Reason for White House Panic, Biden Approval Rating Plummets – 39% Approval on Economy, 26% Approval on Afghanistan Withdrawal, Support Amid Independent Voters Abysmal


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on August 24, 2021 | Sundance | 214 Comments

If the White House appears to be running around in a panic that’s because they are.  The USA Today/Suffolk polling shows a massive collapse in Joe Biden approval far below anything previously registered for President Trump.

According to the reports of polling outcome, overall approval for Biden is 41% with disapproval at 55%.

Additionally, Biden barely has 50% approval for his handling of the pandemic, but a mere 39% approve of his handling of the economy.  THAT is a major issue what has the potential to infect the entire Democrat platform.

THAT is also why Nancy Pelosi is pushing the agenda so hard right now.  They have lost the American public and the tsunami consequences are creating massive voter backlash.

According to USA today, “while he has held the backing of 87% of Democrats, only 32% of independents say he’s doing a good job,” again, that’s a major problem.

(USA Today) […] Half approved of his handling of the pandemic, 39% of his handling of the economy, 26% of his handling of the Afghan withdrawal.

“Today, President Biden’s overall approval has taken a turn for the worse due to his awful job performance rating on Afghanistan,” said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk Political Research Center. “His approval on immigration and the economy are also upside down. The only issue keeping him remotely in the game is his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, where he is barely at 50%.” (more)

Politically with these collapsing polling numbers it becomes much harder for the leftists to keep the pressure on their more centrist peers.  When the president loses support, the party support for a failing administration starts to weaken.  The party leadership can whip the representatives harder, but each lash draws less and less reaction.

As long as the American people keep dropping support for these failed policies; and there are real checkbook issues with inflation making it impossible for them to ignore; it becomes much harder for Biden to carry any political weight.

That problem has wide consequences as the COVID vaccination propaganda is also starting to blow up in their face.  Keep in mind all of these issues are happening with a U.S. media that is largely still supporting and propping up the Biden administration.  If MSM support starts to soften it will only make things exponentially worse.

Biden Sticks to the Taliban Demanded August 31st Deadline, as CIA Director William Burns Negotiates Payments and Indulgency Fees to Keep Airport Safe During Final Week


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on August 24, 2021 | Sundance | 238 Comments

The term “indulgency fee” is so much more appealing than “extortion“, just ask U.S. Ambassador John Christopher Stevens; oh,…wait. I digress.

It is being reported that CIA Director William Burns flew to Afghanistan to negotiate with Taliban leadership yesterday.  Earlier today,  Joe Biden tells the G7 nations that he is sticking to the August 31st withdrawal deadline imposed by the Taliban who are in control of almost all regions of the country including the capital city of Kabul.

For future reference, remember this CIA meeting with Taliban leadership in case the administration ever tries to say we do not negotiate with terrorists.  The Biden administration doesn’t have a choice.  The Taliban circle the airport in Kabul. The Taliban have U.S. made advanced technology surface-to-air missiles (SAMS) that we left with the Afghan army before their defeat.   As a consequence, the Taliban could easily begin shooting down any airplane attempting to take-off or land from the airport…

Hence… CIA Director Burns is almost certainly negotiating payment terms with the Taliban for safe passage.  We can only imagine how much money the Biden administration is paying the Taliban leadership to permit ongoing operations at the Kabul airport.   Think about how much Biden would pay to avoid the optics of a U.S. airplane carrying hundreds of Americans being blown out of the sky on CNN and BBC news.   That is how much we are paying.

Biden is telling everyone at the G7 he is sticking to the August 31st deadline date.  Biden addressed the leaders on the call for about seven minutes. The NATO allies are worried they will not be able to get their people out.  However, undoubtedly the extraction of Americans and allies AFTER August 31st is part of the agreement between the CIA (on behalf of Biden) and Taliban leaders.

The Taliban are not stupid, they have all the leverage in this dynamic.  The Taliban know this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to gain massive ransom payments without the international media visibility of physically holding hostages.  They also know the desperation of the Biden administration to avoid any painful optics.

Earlier today, the Taliban announced they will not permit Afghan nationals to travel to the airport in Kabul.  The Taliban are not going to permit U.S. embassy staff who are Afghan nationals to leave.

BBC is reporting that Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Majahid said: “Afghans should not go to the airport or try to leave the country.”  At the press briefing, Zabihullah Mujahid also said, “Women should stay at home for now, for their safety.”  The Taliban spokesman added it would be a “violation” of the agreement to allow evacuations of foreign nationals beyond the 31st of August.

This is the problem with, and motive for, the Biden administration refusing to quantify the number of Americans and SIV’s who remain in Afghanistan.  As long as the American public do not know how many are there, the administration can use any arbitrary number to claim they have all been removed regardless of their actual disposition.

If you don’t think a Democrat administration is willing to sacrifice a few thousand pesky Americans to save themselves the political issues of their abandonment; and if you think the Democrats are genuinely worried about the disposition of Afghan nationals that will likely be killed silently by Taliban enforcers….  please, remind yourself of Benghazi.

2012 Ron Paul Revere


Posted originally on GrrrGraphics.com on AUG 21, 2021 AT 11:43 AM

It was Ron Paul’s birthday last week so we are celebrating with a classic Ron Paul Cartoon from 2012

Original Post from 2012

Ron Paul may not win the election (it has been rigged against him), but we hope he stays in the race to communicate messages the MSM are ignoring.

That is, the country has been taken over by global banks, multi-national corporations and the military-industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us about. Ron Paul has raised awareness of the Federal Reserve and the fascist system it has produced. Corrupt money and politicians have destroyed the Republic.

Wealth and power have been concentrated into the hands of a global elite. Some may say it’s a conspiracy theory, but fascism is already here. Like Nazi Germany, we can be stopped without reason and we must produce papers. We are  searched without probable cause. The 4th Amendment is all but dead. They are going after freedom of speech next. Then the guns.

We must not willingly give them up.

Ron Paul is a modern-day Paul Revere. He has been warning us for years that fascism was coming. Now it’s here. Many Americans are waking up, but many more need to realize how valuable freedom is and how important it is for everyone to pitch in and help save the Constitution while we can.

Ben Garrison

Déjà vu, Overnight Nancy Pelosi Changes House Rules to Pass Green New Deal $3.5 Trillion Spending Package While Everyone Distracted by Afghanistan


Posted originally on the conservative Tree house on August 24, 2021 | Sundance | 145 Comments

If you remember how Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi forced former Representative Bart Stupak and the 19 Blue Dog democrats to cave on the Obamacare construct in 2010, then you have a solid reference point for what Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi are doing right now.

As you are reading this Nancy Pelosi has pulled together her leadership group overnight to change the House rules for legislative passage of the $3.5 trillion Green New Deal spending package under the auspices of “infrastructure.”

This $3.5 trillion spending bill is in addition to the $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill that came from the Senate, and… she is using the $2 trillion budget package as the carrier for a slick “Deem and Pass” maneuver.

As we have seen before, right now Pelosi is changing the House rules to have a single vote on the current budget proposal which will include a ‘deem and pass’ provision that adds the $3.5 trillion Green New Deal spending package to it.

By voting to pass the omnibus budget bill, all House members will also be voting to authorize as passed the additional $3.5 trillion GND as a wraparound.

This means one single vote passes this massive social engineering project with more than $5.5 trillion in spending in a single bill.  Thereafter the House will vote on the Senate bill separately to add another $1.5 trillion, bringing the total spending by the House before they depart to a whopping $7 trillion; forever changing the American landscape.

After several hours of discussion and conference with a group of 10 ‘moderate’ democrats led by New Jersey Representative Josh Gottheimer, shortly before 1:00am ET Pelosi sent the House Democrats home with a pledge to finish the rules changes and prepare for a vote today, Tuesday.   The House will reconvene at noon and the votes will be whipped.

Politico has a breakdown of some insider details surrounding Pelosi’s negotiations with Gottheimer [SEE HERE].  However, in the final analysis it looks like Gottheimer and his ten moderate colleagues are going to end up doing the same thing as Bart Stupak and the Blue Dogs did with Obamacare.  Which means they will likely cave and approve the bill and procedural changes.

WASHINGTON DC – […] Several of the moderates were particularly incensed by a wonky maneuver that would wrap consideration of the ground rules of debate and the budget resolution itself into one vote, rather than the original plan that required two votes to advance the spending bill. After a few of them balked at Pelosi’s initial offer, Gottheimer returned for his second round of meetings with leadership and then shuttled back to his fellow centrists. (more)

Democrats are by nature totalitarian dictators and just like Bart Stupak, Josh Gottheimer is being threatened by Pelosi and House leadership if he doesn’t go along and get his group to vote in support of Pelosi’s massive scheme.   All indications are this group of moderate democrats will not hold up against the massive onslaught of pressure from the leftists now in control of the party.

In the aftermath of ObamaCare Bart Stupak (Michigan) and the entire 19 member blue-dog caucus were wiped out in the 2010 mid-term election; however, by then ObamaCare was cemented.  Democrats actually lost a total of 63 seats in the U.S. House (biggest crushing defeat since 1938) and lost 6 seats in the Senate.  That was the political cost to Democrats, but they won their government takeover of healthcare and college tuition.

The $3.5 trillion Green New Deal/Socialist takeover plan is tracking along an almost identical path to ObamaCare.   Schemes, rule changes and parliamentarian tricks used to get passage ‘by any means necessary‘.

Georgia Republican Representative Barry Loudermilk (GA-11th CD) attempted to send an urgent clarion call for help last night.  WATCH:

Representative Madison Cawthorn Warned by House Chair Not To Insult Dear Leader


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on August 23, 2021 | Sundance | 76 Comments

Representative Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) delivered a very strong speech on the House floor against Joe Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal and the subsequent crisis he has created.   After his remarks, Mr. Cawthorn was warned by the House Chair, not to insult Dear Leader.  WATCH:

ew rules…

Taliban Warns U.S. Not to Extend August 31st Withdrawal Deadline “Or There Will Be Consequences”, Pentagon Says No Idea How Many Americans Need Help


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on August 23, 2021 | Sundance | 249 Comments

A spokesperson for the Taliban in Afghanistan has warned Joe Biden and U.S. military officials not to extend the August 31st withdrawal deadline in an interview with Sky News.

According to the statement from Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen:

It’s a red line. President Biden announced that on ​Aug. 31 they would withdraw all their military forces. So if they extend it, that means they are extending occupation while there is no need for that.  If the US or UK were to seek additional time to continue evacuations — the answer is no. Or there would be consequences​,” Shaheen said, adding that extending the deadline would “create mistrust between us.”​  Prolonging the “occupation will provoke a reaction.”​

Earlier today Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby oddly refused to give an estimate on the number of American citizens still in Afghanistan.  Keep in mind there are scattered Americans all over the country, not just assembled in the area around the capitol city of Kabul.  WATCH this intentional effort at purposeful ambiguity:

A very worrisome picture of the Biden approach to this August 31st deadline issue is emerging.

As long as the Biden administration refuses to put a number on the Americans that need to be rescued; and considering the Taliban have affirmed a deadline date of August 31st with those Biden officials; it becomes possible for the Biden administration to pick an arbitrary number of rescued Americans at the deadline date and then say “mission accomplished.”

It is silly for the administration to continue claiming they have no idea how many Americans are stuck in Afghanistan or in/around the Kabul airport.  They have multiple ways to identify our citizens including those who have reached out to the U.S. Embassy.

Additionally, with the technology available to the military in the region, even identifying the location of the Americans reaching out for help is a simple process of geolocation of their cell phone data.   Go to point “A” at 15:30 and a U.S. retrieval unit will pick you up.  This is not a complex situation.  We have the processes in place to do exactly what is being discussed.  This is not a new challenge being witnessed for the first time.

All of this claimed complexity is transparently false and seemingly designed to obfuscate common sense with a purpose.

The response from Kamala Harris to this exact issue today shows the administration is singularly focused on the political consequences to the Afghanistan crisis.

During a press conference in Singapore with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Kamala Harris was challenged on the U.S. response.  Watch how unprepared Harris is to talk about this issue.  Deflect, distract, deflect.

WEF Announced They Won


Armstrong Economics Blog/WEF Posted Aug 20, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Silently in the background, the elitist manipulators have succeeded in destroying much of the world economy. It was the bourgeoisie they wanted to destroy (middle-class small business owners), and while claiming the problem is inequality, the real objective was created only to wipe out local businesses to end driving around town to save the planet and you will buy or rent everything from the elite class. They are not concerned about “inequality” for they are creating the GREAT DIVIDE between everyone but them being relegated to what Marx called the proletariat or the universal class — the Great Unwashed. They will be very happy as they say in their predictions is we own nothing but somehow we will be happy as if we are living in the real version of Matrix which perhaps was their inspiration.

This new video from Schwab’s World Economic Forum is already declaring a partial victory showing that the objective of the virus lockdowns was really for the Great Reset and climate change agenda. Make no mistake about it; even Al Gore is on the board of the World Economic Forum. These people have conspired to change the world by crushing the economy, and the police are also so stupid to follow orders blindly. They want everyone to work from home: end offices and small businesses. You will buy everything from the giant retailers, and they will be delivered so ending the need to pollute the world by driving to the store or work.

The press, who calls this a “conspiracy theory,” is part of this agenda.

The Great Divide


Armstrong Economics Blog/Great Reset Re-Posted Aug 20, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

The entire COVID agenda has been a pre-staged event; the real agenda has been climate change. Al Gore, who is on the board of the World Economic Forum, ushered in Green Peace’s Jennifer Morgan, who escorted Greta to the Davos meeting to appear in Schwab’s film the Forum, which was intended to push the climate change agenda.

After exploiting Greta, who simply read from prewritten speeches that Morgan probably wrote, their agenda was not catching fire. People were not willing to alter their lives for a problem that was decades from now. They needed something more terrorizing, and that was COVID. They had to threaten people’s lives immediately, not decades in the future.

When we look at Google the news, we do not all get the same results. Big Tech is deliberately not just censoring the news, but they are strategically showing people ONLY what they should read and blocking stories that may be to the contrary. As Julius Caesar once said: people believe what they want to believe. This is dividing the world and causing one side to look at the other side as flaming conspiracy theorists because they are fed different stories that hide the opposition. The AI models being used are feeding people only news that the powers above want them to see. Those who see through the truth are then faced with immediate censorship and banning from mainstream platforms – the cancel culture.

Big Tech is dividing the United States and the entire world. This will only lead to civil wars. Ironically, we will see the US split North v South over the issue of slavery again, but this time the slave owners will be those in government taking orders from the WEF consortium on how to manage the Great Unwashed to further their agenda of the Great Reset.

Conflict in Laws Jacobson violates Human Right to Consent


Armstrong Economics Blog/Rule of Law Re-Posted Aug 21, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

A lot of people have written in to ask if I would explain my position on the legal outcome of forced vaccines. I will try to be a bit more detailed. I see this as a conflict in law at the Supreme Court and how do we argue against Vaccine Passports. It is true that in the case of smallpox, the court ruled that they could force vaccinations of people in the 1905 case of Jacobson v Massachusetts. Smallpox was UNIQUE to humans and creating a vaccine could eradicate it since it did not simultaneously exist in animals. To this day, the origin of smallpox remains a mystery.

We should look at this not as a vaccine but as a medical treatment. If you look at the CDC, they are clearly on this agenda of terrorizing the public and they take money from Gates. The CDC no longer tracks the flu deaths which they have done for decades. They suddenly merged flu and ammonia with COVID because they cannot actually tell the difference in many cases. The flu epidemic has been cured by COVID and the CDC should be subpoena and the person who made this decision should be deposed.

Now for the conflict in law. In Union Pacific Railway Co. v. Botsford, 141 U.S. 250 (1891) an employee was injured claiming a concussion. The company wanted to subject the employee to a medical examination. The Supreme Court denied the company on the grounds that an individual has a basic right to deny medical treatment. They wrote:

“No right is held more sacred or is more carefully guarded by the common law than the right of every individual to the possession and control of his own person, free from all restraint or interference of others unless by clear and unquestionable authority of law. As well said by Judge Cooley: “The right to one’s person may be said to be a right of complete immunity; to be let alone.” Cooley on Torts 29.”

“Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what shall be done with his own body, and a surgeon who performs an operation without his patient’s consent commits an assault, for which he is liable in damages.”

Now, when you go to a doctor, they make you sign a CONSENT form for the medical procedure. We have a right to our own bodies which is in direct CONFLICT with Jacobson. The right to refuse medical treatment is obvious part of the legal requirement that a doctor must have the patient CONSENT. In Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Dept. of Health, 497 U.S. 261 (1990)

The logical corollary of the doctrine of informed consent is that the patient generally possesses the right not to consent, that is, to refuse treatment. Until about 15 years ago and the seminal decision in In re Quinlan, 70 N.J. 10, 355 A.2d 647, cert. denied sub nom. Garger v. New Jersey, 429 U.S. 922 (1976), the number of right-to-refuse-treatment decisions were relatively few. [Footnote 2] Most of the earlier cases involved patients who refused medical treatment forbidden by their religious beliefs, thus implicating First Amendment rights as well as common law rights of self-determination. [Footnote 3] More recently, however, with the advance of medical technology capable of sustaining life well past the point where natural forces would have brought certain death in earlier times, cases involving the right to refuse life-sustaining treatment have burgeoned. See 760 S.W.2d at 412, n. 4 (collecting 54 reported decisions from 1976-1988).

Therefore, it is my OPINION that we have a conflict in law where Jacobson may be what everyone is focusing on because it held you could be forced to take a vaccine, whereas this flies in the face of the established requirement for obtaining CONSENT from a patient to any medical procedure.

As I have said, I am willing to help any lawyer who wants to save the nation from this insanity. If they can force a vaccine to supersede the First Amendment Right to freedom to assembly, then the First Amendment has been repealed. We all know where that will lead and they can create anything and call it a vaccine that is entirely experimental and wipe out the ability to even have children. There is no accountability and we MUST retain our human right to REFUSE any medical procedure.

The Biden Administration is a Joke


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Aug 24, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

The Biden Administration is a complete disaster. As I have said, the Deep State got everything they ever dreamed of — the freedom to do as they like with no president in charge. But there is no position within the Deep State to which any of these agencies need to answer. Therein lies the problem.

The Taliban are religious fanatics. They will NEVER live in harmony with other religions because even on the surface, they do not allow women to be educated, which means no other religious belief will ever be tolerated. This is not much different from the Marxists. They too do not believe in capitalism and demand to regulate what everyone else does. Like the Taliban, the Marxists also cannot sleep at night, as they stay up worrying that someone else may not be doing what they approve.

Both groups are NEVER tolerant of others because they see their own world as threatened by anyone who does not comply. Hence, the Marxists killed probably 200+ million during the Communist revolutions in Russia and China, and they will kill many more this time around thanks to the World Economic Forum that is pushing the same agenda with nice words and empty promises. The Taliban has begun their genocide and will exterminate all who refuse to adopt their view of religion. Their genocide has begun.

The heart-breaking images from Afghanistan show that America does NOT keep its promises. Here is a desperate plea to save their child’s life as a parent hands their infant to a soldier in hopes that they will have a better life.

Anyone who has met Biden can see he is far from being a brilliant leader. There is no light on behind those eyes. Even Osama bin Laden knew that about Biden. Bin Laden previously warned Al Qaeda NOT to target Joe Biden, as the NY Post reports, because he believed that his inheriting the presidency if something were to happen to Barack Obama would “lead the US into a crisis,” a resurfaced letter shows. Of all the people I know, all have a similar opinion that Biden is not a leader and that is not said on a partisan basis. Even Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin openly contradicted Biden within 30 minutes, telling Congress that Americans were beaten by the Taliban.

USA Today reported that the gates at the airport in Kabul were closed. The US Embassy in Kabul warned Americans on Saturday not to travel to the airport without “individual instructions from a US government representative,” because of potential security threats outside the gates. Britain is stunned by Biden’s stupid and “hasty” withdrawal from Afghanistan that has left perhaps more than 20,000 Americans and foreigners trapped in a nation spiraling into civil war. First, Biden said it was 10,000 Americans, which was then revised to 15,000. The sheer incompetency of Biden’s decision will go down in history as the worst probably of any president since 1792.

Yes, two-thirds of Americans wanted out of the war — but not like this. Biden simply looked at the poll and assumed he would be cheered. He told the nation: “I stand squarely behind my decision.” He tried to claim it was Trump’s decision, but Biden has reversed everything Trump decided he could get his hands on. Trump would never have left the country in such a mess with over 20,000 people left behind.

As the news kept getting worse, Biden fled Washington, taking no questions, and ran off to Camp David in hiding. Kamala Harris has remained silent, and sources in Washington are actually talking about impeaching Biden and Harris, but then it would fall to Pelosi. The pessimism in DC is like cancer growing, eating the support for the Biden Administration from within. It is becoming painfully obvious that Biden is incapable of making rational decisions. That is grounds for impeachment. Nobody seems to know what to do from here. Osama bin Laden was correct — Biden would lead the country into chaos. Indeed, now is the time to attack during his watch.

It would be nice if we could write the history of the United States and just end it with Trump’s loss. It is kind of like turning off the TV so the kids don’t watch Old Yeller die in the end. Indeed, even stories with happy endings are sad because they end. Perhaps we have reached that point in history.