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We begin with a series of unpopular rulings by the Supreme Court that ended affirmative action in college admissions, stopped President Biden from cancelling student debt and sanctified bigotry by a lying web designer who was not even in business when she said a gay couple wanted her to work for them, claiming it was … Continued
We begin with an alarming report from the Inspector General of the Small Business Administration that finds over $200 billion from the PPP and Covid relief funds was stolen and went to fraudsters. It is likely that up to 17% of Covid relief funds ended up with scammers with additional losses of $28 billion from … Continued
We begin with the scathing report from the Senate Homeland Security Committee titled “Planned in Plain Sight” which investigated the failures of the FBI, DHS and Capitol Police in not acting on a host of warnings of a potential violent attack on the capitol. The report out today finds that “At a fundamental level, the … Continued
We begin with today’s 11 minute audio statement from Prigozhin followed by a 5 minute recorded TV address to the Russian people by President Putin in which he tried to drive a wedge between Prigozhin and his rank and file Wagner mercenary army promising them they could go home or sign up for the military … Continued
We begin with Prigozhin’s march on Moscow as the head of the Wagner mercenaries turned warlord threatened the very seat of power in nuclear-armed Russia. In a direct challenge of Putin, after refusing to sign a pledge of loyalty to the Russian military and the state, Prigozhin’s mercenaries took the city of Rostov and held … Continued
We begin with the Republican tactic of manufacturing scandals to attack Democrats while ignoring the serial scandals of their front-runner and Fuhrer such as keeping alive Durham’s “Russiagate” nothingburger for 5 years and Hunter Biden’s imaginary crime spree for 5 years while one of the House GOP’s head witch hunters Congressman Comer promised an FBI … Continued
We begin with a trial date set by the controversial Judge Aileen Cannon of August 14 when Jack Smith’s case against Donald Trump will be heard and discuss the revelations in a Washington Post article that document how the DOJ’s investigations into January 6 and Trump’s theft of classified documents were delayed for 15 months … Continued
We begin with what appears to be the Republican talking point for the 2024 election which is to convince voters that the American government under Joe Biden has been captured by Marxists and communists and that “cultural Marxism” has infiltrated and infected American society in the form of “wokeness” to the point it threatens the … Continued
