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Wrapping Up The Democrat Debates- Like Rotten Fish

By Ben Garrison

We at GrrrGraphics are glad the Democratic debates are over—for now. They caused us to laugh out loud, scoff in disgust, and shake our heads in disbelief.

We heard a lot of crazy talk and grandiose plans for America’s future that involved spending countless trillions of dollars. The so-called moderates in the debates were drowned out by the socialists, whose solutions invariably involve free stuff. Free college education and debt forgiveness. Free health care. Reparations. Free stuff for those poor families pouring over our open borders. The far left consider the U.S. government to be God. They think it’s there to solve all problems and human suffering—no matter where it occurs in the world. All the sufferers have to do is come here and be blessed by an all-giving government.

There were a few amusing moments. Bernie Sanders sounded like a crotchety old man who wants kids off of his socialist lawn. He substituted outright yelling for reasoned debate. Buttigieg, who sported a smashed bug on his forehead, equated paying taxes with paying for health insurance. His statement was a false equivalency. Government is very inefficient and since money can be printed up willy nilly, bureaucracies will pay higher and higher prices. After all, it’s someone else’s money. Free health care means long lines because there is always over whelming demand for free stuff. The quality of the “free stuff” always declines. Anyone in the world can fill the emergency rooms and they will. It will end up meaning very poor quality health care.

Buttigieg also put down Christians—telling them they’re sinners if they don’t support a $15 minimum wage. The problem with that is jobs will go away as a result—millions of them. But heck, we can’t expect a Rhodes scholar to think these things through.

We heard Marianne Williamson talk about ‘dark psychic forces’ and the usual new age yadda yadda yadda. At least she stood out. Jay Inslee kept harping about climate change and even said our houses were burning down RIGHT NOW! What is the solution to this end-of-the-world problem? Why, the Green New Deal, of course. More taxes, globalist rules and regulations and no car travel. Presumably, Inslee would allow exemptions for China, one of the world’s biggest polluters. Maybe he’s afraid to include China out of fear of being called a racist. The ‘R’ word is more fearful than climate change.

Then we saw lesser candidates try to take down the aging king of the Capitol Hill, Biden. There were some interesting verbal boxing matches between Biden, Booker, and Harris. Biden survived.

I didn’t include the other frontrunner, Elizabeth Warren. The hectoring schoolteacher came across shriller than feisty and more annoying than likable. Listening to her is like getting slapped on the hand by a ruler.

All of them insulted our president at every turn. Inslee called Trump a ‘white nationalist.’ Trump is white and believes in America first, which makes him a nationalist. To the loopy Democrats, it means he’s Hitler. Shame on Don Lemon for framing his questions with insults aimed at the president. He made his slurs sound like facts. Lemon is neither a moderator nor a journalist.

Lemon’s just another Democrat with Trump Derangement Syndrome.

out all of Ben’s great cartoons and commentary HERE.

The Rise of the American Gestapo: Has It Already Happened Here?

By John W. Whitehead

Despite the finger-pointing and outcries of dismay from those who are watching the government discard the rule of law at every turn, the question is not whether Donald Trump is the new Adolf Hitler but whether the American Police State is the new Third Reich.

For those who can view the present and past political landscape without partisan blinders, the warning signs are unmistakable: the Deep State’s love affair with totalitarianism began long ago.

Indeed, the U.S. government so admired the Nazi regime that following the second World War, it secretly recruited Hitler’s employees, adopted his protocols, embraced his mindset about law and order, implemented his tactics in incremental steps, and began to lay the foundations for the rise of the Fourth Reich.

Sounds far-fetched? Read on. It’s all documented.

As historian Robert Gellately recounts, “After five years of Hitler’s dictatorship, the Nazi police had won the FBI’s seal of approval.” The Nazi police state was initially so admired for its efficiency and order by the world powers of the day that J. Edgar Hoover, then-head of the FBI, actually sent one of his right-hand men, Edmund Patrick Coffey, to Berlin in January 1938 at the invitation of Germany’s secret police—the Gestapo.

The FBI was so impressed with the Nazi regime that, according to the New York Times, in the decades after World War II, the FBI, along with other government agencies, aggressively recruited at least a thousand Nazis, including some of Hitler’s highest henchmen.

All told, thousands of Nazi collaborators—including the head of a Nazi concentration camp, among others—were given secret visas and brought to America by way of Project Paperclip. Subsequently, they were hired on as spies and informants, and then camouflaged to ensure that their true identities and ties to Hitler’s holocaust machine would remain unknown. All the while, thousands of Jewish refugees were refused entry visas to the U.S. on the grounds that it could threaten national security.

Adding further insult to injury, American taxpayers have been paying to keep these ex-Nazis on the U.S. government’s payroll ever since. And in true Gestapo fashion, anyone who has dared to blow the whistle on the FBI’s illicit Nazi ties has found himself spied upon, intimidated, harassed and labeled a threat to national security.

As if the government’s covert, taxpayer-funded employment of Nazis after World War II wasn’t bad enough, U.S. government agencies—the FBI, CIA and the military—have fully embraced many of the Nazi’s well-honed policing tactics, and have used them repeatedly against American citizens.

Read the entire article HERE.

Democrat Indifference to Baltimore’s Inner-City Decline Harms Minorities

The Democrat political stronghold of Baltimore has experienced squalor and crime for many years due to ineffective policies and indifference shown by many of the city’s Democrat politicians. Unfortunately, the serious problems in Baltimore are found in many inner cities throughout the country. If Congressman Cummings would work together with President Trump, perhaps they could find effective solutions to the poverty and high crime all too common in the inner city in Baltimore and inner cities throughout America.

One of the few things President Trump and Senator Bernie Sanders agree on is the dismal situation in large parts of Baltimore. President Trump has mentioned Baltimore’s high crime and failing economy, while in 2015, Bernie Sanders referenced the poverty and failure of Baltimore’s education system.

When it comes to poverty in Baltimore, both President Trump and Bernie Sanders are correct. Baltimore has a very high poverty rate. According to the U.S. Census, in 2017, the official poverty rate in the United States was 12.3%, while Maryland had a poverty rate of 9.3%. In contrast, the poverty rate in the city of Baltimore was a staggering 22.4%. According to a 2014 report by the U.S. Department of Justice, there is a strong correlation between poverty and violent crime, with those in households at or below the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) having over twice the rate of violent victimization as compared to high-income households.

Read the entire article HERE.

With Trump Looking Unbeatable in 2020, Dems Prepping Michelle Obama for Hail Mary Toss

Via Strategic Culture

With curious timing, the mainstream media machine is promoting the former First Lady as celebrity, rock star and saint with more public fanfare than even the almighty Oprah. Is Michelle Obama being primed as the Democrat’s last-ditch effort to unseat Trump in 2020?

Without resorting to Google, who is Seth Moulton, Wayne Messam or Joe Sestak? How about Michael Bennett, John Delaney and Steve Bullock? Give up? They are some of the 25 Democratic candidates hoping to have a shot at leading their party to victory in 2020 against the seemingly unstoppable Donald Trump. And while there are more familiar names shifting haplessly on the Democratic bench, including Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders, what is already known about these candidates only makes a person want to know more about the Moultons, Messams and Bullocks out there.

In other words, in an age of identity politics, the Democrats are suffering an identity crisis that includes a total lack of purpose as well as character. Aside from their collective fits of rage against Donald Trump – who they understand can only be defeated by impeachment or alien abduction – the Democrats lack a unifying rallying cry that is not somehow connected to the Kremlin.

Only one well-known individual has largely been spared the mud and blood of the ongoing spectacle, and that apparent immortal is Michelle Obama, fresh off a nationwide book tour where, to quote the Guardian, she was “filling stadiums” while still finding the time to play surprise host at the Grammy Awards. Not bad for a woman whose previous claim to fame – aside from being married, with children, to America’s first black president – was revamping America’s school lunch program, which, it must be said, earned flunking grades from the student body. But let’s not let ancient history ruin a nice fairy tale.

The former First Lady has managed to stay so far above the steaming, fetid swamp that she is now being hyped as a hot political commodity in her own right. Anybody who is surprised by that information has not been paying attention.

Read the entire article HERE.

Tlaib Donor Has Been Deceased for 10 Years

Via The Washington Free Beacon

Tlaib received $2,500 from Michigan businessman who died in 2009

Democratic freshman representative Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) received a generous donation during the second quarter in the name of a man who died more than 10 years ago, a review of campaign and online records shows.

Tlaib’s campaign committee, Rashida Tlaib for Congress, hauled in donations of at least $2,000 from dozens of individuals between April 1 and June 30. One of those contributions was from George S. Farah Sr., a Michigan businessman, real estate developer, and community leader who made his way from Palestine to the United States in the mid-1950s. Farah passed away on Feb. 1, 2009, from heart failure, according to a Michigan Live article published at the time of his death.

On June 22, Tlaib’s campaign received a $2,500 donation in his name, Federal Election Commission filings show. A search of public records, which also state that he is deceased, provides an address identical to the one written on the contribution to Tlaib’s campaign committee. Grand Blanc Township property records also show that the residence located at that address is registered in Farah’s name along with that of his widow.

Tlaib is the sole federal politician to receive a donation in Farah’s name for the 2020 election cycle.

Read the entire article HERE.

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