Another day, another CCP spy found on Congressional staff. This time if is Congressman Eric Swalwell, who Longley and loudly proclaimed President Donald Trump a Russian spy, from Red State:
As I wrote yesterday, an explosive report from Axios detailed how a Chinese spy was able to ingratiate herself to multiple politicians, including Democrat Russia Hoax pusher Eric Swalwell (see Explosive Report Reveals Chinese Spy Bundled Donations for Russia Truther Eric Swalwell). She apparently bundled donations for his campaign and managed to get close enough to him for there to have been a personal relationship present. That carried on until the FBI gave him a defensive briefing which provided the out for him to cut ties and walk away. It was all very convenient.
From Federalist:
Two sources directly familiar with the counterintelligence investigation of Fang told The Federalist that she and Swalwell had a sexual relationship. Federal officials were so concerned about the romantic relationship between a U.S. congressman and a suspected Chinese spy that they even investigated whether Swalwell may have tipped Fang off about the counterintelligence investigation after he was given a defensive briefing on the matter shortly before Fang disappeared from the U.S. in 2015. A senior U.S. intelligence official told The Federalist that investigators only uncovered limited circumstantial evidence that Swalwell may have tipped Fang off after he was warned of her connections to Chinese intelligence.
When asked by The Federalist about these allegations, as well as if the representative had any plans to resign from his positions on House intelligence committees or if he ever briefed the committees on his conflict of interest, Swalwell’s office refused to address them and instead pointed back to the generalized statement they gave Axios.
`From NY Post Republicans-not-told-about-swalwells-relationship-with-spy/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener” Two sources directly familiar with the counterintelligence investigation of Fang told The Federalist that she and Swalwell had a sexual relationship. Federal officials were so concerned about the romantic relationship between a U.S. congressman and a suspected Chinese spy that they even investigated whether Swalwell may have tipped Fang off about the counterintelligence investigation after he was given a defensive briefing on the matter shortly before Fang disappeared from the U.S. in 2015. A senior U.S. intelligence official told The Federalist that investigators only uncovered limited circumstantial evidence that Swalwell may have tipped Fang off after he was warned of her connections to Chinese intelligence.
When asked by The Federalist about these allegations, as well as if the representative had any plans to resign from his positions on House intelligence committees or if he ever briefed the committees on his conflict of interest, Swalwell’s office refused to address them and instead pointed back to the generalized statement they gave Axios.
“The speaker has full confidence in Congressman Swalwell’s service in the Congress and on the Intelligence Committee,” Hammill added.
I can’t say when Speaker Shampoo knew the congressman was banging fang, the CCP spy. However the Speaker knows now and simply does not care. Speaker Shampoo may have full confidence in Congressman Bang Fang. However does a majority of the House have confidence in Speaker Shampoo?
And to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, when and to whom did the FBI brief the appropriate members of Congress?
Addendum Eric:
I still suggest that this is the second most embarrassing TV moment for Swalwell.
3 years from now, some of you will look back & admit that you spent an entire year of your life wearing a mask, cooped up in your house & avoiding all the people you love. 😭 A year in your life that you’ll never get back.
Every single day is a risk.
Car accident, flu, etc.
Our days were numbered from the moment we took our first breath. Life isn’t a race where we win against the inevitable! That has not changed since the beginning of time!
BUT, we should not be forced to live in fear.
We went from being a free nation to being told we:
🚫 couldn’t go to school
🚫 couldn’t go to church
🚫 couldn’t go to our grandma’s house
🚫 couldn’t pay respects to a loved one through a funeral
🚫 couldn’t leave our homes
…and when we were allowed to do these things, we were told:
📢 how long we could be there
📢 how far apart we have to be
📢 which direction to walk
📢 what to wear
📢 what we can buy/not buy
📢 where we could shop/not shop
📢 whether we could sing/worship/take communion
📢 what time we had to be home
Yes, our health matters.
But you know what else matters?
✅ Family.
✅ Friends.
✅ Church.
✅ School.
✅ Sporting events.
✅ Family vacations.
✅ Neighborhood BBQs.
✅ Life.
✅ Fitness.
✅ Hugs.
✅ visiting the hospitalized
Etc..etc…
💔 One day, you’ll hug your grandma, mom, dad, or brother for the last time.
💔 One day, your best friend will cry on your shoulder for the last time.
💔 One day, your child will play their last hockey game.
💔 One day, they’ll have their last day of school.
💔 One day, you’ll spend your last day laughing with a loved one.
💔 One day, you’ll dance your last dance.
Don’t waste the days you have by living in fear.
Your time here on earth matters.
Live your life while you have the chance.
GOD IS GONNA CALL YOU HOME WHEN IT’S YOUR TIME.
VIRUS OR NO VIRUS
#FaithOverFear / #FreedomMatters / #RiseUp / #WakeUp
Please copy & paste it.
I did.
Now if you’ll remember, I’ve been saying all along that the Russia collusion BS was being driven by China.
So along comes additional proof in the form of Eric Swalwellas documented by Bryan Preston, among other people…
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) spent the entire (first?) Trump term screaming that the president was cozy with, even a puppet of, Russia and Vladimir Putin. Swalwell practically based his entire presidential run on the tale, even after the Mueller report cleared the president of any alleged collusion.
Accused Chinese spy Christine Fang successfully targeted several Bay Area Democrats including Swalwell for several years. Her connection to him was deeper than most; according to Axios, which broke the story, Fang engaged in fundraising for Swalwell.
The spy case became so serious and widespread — Fang reportedly slept with more than one of her targets — the FBI stepped in to stop her. She fled the country in 2015 and cut off contact with her dupes.
Remember what I said in 2018:.
Personally, I can’t help but wonder if the Chinese aren’t a couple of layers underneath all of this business with Russia. The two of them have never been tremendous allies, and given what we know about “Driving Miss Feinstein“, (stealing Roger’s phrase), I can’t help but think that the weapons of mass distraction being brought to bear on this is just the thing to cover the Chinese’s backsides in their operations.
If the Russians were involved in the most recent election, you can bet your baseball bat, your cowboy hat, and your house cat that the Chinese were, as well. The attempts of China to influence our politics through the Democrats is hardly new. There’s no question in my mind that the Chinese had the Clintons in their pocket for at least 30 years. (History)
Do any of you doubt that the Chinese had their fingers into the DNC servers as well as Hillary Clinton’s personal email server, neither one of which had security that a high school student couldn’t break into?
Nor has that effort ceased.
And now, Swalwell has showed just how correct my instincts were.
But…
“Being accused of having sex with a Chinese spy is still the second most embarrassing thing to happen to@ericswalwell on national TV.”
Remember the face mask business and bending the curve and all of that has nothing to do with saving your backside. The government is busy trying to save its backside.
If nothing else, covid-19 is probably the best argument yet again\nst government controlled healthcare..
The government has been integral in planning bed space in hospitals. They didn’t plan on this number of people getting sick. So rather than have people ask questions about lack of bed space because of their inappropriate planning, the people making those decisions are telling you it’s all your fault for getting sick.
Sitting in your house with a mask on for a year which is what this amounts to It’s not going to save you from this virus. Government mandates are not going to save you from this virus. Nothing can. Eventually, everyone on the planet is going to be exposed to this virus in one form or another. Sorry, that’s simply the way it is, that’s the way viruses work.
Again, bending the curve wearing masks staying home shutting down the economy and protecting us from life is not going to protect us from the virus. It’s protecting government.
It’s really that simple.
Mind you, this is just a personal list… Courtesy of Devin Nunez
- Trump is a long-time Russian agent, as described in the Steele dossier.
- The Russians gave Trump advance access to emails stolen from the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign.
- The Trump campaign based some of its activities on these stolen documents.
- Trump received nefarious materials from the Russians through a Trump Campaign aide.
- Trump laundered Russian money through real estate deals.
- Trump was blackmailed by Russia through his financial exposure with Deutsche Bank.
- Trump had a diabolical plan to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.
- Trump changed the Republican National Committee platform to hurt Ukraine and benefit Russia.
- The Russians laundered money through the NRA for the Trump campaign.
- Trump’s son in law lied about his Russian contacts while obtaining his security clearance
And of course the mainstream media jumped on every bit of it like it had been handed down on two tablets of stone.
That list has gotten significantly longer since Devin Nunez made that speech incidental to the impeachment drum head trials of the time.
And of course there’s the other actions of the Democrats to consider:
Sharon Blackton FB comment:
“For the last 4+ years, the Democrats have scorched the earth. You have salted the fields, and now you want to grow crops.
The problem is we have memories. . .
*We remember the women’s march the day after the inauguration.
*We remember the 4 years of attacks and impeachments
*We remember “not our president” and the “Resistance…
*We remember Maxie Walters telling followers to harass us in restaurants.
*We remember the Presidents spokesperson being kicked out of a restaurant.
*We remember hundreds of Trump supporters physically attacked.
*We remember Trump supporters getting Doxxed and fired from jobs.
*We remember riots and looting
We remember “a comedian” holding up the President’s severed head!
*We remember a play in Central park paid with public funding, showing the killing of President Trump!
*We remember Robert de Niro yelling “F” Trump” at the Tony’s and getting a standing ovation!
*We remember Nancy Pelosi tearing up the State of the Union Address!
*We remember the total in the tank move on the mainstream media!
*We remember the non-stop and live fact-checking on our President and his supporters.
*We remember non-stop in your face lies and open cover-ups from the media.
*We remember the President and his staff being spied on.
*We remember five Senators shot on a ballfield.
*We remember every so-called comedy show turn into nothing but Trump hate fest.
*We remember 95% negative coverage in the news.
*We remember the state governors asking and getting everything they ask for and then blaming Trump for their problems.
*We remember a Trump top aid verbally assaulted in two DC restaurants.
*We remember people banging on the Supreme Court doors.
*We remember that we were called every name in the book for supporting President Trump.
*We remember that Hollywood said they would leave after Trump was elected, but they stayed.
This list is endless, but you get the idea.
And so after all of that we are expected to believe that the Democrats and their minions in the supposed mainstream media are telling the truth when they tell us that Joe Biden won the election, particularly in light of the evidence of tampering that’s come up both repeatedly and in every state where Joe Biden supposedly won. we are expected to believe that a man that couldn’t draw enough people to Israelis to fill a phone booth (versus the absolutely huge crowds that Donald Trump brought in,) managed to receive more votes than any presidential candidate in history my friends that is a mathematical and logical impossibility that cannot be ignored.
And after salting and scorching the Earth for so long, now the Democrats are saying that we should all get behind Joe Biden and that we need unity more than anything else.
The reality is that even had Joe Biden gotten elected legitimately which he has not the Democrats would not have earned unity in any stretch of the imagination given their actions.
But add the illegitimacy of this election (the words of the Federal Election Commission chairman, not mine..) and unity stands about the same chances as powering our energy needs by unicorn farts.
The truth of the matter is that not only will there not be unity there will not even be room for negotiation. Take a serious look at the Democrat party over the last five years and longer, and tell me on what basis we are supposed to compromise with them? Go ahead, tell me there’s any room for compromise with these people.
The President of the United States(POTUS) pardoned Lt. General Michael Flynn over a week ago. Yet for reasons unknown, or maybe not, the presiding judge, Emmet Sullivan has not closed the case. The same judge who refused to dismiss the case after the DOJ dismissed the case, is now refusing to accept the President’s pardon.
Beyond the pale is not beyond the realm of Sullivan. Is Judge Sullivan planning on keeping the case open until demented Joe Biden is President? If this is Sullivan’s plan, who else is in on it?
Hat tip: Just the News
The late, great Sir Sean Connery almost always played a hero. However while Sir Sean’s heroes seemed akin to bastardly villains, he was on your side.
The greatest threat to global civilization today is the Chinese Communist Party(CCP). With patriots in short supply, we need all we can get especially in our federal government. Enter Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn, who Tweeted:
China has a 5,000 year history of cheating and stealing. Some things will never change…
The good senator apparently singed the short hairs of a CCP journalist one Chen Weihua, who tweeted the rather pithy comeback of “Bitch” Weihua. later added Blackburn was “the most racist and ignorant senator” the he had ever seen. I am not sure what Senators Weihua has ever seen. However I can ensure him the the Senate has never been mistaken for a branch of Mensa. However, at time it could passed for chapter of the Klu Klux KLan. On to specifics, when it comes to racism, Blackburn holds no candle to the late Bobby “Sheets”, and as Blackburn speaks in literate sentences, she far outshines a former Senator from Delaware, Slow Joe Biden. Then maybe Weihua was trying not to offend his puppet.
As for Weihua’s description of the good senator as a Bitch, I suggest she take as a compliment and wear it as badge of honor. Much like the 101st Airborne, the Screaming Eagles also known was the Battling Bastards of Bastogne. Well done Senator.
THE ELECTION FIX, Part 68-Nevada Update:
Voting Machine USB Drives Had Totals Altered Overnight, Witness in Nevada Election Contest Alleges
BY IVAN PENTCHOUKOV December 3, 2020
A witness brought forward by the Trump campaign in its election contest in Nevada alleged that the memory disks used to store vote totals from election machines during the early vote period had the vote tallies inexplicably changed overnight, according to a presentation at an evidentiary hearing in Carson City on Dec. 3.
According to Jesse Binnall, who presented the evidence on behalf of the Trump campaign, the witness, whose name is shielded by a protective order, said that the vote tallies were collected from the machine at the end of every voting day and stored on Universal Serial Bus (USB) drives overnight.
“What they would do is they would log these disks in and out. Good practice. And the disks had a serial number on them. And numerous times that disk would be logged out with one vote total on it and logged back in the next morning during the early vote period with a different number on it. Sometimes more, sometimes less,” Binnall said.
“What that means is that literally in the dead of night, votes were appearing, and books are disappearing on these machines.”
Binnall said that the USB drives were not encrypted and the voting machines were not password protected. “And they were hooked up with laptops, then where the laptops themselves could have been compromised,” he added.
The allegation about the vote total alterations was one of several Binnall presented during an evidentiary hearing, the first of its kind for the Trump legal team’s six-state post-election effort.
Stay tuned and know corporate media and big tech are the enemy of We The People
Peter Feaman, RPOF National Committeeman
We’ start with the following graphic:
We now have Joe Biden buying votes… And they’ve got it on video…
Key Native American leaders working with the Biden campaign offered tribal members and associates Visa gift cards, jewelry, and other “swag” to vote in the presidential election, according to several videos being used by the Trump campaign’s effort to challenge Nevada’s vote.
All of this logically leads to the question what is the tipping point for Democrat loyalists? At what point do they begin to admit that what they have is a criminal organization and that this election was obtained by theft?
Dr. Walter E. Williams has passed. From his last column published yesterday, CNS News:
If we accept the notion that rotten education is not preordained, then I wonder when the black community will demand an end to an educational environment that condemns so many youngsters to mediocrity. You can bet the rent money that white liberals and high-income blacks would not begin to accept the kind of education for their children that most blacks receive.
The school climate, seldom discussed, plays a very important role in education. During the 2017-18 school year, there were an estimated 962,300 violent incidents and 476,100 nonviolent incidents in U.S. public schools nationwide. Schools with 1,000 or more students had at least one sworn law enforcement officer. About 90% of those law enforcement officers carry firearms. Aside from violence, there are many instances of outright disrespect for teachers. First- and second-graders telling teachers to “shut the f—- up” and calling teachers “b——h.”
Salute Sir.
America’s favorite lawyer Sidney Powell has unleased the Kragen in the person of Dr. Navid Keshavarz-Nia, here after Dr. Kragen, from Andrea Widburg, American Thinker:
Although he had no access to the machines, Dr. Kershavarz has looked at available data about the election and the vote results. Based on that information, he concluded
1. The counts in the disputed states (Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, and Georgia) show electronic manipulation.
2. The simultaneous decision in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, and Georgia to pretend to halt counting votes was unprecedented and demonstrated a coordinated effort to collude towards desired results.
3. 1-2% of votes were forged in Biden’s favor.
4. Optical scanners were set to accept unverified, un-validated ballots.
5. The scanners failed to keep records for audits, an outcome that must have been deliberately programmed.
6. The stolen cryptographic key, which applied to all voting systems, was used to alter vote counts.
7. The favorable votes pouring in after hours for Biden could not be accounted for by a Democrat preference for mailed-in ballots. They demonstrated manipulation. For example, in Pennsylvania, it was physically impossible to feed 400,000 ballots into the machines within 2-3 hours.
8. Dominion used Chinese parts and there’s reason to believe that China, Venezuela, Cuba interfered in the election.
9. There was a Hammer and Scorecard cyberattack that altered votes in the battleground states, and then forwarded the results to Scytl servers in Frankfurt, Germany, to avoid detection.
10. The systems failed to produce any auditable results.
Dr. Kragen has concluded that ‘”Based on the above findings, Dr. Keshavarz-Nia concluded with “high confidence that the election 2020 data were altered in all battleground states resulting in a [sic] hundreds of thousands of votes that were cast for President Trump to be transferred [sic] to Vice President Biden.”’
The late Dr. Carl Sagan opined that extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. I find that one Two in the Morning vote dumps would alter the outcome of state’s election to in of itself out of the ordinary. That is happened five times is beyond the realm of belief.
Let Slow Joe either offer a plausible explanation, or find one of his minions to do so on his behalf.
Joey’s claim to victory hinges of supposed victories in swings states all using election systems and software that could not be certified. Biden’s swing state claims can not and should not be certified.
There are smart people, stupid people and dangerous people. One kind of dangerous person is the stupid person, who fancies himself as smart. One such person, who fancies himself as smart and presidential, is Joey Biden, a/k/a Slow Joe, b/k/a Joseph Biden(moron – DE). It is common to hear Joey referred as smart, but only by Slow Joe himself. You don’t have to call a attention of smart person. The quality is obvious.
Slow Joe’s problem, and potentially the nation’s problem, is Joey’s habit to rush solve problems he is incapable of understanding. Joey proclaims that wants to heal the nation, despite being the inapt person to call for healing since maybe the chair of the Simpson murder jury.
Despite his claim to having been a professor of constitutional law, the Reverend-Elect Biden ignore the concept of Separation of Church and State to give a Sermon as Pastor-in-Chief elect, video:
Is Palmist what they call a pickpocket in Delaware? The nation did not for Slow Joe to be President, and nobody voted for him to our state preacher. Joey claims to a devote Catholic. Yet when was the last millennium Biden was in a church, any Christian church?
Slow Joe is not capable of healing the nation. If he were capable of healing anybody he should have healed his son Hunter. What Slow Joes is capable of doing and what he did do was to demonstrate his habit of rushing in with no clue. It should be as plain as the psalm of your hand.
When you see government agencies screaming about “stop the spread”, demanding you wear masks, “social distance” etc, it’s not because they actually give a flying poop about you… Whether or not you get sick, or your quality of life. They’re trying to cover their own backsides, making sure that healthcare resources are not overstressed…. Healthcare resources they themselves limited.
(Always remember that when government runs healthcare, every healthcare decision is a political one.)
It ends up coming down to a
politician saving his cushy little gig… And if they don’t have the medical resources to keep your loved ones alive, so be it. If that means grandma doesn’t get any visitors, so be it. If that means businesses closed all over the country and the economy is crippled, so be it. The government has its priorities after all.
Back in the mid-90s the Democrats liked to claim that the Republicans were pushing Grandma off a cliff in her wheelchair. Effectively that’s what’s going on here, except it’s at the hands of the Democrats who have been aching and working non-stop toward a government takeover of healthcare.
It’s their planning that limited healthcare and put us in the situation where we are unable to respond properly to a large influx of patients.
The truth is, you can’t stop the spread, all you can do is slow it down a little. Government cannot and will not protect you from a virus. Eventually everyone on the planet is going to be exposed to this thing in one form or another. There are no exceptions.
By the way, did you guys happen to notice the Supreme Court ruling as regards Cuomo’s dictatorial covid-19 nonsense?
It would appear that at least a few of the Supreme Court justices can still read the Constitution.
Meanwhile, I find this study very interesting…it appears that there have been absolutely no excess deaths from covid-19.
Addendum Eric:
Of course, the study has now been deleted. Apparently it’s not to somebody’s advantage. Seems to me I’ve heard that this kind of thing before.
Does anybody really care what Mark Cuban has to say about anything? Anything at all?
The guy is a billionaire investor, and a reality TV star… Which we were told when Donald Trump came on the scene, has a billionaire investor and a reality TV star gave him no credibility at all..
The rich, we are told incessantly, are evil, selfish beings to be overcome, or at least devoutly ignored, and yet the leftist “mainstream” press fawns all over Cuban when he presumes to speak for Joe and Jane average… People with whom he has no affinity and frankly no connection whatsoever.
The
reason for that is not all that hard to determine. When he makes that presumption he invariably comes down on the left side of the issue and loading Democrat party policy, socialist policy.
As an example of that presumption…
Mark Cuban accused Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ted Cruz of prioritizing their political parties over the needs of the American people as the two traded barbs over who’s to blame for a monthslong impasse on another coronavirus relief package.
Even Fox news came up with something on that line on air this morning.
What a crock.
And before you even start with me about him going after AOC, what is he after with this argument? Massive government spending.
Postulate a billionaire speaking out for conservative causes, or (gasp!), lowering spending. The media would immediately be slamming the guy, and we have all seen this happen before. As it is, Cuban has become one of their go-to voices… For the same reason that John McCain became the liberal media’s go-to guy.
All of this is eminently predictable of course, having happened so often with other people in the past.
Just some thoughts on this Thanksgiving day.
Perhaps some of you are unaware of the origins of this day being set aside as a national day of Thanksgiving.
Also, you may not know that Ol’ Ben Franklin wanted to make the Turkey the national bird, thinking the Eagle a bird of Bad moral character, a rank coward.
‘course now, the turkey Ben Franklin knew was brightly plumed, and a rather cunning bird… and one that wasn’t so darned fat he couldn’t fly. So, had Ben had his way, the turkey would be in the endagered species list, and we’d all be eating roast Eagle, with all the trimmings, I suppose.
Seriously, though… some of you wonder who we’re thanking, and for what. A look back will answer these questions, and possibly give you a new perspective on things.
Many of you, I’m sure don’t know that Thomas Jefferson wasn’t interested in a national day of Thanksgiving, apparently being conflicted about who we were to thank. However, some more open minded people prevailed. Like George Washington, for example… who said in part, in his Thanksgiving Day Proclamation;
NOW THEREFORE, I do recommend and affign THURSDAY, the TWENTY-SIXTH DAY of NOVEMBER next, to be devoted by the people of thefe States to the fervice of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our fincere and humble thanksfor His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the fignal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpofitions of His providence in the courfe and conclufion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have fince enjoyed;- for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enable to eftablish Conftitutions of government for our fafety and happinefs, and particularly the national one now lately instituted;- for the civil and religious liberty with which we are bleffed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffufing useful knowledge;- and, in general, for all the great and various favours which He has been pleafed to confer upon us.
In 1863, Lincoln had cause to be thankful, as well.
By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation.
The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union.
Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consiousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.
And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the Unites States the Eighty-eighth.
By the President: Abraham Lincoln
William H. Seward,
Secretary of State
Of course Thanksgiving in it’s current context would be eventually declared unconstitutional, if we allow the courts to run things. And perhaps that’s something we ought to remember today, as well.. and be thankful that they’ve not gotten that kind of power from us. That, I am certainly thankful for. (May they NEVER have such power!) If original intent counts for anything in the realm of the Constitution, and I think it does, these proclaimations should end the argument about claims of seperation of church and state.. and the push toward the removal of the one we should be thankful to, today.
Johnathan Rothenburg said a few years ago, aptly,
While we can and should have debates within the political arena as to the correct role that religion should play in contemporary American society, that debate should be settled democratically by voters, not capriciously by judges. Liberals have often enjoyed success in the courts when they have failed at the ballot box, such as with broad interpretations of the Establishment Clause, these precedents set by our greatest Presidents demonstrate that America’s cultural underpinnings were never based on atheism.
Well, we know why they refuse to bring it to a vote; because they know which way it’ll fall out.
Ya know, a look back into history today is relevant as well. Let’s go back to 2003, when Hillary Clinton visited Bagram AFB, to an NewsMax inside story:
“U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton forced U.S. troops stationed at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan to wait for their Thanksgiving dinner last Thursday while she and her entourage arrived late, then cut in line and were served first.”
Well, THAT figures, doesn’t it?
One point that comes up in this story more fully explains why Hitlery’s visit to Bagram wasn’t covered as heavily as one might expect:
People magazine was on hand to cover the event and wanted to interview the troops for reaction to Clinton’s visit.
“But they were getting declined left and right,” our source said. “People were actually telling the reporters, ‘You don’t want to print what I think about her and her visit.'”
After Clinton and her entourage departed, the only topics GIs wanted to talk about were “how great the food was and how fantastic they thought George Bush’s visit to Iraq was.”
I wonder what Hillary Clinton’s view of Thanksgiving is, huh?
Meanwhile, President Bush also showed up in the area.. in Iraq, specifically, and got a bit of a different response I said at the time:
What a brilliant bit of being president! What a fabulous story this is! Now, it didn’t take long at all for about everyone to see that this at least was going to mean a tremendous boost to Bush’s popularity numbers. Which of course means that Democrats and the leftist media were going to try and find a way to spin this against him. But a funny thing happened on the way to the microphones; The Democrat leadership couldn’t get their act together, and all came out looking like idiots. And the rank and file is getting rather desperate.
As soon as this story broke on Thanksgiving day, I jumped on the net and went over to Democraticunderground.com, where I found: (Warning; the language is about what you’d expect from someone of their mental capacity.)
I fear that this one gesture will be the tipping point past which * re-connects with wavering white males and so-called independents. The media is ga-ga over this farce of a visit. The messages from the whore centers will get much more syrupy and orgasmic as the weekend approaches cultminating in a literal ejactulation of praise and wonder on the sunday talk shows. Even Democratic senators will be stepping all over themselves to praise *’s holy visit as an act of courage and daring-do. It won’t be pretty and it won’t be easy to take.
I feel in my gut that this changes everything. The sheeple are just beginning to pay attention to the dawning political season and, for many, this stunt will be their initial waking image: “Our President is indeed a cool guy. Our President is indeed brave and true. Our President risked his life to visit our troops.” And yada yada yada yada …..
Counter that with Dashle, and Biden, and Zell Miller, and all the rest of the regular cast of mealy-mouthed spinless Dems who, mark my words, will end up praising the piss-ant poseur, and what do you have? You have the very real makings of a blowout landslide for fascism and all that is transparently un-american gaining unambiguous approval in November of 2004.
This is the worst I’ve felt in my entire life on this shithole of a planet in this shithole of a country. I can’t image what I’ll feel like in early November 2004. I can’t imagine feeling worse than I do right now but I’ve got to prepare myself for something I dread and fear to the very depth of my soul: The final and irrevokable loss of our democracy to fascism.
What the fuck have we become? In the final analysis it was all just so much sand sifting through our fingers. Just so much sand.
Amazing stuff. Rather reminds me of an aniumal having been backed into a corner. Another pipes up in the same thread:
This feels like it’s the beginning of the end for us.
He’s wrong, of course. The beginning of the end was accomplished quite a while ago…. as the first message demonstrates.
What perhaps put this even further into Mr Bush’s court, though was his remarks at the dinner: (bolds are my own)
“Thank you. I was just looking for a warm meal somewhere. Thank you for inviting me to dinner. General Sanchez, thank you, sir, for your kind invitation and your strong leadership. Ambassador Bremer, thank you for your steadfast belief in freedom and peace. I want to thank the members of the Governing Council who are here, pleased you are joining us on our nation’s great holiday, it’s a chance to give thanks to the Almighty for the many blessings we receive.
I’m particularly proud to be with the 1st Armored Division, the 2nd ACR, the 82nd Airborne. I can’t think of a finer group of folks to have Thanksgiving dinner with than you all. We’re proud of you. Today, Americans are gathering with their loved ones to give thanks for the many blessings in our lives. And this year we are especially thankful for the courage and the sacrifice of those who defend us, the men and women of the United States military.
I bring a message on behalf of America: We thank you for your service, we’re proud of you, and America stands solidly behind you. Together, you and I have taken an oath to defend our country. You’re honoring that oath. The United States military is doing a fantastic job. You are defeating the terrorists here in Iraq, so that we don’t have to face them in our own country. You’re defeating Saddam’s henchmen, so that the people of Iraq can live in peace and freedom.
By helping the Iraqi people become free, you’re helping change a troubled and violent part of the world. By helping to build a peaceful and democratic country in the heart of the Middle East, you are defending the American people from danger and we are grateful.
You’re engaged in a difficult mission. Those who attack our coalition forces and kill innocent Iraqis are testing our will. They hope we will run. We did not charge hundreds of miles into the heart of Iraq, pay a bitter cost in casualties, defeat a brutal dictator and liberate 25 million people only to retreat before a band of thugs and assassins.
We will prevail. We will win because our cause is just. We will win because we will stay on the offensive. And we will win because you’re part of the finest military ever assembled. And we will prevail because the Iraqis want their freedom.
Every day you see firsthand the commitment to sacrifice that the Iraqi people are making to secure their own freedom. I have a message for the Iraqi people: You have an opportunity to seize the moment and rebuild your great country, based on human dignity and freedom. The regime of Saddam Hussein is gone forever.
The United States and our coalition will help you, help you build a peaceful country so that your children can have a bright future. We’ll help you find and bring to justice the people who terrorized you for years and are still killing innocent Iraqis. We will stay until the job is done. I’m confident we will succeed, because you, the Iraqi people, will show the world that you’re not only courageous, but that you can govern yourself wisely and justly.
On this Thanksgiving, our nation remembers the men and women of our military, your friends and comrades who paid the ultimate price for our security and freedom. We ask for God’s blessings on their families, their loved ones and their friends, and we pray for your safety and your strength, as you continue to defend America and to spread freedom.
Each one of you has answered a great call, participating in an historic moment in world history. You live by a code of honor, of service to your nation, with the safety and the security of your fellow citizens. Our military is full of the finest people on the face of the earth. I’m proud to be your commander in chief. I bring greetings from America. May God bless you all.”
The response to his showing up was thunderous applause, both in the hall, and here at home. “It’s got to be a lonely moment for them,” said the President. “I thought it was important to send that message that we care for them (the troops) and we support them strongly, that we erase any doubts in their minds as to whether or not the people stand with them.”
He also said, correctly ” Having seen the reaction of those troops, you know it was the right thing to do.”
Given the response at home, it was the right thing to do on that score, as well. This trip did several things:
It got Michael Jackson off the front page, at least until the press figured out there was no way to spin this negative for the president.
Much as some in the press bicthewd and moaned about not being told about his trip, it showed clearly that most people here at home approve of the President not telling the press his every move. One could extrapolate that a bit and take the suggestion that the President has more trust in the end, than the press does.
It upstaged Hitlery’s trip, basically keeping her off the screens… given her trip, she couldn’t even bitch about Bush’s trip. It should not have, however. Look what she pulls: In what must have been a demoralizing message to U.S. soldiers she told them that Americans back home are growing increasingly skeptical of President Bush’s decision to send them into battle. What a moron.
It answered all those who figured we’re going to cut and run.
It made a rather clear demonstration of the differences between an administrator and a leader. Nobody since Reagan and to a lesser degree, Bush Sr., understood this difference. It’s clear by the polling data, however, that the American people, including his opposition, understand the difference.
And perhaps that’s where I ought to leave this. With the troops.
Among the many things I am thankful for this thanksgiving, is we have so many fine, brave people willing to give of their time, their talents, and possibly their lives, for something bigger.
They’re there because they know the job needs doing. But it’s a job they can’t do alone. I’d like you to consider saying a prayer for our fighting men and women, today. Doesn’t have to be fancy. Just thank God for them. Ask for his help in the Iraq mess being settled, so that as many as possible can come home.
Oh… one more thing, I think. Pay attention to those around the table with you this day. Give thanks for them while you have them. No relationship is forever, since we are all mortal.
Put aside what petty differences you have with these special people in your life, for special they are. Alas!, that many of us find out how special they were only after they are gone from us. And celebrate that whatever else happens, you are together, this day.
