We Are Well Beyond Hypocrisy

 

The abject narcissism of the insular Left is startling. They apparently believe the American public is amnesiac enough to forget what leftists once did, now that they’re doing the utter opposite. And they assume we are to discount their hypocrisy and self-absorption simply because they self-identify as erudite and moral and assume their opponents are irredeemable and deplorable.

Impeachment

The Left is saturating the airwaves with outrage over the current House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry. They allege that formally investigating Joe Biden’s role in the family grifting operation is somehow a poor constitutional precedent, if not out-of-bounds entirely.

So we hear further arguments that it will be unwise to impeach a first-term president when he loses his House majority, that there is no reason to “waste” congressional time and effort when Biden will be automatically acquitted in the Democratically controlled Senate, and that the impeachment is cynically timed to synchronize with president’s reelection efforts.

All of these are the precise arguments many of us cited when Donald Trump was impeached in December 2019 (as his reelection campaign began, and immediately after being cleared of the 22-month, $40-million-special-counsel Russian-collusion hoax).

The Democrats tried to remove an elected president over a phone call without a special counsel’s report. So Trump was impeached only after the 2018 election led to a Democratic House majority, which went from eating up nearly two years of his administration in the Russian-collusion hoax straight into the impeachment farce. There was no concern about the cost to the nation of putting an elected government into a continual state of siege.

There is one difference, though, between the Trump impeachment and the Biden impeachment inquiry. Donald Trump was impeached because he accurately accused the members of the Ukrainian government of paying Hunter Biden, with his zero fossil fuel expertise, an astronomical sum to serve on the Burisma board — as the costly quid that earned the lucrative quo from his dad Vice President Joe Biden.

No one now denies that Joe Biden got prosecutor Viktor Shokin fired by threatening to cancel legislatively-approved U.S. aid. Shokin knew about the skullduggery through which the Biden family eventually received $6.5 million from Ukraine — and so Biden ensured his firing, and publicly bragged about it in performance-art fashion.

In sum, Trump had a perfect right as commander in chief to delay (he did not cancel) aid to Ukraine, to ensure that its government was not still paying off the Bidens for their lobbying efforts on its behalf.

It is also now clear that Biden serially lied about his ignorance of Hunter’s shake-down operation. In fact, he was, as Devon Archer emphasized, “the brand” central to Hunter’s scheme to coerce money from foreign governments. Joe was proverbially, in Hunter’s words “the man sitting next to me” and thus able to either punish or reward foreign interests, depending on the size of the checks they wrote to his various fronting family members.

Offspring subpoenas

The left is now furious that Hunter has been subpoenaed by the House to testify in private about how he earned his multimillion-dollar income, whether he fully paid taxes on it, and to whom he distributed his winnings.

Hunter has refused to testify. He is now being held in contempt of the U.S. Congress — to the silence of the usually self-righteous former senator Joe “pay your fair share” Biden.

We hear sanctimonious harangues that Joe is guilty of loving “his only son” Hunter too much, or that it is way out of bounds for a Department of Justice prosecutor to hound Joe Biden by going “after his family,” or that Republican congressional subpoenas and contempt findings should be summarily ignored.

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Ask Peter Navarro or Steve Bannon whether one can simply ignore a House subpoena. Ask Ivanka Trump whether she was, or was not, subpoenaed to appear before the January 6 committee. Ask the Trump sons whether they could breezily say “no” to Letitia James’s subpoenas in her farcical real-estate-valuation suit against Trump.

Whistleblowers

Do we remember when, not long ago, whistleblowers were noble?

The alleged whistleblower Eric Ciaramella, an Obama holdover who had burrowed inside the Trump administration, had zero firsthand knowledge of the Trump phone call to Ukrainian president Zelensky. Ukrainian expatriate Lt. Col Alexander Vindman was on the call, as a member of the Trump national security team. He broke the law and apparently disclosed the classified call — in outrage that Trump was apparently too hard on his native Ukraine — to Ciaramella, and then hid the latter’s identity. Both met privately with Rep. Adam Schiff (D — CA) to engineer an impeachment writ.

This impeachment gambit was well-known to the media and the Democratic House. Both Vindman and Ciaramella were canonized as invaluable tools in wearing down Trump in a way that the failed Mueller prosecution had never done.

And whistleblowers now?

IRS Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley and 13-year Special IRS Agent Joe Ziegler never violated any statute or disclosed classified information. They did not leak a presidential phone call to a foreign leader.

Instead, both came forward as whistleblowers to testify before Congress about how the Biden Justice Department deliberately and carefully ensured that the mountain of evidence for the prosecution of Hunter Biden that they had presented had simply been ignored — at least long enough for the statute of limitations to run out on his most egregious crimes.

When they both made their case that facts proved the Biden family received huge sums for selling access to or action from Joe Biden, they were roundly trashed by Democrats in Congress and pilloried as disgruntled politicos by a toady press.

Dictators

Never-Trumpers and leftists vie to predict the most nightmarish consequence of a 2024 Trump election win. Supposedly, he will commit every imaginable sin, from ending habeas corpus to jailing his enemies.

This fear-mongering has no basis in fact, especially given that the nation has already experienced a Trump administration for four years. And it saw none of the weaponization of the CIA, FBI, DOJ, and IRS that we have seen under the Biden and earlier Obama administrations. There was no concerted effort to destroy the 2020 Biden campaign in the manner of the 2016 Russian-collusion caper, no FBI suppression of evidence as we saw in the case of the Hunter laptop, no warping of a FISA court, no paying social media corporations FBI money to suppress news unfavorable to Trump. And so on.

The Burden of Familial Indictments?

Suddenly yet another new narrative emerges: Joe Biden is unduly preoccupied, bearing the enormous burden of Hunter’s indictments. Apparently, we have never appreciated the supposedly unnecessary and cruel encumbrance on a president when his son is indicted.

So, we are told that a son’s legal exposure is an unfair weight on a president.

Have we again forgotten the subpoenaed Trump children, much less the four weaponized indictments of Trump himself? Does anyone wish to compare the drug-addicted, prostitute-hiring, gun-losing, pornographic-photo-taking, shake-down grifting of Hunter with the conduct of the five Trump children?

What would Biden think if the next Republican Secretary of State had once tried to ruin him by rounding up “51 intelligence authorities” to blatantly lie that a Trump son’s incriminating laptop was not his own, in order to affect the 2024 election — all in the manner of the Antony Blinken 2020 ruse? Or imagine a future National Security advisor who had once tried, in Jake Sullivan’s 2016 way, to concoct a malicious yarn that Hunter was engineering a computer ping correspondence from Biden headquarters to Moscow. Would those be burdens on Biden? Were they on Trump?

It may well be unwise to impeach a president in his first term when he loses his House majority. It may certainly set a bad precedent to subpoena the children of presidents. It may be regrettable that whistleblowers are either unduly demonized or sanctified. And it is of course wrong to smear a president as a veritable Hitlerian dictator.

But the left does not see such absolutes. Instead, once a supposedly morally-superior agenda is enunciated, then any means necessary are justified to obtain it.

And that alternate reality ensures that impeaching a president, indicting him, subpoenaing his kids, praising or libeling whistleblowers, or smearing a president as a dictator become good or bad things only by determining whether they prove useful to the progressive project.

Democratic Lawfare vs. Donald Trump

 

The story of the 2024 campaign so far is the effort by Democrats and their appointees to use criminal charges and lawsuits to force former President Donald Trump out of the race for a second term in the White House. The name for such an effort is “lawfare” — that is, “the strategic use of legal proceedings to intimidate or hinder an opponent,” to cite one law dictionary.

The latest development, of course, is the Colorado Supreme Court ruling disqualifying Trump from being on the state ballot. All seven members of Colorado’s highest court were appointed by Democrats. The case was started by a Washington-based, aggressively anti-Trump activist group called CREW, or Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which recruited local Coloradans to file suit against Trump.

The Colorado case, of course, comes amid a growing number of Democratic legal efforts to bring down Trump. Here are five additional examples. All were brought by Democratic or Democratic-appointed prosecutors, and three of the five are being tried before Democratic-appointed judges.

1. New York Attorney General Letitia James, an elected Democrat, won office on a platform of going after Trump. After considering various criminal charges against the former president, James decided instead to file a lawsuit intended to destroy Trump’s business empire in New York. James’ case received a boost when Judge Arthur Engoron, a Democrat, ruled that Trump was guilty before the trial began. Trump is now awaiting Engoron’s decision on damages.

2. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, also an elected Democrat, also won office on a platform of going after Trump. In late March, Bragg became the first prosecutor to indict Trump, charging him with 34 felonies related to the hush money Trump arranged to pay to porn actress Stormy Daniels in the 2016 presidential campaign. Bragg’s indictment is widely regarded as the weakest of the criminal cases against Trump. It was assigned to Judge Juan Merchan, who made three small political contributions in 2020: $15 to Joe Biden, $10 to the Progressive Turnout Project, and $10 to a group called Stop Republicans.

3. Special counsel Jack Smith, appointed by the Biden Justice Department, began his investigation of Trump a few months after the New York Times reported in April 2022: “As recently as last year, Mr. Biden confided to his inner circle that he believed former President Donald J. Trump was a threat to democracy and should be prosecuted, according to two people familiar with his comments. And while the president has never communicated his frustrations directly to [Attorney General Merrick] Garland, he has said privately that he wanted Mr. Garland to act less like a ponderous judge and more like a prosecutor who is willing to take decisive action over the events of Jan. 6.” Smith was appointed six months later. He indicted Trump over Jan. 6 and the 2020 election in August 2023. The case is being heard under Judge Tanya Chutkan, who was nominated to the federal bench by President Barack Obama and also contributed to Obama’s 2008 campaign.

4. Smith, again acting under his appointment by the Biden Justice Department, indicted Trump in June of this year on 40 felony counts in the classified documents case. In contrast to the other cases, this one is being presided over by Judge Aileen Cannon, who was appointed to the bench by President Trump.

5. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, an elected Democrat, indicted Trump on 13 felony counts relating to the 2020 election. Willis alleged a huge RICO conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election that included 19 defendants. That group would have been even larger, but Willis was barred from prosecuting one target, Republican State Rep. Burt Jones, after news came out that Willis had hosted a fundraiser for Jones’ Democratic opponent.

So that is six cases, including the Colorado case, driven by Democrats and their appointees and activists. Party leaders, of course, would deny that there is any political motivation at work. But the reality is, the prosecutions and lawsuits are all the work of Trump’s political opponents. If they succeed, they will result in him going to prison, paying huge fines and losing his business. They would, in short, once and for all, remove Trump from the American political scene.

It is as if anti-Trump leaders concluded that elections did not succeed in getting rid of him, and media attacks did not succeed in getting rid of him, and investigations did not succeed in getting rid of him, and now the next step is lawfare. That’s where we are now.

It is hard to overstate how crazy this situation is. In the two federal criminal cases, the Biden administration is prosecuting the sitting president’s main political opponent in the runup to an election. In the two local criminal cases and the New York lawsuit, elected Democrats who ran for office promising to pursue a single political target — Trump — are making good on their promises. And in the Colorado case, Trump’s political opponents have dreamed up a novel use for a clause in a Reconstruction-era constitutional amendment that was long thought dead.

We all know the political impact of this. Immediately after the first indictment (Bragg’s), support for Trump in the Republican primary race shot upward. It rose further amid later indictments and lawsuits, going from 44% support before the Bragg indictment to 63% support today in the RealClearPolitics average of polls. Some Republicans are clearly using support of Trump as a way to express their disapproval of the wave of prosecutions and lawsuits. Whether that will last is unclear. But the Democratic lawfare campaign has been relentless, and it will surely provoke continuing Republican reaction in the months to come.

Happy Kwanzaa! The Holiday Brought to You by the FBI

 

One of this year’s major news stories is how Republicans, like Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, are trying to BAN the teaching of history — which, as everyone knows, consists exclusively of lessons about slavery; queer studies; Lewis Latimer, the black inventor of the lightbulb (“not a white guy named Edison,” as President Biden said); “mass incarceration”; Jim Crow; Emmett Till; Cleopatra, who was black (according to Netflix, over the outraged objections of the Egyptians); Garrett Morgan, traffic light inventor; Rosa Parks, and so on.
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Well, today is Kwanzaa, so here’s some of that history that liberals are so red-hot for.

Celebrated exclusively by white liberals, Kwanzaa is a fake holiday invented in 1966 by black radical/FBI stooge Ron Karenga — aka Dr. Maulana Karenga, founder of United Slaves, the violent nationalist rival to the Black Panthers. Liberals have become so mesmerized by multicultural gibberish that they have forgotten the real history of Kwanzaa and Karenga’s United Slaves.

In what was ultimately a foolish gambit, during the madness of the ’60s, the FBI encouraged the most extreme black nationalist organizations in order to discredit and split the left. The more preposterous the group, the better. (It’s the same function #BlackLivesMatter serves today.)

By that criterion, Karenga’s United Slaves was perfect.

Despite modern perceptions that blend all the black activists of the ’60s, the Black Panthers did not hate whites. Although some of their most high-profile leaders were drug dealers and murderers, they did not seek armed revolution.

Those were the precepts of Karenga’s United Slaves. The United Slaves were proto-fascists, walking around in dashikis, gunning down Black Panthers and adopting invented “African” names. (I will not be shooting any Black Panthers this week because I am Kwanzaa-reform, and we are not that observant.)

It’s as if David Duke invented a holiday called “Anglika,” which he based on the philosophy of “Mein Kampf” — and clueless public schoolteachers began celebrating the made-up, racist holiday.

In the category of the-gentleman-doth-protest-too-much, back in the ’70s, Karenga was quick to criticize Nigerian newspapers that claimed certain American black radicals were CIA operatives.

Now we know the truth: The FBI fueled the bloody rivalry between the Panthers and United Slaves. In the annals of the American ’60s, Karenga was the Father Gapon, stooge of the czarist police. Whether Karenga was a willing FBI dupe or just a dupe remains unclear.

In one barbarous outburst, Karenga’s United Slaves shot two Black Panthers to death on the UCLA campus, Al “Bunchy” Carter and John Huggins. Karenga himself served time, a useful stepping-stone for his current position as the chair of the Africana Studies Department at California State University at Long Beach.

The esteemed Cal State professor’s invented holiday is a nutty blend of schmaltzy ’60s rhetoric, black racism and Marxism. The seven principles of Kwanzaa are identical to those of the Symbionese Liberation Army, another invention of The Worst Generation.

In 1974, Patty Hearst, kidnap victim-cum-SLA revolutionary, famously posed next to the banner of her alleged captors, a seven-headed cobra. Each snakehead stood for one of the SLA’s revolutionary principles: Umoja, Kujichagulia, Ujima, Ujamaa, Nia, Kuumba and Imani. These are the exact same seven “principles” of Kwanzaa.

When Karenga was asked to distinguish Kawaida, the philosophy underlying Kwanzaa, from “classical Marxism,” he essentially said that, under Kawaida, we also hate whites. (And here’s something interesting: Kawaida, Kwanzaa and Kuumba are also the only three Kardashian sisters not to have their own shows on the E! network.)
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While taking the “best of early Chinese and Cuban socialism” (mass murder or the seizure of private property?), Karenga said Kawaida practitioners believe one’s racial identity “determines life conditions, life chances and self-understanding.”

Or as we know it today, “Lesson plan for K-12 students.” (Except in Florida, thanks to miracle governor DeSantis.)

Kwanzaa emerged not from Africa, but from the FBI’s COINTELPRO. It is a holiday celebrated exclusively by idiot white liberals. Black Americans celebrate Christmas.

Sing to “Jingle Bells”:

Kwanzaa bells, dashikis sell

Whitey has to pay;

Burning, shooting, oh what fun

On this made-up holiday!

U.S. Forces Strike Iran-Backed Terrorists in Iraq After Christmas Attack Wounds Three Service Members

 

Three U.S. service members were wounded, one critically, in Iraq on Monday evening in what is only the latest attack on American troops in the Middle East by Iranian terror proxies. According to the White House, a kamikaze drone launched by Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah and affiliated groups struck Erbil Air Base in Iraq early on Christmas morning.

After being briefed on the attack, Biden requested options for an American response to the attack and reviewed those options in the afternoon. The White House said Biden then directed strikes on facilities used by the Iran-backed terrorists for their drone operations targeting American troops.

By Sunday evening, the Pentagon reported that CENTCOM forces had conducted “necessary and proportionate strikes on three facilities used by Kataib Hezbollah and affiliated groups in Iraq,” saying the “precision strikes” were “intended to disrupt and degrade capabilities of the Iran-aligned militia groups directly responsible” for Sunday morning’s attack that wounded U.S. service members.

Per CENTCOM, the “early assessments” following the retaliatory strikes indicate that its forces “destroyed the targeted facilities and likely killed a number of Kataib Hezbollah militants” and there were “no indications that any civilian lives were affected.”

“These strikes are intended to hold accountable those elements directly responsible for attacks on coalition forces in Iraq and Syria and degrade their ability to continue attacks. We will always protect our forces,” said General Michael Erik Kurilla, U.S. Central Command Commander.

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U.S. CENTCOM conducts strikes against Kataib Hezbollah terrorist group targets in Iraq   In response to multiple attacks against coalition forces in Iraq and Syria, U.S. military forces conducted airstrikes against multiple facilities used by Kataib Hezbollah and affiliated groups… pic.twitter.com/mmL4WqFXq9 — U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) December 26, 2023

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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said in a statement that his “prayers are with the brave Americans who were injured” in the Christmas Day attack. Putting a finer point on the action, Biden National Security Council Spokesperson Adrienne Watson pledged the U.S. “will act at a time and in a manner of our choosing should these attacks continue.”

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Today, at @POTUS’ direction, U.S. military forces conducted necessary & proportionate strikes on 3 facilities used by Kataib Hezbollah & affiliated groups in Iraq. These precision strikes are a response to a series of attacks against U.S. personnel in Iraq & Syria by… — Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III (@SecDef) December 26, 2023

Watson and the Biden administration’s tough talk might mean more if the White House hadn’t largely sat idly by — save for a handful of counterstrikes that took out what were reported to be empty warehouses — as more than 100 attacks against U.S. troops stationed in Iraq and Syria were carried out by Iranian proxies since the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas terrorists.

To work, deterrence needs to have backing and, while it’s good that Biden ordered attacks in response to the latest attack on Americans in the Middle East, just one stronger answer to Iranian-backed attacks on U.S. forces is likely not enough to stop the escalating violence by Tehran’s proxies. And as long as — in the words of Secretary Austin — Biden is only interested in ordering “proportionate” strikes, the attacks on Americans are unlikely to end.
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When Iranian proxies killed *one* U.S. contractor, the Trump admin killed Gen. Soleimani in return   Under Biden, Iranian proxies have attacked U.S. troops **150 times** and the Biden admin focuses on “proportionate” responses pic.twitter.com/wQE5uYdq1z — John Hasson (@SonofHas) December 26, 2023

New York and California Could Lose Even More Congressional Seats

Given that 2030 is still several years away, there’s a big “if” here when it comes to if such trends continue. But, if they do in fact continue, bright blue states like New York, California, and Illinois all could lose congressional seats following the 2030 census. The Hill recently covered such a trend, citing analysis from the Brennan Center For Justice. 

Should such trends continue, California would lose four of its 52 congressional districts, which would lose seats for only the second time. The Golden State, the most populous state in the country, lost a seat following the 2020 census. The state lost population for the first time in its history according to data from the 2020 census, under the governorship of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.

New York would also lose three districts, Illinois would lose two, and Pennsylvania would lose one. The analysis, from Michael Li and and Gina Feliz, noted that it would mean “leaving all three states with congressional delegations half the size they were in 1940.” 

Such data about California is similar to analysis from Decision Desk HQ from April that has since been reshared and has predicted that California would lose up to five congressional seats.

People are fleeing blue states for the freedom in red southern states, or at least those that are purple. As the analysis mentioned: 

Four booming southern states stand out in particular: Texas, Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina. These rapidly growing states by themselves account for more than 90 percent of American population gains since the 2020 census, with Texas and Florida alone accounting for 70 percent of growth.

Based on the most recent trends, Texas would gain four seats and Florida three seats in the next reapportionment, placing Texas within striking distance of becoming the largest state, perhaps as early as 2040. Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee also would each gain a new congressional seat, as would three mountain states: Arizona, Idaho, and Utah.

That flies in the face of what we’ve been hearing about the political ramifications in those states, especially with Florida being such a red state now. This is true under the governorship of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, and although he’s term-limited, with any hope Florida will remain such a free state for decades to come. 

Democrats and their allies in the mainstream media have shrieked about so-called abortion and book bans, and far-left groups have even put out travel advisories when it comes to Florida. But that doesn’t look to be affecting population trends in those states.

The Hill spoke further to Li, who offered the following takeaways:

The census has not released the latest figures on racial and ethnic population changes, but according to Michael Li, who authored the Brennan Center analysis, many of the people moving to the South are people of color.

Cost of living and housing prices, along with economic booms and investments in clean energy and manufacturing, may be driving a mass domestic migration to the South. And particularly migration to the suburbs — places that are light red, light blue or purple, and not as solidly Republican red or Democrat blue, Li added.

It appears people are looking for opportunity and moving where they can find it, which, Li said, “is a little bit paradoxical” because people expected a migration out of the South as many states adopt “reactionary policies,” such as abortion restrictions and gerrymandering. 

“That doesn’t quite seem to have happened,” he added.

It’s still early and depends on how much effort states will put into getting people to participate in the next census, Li noted. Still, one thing is clear: The South remains a popular place to reside.

“Barring something completely unforeseen, the 2020s are shaping up to be the South’s decade,” Li wrote in the analysis. “And that, in turn, will have major ramifications for fair representation and fair maps.”

Newsom and DeSantis both participated in “The Great Red vs. Blue State Debate” last month, where population trends did come up, although Newsom refused to answer questions multiple times, no matter how many chances moderator Sean Hannity gave him. It’s been a hot topic between the two govenors even before then, though.

Not only did California lose population for the first time in its history in 2020, and keeps doing so, but Florida also became the fastest-growing state according to 2022 population estimates.

On December 22, days after the Brennan Center’s analysis was published, The Los Angeles Times went with the headline of “California loses population for an unprecedented third year. It could cost state real clout.“

And you better believe it that such trends could affect politics for years to come, though The Hill also noted that “Li argued that the big question right now is how the change in Southern populations will affect politics.” Of course, as people from blue states move to red or purplish states, there’s concerns that they’ll bring their liberal policies with them, including when they show up to vote in their new states. 

Those ramifications could happen at a national as well as state level. “These changes could also have an impact on the Electoral College,” The Hill also noted. 

While what’s going on in California, the most populous state, is a big takeaway here, there’s a notable significance when it comes to New York as well. The Empire State is not only losing population, but it’s losing the most people, and has been doing so for three years in a row now. Former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) highlighted such a fact throughout last year’s gubernatorial campaign.

It’s no wonder that New York Democrats are looking to once more gerrymander their way to winning more seats come 2024, and the state’s highest court just gave them the green light to do so. New maps will thus be drawn for next year, with the Democratically-controlled state legislature having the power to approve or redraw maps from a supposedly independent commission. 

Courts threw out the particularly gerrymandered maps from 2022 and drew their own, thrusting state Democrats into chaos, with New York Democrats blaming their losses on the map, as if they themselves and their policies couldn’t possibly be to blame. Although Zeldin lost to Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY), he came particularly close to pulling off a win. Many New York Republicans in Congress have Zeldin to thank for winning their races. With the 2022 midterm election being more disappointing for Republicans than expected, the Republican Party overall has Zeldin to thank for Republicans winning back the majority in the House.

Merry Christmas (my tree)

 

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Videogame nostalgia autobiography

  first grew up with videogames with a 486 PC with 2 MB of RAM. I started with howell casino card games, Simcity 2000, Simtown, King’s Quest VIII. The same year my cousin was playing Super Mario Bros., Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Pit Star Tropic for NES. He also played Castlevania Bloodlines, and Sonic 1,2,3 and Sonic and Knuckles, It was exciting. My cousin David would lay his Super Nintendo cartridges in his closet and we would sort it when his moe sm told him to clean his room. We could only play Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo a little according to Rick Hartmon, his father, and would need to bike around outside to the train tracks. In 1995, he brought his Nintendo entertainment system to my house.

Then when my birthday present was a Nintendo 64 with Star Fox 64 and Shadows of the Empire. I enjoyed Shadows of the Empire. I would need help from David to beat it. Then I tried beating Super Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64 in 1997. We played Goldeneye a lot in 1997 and 1998. Thgotn in 1999, I played Sonic 3D Blast, Virtual Fighter, Nights into Dreams on Saturn with my cousin david.

In late 1999, I bought a Sega Dreamcast with Sonic Adventure and Soul Calibur. I needed david to help me beat sonic adventure.

In 2000, I bought a Playstation with Chrono Cross. I would play Gran Turismo 2, Final Fantasy 7, Final Fantasy 8 and Legend of Dragoon. I was also trying to beat Grandia 2 and Skies of Arcadia for Sega Dreamcast. I was playing Speed Devils on Sega Dreamcast a lot. I would play Diablo 2 and play heavy metal mp3s all night long.

In 2001, I bought a PS2 and Xbox. I played Grand Theft Auto Vice City, Xenosaga Episode 1, and Final Fantasy 10. I also bought a Gamecube with Wave Race Blue Storm for my birthday. David and I played Grand Theft Auto Vice City, Wave Race Blue Storm, Smash Bros. Melee, and Gran Turismo 3. I also tried beating Sonic Adventure 2. I had Unreal Tournament 99 and Quake 3 Arena lan parties. I played Mario Kart Super Circuit and Castlevania Circle of the Moon. I was playing Half-life and diablo 2 lord of destruction over 56k and made the latter with a level 99 sorceress.

In 2002, David and I played Super Mario Sunshine, Metroid Prime and Mario Kart Double Dash. We beat the entire games together. I continue playing diablo 2 and I started warcraft 3 and neverwinter nights over 56k.

In 2003, we played Halo on Xbox and Project Gotham Racing, Unreal Championship. I was also beating F-zero GX, Legend of Zelda wind Waker, Star Fox Adventures. I also started a NES, Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo collection with the Mario trlogy, Mario World, Super Mario Kart and Sonic trilogy first. Then Metroid, Super Mario RPG, Gunstar Heroes, Phantasy Star II, III, and IV, Shining Force, I was playing never winter nights over 56k and Diablo 2 lord of destruction over 56k.

In 2004, I played and beat Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, Doom 3, and replayed Super Mario 64 DS on my new Nintendo DS.

In 2005, I bought a PSP and Xbox 360 at Best Buy. I played Project Gothing Racing 3, Lumines. Wipeout pure. I would play Guild Wars over 56k.

In 2006, I bought a Playstation 3 and Ridge Racer V as my first game at Shop Ko. It would go on to be a 120 games series. I remember Ratchet and Clank, Grand Theft Auto IV, Gran Turismo 6.

In 2007, I bought a wii. I bought new Super Mario Bros. Wii. I would play some Legend of Zelda Twilight princess. I would play a lot of halo 3

in 2011, I bought a Playstation Vita with Wipeout I wanted some JRPGS for it like Persona 4 Golden. Also bought a 3DS with Mario Kart 7.

In 2012, I bought a Wii U with New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Mario Kart 8 at the new richmond Walmart at midnight.

In 2013, I bought a Playstation 4 at Shop Ko. I bought Killzone. I played a lot of Gran turismo Sport.

In 2014, I bought a Xbox one, but did little with it. I only bought like 8 games for it. I did play Forza horizon and Halo 5.

In 2017, I bought a Switch at Best Buy. I enjoyed staying in line after frist going to Shop Ko in new Richmond, I bought Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe. I still play this one a lot.

In 2019, I bought a 256 gb ODROID UX4 with 114,000 games running Ubuntu.

In 2020, I bought a Raspberry pi 256 gb with lot of old videogames on it.

In 2021, I bought a Playstation 5 online and bought a platformer. I barely play it. Then I would have 256 GB Super console X Cube with 100,000 games on it.

In 2023 I bought a 4 terabyte hard drive full of game isos and game roms. I also bought a mini pc, a gamesir controller and a 2 terabyte hard drive.

I remember sacrificing a lot for the game collection.  For example, I don’t have a ATV, a wife, children, and everybody who loves me are much older (parents) and I couldn’t go to Graduate School

Perverts in the Senate

 

Honestly, when I saw the story of the sex tape filmed in the Senate, I was a little confused. I thought, how could a crew get in there to film it, even guerilla style? Having worked there, I know you can get away with a lot, but this seemed like a bit much. As more details emerged, the story became clearer and those questions were replaced by other ones. Ultimately, the whole thing is just another symptom of how far the country has fallen and how rotten our culture has gotten. If you’ve been paying attention to the world around us, and you’re being honest with yourself, is it any wonder a Senate staffer would in a hearing room what the government has been doing to all of us for decades?

It doesn’t matter that the sex was between two men, what matters is what the whole thing exemplifies. There has been a lot of sexual activity in the United States Capitol Building, I can assure – straight, gay, and a whole bunch of things in between. Ted Kennedy served there for decades, for crying out loud. 

And there still is. 

Hell, in 1983 there was a scandal involving two Members of the House of Representatives – Republican Dan Crane and Democrat Gerry Studds – having sex with 17-year-old House Pages. A Page is akin to an intern, though they’re generally high school students spending time in DC being errand runners for Members. You see them sitting around the well of the House, waiting for someone to give them orders. It’s a relic from a time long gone and should probably be ended. That it survived the 1983 scandal is a testament to just how entrenched in the Capitol culture they are.

Anyway, since the age of consent in DC was 16 (let that sink in), both Crane and Studds were admonished but not expelled. Crane, who’d had sex with a 17-year-old female page, was tossed by Republican voters in 1984, but Democrats kept sending Studds, who was gay and whose partner was a 17-year-old male, to Washington until he retired in 1997, because why not? 

When you hear Democrats talk about how standards have deteriorated, please remember they did not expel Gerry Studds, even though they held a large majority in the House. 

And again, there have been quite a few Kennedy’s who served there, so it’s never really been treated as a nunnery. 

What’s new, and a sign of our further cultural demise, is the filming of it. It was not a professional crew shooting a porno movie on the quick, it’s was the participants filming themselves, posing for pictures with no ambiguity that both knew what was happening. 

Filming it is one thing, I guess, but then it was shared with others online. I’ve never been an exhibitionist, I didn’t need to film most aspects of my life – I was there, I saw it live and remember it. No one who wasn’t there needs to see most of what has happened in anyone’s lives, so I didn’t even ever try to capture most of it. 

Now, in a world where follower count is someone’s most marketable skillset, filming everything is almost required. Sharing it is too.

I still find it odd that the guy was hired to begin with. He wasn’t discrete. Who hires a guy who posted sexually explicit pictures of himself all over his social media manage to get a job there in the first place? Did no one do a simple Internet search during the hiring process? (The answer is: Democrats have no standards, and this will soon be a requirement for being hired by them anyway, so this guy was just ahead of the curve.)

A gay friend of mine tells me this is not uncommon in gay circles, especially with younger gay men. So much of their existence is tied to getting laid, he says, that conventional is boring. “Everyone is looking for the next rush, the next thing to shock,” he says. This was just a part of that.

Add to that the fact that young people are incredibly stupid and you get a recipe for what happened. 

These are people who post pictures of every meal they eat, because if you didn’t at least try to make someone jealous of what your ordered at an expensive restaurant, did you really enjoy it? Sex and exhibitionism are the same thing. I mean, these people post pictures of their vacations while they’re on them, essentially inviting someone to break into their homes. You’re not dealing with fully developed brains here.

A lot of people have fooled around in their offices, few have filmed it. Fewer still have shared those videos with others and gotten caught. This guy in the Senate isn’t the first, and he won’t be the last. There are perverts everywhere, why would anyone think the Senate would be different?

The Tyranny of the Phillips Curve

 

Repeat after me, class: Growth does NOT cause inflation. Write it on the blackboard 100 times.

For decades, the economics profession has been trying to tell us all just the opposite. They keep shoveling out the dumbest economic concept of all time: the Phillips Curve. This was the lame-brained "theory" by neo-Keynesian economists of the 1960s and 1970s that to slow inflation, the Federal Reserve needs to raise unemployment and slow down economic growth.

The whole concept of an inverse relationship between unemployment and inflation blew up when it was put into practice in the mid-1970s and the result was rising inflation AND rising unemployment. Then in the 1980s and '90s, with free-market supply-side policies in place, we had low inflation and low unemployment.

Over the past 40 years or so, if there is a relationship between unemployment and inflation, they tend to run together more often than in an inverse relationship. As my colleague at the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, David Simon, puts it: "The historical evidence shows the opposite of the Phillips Curve theory: increasing inflation in a particular year increases the unemployment rate in the following year -- and that reducing inflation in a particular year reduces the unemployment rate in the following year."

This concrete evidence should be the end of the myth of the Phillips Curve. Except that we've learned in recent years that when the Left's theories are contradicted by the real world, they stick with the theory. If the laboratory mice aren't behaving as predicted, the problem isn't the theory; it's the mice.

Which brings us to the high priests in the temple of the Federal Reserve Board -- who gave us 9.2% inflation last year. Now what are they doing? Still singing out of the discredited Phillips Curve hymnal. Just listen to Jerome Powell explaining the Fed strategy back in August: "Getting inflation sustainably back down to 2% is expected to require a period of below-trend economic growth as well as some softening in labor market conditions" -- i.e., fewer people working.

Then there was this from Fed Governor Christopher Waller explaining the latest Fed decision: "While I am encouraged by the early signs of moderating economic activity in the fourth quarter, inflation is still too high." Then he added: "I am increasingly confident that policy is currently well positioned to slow the economy and get inflation back to 2%." -- Christopher Waller, Nov. 28, 2023 (emphasis added).

This is dangerous nonsense. As economist Louis Woodhill has explained it: "It is as if the Fed is trying to stop a careening car headed over a cliff by turning on the windshield wipers."

We aren't anywhere close to real full employment in this country. We still have 5 to 6 million working-age men out of the workforce -- the vast majority of whom could and should be working. The economy's average growth post-COVID over the last two years has averaged less than 2% when the historical average is in the 3% to 3.5% range. So the Fed is delivering that below-trend GDP they've been hoping for.

Some of the problem is the mandate for the Fed as dictated by Congress to deliver an American economy that achieves "stable prices and full employment." But this is redundant. One of the surest ways of achieving full employment is precisely to stabilize prices. Instead, the more than 300 Ph.D. economists at the Fed and the Board of Governors are under this weird spell that full employment actually creates inflation.

The Fed should have long ago tossed out the Phillips Curve sophistry. They've completely misdiagnosed the inflation problem. Bidenflation wasn't caused by too many people working or any sudden spurt of economic production since 2021. It was fueled by runaway government spending, debt and a vastly expanded Fed balance sheet, which pipelined excess dollars into the economy. And so the Fed seemed to be squelching private-sector growth at the same time we need more of it.

As Arthur Laffer has put it: "If the economy produces more apples, the price of apples goes down, it doesn't go up." The reason that the pro-growth movement is called "supply-side economics" is that the goal of any well-run economy should be to increase the production and "supply" of goods and services.

This Fed is for private-sector austerity, but they are fine with government growth. Half of the new jobs in the economy this year have been in government or health care. Unlike Fed chairmen of the past, including Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan, who routinely criticized Congress for its addiction to debt-financed spending, Jerome Powell rarely jawbones Biden or Congress to spend less money. This would be far more effective than raising interest rates and slowing down the economy, which only makes the cost of the federal government's borrowing even more expensive.

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What Americans want right now is prosperity. Neither Congress nor the Fed are taking us there. Then they wonder why 70% of voters are unhappy.

Censorship Is Un-American, Free Speech Is the Answer

 

Americans are blessed to have constitutional rights, especially the First Amendment right of free speech. As Benjamin Franklin once wrote, whoever  “would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation must begin by subduing the Freeness of Speech.”

Free speech is central to liberty, and this belief underpins the necessity of the First Amendment. This amendment holds the power to account and protects the right of Americans to express themselves freely.

Unfortunately, our free speech rights are constantly under assault. In the era of President Donald Trump, Democrats and their allies in government and the media have worked tirelessly to censor the “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) movement. Too many MAGA conservatives have been shadow-banned and removed from social media platforms.

The bias was apparent in the 2020 election when social media platforms limited the reach of the critical story involving Hunter Biden’s laptop. If there had been accurate reporting on this story, it would have swayed many voters.

According to a survey by the Polling Company, 17% of Joe Biden voters in “seven swing states” would have switched their support to President Donald Trump if they had known about the laptop story. Thus, the 2020 election result would have been different on this one issue.

Americans deserve the truth on all issues; the best way to achieve that result is full disclosure of vital information. The last thing Americans need is government bureaucrats to decide what information is acceptable or what app can be placed on our phones.

Today, Americans are increasingly dependent on social media. One critical social media forum is TikTok. However, this app has become controversial in recent years, and many politicians, both Republicans and Democrats, want to ban TikTok.

Their concern is that a Chinese company owns the app and that user data may be revealed to communist government officials. However, with Chinese spy balloons flying across our nation, at least 260 spy satellites in space, and an untold number of their intelligence agents operating in our country, their communist government does not need TikTok to gather information on Americans.

Despite the efforts to ban TikTok, 150 million Americans have decided to become users. The app is a way for content creators to make an income, small business owners to promote their products and for average Americans to share their views on a range of issues. Furthermore, many artists and musicians use TikTok to sell their work. This usage will only grow thanks to the constant improvements on the app.

TikTok is an especially popular platform for engaging young voters, and this is true across the political spectrum. Americans have made it clear that they oppose a TikTok ban, and it is unfortunate to see policymakers pursuing legislation that their constituents reject. The Republican electorate knows the value of TikTok for speech and assembly. This is why support for a TikTok ban is beginning to crumble among Republicans.

Fortunately, our country does not have a state-controlled media. Americans are free to choose where they receive their news and millions of Americans are turning to TikTok to stay informed. Countless reputable newsrooms across the political spectrum have embraced TikTok as a means to provide information. If the government haphazardly decides to ban TikTok, they are dictating where Americans can communicate and receive their news. Such an action sets a dangerous precedent.

As Franklin stated so eloquently, censorship efforts subdue “the Freeness of Speech” of Americans and are a significant risk to “the Liberty of a Nation.”  Thus, initiatives to ban TikTok in Indiana and Montana were quite disturbing. Fortunately, these efforts, in both states, recently suffered legal setbacks. According to Santa Clara University Professor Eric Goldman, both attempts were “ridiculous” and “designed for political theater.”

In overturning the Montana law banning TikTok, Federal Judge Donald Molloy wrote, “In shutting off TikTok, the Legislature has both harmed User Plaintiffs’ First Amendment rights and cut off a stream of income on which many rely.” In addition, Patrick Toomey of the ACLU noted that the Montana law failed to surpass the U.S. Constitution’s “extraordinarily high bar on this kind of mass censorship.”

In our era of theater-driven politics, it is frustrating how much time is wasted with political posturing around TikTok rather than drafting sensible policy on industry-wide privacy reforms. Banning apps is not practical, nor is it constitutional.

The problem of data security on social media goes way beyond TikTok. Banning one app and pretending the problem is solved is nothing short of burying our heads in the sand. A better approach would be to have all the social media platforms at the table with our legislators and regulators to determine the best path forward.

Americans need leaders from both political parties to advocate for meaningful, comprehensive solutions across social media platforms. Among Democrats, U.S. Representative Troy Carter (D-New Orleans) could serve as a leader on this issue. Hopefully, he will be joined by U.S. Senators John Kennedy and Bill Cassidy, both Louisiana Republicans.

In fact, all the members of the Louisiana congressional delegation should stand firm against unconstitutional restrictions on TikTok. While addressing security concerns are valid, the answer is not to ban TikTok, which is used by almost 50% of Americans. It is impractical, violates our fundamental rights and will not solve any of our challenges in dealing with the communist Chinese government.

Censorship is a device constantly deployed by the communist government of China. In contrast, censorship should never be adopted as a legitimate tactic by our government. It is un-American and violates our First Amendment. Let us never forget Franklin’s sage counsel, “Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.”

More speech equals more liberty, which should be our country’s foremost goal. Ensuring our precious freedoms will allow the United States of America, despite our many problems, to remain “a shining city on a hill.”

Biden’s War on Christmas and All Things Holy

 

In keeping with the Democrat party obsession with eradicating everything good, just, holy, and wholesome, the Bidens have created an identity confused abomination out of the traditionally religious observance of Christmas.

Days ago, the Biden White House released a video showcasing Jill Biden’s contrived Christmas decorations festooning the colonial solemnity of the White House. Though the nutcracker theme could generously be described as tacky, Jill and Joe left plenty of room for moral outrage. 

Gone is Melania’s provocative panache and Trump’s instinctive deference to religious tradition. I’ll take a few bold stylistic risks and mean tweets over a cavalcade of sexual perversion meant to desecrate this nation’s celebration of the birth of Christ, the Redeemer of all mankind. Joe and Jill are gonna have a lot of explaining to do before His judgement seat. 

Tediousness in decor and a bizarre broadway troop performance can be forgiven as an expected faux pas from a couple struggling to maintain the illusion of competency and familial sympathy. But, unveiling Jill’s Holliday composition with a crossdressing extravaganza in a macabre mockery of America’s most hallowed and wholesome observance should earn them a special place in the annals of the reprobate. 

Should we really be surprised by this, from a man and woman so bereft of parental instinct as to callously throw aside a bona fide granddaughter like yesterday’s trash? A forgotten space where a stocking should hang speaks loudly of the first family’s depravity. The Bidens’ disregard for the meaning of Christmas is natural, from a purely political couple using one another as political capital to be expended to the last penny. This season, Jill’s been busy wringing out the last droplets of Joe’s vitality into the stainless steel basin of personal advantage. 

There is nothing of Christ in the Biden Holliday crèche. The manger is a cold, empty void with the devouring state at its black heart. How many infants have been consumed by the titanic gravitation of unfettered selfishness and Democrat sponsored butchery? Just like Herod’s attempt to destroy the Christ child, any threat to statist power is met by a cruel sword that reaches even to the womb. The angelic harbingers of Christ’s birth are transformed by the Biden’s hubris and ethics of identity politics into Sodomite avatars of licentiousness. Biden’s addled mind and Jill’s cooly clinical manipulation combine to form animalistic monstrosities which shamble in and out of shadow. The entire tableau is sulphuric, and an affront to the Judeo-Christian principles that have made this nation great.  

The Biden Christmas is akin to a Herodian debauch, complete with the head of John the Baptist served up to placate the insatiable lusts of the LGBTQ+ whatever constituency. And just like Herod’s court, there’s the specter of incest lurking within the narrative. These days, Biden seems barely able to contain his lecherous instincts, unbound by the constraints of cognition. Like Herod, he leers from his panoply at young girls with their fresh locks, dancing playfully, beckoning for his fondle and sniff. 

All of the obvious mockery reminds me of who’ll have the last laugh in Biden’s paean to the gods of identity. 

Psalm 2 isn’t typically cited during the Christmas season, but in light of Jill’s flippant treatment of the sacred, this portion is particularly apropos. “Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?” (Psalm 2:1) Throughout the Bible, God asks questions. He meets mankind at the level of intellect and requires faith, but not an unreasonable faith. God continues, “The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder…” (vs. 2,3) People like the Bidens chafe against God’s law, His declarations concerning the nature of man, the role of identity, and sexuality. For them, God’s description of sexual confusion as an abomination (Romans 1: 24-27) has no meaning, especially when His law conflicts with political expediency. Even despite God’s codification of His law into the very fabric of reality, the statist (obsessed with the supremacy of politics and man’s power to govern) presses forward with hysterical fantasy. Even the purely scientific facts of genetics, and the observable composition of chromosomes are powerless in the face of absolute madness — the mentation of a vain thing. 

Impending judgment is no laughing matter, “He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.” (vs. 4,5) And, “Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion…Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.” (vs. 6,9)

That may not sound like much of a Christmas message, but making peace with God was the very reason for Christ’s birth. His death on the cross made it possible for mankind to be reconciled to God, and this reconciliation is readily available to anyone who comes to Christ in faith and, with a repentant heart, asks for his forgiveness and salvation. That is precisely what is meant in verse 12, “Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.”

Jill and Joe Biden are just marionettes dancing on the strings of the most sinister presence in the universe. No, not Barack Hussein Obama. Though, he’s certainly playing his part, too. Our national survival is at stake, not from an axis of evil, but from our own departure from Him who has bequeathed to the boy in the manger, “the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.” (v.8)

Congressmen, Jonathan Turley Warn Eric Swalwell Could be in Trouble for Helping Hunter Biden

 

Last Wednesday, Hunter Biden not only skipped out on the closed-door testimony he was supposed to give for the House Oversight Committee in order to give a press conference, but he also had some help from Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA). There has been some chatter about what to do about to do about the first son defying a subpoena, as well as what to do about Swalwell reserving the space by the Senate side of the Capitol. Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), who is a member of both the Oversight Committee and the House Judiciary Committee, both of which have been investigating Hunter, is now saying action must also be taken against his colleague.

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Biggs indicated to Fox News on Thursday that Hunter ought to be held in contempt of Congress. "Nobody gets to do that," he said about Hunter's defiance.  "He was sent subpoenas. He was told to appear." 

"We're going to vote to hold him in contempt. We probably need to vote Eric Swalwell in contempt, because the rumor is that Mr. Swalwell aided and abetted him by setting up his facilities so he could have his conference across the way," he also shared. 

There of plenty of photos of Swalwell arriving with Hunter and standing beside him for the press conference. The congressman also confirmed to POLITICO on Wednesday that he reserved the spot, which some consider to mean he "aided and abetted" the first son in defying his subpoena.

Biggs also reiterated the need to hold Hunter in contempt in a Thursday op-ed for The Daily Caller:

There is no absolute right for a witness to set the terms for a deposition before Congress or any other type of litigation. And, when congressional committees properly issue and serve a subpoena under legislative authority, the witness is required to appear.

Hunter wants a public committee hearing, so he says, though that’s unlikely to be true. But there is no right for a witness to command or direct that a congressional committee convene to allow the witness to sit for testimony. The witness does not run the committee, rather Members of Congress organize and preside over the committees.

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That leaves Congress with only one alternative: vote to hold Hunter Biden in contempt. But, some say, that will leave the prosecution of Hunter’s contempt case to the woeful Attorney General Merrick Garland, who just happens to work for Hunter’s Dad.

Also on Thursday, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), who is also on the House Judiciary Committee, told The Washington Examiner that he believes Swalwell was "aiding and abetting contempt," with the outlet also reporting that "he sent a letter to leaders of the House Ethics and House Administration Committees inquiring about the matter.

Attorney Jonathan Turley has also addressed what to do Swalwell, including in a Saturday op-ed for The Hill, referring to the congressman's appearance at the press conference as "the most incongruous" and pointing out that "[i]t was Swalwell who helped orchestrate the defiance of his own House and facilitated an alleged federal crime," a point he doubled down on, as he also highlighted Swalwell's hypocrisy on the matter:

As first reported by the Washington Examiner, Swalwell used his official position to reserve the space for the press conference and lent his assistance to Hunter in refusing to appear before the House committees investigating his father, President Biden. It was a curious role for a former House impeachment manager to play in assisting in the obstruction of an impeachment inquiry of three House committees.

Of course, Swalwell has argued for the rounding up of anyone who aided and abetted the unlawful conduct during the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

Indeed, in 2021 Swalwell sponsored a resolution exploring whether dozens of Republican colleagues could be expelled under the 14th Amendment for aiding and abetting an insurrection by “making unsubstantiated claims of systematic election and voter fraud.”

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Now, Swalwell was standing in front of the same building aiding and abetting both a potential crime and the obstruction of congressional proceedings.

Hunter was not just committing contempt of Congress; he was parading his contempt with Swalwell as the drum major.

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The question is not whether Hunter Biden can be held in contempt; of course he can. The question is what to do with Eric Swalwell.

Swalwell has long courted controversy. Republicans tossed him off the House Intelligence Committee due to his purported affair with an alleged Chinese spy named Fang Fang.

This is different. Swalwell was not charged in the Chinese affair, including by the House Ethics Committee. This was a criminal act directed against the House itself. 

Recently, the House censored Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) for pulling a fire alarm before a major vote. Here Swalwell played a key role in obstructing a major House investigation. Where Bowman’s offense was treated as a misdemeanor, Hunter’s offense is a felony.

Swalwell did not simply facilitate a crime, he went out of his way to associate himself with it. 

Swalwell surely knew that he was helping Hunter in defying a subpoena and obstructing the investigation into Joe Biden. He not only helped set up the press conference but made sure that he was in the camera frame behind Hunter for every network audience. He presumably utilized congressional staff to assist in this effort. 

In taking these actions, Swalwell encouraged and facilitated the contempt of Congress. While his conduct may not warrant a criminal charge, it certainly warrants action from the House.

The issue is whether the House has a right to demand answers in this investigation. One member was particularly passionate in 2018 in calling for contempt sanctions against Steve Bannon: “If they don’t force him to answer legitimate questions, they will be ceding Congress’ authority, and we’ll be setting a very, very dangerous precedent that people can just tell Congress what they will and will not answer, and will show no resolve to use our subpoena power to get to the bottom of what’s going on.”

That was Eric Swalwell.

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Last month, Hunter Biden offered to appear before the Committee for public testimony, but House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) made clear that the first son would not get to dictate the terms, and was still expected to appear for a closed-door testimony. He and House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) issued such a reminder multiple times to Hunter and his attorneys, and, like Biggs, have brought up holding Hunter in contempt.

The Dem Staffer Who Got Busted for Gay Sex in Senate Hearing Room Had a History of Vulgar Posts

 

The weekend was filled with palace intrigue when a staffer for Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) got busted for having gay sex in a Senate hearing room. The graphic video leaked, leading to some hilarious reactions on social media and a public relations nightmare for the Cardin office. The staffer was fired in less than 24 hours after this circus was made public.

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BREAKING: Aidan Maese-Czeropski posts a statement on LinkedIn after having sex in a senate hearing room where he says that he is “being attacked for who I love to pursue a political agenda” and that “I would never disrespect my workplace.” https://t.co/IwscrA2chv pic.twitter.com/CLcLL36C9D

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 16, 2023

Holy hell, this statement. I suppose shamelessness shouldn’t be a surprise here, given the actions and corresponding evidence in question, but nevertheless — wow. Quick thoughts:

1) You’re not the victim.

2) “Attacked for who I love.” Oh, don’t you dare. You’re being… https://t.co/rXnW1yEbV3

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) December 16, 2023

The aide identified in the video, Aidan Maese-Czeropski tried to play the victim, but thus far, it hasn’t resonated. What was this guy thinking? Also, while some might not like the hyper-proliferation of social media over the past decade, it has exposed us to the debauchery up on the Hill from everyone. We all know the rumors; they date back to the days of using typewriters, at least. These antics aren’t new, but now it’s more in our faces. Is this a one-off situation? No, reportedly, Maese-Czeropski was told to tone down his social media posts because they were all-around inappropriate:

The whole Aidan Maese-Czeropski situation, first reported by @henryrodgersdc, has been interesting to watch play out. His social media activity was well known within @SenatorCardin's office, and he's posted questionable things for months, like this photo with @ERICSORENSEN. pic.twitter.com/Sf2dFCml03

— Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) December 16, 2023

We basically have another Erick Adame on our hands, someone who is trying to make themselves out to be the victim early on, but whose actions — and the proof — reveal something incredibly different.

— Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) December 16, 2023

I just hope nothing was ever done here. pic.twitter.com/0TKaCfnNTn

— Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) December 16, 2023

If you didn’t think things could get worse for Aidan aka Andre, the staffer and aide to @SenatorCardin— it does and just did. It was just discovered that @Aidanmaesec has a very NSFW @Reddit account with the username “Barebacktwinkslut” and his bio claims he loves being “used by… pic.twitter.com/Xoxjml1a4k

— Liberacrat™️ (@Liberacrat_) December 17, 2023

Posts like this are a prime example—I’ll link to it, but it seems like this Senate pornogate fiasco was an event that was brewing for quite some time. As Keys mentioned, there will be more about how some knew about his behavior and told him to get it together. He obviously didn't listen. Next is whether this act could land Cardin's aid in legal trouble.

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For the Radical Left, It’s 'Hark, Satan Sings'

 The radical left used to chip away at the traditional family, religion, and the idea that unborn children are people, too. This Christmas, they've taken the gloves off. No longer hiding their pure contempt and disdain for family or religious traditions. This Christmas, they are actively embracing Satan.
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For a blatant display of the ongoing war against the foundations of our society, look no further than the recent exhibit in a Wisconsin museum—a 'Hail Satan Christmas Tree.’ Rather than celebrating the Prince of Peace, this cultural battle cry hijacks a Christmas festival to glorify the prince of darkness and evil.

In neighboring Iowa, within the hallowed halls of the state Capitol, visitors are encountering a satanic altar erected by the Satanic Temple. That’s right! A display that represents dark and evil forces was enshrined in the halls of government of the Hawkeye State. While statues of our founding fathers are torn to the ground, statues of Satan himself are revered.

This Satanic display represents more than just an affront to Christian values; it is a calculated, deliberate attempt to normalize evil or make it cute and dare Christians to overreact to their goofy vulgarity.

The Satanic Temple is extending its reach, now pushing its agenda into our schools with an after-school club touted as an 'alternative' to religious groups. Do you think it is just a coincidence that they are promoting this during Christmas? Think again. This is a blatant move to infiltrate and corrupt the young, vulnerable minds of our youth. It’s Christmas, and they’re pushing Satan in schools – what’s next? Are we going to replace nativity plays with black masses?

This isn't just an attack on a holiday; it's a direct assault on the very essence of Christianity itself. They've thrown subtlety out the window, openly challenging the sanctity of a season that's supposed to be about peace, joy, and, above all, the celebration of life.

We’ve also seen the profound cultural shifts led by Gen Z, which threaten to strip away the joy from our Christmas traditions. Fourteen million TikTokers have viewed the hashtag #SantaIsntReal in a push to cancel jolly Saint Nick.

It’s hardly surprising that those intent on dismembering unborn children within the womb also seek to destroy the joy in children at Christmas and who is at the center of this feast – Jesus Christ.

Cosmopolitan magazine's recent narrative, marrying satanism with abortion, takes this to another level. In a lengthy profile of a satanic abortion service provider, the magazine instructs women on how they can end the lives of their unborn children in a 'satanic abortion ceremony.' This is a grotesque, theatrical celebration of death, masquerading as a hip and trendy expression of rights and freedoms.

This is a mistake, and behind closed doors, Planned Parenthood hates this. They spent decades trying to legitimize abortion as reproductive healthcare, and many politicians and well-intentioned people followed. But those days are over when Cosmopolitan is advocating your “healthcare” using Satan. They couldn’t possibly be more out of touch with abortion-vulnerable women. Long gone are the days of “safe, legal, and rare.” Now, it’s about glorifying the termination of innocent life and making Satan great again. It’s both evil and weird to both abortion opponents and supporters.
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Amid this battle, where the values we cherish are under constant assault, it becomes even more crucial to recognize and celebrate each victory for life and hope. This is where the true spirit of Christmas shines through the darkness.

Amid this cultural and moral decay, there's a glimmer of real hope. With Roe v. Wade now overturned, about 32,000 babies have been saved from death. These are not mere statistics; they are living, breathing testaments to hope—a hope at Christmas’s heart.

Our response should be more than mere celebration as we enter this glorious season. It's a call to arms against a challenge to not cower to the forces determined to tear down the sacred pillars of family, faith, and life. The fight for these 32,000 lives is our fight, a stand against a tide threatening to wash away all we hold dear. Each of these lives is an example that forcing  Satan on us at Christmas pales in comparison to the true peace and joy that Christmas reveals. The absurd reaction to Christmas only further reveals our culture’s need for it.

The New Religion of the Left: Nihilism

 Nihilism is the religion of the Left. Anarchy is now at the core of the new Democratic Party.

If the Left wished radically to alter the demography of the U.S., it could have expanded legal immigration through legislation or the courts.

Instead, it simply erased the border and dynamited federal immigration law.

By fiat, nihilists ended the wall, and stopped detaining and deporting illegal aliens altogether.

Or was it worse than that when candidate Joe Biden in September 2019 urged would-be illegal aliens to “surge” the border?

As a result, through laxity and entitlement incentives, 8 million illegal entrants have swarmed the southern border under the Biden administration.

They are swamping border towns, bankrupting big-city budgets, and infuriating even Democratic constituencies.

The same nihilism applies to crime.

In the old days liberals gave light sentences to criminals or reduced bail. But today leftist prosecutors do not even seek bail. They hardly prosecute theft or random assaults.

Criminals are arrested and released the same day. Is the nihilist plan to destroy the entire body of American jurisprudence, and to ensure “equity” in being victimized?

Is the woke idea that all Americans—inclusive of diverse Beverly Hills elites, Hollywood celebrities, or members of Congress alike—must share victim equity, and thus experience firsthand street robbery, car-jacking, smash-and-grab, and home invasion?

The United States can produce annually more natural gas and oil than any nation on earth. It once pioneered nuclear power. It has vast coal reserves and sophisticated hydroelectric plants.

The old idea was to use these unmatched resources to transition gradually to other cleaner fuels such as hydrogen, fusion power, solar, and wind. That way consumers would still enjoy affordable energy. And the United States could remain independent of coercion by the oil-producing Middle East.

But that was not the nihilist way.

Instead, the Left deliberately cut back on pipelines, new energy leases, and fracking. It bragged of an upcoming ban on fossil fuels. In drought-stricken, energy-short California, the state is blowing up, not building new dams.

Is the nihilist agenda to punish with bankruptcy the energy-using middle class?

Is the hope that Americans will have to beg the Saudis, Iranians, Venezuelans, and Russians to pump more of the hated goo for our benefit so we would not have to dirty ourselves helping ourselves?

When Biden entered office in January 2021 the U.S. was naturally rebounding from more than a year of COVID-19-enforced lockdowns.

Overtaxed supply chains were still fragile. Pent-up demand was soaring. Consumers were flush with government cash. Trillions of dollars had been printed and infused into the economy to ward off a feared recession.

All economists advised not to increase the deficit, spike further consumer demand, and expand entitlements.

Instead the Left did just the opposite.

Four-trillion dollars were printed and distributed. In no time, Americans, recovering from COVID-19, next experienced the worst, but entirely preventable, inflation in 40 years.

Three years later prices on staples remain 30%-40% higher than when Biden took office. Mortgage rates tripled.

Abroad the nihilism is even more inexplicable and terrifying.

All nations suffer military setbacks. But none in memory have shamefully hightailed out of a theater as we did from Afghanistan.

Few countries could even imagine discarding billions of dollars of weapons and hardware into the hands of the terrorist Taliban, or abandoning a $1 billion new embassy, and a huge, remodeled air base.

Why did the administration simply allow a huge Chinese spy balloon to float and photograph leisurely over the continental U.S.?

Naive countries might endure two or three attacks on their overseas bases without serious retaliation. But how could the U.S. military permit 135 rocket barrages by Iranian-supplied terrorists on American soldiers without a major and sustained response?

Is the point to humiliate our own troops? To destroy what is left of U.S. deterrence?

Popular culture is especially captive to leftist nihilism.

It is not enough to object to a statue or artwork. Instead, without deliberation or public input, they must be defaced or destroyed, all the better stealthily and by night.

After the massacres of Oct. 7—but well before Israel had even responded to the barbaric invasion—thousands of students swarmed their elite universities cheering on the violence.

And what so exhilarated them?

The nihilist, ghoulish beheading, torture, mutilation, mass rape, dismemberment, and necrophilia of unarmed, civilian Israeli elderly, women, children, and infants.

In sum, we are witnessing an epidemic of leftist nihilism similar to the 16th-century European mad wave of iconoclastic destruction of religious art.

Or is the better parallel the suicidal insanity that Mao Zedong unleashed during his cultural revolution of the 1960s?

The old politics of Right versus Left, and Republican opposed to Democrat have now given way to a new existential struggle: Americans must choose between civilization—or its destroyers.

No Freedom Without Virtue

 Open minds never stood a chance against the
ruthless single-mindedness of the Bolsheviks” (Antony Beevor, Russia:
Revolution and Civil War, 1917-21).

The history referred
to by Professor Beevor in the quote above is interesting—and ultimately
horrifying, as most Leftist history is.  For the first few months after
his Bolshevik (communist) Revolution in Russia in 1917, Vladimir Lenin
had a very tenuous hold on power.  Almost nobody believed the Bolsheviks
would survive.  Lenin was pressured to hold elections to a “Constituent
Assembly” (Congress), which was intended to provide a constitutional
government for the country, something Lenin definitely did not want.  He
wanted totalitarian, dictatorial power—the “dictatorship of the
proletariat,” which, in communist jargon, means the dictatorship of a
godless, elitist cadre who will “rule” in the “name” of the people.  The
elections were conducted.  The Bolsheviks, of course, got nowhere near a
majority of the votes—they never do unless they rig the elections or
threaten to kill anyone who might vote against them.  Usually, they
don’t even allow elections to happen.  Can’t let the “people” in whose
name they “rule” have a say in that “rule.”

The elected Constituent Assembly did meet in Russia—once
and for less than 12 hours.  The Bolsheviks walked out of the assembly,
began arresting their political opponents (Donald Trumpsky?), and began a
reign of terror and torture that is almost beyond belief in its scope
and cruelty.  But when there exists no respect for human life or rights,
barbarism is all that remains.  We see it in America today, being led
by the same kind of people, the Democratic Party.

To cement his total power, Lenin gave the Cheka (the secret police) the
authority to indiscriminately torture and kill without any judicial
supervision.  They went to work all over Russia.  People were put to
death for posting flyers, non-payment of taxes (watch out, Hunter!),
breaking curfew, or resisting arrest.  The methods of torture and death
were creative.  Some people had gloves pulled off their hands after
having them soaked in boiling water, thus pulling off the skin.  Belts
were made from the skins off people’s backs.  Several hundred people
were put on a leaking barge in the middle of the Volga River.  They had
to bale out the water.  Eventually, after a few days, too weary to
continue baling, they sank and drowned.One colonel was roasted to
death in a trane furnace; another military officer was thrown head-first
into a ship’s furnace. “Who should feel sorry for killing a
counter-revolutionary?” one murderer said. In the increasingly lawless
society, they looted and stole whatever they wanted; even the head of
Cheka was mugged and robbed. People were mutilated while still alive
(maybe that’s where the Democrats got the idea). As one writer penned,
“indescribable horror” occurred in Moscow. “Soldiers and workers are
walking up to their knees in blood.” Sadly, this kind of inconceivably
beastly barbarism is not uncommon in human history, with some even using
religion as a cloak for such savagery (as we have seen in the last two
months). But it has happened in every Leftist, Marxist, and communist
society—without exception—in the last 100 years. History is warning us,
but most won’t listen.   

“But, but, but, the Democratic Party will never do anything
like that in America!”  No, of course not; our Leftists are all nice
people.  All they do is murder unborn babies and mutilate children in
the name of an unscientific sexual perversion to placate their
hedonistic coalitions.  Yes, all Leftists should be like our Leftists.

In
the quote at the beginning of this column, Beevor describes the
difference between people of no morality or self-serving morality and
those who hold on to some kind of traditional, sacred, eternal standard
of truth and virtue.  If “single-minded ruthlessness” gains ascendancy,
as it did in Russia, China, and other Marxist countries, then it is
difficult for the virtuous and compassionate to fight back.  We simply
cannot do what Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and the Democratic Party in America
did and is doing.  How many of you reading this could ever mutilate a
child?  Or make a belt from the skin of somebody’s back?  The mind of
the virtuous could never even conceive of such atrocities.  But that is
what evil does, folks.  “Woe to those who devise iniquity and work out
evil on their beds!  At morning light, they practice it, because it is
in the power of their hand” (Micah 2:1).  These people lay awake at
night thinking of the wickedness they can do, and then put it into
effect as soon as they are able.  It’s not new to human history; Micah
wrote 2700 years ago.  But again, we fall for it by our ignorance of
history, by not recognizing the signs before it is too late.  

Do we want freedom?  “Only virtuous people are capable of
freedom.  As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more
need of masters” (Benjamin Franklin).  But again, herein lies the
problem.  The Left doesn’t want you to be free.  They want power over
you.  If what I have recorded in this article, and so many others I have
written, isn’t proof of that, then nothing can ever be satisfactorily
proven.  Licentiousness is the Democratic Party’s road in America to
totalitarian power.  As old Ben said, “As nations become more corrupt
and vicious, they have more need of masters.”  That is EXACTLY what the
Democratic Party is building its power base upon—an increasingly
decadent, degenerate, licentious society.  They call it “democracy.”
 They call it “freedom.”  It may be the former because the American
people are voting for it, putting Democrats in office.  It will,
however, end in totalitarianism as more and more government becomes
necessary to control this uncontrolled “freedom.”  When we ignore
virtue, we eventually get masters.

Franklin knew it 200+ years ago.  When will we learn?