December 7, 2023 Good morning, Leading the News . . . What Trump's White House could look like if he wins in 2024: Report . . . Former President Donald Trump is in the process of vetting staffers to fill out his Cabinet during a second term if he succeeds in
winning the GOP nomination next year. Trump has ramped up his rhetoric in recent weeks about reshaping the executive branch from the ground up, including bringing in major players from his first term and recruiting top out-of-office allies to help him. Axios founders Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei reported Thursday morning that Trump's two core criteria — "pre-vetted loyalty to him" and willingness to expand the powers of the executive branch — have zeroed in on a number of past officials,
including former advisers Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, Kash Patel, and Johnny McEntee. Washington Examiner Is the Washington Post looking for a “lone wolf” to assassinate President Trump? Matt Gaetz seems to think so…There’s certainly nothing subtle about this recent Washington Post article. It seems to be a dogwhistle for an assassination attempt on President Trump. It’s as if they’re looking for some whacked-out lone wolf who’s willing to
take one for the team. This is what Matt Gaetz highlighted in his post on X, where he shared the article’s inflammatory title and highly disturbing artwork. Together, they seem to promote the idea of “stopping” a leader through historically deadly means. The piece is titled “Opinion: A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending.”
The artwork depicts a statue of Caesar merged with the face of President Trump, essentially conveying the message, “Eliminate the new
dictator just as you did with the previous one.” Revolver News Judge for yourselves what the intent of the author of the Washington Post's piece was. A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending . . . By Robert Kagan. Let’s stop the wishful thinking and face the stark reality: There is a clear path to dictatorship in the United States, and it is getting
shorter every day. In 13 weeks, Donald Trump will have locked up the Republican nomination. In the RealClearPolitics poll average (for the period from Nov. 9 to 20), Trump leads his nearest competitor by 47 points and leads the rest of the field combined by 27 points. The idea that he is unelectable in the general election is nonsense — he is tied or ahead of President Biden in all the latest polls — stripping other Republican challengers of their own stated reasons for existence. The fact that
many Americans might prefer other candidates, much ballyhooed by such political sages as Karl Rove, will soon become irrelevant when millions of Republican voters turn out to choose the person whom no one allegedly wants. Washington Post
Politics Vivek Goes NUCLEAR On Nikki Haley, Ukraine War in Fourth GOP Debate
Fourth GOP Debate Could Summed Up With These Three Words . . . The fourth Republican debate in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was another entertaining spectacle despite all four candidates having no chance of beating Donald Trump in the GOP primaries. It is what it is,
folks—Donald Trump will be the 2024 Republican nominee whether we like it or not. Still, that doesn’t mean these four didn’t mail it in regarding this melee. To the contrary, it got downright nasty. But one thing was clear: everyone hates Nikki. The most obvious reason for everyone hurling mud at Ms. Haley is simple: she’s been surging in the polls. Okay, it’s not a tsunami, but it has garnered more than a few stories in the press. Second, her past political positions pretty much make her a
carbon copy of Hillary Clinton. The ads about this, which were shown during the commercial breaks, were brutal. Townhall Debate Performances Fuel Haley’s Rise in GOP Nomination Race . . . Deft yet
serious, quick-witted yet substantive, Nikki Haley’s debate performances are feats of political athleticism that few can match. Surrounded by men trying to shout and tear her down, she skewers foes, exhibiting a specifically female form of calm yet gleeful aggression. She floats like a fighter jet and stings like a missile. And based on that she has surged—into a distant second place in a Republican primary that barely deserves to be called a contest. Former President Donald Trump continues to
lead the GOP field nationally, with a dominating 59% of the vote, according to a new Wall Street Journal poll, while Haley, the former United Nations ambassador and South Carolina governor, has edged into second with 15%, virtually tying Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s 14%. No other candidate breaks double digits. Wall Street Journal DeSantis War Room's "Meet The Real Nikki Haley" campaign ad
Here’s how McCarthy’s resignation affects House GOP’s slim majority . . . The resignation of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), combined with other expected resignations and the recent expulsion of former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), shines a spotlight on
the math problems facing the razor-thin House GOP majority. In coming months, it is in the realm of possibility that the House GOP majority shrinks so much that Republicans will be able to afford to lose just two votes on any party-line measure, depending on timing of resignations, special elections to fill vacancies and which party wins control of the Santos seat. The Hill House Votes To Censure Jamaal Bowman For Pulling Fire Alarm . . .
Bottomless hunger for guns pushes 2023 sales past 14 million . . . The public has purchased at least 14 million guns this year, proving that there is no end to the country’s appetite for firearms and support of the Second Amendment. In November alone, sales hit the high point of the year, fueled by a historic Black Friday and growing concern that foreign-influenced terrorism would spread to the nation. The National Shooting Sports Foundation, the industry representative that
adjusts FBI background check data to estimate gun sales, said that there were 1,595,476 sales last month. The group said earlier that there were 214,913 guns sold on Black Friday alone, a new high for the day known for Christmas sales and buying. Washington
Examiner The American people have figured that they can no longer rely on the government apparatchiks to protect them from foreign invasions and other threats. Self-reliance.
Border crossing overrun by single adult men: 'Completely unsustainable'
This is truly frightening. What is
Biden waiting for, before he closes the border? When September 11th style attacks start taking place in US homeland, every single government apparatchik who has enabled this threat to metastasize, will have to be jailed. US 'hemorrhaging sensitive technology' to China, congressional report finds . . . Chinese officials have access to a vast range of sensitive American technology due to lax federal implementation of export restrictions, according to a new congressional review. “We need to get back into a state of mind where we are actively trying to keep technology from the PRC because we don't trust where they will put it,” a Republican aide with the
House Foreign Affairs Committee told the Washington Examiner The U.S. Military Went Woke. Time To Make Some Changes at the Top . . . The war in Ukraine and Israel's response to the October 7 terrorist attack signal a worldwide turn away from U.S. leadership. While direct involvement in either conflict seems unlikely, U.S. troop deployments to the Middle East continue, and two U.S. carrier strike groups have formed a "naval
bubble" around Israel. The Marine Corps Central Command even canceled its heralded Marine Corps Ball due to "operational commitments." Heightened tensions come as the window of American leadership, and accompanying global stability, appears at risk of closing. Domestic instability among our European allies has compromised their ability to contribute to wars in their own backyard. Wise or not, every significant rival of America judges now to be a good time to test American leadership. Newsweek
Israeli war cabinet votes to increase fuel aid to Gaza as IDF backs Hamas into a corner . . . Israel's war cabinet voted in favor of increasing the
flow of fuel into Gaza late Wednesday as the Israel Defense Forces backed Hamas into a corner in the city of Khan Younis. Israel has heavily restricted the flow of fuel over the two months of war with Hamas since the Oct. 7 massacre, but the U.S. has been pressuring the country to increase output. Reports from local media say daily shipments of fuel will
gradually rise from the current 60,000 liters to 180,000 liters in the coming days. The move comes as the IDF has pushed back Hamas terrorists to their final military stronghold of Khan Younis, the second most populous city in Gaza. Fox News
Money Bitcoin’s bounceback déjà vu . . . The crypto bulls are back again. Bitcoin surged to $42,000 on Monday, its highest in nearly 20 months, marking a dramatic 150 per cent rise so far this year. After losing more than 60 per cent of its value in 2022, its
climb back has sparked yet another wave of euphoric calls: industry veterans now project the token will breach $100,000 by the end of 2024, and at least $750,000 by 2026. Competitors including ethereum, dogecoin, solana and cardano are all up by double-digit percentages too. Financial Times US farmers plan big 2024 soy crops, 'gut says' less corn . . . U.S. farmers are likely to plant more soybeans in 2024 as rising
demand for soy-based biofuels should boost profits, and many plan to cut back on corn acreage with futures prices for that grain hovering around three-year lows. A larger U.S. soybean crop would help meet booming demand for renewable diesel fuel and animal feed at a time when drought is slashing soybean production in Brazil, the world's top supplier. Another top supplier, Argentina, lacks soybeans after a severe drought last year. Reuters John Kerry: US must get rid of ‘crazy’ oil subsidies . . . The United States must end “crazy” oil and gas subsidies to achieve its climate goals,
but a stalled Congress is preventing President Joe Biden from taking action, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry told POLITICO. “The subsidies are crazy, and we have them still in the United States,” Kerry said in an interview with POLITICO’s Power Play podcast. “President Biden has said we've gotta get rid of these subsidies. But again … you have to legislate to do that and we've been pretty gridlocked in our country for a period of time.” PoliticoEU
Culture and Censorship Daily Wire And The Federalist Sue Biden State Department Over Censorship Effort . . . The Daily Wire, The Federalist, and the state of Texas joined on Tuesday in a lawsuit against the U.S. State Department, alleging that the government agency funded censorship technology designed to bankrupt domestic media outlets with disfavored political opinions. The State Department is tasked with foreign relations and has no authority over domestic affairs, yet it
took a government office designed for countering foreign terrorist propaganda, the Global Engagement Center (GEC), and unleashed it against Americans engaged in what it claimed was “disinformation,” according to the lawsuit, filed in federal court in the Eastern District of Texas on Tuesday night by the New Civil Liberties Alliance. Daily Wire Ramaswamy: Lack of Free Debate Spurred COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates . . .
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bombshell revelation about government's chilling alliance to censor Americans . . . A bombshell revelation demonstrates the chilling lengths the government will go to censor the American people. I wish I could say I’m surprised, but federal officials have been pressuring Big Tech to censor constitutionally protected speech for quite some time. The House Judiciary Committee and Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government recently released a report revealing the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Global Engagement Center (GEC) coordinated with Stanford University, along with other entities, to censor speech leading up to the 2020 election. Fox News WATCH: Safety First on Campus. Except for Jews . . . Safety first. That’s the approach taken by university administrators these days. On campuses across the country, “safety first” has birthed a whole new moral framework—one that treats rhetorical “microaggressions” as acts of violence. It’s safety first when it comes to edgy Halloween costumes. It’s safety first when a professor writes an email in which she says, “Black Lives Matter but also, Everyone’s Life Matters.” And it’s safety first when a professor fails too many students in his
class. But when it comes to threats and calls for genocide against the Jews, it’s a different story. Not safety first, but anything goes. Free Press Dad felt 'helpless' as daughter hid in bathroom after being forced to share bed with biological male . . . Christian parents from Colorado have complained that their eleven-year-old daughter's school district allegedly forced her to share a bed with a biological male on an overnight trip. The dad told Fox News Digital
in an interview he felt "helpless" to protect his daughter from the situation. Fox News
UNLV gunman ID’d as Anthony Polito, 67, professor who failed to get job at school . . . The madman who slaughtered three people in a
mass shooting at the University of Nevada Las Vegas on Wednesday was a professor who failed to secure a job at the school and claimed to have solved the mystery of the Zodiac Killer and missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. Anthony Polito, 67, had unsuccessfully applied for a professorship at UNLV before he unleashed his deadly rampage on the campus just before noon. Polito was armed with a handgun during his massacre and was killed following a shootout with two police detectives. New York Post White House interns pressure Biden to call for a ceasefire . . . A group of White House interns joined the growing list of administration officials applying internal pressure to
President Joe Biden to call for a permanent cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, sending him a letter late Tuesday that accuses him of having “ignored” the “pleas of the American people.” White House Dossier U.S. poised to approve first gene-editing treatment in breakthrough for sickle cell patients . . . The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve exa-cel gene-editing treatment for sickle cell disease. Exa-cel would be the
first approved medicine in the U.S. to use CRISPR gene-editing technology. Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics co-developed the treatment, which could cost around $2 million per patient. CNBC
New
Jersey police chase down pig named Albert Einswine . . . Police in New Jersey engaged in a brief foot chase with an unusual fugitive: a pig named Albert Einswine. The Deptford Township Police Department said in a Facebook post that officers responded to the Tanyard Road and Brenner Drive area on a report of a loose pig.
A video shared by the department shows an
officer chasing the pig into a road while trying to get a rope around the animal's neck. "We're all friends here," an officer tells the pig in the footage. The department said 4-year-old Albert Einswine was found to have escaped from the New Sharon section of Deptford Township. "Sometimes the jokes just write themselves," the Facebook post said. Albert was returned to his owner. UPI
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