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Why the President signed the spending bill

President Trump explains, in his own words:

As President of the United States it is my responsibility to protect the people of our country from the economic devastation and hardship that was caused by the China Virus.

I understand that many small businesses have been forced to close as a result of harsh actions by Democrat-run states. Many people are back to work, but my job is not done until everyone is back to work.

Fortunately, as a result of my work with Congress in passing the CARES Act earlier this year, we avoided another Great Depression. Under my leadership, Project Warp Speed has been a tremendous success, my Administration and I developed a vaccine many years ahead of wildest expectations, and we are distributing these vaccines, and others soon coming, to millions of people.

As President, I have told Congress that I want far less wasteful spending and more money going to the American people in the form of $2,000 checks per adult and $600 per child.

As President I am demanding many rescissions under the Impoundment Control Act of 1974. The Act provides that, “whenever the President determines that all or part of any budget authority will not be required to carry out the full objectives or scope of programs for which it is provided, or that such budget authority should be rescinded for fiscal policy or other reasons (including termination of authorized projects or activities for which budget authority has been provided), the President shall transmit to both Houses of Congress a special message” describing the amount to be reserved, the relevant accounts, the reasons for the rescission, and the economic effects of the rescission. 2 U.S.C. § 683.

I will sign the Omnibus and Covid package with a strong message that makes clear to Congress that wasteful items need to be removed. I will send back to Congress a redlined version, item by item, accompanied by the formal rescission request to Congress insisting that those funds be removed from the bill.

I am signing this bill to restore unemployment benefits, stop evictions, provide rental assistance, add money for PPP, return our airline workers back to work, add substantially more money for vaccine distribution, and much more.

On Monday the House will vote to increase payments to individuals from $600 to $2,000. Therefore, a family of four would receive $5,200. Additionally, Congress has promised that Section 230, which so unfairly benefits Big Tech at the expense of the American people, will be reviewed and either be terminated or substantially reformed.

Likewise, the House and Senate have agreed to focus strongly on the very substantial voter fraud which took place in the November 3 Presidential election.

The Senate will start the process for a vote that increases checks to $2,000, repeals Section 230, and starts an investigation into voter fraud.

Big Tech must not get protections of Section 230!

Voter Fraud must be fixed!

Much more money is coming. I will never give up my fight for the American people!

It’s fair to observe that the President will still have to follow through on the recissions, but it looks as if the Impoundment Control Act will permit him to essentially line-item veto the various provisions that the American people found so offensive. In other words, the jury is still out.

And notice that this is not a move that makes sense for a President who does not expect to be in office after January 20, 2021. Regardless, as always, wait 48 hours before you attempt to judge his actions. And remember, Congress already had the votes to override a presidential veto. Perhaps the recissions will prove to be meaningless, but we already know that the veto would have been nothing but a symbolic gesture.

Mike Cernovich disagrees:

Tonight was the end of any remaining hopes – delusional or otherwise – that Trump would remain in office for a second term. 

He capitulated totally, a pathetic act of weakness leaving a stain on his presidency. 

Entered a lion, left a lamb. Mitch’s and Pelosi’s favorite mutton.

I’ve always had more confidence in the God-Emperor than Cerno. We shall see who is more correct in the coming four weeks.

Americans discover the uniparty

From Twitter: The greatest trick the political establishment ever played on the American people was convincing us that there are two parties, each with diametrically opposing viewpoints.

I’m not sure I’d even place it in the top ten, myself. Nevertheless, it is good to see that in the bipartisan opposition to President Trump, the average American is now beginning to recognize what was generally regarded as a strange and radical position back in 2004. And you may find the bolded sentence to be interesting in light of current events.

Remember

A failure to remember the lessons of the past is the great weakness of the voting populace and is exploited by the bifactional ruling party every four years. The present election is always the election at which everything is uniquely at stake; the idea that the global jihad was the deadliest threat to ever face America would have been rightly laughed at by those voters worried about an aggressive Soviet Union in 1980. The hysterical Three Monkeys who now warn of the lethal dangers of a Kerry presidency – as if the nation didn’t already recently survive two terms of a soulless ambition seeker with an annoyingly leftist wife – forget how they swore up and down that keeping Gore out of office was the most important vote anyone would ever make.

On the other side of the false divide, the Little Red Book Democrats spit foam-flecked drivel in comparing George Delano unfavorably to Hitler, Caligula and Genghis Khan, somehow managing to skip over the fact that this Republican president has done them the service of expanding the central government further and faster than Kennedy, Carter or Clinton. Like the Three Monkeys, the Little Red Books are mesmerized by the initial in parentheses before the name. Everything in the Party, nothing outside the Party, nothing against the Party.

But the bipolar construct is an old one. It has been a mirage since the elections of 1900, when JP Morgan and John D. Rockefeller were selecting the candidates for both parties. You may seriously believe that it makes a vital difference to the nation whether George Bush or John Kerry are elected president; it does not.

Both Bush and Kerry will severely disappoint their supporters because the president is not a dictator. He is primarily a symbol, and a largely powerless one at that. Only a candidate completely devoted to dismantling the federal leviathan can hope to wield any real power and that is mostly negative. A president can shut down the government, either by executive order or recalcitrance vis-a-vis Congress, but that is precisely the opposite of what both George Bush and John Kerry plan to do.

There is no party of small government in Washington DC. A vote for either candidate of the major party is a vote for big government now and bigger government in the future. If that suits you, then by all means vote for one of them. If not, it’s far better that you vote for no one at all than betray your principles based on rationalizations of lesser evils and secret plans.

Why I am confident

/pol/ wants to know why I’m confident that Trump, and not Biden or Harris, will be the President of the United States for the next four years.

I‘ve pretty much accepted that Trump is not going to be President in 2021. Why is Vox 100{e61d147451bc60549e96d95b5c07be35845e0345eab7ed5d54cc3d49f812ab5c} certain that Trump is going to cross the Rubicon? I respect Vox but I just don’t see it. What does he know /pol?

This guy gets it.

Basically, Trump’s EO shows he knew the voter fraud was coming, and he was getting ready to catch it. If you can accept he knew it was coming, and had Mil Intel at his disposal, it is very unlikely you aren’t looking at Trump’s plan.

People today have no idea how surveillance tech has advanced, because it has all been blacked out from back when you needed to get in a room to bug it if you wanted to listen. Now, they are listening to people breath in another building, without ever going near it.

With that kind of intel, and knowing what was coming, it is unlikely Trump will lose. Plus, given he was thinking about it, my bet would be he viewed it as a problem which needed a shocking, long-term solution. It was not just a speed bump he had to get over. Remember Trump has to live in the US after his Presidency. If he left the vote fraud in place, and Cabal just took over after he left, he and his family would get Kennedy’d fast as a message to others.

If you look at the whole thing, the only way all the pieces fit together is Trump was ready for this, and he will end up in office. 

Moreover, the God-Emperor Donald I is not acting like a man who believes he lost. Nor is Creepy Joe acting like a man who believes he won. And the media’s behavior, to say nothing of the behavior of the corrupt Republicans, is entirely consistent with the Trump Wins scenario. At the end of the day, you are faced with two choices. One is what President Trump has been consistently telling you. The other is what the mainstream media has been incessantly shrieking at you. And the one thing we know, beyond any shadow of a doubt, is that the only scenario we can be absolutely certain is false is the one that the mainstream media is pushing, because the Official Story is never true.

Now, the mere existence of a plan does not mean that it will be successful. The enemy always gets a vote and no plan, no matter how well gamed-out it is, can be reasonably expected to perfectly anticipate all of the enemy’s moves. But the elements of the plan that have been exposed to our view to date do not indicate an inept or mediocre planner whose efforts are likely to fail behind it. To the contrary, they show signs of a strategic mind that may even rival some of history’s greats. 

There are clear and unmistakable indications of a great political double-envelopment in action. It may or it may not succeed; Hannibal could have failed at Cannae if the Roman infantry had been able to break the Carthaginian center after the massive trap was sprung upon them. Or one of his subordinate commanders could have lost his nerve and failed to give the necessary orders to close the trap at the right time. But at this point, it is hard to imagine any of the primary players losing their nerve when the plan is playing out, the traps have all been laid, the enemy has dutifully entered them en masse, and the end game is in sight.

At the end of the day, it’s just pattern recognition. Because no matter how confusing or inexplicable the various pieces of the puzzle may appear to be, they are neither random nor are they unrelated. They all – well, those that are real, anyhow – they all have to fit together somehow. Here is one pattern that looks familiar in the current context.

The appearance of erudition

Everything is fake, including the supposed knowledge of the politicians and famous public intellectuals:

In a place like Washington—small, interconnected, erudite, gossipy—being well-read can create certain advantages. So, too, can seeming well-read. The “Washington bookshelf” is almost a phenomenon in itself, whether in a hotel library, at a think tank office or on the walls behind the cocktail bar at a Georgetown house.

And, as with nearly any other demand of busy people and organizations, it can be conjured up wholesale, for a fee.

Books by the Foot, a service run by the Maryland-based bookseller Wonder Book, has become a go-to curator of Washington bookshelves, offering precisely what its name sounds like it does. As retro as a shelf of books might seem in an era of flat-panel screens, Books by the Foot has thrived through Democratic and Republican administrations, including that of the book-averse Donald Trump. And this year, the company has seen a twist: When the coronavirus pandemic arrived, Books by the Foot had to adapt to a downturn in office- and hotel-decor business—and an uptick in home-office Zoom backdrops for the talking-head class.

The Wonder Book staff doesn’t pry too much into which objective a particular client is after. If an order were to come in for, say, 12 feet of books about politics, specifically with a progressive or liberal tilt—as one did in August—Wonder Book’s manager, Jessica Bowman, would simply send one of her more politics-savvy staffers to the enormous box labeled “Politically Incorrect” (the name of Books by the Foot’s politics package) to select about 120 books by authors like Hillary Clinton, Bill Maher, Al Franken and Bob Woodward. The books would then be “staged,” or arranged with the same care a florist might extend to a bouquet of flowers, on a library cart; double-checked by a second staffer; and then shipped off to the residence or commercial space where they would eventually be shelved and displayed (or shelved and taken down to read).

Only sometimes do Bowman and Wonder Book President Chuck Roberts know the real identity of the person whose home or project they’ve outfitted: “When we work with certain designers, I pretty much already know it’s going to be either an A-list movie or an A-list client. They always order under some code name,” Bowman says. “They’re very secretive.”

I think people have a basic understanding that there is an element of falsehood to many, if not most displayed libraries, given the reaction that more than a view Darkstream viewers have had to my videos. I’ve even been accused of using a greenscreen with a backdrop of a picture of a library. This is why it gives me great pleasure to be able to answer those who ask “have you read all those books” with “actually, I’ve published quite a few of them.”

And even more pleasure to inform the more dedicated doubters that I wrote more than a dozen of them. The Castalia-only portion of the library already fills more than three double shelves and I haven’t even received my copy of the first three Junior Classics yet.

My office library is larger than it appears on screen, as there are seven horizontal rows and six columns in an L-shape to my left and behind my gaming table. There are about 600 books and 50 boxed wargames in it (not counting comics), but my office library is only a small portion of the house library which is scattered throughout shelves in various rooms and hallways on all three floors of the house. Forget books, I don’t even know how many bookshelves we have.

But it is intriguing, and informative, to have the shallowness and lack of knowledge that we have observed on the part of the ruling class confirmed by their need to buy the appearance of erudition in addition to their worthless university degrees.

An article that won’t age well

It’s going to be hilarious to see the Holocaustians do a complete 180 as soon as the conclusive evidence for Democratic election fraud is accepted as proven by the mainstream, given the historical equivalence presented in this Washington Post article:

Scoff. That’s what we did years ago when we each first heard about Holocaust denial, as a Holocaust historian and the child of a survivor, respectively. Dismissing it as the historical equivalent of flat-Earth theory, we reassured ourselves that the Holocaust has the painful distinction of being the best-documented genocide in the world. Who could claim it did not happen? But we soon discovered we were wrong to laugh at it, as the falsehood crept into classrooms, books and even international relations. We have learned — the hard way — to take it seriously.

That is why in recent weeks we have watched with alarm the birth of another powerful disinformation mythology: the false conviction pushed by President Trump and his enablers that the 2020 U.S. presidential election was stolen.

We had wondered whether the definitive vote of the electoral college and the declaration by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) that Joe Biden was the president-elect might provide a final end to Trump’s electoral fraud fantasies. But he has instead redoubled his dangerous disinformation crusade, reportedly even probing the use of the military to further his bizarre theory that the election was stolen.

Call it democracy denial. As students of history, we do not make this comparison lightly.

Consider their implied metric: if the reported results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election were fraudulent, then the Holocaust never happened. I wonder how many Holocaustians are willing to take that bet today?

Important blog concepts

Things that you should know if you wish to comment here. They are inspired, of course, by my favorite scene in the late, great Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum.

  • Inquisitional autoimpedimentation: the art of asking me for tech support in order to be able to comment on the blog.
  • Pertinaxic adverselectational taciturnitation: the science of silencing yourself by regularly taking positions that are so predictably contrarian that you get yourself banned.
  • Atromonomaniaical exiliation: The art of removing yourself from the commentary pool by exhibiting an obsessive fixation on a single subject, regardless of the topic being discussed.
  • Civilostentatious animic angustiation: The act of putting your psychological trauma on public display through your commentary.

The Nashville bomb

Pretty much everyone agrees that the bomb at the AT&T building is most likely somehow related to the post-election conflict. Some see it as a successful attack on the NSA’s cybersecurity infrastructure, other rumors suggest that it was a failed attack that was interrupted. Either way, the bombing, combined with the shootings in Miami, Texas, and Portland, appear to suggest that the anti-Trump forces are getting increasingly desperate as the Trump team proceeds with its operations.

The mayor of Nashville’s reaction was certainly strange. He looks and sounds relieved, as well as inappropriately amused by the bombing.

This is not a bad time to make sure that you’ve got two weeks of supplies prepared and on-hand, and to minimize your public exposure. War is already being waged inside the United States, and because it is being fought by a wide spectrum of means by an unknown number of allied factions on both sides, it’s very difficult to know where the hot zones are.

All at once

Rudy Giuliani says Team Trump is accelerating the program:

Starting after Christmas,” the challenge to the validity of the Nov. 3 presidential election results “is really going to blow up,” Rudy Giuliani told listeners in a portentous Christmas Day episode of his podcast Common Sense.

“Because the evidence that these crooked television networks, newspapers, Big Tech and the leadership of the Democrat party have been giving you is false — and you’re gonna find it out all at once,” said Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer. “It’s gonna be very shocking to the country.”

Pay no attention to anyone saying “X must be done by Y”. The only date that matters is January 20. 

Merry Christmas

 “Here is my servant whom I have chosen,

    the one I love, in whom I delight;

I will put my Spirit on him,

    and he will proclaim justice to the nations.

He will not quarrel or cry out;

    no one will hear his voice in the streets.

A bruised reed he will not break,

    and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out,

till he has brought justice through to victory.

    In his name the nations will put their hope.”

– Matthew 12:18-21

There are many messages contained within the miracle of Christmas. But I suggest that the most significant one, and perhaps the most-needed one this particular Christmas morning, is the hope that was given with the dawning of the Light of the World.

Merry Christmas, everyone.

Escort or arrest?

An interesting report out of LAX…

I’m currently at Los Angeles international Airport (LAX) and Congressman Adam Schiff was just being escorted back out of a terminal with about 15 LAPD/Airport police!?

If true, that sounds a little heavy for a congressional security team. And I am reliably informed that they do have holding cells in airports….

UPDATE: I don’t know how legitimate this link is, but the name and age appear to be correct:

ADAM BENNETT SCHIFF 60 BURBANK, CA, 91501

From Wikipedia: 

Adam Bennett Schiff (born June 22, 1960) is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the U.S. Representative for California’s 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff is currently in his 10th term as a congressman, having served since 2001.

UPDATE: If true, could be significant.

Adam Schiff was taken from LAX international airport to the Los Angeles FBI building and has not exited since going in a little after 10:00 a.m. this morning, my FBI source is telling me! 

UPDATE: I’d say it is looking increasingly dubious at this point.