[Creators Syndicate] Dismissing President Donald Trump's claim that the 2020 election remains undecided, Joe Biden has begun to name his national security team.
Right now, it looks Democratic establishment all the way.
Antony Blinken, a longtime foreign policy aide, is Biden's choice for secretary of state. Jake Sullivan, one of Hillary Clinton's closest aides, is said to be his choice for national security adviser.
Biden's urgency in naming his foreign policy team is understandable.
For if his election is confirmed by the Electoral College, then he will find himself on Jan. 20 with a lineup of foreign policy crises. Interesting, and depressing lineup of thorny problems, but I know your time is valuable, so here's the conclusion:
"America First" has an answer to these questions:
If there are no vital U.S. interests imperiled, keep U.S. troops out. And ashcan the utopian nonsense of trying to plant democracy in the sandy soil of a Middle East that has shown itself unreceptive to that particular crop.
The interventionalists got us into the sandbox. Let's see if they can get us out.
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About Iran, it should be noted that their big plan for Israel — years in the preparation — was a pincer attack from Lebanon and Gaza while Hezbollah rained 150,000 missiles across the land from above. But Israel has located and destroyed the tunnels from both Gaza and Hezbollah‘s territory south of the Litani River, and mapped the coordinates of Hezbollah’s missile storage dumps, so the attack will have to come visibly over the fences while the targetted storage dumps will display very impressive secondaries — probably visible from orbit.
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So what happens if the Republicans keep the Senate, and refuses to accept ANY of Biden's nominations for Cabinet posts?
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refuses to accept ANY of Biden's nominations for Cabinet posts?
The same thing that President Trump did in the same situation: put his people in place temporarily. There is a time limit they can hold the office without confirmation and they don’t get put on the pension plan, I believe. But they can hire and fire, and establish policy, though their successor can reverse both with a pen stroke.
( The Z blog) The Soviet Union, like all radical experiments, went through several phases in its roughly three generations of existence. The first phase, of course, was the revolution, in which the old order was toppled and a battle ensued to fill the void. This initial phase of revolution is always the one that attracts the most attention. This is when the great heroes of the revolution and the great villains of it are made. It is in this phase we get both Lenin and Stalin, hero and villain.
There is a phase that gets little attention and that is when the people come to terms with the irrationality of the world that has been created for them. One reason Stalin was able to send so many to their deaths or to labor camps is so many people kept thinking there was some rationality to the world being created. Some remained idealistic believers in the cause, while others became critics of the cause. They assumed the revolution would bring clarity and rationality when it brought only the oppositeIn time, the people came to terms with this. The humor of the Soviet Union reflected the fact that one got along by accepting the irrational in the same way you accept that the grass is green or the sky is blue. You don’t think about it. The jokes were often about these daily contradictions and how the unfortunate were those who did not get the joke that was at the heart of those contradictions. In other words, the joke was always on the fool who was not cynical enough to anticipate the lie.
This is relevant in our current age as we may be past the revolutionary stage and into that time when the people adjust to the irrational. The legacy conservative media keeps pounding the drum about how "we’re lurching into socialism" when we have been a socialist society for generations now. There is no aspect of our economic life outside the grip of the now semi-permanent ruling class. Telling people otherwise is just part of the way the ruling class controls the population.Of course, this reality is dawning on even the dullest people, so we are being told that the bad guys are planning a "radical revolution." The truth is, that revolution is well past the planning stage. It has already happened. From top to bottom, despite party labels or rhetoric, the system is stacked with people committed to the great reordering of society into the egalitarian paradise. The expulsion of Trump from office like a foreign body is the proof that the organism of state is wholly alien now.
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Just so. Exactly describes the mentality required to survive a totalitarian regime.
It is chilling to think that this is precisely what we must adopt if we are to accept the fact that our elections are a joke, that we are led by corrupt morons, and that we are living through a pointless, state-imposed economic depression that will likely endure for YEARS.
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At this point in 2020 I don’t think that many of us would be dumb enough to ask for maybe just one thing to go smoothly. We’ve got conservatives being arrested for breathing now, after all. Strap in kids, it’s gonna be a bumpy landing.
One of the few bright spots in the news this month was hearing that not one, but two COVID-19 vaccines have proven effective in trials and will soon be available. This news came after several months of the Democrats and their flying media monkeys calling President Trump a crackpot for saying there would be a vaccine available by the end of the year. It was a little suspicious that none of it was announced until just after the election but that’s in the past now.
Someone please chime in...
Is this really a DNA based vaccine injection?
If so, while it might have a 95%+/+ success rate, what are the DNA ramifications or additions?
Because the more suspicious types way out there...are hinting at everything from Sterility for population control to IQ/Type B personality mod's in the off-springs of those that take the Vaccine shot.
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Both Pfizer and Moderna are developing messenger RNA vaccines. mRNA is what DNA is transcribed into which then the cell uses as a template to assemble proteins. The protein in this case is the Covid-19 spike protein (or a fragment) for the immune system to recognize.
The mRNA has to get into cells for it to work but does not change the DNA. The mRNA get into the cells because they are surrounded by liposomes that merge with the cell membranes.
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Not to worry, since the powers that be have already announced that favored constituencies (health care workers, teachers, minorities, illegals) will be prioritized to receive the vaccine first. Bully! I say.
BTW, what will it do for hospital capacity if most of the "health care workers" are knocked down by vaccine side-effects? Better get ready to self-medicate and ventilate in place...
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Here, feel free to take my gov't designated dosage. Added bonus, here's some sushi I found in the back of the Frigidaire.
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Anyone recall Biden submitting to medical examinations prior to running for office? Is he actually fit for office? Are we to learn, six months from now that he succumbed to an illness that was well know within the inner circle of the Deep State ?
Lots of discussion today about the Orange Man's potential pardon of Mike Flynn. How long would it take a President Harris to 'pardon' Hunter Biden ?
[American Thinker] The perception that Joe Biden will soon be overseeing the country’s response to COVID-19 has unleashed a number of control freaks and social justice warriors in the medical establishment to show their true colors. Another example popped up on CNN yesterday when host Brooke Baldwin conducted a live Webex video interview with Ali S. Khan, MD during her afternoon program CNN Newsroom. Dr. Khan is the dean of the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. For 23 years before taking that position in 2014, he was a big shot at the Centers for Disease Control.
According to Khan, the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States is "self inflicted." This comment was apparently a slap at the Trump administration’s response to the Wuhan Virus although Baldwin did not ask Khan to elaborate.
[Newsmax Via Rantingly] Only 3% of those who voted for Donald Trump consider tallies showing Joe Biden winning the election are legitimate.
In stark contrast, a whopping 73% view the incumbent Republican as the rightful winner, a CNBC/Change Research poll released Tuesday said.
The results were relatively consistent among demographic groups sorted by age, education, and primary television news source. However, all 3% of those who believe Biden was the legitimate winner listed Fox News Channel as their primary source. Then a dig at Fox
(Since the election and dispute over the outcome, many in the Fox News audience have shifted to Newsmax, which has seen a sharp rise in ratings and demand for its online app among people critical of what they call Fox's increasingly muddled message on the current administration.)
The poll parallels a survey released by the communications and messaging firm Seven Letter, which said on Monday that 79% of Trump voters believe the election was, in fact, stolen.
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Great point made over at Ace; notice how little the big screens are going over how the wizard Biden out-performed Obama and Hillary! on the election circuit.
Its like they don't even want to talk about it, instead telling you to heel because it is already February and Biden is in charge, and soi boys making fantasy cabinet picks, and general nonsense about how great it is to be big screen.
[NTDNews] Laziness leads to sloppiness, and sloppiness is how the most brazen heist in American history is being exposed.
Stealing the 2020 election was a mammoth undertaking, involving widespread lawlessness and illicit partnerships between private actors and public officials. They've been working to cover their tracks since Election Day, but they didn't work fast enough. Now, the courts need to stop them from destroying any more evidence so that the people of Pennsylvania‐and the rest of the country‐can accurately assess the ramifications of their wrongdoing.
Explosive new litigation filed in federal district court on Nov. 21 details and documents a wide variety of illegal practices that were used to inflate the number of votes received by Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden, including disparate treatment of voters based on where they live and outright manipulation of Pennsylvania's voter registration system by partisan activists.
An unprecedented number of mail-in and absentee ballots were cast this year, and practically everyone expected that this would result in a higher-than-usual rate of ballots being rejected for various flaws, such as lacking a secrecy envelope or missing information. In Pennsylvania, tens or hundreds of thousands of ballots were likely to be rejected, based on historical patterns. Instead, a mere 0.03 percent of mail-in ballots were ultimately rejected‐somewhere in the neighborhood of about 1,000 votes.
Considering that a significant majority of mail-in votes were cast for Biden, the Democrat candidate benefited handsomely from this discrepancy. But how did this anomaly happen?
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I think they're relying on the threats of violence to push things in the direction they want to go. There are reports of the Chinese shipping a bunch of assault weapons to known Antifa addresses a few months back. Maybe they're true. Wouldn't necessarily be the only address they could have been shipped to.
So many to chose from, so little column space. A synopsis:
[Just the News] Here are the 12 most compelling pieces of evidence presented to the courts as of Sunday night:
Eleven, actually — unless my checking is off. But this reverse backer’s dozen is certainly enough to be going on with.
1. City of Detroit worker swears she witnessed thousands of ballots being falsified
2. Nearly three quarters of Detroit's precincts had mismatched voting totals
3. Unfolded, pristine mail-in ballots flagged in Georgia
4. Thousands of ballots went uncounted initially in Georgia, belatedly discovered during audit
5. Large numbers of Pennsylvania voters say their absentee votes weren't counted or someone else requested their mail-in ballot
6. Social worker charged in Texas with submitting voter registration applications for nursing home residents
7. Computer issue in Oakland County, Mich., blamed as a GOP incumbent belatedly declared winner after first being told he lost.
8. Antrim County, Mich., reversed election results after error found
9. Numerous Republicans poll observers in multiple states say they were improperly ejected
10. Voter drive in Nevada targeting Native Americans offered gifts as voting incentives
11. Los Angeles prosecutors uncover scheme in which thousands of fraudulent ballots cast
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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