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One of the world's bigger speech influence schemes that has been operating now is calling it quits – after an antitrust lawsuit was filed against it by Elon Musk and X.
It is the World Federal of Advertisers that announced the end of its "Global Alliance for Responsible Media."
A report at the Post-Millennial said the group that orchestrated boycotts of various targets based on their beliefs and messages was facing the legal action for its use of monopoly power.
The House Judiciary Committee, which had been looking into the manipulations being used by GARM said it was a "Big win for the First Amendment" and "for oversight."
The advertisers' special campaign would target those carrying messages the group did not like.
Rumble CEO Chris Pavlosvki still wondered, however, "What are they hiding?"
The WFA set up GARM specifically to help "police speech online using ad placement and the withholding of same," the report said. That means those web organizations that failed to carry the correct political messaging, or carried something that was politically incorrect, might not get advertising revenue.
The Post-Millennial report noted WFA members were told of the decision Thursday in an email.
Pavloski explained what was going on. "They created a monopoly to basically tell all these advertisers how they should spend money based on certain speech."
CEO Linda Yaccarino of X said, 'I was shocked by the evidence uncovered by the House Judiciary Committee that a group of companies organized a systematic illegal boycott against X. It is just wrong. And that is why we are taking action."
GARM had boasted of working with advertisers, "media agencies, media platforms and industry associations" to target what it determined was "harmful" content online.
But it didn't define 'harmful" meaning whatever it said was bad was bad.
Business Insider explained the lawsuit by X charged GARM "illegally colluded to 'collectively withhold billions of dollars in advertising revenue' from Twitter, now known as X."
GARM claimed over its tenure that it was working on "hate speech, brand safety and misinformation."
Online commenters said those trying to censor speech simply would re-emerge under another name and format.
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Republicans, conservatives, and Americans who lean to the right politically often have thought that CNN, with its extreme and activist leftist agenda, is worthless.
Now it appears they may be close to right.
A new report at ZeroHedge explains that Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent of both CNN and TNT, has stunningly taken a $9.1 billion charge to write down the value of its operations.
"What had been obvious 'to the rest of us' for years, is finally official: late last night, shares of Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent of CNN and TNT, crashed 10% to the lowest level on record after it reported dire results, which missed across the board and plunged across every income statement category…," the report said.
CNN and TNT came to belong to Warner Bros. Discovery when it was created during its acquisition of WarnerMedia.
"The write-down confirmed that legacy cable channels like CNN and TNT are no longer worth what they were when the $42 billion merger was completed. Judging by the ongoing mass layoffs at the former, one can argue that CNN's value is now negative and will continue to be so until it stops hemorrhaging cash," the report said.
The report noted for the quarter Warner Bros. had a net loss of $10 billion, including additional charges of $2.1 billion related to the merger. Revenue was down 6.2% to $9.71 billion.
CEO David Zaslav claimed, on a call with investors, "Two years ago market valuations and prevailing conditions for legacy media companies were quite different than they are today. This impairment acknowledges this and better aligns our carrying values with our future outlook."
Lately, Warner Bros. has been dropped by the NBA as a broadcast partner in its decision on a $76 billion media rights deal.
And there's been a steady exodus of viewers from the network.
Warner Bros. has cut some 2,0000 jobs over the past year, including 100 at CNN alone.
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Sports hall of fame induction ceremonies largely copy each other. The honored veteran player is announced as a member, a statue is unveiled and the player then thanks coaches, family, teammates and the like.
Which is what famed Denver Broncos "Orange Crush" linebacker Randy Gradishar did recently while being added to the National Football League Hall of Fame.
His thanks included longtime friend and two-time Heisman Trophy winner Archie Griffin.
But what Gradishar thanked Griffin for is what stunned: For inviting Gradishar to a meeting of a campus Fellowship of Christian Athletes meeting at which Gradishar became a Christian, back in the 1970s.
"Best invitation I've ever had," Gradishar explained.
Gradishar's comments on his faith are at about 6:30.
Samaritan's Purse chief Franklin Graham went online to thank Gradishar: "Congratulations to Denver Broncos legend Randy Gradishar who was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday! I appreciate that he used his speech to clearly share the Gospel. Watch as he tells how the invitation of a teammate led to his acceptance of Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior…"
As Gradishar explained, while citing those who made a difference in his life, "Archie years ago invited me to an on campus Fellowship of Christian Athletes meeting Bible study during my senior year."
He said he'd attended church, but hadn't before heard the gospel of salvation.
"That evening the gospel was explained in four simple truths. Truth one. God create man in in his image, and that comes from Gen. 1:27. God loves us and offers a plan for our life. Truth two. Mankind's problems are from Romans 3:23. 'That we've all sinned and fallen short of God's glory.'"
He continued, "Therefore we cannot know and experience God's plan for our lives. Romans 6;23. 'For the wages of sin are death.'
"Truth No. 3. God made a way. John 3;16. 'God so loved the world that he gave his only son that whoever believes in him shall not perish. but have eternal life.' His death on the cross and resurrection gave him the right to proclaim. 'I am the way, the truth and the life.'
"Fourth, salvation requires turning to God, repenting and asking forgiveness. This is the only way to be right with God."
Highlights of Gradishar's career:
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A second member of the extremist "Squad" in Congress, those leftists who often have advocated for largely communist ideology, is being booted from office by voters in her own Democratic Party.
Fox News reports voters in Missouri's Democrat-majority 1st Congressional District "served a sharp rebuke of the left's progressive wing" and voted Bush out.
The winner of the Democrat primary for that congressional race was Wesley Bell, a St. Louis County prosecutor who is "more moderate" and had the backing of pro-Israel groups offended by Bush's constant attacks on the nation.
The first "Squad" member booted was Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., who fell in his own party's primary to a moderate pro-Israel candidate.
Both Bush and Bowman were radically opposed to the longstanding U.S. ties to Israel, a position they increasingly used after the attack by the Hamas terrorists on Israel last Oct. 7, when the invaders slaughtered some 1,200 civilians.
Bush proclaimed that butchery was, "Israel's collective punishment against Palestinians for Hamas' actions is a war crime."
She emphasized her extremist positions even on the eve of the election, holding an online rally with Bowman and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., another anti-Israel "Squad" member.
She also had been under investigation by the Department of Justice and others for having her husband as a paid member of her bodyguard detail.
WND reported other ethics clouds hovering over Bush.
Besides paying her husband some $62,000, she's also gotten the attention of watchdog organizations who have raised questions about gifts she's taken, including, "dresses, jewelry, and shoes."
Bowman's scandalous behavior including his decision to pull a Capitol fire alarm, disrupting the operations of Congress.
A House Ethics Committee investigation found his explanation for his actions "misleading."
He pulled the alarm in a stunt, caught on video, just as the House was preparing to pass a stopgap spending measure to avoid a government shutdown.
He claimed he thought the fire alarm was a button to open the door so he could join the vote, but the Office of Congressional Ethics found he was not on his way to vote at the time, but was heading to a meeting of the House Democratic Caucus.
He was censured by the House, and then voted out by his district.
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Severe financial turmoil in the media world is continuing with more shutdowns and layoffs taking place this week.
Axios is laying off some 50 staffers, CEO Jim VandeHei announced Tuesday in an internal memo.
VandeHei told his workers the outlet would be nixing 50 positions to "get ahead of tectonic shifts in the media, technology, and reader needs/habits."
"This is a painful but necessary move to tighten our strategic focus and shift investment to our core growth areas," he wrote.
"We're making some difficult changes to adapt fast to a rapidly changing media landscape."
VandeHei noted he sought to break the news to each staffer individually, "but the mechanics of that proved infeasible."
"Today is a sad day, and our full emphasis will be on handling a hard moment with grace, empathy, and honesty," VandeHei added. "Our departing colleagues will be treated with great respect, and with thoughtful severance packages to provide runway toward their next opportunity."
The CEO is taking full responsibility for the slashing, indicating: "The right way to handle this is forthrightly and transparently."
"This isn't a reflection on anyone's work – it's because of changes in the media business," he said. "If you're understandably upset by the decision, please direct your frustration at me."
"Meanwhile, two venerable TV trade publications, Broadcasting & Cable and Multichannel News, will shut down, according to their owner Future Plc, citing the 'rapid transformation' of the industry," the Hollywood Reporter explained. "The Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame will continue, even as the print magazines and newsletters of the trade outlets end."
"The outlets long served as a training ground for media and entertainment reporters, and as bibles for the broadcast and cable TV industries, with B&C tracing its print edition all the way back to 1931, when it launched as Broadcasting magazine."
Also Tuesday, Ziff Davis acquired CNet from Red Ventures for about $100 million. CNet had been previously acquired by CBS for $1.8 billion and later sold to Red Ventures in 2020 for $500 million.
"The sharp decline in value underscores the perilous media moment," said Alex Weprin at the Hollywood Reporter, adding, "It is not immediately clear what will happen to CNet staff."
"The turbulence, from fire sales to shutdowns to layoffs, also coincide with an advertising market that continues to struggle. And given the cuts made earlier this year, it suggests that the changes are far from over."
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Joe Biden and Democrats long have claimed that it was an insurrection in January 2021 when Biden was installed in the White House over the protests of many who thought the election was irretrievably tainted.
And they've long blamed President Donald Trump, his supporters, and in fact all Republicans, for that less-than-smooth week in Washington.
Now Biden has admitted that if Trump wins in November, there won't be any peaceful transfer either.
In an interview to be released this coming weekend, with CBS' Robert Costa, he was asked, "Are you confident that there will be a peaceful transfer of power in January 2025?"
Biden said, "If Trump wins, no, I'm not confident at all."
Then he changed his mind, and added, "I mean if Trump loses, I'm not confident at all. He means what he says. We don't take him seriously. He means it, all the stuff about, 'If we lose, there'll be a bloodbath, it'll have to be a stolen election.'
"Look what they're trying to do now in the local election districts where people count the votes, or putting people in place in states that they're going to count the votes, right?"
Biden's response actually didn't make much sense either time, as under the first scenario he would be accusing Democrats of failing to let there be a peaceful transfer. Under the second scenario, if Trump loses and Democrats win, would there then be a violent transfer from the Biden-Harris camp to the Harris-Walz camp?
An online report pointed out that, "Biden said the quiet part out loud before correcting himself."
WND reported earlier that Biden supporter U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., promised there would be "civil war" conditions if Trump wins, as he would try to have the GOP nominee declared ineligible to hold office.
He gave the impression he was planning an "insurrection."
That would be his plans to have Congress deny Trump the presidency should he win in November.
He explained his agenda:
What can be put into the Constitution can slip away from you very quickly and the greatest example going on right now before our eye is Section 3 of the 14th amendment which they're just disappearing with the magic wand as if it doesn't exist even though it could not be clearer what it's stating.
And so they want to kick it to Congress.
So it's going to be up to us on January 6, 2025, to tell the rampaging Trump mobs that he's disqualified and then we need bodyguards for everybody and civil war conditions, all because denying justice is not all of them, but these justices who have not many cases to look at each year, not that much work to do, a huge staff, great protection, simply do not want to do their job.
His argument stems from his own interpretation of that section, which states "no person can hold certain offices under the United States or any state if they have previously taken an oath to support the Constitution but have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against it, or provided aid or comfort to its enemies."
He has claimed repeatedly that Trump, because others rioted on Jan. 6, 2021, is ineligible for office.
Of course, Trump never has been charged with insurrection, much less convicted. Congress tried twice to impeach and remove him, including once after he already was out of office. And Congress failed both times.
Nonetheless, Raskin has adopted his own interpretation of that provision and insists on its application, to his satisfaction. Raskin is not the only member of Congress who apparently believes that it is within their power to determine a president guilty of a constitutional violation, as Pelosi's partisan January 6 committee largely spent all of its time and millions of tax dollars trying to assemble a storyline that portrayed Trump as guilty of something on that day when a protest turned into a riot.
Online commenters showed that Raskin's arguments were not being considered seriously.
"Raskin has a few missing screws!" said one. Another added, "I also know Raskin is a complete moron that nobody takes seriously as he talks out of his *** more than he talks out of his mouth."
While Democrats often talk about Trump and Republicans and conservatives and January 6 and insurrection, that action by definition is an organized plan to usurp a government, take over its leadership, is economy, its military, its foreign relations and much, much more, none of which was attempted or even planned that day.
Further, without a solid majority of Democrats in Congress, Raskin's agenda likely would not even make it out of committee.
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A planned economic pressure campaign by New York City comptroller Brad Lander against corporations that have not jumped quickly enough to suit him into the business of selling abortion pills is facing shocking headwinds.
From other investors in a number of major corporations.
The Washington Stand documented that Lander wrote threatening letters to multiple companies, Costco, Walmart, Kroger, Albertsons and McKesson, "extorting" them with warnings that if they didn't start selling the dangerous abortion chemical, mifepristone, he would dump $1.3 billion in company shares.
For example, his threat to Costco was, "The Costco Board of Directors' and management's failure to publicly commit to Costco becoming a certified mifepristone dispenser therefore raises significant investor concerns. These concerns include the company's responsiveness to a growing market opportunity, its mitigation of potential reputational risks, and its commitment to maximizing sales and long-term shareholder value."
But there soon was a "counterpunch," the report said.
That message was from companies with more than $100 billion in assets under management, including, the report said, "Inspire Investing, Guidestone, Morgan Stanley, Truist, Bowyer Research, Innovest Portfolio Solutions, Transform Retirement, Barbara Mull Investment Solutions, Pax Financial Group, Harvest Investment, Steward Guide Wealth Partners, WSI Financial Partners, Kingdom Focused Financial, Christian Wealth Management, Chandler Wealth Management, Insight Financial, 4:8 Financial, Blue Jasper Capital, Bright Portfolios, Surepath Financial Services, Sage Oak Financial, Schwallier Wealth Managers," and more.
It was Lander who claimed, falsely, that "mifepristone's safety is well established," as the Stand explained that's "a common lie that's been debunked by countless personal testimonies, emergency room statistics, and in-depth research."
Specifically, there's the drug's stunning 10% failure rate, and multiple studies, including one from Finland that found 20% of some 42,600 women who used the potentially deadly drug had serious complications.
What Lander demanded was for the companies "to immediately take the necessary steps to receive certification to dispense the medication mifepristone in states where it is legal. Following pharmacy industry leaders, and competitors, CVS and Walgreens, Costco has the opportunity to provide access to abortion medication through its pharmacies. Making mifepristone available benefits customers and employees and increases sales, while also generating long-term shareholder value. It is incumbent on the Board and management to promptly act to ensure that Costco quickly becomes certified and starts dispensing mifepristone without delay."
Conservatives, however, have established a reputation of late for expressing their desires, too. Just ask companies like Target, Bud Light, John Deere and Tractor Supply how their forays into leftism worked out. All of those, in fact, were hit financially by their progressive ideologies.
Bud Light, long the most popular beer in America, now is down in the pack, and the collapse has cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars.
Those opponents to mifepristone explained, "Maximizing shareholder value requires Costco to avoid politicizing its services and to continue to do what it has always done best, provide excellent grocery and retail goods to families. The 'growing market opportunity' of abortion drugs is legally and politically fraught, raises significant reputational issues, and reduces the company's customer base, both literally and because it would drive away many existing customers."
Robert Netzly of Inspire Investing said there is no question that Costco moving into the abortion business "would automatically risk its brand reputation."
Financial adviser David Bahnsen pointed out that promoting chemical abortions literally snuffs out possible customers.
The Stand reported, "There aren't many companies these days willing to risk the billions of dollars in public backlash that comes with embracing the Left's agenda. If Costco, Walmart, Kroger, and others want to stay in Americans' good graces, they'll stick with serving customers, not eliminating them."
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Joe Biden's Army secretary is being told in a formal legal letter to apologize, in writing, for allowing a popular pro-life organization, Operation Rescue, to be characterized as "terrorist" in a training session for soldiers.
Or legal ramifications will follow.
"Our demand is a simple one: Apologize and acknowledge in writing, using clear and direct language approved by us, that not a single organization named in the aforementioned materials is considered a domestic terrorist organization by the United States Army, including by name our client, Operation Rescue. It must express an assurance that such baseless labeling and training will not reoccur absent lawfully sound justification, describe steps taken to ensure the same, and provide information regarding when and where these training materials have been used in other Army installations," explains a letter from the American Center for Law and Justice to Christine Wormuth.
That came during a presentation for soldiers being prepared to guard the perimeter of a military base.
It happened at Fort Liberty in North Carolina.
The ACLJ pointed out that the situation followed none of the recognized processes for designating terror groups, which "is no light thing."
"In contrast with what occurred here, the authority to designate an entity a 'foreign terrorist organization' rests with the Secretary of State. 8 U.S.C. §§ 1189(a)(1), (d)(4), who can only make such a designation in certain enumerated circumstances. An entity designated a foreign terrorist organization may seek review of that designation before the D.C. Circuit within 30 days of that designation. § 1189(c)(1). There is thus more process available to actual foreign terrorist organizations to challenge their adjudication as such than there is to Operation Rescue, designated a terrorist organization for its political activity."
The letter explained "even more protections are in place before someone is designated a domestic terrorist."
The organization said the Army "unjustly" targeted Operation Rescue.
It's a "disturbing development that strikes at the heart of our constitutional freedoms," the ACLJ warned.
"The idea that those who stand for the sanctity of life – a fundamental tenet of many faiths and a constitutionally protected belief – could be equated with terrorists is not only factually incorrect but also represents a dangerous conflation of peaceful advocacy with violent extremism. This situation is reminiscent of past attempts by government entities to stigmatize and marginalize conservative and Christian viewpoints. It echoes the IRS Tea Party targeting scandal, where we defended conservative groups who were targeted for unconstitutional scrutiny, and it aligns with a broader pattern of hostility toward traditional values in various government institutions," the legal team explained.
The offense was even worse because the mischaracterization being used "to train soldiers."
"In other words, you were fortifying the access points of Fort Liberty so that a pro-life individual attempting to enter would be considered a terrorist on the same level of Hamas. And you have [publicly] admitted that this identification has been going on for seven years. The full effects of this cannot be known, but they are inevitably catastrophic; for example, a family member of a service member could easily have been denied access, based on this identification of Operation Rescue as a terrorist organization," ACLJ said.
Without compliance by the Army, the ACLJ said, it will pursue "appropriate legal remedies."
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America in late 2024 has become a surreal, almost phantasmagoric drama of shocks, horrors and wonders – including a widespread conviction that Almighty God Himself reached down and dramatically saved Donald Trump from an assassin's bullet that came within a fraction of an inch of blowing the former president's brains out.
All the surrounding chaos – Joe Biden being forced out of the 2024 presidential race, leaving radical leftist Kamala Harris as the Democrats' nominee; the ongoing full-scale invasion of America by millions of illegal aliens including myriad drug dealers, sex traffickers, mental patients, gang members, criminals and terrorists; skyrocketing crime, inflation, and every other societal horror, all shepherded, nurtured and funded by the Biden-Harris regime – continues to ravage the nation.
Thus, good Americans desperately, yet hopefully and prayerfully, look to November's election as their one doorway to national survival, sanity and restoration.
But there's a problem.
However unspeakably bad everything has gotten during the administration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, one reality remains unchanged: Today's far-left Democratic Party is single-mindedly obsessed with retaining and expanding its power, no matter what. And that means Democrats, in close collaboration with the Deep State, the legacy news media, Big Tech and other corporate allies, will do absolutely anything and everything within their power to rig, corrupt and steal the 2024 election.
Understand: Today's leftist elites are not only perfectly comfortable with cheating in every way possible to retain power; they secretly believe they have a moral mandate to win – no matter what.
How can that possibly be? Rigging elections is not just illegal, immoral and unconstitutional. It's literally suicidal for any nation.
So how do today's leftist elites justify their obsession?
'Racist, fascist, terrorist, Nazi!'
As everyone knows, since 2016 Democrats and the major news media have relentlessly portrayed Donald J. Trump as the incarnation of evil. They claimed for years that he was essentially a traitor, colluding with America's mortal enemies to win the presidential election. And that he's also a "racist," "white supremacist," "Islamophobe," "fascist," "Nazi" and admirer of Adolf Hitler.
Not coincidentally, the same people likewise defame Trump's tens of millions of supporters – Republicans, conservatives, Christians and other regular, decent, law-abiding, traditional-values Americans – 74 million of whom voted for him in 2020 … as EVIL. "Deplorables" and "irredeemable," Hillary Clinton called them. "Semi-fascists," Biden famously labeled Trump's supporters. "Extremists" and "domestic terrorists," Biden's Attorney General Merrick Garland branded parents standing up at a school board meeting to protest the Marxist brainwashing of their children; "racists" and "white supremacists," as virtually all conservatives are referred to daily.
Writing in the Washington Post, legendary columnist Charles Krauthammer once crystalized the whole issue this way: "To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil."
And the method of choice leftists have long employed for hammering home the supposed evils of conservatives has been to compare them to fascists and Nazis. Indeed, even after the July 13 assassination attempt on Donald Trump, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez couldn't resist attacking Trump as "a racist and a neo-Nazi."
So, what does endlessly slandering Trump and his supporters have to do with Democrats' multi-tiered strategy to rig the outcome of this November's election, regardless of the actual will of the American people?
Everything.
Consider that in response to the real Adolf Hitler, assassination attempts were the most moral response – indeed, there were 16 known plots to kill der Fuhrer. So obviously, any lesser action that would serve to reduce or neutralize the influence of such an evil, mass-murdering dictator – say, like rigging an election – would likewise be moral, desirable and righteous.
And of course, to bring things back to stark, present-day reality, the Democrats, with their atrocious track record and equally atrocious candidates, have nothing else going for them in the 2024 election other than lying, defaming and cheating in every way possible.
No rules
Democrats and their leftist allies are attempting to defeat a successful former president with an impressive track record, but about whom they have lied continually for eight years, impeached twice, subjected to an unprecedented and scandalously illegal lawfare campaign intended to imprison him for the rest of his life, and who just weeks ago narrowly escaped an assassination attempt.
In truth, "Trump is America's Hitler" has long been the Democrats' bottom-line, barely disguised message. It constitutes their justification for lying and deceiving others as easily as normal people breathe. And it's the nuclear core of their election strategy, as it has been since 2016.
This explains why, according to what Rush Limbaugh called "the Democrat-media-industrial complex," it was far better for Americans to vote for the always-lying, epically corrupt and preternaturally conniving Hillary Clinton in 2016 than to vote for Donald Trump. And it was far better to vote for the always-lying, demented, head-of-a-crime-family Joe Biden in 2020 than Donald Trump. And it's why Americans are now being told it is far better to vote for the always-lying, epically unserious, astonishingly unlikable, ultra-leftwing cackling "idiot" – a word widely used to describe her – Kamala Harris as the next president of the United States and leader of the free world, instead of Donald Trump.
After all, anybody is better than the genocidal monster Adolf Hitler … or someone the elites insist is just like him.
Therefore, if one is opposing another Hitler, anything goes. ANYTHING. There are no rules – and that's exactly how the left likes things. As famed Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu put it, "War is deception." And anyone trying to get rid of Hitler is engaged in warfare.
So, then, the Trump-is-Hitler delusion can serve as the unspoken justification for the most insane and destructive policies imaginable – say, flooding America with millions of illegal aliens. In ordinary times, this would universally be seen as a treasonous policy since it degrades, damages and largely destroys the host country. But then, what if those same illegal aliens were somehow enabled to vote in U.S. elections – and could be counted on to vote against Hitler? That just might be OK, according to the left's logic.
'There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes'
A quick review of how the insane Trump-is-Hitler mindset played out in the 2020 presidential election is highly instructive in anticipating the forces again being deployed in the 2024 race.
Though fiercely denied today by all involved, the 2020 presidential election was utterly rigged from top to bottom, in Biden's favor, thanks to the historic collusion of the Democrats and their media, tech, corporate, nonprofit and activist allies.
Ironically, this massive election collusion wasn't always denied, derided and attacked as a "right-wing MAGA insurrectionist conspiracy theory" as it is today. In the immediate aftermath of their victory, some high-profile participants openly reveled in the successful conspiracy.
Thus, in February 2021 – just weeks after Joe Biden took office as president on Jan. 20 – Time magazine published a major article ecstatically summarizing the massive plot to swing the outcome of the November 2020 election to a Biden victory.
In "The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election," journalist Molly Ball bragged about the "shadow campaign" that allowed the 2020 election to be stolen from Donald Trump. Here's a brief excerpt from her Time article:
There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes … the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. … Their work touched every aspect of the election.
They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears. …
This is the inside story of the conspiracy to save the 2020 election, based on access to the group's inner workings, never-before-seen documents and interviews with dozens of those involved from across the political spectrum. It is the story of an unprecedented, creative and determined campaign whose success also reveals how close the nation came to disaster. … That's why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream – a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information.
In other words, everything Trump and his supporters have been saying for years – widely reviled as lies, conspiracy theories and "paranoid fever dreams" – has been true. All the reports about leftists securing "hundreds of millions in public and private funding," about pressuring "social media companies to take a harder line" against allowing information damaging to Democrats to be posted, about the "well-funded cabal of powerful people … working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage" and so much more, all to defeat Donald J. Trump. It was all true.
'Nothing less than a miracle'
Despite the 2020 election having been stolen – and despite the reality that all the main players have every intention of doing it again this November – there still is real hope for America. Consider what bestselling author and popular Christian broadcaster Eric Metaxas recently affirmed the day after the attempt on Donald Trump's life:
"I have said repeatedly for months that those who hate Trump would stop at nothing to make sure he doesn't get back in to the White House, including trying to assassinate him. I have also said God's hand is on him, and would protect him, if God forbid someone did try to do that. Last night we saw that happen. His survival was nothing less than a miracle. So be assured that God is not finished with this nation. But we need to pray. … We are in an existential crisis, and without God, this experiment in self-government will not continue. But it is God's will that it continue. So please pray."
With the 2024 election just around the corner, good Americans must, of course, vote. They can also sign up others to vote, and volunteer at their polling place, and support – either financially or in person – organizations actively working to maximize election integrity and minimize fraud. Organizations like True the Vote (TrueTheVote.org), Turning Point USA (TPUSA.com) and Protect the Vote (ProtectTheVote.com).
And, as Metaxas and so many others are now urging, true Americans – of sound mind and soul, who have not been seduced and corrupted by the many forces obsessed with destroying America – must pray sincerely and fervently to Almighty God. The same God Who has long blessed their country as the freest and most successful nation on earth. The same God Who gave them life and breath and has mercifully rescued them through His Son, Yeshua. And the same God Who reached down and turned Donald Trump's head 90 degrees at the precise moment an assassin was firing a .223 round squarely at the 45th president's brain.
The Democrats' maniacal campaign to hold on to power and retain the presidency by any means possible is spelled out in a stunning – and extremely useful – way in the newest Whistleblower Special Report, "GOD, TRUMP, AMERICA … AND DEMOCRATS' ALL-OUT PLAN TO STEAL THE 2024 ELECTION."
Highlights of "GOD, TRUMP, AMERICA … AND DEMOCRATS' ALL-OUT PLAN TO STEAL THE 2024 ELECTION" include:
* "God, Trump, America … and Democrats' insane plan to rig the 2024 election by any means possible" by David Kupelian
* "'Most terrifying poll result I've ever seen': Astonishing percentage of America's elites admit they are fine with winning elections by cheating" by Rob Bluey
* "'Surreal to watch': With Trump ahead, stolen election seen 'in crystal clarity.' Likened to seeing 'a slow-motion car crash on exactly how they will rig it'" by Joe Kovacs
* "Almost every Democrat in Congress voted against bill requiring proof of citizenship to vote!" by Fred Lucas
* "White House 'strongly opposes' bill cracking down on illegal aliens voting: Says measure 'would do nothing to safeguard our elections'" by Jason Hopkins
* "Why Americans mistrust election results: The U.S. is 'almost alone among democracies in not demanding that voters provide any identification when they vote' by Dennis Prager
* "Secret Service plan for Trump 'stinks of election interference': 'Deep State' demands former president stop his trademark outdoor rallies" by Bob Unruh
* "Little-known legal loophole could allow illegal aliens to vote in U.S. elections: Tucker Carlson interviews 'True the Vote' founder Catherine Engelbrecht"
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This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
A former police chief in a small Kansas town is facing a charge he interfered with the judicial process over a First Amendment fight that included a raid on the local newspaper office – and the home of the 98-year-old newspaper owner who collapsed and died the next day.
The Kansas City newspaper reports the charge will be against Gideon Cody in Marion County District Court.
That's according to Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett and Riley County Attorney Barry Wilkerson, who were given appointments as special prosecutors to review the Aug. 11, 2023, invasion by police of the Marion County Record publication.
They looked at 10,000 pages of documentation and released a 124-page report that analyzed the execution of search warrants in the case.
The report explains the anticipated charge "appears centered on text messages exchanged between Cody and Kari Newell, a local business owner, following the raid."
The searches were done at the home of former Vice Mayor Ruth Herbel and the home of the newspaper's publishers, Joan Meyer, and her son Eric Meyer.
It was Joan Meyer who collapsed and died the next day.
The report acknowledged that Joan Meyer was extremely upset by the searches and may not have died Aug. 12 if the raids had not been carried out. But the investigators noted the officers were not "criminally" responsible for the death.
The warrants for the invasions and searches later were dropped by prosecutors who said there was "insufficient evidence" for them.
Cody quit his job in the weeks following the invasions and searches and multiple lawsuits have been generated, including one by the newspaper which is seeking $10 million for violations of the First and Fourth Amendments.
Herbel also sued and expressed disappointment only Cody would face charges.
The searches were ordered on the false claims that a Marion County Record reporter, Phyllis Zorn, illegally obtained information about Newell's DUI conviction on the Kansas Department of Revenue's website.
Newell was upset that the public record was being available to the town, and a police officer, Zach Hudlin, contacted the state agency to ask about the details.
A state official "said the agency was 'trying to fix' an issue because 'anybody can pull it up,'" so Hudlin presumed wrongly that Zorn falsified her identity to obtain Newell's driving record, the report said.
Officials in the town then, without interviewing Zorn, launched the searches.
The special report now clears Zorn "and everyone else who obtained Newell's information," because it's a public record.
The newspaper alleged it was targeted for retaliation because it was looking into reports Cody left another police department, in Kansas City, while under internal review for allegedly making sexist remarks.
Shortly later the special prosecutors were named to investigate.
The investigators found that there simply was no evidence to justify the raid on the newspaper and the owner's home.
The disastrous situation developed because the Record also had been investigating Newell regarding her possession of a liquor license, which could have been revoked.
One online commenter showed little patience for the officers: "I have no words to describe how I feel about this. I can't believe they didn't have someone for her. A 98-year-old woman with a bunch of men going through her house and they didn't have the forethought to have support for her. What a bunch of jerks and idiots. I wish she had called them a few more names."
And another: "All for a bogus warrant signed off by a corrupt judge, corrupt police chief, and corrupt KBI."