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NOTABLE QUOTES

Mark Tapson contributor to Frontpage Magazine: The Democrat Party of today is not “liberal.” It is driven by a totalitarian far Left who see their political opponents not as fellow Americans but as dangerous obstacles to their mission, which is not to make America great again but to establish permanent, one-Party power. It is the Party of Treason.

J.B. Shurk contributor to American Thinker: Where have we heard the Charlottesville and J6 lies recently? Kamala Harris repeated both during the presidential debate. Surely, if President Trump is responsible for “inciting” a fake “insurrection,” Biden and Harris are responsible for inciting two very real assassination attempts.

Mike Sabo managing editor of The American Mind: As our political realignment progresses, it’s good to see members of the old guard like Dick Cheney reveal where their sympathies lie. For once, the American people are finally beginning to face real choices between genuine alternatives. The return of actual politics, where deliberation is aimed at securing the common good of American citizens, would be a major step forward—and a much-needed rebuke to Cheney and his ilk who have done so much damage to the country.

Brianna Lyman elections correspondent at The Federalist: The chief operating officer of Georgia’s Secretary of State’s office urged “every jurisdiction” to have a plan to threaten election officials with lawfare if they don’t want to rubber-stamp election results (even if the results are “off by one or two”). The executive director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, David Becker, asked Gabe Sterling on Monday to detail “what might happen” if someone was “successful in delaying or denying certification [of election results].”

Vince Coyner contributor to American Thinker: From Gates to Hoffman, Zuckerberg, Sandberg, Powell Jobs, Soros, Buffett, Omidyar, Bloomberg, and so many others, these leftists see themselves as kings or queens, or, at the least, high nobles, unaccountable to anyone and anything. They use their tremendous wealth to push for policies that don’t affect them but harm common citizens.They assume that because they’re brilliant in one area of commerce, they’re somehow qualified to coerce the rest of us to live our lives as directed. Invariably, that “direction” involves governments creating more regulations that add additional burdens to the lives of everyday people for little or no benefit. From “green energy” to DEI to the butchering of confused teenagers, these members of the WEF’s globalist cabal care far more about virtue signaling than about actually solving actual problems because, of course, ordinary people’s problems never affect them.

Richard Truesdell & Keith Lehmann contributors to American Greatness: The worst thing about corruption as a system of government is that it works so well. With so much consolidation of power and personal enrichment at stake, it’s no wonder why politicians work so hard to stay in office.

Mek contributor to FAIR Foundation USA: Wagensveld warned Americans, cautioning, “Be wary of becoming too tolerant towards ideologies that fundamentally oppose Western values. Protect your freedoms and your culture, and do not allow the spread of ideologies that could endanger your way of life.” He explicitly emphasized the risks of underestimating the cohesive and singular nature of Islam, challenging the American public to heed the lessons learned from Europe’s struggles with Islamic supremacism.

DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: ABOLISH THE FIRST AMENDMENT

Blaze TV Staff: ‘Diabolical creep’ Bill Gates is still hurt over vaccine pushback, admits he wants to criminalize free speech

“Bill Gates wants your free speech to be stifled if you criticize his vaccines,” says Liz Wheeler. “I swear to you that is an accurate summary of what Bill Gates said.” And she’s right. In a clip, Gates boldly admits the following: “We should have free speech, but if you’re inciting violence, if you’re causing people not to take vaccines, you know, where are those boundaries?” he stated, adding that “the U.S. should have rules” and suggesting some kind of “AI that encodes those rules.”

The Independent Women’s Forum: Meta’s New Policy Could Erase Women

Sex-Based Speech is not harassment. Meta (Facebook and Instagram) has almost 4 billion active users and moderates content based on Community Standards. Its “Bullying and Harassment” Community Standard generally requires removal of targeted bullying against children and bullying that the victim specifically asks to be removed. This means that videos of trans-identifying men entering women’s sports and spaces, or generally identifying these males as males, is allowed on Meta platform. And for good cause. Frank discussion about and the visualization of trans-identifying males in women’s sports and spaces has been crucial to protecting women, and preserving truth itself. But all that may change. […] The stakes could not be higher. If truthful, real-life discussions about biological sex are banned from Meta, the uniqueness of womanhood, not to mention the progress of women, will be eroded.

TEST RUN?

(Updated information) Sherdlu: Trump Supporters Apparently Attacked At Rally With Clandestine Weapon: Trump Supporters Apparently Attacked At Rally With Clandestine Weapon

At least 20 Trump supporters may have been attacked covertly by chemicals or a high-power laser at a Trump rally in Tucson on September 12. Some victims suffered severe burns. Many were temporarily blinded, with symptoms lasting until today. Others may have been affected but have yet to be identified. The fact that all those known to have been affected were sitting on the stage immediately adjacent to President Trump is important in understanding the significance of what happened.

The victims were all part of a “Latinos for Trump” group on the stage. President Trump shook hands with them as he walked to the podium. But what they believed was their good fortune soon turned into a nightmare when severe symptoms began to strike 30 minutes after the rally. […] Experts believe the symptoms resulted either from a chemical agent or, more likely, from a high-powered infrared laser attack. Thus, while chemicals were initially blamed, physicians and retired military experts experienced in chemical-biological-nuclear-directed energy warfare now believe it was an attack by an unseen infrared laser. The symptoms are consistent with a very severe sunburn. The reddened skin and peelings are typical symptoms of a dangerous level of overexposure to the sun’s infrared light. The fact that the symptoms did not start until about 30 minutes after exposure also indicates an infrared burn. It’s like getting too much sun at the beach. People often discover only later how badly sunburned they are. […] Political and law enforcement insiders believe what happened was a warning. One warning could be, “This is what happens to people who support Donald Trump.” Another frightening warning could be “We purposely aimed at just one stage area, 8 feet away from the former president. We could just as easily attack Trump.”

THE CORRUPT & DANGEROUS U.S. INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES

(H/T CC) American AF posted on X: This is one of the most POWERFUL videos I’ve ever seen. The Deep State has been exposed.

Watch the 3:21 minute video: https://x.com/iAnonPatriot/status/1836829908116427227

Sundance: Florida Governor Says FBI Blocked State Investigators From Trump Assassination Crime Scene

Apparently in Georgia and New York the federal government defers jurisdiction to New York and Georgia prosecution over federal matters surrounding President Trump, but in Florida the feds assert unilateral jurisdiction over the assassination attempt of President Trump. In essence, in New York and Georgia the Biden administration (DOJ) don’t care what the state does against Trump’s interests; however, in Florida the Biden administration (DOJ) are concerned about what the state might do to defend Trump’s interests. Imagine that. And yet Merrick Garland says the DOJ operates without political motives?

Watch the 3:26 minute interview: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/09/19/florida-governor-says-fbi-blocked-state-investigators-from-trump-assassination-crime-scene/

DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: DECONSTRUCT WESTERN CIVILIZATION

Morabito: Yes, Democrats And Their Propaganda Media Support Late-Term Abortion And Infanticide

Ever since, media outlets from The Guardian to MSNBC have continued to issue “fact checks” and outraged opinion articles backing up Davis’ claim and denying Trump’s, calling it the “post-birth abortion lie” and claiming “there is no state in the US where it is ‘OK’ to kill a baby after it is born.” First off, that’s disingenuous and false. Seven U.S. states allow abortion until birth, with no restrictions, and 14 allow it for the sake of the mother’s “health,” which can include mental health. In Minnesota, eight babies are recorded as being left to die outside the womb after failed abortions in just 2021 alone, until Gov. Tim Walz removed that reporting requirement. Minnesota is not the only state that fails to record or protect children left to die after birth in such circumstances. Second, radical Democrats used to see a difference between abortion and infanticide. Third, and maybe even most importantly, this sheltering of Harris obscures the fact that Harris’ policy positions are clearly in line with Planned Parenthood’s hard push towards legalizing all forms of infanticide. It’s happening because of the support of the propaganda media. […] The bigger issue is that infanticide is fast becoming an essential policy position for Democrats.

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA

Tapson: The Party of Treason

It’s time to begin branding our opponents as what they truly are. As the presidential election has loomed nearer, the Democrat Party has largely avoided substantive discussions of policy and instead made desperate, unconvincing efforts to brand itself as everything from the Party of Joy to the Party of 21^st Century Masculinity. But it is time for the Right to begin branding their opponents as what they truly are, and making the label stick: Democrats are the Party of Treason. Too harsh? Multiple times a day, every day, Democrat leaders from the President on down, and their media allies, smear conservatives as threats to democracy, Nazis, extremists, domestic terrorists, American Taliban, deplorables, bitter clingers, white supremacists (non-white conservatives are called race traitors), bigots, racists, Islamophobes, transphobes, haters, book banners, Rethuglicans, and dangerous fascists who “must be stopped.” What do conservatives call Democrats? Liberals. It’s time to call it like we see it, and what we see is a Party hell-bent on destroying this country to make way for a totalitarian, one-Party state.

THE FIGHT FOR ELECTION INTEGRITY

Lyman: Pennsylvania County Ditches Drop Boxes, Citing Security Concerns

Luzerne County Manager Romilda Crocamo sent a notice to county election officials on Wednesday saying the county lacked the “capability” to ensure the drop boxes were safe locations for voters to leave their ballots, according to WNEP.

Brelje: New Public Database Will Let Anyone In Swing States See How Their Neighbors Are Voting

Citizen “vote detectives” are invited to look for voter anomalies in their own neighborhood. hen political foot soldiers canvass a neighborhood, they do so armed with voter information, including how many people live in a home, their party, and when they last voted.

Democrats are skilled at canvassing door-to-door because they have so much data about the people in the neighborhoods where they work, some Republican operatives have told The Federalist. Now a nonprofit, Votermaps.org, is making that information — your information — available online, for free, to any member of the public. […] They hope members of the public will become “vote detectives” and look for inconsistencies in voter registration. “VoterMaps is a searchable, map-based database of all voter histories and current ballot status — updated in real-time. House by house. Block by block. State by state,” the website says. “We level the information playing field transparently, allowing all citizens to be activists, influencers, fraud detectors, and champions of free and fair elections.” […] But what about privacy? The data will make it simple to learn someone’s party affiliation, even if they never put a political sign in their yard. It is public information, LeFevre said, and door knockers already have it.

REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL TICKET: TRUMP/VANCE

Dawe: A Target on His Back — Trump as the New John Wick

So now we have the murmurings of a third possible assassination attempt on the life of former President Trump. Multiple attendees seated onstage at Trump’s Tucson rally experienced severe eye pain afterward, requiring emergency room treatment. The initial indication supports the premise that there was possibly some kind of agent released in the air that caused the malaise. Granted, information is sparse at this point, but would anyone be surprised if it were true? You can almost feel it, the rising excitement in the lunatic fringe. […] You can practically hear the hundreds of lefty lunatics scrambling to gather guns, knives, bombs, poisons, deadly gas, and anything else they can think of to use in their efforts to ‘get Trump.’ Trump is now like John Wick in the movie John Wick 2. For the uninitiated, John Wick was a master assassin who violated the ‘code of ethics’ of his brotherhood. As punishment, the leaders of the brotherhood put out a contract on him and hundreds of professional assassins raced to be the first one to kill John Wick and collect millions in bounty. Donald Trump ‘violated’ the rules of the brotherhood of political elites. They have employed every method they could think of to neutralize him through media lies and judicial lawfare. None of those tactics have worked. In fact, they’ve boomeranged and increased Trump’s popularity and appeal. After those failures, it’s not surprising that the Left would start sending covert messages to their fringe members that it’s time to employ drastic means.

DEMOCRAT PARTY PRESIDENTIAL TICKET: HARRIS/WALZ

Drew Berquist: Kamala Looks Extremely Awkward After DEI Applause Line Completely Flops

Watch the first 53 seconds of the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgMDFczNB2o&t=45s

Greenfield: Kamala’s Money Machine

“Kamala demands a life of luxury.” “Kamala demands a life of luxury,” a former aide revealed. “She treats the campaign like a personal checking account to fund a lifestyle she aspires to,” another aide warned. “Staff has always worried about Kamala’s spending, but she is adamant about using campaign money as she wants,” that aide on her former Senate campaign said. “She wants to live the life of someone in the White House,” a strategist described Kamala in 2015, “and she hasn’t even won the Senate yet. Her hanging around the president and first lady”, referencing the Obamas, “it’s gotten her hooked. She thinks it’s her birthright and it’s not.” Kamala was raising and spending massive amounts of campaign cash. Much of it on herself.

Solenader: Jeffries leaves door open to booting Republicans from committees

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is not ruling out kicking certain House Republicans off of committees if Democrats retake the House majority. Why it matters: It’s something the Democratic leader hinted at after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) appointed Reps. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) and Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) to the House Intelligence Committee. “To be continued,” Jeffries replied cryptically when asked during a press conference Thursday whether he would kick Perry and Jackson off the Intelligence panel and whether Democrats may exclude other Republicans from committees.

Angelides: Oprah and Kamala: The Saddest Spectacle of the 2024 Election

What were the duo hoping to achieve? […] This was not an interview in any meaningful sense of the word. With guest appearances by Hollywood staples such as Ben Stiller, Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lopez, and others, including guest spots by campaign surrogates, the scene seemed more like a DNC rehash. There were several hundred attendees at the Michigan event, but these were largely not citizens seeking to understand the depth – or lack thereof – of a potential president. Instead, they appeared to be Kamala’s fanbase, peppered with representatives from organizations such as Republicans for Harris, Swifties for Kamala, Black Women for Harris, White Dudes for Harris, Win with Black Men, White Women for Harris, and South Asians for Harris.

WAR IN ISRAEL

Toplansky: Israel Against the World

On July 2014 the late Charles Krauthammer penned an article titled “Moral Clarity in Gaza.” He noted that “Hamas has only one grievance: Israel’s very existence.” “Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating. […] A decade later, how exquisitely correct Krauthammer was. And now ten years later, October 7th shook Israel and world Jewry to its very core. The normalization of the most bestial atrocities are “landmarks of shame.” “Hamas’ orgy of rape, murder, and callous, indiscriminate cruelty such as mutilation, torture, burning alive, and beheadings that began last October 7 and is continuing almost a year later, marks an escalation extreme even by the standards of that blood-stained region. “Morally horrific […] In 2011 Dr. Arieh Eldad recounted a searing story that clearly shows how deep the Palestinians’ moral abyss is. Eldad had helped establish the Israeli National Skin Bank, which is the largest in the world. As Chairman of Plastic Surgery, he was asked to. . . .

OTHER NEWS, COMMENTARY, OPINION

(Biden/Harris migrant invaders) Snowden: Chicago Public Schools teachers say they were told by administrators to give migrant students passing grades

The teachers we spoke with work in CPS elementary schools and say they spoke no Spanish, while their migrant students spoke no English, making communication virtually impossible. They also added that because their schools were located in predominantly Black neighborhoods, they offered no English as a Second Language (ESL) support. Despite this, they say they were instructed by school administrators to give their migrant students a 70 percent in every subject and pass them on to the next grade.

Teachers say this was the case even if their migrant students displayed severe academic deficiencies.

Bateman: A Christian Fantasy Series That’s Sure To Delight All Ages

Father and son writing team S.D. Smith and J.C. Smith are back with the latest installment in the Jack Zulu series, where characters seek heroism by submitting to Christian tenets. man’s what God made you to be, son. So be that, and while you’re at it, you might as well go ahead and be the best one you can be.” So embarks Jack Zulu on his latest quest to protect, defend and lead amidst warring worlds and against an egomaniacal supervillain intent on converting Jack to his dark and complete tyranny, testing Jack’s physical, psychological, and spiritual strength in withstanding the promise of shared power. The second book in the Jack Zulu series, Jack Zulu and the Girl with Golden Wings, is a compelling, action-packed fantasy, wherein strong, Christian characters fight to overpower evil and destructive forces intent on overtaking the worlds.

DINESH D’SOUZA DOCUMENTARY: VINDICATING TRUMP OPENING ONLY IN THEATERS SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Dinesh D’Souza: “Character assassination. Political assassination. Legal assassination. An actual assassination attempt. They will try anything to stop Trump. We can’t let them!”

The film includes President Donald Trump, Dinesh D’Souza, RNC Co-Chair Lara Trump, and Attorney Alina Habba. This film is a journey to discover the real Donald Trump, and to make the case for him as a man and as a leader. It begins with a puzzle. How can a man be so intensely loved and hated? Not since Lincoln have we had such a divisive figure on the national scene. The film also considers a danger that Lincoln warned about—the rise in America of a tyrant like Caesar who would promote lawlessness and subvert the foundations of our constitutional republic. Is Trump such a man?

Watch the 1:46 minute trailer: https://vindicatingtrump.com/

NOT TAXED ENOUGH?

Barkoukis: Trump Campaign Rolls Out New Website Showing How a Harris Presidency Would Affect Your Taxes

Reminding visitors that Harris voted against the Trump Tax Cuts as a senator and will let them sunset if elected president, the website highlights that the national average tax hike will be $2,580.57, but there are also state-specific figures available based off data from the Tax Foundation. “Democrats in Washington don’t care about you – they will work together with Kamala Harris to make sure you pay more taxes and have less money in your pocket,” the website states. “According to the Tax Foundation, if the Trump Tax Cuts expire, most taxpayers will see a notable tax increase.”

Smith: The Education of Sally Muffinsheep

“Sally, you are taxed on the income you earn. When you invest the income you have after taxes, you are taxed on the income your investment earns. When you sell the investment that you already paid all these taxes on, you are taxed again on the profit you make. When you die, you are subject to being taxed at a 40% rate for whatever is left of your assets that you have been paying taxes on your whole life. You are taxed on the income you spend. Every time you buy a loaf of bread to feed your family, you are taxed. In fact, you are taxed on all food you buy. Often you are taxed double for eating at a restaurant. It’s cold outside and you are freezing, you buy a jacket to keep warm, you are taxed on its purchase. In fact, it is so cold, you go to the liquor store to buy a fifth of Old Rotgut to keep warm. You’ll end up paying federal excise taxes, state excise taxes and state sales tax. To calm your nerves, you need to buy a pack of Lucky Strikes, likely over 50% of the costs are taxes and fees to government entities. After your nerves are calmed, you hop in your car to drive home. For the privilege of having a car, you pay 4.57% of the car’s value every year in personal property tax, even though you paid a “sales and use” tax and titling fees when you bought the car. Damn, your gas gauge is on empty! You pull into the filling station and fill your car up. Approximately 20% of your purchase went to federal and state excises taxes, even though your station’s distributor was already taxed 9% on the gas it purchased. You drive through your leafy subdivision and pull into your driveway on the house you and Pierre bought 22 years ago […] For the privilege of you owning a home, your Dad pays 1.2% of its value every year to your municipality. […] You go the fridge, grab a couple of ice cubes, throw them in a glass, pour in a couple ounces of Old Rotgut and mix it with water from the sink. You pay taxes on that water and ice.

INTERNATIONAL

Reynolds: Amid Brazil’s battle to muzzle Musk’s X, Elon eyes tech triumph in free-speech wars

“Can’t stop the signal,” a famous line from the movie “Serenity”, has become something of a catchphrase among geeks — meaning that messages of truth cannot be contained. But stopping the signal is exactly what a lot of governments are trying to do these days, with mixed but depressing results. Under Article 19 of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom […] to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”

Tawil: Why Egypt Prefers Palestinian Terrorists On Its Border

“Before el-Sissi, but also during his tenure, cars, motorcycles, clothes, drugs, medicines, alcoholic beverages, and weapons were smuggled through the Philadelphi Corridor over the years, lots of weapons: improved RPG-29 rockets that killed our soldiers in the Iron Swords War, hidden rocket parts, machine guns, mines, and more.” — Nadav Shragai, Israeli author and journalist, Israel Hayom, July 10, 2024.
“[E]ven those who trust President el-Sissi now cannot guarantee that a new [former Egyptian President] Mohammed Morsi from the Muslim Brotherhood won’t rise to power in the future, as we saw happen in 2012 presidential elections in Egypt. Israel must, therefore, remain in Philadelphi [gateway between Egypt and Gaza]. . . Foreign monitoring forces have failed in Lebanon over the years, and they also failed at the Rafah crossing from which European Union monitors fled in 2007.” — Nadav Shragai, Israel Hayom, July 10, 2024.
“Even today the city of Rafah [near the border with Egypt] is full of smugglers who bribe the Egyptian police and run a business sector with a turnover in the billions. The smuggling still continues during wartime, as war materiel and other goods flow from Sinai into Gaza every day. And there is fear that such smuggling is, or will be, accompanied by smuggling in the other direction. Senior Hamas figures are likely to try to escape into Egyptian territory, with hostages, and from there to Iran.” — Brig. Gen. (Res.) Amir Avivi, March 4, 2024.

RAIR: Imam: ‘In the Netherlands, Muslims Are in Charge- If You Don’t Like It, Just Leave’ (Video)

In his TikTok tirade, Brother Rahide makes it clear that the Dutch need to adapt to Muslims. Rahide begins: “This is the Netherlands, the country where the Muslim is in charge, not the Dutch. If you don’t like it, you can leave. Go to Germany or somewhere else. Here, we Muslims are in charge. We built this country. We are responsible for everything here—

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