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Paul Gottfried contributor to American Greatness: The “antifascist” party coalition Biden plans to build resembles the early stage of the Soviet seizure of power in Eastern Europe after World War II.

Vince Coyner contributor to American Thinker: As Martin Niemöller suggests in his 1946 poem “First they came,” the Nazis were able to accomplish their goals by taking baby steps of oppression with little discernible pushback from a willfully gullible public. So it is that we find ourselves in America in 2022 with fascism ascendant. And unlike what the media would want you to believe, it’s not Donald Trump who’s leading the parade. For just over two years, we’ve seen the evil of fascism take hold as it’s never held sway before.

Daniel Greenfield contributor to Frontpage Magazine: The difference between pathetic and evil lies in the successful use of power. School shooters are pathetic until they manage to kill a dozen kids. The underwear bomber was a joke, but if he had taken down a passenger jet, no one would be laughing. People have been laughing at Biden his entire life. And his inflated ego is tired of it. He may not have much of a brain left, but when you’re already the president, you don’t need much of one to destroy America.

Bruce W. Davidson contributor to Brownstone Institute: In those blessed places that managed to obtain the freedom of individuals from collectivist control, it has taken centuries of struggle. Those who now heedlessly throw that freedom away do not realize what they are doing. As Herbert Hoover once put it, “Salvation will not come to us out of the wreckage of individualism.”

Edward Ring . is a senior fellow of the Center for American Greatness . .the entire “climate crisis” is an opportunistic hoax; the entire “equity” (along with “diversity” and “inclusion”) movement is a corrupt fraud. This hoax and this fraud have permeated and overwhelmed every formerly respectable sector of American life, with disastrous consequences we’ve only just begun to feel.

Nick Gilbertson writing for Breitbart: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) remains silent regarding President Joe Biden’s speech that labeled “MAGA Republicans” a threat to America. Five days after the speech, McConnell has not publicly remarked on Biden’s rhetoric. His office did not respond to several requests for comment from Breitbart News that spanned several days.

Michael Cunningham & Jonathan Butcher reporting for Fox News: Beijing’s influence over U.S. universities is not merely hypothetical. Funding from China is one reason often cited for what observers view as a breakdown in free speech at U.S. institutions.

GREAT GLOBAL RESET

Eugyppius: The Terrifying Vacuity of Klaus Schwab

Schwab’s core idea is that the pandemic will either remake or reset our world, and thus political and corporate leaders have before them a unique opportunity to Build Back Better and make everything more ESG-compliant. All that’s clear enough, but for a man who put the word “reset” in his title, he seems strangely undecided on what the nature of this reset might be, and what role the virus had in bringing it about. In the introduction, for example, we find this string of absurdities: Many of us are pondering when things will return to normal. The short response is: never. Nothing will ever return to the “broken” sense of normalcy that prevailed prior to the crisis because the coronavirus pandemic marks a fundamental inflection point in our global trajectory …. Radical changes of such consequence are coming that some pundits have referred to a “before coronavirus” (BC) and “after coronavirus” (AC) era. … (p. 12)

But then further down on the very same page Schwab’s confidence seems to flag, and he concedes suddenly that “by itself, the pandemic may not completely transform the world,” but might merely “accelerate many of the changes that were already taking place before it erupted.” […] You have the feeling not only of a sad, small man, struggling to play the part of global governance guru, but of his equally pathetic audience of Hillary Clintons and Olaf Scholzes and Emmanuel Macrons, who hear this garbage and somehow manage to find it insightful and wish to be associated with it. What clouded intellectual lives all these people must lead. In his bolder moments, Schwab argues that Corona only happened in the first place because the world didn’t embrace climate change and sustainability and stakeholder capitalism thoroughly enough. Schwab wants you to believe that we’re on the brink of a “global order deficit,” which we’ll need a “geopolitical reset” to remedy:

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Cleveland: Special Master Order Reveals Biden’s Direct Involvement In Trump Raid And Six Other Bombshells

A federal judge on Monday granted former President Donald Trump’s request for the appointment of a special master to review the documents seized by the FBI during a raid on his Mar-a-Lago home last month. Presiding Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, further held that the Department of Justice cannot review or use for criminal investigative purposes any material seized pending the review process. Besides handing Trump a victory in his battle for some oversight of the Biden administration’s digging into his documents, Cannon highlighted several significant facts over the course of her 24-page order that further call into question the DOJ’s targeting of Trump. Here are the seven top-line takeaways: 1. President Biden Was Directly Involved In the order granting Trump’s request for the appointment of a special master, Cannon began by providing a summary of the backdrop that led to the search.

2022 MIDTERM ELECTIONS

Solender: Scoop: McCarthy’s “Commitment to America” rollout

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) will formally unveil a four-part “Commitment to America” in Pittsburgh on Sept. 19 to tell voters why they should vote for Republicans — not just against Democrats — in November, Axios has learned. Why it matters: Remember the GOP’s “Contract with America” in 1994? It made promises on cutting taxes and government and other conservative ideals and was released six weeks before President Clinton’s first midterms. Republicans enjoyed massive wins that year and flipped control of the House and Senate. What we’re hearing: This document will be much smaller. It aims to give Republicans a unified message to run on in the final stretch before November, saying they are committed to: . . . [NOTE:Where is the commitment to confront woke identity politics and the grooming of children?]

(MAGA candidate) Revolver.news: Why Every Republican Should Back Blake Masters’ War Against “Affirmative Action”

A little over a week ago, rising Republican star Blake Masters dared to say what so much of the Republican base knows is obvious, but so few of their leaders are willing to say: That a major reason for the Biden administration’s ineffectiveness is its devout belief in hiring based on race, sex, and “LGBTQ+” status rather than ability. Liberal press outlets immediately recoiled in horror, but Masters doubled down the following day with a declaration of war on the “affirmative action regime.”

Read more/Watch the 1:32 minute Masters’ video: https://www.revolver.news/2022/09/why-every-republican-should-back-blake-masters-war-against-affirmative-action/

2022 PRIMARY ELECTIONS

Marshall: City Officials In Flint, Michigan Disproportionately Hired Democratic Poll Watchers In Violation Of State Law

According to a demand letter filed by the attorneys of Pure Integrity Michigan Elections, Michigan law requires equal representation of Republican and Democrat poll workers at polling locations. During Michigan’s August 2 primary, however, Flint hired 422 Democrats compared to just 27 Republican poll watchers. Additionally, for Flint’s Absent Voter Counting Board, only 4 Republican inspectors were hired compared to 56 Democrat election inspectors. […] Despite multiple attempts by GOP representatives urging Flint election administrators to hire qualified Republican poll watchers leading up to the August 2 primary, the city of Flint remained unresponsive to their requests.

War Room: Sarah Palin: Ranked Choice Voting has Allowed Democrats to Sneak into Elections

Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska, talks to host Steve Bannon about her race for Alaska’s sole seat in Congress. Unfortunately, the RINOs and Democrats have conspired in that deeply conservative state to make it easier for liberals to be elected by instituting ranked choice voting. And now we find out that the second place Republican, Nick Begich, refused to help Palin by bowing out of the race in time to get his name removed from the November ballot, so chances are that the two Republican candidates with work against each other and the Democrat will be elected.

Watch the 10:49 minute interview: https://warroom.org/2022/09/07/sarah-palin-ranked-choice-voting-has-allowed-democrats-to-sneak-into-elections/

CHINA: AMERICA’S MORTAL ENEMY

Cunningham: Biden ignores China’s infiltration of US universities

As Washington grapples with security threats associated with China’s military modernization and brinkmanship in the Indo-Pacific, it has taken its eyes off subtler threats closer to home. One such threat is Beijing’s infiltration of American educational institutions. The best-known example of this decades-long campaign are the notorious Confucius Institutes, but these instruments of Chinese “soft power” are just one manifestation of an even bigger problem. According to Bloomberg, 115 universities in the U.S., including Harvard and Stanford, received almost $1 billion in combined gifts and grants from Chinese sources between 2013 and 2020. These were just the donations that were publicly reported.

Read more/Watch the 5:48 minute interview with Gordon Chang and Russian born US Defense intelligence Officer Rebekah Koffler: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/biden-ignores-chinas-infiltration-us-universities

Devore: As America Self-Destructs With Green Energy, China Preps For War With Coal

The West’s insistence on the widespread implementation of green energy may backfire as China continues to use coal in preparation for war. […] A holistic look at China’s energy sector indicates a nation concerned only with energy security and not at all concerned with climate change. That has grave consequences for America’s ability to deter China from an ambitious campaign of military aggression.

Chang; China’s Economy Is Headed For One Of The Largest Meltdowns Ever

To stimulate the economy, China’s regulators are forcing Chinese banks to meet high loan quotas. To hit the difficult-to-attain targets, ingenious bankers are lending and simultaneously allowing borrowers to deposit identical amounts with their institutions at identical interest rates. Companies no longer want money to launch new projects. Pessimism about the economy dominates thinking in Chinese boardrooms and throughout the rest of society. The big story is not that the Chinese economy is falling apart. It is, at least apart from the export sector. The big story is that China’s stimulus efforts, so successful in the past in jumpstarting growth, are no longer working. The country’s economy is, in a word, exhausted.

Beene: US Factory Boom Heats Up as CEOs Yank Production Out of China

There has been a sense in financial circles that the fever among American executives to shorten supply lines and bring production back home would prove short-lived. As soon as the pandemic started to fade, so too would the fad, the thinking went. And yet, two years in, not only is the trend still alive, it appears to be rapidly accelerating. Rattled by the most recent wave of strict Covid lockdowns in China, the long-time manufacturing hub of choice for multinationals, CEOs have been highlighting plans to relocate production — using the buzzwords onshoring, reshoring or nearshoring — at a greater clip this year than they even did in the first six months of the pandemic, according to a review of earnings call and conference presentations transcribed by Bloomberg. (Compared to pre-pandemic periods, these references are up over 1,000%.) More importantly, there are concrete signs that many of them are acting on these plans.

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA REGIME: TRANSFORMING AMERICA

Ring: The Two Most Destructive Frauds in History

It’s getting harder and harder not to abandon faith in the institutions we once regarded as respectable and relied on to keep the country moving. It is harder still to avoid rejecting unequivocally what has become their core governing premises, which seem to be entirely different from what we once believed them to be. So here goes: the entire “climate crisis” is an opportunistic hoax; the entire “equity” (along with “diversity” and “inclusion”) movement is a corrupt fraud. This hoax and this fraud have permeated and overwhelmed every formerly respectable sector of American life, with disastrous consequences we’ve only just begun to feel. If you are someone who still has faith in the ultimate resilience of the institutions that once made America great, try researching positive new ideas. Try to identify and promote solutions to genuine challenges we face as a nation. Invariably, as you peruse the promotional literature of today’s innovators, no matter what it is you’ve found, you’ll have to sift through endless drivel about carbon this and sustainable that, along with diversity this and equity that, before you might find any facts that matter. […] Thanks to the obfuscating filters of climate and equity, separating useful ideas from monstrous scams is far more laborious than it should be. And all the while, the scams are getting bigger.

War Room: Richard Baris: There’s No Way Back for Joe Biden from his Massive Levels of Unpopularity in Polls

Richard Baris, the People’s Pundit and director of Big Data Polling, releases the latest data on Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro vs. Doug Mastriano for governor in the Keystone State, as well as the Senate race between John Fetterman and Mehmet Oz. See results at CDM.press.

“In all the years of polling the Keystone State, presidential elections are within the sampling error… Trump is running away with the state of Pennsylvania… He’s up by 7, 47-40. Look at the margins for the working class. This is not a close race.”

Watch the 8:21 minute interview: https://warroom.org/2022/09/03/richard-baris-theres-no-way-back-for-joe-biden-from-his-massive-levels-of-unpopularity-in-polls/

DEMOCRAT PARTY’S MARXIST PLAYBOOK: ANTI-POLICE ANTI-VICTIM PRO-CRIMINAL

Murray: Mass Shootings Sweep Democrat-Run Cities During Labor Day Weekend

At least 11 mass shootings have occurred across mostly Democrat-run cities nationwide during Labor Day weekend so far, killing at least 15 people, according to Gun Violence Archive. Mass shootings have occurred in cities including Saint Paul, Minnesota, Charleston, South Carolina, Chicago, Philadelphia and Cleveland, killing at least 15 people during Labor Day weekend so far, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Most of the cities are run by Democratic mayors.

Hawkins: 55 Shot During Labor Day Weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago

THE DEMOCRAT LED WAR ON CHILDREN, PARENTS & FAMILY

Davidson: The Transgender Movement Isn’t Just Targeting Kids, It’s Targeting Families

Evidence continues to mount that a concerted effort is underway between major hospitals and public school systems to indoctrinate children with transgender ideology and push harmful, sometimes irreversible, medical procedures on minors — sometimes without the knowledge or consent of parents.

The point of the indoctrination, though, isn’t only to create more “gender-nonconforming” students. It’s to break down family structures and parental authority. The goal isn’t simply to teach and encourage transgenderism in our schools. It’s to lay claim to the students themselves, over and against their parents and families, for purposes that go far beyond the promotion of gender identity. After all, you can’t very well reshape society according to your utopian vision if something as solid as a family is standing in the way.

Rufo: A PARENT’S GUIDE TO RADICAL GENDER THEORY

Radical gender theory is a catch-all term for academic queer theory, transgender ideology, and gender identity activism. The premise of this ideology is that sex and gender are socially constructed—that is, they are human inventions used as instruments of power, rather than features of objective reality. Radical gender theorists argue that white, European men invented the “gender binary,” or division between man and woman, in order to oppress racial and sexual minorities. They believe that this system of “heteronormativity” must be exposed, critiqued, and deconstructed in order to usher in a world beyond the norms of heterosexual, middle-class society. In order to facilitate the destruction of this system, radical gender activists promote synthetic sexual identities, such as “pansexual,” “genderqueer,” and “two-spirit,” and neo-pronouns, such as “ze,” “zim,” and “zir.” The goal is to replace notions of biological sex, the male-female binary, and the nuclear family with “queer alternatives” and “a world beyond binaries.” Some strains of academic queer theory also support eliminating prohibitions on child pornography, valorizing transgressive sex, and permitting adult-child sexual relationships.

BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

Tapson: The Bullies of Woke

Totalitarian Cancel Culture, the bullying trans lobby, and the race-mongering indoctrination of Critical Race Theorists, among other leftist assaults on society, have turned daily life into everyday battlefields for normal Americans who stand in the way of Progressive social engineering. To address this ubiquitous, corrosive phenomenon, Canadian author Diane Bederman has written Bullies of Woke and Their Assault on Mental Health just published by New English Review Press. […] Bullies of Woke documents the serious damage that bellicose leftist activists are wreaking upon the mental health of our children, who are subjected in schools and in the culture at large to unrelenting pressure to conform to, if not actually celebrate, woke ideology. In many cases our children are . . .

INTERNATIONAL

Lawler: Liz Truss wins race to replace Boris Johnson as U.K. prime minister

Liz Truss was announced Monday as the winner of the Conservative Party leadership election and thus the U.K.’s next prime minister, defeating former chancellor Rishi Sunak by a 57% to 43% margin. Why it matters: In her current role as foreign secretary, Truss has made headlines for her hawkish approach to relations with the EU and the war in Ukraine. She’s also vowed to slash taxes, despite the rocky state of the U.K.’s finances. She will be the third woman to serve as prime minister. What’s next: Outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson will travel to Scotland to formally resign to Queen Elizabeth II. Truss will make that same trip Tuesday to see the queen, before offering her first speech in Parliament.

Hauf: Chile Rejects Socialist Constitution in Landslide Vote

Chilean voters rejected a ballot initiative that would have given the South American nation a radical new constitution that mandates socialized medicine and a right to free housing, a result that decimates the political ambitions of the country’s socialist president. The referendum to adopt a new constitution, which was struck down by 62 percent of voters on Sunday, would have also bolstered environmental regulations and social welfare programs, as well as enshrined so-called abortion, gender, LGBT, and indigenous rights. Chilean president Gabriel Boric, who rose to fame as a socialist organizer, vowed on Sunday to continue his efforts to replace the country’s 42-year-old constitution.

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