As Trump says “there are methods” for serving a third term, here’s what to know about the 12th and 22nd Amendments – CBS News
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What started as burning Teslas is expanding now to include stealing food from Whole Foods as an act of aggression against what the far left assumes is a Nazi assault on their right to be enslaved by the Democrat Party.
One far-left activist, Sociologist Joan Donovan, who is credited with kicking off the Tesla terror assaults, is now pretending she intended the call to violence as an alternative to violence. She also happens to be a “misinformation expert.”
U.S. Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA), the DNC’s resident attack harpy, called on Melania Trump to be deported, not understanding that naturalized citizens are not illegal aliens. “Squad” member Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) refuses to condemn the terror assaults on Teslas. In the midst of these terror attacks, The View’s Joy Behar is fueling the flames of insurrection, calling on the Democrats to remove Trump, whether the people want it or not.
Former VP Candidate and current Minnesota governor, Tim Walz, went on California Governor Gavin Newsome’s podcast and threatened to beat up Trump supporters, even challenging them to WWE style wrestling contests. The rising star in violence, though, is Jasmine Crocket, who managed to assault a reporter, use a cop to intimidate the free press, and repeatedly call for violence against republicans.
After all that, the Democrats then called for a nationwide day of “Insurrection,” where everyone would do what was once considered white supremacism when Justice Samuel Alito did it, fly the American flag upside down as a sign of crisis. This, of course, is rich coming from a people that despise the values and history of this great nation.
Democrats Stage Nationwide ‘Insurrection’ Featuring Upside-Down Flags– thefederalist.com
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When an upside-down American flag was spotted outside the private residence of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, leftist media essentially painted him as an “insurrectionist.” But by these same standards, Democrats nationwide appear to be staging an “insurrection” of their own.
Leftists across America have adopted the inverted flag, a distress symbol, in recent days to protest the popular policies of President Donald Trump and government efficiency efforts of Elon Musk.
Last month, protesters flew a massive American flag upside down off El Capitan in Yosemite National Park in California, amid cuts to the National Park Service. The Washington Post fearmongered about the cuts, reporting that the Trump administration fired “the sole employee with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms.” As The Federalist’s Elle Purnell wrote, “If only one of the more than 1,000 people who work at Yosemite has the ‘institutional knowledge’ required to unlock a bathroom door, Trump should maybe consider firing more of them and replacing them with people who know how to make copies of a key.”
The much-anticipated release of the John F Kennedy assassination files was met with underwhelming response as the documents, more than 80K newly released documents, don’t offer a smoking gun to prove Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t act alone.
What it does show is that the CIA is far more manipulative of culture not just in America’s adversarial nations, but in America itself. At this point, however, the news was hardly even noteworthy as it simply affirmed what the vast majority of people suspect, our news, our lives are being coercively manipulated to serve the interests of the CIA, not the American people.
JFK Assassination: The Final Secrets– www.thenation.com
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So far, none of the thousands of PDF files have yielded any information that would challenge the official historical narrative that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting on his own, shot and killed President Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Instead, the smoking guns of history are emerging from granular details of now fully declassified CIA covert operations. The final revelations in the documents turn out to be the CIA’s most guarded of secrets: sources and methods, agent identities and global targets. The unredacted documents name names—of officials, operatives, assets, informants and collaborators. They identify places, collaborating countries, espionage techniques, expenditures, and previously unknown clandestine activities. Those operations include how the CIA manipulated elections in numerous nations, sabotaged economies, plotted to kill foreign leaders and overthrew undesirable governments abroad—while also busily conducting illegal operations at home.Who knew, for example, that the CIA was secretly spying on Washington’s famous muckraking newsman Jack Anderson? And that in the early 1960s the CIA had almost as many agents working under diplomatic cover as the State Department had actual diplomats abroad? Or that CIA director John McCone conducted furtive “dealings” at the Vatican with Pope John XXII and Pope Paul VI which, according to one of McCone’s aides, “could and would raise eyebrows in some quarters.”
The JFK papers reveal that the Agency was running a massive telephone wiretap operation in Mexico—codenamed Project Lienvoy—out of the office of Mexican President Adolfo López Mateos—who was himself a CIA collaborator and approved the surveillance operations. They identify Mexico, along with 14 other nations whose intelligence services were “assisting us” in covert efforts against Cuba. According to one declassified memo, López Mateos told the CIA station chief that he was “delighted that a decision had now been made to get rid of Castro.” As part of Operation Mongoose, the CIA managed to contaminate an entire cargo shipment of Cuban sugar bound for the USSR “with a chemical used in the process of denaturing alcohol,” according to one Mongoose update. “When this cargo of sugar is refined in the Soviet Union the contaminated bags will completely contaminate the entire shipment,” the secret report continued, “making the sugar unfit for human or animal consumption in any form.” The documents also expose how the CIA financed and orchestrated the 1966 election of its chosen coup-plotting military man, Gen. René Barrientos in Bolivia. They record in greater detail than previously understood how agency operatives financed—at $10,000 a day—street protests in British Guiana that pushed the liberal government of Cheddi Jagan from power in late 1964.
Chuck Schumer (D-NY), the Senate Minority leader, led 9 other Democrats to cross the aisle to help a Trump-endorsed funding bill pass the Senate. The bill passed 54-46 and was later signed by President Trump. It increases defense spending by $6 billion while cutting non-defense spending by $13 billion.
The decision by Schumer to avoid the government shutdown over opposing Trump has led Democrats to call for his removal as minority leader. The key takeaway from the passage was an observation by some Democrats that the Republicans just followed their playbook. They froze the opposition out of negotiations and whipped the party to barely pass the bill, putting extreme pressure on the Senate to pass it lest they be the ones to be blames for the government being shut down.
The fact that another continuing resolution, rather than a fiscal year budget, once again kept the government, has some republicans questioning the leadership of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-AR).
‘Full of despair’: Senate Dems look to regroup after losing shutdown fight– www.politico.com
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Senate Democrats are bracing for a painful post-mortem as they try to avoid a September rerun of their latest government funding defeat.
Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, and nine of his members helped get a House GOP-authored government funding bill to the finish line, saying a vote to advance legislation they loathed was the least bad option. The alternative, they argued, was allowing a shutdown that could empower President Donald Trump and Elon Musk to accelerate their slashing of the federal bureaucracy.
This was the first time since the start of Trump’s second administration that the party had real leverage to fight the president, as Republicans needed Democratic votes to overcome a filibuster. Democrats could have refused to put up those votes to avert a shutdown, but Schumer folded instead. This gambit is now raising internal questions about how Democrats will handle the next shutdown deadline at the end of September — and how they can avoid the same result.
Schumer’s strategy exposed major fissures within the party, marking for many of his members a disappointing retreat. It’s also raised questions among some Democrats about whether it’s time for the New Yorker to step aside — though no senators have publicly embraced those calls.
“We should do a retrospective,” said Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.). Asked whether his party lost some of its clout by acquiescing to the GOP’s funding bill, Gallego said: “That was my concern.”
