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During his address to the Conservative Political Action Conference, former President Donald Trump made it known he has no intentions of starting a new political party, dispelling rumors that he be planning something.

“We’re not starting new parties. You know — they kept saying, ‘He’s going to start a brand new party,’” said Trump. “We have the Republican Party. It’s going to unite and be stronger than ever before.”

Rumors started flying around that Trump was thinking about starting a new party after the attack on the Capitol back in early January. Many from the Republican Party condemned Trump for holding a rally in Washington, D.C., the same day Congress was set to certify President Biden’s victory. They also accused him of failing to act once the mob became violent and the situation quickly escalated.

Eventually the anger within the GOP died down and only a few Republican House members and Senators voted to impeach Trump or convict him on the charge of inciting an insurrection. As Republicans began to forgive Trump, the speculation that he would start a new party died down.

Nevertheless, Trump did not officially deny any intentions of starting a new party until his definitive declaration of commitment to the GOP on Sunday.

“I am not starting a new party,” Trump declared. “That was fake news. Fake news, no. Wouldn’t that be brilliant? Let’s start a new party and let’s divide our vote so that you can never win. No, we’re not interested in that.”

Candice Bernd is a socially just warrior who claims to be a journalist and writes for Truth Out. According to their bio, Truth-Out is “a nonprofit news organization dedicated to providing independent reporting and commentary on a diverse range of social justice issues.”

Bernd was on the ground in Austin, Texas – she is sympathetic to the violent mobs – and before the “peaceful protestors” could even get started Austin and state police working together kept them on the move all night long. The city refused to tolerate any nonsense from the mob.

As Bernd takes us through the events notice how this “journalist” uses terms like “we” as if she is taking part.

Before it even got dark Austin Police began to break up the crowds…

At the antifa gathering in Austin, Texas, militants refuse to disperse occupied streets. Officers move in on horses and forcibly move the people out of the road. They scream and shout in anger. #AustinRiots #antifa pic.twitter.com/BJxJwIflZz

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) August 2, 2020

Notice she says “we” are holding space not “protestors are holding space.” This is an example of what was seen in Portland, many of the “journalists” present aren’t really members of the press. They are extremists hiding behind the protections given to the media.

It’s a very strange mix. They are looking to exploit the unrest over Garrett’s murder

— @candicebernd.bsky.social (@CandiceBernd) August 2, 2020

Things are calm but tense pic.twitter.com/kfblgImQJM

— @candicebernd.bsky.social (@CandiceBernd) August 2, 2020

Protestors tried to retake the street but it didn’t go very well for them the police pushed them off the street and back onto the sidewalk.

Taking the intersection again pic.twitter.com/hcFLzsP4P2

— @candicebernd.bsky.social (@CandiceBernd) August 2, 2020

For the rest of the night, the protestors continued to move around because every time they were stopped police would break them up.

Heading east on Chavez pic.twitter.com/1u9QcNsi9Q

— @candicebernd.bsky.social (@CandiceBernd) August 2, 2020

The mob eventually show up at Austin Police Department Headquarters but was quickly moved out of the area.

That is how you deal with these mobs if they are going to block the street and cause chaos, move in quick and break them up.

While unforgiving winter storms slammed Texas and wrecked the state’s power grid, photos surfaced of the Republican Senator Ted Cruz and his family flying to Mexico for a warm and sunny vacation. After some major backlash, Cruz flew back to Houston the next day and later admitted the family vacay was a mistake.

Now the senator’s wife is furious with him because of some leaked text messages inviting their neighbors to escape to a resort in Cancun, Mexico amid the harsh winter weather that left many Texas residents without power or clean water.

“I will say, Heidi’s pretty p—ed at that,” Cruz said on the “Ruthless” podcast. “She texted several of our neighbors. Now look, our neighbors, we’ve got a number of Republicans who are our neighbors, but we also have a number of Democrats.”

“It’s a sign of how ridiculously politicized and nasty — here’s a suggestion, just don’t be a–holes. Treat each other as human beings,” he continued.

In the texts obtained by the New York Times, Heidi Cruz reportedly told neighbors on a group thread Wednesday that her home was “FREEZING.” She invited neighbors to join the Cruz family on a trip to the Ritz-Carlton resort in Cancun, adding that they had stayed there “many times.”

Cruz also pushed back against reports that the family dog, Snowflake, was in danger when the family left town on the podcast.

“I spend too much time on Twitter, so I’ve seen apparently I literally fed Snowflake to the wolves,” Cruz said. “Of all the ridiculous stories, look, I love Snowflake. He was home with a dogsitter, and actually the heat and power was back on. This reporter went to our house and took a picture of Snowflake looking out the front door, which he does most days.”

Cruz will be expected to answer “some very real questions” after the Texas power grid failed.

The State of Texas has just experienced an extreme winter storm that and wind turbines were partially responsible for some of the outages.

One would think that during a winter storm wind turbines would be generating a ton of energy and they probably were until they froze.

The Austin American-Statesman reported:

Nearly half of Texas’ installed wind power generation capacity has been offline because of frozen wind turbines in West Texas, according to Texas grid operators.

Wind farms across the state generate up to a combined 25,100 megawatts of energy. But unusually moist winter conditions in West Texas brought on by the weekend’s freezing rain and historically low temperatures have iced many of those wind turbines to a halt.

As of Sunday morning, those iced turbines comprise 12,000 megawatts of Texas’ installed wind generation capacity, although those West Texas turbines don’t typically spin to their full generation capacity this time of year.

Even the Washington Post admitted green energy was to blame for the blackouts:

Millions of households in Texas are suffering rolling power blackouts for the first time in a decade as an unprecedented Arctic freeze wrought chaos in U.S. energy markets.

The largest cities from Houston to San Antonio were without power for spells of up to an hour at a time as supplies in the U.S.’s second-largest state fluctuated wildly.

The power crunch is being compounded by a lack of wind generation to help ease the load with output more than halving to 4.2 gigawatts from earlier. Wind turbines may freeze in bitterly cold weather, reducing efficiency and the blades can ultimately stop spinning.

What happened in Texas also happened early last fall in California. The state was suffering through an intense heatwave and the power grid couldn’t handle the load. A lack of wind and overcast skies produced little energy and caused rolling blackouts. Gov. Newsom admitted that California is going to have to do a better job diversifying its energy sources to make sure its power grid can handle intense loads.

Congressional Democrats have decided that they no longer need any validation from Republicans to push ahead with a nearly $2 trillion coronavirus bill.

This package includes larger than ever stimulus checks worth $1,400 for those earning less than $75,000 a year, and a significant expansion of the Child Tax Credit. That means some families could be cashing in checks as big as $14,000!

Under legislation the House is poised to pass Friday evening, most American parents would receive $3,000 a year for every child ages 6 to 17 and $3,600 a year for every child under age 6. Families are normally entitled to up to $2,000 annually in refundable tax credits per child, an amount that was doubled by Republicans in 2017 with the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

The fully promised $1,400 cash payment would go to any individual earning $75,000 (or couples earning less than $150,000), as well as their dependents. The checks would phase out faster than previous rounds, cutting off individuals who earn more than $100,000 and couples earning more than $200,000.

A Washington policy analyst, Ed Mills, explained how families could recieve the maximum payout: A family of four earning below $150,000 will get the standard $1,400 per person as well as the $2,400 they received from the bill passed in December. Then they would recieve the boosted Child Tax Credit coming in at about $6,000- $7,000.

Mills said, “This support from the federal government is not offset by any tax increases, as it has the goal of stimulating the economy. We are in the middle of a new fiscal experiment, aimed at targeting support toward the bottom portion of the K-shaped recovery.”

A terrible and tragic thing occurred in Texas over the course of the last few weeks, and the Lone Star State’s lawmakers are eager to get to the bottom of it.

As Winter Storm Uri approached from the west, Texas power companies began to fear for the worst. They believed that the unusually cold temperatures could put an enormous strain on the power grid itself, and they instituted a number of protocols to enact rolling blackouts that were intended to stave of an energy disaster.

As we all know, that didn’t work at all, and now over two dozen Texans are dead.

This has prompted a massive investigation by state legislators

Texas state legislators on Thursday begin digging into the causes of deadly power blackouts that left millions shivering in the dark as frigid temperatures caught its grid operator and utilities ill-prepared for skyrocketing power demand.

Hearings are expected to highlight that shortcomings by grid planners, electric utility and natural gas transmission operators led to billions of dollars in damages and dozens of deaths. Consumer advocates have called for more stringent regulation of utilities and a review of retail marketing plans.

Up to 48% of the state’s power generation was offline at times last week. Utilities were ordered to cut power to prevent a larger catastrophe, Bill Magness, chief executive of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the state’s grid operator, said on Wednesday.

The Governor was in favor of these investigations as well.

Governor Greg Abbott on Wednesday said public anger was justified and pledged proposals to increase power supplies and to protect those residents hit with enormous power bills. He blamed ERCOT, saying it should have acted faster to prevent generators from falling offline.

Politicians in the state have declared that the current legislative session in the Texas state house will not go into recess until the investigation is resolved.

Biden is going to have some explaining to do after a phone call was just leaked between him and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko immediately after the 2016 presidential election. The phone shows that Biden attempted to sabotage the incoming Trump administration before Trump took office.

During the call, Biden trash-talking the incoming Trump administration.

“The truth of the matter is that the incoming administration doesn’t know a great deal about [Ukraine],” he said.

“I don’t plan on going away. As a private citizen, I plan on staying deeply engaged in the endeavor that you have begun and we have begun,” Biden added.

Biden told Poroshenko that the Trump administration doesn’t know anything about Ukraine and that they should use him – a private citizen – as a backchannel, which is a violation of the Logan Act.

The Logan Act bars private citizens from engaging in U.S. foreign policy, although its constitutionality remains questionable and no person has ever been convicted of violating it since it was signed into law in 1799.

Biden doubled down on being a backchannel for Poroshenko: “The reason I bother to tell you that is I have been somewhat limited on what I am able to tell their team about Ukraine.”

What Biden did is mind-blowing, not only did he bad mouth the incoming administration, he showed poor judgment mentioning a highly classified counterintelligence operation. The FBI Russian collusion investigation was a hoax but it was still highly classified and he felt comfortable sharing that with the leader of all places, Ukraine.

All of this meddling by Biden happened while his son Hunter was a member of the Ukrainian energy firm raking in the money.

According to a White House statement from the day of the leaked call is said the two “discussed Ukraine’s reform trajectory and emphasized the need for continued swift progress, including on steps needed to secure Ukraine’s next tranche of [International Monetary Fund] funding.”

Sources: The Federalist 

The Republican Party has decided it would be best to rebrand themselves in this post-Trump era, there has been a good bit of talk about the possibility of the organization splitting into two. At this point, anything could happen.

Some people believe in the possibility of a Trumpian, “MAGA” party breaking off from the GOP to attempt to influence the overall slant of the nation by pushing conservatism ever further to the right.

This would create the potential for a centrist-right party to break off from the GOP as well.

Former Pennsylvania Congressman Charlie Dent isn’t convinced that would happen.

Charlie Dent’s email filled up when news spread he was among Republican officials looking to form a center-right party or faction.

It wasn’t the hate mail the former Lehigh Valley congressman often gets after criticizing Donald Trump. They were messages from people wanting to know how they could sign up.

“These were all people wanting something, wanting something different,” Dent said. “So I think there’s an appetite for something new.”

He continued…

Dent prefers a faction, as he said third parties don’t have a track record of success.

“We can almost, while being affiliated with Republicans, operate as free agents and basically pick and choose our fights,” he said. “Many of the people who are part of this group supported Biden, so we have already done that.

“If the candidate’s too QAnon or Trumpian … reserve the right to go elsewhere.”

He said the center-right has gotten “lip service” from the Republican Party for too long.

“They call them RINOS [Republicans in name only] or squishes and speak disparaging … suggesting that the center is somehow weak-kneed or spineless,” said Dent, of Allentown.

One has to wonder if Dent’s position could change after Donald Trump’s CPAC speech, slated for the end of this month, in which the ex-President is expected to declare himself the primary influence on the party and possibly tease a 2024 bid for the White House.

On Wednesday, Joe Biden’s administration announced a new community program: free masks. Here’s the kicker, it is going to cost the taxpayers in our country a whopping $86 million.

“While masks are widely available in many different shapes and sizes, many low-income Americans still lack affordable access to this basic protection,” said Biden’s Coronavirus Response Coordinator Jeff Zients.

He added that the program would target low-income communities.

Breitbart reports:

The Biden administration will spend $86 million to send more than 25 million masksto community health centers, food pantries, and soup kitchens to encourage more Americans to wear masks to help stop the coronavirus pandemic.

“We really believe that this policy makes a lot of sense in that it allows people who are not able to find or afford masks,” Zients continued. “Not all Americans are wearing masks regularly not all Americas have access and not all masks are equal,” he said.

The program will begin in March.

Zients touted the new program as another example of President Biden keeping his promise to focus on “racial equity” as he continued to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The White House said that two-thirds of people in community health centers were living in poverty and that 60 percent were racial or ethnic minorities.

 

“It’s part of our equity strategy and central to that,” he added.

The Department of Health and Human Services will team up with the Department of Defense on the program, according to the White House.

On his first day in office, Biden issued an executive order mandating masks on federal property.

The left has passed full blame for the attack on the Capitol on January 6th onto Trump supporters. Honestly, it doesn’t even matter if you were there or not and it doesn’t matter if you condemn what happened or not.

If the liberals get their way, every single Trump supporter would be sent to a concentr…I mean, re-education camp, to be brainwashed into hopping aboard the crazy train of liberalism.

I will say that what happened that day was terrible and it should be condemned. I can say that as a Trump supporter. Violence should not have taken place that day. I know Black Lives Matter and Antifa get away with that sort of crap, but we shouldn’t stoop down to their level and act as they do.

I believe that if we remain consistent and take the higher ground, in the end, we will be rewarded for doing right. We may be persecuted for it at times, but we’ve got to stay the path.

There were deaths that day at the Capitol and those deaths are absolutely tragic. One of the deaths was officer Brian Sicknick.

If you listen to the liberals and the media, they’ll tell you that he was killed by Trump supporters. They claim that he was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher. However, there has been zero evidence whatsoever so even suggests that this is what happened. In fact, now there seems to be evidence to suggest he died quite differently.

If you can recall that initially, the media reported that there were some people who died of medical issues but never said what those issues were.

Sicknick’s own mother contradicts the mainstream narrative, “He wasn’t hit on the head no. We think he had a stroke, but we don’t know anything for sure.”

Look, if he was killed by being beaten in the head with a fire extinguisher…it would be apparent and they wouldn’t be so bold as to say that he wasn’t hit on the head.

Sources: Freedom Wire