Schiff's Latest Russia Warning Involves... Black Lives Matter?

 

Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA) has spent the last two-and-a-half years telling Americans that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election. Despite hundreds of subpoenas and millions of dollars spent on the Mueller probe, the special counsel found no collusion took place. But that doesn't stop Schiff from continuing to make the claim.

In fact, on Sunday, Schiff made the ridiculous argument that the Russians infiltrated the Black Lives Matter movement as a way of getting President Trump reelected.

"In terms of what we can expect from the Russians and what the Russians are doing, the Russian four years ago, Dana, exploited Black Lives Matter. They set up their own false flags online to try and divide people on racial lines," he told CNN's Dana Bash. "There are, once again, doing their best in social media, in their overt media, and other means to grow these divisions."

Schiff said Americans should be concerned over the growing division that's "aggravating these tensions in our cities."

"We also have to worry about the Russians pushing out the president's false narratives about voting by mail," he said. 

According to the congressman, President Trump is "willfully fanning the flames of violence" because it helps his reelection efforts. 

"The president is only motivated by one thing: what's in it for him. And he sees this violence and his ability to agitate it as more useful to his campaign," Schiff said.

Rep. Adam Schiff: "The president is willfully fanning the flames of this violence... They believe the violence is helpful to them." https://t.co/brqA3hZtq6 pic.twitter.com/H2p89jY94n

— The Hill (@thehill) August 30, 2020

At what point will Schiff realize that the Russians have nothing to do with the BLM movement? At what point will he open his eyes and realize that maybe, just maybe, the violence that's taking place in this country is because groups like Antifa are looting and rioting. Or maybe he'll suddenly realize that the violence continues because Democrats are afraid to lay down the law and stop the chaos that's ruining communities. 

If President Trump was "fanning the flames of violence," then he wouldn't offer to send in the National Guard. He wouldn't offer to send whatever resources governors and mayors need to stop the rioting. 

Schiff did get one thing right though: the rioting and violence is good for the president's reelection campaign, especially when Democrats have no control over their cities and governors refuse his help. Trump can at least say he tried to make the effort to help but was rejected at every turn. Schiff is mad that this is benefiting the president positively, without Trump having to lift a finger.

Kyle Rittenhouse Speaks Out About Deadly Kenosha Shooting

 Last week, 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse allegedly shot three men – two of which have died – during a riot in Kenosha. The teen is being charged as an adult and faces two counts of first-degree homicide, one count of attempted homicide, recklessly endangering the safety of two other victims and possessing a weapon while under the age of 18.

According to Pierce Bainbridge, the law firm representing Rittenhouse, his attorney was justified in using deadly force because Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) and Kenosha Mayor John Antaramian failed to protect the residents in the city. Although Rittenhouse lives 30 minutes away in Antioch, Illinois, he works in Kenosha as a community lifeguard.

Bainbridge stated Rittenhouse decided to help a business owner defend his property from rioters who were threatening it.

"The business owner needed help to protect what he had left of his life’s work, including two nearby mechanic’s shops. Kyle and a friend armed themselves with rifles due to the deadly violence gripping Kenosha and many other American cities, and headed to the business premises," the statement said. "The weapons were in Wisconsin and never crossed state lines."

According to the attorney, police started to clear out the area following the city's 8 p.m. curfew. As the crowd dispersed, many moved towards the shops Rittenhouse was allegedly guarding, where they teased and taunted those protecting the businesses.

"His intent was not to incite violence, but simply to deter property damage and use his training to provide first aid to injured community members," the statement said. "After the crowd passed the premises and Kyle believed the threat of further destruction had passed, he became increasingly concerned with the injured protestors and bystanders congregating at a nearby gas station with no immediate access to medical assistance or help from law enforcement. Kyle headed in that direction with a first aid kit. He sought out injured persons, rendered aid, and tried to guide people to others who could assist to the extent he could do so amid the chaos."

Police allegedly blocked Rittenhouse's path back to the original shop. He received word that the owner's second shop down the street was the new target.

"As Kyle proceeded towards the second mechanic’s shop, he was accosted by multiple rioters who recognized that he had been attempting to protect a business the mob wanted to destroy. This outraged the rioters and created a mob now determined to hurt Kyle. They began chasing him down. Kyle attempted to get away, but he could not do so quickly enough. Upon the sound of a gunshot behind him, Kyle turned and was immediately faced with an attacker lunging towards him and reaching for his rifle. He reacted instantaneously and justifiably with his weapon to protect himself, firing and striking the attacker," the statement explained. "Kyle stopped to ensure care for the wounded attacker but faced a growing mob gesturing towards him. He realized he needed to flee for his safety and his survival. Another attacker struck Kyle from behind as he fled down the street. Kyle turned as the mob pressed in on him and he fell to the ground. One attacker kicked Kyle on the ground while he was on the ground. Yet another bashed him over the head with a skateboard. Several rioters tried to disarm Kyle. In fear for his life and concerned the crowd would either continue to shoot at him or even use his own weapon against him, Kyle had no choice but to fire multiple rounds towards his immediate attackers, striking two, including one armed attacker. The rest of the mob began to disperse upon hearing the additional gunshots."

Following the shooting, Rittenhouse allegedly tried going directly to officers who ushered him away. Later that night, he turned himself in to Antioch police.

The attorneys representing Rittenhouse believe he was exercising his Second Amendment rights.

"A 17-year old child should not have to take up arms in America to protect life and property. That is the job of state and local governments. However, those governments have failed, and law-abiding citizens have no choice but to protect their own communities as their forefathers did at Lexington and Concord in 1775," the law firm's founder, John Pierce, said in a statement. "Kyle is not a racist or a white supremacist. He is a brave, patriotic, compassionate law-abiding American who loves his country and his community. He did nothing wrong. He defended himself, which is a fundamental right of all Americans given by God and protected by law." 

Birds of a Feather: Joe Biden, Democrats, and the Rioting Mob

 The contrast between the two conventions could not have been greater. Democrats painted a picture of a country you’d want to flee – a racist hellhole built on oppression, run by Adolf Hitler Jr. just waiting for his chance to seize absolute power. Republicans praised the United States, highlighting uniquely American stories and the only country on the planet in which they could have happened. But behind it all lurks a contrast; truths Democrats hope people never find out about.

The Republican convention was so successful it chased Joe Biden out of his basement, now announcing he will do some public campaign events and maybe even take some questions from reporters. But the success of a pro-American message isn’t the only, nor the biggest, problem facing Democrats. It’s that their protectors in the media are no longer effective in hiding what Democrats in the street are really doing.

For three months, the continual riots, looting, fires, beatings of random people, and the non-stop attempted murder of police officers has gone largely unreported. “Mostly peaceful” became a bigger media catchphrase than “Where’s the beef?” or “That’s what she said” ever were in pop culture.

Now, with the deaths of two Black Lives Matter activists in Kenosha, the public can no longer be fooled. They saw the videos, they saw who the aggressors were. The narrative of an evil white supremacist simply shooting people he didn’t like gave way to the reality of a kid being chased by a mob, then surrendering himself immediately to police. It also didn’t help Democrats’ claim that he was some sort of racist when his “victims” were all white.
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Were it not for social media and the unfiltered videos, you can only imagine how the story would’ve been spun and there’s no way any Democrat, let alone Joe Biden, would have said much.

So how do riots leading to two deaths hurt Democrats, all the lies they’ve told leading up to them, and the lies scrambling to keep the truth hidden?

There was never anything peaceful about the liberal mob. For three months, they’d been destroying lives and livelihoods, none of which bothered Democrats. The slogan is “black lives matter,” not “black livelihoods matter.” The more businesses destroyed – largely black-owned businesses – the more people will become dependent on government.

They tried to blame President Trump for the violence, but their complete refusal to even acknowledge the violence, let alone denounce it, gave Republicans the field. You can’t deny the sunrise; you can hate it all you like, but you can’t deny it. Democrats tried to deny it.

Weird how the murder of two black men in Seattle’s Black Lives Matter “autonomous zone” didn’t bother Democrats, didn’t spur them to concern. But a couple of white rioters get killed during an attack and suddenly they all become interested in extinguishing the flames they’d been fanning.

Worse, for them at least, is how brazen many Democrats are about the idea of violence and looting.

Author Vicky Osterweil, a Democrat not only justifying, but one of many, many actively encouraging looting, describes opposition to looting as “anti-blackness.” She says, “One thing about looting is it freaks people out. But in terms of potential crimes that people can commit against the state, it's basically nonviolent. You're mass shoplifting. Most stores are insured; it's just hurting insurance companies on some level. It's just money. It's just property. It's not actually hurting any people.”

She wasn’t overheard expressing her ignorance of the concept of insurance and justifying violence at some coffee shop poetry slam. She said it, unchallenged, in an interview with NPR. This is mainstream Democratic Party thinking. They aren’t even pretending anymore.


Four days of unfettered throne-sniffing media convention coverage, the ability to say anything they wanted, and not a single Democrat denounced the rioting mob. Not one note of concern for the innocent people beaten or the lives ruined. Now we’re expected to believe they care, that they give a damn? Hell no. After all, they’re the party of “silence equals consent,” right?

The Republican convention was a celebration of the hope, a vision of who we are and an aspiration for what we can be.

Democrats demand you “celebrate diversity,” but their convention was a non-stop parade of conformity and demonization of everyone refusing to bend to their will; they’re an abusive boyfriend always calling their girlfriend fat and stupid. Republicans simply celebrated America, which happens to be wildly diverse. We’ll find out if America wants to be in an abusive relationship with someone who constantly criticizes them or someone who actually loves the country.

15 best Defunct Game Developers

 

15. Radical Entertainment (1991-2012)

Notable Games: Prototype, The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, The Simpsons: Hit & Run

Industry observers talk a lot about the decline in mid-tier development over the past decade; that is, games that occupy that nebulous space between indie and big-budget “AAA” software. Radical Entertainment, which was founded in 1991 and based in Vancouver, was the definition of a so-called “AA” developer, as the studio’s games were never top-tier experiences but were generally reliable, fun experiences nonetheless.

Radical achieved some of its biggest successes with quality licensed games such as The Simpsons: Hit & Run and The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction. The studio’s final releases were Prototype and Prototype 2, a pair of underrated open-world action games. Although Prototype 2 gave Radical its biggest launch ever and was critically well-received, the game sold less than a million copies during its first two months, which led to Activision severely downsizing the studio. Today, Radical Entertainment still technically exists but as a shell of its former self, aas it’s now used as a support studio for other Activision titles.

14. Guerrilla Cambridge (1989-2017)

Notable Games: MediEvil, Killzone: Mercenary, RIGS

Guerrilla Cambridge had several names over the course of its almost three decade-long existence. Known as Millennium Interactive during the mid-90s, the company was purchased by Sony in 1997 and renamed SCEE Cambridge Studio. The studio would develop 12 games under this name, including the PlayStation hit MediEvil in 1998.

In 2012, the studio was restructured as a subsidiary of Guerrilla Games, the Dutch-based developer behind Killzone and Horizon Zero Dawn. From this point, the Cambridge studio focused primarily on making Killzone: Mercenary for the ill-fated PlayStation Vita, which remains one of the most technically-impressive games on the handheld. Cambridge’s final game would end up being PlayStation VR multiplayer shooter RIGS, as Sony decided to close the studio in early 2017.

https://www.vg247.com/2017/12/09/sir-daniel-returns-in-4k-in-medievil-remaster-for-playstation-4/ Source: VG247

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13. Silicon Knights (1992-2014)

Notable Games: Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem, Too Human

During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Silicon Knights was one of Canada’s leading video game development houses. The studio’s best work included Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain – the first title in the Legacy of Kain franchise – as well as a pair of excellent Nintendo GameCube titles: Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes and the cult classic Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem. Unfortunately, a partnership with Microsoft Games Studios in 2005 would eventually lead to the company’s undoing.

Silicon Knights had been working on a game called Too Human since 1999 and planned to release a trilogy of games on the Xbox 360. The first and only game was released in 2008 after nearly a decade of development hell, and ended up being a massive commercial and critical failure. To make matters worse, a failed lawsuit against Epic Games put Silicon Knights in financial ruin and when the company’s final game — the atrocious X-Men: Destiny — failed to make a splash, it was only a matter of time before the company declared bankruptcy, which it did in 2014.

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12. Acclaim Entertainment (1987-2004)

Notable Games: Turok, Buronout, Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX

Much like Midway, Acclaim was once one of the biggest publishers in the business. Sure, it released a lot of crap over the years, but Acclaim was arguably one of the most important mid-tier publishers in the business during the 1990s and early 2000s, putting out such classic franchises as Turok, Burnout, and a variety of sports titles. However, things began to quickly unravel in the 2000s, with poor sales leading Acclaim to file for bankruptcy in 2004.

https://www.videogamer.com/news/turok-1-and-2-are-coming-to-the-xbox-one-next-month Source: VideoGamer.com

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11. Zipper Interactive (1995-2012)

Notable Games: SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs, Crimsons Skies, MAG

The Redmond, Washington-based studio Zipper Interactive was founded in 1995 and started out developing games for Microsoft Games Studios, including the original Crimsons Skies in 2000. However, it would be with Sony that Zipper hit serious pay dirt, as they were the team behind the massively successful SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs franchise. The SOCOM games almost single-handedly sold the PlayStation 2 network adapter and were an important component of Sony’s online gaming initiative for the console.

Unfortunately, the studio failed to regain its footing once development moved to the PlayStation 3, as Zipper’s hugely ambitious game MAG — which featured a record-setting 256 player online matches — failed to have staying power. Zipper’s follow-up, SOCOM 4, had the misfortune of being released around the same time as the infamous PlayStation Network outage in 2011, which severely limited the game’s impact. Zipper’s last game was the disappointing third-person shooter Unit 13 for the PlayStation Vita, as Sony shut the studio down just a few weeks after the game’s North American release in 2012.

Zipper Interactive

10. Bizarre Creations (1988-2011)

Notable Games: Project Gotham Racing, Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved, Blur

Founded in 1988, Liverpool-based studio Bizarre Creations established a pedigree as a racing game-focused developer in the mid-90s with a series of Formula 1 games before going on to play an integral role in the early success of both the Xbox and Xbox 360. On the original Xbox, Bizarre made a name for themselves with the popular Project Gotham Racing franchise before shifting gears in an unexpected way for the Xbox 360 launch in 2005. Though Bizarre delivered the well-received Project Gotham Racing 3 as an Xbox 360 launch title, it was the company’s addictive twin-stick shooter Geometry Wars that became a massive early success for the Xbox 360 and its fledgling Xbox Live Arcade service.

Unfortunately, things went downhill after Activision purchased Bizarre from Microsoft in 2007. Though the studio continued to put out great games, including a Geometry Wars sequel and the hugely underrated arcade racer Blur, the latter title was a sales disappointment and this, combined with a larger trend of new IP struggling to find success at that time, prompted Activision to start looking for buyers in late 2010. Three months later with no buyer found, Bizarre Creations officially closed after more than two decades in the business.

Bizarre Creations

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9. Psygnosis/Sony Liverpool (1984-2012)

Notable Games: Wipeout, Lemmings, Colony Wars

Founded in 1984, Psygnosis spent its first decade developing games for a variety of platforms before being purchased by Sony Electronic Publishing in 1993. The studio became a key first-party developer for Sony’s PlayStation when it launched in western territories in 1995, most notably the PS1 launch title Wipeout, a futuristic racer that launched a long-running franchise. Racing games would end up being Psygnosis’ specialty, as the studio ended up making titles exclusively in this genre after being re-branded as Sony Liverpool in 2000.

Sadly, corporate restructuring led to Sony making the difficult decision to close Sony Liverpool in 2012. At the time of its closure, the studio was one of the UK’s oldest video game developers and second largest of Sony’s European group. The Liverpool site still lives on and serves as an overseer of Sony-published games at other developers, but the studio itself is for all intents and purposes defunct.

Sony Liverpool

8. Lionhead Studios (1997-2016)

Notable Games: Fable, Black & White

Lionhead Studios was known for its distinctly British video games and its overenthusiastic visionary co-founder Peter Molyneux, who built a reputation over the years of overhyping his games, only to routinely under-deliver with the finished product. Still, separated from Molyneux’s rhetoric, Lionhead’s output speaks for itself. The studio’s two biggest franchises were the god-sim Black & White and the RPG series Fable, the latter of which remains one of Microsoft’s biggest Xbox exclusives. However, following the release of Fable III in 2010, things started to go downhill for Lionhead.

Disillusioned with the company’s direction (Microsoft had them producing titles for the Kinect at this point), several veteran employees left in early 2012 and Molyneux himself soon followed. Following this, Lionhead’s next major release was to be Fable Legends, a cooperative action game in development for the Xbox One. However, the game was cancelled by Microsoft in 2016 and Lionhead was closed down not long after, with many of the company’s employees finding work with Molyneux’s new studio 22 Cans and Two Point Studios, a developer founded by Lionhead co-founder Webley and several other ex-Lionhead staff members.

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7. Free Radical Design (1998-2014)

The decline and eventual closure of Free Radical Design is arguably one of gaming’s most tragic studio failure stories, as the English developer was truly one of the best at what it did. Free Radical is perhaps best remembered for Timesplitters, a series of stylized and ridiculously fun first-person shooters that saw its final release in 2005. However, the loss of Timesplitters is just one reason to mourn Free Radical’s demise, as it had been working on a third Star Wars Battlefront game from 2006-2008 that we know would have likely been awesome thanks to leaked gameplay footage.

Sadly, Lucasarts cancelled the game when it was said to be “99% complete” and following the poor reception to Free Radical’s PS3 shooter Haze in 2008, the company had no choice but to file for bankruptcy. For a brief period, there was reason to hope Free Radical would be alright, as the company was bought out by Crytek in 2009 and became known as Crytek UK, but the studio was ultimately shut down in 2014, with the majority of staff transferred to Dambuster Studios.

Free Radical

6. Ensemble Studios (1995-2009)

Notable Games: Age of Empires, Age of Mythology, Halo Wars

When it comes to real-time strategy games, few developers could rival the creations of Ensemble Studios during the company’s heyday. Founded in 1995 in Dallas, Texas, Ensemble got their start with the beloved Age of Empires series, as well as developing Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds for Lucasarts before being acquired by Microsoft in 2001. Under Microsoft’s banner, Ensemble continued to be a top-tier RTS developer, putting out the Age of Mythology franchise and Age of Empire sequels throughout the 2000s.

The team’s final game would end up being Halo Wars, an RTS set in the popular Halo universe that proved to be both a critical and commercial success. So why then did a revered studio that sold over 20 million games get shut down? According to company co-founder Bruce Shelley, there were a variety of factors that went in to Microsoft’s decision. In 2009, Shelley explained that a lack of diversity, oversized workforce, and the cancellation of two projects (including a Halo MMO) ultimately led to Ensemble’s demise.

Democratic Party = dictatorship (don’t vote democrat)

 

Their Lenin statue is already here.

Skinwalker Ranch

 Since 1996, Skinwalker Ranch has established itself as a possible paranormal hotspot. For some theorists, the 512-acre plot of land in Utah potentially holds answers to UFO and crop circle phenomena. Some even believe extraterrestrial activity regularly happens there.

The Ballard property derived its name from the Navajo folktale of the skinwalker. As legend has it, the ominous being is a malevolent witch. It can transform itself into any creature it chooses.

These are typically four-legged mammals like coyotes, but skinwalkers can sometimes appear as owls or crows. While skeptics think this whole concept is just a myth, eyewitness accounts across the decades beg to differ. On top of that, there’s more to the ranch than just shape-shifters.

According to History, cattle have been found mutilated in an oddly surgical and bloodless manner on the property. Alleged UFO sightings have been plentiful in the sky. Some people have called this place “cursed.”

It all began with Terry Sherman, who essentially fled his newly-bought property after experiencing too much unusual activity to handle. It was 1996.
What Is Skinwalker Ranch?

Almost nobody knew about the site until The Deseret News published an article called “Frequent Flyers?” on Jun. 30, 1996. It chronicled how desperate property-owners Terry and Gwen Sherman were to stop the purported UFO activity plaguing their new home.

“For a long time we wondered what we were seeing, if it was something to do with a top-secret project,” said Terry Sherman. “I don’t know really what to think about it.”
Aerial View Of Skinwalker Ranch

Prometheus EntertainmentThe 512-acre plot of land has seen crop circle and UFO phenomena as well as unexplained cattle mutilation.

The couple, their teenage son, and 10-year-old daughter all claimed they had seen three specific types of UFOs numerous times during the course of 15 months. One was small and boxy, another was 40 feet long, and the third was an enormous craft the size of several football fields.

One of them shone a red wave of light. Another emerged out of a circular, orange orb resembling an aerial doorway. To their credit, the Shermans videotaped two of their sightings. Meanwhile, they also observed crop circles.

One instance saw three 8-foot circles in a triangular pattern, 30 feet from each other, on flattened grass. A nearby pasture had circles three feet wide and a foot or two deep, with perfectly flattened dirt in the centers. As time went on, incidents on Skinwalker Ranch only got weirder — and scarier.
Homestead On Skinwalker Ranch

Prometheus EntertainmentCountless people in the region have reported seeing glowing orbs, UFOs, and humanoid figures.

One night, a flying light followed Gwen Sherman on her drive home. On another, while Terry Sherman was out in the fields with the family dogs, he heard male voices speaking an unfamiliar language — and they seemed to be speaking about 25 feet above him. His dogs went crazy.

At one point, seven of the family’s cows were either missing or dead. The cattle deaths were bizarre to say the least. One dead cow had a hole cut in the center of its left eyeball but was otherwise untouched. Another dead cow had the same incision, as well as a 6-inch hole carved out of its rectum. A strange chemical smell was present both times.

Other cows disappeared entirely, some with their hoofprints suddenly stopping in the paths they left behind.

“We’ve seen [the UFOs] enough and we know pretty much what the craft look like, and I think it’s definitely associated with the cattle mutilations,” said Terry Sherman. “When we see the crafts and then the cattle, we have problems.”
Robert Bigelow

Wikimedia CommonsRobert Bigelow purchased the property three months after reading about the Sherman family’s paranormal experiences. Under the National Institute for Discovery Science, he tried to figure out what caused them.

“You talk to a lot of people around here that at one time or another have seen something they can’t explain,” Terry Sherman added. “There’s been a lot of cattle mutilations, and a lot of them weren’t reported. Several [ranchers] told me that when they had a [mutilation], they called the authorities and the authorities couldn’t do anything, so it was just a waste of time and effort.”

While some in the region adamantly believe the Shermans, no concrete evidence of their accounts has confirmed their stories. On the other hand, the family was supposedly so terrified of their property that they sold it just 18 months after moving in.

It only took three months for Las Vegas real estate giant and UFO enthusiast Robert Bigelow to take it off their hands for $200,000. This is when Skinwalker Ranch pivoted from being a UFO-centric place of interest to one of more earthly, demonic entities from Native American legend.
Skinwalker Stories

Before he left the property, Terry Sherman reported seeing a wolf three times bigger than normal at one point. He shot it three times with a rifle at close range — to no avail. And after Bigelow bought the property under the National Institute for Discovery Science, things got stranger.

Biochemist Colm Kelleher said that on the night of March 12, 1997, he saw a big humanoid figure perched on a tree. It was observing the research team.
Skinwalker Ranch Fence

Prometheus EntertainmentBigelow sold the property to a company called Adamantium Real Estate Holdings in 2016.

“The large creature that lay motionless, almost casually, in the tree,” Kelleher said. “The only indication of the beast’s presence was the penetrating yellow light of the unblinking eyes as they stared fixedly back into the light.”

Kelleher said he fired at the figure before it vanished, but not before he noticed how it looked. The shape had sharp claws and resembled a predatory bird. He said it looked heavy. This description and later reported sightings seemed eerily reminiscent of Navajo legend.

According to The Navajo-English Dictionary by William Morgan and Leon Wall, the word skinwalker in Navajo translates to yee naaldlooshii, meaning “by means of it, it goes on all fours.” The tribe is reluctant to discuss the legend with outsiders, making it all the more mysterious.

And with the ranch being 400 miles removed from Navajo Nation, the lack of answers made the sightings even more intriguing.
Private Property Sign On Skinwalker Ranch

YouTubeThe ranch is now fortified with barbed wire, private property signs, and armed guards.

According to Clyde Kluckhohn’s Navaho Witchcraft, skinwalkers represent the opposite of Navajo values. While medicine men and healers of the tribe symbolize good, these shape-shifting witches represent evil.

Ultimately, Bigelow’s institute was intended to confirm or disconfirm the existence of these beings in the area by using modern equipment to garner evidence. Kelleher and investigative journalist George Knapp reportedly experienced nearly 100 incidents.

In the end, unfortunately, those involved admitted they had difficulty obtaining solid evidence. Bigelow sold the ranch to a company called Adamantium Real Estate Holdings in 2016. But according to VICE, research into the paranormal on the ranch has continued.
The Secret Of Skinwalker Ranch

The owner of Adamantium Holdings remains anonymous, though the History Channel is set to air a new documentary series filmed onsite on March 31, 2020. As one might guess, the shadowy figure seems rather convinced that something is indeed regularly occurring in the region.

“You know, facing the reality of our mortality is sobering,” the mysterious owner told VICE. “The anomalies at Skinwalker Ranch, the things that have been reported there over decades, if not hundreds of years. They seem to attest to the fact that we live in a strange universe. Perhaps we are not alone.”

“I think the opportunity to take a living laboratory like the ranch, a place that seems to be the center of gravity of so much of the unexplained, it is a unique experience. I manage and lead an effort that I believe is the greatest science project of all time.”
A trailer for a 2018 documentary about the ranch, Hunt For The Skinwalker.

Today, the ranch’s scientific project is run out of the Command Center — a high-tech hub designed by plasma physicist Erik Bard. The property is wired with surveillance systems set up to catch any strange activity.

In the last few years, numerous people on the site have become sick with mysterious illnesses. And many employees at the ranch have had disquieting experiences — even the head of security.

“I thought it was all a bunch of crap,” he said of the legends. “Then, one night, I’m in one of the bedrooms in the ranch house. I’m lying down trying to get to sleep, and then all of a sudden, BAM, something slams into my bed. It’s like when your kids jump into bed with you or someone big kneed the bed. I sit up and turn on the lights. Nothing’s there.”

This is one of the many stories people who have visited Skinwalker Ranch have told. But what exactly is happening on the famed Utah property remains unexplained by science.

Democrats' 'Facts' About Postal Service Must be Lost in the Mail

If it is a day of the week that ends in a “y,” you can count on the Democrats to feign outrage about something. The radical left’s current outrage of the day centers around the U.S. Postal Service, but their so-called “facts” must be lost in the mail.

It is no secret the post office is a mess.  It has been a mess for many years but now Democrats are aghast because Donald Trump wants to fix it. Liberals and their allies conveniently forget to inform the American people the postal service has lost $78 billion since 2007.  They ignore the fact that when most people mail a birthday card to a distant friend or loved one, they mail it weeks in advance lest it arrive belatedly.  A friend recently asked if you won a million-dollar lottery would you mail the winning ticket to the lottery office or deliver it yourself?  Any American with common sense would deliver it themselves.

Liberal democrats and media, of course, refuse to let facts nor common sense nor “snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night” to deter them in their drive to politically damage President Trump. In fact, Nancy Pelosi is counting on it. She is literally lying to senior citizens by claiming that President Trump is threatening their Social Security checks with changes at the post office. She forgets the law that went into effect seven years ago that requires social security payments to be delivered electronically and the fact that nearly every Social Security recipient receives their payment electronically – not via the mail.


Worse yet! When the facts fail Democrats, they just make up crazy conspiracy theories. Joe Biden told a crowd that President Trump’s administration is going around “literally with tractor trailers picking up mailboxes.” However, he forgets the Postal Service removed 14,000 mailboxes during Obama’s tenure. Of course, it was not a scandal or a conspiracy theory when Democrats did it.

The radical left and the media also fail to mention the Postal Service does not currently face a crisis. It has a record amount of cash in the bank right now. It also can access a $10 billion loan that it has not tapped. Current forecasts estimate the post office has enough cash to continue operating normally through next year.

There is no question the U.S. Postal Service needs changes and improvements. Even the non-partisan Government Accounting Office described the post office’s business model as “not financially sustainable,” which should not surprise anyone given the rise of email, paperless statements, and electronic bill payments.


Democrat desperation has reached such levels they are fabricating wild conspiracy theories that misrepresents the guidance the Postal Service sent to the states to help make sure people mail their ballots in time to be counted.

The problems with Democrat mail-in balloting schemes are not the fault of the post office. The blame for this mess squarely sits on the shoulders of Joe Biden and his radical allies who created this mess. President Trump is working to ensure a safe and fair election. An election that is free from the massive problems that occurred in New York where 20% of ballots were not counted and Nevada where 17% of live ballots were returned as undeliverable. If your Social Security check is not in the mail neither should most of our election ballots.

This Election Is About Your Security

Every four years the American people put the future of the country on the ballot and every four years a variety of issues take center stage as presidential candidates make their case to the American people. In 2020, this election will likely come down to a single word with multiple meanings – SECURITY. Your economic security, the security of you and your family, and America’s national security.  With respect to these critical areas the choice this election is clear – the American people need four more years of President Donald Trump.

James Carville said it best in 1992, “It’s the economy, stupid.” Presidential elections typically center on economic issues. That has not changed in 2020. Americans are going to face a choice between President Trump, who built the strongest economy in a generation with wages growing across all demographics and the lowest unemployment rate in decades, or Joe Biden. The President will present a record of success and the hope for even better days to come. Biden has a record of abject failure with his vote for NAFTA and support for TPP, which caused blue-collar jobs to flee overseas, or his proposed $4 trillion tax increase and disastrous Green New Deal policies that would eliminate even more jobs. Joe Biden oversaw the slowest economic recovery since the Great Depression. President Trump grew our economy to new heights once and he will do it again.

Economic security also requires security at home. Here again the choice is clear. American cities are burning as rioters, looters, and anarchists have taken control of Democrat-run cities. President Trump is responding forcefully in support of our police to restore safety and security in our neighborhoods. Joe Biden’s response has been to call police the enemy. His running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, compared law enforcement to the KKK, and the radical Democrat party openly supports the defund the police movement. There is a reason why many major police organizations support President Trump. They know he supports the men and women who run toward the danger, protect our loved-ones and children, and help keep our neighborhoods safe. The radical Democrat Party of Joe Biden cannot even denounce the violence and chaos in America’s cities. In some areas, protestors are now going neighborhood to neighborhood threatening peaceful families and warning them that their house in next. Would you feel safer in Joe Biden’s America with fewer police?

Lastly, the most important responsibility of any President is to protect our nation and her allies from threats abroad. Again, the choice is clear in this election. President Trump has rebuilt our military and ended America’s involvement in senseless wars. He also made the tough, yet pivotal, call to take out top terror groups and terrorists around the world.

President Trump ended the horrible Obama-Biden Iran Deal that provided billions to the leading sponsor of terror in the world and paved the way for Iran to obtain nuclear weapons. He wiped out the ISIS caliphate that developed and flourished under Obama-Biden. He ordered the strikes the killed top terrorists like Iran’s brutal Qasem Soleimani and ISIS leader Abu Bakr a-Baghdadi. Joe Biden, on the other hand, opposed the raid which killed Osama bin-Laden. He voiced his opposition to President Trump’s terrorist killing airstrikes. If Joe Biden had his way these terrorists would still be walking this earth. America cannot afford a weak president like Biden who is afraid to make difficult decisions to kills terrorists and make the world safer place.

The 2020 presidential election is about security, yours! If you care about the economic, personal, and national security of our nation the choice in this election is clear. If you want a president who will fight for your jobs, strengthen your community, and protect our troops President Trump is the clear choice this November.

 

President Trump: FDA Provided an Emergency Use Authorization for a Highly Successful Coronavirus Treatment

President Donald Trump on Sunday announced that the Federal Drugs Administration (FDA) has approved an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for convalescent plasma to be used as a treatment for the Wuhan coronavirus.

"Today I am pleased to make a truly historic announcement in our battle against the China virus that will save countless lives," President Trump said at a White House briefing on Sunday. "Today's action will dramatically increase access to this treatment."

Through this treatment, those who have successfully recovered from the virus donate antibodies. Those who are currently sick with the Wuhan coronavirus will receive the antibodies, which helps their body fight the virus.

From the FDA's FAQ about the treatment:

    Convalescent refers to anyone recovering from a disease. Plasma is the yellow, liquid part of blood that contains antibodies. Antibodies are proteins made by the body in response to infections. Convalescent plasma from patients who have already recovered from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) may contain antibodies against COVID-19. Giving this convalescent plasma to hospitalized people currently fighting COVID-19 may help them recover. FDA has issued an emergency use authorization for convalescent plasma to be used in hospitalized COVID-19 patients and is being investigated for the treatment of COVID-19 because there is no approved treatment for this disease. Based on scientific evidence available, the FDA concluded this product may be effective in treating COVID-19 and that the known and potential benefits of the product outweigh the known and potential risks of the product in hospitalized COVID-19 patients.

According to the president, the Mayo Clinic received $48 million to test the efficacy of the treatment. It was discovered that the mortality rate is cut by 35 percent, which is considered a significant reduction. As of now more than 100,000 Americans are currently enrolled to receive treatment.

The federal government has also provided $237 million so the Red Cross can collect up to 350,000 units of plasma for those fighting the Wuhan coronavirus.

"This treatment has been tried and trued in past pandemics," Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said. The treatment appears to be most effective for those under 80 who receive plasma within the first three days of being diagnosed.

"This is a major advance in the treatment of a patient, a major advance," Azar emphasized.

FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn said that the EUA allows physicians to continue to meet demands across the nation. The FDA plans to continue to gather data on the success of convalescent plasma, although the data they have currently collected shows the benefits outweigh costs. Hahn pointed to the 35 percent survival rate as evidence of that.

Tina Smith

Tina Smith ... is the junior Senator from Minnesota. Tina Smith was born on March 4, 1958 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and grew up in Santa Fe. In 1980, she graduated from Stanford University and in 1984, earned an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

Tina then moved to Minnesota to work at General Mills and raise a family with her husband, Archie. They've been married for more than 30 years and have two sons, Sam and Mason.

Tina left General Mills to start her own small business. Since then, she has dedicated her career to working on behalf of Minnesotans to improve lives and ensure that the state government works better for the people it serves. She's served as Chief of Staff to both Minneapolis Mayor RT Rybak and Governor Mark Dayton.

In 2014, Tina Smith was elected to serve as Minnesota’s 48th Lieutenant Governor.^[1]

In 1984, Smith moved to Minnesota for a marketing job at General Mills. She later started her own marketing firm, where she consulted with businesses and nonprofits.

In the early 1990s, Smith became involved in local politics, volunteering for DFL campaigns in Minneapolis. She managed Ted Mondale's unsuccessful 1998 campaign for governor. After Minnesota's U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash weeks before the 2002 election, Smith managed former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale's campaign for the seat. After Mondale lost a narrow election to Norm Coleman, Smith began working as the vice president of external affairs at Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

In 2006, Smith left her job at Planned Parenthood to serve as chief of staff to Minneapolis Mayor RT Rybak. In 2010 she was picked to manage Rybak's gubernatorial campaign, which ended after Margaret Anderson Kelliher won the DFL endorsement. Smith then joined the campaign of Mark Dayton, who skipped the endorsing convention and eventually won the DFL primary. After Dayton defeated Republican Tom Emmer in the general election, Smith was named a co-chair of the transition. When Dayton took office in January 2011, he appointed Smith his chief of staff.

Council for a Livable World

In 2018 and 2020 Tina Smith was endorsed by Council for a Livable World.^[2]

The Council for a Livable World endorsed Tina Smith in her 2020 bid for the US senate from Minnesota.

Last year, Senator Tina Smith won a special election to the U.S. Senate after being appointed in January 2018. She had less than 10 months to set up her office, prepare for a new set of issues, and win in November 2018.

Since getting to the Senate, Smith has co-sponsored important legislation, including a bill to prevent the President from launching a nuclear first strike without a declaration of war by Congress. She has also vigorously criticized the President’s decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear agreement.

She won the 2018 special election against state senator Karin Housley 53%-42%. Now she is running for her first full term, and Republicans think that they can give her a tough fight.

Hillary Clinton carried the state by only one and a half percent in 2016, and Minnesota could again become a battleground in the 2020 presidential election.

We need to keep her in the Senate, and she needs our support.

Muslim Left connections

MAS meeting

MAS MN - Muslim American Society of Minnesota April 2, 2019 · Meeting with Senator Tina Smith. We discussed the importance of extending the DED status of Liberians, the need to protect the Uighur Muslims of China and the bank de-risking that is negatively impacting Muslim non profits and Somali money transfer organizations.

Opposing Haspel

Yasmine Taeb May 9, 2018:

Today, the Center for Victims of Torture was proud to co-lead w/ U.S. Senator Tina Smith and Congresswoman Barbara Lee a press briefing opposing Gina Haspel for CIA Director. Thank you also to Rep. Jan Schakowsky, Congressman Hank Johnson and all our partners for joining us.

Nihad Awad was also there.

#StopPompeo

NIAC April 12, 2018 · NIAC Action is proud to stand alongside U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Brian Schatz , U.S. Senator Tina Smith, Rep. Ro Khanna​, and Congresswoman Barbara Lee​ to demand that the U.S. Senate block the confirmation of Mike Pompeo. #StopPompeo

Thank you to MoveOn.org and all the other amazing organizations and grassroots activists for this event! We're lucky to have allies like Indivisible Guide​, J Street, Center for Victims of Torture, Win Without War​, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights​, CAIR​, and many, many more!!!

Yasmine Taeb also spoke.

Support for the Council on American Islamic Relations

Tina Smith wrote a letter of support to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on the occasion of their 24th anniversary in September 2018.^[3]

Muslim Leaders Meet Dayton and Smith

CAIR-MN, Minnesota Muslim Leaders Meet Governor Dayton and Lt. Governor Smith.

July 2016 Executive Director of the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN) will join other Muslim community leaders at a meeting with Governor Mark Dayton and Lt. Governor Tina Smith.

The meeting will focus on concerns facing the Minnesota Muslim Community as well as providing an opportunity for Muslim leaders to thank the Governor and Lt. Governor for their leadership on critical issues of interest to that state's Muslims.

Honoring Wellsone

It has been 17 years since we lost Paul Wellstone. As I visit a great Minnesota school today, and keep up the fight to make sure no Minnesota student goes hungry, I’m thinking of Paul Wellstone and his fight to remind us that we all do better when we all do better.

Honoring Wellstone/Domenici Act

October 9, 2018 WASHINGTON- U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith (both D-MN) introduced a resolution recognizing the tenth anniversary of the enactment of the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA). The MHPAEA ensures that health insurance companies don’t impose less favorable limitations on mental health or substance abuse use disorder benefits than on medical or surgical benefits, and in so doing greatly expanded Americans’ access to treatment for mental illness.

“Paul Wellstone was a crusader, an inspiration and a friend. He was a passionate champion for those suffering from mental illness, always fighting for better care, better services and better representation for patients. In 2008, the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act was enacted and named in his honor, finally bringing mental health parity to health insurance coverage,” Klobuchar said. “With this resolution, we honor Paul’s legacy and this landmark legislation that has changed the lives of millions of Americans living with mental illness who faced unfair discrimination in their access to affordable health care treatment.”

“Throughout his life, Paul Wellstone always stood up for people who were powerless and often forgotten,” Smith said. “His groundbreaking efforts to make life better for those with mental health issues are a major part of his legacy, and his bipartisan work on mental health parity has helped millions of people in Minnesota and across the country get the help they need and deserve. I’m proud to hold his seat, and I’m proud to honor his work with this resolution.”^[4]

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Maybe a Wendigo is outside my window at night

 

Here in Western Wisconsin and southern Minnesota, I thought I heard Wendigos at night or is it my over active imagination. In Wisconsin we lived in the woods near the MS20 Nike Base that turned into a RV storage. Wendigos sound like human conversation outside my window at 1 am at night. We have neighbors, but whose outside at 1am? I heard these human voices for years. I don’t feel safe going outside at night.

New information on the Maoist Tactics of the Biden/Harris political campaign.

Current to 30 day delinquency rate has spiked in 2020. Mortgage delinquencies has spiked in the second quarter of 2020. The delinquency rate has increased 386 points from first quarter of 2020. There is high home builder sentiment, but nobody pays their bills. There is negative $68,176,000,000 of net income from the USPS, but $688,720,000,000 revenue in 10 years . Banks reported tighter standards on non-farm residential loans. The wealth is like an upside down pyramid. All the wealth at the bottom supports all the weight on top. China holding of US treasuries declining. In New York City, 5% of residents, 420000 left the city between march 1 and may 1. Of New York cities wealthiest neighborhoods, it’s 40%. Students left as colleges closed, or dealt with caring for friends or family. Members. Kamila Harris is the 3^rd most liberal senator on capital hill behind Bernie Sanders, a self admitted socialist, and Elisabeth Warren who is a socialist, but couches it. When Joe Biden picked Kamila harris, it became the most liberal ticket in the history of the United States. If America wants hardcore liberalism, they will vote for the Biden/Harris ticket. Donald Trump is all over the place, but he is a man who is governing in a traditional way. Donald Trump is the status quo. Biden and Harris are going to blow everything up. Kamia Harris had professional parents, one Indian, one Jamaican. She had a middle class upbringing. She was busted, but not in the ghetto. She is a machine politician. The machine in California is far, far left. He has 15% of Democrats in her presidential race. She looked confused. She changed positions. The San Francisco values are avoidance of religion, secular rules, inclusion is everything, lax border enforcement, free citizen amnesty for undocumented aliens, and a fast track to vote, the Republican party disappears. We become a Marxist-Leninist dictatorship. No due process, all actuation are convictions in her mind, low crime enforcement, Metoo okay, neo-Marxist Critical Theory okay, loving Leninist eco-socialist Green New Deal . These are her San Francisco values, and she’s in 100%. There is nothing about Kamea Harris that goes against the communist orthodoxy. She has no descending opinions. Joe Biden is what the far left tells him to be. She was picked to attack donald trump. She is the most vicious of all democratic politicians. The Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Black Panther Party tactic (also Critical Race Theory) of responding to a Black Woman will be called racist. If you have no skill set, no assets, no money in savings, you’re done. Last week was the first week in 21 weeks to have under 1 million unemployed. Mortgages never risen this fast in history due to Covid virus. It takes 53 weeks of medium wages to meet basic needs. In1983, it took 30 weeks to pay for house, car, food, education, healthcare. The quality of life of the average American in crashing. We’re probably going to see the homeless epidemic on steroids in the future. Only 20% of the country saved up a $1000.

Minneapolis Business Owner Tells Trump How Democratic-Run City Abandoned Him During the Riots

 

Minneapolis businessman John Wolf joined President Trump on Monday to talk about how one of his stores, Chicago Lake Liquors, was heavily damaged and looted during the height of the riots in May following the death of George Floyd.

The store has been at its location in south Minneapolis since 1959 and was targeted by looters starting on May 28. The looting went on for two more days. More than 300 businesses were destroyed during the riots. 

"I called 911 over 10 times, without any response, all while watching looters damage my building and haul away product. The feeling of hopelessness I had, knowing that no one was coming, is indescribable," Wolf said on the airport tarmac.

"I faced three nights of looting, six fires, three feet of standing water, over a million dollars worth in stolen and damaged product. There’s nothing more important for elected officials than providing safety to residents and businesses. Without that, nothing else works," he added.

Wolf said there are real issues facing the Minneapolis community as crime has risen in the face of the city's police department being dismantled. 

"Actions should have consequences. Has anyone been arrested for all this looting? The answer is no. Without consequences, people feel emboldened to do as they want. What we need is law and order," he continued. "While city leaders discuss reimagining the police department, Minneapolis still need law enforcement. Here's the deal. I pay a lot of taxes and in return, there's an understanding: The city protects me. I held up to my end, the city of Minneapolis didn't."

Kamala Harris Is the Perfect Choice for VP

 

Kamala? Really? Well, one thing is clear: Michelle said NO. Maybe even "Hell NO."

Don't get me wrong. Kamala Harris is the perfect choice for Basement Biden's vice president ... if your only criteria is "black female."

Because, other than that, Sen. Harris offers nothing to Joe Biden. The Kamala Harris VP choice is one of the great mistakes in presidential political history.

Except, of course, Biden wanted and needed a "black female." Remember, only 24 hours before announcing Harris as his VP choice, 100 black male leaders sent Biden a letter demanding a black female VP or, they promised, he'd lose the election. Enter Kamala. She's certainly got the credentials ... if your only criterion is "black female."

Let's look at what Harris actually brings to the Democratic presidential ticket.

First, she is unlikable. She shares the lead in a space formerly owned exclusively by Hillary Clinton. Pretty much everyone who knows Harris doesn't like her. She is mean and nasty. She was intolerably nasty to Joe Biden during the Democratic presidential debates.

Secondly, that brings up her disastrous presidential campaign. She never won one delegate. Biden's ship is sinking -- even those 100 black male leaders recognized that reality. But how does Harris help? She just ran for president. Democratic voters soundly rejected her. Black voters overwhelmingly rejected her. She was an awful failure. How can she help Biden, when she couldn't help herself?

No sooner had I written this column than a new Rasmussen poll was released showing one-third of black voters say Harris as VP makes them less likely to vote for Biden. Like I said, no one likes Harris, not even black voters.

Third, Harris publicly stated she believed the females accusing Biden of unwanted touching and sexual assault. Yet she's willing to be his political partner? She wants him to be president? But I thought she believes the charges against him? Will Harvey Weinstein be joining the Cabinet? I can't wait for Trump's television commercials.

Fourth, Harris has the most liberal voting record in the U.S. Senate, to the left of Bernie Sanders'. She supports Medicare for All, free health care for illegal immigrants, open borders, the insane Green New Deal with a $90 trillion price tag, free college and gun confiscation. So, we know her awful, radical, extreme views will motivate conservatives.

Yet somehow, Bernie Sanders liberals despise her, too. She is a very unpopular pick with the noisy radical left of the Democratic Party. Why? As a prosecutor, Harris put over 1,500 people in prison for marijuana offenses, yet she admitted she had smoked marijuana. Like I said, Harris defines "unlikable."

Fifth, her very public relationship with Willie Brown, who was married when they were spotted together, makes her quite possibly the biggest turnoff in history for Christian voters. But hey, give the Democrats credit. In four years, they've gone from a female candidate known for having a husband who cheated on her ... to a candidate known for cheating with a married man. I guess that's progress!

I've saved the best for last. I'm no prude when it comes to sex. I was the Libertarian vice presidential nominee in 2008. I believe what you do in the bedroom is your business -- as long as it doesn't cost taxpayers a dime. But Harris received appointments to a California commission and California board from her lover. That came with a $400,000 payoff. That's corruption.

Every taxpayer has a right to be outraged. Willie Brown used your taxpayer money to pay off his much younger lover. Now she wants to be your vice president. And you thought former President Barack Obama had audacity? I believe Harris should be indicted for theft of taxpayer funds.

Think about this for a moment. What would the media say if President Trump were to have an affair while in office and give his lover two cushy government jobs paying hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars? Can you spell "impeachment"?

Now skip ahead 20 years and imagine if Trump's lover who accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money after having sex were now on a Republican presidential ticket.

That's Harris.

Biden picked her knowing all that? If you've ever questioned his judgment and massive decline of cognitive skills, this is the proof positive.

Biden clearly has no idea what he's doing. But he sure made the perfect VP pick ... if the only criteria is "black female." Or if the definition of "perfect" is perfect for Trump.

Game. Set. Match. Kamala just clinched it for Trump. Thank you, Basement Biden.

Whats' wrong with Mitt Romney?

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, wants to issue subpoenas to former FBI Director James Comey and ex-CIA chief John Brennan. It’s part of his investigation into the Russian collusion circus that engulfed the nation for over two years and made Democrats—and their allies in the media—become totally unspooled. Specifically, he’s zeroing in on the FBI’s surveillance operation against the Trump campaign in 2016, which was really a spy operation. Informants tried to glean information from Trump campaign officials under false pretenses and then relayed whatever they found to their superiors. That sounds like spying. Heck, even Obama’s former intelligence czar said so.

    Mitt Romney, a Russia collusion hoaxer, just happens to be on that committee. https://t.co/e4azbuUfs1
    — Sean Davis (@seanmdav) August 12, 2020

    Why does Mitt Romney still have any committee assignments?

    He voted to impeach the President of his own party based on utter nonsense

    He should have been kicked out of the party six months ago
    — Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) August 13, 2020

    Tucker Carlson rips Mitt Romney for siding with BLM:

    "You'll remember that Mitt Romney marched and showed his support. What does Mitt Romney think of the looting of downtown Chicago? Is Romney for theft, for crime?"pic.twitter.com/zRUuNJafJK
    — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) August 13, 2020

Yet, someone is holding up the works—and it’s coming from the Republican side (via Politico):

    Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chair Ron Johnson suggested Wednesday that fellow Republicans on his committee were blocking him from subpoenaing former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan and other figures involved in the investigation of President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and its contacts with Russia — even though the panel gave him the unilateral power to do so in the spring.

    "We had a number of my committee members that were highly concerned about how this looks politically," the Wisconsin GOP senator told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, who pressed Johnson to identify Republicans standing in the way of a wave of high-profile subpoenas.

    Johnson emphasized that he needs the unanimous support of his committee's eight Republicans to advance any subpoenas — one defection would likely result in a 7-7 deadlock with the committee's six Democrats. "If I lose one, I lose the vote," Johnson said.

    Hewitt repeatedly asked Johnson to name the Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security Committee who would oppose subpoenaing Comey.

    "Hugh, I'm just not going to be naming names that way," Johnson replied.

    […]

    The interview underscores the degree to which there's a reluctance among some Senate Republicans to advance an investigation that Democrats have viewed as a conduit for foreign disinformation aimed at former Vice President Joe Biden less than three months before the election as well as to amplify allegations of corruption by the FBI in its Trump-Russia probe. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), one of the eight Republicans on Johnson's panel, raised concerns about the investigation's political overtones in the spring, though he ultimately has backed some of the panel's subpoena requests.

Okay, so to be fair, the publication noted some committee officials who said that Johnson can still subpoena these men, adding that the interview with Hewitt was based on a misunderstanding or something. Yeah, I guess I could believe that until Mitten’s name was mentioned.

Some people are saying ‘it looks political.’ Have they forgotten where they work? Everything you do is political now; eating pizza with a fork and knife can cost you votes. This is politics—get over it. Second, would it shock you if Romney was the person Johnson was talking about? He has consistently been just a pain in our asses ever since he got to Washington. He’s done nothing to help the Trump administration or its agenda—the vast majority of which he ran on in 2012. For those in the back, again, 85 percent, maybe even 90 percent, of what Trump has done and what he’s campaigning to do in his re-election bid is what conservative Republicans, Reagan Republicans, have advocated for in the past 25 years. The party base has changed. We’re in an era of right-wing populism. That’s fine; we’re seeing results. Results that were derailed, thanks to China being incompetent and allowing coronavirus to become a pandemic.


Romney marched with Black Lives Matter protesters, he voted with Democrats on one of the articles of impeachment that should have led to his expulsion from the party, and now this—this alleged blocking of subpoenas? Mitt has no fight, no inclination to go for the jugular. That’s why he loses—and it’s no big accomplishment that he won in a conservative Mormon state either. That’s like saying Hillary is an ace campaigner because she won her Senate race…in deep-blue New York.

This man just has to go. Utah—I urge you to find someone who can primary Mitt in 2024. Please. This man can be beaten. He’s lost many times before. In the meantime, FBI Director Chris Wray has been ordered to turn over documents relating to the bureau’s spy operation against Trump.