This Sounds like What My Father Said over 50 Years ago. I Thought he was Wrong, Not Now

• Nearly half of Republicans say 'a time will come when patriotic Americans have to take the law into their own hands,' new poll shows. A new poll offers an alarming picture of GOP beliefs about democracy.

• Almost half of Republicans said a time might come where they have to take the law into their own hands.

• A majority of Republicans endorsed potentially using force to uphold the "traditional" America.

Less than a year after a pro-Trump mob stormed the US Capitol, nearly half of Republican voters (47%) say that "a time will come when patriotic Americans have to take the law into their own hands," per a new nationwide survey by George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs.

Only about 29% of Americans agreed with this statement on some level, the poll found, including just 9% of Democrats. And 49% said they disagree or strongly disagree.

The poll also found that a majority of Republicans (55%) say "the traditional American way of life is disappearing so fast we may have to use force to save it." About 15% of Democrats agreed with this statement, but more Americans disagreed (46%) than agreed (34%).

More Republicans (27%) than Democrats (18%) said that "strong leaders sometimes have to bend the rules in order to get things done."

The poll also found extremely low levels of trust among Republicans when it comes to elections - 82% said it's "hard to trust the results of elections when so many people will vote for anyone who offers a handout." Only 15% of Democrats were on the same page.

Echoing other recent polls on the 2020 election, the survey found that just 20% of Republicans were confident in the 2020 election results as compared to over 90% of Democrats.

The survey of of 1,753 registered US voters was conducted by YouGov from June 4 to 23.

Over the course of the Trump era, experts on democracy repeatedly raised concerns about the GOP's slide into authoritarianism. Democracy scholars have continued to raise alarm as the GOP-led legislatures in states across the country push for restrictive voter laws, employing similar justifications to President Donald Trump's baseless claims of mass voter fraud after he fairly lost the 2020 election. Along these lines, an ex-Trump administration official recently referred to the Republican party as the top national security threat to the US.

More than one quarter of Americans qualify as having right-wing authoritarian political beliefs, according to polling from Morning Consult released in late June.

Though Trump provoked an insurrection at the Capitol and stands as the only commander-in-chief in history to be impeached twice, he continues to be the leader of the Republican party. GOP leaders in Congress have also railed against a House investigation into the January 6 insurrection.

During a hearing on Tuesday held by the House select committee running the probe, four police officers testified about the violence they were subjected to by Trump's supporters at the Capitol. One officer referred to the insurrections as "terrorists," and another said the Capitol riot amounted to an "attempted coup."

The Staff: There was never a thought of a "Coup" only a bunch of pissed off Americans who believed the election was crooked. No matter what happened, the violence should have not happened but it shows some are tired of being told what to do by this questionable government doing Executive Orders like a King. Biden is no King and only a feeble minded old man. The government both Liberal and Conservatives have run this country into a debt we can never over come. Our money is no longer worth the paper it is printed on. I have tried to avoid writing as I also believe the dangers of violence is coming and I see no way to stop it should we continue to be so divided. You have communists in our schools, communists in our government and China stealing everything while running many of our universities. It is only a matter of time before some Americans wake up and take up arms to once again to restore the freedoms people like my father fought for. If our votes are not fair and free of outside forces or machines that alter the votes, people will realize there is no choice.  

Biden, your a COWARD and Piece of PIG CRAP

• 22 Afghan commandos were apparently massacred by the Taliban while surrendering in June.

• CNN obtained video of the brutal incident, which raises more concerns about Afghanistan's future.

• "This is horrible-yet it's the reality of announcing the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan," Rep. Kinzinger tweeted.

A video obtained by CNN of the Taliban executing 22 Afghan commandos as they surrendered has exacerbated criticism of the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan ordered by President Joe Biden.

The massacre, which human rights groups have described as an apparent war crime, adds to the many questions being asked about the Afghan military's capacity to defeat or even contain the Taliban now that the US is pulling out.

Responding to the news of the executed Afghan commandos, GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a US Air Force veteran who flew missions in Afghanistan, in a tweet said, "This is horrible-yet it's the reality of announcing the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Removing the peacekeepers and leaving the Afghan people without support is a grave mistake, Mr. President."

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday called Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal a "global embarrassment."

The incident took place on June 16 in the town of Dawlat Abad in Faryab province, which is close to Afghanistan's border with Turkeministan. The Taliban dismissed the video as a fabrication. But the Red Cross confirmed that 22 bodies were retrieved, and CNN spoke with witnesses and verified several videos of the incident.

The withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan - set to be complete by the end of August - marks an end to the longest conflict in US history. But the US pullout does not mean an end to violent conflict in Afghanistan, which has seen consistent fighting for roughly four decades. The Taliban last week said it's taken over 85% of the country, and with regional militias popping up across Afghanistan there are worries that the war will escalate after the US departure.

"Civil war is certainly a path that can be visualized if it continues on the trajectory it's on," Gen. Austin S. Miller, who stepped down as the top US commander in Afghanistan on Monday, said earlier this month.

Biden announced the plan to withdraw troops in April, and has fervently defended the move amid escalating concerns about the future of Afghanistan with the US departure nearly complete. Proponents of Biden's withdrawal contend that the pullout was long overdue, making the case that the costs of staying in Afghanistan far outweigh the benefits.

"Let me ask those who wanted us to stay: How many more - how many thousands more of America's daughters and sons are you willing to risk? How long would you have them stay?" Biden said in a speech last Thursday.

But critics have characterized the withdrawal as a hasty retreat that endangers local populations - especially women - and effectively hands the country over to the Taliban.

The Staff: No country or people should ever believe America will stand by those that have helped our country when called upon. This is not the first time it has happened, remember the Tribesmen in Vietnam that were left to be killed when America ran away? Now as then, we can thank the Press and TV liberals for only showing the horrible things happening to our soldiers. America has no heart and can no longer be trusted as our word is no longer good. To be very blunt, I would watch as Biden or Harris or the other liberal trash went up in smoke. 

For as many civilians have died these last 20+ years, maybe we should have nuked and just been done with it as the Taliban would have nothing to fight over except Radiation.

FBI IS NOW ACTING LIKE THE DAYS WHEN FAMILY/FRIENDS REPORTED TO THE SS OF HITLER

The FBI set itself up for disaster Sunday by posting a tweet encouraging Americans “to learn how to spot” signs of extremism among their friends and family members and then turn in those same friends and family members afterward.

 

“Family members and peers are often best positioned to witness signs of mobilization to violence. Help prevent homegrown violent extremism. Visit go.usa.gov/x6mjf to learn how to spot suspicious behaviors and report them to the #FBI. #NatSec,” the federal agency tweeted.

 

The tweet provoked widespread, bipartisan backlash, mockery and insults, both from conservatives angry over the bureau’s uneven application of the law, and also from the true liberals who’ve always despised the security state.

 

The anger from the right stemmed from the glaring dichotomy between the Department of Justice’s obsession with the Jan. 6th riot at the U.S. Capitol and its utter lack of interest in the deadly Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots that occurred throughout all of last year (and are still ongoing in certain sectors of the country).

 

In fact, just last week the DOJ announced that they’re spending $6.1 million of taxpayer funds just to build a database of Jan. 6th evidence.

There’s no record of the department ever seeking out that sort of money to fund a database to compile all the evidence surrounding the months upon months of violent rioting by BLM and Antifa extremists.

 

Over on the left, true liberals — the type who read Glenn Greenwald and have been railing against the security state for decades — lambasted the FBI for its “lengthy, disgusting and pathetic history.”

 

This unsubstantiated gratitude seems to define the leftist mindset. After all, the FBI has been responsible for a plethora of recent screw-ups and failures — some of them deadly.

Most notably, the FBI dropped the ball on the Parkland shooter by failing to follow up on credible tips, thus effectively allowing the shooter to kill 17 people.

 

The FBI also recently broke down the door of, handcuffed and questioned a couple in a case of mistaken identity pertaining to the Jan. 6th riot.

 

The FBI used the fraudulent Steele dossier that was paid for by Hillary Clinton to spy on then-GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.

The FBI did nothing about Hunter Biden’s laptop, despite it reportedly containing copious amounts of evidence pertaining to his alleged crimes.

 

But the FBI did seize a “fully constructed U.S. Capitol Lego set” from a Jan. 6th rioter.

 

And yet the FBI still hasn’t determined who’d placed pipe bombs near the headquarters of the Democrat National Committee and the Republican National Committee.

 

 

The Staff: Asking family and friends to report what they hear about how their families think is very much like HITLER if the young people even know who he was. I once head a former Federal Attorney state to “Never talk to the FBI”. I have never forgotten that, and it is very sad the FBI is so dirty now and we can NEVER trust them

US taxpayers may be on the hook to pay Canadian firm billions after Biden’s pipeline cancelation

U.S. taxpayers may be liable for billions in damages to the Canadian firm behind the Keystone XL oil pipeline over a lawsuit filed in the wake of President Joe Biden’s arbitrary cancellation of the project which took more than a decade to be approved.

The firm, TC Energy, filed a Notice of Intent with the U.S. State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser “to initiate a legacy North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) claim under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement to recover economic damages resulting from the revocation of the Keystone XL Project’s Presidential Permit.”

TC Energy officially ended the Keystone XL project weeks ago, after Biden canceled it.

“We value the strong relationships we’ve built through the development of this Project and the experience we’ve gained,” said TC Energy President and CEO François Poirier in a statement. “We remain grateful to the many organizations that supported the Project and would have shared in its benefits.”

In canceling the project, Biden said that “leaving the Keystone XL pipeline permit in place would not be consistent with my Administration’s economic and climate imperatives.”

But now, the company is seeking to recover more than $15 billion in costs after the U.S. government’s “breach of its NAFTA obligations.”

According to the Canadian firm, the Keystone XL project would have led to more than 10,000 jobs in the U.S. that were of “high quality” along with “local contracting opportunities.” But a State Department study cited by Fox News put that number higher — about 26,100 jobs when indirect jobs were added to the total.

The administration is also facing a lawsuit over the president’s cancelation from a coalition of 21 states led by Montana and Texas. The suit argues that Biden lacked the singular authority to cancel the project and change energy policy that Congress has set in motion via legislation.

“There is not even a perceived environmental benefit to his actions – his attempt to cancel the Keystone XL Pipeline is an empty virtue signal to his wealthy coastal elite donors,” Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen said in a March statement.

“The power to regulate foreign and interstate commerce belongs to Congress – not the President,” he added. “This is another example of Joe Biden overstepping his constitutional role to the detriment of Montanans.”

“It’s a disgrace President Biden played politics and killed the Keystone XL Pipeline to virtue signal to liberal donors and special interest groups,” Knudson later told the Daily Caller.

“The pipeline would have enhanced America’s energy independence while bringing much-needed jobs, tax revenue, and economic development to rural communities in Montana and across the country,” he added.

The suit alleged that while Biden, as president, has authority to act unilaterally in many matters of foreign policy, domestic energy policy set in legislation via Congress and passed into law involving a foreign investment like the Keystone XL project is a different matter.

“The President has certain prerogatives to act on behalf of the United States in foreign affairs,” the lawsuit notes. “But as far as domestic law is concerned, the President must work with and abide by the limits set by Congress—whether he likes them or not.

“This Administration has sought to leverage its power regarding U.S. foreign policy to unilaterally contradict Congress’s stated domestic policy regarding one of the most significant energy projects in a generation: the Keystone XL Pipeline,” it adds.

Montana, Texas, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming are all listed in the lawsuit.

The Staff: I sincerely hope the US has to pay Billions and the liberal press   tells us again how this is Trumps fault. The photo below shows what I think of their crap.