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…is that not one of these women were willing to come forward while Donald Trump was still President of the United States.

After all Cuomo was falsely being painted as a COVID success story (even as he will killing grandmas) while Trump falsely painted as a failure (while getting vaccines developed in record time & trying to get the country open) and it just wouldn’t do to put Cuomo on the spot when it might help Trump.

But now Cuomo is a potential rival to the Obama sorry Harris sorry Biden Administration and thus must be removed so those who tolerated that behavior before now find it problematic, or put simply the useful idiot is no longer useful, unexpectedly of course.

I submit and suggest that if the president was re-elected these women would have remained silent and if more were harassed during that time they and the left would have considered it small price to pay to keep from giving President Trump an advantage.

Oh and FYI Cuomo isn’t going anywhere, just ask Ralph Northam or Tara Reade if you think he will be resigning anytime soon.

Prince Humperdinck: Your Westley is dead, I killed him myself.

Buttercup: Then why is there fear in your eyes

The Princess Bride 1987

It’s now been just under 50 days since Joe Biden was sworn in as President of the United States and there is a definite change in the air and by the air I mean the airwaves.

I don’t mean the death of Rush Limbaugh which is of course a huge change in the airwaves I mean the tone.

I don’t mean the absence of Donald Trump which the media has done its best to create

For all of 2020 the News Media was in Persuade mode and once the vote count they became more intense because it was vital to convince people that impossible vote totals in key democrat cities along with attempts to prevent audits and actually stopping the vote count was not the sign of people stealing an election at all..

But now we have reached a point where the administration isn’t even trying to pretend that they are serving the people, not even the ones (and there were millions) who voted for him.

Then you have the house, rushing a vote on impeachment, looking so pathetic in their case that they force a vote on witnesses to produce evidence and then not daring to call a single witness for fear their own might have to testify under oath and lost.

They have reached the point where unable to defeat Donald Trump legitimately they are trying to set up their own kangaroo commission to establish a predetermined result but they are even trying to punish him after death.

Alas for them, when he shows his face the people cheer and his numbers continue to go up and with the failures of the Biden Administration that will only continue.

Meanwhile his enemies are in disarray. The Lincoln Project is revealed for the scum that they have already been. The GOP members of the House who voted against him are floundering in their districts, Mitch McConnell’s numbers have completely tanked, but in fairness having been just re-elected he likely doesn’t care. Nikki Haley cares and has discovered that appeasing the media that hates her vs respecting a President that honored her. And the Democrats are so afraid that they still have troops guarding them even if they don’t trust them and even making up threats that don’t exist

But the biggest change now is media.

They are no longer in “persuade mode” they are now fully and completely in propaganda mode

Never questioning, never wondering their only priority is to keep the country ignorant that the emperor has no clothes.

“Journalism” as a profession is gone, welcome to the age of open propaganda.

Closing thought: In fairness the vast majority of “journalism” over the last 25-30 years was already propaganda, the difference now is they aren’t even try to fake it anymore.

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We constantly hear how we need to get the money out of politics. Everyone knows money corrupts, so getting the money out of politics? By all means.

But while we’re at it, can we get the celebrity out of life?

It’s bad enough we have these often undereducated but very, very rich actors, actresses, musicians and athletes use their precious award-show or post-game camera time sputtering some banal but “important” political point, instead of doing what they’re good at: entertaining us with a droll or witty story (well, at least the actors, actresses and musicians; I’m still not quite clear on what the post-game athlete interview offers).

The actors, actresses, musicians and athletes say they speak out because they can “change” things. They might be right, and that’s a poor reflection on the voters or anyone else who lets celebrity opinions affect their own. But the celebrities use their fame as the currency to get themselves on the air in the first place, so they can spout their opinions. Why this is more acceptable than a successful businessman using his money to buy airtime to spout his opinions is a mystery to me.

The problem is, more and more, celebrity culture is like some bamboo tree with a root system tossing up new shoots all over the field. The similarities between show business and politics left one hoping it was a natural grafting of two branches of the same species, both favoring a mulch heavy in narcissism and vapidity, and that the damage would be limited.

But it is not so.

Jamie Foxx is buying a flavored whiskey company.

Weird, I thought whiskey already had a flavor, called “whiskey.”

The only value Jamie Foxx brings to whiskey is his money and celebrity. He’s not even getting into whiskey because he loves flavored whiskey. As he admits in the trade publication, the Hollywood Reporter, he’s getting into it because he saw it was a popular drink at the parties he threw. Other people liked it. He saw an investment opportunity.

As the Hollywood Reporter also notes, Foxx follows in the footsteps of actor Ryan Reynolds and Aviation vodka, and actor Dwayne Johnson and Teremana Tequila. And, in Foxx’s dream of dreams, in the footsteps of actor George Clooney, who sold his tequila company, Casamigos, for $1 billion.

Now, none of those actors know anything about making a worthy liquor. They’re just rich dudes with too much money sitting around, and people will buy their liquor and we’re going to have something called flavored whiskey everywhere now. Well done, people.

I mean, if you’re going to buy a celebrity whiskey, at least make it a proper Irish whiskey.

Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell: Bombs! I don’t hear any bombs! Now they’re up there. They came all the way from Asia. Don’t you think they’d bring a few bombs along?”

1941 (1979)

Did you really think the left would stop redefining words at “marriage”?

DaTechGuy

One of the funniest movies you’ve never seen is Steven Speilberg’s 1941 a farce about a panic on the mainland just after the attack on Pearl Harbor featuring an all star cast from Dan Aykroid and John Belushi, to Robert Stack and Warren Oats to Christopher Lee and Toshirô Mifune and that’s just scratching the surface.

A key moment of the film is when General Stillwell is being told that there are Japanese planes over the city and his response is a masterpiece of the straight man’s art. A dash of common sense in the midst of the fracas.

Bombs! I don’t hear any bombs! Now they’re up there. They came all the way from Asia. Don’t you think they’d bring a few bombs along?”

Or to put is simply. An “Air Raid” is not an “Air Raid” if there are no bombs. You can call it a “flyover” or a “sorte” but you can’t call it an “Air Raid”

That instantly came to mind when I read this question

“How many firearms were confiscated in the Capitol or on Capitol grounds during that day?”

that was asked by Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson to FBI official Jill Sanborn during the hearing on the events of the 6th of January:

This was her answer

“To my knowledge, we have not recovered any on that day from any other arrests at the scene at this point,”

Now one think about an “insurrection” is that as a rule if you are holding one you tend to bring a few guns, particuarly when:

1. You live in the most heavily armed society since the dawn of the firearms era.
2. You are a group “supposedly” populated by supporters of the 1st Amendment.

Yet not only did nobody bother to bring a gun but we have this tidbit via the Daily caller concerning the number of gunshots on that day:

Sanborn also said that no shots were fired at the Capitol, save for the one fired by a police officer that killed Ashli Babbit, an Air Force veteran from California. 

So not only was the only gunshot at the capital fired by Capital police which killed a 30 something air force vet but we still do not know the name of the officer who fired that shot almost two months later? Could you imagine the press reaction if the during the Kavanaugh hearing riots one of the leftists pounding on the Supreme Court door was shot and the name of the officer involved was not released? Can you imagine how much of Minneapolis would still be standing if they name of the officer involved in the death of George Floyd was not released two months later?

Speaking of officers there was one who did die that day and despite media false media reports concerning fire extinguishers the FBI director didn’t have much to say on the cause of his death:

FBI’s Wray on the death of Officer Sicknick: "We’re not at a point where we could disclose or confirm the cause of death.” pic.twitter.com/MKCNonc8XS

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) March 2, 2021

however they did hurry up and have the body cremated. Legal Insurrection has more:

Stacey wrote a great blog detailing the media’s negligent reporting of Sicknick’s death. It includes his family’s frustration due to the lack of answers:

On January 8th, ProPublica reported that his brother Ken said Officer Sicknick texted him the night of the riots about how he had been pepper-sprayed:

“He texted me last night and said, ‘I got pepper-sprayed twice,’ and he was in good shape,” said Ken Sicknick, his brother, as the family drove toward Washington. “Apparently he collapsed in the Capitol and they resuscitated him using CPR.”

But the day after that text exchange, the family got word that Brian Sicknick had a blood clot and had had a stroke; a ventilator was keeping him alive.

He died that Thursday night around 9:30 pm, according to the USCP.

And if all of this isn’t enough we’re now seeing the Millerite game of predicting “uprisings” and when they don’t happen claim they had the date wrong.

I’m more and more starting to believe the the troops and razor wire aren’t there to protect congress because of what happened on Jan 6th. I’m starting to think they want it up for what they are planning to do next.