They look at fly over country as a bunch of flies!
Obama attacked by flies
Pence attacked by flies
Cabinet post incoming for Vivek!
24 then Designated Survivor
Democrats Want to Save Democracy by Eliminating Elections
Sometimes you have to destroy democracy to save democracy.
“What we are seeing right now is the all-out assault on democracy,” Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold claimed in 2021.
“Everything we do every single day to ensure the American people can elect, freely choose their election officials,” the chair of the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State held forth in 2022. “We believe that democracy literally is on the ballot.”
In 2023, democracy is no longer on the ballot in Colorado because Griswold, who had spent every single year warning about an “assault on democracy”, launched an actual assault on democracy to ensure that people in Colorado would not be able to freely vote in elections.
After Colorado’s Democrat justices ruled that, on their say-so, former President Trump couldn’t appear on the ballot in Colorado, the state’s GOP proposed to move to a caucus system.
And Griswold responded by warning that the Colorado GOP couldn’t change its own primary so that voters can’t actually vote for the candidate they choose, only those that Democrats choose.
But as the Mills Brothers sang, “you always hurt the one you love.” And sometimes you love democracy so much that you have to kill it to save democracy from itself.
Some Democrats define any opposition as an attack on democracy. And when they end democracy, they’re really “upholding democracy” so high up so that the voters can’t get their grubby fingers on it.
Secretary of State Griswold had previously described Republican bans on ballot harvesting as an “assault on democracy”, challenging election results as a plot to “destroy American democracy” and questioning the behavior of hyper-partisan election officials like herself as an “all-out assault on democracy.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/democrats-want-to-save-democracy-by-eliminating-elections/
US dollar index
That's ugly
Daily Mail poll: One in five Gen-Zers have POSITIVE view of Bin Laden
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12890583
Would you take this man's fiat money over real money?
Leftists Scratch Their Heads As More Abandon Their Ranks
The only thing more uplifting than watching several prominent liberals drift rightward is the cluelessness of those on the left as to why it’s happening.
This drift is obvious enough, since it includes journalists once heralded by the left such as Matt Taibbi (who won a Young America’s Foundation award) and Glenn Greenwald, and Democratic politicians, including Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (whose speech at a Daily Caller award ceremony drew many loud cheers from the conservative audience), and Sen. John Fetterman (who recently declared that “I am not a progressive”).
Celebrities such as Russell Brand, David Chappelle, and Bill Maher (who “has been riding an asphalt roller over the far left,” according to Townhall) are part of the shift, as are a handful of prominent business leaders, Elon Musk for instance.
That’s to say nothing of the fact that surveys show once tried-and-true liberal constituencies – Hispanics, Asians, blacks, working class, and the young – are abandoning the Democratic party. It’s not as though these people are suddenly small-government conservatives. They just are waking up to the fact that the left is a cesspool of hatred and intolerance and are looking for the exits.
All of which has caused a lot of confusion on the left. Case in point is a commentary by the New York Times’ Michelle Goldberg, who manages to come up with some theories to explain the realignment.
One is that “celebrity defectors … lurched right after a cancellation or public humiliation.” (In other words, for petty reasons.)
Another is that “the culture of the left is simply less welcoming,” and “people go where people accept them, or are nice to them, and away from people who are mean to them.” (An incredibly odd admission given that the left is supposedly all about “diversity” and “inclusion.”)
https://issuesinsights.com/2023/12/27/leftists-scratch-their-heads-as-more-abandon-their-ranks/
Mayor Adams sounds alarm on NYPD BLM settlement as anti-Israel protests rage: ‘Very troubling’
The NYPD’s controversial settlement agreement in the wake of the 2020 Black Lives Matter demonstrations is “troubling” and has made officers “hesitant” when responding to large, out-of-control marches, Mayor Eric Adams warned Tuesday — as the Big Apple has been rocked by fiery anti-Israel protests.
The department agreed to abandon “kettling” — the crowd-control tactic of herding and confining protesters to a small area before making arrests — as part of a settlement announced in September resolving several federal lawsuits claiming officers used excessive force during the George Floyd demonstrations.
But as the city is besieged by angry pro-Palestinian protests — where agitators have been spotted brandishing swastika signs — Adams has sounded the alarm.
“The Police Department … [has] to be extremely more hesitant in actions that they would have carried out in the past to keep the peace,” Hizzoner warned during a Tuesday press conference.
“I did not agree with the concept of those changes,” he continued. “I pushed back hard … I thought it put us on a very troubling direction.”
NYPD arresting woman at protest 5
Officers will use a new “four-tiered” system for responding to demonstrations and can escalate their response if protesters are blocking traffic or doing something deemed dangerous or illegal. Christopher Sadowski
When asked why he agreed to the settlement if he didn’t like the terms, the mayor said city officials thought the deal might worsen if they didn’t agree.
“As soon as I read [it], I said, ‘This is a problem,’” Adams said. “You know, you have to go by the advice of your attorneys.”
https://nypost.com/2023/12/26/metro/mayor-adams-warns-of-nypd-settlement-banning-kettling-as-anti-israel-protests-rage/
Number of Chinese Nationals Spikes at the Border
December is not quite over, and as Catherine noted earlier today, 250,000 illegal aliens have crossed the border this month — more than the number of people who stormed the beaches on D-Day. She also raised a point that has been stated again and again: there is no way of telling who these people are and, for that matter, why they are here. There is no doubt that a number of those entering the country are fleeing poverty and crime or who want their shot at the American Dream. (Incidentally, good luck to them. Most Americans are not even sure they can get a shot at the American Dream.) Others are cartel members, drug and human traffickers, and possibly members of potential sleeper-cell terrorists from enemy nations. I interviewed border experts and members of law enforcement who were saying those things almost 15 years ago. When waves upon waves of people arrive at the pace at which they are currently entering the country, it is impossible to tell who is who. And the current administration seems to have no real interest in doing so. In fact, it shows a vested interest in refusing to enforce immigration laws of any kind.
Ordinarily, when one hears the words "illegal immigrant," one thinks of people from Central and South America. But as has been reported elsewhere, immigrants are coming from all points of the globe, including China. The Daily Caller reports that the number of illegal immigrants from China continues to hit record highs. In November, the Border Patrol had 4,767 encounters with Chinese illegals.
https://pjmedia.com/lincolnbrown/2023/12/26/number-of-chinese-nationals-spikes-at-the-border-n4925030
‼️Iran and Russia have finalised an agreement to trade in their local currencies instead of the U.S dollar, Iran's state media reported on Wednesday.
The agreement was finalised during a meeting between the governors of the two countries' central banks in Russia, it said.
Both Iran and Russia are subject to U.S. sanctions.
"Banks and economic actors can now use infrastructures including non-SWIFT interbank systems to deal in local currencies," state media said.
Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/world/iran-russia-trade-local-currencies-instead-us-dollar-state-media-2023-12-27/)
Gold just made a NEW HIGH… $2,090.00
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/07/us/politics/document-DA-ResistanceMap-2017.html