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Coming to a Public Library Near You: Marxist Summer Reading Programs!

Fri, 2023-06-16 13:30 +0000

The Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) sounds like a completely harmless organization. It may, in fact, be assisting your local public library with your children’s or grandchildren’s summer activities by offering information, guidance, and materials, but don’t be deceived.

We want to thank Arlene Quaratiello for this Op-Ed. Please submit yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.

CSLP is as corrupt as the Marxist-led American Library Association (whose president has made no secret about her espoused political ideology).  On the group’s home page, its obsession with Marxist DEI talking points is clear:

“We stand in solidarity with those advocating justice and equal opportunity for everyone. We support those protesting against systemic racism and government corruption.”

Its mission statement further emphasizes its commitment:

“to empower libraries to foster community free from discrimination based on race, ethnicity, national origin, gender identity, or any other status.”

The guiding principle of the organization’s strategic plan is “Inclusion for All.”  In following this mandate, “CSLP is committed to providing resources, materials, and opportunities that reflect the diversity of our communities, including all races, ethnicities, national origins, genders, and all other identities.”  The need to over-emphasize this DEI agenda reveals the organization’s egregious hypocritical ideology, but where CSLP really shows its true colors is buried in the newsletter archives that are publicly accessible on its website.

The April 2023 CSLP newsletter reports on the SEL (“Social Emotional Learning”) efforts of its Child & Community Well-Being Committee, which “has been collecting examples of library programming that promotes social and emotional health.”  One of the highlighted programs is “Queer Reads,” described as “an LGBTQ-friendly book club for kids 12-18” and “a safe place to share thoughts.”  Another recommended program for 3rd-5th graders includes a discussion on what seems like an age-inappropriate topic—neuroplasticity—the ability of the brain to retrain itself to replace negative thoughts and patterns with positive ones.  Hmmm…neuroplasticity sounds a lot like the ability of the brain to be brainwashing itself.  You have to wonder what this program is really about.

Meanwhile, on November 22, 2022, the CSLP Inclusion Committee hosted a virtual training led by Amanda Erickson from the Kaleidoscope Youth Center in Columbus, Ohio which expresses its purpose on its website: “Queer youth…we’re here for you” and further asserts, “Our diverse, experienced staff work alongside queer youth to create free programming, housing, and support services.”

The inclusion committee chose to offer this training “at a time when the LGBTQIA+ community has especially been a target of violence, and books with representative characters and stories are being challenged.”  It further asserts that it “is vital for all youth to find representation in books, and to feel safe in welcoming, inclusive spaces.”  Among the LGBTQIA+ topics covered at the training were “inclusive best practices using pronouns” and, far more alarmingly, “the process of becoming a disruptor.” Disruptors were described as individuals who “support diversity in the community and the coming out process, calling out negative behavior toward LGBTQIA+ youth to create a safe space.” It was not explained in the newsletter exactly how these individuals should be disruptive, but a sense of ideological activism is conveyed by the word “disruptor,” which is unsettling in the context of summer library reading programs.  Not surprisingly, a “safe space” was available for attendees after the presentation so that they could ask questions.

Where the motives of this insidious organization become abundantly clear is in its programming manual.  Tween/Teen activity suggestions include a program, “TikTok Dance Class,” that promotes the use of a social media platform that has already proven itself harmful to youth. Another program, “Spread the Love,” encourages adolescents to leave “positive, uplifting messages to place in their favorite books” so that other readers can find them.  While this may initially sound like a nice thing to do, an accompanying page of Pride Icons that can be copied and used as part of the activity reflect the designer’s questionable motives.

The graphics provided by CSLP, which can be used to promote summer reading programs and activities, subtly reinforce the woke agenda with the use of rainbow colors in its logo featuring hands of different sizes reaching towards each other.  The theme this year is “All Together Now,” a vague theme that conveys the idea of community building.  This may all sound fine to the unsuspecting parent, but given what has been revealed in recent times about how hypocritical this focus on diversity, inclusion, and community-building has proven to be, the Marxist DEI woke agenda in public library summer reading programs must be challenged.

The Collaborative Summer Reading Program should be boycotted.

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The Lies of Transgender Medicine

Fri, 2023-06-16 12:00 +0000

If you do not know where I stand on chemical and surgical gender transition, it’s easy to summarize. Adults are free to do what they think is best for them (as long as I’m not paying for it). Leave the kids alone.

Transitioning kids is, to my mind, child abuse, no matter who encourages it or does it. You are taking a gullible and impressionable person, sterilizing and mutilating them. Quite often, killing them.

Transition does not reduce the risk of suicide. It raises it exponentially. Gender transition drugs can kill a kid. None of this is new. We’ve been reporting it for years. Parents and kids are being lied to as medical professionals profit, public schools pander, and the progressive culture sacrifices generations of young Americans on a political alter from which there is no return.

No Way Back: The Reality of Gender Affirming Care, is a documentary produced by a core group of self-identified “life-long, west coast, liberal Democrats,” dismantles the lockstep trans narrative marching through the institutions. …

The film takes on the sacred cows of transgender ideology and pulls no punches. Its no fluff, no frills approach lets the truth speak for itself—no glitz, no glam, thank you very much. I found this tact fitting for the gravitas of the topic. I’d say the same regarding the film’s artwork, which is disturbingly powerful—eerie, yet beautiful.

 

 

 

The film not only lets detransitioners tell their stories, it deconstructs the ideas and practices at work behind the scenes. Dr. Julia Mason explains that teens can walk into Planned Parenthood facilities and seamlessly begin treatment because of the “informed consent model, [which] allows clients to access hormone treatments and surgical interventions without a mental health evaluation or referral from a mental health specialist.”

The left will want to dismiss it, but Liberals made it. There is no conservative involvement, nor a religious bias.

 

No Way Back will have a one-day theatrical premier on June 21 at 4:30 and 7:30 PM in AMC Theatres in thirty states across the country (check online for tickets and locations). Then on July 2nd, the film will become available online and via DVD worldwide. For more information, including resources for schools, parents, and religious leaders, visit https://nowaybackfilm.com/.

If you have the time or can make the time, this looks like something we need to watch and promote. Literally, for the children.

 

HT | SalvoMag.com

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So Kids, What Did We Learn From This Week’s House Session (06/15/23)?

Fri, 2023-06-16 10:30 +0000

We learned that it was the start of horse-trading… I mean… Committee of Conference season. The House voted on about 27 House bills that were amended by the Senate to determine whether we’d Concur or not, or Non-Concur and Create a Committee of Conference to hash out differences. About 17 bills were concurred on a voice vote. Others had more lively debates and House votes.

We learned that HB315, prohibiting provocation based on the defendant’s religion, race, creed, sexual orientation, national origin, political beliefs, or affiliation, sex, or gender identity… also known as “gay panic defense” bill, had some other legal unintended consequence to it, as pointed out by Rep. Bob Lynn (R-Windham). The House voted to send the bill to a Committee of Conference (CoC) with a vote of 199Y-175N.

We learned that HB275, relative to schools approved for a school tuition program by a school board, was voted 363Y-12N to go to a Committee of Conference because the difference between the House and Senate version needs to be worked out. The bill is all about modifying school tuition programs by allowing students to transfer to an approved recipient school, despite the tuition rate exceeding what the sending district is able to accommodate. It sets up the ability for a parent to cover the cost differential. This is another school choice bill.

We learned that HB308, relative to a quorum for meetings open to the public to include remote participation was voted Concur by a vote of 270Y-98N. This bill was for meetings of State Boards only. The text of the bill states “shall apply only to boards, committees, councils, advisory committees and like bodies of state government, not including the general court or either house thereof or any committee of either house, nor the governor and council, the composition of which is permitted by law or regulation to be drawn from individuals who may reside throughout the state of New Hampshire. This paragraph does not apply to boards, committees, councils, advisory committees, or any other components or instrumentalities of county or municipal government.” It remains to be seen if this will boost public participation in State Board activities.

We learned that one contentious vote today was over HB75. First of all, the original underlying House bill (submitted by me, by the way) was completely erased in the Senate and they placed entirely new language in there. The original language of HB75 ended up in HB83 (another one of my sponsored bills), and was voted Concur 301Y-69N. Now, HB75, would make Strafford county create county commissioner districts, just like the other 9 counties have. Strafford county now elects their county commissioners as “at large”, which some claim can be a problem with getting equity in representation, especially for small towns. The first vote to Concur with the Senate language ended in a NO vote 185Y-188N. The next motion was to Non-Concur with the Senate language… and that vote also ended up in a No vote 185Y-188N. So here the House didn’t want to Concur and then they didn’t want to Non Concur! So what came next was a Table motion. That failed too with 186Y-188N. We were now fast running out of motions! We then had a motion to Non Concur and go to a Committee of Conference. That ended up 188Y- 186N. So off it goes to be furthered argued next week.

We learned HB251 relative to cost of compliance with disclosure of electric renewable portfolio standards, died at the hands of House Democrats who held up red cards. This bill would have made your electric supplier put on your statement how much it costs to comply with RPS. It was a transparency bill. The vote to Concur died 185Y-189N and then a motion to Non-Concur passed 189Y-186N. Lights out on that one!

We learned that another energy bill, HB281 which had many amendments (i.e. language from other bills that died or were retained) tacked onto it by the Senate ended up going to CoC. The first vote to Concur died 176Y-180N and then the motion to Non-Concur and go to CoC passed 179Y-178N. Well, at least it will be worked on, and we’ll just have to see what parts of it survive the CoC gauntlet.

We learned that HB610, which has a huge long descriptive name because several other bills were tacked onto the underlying bill by the Senate, ended up Non-Concur and go to CoC with a vote of 194Y-175N. The underlying bill would expand the definition of medical providers who can certify patients for therapeutic cannabis. The underlying original bill is a good bill really… but the Senate loaded up so much other “stuff” here such as bail reform, product labeling, and sale of hemp products, that objections were raised. Rep. David Meuse (D – Portsmouth) declared it a “Christmas Tree Dumpster Fire”. 194 House members apparently agreed with him.

We learned that only one bill for the day was a roll-called vote. That was for HB467 – relative to playground accessibility. This bill mandates to municipalities that any playground they build must have paved, composite pathways (ie. flat rubber material used to pave the way to and from the playground) so that it can be made accessible. It goes far and above what ADA federal requirements call for and is an unfunded mandate to our municipalities. There were about an hour’s worth of speeches made both for and against the measure. Folks supporting this from both sides of the aisle said how this is needed to help make playgrounds more accessible, because wood chips or gravel or other materials are just too hard to navigate for people who use canes, walkers, wheelchairs, etc. The opposing side said that this bill will cost municipalities huge money in installing these playgrounds, such that they may decide not to build them at all. Plus the fact that these petroleum based composite walkways may not be good for the environment and may deteriorate more easily and cost much more to maintain. It’s not like municipalities can’t already choose to use these materials, but now they will be mandated to do so with this bill. The roll called vote was to Non Concur and go to CoC. That failed 161Y-199N and then a motion to Concur passed on a voice vote. It’ll be interesting to see what the Governor does with this. Will he opt for inclusion over expensive unfunded municipal mandates from the State, that actually violate our State Constitution?

We learned that 11 Senate bills that had House amendments tacked onto them were voted to go to CoC after the Senate sent them back with said request. One additional bill, SB203, will not be going to CoC, and will die, because the Senate and House positions are so opposed that they will not be able to come to a workable decision. So, on the advice of Rep. Carol McGuire (R-Epsom) the House said no deal to a CoC requested by the Senate.

Finally, next week will be a Committees of Conference extravaganza as all bills going to CoC will have their pow wows. We’ll see how it turns out on June 29 as the House meets for the last time to vote on everything that remains standing. Then, we get to see what the Governor does with all of it.  Stay tuned!

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Ways to Defeat Islamic Jihadism

Fri, 2023-06-16 03:00 +0000

This is an urgent call to all free people to rise and defeat the Islamic Jihadists marching under the Qur’an’s banner to subdue all non-Muslims. Civilized people’s values and way of life must be protected against the assault of Jihadists’ savagery born from the primitive culture of long-ago Arabia.

There is nothing to negotiate here. Nothing to compromise, for the Jihadists, are on a non-negotiable campaign of Allah. The goal of this mission from Allah is eradicating just about everything that falls under the rubric of human rights.

It takes every free human to do their share in defeating Jihadism. Below is a partial list of what can be done.

* You don’t have to take up arms and go around killing the Jihadists. That’s the Jihadists’ way of dealing with us and anyone they disapprove of. Decent humans value life, even the life of a Jihadist. By contrast, the Jihadists have no compunctions about amputating limbs, stoning, beheading, and hanging people, even en mass. The brutal mullahs ruling the Islamic Republic of Iran welcomed the new year by hanging thirteen people, one of them the mother of two young children. We need to dry up their sources of support and beat them in the battle of ideas. We need to show them the fallacy and danger of their pathological belief.

* Fight to end the deadly practice of political correctness. Truth, only naked truth, can set us free. And freedom is our greatest gift in life. Life without freedom is death disguised as life. Remember Patrick Henry’s cry: Give me liberty or give me death. We must fight for life, liberty, and freedom.

* Demand that politicians, Islamic apologists, and paid-for media do not abuse freedom by lying about Islam. When these people portray Islam as a peaceful religion, they lie through their teeth. Just look at Islam’s history and what is happening today in the Islamic lands. Islam is not a religion of peace, and it has never been. Islam is violent, oppressive, racist, and irrational at its very core. It is treachery for people to present it as otherwise, either out of ignorance or because of their own personal reasons.

* Challenge your leftist professors whom Islamic front organizations may retain to trumpet Islam’s virtues. Demand transparency from hired lobbyists and the liberal mainstream media. Sadly, a percentage of people in Western Democracies are born alienated. These people seem to have congenital hatred of their own societies; they ally themselves with any and all people and forces that aim to destroy our cherished way of life, and they live by the motto: the enemy of my enemy is my friend. They eagerly join forces with the Saddam Husseins and Hugo Chavezes of the world.

* Demand that Islamic literature, including the hate and violence manual called the Qur’an, be purged of all violence and hate spewed toward non-Muslims. Is it too much to ask that non-Muslims not be targeted for hate by the so-called sacred religious text? What kind of religion is this? Religion is supposed to bring people together and not put them at each other’s throats. The Muslims must understand that and must reciprocate the tolerance the non-Muslims voluntarily afford them.

* Do not allow any special privileges whatsoever to be granted to Muslims. Demand that all Muslims have their first and foremost loyalty to the United States and its Constitution, not to the Islamic Ummah, the Qur’an, and the Shariah law. Europe is rapidly buckling under the pressure of Islamism. Just a couple of examples: Germany has legalized polygamy to placate Muslim men, Italy is forced to plan separate beaches for Muslim women

* Demand that none of the barbaric provisions of Islamic Sharia be practiced. Just because a woman is born into a Muslim family shouldn’t force her to lead a subservient life to a man, for example. Without exceptions, all family matters and disputes must be adjudicated according to the country’s civil laws.

* A Muslim is, first and foremost, an Ummahist, a citizen of international Islam. So, when a Muslim takes the United States Pledge of Allegiance, he is either ignorant of his pledge’s implications or lying willfully. Sadly enough, taqiyah (lying or dissimulation) is not only condoned but it is also recommended to Muslims in their scripture. Hence, a Muslim can and would lie without compunction whenever it is expedient.

* Require many recent arrival Muslims to be carefully vetted for their terrorism and Jihadist backgrounds and beliefs. Recent arrivals from places such as Somalia, Iraq, and Pakistan come as refugees and bring their pathological anti-American system of thought. It is criminal to admit these refugees without demanding that they renounce their allegiance to the hate dogma of Islam entirely. Those diehard devotees of Islam should make any of the eighteen or so Islamic countries home rather than invade the secular societies and aim to subvert them.

* Demand that Muslims, without the slightest reservation, adhere to human rights provisions. By belief and practice, Muslims are the most blatant human rights violators. We hardly need to detail Muslims’ systemic cruel treatment of unbelievers, women of all persuasions, and any and all minorities across the board. To Muslims, human rights have a different meaning, and its protective provisions are reserved strictly, primarily for Muslim men.

* Go and talk to Muslims, particularly the young and the better educated, about the horror and the fallacy of a primitive belief handed down to them through an accident of birth. Show them the magnificence of freedom in all forms, the indispensability of tolerance for all, and the futility of clinging to an obsolete hodgepodge of delusional ideology. The onus is clearly on the Muslims to prove the validity, utility, and sanctity of the belief they intend to impose on all of us.

* As for democracy, our cherished way of life, Muslims have no use for it at all. Muslims believe Allah’s rule must govern the world as a Caliphate: a theocracy. Making a mockery of democracy, subverting its working, and ignoring its provisions is a Muslim’s way of falsifying what he already believes to be a sinful and false system of governance invented by the infidels. Reason, if you can, with the Muslims that their belief is an outright rejection of the greatest gift of life: Freedom.

* Support financially and in every other legal way those individuals and organizations fighting the Jihadists’ relentless encroachment. Many European countries are already on the verge of capitulation to the Islamists. The Supreme Guide of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei, confidently proclaimed that Europe would be Islamic in a dozen years. He has good reason to say that. Muslims are forming states within states in much of European towns and cities. In Britain, for instance, non-Muslims are in grave danger of entering Muslim neighborhoods.

In conclusion: Folks, get off your duff. Stop saying, “Let the FBI do it.” Neither the FBI, the agency, nor the “NSA, DHS” can do it alone. This is a battle for survival that we can help wage. Let’s get on with it before; if not you, then your children and grandchildren end up under the barbaric rule of the Jihadists.

Originally publised in 2007

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Two Questions for Governor Desantis That Voters in New Hampshire Should Ask:

Fri, 2023-06-16 01:30 +0000

Question #1:

Why did you sign into law, on May 3, 2021, a new law in Florida, identified as Florida Chapter Law 2021-8, that provides as follows:

Amends Section 381.00315, Florida Statutes, to read as follows, in pertinent part-

“2- (d) The State Health Officer, upon declaration of a public health emergency, may take actions that are necessary to protect the public health. Such actions include, but are not limited to:

4. Ordering an individual to be examined, tested, vaccinated, treated, isolated, or quarantined for communicable diseases that have significant morbidity or mortality and present a severe danger to public health. Individuals who are unable or unwilling to be examined, tested, vaccinated, or treated for reasons of health, religion, or conscience may be subjected to isolation or quarantine.

a. Examination, testing, vaccination, or treatment may be performed by any qualified person authorized by the State Health Officer.

b. If the individual poses a danger to the public health, the State Health Officer may subject the individual to isolation or quarantine. If there is no practical method to isolate or quarantine the individual, the State Health Officer may use any means necessary to vaccinate or treat the individual.

c. Any order of the State Health Officer given to effectuate this paragraph is immediately enforceable by a law enforcement officer under s. 381.0012.”

[emphasis added]

–>So, does this mean that anyone who refuses a vaccine can be interred in some type of concentration camp like was done to Japanese American citizens during World War II?

Sidenote: As the presidential race heats up, there appears to be a push by some in Florida to try to hold a special session of the legislature to remove from this terrible law the most offense portions. But it almost certainly has nothing to do with the presidential race and the FITN primary in NH, right!?

Question #2:

While it appears you claim to support Second Amendment rights, and you brag about having adopted what you call “Constitutional Carry” in Florida, why does Florida still have a long list of places at which concealed carry, licensed or not, is prohibited, and why is open carry still prohibited in Florida?

Contrast this with New Hampshire’s real, genuine Constitutional Carry legislation adopted in 2017.

Further on this issue:

Why was it that when you appeared for a speech in Laconia recently you insisted on having metal detectors at the doors, consistent with the claim by some that you will only appear at events in so-called “gun-free zones?”

Sidenote: This author has not endorsed anyone in the Republican primary in New Hampshire.

                     Yet.

 

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Chasing Rainbows

Fri, 2023-06-16 00:00 +0000

Are the Democrats so absorbed in Pride Month that all they can see are rainbows? From disgusting topless trans-dancers mocking our White House to Democrats accusing Republicans of chasing rainbows, there is no pride in the Left celebrating the LGBTQIA+ world they envision in their fantasy. How else but fantasy can you explain the Democrats’ and media’s utter denial of the mounting evidence against President Joe Biden and the Biden Cartel? That cartel includes the Justice Department, FBI, and CIA, which are complicit in this scheme that has been dividing our country for nearly eight years. Since Trump took that ride down the golden escalator and to the Oval Office, it has been the singular mission of the Left to not only beat him but destroy him. He ruined their master plan and had to pay.

The Left had the future planned in 2007. Obama was the head of the assault. The mystery man with no birth certificate but a grip on the Party would lay the foundation. Hillary was to break the glass ceiling and hold the door open for Newsom, and finally, Cortez (I refuse to call her AOC) would be the first President of the new Socialist America. They could not be denied, but Donald Trump, the Evil Orange Man, disrupted it all. He ruined their plan and had to pay, and for eight years, they have thrown everything they had at him and his family. But the big man with the bright red hat refuses to fall. On Tuesday, Trump was indicted for the second time this year, and at least two more cases are pending. With each booking, his ratings go up as Biden’s falls. The Left has underestimated their foe, and their battle plan is definitely failing. The only thing working is the smokescreen to cover Joe, Hunter, and the Biden Crime Family. Smoke does not last forever, and the case is coming together. Biden may take another fall, but it will not be over a sandbag this time. It will be over the voluminous evidence the House is gathering to take him down.

Sadly, this is what American politics has come to. It is equally sad that we must think about this daily. When we should be thinking about the good fortune we had to be born in the greatest country on earth, we are watching the Washington insiders, the Swamp, destroy it. The Swamp is what Trump has vowed to drain, which is why he is Public Enemy #1 for the Left.

The Democrats grabbed the microphone on Monday and declared the Right’s case against Biden as chasing Rainbows. They see no problem with our President taking $10 Million from foreign entities for political favors. They call it old news. We call it a corrupt President with a history of selling his name for favors. The $10M may be just the tip of the iceberg, but more importantly, he has compromised our country for his family’s monetary gain. To us, that is not chasing rainbows. That is a thunderhead, and lightning will soon strike down “Honest Joe.”

The case has to be solid, and we need to be patient. Our target is not just the Bidens but the Justice Department, FBI, CIA, and the media. The Bidens have built a life of luxury and power at the expense of America, and their fall will be hard. The pile of accomplices will be enormous. When they fall, we can get to work rebuilding this incredible country. The United States has survived many foreign attacks, and we will survive this assault from within.

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The Dilemma Over Biden’s High Crimes and Misdemeanors

Thu, 2023-06-15 22:30 +0000

Fifty years ago, embroiled in the Watergate scandal, President Nixon famously announced: “I’m not a crook.” Shortly after that, he resigned his presidency, rather than face impeachment.

Joe Biden hasn’t yet faced the threat of impeachment, and many of his frustrated critics want to know why. After all, he’s at the center of at least three major scandals, each of which is grounds for impeachment.

First, there is his deliberate defiance of America’s immigration laws, which has effectively eliminated our national sovereignty, and created the only nation in the world without borders. Under his dictatorial decrees, anyone can now illegally take up residence in our country without conditions and enjoy the finite benefits intended for American citizens. Millions of unscreened illegal aliens already have. It’s becoming clear that will not change as long as Biden remains in office.

Potentially much worse than that are the credible allegations and clear indications of bribery – political favors in exchange for cash. Bribery is specifically identified in the Constitution as a just cause for impeachment. The allegations by witnesses and whistleblowers have been corroborated by Hunter Biden’s emails and by James Comer’s investigation. Comer, House Oversight and Accountability Chairman, has already documented more than 10 million dollars paid to the Biden family from foreign companies and routed through various shell companies. The monies came from Romania, Ukraine, and even America’s adversaries, like China.

Establishing a direct quid pro quo is the next phase of the investigation. We’ve already seen highly questionable, often irrational policies coming from Biden’s administration following payments made to his family members. For example, there’s Biden’s cancellation of the China Initiative, and the Chinese surveillance balloon that he allowed to cross the country unimpeded. Other events strongly suggest that Biden is kowtowing to the Chinese government. Maybe it has nothing to do with those payoffs. Maybe the kowtowing comes free of charge. But all Americans should demand to know if their president is exchanging political favors for cash, if he’s selling out our country.

There’s also Biden’s unauthorized possession of classified documents – the same issue for which his Justice Department is doggedly prosecuting President Trump. The documents found scattered around Biden’s home and other areas under his control were generated during his vice-presidency and his tenure as a U.S. Senator. At no time did he have legal authority to possess them. He may be exempt from prosecution under the Hillary Clinton clause, also known as the “no reasonable prosecutor” exception. But there’s nothing standing in the way of Biden’s impeachment.

There’s also this to consider. When Democrat lawmakers frivolously impeached the former president twice, they lowered the bar for what was once a rare and solemn undertaking.

But will Joe Biden ever be held accountable by Congress? Even his harshest critics would acknowledge that there are arguments to be made against his impeachment.

  1. It’s doubtful the process would remove Biden from office. Senate Democrats would certainly block that effort. Though Democrats would prefer another presidential candidate in 2024, in troubling times, they know how to circle the wagons, and put party above everything else.

On the other hand, others would counter, Biden’s impeachment by the House would at least get his attention. The threat of an indelible stain on his legacy might even convince him to take Nixon’s route.

  1. Those opposing impeachment would certainly raise the frying pan/fire argument. Even if Biden could be removed, America would be saddled with President Kamala Harris.

That’s a pretty sobering thought, but there’s also this to consider. The next election is just over a year away, and no one believes Biden is making any of the decisions coming out of the White House. The puppeteers pulling his strings would likely have the same arrangement with Kamala. In other words, things would probably be not much different with her as the new figurehead for a few months.

  1. There’s one other argument against impeaching Biden right now. It would likely be seen as an act of retribution. Some Republican lawmakers, no doubt, fear a resulting political backlash.

This is the weakest of all arguments. It suggests that they’re thinking more like Democrats, putting politics over principle. Republicans should make their case, then do what must be done to save our republic.

Watergate was about the burglary of a political campaign office. Back then, it sent shockwaves across the nation. Relative to today, it seems like a time of innocence.

Joe Biden was recently asked about yet another allegation against him – that he’s using the DOJ to target his political opponent. He angrily denied any role in that prosecution, adding, “I’m honest.” His family members and his delusional supporters may agree that he’s as honest as the day is long. For everyone else, though, his announcement is reminiscent of President Nixon’s parting words.

Jim Comer’s investigation is pressing forward, and the recent revelation of 17 incriminating audio tapes potentially offers even more conclusive evidence of Biden’s corruption.

Eventually, it may become too hard for his supporters to continue ignoring the obvious. At some point, even Democrat lawmakers may decide that the country is more important than the party.

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