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  • Senator John Fetterman Just Chaired His First Senate Hearing: Here’s How Badly He Struggled

    Senator John Fetterman Just Chaired His First Senate Hearing: Here’s How Badly He Struggled

    Senator John Fetterman returned to Congress Wednesday after being hospitalized for several weeks with clinical depression.
    He was immediately thrust into the spotlight, chairing a Senate subcommittee hearing focused on the benefits of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), better known as food stamps.
    Things went about as smoothly as you’d expect, with the Pennsylvania Democrat struggling through his opening remarks. Video of the proceedings raised continuing concerns about Fetterman’s well-being as he struggled to read even basic statements.
    The process of greeting members of the subcommittee and discussing the benefits of the SNAP program proved too much.
    Just check out this masterpiece of oratory right here. This is the best I can make out: “Americans like Jer… about [] from the (nath?), to the town of Northeast in Pennsylvania, tells me that his victim was skimming, which was somebody stole money and he relied from his SNAP EBT.”

    John Fetterman chaired a subcommittee hearing today.
    Here is his opening statement. pic.twitter.com/Y6EHYkhkBZ
    — Greg Price (@greg_price11) April 19, 2023

    RELATED: Senator John Fetterman, Fresh from the Hospital, Returns to Senate Looking Like a Bum
    Fetterman’s Speech at Hearing Is … Something
    Choosing your favorite part of that video is like asking one to choose their favorite STD – none of the options are good.
    And yet, we feel compelled to ask for your feedback. So which is it?

    The guy in the background mouthing the words of the speech, wide-eyed and practically trying to will Fetterman through the painful comments?
    The wide-angle shot of the hearing participants – both serving on the committee and the witnesses – trying to maintain a straight face, staring on at the proceedings clearly, but subtly bemused by what they are witnessing?
    The fact that Fetterman’s reading level appears to be the same as elementary school children reading the Dick and Jane book series? See Spot run. Spot runs fast. Go, Spot, Go!

    Things didn’t exactly improve as the hearing moved forward.

    Here is John Fetterman asking a question to a witness at today’s subcommittee hearing. pic.twitter.com/kb2jXO9O2C
    — Greg Price (@greg_price11) April 19, 2023

    RELATED: Tucker Carlson: How Can John Fetterman Co-Sponsor Legislation From the ‘Psych Ward’?
    The Man is Not Well
    Fetterman’s speech didn’t exactly put to rest speculation that he is not fit to serve in Congress. He is clearly still suffering residual effects from a stroke he suffered last May.
    “Nothing says John Fetterman isn’t fit to serve quite like him attempting to chair a committee hearing today,” tweeted comedian Tim Young. “This is pathetic and Democrats should be ashamed of themselves for continuing to wheel him out.”

    Nothing says John Fetterman isn’t fit to serve quite like him attempting to chair a committee hearing today…
    This is pathetic and Democrats should be ashamed of themselves for continuing to wheel him out. pic.twitter.com/LqaMxKxe9W
    — Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) April 19, 2023

    “Good lord. This dude is not remotely well or able to do this job,” wrote Outkick founder Clay Travis.

    John Fetterman is chairing a senate subcommittee and this was his opening statement. Good lord. This dude is not remotely well or able to do this job. Embarrassing for Pennsylvania: pic.twitter.com/hEyK6k3YUd
    — Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) April 19, 2023

    Fetterman’s hearing speech comes as he returned to the chamber following a six-week stay in the hospital where he was treated for clinical depression.
    On Monday, he sparked controversy by returning to the Senate chambers sporting baggy shorts and an oversized black Carhartt hoodie sweatshirt.
    The slovenly Senator’s appearance was an embarrassment to the country and to the Pennsylvania voters who ever thought he was worthy of serving.

    NEW: Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is back on Capitol Hill after a two-month absence for depression pic.twitter.com/QBtfIKR8yX
    — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) April 17, 2023

    “It’s great to be back. Thank you,” Fetterman told reporters.
    The New York Times printed a report in February describing how Senate colleagues have had to adjust to the Pennsylvania congressman’s “special needs.”
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    Auditory issues since his stroke have caused Fetterman to hear voices that sound like the teacher in the “Peanuts” cartoons.
    He needs special monitors and tablets to understand a basic conversation.
    His performance in this hearing seems to suggest he not only struggles to hear, but struggles to speak and maintain clear thought.

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  • Small Businesses Fight Back Against Biden Tax Hikes

    By Casey Harper (The Center Square)
    More than 11,000 small business leaders have rallied together in a petition to protest the tax hikes proposed in President Joe Biden’s latest proposed budget.
    The National Federation of Independent Businesses organized the effort and recently launched a paid ad campaign against the tax increases.
    “Thousands of small business owners from across the nation signed the petition to say the proposed tax increases will be detrimental to their businesses,” said Kevin Kuhlman, NFIB Vice President of Federal Government Relations. “The White House is claiming they are ‘closing a loophole’ by subjecting small business income to a new 5% tax, but that claim is false and misleading. Small businesses are not a tax loophole and ask their elected officials to reject the proposed tax hikes.”
    As The Center Square previously reported, the budget includes several proposed tax increases, including a minimum 25% tax on anyone with more than $100 million, an increase of the top marginal income tax rate to 39.6%, a hike of the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28%, a billionaire’s tax, and more.
    RELATED: It’s the Two-Year Anniversary of Declining Real Wages for American Workers
    Biden’s tens of billions of dollars to beef up IRS auditing and enforcement has raised concerns as well with economists saying small businesses will likely be targeted heavily by the audits.
    The Tax Foundation released an analysis of the proposed budget, saying it will lead to lower GDP and fewer jobs while raising about $2.5 trillion in revenue.
    “President Biden’s Fiscal Year 2024 Budget outlines several major tax increases that would add up to nearly $4.8 trillion in new taxes targeted at businesses and high-income individuals,” the group said. “After $833 billion in expanded tax credits, it would raise nearly $4.0 trillion in new taxes on net.”
    Syndicated with permission from The Center Square.
    MORE from The Center Square:

    50-State Report: GOP-led Red States Are in Best Economic Condition
    GOP Speaker McCarthy Will Demand Spending Cuts in Trade for Debt Ceiling Vote
    Report: Biden’s Energy Plan Costs Jobs, Ratepayers
    Federal Government Borrowing Astronomical $6 Billion Per Day

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  • Marjorie Taylor Greene Humiliated Eric Swalwell So Badly Democrats Had to Request Her Comments Be Stricken From the Record

    Marjorie Taylor Greene Humiliated Eric Swalwell So Badly Democrats Had to Request Her Comments Be Stricken From the Record

    Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene humiliated Representative Eric Swalwell, referencing his alleged affair with a Chinese spy during Wednesday’s Homeland Security Committee hearing.
    It was so bad Swalwell’s Democrat colleagues immediately stepped in to request her comments be stricken from the record.
    Greene took to the microphone following Swalwell’s questioning of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, in which he referenced the Georgia Republican selling merchandise calling to “Defund the FBI”.
    “That was quite entertaining from someone that had a sexual relationship with a Chinese spy, and everyone knows it,” Greene said. “But thanks for entertaining …”
    Representative Dan Goldman (D-NY) immediately interjected to rescue Swalwell from the humiliating dress-down, calling Greene’s comments “completely inappropriate” and moving to have them stricken from the record.

    Eric Swalwell was removed from the Intelligence Committee because he had a sexual relationship with a Chinese spy.
    But he stills makes all kinds of ridiculous accusations every day in Congress about me, my colleagues, and President Trump.
    We all know it’s true, Eric Swalwell… pic.twitter.com/LKgvGB46Ov
    — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 19, 2023

    RELATED: Lauren Boebert Slams ‘Jihad Squad’ Member Ilhan Omar, Eric Swalwell For ‘Sleeping With The Enemy’ In Wild Floor Speech
    Marjorie Taylor Greene Obliterates Eric Swalwell
    Marjorie Taylor Greene posted a video of the exchange to her Twitter feed. She pointed out that Eric Swalwell (D-CA) had been removed from the House Intelligence Committee due to his alleged relationship with a Chinese spy.
    “We all know it’s true, Eric Swalwell had a sexual relationship with a Chinese spy,” she wrote. “And I’ll never retract that.”

    Marjorie Taylor Greene insulted Eric Swalwell with a nasty but nagging rumor on the House floor, saying he had a “sexual relationship with a Chinese spy.”https://t.co/eIqgAQ9kch
    — New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) April 20, 2023

    Greene was asked to retract the comments following Goldman’s motion, to which she replied, “No, I will not.”
    Representative Mark Green (R-TN), the committee’s chairman, ruled that the comments would not be stricken.
    A bombshell report in 2020 indicated that a woman by the name of Christine Fang (aka Fang Fang) “took part in fundraising activity for Rep. Swalwell’s 2014 re-election campaign” and interacted with the Congressman “at multiple events over the course of several years.”
    Fang had allegedly served as a Chinese Intelligence operative with China’s Ministry of State Security. She managed to get an intern placed in Swalwell’s Washington office.
    There has been speculation that the relationship was sexual, something Swalwell has not specifically denied.
    Swalwell was kicked off the Intel Committee by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who noted “integrity matters.”

    If you got the briefing I got from the FBI, you wouldn’t have Eric Swalwell on 𝘢𝘯𝘺 committee. pic.twitter.com/2H19pezF9M
    — Kevin McCarthy (@SpeakerMcCarthy) January 17, 2023

    RELATED: Marjorie Taylor Greene Slams ‘Dumba**’ Eric Swalwell After He Posts FBI Photo of Alleged Top Secret Documents Found at Mar-a-Lago
    Previously Called Swalwell a Dumba**
    Goldman attempted to use the motion to shut down Greene altogether, requesting she be prevented from speaking any further following her remarks about Eric Swalwell.
    Green responded that such a request was “inappropriate” and the motion to have the comments stricken failed on a party-line vote.
    Greene then laid into Mayorkas calling him a “liar” when addressing efforts to slow the flow of fentanyl across the southern border.
    “You’re a liar. You are letting this go on and the numbers prove it,” she accused.

    Republicans will never defeat the Democrats, we’ll never impeach Mayorkas, we’ll never impeach Biden, and we’ll never implement our conservative agenda if we can’t even call a liar a liar.
    Republicans should not let Democrats strike down our words and do their bidding for them. pic.twitter.com/JihdTZrMzZ
    — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 19, 2023

    Democrats moved to have her comments stricken again and this time the chairman determined she was in violation of committee rules.
    “It’s pretty clear that the rules state you can’t impugn someone’s character,” Green said. “Identifying or calling someone a liar is unacceptable in this committee and I make the ruling that we strike those words.”
    Based on that action, she was no longer recognized to speak.

    Bennie Thompson can call Republicans insurrectionists, terrorists, racists, and all kinds of other names but when he claims it’s not right to say factual things, my words get struck down by a Republican-controlled committee.
    I’ll say it again, Secretary Mayorkas is a liar. pic.twitter.com/PAbDlfuuVx
    — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) April 19, 2023

    Marjorie Taylor Greene frequently tangles with Eric Swalwell on social media.
    After the California Democrat posted an image from the Justice Department showing documents purportedly taken from the home of former President Donald Trump several months ago, Greene blasted him as a ‘dumbass.’

    Oh okay..
    So the documents are so secretive that the FBI dumped them on the floor and took pictures of them, so dumbasses like you could post the pics for the world to see.
    You people are so bad at this.
    Btw, sex with Chinese spies puts you against our troops. https://t.co/zPlAI8eLC6
    — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) August 31, 2022

    Green’s closing remarks at the Wednesday hearing seemed to be directed at Greene.
    “We don’t have to despise someone because they disagree with us. We don’t have to disparage someone because they disagree with us,” he said.
    “And we do need to dial the rhetoric down in the country and apparently in the committee.”
    Please. Democrats spend committee hearings falsely accusing Republicans of being insurrectionists, a threat to democracy, and MAGA extremists.
    If anything, MTG needs to amp up the rhetoric, and her GOP colleagues should follow suit. When they go low, get in the mud with them.
    Anything less allows them to dictate the narrative and continually impugn the integrity of Republican voters. Rolling over doesn’t work anymore.

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  • Guo Wengui/Miles Guo Named “Victim No. 1” in NY CCP Police Station Bust

    Guo Wengui/Miles Guo Named “Victim No. 1” in NY CCP Police Station Bust

    (Note: This is a sponsored post from NewNoah. The opinions expressed are those of the author and not necessarily those of Gateway Pundit)

    by Matt Palumbo
    The CCP infiltration is already here.
    On April 17th, federal prosecutors arrested and charged two men with operating an “undeclared police station” for the CCP in lower Manhattan. The next day, another 6 secret Chinese police stations were exposed within the U.S.). The men charged, Lu Jianwang and Chen Jinping, were charged for acting as agents for China, and obstruction of justice for deleting their communications.
    That the CCP has secret police stations operating in the U.S. should be the top story nationwide, but it’s received suspiciously little coverage relative to the magnitude of the revelation.
    After their arrest, photos began surfacing showing that Jianwang had been photographed meeting with high-profile Democrats at fancy dinners and campaign events. This included meeting with New York Democrat Rep. Grace Meng, as well as NYC Mayor Eric Adams and Senator Chuck Schumer in 2022 and 2023. During the meeting with Schumer, Jianwang was joined by Wu Xiaoming, a member of the Chinese consulate.
    While The CCP’s biggest critic Miles Guo remains behind bars without having even been offered bail, both alleged CCP spies were quickly granted bail and released from custody. Jianwang posted bond of $250,000, while Jinping posted bond of $400,000. Both bonds have three co-signers, the names and signatures of which are redacted.
    Another damning case was unsealed by Brooklyn federal prosecutors on the 17th that documents the CCP has a special unit devoted just to spying on, harassing, and trying to discredit Guo, with the ultimate goal of having him sent back to China where he faces certain imprisonment or, more likely, death.
    In that case, more than thirty of China’s national police were charged with harassing Chinese nationals in New York and other parts of the U.S. The officers were accused of creating a troll farm that used thousands of fake personas to target Chinese nationals critical of the CCP in the U.S.
    And the first victim listed in the filing, only as “Victim 1” is none other than Guo himself.
    While Guo’s name isn’t included in the filing, enough context is given in the filing to identify him as Victim 1 based on descriptions of descriptions of him and the certain posts harassing him and his followers. For example, “Victim 1” is described as the focus of a CCP harassment scheme that began in 2017 and now resides in New York City.
    The filing documents the efforts the CCP’s “912 Special Projects Working Group.”  took to try to deport Guo back to China, stating that they received a task directing officers to call on U.S. law enforcement to take prompt legal action against Guo. The “912” is named after the date that Guo filed for political asylum in the U.S., on September 12, 2017, and seems to exist with the main purpose of targeting him and his supporters in the NFSC.
    As is spelled out in the FBI affidavit, it’s no conspiracy that taking down Guo is the CCP’s number one priority:
    Since Victim-1 fled the PRC, the PRC government has sought his/her return for prosecution in the PRC and has employed numerous methods to effect Victim-1’s capture or arrest. In May 2017, the PRC government sent several undeclared agents from the PRC’s Ministry of State Security to the United States to cause Victim-1’s coerced repatriation to the PRC as part of the “Fox Hunt” initiative. However, the government disrupted the PRC government’s efforts to forcefully repatriate Victim-1, and Victim-1 continues to reside in the United States.
    The filing also details an extensive online effort to discredit Guo, and the other descriptions of unnamed victims match those of his New Federal State of China supporters, referencing political gatherings that were disrupted by CCP agitators.
    Prosecutors know that if Guo is named specifically, it would completely destroy the government’s allegations that Guo’s whistleblower status is a fake cover story. While facing charges in the Southern District of New York, the Department of Justice has absurdly referred to Guo’s whistleblower status as “purported” and “alleged,” but this FBI filing shows they know Guo is a legitimate whistleblower – and removes all doubt they’re pretending otherwise to silence him. In a rarity, the Judge in the SDNY case reminded prosecutors that they’re required to produce any exculpatory evidence they may have back in March – and that’s looking to be for good reason.
    There’s similar desperation on behalf of prosecutors in the separate Pras Michel case, a former rapper who is currently on trial for an array of crimes that includes allegedly illegally lobbying to have Guo sent back to China. Among his alleged activities includes arranging for former senior DOJ official George Higginbotham to meet with Chinese Ambassador Cui Tiankai in Washington in July 2017 to discuss their illegal plan to return Miles Guo to communist China, which Higginbotham was reportedly paid $41 million for.
    Guo’s arrest has prevented him from testifying in that case. As Michel’s lawyers note in a filing, service has been attempted at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn where Guo is housed, but their process servicer was informed that “Absolutely no legal papers are allowed to be served in premises for this case.”
    And in doing so, this prevents Guo from taking the stand and further exposing CCP corruption in the FBI and DOJ. Further proving how rigged the system is, Higgenbotham ended up getting a plea deal in his case that didn’t include jail time, while Michel was allowed out on a personal recognizance bond ahead of his trial.
    Given the circumstances of Guo currently, it’s increasingly looking like the CCP is accomplishing their goal in infiltrating the U.S. criminal justice system. And while its perpetrators are let out on bail – their targets remain behind bars, with justice denied. It’s time to fight like 1776, or live like 1984.
    #FreeMilesGuo
    About author: About the author: Matt Palumbo is the author of The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros (2021), Dumb and Dumber: How Cuomo and de Blasio Ruined New York (2020), Debunk This!: Shattering Liberal Lies (2019), and Spygate (2018).
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  • Officials in Tennessee Say Release of Trans Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto is Being Stalled by the FBI

    Officials in Tennessee Say Release of Trans Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto is Being Stalled by the FBI

    It has now been weeks since trans shooter Audrey Hale attacked a school in Nashville, killing six people including three children, and the public still hasn’t seen the manifesto she left behind.
    Journalist Glenn Greenwald has been trying to access the document but has been blocked at every turn.
    Now officials in Tennessee are claiming that the release of the document is being stalled by the FBI. Why?
    FOX News reports:
    Tennessee officials say FBI stalling release of Nashville shooter Audrey Hale manifesto
    Authorities have delayed the release of a manifesto penned by Audrey Hale, the shooter who killed six inside a Nashville, Tennessee elementary school, one public official said, calling it a “blueprint on total destruction.”
    Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tennessee, told the New York Post the FBI was behind the delay while calling for the documents to be released to grieving loved ones and Congress.
    The manifesto “could maybe tell us a little bit about what’s going on inside of her head,” he told the newspaper. “I think that would answer a lot of questions.”…
    During a search of the house Hale shared with her parents, authorities seized 20 journals, five laptops, a suicide note and various other notes written by Hale as well as two memoirs, five Covenant School yearbooks and seven cellphones, according to a search warrant.
    Nashville Council member Courtney Johnston told The Post the FBI has already ruled the manifesto would not be released in its entirety.
    “What I was told is, her manifesto was a blueprint on total destruction, and it was so, so detailed at the level of what she had planned,” she said, when reached by phone.
    Why is this being hidden from the public?

    Audrey Hale manifesto a ‘blueprint on total destruction’ say pols, who claim FBI is stalling its release https://t.co/XOCzqfUlkm pic.twitter.com/4x1mDXbo9r
    — New York Post (@nypost) April 20, 2023

    Does anyone believe the manifesto would be hidden from the public if the shooter was a conservative?
    Of course not.
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  • Senators Introduce Bill to Create Digital Identity for All Americans

    Senators Introduce Bill to Create Digital Identity for All Americans

    Senators introduce bill to create digital identity for all Americans
    Guest post by Leo Hohmann
    U.S. Senators Kyrsten Sinema, an independent of Arizona, and Cynthia Lummis, Republican of Wyoming, have introduced Senate Bill 884, also known as “the Improving Digital Identity Act of 2023.”
    The bill was introduced March 21 and ordered to proceed out of committee on March 29 without amendments and with a favorable recommendation.
    The bill’s text states:
    “The lack of an easy, affordable, reliable, and secure way for organizations, businesses, and government agencies to identify whether an individual is who they claim to be online creates an attack vector that is widely exploited by adversaries in cyberspace and precludes many high-value transactions from being available online. Incidents of identity theft and identity fraud continue to rise in the United States, where more than 293,000,000 people were impacted by data breaches in 2021.”
    The bill calls for the formation of a public-private partnership to bring this digital ID system into being.
    “The public and private sectors should collaborate to deliver solutions that promote confidence, privacy, choice, equity, accessibility, and innovation. The private sector drives much of the innovation around digital identity in the United States and has an important role to play in delivering digital identity solutions.”
    The bill references the bipartisan Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity, which has called for the federal government to “create an interagency task force directed to find secure, user-friendly, privacy-centric ways in which agencies can serve as 1 authoritative source to validate identity attributes in the broader identity market. This action would enable Government agencies and the private sector to drive significant risk out of new account openings and other high-risk, high-value online services, and it would help all citizens more easily and securely engage in transactions online.”
    The above section of the bill is extremely vague and left wide open for bureaucrats and technocrats to require a digital ID to perform any function considered “high-risk, high-value online services,” up to and including logging onto the internet.
    Globalists with ties to the United Nations and World Economic Forum have for several years advocated a digital ID requirement as a way of removing so-called “disinformation” from the internet. Once everyone has a digital ID, it becomes easy to restrict everyday human movement and activity based on one’s social credit score, like in China, which Klaus Schwab has stated is the model for many other nations. If your score dips below a certain point, you are now a “high risk” individual, and your digital ID would simply be flagged. The government, working in collusion with Big Tech in their ongoing public-private partnership, simply block you from logging onto the internet. You can no longer have a bank account, get a driver’s license, receive healthcare, obtain a passport, or any of those other “high risk” privileges.
    We have already seen how the government worked hand in glove with Big Tech and corporate America to silence dissidents on vaccines, vaccine passports, masking and lockdowns during the pandemic. In Canada, the government worked with banks to freeze the bank accounts of protesting truckers. The whole Covid experience was a dry run for the coming mark of the beast system where you won’t be able to buy or sell without proof of submission to the beast system. Digital IDs, in tandem with the coming digital money, will be weaponized into a global enforcement system the likes of which the world has never seen.
    These intrusive, invasive attempts to digitize humanity and reduce us to a QR code always come with the same sweet-sounding selling points. It will make our lives easier, more convenient, more safe and secure. We will even have more “privacy” Senator Sinema assures us!
    Sinema, it’s important to note, was present at the 2022 Bilderberg meeting and at the 2023 World Economic Forum meeting at Davos. She’s quickly becoming one of the darlings of the global technocracy movement, said Patrick Wood, editor in chief of Technocracy.news and a resident of Arizona.
    “She is emerging as one of the most dangerous women in America,” Wood told me.
    The head of the proposed new task force charged with creating the digital ID, according to Senate Bill 884, would be appointed by the president.
    The Senate bill states that the task force will “establish and coordinate a government-wide effort to develop secure methods […] to improve access and enhance security between physical and digital identity credentials, particularly by promoting the development of digital versions of existing physical identity credentials, including driver’s licenses, e-Passports, social security credentials, and birth certificates.”
    This is right in line with globalist World Economic Forum kingpin Klaus Schwab’s pronouncement in his book, COVID-19: The Great Reset, that the human existence is evolving to the point where there will be “a fusion of our physical, digital and biological identities.”
    And our politicians, both liberal and conservative, will be on board with this. It’s the “innovative” thing to do, and after all, and they’re just trying to protect us, right?
    When first introduced in 2022, Arizona Senator Sinema said, “We’re supporting innovation and enhancing privacy by improving digital verification to combat identity theft, fraud, and cybercrime.”
    It sounds so good!
    Senator Lummis added:
    “Technology has the potential to dramatically improve the security and privacy of identity credentials, and enable easier access to the financial system. It doesn’t make sense that Americans have to constantly overshare sensitive identity information with government agencies and businesses, which are honeypots all too often targeted by hackers and identity thieves. I’m proud to work with my friend and colleague Sen. Sinema to introduce the Improving Digital Identity Act of 2022 to work toward digital identity standards that protect our privacy and give Americans more control over their identity.”
    Other senators have also called for the creation of a national digital ID system.
    Winepress News reported that Congressman Barry Loudermilk, a conservative Georgia Republican, said in 2021 while pushing for similar legislation:
    “COVID-19 changed a lot of the way Americans live, work, and provide for our families, and we have become even more reliant on digital commerce platforms. But with more Americans adapting to a ‘new normal’ in the way we go about purchasing life necessities, this also means more Americans’ personally identifiable information [PII] is at risk of being stolen.”
    If this bill passes, you can bet Biden will sign it. Such a bill would require, no matter how gradually, the system’s obedient subjects to show their digital papers in order to perform ever more functions in society until they end up as digitally marked slaves to their elitist masters. They will have handed over ownership of their very identity to the beast system.
    Never comply. Never submit. Stay awake. Stay free.
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  • Climate Change ‘Activists’ Deflate the Tires of Dozens of Cars in the Wealthy Boston Neighborhood of Beacon Hill

    Climate Change ‘Activists’ Deflate the Tires of Dozens of Cars in the Wealthy Boston Neighborhood of Beacon Hill

    Climate change ‘activists’ recently deflated the tires of dozens of vehicles, particularly SUVs, in the wealthy Boston neighborhood of Beacon Hill.
    The funny thing about this is that Beacon Hill is full of well-to-do Boston liberals who probably agree completely with these vandals on the topic of climate change.
    You’ll notice that they didn’t pull this in one of Boston’s tougher neighborhoods, where deflating the tires on someone’s car could get you punched in the face or worse.
    FOX 25 News in Boston reports:
    Group claims it deflated tires of dozens of luxury SUVs in Boston’s Beacon Hill to make a statement
    An environmental activist group claims it deflated the tires of dozens of luxury SUVs in Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood on Wednesday night in an effort to “render the large greenhouse gas emitting vehicles unusable.”
    The group, which goes by “Tyre Extinguishers,” is made up of climate activists who believe “SUVs are a dangerous and unnecessary environmental atrocity, especially in city environments where there are sustainable transport options available to everyone,” according to their website.
    The Tyre Extinguishers say they took this action in Beacon Hill because it’s one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Boston to own a house.
    “Great action by the new TX Boston group who last night took out 43 SUVs in the Beacon Hill area, one of the wealthiest areas of the city,” the group said in a tweet.
    Only large, luxury, gas-powered SUVs were targeted, according to the group. No tires were deflated on electric or hybrid vehicles or vehicles with handicap signage.
    The group says it left leaflets on the cars to inform the owners about why their vehicle was impacted, imploring them to stop using their SUVs and switch to public transportation, biking, or smaller compact electric and hybrid cars.

    FIRST ACTION IN BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS: 43 SUVS DISARMED
    Great action by the new TX Boston group who last night took out 43 SUVs in the Beacon Hill area, one of the wealthiest areas of the city.
    This is a do-it-yourself movement! Join us: https://t.co/cmqm5IOeg7 pic.twitter.com/vCnA1ZnUE3
    — The Tyre Extinguishers (@T_Extinguishers) April 20, 2023

    Have you noticed that climate change activists don’t do anything that endears people to their cause or makes people like them?
    They deflate tires, block roads and highways and deface famous works of art.
    They’re nothing more than a nuisance.
    The post Climate Change ‘Activists’ Deflate the Tires of Dozens of Cars in the Wealthy Boston Neighborhood of Beacon Hill appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

  • Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Announces Presidential Run to Packed House in Boston – Vows to End Corrupt Merger of State and Corporate Power, to Prioritize Clean Government, Civil Liberties and Peace (Video)

    Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Announces Presidential Run to Packed House in Boston – Vows to End Corrupt Merger of State and Corporate Power, to Prioritize Clean Government, Civil Liberties and Peace (Video)

    Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced his run for President of the United States on Wednesday at the Boston Park Plaza in Boston, Massachusetts.
    Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. told the standing-room-only crowd, “I’ve come here today to announce my candidacy for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
    …My mission over the next 18 months of this campaign and over my throughout my presidency will be to end the corrupt merger of state and corporate power that is threatening now threatening now to impose a new kind of corporate feudalism on our country. To commoditize our children, our purple mountain’s majesty, to poison our children and our people with chemicals and pharmaceutical drugs. To strip mine our assets, to hollow out the middle class and keep us in a constant state of war.”

    The Kennedy Campaign released this amazing video on Thursday.
    The video starts with a speech his father Robert F. Kennedy gave when he was running for US president in 1968. Robert F. Kennedy Sr. was later assassinated on June 5, 1968 in a Los Angeles hotel.

    Please help me share this video announcing my run for President of the United States. #Kennedy24 pic.twitter.com/OLvOXZlRHC
    — Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) April 20, 2023

    Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. promises to prioritize clean government, civil liberties, peace, and economic revitalization.
    Robert has never waivered from his core beliefs of freedom, truth, and justice.
    Via Kennedy24.com
    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. today announced his bid to run for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States to an overflow, standing-room-only crowd at the Boston Park Plaza in Boston, Massachusetts.
    In his speech, Kennedy emphasized priorities of clean government, civil liberties, peace, and economic revitalization. Above all, he invoked the theme of unity.
    “During this campaign and during my administration my objective will be to make as many Americans as possible forget that they are Republicans or Democrats and remember that they are Americans,” Kennedy said. “We need to focus on the values we share instead of the issues that divide us.”
    Strongly committed to civil liberties, Kennedy emphasized the importance of honest government and freedom of speech.
    “The government/media strategy of censoring dissonant voices is not only antithetical to our most fundamental values, it is counterproductive in that it fuels the flames of polarization, alienation, and anger,” Kennedy said.
    On a related note, he observed that “the blizzard of misinformation that is now inundating our democracy will end only when the government and the media start telling the truth to Americans.”
    Kennedy was born on January 17, 1954, in Washington, DC, and is the third of 11 children of the late Sen. Robert Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy. He is the nephew of America’s 35th President, John F. Kennedy.
    Kennedy has carried on his family’s legacy of public service by devoting himself to environmental causes and children’s welfare. He struck those themes in his speech, stating, “Good environmental policy is always identical to good economic policy if we measure our economy based on how it produces jobs over the long term and how it preserves the value of the assets of our community.”
    His reputation as a resolute defender of the environment and children’s health stems from hundreds of successful legal actions. TIME Magazine named Kennedy its “Hero for the Planet” for his leadership in the fight to restore the Hudson River.
    The post Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Announces Presidential Run to Packed House in Boston – Vows to End Corrupt Merger of State and Corporate Power, to Prioritize Clean Government, Civil Liberties and Peace (Video) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

  • “It’s 420 Somewhere” – John Fetterman Celebrates International Marijuana Day Shortly After Being Released From Psych Ward

    “It’s 420 Somewhere” – John Fetterman Celebrates International Marijuana Day Shortly After Being Released From Psych Ward

    Democrat Senator John Fetterman (PA) celebrated international marijuana day on Thursday shortly after being released from a psych ward.
    “It’s 4:20 on 4/20” Fetterman said in a tweet on Thursday.

    It’s 4:20 on 4/20. That’s the tweet. pic.twitter.com/eG34QREjzP
    — Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) April 20, 2023

    Fetterman on Monday returned to Capitol Hill looking disheveled and confused after a prolonged absence during which he received treatment for severe depression.
    Fetterman, 53, spent two months at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center receiving treatment for clinical depression.
    The dazed and confused Senator looked like a slob as he arrived to Capitol Hill.

    Fetterman spent two months in a psych ward for depression.
    Marijuana use has been linked to depression.
    Tucker Carlson blasted Fetterman for celebrating international marijuana day.
    WATCH:

    Tucker Carlson on John Fetterman celebrating 420 pic.twitter.com/YiniHVVuQm
    — The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) April 21, 2023

    The post “It’s 420 Somewhere” – John Fetterman Celebrates International Marijuana Day Shortly After Being Released From Psych Ward appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

  • Ratings for Left Wing Late Night Shows Are Collapsing, Ad Rates Are Down by Millions

    Ratings for Left Wing Late Night Shows Are Collapsing, Ad Rates Are Down by Millions

    Late night hosts like Colbert and Kimmel were always liberals, but after the election of Trump in 2016, they really ripped their masks off and went full leftist.
    Shows like the Tonight Show and the Late Show used to be entertainment shows for the enjoyment of the whole country, but now are purely political and always far left.
    And now they’re paying for it.
    Ratings for these shows are down and so is ad revenue.
    From Variety (emphasis added):
    In 2018, seven late night programs — NBC’s “Tonight” and “Late Night,” CBS’ “Late Show” and “Late Late Show,” ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” Comedy Central’s “Daily Show” and NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” — drew more than $698 million in advertising in 2018, according to Vivvix, a tracker of ad spending. By 2022, that total came to $412.7 million — a drop of approximately 41% over five years. Fallon, Kimmel, Colbert and the others have all in recent years had to grapple not only with viewers moving to streaming, but with a coronavirus pandemic that forced their shows to embrace performances without a band and live audiences and absences due to infection…
    As the election of President Donald Trump polarized the nation, some of late-night’s voices chose to lean into politics. The fragmentation of viewing and the trickier conversational terrain have hurt the programs, says Harrison. “There has been so much political news over the last six to eight years, and that has filtered into late night. When that becomes a large part of your program, in this environment, you are — by math — probably not appealing to half your potential audience,” he cautions. Meanwhile, as more viewers bypass linear TV, he says. “It’s difficult to discover these shows or promote them.”
    Way down in the article, Variety notes the one late night show that is not having a ratings problem:
    Enter Fox News Channel. In 2021, the Fox Corp.-backed cable outlet added “Gutfeld!” to its lineup at 11 p.m. The program features commentator Greg Gutfeld and a panel of contributors who talk politics and culture. Fox has positioned the program as a competitor to Colbert, Fallon, Kimmel and “The Daily Show.” “We are not having celebrities to promote some movie,” says Tom O’Connor, the program’s executive producer. “We are just having interesting people that we think are funny.” In the first quarter of 2023, “Gutfeld!” captured more viewers on average than either NBC’s “Tonight” or ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel.”
    The Vareity article tries to make excuses for the drop in ratings with streaming services and the internet.
    That’s not what it is at all.
    Average Americans are not tuning in because they don’t want to hear left wing lectures from people who aren’t even funny.
    Colbert and the rest are not making shows for the whole country. They are catering only to people who share their far left political views. It’s tiresome and far from entertaining.
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