BREAKING: Far-Left USA Today Announces It Will Not Endorse Kamala Harris – “We Believe America’s Future Is Decided Locally”
by Jim Hᴏft Oct. 28, 2024 7:15 pm
Far-left USA Today announced on Monday that it will not endorse a presidential candidate in the 2024 election.
This makes USA Today one of the latest far-left major publications to steer clear of backing Vice President Kamala Harris and running mate Tim Walz, joining an unprecedented media shift that includes outlets like The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times.
A spokesperson for USA Today told The Daily Beast that rather than endorsing a candidate, the paper plans to “provide readers with the facts that matter and the trusted information they need to make informed decisions.”
But this sudden detour away from an endorsement speaks volumes about the lack of support Harris is facing.
Daily Beast reported:
USA Today’s editorial board wrote that it decided to endorse back then—for the first time since 1982—because the 2020 election was was an “extraordinary moment” in history that required an “extraordinary response” from the paper.
“Biden is a worthy antidote to Trump’s unbounded narcissism and chronic chaos,” the paper told its readers.
Trump, 78, is by most accounts still the same man today as he was when USA Today printed its scathing editorial about him, but the paper has apparently had a change of heart in what its readers are looking for from it.
Lark-Marie Antón, a USA Today spokesperson, explained the decision to not endorse in an email: “Why are we doing this? Because we believe America’s future is decided locally—one race at a time. And with more than 200 publications across the nation, our public service is to provide readers with the facts that matter and the trusted information they need to make informed decisions.”
USA Today has a circulation of 132,640 print subscribers and has millions of more readers online. However, unlike the trio of national newspapers larger than it by print circulation—The New York Times, the Post, and The Wall Street Journal—USA Today is the flagship brand for over 200 local newspapers dotted across the country.
Unlike the billionaires overseeing of the Post and LA Times, there have been no reports that any single person in the leadership at Gannett, which is a publicly traded company, intervened to personally shut down an endorsement at USA Today.
Now, five of the six largest U.S. newspapers have either withheld endorsement of Harris-Walz or scrapped endorsements altogether, according to Jake Schneider, Team Trump’s Rapid Response Director.
According to the press release:
Five of the six largest U.S. newspapers have now either declined to endorse Harris-Walz or forego endorsements altogether:
The Washington Post decided to nuke their presidential endorsements for good rather than endorse Harris-Walz — the paper’s first non-endorsement since 1988.
The Los Angeles Times — the largest newspaper in Kamala’s home state — declined to endorse for the first time in decades.
Multiple other major newspapers — all of whom endorsed Biden in 2020 — have either withheld endorsements or declined altogether, including the Chicago Tribune, the Detroit Free Press, and the Minnesota Star Tribune.
It’s not just major news outlets running away from Harris-Walz. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters withheld endorsing the Democrat ticket for the first time in almost three decades, while the International Association of Fire Fighters opted against endorsing the Democrat ticket for only the second time since at least 1976.
Humiliating.
President Trump — the best closer in politics — has the momentum, the enthusiasm, and the message for the time — and next week, he’ll send Kamala back to California for good.
We hear that misinformation is wrong information, disinformation is deliberate wrong information, and malinformation, a newly coined Orwellian term that hasn’t yet weaseled its way into the dictionary, is true information that goes against the regime narrative and thereby does ‘harm.’
Example. Biden is a strong president -- clearly misinformation. The Hunter laptop is Russian propaganda -- disinformation. The Hunter laptop story is true but runs counter to the Biden narrative, so it was suppressed -- malinformation.
Disinformation is a powerful tool for wannabe tyrants. Those who practice the disinformation dark arts wield a double-edged sword. With one edge the government apparatus claims their critics and opponents are spreading harmful disinformation and use their considerable power to censor and eradicate dissent. Much as the term “hate speech” opens the door to the suppression of free speech, “disinformation” is the skeleton key of modern domestic propaganda and censorship. With it, the regime can target political movements, specific politicians, and prominent voices on the grounds that they are influenced by or in thrall to foreign “disinformation.” The goal is consensus. Silencing all opposing views creates by default an apparent unity of thought. The climate change crisis is a prime example of censorship creating false consensus.
The grain of truth is that the effective techniques of disinformation were honed by our intelligence branches in foreign arenas, against other governments and peoples. However, putting parents who talk at school board meetings, Catholics who pray with rosary beads, pro-life protesters and Americans who disagree with transmania, vaccines, climate crisis, or war on government lists of potential terrorists, is beyond the pale.
The other edge of the disinformation sword is the government directly pushing false narratives. The direct assertion of lies requires more coordinated support, especially from the media. A prime example was when the government wanted to spy on Trump and his campaign in the phony Russia collusion hoax. The FBI hired operatives to write false reports, leaked stories to media outlets they controlled, and then packaged it all together as the ‘evidence’ to obtain spy warrants. Safe and effective vaccines is another example of a false narrative. No one in government speaks of these, presumably because the government never lies.
Pushing lies out broadly is a form of brute force attack, where the lie is replicated many thousands of times on hundreds of channels until the lie solidifies in the minds of the target audience. The sometimes hidden, sometimes overt, coordination of academics, journalists, and public intellectuals to push a regime-backed political line is justified as the needed counterbalance to all the “disinformation” narratives out there.
Anyone can use this double-edged attack on truth, but the government has an overwhelming advantage because it controls regulation, the police branches, and the courts, which together provide tremendous force and leverage no outsider can match.
Who manages the American government’s disinformation apparatus? The DHS, FBI, DOD, NSA, CIA, to name a few. The DHS included a list of 374 search words to be tracked in the department's 2011 Analyst's Desktop Binder used at their National Operations Center. A senior DHS official claimed the manual “is a starting point, not the endgame in maintaining situational awareness of natural and man-made threats” and denied that the government was monitoring signs of dissent. The talk is always about threats, but the real threat to regime power is dissent. The manual even instructs workers to identify media reports that reflect adversely on DHS.
The U.S. government issues secret “keyword warrants” to Google for anyone who looks up certain phrases and names, allowing police and other spy agencies to dig through Google’s search history database to identify innocent people merely based on what they might have searched and use that for further intrusions, despite the complete violation of Fourth Amendment protections.
The July 2021 Guardian article with the headline, “Majority of COVID misinformation came from 12 people, report finds,” claimed these 12 villains were responsible for lies about COVID-19 and the vax, much of the COVID pandemic, and many deaths. The Disinformation Dozen was created by the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a left-wing censorship NGO based in the UK with ties to both the UK and U.S. governments, used as talking points by the White House and their shills, and reverberated by all of mainstream media.
It is 2024 and, oh, how things change. We know COVID-19 came from a gain-of-function lab, lockdowns and masks didn’t work, the COVID vaccines were not effective, and have caused and are still causing great harm. Far from the villains they were made out to be, the so-called Disinformation Dozen are consummate professionals who were simply telling the truth. That didn’t protect them from being censored, railroaded from their professions, and ostracized from general society as crazy conspiracy nuts who push disinformation.
European governments are leading the disinformation charge, arresting dissenters under vague and arbitrary hate speech laws that are thinly veiled censorship decrees allowing them to quash dissent and criticism. The EU has demanded that X censor content or face prosecution. France arrested the Telegram founder for refusing their demands for censorship.
The U.S. isn’t far behind. A U.S. federal court ruled that the FBI and DHS pressured social media companies to remove content it deemed as disinformation, including posts from accounts that originated within the United States. When a court injunction threatened their operation, the censorship apparatus panicked. They got a reprieve when the Supreme Court, in a terrible act of cowardice, lifted the injunction and refused to address the government’s attempt to destroy the First Amendment. The DoJ announced indictments on two Russians in an attempt to smear several conservative media influencers. The assault on free speech has accelerated and the means to do it are being hardened into place.
Accomplishing the dark days of tyranny in the U.S. requires trickery. Trick number one: redefine democracy not as the people choosing their government, but as the government institutions themselves. When you hear the attorney general bleating about people criticizing the DoJ being a threat to democracy, he is attacking the actual exercise of democracy.
Trick number two: declare broad areas of society, like the internet and elections, to be part of national security. This gives the federal government the immediate right to interfere using censorship, surveillance, or even prosecution, all in the name of protecting national security.
Trick number three: confuse the subject of information with terms like misinformation, disinformation, malinformation, and hate speech. Redefining the very words used is part of the disinformation campaign.
The darkest deed of any tyranny is claiming its own lies are truth and its opponent’s truths are lies. Disinformation, misinformation, and mal-information form a shapeless, shifting bog that underlies the government disinformation program and threatens to pull anyone under who might fall into disfavor with the ruling regime. Censoring what you don’t like to hear is the end of free speech and the death of a free society. When the regime narrative can be completely devoid of truth, no one is safe.
What is true for you is what you have observed. No government can be the arbiter of truth, nor can it censor its way to the truth. The only solution is more free speech, and one by one, removing those from power who insist on throttling the free exercise thereof.
Report: Brace for ‘Unrest’ if Donald Trump Wins, Democrats Warn
Wendell Husebø
28 Oct 2024
Americans should prepare for “unrest’ if former President Donald Trump completes the greatest political comeback in modern American politics, Democrats told the Wall Street Journal on Monday.
The potential for Democrats to perpetrate political violence undermines their narrative that Republicans, and especially the America First movement, are a threat to democracy.
“I think there’ll be some violence. I think there’ll be workplace fights. There’ll be fights at kids’ birthday parties. I think they’ll be protests and will turn violent,” Mark Halperin recently told Tucker Carlson.
Resistance groups, according to the Journal’s Joshua Chaffin and Valerie Bauerlein, believe citizens should be “bracing for unrest” if Trump wins:
Across America, more than a dozen progressives in various positions of influence told The Wall Street Journal that they are dreading the prospect of Trump’s return to power, and dismayed that half the country might see a completely different reality than they see. Some are bracing for unrest. On a recent evening, more than 200 people joined a Zoom meeting titled Mass Training For Women’s Safety Teams—hosted by a Women’s March veteran who noted its timing amid “escalating political violence.”
Others are channeling their nervousness into action: They are planning to attend Women’s Marches scheduled in Washington and beyond on the Saturday before the election. In Boston, they are joining pill-packing parties, where volunteers fill boxes with abortion kits to mail to women in red states with strict limits. “We feel like we’re doing something,” said Erin Gately, a 47-year-old physician assistant who last time took to the streets to protest after Trump’s election, but says this time she would focus on tangible actions like protecting reproductive rights.
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Laurie Woodward García, a South Florida activist, founded People Power United during Trump’s presidency to champion progressive causes, and, in her words, “stand up to fascism.” Her biweekly online seminars, some scheduled for after the election, explore the consequences if a President Trump were to enact Project 2025, a conservative policy agenda he has distanced himself from. Each session has drawn about 500 viewers.
“We’ve looked at different countries,” Melissa Fiero, a Democrat activist told the Journal. “I really think it’s going to be that bad if he wins.”
Halperin described how some Democrats might react, outside of violence, if Trump defeats Vice President Kamala Harris. “It will be the cause of the greatest mental health crisis in the history of the country,” Halperin told Carlson:
I think tens of millions of people will question their connection to the nation, their connection to other human beings, their connection to their vision of what their future for them and their children could be like. And I think that it will require an enormous amount of access to mental health professionals. I think it’ll lead to trauma in the workplace, … I think there’ll be alcoholism. There’ll be broken marriages:
Ballots Go Up In Smoke After Drop Boxes Set Ablaze In Washington And Oregon
Russell Bartlett
Oct. 28, 2024
According to authorities, a pair of ballot drop boxes located on either side of the Washington-Oregon border were torched recently, likely burning hundreds of ballots before they could be counted ahead of next week’s presidential election.
The incidents were reported Monday morning in Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, according to the Daily Wire:
“Members of the Metro Explosive Disposal Unit (MEDU) arrived and safely collected the device, and the fire was extinguished. Detectives from the Vancouver Police Arson team and the Vancouver Fire Marshals also responded,” VPD added.
The police department said the investigation was handed over to the FBI. Officials told voters that if they dropped off a ballot at the location after 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, they should immediately contact the Election Auditor’s Office for a new ballot.
A few hours before the ballot box in Vancouver was set on fire, police just across the state border in Portland, Oregon, responded to a fire at a drop box in the southeast part of the city. Authorities said an incendiary device was also set off in the Portland drop box, according to KATU. Authorities did not disclose whether any ballots in the Portland drop box had been destroyed.
Reports of the blazes quickly spread via social media:
��Ballot drop boxes with completed votes have just been set on fire in Vancouver, WA and Portland, OR. Expect more wild stuff this week. Stay vigilant. pic.twitter.com/qTXHPXZc2h
BREAKING 🚨
Ballot Drop Boxes in Vancouver, Washington and Portland, Oregon have been set on fire.
First of all….who drops their ballot in a damn box like this?!? Take your lazy ass to a polling place and vote IN PERSON!!! pic.twitter.com/U6VqmehKEo
— Chad Prather (@WatchChad) October 28, 2024
BREAKING: Ballot drop box in Clark County, Washington was lit on fire. Hundreds of ballots were reportedly inside at the time. pic.twitter.com/yyaqghtHzo
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 28, 2024
As CNN reported, sources in both jurisdictions expressed optimism that the damaged ballots would still be counted:
Officials plan to contact the three affected voters “via unique identifiers on their ballot envelopes, so they can receive replacement ballots.” Voters who dropped their ballots at the box between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Monday should reach out to the Multnomah County Elections Division if they have concerns, Scott said.
“Voters should be assured that even if their ballots were in the affected box, their votes will be counted,” Scott said.
The second ballot box was set on fire early Monday morning at a bus station in Vancouver, according to the Vancouver Police Department. When officers arrived, they found a “suspicious device” next to the box, which was smoking and on fire, police said.
The Clark County Elections Office said hundreds of ballots were damaged at the box in the C-TRAN Park and Ride at Fisher’s Landing Transit Center, CNN affiliate KPTV reported.
Laura Shepard, a spokeswoman for the city of Vancouver, said elections officials are asking anyone who may have placed a ballot in the box after 11 a.m. on Saturday to contact them to check the status of their ballot.
Washington Post Melts Down After Bezos Gives Newspaper Mandate To Hire Conservatives
October 28, 2024
By Mark Steffen
The Washington Post continues to reel following Jeff Bezos’s seismic decision to stop the paper’s editorial board from endorsing in the presidential race. Tempers flared brighter in the liberal reporting room after Bezos on Monday announced he expects the Post to pick up its pace of hiring conservative opinion writers.
The New York Post reported that the Post owner and Amazon founder has given the paper’s leadership a mandate to hire more conservative columnists for its opinion pages. The order comes less than a week after Bezos clamped down on an expected Harris endorsement, a decision which has sparked widespread outrage within the mainstream media and led to a reckoning over how and whether owners should intervene in their outlets’ coverage.
Bezos, the multi-billionaire who built his brand on fast and convenient online retail services, is reportedly keenly focused on picking up conservative subscribers, the Post reported. Right-leaning readers have proven to be a lucrative audience for new-age news outlets; meanwhile, legacy media like the Post, New York Times, and L.A. Times are grappling with how to augment their coverage so as to not alienate half of the country. Bezos, who according to leading estimates is worth upwards of $211 billion, understands that the future of the “Democracy Dies in Darkness” brand depends on catering to a pro-Trump crowd.
Although Bezos so far has not addressed rage quits and denouncements by current or former leaders within the Post, his silence is not leading to a letting up. Marty Baron, the paper’s former executive editor, blasted his decision to kill a Harris endorsement as an act of “cowardice,” adding that journalists have a responsibility to inform voters about who they should trust in the White House. The Harris endorsement was reportedly all typed up and ready for publication when Bezos killed it, a repeat of a similar situation that unfolded at the L.A. Times just weeks earlier. Owner Patrick Soon-Shiong ordered his editorial team to stand down after they failed to compile a straightforward list of pros and cons of both Trump and Harris in order to back up their endorsement.
Will Lewis, the Post’s chief executive and former leader of the Wall Street Journal, has said publicly that it was his decision, not Bezos’s, to halt the Harris endorsement. In a column announcing the Post would remain neutral, Lewis wrote that the change would be “consistent with the values the Post has always stood for” and it reflected the paper’s faith in “our readers’ ability to make up their own minds,” the NY Post reported.
“We recognize that this will be read in a range of ways, including as a tacit endorsement of one candidate, or as a condemnation of another, or as an abdication of responsibility. That is inevitable,” Lewis wrote. “We don’t see it that way. We see it as consistent with the values the Post has always stood for and what we hope for in a leader: character and courage in service to the American ethic, veneration for the rule of law, and respect for human freedom in all its aspects.”
Leftist Jeff Bezos Defends Decision Against Endorsing Kamala — Slams Fake News and Demands Higher Media Standards
by Jim Hᴏft Oct. 29, 2024
The left is in a state of self-inflicted chaos after leftist billionaire Jeff Bezos, owner of The Washington Post, blocked a 2024 endorsement for Kamala Harris, marking the first time since 1980 that the far-left publication won’t endorse a presidential candidate.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Bezos’ decision was revealed in a heated meeting with the editorial staff, leading to a schism within The Washington Post. Prominent editorial board members resigned in protest.
The journalists join Washington Post editor-at-large Robert Kagan, who resigned on Friday. Several other journalists also resigned or vowed not to work with the paper again in the future.
The aftermath has been immediate and severe. The far-left publication has lost over 200,000 subscribers.
The timing couldn’t be more ironic. Bezos published a soul-searching op-ed expressing concern over “dwindling trust in media” after years of relentless attacks on Trump, his allies, and supporters.
“Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working,” Bezos wrote, a statement that reflects more on his own leadership than on the industry he seeks to critique.
He draws a parallel between voting machines and newspapers, stressing the need for accuracy and perceived impartiality. Yet, one can’t help but question whether his sudden push for non-bias is truly principled, or merely a convenient escape hatch from endorsing a struggling candidate in Harris.
Read his statement below:
Let me give an analogy. Voting machines must meet two requirements. They must count the vote accurately, and people must believe they count the vote accurately. The second requirement is distinct from and just as important as the first.
Likewise with newspapers. We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion. It would be easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility (and, therefore, decline in impact), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility.
Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election. No undecided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say, “I’m going with Newspaper A’s endorsement.” None. What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias. A perception of non-independence. Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one. Eugene Meyer, publisher of The Washington Post from 1933 to 1946, thought the same, and he was right. By itself, declining to endorse presidential candidates is not enough to move us very far up the trust scale, but it’s a meaningful step in the right direction. I wish we had made the change earlier than we did, in a moment further from the election and the emotions around it. That was inadequate planning, and not some intentional strategy.
I would also like to be clear that no quid pro quo of any kind is at work here. Neither campaign nor candidate was consulted or informed at any level or in any way about this decision. It was made entirely internally. Dave Limp, the chief executive of one of my companies, Blue Origin, met with former president Donald Trump on the day of our announcement. I sighed when I found out, because I knew it would provide ammunition to those who would like to frame this as anything other than a principled decision. But the fact is, I didn’t know about the meeting beforehand. Even Limp didn’t know about it in advance; the meeting was scheduled quickly that morning. There is no connection between it and our decision on presidential endorsements, and any suggestion otherwise is false.
WAYNE ROOT: Democrats Will Try to Steal This Election. But If My Prediction of a Trump Landslide is Correct, If It Is “Too Big to Rig,” Pay Attention to What They Have Planned Next.
Oct. 29, 2024 3:00 pm
Wayne Allyn Root
I have fantastic news and terrible news.
The great news is, I predict (and believe in my gut) we will win this election. And it won’t be close. It’s going to be a Trump electoral landslide- with a sweep, or close to a sweep of swing states.
But will it look like a landslide? Democrats cheat big. The question is how big?
First, lets go back to my presidential election prediction in 2016. I was President Trump’s opening speaker on October 30th at his last Las Vegas rally before the election. When he saw me backstage after my speech, he asked me, “Wayne, the election is only a week away, you’re the Vegas oddsmaker, what’s your prediction?”
I responded to Trump, “You’re going to win in a 10-point landslide, but Democrats cheat 10, so it will look like a razor thin victory. But you’re the winner!”
Trump loved that prediction. He laughed and smiled. Then he said, “I’m going to win by 10, but they cheat 10, that’s a classic. I love it.”
My prediction was “on the money.” That’s exactly what happened.
But back in those old days of 2016 (it seems like a 100 years ago), Trump was losing every poll by 5 to 10 points. Then with the actual vote, he won.
Then in 2020, Trump was trailing Biden by even more- in many polls 7 to 10 points, and sometimes even higher. And still Trump almost won. Once again, his actual votes far out-performed the polls.
Some (like me) would argue Trump did win outright in 2020, but was cheated. But even if you believe Trump lost, the election was determined by a few thousands votes in six swing states. That’s with Trump supposedly down by double digits according to polls.
The thing is, I don’t think Democrats can rig and cheat more than 10 points. And this time, Trump is leading by a landslide…
*Polls show Trump leading the popular vote for the first time in his political career.
*Those same polls show him leading in all seven swing states.
*Smart money at the largest betting sites in the world now make Trump a 2-to-1 favorite.
*And more importantly, the GOP is dominating early voting.
The Democrats and the Deep State just aren’t going to be able to rig this one- and they know it!
The tell? Democrats are desperate. You can see the panic and hysteria as it sinks in, that they won’t be able to steal this one. That’s why leading Democrats have resorted to calling Trump “Hitler.” Whoopi Goldberg says Trump will separate interracial married couples. Other leading Democrats claim Trump will use the military against the citizens. Oh my God, these people are insane.
Desperate people do desperate things.
So, now we all have to look out for really desperate measures- whether in the days before Election Day, or in the days after a Trump victory. Here are a few scenarios I believe may be coming…
*Option number one: I suspect we may experience a “false flag” mass shooting, or supposed “domestic terrorist attack” that Democrats will use to blame Trump and the GOP. These Democrats are so desperate, I believe they’d rather incite a civil war, than allow a Trump takeover of the White House and the U.S. government.
What do they get with a mass terror event and the start of a civil war? They get to lockdown the country, declare martial law, and cancel the election. If you don’t think the desperate Deep State is capable of this, you’re very naïve.
*Option number two: Start World War 3. I truly believe the Democrats and the evil, greedy Deep State would rather start a world war than allow Trump to take power. The result of a world war on multiple fronts could be similar to a civil war- lockdown the country, declare martial law and cancel the election. And as a bonus, throw in a draft- ordering our sons and daughters to the Russian Front, or to Taiwan, or the Middle East, or all three at once.
The point with all these scenarios is to create fear, confusion, distraction and maybe even patriotism towards the government-in-power.
Option number three: This is the one I think is the most likely to happen: Trump wins, despite the biggest voter fraud operation in world history. And then the real battle begins.
Democrats are insane with “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” They will not accept a Trump victory. I expect nationwide riots, anarchy, looting, burning, and attacks on American institutions.
This country could burn like never before in history.
Keep in mind, Democrats have an army of 20 million illegal alien invaders- most of them military- aged males, many of them criminals let out of prisons and mental institutions, ready to destroy America “from within.”
While that’s happening, while the citizens are in shock and frightened, while the nation is burning, I’m betting Democrats in Congress will try to block Trump from taking power on the grounds he led an “insurrection.”
Ironically, THIS is the real insurrection.
All that talk about January 6th 2021 was always a smokescreen. Democrats are the ones who will take up arms, carry out a real insurrection, and try to overturn the results of a fair election.
These creeps, scumbags and communist, globalist traitors will do anything to stop President Trump from taking power and giving the country back to the American people.
Stay frosty. We’re going to win. Trump will become the 47th President of the United States and make America great again- that’s the fantastic news. But it’s going to get dark, dangerous and scary for a while.
Rep. Marjorie Greene Sounds the Alarm After Capitol Police Conduct Late-Night ‘Casualty Evacuation Exercise’ with 12 Helicopters Buzzing Over Capitol Hill: ‘They are Planning to Maintain Control of the Capitol’
by Jim Hᴏft
Oct. 29, 2024
U.S. Capitol as Capitol Police, in coordination with federal agencies, conducted a “Casualty Evacuation Exercise”
(Screenshot: Penguin6)
The U.S. Capitol Police, in coordination with federal agencies, conducted a “Casualty Evacuation Exercise” Monday night, just over a week before Election Day.
In a public notice, the U.S. Capitol Police stated, “EXERCISE: This evening, the United States Capitol Police & our federal partners are conducting a routine training exercise on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol. Please do not be alarmed if you see emergency vehicles and low flying helicopters.”
EXERCISE: This evening, the United States Capitol Police & our federal partners are conducting a routine training exercise on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol. Please do not be alarmed if you see emergency vehicles and low flying helicopters. pic.twitter.com/nLWgwMQONg
— The U.S. Capitol Police (@CapitolPolice) October 28, 2024
This exercise took place one week after the Capitol Police conducted a campus-wide evacuation drill.
“EXERCISE: This morning, at approximately 10:00 am, we will have a campus-wide evacuation exercise. The routine drill is in coordination with our Legislative Branch partners. Expect temporary street closures to include Constitution Avenue, Independence Avenue, and D Street, NE,” Capitol police wrote on Monday, October 21.
EXERCISE: This morning, at approximately 10:00 am, we will have a campus-wide evacuation exercise. The routine drill is in coordination with our Legislative Branch partners. Expect temporary street closures to include Constitution Avenue, Independence Avenue, and D Street, NE. pic.twitter.com/UQRH7DlszL
EXERCISE: This morning, at approximately 10:00 am, we will have a campus-wide evacuation exercise. The routine drill is in coordination with our Legislative Branch partners. Expect temporary street closures to include Constitution Avenue, Independence Avenue, and D Street, NE. pic.twitter.com/UQRH7DlszL
— The U.S. Capitol Police (@CapitolPolice) October 21, 2024
The timing of this exercise, coming just as the 2024 elections approach, has raised alarms among some conservative leaders, including Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). Greene has issued a stark warning about what she believes is a calculated move by Democrats to secure control over the Capitol ahead of January 6, the date designated for certification of the presidential election.
In a statement to her supporters, Greene argued that the Democrats are ramping up security measures in Washington, not to protect the people, but to further entrench their hold on the government should they lose seats in the House.
U.S. Capitol as Capitol Police, in coordination with federal agencies, conducted a “Casualty Evacuation Exercise” (Screenshot: Penguin6)
Read Rep. Greene’s statement below:
Capitol Police hold “Casualty Evacuation Exercise” at the Capitol with multiple helicopters last night.
Stay with me on this.
Trump told us to make it too big to rig and we are on our way to making that happen as long as everyone votes for Trump, but we are in danger of losing the House with approximately 20 House seats literally too close.
Without the House, we can not pass critical legislation to bring forward our MAGA agenda.
But also, if Democrats control the House, they will refuse to certify President Trump’s election on January 6th. They’ve already said they won’t certify.
Leading into this election just in the past few months, Democrats are making big moves to secure the Capital in January for certification on the 6th.
Last night, Capitol Police conducted a “Casualty Evacuation Exercise” on the East Front with multiple helicopters.
This comes after the DoD signed off on military force to be used to assist police against the American people, Mayorkas designating Jan 6th as a “Special Security Event” through Homeland Security, Mayor Bowser of DC requesting security for Jan 6th, and announcement of fencing to be erected Jan 5-21st.
While security is always important, Democrats are the party of riots, violence, and destruction. If they lose, they don’t care about securing anything. They nearly burned down Washington on Trump’s inauguration in 2017, rioted nightly during 2020, called us all Nazi’s and Trump Hitler for years, and shot Trump in the face.
But they are ramping up mass security for the Capitol because they are planning to maintain control of the Capitol by winning the House.
Trump’s momentum is too big to stop and we are watching the polls stopping the steal for Trump, but we are not doing the same thing for critical House races.
And if Trump wins the WH, Republicans win the Senate, but we lose the House, Democrats will build a fortress of resistance in the House.
They will stop everything, they will impeach Trump again, and they will abuse every ounce of power that comes with the House of Representatives.
And Democrats see all of us as the enemy.
Make sure you VOTE all the way down ballot for Republicans and don’t skip voting just because you are in an unwinnable Democrat state or a solid Republican state and you don’t think your vote matters that much.
You voting for Trump AND that RINO Congressman you can’t stand is actually the key right now to saving this country!!
We have to win the Presidency, the House, and the Senate!!!
GO VOTE AND WIN IT ALL!!!
Capitol Police hold “Casualty Evacuation Exercise” at the Capitol with multiple helicopters last night.
Stay with me on this.
Trump told us to make it too big to rig and we are on our way to making that happen as long as everyone votes for Trump, but we are in danger of… pic.twitter.com/ybKDqkjJdj
— Marjorie Taylor Greene (@mtgreenee) October 29, 2024
Elon Musk Makes Deep State Bureaucrats Cower in Fear with Budget Cut Promise: ‘Your Money Is Being Wasted’
by Michael Schwarz, The Western Journal
Oct. 29, 2024
President Thomas Jefferson, without a shred of exaggeration, described his first election to the presidency as the “revolution of 1800.” And now, 224 years later, we find ourselves on the brink of something similar.
Sunday in New York City’s iconic Madison Square Garden, at a rally in support of former President Donald Trump, entrepreneur and patriot Elon Musk electrified rallygoers by pledging to slash trillions of dollars from the federal government’s budget during a second Trump presidency.
“Your money is being wasted,” Musk said, “and the Department of Government Efficiency is gonna fix that!”
The crowd then erupted in cheers.
“We’re gonna get the government off your back and out of your pocketbook,” Musk added moments later.
In August, Trump endorsed the idea of a government efficiency commission headed by Musk.
Since then, D.O.G.E.-related ideas and accounts have proliferated on Musk’s social media platform X.
Howard Lutnick, chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, spoke immediately before Musk on Sunday, then introduced the X owner to the rally crowd.
“We set up D.O.G.E.,” Lutnick said to Musk. “How much do you think we can rip out of this wasted $6.5 trillion Harris-Biden budget?”
“Well I think we could do at least $2 trillion,” the X owner replied.
Having pledged to tame the federal leviathan, Musk earned raucous chants of “E-lon! E-lon!”
In fact, to illustrate the D.O.G.E. idea’s popularity on X, here is a shorter clip of the same exchange from an account called “DogeDesigner,” which, as of Monday morning, had more than 935,000 followers:
Elon Musk on D.O.G.E:
“I think we can reduce the annual federal budget by atleast $2 trillion per year. Your tax money is being wasted and the Department of Government Efficiency is going to fix that.” pic.twitter.com/isu5ZHOaGz
— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) October 27, 2024
In an 1819 letter, Jefferson referred to his first election as the “revolution of 1800.”
At the turn of the 19th century, voters overwhelmingly rejected a Federalist program of aristocratic governance, censorship, war and consolidation. Nowadays, we would characterize consolidation as “big government.”
Thus, Jefferson called the voters’ rejection of Federalism “as real a revolution in the principles of our government as that of 76, was in it’s form; not effected indeed by the sword, as that, but by the rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.”
A Trump victory, featuring a Musk-led assault on federal spending, would qualify as an 1800-style revolution in government principles.
Of course, no one would resist that assault with more ferocity than the bureaucrats of the deep state.
Last year, U.S. News & World Report ranked America’s 15 wealthiest counties by median household income. Incredibly, suburbs of Washington, D.C., occupied five of the top ten spots on the list.
In other words, deep-state actors have grown rich and powerful at the expense of ordinary Americans.
A transfer of wealth on that scale can only happen through criminal levels of confiscation. After all, people connected to the federal government can only get rich via taxation or inflationary spending.
Americans have had enough. Now, Trump and Musk stand poised to carry out another peaceful revolution.
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