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By Douglas V. Gibbs
Vice President Kamala Harris responded to the continued claims that she has not only been avoiding the press, but that when she doesn’t she only takes interviews she believes will toss her soft balls. So, she accepted the Fox News offer to be interviewed, and Bret Baier’s time with her led Kamala to prove once again she’s not the sharpest tool in the shed.
When Fox News anchor Bret Baier interviewed her, for the most part Harris did what she’s best at: avoiding actually answering any of the questions. That’s her tendency; dodge questions, and get testy when forced into a corner.
Bill Whitaker, to his credit, asked some tough questions, and demanded she answer them. But, CBS and 60 Minutes decided that just to make sure she didn’t look as dumb as a stump as she was, they chopped up the interview with some creative editing to try to make her look better. It was still a disaster, but on a minor scale from the point of view of the Harris team. Fox News was not about to afford her that same luxury.
Immigration, more specifically the open border and the idiotic allowance of criminal and invader illegal aliens into the country, was the first topic with Baier, and as expected Kamala Harris could not defend the Biden administration’s decision to reverse dozens of executive orders on border policy put in place by Donald J. Trump. She completely avoided answering the question (as expected). She doesn’t want to admit she’s the problem, she only wants to say she has solutions – whatever they might be. She says that she plans to “turn the page,” and that she represents “change,” but she also told the ladies of The View that when it came to her time with President Biden, she “wouldn’t change a thing.”
Harris also struggled with questions regarding her support for taxpayer-funded sex change surgeries for illegal immigrants and persons in prison, her defense and assistance in the hiding of President Joe Biden’s mental health, and the disaster provided by Bidenomics. No answers for any of them. No policies. No strategies. Only attacks against Donald Trump.
It made her look stupid, and contentious. She seemed offended that she was being asked the tough questions. She seems to think she’s entitled to win, and somehow the Democratic Party will make sure she lives in the White House as President of the United States despite the fact that she’s an empty vessel, except when communism flows from between her lips (you know, like the price control idea).
She’s not particularly intelligent, she has a reputation for not being prepared, she’s shown us that she’s hungry for power and spiteful towards Trump, and she not only doesn’t know her own policies, she’s unable to explain how her policies are supposed to work. For lack of a better way of putting it, I’ve seen more intelligence and preparation in the eyes of the deer in my headlights as I headed home the other evening.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
By Douglas V. Gibbs
“It’s the economy, stupid.” The often used phrase was coined by Democrat Jim Carville in 1992. Carville, Bill Clinton’s political advisor at the time, understood the reality of life in these United States. When it comes to voters deciding who to vote for in an election, aside from party-affiliation, the economy is going to be among the highest ranking issues for average Americans. The family budget is the conversation that is mostly spoken at the dinner table. Our whole lives revolve around the affordability of life.
Inflation, be it due to basic economics like supply and demand, or worldwide issues that influence trade and the supply of resources, influences everything in our lives. Therefore, inflation is constantly a top concern of the American people.
An NBC News Poll a year-and-a-half ago found that two-thirds of Americans surveyed believed that consumer prices were rising so fast that they were surpassing their wages. Three-quarters of those surveyed claimed that the United States economy was headed in the wrong direction. Yet, barely over a third of those people thought that the blame should be pointed at those in office while the economy went into a tail-spin; the Biden Administration.
The reality is, the Democrats have applied Keynesian-style strategies, pumping more money into the system, and inserting more government into the mix at every turn, and the bad ideas, combined with global issues on the rise due to America’s projection of weakness over the last three-and-a-half years has placed us on the precipice of another full-blown recession.
The inflation-reduction law did the opposite as promised, and American investors are avoiding short-term investments as a result; and when investors shift away from short-term returns and pump their funds into long-term returns it means that they are not confident regarding what is going to happen over the next few years. When investors begin to act this way a recession is on the horizon.
Consumers have known this all along. Consumer spending has been shaky. Surveys are reporting that consumer sentiment regarding the economy is at a nearly 11-year low. More Americans than at any time since the 1940s are saying they expect their financial health to get worse in the year ahead. Consumer confidence is tail-spinning.
Biden and the Democrats have pumped massive amounts of fiat money into the system, with deficit spending in Washington, D.C. rising to levels that have ballooned the deficit. Prices are rising, government influence is increasing, and it is frankly getting harder to pay one’s bills at the end of each month.
After admitting that during her reign as Vice President prices have skyrocketed, Kamala Harris says that a large part of her plan to fix the problem is to help small businesses. She plans to expand their tax deductions, pump federal money into their pockets with a “small business expansion fund,” allow federal regulatory requirements for small businesses to soften so that they may more easily comply with those regulations, simplify the tax filing process for small businesses, and use immigration policy to provide small businesses with a workforce that won’t drive up labor costs – immigrants, after all, are some of our most innovative entrepreneurs claims Democrats.
In other words, rather than reduce their taxes, she’ll make it easier for them to file. Then, she’ll provide federal monetary blessings in tax breaks (of which they have criticized Trump for using as a businessman) and an influx of federal money into the pockets of small businesses (because when the federal government gives you money, there are strings attached – nothing says recovery like the government telling you how to run your business). Rather than reduce regulations, she plans to make it easier for small businesses to comply with the unconstitutional federal regulations which are burying businesses, and limiting their ability to be more innovative. Then, she promises to give jobs to illegal aliens, claiming that they deserve the jobs more than true immigrants and American citizens.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump has a record to fall back on, and what he did (and will do, if he returns to Washington) was cut taxes for everyone (because when you cut the taxes of the producers it is reflected in prices), reduce regulations for all levels of business (unleashing free market potential without the federal government interfering), and as J.D. Vance recently explained: bring manufacturing back to the United States through incentives. “Priming the pump,” as Keynesians explain when they pump money into the pockets of consumers, does nothing if there is no supply in the first place pumping out products in a manner that drives prices downward. As for tariffs, if done properly and if the United States is ramping up manufacturing its own goods, the import/export tax does not cause inflation despite the argument to the contrary. Tariffs simply level the playing field and give American producers a fighting chance, and incentive to return to the States for production. Tariffs, in short, force trading partners to reduce the prices of their goods sold to us, and encourages producers to move production to the United States so that their profit-margin won’t be affected. As for foreign producers, the American market is too important for them to allow the tariffs to make their goods unaffordable; hence, the reason they are encouraged to reduce their prices when it’s with reasonable tariffs. Meanwhile, American producers are better able to compete, and foreign competitors are more likely to build new factories in the United States to avoid the tariffs which also reduces prices, and provides more jobs for American workers. In that kind of environment, large businesses, and small businesses, find themselves in a more vibrant free market economy, and as production rises and prices drop, consumerism increases creating a greater demand for more products which, in the long-term, creates an economic boom that reduces inflation. While Kamala says she wants to encourage the growth of small businesses and punish large corporations for daring to make a profit by increasing government’s role in their lives, Trump believes that enabling a vibrant and productive free market for all businesses, largely by removing government’s footprint on their necks, is better for America’s economy.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Tuesday Online Constitution Class: Congressional Authority
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By Douglas V. Gibbs
Senator John Kennedy, Republican from Louisiana, has this incredible knack for blurting out the truth. Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence told us that truth, real truth, is self-evident. Truth is the enemy of tyranny, which is why those who oppose the original intent of the United States Constitution lie so much. As witnessed in politics, they scheme to silence their opposition, and stereotype their opposition, as much as possible. For the protection of their narrative, and their power, the ends justify the means. In the end, I have come to realize that the mafia and drug cartels are amateurs when compared to partisan leftist political operatives and their hardcore allies.
Senator Kennedy proclaimed that we need to come up with new conspiracy theories, because all of the old ones have turned out to be true. He stated in a recent interview on Fox News that Kamala Harris and some members of the media “have been complaining that people are asking hard questions.” Wasn’t that the point of the First Amendment? Is it not our natural right to freely question government when something doesn’t seem right, and for us to be able to do so without fear of retribution?
They, being Kamala Harris and her allies, for example, are complaining that people have been questioning their slow response regarding the hurricanes that have struck the eastern United States. They call the facts about the slow response to Helene “conspiracy theories,” a common response, anymore, to anything they want to label “misinformation,” or “disinformation” (a couple words that have lost their power in the eyes of the general public, of late). You are a conspiracy theorist, and must be silenced, if you question the Democratic Party’s response to natural disasters, you are an insurrectionist if you question the full fairness and integrity of any election (except 2016, it’s okay to accuse the Russians for interfering back then), you want people to die if you question their narrative regarding the scamdemic, you are a climate denier if you reject man-made climate change and instead believe it’s a natural phenomenon, and you are pushing us backward if you believe that the founding principles of this country as laid out in the Constitution are something we should aim to restore.
They have been trying to convince the general population that any people who oppose the narrative of the establishment, like the Tea Party, or Trump supporting MAGA Republicans, are dangerous domestic terrorists and deserve the full penalty of law, or what can be made up at the moment for the sake of the narrative. However, every time they tried to launch such accusations it always blew up in the faces. No Tea Partier ever had a violent bone in their body, and in fact the Tea Party left locations cleaner than when they arrived after their rallies were over. MAGA Republicans, the natural evolution of what was once the Tea Party, do the same. They exercise their First Amendment enumerated rights peacefully, pick up after themselves, and proclaim a love for America (the country – not the current government).
Every time a mass shooting happened, for the purpose of painting their opposition as being dangerous, gun-toting, violent extremists the media would usually jump to the conclusion that the shooter must be some kind of “right-wing extremist.” Except, every single shooter has turned out to be a lefty, or the child of lefties.
So, if the opposition to the hard-left political authoritarians was not going to cooperate with some kind of violent act, their alleged tendency to be violent insurrectionists would have to be staged. The Democrats, after all, excel at creating productions. Hollywood and the leftists are great at making fiction look like something it isn’t. Enter, stage left, January 6, 2021.
According to the narrative, violent radical extremists who support Donald J. Trump descended upon the U.S. Capitol while they were certifying the presidential election with the aim of overturning the vote, and essentially overthrowing the whole voting process – insurrection in its worse form. Democrats ran for cover, screaming and crying as the violence erupted.
However, a few things were a bit on the fishy side. The “insurrection” occurred before any of the MAGA Republicans who were in Washington D.C. to hear Trump speak arrived on the scene. Also, the violence-minded Donald J. Trump who allegedly incited the “riot” at The Capitol told his supporters to be peaceful in the protest. And, all of these Second Amendment supporting right-wingers allegedly were committing insurrection and wished to overthrow the government, yet not a single gun was plastered on the body of a single one of them and despite lefty claims to the contrary, the only person who died specifically because of the occurrences at the Capitol on that day was Ashli Babbitt, who was executed by a Capitol Police idiot.
To be honest, considering how many conservatives own guns and know how to use them, if we were half of what we are accused of being, there would not be a single lefty left standing.
In the end the Democrats got what they wanted – a general feeling among the general population that the MAGA Republicans are not only racist and fascist, but that they are violent and they are willing to use violence to overthrow the government.
It didn’t matter if it was true or not. For the Democrats, perception is everything, and insurrection is an unforgiveable sin.
January 6-ers, just for being in the area, were arrested, prosecuted, and jailed for their participation in the “insurrection.” Even if you weren’t in the area, but were a part of an organization that dared to encourage people to be there on January 6, you were targeted. Organizations like the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and Three Percenters were labeled as domestic terrorist organizations, dreaded militias, and their leaders were arrested, prosecuted and jailed and the organizations were disbanded as their supporters went into hiding.
The opposition to the Democratic political machine was put on notice. Don’t question your overlords, or you, too, will be apprehended, prosecuted, and will suffer the full force of the regime.
Then, they launched lawfare against Donald Trump, hoping to make him a “felon,” put him behind bars, and be done with him and his supporters for good. Then, they could return to their scheme begun by Obama and interrupted by Trump in 2016.
Except, things didn’t go as planned. There were people who still dared to stand against them, and pose tough questions because truth is self-evident and the truth was obvious. And, during that whole process, Trump got more popular, and became more powerful in his popularity.
Everything that they had tried had failed. There was only one thing remaining. Kill the man.
Twice, the guns of assassins have been pointed at Donald Trump. One of them, in July, got shots off and pierced the man’s ear. Yet, Trump survived, standing tall defiantly, shouting, “Fight, Fight, Fight.”
Surely, there has been countless other assassination plots also launched, but were stopped before the shooter could get anywhere near President Trump. One, we hear, was fueled by Iran.
The enemies of the hard-left Democrats were multiplying, and Donald Trump refused to die, however, despite the left’s best efforts.
What-to-do, what-to-do.
Which brings us to the most recent “assassination attempt” against Donald J. Trump in Riverside County California in Coachella where Trump was speaking at a massive rally.
Now that there have already been assassination attempts against Trump, the news of the whole thing was a bit more dramatic than perhaps it should have been, and the automatic assumption by law enforcement and the general population was, car with guns, man looks suspicious, must be assassination attempt against Trump. The County Sheriff (coincidentally, a friend of mine) is a pro-Trump conservative, and a thorough law enforcement officer who the California lefties have been doing what they can to unseat. Now, there are even rumors that Sheriff Chad Bianco might be running for governor in the near future, something he has neither confirmed, nor denied. The alleged shooter didn’t even make it to the rally, according to reports. One of Sheriff Bianco’s deputies apprehended the suspect, a man allegedly with a fake license plate, fake identification, fake press passes, and firearms stacked inside his vehicle for the purpose of carrying out the dastardly deed. Then, during a press conference, Sheriff Bianco said it was believed the person was a “sovereign citizen,” a title given and held by people who are considered “extremely right-wing” and are so anti-government that they have divorced themselves from the system.
Finally, I am sure the lefties are growling, we are able to pin violent insurrectionist activities on right-wingers and take out another group that poses a danger to us at the same time.”
I have been in this game for a long time, and as a constitutionalist the Sovereign Citizen movement is a group I have come across quite a bit. In fact, a couple of times one of them have tried to convince me to join their ranks. My response has been that I agree that our government is like an out-of-control vehicle, but the way to stop it is not to jump out and stand in front of it. I would rather remain inside the vehicle, grab the steering wheel and gear shift, press my foot on the brake, and bring the whole maddening Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride to a halt from within. It seems to me to be the best strategy.
As I was listening to Sheriff Chad Bianco’s news conference, and the proclamation that the potential would-be assassin was a “sovereign citizen,” that truth self-evident spidey-sense of mine began to scream. Immediately, something felt fishy. As I stated, I’ve known quite a few people who are sovereign citizens, or who support the whole sovereign citizen thing, and not only has none of them convinced me that they have a single violent bone in their body, but they kind of remind me of the peace-loving hippies of the seventies. “Peace, love, dope,” I half expect to hear them say to me. If ever there was a group most likely not to produce assassins among their ranks, the sovereign citizens are it.
Could it be that Bianco, or the other experts on the ground, were mistaken?
We are so conditioned to believe everything we hear, and we’ve been conditioned to recognize that there are indeed people out there who want Trump dead and are willing to take their desires to the mat, that at first even I didn’t question that another assassination attempt against Trump had been thwarted, and that it was a legitimate story with believable facts.
But, then, how is it that a peace-loving group like the sovereign citizens could put out an assassin in Coachella, California?
As I was pondering the whole thing, getting dizzy from how fishy the whole thing was smelling, a friend of mine, Brady the War Hamster, texted me, “Please explain why Sheriff Bianco seems to be on the wrong side of this story?”
A link accompanied my friend’s text, and considering my history with Bianco, who I first met in 2015 and I endorsed for sheriff during that election, I am sure the moment Brady saw what he sent me I was among the first people to come to mind to show it to.
The link was an X post (Twitter for those of you who still refuse to call it X) by a person named Mindy MF Robinson (@iheartmindy). She is listed on her profile as being an independent journalist, hidden history buff, Anti-Government Libertarian, and Host of Conspiracy Truths on America Happens. She’s closing in on half a million followers, and hails out of Las Vegas.
The post reads as follows (expletives adjusted for my pg-rated intent, and audience):
The man they just arrested for supposedly “trying to kill” Trump in Coachella…is my good friend and business partner for America Happens, Vem Miller.
Vem had just exposed a huge Deep State cover-up involving Feds and the Bundy Ranch scandal. So, I firmly believe this is 100% some kind of set-up in retribution for exposing it. That, or Trump’s security team is a bunch of dipsh*ts trying to make up for how badly they failed in Pennsylvania with any kind of “win” they can get, fake or not.
There isn’t a universe his intention was to kill Trump, he’s worked too hard in this movement to expose the Deep State and all the people against him. If he had guns in his car that were illegal, whooptie-f**king do. As a pro-2A advocate, ask me if I give a sh*t about a good guy with a gun in an unsafe sh*thole like California. It doesn’t even make sense why his passes would be fake either when we’re both usually invited as media to these things.
And I’d love to see exactly what this “threat” was he made about Trump….because I don’t believe he said it. I just know it’s going to be the most misconstrued bullsh*t thing ever when I finally hear, assuming they even ever tell us.
This is the anti-Deep State documentary we did that they’re probably targeting him for, where we actually suspected they killed our whistleblower over it….it’s that damning to this illegitimate government: https://rumble.com/v5e9k6a-bundy-vs.-deep-state-an-original-america-happens-documentary.html
Either way, I stand by Vem Miller….and I will get to the bottom of this bullsh*t. Watch me.
If this post is legitimate, and I have no reason to believe it is not, it fits in with the fishy smell I was experiencing when I was pondering how it was possible that a sovereign citizen was being detained for being a would-be-assassin. Is it possible (and we know it is) that the Deep State hard-left establishment pukes set-up Vem Miller in a pre-meditated manner, tipping off the Sheriff, perhaps already laying out the groundwork behind the claims of fake licenses and identification, and guns? From their point of view, what an opportunity. With a smoke-and-mirrors, sleight of hand moment, they could avert everyone’s eyes away from the hard-left’s assassination attempts, remind everyone how dangerous and violent radical right-wingers are, and malign a group that is seen as opposition (sovereign citizens) all in one swoop. Talk about killing multiple birds with one stone.
And, before any of you call it a conspiracy theory, remember, yesterday’s conspiracy theories have often become today’s headlines. Truth is self-evident – and for the enemies of the Constitution, the ends justify the means. They are willing to do anything to secure, and hold on to, their power.
Then it got more interesting…
Vem Miller has since released a statement about the accusation that he was planning to assassinate Trump was false, he’s actually a huge Trump supporter. The basic message from Mr. Miller is that the whole thing happened because of bad policing. But, as I said earlier, I know the Riverside County Sheriff personally, and I can vouch for him being an honest, conservative, and better-than-average hard working law enforcement officer. Therefore, if Mr. Miller is not a would be assassin, and the Riverside County Sheriff’s department is not a part of a conspiracy to make Miller out to be some kind of dangerous right-wing domestic terrorist, there must be a third answer – which brings me back to my initial thoughts. The left-wing cabal, the Deep State (if you so desire to use that name), set the whole thing up. The sheriff’s department was lead to believe certain things, nudged in a certain direction, and Miller was set up as the patsy. The only thing we know for sure is that a whole lot does not add up, and something smells fishy in Coachella.
There was no assassination attempt, Vem Miller is innocent, Sheriff Chad Bianco is honest, and the Deep State has tried to strike again.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary