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AGENDA
March 02, 2021
Armando Escalante
Why we are where we are!
UP COMING MEETINGS & GUEST SPEAKERS
March 09, 2021 – Jerome kaszubowski – Clerk of Courts
March 16, 2021 – Domine Clemons – – Florida Citizens Alliance
March 23, 2021 – Laura Cardoza Moore – Elections Intergrity
March 23, 2021 – Penny Ogg – Supervisor of Elections – Election Integrity
LEADERSHIP
Candidates have signed up for position on the 2/23, 3/2, 3/9, you can still sign up to be on committee of run for office position
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Chairman, Treasure,
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Communications Chair,
Events Chair,
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LET’S SEE YOUR NAME ON THIS LIST!
ept. 25 , 2020 – Mary van Hooreweghe – Ready to vote for trump
Nov. 07. 2020 – John Larsen – Progressing through Sequence; The Obituary Follows: Born 1776, Died 2020?
Nov. 24, 2020 – John Nelson – Biden is not the president yet: Response to previous letter to editor stating: “now that Biden is the Clear Winner” & ” Damage to our Democracy”
Nov. 30, 2020 – Georgia Lee Eshelman – Trump Worked For The Citizens
Dec. 23, 2020 – John Larsen – Point of Fact – reference to letters to the editor calling the president names.
Education is the key – This is The Tea Parties Objective!
We are a conservative, partisan, patriotic, Constitution, GOD loving organization!
GOD BLESS AMERICA
NO ONE CAN MAKE YOU TAKE THE COVID-19 VACCINE BY FEDERAL LAW.
Federal law prohibits employers and others
from requiring vaccination with a Covid-19
“vaccine distributed under an EUA

Wednesday, February 24, 2021 7:41
By Aaron Siri Feb. 23, 2021
A health worker holds a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at
a vaccination center in Pfaffenhofen, Germany.
CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
Ever since the Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization for two new vaccines, employers, schools, and other organizations are grappling with whether to require Covid-19 vaccination.While organizations are certainly free to encourage their employees, students, and other members to be vaccinated, federal law provides that, at least until the vaccine is licensed, individuals must have the option to accept or decline to be vaccinated.
Knowing what an organization can or cannot do with respect to Covid-19 vaccines can help them keep their employees, students, and members safe and also save the them from costly and time-consuming litigation.
Much remains unknown about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine
Even though the FDA granted emergency use authorizations for the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines in December 2020, the clinical trials the FDA will rely upon to ultimately decide whether to license these vaccines are still underway and are designed to last for approximately two years to collect adequate data to establish if these vaccines are safe and effective enough for the FDA to license.
The abbreviated timelines for the emergency use applications and authorizations means there is much the FDA does not know about these products even as it authorizes them for emergency use, including their effectiveness against asymptomatic infection, death, and transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease.
Given the uncertainty about the two vaccines, their EUAs are explicit that each is “an investigational vaccine not licensed for any indication” and require that all “promotional material relating to the Covid-19 Vaccine clearly and conspicuously … state that this product has not been approved or licensed by the FDA, but has been authorized for emergency use by FDA” (emphasis added).
EUAs are clear: Getting these vaccines is voluntary
The same section of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act that authorizes the FDA to grant emergency use authorization also requires the secretary of Health and Human Services to “ensure that individuals to whom the product is administered are informed … of the option to accept or refuse administration of the product.”
Likewise, the FDA’s guidance on emergency use authorization of medical products requires the FDA to “ensure that recipients are informed to the extent practicable given the applicable circumstances … That they have the option to accept or refuse the EUA product …”
In the same vein, when Dr. Amanda Cohn, the executive secretary of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, was asked if Covid-19 vaccination can be required, she responded that under an EUA, “vaccines are not allowed to be mandatory. So, early in this vaccination phase, individuals will have to be consented and they won’t be able to be mandatory.” Cohn later affirmed that this prohibition on requiring the vaccines applies to organizations, including hospitals.
The EUAs for both the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines require facts sheets to be given to vaccination providers and recipients. These fact sheets make clear that getting the vaccine is optional. For example, the one for recipients states that, “It is your choice to receive or not receive the Covid-19 Vaccine,” and if “you decide to not receive it, it will not change your standard of medical care.”
What this means in practice
When the FDA grants emergency use authorization for a vaccine, many questions about the product cannot be answered. Given the open questions, when Congress granted the authority to issue EUAs, it chose to require that every individual should be allowed to decide for himself or herself whether or not to receive an EUA product. The FDA and CDC apparently consider this fundamental requirement of choice important enough that even during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic they reinforced that policy decision when issuing their guidance related to the Covid-19 vaccines.
This means that an organization will likely be at odds with federal law if it requires its employees, students or other members to get a Covid-19 vaccine that is being distributed under emergency use authorization.
State law often prohibits retaliating against an employee for refusing to participate in a violation of federal law. Organizations that require Covid-19 vaccination in violation of federal law may face lawsuits under these state laws not only to block the policy but also for damages and attorneys’ fees. Such potentially costly lawsuits can be avoided by refraining from adopting policies that require vaccination or penalize members for choosing not to be vaccinated.
Organizations are free to encourage vaccinations through internal communications, through educational events, and through other measures to urge employees to be vaccinated. They can take these measures so long as: (1) they are not viewed as coercive, (2) the organization makes clear the decision regarding whether to receive the vaccine is voluntary, and (3) the measures comply with the requirements in the EUAs and the related regulations for these products.
People across the world have had their lives upended during the last year. The urgency to return to normalcy is felt deeply by many. As decision-makers at organizations decide on their Covid-19 vaccination policy, they should be careful to not let this passion lead the organization to run afoul of the law.
Federal law prohibits employers and others from requiring vaccination with a Covid-19 vaccine distributed under an EUA
Feel like America is slipping away and there’s nothing you can do? Read this..
Friends…
There’s PLENTY we can and should be doing. If you live in Florida, PLEASE join DefendFlorida.org or text the word DEFEND to 474747 … they’ve been making incredible gains creating a firewall between our state and the federal government overreach. Co-founder Caroline Wetherington is a real dynamo. As founder of Florida’s Women for Trump, she knows how to get things done. Help unite our voices: https://rumble.com/ vdczod-yourvoice-america-128- caroline-wetherington- defendflorida.html
Re my last email about the article in Tampa Bay Times calling me out by name as a “right-wing blogger” and spreading “conspiracy theories”, I did receive several emails from them. While they reprinted the story again in that Sunday’s edition, they did at least remove the total lie that I supposedly urged people to run over a BLM member. And, I’m happy to say I created extra cost and time on their end by forcing their editor and attorney to respond. Rather than expend my energy on their silly and biased fake news articles, I’ve decided to refocus on what’s really important…saving our country from this very rapid march to socialism.
There is a new attack against the 70 million Patriots who voted for Trump, continue to believe the election was stolen, or believe the Wuhan virus is being used as a political tool to control our population. If you fall into any of these categories, BEWARE. We are being called the new “terrorists” and I believe it will lead to a mass gun confiscation. Don’t believe me? Consider this:
With H.R. 3106 (Domestic and International Terrorism DATA Act) awaiting approval in the US Senate, DHS’s recent “National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin”, and the FBI’s 2019 “Homegrown Violent Extremist Mobilization Indicators Handbook”, the Dems are “setting the stage” for labeling anyone who voted for Trump “HVEs — Homegrown Violent Extremist” terrorists. Not once in these reports is Antifa/BLM mentioned. In the “Bulletin” it clearly states that “Domestic violent extremists have been targeting people with opposing views over the last year, motivated by everything from anger over COVID-19 restrictions to the 2020 election results.” This is a deliberate tool with which they can justify removing our 2nd amendment rights. Please take time to watch my most recent podcast on this very important subject: https://rumble.com/ vdvae9-rewriting-history-has- begun-all-maga-are-targets. html
If you think this is “conspiracy theory” stuff of science fiction, consider an article I wrote last year about a Gates Foundation project called Alliance ID2020 that delivers nanochips via vaccines that will enable big globalist brother to track us: https:// thedeplorablereport.com/blogs/ f/beware-bill-gates-pandora- box-of-pandemic-vaccines
People who read my blog called me “nuts”. Well, it has now become reality as Germany is the first country to ratify its implementation — and I’ll bet very few Germans even have a clue: Implanted “Vaccine Package” ID: Germany’s Parliament Has Ratified GAVI’s Digital “Agenda ID2020” – Global ResearchGlobal Research – Centre for Research on Globalization — Switzerland will vote to approve its use on March 7th. See also: German parliament ratifies Agenda ID2020 and Bill Gates’ “vaccination package” for global depopulation (newstarget.com)
If you think this is nothing to fear (after all our information is readily available via existing technology) consider this: your every movement will be controlled by whoever holds the key to your “nanochip”. If you want to go to dinner, travel, shop etc. you will only be able to do so if your funds are “made” available…i.e., have you been a good boy or girl today? This is serious, folks, and everybody needs to wake up before its too late.
It’s not all bad news. But it will be if we don’t GET INVOLVED with our local groups and start protecting our Constitutional rights.
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President Trump Takes the Gloves Off
President Trump Takes the Gloves Off and Goes After Mitch McConnell
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Former President Donald Trump played nice with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for most of his four years in office.
Trump understood that as the main GOP powerbroker, you just don’t mess with McConnell no matter what you really think about him underneath. But that’s changing now that Trump’s out of office, and 45 recently penned a harsh letter talking about his true thoughts on McConnell and what McConnell means for the future of the conservative movement.
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Trump Unloads on McConnell in Blistering Statement In his statement, Trump held nothing back, writing that McConnell is a losing bet for the Republican party and an awful person to work with.
“Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack, and if Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again…The Republican Party can never again be respected or strong with political ‘leaders’ like Sen. Mitch McConnell at its helm,” Trump wrote.
Even though McConnell voted not to impeach Trump in the Senate, he gave a drama queen speech that claimed Trump was to blame for the riots and violence that occurred on Jan. 6, saying Trump’s supporters went berserk “because they had been fed wild falsehoods by the most powerful man on Earth—because he was angry he’d lost an election.” McConnell went on to say that “former President Trump’s actions preceding the riot were a disgraceful dereliction of duty.”
McConnell voted no on impeachment saying it was unconstitutional, since it was only made to remove sitting presidents from office. But he did say that if Trump were to be criminally charged or sued he would be fine with it, noting that “we have a criminal justice system in this country. We have civil litigation. And former presidents are not immune from being held accountable by either one.”
"Played him like a FIDDLE…": Greg reads the scathing Trump note about 'unpopular hack' Mitch McConnell. @gregkellyusa https://t.co/VlT7z8drtO pic.twitter.com/QJhghd46U8
— Newsmax (@newsmax) February 17, 2021
McConnell’s Crusade Against Trump
In a recent interview, McConnell also said Trump was to blame for the “fiasco” of losing the two Senate seats in Georgia. Trump’s statement said the low voter turnout and loss was because Governor Brian Kemp and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger didn’t do enough to investigate claims of election fraud. According to Trump this blame should also fall on McConnell for not caring whether the election was fair.
“McConnell did nothing, and will never do what needs to be done in order to secure a fair and just electoral system into the future. He doesn’t have what it takes, never did, and never will,” Trump wrote.
What’s McConnell’s Response?
McConnell hasn’t responded to Trump’s angry statement, but did say that he’s still willing to work to back pro-Trump members of the GOP running for office as long as they can win. “I personally don’t care what kind of Republican they are, what kind of lane they consider themselves in. What I care about is electability,” McConnell said. Trump has made it clear that he won’t hesitate to primary and get rid of people in the GOP who don’t support the MAGA platform and who have trash-talked him or his policies.
“Where necessary and appropriate, I will back primary rivals who espouse Making America Great Again and our policy of America First,” Trump said.
As a savvy political operator, McConnell knows he has to pretend to be OK with the MAGA movement as a whole. That’s why he’s focused on blaming Trump. But at the end of the day, McConnell is a self-righteous hack who just wants to cozy up to Biden, China and free trade extremism that goes against Trump’s nationalist policies. Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin put it well about McConnell’s two-faced nature, noting that “you’ve got Leader McConnell voting not guilty, not to convict, but then just providing a scathing speech on the floor of the Senate that does not reflect, I think, the majority of our conference.”
FLORIDA’s TRAITORS TO HONEST AMERICANS OWNING GUNS OF THEIR CHOOSING – SENATOR MARCO RUBIO, SENATOR RICK SCOTT, PRESIDENT jOE bIDEN
These two are traitors to their own constituents!
I say LAST TERM if they follow through with Biden’s program, the both know the Marjorie Stoneman shooting had nothing to do with the gun, it was the preparator, and his problems known to the school, Police, FBI but once again everyone failed to address the real problem, the person, they immediately went after the inanimate gun which would have killed no one if locked in the gun case at home!
These three have seen their last term in office carrying through with trash! It’s time someone
educates these people to the fact that gun laws are not going to stop killings, it is not the
gun and inanimate object, it si the human being, address the problem where it starts in
the School system and at home.
How many kids under 25 did your ever hear of shooting up the country prior to 1992?
Why 1992, that is when they started drugging kids with personalities issue instead of
dealing with their problem, prescription drugs of the mind altering type were used at the
period in their lives where their brains were developing the most.
Any child put on these kind of psychotropic prescription drugs should be restricted
from owning or possessing firearm’s, till at some point a physiological Examination
can determine they are not a threat to society.
Look at the shooter statistics from 1992 till present look at the ages, then look at
what they were on through their school years, it is all documented.
10 years of restricting the sale of large clips and AR styled semi-automatic rifles
did not prove anything about lowering the number of murders.
Michael van der Veen destroys the entire media after questioning from CBSN anchor.
TRUMP’S COMMENTS ON IMPEACHMENT
Trump after impeachment vote: ‘Another phase of the greatest witch hunt’
Moments after his acquittal, former President Donald Trump’s office released this statement on his behalf:
Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America
I want to first thank my team of dedicated lawyers and others for their tireless work upholding justice and defending truth.
My deepest thanks as well to all of the United States Senators and Members of Congress who stood proudly for the Constitution we all revere and for the sacred legal principles at the heart of our country.
Our cherished Constitutional Republic was founded on the impartial rule of law, the indispensable safeguard for our liberties, our rights and our freedoms.
It is a sad commentary on our times that one political party in America is given a free pass to denigrate the rule of law, defame law enforcement, cheer mobs, excuse rioters, and transform justice into a tool of political vengeance, and persecute, blacklist, cancel and suppress all people and viewpoints with whom or which they disagree. I always have, and always will, be a champion for the unwavering rule of law, the heroes of law enforcement, and the right of Americans to peacefully and honorably debate the issues of the day without malice and without hate.
This has been yet another phase of the greatest witch hunt in the history of our Country. No president has ever gone through anything like it, and it continues because our opponents cannot forget the almost 75 million people, the highest number ever for a sitting president, who voted for us just a few short months ago.
I also want to convey my gratitude to the millions of decent, hardworking, law-abiding, God-and-Country loving citizens who have bravely supported these important principles in these very difficult and challenging times.
Our historic, patriotic and beautiful movement to Make America Great Again has only just begun.
In the months ahead I have much to share with you, and I look forward to continuing our incredible journey together to achieve American greatness for all of our people. There has never been anything like it!
We have so much work ahead of us, and soon we will emerge with a vision for a bright, radiant, and limitless American future.
Together there is nothing we cannot accomplish.
We remain one People, one family, and one glorious nation under God, and it’s our responsibility to preserve this magnificent inheritance for our children and for generations of Americans to come.
May God bless all of you, and may God forever bless the United States of America.
TRUMP AQUITTED – ANOTHER SHOW OF HOW USELESS THE DEMOCRATS ARE!
Trump acquitted in second impeachment trial on charge of inciting Jan. 6 Capitol riot
Former President Trump was acquitted in an unprecedented second impeachment trial on the charge of inciting an insurrection for the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, making him the first and only president to be impeached and acquitted twice in history.
A majority of senators found Trump guilty on Saturday in a 57-43 vote, but the number fell short of the supermajority needed to convict the president. Had Trump been convicted, the Senate would have moved to bar the 45th president from holding federal office ever again.
The seven GOP senators who joined with all Democrats in finding Trump guilty were: Sens. Richard Burr of North Carolina, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., who presided over the trial announced the vote fell short of the two-thirds majority need and therefore Trump is “hereby acquitted of the charge.”
The acquittal means that as of now Trump can leave the door open to another White House bid in 2024, though senators have hinted they may still try to bar him from office in a separate 14th Amendment measure.
SCHUMER LEAVES DOOR OPEN TO 14TH AMENDMENT MEASURE TO BAR TRUMP FROM OFFICE
Trump praised the victory, thanked his supporters and promised he’d soon emerge with a “vision for a bright, radiant, and limitless American future.”
The former president, who has largely stayed silent since his impeachment, also took aim at his opponents.
TRUMP CELEBRATES ACQUITTAL IN SENATE TRIAL, FORESHADOWS POLITICAL FUTURE: ‘MUCH TO SHARE’
“This has been yet another phase of the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country,” Trump said in a statement. “No president has ever gone through anything like it, and it continues because our opponents cannot forget the almost 75 million people, the highest number ever for a sitting president, who voted for us just a few short months ago.”
Trump’s second impeachment trial arguments lasted just five days, making it the shortest in presidential history. The previous record was held by Trump in 2020 when his trial related to inviting foreign interference into the election spanned 21 days.
The trial surrounded the Jan. 6 riot when pro-Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, beat police officers, chanted “Hang Mike Pence” and forced lawmakers to take shelter. The mayhem temporarily stopped Congress’ certification of President Biden’s Electoral College win.

FILE – In this Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 file photo, Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington. Right-wing extremism has previously mostly played out in isolated pockets of America or in smaller cities. In contrast, the deadly attack by rioters on the U.S. Capitol targeted the very heart of government. It brought together members of disparate groups, creating the opportunity for extremists to establish links with each other. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
House impeachment managers accused Trump of inciting the insurrection by spreading a “big lie” the election was stolen from him, summoning his supporters to Washington on Jan. 6, telling them to “fight like hell” and then refusing to call off the attack once the mob violently took over the Capitol.
“He named the date. He named the time. He brought them here, and now he must pay the price,” lead impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said in his closing remarks to the Senate.
Trump legal’s team denounced the proceedings as an unconstitutional “sham impeachment” against a private citizen, driven by Democrats’ “hatred” for Trump and desire to silence a political opponent.
Trump lawyers also argued the former president’s political speech is protected by the First Amendment and his words on Jan. 6 to his supporters to “fight like hell” were not meant literally. To drive home that point during the trial, Trump’s defense played an 11-minute video of nearly every Democrat in the chamber using the words “fight” in their past speeches and interviews.

In this image from video, House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., speaks during the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021. (Senate Television via AP)
The vote capped a wild Saturday in Washington with numerous plot twists.
In a curveball move, the Senate Saturday morning voted 55-45 to allow witnesses at the trial after Raskin said they wanted to hear from GOP Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler.
Raskin, D-Md., cited the “breaking news” overnight about details Beutler revealed of a heated phone call that Trump had with House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy during the middle of the Capitol attack.
Beutler, who was one of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump in House, released her account of the call late Friday, confirming a CNN report that Trump dismissed McCarthy’s pleas to call off the riot and instead told McCarthy that the rioters were “more upset about the election” than the House leader.
MCCONNELL WILL VOTE TO ACQUIT TRUMP IN SECOND IMPEACHMENT TRIAL, AS DAY FIVE GETS UNDERWAY
“When McCarthy finally reached the president on January 6 and asked him to publicly and forcefully call off the riot, the president initially repeated the falsehood that it was antifa that had breached the Capitol,” Beutler said in her statement. “McCarthy refuted that and told the president that these were Trump supporters. That’s when, according to McCarthy, the president said, ‘Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.'”
Trump’s legal team blasted the decision to call witnesses and threatened to depose 100 people if the door is open. A visibly angry and animated Michael van der Veen said that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Vice President Kamala Harris would “absolutely” need to be deposed, too, but not by Zoom.
“These depositions should be done in person in my office in Philadelphia,” van der Veen told the senators, which drew audible laughter from the Senate chamber.
ANOTHER TRUMP IMPEACHMENT TWIST: SENATE SIDESTEPS WITNESSES DESPITE VOTE ALLOWING THEM
Van deer Veen shot back: “I haven’t laughed at any of you. And there’s nothing laughable here.”

Lawyer Michael T. van der Veen speaks during Trump impeachment trial on Friday, Feb. 12.
The surprise vote on witnesses shook Washington and seemed to even catch senators off guard.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said the move set off “chaos” in the chamber. He speculated the trial could last until April with witnesses.
“At this point, it’s pandemonium,” Cruz told pool reporters.
But just as quickly as the Senate went down the path of witnesses, lawyers then reversed course on Saturday.
Trump’s legal team agreed to allow the damaging statement from Beutler to be entered into the trial as evidence. Armed with her statement, House lawyers then abandoned their demand that Beutler be called as a witness altogether.
House managers said the revelations about McCarthy’s call with Trump show that Trump abdicated his oath of office by showing support for the rioters and disregard for the security of members of Congress and Pence, who was targeted by the mob for assassination.
“He chose retaining his own power over the safety of Americans,” said Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I. “I can’t imagine more damning evidence of his state of mind.”
The arguments, however, weren’t enough to sway the 17 GOP senators needed for conviction.
MCCONNELL RIPS TRUMP, SAYS ACTIONS ‘UNCONSCIONABLE’ BUT TRIAL WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL
GOP Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was very critical of Trump’s conduct surrounding the Jan. 6 riot and his wife — former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao — even resigned from the administration in the aftermath of the attack that left at least five people dead, including a Capitol Police officer.
“There’s no question… that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day,” McConnell said in a speech after the vote Saturday.
Still, McConnell found Trump “not guilty,” saying he believes convicting the former president is unconstitutional.
“We have no power to convict and disqualify a former office holder who is now a private citizen,” McConnell said in a speech.

WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 15: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) takes questions as he speaks during a news conference with other Senate Republicans at the U.S. Capitol on December 15, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tom Brenner-Pool/Getty Images)
Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, one of the impeachment managers, said McConnell all but admitted the House proved its case but resorted to a procedural excuse against conviction.
“Trump was let off on a technicality and that’s essentially what you heard Mitch McConnell say,” Castro said.
PELOSI BLASTS MCCONNELL AND ‘COWARDLY GROUP OF REPUBLICANS’ IN SENATE AFTER TRUMP IMPEACHMENT ACQUITTAL
In a news conference after the vote, Democratic managers pointed out that the presidential impeachment process was the most bipartisan in history, with 10 House Republicans and now seven GOP senators backing the effort.
“Even though we didn’t get 67 votes, this has been the most bipartisan vote for impeachment and conviction ever,” Castro said. “And we know that we spoke the truth and the American people by and large have agreed with us.”
Coronavirus Scandal Breaking in Merkel’s Germany. False Positives and the Drosten PCR Test By F. William Engdahl Global Research
Coronavirus Scandal Breaking in Merkel’s Germany. False Positives and the Drosten PCR Test
By F. William Engdahl
Global Research
First posted by Global Research on December 11, 2020
The widely-praised German model of the Angela Merkel regime to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic is now engulfed in a series of potentially devastating scandals going to the very heart of the testing and medical advice being used to declare draconian economic shutdowns and next, de facto mandatory vaccinations. The scandals involve a professor at the heart of Merkel’s corona advisory group. The implications go far beyond German borders to the very WHO itself and their global recommendations.
The entire case for WHO-mandated emergency lockdown of businesses, schools, churches and other social arenas worldwide is based on a test introduced, amazingly early on, in the Wuhan, China coronavirus saga.
On January 23, 2020, in the scientific journal Eurosurveillance, of the EU Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Dr. Christian Drosten, along with several colleagues from the Berlin Virology Institute at Charite Hospital, along with the head of a small Berlin biotech company, TIB Molbiol Syntheselabor GmbH, published a study claiming to have developed the first effective test for detecting whether someone is infected with the novel coronavirus identified first only days before in Wuhan. The Drosten article was titled, “Detection of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) by real-time RT-PCR” (Eurosurveillance 25(8) 2020).Buy New $9.95(as of 04:10 EST – Details)
The news was greeted with immediate endorsement by the corrupt Director General of WHO, Tedros Adhanom, the first non-medical doctor to head WHO. Since then the Drosten-backed test for the virus, called a real-time or RT-PCR test, has spread via WHO worldwide, as the most used test protocol to determine if a person might have COVID-19, the illness.
On November 27 a highly-respected group of 23 international virologists, microbiologists and related scientists published a call for Eurosurveillance to retract the January 23, 2020 Drosten article. Their careful analysis of the original piece is damning. Theirs is a genuine “peer review.”
They accuse Drosten and cohorts of “fatal” scientific incompetence and flaws in promoting their test.
To begin with, as the critical scientists reveal, the paper that established the Drosten PCR test for the Wuhan strain of coronavirus that has subsequently been adopted with indecent haste by the Merkel government along with WHO for worldwide use–resulting in severe lockdowns globally and an economic and social catastrophe–was never peer-reviewed before its publication by Eurosurveillance journal. The critics point out that, “the Corman-Drosten paper was submitted to Eurosurveillance on January 21st 2020 and accepted for publication on January 22nd 2020. On January 23rd 2020 the paper was online.”
Incredibly, the Drosten test protocol, which he had already sent to WHO in Geneva on 17 January, was officially recommended by WHO as the worldwide test to determine presence of Wuhan coronavirus, even before the paper had been published.
As the critical authors point out, for a subject so complex and important to world health and security, a serious 24-hour “peer review” from at least two experts in the field is not possible. The critics point out that Drosten and his co-author Dr. Chantal Reusken, did not disclose a glaring conflict of interest. Both were also members of the editorial board of Eurosurveillance. Further, as reported by BBC and Google Statistics, on January 21 there were a world total of 6 deaths being attributed to the Wuhan virus. They ask, “Why did the authors assume a challenge for public health laboratories while there was no substantial evidence at that time to indicate that the outbreak was more widespread than initially thought?” Another co-author of the Drosten paper that gave a cover of apparent scientific credibility to the Drosten PCR procedure was head of the company who developed the test being marketed today, with the blessing of WHO, in the hundreds of millions, Olfert Landt, of Tib-Molbiol in Berlin, but Landt did not disclose that pertinent fact in the Drosten paper either.
Certainly nothing suspicious or improper here, or? It would be relevant to know if Drosten, the Merkel chief scientific advisor for COVID-19, Germany’s de facto “Tony Fauci,” gets a percentage for each test sold by Tib-Molbiol in their global marketing agreement with Roche.
False Positives?
Since late January 2020, world mainstream media has inundated us all with frightening hourly updates on “the total number of coronavirus infected.” Usually they simply add each daily increase to a global total of “confirmed cases,” presently over 66 million. Alarming, but for the fact that, as Pieter Borger and his fellow scientific collaborators point out, “confirmed cases” is a nonsense number. Why?
The PCR Test does not Identify the Virus: Covid “False Positives” Used to Justify the Lockdown and Closure of the National Economy.
The Borger report identifies what they call “ten fatal problems” in the Drosten paper of last January. Here we take up the most glaring that can easily be grasped by most laypeople.
Drosten & co. gave confusing unspecified primer and probe sequences. The critics note, “This high number of variants not only is unusual, but it also is highly confusing for laboratories. These six unspecified positions could easily result in the design of several different alternative primer sequences which do not relate to SARS-CoV-2… the confusing unspecific description in the Corman-Drosten paper is not suitable as a Standard Operational Protocol. These unspecified positions should have been designed unequivocally.” They add that
“RT-PCR is not recommended for primary diagnostics of infection. This is why the RT-PCR Test used in clinical routine for detection of COVID-19 is not indicated for COVID-19 diagnosis on a regulatory basis.”
Amplification Cycles
But even more damning for Drosten is the fact that he mentioned nowhere of a test being positive or negative, or indeed what defines a positive or negative result! The Borger report notes, “These types of virological diagnostic tests must be based on a SOP (Standard Operational Protocol), including a validated and fixed number of PCR cycles (Ct value) after which a sample is deemed positive or negative. The maximum reasonably reliable Ct value is 30 cycles. Above a Ct of 35 cycles, rapidly increasing numbers of false positives must be expected… scientific studies show that only non-infectious (dead) viruses are detected with Ct values of 35.” (emphasis added).
The WHO and Drosten recommend a Ct of 45 cycles and, reportedly, presently the German health officials do as well. Little wonder that as the number of tests is ramped up in the onset of winter flu season, PCR “positives” in Germany and elsewhere explode. As the critical authors point out, were the health authorities to specify 35 cycles maximum, the number of corona positive would be only less than 3% the present number! They note, “an analytical result with a Ct value of 45 is scientifically and diagnostically absolutely meaningless (a reasonable Ct-value should not exceed 30). All this should be communicated very clearly.
It is a significant mistake that the Corman-Drosten paper does not mention the maximum Ct value at which a sample can be unambiguously considered as a positive or a negative test-result. This important cycle threshold limit is also not specified in any follow-up submissions to date.” The authors add,
“The fact that these PCR products have not been validated at molecular level is another striking error of the protocol, making any test based upon it useless as a specific diagnostic tool to identify the SARS-CoV-2 virus.” (emphasis added).Buy New $89.99(as of 03:23 EST – Details)
In simple English, the entire edifice of the Gates foundation, the Merkel government, the WHO and WEF as well as the case for de facto forced untested vaccines, rests on results of a PCR test for coronavirus that is not worth a hill of beans. The test of Drosten and WHO is more or less, scientific crap.
Missing Doctor proof too?
This devastating critique from twenty three world leading scientists, including scientists who have patents related to PCR, DNA Isolation and Sequencing, and a former Pfizer Chief Scientist, is damning, but not the only problem Professor Dr. Christian Drosten faces today. He and the officials at Frankfurt’s Goethe University, where he claims to have received his medical doctorate in 2003, are being accused of degree fraud.
According to Dr. Markus Kühbacher, a specialist investigating scientific fraud such as dissertation plagiarism, Dr. Drosten’s doctor thesis, by law must be deposited on a certain date with academic authorities at his University, who then sign a legal form, Revisionsschein, verified with signature, stamp of the University and date, with thesis title and author, to be sent to the University archive. With it, three original copies of the thesis are filed.
Kühbacher charges that the Goethe University is guilty of cover-up by claiming, falsely, Drosten’s Revisionsschein, was on file. The University spokesman later was forced to admit it was not filed, at least not locatable by them. Moreover, of the three mandatory file copies of his doctor thesis, highly relevant given the global importance of Drosten’s coronavirus role, two copies have “disappeared,” and the remaining single copy is water-damaged. Kühbacher says Drosten will now likely face court charges for holding a fraudulent doctoral title.
Whether that is to pass, it is a fact that a separate legal process has been filed in Berlin against two people responsible for a German media site, Volksverpetzer.de, for slander and defamation, brought by a well-known and critical German medical doctor, Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg. The court case demands of the defendants €250,000 in damages for defamation of character and material damages to Wodarg by the accused in their online site, as well as in other German media, claiming they viciously and without proof, defamed Wodarg, calling him a “covid-denier,” falsely calling him a right-extremist (he is a life-long former parliament member of the Social Democratic Party) and numerous other false and damaging charges.
The attorney for Dr Wodarg is a well-known German-American attorney, Dr. Reiner Fuellmich. In his charges against the defendants, Fuellmich cites in full the charges against the Drosten test for coronavirus of Dr. Pieter Borger et al noted above. This is in effect forcing the defendants to refute the Borger paper. It is a major step on the way to refute the entire WHO COVID-19 PCR testing fraud. Already an appeals court in Lisbon, Portugal ruled on 11 November that the PCR test of Drosten and WHO was not valid to detect coronavirus infection and that it was no basis to order nationwide or partial lockdowns.
If the stakes were not so deadly for mankind it would all be material for a comedy of the absurd. The world health Czar, WHO chief Tedros is no medical doctor whose WHO is financed massively by a college dropout billionaire computer manager, Gates, who also advises the Merkel government on COVID-19 measures.
The Merkel government uses the Drosten PCR test and Drosten as an “all-wise” expert to impose the most draconian economic consequences outside wartime. Her Health Minister, Jens Spahn, is a former banker who has no medical degree, only a stint as a lobbyist for Big Pharma. The head of the German CDC, called the Robert Koch Institute, Lothar Wieler, is not a virologist but an animal doctor, Tierarzt. With this crew, Germans are seeing their lives destroyed by lockdowns and social measures never before imagined. There is science and then there is science. Not all “science” is valid however.
Reprinted with permission from Global Research.
The impeachment trial was nothing more than an act of political vengeance by Democrats!
President Trump’s Defense Team Slams Impeachment Trial As ‘Political Vengeance’ By Democrats

In this image from video, Michael van der Veen, an attorney for President Donald Trump, answered a question during the second impeachment trial in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. (Senate Television via AP)
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President Trump’s defense team gave their opening arguments on why he is not guilty of inciting the January 6 Capitol breach.
Speaking from the Senate floor on Friday, the President’s lawyers called the impeachment trial an act of political vengeance by Democrats, arguing that the President’s words are protected under the freedom of speech.
“This appalling abuse of the Constitution only further divides our nation when we should be trying to come together around shared priorities,” defense attorney Michael van der Veen stated.

Bruce Castor and Michael van der Veen, lawyers for President Donald Trump, walked back to their meeting room during a break through the Senate Reception room in the Capitol on the fourth day of the Senate Impeachment trials on Capitol Hill, Friday, Feb 12, 2021 in Washington. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)
The defense team added that President Trump’s words were not directly
connected to those who had breached the Capitol.
Van der Veen went on to call the trial a political hit job.
“Like every other politically motivated witch hunt the left has engaged in
over the past four years, this impeachment is completely divorced from
the facts, the evidence and the interests of the American people,”
Van der Veen said. “The Senate should promptly and decisively vote to reject it.”
Despite Democrats’ efforts, analysts have said they are unlikely to get a
conviction due to the evenly divided Senate.
IN THE MIDDLE OF A “PANDEMIC” THIS IDIOT PRESIDENT IS GOING TO ALLOW ALL THESE PEOPLE INTO THE COUNTRY!

WEB MASTER COMMENTS:
Biden is not having them checked for TB, syphilis, gonorrhoea,
leprosy, current threats such as polio, cholera, diphtheria, smallpox,
or severe acute respiratory syndromes. is only testing for COVID-19
with a test that is know to produce false reading.
Why would any responsible person allow all this to come into our country?
Plus the President keeps saying COVID-19 Vaccines are scarce, how many
is he giving to Illegal Aliens before his own Citizens?
President Joe Biden is putting America In danger just to win political
point with his leftist Illegal immigration element, this is totally wrong!
THIS PRESIDENT DOES NOT CARE ABOUT THE HEALTH OF THIS NATION
ONLY HIS POLITICAL POINTS, AND GATHERING NEW VOTERS NO MATTER
HOW MUCH DESIEASE THEY BRING INTO THE COUNTY
Some Asylum-Seekers Waiting in Mexico to Be Allowed in US
In this Aug. 30, 2019, file photo, migrants, many of whom
were returned to Mexico under the Trump administration’s
“Remain in Mexico” policy, wait in line to get a meal in an
encampment near the Gateway International Bridge in
Matamoros, Mexio. (Veronica G. Cardenas/AP Photo)
Friday, 12 February 2021 06:28 AM
The Biden administration on Friday announced plans for tens of thousands of asylum-seekers waiting in Mexico for their next immigration court hearings to be allowed into the United States while their cases proceed.
The first of an estimated 25,000 asylum-seekers in Mexico with active cases will be allowed in the United States on Feb. 19, authorities said. They plan to start slowly with two border crossings each processing up to 300 people a day and a third crossing taking fewer. Administration officials declined to name them out of fear they may encourage a rush of people to those locations.
The move is a major step toward dismantling one of former President Donald Trump’s most consequential policies to deter asylum-seekers from coming to the U.S. About 70,000 asylum-seekers were enrolled in “Remain in Mexico,” officially called “Migrant Protection Protocols,” since it was introduced in January 2019.
On Biden’s first day in office, the Homeland Security Department suspended the policy for new arrivals. Since then, some asylum-seekers picked up at the border have been released in the U.S. with notices to appear in court.
Biden is quickly making good on a campaign promise to end the policy, which the Trump administration said was critical to reversing a surge of asylum-seekers that peaked in 2019. But the policy also exposed people to violence in Mexican border cities and made it extremely difficult for them to find lawyers and communicate with courts about their cases.
“As President Biden has made clear, the U.S. government is committed to rebuilding a safe, orderly, and humane immigration system,” said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. “This latest action is another step in our commitment to reform immigration policies that do not align with our nation’s values.”
Homeland Security said the move “should not be interpreted as an opening for people to migrate irregularly to the United States.” Administration officials have said repeatedly that the vast majority of people who cross the border illegally are quickly expelled under a public health order in place since the pandemic struck in March, but releases of some asylum-seeking families in Texas and California has worked against that messaging.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday that she was concerned that limited releases in the U.S. may encourage others to cross illegally because “we don’t want people to put themselves in danger at a time where it is not the right time to come, because we have not had time to put in place a humane and moral system and process.”
Hearings for people enrolled in “Remain in Mexico” have been suspended since June due to the pandemic. Getting word out on when to report to the border for release in the United States may prove a daunting job.
Homeland Security said it would soon announce a “virtual registration process” available online and by phone for people to learn where and when they should report. It urged asylum-seekers not to report to the border unless instructed.
Asylum-seekers will be tested for COVID-19 before entering the U.S.
The announcement provides no relief to people whose cases were dismissed or denied, though administration officials did not rule out additional measures. Advocates argue that communication problems, including lack of working addresses in Mexico, caused some to miss hearings and lose their cases as a result.
More people are getting stopped crossing the border illegally since Biden took office.
Raul Ortiz, deputy chief of the Border Patrol, said Tuesday that more than 3,000 people had been stopped crossing the border illegally in each of the previous 10 days, compared to a daily average of 2,426 in January.
About 50 to 80 adults and children have been arriving daily since Jan. 27 at Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, which temporarily houses people released by the Border Patrol, said Sister Norma Pimentel, the group’s executive director. The charity tests for COVID-19 and sends anyone who tests positive to a hotel for isolation.
Jewish Family Service of San Diego housed 191 asylum-seekers the first 10 days of February after the were released by U.S. authorities, up from 144 in January and 54 in December, said Eitan Peled, the group’s border services advocate. They are quarantined in hotels for 10 days.
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WHO DID BILL BARR ACTUALLY WORK FOR – WORKED AGAINST THE TRUMP ADMINSTRATION!
Peter Navarro: Bill Barr “Fast-Tracked”
Biden’s Executive Orders
Peter Navarro: Bill Barr “Fast-Tracked” Biden’s Executive Orders
Former WH economic advisor Peter Navarro told Maria Bartiromo on FOX News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures that the Trump administration’s Justice Department and Attorney General Bill Barr worked with the Biden administration during the transition period to fast-track President Biden’s executive orders while putting up “roadblocks” for President Trump.
“Trump’s last Attorney General actually also turns out to be Joe Biden’s first Attorney General,” Navarro railed. “Because here is what was happening. We had over 30 executive orders queued after election day, ready to go. But we kept running into all of these roadblocks and roadblocks and hurdles. It turns out that Bill Barr’s office of legal counsel was fast-tracking all of these Biden EOs.”
“And basically, it was a Deep State coup,” he added. “Now, this has implications, Maria. I will tell you about one that got away from us. And I will tell you about one that Biden did. The first one that Biden did was an abomination. We did a beautiful executive order… to prevent the Communist Chinese from selling bulk power equipment into our electricity grid.”
“The problem I told Barr about numerous times, and yeah, he should have been fired months before he was, by the last year of this administration. By the last year of this administration, he was really working against this administration in a lot of ways.”
“And these executive orders, the bottleneck was at the Department of Justice, on so many things we did. You see what President Biden is doing now, he’s just unwinding things that are going to come back to haunt the American worker, bigtime,” he said.
Congressional Democrats’ attempts to once again demean President Trump with constitutionally illegal impeachment!
Where Is The Chief Justice?

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Iknow that the following is obvious to many people, yet I am astounded that this one simple fact has not been put front and center – “the Chief Justice shall preside”
From the US Constitution:
Article. I.
Section. 3.
The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.
Article. II.
Section. 4.The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Article I
Section 8.No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
Therefore, if the Chief Justice is not presiding, the “Impeachment” is on its face not an impeachment and is merely an unconstitutional proceeding.
The Republican leaders should merely have motioned to have the Chief Justice present, and until such time he was brought to the Capitol, the Republicans should have disrupted the proceedings.
If this is not an Impeachment of a President because the Chief Justice is not present, and because it is not constitutional because the President is no longer in office, it is merely a political trial and in essence any limitation of Trump’s future political activities must be considered a Bill of Attainder.
I would assume that the Republicans (except for the six RINO’s who supported the impeachment) could have left the chamber and let the Senate vote 56 to 0 to convict, and then President Trump could have appealed his conviction all the way to the Supreme Court to have the vote overturned by the Court.
I see no purpose in having added any credence to the Congressional Democrats’ attempts to once again demean President Trump.
AMERICAN THINKER – 45 senators have already objected to the questionable legality of the proceedings. Is it pettiness, or is there another motive?
Why are Democrats Pushing Impeachment?
By Anthony J. Ciani
President Trump is now Donald Trump, so why are Democrats demanding another impeachment? Add to that, Trump is already out of office, the Chief Justice will not preside, and 45 senators have already objected to the questionable legality of the proceedings. Is it pettiness, or is there another motive?
Nancy Pelosi is one of the snidest and most petty representatives in Congress. I have personally heard from several Democratic representatives their beliefs that Pelosi held up critical immigration and COVID legislation that they privately supported, for no other reason than that it might help Trump look good. They supported the holdups because they feared retribution from Pelosi. If you want to hear Pelosi’s partisanship, listen for yourself to her opening comments during the beginning of the House debate on Arizona’s electoral votes. Pelosi is sufficiently petty to demand impeachment as a final boot out the door. This is my personally favored reason and stands as a testament to the characters of Chuck Schumer, Adam Kinzinger, Liz Cheney and others who have joined them. While several junior Democrats may have done so out of fear, Democratic leaders and Republicans had no good excuses.
But there could be another reason; one that fits well with Democrats’ recent militarization of D.C. and gross violations of our 1st Amendment rights to speech and to assemble and the redress of grievances.
I recall a nature documentary on the social structure of chimpanzees. The troop under study was led by an aging but caring chimpanzee that kept watch for threats, played with and educated the young, and was kind to the harem. I’ll refer to him as “Don.” One day, a younger, rogue male invaded the troop and deposed Don, I’ll call him “Joe.” Rather than killing Don, Joe kept Don around to repeatedly demonstrate his superiority over Don. Joe, as normal for a new alpha male, killed the infants to make the females receptive, but he also tyrannized the young, which was highly atypical for a new chimpanzee regime. Joe also ignored the wellbeing of the troop, favoring his own safety and indulgences. Some of the females had difficulty accepting Joe, and so he brutalized them, which made the entire harem fear Joe. After a disturbing and tumultuous night, a bloodied Joe sat apart from the troop and the harem had reinstated Don as the alpha male.
Human dictators have learned better. They defame and erase their predecessors, such that any comparisons are tainted by the defamation and there is no going back. Human dictators also hide their abuses, but just enough so that their supporters can still cheer them, while their detractors have a strong suspicion that something bad will happen if they protest.
Pick your infamous, tyrannical dictatorship, and the United States under Democratic rule looks a lot like it. If someone protests Emperor Biden’s extremist executive orders, questions his mental health, or shares the secret tomes detailing the prima facie evidence of massive election fraud, then they might be banned from Twitter or Facebook, or see themselves deplatformed or sued.
A pillow manufacturer, Michael J. Lindell, released a jaw-dropping video on foreign interference in our elections over the last two decades, and hardly anyone knows about it. If a link to his video were placed in this article, Google would filter it, and Facebook and Twitter would ban anyone who linked here. To find that video, in your address bar, type that pillow executive’s full name with middle initial, without spaces or punctuation, and add a “.com” to the end.
Banned from Twitter and Facebook, filtered by Google and with Parler deplatformed by Amazon, Trump has been effectively “murdered,” but that is not enough; his accomplishments remain. When gas prices soar to $6 per gallon, when heating bills leap from $100 a month to $300, when the price of electricity hits $0.30 per kW-hr, when unemployment soars to 10% without COVID, as girl’s sports become dominated by men, and as our armed forces are thrown back into useless wars, the People will remember how the non-COVID years of Trump were like the parting of rain clouds after the Obama-Biden storm, and compare them to the looming great flood of Biden-Harris.
The memory of Trump must be destroyed completely, both his accomplishments and his character. Fake news already spent the last four years defaming his character and attributing his accomplishments to Obama, but only half of Americans bought the lies. It is impossible to silence the other half. Ideally, the Democrats would throw Trump in jail, but he hasn’t done anything illegal. The handful of persecutors who went on fishing expeditions have so far come up empty, as have all of the Democrats’ other anti-Trump efforts.
The Democrats are now preparing a kangaroo court that will possibly include a perjury trap. Rather than an impartial jurist to supervise the proceedings, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, as required by the Constitution, the mock trial will be led by Senator Patrick “Leaky” Leahy, who has already proclaimed Trump guilty. One of the House impeachment managers, Congressman Jamie Raskin, has attempted to compel Trump to testify, even proclaiming that any refusal will be held against Trump, in violation of the plain language of the 5th Amendment. Strange, because Raskin sponsored the Fifth Amendment Integrity Restoration Act. At the least, expect a one-sided proclamation of Trump’s guilt and poor character. At the worst, expect Democrats to subpoena Trump and then to charge Trump with contempt of Congress when his facts contradict their truths. Also expect Democrats to try to prevent Trump from ever holding office.
After 2020, the United States has started to look a lot like a 1940s European socialist dictatorship, and the second impeachment of Trump is but another example. Joe Biden has repeatedly demonstrated signs of dementia, including mumbling instructions sent through his earpiece and mumbling unintelligibly while being directed to sign executive orders. It is reminiscent of the “Star Trek” episode, “Patterns of Force,” in which John Gill was drugged and used as a puppet “Führer,” leaving us to question whose hand is in the sock puppet?
Image: Phil Roeder
AMERICAN THINKER – Biden Sings ‘Lola’
Biden Sings ‘Lola’ – Girls will be Boys, and Boys will be Girls
Ray Davies and the Kinks released an iconic song in 1970 about a confused man and his romantic encounter with a transgender female who “walked like a woman but talked like a man, oh my Lola”. A controversial song at the time, it is now the new norm, codified into law under one of dozens of President Biden’s executive orders.
His January 20 executive order, “Preventing and combating discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation” means that women’s sports are now open to males who “identify” as females, those who “walk like a woman, but talk like a man, oh my Lola.”
Not only sports, but also restrooms, locker rooms, and any school sports. If members of the boys’ high school soccer team decide to identify as girls, they can join the girls’ soccer team and shower with them too. What could go wrong?
Joe Biden instinctively knows there are biologic differences between boys and girls. There are multiple photos and videos of Biden inappropriately touching and sniffing girls and women, but not boys or men. He is disregarding his own executive order by discriminating based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
As as a society we segregate males from females during intimate activities such as bathroom use, dressing, and bathing. Without such distinction, girls’ sports become a joke.
Males and females are biologically different, regardless of what gender activists or executive orders claim. Chromosomal differences between boys and girls differentiate the two sexes from the moment of conception, with developmental differences in musculoskeletal structure and function affecting athletic performance decades later.
No amount of testosterone or estrogen taken as an adult will change what has already been programmed into the body before birth. Just as installing the latest operating system on a ten-year-old phone won’t improve its performance, instead only crashing it. Has anyone notice the high rate of suicide among crashing transgender youth?
Examples abound of physiologic advantages males hold over females in sports competition. Several years ago in Connecticut, two boys “transitioning” into girls competed in the girls’ state track championship, taking first and second place in the 55-meter sprint, the winner setting a new state record.
Bad luck for the girls who trained and prepared, hoping to win or even set a state record. These physiologic inequalities extend beyond high school championships to the Olympic games.
Take Olympic track as an example, the 200-meter race. The women’s record is 21.34 seconds, set in 1988. How would men’s times in the 2016 Olympics compare in this same event?
There were 10 heats in the men’s 200-meter event at the Rio games, each heat with 7 or 8 runners. Of the 80 or so male runners, all but 5 had a time that would have broken the women’s 28-year standing women’s Olympic record.
This means that almost all the competing men, if competing as a transgender woman, would have easily won the gold medal and three of them would be standing on the medal podium. How does this “prevent or combat discrimination”?
Take another Olympic sport, weightlifting. In the 69 kg weight class, the world record for men is 357 kg versus 275 kg for women, close to a 25 percent difference. Biologic women competing against biologic men would have no chance of getting anywhere near the medal stand.
From hypothetical to reality, this scenario played out as described. In the 2017 Australasian Championships, a New Zealand man, transitioning into a woman, easily won a gold medal in women’s weightlifting. How is that for discrimination, now legitimized via Biden’s executive order?
Team sports fare no better. The US women’s soccer team, 2015 World Cup winners, lost to a 15-and-under boys team from Dallas. Another example occurred in Australia when the women’s national team lost a practice match 7-0 to a teenage boys team.
Pick any track and field event, swimming, weightlifting, rowing, skiing, golf, and so on and the biologic differences would be similar.
Despite Biden, or his puppet masters, believing themselves to be woke, resistance is arising from surprising quarters. LGBT advocate and winner of 18 Grand Slam women’s singles tennis titles, Martina Navratilova opposed this executive order saying it would, “clearly would not be a level playing field.”
She wants, “A carve-out or a separate policy for elite sports or sports at the higher level of high school, college and pros.” Such a carve out would essentially negate the executive order as young children’s sports are often co-ed without any of the consequences seen in higher level sports competition.
Several female professional athletes, in a Washington Post op-ed, noted the obvious,
The evidence is unequivocal that starting in puberty, in every sport except sailing, shooting and riding, there will always be significant numbers of boys and men who would beat the best girls and women in head-to-head competition.
They also correctly noted that, “sex segregation is the only way to achieve equality for girls and women in competitive athletics.” This is the reason for separate men’s and women’s competitions, rather than a coed free-for-all.
Where are the feminists and other “women’s rights” groups? Are they OK with all of this? Or is their fealty to liberalism and socialism more important than advocacy for women and girls?
Biden also overturned Trump’s ban on transgenders serving in the US military. Biologic differences are relevant in rigorous military training, just as in sports. Only two women have graduated the Army’s elite Ranger School, although some claim the women received special treatment to achieve passage, based on a general promising in advance, “a woman will graduate Ranger School.”
Are affirmative action games wise for the military? The US Navy has a pregnancy problem, with 16 out of 100 Navy women reassigned to shore duty due to pregnancy, up 2 percent from the previous year. Is this type of distraction what the military needs if engaged in a hot war with Russia or China? Unless the goal is an army of Lola’s who, “When she squeezed me tight, she nearly broke my spine.”
Gender justice sounds compassionate on CNN panel discussions or in liberal think tank white papers, but in the real world, consequence are not only real but also discriminatory to those who have been playing by centuries old sport customs in place since the first Olympic Games in ancient Greece.
There can certainly be transgender sports categories if there is sufficient demand. 1.4 million Americans identify as transgender out of population of 330 million. 0.4 percent of the population, the majority of whom are not competing in higher level sports.
This suggests Biden’s EO is a solution looking for a small or nonexistent problem, serving only to virtue signal to gender justice warriors. Given that there are 64 genders at latest count in the US, should there be separate sports competitions for each gender to “prevent and combat discrimination”?
How about a simple solution, a basic genetic test to determine sports categories? Forget gender, sex, or any now subjective characterization.
Those with XX chromosomes in one group, those with XY chromosomes in another group. A cheek swab and a binary choice, regardless of how one dresses or chooses to identify.
Rather than clarity and equality, Biden’s executive order creates chaos, as described by the Kinks. “It’s a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world, except for Lola.”
Brian C Joondeph, MD, is a physician and freelance writer. He is on sabbatical from social media.
ANERICAN THINKER – Destroying Democracy in Order to Save It

Destroying Democracy in Order to Save It
By Sally Zelikovsky
Time magazine’s “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign that Saved the 2020 Election” by Molly Ball is supposed to come off as an epic tale of left-wing institutions swooping in to save democracy from untold chaos in the aftermath of the election but reads more like a confessional where the storyteller and her informants unwittingly reveal that the election was indeed rigged.
Ball stresses that the “shadow effort [was] dedicated not to winning the vote but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted.” In other words, they were not attempting to defeat Trump, but were focused on ensuring free and fair elections to prevent chaos if Trump were elected or refused to concede. This required a coordinated effort among a staggering number of left-wing organizations, the media and tech, titans of industry, an army of activists, #NeverTrumpers, and a whole lotta Benjamins, baby.
Through extensive interviews and access to documents, Ball lays out in earnest the game plan with absolutely no awareness that this nonadmission of wrongdoing is actually an admission that bolsters what the President has been saying all along (and is vital to his defense against this second impeachment):
They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears. They executed national public-awareness campaigns that helped Americans understand how the vote count would unfold over days or weeks, preventing Trump’s conspiracy theories and false claims of victory from getting more traction. After Election Day, they monitored every pressure point to ensure that Trump could not overturn the result.
None of this could have happened organically. Democracy, you see, has to be manipulated in order for the good work of democracy to happen:
“Every attempt to interfere with the proper outcome of the election was defeated,” says Ian Bassin, co-founder of Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan rule-of-law advocacy group. “But it’s massively important for the country to understand that it didn’t happen accidentally. The system didn’t work magically. Democracy is not self-executing.”
That’s why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream — a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it. And they believe the public needs to understand the system’s fragility in order to ensure that democracy in America endures. [Emphasis added.]
In late 2019, senior advisor to the president of the AFL-CIO and mastermind of the shadow campaign Mike Podhorzer, was gobsmacked when he realized that the data and analytics strongly pointed to a Trump win. That was the moment the shadow campaign was born. During a frantic 11 p.m. Zoom meeting on election night, Podhorzer had to remind his co-conspirators that they knew Trump would pull ahead but would ultimately lose “as long as all the votes were counted.” [Italics added.] “Count all votes” was critical to the syndicate’s PR campaign and violated the norm, touted by conservatives, that all legal votes should be counted.
If it was foreordained that Trump would prevail, the Democrat Cabal had to protect the people from themselves — subverting Democracy in order to save Democracy. So, they manipulated the election in their favor and called it “fortifying” even though they were really “rigging” it. They claimed the system was on the verge of collapse because Trump was going to be elected. And, because they couldn’t admit to rigging the election, they disguised their efforts with a massive PR campaign demanding all votes be counted to prevent chaos.
Massive PR campaign, indeed.
They had the good fortune of COVID-19 giving them cover for mail-in voting propaganda. BLM leadership was able to “harness [the momentum behind the George Floyd riots] for the election.” In other words, the riots were orchestrated to benefit Democrat candidates.
Corporate benefactors shoveled out gobs of money (i.e., $300 million dollars from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative) to fund a massive reworking of state voting systems and procedures that bolstered mail-in voting in 37 states and D.C.:
The [National Vote at Home] Institute gave secretaries of state from both parties technical advice on everything from which vendors to use to how to locate drop boxes. Local officials are the most trusted sources of election information, but few can afford a press secretary, so the institute distributed communications tool kits.
Organizations tracked disinformation online and provided it to campaigns and the media so they could “out” the liars. Rather than pushing back against “toxic content” which invited more attention, they pressured platforms like Twitter and Facebook to police and remove content or suspend accounts.
Podhorzer enlisted the help of former military officials, cabinet members, and elected officials to convince the public, governors, AGs, and secretaries of state, that mail-in voting was safe. Former Democrat congressman Dick Gephardt raised $20 million dollars to fund these efforts. Now we understand why Kemp and Raffensberger in Georgia, and Wolf and Boockvar in Pennsylvania, behaved as they did.
They refocused election security on self-policing versus reliance on law enforcement and
created a force of “election defenders” who, unlike traditional poll watchers, were trained in de-escalation techniques. During early voting and on Election Day, they surrounded lines of voters in urban areas with a “joy to the polls” effort that turned the act of casting a ballot into a street party. Black organizers also recruited thousands of poll workers to ensure polling places would stay open in their communities.
In other words, they recruited a partisan army of poll workers who were backed by partisan “election defenders” to monitor voting and ballot counting. This is how Republicans ended up with poll watchers who were ousted, blocked, and situated light-years away from the count, and piles of ballots — almost exclusively for Joe Biden — coming out of the woodworks in the wee hours.
As 150 left-wing organizations prepped for violent nationwide demonstrations against a Trump steal, the AFL-CIO, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and churches formed a powerful alliance with a carefully crafted message of preventing “violence, intimidation or any other tactic that makes us weaker as a nation.” Meanwhile, everything the shadow campaign did was violence, intimidation and other tactics that undermined our free elections — classic projection.
All of this is boldly asserted in Ball’s article. It’s not unusual for victors to brag about some feat to the astonishment of onlookers. They become so obsessed with the righteousness of their cause, they proudly articulate what they did with seemingly no regard for the potential for any blowback.
The Nazis documented everything in the mistaken belief that their national obsession with world domination and cleansing the world of impure races was not only in Germany’s best interests, but those of the entire world. They honestly believed history would judge them kindly. But they were blind to the reality that, in recording their atrocities, they wrote the script for world condemnation of their crimes against humanity.
Similarly, in their sanctimonious fervor to boast about their role in “fortifying” the election and its aftermath, Ball’s informants actually outed themselves as the crooks, cabalists, and conspirators they really are. And poor Ms. Ball appears the useful idiot.
She quotes someone from the Democracy Defense Coalition as saying:
“There’s an impulse for some to say voters decided and democracy won. But it’s a mistake to think that this election cycle was a show of strength for democracy. It shows how vulnerable democracy is.”
While this can be read to mean democracy was in jeopardy until Democrats organized the shadow campaign to save democracy from a Trump second term, it’s really just a slick way of confessing to rigging the 2020 election and stealing it from Trump. Let’s hope Trump’s attorneys feature these admissions in his impeachment defense.
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