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This Illustrates our Moral Decay

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It is time for this to stop

CatholicVote is partnering with Secretary of Education Linda McMahon and others in an America 250 Civics coalition, an initiative aimed at restoring to our nation a right understanding of citizenship — its rights, its duties, and the moral foundation of self-governance. I can think of one man who could use a refresher course. Over the weekend, private text messages from 2022 surfaced showing Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee for Attorney General in Virginia, fantasizing about violence toward then–Speaker of the House Todd Gilbert, a political opponent. In one exchange, Jones speculated that Speaker Gilbert “gets two bullets to the head” and made appalling references to Gilbert’s family — even wishing that his children would die in their mother’s arms so that Gilbert would “move on policy.” As if that were not enough, reports have now confirmed that in 2020, Jones told Virginia House Delegate Carrie Coyner, during a discussion about police reform, that “if a few police officers died … then maybe they would move on, not shooting people, not killing people.” No Democratic leader in Virginia has yet called for Jones to withdraw from the race, though the Fraternal Order of Police of Virginia withdrew their endorsement. Apparently, no one in his party appears to think such words disqualify a man from holding the highest law enforcement office in the Commonwealth. But Aristotle would disagree — and every civics teacher in America should be up in arms. This race for Attorney General — and by extension, Virginia’s gubernatorial future — has become a moral referendum on what we tolerate in public life. The refusal to disqualify Jones is already a form of civic decay. The fact that mainstream media has decided to stand on the sidelines as though this issue is but one small scandal for which an apology suffices is appalling even if not surprising. When the lines between anger and evil blur, when rhetoric of death is dismissed as political theater, the foundation of the nation itself begins to erode. Imagine how the Gilbert family must have felt reading those words — their two young boys, both under ten, asking their father: “Daddy, why does Jay Jones want to kill us?” There is no answer to that question but madness and moral corruption. This corruption must be defeated in the ballot box.  If you have friends in Virginia, call them. Text them. Urge them to vote for Attorney General Jason Miyares — a man who has shown himself committed to justice, law, and the protection of every Virginian. If you live there, drive your five closest friends to the polls with you. There is nothing ordinary about a candidate for Attorney General who casually spoke of murdering opponents, police officers, and children. By extension, there is nothing ordinary about a candidate for governor – Abigail Spanberger – who won’t recognize this heinous behavior of her fellow Virginian as disqualifying in a climate that in the last month has seen a political assasination, armed violence against ICE officials, and a man arrested with a tent full more than 200 molotov cocktails outside the annual Red Mass for judges in Washington, DC. That is why our reaction must be nothing ordinary. This is Virginia’s moment to stand. To remind the nation that leadership is about service and requires virtue. Let us make this election a living civics lesson. Let us teach Jay Jones, and the rest of the nation, that hate has no place in our politics. Go forward bravely,
Kelsey ReinhardtPresident, CatholicVote

JD Vance Says the Right thing

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Even when he is out of the spotlight.

Even in Private, JD Vance Puts America First
A key detail from Atlantic Magazine’s story on the Trump administration accidentally leaking its plans to bomb Yemen is being overlooked.

The content of JD Vance’s messages.

In case you haven’t seen the report, administration officials accidentally included Atlantic’s editor-in-chief in a Signal chat dedicated to discussing this month’s airstrikes in Yemen. This gave the journalist unprecedented access to the government’s process that led to the attacks, pulling back the curtain on what America’s most powerful figures are really like behind closed doors. 

The chat included well-known power players like Pete Hegseth, Mike Waltz, Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Tulsi Gabbard, and yes, Vice President Vance. It reveals why Vance was such an excellent choice to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. 

“Team, I am out for the day doing an economic event in Michigan. But I think we are making a mistake,” he messaged in response to the group’s gung-ho sentiments about launching the strikes. “3 percent of US trade runs through the [Suez Canal]. 40 percent of European trade does. There is a real risk that the public doesn’t understand this or why it’s necessary. The strongest reason to do this is, as POTUS said, to send a message.”

Vance also argued for delaying the attacks for a month and lamented the fact that, as usual, America was doing Europe’s dirty work for them. 

“I just hate bailing Europe out again,” he added a few minutes later.

Let’s take a step back. Yes, the Vice President’s hesitations may seem insignificant because the strikes wound up happening anyway. But they’re not.

Firstly, the dialogue shows that real, substantive policy debates are happening inside the administration. Its highest members are not afraid to spar with one another over issues that matter. The chat was not an echo chamber. Dissent is allowed.

Even more importantly, the messages reinforce the fact that the Vice President and likely future commander-in-chief is genuinely wired to want to avoid American interventionism rather than recklessly drop bombs all around the world to flex his manhood like so many of his predecessors. That doesn’t mean the Yemen strikes were examples of such recklessness. It shows that Vance’s antennas were up to make sure they weren’t and that his anti-war messaging isn’t just a public front.

Imagine what would have happened if previous Republican VPs currently held the post. Would Mike Pence have pushed back against the strikes? Please. Dick Cheney? He probably would have been furious they hadn’t happened already. But not Vance.

America could have avoided its disasters in Iraq and Afghanistan if the Vice President’s kind of thinking was present inside the Bush administration. The same goes for Korea and Vietnam. As the world plunges deeper into its nuclear era, it’s a relief to know Vance is where he is. He may wind up saving us all.

Tucker on Kamala

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Something about Kamala Harris’s concession speech felt off.

It wasn’t her language; the vice president said roughly what you’d expect of someone in her position. It was the vibe.

The media billed the address as the second coming of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 speech after her electoral defeat, but the two spectacles were completely dissimilar. As a former first lady, senator, and secretary of state, Clinton carried an aura that at least felt grand, leading most listeners, even the former Democrat candidate’s detractors, to conclude that she would at a minimum remain somewhat pertinent in America’s public discourse. 

The same cannot be said for the vice president.

No one had ever heard of Harris until 2018 when she became an establishment darling by harassing Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings. The then-senator’s attempt to capitalize on her newfound stardom fell flat, however, when her subsequent presidential campaign failed so miserably that she ran out of money and dropped out before the first primary.

Then, despite being the past target of Harris’s thinly veiled racism allegations, Joe Biden tapped the Californian as his running mate because, as Biden repeatedly said, he wanted “a woman to be vice president.”

A qualified woman? A woman who would be an effective president? No. Just “a woman.”

Next, Harris’s vice presidency went as one would expect for any affirmative action hire thrust into a position for which she was deeply unprepared: Disastrously. Harris oversaw the federal government’s biggest dereliction of duty in history at the southern border, unpromptedly baited Russia into invading Ukraine, and perpetually humiliated herself with mind-numbing media appearances that portrayed her as a babbling and incoherent halfwit.

Kamala’s performance as vice president made it abundantly clear that she was not destined for a promotion to the Oval Office, and despite her party’s 100-day push to brainwash the country into believing otherwise, she will not receive one. 

She’ll also no longer receive media inquiries, celebrity treatment, or any attention when she weighs in on the country’s biggest issues. No one will care.

With Harris’s impromptu presidential bid over, some Democrats will be surprised to see how quickly she reverts to inconsequential obscurity. They shouldn’t be. Harris isn’t suddenly returning to being irrelevant. She was never really relevant in the first place.

Here are Some Clues

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Thank you Ralph. “Things you must know to be informed”

*YES, THE GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN USED TO WORK FOR GEORGE SOROS.*

*YES, CALIF GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM IS NANCY PELOSI’S NEPHEW

* YES, ADAM SHIFF’S SISTER IS MARRIED TO ONE OF GEORGE SOROS’ SONS.

* YES, JOHN KERRY’S DAUGHTER IS MARRIED TO A MULLAH’S SON IN IRAN.

* YES, HILLARY’S DAUGHTER CHELSEA IS MARRIED TO GEORGE SOROS’ NEPHEW.

* YES, ABC NEWS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER IAN CAMERON IS MARRIED TO SUSAN RICE, OBAMA’S FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER.

* YES, CBS PRESIDENT DAVID RHODES IS THE BROTHER OF BEN RHODES, OBAMA’S DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER FOR STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS.

* YES, ABC NEWS CORRESPONDENT CLAIRE SHIPMAN IS MARRIED TO JAY CARNEY, FORMER OBAMA WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY.

* YES, ABC NEWS AND UNIVISION REPORTER MATTHEW JAFFE IS MARRIED TO KATIE HOGAN, OBAMA’S FORMER DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY

* YES, ABC PRESIDENT BEN SHERWOOD IS THE BROTHER OF ELIZABETH SHERWOOD, OBAMA’S FORMER SPECIAL ADVISER.

* YES, CNN VP VIRGINIA MOSELEY IS MARRIED TO TOM NIDES, FORMER HILLARY CLINTON’S DEPUTY SECRETARY.

THIS IS WHAT YOU CALL A “STACKED DECK”. IF YOU HAD A HUNCH THE NEWS MEDIA WAS SOMEWHAT RIGGED AND YOU COULDN’T PUT YOUR FINGER ON IT, THIS MIGHT HELP YOU SOLVE THE PUZZLE.

Now you know why no one is investigated. They all have their hands in the cookie jar!  You might remember James Comey who investigated the Clinton email scandal and the Clinton Foundation, and made the final decision to not recommend prosecution by the DOJ.

It turns out that the Clinton Foundation was audited by the law firm DLA Piper. One of the executives there was in charge of the Clinton Foundation audit.

Who was it? Peter Comey, James Comey’s brother. Peter Comey held an executive position with the Washington law firm that did the audit of the Clinton foundation in 2015.   Peter Comey was officially DLA Piper “Senior Director of Real Estate Operations for the Americas,” in 2015 when the Clinton Foundation scandals first broke and Hillary was preparing her Presidential campaign.  Not only was DLA Piper, the firm where Comey’s brother worked involved in the audit of the Clinton Foundation, but according to the foundation’s donor records, DLA Piper has given between $50 – 100k to the Foundation

It gets even cozier. DLA Piper executive Douglas Emhoff is taking an extended leave of absence from the firm. Who is Douglas Emhoff?   He is the husband of KAMALA HARRIS! Just a coincidence?   Amazing if it is. You can’t make this stuff up!

 This “Family Tree” will make your head spin ..

Dominion (voting machine provider) serves 40% of the US market. It is in 30 states – – The state of Texas rejected the machines.


– Admiral Peter Neffenger is on Biden’s transition team.
 
– Neffenger was the President of the board of Smartmatic
 
– Smartmatic (another voting machine supplier) entered into an agreement with Dominion in 2009
 
– Smartmatic counted votes in Venezuela
 
– Smartmatic is connected to Philippine voter fraud
 
– Smartmatic is run by Lord Mark Malloch Brown who works for George Soros (-he and Brown are life-long friends)
 
– Brown chairs the Boards of a number of non-profit boards including the Open Society Foundation,
 
– Brown chairs the Centre for Global Development.
 
– Open society of course is owned by George Soros
 
– Smartmatic partnered with DLA Piper Global
 
– Douglas C. Emhoff works at DLA Piper Global
 
– Douglass C. Emhoff is Kamala Harris’s husband
 
– Guess who owns Dominion? – -Blum Capital Partners, L.P.
 
– Guess who is on the board for the company? — Richard Blum.
 
– Richard C. Blum is Dianne Feinstein’s husband.
 
– Nancy Pelosi’s husband is also a major investor
 
– An aide to Nancy Pelosi, Nadeam Elshami, was hired by Dominion Voting Systems
 
And it goes on…..
 
– Dominion Voting Systems is listed on the Clinton Foundation website.
 
– Dominion Voting is listed as a $25,000 -$50,000 donor to the Clinton Foundation in 2014 by The Washington Post
 
– Georgia Governor Kemp used Dominion Voting after Texas and Florida rejected them
 
– Dominion has a lobbyist named Jared Thomas
 
– Jared Thomas was Governor Brian Kemp’s chief of staff and press secretary from 2012 to 2015
 
– You must remember the Feinstein-Kavanaugh-Soros connections to understand this next information
 
– Debra Katz (Christine Ford’s lawyer) worked for George-Soros at the Open Society Foundation.
 
– Debra Katz (Christine Ford’s lawyer) also worked at Project on Government Oversight (POGO).
 
– POGO is funded by Soros’s Open Society Foundation.
 
– POGO is the co-signer of the letter Diane Feinstein presented against Kavanaugh’s nomination.
 

– Kamala Harris did not prosecute OneWest Bank for their fraud when she had the authority – Soros owned OneWest Bank.

Now you know why a woman who placed 7th in own her State when running for President is now VP (and soon to be president?)!