By Olivia Pierson
[First published on Insight@theBFD 7/11/19]

It’s obvious that the Democratic Party is committing suicide by the hand of its own rank corruption; duplicity, deceit, double-dealing and above all, its humiliating lack of self-awareness, have brought it down to the unfathomable depths of political depravity that we are currently witnessing.  

Another thing that’s obvious is this latest attempt to impeach President Trump over a phone call with Ukraine’s Zelensky is nothing more than an extension of the exorbitant, taxpayer funded Russia Collusion inquiry, which yielded nothing more illuminating than that a handful of memes were bought on Facebook.  Now it’s the Ukraine Collusion inquiry. Everyone is forgiven for yawning.

Rather than fight the Republicans at the ballot-box in 2020, it has become so clear to Democrats that they can’t win that they have to invent a “high-crime and misdemeanour” charge to hang on the President instead. This is so dirty a tactic, especially when one considers that former Democratic VP Joe Biden actually boasted on camera that he blackmailed the previous Ukrainian government to fire a prosecutor investigating his son’s dealings with corrupt gas company Burisma, by threatening to withhold a billion dollars-worth of U.S loans when he was in office.

President Trump wanted Ukraine to make inquiries into what they knew about the digital firm CrowdStrike, the firm hired by the Democratic National Committee which claimed that the Russians hacked the DNC server, kicking off the Special Counsel’s inquiry into President Trump’s 2016 campaign and any Russian collusion. James Comey admitted in his June 2017 testimony that the FBI failed to examine the DNC servers and relied on a third-party contracted by the DNC: CrowdStrike, who “confirmed” the Russians hacked the server.

CrowdStrike were hired by Hillary Clinton’s campaign counsel, Marc Elias.  It was also Marc Elias who hired Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele to write the fake and lewd “dossier” on Donald Trump using information gleaned from the Russians. In other words, the DNC engaged in Russian collusion to bring down a political opponent, then projected their deceitful tactics onto that opponent.

Frankly, it would be utterly remiss of President Trump to not try to get to the bottom of these questions about the troublesome DNC server, especially if he has information that Ukraine have access to it and the FBI admit to failing to examine it.  These scurrilous tactics formed the basis of an attempted coup to bring down his presidency. The Dems are now using the president’s curiosity into these happenings in order to stage yet another coup attempt against him, this time in the form of impeachment over “the phone-call.”  They’re that desperate and afraid of the next election. The  nervous breakdown they suffered after the 2016 election result has now developed into full psychosis. 

Democrats know they cannot get the president convicted with their fully partisan impeachment attempt, because the Republican-dominated senate will block it, but Dems just want his name smeared relentlessly through the grist of the media-machine for the next entire year in order to draw any attention away from his spectacular achievements, such as: the record low unemployment rate, rising wages, sweeping prison reform and a renewed sense of vigour and American patriotism re-energising the Republican Party.

Driven to hysteria by their hatred for the president, the far-left of the Democratic party foolishly unmasked itself and came out swinging in the form of the blatantly communist “squad,” led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announcing their Green New Deal policies and more: no airplanes, no cows, no meat-eating, no petrol or diesel cars, no nuclear energy, no oil drilling, no policing, no ICE, no borders – and definitely no capitalism!

Old-school Democrats who still want to vote for a half-sensible, working-class champion now have no candidate within the ranks of the Dems to back. They may have found one in Hawaiian congresswoman and war vet Tulsi Gabbard, but she has been smeared by Hillary Clinton and her posse, displaying their vindictive insanity once again, as another “Russian asset” – whatever that means. This is actually so bad that it’s good since Gabbard is friendly toward the Green New Deal, indicating that at heart she is for co-opting a great economy to make it resemble something akin to Venezuela’s.  I did say ‘half-sensible.’  

So those old-school Dems will most likely vote for Trump in 2020.

If folks need any instruction as to what America would look like if the Dems ever got hold of all the levers of power again, look no further than the great liberal experiment that is today’s California.

Only a couple of weeks ago, 2 million Californians were left without power as PG&E, the state’s largest utility company (which has recently filed for bankruptcy), shut down its power transmission so as not to spark fires in the strong seasonal winds.  These fires swiftly turn deadly because the state is not clearing the copious, tinder-dry dead brush and trees from its forestlands due to environmental policies enacted over the last 45 years. 

PG&E blamed the preemptive power cuts on “climate change.”

Californian historian and commentator, Victor Davis Hanson, wrote a column last week titled: “Is California Becoming Premodern?” Hanson writes:

“California’s three most powerful politicians — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Gov. Gavin Newsom — are all multimillionaires. Their lives, homes and privileges bear no resemblance to those of other Californians living with the consequences of their misguided policies and agendas… Yet California is nearing the logical limits of progressive adventurism in policy and politics.”

Then there’s California’s homeless crisis, about which Hanson writes: 

“Californians know that having tens of thousands of homeless in their major cities is untenable. In some places, municipal sidewalks have become open sewers of garbage, used needles, rodents and infectious diseases. Yet no one dares question progressive orthodoxy by enforcing drug and vagrancy laws, moving the homeless out of cities to suburban or rural facilities, or increasing the number of mental hospitals.”

Hanson explains that millions of middle-class Californian taxpayers have “fled the state.” Due to millions of welfare recipients and newcomers, who need “enormously expensive state health, housing, education, legal and law-enforcement services,” the stabilising influence of the fleeing middle-class is “sorely missed.”

Out of the state’s 53 congressional seats, Hanson says only seven are held by Republicans – and that makes California a one-party state. Premodern indeed. The poverty and crime stats are so bad for the liberal stronghold of California, to say nothing about the devastation that the wild-fires leave in their wake, it wouldn’t be a surprise in the slightest to see an electoral swing back in favour of Republican governance.  

If this were to happen, along with ‘Blexit’ (the mass black-exit out of the Democratic Party a-la Candace Owens, Charlie Kirk and Kanye West), the Democratic party would be consigned to the dunghill of history, leaving the GOP to naturally fall into two separate factions: the centre (think Ann Coulter and Ted Cruz) and the centre-left (think Geraldo Rivera and Ivanka Trump), leaving the far-left to openly stand for communism (they’ll call it a ‘social democracy’) instead of pretending to be supportive in any respect of a constitutional republic.

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By Olivia Pierson
​[First published on Insight@theBFD 31/10/19]

I’ll never forget the sickening horror that crept into my stomach when Abu Baker al-Baghdadi’s 40,000 ISIS fighters swept through Iraq and Syria and began to slaughter innocent men, women and children in order to establish their blood-thirsty, 7th Century-styled caliphate.  

The filmed beheadings of James Foley, Steven Sotloff, Peter Kassig and many others besides; the genocide and enslavement of Yazidis and Christians; the brutally theatrical burning of Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh inside a cage; the torture, rape and murder of Kayla Mueller; the untold severed heads on spikes and crucifixions displayed in the public square of Mosul; homosexuals violently flung down to their deaths from tall buildings and the ripping apart of parents’ bodies between cars as children were forced to look-on.  

These were just some of the savagely barbaric acts unleashed upon humans that al-Baghdadi encouraged with his disgusting war against any form of modernity in Syria and the Levant. 

How can anyone not be glad that we no longer have to breathe the same planetary air as a subhuman beast like al-Baghdadi?

His death is significant, as is the death of his second in command, Abu Hassan al-Muhajir. This closes the chapter on the ambitions of the ISIS caliphate.  

During the peak of its ascendancy, the caliphate ruled from its capital in Raqqa, Syria, over a territory the size of Britain, presiding over 8 million subjugated people with an army of dedicated fighters, which just kept growing in numbers. 

Though many fighters are regrettably still alive – and worse, now residing in the West thanks to Europe opening their borders to the “refugee crisis” of 2015 – the terror-group has lost all of its land and its leadership. The Caliph’s prophetic promise of a revived caliphate of Islamic purity for the Arabs has not come true. He was conquered. So much for being the successor of Mohammad (though he certainly channeled Mo’s bestial savagery).

In the wake of Operation Kayla Mueller, President Trump thanked Russia, Turkey, Iraq, Syria and the Kurds for assisting with the daring mission to kill the ISIS leaders. The CIA has been tracking Baghdadi for a month after a tip-off from one of his arrested wives, along with a courier. While the British and French troops were on the ground with the Kurdish and U.S  forces, Russia and Turkey provided invaluable air cover.

Far from being estranged from the Kurds, after the president’s so-called betrayal of them, the Syrian Democratic Forces on the ground passed important intelligence to the CIA in order to conduct the raid. A Kurdish informant snuck into Baghdadi’s compound to steal his underwear in order to confirm DNA tests that the headless corpse they recovered did indeed belong to the most wanted terrorist in the world.

The covert mission itself was so impeccably planned and executed that U.S generals are reporting they have never seen anything like it. Secrecy was paramount. Amusingly, Democrats are furious that their president did not share any information with them, yet did with Johnson, Macron, Putin and Erdogan. President Trump stated that he couldn’t trust Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff, since they consistently leak information to the leftist media machine, and are also trying to launch yet another impeachment investigation to bring down his presidency. Democrats: Bed. Make. Lie.

Under a heavy bombardment of the usual criticism which he has now become quite used to, President Trump sought to do things differently in the Middle East, as he promised America he would during his election campaign.  After Kurdish General Mazloum Abdi of the Syrian Democratic Forces thanked him last week for achieving a permanent truce between the Kurds, Turkey and Russia, President Trump said:

“After all of the precious blood and treasure America has poured into the deserts of the Middle East, I am committed to pursuing a different course, one that leads to victory for America.”

More than any other group in the region, the killing of al-Baghdadi effects the Kurds most directly. The U.S aided Kurdish military groups in the fight against ISIS, benefiting the Kurdish people most of all, considering they are the ones who live on the land that ISIS tried to claim for its caliphate. Now President Trump is more or less leaving that overseeing to the Russians – who want the job for their own reasons. Islamic terrorism has been a monumental problem for Putin and Syria is practically on Russia’s doorstep. They also have an already well-established alliance with Syria’s president, al-Assad. Assad detests the U.S for trying to have him overthrown – but that was a different presidency. Trump is not Obama or Bush. Trump will leave Assad well alone unless he uses chemical weapons against civilians again. 

So on the very same night when Saturday Night Live was airing an Alec Baldwin impersonation of President Trump “making ISIS great again” and “bringing more jobs back to ISIS,” Trump was in fact embroiled in the Situation Room at the Whitehouse watching in real time the invaluable mission to have ISIS leadership totally decapitated. 

The ill-timed irony of SNL’s clown-show is nothing short of delicious! Truth is always so much more interesting than fiction.

Will this remarkable event end the ISIS peril? Of course not. The ideology will not die so long as it’s ingrained in the heads of ultra orthodox Muslims who believe in obeying their Koranic texts and their Hadith. But the death of al-Baghdadi is a significant blow to their barbaric aims fuelled by superstitious fatuity. 
 
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities,” as our old friend Voltaire once observed.  The backwardness of the Islamic world is a living testament to the truth of that adage.
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But for now, we should clink our glasses together in a world-wide toast to celebrate the overdue death of a depraved, malevolent monster who leaves only cruelty, death and misery in his wake. Good riddance.

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