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January 23, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Media
Politics

‘The End of Politics!’ – Psaki, Maddow Cluck Over Trump & Orban.

MSNBC host and Russia hoaxer Rachel Maddow has claimed President Trump’s return to the White House would represent “the end of politics,” comparing the 45th President to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, implicitly suggesting the nation of Hungary has “no politics.”

Billing herself as an expert in authoritarianism, Maddow proffered, “On the Viktor Orban thing… that’s really what [Trump] is offering.”

She continued: “What he’s offering is….’If you pick me, that’ll be the end of politics, and you won’t have to deal with politics anymore. You won’t have to deal with contested elections, you won’t have to deal with contests or divisions when it comes to power. You’ll have a strongman leader and I’ll just do what I want, and won’t that be a lot simpler?'”

Former Biden spokesman Jen Psaki nodded her head in agreement throughout Maddow’s rant, flexing their shared geopolitical ignorance.

Hungary contests elections regularly, with “politics” and political debate as fierce as anywhere else in the world.

Under Orban — who has previously lost an election, departing office without resistance — the country regularly holds referendum-like “national consultations” on major issues, to discover whether the public backs government policies against LGBTQ content aimed at children, mass migration, and so on. Hungary is also a NATO ally and European Union member-state.

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MSNBC host and Russia hoaxer Rachel Maddow has claimed President Trump's return to the White House would represent "the end of politics," comparing the 45th President to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, implicitly suggesting the nation of Hungary has "no politics." show more

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January 23, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024
Politics

New Hampshire Primary: How Does it Work, and What Comes Next?

The New Hampshire Republican presidential primary is set to kick off today — but the first-in-the-nation state has a few features that make it unique. Polling suggests former President Donald Trump should win the primary comfortably. Still, the high number of independents expected to vote could complicate matters and give some hope to the Haley campaign.

The National Pulse has compiled a few quick facts to help explain what to expect as the people of New Hampshire head the polls.

Some Votes Were Already Cast At Midnight.

A handful of localities began voting at midnight. New Hampshire law stipulates polling places — at a minimum — must be open from 11 a.m. until 7 p.m. ET. However, some smaller localities open their polling places at midnight — and with only a handful of residents, they can often report results shortly after.

Dixville Notch is the most famous of these midnight-voting towns. From 1968 to 2012, the town’s handful of voters backed the candidate who would eventually win the nomination in every Republican presidential primary. However, in 2016, Dixville Notch voted 3 to 2 for John Kasich over Donald Trump — breaking the streak. This morning, it voted 100 percent for Nikki Haley, having voted 100 percent for Joe Biden in 2016.

What Is At Stake?

Despite only awarding 22 delegates — less than one percent of the total who choose the nominee at the Republican National Convention later this year — New Hampshire’s position as the second state to vote in the Republican primary makes it critical to candidate momentum. To that end, the state has seen $77.5 million spent on campaign advertising since the start of last year.

Former South Carolina Governor Nimarata ‘Nikki’ Haley’s campaign has dropped $30.9 million in the state. The Trump campaign has spent just shy of $16 million. Meanwhile, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s SuperPAC spent $8 million before DeSantis dropped out of the race on Sunday and endorsed former President Donald Trump.

Where After New Hampshire?

Nevada’s primary and caucus both follow the New Hampshire primary. Democrats in control of the Nevada state legislature attempted to enact a state-run primary of Democrats and Republicans. However, the Nevada Republican Party opted for a party-run caucus instead.

The Nevada primary will be held on February 6th — though no convention delegates are awarded. The Republican party-administered caucus will be held on February 8th, with the convention delegates up for grabs. Nimrata ‘Nikki’ Haley is in the primary, while former President Trump is in the caucus.

While polling has been scant, some expect that “none of these candidates” may receive more votes than Haley in the primary. Trump is widely expected to win the caucus and most, if not all, of the state’s delegates.

After Nevada, South Carolina is next on February 24th. There is speculation that Haley will stay in the race through South Carolina — hoping to regain momentum in her home state. However, polling shows former President Donald Trump with a commanding lead in the state primary and is widely expected to win most of South Carolina’s convention delegates.

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The New Hampshire Republican presidential primary is set to kick off today — but the first-in-the-nation state has a few features that make it unique. Polling suggests former President Donald Trump should win the primary comfortably. Still, the high number of independents expected to vote could complicate matters and give some hope to the Haley campaign. show more
January 22, 2024
Immigration
News
Politics

SCOTUS Says Biden Govt Can Take Down Texas’ Border Barrier.

In a high-stakes decision on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the Biden government, permitting Border Patrol officers to remove concertina wire installed along Texas’s border with Mexico. Texas Governor Greg Abbott erected the fencing in response to the Biden administration’s lack of border security enforcement.

The makeshift barrier was part of Texas’s effort to impede the invasion of migrants crossing the border since Biden took office. The fencing measure and an order by Gov. Abbott to seize a public park situated on the border in Eagle Pass created an intensifying standoff between the federal agents and the state of Texas.

The Supreme Court’s decision was close, resulting in a 5-4 split in favor of the emergency appeal filed by the Biden government, which objected to a previous appellate ruling in favor of Texas. Chief Justice Roberts cast the critical vote that tipped the scales toward the majority. Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh all registered their dissent.

Rounding out the court’s vote count, Justice Amy Coney Barrett — a Trump appointee — sided with the majority. Both Roberts and Barrett appear to have been swayed by arguments favoring the federal government’s constitutional authority over the U.S. border.

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In a high-stakes decision on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the Biden government, permitting Border Patrol officers to remove concertina wire installed along Texas's border with Mexico. Texas Governor Greg Abbott erected the fencing in response to the Biden administration's lack of border security enforcement. show more
January 22, 2024
Jack Montgomery
News
Politics
World

Billionaire Fund Boss David Rubenstein Says Trump Is ‘Serious Political Force,’ Would Win Election Today.

David Rubenstein, co-chairman of one of the world’s largest private equity funds, believes Donald Trump would most likely be reelected if the U.S. elections were held right now.

“If the election were held today it would be hard to see how Trump would lose that election,” said the billionaire founder of the Carlyle Group, which until 2015 was the number one private equity multinational in the world.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum (WEF) summit in Davos, Switzerland, Rubenstein said he did not think the Democrat-led court cases against Trump are “likely to change his momentum.”

“People should recognize that he’s a serious political force and not discount the fact that he could well be elected again,” he warned, citing the MAGA kingpin’s lead in key swing states.

European Central Bank (ECB) chief Christine Lagarde, sharing a panel with Rubenstein, reportedly rolled her eyes at the mention of Trump’s name, painting his possible return to office in dire terms.

“The best defense, if that’s the way we want to look at it, is attack,” said Lagarde, a former International Monetary Fund (IMF) and French government minister. “To attack properly, you need to be strong at home,” she added, arguing for more integration of the European Union’s member-states.

The Frenchwoman, convicted of negligence with public money in late 2016 but not punished, previously said Trump’s possible reelection “is clearly a threat” to the EU.

Other Davos attendees have been more measured, however. Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, conceded Trump had turned out to be “kind of right” on several important issues, citing China, NATO, immigration, and his tax reforms.

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David Rubenstein, co-chairman of one of the world's largest private equity funds, believes Donald Trump would most likely be reelected if the U.S. elections were held right now. show more
January 22, 2024
Ed Kozak
Politics

House Jan 6 Committee Deleted Encrypted Files Days Before GOP Takeover.

The former House Select Committee on January 6 deleted 117 encrypted files days before Republicans took control of Congress, a forensic investigation by the Committee on House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight found.

The Subcommittee on Oversight, led by Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga), is currently tasked with investigating January 6 and was supposed to receive over four terabytes of data from the now-defunct Democract-led January 6 committee, helmed by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss). However, Loudermilk’s committee received hard drives containing less than three terabytes of data. This led the Subcommittee on Oversight to hire a digital forensics team to investigate what information was withheld. The team discovered that 117 files were encrypted and deleted on January 1, 2023, only days before Thompson’s committee was supposed to hand the files over to Loudermilk.

Although the missing files have been recovered, the majority are password-protected and cannot currently be accessed, Loudermilk explained in a letter to Thompson demanding that the passwords be handed over. Loudermilk has also sent letters to the White House and Department of Homeland Security requesting “unedited and unredacted transcripts” of testimony given to the January 6 Committee.

“It’s obvious that Pelosi’s Select Committee went to great lengths to prevent Americans from seeing certain documents produced in their investigation. It also appears that Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney intended to obstruct our Subcommittee by failing to preserve critical information and videos as required by House rules,” Loudermilk said in a statement given to Fox News Digital. “The American people deserve to know the full truth, and Speaker Johnson has empowered me to use all tools necessary to recover these documents to get the truth, and I will.”

Loudermilk previously revealed that video depositions of witnesses for the January 6 Committee were destroyed.
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The former House Select Committee on January 6 deleted 117 encrypted files days before Republicans took control of Congress, a forensic investigation by the Committee on House Administration's Subcommittee on Oversight found. show more
January 19, 2024
Jack Montgomery
News
Politics

‘MAGA COUNTRY!’ — Rep. Barbara Lee Says ‘White Guy’ Stopped Her Entering Congressional Elevator, Asked Whose Lapel Pin She Stole.

Representative Barbara Lee has claimed “a white guy” tried to stop her from using a Capitol elevator reserved for Congressmen, accusing her of having stolen a pin identifying her as a lawmaker.

“I was walking from the House building on Capitol Hill to the Capitol, and a man, a white guy, stopped me and told me I could not get into the Members’ elevator,” Rep. Lee told CNN.

“You know, we have pins, and I was going to vote, and he blocked me from getting into the elevator. He told me I was not a Member of Congress, and it was for Members only,” the 77-year-old continued.

“I said, ‘Sir, I’m a member of Congress,’ and I showed him my pin, and he said: ‘Whose pin did you steal?'”

The California Democrat, who chairs the Congressional Black Caucus, said the alleged incident was an example of “personal racism.” In 2019, actor Jussie Smollett claimed he had been involved in a similar incident in Chicago, involving two attackers shouting “this MAGA country, n****r!” and hanging a noose around his neck.

It later turned out Smollett had staged the attack with the help of two Nigerian migrants, however.

 

“Racism, institutional racism, is in the DNA of this country,” Lee went on to claim, citing “the genocide of Native Americans” and “250 years plus of enslaving African-Americans” alongside “disparities” like “the wealth gap.”

“You can’t tell me that systemic racism does not exist,” she said, complaining about conservative efforts “in terms of eliminating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,” which she claimed creates “an equal and level playing field.”

Rep. Lee’s colleague, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, recently suggested leveling the playing field for black Americans by printing $14 trillion and distributing it to them as reparations.

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Representative Barbara Lee has claimed "a white guy" tried to stop her from using a Capitol elevator reserved for Congressmen, accusing her of having stolen a pin identifying her as a lawmaker. show more
January 19, 2024
William Upton
Data
Politics

DATA: Most Americans Agree That Obama is Running Biden’s White House.

Most voters believe former President Barack Hussein Obama — not Joe Biden — is currently running the U.S. federal government. New data from Rasmussen Reports indicates 53 percent of voters agree Biden is “a puppet for a progressive left committee… headed by Obama.”

Former President Donald Trump has frequently accused Obama of serving a third term in office through Biden. Trump has often substituted “Obama” for “Biden” during campaign speeches to illustrate the point to voters, leading to confusion amongst Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s online operatives.

Voter concerns that former Obama is exercising undue influence over the Biden White House aren’t unfounded. The National Pulse previously reported that the former Democrat President has at least spearheaded Biden’s A.I. policy agenda. Obama coordinated with Big Tech and West Wing officials on Biden’s behalf as he pieced together an executive order on A.I. The order sets the groundwork for federal oversight of and funding of the technology and authorizes new government hires.

In the past, Obama has mused about serving a third term in office. During a 2016 podcast interview with his former senior advisor David Axelrod, Obama said he believes he could have won a third term in 2016. “I am confident in this vision because I’m confident that if I had run again and articulated it, I think I could’ve mobilized a majority of the American people to rally behind it,” he said.

During an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in 2020, Obama said he’d be fine with an arrangement where “I was just in my basement in my sweats looking through the stuff” and used an earpiece to “deliver the lines, but somebody else was doing all the talking and ceremony.”

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Most voters believe former President Barack Hussein Obama — not Joe Biden — is currently running the U.S. federal government. New data from Rasmussen Reports indicates 53 percent of voters agree Biden is “a puppet for a progressive left committee... headed by Obama.” show more
January 19, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Corruption
Election 2024
Politics

‘Zuckerbucks’ Group Begins Interfering in 2024 Election.

The Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), which spent tens of millions of dollars boosting turnout in Democrat districts in 2020, is moving to help election officials secure Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grants ahead of the 2024 election. FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) fund includes $701 million in competitive grants, ostensibly to protect public infrastructure against hazards such as floods  — but the CTCL says it can also be used to “improve elections operations” as “elections are a critical service.”

The CTCL is leading a webinar series, starting January 25th, to help election officials apply for the FEMA grants and provide “inspiration for what the grant funds can be used for.” Previously, the CTCL used “Zuckerbucks” from the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative to fund supposedly nonpartisan projects in collaboration with local officials to increase turnout.

These projects overwhelmingly benefited Democrat-leaning areas. Phillip Kline of the Amistad Project argues the spending was, therefore, illegal, as it resulted in some voters having more opportunities to vote and have their votes counted than others.

“[W] e’ve privatized our elections, that’s the problem,” Kline said of the involvement of actors like the CTCL in elections earlier this month.

“We have private resources in election offices… America’s been kicked out of the counting room, nonprofits, and billionaires have been invited in,” added the former Kansas Attorney General.

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The Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), which spent tens of millions of dollars boosting turnout in Democrat districts in 2020, is moving to help election officials secure Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grants ahead of the 2024 election. FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) fund includes $701 million in competitive grants, ostensibly to protect public infrastructure against hazards such as floods  — but the CTCL says it can also be used to “improve elections operations” as “elections are a critical service.” show more
January 19, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Politics
World

German Farmer Rebellion Forces Govt to Negotiate After Thousands of Tractors Shut Down Capital.

The rebellion by farmers against tax hikes and subsidy cuts in Germany closed down Berlin on Monday, as an estimated 10,000 farmers and 5,000 tractors descended on the capital and blockaded key roads. Now, the farmers have temporarily suspended their protests, forcing the government to negotiate.

The German government, a globalist coalition between the Social Democrats, Greens, and neoliberal Free Democrats, was already forced to water down some of its policies. Finance Minister Christian Lindner even attended a farmer rally earlier this week to parlay with the protestors, crushed by bureaucracy, net-zero climate policies, and the sanctions war with Russia even before the tax and subsidy changes.

Farmers’ Union leader Joachim Rukwied recommended against jeering Linder. Still, many attendees were unwilling to be placated: “For me, the government must resign. They are no longer capable of leading us,” one 73-year-old dairy farmer told reporters.

Chants of “liar” and “get lost” were taken up as the minister addressed the crowds.

Germany’s government and state media are painting the farmer protests as instruments of the so-called far-right, including the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. The AfD achieved historic election victories recently and now enjoys close to the same level of support in national polls as Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats.

Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, a Green politician, previously claimed that “[c]alls are circulating with coup fantasies, extremist groups are forming and ethnic-nationalist symbols are being openly displayed.”

Chancellor Sholz has praised leftist protestors who have also “taken to the streets all over Germany against racism and rabble-rousing” this week.

Despite government claims that its anti-farmer policies are necessary to bring spending under control, it is simultaneously doubling military aid to Ukraine to €8 billion (~$8.7 billion). Around €50 billion (~$54.3 billion) is being spent on migrants.

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The rebellion by farmers against tax hikes and subsidy cuts in Germany closed down Berlin on Monday, as an estimated 10,000 farmers and 5,000 tractors descended on the capital and blockaded key roads. Now, the farmers have temporarily suspended their protests, forcing the government to negotiate. show more
January 18, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Economy
Politics

Dem Congressman Tells Govt to Print $14 TRILLION & Let Criminals Vote as ‘Reparations’.

Congressman Jamaal Bowman, who recently pleaded guilty to pulling a fire alarm in Congress during a budget debate, wants the government to print $14 trillion for black Americans and give prisoners and felons the vote as a form of “reparations” for slavery.

Rep. Bowman suggested that “[w]hen COVID was destroying us, we invested in the American people in a way that kept the economy afloat,” and so the government could “invest the same way in reparations without raising taxes on anyone.”

“Where did the money come from? We spent it into existence,” Bowman said.

“The economy wouldn’t exist in the way it does today if slavery hadn’t built it,” Bowman argued.

The Democrat also believes the “incarcerated should be able to vote” and ex-prisoners “should automatically be enfranchised” as a form of reparations, as black people account for a disproportionate share of the prison population.

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Congressman Jamaal Bowman, who recently pleaded guilty to pulling a fire alarm in Congress during a budget debate, wants the government to print $14 trillion for black Americans and give prisoners and felons the vote as a form of "reparations" for slavery. show more