“Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.” That was the message of the Borg to Capt. Jon-Luc Picard of the starship Enterprise on the television series “Star Trek: Next Generation.” The Borg was a conglomerate of species forcibly transformed into cybernetic drones controlled by a hive mind called the Collective. The Borg grew ever stronger by appropriating and exploiting the assets of whatever new species it encountered as it roamed the universe in pursuit of its insatiable lust for power over the lives of others. Both individual and corporate victims of the Borg were assimilated into the Collective, losing their identity to the hive mind.

“This week, the state of Indiana met the Borg, which on planet earth is spelled LGBT. Like Capt. Picard, the governor of Indiana, Mike Pence, has attempted to reason with Borg and learned that there is no compromise with the Collective. “Resistance is futile,” said Borg drone Tim Cook, the formerly human representative of the now-Collectivist entity Apple Computers. The refrain was echoed by a chorus of other drones, including some from the newly Borg-acquired National Collegiate Athletic Association.

[I went on to explain how the LGBT Borg got such power in corporate American in the first place.]

I went easy on Pence in that piece because he seemed to at least be willing to allow a weak and watered down version of the bill to become law (which later occurred), but I ranked him as a rising RINO on my personal scorecard. Frankly, in retrospect, I believe Pence’s moral compromise on what was probably the most important Bible-based policy of his career was what qualified him in the minds of the Purple Uniparty puppet-masters as worthy of the vice presidency under Trump. They needed someone as clean on the outside but dirty on the inside as Bush 41, who served the same “ace in the hole” function under Reagan.

Hole-card Bush wasn’t needed to fall on a grenade like Pence was: Bush did his dirty work undoing Reagan’s conservative policies after Reagan termed-out – as the “New World Order” president who (intriguingly) gave his defining speech on that theme one decade to the day before 9/11. Hmm. In contrast, Pence was forced to make the ultimate political sacrifice for the Purple team by committing what was arguably treason on J6 (by refusing to allow a vote by Congress on pausing the certification of the fraudulent election pending investigation) and lost any chance of earning the presidency. In further service to his masters he endured the humiliation of a pitiful run against Trump in the 2024 presidential primary.

So what was Pence’s reward for giving so much to the globalist cause? A plum posting to a lucrative A-list NGO, foundation, corporate board or Ivy League university? LOL. No! He was shunted off to puny, pedestrian Grove City College, most famous in pro-family circles as the Christian college that employed fellow “gay pandering” turncoat Warren Throckmorton as a psychology professor.

Some of my longer-term readers may recall that Throckmorton was the snake-in-the-grass who single-handedly launched the decade-long campaign of personal destruction against me that culminated in the federal lawsuit accusing me of “crimes against humanity” for teaching the biblical view of homosexuality in Uganda. I did so at a Kampala seminar in early March of 2009, and also gave comments to Ugandan members of parliament in their National Assembly Hall, urging them to focus not on punishment but on prevention and rehabilitation in their planned but as of then unwritten legislation opposing the normalization of homosexuality. I cited my own personal experience of choosing rehab instead of going to jail for a drunk-driving conviction. (Legally speaking, I consider alcoholism and homosexuality to be roughly equivalent behavioral disorders.)

Immediately following my comments, while I was still in Kampala, Throckmorton launched a surprise attack against me, falsely claiming I was pushing for forced therapy for homosexuals. I was utterly shocked, because even though I had not met him personally, I considered him to be a pro-family peer. He had put out an exceptional video for the ex-“gay” movement titled “I Do Exist” and was well respected in pro-family circles. But apparently, the LGBTs found some dirt on him or otherwise managed to flip him because his knife-stab in my back was only the first in a new mission to attack any Christians who threatened the LGBT cause. I was further shocked when, upon confronting him by phone, he defended his actions and doubled-down on them. He created an entire section on his website devoted to attacks upon me.

I was only one of several, including the eminent Christian historian David Barton, who had recently stoked Throckmorton’s ire by venturing onto the pro-family battlefield with some strong pro-family comments. Upon reading an article about Barton’s publisher suddenly canceling the publication of his book “Jefferson Lies” (refuting lies about Jefferson), I noticed an awfully familiar pattern in the discussion about how the cancellation came about. I called Barton and pieced together that, yes indeed, Throckmorton had orchestrated the attack. I then wrote two articles in Barton’s defense. (See here and here.)

I cite this personal history only to show that I had good cause to ask the leadership of Grove City College in writing to reconsider their relationship with Throckmorton or at least re-affirm the biblical stance on homosexuality. I don’t think any of them replied, but at least I tried.

Since then I haven’t had cause to think much about Grove City College until today, when it was reported on The Gateway Pundit that Pence has been hired by GCC as a “distinguished visiting fellow for the new Center for Faith and Public Life, which appears to have been created just for him. (If anyone can find out who funded it, I’d love to hear from you! I suspect it’s somebody from The Lincoln Project.)

If, as they say, “personnel is policy,” GCC has just made itself a Never Trumper sinking ship, on top of having been a sanctuary for a Bible-defying pro-LGBT saboteur. If I were a parent of college-bound teens, I’d cross this twice-failed “college of Christian compromise” off my list and keep them as far away from the traitor Mike Pence as possible.

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A recent article by campaign tagalong Adam Wren, writing for Politico, seemed to lament Pence’s poor showing in the polls. The article spent less space explaining why he should be the nominee than it spent sadly reporting how badly Pence has wanted to be president. Contrary to popular belief, he didn’t decide to run for president earlier this year in response to the prospects of his former boss getting the nomination again. He’s been dreaming of the Oval Office for decades.

But it ain’t gonna happen. Even while giving a stark but woeful walkthrough of his efforts in Iowa the author made it clear that he, Pence’s supporters, and even Pence’s staff have no real hope at all. According to the article:

It’s difficult to find a political prognosticator who is not on his payroll who gives Pence any plausible shot at winning the nomination, a reality he acknowledged on the trail earlier this month. “The media has already decided how all this is going to end,” he told just 13 people at a Pizza Ranch in Red Oak. “But as you all know, I think Iowa has a unique opportunity to give our party, give our country a fresh start.” He encouraged them to “keep an open mind.”

Pence, who evinces a just-happy-to-be-here vibe, is still hoping, pinning those dreams on evangelical-rich Iowa. So deep is his hope that he gave $150,000 of his own money to his campaign in the weeks before his dismal fundraising report. (A large sum for Pence, about two-thirds of his approximately $230,000 salary as VP, during which he often joked he came from “the Joseph A. Bank wing of the West Wing.”) And that verse about faith from the Apostle Paul’s epistle to the Hebrews has been on the former vice president’s mind. He posted it to X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) a few weeks ago on Sept.10. He posted it again on Sept. 24.

“Mike Pence’s greatest strengths are his doggedness and his belief that God has a plan for him,” his longtime friend Mike Murphy, a former Republican member of the Indiana House of Representatives, told me. “But he’s going to have to be open to discerning the difference between his plan and God’s plan.”

It’s difficult to imagine that Pence’s ambition is the only thing driving him. He’s pacing to be lucky to place 4th in any of the early states and his campaign is broke. He might not make it to the debate stage next month if he can’t get more people to donate, and who’s going to donate to someone polling as low as he is?

Is Mike Pence another Chris Christie, a plant by the UniParty Swamp to cast aspersions at Donald Trump to draw fire? If so, it hasn’t been working for a while. Trump has focused almost solely on Ron DeSantis and occasionally Nikki Haley.

It seems most likely that he’s simply delusional. He has ambitions that are hard to let go and he’s willing to take abuse all the way to the bitter end. Whatever his reason for staying in, he won’t last for long after the Iowa caucus. With 13 people showing up at his events, he might not even make it to the first battle.

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By far the most noteworthy exchange took place between Carlson and Pence, during which Pence appeared to say that the situation in Ukraine, not America, was his chief concern. Predictably, Pence has since loudly decried that interpretation of his comments, claiming that he was “taken out of context.” Still, it was his most memorable remark of the day, since his other responses to Carlson’s hardball queries were rife with Beltway “Insider” speak, and given the dire plight in which our Nation finds itself, far from encouraging.

Ultimately, no one among this Presidential Primary “Second String” was able to present a plan that could rally and invigorate attendees. Instead, they all reflected a penchant for returning the Federal Government to the golden days of “business as usual,” during which the Democrats lurched America inevitably to the left, generating angry fund-raising letters to Republican constituents, but only tepid “protests” from the GOP on the House and Senate floors, where it mattered.

Eventually, Carlson got around to the most significant issue of this entire campaign season, which was the stolen Presidential Election of 2020 and what, if anything, might be done to prevent a recurrence next year. At this point, every single candidate ran for the tall grass. Some contend that Vivek Ramaswamy actually addressed it. But a closer look at his commentary proves otherwise.

Ramaswamy did concede that the election was not completely forthright. But his focus was specifically directed at the coordinated FBI/DOJ suppression of damaging information on the Hunter Biden laptop, and how that amounted to “election interference.” Admittedly, those events did take place, and in saner times would have been cause for massive public outcry. Yet they are still secondary to the elephant in the room. Ramaswamy was careful to side step any mention of the glaring fraud, corruption, and chicanery which the Nation witnessed on Election night 2020, and in the early morning hours of the following day.

That was when vote counts in six states where President Trump held massive leads simultaneously and “mysteriously” stopped, with the even more unbelievable (literally) result a few hours later that all six had reversed, giving Biden razor thin “victories” in every one. The statistical impossibility of this randomly happening exceeds the unlikely chain of events whereby Jeffrey Epstein just as “mysteriously” died, ostensibly by “suicide,” amid massive surveillance and monitoring, all of which likewise “mysteriously” shut down at the required moment and restarted after the dirty deed had been accomplished.

No other states experienced any delay in vote counting. Somehow, the Biden Cabal went from an inevitable, brutal defeat to the barest margin needed to claim a “win.” Nothing to see here…

Real America was not fooled by any of it. Nor did they buy the leftist Fake News declaration that the Nation had just experienced “the most secure election in its history,” an appraisal that could only be an official party line talking point, given that it could not have been made on any logical, informational basis so soon after the chaotic events of the previous night. Since that time, every form of attack and suppression of truth has been wielded against any major public figure who dared go against the narrative. Like every other despotic third world tinhorn regime, the Biden Cabal has been upheld by a propaganda front that couldn’t withstand even the most cursory scrutiny, so it must diligently stifle even the slightest discussion of such.

America witnessed more of the same, last November, in the 2022 Arizona governor’s race between Kari Lake and Katie Hobbs. That atrocity was, if anything, even more corrupt and flagrant. But the leftist Democrat and RINO “Establishment” was absolutely compelled to prevent Republican firebrand Kari Lake from getting into the Governor’s office, where she would undoubtedly have unleashed every available investigative power in pursuit of the criminality by which Arizona has been overtaken for the Democrats.

The same principles apply to the rash of contrived and idiotic “indictments” being leveled at President Trump, having nothing whatsoever to do with National “security,” the Constitution, or the rule of law. Their collective purpose is solely to prevent him from ever being in place to launch an official investigation into their treachery against our collapsing Republic. Each one is a treasonous affront to the American people, so the perpetrators must all do whatever it takes to maintain power. Both sides of the political aisle know the stakes of either illegally controlling the election process or correcting it. Unfortunately, only one side is willing to undertake the fight to maintain its current hold on power.

So it was that, at the Family Leadership Summit in Iowa, every single aspiring Republican presidential candidate studiously ducked the most significant existential threat facing the Country. Their problem, President Trump absolutely “owns” the issue, and is by far the frontrunner for next year’s Presidential race. His challengers have a choice at this juncture. They can put the fate of our Nation ahead of personal ambitions and admit that he is the right person, in the right place, at the right time, to confront the treasonous fraud by which that election, and who knows how many others, have been defiled and stolen. Or they can pretend there is “Nothing to see here!” and pursue their own ambitions. Sadly, they have all opted for the latter.

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To prepare for the “spring offensive,” President Joe Biden authorized another $675 million to help the Ukrainian military. After the military progress was halted by the Russians, Biden decided to send controversial cluster munitions to the Ukrainian military.

These munitions are banned by more than 100 nations because of the “large numbers of smaller bomblets that can kill indiscriminately over a wide area.” In many cases, the victims are innocent civilians.

This decision will inevitably lead to an escalation as Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed his country has a “stockpile of different kinds of cluster bombs.” He vowed, “if they are used against us, we reserve the right to take reciprocal action.”

As the war intensifies, there seems to be zero progress on the diplomatic front. However, we need to pursue peace talks immediately before a nuclear war starts.

President Donald Trump has been sounding the alarm about the irresponsible actions of the Biden administration in Ukraine. He posted on Truth Social, “Joe Biden should not be dragging us further toward World War III by sending cluster munitions to Ukraine—he should be trying to END the war and stop the horrific death and destruction being caused by an incompetent administration.”

Unfortunately, Biden is President, not Trump. The Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen reaffirmed the Biden administration strategy in a meeting with reporters at the G20 Financial Ministers Summit in India. Yellen said that aid to Ukraine was “the single best thing we can do for the global economy.”

Is she right? Is the continuation of the war “the single best thing” for the “global economy.” Of course not, the world does not benefit from the continuation of a brutal war. What is needed is the start of peace negotiations. The United States could broker such talks, but the Biden administration is uninterested.

Instead, Biden just authorized the activation of 3,000 military reservists to support our operations in Europe.  After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Biden sent an additional 20,000 troops to Europe, bringing our total forces to over 100,000 on the continent.

These actions lead Central Intelligence Agency veteran Larry Johnson to conclude that “the United States is giving every indication that it is prepared to have a confrontation with Russia.” This strategy is extremely reckless considering that the Russians have the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, and the Ukrainians are having a challenging time providing enough manpower for their military operations.

According to the Hungarian newspaper Magyar Nemzet, “Many conscripted men are taken straight off the street by uniformed men….in Subcarpathia, a surveillance camera recorded the overreach of the authorities as a man trying to go to a store was kidnapped from his bicycle in broad daylight.” Many of these abductions have been recorded on video and posted on encrypted apps such as Telegram.

In response, some young men are refusing to leave their homes, hoping to avoid being sent to the front lines of the war. Others are avoiding forced conscription by bribing Ukrainian military recruitment officials. Many of these officials have become rich. In fact, one of them, Yevgeny Borisov, bought a luxury mansion on the Spanish coast and a chain of high-priced retail stores for his wife.

Sadly, corruption is rampant in Ukraine, which is why even supporters of our military assistance efforts, U.S. Senators John Kennedy (R-LA) and Krysten Sinema (I-AZ), wrote that “Americans lack a proper accounting of how our aid has worked thus far.” In their op-ed, the Senators also noted that “We’ve heard several unsettling reports of bad actors exploiting our generosity. Some of our costly weapons have ended up in black markets. And corrupt officials have tried to line their own pockets.”

Yes, the Senators are correct. Ukrainian officials such as Yevgeny Borisov and others have become wealthy from the war. Incredibly, weapons sent from Ukraine have been spotted in the hands of members of Mexican drug cartels.

This insane gravy train will continue until at least the end of the Biden administration. At a recent bilateral meeting in Lithuania, Biden boasted to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that the United States had “given more than every other nation combined in terms of assistance and cost.”

Why has the United States been so generous with our taxpayer funds when many wealthy European nations have barely contributed to the Ukrainian war effort? Biden did not receive the approval of the American people to fund the Ukraine military and government. In addition, there has been no declaration of war by the United States Congress.

At the same time, horrible problems in our country have been ignored by many of the political leaders of both parties. Former Vice President Mike Pence, who is a candidate for the GOP presidential nomination in 2024, wants an increase in military support to Ukraine.

Pence was recently scolded by Tucker Carlson at a presidential primary forum in Iowa. Carlson fumed, “You are distressed that the Ukrainians don’t have enough American tanks. Every city in the United States has become much worse over the past three years. Drive around. There is not one city that has gotten better in the United States, and it’s visible. Our economy has degraded, the suicide rate has jumped, public filth and disorder and crime have exponentially increased, and yet your concern is that the Ukrainians, a country most people can’t find on a map, who’ve received tens of billions of U.S. tax dollars, don’t have enough tanks.”

Rightfully Carlson asked him “where’s the concern for the United States?” Incredibly, Pence claimed it was “not my concern.”

The top “concern” for every presidential candidate should be the United States, not Ukraine. As President Trump noted, we must stop the “insanity” in Ukraine and “return to a focus on America’s vital interests.” Amen.

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But money still plays a major role, which is why a lot of attention is being paid to the amounts raised by Republicans running for president. Here’s an article by Mary Lou Masters at Daily Caller News Foundation with the details followed by my commentary about the three things that surprised me…

Here’s How Much Campaign Cash 2024 GOP Candidates Have Going Into The Next Fundraising Quarter

• Presidential candidates filed their second quarter fundraising totals with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) Saturday, providing a glimpse into the financial strength of the Republican 2024 hopefuls.
• While Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reported more total receipts than former President Donald Trump, the former president ended Q2 with more cash on hand, followed by South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, according to the FEC filings.
• “The most important number is cash on hand, minus debt,” Mike Murphy, a GOP strategist, previously told The New York Times. “You see how much financial firepower they actually have.”

Presidential candidates filed their second quarter totals on Saturday, which provided a glimpse into how much hard cash the 2024 GOP hopefuls have heading into the third fundraising period.

Candidates had until the end of day Saturday to file their Q2 totals with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump reporting the highest receipts among the crowded field of GOP contenders. The cash on hand totals provided a clearer picture as to how many hard dollars the respective campaigns have going into the fall, and indicated South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott sits just behind the former president, according to the FEC filings.

“The most important number is cash on hand, minus debt,” Mike Murphy, a GOP strategist, previously told The New York Times. “You see how much financial firepower they actually have.”

The former president’s campaign previously announced a total of $35 million combined with his joint fundraising committee, Save America PAC. Trump’s campaign raised $17.7 million during his campaign’s third fundraising quarter, but reported over $22 million cash on hand, according to the FEC filing.

The candidates’ second quarter fundraising totals aren’t fully known, as super PACs aligned with the presidential candidates have until the end of the month to report their Q2 totals. The total of individual contributors are also not included in the candidates’ second quarter filings, which is a crucial factor in making the debate stage in August by meeting the Republican National Committee’s 40,000 unique donor threshold.

Scott’s campaign brought in nearly $6 million in his first quarter as a presidential candidate and followed Trump’s haul with over $21 million cash on hand, according to the FEC filing. The senator’s campaign, combined with Trust In The Mission PAC, previously reported raising approximately $25.4 million during Q2.

DeSantis’ campaign raked in over $20 million since his late May campaign launch and ended the second quarter with $12.2 million cash on hand, according to the FEC filing. Super PAC Never Back Down previously announced that, combined with the campaign, the governor had mounted $150 million.

Conservative businessman Vivek Ramaswamy raised $7.7 million and ended his second quarter as a presidential candidate with $9 million cash on hand, according to the FEC filing.

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley brought in $5.3 million during the second quarter of her campaign and will enter the third quarter with nearly $7 million cash on hand, according to the FEC filing. Haley’s campaign, combined with aligned super PAC SFA Fund Inc., previously announced they raised $26 million during Q2.

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum raised $11.7 million since his early June presidential launch and ended the second quarter with approximately $3.7 million cash on hand, according to the FEC filing. The governor gave his own campaign approximately $10.2 million and raised $1.5 million from outside contributors.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie brought in $1.65 million since his early June campaign launch and has $1.59 million cash on hand, according to the FEC filing.

Former Vice President Mike Pence garnered nearly $1.2 million since launching his campaign in early June and he ended the second fundraising quarter with nearly $1.1 million cash on hand, according to the FEC filing. Pence and super PAC Committed to America previously reported to raise a combined $3.85 million during his first fundraising quarter.

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez raised just under $1 million since his mid-June presidential launch and reported $898,850 cash on hand, according to the FEC filing. Suarez previously announced that his campaign and aligned super PACs garnered $13.6 million in the second quarter.

Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson raised just $582,521 since his early April campaign launch and has $378,677 cash on hand, according to the FEC filing. Former Texas Rep. Will Hurd garnered $273,512 during the first few weeks of his presidential campaign and ended the second quarter with $245,118 cash on hand, the filing showed.

Conservative radio personality Larry Elder brought in $15,603 since his late April presidential announcement and reported $9,171 cash on hand, according to his filing.

President Joe Biden raked in approximately $19.87 million during the first quarter of his reelection campaign and ended it with $20 million cash on hand, according to the FEC filing. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. raised nearly $6.4 million and Marianne Williamson raised just under $1 million, and their campaigns reported $4.5 million and $104,990 cash on hand, respectively, the documents show.

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There isn’t a lot to question here. Most of what we’re seeing is pretty predictable. Donald Trump’s supporters love him enough to donate. Asa Hutchinson doesn’t have the name recognition to get enough money to be taken seriously. Joe Biden is using the left’s donation-filtering-scam to fill his coffers. All expected.

Here’s what I didn’t expect…

• Mike Pence Is Barely Ahead of Miami Mayor Francis Suarez: It’s no secret that I don’t like Mike Pence and I’m glad to see him having troubles, but I had no idea how many other people agree with me. $1.2 million is pitiful, and while some may point out he declared late, so did Francis Suarez who’s barely behind him.
• Ron DeSantis Is PAC Driven: This shouldn’t have been a surprise to me if I had been paying closer attention. It was announced that he had raised $150 million and sadly I didn’t pay attention to the story. Now that I see only $20 million came to his campaign directly, it’s far less impressive that he raised so much from mega-donors to his PAC. Don’t get me wrong. $20 million is still very impressive, but it’s not like he’s blowing away the competition with small donors. He’s being propped up heavily by his PAC, which isn’t a good sign for his prospects.
• Vivek Ramaswamy Is the Dark Horse: I would argue that there’s Donald Trump, and then there are the “backup” candidates in case Democrats and the Deep State can somehow get Trump out of the race. What surprises me is that Ramaswamy is raising so much money… and eyebrows. And he’s doing it without attacking Trump. Considering two years ago Republicans hadn’t heard of him, it’s amazing that he’s doing better than known players like Nikki Haley, Chris Christie, and the aforementioned Pence.

The nomination seems to be Trump’s unless he’s artificially knocked out. There’s still a lot of time for things to change but it appears the rest of the candidates are either vying for a cabinet position or hoping that legal manipulation by Democrats can compel Trump to leave the race.

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We can feel sympathetic for the Ukrainian people without getting involved. In 2023, the United States cannot handle its own massive problems, so moonlighting in Ukraine is nonsensical. Pence disagrees.

Here’s his post from the safety of Kiev:

I know the difference between a genius and a war criminal, and I know who needs to win this war in Ukraine, and it’s the people fighting for their freedom and fighting to restore their national sovereignty. There is no room in our party for apologists for Putin. There is only room for champions of freedom.

To be clear, opposition to sending taxpayer dollars to Ukraine or a desire for peace to be negotiated are NOT being examples of being an “apologist for Putin,” but Pence conflates everything as the swamp creature that he is. We have so many problems in the United States right now that any penny sent to the Ukrainian government is a slap in the face of Americans.

Attorney Robert Barnes wasn’t buying what Pence was selling:

This is the kind of fraud @Mike_Pence is. He describes as “freedom” a country that banned free speech, banned free press, banned free exercise of religion, banned opposing parties, banned opposing media, and locked up priests, political opponents and protest bloggers.

We need a leader in the White House who has a track record of negotiating peace. That should be the extent of our involvement in the war. No more taxpayer dollars as too much has been wasted already. No more weapons. No more pandering to Volodymyr Zelensky. Let’s focus on our problems stateside and let the Ukrainians fight their own battles.

During a CNN town hall, Pence declared that he “has no interest or no intention of pardoning” anyone who has been jailed for being at the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021. He didn’t differentiate between people who committed acts of violence and those who did not. He did not differentiate between the few who received a “fair” trial and the vast majority who were simply made an example of by a corrupt justice system.

Ramaswamy made those distinctions:

I will pardon *all* Americans who were targets of politicized federal prosecutions & those who were denied due process. This includes all peaceful Jan 6 protesters. It’s important that every candidate is clear about where we stand on the hard issues, not just the standard GOP talking points.

I will pardon *all* Americans who were targets of politicized federal prosecutions & those who were denied due process. This includes all peaceful Jan 6 protesters. It’s important that every candidate is clear about where we stand on the hard issues, not just the standard GOP… https://t.co/JS441vn5vo

— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) June 8, 2023

Mike Pence has zero chance of getting the nomination. To be fair, Ramaswamy’s chances are slim. But at least the latter is on the right side of history and the best side of America on the issue of January 6.

But somehow he was able to infuriate me just days after officially announcing his run. It wasn’t hard. All he had to do was declare his hatred for patriotic Americans who wanted to save this nation from the debacle that’s sitting in the Oval Office today.

Here’s Pence at his CNN townhall:

Mike Pence announces he would not support pardoning J6 defendants, running to uphold ‘our democracy’ pic.twitter.com/jBswF2A0cB

— Jack Poso (@JackPosobiec) June 8, 2023

“We cannot ever allow what happened on January 6 to happen again in the heart of our democracy, and I’ll stand by the decision and the due process of court in our laws. I have no interest or no intention of pardoning those that assaulted police officers or vandalized our capital. They need to be answerable to the law.”

Here’s the problem. Many if not most of the January 6 political prisoners did not assault police officers or vandalize the Capitol Building. He made no differentiation between the few who committed acts of violence and the many who did not.

Also, we live in a constitutional republic, not a democracy, but I wouldn’t expect Pence to understand the difference.

Whoever gets the Republican nomination for president will have my support against Joe Biden… except Mike Pence. Heck, I could actually see myself reluctantly voting for Chris Christie over Biden, as bad as Christie would be. But he wouldn’t be a Pence. Christie’s just an idiot. Pence is a full-blown puppet of the globalist elite cabal.

Diehard Trump-supporter Rogan O’Handley dropped some bombshell allegations. These echo what I’ve been saying since 2021. In fact, my podcast was banned on Spotify for making these exact claims, so I’m inclined to believe them. Here’s what O’Handley posted [edited for format only]:

Now that Mike Pence has entered the race, let me tell y’all some inside info:

In the days leading up to J6, I was informed by trusted sources that Pence wasn’t going to contest the rigged electoral college results. I couldn’t believe it. How could he backstab 74 million people & allow fraud to overthrow our executive branch?

But then I was told why…

He cut a deal with the Koch fundraising network to be their lead horse in 2024 if he backstabbed Trump and the MAGA movement in 2020.

To those that say he didn’t have the power to contest fraudulent ballots and allow state legislatures to conduct further review, then why did they change the Electoral College Act in 2022 to explicitly state the VP could no longer facilitate that exact process?

Because Pence could and he knew it, but he took the blood money anyway. We are not in this situation because of President Trump. We are here b/c powerful forces worked to “fortify” the 2020 election and coward RINOs like Mike Pence partnered with them. Let’s show Judas what we think of his backstabbing in the ballot box.

Now that Mike Pence has entered the race, let me tell y’all some inside info:

In the days leading up to J6, I was informed by trusted sources that Pence wasn’t going to contest the rigged electoral college results.

I couldn’t believe it. How could he backstab 74 million people…

— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) June 5, 2023

Again, I heard the same rumors around the same time. Whether we were talking to the same people is unclear, but even without corroboration it makes total sense why this would be true. Pence had all the constitutional cards to let contested states sort it out for themselves. He had the incentive to do so, but apparently he had greater incentive to block the process and allow massive, widespread voter fraud to win out.

The 2020 election could not have been stolen without Mike Pence’s assistance. This is why it’s a safe bet that he was part of the plan from the beginning. In fact, one can argue they wouldn’t have gone through with it if he wasn’t playing ball.

All of this is criminal at the highest levels. If it can be proven, then Mike Pence should be prosecuted as a traitor to his nation.

Sound off about this story on my Substack.

And if a poll that surveys that Republican race is an indicator, President Donald Trump will be on the ticket for his party.

No one’s sure yet whether Joe Biden, who is well into his 80s and has exhibited many signs of a cognitive slowing in recent years, will be there.

But Fox News reports that Trump’s support is surging. The poll asked Republican primary voters their opinions on a list of 15 announced or possible candidates.

Trump was picked by 54% of the respondents, up from 43% just a month or so ago. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis saw his numbers fall, from 28% then to 24% now.

No one else was above single digits, with Mike Pence down slightly at 6% now, the Trump-hating Liz Cheney at 3% and a long list below that figure.

Fox reported, “Trump made gains among almost every key demographic except for white men with a college degree, where DeSantis is up by 12 points.”

The poll showed that of those who supported Trump in 2020, 60% still do, while 25% go for DeSantis and 4% for Pence. In second place for both Trump and DeSantis voters were DeSantis and Trump.

“The rumor that Trump is going to be indicted by the district attorney in Manhattan has helped him quite a bit among Republican primary voters,” says Republican pollster Daron Shaw, who conducts Fox News surveys with Democrat Chris Anderson. “They view the case as politically motivated, and it reanimates feelings that Trump is still fighting forces they see as corrupt and out of control.”

On the Democrat side, well over half of Democrat primary voters want someone other than Joe Biden.

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