Daily News Roundup
NOTABLE QUOTES
Susan Jones is the Morning Managing Editor for CNS News: Does this scenario sound familiar? A president tries to collude with a foreign country to influence the upcoming election. Democrats impeached Donald Trump on those grounds for his phone call to the Ukrainian president, requesting that Ukraine look into corruption allegations against Joe Biden. And now some Republicans say the same scenario may apply to Joe Biden, who went hat-in- hand to Saudi Arabia last July, asking the Saudis – the Saudi Foreign Ministry says – to postpone their oil-cut announcement until after the election.
William A. Jacobson founder of Legal Insurrection: The made-for-TV J6 show trial has concluded, but the endgame unfolds: Criminal referrals and a subpoena to Trump to hand the football to Merrick Garland and DOJ to keep up the attacks after Democrats lose the House.
Guy Millière contributor to Gatestone Institute: The Biden administration’s failure to arm Ukraine before the invasion and his comments that a “minor incursion” might be acceptable were catastrophic. The same failure to provide sufficient deterrence to Taiwan is unquestionably inviting Communist Chinese aggression. Ruthless dictators dream of conquest; they do not even try to hide it. Enemies of the United States and democracy are ever on the watch for opportunities to strike. In the world as it really is, only the fear of a credible American response can deter enemies and preserve peace.Â
Tyler Durden writing for Zero Hedge: Echoing what he has said before, Jamie said this is the way the USA maintains its standing, as the future of the world is by pumping more oil and gas and using energy security to ensure Western unity. And he did say when it comes to ESG “investors don’t give a shit†warning not to “cede governance to do-gooder kids on a committeeâ€.
Scott Yenor and Anna K. Miller contributors to The American Mind: This revolution will not stop at porn literacy for children. None of the several articles on porn literacy explicitly discuss childhood participation in pornography. The leap from porn literacy for children to porn involving children is not far. Nor would it be unexpected. The porn literacy movement, afoot in academia and moving toward the educational mainstream, embraces the idea of children watching many varieties of pornography. Children should watch it. Should they participate in it? That is against the law (for now), but perhaps there are additional “indirect strategies†to get around such prohibitions. Subverting these norms is part of the porn literacy game.
Roberts contributor to American Thinker: Domestically speaking, citing firearm homicides to prove that America is a violent nation fails for two primary reasons: 1) homicides are 1%of U.S. violent crime (FBI 2019) invalidating it as a metric for national violence; and 2) 78% FBI 2019) of total violent crime is committed without a gun.  This bears repeating: nearly 8 in 10 violent crimes in America don’t involve a gun.
JANUARY 6 COMMITTEE
Solomon: Jan. 6 panel boomerang: Final hearing undercuts two key Democrat talking points
Then House Democrats’ Jan. 6 committee convened its investigative hearings, members proclaimed there was no need to investigate House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s role because she wasn’t involved in Capitol security and their end goal was to find the truth no matter where it led. […] “On January 6th, the Speaker, a target of an assassination attempt that day, was no more in charge of Capitol security than Mitch McConnell was,” a spokesperson for Pelosi told FactCheck.org. “This is a clear attempt to whitewash what happened on January 6th and divert blame. The Speaker believes security officials should make security decisions.” On Thursday, with what the committee proclaimed was their final public hearing, they managed to undercut both those talking points. First, they belatedly decided to subpoena the central character in their Jan. 6 narrative, Donald Trump, an act that comes as the committee plans no further hearings and will sunset after the Christmas holidays. The compressed timeline makes it difficult to get the former president’s full side of his story should he decide to testify. Second, the committee showed compelling video of Pelosi . . .
Sundance: Grand Theatrics on Final Day, J6 Committee Votes Unanimously to Subpoena President Trump
There is no precedent for the legislative branch to subpoena a former President of the United States, the executive branch. No court, including the Supreme Court, would validate a congressional subpoena against the President. The separation of powers would not permit the enforcement mechanism and there is no constitutional authority within the legislative branch to compel the executive. Period.
Read more/Watch the prompted 3:11 minute recorded vote: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/10/13/grand-theatrics-on-final-day-j6-committee-votes-unanimously-to-subpoena-president-trump/
Jacobson: Jan 6 Committee Finale: Handing Anti-MAGA Football To DOJ For Prosecutions After Dems Lose the House
Of course, the hearings were not hearings. There was no opposition permitted. Thousands of hours of video and tens of thousands of pages of evidence were edited down and selectively used to do one thing: Get the political opposition as broadly as possible. This was no search for the truth, it was a political infomercial. […] Liz Cheney announced that the Committee is making criminal referrals: . . . […] The Committee also voted to subpoena Trump for questioning. Once again, Liz Cheney led the way: . . . […] At least one person thinks the strategy is to hand off the football to DOJ so it’s out of the control of the future Republican-controlled House:
Read more/Watch the two Cheney clips: https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/10/jan-6-committee-finale-handing-anti-maga-football-to-doj-for-prosecutions-after-dems-lose-the-house/
Kelly: The Broken Promises of the January 6 Committee
Questions about the role of the FBI and other prominent government agencies in the events of January 6, 2020 remain unanswered because they were not asked.
Read more: https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/13/the-broken-promises-of-the-january-6-committee/
2022 MIDTERM ELECTIONS
Garrity: Poll: Ron Johnson widens lead over Mandela Barnes in Wisconsin Senate race
The poll, whose results were released on Wednesday, has Johnson racking up support of 52 percent of likely voters, compared with Barnes’ 46 percent. The results are a jump from September, when polls showed Johnson polling just 1 percentage point ahead of Barnes, but are still within the survey’s margin of sampling error. Barnes has seen a decline in the polls over recent months after facing a slew of attack ads depicting him as soft on crime.
Dixon-Hamilton: Republican Tudor Dixon Shines in Debate Against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
Tudor Dixon, the Trump-endorsed Republican gubernatorial candidate in Michigan, made a strong showing in her debate Thursday evening against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) that focused on abortion, the second amendment, education, and the economy.
Read more/Watch the debate: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/10/13/republican-tudor-dixon-shines-in-debate-against-gov-gretchen-whitmer/
Singh: Republican candidate Christine Drazan now leads in the Oregon gubernatorial race by a margin of 6%, per a new opinion poll by Clout Research released on Thursday.
The poll showed Drazan gaining 44% of the vote to the Democratic candidate Tina Kotek’s 38%. Meanwhile, independent candidate Betsy Johnson is garnering 11% support among respondents.
Read more: https://dailycaller.com/2022/10/13/drazan-jumps-ahead-oregon-six-points/
Koenig: Oregonians force vote to SECEDE from the woke state and become part of Idaho: Two counties are set to vote on measure – after nine backed it – due to defund the police, CRT in schools and bail laws
Conservative Oregonians fed up with the state’s woke politics are planning to secede from the state and join Idaho instead. Members of the Greater Idaho movement are pushing their state legislators, as well as their counterparts in Idaho, to redraw Oregon‘s border so that the eastern two-thirds of the state become part of Idaho. The movement has already gained support from residents in nine Eastern Oregon counties, with those in two others set to vote next month on whether they want their lawmakers to work on redrawing the border. […] Doing so makes sense, spokesman Matt McCaw argues, because Idaho’s politics more closely match those residents’ conservative views. ‘It makes more sense for Eastern Oregonians to get state-level governance coming from Idaho, where they share their values, share their culture, share their politics, than it does to be governed by Western Oregon,’ he told FOX News Digital on Thursday. He went on to explain that liberals in western cities like Portland, Eugene and Bend have enforced their woke policies on the conservative majority of the state — much of which actually voted for former President Donald Trump in the last election.
Harsanyi: It’s Not ‘Ableist’ to Wonder if Fetterman Can Do His Job
Oh, boy. Democrats swarmed, attacking Burns for stating the obvious: Fetterman isn’t OK. It’s remarkable to watch how quickly partisans can coalesce around a new talking point. For months, the national media has been telling us Fetterman’s campaign was completely “normal,” even as a video emerges of the candidate struggling to cobble two coherent sentences in succession. In September, Fetterman said that the “only lingering issue” he experienced was occasionally missing a word or “mush(ing) two words together.” Yet in only a few minutes last night, the entire left adopted a new position, denouncing any mention of his ailment as an “ableist” attack on a person with a “disability.” Democrats struggled to calibrate this new accusation, comparing Fetterman’s cognitive struggles to handicaps. “How is this any different from Tammy Duckworth or Madison Cawthorn needing a wheelchair? How is it different from many elderly Senators who need hearing aids?” asked left-winger Eric Michael Garcia. Others wondered if it meant Fetterman critics believed “deaf” people should not run for office. Well, for one thing, being paralyzed does not undercut a person’s ability to comprehend ideas or articulate thoughts, or participate in debates — all essential functions of a politician’s job. Fetterman is not deaf; he is unable to process spoken words because of brain damage. There’s a big difference.
DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: CANCEL THE SECOND AMENDMENT
Heine: JP Morgan Cancels Religious Nonprofit’s Checking Account, Demands Donor List as Condition for Reconsideration
JPMorgan Chase & Co reportedly canceled the account of a religious nonprofit organization for unexplained reasons, and said it would only reconsider the decision if the group provided its donor list, and a list of political candidates it intended to support. The National Committee for Religious Freedom (NCRF) launched on January 18, 2022 “to defend religious freedom for all Americans and all their religious communities by supporting political candidates at the local, state, and national levels—regardless of party affiliation—who support the free exercise of religion,†according to its website. […] He described his initial experience with the bank as “very positive,†but three weeks after opening the account, they received a letter notifying them that Chase had decided to “end their relationship†with the NCRF and that the account would be closed. Brownback said the bank actually closed the account before they received the letter. […] He argued that the demands for “this type of information†was “entirely inappropriate,†and unfortunately, not the first time a religious organization “has found itself facing sudden and unexplained account closures.†“Does Chase ask every customer what politicians they support and why before deciding whether or not to accept them as a customer?,†he asked.
BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA REGIME: TRANSFORMING FOREIGN POLICY
Citizen Free Press/Fox News: Tucker Unloads on Zelensky… Who the hell do you think you are…
Watch the devastating 14:44 minute opening monologue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=theoRnX1NT0
Uniyal: Israel Approves Biden-Sponsored Maritime Deal With Lebanon; Netanyahu Slams Agreement as “Historic Surrender†to Hezbollah
Former U.S. envoy to Israel David Friedman: The “dubious†deal “another colossal foreign policy blunder by the Biden administration.â€Â Less than three weeks before the national election, Israel’s caretaker government has approved the maritime deal with neighboring Lebanon, which U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration proposed. Ahead of the November 1 general election, interim Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s government “approved the principles of the Lebanon maritime border agreement in a majority vote, and was presented to the Knesset where it could be reviewed by legislators during the next two weeks before returning to the government for final a final vote,†the Israeli broadcaster Ynet News reported Wednesday. The agreement finalized by the Biden White House gives Iran-backed Lebanese state and Hezbollah terrorist group a share of Israel’s undersea natural gas reserves in the Mediterranean Sea, critics say. The Biden administration negotiated the deal, which obliges Israel to give up sovereignty over hundreds of miles of undersea territory amid Hezbollah’s repeated terror threats against Israel’s offshore energy infrastructure.
BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA REGIME: TRANSFORMING AMERICA
(Grounds for impeachment) War Room: Joe Biden Is Caught In A Public Quid Pro Quo With Saudi Arabia In Order To Gain Democrats Votes
Biden asked Saudi’s to hold off decreasing their oil production until after November 8th election.
Watch the 10:22 minute interview with the editor of Human Events, Jack Posobiec:https://rumble.com/v1ntnyy-joe-biden-is-caught-in-a-public-quid-pro-quo-with-saudi-arabia-in-order-to-.html
Ingraham: Mollie Hemingway: Let’s be consistent when it comes to impeachment
Watch the 5:20 minute interview: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6313732578112
Continetti: The Stagflation President
Another month, another bad report. On October 13 the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that consumer price inflation, at an 8.2 percent annualized rate, was higher than expected through September. Americans continue to endure the worst inflation in four decades. They continue to experience a decline in real average hourly earnings. They continue to tell pollsters that the economic recession has arrived. Blerina Uruci, an economist at T. Rowe Price, does not like what she sees. “This is very troubling,” Uruci told the New York Times. “The trend is very troubling.” Not at the White House. It doesn’t see any troubles. According to President Biden, the most recent BLS data are superfluous. After all, everybody already knows that “Americans are squeezed by the cost of living: that’s been true for years, and they didn’t need today’s report to tell them that.” As a matter of fact, Biden said in a statement, rising costs are “a key reason I ran for President.” And anyway, the situation is under control. “My policies—that Democrats delivered—directly tackles [sic] price pressures we saw in today’s report.” End of story, thank you all very much, nothing to see here, move along, move along. Just a minute. Biden’s reading of recent economic history is filled with evasions, half-truths, and “yarns.”
Read more: https://freebeacon.com/columns/the-stagflation-president/
Griffith: Core inflation hits a new 40-year high of 6.6% in a troubling sign that higher prices are sticking – sending Dow tumbling 500 points
The Commerce Department’s latest consumer price index report on Thursday showed that core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, rose 6.6 percent in September from a year ago. It was the biggest annual gain since August 1982, and signaled that high prices are spreading broadly through the economy and becoming ‘sticky’ despite the Federal Reserve’s efforts to battle inflation with interest rate hikes. Wall Street reacted sharply to the new report, with the Dow falling 500 points, or 1.7 percent, at the opening bell before posting a huge swing to 400 points positive in volatile morning trading.
War Room: Steve Cortes: Biden’s Latest Inflation Report Is The Worst Economic Data Seen In Our Lifetimes
Watch the 2:40 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v1nti9m-steve-cortes-bidens-latest-inflation-report-is-the-worst-economic-data-seen.html
War Room: You’re About To Lose A Decade Of Your Financial Future
Steve Cortes, Peter Navarro and Dave Bratt are interviewed.
Watch the first 14 minutes then advance to the 22:10 minute mark to watch the rest:https://rumble.com/v1ntwse-episode-2223-youre-about-to-lose-a-decade-of-your-financial-future.htm
Sundance: Social Security Administration Announces 2023 Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) at 8.7 Percent, Biggest Inflation Driven Increase Since Jimmy Carter Era
(Social Security Administration) – Approximately 70 million Americans will see a 8.7% increase in their Social Security benefits and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments in 2023. On average, Social Security benefits will increase by more than $140 per month starting in January.[…] A 25% increase in the rate for those who qualify for federal food stamp assistance…. An 8.7% increase in the rate for those who qualify for Social Security benefits…. Meanwhile real wages decreased 3.8% in September and the borders are wide open for cheap labor to pour in.
DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: CANCEL THE NUCLEAR FAMILY
Rosiak: Virginia Democrat Bill Would Criminally Prosecute Parents Who Don’t Affirm Their Kids As Transgender
A Virginia Democrat lawmaker says she will introduce legislation to have parents criminally prosecuted if they do not “affirm†their child as transgender. Teachers and social workers would report parents to Child Protective Services under the bill envisioned by state Delegate Elizabeth Guzman (D-Fauquier).
Guzman told WJLA that “It could be a felony, it could be a misdemeanor, but we know that CPS charge could harm your employment, could harm their education, because nowadays many people do a CPS database search before offering employment.â€
THE DEMOCRAT LED WAR ON CHILDREN
Yenor & Miller: Why Can’t Johnny Read Porn?
Having normalized sex outside of marriage, cohabitation, same-sex sex, same-sex marriage, and now transgender ideology, the Left’s next aim is the sexualization of children. The Left uses several mechanisms to sexualize children. Public libraries, public schools, and book retailers must feature gender-bending books for ever-younger children, all with the aim of mainstreaming the fringes. Pride Month in June, 2022 featured drag shows aplenty, where young children danced with men dressed as sexualized women or put dollar bills in the pasties of strippers. Activists and academics are hard at work redefining pedophiles as “Minor Attracted Persons†in order to reduce the stigma associated with the desire to have sex with children. Much work must be done before these practices become tolerated. […] The defense of teaching porn literacy begins with eliminating the stigma around watching porn, but ends with hopes to promote porn use and to encourage ever younger children to integrate porn into their increasingly active sex lives.
Read more: https://americanmind.org/salvo/why-cant-johnny-read-porn/
Buttons: Puberty Blockers Cause Infertility And Are Given Out ‘Like Candy,’ According To Gender Clinic Director
Dr. Jeremi Carswell, pediatric endocrinologist and current director of Boston Children’s Hospital GeMS (Gender Management Service), spoke of the permanent loss of fertility and unregulated frequency at which puberty-blocking drugs are administered to children at a 2020 Advancing Excellence in Transgender Health (AETH) conference, according to a recorded webinar called “Puberty Blockers and Hormone Therapy for Gender Diverse Youth and Adolescents†on the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center website. […] Carswell begins by referring to puberty blocking drugs as a “reversible therapy,†but then goes on to discuss the “risks/consequences†of prescribing them to children at the first signs of puberty to stop the development of secondary sex characteristics. Children who begin taking puberty blockers during the first signs of puberty and go on to take cross-sex hormones, which constitutes the vast majority, will become sterilized and may never be able to achieve orgasm, as Carswell explained:
Lamb: Pro-LGBT doctor praises ‘transgender’ boy for ‘boldly’ killing himself
A pediatrician who advocates for the genital and chemical mutilation of children recently praised a gender-confused boy who committed suicide. Dr. Morissa Ladinsky gave a talk at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) conference Tuesday where she described how the boy, who went by “Leelah,†killed himself by walking in front of a tractor. “And then the final days of 2014, a local 16-year-old young lady, Leelah Alcorn, of trans experience, stepped boldly in front of a tractor-trailer ending her life,†said Ladinsky, a pediatrician and professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham who has sued to overturn Alabama’s ban on “gender transitions†for minors. Ladinsky praised the “suicide note†for going viral on social media. “Each day, on the way to work, I passed that spot, where this teen boldly ended her life, pleading,†Ladinsky says, before the video ends.
Read more/Watch the 45 second clip: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pro-lgbt-doctor-praises-transgender-boy-for-boldly-killing-himself/?utm_source=featured-news&utm_campaign=usa
Weaver: ‘They’re On The Run’: Hospitals Caught Providing Sex Change Treatments To Minors Seem To Follow The Same Playbook
Hospitals and medical centers exposed for performing questionable treatments on gender-confused minors, including sex change surgeries and chemical castration, consistently rushed to memory-hole publicly available information on their websites. While reporters and investigators may not have much trouble re-locating these pages through internet archives, the general public will have a harder time. Thus, hospitals that cover their tracks by deleting information they were once ostensibly proud to share may very well succeed in deflecting criticism of their policies.
A CHURCH IN DECLINE
Zwicker: Methodist church lets drag queen dressed like demon give sermon to children
On October 2, Allendale United Methodist Church in St. Petersburg, Florida, hosted a drag queen during its Sunday service, allowing him to preach a sermon and join the ministers at the altar to assist during the service. The drag queen, dressed like a demon, preached on defeating “systems of oppression†in society and Christianity in order to truly “love one’s neighbor as oneself.â€Â […] “I am 24-years-old and a seminary student over in Boston,†he said in his sermon. “I play Dungeons and Dragons in my spare time, and I am a candidate for ordained ministry.†“That’s right,†he continued, laughing hysterically. “They’re going to give me a church one day!â€Â Simmons said that he defined drag as “any act which intentionally bends the traditional view of self and others†and that he believed that drag was the beginning of the renunciation of so-called “systems of oppression†in society, as well as in the Methodist church.
Simmons also blasphemously compared the discontent of people who identify as LGBT to the sufferings of Jesus Christ in His Passion.
CLIMATE EMERGENCY: IT’S POLITICAL
Clough: The Ukraine crisis shows the far-reaching effects of environmental policy
The crisis in Ukraine is a cautionary tale for energy policy. While Russia is to blame for its military aggression against Ukraine, European countries suffering as a result of their dependence on Russian fuel have no one to blame but themselves. For years, Germany and others have had polar ice caps in mind as they celebrated shutting down the very backup options that have left them dependent on an aggressive world power. Now as central European powers stare down a cold winter and Ukrainians endure a conflict with no clear resolution in sight, the human cost should make one thing abundantly clear: Climate policy was never just about the polar bears. From Earth Day-style brands featuring leaves and twigs to greenwashed marketing campaigns, more and more climate policy nowadays feels like pure charity or a zero-sum game enacted at the expense of humans to benefit the environment. We talk about using paper straws on behalf of the turtles and palm oil harming the orangutans as if we don’t live here, too. Then every once in a while, years like this one remind us that climate and energy policy don’t exist in a bubble. They’re interlaced with our national security, energy, human rights, and economic policy.
Read more at American Thinker.
OTHER NEWS
Boyd: Nevada Asks Snitches To Rat Out Crisis Pregnancy Centers So The State Can Shut Them Down
Less than one month before Election Day, Nevada’s Department of Health and Human Services fully embraced Democrats’ radical abortion agenda by launching a webpage that solicits complaints about lifesaving pregnancy centers. The state’s Division of Public and Behavioral Health “Abortion Information for Nevadansâ€Â webpage not only smears pregnancy centers by calling their methods “deceptive practices†but encourages Nevadans to report the centers to the state, which has the power to hand out “regulatory violations, such as operating an unlicensed medical facility or clinic.â€
Saavedra: Alleged Waukesha Christmas Parade Killer Mocks Victims In Court While Demanding That Case Be Dismissed
The 40-year-old man who is accused of killing six people and wounding dozens more when he allegedly ran them over last year at a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, demanded in court this week that his case be dismissed because there were no victims present to face him. The Daily Wire is not naming or showing photographs of the alleged killer due to company policy about not giving notoriety to those who allegedly carry out mass murder, as studies have suggested that media coverage of these events can have a significant impact on the psyches of those who carry out the atrocities because it often gives them the attention that they crave. The suspect, who fired his public defenders and now represents himself, went on a 50-minute rant in court Thursday morning about why the case against him needed to be dismissed.
Parker: How to delete your PayPal account: A step-by-step guide
Before you delete your PayPal account, you’ll need to make sure you’ve withdrawn your money, canceled or redirected any pending payments, and downloaded a copy of all the records you need. Step 1: Withdraw your funds PayPal offers both “Instant†withdrawals (which usually complete within minutes) and “Standard†withdrawals (which can take up to three business days). It may also apply fees to some withdrawal methods. You can avoid fees and get the fastest withdrawal by choosing a withdrawal option that’s listed as “Instant (free).†If you’re using the PayPal website, click or tap . . .
FILM REVIEW
Kane: Film Review: ‘Washington’s Armor’
An exceptional retelling of George Washington’s early life. There aren’t many films about George Washington that are worth seeing, and certainly none about his early life. So “Washington’s Armor,†which covers his time while he was a young officer in the British military, is a real treat.
The story begins in 1752 at the village of Pickawillany, a strategic locale in the lush Ohio Valley that doubles as a valuable trading post. […] Lane based the film on a book by author and historian David Barton titled “The Bullet Proof George Washington.†Both the film and book are based on Washington’s own recorded journals of his now-famous deeds. And both also describe how the Founding Father relied on the providence of God to help him through the many challenges he faced in his lifetime. The excellent production values of this film are evident right away, with exquisite cinematography, costumes and make-up, sets, and dialects. It’s almost as if you’re being transported to the mid-18th century.
Read more: https://www.theepochtimes.com/film-review-washingtons-armor_4305834.html
Washington’s Armor website to rent or purchase: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/washingtonsarmor
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Morabito: To Stop Totalitarianism, We Must Understand How It Weaponizes Loneliness
The Weaponization of Loneliness: How Tyrants Stoke Our Fear of Isolation to Silence, Divide, and Conquer Paperback – October 11, 2022 by Stella Morabito
Revolutionary elites who push utopias are always a small minority. In order to get all of society on board, they must enlist mobs to promote the illusion of compliance with their visions. Mobs enforce the narrative, often through violence. They help censor any competing views through intimidation and various forms of book burning. We ought to study how radical utopian revolutions got a foothold in the past in order to better understand the 21st-century incarnation. Mob action was a major catalyst for the French Revolution, accelerating Maximilien Robespierre’s brutal dechristianization campaign and Jacobin revisions of history. Private life came under direct attack after Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution. Those attacks reached terrifying new heights during Stalin’s Reign of Terror. Identity politics and pseudoscience played out to a gruesome degree during Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich, causing intense hostilities in the society. And American immigrants from communist China can recall the cruel legacy of mob-led struggle sessions during Chairman Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution. Some have publicly expressed alarm at seeing similar dynamics develop in their adopted homeland. But many who sense the brewing of a totalitarian revolution in the 21st century are puzzled because it doesn’t appear to have a central operator. […] The common denominator of such revolutions past, present, and future is the weaponization of loneliness. All its features pit people against one another. All were at work in various ways in past revolutions of modern history. And all result in our further atomization, our further separation from one another. The most critical features are the forces of . . .
DURHAM INVESTIGATION
Solomon: John Durham unmistakably puts FBI on trial alongside its Russian collusion informant
Igor Danchenko is the named defendant at this week’s trial, charged with lying as an informant in the now discredited Russia collusion investigation. But with probing questions and searing redirects, Special Counsel John Durham has turned the Russian researcher’s trial in the U.S. District courtroom in Alexandria, Va., into an expose of stunning FBI failures and omissions in its now-infamous pursuit of Donald Trump for crimes that turned out to be nonexistent.
Cleveland: Why The FBI’s Last-Minute Change To A FISA Application Is Worse Than Using Unverified Steele Dossier
Special Counsel John Durham’s deft questioning of FBI agent Brian Auten during the prosecution of Steele-dossier primary sub-source Igor Danchenko confirmed the Crossfire Hurricane team obtained permission to surveil U.S. citizen Carter Page without first verifying the dossier’s claims. While scandalous, the Justice Department’s deceptive framing of Christopher Steele’s source network as connected to his prior work with British intelligence is worse because the higher-ups who authorized the inclusion of this detail in the final revision of the application knew a FISA warrant would likely be denied without the misrepresentation.