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🎉 Welcome to 2021! Today’s Smart Brevity™ count: 1,166 words … 4½ minutes.
⚡ Situational awareness: Four days before his tight runoff, Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) is quarantining after being in close contact with an unidentified campaign staffer who tested positive.
- Perdue tested negative, and tweeted that he plans “a whole lot of virtual campaigning!” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell departs the Capitol on Dec. 11. Photo: Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images
It took four years and an election defeat. But someone with real power inside the Republican Party is standing up to — and swatting back — President Trump: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
- Why it matters: This is a preview of the power struggle that will define the Republican Party in 2021.
You saw this with McConnell acknowledging Joe Biden as President-elect.
- You saw this with McConnell blocking Trump’s push to raise stimulus checks to $2,000, which would have split Senate Republicans.
- And you’re seeing it now with his effort to curtail futile resistance by the GOP to congressional certification of Biden’s victory.
Until now, McConnell’s strategy was buffeted by the chaos Trump created. Now, the Senate leader — whose autobiography is called “The Long Game” — is finally able to set the party’s course.
- “McConnell is trying to reclaim the role he had in 2009 — leader of the opposition to a new Democratic president,” said a Republican operative familiar with the leader’s thinking.
What he’s thinking: Depending on the outcome of Tuesday’s Georgia runoffs, McConnell will have to find a way to protect — or regain — a Senate majority, in the face of Trump and his operatives promoting candidates who could win primaries but might well lose.
- During Trump’s presidency, Axios’ Margaret Talev points out, McConnell gained from an alliance that yielded 200+ lifetime judgeships — including three Supreme Court justices. As ex-president, Trump carries more liability.
The bottom line: Beginning 19 days from now, McConnell is the most powerful Republican in the land.
Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios
What the Axios experts are watching this year:
Politics: Leaving aside foreign policy unknowns, the success of the Biden presidency depends on his ability to achieve compromise with his old colleagues in the Senate. Yes, he knows the rhythms and the rules, but he’s only served with about a third of current senators. He may be speaking a language that has fundamentally changed. —Hans Nichols
Business: We’re watching to see if the real economy and capital markets will narrow their wild divergence. Maybe that means stocks pull back a bit, or maybe vaccines spark this millennium’s version of the Roaring ’20s (which came just after the 1918 Pandemic). —Dan Primack
Tech: A flurry of antitrust lawsuits ended 2020. Will we see action against Apple and/or Amazon? —Ina Fried
Media: We’ll be on the lookout for whether new commercial investments can start to rebuild the local news ecosystem in a more sustainable way. —Sara Fischer
Health care: The Biden administration has promised a dramatically different approach to the pandemic, but baked-in political attitudes may hamper Biden’s attempts to bring the virus under control. —Caitlin Owens
Energy: Demand and prices are recovering but still hobbled by COVID-19. Investor confidence in the long-term outlook is low. Pressure to act faster on climate is high. And in the U.S., Biden’s team will begin work on new regulations and restrictions. —Ben Geman
Racial justice: Communities across the country have formed “racial healing” committees to help deal with fallen racist monuments, tensions with police and people of color, and damage from protests. The ideas could change conditions for communities of color, but a lack of action could create tension as young demonstrators call for drastic transformation. —Russell Contreras
Science: We’ll be watching to see if the world’s almost singular focus on the pandemic in 2020 sets back science in other fields. We’ll also be tracking what scientific research and development the Biden administration prioritizes, and how it pursues international collaboration in science amidst geopolitical tensions. —Alison Snyder
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World: I’ll be watching the fate of the Iran deal, the end of the road for Angela Merkel after 15 years in power in Germany, the battle to define the future of Ethiopia, and Benjamin Netanyahu’s fight for political and legal survival in Israel. But the challenge that will define 2021 is distributing vaccines not just to wealthy countries, but to people all over the world. —Dave Lawler
China: The big story is the Biden administration’s China policy. The Trump administration broke with decades of U.S. policy , rejecting engagement and embracing a more directly confrontational approach. This approach, while criticized, has broad bipartisan support. —Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian
Future: 2020 saw an acceleration in automation and startling new breakthroughs in AI and biotechnology, driven in part by the need to respond to the pandemic. I’ll be watching to see whether 2021 becomes the year that the economic value of those advances is realized. —Bryan Walsh
Future of work: This year will be the test of whether the transformational changes we saw in work and the workplace will stick. I’ll be watching which companies call their vaccinated employees back to the office, and which ones embrace remote work for the long haul. —Erica Pandey
Cities: Those outstretched palms across the nation are mayors seeking federal money for everything from bare necessities — like paying teachers, cops and firefighters — to wave-of-the-future stuff like smart technology for broadband connections and traffic grids. —Jennifer A. Kingson
Transportation: Global travel could begin to see a comeback later in 2021 as people get vaccinated and international borders reopen. But the longer the coronavirus rages, more airlines and related travel industries could tumble into bankruptcy — or go out of business. —Joann Muller
Space: The Biden administration will have a major influence on NASA as the space agency pushes to send people back to the Moon. —Miriam Kramer
Sports: When will we see full stadiums again? The end of summer, as Anthony Fauci suggested? Sooner? Later? —Kendall Baker
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The ball drops in a mostly empty Times Square.
A 2020 celebrity welcomes ’21.
In Xiangyang, China, primary-school students stand in formation during a New Year’s Eve celebration.
Ryan Seacrest interviews President-elect Biden and Dr. Jill Biden on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” on ABC.
With climate change, hurricanes overall are moving more slowly, meaning they can linger for longer over land, causing more damage. —Reuters
- 🌀 Go deeper: “Wild weather, warming planet … In 2020, the fingerprints of climate change appeared around the world.”
The Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, today posted rare drawings of Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” one of the great works of world literature, to mark the 700th anniversary of the Italian poet’s death in 1321, AP reports.
- The fragile drawings by Renaissance artist Federico Zuccari have only been displayed twice before, and then only a selection — in Florence in 1865 to mark the 600th anniversary of Dante’s birth, and for a Dante exhibit in Italy in 1993.
Explore the galleries: Hell (32 images) … Purgatory (51 images) … Heaven (13 images).
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I’ve got a feeling ’21 is gonna be a good year …
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DRIVING THE DAY
Why, yes, thank you, and nice of you to say. Happy New Year to you as well! No, no — nothing special. We got pretty good carryout from the Bombay Club, then went to bed well before midnight because I had to be up early for my stint as guest author of Playbook.
It’s your POLITICO founding editor here, part of a roster invited to have some fun with this space in the transition to a new Playbook team that will be taking the helm with the inauguration of Joe Biden 19 days from now. Bear with me as I try to accommodate the Playbook format and decide which parts are supposed to be in bold.
On CNN’s Times Square special Thursday night, co-host Andy Cohen described 2020 as a “fecal year.” Kind of gross but we sure know what he means. A new year, and soon a new administration, is starting with a familiar paradox. Nothing is more characteristic of the American character than optimism, and the conviction that things are looking up at last. Yet much of the past year, or past four years, or, for that matter, past twenty years in the United States and around the world serves as warning that things could indeed get worse — more crazy, more dysfunctional, more violent, more sad.
Editors invited me to start the year with my predictions for the 12 months ahead. Well, as reporters used to say in the old days of the Washington Post Style section: Assignment declined. POLITICO Magazine just the other day wrote about all the bogus predictions of 2020, and I am not going to audition for next year’s edition.
Perhaps we can tackle the challenge differently. Let’s imagine we have a crystal ball that could tell us what we really want to know about Washington and national politics in the year ahead. What would we ask it?
No need to squander a question by asking something that we will very soon know in any event, like the outcome of the Georgia special elections Tuesday, which will determine control of the U.S. Senate. The point is to ask questions that illuminate how we perceive the underlying power dynamics of 2021, even without knowing the answer.
With help from colleagues and a bunch of old and new sources, here’s a bunch of questions we would ask the crystal ball on what is forecast to be a cold and rainy New Year’s Day.
Can Biden fill the presidency? No, this isn’t about filling West Wing and Cabinet jobs. It’s about Biden filling his own job — projecting the aura of command that Americans associate with the presidency. At 78, he’ll be 78 days older on his first day than Ronald Reagan was on his last. On many days on the campaign trail, his frail bearing and meandering sentences made him seem every day of his age. Since the election, he’s typically been a crisper and more authoritative presence. Yet U.S. history has rarely presented a more vivid contrast between outsize challenges and a pedestrian leadership persona.
Can Trump still be Trump come Jan. 21? The president’s demagoguery with his baseless assertions of a stolen election, and his increasingly erratic behavior since the election, has put an old puzzle in a frightening new light: Does seemingly irrational behavior actually serve a rational purpose? I’m already on record with my hunch — not a prediction! — that Trump will fade faster than most people and probably even he assumes once he no longer occupies the White House. But this is the dominant question hovering over Republican politics. A subordinate question is whether his adult children have any real political sway of their own once dad is ex-president.
Who runs the House? The obvious answer is still Speaker Nancy Pelosi, but with Democrats having such a tenuous margin of power the real answer may be lots of people, which is another way of saying no one. Pelosi, 80, has signaled this will be her final term leading the People’s House. By the end of 2021, it should be more clear than it is today who among multiple Democrats, including Reps. Hakeem Jeffries of Brooklyn, Congressional Black Caucus Chair Karen Bass, fellow Californian Adam Schiff or Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark, of suburban Boston, is best positioned for post-Pelosi leadership.
Who is the loudest Ivy League loudmouth? The competition to take the Trump mantle of alleged anti-establishment populist is dominated by young Republicans with uncommon skill of shimmying up the greasy pole of establishment success. Sen. Josh Hawley (Yale Law and Stanford undergrad), who turned 41 just Thursday, has jostled with 43-year-old Sen. Tom Cotton (Harvard undergrad and law) for prominence in flamboyant rhetoric and scab-picking ideological and cultural battles. Will Sen. Ted Cruz (Princeton and Harvard law), more seasoned after turning 50 on Dec. 20, cede the arena to these youngsters? Is this competition genuinely an effective way to establish post-Trump primacy in the GOP?
How gutsy is AOC really? Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has established abundantly that she doesn’t fear her elders. Since the transition has indicated that Biden is willing to extend polite attention but not agenda-setting power to the left, do AOC and the allies she inspires have a strategy to exert real leverage on him, beyond just gripes to reporters? 2021 will also give clues to whether she is serious about the possibility of a primary challenge to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in 2022.
Does the legislative deck get shuffled? An assumption of down-the-line partisanship remains a safe bet on most issues. But there are some — such as bringing the tech sector to heel, an increase in the minimum wage and possibly a big infrastructure measure — in which at least some Republicans will likely perceive incentives to work with Democrats and the new administration.
What becomes of the Biden-Harris dynamic? Lyndon B. Johnson said he always felt like “a goddamn raven hovering over his shoulder” as vice president to JFK. There’s plenty of potential for Kamala Harris to have a similarly complicated relationship with her boss, since there is widespread speculation that he won’t seek a second term but she can’t even whisper that she’s hoping for or preparing for that decision.
What happens to the right’s Noise Machine? Radio host Rush Limbaugh, a dominant conservative voice for 30 years, told listeners in October that he never expected to still be alive by then, but that his stage 4 lung cancer is headed in “the wrong direction.” Meanwhile, Trump is repaying Fox News for its ever-so-faint deviations from absolute devotion to him by denouncing the network, leading Newsmax to see an opportunity. Cumulatively, the year could bring the biggest shake-up in a generation in the rightwing media landscape.
Does the economy have a cracked foundation? For all the disruption and loss of the coronavirus pandemic and widespread global shutdowns, the economy still is suffering but fundamentally intact. But is it like a building after an earthquake — still standing but with more profound structural weaknesses than meets the eye?
What is Marco Rubio up to? There is low-volume chatter at high levels in Florida political circles that Rubio might not run for reelection to a third term in 2022, and that Ivanka Trump might try for the seat. How serious is this? I wouldn’t go overboard with any wager.
Has the 2020 racial reckoning really changed the balance of power in Washington? Biden is president, and Hillary Clinton is not, because minorities turned out in stronger numbers for him. Black and brown voters and their congressional representatives have an opportunity to go beyond their traditional status as “blocs” to be managed and to fundamentally drive the Democratic policy agenda.
Diplomacy or confrontation in Iran and North Korea? There’s widespread expectation that Trump’s departure will jump-start diplomacy with these two dangerous nations, one an aspiring nuclear power and the other already in possession of bombs. The troubled history of both places suggests the refresh Biden wants will be much harder than he wishes.
Does Trump’s eviction from the White House take cultural issues off high boil? Trump’s most consequential impact in four years was not in conventional Washington policymaking but in the broader society. Both #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, though not narrowly about Trump, were powerfully fueled by the anger and mobilizing energy he inspired from opponents.
What aren’t we ready for? Few people other than Bill Gates and a cadre of public health specialists were fretting about the possibility of a pandemic of viral respiratory disease on Jan. 1, 2020. No reason to suppose the future doesn’t have more surprises in store, or that they will be pleasant ones. The most ominous candidate might be a widespread breakdown in cybersecurity, potentially shutting down routine life with the same brutal force that coronavirus has.
Will we be OK? This capital, this country and this planet are sure due for an upgrade over last year. The most pressing questions for the crystal ball are: How well do the vaccines still in development work? At what date on the 2021 calendar, if ever, will we reach the point when 75 percent of Americans have been immunized? What will life feel like when the cloud finally lifts?
Chime in: Send us your 2021 predictions — or questions for the crystal ball — and we’ll share a selection of your answers soon. Email us at politicoplaybook@politico.com.
Unfortunately, the Playbook crystal ball is merely a metaphorical device. But the next 365 days promise to be damn interesting.
That’s especially true of the next five or six. Here, via editor Mike Zapler, is the latest on how:
THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTE on Wednesday is shaping up like a trip to the dentist for Senate Majority Leader MITCH MCCONNELL. Members of his conference spent New Year’s Eve openly warring over the Electoral College mess Trump has foisted on them, with a hand from Hawley. A few developments to catch you up on:
SEN. BEN SASSE (R-Neb.), in a late-night, 2,200-word Facebook post, unloaded on unnamed GOP lawmakers for what he called a “dangerous plot.” He didn’t name them, but it didn’t take a sleuth to ID his targets: “Let’s be clear what is happening here: We have a bunch of ambitious politicians who think there’s a quick way to tap into the president’s populist base without doing any real, long-term damage. But they’re wrong – and this issue is bigger than anyone’s personal ambitions. Adults don’t point a loaded gun at the heart of legitimate self-government.”
SEN. PAT TOOMEY (R-Pa.), who recently announced he’ll be hanging it up in 2022, was also none too pleased with the Missouri senator/potential (likely?) 2024 hopeful if Trump doesn’t run. Not to mention McConnell himself. Alex Isenstadt with the deets: “Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pressed Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley on a Thursday morning conference call to explain his plans to object to the Electoral College vote next week … But McConnell was met with silence. Hawley — unbeknownst to some on the call, which was attended by Senate Republicans — was not present.”
MEANWHILE, HAWLEY, who declared this week he’s taking a stand on behalf of “millions of voters concerned about election integrity,” also happens to be raising money off his announcement.
THE ONLY LESS APPEALING SCENARIO for McConnell to commence the new session, we gather, would be a pair of losses in Georgia the night before, which would relegate him to minority leader that day.
— “Pence: Gohmert’s fight to overturn the 2020 election results is with Congress, not me,” by Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein: “Vice President Mike Pence has asked a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit brought against him by Republicans seeking to empower him to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.”
LATEST IN GEORGIA — “Perdue to quarantine days before Georgia runoff after close Covid contact,” by Steven Shepard: “[B]oth Perdue and his wife, Bonnie, tested negative for the virus on Thursday, ‘but following his doctor’s recommendations and in accordance with [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] guidelines, they will quarantine.’
“Perdue is leaving the campaign trail with only five days until Election Day, when Georgia voters will decide the fate of both of the state’s Senate seats, which will in turn determine which party controls the chamber after the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. It’s unknown whether or when Perdue will return to campaigning before the Tuesday runoff.”
Reminder: Trump is heading to Georgia on Monday for an election-eve rally for Perdue and Loeffler. Will the senator be able to make it?
Meanwhile, these two aren’t even running against each other: “Loeffler hits back at Ossoff over KKK attack,” by Marc Caputo and James Arkin
THIS IS FUN: It’s the annual report from Hart Research Associates with public opinion findings counting down from 100 to 1.
WHAT ABOUT THE BOY? HE SAW IT ALL! There must be plenty of people, perhaps born 10 years on either side of me (1963) who today have the song from The Who’s rock opera “Tommy” in their heads: “Got a feeling ’21 is gonna be a good year, especially if you and me see it in together … I had no reason to be over-optimistic, but somehow when you smiled I can brave bad weather.” Warning: The song sounds sweet at first, but it really isn’t. It’s about a boy who ceases to function, except for his mystical genius at pinball, after witnessing his father murder his mother’s lover.
TWITTER EXCHANGE OF THE DAY:
QUESTION FOR YANG: Did he adopt his position against circumcision before or after attending the brises?
THE CORONAVIRUS CONTINUES TO RAGE … 19.97 million Americans have tested positive for the virus. … 346,000 have died of Covid-19.
— TRUMP COVID TICK-TOCK: “‘Covid, Covid, Covid’: In Trump’s Final Chapter, a Failure to Rise to the Moment,” NYT: “As the gap between politics and science grew, the infighting that Mr. Trump had allowed to plague the administration’s response from the beginning only intensified. Threats of firings worsened the leadership vacuum as key figures undercut each other and distanced themselves from responsibility.
“The administration had some positive stories to tell. … But Mr. Trump’s unwillingness to put aside his political self-centeredness as Americans died by the thousands each day or to embrace the steps necessary to deal with the crisis remains confounding even to some administration officials.”
YELLEN SPEAKEN — “Yellen Earned Millions in Speaking Fees After Leaving Fed, Disclosures Show,” WSJ: “Janet Yellen, President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for Treasury secretary, collected more than $7 million in speaking fees during more than 50 in-person and virtual engagements over the past two years … A separate ethics agreement outlined Ms. Yellen’s plans to resign as a consultant to the Magellan Financial Group Ltd., an investment-fund manager based in Australia …
“The agreement said Ms. Yellen would seek special authorization for one year when dealing with matters pertaining to Magellan, according to forms posted online by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. The agreement outlines similar steps she would take for 16 additional financial firms or entities from which she collected speaking fees in the past year, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Citigroup Inc. and hedge-fund firm Citadel LLC.”
BLINKEN CONSULTEN — “Biden’s Pick for Secretary of State Took Up Consulting, Venture Capital During Trump Administration, Disclosures Show,” WSJ: “WestExec Advisors LLC paid him $1.2 million, not including an expected payment of between $250,000 and $500,000 for 2020 …
“Meanwhile, Avril Haines, Mr. Biden’s selection for director of national intelligence, has an extensive résumé that includes consulting work with national-security data analysis company Palantir Technologies Inc. and WestExec Advisors … The bulk of her income comes from her position as a research scholar and lecturer at Columbia University, where she was paid a salary of $440,121 over two years.”
BREXIT IS HERE — “U.K. enters ‘new chapter’ outside European Union as Brexit transition period ends,” CNN/London: “As the clocks struck midnight marking New Year’s Day in Brussels and 11 p.m. Thursday in London, the United Kingdom finally cut its ties with the European Union, almost a year after its formal departure from the 27-nation bloc.”
THE HACK HIT LIST GROWS — “Microsoft says Russians hacked its network, viewing source code,” WaPo: “Russian government hackers engaged in a sweeping series of breaches of government and private-sector networks have been able to penetrate deeper into Microsoft’s systems than previously known, gaining access to potentially valuable source code, the tech giant said Thursday.”
TRUMP INC. — “Trump hotel looks to cash in on Biden inauguration,” by Daniel Lippman: “[A]t least one part of Trump-world is tacitly acknowledging that there won’t be a second Trump term, and is hoping to profit from Biden’s inauguration: Trump’s Washington hotel.
“A check of the Trump International Hotel D.C.’s website indicates that the hotel demands a two-night minimum stay during the inauguration and has hiked its rates to $2,225 per night for Jan. 19 and 20, while a similar room runs in the $400 range during most of the rest of January.”
TRUMP’S FRIDAY — The president and VP MIKE PENCE have nothing on their public schedules. President-elect JOE BIDEN and VP-elect KAMALA HARRIS have nothing on their public schedules.
PLAYBOOK READS
IN MEMORIAM — “Dick Thornburgh, ex-governor and U.S. attorney general, dies,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: “Dick Thornburgh forged his impressive reputation for public service as a corruption-fighting federal prosecutor in his native Pittsburgh, burnished it as a cool and efficient governor in Harrisburg and cemented it in a variety of broader-scope positions from U.S. attorney general to reform-minded administrator at the United Nations. …
“Mr. Thornburgh died Thursday morning at a retirement community facility outside of Pittsburgh, his son David said. He was 88. More pragmatic engineer than passionate ideologue when it came to politics, Mr. Thornburgh maintained a largely untainted reputation that won the trust both of voters who elected him Pennsylvania’s chief executive from 1979 to 1987 and of multiple presidents who tapped him for key roles before and after his governorship.”
OUR DEEPEST CONDOLENCES to Rep. JAMIE RASKIN (D-Md.) and SARAH BLOOM RASKIN, whose 25-year-old son, Tommy Raskin, died Thursday morning. Their statement
CLIMATE FILES — “Biden set to supercharge clean energy push with $40B stash,” by Zack Colman: “DOE is poised to again play an essential role as the Biden administration looks to leverage clean energy investments towards its twin goals of pulling the economy out of a deep slump and delivering on the president-elect’s ambitious climate pledges.
“And Biden, who oversaw the Obama administration’s stimulus work as vice president, unknowingly left himself a down-payment for the work ahead: $40 billion in unused Energy Department loan authority awarded under the 2009 stimulus. That pot of money could offer a way to kick start his climate and infrastructure plan.”
COULD THIS EXPLAIN Trump’s early return from Mar-a-Lago? … “U.S. to move aircraft carrier out of Mideast amid Iran tension,” AP: “The Pentagon has decided to send home the only Navy aircraft carrier operating in the Middle East, a move that would reduce U.S. firepower in the region amid heightened tensions with Iran, officials said Thursday.
“The decision, confirmed by three defense officials but not yet publicly announced, emerged one day after Air Force B-52 bombers flew nonstop from the United States to the Persian Gulf in a show of force that military officials said was intended to caution Iran against carrying out attacks against U.S. forces or interests.”
TUCKED IN THE SPENDING PACKAGE — “How 100,000 Pacific Islanders got their health care back,” by Dan Diamond: “For two decades, victims of U.S. nuclear bomb tests fought to obtain the Medicaid eligibility that was promised them. In the waning days of 2020, they won.”
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ENGAGED — Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), 38, proposed to Ginger Luckey, 26, at Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday night. Judge Jeanine broke the news … Pensacola News Journal: “Luckey is an analyst at Apeel, a company that produces coatings for produce to keep food fresh, according to her LinkedIn. Her residence is listed as Santa Barbara, California. Her brother, Palmer Luckey, was a former Facebook executive who was ousted from the tech company in 2017 after his contributions to far-right political groups came to light …
“Gaetz sent shockwaves through social media in June when he announced he had a Cuban son, Nestor, who he claimed to have been raising for the past six years. Nestor is the biological brother of Gaetz’ ex-girlfriend and he said at the time he was a ‘single dad.’”
NYE, MAR-A-LAGO STYLE: Gaetz was back at Trump’s Florida getaway Thursday night. Pic … Daily Mail: “Trump’s family bring in the New Year at Mar-a-Lago without him: Tiffany, Don Jr, Eric and their other halves join hundreds of maskless guests at $1k-a-head party to ring in 2021 after President returned to DC early”
THE ENTERTAINMENT, according to Meridith McGraw: “Some members shelled out $1,200 for New Years Eve gala tickets at the club, hoping to catch a glimpse of the president and first lady and be entertained by 90s rapper Vanilla Ice, but were disappointed when the president suddenly decided to return early for Washington for reasons unknown.”
TRANSITIONS — Incoming House Energy and Commerce ranking member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and the committee GOP are adding Sarah Rogers Burke as deputy staff director, Michael Taggart as policy director, Emily King as director of member services, Peter Kielty as general Counsel and Bijan (BJ) Koohmaraie as chief counsel.
— “Pelosi Names 1st Female Chaplain To Serve Congress,” NPR: “Speaker Nancy Pelosi marked another milestone for women in Congress Thursday by appointing retired Navy Rear Adm. Margaret Grun Kibben as chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives.”
WELCOME TO THE WORLD — Suzanne Wrasse, comms director for the Senate Foreign Relations GOP, and Ryan Wrasse, comms director for Senate Majority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.), welcomed John Ryan “Johnny” Wrasse on Wednesday in D.C. He’s named after his grandpa John, a retired U.S. Navy master chief. Pic
— Brad Tytel, senior program officer for Covid-19 response policy at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Meg Mager, senior program manager at the Max Foundation, welcomed Sofia Mara Mager-Tytel on Christmas Eve. She came in at 6 lbs, 15 oz. Pic … Another pic
NEW YEAR’S BIRTHDAYS: Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) is 67 … Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Ala.) is 56 … Rep. Derek Kilmer (D-Wash.) is 47 … Rep.-elect Diana Harshbarger (R-Tenn.) is 61 … BuzzFeed co-founder and CEO Jonah Peretti is 47 … WaPo’s Brady Dennis … Dana Klinghoffer of NBC News comms … James Glassman is 74 (h/t Tim Burger) … Kevin McGrann, assistant VP for federal relations at AT&T … Stephanie Penn … Todd Webster, SVP at Cornerstone Government Affairs … Brian Frederick, SVP at the ALS Association (h/ts Jon Haber) … Dan Weiss … Priscilla Ross of the American Hospital Association … Shannon Watts … C-SPAN’s Nicole Ninh … Andy Maner, CEO of Avantus Federal (h/t Ed Cash) … Justin Bartolomeo, principal at JMB Public Relations … European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde is 65 …
… Gary Johnson is 68 … Google’s Tomer Ovadia, a POLITICO alum … Dan Koh … Rob Johnson, founder of Johnson Strategies … former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine is 74 … Josh Nanberg, president and creative director at Ampersand Strategies, is 47 … Katie Lee … former Rep. John Sullivan (R-Okla.) is 56 … former Rep. Martin Frost (D-Texas) is 79 … Nirmal Mankani … Ted Bridis … Jeremy Bates … J.D. Bryant, director at Bully Pulpit Interactive … Kara Kearns … Ken Toltz … Hannah Schwartz … Michael Kelly … Meagan Vargas … Margot Friedman … POLITICO’s Alex DiNino … Sally Slater … Caroline Buck … Victor Ashe … Alison Howard … Kate Beale Maguire … Lauren Hagen … Yama Noori … James Donnelly is 31 … Max Richtman … Zach Howell … Jay Kahn … Jennifer Hall … Rocky Disabato … Hugh Delehanty … POLITICO Europe’s Giulia Chiatante
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First Things First: Religious Freedom! Who influenced Jefferson’s views on Separation of Church & State – American Minute with Bill Federer
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- mandatory taxes to support it; and
- no one could hold public office unless they were a member.
- faithful Anglican prior to the Revolution, as one could not even hold office in colonial Virginia unless one took the Oath of Supremacy;
- friend of the dissenters during the Revolution, championing the cause of Baptists and other non-conformists;
- friend of deists after his wife died prior to the French Revolution, corresponding with Dr. Joseph Priestly;
- liberal Episcopalian during his term as President, having his administration support Christian missionaries among the Indians and espousing the superior ethics of Jesus.
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The Morning Briefing: Happy 2021 From My Neuroses to Yours
Be Gentle With Us, 2021
Happy New Year, my dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends! I’m weeping tears of joy on the inside, I swear.
Is it really gone? IS IT REALLY GONE?!?!?!?
I find myself wishing that 2020 had had a groin that I could have kicked. Over and over again. Alas, there was nothing corporeal upon which we could exact revenge. We’ll have to be content with doing everything in our power to enjoy this year.
There are a lot of lessons to be learned from last year, to be sure. We will learn them? Let us hope we do. We don’t have to learn them all. One or two choice ones could give us quite an evolutionary leap from the shallow plane we’d inhabited as a species for several years leading up to the Year of the Wuhan Chinese Bat Flu.
This past year marked the first full calendar year with me in charge of the Morning Briefing. I feel as if I’ve been to newsletter grad school after the tumult and weirdness we’ve all been through. It was interesting having to churn out product five days a week during long spells when there were really only two news stories every day. I appreciate your patience with me during that learning period more than you will know.
I wanted to start off this new year by thanking all of you who have helped this enterprise blossom a bit. 2020 was a year of solid growth for the Morning Briefing despite all of the plague lunacy. We had some monthly goals that seemed a little bold at the end of last year but we’ve consistently been meeting them for several months now. I am forever grateful for all of you who made that happen.
Resting on one’s laurels is never a good thing, although the temptation can be strong. I have no intention of doing that here in Briefing Land. My goal is to inform and entertain, and 2021 will be devoted to finding new ways to do that.
I would like to wrap up this brief Briefing by wishing all of you a Happy New Year. May 2021 serve as the ultimate palate cleanser for whatever kinds of challenges last year brought. I’ve been oddly optimistic about this year in recent days. As most know, I’m usually the resident curmudgeon around these parts, so this is something new. I hope some of it rubs off on everyone.
Thank you all again, and let’s go make this year fun.
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Jon Ossoff Dodges If He Is Influenced By the CCP Through Past Business Deals
Pennsylvania Congressmen Accuse State Officials of ‘Unlawfully’ Violating Election Procedures
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Oklahoma Sheriff: Residents Should Use Their 2A Rights
This Pet Food Is Being Recalled After the Deaths of at Least 28 Dogs
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Axios Co-Founder: Some Republicans Think Trump Is Sabotaging The Georgia Runoff Elections, But …
Apparent Radical Leftist Attack on Gas Lines in Colorado, Leaving Thousands Without Heat
Anti-Mask Flash Mobs Begin to Show Up in Stores Around the Country, Loudly Encouraging Freedom
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I’m beaming with joy and optimism for the new year. Wait…it’s just gas.
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- History shows our passion for freedom runs deep
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| History shows our passion for freedom runs deep
Posted: 01 Jan 2021 01:12 AM PST Christmas 2020 was a Christmas like no other in our nation’s history. Thousands of churches across the country were shuttered, others had to hold services outdoors or restrict capacity indoors. Families were not allowed to gather for the holiday. Many Americans are rightly upset that the freedom to worship—the foundational American freedom—has been curtailed. For some it felt as if we gave up without a fight, and that what is now gone will be lost forever. But the past tells a different story. While we have never experienced what we are going through now, the past tells us that the passion for freedom runs deep in this nation, and it will not be easily squelched. First and foremost, of course, is the very founding of the nation by the many who came for religious freedom. Not only did they face persecution at home and a difficult ocean voyage, but once here, they still faced many challenges. The passengers of the Mayflower Compact never expected to be blown hundreds of miles off course, to land in a place where their existing patent had no standing. But with the Mayflower Compact, they crafted a powerful agreement that established self-rule, their right to worship as they wished, and the rule of law. In that simple act, they laid the foundation for a nation that would become a beacon of freedom. A lesser known but perhaps more important moment occurred in 1657. A new sect of believers had emerged in England in the 1650s: the Religious Society of Friends, derisively referred to as Quakers, for their belief that people should “tremble at the word of the Lord.” They were considered radicals and were persecuted, in some cases even executed. They sought safety in the New World. One Quaker named Robert Hodgson began to preach to crowds in New Netherland (today, New York), but for that was arrested and flogged. Peter Stuyvesant, director general of New Netherland, subsequently forbade people from allowing Quakers into their towns or giving them shelter in their homes. When his strictures were challenged, he is said to have responded, “We derive our authority from God and the West India Company, not from the pleasure of a few ignorant subjects.” On Dec. 27, 1657, Tobias Feake, the sheriff of Vlissingen, New Netherland (today known as Flushing, New York), and the town clerk, Edward Clark, drafted a petition calling for acceptance of the beliefs of others and their right to accept Quakers into their towns and homes. They persuaded 28 of their fellow citizens to stand with them in signing the petition. More importantly, the petition they drafted, known as the Flushing Remonstrance, survives as one of the most beautiful and inspiring statements of the American spirit. In rejecting the prohibition against receiving or entertaining Quakers, the signatories of the Flushing Remonstrance stated: “We desire therefore in this case not to judge least we be judged, neither to condemn least we be condemned, but rather let every man stand or fall to his own Master … “Therefore if any of these said persons come in love unto us, we cannot in conscience lay violent hands upon them, but give them free egresse and regresse unto our Town, and houses, as God shall persuade our consciences, for we are bounde by the law of God and man to doe good unto all men and evil to noe man.” Feake and Clark paid a heavy price for this act of conscience: They were imprisoned and fined. But their spirit of resistance prevailed. Eventually the Dutch West India Company ordered Stuyvesant to “allow everyone to have his own belief.” A little over 100 years later, the right to freedom of belief was codified in the Bill of Rights. Indeed, we tend to think of Thomas Jefferson as the father of our freedoms for having inspired the Bill of Rights, or James Madison for having drafted them, but the path to those freedoms was paved by ordinary citizens, such as the 30 who signed the Flushing Remonstrance. Winston Churchill said, “The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope.” As we wait to be allowed to return to our churches and synagogues, we should remember that small band of 30 citizens in Flushing, New York, and remind ourselves that the American commitment to liberty does not depend on singular individuals such as James Madison or Thomas Jefferson, or on a president or governor, but it depends fully on the love for liberty each one of us holds and the lengths we are willing to go to uphold it. Originally published by The News&Observer COVID-19 lockdowns are taking down an independent news outletNobody said running a media site would be easy. 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In June, 2020, we had 614,192. In November, 2020, we hit 1.2 million visitors. We’re heading in the right direction and we believe we’re ready talk to patriotic investors who want to not only “get in on the action” but more importantly who want to help America hear the truth. Interested investors should contact me directly with the contact button above. As the world spirals towards radical progressivism, the need for truthful journalism has never been greater. But in these times, we need as many conservative media voices as possible. Please help keep NOQ Report going.
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| New Year’s resolution or New Year’s revolution?
Posted: 01 Jan 2021 12:51 AM PST WHERE WE ARE NOWAs I write these words, it’s still New Year’s Eve here in Hawaii as Washington DC and most of the rest of the world have already dispensed with the year 2020. But something is lighting up the horizon and I don’t mean the aerial fireworks displays. Patriots and conservatives, but I repeat myself, are becoming increasingly frustrated. We have been told every day since the election that tomorrow will be the “big day” and everything will be set right. We are all sick and tired of daily empty rhetoric and the big daily let down. We are being told to put our hopes on the Supreme Court to do what it did in the year 2000 to settle the election for George W. Bush over Al Gore. But anyone with common sense can see that is becoming increasingly unlikely as Chief Justice John Roberts has gone over to the dark side. We are also being told that Vice President Mike Pence is going to do something absolutely world-shaking on January 6th and refuse to count the votes from contested states, lowering the denominator of total votes, and declaring President Trump (and himself) as being re-elected. As President of the Senate, he has the constitutional responsibility and right to do exactly that. But to say that his current silence on the issue is less than reassuring would be a gross understatement in a year of gross understatements. There are millions of Americans from around the country who want to descend on Washington DC on January 6th to let members of Congress know how strongly we all feel about holding them to their constitutional oaths. Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is showing that red stands not for the Republican Party but for Red China. Democrats in the District of Columbia are working to prevent us from gathering. They are closing down hotels, shutting down restaurants, removing toilets from public areas and possibly even stopping the Metro from running. This is nothing less than an unconstitutional plot to prevent our voices from being heard as the sequel to what they did on November 3rd in switching legal votes from Donald Trump into illegal votes for Joe Biden. WHAT WE FACEI have often cited Ephesians 6:12 as evidence that evil forces in high places are arrayed against the forces of good. That has never been more evident than it is as 2021 comes upon us without a promise of relief from the misery that 2020 brought. It looks like more of the same as Democrats double down in denying civil liberties rather than using common sense approaches to public safety. As I hear fireworks going off in the distance, it is simply impossible to get into any spirit of celebration at the moment. Due to Hawaii’s location here in the mid-Pacific near the International Date Line, we are one of the last places on earth to enter the new year. 20 years ago, I actually ~ in an era when I still watched television ~ tuned in to Peter Jennings on ABC News as the New Year rolled around the globe seeing if Y2K would cause computers to all go berserk and shut down the world. Guess what, folks, that never happened. The impending disaster did not actually occur as seemed inevitable. That’s the lesson that we all need to learn now. Up until now, that has been one of the biggest non-events that I can recall in my more than seven decades on this planet. What did we actually do with all of that stored up bottled water, canned goods, batteries and what-have-you that we had hoarded for months if not years? It’s humorous in retrospect, but it seemed like a prudent thing to do at the time. What that tells me is that there is a limit to human understanding. We cannot predict the future accurately. We sometimes misinterpret historical and current events as to their implications for the future. Submitted for your approval, which I say in my best Rod Serling voice since this definitely feels like the Twilight Zone, is the contention that we mortals are incapable of understanding the plan of our Immortal, Eternal and Infinite God. HOW WE DEAL WITH THE FUTURE AS WE UNDERSTAND THE PASTI deeply appreciate my friend, our Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of NOQ Report, JD Rucker, for letting me vent sometimes and consistently reminding me that God is still in control. Of course, I do know that. But it helps to hear it anyway. We do not need to understand God’s plan. We certainly do not know what He will do before He does it. Much less do we know how He will do it. Or when He will do it, for that matter. But we can remain confident that nothing will happen that God does not allow to happen and that nothing will not happen that God ordains will happen. I recall in my Old Testament studies back in my college days that in ancient Israel, those who followed God’s commands implemented His plan and were rewarded for it. Those who did not respect God or follow His Divine plan were sometimes permitted to have power for a period of time, during which God’s Will was done in spite of them rather than because of them or through them. But they were not rewarded because God accomplished His Will even through their obstruction and disobedience. Rather they were punished for the evil in their hearts. But God has many ways of teaching lessons for His people. Sometimes we have to suffer under evil leaders until a righteous leader once again reigns. These lessons of course do not apply only to ancient Israel or to modern Israel, which is also suffering political difficulties of their own with new elections scheduled in a few months. Benjamin Netanyahu may already be regretting his premature congratulations which he sent to Joe Biden. He certainly would not like Donald Trump who will still remain president to do the same to him when the time comes. These lessons are for all of us. When our constitutional process breaks down due to corruption and the evil in the hearts of our elected and appointed authorities, then it is the responsibility of We the People to do that which is necessary to throw off the bonds of tyranny just as we did after our Declaration of Independence in 1776. The most overlooked factor in our current situation is the foreign interference in this election. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe has defaulted on his responsibilities under President Trump’s 2018 Executive Order to submit an intel report on that very issue by December 18th. There is no public outcry. Nor is there any real awareness of what China and Iran and other countries have done, much less the threat they pose now and in the immediate future. WHY WE MUST REMAIN CIRCUMSPECTAs a retired Federal Officer in a career with U.S. Customs [USCS/CBP], National Security is always very much on my mind. While most Americans have been preoccupied with events here on the domestic front, the United States in recent days has sent warships through the Taiwan Strait and to artificial islands in the South China Sea which the Chinese Communist Party’s People’s Liberation Army Navy has constructed and militarized, extending their hegemony and occupying territory claimed by their Southeast Asian neighbors. Concurrently, the United States has sent B-52 bombers and other fighter aircraft along with aircraft carriers and other warships into the Persian Gulf as Israel has also sent submarines through the Suez Canal, with the permission of Egypt which controls that narrow passage into the Red Sea (as historically ironic as that may be) towards the direction of the Strait of Hormuz. This is another message to Iran which has been behind the attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq recently and whose President Hassan Rouhani has threatened President Trump with the same fate as that of Saddam Hussein. It doesn’t get any more serious than that, folks. January 3, 2021, just a couple days from now, will be the first anniversary of the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani, abruptly ending his reign of terror as head of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force. Iran is also still sending ships across the Atlantic toward Venezuela which may contain missiles. The United States Southern Command remains on high alert to interdict any such activity. It is absolutely no coincidence that China and Iran are the two primary culprits behind the theft of our recent presidential election. Xi Jinping and the CCP have made no secret of their open desire to install Joe Biden as their weak puppet and to overthrow the legal constitutional government of Donald Trump. But this isn’t just an empty threat. This is not mere words. This actually happened and is still going on. WHOM WE HOLD ACCOUNTABLEWe don’t know yet exactly who ordered all vote counting to stop at 4 a.m. on November 4th in several battleground states. Even with Joe Biden’s son Hunter being intricately and inextricably intertwined with the CCP, we don’t know at this point whether the so-called “big guy” was directly involved in this Act of War by a hostile power and treason by Americans. Even now, revelations are coming out about our 44th President Barack Hussein Obama II and support that was received during the Obama-Biden Administration by al Qaeda. Truthfully and honestly, the warning signs have been there for many years but our country ignored them to our own peril. Nobody would want to think that a President of the United States or putative President-Elect could be guilty of such anti-American animus. But, that is where we stand as this New Year 2021 comes upon us. WHERE WE GO FROM HERESo, I ask you, I implore you, to urgently answer the question: “What are we going to do about it?” I’ve never been one for making frivolous New Year’s resolutions. But what we must now resolve to do is absolutely not frivolous. It is the most important thing we will ever decide in our entire existence. Our own futures and that of our children, grandchildren and all future generations of Americans, and indeed all people in other countries around the world, depend upon what We the People of the United States of America resolve to do. The next five days are crucial before Congress meets on January 6th. Remember that it is the left who are attempting a coup to overthrow the government of the United States. As a Saul Alinsky tactic, they will accuse us of attempting a coup to cast the spotlight away from their own sedition. But don’t be distracted. Don’t be dissuaded. Now is the time in our lives when we are faced with a crisis such as we have never faced before. I absolutely believe in and advocate non-violence. It is the Democrats who will resort to riots in the streets and civil disobedience when President Trump is declared the legitimate victor and is sworn in for a second term. Your mission, which is not a Mission Impossible, should you choose to accept it, is to ensure that everyone on Capitol Hill understands that you don’t just respectfully request, but that you absolutely demand, that they comply with their Oath under the United States Constitution on January 6th when the electoral votes are counted. That begins with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. As of this moment, only courageous conservative freshman Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri has had the courage as a sitting Senator to declare that he will contest the electoral slates which were illegally submitted to the Electoral College. I just now realized that December 31st is his 41st birthday. The only other probable Senator at this time who has indicated he will contest the election is Senator-Elect Tommy Tuberville of Alabama. Several other GOP Senators have not firmly made such a commitment including Rand Paul and Ted Cruz. None of them must allow Mitch McConnell to intimidate them. His days as either Senate Majority Leader or even Minority Leader are limited as he definitely needs to be replaced. HOW WE SEAL OUR VICTORYSo, what we need to do is keep the pressure on all members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Unfortunately I have to write off all four members of our Hawaii Congressional Democrat Delegation to Washington DC. But those of you who have a Republican Senator from your state should be contacting him or her immediately. We should all make our concerns known to every member of Congress no matter where we live. If you can physically get to Washington DC on January 6th, all the better. But use every means possible to contact your Senators and Representative. I don’t personally know if there will be a Mother Of All Bombshells that will drop at any moment. This is not like the big ball on Times Square. If God is going to spare America, He will do it by His own means in His own perfect timing. If He intends to teach America a lesson by letting us suffer under a Biden-Harris Administration, that is His Divine Right, just as He permitted ancient Israel to choose evil kings for the same didactic purpose. But, hopefully God will give us what we need and not just what we deserve. So, continue praying not that God will do this or that God will do that but rather that God’s Will be done. Whatever that may be. Other than the joint session of Congress on January 6th, there are other dynamics that may yet impact this election in the immediate days ahead. Remember that as President and Commander-in-Chief, Donald Trump has access to all information about foreign interference whether or not it has been publicized or even shared with Congress. He knows what our foreign enemies have done and what they are capable of. He certainly also understands why they are so eager for Joe Biden to become their manipulatable surrogate in the Oval Office. I don’t believe President Trump, as the patriot that he is, could sleep at night or live with himself if he allowed that to happen. This election isn’t just about Donald Trump or Joseph Biden. The outcome of this election is the difference between Freedom and Marxism. WHY DONALD TRUMP HIMSELF IS GOD’S INSTRUMENT TO ENSURE OUR NATIONAL SURVIVALAmerica literally hangs in the balance. Therefore, my final appeal tonight when Hawaii finally joins the rest of the world in the year 2021 in a few hours, is that Donald Trump will play the trump card. Only he right now knows what that is. Like I said, we are at the stage where there is only the choice between the proper New Year’s Resolution or a New Year’s Revolution. Let it be a resolution by the man in the Oval Office to preclude a bloody revolution that none of us wants. Our foreign enemies and domestic traitors seek that route if their election theft fails. Remember that the Manhattan Project refers not to the location of Trump Tower but rather to the unthinkable becoming thinkable when President Harry S. Truman made what I would consider the most difficult decision an American President has ever had to make. That is, until now! President Truman did what had to be done to preserve victory in World War II and Donald Trump will do whatever has to be done to prevent World War III. That is not hyperbole. Pray for President Trump and pray for the United States of America! WHOM WE THE PEOPLE TRUSTGod Alone is still in control of the universe which He created. He created us in His own image and He gave us a free will. We must freely trust His direction. You don’t need to understand how He navigates the perils along the tortuous highway. I will leave you tonight with a personal anecdote from a long anticipated experience which my wife and I had in Alaska in the summer of 2019. We took the tour at Denali National Park. I thought it was good when I got in line early and secured the front seat nearest the driver for the best view. It was great when we went into the park and the mountain was on my side of the bus. But when we came back and there was a drop off of more than a thousand feet on a narrow one-lane dirt road just out my window, I kind of wished I wasn’t seeing everything the driver was seeing and trying emotionally to make sure his hands were steady on the wheel. I would have been better off just not to stare down those steep cliffs but rather to just relax, breathe deeply, and realize that I was not the driver of that Denali tour bus. In fact, it’s a good thing for me and everybody else on the bus that I was not the driver. Otherwise I probably wouldn’t be here writing these words at this moment. That’s how I feel now. I will do my part in this election to ensure victory for the legitimate winner, but God is at the wheel and He Alone will navigate the perilous road ahead and bring us safely to our destination. Happy New Year 2021 through the Grace of Almighty God! COVID-19 lockdowns are taking down an independent news outletNobody said running a media site would be easy. We could use some help keeping this site afloat.Colleagues have called me the worst fundraiser ever. My skills are squarely rooted on the journalistic side of running a news outlet. Paying the bills has never been my forte, but we’ve survived. We have ads on the site that help, but since the site’s inception this has been a labor of love that otherwise doesn’t bring in the level of revenue necessary to justify it. When I left a nice, corporate career in 2017, I did so knowing I wouldn’t make nearly as much money. But what we do at NOQ Report to deliver the truth and fight the progressive mainstream media narrative that has plagued this nation is too important for me to sacrifice it for the sake of wealth. We know we’ll never make a ton of money this way, and we’re okay with that. Things have become harder with the coronavirus lockdowns. Both ad money and donations that have kept us afloat for a while have dropped dramatically. We thought we could weather the storm, but the resurgence of lockdowns that mainstream media and Democrats are pushing has put our prospects in jeopardy. In short, we are now in desperate need of financial assistance. The best way NOQ Report readers can help is to donate. 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| Hawley doubles down on objecting to electoral results, pushes back pressure from McConnell
Posted: 01 Jan 2021 12:45 AM PST Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has doubled down on objecting to Electoral College votes on Jan. 6, despite pressure from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). Hawley put out a statement Thursday afternoon in which he reiterated the reasons for why he is choosing to object to the electoral vote count on Jan. 6. Article originally published at The Epoch Times. “I was unable to join this morning’s call, but I understand the Leader gave me the opportunity to share my concerns regarding the upcoming Joint Session,” Hawley said in a written statement, in response to McConnell, Axios reported. According to the report, McConnell held a conference call with Senate Republicans on Thursday morning in which he questioned Hawley multiple times about his intent for the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress. However, McConnell got no reply as Hawley was not on the call. Hawley’s office did not respond to The Epoch Times’ request for comment. Thursday morning, Hawley became the first senator to commit to objecting to contested electoral college votes on Jan. 6, 2021, prompting criticism from both sides of the aisle. He will join a growing number of Republican lawmakers like Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) who will file an objection in the House. The senator said that his constituents are “deeply angry and disillusioned,” and are frustrated that Congress has not taken any meaningful action to investigate the voter fraud claims, with the exception of Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) who held a Senate hearing on election irregularities earlier this month. “I intend to object during the certification process on January 6 in order to force these issues to the fore, and to point out the unprecedented failure of states like Pennsylvania to follow their own election laws and the unprecedented efforts of the Big Tech corporations to interfere with this election,” Hawley added. Congress convenes on Jan. 6 to count electoral votes, the final step to certifying a president-elect under the Electoral College system. Electors gathered on Dec. 14 to cast ballots for the presidential candidate that won the most votes in their states, submitting certificates of ascertainment to Washington. In seven states, alternate slates of electors cast ballots for President Donald Trump, even though the vote count showed that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden was ahead. Republicans have been considering ways to contest the election results, which may end up swinging the outcome in favor of Trump if the claims of fraud are allowed to be investigated and shown to be true. One way forward following Hawley’s announcement is objecting to electoral votes in crucial swing states where allegations of fraud have emerged like Pennsylvania and Georgia. Objections require both a representative and a senator to sign. If objections get the required support, they trigger both chambers withdrawing from the joint session to debate for two hours and vote on whether to uphold the challenge. A simple majority in each chamber is needed to uphold the challenge. Zachary Stieber contributed to this report. COVID-19 lockdowns are taking down an independent news outletNobody said running a media site would be easy. We could use some help keeping this site afloat.Colleagues have called me the worst fundraiser ever. My skills are squarely rooted on the journalistic side of running a news outlet. Paying the bills has never been my forte, but we’ve survived. We have ads on the site that help, but since the site’s inception this has been a labor of love that otherwise doesn’t bring in the level of revenue necessary to justify it. When I left a nice, corporate career in 2017, I did so knowing I wouldn’t make nearly as much money. But what we do at NOQ Report to deliver the truth and fight the progressive mainstream media narrative that has plagued this nation is too important for me to sacrifice it for the sake of wealth. We know we’ll never make a ton of money this way, and we’re okay with that. Things have become harder with the coronavirus lockdowns. Both ad money and donations that have kept us afloat for a while have dropped dramatically. We thought we could weather the storm, but the resurgence of lockdowns that mainstream media and Democrats are pushing has put our prospects in jeopardy. In short, we are now in desperate need of financial assistance. The best way NOQ Report readers can help is to donate. Our Giving Fuel page makes it easy to donate one-time or monthly. Alternatively, you can donate through PayPal as well. We need approximately $17,300 to stay afloat through March when we hope the economy will be more open, but more would be wonderful and any amount that brings us closer to our goal is greatly appreciated. The second way to help is to become a partner. We’ve strongly considered seeking angel investors in the past but because we were paying the bills, it didn’t seem necessary. Now, we’re struggling to pay the bills. This shouldn’t be the case as our traffic the last year has been going up dramatically. June, 2018, we had 11,678 visitors. A year later in June, 2019, we were up to 116,194. In June, 2020, we had 614,192. In November, 2020, we hit 1.2 million visitors. We’re heading in the right direction and we believe we’re ready talk to patriotic investors who want to not only “get in on the action” but more importantly who want to help America hear the truth. Interested investors should contact me directly with the contact button above. 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| January 6th is NOT the final deadline for correcting the election
Posted: 01 Jan 2021 12:36 AM PST All eye’s of the politically interested people in this nation are looking to January 6th. That’s the day when a joint session of Congress will count the electoral votes. Much emotional capital has been put into this date by patriots who (rightly) believe the election was too fraudulent to allow to stand unchallenged, but it’s not really the drop-dead date for correcting this. The real conclusion to the election happens on January 20th, a day set by the Constitution through the 20th Amendment. On that day, a sitting president’s term officially ends. So what happens on January 6th? What if Congress and Vice President Mike Pence, acting as President of the Senate and presiding officer of the joint session, do not correct the election? Is it over? No. Three avenues for remedy of the situation close on that day. Action can be taken to correct electors by state legislatures, Congress, the President of the Senate/VP, or the Supreme Court. Let’s look at the three ways the election can be corrected on or before January 6th before examining the fourth. State legislatures can correct their electors before then, and while there are currently several attempts to do so in contested states, nothing has been solidified yet. Even with Republican majorities in state legislatures of most contested states, the appetite for action seems too low. They need a majority to act and a willingness to invoke their constitutionally protected plenary power over electors that supersedes state laws to the point that if they choose, they can call themselves into session without their governor’s approval. This can still happen. Congress can act. It has been well covered by many, including NOQ Report, how that process would work. Constitutional ambiguity is in play, but one thing seems to be agreed upon despite ill-worded statutes and the 12th Amendment. If one Senator and one Representative object to a slate of electors, the two chambers split to debate amongst themselves. If a majority is reached in both chambers (and some would say only one chamber is required), then the electors are either discarded altogether or they can be replaced by the alternates. This, too, can still happen, but it seems unlikely unless the “MOAB“—Mother Of All Bombshells—drops before January 6th. Third, Mike Pence can act. Some question this, but here’s the thing. As presiding officer, he is given a wide range of potential actions. One that few have discussed is that he can call for evidence to be heard before or even during the counting of the electors. It seems unlikely that Pence wants to do anything at all. I hope I’m wrong, or more accurately, I hope I was right about him before, that he’s an honorable and faithful man who will do what’s right. Any combination of these three actions need to happen on or before January 6th to correct the election results. But the fourth avenue, the Supreme Court, has the power to act after January 6th. It’s at this point that some will moan about how the Supreme Court has failed to act up until now and we should have no hope that they will act at any point in the future. But if we look at the two lawsuits they’ve addressed thus far, they did not hear evidence in either. They ruled against standing for Texas and simply refused to hear the original Pennsylvania case. Contrary to popular belief, the Supreme Court has not shot down any lawsuits on merit. We still have five Supreme Court Justices who are originalists. Do not fret over Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and Neil Gorsuch recusing themselves from the Texas vote. As I said before the lawsuit was dismissed, there was little chance the Supreme Court would hear the case for a multitude of reasons. Standing was the one they chose, but perhaps a bigger issue is that they suit was filed regarding changes to election protocols that broke state and federal laws. The challenge there is that the four states were not the only states that did so. 27 other states made similar changes, but were not included in the lawsuit because the counts either were not close or President Trump won them. Moreover, some of the changes made to election laws were far more egregious than the four states in the lawsuit, including Montana which President Trump won in landslide. All of this combined for a non-starter. The Supreme Court simply chose standing as the easiest path through which they could avoid hearing it. Other suits currently on the docket will not have standing issues. They also deal with hard evidence of voter fraud rather than legalities through which voter fraud was fostered. This is very important to understand because proving voter fraud could happen doesn’t prove that it did. Proving voter fraud did happen doesn’t prove that there was enough to change the results of the election. For the Supreme Court to act, these lawsuit or future ones need to demonstrate the atmosphere for voter fraud was fostered, that voter fraud happened on a massive scale, and that the scale was enough to change the results of the election. If that happens, yes, the Supreme Court will likely hear the case and at least the five originalist Justices will act accordingly. Here’s the kicker. The 20th Amendment declares when an administration officially ends, but it does not dictate when the next one begins. It’s very possible that the Supreme Court could act to suspend inauguration until the cases are ruled upon, in which case a strange thing happens. President Trump will leave office, but Joe Biden will not take his place. In that scenario, the Speaker of the House would become acting President of the United States until the Supreme Court releases either President Trump or Biden to officially assume office. That may sound terrifying having Nancy Pelosi as President for a little while, but it would only be temporary. Yes, there are many scenarios possible here. We’d love for it to be all wrapped up on January 6th so President Trump can have a wonderful inauguration ceremony but that may not happen. And if it doesn’t, don’t fret. There are still crazy things that can happen before the Chinese Communist Party has their guy in the Oval Office. Through all of this, we are still in the same boat we’ve been in for a while. We need God to act. We need Him to will the “MOAB” into the light and make it vividly clear to everyone that the Democrats and their handlers tried to steal the election. If it happens, praise God! If it doesn’t happen, then His plan is different from ours and we still praise Him! Stay the course, folks. The truth is making its way to the surface, and while getting it out has been a challenge, we never promised it would be easy. After all, we’re fighting great forces of evil. But we still win in the end. COVID-19 lockdowns are taking down an independent news outletNobody said running a media site would be easy. We could use some help keeping this site afloat.Colleagues have called me the worst fundraiser ever. My skills are squarely rooted on the journalistic side of running a news outlet. Paying the bills has never been my forte, but we’ve survived. We have ads on the site that help, but since the site’s inception this has been a labor of love that otherwise doesn’t bring in the level of revenue necessary to justify it. When I left a nice, corporate career in 2017, I did so knowing I wouldn’t make nearly as much money. But what we do at NOQ Report to deliver the truth and fight the progressive mainstream media narrative that has plagued this nation is too important for me to sacrifice it for the sake of wealth. We know we’ll never make a ton of money this way, and we’re okay with that. Things have become harder with the coronavirus lockdowns. Both ad money and donations that have kept us afloat for a while have dropped dramatically. We thought we could weather the storm, but the resurgence of lockdowns that mainstream media and Democrats are pushing has put our prospects in jeopardy. In short, we are now in desperate need of financial assistance. The best way NOQ Report readers can help is to donate. Our Giving Fuel page makes it easy to donate one-time or monthly. Alternatively, you can donate through PayPal as well. We need approximately $17,300 to stay afloat through March when we hope the economy will be more open, but more would be wonderful and any amount that brings us closer to our goal is greatly appreciated. The second way to help is to become a partner. We’ve strongly considered seeking angel investors in the past but because we were paying the bills, it didn’t seem necessary. Now, we’re struggling to pay the bills. This shouldn’t be the case as our traffic the last year has been going up dramatically. June, 2018, we had 11,678 visitors. A year later in June, 2019, we were up to 116,194. In June, 2020, we had 614,192. In November, 2020, we hit 1.2 million visitors. We’re heading in the right direction and we believe we’re ready talk to patriotic investors who want to not only “get in on the action” but more importantly who want to help America hear the truth. Interested investors should contact me directly with the contact button above. 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| The 2020 figures for illegal aliens
Posted: 31 Dec 2020 09:19 PM PST The year 2020 will likely go down in history as one of the most important, surreal, and crazy years of all time. We saw a plague that has a greater than 98% recovery rate that basically shut down the nation, wildfires, riots, and Black Lives Matter revolts. The left tried to tear down history, and white people became the scourge of society. Then, of course, we had the presidential election and suspected fraud. Future generations will have a lot to talk about. Article originally published at Liberty Nation. With everything going on this year, coverage of illegal immigration has taken a backseat, but that doesn’t mean the effort to control aliens sneaking across the borders has stopped. In fact, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency stayed busy, deporting more than 185,000 illegal aliens in Fiscal Year 2020. Border BackgroundFor the past four years, President Donald Trump has relentlessly fought to secure the nation’s borders while meeting resistance at every turn from the left. In FY 2018, ICE deported 95,360 illegal aliens living inside the U.S. as well as 160,725 that were caught by Border Patrol. This was a 45% increase from Barack Obama’s last year in office when approximately 65,000 were deported. Then, in FY 2019, the nation saw about 267,258 aliens removed – a 4% increase compared to the previous year and almost a 20% rise compared to FY 2017. Continued lawsuits to prevent building the border wall as well as activists screaming about children being put in cages made these efforts more difficult. And if that weren’t bad enough, sanctuary cities and states have prohibited local law enforcement from working with federal officers. This led to releasing criminals from incarceration without notifying ICE, even when said illegals had detainers on them. Those challenges were enough to diminish the capabilities of immigration enforcement, but just as with everything else in 2020, the COVID pandemic reduced personnel and added restrictions that further complicated the mission. Despite all the roadblocks, the quest to secure borders and remove illegals was still successful, even if previous years had seen better results. 2020 StatsAlthough deportations for FY 2020 dropped by more than 20% compared to FY 2019 and more than 27% for FY 2018, this year ICE was able to deport 185,884 illegal immigrants which also included more than 4,200 gang members. According to the agency’s report:
Another noteworthy achievement according to the report:
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) was also busy with illegal immigrants. The report had these statistics:
In addition to apprehending illegal immigrants as well as dangerous criminals, ICE had its hands full treating detainees: “ICE executed a budget exceeding $315 million on medical, dental, and public health services for 99,670 detainees nationwide.” Faced with constant opposition, harassment, and COVID challenges, the Trump administration’s immigration control efforts have still proved fruitful. ~ Read more from Kelli Ballard. COVID-19 lockdowns are taking down an independent news outletNobody said running a media site would be easy. We could use some help keeping this site afloat.Colleagues have called me the worst fundraiser ever. My skills are squarely rooted on the journalistic side of running a news outlet. Paying the bills has never been my forte, but we’ve survived. We have ads on the site that help, but since the site’s inception this has been a labor of love that otherwise doesn’t bring in the level of revenue necessary to justify it. When I left a nice, corporate career in 2017, I did so knowing I wouldn’t make nearly as much money. But what we do at NOQ Report to deliver the truth and fight the progressive mainstream media narrative that has plagued this nation is too important for me to sacrifice it for the sake of wealth. We know we’ll never make a ton of money this way, and we’re okay with that. Things have become harder with the coronavirus lockdowns. Both ad money and donations that have kept us afloat for a while have dropped dramatically. We thought we could weather the storm, but the resurgence of lockdowns that mainstream media and Democrats are pushing has put our prospects in jeopardy. In short, we are now in desperate need of financial assistance. The best way NOQ Report readers can help is to donate. Our Giving Fuel page makes it easy to donate one-time or monthly. Alternatively, you can donate through PayPal as well. We need approximately $17,300 to stay afloat through March when we hope the economy will be more open, but more would be wonderful and any amount that brings us closer to our goal is greatly appreciated. The second way to help is to become a partner. We’ve strongly considered seeking angel investors in the past but because we were paying the bills, it didn’t seem necessary. Now, we’re struggling to pay the bills. This shouldn’t be the case as our traffic the last year has been going up dramatically. June, 2018, we had 11,678 visitors. A year later in June, 2019, we were up to 116,194. In June, 2020, we had 614,192. In November, 2020, we hit 1.2 million visitors. We’re heading in the right direction and we believe we’re ready talk to patriotic investors who want to not only “get in on the action” but more importantly who want to help America hear the truth. Interested investors should contact me directly with the contact button above. As the world spirals towards radical progressivism, the need for truthful journalism has never been greater. But in these times, we need as many conservative media voices as possible. Please help keep NOQ Report going.
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| Times Square vs Wuhan New Year’s celebration is infuriating
Posted: 31 Dec 2020 08:45 PM PST COVID-19 originated in Wuhan, China. It likely came from the Wuhan Virology Lab where it was carelessly or intentionally released into the wild. Then, the Chinese Communist Party either carelessly or willfully covered it up so it could spread around the world. As of an hour before the “ball” was supposed to drop in Times Square, New York City, the scene was as depressing as the overall mood of the nation. Instead of a million-plus people crowding the streets, frolicking and bringing in the new year, the perennially largest venue for the New Year’s celebrations in the United States is empty.   We were conned from the start. We are being conned now. And many of our leaders are part of the con. Authoritarians do not see destruction from COVID-19. They see an opportunity and they’re taking it. They’re taking everything from us. COVID-19 lockdowns are taking down an independent news outletNobody said running a media site would be easy. We could use some help keeping this site afloat.Colleagues have called me the worst fundraiser ever. My skills are squarely rooted on the journalistic side of running a news outlet. Paying the bills has never been my forte, but we’ve survived. We have ads on the site that help, but since the site’s inception this has been a labor of love that otherwise doesn’t bring in the level of revenue necessary to justify it. When I left a nice, corporate career in 2017, I did so knowing I wouldn’t make nearly as much money. But what we do at NOQ Report to deliver the truth and fight the progressive mainstream media narrative that has plagued this nation is too important for me to sacrifice it for the sake of wealth. We know we’ll never make a ton of money this way, and we’re okay with that. Things have become harder with the coronavirus lockdowns. Both ad money and donations that have kept us afloat for a while have dropped dramatically. We thought we could weather the storm, but the resurgence of lockdowns that mainstream media and Democrats are pushing has put our prospects in jeopardy. In short, we are now in desperate need of financial assistance. The best way NOQ Report readers can help is to donate. Our Giving Fuel page makes it easy to donate one-time or monthly. Alternatively, you can donate through PayPal as well. We need approximately $17,300 to stay afloat through March when we hope the economy will be more open, but more would be wonderful and any amount that brings us closer to our goal is greatly appreciated. The second way to help is to become a partner. We’ve strongly considered seeking angel investors in the past but because we were paying the bills, it didn’t seem necessary. Now, we’re struggling to pay the bills. This shouldn’t be the case as our traffic the last year has been going up dramatically. June, 2018, we had 11,678 visitors. A year later in June, 2019, we were up to 116,194. In June, 2020, we had 614,192. In November, 2020, we hit 1.2 million visitors. We’re heading in the right direction and we believe we’re ready talk to patriotic investors who want to not only “get in on the action” but more importantly who want to help America hear the truth. Interested investors should contact me directly with the contact button above. As the world spirals towards radical progressivism, the need for truthful journalism has never been greater. But in these times, we need as many conservative media voices as possible. Please help keep NOQ Report going.
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| Pence asks judge to reject push to expand his powers to decide Electoral College votes
Posted: 31 Dec 2020 07:29 PM PST Vice President Mike Pence asked a federal judge on Thursday to reject an effort to give him “exclusive authority” to decide which Electoral College votes should be counted during the upcoming joint session of Congress. Article originally published at The Epoch Times. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and other Republicans last week filed a lawsuit against Pence, requesting that the court grant Pence power to decide which votes to count on Jan. 6, 2021, when lawmakers will gather to observe the formal certification of states’ electoral votes for the president of the United States. Pence argued that he was not the correct defendant to the lawsuit, reported The Hill. In a Thursday filing to U.S. District Judge Jeremy Kernodle, an attorney representing Pence wrote, “A suit to establish that the Vice President has discretion over the count, filed against the Vice President, is a walking legal contradiction.” According to a filing asking for an accelerated schedule in the case, plaintiffs said that their counsel had “made a meaningful attempt” to reach out to Pence’s counsel but discussions “were not successful in reaching an agreement and this lawsuit was filed.” The lawsuit concerns Pence’s role as president of the Senate. In seven battleground states, Republican electors cast alternative slates of votes for President Donald Trump on Dec. 14. They alleged that Trump was the true winner in those states, alleging election fraud and contesting election officials who declared a win for Biden. Gohmert and other Republicans argued in the lawsuit that the U.S. Constitution clearly outlines the protocol for when alternate slates of electors are presented to the president of the Senate. They say the president of the Senate has “exclusive authority and sole discretion under the 12th Amendment to determine which slates of electors for a state, or neither, may be counted.” The 12th Amendment of the Constitution states that electors of each state have to meet, and ultimately send the signed and certified votes to the president of the Senate, in this case, Pence. “The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted,” the 1804 amendment says. Gohmert is among the dozen or so House members planning on challenging electoral votes during the joint session on Jan. 6, 2021. At least one senator is needed to sustain a challenge. The power of the vice president to count or reject electoral votes is disputed. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Epoch Times. Zachary Stieber contributed to this report. COVID-19 lockdowns are taking down an independent news outletNobody said running a media site would be easy. We could use some help keeping this site afloat.Colleagues have called me the worst fundraiser ever. My skills are squarely rooted on the journalistic side of running a news outlet. Paying the bills has never been my forte, but we’ve survived. We have ads on the site that help, but since the site’s inception this has been a labor of love that otherwise doesn’t bring in the level of revenue necessary to justify it. When I left a nice, corporate career in 2017, I did so knowing I wouldn’t make nearly as much money. 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| Sidney Powell calls on Georgians to vote, but says runoff election should be postponed
Posted: 31 Dec 2020 06:43 PM PST For the last month, attorney Lin Wood has been calling on Republicans to boycott the upcoming Senate runoff election in Georgia. He says voter fraud is so rampant and election results are so untrustworthy, the only way to properly address it is to force Republican lawmakers to act immediately. That includes Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Purdue whose political careers hang in the balance. His friend and fellow attorney, Sidney Powell, has a slightly different take. While acknowledging that voter fraud is rampant and the Georgia election system is corrupt, she is calling on Republicans to still show up at the polls. But in doing so, she also notes the election itself should be postponed in light of the widespread voter fraud clearly present in the state.
Some have accused Wood of working against Republicans for reasons other than what he claims. A handful of hit pieces have come from conservative media (though none from this site) calling him out for donating in the past to Democrats along with Republicans. He is an unabashed Trump supporter, but he may not be a GOP supporter, the opinion pieces claimed. But Wood has stood by the notion that he is generally apolitical, not a Democrat or Republican. He said he was drawn into a more active role in politics by the emergence of President Trump. He also regularly reminds people that businessman Donald Trump often donated heavily to Democrats before running for office. It’s common for the wealthy to hedge their bets with political donations. Republican Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger have been accused by multiple attorneys, including Wood and Powell, of participating in the both the various voter fraud schemes in their state as well as the subsequent coverup. They have toed the line between trying to act like they’re in favor of a free and fair election but have offered up roadblocks all along the way. Retaining control of the Senate is a top priority for the GOP, but exposing rampant voter fraud to the degree that it corrects the results of the presidential election must maintain primacy. The nation is at stake. COVID-19 lockdowns are taking down an independent news outletNobody said running a media site would be easy. We could use some help keeping this site afloat.Colleagues have called me the worst fundraiser ever. My skills are squarely rooted on the journalistic side of running a news outlet. Paying the bills has never been my forte, but we’ve survived. We have ads on the site that help, but since the site’s inception this has been a labor of love that otherwise doesn’t bring in the level of revenue necessary to justify it. When I left a nice, corporate career in 2017, I did so knowing I wouldn’t make nearly as much money. But what we do at NOQ Report to deliver the truth and fight the progressive mainstream media narrative that has plagued this nation is too important for me to sacrifice it for the sake of wealth. We know we’ll never make a ton of money this way, and we’re okay with that. Things have become harder with the coronavirus lockdowns. Both ad money and donations that have kept us afloat for a while have dropped dramatically. We thought we could weather the storm, but the resurgence of lockdowns that mainstream media and Democrats are pushing has put our prospects in jeopardy. In short, we are now in desperate need of financial assistance. The best way NOQ Report readers can help is to donate. Our Giving Fuel page makes it easy to donate one-time or monthly. Alternatively, you can donate through PayPal as well. We need approximately $17,300 to stay afloat through March when we hope the economy will be more open, but more would be wonderful and any amount that brings us closer to our goal is greatly appreciated. The second way to help is to become a partner. We’ve strongly considered seeking angel investors in the past but because we were paying the bills, it didn’t seem necessary. Now, we’re struggling to pay the bills. This shouldn’t be the case as our traffic the last year has been going up dramatically. June, 2018, we had 11,678 visitors. A year later in June, 2019, we were up to 116,194. In June, 2020, we had 614,192. In November, 2020, we hit 1.2 million visitors. We’re heading in the right direction and we believe we’re ready talk to patriotic investors who want to not only “get in on the action” but more importantly who want to help America hear the truth. Interested investors should contact me directly with the contact button above. As the world spirals towards radical progressivism, the need for truthful journalism has never been greater. But in these times, we need as many conservative media voices as possible. Please help keep NOQ Report going.
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| Dear U.S. Senators: You work for us, NOT Mitch McConnell
Posted: 31 Dec 2020 05:01 PM PST The requirements to be a United States senator are pretty basic. One must have reached the age of 30, been a U.S. citizen for at least nine years, and live in the state they represent. That’s it. There are no requirements to read the Constitution, pay attention to what’s happening in the world, or fulfill their oath to defend the Constitution. Senators who do not meet those expectations are only held accountable by the people, and oftentimes the people are too busy to make sure this happens. This year, we’re not. We cannot be. Intellectual and political laziness are no longer luxuries we can afford. With the Senate participating in a joint session of Congress on January 6th to determine who the president-elect will be, we must hold their feet to the fire. Voter fraud happened. It’s unambiguous that it was widespread. Some may question whether or not it was sufficient to change the results, but until that question is answered fully we are faced with a legitimately contested election. Democrat senators get a little bit of a pass on this one. It’s not that we don’t want to hold them accountable. It’s that they should already be held to account for their anti-American worldview and political ideology. Since their guy is the one who would benefit from the steal, we cannot realistically expect them to object to the fraudulent results. It’s unfortunate that they put their party’s power over the sanctity of the elections or the future of the nation, but I’m not going to fret over it. I already hold them in such low regard that it would be absolutely shocking if a single Democrat on Capitol Hill did the right thing. Republicans, on the other hand, have no excuse whatsoever. They are labeled as being on the right side of political ideology even if most do not adhere to it, but by accepting that label they must be held at a higher standard. They must embrace and defend the truth even if doing so puts them at odds with their political fortunes. And that means making the tough choice that, thus far, only Senator Josh Hawley has committed to do. Hawley will object to electors on January 6th and I pray he’s not alone amongst his senatorial peers. If we’re being honest, this should not even be considered a tough choice. It’s mind-blowing that no fewer than half of the GOP caucus in the Senate hasn’t committed along with Hawley. It’s actually quite embarrassing as well since I’ve supported several of them. But I will not support any who do not object. My own oath as a United States citizen demands that I defend the Constitution, and that means not only withdrawing my support for those who do not, but actively working to remove them from office going forward. Just as it’s their duty to demand legitimate election results, it’s our duty as American citizens to hold them accountable if they choose to betray us. Many of us are. I’d venture speculation that nearly half of America’s voting population would be in favor of them objecting to the results, if only because they are so heavily contested that the truth must be solidified before a world-changing decision like this is made. Even if they’re skeptical about the level of voter fraud that took place, they still owe it to us, the people, to be damn certain before they make a decision. The problem goes back to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his incessant push to prevent Hawley and any other Senator from objecting to the election results. It’s no understatement to say that I am more disgusted by him than any other politician in Washington DC right now, and that includes Democrats. They have an excuse, albeit a feeble one, to not lift a finger against the coup attempt because they are the beneficiaries of it. But McConnell is a Republican. Allegedly. He’s also a constitutionalist. Allegedly. Sadly, his actions surrounding the election reveal there are only two viable potential forces driving him. Either he has never been a Republican and has acted on behalf of Democrats all along, or he’s compromised. I believe it’s the latter. Frankly, I don’t care what drives him. He just won reelection, which means we have six years to force his resignation. But that’s for a future discussion. If he’s compromised, who else does he control? It’s conspicuous that over 100 Republicans in the House of Representatives are likely to object to the blatantly fraudulent election results, but only one Senator has committed to the same. Does McConnell hold some sort of sway that forces them to betray their oath as well as their nation? Does he or someone else have dirt on them? All of them? The entirety of the United States senate, with very few exceptions, may be compromised. They may be beholden to the Chinese Communist Party just as McConnell appears to be. And that’s truly terrifying. Depending on what happens January 6th, it may be time to clear the slate. What the Tea Party was only marginally able to do during the Obama administration must become the primary driving force behind conservative activism if Hawley is not joined by a large number of his Republican colleagues, regardless of how this election ends. We will soon learn whether Republicans in the United States Senate work for the American people or if they work for McConnell. If they work for McConnell, they actually work for the Democrats, the Chinese Communist Party, or both. Some may say I’m being too dramatic, but look around. These are very dramatic times, folks. 25-year-old Madison Cawthorn has clarity of purpose, and he has not even been sworn into Congress. It’s pitiful that United States Senators, many of whom have been in office for longer than Cawthorn has been alive, do not have the same clarity on an issue that is so important. Any Senator who does not object to the fraudulent election results is complicit in the coup. Mitch McConnell may have sold his political soul, but has Ted Cruz? Rand Paul? Tom Cotton? Everyone else? We will find out January 6th. And we will remember. COVID-19 lockdowns are taking down an independent news outletNobody said running a media site would be easy. We could use some help keeping this site afloat.Colleagues have called me the worst fundraiser ever. My skills are squarely rooted on the journalistic side of running a news outlet. Paying the bills has never been my forte, but we’ve survived. We have ads on the site that help, but since the site’s inception this has been a labor of love that otherwise doesn’t bring in the level of revenue necessary to justify it. When I left a nice, corporate career in 2017, I did so knowing I wouldn’t make nearly as much money. But what we do at NOQ Report to deliver the truth and fight the progressive mainstream media narrative that has plagued this nation is too important for me to sacrifice it for the sake of wealth. We know we’ll never make a ton of money this way, and we’re okay with that. Things have become harder with the coronavirus lockdowns. Both ad money and donations that have kept us afloat for a while have dropped dramatically. We thought we could weather the storm, but the resurgence of lockdowns that mainstream media and Democrats are pushing has put our prospects in jeopardy. In short, we are now in desperate need of financial assistance. The best way NOQ Report readers can help is to donate. Our Giving Fuel page makes it easy to donate one-time or monthly. Alternatively, you can donate through PayPal as well. We need approximately $17,300 to stay afloat through March when we hope the economy will be more open, but more would be wonderful and any amount that brings us closer to our goal is greatly appreciated. The second way to help is to become a partner. We’ve strongly considered seeking angel investors in the past but because we were paying the bills, it didn’t seem necessary. Now, we’re struggling to pay the bills. This shouldn’t be the case as our traffic the last year has been going up dramatically. June, 2018, we had 11,678 visitors. A year later in June, 2019, we were up to 116,194. In June, 2020, we had 614,192. In November, 2020, we hit 1.2 million visitors. We’re heading in the right direction and we believe we’re ready talk to patriotic investors who want to not only “get in on the action” but more importantly who want to help America hear the truth. Interested investors should contact me directly with the contact button above. 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| GOP Tennessee state lawmakers urge senators, representatives to object to electoral votes
Posted: 31 Dec 2020 04:22 PM PST A group of state lawmakers in Tennessee called on both senators and the state’s Congressional delegation to vote to join an effort to object to the Electoral College votes in key states due to alleged voter fraud and irregularities. Article originally published at The Epoch Times. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), and a few dozen other GOP lawmakers have pledged to challenge the Electoral College votes on Jan. 6. It requires both a senator and a representative to carry out, triggering potentially a lengthy debate on all the contested states. “We write this letter,” the Tennessee GOP lawmakers stated, “to voice our strong support for Rep. Brooks’ call for investigations into the widespread election irregularities.” “Fair elections, free from foreign and outside interference, and fraudulent actions by State officials in violation of state law are pivotal to the survival of our republic, which exists based on the consent of the governed,” the lawmakers’ letter said, making reference to allegations of fraud and irregularities in Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, Georgia, and Pennsylvania. Their letter stipulated that there were alleged violations of the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause in all of the six contested states, alleged voting machines irregularities in five states, statistical anomalies in five of the states, claims that “poll workers were observed running ballots through tabulation machines as many as eight or nine times” in Michigan and Wisconsin, ballots allegedly being mishandled in five states, and other problems. The secretaries of state and other officials in Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, Georgia, and Pennsylvania have stipulated there were no irregularities or fraud that would be enough to overturn the elections in their respective states. But, according to the Tennessee lawmakers, “Very few of these irregularities have been investigated in a professional manner by anyone in law enforcement or in a position to do anything about it. In fact, most of these jurisdictions, save Arizona, ate blocking transparency efforts at every turn.” They also faulted the U.S. judiciary system for not taking up lawsuits and typically refusing to hear the cases based on procedural errors—rather than merit. “Given this,” the letter added, “it is up to the Congress to offer a venue in which a proper, thorough hearing can take place.” After Hawley announced on Wednesday that he would object—becoming the first senator to do so—a number of GOP members of the Senate said their effort will likely fail. About a dozen state representatives in Tennessee signed the letter to Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), as well as Tennessee’s GOP delegation to Congress. “It is with these laws and their continuation in mind that we, the undersigned, ask you on January 6th to vocally support the rule of law, transparent government by joining Rep. Brooks in objecting to the contested electors from those states where Republicans have offered opposing slates of electors,” they said. COVID-19 lockdowns are taking down an independent news outletNobody said running a media site would be easy. We could use some help keeping this site afloat.Colleagues have called me the worst fundraiser ever. My skills are squarely rooted on the journalistic side of running a news outlet. Paying the bills has never been my forte, but we’ve survived. We have ads on the site that help, but since the site’s inception this has been a labor of love that otherwise doesn’t bring in the level of revenue necessary to justify it. When I left a nice, corporate career in 2017, I did so knowing I wouldn’t make nearly as much money. But what we do at NOQ Report to deliver the truth and fight the progressive mainstream media narrative that has plagued this nation is too important for me to sacrifice it for the sake of wealth. We know we’ll never make a ton of money this way, and we’re okay with that. Things have become harder with the coronavirus lockdowns. Both ad money and donations that have kept us afloat for a while have dropped dramatically. We thought we could weather the storm, but the resurgence of lockdowns that mainstream media and Democrats are pushing has put our prospects in jeopardy. In short, we are now in desperate need of financial assistance. The best way NOQ Report readers can help is to donate. Our Giving Fuel page makes it easy to donate one-time or monthly. Alternatively, you can donate through PayPal as well. We need approximately $17,300 to stay afloat through March when we hope the economy will be more open, but more would be wonderful and any amount that brings us closer to our goal is greatly appreciated. The second way to help is to become a partner. We’ve strongly considered seeking angel investors in the past but because we were paying the bills, it didn’t seem necessary. Now, we’re struggling to pay the bills. This shouldn’t be the case as our traffic the last year has been going up dramatically. June, 2018, we had 11,678 visitors. A year later in June, 2019, we were up to 116,194. In June, 2020, we had 614,192. In November, 2020, we hit 1.2 million visitors. We’re heading in the right direction and we believe we’re ready talk to patriotic investors who want to not only “get in on the action” but more importantly who want to help America hear the truth. Interested investors should contact me directly with the contact button above. As the world spirals towards radical progressivism, the need for truthful journalism has never been greater. But in these times, we need as many conservative media voices as possible. Please help keep NOQ Report going.
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