Tag: Joe Biden

Winging it

By Steve Woodward

On Christmas Eve 2023, respected CBS News reporter Catherine Herridge joined a Face The Nation panel during which she was asked to crystal ball the coming new year. She made headlines by expressing concern that the United States has become vulnerable to a “Black Swan” event, a “national security event with high impact”.

Herridge cited a heightened homeland “threat level” (presumably, owed to the influx of millions of undocumented aliens across the U.S.-Mexico border) and emboldened adversaries who sense American weakness (China, Iran, North Korea and Russia). But she said something else. She observed that “we’re divided in this country in ways that I haven’t seen before.”

In February 2024, CBS News fired Herridge amid a network-wide culling of 20 employees instigated by its parent, Paramount, and temporarily seized her private files. At CBS, and previously during her years with Fox News, Herridge comported herself as a dedicated professional, the gold standard for reporting on national security. It was clear she never was a corrupt, agenda driven operative masquerading as a journalist. 

But when her instincts prompted Herridge to forecast a Black Swan scenario on national television she had to go. And now, in May 2024, we know why. In recent days, the foot soldiers of the Obama shadow government have begun, clearly in lockstep, issuing tightly veiled Black Swan alerts. They sound like cries of desperation from defeated individuals. They are emerging as polling continues to warn that Joe Biden will lose in his bid for re-election in November. 

As with everything the Left does, this is orchestrated. Deftly managed. I suspect that what we’ve seen in recent days is coded language communicated at the behest of Black Swan field generals. The objective is to soften the other side by lulling the MAGA masses into a state of invincibility that finds them making travel plans for Inauguration Day 2025.

In the various war rooms assigned to sustaining the Biden “campaign”, it’s Code Red time. And if the operatives were not already on high alert, tee up Donald Trump’s 100,000-patriot rally in Wildwood on the Jersey Shore last weekend. Assume that the Black Swan’s wings are extended and ready to take flight.

The play to look out for is the loyalists appearing to “throw in the towel”, symbolic of a fighter, bloodied and defeated. That’s not what James Carville is doing when he laments in a video post that his podcasts “don’t matter” because nothing is stopping Trump’s MAGA movement.  Your humble conservative observer assumes Carville is merely green lighting the escalation of the war on Trump. These Marxist Democrats do not give up. Like their Jihadist brethren, they play the long game.

On cue, The Weather Channel reports on May 13, 2024, that researchers are “racing” to contain a bird flu outbreak with epidemic potential. Well, how about that? Seems there are not enough testing devices to assess the potential threat. But they know one thing. In March a head of infected cattle passed a strain of flu to a rancher. That has rarely ever happened in human history.

In her weekly column in the weekend Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan writes that she senses a “fatalistic” atmosphere six months removed from the presidential election, referring to the Biden camp. “Political operatives, veterans and thinkers (are) now asking, honestly, if there is anything (Biden) can do to pull it out,” Noonan laments.

Listing the various cracks in the Biden armor, Noonan conveys the mindset of someone who is just now discovering the dumpster fire that is the Biden regime. 1. Interminable campus riots (she calls them “demonstrations”) will hurt Biden. Do you think? 2. Trump’s “criminal cases seem a bust.” Really? What an astute political observer.

Over at CNN, the stoic Fareed Zakaria joined the chorus of pearl clutching doomsayers during his Sunday program, GPS. “I have to admit — none of this is paying out as I thought it would,” he said as his brow deeply furrowed. And then he tapped the third rail of the Biden runaway economic train. “Inflation is a far more pervasive problem than unemployment,” Zaharia correctly notes, and it’s overshadowing “a relentless stream of good economic news” (a disingenuous characterization oft repeated by the likes of CNN). In other words, productive, hard working Americans (who vote) in the fly-over states are a bunch of cry babies about the pervasively high cost of living. 

On MSNBC, former Biden press secretary Jen Psaki went to a very dark place while awkwardly trying to explain why high profile Republicans are still backing Trump. “Maybe he’ll go to jail,” Psaki said. “Maybe he will die. Not to be too morbid, but maybe, I mean, he’s not a young man. Who knows what’s in their minds?”

Obviously, her “mind” is fertile ground for conspiracies. Or, maybe, in her circles, they call it optimism.

But let us revisit the technical definition of the Black Swan event. It is a “high-impact event that is difficult to predict under normal circumstances but that in retrospect appears to have been inevitable.” The inevitability of a coronavirus bioweapon sweeping the globe became logical once we understood the extreme risk of gain-of-function lab testing, in a Chinese lab no less. (Herridge, in early 2023, was among the first to report on COVID’s lab origins). 

And what exactly distinguishes black swans from white swans other than color? Black swans demonstrate “opportunistic responses to either rainfall or drought”. In other words, like the Left amid a financial plunge or an out-of-the-blue pandemic, they never fail to exploit crisis. 

Predicting the nature of a coming Black Swan event is a futile exercise. It is safe to assume, however, that if the Marxist Left now controlling the Democrat party is the architect the event will seek to retain or expand its power. That probably rules out a “hit” on Trump (which only motivates more Republicans to vote for his replacement). But remember what Trump has always said to growing millions comprising the MAGA armies. 

“They want to silence me because I will never let them silence you,” Trump said. “They’re not after me, they’re after you (emphasis added), and I just happen to be standing in the way.”

Alternative reality

By John Rowerdink

President Joe Biden’s August 31 speech on the Afghanistan withdrawal was ripe with statements requiring further examination.

  1. He says it’s an amazing success but does that comport with what you’ve seen?
  2. Then, in the next breath, he says there was no way to end this in some semblance of an honorable, organized way. It can’t be both an amazing success and an unavoidable mess. Which one have you seen unfold over the last couple of weeks?  Who are you going to believe — Biden or your lying eyes?
  3. He continues to confuse the decision and support for ending the war with the disgusting way he did it. 
  4. He continues to blame President Trump for this mess. Here are two questions about that:
    • With all we know about President Trump, do you think he would let himself be viewed as weak by the rest of the world?
    • Biden reversed all kinds of other decisions Trump made but he left this one in place. So where does that buck stop?
  5. If you see the list of military equipment we left behind, it will make you sick.
  6. How could the president, our diplomats and our military brass be so wrong about the Afghan army’s ability to hold the country for a few years? Did we not work with these people for 20 years?
  7. He said we would get every single American out before we left. Did we do that? No.
  8. We said we would protect the thousands of Afghans who worked with us and get them out if they wanted. Did we do that? No.
  9. We got about 123,000 people out. 5,000 of them were Americans who wanted to leave; 6,000 of them were our troops; and by all accounts, not many of them were the 60,000 Afghans who helped us during the war (give him 12,000 of them). Who were the other 100,000 that we got out and how were they selected? How good was our rushed vetting process? Did we just take whoever the Taliban decided to allow into the airport?  What’s the chance that some of them are terrorists?
  10. We gave the Taliban a list of the Afghans who helped us during the war. What do you suppose they’ll do with that list now that we’re gone?
  11. He says we will still get these people out. Yeah, right.
  12. He talks about our support for women and girls. Go back to Afghanistan in a few months and ask women and girls how they’re doing under the Taliban.
  13. In the days ahead, watch how many of our dollars the Biden administration is going to give the Taliban. So we fight them for 20 years, we then quit and leave them billions of dollars of our military equipment while we plead for them to help us. Then after we’re gone, we send them more taxpayer dollars. How disgusting is that? Is that what he calls an amazing success?
  14. His military advisors wanted him to leave 2,500 troops there to assist the Afghan army, which they had been doing for many months with no loss of American life. The bipartisan Afghanistan Study Group in Congress recommended that we leave troops there. Military testimony to their 2020 report warned that a withdrawal of the remaining 2,500 U.S. service members from Afghanistan would result in “catastrophic consequences for the security and stability of Afghanistan, including the potential resurgence of terrorist organizations that could threaten the U.S. homeland”.
  15. Our NATO allies wanted us to stay and continue to support this NATO mission.
  16. We have 28,000 troops in South Korea more than 60 years after the Korean War, successfully keeping the peace. We have 320,000 troops in Europe more than 70 years after the end of World War II. Was it really so hard to keep 2,500 in Afghanistan? 
  17. But no, Biden wanted zero and this screwed up mess is what we ended up with. 
  18. The President of the United States is living in an alternative reality

Trump 2.0

By Steve Woodward

What I learned at the North Carolina Republican Party Convention in Greenville:

Ernie’s Sub Shop (since 1980) is legitimate, and the best alternative to the NC GOP’s offerings, which left delegates craving airline food.

The ballroom of the Greenville Hilton is a cramped and stifling venue in which conducting a convention is not advisable. It surely was designed by a radical Lefty because it divides people and limits their ability to be heard.

President Donald Trump is reflective but not defeated six months after his inexplicable “loss”, and no longer opposes Joe Bidden as a “sleepy” adversary but as an enemy of our nation’s core values.

His Saturday night (June 5) address to dehydrated convention delegates and donors was, in many ways, vintage Trump. Our “45″ chided the media (which was assembled en masse), China (and its clear role in unleashing the Wuhan virus), and the Biden administration’s already collapsing economy and stature around the world.

What Trump did not do to any significant degree is belabor Biden’s obvious physical and mental limitations, other than mentioning Biden’s talent at falling “up” the stairs to the door of Air Force One. He pointed to the debacle caused by Dr. Anthony Fauci’s deceit, which fueled Wuhan virus hysteria. He acknowledged that he made a huge “bet” when directing the federal government to underwrite the launch of Operation Warp Speed, which ultimately delivered on his promise of virus vaccines in record time by sidestepping normal Food and Drug Administration testing. 

Those like me who were at the White House ellipse on January 6, shivering in bitter cold, and in the Greenville Convention Center on June 5 shivering under blasting air conditioning, could not have escaped the conclusion that Trump has bounced back from the November election outcome more so than many of us. 

That is reason enough to enter the road to 2022 and beyond rejuvenated and determined. The man who remains the heart and soul of the Republican Party is counting on that. (Not to mention the inspiration we can draw from South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who spoke with the eloquence of a leader and the common sense of a rancher during her June 5 convention luncheon appearance).

As demonstrated in Greenville, even if Trump never again runs for elected office, the sheer force of his personality will assist state parties in raising millions of dollars to support Republican campaigns. NC GOP chairman Michael Whatley informed delegates that Trump’s presence guaranteed that last Saturday’s fundraiser would reap the largest collection in party history. By four times, in fact.

In the unlikely event that Trump decides not to run for President in 2024, he will have positioned the Republican Party’s conservatives to rise up in defiance of the Socialist tsunami sweeping upon our shores. As our culture crumbles, constitutional rights slip away, religious freedoms evaporate, inflation soars and economic growth stagnates, we must look to the Trump example. We stand firm. We don’t back down. We elect candidates who execute on their promises from day one. We make America great again. Again.

Live not by lies

By Steve Woodward

The famed dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn urged brave souls living under Soviet tyranny to “live not by lies” before he was sent into exile in 1974.

Tyrannical movements demand the opposite. Accept and embellish the lies. Socialism. Communism. Marxism. Totalitarianism. These faded into oblivion in Eastern Europe and within a crumbled Soviet Union after 1989. But their advocates never became extinct like a species can. The lies never were buried, dead and gone.

Like a gene that mutates, the gospel according to Socialism never evaporated. It lurked like a virus. In 2020, it has been revived in ways its old guard might never have imagined. Socialism is more virulent, even more difficult to contain, than Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Wuhan “virus”.

Under Fauci, and the legions of governors and mayors who have embraced his rhetoric, the lies have become the only way to live. If you deny them, you die. Probably. Maybe. At a rate of .1 percent.

I write from the Florida Keys where, tonight, I watched arriving guests taking in a glorious sunset, masked, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. They are willing to spend thousands of dollars to be pampered in a resort, yet they do not, will not, push back on the absurdity of the mask. A spa employee had no comeback when I noted that she demanded a mask be worn, by me, during a massage but only when I was face up. “I should have requested a facial instead,” I said. She laughed. Did the hypocrisy actually register within her hijacked brain?

It would encourage me to warn that Socialism is at our doorstep in the United States. But I can’t in good faith say that. Socialism is deep inside, in the church pew, in the school board meeting, in the board of elections, in the examination room where you meet privately with your physician. It is more widespread than than the Chinese Virus.

If you doubt the severity of the moment, read “Live Not By Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents” by Rod Dreher (2020, Sentinel Books).

Excerpts:

“Communists justified the imprisonment, ruin, and even the execution of people who stood in the way of Progress as necessary to achieve historical justice over alleged exploiters of privilege. A softer, bloodless form of the same logic is at work in American institutions.”

“The social justice cultists of our day (the mask wearers) are pale imitations of Lenin and his fiery disciples. Aside from the ruthless Antifa faction, they restrict their violence to words and bullying within bourgeois institutional contexts. They prefer to push around college administrators, professors, and white-collar (today, soft-collar) professionals. … Social Justice Warriors get their way not by shedding blood (like Bolsheviks) but by shedding tears.”

“(Karl) Marx likened religion to a drug because it bunted the pain of life for the masses, and in his view, took away from them the consciousness that they had the power to overturn the social order that immigrated them. … This why Christians today must understand that, fundamentally, they aren’t resisting a different politics but rather what is effectively a rival religion.”

The Biden voters did not vote for a man, for a platform, or for “change”. They voted, and their corrupt enablers helped them, “vote” for the religion of social justice. Thus, we must not back down from overturning this hijacked election. Socialism is here, beyond the doorstep. Lock your doors. Open your minds.

Miscalculation

By Steve Woodward

Set this scene in your mind. Two high level Chinese government apparatchiks, chain smoking in a conference room. Their frustration levels are high.

What is it about this “American spirit”? These American farmers keep farming even when we punish their exporting potential with tariffs. Their manufacturers keep producing. Their consumers keep buying. Their citizens keep worshipping a god. And they elected Donald Trump, a man who mocks us, as their President.

We have flooded the United States with addictive fentanyl. We have flooded their pharmaceutical industry with tainted generic drugs. We have robbed their corporations of intellectual property. We have compromised them at the highest levels of their government. We own Barack Obama and Joe Biden. And Biden’s son.

What more can we do? Cigarettes at the ready, they contemplate more deeply.

One inhales a cloud of nicotine. “We have the lab in Wuhan.”

Seven months into the Great Wuhan Virus Lockdown in the United States and across the world, intelligent people have attempted to connect the dots between the origin of the virus and the objectives of its perpetrators. These attempts repeatedly are shot down by the Left in our country as conspiratorial, anti-science and, in all cases, irrelevant because the virus is here, and we’re all doomed. And, since it’s convenient let’s just blame President Trump.

Maybe Chinese researchers were not actually so evil to the core that they willfully unleashed a mysterious virus across the planet. Maybe it was accidental. But what is no accident is how quickly the Left and the corrupt American media turned on a dime to exploit the virus right on cue in an election year.

The Biden “campaign” is calculating that it can run out the clock, blame Trump for all of the collateral damage inflicted by the Wuhan Virus, then sit back and let the media pile on. It is so confident that this will play out that even the emergence of Hunter Biden’s scandalous business deals with China and Ukraine have been no cause for overt panic. (Hopefully, this week’s presidential debate will force Joe Biden to explain why he brokered these deals for his son and the Biden family).

Federal, state and local Democrat candidates, incumbents and challengers alike, are supremely confident as well. As long as they have a death toll and daily cases to magnify, they will assure themselves that Americans will oblige and vote for Democrats as a vote for life and a permanent presumption of absolute safety. They’re just as certain voters will ignore the Left’s endorsement of Black Lives Matter’s Marxist anarchists. 

We watched last week, during a pro-freedom rally ahead of the Moore County Board of Education’s scheduled meeting as Democrat U.S. House candidate (NC-52) Lowell Simon shouted down a registered nurse for daring to inform the assembled of his recent experiences. The nurse said cases of patients being treated for Wuhan Virus minus accompanying health conditions at Moore Regional numbered no more than eight. “That’s a lie,” retorted Simon, his rage masked, literally. 

The Left can swarm our communities with virtue signaling mask police all it wants, but it will never succeed at masking the carnage imposed on our country and its largely healthy people when it leveraged the Wuhan Virus so deceptively so many months ago.

There is something else spreading as a result: Outrage among people lining up even now at early voting sites. Citizens are outraged by a crippled economy that was robust seven months ago; outraged by the devastation of Governor Roy Cooper’s savage lockdowns, which are compromising public education, forcing parents to quit jobs to stay home with their kids; and outraged by a Democrat-infested Moore school board that says K-5 students will not return to school on a regular schedule until January 2021, at the earliest.

We are “science deniers,” scolds the Left, hiding behind science-driven theories proven wrong so often. But what they cannot hide has been their lust to impose tyranny on the American people, and they’ve miscalculated the fallout. You read it here.