Shortly after the IDF mission to rescue the hostages the pro-Hamas propaganda effort settled upon the number of Palestinian dead. It varies a little bit from place to place, but the generally agreed-upon number is 200. Now, there is absolutely no independent verification of this number. It came out within hours of the attack – before anyone could have any idea of the numbers killed (it was, after all, a combat situation). Once that number was fixed, it spread around the world with amazing rapidity with nearly all MSM outfits repeating the entirely unconfirmed – and almost certainly completely made up – number. It was rather astonishing to watch: how rapidly the global propaganda machine operates.
The number was chosen because the pro-Hamas forces (which includes most of the Western media and governments) needed a quite large number which would make the rescue of 4 people seem trivial. Wrong. Not worth the price. And led up to the next part of the propaganda effort: getting everyone talking about how many were killed rather than the fact that “civilians” in Gaza were holding the hostages and treating them quite brutally…as well as using them as slaves (point blank: they were slaves. They were taken in accordance with Islamic law and passed out as rewards for services rendered). Can’t have people talking about that.
And, by and large, it worked: everyone is arguing over the number of dead and whether the dead were worth the benefit. Very clever propaganda effort, indeed. Tip of the hat to the Hamas savages and our Ruling Class: Goebbles would be proud.
I bring it up because what we saw here is precisely what we’ve seen elsewhere. With “climate change”. Covid. And, of course, “election deniers”. A massive, orchestrated system of lies designed to both drown out dissenting voices as well as specifically advance the Ruling Class cause. This is what I mean when I say they lie, they lie all the time, they lie about everything. Even when they have to put some element of truth into a Narrative, they bury it under a mountain of lies. And it is very crude. Not at all sophisticated. It does require absolutely no sense of shame because the lies are so stupid and obviously false. But they are so overwhelming in intensity and extent that people feel overwhelmed by it all. The average Jane and Joe on the streets doesn’t want to concede that they’re all egregious liars: that way lies danger. You can’t let liars go on lying, now can you? So better to pretend they aren’t lying, even though you can often see the truth with your own eyes and in those instances where it isn’t right in front of you, just a little bit of thought exposes the lie.
And that brings me back, once again, to what I’ve been harping on for a while: we must punish liars. Lies are not covered by the First Amendment. We must construct the social and legal mechanisms to make liars pay a massive price for any lie. It is the only way to get it to stop. These people do not fear God – they are alienated from God (and, yes, some of them are priests and pastors). These people enjoy lying. They like to see if they can get away with it – and they very much enjoy the power and wealth they obtain by participating in the lies. They have to lose it all. We must punish them – because if they don’t, they’ll just keep lying until truth-tellers are all destroyed.
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There were no “civilians”. While the generally accepted definition of “civilian” is “a person who is not a member of the police or the armed forces“ in terrorist organizations there is no formal hierarchy or membership standard—whoever participates in the actions is a de facto member of the group. The people killed were actively acting in support of, and even as part of, Hamas. Therefore they were not truly “civilians”.
We are seeing proof that the Left, which had been smugly assuming it would retain the power it achieved in the 2020 *election, is realizing that if this power shifts to the Right they are vulnerable to having their own tactics turned against them. They are so panicked they are claiming that if Donald Trump is reelected he will be the same kind of president that Biden has been, and that is a terrifying prospect for them.
What we on the Right understand is that while Trump might prosecute those who have actually broken laws he, unlike the Left, will not distort or manipulate the law. Thanks to the brazenness of the Left, he won’t have to.
Another example of the Left’s growing panic and de facto admission of the source of their power is this:
A group of House Democrats are launching a task force intended to stop a project by conservative leaders to restructure the federal bureaucracy under a future conservative president.
The “Stop Project 2025 Task Force,” announced by Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., targets The Heritage Foundation’s 2025 Presidential Transition Project, also known as Project 2025.
Project 2025 takes aim at the federal bureaucracy and includes proposals to not only remove recalcitrant, unelected bureaucrats hostile to conservative policies, but to make the federal departments more responsive to the president.
Guess who is on this “task force”? The Usual Suspects, of course.
Members of the anti-Project 2025 group include “Democratic Caucus Vice Chair Ted Lieu, D-Calif.; House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, D-Md.; and Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash.,” Axios reported.
BTW, I disagree with the interpretation of Project 2025. I doubt that its actual mission statement is to “not only remove recalcitrant, unelected bureaucrats hostile to conservative policies, but to make the federal departments more responsive to the president”. As a conservative concerned about the power and authority assumed by the unelected political appointees running federal agencies and issuing edicts which, while never legislated by elected repesentatives (Congress) still have the power of law. I don’t see this as an effort merely to “remove recalcitrant, unelected bureaucrats hostile to conservative policies” much less to “make the federal departments more responsive to the president”. These alleged goals sound like they were written by the task force itself.
My understanding of the efforts to rein in the Bureaucratic State is that the goal is to return federal agencies to their original charters and go back to laws made only by Congress, our only legal legislative body, and not by agency edict. This has nothing to do with removing “recalcitrant unelected bureaucrats” just because they are perceived to be “hostile to conservative policies”—unless those “conservative policies” are centered on only allowing Congress to pass laws. And the goal as I understand it has nothing to do with “making the federal departments more responsive to the president”.
It’s hard enough to deal with spin from the Left without running into it on an allegedly conservative website (The Daily Signal) doing the Left’s work for it.
Project 2025 is just another Democrat lie. This country is awash in lies, hence the societal chaos.
I pray Trump wins and if he does, I am not sure how I would want him to address what has transpired the last 4 years, but it has to be addressed. So many career politicians are so compromised by money from a myriad of sources; foreign countries, donors, lobbyists, etc., etc. that they no longer represent their constituents interests. Additionally, too many federal bureaucrats have held their positions for far too long and are in bed with special interests, career politicians, etc. too the point that elected politicians almost become window dressing. It’s the long tenured bureaucrats who run the country. We need systemic change and that’s what Trump needs to focus on.
As for those who are responsible for the last 4 years; Fauci, Daszak, the NIH, many Democrat Governors, Garland, Wray, Pelosi, Schiff, Nadler, Schumer, Cheney, Kinzinger, etc. – I think I would prefer Trump to investigate and detail the violations of the Constitution, the lies, and the motives to shame them, but then I want him to exonerate them saying that that is not what this country is about and actions like these should never happen again and that that moment starts now. We not only need to restore this country, we need to reset it.
I couldn’t tell if Project 2025 is a real thing for the Right that was lied about or if it is a lie in and of itself. The thing is, either way the story telegraphs an awareness that the Bureaucratic State is both the source of Leftist power and in danger under a Trump presidency—therefore the effort to get out in front of it to try to preemptively paint it as a power grab by the Right.
It’s the long tenured bureaucrats who run the country. We need systemic change and that’s what Trump needs to focus on. And I think that is what he started to do, though too tentatively and gradually, and what he will do if given a chance only a lot more energetically. I think he was trying to get the ball rolling in that direction but hesitated to go too strong before the election. That won’t happen again.
As I have said, first of all my preference would be Ron DeSantis as VP delegated with the job of cleaning up the Bureaucratic State. He’s as tough as Trump and he has both the legal and legislative experience needed plus a track record for taking down massive bureaucracies. Or at least one of the biggest in the country. If he’s not the VP then there should be an appointment to a position that would give him that authority. The thing is, this is a band-aid that has to be ripped off fast and early, to let the shock and outrage die down over the next three years so it has less impact on the 2028 election. Just do it and do it fast. Slash budgets to force downsizing and if the law won’t allow for the removal of the top executives in the agencies then appoint someone else in a higher, supervisory position and move the agency to someplace no career politician/bureaucrat would want to go. Moving the BLM to Grand Junction, Colorado cleared out a lot of deadwood in that agency. I don’t know how many jumped ship when Trump moved the Department of Agriculture to Saint Louis (I think it was). So put Ag back in Missouri, though in a smaller town. BLM back in Colorado or maybe Pahrump NV—there’s a lot of federal land in Nevada. Get every agency back to its original charter. Merge Interior and Agriculture, get rid of Education and HHS—the Department of Health and Human Services. The government website describes the duties of the HHS: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) protects the health of all Americans and provides essential human services. That’s vague enough to get the ax, not to mention violating the 10th Amendment. Keep the Department of Homeland Security and put a pit bull in there who will recognize threats to national security in domestic terrorism, including sponsored riots. The Departments of Energy and Transportation could be merged (and sent to Atlanta, one of the worst traffic areas in the country) and do we really need a Department of Labor or Commerce? Lee Zeldin is a treasure—maybe SecDef to revamp and rebuild our military, or cleaning up our “intelligence” agencies, or Secretary of State. State is another nest of vipers that calls for the way we handle nests of rattlesnakes—-gasoline and a match.
I can’t think of a better person to clear out the DOJ than Ted Cruz. As Attorney General he could make a real difference in bringing back some integrity and respect to an agency now as highly regarded as Harvard. He is also an avid Constitutionalist and someone who could and probably would go after those who have been violating it and violating civil rights. I would not exonerate any violator—we can’t criticize selective enforcement of some laws and look the other way on others. The best way to teach ignorant Americans about the Constitution is to have trials of people who have violated it, so we can explain the violations and why they matter, and we can’t ask them to take these matters seriously if we don’t. I would prosecute malicious and/or frivolous prosecutions for political reasons, because they make a travesty of our rule of law, which is the foundation of our country.
I would like to think of Trump as being like WW2 Eisenhower, delegating different theaters of the war to different generals and then staying out of their way and letting them do what they do best. There would still be plenty for him to do—rebuilding our international relations, for one thing, and dealing with things like tariffs and diplomacy, and working with Congress to pass essential bills including revisiting the common misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment and working on the immigration problem. Rescinding every bogus “amnesty” Notice to Appear, etc. is a big job. Getting several million people out of the country calls not only for coordination but a leader out in front explaining what is happening and why.
That is probably what terrifies them them most: they have actually broken laws.
42 US Code 1985:
If two or more persons in any State or Territory conspire to prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat, any person from accepting or holding any office, trust, or place of confidence under the United States, or from discharging any duties thereof; or to induce by like means any officer of the United States to leave any State, district, or place, where his duties as an officer are required to be performed, or to injure him in his person or property on account of his lawful discharge of the duties of his office, or while engaged in the lawful discharge thereof, or to injure his property so as to molest, interrupt, hinder, or impede him in the discharge of his official duties
How’s that for going after Trump with lawfare?
Oh, and you work at the office where the lawfare is happening and you don’t stop it? HAHAHAHA!
Every person who, having knowledge that any of the wrongs conspired to be done, and mentioned in section 1985 of this title, are about to be committed, and having power to prevent or aid in preventing the commission of the same, neglects or refuses so to do, if such wrongful act be committed, shall be liable to the party injured, or his legal representatives, for all damages caused by such wrongful act, which such person by reasonable diligence could have prevented; and such damages may be recovered in an action on the case
There are so many. For example, Omar’s “marriage” to her brother to help him get a visa:
8 U.S. Code § 1325 – Improper entry by alien
Any individual who knowingly enters into a marriage for the purpose of evading any provision of the immigration laws shall be imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or fined not more than $250,000, or both.
Then there are the NGOs, many of them getting federal funding:
8 U.S. Code § 1327 – Aiding or assisting certain aliens to enter
Any person who knowingly aids or assists any alien inadmissible under section 1182(a)(2) (insofar as an alien inadmissible under such section has been convicted of an aggravated felony) or 1182(a)(3) (other than subparagraph (E) thereof) of this title to enter the United States, or who connives or conspires with any person or persons to allow, procure, or permit any such alien to enter the United States, shall be fined under title 18, or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.
Then we get to the “sanctuary” cities and states, where immigration law is flouted:
8 U.S. Code § 1324 – Bringing in and harboring certain aliens
(A)Any person who—
(i)knowing that a person is an alien, brings to or attempts to bring to the United States in any manner whatsoever such person at a place other than a designated port of entry or place other than as designated by the Commissioner, regardless of whether such alien has received prior official authorization to come to, enter, or reside in the United States and regardless of any future official action which may be taken with respect to such alien;
(ii)knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, transports, or moves or attempts to transport or move such alien within the United States by means of transportation or otherwise, in furtherance of such violation of law;
(iii)knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation;
(ivencourages or induces an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States;, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such coming to, entry, or residence is or will be in violation of law; or
(v)
(I)engages in any conspiracy to commit any of the preceding acts, or
(II)aids or abets the commission of any of the preceding acts,
shall be punished as provided in subparagraph (B).
(B)A person who violates subparagraph (A) shall, for each alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs—
(i)in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i) or (v)(I) or in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii), or (iv) in which the offense was done for the purpose of commercial advantage or private financial gain, be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both;
(ii)in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii), (iv), or (v)(II), be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both;
(iii)in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v) during and in relation to which the person causes serious bodily injury (as defined in section 1365 of title 18) to, or places in jeopardy the life of, any person, be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both; and
(iv)in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v) resulting in the death of any person, be punished by death or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, fined under title 18, or both.
Would strict implementation of these laws affect those states who transported illegals to other states? Maybe, but I have to think they looked into the law first, and in any case the law has to apply equally to all.
But I think any city or state which not only harbored but shielded from detection any illegal alien (which I think would include refusing to cooperate with ICE) should have all its officials quaking in their boots—especially if any of those harbored and/or shielded aliens harmed or killed anyone. Our entire immigration system has been so corrupted that there are thousands of people who have violated federal laws to enable illegal immigration and those laws should be enforced.
Yesterday, Trump was asked if he knew who his VP was going to be, and he said yes. I think Trump has made the decision, and I think that will be DeSantis. Trump is well aware that he only has 4 years left, but he also understands that the correction this country needs will take longer than that, and that his VP will need to win 2028 to complete the work … and that is DeSantis. Florida has a very capable lieutenant governor in Jeanette Marie Nuñez who will carry the torch, and I hear Matt Gaetz is interested too, so Florida is in good hands. DeSantis needs to move on and start working on the country. Trump/DeSantis 2024
We can only hope……. This would mean Trump changing his official residence to some other state, perhaps New Jersey as he has a resort there But it would be a brilliant choice. I hope he realizes that DeSantis is most likely to carry on and develop his legacy.
Not New Jersey as that puts him back under Blue State law. I’d say Nevada – he still has interests out there and, like Florida, we’re an income-tax free State.
Good point about the taxation, but I think even the Left would need to find or invent a New Jersey crime to go after him there. Maybe GWO—Golfing While Orange. It would be about as legitimate as their other claims.
I really enjoyed watching my friend Harriet Hageman (freshman Representative) school Jerry Nadler (been in the House for many years) on the differences between the Trump and Hunter Biden trials, ending with a very calm and ladylike suggestion that if he wants more information he can meet her outside.
I’ve seen her in action. He wouldn’t last two minutes. Watch Comer’s reaction and his face at the end, and the expressions on the people behind her as she shredded Waddler.
We’ve always tended to have the more intelligent people in Congress and as we get more MAGA (as it were) the intellect is married to a genuine willingness to fight.