Shortly after Joe Biden gave $6 billion to them for kidnapping Americans, the terrorists running Iran planned and ordered the recent terror atrocities in Israel. But you didn’t hear that from Biden’s State Department:

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that it is not clear there was any involvement by Iran in the weekend attack by Hamas on Israel.

What else would you expect him to say? Democrats have allowed the State Department to be infiltrated and subverted by Iranians:

Iranian government officials internally claimed credit for cultivating a network of Western scholars whom the country’s foreign ministry leaned on to promote its message internationally during its nuclear negotiations with the Obama administration. The program was called the Iran Experts Initiative. …

Two of the scholars involved in the program, Ali Vaez and Ariane Tabatabai, have close ties to [Robert] Malley. He hired Tabatabai to join his office at the start of the Biden administration; she subsequently moved to a role within the Pentagon.

Malley was Biden’s top envoy on Iran matters. He recently had to be suspended because he is under investigation for serving the interests not of the USA but of its most vociferous enemy, Iran.

Ever since 1979, when Jimmy Carter refused to help our ally Shah Reza Pahlavi and then watched helplessly as dozens of Americans were held hostage for 444 days, the Iranian regime has been screaming “Death to America” at the top of its lungs. It has backed up the rhetoric with bloodshed — e.g., the Khobar Towers terror attack and the over 600 Americans killed by Iran in Iraq. Its cat’s paw Hamas killed at least 11 Americans during last weekend’s terror blitzkrieg in Israel and likely took more hostage.

This rabid hostility to America won over Barack Obama, who was elected on a platform of anti-Americanism. The Obama Administration favored the regime in Iran, opting not to support a rebellion against it. Unrequited love for the ayatollahs continues in Obama’s third term, behind the senile figurehead Joe Biden.

The Administration is furtive about its pro-Iran orientation because it is still somewhat concerned about public opinion. That’s why the State Department deleted multiple tweets in response to the recent terror atrocities in which it sided with Hamas by calling on Israel not to retaliate.

On tips from Bluto and Ed McAninch.

No one can be woke enough to avoid denunciation by the moonbat mob, not even the guy who made the Founding Fathers black and Hispanic. Lin-Manuel Miranda of Hamilton fame used minority actors to play characters like Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. This is to be encouraged, as pretending that they weren’t white may be the only way to spare the titans of American history from erasure. Now the woke police have attacked Miranda for his casting in another production:

[W]hile most of the cast of “In the Heights” is Latino and one of the leads is African-American, there aren’t many (any?) Afro-Latino actors involved. Thus did a major triumph of minority representation onscreen become an occasion for Miranda to issue the latest groveling, half-sincere apology for being exclusionary.

It isn’t true in the sense that he meant it, but Obama’s wingman Eric Holder was right when he said that America is a “nation of cowards” on the subject of race. Read in horror as Miranda, who may have done more than anyone ever to get more nonwhites on the theater stage, begs forgiveness of a mob of thugs for not doing enough to advance identity politics:

Veteran Puerto Rican entertainer Rita Moreno dared plead with the mob to leave Miranda alone, but then promptly backed down and issued her own sniveling apology.

Have cowards like Miranda, Bob Brenly, Chris Harrison, et al. no self-respect at all? Obsequiously groveling before woke thugs is so disgusting, even other leftists must be getting sick to their stomach. They just don’t have the guts to admit it publicly. The exception to this rule is Bill Maher:

“This is why people hate Democrats,” says Maher. Well, one of the reasons.

You know the country has gone off the rails when Bill Maher sounds like the voice of reason.

Totalitarianism happens when people apologize to bullies instead of telling them to go to hell.

On tips from Varla and TCS III.

Biden’s ChiCom benefactors aren’t the only ones delighted to see him in the White House. The USA’s other worst enemy must relish this fresh opportunity to put its slogan “Death to America” into practice. Liz Wheeler explains what Biden’s handlers taking power means in terms of the threat from Iran:

You would think that a willingness to take America’s side against its enemies would be a basic requirement to serve as president. But that went out the window with Obama.

On a tip from KirklesWorth.

If Biden really is going to be the president, that means Iran will be our ally again — or at least, our government’s ally. Let’s see what our friends are up to, besides shrieking “Death to America!” and developing nuclear weapons with help from Obama and Biden to kill us with:

An Iranian woman who posted heavily distorted images of herself online has been sentenced to 10 years in jail, her lawyer has said, a year after she was arrested over her social media activities.

She is a repeat offender, after all — even if she does suffer from psychiatric issues.

Sahar Tabar, 19, whose real name is Fatemeh Khishvand, came to prominence after posting images of herself with a gaunt, zombie-like face. At one point she had 486,000 followers on Instagram.

As for her precise crimes,

The charges against Tabar first included blasphemy, inciting violence, gaining income through inappropriate means and encouraging youths to corruption. She said she had been cleared of two of the four charges against her, but did not want to comment further because she was still hoping for a pardon.

Iranian state TV broadcast her confession in late October last year. Her expressions of remorse drew a great deal of sympathy.

But not from Iran’s system of “justice.”

With Biden’s handlers in control, the US government will side with Iran against Israel. Democrats’ foreign allies don’t believe in freedom of expression any more than their domestic Big Tech friends, whose suppression of information was instrumental in Biden’s election efforts.

On a tip from Steve T.

Even the evil achieved in Nazi concentration camps can be surpassed. The depravity of Josef Mengele’s medical atrocities is rivaled by gender-affirming care. In the aftermath of October 7, Jewish leftists may top the kapos:

In exchange for better food and clothing, increased autonomy, possible occasional visits to a brothel, and a 10 times greater chance of survival, kapos served as the first line of discipline and regulation within the camps.

They supervised their fellow inmates, oversaw their slave labor, and often punished them for the slightest infractions — sometimes by beating them to death.

In 2019, the Jewish Chronicle called the word kapo the “worst insult a Jew can give another Jew.”

Yet some have been voting for the modern day equivalent:

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) issued an extraordinary demand Thursday for Israel to hold new elections aimed at ousting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom the Biden administration and Democrats dislike.

They would prefer a liberal patsy who will agree to a ceasefire with Hamas.

Democrats know all about the systematic rape, torture, and murder of women and children inflicted on October 7. They know that “ceasefire” means surrender and that “from the river to the sea” means the eradication of Jews from their homeland. Yet they undercut our only real ally in the Middle East by trying to topple its leadership while it has its back to the wall.

Election interference targeting Netanyahu began under Obama, who some believe is currently the acting president.

Democrats have resented Netanyahu ever since he publicly opposed President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, which gave billions of dollars to the Iranian regime for its terror activities and would have allowed Iran to emerge as a nuclear power after roughly a decade even if it complied fully with the terms of the deal. Netanyahu has also opposed President Joe Biden’s proposal to establish a Palestinian state as the outcome of the current war, which was started by Hamas terrorists.

Schumer and the rest side with Iran and Hamas against Netanyahu — and against America. Muslims hate both for the same reasons, as do leftists.

Biden has been publicly critical of Netanyahu, saying that he is “hurting” Israel more than he is “helping” it. Last week, Biden was caught on a hot mic saying that he had told Netanyahu he needed a “come to Jesus” meeting. And Vice President Kamala Harris signaled a desire to oust Netanyahu when she said last week that it was important to distinguish between Israel’s government and the Israeli people, as if the latter had not recently elected the former.

With Jews like Schumer, you don’t need Nazis. With friends like the USA under Democrat rule, you don’t need enemies.

On a tip from Varla.

Joe Biden has responded to the October 7 terror atrocities with the moral equivalence we have come to expect of Democrats:

“We must without equivocation, denounce antisemitism: We must also without equivocation denounce Islamophobia,” he said in his address to the nation…

Considering what happened in Israel 2 weeks ago, this is the equivalent of denouncing both antisemitism and Naziophobia right after the horrors of Auschwitz were uncovered.

Certainly Joe Biden is no Islamophobe. Shane Harris sums up his support for Hamas:

Biden rescinded most of the Trump-era sanctions on Iranian oil, resulting in tens of billions of additional dollars every year for the regime to fund its terrorist proxies. Around the same time, Biden restarted U.S. aid money to the Palestinians, shipping $235 million taxpayer dollars to Hamas-controlled territory despite warnings from his own State Department that this money would be used to fund terror campaigns

Just one month before Hamas began its assault, Biden also released $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets in exchange for five hostages.

Any questions as to why Hamas kidnapped children?

Biden’s State Department was also reportedly infiltrated by Iranian agents who obtained access to highly classified government documents and influenced Biden’s Iran policy.

Iranian agent Ariane Tabatabai will retain her top secret security access following a review by the politicized Pentagon.

Moreover, Jack Lew, Biden’s pick to become the next U.S. Ambassador to Israel, is a staunch proponent of Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal and has a record of actively helping Iran evade the sanctions that did remain in place under Obama, including during the time Lew served as Obama’s chief of staff.

Biden has been making a show of also siding with Israel, for political reasons. Actually, the regime remains firmly behind Hamas. Biden won’t commit to reimposing sanctions on Iran, which has been using Hamas as a cat’s paw — or even stop funding Hamas directly:

Biden has also pledged $100 million in “humanitarian assistance” to Gaza and the West Bank – while offering no assurances that this “aid money” would not be intercepted and used by Hamas just like the other hundreds of millions of dollars Biden sent to the region.

Gaza is Hamas. Every penny given to Gaza is given to Hamas. Even the senile idiot Joe Biden knows this. Barack Obama, who is likely the de facto president, certainly knows it.

Our rulers are rewarding terror atrocities with $100 million of our money, even with the crippling federal deficit already up 23% due to wasteful spending. Democrats must be pried loose from power.

On tips from Blackjack, MrRightWingDave, Bluto, and Jester. Graphic compliments of Chuck A.

If you liked the Deep State meddling in the 2016 and 2020 elections, you will love 2024, after Swamp apotheosis Joe Biden has had several years to nurture the corruption that was already festering out of control and to finish Barack Obama’s legacy of weaponizing federal agencies for partisan political purposes.

K. T. McFarland makes the case that the Peter Strzok and John Brennan types infesting the FBI and CIA will play a heavy hand in the next election — not only because the federal bureaucracy has been absorbed by the Democratic Party, but because their malfeasance will get many of the higher-ups in big trouble if they cannot prevent a Republican administration from coming in and cleaning house:

If the Deep State in collusion with the politicized media chooses the winners and losers, elections are as meaningless here as in Iran. Liberty in the USA has never been in greater danger.

On a tip from Chris Neilson.

Remember when Donald Trump was impeached for supposedly offering Ukraine a quid pro quo to produce dirt on Biden? Unsurprisingly, the accusation was never proven. Dirt on the infamously corrupt Biden is too ubiquitous to pay for. Zelenskyy himself, who has lucrative reason to curry favor with the current administration, denies there was a quid pro quo. This is what a real one looks like:

Saudi Arabia has alleged that President Joe Biden had requested that the Middle Eastern country delay its announced oil production reduction until after the November 8 U.S. midterm elections, during which high gas prices are sure to play a major factor in how people vote.

Biden’s handlers do not dispute that a request for a 1-month delay was made. The Saudis declined.

Biden was angered by the decision of Saudi Arabia – effectively the leader of OPEC – and is now calling for “consequences” and a “reevaluation” in relations with the Saudi kingdom, including the cutting of military sales and other punitive measures.

Help us stay in power, and you get weapons. But you don’t get weapons if you put your own economic interests before the Democratic Party.

Saudis need a substantial arsenal to defend themselves from Iran, a nation that has been effectively at war with the USA since 1979 and that is sworn to our destruction, but that has been regarded sympathetically by Obama and now Biden. If they can’t buy weapons from us, they will buy them from Russia.

Driving Saudi Arabia into Russia’s arms is not in America’s interest. But Biden and the Democratic Party are not concerned with our interests. They are concerned only with power, pure power.

Yet again, the maxim is proved true. Whatever Democrats accuse their opponents of, they are guilty of themselves.

On tips from ABC of the ANC and KirklesWorth.

When people of Joe Biden’s caliber took over Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Venezuela, the resulting looting spree produced hyperinflation that reduced the currency to virtual worthlessness, so that money literally was not worth the paper it was printed on. The inflation Biden has presided over is bad but not that bad yet, because the US dollar is the world’s reserve currency. The ongoing spending blowout by Democrats — financed largely through inflation — comes at the expense not only of Americans, but of the whole world. But this arrangement will not last forever, because the rest of the world does not like being looted by our corrupt and insatiably greedy politicians.

Saudi Arabia has had enough:

Saudi Arabia is in active talks with Beijing to price some of its oil sales to China in yuan … a move that would dent the U.S. dollar’s dominance of the global petroleum market and mark another shift by the world’s top crude exporter toward Asia.

Reckless spending is not the only factor debasing the value of American currency. Democrats’ inept foreign policy also plays a role:

The Saudis are angry over the U.S.’s lack of support for their intervention in the Yemen civil war, and over the Biden administration’s attempt to strike a deal with Iran over its nuclear program. Saudi officials have said they were shocked by the precipitous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan last year.

The pro-terrorist rhetoric from prominent congresswoman Ilhan Omar of the Committee on Foreign Affairs probably doesn’t help.

China buys more than 25% of the oil that Saudi Arabia exports. If priced in yuan, those sales would boost the standing of China’s currency.

ChiComs’ gain is Americans’ pain, as this comes at our expense. But as Kamala Harris reminds us, many Americans asked for this.

The majority of global oil sales—around 80%—are done in dollars, and the Saudis have traded oil exclusively in dollars since 1974, in a deal with the Nixon administration that included security guarantees for the kingdom.

What is a security guarantee from the USA worth after Biden’s debacle in Afghanistan?

The Saudi move could chip away at the supremacy of the U.S. dollar in the international financial system, which Washington has relied on for decades to print Treasury bills it uses to finance its budget deficit.

Ham-fisted attempts to punish Russia over Ukraine are not helping:

Ali Shihabi, who … ran a pro-Saudi think tank in Washington, said the kingdom can’t ignore China’s desire to pay for oil imports in its own currency, particularly after the U.S. and EU blocked the Russian central bank from selling foreign currencies in its reserves stockpile.

Speaking of Russia,

Russia, many of whose banks have been cut off from the Swift financial network, is exploring opening alternative payment channels with India…

India and Russia are also exploring the possibility of using China’s yuan as a reference currency to value the rupee-ruble trade mechanism…

The rupee-ruble trade is a payment mechanism that can allow Indian exporters to be paid in rupees instead of standard global currencies such as the dollar…

Says Dmitry Solodov, a spokesperson for the Russian embassy in India,

“[T]here is an ongoing natural tendency, which is aimed to decrease the level of dollar-denominated transactions. This tendency is relevant not only to Russia or India but to many other countries too.”

Attempts to marginalize Russia may have the effect of marginalizing the dollar.

Barack Obama used to promise to make America “more like the rest of the world” — i.e., just another country, with no advantages over the rest of them. Biden has followed up on this promise.

On tips from Occam’s Stubble and Gringoman.

Democrats are the Party of Government. Consequently, they are the Party of Money, because the coercion that the party stands for can be used for ends that those with deep pockets find valuable. That’s why the ultrarich are almost always Democrats, despite phony Tax the Rich rhetoric. For example, Richest Man in America Jeff Bezos just gave $100 million to the Obama Foundation. Money pours in from places where decadent elitists have more than they know what to do with, like Silicon Valley and Hollywood. This finances the imposition of the leftist values of the donors. Other money has darker sources.

Daniel Greenfield reports on the Sixteen Thirty Fund, which pumped $410 million into the 2020 election on behalf of Democrats. Three major backers of this fund are radicals from abroad — Hansjörg Wyss, George Soros, and Pierre Omidyar:

Pierre Omidyar, an Iranian immigrant, currently the richest man in Hawaii, is a Big Tech billionaire born to wealthy foreign students in Paris, who brought him here as a child. His mother, a Berkeley academic, heads a pro-Iran group financed by her son’s fortune. …

Omidyar finances both Black Lives Matter and Never Trumpers. The eBay billionaire is the hidden hand behind the fake “Facebook whistleblower” advocating censoring conservatives. He has a project to “reimagine capitalism” while funding The Intercept which openly touts Marxism.

Yet Omidyar may be the least sinister of the three.

The two old men of the group, Soros and Wyss, have been accused of paving their path to wealth through horrifying crimes, whether it was Soros’ participation in the seizure of Jewish properties in Hungary, or the illegal medical experimentation on patients that sent multiple executives of the company that serves as the source of Wyss’ wealth to prison.

The current explosion of violence on American streets was largely produced by Soros. This convicted felon has used his vast ill-gotten fortunes to install leftist chief prosecutors like Kim Foxx, Kim Gardner, Chesa Boudin, Larry Krasner, and George Gascon, who aggressively side with criminals against the police and the law-abiding.

Democrats aren’t kidding when they bark about transforming America. To understand what they are transforming it into, we need to know more about who is paying the piper and calling the tune.

Omidyar, Wyss, and Soros share…

…a common megalomania, filtered through the lenses of their own ideologies, and little attachment to the United States. American industries and companies made them fabulously rich, but their horizons have always been international, and they view America as little more than just another tool for their visions. …

Three foreign billionaires are engaged in a hostile foreign takeover of the Republic.

This helps explain why Democrats have reacted to cratering poll numbers and their big setback in Virginia not by tacking to the center, but by doubling down on the radicalism that has been alienating the public. Democrats don’t represent us; they represent their financiers. Their attempts to federalize control of elections are intended to render voters irrelevant.

On a tip from R F.

As Lara Logan has explained, the Afghanistan debacle was deliberate. Even if the demented puppet Biden has no idea what he is doing, his string-pullers do. The question is why they are doing it.

To find the answer, Christopher Skeet looks to Barack Obama, whom Biden served as a witless sidekick. Obama was elected on a platform of openly despising the nation he promised to “fundamentally transform” into a totally different country.

Via American Thinker:

Every time he could, Obama favored strict Islamist regimes over Western-friendly governments. Whenever overseas pro-democracy demonstrators flew American flags, Obama reflexively sided with their oppressors. He removed sanctions from Cuba and Iran and asked for nothing in return. The JCPOA, the Paris Accords, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership were specifically designed to weaken American power behind the flimsy guise of noble causes.

Anti-American Obamunists are among Biden’s puppeteers. Their policy of deliberately undermining America and its allies continues.

We just let the pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong, Cuba, and Iran know that they don’t have our support, other than the occasional week-too-late hashtag. We just let our allies in Taiwan, Ukraine, South Korea, and Israel know that we folded like wet paper to illiterate pedophiles in pickup trucks, so good luck against the million-man professional armies who are busy reassessing the futility of your current ceasefires.

Biden’s handlers have stressed the symbolism of a disorderly retreat from Afghanistan, the 9/11 staging ground strategically located between our three most threatening adversaries, China, Iran, and Russia:

We abandoned Bagram Air Base on July 4, 2021. Biden originally planned to complete the withdraw on September 11th. These aren’t flukes, nor the clockwork stupidity of our government’s well-credentialed experts. These were specifically designed as symbolic humiliations of America, by people who hate America, who are being paid six figure salaries to do so by America.

Biden invited the entire Third World to pour into America and enjoy lavish benefits. Then he opened the border and it remains open, with devastating consequences that have only begun to unfold. This cannot be explained by incompetence, but only by treason. The same is true of Democrats’ unfunded, multi-$trillion frivolous spending spree that will crush the country with debt and inflate our savings to worthlessness. The same is true of Afghanistan.

The left, including its swamp bureaucrats who administer our wars, has no qualms with what happened in Kabul. They support Biden’s grotesque withdraw not in spite of its consequences for America, but because of them.

Local police and the military have been among the last institutions to hold out against leftist subversion. They remain pillars of Americanism and resistance to the progressive agenda. Democrats and their media have employed Black Lives Matter as a sledgehammer to smash the police. The military is being eaten from within by tapeworms like Lloyd Austin and Mark Milley. Like demonized and defunded local police, the armed forces are undergoing strategic demoralization, so as make it impossible to obtain quality recruits:

What young, idealistic American would enlist to defend a country that doesn’t let them win wars, forces them to retreat from 7th century quadrupeds, all the while having one’s own patriotism questioned and slandered by woke Pentagon careerists who blather about “white rage” and who remove Mahan and Clausewitz from the reading lists in favor of Ibram X. Kendi?

Not merely losing in Afghanistan but running away in disgrace, abandoning thousands of Americans as well as vast stores of weapons in the hands of terrorists sworn to our destruction, serves well to advance an Obama-style foreign policy by making it clear that the USA cannot be counted on to defend its allies from the aggression of tyrants.

Amplified across the world, the message of the left is: If America will sell you out to the Taliban, they won’t even think about lifting a finger to the Iranians and North Koreans, much less the Chinese and Russians.

It isn’t only the Taiwanese and Ukrainians who will suffer:

Our kids’ grandkids will be fighting the wars that result from this and will likely do it alone. Far from being a tragedy, our abandonment of Afghanistan was one of the left’s biggest foreign policy successes.

That may be overoptimistic. At the current pace of the decline Democrats are imposing, America won’t last that many generations.

Abraham Lincoln had it right:

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

Biden’s handlers picked the right guy to coordinate with foreign globalists on subjugating the USA to the Great Reset. The name John Kerry has been synonymous with treason for a generation. His behavior continued to reinforce this reputation throughout the previous administration. This makes him a good fit with the Biden team:

Members of the Biden administration, including former Secretary of State John Kerry and current special envoy on Iran policy Robert Malley, held backchannel meetings with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif during Trump’s presidency in attempt to undermine the Republican president, according to a new report from the Washington Times.

The meetings were reportedly part of a counter-diplomacy effort by the former Obama-era officials — who now serve in the Biden administration — which “allowed for the Iranian regime to bypass Trump and work directly with Obama administration veterans that Tehran hoped would soon return to power in Washington,” according to several unnamed national security and intelligence sources.

Sounds like the Logan Act could be put to good use. It criminalizes negotiation by unauthorized American citizens with foreign governments.

One former senior U.S. official told the Times that the “underlying goal” of the meetings was “to devise a political strategy to undermine the Trump administration” and set the stage for a more accommodating U.S. stance towards Iran in anticipation of Obama-era officials returning to power.

On second thought, this is beyond the Logan Act. Considering that Iran is our most aggressive enemy, having in effect been at war with United States since 1979, 18 US Code § 2381 applies. This criminalizes treason.

That Kerry has illicitly conspired with the terrorists running Iran was well known to Biden’s handlers and the broader liberal establishment long before he was picked as Climate Czar. This appeared in the liberal Daily Beast back in September 2018:

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slammed his predecessor John Kerry after Kerry said he met with Iranian officials after leaving office.

Fumed Pompeo,

“This is a former secretary of state engaged with the world’s largest state sponsor of terror and according to him, he was talking to them, he was telling them to wait out this administration.” He continued, saying Kerry “ought not engage in this kind of behavior” and calling it “beyond inappropriate.”

Kerry had admitted to meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif repeatedly to discuss the disastrous nuclear agreement that Obama rammed through without Senate ratification but Trump pulled out of. The agreement paves the way for Iran to become a nuclear power.

No wonder Zarif now considers himself to be in a position to demand the USA pay Iran $1 trillion:

The Biden administration can hand over the mind-boggling amount as “reparation” or “investment” in the Iranian economy, regime’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif demanded on Sunday.

It must have been an oversight that Democrats did not include this in the gargantuan “COVID relief” pork fest package. What’s another $trillion when American currency will soon be inflated to worthlessness anyway?

On tips from Mr. Freemarket, Bluto, and Dragon’s Lair.

The consequences of having a Commander in Chief who is a figurehead for radical leftists could be devastating for the US military, which plans to go on standby so that the ranks can be purged of those whose views clash with woke ideology.

From Stars and Stripes:

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told top Pentagon leaders Wednesday that he will direct a military-wide stand down to address extremism within the ranks, according to his top spokesman.

As we have learned over the past month, “extremism” encompasses any viewpoint to the right of the liberal media/Biden Administration.

Austin spoke frankly with the acting service secretaries and uniformed service chiefs about his concerns about extremism in the military, including white supremacism, said [Pentagon spokesman John] Kirby, who attended the meeting. The new defense secretary, who is the first Black leader of the Defense Department, wants the service leaders to better grasp how pervasive the issue is within their formations and work with leaders to stamp it out, Kirby said.

“White supremacism” can be translated to mean, “not on board with critical race theory.” If you are white and do not feel that you deserve to be discriminated against for the sake of equity, you are a white supremacist.

The leaders concurred with Austin’s belief the issue was problematic and perhaps more pervasive than past Pentagon officials have known, Kirby said.

The leaders probably concurred with this because the top levels of the officer corps were purged under Obama. Now the brass is more interested in inflicting social justice and environmentalist posturing than it is in winning wars.

The time has come to purge the enlisted ranks too. Our rulers do not want to risk troops getting ideologically squishy when ordered to fire on American citizens for refusing to turn in their firearms. Just ask Rep Steve Cohen (D-TN), who frets that the military is infested with people who probably voted for Trump because they are white men.

The 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, which sets annual Pentagon policy and spending priorities, contained measures meant to help the department address the issue, including the creation of a new position within the department’s inspector general’s office — the deputy inspector general for diversity and inclusion and supremacist, extremism and criminal gang activity. Congress also charged the inspector general with establishing a “mechanism to track and report” extremist or gang activity in the military.

Better not get caught with a MAGA hat in your footlocker. Supporting a recent president could be viewed as gang activity.

Ironically, the same wokesters who are on the warpath against so-called extremists use the military as a social engineering laboratory to advance an agenda that really is extreme, as Biden demonstrated with an executive order imposing the transsexual agenda on the military.

Meanwhile, as noted at Legal Insurrection,

A Chinese military drill was announced as an American aircraft carrier group entered the contested South China Sea. …

This is on top of the news that the US has sent a military convoy into Syria and Iran is holding its fifth military drill in 2 weeks.

I suspect these nations will benefit more from the stand down than our country and the men and women serving in our armed forces.

The Trump policy of avoiding senseless wars has been rejected. Yet the military will be too busy conducting ideological witch hunts and imposing the LGBT wish list to fight effectively. The Titanic is closing in on an iceberg.

On tips from Dragon’s Lair and Mr. Freemarket.

Despite being regarded as the infallible voice of the technocracy by the liberal media, Anthony Fauci’s handling of the ChiCom virus has been characterized by dramatic reversals and even admitted lies. Now it emerges that he may share responsibility for the creation of the virus.

The new boss is the same as the old boss regarding Fauci, who stays on as chief medical advisor to the White House. With characteristic arrogance, Fauci recently averred that a lack of candor by the former administration cost American lives. This from the guy who admits that he deliberately lied regarding herd immunity.

Miranda Devine notes that among his other notable missteps (such as backflipping on masks), Fauci shared Biden’s view, as the virus began to spread from its birthplace in Wuhan, that travel from China should not be restricted:

It was Jan. 28, and Trump had asked his trade adviser, Peter Navarro, into the Situation Room to convince Fauci and other officials that the China travel ban would save lives.

“The guy I fought the most that day was Fauci,” Navarro told me Sunday. “He was adamantly opposed to the travel ban. All he kept saying was travel restrictions don’t work.” …

Trump imposed the travel ban on Jan. 31 and Fauci later credited the action with saving lives.

But, says Navarro, “If Biden had been president and Fauci had been the top adviser, we would probably have a million more Americans dead.”

Even this would pale in comparison to helping to create the virus in first place, as suggested by Steve Hilton.

COVID-19 could be the result of gain of function research, whereby viruses with dangerous capabilities are created deliberately for research or bioweapon purposes.

Via BizPac Review:

This research was carried out around the world, with Wuhan, China being home to a leading laboratory, funded in part by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, headed up by Dr. Anthony Fauci.

The Obama Administration was responsible enough to put the kibosh on this, likely because of the devastating consequences should a Frankenstein virus escape the lab.

“Despite the controversy surrounding this type of research,” [Hilton] said, “it always had one steadfast champion, a leading figure in the world of infectious diseases, Anthony Fauci.” …

Fauci “continued on by subcontracting it” to the NY based EcoHealth Alliance. …

Hilton noted that EcoHealth Alliance then subcontracted the gain of function piece to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Hilton traced a money trail from Fauci to Wuhan, where novel coronaviruses were discovered in bat feces from rural China, and new viruses were created in the lab. These activities may have resulted in a reengineered bat virus that can infect humans through the air.

Too bad we don’t have much in the way of an independent media to follow up on leads like this.

“The response from the medical establishment has been shocking,” [Hilton] added. “Instead of trying to figure out what happened, they have been pushing a cover-up.”

With Beijing Biden in the White House, where Fauci now enjoys an enhanced role, the liberal establishment will bury this story all the deeper.

On tips from Stormfax, Dragon’s Lair, and ABC of the ANC.