Declarations of Truth

Test of faith in Israel By Terry A. Hurlbut This Fourth Arab-Israeli War (or Fifth or Sixth) is more than an unprovoked attack on a country’s civilian population. It is a test of faith. These events are testing whether those of us who profess a belief in God, truly believe. But it also tests which faith or faiths are valid, and deserve respect. Current events in Israel As readers will recall, the current war began Saturday, October 7, 2023, at 6:30 a.m. Israel Daylight Time. It began with rocket fire, then with a massive incursion – that Israel’s intelligence services did not predict. Prime Minister Binjamin Netanyahu declared war within hours – the first time a Prime Minister has done that since 1973. Indeed this war began fifty years to the date (Gregorian) of the Third Arab-Israeli War, or the Yom Kippur War. Why Israeli intelligence did not predict this incursion, will likely be the subject of multiple courts-martial in the Israeli armies. Sadly it has given rise to multiple canards that the Israelis wanted this to happen. Or rather, that Binyamin Netanyahu wanted it to happen. Incredibly, former Vice-President Mike Pence blames President Donald J. Trump for this war! But very likely he is willfully misinterpreting some of Trump’s remarks. https://twitter.com/Mike_Pence/status/1711038511397130572 Of all the motives Donald Trump might have for not wanting to involve the United States in endless wars, appeasement is not one. Pence is also making an apples-to-oranges comparison. Responding to a sneak attack is not the same thing as building an empire. Which is what Mike Pence obviously seeks to do. (Never mind him anyway; he can’t win, and is polling in single digits anyway.) Israel has responded with massive bombing runs on Gaza City, and plans for a ground offensive. Telegram channels sympathetic to Gaza are not sounding so high-and-mighty about any “liberation”: of the Negev. Faith as a guide Israel, or at least the land on which it rests, is central to no fewer than three faith traditions. These are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, in order of increasing recency of founding. For simplicity’s sake, CNAV dates the founding of these various traditions as: • 2136 BC: Judaism (as entry of Abraham through the Gateway to Canaan), • 4 BC: Christianity (as the actual birth year of Christ), and • 620 AD: Islam (as The Hegira, according to their own traditions). Archaeology in Israel has official standing, as your editor observed first-hand in March-April 2011. Since its inception, the Israeli government has maintained an active Ministry of Antiquities that carefully preserves as many ancient foundations and other ruins as it can. (In sharp contrast, the Muslim attitude toward antiquities is to destroy anything that points away from their vision of history.) The most obvious Jewish artifact is the Temple – though the present Temple dates not to Solomon, but to Herod. But Jerusalem itself is an artifact, since it dates to King David. Other sites of importance to Jews include Kefer Nahum (Capernaum), Beit She’an, and Qumran, from which we get the oldest manuscripts of the Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls. Christianity has the Garden Tomb, just outside Jerusalem, and the Churches of the Nativity and the Holy Sepulchre. (This latter Church rests on a foundation of doubtful authenticity.) Islam has the Dome of the Rock, and the Mosque of Al-Aqsa. Judaism – are the Jews facing another test of faith? The term Jew came into common usage during the Exile, and especially during the Persian Era. It derives from the name of the Southern Kingdom of Israel, called Judah. Worth considering is that Israel had been falling away from its central faith of late. Less than a year ago, Israel swore in a government as close to a civilizational state as one gets. Before then, Judaism was largely a family heritage – and not a religion to take seriously. To be sure, many always have. But only with the last election have such people commanded enough strength to become part of a government. Rights? Nevertheless, CNAV observed many disturbing facts about the start of this war. The most atrocious acts involved Gaza paragliders crashing parties – a “rave party,” and a “musical festival for peace.” This second incident resulted in the murder of a German female visitor. What happened to her body does not bear mention in polite company. Necrophilia as a sexual fetish springs to mind. But here’s the problem: a properly religious people would not have “rave” celebrations. Nor would any woman festoon her skin with tattoos. Does this mean any of the victims of these incidents individually deserved what they got? No. One can no more suggest that than one can excuse a rapist. In fact, any individual, group or government that commits atrocious acts forfeits any consideration he or they might have deserved. So “Palestinian rights” become a non-issue. The Islamic Resistance Movement (Arabic Harakah al-Muqāwamah al-Islāmiyyah, abbreviated HAMAS) should have thought of that before they introduced hatred of Jews for being Jews into their curriculum. Or sent men to “liberate” a territory by killing anything that moved. Besides, as CNAV will show in its treatment of Islam, the Gaza case has its basis in lies, anyway. Was God trying to get His people’s attention? But the blame for these civilians being in harm’s way might lie with a society making light of its faith. Any student of the Bible knows the formula. “Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD,” it begins, and continues with apostasy and idolatry. After that comes their “sale … into the hands of …” Fill in the blank. It could be Canaanites or Midianites or Ammonites (modern Jordan) or Philistines. (And because the Roman name Palaestina is Latin for Philistia, that makes these Arabs a third group of Philistines. What’s more, Gaza occupies one-fifth of the original land of Philistia.) The most instructive passage of the Bible that applies here is Judges 2:10-22. Which reads: After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation grew up who knew neither the LORD nor what He had done for Israel. Then the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD and served the Baals. They forsook the LORD, the God of their ancestors, Who had brought them out of Egypt. They followed and worshiped various gods of the peoples around them. They aroused the LORD’s anger because they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths. In His anger against Israel the LORD gave them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they were no longer able to resist. Whenever Israel went out to fight, the hand of the LORD was against them to defeat them, just as He had sworn to them. They were in great distress. Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the hands of these raiders. Yet they would not listen to their judges but prostituted themselves to other gods and worshiped them. They quickly turned from the ways of their ancestors, who had been obedient to the LORD’s commands. Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for them, He was with the judge and saved them out of the hands of their enemies as long as the judge lived; for the LORD relented because of their groaning under those who oppressed and afflicted them. 19 But when the judge died, the people returned to ways even more corrupt than those of their ancestors, following other gods and serving and worshiping them. They refused to give up their evil practices and stubborn ways. Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel and said, “Because this nation has violated the covenant I ordained for their ancestors and has not listened to Me, I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died. I will use them to test Israel and see whether they will keep the Way of the LORD and walk in It as their ancestors did.” Could Gaza represent one of those ancient “raiding” and oppressive societies of the era of the Judges? Christianity The relationship between Christianity and modern Judaism has been under tension since the founding of the Roman Catholic Church. Jesus Christ, of course, began as a Jew, and specifically offered His Ministry first and foremost to them. Of course, “His own received Him not,” and He went to death on the Cross. But He is also credited, in many manuscripts, as saying, Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing. Luke 23:34 This rejection continued even after the Resurrection and the Ascension. All the Apostles faced that. But the Apostles, except for one, died at Roman hands, not Jewish. (John died quietly of old age, after Emperor Nerva recalled him from exile. Judas Iscariot either hanged himself or jump to his death in a field he bought. Either way, Church tradition strikes his name from among the Apostles.) All of which to say: Christians have no grounds to disparage the Jews for being Jews. Furthermore, we have every ground to accord them the respect Paul of Tarsus accorded them. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse. Genesis 12:3 Islam Islam was perhaps the first faith that had revisionism as its basis. (The “Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints” is another.) Muhammad, so the story goes, received several visions from Gabriel, telling him that the Word of God, as the Bible showed it, was corrupt and riddled with errors. The most obvious “corrections” Islam offers are: 1. The son that Abraham almost sacrificed on Mount Moriah was Ishmael, not Isaac. 2. God had no Son; Jesus was a Prophet of Islam who came before Muhammad. 3. Salvation is by works, usually by walking a tightrope by balancing sin against right acts. But one who sacrifices his life in holy war can bypass this tightrope. Furthermore, the Koran, or Recital, has two separate sets of books, or Surat. The Mecca Surat preach peace, and even friendship with Jews. But the Medina Surat preach war. Furthermore, the Koran has an Abrogation Principle that explicitly says that the verses handed down more recently take precedence. Lastly, lying is acceptable if it advances the faith. Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock has its own interesting history. Abd al-Malik built it on the Temple site to commemorate the capture of Jerusalem from the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire. He might have intended it to attract Muslims to make pilgrimages to Jerusalem, not to Mecca. In this sense it is exactly like the Golden Calves of Tel-Bethel and Tel-Dan which Jeroboam I set up. A valid faith? Ultimately Jesus will prove the validity of His faith, removing all doubt, upon His return. But a faith that celebrates atrocious acts to prove the “greatness” of its god above other gods, cannot be valid. That could explain why comparatively few Muslims interpret their faith as HAMAS does. Or Hizbullah (Party of God), who are HAMAS’ current patrons. Or Iran, patron of Hizbullah. Those people glorify the current war as a holy war, like the wars of conquest by Muhammad and his successors. This is what Laura Loomer meant over the weekend when she denied any prospect of peace in the Middle East. When one party (whose traditions have revisionism at their very core) not only teaches revisionist history, but has a moral code that regards other humans as no longer human, history becomes a succession of wars. That party will win or die. https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1711433450413343054 Christianity has several controversial prophecies about the end of history. The Prophet Ezekiel predicted that a Russo-Arab-Iranian alliance would attack Israel when Israel was at its most complacent. (Ezekiel 38-39.) Could this be that war? The main reason it might not be is that only those having their own motives for lying, are suggesting a Russian role in this affair. (Remember: the Soviet Union is no more.) Thus this event is a test of faith, in two senses. It tests whether those who profess to believe, really believe, and tests who among the three Abrahamic faiths has something true to believe in. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2023/10/09/editorial/talk/faith-test-israel/ Mike Pence charging three rivals with appeacement: https://twitter.com/Mike_Pence/status/1711038511397130572 Libs of TikTok pointing out HAMAS atrocities: https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1711433450413343054 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ The CNAV Store: https://cnav.store/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Israel at war – again By Terry A. Hurlbut The State of Israel once again finds itself at war. This could be the most serious crisis Israel has ever faced, because it shows an appalling lack of preparedness. Almost certainly Israel’s armies will wipe out its opposition – but many of its own civilians will die in the process. Furthermore, this war will have political and economic effects throughout the Middle East, and indeed the world over. How Israel found itself at war The Fourth Arab-Israeli War (or the Fifth, or Sixth) began at roughly 6:30 a.m. Israel Daylight Time today. (That corresponds to 11:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.) The Islamic Resistance Movement (Arabic Harakah al-Muqāwamah al-Islāmiyyah, abbreviated HAMAS) began by launching 5,000 rockets, according to The Daily Caller. Many of these missiles flew as far north as Tel Aviv. After that, teams of gunmen crossed into the Negev, in addition to other teams that infiltrated into Israel for days. Video footage shows the gunmen crossing the border using paragliders. https://twitter.com/AFpost/status/1710514746448023897 The Associated Press reports these gunmen kidnapped many Israelis. Commentator Collin Rugg says HAMAS did more than that. https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1710653391138070624 The $6 billion sum was in South Korea, apparently as part of a prisoner exchange. Other influencers are saying the same: https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1710625097181012187 https://twitter.com/EretzIsrael/status/1710735071378800731 https://twitter.com/Israel/status/1710583575123263962 That might not be the worst of it. This report from Daily Caller News Foundation has details of wholesale kidnapping of civilians in Negev communities. https://twitter.com/JLRINVESTIGATES/status/1710675738897064137 https://twitter.com/HenMazzig/status/1710719164099318078 https://twitter.com/nasserlaham4/status/1710591870441562261 https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1710675805540438448 Reuters confirmed these reports at 2:33 p.m. EDT. In addition, Israel has supposedly confirmed that Tat Aluf Nimrod Eloni, commander of the Depth Corps, is now a prisoner. https://twitter.com/OsintUpdates/status/1710611525575352674 The Depth Corps handles long-range operations deep in enemy territory. Erick-Woods Erickson published a screencap of the Biden administration’s response. The Office of Palestinian Affairs, according to the screencap, said: We unequivocally condemn the attack of HAMAS terrorists and the loss of life that has incurred. We urge all sides to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks. Terror and violence solve nothing. Influencer Omri Ceren shared that screencap to X, with a scathing rebuke. https://twitter.com/omriceren/status/1710599560001634458 The original post is no longer available, because the OPA deleted it. https://twitter.com/jorster/status/1710627826523623623 https://twitter.com/jorster/status/1710628302358987048 Reaction Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel formally declared war. https://twitter.com/HananyaNaftali/status/1710578709516677292 “The enemy will pay an unprecedented price,” he said, promising “return fire of a magnitude the enemy has not known.” https://twitter.com/dharmafirstalwz/status/1710588208529232338 Netanyahu also has formed a wartime unity government, inviting his old rivals, Yair Lapid and Benny Ganz, to take part. Ironically, Yair Lapid, twenty years ago, called for an incursion into Gaza to wipe out terrorist elements there. Aluf Ghasan Alyan, presumably the theater commander in the Negev, vowed a major escalation. https://twitter.com/JimFergusonUK/status/1710650351420891589 Most world leaders condemned the surprise attack. https://twitter.com/vonderleyen/status/1710568998197178680 https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/1710601963375603781 https://twitter.com/ABaerbock/status/1710564652860449199 https://twitter.com/ItalyinIsrael/status/1710577558234747236 https://twitter.com/JamesCleverly/status/1710573119813845462 So did President Donald Trump, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and several Members of the House of Representatives. https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1710656463255871558 https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1710547400425685426 https://twitter.com/RepJoshG/status/1710632968807436325 https://twitter.com/RepDonDavis/status/1710636094411161707 https://twitter.com/RepWilliams/status/1710631836890562852 Laura Loomer gave this brutal assessment in a long-form X post: https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1710788336237883434 Retired Gen. Michael Flynn, in an op-ed at The Western Journal, criticized the “complacency” of the West. He holds – and one can readily see why – that this is an attack also on the U.S. and the West. By that he means that the U.S. has weakened itself, and it shows. But he also charges that many of the “migrants” could as easily start shooting people in south Texas, just as HAMAS gunmen are shooting and snatching people in the Negev. Furthermore, he cites the unfreezing of the $6 billion as evidence that “we either have idiots running our foreign policy, or it is intentional.” What is the motive of the globalists? Gen. Flynn also spoke of something else: a leftist elite in Israel itself that thinks it can get along with HAMAS and similar groups. Obviously they are not copacetic with Israel reorienting itself as a civilizational state. But it gives rise to another riddle, one far less pleasant to contemplate. At least one commentator, while loudly proclaiming to be “America First,” has lately promoted a theory that the globalist cabal now in control in the West is a Jewish cabal. Nicholas J. Fuentes founded something he calls the America First Foundation. He likes to invoke the name of Donald J. Trump to make his pronouncements look respectable. In fact, people like him give Trump a bad name. This profile on Conservapedia probably gives the most objective and carefully documented facts about him. Rumors – which so far have no substantiation – have him denying that the Holocaust ever happened. But in fact he has deliberately “trolled” other conservative events with foolish, often crude questions. All that to say this. Nicholas J. Fuentes insists that the Israelis let this incursion happen, for the political benefit of the current ruling party. Seek whom the intel failure would profit? In a Telegram post – his first in days, seven and a half hours after the attack – he said: The Palestinian incursion into Israel helps Netanyahu but probably hurts the emergent deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel as well as Biden’s diplomacy with Iran. No chance for Hamas to achieve a meaningful victory. Even with advanced equipment like drones the Israeli response will be brutal. Pay attention to what people are saying today because how people react to this conflict will reveal whose side they’re really on. True enough, Saudi Arabia was in talks with Israel about signing an Abraham-like accord. The “Palestinian Question” was the sticking point. It would benefit HAMAS to launch this attack to put that kingdom on the spot, even in desperation. And desperation it is, because Fuentes correctly holds that Hamas cannot win. Four minutes later, Fuentes went on: Lot of talk about the “intelligence failure” that IDF/Mossad were caught off guard by an attack on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War and after telegraphing from Ayatollah. I think this is a little suspicious in light of how the Likud government will benefit politically from this crisis both domestically and internationally. One more minute after that: Pay attention to how many times you hear about the “$6 billion in unfrozen Iranian assets.” This will not only give a pretext to retaliate against Palestine but also against Lebanon and Iran. Dr. Steve Turley in fact said HAMAS would never have acted as they did, without the approval of Hizbullah (Party of Allah) in Lebanon. And they would never have approved, had not Iran approved of that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6Lp74K8-XY On the other hand, another Telegram channel operator, The Aussie Cossack, shared footage of two apartment buildings in Gaza City collapsing as one from Israeli air strikes. (More footage appears here, from another angle.) He repeated without comment the IDF claim that those towers housed HAMAS command and control elements. But what he was disputing was whether the air strikes alone would have destroyed those buildings in absolute synchrony. He raised the question of whether HAMAS demolished those buildings themselves, for show. Final analysis: why did Israel get caught? Gen. Flynn correctly identifies the salient weaknesses of Israeli society, especially a left wing that doesn’t understand evil. Your editor saw something else in his visit to Israel, twelve and a half years ago. As his tour guide admitted, the IDF does not understand Western-style military discipline. How else to explain how a general officer could fall prisoner to the enemy so easily? And how does a rag-tag gang manage to double its “territorial” holdings in a single day? We hear that the repulsion has already begun. But the appalling intelligence failure remains, as does the lack of discipline. However long this war takes to resolve, many officials and officers have a lot of explaining to do. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2023/10/07/editorial/talk/israel-war-2/ Posts from the war zone: https://twitter.com/AFpost/status/1710514746448023897 https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1710653391138070624 https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1710625097181012187 https://twitter.com/EretzIsrael/status/1710735071378800731 https://twitter.com/Israel/status/1710583575123263962 https://twitter.com/JLRINVESTIGATES/status/1710675738897064137 https://twitter.com/HenMazzig/status/1710719164099318078 https://twitter.com/nasserlaham4/status/1710591870441562261 https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1710675805540438448 https://twitter.com/OsintUpdates/status/1710611525575352674 https://twitter.com/omriceren/status/1710599560001634458 https://twitter.com/jorster/status/1710627826523623623 https://twitter.com/jorster/status/1710628302358987048 Posts in reaction: https://twitter.com/HananyaNaftali/status/1710578709516677292 https://twitter.com/dharmafirstalwz/status/1710588208529232338 https://twitter.com/JimFergusonUK/status/1710650351420891589 https://twitter.com/vonderleyen/status/1710568998197178680 https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/1710601963375603781 https://twitter.com/ABaerbock/status/1710564652860449199 https://twitter.com/ItalyinIsrael/status/1710577558234747236 https://twitter.com/JamesCleverly/status/1710573119813845462 https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1710656463255871558 https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1710547400425685426 https://twitter.com/RepJoshG/status/1710632968807436325 https://twitter.com/RepDonDavis/status/1710636094411161707 https://twitter.com/RepWilliams/status/1710631836890562852 https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1710788336237883434 Three Telegram posts by Nicholas Fuentes: https://t.me/nickjfuentes/12004 https://t.me/nickjfuentes/12005 https://t.me/nickjfuentes/12006 Dr. Steve Turley’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6Lp74K8-XY Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ The CNAV Store: https://cnav.store/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Extinctionism – older than you think By Terry A. Hurlbut Elon Musk occasionally likes to highlight a particular person or issue that concerns him, by posting about it on X. With one hundred fifty-nine million followers, he can make that person or issue “go viral” with a single post. Today he left two posts, on a subject that has concerned him for well over a year: extinctionism. Indeed he went so far as to say that extinctionism is the real ideological threat to humanity. Extinctionism – what is it, and who actively propounds it? Extinctionism means seeking the extinction of the human race. Even that concept, as extreme as it sounds, encompasses a broad spectrum of ways to achieve that end. Elon Musk highlighted one of them in his two posts: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1710394306572251409 Les U. Knight founded the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, abbreviated VHEMT (pronounced Vehement, “because that’s what we are,” says Knight.) Its method is simple: let all human beings abstain from reproduction. Thus the human race would die off by simple attrition. If everyone adopted that idea, humanity would die out within one generation. Knight founded VHEMT in 1991, but he formed his ideas for the concept in the 1970s, which saw the establishment of “Earth Day.” On the environmentalism spectrum the position one step removed from extinctionism is zero population growth. Theoretically that requires limiting women to two children during their childbearing years. (Any authority trying to mandate this exact population balance would have to allow one woman in ten to have a third child to replace children who die before they have a chance to mature.) Taking one step toward extinctionism, some advocate for limiting families to one child each. China did that, and then abandoned that when their population began to shrink. But more extreme even than the VHEMT position is calling on people to commit suicide – and until then, to consume the dead. Who has adopted this concept for their own ends? Why Elon Musk picked on Les Knight to highlight his alarm about extinctionism, is not immediately clear. But his real enemies include Bill Gates, George Soros, and Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum. One can readily see why he would pick on someone other than those three, at least for now. He wants people to think about extinctionism as a political movement, and what’s wrong with it. Then perhaps he will condemn those who promote it most strongly today. CNAV does not doubt that he knows the roles those three men play. Musk associated himself with the WEF for years, until he fell out with Schwab and his colleagues. Since that falling-out, he has been urging people to reproduce, as much as possible. (Actually, Musk did attack Soros directly, in May, comparing him to a Marvel Comics antihero.) Very likely, some elite has been propounding extinctionism throughout history, as Les Knight himself suspects. The concept doesn’t use this name but should be familiar to any student of the history of the environmentalist movement. Paul Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb, actually said that five Earths would be required to sustain Earth’s present population. Robert Duncan-Enzmann had his number, and those of many others, while he (Enzmann) was designing interstellar colony wagons. Consider these quotes from an article he wrote in 1980: Common sense and progress seem to be forced upon the establishment by the Middle Classes, Lower Middle Classes, and Blue-Collar populations. Without exception, unless one searches very hard for an instance, technological progress had been forced upon the establishment by the common man. Without exception, the establishment has been dragged, howling, kicking, and screaming protest every inch of the way, trying at every possibility to obstruct, confuse, and sidetrack matters. On top of this, the so-called liberal establishment has fought tooth and nail to dismantle as much technology as possible, load all efforts with red herrings, give overwhelming publicity to the most improbable and expensive solution to all problems. They worked unremittingly toward lowering humanity’s living standards, education, and health and reducing any opportunity. Examples of the quite wealthy, liberal wine and cheese kneejerk lovers-of-the-suffering-masses success at spreading misery are startling. Some of the more notorious recent examples include banning DDT resulting in the spread of malaria to hundreds of millions. To suffer from malaria is bitter; personally, it is cruel to one’s children, and it is a burden upon the community. Imagine a presidential election campaign in which the candidates blither about tax reforms and saving the people from the maw of rapacious energy-producing companies. However, tax laws penalizing marriage are never whispered about. Behold the liberal Eastern community of geniuses babbling about methods of abolishing municipal sewage systems ‘to save irreplaceable nutrients.’ However, the same beautiful people never mention the European university professors who taught the precepts of technological devolution, abolition of education, and massive population decrease on a global scale as soon as possible. Consider the implacable hindrance by America and England’s academic elite of the development of cheap power of any sort, ranging through obstruction of hydroelectric power, oil shale, heavy oils, tar sands, nuclear power, breeder reactors, burning of coal, or diesel engines. Almost to a man, the Liberal community loves unspoiled Nature and primitive man, who naturally lives in perfect balance and harmony with the natural environment. The writer remembers some young teenage Eskimo girls whose fathers and brothers fought with gunfire against the liberal nature-loving Danes who sought to strip them of all modern sacraments of Western technology. Several wept as they chewed seal skins to make them soft enough to wear. These girls knew that their teeth would be worn to stubs level with their gums by the time they were 28. Fortunately, the revolution was a success, and Greenland is now independent. How odd: Enzmann wrote that 43 years ago, and one could imagine someone writing that today. Plus ça change, plus ça reste. But it gets worse Enzmann without a doubt knew that a conspiracy of some kind existed. But whether he thought of all its measures to support extinctionism is less clear. He mentioned the “marriage tax” explicitly, but did not mention abortion on demand, or contraception either. Nor is he likely to have imagined the Alphabet Soup (LGBTQIA+) movement. The one thing all Alphabet Soupers have in commoin is: their lifestyles preclude reproduction. Let no one hold his breath waiting for research programs aimed at getting “trans” men pregnant. That’s the shiny object for the shut-eyes in the Alphabet Soup movement. The powers-that-be who organized it, intend to implement the Les Knight/VHEMT precept: no reproduction at all. By every credible account, they would leave no child out of the regimen of surgical mutilation and hormonal poisoning. They will persuade children to undertake it voluntarily, by convincing them they were born into the wrong bodies. In some jurisdictions, parents could lose custody if they try to counter the gender confusion their children’s teachers provoke in them at school. Nor should we leave out some parents who deliberately confuse their own children as to their gender. At least one motion picture featured a character, ostensibly a girl, with a male “secret friend.” The reader will readily guess that girl and “secret friend” were one and the same. This “girl” brutally murdered her mother and aunt. By movie’s end we find out that the “girl” was a boy all along. But extinctionism cannot survive That motion picture involved merely raising a boy as a girl. Today several celebrities do worse: they subject a child to surgical mutilation and hormonal poisoning. But that’s only part of a larger plot to extinguish humanity. Abandonment of agriculture and animal husbandry, manipulation of people’s immune systems – it all adds up. No, Enzmann did not foresee extinctionism as an explicit movement. Maybe he didn’t understand the true aim of the “misery spreading” he decried. But he did offer this stark warning to those who tried to enforce anything like it from the top down: Such dictatorship is inevitably followed by rule through a hereditary intelligentsia which used to be called Nobility or First Estate, with devolution of every aspect of life for the working majority, proletariat, or blue-collar and middle-class. The hardworking people will exist under emergency laws formulated to meet conditions so serious that all normal freedoms have to be abrogated until the currently manufactured crisis is resolved. Resolution usually includes mandatory execution of extended families, social groups, and even nations guilty of or even capable of criminal actions. The death of such societies is inevitable, either through the execution of most of the population or the execution of its entrenched and merciless government. The entrenchment of such governments is always through the control of information sources, the Fourth Estate, by an entrenched Nobility (currently, they fashionably call themselves the Intelligentsia) acting through a dictator. Robert Duncan-Enzmann is now dead. (And, tellingly, the curators of his Archive took this article down – but not before the Wayback Machine captured it.) But Elon Musk has identified that dictator – or rather, that triumvirate of Gates, Soros, and Schwab. To save itself, humanity needs more than the identities of the triumvirs. Ayn Rand cautioned against fighting men rather than their evil ideas. Anything that discourages – or precludes – procreation is something to fight. Yes, that even includes contraception. Those who abandon a lifestyle that emphasizes present convenience will outlast those who stick with that lifestyle. This goes double for those, like the Amish, who never embraced such “convenience” to begin with. Enzmann frankly predicted violent revolution as the cure for the nihilism that enforced extinctionism represents. Perhaps next year’s election cycle will determine whether that is necessary, or whether Americans, at least, can throw off the extinctionism regime peaceably. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2023/10/06/editorial/talk/extinction-older-think/ Elon Musk’s post highlighting Les Knight: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1710394306572251409 Robert Duncan-Enzmann’s article, courtesy of the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20230322125802/https://enzmannarchive.org/starships_now/technology-to-build-starships-is-here/ Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ The CNAV Store: https://cnav.store/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Whose dignity deserves protection? By Terry A. Hurlbut This morning, two University of Michigan political science professors made a strange, or perhaps inevitable, argument. They said that dignity, and the respect therefor by all members of society, is a right. As such it imposes on every member the burden of associating with every other member, on demand, without regard to whether said association violates one’s religious or other sensibilities. Coming from these two professors, that is very likely a lie. But more than that, it violates the very concept of “right” and forces nothing less than a civilizational clash. What dignity means Merriam-Webster defines dignity, in this context, as “the quality or state of being worthy, honored, or esteemed.” Worthy, of course, presupposes an answer to the question, “worthy of what?” The best answer one can give here is: worthy of respect. But dignity can mean something else: rank. That’s close to the meaning of the original Latin word dignitas, which stood for the total standing of a Roman citizen among his peers and with members of other social strata. In either sense, an act beneath one’s dignity is an act that diminishes the actor. And a requirement that diminishes one’s dignity is one that someone feels he shouldn’t have to meet. Professors Pauline Jones and Andrew Murphy published their piece in The Conversation today, one day before the first Conference Day at the Supreme Court of the United States. Its title: “Supreme Court is increasingly putting Christians’ First Amendment rights ahead of others’ dignity and rights to equal protection.” In 1,335 words (give or take five) they assert that any refusal to speak to, associate with, or provide services to another, diminishes the other’s dignity. Two things are wrong with their thesis. First, they belong to that “side of the aisle” that applies it selectively. Second, even a consistent application of the thesis would inevitably tear society apart. Rights v. allowances, and the minimum rights of the individual First, the concept right seems to be a difficult one for people like Jones and Murphy to grasp. A right is generally a sphere of activity with which no one may interfere. An allowance is a minimum substance that others must provide as the price of continued social membership. Allowances and rights are always in tension. And in a sound society, allowances are few, and rights are many. Only in emergencies do allowances and their companion concept – rations – have a place. So what are the minimum rights of individual humans? God specified those rights about 3500 years ago: You shall not murder. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. You shall not covet. Exodus 20:13,15-17 (NASB) Notice that each right is a command forbidding others (including government) to do things to individuals. These, then, are the minimum rights of human beings, that all human beings must respect. Any deprivation of those rights can only come through due process of law. That last follows logically from other laws the Bible gives – and is an explicit part of the Constitution. No person shall be … deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law. Amendment V; see also Amendment XIV, Section 1 A mistaken notion and extension of dignity We now turn to Jones and Murphy’s mistaken idea of dignity as a thing that supersedes freedom of expression. The Supreme Court held, in the case of which they complain the loudest, that the government may not compel speech. To compel one to support the activities of another, against his wishes, is to abridge his freedom of speech. 303 Creative v. Elenis, 600 U.S. 570 (2023). Creative expression is protected speech. But Jones and Murphy don’t agree. They said this decision represents the culmination of a decadelong strategy by conservative Christians – known sometimes as the Christian right – to use the courts to limit the freedoms of groups of Americans of whom they disapprove. On issues where the Christian right’s First Amendment claims directly threaten the equal citizenship of sexual minorities, for example, the court left no question about which side it was on. And what do they say are the freedoms of same-sex roommates sharing bed (SSRSB)? They say they stand for the dignity of “members of marginalized groups.” Dignity is not a right in and of itself. If by dignity they mean respect for one’s rights to life, liberty and property, nothing that 303 Creative did (or refused to do) threatens those rights. (Neither would 303 Creative have the authority so to threaten.) But: perhaps by dignity they mean a rank. In other words, SSRSBs have a “right” to support of their lifestyle, even by those who consider that God commands them to withhold that support. The Sodom controversy To understand the fundamental error Jones and Murphy have made, turn to another, much older controversy. Let’s call it Lot and Two Angelic Visitors v. Councilors and Citizens of Sodom, Genesis 19:1-11. Lot, nephew of Abraham and immigrant to Sodom, had won election (not necessarily democratic) to the city council. When two of God’s Messengers visited him, he recognized them at once. He urged them to take lodging – shelter would be a more apt term – in his house. Sure enough, before the household could even go to bed for the night, several other councilors and other citizens laid siege to Lot’s door. Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may have relations with them. Genesis 19:5 (NASB) The compromise Lot offered those men, besides being repugnant even to describe, doesn’t matter. What matters is that the citizens of Sodom did not accept it. Indeed they said of Lot: This one came in as an immigrant, and already he is acting like a judge; now we will treat you worse than them. Genesis 19:9 (NASB), paraphrase The two visitors settled the controversy with brutal simplicity. After drawing Lot back into his house, they struck the besiegers with blindness. Next morning, of course, they hustled Lot and his family beyond the city’s walls and said, “Run for your lives!” They ran – and today that city is only a volcanic lava- and ash-buried ruin northeast of the Dead Sea. And now we see what Jones and Murphy have just done. They have imitated the councilors and citizens of Sodom, not only in lifestyle but also in their demand. What is that demand? Naturally Jones and Murphy will object that neither they nor Aubrey Elenis (the Colorado Civil Rights Commission official in the 303 Creative case) are demanding that Lorie Smith (who owns 303 Creative) submit herself or any of her family, staff, or other associates for intimate contact of any nature. True – for now – but not relevant. What’s relevant is that they demanded support for that which God has never permitted, even in the New Testament. Lorie Smith understands that, and does not wish to support such activity with her creative and artistic expression. Jones and Murphy speak of “the crucial role [of] religion as the basis for objecting to anti-discrimination laws.” Does the Bible permit or command any and all forms of discrimination? No. The Bible clearly describes all human beings as alike in God’s sight. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:28 (NASB) The Bible tells Its readers to concern themselves with the acts, not the unchangeable characteristics, of others. But of course Alphabet Soup adherents and defenders insist that Alphabet Soup tendencies are unchangeable. They are not. And to suggest that they are unchangeable is either to: • Suggest that biology determines behavior, and deleterious behaviors can survive even the tremendous hypothetical selection pressure of “evolution,” or to: • Say that God makes mistakes. Neither assumption is tenable. Selective application – not everyone’s dignity is equal Jones and Murphy insist that anti-discrimination laws, even when they demand positive support of ungodly lifestyles, are necessary to “democracy.” Once again: democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what’s for dinner. The United States of America is a republic, a nation of law, not of mob rule or anything like it. In fact, the Joneses and Murphys of our society selectively apply this maxim, in argument and in their daily lives. CNAV cannot and would not reasonably expect a Christian to ask an Alphabet Soup adherent to plan a wedding between one man and one woman, and reasonably expect said adherent to provide that service. (And if one party to such a transaction thinks so little of the other, how can the client be satisfied?) Nor would said Christian presume to so demand, or to ask a court to uphold such a demand. Nevertheless, CNAV anticipates that such an Alphabet Soup adherent would refuse. Which brings up the obvious remedy: let them establish their own businesses to provide such services among themselves. And therein lies their hypocrisy. They routinely ask social media platforms and providers of other services to refuse service to those with whom they disagree. Ask Mike Lindell what he did to deserve having to close his bank accounts with Minnesota Bank and Trust. Will Jones and Murphy support him? Would Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the dissenter in 303 Creative? CNAV wouldn’t advise holding one’s breath. Civilizational clash To repeat: Jones and Murphy are not arguing for a legitimate right, but for an allowance. Furthermore they demand that some support that which they deem a lie and/or antithetical to civilization. They speak of “tension” between religion and “democracy” (that word again!), and a “balance” among freedoms of religion on one hand, and other First Amendment rights on the other. Part of their problem is that they clearly do not accept religion as valid. “Liberty pertains to both freedom of and freedom from religion,” they say. But how can freedom of religion exist if one may not exercise it? CNAV does not fear the debate on which religions would or would not be tolerable in a sound society. That is because the Framers were not only Christians but also insisted that the Constitution they framed was for “a moral and religious people.” Furthermore, those lacking a religious foundation, not only could defend murder but indeed could not prosecute it. Does freedom of religion undermine democracy? Perhaps it does, given what democracy really is. Does it undermine a republic? No. Jones and Murphy are in fact arguing for “freedom” from religion – not only in government but by any individual whose path they might possibly cross. Once again we return to the councilors and citizens of Sodom, accusing Lot of “acting like a judge.” We saw what “tolerance” meant to them. So we cannot accept Jones’ and Murphy’s thesis, or any “compromise” they pretend to propose, as valid. 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McCarthy out – and his RINO cohorts cry By Terry A. Hurlbut Yesterday, six patriotic Republicans – with two “me, too” players along for the ride – made history. One of them filed a motion to vacate the chair, to remove Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Speaker of the House. Five more patriots, the two “me, too” players – and 208 Democrats – voted a day later to carry that motion. As a result, Speaker McCarthy is now merely Representative McCarthy, not even in House leadership. Already the chorus of outrage, already building, has escalated to howls. But the ones doing the howling, have none to blame but themselves. McCarthy shouldn’t have been Speaker As CNAV said last year, the 2022 Midterms were a disaster. The vaunted Red Wave broke on three Blue Seawalls. CNAV listed them then as complacency, incompetency/fraud, and the souls of half the country being in a dark place. That could easily apply, not only to the entire country, but to the Republican Party alone. RINOs – Republicans In Name Only – are guilty of all three of these counts: • Complacency – Republican voters didn’t turn out because Donald J. Trump wasn’t on the ballot. • Incompetency and fraud – for example, Laura Loomer losing her primary to a worse vegetable than Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman. The Republican leadership supported the vegetable, and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) cooperated with them. Worse yet, RINOs in charge of elections in Maricopa County, Arizona gave the general election away to Katie Hobbs and her team – read, “gang.” • Dark souls – that directly applies to the current Republican leadership. For decades they noisily promised an end to Democratic abuses – then ended up facilitating them. They also promoted a vision of a Representative’s job as simple: track down Grandma’s Social Security check, write Junior’s letter of recommendation to get him into West Point (or The Academy, also known as The Yard, or else Colorado Springs) – and sit down, shut up, and take home the occasional pork chop. That’s the kind of Republican Conference Kevin McCarthy ran as its Leader. Republicans should have more than a bare House majority. McCarthy wanted one he could control. How he got to be Speaker Shortly after that disastrous Midterm, several patriotic Representatives lined up to contend to be Speaker or support those who did. Among them were Reps. Bob Good (R-Va.), Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.), and Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) If he hadn’t had Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to support him, he might never have made it. (Laura Loomer always felt McCarthy had worked on Greene with a combination of bribery and blackmail.) But McCarthy did become Speaker, after agreeing to a large number of concessions. First and foremost, he agreed to a change in the House Rules. Among those changes was the restoration of the Motion to Vacate the Chair. Furthermore, under these new Rules, such a motion would be privileged, that is, requiring a vote within forty-eight hours of someone asking for such a vote. Other changes included requiring a three-fifth supermajority to increase taxes. The would-be Speaker made several other key promises, including: • Passing twelve separate appropriations bills, not an Omnibus Bill or Continuing Resolution, • Appointing key men to head the Judiciary and Oversight Committees, and • Stripping Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) of their committee assignments. The House took fifteen votes to confirm the new Speaker. Before the fifteenth vote, McCarthy and Gaetz exchanged heated words. Then one of the new Speaker’s supporters almost landed physical blows on Gaetz. The final vote was 216-212, with Gaetz, Biggs, Rosendale, Good, Lauren Boebert (Colo.) and Eli Crane (R-Ariz.) voting “Present.” How McCarthy lost his Speakership The new Speaker made good on most of his promises as fast as he could. That included the public shaming of Schiff and Omar, and the appointment of Jim Jordan (Ohio) and James Comer (Ky.) to chair the Judiciary and Oversight Committees. Those two especially have made a lot of noise with their investigations of Biden and his family. The Democrats came to despise the Speaker. Three of them accused him of weaponizing House committee assignments. More recently, they, too, accused him of making promises to them that he did not keep. But Matt Gaetz grew livid when the Speaker started cutting “secret deals” with the Democrats on Ukraine funding. Then the Speaker made his worst mistake: agreeing to a Continuing Resolution. So Gaetz announced a motion to vacate the chair on Monday (October 2) at 7:38 p.m. EDT. https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1708989862005678110 First came a motion to lay the motion to vacate on the table. It failed, 208-218. Tellingly, not a single Democrat voted for the motion to table. https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1709279716912300439 After that, the debate and vote on the motion to vacate took three hours and twelve minutes. https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1709274977730502981 https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1709307848319254863 The motion carried, 216-210. Eight Republicans joined all the Democratic members present in voting in favor. • Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), • Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), • Eli Crane (R-Ariz.), • Ken Buck (R-Colo.), • Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), • Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), • Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.), and • Bob Good (R-Va.). https://twitter.com/simonateba/status/1709383684934029449 And the crybaby performance begins at once! Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), Speaker pro tempore, actually presided over the vote. After announcing it, he invited McCarthy to make a concession speech. He did: https://twitter.com/SpeakerMcCarthy/status/1709349632315199968 Actually, the former Speaker behaved like a gentleman. Nothing in his [career] / Became him like the leaving it. MacBeth I.iv.8-9, paraphrase. Not so McHenry. As his first official act, he put the House into recess until October 10. Holding the gavel after the concession speech, he declaimed, The House is in recess, subject to the call of the Chair. He then brought his gavel down on the strike plate with a violent force that should have chipped the dais. Miraculously, it did not. But Rep. Gaetz immediately seized on the gesture, and its meaning. https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1709384252846985648 https://twitter.com/NEWSMAX/status/1709630393970815296 To Newsmax’ Eric Bolling, he said: We should be here tomorrow, working to elect a new Speaker, getting onto our appropriations bills, and engaging in a negotiation with the Senate to get the government funded. But instead…! Whoa! These people have to go home and cry for a week? They’ve got to do a week of hand-wringing and bed-wetting over the fact that Kevin McCarthy isn’t Speaker anymore? This institution is about more than one man. It’s about the job. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjC_d2HhhSI Former Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) had his own harsh words for Gaetz and his colleague: https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1709654379475644844 Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.) echoed a common refrain about throwing Gaetz out of the House Republican Conference. https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1709646761080361055 Evidently Scott didn’t listen to Gaetz telling that Conference he could fund-raise from small donors just as well. https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1709299984321880242 Throw him out of the Conference, and he no longer has to pay Conference dues. Which, as The John Birch Society likes to say, amount to a Member’s annual salary. OK, what next? Beyond such petulant gestures, the common thread in the canards the establishment is throwing at Gaetz, is that he had no definite candidate for the Speakership in mind to endorse, if his motion carried – which, of course, it did. Gaetz has indicated he will not be a candidate for the Speakership. (To his credit, McHenry did send an official letter to Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., giving her notice to vacate the small office she kept in the Capitol as Speaker. He even said he would have the door re-keyed, which is modern parlance for changing the locks.) https://twitter.com/TaraBull808/status/1709399023357239385 https://twitter.com/awstar11/status/1709363798417838164 https://twitter.com/utahmom333/status/1709386584196321438 Speculation on the next Speaker now centers on three men above all. One is Rep. Jordan, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. In fact he is already circulating a letter asking for votes. https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1709592826864964022 Gaetz shared on X his speech in January nominating Jim Jordan for Speaker then. https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1709400737413784033 Another is Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), House Majority Leader and therefore technically next in line. But Laura Loomer warns that he has taken contributions (bribes?) from Bill Gates. https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1709656654692946308 The third man is Donald Trump. Nothing in the Constitution says the Speaker must be a member; only custom and tradition dictate that. Already Trump is attracting House endorsements. One has come from Rep. Greene: https://twitter.com/JustTheNews/status/1709404363066663342 https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1709397608576266457 Laura Loomer does not believe it. https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1709399260817657945 Trump himself trolled everybody today at 3:23 p.m. EDT with this retouch of himself holding the Speaker’s gavel. Summing up Toward the end of the afternoon, Gaetz left this post that summed up his motives: https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1709689072472510554 The House must vote for a new Speaker next week, as nothing can happen in a House without a Speaker. https://rumble.com/embed/v3ken0k/?pub=4teej Americans saw the making of history. Never before has the House removed its Speaker in mid-term, though several have resigned rather than face such a vote. The last time a motion to vacate came to the floor was in 1910. Rep. Joe Cannon (R-Ill., of House Office Building fame), then Speaker, introduced a motion to vacate the chair against himself. As he predicted, the motion failed, 155-192. In 2015, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) filed a motion to vacate the chair against Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). The House referred that to the Rules Committee, but Boehner resigned before it could ever come to a vote. Commenting on this historic moment, one observer remarked on the strength, or staying power, of the Republican insurgency: https://twitter.com/Pro__Trading/status/1709567344476139906 CNAV seconds that. And to the crybaby RINOs still asking what happened, CNAV closes with this. https://rumble.com/embed/v1136jm/?pub=4teej https://rumble.com/embed/v1gbvav/?pub=4teej Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2023/10/04/foundation/constitution/mccarthy-out-rino-cohors-cry/ Gaetz introduces Motion to Vacate: https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1708989862005678110 Vote on Motion to Table: https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1709279716912300439 Vote on Motion to Vacate: https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1709274977730502981 https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1709307848319254863 List of eight Republicans voting Aye on Motion to Vacate: https://twitter.com/simonateba/status/1709383684934029449 McCarthy concedes: https://twitter.com/SpeakerMcCarthy/status/1709349632315199968 Reaction to McHenry calling a recess: https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1709384252846985648 https://twitter.com/NEWSMAX/status/1709630393970815296 “Go home and cry”: interview between Matt Gaetz and Eric Bolling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjC_d2HhhSI Grievances against Gaetz: https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1709654379475644844 https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1709646761080361055 Matt Gaetz reminds people he needs no lectures when he can fund-raise from small donors: https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1709299984321880242 Reaction to McHenry evicting Pelosi from her old Speaker’s office in the Capitol: https://twitter.com/TaraBull808/status/1709399023357239385 https://twitter.com/awstar11/status/1709363798417838164 https://twitter.com/utahmom333/status/1709386584196321438 Jim Jordan starts canvassing for votes: https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1709592826864964022 Matt Gaetz reminds people he once nominated Jordan: https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1709400737413784033 Laura Loomer warns people not to trust Steve Scalise: https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1709656654692946308 MTG nominates Trump, but Laura Loomer doubts her sincerity: https://twitter.com/JustTheNews/status/1709404363066663342 https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1709397608576266457 https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1709399260817657945 Trump’s “Truth” with his self-retouch as (hypothetical) Speaker: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/111178376950836457 Matt Gaetz sums up: https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1709689072472510554 House to vote on new Speaker: https://rumble.com/v3n00ze-house-to-vote-on-new-speaker-next-week.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Post about staying power: https://twitter.com/Pro__Trading/status/1709567344476139906 Glengarry Glen Ross Alec Baldwin speech: https://rumble.com/v13pcii-coffees-for-closers-from-glengarry-glen-ross-alec-baldwin.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Declarations of Truth video: The Important Things: https://rumble.com/v1iy16f-the-important-things.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ The CNAV Store: https://cnav.store/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

The election that never ended – TIP 4 By Terry A. Hurlbut Herewith Part 4 of the Transition Integrity Project (TIP) series. Of the four war games the Project directors set up, one involved an election result that remained ambiguous for weeks. This would lead to deadlock on January 6, with Trump and Biden both claiming victory and both laying claim to the “keys to the kingdom” – and to The Football. This game did not rely on an assumption of guilt of venal shakedown on Trump’s part, but it did rely on the fanatical devotion to Trump by all his Cabinet officers. It also, as ever, assumed – without justice – that the electronic voting machines operated properly, and all mail-in votes were valid. Review of the Transition Integrity Project series CNAV has by now treated the Transition Integrity Project with five articles. They include a discussion of: 1. The full plans by the Democratic Party to ensure the installation of Biden by any means they deemed necessary, 2. The Transition Integrity Project itself, how it came to be, and what it assumed, 3. Predictions v. reality of the work-out of the Election of 2020 assuming its actual results (and that these were valid), 4. Predictions of how a narrower Biden win would have played out (and how realistic those predictions were), and earlier today, 5. A strong suggestion that a wet-behind-the-ears recent college graduate prepared an incriminating document and had someone plant this on the Telegram account of a January 6 defendant. So Part 4 will be the sixth article overall to treat the TIP. This is the story, according to them, of the Election That Never Ended. It is a repeat of the Election of 1876 – but without an “independent commission” that both campaigns could trust. Indeed the Executive Summary of the Project document decries the result of that election. To review: in 1876, several States sent alternative electors for Samuel J. Tilden, the Democrat – twenty in all. Republican Rutherford B. Hayes would need all of them to win; Tilden could have won with any two of them. In those days, Presidential terms ended in March, not January. So when Congress couldn’t certify the Electoral College count, they took time to appoint an independent commission. But the independent commission fails This Commission was to have five each members from Congress, the administration of Ulysses S. Grant, and the judiciary. Its membership happened to fall out as seven each Republican and Democratic by affiliation, with one independent. But President Grant elevated the independent member to the Supreme Court, thus making him ineligible to serve on the commission. Congress sent a loyal Republican to replace him, and the commission decided the election for Hayes, 8-7. Outraged, Democrats refused to accept the result. So Rutherford Hayes compromised. He pledged to: 1. Withdraw the last of the military occupying forces in Southern States, and also: 2. Withdraw support for the last of the provisional governments of other Southern States. These provisional governments had Northern Republican office holders, which Southerners called carpetbaggers after the then popular kind of traveler’s valise. Gertrude Stephens Brown (Your Country and Mine, ed. 1960, part of the Tiegs-Adams Social Studies Series by Ginn and Company Publishers) offered her acerbic take on these gentlemen: Many carpetbaggers were dishonest and mean. They had flocked to the South to make money by taking part in the new governments. They knew that if they could hold important government offices, they could govern the South as they pleased. They could even steal a lot of money for themselves. The TIP directors had their own take on the result of withdrawing occupying forces and support for carpetbagger governments;. They held that the Hayes Compromise traded an end to Reconstruction for electoral peace and resulted in a century of Jim Crow, leaving deep wounds that are far from healed today. That attitude on their part perhaps explains why they ended up not resolving their “ambiguous result” game. The Election That Never Ended – Game One This attitude might also explain why the TIP directors designated this scenario as Game One. They wanted to dismiss early the thought of appointing an independent commission. Perhaps they saw the breathtaking number of judges – and three Supreme Court Justices – Trump appointed, and the split of Congress. Accordingly they despaired of installing Biden through such a commission, and wanted to put that out of anyone’s mind. Game One’s description does not specify who won the popular vote or by what margin. But it did say that Electoral College totals would hinge on results in Florida, North Carolina, and Michigan. Different combinations of results from those States could produce a Biden win, a Trump win, or a tie. (The last time the Electoral College was tied was in the Election of 1824. Henry Clay famously decided the election in the House of Representative for John Quincy Adams. Andrew Jackson later won the Presidency in a decisive rematch.) First turns So in this game play, Team Trump (see the third article for a description of the seven teams) claimed immediate victory. Trump asked the Justice Department to send “agents” to “secure” polling places, and prepare to call out the National Guard. Attorney General William Barr prepared to sue to stop any further vote counting. Team Biden, of course, declared victory for themselves and called for “every vote to be counted.” At issue, of course, were mail-in ballots, most of which were late in arriving. Team Biden somehow recruited “influential bipartisan elites, elected officials, and retired military officers” to oppose calling out the National Guard. Who those “bipartisan elites” were supposed to be, the TIP directors never said. Team GOP supported Team Trump’s victory call and seconded their suspicions of voter fraud. But they did not support calling out the National Guard. Team Dem made sure whatever Secretaries of State they controlled would ensure that counting continue. As game play continued beyond November 10, Team Trump tried again to call out the National Guard. Both campaigns mobilized supporters to “show … numbers in the streets.” Teams GOP and Dem both tried to get State legislatures to send alternative electors. Most State legislatures refused – after White Cell rolled the dice and said they would fail. (White Cell were the game’s judges – or Dungeon Masters in Dungeons and Dragons lingo.) Election never resolves Eventually Biden carried North Carolina and Trump carried Florida. And in Michigan, “a rogue individual destroyed a large number of ballots believed to have supported Biden.” Result: Trump won – but Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.) sent alternative, Biden electors to Washington, D.C. After this, Team Trump tried to coerce individual electors to vote for him, and Trump himself invoked the Insurrection Act. As January 6 approached, Team GOP asserted that Mike Pence, as Vice President, was authorized to accept or reject any given set of electors. The TIP document won’t say what Pence did in this game, but only that neither side accepted the results. So that on January 20, two men were each asserting that he had won the election. Back to reality To begin with, neither North Carolina nor Florida was ever in doubt. If anything, Florida went even more strongly for Trump. In fact, several Republican House challengers defeated long-standing House Democrats by keeping a firm grasp on the President’s coattails. The only reason North Carolina might have been doubtful is that a Democrat (Roy Cooper) governed it, and still does. Michigan is, of course, one of the six contested States – and according to CNN, one of five States that “flipped” to Biden from 2016. But Michigan is notorious for other reasons. Some of the most brazen instances of voter fraud occurred in Michigan. Witnesses report snack trucks delivering batches of putative mail-in ballots at local midnight to polling places, where Officers of Election had papered over the windows. But key Democratic legislators intimidated those witnesses into silence by asking whether they had provided mistaken birthday or other data on their voter registrations. They also spoke of “coming to get” Trump voters and other supporters. No “rogue individuals” destroyed ballots that night. Instead, rogue groups organized the delivery of putative ballots they just happened to find. Dinesh D’Souza also demonstrated voter fraud in his motion picture, 2000 Mules. And one Michigander faced charges of voter fraud by filling out ballots in the names of incapacitated, but registered, voters. Finally, “Dom Lucre, Breaker of Narratives” revealed multiple instances of voter fraud in Antrim County (Michigan) and Maricopa County (Arizona). Bad picks CNAV has said before that Trump’s greatest error was of judgment in his Cabinet nominations. Attorney General Barr was worse than useless, and in fact obstructed any investigation of voter fraud. Vice-President Pence refuses to this day even to consider a Vice-President authorized to reject an elector designation. He wouldn’t even have had to seat alternative Electors. All he need have done was to reject the vote totals from Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Nevada. Then with neither candidate having a majority, the House of Representatives would have chosen the President by State bloc votes. Trump would have won that election easily. (Whether Pence would have kept his job after a Senate vote is another question.) We also know that Mike Pence gave notes from his private telephone conversations to Special Counsel Jack Smith. That (un)worthy then proceeded to indict Trump over the January 6 event. And tellingly, the TIP Game One did not mention any demonstrations on January 6, taking place anywhere. We also know that one Samuel Arnes, who took part in a college course that, he said, “groomed” him to join the FBI, took matters into his own hands after “becoming concerned” that Trump might refuse to leave the White House. By his own admission he wrote at least part of a document the FBI later “found” in the Telegram account of a January 6 defendant. More likely he wrote all that document, that spoke of occupying the Supreme Court and all six Congressional office buildings. Influencing a steal of an election? A month before the Election of 2020, CNN released a breathless tale of an attempt to kidnap Michigan’s Governor Whitmer. Thirteen men went to prison for their alleged roles in that plot. We have every reason to believe today that no such plot was ever in the offing. The FBI invented the tale out of the whole cloth. This story, such as it was, “broke” after the TIP document came out (August 3, 2020). This obviously implies that the FBI, reading the scenario about “rogue individual(s)” destroying ballots in Michigan, decided to use Michigan to stage a false-flag non-operation. Gretchen Whitmer would have been all too happy to oblige. The same holds for Samuel Arnes, who drew inspiration from the TIP document to fabricate the “1776 Returns” document that has figured in several more miscarriages of justice. Of course many, even beyond Biden and Democrat partisans, will doubt the nefarious motives CNAV has alluded to here. But Part Five, tomorrow, will examine the last TIP war game – in which Trump wins a clear victory in the Electoral College, and a coalition of Democrats and RINOs conspire to defraud him of victory after the fact. In the immortal phrase known to aficionados and producers of “cliffhanger” series, stay tuned. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2023/10/02/foundation/constitution/election-never-ended-tip-4/ The TIP document: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/7013152/Preventing-a-Disrupted-Presidential-Election-and.pdf The 1776 Returns article: https://cnav.news/2023/10/02/news/january-6-trial-government-fabricate-key-evidence/ The 1776 Returns document: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.229063/gov.uscourts.dcd.229063.401.1_2.pdf Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ The CNAV Store: https://cnav.store/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

The Second Civil War that almost happened – TIP 5 By Terry A. Hurlbut The Transition Integrity Project (TIP), as CNAV has said before, ran four distinct scenarios, all assuming popular discontent with Trump. Their last scenario (Game Three in the TIP Document) was the most dangerous: a breathtaking combination of wishful thinking and stone-cold evil refusal ever to accept Donald J. Trump as President of the United States for a second term. The danger lay, not in the initial conditions (though the combination in itself strained credulity). Rather, it lay in the moves – moves that, had they taken place, would have provoked a Second Civil War. And that game players in a think-tank would actually contemplate such moves, is the really sobering lesson of their “tournament.” Even more sobering, those players literally had no idea of the consequences those moves could have had. Review of the Transition Integrity Project series Again, the Transition Integrity Project series contains six articles before this one, discussing: 1. The full plans by the Democratic Party to ensure the installation of Biden by any means they deemed necessary, 2. The Transition Integrity Project itself, how it came to be, and what it assumed, 3. Predictions v. reality of the work-out of the Election of 2020 assuming its actual results (and that these were valid), 4. Predictions of how a narrower Biden win would have played out (and how realistic those predictions were), 5. The authorship, by one Samuel Arnes, of an incriminating document and how he had someone plant this on the Telegram account of a January 6 defendant, and: 6. Predictions of moves and outcomes for a Presidential election deadlock. The Transition Integrity Project document described sixty-seven active players on seven teams, to wit: 1. Team Trump, 2. Team Biden, 3. Republican elected officials (Team GOP), 4. Democratic elected officials (Team Dem), 5. Career federal government employees (civilian and military) and political appointees (Team FedGov), 6. Team Media, and 7. Team Public, with “polling experts” as proxies for the public. This article is Part Five, with the article about the Democratic Party full plans being Part Zero. (The article about Samuel Arnes does not count, but we include it because Arnes likely drew inspiration from TIP.) CNAV has reviewed three of the four TIP games, in order of increasing strength of Trump’s position after the election. The no-cheat assumption Why the TIP document arranged the four games as it did, the authors (the directors) never made clear. Game One had the “ambiguous” results, Game Two a “clear” Biden win, and Game Four a “narrow” Biden win. In fact, Game Two’s initial conditions came closest to those the Federal Elections Commission reported, i.e., Biden winning the: • Electoral College, 306 to 232, and • Popular vote, 81.3 million to 74.2 million. As CNAV has said before, the truth or falsity of these results is another debate. TIP assumed no actionable or effective fraud in the running of elections. Thus it was never any part of their game play to say that Team Biden collaborated with Team Dominion (as in Voting Services) to: • Mis-program the voting machines, • Disable security features that required only a certain weight or “bond” of paper to be loaded, • Recruit “2000 Mules” to deliver batches of mail-in ballots to unattended drop boxes, • Bring other batches of ballots into polling places in snack trucks (or give them to Officers of Election to smuggle in using their “suitcases”), • Arrange for special shipments of ballots across State lines using United States Postal Service trucks, or • Do any of a number of other shenanigans to which witnesses have attested at various times. But if such cheating was never a part of TIP game play, it was definitely the game plan after the document came out. Game Three and the Second Civil War Nevertheless, TIP assumed no fraud – and thus no ability to commission fraud, by either side. So it assumed these results by the end of Election Night or perhaps a day later: • Trump winning in the Electoral College, 286 to 252, and • Biden winning the popular vote, 52 percent to 47 percent. The only way that could happen would be if Pennsylvania, alone among the States Trump carried in 2016, “flipped.” Pennsylvania had 20 electoral votes at the time, and Trump carried it by a narrow margin – 1.2 percent. Even so, Trump fell behind Hillary Clinton by 1.2 million votes. Had Hillary carried Pennsylvania, she still would have lost, and her popular vote total would not have increased by much. Very likely, as soon as Trump let Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., persuade him to let any governors lock their States down, he forfeited the election by that very act. Not only did the lockdowns destroy the economy, but they also gave Secretaries of State the perfect excuse to violate every concept of election security. Nevertheless, Trump needed to retain Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan and Arizona, even if he lost Pennsylvania. Had he done that, he would have been much closer in the popular vote – down by four percent or less. In fact he was down by 4.6 percent, to two significant digits. So right away this scenario is unrealistic, but not by much. The vituperative reactions that followed could have happened with such a low margin. Teams Trump and GOP lose popular support Team Trump began the game with two objectives: “legitimatize” the electoral vote and consolidate Trump’s power. Protests arose throughout the country – as some did in 2016. But the TIP Document said Team Trump salted these protests with agents provocateurs, with violence as the inevitable result. For consolidation, Team Trump: • Selectively promoted certain officers with views the TIP document described as “pro-American” (with quotes in place), • Rushed several judicial nominations through marathon sessions of the Senate, • Offered “financial incentives” to the country’s largest businesses, and • Made sure to get census results to State legislatures in time for redistricting. Team GOP generally supported “crackdowns” on the violent protests but did not support the power consolidation efforts as strongly. Team Biden revoked its concession, and pressed the governors of North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Michigan to call for recounts. North Carolina did nothing – but the governors of Wisconsin and Michigan sent alternate elector slates to Washington, D.C. The House at this time was still under Democratic control historically. Game Three assumed that the House would stay under Democratic control, though perhaps the Senate would not “flip” Democratic. The House Democratic Conference attacked the Electoral College, on the basis of doubts in Wisconsin and Michigan. But they also suggested that “voter suppression” had been the order of the day in both States. Inferring this last is difficult because the document refers to “these States” but does not name them. Setup for the Second Civil War In mid-November, the States of California, Oregon and Washington sent resolutions of secession to Congress. Barack Obama (which the TIP document mentions by name) helped Team Biden draw up a list of four specific demands. The secessionists pressed these in their posture to Congress: 1. Grant Statehood to Puerto Rico and to the District of Columbia. 2. Divide California into five States, each entitled to send its own Senate delegation. 3. Mandate that Justices of the Supreme Court retire by the age of 70. Under that rule, Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito would both have to retire. 4. Abolish the Electoral College. That definitely would require a Constitutional amendment. Team Trump was having none of that, and concentrated on fracturing the inherently fragile Democratic coalition. (All team players agreed on that fragility.) Team Trump actively provoked Team Biden into supporting secession and other “radical” moves. Came January 6, and the House of Representatives actually voted to accept the alternative votes of Michigan and Wisconsin. This would have meant a Biden win. But Vice-President Pence and Team GOP rejected this out-of-hand. The result was the strangest of all game play results: … January 20 arrived without a single president-elect entitled to be Commander-in-Chief after noon that day. It was unclear what the military would do in this situation. Translation: the Second Civil War had begun. Back to reality The TIP Directors make the same tired canard: “voter suppression.” This strongly suggests that they were planning to cheat, by voting in the names of the dead and the move-outs. (Or if they weren’t, someone else was.) They also ignored another key fact of the 2020 Presidential campaign. In 2016, Donald J. Trump was an unknown quantity. Not so in 2020. Again, the Directors refused to consider electoral cheating. But suppose Republican office holders had been as fanatical as the TIP Directors assumed? Or Trump had made better choices of running mate and Cabinet officers from the start? Suppose Trump had ordered the Swedish option to deal with COVID-19? Or dealt decisively with the biological weapons development laboratories in Ukraine long before Vladimir V. Putin would feel the need? Then Trump would have carried every State he carried in 2016, and possibly Minnesota and Nevada also. And we also would be seeing Trump win the popular vote. As he bids fair to do in 2024, if the ABC-WaPo poll is any indicator. But the TIP Directors refused to believe in any such scenario; else they would have run it. Turning now to the salting of “peaceful protests” with agents provocateurs: first, the legacy media always called the Black Lives Matter protests “peaceful,” when in fact none of them were. Second, Trump never salted a protest with agents provocateurs. But on January 6, 2021 (real life), the FBI did. Consolidation of power Trump could, and probably should have selectively promoted senior military officers with pro-American, not globalist, views. Rushing through extra judicial nominations would have been more difficult. But: suppose, for our purposes, that the widespread cheating that defrauded Trump of victory, did not occur? Suppose also that Trump had shown better judgment in endorsements and willingness to support endorsees? Then the Republicans would have held the Senate outright. Senator David Perdue would have held his seat outright, without a runoff. And perhaps a governor other than Brian Kemp would have appointed Doug Collins, not Kelly Loeffler. Then Collins would have won his race outright. And, to be safe, Vice-President Pence would have spent a great deal of time presiding over the Senate, to break “Murkowski Ties.” Goading the Census Bureau into getting out results on time would have been critical to Midterms. But financial incentives to large corporations just because they were large, would not have been wise. (Trump would surely know that large corporations lose their loyalty to their countries, and pledge their loyalties to one-world government entities and advocates, like the World Economic Forum.) Nor is that a safe assumption to make – it’s just another socialistic canard from people with a socialistic bent. A word about Statehood for the District of Columbia Granting Statehood to Puerto Rico would require a simple up-or-down vote. Not so Statehood for the District of Columbia, given Article I, Section 8, Clause 17a of the Constitution, which reads: The Congress shall have Power … To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States. One proposal carves out all the federal buildings in metropolitan Washington as “the District of Columbia” and grants Statehood to the doughnut-like residential and commercial quarter that would remain. But many people would fear that the “doughnut” would exist under the shadow of the President and his administration. Second Civil War – let them be careful what they wish for! The TIP Directors had no idea what they were proposing, when they recommended secession for California, Oregon, and Washington State. Because the minute any such resolutions of secession became public, other secession movements would come to the fore. These would be interstate secession movements, of which two are relevant: Greater Idaho, and New California. Now imagine how the Second Civil War would break out before January 6, 2021. Oregon passes a resolution of secession – and an Oregon-based militia declares independence for all lands east of the Cascades. They might join Idaho – or form a new State called, say, “East Cascadia.” New California would split off at once, to become a new State. And a State of Jefferson would form from several northern California and southern Oregon counties. In fact, western Maryland – and a large portion of Virginia – might want to join West Virginia. The Virginia Pre-Midterm of 2021 would not have taken place. So western Virginia counties would still be steamed from the gun-control regime of Gov. Ralph Northam (D-Va.). But Virginia’s and Maryland’s legislatures would balk – whereupon State Senators and Delegates would start obstructing legislative process, as in Oregon. “Let us go, and we’ll be out of your hair,” they would say. The point might carry. One secession movement might not gin up: Texas. The Texas Nationalist Movement might decide to try to help shape a United States more to their liking. Texas militias might even send volunteers to fight in Greater Idaho, New California, and Jefferson. An alternate January 6, with our without a Second Civil War So California, Oregon, and Washington State would secede, all right – and lose all their lands east of the Cascades and the Sierras, and a portion of Pacific coastline besides. Secretary of State Pompeo would revoke recognition of their House delegations. Only House members from Greater Idaho, New California, and Jefferson would have any say in certifying the election. Very likely the House would have “flipped” anyway – as it almost did in real life. New California would send two conservatives to the Senate instead of Senators Feinstein and Hochul. Likewise, two Senators each from Oregon and Washington would disappear, and two new Senators from Jefferson would take their seats. After that, certification of a second Trump term would be a cinch. One more observation we must make, is that the TIP game players cannot have had any active-duty military officers. If they could not predict what the military would do, then they didn’t have officers to tell them. Result: Trump wins, western California adds “Alta” to its name and joins Mexico, and Oregon and Washington State become a new Canadian Province of Cascadia. That last is not necessary. When TIP’s game players suggested secession, they were likely talking through their hats. No doubt the governors of California, Oregon and Washington State would know better. T hey would not care to risk losing their territories to new (or enlarged) States of New California, Greater Idaho, or Jefferson. So: no leverage, no complaints – and Trump wins anyway. Conclusion But as we all know, Trump did not win. Game Two (“clear Biden win”) was the scenario close to actual fact – which, we maintain, is fact someone made happen. As CNAV has said before, every nefarious, win-at-all-costs motive TIP attributed to Trump, was true of them. And truer still of their masters. Trump faces another election. The ridiculous charges against him are of no practical moment. They only enhance his popularity, something TIP never modeled because they could never imagine it. But to win, Trump must indeed be as ruthless as TIP said he was – though he need not salt crowds with agents provocateurs. (Let him leave that to the FBI.) He must also fully own his mistakes in judgment, including on COVID-19. If “blue States” want to secede, let them. But more likely, firmness of purpose will carry the day, if he can show it. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2023/10/03/foundation/constitution/second-civil-war-almost-happened/ The TIP document: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/7013152/Preventing-a-Disrupted-Presidential-Election-and.pdf Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ The CNAV Store: https://cnav.store/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

If Biden had won narrowly – TIP 3 By Terry A. Hurlbut Over the past three days, CNAV has shared the Trump campaign’s evidence for the Democratic Party being the actual threat to American society and norms. (Once again: the Trump campaign said democratic norms when they meant republican.) They introduced the Transition Integrity Project, the left’s worst-case scenario tournament showing how easily they could get Donald Trump out of office and out of public life. Yesterday CNAV shared its evaluation of the TIP’s war game scenario, whose initial conditions most closely matched actual 2020 results. Today CNAV will examine another of TIP’s four scenarios, one assuming Joe Biden won more narrowly. A Biden narrow win instead of a clear win To review briefly: the Transition Integrity Project played out four war games, for four different Election 2020 result sets. CNAV will not analyze these games in the order TIP gave. Because Game Two – a clear Biden win – most closely matched the reported results, CNAV will sort the games in order of increasing Trump strength and analyze them in that order. For that reason, today CNAV will analyze Game Four – which assumes Biden winning with: 1. A victory margin in the popular vote of less than one percent, and 2. 278 electoral votes (with 270 needed to win). And as before, CNAV will share the TIP project document, so that the reader can follow along. This game starts with Fox News calling the election for Biden. Interestingly, Team Trump (see Part Two for an explanation of team names) opened by encouraging the legislatures of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan to certify alternate electors for Trump. Of course Teams Biden and Dem squawk – and Wisconsin’s legislature refuses. (No doubt White Cell rolled the dice to rule that out.) But Pennsylvania and Michigan agree to this. Investigating a possibly stolen election The Justice Department began a “noisy” investigation of voter fraud, and Team Trump pushed the message that some person or persons unknown had defrauded them of victory. Then Team Trump pulled the first dirty trick: they reported, without basis, that Joe Biden has suffered a heart attack. Team Biden assured the country that he had not, but Facebook did not “take down” any Biden heart attack posts. Nevertheless, repeated dice rolls had Biden keeping his lead. So Team Trump sought to create chaos. They encouraged local police forces to “break up Black Lives Matter and pro-Biden demonstrations.” They also encouraged patriotic militia elements “to confront liberal protesters.” Team Biden got “moderate Republicans” to disaffect from Trump by reason of these “ugly and divisive” tactics. Sen. Mitt Romney (RINO-Utah) tried to convince Republican Senators to line up behind Biden. They would not, at first, but Romney persisted and convinced three of his Republican colleagues to recognize Biden as victor. (The TIP document did not name any specific Senators.) Then Team Biden organized protests of its own. Four million people took part in these demonstrations – but “violent skirmishes and vandalism” marred them. (An interesting expression, that, for the breaking of shop windows and the like.) That’s when the Joint Chiefs of Staff “leaked” that they had been discussing such a scenario among themselves. Among other measures, the Joint Chiefs considered threatening to resign if Trump did not cease and desist. Comes January Came January 6, and the House and Senate both agreed to certify the election for Biden in the face of all challenges. (Note: no big rally or Ray Epps “Into the Capitol!” event took place in this game.) After that, the “right-wing media” embarked on an interesting campaign of their own. Infowars “doxxed” several of Biden’s electors, and “link[ed] 88 of [them] to [George] Soros and 14 to child sex trafficking.” Rush Limbaugh took part in accusing Team Biden of accepting unspecified help from Communist China. “Right-wing meme pages” (no names) featured reminders to “support and defend the Constitution … against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” (Emphasis added in the TIP document.) Trump actually refused to leave the White House on time. He burned documents and other “potentially incriminating evidence,” and issued a slew of pardons for himself and members of his administration. Finally the Secret Service escorted him out of the building promptly on January 20. Trump then started a TV network (probably a stream). He called for Biden’s immediate impeachment. Biden (according to this game) first tried to offer Trump a way out. But when Trump wouldn’t get out, Team Dem started criminal investigations of Trump and his family. Biden then offered national reconciliation, thus: By early January 2021, Biden has begun the tasks of uniting the country and trying to pull America out of its lingering COVID-19 related economic and public health crisis. He articulates a series of packages focused on infrastructure and healthcare / COVID-19 and actively seeks to involve Senate Republicans in the process. The Biden Campaign also announces that moderate Republican governors Larry Hogan (Md.) and Charlie Baker (Mass.) will be nominated to serve in his cabinet. The President-Elect also establishes a joint investigation from the House and Senate Intelligence Committees to examine all forms of foreign interference in the 2020 election. Would Biden or Trump have behaved this way? Fox News was compromised anyway, and fell all over itself calling the real Election of 2020 for Biden. So this initial condition is eminently reasonable to assume, even had the margins been as narrow as this game assumes. Again, the game assumes: • Guilt on the part of Trump and his family, for venal shakedowns at least, • Fanaticism on the part of everyone immediately surrounding Trump, and • Absolute, unassailable and unquestionable integrity of American elections. But Game Four reveals two other assumptions, namely that: 1. Biden would seek reconciliation. Note that Team Dem, not Team Biden, starts investigating Trump. And: 2. Social media are not inclined to censor Trump, or anyone propounding conservative themes. Both assumptions fall before the evidence. Joe Biden is a vindictive old man, out to destroy anyone who dares oppose him. Or he would be, were he in complete possession of his faculties. CNAV has every reason to believe that he is not. But That Speech of September 2, 2022 proves his vindictive nature. Social media have been State actors since beginning in 2018. The Intercept revealed this shortly before Midterms and seemed to celebrate, not decry, this attitude on their part. The Twitter Files provide further proof, and the world knows that Facebook hired as many spooks as did Twitter. Therefore Facebook would never leave up posts suggesting that Biden had a heart attack when he didn’t. (They would take them down even if true, just as they took down true accounts of COVID vaccine adverse events.) Trump’s lawyers tried several times to get those in authority to investigate election fraud in key States. These included not only Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan but also Georgia, Arizona and Nevada. Trump carried all six in 2016. (Mike Lindell, of My Pillow fame, insists that some kind of chicane went on in all fifty States.) So the fanaticism assumption also falls. Far from being fanatical, Trump administration officials proved feckless and cowardly. Mitt Romney’s behavior in the game is exactly of a piece with his attitude and behavior in real life. He and four other nominally Republican Senators threatened to quit the Party last July. Those other four were Senators Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), John Thune (North Dakota), John Cornyn (Texas), and Todd Young (Indiana). Game Four had Romney convincing three Republicans to break ranks? Four would be a more likely number – and specifically, these four. That the TIP would cite child sex trafficking as a possible canard against Biden electors raises an immediate question. Namely, what do those people know about child sex trafficking by and among the American elite? Recall: when Sound of Freedom released on July 4, immediately the left-wing media accused its: 1. Producers (Santa Fe Productions), 2. Distributors (Angel Studios), and 3. Leading man (Jim Caviezel, who portrayed Homeland Special Investigator Tim Ballard) of promoting Q-Anon theories. (One reviewer who panned it, has a history of calling for the normalization of pedophilia.) If these people never thought about an American elite, including some ranking federal officials, indulging in pedophilia, they would be asking whether any of it might be true – not denying it shrilly and accusing the accusers of promoting “conspiracy theories.” But: four million people, taking to the streets to support Biden, would be anything but peaceful. The Biden campaign might get four million people among Black Lives Matter. They probably did get that many, during the Long Hot Summer of 2020. The directors, staff and game players at the Transition Integrity Project surely knew this. After all, those often violent demonstrations took place during their game play sessions. Rush Limbaugh lived to see Biden usurp the White House, and then died. He would be likely to accuse Biden of getting help from China – and would have the evidence to back it up. Rush Limbaugh never said anything without sufficient evidence. Alex Jones wouldn’t bother “doxxing” electors. After all, everyone knows that electors are living, breathing rubber stamps, nothing more. Trying to intimidate them is a waste of time. It would be a double waste of time after the electors had already voted and sent in their lists. But of course the TIP would throw off on him and Limbaugh both. They would dox, and they would accuse people, maybe not of child sex trafficking, but definitely of stealing large amounts of money in the stock and other securities markets. Which is where many of them make illicit gains, and at least some in Congress know this. Why Donald Trump has never built an Internet streaming show, CNAV cannot guess. They could easily join the Klowd TV network, or build their own streaming app for the Roku API. (Roku’s managers famously refused to take down the NRA-TV channel.) Instead Trump built Truth Social, which is still active. But he might have done better to accept an account on Gab Social, which probably will grow faster. Notice again that the game players portray Trump as burning documents and destroying evidence. Trump did not burn anything, but he has transported many documents out of the White House. He did this on his last day, and left no question of trying to barricade himself inside. A man conscious of guilt, burns documents. A man conscious of innocence, and of railroading on bum raps, preserves them under his exclusive control. Which is what Trump did. Finally, the national reconciliation program on Biden’s part totally strains credulity. Biden has appointed nothing but the most radical people he could find to all Cabinet positions, and as judges. (Case in point: Ketanji Brown Jackson.) Biden has given nothing but the back of his hand to Senate Republicans. And he has instituted no investigation of the possibility of foreign interference with or in American elections. Why should anyone expect him to investigate that which propelled him to victory? Once again, the Transition Integrity Project proved their divorce from reality. They assume guilt on Trump’s part, because they would do it themselves (as their President is now doing). In fact, everything they assume about their enemies, applies to them. Part Four will continue with an examination of a hypothetical ambiguous result. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2023/10/01/foundation/constitution/if-biden-had-won-narrowly-tip-3/ The TIP document: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/7013152/Preventing-a-Disrupted-Presidential-Election-and.pdf Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ The CNAV Store: https://cnav.store/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Election of 2020 reality v. war game (TIP 2) By Terry A. Hurlbut Yesterday CNAV introduced the Transition Integrity Project (TIP), a worst-case scenario tournament designed to recommend how to get President Donald J. Trump out of the White House and out of public life as rapidly – and painlessly – as possible during and after the Election of 2020. The bedrock assumption of TIP was that President Trump must not be allowed a second term. If he got one, feared the Project directors, he might change his title from President to Leader (in German, Führer). Today CNAV examines one of the four war games TIP set up – the one having initial conditions closest to the official popular and electoral vote totals. CNAV will examine what TIP said would happen next, and compare it to what actually happened next. General setup of the TIP Election of 2020 Games All descriptions of game players, game set-up, and game play come from the Transition Integrity Project document. The TIP directors required sixty-seven active players and “dozens more” observers, i.e., game judges. The Sixty-seven included: members of both major political parties, former high-ranking government officials (including, for example, two former governors), senior political campaigners, nationally prominent journalists and communications professionals, social movement leaders, and experts on politics, national security, democratic reform, election law, and media. Given how the games played out, the Sixty-seven cannot have included patriotic Americans or “MAGA Republicans.” If they included “members of both parties,” they included Democrats and RINOs. Furthermore, the Democrats among the Sixty-seven were radical Democrats, to whom Democrats could do no wrong and Trump no right. The Project document’s description of the teams presents confusion. According to the document, the games played out among seven teams: 1. Team Trump, 2. Team Biden, 3. Republican elected officials (Team GOP), 4. Democratic elected officials (Team Dem), 5. Career federal government employees (civilian and military) and political appointees (Team FedGov), 6. Team Media, and 7. Team Public. The “Public” Team consisted of “polling experts” as proxies for the public. In other words, they were working with yesterday’s data from their own samples, biased as they undoubtedly were. Confusion, and bad assumptions Two sources of confusion arise. First, the Project document says each team had two or three members. But that would allow only seventeen or eighteen total players, assuming about fifty-fifty distribution between two- and three-person teams. The putative division of sixty-seven players among seven teams begs explanation. Second, the Project document says each player had “‘real-life’ experience” appropriate to the team on which they played. How could that apply to Team Trump? Can anyone imagine the Project directors, Democrats all, recruiting genuine Trump partisans to play on Team Trump? Or any Trump partisans agreeing to play, thus falling into a stupid, odious trap? Even to attempt to imagine such a thing, defies common sense. The Project document then tells us each team could do whatever they wanted. A “White Cell” would judge success or failure of any given move – after hearing “robust argumentation among all teams.” That sounds much like “breaking the proscenium.” When all sides couldn’t agree, someone – presumably a White Cell member – literally rolled dice. In other words, TIP set up a tournament much like the popular role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons. Finally, the document tells us that never once did anyone try to “model or simulate legal strategy.” They modeled “political mobilization and media dynamics,” and the use of raw power to win. The document leaves two things almost unspoken. First, the game rules permitted no showing of voter fraud. Second, the game assumes Trump and his family guilty of various venal shakedown schemes. The Election of 2020 game CNAV uses Federal Election Commission numbers as the closest to an authoritative source. The Electoral College fell out with 306 votes for Biden and 232 for Trump. Popular votes totaled 81.3 million for Biden and 74.2 million for Trump, to three significant digits. Thus Biden won the popular vote (according to the FEC) with a 4.6 percent lead. TIP Games Two and Four were the only two that had Biden winning. Game Four had Biden leading the popular vote by less than 1 percent, and finishing with 278 electoral votes. Therefore, Game Two best fits the actual outcome. The accuracy of certification of vote totals by the several States, and the District of Columbia, is another debate. Remember: the game rules permitted no showing of voter fraud. So how did the game play out? The TIP document tells us that Teams Trump and GOP alleged fraud. Team Trump then called for joint investigations of all elections by the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice. They called on Team Media to air their suspicions of fraud, but never once called on State legislatures to intervene. Next – again per the war game – Team Trump relocated Trump and his staff to Mar-A-Lago and “pursu[ed] murky business deals.” Never once did the document elaborate. The Senate convened almost at once and held marathon sessions to “push through” judicial nominations. Then Team Trump prepared pardons for anyone connected with the administration, “regardless of admitted or perceived guilt.” Securing the transition Team Biden, meanwhile, “secured” their election result and built some coalitions with some Republican officials. (White Cell rolled the dice and granted some coalitions, but not others.) They forged an “Election Protection Coalition” to stop the investigations, and even tried to persuade Republican electors to switch votes. But White Cell did not allow this. This was another thing, other than a “showing of fraud,” that the game rules did not permit. After that (“Turns Two and Three”), Team Biden concentrated on transition, with help from Team FedGov. Team Trump pardoned “Trump family members, political allies, and cabinet officials,” and also pardoned Hunter Biden and Hillary Clinton. Next, Team Trump set up MAGA TV, which the document did not describe further. It would likely have been a streaming service, with “apps” available for smartphones and the Roku API. (CNAV doubts that the LG or “Life’s Good” API managers would have allowed a MAGA TV app. The LG library is severely limited, while the Roku library is vast by its managers’ design.) Trump’s primary mission would have been to place himself or his son Donald Jr. as the Republican candidate in 2024. Team Biden finished the transition and concentrated on governing. Team Dem led the charge to investigate Trump and his family. Finally, Team GOP concentrated on State responses to the coronavirus “pandemic.” Trump political appointees all left the federal government. How the Election of 2020 really played out In actual fact, Trump assumed from the outset that fraud had decided at least six, possibly seven, State “carries.” They were, of course, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, and possibly Minnesota. Trump or Biden “carried” every other State as Republican or Democratic candidates carried them in the last several elections. But neither the DNI nor the DOJ ever investigated any States. For that, blame Trump’s lack of imagination and poor judgment in selection of officials. Many of these officials, most notably then-Attorney General William Barr, spoke of their “crises of conscience” in dealing with Trump. Trump did have his own cadre of lawyers, who tried – in vain – either to encourage the proper authorities to investigate, or to pursue judicial remedies. As everyone remembers, sixty cases came to court, only to have the judges dismiss them all for lack of standing. In other words, the judges decided that a losing candidate has no right to contest an election. Never once did any court find, on the merits, that any given election fell out as it should have. Trump remained in the White House until his last day in office. He then transported boxes of documents to Mar-A-Lago and had them safely offloaded from Air Force One and installed in his Florida residence before noon that day. Readers should remember that in subsequent discussions of Game Four and other games. (They have Trump burning documents, a thing he never did or contemplated.) Trump stakes his all on Pence Never did anyone convene the Senate to start rushing through judicial nominations, or for any other reason. Nor did Trump prepare any raft of pardons. Preparing a raft of pardons would have suggested consciousness of guilt, a thing Trump still does not have. Trump staked all his hopes on Vice-President Pence refusing to certify results from Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, or Nevada. Had Pence done so, the House of Representatives would have elected Trump with a majority of State delegations. How the Senate would have voted, none can guess. The key people in the Senate would have been Senators Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.). What follows is a CNAV scenario of calling a Vice-Presidential election in the Senate. The Senate Democratic Caucus, including newly minted Senators Rafael Warnock and Jon Ossoff (both D-Ga.), would absent itself en masse. Whereupon Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) would have issued an immediate call to quorum. If Sens. Sinema and Manchin voted for Pence, the result would be a tie – and Pence would be the tiebreaker. But, of course, none of these things happened. Instead, Pence betrayed Trump – and he does not convince CNAV with his talk of “upholding the Constitution.” January 6 and its aftermath Trump called a rally on the National Mall on January 6. Two hundred attendees, following the lead of men like Ray Epps, entered the Capitol. With the result we all know. Trump never got his MAGA TV station, though he did build Truth Social. Twitter, of course, banned Trump on January 8. Amazon Web Services threw the Parler platform off its servers after they gave Donald Trump an account. The Censorship Industrial Complex went into full gear. Though Yoel Roth, former chief moderator at Twitter, denies this, The Intercept famously celebrated it. Conclusion One can readily see that the Transition Integrity Project played out this game with no understanding of Trump, his associates, or his voters. They assumed: 1. Guilt on the part of Trump and his family of venal shakedowns and an attempt to make Trump Leader (Führer), 2. Fanaticism, and despair of the outcome, on the part of the Senate Republican Conference, and, of course, 3. Absolute and unquestionable probity in the conduct of American elections. Absolutely none of these assumptions turns out to be safe. The Senate Republican Conference turns out to be made of very weak stuff. Moreover, the Republican Party is badly split between true Republicans and RINOs. Elections in the United States today are a mess, and the mess is due to electronic voting machines. (To say nothing of the spectacle of using temporary help placement agencies to provide Officers of Election in some jurisdictions.) On the other hand, the federal government did not see a mass exodus of Trump appointees. Certainly the judiciary saw no such exodus. True, the Supreme Court refused to hear Texas’ challenge to the disputed Presidential electors. But that Court went on to produce the most breathtaking restorations of basic freedom in its history. Likewise, Judge Terry A. Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana (Monroe Division) has proved a real hero of the First Amendment in his handling of Missouri v. Biden. Looking ahead Future installments will examine the other three Games, which suggest even further failures of understanding of reality by the TIP. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2023/09/30/news/election-of-2020-reality-war-game-tip-2/ The TIP document: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/7013152/Preventing-a-Disrupted-Presidential-Election-and.pdf FEC table: https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/2020presgeresults.pdf Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ The CNAV Store: https://cnav.store/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Transition Integrity Project, Part One By Terry A. Hurlbut Yesterday the Trump campaign dropped a 21-post thread recapping the threats the Democrat Party poses to American institutions and norms. (They used the adjective democratic when they meant republican – for ours is a republic, not a democracy.) This review included the information in the infamous Twitter Files, and briefly mentioned the case of Missouri v. Biden. It also mentioned President Biden’s infamous speech of September 2, 2022, if only as to its subject matter. But the thread also mentioned one other item to which it then paid scant attention. This is the Transition Integrity Project, which advertises itself as a blueprint to stop a dictator from seizing power. That putative dictator was none other than Donald J. Trump. In fact, the Transition Integrity Project laid down a rationale and partial method for stealing the Election of 2020. Others would supply the working method – later. Who founded the Transition Integrity Project, and who runs it? The Transition Integrity Project is the brainchild of Rosa Brooks. She holds the impressive title of Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Public Policy at Georgetown University Law Center. Today she has her own author page on the Web, where she advertises her books. Her latest: Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City. She bases that on her experiences as a Police Academy student and later a voluntary reserve police officer on patrol in the low-income residential quarter of Washington, D.C. Reviewers (like Kirkus) seem reluctant to discuss her policy prescriptions, but all agree that she immersed herself in the experience of policing some of the most crime-ridden neighborhoods in America today. CNAV believes that might contribute to her general attitude toward society today. But being the daughter of Democratic Socialist Barbara Ehrenreich cannot fail to have shaped her outlook even earlier. Two other personalities are important to understanding the Transition Integrity Project. One is Nils Gilman, Senior Vice-President for Policy Development at the Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles. They are, quite simply, a globalist think-tank with elements of trans-humanism and, of course, socialism. The other is Zoe Hudson, the Executive Director, who came to the Project from George Soros’ Open Society Foundation. These three, then, are the brain trust of the Transition Integrity Project. To understand them is to understand the Project. This is vital, because if the Project were an individual, that individual would rate a diagnosis of paranoia, paranoid schizophrenia, or shared paranoid disorder. What concerns the Project most? The Trump campaign found, at Document Cloud, a document titled “Preventing a Disrupted Presidential Election and Transition.” This “Project document” carries a date of August 3, 2020. From it comes everything one can learn about the Transition Integrity Project. The Project does have a Web domain, which, according to its DNS manager (GoDaddy), has expired. Apparently Director Hudson took the site down after it, and the Project, had served their purpose. This opening paragraph tells us how Brooks, Gilman and Hudson, or collectively the Project directors, feel and think: The Transition Integrity Project (TIP) was launched in late 2019 out of concern that the Trump Administration may seek to manipulate, ignore, undermine or disrupt the 2020 presidential election and transition process. TIP takes no position on how Americans should cast their votes, or on the likely winner of the upcoming election; either major party candidate could prevail at the polls in November without resorting to “dirty tricks.” However, the administration of President Donald Trump has steadily undermined core norms of democracy and the rule of law and embraced numerous corrupt and authoritarian practices. This presents a profound challenge for those – from either party – who are committed to ensuring free and fair elections, peaceful transitions of power, and stable administrative continuity in the United States. From that, one can infer the following: • Project directors really believed Trump to be another Adolf Hitler. (CNAV would say Josef Stalin, but Project directors appear sympathetic to Stalin.) • Donald J. Trump had already gotten in their way, and Project directors resented that. • The Uniparty is real, and Project directors fully sympathize with Uniparty ideals, or whatever ideals they believe the Uniparty holds. In addition, Project directors said they didn’t care how Americans voted, or who won the election. That’s a lie. As further analysis of the Project document clearly shows, they wanted Donald J. Trump gone and Joe Biden in. The Trump campaign was absolutely correct to mark down the criticisms of Trump as projection. Projection, as your editor learned in medical school, means literally throwing off on another person, by accusing that person of one’s own sins, trespasses, follies, and/or foibles. Project directors threw off on Trump, and the Project document shows this. More than that, Transition Integrity Project directors really believe the American people are with them and down with their cause. That cause is Democratic Socialism. Truly, Rosa Brooks is her mother’s daughter, and has surrounded herself with like-minded teammates. In short, she is in an echo chamber of her own making. So are her two cohorts. What kind of society do the Project directors want? In a footnote to an assurance that the Project believes in “democracy and the rule of law,” the directors say: TIP recognizes and shares the view that the Electoral College is profoundly anti-democratic, and that numerous long-standing practices also function to create structural biases in our voting system. For present purposes, however, these constraints are treated as givens. No person, who wants to abolish the Electoral College, can even pretend to a “commitment to the rule of law.” They can pretend to democracy, which is not a republic. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. A republic is a bulwark of law saying what might one lawfully have for dinner – and what one may not. (Or rather, whom one may not.) The Electoral College is a republican instrument, that ensures – to paraphrase the Trump campaign’s thread of yesterday – that the States of California and New York may not, between them, be the sole electors of the President and Vice-President. (Or rather, the cities of New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego.) Exactly what “long-standing practices” Project directors believe “create structural biases in our voting system,” is as clear as mud. The only recommendations one can infer from any part of the Project document, regarding voting practices, is to enshrine permanently the practice of mail-in absentee balloting. The Transition Integrity Project and its war games program The Project document presents four war games – and none assumed that Donald J. Trump would win the popular vote. Everything depended solely on the direction and margin of victory in the Electoral College. More to the point, the Transition Integrity Project had no input from any patriotic Americans. In fact the Project document doesn’t say who they got to be their war game role players. They said only that, to play their games, they recruited members of both major political parties, former high-ranking government officials (including, for example, two former governors), senior political campaigners, nationally prominent journalists and communications professionals, social movement leaders, and experts on politics, national security, democratic reform, election law, and media. But one can best infer that “members of both major political parties” consisted of radical Democrats and establishment Republicans. (Or in blunt fact, RINOs – Republicans In Name Only.) In short, a perfect Uniparty sample. Everyone else in that rogues’ gallery were probably same-old, same-old people. CNAV will wager a hundred to eight that none of those players represented properly the Trump voters. The most difficult part of any war game, when one team is simulating a common enemy, is predicting accurately how that enemy really feels and thinks. The Project document clearly shows that none of these people understood Trump or his voters. Likely neither of those former governors, and none of those campaigners, leaders, or experts, ever learned to balance a checkbook! CNAV will also infer that the Transition Integrity Project had no military officers or enlistees as game players. This will become readily apparent in an analysis of at least one of the games. What does the Project see as the condition of the country? The Project document lists the following bullet points either once or twice in two lists: • Election night is obsolete now, given the tardiness of the delivery of mail-in ballots and the slowness in counting them. • A “determined campaign” can contest an election all they way to the swearing-in deadline. • Whether to contest the election would be a political, not merely a legal, calculation. • During that time, the incumbent, if he loses, can disrupt the transition. • Resolution of a contest of election results might come down to raw power, not a decision in a court. • Trump operates outside “norms” and therefore has a definite power advantage. • The outsider might have to rely on “a show of numbers in the streets, and action in the streets.” • Trump would serve his personal interests in any transition. From these one must infer that the Project directors wanted Trump gone. “Transitions” do not happen when an incumbent wins reelection. What does the Transition Integrity Project recommend? After the players finished playing their games, the Transition Integrity Project made five specific recommendations: 1. Plan for a contested election, including warning people they might not be able to call the election in one night. (That’s another lie, because the media fell over one another in their haste to call the election for Biden.) 2. Make sure State Divisions of Elections are ready to deliver a result as soon as possible. (And we all know how that worked out.) But readiness also included “mobilizing” people to take to the streets! 3. Recognize that Trump was not running a normal reelection campaign – whatever that might have looked like. 4. Say up-front that voter fraud “is extremely rare,” and try to stop violence before it starts. (More on that below.) 5. Anticipate a problematic, therefore “rocky,” transition. Again: why anticipate any transition if Trump was going to win without question? If the Project directors received any advance briefing on plans to deliver tranches of fraudulent ballots in “roach coaches” (or in one case, in Officer of Election “suitcases”), disable security protocols in Ballot Marking Devices or scanner-tabulators, or do any of a number of things witnesses have already communicated to CNAV in comments on earlier articles and videos, they made sure their Project document did not reflect such a briefing. Machiavelli would gasp – and laugh As for “agents provocateurs,” we now know that the FBI salted Trump’s January 6 rally with such provocateurs. Did the FBI brief Project directors about that sort of plan? Probably not. The “insights” the Project directors inferred from their war games shows that they could never keep their mouths shut. Therefore only a moron or a maniac would dare trust them with such a briefing in advance. Far more likely, those who actually ran the Big Steal, did more than accept the recommendations in the Project Document. These war game referees and players were total “shut-eyes,” not eyes-open, cynical planners. Niccolò Machiavelli, were he alive today, would read the Transition Integrity Project document, then look at how events actually unfolded. Then he would ask, in a mixture of awe and envy, “Why didn’t I think of such a plan?” But he would regard the Project directors with a mixture of amusement and contempt. As CNAV said yesterday, the Project document bespeaks galloping paranoia about what Trump would do, and an appalling naivete about what Biden would and would not do – and whether the Biden Plan could work. Just the sort of mind-set, Machiavelli would say, that you want your loyal followers and mid-level propagandists to have. To illustrate that naivete, consider their final recommendation: that Congress take decisive action to limit executive power, as happened with in the wake of President Nixon’s abuses of power in the early 1970s. The Democratic Congress had two years to take such action – and never took it. No president should be able to use the executive branch to settle political scores, damage perceived adversaries, or pursue personal financial gain. But Biden, not Trump, has done all three. Wither the Project directors? None of the three Project directors has spoken for attribution since this Project document came out. Rosa Brooks has promoted her book, but done nothing else except accept engagements through the Penguin Random House Speakers’ Bureau. Nils Gilman co-authored this op-ed at The Hill, which does not address his Transition Integrity Project in any way. And from Zoe Hudson? Absolute silence. That could indicate that all three are embarrassed, even mortified, at what they helped bring about. After all, today’s reality has Biden doing all the things they accused Trump of doing, planning, or thinking of doing. Or maybe the powers-that-be, having used these three, have discarded them. How can we know? But we can know this: these three paranoiacs proved how dangerous mentally incompetent people can be, in positions of trust. All Americans are still paying for their folly. But Donald J. Trump will likely have his chance to make the last payment. Here ends Part One. In Part Two, CNAV will at least start dissecting the Project’s war games for further insight into leftist thinking. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2023/09/29/foundation/constitution/transition-integrity-project-part-1/ The Project document: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/7013152/Preventing-a-Disrupted-Presidential-Election-and.pdf Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ The CNAV Store: https://cnav.store/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Trump campaign reveals Democrat plans By Terry A. Hurlbut The Trump campaign, through its official Team Trump X account, released a scathing platform targeting, not Republican rivals, but Democrats. They are throwing back to the Democrats the common canard the Democrats make against their opponents. Democrats say Trump and “MAGA” Republicans pose the greatest threat to democracy in American history. Today the Trump campaign said the reverse is true – and demonstrated that with references to acts of Joe Biden and his administration since he took office – and to Joe Biden and his campaign before he took office. The Trump counteroffensive This counteroffensive by the Trump campaign is long overdue. Everyone remembers, or should remember, That Speech of September 2, 2022. Biden delivered one of the most dangerous examples of rhetoric by an incumbent executive since Marcus Tullius Cicero’s Oration Against Catiline (Oratio In Catalinam). His administration chimed in at all levels. More recently, Trump is under four separate criminal indictments for conduct that no one should ever regard as prosecutable. Since when have American prosecutors regarded as criminal the challenge of an electoral result? Since this year, when this administration marked its character with every act which might define a banana republic. As a former Member of Congress pointedly declared earlier this week. But the abuse of power did not wait until Biden took office. It started earlier – but involved not only the Biden campaign but also the intelligence services of this country. The Twitter Files tell part of the tale. (And if Yoel Roth wants to deny his role in this treason, let him remember: his erstwhile targets have witnesses.) The other part is the richly ironic spectacle of the Democrats accusing Trump of being a Manchurian – or Muscovite – candidate. This from a Party that for sixty years in the last century (except for a brief but dramatic interruption) hailed Russia as humanity’s future. Of course, back then Russia called itself the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, a name meant to encompass the world. Not so today. The thread With that as background, herewith the thread, as its odd numbers. https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1707463407639626193 https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1707463411343274327 https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1707463415034245503 https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1707463418276372588 https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1707463422286156104 https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1707463425406763105 https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1707463428560805947 https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1707463431501103118 https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1707463434315465191 https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1707463437796688032 https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1707463441236033857 Note: here you can read Rosa Brooks’ Transition Integrity Project playbook document: Reaction is about ninety percent positive and ten percent negative. None of the posts are worth singling out, except perhaps this one. https://twitter.com/marittej/status/1707464275231469864 Translation: That's how it is and all Americans have to see it. The rest we’ve likely heard before, or can expect, from both sides. Analysis CNAV has been over much of this before. But the Transition Integrity Project document is something new. At last the Trump campaign has shared written evidence that these radical Democrats, collaborating with RINOs and traitorous “spooks,” laid plans either to ensure their Big Cheat would sustain any challenge – or else to overthrow a “clear Trump win.” That last proposal (Game Three in Appendix B) actually included threats of secession from the Union by Left Coast States. In this war game, Barack Obama played a direct role to propose four specific pieces of permanent leftist victory concrete: 1. Statehood for the District of Columbia (or for the residential part of the District) and Puerto Rico, 2. Dividing California into five States, thus giving California eight more Senators, 3. A mandatory retirement age of 70 for Justices of the Supreme Court, and 4. Abolition of the Electoral College and the election of Presidents by popular vote. But they wouldn’t get those proposals. Incredibly, on January 6, they proposed to challenge a Trump victory in Congress. They expected Vice-President Pence to certify a Trump victory, and did not expect the Biden side to concede. Result: no qualifying President or Vice-President on January 20, and anyone’s guess to what the military would do. The mistake in listings of the appendices (listing Appendix B as C, resulting in two Appendices C) and of a listing of three characteristics of a constitutional crisis as 1, 2, and 4) may or may not be significant. Throwing off on Trump By far the most remarkable thing about this document is that the radical Democrats really believe their own swindle. They believe that Trump is equal parts criminal and would-be dictator. Their Game Two scenario played out in real life – because they obviously were prepared to cheat. Furthermore, Appendix C (the real Appendix C) prescribes the very dictatorial behavior which they accused Trump of contemplating. The one thing the authors of the Transition Integrity Project did not do was to rein in executive power. Instead they extended it, weaponized it, and used it to insulting effect – insulting, that is, to people’s intelligence. This statement is especially ironic: No president should be able to use the executive branch to settle political scores, damage perceived adversaries, or pursue personal financial gain. Yet that is exactly what President Joe Biden has done. Therefore any leftist office holders or commentators, afraid that Trump will round them up, have only themselves to blame. Biden so threatened Trump and his every voter in That Speech. This document also accuses Trump of planning to salt “peaceful protests” with violent false-flag agents provocateurs. But the FBI did exactly that on January 6, 2021. The notes in Document Cloud accompanying this document say it came from The Boston Globe. If so, it is the stupidest mistake any legacy media organ ever made – for it constitutes evidence of conspiracy. Now that we have this evidence, and this exposé, we must ask another question: What are you prepared to do? Actor Sean Connery, as Det. Jim Malone, in The Untouchables (1987). Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2023/09/28/news/trump-campaign-reveals-democrat-plans/ The White House transcript of the speech of September 2, 2022: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/09/01/remarks-by-president-bidenon-the-continued-battle-for-the-soul-of-the-nation/ Cicero Against Catiline: https://www.loc.gov/item/tmp92004278/ The thread: https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1707463407639626193 https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1707463411343274327 https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1707463415034245503 https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1707463418276372588 https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1707463422286156104 https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1707463425406763105 https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1707463428560805947 https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1707463431501103118 https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1707463434315465191 https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1707463437796688032 https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1707463441236033857 The Transition Integrity Project’s playbook document: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/7013152/Preventing-a-Disrupted-Presidential-Election-and.pdf Spanish-language reaction post: https://twitter.com/marittej/status/1707464275231469864 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ The CNAV Store: https://cnav.store/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Sound of Freedom contributor cleared, press silent By Terry A. Hurlbut Tim Ballard, of Sound of Freedom fame, found himself facing a smear on his character last week. When that happened, the legacy media couldn’t get enough of the charges against him. The press lavished almost as much attention on contributor Fabian Marta when someone charged him with kidnapping a child. But two days ago a grand jury, hearing his case, returned no bill of indictment. And the press said nothing – not even to correct their earlier error in inflating his role in the production. How is Sound of Freedom performing? The two major box-office trackers, TheNumbers.com and Box Office Mojo, have said nothing about Sound of Freedom since September 12. Even then the numbers were impressive: $183 million domestic and $27.5 million international. This on a film that cost a mere $14.5 million to make and $5.5 million to bring to market! Angel Studios is still tracking ticket sales. At last report Sound of Freedom has sold just under 22.3 million tickets worldwide. It is a heavy favorite in Brazil and Mexico – and is doing so well in that country that Producer Eduardo Verástegui has registered to gather ballot-access signatures to run for President of Mexico. None of this attracts any notice outside the Christian community and the alternative media. Nor have the high averages of audience and even critical reviews at Rotten Tomatoes. The legacy media would just as soon forget Sound of Freedom – perhaps because its subject matter strikes close to home. CNAV, of course, reviewed it here. Bradlee Dean noted the tremendous obstacles that plagued both its production and its distribution. Bloomberg assigned a known “pedophile normalizer” to review it; naturally, he panned it. (The Walt Disney Company, after buying its first contracted distributor, shelved it, until Angel Studios bought the distribution rights.) Yet it has done so well that it could have a sequel. How does Angel Studios finance production or distribution? To understand the frankly silly drama surrounding Fabian Marta and his true role, one must first understand the Angel Guild. Angel Studios established this Guild as a referendum on new projects, and those who develop them. Angel Studios will not work with just any Hollywood producer or director. The Angel Guild first evaluates a prospective director, producer, or writer as to whether he meets its professional and moral standards. Guild-approved filmmakers then produce concept videos, and Guild members vote on those. After that, the project goes to another operation, Angel Funding. This is where individuals can invest in various projects at various stages. One of the perquisites due an investor is a credits listing, slightly more prestigious than a “Special Thanks” listing. An investor can even look forward to payback if the project succeeds. Angel Studios explained this in a press release during the drama that follows. Sound of Freedom went to Angel Funding to fund its marketing campaign. Angel Funding successfully repaid all its investors – at a 20 percent rate of return. Fabian Marta, at the center of this drama, was an Angel Funding investor in Sound of Freedom. The saga of Fabian Marta The Liberty Minds brought out their latest summary of Fabian Marta’s case yesterday. On August 4, BroBible first reported Marta’s arrest on two charges of child kidnapping. Reporter Eric Italiano made much of the terminology Marta used, including the phrase angel investor. By every indication, Mr. Italiano simply did not know what he was talking about. Angel investor is the term the Angel Funding operation uses to describe those who back Angel Studios projects. From this report one can discern that Angel Funding provided the funds to buy the distribution rights for Sound of Freedom from Disney, and then to finance its initial July 4 release. The Missouri Courts site refers to State v. Fabian Marta, case number 2322-CR01608. St. Louis police arrested him on July 21 (two and a half weeks after the film’s release). They filed their charges two days later. But this thread from the notorious leftist “Jim Stewartson, Anti-disinfo Activist,” might have been the provocation for that arrest. https://twitter.com/jimstewartson/status/1678534496562589696 https://twitter.com/jimstewartson/status/1678538529544994817 https://twitter.com/jimstewartson/status/1678546161454522368 https://twitter.com/jimstewartson/status/1678549470307393540 https://twitter.com/jimstewartson/status/1678565078734606337 https://twitter.com/jimstewartson/status/1678611069898747904 https://twitter.com/jimstewartson/status/1678613779008069633 In fact he targeted Sound of Freedom even before its release, calling it a weapon of psychological warfare. This one post should suffice to illustrate his attitude. https://twitter.com/jimstewartson/status/1675908193116098561 CNAV has checked into the allegations in the thread. Jim Stewartson is the only source for the “Sugar Daddy/Sugar Baby” story. Jessica Clark does exist – but little else Stewartson says, does. This, then, is BroBible’s source. Whether he was the St. Louis Police Department’s source, is not clear. From arrest to debunking On August 4, the X account “Discussing Film” made this post. https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1687494741242368001 Pay attention to the Community Notes that someone else added to the post. First, this person clarified the terminology with which BroBible and Discussing Films played so fast and loose. Second, they left this link to the real story, on Station KMOV-TV (Channel 4, CBS, St. Louis). According to that report, Fabian Marta did not actually lay a hand on the two children involved. A mother took her two children away from their “lawful parent” in a custody dispute. She happened to be staying in a property Marta owned, in exchange for her help in fixing up some of his other properties. The police charged him with refusing access to the mother’s rooms and “impeding the investigation.” Likely translation: he insisted that no one enter those rooms, even under color of law, without a search warrant. Three weeks and three days later, Marta appeared with the mother outside a St. Louis courthouse. He dropped this video that totally changed the complexion of the cases. Note carefully: the State never charged the mother with kidnapping. In fact, Marta and the woman involved both said the charges arose out of a “fake call.” Thus they charged misprision of a felony, and said that was what started all the trouble. Marta expected to be back in court on October 5 for the next step. https://twitter.com/FabianMarta/status/1696200524637389155 Sound of Freedom vindicated But he might not have to keep that court date at all. On Monday (September 25), Fabian Marta proudly left this post, embedding a photo of the final disposition of his case. https://twitter.com/FabianMarta/status/1706400467633270966 Final, because the Grand Jury did not return a true bill of indictment. Jack Posobiec also passed along this link in The Post Millennial. https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1706453020320399810 (The Latin phrase nolle prosequi in the Memorandum literally means “I do not prosecute” and uses a very strong negative. Nolle means null.) Another X user left this post that referred to an article in Rolling Stone, also from August 4. They said Sound of Freedom moviegoers “shrugged off” the story of Marta’s arrest. https://twitter.com/MartiniShark/status/1706644955186270292 The phenomenal box-office success of Sound of Freedom suggests that this false police drama did not impede that success. But how many friendships ended, and how many families broke up, from differences of opinion about Marta’s guilt or innocence? Jim Stewartson has his imitators, not only in politics and legacy media but also in families and other social settings. Furthermore, what happened to Fabian Marta could happen to anyone. Invest $500 in a film telling a story we need to hear – and get set up for railroading on a bum rap. Tell your story to a talented motion picture production crew – and that goes double. Especially if you run for the Senate. But the flip side also applies. The legacy media cried “Wolf!” to distract from another, more dangerous class of wolves. And they have failed. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2023/09/27/editorial/talk/sound-of-freedom-contributor-clearaed-press-silent/ Angel Studios: Home: https://www.angel.com/watch Angel Guild: https://www.angel.com/guild/info Angel Funding: https://invest.angel.com/ State v. Marta, Missouri Courts: https://www.courts.mo.gov/cnet/cases/newHeader.do?inputVO.caseNumber=2322-CR01608&inputVO.courtId=CT22 Jim Stewartson’s anti-Fabian Marta thread: https://twitter.com/jimstewartson/status/1678534496562589696 https://twitter.com/jimstewartson/status/1678538529544994817 https://twitter.com/jimstewartson/status/1678546161454522368 https://twitter.com/jimstewartson/status/1678549470307393540 https://twitter.com/jimstewartson/status/1678565078734606337 https://twitter.com/jimstewartson/status/1678611069898747904 https://twitter.com/jimstewartson/status/1678613779008069633 Jim Stewartson’s post against Sound of Freedom: https://twitter.com/jimstewartson/status/1675908193116098561 Posts from initial arrest to final disposition: https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1687494741242368001 https://twitter.com/FabianMarta/status/1696200524637389155 https://twitter.com/FabianMarta/status/1706400467633270966 https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1706453020320399810 Martini Shark blasts Rolling Stone: https://twitter.com/MartiniShark/status/1706644955186270292 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ The CNAV Store: https://cnav.store/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Michelle Obama possible substitute for Biden? By Terry A. Hurlbut At least two prominent Republicans are openly speculating that the Democrats will substitute Michelle Obama for Joe Biden next year. True enough, Dick Morris does not see that coming, though he does see an effort to replace Biden. But Morris was speculating on Michelle running a long primary campaign, as one of eleven possible candidates. That’s not what the current speculations are about. Instead, people are speculating about a last-minute substitution, either shortly before the Convention or even involving Presidential succession. Biden does not stand very tall None of this speculation would take place if Joe Biden at least appeared competent. Of course half the country vehemently disagrees with his policies, but that won’t sway the Democrats. (They have nothing but contempt for anyone who disagrees with them.) But Democrats look at Biden and literally see a doddering old fool. Worse yet, that’s how the American people see him, and the Democrats know it. He falls nearly every time he uses the usual tall mobile boarding ramp to re-board his executive transport. (For that reason, the Secret Service is having him board on the lower deck, which has a shorter boarding ramp. Of course, National Public Radio, which covers that part of his story, makes excuses. Everyone remembers Barack Obama skip-to-m’lou-ing down those 18-foot stairs, but he never fell on them, going up or down. And of course, Donald Trump never fell on them, either.) More to the point, Biden is 80 years old – and is showing his age as Trump didn’t, and Reagan didn’t. Democrats know that, too, and it scares them. Because they know the American people know, and can see. The infamous Van Jones said so on CNN on September 7. So did seventy-four percent of respondents on a CNN/SSRS survey. Add to it the recent ABC News/Washington Post poll showing Trump up by ten points, and the conclusion becomes inescapable. Biden is too old to serve a second term, and more and more people are saying it out loud. Michelle Obama as convention substitute One week ago today, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), on his Verdict podcast program, openly said the Democrats would “parachute” Michelle Obama into the running shortly before the Democratic National Convention. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYEGG2ic3kY “Democrats and Big Media are bailing on Biden,” said the blurb. “Who could replace him?” On the program, he gave the details. In August 2024, Biden is out and Michelle Obama is in. Why Michelle? First, because any other choice would “offend African-American women.” Second, the Democrats have four alternatives, any one of whom would resent bitterly the picking of any of the other three. The four are Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.), Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, and Vice-President Kamala Harris. And third, because Barack Obama has been the shadow President all along, through his surrogates close to Biden. A Michelle Presidency would be Barack Obama Terms Four and Five. (The Biden term has been Barack Obama Term Three.) Sen. Cruz suggested Biden himself would take the consolation prize of being established as a hero. “They immediately start carving him on Rushmore, figuratively speaking, the Rushmore of socialists,” the senator said. A substitution to avoid impeachment But yesterday evening, Cassandra MacDonald at The Gateway Pundit shared another theory, that came from Sarah Palin on X. First, author Greg Rubini shared this thread, back in June: https://twitter.com/GregRubini/status/1666952361883959298 https://twitter.com/GregRubini/status/1666952936038047744 https://twitter.com/GregRubini/status/1666953913407266817 Last Friday (September 22), Rubini returned to his subject, on Substack. He accuses the Democratic National Commitee and the Central Intelligence Agency of collusion in replacing Biden. The reason: Biden is likely to have Articles of Impeachment against him. Even if the tame Senate sticks with Biden, they’ll embarrass themselves and risk a Big Flip. So: Biden must go. So this is what will happen: 1.- Kamala Harris will resign from Vice President, and replace Feinstein in the Senate. 2.- Gavin Newsom will be nominated and enthroned as Vice President. 3.- After Newsom is installed and sworn in, Joe Biden will be thrown under the bus: either he will suddenly “die of Covid”, or “he fell from his bicycle”, or “Joe Biden smashed into a wall in his Corvette and he died in the accident”, or whatever. One way or another, Joe Biden will be forced to resign. And then he will die. The DNC needs to save face, in some way, and mitigate the Biden disaster. “Replace Feinstein” – of course. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is showing her age even worse than Biden is showing his. And: “He will die of COVID” – maybe that’s why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) want to keep alive the notion of coronavirus as a seasonal – and still deadly – virus. (Seasonal it might be, but deadly? No.) In any event, if Biden gets the Mount Rushmore treatment, it would be posthumous. And, says Rubini, Biden knows it, and is “screaming and yelling.” Next, James Bradley, running for the Senate in 2024, copied this out, and added his own perspective: https://twitter.com/JamesBradleyCA/status/1706278086042366295 But Mr. Rubini suggested that the powers-that-be would install Gavin Newsom as President, in two steps. Both steps depend on the first two Section of Amendment XXV, which have operated before. Sarah Palin, quoting his post, offered a different name: https://twitter.com/SarahPalinUSA/status/1706366510862868544 Michelle Obama playing hard to get Ms. MacDonald reminds us that Michelle Obama has publicly disclaimed any desire to run for President. Michelle said so in an interview with Oprah Winfrey in April. “At no time have I ever said, ‘I think I want to run,’” she reportedly said. But people can say anything they please; that doesn’t make it true. Or even if it’s true now, it might not be true forever. Michelle Obama is likely playing the time-honored woman’s game: “hard to get.” “I never said, ‘I want to run.’” That was April. August 2024 might be a different story. Democratic-sympathetic opinion makers have in fact been talking up Michelle since before that Oprah interview. Merrill Matthews, writing in The Hill in March, said she’d be the Democrats’ best candidate. Even then she held Biden’s chances as “not great,” and described Barack Obama’s presidency as an “African Camelot.” Another outlet that speculated on Michelle Obama for President in 2024 is The Daily Telegraph (London, England). Correspondent Tim Stanley speculated on the National Convention substitution scenario more than five and a half weeks before Cruz did. In fact he cited an unnamed government, other than the United States government or His Majesty’s Government, assuming Joe Biden will not have the nomination. Stanley predicted Biden would drop out before the first primaries. So the speculation about substituting Michelle Obama for Joe Biden is scarcely idle. It is active and all too believable. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2023/09/26/foundation/constitution/michelle-obama-possible-substitute-biden/ Ted Cruz’ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYEGG2ic3kY Greg Rubini’s thread: https://twitter.com/GregRubini/status/1666952361883959298 https://twitter.com/GregRubini/status/1666952936038047744 https://twitter.com/GregRubini/status/1666953913407266817 Greg Rubini’s Substack article: https://gregrubini.substack.com/p/who-will-replace-joe-biden James Bradley’s post: https://twitter.com/JamesBradleyCA/status/1706278086042366295 Sarah Palin’s post: https://twitter.com/SarahPalinUSA/status/1706366510862868544 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ The CNAV Store: https://cnav.store/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Biden 10 points down v. Trump; possible Democrat infighting By Terry A. Hurlbut An astonishing drama is playing out today over a poll result that came out over the weekend. The poll shows President Donald J. Trump leading President Joe Biden by nine or ten points. Subsequently, one of the media organs that commissioned the poll tried to downplay or even hide the results. But one pundit, who once worked for Bill Clinton, suggests that someone, or several someones, within the Democratic Party is sending the clear message that Joe Biden must drop out of the race. If that’s true, then clearly not all Democrats are on board with this. We are seeing a level of infighting once confined to the MAGA-RINO war. The poll showing Biden down The poll came from ABC News and The Washington Post, who conducted the poll from September 15-20. Two separate reports are available, one with graphics, the other without. These reports show that Biden has the lowest approval ratings yet. Worse yet, 44 percent of Americans say they are worse off now than when he became President. Recall that Ronald Reagan famously asked whether people were better off then than when Jimmy Carter became President. That question led him to win in 1980. Naturally everyone pays attention to the Trump v. Biden election results, showing Trump beating Biden 51 percent to 42 percent. This same poll also shows Trump eleven points ahead among Republicans as to whom to nominate. But it also shows Biden behind among Democrats as to whom to nominate. By a vote of 62 percent to 33 percent, solid and leaning Democrats in the sample say, “Anybody but Biden!” Yesterday, ABC News reported out the poll, and seemed to make no bones about it. Not so The Washington Post. They actually said this poll is “probably an outlier.” (Apparently ABC World News tried to say the same, as Trump noted on Truth Social. So ABC itself might have dissension in its ranks.) Expert reaction Jason Miller, a senior adviser to Trump, dropped a thread on X yesterday. In it he lambasted the Post for casting doubt on their own poll. https://twitter.com/JasonMillerinDC/status/1705806343477551133 https://twitter.com/JasonMillerinDC/status/1705806354877747351 https://twitter.com/JasonMillerinDC/status/1705806358702887190 https://twitter.com/JasonMillerinDC/status/1705806361697616132 But Larry Sabato, Director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, echoed the Post’s downplay. https://twitter.com/LarrySabato/status/1705943070049468577 https://twitter.com/LarrySabato/status/1705945687605571807 But Nate Cohn at The New York Times seemed to ask whom the Post thought they were fooling. https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1705931926165450790 https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1705933032820019263 The poll might indeed be an outlier. Trump leads by 1.6 percent in the Real Clear Politics average. The other polls that make up that average mostly show Trump ahead – by a single digit. Four of the polls show them tied, and three show Biden up by one percent. But: the polls show Trump steadily turning a lag into a lead over time, throughout September. The ABC/WaPo poll shows the widest lead, while NBC shows them tied. But a Messenger/Harris X poll shows Trump ahead by five percent. More broadly, Trump was significantly ahead from April through July, fell behind in August, and is pulling ahead again. What’s going on here? So why should the latest poll show such a jump? According to Blaze, the experts are blaming the poll’s methodology. In other words, they accuse those running the poll of oversampling Republicans. But a detailed examination of the raw data does not bear that out. They clearly sampled Republicans and Democrats equally, and sampled independents more than the other two. Norman Leahy, writing in The Republican Standard, noticed the poll. He also looked at that Messenger/Harris X poll, and several State polls. His conclusion: the ABC/WaPo results authentically show Trump widening his lead. But Dick Morris, the architect of Bill Clinton’s “moderate Democrat” image and message, offered a radical theory. He says flatly that Democrats have given up on Biden. For evidence, he focuses on the position, methods, and likely conduct of George Stephanopoulos, who has worked for ABC since Clinton left the White House. “I know … George Stephanopoulos,” Morris said. “The recent ABC/Washington Post poll showing Trump 9 points ahead of Biden bears all of his fingerprints.” For years, Morris went on, the ABC/WaPo poll skewed against Trump, to try to slow him down. The sudden appearance of a poll showing Trump ahead by 9 or 10 percent reeks of manipulation. Simply put, George Stephanopoulos wants Biden to get out of the race, in the belief he can’t win. If not Biden, who? This tracks with the opposite reactions from ABC News and the Post to their joint poll. Those in control at the Post still back Biden, and so do Larry Sabato and his apparent followers. But ABC News seem to have made up their minds: Biden must go. Or at least George Stephanopoulos at ABC’s This Week might have done. The ABC World News staff have a different attitude. So who would take his place? Morris counts Kamala Harris out, saying “her ratings are even worse.” So the Party would split between its ideologues and its establishment. The ideologues have three choices: Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.), Sen. Bernie Sanders ((I-Vt.), and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). And the establishment? Morris suggests they will line up behind SecTrans Pete Buttigieg. That’s difficult to accept, given the literal train wrecks on his record. Other possible choices include Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Gov. Deval Patrick (D-Mass.), Michelle Obama, and Hillary Clinton. Summary Thus we see infighting on two fronts. First, ABC, or at least its George Stephanopoulos faction, is saying: “Dump Biden.” The Washington Post refuses to go along with that. These two entities jointly commissioned the poll, so seeing them fight is remarkable in itself. Second, if Biden goes, “a food fight” will break out. Those are Dick Morris’ words, and a more apt metaphor is nearly impossible to find. And Donald Trump will watch all this from the sidelines, according to one of the oldest maxims of warfare. Which is: when your enemies are destroying one another, don’t interfere. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2023/09/25/editorial/talk/biden-10-points-down-trump-possible-democrat-infighting/ The poll results: https://www.langerresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/1230a3PresidentialPolitics.pdf https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/0cc7a4b2-8e80-46f3-9c78-3ff36f7a08ee.pdf Jason Miller’s thread: https://twitter.com/JasonMillerinDC/status/1705806343477551133 https://twitter.com/JasonMillerinDC/status/1705806354877747351 https://twitter.com/JasonMillerinDC/status/1705806358702887190 https://twitter.com/JasonMillerinDC/status/1705806361697616132 Larry Sabato’s posts: https://twitter.com/LarrySabato/status/1705943070049468577 https://twitter.com/LarrySabato/status/1705945687605571807 Nate Cohn’s thread: https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1705931926165450790 https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1705933032820019263 Report on Messenger/Harris X poll: https://themessenger.com/politics/poll-trump-opens-up-lead-over-biden-exclusive Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ The CNAV Store: https://cnav.store/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Could Grisham face removal? By Terry A. Hurlbut The Governor of New Mexico, Democrat Michelle Lujan Grisham, could actually face removal from office. This is remarkable, even astounding, considering that she enjoys comfortable majorities in her State’s legislature. So how could anyone even think that a legislature might remove a sitting governor belonging to the party that controls both its chambers? The answer goes to the weakest issue that separates Democrats from Republicans: gun control. Current balance of power in New Mexico To understand just how bizarre is the situation in which Gov. Grisham finds herself, consider the makeup of the legislature. Like most State legislatures, New Mexico’s is bicameral – that is, it has two branches, one more numerous than the other. The smaller branch – the Senate – has forty-two members, and the larger – the House – has seventy. At present, Democrats own twenty-seven Senate seats and forty-five House seats; Republicans own the rest. This gives Democrats over 64 percent of the Senate and the House. Impeachment requires a simple majority of the House. Conviction, and possible removal from office, requires two-thirds of the Senate. That equates to 36 House members and 28 Senators. State Reps. John Block and Stefani Lord, who seek to impeach Gov. Grisham, know they must persuade at least 11 Democrats and 16 Senators. To be safe, they hope to persuade 12 Democrats in the House – and aren’t yet talking about how many Democratic Senators they need to flip. So how do they propose to persuade that many Representatives and Senators? Why would they even think they could? True enough, they could simply settle for embarrassing the Senate by bringing an impeachment action even if it fails. But how could they even think they could get an impeachment article through the House? Simple. Michelle Lujan Grisham has done something so outlandish that nearly every top Democrat in the State thinks she’s crazy. What has Grisham done? More than two weeks ago (September 8), Gov. Grisham and her Secretary of Health, Patrick Allen, presumed to suspend the Second Amendment by declaring it deleterious to the public health. The Governor issued an executive order, and the SecHealth a public health order, suspending the open or concealed carrying of firearms on all public properties, even public streets, except: • By law-enforcement officers and licensed security guards, or: • Under lock and key to make them inoperable in transit. The only spaces in which these orders would allow anyone to have firearms were: • One’s own home, • A gun shop for the purpose of immediate sale, return, or repair, • A licensed firing range, or • One’s own automobile on a public street or road, if fitted with a proper gun lock. This order applies only to jurisdictions, typically municipal, that meet a threshold of loss of innocent life to firearms. Only Albuquerque, in Bernalillo County, currently qualifies. But two parts of the order apply State-wide: • Regular inspections of firearms dealers, and • Reporting of gun casualties from the State’s emergency rooms. Of the journalists who interviewed Gov. Grisham at her press conference, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9oLOubipXc almost none expressed full sympathy. Even left-wing journalists asked, in so many words: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot do you think you’re doing, Governor? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot do you, in your four and three-quarters distinguished years as Governor of this State, mean by issuing such a tyrannical and obviously not-thought-out-at-all executive and public health order? Don’t you see that what you are doing is unconstitutional? Don’t you in your infinite wisdom see that you stand in direct violation of the ruling of the United States Supreme Court in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, and that if the District Court doesn’t enjoin you, the Supreme Court will remand the case to that Court to make sure it does? But this brazen Governor insisted that “an emergency” gives her the authority to override the Constitution. She actually said that neither the Constitution nor even her Oath of Office was absolute! How have officials reacted? In rejoinder, the Mayor and Chief of Police of Albuquerque, the Sheriff and District Attorney of Bernalillo County, and even the Attorney General of New Mexico, all of whom are Democrats, shot back in effect: We never signed on for this, and we want no part of this! What they might not want any part of, is the wrath of the voters. New Mexico is not New York State. In fact, even Albuquerque is not New York City. Lots of residents, even Democrats, own guns. Many of the paraded in the Old Town District of Albuquerque after the order came down. They carried their loaded guns – holstered, but still loaded – openly, as if to say, “Arrest us!” Albuquerque Police, looking on, made no arrests. Some of those gun owners did sue in the U.S. District Court for New Mexico, seeking to enjoin the order. The assignment judge assigned the case to one David M. Urias – a Biden appointee. Incredibly, Judge Urias issued a Temporary Restraining Order – and he specifically cited the Bruen case as his authority to act. After the TRO came down, Grisham modified her orders to apply only to public parks and playgrounds where children gather. Therefore the gun-lock orders on public streets and roads do not currently apply. A move to impeach Grisham In the meantime, two State Representatives, Stefani Lord (R-Sandia Park) and John Block (R-Alamagordo), have filed an Article of Impeachment. https://twitter.com/Lord4NM/status/1700586411852734578 https://twitter.com/RepBlock/status/1700587306795798846 In a telephone interview with Just the News, Rep. Block expressed confidence that an Article of Impeachment would pass. He did not express the same confidence in conviction. Once we get in session, we would need to flip 12 Democrats to our side, which I think is doable. In the Senate we would need a two-thirds vote. Technically Block and Lord need 11 State House Democrats, if they could count on all Republicans. Perhaps they want a safety margin. Under any other circumstances, trying to get those 12 Democrats would be futile. But again, Gov. Grisham appears to be nearly friendless. The Sheriff of Bernalillo County refuses to arrest anyone under the order, and the District Attorney refuses to prosecute. Likewise, the Mayor and Chief of Police of Albuquerque declared the order unenforceable in their city. (We haven’t yet heard from the chief of New Mexico’s State Police.) And the Attorney General of Mexico refuses even to defend the State in any lawsuit contesting the order’s constitutionality. Add to it that a Biden appointee on the federal bench has issued a Temporary Restraining Order, and scheduled a hearing for a preliminary injunction. TROs and preliminary injunctions are notoriously hard to get. But Judge Urias clearly said he found Grisham in violation of the Constitution. Therefore a TRO is in the public interest. Possible grounds for impeachment Other X users have pointed out other reasons why these orders would be impeachable. Apart from Bruen is Ex parte Milligan, 71 US 2 (1866). That case, arising after the War Between the States, concerned trying civilians in military tribunals. The Supreme Court held that, if civilian courts were available, a civilian had the right to face trial there. More broadly, the Court held that even the most dire emergencies do not suffice to suspend Constitutional rights. https://twitter.com/RuthEBrown8888/status/1700786031572795834 Moreover another user cited Title 18 U.S.C. § 242, “Deprivation of Rights under Color of Law.” https://twitter.com/PritaPrimeAVP/status/1700596430728224797 Specifically: Grisham admitted during her press conference that criminals would never abide by the order. Therefore what she did constituted selective application of the law. All of this adds up to an extreme, even bizarre measure. Of course it also logically expresses the endgame that many Democrats secretly desire, i.e., that no person, except: • A law-enforcement officer, • An active-duty military service member, • A Very Important Person, or • One licensed to guard the person or real or personal property of another (“security guard,” “bodyguard,” etc.), shall own, carry, or so much as touch, much less discharge, a firearm. The law in New York State came closest to this regime – before the Supreme Court struck it down. Ever since then, the Governor and Attorney General of New York have sought to circumvent, or flout, the strikedown. This is the wrong State, Gov. Grisham! But New York is New York (State or City), and New Mexico is New Mexico. And in New Mexico, the Republicans have reacted in an outrage one can readily predict. But the Democrats have reacted in horror. Those Democrat officials are saying of Gov. Grisham, in effect, “The idiot will ruin everything!” In other words, the challenge to the Second Amendment of the Constitution wasn’t supposed to happen in New Mexico. Let it happen in New York City and State, and in California. (It already is happening in California. Witness California applying for an Article V Convention of States for proposing an amendment to supersede the Second.) In New Mexico, the people won’t stand for it! As we have seen. “Arrest us!” said the gun owners of New Mexico, congregating in Albuquerque. And the police didn’t. So Reps. Lord and Block have reason to be confident of persuading twelve Democrats to vote to impeach Gov. Grisham. An Attorney General, a District Attorney, a Sheriff, and even a Mayor have given such Democrats “cover.” More than cover, in fact. By refusing to enforce the order, they have said, in effect, “Governor, you’re crazy! And you’re on your own.” Not even a common Party affiliation has availed this Governor in issuing such a blatantly unconstitutional order. We’ll see So, we’ll see whether 12 Democrats – or in any event, enough Democrats – vote to impeach. Then we’ll see what happens in the New Mexico Senate – where Republicans will need 16 or 17 “defectors.” This is much more, both in absolute and in proportional terms. So this is also a test of our Constitution, and of certain people’s respect for it. That such a test should come in New Mexico is probably inevitable. Perhaps only in New Mexico would anyone have reason to expect a positive result. Results have been positive thus far, so again, we shall see. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2023/09/24/foundation/constitution/grisham-face-removal/ The orders: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nmd.492599/gov.uscourts.nmd.492599.1.1_1.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nmd.492599/gov.uscourts.nmd.492599.1.2.pdf Video: the press conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9oLOubipXc Donk v. Grisham: Docket page: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67779443/donk-v-grisham/ TRO: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nmd.492599/gov.uscourts.nmd.492599.14.0.pdf Lord and Brock’s posts announcing their impeachment filing: https://twitter.com/Lord4NM/status/1700586411852734578 https://twitter.com/RepBlock/status/1700587306795798846 Ex parte Milligan: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/71/2/ Two posts citing Milligan and a relevant statute: https://twitter.com/RuthEBrown8888/status/1700786031572795834 https://twitter.com/PritaPrimeAVP/status/1700596430728224797 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ The CNAV Store: https://cnav.store/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

The Chelsea Clinton X File By Terry A. Hurlbut Yesterday, as the Texas-Cartel War was breaking out, and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced the unsealing of an indictment against Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and his wife, Dom Lucre, Breaker of Narratives, was dropping another thread exposing one of his favorite kind of target. This time his target was Chelsea Clinton, daughter of President and Mrs. Bill Clinton. His investigation shows that Chelsea Clinton is fully involved and implicated in her parents’ sketchy activities. But she also has some shady practices on her own record. These include collusion with the Gates Foundation and its apparent initiative to depopulate the planet under cover of immunization programs. Chelsea Clinton no stranger to controversy Chelsea Clinton was still an adolescent when her parents lived in the White House from 1993-2001. Back then the only controversy that attended her was a raucous demonstration outside that building by some LGBTQ+ advocates. They chanted her name over and over, then broke out into a chant of: Ten percent is not enough! Recruit! Recruit! That last referred to their insistence that they represented ten percent of the population. Even Planned Parenthood’s Alan Guttmacher Institute put the number at three percent. Little evidence exists that Chelsea actually belongs to that self-styled “community.” But lately she has involved herself in programs to groom children into it. As between that and pushing childhood immunizations of questionable safety and efficacy, one cannot readily tell which is worse. Nor can one readily decide whether the corruption she exemplifies is ideological (like that of, say, Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab), or merely venal (like that of her mother). For one possible answer, consider this: her husband is Mark Mezvinski – George Soros’ nephew. Yesterday Dom Lucre laid out a trove of evidence in an effort to answer those questions. The thread Herewith the thread, with its usual sarcastic beginning. https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1705373600398843996 https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1705373608527458568 https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1705373618769699297 https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1705373626214596692 https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1705373636507406724 https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1705373644791189928 https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1705373653419143423 https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1705373662340383005 Naturally many users are reacting in outrage. One user said he expects the Clintons to do the same thing in Ukraine that they did in Haiti. https://twitter.com/listen_2learn/status/1705611710051070196 Another user embedded a photograph of Chelsea Clinton, looking into the camera, smiling – and looking a little crazy. Judge for yourselves. https://twitter.com/_emergent_/status/1705374904009515428 Still another user embedded a photo of the girl sporting a necklace with a very odd pendant – an inverted cross. https://twitter.com/LibertyJamison/status/1705374081510699037 We also see this post highlighting a link between the Clinton Foundation and one Marina Abramović (pronounced Mah-REE-nah Ah-BRAHM-oh-vitch. Apparently she is an ambassador from Ukraine – but she is also linked to Satanic activity. https://twitter.com/etoptimist/status/1705377074662560147 Whether that’s true or not, she definitely has a reputation for very un-edifying “art.” Two nude statues, a black man and a white woman, facing one another, guard the entrance. rt.” The Royal Academy of Arts in London, England, set up an exhibit of her art in a small alcove. Visitors must squeeze between them to enter the alcove. (Before you click through to the article, remember: parental judgment and discretion are advised.) One more post should be instructive: a photograph of Bill Clinton walking his daughter down the aisle. The highlighted guest on the right-hand side as you face them is no other than Ghislaine Maxwell. Jeffrey Epstein’s aide. https://twitter.com/JuanGutiCA714/status/1705409737318178924 Analysis Chelsea Clinton actually is an example of both kinds of corruption, the ideological and the venal. Furthermore the ideological corruption seems to derive from psychosis. Her face is the face of a classic “maniac,” but not that of someone in a bipolar manic episode. She looks psychotic – which means she doesn’t even consider you “real.” Certainly she does not seem to consider any of your concerns legitimate. Like preserving the innocence of children. As such she is a willing tool of the globalist exterminators, like Uncle George, Cousin Alex, and Bill Gates. Those three have a lot of willing tools – whose parents have taught them that no one else is “real.” The record Mr. Lucre reveals here answers a lot of questions – like where the word Q-Anon came from. Notice also her link to an organization that pretends to look out for children. THORN’s home page looks innocuous enough, but all they’re doing is tracking – or so they say. This isn’t at all like Operation Underground Railroad, that does more than track – they rescue. It also explains why the Clintons are involved in a large smear campaign against anyone actually trying to combat child trafficking and abuse. (Said abuse including exposure to sexually explicit material, regardless of theme.) Chelsea Clinton – a willing tool In sum, she is a tool, and a dangerous one, with superficial charm that will fool anyone – until one looks her in the eye. Then one sees the truth. But such an attitude is “carefully taught,” as Oscar Hammerstein II would have said. You’ve got to be taught to hate and fear, You’ve got to be taught from year to year, It’s got to be drummed in your dear little ear— You’ve got to be carefully taught! From South Pacific That’s truer than most people know – but it applies on the left, not the right. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2023/09/23/editorial/talk/chelsea-clinton-x-file/ The thread: https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1705373600398843996 https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1705373608527458568 https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1705373618769699297 https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1705373626214596692 https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1705373636507406724 https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1705373644791189928 https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1705373653419143423 https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1705373662340383005 Five posts in reaction: https://twitter.com/listen_2learn/status/1705611710051070196 https://twitter.com/_emergent_/status/1705374904009515428 https://twitter.com/LibertyJamison/status/1705374081510699037 https://twitter.com/etoptimist/status/1705377074662560147 https://twitter.com/JuanGutiCA714/status/1705409737318178924 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ The CNAV Store: https://cnav.store/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Texas goes to war By Terry A. Hurlbut The State of Texas, in accordance with the U.S. Constitution and its own, is now at war. For the moment, it is at war with a loose coalition of drug cartels, human traffickers, and “people smugglers.” In fact Texas needs to act more aggressively in that war than it is now acting, especially against direct traitors. But with a few improvements in its infrastructure, Texas could actually go to war for its own independence. Current state of the War of Texas Against the Latin-American Irregulars Those whose sympathies lie with illegal immigrants – and likely consume the drugs the cartels bring in – don’t want to call this a war. Because if they do, they immediately support the rationale Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas) has at last embraced. No State shall, without the consent of Congress,… engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay. Article I Section 10 Clause 3, relevant part Gov. Abbott actually declared this invasion nearly a year ago, in November of 2022. But until today he took only limited measures to repel that “invasion.” At one point he strung razor wire along the Northern Rio Grande Valley, with the consent of some who owned land abutting the riverbank. Elements of the U.S. Border Patrol cut the wires to admit a relative handful of migrants. That incident got very little publicity, and officials gave every indication of wanting to handle the matter privately and quietly. Two days ago, things escalated. Abbott ordered the stringing of more razor wire south of Eagle Pass, Texas. Eagle Pass is also where Abbott has strung ballards interspersed with metal disks with serrated edges, along the centerline of the Rio Grande. Those ballards (buoys) are now the subject of a lawsuit and an injunction to remove them. A correspondent for the Center for Immigration Studies interviewed a sympathetic Border Patrol agent. This agent described how well-prepared these migrants seem to be: https://twitter.com/BensmanTodd/status/1699404547188253054 Let the tanks roll So Abbott’s troopers strung the razor wire – and the Border Patrol cut it away wholesale. https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1704640256429985863 https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1704616025747231163 After that, Abbott ordered the Texas National Guard into action. They have replaced the razor wire (with a double portion!), and are deploying tanks and armored personnel carriers. https://twitter.com/TexasBorderCzar/status/1704915671828537437 https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1704614936218149361 Elon Musk gave kudos to Gov. Abbott for doing what he’s doing: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1704737053190001031 They did this after news outlets documented a large flow of migrants walking into Eagle Pass with apparent absolute impunity. https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1704535232970457439 https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1704830531265761358 https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/1704702203506708749 How effective the tanks and APCs have been, is not yet clear. A cartel colony in the heart of Texas? WTF? But a certain real-estate developer is actually granting direct loans to as many as 200,000 illegal immigrants to built a city north of Houston! Colony Ridge, Texas, in Liberty County, is the brainchild of William Harris III, known as “Trey” from his suffix. (Whether he bears any relation to John Richardson Harris, of whom Harris County is the namesake, is not clear.) Harris likely is charging as much as 15 percent annual interest on these loans, which makes him a predatory lender. It could also mean that he hopes to wangle a bailout for himself or his borrowers from a sympathetic Congress. Daily Wire correspondent Spencer Lindquist took video of what Colony Ridge looks like today: https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1703797917570507198 https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1703797920175129030 https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1703797924604649582 https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1703797928735752640 https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1703797932460523794 https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1703797936554160619 https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1703797940400120242 https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1703797943973577018 https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1703797946330890473 https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1703797948767740375 https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1703797950005047631 Mr. Harris and his friends tried to refute the claims. Let the reader judge how convincing they were. More to the point they said a sitting governor had no authority over their development. If that’s true, that’s a boast they might soon wish they’d never made. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), speaking directly about the Colony Ridge development, said he would “end this.” https://twitter.com/RonDeSantis/status/1704947714306322753 Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R-Texas) vowed to ask Gov. Abbott to call a special session of the Legislature to investigate Colony Ridge. Last night Gov. Abbott flatly accused President Joe Biden of interfering with his efforts to control the Texas-Mexican border. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcG3VbZ9quk That “interference” includes the latest razor-wire cutting incident, and presumably the lawsuit against the river ballards. What do the secessionists have to say? Thus far the Texas Nationalist Movement has said nothing about the current state of the war. But they said plenty after Attorney General Ken Paxton won acquittal in his Senate impeachment trial. (And also after House Speaker Dade Phelan lamented that acquittal, calling it a miscarriage of justice.) TNM suggested Phelan’s shepherding of twenty Articles of Impeachment through the State House bespoke a level of dysfunction and antagonism toward the Texas people that we at the Texas Nationalist Movement have been sounding the alarm on for years, especially in our relentless push for TEXIT. They are calling for the “primarying” of every Republican in the State House who voted to impeach, and of the two Republican Senators who voted to convict. But the Paxton affair is not a specific grievance Texans might have with the federal government. The border crisis is. Another grievance might be the question of whether the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is deliberately forestalling a second test flight of Elon Musk’s super-heavy-lifting rocket ship, “Starship.” Elon Musk himself has made no complaint (yet) about federal officials being less friendly than State officials. But he did build his proving ground near Boca Chica, Texas, to avoid hassles from testing rockets at Cape Canaveral. As such this is a Texas space program, and perhaps TNM should look into advocating for it. An infrastructure problem Aside from Elon Musk’s SpaceX operations at Boca Chica, he moved Tesla’s main offices to Texas. He also built one of the largest automobile factories in the world in Travis County, outside Austin. More recently, he built a “big battery” near Angleton, a year after Texas suffered widespread blackouts from a “deep freeze.” But this last illustrates a serious and pervasive infrastructure problem. Texas has its own electrical grid that covers most of the State. Only the eastern lands, the El Paso corner, and the northwestern half of the Panhandle are on non-Texas grids. The Electrical Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is supposed to manage the grid. In February 2021 came the Deep Freeze. This summer came a dead-flat calm that idled T. Boone Pickens’ big wind farm. This is the second time that wind farm has gone idle and created blackouts throughout the State. And those blackouts kill – and this last part struck close to home for CNAV. Your editor’s father lost his life refueling a portable gasoline powered generator he installed on account of this summer’s blackouts. The resulting fire, in addition to killing him and one of his dogs, destroyed the house and all its contents. His widow and their other dog literally escaped with nothing but the clothes (or fur) on their backs. Station KXAS-TV (Channel 5, NBC, Dallas-Fort Worth) has some of the details, after the first responders of Plano, site of the tragedy, raised money for the widow and the surviving pet. Things Texas should start doing After the Deep Freeze, four ERCOT members, none of whom even lived in Texas, resigned. Maybe it’s time for more resignations – and a re-examination of policies that emphasize feel-good environmentalism over common sense. Whoever manages that grid, needs to put it on a fully independent footing. They then should extend it to all parts of the State it does not already cover. Dan Miller of TNM is right: Texans should throw out anyone who does not have the best interests of their State at heart. That might include Rep. Morgan Luttrell (R-8th), who took three “maximum donations” from Trey Harris, developer of Colony Ridge. Gov. Abbott needs to shut down that development, using the same war powers he should have after declaring an invasion. Building a six-figure-population city for drug cartels, their mules, and God knows whom else, is tantamount to treason. (And nothing to boast about!) Abbott has spoken of Texas building its own wall. He should start now and not wait sixteen months for an election and an Inauguration. Apart from the immigration issue, Tim (Sound of Freedom) Ballard tells us that physical barriers make human trafficking more difficult. (If Tim Ballard doesn’t become a Senator from Utah, maybe he could try to “primary” John Cornyn in 2026. Or else he could become Commandant of the State Guard and run the border garrison.) Texas needs to do more, to prosecute the war against the cartels, and to prepare to fight for independence, should that become necessary. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2023/09/22/news/texas-goes-war/ Interview with Border Patrol agent re preparedness of migrants: https://twitter.com/BensmanTodd/status/1699404547188253054 Posts, or communiqués, from the war zone: https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1704640256429985863 https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1704616025747231163 https://twitter.com/TexasBorderCzar/status/1704915671828537437 https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1704614936218149361 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1704737053190001031 https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1704535232970457439 https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1704830531265761358 https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/1704702203506708749 Spencer Lindquist’s thread about Colony Ridge: https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1703797917570507198 https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1703797920175129030 https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1703797924604649582 https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1703797928735752640 https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1703797932460523794 https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1703797936554160619 https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1703797940400120242 https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1703797943973577018 https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1703797946330890473 https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1703797948767740375 https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1703797950005047631 Ron DeSantis’ boast: https://twitter.com/RonDeSantis/status/1704947714306322753 Sean Hannity’s interview with Gov. Abbott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcG3VbZ9quk Texas Nationalist Movement home page: https://tnm.me/ Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ The CNAV Store: https://cnav.store/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Judiciary Committee focuses on Elvis Chan By Terry A. Hurlbut Elvis Chan’s deadline for appearing for a deposition occurs today. So the House Judiciary Committee focused on Chan, and the “stonewall” campaign by the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to stop him from testifying. In fact Elvis Chan has much to answer for. He is a named defendant in Missouri v. Biden, and has perjured himself in a prior deposition. And the Judiciary Committee aims to make sure he answers. Judiciary Committee history Elvis Chan is Assistant Special Agent in Charge for the FBI field office in San Francisco. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Chairman of the Committee, has already given “Twitter Files” treatment to Facebook and the FBI. (See Installments One, Two, Three and Four.) In the last installment, Jordan flatly accused Elvis Chan and Laura Dehmlow, then Section Chief for the Foreign Intelligence Task Force, of perjury at the green table. More recently, Jordan issued a subpoena for Chan. Immediately Jordan, his Committee, and the Weaponization Subcommittee (which he also chairs) came in for withering attack by skeptics. “We’ll believe it when we see it!” cried freedom lovers everywhere, with various modes of expression. Yesterday the Committee heard – sort of – from Attorney General Merrick Garland. Garland seemed to have an attack of convenient marturial amnesia. Which is what happens when a witness, on the stand or at the green table, suddenly cannot remember what he had for dinner the previous evening. (In ancient Greek, the word martureo means “I testify in court,” whence martyr.) Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) was having none of that. He lambasted Garland for trying to hide the truth about then-Vice-President Biden’s role in getting a Ukrainian prosecutor fired. For that, Nehls said, “You, sir, also need to be impeached!” All of which to show that Chairman Jordan and other Republicans on the Committee are terrifically angry. Angry enough, it would appear, to give no quarter. The thread Herewith the thread, which the Judiciary Committee dropped beginning at 1:03 p.m. EDT today. https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1704904285044248602 https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1704904289083445544 https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1704904294212984980 https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1704904297471725658 https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1704904301104251139 https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1704904305126543445 https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1704904308397941236 https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1704904311808078279 https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1704904315998216589 https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1704904319726661906 https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1704904321182097912 That last requires an explanation. Evidently Mr. Chan’s lawyers said he had a conflict with official travel today. That is why the deposition did not take place today as originally scheduled. So now the Committee has given him another two weeks. CNAV must say they are being very generous in so acting. Reaction to this thread includes more skepticism from those still waiting for someone to “do the perp walk.” Sadly, it also includes obvious catcalling from Democrats and their sympathizers. One even wants to deny that a censorship regime exists. That seems to be the typical response: deny it, and in the same breath say its targets deserve it. Analysis Apart from the generosity the Judiciary Committee sees fit to show Mr. Chan and his “official travel,” several questions arise. Why does Mr. Chan suddenly have official travel that he will not complete until October 5? Why is the agency so eager to have its own counsel present, along with the personal counsel of the witness? More to the point, what have they to hide, and why should they hide it? If they’re that copacetic with censorship, then they are more dangerous than CNAV blamed them for. The more reason, then, to disband the FBI. We can hand the responsibility for combating interstate crime to the agency that handed it before: Pinkerton’s. You never once heard of Pinkerton’s reading people’s mail without the permission of sender or receiver. Nor presume to decide what a newspaper should print. Nevertheless, the existence of the Trusted News Initiative indicates that the censorship regime has its willing participants. Technically it is a public-private partnership – because the British Broadcasting Corporation, which set it up, is a government organ. Nevertheless, certain American news organs have joined it, and give every indication of being just as contemptuous of the right of free speech as is today’s FBI. That’s another thing for the Judiciary Committee to investigate. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2023/09/21/news/judiciary-committee-focuses-elvis-chan/ The four Facebook Files installments: https://cnav.news/2023/07/28/news/facebook-jim-jordan-twitter-files/ https://cnav.news/2023/07/29/editorial/talk/facebook-files-2-vaccine-campaign/ https://cnav.news/2023/08/04/editorial/talk/facebook-files-3-winners-losers/ https://cnav.news/2023/08/08/editorial/talk/fbi-facebook-files/ The thread: https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1704904285044248602 https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1704904289083445544 https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1704904294212984980 https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1704904297471725658 https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1704904301104251139 https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1704904305126543445 https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1704904308397941236 https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1704904311808078279 https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1704904315998216589 https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1704904319726661906 https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1704904321182097912 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ The CNAV Store: https://cnav.store/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Abortion – Trump must own the issue By Terry A. Hurlbut Former President Donald J. Trump tripped himself up on one major issue in his Meet the Press interview. In the same interview in which he teased the naming of a female running mate, Trump made a statement on abortion that struck many conservative influencers with alarm. To Kristen Welker, he said Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) had made “a horrible mistake” by pressing for, and signing into law, a ban on abortion after six weeks. That position is not going to win him any friends on the left, and could lose him a critical level of support on the right. Donald Trump made the best difference any President has made on abortion, by appointing the Justices who overturned Roe. But if he thinks he can “make a deal” that will satisfy both sides, he’s mistaken. Instead he should own the issue, and press toward its logical conclusion. How Trump blew the gaffe on abortion Trump granted this interview last week, for airing on Sunday. In it, Kristin Welker said specifically she wanted to delineate his exact position on abortion. But she also took a tone that indicated she wanted at least to have a State to flee to, where she could “take care” of a “problem” that might results from a night of intimate contact with, say, a source – or a colleague. The NBC Interactive Abortion Map, as of August 23, 2023, shows twenty-five States (and the District of Columbia) where abortion is “legal and/or protected.” A federal law – or Human Life Amendment, or decision by this Supreme Court or a future Court – that bans abortion, would force the Kristin Welkers of our country to go overseas to “take care” of “the problem.” (As portrayed in the 1970 movie Airport). Not to worry, Trump seemed to say. Even before he decried the DeSantis 6-week ban as “a horrible mistake,” he spoke of negotiating an acceptable time limit. Furthermore he spoke of weeks and months. Dr. Steve Turley assured his followers that Trump simply hesitated to propound a stance requiring advanced “spiritual maturity.” (And yes, CNAV has called for a New American Awakening to address this and other subjects.) But Brandon Tatum specifically warned against any compromise on abortion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbE6F0ylkYg His warning is timely, for at least two salient reasons. The two Party Overton Windows do not overlap Joseph Overton famously defined a window of discourse containing policy views that a population – or segment – would call acceptable. Any option falling outside such an Overton Window, the population would reject and refuse even to talk about. Joseph Overton was thinking mainly of policy proposals acceptable to a general population. But today he might define policy proposals acceptable within a major Party rank and file. Trump should know by now that, on many issues, the American electorate has polarized itself severely. In Overton’s terms, the Republican and Democratic Overton Windows on most areas of public policy do not overlap. And they haven’t overlapped since Obama in 2008. “We will fundamentally transform America!” he boasted, and then proceeded to alienate everyone who voted against him. “I won. Deal with it. Elections have consequences.” Obama said all these things, and meant them. One can see this overlap failure on several issues, but abortion is the salient issue at hand. Abortion – who wants it and why Those on the side favoring abortion – and yes, they do favor abortion, whether they admit it or not – fall into three major categories. Some want it as a convenient option, so they can avoid responsibility for adultery and fornication. Others want to “con” certain segments of the population into eliminating themselves by attrition. Margaret Sanger famously held that attitude toward non-whites and the intellectually challenged. Bill Gates holds that toward everyone but himself and his close associates. Still others want the law to permit abortion because that is how they earn their living. And some want abortion because they derive a primary gain from it. COVID vaccines, for example, contain cells from aborted children. And a very confidential source has informed CNAV that nearly all free-standing abortion clinics have special rooms where practitioners of occult arts may collect “products of conception” for their spellcasting and other needs. The typical voter knows nothing of these attitudes, beyond the convenience angle. But those on the front lines know those attitudes well. That is why their positions are stark and unyielding. Listen to abortionists when they converse. Why do they balk at informed consent, and insist on performing gruesome procedures, or doing abortions for sex selection? Actually they know what they’re doing is wrong, and resent other people pointing that out. And why, as Delano Squires points out in Blaze, do “black politicians, journalists, entertainers, academics, and civil rights leaders” let Planned Parenthood con them into supporting their own extermination? https://twitter.com/PPFA/status/1576306995778400256 On the side of life Not all of them do. Larry Elder, Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears (R-Va.), Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), and Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) certainly do not. For that they receive as much vitriol as does Justice Clarence Thomas. Recall: Justice Thomas did not write the Supreme Court’s opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. His colleague Sam Alito did that. But Thomas wrote a supporting concurrence, hinting at a desire to take Alito’s logic further. Then again, Thomas sees a danger in results-oriented jurisprudence that his detractors don’t see. That kind of results orientation gave us Dred Scott v. Sandford, a decision that caused the War Between the States. Gov. DeSantis, for his part, has not let the issue rest. He expressed his support for Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), who has been Senatorially blocking military promotions. Tuberville will let up only when the Pentagon stops giving the Air Mobility Command the mission of being an “abortion tourist airline.” DeSantis pledged that, if he becomes President, he will rescind that “mission.” https://twitter.com/HuffPost/status/1703374575977799846? At the annual Faith and Freedom Coalition banquet, DeSantis said: What the Defense Department is doing is against the law. By using tax dollars to pay for abortion tourism, they are breaking the law. I can tell you that as soon as I become president, that program will be thrown away where it belongs. The law to which DeSantis refers is, of course, the Hyde Amendment, that forbids taxpayer funding for abortions. Paying for transport to a jurisdiction that allows abortion is effectively the same as paying for the procedure. Money is fungible. Now consider the case of a pregnant woman whose doctors informed her she had brain cancer. The doctors said, “Get an abortion.” She said, “No.” A year later, both are alive. You don’t have to be a person of faith… In fact, a position against abortion does not require a profession of a “pro-life faith.” (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all qualify, each to a different degree and for different reasons.) Nat Hentoff explained in 2009 how he, an atheist, changed his mind about the procedure. At first, everyone around him was “pro-choice,” and he accepted that as only logical. But! Sometimes an abortion fails, and the baby is born alive. What happens to such a baby? In the all too typical case, the medical personnel hide it away until it starves! The infamous Kenneth Edelin did worse: he would cut the cord and watch the clock until the baby suffocated. That made Hantoff start to think. And when he read a medical textbook whose authors explicitly described the unborn child as a unique patient, he capitulated. The concept that the fetus is a patient, an individual (with a DNA distinct from everyone else’s), whose maladies are a proper subject for medical treatment … is alarmingly modern. … Only now are we beginning to consider the fetus seriously—medically, legally, and ethically. Harrison, Golbus and Filly, The Unborn Patient: Prenatal Diagnosis and Treatment And that’s from an atheistic, or at least an agnostic, viewpoint. Here’s an interesting Christian perspective Hentoff was around to hear when its proponent first shared it: There are those who argue that the [woman’s] right to privacy is of a higher order than the right of life. That was the premise of slavery. You could not protest the existence of slaves on the plantation because that was private [property] and therefore outside of your right to be concerned. The Rev. Jesse Jackson Jackson switched sides when he sought the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1988. Colman McCarthy’s piece in The Washington Post does not describe how or why Jackson changed his position. Did he do it out of political convenience? Or did some World Economic Forum wheel “get to” him? Remarkably, under the very policy Jackson champions today, he never would have been born. Where we are today The Two Reverends Jackson illustrate better than any other case that negotiation on abortion is simply not possible. Whether he acted sincerely or not, Ron DeSantis made no mistake. Abortion kills – and no less an authority than Justice Sam Alito said so. A President must lead – and a Presidential candidate must lead also. Most of Donald J. Trump’s positions are the right positions on the issues they involve. His current position on abortion, as he stated it to Kristin Welker, is not one of them. During his tenure in office, he replaced one Constitutional originalist with another, replaced one moderate with a moderate conservative, and replaced one unapologetic liberal with a moderate conservative. Those nominations gave us Dobbs, and other truly great decisions. Now he should pledge, as he seeks to return to the office he held, to carry Dobbs further. That includes appointing another originalist, especially if Justice Thomas, now senior to the rest, falls ill. It also includes defending life as life requires. Remember: the Overton Windows of the two Parties do not overlap – not on abortion, they don’t. Trump must therefore choose one or the other. And he must choose quickly – or jeopardize his current commanding, indeed majority, lead. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2023/09/20/foundation/constitution/abortion-trump-own-issue/ NBC Interactive Abortion Map: https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/abortion-state-tracking-trigger-laws-bans-restrictions-rcna36199 Brandon Tatum’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbE6F0ylkYg Planned Parenthood’s boastful post: https://twitter.com/PPFA/status/1576306995778400256 Huffington Post takes alarm at DeSantis: https://twitter.com/HuffPost/status/1703374575977799846 Colman McCarthy on Jesse Jackson, archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20120402152936/http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/nvp/consistent/mccarthy_jackson.html Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ The CNAV Store: https://cnav.store/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Tim Ballard – smear campaign accelerates By Terry A. Hurlbut Tim Ballard, founder of Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.) and hero of Sound of Freedom, now faces his greatest challenge. Even before he dropped a hint of running for the United States Senate, he became subject to a campaign of slander and defamation of character. Now that Mitt Romney has dropped out of the race, that campaign has accelerated. For that reason, those who value not only freedom but also civilization itself, must use maximum discernment and reject the opposition narrative. What are people saying about Tim Ballard? The latest opposition research on Tim Ballard comes from an outlet called Vice – which, according to their allies The Intercept, is in bankruptcy. Vice made two reports, one shortly after Sound of Freedom premiered speculating on why Ballard left O.U.R., and another yesterday. They allege that Ballard, while working on rescue operations, would invite a woman to pose as his wife. Vice further alleges that the pose went further than traveling together and extended even to sharing bed and/or shower. They say Ballard did this with and to more than seven women in the course of his involvement. Vice attributes this tale to that time-honored journalistic device, “sources familiar with the situation.” They quote an alleged statement from O.U.R. that, while saying it “does not tolerate sexual harassment or discrimination,” does not specifically accuse Ballard of anything. O.U.R. says only that Tim Ballard resigned from O.U.R. on June 22, 2023. (Sound of Freedom premiered July 4.) O.U.R. was under investigation by Davis County (Utah) Attorney Troy Rawlings. That investigation lasted for two and a half years, then closed with no charges against anyone. But an anonymous letter alleged that an O.U.R. employee filed a sexual harassment complaint against Ballard. Then the letter accuses Ballard of promulgating “false narratives” against the organization. Tim Ballard has never once said anything negative about O.U.R. or any of its present or former staff. He’s been through this before, and for years Apparently this kind of slander – and libel – has dogged Ballard for at least as long as the investigation of O.U.R. A woman named Meg Conley wrote a piece for Slate alleging essentially that the rescues of children are fake, and only make their lives worse. For that she quotes a “study” by “experts” whom she refuses to name. She describes an operation in which she said she took part, that mirrors the one in Sound of Freedom. (Her operation was much smaller.) This particular operation was successful – but then she quoted the naysayers in the U.S. State Department. Never mind that this is the Biden/Blinken State Department, which would seek to: • Deny the problem, and • Prevent others from solving it. Conley also makes such pettifogging complaints as, “O.U.R. ignored requests from Black activists to change the organization’s name.” If true – if – then it shows only how petty certain people are when they allege something called “cultural appropriation.” But this statement gives the strongest evidence that Meg Conley is, frankly, lying: Anti-trafficking work is providing support for gay and trans kids kicked out of their homes and therefore exposed to heightened risk of being trafficked. If anyone is trafficking these confused children, it is their faculty groomers in public schools, and psychiatrists who have violated every concept of the Oath of Hippocrates in order to convince children to opt into expensive experimental treatment that would have made Viktor Frankenstein, had he been a real person, vomit. Have the Mormons actually denounced him? And so we come to the alleged statement from Acting Prophet M. Russell Ballard of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – the Mormons. The Deseret News quotes him as accusing Tim Ballard of: • “Betraying” the “friendship” between the two men, • Using Prophet Ballard’s name without Prophet Ballard’s permission and for his own personal advantage, and • The deceptive activities of which Vice speaks, quoting their “SFWTS” claque. President Ballard and Tim Ballard (no relation) established a friendship a number of years ago. That friendship was built on a shared interest in looking after God’s children wherever they are and without regard to their circumstance. However, that relationship is in the past. For many months, President Ballard has had no contact with the founder of Operation Underground Railroad (OUR). The nature of that relationship was always in support of vulnerable children being abused, trafficked, and otherwise neglected. Once it became clear Tim Ballard had betrayed their friendship, through the unauthorized use of President Ballard’s name for Tim Ballard’s personal advantage and activity regarded as morally unacceptable, President Ballard withdrew his association. President Ballard never authorized his name, or the name of the Church, to be used for Tim’s personal or financial interests. In addition, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints never endorsed, supported or represented OUR, Tim Ballard or any projects associated with them. President Ballard loves children, all over the world. It has been his mission and life’s work to look after them, care for them, and point them to their Savior. This could explain why all tracking of box-office performance by Sound of Freedom ceased as of September 12. Tim Ballard fights back Today Tim Ballard responded to the alleged statement by the Prophet, in a press release from the SPEAR Fund. Rescuing kids and fighting child trafficking is an ugly and dark business, especially when—as the result of my work for more than 20 years—we continue to expose members of the powerful, well-funded child trafficking cartels. Evil pedophiles will stop at nothing, and they have allies in government, in the media, in big corporations, and even in public institutions. They continue to lie and attempt to destroy my good name and defame my character…and they will never stop. I want everyone to know that I and our vast army of supporters will likewise never stop. We will keep fighting for the vulnerable all over the globe, and we know that the truth will always prevail. I am a faithful Member in good standing in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I believe in Jesus Christ, the Holy Scriptures, and I believe in our faith with my whole heart. That will never change. It has been alleged that an LDS church spokesperson issued a statement about me through a tabloid that is often hostile to people of faith. My church has not publicly verified the statement’s authenticity. We are also highly suspicious about the timing of such a statement given its close proximity to Mitt Romney’s announcement that he is retiring, my own public comments about my prayers about future plans, and the fact that the LDS church does not engage in political activity. In any event, nothing will change my core beliefs. If someone within the church did release this statement, I am absolutely confident that the right people will step in and ensure that proper due process is followed as the rules of our church dictate. I, my family, and the Spear Fund team will confidently move forward and focus on our mission of saving children from the horrors of sex slavery, and remaining fierce defenders of freedom. We invite anyone who shares this passion to join us. The tabloid involved is Vice, which appears to be aptly named. Ballard alleges that Vice promotes the normalization of pedophilia and pedophiles, calling the latter “minor attracted persons.” An engined search of Vice with that key phrase produced two articles. CNAV has saved both on the Wayback Machine. Do these articles condemn the concept? Or do they make subtle excuses? Judge for yourselves. Here is what Tim Ballard has to say about Vice: Do you know Vice? Do you think the church would make a statement to Vice? Vice magazine has promoted the concept that pedophiles should be called “minor-attracted persons.” To normalize it. Vice Magazine has done more hit pieces on the church than maybe any other. I can’t imagine that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints would make a statement to a tabloid. I can’t imagine, but I can’t confirm it. Last last night, WorldNetDaily’s Joe Kovacs published this piece summarizing the latest dust-up as best he could. “It’s not true; nothing you hear is true,” he said to several followers in Boston, Massachusetts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfyPzlRhp7I By “not true” he means not only the allegations against him, but also the attribution of a denunciatory statement to Prophet Ballard. Kovacs also included this X post: https://twitter.com/jimstewartson/status/1703606218160591023 Note that Tim Ballard disputes Stewartson’s allegation that the Mormons have excommunicated him. Analysis Journalistic judgment always hinges on credibility of the sources. Sources are the equivalent of witnesses in courts of law. If any of the allegations against Tim Ballard are true, why didn’t Davis County Attorney Rawlings charge him? Why did he fold his tent and go home? And why is Eduardo Verástegui, producer of Sound of Freedom, registering to run for President of Mexico? Sound of Freedom has had production, distribution, and exhibition problems from the start. Walt Disney shelved the picture – but Angel Studios put it out anyway. Employees at a major theater chain organized a sabotage campaign against it – to no avail. A reviewer panned it – and turned out to be a “normalizer” of pedophilia. Two streaming services refuse to carry it. Now we see all manner of pettifogging allegations trying to discredit the premise as well as the man. And the best anyone can come up with to substantiate it, are an anonymous letter and “sources familiar with the situation.” Tim Ballard is being very generous in not being willing to accept the statement that Vice attributes to Prophet Ballard. Considering the source, Agent Ballard is behaving with honor. But in fact CNAV sees no reason to discount completely that the Prophet would make a statement like that. If the world pedophile network is as powerful as Agent Ballard has shown, then it is powerful enough even to suborn the Acting Mormon Prophet. Be not hasty to believe flying reports to the disparagement of any. George Washington, from Rules of Civility. Where we go from here This controversy shows how powerful and devious the pedophile network actually is. If anything this makes continued support of Agent Ballard imperative. He must win election to the Senate in order to bring down that network – and its apologists and normalizers. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2023/09/19/news/tim-ballard-smear-campaign-accelerates/ Two articles in Vice, courtesy of the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20230919185356/https://www.vice.com/en/article/7bd37e/whatever-happened-to-nambla https://web.archive.org/web/20230919185815/https://www.vice.com/en/article/av39jz/i-spent-a-year-with-non-offending-paedophiles Video: Ballard denies charges https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfyPzlRhp7I Post from detractor accusing Sound of Freedom as a fraud: https://twitter.com/jimstewartson/status/1703606218160591023 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ The CNAV Store: https://cnav.store/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Tim Ballard, Senator? By Terry A. Hurlbut Senator Tim Ballard, Republican from Utah? When Mitt Romney announced his retirement from the Senate, several people started to ask that hypothetical question, in all seriousness. Fox News started asking that question the next day, in fact. Two questions suggest themselves. First, how likely is Tim Ballard to win election to the Senate? Second – and more important – what would a Tim Ballard Senate term look like? Tim Ballard and his activities Tim Ballard, of course, was an investigator for the Department of Homeland Security’s investigative unit. In that capacity he closed several cases of the trafficking of children into the United States. But one fine day, one of his cases asked him to rescue his sister – still in captivity. His superiors were not willing to pursue the matter, because that involved carrying the investigation to Colombia. So Ballard made a fateful decision – to leave his job and track the little girl down on his own. He convinced the Colombian police to set up a “sex hotel” on an offshore island, to lure traffickers, their clients – and their victims. That operation brought the rescue of over 120 victims, both adults and children, and the capture of several suspects. Enough of those suspects “sang” to give him leads to the little girl. Eventually his friends found her, and brother and sister reunited at last. These are the facts behind the sleeper hit of the summer, Sound of Freedom. At last report this film earned $183 million in the U.S. and $27.6 million elsewhere. Not bad for a film that cost slightly more than $14.5 million to make! (And $5.5 million to market, chiefly by word-of-mouth, without the massive billboards typical of movie marketing today.) This performance is the more remarkable, considering the obstacles it has faced. This includes shelving of the picture by The Walt Disney Company, and a “panning” by a reviewer who seeks to normalize pedophilia. Further obstacles The obstacles to Sound of Freedom continue. The two largest Internet streaming services have turned it down. (But VUDU by Fandango is taking preorders on the purchase of “lifetime” individual viewing rights on its platform.) Though it is still playing in U.S. theaters, box office performance figures since September 12 are lacking. And its message seems to have fallen on deaf ears. California refuses to increase the penalties for child trafficking into or within that State. Nevertheless, Director Alejandro Monteverde told Variety that Sound of Freedom might have a sequel. This would focus on Haiti – a country notorious as a hub and a source for child sex trafficking. Moreover, its message might not excite a positive response in California, but it is clearly resonating elsewhere. President Trump screened Sound of Freedom about two weeks after its opening and said he would seek a death penalty for child traffickers. https://twitter.com/PU28453638/status/1681855452437524481 Last Tuesday (September 13), Tim Ballard testified before the House Homeland Security Committee. https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1701990866351432066 In addition to the emotion-provoking – and hard-to-believe – statistics he cited, he charged that 85,000 immigrant children are now missing after authorities “returned” them to their “sponsors.” He effectively asked the Members of Congress, “Where are they?” Then he dropped this dark hint as to why they could disappear so readily: It's more difficult to adopt a cat from a shelter in the United States than it is to go down and take one of these children out of the custody of [the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] and claim that I’m the sponsor. Nor has President Trump ignored the issue since the mass screening. He vowed to reinstate Title 42 regulations that, he said, were effective in rescuing children from such activity. https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1702880079506776137 Senate prospects Without question, Tim Ballard has raised his profile significantly with The Sound of Freedom and following its release. Though he founded Operation Underground Railroad, he has since left that organization. He now advises the new SPEAR Fund, which seeks to bring together all organizations concerned with combating the trafficking of children and adults. This can involved their rescue and caring for them afterward, helping them to heal the deep psychic wounds they’ve suffered. Ballard explained why he can never involve himself in direct rescue ever again. Simply put, he has blown his cover six ways from Sunday. Sound of Freedom is part of the reason – perhaps Jim Caviezel’s make-up to portray Ballard was “too good.” But, beginning shortly after the film’s release, Ballard said several “big names with pull” asked him about a Senate run. Since Mitt Romney decided not to run again, the interest has exploded. https://rumble.com/embed/v3fe9sw/?pub=4teej https://rumble.com/embed/v3fdzbo/?pub=4teej Tim Ballard would face off against four other candidates in the Republican Party. Only one (Mayor Trent Skaggs of Rockingham, Utah) has announced. But another (Brad Wilson, Speaker of the Utah House) has a record warchest and over 60 endorsements from fellow legislators. Moreover, Ballard would face renewed scrutiny of the operations of Operation Underground Railroad. He is out of favor with the Mormon Church and its current President/Prophet, perhaps because that officer believed the hype surrounding a now-closed investigation. But he does appear to have a powerful endorser: Sean Reyes, Attorney General of Utah. https://twitter.com/SeanReyesUT/status/1702070710288437658 Tim Ballard would shake up the Senate Tim Ballard would come to the Senate with his own agenda, apart from his expected support of Donald Trump’s agenda. And if his testimony is any guide, he would shake up the Senate and all of official Washington. He definitely would support building a physical barrier or barriers along the U.S.-Mexican border. One Mexican administration after another, wants immigration to flow freely. That country relies on remittances from its immigrants in America, remittances that often come from American “welfare.” But the Presidents of Honduras and Guatemala have a far different attitude. Their children are winding up subject to sexual exploitation. Anything that forces a trafficker to take his chances slipping children through a controlled portal of entry, is all to the good. In fact, Ballard accuses the White House of becoming a “pedophile delivery service” with its open-border policies. https://twitter.com/Virginia_Allen5/status/1702013258088042849 Consider this exchange between Ballard and Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), Chairman of the Committee: Q. Are the catch and release policies of [DHS] Secretary [Alejandro] Mayorkas facilitating the trafficking of people and children? A. Absolutely. Q. So word it another way, there are cases of human trafficking and sex trafficking of minors that are occurring that would not be occurring if these policies were not in place? A. That’s correct. Q. [And do you believe that] Mayorkas knows there are human trafficking cases happening because of his policies? A. I do believe he knows that. So logically, if Rep. Green preferred Articles of Impeachment against Mayorkas, a Senator Ballard would vote to convict. Ballard would also push the Senate itself to investigate. Explain this! More to the point, a Tim Ballard for Senate campaign would make human trafficking an election campaign issue. This can only redound to his, and Trump’s credit. President Trump was the first, and only, President to do anything to combat human trafficking. But President Biden rescinded several policies Trump had put in place to combat the practice. This included DNA testing to “vet” those claiming to be a child’s relatives at the border. https://twitter.com/austerrewyatt1/status/1660747038131367936 Let Biden, and Ballard’s likely opponent, explain that, if they: 1. Dare, and 2. Can. Note that, perhaps because the government of Mexico has taken such a cavalier attitude, Eduardo Verástegui, producer of and cast member in Sound of Freedom, has formally registered to run for President of Mexico. https://twitter.com/ExpPolitica/status/1699910586614808664 https://twitter.com/EVerastegui/status/1692740711722950856 Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2023/09/18/editorial/talk/tim-ballard-senator/ Post embedding Trump video: https://twitter.com/PU28453638/status/1681855452437524481 Homeland Security Committee witness opening statements: https://homeland.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/09.13.23-Witness-Testimony.pdf Post of Ballard’s testimony: https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1701990866351432066 Jack Posobiec embeds Trump’s latest statement: https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1702880079506776137 Video: Sean Spicer interviews Tim Ballard about a Senate run: https://rumble.com/v3hzo0m-tim-ballard-tells-sean-spicer-hes-likely-to-run-for-mitt-romneys-senate-sea.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Video: full Sean Spicer interview: https://rumble.com/v3hzdje-exclusive-tim-ballard-on-life-after-sound-of-freedoms-massive-success-ep.-2.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6 Post: Sean Reyes appears ready to endorse Ballard: https://twitter.com/SeanReyesUT/status/1702070710288437658 Post: Ballard testifies before Homeland Security Committee: https://twitter.com/Virginia_Allen5/status/1702013258088042849 Post about Biden suspending the DNA testing: https://twitter.com/austerrewyatt1/status/1660747038131367936 Eduardo Verástegui para Presidente de Mexico: https://twitter.com/ExpPolitica/status/1699910586614808664 https://twitter.com/EVerastegui/status/1692740711722950856 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ The CNAV Store: https://cnav.store/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Elvis Chan subject to subpoena By Terry A. Hurlbut Special Agent Elvis Chan, FBI, yesterday backed out of an appearance before the House Judiciary Committee and its Weaponization Subcommittee. So now the Judiciary Committee has issued a subpoena to compel his attendance. Whether this will succeed is anyone’s guess – but Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Chairman of both the Committee and Subcommittee, faces increasing pressure to deliver some kind of tangible result. The role of Elvis Chan Elvis Chan is, of course, the Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Field Office in San Francisco, California. Platform X, once known as Twitter, has had its headquarters in San Francisco since its founding. So Elvis Chan has met regularly with the Twitter Trust and Safety Team. On July 4, Judge Terry A. Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana found that communications to Twitter/X (and other social media) by Chan and Foreign Intelligence Task Force Section Chief Laura Dehmlow have been of a threatening, or at least strongly encouraging, nature. Recently the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals said the same. Accordingly they affirmed Judge Doughty’s order to enjoin Chan from meeting any further with any Trust and Safety Team. Justice Samuel A. Alito of the U.S. Supreme Court has stayed that injunction until midnight September 22. He has also set a Wednesday afternoon deadline for written responses for his colleagues to consider. (See docket pages for Missouri v. Biden, at District Court, Appeals Court, and Supreme Court levels.) But more to the point, Chairman Jordan had an arrangement for Chan to appear voluntarily for a transcribed interview with him and other Members of his Committee. Yesterday morning, Chan didn’t show – possibly because the Justice Department ordered him not to. For that reason, the Judiciary Committee issued a formal subpoena, compelling him to appear on Thursday for a deposition. Thread by the Judiciary Committee Yesterday afternoon the Judiciary Committee dropped a thread explaining their position, and including their demand letter to Elvis Chan. https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1702778803037057503 https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1702778822704124340 https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1702778830245548375 https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1702778836042100844 https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1702778840953545111 In addition, the Weaponization Subcommittee dropped this solitary post containing the demand letter: https://twitter.com/Weaponization/status/1702785624023978282 The letter itself takes an interesting tone. Not only does it accuse Chan of lack of candor, but it also suggests his personal interests differ from those of the FBI and the DOJ. Reaction to the thread consists of equal parts support and skepticism. But the skeptics don’t seem to understand that Chairman Jordan’s Committee did issue a subpoena to Chan. Still, this example of skepticism is especially instructive: https://twitter.com/Capitalist_Mike/status/1702824663762776268 Other reaction to both the thread and the Weaponization Subcommittee post consists of catcalling by obvious Democrats. One user shared the profile of candidate Tamie Wilson, who will run against Jordan in the general election. (That is, if she wins the primary. She ran against Jordan last Midterms, and lost.) Analysis Regular readers will recall our saying that Elvis Chan and Laura Dehmlow definitely perjured themselves. They did so both at the green table and at deposition. So on one hand, this next deposition gives Chan a chance to cut his losses and “rat out” his masters. On the other, if he’s a conscienceless servant of the elite, that deposition will accomplish little or nothing. Almost certainly, Judge Doughty must be taking notes. The next question is whether Mr. Justice Alito, and Justices Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Thomas, and Chief Justice Roberts will also take notes. True enough, Elvis Chan will never give evidence before the Supreme Court, for that Court is not a trial court. But Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar will find the government’s case far more difficult to defend. The relevance of the Hunter Biden Laptop story is simply this: the FBI directly interfered in the Election of 2020. Now the American people know it. So if, as seems likely, the Election of 2024 is a rematch, President Joe Biden is more likely to lose. Even one who votes the cemetery, or repeat-votes those who move and re-register, one still needs a baseline. And Joe Biden is already losing his baseline. People watching him and his family getting away with obvious venal shakedown, while Donald Trump faces charges no one should have brought, will not vote for him. The Democrats know this. So expect the higher-ups to look for another candidate. Any other candidate (except Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.). Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2023/09/16/news/elvis-chan-subject-subpoena/ Docket pages: District Court: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63290154/missouri-v-biden/ Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67563473/state-of-missouri-v-biden/ Supreme Court: https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/23a243.html The thread: https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1702778803037057503 https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1702778822704124340 https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1702778830245548375 https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1702778836042100844 https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1702778840953545111 Post by the Weaponization Subcommittee: https://twitter.com/Weaponization/status/1702785624023978282 Post by a skeptic: https://twitter.com/Capitalist_Mike/status/1702824663762776268 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ The CNAV Store: https://cnav.store/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Federal government asks SCOTUS to allow censorship By Terry A. Hurlbut The federal government outdid itself yesterday. They actually applied to the Supreme Court of the United States for a stay of the Big Injunction against them. This, although the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals already watered it down and enjoined only one thing: retaliating, or threatening to retaliate, against social media companies for not blocking speech the government does not like. Even Don Quixote, or the most wildly over-the-top producer of Kabuki Theater, could never have thought of this one. The latest federal appeal The Supreme Court has already docketed this case, though they are technically in recess. Herewith the docket page and the application. Vivek Murthy, Surgeon General of the United States, is, for reasons best known to the federal government, the lead applicant. He and various White House and CDC officials – and FBI Special Agent Elvis Chan and the replacement for Supervisor Laura Dehmlow – are asking the Supreme Court to stay the injunction, as currently modified, “pending the filing and disposition of [a] forthcoming petition for a writ of certiorari.” (Emphasis added.) Later in the application, the government says it will file that petition by October 13, 2023. The applicants include only those whose activities the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is still enjoining. They do not include those parties whom the Fifth Circuit let off the hook. To support their application for a stay, the federal government, in the person of Surgeon General Murthy and Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, denies having coerced or threatened anyone. Indeed they specifically say various social-media platforms let stand several pieces of “problematic” content without consequence. That’s a lie. Anyone who believes that, should consult the Twitter Files, especially those concerning the: • Insertion into the highest echelon of Twitter (now X) of Jim Baker, ex-General Counsel of the FBI, the • Activities of Jim Baker, including the attempt to suppress the Twitter Files when they first appeared, and above all, the • Actions of the FBI, both at Twitter and at Facebook. Same old, same old arguments Beyond that, the federal government makes the same-old, same-old arguments that those who have suffered under social media censorship, lack standing. Both the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana (Monroe Division) and lately the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals have explicitly upheld the standing of all plaintiffs. Furthermore, each court applies the One-plaintiff Rule: if any plaintiff has standing, the case must proceed. (See the docket pages for the case at the District Court level and at the Fifth Circuit level.) But the standing arguments are merely tendentious. Surgeon General Murthy and his colleagues make a more egregious and dangerous argument for the continuance of their authority. Of course respect for the freedom of speech does not mean saying the government should be absolutely silent. No one suggests that, whatever Solicitor General Prelogar says to the contrary. But the application seems to say that: • Whatever the government says, is true, and that • Whatever anyone else says to contradict what the government says, is false. And that alone, Prelogar suggests, justifies the government’s special portals into social media platforms (as The Intercept revealed). A brazen claim of federal authority Prelogar cites some interesting authorities to justify the notion that the government has an unlimited brief against “misinformation and disinformation.” Most of these references go back before either the Trump Administration or the recent reversal-of-power in the House of Representatives at last Midterms. This archive of a press briefing by then-Press Secretary Jen Psaki should chill any reader to the bone. Consider this exchange between Psaki and NBC White House Correspondent Kristen Welker: Q Facebook has decided to keep former President Trump off of its platform for now. Senator Ted Cruz tweeted the following: “For every liberal celebrating Trump’s social media ban, if the Big Tech oligarchs can muzzle the former President, what’s to stop them from silencing you?” What do you make of that comment? Does he have a point? MS. PSAKI: Well, let me first say that this is an independent board’s decision, and we’re not going to have any comment on the future of the former President’s social media platform. That’s a decision that, it sounds like, the independent board punted back to Facebook to make in the next six months, as I know you all have reported. The President’s view is that the major platforms have a responsibility related to the health and safety of all Americans to stop amplifying untrustworthy content, disinformation, and misinformation, especially related to COVID-19, vaccinations, and elections. And we’ve seen that over the past several months, broadly speaking. I’m not placing any blame on any individual or group; we’ve seen it from a number of sources. He also supports better privacy protections and a robust anti-trust program. So his view is that there’s more that needs to be done to ensure that this type of misinformation; disinformation; damaging, sometimes life-threatening information is not going out to the American public. Q You’re saying more that needs to be done. Are there any concerns though about First Amendment rights? And where does the White House draw the line on that? MS. PSAKI: Well, look, I think we are, of course, a believer in First Amendment rights. I think what the decisions are that the social media platforms need to make is how they address the disinformation, misinformation — especially related to life-threatening issues like COVID-19 and vaccinations that are — continue to proliferate on their platforms. Here, by the way, is Senator Cruz’ post: https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1389937682395062273 And there you have it. Now consider this: General Prelogar quoted Jen Psaki’s explicit clarion call for censorship in her application. This is without a doubt the most brazen call for tyranny in history. CNAV would expect to read this in a book titled, say, Our Struggle. And remember: the German word for struggle is kampf. Furthermore, so long as anyone is talking about Trump’s banishment from social media, consider how that came about. That rated a Twitter Files thread of its own. Did the government explicitly threaten Twitter, for example, if it did not ban Trump? Yes, they did! The proper and improper remedy If the government feels someone has lied about it or its programs, to the detriment of another, let the government prosecute, after the fact, for fraud. General Prelogar here argues for prior restraint. Prior restraint has never been permissible in our Constitutional system. New York Times Co. and Washington Post Co. v. The United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971) – the Pentagon Papers Case. (Before anyone brings up the dissent by Chief Justice Warren Burger: he argued only against the haste of the decision. He did not argue that the government had made a good case to suppress those Papers; only that it never got a chance to make one.) Let’s consider what the government considers “misinformation and disinformation.” True enough, no deliberation before any court is likely ever to get to those merits. But if they did, the obvious question arises: who’s lying? The government has consistently suppressed information that turned out to be true. This includes the danger and countereffectiveness of the COVID Vaccines, and the safety and efficacy of Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, etc. It also includes the wholesale violations of the Law of Averages in the Election of 2020 returns. (Indeed CNAV cannot say that on YouTube, and couldn’t say that on Twitter until Elon Musk bought it.) It includes the venal corruption of President Joe Biden and his family, especially his son Hunter. And it includes the false-flag pseudo-operation that was and is the January 6 Event. Where does the case go from here? The case does seem to be moving forward. Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., the supervising Justice for the Fifth Circuit, issued a one-week administrative stay. Tentatively it expires one minute before midnight Friday of next week. https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1702407217188598023 https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1702410067897684339 Furthermore he gave the plaintiffs in Missouri v. Biden until Wednesday (September 20) at 4:00 p.m. EDT to respond. That response should be an eyeful, and CNAV eagerly awaits it. Of greatest interest will be their response to the outright lie that Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, et al. left flagged content up routinely and without consequence. Appellate courts routinely stay decisions they end up upholding, probably as a courtesy to their minority members. So only the most die-hard apologists for this administration are reading (or should read) anything into Justice Alito’s administrative stay. Still, this is extraordinary in and of itself: an interlocutory certiorari petition from an interlocutory appeal. And logically, one might expect the Supreme Court to consider itself with full authority to reinstate the original injunction. But they can only do that if the plaintiffs ask. Courts will never do anything for one who never asks. All the same, Surgeon General Murthy and other “clients” of Solicitor General Prelogar should be careful what they wish for. Justice Alito’s order clearly shows they’re going to get it – and they might not like it. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2023/09/15/news/federal-government-scotus-censorship/ Docket pages: District Court: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63290154/missouri-v-biden/ Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67563473/state-of-missouri-v-biden/ Supreme Court: https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/23a243.html Application for stay (and appendices containing all prior relevant orders): https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23A243/279530/20230914115558015_23A-Marthy%20v.%20Missouri.pdf State actor article: https://cnav.news/2022/11/02/foundation/constitution/state-actor-real/ Archive of Jen Psaki’s press conference in which she calls for censorship: https://perma.cc/4ZGE-N9QL Senator Ted Cruz’ post about the continued suspension of Trump from Facebook: https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1389937682395062273 Articles about Twitter Files 3, 4, and 5 (the suspension of Trump): https://cnav.news/2022/12/10/editorial/talk/trump-suspended-how/ https://cnav.news/2022/12/11/editorial/talk/rules-changes-twitter/ https://cnav.news/2022/12/13/editorial/talk/trump-removal-fiat/ The Pentagon Papers case: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/403/713/ Order granting administrative stay and setting a response deadline: https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/091423zr_6k47.pdf Tracy Beanz’ mini-thread: https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1702407217188598023 https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1702410067897684339 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ The CNAV Store: https://cnav.store/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Elon Musk challenges California social media transparency law By Terry A. Hurlbut Elon Musk, last week, sued the State of California. At issue: Assembly Bill 587, which requires social media companies to post their terms of service and file regular reports on enforcement of those terms. The problem: this bill opens social media companies to direct coercion by the Attorney General of the State of California. It’s the first time any social media company has taken such legal action. And according to a particular independent journalist, it’s about time. Elon Musk takes on the government Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) signed AB 587 into law on September 13, 2022. He touted it as a social media transparency measure. That might apply if it meant being transparent about terms of service and how not to offend the moderators. But that’s not what Gov. Newsom said. Instead he spoke of “protecting” people “from hate and disinformation spread online.” In other words, this law compels censorship, and makes a social media company a State actor – a California State actor. This is worse than the regular meetings Old Twitter’s Trust and Safety Team used to have with FBI Agent Chan. This requires a social media company to submit in writing data on how much problematic speech passed, how many users published it, and how Trust and Safety punished them. Platform X still has its headquarters, therefore its base, in California. But what matters is not where the company is based, but that residents of California access it. This obviously violates the First Amendment, on the same theory the plaintiffs in Missouri v. Biden allege. And it does so in the most blatant fashion anyone can imagine. Accordingly, on September 8, 2023, Elon Musk sued California, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California (Sacramento Division). By now, CourtListener has the docket page, and one document: the complaint. Other lawsuits involving social media companies in California One other social media platform (Minds) sued the State in April, in the Central District of California. That case is now dismissed with leave to amend – and Minds has until Monday morning to do so. Minds made the same complaint Elon Musk is now making: against AB 587. But the court found that Minds doesn’t generate enough revenue for the new law to touch it. Therefore, no injury in fact – and no standing. In addition, a Benjamin Woodhouse sued two social media companies in California, and a slew of California officials and judges. The social media companies were Meta and Alphabet (Google, etc.), and one of the officials was Attorney General Bonta. Woodhouse alleged a plethora of fanciful offenses, including, incredibly, genocide. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York threw the case out as frivolous. Furthermore, the New York court gave Woodhouse thirty days to show just cause why the court shouldn’t bar him from suing any of the defendants in that court again, without first obtaining the court’s leave. This case does not appear to be relevant to AB Five Eighty-seven. Tracy Beanz opens a thread Tracy Beanz, at UncoverDC, dropped a thread on this case beginning at 11:39 a.m. EDT yesterday. Here are the odd numbers: https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1701983911671107838 https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1701985492873412957 https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1701990582011220024 https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1701997199142314004 https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1701998041484480533 https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1701999831760228452 https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1702000502672708079 https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1702001718865633627 https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1702002660218376632 https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1702004142414193032 https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1702007063000277326 https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1702009821640249823 https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1702011311901520302 https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1702012118101328262 Reaction to this thread included skepticism about Elon Musk. One user accused him of continuing the shadow-ban policies he said he abolished when he bought the platform. https://twitter.com/GregRubini/status/1702007654778827190 One other user encouraged Musk to relocate X to Texas. https://twitter.com/RumfoordNiles/status/1701997679721566434 But, as CNAV has noted above, that might not solve the problem. Two other users gave pointed perspectives on California’s attitude. https://twitter.com/kmcp101/status/1702037855562829992 https://twitter.com/LJ20175/status/1702037025547866331 This last post references the “public health order” in New Mexico. That order involves a suspension of open-carry and concealed-carry permissions in cities meeting a threshold of “gun violence.” Thus far only Albuquerque qualifies. But Judge David H. Urias of the U.S. District Court for New Mexico, enjoined that part of the order yesterday. Thus far, Laura Loomer, who has her own lawsuit against X for her own deplatforming, has not commented. Analysis Elon Musk did right to file this action against California. One cannot imagine a worse law than this. It violates every concept of freedom of speech, and makes any such platform a California state actor. Nor does his complaint suffer the central weakness of Minds’ complaint. Unlike Minds, X does generate revenues sufficient to be subject to the law’s reporting requirements. In his complaint, Musk lays specific emphasis on X having offices in California, both in San Francisco and in Sacramento. Though your editor is not a lawyer, he fails to see why that matters. The bill text clearly says that, to be subject to the new law, a social media platform need only: • Have users resident in California, • Allow users to do what social media platform users normally do, and • Generate more than $100 million in revenue in the previous calendar year. That text says nothing about having headquarters in California, or a California charter. A Delaware corporation would also be subject to this new law if it met the above criteria. Andrew Torba at Gab should pay attention. If he doesn’t generate $100 million a year in revenue yet, he might well do so in future. As a result he would be subject to the new law, California offices or no. Elon Musk sends mixed signals Nevertheless, Elon Musk is sending mixed signals. Why did he appoint WEF wheel Linda Yaccarino as CEO of X? What has he done about the troublemakers still on his Trust and Safety Team, or among moderational Artificial Intelligences? Why, for instance, did one of those AIs suspend the Never Back Down account, forcing Elon Musk to intervene personally to reinstate it? Then we have the charge that “shadow bans” on X, remain. Thus Elon Musk seems to say that he, not any government, will decide what to permit or forbid on his platform. Any social media head should and likely would do the same. But his position would be far more consistent, were he to “ditch” X’s more controversial content moderation policies. If he maintained the same content standards Gab maintains, he would have a lot more support. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2023/09/14/news/elon-musk-challenges-california-social-media-transparency-law/ AB 587: Text: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB587 Press release: https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/09/13/governor-newsom-signs-nation-leading-social-media-transparency-measure/ X v Bonta: Docket: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67776396/x-corp-v-bonta/ Complaint: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.caed.433955/gov.uscourts.caed.433955.1.0.pdf Minds v. Bonta (docket): https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67169260/minds-inc-v-robert-a-bonta/ The thread: https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1701983911671107838 https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1701985492873412957 https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1701990582011220024 https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1701997199142314004 https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1701998041484480533 https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1701999831760228452 https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1702000502672708079 https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1702001718865633627 https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1702002660218376632 https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1702004142414193032 https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1702007063000277326 https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1702009821640249823 https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1702011311901520302 https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1702012118101328262 Reaction: https://twitter.com/GregRubini/status/1702007654778827190 https://twitter.com/RumfoordNiles/status/1701997679721566434 https://twitter.com/kmcp101/status/1702037855562829992 https://twitter.com/LJ20175/status/1702037025547866331 Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ The CNAV Store: https://cnav.store/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/

Social media injunction back – but weakened By Terry A. Hurlbut Last week, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rendered its decision in the interlocutory appeal in Missouri v. Biden. At issue was the Big Injunction against government coercion of social media platforms. Judge Terry A. Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana (Monroe Division) handed this down on July 4. The government appealed immediately, and the Fifth Circuit heard argument on August 10. Now that court has decided. The implications are clear, though apparently not obvious. To protect your freedom of speech on social media, you must decamp from the large platforms. The government can “persuade,” and because most social media need no persuasion, you’re out of luck. This decision removes all cover from social media platform administrators, and restores the advantage of the few platforms having the simplest – therefore the most permissive – content standards and moderation policies. Essence of the new social media injunction The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals closed their case on Friday (September 8), but their docket page is still available. Attention now returns to the docket page for Missouri v. Biden at the District Court level. The Fifth Circuit handed down their Published Opinion, which contains a very short version of the original injunction. Everyone got excited when the Fifth Circuit found that any, repeat any, government agencies “made” social media restrict free speech. The Fifth Circuit identified, in its view, the four worst offenders, which are the: • White House, • Office of the Surgeon General, • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and • Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). These four agencies did one thing the Fifth Circuit found unlawful: they threatened social media companies with penalties. The Fifth Circuit’s standard is: if you threaten, and the other party caves, their conduct is on you. But if not, not! So how does that matter? Simple: the Fifth Circuit let off the hook three other agencies who did everything short of threatening. Yet regular followers of Missouri v. Biden and, of course, the State Actor controversy will recognize these agencies as some of the worst offenders. They are the: • Department of State, • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), and • Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Why the Fifth Circuit let these agencies off the hook According to the Fifth Circuit, the NIAID never once sent representatives to meet with Trust and Safety Teams. True enough, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, il capo di tutti i capi di stato maggiore di tutti gli ospedali americani, never sent a “Doctor Chan,” who would have been a counterpart to “Agent Chan,” Special Agent in Charge of FBI-San Francisco. Instead, Dr. Fauci stood at his podium and held National Grand Rounds every day. And as far as Twitter (now X) Trust and Safety were concerned, what he said, went. After Elon Musk bought Twitter, he (or someone else) abruptly revoked their COVID Medical Misinformation Policy. But a broader Crisis Misinformation Policy remains, of which the Fifth Circuit took explicit cognizance. As to the State Department and CISA, the Fifth Circuit found nothing threatening in anything those agencies, or any agent thereof, ever said. But we know that what they did say, while not threatening, was mendacious. Still, ill-natured people will always find an excuse. These Trust and Safety people knew they needed a story for their users. So it was and is better for the State Department and CISA to be the liars, than they. And beyond that: CISA wanted the abortive Disinformation Governance Board. The essential result So the essence of the watered-down and pared-down injunction is this. It names a laundry list of: • White House officials (“Executive Office of the President”), including the White House Press Secretary, • The Surgeon General, his Chief Engagement Officer, and “their directors, administrators, and employees,” • Several CDC officials, mainly the ones whose names have come up in motions and hearings before Judge Doughty, and • Special Agents/Supervisors Laura Dehmlow and Elvis Chan, FBI. But this also leaves off the hook the: • Election Integrity Project, • Virality Project, and • Stanford Internet Observatory. True enough, the apologists for the censorship regime will squeal like stuck pigs at the very idea of enjoining or constraining the White House, the Surgeon General, the CDC, or the FBI. As far as legacy media are concerned, everything those agencies did with social media was and is right and just. “There ought to be a law,” they typically say, against vaccine refusal or challenging elections that leftists “won.” (Note that Donald J. Trump faces that second specific charge.) So any threat any of these agencies make is the lawful equivalent of a cop saying, “Stop, or I’ll shoot.” But all of that is incidental – and might even be Kabuki Theater. The original injunction forbade ten separate things. Now only one prohibition remains – government agents may not threaten. But they may do whatever else they like, short of threatening. Social media – the good guys and the bad guys Again we must face this stark reality. To the extent that the government agencies did not have to threaten, social media moderators needed no persuasion. Discerning where some Trust and Safety people felt their integrity was on the line, is difficult to impossible. They agreed in principle that some things are beyond the pale, and no one should allow anyone to say them. What, then, shall we say about social media companies who did not agree? What of Gab (actually an acronym for Go And Build), whose founder built an entirely independent infrastructure? The only thing Gab lacks at present is its own Internet Service Provider. After host after host kicked them off, they built their own. And after Google and Apple kicked them out of the Google Play Store and Apple App Store, respectively, they developed an easy-to-teach routine by which a user can create a browser shortcut that works just as well as any app. So today, whenever the United States or any government tells them to take down content, they answer in three words. GO POUND SAND. Recently they published two statements emphasizing this attitude, one on censorship generally, the other on the European Union Digital Services Act. And what of Rumble, the terms of service of which are far simpler than those of YouTube? (Gab does have its own video service, but that service still has technical problems Rumble has solved.) Summary In short, the new injunction does little to bring about freedom of speech. For that we must rely on people like: • Andrew Torba, who built his own social media empire, • Elon Musk, who is sending conflicting signals but who already is running X (Twitter) better than his predecessors did, and • Dan Bongino and his colleagues at Rumble. The anti-threatening rule might make those people’s lives easier. Furthermore, conventional social media platforms may no longer plead, “They made us do it!” Even this watered-down injunction does not allow such “making,” and everybody knows that. So anything they do, they do of their own free will. Users must exercise their own free will – by joining social media platforms that won’t “do it” even if asked. Link to: The article: https://cnav.news/2023/09/13/foundation/constitution/social-media-injunction-backj-weakened/ The docket pages: District level: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63290154/missouri-v-biden/ Appellate level: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67563473/state-of-missouri-v-biden/ The opinion and new injunction: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca5.214640/gov.uscourts.ca5.214640.238.1.pdf The good guys: Gab: https://gab.com/home Rumble: https://rumble.com/ Declarations of Truth X feed: https://twitter.com/DecTruth Conservative News and Views: https://cnav.news/ The CNAV Store: https://cnav.store/ Clixnet Media https://clixnet.com/