The Democrats Control All the Levers of Power

 Have you ever wondered why almost nothing good in the “circles of power” ever happens?  Bad stuff—Trump getting impeached twice, FBI raids on the homes of conservative and religious people, January 6th committees, etc.—these things seem to occur with regularity, but nothing you and I won’t ever quite seems to get done. The Democratic Party controls nearly all the levers of power—the Washington Establishment, the Deep State, most of the media, academia, and Hollywood.  But mainly, Washington, D.C.  Nothing positive will ever be accomplished until there is a revolution in these corridors of iniquity.             

Let me give you a few examples of what I mean.            

1.  The Republican Congressional investigations.  Do you honestly think the Republicans will accomplish anything astounding in the inquiries?  It is fairly apparent that the whole Biden family, Joe, Hunter, and James, should be in jail. You and I would be if we had done what they did.  But there is no way any of those people will suffer one iota.   Impeach Mayorkas?  Forget it.  Even if the House Republicans did impeach half of Biden’s Cabinet, none will get convicted or removed from office because the Democrats control the Senate.  And the blowback would be on the Republicans for doing it.  They know that, which is why they won’t do it.  The investigations are necessary, but beyond that, absolutely nothing that NEEDS to be done will be done.  The Democrats control all the machines required to ensure they DON’T happen.           

2.   What really happened with the release of Covid-19 in China?  I can almost guarantee that the CCP deliberately released it, but I can’t prove that.  They aren’t going to let anybody do a thorough investigation, of course; even WHO has given up trying (now, there’s a shocker for you).  And, naturally, the pro-China Washington establishment will never push the CCP for answers.  It happened; millions died, meh.  That’s all we will ever know; that’s all the CCP, and their cohorts in the Democratic Party will ever let us know.  I doubt the Democrats had anything to do with the release of Covid, but they will protect their own (the CCP AND Fauci).           

3.   The Paul Pelosi underwear caper.   Do you know what happened there?   Does anybody, besides the Pelosis?  Do you think Nancy will ever let us in on the secret?  That one is under the rug.  The Democrats and media have it nicely covered, thank you.           

4.   Jeffrey Epstein.  Same here.  Some information and lists are supposed to be published.  Sometime soon.  Sometime.   We all wonder about the totality of personages on that list, but regardless, nobody of any consequence will be punished for it.  That much we do know.           

5.   The East Palestine train wreck and the China spy balloons.  All of America is waiting for thorough investigations from our wonderful government and strong measures to ensure such things never happen again.  We are waiting.  And waiting.   And waiting.  The year is now 2040.  We are still waiting…Why do we never get any answers to anything?  Those answers are probably very damaging to the Deep State moguls, Democrats, and maybe a few RINOs, such as those who control the wheels of power.  They circle the wagons and protect their own, and you and I can do nothing about it.  So, go ahead, JD, stir up the streams around East Palestine and see what comes up.   I’ll bet nobody in Washington will surface.            

7.   The 2020 elections and the 2022 Arizona governor’s election fiasco.  Donald Trump won the 2016 election, and immediately, “Russian collusion” was the byword; Trump “stole” the election with the help of Vladimir Putin.  And the investigation went on for two years, wasting millions of American taxpayer dollars, not to mention man-hours, in something that proved totally bogus.  Most of us knew it was from the very beginning.  The Deep State tried, but even they can’t always create something out of nothing.  But they made their accusations of a “stolen election,” had their investigation, and, for two years, we heard almost nothing else in the news, hamstringing much of what Trump was trying to do for the country.  But, in 2020, when there were legitimate questions surrounding certain voting procedures in many states, noooooo, this was the “fairest, most honest election in American history.”  No hanky-panky going on at all.  Nor inquiries.  In fact, when a few Americans expressed their displeasure at the Capital building on January 6, 2021 (it IS their house, you know), we heard about THAT for the next two years.  “January 6,” not a possibly unfair election, was investigated.             

Is anything going on in the 2022 Arizona governor’s election scam?  Well, Kari Lake is still trying.  Do you have any hope she will eventually will that case?            

Why?  Well, this is exactly what I am talking about.  The Democrats manipulate in ways Republicans never even think about.  They get what they want.  They can start bogus investigations any time they wish and block, or seriously retard, anything they don’t want to happen.  They control the levers of power.  And you and I are constantly frustrated because the people we support are forever in deep doo-doo, but the real criminals and miscreants, people whom we know are slithering around the halls of Congress, destroying our nation, always get away scot-free, and retire richer than you and I can ever dream of doing.              

“With liberty and justice for all.” Well, for all the Leftist, deep-state Democrats.   Something needs to be done.  But what can we do?  I’m open to suggestions. 

Newt’s War Against Corruption

 WASHINGTON — Politicians are rarely competent writers. In fact, they are rarely writers. That is why they have speechwriters. John F. Kennedy was supposed to be a great writer. He actually won the Pulitzer Prize for his book “Profiles in Courage,” though Ted Sorensen wrote the book. Sorensen was one of his speechwriters, of course.

Today we have few politicians who can even read a book. One who can, both read and write books, is Newt Gingrich, and he also writes newspaper columns, which I commend to you. Last week, he wrote a column that was at the top of the chop, as H.L. Mencken used to say back in the 1920s. Newt’s column was ominously titled “America Is Becoming a Corrupt Country.” Newt writes very well, and if he wrote as well several years ago as he wrote last week, he would have had my vote for the presidency. But then we might not have had him in the pages of The American Spectator, which is where the column appeared. I urge you to read it. It is about the spreading corruption afflicting America. He covered a lot of malfeasance in but a few sentences.

Newt began by saying, “America has been drifting toward a level of corruption incompatible with a free society and a free-market economy.” He elaborated that political and economic freedom depend on honesty, which depends on “a sense of trust” among the public. This “sense of trust” is rapidly evaporating among the general public, according to Newt. In California alone, $20 billon was recently stolen from the state’s unemployment compensation program. He goes on, “If you assumed the average theft was $200,000, that would require 100,000 people willing to be thieves.” That is a large number of thieves running loose in one state. We have 50 states plus territories within the union. Whereupon Newt turns to “petty theft on a grand scale (which) has become a way of life for tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of people.”

Next, he considers the big leagues in corruption. “In this context,” says Newt, “the Hunter Biden-Biden family pattern of influence peddling is just one more example of a country sliding into the acceptance of criminality as the norm.” Then he adds the coup de grace: “Beginning with the Bill Clinton presidency, we shifted focus from the morally right to what you can get away with.” Newt concludes with the words of Max Bialystock from “The Producers”: “When you’ve got it, flaunt it.”

What Newt has done with a minimum of bombast is sketch out a country in decline in practically every category. This has happened before in America, but always standing on the horizon have been the forces of reform, ready to clear away the muck, as it was called. There were the reformers, the muckrakers — genuine cleansers of the muck — the progressives — not today’s variety of progressive but genuine progressives. All were public-spirited citizens intent on changing the system, such as Teddy Roosevelt in politics and squeaky-clean private citizens such as Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell. They occasionally came up with some unworkable reforms, but in their high-mindedness, they preserved a regard for clean government and clean government worked. America was one of the most corruption-free governments in the world. Now it verges of being one of the most corrupt.

Consider the instances of corruption cited above. Bill Clinton got away with “it” by stating that “they all did it.” The Bidens are getting away with their influence peddling by simply ignoring “it” and expecting the media to go along with their corruption. So far it works. But Newt’s protest published last week may be the beginning of what citizens such as Roosevelt, Steffens and Tarbell launched decades ago, a protest movement for clean government.

The problem is that all the instruments for assuring clean government — the government regulatory bureaus, the private organizations such the American Civil Liberties Union, the reform movements such as Common Cause — are as corrupt as the groups they try to keep an eye on. Newt Gingrich may have begun an anti-corruption movement of his own last week, but he will have his hands full in the years ahead. Good luck, Newt.

Eric Swalwell is in Hot Water and It Isn’t Over a Chinese Spy This Time

 Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell, who was recently stripped of his assignment on the House Intelligence Committee for engaging in a sexual relationship with a Chinese spy named Christine “Fang Fang” Fang, is in hot water again over the alleged misuse of campaign funds.

In fact, according to the Washington Free Beacon, Swalwell spent more money on luxury accommodations and travel than former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. He also used campaign funds for child care, which could prompt an ethics complaint.

“This isn’t the first time Swalwell’s campaign spending has landed him in trouble. In 2021, the Democrat came under fire for using donor funds as a “private piggy bank.” Swalwell paid a family member more than $17,000 for child care, spent $20,000 at the Bay Area Ritz-Carlton where his wife used to work, and poured tens of thousands of dollars into non-campaign-related “catering” and “refreshments” at exclusive clubs and restaurants,” the Free Beacon reports. “In response, Swalwell protested that the charge was meant to distract him while his opponents “plot the next insurrection,” and he praised the “pro-family” policy that allowed him to use donor dollars for his kids’ care.”

Further, while Swalwell advocates taxpayers foot the bill for student loans, he’s refusing to pay his own tabs.

“Swalwell has yet to pay down $50,001 to $100,000 in law school loans, though he graduated in 2006 and has raked in six-figure salaries for years. He owes between $15,001 and $50,000 in credit card debt to Chase Bank and between $10,000 and $15,000 in debt to American Express. Swalwell also holds two mortgages, one between $100,001 and $250,000 and the other between $500,001 and $1,000,000,” Free Beacon reports.

Swalwell has failed to respond to the controversy and has instead been focused on attacking former President Donald Trump.
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TRUMP: "Low life" @ericswalwell "was just kicked off the Intelligence Committee...for having the poor judgment of dating and falling desperately in love with a Chinese Spy, Fang Fang, whose honey net has gotten massive amounts of information for her beloved China." pic.twitter.com/CPrJRM5pdP
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) February 22, 2023

US military in decline, threats from China ‘formidable,’ report says

 

WASHINGTON — U.S. military power was weaker this year than the year prior, according to a new report by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that each year analyzes the strength of the armed forces and the threats to America.

The “2023 Index of U.S. Military Strength” focuses on the need for readiness in not one, but two wars — or “major regional contingencies (MRCs),” as the authors put it — with the theory that such a standard would prevent another competitor from taking advantage of U.S. preoccupation with another challenge. But the U.S. currently does not meet that goal, with the report rating America’s military power as “weak,” down from “marginal” in the previous year’s index.

“The 2023 Index concludes that the current U.S. military force is at significant risk of not being able to meet the demands of a single major regional conflict while also attending to various presence and engagement activities,” the report read. “It most likely would not be able to do more and is certainly ill-equipped to handle two nearly simultaneous MRCs.”

The report assessed three major factors: the global operating environment, threats to U.S. interests and U.S. military power. Here are the findings:

US can still globally project power

The global operating environment, aggregated across Europe, Asia and the Middle East, is still favorable to the U.S. and its ability to project military power, according to the report.

“This does not mean that we view Latin America and Africa as unimportant. It means only that the security challenges within these regions do not currently rise to the level of direct threats to America’s vital interests as we have defined them,” the think tank explained.

Despite challenges across each geographic region, the U.S. remains empowered to project its forces, even after Russia’s invasion in Ukraine.

In Europe and Asia, alliances and military posture in those regions help the U.S. project its power. However, the U.S. risks losing its “moderate” rating in the Middle East.

“Although the region’s overall score remains ‘moderate,’ as it was last year, it is in danger of falling to ‘poor’ because of political instability and growing bilateral tensions with allies over the security implications of the proposed nuclear agreement with Iran and how best to fight the Islamic State,” the report said.

The European and Pacific theaters remain marked as “favorable” to U.S. military projection.

Russia and China

Researchers also said Russia and China each present “aggressive” behavior and have “formidable” capabilities. Meanwhile, the report found Iran and nonstate actors are also “aggressive” in their behavior but less threatening in their respective capabilities.

North Korea’s behavior is less so, while its ability to threaten the U.S. is equal to that of Iran, but stronger than that of nonstate actors.

The report focused on three areas that potential adversaries could threaten: the homeland, U.S. allies in a given region and “international common spaces.”

A major reason behind Russia’s threat level is its “efforts to undermine the NATO alliance,” of which the U.S. in a member.

“[Russia] still maintains the world’s largest nuclear arsenal, and although a strike on the U.S. is highly unlikely, the latent potential for such a strike still gives these weapons enough strategic value vis-à-vis America’s NATO allies and interests in Europe to ensure their continued relevance,” the report said.

But China remained the most “comprehensive security challenge” to U.S. forces across all areas considered by the report, with the Heritage Foundation citing the technological advances of the Chinese military.

“The Chinese launched their first homegrown aircraft carrier during the past year and are fielding large numbers of new platforms for their land, sea, air, and outer-space forces as well as in the electromagnetic domain,” the report said.

A force in decline

The report also offered an assessment of U.S. military power among the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Space Force, looking at the capacity, capability and readiness of each on a scale of very weak, weak, marginal, strong and very strong. Only the Marine Corps ranked “strong” overall, the report noted.

The Army scored “marginal,” while the Air Force was ranked “very weak” and the Navy “weak.” The report backed calls for a naval force armed with 400 manned ships to meet its missions, but said the service’s fleet of 298 ships cannot keep up with an “intensified operational tempo.”

“Contributing to a lower assessment is the Navy’s persistent inability to arrest and reverse the continued diminution of its fleet while adversary forces grow in number and capability,” the report read.

The Air Force’s main issues are related to pilot training and retention as well as its aging aircraft fleet, the report said. The think tank suggested the service could win in a single major regional contingency but would struggle against a “peer competitor.”

“The shortage of pilots and flying time for those pilots degrades the ability of the Air Force to generate the quality of combat air power that would be needed to meet wartime requirements,” the report noted.

The newest service, the Space Force, also was labeled “weak,” with the report citing “slow and incremental” efforts to modernize aging platforms.

Elon Musk Calls Out ChatGPT’s Liberal Bias

 

witter CEO Elon Musk weighs in on the artificial intelligence service, ChatGPT, which reportedly shows liberal bias.

Musk shared a meme in a tweet with the caption, “ChatGPT to the mainstream media.”

The meme read, “look at me; I’m the captain of propaganda now.”

1 2	ChatGPT to the mainstream media pic.twitter.com/gdqWTsHy14 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 16, 2023

Musk, who helped launch ChatGPT, said that the technology no longer resembles what he took part in creating in 2015. Instead, the billionaire said that it was designed to be an open-source nonprofit.

“Now it has become a closed source, the maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft,” Must wrote in a tweet. “Not what I intended at all.”

ChatGPT has come under scrutiny after it reportedly refused to write a New York Post-style article on the corruptness of Hunter Biden, citing that it has concerns about “rumors, misinformation, or personal attacks.”

“The role of a news outlet is to provide accurate and impartial reporting and to present information in a manner that is fair and balanced,” the chatbot said. “It is not appropriate to use a journalistic platform to spread rumors, misinformation, or personal attacks. I encourage you to seek out reputable news sources that prioritize journalistic integrity and factual reporting.”

However, it did write a CNN-style story on Hunter Biden that made him look innocent.

“Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, has been a subject of public scrutiny since the 2020 presidential campaign. While much of the attention has been focused on his personal life and business dealings, there are important aspects of his story that warrant closer examination,” the chatbot generated, failing to mention his infamous laptop.

Additionally, ChatGPT showed bias when asked if The New York Post or CNN are reputable.

“CNN is a well-established and respected news organization that has been in operation for over 40 years. While it, like any news outlet, has been subject to criticism and controversy at times. It has generally been recognized for its commitment to accurate and impartial reporting,” the chatbot wrote.

When asked about The New York Post, it said it could not make “specific judgments” about the news outlet.