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A new poll that assesses the "respect" voters have for various political figures shows just where President Donald Trump stands with them.
Fairly high.
And it's twice-failed Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton who comes in last.
The Rasmussen polling results were reported in the Washington Examiner.
The report noted voters must be "eager" for a return of MAGA.
"Already buoyed by polls showing that a majority of voters are willing to overlook his legal troubles, Trump is steadily gaining on President Joe Biden in head-to-head matchups," the report said.
Now, the report said, "they have a growing 'respect' for the 45th president of the United States as a leader."
The polling showed that given a list of names, 42% picked Trump as the leader they would respect.
Only 21% picked Joe Biden, whose troubles with fading mental capabilities were documented in a report by special counsel Robert Hur.
He investigated the allegations that Biden took, and kept, classified government documents in violation of federal law. It's the same offense for which President Donald Trump has been charged with criminal counts.
The major difference is that Trump was president, and had authority to declassify the documents he had after his presidency. Biden took the documents as senator and vice president when he had no such authority.
But Hur pointed out that Biden failed to remember just when he was vice president and other critical details, and said he would not recommend charges against Biden because a jury would view him as an elderly man with a diminished capacity and be unlikely to convict.
The question Rasmussen asked was: "Which one of the following people do you respect most as a leader: Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, or Mitt Romney?"
Trump was named by 42%, Biden 21%, Obama 17%, Not Sure 6%, Nikki Haley 5%, Bernie Sanders 5%, and Mitt Romney at 3%.
In last was Hillary Clinton, at 2%.
"As always, partisanship played a huge role in the survey, with Republicans rallying behind Trump much more than Democrats did for Biden," explained he Examiner report by Paul Bedard. "Some 75% of Republicans said they respected Trump most as a leader. Among Democrats, however, just 43% chose Biden."
Rasmussen's analysis noted, "Older voters show a stronger preference for Trump, compared to younger voters. However, voters under 40 are more likely to name Obama (24%) than Biden (16%) as the leader they respect the most. And it’s among under-40 voters that Sanders gets the highest level of respect."
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Age discrimination?
Leaders of America's Democrat Party have established a history of criticizing Republicans who are in their 70s for being "too old" to be president, even while continuing to promote Joe Biden, now 81, as being competent.
It's a huge issue in the 2024 election because after Biden repeatedly has exhibited failing mental capacity in public, calling on dead people and recalling conversations with them, mixing up the names of his grandchildren, repeatedly telling stories that simply could not have happened, it got worse.
WND reported on a report from special counsel Robert Hur, who was tasked with reviewing the hundreds and hundreds of classified documents Biden had stashed in his homes, offices, and even garage.
The documents were from his years as senator and vice president, and his decision to keep those documents could have produced criminal charges.
However, Hur recommended against it because Biden is an elderly man with a failing memory. He reported Biden was unable to recall the years he was vice president or when his son died.
Hur's report found that there was evidence that Biden committed federal crimes with his handling of classified documents, including when he stored them in his garage in a broken-apart box next to a collectible car.
Hur found Biden's diminished mental capacity likely would cause sympathy in a jury that might not convict on those grounds.
It was the Daily Caller that reported Biden's White House, "behind the scenes," put pressure on Hur to take out those conclusions.
Now the Washington Examiner reports Democrats launched attacks on Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole and John McCain while they were candidates simply because of their age.
But they were all in their early 70s when they were targeted by Democrats, the report said.
"Then-President Ronald Reagan, 73, was inundated with questions about his age in his 1984 reelection campaign, specifically after his first debate with Democratic nominee Walter Mondale, 56. During the first debate, Reagan had a lackluster performance, with Democrats saying he 'looked tired' on the stage. At the second debate between him and Mondale, Reagan was directly asked about his age and he delivered a famous line that ended doubts about his age for the campaign," the report explained.
Reagan's quip was, "I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience."
Then there was Bob Dole, who was 73 when Bill Clinton made an issue of age in the 1996 campaign.
Legacy media outlets, long working in support of Democrats, asked, "Is Dole too old for the job?"
And, the report said, McCain was only 72 when "Democrats made age a significant factor in the 2008 election, creating a juxtaposition between then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), 47, and then-Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), 72, with the idea Obama was the candidate of change."
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The American Center for Law and Justice, a key legal team that repeatedly has argued for justice for Israel, is warning Secretary of State Anthony Blinken that "there could not have been a worse time" to discuss Palestinian statehood.
Blinken, in fact, recently asked the State Department "to conduct a review and present policy options on possible U.S. and international recognition of a Palestinian state."
The concept comes just months after terrorists in the Palestinian organization of Hamas, based in Gaza, launched a war on Israel, killing some 1,200 civilians in attacks that exposed the depravity of the attackers because they burned whole families alive and beheaded babies.
Blinken's suggestion followed shortly after a similar comment from David Cameron, the secretary of state for foreign affairs in the United Kingdom.
The ACLJ reported, "We have sent both Secretary Blinken and Secretary Cameron letters not only raising our serious concerns but also providing information about both the U.S.’s and the U.K.’s previous policy as well as the law on this matter."
The organization documented, "For over 70 years since the creation of the modern State of Israel in 1948, U.S. and U.K. policy regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been the same—a two-state solution based on good faith negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians."
The report explained administrations, both liberal and conservative, in both nations "have rejected the idea of recognizing Palestinian statehood without the settlement of issues related to security and borders, among others, through peaceful negotiations between the parties."
The letter warned of the danger of "bypassing" negotiations involving Israel.
The organization explained, "In fact, our letter to Secretary Blinken pointed out that, not long ago, Secretary Blinken stated, 'The Palestinians do not qualify as a sovereign state and therefore, are not qualified to obtain membership as a state in, participate as a state in, or delegate jurisdiction to the ICC.'"
That followed an earlier statement from a U.K. official who documented, "How can you recognize a state when the borders have not been agreed? This is profoundly unhelpful to the peace process."
The ACLJ said it further warned that the only path to a peaceful resolution of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian aggressors is through "direct peaceful negotiations."
"This process has been recognized not only by many United Nations resolutions, both by the Security Council and the General Assembly, but also by the United States and the United Kingdom," the ACLJ said.
Further, the letter said giving Palestinians statehood now would, in effect, be rewarding those terrorists who massacred and butchered Israeli families on Oct. 7, 2023.
And, the ACLJ noted, the atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists show they are unable to turn from violence against defenseless civilians.
At this point, the organization said, "Palestinians are not ready for statehood, much less U.N. membership."
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The world now knows, through the expanding influence of Islam around the globe and the fights it has triggered when its population moves into Western society, the importance it puts on covering up women.
Head coverings, face coverings, and full body coverings are all not just accepted but in many situations required under penalty of law.
But now a situation has been allowed in which a pornography star, whose performances generally don't include hijabs, has been allowed to enter one of the most hardline Islamic regimes in the world: Iran.
A report at ZeroHedge explains, "The words Islamic Republic of Iran and 'porn star' aren't two concepts one typically hears coupled in the same sentence."
But, in fact, the report said, adult film actress Whitney Wright made a "bizarre" visit to Iran.
The report explained the actress, whose real name is Brittni Rayne Whittington, portrays herself as a "pro-Palestinian activist."
That apparently is the reason for her permission for her to visit.
Wright told Newsweek, "I'm extremely disappointed that the attention surrounding my visit [seems] to overshadow Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza."
The report cited a EuroNews report that members of the opposition to Iran's rogue Islamic regime were more than upset.
Masih Alinejad, a U.S.-based critic of Iran's regime who has faced assassination attempts by the radicals there, said, "American porn star Whitney Wright is in Iran, my birth country, where women are killed for simply showing their hair and being true to themselves."
He blasted her for claiming, "If you respect the law, you will be safe in Iran."
The porn star's social media documented how she "HAD to visit" the embassy in Tehran where Islamic radicals held Americans hostage for more than a year when Islamic extremists overthrew their government and took over in 1979.
The report noted, "She's been accused also by pro-Israel pundits of being a willing propagandist on behalf of Tehran, and for issuing anti-American statements and images at a moment U.S. forces have come under attack in the Middle East."
Actually, the report confirmed appearing in or producing porn "can bring the death penalty "in the hardline Islamic republic.
Officially, Iranian officials claimed they were unaware of her film record.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an interview with first-strike journalist Tucker Carlson, says his sources have revealed to him that Joe Biden is "not running the country."
Biden's policies since he's been in office have portrayed America as a weak, vacillating nation blown back and forth by the winds of social ideologies that he's emphasized.
Those ideologies include transgenderism and abortion, which Biden is insisting on imposing around the globe; global warming, on which he is demanding to spend trillions of dollars; and undermining the nation's elections by trying to ban President Donald Trump from the 2024 election.
Biden's age, 81, and his multiple mental blunders and verbal gaffes have just added evidence to that conclusion.
Putin had comments on all of those topics.
Rejecting the idea that he views the U.S. as an enemy, Putin said, according to a transcript posted by Peter Halligan on Substack, "We were allies in WWII. Russians helped settle Alaska and California and we were in Hawaii too. Our people are not enemies but those in D.C. are certainly not our friends."
Asked to name names, he responded, "It would be pointless. It is not up to us to solve your domestic issues. Besides, I’m sure you know the names better than us.
"Joe Biden may not even be aware of what’s going on. He may not understand the level of sanctions thrown at Russia. Who put those sanctions together? Those are our … adversaries."
To Americans, Putin would say, "Our message is Russia is not your enemy. We don’t want war. We’re ready for peace. Your leaders seek conflict. This is not what we want. Russia stands for its own people. We do not want what is not ours."
But he said Biden "is not running the country."
"Let’s say we have good sources that confirm that but it’s plain for anyone to see for themselves. The U.S. has now entered into a dark period. It has unaccountable leadership."
He suggested Biden is not significant anyway.
"The same forces which have always run it. You may change presidents but you do not change those in real power. That is who we have to deal with. Joe Biden is just a facade for this power structure."
On the 2020 election? He said, "I would rather not get into domestic American politics but will say my embassy reported your southern border was better run than that 2020 election."
When Carlson cited a poll showing support for Putin, the Russian said, "I don’t know if that should be taken seriously but Russian ideals have support. We believe in traditional values; marriage is between a man and a woman: men are men and women are women."
He said it's not for him to say who should be the next president of the U.S., but noted, "We had good relations when Mr. Trump was president. There was no war. Our relations were at a high point. That said nothing is predictable or stays the same. We will have to see."
He said, on the Democrat claims created by partisans and pushed for years that Russia interfered in the 2020 election, "Contrary to longstanding accusations we do not meddle in your elections. We don’t need to because the same people end up running things anyway."
On Trump being re-elected, he said, "For one thing he never insulted us. He has a great respect for Russia. We would start from a position of friendship and trust – then all problems are solvable. We could get it done."
He explained his conflict with Ukraine: "Did we invade or were we invaded? Look at the history. Look at the people living there. Historically it’s we who were invaded and are simply fighting back now. The lands and people are Russian and we will have again what was always ours."
And he said he laughed at the jokes by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, "when he was a comedian."
"Let's go back to laughs," he said.
On Elon Musk, he said, "We see Mr. Musk as a businessman – a highly successful one. He’s built a great fortune and a huge following. He’s a unique thinker with a force of personality who cannot be bought. Some fear that."
He wondered at the fact that "no one from the White House" has reached out to him since he congratulated Biden on his election.
"It’s puzzling to us that communications are colder now than during the Cold War."
He also noted he's close to Chinese President Xi, as China is one of Russia's biggest energy partners.
But he said it's not in Russia's interests "to clash" with the U.S.
On Biden's work to open America's southern border to illegal aliens: "We Russians find it ironically amusing your Congress will spend billions protecting foreign borders but neglect its own. It’s quite laughable but deadly."
He said, "People are dying daily crossing your border in an uncontrolled way. It is a free-for-all. The world hasn’t seen anything like it in the modern era – reckless for a country to throw itself wide open like that."
On climate change: "Humanity is not even a Type 1 civilization on the Kardashev scale. If we can’t harness the energy potential of the planet, how can we control the climate? I’m more concerned with real issues. Climate change is not one of them. The Earth does a fairly good job of regulating itself. And if Siberia gets a little warmer, all the better. More farmland for Russia."
On transgenderism: "It’s interesting to me that all the things which used to be a target of blackmail are now badges of honor. In Russia, there are no laws either way, but we certainly do not force our children into it. … We have laws that protect our children. And we do not drape our embassies in rainbow flags. That’s correct. Otherwise, we do not interfere in the private lives of adult citizens."
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The world's richest people, who travel by private jet burning up fossil fuels from resort home to resort home all the while complaining that the "'people" don't want to buy expensive and unreliable electric vehicles to "save" the planet, do things differently.
Take, for example, what was represented to be "art" at a recent World Economic Forum gathering in Switzerland.
A "satanic" tapestry.
A report in the EU Times explained a "curious and disturbing" piece had gone viral after the Davos summit.
"It began when journalist Larry Alex Taunton went undercover to the annual globalist confab and infiltrated a conference room full of elites talking about the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals," the report said.
"During their discussion, Taunton’s camera caught sight of the work of art, known as the Walthamstow Tapestry, hanging on the wall next to them."
The report explained that tapestry "is a large mural created in 2009 by cross-dressing contemporary artist Grayson Perry."
It shows, in the style of cave paintings, a birth, a man's life, death, corporate promotions for various conglomerates, and more.
"The tapestry begins with the birth of a baby along a river of blood that eventually flows into the waiting mouth of the Devil, ending in the death of an old man," the report said.
A report in the Herald Posts said companies featured in the display include Coca-Cola, Sotheby's, Red Bull, and the BBC.
Social media users, the report said, were not hesitant to comment.
"Why would they put [that] up as a decoration?" asked one user, anonymous, on social media. "You’d think it would make some attendees get a clue. So oddly blatant."
Others wrote they understood the messaging of the tapestry, one claiming it focuses on corporations, abortion, and population control, while another said, "The message is clear. In fact, explicitly clear – it's satanic."
One commenter turned sarcastic: "It looks like Satan went on a bad acid trip and broke out the paint."
Another said they were reminiscent of murals that have been displayed at the airport in Denver, Colorado, which "appear to envision various globalist goals, foremost of them is the depopulation of humanity under the guise of 'protecting nature''" the report explained.
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It's being reported that "the biggest surprise on the movie charts this weekend was not even a movie," as the crowdfunded Christian sensation "The Chosen: Season 4" debuted in the No. 2 position, grossing nearly $7.5 million since Thursday, Feb. 1.
The film is actually the first three episodes of the TV show's new season bundled together, as it combines accurate Bible events with imagined, yet plausible, scenarios of what life was like for Jesus and His followers during the first century.
"If The Chosen: S4 Episodes 1-3 can hold on to a large enough chunk of its theater count it could easily best recent religious hits like 2023's Journey to Bethlehem ($7.7 million) and His Only Son ($13.5 million). The Season 4 release is #29 on the all-time worldwide box office for religious-themed films."
"Given this weekend's performance, more events for the series could be expected as it moves beyond its popular '#BingeJesus' hashtag into the theatrical arena."
Topping the weekend box office was "Argylle," starring Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Sam Rockwell, whichthe raked in $18 million in the U.S. and another $17.3 million internationally.
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The mRNA shots that were made and sold in a rush when COVID-19 emerged from a Chinese research lab and circled the globe, killing millions, have since been confirmed to have created a long list of problems.
"Suddenly died," for example, now is a routine phrase linked to reports on the deaths of many young people. Heart ailments and worse have been linked to the treatments, which actually weren't vaccines at all but more or less DNA treatments.
Amid evidence of problems, there began a move to take down the demands that children take the shots, and in some locations authorities have backed away even further.
Now there's a new precedent being sought: a global moratorium on those injections.
According to a report from Liberty Counsel, a legal team long involved in the fight for the rights of people not to be forced to take such shots, "For the first time in a published and peer-reviewed paper, scientists are calling for a 'global moratorium on modified mRNA products' after surveying data from Pfizer’s and Moderna’s COVID-19 'vaccine” trials.'"
"The scientists found that the trials were rushed, presented low efficacy, were contaminated with residual DNA impurities, and that the 'vaccines' present many 'biological mechanisms' that can cause serious adverse events. The authors also advised the COVID shots should be removed from the Childhood Adolescent Immunization Schedule until proper safety studies are conducted," the report confirmed.
Stunningly, the study provided a "generous estimate" that two lives were saved from COVID for every 100,000 shots.
But at the same time, they estimated "a risk of 27 deaths" from those same 100,000 doses.
The study said, "For every life saved, there were nearly 14 times more deaths caused by the modified mRNA injections. We are now beginning to recognize the folly of this narrow safety focus, as millions of severe and life-threatening events associated with the COVID-19 vaccines continue to be documented in the medical literature."
Liberty Counsel founder Mat Staver said, "In this exhaustive review paper, these scientists confirm what sound scientific research has been showing for years, that these shots have never been safe nor effective. The FDA and the CDC are supposed to protect the people, but they have become the lapdog of the pharmaceutical industry. This must change."
The Liberty Counsel report noted that authors insist, "We urge governments to endorse and enforce a global moratorium on these modified mRNA products until all relevant questions pertaining to causality, residual DNA, and aberrant protein production are answered."
Liberty Counsel explained, "The group of independent researchers who authored the paper are biologist and nutritional epidemiologist M. Nathaniel Mead; research scientist Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D.; biostatistician and epidemiologist Russ Wolfinger, Ph.D.; immunologist and biochemist Dr. Jessica Rose; biostatistician and epidemiologist Kris Denhaerynck, Ph.D.; Vaccine Safety Research Foundation Executive Director Steve Kirsch; and cardiologist, internist, and epidemiologist Dr. Peter McCullough."
The document is called, "COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines: Lessons Learned from the Registrational Trials and Global Vaccination Campaign," and it was published just days ago in the web-based and peer-reviewed Cureus Journal of Medical Science.
Liberty Counsel explained the authors analyzed published research from COVID "vaccine" trials and studies, the manufacturing process and adverse events reporting.
Federal agencies repeatedly had claimed the shots were "safe and effective," even though they "never underwent adequate safety testing."
Among the danger signals found was that they were "rushed" to market after being compromised by incentives.
The feds, for example, spent some $28 billion on mRNA products right away.
"Perhaps the most important trial benchmark obviated by the rapid authorization process was the minimum 6-12-month observation period typically recommended for identifying possible longer-term vaccine-related adverse effects," the study said.
In fact, they were classified as "gene therapy" but then used as "vaccines."
Also ignored in the campaign against COVID was that it impacts children at a very low rate, the report said.
And it noted among the possible "mechanisms" that can trigger serious adverse events are the ability to install genetic code, the "spike proteins" involved, contamination in the shots themselves from "residual DNA plasmids" from manufacturing.
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American kids are killing themselves because of “sextortion” scams, according to a new study documented by a report from Breitbart.
Although the practice has been around for years already, is now called the “fastest-growing crime targeting kids in the West,” the report said.
The report explains details from the recent study by the Network Contagion Research Institute.
What it described is a cybercriminal organization in West Africa known as “Yahoo Boys” whose members pose as young girls online. They then coerce kids and teens into sending them explicit images of themselves.
They then demand ongoing payoffs, under the threat of widely distributing those images online, to the victim’s family, friends, and others.
While the activity has been documented on Instagram, Snapchat, and other platforms for some time, the damage is increasing, the report said.
NCRI analyst Paul Raffile said in the report that the actions are a “transnational crime threat that is actually causing a significant number of American deaths.”
Victims have committed suicide when faced with the extortionists’ demands.
Breitbart reported, "In August, for example, two Nigerian men were extradited to the U.S. to face charges involving a sextortion scam that authorities said resulted in the suicide of a 17-year-old high school student in Michigan, according to a report by NBC News.”
In November, another Nigerian was indicted for using such tactics to commit $2.5 million in wire fraud.
Further, the “Yahoo Boys” were posting online “training videos” to teach others how to target and victimize teens.
An online script, for example, suggested the criminals act “like a real girl,” then when they obtain images, threaten, “You ready to comply with me? I will make you so miserable that you can’t even think … I will send your nude to lots of people online … Do you want this to happen – yes or no? If you do not want it to happen you will have to pay me.”
”How much you got there[?] If you are thinking of 200$ forget it I’m posting your nude and gonna make you die in pain,” the script suggested.
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Minnesota’s Muslim congresswoman, Ilhan Omar, who broke down in a fit of rage recently over America’s support for Israel in light of the Muslim terrorists in Hamas who attacked it, now is trying to defend her decision to make controversial comments about Somalia, her home country.
She reportedly said she is “Somalian first, Muslim second,” thereby triggering a backlash on social media.
A report from Newsweek cited her social media statement, too, in which she said, “As Somalis, one day we will go after our missing territories.”
Omar has claimed that responses were to a translation that was “slanted," but the disputed reference was described online as Somalia’s claims that the Republic of Somaliland, which says it is an independent state even though not recognized internationally, is part of her Somalia.
The report explained the dispute is that Ethiopia has treated Somaliland as an ally.
”Somaliland, officially the Republic of Somaliland, says it is an independent state but is not recognized internationally. Somalia claims Somaliland as part of its territory and said a recent deal between authorities in the unrecognized state and Ethiopia, involving the latter developing a naval base, is an act of aggression,” the report outlined.
Omar’s comments purportedly included, “Somalis in Somalia and in the diaspora are united in that effort and I stand in solidarity with them. No amount of harassment and lies will ever change that.”
But an official in Somaliland charged Omar’s comments were “regrettably unbecoming of both the office she holds and the constituents she represents.”
”Her expressions were lacking in common decency and revealed a significant lack of understanding of basic facts,” the official said in a statement.
”Specifically troubling, were her endeavors to revive the once-violent and dangerous ideology of Greater Somalia or Somali Weyn, which caused so much death, destruction and conflict in the Horn of Africa.”
Omar moved with her family to the U.S. from Somalia when she was small. She now represents an urban Minnesota House district in Congress.
According to the Washington Examiner, she took criticism from conservatives on social media for her comments about Somalia.
”In the video, the liberal Minnesota leader was addressing a crowd in a Minneapolis hotel when she spoke about Somaliland and the unrecognized state's deal with Ethiopia, which Somalia alleges infringes on its territory.”
The report cited a translation of her speech has having her confirming she’s in Congress to represent "Somali Americans’ interests.”
The “U.S. will do what we want and nothing else,” she purportedly charged.
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene, R-Ga., said the Democratic "Squad" member "flaunts using her position as a congresswoman to protect Somalia’s border while our border is invaded by MILLIONS of illegals who are a danger to America," stressing the need for citizens to vote in November.
Omar has constantly been in scandal after scandal during her time in Congress on issues from her campaign financing to her multiple marriages to her anti-Semitism, over which she was removed from a congressional committee.
She has likened Israel, and the U.S., to terrorists and demanded, during COVID, the cancellation of rent and mortgage payments.