President Trump is scheduled to deliver remarks to the audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC 2020) this afternoon. The speech was initially scheduled at 3:00pm ET; however, there is a delay due to earlier press briefing.
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By Ray DiLorenzo —— Bio and Archives—February 29, 2020
Re-Posted from The Canada Free Press
“When you dance with the devil, you don’t get to pick the tune.”—Sherrilyn Kenyon
All you Democrats…you entertained the hard left, beckoned them, invited them in to your ‘big tent’. You thought you could use them, manipulate them, and control them. You thought they cared. You thought you were so cool, playing world-class politics, having a slick answer for everything.
You have been had and you deserve it.
You are about to be taken over by hard-core communists, led by a ne’er-do-well, odious, atheist, corrupt politician, having never had a steady private-sector job in his life. He spent much of his pre-political career collecting unemployment checks, thrown out of a hippie commune for not pulling his weight… had a brief stint as a porn writer, and voted against a crackdown on pedophiles and internet child porn as late as 2003.
He managed to convince the city of Burlington, to hire him as their mayor at the age of 39. In the state of Vermont yet, the ‘Freedom and Unity’ state. Doesn’t say much for mottos anymore.
He was more honest than you were. He never pretended to be anything else. He honeymooned in the Soviet Union, was smitten by Fidel Castro, and you still wanted him…or was it his supporters you wanted? To add insult to your injury, he is not even a Democrat. But, he says he is now. He is defining your party with every other Democrat candidate now trying to deny their socialist leanings except maybe Bloomberg whose comfort zone is to just pay cash for the office and get a receipt. I’m not that sure you disagree with the senator all that much, it’s just his candor you hate. A fine mess you’ve gotten into.
You Democrats have much to answer for, a chance to remedy past sins…slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation…de jour and de facto, KKK lynchings, voting rights for blacks and women, voter fraud, a lousy education system, unrestricted abortion, open borders, free speech restrictions, the erasing of your history, fake dossiers. You enticed the poor and blacks with free stuff, absolving black fathers of any responsibility. It was never about people, was it? It was about votes and power. You beguiled many and kept them right where you wanted them…dependent on you in exchange for votes.
You are now scrambling to get rid of him, not the fictional Democratic Socialist, but the Marxist Communist sicko that you know he is. You danced with him and now you want to call it a night. The hard left he leads is aroused, smelling victory, and you think you can just dismiss them out of hand. Think again. It just might be too late. Your priorities for too long have been misplaced and you are now reaping the whirlwind
You’re in a panic and it shows
You will try desperately to attempt the ‘it’s not you, it’s me’ routine. But, the Devil will not let you go so fast. He will blow the trumpet to his supporters, of which they are now legion, and they will hear the charge. I will bet that you will continue your out-of-step dance lest you lose a large segment of your tent. You will play all sides, hoping for the best, leaving a nation wondering what you stand for. The dance could easily take you over the cliff.
Yes, you did have a brief shining moment, but it was a long time ago, and it has since been another downhill slide. You have long squandered any trust you had as a viable political party in this country. You need a winner and you finally realize it is not him, nor any other candidate you have to offer. You’re in a panic and it shows.
You have a choice…keep on your present course and face oblivion, or stop the nonsense, show the nation your loyalty is first to your country, and everything it stands for and come back home to the country you say you love.
Quite a bit to unpack here, and most of it is very good news. First, this re-nomination was almost predictable when you look at the totality of the landscape:
President Trump needed to generate an official DNI nomination in order to retain the current acting DNI authorities for Richard “Ric” Grenell; so that’s one aspect.
However, beyond the procedural move there’s the larger background of the FISA reauthorization; and, in my opinion, that larger dynamic is the majority consideration.
The FISA reauthorization and the need for President Trump to support any type of reauthorization that eventually gets through the complex political dynamics within congress; and considering Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell traveled to the White House to discuss this issue yesterday; the outcome is considerable leverage for Trump.
On July 28, 2019, President Trump first nominated John Ratcliffe for the ODNI position to replace former DNI Dan Coats. However, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence headed by Chairman Richard Burr and Vice-Chairman Mark Warner, informed the White House they would not support Ratcliffe. Burr and Warner would not have made such a bold statement to undercut the nomination without approval from Mitch McConnell.
The epicenter of the deepest defensive mechanism of the Deep State is the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI). The SSCI is the bunker, the intelligence manipulation operations headquarters. The SSCI is where the political nuclear weapons (black files and IC gathered political surveillance research) are housed. As a direct consequence the SSCI is the most corrupt and manipulative committee in all of congress. The SSCI also controls all nominations within the intelligence community (DNI, CIA, NSA, DOJ-NSD, etc).
As a result of Senator Burr and Senator Warner undermining Ratcliffe, on August 2, 2019, the Ratcliffe nomination was reluctantly withdrawn.
After the Ratcliffe nomination was withdrawn, President Trump was then dragged into the House impeachment effort. In hindsight it is clear the SSCI position of Burr and Warner was partly due to their desire to watch and see whether the impeachment effort would be successful. [August ’19 through February ’20 the impeachment effort was tried.]
Representative John Ratcliffe was/is a key member of the House who has investigated the details of the DOJ and FBI intelligence abuse during the 2016 election. Factually, Ratcliffe is one of only four high-clearance House members who had seen all of the unredacted and classified documents associated with the DOJ and FBI activity. [Ratcliffe, Gowdy, Goodlatte and Schiff]
In November of 2019 buried deep in the congressional budget Continuing Resolution (CR) was a short-term extension to reauthorize the FISA “business records provision”, the “roving wiretap” provision, the “lone wolf” provision, and the more controversial bulk metadata provisions [Call Detail Records (CDR)], all parts of the Patriot Act. As a result of the FISA CR inclusion the terminal deadline was pushed to March 15, 2020.
On December 9, 2019, the DOJ Inspector General report on FISA abuse was released to the public. Within the IG FISA report the prior statements of John Ratcliffe about the FISA abuse scandal were proven to be exactly correct. Additionally, the severity of the FISA abuse, including the intentional manipulation of evidence by the FBI, was far more serious and substantive than anyone thought.
While the FISA issues were being investigated congress punted the reauthorization of FISA to March 15. There is a current debate on whether those FISA authorities should be reauthorized.
Representatives requesting FISA reform prior to renewal include: Mark Meadows, Jim Jordan, Doug Collins, Jody Rice, Devin Nunes and Steve Scalise. Additionally, Senator Mike Lee and Senator Rand Paul are trying to force reform or let the current version expire. However, Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell, along with AG Bill Barr, want a clean FISA renewal without public hearings….
It is into this debate where President Trump’s support becomes critical. Yesterday:
Within the overall dynamic we can see where President Trump would gain leverage on Senate Leader Mitch McConnell over the FISA reauthorization issue. McConnell wants FISA reauthorized… President Trump wants John Ratcliffe as ODNI.
With that in mind, CTH presented the possibility:
Should Trump cut a deal with McConnell: Support for FISA reauthorization in exchange for Ratcliffe as ODNI? As you can see from our poll opinions were split with a slight advantage toward making the deal.
Personally, inasmuch as I hate-hate-hate the thought of FISA being renewed in its current context, I am cautiously okay with a deal because I trust current CIA Director Gina Haspel, current ICIG Michael Atkinson, current DoS Secretary Mike Pompeo and current DoD Joint Chief’s Chair Mark Milley, about as far as I can spit while facing a hurricane.
Having John Ratcliffe as ODNI at least provides President Donald Trump with control at the intelligence hub. If DNI Ratcliffe can then help to remove corrupt schemer Michael Atkinson (ICIG), even better.
The position of DNI is critical within the intelligence community. Essentially the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is the boss of the CIA Director and NSA Director; and the ODNI handles the flow of classified intelligence; and, importantly, the declassification of information to provide public sunlight.
In the position of DNI John Ratcliffe would have the ability to reach out into any intelligence compartment, retrieve and then declassify any/all documents that might be used to show the gross abuses of power by prior intelligence officials. [Acting DNI Ric Grenell also has that current authority.] The information within reach is the risk SSCI Chairman Senator Burr and Vice-Chair Warner have attempted to control.
It is likely President Trump would NOT be nominating John Ratcliffe today if he did not have the support of Mitch McConnell; and McConnell’s assurances the SSCI would not attempt to block the nomination this time.
Yes, it is possible President Trump would make the nomination without McConnell’s nod. However, that approach would mean Trump is about to enter an all-out war against Republicans in the Senate….. not terribly likely in an election year.
What is most likely is that President Trump used the leverage he carries within the FISA authorization issue to get McConnell to agree to the deal: FISA for Ratcliffe.
Now we wait to see the details; whether it’s a short-term FISA reauthorization, and what are the changed terms -if any- within the authority.
Tonight President Trump heads to North Charleston, SC, to hold another Keep America Great rally at the North Charleston Coliseum & Performing Arts Center. President Trump is expected to speak at 7:00pm EST. Livestreams below:
RSBN Livestream Link – Donald Trump Campaign Link – Fox News Link
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Despite the intense doomsayer predictions surrounding the ‘Coronavirus as an economic contagion’ narrative, the U.S. economy remains strong. When evaluating economic impacts for the USA it is important to remember 80 percent of all activity within the U.S. is internal. We create and consume eighty percent of our own production.
The U.S. economy is unique in the amount of balance within it as compared to other industrial economies. We are not dependent on exports to sustain our economy; and we are not dependent on any imports at the macro level. Unlike China, Asia and Europe, and despite decades of efforts by globalists and multinationals, the U.S. generates and sustains a tremendous amount of our own economic prosperity. First the January data:
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reveals data today showing January wage growth .5%, personal income increases .6%, consumer spending at .2%; overall U.S. savings at $1.33 trillion, and low inflation at 1.7 percent year-over-year. Solid and stable.
Both consumer spending (+.2 Jan) and inflation (1.6% Jan) were impacted by lower energy prices (-.7%) & mild weather in January. Reuters spins the lower rate of spending growth to imply a contracting U.S. consumer; there is no data to support that narrative.
The Commerce Department said the goods trade deficit contracted 4.6% to $65.5 billion in January. Goods imports tumbled 2.2% last month and exports dropped 1.0%. This is not necessarily surprising as manufacturing companies have started more long-term supply chain changes in the latter part of last year.
Obviously economic activity in China is severely impacted by the Coronavirus issues. The level of their impact is not yet quantified; however, any economic contraction within China can have impacts on downstream economies based on their level of dependency.
As an example the European economy is heavily dependent on China for delivery of products and for Beijing to purchase industrial goods from the EU.
The EU focus on climate change (to the exclusion of their own economic interests) created a scenario where they strongly curtailed manufacturing of some dirty industrial goods (ex. steel) and instead started to purchase more of their needs from China.
As a result of these EU political decisions; and within this EU process; the pollution was shifted away from Europe along with the production. However, the outcome is their dependency on China increased. The result: when Beijing sneezes the EU economy catches a cold.
Conversely, the EU is also an export driven economy. Over the past decade EU leaders gave China preferential treatment due to their ‘dirty product’ import needs. China is now a big purchaser of EU products… and when China slows purchasing, again the EU feels the impact more severely.
The U.S. economy is more balanced. As a consumer economy we consume our own production and we have the resources to produce just about everything we need. The America First policy of President Trump is specifically focused to keep this advantage in place; and actually grow the advantage of our natural economic disposition by returning production of major goods prior administrations watch go overseas.
The impact to the overall U.S. economy, from Coronavirus as an economic contagion, is far less than all other industrial economies. However, the impact to U.S. multinationals (Wall St) who are dependent on global transactions, trade & manufacturing, is disproportionate.
Under America-First it was always U.S. manufacturers, those who do business inside our nations’ economy, who saw the greatest benefit. U.S. owned companies doing majority business overseas (ie. Wall Street multinationals) do not gain as much advantage under the America-First programs. The same is true now with a global economic contagion.
Within a global economic contagion the U.S. companies who rely on the internal American cycle to produce, sell and receive income are safe; our internal economy is strong. However, the U.S. multinational companies are again at risk…. hence the stock market.
Sec. Wilbur Ross✔@SecretaryRoss
Today’s data from @BEA_News shows wages for all Americans, as well as consumer spending, rose in January. The @realDonaldTrump Administration continues to produce real results for #AmericanWorkers. https://twitter.com/WhiteHouseCEA/status/1233043998446694405 …
CEA✔@WhiteHouseCEA
Unlike under the previous administration, African American workers’ wages are rising FAST under @realDonaldTrump. And African American unemployment and poverty rates fell to historic lows
Read more here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/the-trump-economy-benefits-historically-disadvantaged-americans/ …
One of the biggest donors behind the Democrats is Bernard Schwartz who is the CEO of BLS Investments. Schwartz has been trying to plead with Pelosi to support someone in hopes of stopping Bernie Sanders. The Democrats are in turmoil. This is what you get with the socialist agenda that boils down to publicly bribing people to vote for them for the free stuff they intend to rob with a pen from other people.
We really need a class action to be filed and taken to the Supreme Court against socialism. It is an affront to everything else the Constitution stands for. You cannot have Equal Protection of the Law if you are allowed to discriminate based on what someone earns. If it is illegal to discriminate against gender, race, or religion, then why is it suddenly OK to hate someone because they have more than you?
If the Ten Commandments prohibits socialism, then this not only violates the Equal Protection of the Law, but it violates the First Amendment and the foundation of Judaeo-Christian beliefs. When will lawyers stand up for the people and simply use GoFundMe to raise money, for surely they will not donate their time even to save their own ass.
I have written before that it is UNCONSTITUTIONAL to impose discrimination in tax rates. The left will immediately scream that the rich deserve to be destroyed. To them, I say go to California and separate from the rest of the country. They hate the rich but will never look at the opposite side of the coin. Why is the lifestyle of the average person declining? It is not because someone else makes more than they do. It is because the politicians are lining their pockets and then the majority of people are too stupid to figure out who really is to blame. It is like someone robs your house. You come home and they get arrested. It is not their fault, but yours because you should not have come home.
If we do not outlaw this dangerous dialog, we will see the destruction of the United States, as was the case with Russia. There will be blood in the streets, and the future of our children utterly destroyed!
Today, President Donald J. Trump will discuss his Administration’s success in empowering members of the African-American community.
WH Livestream Link – NBC Livestream Link – Alternate Livestream
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Bernie Sanders has momentum on his side. His promise of free stuff is just too tempting for many who have not learned the lessons of history.
Bernie calls it socialism, but rest assured he is still well rooted in Marxism. Whatever nomenclature the old hippie prefers, socialism is asking for trouble. It always ends in failure, poverty, tyranny, and suffering. It’s a lesson of history his supporters seem to have forgotten or never bothered to learn.
Some Trump supporters want Bernie to win the nomination because they know that he and his socialist platform will be easily defeated. Many in the Democratic establishment abhor the thought of Bernie as their nominee because they also know he can’t win. They’ve already concocted a variation in their Russia conspiracy theory. They say Putin is now pulling strings to get Sanders is nominated, thus assuring the reelection of his puppet, Trump. The Swamp just won’t give up on the ‘Russia Russia Russia!’ conspiracy claptrap no matter how many times it has thoroughly been debunked.
I don’t want Bernie nominated. Such an event will only make future socialists seem more acceptable. The ongoing drift toward socialism is just too darned dangerous. We need smaller and less obtrusive government, not socialists bureaucrats micro managing every aspect of our lives. Can’t have anyone hurting B Control freaks such as Bernie want to steal our labor via taxes and then redistribute it as he and his functionaries see fit. You can bet he will still have his three houses, though—and perhaps more. Yes, he’ll want to live in a luxurious dacha while sending those who resist into gulags.
Free speech would end in order to achieve Bernie’s ’social justice.’ During the debate in South Carolina, Bernie was actually booed and he didn’t like it! If he had his way, booing socialism would be against the law. He would make sure hate speech laws got enacted and enforced. Guns would be confiscated. Can’t have citizens fighting back when private property is outlawed.
Bernie offers us a terrible conflagration that will be fueled by the loss of our freedom. Millions of people died due to communist tyranny in the 20th Century. The cold ashes of history should not be forgotten.
—Ben Garrison
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