For the sake of this post we have to assume two things; first, that the party conventions are still going to happen and second, that there is still going to be a free election in November…or ever again for that matter. On those assumptions here we go.
The Democratic party is hoping we will not see a repeat of the 2016 election when disgruntled Bernie Sanders supporters stayed home en masse rather than vote for Hillary Clinton after the party rigged the process to give her the nomination. This year the circumstances were a little different but there is enough evidence for Bernie Sanders supporters to come to the conclusion that the system was again rigged against their candidate. It was…
However we are seeing indications which show disgruntled supporters of the Democratic Socialist are not giving up the fight to get their candidate the nomination even though he has already dropped out of the race.
They are hoping, and they believe, there is still a chance that the Democratic Party will replace Joe Biden as the nominee at the convention and it could all hinge on the sexual assault allegations which have been levied against the former Vice-President.
Here is more:
While the mainstream media has mostly kept a lid on this story, the sexual assault allegations by Tara Reade against presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden aren’t going away soon. As PJM’s Rick Moran reported earlier this week, the D.C. police are treating the allegations as an “active and ongoing” investigation.
Briahna Joy Gray, Bernie Sanders’ former campaign press secretary, who has been a vocal critic of Biden, suggested in an interview with The Atlantic that the allegations might just thwart Biden’s nomination at the Democratic National Convention.
Gray told Emma Green that the Democratic primary is far from over. “The Democratic Party would like us to believe [we’re now in the general election season], and they behaved that way even before Bernie Sanders dropped out of the race. But we are, in fact, still in a Democratic-primary season. Biden is only the presumptive nominee,” she said, before adding, “And there’s all kinds of whispers and rumors about whether or not something might happen at the convention, which might mean Joe Biden isn’t even the nominee.”
“There’s a lot of reasons why Democrats might want to substitute a different person for Joe Biden as the nominee,” said Gray. “The Tara Reade allegation has been handled abysmally by the press. If anyone looks at this closely, then they will see reason for concern.”
Briahna Joy Gray is a former press secretary for Bernie Sanders so we do not know if there truly are rumors or if these are the hopeful rumblings of the former candidate’s supporters. Either way, this could be a troubling sign for the Democrats if and when they do head into the convention.
It does send out the signal that Bernie Sanders supporters are not quite ready to give up the fight just yet and, as the article I linked to above states, these people have a vested interest in keeping the Joe Biden sexual assault story alive. If Bernie Sanders and/or his people can keep the story in the press, despite the press and the Democratic leaders attempts at suppressing it, it could pose a real problem for Joe Biden.
Would they be willing enough to do so much damage to Joe Biden in an attempt to get their guy the nomination that when their bid fails the former Vice-President will no longer be a viable candidate? Honestly, I do not think they think that far into the future and I also do not think they care who wins the Presidency of it is not going to be the Vermont Socialist and they proved the later when they stayed home the last time around.
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Over the last several years we have seen frustrated gun-grabbers open up a second front in their war on the Constitution. Because their attack on the second amendment has not been as successful as they hoped they decided to focus on ammunition. It makes sense, if you cannot get the guns out of the hands of the citizens then make it so the guns are useless by taking away the ammunition.
Back in 2016 California passed a law requiring background checks for all ammunition purchases. The intent was obviously to make it too onerous for lawful gun owners to purchase ammunition, as well as clogging up and slowing down the system frustrating lawful gun owners into submission.
This law was challenged in court and today a Federal Judge blocked the law, here is more:
A federal judge Thursday blocked background checks for ammunition buyers in California, calling the state’s law on the matter “onerous and convoluted.”
San Diego-based U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez granted a preliminary injunction against the rule after plaintiffs, including the California Rifle and Pistol Association and six-time Olympic medalist skeet shooter Kim Rhode, sued the state.
“California’s new ammunition background check law misfires, and the Second Amendment rights of California citizens have been gravely injured,” he wrote. “In this action, Plaintiffs seek a preliminary injunction enjoining California’s onerous and convoluted new laws requiring ammunition purchase background checks and implementing ammunition anti-importation laws.”
The judge argued that the checks hurt legal ammo buyers while doing little to prevent criminals from obtaining firepower. “Criminals, tyrants and terrorists don’t do background checks,” Benitez wrote.
I would be shocked if California does not appeal the decision but at least for now this is a victory and right about now I will take any victory we can get.
malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium
People are finally beginning to get upset at the government’s authoritarian response to COVID-19 and they are beginning to push back. People are now starting to take to the streets in protest because they are sick and tired of the government telling them they are only allowed to work, eat, and sleep. In in most cases the people are not even allowed to work, these people are stuck in the homes and in their yards and it is no wonder they are getting upset.
Now some of the politicians are starting to be questioned by the media and they do not like it. Take the smarmy Andrew Cuomo and his response to a question about non-essential workers not being able to make ends meet. When asked about letting people go back to work he almost sounded offended by the idea and this is what he had to say about non-essential workers who would like to make a living:
“You want to go to work, go take a job as an essential worker,” Cuomo said. “Do it tomorrow.”
“There are people hiring. You can get a job as an essential worker, so now you can go to work and now you are an essential worker and now you won’t kill anyone,”
That is a “let them eat cake” comment if I have ever heard one. We have talked about how demeaning the term “non-essential worker” is in the past, to think that the government believes what you do for a living is not important is offensive. Every job is essential to the person who holds it and every business is essential to the person who owns it.
But Andrew Cuomo’s solution to a problem his government created is even more offensive; if you are non-essential and you would like to feed your family and keep the roof over your head just go out tomorrow and get a job the government deems is important, otherwise just shut up. How hard can it be?
That comment alone tells us everything we need to know about the government elites. And what about that comment about not killing anyone if you are essential? Isn’t the risk greater that you would infect and kill somebody or become infected and die if you are in the workforce? It makes no sense.
malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium
I think it is safe to say that most people in this country are tired of the tyranny and long for the day when the government allows people to get back to their normal lives. Most people are ready to get on with their lives and would like to see their family and friends again, and most people would like to go to work to earn a living so they can put food on the table and pay the bills that have been piling up because the government stole their livelihood from them.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a different idea however; because Donald Trump wants to get Americans working and living again the New York Representative wants people to say screw that. Here is what she had to say:
“When we have this discussion about going back or reopening, I think a lot of people should just say, ‘no, we’re not going back to that. We’re not going back to working 70 hour weeks just so that we can put food on the table and not even feel any sort of semblance of security in our lives.’”
Those who still have jobs to go back to after this lock down is over should just say no in order to spite the President. You can tell that AOC does not live in the real world any more and because she personally is unaffected by the lock down it is easy for her to tell people not to make money to pay the bills.
malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium
Sunday, April 19th open thread: ‘Anarchy in the UK’
“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24 KJV)
Here is this week’s open thread. Please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the course of the day. Nothing is off-topic here.
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Here is the Sex Pistols performing “Anarchy in the UK” live in 1978. I chose this version because this was from a gig in the United States and Johnny Rotten changed the lyrics to “anarchy in the USA.” It seemed fitting to me today, of course I would never advocate anarchy but maybe we could use just a little…
Believe it or not while the Republicans have given up the fight over Hillary Clinton’s “lost” emails Judicial Watch continues to fight for the truth and according to this story the conservative watchdog group has subpoenaed Google. Here is more:
On Wednesday, Judicial Watch issued a subpoena to Google, demanding emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that were supposedly sent to a Gmail account before being deleted. The subpoena is part of a long-term Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking “talking points or updates on the Benghazi attack” which also involves a court-ordered deposition of Clinton herself. This FOIA request uncovered Clinton’s insecure private home-brew server in 2015.
“A federal court, tired of the State and Justice Departments’ gamesmanship, authorized Judicial Watch’s subpoena to Google to follow a lead on the Clinton emails,” Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, said in a statement. “DOJ and State are AWOL and covering up for Hillary Clinton, so it is again up to Judicial Watch to do the basic investigative heavy lifting to get at the truth.”
The Google subpoena, announced Wednesday, demands the Big Tech company produce all Clinton emails from a Google account believed to contain Clinton’s emails. Platte River Networks’ IT specialist Paul Combetta reportedly used a Google account to transfer Clinton’s emails from a laptop to a Platte River server, then used BleachBit to remove any traces of the emails from the laptop. The subpoena seeks all Clinton emails from her time at State, between January 21, 2009 and February 1, 2013. Google must turn over the emails by May 13.
According to the allegations these emails were uploaded to Google before the former Secretary of State used BleachBit to destroy them so there is the possibility that these emails still exist. I would not count on it after all of this time but at least Judicial Watch is out there still fighting to get to the truth.
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Illinois judge rules Health Department must give police the names of all COVID-19 patients
We are beginning to see some very dangerous trends–in addition to having all of our rights thrown out the window–as a response to the so-called COVID-19 threat. We have lost all of our rights during the pandemic and now the stage is being set to usurp our rights when the pandemic is over. They are calling this usurpation a “new normal” but I prefer to call it what it is.
We have already learned that millions of Americans are being tracked through the advertisers on their cell phones and Jared Kushner wants to create a COVID-19 surveillance system, Doctor Fauci has floated the idea of people needing vaccination or COVID-19 immunity papers to travel, and now the talk is about inserting a microchip in everybody. There is also an app being developed which would track COVID-19 positive people and allow others to know when somebody around them has the virus.
All of these are violations of a person’s right to privacy and while we are on that subject, a judge in Illinois has ruled that a county Health Department must give the police the names of all of the people in that county who have COVID-19. Here is more:
The McHenry County, Illinois, Health Department (MCHD) had refused to provide the names of all coronavirus (COVID-19) patients to police – but, on Friday, Judge Michael Chmiel ruled the MCHD must do so.
The McHenry County state’s attorney’s office had sued MCHD to force it to begin supplying patients’ names to local law enforcement, prompting the judge’s ruling, The Chicago Tribune reports:
“On Friday, McHenry County Judge Michael Chmiel entered a temporary restraining order mandating that the Health Department disclose to police the names of those actively infected with COVID-19.”
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“The Health Department refused to reveal the names, prosecutors stated in a news release. Health departments have typically cited privacy concern in withholding such information, specifically the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.”
So much for the HIPPA laws, the patient’s right to privacy, and the patient/doctor relationship. Sure this might only be one county in one state but we know it will spread quicker than the virus itself until the police in every state have the names of all COVID-19 patients.
This is no longer tinfoil hat material, the threat of this virus is being used to usurp our rights and track our movements. The Illuminati are finally making their move after years of softening the American people and we are reaching a critical point in our history. Will we be willing give up our freedom or will we stand up and say enough is enough? It may not be long before we long for the days when we at least had our fettered freedom…
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