Political Pistachio: May 2020

Sunday, May 31, 2020

Secular Society versus a Godly Culture

By Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host

Everything in today's society serves as a reason to react. The lines have been drawn, and classes have been formed. Factions of various beliefs have been set against each other. There is a war inside our heads, and we've decided to take our grievances to the streets, to the corporations, to the politicians, and wherever else we can go to try and relieve the pressure that has been building, and building, and building. We are shaken sodas just waiting for the caps to fly off, and for the chaos of overshaken internal grief to spill over and cause a revolution, a civil war, or worse. They wish to knock us to our knees, and I say, that's where we should be in the first place ... in prayer.

Riots around the country erupted when a black man, George Floyd, was killed by a cop who pressed all of his weight through his knee on the neck of the man. Derek Chauvin, the police officer in question, will get his justice, or so we are told. He has been charged with Third Degree Murder. But, that is not good enough for the mobs. In their eyes no punishment is severe enough, and all members of the law enforcement community are suspect. One person represents an absolute for every police officer in the country, in their minds. Police brutality is rampant, they are telling us, and that pretty much every white officer is racist. Then, they blame President Trump, and any other white person in a position of authority, for supporting white supremacy, white privilege, and any other racist sounding thing they can come up with.

Is that a godly stance to take?

It's no surprise that the mobs have taken to the streets, and that they demand what they want, when they want it, because they want it, now. After all, we are told we live in a democracy, and the will of the people trumps everything. We depend on the lusts and blinded decisions of violent and selfish men when we should be seeking the recognition of the Will of our Creator.

The Founding Fathers, with their hands guided by God, designed our country to be a republic, with checks and balances to stop such tyranny. And while creating the system, they did so while praying each morning before each session. The opposition hates godliness, their absolutes are against righteousness. They call evil good, and wrong right. They believe abortion to be life sustaining, and tyranny to be the path to ultimate freedom. Then, they work to destroy the things we know to be moral and godly. They try to use our beliefs against us. Perfection is expected from their rivals. If one even mutters outside their own rules, the liberal left will ridicule that person into submission, using our own rules against us.

When it comes to right and wrong, however, there are no gray areas. If we are to be a godly country, we must be a godly people.

God is not ambiguous in His Word. There is an absolute right or an absolute wrong and nothing in between with God.

2 Corinthians 1:18; “But as God is faithful, our word to you was not Yes and No” (2 Cor 1:18).

1 John 5:17 says: “All unrighteousness is sin” and “Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness” (1 John 3:4).

Friendship with the rule of man is in opposition of the rule of law, which is the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God. With the liberal left policies regarding coronavirus, the riots, the curfew laws as a result, and the tyranny of progressive politics in general, we face a deadly spiritual enemy. It is during times like this we should draw on the strength and protection of divine Providence.

“Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded” (James 4:8).

Divine guidance exists if only we seek it out and place all of this in God's hands. Scripture, and documents like the U.S. Constitution, tell us what we need to know. Rather than try to justify what is acceptable in the eyes of other people we should realize that in the end it comes down to our Judeo/Christian principles as we have gleaned them from Scripture. In short, we must justify what is acceptable in the eyes of God.

Jesus said: “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth” (Rev. 3:15-16). There can be no “gray areas” as far as God is concerned. Either we are virtuous, or we are friends of violence and tyranny.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

Saturday, May 30, 2020

Constitution Radio: Betrayal of the Rule of Law

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While the U.S. Constitution is simply a document, the principles that have gone into that document are important. But, if we are not a godly people, and we are vicious and filled with debauchery, we are simply not capable of enjoying the liberties the Constitution offers.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters -- Benjamin Franklin
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other -- John Adams

Today's Topics:

Death of George Floyd, Riots, and Constitutional Principles

Violence Blame Game

As States reopen, open States coronavirus case numbers go down.
Memorial Day Crowds
They would make great NAZIs or Soviets

Snitching on one's neighbors
Hatred of Christianity

Inaccurate Numbers
CDC Admits Errors

Trump says goodbye to World Health Organization
Hong Kong Protests and Communist Martial Law

Trump Bids Farewell to World Health Organization

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host

Trump Hammers China and Quits the WHO: “They have failed to make…greatly needed reforms”

President Trump has announced that the U.S. is withdrawing all funds and their membership in the World Health Organization because they have failed to reform. The president mentioned their close relationship with China and the help the WHO gave to China to help cover-up the coronavirus outbreak. The tweet below is a prime example of how the WHO helped China cover-up the spread of the coronavirus in January:

Even though the United States donates the most money to the WHO, they have favored and helped China.

President Trump is also issuing a proclamation to suspend foreign nationals who are from China who they’ve identified as security risks.

The president says the U.S. will be ending the special treatment of Hong Kong in response to the Chinese imposition of new controls. He will also revise the U.S. travel advisory to warn of surveillance in Hong Kong and revoke other preferential treatment for Hong Kong.

“Trump announces that the U.S. is QUITTING the WHO because, among many reasons, “they have failed to make the requested and greatly needed reforms” following the complicit role in helping China lie and conceal the seriousness of the Wuhan coronavirus.”

Now, all we need to do is get out of the United Nations.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

Violence Blame Game

By Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host

The liberal left, to regain power, don't just want you frightened ... they want you terrified. The end of the world is at hand because of Climate Change, the end of life as we know it is over because of the horrible coronavirus, and now the country is burning because law enforcement is populated by radical racist haters and we must burn down our communities to get justice.

Except, all of that is wrong.

Man-made climate change is a hoax. The global temperature changes are due to natural phenomenon, and nature has been doing it throughout the history of the planet long before the emergence of humanity. The sheep fell for the coronavirus scare, too, believing it to be some kind of pandemic plague that was going to kill millions ... except it isn't, and it didn't. Studies, and real science, is now showing that the mortality rate regarding COVID-19 is ridiculously low ... the numbers of dead has been exaggerated, and the mortality rate has been based on false models and false arithmetic. In reality, especially if you are healthy, you have a better chance of being struck by lightning than dying from the novel coronavirus. And, finally, while I agree the cop involved in the death of George Floyd was wrong, and should rot in jail for the murder of Floyd, the way to seek justice is not chaos and anarchy.

It should be generally accepted that the whole rioting thing is politically motivated, and likely orchestrated, by people who believe they will somehow politically, or financially, benefit from burning down communities throughout America.

The liberal left has proven they are willing to resort to violence to crush the system and rebuild it in their own socialist image. Last January James O’Keefe of Project Veritas released an undercover video clip of Bernie Sanders campaign field organizer Kyle Jurek discussing the violence they planned if Bernie didn't get the nomination, which he hoped would spread city by city like a raging fire.

The liberal militant left only needs an excuse, and the flavor of the month during this time period when America is working to reopen is the murder of George Floyd.

The fact that these wild animals are resorting to violent rioting is bad enough, but now some of the leftists are trying to place the blame on “white nationalists” who they say have infiltrated the riots ... which is another way of saying "conservative" and "Trump Supporters" in their minds.

The problem is that their plan to use violent revolution through rioting has back-fired. Members of both sides of the political spectrum have gotten together and said, "this is insane." So, now they need to point the blame away from themselves, and they are doing it the way they always do it ... by changing the narrative.

A Minnesota public safety commissioner says white nationalists are organizing and coming to the state for violence and destruction. In other words, white supremacists are following Trump's lead.

President Trump saw the trend and tweeted out a warning that it was the leftist groups who were involved in this rioting:

@realDonaldTrump: It’s ANTIFA and the Radical Left. Don’t lay the blame on others!

Except, anyone with eyeballs can see that the riots have been dominated by young black men who have been looting and destroying cities, starting with Minneapolis, and spreading to places like Denver and Atlanta. Young black men lost because Democrat Party policies of government dependency has replaced dad in the household, and they've been told by the liberal left to be angry, and to lash out anytime they think they've been wronged.

Could you imagine what it must feel like to be a business owner who is already in dire straights because of the coronavirus hoax shutdown, and now people are showing up to destroy their place of business in the name of justice?

Barbarian mindless mobs also stormed the White House, which led President Trump to weigh in by claiming these attacks are organized, and orchestrated, by big money and big voices on the liberal left, just the same as was the protest uprisings on inauguration weekend in 2017, and has pretty much remained with us since the ascendancy of Trump's presidency.

The President Tweeted: "The professionally managed so-called “protesters” at the White House had little to do with the memory of George Floyd. They were just there to cause trouble. The @SecretService handled them easily. Tonight, I understand, is MAGA NIGHT AT THE WHITE HOUSE???"

By calling out D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser who like other Democrat mayors who have surrendered their streets to dangerous thugs, Trump delivered the perfect trolling hook that will trigger Democrats and result in more tiresome accusations of racism.

I have had my ear to the ground, too, and aside from maybe the governor of Minnesota, I have not heard any Democrat leader denouncing the chaos in the streets.

That's because people like Maxine Waters are not only fine with it, they have been encouraging this kind of behavior for years.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

Hong Kong Violence Precursor to Communist Takeover

By Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host

Tear gas fills the air in Hong Kong as residents respond to Beijing's proposal for a "national security" law being put in place in the once free city. The legislation was rubber-stamped by the Communist Chinese regime through a process that left out the Hong Kong legislative council.

China's move against Hong Kong has faced international criticism since the law betrays China's promise through the "Sino-British Joint Declaration" in 1997 to allow Hong Kong to remain free and autonomous.

The Trump administration is looking at sanctions against China in response to the crackdown against the commercial hub of that region.

Thousands have been arrested since unrest first erupted a year ago over a now scrapped extradition bill. The protests are now primarily being staged around the Hong King Liaison Office, which is Communist China's local representative office in the city.

Included in the new law from Beijing is a fine and three years imprisonment threat for "singing the Chinese national anthem in a distorted or disrespectful way."

Communist rule is inevitable, according to the communists, and from their point of view, this is simply the first step to taking over control over Hong Kong.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

Other News: Communist China has issued a threat against Australia

Friday, May 29, 2020

George Floyd Death and Protests a Lesson in Constitutionality

By Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host

I have watched the video of the arrest and law enforcement techniques used against George Floyd in Minnesota. While I tend to give the police the benefit of the doubt because I do not believe that most officers are power hungry racists, as I have heard them described, I do recognize there is a segment of law enforcement that does not follow proper policy or guidelines, and can be problematic when it comes to their relationship with the public. In the case of the police officers' handling of the arrest of George Floyd, there is no room for any benefit of the doubt. The video clearly shows an officer abusing his power with his knee on the neck of Mr. Floyd, and three other officers on the scene doing nothing to mitigate the situation. The individual was not resisting, and throughout all of the video there is no sign of resistance. Also, the neck is very fragile, and I am sure there is plenty of training that involves immobilizing a person if he is a problem (of which George Floyd was not) that involves techniques other than pressing all of one's weight on the neck of an individual for a long period of time until he is dead.

The offending Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, is facing third-degree murder manslaughter charges for his actions (I believe, based on what I saw, second-degree murder charges would have been more appropriate since the action was obviously intentional, and video shows Floyd had actually been put in the police car, and then was dragged out so that Chauvin could put his knee on the man's neck).

The city of Minneapolis has been in protest-mode since the death of George Floyd, including rioting, and the destruction of the police 3rd precinct facility which led to the police retreating and abandoning the building, which then resulted in the rioters storming the facility and working to destroy it. The rioting has also included looting of various businesses. Protesting has also erupted around the country in other large cities.

Racism is being blamed, white supremacy is being argued as the cause behind this, and many of the politicians are discussing race relations as it relates to the death of George Floyd.

This is not about racism. This is not about generalized police brutality. It isn't even about police training. This is about our hearts. This is about America's denial of the principles that this country was founded upon.

The basis of our system is the rule of law. The rule of law is the "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God," as the Declaration of Independence puts it. The police are not the rule of law, it is their job to uphold it. The judges and politicians are not the rule of law, it is their job to uphold it. And We the People are not the rule of law, but it is our responsibility and duty to operate within its principles.

Liberal Left readers at about this point are now likely shouting that what I just wrote is null and void because slavery was practiced by the United States at the time of the establishment of these principles in our written constitution.

Most of the Framers of the Constitution were against slavery, and many believed the United States would ban slavery State by State within their lifetime. George Mason actually refused the sign the Constitution once it was complete even though he had been in the convention through the entire four months. His reasons? A lack of a Bill of Rights, and he was disappointed that slavery was not abolished through the U.S. Constitution. While most of the signers abhorred slavery, and they were putting forth a document designed to secure liberty and to fulfill Jefferson's iconic written phrase from the Declaration, "all men are created equal," they believed in the sovereignty of the States, and that it needed to be through the States that emancipation should come.

The principles of the Constitution, from the first seven articles, and through the various amendments, beginning with the Bill of Rights, are all about the rule of law, and our Natural Rights. Which is where we are falling short.

Our leaders, from law enforcement to the politicians, are tasked with upholding the rule of law and securing our Natural Rights. The rule of law is self-evident. We know right and wrong. We understand what our moral responsibilities are, both to ourselves, and to those around us. We understand the basic rules of life, the expectations of God through our moral obligations, and the requirement to treat others as we would have them treat us. That is all a part of the rule of law.

When a politician or a member of law enforcement acts in a manner outside the rule of law, we are reminded that the occurrences are becoming more frequent of that kind of activity. Why? Because we have departed from the rule of law, and thanks to secularism and collectivism, our leaders have been embracing the rule of man. We have abandoned the concept of relying on the protection of divine Providence, and instead have settled on the blind rules of men and their quest for power. When we abandon God and an individual-centric culture for collectivism and secularism, brutality by those who are supposed to be responsible for upholding he laws is not only likely, it will eventually become epidemic if we continue to abandon constitutional principles.

The rioters are also acting in a manner outside constitutional principles. As a people we are expected to be a moral people who follow just laws, and practice our Natural Rights in a manner that does not interfere with other people's rights. In the First Amendment, the right to "peaceably assemble" is enumerated. While, if government is tyrannical, we also have the right to take action to "alter and abolish" our government, that is not what we have here. Demonstrators are acting in a manner outside what this whole country was founded on. The way to fix violence by a police force that has members acting outside the rule of law is not to be violent, and act outside the rule of law.

Protesting is legitimate. Rioting is not. Protesting is a good response to something like what happened to George Floyd. It is a way to be heard, and a way to voice one's opinion that simply firing the officers involved in the death of George Floyd was not enough. Rioting, looting, and destroying the businesses of one's neighborhood is not acceptable. The mindless destruction, in the long run, hurts the people the protesters claim to be standing up for.

Also, when we practice adherence to the rule of law, remember that also includes justice, not justice through violent protests, but justice through the due process. Even for Derek Chauvin we must allow the process to do its thing. Innocent until proven guilty, and he needs to be given all of the opportunities that exist through due process. Our republic demands it.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

Update: https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/education/ex-officer-derek-chauvin-cites-new-evidence-attempt-overturn-george-floyd

Thursday, May 28, 2020

CDC Admits Errors, Mortality Rate Lower than Advertised

By Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host

Since this Chinese Wuhan novel coronavirus COVID-19 thing began to get out of control I have been telling you that the news about the COVID-19 Chinese Wuhan coronavirus pandemic has been largely a part of an elaborate hoax designed to make you afraid, and use political policy to herd you into your homes, keep you there, and try to make their authoritarian rules the new normal while guiding the economy into collapse, which would then, hopefully (from their point of view) encourage people to demand help from the government and demand a more socialist approach to our markets. I am not saying people didn't get sick, some people did. I am not saying that the coronavirus does not exist, it does, and for a small percentage of people it can be a nasty little sucker. The hoax is regarding the seriousness of it, the claim that if we don't obey the government's totalitarian dictates, millions of people will die.

The numbers have been clear. A very high percentage of people are asymptomatic (I believe well over 96% of those under 65) when infected with COVID-19. Anti-body studies have shown that the number of people who have had the disease is much larger than originally believed, making the mortality rate much much lower than originally believed. Yes, there is a segment of the population that is at high risk, and they should be protected, but to shut down our economy and end life in general over something that is clearly milder than the seasonal flu is insane.

Whenever I talk about the numbers, the liberal left individuals I talk to accuse me of using unreliable sources, even though my sources include the New York Times (regarding misreporting of death numbers), ABC News (anti-body studies), Los Angeles Times (anti-body studies), The Atlantic (stay at home orders flawed strategy), Washington Post (high percentage of COVID-19 cases asymptomatic), The Hill (how coronavirus strategies are damaging the economy), NBC News (getting sick has become a criminal offense), and that real science is claiming that had we not shut down the coronavirus curve would have flattened and been gone within weeks.

But, a narrative for the authoritarians was milked, and the sheep believed it, to the point that they were willing to turn on their own friends and neighbors for not wearing a mask (could very well have been an arm band with a fascist symbol on it ... those people that chased a woman out of a New York store for not wearing a mask would have made great NAZIs), looked the other way when the politicians blamed ballot fraud, when caught, on the voters, and that the Democrats are dreading the idea of the economy rebounding out of this ridiculous scamdemic (you know, because they hate capitalism so much).

When I confront my counterparts of the left side of the political spectrum, they tell me I am full of hooey, I am some kind of conspiracy theorist, and that I am killing people by not wearing a face mask.

Fine. Don't believe me, or all of the sources I provide, or the numbers which are staring us in the face. How about believing the Center for Disease Control (CDC).

The CDC has been constantly correcting itself, but the mainstream media, and especially CNN and MSNBC (which never shows up as a source because they constantly lie or cover-up the facts) have not been reporting it. The latest is that according to the CDC's new best estimate, the COVID-19 infection fatality rate is below 0.3% and as low as 0.05% for those under 50 years of age. Granted, it is not as low as what I think it is after my calculations based on the new best guesses of the number of infected, but it sure is much lower than the numbers used in the horrifying projections that led the government authoritarians to strike out at us with policies that have us running and hiding as if this thing is Captain Trips (name of disease in Stephen King's "The Stand").

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the current "best estimate" for the fatality rate among Americans with COVID-19 symptoms is 0.4 percent. The CDC also estimates that 35 percent of people infected by the COVID-19 virus never develop symptoms. Those numbers imply that the virus kills less than 0.3 percent of people infected by it—far lower than the infection fatality rates (IFRs) assumed by the alarming projections that drove the initial government response to the epidemic, including broad business closure and stay-at-home orders.

The CDC offers the new estimates in its "COVID-19 Pandemic Planning Scenarios," which are meant to guide hospital administrators in "assessing resource needs" and help policy makers "evaluate the potential effects of different community mitigation strategies." It says "the planning scenarios are being used by mathematical modelers throughout the Federal government."

The CDC's five scenarios include one based on "a current best estimate about viral transmission and disease severity in the United States." That scenario assumes a "basic reproduction number" of 2.5, meaning the average carrier can be expected to infect that number of people in a population with no immunity. It assumes an overall symptomatic case fatality rate (CFR) of 0.4 percent, roughly four times the estimated CFR for the seasonal flu. The CDC estimates that the CFR for COVID-19 falls to 0.05 percent among people younger than 50 and rises to 1.3 percent among people 65 and older. For people in the middle (ages 50–64), the estimated CFR is 0.2 percent.

That "best estimate" scenario also assumes that 35 percent of infections are asymptomatic, meaning the total number of infections is more than 50 percent larger than the number of symptomatic cases. It therefore implies that the IFR is between 0.2 percent and 0.3 percent. By contrast, the projections that the CDC made in March, which predicted that as many as 1.7 million Americans could die from COVID-19 without intervention, assumed an IFR of 0.8 percent. Around the same time, researchers at Imperial College produced a worst-case scenario in which 2.2 million Americans died, based on an IFR of 0.9 percent.

Such projections had a profound impact on policy makers in the United States and around the world. At the end of March, President Donald Trump, who has alternated between minimizing and exaggerating the threat posed by COVID-19, warned that the United States could see "up to 2.2 million deaths and maybe even beyond that" without aggressive control measures, including lockdowns.

The thing is, even if the numbers were worse, and as bad as originally thought by these whackos, stealing our liberty is not the answer. The problem is that the ruling class thinks you are too stupid, you wouldn't listen, and people would just carry on as usual in the face of the pandemic. Even with them saying as many as 2.2 million deaths in the United States, as was cited by the White House, was possible if you took no precautions, they figured you would not obey their "recommendations" so they had to use the force of government to coerce you into staying home, wearing a mask, and shutting down your life.

While they may have been partially correct, many people would not have taken them as seriously as others, and people would potentially die as a result, wouldn't that be on them? If they died based on their own stupidity, is that not better than people dying because they are locked up under government orders, going stir crazy, getting depressed and committing suicide?

The CDC's new estimates look much better than their original horror story estimates. Especially when compared to the results of antibody studies in Miami-Dade County, Santa Clara County, Los Angeles County, and Boise, Idaho—places that so far have had markedly different experiences with COVID-19. The fact is, the CDC bungled test results, bungled the numbers they gave us, and the authoritarian nut-jobs who are in government for the power jumped all over it as the mainstream media provided cover to keep the totalitarian game going as long as possible.

And, now they are sad that the short experiment with communism is coming to an end, and it is scaring them that the free market is going to rebound big.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Crowds gathered on Memorial Day, and it was a good thing

Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host

Memorial Day Weekend was a success. People gathered by the hundreds of thousands. I don't know about how many of the people actually mourned our fallen, but when it came to getting out and being life loving individuals in this age of coronavirus totalitarian lockdown, the people were out in droves, defying the dictators, gathering together in large masses, and not wearing masks. And the liberal left was beside itself in anger. The Democrats warn there will be a vicious spike in COVID-19 cases in a couple weeks. I can't wait until they realize they were wrong. Or, maybe they will make up some numbers to cover up their lie, like they've done with the number of deaths from the coronavirus, or how they've covered up the anti-body studies that show a large portion of the population had the disease, but it was so mild, they never realized it.

This is not The Plague. It is not some super-virus from video games or the movies. The disease is not much of a problem, in reality. It never was. The authoritarians taking advantage of it to keep you from being a liberty loving individual has been the problem. We've protested. We've been defiant. We've even followed some of the ridiculous, unscientific rules that the left says is based on science. In the end, the truth is, it is a minor disease that may be nasty for a small handful of folks who wind up symptomatic, all of which had other underlying health issues, by the way, but the reality is the States that locked down early and aggressively are no better off than States that did not lock down at all.

We need to go outside. We need to enjoy the sun, enjoy each other's company, and quit running and hiding from a disease that is less likely to kill you than you are likely to be struck by lightning.

I was watching a movie with my grandkids the other day called The Pagemaster. It is about a kid who is always quoting statistics and is afraid to do anything fun or adventurous because he is so afraid of getting hurt, or worse. The moral of the film? Go out and live your life, and don't run and hide from everything because there's a minor chance you might get stung.

By the way, the 1994 film was produced in part by Turner Feature Animation, which is a part of the Turner Broadcasting System, which is owned by, you got it, big time liberal left Democrat loony Ted Turner.

The liberal left has changed their attitude in the face of a fake pandemic, because a narrative of panic and hysteria is better for their agenda.

It goes back to what I say on my radio program, all the time. "What is the answer to any question? Whatever benefits the liberal left Democrats the most at the moment, even if it contradicts what they said ten minutes ago."

Not going outside and being a part of life, for some people, leads them to depression, and even suicide. While the leftists claim they are saving a life here and there from COVID-19 with their stay at home policies, how many people are suffering and dying as a result of the policies? How many people are in pain because they can't receive elective surgeries that have been delayed because the empty hospitals have been expecting a huge spike in coronavirus patients?

This is not about a virus as much as it is about control, and dividing America.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

Perseverance

Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host

A man can fall many times in life. He's only a failure when he doesn't get up. -- Evel Knievel

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

WHATFINGER picks up my story about left hating Christianity

Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host

Read at Canada Free Press HERE

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

Inaccurate Number of COVID-19 Deaths

By Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host

We have been reporting that the number of people dying from COVID-19 is being severely misreported, and that the true number is lower than we are being told. We have also been reporting that anti-body studies are showing that the actual number of cases of people who have had the coronavirus is a much larger number than we have believed. The result is that the mortality rate is much much lower than what we have been told, much much lower than the seasonal flu, and so low that you have a better chance of being hit by lightning than to die from the Wuhan Chinese novel coronavirus.

Colorado is the latest example of a State realizing that the number of deaths is being attributed to the coronavirus is too high, and has revised their number of COVID deaths downward.

Even the New York Times has admitted that the number being reported is too high.

Leftist tools like John Hopkins are refusing to adjust the overall number based on the new numbers being presented by various States.

Leftist news agencies, in an attempt to combat the truth, are reporting that States are lying when they reduce their numbers, accusing Florida of purposely doing so.

What we are also not being told is the fact that other deaths are on the rise due to the policies in place by the leftists in our various governments. Aside from people being in pain because elective surgeries are being set aside to make room for a spike of coronavirus cases that was expected to overwhelm the hospitals, but never came, the stay at home rules are eating away at people, and those with mental health issues have now gone from managing their situations to becoming people at risk. As a result, in California, for example, the number of suicides has skyrocketed to the point that a year's worth of suicide attempts have occurred in the four weeks of the States heavy lockdown order. In fact, the number of suicide deaths at a Bay Area Hospital exceeds the number of COVID-19 deaths at that facility.

The California lockdown order is not only killing people, but it is doing it in an illegal way. The State Constitution gives the State government no authority to quarantine the healthy, and the policies by Governor Gavin Newsom are so bad that it has led the California Republican Party to the point of suing the governor for his totalitarian actions.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

Scamdemic Proves Democrat Hatred of Christianity

By Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host

Karl Marx called religion the "opiate of the masses." If you are a person of faith, then when push comes to shove you are less likely to run to the government for your peace of mind. Karl Marx believed that, and so do today's Democrats.

The Democrat Party booted God from their platform a couple presidential elections ago, only to add Him back after heavy criticism, despite the chorus of boos coming from about half of the lefties in the auditorium at the time.

When it comes to the Democrat Party, however, it isn't really religion that bothers them. They are fine with Islam, Buddhism, and anyone who claims to be religious but carries their ungodly agenda on their sleeves. Their problem is with practicing conservative Jews, and Christianity. The latter, in fact, is so hated, that they would be willing to outlaw it if they had the chance.

History has shown us their hatred for Christianity.

Brian C. Buescher, Trump's nominee for the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska, was questioned by Senators Mazie Hirono (D-HI) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) when he stood before a judicial committee before his final senatorial nomination confirmation vote. The Senators were concerned about Buescher's membership in the Knights of Columbus because membership in such a religious (Catholic) organization "might impede" his ability to judge federal cases “fairly and impartially.”

Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), during the confirmation hearing of Pompeo in the U.S. Senate to become the next Secretary of State, established himself as a vote against CIA Director Mike Pompeo’s nomination because of Pompeo’s beliefs on marriage and sexuality — beliefs consistent with Pompeo’s Christian faith.

In September of 2017, Amy Barrett, Trump's nomination for the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was questioned by Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat Party Senator from California. In the questioning, Feinstein targeted Barrett's faith as being unacceptable.

Senator Al Franken, a Democrat from Minnesota, did the same.

In the case of Feinstein, when referring to Barrett's faith, she said, “The dogma lives loudly within you, and that’s a concern.”

The Minnesota Democrat's no-vote was for similar reasons. "Franken is trying to block the Judiciary Committee from even reviewing Justice Stras’ sterling record, and his refusal to return the blue slip for Justice Stras is unacceptable,” said Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director of the Judicial Crisis Network.

All because of her Christian views.

“Religious bigotry and discrimination is unacceptable in this country, much less from someone who takes an oath to our Constitution and who is supposed to serve the people of this country,” said Kelly Shackelford, president of First Liberty Institute, in an exclusive comment to Breitbart News regarding the actions against Christianity by members of the Democrat Party political class.

“This is essentially imposing a religious test on officers of the United States, something explicitly forbidden by Article VI of the Constitution,” said Prof. John Eastman, chairman of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), in reference to the Pompeo attack.

Now, during the COVID-19 coronavirus scamdemic, the hatred of church-going Christians by the Democrat Party leadership is reaching a crescendo.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has been using force to shut down churches and fine them for daring to open during her shutdown order. Chicago's Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady has proclaimed a Romanian Church who is refusing to cease their services a "public nuisance," and his threatening to tear the church down for their disobedience...without due process.

The courts in California have supported Governor Gavin Newsom's order disallowing places of worship to meet. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said they couldn’t trust Christians to follow the rules and gather without getting someone sick, therefore allowing them to open would be tantamount to allowing churches to enter into a “suicide pact.” After backlash from Californians, Newsom finally gave in allowing 25% capacity, and no singing (which is the worship service part of any church gathering) is allowed.

Minnesota Democrat Governor Tim Walz, after banning church services in his State, finally has said he'll allow services to resume, but only at 25% capacity.

MSNBC, when President Trump said that churches are essential businesses and should be allowed to reopen, claimed his statement violated the separation of church and state clause in the U.S. Constitution, which, one, does not exist, and two, the clause the host was referring to, along with saying that Congress has no authority to make law creating a State-run church, also says in the First Amendment that there can be no law prohibiting the free exercise, thereof. The State Constitutions say the same. In truth, that was MSNBC's way of fighting against allowing Christians to gather together in worship, because, like the rest of their fellow Marxists, they hate Christianity.

When the White House Press Secretary, Kayleigh McEnany asked why the Democrat-aligned media is so against churches being allowed to return to gathering to worship, she commented as a follow-up, "...interesting to be in a room that desperately wants to see churches and houses of worship stay closed." Her statement followed inquiries by members of the media at the press conference asking why President Trump would dare to declare houses of worship necessary, and that they should be reopened.

Why can big corporations like COSTCO and WalMart be open for business every day of the week, but churches can't reopen one day per week? Why is it that we can huddle together to buy groceries, but we can't sit in pews at church six feet apart? And last of all, where does it say in the U.S. Constitution, or any State Constitution, that there are times when government is allowed to interfere with the free exercise of one's religious freedoms?

The questions were rhetorical, and the answer to the last question is that there are no authorities at any level of government giving officials the power to outlaw going to church for any reason.

But, that doesn't matter. To the Marxist/Socialist/Progressive/Democrat collectivists, Christianity is an obstacle. Christians are a problem, and can't be trusted, and they've been waiting a long time to have an excuse to shut down Christianity in this country. After all, Faith in a Christian God is an opiate of the masses to them, and like Karl Marx, they need you to stop believing in Christ because, otherwise, you won't be willing to depend on them, and fall in line when they begin putting in place authoritarian laws like they have been over the last few months.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

Monday, May 25, 2020

Stop Trump Scandal a Worldwide Affair

By Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host

The 2016 Presidential Election was not supposed to go the way it did. For over a century the Marxists of the world had been positioning the United States to fail, to fall in line, to abandon its free market and join the trend of globalism and government control of the means of production. A strong America is the final obstacle standing in the way of worldwide tyranny through socialist economics and social engineering designed and orchestrated by an arrogant ruling elite.

Barack Obama was put in place to continue the work of Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, and William Jefferson Clinton. The problem with Bill Clinton, however, was that he worried too much about legacy, and so when the going got tough, he compromised, became a little less liberal, and worked with his Republican Congress. Fortunately for the pro-communist conspirators trying to drive America into a Soviet-style system, his wife Hillary is a true believer. So, Obama was put in place to be the set-up man, and then it was going to be Hillary Rodham Clinton's job to drive home the final nails to capitalism's coffin.

Early on in the 2016 presidential race the GOP candidates were largely the same kind of guys the Republicans usually thrust into office. Easy to manipulate vessels who, many of which, anyway, are just a slightly lighter version of their hard left counterparts in the Democrat Party. Sure, there were a few good ones, but they didn't last long. In fact, I was shocked at how fast the Scott Walker campaign closed its doors.

Conservatism is attacked quick and viciously, so survival as a conservative in these elections is usually a tall order. And if you think the weasels are bad at the federal level of elections, you ought to see the shenanigans we go through here in California every four years when the gubernatorial election pokes its head out of the clouds.

Then, a non-politician appeared on the horizon. All he said was that he wanted to build a great big beautiful border wall, and the GOP faithful immediately took to him. Don't get me wrong, Trump is not exactly your prototypical conservative. In fact, before the election, you could hardly call him anything other than a womanizing billionaire playboy who had some success with a reality show where his most famous line was, "you're fired!"

I was not sure I could support him, when he first appeared on the scene, to be honest.

Trump has pretty much said he has no problem with the homosexual agenda, didn't seem to be much of a church-going guy, had dealt with members of both parties in the past as a businessman (even donating to a number of Democrat candidates and causes), hadn't really emerged as a pro-life supporting individual, and reports regarding his business practices sometimes bordered on the shady and predatory side. But, he was saying the right things, and he wasn't Hillary, so I supported him and voted for him. My feelings were that once he took office he would be closely scrutinized and would either have to do what he's supposed to do for conservative Republicans, or he'd be a one-term president.

Then, he was inaugurated, and something very interesting happened. He surrounded himself with Christian conservatives, he recognized the limits and authorities of the federal government, he became the most pro-life president in the history of this country, and he proved to be the most pro-Israel president since Ronald Reagan. His policies of reducing the federal government's impact on our lives, reforming the tax system, and encouraging the free market moved our country from a new normal of misery to a vibrant and roaring economy with folks excited about the evolution of America's standing in the world. He stood tough against Islamic terrorism, stood toe to toe with the globalists and knocked them off their pedestals, marched with the pro-lifers, and pretty much told the lying hard left fake news media to stick it.

The non-political, non-politician who was neither a conservative, nor truly a republican taught us that those things were not a problem, and in fact, they were the whole point behind his success. He could not be bought, manipulated, or cornered, and we were better off that way.

The hard left world of globalist communist elites were already upset that he had won the presidency and stopped in its tracks the rise of the Hillary Clinton regime. He was already a thorn in their side, and an obstacle they were willing to do anything and everything to remove from office, but as he began to seem more and more conservative with each passing moment, the drive to remove him shifted into high gear, and took on a global perspective.

New evidence is revealing that the plot to destroy Trump and prevent him from winning in 2016 was much bigger than we could have fathomed ... and I was fathoming pretty big. The disgusting conspiracy was not just one involving the Clintons, Obamas, and high ranking Democrats. It turns out that the plot got its feet off the ground in Europe, and more specifically, Italy.

Many of the scandals during the Obama administration's stay in the White House also tie into what became the much larger plot to stop Trump from getting elected, and ultimately the conspiracy to overthrow his administration once it was in place. The evidence that points to it being a global effort, and actually taking its first breath in Italy, however, came to us largely through the individual testimonies of certain persons in front of the US House of Representatives.

After the transcripts of those testimonies were released, George Papadopoulos released the following tweet about Obamagate in Italy:

Obama and the former leader of Italy, Matteo Renzi, held meetings in Italy before the 2016 election and in early 2017.

Papadopoulos also tweeted his thoughts that Italy was more involved in Obamagate than previously reported:

Italian nuclear engineer and suspected Deep State target Giulio Occhionero pointed out the Italian connection in the release of those who unmasked General Michael Flynn in the weeks after the 2016 election. This list was also released a few weeks ago. The list included Obama’s Ambassador to Italy, John R. Phillips and the Deputy Chief of Mission in Italy, Kelly Degnan.

Occhionero was arrested for a crime he claimed he didn’t commit where he says he was set up by the Deep State.

Upon his arrest, the Italians who arrested him asked, “Who is your contact with the Trump team?”

The Italian press is appalled with reports that young Papadopoulos’s wife, an Italian born model, was asked by the FBI to spy on her husband:

But, as Gateway Pundit points out:

...perhaps the most damaging document, proving ties to Italy, is the recently released Crossfire Hurricane launch letter. This document is what started it all. The alleged, and now known to be a hoax about ties between President Trump and Russia, which culminated in the Mueller Special Counsel, started with this document. Many in Italy believe this document proves Obamagate started in Europe, and more specifically in Italy.

Occhionero believes that the launch letter begins in Italy. Much of the document is still redacted [again no doubt only to cover for the criminals] so we really don’t know, yet, who the document specifically refers to. However, if the document is referring to Italy, we have strong belief that it refers to LEGAT or Legal Attache Kieran Ramsey. Occhionero has claimed that Ramsey would not testify at his trial and believes this is because he is hiding something.

Also from Gateway Pundit:

The Crossfire Hurricane launch letter begins with this:

Details:

(S/ /REL TO USA[Redacted] On Wednesday, July 27, 2016, Legal Attaché (Legat) [Redacted] was summoned to the Office of the Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) for the [Redacted] who will be leaving [Redacted] post Saturday July 30, 2016 and set to soon thereafter retire from government service, advised [Redacted] was called by [Redacted] about an urgent matter requiring an in person meeting with the U.S. Ambassador. [Note: [Redacted]. The [Redacted] was scheduled to be away from post until mid-August, therefore [Redacted] attended the meeting.

If the incident occurred in Italy, the LEGAT was Ramsey. Barbara on Twitter points out that the Holy See (i.e. Catholic Church in Rome, Italy) had a change in the Chief of Mission in July 2016:

Ken Hackett was the prior US Ambassador to the Holy See and he retired in early 2017:

No wonder the Senate wants to interview Kieran Ramsey. No wonder US Attorney John Durham traveled with AG Barr to Italy. Italy, it appears, was the epicenter for Crossfire Hurricane!

The truth is so amazing that most people don't wish to believe it. It seems like the stuff that conspiracy theories are made of. But, to be honest, sometimes conspiracy theories are more true than we realize.

America has been the shining beacon on the hill, the place where liberty and prosperity go hand in hand, and as the Framers of the American System well over two hundred years ago said, America is the world's last great hope. If American Liberty dies, the world will plunge into a new dark age of tyranny and collectivist authoritarian rule.

The desire to overthrow Liberty, and people like Donald J. Trump, is also nothing new. And, in fact, it really has nothing to do with Trump. As our president has so aptly indicated, they don't hate him, they hate you and wish to control you. However, right now, he stands in their way.

Right out the gate Alexander Hamilton began working on creating a banker's oligarchy. Federal Supremacy fan Chief Justice John Marshall also took constant hacks at the foundation of constitutional principles of liberty with his rulings and judicial opinions that strengthened the idea of federal supremacy, and a firm union. Democrat Party father Andrew Jackson worked on dismantling the republic so as to make this country more of a democracy than was ever envisioned. The Progressive Era of the late 1800s added greatly to the plots already in place to change the system from within, which led to the Federal Reserve, Income Tax (Amendment 16), chopping away at the mechanisms of our republic by taking away the voice of the States (Amendments 16 and 17), and finally putting in place a puppet willing to do everything the hard left socialist progressive anti-American bastards desired, President Woodrow Wilson. Wilson's damage to the system was extensive, but constitutionalist President Calvin Coolidge was able to reverse some of it. Unfortunately, the Federal Reserve answered by causing the Great Depression, which led to one of the worst presidents in our history when it comes to constitutionalism, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR's New Deal extended the depression, and tried to finish the job of disconnecting the wires we had with our heritage of Liberty. The United Nations, after the League of Nations failed, was then created to make the Marxist push a global thing, opening the door for a world government, and the final dismantling of America as a free and independent sovereign unit. The progressive conspiracy spread into academia, the entertainment industry, and the news media. The leftists got to the point where they controlled all of the avenues of information and thought, giving them the free will to twist it as they desired. Then Ronald Reagan and Rush Limbaugh emerged in the 1980s, putting a pause on it all until they could regroup, and get a new plan in place.

While Obama and Hillary Clinton were the stepping stones that were to be put into place to bring down American Liberty so she'd become compliant to her global overlords, the reality is the whole thing has always had its roots in Europe. The plot goes all the way back to the European bankers who had Alexander Hamilton wrapped around their fingers, the Frankfurt school of thought, the philosophies of Hagel, Nietzsche and Marx, the love affair the liberal left in America have had with fascism, eugenics and the communists (and they have been real good at lying about those connections), and their use of the Hegelian dialectic. They create problems so that government can be the only solution. They build government political structures so complex that nobody understands it, and so sinister that nobody believes that it could be so evil in the first place. They ridicule dissent into silence, and have well over a hundred years of work in the field of indoctrinating the younger generations. The ends justify the means, so creating a plot to overthrow America, and more specifically, the Trump presidency, is no big deal to them. They've been at this so long, Trump is simply just another mission to remove an obstacle so that they can finally bring American Liberty to its knees.

People like Susan Rice and Valerie Jarret have always been tugging and pulling from the inside. The deep state is nothing new, and the global nature of the effort is older than Nazism, socialism, and even America herself. But, even they have to admit, they haven't suffered a setback like Donald J. Trump before, and it has them furious, especially since they think they are so close to the prize.

As it turns out, Trump is not the only leader of a country who poses as an obstacle and must be brought down. Israel, the only country that comes close to America in the terms of political system, economy, and overall goodness in the sense of her place in the whole scheme of things, also suffers from rats from within. Some people call them Zionists, others may simply see them as hard left Israelis (who also turn out to either be non-religious Jews or Muslims, as it turns out), but nonetheless, Benjamin Netanyahu is an obstacle too, just like Trump, so he too is being targeted by the worldwide cabal of Marxist globalists.

They've been working on Netanyahu for years, probing, investigating, and searching for a crime to go after him with. And, as with Trump, they've been making things up and playing the propaganda game to a tee. But, now, they think they've got him. Benjamin Netanyahu is now the first sitting Prime Minister of Israel to go on trial for, you got it, public corruption.

Sound familiar? Sounds like Netanyahu is getting the Trump treatment.

The worldwide effort is not only against Trump, America, and our System of Liberty, but against anyone who may be considered an ally. And in the end, as much as you may not be willing to believe it, that includes you, as well.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

Obama and Politics of Dishonesty

By Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host

Democrats, party of deception........

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-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary