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A particularly disturbing point is how America’s elites have lost any loyalty to this country and many look to Beijing for leadership and their future profits. Among the worst of those is the highly corrupt Biden family who are now well placed to accrue more fortunes based on foreign connections built over years.
President Trump recognized the China threat early on and took steps against it. So the ChiCom leadership must be very happy with the 2020 election outcome.
A spare video file is here.
]]>TUCKER CARLSON: Last night, Joe Biden promised to reverse the Trump administration’s foreign policy on the question of China. According to Biden, the U.S. will now follow something called the International Rules of the Road. What does that mean exactly? Well, you can guess what it means. More subservience to the emerging nation of China.
Most people don’t understand how big this is, or how far back it goes, or the implications for them. Lee Smith understands. He’s an author and a journalist. He’s written one of the best pieces of the year on this topic for Tablet Magazine.
The piece is called “The 30 Tyrants.” You’ll have to stop reading midway through because it’s upsetting. But as you read it, you’ll also know it’s true. So we recommend that you do. He joins us tonight to explain. Lee, thanks so much for coming on.
LEE SMITH: Thanks, Tucker.
CARLSON: And for the mental energy required to connect all these dots in the piece, and again, I really hope our readers read it for themselves. But in the meantime, will you summarize your position.
SMITH: Yes, I mean, basically, what I wanted to explain is I wanted to explain why so many things look crazy. Many things, for instance, that you cover on your show all the time, for instance, tonight, why people are coming across — why people are coming across the border in such profound numbers?
It all looks crazy until you realize there’s a reason it’s going on, and the reason is, is because the oligarchy that runs this country now is not primarily loyal to the United States. They do not care about the amount of damage they do to America. They don’t care about the amount of damage they do to Americans — that’s part of the system. Their primary loyalty is to their relationship to the Communist Chinese Party. That is their center of gravity. It’s the source of their wealth, privilege and prestige.
CARLSON: So keep connecting, if you will, and I hope sure that again, people will read this because print is really the only medium that can fully explain a thesis as complex as yours, but I think you’re right. So what else would connect to that point that you just made?
SMITH: Well, I mean, the big thing is starting — I mean, one of the key dates is of course, it starts with Henry Kissinger’s and Richard Nixon’s opening to China.
But really a big date is 1994 when Bill Clinton decided to delink human rights and trade regarding China, right? The ambition — you hear people say all the time, oh, we were hopeful that China would adopt more democratic policies. It was nonsense.
The premier of China at the time was Jiang Zemin — this was the man who was catapulted to power after sending tanks into Tiananmen Square. So the American elite knew exactly what they were getting into. What they looked at, they looked at an enormous cheap labor pool. And they said, we’re going to get rich and that’s precisely what happened, where we are more than a quarter of a century along and that’s precisely what’s happened. Now, one of the interesting things that happened during the Donald Trump presidency because Donald Trump started calling these people out, I think that Donald Trump didn’t even have that clear a sense of how tied in, how extensive this network was.
One of the examples I mentioned is, for instance, whoever would have put Apple CEO Tim Cook and LeBron James in the same family album, but there they are, sure enough, because they both rely — their wealth relies on the two same things: cheap Chinese labor and a growing Chinese consumer market. If you look across, this is not just — it’s not just entertainment. It’s not just tech. It goes into the corporate world. It goes into finance. Unfortunately, it affects our government throughout.
One of the most astonishing revelations was a memo that former D.N.I. John Ratcliffe wrote, regarding the C.I.A. regarding their intelligence analysis, C.I.A. management was apparently bullying analysts saying they didn’t like their analysis of China, because they were worried about the policies that might encourage, meaning Donald Trump’s policies who was hard on China.
Therefore, C.I.A. management was protecting China from solid analysis. It’s astonishing, but take it one step further. Remember who owns the Cloud on which all of the C.I.A.’s information is collected? And that’s Jeff Bezos, who is China’s number one distributor in the United States.
CARLSON: In 10 seconds, does it shock you that the new Defense Secretary has basically said the greatest threat we face is not China, but white supremacists in this country?
SMITH: No, not at all. If you look at the Biden administration, the way it’s staffed, and unfortunately, if you look at the first family, you see that there are deep and extensive ties to the Chinese Communist Party. It doesn’t surprise me at all.
CARLSON: Amazing piece. Lee, I appreciate your coming on tonight.
SMITH: Thank you very much, Tucker.
The recent announcement of two vaccines becoming available was met with public relief that the government-mandated home imprisonment would soon end, but in the Swamp regions of America and beyond, there is a desire to extend the enhanced control over the citizens. We hear warnings from experts of all sorts that the vaccine will not solve the problem, at least for a long time, so people should remain masked, quarantined and obedient. Here’s a recent headline from the World Health Organization: Vaccination no guarantee of virus eradication: WHO officials.
So don’t imagine a return to normal life is at hand.
Below: leftist community organizer Saul Alinsky was an early proponent of taking political advantage of difficult circumstances.
Tucker Carlson had an interesting discussion with Marc Morano last week about the big picture of the virus lockdown and how that strategy is likely to be used by the left again for controlling the public.
“What is a lockdown but a planned recession by the government?” asked Morano rhetorically.
]]>JOE BIDEN (film clip): I hope you won’t hold against me, but I am a hard coal miner — anthracite coal. Scranton, Pennsylvania. Okay, that’s where I was born and raised, and it’s nice to be back in coal country.
TUCKER CARLSON: That was Joe Biden in 2008 describing his many years underground as a coal miner in the hills of northeastern Pennsylvania — that’s been 12 years he managed to survive black lung. He’s also changed his perspective on energy.
BIDEN: Today I’m pleased to announce a team that will lead my administration’s ambitious plan to address the existential threat of our time — climate change. Folks we’re in a crisis — just like we need to be unified nation in response to covid-19, we need a unified national response to climate change. And from this crisis — from these crises, I should say, we need to seize the opportunity to build back and Build Back Better than we were before.
CARLSON: “From this crisis, we must seize the opportunity.” Marc Morano publishes Climate Depot; we’re happy to have him on tonight. Mark, thanks so much for joining us. If you look at the polling on this subject — there are a lot of crises unfolding in the United States right now, climate change is not one that rates very high on most people’s lists of pressing concerns, but the Biden people believe it’s the central crisis. What do they plan to do to respond to it, if you could sum up for us?
MARC MORANO: Well first of all in polling, the Harris CEO of Harris Polling lamented that climate went from a top-tier issue in his poll to second to last of all issues in this past year. So they’re freaked out that no one is talking and no one cares about climate among the public, but what they’re trying to do, and you saw Biden allude to it there with build back better, they are trying to essentially use the covid lockdown model for the climate emergency model, and they’re going to go from covid lockdowns to climate lockdowns. And if you look at it, Senator Merkley came out today and is urging a President Joe Biden to declare a national climate emergency which would give him emergency powers, and he could bypass democracy much the same way a lot of the blue state governors have done with the covid lockdowns.
CARLSON: I’m kind of confused on on the most basic level. So we’ve had warming and cooling periods since the earth itself cooled. We’ve had a number of ice ages and then warming periods after, so if you accept that we’re in a warming period — and I’m willing to believe that — why are we certain it’s human-caused and therefore reversible and not just yet another warming or cooling period, honestly?
MORANO: Well it’s a lot of this goes back to the United Nations. In 1988 they started their climate panel, and they had their every incentive was to say not only has carbon dioxide a control knob but it’s causing a problem. They get to come up with the scare of CO2 and they get to come up with the solution as well, but if you look at the data when people say oh well the UN has determined that most of the warming since 1950 is human — that’s determined by a show of hands. It’s not some scientific paper. It’s based on models and speculation — expert judgment which we’ve seen in the covid how much expert judgment can matter — sometimes it can be wildly off. But you know you can talk to geologists who study the history of the earth and they will tell you that we are in the 10 percent coldest period of the earth geologically speaking. Ninety percent of the earth’s history didn’t have ice on either pole, so most of the scare comes in predictions of the future, and that’s what the UN and the climate scare mongers like to focus on.
CARLSON: Do you think the average person knows that we’ve had innumerable, probably literally countless warming periods over the eons, and they’ve all been naturally occurring? I never hear anybody say that; I’ve never heard anybody present actual proof that this is different from those ever, ever; I’ve never had anybody do that. Why?
MORANO: There isn’t in peer-reviewed studies. You go back to the Roman warming period down to about 080, you go to the medieval warming period. You could argue the temperature’s been the same or slightly declined since those periods, depending on what study, what proxies you want to do. The reason is they needed an emergency. Here’s the bottom line, Tucker. For decades UN climate activists and climate campaigners and Al Gore have toiled for attention and government action. They failed when Obama was president to get Cap and Trade. They failed multiple times. What’s happened is covid has opened their eyes. They went from jealousy to now they’re learning from it, to now they’re all in on the covid model. So I went to UN conferences for two decades. They talked about planned recessions in order to fight global warming, de-growth movement and now — what is a lockdown but a planned recession by the government? So the climate activists are all in on this covid model — climate lockdowns coming from covid lockdowns and that’s exactly what Joe Biden’s being advised to do.
CARLSON: Boy I wish I could dismiss what you just said as a conspiracy theory, but given everything we’ve seen, I can’t. It does seem that way. Mark, thank you, thank you for that.
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The Times’ December 14 front page featured a sob-story style photo of a sniffling illegal alien about to be returned to his actual country of citizenship.
We wouldn’t expect him to work with his fellow citizens to improve their home societies, as was the case in years past: Latin America had many freedom fighters who worked for positive change in earlier centuries. But that was before it became easy to invade the US, steal jobs and obtain free stuff from the welfare office.
Interestingly, the article quotes one foreigner early on that “We are not bad people. We come to work.” But there is no mention that millions of Americans are still jobless because of the China virus shutdown of businesses. The press ignores that there is no need for more workers during this time of high unemployment among citizens. Nevertheless, adding more immigrants remains a top task for scribblers.
Once again, the media pursues its Diversity First agenda rather than supporting law and order. The press evidently believes that the United States should be welfare office to the world, or as the Times remarks “a safe haven for people fleeing persecution.”
Remember that the Third World population continues to grow by millions every year, so the pressure to invade the US will only increase.
]]>As Biden Prepares to Take Office, a New Rush at the Border, New York Times, December 13, 2020
SASABE, Ariz. — By the time the Border Patrol spotted the two migrants in a tangle of shrubs on a frigid December morning, they had been meandering aimlessly in the desert for six days. They had lost their way on the final leg of a monthlong journey from Guatemala, encountering only herds of javelinas, lone coyotes and skin-piercing cactuses as they staggered north. Exhausted, thirsty and cold, they did not resist arrest.
Less than two hours later, agents had already processed them and deposited them back across the border in Mexico. Alfonso Mena, his jeans ripped at the knee, shivered with his companion on a bench less than 300 yards from Arizona and sobbed uncontrollably.
“What wouldn’t you do to help your children get ahead?” he said. A landscaping job in Houston awaited him, he said, and his family was counting on him. “We are not bad people. We come to work.”
It was not the first time he had tried to enter the United States. And it was unlikely to be the last.
Unauthorized entries are swelling in defiance of the lockdown President Trump imposed on the border during the pandemic and shaping up as the first significant challenge to President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s pledge to adopt a more compassionate policy along America’s 1,100-mile border with Mexico.
After a steep decline in border crossings through much of this year, interceptions of unauthorized migrants along the Arizona-Mexico border are climbing again: Detentions in October were up 30 percent over September, and .the figure in coming months is expected be even higher, despite the biting cold in the Sonoran desert.
The rising numbers suggest that the Trump administration’s expulsion policy, an emergency measure to halt spread of the coronavirus, is encouraging migrants to make repeated tries, in ever-more-remote locations, until they succeed in crossing the frontier undetected.
And they are likely the leading edge of a much more substantial surge toward the border, immigration analysts say, as a worsening economy in Central America, the disaster wrought by Hurricanes Eta and Iota and expectations of a more lenient U.S. border policy drive ever-larger numbers toward the United States.
New migrant caravans formed in Honduras in recent weeks, defying that country’s coronavirus-related lockdown in a bid to head toward the United States but were prevented from leaving the country. And the pandemic has decimated livelihoods in Mexico, prompting a rise in migration from that country after a 15-year decline.
“The pressures that have caused flows in the past have not abated and, in fact, have gotten worse because of the pandemic. If there is a perception of more-humane policies, you are likely to see an increase of arrivals at the border,” said T. Alexander Aleinikoff, director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at the New School in New York.
“That doesn’t mean that those flows cannot be adequately handled with a comprehensive set of policies that are quite different from Trump’s,” said Mr. Aleinikoff, “but you need a well-functioning bureaucracy to handle it.”
Mr. Biden has vowed to begin undoing the “damage” inflicted by the Trump administration’s border policies. He has said he will end a program that has returned tens of thousands of asylum seekers to Mexico and restore the country’s historical role as a safe haven for people fleeing persecution. (Continues)
At any rate, on Friday Tucker interviewed Andrew Arthur, a former judge who is currently affiliated with [...]]]>
At any rate, on Friday Tucker interviewed Andrew Arthur, a former judge who is currently affiliated with the Center for Immigration Studies. His CIS bio notes employment with the Immigration and Naturalization Service and eight years working as an immigration judge in Pennsylvania. So Arthur knows the topic from inside the system.
One aspect of this discussion lurking in the background is the preference of Democrats for foreigners over Americans. As it happens, hispanics prefer the Democrat philosophy of Big Government, as shown in a 2012 Pew Research survey. So that correlation of viewpoints works out well for Democrats, but not so much for Americans as a whole.
A Democrat-run government with a President Biden would definitely put immigration on the front burner again — and not in a good way.
TUCKER CARLSON: Welcome back to a special edition of Tucker Carlson Tonight. Republicans were not able to pass any kind of immigration bill restricting immigration, protecting our borders over the past several years, but if Democrats take control of the Senate on January 5th, they won’t be quite as passive. The first thing they will do is to fundamentally change our immigration system — open the borders to the rest of the world. They’re not hiding this; they’ve been open about it for months.
JOE BIDEN (TV clip): Some of it’s going to depend on the kind of cooperation I can or cannot get from the United States Congress, but I am going to make a commitment: in the first hundred days I will send a immigration bill to the United States Senate with a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented people in America.
CARLSON: First of all it’s not 11 million — you’d have to be 119 years old to think that — it’s over 20 million. But the macro point is this: millions of Americans have been looking for work for so long that they’ve given up looking; they’re not even listed on the unemployment stats. Now Democrats plan to give them more competition in the labor market. So who’s benefiting from this exactly? Not Americans. Andrew Arthur is the Resident Fellow in Law and Policy for the Center of Immigration Studies, and we’re happy to have him on tonight. Andrew, thanks for coming on.
ANDREW ARTHUR: Thank you for having me.
CARLSON: Who does benefit from this exactly?
ARTHUR: Well. the people who benefit from this are big business. Wealthy people benefit from open borders, essentially limitless immigration because for them everything comes cheaper. Food is cheaper; you go to the grocery store, rather than paying you know 39 cents for a head of lettuce, you pay 35 cents for a head of lettuce. You can get your lawn cut cheaper, you can get your house painted cheaper, but the people who suffer the most, Tucker, are the people who are at the margins of society, the people that we you know usually hear that these folks care about — disadvantaged Americans, inner city youth, members of minority groups and immigrants who haven’t adjusted to life in the United States yet. Those are the people who are in direct competition because most of the people who enter the United States illegally are people who don’t have high levels of education, don’t have a lot of work skills. Now there’s nothing you know wrong with that — my father never went to college, worked in a steel mill. But when you bring in a huge mass of uneducated unskilled individuals to directly compete against Americans, those Americans suffer.
CARLSON: And it’s also true at the higher end. I mean our schools were bad before covid; now the schools are just shut down and kids are learning nothing. Nobody seems to care and instead of fixing that, they’ve decided, well we’re just going to bring in more educated people from India and China to do jobs that Americans aren’t qualified to do. I mean it kind of removes any incentive to fix American schools, doesn’t it?
ARTHUR: It really does, and you know there’s this canard that you know we need more STEM graduates. A few years ago the the Census Bureau did a survey in which they found that about 25 percent of people who had STEM degrees were working in a STEM job, and we’ve seen this over and over again. Computer programmers are brought in; IT people are brought in from abroad on temporary visa programs, and even right now the United States Congress is considering a bill that would make it so much easier for Big Tech to bring in those tech workers to replace our students that we encourage to go get tech jobs for the 21st century. Well, those jobs aren’t going to be available to them if this happens. So you know these are things that Americans really need to think about if they have kids, and yes we’ve seen the quality of our own schools go down. We need to be putting more money into educational opportunities, but we also need to have jobs for those students to take. I’ve seen it you know again and again in cities across America.
CARLSON: Only 25 percent of STEM graduates held jobs in STEM in science and technology — that’s an amazing statistic, Andrew Arthur. I appreciate you coming on. Thank you.
And here’s the 2014 Census Bureau survey of STEM graduates and their employment: Census Bureau Reports Majority of STEM College Graduates Do Not Work in STEM Occupations.
]]>In fact, our imagined “nation of laws” took quite a beating last Tuesday from one of its major political parties.
How did we reach this point? Do Democrats believe their own propaganda that Trump is worse than Hitler — a sentiment that gets nearly 4 million hits on the internet. Certainly the top party hacks thought a little cheating against such evil would be forgiven by the voters — who have also been deprived of the true story of candidate Biden’s corrupt relationship with Red China in years past that has endangered US national security.
The attitude of elite Democrats is shown by David Plouffe, Obama’s campaign manager, in a tweet from 2016:
Top Dems see that Donald Trump is not a member of the swamp and must therefore be completely destroyed, so no other free American ever gets the idea to run for president. That’s why he has been so deeply opposed from Day #1.
Here’s Sidney Powell’s terrible enumeration:
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]]>MARIA BARTIROMO: Welcome back. President Trump’s legal team as you’ve been hearing this morning are preparing for all-out war, beginning with a slew of new lawsuits this week beginning with one in Pennsylvania tomorrow along with what our next guest says is evidence of voter fraud. Sidney Powell is General Michael Flynn’s attorney. She is fighting on the front lines of this battle as part of the president’s legal team. Sidney, good morning to you; thank you for being here. Can you walk us through what has happened here as you see it…
SIDNEY POWELL: Yes, there has been a massive and coordinated effort to steal this election from we the people of the United States of America, to delegitimize and destroy votes for Donald Trump, to manufacture votes for Joe Biden. They have done it in every way imaginable, from having dead people vote in massive numbers to absolutely fraudulently creating ballots that exist only voting for Biden. We’ve identified at least 450,000 ballots in the key states that miraculously only have a mark for Joe Biden on them and no other candidate.
If you look at Florida where things were done right, you can see that that’s how the rest of the country should have gone, but they also used an algorithm to calculate the votes they would need to flip, and they used the computers to flip those votes from Biden, I mean from Trump to Biden, and from other Republican candidates to their competitors also. I think Doug Collins had the race stolen from him. I think John James had his race stolen from him.
It wasn’t just President Trump — there were many people affected by this. We have got to fight tooth and nail in federal court to expose this abject fraud and the conspiracy behind it and get a recount and audits in every place that’s needed, which is frankly most of the country.
BARTIROMO: So there are recounts going on right now. we know that in Georgia you have a list of numbers of ballots with only Joe Biden on the ticket. You say it’s 98,000 ballots in Pennsylvania, 80 to 90,000 in Georgia, another 42,000 in Arizona, 69 to 115,000 in Michigan and 62,000 in Wisconsin. Sidney, if this is true, this appears systemic, where is the Department of Justice? Where is the AG Bill Barr*? If this is so obvious, then why aren’t we seeing massive government investigations?
POWELL: I don’t know — we definitely should be. I mean we’re getting reports of all kinds of fraud. We’ve got an affidavit from a postal worker now who talks about having been ordered to back-date ballots. No ballots received after the polls closed on voting day should even be counted. We’ve got multiple states that didn’t even follow the rules of their own legislature — that’s a federal constitutional issue. There are at least three major federal issues here that will require the Supreme Court to resolve this case, and when the votes are really audited and the real votes are counted, Trump will win. He is the president, and he is in charge of this country.
BARTIROMO: Sidney, I want to ask you about these algorithms and the Dominion Software. I understand Nancy Pelosi has an interest in this company. Let’s take a break — we’ll come back with that. I’m talking with Sidney Powell this morning on her legal strategy. Stay with us.
Welcome back. I’m back with Sidney Powell who is part of President Trump’s legal team in contesting this election. Sidney, we talked about the Dominion Software: I know that there were voting irregularities. Tell me about that.
POWELL: That’s to put it mildly. The computer glitches could not and should not have happened at all. That is where the fraud took place, where they were flipping votes in the computer system or adding votes that did not exist. We need an audit of all of the computer systems that played any role in this fraud whatsoever, and you know Joe Biden had it right — he said that he had the biggest voter fraud organization ever, and he didn’t need people’s votes now, he would need people later.
They had this all planned, Maria. They had the algorithms, they had the paper ballots waiting to be inserted if and when needed, and notably President Trump’s vote in the blue states went up enormously — that’s when they had to stop the vote count and go in and replace votes for Biden, and take away Trump votes.
BARTIROMO: I’ve never seen voting machines stop in the middle of an election — stop down and assess the situation. I also see reports that Nancy Pelosi’s longtime chief of staff is a key executive at that company; Richard Blum, Senator Feinstein’s husband, significant shareholder of the company. What can you tell us about the interest on the other side of this Dominion Software?
POWELL: Well obviously they have invested in it for their own reasons, and are using it to commit this fraud to steal votes. I think they’ve even stolen them from other Democrats in their own party who should be outraged about this also. Bernie Sanders might very well have been the Democratic candidate, but they’ve stolen against whoever they wanted to steal it from.
BARTIROMO: Sidney, these are incredible charges that you are making this morning. We of course will be following this, and we thank you for joining me today; please come back soon.
* On Monday, Attorney General Barr announced the DOJ would be looking into voting irregularities.
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After a few minutes he was joined by Victor Davis Hanson who thought this is “the worst field we’ve seen since Walter Mondale lost in a landslide to Ronald Reagan.”
The candidates do seem like the B-team of the D-party, but who else is there? When the leadership of the Democrat party is considered among the serving governors, senators and members of Congress, nobody appealing springs to mind. Over recent years, the whole party seems to have lost track of the major purpose in governing — namely to lead with policies that will help the American people.
Instead the Democrats support bad ideas like open borders, including crazy unaffordable freebies for foreign lawbreakers.
Who can forget the moment in last October’s Democrat debate in which all candidates agreed to support taxpayer-funded healthcare for illegal aliens?
When the debate moderator asked Democrat candidates to “Raise your hand if your government plan would provide [medical] coverage for undocumented immigrants,” all responded affirmatively.
How would that policy benefit Americans, many of whom find their own medical coverage to be inadequate? Healthcare polls consistently as a top concern — particularly its high cost — but citizens show no desire to pay for illegal aliens’ medical coverage.
Democrats are united that they want to beat Donald Trump and gain power, but an affirmative message to voters is lacking. For example, over the last two years, House Democrats managed only to impeach the president, with no legislation to advance the well-being of citizens.
Hanson agrees the Democrats have lost track of the big political picture — to win elections, a party has to offer something to voters beyond wokeness and diversity.
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]]>TUCKER CARLSON: So over the next few weeks, all the attention will of course be on Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden and maybe Michael Bloomberg. So we want to pause and remember the candidates we lost over the weekend — not permanently, they’re just not in the race.
For all of them, their failure to win the nomination is reason for all of us to feel a little better about ourselves. We’re not as dumb as we thought we were. Tom Steyer disproved that simply because you’re a billionaire doesn’t mean you’re an oligarch. Steyer spent more than $100 million dollars of his own money. And in the end, did an embarrassing dance on stage and then got nothing.
His sad presidential run ought to be encouraging to every person in America, particularly the slower among us. If that guy can make a billion dollars, you can, too.
Pete Buttigieg’s defeat proves that while Americans may be willing to vote for socialists or plutocrats or adulterers, they are pretty open minded actually. They still want their Presidents to be human. Creepy robots with biographies crafted in a Silicon Valley lab are going to have to wait till the 22nd Century to have their chance. Here’s Buttigieg minutes ago backing Biden.
PETE BUTTIGIEG: It is an honor to be here with Vice President Biden. You know, when I ran for President, we made it clear that the whole idea was about rallying the country together to defeat Donald Trump and to win the era for the values that we share and that was always a goal that was much bigger than me becoming President.
And it is in the name of that very same goal, that I’m delighted to endorse and support Joe Biden for President.
CARLSON: I think Barack Obama gave that exact same speech, but I don’t have Google in front of me, but you can check it.
And of course, Amy Klobuchar dropped out as well. Her defeat is good news for anyone who cares about proper comb hygiene. The Democratic race may be smaller tonight, but it’s not more amicable. Why? Because Elizabeth Warren is still running and now she is openly campaigning for a divisive brokered convention next July, which would be really like Christmas day for the rest of us.
Warren’s only reason for staying in the race right now is to sabotage Bernie Sanders, but many Democrats are happy to play along.
The weird neuroses anxieties and just strangers in the Democratic coalition are coming to the surface. It’s like pulling up a rock and all these things crawl away or try to.
We’re learning a lot about what they really care about. So over the weekend, the Boston Globe ran a piece arguing — and this is for real — that it was “disrespectful” for Bernie Sanders to try and win the Massachusetts primary since it would be a “major humiliation” for Elizabeth Warren.
That’s really identity politics taken to its endpoint. It’s the state of the Democratic race right now. If you’re too extreme for the donor class, then it’s sexist to try and win an election.
Victor Davis Hanson, one of the wisest people we know, is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution out in California. He joins us tonight. Professor, you look on at this and what do you make of it?
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Well, this latest dropout group of Klobuchar and Buttigieg is same thing as the first round of dropouts with Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, Julian Castro and how to sum it all up, Tucker, is after a year of all of this wokeness and diversity and white privilege, what do we end up with?
We ended up with three old white guys that are 77 and 78, with a Marxist — Neo-Marxist — as the presumptive leader, and all of them have a history of insensitive remarks about women or things they’ve written.
So it’s a complete antithesis of the whole premise of the Democratic Party and we don’t have anybody who is a charismatic character other than Bernie Sanders, and his criticisms are sometimes legitimate of American society, but his bromides are frightening.
So they are in a real — and then they’ve got this outside billionaire who is coming into save everybody from Bernie Sanders, on the premise that Biden was fading, but Biden is not quite dead yet — his candidacy, I mean that metaphorically — and now Bloomberg is going to be blamed for you know, dividing the moderate vote and handing the nomination to Sanders.
And then this was supposed to be the transparent new reformist party and they’re going to go back to an old 1950s, 1940s brokered convention with guys and cigars in the back room, horse-trading jobs and employment and entitlements to get delegates. It’s completely — the reality is completely opposite to the rhetoric of the whole progressive movement.
CARLSON: So they clearly don’t care about the things they say they care about. So if you could just sum up crisply what they do care about, what do you think that is?
HANSON: What they do care about is they want to control the House and they want to win back the Senate, and they want Supreme Court picks because they’re interested in power. They’re not interested necessarily in diversity or people of color being the new face of the Democratic Party or any of that.
They’re interested in power, and they think they can’t get it with Bernie Sanders, and they’re absolutely right. He’ll be a disaster. This is the worst field we’ve seen since Walter Mondale lost in a landslide to Ronald Reagan, and if they go the Bernie route, they’re going to lose big and they’re desperate and they’re down to the 11th hour, and the only candidates they have that they think they can save the House and maybe win back to Senate are Bloomberg and Biden and they’re pathetic candidates, and it’s kind of a tragedy to watch this thing unfold.
CARLSON: You’re right.
HANSON: It really is.
CARLSON: Oh, but that there’s been — there’s pleasure in it too, Professor, I would say.
HANSON: But it’s about power, and they are losing that and they know it.
CARLSON: Exactly. It’s about power. Great to see you tonight. Thank you so much for that, as always.
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Tucker Carlson is sure that Old Joe meant 150 thousand — but the goof shows how ragged things are getting among the 2020 Democrats as Super Tuesday looms. The urge is to cite the most extreme statistic — even a wrong one — as a quote that will show up on the news the next day.
Plus, gun grabbing is practically a religion among the left. They cannot imagine armed citizens in a free country — where’s the power and control in that?
Democrats really do have a different idea of how this nation should be run — with open borders and no way to defend yourself from illegal alien criminals.
Meanwhile, millions of Americans understand that the Second Amendment is vital to keeping the First and will not give up their rights as citizens.
The man below was one of the thousands of Second Amendment supporters who rallied in support of firearm possession in Richmond Virginia on January 20.
Tucker Carlson could not let the gun gaffe go without a discussion of how horrible the Democrats all are on the Second Amendment.
(Spare video here.)
]]>TUCKER CARLSON: Well during the Democratic debate last night, Joe Biden made a remarkable claim about the level of gun violence in this country. Watch:
JOE BIDEN: A hundred and fifty million people have been killed since 2007 when Bernie voted to exempt the gun manufacturers from liability, more than all the wars, including Vietnam, from that point on.
CARLSON: Vietnam? More than that? A hundred and fifty million. That’s almost half the country, dead in 10 years. That’s a lot of empty buildings.
Presumably Biden meant to say 150,000. That’s roughly the number of gun homicides in this country during that period. But Democrats are doing their best to drive that number up. How? By attacking police and letting criminals — real criminals — go free.
Instead of fighting gun violence by fighting actual criminals who are trying to destroy the NRA and take guns from people who didn’t vote for them with assault weapons ban.
Do assault weapons bans work? Well, there’s just been a big study on this question from Johns Hopkins, the Party of Science is ignoring it, but the answer is no. They don’t work. Not that they’ll stop trying to push somebody in.
Colion Noir is a Second Amendment advocate. He joins us tonight. Thanks so much for coming on. Have you noticed there seems to be a connection between the vehemence of gun control advocates and their lack of knowledge about firearms?
I mean, some of these people — Biden is a perfect example — don’t know what end the round comes out of. They don’t know what a muzzle is. And yet they’re sort of posing as experts. Am I imagining this?
COLION NOIR: No, you’re not imagining. It is exactly what they’re doing. And to me, that’s the most disheartening aspect of this. We’re talking about one of the most important constitutional rights in this country. But yet these individuals who are calling themselves leaders don’t know the first thing about the subject they’re talking about.
They just get their talking points, get in front of the camera, and then spew a bunch of misinformation to millions of people, and then the people believe it.
CARLSON: So what’s interesting is that the same people who lecture you constantly about science and climate change and look at the data, essentially ignore the data when it conflicts with their social engineering.
So Johns Hopkins, which I think is a legitimate institution, or was anyway, has a new study showing that assault weapons bans do not or there’s no evidence to show that they do reduce mass shootings.
So this would — and a lot of studies have shown, this including the Federal government’s own study, during the Clinton administration. Why is this not kind of death for assault weapons bans, they don’t work. So why are we still pushing them?
NOIR: Well, because of the agenda. At the end of the day, and I always go back to this point, because it’s their overall goal, which is control. They don’t really care about what the facts actually say.
What they want is to restrict the Second Amendment into oblivion. That’s the goal. And at this point in time, from what we’ve seen from all of the candidates that have been on stage talking about the Second Amendment and gun control, so forth and so on, and people talking about confiscating weapons.
At this point, we should all understand that. That they have an agenda to restrict the Second Amendment into oblivion. This isn’t about saving lives. This isn’t about trying to find a balance and having a conversation. Because if it was, they wouldn’t be talking about how they beat or destroy the NRA.
They’d be talking about, okay, well, how do we balance protecting people’s rights while trying to, you know, save lives in some manner that makes sense and that’s actually plausible, without taking away people’s constitutional rights, that as far as I’m concerned, I’m not willing to give up for the sake of saying, you know, what, I do feel a little bit safer, when I’m not actually safer.
And so that’s the problem with this conversation as a whole. They really don’t care. What they care about is gaining control.
CARLSON: Yes, controlling the population. Armed populations are to be controlled, and by the way, if they cared about gun violence, they would focus their efforts in places where gun violence is the biggest problem, but of course, they’re against that. It tells you everything.
Colion Noir, it’s great to see you.
NOIR: Absolutely.
CARLSON: No, please, finish up. Put a bow on it.
NOIR: Got you. So for them, it’s too multifaceted for them. They don’t actually want to do work. They don’t want to roll the sleeves up and get the job done, because when you talk about the places that have the most gun violence, it’s a socioeconomic issue. It’s not a gun issue.
Because if it were a gun issue, we’d see this violence widespread across the country. We don’t. It’s concentrated in very specific areas. And there’s a pattern to all of these areas that are not being addressed.
But that would require them to actually care and actually do work.
CARLSON: No, it’s true.
NOIR: They’ll go into these places, and they’ll say, oh, we’ll give you gun control and then leave and never show up again after election.
CARLSON: If someone’s trying to make you powerless and helpless, you should be nervous. That’s a sign — that’s not a good sign. I don’t think at all.
NOIR: It’s not a good sign.
CARLSON: Colion, great to see you. Thank you for that.
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Unfortunately, California is a popular place for foreigners of varying legality to relocate which has given us more than 10 million foreigners as fellow residents.
There’s no question this state is overpopulated in an environmental sense, and water supply is the most immediate and vital issue in this regard. While much of the state’s water goes to agriculture, public service messages will likely be appearing soon on TV urging California residents to conserve water.
So I’m back to catching shower warm-up water in a five-gallon bucket and using it to keep the camellia bush alive.
Wednesday’s Sacramento Bee front-paged the bad news:
Democrats once claimed they supported the environment, but 2020 candidate Joe Biden recently asserted, “We should be able to increase to three million people the people who could come for family reunification” (Joe Biden: ‘Absolutely Bizarre’ to Suggest Limit on U.S. Capacity to Absorb Immigrants, Breitbart.com, February 18, 2020). And family unification is just one category of immigration.
Of course the whole reason foreigners come to America is to increase their income and consumption of consumer goods and physical resources generally. Only the favored phraseology is to “come for a better life.”
Meanwhile, the news shows severe flooding in Mississippi.
But California is dry.
]]>Sierra snowpack withering in California’s dry winter. New satellite image shows the bad news, Sacramento Bee, February 18, 2020
The image is disturbing and leaves little doubt about California’s growing predicament: The snowpack in the Sierra Nevada is a sad whisper of it was a year ago, a withering testament to the lack of precipitation in the state’s increasingly dry winter.
The National Weather Service tweeted satellite images of the Sierra on Tuesday, showing the stark difference between this year and the above-average snowfall from 2019. The mountain snowpack — a crucial element in the state’s annual water supply — is 53 percent of normal for this time of year, according to the Department of Water Resources.
The immediate forecast isn’t promising. NWS meteorologist Emily Heller said there’s a chance of “some light mountain snow this weekend” — perhaps a couple of inches at elevations of 6,000 feet or above. Even that measly forecast is uncertain.
“It’s too early to get everybody’s hopes up,” Heller said.
Three years after former Gov. Jerry Brown declared the official end of the last drought, the lack of precipitation is putting the state on edge all over again.
California needs a healthy snowpack to replenish its water supply in summer and fall, when the precipitation disappears altogether and the state relies on water in its reservoirs. On average, the snowpack provides about 30 percent of the state’s water needs.
The state also needs moisture in the soil to tamp down the wildfire risk. The historic five-year drought killed tens of millions of trees, helping set the stage for the horrific fire seasons of 2017 and 2018. (Continues)
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Friday’s New York Times front page included an article with the newsprint title Facing Queries About His Son, Biden Is by Turns Calm or Curt (reprinted by MSN.com). So it appears the elite media is pulling back its support for the 2020 candidate.
What’s notable about the Biden clan is how many family members rode the gravy train to riches on the basis of the name and influence. Schweizer has dug up people beyond Hunter that most Americans have never heard of.
Below, the Biden family alleged crooks include (left to right) Joe’s brother James, son Hunter, son-in-law Howard Krein, brother Frank and sister Valerie Biden Owens.
Lou Dobbs recently interviewed the author to get a taste of the Biden family business. Dobbs seemed amazed and almost amused by the brazen arrogance of the clan.
Spare audio:
Schweizer noted how atypical it is for so many family members to be engaged in corruption-based crime:
“It’s remarkable. I mean the Biden family, you’ve got five family members involved. I call them the Biden Five; they’re like the Jackson Five but they don’t sing, it’s corruption, and I’ve never seen this before. You know we’ve talked many times, Lou, on your show about corruption involving Democrats, Republicans. Maybe there’s one family member, maybe there’s two. . .
I’ve never run across one that has five, and on top of the fact that there are five involved, it’s like a corrupt United Nations. You’ve got Hunter Biden doing deals in Ukraine, doing deals in China with state actors, corrupt old guards; you got the brother James who’s with this construction firm that’s set up by a family friend. They get the contract to build a hundred thousand homes in Iraq they get contracts to do work for the State Department’s. Then you’ve got this other brother Frank meeting with the Costa Rican president for these energy deals, and of course he has no background in energy. It just goes on and on.”
For more details on the family members, see Schweizer’s New York Post article, How five members of Joe Biden’s family got rich through his connections.
The book ranked #1 on Amazon 10 days before release, surely based on Schweizer’s reputation as a thorough investigator. It won’t help Joe Biden’s faltering campaign, that’s for sure. Other Democrats get criticism as well: the table of contents shows chapters on Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar.
]]>The former vice president was analyzed by Tucker Carlson recently for the thoughtless remarks designed to appeal to persons whose culture may not value highway safety. It was disturbing to see Biden essentially excuse drunk driving when it has killed many thousands of Americans over the years. Drunk driving has been more accepted among certain cultural groups, like Mexicans, so diversity is definitely not a strength on that front.
This website has noted the deaths of numerous Americans as a result of drunk driving illegal aliens, such as the few following:
Below, 21-year-old Sarah Root was killed in Omaha just a day after her college graduation in 2016 by one of Obama’s protected DREAMers, reported here: ”Drunk Driving Illegal Alien Kills Woman, Is Bailed Out and Disappears.”
Mesa, Arizona, police Sergeant Brandon Mendoza was killed by a head-on collision with a previously arrested but not deported drunk-driving illegal alien with a blood alcohol level of .24 percent.
Young Alabama couple Tad Mattle and Leigh Anna Jimmerson were killed by a drunk-driving illegal alien with a blood-alcohol content more than three times the legal limit and who had at least four previous DUIs.
Houston Officer Kevin Will died when a drunk Mexican crashed through a police barrier at 90 mph and hit Will as he was standing on a road shoulder investigating an accident.
Three-year-old Marten Kudlis was run down in a Colorado ice cream shop by a 16-times-arrested drunk-driving illegal alien. Two adult women were also killed when the truck smashed into the building.
Best friends Tessa Tranchant, 16, left, and Allison Kunhardt, 17, died when their car, stopped at a light, was hit by a seriously drunk illegal alien, who had three previous alcohol-related convictions but was not deported.
There are many more preventable drunk-driving deaths to mention, but I’ll stop and continue with Tucker Carlson’s discussion of Joe Biden:
(A spare video, slightly longer, is here.)
]]>TUCKER CARLSON: Now they tell you that the Democratic establishment wants Joe Biden as the nominee in the first place because he’s moderate and can win. But is Joe Biden actually moderate? He hugs people — that doesn’t mean he’s moderate, he’s just not a threat to the lifestyle of Democratic leaders.
On immigration for example, he’s not moderate by anybody’s definition. In a recent interview with Vice, Biden explained that even illegal aliens who commit drunk driving offenses ought to be allowed to stay here forever. Watch:
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE JOE BIDEN: You only arrest for the purpose of dealing with a felony that’s committed, and I don’t count drunk driving as a felony.
CARLSON: Yeah have a few beers, like whatever. Drunk driving kills thousands of Americans every year: Democrats used to tell you a lot about that. Biden doesn’t care any more, not if illegals are doing it. And for good measure after those illegal immigrant drunk drivers cause a crash, they get free healthcare for their injuries. while their victims may not.
Do you get free health care? No, but Biden likes to give it to people here illegally.
That’s okay. After all, according to Biden, illegal aliens are more American than you are. He said it. Watch:
BIDEN: These kids that come, they’ve done well. Most of these kids — there’s a lot of them, they’re not just hispanic or Asian-Pacific islanders as well. And they in fact have done very well. In many cases, they’re more American than most Americans are because they have done well in school; they believe the basic principles that we all share.
CARLSON: “They’re more American than most Americans are,” more American than you are — shut up, you foreigner. In the same interview, Biden vowed to protect drunk drivers. He also said Americans must pay reparations to illegal aliens for what they’ve done to them. Watch:
VICE SHOW HOST: Do these numbers separated by the federal government deserve any kind of reparations or any kind of restitution for what they suffered?
BIDEN: Yes, they should be made whole; they should be made whole in terms of first and foremost getting back with their families. That’s it, I mean reparation is repairing damage. Some of you, part of the Latino community, what is, talk about things — let people know the anxiety the children you know of or parents who may have an illegal parent and an undocumented parent in the country.
It’s an enormous anxiety, and so that’s why we should be fighting them, the kind of help that is needed and the family that helped me to restore their confidence restore their sense of who they are.
CARLSON: Oops, he said it “illegal” but quickly corrected himself — “undocumented.” That’s fine, go ahead and drunk drive. By the way, we’re giving you reparations and free healthcare.
Is that moderate? That’s the question, is it moderate? Alana Goodman writes for the Washington Examiner and we’re happy to have her tonight because she covers all this stuff. Thanks so much for coming.
So from the very beginning, the assumption has been, mostly because of his temperament, that Biden is this moderate guy with broad appeal to swing voters to the extent they still exist. Is that still true?
ALANA GOODMAN: Look, I think people look at this, the DUI comments you know, and they say why didn’t Biden do anything about this when he was vice president? I mean Obama deported a hundred thousand illegal immigrants who had DUI convictions, and I don’t remember Joe Biden saying anything about this at the time. So the question is, why is this an issue for him all of a sudden right now?
CARLSON: It’s just a little weird because your average American-born eighteen-year-old lives in terror of getting caught using a fake ID or drunk driving: they’re telling us that’s totally cool — fake documents, drunk driving — no problem.
GOODMAN: Yeah, it downplays in a way also the seriousness of drunk driving, especially felony drunk driving. I mean you there’s usually more factors to it in those states to get a felony, usually things like you know if you cause an accident that results in an injury or if you have a young child in the car, so there’s usually other issues like that, and it just seems to kind of downplay the severity of it to say. . .
CARLSON: What’s a little strange honestly because I watched a video — you can watch it yourself on Youtube — of Joe Biden saying that his wife and daughter were killed by a drunk driver, so it’s a little weird for him to be saying that. . .
GOODMAN: I would just want to say, you know as you probably know, the family of the man who had been driving that truck, they said that he was not driving drunk and there was no, he was never charged with drunk driving.
CARLSON: No, I think that’s a totally fair point. Do you think that Democrats in Washington who conceived of, pushed and now are defending the Biden candidacy are worried about it?
GOODMAN: I think that they would have to be. I mean look when he was talking about reparations, things like that, it just shows how far Democrats have shifted on the issue of illegal immigration just in the last four years. I mean President Obama had deported more illegal immigrants than any other president and at a higher rate, and now you have Joe Biden coming out and taking very different positions on this. And where was his criticism of this at the time when he was vice president and should have been able to do something about it?
CARLSON: So really quick, is there majority support in this country for reparations for illegal aliens do you think?
GOODMAN: I have not seen the polling on that yet.