Gina Leeds

[Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson]

https://t.co/OTdwjW9X2n

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

America does not belong to those who hate it.

America belongs to those who love it.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Made it to the finals! Please take a moment and cast your vote!

[Gina Leeds @GinaLeeds007]

@unseen1_unseen 🤣

[Gina Leeds @GinaLeeds007]

@unseen1_unseen I like the color too and also the way you finished the top shelf. Very nice

[Gina Leeds @GinaLeeds007]

@as400495 🇺🇸

[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

This is the end of the argument about voter ID.

[Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson]

Trump Bans the Fake News. So Obama Thunders Down from Olympus

The White House Press corps and the liberal media have gone ballistic over President Trump’s recent banning of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House press room.

Apparently Trump had finally had it with their decade-long trail of “fake news” (e.g., CNN on the Steele dossier: the intelligence community had “corroborated all the details.”; MS(NBC): “All the supporting details in Steele's reports are checking out, even the really outrageous ones.”; and Politico (“Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.”).

Or maybe it was Trump’s weariness that CNN and MS never learned from their serial untruth.

The former for years put on their news shows the admitted liar (“least most untruthful”) James Clapper; The latter likewise hired the twice-admitted-liar John Brennan (on his demonstrable spying on Senate computers, Brennan thundered under oath: “Nothing could be further from the truth. We wouldn't do that.”)

So after witnessing the fake news’s spreading lies about the “walls are closing in on Trump” Mueller Investigation, ginning up the “mostly peaceful” 2020 riots, running with the Jussie Smollett farce, demonizing the Covington Kids, iconizing the assailant Trayvon Martin, and promulgating the “Hands up, Don’t Shoot” Ferguson fable, and on and on—I suppose Trump finally had enough.

In reaction and as expected, a sanctimonious Barack Obama now has jetted out from one of his three mansions and into the expulsion controversy.

And also as his wont, Obama almost immediately on spec opened himself up to the usual charges of rank hypocrisy and empty, performance-art virtue-signaling.

So Obama thundered, “I’m trying to think what would have happened if I had said, ‘You know what, Fox News? You’re out of here.’ It’s unimaginable.”

Actually, it’s not “unimaginable”, if Obama would just look into the mirror.

So wait a minute.

In 2009 the Obama Treasury Department tried to ban a Fox reporter from a press pool interview.

Earlier during the 2008 campaign, Obama kicked out New York Post and Washington Times reporters from his campaign plane.

But Obama was most notorious not for just excluding politically incorrect reporters but for surveilling and spying on them.

Even liberal watchdog foundations blasted Obama in 2012-13 for grabbing the private records of some twenty phone lines used at home and on the job by Associated Press reporters.

Most notoriously, it was finally revealed in 2013 that Obama’s State Department secretly had bird-dogged Fox Reporter James Rosen relentlessly— tracking his movements, obtaining a search warrant to examined two days’ worth of his private emails, and getting access to his private phone records.

If Obama is still “trying to think what would have happened” when he surveilled and spied on a Fox reporter relentlessly, he can stop—since nothing as usual happened to the always exempt Obama.

And Obama did not just at times eject reporters and surveille them.

He also threatened to prosecute eight reporters and their sources (more than any administration before or since, including Richard Nixon’s). But he backed down when the AP and Rosen scandals surfaced and cooled down his Inspector Javert alter ego.

The hammer/stiletto difference between a loud Trump and a smooth Obama?

Trump blows up publicly, rails, and earns furor from “shocked”, sober and judicious journalists” who covet their White House billets—while he also earns the damnation of the liberal legacy media for his antics.

But far more egregiously Obama used the powers of the administrative state, secretly and quietly, to surveille, follow, and spy on reporters and their sources, while threatening to prosecute and jail others—and he disguised his vindictiveness by his lofty tone and polished demeanor.

As he anticipated, Obama’s victims and the media itself largely kept still, afraid to concede that their messianic “constitutional lawyer” possessed an Orwellian mean streak and was a far greater danger to the First Amendment.

Or as the Left taught us, the fundamental threat to our Constitution is when “democracy dies in darkness.”

Postscript:

Obama also could not resist his “clingers” like demonization of Trump supporters, in the fashion of Hillary’s “deplorables” and “irredeemables”, and Biden’s “garbage”, “chumps”, “semi-fascists”, and “dregs”.

So he also blasted not just Trump for the expulsions, but returned to his accustomed stereotype putdown of Neanderthal-like Trump supporters who are supposedly under-developed (e.g., “what that means is that we’ve have not developed the kind of understanding of what democracy requires”):

“If you have a certain cohort, let's call it 30 to 35 percent of the country right now, which thinks that's okay, well, what that means is we have not developed the kind of understanding of what democracy requires, and we've got to shore that back up.”

I wonder how Obama would do that shoring up of a third of America? Surveilling, tracking, and spying on them?

Note finally, that even Hillary’s deplorables were only half of Trump’s half of the nation, “You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables”) whereas Obama writes off a third of the entire country!

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

Is Karen Bass fleeing the scene of her crimes?

This is a moment of reckoning for every American. We now see clearly what we always suspected: many elected officials are corrupt to the core. Many - but not all - are stealing from us, lining their own pockets & lying every time they open their mouths. So here is the question we should address:

Does that give us a pass? Does it mean we get to say all sides are bad and no side is worth voting for because they are both equally awful? Or do we recognize that rather than relieve us of responsibility, this makes it more critical than ever that we do something about it. Rather than saying “my vote does not count”, you should be asking “how do I make my vote count?”

We have one chance to stop the destruction of this nation before the good options are lost to the passage of time & events. Don’t wait. Figure it out. Do everything you can. Never surrender.

[Jewels Jones ® @JewelsJonesLive]

1. The Fed just moved. Quarter point up. But the number isn't the story, and the part everybody's about to skip is sitting right there in the official statement. 💎🧵

[Bridget Phetasy @BridgetPhetasy]

A lot of Americans woke up to the fact that they’ve been gaslit about “Islamophobia” for 25 years and they’re pretty fucking over it.

It feels like a spell was broken today. Like everyone came out of a trance.

[Eagle Ed Martin @EagleEdMartin]

Must read.
Then MUST IMPEACH!
https://t.co/qYOMtaYU3l

[Darius Rucker @dariusrucker]

The way the world is, where weare right now... I believe in us. That's why I wanted to put this song out. It's my love letter to America, and you can listen to it now. https://t.co/yeOEmAFyaj

[The Real Mike Rowe @mikeroweworks]

I'm Legal!

Today I’m pleased to announce that mikeroweWORKS is finally legal. The foundation turns 18 years old this Labor Day, which means that MRW can legally buy a lottery ticket, get a tattoo, jump out of a plane, operate heavy machinery, rent a hotel room, open a bank account, move out of Mom’s house, and vote for whatever knucklehead seems less likely to wreck the nation, among other things. (Alas, we’re still too young for a shot of my grandfather’s whiskey, but whatever…I don’t make the rules. Online sales, ironically, still benefit the foundation, and – if you’re 21 or older – I’ll invite you to celebrate this milestone with any of the award-winning adult beverages at https://t.co/oa6vnhVvZl. But I digress…)

To celebrate our 18th birthday, and America's observation of Labor, I'm pleased to announce another tranche of work ethic scholarships, in our ongoing efforts to help train the next generation of skilled workers. In this round, we have 450 recipients who will collectively receive $3.5 million to further their training in 23 individual vocations. To date, that’s $22.5 million dollars awarded to 3,350 individuals. What a sublime legacy for an unscripted TV show that make me marginally famous for crawling through sewers.
Also, attached below, are the donors who made this round possible. Many thanks to all of you. And thanks also, to the many individuals on this page who have supported MRW from its infancy, financially and otherwise. Your encouragement over the years is priceless, and your willingness to share posts like this one, is the primary reason we have finally reached the age of majority. So please, share away. We're already taking applications for the next round. Apply at:
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Having said all of that, I’ll now take my 18-year-old alter ego out for non-alcoholic beverage and ponder the future.
Happy Labor Day
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And a sincere thanks to my own team at MRW…
Jen, Shari, Jade, Mary, Chuck, Paige, Libby, Logan, Charlie, Noah, Kristi, and the committee who helped us review every application. And Jade, again, because she killed it, as always.

[SJohn @Sjohn123Allen]

A letter to our Senators and Representatives.

Gentlemen,
I am a 64-year-old American that has worked and paid taxes since I was fifteen years old. I have never taken any type of handout from anyone, including the US government. After 49 years of working, I have decided to retire, at least partially. According to you, it’s “early  retirement”.  I don’t consider 49 years of working, “early”. Had I been a government employee I could have retired 29 years ago, or had I been a senator, I could have retired, what… 39 years ago? with full retirement pay and free healthcare for life.
Because I retired before reaching my “full retirement age”; which is decided by you, I have a reduced Social Security payment, which you refer to as a “benefit”. I see it as a return of my money that I have paid in for 49 years. This reduced payment is not enough to live on. The payment at full retirement age is not enough to live on. I have to work some, to supplement my income, but low and behold I can only earn a certain amount (which is still not enough to live on) and then you start docking my Social Security.
Apparently, I earned too much at some point because I just received a letter from the SSA stating that my next three SSA payments will be cut in half, and the real kicker is I still “owe” $38.00. I can’t work more to make up the difference because I will only be further penalized.
It is extremely infuriating, as an American citizen, to be treated this way. Look at the amount of fraud, look at the number of people, many of whom have never paid a dime into the system, receiving free benefits from the government. Look at the billions paid to and on behalf of illegal immigrants. All I want is the money I paid in and a chance to retire in peace.

[Eagle Ed Martin @EagleEdMartin]

Accountability comes when shame returns.
We the people won’t tolerate these lawless judges.
Btw, do I have stories about her from when I was US Attorney for DC? Yes, I do.
Will I tell the stories? Wtf do you think?
As my pal Deion says “ We comin’!”

Fight Fight Fight

[Gina Leeds @GinaLeeds007]

@Tho_ModernMissy #7

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Hello @DanLamothe:

This is Tom Anderson here. I am the purveyor of the popular social media commentary account, “Cynical Publius.”

I am working on an article regarding the extreme lack of ethical behavior by modern American legacy media outlets such as your employer, the Washington Post.

The Washington Post recently published an article with your byline where the personally identifiable information (“PII”) of certain alleged service providers to the Department of War was publicly revealed. In a separate, private communication you stated that you had obtained all or some of that information via the “Pentagon system.” Since you are a private citizen who has no authorized access to such system, I can only assume that a federal employee (the “Leaker”) provided you with unauthorized access to data from such system.

I was hoping you could answer a few questions regarding this matter:

1. If you solicited such information from the Leaker, did you advise the Leaker that the unauthorized release of PII is potentially a criminal misdemeanor under 5 U.S.C. § 552a?

2. What is the Leaker’s identity? If there is no Leaker, how did you gain access to the "Pentagon system"?

3. Do you have any moral qualms over the popular journalistic practice of soliciting information from a federal employee that could potentially lead to his or her imprisonment?

4. Does your employer condone the practice of journalists soliciting criminal behavior from federal employees? Is this standard practice for the Washington Post?

5. Assuming the Leaker provided you with the unauthorized PII, did you pay the Leaker any money or otherwise make promises of remuneration in exchange for the information you obtained?

6. You have been a vocal opponent of the Pentagon limiting unaccompanied Pentagon access for journalists. One of the Pentagon’s stated reasons for this policy is to prevent journalists from soliciting criminal behavior from federal employees. Do you still oppose limiting unaccompanied journalist access to the Pentagon?

I would be most appreciative if you could provide answers to these questions, as well as any other comments you may have on the matter, by 4:00 pm Eastern today.

Best regards,
Tom Anderson

[Andrew Kolvet @AndrewKolvet]

BREAKING: Judge Graf bound Tyler Robinson over for trial on all seven counts, including aggravated murder. The death penalty remains available.

Justice for Charlie

[Joey Jones @Johnny_Joey]

Powerful.