The Georgia Senate race ends today. David Perdue goes up against trust-fund socialist, Jon Ossoff and Kelly Loeffler goes against the racist and anti-Semitic Raphael Warnock.

The Senate prepares for certifying the Presidential vote and some are going to throw a wrench into the process.

And I can’t believe this guy has been a pastor for 40 years.

Another Hail Mary

Several Republican senators are vowing to challenge electoral votes in the 2020 presidential election from several battleground states when the votes are formally counted at a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, with the hopes of establishing a commission to determine who gets the votes.

These Senators include Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, Senators Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, James Lankford of Oklahoma, Steve Daines of Montana, John Kennedy of Louisiana, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Mike Braun of Indiana, and Senators-elect Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Roger Marshall of Kansas, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama.

This is not the first time this has happened. It happened in 1877 when four states were contested in the election of Rutherford B. Hayes against Democrat Charles Tilden. In that election, five Senators, five Representatives and five Supreme Court Justices spent 10 days auditing the votes for those states, eventually giving Hayes the victory.

Ted Cruz said:

“We do not take this action lightly. We are acting not to thwart the democratic process, but rather to protect it.” He and the other ten Senators believe this election “featured unprecedented allegations of voter fraud, violations and lax enforcement of election law, and other voting irregularities.”

The eleven Senators said in a joint statement:

“In 1877, Congress did not ignore those allegations, nor did the media simply dismiss those raising them as radicals trying to undermine democracy. Instead, Congress appointed an Electoral Commission consisting of five Senators, five House Members, and five Supreme Court Justices-to consider and resolve the disputed returns.”

“Once [the audit is] completed, individual states would evaluate the commission’s findings and could convene a special legislative session to certify a change in their vote, if needed.”

Mike Pence was initially quiet about the report but since stated he “welcomes the investigation.”

Pence said:

Many in my circles expected this. They believe that the Trump legal team is going to bring up some evidence that is going to make certification of this election impossible. When I ask why the Trump legal team waited so long, they respond by saying that they got an extra month to look for evidence which makes sense and that the media and other Democrats may wage a war on the new information, which makes more sense.

The chances of this actually overturning the election results is still rather thin because it is going to take some cooperation from the Democrats and the Supreme Court.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-senators-election-commission-disputed-1876-election
https://www.dailywire.com/news/vp-pence-welcomes-senators-bid-to-challenge-electoral-college-results

Is This Legal?

The Epoch Times had a great article on this last week, before anyone actually went out to challenge the certification of the election. I heard about this article from the Dan Bongino show and it sent my feelers up.

This is what is supposed to happen, according to the Epoch Times:

The counting of votes is primarily governed by the 12th Amendment of the Constitution and the amended Electoral Count Act.

The Constitution simply states that electors of each state have to meet, make a list of their votes, “which they shall sign and certify,” and send those to the president of the Senate, meaning Vice President Mike Pence.

“The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted,” the 1804 amendment says.

The Electoral Count Act of 1887, currently known as 3 U.S. Code Section 15, establishes a procedure for how the votes are counted, how to raise objections, and how to resolve disputes. First, it says that the vice president indeed presides over the proceedings. Then, it says the House and Senate leaders each designate two tellers. The VP opens the envelopes with the vote certificates and hands them to the tellers for counting. The tellers then read them out loud, count them, and hand them back to the VP to announce the results.

Then, in rather convoluted language, the law says that Congress members can object. At least one objection from each chamber is needed to trigger a separate vote by both House and Senate on the objections. If both chambers agree, the objected voters are rejected. That’s virtually out of the question given the Democrats’ majority in the House.

If two sets of electors are presented for counting, the House and Senate need to separately vote on which set is legitimate and which should be rejected. If each chamber votes differently, the set certified by the state’s governor should count. That would hand the victory to Biden.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/disputes-over-power-to-count-or-reject-electoral-votes-loom-over-jan-6-session_3636866.html?fbclid=IwAR2ndq8CTv6X4_gMzBxwT_ehvivPKKbZyF07bDJcXcAq-8rPS5P8YTqNtVI

What Do I Think?

This is going to lead to nothing. Joe Biden will be President and Kamala Harris will be President in three months. Mike Pence, who has no power to do so, will not overturn the election. The Democrats own the House and will not overturn Biden’s victory.

But I think it is a bit dangerous to go down this road.

• The states, right or wrong, should be able to certify their own votes without federal interference.
• The Republicans are actually condemning the electoral college. The same electoral college that gives them their power.
• It could start a very bad precedent. What happens when a Republican wins in 2024.

I am not happy about the election. I think there was a lot of fraud. I have no problem with all the challenges by the Trump legal team. It’s all legal. Nothing came of it. Let’s look to the future.

So You Thought the Dumb Would Just End with the Year

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), who is an ordained United Methodist minister, opened the first session of the 117th Congress on Sunday by praying in the name of a Hindu god and twisting the word “amen” into a commentary on gender.

Listen:

Brahma is a four-faced Hindu deity who “was born from a golden egg and created the earth and all things on it,” according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. He was later believed to have come out of a lotus that emerged from the navel of Vishnu, another Hindu deity.

The word “amen,” often translated “so be it,” finds its root in the Hebrew for “faithfulness” or “fidelity.” It has been used adverbially since antiquity to express affirmation of belief and agreement, and has nothing to do with gender.

Good to see that the Left can’t get away from being stupid. That’s what is going to make politics fun.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/amen-and-awoman-minister-invokes-hindu-god-offers-gender-lesson-during-opening-prayer-for-117th-congress

It’s been a long year. A really long year. So much has happened. I always wanted to do a year in review but I am a solo guy and don’t have the time to mix videos. That’s where Grabien comes in.

Here are some of the stories of this year from the awesome minds of Grabien. Visit, subscribe and set your reminders. It is my favorite YouTube Channel.

Now, let’s get to it.

Impeachment

Remember that? It happened in January and the media was…well…thrilled. Listen:

he media salivated at the chance that Trump was going to be impeached even though there was no way he was going to be found innocent by the Senate.

Notice the media went to where it was historic, to it being religious to Trump is being condemned…even to death as Chris Matthews pointed out?

Impeachment was not something to be celebrated but the media did.

China Virus Hypocrisy

Here, the media shows their ability to hop a line when needed to maintain a narrative:

Did you catch that?

When Trump closed the border to China and talked about the China virus in his State of the Union speech, it is nothing. It’s racist and xenophobic. Oh, yeah, and the virus will never touch the United States.

When the virus did hit, it’s all Trump’s fault. This change of the goal posts happened three months after Trump warned the people of the United States.

Peaceful?

This is just funny. You should watch the video to get the full impact.

A lot of the videos were taken in front of buildings being burned down.

A lot of the commentators ignored the fact that billions of dollars of damage was happening.

A lot of these commentators ignored the fact that hundreds of police officers were injured.

A lot of the commentators ignored that people were being beaten, raped or killed by these animals from Black Lives Matters and Antifa.

Must be nice to be a democrat. The McCroskey couple, who were protecting their house from these animals who broke into their property and could not get any police help with legally obtained guns, are facing years in prison. None of the animals that broke into their property are.

Nice.

Martial Law

What would happen if Trump lost the election. Let’s see what the media thinks.

Throughout his entire Presidency, Donald Trump has been anything but a dictator. He lowered taxes, lowered regulations, supported the Second Amendment and has celebrated the United States and its people as the example for the world as a blue print for a great country.

For some reason he is still made out to be a fascist and a dictator. Ironic thing is it is his detractors that seem to embrace the fascism, Marxism and tyranny of China, Cuba and Venezuela.

Trump was never going to put up a fight if he lost this election. He believes in this. Country too much. Thus media doesn’t.

Really? Mount Rushmore?

This is the year where tearing down statues of American heroes and founders has come in vogue. So let’s go with the big one. Mount Rushmore.

Yep, it’s racist to celebrate Independence Day in front of Mount Rushmore because the land once belonged to some Indians and George Washington and Thomas Jefferson owned slaves.

By the way, the celebration was awesome and everyone loved it.

Media Hypocrisy

Chris Cuomo is a moron and a hypocrite.

He is just an example of “rules for thee and not for me.” He can go out with COVID and not wear a mask and then lie about it without any push back. It also shows how mean he is.

It also shows how the media doesn’t care about the COVID virus. When Cuomo had his brother, Andrew, the governor of New York, on his show and started joking about having to test him with a huge swap because of Andrew’s big nose. And they laughed. Meanwhile, Andy’s state had the highest death rate in the country with his crappy policies. Chris didn’t ask about that.

I can’t believe Chris Cuomo still has a job. But this is the same network that pays Jim Acosta.

Packing the Court

Here, the media drools over packing the court and ending the filibuster.

This is why we need to get the Senate next week if Trump does not win the Presidency.

Protecting Biden

How the press treated Joe Biden was kind of disgusting. Probably cost Trump 10 points in the election.

The media has always been Left. But this is disgusting and they have lost all credibility. During their election coverge they have:

• Ignored Biden’s gaffes.
• Ignored Biden’s policies.
• Ignored the fact that Biden was ineffective for 50 years.
• Ignored his quid pro quo with Ukraine.
• Ignored his relationship with China.
• Ignored his very questionable wealth generation.
• Never asked him a hard question.
• Fixed the debates, always shielding him against Trump’s assault’s
• And…

Hunter

The media ignored possible the biggest story that should have lost Biden the election. Listen:

Hunter Biden is a hot mess and we don’t even know the entire story yet. What we do know:

• He took money from a Chinese energy company because of Joe.
• He took money from a Ukrainian energy company because of Joe.
• He has a crack habit.
• He has been impregnating strippers.
• He is under investigation for tax fraud and tax evasion.

What we don’t know yet:

• He was having sex with underage girls.
• That laptop had child porn on it.
• He was funneling money to Joe.

This is all going to come out and will probably lead to Biden’s resignation. Some of this stuff is impeachable for corruption.

Tears of Joy

In 2016, you saw nothing but tears of despair for Trump winning the election. Not just from Hilary supporters but from the “unbiased” media. Well, this past election, we see nothing but tears of joy from the unbiased media.

The bias is just overwhelming. This is part of the reason why people don’t trust the media and are going to other sources of news. They keep screaming how they are unbiased journalists and then they cry when they don’t get what they want or get what they want. It’s just too obvious for them to have any relevancy.

My father watches OAN and says he watches it because it is real news. I like OAN but they are biased news. But there is a difference between Leftist bias and Conservative bias. Leftist bias is very negative and hates the country. America is a bad country and needs to be changed. We need to ignore our history and the great things that have happened in this country. We need to change this country.

Conservative bias is completely the opposite. It is overwhelming positive. Our country is special and unique. Our country is the most powerful and successful in world history. We have brought billions throughout the world out of poverty. We embrace all aspects of our history because it shows how exceptional we are.

• We did have slavery, but we fought a civil war to end it.
• We did have Jim Crowe, but we created laws that ended it.
• Women couldn’t vote, but we realized this was evil and allowed women to vote.
• We also defeated the tyranny of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, the Empire of Japan.
• We have kept, at bay, the tyranny of Iran, Cuba and North Korea.

We have tolerated our country’s evils but we have gone through steps to correct those evils. This is why the Left cannot tolerate our history. Because we have had moments that were evil in our past. But we have, for the most part, overcome them. History shows that. The Left can’t have history showing that. So they want to get rid of it.

Bonus

Here is Mika Brzezinski flipping out. I think you might be surprised by why I am adding this to the list.

This audio clip could have been twenty minutes long. Mika can’t stand Donald Trump. But that’s not what I want to point out. I don’t care about that. She’s on MSNBC which is a Leftist news network. They do not dispute this. I expect to hear disparaging remarks about Trump. No biggie.

It’s the absolute hate she shows.

Trump said, “They don’t hate you because they hate me. They hate me because they hate you.” This is absolutely true. When Mika, and the rest of the media, exclaim hate for Trump, they are expressing hate for anyone who believes in the America being exceptional.

Biden keeps talking about bringing America together. But the Left doesn’t. They don’t want us together. They hate us. They hate our values. They want us cancelled. They want us prosecuted. They want us thrown in jail. They want us beaten. They want us dead.

Yeah, unity? That’s not a thing the Left wants.

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Some government hacked the US government and millions of businesses that could have an impact for years.

You will need to be a person of color to get the COVID vaccine.

The Eighth Amendment just ain’t that complicated.

Knew This Was Coming

THIS WEEK NEWS broke that United States government agencies and corporations alike—as well as international targets—were victims of a massive nation-state espionage campaign. But as the revelations continue to pile up, and new targets are discovered by the day, it can be hard to get a handle on what exactly happened and what it all means.

Rumors have it that this hack was implemented by the Russians but that still seems to be in the air. Trump this weekend contradicted Mike Pompeao and said that it was the Chinese. On Sunday, a forensic IT guy said that there was no real evidence on who did it. This is just too new.

The hackers, who have been widely reported as Russian, compromised high-profile targets like the US Commerce, Treasury, Homeland Security, and Energy Departments, as well as companies like the security firm FireEye.

All of the attacks appear to stem from one initial compromise of the IT infrastructure and network-management firm SolarWinds. Hackers had breached the company as far back as October 2019, then planted malicious code in software updates to its network-monitoring tool, Orion. Any customer that installed an Orion patch released between March and June inadvertently planted a Russian backdoor on their own network.

The hack allows a backdoor into IT systems in which the hacker can gain access to the network systems and all the information on the network. The hack is easily discoverable so hackers may be very careful when it comes to accessing the backdoor. This means that smaller companies may not be targeted for risk of the backdoor being discovered. Chances are only the government systems are targeted.

The hack is so invasive that the only way to fix anything is to take the systems completely offline. Turning the servers off is not a safe way to secure the hack.

I have used Solarwinds for over ten years. It is a huge IT management system. Network analysis, system analysis, remote desktop support, remote updating, network and system performance, DHCP, log analyzer and much more. It has access to absolutely everything on a network.

This was bound to happen. We, in this country, have been way too lax in cybersecurity. Even Europe has more stringent laws than the United States. The good news is that hackers in the United States are far more skilled. We should probably take this seriously.

https://www.wired.com/story/russia-solarwinds-hack-targets-fallout/

Being Woke Will Kill People

According to Vox:

“By now, we all know that Covid-19 is not an equal-opportunity killer. Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people are getting the disease more often and suffering more severe outcomes than white Americans.

The most glaring statistic: 1 in 1,000 Black Americans have already died in this pandemic. In the US, Black residents have been dying at twice the rate of white residents.

There’s nothing about being Black, in and of itself, that makes people more biologically susceptible to Covid-19. Instead, the disproportionate impact is due to an accumulation of factors from centuries of systemic racism. Discriminatory housing policies like redlining have made it harder to maintain social distance. Unequal education and job opportunities have compelled people to take on higher-risk work. Worse health care access has bred more underlying medical conditions.

A society that has foisted all these conditions on minority groups, which now make them more vulnerable to Covid-19, has to ask itself: When a vaccine is discovered, should people of color get priority access?”

This is sick and goes completely against science. The CDC actually said, for equity’s sake, that people of color should receive the virus first before people who are over 70 and those with actual pre-existing conditions that could lead them to dying.

This is insane:

People under the age of 65 have a 99.95% chance of surviving. Someone over the age of 65 goes up in death to 95%.

Poverty is a reason why disease spreads.

People of color are differently when it comes to culture. Hispanics and blacks do respect their parents and elders. They have family get-togethers, even if they fear the virus. I see this with my fiancé’s family. They all fear the virus but they get together anyway.

The virus isn’t racist and this bullshit of applying “equity” to give a 20 year old black man the vaccine before an 80-year-old white woman with diabetes is just insane. It also has nothing to do with science. We now have doctors that are saying that giving people of color the vaccine over those who are susceptible to COVID is a way of “evening the playing field” historically.

This is a very dangerous game that the science community is walking down. It can lead to distrust and anger. Not to mention that the plan that the CDC is bring up is not going to increase herd immunity or prevent death. Young people do not die of this disease. Even doctors and nurses, who do not work with COVID patients and are not in the high risk category, should get the vaccine before the elderly.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/10/2/21493933/covid-19-vaccine-black-latino-priority-access
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/12/14/covid-19-vaccine-women-color-critical-minority-communities-black-latino/6509739002/

I’m Glad They’re Raising My Taxes

A Wisconsin man who is imprisoned for having raped his own daughter is constitutionally entitled to receive a sex change at taxpayer expense, a federal judge ruled earlier this month.

According to The Post Millennial:

“Mark Allen Campbell, 49, who was sentenced in 2007 to 34 years in jail after pleading guilty to first-degree sexual assault against his daughter, now identifies as a transgender woman and prefers the name Nicole Rose Campbell.”

U.S. District Judge James Peterson ruled that Campbell is entitled to sex change surgery and that he should be moved to a women’s prison in the meantime. The ruling stated:

“The rights of transgender persons and sex reassignment surgery remain politically controversial, even outside the prison context. And some members of the public are outraged at any effort to improve the health and well being of inmates. But the true public interest lies in alleviating needless suffering by those who are dependent on the government for their care.

“I decline to impose any further prerequisites on Campbell’s sex reassignment surgery; she has waited long enough.”

As The Post Millennial reported:

The dissenting judge, Diane Wood insisted that the DOC was deliberately indifferent to Campbell’s condition which could lead to self-castration, if in Campbell’s dismay at not having surgery provided Campbell would undertake to remove her penis with her own hand. Campbell’s lawyer agreed, stating that while the DOC medical director was respectful towards Campbell in allowing her to live as a woman, they refused to change their policy to accommodate her request.

The judge wrote:

“The Eighth Amendment requires prison healthcare professionals to exercise medical judgment when making decisions about an inmate’s treatment. And they cannot completely deny the care of a serious medical condition.

“But cases recognizing those broad principles could not have warned these defendants that treating an inmate’s gender dysphoria with hormone therapy and deferring consideration of sex-reassignment surgery violates the Constitution.”

Here is the Eighth Amendment:

“Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.”

That’s it. This is not an Eighth Amendment thing. If he has a mental disease, he can have counseling or given drugs to mellow him out. Giving him a $100,000 surgery at tax payer expense is not going to cure him of anything. Cruel and unusual punishment is not letting a man remain a man while he’s in prison. Cruel and unusual punishment is being put on a rack, put in an iron maiden or fed to rats.

This is nothing but pure judicial activism.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-rules-father-who-raped-daughter-can-receive-sex-change-on-taxpayer-dime

https://www.foxnews.com/us/teachers-at-posh-nyc-school-release-8-page-anti-racism-manifesto-sparks-uproar-report
https://www.dailywire.com/news/1619-project-creator-school-choice-arose-to-stymie-integration

Tom Cruise gets pissed off. Is this another example a spoiled actor being woke?

AOC is bucking the old Democratic swamp.

And, finally, I’ll be able to take a bitchen shower. Another Trump win!

Was This Really a Fit?

Tom Cruise, star of the Mission Impossible film series, had a little bit of a fit while filming Mission Impossible 7 in England. Now there are a couple of amazing things about this rant. The first is that there is actually a Mission Impossible 7. The next couple of things we will talk about after you listen to the rant. It is rather long but I think it’s worth listening too.

Cruise was pissed off because the folks filming the movie were not social distancing and were not wearing masks. Let’s listen:

I am going to make a weird argument here. First the negative:

• Tom Cruise needs to work on his managerial skills. Yelling and cussing just makes you look out of control.
• When you are ripping everyone, never call people out. This just causes derision between the employees. All this could lead to a lawsuit.
• He had some really good points in his rant but they were lost with all the screaming and anger. A better way to handle this would have been to talk to a director and a producer to calm down then go off.
• The rant was way too long. Three minutes would not have had the same effect as thirty seconds.
• Always make sure there is not a hot mic when you’re going to go off.

With all that being said, I need to make clear what I think of Tom Cruise. I think he’s nuts. He’s a high level scientologist. His behavior on camera and off camera have been erratic. I remember him jumping around like a monkey while explaining how he was in love on the Ophra Winfery Show. His acting is very iffy. And I hated Top Gun.

But he was not completely wrong here. I’m going to do something that I have never thought I would ever do again. I am going to defend Tom Cruise.

• He is in a position of authority. He is earning $25 to $30 million for this film and the money is guaranteed. It doesn’t matter if this film is shut down. Yes, he is a producer but that is just going to get him more money on top of his salary. He has every right to be pissed at people not following protocols.
• He’s right in that 60% of the businesses in England are shut down and people are losing their homes and going hungry while they are there making a movie. Though he didn’t say it, they are privileged to be working.
• He’s right that the workers for the film will be out of work if they have to shut down the shoot because there is a China virus outbreak. The shoot had been shutdown twice in the previous three months because of COVID outbreaks and the production was way behind.
• He’s right that all they had to do was follow protocols that have been defined by the film company and the country of Briton.
• And he’s right to threaten to fire those who do not follow the rules should lose their jobs.

I don’t like the way Tom Cruise handled it. Apparently, he handles it again and five people quit. But there are a couple of things to remember:

• One must comply to the laws of the country you’re in. You don’t have to like it but you do.
• One must comply to the rules of the business you are working in and the business one is frequenting.
• I am an old school employee. Getting yelled at is nothing new.
• This shows the hypocrisy of the Left.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-cruise-rants-again-five-crew-members-quit-report-says

Eating Your Own

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) says she is working on a plan to replace House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) with more progressive Democratic Party leaders.

AOC was being interviewed on a Left wing podcast called The Intercept. I find it amazing that AOC will only talk to Left wind platforms. Seems kind of cowardly to only talk to people who agree with her. People who won’t push back. Even with progressive platforms.

Here is the interview between AOC and The Intercepts‘s Jeremy Scahill:

Jeremy Scahill: “Isn’t this grounds, though, to take a stand and say, ‘No, I’m sorry. Nancy Pelosi should not be the speaker and Chuck Schumer should not be the leader?’”

AOC: “I do think that we need new leadership in the Democratic Party.

I think one of the things that I have struggled with – I think that a lot of people struggle with – is the internal dynamics of the House has made it such that there is very little option for succession.

“I think it’s easy for one to say, ‘Oh, well, you know, why don’t you run?’ but the House is extraordinarily complex and I’m not ready. It can’t be me. I know that I couldn’t do that job, and so even conservative members of the party who think Nancy Pelosi is far too liberal for them don’t necessarily have any viable alternatives.”

Jeremy Scahill (pushing AOC): Are Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumar “ready to say Pelosi and Schumer need to go.”

AOC: “I think so. The hesitancy that I have is that I want to make sure that if we’re pointing people in a direction, that we have a plan. And my concern — and this I acknowledge as a failing, as something that we need to sort out — is that there isn’t a plan. How do we fill that vacuum? Because if you create that vacuum, there are so many nefarious forces at play to fill that vacuum with something even worse.”

“Whenever there is a challenge, it kind of collapses, and that, I think, is the result of just many years of power being concentrated in leadership with lack of real grooming of next generation of leader.”

Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are progressives and radicals. But they are politicians and not Leftists. They know what they can get away with and what they can’t. People like AOC, Ilhan Omar and the rest of the Squad have no idea. Yet their opinions hold a lot of weight. They are trying to remake the Democratic party. This is going to be bad for them in the long run. They are fractured and it’s only going to get worse.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-progressives-need-a-plan-to-oust-pelosi-schumer

Finally, a Nice Shower

The Trump administration has rolled back an Obama-era rule-change that placed new standards on showerheads in order to decrease daily water usage and increase conservation, a federal regulation the president has repeatedly derided as burdensome.

Under the rule-change, federal officials will no longer apply the gallons-per-minute limit for showerheads across all nozzles in a given shower, a departure from the Obama administration, which capped their collective output at 2.5 gallons per minute.

From the Department of Energy:

Congress has mandated a 2.5 gallon per minute limit on showerheads. DOE’s definition, now in line with the consensus standards from [American Society of Mechanical Engineers], states that each showerhead can emit up to the statutory limit. The prior definition, as interpreted by the Obama administration in 2013, stated that a device with multiple showerheads could only release 2.5 gallons per minute for the entire device. Today’s change will allow manufacturers to offer consumers new products that can provide more water and more comfort.

Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette in a statement Tuesday:

“Today the Trump Administration affirmed its commitment to reducing regulatory burdens and safeguarding consumer choice. With these rule changes, Americans can choose products that are best suited to meet their individual needs and the needs of their families.”

Trump said, this summer:

“So, showerheads — you take a shower, the water doesn’t come out. You wash your hands, the water doesn’t come out. So what do you do? You just stand there longer, or you take a shower longer? Because my hair — I don’t know about you, but it has to be perfect. Perfect.”

This turn over of the law also applies to washing machines.

This just shows how stupid environmental regulations are. Trump is saying that people should make their own choices on what the want to use as a shower head or washing machine.

Here’s the thing: a regulation kills freedom of choice. Regulating all aspects of life kills all freedom of choice. This may not look like much but it does chip away at the government’s desire to take away our rights.

Today, it is shower heads and water we can have in a washing machine. Tomorrow, it’ll be about our rights to bear arms and defend ourselves. Finally, we will not be able to say that abortion is wrong.

If you have any questions about this, just look at the LGB community in the 1990’s.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-turns-back-obama-era-reg-impeding-quality-showers

China is becoming a problem and no one seems to want to do anything about it.

Joe Biden picks the first gay man to a cabinet post…sort of.

So much unity!

And cancel culture infects Twitter.

This Just Keeps Getting Bigger

An unprecedented “major leak” of official records has uncovered a register of 1.95 million members of the Chinese Communist Party, many of whom are now living and working all over the world, including Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The data lists names, party positions, date of birth, national identification number, ethnicity and — in some cases — their telephone number.

Sharri Markson, a reporter from Sky News, said:

“It is believed to be the first leak of its kind in the world. What’s amazing about this database is not just that it exposes people who are members of the communist party, and who are now living and working all over the world, from Australia to the US to the UK. But it’s amazing because it lifts the lid on how the party operates under President and Chairman Xi Jinping”.

“Communist party branches have been set up inside western companies, allowing the infiltration of those companies by CCP members – who, if called on, are answerable directly to the communist party, to the Chairman, the president himself. Along with the personal identifying details of 1.95 million communist party members, mostly from Shanghai, there are also the details of 79,000 communist party branches, many of them inside companies”.

The leak is massive and will embarrass President and Chairman Xi Jinping.

She did point out that there is no evidence that there is espionage being committed but this is still a huge story. Two million communist party members have infiltrated businesses and governments? How is this not something we worry about.

It was Nikita Khrushchev that said that communism would be given in small doses until it overcame the illness of capitalism. This is what China is doing. They are infecting our institutions. And it’s working. Our culture and institutions are leaning toward their propaganda.

• The media denigrates the United States, its history, capitalisms and its freedoms.
• The Constitution is being seen as an obsolete document.
• Free speech, religion, right to bear arms are all under attack. We are encouraged to report people to the government and then we will be cancelled.
• Our children are being indoctrinated to Leftist philosophy.
• Social justice is also Leftist policy. It was implemented by all communist leaders including Castro, Mao, Lenin and Chavez. It was written about by Karl Marx.

China is far superior at infiltrating our institutions and businesses.

• They have over a billion people.
• They have no regard for human life and the government trains their people accordingly. Nothing is off the table including the use of sex.
• We have helped the Chinese in their infiltration. We educated them, we hired them with little vetting, we allowed them into our businesses so the could steal our information, we have sent them our jobs, encouraging them in their human rights violations and slavery while also enriching them. That’s why I do not own an iPhone or a pair of Nikes.

Hunter Biden’s collaboration with the Chinese is an example of the Chinese infiltrating our government and why it is so important what he was actually doing and what was Joe Biden’s involvement. We do not need the Chinese having influence over the President of the United States. So far, it looks like Joe Biden has been compromised.

Just today, Fox News reported:

“Correspondence between Hunter Biden and CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming from 2017 shows President-elect Joe Biden’s son extending “best wishes from the entire Biden family,” and urging the chairman to “quickly” send a $10 million wire to “properly fund and operate” the Biden joint venture with the now-bankrupt Chinese energy company.

The $10 million transfer to the joint venture was never completed.”

There needs to be an investigation into all of this.

Dianne Feinstein’s work relationship with a Chinese spy for twenty years is also concerning. It shows that the Chinese have infiltrated the Senate. I don’t know how much information this guy got but I’m sure he got something. Why be there for twenty years. There needs to be an investigation.

Eric Swalwell banging a Chinese spy is very concerning. He is on the House Intelligence Committee. He was told she was under suspicion of being a spy. But he continued to have a relationship with her. At best, this shows incredibly bad judgment by having an affair with a Chinese spy while married. At worst, he’s been compromised and needs to be pulled from the House Intelligence Committee. There needs to be an investigation.

This is not a Democrat/Republican thing. This should be understood as dangerous for everyone. But it’s not. The globalist attitude and embrace of socialism by Democrats make it that they see China as a sympathetic partner. Heck, Joe Biden said that China was not the threat more see them as. Is that because Joe Biden believes that or because he’s been compromised by China?

Yeah, we need some investigations done. We will know what we are in for with China if Biden becomes President and he does nothing about all these security holes with China.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-huge-data-leak-exposes-chinese-communist-party-members-embedded-in-western-companies-and-governments

More Great Decisions, and the Media Cheers

Joe Biden appointed Pete Buttigieg as the head of the Department of Transportation. It makes sense because Pete Buttigieg was mayor of South Bend, Indiana. All that experience he has fixing roads as mayor.

Oh, wait. He has no experience. In fact, he was pretty crappy at fixing the roads in South Bend. In fact, the roads were so bad that Dominoes Pizza actually created a grant to fill pot holes on some of the busier streets and would fill pot holes when requested by some of the residents.

OK, Buttigieg doesn’t have experience to run the Department of Transportation. But this does solve a couple of issues. Biden fulfilled his promise on giving Buttigieg a job in his administration and filling it with a gay man. The first gay man to hold a Cabinet post. Ask Sky News, the New York Times and Washington Post. They celebrated the fact that there was

Numerous outlets, including Sky News, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, reported that Buttigieg would be the first “openly gay man” to hold a Cabinet post.

Except, Buttigieg would not be the first “openly gay” cabinet member, as that honor already belongs to Richard Grenell, who was appointed by President Donald Trump in February to serve as the acting director of national intelligence. This seems to be a far more prestigious post than the Department of Transportation.

Here’s the problem that the media is going to have with Joe Biden: he’s not very popular and not very likable. He won the election by keeping himself out of the spotlight and let Trump take the stage. No one voted for Joe Biden, they just voted against Trump. In fact, that was all that Biden brought up as far as policy.

The media is having issues trying to get people excited about Biden. So every move that Biden does must be historic. Even if it isn’t. It’s kind of pathetic, if you ask me.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-claim-pete-buttigieg-appointment-would-make-him-first-openly-gay-cabinet-member-forget-richard-grenell

Mr. Unity

One of Joe Biden’s major talking point is that he will unify the country. Now, mind you, he has said things that have been not so unifying. Both in the present and the past.

Well, he’s also hiring people who are not so unifying. Pete Buttigieg is just one of those.

But another is his new deputy chief of staff, Jen O’Malley Dillon. She said:

“The president-elect was able to connect with people over this sense of unity. In the primary, people would mock him, like, ‘You think you can work with Republicans?’ I’m not saying they’re not a bunch of f—ers. Mitch McConnell is terrible. But this sense that you couldn’t wish for that, you couldn’t wish for this bipartisan ideal? He rejected that.”

I think she caught herself. She continued:

“From start to finish, he set out with this idea that unity was possible, that together we are stronger, that we, as a country, need healing, and our politics needs that too.”

“If the other person is not willing to do the work, then that becomes really hard. But I think, more than not, people want to see impact. … They want to do their work, get paid a fair share, have time for themselves and their family, and see each other as neighbors. And this overhang of this negative, polarized electorate that politics has created is the thing that I think we can break down.”

She told this to Glamour magazine. Nothing like trying to unify the country by calling the opposition “fuckers” in a class rag like Glamor magazine.

So much unification.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-deputy-chief-gop-bunch-of-f-ers

This is Cancel Culture

Twitter confirmed that they could clamp down harder on President Donald Trump’s personal Twitter account after he leaves office.

Trump will lose the protections that Twitter offers to world leaders when he becomes a private citizen, exposing him to the possibility of being more strictly moderated and possibly even banned if he continues to disseminate “conspiracy theories,” according to The Independent.

According to Twitter’s “principles & approach” to world leaders, “if a Tweet from a world leader does violate the Twitter Rules but there is a clear public interest value to keeping the Tweet on the service, we may place it behind a notice that provides context about the violation and allows people to click through should they wish to see the content.”

Trump will lose that stipulation at noon on Jan. 20, a Twitter spokesperson told Forbes last Thursday on condition of anonymity, also saying the company does not have “special rules” for dealing with Trump.

Despite Trump’s status as the president of the United States, Twitter has been cracking down on many of his tweets since Election Day that have questioned the integrity of the election results, either hiding them or flagging them and linking to articles that asserts the results are trustworthy. In the two days following the election, Twitter labeled 50% of his tweets, according to Forbes.

Trump has recently been stressing the need for a repeal of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects social media companies such as Twitter from being treated as publishers. Section 230 states:

No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitter-confirms-trump-could-be-banned-from-platform-after-inauguration

What we knew is happening is now happening. Joe Biden is officially the President-elect.

With his nomination, The headaches begin for Joe Biden.

And I wish a fond farewell to the best Attorney General I have known in my life.

We Knew This was Going to Happen

Joe Biden has won the Electoral College vote 302-232.

After Hawaii submits their vote, it will be 307-232.

So, there you have it. Joe Biden made a speech. Here’s a clip:

A few things out of this clip:

• He kept coughing.
• This was a huge mandate on Biden. Not true. Yes, he got the most votes in history. You know who was second? Donald Trump.
• He attacked Trump on going through the legal challenges. He’s trying to put in that this election was completely legit.
• He tried to make the Trump legal challenges that was made to disenfranchise citizens but admitted that he had the legal right to do so. Weird.
• He screamed about unity…again. It’s the same speech he always has had.
• He yelled about how we need to end the pandemic and get the economy. The pandemic was fixed by Trump already. Not sure how raising taxes is going to fix the economy.
• It was a bullshit speech. It was unnecessary.

But there were things that we absent from the speech:

• No mention of Hunter Biden. In fact, he ignored a question that was thrown out by Fox News.
• No mention of the Chinese infiltration of our government.
• No mention of Trump’s success of getting three vaccines created.
• No mention of any policy that he would implement.
• And no questions were allowed to be asked and, the one that was, was ignored.

It was a fluff speech. We can expect to see this for the next six months that Biden is President. A lot of rhetoric that was repeated in the past with no substance.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-joe-biden-secures-electoral-college-vote

Oh, the Headaches

The Attorney General

A big post that Joe Biden has to fill is Attorney General. He has been left with four candidates that he is considering:

• Outgoing Alabama Senator Doug Jones.
• Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo.
• Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates.
• Former D.C. Court of Appeals Chief Judge Merrick Garland.

Supposedly, Andrew Cuomo was actually under heavy consideration. And that makes sense. He has an 80% popularity rate in New York, which is weird because his policies killed a little less that 40,000 during the China virus crisis. He’s aggressive, strong-willed and the brother of CNN host Chris Cuomo. He’s a media darling.

Problem with Andy is he likes chicks.

One of his former political advisors, Lindsey Boylan, Tweeted:

“Yes, @NYGovCuomo sexually harassed me for years. Many saw it, and watched. I could never anticipate what to expect: would I be grilled on my work (which was very good) or harassed about my looks. Or would it be both in the same conversation? This was the way for years.”

“Not knowing what to expect what’s the most upsetting part aside from knowing that no one would do a damn thing even when they saw it. No one. And I *know* I am not the only woman. I’m angry to be put in this situation at all. That because I am a woman, I can work hard my whole life to better myself and help others and yet still fall victim as countless women over generations have. Mostly silently. I hate that some men, like @NYGovCuomo abuse their power.”

Now, I always though Andrew Cuomo was full of shit. He runs one of the largest states in the country and yet has no political ambitions. During the pandemic, he was on television every day for two hours. He likes being in the spotlight. The AP reported:

“Cuomo has been asked in recent weeks about his interest in the attorney general spot. Just this week, he said in a public radio interview in New York, ‘I have no intention to run for president or vice president, or go to the administration.’ But he said the attorney general job ‘is really critical, especially now.’”

Hmm, why? He’s a politician.

Well, he has also lied about his performance during the COVID crisis. Apparently he lied about the number of COVID deaths based on the number of old people that were sent back into nursing homes when they tested COVID-positive.

He also has interfered with internal investigation of his policies and conduct. This was reported by the New York Times.

Cuomo responded to the Tweet:

“Yeah, I heard about the tweet and what it said about comments that I had made and it’s not true. Look, I fought for and I believe a woman has the right to come forward and express her opinion and express issues and concerns that she has, but it’s just not true.”

Not a really strong answer. But the media is ignoring it. They keep saying there is no proof of the harassment. Unlike all the proof they had with Brett Kavanaugh. The Cuomo confirmation hearing would be hysterical but I doubt it’s going to happen. I think that’s done.

Merrick Garland would be Biden’s best choice but he would also be a good choice for a Supreme Court Justice. Thomas and Breyer may retire soon and he would have no issue getting confirmed. I also am not so sure he would have Biden’s back if the shit hit the fan.

Sally Yates meets the call. She’s a Leftist. She’s a woman. She fought Trump until he fired her. She’ll get the nod.

Pissing Off the Base Ain’t a Thing

Joe Biden had a virtual conclave with seven civil rights activists and their groups last week. It included Al Shapton and Cedric Benson.

But someone was missing. But who? Black Lives Matter leadership Tweeted:

Oops.

Politico did not help. They reported:

Civil rights leaders said the wide-ranging discussion was set for an hour but lasted about an hour and 45 minutes, with topics including the racial wealth gap, the diversity of Biden’s Cabinet and sub-Cabinet appointments, avoiding double standards with Black appointees, restoring the Justice Department and other agencies, police and criminal justice reform, voting rights, judges and more.

The conversation was centered on racial justice and equity – racial equity is among the four pillars Biden laid out as top priorities on his transition website. Race was also a key issue in the presidential election, as Americans all over the country took to the streets to protest racial injustice amid a pandemic that has disproportionately affected Black and brown communities. Plus, Black voters not only saved Biden’s presidential primary campaign but also helped elevate him to the White House in November.

Actually this is not true. Black and Hispanic voters voted for Trump in large numbers. It was white men that went down. But the narrative is more important than the truth.

BLM leadership responded:

“To set up a meeting with civil rights leaders, without BLM, is unacceptable. We deserve a seat at the table.”

BLM has requested to see Biden and Harris 30 days ago. The released a Tweet stating they still did not have a meeting with them. They feel like the “deserve something for their vote.”

This is not going away for Biden. BLM is going to be a pain for him. So much fun.

It’s About the Skin Color Stupid

What annoys me is when someone’s skin color means more than someone’s qualifications. And not everything is “historic.”

A drive urging Joe Biden to appoint a Native American to lead the U.S. Department of Interior is reportedly accelerating following his campaign pledge to “ensure tribes have a seat at the table at the highest levels of the federal government.”

Listen to this stupid PSA to get Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) into the Department of the Interior:

Ugh. I am so sick and tired of everyone being a victim. Just because her skin is red doesn’t mean she is qualified to be Secretary of the Interior. And if she thinks that world is going to end because of the evil white man is destroying the environment, she’s not qualified.

Here’s a little secret. Well, a couple of little secrets:

• The Native Americans were not purveyors of peace and love. A bunch of tribes were aggressive and warring.
• The Europeans did eliminate 75% of the population. But the Indians killed 35% of the settlers. This is called war.
• Small Indian tribes joined with the Europeans to destroy larger more aggressive tribes. That includes the Aztecs and Incas, who were brutal.
• They were not embracing of the environment. The Aztecs destroyed their environment when they weren’t sacrificing those they grabbed from raids or enslaved the rest.
• The Europeans did not commit mass genocide against the Native Americans. They brought diseases which is not a shock in the 15th century. And the Indians already had diseases here that was decimating their populations including syphilize, herpes, dysentery and tuberculosis. They had disease before Europeans got here.

The shit we are being fed is Howard Zinn type history. And it’s crap. The Native Americans are not what they have been made out to be. They were no different than any other “civilization”. Accept they didn’t have any domesticated animals, the wheel or the technology to grow food.

We are going to talk about this on a Sunday special as I go through the real history of the United States. Columbus was flawed but not a bad guy. The Indians were not the bastion of peace and love and the buffalo.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/sexual-misconduct-allegations-surface-against-potential-biden-attorney-general-pick-andrew-cuomo
https://www.dailywire.com/news/cuomo-responds-to-sexual-misconduct-allegations-a-woman-has-the-right-to-express-her-opinion
https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-cuomo-among-several-contenders-for-biden-ag
https://www.dailywire.com/news/black-lives-matter-excluded-from-joe-bidens-virtual-conclave-with-civil-rights-groups
https://www.dailywire.com/news/hollywood-celebs-tribal-leaders-and-progressives-urge-joe-biden-to-appoint-a-native-american-as-us-interior-secretary

We’re Going to Miss You

William Barr has resigned from Attorney General. This is not a shock. He was not fired. He is leaving because his job is pretty much done.

President Trump Tweeted:

“Just had a very nice meeting with Attorney General Bill Barr at the White House. Our relationship has been a very good one, he has done an outstanding job!”

“As per letter, Bill will be leaving just before Christmas to spend the holidays with his family. Deputy Attorney General Jeff Rosen, an outstanding person, will become Acting Attorney General. Highly respected Richard Donoghue will be taking over the duties of Deputy Attorney General. Thank you to all!”

In a letter, Barr wrote:

“I appreciate the opportunity to update you this afternoon on the Department’s review of the voter fraud allegations in the 2020 election and how these allegations will continue to be pursued,” Barr wrote in a letter. “At a time when the country is so deeply divided, it is incumbent on all levels of government, and all agencies acting within their purview, to do all we can to assure the integrity of elections and promote public confidence in their outcome.”

“I am greatly honored that you called on me to serve your Administration and the American people once again as Attorney General,” Barr continued. “I am proud to have played a role in the many successes and unprecedented achievements you have delivered for the American people. Your record is all the more historic because you accomplished it in the face of relentless, implacable resistance. Your 2016 victory speech in which you reached out to your opponents and called for working together for the benefit of the American people was immediately met be a partisan onslaught against you in which no tactic, no matter how abusive and deceitful, was out of bounds. The nadir of this campaign was the effort to cripple, if not oust, your Administration with frenzied and baseless accusations of collusion with Russia.”

“Few could have weathered these attacks, much less forge ahead with a positive program for the country,” Barr continued. “You built the strongest and most resilient economy in American history — one that has brought unprecedented progress to those previously left out. You have restored American military strength. By brokering historic peace deals in the Mideast you have achieved what most thought impossible. You have curbed illegal immigration and enhanced the security of our nation’s borders. You have advanced the rule of law by appointing a record number of judges committed to constitutional principles. With Operation Warp Speed, you delivered a vaccine for coronavirus on a schedule no one thought conceivable — a feat that will undoubtedly save millions of lives.”

“Wishing you, Melania, and your family a Merry Christmas and a Blessed Holiday Season. God Bless.”

Just a class guy in a difficult position. Probably one of the best Attorney Generals I have see in my lifetime.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/attorney-general-william-barr-is-leaving-the-trump-administration