“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
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Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
consecution
noun
logical sequence or progression of an argument
sequence or succession
relation of consequent to antecedent
deduction
a following, or sequel
actual or logical dependence
in logic, the relation of consequent to antecedent, or of effect to cause
Used in a sentence
Lemma 8. If the consecution check for the unrolling of length k passes in the original circuit C, the consecution check for the unrolling of length 1 passes in the k-witness circuit C’, given that L’0 is fully initialized. (LINK)
Some epic music that automatically followed the above on YouTube…..
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Another win for ivermectin and azole antiparasitics – but this is one you may not have heard about – a parasite of “free range” poultry. COUGH. Maybe not in the USA – yet – but just to bring you back to the reality of parasites in our world, this video is worth putting up with the too-long AI presentation. This is also a problem with insufficiently cooked freshwater fish. COUGH. Be careful out there.
Also, listen for what they say about people in Brazil, who apparently take ivermectin and azoles regularly.
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
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Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
round up
transitive verb
to collect or gather together scattered animals, persons, or things
to adjust a number to a larger value with fewer digits
round-up
noun
the act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in
the act of adjustment of a number to a larger value with fewer digits
a rounding up, or upward curvature or convexity, as in the deck of a vessel
Roundup®
proper noun
a trademarked herbicide, which at one time contained glyphosate as its sole active ingredient, but now contains multiple herbicides as a substitute
Used in a sentence
Although I had originally hoped that this post might be a round-up of information about Roundup®, I settled for simply offering some observations on recent formulations of the product.
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Round Up! Or something like that!
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Consider that Democrat-donating ambulance chasers and progressive over-regulators may have actually driven America out of the frying pan, and into the fire.
So, beyond Triclopyr (non-selective broadleaf weed killer long used against poison ivy) discussed above, what are the other two chemicals that are in “new” Roundup®?
One of them is Diquat – largely duplicating the dessicant activity of glyphosate, which duplicated the dessicant activity of previously banned Paraquat – and if that one sounds familiar (like the Paraquat of Agent Orange), then you need to hear this. (Brace yourself for his annoying blue glasses.)
The other is Fluazifop-P butyl – used to kill grass weeds. Indeed, in duplicating the unique spectrum of activities of glyphosate, this one may be the least concerning chemical in the mix. (Brace yourself for the annoying AI presentation.)
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
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Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
scribable
adjective
capable of being written
capable of being written upon
something that can be written, marked, or inscribed
surfaces, materials, or objects on which writing or marking is possible and which allows for the application of ink, pencil, or other writing instruments
Used in a sentence
Something that is said to be scribable implies that it cannot be indescribable, since saying that something is scribable proves that it can be described.
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Indescribable!
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Do you miss Charlie Kirk? Thankfully, he left a lot of content for us! Enjoy.
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Jeff points out the major failure feature of the Fake News.
…Editors should have: separated real evidence from allegations, resisted parroting the framing of biased sources, brought in neutral independent forensic and archaeological voices, and updated headlines as the picture changed. In other words, basic journalism vanished like the alleged mass graves.
It was a complete failure of what is supposedly the media’s most important function: to separate interested gossip from facts. Maybe I should say, that used to be media’s most important function. Now, corporate media’s most important function appears to be distributing clever propaganda that destabilizes countries, spurs stochastic terrorism, and permits politicians to effect massive wealth transfers…
…Government researchers enrolled extremely vulnerable infants in an experimental RSV trial, did not obtain informed consent, continued dosing even as severe cases emerged, and two children died. Nobody was prosecuted or even fired. This is serious iatrogenic harm (injury caused by medical treatment) and a research‑ethics failure on its face, full stop.
The Times did its absolute best to cloak that very disturbing and all-too-familiar story in race. The two boys were black. “Most, if not all,” of the 31 kids in the trial group were black. Thus, the Times concluded: racism. What the Times didn’t say was that by the late 1950s and into the 1960s, Washington, D.C. had become a majority‑black city; black residents were the single largest racial group, and by 1970 had peaked at about 71% of the entire population.
That’s one problem for the Times’ unfounded racial hypothesis. Second, the NIH’s RSV trial was deployed through government-run or funded clinics. Both because blacks were in the majority in DC, and because of basic economics, most patients at these public clinics were also black. So we needn’t dream up some conspiratorial racial animus to explain the trial’s demographics.
Black folks were just unlucky enough to be living in DC in large numbers at the time. That’s it.
So, once again, the NYT’s dumb, woke narrative collapses with the most trivial inspection. But more interesting is why the Times leaned so hard into the race angle, despite having not a scrap of evidence. It’s because the last thing the big health agencies need right now is more scandals.
This is exactly the institutional reform RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya were hired to deliver.
🔥 At some point during the Cold War, our big health agencies contracted a deadly disease. They are infected with a mind-virus called utilitarianism. The scandal here is not that the NIH gave experimental RSV shots to black infants without informing their black parents. The real scandal is that the NIH believes you can’t make a public health omelet without breaking a few babies.
In other words, the NIH’s secret trials of experimental vaccines would not have been more acceptable if the babies had been white, orange, or green.
Classic ethical philosophy based on Judeo-Christian principles says: “You may not use people purely as a means, not even for a huge benefit to others.” Utilitarianism rudely inverts that: if the benefit is big enough, and the expected risk is small enough, almost any use of human bodies as means can be rationalized.
At some point in the recent past, our public health agencies quietly slid from “we are here to protect people” to “we are managing a herd, sorry, a population,” and those are not the same posture. In other words, instead of thinking of themselves as healers, they think they are ranchers.
The Lot 100 episode illustrates this problem perfectly. Severe harms and even deaths of infants were tolerated by elite managers because the perceived collective value of “staying the course” was so high. Even fudging the numbers to hide the harms was considered virtuous.
Stalin’s stats were great too, until they weren’t.
In classic public‑health utilitarian fashion, the stated good was enormous —preventing a leading cause of infant mortality worldwide— so the “cost” of experimenting on a few dozen vulnerable infants in D.C. could be rationalized as small in comparison.
The reason progressives and public health types (but I repeat myself) stick like limpets to utilitarianism is that it is technocratic. The philosophy —which is a necessary foundation for communism— presumes it is possible to quantify, in hard numbers, the numeric value of human lives and flourishing. That makes it possible to compare political policies: which ones produce on balance the most human flourishing?
It is both sensationally attractive and completely perverted…
In the Lot 100 case, we find scientists who explicitly or implicitly calculated that infants were less valuable than adults, and that poor folks were less valuable than more economically privileged ones. After all, the NIH investigators recruited from public children’s clinics, not from the private practices their own children or colleagues might have used.
Put even more simply and uglier: the NIH bureaucrats didn’t experiment on their own kids.
🔥 I will say it: utilitarianism is an evil, reprehensible ideology that all good people should root out and shun.
Utilitarianism isn’t a neutral “science of compassion.” It’s a license for elites to convert other people’s lives into numbers and then quietly decide which ones are expendable. Once you agree that it’s acceptable to harm a few innocents to buy hypothetical benefits for the many, you haven’t elevated morality— you’ve simply replaced “thou shalt not” with “let’s run the model and see who dies.”
Lot 100 was not a tragic mistake; it was utilitarianism doing exactly what it promises: sacrificing powerless babies in a D.C. clinic for the supposed good of a population they never got to join. [It continues]
Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), the “Father” of Modern Utilitarianism and progressive saint. His preserved head, anyway.
What is interesting is I had already put the following together about the philosophies of ‘value’ because I like Mises and Gary North. Gary passed away in February of 2022, at the age of 80 due to complications from prostate cancer.
…He was by training an economic historian and had a strong commitment to Austrian economics. He greatly admired Mises and Rothbard. He once asked Mises how he had been able to publish his famous article of 1920 on socialist calculation in a journal edited by Max Weber. Mises answered, “Well, I knew him, and I sent it in.” Gary wrote a notable study of Marx, Marx’s Religion of Revolution, and a long and learned commentary on biblical economics. He was also a founder of the Christian Reconstruction movement, along with his father-in-law, R.J. Rushdoony.
He was on Ron Paul’s staff in 1976, and he and Dr. Paul were close friends. For many years, he spoke at Mises Institute conferences, and he was the best debater I have ever heard. In his speaking style, he was highly organized and relentless; but he was in conversation kind and friendly. When I saw him at conferences, we would exchange stories of the old days. Now, alas, I cannot do that anymore.
Gary’s Mises on Money is well worth the read. I featured it in an article called APRIMERONMONEY. The following article by Gary is another excellent read as he identifies the problems that are metastasizing in American thought.
The philosophical bases of Marx’s thought were laid early and remained unchanged throughout his life. As a student, Marx accepted the philosophy of Hegel as the only sound and adequate explanation of the universe. According to this philosophy, “the only immutable thing is the abstraction of movement.” The one universal phenomenon is change, and the only universal form of this phenomenon is its complete abstraction. Thus, Hegel accepted as real only that which existed in the mind. Objective phenomena and events were of no consequence; only the conceptions of them possessed by human minds were real. Ideas, not objects, were the stuff of which the universe was made.
If Objective Reality does not exist, than a little girl can become a boy or a cat or a dog. The people pushing this insanity are not going to tell you that it is based on Marxism but that is where it comes from.
Old timers will recall this title as a memorable line in a memorable comedy album, Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America, Volume 1….
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO “PROPERTY”?
The phrase, “life, liberty, and property,” does not appear in the Declaration. The phrase is incorrectly attributed to John Locke. It was implied in Locke’s Second Treatise on Government (1690), but it does not appear. Locke used the word estate rather than property. He subsumed all three words under property.
Man being born, as has been proved, with a title to perfect freedom and an uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of Nature, equally with any other man, or number of men in the world, hath by nature a power not only to preserve his property, that is, his life, liberty, and estate, against the injuries and attempts of other men, but to judge of and punish the breaches of that law in others, as he is persuaded the offence deserves, even with death itself, in crimes where the heinousness of the fact, in his opinion, requires it (Sect. 87).
Protection of all three — life, liberty, property — is guaranteed in writing by the United States Constitution. This guarantee appears in Article 5 of the Bill of Rights, which was ratified in 1791. It has proven as reliable as other government guarantees of its own performance.
A similar phrase appears in Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). Burke wrote this of the revolutionaries:
To those who have observed the spirit of their conduct it has long been clear that nothing was wanted but the power of carrying the intolerance of the tongue and of the pen into a persecution which would strike at property, liberty, and life.
But there is no question that Jefferson substituted “the pursuit of happiness” for the more common term, “property.” Was there something ideological in this substitution? Was Jefferson a proto-socialist, as numerous contemporary historians argue?
Had he inserted “property,” this would have saved defenders of private property a lot of time and trouble when dealing with statist scholars, who are always searching for support for their position in the writings of famous defenders of democracy.
The pursuit of happiness is for modern academic man what the pursuit of truth is: a way to avoid the responsibility for discovering anything final. There is no objective truth for modern academic man, other than the truth against objective truth. Similarly, there is no objective happiness. There is only the subjective pursuit of such lofty goals by individuals. In this, as in virtually everything else, academics substitute process for objectivity. Defending the process is holy communion for modern academics. There is officially no holy grail, which would be much too objective.
Why this commitment to pursuit, trivial or otherwise? I suggest two reasons. First, academics do not officially believe in objective truth, which implies objective responsibility, which is decidedly old fashioned and even vaguely suggestive of the Christian doctrine of final judgment. The concept of objective responsibility implies objective standards and objective performance. Academics prefer to avoid both.
Second, modern academics control access to salaried participation in the process of the great search, especially in higher education. They control the implementation of the officially objective standards of tenure, institutional accreditation, and the flow of departmental funds. What Daniel Klein has described so well in the closed, self-certified world of Ph.D. economists operates in every academic discipline.
In contrast, “property” implies enforceable titles to identifiable units of ownership. This is altogether too objective for modern defenders of the political defense of the pursuit of happiness. They defend the democratic process, which affirms, “Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.” They want to believe in Jefferson the democrat, not Jefferson the defender of free market capitalism. They want to eradicate political restrictions on the confiscation of property by the State. The suggestion that politics exists so as to defend private property is only marginally less welcome than the suggestion that the Second Amendment to the Constitution actually means that civilians possess the right to keep and bear arms.
JEFFERSON WAS NOT ALONE
It was not only Jefferson who neglected to spell out in official detail his personal adherence to the private property social order. It was also Adam Smith, whose Wealth of Nations (1776), four months earlier, had placed the division of labor at the forefront of its economic attack on mercantilism, an attack that Jefferson made political in the Declaration. Smith’s pedagogical strategy backfired for the next 150 years. By failing to specify in Wealth of Nations the moral and philosophical foundations for private ownership, Smith handed the seemingly high moral ground over to Godwin and the socialists. The consequences of this decision have been chronicled in considerable detail by Tom Bethell in Chapter 7 of his book, The Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity Through the Ages (1998).
Jefferson was the supreme follower of Adam Smith among the American Revolutionaries. But by failing to specify property as the third pillar of the justification for civil government — a mistake Locke had not made — he made more difficult his ideological heirs’ defense of the private property order.
The pursuit of happiness is open-ended and non-specific. Liberty is just too vague to be defended systematically. What was needed in 1776 in both of those legendary documents was the insight made by Frederic Bastiat in 1850, in the midst of a European revolution that had begun in early 1848, a few weeks before Marx and Engels’ anonymous tract appeared, Manifesto of the Communist Party. Bastiat wrote in The Law, “Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.” Or, in the words of a previous defender of objective private property, “Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” (Genesis 2:16b-17)
Gary North Mentions Bastiat. Here is part of an article about Bastiat and his philosophy.
Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) was one of the leading advocates of free markets and free trade in the mid-19 century. He was inspired by the activities of Richard Cobden and the organization of the Anti-Corn Law League in Britain in the 1840s and tried to mimic their success in France. Bastiat was an elected member of various French political bodies and opposed both protection and the rise of socialist ideas in these forums. His writings for a broader audience were very popular and were quickly translated and republished in the U.S. and throughout Europe. His incomplete magnum opus, Economic Harmonies, is full of insights into the operation of the market and is still of great interest to economists. He died at a young age from cancer of the throat.
LAW, Spoliation by
LAW, Spoliation by. What is law? It is the collective organization of the individual right of legitimate defense. Every man certainly has received from nature, from God, the right to defend his person, his liberty and his property, since these are the three constitutive or conservative elements of life, elements which complement one another, and which can not be understood, one without the other. For what are our faculties but an extension of our personality? And what is property but an extension of our faculties? If every man has the right to defend, even by force, his person, his liberty and his property, a number of men have the right to concert together, to agree and to organize a common force in order to provide regularly for this defense. The collective right has its principle, and its reason of being, and bases its legitimacy upon the individual right, and the common force can not legitimately have any other end or any other mission than the isolated forces for which it is substituted. Thus, as an individual can not legitimately make any forcible attempt against the person, liberty or property of another individual, so, for the same reason, a community can not legitimately make use of force to destroy the person, liberty or property of individuals or of classes. For this perversion of force would be, in the latter case, as well as in the former, in contradiction to our premises.
Which brings us to capitalism which TradeBait2 discussed yesterday. This is looking at Capitalism from the point of view of an Atheist. For those who may not know Ayn Rand grew up in the Soviet Union.
Laissez-faire capitalism, according to Ayn Rand, is not just an ideal but an unknown ideal. Few grasp its meaning, history, economics, or moral justification. In Capitalism, Rand sets out to remedy that.
Rand argues that capitalism is “a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.” In practice, this means that a capitalist society is one in which the government performs a single function: it protects individual rights by banning “physical force from human relationships.”
Pure capitalism, she concludes, has never existed: but in the countries that approached it, with America in the second half of the nineteenth century leading the way, the individual was able to flourish. This is because capitalism is the only system that fully recognizes that man is the rational being who “has the right to exist for his own sake,” free from coercion by others.
There are, in essence, three schools of thought on the nature of the good: the intrinsic, the subjective, and the objective. The intrinsic theory holds that the good is inherent in certain things or actions as such, regardless of their context and consequences, regardless of any benefit or injury they may cause to the actors and subjects involved. It is a theory that divorces the concept of “good” from beneficiaries, and the concept of “value” from valuer and purpose — claiming that the good is good in, by, and of itself.
The subjectivist theory holds that the good bears no relation to the facts of reality, that it is the product of a man’s consciousness, created by his feelings, desires, “intuitions,” or whims, and that it is merely an “arbitrary postulate” or an “emotional commitment.”
There are, in essence, three schools of thought on the nature of the good: the intrinsic, the subjective, and the objective. The intrinsic theory holds that the good is inherent in certain things or actions as such, regardless of their context and consequences, regardless of any benefit or injury they may cause to the actors and subjects involved. It is a theory that divorces the concept of “good” from beneficiaries, and the concept of “value” from valuer and purpose — claiming that the good is good in, by, and of itself.
The subjectivist theory holds that the good bears no relation to the facts of reality, that it is the product of a man’s consciousness, created by his feelings, desires, “intuitions,” or whims, and that it is merely an “arbitrary postulate” or an “emotional commitment.”
The intrinsic theory holds that the good resides in some sort of reality, independent of man’s consciousness; the subjectivist theory holds that the good resides in man’s consciousness, independent of reality.
The objective theory holds that the good is neither an attribute of “things in themselves” nor of man’s emotional states, but an evaluation of the facts of reality by man’s consciousness according to a rational standard of value. (Rational, in this context, means: derived from the facts of reality and validated by a process of reason.) The objective theory holds that the good is an aspect of reality in relation to man — and that it must be discovered, not invented, by man. Fundamental to an objective theory of values is the question: Of value to whom and for what? An objective theory does not permit context-dropping or “concept-stealing”; it does not permit the separation of “value” from “purpose,” of the good from beneficiaries, and of man’s actions from reason.
GOOGLE AI: Ayn Rand intrinsic value
Value Requires a Valuer and a Purpose
Rand asked the fundamental question: Of value to whom and for what? [1]
Because she rejected intrinsic value, she maintained that an object cannot have value without someone to value it.
For a thing to have value, it must play a specific causal role in achieving a goal for an individual. [1, 2, 3]
The Ultimate Standard of Value
Rand argued that the concept of “value” only makes sense because living organisms face the alternative of life or death. Therefore, the ultimate standard of value is an individual’s own life. An object or action is considered “good” or “valuable” if it serves to sustain and further that specific individual’s life. [1, 2, 3]
Explore the Intrinsic Theory of Values in the Ayn Rand Lexicon to read her exact definitions and arguments. [1]
With the support of the Democratic Socialists, his prediction is coming true.
Also, I remember him beating his shoe on the desk in the UN saying,”We will bury you”….
A reminder of Khrushchev comments September 29, 1959: THIS WAS Russian Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev’s ENTIRE QUOTE from that day:
“Your children’s children will live under communism, You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept communism outright; but we will keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you will finally wake up and find you already have Communism. We will not have to fight you; We will so weaken your economy, until you will fall like overripe fruit into our hands.” “The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”
Do you remember or know all of what Russia’s Khrushchev said in 1959?
How do you create a Socialist State?
There are 8 levels of control; read the following recipe:
1) Healthcare – Control healthcare and you control the people.
2) Poverty – Increase the poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them.
3) Debt – Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.
4) Gun Control – Remove the ability to defend themselves from the Government. That way you are able to create a police state.
5) Welfare – Take control of every aspect (food, housing, income) of their lives because that will make them fully dependent on the government.
6) Education – Take control of what people read and listen to and take control of what children learn in school.
7) Religion – Remove the belief in God from the Government and schools because the people need to believe in ONLY the government knowing what is best for the people.
8) Class Warfare – Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. Eliminate the middle class This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to tax the wealthy with the support of the poor.
Fast forward to 2021.
Is this parallel to the Democrat Socialist Agenda????
With an open mind, you can draw your own conclusions.
One last historical fact that needs to be remembered: In 1964, on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Democrats held the longest filibuster in our nation’s history, 75 days. All trying to prevent the passage of one piece of legislation. You guessed it: THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT.
Amazing how the CIA reading room hides all of this:
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
Our various sister sites, listed in the Blogroll in the sidebar
Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
gammacism and gammicism
nouns
gammacism
inability or hardship in pronouncing letters ‘g’ and ‘k’
a speech defect characterized by the substitution of the sound “g” for the sound “k”
stuttering over “g” and “k”
not to be confused with gammicism, although, ironically, the spellings are often switched
gammicism
speech or writing characterized by use of archaisms or outdated expressions, often in a style that is overly elaborate or pretentious
Used in a paragraph
The exercises in the case of diagnosed gammacism are aimed at improving the work of the language. Exercises involving lifting the tongue, moving it to different parts of the mouth, sticking it out, licking the teeth or tapping the lower teeth with the tip are of great importance.
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Gamma wave jazz! It’s a thing!
And if that’s not your thing, try this song…
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Don’t remember what Steve taught you about gamma rays? Here you go!
And here is where that knowledge is useful – some older, younger, Veritasium!
Veritasium. Useful stuff. Although, not necessarily, while fixing stuff around the house.
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
Our various sister sites, listed in the Blogroll in the sidebar
Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
zufolo
noun
small flute used to train songbirds
little flute or flageolet, especially that used to teach birds
also spelled zuffolo or ciufolo, and known as friscaletto (Sicily), pipiolu or solittu (Sardinia)
Used in a sentence
By the 18th century, the zuffolo largely declined in classical music circles as more versatile transverse flutes with keys gained favor, enabling greater chromatic range and expressiveness in Baroque and Classical compositions.
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MUSIC!
Search on “zuffolo and electronica” and you get a lot of things like this. Enjoy! [And yes, it’s AI-generated!]
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I didn’t realize that jumping spiders are actually SMART. Not just smart as spiders go. I mean smart like many higher vertebrates.
Have some respect, the next time you see one doing its thing.
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But NOTHIN’ HABBINING…🐸
Since the Fake News refuses to cover any good news out of the Trump Admin, I thought I would do a rough transcript of this Sean Hannity interview of Kash Patel. I was pleasantly surprised by Sean’s knowledge and interview style. Since it is two hours I am going to do it as a 2 part series.
In this episode of Hang Out with Sean Hannity, FBI Director Kash Patel details the massive shift in Bureau operations since taking the helm. Patel breaks down the staggering 112% increase in violent crime arrests and the strategic dismantling of 1,800 localized street gangs. But the mission doesn’t stop on the streets; it extends to the very halls of the FBI headquarters. Patel reveals the discovery of a “secret room” containing unburnt bags of evidence and hard drives that point toward what he describes as a “Grand Conspiracy” to weaponize law enforcement against political opponents. From the “Russiagate” origins to the modern-day “Arctic Frost” and “Plasma Echo” investigations, this is the definitive account of how the FBI is being restored to its former greatness. Director Patel further explains the truth about the 40,000 violent criminals arrested in 2025 and how the FBI is using AI to stop school massacres and terrorist plots. He also provides updates on “Operation Not Forgotten” in [American] Indian Country and why the “Grand Conspiracy” investigation has no statute of limitations.
00:00 – 05:15: The New FBI Mandate: Crushing Crime
05:15 – 10:30: 40,000 Arrests: The 112% Surge Explained
10:30 – 17:45: Operation Gangster Paradise: Wiping Out 1,800 Gangs
17:45 – 22:00: Protecting Indian Country: Operation Not Forgotten
22:00 – 30:45: Fighting China: Stopping the Purchase of U.S. Farmland
When President Trump appointed me to be the FBI director, he said, “Kash, you got a mandate to do two things. Crush violent crime and defend the homeland and also level the institution that has become the weaponization of law enforcement in this country.” … The FBI agents have come to me time and time again and said, “We have been waiting 15 to 20 years to be able to do our job on the streets of America, and they’re doing it cuz President Trump gave us the authority to do it.” The win here is not just holding these people accountable. The win here is making sure that the FBI, DOJ, and the entire government are never able to do this again to anyone else.
Kash Patel
Sean Hannity: …..it’s hard to fathom that in the last four years under Biden, Harris, Mayorkas , that they allowed in over 12 million un-vetted illegal immigrants from over 200 countries, many with terror ties. We have known terrorists in the country, murderers, rapists, child molesters, cartel members, gang members, and other violent criminals. And this is the mess on top of the corruption that Donald Trump inherited and handed off to the guy that’s hanging out with us today, our FBI director, Kash Patel.
Mayorkas has also been lauded online in places like the Fed News subreddit for his generous granting of administrative leaveto DHS employees around the holidays. His affinity for giving extra time off to staff has even led some to jokingly dub him the “Patron Saint of Admin Leave.” — LINK
I guess when you do not want the border protected you can hand out leave like candy. 😡
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Sean Hannity: … I got to introduce you to President Trump. Do you remember?
….I just want to freeze frame what you inherited. Okay. Just illegal immigration alone. I understand a lot of it falls under the purview of DHS, Tom Homan, who I admire a lot. They’ve done a great job. Known terrorists, murderers, rapists, child molesters, other violent criminals, cartel members, gang members. …and then everybody’s screaming, “Where’s the JFK files?”
Kash Patel: …When President Trump appointed me to be the FBI director, he said, “Kash, you got a mandate to do two things. crush violent crime and defend the homeland and also level the institution that has become the weaponization of law enforcement in this country. We’ll get to the second part later. When it comes to crime in this country, President Trump secured the border. He had the audacity to do it and he did it. Then he came back in and said, “We’ve had four years of open border. We’ve got criminals running around this country.” And I know we rifle off statistics all the time, but if your audience takes away nothing else from this show, then it’s the following. Because behind statistics are real people.
Sean Hannity: Highlight that, I don’t want to interrupt. Behind statistics are real people. That is like Laken Riley’s family, Rachel Morin’s family, Jocelyn Nungaray’s family. Democrats wouldn’t stand for them and honor them at that joint session
Kash Patel: ….In 2025, in one year under President Trump’s leadership, this FBI arrested 40,000 violent criminals. That’s not the total arrest the FBI had. That number is closer to 80,000. But the 40,000 violent criminals we arrested,was 112% increase from 2024.
….Break that down by state. 50 states. You do the math. We’re talking murderers, rapists, pedophiles, gangbangers, terrorists, everybody that wants to harm our way of life. That President Trump stood up and ran on and said, “We are going to crush violent crime.” That’s what we did. That number alone is emblematic of two things. One, President Trump is the absolute most successful president in US history in reducing crime in the history of America. And two, why are there so many violent criminals in the United States of America? …The open borders policy and the lax rules laid out by the opponents of President Trump to be pro- crime. Remember these are the defund the blue movement people…
Sean Hannity: …In four years, they got four of the FBI’s 10 most wanted under Biden. You’ve been in office a year when you eventually got sworn in. ..14 months. [And you got] Eight of the 10 on the FBI most wanted list. That is an insane number. …In some cases, fugitives that have been on the run 70 years.
In DC, where the president put a surge of police instead of defund, you have motor vehicle theft down 56%, homicides down 52%, robbery down 23%, burglary down 21%. That should be a big story,
Kash Patel: Especially in our nation’s capital. What President Trump did was to bring in the inter agency and unlock the FBI’s greatest partners, state and local law enforcement authorities. And he went into DC and he said, “Not in the nation’s capital.” We also did it in cities across America, whether it’s Memphis or Miami or Dallas or San Francisco or LA. But DC with the president’s backing and with the backing of local law enforcement there, we were able to completely annihilate violent crime in the nation’s capital… If President Kamala Harris had done this, it would be the only story that the mainstream media would be talking about.
Here’s the theme that I think has been leveled by the mainstream media against President Trump. He did everything they wanted done. It’s just that he did it so they’re pissed off at him. He shattered violent crime. He safeguarded American communities. We got eight of the top 10 most wanted… We went around the world and found these animals … guys that have been on the run for 60, 70 plus years in total and put them in American prisons. You can’t do that unless you have a commander-in-chief that says law enforcement is supreme and law enforcement is going to be supreme across the country because that’s what Americans voted for in record numbers when they put President Trump back in office.
Sean Hannity: So, besides myself, have many other media outlets cover this? Outside of Fox?
Kash Patel: And they won’t touch it because President Trump did it.
Sean Hannity: I’m going to put up another screen. Operation Gangster Paradise. 30 pre-dawn raids, 30 alleged members of the Mexican mafia in Southern California. You’ve also gone after the hate groups that go after synagogues and target specific groups. Tell us about that.
Kash Patel: So, two things, Sean. When I got to the FBI, I said, What is the one thing that is causing crime across the country, not just the influx of illegal criminals and violent actors from everywhere in the world? It was localized street gangs. And I’ve never talked about this because you simply can’t on a three minute show at night. Localized street gangs that were supported. And I’m not talking TDA and MS-13. We’re handling that, too. Localized street gangs in LA, in Miami, in Denver, in New York, in Chicago. Do you know how many gangs, street gangs we dismantled last year? 1,800 localized street gangs have been eliminated from the streets of America through Operations Gangster Paradise, Operation Viper, and other things that we do. 1,800. That number, Sean, is a 20% increase from 2024. When you wipe out not just the head shed [Command Post], the overseas components, the TDAs of the world, the MS-13s of the world, and you go down to the root level in the streets of LA and elsewhere and wipe them out as we did in Philadelphia. I was there on the ground. We literally took out an entire city block in West Philadelphia of a localized street gang. And they’re all in prison. They’re the ones dealing dope. They’re the ones getting illegal firearms. They’re the ones holding up everyday Americans as hostage and stealing their money and jacking their cars.
That was a power that had not been unleashed. And this is what happens when you let good cops be cops. The FBI agents have come to me time and time again and said, “We have been waiting 15 to 20 years to be able to do our job on the streets of America.” And they’re doing it because President Trump gave us the authority to do it.
Sean Hannity: Maybe this is a good moment to pause and get into this whole ideology philosophy. It’s being pushed by the left. Defund, dismantle, no bail, re-imagine the police. That’s some of the dumbest stuff I’ve ever heard in my life.
Kash Patel: I mean, just look at the tragedies of this cashless bail policy. Every month we read about some violent offender who gets bail on a violent crime and goes out and does what? Murders a young American, deals fentanyl to young school children and they overdose and die. And that had never been highlighted except by President Trump. He is turning every democratic weaponized institution of justice on its head and challenging them to say, “Why are you passing these laws that are leading to the aimless deaths of young Americans?” He’s the one centering the focus point on law enforcement.
We have to have state and local legislators fix that problem. President Trump can’t do it at the federal level, but what we can do is make sure we roll these guys up, which we’re doing in record numbers, and put them behind federal bars so they don’t ever get out.
..You’re talking to a kid, this son of parents who fled a genocidal dictatorship in East Africa. Immigrated here lawfully and watched their son become the director of the FBI. That is the American dream. But it’s not about me. It’s about capturing that lightning in a bottle and handing that American dream to every single kid out there. That’s what President Trump’s driving…
Sean Hannity: Every weekend you can predict with pinpoint certainty in Chicago how many people will be shot. How many people will be shot and killed. I’ve asked Democrat after Democrat on my shows, can you name one person shot in your city? They can’t name one because they can’t weaponize it and use it to bludgeon Donald Trump or use it politically. I thought every life mattered?
Kash Patel: Let’s just look at Chicago for a second, Sean. How many times does a kid under the age of 10 have to be shot, caught in the cross-hairs of gang fire, before they’ll do anything? How many stories of that, double-digit stories from just last year alone, — that if it had happened under any other administration would be the only headline — saying why is law enforcement failing its citizen, its most vulnerable citizens? But they wash over it because it’s President Trump . And this FBI even without Chicago’s help, Sean, we’ve reduced violent crime in Chicago by 25 points. By 25 points. We’re doing it anyway. And if they let us in like they did in DC, like they did in Memphis under the president’s task force, those numbers would be doubled. We’d be saving twice as many lives.
Sean Hannity: It really is amazing. Explain, and I’ll put this up on the screen, the 400 FBI agents that are dedicated to [American] Indian country. Three brand new task forces that you put together. That was a big deal that didn’t get any press.
Kash Patel: I’m so glad you brought this up. This is one of my passion projects. I think everybody in the United States of America deserves the same brand of law enforcement. Our 575 dedicated Indian tribes across the land deserve the same brand of justice. If you go onto any reservation, and I’ve been on more reservations as FBI director than anyone before me combined, and you talk about missing kids, you talk about murders, you talk about unsolved violent crimes, they are plagued by it. Just last week, I was in Montana on the Crow Reservation. It’s the size of Rhode Island and Connecticut combined. They got five cops. Five cops. And so what we’re doing is we did a durational program last summer called Operation Not Forgotten. We just launched Operation Steadfast Promise, which is going to dedicate 400 plus agents and intel analysts across Indian country for the entire year. We solved, I think, 2,000 cases on Indian country last year alone. I want that number doubled this year. We’re going to solve the mysteries behind the gruesome murder of the Emily Pikes of the world. We’re not going to forget Indian country. And I’m so glad you brought it up because this is representative of millions of people across the country who think they’ve been forgotten by law enforcement, but when I go and see them, they say, “President Trump’s the first guy to send law enforcement here and show up and ask for a partnership, and we’re going to continue that.”
Sean Hannity: … Dan Bongino sat in that seat and told me that there are two FBIs . A lot of people had to go and a lot of people were working against both of you but then there were other good agents that wanted to do their job. More importantly there seems to be a systemic targeting of pro-life Americans, peaceful protesters or moms and dads that show up at school board meetings .They just care about the curriculum that is being taught their kids and they were being investigated as domestic terrorists.
Kash Patel: This is the best example I can see right now to highlight the transformation of this FBI. …All the FBI did before Donald Trump and I was grow the size of the Washington DC footprint. When I came into office, one third of the entire FBI workforce was located in the national capital region in and around Washington DC. The prior directors and presidents, they loaded Washington DC for bear so that they could put out things like the Catholic memo. They could go to school board meetings and terrorize parents. Threaten them, their way of life and have the audacity to tell them it’s the government and not the parents who know how your child should be educated and brought up.
What did we do? I said a third of the crime doesn’t happen in the national capital region. We’re putting the mission first in the field. I took a thousand FBI agents out of the National Capital Region last year and permanently moved them across all 50 states. On top of that, I took 500 intel analysts, took them out of the Washington DC. The directorate of intelligence that we had seen built up by my predecessors to sat in Washington and produce quote unquote intelligence? And I said, I don’t need that weaponization. What I need is intelligence to drive operations in the field. And I sent hundreds of intelligence analysts permanently to the field along with support staff. Then I took another 500 FBI employees and moved them down to Redstone Arsenal, [ Alabama] our premier advanced law enforcement training facility. I said, “Go train everyday cops from around the country on how to be better partners ‘cuz they want us and we want them.” So I reduced the footprint in Washington DC. This is maybe the biggest transformational change that President Trump asked for and we delivered on. And I shrank that one-third footprint in DC by half.
Sean Hannity: You have Operation Fighting China. I have read about Chinese nationals buying up massive quantities of American farmland, American ranch land, and land near our military installations. Now, I can’t imagine for one second that President Xi is going to allow Sean Hannity to go in and buy land near their military installations. Why would we ever do that?
Kash Patel: So, there’s two things you highlight. One, there needs to be a congressional legislative fix ‘cuz right now the only prohibition is one mile in and around military installations in America. So, we got creative. We said, “Okay, while Congress works to fix that, while we work with them to fix that, what can the FBI do?” So, we called our state & local partners. I’ll give you two examples. Down in Louisiana, they were buying up oil rigs off the coast of Louisiana, but it was outside that one mile zone. So, I called Governor Landry and I said, “Hey, this is illegal under state law. The FBI is going to help you.” You know what he did? Shut down those oil rigs. In Texas, a Chinese national had bought thousands of acres of farmland in Texas and was traveling back and forth between China. He had direct contacts and connections to the Chinese government, the CCP. We couldn’t get him under the current law because it was outside of a mile. So, what did we do? We found out that he had been stock piling illegal firearms on his ranch. We went in and seized every single firearm and the entirety of that ranch and he’s still sitting in China because they won’t give him back to us. But now we own it and the US government has it. So we’re doing things like that.
Sean Hannity: Common sense would dictate that if this is happening over and over again that this has got to be some subversive plot by the communist Chinese. They’re doing it for a reason. They are, as far as I’m concerned, our number one geopolitical foe. Why do they want ranch land, farmland and land near our military installation if they’re not trying to spy on us?
Kash Patel: Sean, that’s just it. That’s what they’re doing. If you look back at the last year, this FBI has arrested 47% more Chinese espionage actors to include people that they have co-opted in every branch of the United States military. We are indicting and arresting at least multiple people a month for stealing secrets providing classified information back to mainland China and we are imprisoning them including US Navy sailors. You saw we just charged the individual in Delta Force. And it’s not just connected to China, but it’s also Russia and other entities as well. But that’s how they get their tentacles across the US government enterprise. And so what we’re doing is seeking out those bad actors wherever they are, including within the United States government.
Sean Hannity: I mean, that to me is one of the scariest things. And now we’re talking about national security. I don’t think China has our best interest at heart. I think they view us as an enemy. I think they’ve proven it over and over again. Look, if President Xi’s for China first, I get it. Putin’s for Russia first. I get it. I’m for America first. Fine. However, they don’t get to come into America. They would never allow Americans to do to them what we’re allowing them to do to us. And I’m not saying that every person from China is bad. I’m just saying that maybe you need to buy your property a little further away from military installations. And why farmland? Why ranch land?
Kash Patel: Because it allows them to get large swaths of property, import material and equipment and also use that equipment to go spy on our military bases, our fixed wing and rotary aircraft and our personnel. But let me put out something that’s unorthodox that was led by President Trump. Protecting national security is of the utmost importance. and we’re doing that against these bad actors and spies.
President Trump in his historic meeting with President Xi in Busan S.Korea last year said we have to engage where we can and law enforcement has a unique opportunity to do that. The fentanyl precursors coming out of mainland China were the ones that were killing tens of thousands of young Americans. So he kicked the door open. You know what I did? I was the first FBI director in over a decade to go to Beijing last year. And under President Trump’s authority, in agreement with President Xi, we shut off all 17 illicit precursors that were being delivered to the Mexican drug nationals down in Mexico and then shipped up here. That is a huge win because we worked with the MPS, which is the Ministry of Public Security, their equivalent of the FBI. And since that time, in this law enforcement space, we have sent working groups to China. They have set working groups here and we are tackling money laundering, scam center compounds, which I’m sure we’re going to talk about, the fentanyl and counter narcotics crisis. For the first time ever in the history of the FBI, there is a daily communication between our agents and their agents in mainland China because President Trump kicked open the door.
Now, like you said, their spy services are doing unimaginable harm to our national security. We’re on that mission. But where we can work with them because of President Trump, we are working with them and we’ve seen a drastic reduction in the production of fentanyl by the Mexican drug trafficking organizations down south. We see it in the intel. It’s not classified.
Sean Hannity: Haven’t they been sending the raw ingredients to Mexico?
Kash Patel: That’s what they were doing. And there’s very specific ingredients that make fentanyl as lethal as it is. Those were shut off thanks to President Trump and our engagement. So now they’re struggling to find the ingredients. How do we know it’s working? Last year alone, the opioid overdose rate, the death rate in America dropped 20 points. If any president had done just that alone, save 20% more kids, it would be banner news year round.
Sean Hannity: This is the most frustrating thing to me because it’s our national treasure and they’re being targeted by these cheap street drugs and they have no idea what they’re taking and they’re dying in droves. The deaths now are coming down.
…This should be a big story that, hey, law and order works. Safety and security works if you put the resources in place. They don’t want to talk about that part of it.
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…I’ve got to imagine within a week you realize you’re drowning because of what you inherited. Known terrorists in the country. We still know there are terrorists here, but we don’t know where they are.
Kash Patel: That’s the scary part. We’re looking for them every single day because the last administration, as you highlighted, let in criminals by the thousands, violent criminals, to include terrorists, and they’ve been sitting around and embedding themselves in our country for the last four years. And as we know from the al-Qaeda and ISIS of the worlds, the one thing those folks have is patience.
Sean Hannity: But they came from Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood. People from Iran were let into this country and let loose by Biden, Harris, Mayorkas. I mean, is it really far-fetched in the middle of a war with Iran to think that we have sleeper cells in this country?
Kash Patel: That’s what we’re monitoring 24/7, 365. We’re going into communities. We’re using our undercover resources. We’re using our online covert employees to root these folks out. And that’s why you’re seeing terrorist prosecutions skyrocket in terms of numbers and people we are expelling from the country with our partners in DHS. I think President Trump has struck the right tone. If you are a violent criminal actor, violent, the worst of the worst, then we’re going to put you down here. We’re going to arrest you. We’re going to put you down. Everybody else, if you’re here illegally and committing crimes, we’re going to send you back to where you came from. That two-fold parallel approach is securing America and safeguarding America. And this FBI continues to have the responsibility with our intelligence community partners to make sure that all the sleeper cells are rooted out.
Sean Hannity: Okay. You walk in the door, get confirmed by the Senate. You get to the the infamous Seventh floor. What did you look at? When did you realize, “Wow, this place is a mess.” When did it dawn on you how bad it was?
Kash Patel: I knew before getting in there. I think the worst thing that could have happened to the institution of weaponization, and the mainstream media, is the combination of President Trump and myself running the law enforcement of this country. Because, as you said, 10 years ago, I led the charge to expose the Russia Gate conspiracy.
Sean Hannity: I need you to go back and explain that to people because you worked on the House Intel Committee and I love Devon Nunes. He’s been a friend for a long time. I spent years of my life on TV night after night after night.
Kash Patel: You were one of a few.
Sean Hannity:Me, John Solomon, Sarah Carter, Greg Jarrett. I mean, there was a small group of us. Catherine Herridge there was not a lot of us. We ended up being vindicated. However, you were on the inside and Devon got vindicated and that congenital liar Adam Schiff was not. So, let’s go back to the main point. You walk in the door, you already know things are bad. You know you have work to do in foundationally within the bureau. You had to feel like you’re drowning, did you not? I would have felt that way.
Kash Patel: You can have that feeling and at times I certainly did. But what you can’t have happen, once you become the FBI director, is allow it to actually drown you. And so what we did, let’s hit the reset button, and what we put out and proved through facts in 2016, 2017, 2018. It took me two years of my life to prove the following:
That a political party in the United States of America in the 21st century would go overseas and hire some bogus intelligence asset to manufacture fraudulent, fake, unverified information, funnel that to not just the intelligence community, but the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and then take those packaged lies, that they had paid for with campaign finance funds, and go into a secret surveillance court and illegally spy on your opponent to be the president of the United States.
That took two years of my life. And what do we find out? The FISA court themselves came back and said these warrants were illegal. That the FBI did not provide exculpatory evidence and innocence and that the FBI essentially lied in those applications and all the information was unverified. So that was step one.
But I knew that it didn’t stop there. I knew in the four years that we were out of office that they continued to regenerate that institution of weaponization. So when I walked in the door, I said we only got a bit of it. We only got maybe half of it. Because what did we learn in those four years, right? That I was illegally spied on by the likes of Rod Rosenstein and Chris Wray.
Sean Hannity: And me.
Kash Patel: And you and 10 other staffers on the hill and people who were elected to serve this country in the halls of Congress.
They were actually continuing the weaponization that Donald Trump and I had exposed during Trump one and we caught them. So I knew walking in the door the following: These individuals, these purported leaders of law enforcement and government are so arrogant that they write the stuff down themselves to memorialize how great they are. That’s how we caught them in Russia Gate. It wasn’t my documents. It was their emails. It was their FISA application. It was their bogus Steele dossier. It was their unverified reporting that was documented in FBI holdings that we put out and that you covered. So I knew there were other places that information was hidden. So day one I set out to find it and we found it.
Sean Hannity: Dan said something that blew me away when he was sitting in your chair on this show, but I want to go back ‘cuz some people didn’t go this deep in the weeds as we did. So we can start with Hillary Clinton’s top secret classified information on her servers. Which by the way I’m — I keep hearing rumors. Maybe you can confirm that information may still exist and we may have a copy. Any truth to that?
Kash Patel: We’re working on a lot of things.
Sean Hannity:You’re smiling. I don’t know. I like that smile. The smile is very revealing, Kash. All right. We’ll save that for a different show.
But let’s go back. And then of course the infamous July 2016 presser by James Comey. No reasonable prosecutor would prosecute.
Kash Patel: Can I just stop you right there?
Sean Hannity: Go.
Kash Patel: The mandate of the FBI and the director is to investigate. It is illegal per the constitution for any FBI director to make a decision on prosecutions. That is the sole province of the department of justice and the attorney general. The fact that he held that press conference and unilaterally made that decision by his own admission without informing the attorney general is a bastardization of our version of law enforcement. He did it because he knew the mainstream media would help him get away with it.
Sean Hannity: So, I’m gonna get your thoughts on Comey and Wray in a few minutes, but I want to stay focused on this. So, he exonerates Hillary that way. And then what do we discover? Hillary Clinton. The reason this is important is because you have said publicly you’re investigating a grand conspiracy.
Would you define a grand conspiracy as the minute Donald Trump came down the escalator till today?
Kash Patel: Yeah.
Sean Hannity:That there has been a coordinated effort to destroy this man.
Kash Patel:Yes, there has. And it’s not me saying it. Look at the documents. Just flip the tables, Sean. Let’s say President Trump unleashed his FBI to go and illegally surveil his opponents. What would happen? The media cycle would stop. It would be the only thing that the mainstream media [would cover. They] would be screaming for accountability. But because President Trump’s the one, that delivered a record reduction in law enforcement under this FBI, because it was him, who was attacked unlawfully and his surrogates and his campaign, they cover it up.
So, I learned as a lead investigator on House Intel that it’s not my words that are the best evidence, it’s theirs. Go find the documents. So what we did was when we walked in the door, I said, “Hey, this conspiracy continued.” It didn’t end because the documents we released under the House Intel days showed that there were individuals who are continuing the work of the Steel Dossier. And I said, “These documents, computer hard drives have to exist somewhere.” And this is a part that’s frustrating to me too. People are are saying, rightfully so, where’s the accountability? Where are the arrest? We are undoing 30 years of weaponization. We are doing that while delivering record results on crime reduction in America. And we’ve got to get it right. So we found that room that Dan Bongino talks about the burn room.
Sean Hannity: Explain a burn bag.
Kash Patel: It’s basically a large paper bag that you use to destroy and literally shred and burn classified information. So we not only found burn bags in a room that was locked away and they weren’t burned, but the room was also off the map. It wasn’t on our blueprint, and nobody had access to it.
Sean Hannity: So, how’d you find it?
Kash Patel: Well, that’s what we do. That’s what I do. I know that these people put it in places for us to never find, but I also know what Dan talked about, and you talked about. There are a lot of good people at the FBI. Now, we got rid of a lot of bad people since Trump
Sean Hannity: What percentage is gone?
Kash Patel: Every single one of the people that weaponized law enforcement is gone. who identify them, threw them out, and they’re terminated.
Sean Hannity: Okay. So Dan’s theory, and I’d love to get your thoughts on it, was he believes that people purposely saved this information, left little crumbs in a trail like Little Red Riding Hood, [It’s actually Hansel and Gretel.] wanting you to find it. That it was saved by design, by good people, special agents, you know, the rank and file good guys that want to do good. You believe that?
Kash Patel: I think there’s a lot of truth to that because I think the rank and file wanted the FBI to be restored to what it used to be before the weaponization of law enforcement. And so what we have to do is methodically catalog this stuff. We’re triaging computer hard drives from previous directors and deputies. We’re looking at the totality of information. We’re finding jurisdiction. And by the way, I’m not looking at it in one jurisdiction. I’ve launched this investigation in multiple jurisdictions. And I can tell you that ‘cuz I got the permission of the attorney general to tell you that. And I can tell you the following too because it’s of such importance. Russia Gate 1.0, they did it again and we found them. We found the documents.
Sean Hannity: … I want to get to the bottom of it still. We’ve all been vindicated at different times, be it the Mueller report or the Durham report or whatever came out. We were right and the rest of the legacy media mob was wrong. Adam Schiff is a congenital liar. Sue me, Adam. He’s a congenital liar.
So we started with the Comey, that press conference. Here’s where things get very interesting. This becomes, I think, the beginning of this grand conspiracy that continues. And I want you to explain it, not me. Start with Hillary Clinton’s bought and paid for dirty Russian disinformation dossier. She uses money. They hire Fusion GPS. Fusion GPS hires Christopher Steele. He has a series of documents that he puts together. They’re all complete bull shit in the end, but that becomes the dossier. Okay?
Kash Patel:And the media was in on it. Remember, they use circular reporting. They leaked that information to the media. Remember then deputy director Andy McCabe, who’s constantly on TV talking about the integrity of the FBI. As deputy director of the FBI, he impermissibly and without permission leaked information about the Hillary Clinton investigation to the media.
Then on top of that, when he was investigated by the Department of Justice, he lied to them. So, I’m not going to be taking any lectures on ethics and how to run the FBI from a then deputy director who abused his position to continue the weaponization of justice. And we’re looking at that. And the scheme you just laid out, is the exact same scheme they replicated when Donald Trump decided to run again. And that’s the investigation I’m tying everything to.
Sean Hannity: I would argue there may be three, but we’ll get to that. Let’s go in chronological order. So they knew, even Brennan knew, the dossier was political hack and he was warning the administration at the time. That’s Obama. That she’s putting together this dossier on Donald Trump. Bruce Ohr, a little interesting his wife worked for Fusion GPS, put it together. Didn’t he warn that it was political and shouldn’t be trusted in August of 2016?
Kash Patel: John Brennan and Bruce Ohr? They all knew it was bogus. I mean, just think about this, Sean. take a step back. The then director of the CIA, the then associate deputy attorney general of the Department of Justice for the United States of America along with other bad actors that we’ve identified, including the media and fusion GPS got together and continued that narrative anyway because then President Obama said, “We have to be able to say” What? — the one thing that they needed, to be able to say, to take a wrecking ball to President Trump’s presidency, before he even got in the door — That there was Russian collusion.
Sean Hannity: So now take it a step further. That becomes the basis of not one but four FISA warrants even though it was unverified and unverifiable because it wasn’t true.
Kash Patel: And when we first informed the FISA court of that when I was working on House Intel, they wrote us a letter back and said, “You guys are dead wrong.” Fast forward
Sean Hannity: The FISA court wrote that to you ? I didn’t know that.
Kash Patel: And fast forward later on in our investigation, the FISA court would quietly put out an opinion themselves stating that we are rescinding — I don’t think that’s ever happened before — We are rescinding the FISA warrants that were used to illegally surveil President Trump.
[REMEMBER BOASBERG: Chief Judge Boasberg served a seven-year term on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court beginning in May 2014. Appointed by Chief Justice John Roberts, he was the Court’s Presiding Judge from January 2020 to May 2021. LINK]
Sean Hannity: When was this?
Kash Patel: This was about a year after investigation was completed. Probably 2018.
Sean Hannity: Okay. So by that time the year of spying was over. Carter Page’s life was ruined and they had a back door to the Trump campaign in Trump world.
Kash Patel: Yeah. Many lives. [ruined]
Sean Hannity: You can’t even write this in a spy novel…
We’re going to go in a little bit deeper. Of the four FISA applications, ‘cuz they have to get renewed every 3 months, three of the four of them were signed by James Comey. He signed the first three. And [Deputy AG] Rod Rosenstein, I think signed the fourth one.
Kash Patel: So FISAs have to be signed by two people. On the Department of Justice side, the attorney general, or the deputy attorney general. And on the FBI side, either the director of the FBI, or the deputy director of the FBI.
Sean Hannity: Now, when you fast forward a couple of years later and Lindsey Graham was doing the questioning and everyone that signed those FISA warrants was asked, “Knowing what you know now, would you sign the FISA warrant?” Every one of them said, “Oh, no. Not knowing what I know now.” Here’s the problem I have with that.
Kash Patel: Hang on. Let me hit pause on that for a second. Knowing what you know now. Why didn’t they bother to figure it out then? Why didn’t the FBI under Comey. And why didn’t the FBI and DOJ under Rosenstein and company and McCabe and all those people bother to do the verification work? They didn’t want to do it because they knew if they did it, they would find the same thing we proved, which it was completely bogus.
Sean Hannity: And what was “you” is the House Intel Committee, Devon Nunes, you were his lead guy and and that’s when I first got to really know you.
Well, here’s the interesting part because I went back and Greg Jarrett actually walked me through the statute. The FISA statute actually says that if at any point information — now again it was unverified and unverifiable — If at any point you find out information you presented to a FISA court is not true, you have an obligation at that moment to go back to the court. So they’re telling, a Senate committee, knowing what I know now, I wouldn’t have signed that warrant. However, why didn’t they go back? They did not follow the statute of the law. How did they not get held accountable for that?
Kash Patel: Well, that’s what we are literally in the process of doing right now. That’s what I’m saying. I want accountability yesterday and the American people deserve it. But to peel back. To get to that point. To be able to have the FBI and DOJ do that in the 21st century of the United States of America, it takes decades of layering on and creating this diseased temple of corruption. We exposed it. That’s step one, right? And then I can’t speak to why folks in previous administrations didn’t do that. I wasn’t in the job that I am in now. But that’s what we’re doing now. And that’s why President Trump and we, me and you are the targets because they know the truth. So they are breathlessly going on TV and radio every single day and just making personal attacks.
Note what they’re not doing, Sean. They’re not attacking the FBI for reducing the murder rate by 20 points. They’re not attacking the FBI.
Sean Hannity: How could they attack that anyway?
Kash Patel: They’re not. And this stat, I’ve never released before. Again, we say stats, and some of my team doesn’t love it when I use stats because it’s a quick hit, but there’s people behind these stats. State by state, this FBI has reduced violent crime in every single state by an average of 10 percentage points.
Sean Hannity: So, so there’s another part to this. After the 2016 election, in spite of the dirty dossier, FISA warrants, the lying, the break that Comey gave Hillary Clinton to keep her in the race. Obviously, he had a dog in that race. He wanted Hillary to win. Then we have senior career intelligence officials. They do an assessment, an ICA, it’s called, after the 2016 election. They determined beyond any doubt Russia played no part in the election. That was senior career intelligence guys, from the Obama administration.
In a meeting in the Oval Office in December after that assessment came out. It had, correct me if I’m wrong, Obama, Biden, I believe Brennan was there, Clapper was there, you know, all the players are in there. Obama, according to reports, if you know more, please tell me, says he doesn’t like that assessment, demands another one. They get another assessment. It contradicts the senior career intelligence assessment. So at that point then, they get the assessment that said, “Oh, Russia did interfere.” Is that not the predicate to set up Donald Trump for his first term? Russia, Russia, Russia, which went on for years and you were a big part of investigating it.
Kash Patel: That’s it. You summed it up perfectly. That’s what happened.
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
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My favorite evolutionary explainer explains something that’s (1) clickbait levels of interesting on the surface, but (2) insanely boring in actuality, so (3) the main reason to watch this is – IMO – to appreciate that evolutionary anthropology is actually very well-researched.
Useful stuff? I’ll let y’all decide that for yourselves.
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I am sure that POTUS Trump would much prefer that the Senate finish passing the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, but I very much doubt he is betting on it
Palestinian Chuck Schumer is hiring Eric Holder, famous for handing guns to Mexican cartels under the Barack Hussein Obama administration, as part of a Democrat-led “Election Integrity Group” that will no doubt try to suppress Republican voters, and interfere in our Elections. Furthermore, Marc Elias, a terrible lawyer with a horrible track record, is also involved. This is the same disgusting individual who was responsible for the fake Russia dossier from a foreign nation to meddle in the 2016 Election, which I won in historic fashion. The Democrats are totally unhinged and we will not allow them to threaten the integrity of our Elections.
During my Historic Election in 2024, when I won every single Swing State, and decisively won both the Electoral and Popular votes by wide margins, the Republicans had an Election Integrity Army in every single State to preserve the sanctity of each legal vote. We will be doing the same again in 2026, but it will be much bigger and stronger. All Americans should have their voices be heard by casting a vote. Be assured this Election will be fair!
President DONALD J. TRUMP
This is from a year ago. It has a 6 minute video.
HOLY CR*P 🚨
– Democrats did give MILLIONS of illegals Social Security Numbers – They were REGISTERING TO VOTE – Elon Musk has confirmation THEY DID VOTE – Democrats qualified illegals for MAX SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS – They enrolled in Medicaid with their new Social Security… pic.twitter.com/ixWAObSyoL
– Democrats did give MILLIONS of illegals Social Security Numbers
– They were REGISTERING TO VOTE
– Elon Musk has confirmation THEY DID VOTE
– Democrats qualified illegals for MAX SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS
– They enrolled in Medicaid with their new Social Security Numbers
See graph in video:
“Then you’ll notice there’s a strange, what jumped out at us when we saw these numbers. We’re like, what is this? In 2021, you see 270,000 people, it goes all the way to 2.1 million in 2024. These are non-citizens that are getting social security numbers.
This is a mind-blowing charge. This literally blew us away.”
“If I hadn’t seen this myself, I’m not sure I believed it. I went through it myself and mapped it. And Elon is right. This is true. The defaults in the system from social security to all of the benefit programs have been set to max inclusion, MAX PAY for these people and minimum collection.
We found 1.3 million of them already on Medicaid as an example. We’ve gone through on every benefit program we went through, we found groups from this particular group of people, this 5.5 million people in those benefit programs.
And then what was really, really disturbing to us was why we’re asking ourselves why.
So we actually just took a sample and looked at voter registration records and we found people here registered to vote in this population. Yes.
Who did vote? We found some by sampling that ACTUALLY DID VOTE.
We have referred them to prosecution at the Homeland Security Investigation Service. Yeah. Already, already. That is already happening right now. The truly disturbing thing though, I just want you to know this, a truly disturbing thing to me, and the darkest thing about this, to me, the voter fraud is terrible.”
…Under the Constitution, State governments must safeguard American elections in compliance with Federal laws that protect Americans’ voting rights and guard against dilution by illegal voting, discrimination, fraud, and other forms of malfeasance and error. Yet the United States has not adequately enforced Federal election requirements that, for example, prohibit States from counting ballots received after Election Day or prohibit non-citizens from registering to vote.
Federal law establishes a uniform Election Day across the Nation for Federal elections, 2 U.S.C. 7 and 3 U.S.C. 1. It is the policy of my Administration to enforce those statutes and require that votes be cast and received by the election date established in law. As the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently held in Republican National Committee v. Wetzel (2024), those statutes set “the day by which ballots must be both cast by voters and received by state officials.” Yet numerous States fail to comply with those laws by counting ballots received after Election Day. ..
Several Federal laws, including 18 U.S.C. 1015 and 611, prohibit foreign nationals from registering to vote or voting in Federal elections. Yet States fail adequately to vet voters’ citizenship, and, in recent years, the Department of Justice has failed to prioritize and devote sufficient resourcesfor enforcement of these provisions. Even worse, the prior administration actively prevented States from removing aliens from their voter lists.
Additionally, Federal laws, such as the National Voter Registration Act (Public Law 103-31) and the Help America Vote Act (Public Law 107-252), require States to maintain an accurate and current Statewide list of every legally registered voter in the State. And the Department of Homeland Security is required to share database information with States upon request so they can fulfill this duty. See 8 U.S.C. 1373(c). Maintaining accurate voter registration lists is a fundamental requirement in protecting voters from having their ballots voided or diluted by fraudulent votes.
Federal law, 52 U.S.C. 30121, prohibits foreign nationals from participating in Federal, State, or local elections by making any contributions or expenditures. But foreign nationals and non-governmental organizations have taken advantage of loopholes in the law’s interpretation, spending millions of dollars through conduit contributions and ballot-initiative-related expenditures. This type of foreign interference in our election process undermines the franchise and the right of American citizens to govern their Republic.
Sec. 2. Enforcing the Citizenship Requirement for Federal Elections. To enforce the Federal prohibition on foreign nationals voting in Federal elections:
(a)(i) Within 30 days of the date of this order, the Election Assistance Commission shall take appropriate action to require, in its national mail voter registration form issued under 52 U.S.C. 20508:
(A) documentary proof of United States citizenship, consistent with 52 U.S.C. 20508(b)(3); and
(B) a State or local official to record on the form the type of document that the applicant presented as documentary proof of United States citizenship, including the date of the document’s issuance, the date of the document’s expiration (if any), the office that issued the document, and any unique identification number associated with the document as required by the criteria in 52 U.S.C. 21083(a)(5)(A), while taking appropriate measures to ensure information security.
(ii) For purposes of subsection (a) of this section, “documentary proof of United States citizenship” shall include a copy of:… [And a lot more]
Christopher Krebs, the former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), is a significant bad-faith actor who weaponized and abused his Government authority. Krebs’ misconduct involved the censorship of disfavored speech implicating the 2020 election and COVID-19 pandemic. CISA, under Krebs’ leadership, suppressed conservative viewpoints under the guise of combatting supposed disinformation, and recruited and coerced major social media platforms to further its partisan mission. CISA covertly worked to blind the American public to the controversy surrounding Hunter Biden’s laptop. Krebs, through CISA, promoted the censorship of election information, including known risks associated with certain voting practices. Similarly, Krebs, through CISA, falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen, including by inappropriately and categorically dismissing widespread election malfeasance and serious vulnerabilities with voting machines. Krebs skewed the bona fide debate about COVID-19 by attempting to discredit widely shared views that ran contrary to CISA’s favored perspective…
I further direct the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with any other agency head, to take all appropriate action to review Krebs’ activities as a Government employee, including his leadership of CISA. This review should identify any instances where Krebs’ conduct appears to have been contrary to suitability standards for Federal employees, involved the unauthorized dissemination of classified information, or contrary to the purposes and policies identified in Executive Order 14149 of January 20, 2025 (Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship). As part of that review, I direct a comprehensive evaluation of all of CISA’s activities over the last 6 years, focusing specifically on any instances where CISA’s conduct appears to have been contrary to the purposes and policies identified in Executive Order 14149…
Brave AI goes into other moves Trump has made to secure elections HERE.
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We are all aware that early attempts to prove the 2020 election was stolen were blocked by the cabal. POTUS has not given up.
I am no lawyer, however I would think there is ordinary (D-Rat) election fraud vs the much more serious FOREIGN interference in American Elections. FINDLAW has written an article on this very subject. It includes a lot of information.
…Protecting U.S. Elections From Foreign Interference
Democracy can’t function properly if citizens don’t trust the election results. The U.S. uses a combination of laws, regulations, and executive actions to protect elections.
Let’s examine some of the protections in place to safeguard the integrity of U.S. elections.
Executive Order 13848
President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 13848 on September 12, 2018. It declared a national emergency under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, citing the threat of foreign interference in U.S. elections.
Assessments of foreign interference after every federal election
Reports from intelligence agencies
Possible sanctions against foreign actors
The national emergency has been renewed every year since 2018. The most recent renewal extends the national emergency until September 12, 2026….
So there already is a national emergency already in place.
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More recent headway on securing our elections.
Sharyl Attkisson: “There is a Venezuelan engineer whistleblower that has provided your administration with a lot of information and documentation alleging vote rigging in the U.S. elections, including in 2020, through an operation engineered in part by our foreign adversaries and… pic.twitter.com/0h5aCh8H6j
Maria: "But the specific question I asked you was on election integrity, and whether or not you have any information to verify what President Trump's says all the time which is the election was rigged.
Maria: “But the specific question I asked you was on election integrity, and whether or not you have any information to verify what President Trump’s says all the time which is the election was rigged.
Kash: Yes. So, what we are doing is folding that into our entire conspiracy case and we will let the prosecution speak for him. But we have the information that backs President Trump’s claims, but because it’s an ongoing prosecution investigation I can’t get ahead of the DOJ and the President. But President Trump speaks truthfully when he says that..
A 30-year US Navy and CIA veteran Gary Berntsen has blown the whistle on highly suspicious activities involving electronic vote counting companies worldwide.
…In 2020 Cairns News reported on the IT bomb dropped by Sky News presenter Peta Credlin, revealing the Queensland Electoral Commission and its election contractor Konnech, had outsourced its election coding to China.
This gave the Chinese Communist Party access to the electoral roll and revealing the 1,826,613, names, addresses and dates of birth of Queensland residents. In 2022 the US news site Gateway Pundit reported members of the US voting watch group True the Vote also uncovered evidence that the US-based Konnech was storing election-related data on servers in China…
The concerns over international election companies has not gone away – particularly with Queensland going to the polls again and the US election. Berntsen says Smartmatic (which operates in Australia) built an election machine plant just outside of Beijing and ships the hardware to a warehouse in Taiwan where it is marked “Made in Taiwan” in order to bypass US law.
Bernsten says this hardware is then shipped to the US for use by both Smartmatic and Dominion in US elections and he and associates have evidence and witnesses that the source codes for the machines of both companies and others are owned by the Venezuelan Cartel del Sol aka the Venezuelan regime of Nicolas Maduro…
Do you trust the CIA (Brennan) to tell us the truth or is CIA agent Gary Bernstein setting up another Rug pull?
NY Times Bestselling Author Ralph Pezzullo Reveals 19-Year Plot to Steal Elections Worldwide
In 2019, two U.S. government whistleblowers, renowned former CIA operations officer Gary Berntsen and Venezuelan transnational crime expert Martin Rodil, were investigating drug trafficking and money laundering when they uncovered something far more alarming: A global plot to influence elections in the United States and more than 70 countries worldwide.
The scheme traces back to the early 2000s, when international conspirators developed and deployed a virtually undetectable system of election fraud. Before long, the same malicious software made its way north. Working with election software companies that utilized variations of the original source code, and voting machines containing parts manufactured overseas, the conspirators embedded themselves deep within U.S. electoral infrastructure..
Were these CIA tales of Venezuelan Software engineers who developed hackable voting machines and turned whistle-blowers nothing more than Brennan’s BAIT used to ensnare Sidney Powell and Rudy Guiliani? Quote from Stolen Elections.
“We conducted this as a criminal investigation. We have focused on collecting evidence and witnesses which is the opposite of what Trump’s Lawyers Sidney Powell and Rudy Guiliani did after the 2020 election when they made claims without conducting an investigation.”
The Colonel points out there were investigations. Rudy flew to Ukraine and got statements. Sidney had a pile of affidavits. However there remains a question of the authenticity of the material Rudy and Sidney found. What is the provenance of that information? Might it have been garbage transmitted through these CIA connected whistleblowers? Perhaps bait used in order to destroy their credibility? When Sidney made claims to Tucker Carlson and then could not back them up, Tucker trashed her reputation.
Tucker Carlson SLAMS Sidney Powell for not Providing Evidence Election was Taken from Trump (10 minutes)
[This is a very important point. It would explain Sidney’s guilty plea in the Fulton case, would it not?]
Getting back to the book, Martin writes he has 15 yrs experience working in the DOJ as a consultant for criminal investigations and Gary has worked 25 years for the CIA. They also say “On our own and with outside resources, we decided to launch our own investigation.” Except they had Patrick Byrne, another long time CIA asset, funding them and Jerry Nadler’s son as their attorney so not exactly detached from ‘Authority’ [or at least the Deep State.] The Colonel has also been saying the Cartel de los Soles does not exist. It was CIA.
The fact is, Cartel De Los Soles was always shorthand for high-level government corruption in Venezuela. The Colonel then says these people were trained by the CIA in the School of America
Ralph Pezzullo is not an investigator. He’s supposedly a journalist or author. His dad was a foreign service member five at State that just so happens to show up at all the coups in South America. He decided to write a book with a “former” CIA officer who also happens to be in… https://t.co/Fghp2nymaJ
— ColonelTowner-Watkins (@ColonelTowner) May 12, 2026
Everyone needs to understand what they’re seeing…there are so many ppl out right now pointing at everyone as interfering in the US election. Notice who almost no one is pointing to? The agency that has interfered in elections since 1948? Pay attention.
Here it is: Italy-Gate: Barack Hussein Obama and Matteo Renzi, former Prime Minister of Italy, orchestrated the overthrow of the U.S. government on November 3, 2020.
The single most damning testimonies of the 2020 Presidential election.
Maria Zack: “Today, I’m going to play an audio tape that should shock you all. It will shock America.
Stephen Serrafini, along with General Claudio Graziano, a board member of Leonardo Aerospace, were involved. Italian intelligence provided the U.S. with documents, calls, and photos of CIA agents—all funded by Barack Obama, who diverted $400 million in cash sent to Iran, funneling it through the Dubai to operatives in Italy and Merrill Lynch in Switzerland.
Affidavits and Evidence:
1.An affidavit delivered to the U.S. Congress from an Italian defense company employee, confessing on November 3, 2020.
2.An affidavit provided to Congress stating: “Work to change the results of the United States election.” Audio evidence was also acquired from within the CIA and the State Department—Larry Johnson.
Maria Zack “Italian Intelligence Services. She said, uncle, Arturo came home and said he doesn’t understand why we’re stealing America’s election.”
“The Italian Intelligence Services reached out to us on November 18. They said something happened. We’re watching a coup d’état in the United States of America. They were fearful of meeting with anyone. Two affidavits were delivered to Congress, and they came from Italian citizens.”
“Intelligence agencies had been trying to reach out because their country had already fallen. That is what is happening around the world. Intelligence agencies are watching corruption enter their countries, buying off politicians, hiding evidence, and using fraud to seize property—and, in some instances, entire countries.”
“Today, I’m going to play an audio tape that should shock you all. It will shock America.”
“A defense contracting firm experienced unusual activity, with people coming in and out that the intelligence services witnessed—people traveling from Frankfurt into the Italian U.S. Embassy in Rome on Via Veneto. This allowed individuals to come forward and, according to Italian intelligence services, work with Leonardo to change the results of the United States election.”
“Even more frightening, they claim there were 47 to 52 presidential elections worldwide affected. They now have over 200 telemetry experts who speak multiple foreign languages. What you are witnessing is a calculated attempt to take down presidencies and control countries.”
“The audio you are about to hear (audio recording, 4:27 mark) comes from an individual who is a member of the CIA and State Department. His name is Larry Johnson. Many of you may not know, but I personally hand-delivered a letter to Donald Trump on Christmas Eve 2020, detailing who stole the election, where, and how. My primary goal was to bring one of the people from the satellite center, Arturo Della, to America because he was willing to testify.”
“There were people who refused to assist, whom I thought would. But what was most shocking was this voice recording, which I will play now.”(audio recording, 4:27 mark)
📝 In other words; You thought 2016 was bad—wait until @DNIGabbard declassifies—2020. 2016 was just an attempted overthrow; 2020 was the overthrow.
Three articles from PRAVDA DENMARK. The first is connected to the above tweet.
The FBI has obtained election-related records tied to Maricopa County, Arizona, as part of a federal criminal investigation into election administration going back to 2020 and through 2024, according to the reports.
Just the News reports that the records were obtained through a grand jury subpoena seeking “terabytes of data” and other materials connected to voting systems and election procedures in Maricopa County, Arizona. The scope of the subpoena and the specific materials obtained have not been publicly disclosed.
The investigation follows concerns raised by House Administration Committee observers during the 2024 election who inspected a third-party ballot processing facility used by Maricopa County. According to a memo cited in the report, observers reported that completed mail ballots and blank ballots were stored in the same room at the facility – Runbeck Election Services, a private contractor was hired by Maricopa County to process ballots. They reported no state government officials were present while ballots were being handled, and that some pallets of blank ballots appeared to have torn wrapping with ballots missing or removed at the facility.
According to the report, Rep. Abe Hamadeh (R-AZ) previously asked the US Department of Justice to investigate Runbeck Election Services and the handling of ballots during the 2024 election, and the Arizona action is part of an ongoing federal investigation into election issues in multiple states…
Back in January, CannCon and I had former Maricopa County Clerk and Recorder Stephen Richer on Why We Vote.
The conversation was constrained to Fulton County, GA, but at one point Richer downplayed Runbeck’s role in Maricopa County elections in 2022 — that was the “drawer three” election.
Runbeck Election Services is so specialized it requires waiving competitive contracts in certain contexts — like country-level contract and funding approvals. (see: El Paso County, CO)
In other contexts — like efforts to verify ballot chain of custody and obtain loading dock footage — it’s so basic that it’s just like the Staples or the UPS store. (See: Maricopa County, AZ)
This is the essence of the of public private partnerships in elections — plausible deniability via ever-moving goal posts.
It can’t be both. It can’t been so specialized it deserves a waiver of the standard bid requirements but, also, so unspecialized that the government can’t compel transparency in “our democracy.”
That’s been the narrative landscape for Runbeck to date — but that elusive transparency is now the substance of a federal investigation.
About that… remember the Maricopa audit? I made a timeline in 2021 of all times the county obstructed justice, overlaid with audit findings and other notable moments:
A source with direct knowledge of the investigation confirmed that the event in May did happen, but it was not tied to any specific claim of Venezuelan interference, nor was the scope of the investigation specific to foreign interference. However, there was evidence of foreign involvement discovered, but no country was pointed out specifically by our source.
Further, authorities in Puerto Rico requested the investigation into the voting systems in the American territory following the “software issues” from the previous elections.
Our source did confirm that “ODNI found extremely concerning cyber security and operational deployment practices that pose a significant risk to U.S. elections,” however, that can be said for most black box voting systems with proprietary software and source code….
The US Department of Justice is pursuing multiple criminal cases involving election fraud in New Jersey, DOJ announced Friday.
In one case, a former mayoral candidate admitted to forging voter registration applications, acknowledging the submission of falsified documents during a local election process. In a separate federal matter, prosecutors allege that multiple non-citizens unlawfully participated in federal elections and made false statements regarding eligibility.
In Ohio, the Department of Homeland Security has been
investigating election fraud since January, according to recently released public records.
In New Mexico, a clerk
committed a misdemeanor violation of election law when she released election results early, but the state is declining to bring changes and, instead, treating the matter as a “a teachable moment for all county clerks.”
The Pennsylvania Department of State issued a directive in April prohibiting counties from cooperating with federal election investigations, according to reporting from local public radio last week. In Washington, hundreds of ballots spanning multiple election cycles were
“We have been very aggressively going after anybody in this country who is in any way voting illegally…It should be a priority of every American, but it’s certainly a priority of this Department of Justice,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in an interview with Fox News.
There is much to investigate. (And shout out to Jennifer Asper who faithfully tracks and reports local election and voter fraud stories.)
Some of these stories are encouraging for the cause of real elections, like Wyoming and New Jersey, while others are beyond frustrating — like Pennsylvania and New Mexico…
The system is designed to defraud the voters and fabricate their consent.
Inasmuch as these stories underscore the election fraud RICO, then we should celebrate them. But the election fraud RICO is the only election case that matters.
We cannot have real elections until we are honest about how fake they’ve been. And we cannot have a golden age without a justice phase and real accountability.
I’m cautiously optimistic for both.
FULTON COUNTY
There has been quite a bit of activity in Fulton county recently.
During a December 9 hearing before the State Election Board (SEB), the attorney for Fulton County’s Board of Registration and Elections (BRE), Ann Brumbaugh, “did not dispute” the fact that over 315,000 ballots in Fulton County were missing signatures on the poll tapes, as required by Ga. Comp. R & Regs. 183-1-14-.02(15) and O.C.G.A. § 21-2-483(h).
This was in response to a complaint submitted to the SEB in March 2022, 33 months prior to the SEB hearing.
In addition to the poll tapes being unsigned, another egregious and concerning discovery was made: the poll tapes didn’t even come from the ones at the precincts where the ballots were originally scanned at, as required by Georgia election rules…
…Last month, Judge Scott McAfee lifted a protective order on the special grand jury transcripts from the case of State of Georgia v. Trump, et al.
One particular transcript contains a concerning claim made by former U.S. Senator David Perdue..
This is well worth the read because Brian (CannCon) gets into deeper stuff than he does in his following Gateway Pundit Articles. He ties the statements by Perdue to information about True the Votes ‘mules’
The district court held that the county failed to meet the extremely high standard under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 41(g), which allows a court to exercise “equitable jurisdiction” with regard to an ongoing criminal investigation.
Petitioners argued that the actions taken by the FBI equated to an “unlawful search and seizure,” and that the petitioners’ constitutional rights were violated. The DOJ, however, argued that governments are not afforded the same constitutional rights as citizens.
“The Court finds that Petitioners have not shown that Respondent’s alleged interference with principles of state sovereignty demonstrates a callous disregard for their constitutional rights,” Judge Boulee wrote.
The judge did note that portions of the 18-page affidavit were “problematic” and, in some instances, misleading. But he ultimately concluded that the warrant included both inculpatory and exculpatory information, stating that in the affidavit, “Special Agent Evans presented the Magistrate Judge with facts that both hurt and helped him.”
“This is not a situation where an officer left out all the facts that might undermine probable cause or where an officer intentionally lied,” he wrote.
“This Court acknowledges that the events leading up to this case are, in a variety of ways, unprecedented. But the ‘Richey test has been in place for nearly fifty years’ and ‘its limits apply no matter who the government is investigating,’” Judge Boulee wrote in his ruling. “To apply the law differently here because of what this case is about, or whose records are at issue, would ‘defy our Nation’s foundational principle that our law applies to all, without regard to numbers, wealth, or rank.’”
The U.S. Department of Justice has issued a grand jury subpoena seeking the names, positions, residential and email addresses, and phone numbers of thousands of people who worked in Georgia’s Fulton County during the 2020 presidential election. This includes county employees, bus drivers operating mobile voting sites, volunteers, and temporary poll workers.
The subpoena, dated April 17 and served April 20 on the county’s director of elections, prompted Fulton County to file a motion on May 4, 2026, to quash it.
The request follows former President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that Fulton County, a Democratic stronghold, committed widespread voter fraud that cost him victory in Georgia against Joe Biden (Trump lost the state by 11,779 votes).
County officials say the subpoena is part of an effort to harass and intimidate perceived political opponents amid broader Trump administration actions to obtain 2020 election records from swing states, including a January 2026 FBI seizure of ballots from a Fulton County warehouse.
In the motion to quash, county lawyers argued the subpoena is “grossly overbroad and untethered to any reasonable need” and “cannot yield any evidence that could result in a criminal prosecution” because the statute of limitations for related federal crimes has expired.
Fulton County Board of Commissioners Chairman Robb Pitts called the move “outrageous federal overreach designed to intimidate and chill participation in elections,” stating, “Fulton County will not be intimidated.”
A Grand Jury has subpoenaed everyone involved in the 2020 election in Fulton County.
The subpoena includes Election Day and night workers — including volunteers — as well as those in the risk limiting audits and recounts and signature verifications.
Everyone who was given an order … and everyone who gave an order.
Abbe and Norm and their band of merry men filed a motion to quash — a subpoena from a grand jury — and Brian and I had a good laugh about it on last night’s Why We Vote. Generally speaking, motions to quash grand jury subpoenas are hard to win because the grand jury’s role is to investigate, not adjudicate. So courts give prosecutors and grand juries broad latitude.
They can — and do in their motion — argue that the subpoena is overly broad or burdensome. It is broad. It’s everyone in the crime scene as Brian said last night.
But last time I checked, the accused criminals don’t get to dictate the prosecution’s witness list…
Remember when we learned that election fraud was part of the treasonous grand conspiracy?
the subpoena requests that the Fulton County BRE bring specific documents and electronically stored information. That information includes information regarding election staff/members who served in the November 2020 General Election. The records must identify their name, position/function, residential and email addresses, and personal telephone numbers.
The records include those who were performing the following functions and duties:
Individuals assigned to review Mail-In Ballots
Individuals assigned to the Voter Review Panel/Board
Individuals assigned to Mobile Voting Locations
Individuals assigned to transfer results to or from media or transport ballots, ballot stock, or media
Individuals employed or contracted by the Fulton Board of Registrations and Elections
Individuals who worked or volunteered for the Risk Limiting Audit
Individuals who worked or volunteered for the Recount
Individuals who served as precinct managers and assistant managers
Many of these individuals could potentially have pertinent information about numerous anomalies uncovered over the last several years. The Gateway Pundit has previously reported that Fulton County did not properly perform signature verification on mail-in ballots in Fulton County, according to testimony under oath from then-Fulton County BRE member Mark Wingate during the disbarment hearing for former Deputy Attorney General Jeff Clark.
Wingate also testified that he was prevented from viewing chain of custody documents prior to certifying the 2020 election. Both issues could potentially be explored with the above witnesses.
From Last year.
THERE IT IS.
Testimony today, under oath, from Fulton County Registrations and Elections Board Member Mark Wingate.
Fani Willis now KNOWS that NO signature verification was done in Fulton. That 147,000 ballots that, BY LAW, are invalid.
The Gateway Pundit also reported that the risk-limiting audit performed in Fulton County was subject to intense scrutiny from the UC Berkeley professor who invented the Risk Limiting Audit, Dr. Philip Stark. In Curling v. Raffensperger, he submitted a sworn declaration that criticized hundreds of thousands of missing ballot images that would make it impossible to perform a valid risk-limiting audit.
The Gateway Pundit covered many of these anomalies in this four-part series (parts 1 thru 3 linked here).
The grand jury subpoena was submitted on April 17, 2026, but was not known until a motion to quash the subpoena was filed by Fulton County attorney Y. Soo Jo, in conjunction with Abbe Lowell and Norm Eisen, among others.
The motion to quash calls the subpoena the DOJ’s “latest effort to target and harass the President’s perceived political enemies” as he “perpetuates his false claim that they ‘stole’ the 2020 election.”
The motion further states that the subpoena is “unprecedented and harassing” and would identify “thousands of Fulton County election workers and volunteers.”….
Strong evidence shows that corrupt FBI officials and George Gascón deliberately covered up CCP infiltration of U.S. election software—because exposing it would have politically benefited Donald Trump.
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
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Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
womanthrope
noun
a hater of women
a misogynist
Used in a sentence
A womanthrope is not the same as the more familiar term “misanthrope” – and, to be honest, I have never heard of the term until it came next in line, consulting my source of Words of the Week.
Not shown in a picture, to save space!
Shown in a video
MUSIC!
Worse than a placeholder! Apparently Mr. Tate tried to get into music, and this is an example.
THE STUFF
Are you tired of so many political texts, that you can’t find the REAL ones?
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On a different note, here is a perfect example of the MSM trying to help Lockdown Amy stay competitive in Ohio. See if you can follow the propaganda and manipulation.
