Author: jacohn3062

    It was never "Don't say gay."

    It’s Not a ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Law. It’s an Anti-Indoctrination Law.
Douglas Blair / April 12, 2022

    LGBT activists deliberately misrepresent what Florida's new
Parental Rights in Education law does and doesn't do. 
    The radical left just can’t stop talking about Florida Gov. Ron
DeSantis’ anti-“grooming” law.  
    The left’s warped worldview prevents them from understanding why
DeSantis signed Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill into law
March 28, or why parents don’t want their children being indoctri-
nated into LGBT ideology. 
    The rabid response to the bill’s passage has been just as tell-
ing as the left’s initial opposition.  
    Consider Hollywood’s response at the Oscars on March 27, the
night before DeSantis signed the bill. Hosts Wanda Sykes, Amy Schu-
mer and Regina Hall opened the awards telecast by saying, “We’re
going to have a great night tonight—and for you people in Florida, 
going to have a gay night." They then repeated the word “gay” over
and over again.  
    Similarly, a new ad campaign from New York Mayor Eric Adams saw
several billboards erected in Florida cities such as Orlando, Tampa,
and West Palm Beach aimed at luring LGBT Americans to move to
Gotham.  
    One billboard features the text “Come to the city where you can
say whatever you want,” surrounded by the word “gay” in bright,
colorful letters. Another billboard reads: “People say a lot of
ridiculous things in New York. ‘Don’t Say Gay’ isn’t one of them.” 
    It’s comical how one-dimensional this line of attack is. In a
childish criticism of genuine parental concern, woke activists ac-
cuse anyone in favor of the new Florida law of trying to ban the
word “gay” from the collective vocabulary.  
    More insidiously, they claim that trying to ban classroom in-
struction of LGBT topics to young kids in kindergarten through
third grade is the same as banning gay people from existing at all.

    That’s a lie. 

    Americans concerned with LGBT indoctrination in schools don’t
want to ban gays from existing or saying the word “gay.” Their con-
cern lies squarely with activists in classrooms grooming children. 
    Try as they might to pretend this type of wildly inappropriate
instruction isn’t happening, the radical left can’t resist showing
their hand.  
    Starting in September, New Jersey’s first graders will be re-
quired to learn about gender identities, and how boys can be girls
if they want.  
    A lesson plan, titled “Pink, Blue, and Purple,” would have stu-
dents “discuss the range of ways people express their gender and
how gender-role stereotypes may limit behavior.”   
    The lesson plan suggests teachers tell students that their bio-
logical sex doesn’t matter, and that they can identify as  however
they feel. 
    “You might feel like you are a boy; you might feel like you are
a girl,” New Jersey’s lesson plan reads. “You might feel like you’re
a boy even if you have body parts that some people might tell you
are ‘girl’ parts. You might feel like you’re a girl even if you have
body parts that some people might tell you are ‘boy’ parts.” 
    This is the sort of indoctrination that the Florida law is try-
to explicitly avoid. It’s not the word “gay,” nor is it gay peo-
plein the wider world. It’s leftists infecting kids’ classrooms
with LGBT propaganda and grooming your child before he or she can
understand what’s happening.  
    Thankfully, Americans are beginning to wake up to the rot inflic-
ted by gender ideology. And as much as the left tries to pretend
that concerned parents are just homophobic bigots and that Florida’s
legislation is aimed at denying gays exist, that argument just does
not hold water.  
    Polling data from Politico shows that a majority of Americans
favor banning the teaching of gender identity and sexual orienta-
tion to kids from kindergarten through third grade. That number in-
cludes 46% of independents who also support the ban, making it dif-
ficult to claim this is an effort led purely by “evil” Republicans. 

    The “Don’t Say Gay” label is unfair. The bill stipulates no such
thing.
    Leftists should feel free to say, shout, or whisper the word
“gay” as much as they want. Just leave the kids out of it. 
    D. Blair

    So it seems that the Left feed the media their made-up lies and
then expect everyone to believe it. Most Democrats have a long and
notorious reputation for lying their way through their terms and
time in DC. 
    If they get caught, they blame Republicans for what they were
actually doing.
    They also have a habit of expecting everyone to be dumb enough
to repeat the same thing, often expecting a different result.
    The stunt they pulled in 2020 will assuredly come back to haunt
them this coming November. Just watch.
    Pray the God will heal our land by giving them enough rope to
hang themselves this time.

Conservatively,
John

    Eye Surgeries

    At the end of March, I had eye surgery on my right eye for
Pterygium. (Look it up)
    It required me to keep my eye bandaged for several days and 
an eye protector at night for 2 weeks.
    The surgery was successful but painful for almost 2 weeks as
the growth was large and almost invasive into my line of sight
    I will be having the left eye done in a couple of weeks but
this eye is nowhere near as bad but it hindered my ability to look
into the computer screen for long.
    I am still putting special drops in my eye for a couple more
days and all should be well until early May.
    Last year I had cataract surgery so I will have it all taken 
care of by the end of May.
    This growing old is not for the faint of heart.
    Have a blessed day and stay safe and may God continue to bless
our land and delivery us from all evil.

Conservatively,
John

    The state of Joe Biden’s United States
By Brooke Rollins in The Washington Times

    President Biden delivered his first State of the Union address
this week, and its theatrics proved a testament to his disastrous
first year in office. Frightened by the twin specters of continued
protests against draconian COVID-19 mandates and general American
disapproval, his administration caused the United States Capitol to
be ringed with new fencing — and they’ve put the National Guard on
alert. Perhaps nothing synopsizes the capsizing vessel that is the
Biden White House than this: They’re building a fortress around the
seat of the American people’s government but refuse to protect our
nation’s southern border.
    The sense of dread felt by the president’s apparatus is justified
because Americans deeply dislike the president. A pair of new polls
tell the tale.
    One of them, from NBC/PBS NewsHour/Marist, puts the president at
a mere 39% approval. That approval number is smaller than the lone
strong-disapproval cohort, which sits at 41% — with 55% disapproving
at large. All the subject-matter indicators are similarly bad. Only
36% approve of Mr. Biden’s economic record. A stunning 67%, more than
two-thirds of Americans, believe the country is going in the wrong
direction.
    Among Americans at large, 56% consider his first year in office
to be a failure. That last numbers gets more interesting when you
break it down: Mr. Biden’s first year is a failure according to 61%
of whites, 28% of Blacks and 56% of Hispanics. Every single age and
area cohort puts up a majority believing he’s failed.

    We should pause here to reflect on what these figures mean. Sent-
iment figures are not predictive of election or candidate-preference
outcomes, but they are suggestive. What these numbers suggest, espec-
ially as the president is the de facto stand-in for national Demo-
crats, is that Democrats won’t win nationally again for a generation.
    This may seem like hyperbole, but the numbers alone bear it on the
race/ethnicity figures. A Democratic candidate who loses more than a
quarter of the black vote, and a majority of the Hispanic vote, isn’t
going anywhere. A Democratic candidate who squanders the usual Demo-
cratic advantage among young voters isn’t going anywhere.
    An alert observer might note that this is consistent with the
unfolding reorientation of the Democratic coalition toward a mostly
white, mostly college-educated core demographic. That’s probably ac-
curate. But that even among them, Biden’s year-one failure is stark:
He loses a majority of men and musters only a plurality among women.
This is a coalition in collapse.
    The other poll, from WaPo/ABC, offers even worse news in its
approval rating for the president. It sits at a historic low of 37%.
    A figure this low in the era of modern polling usually represents
the nadir of a president’s fortunes. It also usually requires some-
thing catastrophic to have occurred that imparts upon the Nation a
sense of humiliation. That’s why, according to Gallup’s numbers,
President Lyndon B. Johnson got into this territory after Tet, and
President Ronald Reagan got into it after the Beirut massacre. Mr.
Biden has his own foreign-policy disasters to answer for — chief
among them the American defeat in Afghanistan and the failure to
prevent the Russian war upon Ukraine — but that is hardly the whole
bill of indictment against him.
    This second poll also illuminates the first’s picture of a col-
lapsing Democratic coalition with sentiment numbers speaking directly
to their likely electoral consequences. With midterm elections ra-
pidly approaching, Americans prefer Republican control of Congress by
a bare majority. They intend to vote for a Republican Congressional
candidate by a seven-point plurality. They give the Republicans just
shy of a 20-point advantage in efficacy on the economy.

    What does all this mean? A presidential-approval rating isn’t a
baseball score. It signifies something consequential — not just about
the state of the president, but about the state of America. Just over
a year after Mr. Biden took office, the country he helms is suffering
thanks to his leadership or absence thereof. We have endured defeat
abroad, war in Europe, economic insecurity, a historical border
crisis, generational inflation and more. The kicker to it is he’s
just getting started: This is only year one, and this administration
will last through to January 2025.

    The good news, though, is that, if the State of the Union is
tested and divided, then the state of America is strong — because
unlike their fenced-in and heavily guarded elites in Washington,
Americans are strong. It’s easy to look at our leadership and feel
despair, but that would be a mistake. All we need to do is look to
one another to feel hope. This country isn’t done yet. The greatest
legacy of the failed administration of Jimmy Carter is it ushered in
the freedom, hope and prosperity of Reagan. Similarly, I am confident
Mr. Biden will usher in the return of America First!
By Brooke Rollins, The Washington Times

    I found this on my computer and it needs a few facts with it.
    It is now late April 2022 and we are still rolling downhill and
we seem to be picking up speed. Inflation has passed 10%, Gas prices
have reached beyond $4.40 a gallon. It fell back a little when old
Joe started drawing out of our limited reserves. He is now buying our
oil from Russia while the Fed went back to buying securities that the
smart investors sold off in an effort to hold the stock market from
collapsing.
    People are hurting and Joe doesn't seem to care.
And then there is the war in Ukraine that Joe refuses help, as 
thousands of innocent Ukrainians have been slaughtered. Putin is just
blowing anything from schools to entire housing complexes.
Biden is incapable of acting on his own or re-act until a crisis
has reached the point of "Why bother?"
    It is time to ask God to save us because our so-called leaders
lack empathy, morals, ethics and unable to tell the truth. They just
continue to throw money at everything.
    Lord, please heal our land.

Conservatively,
John    

    Why Is Everything the Left Doesn’t Like ‘Misinformation’?
Douglas Blair / March 07, 2022

    The government’s Big Brother-style crusade to control what gets
posted online continues apace. 
    U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy on March 3 demanded that
Big Tech companies provide the government with data surrounding
COVID-19 “misinformation” on their platforms. 
    The New York Times reported that Murthy asked the companies to
reveal “exactly how many users saw or may have been exposed to in-
stances of COVID-19 misinformation,” on top of providing the demo-
graphic data of those users.
    The request follows on the heels of an advisory released last
July, in which Murthy said misinformation “can cause confusion, sow
distrust, and undermine public health efforts, including our ongoing
work to end the COVID-19 pandemic.”
    The term “misinformation” has become a bit of a catch-all in the
COVID-19 era. It certainly can apply to actual untruths, such as that
the COVID-19 vaccine contains microchips. But far more frequently,
the term is weaponized against ideas the powers-that-be don’t like. 
     Take, for example, the ever-evolving tale of the Chinese lab-leak
hypothesis regarding COVID-19. 
    Ground zero for the initial outbreak of COVID-19 was quickly de-
termined to be Wuhan, China. The city is home to the Wuhan Institute
of Virology, a lab known for conducting gain-of-function research
into coronaviruses. When people started suggesting the two were
linked, the response from health authorities and corporate media was
instantaneous. 
    The hypothesis was lambasted as a racist conspiracy theory, and
anyone who tried to disseminate it was quickly labeled a fringe kook
or censored entirely on social media. Back in February 2020, Facebook
banned an article from the New York Post claiming COVID-19 could have
leaked from a lab. 
    Fast-forward a year to 2021 and suddenly the lab leak was no
longer misinformation worthy of exile from the internet. The same
outlets and experts who had gone to great lengths to smear anyone who
dared go against their medical decrees were suddenly singing a very
different tune.
    Facebook itself was forced to recant, and announced it would stop
removing posts that asserted COVID-19 leaked from a lab. 
    That brings us back to the issue of Murthy demanding data on
“misinformation” from these Big Tech platforms. As the lab-leak saga
demonstrated, the definition of what qualifies as misinformation is
incredibly nebulous and can change with the political winds. 
    Murthy’s fishing expedition to find “misinformation” is for one
purpose only; namely, control of our lives and of what we think. 
    As the pandemic dragged on, the government and Big Tech used the
label of “misinformation” to ban ideas and outlets they dislike. They
found that strategy to be incredibly effective and want to continue
using it into the future. 
    The strategy is no longer limited to COVID-19, either. The pop-
ular streaming site Twitch announced March 3 that it plans to ban
users who spread “misinformation” on other topics, including elec-
tion fraud, and chillingly undefined “misinformation that may impact
public safety.”
    Once censorship becomes a common strategy against perceived “mis-
information,” free speech is effectively dead. Don’t like what your
political opposition is saying? Label it “misinformation,” ban it,
and call it a day. 
    Many censorious tyrants have cloaked their actions in the name
of “public safety” as Murthy has. And as those definitions of “public
safety” rest on foundations as solid as shifting sands, it’s inevit-
able that the term “misinformation” will be abused further in the
future. 
    For the sake of free speech, it’s essential that Murthy and the
“misinformation” mob be countered at every turn. Americans should be
empowered to discover the truth on their own, and not have their
experiences curated by a biased bureaucracy or unelected tech czars. 
    The truth is out there. We don’t need Murthy to tell us what it
is. 
Douglas Blair

    Misinformation seems to be a catch-all used to attack those that
disagree with the liberal left.
    Virtually every story about the ANTIFA and BLM's attempt to de-
stroy America for over a year.
    The lame excuses for fencing off the "People's House" is yet
to be told.
    The truth about the Covid-19 pandemic and all things pertaining
like masking, social distancing, vaccine proof, death count, actual
number of Covid cases, etc.
    The true events of Jan. 6, 2021 are still being hidden along with
14,000 different videos of the truth.
    We are still waiting for the truth about the disaster called the
abandonment of our people in Afghanistan.
    One can call out everything that comes out of the White House but
in truth, they are just the typical lies that Americans are being fed
by the corrupt media and the accomplished liars that walk the halls
of Congress.
    Don't we deserve better? We endured 8 years of Obama and after a
prosperous 4 years we have been forced back into the swamp.
    It is time to call the liars what they are.
    They are like the little boy who cried wolf until no one believed
him anymore.
    Let's stand up and take back our country.
    Pray for God's mercy and His grace.

Conservatively,
John

    The Downside of Electric Vehicles

    Let me propose just a few scenarios of what could come from
mandating everyone having electric vehicles.
    What's a person to do?
    Imagine Florida with a hurricane coming toward Miami.  
    The Governor orders an evacuation. All cars head north.
    They will all need to be charged in Jacksonville.
    How does that work?
    Has anyone thought about this?
    If all cars were electric vehicles (EV), and were caught up in
a three-hour traffic jam with dead batteries, then what?
    Much of the power is generated when the wheels are turning and
the vehicle is moving. Braking contributes but minimally.
    Not to mention that there is virtually no heating or air condi-
tioning in an electric vehicle because of high battery consumption.
    Imagine if you get stuck on the road all night, no battery, no
heating, no windshield wipers, no radio, no GPS (all these drain the
batteries), all you can do is try calling 911 to take the women and
children to safety.
    But they cannot come to help you because all roads are blocked,
and by then they will require all police cars to be electric also.
    I would have to believe that the tiny gas tanks will be either
not an option, by then, and if they were still an expensive option,
we would have used them BEFORE we panicked.
    When, or if, the roads become unblocked no one can move! Their
batteries are dead.  How do you charge the thousands of cars in the
traffic jam?
    Same problem during summer vacation departures with miles of
traffic jams. There would be virtually no air conditioning in an
electric vehicle. It would drain the batteries quickly. 
    Where is this electricity going to come from?
    Today's grid barely handles users' needs. Can't use nuclear,
natural gas is quickly running out.
    So, oil fired is out of the question, then where? 
    What will be done with billions of dead batteries, the greenies
say we can't bury them in the soil, can't go to landfills. They only
last up to 10 years, at best and cost $5000 or more to replace.
    The cart is way ahead of the horse.
    No thought, whatsoever, has been put into how to handle any of
the problems that batteries can cause.
    Is anyone aware of how most electricity to charge batteries is
produced?
    About 65% of all electricity in the US is produced by fossil
fuels. Much by coal and oil.
    The liberal press doesn't want us or themselves to even talk or
report on any of this.
    Another point to include is charging cost and time. To charge a
weak battery will take about 8 hours depending upon how much it was
run down. 
    You will need a 200-amp circuit in your home that will use up to
150 kW to recharge. The cost varies to about $1-2 per charge. You
should also remember that most charging stations charge a small fee.
    Now you must also remember, there is NO trade-in for your gas
powered vehicle.
    Currently in France, thousands of (EV) taxis are now stored as
inoperable because the batteries are dead and to replace them would
cost as much as the value of the vehicle itself!
    The bottom line is that there is still an enormous amount of
fossil fuels needed even for EVs. And if it runs down you can't call
AAA for a can of gas but I am sure they can arrange a very expensive
tow to the nearest charging station, wherever that might be.
    You won't be able to plan on any long trips without planning on
an hotel for a night or two.
    Oh, the batteries are not recyclable and I imagine there is a
huge fee to get someone to get rid of them.
    So I guess you have to plan on buying a new car every 6-7 years.
Personally I would rather pollute than sit on the side of the road
or ride in a tow truck.
    I have trouble understanding why so many people don't see just
how expensive it will be for the little effect it will actually have
on the environment.
    The US has more oil under the Midwest that the rest of the world
combined. About 2 billion barrels.
    If we return to pumping our own and sell the excess, gas would
quickly return to less than $2 a gallon. 
    The economy would rebound, and inflation will drop. We will get
much more for our dollar. The cost of virtually will go down.
    And FYI: Our air is almost the cleanest on the planet. We are in
the top 10 of over 200 countries.
    The United States is NOT the problem, our government is.
    God promises to heal our land. Let's give Him a chance. Pray...

Conservatively,
John

    Biden's Apparitions

    I stumbled upon this from December and wished I had been the one
to post it.
    By now even the few sane and patriotic Democrats know how true
this could be but most are afraid to admit that they screwed up in a
royal way. 
    Those that aided in the corruption and illegal manner used to 
pull off this coup obviously lack any loyalty to the US and have no
morals or ethics, will one day answer for their actions but this is
would be good for a laugh if it wasn't so sad for the 330M actual
citizens.

    Ghost's of Policies Past
By: Bill O'Reilly December 19, 2021

    The Ghost of Policies Past

    According to legend, there are many ghosts residing in the White
House, apparitions that go all the way back to President Martin Van
Buren. The "Little Magician," as he was called, once allegedly ap-
peared to a trembling Chester Arthur asking a simple question: "how
the heck did you get in here?"

    President Arthur hid under the covers.

    As Christmas Eve evolves into early Christmas morning, I fear
that Joe Biden may receive a visit from another spirit; that of Jimmy
Carter. Stranger things have happened in the White House. Just ask
Bill Clinton.

    Anyway, if my intuition is correct, the scene might go this way.

    "Jooooooooe, awaken Joe! I've been sent to warn you. Heed what
I say!"

    "Is that you, Jimmy. I'd know that accent anywhere."

    "It is I, Joseph, the ghost of bad policies past. And I have a
question: what in tarnation are you doing?"

    "No joke. I don't know what I'm doing. Can you help?"

    "Jooooooe! Don't you remember the gas lines in the late 1970s?
I messed with the energy industry and got my tush kicked!"

    "But climate change..."

    "Silence! Gas and heating oil price rises have ignited inflation!
People are angry, Joe. People are getting hammered financially!"

    "If in fact ...."

    "It is a fact, Joe. Just look at Tiny Tim. He can no longer af-
ford a Big Mac."

    "No, I can't bear it. Tiny Tim denied fast food?"

    "And the border, it's wide open. Millions of folks just walking
in here. Why, Joe, why?"

    "Future Democrat voters, Jimmy. I'm not being facetious."

    "Jooooooe, your approval rating with current voters is 9 percent.
And can you explain Kamala?"

    "Well, they like her less than me. If in fact."

    "Joe, look out the window and see the future. There's Tiny Tim
wearing a Trump hat. To the right is Nancy Pelosi retiring from the
House after your party loses 100 seats next November. And finally,
wait, I feel another ghostly presence! Why it's Ronald Reagan."

    "Good evening, gentlemen, it's nice to be back in the White House
this Christmas morning. It's tough riding horses in Santa Barbara
when you're invisible."

    "Do you have words of wisdom for me too, President Reagan?"

    "Yes, Joe, I do. Just keep doing what you're doing!"

    I just thought this was funny and surely Americans deserve much
better but with Democrats it just seems to continue to get worse.
    I pray that ALL have a very blessed Christmas and God has mercy
upon or struggling nation and finds enough good souls to keep us
from becoming another Sodom.
    Merry Christmas and have a very Happy New Year.

    May God have mercy on America and rescue our nation.

Conservatively,
John

    ‘Breadcrumbs Lead to Speaker’s Office,’ Rep. Jim Banks Warns as
    GOP Slams Capitol Police Leadership Over Capitol Riot
    Mary Margaret Olohan / @MaryMargOlohan / February 07, 2022

    Rep. Jim Banks heavily criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for
her failure to hand over key documents related to the Jan. 6 Capitol
riot, saying in a Monday interview that Republican lawmakers believe
the severity of the riot was due to a “systemic breakdown and failure
at the highest levels of the Capitol Police.” 
    The Indiana Republican, who is on a panel of GOP lawmakers that
is unofficially investigating the riot, spoke with The Daily Signal
following an Axios report headlined “GOP’s shadow Jan. 6 committee
targets Capitol Police ‘negligence.’”
    Banks criticized the article and strongly disputed any implica-
tion that Republicans are focusing negative attention on Capitol 
Police officers themselves, noting that Republicans believe it is the
leadership of the police force that was at fault. 
    “We’re not attacking the Capitol Police, but we do believe
strongly that there was negligence and a breakdown of leadership at
the highest levels of the Capitol Police,” Banks told The Daily
Signal. 
    Banks characterized the investigation by House Democrats’ Jan. 6
select committee as a “political witch hunt.” Banks said that both
he and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, were “denied the opportunity to serve
on the committee” because they questioned why Pelosi refused to turn
over documents related to decisions made on the day of the riot. 

    “The breadcrumbs lead to the speaker’s office,” he told The Daily
Signal, adding: 

    She’s covering something up, and the American people deserve to
know what those documents say, but so far she’s refused to hand them
over. The buck stops with her, and the question that deserves to be
answered is why the National Guard wasn’t called to help protect the
Capitol. Somebody made that decision. 
    And I suspect that those documents in some way, shape, or form
implicate the speaker of the house. She doesn’t want to release them
because at the end of the day, no matter what those documents say, I
imagine they deviate from the political witch-hunt narrative that
Nancy Pelosi and [Rep.] Liz Cheney [R-Wyo.] have painted about Jan 6.
    Members of the Democrat-led Jan. 6 committee continue to ignore 
vital questions related to Capitol security, Banks said, noting that
Republicans have interviewed dozens of Capitol Police officers and
others on this topic.
    “We’ve learned a lot and we’re nearing the end of our interview
process,” the Indiana congressman said, promising that Republicans
will publish a report containing key findings of their interviews and
make recommendations for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of
California, whom Republicans hope will be the next House Speaker. 
    “We’ve found that we’ve had broad support from the United States
Capitol Police officers, the rank-and-file officers who know that
they deserve more and better from their leadership and who know that
leading up to Jan. 6 and on Jan. 6, there were systemic breakdowns
and failure at the highest levels of the Capitol Police that led to
what happened,” Banks said, adding:
    And if we’re serious about preventing something like Jan. 6 from
ever happening again, we need to look at what happened there and make
those changes so that we can prevent it. Unfortunately, the Pelosi/
Liz Cheney effort has no interest in pursuing those angles. Instead,
they’re just out to get their political opponents and weaponizing
their power to go after those who they disagree with.
    Banks, chairman of the Republican Study Committee, emphasized
that he and fellow Republicans support the Capitol Police and the
rank-and-file officers. 
    “The bottom line there is that the head of the Capitol Police
union has told us and said very publicly that they weren’t prepared
for what happened on Jan. 6 because of a breakdown in the intelli-
gence gathering and dissemination process,” Banks told The Daily
Signal. 
    “And even though they had intelligence that something was going
to happen on Jan. 6 for weeks beforehand, the Capitol Police officers
were never made aware of that,” he continued. “They weren’t equipped
for what happened on Jan. 6. They had outdated and in some cases
expired equipment.” 
    It is “incredibly” baffling that the officers were not trained
for “a riot or a large, violent crowd at the United States Capitol,
” Banks said, particularly in light of the rioting and protesting
that had taken place previously in both the nation’s capital and
across the country. 
    The congressman said that he has heard this same sentiment ex-
pressed “over and over” by both the head of the Capitol Police union
and by individual officers on the force. 
    Republicans repeatedly have asked that information shared by fed-
eral agencies with the “sham” Jan. 6 committee also be shared with
the minority party, Banks said. 
    But, he told The Daily Signal, there has been “no transparency.”
    “They will only give it to the committee,” Banks said of federal
agencies and their relevant information. “And as the public trust in
this sham committee is diminished so substantially, it’s unfortunate
that agencies like the FBI won’t share that information with members
of the minority party.”

    He added: 

    The way they’ve conducted this Jan. 6 commission clearly violates
House rules. Without minority participation, without providing these
records to the minority party, it’s a bad precedent for the future of
the institution, but it is pretty clear that Nancy Pelosi and Liz
Cheney aren’t interested in precedent or rule of law. They’re only
interested in attacking and abusing their power to send their poli-
tical opponents to jail.

    Questions about FBI involvement, both before and after Jan. 6,
are serious questions that need to be answered, Banks said, but Demo-
crats are not willing to share that information with the minority
party. 
    “That doesn’t mean that we’re not trying,” he said. 
    “When Jim Jordan is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and
has oversight of the FBI, it’ll be important that he and others in
our party continue to ask these important questions and demand
answers from this administration, who’s clearly not willing to pro-
vide information to members of Congress of both parties,” Banks said.

    I find these articles shed a lot of light on the corruption that
exists withing the Democratic party but we are all at fault because
conservative Americans didn't want to believe it. Now we are paying
for our naivity.
    Time to pray to God for another chance.
    I continue to ask, "What are they hiding?"

Conservatively,
John

    My sister passed away last week and I thought this was what she
 believed and fought for her whole life. RIP Donnie.

    *God is real, the Bible is True, and Jesus Christ is King of
Kings.
    These are the fundamental truths on which we must stand if we are
going to do what must be done in order to reclaim what is rightfully
ours. 
    America is a Christian nation, but somewhere along the way our
tolerance for evil allowed subversive agents of Satan to invade every
facet of our country and culture. 
    Our worldly institutions may have been conquered by secular
humanists who hate God, but we worship a God who overcomes all world-
ly institutions. 
    The good news is that public trust and faith in these institu-
tions is waning. For the first time in one hundred years we have an
opportunity to rebuild and restore our once great society. 
    The people in power want a Great Reset, but what we are going to
give them instead is a Great Restoration.
    Buckminister Fuller once said that “You never change things by
fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model
that makes the existing model obsolete.”
    If we are going to win—and we are going to win—we must work to-
gether towards the common goal of building parallel Christian systems
that are beyond the influence and control of existing demonic ones. 
    Parallel systems can only work if they are built on the firm
foundation of our faith in Jesus Christ and the Truth of God’s Word,
the very same foundation that the United States of America itself was
founded upon. 
    The challenge before us is to build these new systems and models
based on the traditional and Biblical values given to us by God. 
    It’s a synthesis of new tools combined with the sturdy tradition
of order.
    It’s a revolt against modernity through the embrace of our rich
traditions and through the wisdom of the Word of God. 
    David Chilton once said that “Freedom cannot be exported to a
nation that has no marketplace for the Gospel” and of course he was
echoing 2 Corinthians 3:17 which tells us that “where the Spirit of
the Lord is, there is Liberty.”
    Our dissent against the ruling Regime must be rooted in the
desire to preserve liberty and live authentically according to God’s
Word. 
    *Dissent is impossible without the freedom of speech.
    *It’s the ability to say “no” in the face of evil. 
    Our participation in communion with God means that we are di-
vinely endowed with the gift of restoring order, guided by His hand,
in a chaotic and broken world. 
    The reason that I started Gab almost six years ago is because I
saw dissenters being silenced.
    American citizens are being banned from the internet, frozen by
banks, blacklisted from flying on airplanes, and labeled terrorists
for daring to have a political opinion that dissents from the ruling
Regime’s. 
    By refusing to bend to the demands of the Regime I myself became
a dissenter.
    My family has been doxed, harassed, stalked, swatted, and regu-
larly faces death threats from people all over the world. Gab has
been banned from dozens of service providers including App Stores,
payment processors, multiple banks, email services, and so much more. 
    This is the cross I will gladly pick up and carry if it means
that my children will grow up in a world where they can speak freely
and worship God Almighty.
    I may be a dissident in my own country, but I am a happy liber-
ated warrior for the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. 
    *What we are facing is so much more than just censorship.
    We are facing the total replacement of good and Holy things with
filth and decay.
    We can no longer overlook social issues in favor of economic
ones.
    We can no longer ignore the depravity and degeneracy that is
perverting and destroying our minds.
    We must never allow the demonization and destruction of the nu-
clear family and the corruption of our children to happen.
    We must stare into the face of Silicon Valley, the mainstream
media, and the political establishment on both sides of the isle and
dare to say: “no.” 
    Jesus did not command us to sit around getting crushed by Satan
waiting to die. He commanded us to make disciples of all nations and
we need to take dominion in His name.
    His Kingdom may be in Heaven, but He Himself told us in Matthew
28:18 that He has ALL authority on Earth as well. 
    *It’s time to start acting like it. 
    So often we are called hateful by people who hate our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ, so to them I say: yes I am hateful. I hate sin.
    I hate evil. I hate Satan and I hate the Antichrist.
    They will call our speech “hate speech” because we dare to speak
the Truth of God’s Word. 
    You’re a racist if you don’t hate yourself for the color of your
skin. 
    You’re a bigot if you don’t want men in dresses walking into the
bathroom with your daughter.
    You’re an antisemite if you question sending Israel American tax-
payer money to build their wall, while our own border is being
invaded. 
    Their shame words no longer hold any power over me and they
should never again hold any power over you.
    *Tolerance is NOT a Christian virtue.
God has zero tolerance when it comes to sin, which corrupts our
bodies, hearts, and minds. We are commanded to hate that which is
evil. Without hatred we can’t understand love, but we must be careful
to not aim our hatred at one another. Instead we must unite and aim
our hatred at the sin and evil in our own hearts. 
    What is at stake is not only the future of our country, but the
future of Christendom as a whole.
    Christians are being demonized, dehumanized, discriminated
against, demographically replaced, and disenfranchised. We are being
attacked, harassed, fired, and banned from the internet and financial
systems for our political and religious beliefs.
    *None of this is okay.
    Christians should be boldly denouncing these things, but we look
to our churches, our so-called Christian leaders, and even our poli-
ticians and we are met with a deafening silence–or worse a proud en-
dorsement of this madness. 
    *Christians are no strangers to persecution.
    We have always and will continue to overcome the advances of the
Enemy.
    Imagine being among the first group of Christians after Christ’s
resurrection who spent forty years preaching the Gospel waiting while
those practicing the Old Covenant law mocked them.  We can’t even
comprehend the persecution they faced in order to defend and spread
the Gospel. Many ended up giving their lives for it.
    This group of Christians is the most inspiring to me because they
had to have the most faith of all. In Luke 21:6 Jesus prophesied
about the Temple that “not one stone would be left on another, every
one of them will be thrown down.”
    For forty years that didn’t happen and a generation of Christians
had to patiently wait and have faith that what Christ said would come
true. Then in 70 AD, it did happen, just as he said it would, and
that Temple was absolutely annihilated. Almost 2,000 years later it’s
still not standing despite multiple attempts throughout history to
rebuild it. 1 Corinthians 3:16 tells us that WE are the Temple of God
and that the Spirit of God dwells within us.
    This is the enormous amount of faith that we need to have today.
We need to be in this for the long haul. We need to be willing, like
the very first followers of Christ, to have an entire lifetime of
faith.
    *Christians are not revolutionaries.
    We are reformers. We do not destroy things, we build and create
them, mirroring our Creator. God will handle the destruction of our
wicked and corrupt global regime, in fact I think He’s already
started.
    If we are going to save our country we must adopt a mindset of
seven generations thinking.
    Previous generations, including my own, have lived in the moment
for themselves.
    We must learn from this mistake.
    Short term pleasure at the expense of longterm pain for our kin
is unsustainable. We must be the ones who are willing to put in the
work to build a Christian future not only for our children and our
children’s children, but for Christendom as a whole. Now is the time
for us to build.
    *This is a spiritual war.
    They are targeting our very humanity. This is evidenced by every-
thing that our enemies promote.
    *Their “values” are inherently anti-human.
    Abortion. Moral decay. Sexual degeneracy. The destruction of
sovereign nations and the ethnic cleansing of people. The persecution
of everything and anything related to God Almighty our Creator.
    We must realize that King Jesus is not some hippie Mr. Rogers
that our culture makes Him out to be. He is King of Kings. He reigns.
    He rules. He flips over tables in the temple. He scorns the Den of
Vipers. He rebukes the Synagogue of Satan. This is the Jesus I know
and worship. This is the Jesus of Scripture. This is the Jesus that
will lead us out of this mess.
    *We must strive to be more like Him. 
    All great civilizations are built on the back of strong nuclear
families because strong nuclear families are God’s design. Strong men
lead strong women. Strong women support strong men and they raise
strong children together. This leads to strong families and strong
families lead to strong nations. 
    *Where are our Christian men today?
    Unfortunately many American Christians have adopted a secular
human worldview. Instead of worshipping God, they worship idols in
the form of celebrities, sports players, and even politicians. They
are “Christian” in name only. 
    They value material “stuff” over the fruits of the Spirit. They
seek comfort and fleeting pleasure over the suffering and courage it
takes to live an unapologetic and authentic Christian life. They are
lukewarm Christians.
    *I’m here to tell you today that lukewarm Christianity is over.
Christians need to rise up and proclaim the name of Jesus Christ
the King of Kings to the world.
    We are the ones establishing nuclear families. We are the ones
bringing up our children to know and love the Lord. We are the ones
building sovereign businesses and infrastructure. We are the ones
with a future worth fighting for and we are the ones who will restore
order.
    *We are reformers, builders, and pioneers.
    We need to go all in, take a leap of faith, and live fully for
Christ at every moment of our lives.
    We must prepare ourselves for what is coming by exiting their
entire system and raising up our children to be builders for the
Kingdom of God. We need to build our economy, our own technology,
our own education systems and our own political movements. This re-
quires a multi-generational effort. 
    The tolerance of the generations before us has led to the subver-
sive takeover of every facet of society and even our churches by the
global elite. That does not mean that they cannot be defeated. 
    *I believe that God has a plan to do so, but it will take the
organized and longterm commitment and effort of His people to accomp-
lish this. We must never again tolerate evil and the spirit of the
antichrist in our culture, governments, education systems, homes,
churches, and most importantly our own hearts.
    *So if you don’t have a sword, then sell your cloak and buy one
because we have a lot of work to do.

GAB: Go and Build. 
    To God Be The Glory,

Andrew Torba CEO, Gab.com
Jesus Christ is King of Kings

   Amen!

Conservatively,
John

    Financial Freefall

    Financial Strategist: Federal Reserve Is In ‘Deep Trouble’ As It
Tries To Handle Inflation
By  Ben Zeisloft
•
Jan 18, 2022   DailyWire.com
•
    Odeon Capital Group chief financial strategist Dick Bove is warn-
ing that the Federal Reserve is in “deep trouble” as it attempts to
battle inflation.
    Consumer prices rose by 7% between December 2020 and December of
2021 — the highest rate in roughly 40 years. In response, the central
bank is expected to hike interest rates three times in 2022 — and at
the end of last year, the Federal Reserve announced that it will
pursue a more rapid conclusion to their quantitative easing program
by slashing its monthly bond purchases.
    During an interview with Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo,
however, Bove warned that “if the Federal Reserve was a private bank,
you would say this company is insolvent.”
    “The reason why you would say that is because the Federal Re-
serve’s source of money — which comes from printing, it comes from
collecting money from the banks, you know, in reserves, comes from
a couple of other places — is in deep trouble,” he explained. “If you
would look at that balance sheet, you would realize that more than
100% of the increase in the Federal Reserve balance sheet, in the
last 12 months, has come from borrowing money in the reverse repo
market.”
    “In other words,” he continued, “the Fed is sitting at borrowing
money at the shortest end of the curve in order to fund the purchase
of long-term Treasuries. The balance sheet is a disaster.”
    Meanwhile, inflation continues to erode Americans’ purchasing
power. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, “real average
hourly earnings” decreased by 2.4% between Dec 2020 and Dec 2021.
    Expressing concern over this reality, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) re-
leased a new report on Tuesday that details inflation’s impact on
American consumers and small businesses.
    “$4.9 trillion in COVID-19 stimulus spending has led to one of
the highest and most sustained levels of inflation in U.S. history,”
the lawmaker said in a press release. “While government stimulus
spending was intended as a form of relief, and low and middle-income
families as well as small business owners were promised that their
taxes would not increase, Americans everywhere are now paying a hid-
den tax called inflation.”
    Paul’s report said that inflation is primarily harming low-income
households:
    71 percent of households making under $40,000 annually have in-
dicated economic hardships from rising prices, as opposed to just 29
percent of households making $100,000 or more.
    Low and middle-income families spend a larger portion of their
income on high-inflation items, like gasoline, used cars, and food.
    Families in the lowest income quartile spend nearly 40 percent of
their annual income on these three categories. As a means of compar-
ison, families in the top quartile spend only 10 percent of their
annual income on these categories.
    The report added that small businesses are at a considerable
disadvantage in comparison to larger companies:
    82 percent of small businesses reported raising prices in the
last several months, 42 percent reported raising prices by 20 per-
cent or more. 45 percent of small businesses reported taking out a
loan to cope with the pressures of inflation in this last year.
    Large corporations have reported consistent profit margins.
    Paul also pointed to Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Small Businesses
project, which found that 86% of surveyed small business owners
“are concerned about inflation.”

    *You know it is bad when the Dollar Store after decades doing
a thriving business announced that they will be setting their prices
at $1.25.
    The Federal Reserve has now purchased $9T in securities that are
virtually worthless. 
    What have these people done to America?
    Remember to pray for God to restore our land and have mercy and
grace on our people.

Conservatively,
John

    I found this nailed the problem with a politician being our
President.
David Harsanyi / @davidharsanyi / January 14, 2022

President Joe Biden finally delivered his “voting rights” speech
in Atlanta, telling a crowd:
    “The next few days, when these bills come to a vote, will mark a
turning point in this nation’s history. Will we choose democracy over
autocracy, light over shadows, justice over injustice? I know where
I stand. I will not yield. I will not flinch. I will defend your
right to vote, and our democracy against all enemies foreign and dom-
estic. And the question is: Where will the institution of the United
States Senate stand?”
    These were little more than the mendacious ravings of a demagogue.

    Biden’s argument is predicated on the idea that anyone who con-
tinues to support the legislative filibuster—a Senate rule the pres-
ident defended for nearly 50 years—or voter ID laws, or time restric-
tions on mail-in ballots, or consistent hours for early voting, or
bans on ballot harvesting, is no better than Bull Connor. “Do you
want to be on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace?” was the false
choice offered by a man who repeatedly praised Wallace, and other
segregationists, early in his career.
    The president suggested that anyone opposing the Democrats’
voting rights bill was not only a bigot but a seditious “domestic”
enemy of the United States—a designation that now probably includes
six Democratic senators, if not more. The president pronounced the
Senate a “shell of its former self,” lamenting that the GOP had used
the filibuster over 100 times in the past year, skipping the incon-
venient fact that Democrats had done so over 300 times the preceding
four years. Biden, “the institutionalist,” then unloaded a litany of
completely misleading contentions about voting laws to justify his
abandonment of principle.
    And the reason Biden is compelled to lie about virtually every
aspect of the Georgia voting law is that the specifics are actually
quite popular and do not inhibit a citizen from casting a ballot.
Most of the requirements Biden contends are now compulsory for demo-
cracy to properly function had only been instituted in the past few
years — many of them only during the last election. Biden’s comparing
Jim Crow to contemporary voter integrity laws is detestable. One was
a violent suppression of the minority vote; the other was giving vo-
ters only 11 weeks before an election to request a ballot and declin-
ing to keep expanding voting into the weekend.
    At this pace, Democrats will be arguing that disenfranchisement
of illegal immigrants is the manifestation of the Dixiecrat agenda
by 2024.
    ID requirements are what the left detests most, yet this is the
provision they talk about least. Why? Most polls find overwhelming
majority support for limiting early voting hours and requiring photo
IDs to vote. Fascists in Colorado and Connecticut and most other
states, not only Georgia, still demand a person provide government
issued ID to vote. They, just like Georgia, allow voters without ID
to provide the last four digits of their Social Security number, a
bank statement or utility bill, a paycheck or any other government
document with their name and address. (Maybe if states allowed vac-
cine passports to suffice, Democrats would be up for it.)
    But most Americans—most people in the free world—have believed
it eminently reasonable to expect voters to identify themselves
before participating in democracy. If Democrats believed the vote
was sacred, so would they. It’s the Democrats who are advocating
overturning the will of voters in Georgia and elsewhere. Let’s re-
member that H.R. 1 “voting rights” bill would have compelled states
to allow ballot harvesting, to ban voter ID laws, to allow felons to
vote and to count mail-in votes that arrive up to 10 days after
Election Day.
    The president sprinkled his speech with feigned indignation and
lots of podium pounding. Unable to contain his penchant for fabulism,
he seemed to joke about being arrested (“the first time”) during a
civil rights march. Maybe Biden was confusing that incident with the
time he wasn’t arrested in South Africa for trying to see Nelson
Mandela or didn’t defend the Black Panthers in court or never par-
ticipated in a sit-in.
    But one can suspect most Democrats understand well that this is
all a nasty bit of cynical political theater since there is little
chance of nuking the filibuster. Biden’s attempt to launch his entire
agenda in a single reconciliation moonshot stuffed with progressive
extravagances failed to get a simple majority. Stymied, the president
has decided to preemptively undermine confidence in the 2022 and 2024
elections, smearing half the country as racists while cosplaying as a
civil rights hero. “The Big Lie,” indeed. The consequences of this
will be the further deterioration of trust in elections. 
More division. More anger.

David Harsanyi

    *Seems that Joe only knows how to lie every time he walks in
front of ANY group of people. For some reason he thinks everyone
must believe him because he said so. That is the perfect example of
a person who places himself above the law and beyond reproach.
    Sadly, for him, there are too many videos and too much proof that
he is incapable of effectively leading anything besides his pets.
   It is time for America to remove him and Harris and the cabal
that is leading him around from photo-op to photo-op.
    Again, continue to pray for America and ask God to remove all
this evil that has stollen their way into our lives, hopefully before
he destroys what is left of Trump's America.

Conservatively,
John