Category: Opinion

The liberals and even the anti-Trump “Republicans” aka the establishment RINOs, have again proven that they have no real cognitive ability.

They really believe that there was no foul play in the election. But why? The answer is simple really, it’s because they have either not looked at the evidence, or blindly follow someone else who simply claims that there was no fraud that took place on election night.

So the people who blindly follow the leader regardless of the truth are the ones who allege no fraud occurred and those who know how to think for themselves are the ones who are just saying, “Let’s examine this.” What are they afraid of? The truth will prevail…or at least it’s supposed to. And if the truth is that there was no fraud, then so be it, but let’s at least look at the facts!

A conservative group is calling out members of the Republican Party by name for promoting “lies, violence and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories” in a scathing new ad that will air on Fox News during “Hannity” in Washington, D.C. next week.

The spot from the Republican Accountability Project ― part of Defending Democracy Together, a never-Trump conservative group ― praises the members of the party who turned on former President Donald Trump after the violent insurrection carried out by his supporters in the Capitol on Jan. 6.

But some members of the party still support Trump and they’ve attacked those who’ve stood up to the former president. Others have repeated Trump’s lies about the election.

The ad specifically names representatives Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.):

https://twitter.com/AccountableGOP/status/1357117992564326400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1357117992564326400%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ffreedomheadlines.com%2Ffreedom-wire%2Fshameless-anti-trump-republicans-put-out-ad-against-trump-supporters%2F

This is horrible! Every word in that video is quoted from GOP politicians. The problem is that they are all SEVERELY ripped out of context.

Iran is unbelievable. But honestly, what’s more, unbelievable is that the Biden administration is probably going to get down on their knees and beg for forgiveness and suck up to the terrorist nation.

We know that former President Obama and his administration catered to the Iranians and even sent them billions of dollars that no one even knows what happened to it. Well, that’s the story that they tell anyway. We know where the money went.

Under President Trump, Iran got nothing because it makes no sense to send money to countries that hate us. In fact, he was harder on Iran than any other president ever was.

Now, Iran wants the Biden administration to make up for what Trump did.

With Joe Biden in the White House, the mullah-led Iranian regime is pressuring the U.S. to provide “compensation” for the “damage” from sanctions imposed by the Trump administration.

Iran also wants to leverage its nuclear accomplishments and gain additional ones, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute…

…Iran also is demonstrating, through the launch of ballistic missiles, its ability to make long-range rockets, and it is conducting shows of conventional military strength.

It further attacked U.S. targets in Iraq using Shiite militias, and Saudi and Gulf targets using Yemeni Houthi militia. Tehran also is pressuring the Taliban in Afghanistan to destroy the peace agreement it reached with the Trump administration.

Finally, Iran has been seizing oil tankers and arresting Western nationals.

Of course, I’m sure that Biden is going to work out some deal to send Iran some more money for terrorism. They better be careful because one day, someone is going to see what the United States is doing and they’re going to retaliate against us for funding terrorism under the table. It makes no sense to me.

House Democrats are pushing forward with a coronavirus relief package that would keep the existing income restrictions for the new round of stimulus checks while narrowing eligibility for Americans with a higher income.

Under the newly introduced draft legislation, Americans who earn less than $75,000 would receive the full $1,400 payment, despite calls from some moderate Democrats and Republicans to lower the threshold. However, checks would phase out more quickly than previous payments with the cutoff being $100,000 for individuals and $200,000 for couples.

Stimulus check eligibility emerged as a major point of contention between different ideological factions of the Democratic Party. The party can’t afford to lose the support of even a single Senate Democrat, as it needs all 50 members to pass the measure using a procedural tool known as budget reconciliation.

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., has repeatedly argued the payments need to be better targeted and reportedly called for the checks to begin phasing out for individuals earning more than $50,000.

“I don’t think a single person on this floor wou

ld disagree to target the relief to our neighbors who are struggling,” Manchin said on the Senate floor last week. “There are other families who have not missed a single paycheck as a result of this pandemic. It does not make sense to send a check to those individuals.”

Still, he indicated on Monday that he was open to House Democrats’ plan, saying that he and other centrists are trying to ensure the payments go to those “truly in need.”

“So if they can show that $75,000 and $150,000 is truly in need,” Manchin said.

President Biden suggested last week that he was willing to limit which Americans receive the third stimulus check in hopes of securing bipartisan support for the measure.

“Further targeting means not the size of the check, it means the income level of people who receive the check,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters last week. “That’s something that is under discussion.”

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday that Americans earning $60,000 per year should receive the full promised payment.

“The exact details of how it should be targeted are to be determined, but struggling middle-class families need help,” Yellen said during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

The House Ways and Means Committee will debate its part of the massive reconciliation bill this week. Lawmakers aim to pass the stimulus checks no later than March 14.

Oregon’s highly controversial Measure 110 decriminalizing the possession of hard drugs including cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and oxycodone, went into effect on Monday.

Former Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker claims that impeaching former President Trump a second time is “cheapening” the impeachment standard.

Whitaker made the comment during an appearance on “The Faulkner Focus,” and argued that it is also “distracting Congress right now from what they should be worried about, like arresting the violent crime epidemic in our major cities, doing more for the COVID-19 challenges we face and also so many of the other things that the people of America want Congress to work for them.”

Whitaker’s statement came one day before the Senate was set to begin an impeachment trial against Trump for the second time. The House voted to impeach the former president last month with a 232 to 197 vote on the charge of inciting an insurrection.

Trump conviction is highly unlikely, however, since it would require 17 Republicans to join all 50 Democrats on the article.

When asked about impeachment witnesses and how long he expects the trial to last, Witaker responded, “The Democrats are going to quickly realize that this is a loser for them and they’re going to want to end it as quickly as they’re going to want to start it.”

“Anything that’s being presented to the Senate in trial should … have already been considered and part of the record in the House,” Whitaker continued. “It doesn’t exist because it was a rushed impeachment and so the Senate is going to quickly decide, probably as soon as tomorrow, whether or not they’re going to take witnesses.”

He went on to add that if the Senate decides they will not be using witnesses, “it’s going to be a very short process.”

Senator Chris Murphy said on “Fox News Sunday” that, contrary to Whitaker’s belief, Trump’s impeachment trial “doesn’t stop” the rest of the Senate from conducting other business adding that “the Senate can walk and chew gum at the same time.”

Former United States Secretary of State John Kerry has been appointed the United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate by President Joe Biden. In 2019 he traveled to Iceland to receive the Arctic Circle award for climate leadership but he chose to get there in his private jet.

Police in San Antonio, Texas, are investigating a shooting incident that took place Sunday afternoon and left one man in critical condition and a 6-year-old boy injured.

Investigators arrived at the scene at the 4400 block of Lord Road near Martin Luther King Drive and WW White Road shortly after 3:00 p.m.

Chief William McManus of the San Antonio Police told reporters that a man in his mid-20s was on his way to an even at Greater Faith Institution Church along with his girlfriend and their 6-year-old when the incident took place.

A male suspect was waiting for the trio under a tree when they pulled into the parking lot. He then rushed to the vehicle before they could exit and opened fire.

According to McManus, the man and boy were shot in the crossfire. The man remains in critical condition while the child sustained a gunshot wound to the shoulder and is expected to survive. The girlfriend did not receive any injuries.

After the attack witnesses saw the shooter running through the neighborhood wearing no shoes.

McManus says the shooting was not a random act of violence, noting the intended target of the attack was the man.

“All of the violence in throughout the city is stepping over the line, but when you do it at a church event, that’s pretty much unheard of and we are going to stop at nothing to capture this individual,” McManus said. “This is uncalled for insanity that someone would be brazen enough to do this, on a Sunday afternoon, at a church event.”

The department is currently following up with leads which the police chief said will hopefully allow investigators to close the case sooner rather than later.

Some progressives including Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are pushing for Americans to receive $2,000 coronavirus relief checks instead of the proposed $1,400 with Senator Bernie Sanders is outraged at the idea of limiting the income requirement for check recipients.

AOC criticized her fellow lawmakers who are referring to $2,000 checks by combining the $600-per-person previously sent out under former President Donald Trump and the $1,400 proposal from President Joe Biden.

Some of the same folks who said “defunding huge PD budgets & shifting $ to schools is too hard to explain” are now saying “Well $1400 is actually $2k if you recall the $600 from a diff president, carry the 1- yes I know ads showed $2k checks, but thresholds-”

Just help people!

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 7, 2021

From Fox News:

Sanders, the new chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, didn’t push back against Biden’s $1,400 check proposal but did insist that individuals making $75,000 and under remain eligible for assistance during an appearance on “State of the Union.”

“We said we’re going to get you $2,000, which is $600 plus $1,400, and what we’re going to do is say that everybody, a single person, individual, $75,000 or lower, and a couple of $150,000 or lower will be eligible for that $2,000 – $600 plus $1,400,” Sanders said on Sunday.

Unbelievable. There are some Dems who want to lower the income eligibility for direct payments from $75,000 to $50,000 for individuals, and $150,000 to $100,000 for couples. In other words, working class people who got checks from Trump would not get them from Biden. Brilliant!

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 7, 2021

“To say to a worker in Vermont or California or anyplace else that if you’re making $52,000 a year, you are too rich to get this help, the full benefit, I think that that’s absurd, and it’s also, from a political point of view, a little bit absurd that you would have, under Trump, these folks getting the benefit, but under Biden, who is fighting hard for the working class of this country, they would not get that full benefit,” Sanders continued.

Biden is reportedly open to compromising on the structure of stimulus checks in his proposed $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package. He told House Democrats on Wednesday that he is open to modifying the adjusted gross income thresholds for an additional round of direct payments – but he is holding steadfast to the $1,400 check amounts, according to Politico.

In a $600 billion counterproposal, Republicans offered up $1,000 payments targeted to low-income households.

“I think the checks should be $2,000. And they should be monthly. RT if you agree,” Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, wrote on Twitter on Saturday. His post received nearly 30,000 retweets.

I think the checks should be $2,000. And they should be monthly. RT if you agree.

— Tim Ryan (@TimRyan) February 6, 2021

Meanwhile, progressive Democrats continue to criticize Biden’s $1,400 payment checks.

In an unprecedented tone, President Trump attacked his fellow Republican lawmakers for turning their backs on him by refusing to object to the certification of the results of November’s election.

“The weak Republicans, and that’s it. I really believe it. I think I’m going to use the term the weak Republicans. You got a lot of them,” Trump said in a speech just before the start of a joint session of Congress to certify Joe Biden’s electoral college victory.

Trump accused Republicans of turning “a blind eye even as Democrats enacted policies that chipped away our jobs, weakened our military, threw open our borders and put America last.”

The president then encouraged the crowd to”get your people to fight. And if they don’t fight, we have to primary the hell out of the ones that don’t fight. You primary them. We’re going to let you know who they are. I can already tell you, frankly.”

Trump has lashed out at Republican leaders in recent weeks for refusing to assist in overturning election results in several states. One of his main targets is Georgia Governor, Brian Kemp, who has always been a strong Trump supporter.

The president referred to Kemp as the “pathetic governor of Georgia” and urged the crowd to “vote him the hell out of office, please.”

Trump also called out Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Majority Whip John Thune for blocking the move by Trump supporters in Congress to object to the certification of the Electoral College vote.

He warned that “you better start looking at your leadership because your leadership had led you down the tubes.”

The president also blasted Representative Liz Cheney saying that “a year from now, you’re going to start working Congress and we got to get rid of the weak Congress people, the ones that aren’t any good, the Liz Cheneys of the world. We got to get rid of them.”

A man who was allegedly present during the shooting that took place during the storming of Capitol Hill gave his account of what transpired in those moments.

Amid the chaos at the United States Capitol, a woman identified as a pro-Trump demonstrator was shot in the neck.

The man told Daily Caller journalist Phillip Nieto while holding up his hand he claimed was covered in the woman’s blood, “I was right there with her. It was either me or her! And they shot her.”

Bystanders asked the man what happened and he explained that they were positioned outside the door of one of the chambers where there was a “smashed window” and that’s when “they shot her in the neck.”

“The police or service or whatever, they shot her with a gun through the neck, [she] fell back into my hand and onto the floor,” he continued. “I don’t know if she’s dead.”

Images show the unidentified woman collapsing to the ground with blood covering her neck area. The woman was transported out of the building just before 3 p.m. It’s not yet clear who fired the shot however, witnesses claim it was capitol police.

WARNING: The following videos contain images and language that may be disturbing or offensive. 

Man claims to have blood on his hand from an unidentified woman shot by authorities. Not confirmed. pic.twitter.com/arwcHp174B

— Phillip Nieto (@nieto_phillip) January 6, 2021

Police later confirmed that the woman died from her injuries.

If you look hard enough you can find actual uncensored footage of the shooting, but a fair warning, it is graphic and disturbing.