The U.S. Has A Potemkin Government, And It's Not Just Joe Biden

The U.S. Has A Potemkin Government, And It's Not Just Joe Biden:  link

• Joe Biden is a symbol of the entire federal government: Its dangerous incompetence, corruption, and utter disrespect for the American people and the rule of law.

"...The term “Potemkin village” arose in Russia to describe empty buildings set up as propaganda, to give a false impression of industry and life...defines Potemkin as: “Sham, insubstantial; consisting of little or nothing behind an impressive facade.”

That is precisely what the U.S. federal government has been now for many years.
...This is what you call a Potemkin Congress. We have a Potemkin president, a Potemkin Congress, and a partially Potemkin Supreme Court. 

And it’s leading to an entirely Potemkin government and a partially Potemkin people.
Can you think of any domain in which the federal government has been successful in the past, say, 20 years? 

• Have we won any wars? 
• Is our military even ready should China make a move? 
• Is our nation in good economic health? Is our infrastructure strong, clean, and advanced? 
• Are our education systems and families producing a majority of citizens who are competent and productive? 
• Are our streets clean, lively, and safe?
• Or do we have record numbers of homeless people, record numbers of unparented children, record numbers of people on street and pharmaceutical drugs, record numbers of people failing to create or sustain families, and record numbers of barren, hysterical harpies and neurotic, emasculated men, with most being subsidized somehow by a shrinking number of people who work at legitimately productive and joyous vocations? 
• Does our nation look thriving, vigorous, and advancing to you, or like essentially a people that has lost its will to live?..."

AM Fruitcake

 

History for April 21

History for April 21 - On-This-Day.com 

Charlotte Bronte 1816 - Author ("Jane Eyre," "The Professor")

• 753 BC - Today is the traditional date of the foundation of Rome.
• 1649 - The Maryland Toleration Act was passed, allowing all freedom of worship.
• 1789 - John Adams was sworn in as the first U.S. Vice President.
• 1836 - General Sam Houston defeated Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto. This battle decided the independence of Texas.
• 1898 - The Spanish-American War began.
• 1943 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt announced that several Doolittle pilots had been executed by the Japanese.

How Elon Musk went from Leftist HEARTTHROB to ENEMY - TheBlaze

How Elon Musk went from Leftist HEARTTHROB to ENEMY - TheBlaze: 

Stu Burguiere, host of Stu Does America, asked his audience on Thursday to remember when Musk was the heartthrob of the left for many years and that he is serious about global warming. So serious that he built an entirely electric car company. He is building spaceships to escape the planet, in part because of global warming. But this billionaire chose to act instead of sitting around crying about the environment on Twitter all day. And because he chose to take action, he became an enemy of the left. The left prefers to use Twitter as a political culture. Musk is trying to fix problems.

The way we were-----The Mafia's Iron Grip on Labor Unions

WOW!!-----Rapid Bridge Replacement

Blinded Me with Violence: How the Left Fosters 'Hate Crime' Then Plays the Victim

Blinded Me with Violence: How the Left Fosters 'Hate Crime' Then Plays the Victim link

"...The problem is this: Frank James sees himself — and all black people — as victims. 

In one of his now-deleted videos, James tells other black folks that white people hate them, and that black people will be exterminated like the Jews were in Europe.
...Let’s not even get started on the surge of Soros-funded DAs who refuse to send black criminals — even violent miscreants — to jail. New York’s commie District Attorney, Alvin Braggs, is now actually allowing people to have their convictions “reviewed.”

...James sees himself as a victim of racism in a country that, in fact, allowed BLM to burn our biggest cities with near impunity. 

...It’s a sickness, but it has value for the left; they need to be victims.
...Black supremacist Darryl Brooks also sees black people as victims of racism; he’s the guy who was so enraged that he ran over 62 white people in Waukesha, WI. 

Then there’s Noah Green, who killed a Capitol cop. 

What did Brooks and Green have in common? 

A sincere belief that whitey is out to get them. 

Where did they hear that?..."

Life-long thug? And collapse of "public safety" myth?-----"...information on Patrick Lyoya, the man who was shot in the head and killed by a Grand Rapids Police (MI) officer."

Facebook  Tom Gantert
"I am posting this information on Patrick Lyoya, the man who was shot in the head and killed by a Grand Rapids Police officer.
Lyoya was pulled over according to media reports because the

license plate didn’t match his vehicle, an indicator of a stolen vehicle according to police. The result was tragic.
The information you are about to read cost $10 and came from the Michigan State Police Internet Criminal Access Tool and it gives some insight to the question: Why did Patrick Lyoya flee the scene of a traffic stop and fight with a police officer?
The documents provided by the Michigan State Police and the state of Michigan’s Offender Tracking Information System say this:

• Lyoya was on probation until 2023 and had been arrested eight times since 2015. He was arrested and pled guilty to three different charges involving stolen cars. 
• On May 14, 2016, he was arrested for felony motor vehicle unlawful driving away and pled guilty to the misdemeanor possession of a master key. A police officer explained to me that probably means he filed down a key of one Honda and the filed down key can often work on other Hondas – hence “master key.” 
• Six days later, he was arrested for another felony receiving and concealing a motor vehicle and pled guilty to the misdemeanor unlawful use. (These technical definitions are very hard to understand.)
• In 2017, he was charged with the felony of stolen property receiving and concealing a motor vehicle. He pled guilty to misdemeanor motor vehicle.
• On April 4, 2017 he was arrested for misdemeanor domestic violence, knowingly assaulting a pregnant individual. He pled guilty. The information on the police report gives no indication of the severity of the offense.

I’m not saying this validates the shooting. The most savvy police officers I know have different opinions on this. 

But in 2015, 2018 and 2021, Lyoya was charged with DWI offenses. According to the state, that is what landed him in prison. And he had pled guilty to numerous charges affiliated with car theft.
I don't know what the officer knew at the scene."

Parents sue Massachusetts school district, claiming school encouraged their children to use new names and pronouns - TheBlaze

Parents sue Massachusetts school district, claiming school encouraged their children to use new names and pronouns - TheBlaze: 

Massachusetts parents Stephen Foote and Marissa Silvestri have filed suit against their children's school district and a number of school district officials, claiming that the school officials encouraged their child to use new pronouns and a new name without their consent, according to a report from Fox News.

Child abuse!!-----23-year-old woman to Tucker: I regret transitioning as a teen

Biden's Family Scandal: Never Underestimate the Power of Blackmail

Biden's Family Scandal: Never Underestimate the Power of Blackmail link

"The Hunter Biden coverup continues to unravel and, as it does, questions about the president's involvement become harder to dodge. 

• Hunter's nefarious dealings with what at the time was China's largest energy company, CEFC, are well-documented, as are his questionable activities in Russia and Ukraine. 
• The concept is known as influence peddling, a smarmy practice refined to an art form in "the swamp."
• Hunter Biden's "take" from Russia while his father was vice president was reportedly at least $3.5 million, for which he did nothing but be Joe Biden's son. 
• Now, Joe Biden is president of the United States and is directly accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of war crimes and genocide in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The possibility of blackmail is undeniable...Read all

Lunch video-----How is South Africa doing since the end of Apartheid?

Noon-toon

 

Locked down Shanghai residents leap to their deaths, and Biden remains silent - TheBlaze

Locked down Shanghai residents leap to their deaths, and Biden remains silent - TheBlaze: 

On Thursday's program, Glenn details what's currently happening in Shanghai, China, where millions of residents have been forced into their homes — without food — due to strict COVID lockdown measures. People are suffering, but pets are also being thrown in trash cans and clubbed to death. Dogs and cats, in trash bags, set out on the curb like garbage.

Imagine!

 

Only totalitarians.

 

We're no longer "patients". We're serfs, cows. To be milked!-----Hospitals Collect More Fed Drug Purchase Subsidies, Intended Beneficiaries Don’t Get More Care Studies’ evidence suggest federal program is mostly padding hospitals’ bottom lines

Hospitals Collect More Fed Drug Purchase Subsidies, Intended Beneficiaries Don’t Get More Care Studies’ evidence suggest federal program is mostly padding hospitals’ bottom lines link
"A federal program that involves pharmaceutical companies selling drugs to hospitals at discounted prices may also be giving hospitals a profitable new revenue stream. 

Two studies in the past year have found that hospitals are purchasing growing quantities of discounted drugs. 

But there is little evidence, they find, that low-income patients are benefiting from the program, which was its original intent...Read all.

#1 This day 1957-----Elvis Presley - All Shook Up (best version)

Busted, again!

I post a "This Day in History" birthday with a quote on my FB page.
Today is Adolph's birthday, hence a quote from him.
Apparently, the FB gods would prefer to "disappear" their similarities to the murderous, public/private partnership promoter.
In a sad way this is progress. Last year, same quote got me 30 days in FB solitary.

Unexplainable.

 

New Jersey Democratic governor Phil Murphy admits some gender identity materials provided to small children in his state may not have been 'age appropriate' - TheBlaze

New Jersey Democratic governor Phil Murphy admits some gender identity materials provided to small children in his state may not have been 'age appropriate' - TheBlaze: 

The controversy originally arose in February when parents of students in Westfield, New Jersey, were alarmed to receive materials at a school board meeting that purported to be reflective of the state's new gender identity standards for second graders, which include "performance expectations" like discussing "the range of ways people express their gender and how gender role stereotypes may limit behavior."

Just another scam using your tax dollars to fund their cronies-----CAMPUS SPEAKING FEES ARE A MONEY LAUNDRY FOR THE LEFT

Instapundit--CAMPUS SPEAKING FEES ARE A MONEY LAUNDRY FOR THE LEFT

Democratic politicians, liberal activists get graduation speaking gigs.--Posted by Glenn Reynolds"

AM Fruitcake

 

History for April 20

History for April 20 - On-This-Day.com  

Adolf Hitler 1889 - German leader during World War II

• 1534 - Jacques Cartier, a French explorer, set sail from St. Malo to explore the North American coastline.
• 1769 - Ottawa Chief Pontiac was murdered by an Illinois Indian in Cahokia.
• 1837 - Erastus B. Bigelow was granted a patent for his power loom.
• 1865 - Safety matches were first advertised.
• 1902 - Scientists Marie and Pierre Curie isolated the radioactive element radium.
• 1961 - FM stereo broadcasting was approved by the FCC.
• 1988 - The U.S. Air Forces' Stealth (B-2 bomber) was officially unveiled.

Locked down Shanghai residents leap to their deaths, and Biden remains silent - TheBlaze

Locked down Shanghai residents leap to their deaths, and Biden remains silent - TheBlaze: 

The CCP's use of force to keep people in their homes and left to starve is even more disturbing. Lockdowns were meant to last four days, but have lasted two weeks and counting. Shanghai residents are suffering immeasurably, and many of them have already succumbed to the Chinese government's brutality over the last week.

The way we were-----Advertising 1930's-40's

If it's real, why aren't they cutting back too?-----‘Climate change warrior’ exposed

Notice we know something about the carjacker even they refuse to print it?-----Carjacker brutally beat up Texas grandmother only to later die in stolen vehicle crash

Carjacker brutally beat up Texas grandmother only to later die in stolen vehicle crash link
"A carjacker brutally beat a Texas grandmother only to die later in a crash involving the stolen vehicle.
Shirlene Hernandez, 72, was attacked as she stopped to grab a drink at a Shell gas station in San Antonio and was repeatedly punched in the face as the suspect grabbed her keys.
...Investigators say that the car was then involved in a fatal accident on the nearby interstate, killing the carjacking suspect..."

More States Move to Affirm Parental Rights in Education

More States Move to Affirm Parental Rights in Education: 

Florida has been the center of national attention for weeks over its new Parental Rights in Education law, but it’s not alone: Across the country, state lawmakers are introducing similar legislation. 

Florida’s law—inaccurately dubbed “the Don’t Say Gay law” by opponents—prohibits “classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity” to children in kindergarten through third grade or in a manner that isn’t age appropriate according to state standards.

A report by The Heritage Foundation says that other states are responding to parent dissatisfaction by increasing classroom transparency and asserting parents’ rights as decision-makers for their children. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)

“Lawmakers around the country are considering parents’ bills of rights that affirm that parents are their children’s primary caregivers, prevent schools from compelling students to affirm ideas that violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964, require schools to receive parental permission before administering health services to children, and authorize parents to view the list of books and instructional materials for K–12 classrooms,” the Heritage report reads. 

In recent months, these five states—among others—have taken action to limit discussion of gender ideology in the classroom and to protect parents’ rights in K-12 education.

"Public safety" is now a myth.-----Don’t prosecute criminals? Expect a crime wave.

Don’t prosecute criminals? Expect a crime wave.
"Frank James, the man who attempted to kill dozens in the New York Subway system last week had been arrested on nine separate occasions in the 1990s in New York City alone. 

 Additionally, he had been arrested for making terrorist threats in New Jersey during that same time period.
Yet, because New York City and Essex County, New Jersey prosecutors never pursued convictions, Frank James came up clean on a federal background check when he purchased a handgun in 2011...Read all.