, in whole or in part. The Senator took a fall in March of last year and suffered a concussion. Speculation was rife then that he might retire. Later last year he suffered two apparent strokes, in July and again in August. https://twitter.com/HannahPThomas/status/1696936240040321474 A Capitol Hill physician then diagnosed “small seizures due to dehydration.” McConnell’s junior partner, Sen. Rand Paul, who is a physician himself, repudiated that diagnosis. He told reporters, “It looks like a focal neurological event,” meaning a stroke. After that he faced pressure to step down, or even leave the Senate, then and there. But the politics of his conference had already begun to tell against him, and he acknowledged that. https://twitter.com/theblaze/status/1762898217266512237 And with good reason. The only commentator with a kind word for him was Erick-Woods Erickson, who once backed the challenge by Gov. Matt Bevin (R-Ky.) to McConnell’s Senate seat. (Apparently Erickson lost his jobs at Fox News and RedState over that episode.) Erickson credits McConnell with keeping Merrick Garland off the Supreme Court after the death (murder?) of Antonin Scalia. He further asserts that no other Floor Leader could have kept the Senate Republican Conference together to advance nominees Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. With, he says, the following results: The end of Roe v. Wade, a 6-3 United States Supreme Court, a Republican appointed majority in six of the Courts of Appeal, near parity in several more, the end of most gun control legislation, blocking the Paris Accord and climate change legislation, the Trump tax cuts, the death of the individual mandate, and an aggressive culling of regulations imposed by the Obama Administration at the end of his term. The cons Erickson went on to offer this commentary, that weakens his argument: I’d rather have a center-right United States Senate that has to deal with a Susan Collins [RINO-Maine] or a Lisa Murkowski [RINO-Alaska] in the majority than have a progressive Senate run by Chuck Schumer. And McConnell worked very hard to deliver that and, frankly, probably would have preserved it further had Donald Trump not convinced 427,205 Republicans in Georgia not to go vote in runoffs in January of 2021. As much as I would prefer Washington do nothing, Washington is always going to do something. I often disagreed with much of what McConnell was willing to allow Washington to do, but often he was willing to allow advances through backroom deals that accomplished, in other ways, things conservatives wanted. Lay aside for a moment that Erick-Woods Erickson will not get it through his thick head that Democrats stole the Election of 2020. (As Tucker Carlson explains, according to Mike LaChance at TGP.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_lRdkH_QoY The problem is that we now have a progressive Senate with Chuck Schumer at the helm. For that blame Mitch McConnell, who didn’t want to risk a MAGA Conference deposing him as Leader. The worse problem is that those “backroom deals” now include support for a corrupt region, that can call itself a country only because Nikita Khrushchev wanted another vote in the United Nations General Assembly, that hosted biological weapons development laboratories, with American funding, and American direction, and American staffs. A region that, furthermore, hosts twelve bases for the Central Intelligence Agency, who really are a Dark Force. (That accusation was always the Soviet Union’s broken-clock position.) Furthermore, Mitch McConnell refuses to secure the southern border. https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1762607473217724881 So now Texas is building military forces and infrastructure to do it themselves – or maybe prepare for a secession war. Erick-Woods Erickson said Mitch McConnell doesn’t care. He obviously doesn’t care about the border. (And if Texas does move toward secession, Mitch McConnell can blame himself as well as Resident Biden.) After Mitch McConnell, who’s next? Dick Morris, in yesterday’s “Lunch Alert,” thumped McConnell for keeping Republicans in a permanent minority in the Senate. Likewise he hailed the step-down as an opportunity for Republicans – MAGA Republicans – to make the Senate their own. This, says Morris, can happen immediately. By announcing his step-down, Mitch McConnell effectively ends whatever influence he has over the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.), its current chairman, is a definite MAGA Republican – and was MAGA before MAGA “became a thing.” In 2016 he backed McConnell’s decision not to bring up Merrick Garland’s Supreme Court nomination for a vote. In the Obama years (during two of which he was Montana’s At-large Representative), he rejected climate-change panic. Likewise, he wants to abolish the Department of Education and make education a State and local affair only. All these things make him a good candidate for Floor Leader. But even now, Morris hopes Daines will continue to support MAGA Senate candidates – in an election that will see Democrats defending more than their usual share of Senate seats. (Among them: that of Sen. Jon Tester, his senior and Democratic partner in Montana.) But Daines faces three competitors, all of whom have the advantage of seniority. Politico calls them the Three Johns: John Thune (R-S.D.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton traded barbs yesterday. https://twitter.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/1762994033779978483 https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn/status/1762994251573404153 Ken Paxton does not face prison. He recently survived an impeachment attempt – and has scores to settle as a result. What happens if Mitch can’t serve out his term? Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell did pledge to serve out his term. The words he chose during his speech suggest that he will not seek reelection in 2026. Without question, his political differences with Trump and most of his Conference decided him in retiring as Leader. Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who challenged him for the leadership position a year and a half ago, made that point: https://twitter.com/SenRickScott/status/1762922591293976680 But suppose he suffers a stroke, or a heart attack, or other attack, that kills him? Who then replaces him in the Senate? Kentucky Law provides that in case of the expulsion of a U.S. Senator from Kentucky from office, or of his death or resignation, that Senator’s Party Executive Committee would then specify three candidates, from among whom the governor must choose an Interim Senator. McConnell himself suggested that change in the law in 2021. Kentucky’s legislature passed it over the vehement veto of Gov. Andy Beshear (D-Ky.). The governor has since vowed that he would appoint whomever he d____d well pleased as Interim Senator, given the opportunity, and dared Republicans to sue him in federal court if they so chose. Perhaps that’s why McConnell does not resign from the Senate altogether. Activist (and former Delaware Senate candidate) Lauren Witzke definitely doesn’t want him to “hang on” as Leader through the election. https://twitter.com/LaurenWitzkeDE/status/1762951637763858585 She might have a point, if Dick Morris is wrong and McConnell retains his influence over the NRSC. But his step-down as Leader is still a step in the right direction. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/02/29/foundation/constitution/mitch-mcconnell-stepping-down/ Benny Johnson’s post announcing the step-down: https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1762892770019004919 Article, posts and video covering the step-down: https://apnews.com/article/mitch-mcconnell-senate-republican-leader-stepping-down-ba478d570a4561aa7baf91a204d7e366 https://twitter.com/SawyerHackett/status/1762895846230602121 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEgd6ylqM20 https://twitter.com/theblaze/status/1762898217266512237 Video: Tucker Carlson interview in which he says the Election of 2020 was stolen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_lRdkH_QoY Post about McConnell saying to forget the border: https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1762607473217724881 Ken Paxton and John Cornyn’s dispute: https://twitter.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/1762994033779978483 https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn/status/1762994251573404153 Sen. Rick Scott: “We need new leadership: https://twitter.com/SenRickScott/status/1762922591293976680 Lauren Witzke: McConnell should step down effective immediately: https://twitter.com/LaurenWitzkeDE/status/1762951637763858585 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Fani Willis, legal ecdysiast By Terry A. Hurlbut The sordid soap opera – with apologies to the Procter and Gamble Company – concerning Fulton County (Georgia) District Attorney Fani Willis and her apparent illicit lover and “colleague” Nathan Wade, grinds on, serving up more titillating gossip with every passing day. One has to wonder what kind of show Judge Scott McAfee is running – an evidentiary hearing, or a strip show. The revelations at that hearing, while embarrassing to Fani Willis, do not address the most serious aspects of the case. Which are: selective application of the law, prosecuting a candidate for a perfectly legal election contest, and collusion between the Office of the District Attorney and the Office of White House Counsel. This salacious drama serves only to distract the American public from far more serious plans that the Woke Left has for all of North America. Review of the Fani Willis drama Fani Willis won an indictment against Donald Trump and 18 of his lawyers and associates in August of 2023. She charged him under Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute for his election challenge. Apparently elections, especially elections that Democrats win, are not to be challenged. Anyone who does, her prosecution theory states, is a racketeer. Sadly, that is also the theory of a grand jury who heard the evidence. How odd – no grand jury heard any RICO charge against Donna Curling. She is suing the Georgia Secretary of State’s office over voting machines that turn out to be eminently hackable. Donna Curling is a leftist. While her claim turns out to be eminently valid, Donald Trump’s claim is no less valid. Yet officials prosecute him but not her. The House Judiciary Committee began investigating Fani Willis for prosecuting Trump from a political motive – and using federal funds. Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-Ohio) announcement of that investigation drew skepticism – and outrage from those who want to apply the law selectively to Trump. Which is exactly what’s happening, as if anyone seriously compares Donald Trump to an organized crime figure. Then, in January 2024, Mr. Michael Roman, one of Trump’s co-defendants filed a motion to: • Dismiss all charges against himself, and: • Disqualify Fani Willis and her entire office from any further prosecution of him. The first revelations This happened after his lawyer, and the private investigator they hired, developed evidence of an illicit love affair between Willis and Nathan Wade, the private attorney she hired as a “special prosecutor.” Within hours, further investigation, by Roman, his lawyer, and several journalists, revealed that: • Fani Willis appointed Nathan Wade as “Special Prosecutor” without consulting Fulton County’s legislative body, the Board of Commissioners. • Fani Willis set Wade up with a lavish expense account – sometimes receiving invoices for 24 hours of work in one day. (Does the man even sleep? Oh, sorry…!) • Since January 2022, Wade received nearly $654,000 in legal fees. • The two spent that money in lavish vacations and Caribbean cruises, including on ships of the super-deluxe Royal Caribbean Line. • Among the invoices the DA’s office received: $2000 for eight hours of meetings with White House Counsel’s Office officials. This was only the beginning. These are the elements of what should be the scandal surrounding this case: • Selective application of the law, • A political prosecution for an activity that ought always to be perfectly lawful, i.e., contesting an election, and: • Collusion between the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office and the Office of White House Counsel. Rep. Jordan has expanded his investigation of Willis to include Wade and his communications with various Biden administration officials. He at least is working the collusion angle, of which two other commentators have taken note. But why doesn’t this aspect of the case concern anyone else? Fani Willis and Nathan Wade as the shiny objects Two days ago, The Gateway Pundit carried one article – by Cullen Linebarger – about collusion between the Fulton County DA’s office and the Biden administration. Linebarger cited an article from Breitbart about Fani Willis’ deputy, Jeff DiSantis. He worked on Willis’ 2020 election campaign and also has extensive experience with and in the Georgia Democratic Party. But that’s not the worst part. The worst part is that the entire prosecution of Trump was his idea. And he was taking the direct orders from the White House. From Breitbart: DiSantis did this. He’s the one. He is the one pulling all the strings. He was the one that walled her (Willis) off. He was in every important meeting. He is the brainchild behind this. That is the connection to the White House. DiSantis is the one pulling the strings on this whole thing. Everybody heard Fani testify. It’s no secret that she’s not smart. That is how she sounds and acts every day of the week. In other words, Nathan Wade has almost nothing to do with this. Those invoices could be all for show – another excuse to bilk the taxpayers for money for lavish vacations. So why are we wasting time on the Willis-Wade soap opera? Fani Willis and Nathan Wade exchanged 11,865 text messages before she put him on the payroll, according to Jim Hoft. Who cares? Why are Paul Sperry and Charlie Kirk talking about this, and not Jeff DiSantis and his pipeline to Biden? https://twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1761839220845649942 https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1761092265274159525 Nathan Wade’s divorce attorney tries to claim attorney-client privilege, and Judge McAfee disallows it. Who cares? That same attorney then makes that time-honored claim of hostile witnesses everywhere: amnesia. Again, who cares? https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1762563382245196109 https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1762562871412617488 Wade had a garage-door clicker for Fani Willis’ home. The two actually “did it” in his law office. Again, who cares? What does this prove? This is supposed to prove that the two began their affair before she hired him, though she said the affair began afterward. That, of course, is perjury. But what does that prove, except that Fani Willis moronically and desperately tried to fudge something that doesn’t even matter? How does that address a political prosecution, selective application of the law, and White House collusion? Those are the real scandals with this case – while Judge McAfee dangles two shiny objects to distract people from it. With all due respect to the court, the American people likely don’t give an unripe fig: • What kind of relationships, other than professional, any two or more people have in the Fulton County DA’s office, • When any kind of extracurricular and adulterous (or merely fornicative) relationship began, or • That one of the parties is pretending to be the Big Connection to the White House that he is not. That last part almost redounds more to conservatives’ shame. That Nathan Wade could have fabricated those invoices about meetings with White House officials, both to screw more money from Fulton County taxpayers and to hide the role of Deputy District Attorney Jeff DiSantis, should have been obvious. Kudos to Breitbart for revealing the missing piece. But why isn’t Judge McAfee looking into this? For that matter, has Donald Trump made another mistake in his hiring of his own attorneys? Why didn’t they turn up this lead? Who should care about what Perhaps Mrs. Wade, Nathan’s long-suffering wife, should care about Wade’s withholding of income during their divorce litigation. Obviously Fulton County taxpayers, regardless of how they voted in the Presidential or the Fulton County DA’s election, should care about their DA turning the high-profile case she campaigned on pursuing, into a slush fund for herself and her boyfriend. Arguably any court must care when one of its officers perjures herself on the witness stand and violates ethical canons. All these things are legitimate concerns – for the people directly involved. They are not the most important concerns for the American people. Instead, the American people need to know about the collusion, between the DA’s office (and at its highest levels!) and the White House, to: • Interfere in the Presidential Election of 2024, • Infringe upon the privileges and immunities of a citizen of the United States, and • Deprive said citizen of liberty and property, if not of life, without due process of law. The Canadian Anti-free-speech Juggernaut And while this is happening, something else is happening Up North that The Gateway Pundit isn’t even covering. Canada is considering a new bill – C-63, the Online Harms Act – that violates every concept of freedom of speech. Life imprisonment and $70,000 (Canadian) fines for defending the State of Israel in the Fourth Arab-Israeli War! (They say those penalties would apply to the advocacy of genocide – but who decides that? The ideological allies of Justin Trudeau’s government have made the direct analogy, and repeatedly.) Canadian Justice Minister Arif Virani (a Muslim himself!) introduced this bill and couched it in grand terms. The Bill would create stronger online protection for children and better safeguard everyone in Canada from online hate and other types of harmful content. The Bill sets out a new vision for safer and more inclusive online participation. It would hold online platforms, including livestreaming and adult content services, accountable for the design choices made that lead to the dissemination and amplification of harmful content on their platforms and ensure that platforms are employing mitigation strategies that reduce a user’s exposure to harmful content. For too long, we have tolerated a system where online platforms have offloaded their responsibilities onto parents, expecting them to protect their kids from harms that platforms create or amplify. Parents should run, not walk, from any such protection. Sixty years ago, adults used to tell children not to play with the telephone. Now parents irresponsibly let their children engage with social media and with users they know nothing about. No one can relieve parents of their responsibilities – which this bill seeks to do. And “hate speech”? “Hate speech” is any speech with which the government disagrees. Some of the harms the Canadian government mentions are legitimate – but the law already provides for their investigation and punishment. For the rest, the best defense is practical philosophical education, including not caring what other people say about you. Instead the Canadian government entices people to support this draconian legislation with an offer to protect sensitive feelings. Which gives “conspiracy theorists” better reason to suppose, and assert, that government is a protection racket. Again, who cares about Fani Willis? All these things should be the objects of concern for the American people. Instead, we get Fani Willis, and her transformation from legal avenger to legal ecdysiast. And while she plays her part in the legal strip show that is her disqualification hearing: • Real street crime goes unpunished in Atlanta, just as it does in New York City and for the same reasons, • The White House has installed an operative as the real Fulton County District Attorney, though he holds a lesser title, • He and the White House collude in election interference, infringement on citizen privileges and immunities, and denial of due process and equal protection of the laws, and: • The Canadian Minister of Justice shows equally ideologically corrupt Attorney General Merrick Garland How It Is Done. So when: • The FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team batters down your door because you “gave gas” to “the Palestinians,” • A federal judge sentences you to life imprisonment for that offense, and • Chief Justice Tanya Chutkan presides over a Supreme Court conference that denies review of your case, ask yourself why you watched Fani Willis perform – i.e., testify – for your mindless entertainment, instead of concentrating on the real scandal – and threat. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/02/28/foundation/constitution/fani-willis-legal-ecdysiast/ Cullen Linebarger’s article identifying Deputy DA Jeff DeSantis: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/meet-experienced-democrat-operative-biden-regime-placed-fani/ Four posts about the Fani Willis affair: https://twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1761839220845649942 https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1761092265274159525 https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1762563382245196109 https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1762562871412617488 Press release about the Online Harms Act: https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/news/2024/02/government-of-canada-introduces-legislation-to-combat-harmful-content-online-including-the-sexual-exploitation-of-children.html Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

New York civil fraud case – appeal By Terry A. Hurlbut Yesterday attorneys for Donald J. Trump filed notice of appeal in New York following the massive civil fine in a case alleging “repeated fraudulent or illegal acts” but neither victim nor loss. This is part of “exhaustion of remedies,” which requires an aggrieved party to petition for redress at every possible opportunity. The Appellate Division of the New York State “Supreme” Court is the next step. It is also a test of the integrity of New York’s courts – and elements of the real-estate and trucking industry are watching very closely. How the New York fraud case came to this pass Manhattan Judge Arthur Engoron tried the case without a jury, under Executive Law Section 63(12). In his 92-page ruling, the judge set forth his reasoning: In mid-twentieth century New York, to judge by contemporary press reports and judicial opinions, fraudsters were having a field day. Along came Executive Law § 63(12), which began life as Laws of 1956, Chapter 592, “An act to amend the executive law, in relation to cancellation of registration of doing business under an assumed name or as partners for repeated fraudulent or illegal acts.” Jacob Javits, then the Attorney General of the State of New York (the position that Attorney General James now occupies), pushed for the bill, as did the Better Business Bureau of New York City. See Senate Bill Jacket, February 21, 1956. State Comptroller Arthur Levitt asked, “Why not grant the Attorney General authority to enjoin anyone from continuing in a business activity if such person has been guilty of frequent fraudulent dealings.” The preponderance of the evidence standard, the one used in almost all civil cases would apply. Comptroller Levitt noted: “In a suit for an injunction, there is no need to prove the charge beyond a reasonable doubt, as in a criminal case—a mere preponderance of evidence would be sufficient.” Id. In the subsequent six decades, the State has toughened the statute. In Laws of 1965, Chapter 666, the definitions of the words “fraud” and “fraudulent” were expanded to include “any device, scheme or artifice to defraud and any deception, misrepresentation, concealment, false pretence [sic], false promise or unconscionable contractual provisions.” The statute casts a wide net. The judge then quoted the law: Whenever any person shall engage in repeated fraudulent or illegal acts or otherwise demonstrate persistent fraud or illegality in the carrying on, conducting or transaction of business, the attorney general may apply … for an order enjoining the continuance of such business activity or of any fraudulent or illegal acts, directing restitution and damages and, in an appropriate case, cancelling any certificate filed under and by virtue of the provisions of section four hundred forty of the former penal law or section one hundred thirty of the general business law, and the court may award the relief applied for or so much thereof as it may deem proper. The word “fraud” or “fraudulent” as used herein shall include any device, scheme or artifice to defraud and any deception, misrepresentation, concealment, suppression, false pretense, false promise or unconscionable contractual provisions. The term “persistent fraud” or “illegality” as used herein shall include continuance or carrying on of any fraudulent or illegal act or conduct. The term “repeated” as used herein shall include repetition of any separate and distinct fraudulent or illegal act, or conduct which affects more than one person. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, all monies recovered or obtained under this subdivision by a state agency or state official or employee acting in their official capacity shall be subject to subdivision eleven of section four of the state finance law. The key phrases are “fraudulent or illegal acts” and “may award the relief applied for or so much thereof as it may deem proper.” That forms the basis of the fines. How Attorney General Letitia “Tish” James arrived at a figure of $370 million in damages, no one can guess. Judge Engoron awarded $355 million in disgorgement of ill-gotten gain – plus mandatory interest starting at nine percent. The full amount now amounts to $454 million, plus another $112,000 per day until final payment. On Friday (February 23), the court formally filed its ruling with the Clerk of the New York courts. That cleared the way for a Notice of Appeal, which Trump’s lawyers filed yesterday. The full Notice contains the full text of Judge Engoron’s ruling, plus an Informational Statement specifying the following issues: Whether Supreme Court committed errors of law and/or fact, abused its discretion, and/or acted in excess of its jurisdiction,… The Issues statement continues with a restatement of the full effects of the rulings. Note that New York uses the phrase Supreme Court for what other States call Superior Court. The real Supreme Court equivalent in New York has the name Court of Appeals. If Trump does not succeed in the Appellate Division, the Court of Appeals is his next step. After that, he must petition the United States Supreme Court for review. Likelihood of success The Trump team did not specify, in its Notice, whether they had secured an appeal bond for the full amount of the “disgorgement” judgment. Trump has thirty days to post that. Obtaining a bond might be impossible under the terms of the judgment. However, Stephen Turley, Ph.D., noted that Trump will shortly realize up to $9 billion from an Initial Public Offering of his Truth Social platform. He has previously testified that he had $400 million in cash on hand as it is. (Trump’s lawyers applied to Judge Engoron for a stay of his ruling; he has refused.) In this interview on Fox News, legal expert Sol Weisenberg suggested Trump’s team has a very strong Constitutional case “if they preserved the issues at trial.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dmej1M_EXo NewsMax reported Trump’s “lawyers had been laying the groundwork for months by objecting frequently to Engoron’s handling of the trial.” That is how one prepares for an appeal: • File objection after objection, • Expect a judge to overrule each objection, and then • Announce with the word exception that they are stating for the record that they will cite that ruling on appeal. Some of the grounds for appeal include: • Ignoring the statute of limitations on some of the acts alleged, and • Declaring “fraudulent and illegal” elements of normal business practice to which no party objected at the time. Constitutional questions CNAV has noted before the many Constitutional questions this case raises. They include: • Two bill of attainder and ex post facto law clauses (Article I Sections 9 and 10), • The Contracts Clause (from Article I Section 10 Clause 1), • Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, and: • The Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment. At least one other influencer has cited the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment: Private property shall [not] be taken for public use, without just compensation. CNAV places little confidence in this clause, because this was never an eminent domain case. Dr. Stephen Turley frankly doubts that the U.S. Supreme Court will intervene. Their concern for federalism, he said, might extend to telling Trump that he: • Took a calculated risk by doing business in New York, and must therefore: • Suffer the consequences of dealing with a court system that now has decided to destroy its real-estate markets by declaring normal business practices illegal. Dr. Turley did not address the bill of attainder or ex post facto angle. Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) laid her State open to that very possibility, however, by telling other developers not to worry. I think that this is really an extraordinary unusual circumstance that the law-abiding and rule-following New Yorkers who are business people have nothing to worry about because they’re very different than Donald Trump and his behavior. The Governor’s problem is that these other “law-abiding and rule-following … business people” are not different from Donald Trump. They differ only in the size of their portfolios (smaller than his), and their public and political profiles (considerably lower). How New York really stepped in it – and a Supreme irony Jonathan Turley (no relation) seemed to touch on the bill-of-attainder angle in his outraged opinion on the case. But he also told those other businesses to worry – greatly – and get out and stay out of New York. Then he suggested one ground the U.S. Supreme Court might have to intervene. Randy DeSoto at The Western Journal suggested much the same. Ironically, the key case for DeSoto is a 9-0 case with Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s name on it. The case is Timbs v. Indiana, 586 U.S. ___ (2019). Justice Ginsburg’s opinion (in which all the other Justices except Justice Thomas joined) sets out the material facts: Tyson Timbs pleaded guilty in Indiana state court to dealing in a controlled substance and conspiracy to commit theft. The trial court sentenced him to one year of home detention and five years of probation, which included a court-supervised addiction-treatment program. The sentence also required Timbs to pay fees and costs totaling $1,203. At the time of Timbs’s arrest, the police seized his vehicle, a Land Rover SUV Timbs had purchased for about $42,000. Timbs paid for the vehicle with money he received from an insurance policy when his father died. The State engaged a private law firm to bring a civil suit for forfeiture of Timbs’s Land Rover, charging that the vehicle had been used to transport heroin. After Timbs’s guilty plea in the criminal case, the trial court held a hearing on the forfeiture demand. Although finding that Timbs’s vehicle had been used to facilitate violation of a criminal statute, the court denied the requested forfeiture, observing that Timbs had recently purchased the vehicle for $42,000, more than four times the maximum $10,000 monetary fine assessable against him for his drug conviction. Forfeiture of the Land Rover, the court determined, would be grossly disproportionate to the gravity of Timbs’s offense, hence unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause. The Court of Appeals of Indiana affirmed that determination, but the Indiana Supreme Court reversed. 84 N. E. 3d 1179 (2017). The Indiana Supreme Court did not decide whether the forfeiture would be excessive. Instead, it held that the Excessive Fines Clause constrains only federal action and is inapplicable to state impositions. To which Justice Ginsburg said: wrong! The Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause is an incorporated protection applicable to the States under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause. Justice Gorsuch, in his concurrence, held that the Privileges and Immunities Clause might also apply. Justice Thomas said the same, and even said the Due Process Clause was not the operative clause. But that’s a moot point. The larger point is that: • This is an excessive fine, and • The Fourteenth Amendment forbids a State to impose that which the federal government may not impose. Furthermore, the Court has set a precedent of intervening against any State court that imposes, or upholds, an excessive fine. That was the unanimous opinion of the Court. Mark Levin mentioned Eighth Amendment jurisprudence nearly a week ago: https://twitter.com/marklevinshow/status/1760316303213011268 How likely the Court would apply their reasoning to New York Of the Court members who signed on to the opinion, Breyer has retired, and Ginsburg has passed away. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who replaced Ginsburg, is not likely to overrule her judgment in this case. And Ketanji Brown Jackson has occasionally found against the government in cases involving material forfeiture or something like it. See, for example, Sackett et ux. v. EPA. But this case differs from Timbs in one particular. In Timbs, the Court merely had to judge whether the Indiana Supreme Court properly applied the Constitution. The U.S. Supreme Court decided that they had not. But when this case reaches the Supreme Court, Trump’s legal team might find themselves asking the Court to pass judgment on the fine itself. Actually, the Court has a history of passing direct judgment on excessive fines. In 1996, the Court blocked a $2 million punitive-damages award in a case with only $4000 in actual damages. BMW of North America v. Gore, 517 U.S. 559 (1996). In this case, the damages are zero. Indeed the only thing at issue is disgorgement of gains that might – or might not – be ill-gotten. Furthermore, the Court almost certainly will look at its decision in Department of Homeland Security v. Texas and ask what kind of social upheaval it wants to risk. If Trump gets no relief, his fellow developers will worry, and will not accept Gov. Hochul’s assurances. The result will be the worst social disaster any State has faced since the War Between the States. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/02/27/foundation/constitution/new-york-civil-fraud-case-appeal/ The Notice of Appeal: https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=v_PLUS_hx9UEfkTWVRUsAQUHqFQ== Video: Sol Weisenberg interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dmej1M_EXo Tibbs v. Indiana slip opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf/17-1091_5536.pdf Mark Levin mentioning the Eighth Amendment: https://twitter.com/marklevinshow/status/1760316303213011268 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

The Trump Effect – politics, media, and elections By Terry A. Hurlbut Donald Trump won a resounding victory in South Carolina – apparently with twice as many votes as any Presidential candidate has ever received in a South Carolina primary. Today Ronna McDaniel, current head of the Republican National Committee, made official what insiders had hinted at: her resignation. In addition, election officials – from registrars to the lowliest Officers of Election in precincts – have almost completely changed out. The Trump Effect, which many have hinted at without understanding, is manifesting itself in each of these changes. Trump Effect 1: political currents Donald Trump won in South Carolina with 451,905 votes. Minutes after polls closed, Trump, in his victory speech, announced that he had received twice as many as had any Presidential primary candidate in that State – from either Party. https://twitter.com/MAGAIncWarRoom/status/1761544053269692574 At 8:05 p.m. EST, CNN held a panel discussion, with some of the usual suspects. https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1761558078984519963 Christina Laila, yesterday at 12:40 p.m., gave a partial roster: pundit Jonah Goldberg, former Obama White House official David Axelrod, and Alyssa Farrah Griffin, former Trump White House Communications Director. Ms. Laila made much of some panelist, whose name she must not have caught, shouting, “It doesn’t make sense!” That happened after Ms. Griffin noted that Trump had mounted “the greatest political comeback in history.” With all due respect, that misses the point. The point was that the panel, after nearly fifteen minutes of discussion, seemed to conclude three things. Changing demographics favoring Trump more than ever First, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) is auditioning for the Vice-Presidential running mate spot, and seems to have sound political reasons. Those reasons are the simplest: South Carolina voters demand, in no uncertain terms, bringing Trump back. David Axelrod did speak of Scott “subjugating” himself by sharing the stage with Trump. But others pointed out that everyone on that stage, wanted to be there. (Though Sen. Lindsay Graham, the senior Senator from South Carolina, might regret that choice. Trump’s audience cried “Boo” on Graham – but no on Scott.) Second, South Carolina might or might not be the same State that elected Amb. Nikki Haley as its governor – twice. It has benefited from “explosive growth” of domestic migrants from both “red” and “blue” States – but has drawn Republicans from “blue” States. That panel did not mention that perhaps those Republicans from “blue” States have grown weary of their urban neighbors: • Consistently outvoting them (perhaps by using manual vote-count adjustments) for State-wide offices, • Taxing them to near-bankruptcy to support those who produce nothing but Democrat votes, and • Forcing “urban sophisticate” values, including Alphabet Soup-friendly policies, upon them. What is Nikki Haley doing, and why? Finally: Ambassador Haley is not in this race to win the nomination. She is in it to build the Never-Trump faction within the Republican Party and take its lead. When, as she and those panelists suppose, Trump loses the general election, she will triumphantly say, “I told you so!” Still, about half the panel could not ignore the humiliation of her becoming “Not the Favorite Daughter” of South Carolina. At the time, they doubted she would even win in “moderate” District One, which includes Charleston and Beaufort Counties. (They needn’t have worried about that. Amb. Haley carried both those counties, and picked up the three delegates from District One.) The Trump Effect accounts for all those votes Trump got – for though he lost Charleston, Beaufort and Richland Counties, he carried all the rest. (Richland County includes the city of Columbia – Jim Clyburn’s home. That county might have had some crossovers, but not many.) But the Trump Effect also explains the migration. South Carolina instituted Trump-like policies, and attracted conservative migrants. The panel also noted that South Carolina is a “military State,” by reason of all the bases in it. Yet Amb. Haley still lost in it, though the panel regarded Trump’s policies as not military-friendly. Of course, they, too, missed the point. Trump is not anti-military – he is anti-war. That might offend a few general and flag officers who itch to go to war to prove their mettle. But to everyone lower down, and their families, that’s a relief. Trump Effect 2: Ronna McDaniel finally leaves Ronna McDaniel, rumored to be on her way out at the beginning of this month, made it official this morning. She made a full statement to The New York Times: Some of my proudest accomplishments include firing Nancy Pelosi, winning the popular vote in 2022, creating an Election Integrity Department, building the committee’s first small-dollar grassroots donor program, strengthening our state parties through our Growing Republican Organizations to Win program, expanding the Party through minority outreach at our community centers, and launching Bank Your Vote to get Republicans to commit to voting early. I have decided to step aside at our spring training on March 8 in Houston to allow our nominee to select a chair of their choosing. The R.N.C. has historically undergone change once we have a nominee, and it has always been my intention to honor that tradition. I remain committed to winning back the White House and electing Republicans up and down the ballot in November. The process for electing a new chair and co-chair now begins. It will come to a head at the next plenary session of the Committee – the March 8 “spring training” session. Trump has backed Michael Whatley, former North Carolina Republican chair, as RNC Chair, and his daughter Lara as Co-Chair. Assuming Mr. Whatley is a good choice (some have disputed this), this represents another Trump Effect. Trump is taking over the Republican Party and making it his own. His “faction,” therefore, will dominate, no matter what Amb. Haley does. (Furthermore, Byron York and others have pointed out that the rank-and-file won’t stand for her replacing Trump in the event of some “trumped-up” disqualification. That’s another Trump Effect – convictions in courts of law are meaningless, because people have lost respect for the courts.) Trump Effect 3: election personnel turnover Sharika Soal, also at The Gateway Pundit, noted the third part of the Trump Effect, though she did not call it that. City and county election officials – from Registrars of Voters to the lowliest Officer of Election who greets voters at the precinct door – have been resigning since at least 2022. Deanna Spikula, Washoe County (Georgia) Registrar, resigned in that year. Her intended replacement, Jamie Rodriguez, quit within weeks after receiving envelopes impregnated with fentanyl. And according to USA Today, every one of 18 employees in the Washow County Registrar’s Office, who were working in that office for the Election of 2020, has quit. Another USA Today report alleges some of the reasons so many election officials are quitting: A similar pattern is playing out nationally, with tens of thousands of longtime elections workers harassed out of their jobs by a small cadre of self-appointed voting experts and critics who have hounded clerks to switch to paper ballots, demanded hand-counted results, and insisted they be allowed to participate in ways that are normally barred specifically because they can introduce errors. “It’s not that turnover is something new,” said Tammy Patrick, CEO for programs at the National Association of Election Officials. “What’s new is the scope of it, the depth of it, the scale of it. Those who have left the field, it’s understandable. A person can only take so much.” The unprecedented turnover means elections today are being run by less-experienced workers at every level. One nonpartisan group concluded departing elections officials took with them a collective 1,800 years of experience from a system that until 2020 was widely considered the international gold standard. Considered by whom? USA Today didn’t say. And “harassment” could mean merely taking part as a Party challenger, or “poll watcher.” https://twitter.com/KatieDaviscourt/status/1761121344576749983 (Washington State is working on a bill to make harassment of poll workers, meaning sworn election officials, a felony. But the solons did not see fit to extend any such protection to poll watchers or to petition signature gatherers.) Elections haven’t been secure since they moved away from paper CNAV does not and can never condone sending literal poison mailpieces, or making malicious, threatening, or abusive telephone calls or social-media posts. But to address the snidery from USA Today: one does not have to be an expert to know that elections haven’t been secure in these United States since the first Print-O-Matic voting machines came on-line. From the beginning these violated Constitutional provisions, in Virginia and elsewhere, that vote counting must take place in the open. The intricate gears of the Print-O-Matic machine constituted a secret count, because no one observed how the gears turned. Their replacement with electronic voting machines – first by the discredited Diebold company (a maker of Automatic Teller Machines) and then by vendors like Election Systems Software and the notorious Dominion Voting Services has made the matter worse. (The French know this! That’s why they got rid of the machines in 1975.) These vendors are the number-one and number-two vendors of electronic voting machines nationwide. Both have had problems. An ES&S ExpressVote Ballot Marking Device (BMD) switched votes between judicial candidates in a November off-year election in Pennsylvania. And in a famous Georgia elections case, J. Alex Halderman, Professor of Computer Science, demonstrated in open court how ridiculously easily one could “hack” a Dominion BMD. Demand return to paper ballots! Even before those two cases, Trump voters started demanding a return to paper ballots. This, of course, is an obvious Trump Effect. Spalding County (Georgia) has already taken the first step in that direction. Activists in South Central Virginia have been agitating for paper ballots ever since the Election of 2020. To them, a machine is a machine is a machine, no matter who makes or programs it. Virginia has paper ballots, but those go through a scanner, which actually produces the official results. One activist urged voters to do the following: • Check in and request a ballot as usual, • Mark it – and then elaborately fold it and mutilate it so that it would never scan, and then • Hand it to the Chief OOE and demand that this ballot go for hand counting and not through any scanner. Thus far no mass movement of voters has emerged to follow that advice. But that activist has also filed in pro se lawsuits, alleging that a scanner count is an unconstitutional secret count. He points out that no law currently mandates any kind of machine count. Big Trump Effect – the people are starting to care Everyone who cares to know has known about the inherent weaknesses of machine counts ever since the first Print-O-Matics deployed. The Trump Effect manifests itself this way: for the first time, people are questioning the motives of those deploying voting machines. They watched elections of Presidential Electors in at least seven key States violate the Law of Averages in their outcomes. Then they watched as the Chief Justice of the United States harangued his colleagues, virtually to forbid them to take the one case (Texas v. Pennsylvania) that could have set that right. Then in 2021 – the first off-year election after 2020 – the Glenn Youngkin team implemented a Precinct Strategy. They recruited poll watchers and poll workers for that election. Glenn Youngkin won it – largely because his opponent brazenly told parents their parenting rights stopped at the school perimeter. Thereafter, as old OOEs retired – for whatever reason – new Trump Effect OOEs took their places. They awakened a sleeping giant That USA Today actually laments this replacement, stands as further evidence of the perfidy of the legacy media. At this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Steve Bannon, of “War Room” fame, took note. https://rumble.com/v4filqi-steve-bannon-speaks-live-from-cpac.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 “You know Trump won!” he said. As evidence, Bannon cited that The New York Times and The Washington Post are not standing by Joe Biden. They would stand by him, he implied, if they considered him legitimately elected, in their hearts-of-hearts. (The Washington Post is facing bankruptcy.) Thus the Trump Effect makes itself plain, not only in elections but also in the Party and the workings of election offices – and the legacy media. Some might not see the changes immediately – but the legacy media certainly does. Then again, perhaps Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto could have told them. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/02/26/foundation/constitution/trump-effect-politics-media-elections/ Post: Trump got twice as many votes… https://twitter.com/MAGAIncWarRoom/status/1761544053269692574 Post: CNN panel https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1761558078984519963 Post: Washington State OOE protection bill: https://twitter.com/KatieDaviscourt/status/1761121344576749983 Video: Steve Bannon https://rumble.com/v4filqi-steve-bannon-speaks-live-from-cpac.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Trump wins South Carolina By Terry A. Hurlbut President Donald J. Trump, to no one’s surprise, won the South Carolina Republican Primary yesterday. At the same time, his remaining competitor, Amb. Nikki Haley, admitted that she wishes only “to continue to be competitive.” How competitive she can call herself after yesterday’s performance, is an open question. Trump gets many early calls Promptly at 7:00 p.m., as polls closed, the Associated Press called the primary for President Trump. https://twitter.com/AP_Politics/status/1761541805969985827 One minute later, Interactive Polls reported that Decision Desk had also called the race for Trump. https://twitter.com/IAPolls2022/status/1761541887796605327 Five minutes after close of polls, NewsMax made its call: https://twitter.com/NEWSMAX/status/1761542804583678156 At the same time, Fox News’ Bret Baier suggested that Trump could win all 50 delegates at stake. https://twitter.com/BretBaier/status/1761543000004391181 As noted yesterday, South Carolina will send 50 delegates to the Republican National Convention. The Party was to award 29 of those delegates state-wide, and 3 delegates in each of the State’s congressional districts. The Associated Press suggested that the former President aligns well with South Carolina Republicans on these three positions: • The Russia-Ukraine War is not Americans’ fight, and America should not involve herself in any way, shape or form. • Immigration, especially illegal immigration (and at such high levels), hurts the country. • The various civil and criminal cases against the former President arise from political motives, not any impartial pursuit of justice. Moreover, more Trump supporters take an increasingly jaundiced view of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). (Not to mention the United Nations!) Dividing the vote Decision Desk was reporting, at 8:00 p.m., with 21% of precincts reporting State-wide, that Trump had 57.3% of the vote. Haley had 42.1%, with dropped-out candidates Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, and Vivek Ramaswamy dividing the rest among them. At 4:06 p.m. today, with nearly all precincts reporting, the final tally is: Candidate Votes Percent Donald J. Trump 451,905 59.8% Nikki Haley 298,674 39.5% Ron DeSantis 2,951 0.4% Vivek Ramaswamy 726 0.1% Chris Christie 657 0.1% Ryan Binkley 527 0.1% David Stuckenberg 360 0.0% The South Carolina Republican Party awarded 47 delegates to President Trump and 3 to Ambassador Haley. Presumably Haley won these in District One – Nancy Mace’s district. Haley carried only Beaufort, Charleston and Richland Counties; Trump carried all the rest. (Charleston and Beaufort Counties lie mostly in District One.) Currently Trump has 110 delegates, Haley, 20, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), 9, and Vivek Ramaswamy, 3. A candidate will need 1,215 delegates to win the nomination. Trump welcomes his latest victory Trump gave his victory speech soon after the early calls came in. https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1761548106909331717 https://twitter.com/michaelgwaltz/status/1761543778005897683 NewsMax reported that the pressure on Nikki Haley to get out of the race was mounting while the early calls were sounding. Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) suggested it was time for Haley to go. I think the sooner she does, the better for her, the better for the party. In fact, only one Republican since 1980 has lost the nomination after winning in South Carolina: Newt Gingrich in 2012. Another account reminded everyone that Nikki Haley had hoped to get 43% of the vote. https://twitter.com/MAGAIncWarRoom/status/1761567503694631096 Recall that with 21% of precincts reporting, she didn’t have that proportion. In the final talley, she didn’t even have 40%. Nikki Haley, obviously smarting from the repudiation this loss represents, continued her defiant posture. https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1761572239340618053 That crack about “Soviet-style elections” didn’t go over very well, as anyone can well imagine. But the “Team Trump” account staff didn’t seem to care. Within one minute they shared their answer: https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1761572503325983218 Apart from this contretemps, congratulations rolled in in short order, starting with Attorney General Kenneth Paxton (R-Texas). https://twitter.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/1761544466345726166 And Gov. Henry McMaster (R-S.C.). https://twitter.com/baldwin_daniel_/status/1761569388958789883 Analysis The next delegate-awarding contest on the schedule is the Michigan Primary, at which the Republicans will award 16 delegates. But Michigan Republicans will award 39 more delegates in caucus this Saturday (March 2). Republicans will also hold caucuses in Idaho and Missouri that day, then a closed primary in Washington, D.C. on Sunday (March 3), and caucuses in North Dakota on Monday. Next after that is Super Tuesday, with: • Dual primaries in thirteen States (Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont and Virginia), • The Alaska Republican Caucus (the Democrats will hold a primary in April), • A dual primary in American Samoa, • The Democratic Iowa Caucuses, which they will conduct by mail only, and • A Democratic Primary and Republican Caucus in Utah. The earliest that Trump could clinch the nomination is March 12, with four Republican contests. To do that he would have to take the lion’s share of all delegates at stake that day and before. By now, the only purpose Nikki Haley is serving is to earn a distant second number of delegates. Winning the nomination is becoming a longer shot with every contest. But activist Lauren Witzke made a darker suggestion early this morning: https://twitter.com/LaurenWitzkeDE/status/1761617957757579541 What does Nikki Haley know, and when did she learn it? Stay tuned. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/02/25/foundation/constitution/trump-wins-south-carolina/ The early calls: https://twitter.com/AP_Politics/status/1761541805969985827 https://twitter.com/IAPolls2022/status/1761541887796605327 https://twitter.com/NEWSMAX/status/1761542804583678156 https://twitter.com/BretBaier/status/1761543000004391181 Trump victory speech: https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1761548106909331717 https://twitter.com/michaelgwaltz/status/1761543778005897683 Reminder that Nikki Haley sought 43 percent of the vote: https://twitter.com/MAGAIncWarRoom/status/1761567503694631096 Nikki Haley’s post: “Soviet-style election.” https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1761572239340618053 Team Trump shares likely proportions in contests to be held: https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1761572503325983218 Congratulations: https://twitter.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/1761544466345726166 https://twitter.com/baldwin_daniel_/status/1761569388958789883 Remaining primary, convention and caucus schedule: https://www.uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2024-primary-schedule/ Lauren Witzke’s question: https://twitter.com/LaurenWitzkeDE/status/1761617957757579541 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

South Carolina battle is on By Terry A. Hurlbut The South Carolina Republican Primary began today at 7:00 a.m. At this point the race has two participants: Donald J. Trump and Nikki Haley, once the State’s Governor. Any other candidate in Nikki Haley’s position would consider this a do-or-die contest. Candidates who lose primaries in their home States generally do not win nominations or general elections. (Donald Trump’s home is in Florida, not New York.) But Nikki Haley is a special case, because her money – Democrat money – is not likely to dry up. Nevertheless, everyone expects Donald Trump to win today, possibly (though not necessarily) with all the delegates. As for Haley, the real do-or-die date might be March 5 – Super Tuesday. South Carolina primary rules According to this schedule, the South Carolina Republican Primary is the fifth Republican delegate-awarding contest, after the: • Iowa caucuses, • New Hampshire primary, • Nevada Republican Caucuses, and • U.S. Virgin Islands Republican Caucus. Donald Trump has won each of these four. His victory in New Hampshire was especially significant because it was an open contest. Most New Hampshire primary voters turned out to be Democrats, and Trump still won. South Carolina has already held its Democratic Primary – on February 3. Biden won that handily. An independent gadfly asserts – with scant supporting evidence – that “Democratic leaders” instructed their voters to vote in the Democratic Primary to give a big boost to Joe Biden. Any Democrat who cast such a vote, may not vote in the Republican primary today, as Laura Loomer noted: https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1761340948175311144 Nevertheless, she and others (like Rep. Nancy Mace of Charleston) fear Democratic crossovers voting for Haley. https://twitter.com/NancyMace/status/1761408508543566236 Another user embedded video of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) actually calling Haley “one of our better surrogates.” https://twitter.com/The_Nomad_News/status/1761371487825801446 South Carolina received fifty delegates, and will award twenty-nine of them State-wide – all twenty-nine to the winner. In addition, each of the State’s seven Congressional districts will award three delegates to the winner in the district. South Carolina currently sends only one Democrat to Congress: Rep. Jim Clyburn of Columbia. The most significant crossover, if any, should come from that district – unless Independent Greg Orman is correct and those Democrats have voted already, thus barring themselves from voting today. Polls in South Carolina and elsewhere Trump holds commanding – indeed landslide – leads in ten polls conducted this month. These leads vary from 58% to 65%. Moreover, in some polls, double-digit proportions of the samples said they would vote for “others.” Comparisons are available of current and prior polls by Emerson College, the Trafalgar Group, Winthrop University, and Monmouth University/Washington Post. In each case, Trump has increased his proportion of support. (In the Monmouth case, he went from plurality to majority support.) The Center Square reports Trump leading Haley 62% to 37% in South Carolina, per the Real Clear Politics Average. Haley, trying to turn that around, makes much of a Marquette University poll showing both candidates beating Joe Biden in November, but Haley doing so with more comfortable margins. But that’s a sea change from when she was asserting that Biden would beat Trump, but she would beat Biden. Yesterday at about noon, Haley’s campaign team confirmed to Bloomberg that they were buying national ads, ahead of Super Tuesday. She already spent eight figures in South Carolina, compared to Trump’s six. That, obviously, hasn’t helped. Trump made the point at a rally in Rocky Hill, South Carolina, yesterday. https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1761145717647638803 In this Truth, Trump flatly disputed the notion that Nikki Haley could beat Joe Biden. According to this, even the Rasmussen Report shows Haley losing to Biden. https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/111987567141838959 Questionable donations Byron York, two days ago, summarized the frankly obstinate thinking in the Haley camp. She doesn’t even speak of winning in South Carolina, or even any Super Tuesday contest. But if she doesn’t win somewhere, and soon, everyone will perceive her campaign as hopeless. But perhaps she hopes to inherit the nomination if by some dark chant Trump cannot accept the nomination. York notes, correctly, that the Republican rank-and-file would never stand for that. They’ll blame Democrats, of course – but also blame her. Still, she’s already booked venues for rallies in Michigan, Minnesota and Colorado. Rallies like these cost money. So where is the money coming from? Jim Hoft at The Gateway Pundit notes that it’s been coming from Democrats for a long time. In 2022 Nikki received a $1 million donation from Vivek and Lakshmi Garipalli, members of a New Jersey family that has donated large sums to Democrats. Then in December 2023 it was revealed that billionaire Reid Hoffman, a mega-donor to Joe Biden and the Democrat Party, is throwing his support behind former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley in her bid for the presidency. But those aren’t the most scandalous sources. The most scandalous source to date is Michael Morrell, former Acting Director of Central Intelligence in the Obama administration. RenewedRight cites “federal campaign finance records” reporting a $1000 donation by him to the Haley campaign in November. Morrell has a nasty reputation. He organized the Gang of Fifty-one who wrote the letter saying the Hunter Biden Laptop was a Russian plant. With testimonials like that, who needs blackballs? The drama continues Unrepentant and defiant, Nikki Haley returned to her theme that Trump had too many legal troubles: https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1761130810936316110 That last part refers to the repeated speculation that the Democrats will push Joe Biden aside. Never mind that polling shows that, among Democrats, the senile dotard polls higher than the drug-addled, or simply raving, maniac. The X influencer Catturd, quoting the above, gave this warning: https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1761153756362658014 That could be truer than the influencer knows – because Haley clearly takes a tone consistent with assumption of guilt. In reply, one other user noted the same thing Byron York noted: that the Republicans would never accept her as a replacement for Trump. https://twitter.com/Kathlee77649005/status/1761392092704641242 Someone else pointed to her participation in the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders program. https://twitter.com/johnthe92611772/status/1761153942833045759 South Carolina closes its polls in two hours, and after that, the counting – and the projections – begin. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/02/24/foundation/constitution/south-carolina-battle/ Full 2024 Presidential primary, convention and caucus schedule: https://www.uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2024-primary-schedule/ X posts endorsing Donald Trump: https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1761340948175311144 https://twitter.com/NancyMace/status/1761408508543566236 Nomad News post of Newsom calling Haley a Democrat surrogate: https://twitter.com/The_Nomad_News/status/1761371487825801446 Page showing rules and polls in South Carolina: https://www.270towin.com/2024-republican-nomination/south-carolina-primary The Marquette University poll: https://www.marquette.edu/news-center/2024/marquette-law-poll-finds-trump-at-51-biden-49.php Post embedding video of Trump rally in Rocky Hill: https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1761145717647638803 Trump “Truth” disputing whether Nikki Haley can win against Biden: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/111987567141838959 Nikki Haley on Trump’s legal troubles: https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1761130810936316110 “Catturd” retort: https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1761153756362658014 Two replies: https://twitter.com/Kathlee77649005/status/1761392092704641242 https://twitter.com/johnthe92611772/status/1761153942833045759 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Tulsi Gabbard for Vice-President? By Terry A. Hurlbut Recently, Laura Ingraham challenged Donald Trump with a “short list” of persons having Vice-Presidential rumors swirling about them. Among the six names on that list, that of former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) stood out. Of course that name stood out by reason of the “D” that followed her name. Tulsi Gabbard has broken permanently with the Democratic Party, finding that they’ve abandoned the values that drew her to them. But as Trump considers selecting her, he must ponder – then question her closely on – some apparent shifts in her positions. Some of those shifts are so frequent that CNAV must disqualify her for that reason alone. Tulsi Gabbard and her current prospects Newsweek shared the full list of Vice-President contenders Laura Ingraham mentioned. The other five are: • Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) • Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy • Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) • Gov. Kristi Noem (R-S.D.) • Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) Gov. DeSantis’ State citizenship is the same as Trump’s, so the Florida delegation would have to vote for someone else. Vivek Ramaswamy is not a natural born citizen within the meaning of Vattel’s Law of Nations. (Neither, incidentally, is Nikki Haley.) Sen. Scott didn’t impress many people while he was running for President. Rep. Daniels is a relative unknown. Interestingly, Gov. Noem yesterday specified five qualifications upon which Trump should insist in picking a Vice-Presidential running mate. https://twitter.com/IanTFury/status/1760677451213193595 Noem herself meets her third qualification. She quit college to take over the family farm after her father died in an accident on the farm. During that time she added a hunting lodge and a restaurant to the property. “Having been a Commander in Chief” sounds like a qualification only former Presidents could meet. But perhaps she means having been a State governor and made significant National Guard deployment decisions. As she has done, recently sending South Dakota National Guardsmen to Texas to help defend the Northern Rio Grande Valley. Tulsi Gabbard has been a military officer, so she knows what war is. But her other Noem Qualifications are week to lacking. She’s currently a long shot on that list, while Kristi Noem is the current favorite. History of Tulsi Gabbard Gabbard seems to be trying to ingratiate herself with Trump. The Hill reports that she will headline a fundraiser, at Mar-A-Lago, for the 917 Society. That group, dedicated to educating American schoolchildren about the Constitution, takes its name from its proposal date: September 17, 1787. Nevertheless, Tulsi Gabbard has a mixed record, and Trump should consider how she got mixed up with the Democratic Party to begin with. She began with a deep environmental consciousness. Growing up in Hawaii, with its contrast between natural beauty and rapid development, led her into politics. The Democratic Party attracted her then because they opposed the Vietnam War, while the Republican Party supported it. She also accused the Republican Establishment of that day of supporting “big business” in exploitation of labor and consumer alike. And no doubt, much of what she says was true! Only the reputation of the Bolsheviks and their successors the Communists, and especially that of Nikita S. Khrushchev, could have excused anyone for wanting to continue that war. But she forgot to mention that Democrats started the Vietnam War. Only when Lyndon Johnson didn’t run again, and men like “Clean Gene” McCarthy, Edmund Muskie, and especially George S. McGovern gained the ascendancy, did the Democratic Party become the Anti-war Party. Today she expresses shock and astonishment that this administration, and the Big Tech Axis, would behave as they are behaving. In blunt fact, we see the logical endgame of the Marxism the Democrats embraced, beginning with McCarthy, Muskie, and McGovern. Political positions Add Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to the list. Gabbard supported Sanders against Hillary Clinton, on the anti-war, corruption, cronyism, and elitism issues. But remember: Bernie Sanders honeymooned in Russia – back when it called itself Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Tulsi Gabbard doesn’t seem to have repudiated the positions Sanders holds – essentially that “citizens” should own nothing, and the State should own it all. Sanders differs only in which State should own everything: something called United States of America and not World Economic Forum. Gabbard has swung from supporting traditional marriage, to opposing it. Now she opposes the worst modern excess of the Alphabet Soup movement: the spectacle of surgically altered and hormonally poisoned men competing against women in their sports divisions. She takes that position from a women’s rights angle – and thereby admits that men and women do differ biologically. (If they did not, men and women would have competed against one another in the ancient Olympics. Furthermore, they would have always fought side-by-side in war. Ancient history does record the Amazons, a female-dominated society that invented mounted cavalry, but these are the outliers.) But the one constant in her positions that forced her break with the Democrats, is preferring a non-interventionist foreign policy. She has opposed U.S. support for Ukraine, and pointed out Ukraine’s biowar labs (now confirmed). https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1502960938147729413 Thus she has made bitter enemies of her former allies, as this Guardian piece makes clear. Last year she was accusing her once-fellow Democrats of “banana republic tactics.” Problematic positions But two years ago, John Anthony listed several problematic positions she has taken, most of which she has never repudiated. They include: • The old Moving Forward Act, with subsidies for wind and solar power and “green building” programs for schools. • Medicare for all, meaning all ages. (Joseph R. Mercola rejects that as funding the same-old, same-old, allopathic medicine that he despises.) • Community grant programs that extend federal control, however indirect, over local zoning decisions. • Proxy voting in the House of Representatives, as a containment measure against airborne “pandemics.” • A law that would have severely hampered police response in major cities. • A permanent “lobster trap” on ratification of the mis-called Equal Rights Amendment. (Whether she would support that amendment now, in view of the men-in-women’s-sports spectacle, is an open question.) • Reducing off-shore oil leasing. • A House resolution condemning President Trump’s first characterization of the migrants crashing the Mexican border as “an invasion.” All these positions represent her actual votes in the House of Representatives. Has anything changed? She needs to tell us, and she hasn’t. Indeed her positions in 2019 (per PBS) were almost as radical as anything President Biden (or his handlers) have done. Her real objection: to leftist extremism Her position on abortion has gone from opposition, to on-demand at any stage, to maybe limiting it after twenty weeks. Apparently her experiences fighting in a Muslim country soured her on what she feels is harsh religious moral discipline. But the selective application of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act on the part of the Biden administration after the Dobbs decision soured her on her fellow Democrats. That could be part of what she meant by “banana republic tactics.” The thread she left on X as she left the Democratic Party is the latest comprehensive statement of her positions: https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1579788950696185859 https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1579789231555489792 https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1579793195176628227 In short, Tulsi Gabbard despises the extremism the Democrats are now showing. The Democrats seem to have forgotten that anyone opposed to them are still human beings. That is, if the Democrats even agree on what a human being is. The problem for people of faith is that she has shown no sign, thus far, that she recognizes that the moral strictures she saw so “harshly” enforced in Iraq, could have any sound, rational basis in natural law. To be sure, Islam imposes far harsher penalties than Christianity ever would. (The Spanish Inquisition doesn’t count; Torquemada didn’t get his ideas on punishments out of any Bible CNAV has read.) But she forms her opinions on social issues as matters of convenience only. In short, she tries to stay within the Overton Window. Great leaders move the Overton Window, and persuade others to accept its new position. Conclusion: Tulsi Gabbard doesn’t cut it For all the above reasons, CNAV does not endorse Tulsi Gabbard as a Vice-Presidential running mate. America needs great leaders, who take positions on immutable principles of natural law – and the Holy Scriptures. That meant something once, as the late producer Cecil B. DeMille ably demonstrated in his career. If it means nothing to any candidate, that candidate is not fit to lead John Adams’ “moral and religious people.” Gov. Kristi Noem, besides being the current favorite, is the best-qualified candidate among the Ingraham Six. Nevertheless, Tulsi Gabbard might qualify as an Undersecretary of State for Middle Eastern, or Russian and East European, Affairs. (Sending her to the United Nations would be useless; Trump should withdraw from that “House That Hiss Built.” Besides, look at what “something in the air of Turtle Bay” did to Nikki Haley.) But Donald Trump must not appoint a Vice-President whom denizens of the Deep State – or Senator Sanders – might think they or he can manipulate if they can just get Trump out of the way. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/02/23/foundation/constitution/tulsi-gabbard-vice-president/ Newsweek piece: https://www.newsweek.com/tulsi-gabbards-vice-president-chances-soar-after-donald-trump-remarks-1872446 Post with Kristi Noem’s qualifications: https://twitter.com/IanTFury/status/1760677451213193595 Tulsi Gabbard’s post about biowar labs in Ukraine: https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1502960938147729413 Tulsi Gabbard’s Leaving Democratic Party thread: https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1579788950696185859 https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1579789231555489792 https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1579793195176628227 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Nikki Haley, will you please leave? By Terry A. Hurlbut Ambassador Nikki Haley will not stop flinging her high-heeled shoes into the machinery of the Republican Presidential nomination process. Already a commentator who has worked for Republicans and Democrats both, is all but asking her to leave. But he and the rest of us know why she will not leave. Several high-powered – though not necessarily high-profile – donors continue to support her campaign. They don’t expect her to win. But they themselves are flinging their expensive shoes into the works by keeping her in the race. That’s why Donald Trump said he would accept no funding from anyone now supporting Nikki Haley. A week of bad Nikki Haley news The French coined a wonderful verb and noun form to describe the act of wrecking a machine, project, or process through carelessness or spite. CNAV has described this before. To review: early in the Industrial Revolution, textile workers, in one of the first recorded job actions, literally threw their wooden shoes into the looms. Because this happened in France, the French gave us a new word. The word in French for a wooden shoe is sabot. To wreck something, deliberately or carelessly, by this or any other means, goes by the verb saboter (SAAH-boh-tay). From which come the nouns sabotage and saboteur. Or, as in this case, saboteuse, or Trojan mare. Judge the actions of Nikki Haley accordingly. The expulsion of Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) necessitated another special election. New York’s Republican Party put forward a total RINO in Mazi Melesa Pilip. Indeed she has been a Democrat for most of her life. Tom Suozzi, whom Santos defeated initially, ran to get his seat back and won. And Nikki Haley blamed Donald Trump for this loss! Mouthpiece Olvia Perez-Cubas said: Let’s just say the quiet part out loud. Donald Trump continues to be a huge weight against Republican candidates. Despite the enormous and obvious failings of Joe Biden, we just lost another winnable Republican House seat because voters overwhelmingly reject Donald Trump. Until Republicans wake up, we will continue to lose. Time for a new generation of conservative leadership that doesn’t turn off the American people. Donald Trump laid it on the line: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/111927900516733014 Refusal to endorse the winner Trump leads Haley 67% to 22% among likely South Carolina voters in the primary to take place in two days. https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1757749901608341911 Worth remembering is that Nikki Haley recruited crossovers in New Hampshire and Iowa, and still lost both events. And no wonder. Hers is the politics of compromise and moral relativism. Trump’s is the politics of winning. But Nikki Haley will not even commit to endorsing the winner. On ABC’s This Week Jonathan Karl asked her straight-out whether she would support the winner – as she pledged. She refused to answer, according to The Hill. That means I’m going to run and I’m going to win, and y’all can talk about support later. At a campaign rally in Irmo, South Carolina, Nikki Haley blamed Trump for another untoward overseas event: the death of Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny. She accused Vladimir Putin, the Russian strong man, of killing Navalny. Then she said: Trump needs to answer to that. Does he think Putin killed him? Does he think Putin was right to kill him? And does he think Navalny was a hero? First, CNAV does not suspect Putin in the death of Navalny. Yes, The Daily Mail reported the “finding” of a “body” with bruises on it. But if Navalny’s guards beat him to death, why release incriminating photographs? Self-incrimination is never an option for dictators (which is what leftist say Putin is). Besides, why kill this prisoner when people were forgetting him? Killing him would be like Herod Antipas killing John the Baptist because his preadolescent stepdaughter wheedled him after giving a provocative dance at his court. (Mark 6:14-29.) Vladimir Putin might be many things, but stupid he is not. Wild speculation and wilder statements Second, every statement out of Russia about Navalny’s death is self-serving to whoever is making it. Therefore, we don’t know. For all we do know, he could have died from the COVID vaccine. https://twitter.com/aussiecossack/status/1759134680904028584 https://twitter.com/BruinGOP/status/1758929855742410776 No one can say for certain whether Navalny got a COVID vaccine or not. “Community Noters” might not want to admit that he got it, if he did. Everyone wants to say that Putin had him murdered – and apply no higher standard of proof to that statement than to the statement he died from a vaccine. So it ill befits Nikki Haley to contribute to such speculation. That didn’t stop her from so indulging. Some of her statements have been wild in the extreme. https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1758948217729790022 In other words, “do something.” A contributor at Defense Priorities says, “Enough already!” Why, he asks, must the United States always “do something”? Indeed Nikki Haley wants continued U.S. involvement in Ukraine, at a time when some are saying that country can’t win. Trump wants to end that war, or at least get America out of it. Here’s another wild thing she’s said lately: https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1759342263740629487 X users did not receive this well, as the reactions, and BizPacReview and We Love Trump, show. It brought back the revelation that she has committed adultery – twice. Nikki Haley tees up a speech On Monday (February 19), she announced a “State of the Race” speech for Tuesday noon in Greenville, South Carolina. Speculation was rife that she would at last withdraw from the race. https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1759719855777841165 https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1759722801664086407 https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1759723110847185336 https://twitter.com/niceblackdude/status/1759728490801516639 https://twitter.com/joma_gc/status/1759729565008609769 https://twitter.com/PearpopFounder/status/1759728168083046603 https://twitter.com/LarryDJonesJr/status/1759741727219331450 https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1759715343767855288 Instead she defiantly said she would stay in the race until the last State voted. Some of you — perhaps a few of you in the media — came here today to see if I’m dropping out of the race. Well, I’m not. https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1759988033414144050 https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1760002626027172261 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KP-Ieqasgc For what it’s worth, Sunny Hostin at The View found some of Nikki Haley’s statements “inauthentic.” https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1760337905564766393 She continued to talk about how Trump can’t win because he’s in court all the time (as a defendant): Instead of asking me what states I’m gonna win, why don’t we ask how he’s gonna win a general election after spending a full year in a courtroom? Except that Trump can win, and she can’t, and everybody knows that. Mary Lou Masters at The Daily Caller reports new polling from Texas that makes this point. Trump leads Haley, 80% to 9%. She also trails Biden by nine points, while Trump leads Biden by seven points. That doesn’t seem to faze her. But Jack Posobiec at Human Events knows why that is. https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1759993805539885282 Later that day, a fresh clue to that “true role” surfaced. Former Director of Central Intelligence Michael Morrell has given her his endorsement. He is one of the 51 “spooks” who signed the letter claiming the Hunter Biden Laptop was “Russian disinformation.” In fact he was one of the “principal organizers” of that Gang of Fifty-one. Where that leaves us Dick Morris, thoroughly angry, called Nikki Haley a “nuisance” and accused her of sabotage. He took note that no one expects her to win in South Carolina, nor in Michigan, nor on Super Tuesday. Former Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker told NewsMax her campaign has become “a slow-motion car wreck.” He also directly disputed her claim about people outwardly supporting Trump but privately despising him. I'm talking to ordinary, everyday hard-working Americans. And you know they're all behind Donald Trump. They want Donald Trump because they know he fights for them and what they believe in. Sadly, many other so-called experts have lined up behind her. Philip Wegmann, for example, tried a little Trump quoque on the question of Haley’s Democratic money. Sean Trende, on the other hand, was calling her “a minor annoyance” even before Dick Morris called her a “nuisance.” CNAV returns to what we called Nikki Haley before: a Trojan mare. Her latest endorsement means she is a Trojan mare, not only for the Democratic Party but also for the Deep State. The denizens of the Deep State half expect Trump to erect gallows after his second inauguration. I’m fighting for my life! Not just my political life; my life! Actor Ray Collins, as J. W. Gettys, in Citizen Kane So they put forward a candidate who actually believes in the moral basis, however flawed, of the Endless War Program. Though she can’t win, they keep paying. That is how she makes her living. But her purpose is merely to throw her high-heeled shoes into the Trump Machine. Even her donors can’t get through their thick heads that the gears will simply grind those shoes to pulp and keep turning. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/02/22/foundation/constitution/nikki-haley-please-leave/ Trump’s Truth about Pilip losing the New York special election: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/111927900516733014 Byron York’s post with bad poll numbers for Haley: https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1757749901608341911 Daily Mail report about the death of Alexei Navalny: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13097269/alexei-Navalny-body-Putin-Russia.html Two posts suggesting Navalny took “the jab” and died of it: https://twitter.com/aussiecossack/status/1759134680904028584 https://twitter.com/BruinGOP/status/1758929855742410776 Nikki Haley post accusing Trump of encouraging invasion of NATO and being indifferent to Navalny: https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1758948217729790022 Nikki Haley saying one down, twelve to go: https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1759342263740629487 Eight posts speculating on Nikki Haley withdrawing: https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1759719855777841165 https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1759722801664086407 https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1759723110847185336 https://twitter.com/niceblackdude/status/1759728490801516639 https://twitter.com/joma_gc/status/1759729565008609769 https://twitter.com/PearpopFounder/status/1759728168083046603 https://twitter.com/LarryDJonesJr/status/1759741727219331450 https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1759715343767855288 Posts and video of Haley saying she will NOT withdraw: https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1759988033414144050 https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1760002626027172261 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KP-Ieqasgc Nick Fondacaro captures video from The View: https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1760337905564766393 Jack Posobiec points out: she is NOT running to win. https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1759993805539885282 Dick Morris: Haley is becoming a nuisance! https://www.dickmorris.com/haley-is-becoming-a-nuisance-lunch-alert/ Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

New York provokes a Constitutional crisis By Terry A. Hurlbut The City and State of New York have provoked a Constitutional crisis by pursuing a definitely unconstitutional civil judgment. Neither New York officials nor their apparent legacy media and other supporters seem to realize what their actions imply. They have defended the recent verdict in People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump et al. as if it were either right and proper, or a somehow justifiable special measure against a defendant who somehow stole money without actually robbing anyone – at least, no one in particular. The Constitution allows neither kind of defense. Furthermore, those officials have brought economic calamity on their City and State, from which they might never recover. They might have provoked more than that, if Thomas Jefferson’s Most Famous Words mean a thing. New York violates the Declaration and the Constitution Those Most Famous Words are the Declaration of Independence, for which Thomas Jefferson gave explicit instructions to remember him. ... on the faces of the Obelisk the following inscription, and not a word more: “Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia,” because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSDgfzaRc9w That Declaration reads in relevant part: … whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, … It further reads in equally relevant part: He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: … For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury. This last conforms exactly to how Justice Arthur Engoron of the New York State “Supreme” Court tried the Trump case. He held a bench trial, refusing to appoint a jury, and forbidding Trump or his lawyers to present any defense. The Constitution says more: No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed. Article I Section 9 Clause 3 And: No State shall … pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts. Article I Section 10 Clause 1 And: No person shall be … deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law… Amendment V And: No State shall … deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law… Amendment XIV And last: Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. Amendment VIII The State of New York has done nearly all these things, in violation of the Constitution. Actually it has violated either the Bill of Attainder or the Contracts Sub-clause of Article I Section 10 Clause 1. The verdict, as it reads, stands in clear violation of the Contracts Sub-clause. (RealClearWire Contributor Richard Porter gives more details on the case and the events leading up to it.) Donald Trump is liable for more than $355 million in fines, plus up to $100 million in interest. As Cullen Linebarger reported, Jonathan Turley explained that not only is the fine excessive, but Trump might have to liquidate assets to put the amount into escrow before New York’s courts will even consider an appeal. https://rumble.com/embed/v4btmo3/?pub=4teej Attorney General Letitia “Tish” James has explicitly threatened to seize assets to satisfy the judgment if Trump can’t pay it. In one sense the judge might already have done it, with his “independent watchdog” appointment in the case. Eugene Volokh’s colleague Steven Calabresi has further insight. Out of one trap, into another Several entrepreneurs soon expressed fear that what Judge Engoron did to Donald Trump, he or another judge could do to any of them. Kevin O’Leary, of Shark Tank fame, declared he was “ceasing all future investment activities in New York.” https://twitter.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1759652865826537853 O’Leary called New York his “top loser State” by reason of that ruling, which he decried as “absurd,” “appalling” and “un-American.” Private equity fund manager Grant Cardone canceled earlier plans to research real-estate development opportunities in the State. https://twitter.com/GrantCardone/status/1759707635916452065 His wife Elena started a GoFundMe campaign to raise the escrow funds to clear a path for Trump’s appeal. At time of writing, the GoFundMe link is still active, and the campaign has raised over $800,000. That’s when Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) traded one trap for another. She actually told these business people not to worry because they are not Trump. I think that this is really an extraordinary unusual circumstance that the law-abiding and rule-following New Yorkers who are business people have nothing to worry about because they’re very different than Donald Trump and his behavior. The Governor was probably responding to an economic crisis. Perhaps she hadn’t even thought about how that consumer-fraud statute, as Judge Engoron applied it, violates the Contracts Sub-clause. But in telling those business people not to “worry,” she just admitted that Judge Engoron and General James had selectively applied that law. That alone violates the Bill of Attainder Clause and the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses. But what else was she going to say? Businesses, take notice! The days of cavalierly overvaluing and undervaluing real estate for business or tax purposes are over. Paul Ingrassia seems to think Gov. Hochul might as well say this last. That verdict, he said, signals the arrival of socialism. A defense of New York falls apart Benny Johnson captured a telling segment of the Monday evening (February 19) episode of Fox News’ The Five. https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1759969926868054520 Jim Hoft summarized it yesterday. Apparently token leftist hostess Jessica Tarlov tried to defend the New York action. Co-hosts Jeannine Pirro, Greg Gutfeld, and Jesse Waters took immediate exception to her remarks. Specifically, Tarlov said: Everyone who is defending Donald Trump in this, from Kevin O’Leary to some folks here, is saying it is okay to falsify your business records, to issue false financial statements, to commit conspiracy for insurance fraud. Those are the opinions of the court, all of which put a bad light on normal business practice. As Jeannine Pirro (a former judge) pointed out. So then Tarlov teed off on other, unrelated charges: So since Donald Trump ran the first time, he has been making this argument, “If they could do this to me, they could do this to you.” The average person is not inflating their wealth by 800 million to $2.2 billion. They’re not sexually assaulting women. They’re not storing classified documents in the toilet. They’re not fomenting an insurrection. Again, those are matters of opinion. CNAV has said before that those charges are baseless – and in one case, arise from a false-flag pseudo-operation. Laying that aside: Jessica Tarlov named the real issue. We deal here with bills of attainder and ex post facto laws. Selective application of the law amounts to these things. In related news, the trucker boycott against New York City appears to be growing: https://twitter.com/MS_Sambo_/status/1759639755195588932 And having an effect. Multiple influencers already report rising food and other prices in the city. Enough truckers have stopped deliveries that those still willing to make them, are commanding much higher fees. Analysis Thus far two key economic groups are withdrawing their business from New York – real-estate developers and truckers. The truckers will have immediate effect; the developers will have a longer-term effect. Can Donald Trump win on appeal? The federal courts might tell him to apply first to New York’s courts for relief – which is “exhaustion of remedies.” But to paraphrase Thomas Jefferson: Prudence, indeed, will dictate that federal courts should not interfere with State courts for light and transient causes. Accordingly all U.S. Supreme and appellate court case law constrains courts to let would-be appellants suffer, while evils are sufferable, rather than to right a particular situation by abrogating the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. But when a State court abuses the judicial process, blatantly violates the Constitution, and gives any outside observer every reason to suspect that said court is pursuing a vindictive course to deny to any citizen of the United States the privileges and immunities the Constitution affords all citizens, it is that citizen’s right to petition the federal courts for such declaratory and injunctive relief as will stop the violation, and it is the duty of the federal courts to judge accordingly. As they have done many times before. See, for instance, New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen. Such has been the patient sufferance of Donald Trump. And such is now the necessity which constrains him to petition the federal courts to redress a serious Constitutional grievance. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/02/21/foundation/constitution/new-york-provokes-constitutional-crisis/ Resources of liberty: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/ Video: Jefferson’s gravestone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSDgfzaRc9w Richard Porter’s article: https://cnav.news/2024/02/20/foundation/constitution/democrats-destroy-democracy-save/ Video: Jonathan Turley on the poison pill in the New York law: https://rumble.com/v4eewj0-turley-lays-out-insidious-part-about-trump-ruling.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Steve Calabresi’s article: https://reason.com/volokh/2024/02/18/president-trumps-kafkaesque-civil-trial-in-new-york-state/ Post: Kevin O’Leary pulling out of New York: https://twitter.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1759652865826537853 Post: Grant Cardone will not come to New York: https://twitter.com/GrantCardone/status/1759707635916452065 GoFundMe link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with-trump-raise-the-settlement Benny Johnson’s post: The Five: https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1759969926868054520 Post: Trucker boycott could shut the city down: https://twitter.com/MS_Sambo_/status/1759639755195588932 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

COVID vaccines increase mortality By Terry A. Hurlbut In the past forty-eight hours, new information has surfaced clearly showing that the COVID vaccines are dangerous and countereffective. This confirms previous information and deduction by many CNAV contributors and other sources. Furthermore, a watershed of apparent retribution is happening in at least one nation-state that had the most draconian vaccine-requirement regimes in the world. Many now breaking this information find themselves still subject to ridicule. But these revelations are early, and, one hopes, certain people will stop laughing before the COVID vaccines kill them. First sign of trouble with the COVID vaccines – the strange blood clots Embalmers, since 2021, have occasionlly reported finding long, white or gray blood clots in bodies coming to them for embalming. These have not been post-mortem blood clots; those are dark red, from the non-oxygenated hemoglobin they contain. Rather, these clots are white or gray, and very long. In fact they slightly resemble heartworms retrieved from the bodies of dogs. After years of persistent reports that the legacy media treated as unfounded rumor, a funeral director in Alabama finally recorded and posted to X a video of what he has been finding. https://twitter.com/r_hirschman/status/1759337235042758748 This is a video of me removing one of the strange white fibrous clots, from the right jugular vein. The person who was recording it is Nicky King, who is also an embalmer. I didn't notice it until I lifted the vessel up. I could feel it inside the vein. I only show this because people still don't believe it and ask for video evidence. What's causing this? I can't say for sure, but I didn't start seeing this until early 2021. Unfortunately, I still find strange clotting in several bodies that I embalm. This video has also appeared on the Facebook group “Died Suddenly,” named after the documentary of the same name. Jim Hoft at The Gateway Pundit shared this post the next day. An anonymous reader added a “Community Note” trying to pass it off as a regular post-mortem clot. This note has two problems. First, it tries to suggest that this undertaker is lying, and ignores other embalmers who have reported similar findings, and only since early 2021. https://twitter.com/9_News_Nancy_/status/1602008984231223303 Second, it ignores this post showing the finding of apparent post-mortem clots – in arteries. https://twitter.com/brixwe/status/1601361616372924417 Nor is this the first time this undertaker has reported such findings. In August of 2023, he shared this: https://twitter.com/r_hirschman/status/1690054601892864011 In fact this is consistent with deaths from microclots, attributed to at least some COVID vaccines. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) even identified a stroke risk for the Bivalent COVID vaccine (Pfizer-BioNTech). https://rumble.com/embed/v3hsi7s/?pub=4teej From New Zealand’s government The second fresh sign of trouble comes from Steve Kirsch, a free-lance journalist specializing in COVID vaccines and their effects. On December 4, 2023, Mr. Chris Johnson, a resident of New Zealand, filed an Official Information Act (OIA) request for data on deaths of individuals who had received COVID vaccines, by age band, location, and month. After more than two months of delay, New Zealand’s health department furnished this spreadsheet containing the raw data. Mr. Johnson shared this with X user Scoops McGoo, who apparently uploaded the spreadsheet to Google Docs. He posted several links here: https://twitter.com/sco0psmcgoo/status/1758247289582227900 Steve Kirsch crunched the numbers himself, and shared his findings on his Substack page. His conclusion: The data they returned shows that the COVID vaccines didn’t save anyone from dying from COVID. They did the opposite: they increased mortality. Even worse, when COVID deaths peaked in July 2022, the vaccinated were disproportionately affected. Note the findings: COVID vaccines increased mortality during virus outbreaks. Furthermore, excess deaths occurred in the vaccinated, out of proportion to their numbers. Worse: healthy people opted for COVID vaccines. And suffered for their pains. Kirsch shared his findings in several X posts: https://twitter.com/stkirsch/status/1759768320436478363 https://twitter.com/stkirsch/status/1759788564110577987 https://twitter.com/stkirsch/status/1759789624996864403 Soon afterward, Mr. Kirsch reposted several other posts with information embarrassing to one official or another: https://twitter.com/ConlustroR/status/1759749834179809595 https://twitter.com/winstonpeters/status/1759732387360244071 https://twitter.com/winstonpeters/status/1759371625093623877 Note that Winston Peters came in for criticism for a pro-vax stance he took three years ago. https://twitter.com/matroked/status/1759387820987486627 More salient still are these posts from the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation: https://twitter.com/VacSafety/status/1759653597795487788 https://twitter.com/VacSafety/status/1759737004592439314 Also, consider this post: https://twitter.com/PierreKory/status/1759834881842933761 And this thread: https://twitter.com/dobssi/status/1759324221526712528 https://twitter.com/dobssi/status/1759324231077114254 https://twitter.com/dobssi/status/1759324239734223111 https://twitter.com/dobssi/status/1759329481896939658 https://twitter.com/dobssi/status/1759329491904585959 https://twitter.com/dobssi/status/1759329497931792883 https://twitter.com/dobssi/status/1759330109910098048 https://twitter.com/dobssi/status/1759645183837135035 https://twitter.com/dobssi/status/1759645193941262758 The VSRF held a panel discussion on January 18, revealing increased stillbirths and other bad effects. https://rumble.com/embed/v452p80/?pub=4teej Analysis These posts and videos show two things. First, they vindicate all of us (including your editor, who was once a physician and laboratory director) who suspected some dirty work at the crossroads from the beginning of the roll-out of the COVID vaccines. The technologies behind these vaccines was as novel as the virus, so perhaps one cannot generalize from these data alone. But this experience shows that every specific vaccine needs reexamination for safety and effectiveness. So does the basic theory of artificial active acquired immunity, and the wisdom (or folly!) of an overloaded vaccine schedule. Donald J. Trump should own his mistake and pledge to release the data his medical team kept hidden. He hired some of the most malicious, contemptible frauds in the history of modern allopathic medicine. One doesn’t expect a President – or any other leader – to know everything. But one does expect a leader to know a confidence trick (i.e., Bravo Sierra!) when he sees it! Second, 2024 is turning into a watershed for vindication of skeptics’ claims, and perhaps the start of justice for the victims – millions of them – of these vaccines. We have this new evidence, in part because Elon Musk bought Twitter (now X) and began to reform it. But we also have such evidence because some key offending governments have changed hands. These new revelations might strike some as self-serving – but that doesn’t make them any less true. Moving forward: no more COVID vaccines Obviously, we must ask ourselves how to make sure no more COVID vaccines come to the fore. Equally obviously, the current allopathic medical and pharmacological model needs reexamination. Joseph R. Mercola, D.O., brilliantly illustrated this with his six-minute animated-cartoon feature, The Town of Allopath. Unfortunately his original copy disappeared in the Great YouTube Purge of his account. But a relatively obscure Rumble user uploaded it to his own channel: https://rumble.com/embed/vrfr1m/?pub=4teej That video illustrates everything wrong with the allopathic model – starting with the alarming tendency to equate correlation with causation. It continues with this hard truth: doctors, drug makers, and nearly everyone else in health care make money from sickness. Keeping people well doesn’t pay. But socializing medicine and/or drug making won’t help, either. Mercola decried “Obamacare” because it promised the “same-old, same-old.” Socialism trades one albatross for another – exit consumer fraud; enter connections – and making the bad lawful and the good unlawful. Besides which, allopathic medicine has a mystical or “secret knowledge” element that serves the interests of dictators, not free people. The lasting cure lies in, not medical education, but patient education – as in how to avoid becoming a patient! Each of us must take responsibility for one’s own health, including care of the immune system. With self-responsibility comes its converse, autonomy. That is why authorities fear it – and why ordinary people should embrace it. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/02/20/editorial/talk/covid-vaccines-increase-mortality/ Richard Hirschman’s latest post: https://twitter.com/r_hirschman/status/1759337235042758748 Other posts treating the strange new post-mortem clots: https://twitter.com/9_News_Nancy_/status/1602008984231223303 https://twitter.com/brixwe/status/1601361616372924417 Richard Hirschman’s earlier post: https://twitter.com/r_hirschman/status/1690054601892864011 Video: Interview with Richard Hirschman: https://rumble.com/v3kdwbm-interview-with-richard-hirschman-50-of-cadavers-showing-the-infamous-white-.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 The New Zealand spreadsheet: https://fyi.org.nz/request/25021/response/96520/attach/5/Data%20Attachment%201.xlsx Scoops McGoo’s post: https://twitter.com/sco0psmcgoo/status/1758247289582227900 Three posts by Steve Kirsch: https://twitter.com/stkirsch/status/1759768320436478363 https://twitter.com/stkirsch/status/1759788564110577987 https://twitter.com/stkirsch/status/1759789624996864403 Three reposts: https://twitter.com/ConlustroR/status/1759749834179809595 https://twitter.com/winstonpeters/status/1759732387360244071 https://twitter.com/winstonpeters/status/1759371625093623877 Retort toward Winston Peters: https://twitter.com/matroked/status/1759387820987486627 Vaccine Safety Research Foundation’s posts: https://twitter.com/VacSafety/status/1759653597795487788 https://twitter.com/VacSafety/status/1759737004592439314 Pierre Kory’s post: https://twitter.com/PierreKory/status/1759834881842933761 Paul C’s thread: https://twitter.com/dobssi/status/1759324221526712528 https://twitter.com/dobssi/status/1759324231077114254 https://twitter.com/dobssi/status/1759324239734223111 https://twitter.com/dobssi/status/1759329481896939658 https://twitter.com/dobssi/status/1759329491904585959 https://twitter.com/dobssi/status/1759329497931792883 https://twitter.com/dobssi/status/1759330109910098048 https://twitter.com/dobssi/status/1759645183837135035 https://twitter.com/dobssi/status/1759645193941262758 VSRF four-hour panel: https://rumble.com/v47o0uo-vsrf-live-110-covid-whistleblowers-what-the-nurses-saw.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Video: The Town of Allopath: https://rumble.com/vu1x58-the-town-of-allopath-hd.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Texas independence provoking reaction? By Terry A. Hurlbut The phrase Texas independence now can mean either of two things. Recently it began to stand for an overt secessionist movement, and the sentiment behind that movement. But it has always had a practical meaning of ways Texas really does act independent in certain contexts. For instance, Texas is the only State in the continental United States with its own electric grid. Recently a Texas Democrat collaborated with the infamous “Representativa AOC” to introduce a bill to abolish Texas independence in electricity. The leadership of the very real Texas Nationalist Movement called that par for the course. But Texas independence also found expression in Texas’ unilateral defense of its border with Mexico against migrant incursions. Now word comes of an Army Reserve JAG Corps drill that directly referenced current Texas leadership – as an evil junta. Texas independence assertion on the border Texas continues to assert its independence on the border, and has since the Supreme Court vacated an injunction against Border Patrol tampering with a physical barrier Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas) put into place. Gov. Abbott has, of course, reinforced that barrier, and deployed the Texas National Guard to back it up directly. Last Friday (February 16), Gov. Abbott announced that he is building forward barracks in Eagle Pass, Texas. The worst migrant inflows were taking place at Eagle Pass, and that’s where the Border Patrol started its barrier tampering. The National Guard slowed that to a relative trickle, but this required quartering troops in people’s houses, local hotels, and in tented camps. Now the Guard has reserved 80 acres of land for a “forward operations base.” The Texas Tribune reports this will accommodate 1800 National Guard troops immediately, and perhaps 2300 later. https://twitter.com/willdupreetv/status/1758568213669978253 Laura Wellington, author of the Western Journal piece describing the new barracks, suggested Gov. Abbott might be Trump Vice-Presidential material. Three things militate against that. First, Gov. Abbott is not at all sure that Trump will win, or the Deep State will let him win. Second, Trump might prefer to keep Gov. Abbott in place and give him logistical and financial support. A Texit study committee Third – which Ms. Wellington didn’t mention – is that the Texas Nationalist Movement has been pushing secession since the crisis began. They want the Governor to summon the legislature into special session and pass a referendum to create a Texas Independence Study Committee. Twice a sympathetic Texas House member has introduced a “Texit Bill” during regular session. Each time, unsympathetic Texas State Affairs Committee chairmen and House leaders “chubbed” it. (To chub, named after a local fish, is to delay a measure to death by whatever dilatory procedures are available.) But times are changing. Rep. Dade Phelan (RINO-Orange and Jasper Cos.), Speaker of the House, has been a bitter enemy of TNM. Recently he drew censure for: • Appointing Democrats as chairmen of key committees, and: • The impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton. According to The Texas Tribune, he is subject to primary challenge for the first time in his career. Every Texas government leader except Gov. Abbott has called for his retirement into private life. General Paxton, for his part, now says publicly that the Texas Annexation of 1845 would never have happened, had Sam Houston known that relations between Texas and the federal government would come to the present pass. Newsweek covered his remarks, and the vituperative retort from American Bridge 21st Century, a hard-left super-PAC. Abuse of office, election conspiracies, and now talk of secession—Ken Paxton is a dangerous manipulator of the law who is more focused on his personal and vengeful politics than he is on defending Texans. A search on recent posts on “immigration” at the American Bridge site indicates they prefer more immigration rather than less. Benefits of Texas independence Newsweek recently pointed out that Texas would have legal title to NASA’s Lyndon Baines Johnson Space Center in Houston. That’s only one of several NASA assets Texas could seize. Add the assets of SpaceX – which recently reincorporated in Texas – and Texas could have its own national space program. Dan Miller, head of TNM, knows this. Texas has its own electric grid, and already manages that independently. But it has problems. Three years ago, bad planning – and possibly some misguided federal subsidies – brought about the Texas Deep Freeze of 2021. After that, four members of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas – who did not even live in Texas – resigned. Now one company is building a natural gas power plant to replace – exactly – the coal-fired plant that shut down six years ago. The U.S. Army Reserve war-games Texas as the enemy But yesterday afternoon (February 18), at 1:00 p.m. EST, came a report from The Gateway Pundit about a legal-eagle exercise. This was no ordinary exercise – because it included a scenario involving JAG (Judge Advocate General’s Corps) officers and “legal office departments” (LODs) dealing directly with the Texas border issue. This exercise, an Internet simulation using Microsoft Teams groupware, took place on Saturday, February 3. Jim Hoft provided this transcript from an anonymous tipster who took part in the drill. It involved a “fact pattern” the specified nationalization of the Texas National Guard by the Biden administration. Furthermore, it named Gov. Abbott as the “bad guy” in the scenario, holding him personally responsible for: • Drowning of migrants in the Rio Grande (as alleged in Supreme Court briefs before they vacated that injunction), and • The spectacle of a Texas National Guard effective shooting migrants in the river while bellowing “America First!” The MOFWTS, or MEFWTS (Military Officer/Enlisted Familiar With the Situation), decried the violations of several rules in this scenario. Army drills, per training standards, are to be fictional, a-political scenarios involving fictional countries/enemies and people. American citizens are never mentioned in these scenarios. In this case all these rules were broken. Worse: Looking on-line at the Trump Campaign site, under the topic of the “MAGA Movement,” “America First” is clearly embedded as language used in Trump’s campaign materials. The fact that campaign material is inserted into a biased, derogatory fact pattern handed to Soldiers is a blatant and criminal Hatch Act violation. Under the Hatch Act and the DoD Directive on point, Soldiers and Pentagon personnel are absolutely prohibited from using campaign materials in official spaces in any way, shape or form. This scenario, sent down last minute by some un-hinged novice/lunatic in the Pentagon for training violated all the rules and was a criminal act as it violated Hatch Act prohibitions. It is probably worth mentioning that one of the five LODs participating apparently refused to participate and dropped off the Teams call as it progressed. That characterization is probably more accurate than that MOFWTS/MEFWTS knows. Here is the image of the scenario, as The Gateway Pundit received it: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/mock-up-exercise.jpg It is the image of a fictional sworn statement that a JAG officer might have to handle. Here is the transcript: I started my shift like any other day, not knowing the horrific terrors that were about to occur. It was the final day of working for the ICE Department, and I had recently just bought a boat and was daydreaming about the coming years of what new adventures I was going to embark on. I had a haunting suspension that my co-workers were going to be planning a surprise going away party for me. As I sat on my patrol car facing the hot Mexican vistas, I saw a family cresting the river’s edge. It consisted of a middle-aged man, woman, and girl (no older that ten years old). Then I saw an individual approach from behind the rear of my vehicle. It was a male and looked like he was in his twenties. He was carrying something with his left hand and near his side. I feared the worst. As I began calling in on my radio the situation, that’s when I my realization came to life. The man from the back yelled “America First” and a filthy expletive and then began firing on the family coming from Mexico. This wasn’t anything that I wanted to see, especially on the last day of work. I jumped out of my patrol car and yelled for him to stop. When he saw me with my handgun drawn, he dropped the weapon. I approached him and handcuffed him. But then when I heard the gentleman begin yelling for help. My teammates came as fast as they could and helped the family. I read the [suspect] his rights. Who writes a sworn statement like that, knowing it will form part of an official report? Your editor has filed several affidavits, and none lend themselves to the kind of histrionics this statement features. What does the Texas Nationalist Movement have to say? The TNM has not yet responded to this report. Perhaps Mr. Miller and his colleagues haven’t had time to digest it. But it strongly suggests that the federal government intends a show of force against Texas for its border-security measures. That’s worse than ironic – for as TNM does note, this country is under invasion from an army of Chinese irregulars. https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1759608356212490475 https://twitter.com/TexasNatMov/status/1759611524858208331 So starting work on permanent barracks is the smartest thing Gov. Abbott has done so far. But he might want to consider calling that special session for a Texas Independence referendum bill. Whether he knows about this war game is far from clear. What is clear is that putting such a referendum on the ballot for this fall’s election is definitely in order. Furthermore, the people of Texas need to know about that JAC Corps/LOD Army Reserve exercise. On Saturday, TNM released a new Texas Independence campaign jingle. https://twitter.com/TexasNatMov/status/1759077532916400460 Winning Texas independence will take more than a jingle. But Newsweek is talking about what Texas independence could mean, as if it could happen. As they have been doing since the border crisis began: https://twitter.com/TexasNatMov/status/1750206156369486244 That’s an interesting sign in and of itself. Clearly all eyes are on Texas – for good or for ill. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/02/19/foundation/constitution/texas-independence-provoking-reaction/ Texas Nationalist Movement home: https://tnm.me/ Will Dupree’s report about the Texas Eagle Pass barracks project: https://twitter.com/willdupreetv/status/1758568213669978253 Report of the Army Reserve LOD/JAG exercise: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/exclusive-pentagon-forces-army-reserve-troops-midwest-conduct/ Image of the histrionic affidavit-equivalent: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/mock-up-exercise.jpg Posts about surge in Chinese apprehensions: https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1759608356212490475 https://twitter.com/TexasNatMov/status/1759611524858208331 Texit Jingle: https://twitter.com/TexasNatMov/status/1759077532916400460 Newsweek puts Texit on the cover: https://twitter.com/TexasNatMov/status/1750206156369486244 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Judge Engoron provokes contempt of his court By Terry A. Hurlbut On Friday (February 16), New York State Supreme (that is, Superior) Court Judge Arthur Engoron handed down his decision – in a bench trial – in the civil case of People v. Trump, which alleged multiple counts of real-estate fraud. Judge Engoron handed down a verdict that has many real-estate developers shaking their heads in wonderment – and fear. Trump and his two sons must pay more than $350 million in fines, in a fraud case with no victims. In response, several business journalists and anchor persons are already pouring contempt on the judge and his court. More than that, the judge might have provoked a truckers’ strike against New York City, the like of which it has not seen perhaps since the administration of Mayor John V. Lindsay. Judge Engoron put in the fix New York Attorney General Letitia “Tish” James brought the case two years ago. Christina Laila of The Gateway Pundit gives the details. Ms. James initially sought $250 million in “damages,” later raising that to $370 million. She also sought to ban him from the real-estate industry in New York for the rest of his life. On February 17, 2022, Judge Engoron ruled that Trump would have to give a deposition in the case. New York law forbids a prosecutor to compel testimony without granting immunity. Trump’s legal team argued that James was seeking to work around that law. Judge Engoron insisted that he testify. Trump appealed, and a four-judge appellate panel ruled against him. In the summer of 2022, Judge Engoron actually held Trump in contempt of court for failing to furnish tax and other documents. Trump paid a fine of $110,000, and the judge then formally vacated the contempt order. In November 2022, the judge appointed an “independent watchdog” to oversee the Trump Organization. In that same ruling, Judge Engoron said Ms. James’ claims were likely to succeed. The trial lasted for eleven weeks – and the judge tried the case himself, without benefit of a jury. On September 26, 2023, the court granted partial summary judgment to the State and ordered the dissolution of Trump’s businesses. The Appellate Division stayed that order. Details of the verdict Yesterday the judge handed down his final verdict, in a 92-page filing. In his Findings of Fact, he accused Trump, his sons, and the organizations he controls of inflating the value of several assets. Other commentators have shown that Judge Engoron applied standards which no bank would demand. For instance, he valued Trump’s Mar-A-Lago property as a private residence, not the social club it is. Thus a $100 million property received a valuation in Engoron’s court of – $18 million. In each case of alleged fraud, no individual or entity actually lost anything of value. Banks, for example, would grant loans after negotiation, and conducting their own investigations. Banks never take a borrower’s word on asset valuation, as many real-estate developers and other experts will attest. Nevertheless, Judge Engoron assessed fines totaling more than $355 million. Furthermore, he barred Trump from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation or other legal entity in New York for a period of three years. He imposed those fines under the heading of disgorgement of ill-gotten gains. Restitution is not in order – because no one is claiming or even could claim it. The ruling alleges wrongdoing “just because,” and explicitly seeks to claw back the profits Trump has made. That no other individual or entity needs any payment to make them whole, is of no moment. Appeals In a statement to NBC News, lead counsel Alina Habba vowed to appeal. Trump made even stronger statements on his Truth Social platform: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/111943310253470500 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/111943296577189590 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/111943296062603098 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/111943295181848700 Later that day he offered further details: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/111943561315338439 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/111943552547982200 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/111943549461938391 On Friday night he had a stronger reaction in a speech to supporters. https://rumble.com/embed/v4b9xyk/?pub=4teej We have a corrupt judge. He’s not a respected man, and again, I’ve said before, he’s been overturned on this case by the Appellate Division four times already. It’s a record. Nobody’s ever been overturned on one case four times. And I think, very importantly, and I think, ultimately, the most important, we’ve employed tens of thousands of people in New York, and we’ve paid taxes like few other people have ever paid in New York. They don’t care about that. It’s a state that’s going bust. It’s a state that’s going bust because everybody’s leaving. And it’s all headed up by Biden, who’s destroying our country. So, this is Russia, this is China, this is what you’ve been reading about all your lives, and it’s happening right here in our country. Thank you very much. We will stop it. We will make America great again. You have my word. Reaction: Judge Engoron provokes others to encourage Trump to appeal Jim Hoft, at 9:00 p.m., quoted Kevin O’Leary’s interview with the New York Post, calling the ruling into further question. I don’t understand where someone got hurt … What developer doesn’t ask for the highest price valued for any building they built? If this judgment sticks, every developer must be jailed. They must be found guilty. They must be put out of business. You can’t do this to one another. It’s not about Trump. At 9:45 a.m. Saturday morning, Hoft quoted Fox Business hostess Dagen McDowell making an even stronger statement: If you run a business, big or small in New York State, you have to know or assume somebody with a political axe to grind will come after you, too. You better get the hell out of here. Then at 11:00 a.m., Hoft quoted Steve Bannon as saying Judge Engoron is one of many Marxist activists who have now shown themselves for what they really are. https://rumble.com/embed/v4be6wl/?pub=4teej But at 5:20 p.m. yesterday afternoon, Patty McMurray dropped the thunderclap. Several long-haul truck drivers have signaled that they will refuse loads to New York City, presumably until some court vacates that verdict. The first such threat came Friday night from a trucker calling himself “Chicago Ray”: https://twitter.com/Chicago1Ray/status/1758674105446838535 Patty McMurray provided a transcript: I’ve been on the radio talking to drivers for the last hour and fifteen minutes, and I’ve talked to at least ten drivers going the other way. I’m heading down from South Wisconsin. And they’re [other truckers] gonna start refusing loads to New York City, starting on Monday for NYC. I talked to about three guys that I work with who texted the boss and told him they’re not going to New York City. I don’t know how far across the country this is or how many truckers are gonna start denying loads to go to New York City, but I’ll tell you what—you f**k around and find out!” Okay? We’re tired of you motherf**kin’ leftists f**king around with Donald Trump. You know, motherf**kers are starting to get tired of this shit—and our bosses don’t care if we’re denying the loads into New York; we’ll go somewhere else.” I don’t wish nothin’ on nobody, but what I’m hearing—this is real! Ya, know—we’ll see. Leave Trump the f**k alone with the bullshit! Alright? You know you ain’t got shit on Trump, so cut the bullshit! He’s gonna win this motherf**ker on appeal, but it’s still—you know how bullshit! It’s election interference. I hate to say it, but Truckers are for Trump. We’re like 95% – 96% out here—-all Trump. Ain’t no motherf**kers for Biden! Other posts followed yesterday: https://twitter.com/IanJaeger29/status/1758896837983862816 https://twitter.com/JackLombardi/status/1758971348578132325 That last post highlights a lesson the American left would like to ignore. Modern political maps commonly show islands of blue in a sea of red. These represent leftist urban strongholds and rightist rural expanses. But only truckers like Jack Lombard seem to understand what this means. No city is self-sufficient; all rely on deliveries from the countryside. Tellingly, Jack Lombard compared himself and his fellow truckers to European farmers already protesting plans to abandon farming and animal husbandry. And that was in his text! In his nine-minute-forty-six-second video he said much more. This morning, at 11:15 a.m. EST, Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge filed this update on a trucker’s strike, or trucker boycott. https://twitter.com/HillbillyTkR91/status/1759240991603937435 https://twitter.com/bigskyfit/status/1758961955430408673 https://twitter.com/bigskyfit/status/1759221198611976275 https://twitter.com/albert1776/status/1758677831561678917 https://twitter.com/TraceyOFlynn3/status/1758676695781957664 https://twitter.com/MagaNomuck/status/1758680992745984038 A last analysis Judge Engoron has brought this contempt and disrepute upon himself and his own court. Several times, cameras caught him affecting a silly grin from the bench. When he did that, he showed total lack of respect for himself, his court, the parties, and everyone else. In crafting his absurd Finding of Fact, the judge seems to have given little thought beyond a desire for ideological revenge against a defendant who was more than a real-estate mogul. Donald Trump represents an ideology Judge Engoron obviously hates. Trump might represent several such ideologies, depending on whether the judge, besides being an inveterate leftist, is an Alphabet Souper. But the judge absolutely cannot have imagined that long-haul truckers, who keep New York City supplied, would cite him as their reason for calling what amounts to a strike! A strike that might not limit itself to New York City, either. If it succeeds, it could show every city dweller how vulnerable cities are to supply interruption. Leftists have scoffed at earlier suggestions that the right would win any civil war because they control the countryside. They might soon be laughing out of the other side of their faces. Or not. The solution to this problem is absurdly simple. Judge Engoron’s verdict cannot possibly stand, for reasons other real-estate developers already know and have made plain. Donald Trump won’t even feel the expense – for the appeals will engender sympathy as no comparably expensive conventional campaign could ever have done. Stay tuned… Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/02/18/editorial/talk/judge-engoron-provokes-contempt-court/ The filing: https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=CJKA2EOIiTRatUAYz6FyeA==&system=prod Seven “Truths” from Trump: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/111943310253470500 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/111943296577189590 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/111943296062603098 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/111943295181848700 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/111943561315338439 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/111943552547982200 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/111943549461938391 Video: Trump speaks to reporters https://rumble.com/v4dv7y2-trump-reacts-to-marxist-judges-verdict-in-ny-fraud-case.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Video: Bannon’s War Room https://rumble.com/v4dzgv9-steve-bannon-theyve-turned-over-their-face-cards-its-neo-marxist-globalist-.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Chicago 1 Ray’s post about a trucker’s strike/boycott: https://twitter.com/Chicago1Ray/status/1758674105446838535 Other truckers’ posts, first round: https://twitter.com/IanJaeger29/status/1758896837983862816 https://twitter.com/JackLombardi/status/1758971348578132325 Second round: https://twitter.com/HillbillyTkR91/status/1759240991603937435 https://twitter.com/bigskyfit/status/1758961955430408673 https://twitter.com/bigskyfit/status/1759221198611976275 https://twitter.com/albert1776/status/1758677831561678917 https://twitter.com/TraceyOFlynn3/status/1758676695781957664 https://twitter.com/MagaNomuck/status/1758680992745984038 ZeroHedge report: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fk-around-find-out-truckers-warn-loads-nyc-will-be-rejected-starting-monday Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

British intelligence, not Obama, spied on Trump By Terry A. Hurlbut The past forty-eight hours have seen some explosive confirmations of something Donald J. Trump always suspected. Which is, that someone was spying on him and his campaign, at least since 2016. Trump erred only in identifying the culprit – he blamed his predecessor, Barack H. Obama. New and updated evidence suggests that the true culprits were British intelligence, with help from sympathetic elements in the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Furthermore, any notion that Vladimir Putin, effective head of the Russian Federation, sought to influence U.S. voters to vote for Trump is the exact opposite of the truth. The truth is that Donald J. Trump is his own man, and Russian, Brit and American Deep-Stater alike fear him. That’s reason enough to vote in his favor, apart from the now-proved justice of his claims. British intelligence involvement in early spying on the Trump campaign Larry Johnson of The Gateway Pundit posted this update to a post he’d made two years ago. The occasion of this update is this post by Matt Taibbi on his Racket Substack. Taibbi substantiates Trump’s long-standing claims that someone spied on him. He also revealed that Russian feelings toward Trump were opposite to those Hillary Clinton and others claimed. This prompted Johnson to revisit evidence he first gathered and presented two years ago. On March 4, 2017, President Trump flatly accused the Obama White House of tapping his telephones, in these posts: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837989835818287106 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837993273679560704 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837994257566863360 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837996746236182529 For what it’s worth, Obama adviser Ben Rhodes shot back: https://twitter.com/brhodes/status/838032637990166531 Lay aside this variation on the Loaded Question logical fallacy, to say nothing of his throwing-off on Trump. Trump, as Larry Johnson said to Russia Today two days later, was only half correct in his accusations. Specifically he called the what right, but not the who. https://rumble.com/embed/v4bb6or/?pub=4teej Role of the General Communications Headquarters Mr. Johnson told RT that the orders came, not from the Obama White House, but from British intelligence! Specifically the order came from the General Communications Headquarters unit, or GCHQ. They shared their “take” with James Clapper and John Brennan (then Director of Central Intelligence, or DCI). Those two men wanted to derail the Trump campaign and support Hillary Clinton. Why did Trump posts something that didn’t nail the real culprits? According to Johnson, Trump sought to put the real culprits on notice that he had their number. Johnson also lamented that several “holdover” intelligence types were still on the job, and still undermining Trump. Media response to Johnson’s remarks consisted of: crickets. Even President Trump and his people ignored that – perhaps more evidence of Trump’s lack of imagination and situational awareness. Two weeks later, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano alleged on the air that Obama had asked GCHQ to spy on Trump. Obama did this, according to Napolitano, to keep “American fingerprints” off the spy operation. That claim got Napolitano suspended. Johnson again denied that Obama gave any such order. The initiative came from the highest echelons of British intelligence. Not to say that Obama wouldn’t have been a willing participant – he and the Deep State are allied. But the order didn’t start with him. This was a British operation, with coordination with American Deep State “spooks” outside of the White House. Johnson also appeared on Brian Stelter’s Reliable Sources program on CNN to make, and clarify, his case: https://rumble.com/embed/vsckds/?pub=4teej Motive for British intelligence Johnson provided a YouTube link to that interview, from an account calling itself “Very Dicey.” Sadly, Google erased the Very Dicey account – and furthermore, Very Dicey suffered de-hosting and deplatforming from “Old Twitter.” But the Wayback Machine has links to the first capture of the video, the Very Dicey site, and his Twitter account as they stood on March 19, 2017. Johnson also provided a link to a “hit piece” in The New York Times. Incredibly, they credited GCHQ with warning people about Russian hacking of Democratic National Committee emails. In this regard, Johnson almost laughs at British intelligence for leaving such a hole in their story: Here’s another one–if the Brits knew that the Russians were hacking the DNC emails then how did they completely miss the Russians passing that info to one Julian Assange, who happens to be holed up in London in the Ecuadorian Embassy? To this date the Brits have not provided one shred of evidence to prove that Assange got the DNC emails from the Russians. Why would British intelligence do this? Larry Johnson speculates that Trump, wanting to get out of endless wars, “direct[ly] threat[ened] British interests.” Recall that Trump insisted that NATO needed to pay some of the price America had been paying since NATO’s founding. Trump even questioned NATO’s very reason for existing. Finally, said Johnson, all this effort by British intelligence turned up – nothing. If they had, we would be having a far different conversation. If you spy on someone and produce actionable intelligence, the conversation turns to that intelligence, not to how you got it – even if your spies have to come in from the cold. But if you find nothing, then you’re always trying to deny looking for it to begin with. Which is what Obama and Hillary Clinton did, and British intelligence continues to do. Russia wants anybody but Trump But the more salient revelation from Messrs. Taibbi, Shellenberger and Gutentag is that Vladimir Putin never wanted Trump as President. In fact he still doesn’t. Reuters quotes him on that, saying Joe Biden is more predictable. This of course gives the lie to Fiona Hill’s accusation to The Guardian that Putin sees Trump as an asset. How can we know that’s a lie? Because the Racket Substack piece tells us that American intelligence told that same lie on another January 6. On January 6, 2017, James Clapper published this Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) saying Vladimir Putin had ordered an “influence campaign” against Hillary Clinton in the Election of 2016. That’s another lie. According to the Racket piece’ sources, Putin supported Hillary Clinton, not Trump. He considered Trump “mercurial,” meaning all over the place – and Hillary “manageable and reflecting continuity.” That we have from the House Intelligence Committee – or rather three anonymous tipsters close to that Committee and its investigation. This was back when then-Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) ran that Committee. In February of 2018, then-Chairman Nunes released a damning memo excoriating the FBI for malfeasance and cover-up in their obtaining warrants from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to spy on Trump campaign figures in 2016. Efforts to suppress the story NBC also published a timeline, going clear back to 2015, of events leading up to that memo. That timeline shows that the FBI spying began at least on October 21, 2016. It further shows that Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), then the Ranking Member, undermined Nunes every chance he got. Despite specious House Ethics Committee complains, Devin Nunes doggedly continued his investigation. Democrats and their tame editors denounced the Nunes Memo on its release. But Inspector General Michael Horowitz vindicated it a year later. But the Racket team relies on more than the Nunes Memo. They cite several sources as saying the ICA had no evidence to substantiate it. They also cite John Brennan’s brazen boast, in his book Undaunted, that he personally overruled dissenting opinion about the ICA. Indeed, a few days before the election, the FBI backed off the Trump-Russia allegation, according to The New York Times. In December, the FBI and CIA both briefed the Senate. According to The Washington Post, they evidently couldn’t keep their stories straight. A week later, again from the Post, both agencies were toeing the same line. But when former FBI Director James Comey testified to the House in 2020, he nearly gave the game away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j0f6c-3x6s Analysis In short, the three-letter agencies allegedly behind the ICA didn’t get their stories straight until halfway through December. The single best “internal control” that tells us how Vladimir Putin really felt, is this week’s Reuters piece. If Vladimir Putin today would rather have Joe Biden than Donald Trump, then we can believe he wanted Hillary Clinton and not Trump. More tellingly, British intelligence has its fingerprints all over the Trump-Russia Hoax. Christopher Steele, author of the infamous eponymous Dossier, was an MI6 agent. We can now regard that association as typical and integral, not a one-off. Today the British repeatedly insist on more support for Ukraine in the Russia-Ukraine War. Joe Biden will sign new authorizations of military and financial aid to that money laundry almost as fast as he’ll sign “writs of assistance” over the January 6 Event. British intelligence knows this, and what they did in 2016, they’ll do again. James Madison, framer of the Bill of Rights (and especially Amendments II, III, and IV), could have told the American people not to trust the British. America learned that lesson during the War of 1812. Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, and the third time it’s enemy action. Ian Fleming With all due respect to Mr. Fleming’s memory, Americans must now wonder whether James Bond, had he existed, would have gotten orders to come to America on a mission inimical to, not protective of, human liberty. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/02/17/foundation/constitution/british-intelligence-obama-spied-trump/ The Larry Johnson piece: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/update-president-trump-was-victim-espionage-both-foreign/ The Racket piece: https://www.racket.news/p/wmd-part-ii-cia-cooked-the-intelligence Trump’s accusations against Obama: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837989835818287106 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837993273679560704 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837994257566863360 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837996746236182529 Ben Rhodes’ retort: https://twitter.com/brhodes/status/838032637990166531 Video: Larry Johnson tells Russia Today who gave the surveillance orders: https://rumble.com/v4dwgo9-dc-insiders-seek-to-defeat-donald-trump-even-in-aftermath-of-his-victory-ex.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Video: Larry Johnson v. Brian Stelter: https://rumble.com/vuyqga-larry-johnson-takes-on-brian-stelter-on-trump-spy-story.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Wayback Machine links from Very Dicey: https://web.archive.org/web/20170320005920/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uawwr74nSsA https://web.archive.org/web/20170320005920/https://www.verydicey.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20170320005920/https://twitter.com/VeryDicey Reuters: Putin wants Biden https://www.reuters.com/world/putin-says-he-prefers-more-predictable-biden-over-trump-2024-02-14/ The Guardian: Fiona Hill says Putin considers Trump an asset https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/20/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-us-elections-2024-moscow The Intelligence Community Assessment: https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/press-releases-2017/3035-odni-statement-on-declassified-intelligence-community-assessment-of-russian-activities-and-intentions-in-recent-u-s-elections The Nunes Memo and timeline: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/house-intelligence-committee-memo-read-full-transcript-gop-memo-n844116 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/timeline-here-s-how-nunes-memo-came-be-released-n844131 Articles in the Times and Post about the FBI’s ambivalent attitudes: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/politics/fbi-russia-election-donald-trump.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-and-cia-give-differing-accounts-to-lawmakers-on-russias-motives-in-2016-hacks/2016/12/10/c6dfadfa-bef0-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-blames-putins-personal-grudge-against-her-for-election-interference/2016/12/16/12f36250-c3be-11e6-8422-eac61c0ef74d_story.html Hearing with James Comey before the House: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j0f6c-3x6s Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Electric grid – Federal excuse for interdependence By Terry A. Hurlbut The federal government, in its continued psychological and ideological war with Texas, knows it has a problem. Since the Texas Annexation of 1845, Texans have always considered themselves a nation-state apart, in federal union for convenience only. That convenience has been mainly for protection, beginning with the Mexican War or “Mr. Polk’s War.” (Any war is “Mr. President’s War” to those who oppose it, any President waging it, or both.) But now the federal government has reneged on the very premise of continued Texas union. Democratic Members of Congress know this, and have come up with a new excuse to entice Texas to stay in the Union. That excuse is the creation of a single, continent-wide electric grid. But doing so would be not only unconstitutional but the opposite of what electric infrastructure planners should be doing. Overview of the nation’s electric grid The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) maintains all electric grid interconnections in North America. Four big electric grid interconnections serve the continental United States, and Canada south of Inuit Nunaangat and Yukon. They are the Eastern, Western, Quebec, and Texas Interconnections. In 2009, various authorities laid plans to build a new Tres Amigas Superstation, in a triangular region with Roswell and Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Amarillo, Texas at its corners. It was to use superconductors that could carry 5 GW of electric power. But to date no one has started construction. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) manages the Texas Interconnection, which covers 90 percent of the State of Texas. At present, the western tip of El Paso County lies within the Western Interconnection, and the northwestern half of the Texas Panhandle, plus two regions in eastern Texas, lie within the Eastern. The Western Interconnection also extends south of California for a short distance into Mexico (specifically, Baja California Del Norte). In 2021, the Texas electric grid famously shut down. An usually harsh winter froze wind turbine blades, covered solar panels, and cooled natural gas pumps to a non-functioning point. That incident struck fear into Texas hearts – Texas had suffered blackouts before, but none like this. The Texas Nationalist Movement blames federal subsidies that encouraged wind power at the expense of fossil-fueled power. Texas Democrats team up with The Squad Sandow Lakes Energy is planning to build a new natural-gas plant that will generate 1.2 GW of power. Interestingly, this plant will exactly replace the generating capacity of a 1.2 GW coal-fired plant that shut down in 2018. But Rep. Greg Casar (D-Austin/San Antonio) has another idea, reflecting his environmentalist leanings. He wants to compel ERCOT to join formally with the Eastern Interconnection at first, then the Western as well. Reportage on his proposal comes from The Hill, KPRC-TV Channel 2 (NBC) of Houston, and The Austin American-Statesman. The Connect the Grid Act would require ERCOT to come under the purview of the Federal Electricity Reliability Commission (FERC). Currently ERCOT is exempt from FERC regulation; this bill would strike that. It would also amend current law to require new transmission, but not generating, capacity as part of a reliability standard. Current law requires neither thing. Furthermore, the new law would require, as a “priority” in deciding on new transmission capacity, “outreach” to: • Tribal and indigenous communities and their government, and • “Environmental justice communities.” The Act defines an environmental justice community as: a community with significant representation of communities of color, low-income communities, or Tribal and Indigenous communities that experiences, or is at risk of experiencing, higher or more adverse human health or environmental effects. Timeline and sponsorships Channel 2 (Houston) teased out this timeline from the bill’s text: • No later than 6 months after enactment: FERC convenes a technical conference to explore ways to make the connection happen. • One year: ERCOT, the Southwest Power Pool, the Mid-continent Independent System Operator, and one or more neighboring balancing authorities submit a plan that designates entities to construct new transmission facilities, or modify existing transmission facilities. • January 1, 2035: all new transmission lines to be in place. Channel 2 failed to mention one other thing: studying the “benefits” of more connections with Mexico. These would go deeper than the northernmost portion of “Baja del Norte,” though the sponsors gave no details. Rep. Casar has sponsorships all over Texas – and outside of Texas. Sponsors in the House include Reps. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas), Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), Veronica Escobar (D-Texas), Sylvia Garcia (D-Texas), Al Green (D-Texas), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas). Beyond Texas, they include Reps. Troy Carter (D-La.), Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-Mo.), Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.), Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.). They also include Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) - charter members of The Squad. Finally, Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) has already introduced a Senate version. He and “AOC” routinely collaborate on environmentalist and similar bills. Rescuing the Texas electric grid – or making it more vulnerable? In a press release from Rep. Casar, he and several co-sponsors gave the rationale for the Connect the Grid Act. To start with, they presented this legislation as a rescue operation, on these two premises: • The Texas Deep Freeze of 2021 (Winter Storm Uri) could happen again, and • Only full ties between and among all electric grid interconnections, including the Texas grid, can prevent it. They also couched their proposal as a benefit to the rest of the country – from surplus solar and wind energy. But that ignores the intermittency of both these methods – which notoriously failed during the 2021 Deep Freeze. Last week, Houston Chronicle Columnist Bill King recommended enlarging generating capacity within Texas. He observed that wind power has heavy federal subsidies – but asserted that solar does not. King also admitted that solar and wind produce abundant cheap power – when the sun shines and the wind blows. Though he mentioned technologies to store electricity, the only such technology he mentioned was battery power. Other methods exist in addition (more below). But, unable to help themselves, Casar and his colleagues gave their real rationale. They blamed lack of federal regulation for the Deep Freeze and every ill they could invent that Texas is “suffering.” But they also mentioned shortchanging large industrial and commercial users, in the name of “environmental justice.” Terms like “equity” in its various forms peppered their press release. Texas Nationalist Movement: nothing doing! The Texas Nationalist Movement yesterday condemned, in no uncertain terms, any connection of the Texas electric grid with other grids. https://twitter.com/TexasNatMov/status/1758215300598947937 https://twitter.com/TexasNatMov/status/1758227028669804796 TNM head Dan Miller said this, in the video embedded above: Well, if you love what’s happening at the Texas border, then you are absolutely going to love what the federal government wants to do to the Texas power grid. AOC and the poster children for mismanagement and dysfunction in the U.S. Congress want to take control of the Texas power grid. It wasn’t enough for them to push their green energy grift and plunge us into darkness in 2021. Now they want to connect our grid to other States, where rolling blackouts are a way of life. Imagine Snowpocalypse 2021, but every month! And not only that, but their proposal wants to force the Texas grid to connect with Mexico. The federal government can’t even manage the border or federal debt, and now they want to be in charge of your light switch. It’s time to tell the Feds that we wouldn’t trust them in an outhouse with a muzzle on, and we definitely don’t trust them with our power grid. It is well past time for us to Texit. Comments to the Channel 2 (Houston) article were almost universally negative. “AOC” especially got calls to stay on her side of the Texas state line and “out of Texas business.” One commenter left this insightful analysis: Those who think Texas being connected to the other grids in February 2021 [would have solved the problem] seem to forget that those other grids were stressed too. It was a national weather front impacting the entire country, those same people forget that importing energy from too far away involves such inefficiencies as to negate most of the benefit. Not to sound like a conspiracy buff either but looking at federal government "solutions" over the years doesn't exactly inspire confidence that they would handle the perception of grid problems any better. Perhaps if those liberal states spent more time improving their own lot, Texas wouldn't have to provide so much power to all their refugees even as their grids fail worse than ours (California, for example). If power generation reliability due to weather is so important, the feds can offer serious tax credits to upgrade all the components, not low cost loans the industry isn't interested in. If it is also so important to improve capacity issues, the feds can subsidize natural gas plants the way they do "renewables" and private enterprise will jump on the bandwagon like ducks on a June bug. Too many people are convinced connecting distant grids will save the day when there are practical limits to how far the power can travel, even if billions are spent upgrading transmission lines...we're not going to be "saved" by power from Canada/upper New York even if they happen to have excess capacity and far better weather conditions, which is unlikely in most scenarios. Most of the deaths attributed to the storm were in fact caused by people making bad decisions. Throwing huge sums of money under the pretense of reliability when their real goal is to force Texas to follow more federal regulations so we can mimic the failures of liberal states is silly. Mr. Miller and this Houston resident are correct. The larger an electric grid, the more bad decisions in one area affect all other areas. This applies especially to the Western Interconnection, after Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) has shut down much of California’s generating capacity. Now, of course, he must tell owners of those electric vehicles he asked them to buy, not to charge them. Whenever a “progressive” offers a problem they say is a rescue of you, run, don’t walk, away. Other regions of the country would derive no practical benefit from a broader interconnection. The proposal goes further than forcing Texas to accept interdependence. It would also visit upon the Eastern Interconnection the consequences of bad decisions in the Western. This proposal also violates the spirit, if not the letter, of the Constitution’s guarantee of “a republican form of government.” Taking over the Texas electric grid would amount to relegating Texas to a province, not a State. That’s totally antithetical to “a republican form of government,” and likely to infuriate rank-and-file Texans once they understand the implications. How Texas can protect and harden its own electric grid Texas would do well to protect its own electric grid by reversing some of the bad decisions by ERCOT. (That applies especially to those by former members of the Council who do not even live in Texas!) Texas must, as Bill King warned, repair its disastrously vulnerable fuel mix. Tellingly, it will build a natural gas plant to replace – exactly – a coal plant that shut down six years ago. Texas should also build a nuclear generator – the kind of thing even Elon Musk is on record as encouraging. The Texas electric grid could also become a demonstration project for storage of electricity. Battery farms, like the one Elon Musk is building near Angleton, Texas, are a good start. But Texas should explore other methods of storing energy – like gravity batteries. A firm called Energy Vault is building such a battery in Texas. It uses heavy bricks, and dynamic cranes that generate electricity while lowering them. That could be the cheapest solution, and the easiest to locate. Other gravity solutions include: • Raising and lowering a dead weight inside an abandoned mine shaft, and • Pumping water upstream of a dam to store power between reservoirs. But the “pumped hydro” system is very expensive, in parts, labor, and usable land. The mine-shaft idea suffers from the drawback that the supply of mine shafts is limited. Mind your own business! But any kind of storage solution is far preferable to interconnection. Texas is prepared to atone for its own bad decisions, including those leading to the Deep Freeze. Texas has no reason to make itself vulnerable to anyone else’s bad decisions. And Rep. AOC needs to hear one message she’s already getting from those Houston residents: MYOB. First attributed to the late advice columnist Ann Landers, it means: mind your own business. Texas is absolutely correct to attend to its own business, and tell AOC to mind hers. About the NERC map User Claude Boucher uploaded this map to Wikimedia Commons on May 11, 2009. He has licensed it under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-alike 3.0 Unported License. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/02/16/foundation/constitution/electric-grid-federal-excuse-interference/ Connect the Grid Act full text: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24428462/connect-the-grid-act.pdf Channel 2 report: https://www.click2houston.com/news/investigates/2024/02/15/houston-lawmakers-aoc-push-texas-ercot-to-join-other-power-grids/ Rep. Casar’s press release: https://casar.house.gov/media/press-releases/news-congressman-greg-casar-introduces-connect-grid-act Texas Nationalist Movement: Home: https://tnm.me/ Posts protesting the Connect the Grid Act: https://twitter.com/TexasNatMov/status/1758215300598947937 https://twitter.com/TexasNatMov/status/1758227028669804796 Report about Energy Vault’s projects: https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/two-massive-gravity-batteries-are-nearing-completion-in-the-us-and-china Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Disney leaders always were woke By Terry A. Hurlbut The Walt Disney Company has never been in the “civil war” many influencers thought was raging at its corporate offices. An investigative journalist – the same one who broke the Reimagine Tomorrow story in April of 2022 – has revealed that the one man everyone thought was a friend, was an enemy. In fact, thanks to Christopher F. Rufo, we now know that Disney steered hard left three days after Joe Biden took office. This might or might not have to do with Bob Iger’s Presidential ambitions. But it shows that even Bob Chapek suffered from the Woke Mind Virus that Elon Musk has repeatedly described. This revelation tells us all we need to know about Disney, which is that someone needs to take over that company, hold it up by its collective ankles, and shake it. Even then, the company might be beyond all help. Review of Disney history Herewith a review of company history, which CNAV has covered here and here. The Disney company began, of course, with Walt Disney (1901-66) and his brother Roy (1893-1971). In 1923 they founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, which later took Walt Disney’s name exclusively. The other name changes mean precious little; the big thing to remember is that the Walt Disney company stood for quality content that appealed to innocence. Disney is most famous for its cartoon characters, like Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and all their friends. But they also produced original cartoons from children’s stories from a variety of courses. They of course included Wilhelm and Jakob Grimm (Snow White, Cinderella, et al.) and J. M. Barrie (Peter Pan). Eventually they branched out into live-action film. They paid well and thus produced some of the most memorable films in the Western world. In this they drew from sources like Jules Verne (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea) and P. L. Travers (Mary Poppins). But Walt Disney also planned to build an entire city that would prove concepts of futuristic living. He called it Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow – EPCOT for short. At first he thought of taking over the site of the 1964 New York World’s Fair. Disney also considered sites in New Jersey, the Washington, D.C. area, St. Louis, even Palm Beach. Finally the company settled on central Florida. EPCOT and Reedy Creek And that’s when they bought all that land in Orange and Osceola Counties, and proposed the Reedy Creek Improvement District. That District was never supposed to exist merely for theme parks! The Walt Disney Company planned to build a city, in which no one would own anything but everyone would have a job, and the city would govern itself without regard to any authorities in Orange or Osceola Counties. To lobby then-Governor Haydon Burns, Disney produced a short film – the EPCOT film. https://youtu.be/sLCHg9mUBag Worth noting, incidentally, is that Arthur C. Clark featured the original EPCOT concept in his novel 2010: Odyssey Two. But this futuristic city would never happen. Walt Disney died even before Burns’ successor Charles Kirk signed the Reedy Creek Improvement Act into law. With no living person to advocate as effectively for it, the city concept died within two years. And for more than ten years after that, Walt Disney World consisted only of the Magic Kingdom Park and several themed hotels and at least one “residential hotel” facility: Disney Village. Eventually EPCOT did come into being, but not as a city. Instead the EPCOT Center opened as just another theme park, but more like a continuing world’s fair. It consists of: • Futureworld, with pavilions dedicated to a wide variety of technological visions including sea, land, energy, and medicine, and • The World Showcase, with no fewer than nine national pavilions featuring history and even food from each country. EPCOT center always was problematic Futureworld always had a problem. To the extent that it ever accurately predicted the future, the “future” would become the present. This happened in 1993, when NASA laid on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope – in orbit. The AT&T Geosphere ride ended with a display of two astronauts repairing a satellite in orbit – and that was supposed to be in the future! Disney had to rip out all the pavilions to update them. The World Showcase had its own problems. Start with the overpriced novelties, foodstuffs, and other souvenirs. Add to it that the United States Pavilion had the beginnings of “woke” even in 1993. But all this reflected a deeper problem, one that other great creators noticed. Among them: J. R. R. Tolkien, who adamantly refused to let Disney adapt any of his work. Not for animated cartoons, or for any other kind of feature. Even before 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Tolkien sampled a few Mickey Mouse cartoons and other fairy-tale adaptations. At once he saw what was wrong: Walt Disney “dumbed everything down.” He took a patronizing attitude toward his children’s audience, assuming that they wouldn’t understand sophisticated concepts like decision-making and morality. Tolkien, by all accounts, was ready to vomit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwxHMWZBMSI To him, fairy tales were morality plays, and one should dramatize them as such. Tolkien himself wrote for audiences varying in age from “middle school” to high school. (Producer Peter Jackson adapted The Lord of the Rings at adult level.) When Disney decided to go woke Bob Iger took over as CEO of Disney in 2005, and salted the company with Alphabet Soup and other leftist “creatives” and engineers. When Bob Chapek took over in 2020, people might have thought changes would come. As Christopher F. Rufo now reveals, they were sadly mistaken. How Rufo obtained this conference-call video, he won’t say. The video he now has, dates from January 23, 2021 – three days after the Inauguration. Viewing the linked content requires a paid subscription.. But Rufo posted part of it to X: https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1757494954895815142 https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1757829650909401088 Rufo provided a full transcript of his five minutes of footage. Here is the transcript of the part of the video he shared to X: I mean, Bob [Chapek] has talked about this eloquently since he’s become CEO. I’ll say a couple of things about it. We’ve tended to shy away from politics, and in doing so, I think we’ve shied away from talking about issues that aren’t political at all, like the issues that we’re talking about today, because we believe in doing so, maybe it looks like we’re taking a stand. Well, in that reality, we should be taking a stand. By the way, I take responsibility for this. I was CEO for 15 years, and so I manage the company’s public-facing processes and how we were portraying ourselves. And I think that we have to be less cautious as Bob, I think, was just alluding to about such things and not be concerned. Just commenting about what happened in Washington last week, that’s not political on our part at all. We know that what we saw was fundamentally wrong and that it was rooted in hatred and disrespect and contempt and intolerance, and we should feel free as a company to comment about that without retribution. Another thing I want to say that I’ve learned these last 9 to 12 months is I’m very proud of a lot of the work we’ve done in terms of diversity inclusion on screen. When we did Coco, for instance, at Pixar, a great example of that, or Tiana, or of course Black Panther is one of the great examples of that, I allowed those things to make me feel a bit complacent in a sense. It’s not that I wanted to be that way, but I thought, “Wow, we did Black Panther. How great are we?” And it caused me to not focus as much as I should have on the culture of the company and the environment and on the voices that were telling those stories as opposed to just how they were being portrayed on the screen. Bob Chapek then followed up with an announcement that the company would spend a lot of money on non-white “communities.” This would involve: • 50% of “charitable giving” to “underrepresented communities,” and • Spending as much as $1 billion a year buying from “diverse suppliers.” From that to Latoya Raveneau’s “not-at-all-secret [Alphabet Soup] agenda” was a much smaller step than anyone knew. https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1508912865293619202 https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1508926408332034049 https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1508934581092765700 https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1508939718288936967 https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1508937431520890888 https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1509201394485583876 More to the point, Disney threw in completely with Democratic Party talking points about the January 6 Event. Had that company, with all its resources, bothered to investigate that event properly, it might have discovered that it was a false-flag pseudo-operation. They treated it as the explosion of a political movement more dangerous than German National Socialism in the last century. Further troubles That was only the beginning of Disney’s troubles. When a major entertainment company tells stories comparing half their audience to the kind of people who starved, baked, experimented on, and did other atrocious things to six million people because they followed the original religion unchanged since Abraham, and another four million because they thought them genetically inferior or something of the kind, they might as well tell that half of their audience that they are “unpersons,” as George Orwell might have said. Suddenly those “unpersons” won’t buy their products, or tickets to their parks – all of which are overpriced anyway. They’ll look for other sources of entertainment, and those sources are already arising. They include Daily Wire, Bentkey, and the coming American Heartland Park. In the meantime, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) has relentlessly legislated against them. This did not start with his Parental Rights in Education Act, regardless of what the company said afterward. https://twitter.com/WaltDisneyCo/status/1508494672817123330 The governor started with taking Reedy Creek away from Disney. Which should have happened sooner – who did Walt Disney think he would become, the Duke of Reedy Creek? It would have been unconstitutional to let that remain. Article I Section 10 Clause 1 clearly forbids States to grant titles of nobility. The company sued, claiming retaliation – and recently a court threw that lawsuit out. And the company continued to ruin every intellectual property it acquired. The latest Now, of course, Disney is in a proxy war with corporate troubleshooter Nelson Peltz. Peltz may, or may not, have taken the revelation that Disney shelved a movie titled Sound of Freedom – which went on to gross more than $250 million worldwide on a combined production and promotional budget of $20 million. In any case, the company refuses to abandon The Message, and as a result is now under attack from three different directions. Besides the proxy fight and the Reedy Creek debacle, Actress Gina Carano is suing the company over her unceremonious firing. Bad enough that they terminated her without the courtesy of a telephone call or any other communication. They defamed her in public, and certain leftist activists carried their activism to the point of stalking her. (And, indeed, threatening her with death!) So she alleges in her complaint; see the docket page here. Indeed that complaint speaks volumes about hypocrisy on Disney’s part, and the part of the government whose side they took in January 2021. From the complaint, we now learn that someone mistakenly copied Carano on an email predating that January conference by two weeks. Two days after the January 6 Event, the company was looking for a scapegoat “to deflect from [Chapek]’s failed leadership.” And that occasioned the post that finally led to her termination! In other words, Disney did more than fire her. They set her up, over a campaign that lasted a very long time. Disney to suffer its worst embarrassment CNAV appreciates the work of certain YouTube influencers in bringing the case of Carano v. Disney to its attention. But we wonder whether any of them read the complaint. It tells a story of a campaign against her lasting long before her termination, and also reveals that Disney and Lucasfilm “cast” (including Mark Hamill, who destroyed his iconic character in Star Wars Eight) had afflicted themselves with the Woke Mind Virus. That surely ought to concern anyone who mourns for a once-great franchise. But this case still promises the worst embarrassment the company has ever faced. Carano is asking for reinstatement – which probably would be useless – and damages that could amount to millions of dollars. (An earlier report of her seeking $75,000 is incomplete; that’s only the minimum damages a federal case requires.) She also demands trial by jury, which can only proceed under a welter of publicity. Pre-trial discovery will cause the worst embarrassment. Apart from the origins of that January 8 email, and the role of Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy in trying to wreck Carano’s career, discovery will reveal how deep the rot goes. This, plus the Rufo Release this week, will infuriate investors and cause them to look for a new CEO. Where the case could go CNAV must give one cautionary note: Carano’s case is in the hands of Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett, a Biden appointee. The case also needs a magistrate judge, but the first one (Pat Donahue) has already ducked the case. And now Gina Carano has added another famous name to her legal team: Eugene Volokh, of Volokh Conspiracy fame. Volokh is an attorney with the same firm (Schaerr Jaffe LLP) that took her case. Apparently Carano added Volokh because Donald Falk, an earlier “local counsel,” was disqualified for not having an office in California’s Central District. Volokh talked about her case shortly after her firing, as did his colleague Robby Soave at Reason. All this is part of the public record. More to the point, Eugene Volokh is a First Amendment expert and will prove a formidable match for Judge Garnett. The revelations over the past two days cannot fail to substantiate the key allegations in Gina Carano’s complaint. (And also give some investors a cause of action against Iger, Chapek, and Kennedy for dereliction of fiduciary duty.) Obviously the machinations have already begun. Elon Musk himself hired Shaeer Jaffe to represent Carano, and he might involve himself in the proxy fight as well. But whether any of this is enough to repair the damage to Disney, is anyone’s guess. Perhaps what Disney really needs is some of the talent of the kind that have adapted Tolkien’s work earlier. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/02/15/editorial/talk/disney-leaders-always-woke/ The EPCOT Film: https://youtu.be/sLCHg9mUBag Why J. R. R. Tolkien refused to work with Disney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwxHMWZBMSI Christopher Rufo’s latest revelation: https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1757494954895815142 https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1757829650909401088 https://christopherrufo.com/p/the-moment-disney-went-political Christopher Rufo’s earlier series: https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1508912865293619202 https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1508926408332034049 https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1508934581092765700 https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1508939718288936967 https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1508937431520890888 https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1509201394485583876 Disney statement on the anti-grooming bill: https://twitter.com/WaltDisneyCo/status/1508494672817123330 Carano v. Disney et al.: Docket page: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68228150/gina-carano-v-the-walt-disney-company/ Complaint: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.913921/gov.uscourts.cacd.913921.1.0.pdf Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Border security – impeachment and secession By Terry A. Hurlbut The border security issue saw three developments yesterday that shows how “hot” it has become. In the morning, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) traded barbs over Cornyn’s vote on a foreign-aid bill for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan (and Gaza, too!) that offered nothing for border security. Next, the Texas Nationalist Movement brought their petitions supporting secession to the Governor’s office, asking for a special legislative session. Finally, yesterday evening, the House of Representatives impeached SecHomeSec Alejandro Mayorkas by the margin of a single vote. More likely this will put Democrats and RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) on the spot during this election cycle. But it also represents the greatest pressure the Uniparty has ever faced. Foreign aid bill – border security out, impeachment trap in Late Sunday night, while the Kansas City Chiefs were successfully defending their Super Bowl title against the San Francisco Forty-niners, the Senate passed a $95 billion foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and – even less credibly – Gaza. The vote was 70 to 29, with 22 Republicans and 48 Democrats voting “Aye.” The “Nay” votes included two Democrats (Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and Peter Welch, D-Vt.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Those three, according to Cullen Linebarger at The Gateway Pundit, voted “Nay” over the Israel part of the package. The 22 Republicans voting “Aye” included Mitch McConnell (Ky.), John Boozman (Ark.), Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.), Susan Collins (Maine), Jerry Moran (Kansas), Mitt Romney (Utah), Thom Tillis (N.C.), Roger Wicker (Miss.), Todd Young (Ind.), and the entire Senate delegations of North and South Dakota, Louisiana, Idaho, Iowa, and Alaska. They also included Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas). Attorney General Ken Paxton was furious. Cullen Linebarger found quite an exchange on X. (Warning. Some of these posts expressed disdain for Sen. Cornyn in very impolite language. Parental judgment and discretion are advised.) https://twitter.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/1757377123902201873 https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn/status/1757412800488407479 https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1757420677139681530 https://twitter.com/BuzzPatterson/status/1757441233134465203 https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1757417128737607702 https://twitter.com/SunshineSass2/status/1757422850925793480 https://twitter.com/RobManess/status/1757425563143381266 https://twitter.com/Gigi_Tx6/status/1757549796456370454 https://twitter.com/MQSullivan/status/1757420118059983083 Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), Speaker of the House, refuses even to consider the Senate bill. https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1757210505570087039 Sen. Cornyn will not stand for reelection until 2026. Mr. Linebarger suggested that Cornyn should “bail like many establishment RINOs before him.” Several Republican House Members have resigned already or announced their intention not to seek reelection. The Texas Nationalist Movement sees an opportunity The Texas Nationalist Movement still had on hand the signatures, most of them electronic, they had gathered last year on petitions to place the question of Texas secession on the Republican and Democratic primary ballots. Yesterday afternoon they took all those signature documents to the office of Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas). https://twitter.com/TexasNatMov/status/1757437587558711579 https://twitter.com/TexasNatMov/status/1757464576055292100 https://twitter.com/TexasNatMov/status/1757468904140812737 https://twitter.com/DeanRoss34/status/1757518044396482623 Gov. Abbott has, thus far, not commented. The San Antonio Current, which has expressed disdain for the Movement and its goals, expressed that same disdain yesterday. They did quote Dan Miller, head of the TNM, in his address to supporters at the Texas Capitol: Today, we bring those same names, those same petition signatures, plus all the Democrats who signed the petition who wanted a vote as well, to show beyond a shadow of a doubt that this is an issue that transcends partisan divide and is, in fact, an issue of the people of Texas versus an entrenched political establishment. But they also cited a British study saying 67% of likely Texas voters would reject Texas Independence in any referendum. Still, 23% would support independence. The crosstabs show that Texas independence finds greater support among Trump voters than Biden voters. That same poll suggested that a plurality of the sample said the United States should allow any State to secede if a majority of its voters support that step. Redfield and Wilton Strategies reported that poll out on February 7, 2024 – a week ago. Many things have happened in the ensuing week, things that could change minds. Even without that consideration, Dan Miller insists that TNM enjoys greater support than have similar secession movements at the same or similar stage of the debate. At the end of the day, you're going to see polls like that… If you look at where support is for this issue right now, in this lifecycle of an independence movement, we're outperforming Brexit, we're outperforming Scottish independence and we're outperforming Catalan — and we're outperforming everyone at every stage of the process. More to the point, a February 10 Newsweek poll shows the border security issue has galvanized support for Texas independence. Alejandro Mayorkas impeached over border security But in the most electrifying story yet, the House of Representatives tried again to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security. Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) was back in the House to vote; he had been absent last week. The House voted 214-213 to impeach. https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1757562191459287530 Jim Hoft at The Gateway Pundit linked to and quoted President Joe Biden’s outraged reaction. In it Biden, of course, defended his Cabinet officer, and blamed Republicans for not passing “bipartisan” border security legislation. He neglected to mention that the legislation freely admits 5,000 migrants per day before any border shutdown can take place. He also failed to mention that the bill largely provides for an army of “immigration judges” bearing rubber stamps. Mayorkas becomes the first cabinet officer since William Belknap, President U.S. Grant’s War Secretary, to face impeachment. Mr. Belknap faced trial in 1876, not over any policy difference, but over self-dealing and a lifestyle too lavish even by the lax standards that then prevailed. He resigned minutes before the House voted, but they impeached him anyway. The Senate supported the five Impeachment Articles – but by simple majorities, not two-thirds. Thus, he walked – but he never held office of honor, trust or profit ever again. This time, Mayorkas’ supporters told NPR and Axios that his impeachment was over a policy difference, hence unworthy. NPR cited “experts” who seemed to find the immigration laws discretionary – and subject to Mayorkas’ sole discretion as SecHomeSec. Gov. Abbott paid due attention: https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1757611031310852137 What next on the impeachment Reps. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.), Ken Buck (R-Colo.), and Mike Gallagher (R-Wisc.) joined all voting Democrats to vote against impeachment. McClintock even went on record saying the impeachment would go nowhere. Sen. Charles M. Schumer (D-N.Y.), the Majority Leader, apparently has sole discretion on whether to try the case. Furthermore, no one expects Mayorkas to lose his job. But the Impeachment Articles do put the Senate and Schumer on the spot on border security. Schumer sees no reason to spare the Democrats any embarrassment, because in his view, people expect nothing else from Democrats than to open the border and let in millions of prospective Democrat voters to replace the voters whose mothers aborted them away during the Roe era. No doubt he himself sees that as their duty. But will he “take one for the team” to spare Republicans from embarrassment? Or does he think Republicans can embarrass themselves only by voting for impeachment? No one knows – so no one knows what he will do with those Articles once he receives them. What next on other questions The other two controversies illustrate that RINOs might again be in hunting season. Twenty-one other Republican Senators besides Sen. Cornyn showed that they want to admit cheap labor. They little know that the kind of mendicants showing up at the border will vote for socialism. (Or that the Chinese nationals of military age will likely await orders from Beijing to embark on campaigns of sabotage, or even mass murder, when a Sino-American War breaks out.) The Texas Nationalist Movement is certainly paying attention. When Dan Miller says other secession movements enjoyed less support at the current stage of their campaigns, several experts agree! Newsweek quoted Matt Qvortrup, author of an apparent primer on secession, thus: These are not bad polls. In fact, they suggest that those who want “Texit” are at the same level of support as those who supported Brexit in 2010—and, of course, that changed. In Catalonia, Quebec, and in Scotland, support for independence was in the twenties when the issue was first discussed. This has in all cases moved within touching distance of independence. The polls may seem disheartening to those who believe that Texit is imminent. But these percentages should worry those who—like Governor Abbott—who are against Texit. Gov. Abbott is pushing hard on border security, though he secured reelection two years ago, probably for two reasons. First, as Dr. Steve Turley suggests, because Ken Paxton showed him he can. And second – and more important – because he knows border security gives the TNM an entering wedge. He’s had eighteen hours to respond to the delivery of the Texit petitions to his office. If he doesn’t respond, he will have shown fear. Abbott did note one thing: his border security measures have forced the invading migrants to seek pathways of lesser resistance. https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1757435564175827276 Will the federal government file any more lawsuits against Texas? How will the Supreme Court handle them? Will Gov. Abbott call that special session anyway, just to clear a Texas throat and say, “Leave us alone, or else”? Stay tuned. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/02/14/news/border-security-impeachment-secession/ Ken Paxton, John Cornyn, and everyone’s reaction: https://twitter.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/1757377123902201873 https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn/status/1757412800488407479 https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1757420677139681530 https://twitter.com/BuzzPatterson/status/1757441233134465203 https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1757417128737607702 https://twitter.com/SunshineSass2/status/1757422850925793480 https://twitter.com/RobManess/status/1757425563143381266 https://twitter.com/Gigi_Tx6/status/1757549796456370454 https://twitter.com/MQSullivan/status/1757420118059983083 Mike Johnson’s statement: https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1757210505570087039 Texas Nationalist Movement: https://tnm.me/ TNM petition turn-in: https://twitter.com/TexasNatMov/status/1757437587558711579 https://twitter.com/TexasNatMov/status/1757464576055292100 https://twitter.com/TexasNatMov/status/1757468904140812737 https://twitter.com/DeanRoss34/status/1757518044396482623 End Wokeness announces vote on Mayorkas impeachment: https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1757562191459287530 Greg Abbott’s reaction: https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1757611031310852137 Gateston Institute link: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20388/china-infiltrators-us Greg Abbott notes that migrants are crossing elsewhere: https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1757435564175827276 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

SpaceX – the game changer By Terry A. Hurlbut Twenty-two years ago this month, Elon Musk first conceived of a private company that would, on its own, design rocket ships to travel to Mars. That company, now known as Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX, has revolutionized the space launch industry. Next month it will test, for a third time, its proposed Mars colony ship, Starship. The first two Orbital Flight Tests have both ended in failure, but that poses no great hazard to SpaceX today. The real hazard Musk faces is that his vision of a Mars colony is incomplete, and risks bifurcating the human species into two mutually incompatible groups, with one unable ever to visit Earth. Unless he radically changes his proposed Mars city design, his vision will not create “species life insurance” for humanity. Instead it will lay the basis for a tense relationship, if not war. SpaceX begins with mockery The one constant in the history of SpaceX, indeed the influence that spawned the company, is mockery. Elon Musk is a co-founder of PayPal. Late in 2000, the other owners of PayPal threw him out of the company. Happily, he had Buy-Sell agreements with them, so if they wanted him gone, they had to buy him out. Buy him out they did – and left him with $180 million to spend. He started spending it in funding of various projects – including buying a board seat from the Mars Society for $100,000. This opened up contacts with other engineers, including several working on Project Mars Oasis. That project sought to acquire Martian regolith, transform it into arable soil, and grow a plant in it. To get Martian regolith, the project needed a cheap rocket. So Elon Musk and project engineer James Cantrell traveled to Russia, first in October 2001, then in February 2002. They sought to buy a decommissioned Dnepr ICBM to launch a sample-return probe. The Russians laughed at the pair, and quoted them a price of $8 million per missile. Musk knew they would gouge him and his friends unmercifully if they paid that price even once. Refusing, Musk and Cantrell departed Russia. On the flight out, Musk conceived of founding his own company to build rockets at far less expense per launch. SpaceX had its first meeting in a hotel at Los Angeles International Airport. Actual incorporation dates from March 14, 2002. The secret: reusability SpaceX solved the expense problem in a way only a geek/nerd could conceive – and only a genius could make real. How much more expensive would air travel be, he reasoned, if, every time Boeing Group or Airbus Industrie built an airliner, they scrapped it after one flight only! So, as much as possible, rockets must be reusable. For six years the company spent Elon Musk’s millions on development of new rocket engines, then of a booster stage that could actually return to Earth for a landing. SpaceX also developed a new capsule, the Dragon, that could fly several missions after nominal refurbishing. Starting in 2008, SpaceX and NASA each effectively saved the other. NASA provided critical funding for the eventual development of Falcon 9, the first rocket with a reusable booster. Then in 2010, SpaceX sent a Dragon into orbit and retrieved it after two orbits. It could only carry cargo, but that would prove vital – because the Space Shuttle fleet formally retired in 2011. In that same year, NASA paid SpaceX $75 million to redesign Dragon with a proper launch-escape system. SpaceX began launching “Cargo Dragons” in 2012, while continuing to work on the Dragon redesign. In 2020, its efforts paid off, when the first “Crew Dragon” successfully delivered astronauts to the International Space Station, and brought them back to Earth. With that mission, RosKosmos, the Russian space agency, lost its monopoly on launching and returning astronauts. Milestone after milestone Those achievements would be breathtaking enough. But reusable rockets have let SpaceX launch payloads – and crew – at far less cost than anyone else can manage. Today the company offers launches on two kinds of rocket. Falcon 9 takes up middle-weight payloads – or, through the company’s “Ride Share” program, collections of lightweight payloads. Falcon Heavy – with three boosters – take up heavier payloads. At first, every launch of a Falcon 9 had an element of suspense: would it, or would it not, land safely? To make such launches more interesting, the company started landing Falcon 9 boosters on robotic barges. Today, those safe landings are almost as routine as are landings of commercial airliners. At present only the second Falcon stage, or the central core stage of a Falcon Heavy, remains expendable. SpaceX even recovers the fairing – the conical shroud that forms a rocket ship’s nose and protects the payload before the ship leaves the atmosphere. Those parts cost money – big money – and SpaceX doesn’t like to waste them. As a side benefit, the company isn’t polluting or littering the ocean with discarded boosters and fairing halves. (Second stages generally are moving so fast that, if they fall back to Earth, they burn up. The same holds for Falcon Heavy core stages – though SpaceX has conceived of a method of recovering that, also.) SpaceX builds a mega-lifter But the company has never forgotten its real reason for being: to plant a sustainable colony on Mars. Elon Musk chose Mars because, of all the planets in the Solar system, it is the most hospitable – other than Earth itself. That doesn’t say much, but it is no less true. Mercury has no atmosphere, so its surface is subject to tremendous extremes of heat and cold. Venus has a crushing atmosphere. At least one engineer has proposed building a city for Venus – and suspending it in mid-air, with gas-filled balloons. At 30,000 feet, the atmosphere would almost be breathable – if not for its sulfur dioxide content. But that atmosphere has crushed every probe that has parachuted to the planet’s surface. But SpaceX proposes a space city on the surface, and Mars offers the best compromise. So from the beginning, Elon Musk has sought to develop a rocket to deliver crew, equipment and supplies to Mars, and return to Earth. That rocket is Starship. One can think of it as an interplanetary Conestoga wagon – especially since SpaceX plans sending fleets of Starships to Mars. Those fleets would be the wagon trains of our modern age. Starship will have everything one could want in a heavy lifter with minimal cost-to-mass. Literal tankers will refuel those rockets after they reach space, enabling them to get to Mars. And on Mars, crews will use components of the local atmosphere to make fuel for the return trip. Low gravity as boon – and bane But the SpaceX vision has one problem that they have not thought through. Mars is smaller than Earth – and the smaller a planet, the less its gravity. In fact, surface gravity varies directly as a body’s radius, and the mass density of its average substance. For the same reason, so does escape speed from the surface. For all those reasons, surface gravity on Mars, and escape speed from its surface, are 37% of their Earth values. The 63% weight savings makes the difference between success and failure of round trips to Mars. One does not build boosters on Mars – nor does one need them. But surface gravity is another matter. It’s all very well to observe that you can lift objects three times as heavy on Mars than on Earth. True – for the first generation. But crew staying on Mars long-term will start to lose muscle mass from the first day. Doctors have seen it happen to astronauts aboard the Space Station. Not even the station’s gymnasium, with its spring-loaded resistance exercisers, can forestall this. Astronauts lose not only muscle but bone also – and they don’t get it all back. Doctors know all this. They worry that a crew going to Mars and staying there, will eventually not be able to return to Earth. And that’s only the first generation! Succeeding generations will develop long, lean – and delicate – bodies. God designed humans for Earth-standard gravity, and that’s what they need. The civil engineering problem SpaceX offers little but an artist’s concept drawing of a city on Mars, but that drawing speaks volumes. It depicts humans, of typical proportions, watching Starships take off from the safety of transparent domes. If any of the company’s engineers has thought through the long-term health implications of living in little-more-than-one-third gravity, the company gives no sign. That human family, again, will be long, lean, brittle, and not even recognizable as human. Its members – especially the two children – will suffer from claustrophobia. Elon Musk has the right basic concept – that a city in space must be self-sustaining. But the planned execution is seriously flawed, if anyone at SpaceX has a plan at all. Again: successive generations of colonists would lose any ability of the original crew to “lift heavy things and bound around.” No doubt the colony would be self-sustaining, because Mars has abundances of the necessities for life – even ice. But the colonists would never be able to return safely to Earth. Robert A. Heinlein depicted this for an even lighter-gravity environment, namely the Moon – in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Mars might not be a harsh mistress, but it would be a jealous one. And that would create a tremendous social problem. For the first time, humanity would exist as two populations, incompatible for procreation. The difference between Earthers and “Martians” would be worse than interracial – they would be interspecial. Loss of common bonds is one way to start wars. Ask the Russians and the Ukrainians. A nearly forgotten solution Long ago, another visionary conceived of an even more fanciful project: building a vessel similar to Star Trek’s iconic spacecraft. That site exists only on the Wayback Machine today, but that archive has all the original proposed design elements and mission profiles. Two of them involved missions to Mars: • To deliver massive numbers of rovers and specially designed aircraft, including even fixed-wing aircraft, and then: • To build a permanent base on Mars. This visionary knew that humans live and work best in Earth-standard gravity. So he proposed building the entire base as a gigantic beveled centrifuge. It would spin fast enough to simulate standard gravity. Furthermore, it would have an angle calculated so that anyone on board could orient himself to “up” and “down” easily. This solution is available for colonizing Mars or the Moon. One need only adjust the size, spin rate, and bevel angle. This solution affords Earth-standard gravity on any body smaller than Earth. So the ideal Martian city is either one beveled centrifuge, or several, with a transportation network to correct them. Then the colonists would spend most of their time aboard one of these centrifuges – and still “work out.” The larger the centrifuge, the slower it need spin – and the less one risks claustrophobia. The practical application So let the colonists save the low-gravity routine for: • Their spaceport (the most obvious application), • Their vegetable garden (for growing much larger vegetables than one can grow on Earth), and: • A hospital specializing in cardio-pulmonary and cardio-vascular medicine and surgery. The maternity hospital, and the physical medicine and rehabilitation center, must stay on the centrifuge. Gravity plays an integral role during pregnancy, labor-and-delivery, and healing of broken bones. Let SpaceX make this refinement, and their proposed Mars city will work. Mars is an ideal stage for asteroid mining, besides being the hypothetical refuge Elon Musk envisions. The company will make its third attempt to send its space-borne Conestoga wagon into orbit next month. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/02/13/editorial/talk/spacex-game-changer/ SpaceX history: https://history-computer.com/spacex-the-complete-history/ Description of Mars colonization effort: https://www.spacex.com/humanspaceflight/mars/ Medical references on musculo-skeletal atrophy in space: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9818606/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-13461-1 “Build the Enterprise” archives: Main page: https://web.archive.org/web/20200820230127/https://www.buildtheenterprise.org/ Moon and Mars base (description of the beveled centrifuge): https://web.archive.org/web/20201009154323/https://www.buildtheenterprise.org/mars-moon-bases/ Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Democrats divide over Biden By Terry A. Hurlbut The Democrats are already dividing into two camps over Joe Biden’s mental fitness to hold office. One camp is clearly circling the wagons against attacks on Biden and his policies. The other, just as clearly, wants him to get out of the way before he drags down the ticket. That division also affects the Cabinet, still the only body that can judge Presidential ability – other than the President himself. But it could set a trap for Republicans, who must campaign as much against Biden’s policies as against the man. Cause of the division: the Hur Report Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report, as CNAV noted yesterday, has put President Biden’s physical and mental condition into stark relief. Mr. Hur didn’t even try to justify Biden’s wrongful appropriation, possession, and (mis)handling of classified information. All he could do was excuse the man from punishment, and even then he could not excuse what Biden did. His excuse amounted to: mentally incompetent to stand trial. Tellingly, the White House continued to keep a full transcript of the report under wraps. But this much has leaked out: We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory. Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him – by then a former president well into his eighties – of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness. Biden has seen fit to contest the report. At least his handlers have, but he clearly needed no persuasion to try to contest it. But his performance Thursday evening (February 8) was a disaster on several levels. Eerily paralleling Bill Clinton’s denial of improper conduct, he railed at reporters suggesting he shared classified information. https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1755762530012508360 Plenty of evidence, including his ghostwriter caught deleting audio files – and the later recovery of said files showing Biden did share classified information – proves that Biden flat-out lied. Biden would have done better to shout, I don’t know what I’m doing here! Won’t these people leave me alone? Then one might in good conscious excuse him from punishment – so long as he told the world who has been handling him and why. But he’s totally down with The Program, so that will never happen. Democrats circling the wagons Naturally several Democrats want Biden to stay in office. Start with his wife, who doesn’t want to give up her First Lady trappings. Christina Laila at The Gateway Pundit covered a statement she posted to X. In it she tried to deflect from her husband’s misdeeds – and lack of capacity even to understand them. To do that, she mentioned their son Beau. She also flat-out lied about his capacity, trying to represent it as greater than it possibly could be. https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1756489370696081598 Ms. Laila released further evidence the next day that this is not true. Biden spent the weekend in Delaware – and photographers caught his shuffling gait as he left a clothing store. https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1756111376093729024 https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1756481161050685809 SecHomeSec Alejandro Mayorkas and Biden campaign co-chair Mitch Landrieu (no doubt part of the Landrieu Dynasty of Louisiana Democrats) actually called Biden “mentally sharp,” “tough,” “smart,” and “on his game.” They said that to a sympathetic outlet, Meet the (de)Press(ed). Landrieu also said the Hur Report contained “gratuitous, unnecessary and inaccurate personal remarks.” Furthermore he dismissed any sense that Biden was unfit for his job as a steaming, noisome quicksand field. That is to paraphrase him politely. Mayorkas, of course, has his own conduct as SecHomeSec to defend. In Nuremberg defendant fashion, he disclaimed all responsibility for the spectacle of an open U.S. border. He also expressed no regret at Biden’s termination of Donald Trump’s Remain in Mexico policy. For what it’s worth, Lanny Davis accused Robert Hur of speaking out of school – like James Comey. Other Democrats not so sure But other Democrats are not so sure. Hillary Clinton, for one, shared with MSNBC’s Alex Wagner her concern about his age. She went further – by revealing that it is a current whisper topic in the White House. https://twitter.com/WagnerTonight/status/1756153037163209120 Of course, she called Trump’s age “a legitimate issue” as well. But not only is Trump four years younger than Biden, but he is not showing his age. Biden is. The problem with a doddering old fool is never that he’s old, but that he’s doddering. So it is with Biden. Already at least some ideological fellow travelers – who are roughly the same age as he – begin to know it. Hanna Panreck of Fox News quoted The New York Times, one of whose reporters spoke to some of them over the weekend. It pained them to say it – with one saying this election would be between “grandpa and crazy.” A few of them tried to deny it – saying no one who can still ride a bicycle can be that bad. (They neglected to mention that Biden fell off his bicycle – after stopping.) They also raised a repeated issue of society shoving old people aside merely because they are old. But others did not deny it, and mentioned that the spectacle of Biden struggling, struck fear in their hearts. He scares me. Watch how he walks — he walks like a guy who doesn’t have it anymore. Dean Phillips, the one remaining primary challenger And then there’s Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.), the only primary challenger with whom Biden still must deal. A week ago he told The Guardian that he’s staying in the race as “a mission of principle.” When the Hur Report came out, he told Fox News Digital that, in essence, this was “it.” “Another sad day for America and particularly for President Biden and his family,” he said. Then he said something a good deal less charitable: The Report simply affirms what most Americans already know, that the President cannot continue to serve as our Commander-in-Chief beyond his term ending January 20, 2025. Already facing the lowest approval numbers in modern history and losing in each of the key battleground states, this Report has all but handed the 2024 election to Donald Trump if Joe Biden is the Democratic nominee — and I invite fellow Democrats to face the truth. The next day, he was back on Fox to say more: Anybody who has their eyes open can see what's going on. I think it's a shame. I think it's embarrassing. And I think it's sad. And I think it's a shame for a president who could cement a legacy, pass the torch and do what's best for the country. It's not just about him. https://twitter.com/JesseBWatters/status/1756137735776092484 At least one other liberal, Bill Maher, has been sounding alarms about Biden for two years. The release of the Hur report allows him to claim vindication, according to Fox. Most recently, Maher compared Biden to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Just as her death paved the way for Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Biden’s obvious lack of capacity will pave the way for Trump to come back. In fact, Maher said flatly the Democrats should “switch him out at the convention.” Analysis Those Democrats, in and out of office, trying to excuse Biden’s signs of incapacity, are largely self-serving. One other such Democrat bears mention: Ana Navarro of The View. Yesterday she posted a meme to Instagram showing a Margaret Atwood-style handmaid telling others that she voted against Biden because he was too old. https://www.instagram.com/p/C3ONJGGR6ss/ In a comment elaborating on the post, she said this: There are two older men running for President. (If you think R’s will nominate Haley or that Dems will replace Biden, you are smoking some good [hallucinogen]). Biden & Trump are 4 years apart. Biden mis-speaks. Trump says stupid, crazy, inaccurate and mean stuff DAILY. Only one of those men – Biden – is actively working to give Americans more rights – to vote, to love who they want, to make their own reproductive choices, to live free of institutionalized racism and bigotry, to read books, to learn history, to represent American diversity… I’ll say it again. Those are your two choices. That’s it. Anyone basing their choice on an age difference of 4 years needs their head examined. Even she couldn’t defend Biden as a good performer – but only, apparently, as her ideological champion. Lay aside for a moment the horror of those ideologies. The abortion regime alone recalls radio personality Arch Oboler’s “Laughing Man” sketch ending with a chem-bio warfare attack against children. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kusfi1KVdMA Again, the Democrats don’t want to abandon that ideology. But a significant number of them want to abandon the man before he drags them down. (Is Dean Phillips self-serving? Or, from a Democrat’s point of view, is he in the race to save the cause? You decide.) Republicans have a problem of their own, as Susan Crabtree hinted at. If Biden goes, all the old stumble-bum jokes go with him. They must, therefore, campaign on ideology. In that sense, with friends like Alejandro Mayorkas, the Democrats need no enemies. (Or else they are their own worst enemies.) That’s why Republicans must campaign as much on ideology as on the diminished capacity of the enemy’s (for now) chosen champion. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2024/02/12/foundation/constitution/democrats-divide-biden/ RNC Research post: “I did not share…!” https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1755762530012508360 Post containing Jill Biden’s statement: https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1756489370696081598 Two posts by RNC Research catching Biden exiting a clothing store: https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1756111376093729024 https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1756481161050685809 Alex Wagner interview with Hillary Clinton: https://twitter.com/WagnerTonight/status/1756153037163209120 Jesse Watters’ post with Dean Phillips’ statement: https://twitter.com/JesseBWatters/status/1756137735776092484 Ana Navarro’s Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/C3ONJGGR6ss/ Arch Oboler – The Laughing Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kusfi1KVdMA Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Declarations of Truth Locals Community: https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/ Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/