Tag Archives: DrainTheSwamp

Jun 9 2021

Biden’s Attack on the Press – Same as Lenin


Armstrong Economics Blog/Press Re-Posted Jun 8, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

The Washington Post and New York Times should look at history. They may have waged war to get rid of Trump and cheered all night long when Biden was declared the winner. But little did they realize that those in Washington behind the curtain pulling all the strings in the Biden Administration are not about to allow the press to do to them what they willingly did to Trump should they suddenly wake up and smell the red stain Marxist roses. Fred Ryan, a publisher of The Washington Post, has come out complaining about Biden’s attack upon the press that helped him get in power.

Journalists are suddenly discovering that they are being targeted aggressively under the new Biden Administration. Biden’s Justice Department has pursued subpoenas for reporters’ email logs issued to Google, which operates the New York Times’ email systems. Biden’s Administration has even imposed a gag order compelling a New York Times’ attorney to keep remain silent about the fact that federal authorities were seeking to seize his colleagues’ records. Biden has even barred the New York Times executives from discussing the legal battle with the New York Times’ newsroom, which means they cannot even report when is going on. So much for freedom of the press and the First Amendment.

In November the Bolshevik government issued the Decree on the Press which closed down many opposition media outlets which were deemed counter-revolutionary; the decree was widely criticized, including by many Bolsheviks themselves, for compromising freedom of the press although the Council of People’s Commissars ( Sovnarkom) said that the measure would only be temporary, which was a lie. (Pipes, Richard (1990). The Russian Revolution: 1899–1919 id/pp. 521–522; London: Collins Harvill. ISBN 978-0-679-73660-8.)

I find it ironic that people send hate mail and say I am manipulating the world because what I forecast always unfolds. I think if you simply read history and understand that human nature remains the same throughout the ages, just maybe you will see that the LEFT always acts in the very same manner because to them, only they are right, and to achieve their UTOPIA means that they must suppress everyone else. How do you think the killing of over 200 million people in the last Communist Revolutions and wars was justified? They also argue that the resistance must be crushed to reach the promised land of Karl Marx.

Jun 9 2021

President Trump Reaffirms Intent to Campaign Against Lisa Murkowski


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on June 8, 2021 | Sundance | 44 Comments

In a statement released yesterday President Donald Trump reaffirms his intention to campaign against Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski next year.  As President Trump notes the energy policy of the Biden administration is directly against the interests of Alaskan residents; yet, Murkowski does nothing to protect her constituents.

PRESIDENT TRUMP – “Senator Lisa Murkowski has cost the great people of Alaska billions and billions of dollars by voting for Radical Left Biden appointees, which in turn led to the revocation of ANWR drilling, which Alaskans have been fighting to see happen for six decades. Not only did Murkowski kill the biggest economic stimulant for the State, but also one of the biggest energy producing sites in the world.

Nobody thought ANWR could be opened. We got it done, and she allowed it to be killed. She’s the best friend Washington Democrats ever had—and Alaska’s reward for that betrayal is an empowered Left coming after their wealth and jobs. I think she will be met very harshly by the Alaska voters in 15 months, and I will be there to campaign against her!”  (LINK)

This is the third time President Trump has advocated for the primary removal of Murkowski.

Jun 9 2021

State Reps from Wisconsin, Alaska, Georgia and Virginia Traveling to Arizona to Review Forensic Ballot Audit Process


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on June 8, 2021 | Sundance | 230 Comments

Last week a group of representatives from Pennsylvania toured the Arizona facility conducting the Maricopa County audit.  According to Griselda Zetino from KTAR, today a contingent from Alaska (including David Eastman), and one from Georgia (Burt Jones and Brandon Beach) are doing the same.

Additionally, Zetino is reporting that state reps from Wisconsin and Virginia are also expected to travel to Arizona and tour the process for conducting a forensic ballot audit of the 2020 election.

At last count the Arizona auditors had reviewed 1.6 million of the 2.1 million ballots.

Jun 9 2021

Inappropriate Laughter, Kamala Harris Cannot Respond to Border Visit Question


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on June 8, 2021 | Sundance | 253 Comments

There is absolutely nothing, not one thing, in the curriculum vitae of Kamala Harris that qualifies her for any elected office; she genuinely is not intelligent, coherent, or able to think rationally about issues or events.  Some have likened her to the “female Obama”, but that’s unfair to Obama.  Harris is even more profoundly over-her-head than Obama was.  At least Obama had the skillset to be able to fake it in public.

Harris’s tell is the introduction of laughter, inappropriate laughter, cringeworthy awkwardness, when she is in the uncomfortable position of having to articulate any issue of importance that she just doesn’t comprehend.  Harris has soundbites, rehearsed talking points, that she has trained herself to remember during public engagements.  However, as soon as someone pushes her on the details of those talking points… she stutters, stammers and eventually starts laughing as a deflection.  It is the most transparently obvious trait of a ‘poser’ without any qualification for the position.  Stunningly so.

In this softball interview with Lester Holt on the Today Show the host simply asked her about why she hasn’t visited the U.S. border with Mexico during the crisis taking place with illegal immigration.  Her response is cringe. Watch [Video at 4:30 prompted]

The transparency of her ineptitude is why she couldn’t gain more than 3% support during the Democrat presidential primary.  However, her installation on the ticket was directly because she is from the stable of Obama’s toolbox.  Harris has no capacity for independent or original thought.  A total lack of intellect.  Stunning how so many leftists can see this and yet they must pretend they do not.

Again, David Mamet famously said… In order to advance the ideology of the far-left, the entire apparatus around the fraud must pretend not to know things. Kamala Harris is a walking personification of people pretending not to know she is a total idiot in the world of governance.  I can only imagine the private conversations amid world leaders who are looking at this.

Jun 8 2021

DOJ Says it Seized $2.3 Million in Bitcoin from Colonial Pipeline Hackers


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on June 7, 2021 | Sundance | 185 Comments

Sketchy doesn’t begin to describe this DOJ narrative.

According to their press release the DOJ seized 63.7 Bitcoin (digital currency) through accessing a server in North Carolina used to enter the Bitcoin wallet password of the original hackers.  However, the DOJ still claims the “hackers” were sophisticated Russian operatives.  Meaning the “Russian Hackers” were so sophisticated they could hack a major gas pipeline, but not sophisticated enough to protect their wallet and hosted it online on a US based server?

DOJ […] approximately 63.7 bitcoins, representing the proceeds of the victim’s ransom payment, had been transferred to a specific address, for which the FBI has the “private key,” or the rough equivalent of a password needed to access assets accessible from the specific Bitcoin address. (read more)

Doesn’t this seem like either the private key wasn’t private, or the FBI was the original hacker of the pipeline?

WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice today announced that it has seized 63.7 bitcoins currently valued at approximately $2.3 million. These funds allegedly represent the proceeds of a May 8, ransom payment to individuals in a group known as DarkSide, which had targeted Colonial Pipeline, resulting in critical infrastructure being taken out of operation. The seizure warrant was authorized earlier today by the Honorable Laurel Beeler, U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of California.

“Following the money remains one of the most basic, yet powerful tools we have,” said Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco for the U.S. Department of Justice. “Ransom payments are the fuel that propels the digital extortion engine, and today’s announcement demonstrates that the United States will use all available tools to make these attacks more costly and less profitable for criminal enterprises. We will continue to target the entire ransomware ecosystem to disrupt and deter these attacks. Today’s announcements also demonstrate the value of early notification to law enforcement; we thank Colonial Pipeline for quickly notifying the FBI when they learned that they were targeted by DarkSide.”

“There is no place beyond the reach of the FBI to conceal illicit funds that will prevent us from imposing risk and consequences upon malicious cyber actors,” said FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate. “We will continue to use all of our available resources and leverage our domestic and international partnerships to disrupt ransomware attacks and protect our private sector partners and the American public.” (full press release)

Jun 7 2021

Is Being Canceled a Badge of Honor?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Opinion Re-Posted Jun 7, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: I find myself canceled. I think this is a new badge of honor!

Anonymous

REPLY: I fully agree. We are being targeted the same as those targeted by Stalin because he feared what they too thought and might be able to overthrow him. The New York Times supported Stalin as well.

Jun 7 2021

Reminder, The Chinese Communist Party List of U.S. Governors They Can Influence


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on June 6, 2021 | Sundance | 117 Comments

With increased attention on what organizations are under the influence of China (Hollywood, Big Tech etc.); and with a growing realization of U.S. politicians purchased by Chinese influence, it is worth revisiting a speech made by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo directly to an assembly of U.S. Governors who were on the 2020 CCP influence list.

Pompeo’s remarks were made to the National Governors Association (NGA) Feb 8, 2020; and there’s an interesting segment where Pompeo reveals his awareness of a list of U.S. governors compiled by China’s communist party; and their alignment with China’s interests. A transcript of the key excerpt from his speech is provided. WATCH:

[Transcript at 01:45] […] “Last year, I received an invitation to an event that promised to be, quote, “an occasion for exclusive deal-making.” It said, quote, “the opportunities for mutually beneficial economic development between China and our individual states [are] tremendous,” end of quote.”

“Deal-making sounds like it might have come from President Trump, but the invitation was actually from a former governor.

I was being invited to the U.S.-China Governors’ Collaboration Summit.

It was an event co-hosted by the National Governors Association and something called the Chinese People’s Association For Friendship and Foreign Countries. Sounds pretty harmless.

What the invitation did not say is that the group – the group I just mentioned – is the public face of the Chinese Communist Party’s official foreign influence agency, the United Front Work Department.

Now, I was lucky. I was familiar with that organization from my time as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

But it got me thinking.

How many of you made the link between that group and Chinese Communist Party officials?

What if you made a new friend while you were at that event?

What if your new friend asked you for introductions to other politically connected and powerful people?

What if your new friend offered to invest big money in your state, perhaps in your pension, in industries sensitive to our national security?

These aren’t hypotheticals. These scenarios are all too true, and they impact American foreign policy significantly.

Indeed, last year, a Chinese Government-backed think tank in Beijing produced a report that assessed all 50 of America’s governors on their attitudes towards China. They labeled each of you “friendly,” “hardline,” or “ambiguous.”

I’ll let you decide where you think you belong. Someone in China already has. Many of you, indeed, in that report are referenced by name.

So here’s the lesson: The lesson is that competition with China is not just a federal issue. It’s why I wanted to be here today, Governor Hogan. It’s happening in your states with consequences for our foreign policy, for the citizens that reside in your states, and indeed, for each of you.

And, in fact, whether you are viewed by the CCP as friendly or hardline, know that it’s working you, know that it’s working the team around you.

Competition with China is happening inside of your state, and it affects our capacity to perform America’s vital national security functions.” (Keep Reading)

Secretary Pompeo, noting his prior role as CIA director, fired a shot across the bow of the governors with those remarks. Subtle as a brick through a window… letting them know of the Trump administration awareness of their Chinese influence.

To provide more information, Axios had an article earlier in 2020  and included the Chinese Communist Party Report [Cloud pdf Here]

Jun 6 2021

Biden, Trump & More Insanity


Armstrong Economics Blog/Disease Re-Posted Jun 6, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

I am sure that Joe Biden made another huge gaff. He actually just said that nobody making less than $400,000 will not pay a penny in tax. I’m sure he meant they will not pay “more” but I would love to see him put that in an executive order. Everyone who even gets $500,000 in a salary should immediately take a pay cut to $399,999.99 and have no taxes.

Then we have Trump’s latest message that the Republicans will take back the Senate and House and the White House sooner than anyone expects. There is no doubt that the fraud in Georgia alone could reverse a single seat in the Senate and stop all the insanity that is more likely than not going to lead to armed conflict. Between taxes, threatening the Supreme Court, and reversing the ban on government-paid abortions, is simply touching too many points from economics to religion and this thin veil of a majority of 50.4% will not hold.

Mike Lindell has been canceled, blocked, and everything but assassinating him because he has been funding an investigation into the election fraud. While he says it will have to be a 9-0 vote at the Supreme Court, he still has to get there and assume they would hear the case.

Then the Supreme Court is also sending a warning to the Democrats who seem to portray that simply because a Republican appoint a justice they will only vote the party line. That is how Capital Hill works and they assume the same is true in the Supreme Court – or do they? It was Chief Justice Roberts who saved Obamacare against other Republican Justices. Now in this latest decision Justices Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh sided with liberal Supreme Court justices in a computer fraud case. The vote breakdown pitted the three Trump-appointed justices and the court’s three liberals against the three more senior Republican-appointed justices: Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.

The case is focused on a narrow issue of statutory interpretation rather than the broad constitutional issues that animate much of the hot-button debate around the Supreme Court. The justices overturned the conviction of a police officer, Nathan Van Buren, who was paid to run a license plate search in violation of the police department’s policy. The prosecutors charged him under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Justices Barrett keenly wrote that he had access so he did not hack into the computer getting things he was not allowed. Instead, he was guilty of abuse of his position, but not the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

I fully agree. This is how prosecutors abuse the law. If this case stood, then everything in the world of computers could be a fraud. Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote that The government’s reading would criminalize everything from embellishing an online dating profile to using a pseudonym on Facebook. I find that I rarely agree with Alito or Roberts despite that they are Republicans.

Then we have Schumer pushing to allow anyone without ID to vote is insane and with same-day registration. That is simply saying everyone in Mexico can freely vote in the United States as can all Europeans and Canadaians. While we’re at it, both China and Russia can legally vote.

Then we have the emails of Dr. Fauci and his March Madness game of joking about deaths is just mind-blowing. Has anyone bothered to report on the consent forms you need to sign waiving all your rights and acknowledging that this is an “experimental vaccine” which not approved! Right there it is telling you this is NOT long-term tested or approved. How many times do they make recalls of products such as food, dog food, and even cars because it was later discovered there was a mistake. How will they recall a vaccine? The CDC director pleads with teens to get vaccinated.

Just because these drug companies say it’s safe for 12-year olds, I do not buy it. I’m sorry, but these people in the Biden Administration will NEVER admit there has been any mistake. We have to get government out of this Gates/Schwab agenda. Humanity may be on the line.

Jun 6 2021

America First Legal Scores Victory, Biden Administration Cancels Race-Based COVID Relief Fund


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on June 5, 2021 | Sundance | 91 Comments

Stephen Miller organized the America-First Legal group to challenge unconstitutional rules and laws initiated by Democrats in congress and the JoeBama administration.  Yesterday they scored a major victory after the DOJ told a federal court it would drop the race-based rules for COVID relief funding.

A1stLegal – “WASHINGTON, DC – The Biden Administration told a federal court yesterday that it will no longer give preferential treatment to select racial groups when awarding relief under the Restaurant Revitalization Fund. It also told the court that it will work to undo any preferences that it illegally conferred on so-called “priority” racial group applicants during the first 21 days of the program. This is a major victory for equal rights under law and a repudiation of the odious and unconstitutional racial preferences that have consistently found their way into the Biden Administration’s COVID-relief efforts.”

[…] “AFL President Stephen Miller issued the following statement:

“We are pleased that the Biden Administration has abandoned this unconstitutional and racially discriminatory scheme in response to our lawsuit. But we will never be satisfied until the Biden Administration recognizes and accepts its constitutional obligations to treat American citizens equally and without regard to race in every aspect of government. It has been clear from the beginning of the Administration that President Biden intends to implement an illegal regime of race preferences across all of society – AFL will fight this unconstitutional obsession every step of the way.” (LINK)

Jun 6 2021

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp Greeted by Crowd of Boos During Appearance at GOP State Convention


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on June 5, 2021 | Sundance | 107 Comments

Apparently the republicans in Georgia are not very happy with Governor Brian Kemp for blocking audits into transparent election fraud within the state.

During his introduction to the delegates at the GOP convention yesterday the Georgia governor was greeted by jeers and boos from the crowd.

It should be noted Brian Kemp is in charge of the voter integrity initiative within the Republican Governor’s Association (RGA), and recently requested that Mike Lindell be blocked from attending the conference in Tennessee.