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So Now We Know Who Vouched For Sheriff Chad Chronister

BY Herschel Smith
1 week, 1 day ago

I speculated that it was Pam Bondi. I was right.

Source.

A connected source tells The Dossier that Chronister was vouched for through Pam Bondi, who will be overseeing the DEA and has a long working relationship with the Sheriff. Bondi, a longtime Florida politician and lobbyist, and later, a Trump world staple, is the latest Attorney General nominee following Matt Gaetz’s unilateral withdrawal from consideration.

Dumb bimbo.

Florida Sheriff Chad Chronister Withdraws from Consideration as Head of DEA

BY Herschel Smith
1 week, 2 days ago

Source.

Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister has withdrawn his nomination from President-elect Donald Trump to lead the Drug Enforcement Agency, the sheriff announced on social media Tuesday evening.

He doesn’t say why. But good. As I said, he’s a punk.

Here’s more.

Support for BLM, belief in red flag laws, arresting a pastor for preaching during the Covid lockdown, and on and on the bad list goes. Read the whole post.

Now – on to who recommended this punk to be head of DEA. I suspect Pam Bondi (they are after all both Floridians). Pam, did you do this? Is this your handiwork? Inquiring minds want to know.

Hunter Biden Pardon

BY Herschel Smith
1 week, 3 days ago

The clear-headed Stephen Stamboulieh assesses the potential fallout of the pardon of Hunter Biden.

While “The Big Guy” had done his deed with his son, I still think there’s more to this story than we’ve seen or has even been written about.

If the Hunter Biden cases continued, all sorts of things could have come out at trial, including collusion with the power brokers in Ukraine between both Bidens.

This is an attempt to keep this all under wraps, so the pardon not only protects his son, but him as well (at least insofar as obvious and public disclosure under the rules of the court).

Discovery is a bitch.

Trump Names Florida sheriff Chad Chronister to be administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration

BY Herschel Smith
1 week, 4 days ago

Source.

Trump revealed Saturday in a statement that he will nominate Chronister to lead the DEA in his second administration, stating that the Florida sheriff will work with his attorney general pick, Pam Bondi, “to secure the Border, stop the flow of Fentanyl, and other Illegal Drugs, across the Southern Border.” While Chronister received praise from colleagues and others after the initial announcement, some Republicans have begun to fire back due to his actions during the COVID-19 lockdown.

In March 2020, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office released a press statement revealing that they had arrested local Tampa Bay church pastor Dr. Rodney Howard-Browne on two second-degree misdemeanors for unlawful assembly and violation of public health emergency rules. In a post on X from the Libertarian Party of Mississippi, the group called out Chronister’s decision to arrest Howard-Browne, leading Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie to respond as well.

“I’m going to call ‘em like I see ‘em. Trump’s nominee for head of DEA should be disqualified for ordering the arrest a pastor who defied COVID lockdowns,” Massie wrote on X.

So this guy Chad Chronister is a punk. His judgments are poor, his tendency and proclivity is to be a controller, and he apparently has no real scruples or fixed world and life view except for whatever he thinks at the time. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have put a pastor in jail for preaching.

Trump is already showing the signs of poor judgment, just like in his first administration. But then, we all knew we would be disappointed in him.

They Still Don’t Get It

BY Herschel Smith
1 month ago

This is their antidote to the massive change in American politics.

Political commentator Anand Giridharadas said Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that Democrats needed a “feminist” version of  Joe Rogan’s podcast.

Giridharadas said, “You know when one person has a traumatic experience, we know what to do. we go to a counselor, a therapist, maybe they take some medication. When an entire country has a traumatic experience, it’s just called life. It’s just called history. We have an entire country and world that had a traumatic experience, whether it was my kindergartner wearing a mask to school, which I’m very glad we had masks, but also watching my kindergartner not being able to recognize the faces of their best friend because eyes are not enough at age 6 to recognize a face. And the enormous amount of mental health challenges that I don’t think we even fully realized were unleashed. The sense of defenselessness people felt economically. And you’re right that when you have that kind of traumatic event, it’s just in the blood in ways that historians may make sense of, sociologists may make sense of. I don’t think we right now are in a position to make sense of it.”

He added, “Particularly the media ecosystem, it is not it’s not a good one. It’s a negative one, it is a radicalization funnel. What they have done in the online media ecosystem is build a radicalization engine, the way militant groups do around the world. It takes people from low level annoyances with the world, ‘Why are eggs so expensive? Why are my kids learning things in school I didn’t learn? And then moves through You Tube videos, podcasts, moves them from the annoyance, to a full blown fascist politics. It’s an elaborate multibillion dollar infrastructure, and there is nothing like it on the pro-democracy side. We don’t have, when a man is lost and lonely and not yet radicalized, we don’t have the equivalent of Joe Rogan or Jordan Peterson to move that man in a feminist direction.”

While understanding just a little bit about what happened, Scott Jennings end with “We have to figure out how to talk to …”

Jen Psaki tells us how she feels and wanted a woman to be elected president.

You see, they still don’t get it. They think this is all about an influencer.

The party of “We don’t know the difference between a man and a woman” wants a woman to be elected president. It would be literally impossible to make this up if you hadn’t heard someone say it out loud.

The problem isn’t that leftists don’t know how to talk to more than half of America. The problem isn’t a lack of communication. The problem isn’t that they lack an influencer.

The problem is that their policy choices were all too clear: Gender confusion, DEI, inflation, more theft through taxation, more onerous control, whether gun control or wage and price controls, more wars of foreign adventure, more out-of-control deficit spending, more kowtowing to both the extremely wealthy on the one hand, having made deals behind closed doors for “special” deals for them, and the lay class on the other hand who wants to do the same thing as the elitists, i.e., fleece the middle class, more unfettered immigration – both hurting wages and increasing loss of income from taxes to pay for the medical care of immigrants (because the elitists won’t pay them medical care), and on and on the list could go.

They heard the message loud and clear. They rejected it, and soundly so.

The problem wasn’t a failure to communicate. They communicated all too well.

They still don’t get it. I hope they never do.

This is your government

BY Herschel Smith
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Never, ever talk to cops, and that includes most of all federal cops.

Also note that there is no shame with these men, who care more about their salary and pensions than your rights. In fact, they believe in what they’re doing. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t do it for a living.

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Federal Grand Juries

BY Herschel Smith
2 months, 3 weeks ago

I don’t often do this, but I need to recommend that you watch television (or better yet, some other format).

The federal grand jury is the most corrupt abomination of justice ever to be conceived by the U.S. authorities.

The best dramatization of what can happen with grand juries can be seen on The Rockford Files, “So Help Me God,” season 3, episode 7.

The fifth amendment doesn’t apply. Despite what the founders intended, you have no fifth amendment rights in front of a federal grand jury. If you refuse to testify, you can be imprisoned for the duration of the grand jury.

That’s a short list of the infringements on rights that has been given to the purview of the federal grand jury. The whole thing is an end run around the rights inherent to being a U.S. citizen.

Of course, this also runs contrary to biblical law which forbids forced confessions and self-incrimination (see R. J. Rushdoony, “Institutes of Biblical Law).

The Constitution – Just a Little Piece of Paper

BY Herschel Smith
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Or maybe “That book you carry.”

Same disrespect.

The constitution isn’t just a piece of paper. It’s a covenant and contract, just like the sale of a piece of property or a marriage vow. Breakage of it is grounds for divorce, legal action, and a host of other things. In the case of a government, it’s grounds for violence. Don’t ask me. Ask the founders, and ask John Calvin, from whom this concept came.

She’s just a little girl anyway with a dirt clod for a brain.

In ancient times marriages were arranged and even so the Holy Writ didn’t object to that practice.

So if you don’t like the covenant and contract you’re under, too bad. I don’t even believe that the covenant between the people of America and its state should be able to be amended.

Go somewhere else.

Rachel Maddow: Liking The Lord of the Rings Is ‘Far-Right’

BY Herschel Smith
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Source.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow thinks it’s very interesting that Republican vice presidential contender J.D. Vance named his venture capital firm after a magical object from the series The Lord of the Rings (LOTR).

“Lord of the Rings is sort of a favorite cosmos for naming things and cultural references for a lot of far-right and alt-right figures both in Europe and the United States,” said Maddow on Wednesday.

She further noted that Peter Thiel, a billionaire venture capitalist and supporter of Vance, also named one of his companies, Palantir, after a LOTR item.

It is absolutely true that Vance and Thiel are fans of The Lord of the Rings, the fantasy series by J.R.R. Tolkien. Many arch-conservative and probably alt-right figures are as well. Moderates also love LOTR. So do liberals, lefties, and the completely apolitical. That’s because LOTR is one of the most popular and best-selling book series of all time. The films, adapted for the screen by Peter Jackson, were among the highest-grossing movies of all time.

Rachel Maddow is an unstable, screaming little girl.

If I could visit one place in fictional history, it would be The Prancing Pony. Imagine the people you would meet?

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle Resigns Amid Scrutiny Of Trump Assassination Attempt

BY Herschel Smith
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Source.

U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned from her position on Tuesday after her evasive testimony before the House Oversight Committee on Monday, the Associated Press reports.

Well, bye. Maybe for good.

I predict: She knows too much. She is now in danger. Like the folks associated with Blackrock and Austin Private Wealth who shorted Trump’s stock the day before the assassination attempt.

One comment at the link above: “I cannot believe how very few people (almost nobody) are talking about how the AR15 is laying 15 feet from where the sniper shot the 20 year old kid. That kid did not even have a rifle in his hands when the sniper took out his brain pan. Did he even fire a shot?”

Yeah, I mentioned it. But I estimated 20′.


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