Therefore, these same rebel Democrats have begun fighting amongst them themselves since two hold outs refuse to drown America in more senseless debt and increase the size of America's government which will crush any residual freedoms that have not already been attacked.
Meanwhile, Biden's poll numbers have been declining reflecting extreme disappointment. Consequently, the only thing left for these political fruitcakes is to point their guns at Trump in the hope that will remind voters he is the real enemy of "we the people" not because he failed to accomplish amazing results against more amazing odds but because he had an abrasive persona. The results in the Virginia governor's race will go a long way in revealing whether this strategy still has currency.
Trump remains hell bent on being a force within the Republican Party, has proven he is capable of shooting himself in his own feet and continues to convince both himself and others he was defeated by a fraudulent election.
Were I running his campaign I would encourage him not to continue along this path but he is driven by both strong conviction and a "uge" degree of narcissism..
Stay tuned.
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Dysfunctional will be new normal:
By AMY WALTER cook political report
A Return to Normal or a “New” Normal?
It is no longer a free country:
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I'm not leaving: (Video from The Daily Signal.)
Democrats’ Antisemitism: It’s Not Just the Squad, it’s the Entire Party
Democrats claim that “it’s just the Squad,” but it is time to say the quiet part out loud. From remaining silent on the anti-Semitic Iran Deal to not supporting the U.S. embassy move, to re-instating funding to the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, supporting the anti-Semitic Black Lives Matter — it’s the whole damn party.
In the Democrat party’s latest unsurprising political stab against Israel, on Sept. 21st, House Democrats voted against funding Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system; $6.3 billion for African refugees remained in place.
The Iron Dome has prevented not just the deaths of numerous Jews, Muslims, and Christians living in the only Jewish country, but averted more frequent large-scale defense wars with two of Iran’s proxies: Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Though the Iron Dome will continue to be funded via a stand-alone bill that was passed days later, the Democrats are solidifying their hatred of Jews, both in Israel and domestically.
A “moderate” Democrat who has a massive history of antisemitism currently occupies the White House. In 1982, then-Senator Biden threatened to cut aid to Israel, which prompted Israeli Prime Minister Begin’s most famous speech, “I am Not a Jew with Trembling Knees.” Jihad Joe, as he should be titled, made possible the latest Hamas war against Israel last May by reinstating funding to the terrorist Palestinian Authority, and provided “humanitarian aid money” to Gaza — which is equivalent to funding Hamas, since Hamas not-so-surreptitiously steals 10% of such aid. But most damning was the easing of economic sanctions on Iran, which rapidly funded Iran’s terror proxies against Israel.
The entirety of the Democrat party remained silent as Biden attacked Israel through his anti-Semitic policies. To add further insult, Democrats had the temerity to establish a “Palestinian Affairs” consulate in Jerusalem. His Vice President is of the same anti-Semitic stock; just recently, Kamala replied with “your truth should not be suppressed” to a George Mason University student who spewed lies about Israel’s “ethnic genocide.”
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Biden must want a nuclear war on his watch.
Biden Scraps Iran Sanctions that Prevent Them from Building Nuclear Bombs
President Biden’s government is said to have removed sanctions on two Iranian businesses involved in the missile technology. This occurred just as Iran is thought to be on the verge of having enough nuclear material to produce a nuclear bomb.
This Will be Devastating for Israel
The punitive measures, which target the Mammut Manufacturing Group (Mammut Industries) and its subsidiary Mammut Diesel, were first levied by the Trump administration in September 2020.
This came as part of attempts to increase the highest force campaign of punitive measures on Tehran over its atomic behavior in the region that have been censured as aggressive and unsettling, according to The Hill.
“The companies were identified as ‘major makers and suppliers of military-grade, dual-use commodities for Iran’s missile programs,” according to the report.
In an effort to persuade Iran to quit its nuclear weapons program, the Trump administration placed harsh penalties on the country, which is the world’s largest sponsor of terrorism.
In September 2020, the US Treasury imposed penalties on the two companies, Mammut Industry Group and Mammut Fuel. The Treasury blacklisted Iran’s Mammut Industries Company (Mammut Industries) and its affiliate Mammut Diesel.
This was due to them giving support to an organization involved in Iran’s nuclear missile development under Executive Order 13382. For Iran’s missile programs, Mammut Industrial and Mammut Diesel are significant producers and distributors of military-grade, dual-use commodities.
Mammut Industries has been supporting the development of ballistic missile systems for Iran’s AIO, notably the Shahid Hemmat Industries Group (SHIG), the country’s major creator of liquid propelled rockets, since early 2000. Mammut Manufacturing kept supporting SHIG’s nuclear missile system manufacturing as of late 2019.
Biden Doesn’t Think This Will Change Anything
The withdrawal of the two businesses from the trade blacklist “does not represent any shift in the US government’s economic policy against Iran,” according to a spokesperson for the Biden government’s Treasury.
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Garland must be in bed with Soros:
Alan Dershowitz to Newsmax: AG Garland ‘Over the Line,’ Chilling Speech
By Eric Mack(Newsmax)
Civil liberties legal expert Alan Dershowitz vowed on Newsmax to defend nonviolent protests at school board meetings after Biden administration Attorney General Merrick Garland mobilized the FBI and U.S. attorneys to “investigate and prosecute” school board protests.
“I’ll defend anybody who is chilled in their free speech,” Dershowitz told “Saturday Report,” denouncing the politicization of the ACLU. “Anybody who wants to protest at school boards and is going to do it nonviolently, can count on me.
“It used to be we were able to count on the American Civil Liberties Union, but they’re dead in the water when it comes to issues like this. They ought to be protesting this as well.”
While there have been some threats of violence at local school board meetings, Garland should “pull back” on his memo this week threatening to investigate and prosecute school board meeting protests by parents.
“There have been some threats of violence, but not enough to, in my view, justify the extreme measure of sending letters out and calling for FBI investigations,” Dershowitz told host Carl Higbie. “So, I think the attorney general – who I generally like and admire – ought to pull back and ought to leave it to local authorities, unless they can make a very strong case of violent denial of civil liberties.”
Dershowitz, who has self-described himself as avowed “liberal Democrat” in past Newsmax appearances, came out strongly against race-based teaching in schools, calling it “propaganda” and protests of it should not be considered “domestic terrorism” as some groups have attempted to argue.
“We all think the attorney general should have the right to prevent violence if it’s in violation of civil rights; on the other hand, protests about Black Lives Matters, if I had a kid in school, I’d be among the protesters. Black Lives Matter, critical legal studies shouldn’t be taught in school,” Dershowitz said.
“Critical race theory is anything but critical. It’s uncritical of anything that has to do with racial theory and it’s propaganda. And I would be among the protesters and I would be vociferous in expressing my views on propagandizing my children, and I’m certainly not a terrorist.”
Dershowitz added Garland “in perception, at least, he’s gone over the line” in mobilizing the federal Justice Department to investigate local crimes and protests.
Dershowitz made a final note, as he often does, his legal opinions are not necessarily a reflection of his personal or political views.
“My job as a First Amendment civil libertarian is to defend the views of people I despise –defend the views that I disagree with,” Dershowitz concluded. “So, I will defend the views of people who say some of the most absurd things because once you can censor absurd things, you can then move on to censor more rational things.”
And:
https://www.americanthinker.
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Dear Reader, (edited.)
First, all the stimulus spending has cost American taxpayers $6 trillion.
That's 8 times more than FDR's New Deal after the Great Depression!
Second, the latest data shows that the government is now responsible for one-third of all income in the US.
But we are seeing signs of even more alarming trouble:
Analysts are warning Americans that when the bubble bursts, it will be much worse than the Great Depression.
America is about to go through a huge change.
Meanwhile:
The foreign affair idiots in charge of Biden's administration are unaware they are upending the balance in The Middle East:
Why we should care about threats to Azerbaijan
The strengthening of Iran from American appeasement and Biden’s Afghanistan debacle is creating pressure on a country aligned with Israel and upsetting a delicate regional balance of power.
By JONATHAN S. TOBIN
(October 8, 2021 / JNS) Most Americans couldn’t find Azerbaijan on a map. The former Soviet republic is located in between the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus Mountains, and has its neighbors the republics of Georgia and Armenia—other former captives of the tsarist and Communist empires—as well as the southern reaches of the Russian Federation ruled by Russian President Vladimir Putin. To its south is Iran, a country that counts a third of its people as ethnic Azeris. All of which is to say that although this part of the world is largely unknown to Americans, it’s a fairly dangerous neighborhood.
So when Iran deployed a large portion of its army and conducted military exercises close to the Azeri border last month, the people of that much smaller country and its government, located in the ancient city of Baku, held their breath. For all of its obscurity and remoteness, the security of Azerbaijan is an issue that ought to concern more than the 10.2 million people who live there.
Understanding the complicated politics of the Caucasus region isn’t easy. Nor is all of what’s going on there directly connected to issues that concern the security of the Middle East, the West or the United States. But Azerbaijan’s current dilemma illustrates the ripple effect of actions taken elsewhere. That country’s conflicts with its neighbors in Armenia and Iran, as well as Russia, cannot be viewed in isolation. More to the point, seemingly unrelated actions taken by other countries that do not, at least on the surface, have much to do with them, such as America’s disastrous retreat from Afghanistan or the Biden administration’s stubborn determination to revive former President Barack Obama’s policies aimed at appeasing Iran, are actually having a serious consequences on the ground that can’t’ be ignored.
The first thing to understand about the borders of the countries in the Caucasus is that, as was often the case elsewhere, they were often drawn with little concern for the loyalties of the local populations. Just as a huge chunk of Iran is populated by Azeris who are considered suspect by Tehran, a portion of Azerbaijan—a region called Nagorno-Karabakh—is heavily Armenian. The neighboring republic of Armenia has coveted the territory since the breakup of the Soviet Empire 30 years ago, and it has been the cause of intermittent and sometimes bloody fighting since then. In this conflict, Russia has been supportive of the Armenians while Turkey has backed the Azeris. The Azeris have defended their sovereign territory from what they consider to be a foreign invasion while Armenians talk about a long struggle that dates back more than a century to the genocide perpetrated against them by Turkish Ottomans
That war flared up last year and, once again, the Azeris prevailed, largely due to the arms it had received from Israel.
Why is Jerusalem involved in this mess?
Simply put, the Jewish state is, as it has throughout its modern existence, looking for allies with common interests. In this case, that means a common fear of Iran. The connection with Azerbaijan also gives Israel some leverage in its always complicated relationship with Russia and even with Turkey, whose authoritarian Islamist government by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is deeply hostile to Israel, yet regards Iran as a more potent threat to its security.
For the Azeris, as with the Gulf state Arabs who have embraced Israel as part of the Abraham Accords, Israel is a vital ally against Iran and a useful source of military equipment and training. By helping the Azeris hold their own against more powerful foes, Israel has given the Islamist regime in Tehran, which continues to dream of regional hegemony and of perpetrating nuclear genocide against the Jewish state, a reason for caution. Indeed, Jerusalem has placed both a painful thorn in Iran’s side and undermined Russia’s influence. Though it has largely flown underneath the radar of the international press, the alliance between Israel and Azerbaijan has flourished.
This has created a balance of power in the Caucasus that has, despite occasional efforts by Armenia to overturn it, remained relatively stable. But like the ripples that emanate from a rock thrown in a body of water, the impact of other seemingly unrelated actions has the potential to overturn it all or at least encourage miscalculations that may lead to bloodshed.
While the Biden administration seems to believe that its retreat from Afghanistan is just a matter of bad optics, the implications of the collapse of an American ally are more than theoretical. Anything that weakens the United States and strengthens those pledged to continue waging war against the West—both figuratively and literally, as is the loss of a treasure trove of American military equipment to the Taliban—becomes noticed by those who share such goals.
So it was hardly surprising that in the aftermath of that disgraceful episode, Iran began flexing its muscles. Already emboldened by President Joe Biden’s feckless attempts to bribe them to re-enter the 2015 nuclear deal in talks being conducted in Vienna, the Iranians decided to send a message to the Azeris. By mobilizing its forces on the border and conducting exercises, they were telling the Azeris that their good relations with Israel and the United States are no defense against Iran’s military might. And in case they didn’t understand the implications of this gesture, they let it be known that the second phase of the effort was code-named Operation “Fatehan-e Khaybar” or “Conquerors of Khaybar.” The reference to Khaybar is telling since it as the name of a battle that took place in 628 C.E. in which the early Muslim caliphate led by the Prophet Muhammad wiped out the Jewish tribes that lived in part of what is now Saudi Arabia.
Far from being intimidated, the Azeris think the Iranians are bluffing. In a gesture clearly intended to convey their confidence in their ability to defend themselves, Azeri President Ilham Aliyev paid a visit earlier this week to the city of Jabrayil, which was recaptured by his forces last year after it was occupied for a time by Armenian-backed separatists. To reinforce his point, the Azeris staged a photo opportunity in which Aliyev was pictured fondly patting an Israeli-made Harop drone, a weapon that had helped his army defeat the Armenians.
In response, Iran sent its foreign minister to Moscow to confer with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to discuss their mutual displeasure with the Azeris.
This is the sort of saber-rattling that could lead to another war. But, thanks to the Israelis, the Azeris think that they are in a good position to stand up to Iran and remind Russia that their interference must be kept to a minimum. Aliyev understands that Iranian demands that he drop ties with Israel would leave his country defenseless. And despite their posturing, Iran knows it can’t afford to let its animosity with Azerbaijan get out of hand since the rogue regime in Tehran is already up to its neck in risky terrorist conflicts elsewhere.
To the extent that Americans pay any attention to these events, the sheer complexity of these entangling alliances may cause them to regard the whole issue as one they should ignore. The United States, whose security is a function of continents and oceans, has often preferred to regard foreign affairs as a problem that others should worry about. But the obvious conclusions to be drawn from recent events are significant.
The strength demonstrated by Israel and Azerbaijan should be enough to keep the situation from escalating. Still, the reason why things threatened to get out of hand in the first place was the perception of American weakness and the encouragement that gave to Iran and other Islamists. “Leading from behind,” as Obama and Biden seem to think is wise, is actually the most dangerous kind of defense and foreign policy that can be imagined, both for Americans and for those who look to them for leadership.
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