Beijing (pop. 24 million) was the site of an absolutely remarkable happening. This may very well be a first in the history of communist China.
Last week, the CDC Director finally stated the obvious. During an interview, Rochelle Walensky said her agency mishandled significant parts of its responsibilities during COVID. I would say that the damage that’s been done to public trust in the CDC simply cannot be overstated. It will take a very long time before trust in the CDC will be restored.
At every step along the way, the CDC has appeared inept and flatfooted, even during the Trump administration. It’s only gotten worse under Walensky’s leadership.
So where do we begin with this?
Perhaps Walensky should step down. At least that would take her out of the running for the most inept appointment of the current administration.
There is every reason to question the motives behind this raid. This is especially true when you consider the lack of attention to Hillary’s email server, the Carter Page warrants, the Russian “collusion” hoax, the utterly damning evidence on Hunter Biden’s laptop that still has not been properly pursued by investigators, and on and on.
This raid on a former President’s home is unprecedented and has all the markings of a total abuse of political power. It looks like Deep State malfeasance at its best and a complete descent into totalitarianism at its worst. Every American ought to be alarmed and outraged over this.
This will be an attempt to outline the story behind how we have gotten to where we are today in this country. And, to be clear, that story is the fact that the DOJ and the FBI are now weapons being used by the administration in power to target political opposition.
Sundance over at CTH is fond of quoting that once you have seen the marionette strings, you cannot unsee them. Mike Turner, a Republican congressman from Ohio, took the place of Devin Nunes as the ranking member on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) when Nunes left Congress.
On Sunday, Turner was interviewed on CBS by Ed O’Keefe about the illegal and unconstitutional raid on PDJT’s home at Mar-a-Lago. These men are two puppets who play their roles in trying to indict PDJT in the public’s mind. This is the only approach where the characters behind the curtain have any hope of being successful.
There have been many opinions offered about the raid on Mar-a-Lago. The backlash that the DOJ and the FBI have gotten over this raid is phenomenal. Attorney Robert Barnes has weighed in.
One Alec Rawls has written an excellent piece on what is going on with the Mar-a-Lago raid. It does not address all the issues but does an excellent job on the intent of the Demo-Communists who would turn the country into a totalitarian state.
“The result of preaching totalitarian doctrines is to weaken the instinct by means of which free peoples know what is or is not dangerous.” — George Orwell, Animal Farm
Perhaps no quote is more apropos for our times about what is going on in western countries right now. Bob Livingston has written an essay that pours sunlight on this idea.
Is the raid that took place a week ago in Mar-A-Lago something that happens in third world countries? Rasmussen did a poll.
The results:
One of the things that Sundance over at The Conservative Treehouse constantly reminds us is that we need to see things as they are not how we wished them to be. We are in a battle to save our country from an evil and corrupt enterprise. We need to take the scales down from our eyes and learn a new way to live with and deal with the world. Wake up, adapt, improvise, and overcome.
WARNING: Satire ahead!
As the leftist media has done so many times recently, they tried to change the definition of a word to suit their agenda. The word is “raid.” The leftist commentators thought the word was “too harsh” to be used in reference to the raid on PDJT’s home in Florida.
However, in a rare display of backbone, the Merriam-Webster people were unwilling to do so. The definition still includes “a sudden invasion by officers of the law.” Now one might quibble with the idea that FBI are actual officers of the law. However, at this moment they are still technically such. So, a raid is what it was.
With criticism mounting, The Babylon Bee published an article on Christopher Wray’s response.