Below is my column in the New York Post on the withdrawal of Robert Kennedy, Jr. from the presidential race and his endorsement of former President Donald Trump. Kennedy’s speech resonated with many long-time Democrats who have found themselves estranged from the party. While Kennedy remains an independent, it is a cautionary tale that is being missed in the “joy” theme of the Democratic National Convention. The fact is that new Republicans are often not the product of ideology and association but anxiety and exclusion. Democrats make Republicans.
Here is the column:
The withdrawal of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from the presidential race and his endorsement of former President Donald Trump was yet another extraordinary moment in an election that has been anything but predictable.
Only a year ago, it would have been unthinkable that a sitting president would be effectively forced off a ticket and replaced by a candidate who did not secure a single vote for president.
Now, the nephew of John F. Kennedy and son of the Robert F. Kennedy has not just withdrawn from the Democratic Party but endorsed the Republican nominee.
Amidst all of the claimed “joy” of the Democratic National Convention, there is a sobering reality that is being ignored by the ecstatic press and pundits: this is how Democrats make Republicans.
There is an old expression that “a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged.”
Irving Kristol explained the neoconservative movement was built by Democrats “mugged by reality.”
Kennedy has not become a Republican but rather joined the roughly half of Americans now identifying as independents. While this country is solidly under the hold of a duopoly of power in the two main parties, only 25% of the country identify as Democrats, and 25% as Republicans.
Kennedy’s departure from the Democrats has been mocked in the press. However, when he spoke on his withdrawal, many of us who have been lifetime members of the party identified with his remarks.
I come from a politically active liberal Democratic family in Chicago. I spent much of my life working for liberals since I first came to Washington as a Democratic House page in the 1970s. I did stints on the Hill or on campaigns with Democrats ranging from Rep. Sid Yates (Ill.) to Sen. William Proxmire (Wis.) to Mo Udall (Arz.). I even worked on the campaign and ran for delegate for RFK Jr.’s uncle, Sen. Ted Kennedy.
Then the party changed. Where once they defended free speech, Democrats have rallied behind censorship and blacklisting of those with opposing views. They have sought to block dozens of Republicans from ballots, including former President Trump. To make matters worse, they have done so in the supposed name of democracy.
Those actions were raised by Kennedy in his powerful and poignant withdrawal speech. He detailed how the Democratic party moved to stop him from running against President Biden in the primary, including efforts to block him from ballots. It was an ironic moment. After harassing candidates like RFK and Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips, the Democratic leadership then simply installed their choice at the convention in an unprecedented bait-and-switch.
There could have been a substantive primary that exposed the diminished mental state of Biden and allowed for a democratic choice on the best nominee. Instead, the Democrats prevented such choices from being made and selected a leader with all of the transparency and deliberation of a party Congress in China.
Kennedy said that the Democratic Party has virtually shoved him and other voters into the arms of Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
Kennedy observed that “I began this journey as a Democrat, the party of my father, my uncle, the party which I pledged my own allegiance to long before I was old enough to vote.”
He said that his party was the one that championed free speech, government transparency, and opposed unjust wars. “True to its name, it was the party of democracy.”
He said that the party has turned its back on all of the values that once defined it. For former Democrats like Kennedy, running on “joy” is no substitute for these profound changes in the party.
Indeed, the DNC bordered on the creepy as speaker after speaker sold the idea that, if voters could just swallow the Harris candidacy, they would immediately experience joy like some political prozac commercial.
It is not clear whether the red pill/blue pill pitch will be enough, or whether Kennedy’s endorsement will turn the critical votes in swing states.
However, the DNC showed how Democrats make Republicans. The unrelenting identity politics and claims of defending democracy (while opposing democratic choice) only reaffirmed for many that there is no longer a big tent in the party of Roosevelt and Kennedy.
There is a serious question whether John F. Kennedy would recognize or support the current Democratic Party. It now rejects many of his core, mainstream values.
His nephew highlighted the irony of how the party not only worked to block the ability of opponents to challenge President Biden but worked to “conceal the cognitive decline of the sitting president.”
Even the Washington Post recently admitted that “the 81-year-old had shown signs of slipping for a long time, but his inner circle worked to conceal his decline.”
However, the Post failed to note that Vice President Kamala Harris was part of that inner circle. Indeed, she has been touting her close work with Biden in her campaign.
There is little recognition that, if true, it means that Harris, the White House, and leading Democrats lied to the public about Biden’s mental decline for their own political interests.
For Kennedy, it was all too much “and, most sadly … in the name of saving Democracy, the Democratic Party set itself to dismantling it, lacking confidence in its candidate, that its candidate could win in a fair election at the voting booth.”
There is little “joy” in that.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. He is the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage” (Simon & Schuster).
Jonathan: John Say responded to my comment about the World Bank (8/25/24@7:27pm) with his usual nonsense that “Europe’s colonization of Africa was a net good for Africa” (8/26/24@5:17am). But John is in good company.
Prof. Bruce Gilley made the same claim in his 2017 article “The Case for Colonialism”. That article caused an uproar in the academic community because there was no factual basis for his claim. Gilley and John Say are in the same camp as the Holocaust deniers, those who defend the Israeli colonial officers who continue to occupy Palestinian land and are carrying out a genocide in Gaza, and those who defend the genocide of Native Americans by European settlers and claim slavery was a “net good” for the slaves.
Gilley has two basic claims: (1) there were benefits to African colonialism; and (2) that a voluntary re-colonization of certain countries of Africa by foreigners [white] would improve the lives of its citizens. Gilley uses a “cost-benefit” analysis to justify his spurious claims. Gilley says European colonists built schools and medical clinics for the people they exploited. That, he claims was a “net benefit”. How can there be a “net benefit” if you kill 500 children but then build a clinic to vaccinate 501 children?
Contrary to what Gilley and John Say claim the net effect of European colonialism in Africa was disastrous. European colonists seized vast areas of the continent, subjected the inhabitants to brutal exploitation and death. All to seize the valuable resources that made Europeans wealthy. The English imperialist Cecil Rhodes made a fortune seizing huge tracts of land in S. Africa to extract gold and diamonds. He brutally exploited the forced labor of local Africans who he considered “inferior”. Millions died so European imperialists could exploit the wealth of Africa.
Rhodes was not the only outspoken advocate for the rape of Africa. In 1884 before the French Chamber of Deputies Jules Ferry, twice the French prime minister, said bluntly: “Gentlemen, we must speak more loudly and more honestly. We must say openly that indeed the higher races have a right over the lower races…they have the duty to civilize the inferior races…I maintain that European nations acquit themselves with generosity, with grandeur, and with sincerity of this superior civilizing duty”.
By 1914 the 15 European nations had divided Africa among themselves. But the search for more land to exploit was not over and that led to WWI. 40 million military and civilians lost their lives in the “Great War” so Europeans could continue to exploit Africa and other parts of the world. So to John Say I ask this Q: How could the exploitation of the wealth of Africa and working the inhabitants until they dropped dead in the diamond and gold mines have any “net good”–except for the exploiters?
Jonathan:
If you want to read the full text from which Dennis McIncrier PLAGIARIZED his entire comment above, adding only the words “John Say” to make it his own, go here.
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000065575
Just in case you thought for one second that the pathetic pinhead had a coherent thought of his own, or knows jack about African history.
“There is a serious question whether John F. Kennedy would recognize or support the current Democratic Party. It now rejects many of his core, mainstream values.” Just as serious Doc, why are you still a confirmed Blue Check yourself after so many articles written on how your Party has abandoned its previous core values, including the one you value the most: “free speech”?
They would probably have to disappear him like Biden.
Oh wait…
https://x.com/MikeCrispi/status/1827508382380486749
“Trump got SHOT and stood right up.
Kamala Harris got her microphone snatched by some leftist protester and FLED the stage.
The choice in November couldn’t be more obvious.”
Wouldn’t it be nice if people bloviating about the recent RFK Jr. news would at lest try to get the facts right? Turley, like most of the corporate media, emphatically ruminates on: “The withdrawal of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from the presidential race …” this is not even close to being true! He did (or at least will) withdraw his name as a candidate in ONLY ten states, the so-called “battle ground” states where his candidacy could potentially be a “spoiler”. In other words, states where votes for him could potentially swing the election one way or the other. This is consistent with his prior statements that he would withdraw if he became a spoiler candidate and with the agreement he says he has with Trump. He remains a candidate in the remainder of the states in which he is (or expect to be) on the ballot, both red and blue. At most, he has said he will, for now at least, “suspend” is campaign in these states. He has NOT withdrawn from the election in these states. Moreover, he is, in fact, encouraging his supporters to vote for him in these state – in his speech he even emphasized how important this would be so as to obtain Electoral Collage votes in the event of a brokered Congressional POTUS vote should Trump and Harris obtain an equal number of Electoral Collage votes. He, likewise, is encouraging his supporter to vote for Trump in the “battle ground” states from which he has withdrawn. At least get the facts right, the voting public is entitle to that much.
Turley LIES. Everybody knows that.
How is this any different than the Republicans turning on Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney for investigating Trump’s criminal behavior on Jan 6th? Not sure I see much difference, do you?
In fact, I can think of many MORE Republicans who have been diminished or banished from the party in the age of Trump, including Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, Bob Corker, Jeff Flake, Ben Sasse, Will Hurd, John Kasich, Mia Love, the BUSHES (Jeb, GW and Laura) David Frum, Charlie Sykes, David Jolly, Bill Kristol (son of the founder of the modern conservative movement Irving Kristol) Michael Hayden, Evan McMullen, Charlie Dent, the Lincoln Project (Rick Wilson, Stuart Stevens, Steve Schmidt) Cindy McCain, Max Boot, George Schultz (RIP), various PNAC’ers from Paul Wolfowitz to Randy Schuenmann, General John Kelly, former Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, Anthony Scaramucci, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Michael Steele, Nicole Wallace, and countless others who used to consider themselves Republicans who are now out in Siberia due to Trump or Trumpism.
Now whose tent is shrinking?
BTW, Trump himself has been a member of FOUR political parties… can you name them?
It’s the policies stupid
“I think the real danger to the country is the progressive agenda.”
“A continuation of the Biden administration is national suicide.”
“I will vote the Republican ticket. I will support the Republican ticket.”
– Former Attorney General William Pelham Barr
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Perhaps what is missing here is that, if the Soviet Democrats had made their fellow Democrat JFK Jr. their nominee instead of crushing democracy with their in-party insurrection where they took out Biden as their incumbent president and nominee and installed Harris, they wouldn’t be so desperately dispatching their Cheap Fake American liars like Dennis McIntyre here to desperately Memory Hole VP Harris’ past record of failure and vicious police state Marxist attacks on black Americans.
But JFK Jr. is still a Democrat as his father and uncle were – not a Nazi embracing anti-Semitic police state fascist Soviet Democrat. Barack Obama wouldn’t tolerate that… this is his Soviet Democrat party, and this is his Great Marxist March Forward to show Americans how communism can be successfully done.
And if the Soviet Democrats, i.e. yet again viciously anti-Semitic Barack Obama, hadn’t passed over the very competent and popular Governor Shapiro because he was a Jew to instead pick Stolen Valor Went-Into-Combat-With-An-AR-15 Tovarish ChiCom Tampon Tim, again, they might not have had to dispatch their usual liars here like Dennis McIntyre, Gigi, and the incompetent FishAnus.
On the other hand, perhaps it was ordained by the deity Soviet Democrats worship!
Stolen Valor Tampon Tim loves getting into bed with the ChiComs even more than The Family Chief Financial Officer Formerly Known As The Crackhead Kid. And Harris of course, loves grody perverted sex with an age disparity measured in decades just as much as President Daddy-Daughter Inappropriate Incest Showers. Both of them of course are almost the equal of The Big Guy and their real boss, Bolshevik Barack, when it comes to mendacity and lying their asses off – or getting the mainstream media propagandists to do it for them.
Yes I agree with this entirely. Any reasonable person would. Well stated. Insightful. Very much appreciated.
Oh how I have enjoyed the truth-bomb commentary dropped here today by this Old Airborne Dog.
Keep it coming, Dog.
JFK Junior is dead numbskull
Deep state autocrats arrest TELEGRAM CEO Pavel Durov.for failing to censor.
These Jackbooted thugs really want to control what we say, hear or think.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/08/24/justice-europe-style-telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-arrested-due-to-lack-of-moderation-on-platform
I wonder how many French votes, bureaucrats and politicians a billion dollars can buy?
We may find out. An American businessman of questionable character once said he never bribed anybody who couldn’t be bought. A share of a billion can buy a lot of baguettes and crepes, and frogs.
If there were any other way, but….
* Correct, everyone has a price. What do you think the meaning of Judas is.
If elected perhaps Trump can arrange diplomatic immunity for Musk and Durov.
Amazing what happens when all I do is post a link from Fox News.
And I guess Bill Barr is a RINO now — along with National Review.
The Drudge Report is out as well. Okay………….
SteveJ. Barr is not a Rino, but he represents a part of the GOP that has at best regional influence.
I would further note that Barr has been wrong on myriads of issues – ones that Trump has been right on.
Barr’s primary failure is not understanding how far Democrats are willing to go to weild power.
Whatever Trump’s faults – Trump is NOT the problem in this country, however he is part of the solution.
Bar like far too many republicans and independents beleives that If republicans would just play nice while Democrats play dirty that everything will work out. That did not work out very well for McCain or Romney.
Trump does not play dirty like Democrats do. But he is willing to engage in the same alynskite tactics they are.
And that is what infuriates them.
Barr is a decent person – but he is actually farther to the right than Trump.
He has also been part of the deep state for so long, he does not understand that his peers – some republicans and lots of democrats are criminals.
“Barr is a decent person – but he is actually farther to the right than Trump.
He has also been part of the deep state for so long, he does not understand that his peers – some republicans and lots of democrats are criminals.”
John, what you said is correct. I spoke to Barr after a speech he gave, and he is a decent and nice fellow who is wrapped up in what he sees as his job, forgetting that not everyone is as honest.
I asked him if he would serve again under Trump. He shook his head in a way that showed frustration, but at the same time, said he was voting for Trump.
You posted a link to a stale article published more than a year ago. Presumably to create the impression in readers that Barr does not support Trump. That is not true. Subsequent to publication of that article Barr has indicated he supports Trump in the election.
“Amazing what happens when all I do is post a link from Fox News.”
@stevej: 3 dopy posts in a row. None of them have substance. 12 lawyers out of thousands, Drudge no longer owns the Drudge Report, and Bill Barr said he would vote for Trump.
Why don’t you do something useful? You are on the left, which is OK. That is great because you can tell us where Harris stands on the most important issues. None of us can figure it out.
When you do that, you will have accomplished something worthwhile.
“Former AG Barr Slams ‘Defiant Nine-Year-Old’ Trump: ‘Our Country Can’t Be a Therapy Session”
National Review
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/former-ag-barr-slams-defiant-nine-year-old-trump-our-country-cant-be-a-therapy-session/
‘Cause Barr know he and his deep state cronies just might be going to prison if Trump gets back in power.
SteveJ
But our country is a therapy session.
A substantial portion of the country – almost entirely on the left is self admittedly suffering from anxiety and depression.
And TDS. It’s a real mental illness. It’s a real problem we face as a country that is now full of deranged, brainwashed nut jobs — courtesy of the Democrat-media brainwashing operation.
The president occupying the White House is mentally unstable, suffering from TDS, and does nothing but shout debunked lies. Biden is a dangerously corrupt, angry, senile, incompetent a-hole who doesn’t give a dam about the country of the rule of law. His hatred of Trump trumps everything.
Plus, the US Attorney General has issued a threat (to probably two-thirds of the voters in this country who are Trump-MAGA-MAHA) that the Democrats currently in power do not intend to allow the peaceful transfer of power if Trump wins the election. THEY HAVE SAID IT OUT LOUD. THEY WANT US TO FEAR THEM.
The government should fear the people. The people should not fear the government.
I never wanted to own a gun until now. It’s time.
If you have ever seen Clockwork Orange, TDS is a parallel to Malcom’s treatment for criminal behavior. TDS is a result of the left’s MSM incessant brainwashing and propaganda that Trump is some kind of dangerous person. He actually did a better job than any of his most recent predecessors all while under 24/7 attacks. Just like the COVID vaccine sheep, there are those that are highly susceptible to mass hypnosis .
Traveler: Is it TDS: 1. to find repulsive someone running to be the leader of the free world who: a. brags about grabbing womens’ genitalia; 2. who was adjudicated liable for sexual assault and defamation; twice; 3. who took children away from migrant parents to serve as a deterrent to others seeking asylum in the U.S.; 4. stole classified documents, liked about mentally “declasssifying” them, lied about returning them, based on boilerplate language in a federal search warrant, lied about President Biden issuing an order to kill Trump (even though he wasn’t at home) 5. refused to accept the fact that he LOST in 2020, went on “Stop the Steal” tours to rile up fans to try to prevent President Biden from taking office; sat by for over 3 hours while his fans hunted for the VP, intent on killing him and the Speaker of the House, all the while his staff and family were begging him to call off the violence; a follower named Ashli Babbitt was killed; Trump has never apologized or accepted responsiblilty for her death; 6. who cavorts with a nude model and porn actress, falsified business records to cover up payoffs to help him “win” in 2016; 7. who falsified loan applications and financial statements to an extent found to be “shocking to the conscience” to qualify to borrow more money and on better terms than if he told the truth; 8. who calls military members “suckers and losers” and who doesn’t want obviously impaired veterans in his presence because they make him look bad; 9. who praised the invasion of Ukraine as “wonderful” and “genius”; who lobbied to get Russia readmitted to the G-7 after it was kicked out as a sanction; 11. who lies about not knowing those involved in drafting Project 2025, one of whom is his VP running mate and dozens of who are former members of his administration. Members of Trump’s campaign admit that many of the provisions “align” with his platform. This blueprint calls for a radical overhaul of the federal government consistent with Christian Nationalist views under a unitary executive theory– according to “Wikipedia”:
“Project 2025 envisions widespread changes to economic and social policies and the federal government and its agencies. The plan proposes taking partisan control of the Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Commerce, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and Federal Trade Commission (FTC), dismantling the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and reducing environmental and climate change regulations to favor fossil fuels.[18][21] The blueprint seeks to institute tax cuts,[22] but its writers disagree on protectionism.[23] It recommends abolishing the Department of Education, whose programs would be transferred or terminated.[24][25] Funding for climate research would be cut,[26] and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) would be made less independent, stopped from funding research with embryonic stem cells or using quotas to promote equal participation by women.[27][28] The project seeks to cut Medicare and Medicaid,[29][30] and urges the government to explicitly reject abortion as health care.[31][32] The project seeks to eliminate coverage of emergency contraception[29] and enforce the Comstock Act to prosecute those who send and receive contraceptives and abortion pills.[32][33] It proposes criminalizing pornography,[34][35] removing legal protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity,[35][36] and terminating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs[5][36] and affirmative action[37] by having the DOJ prosecute “anti-white racism”.[38] The Project recommends the arrest, detention, and deportation of illegal immigrants.[39][40][41] It proposes deploying the military for domestic law enforcement.[42] It promotes capital punishment and the speedy “finality” of those sentences.[43][44] It hopes to undo “[al]most everything implemented” by the Biden Administration.[45]”
Each and every one of the foregoing things I cited is FACTUAL–no one needs “MSM” to “brainwash” me or anyone to know that such a person is not only unqualified to serve as POTUS, he is dangerous.
“3. who took children away from migrant parents to serve as a deterrent to others seeking asylum in the U.S.;”
Crazy lady, you provided a bunch of garbage. I’ll take number 3. You are in favor of those children being released to non-related parents who may be trafficking them for the perverts you love on the left.
You are either murdering babies or trafficking children,
Disgusting.
S. Meyer: Talk about “like a broken record” from that girl! No dialectics here (which you often engage in with others, –the whole purpose of this blog site, IMO) but simply, (not even stereo, let alone quad sound!) one track-put-your-quarter-in-the-jukebox-and-press-the-same-button-again Gigi
“like a broken record”
Lin, Gigi is a political whore. The same things go in and out, with no intellect or passion involved.
Lin and S. Meyer: Just like your hero, when you cannot refute substantive facts that make him look bad, you resort to name-calling. You cannot defend Trump on the merits of his record, his lack of character or agenda, so now I’m a “whore” for pointing out how manifextly unfit he is to serve anything other than a prison sentence.
Gigi, I am not engaging in name-calling. I am using words efficiently to describe who you are and what you say. Almost everything you say is later proven wrong, and those significant things not yet proven wrong will be in the near future.
Trump’s merits are sensational. Listen to the Democrats who are now supporting him and listen to their reasons. You don’t have to like Trump or vote for him, but you should pay attention and not lie about what happened.
Take one significant item involving politics at a time for discussion. You can’t because the only thing you provide is a quicky. That is not long-term satisfaction.
Gigi learns a new word from her engagement on this site: “substantive.” Glad we have been able to expand her vocabulary.
Reply to S. Meyer: you KNOW better–I cite sources for facts–you don’t. You can claim that I’ve been “proven wrong” all you want, but you and I both know that’s not true. Trump has NO merits–he inherited a strong economy from Obama that he destroyed. He trashed relations with our EU and NATO allies that Biden has mended. Biden got America back to work, back to school, and got businesses and restaurants open for business after Trump screwed up COVID by endlessly lying about it. List one thing “sensational” that Trump did.
“–I cite sources for facts–you don’t.”
@Gigi: You don’t respond to facts. I provided you with transcripts, laws and various proven facts. What you call fact is left-wing media opinion.
You can not focus on a single fact of significance because the second the discussion gets too deep, you run away and discuss something else.
Go ahead. You provide the topic, and we can see how well you hold up. Don’t quote opinions, and don’t provide links that do not agree with what you claim.
I will take one of the above claims about the economy. John Say and others used .gov numbers and disproved most of what you said about the economy. You had no rational response.
It’s disgusting that you believe a bloated pathological liar. Where is there any proof that children kidnapped from their parents were being “trafficked”? Here’s what Jeff Sessions said:
“The five U.S. attorneys along the border with Mexico, including three appointed by President Trump, recoiled in May 2018 against an order to prosecute all undocumented immigrants even if it meant separating children from their parents. They told top Justice Department officials they were “deeply concerned” about the children’s welfare.
But the attorney general at the time, Jeff Sessions, made it clear what Mr. Trump wanted on a conference call later that afternoon, according to a two-year inquiry by the Justice Department’s inspector general into Mr. Trump’s “zero tolerance” family separation policy.
“We need to take away children,” Mr. Sessions told the prosecutors, according to participants’ notes. One added in shorthand: “If care about kids, don’t bring them in. Won’t give amnesty to people with kids.”
Rod J. Rosenstein, then the deputy attorney general, went even further in a second call about a week later, telling the five prosecutors that it did not matter how young the children were. He said that government lawyers should not have refused to prosecute two cases simply because the children were barely more than infants.” New York Times, 10/6/2020.
-and waterboarding was (two years later) considered unconstitutional as well. Every party to a SCOTUS appeal believes his/their/its position has merit; otherwise he/they/it would not invest in lengthy appeal.
Smart people believe that “reasonable minds can differ.” Lesser-smart people call others “Magats,” “sheep,” “cult-followers,” “fat-bloated pigs,” “orange gods,” and “pathological liars.” **
Don’t pretend to rise above here, gig.
**(as if you understood what a pathological liar designation really is)
thanks anyway.
yours truly, lin.
Lin,
Once again, an epic take down of Natasha.
And you do it with just a few words!
Nice!
* (“unconstitutional”in the form of internal/administrative opinion. I do not recall a U.S. court decision declaring same.)
“The five U.S. attorneys along the border with Mexico, including three appointed by President Trump”
@Gigi How stupid are you? That is opinion rhetoric, not fact and is typical of the leftists that write for the NYT. I need not look at the other quotes unless you have a valid one. You like children traveling with traffickers to be raped. What type of person are you? You like young children dying in the desert. You are immoral.
If you want to know what is happening, check with Tom Holman. You don’t even know who he is. Among other things, he is a loving father who hates those who place children in jeopardy. Pick up one of his speeches and learn the harm your type of person creates. He is the expert.
Get off your back and start reading news based on facts and valid in-context quotes.
My reply post got deleted, but it contained an article quoting Jeff Sessions who admitted that migrant children were deliberately taken from their families over the objections of US attorneys for border states. Where is any proof that trafficking of such children was happening? The children were taken to serve as a deterrent for migrants seeking asylum.
“My reply post got deleted, but it contained an article quoting Jeff Sessions.”
@Gigi: What four-letter words did you use, Gigi?
Did the article ‘really’ get deleted, or is this one of your fantasies?
No problem. You can repost the article or the sentences within the article and a link. Don’t include any four-letter words; make sure you put some pixie dust on it.
@stevej: Barr announced he is voting for Trump.
I see Harris is at +7 now.
https://www.drudgereport.com/
Yeah, no.
The polls are as fake as Komrade Kamala.
Drudge has not been republican for a long long long time.
RCP has Harris at +1.5 thus far there appears to have been no convention “bump”
in fact There has been a general decline through the convention.
If by some miracle Harris was actually at +7 – that would be where Hillary was at this time in 2016, and it would be LOWER than where Biden was.
Stevej – are you interested in a large wager ???
Matt Drudge Logs Off
The Drudge Report has become a conformist shadow of its formerly bratty, oppositional self. Why?
It moved leftist.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/matt-drudge-logs-off
Steve, we’re not talking about her IQ here, okay?!
* RAGE, RAGE AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT!
“The biggest divide in the electorate is between people who get their information from independent media, and those who are brainwashed by the MSM.”
See Dennis, Fishy, Gigi, etc. for confirmation.
Kamala Harris is VAPID!
– Lisa Boothe
On Pavel Durov’s arrest in France for refusing to censor speech:
“It was a western country, a Biden administration ally and enthusiastic NATO member, that locked him away. Pavel Durov sits in a French jail tonight, a living warning to any platform owner who refuses to censor the truth at the behest of governments and intel agencies. Darkness is descending fast on the formerly free world,” Carlson said on his X page.
The charges against Durov relate to refusal to cooperate with investigations of drug trafficking, child pornography, wire fraud, cyber crime and terrorism.
It is well known that Telegram is a haven for criminal activity.
Nothing to do with “censoring truth”.
Unless of course you believe that “free speech” allows the commission of such crimes.
ATS – yes, The european (and BTW Harris’s) Idea of cooperation is to provide a back door – not just to drug dealers and human traffickers – but to EVERYONE using their service.
Harris drove Craigslist out of Adult adds – which removed sex woirkers from the control of primps and others.
Then she worked to Jail the owners of Backpage who FULLY cooperated with her and FBI efforts to go after sex traffickers.
When the left says “you wont cooperate” – what they mean is that you protect the privacy of your customers from government intrusion – except when there is actual evidence of criminal conduct.
ATS thne alleged “refusal to cooperate” is that Telegrams refuses to hire more content moderators.
In other words they refuse to censor.
This is about free speech.
Nothing to do with “censorship”.
He is charged with refusing to cooperate with investigations of drug trafficking, wire fraud, child pornography, cyber crime and terrorism.
Telegram is a well known haven for such criminal activity.
The investigations are perfectly legitimate.
And what is it that you think those charges mean ?
Generally when the EU is involved it means refusing to participate in a fishing expedition targeting innocent people.
Just using terrorism, human trafficking etc. is NOT a magic incantation that allows countries to dig into whatever they want about anyone they want.
As we have seen in other cases involving the EU they seem to beleive they have global juridiction over conduct and speech that is perfectly legal where it is actually occurring.
The “failure to cooperate” according to the EU is refusing to hire more censors.
If a criminal mailed a child porn letter to another pervert would the USPS be criminally responsible? If law enforcement has a warrant the door is open to conduct their investigation. I would not see it as the platforms Owners legal responsibility or duty to assist them and unless they were complicit in the crimes and/or profiting from said criminal activities they would have zero criminal consequences.
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We are The Resistance!
* ONETH BY LAND TWOETH BY SEA!
Here is another view from the Kennedy family.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4847084-rfk-jr-sister-kerry-kennedy-blasts-him/
Anonymous – Thanks for the link. It’s amazing how intolerant these people are of any dissent. Everyone has to think the same way.
She said abortion, grabbing guns, and lgbtqia+ is everything she holds dear as a camelot demoncrat.
In other words, nothing JFK stood for.
* GW sounds like a dangerous place.
How Barack Obama ended normalcy in American politics
Some say Biden was toppled in a coup, but that’s wrong. It was never truly his presidency in the first place. He was serving in a ceremonial role on behalf of a politburo, and thus his executive authority owed less to his total 81 million votes, 58 percent of which were mail-in ballots harvested on his behalf, than to his former boss who saw him as the most plausible vehicle through which to exercise power.
The truth is that an American political faction is employing third-world tactics—surveillance, censorship, election interference, political prosecution, and political violence—to put the United States under the thumb of a single party led by a man who in his mind has become the people.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/barack-obama-ended-normalcy-american-politics
* This time the people didn’t vote for their Democrat choice. Harris and Walz were simply installed. Biden literally had a gun to his head to step aside. He went to a hospital in Las Vegas with bruises. All of them are under the gun globally.
It’s a malspirit doomed to failure.
There is little recognition that, if true, it means that Harris, the White House, and leading Democrats lied to the public about Biden’s mental decline for their own political interests.
The former Secret Service director looks like a person with integrity compared to Harris, the White House and leading Democrats
Last month, Rep. Ro Khanna asked Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle about former Director Stuart Knight,
“Do you know what he did” after the assassination attempt of Ronald Reagan.
Ms. Cheatle answered, “He remained on duty.”
Rep. Khanna corrected her: “He resigned.”
Ms. Cheatle did too, a few days later.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/stop-think-then-speak-lifestyle-advice-politics-fumble-gaffe-f0cba0dc
Americans know that Democrats / MSM have lied, presently lie and will always lie. They remember at the grocery store checkout line. They just arent saying as such in the polls.There is no joy at Kroger / Alberstons or Publix grocery stores in my area. Only members of the DNC/legacy press are eating caviar and lobster while most voting Americans are eating very expensive ground check and chicken parts.
“I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what ain’t so.”
– Josh Billings