New J6 Footage Shows Ray Epps Whispering To ‘Baked Alaska’: “We’re Here To Storm The Capitol”
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New J6 Footage Shows Ray Epps Whispering To ‘Baked Alaska’: “We’re Here To Storm The Capitol”   Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness,

Anew report provides fresh evidence that infamous January 6 provocateur Ray Epps may have been an FBI plant.

In the first of a two-part series, “Truth in Media” host Lara Logan spoke with Anthime Gionet, also known as “Baked Alaska,” a right-wing influencer formerly associated with the “alt right.” Video footage from January 5, 2021 and earlier indicate that Epps appeared to be particularly interested in Gionet, who was later sentenced to two months in prison for his participation in the riot at the US Capitol.

Gionet (Baked Alaska) was one of several people who filmed Epps on the evening of January 5, 2021 outside BLM Plaza as he told Trump supporters “we need to go into the Capitol!” At first, Gionet said he was amused by Epps’ exhortation to breach the Capitol, and yelled ‘let’s go!’ in response, but after he saw him repeat the line several times to different groups that night, he became convinced the “boomer” was an FBI plant and was up to no good.

Gionet is the one who started the “Fed! Fed! Fed!” chant that went viral on social media.

“I’m someone who creates funny content so I just like to agree with everyone and if someone’s saying something crazy, a lot of times, I’ll just agree—say yeah, yeah,” Gionet said, explaining that he does it to encourage a subject to keep talking.

But the activist said he felt “weirded out” by Epps and quickly moved on to another group.

“I’m like, I’m getting away from this creep, he’s weirding me out,” Gionet said.

“I’m getting weird vibes—something’s off.”

Gionet told Logan that everyone else who heard Epps talking about going into the Capitol were also taken aback.

“I go to another group way far away from him, he follows me, and that’s when he begins instructing the crowd,” Gionet said. That’s when Epps was caught on tape again saying “we need to go into the Capitol.”

“Right when he said that, something clicked in my head,” Gionet said.

“It was like, whoa! This is scripted because he said the same exact line word for word three times and that’s not natural.”

Gionet said that it seemed very odd that he kept going around to all the different little groups and instructing them on what to do on January 6.

“Maybe the first time, he’s being silly or saying something crazy, but when he said it the third time word for word, I knew there’s a strong possibility this guy’s a fed. I started that chant, and guess what? The whole crowd joined in with me—within seconds!”

Gionet told Logan that that viral moment felt spiritual to him at the time.

“That was the spirit moving. That was God saying ‘somethings up here. Watch out, there’s something going on.’ And that’s what I felt in my heart as a believer, truly,” he said.

Shortly before midnight, Epps took a conciliatory tone with Gionet, telling him they he also despises Black Lives Matter and antifa.

“I stood ’em down myself with three Army vets in Queen Creek, Arizona,” Epps said.

“That’s where I live!” Gionet exclaimed. “Are you my neighbor?!”

After more friendly banter, Epps said ”we’re not here to fight man. He then leaned in and whispered “we’re here to storm the Capitol,” and added: “I’m not kidding.”

Why was Ray Epps treated as victim by the same people who condemned almost everyone around him as a threat?

We try to answer some lingering questions about the one “election-denying-Donald Trump-supporter” the media and the government didn’t seem to hate. pic.twitter.com/1u5dXtSGLv

— Truth In Media (@Truth_InMedia) November 3, 2023

Logan noted that Epps’ words echoed the official narrative the next day—that Trump supporters “stormed the Capitol” before “it was broadcast across the nation.”

Gionet, aka Baked Alaska, said that because he had been banned from every social media platform, it was virtually impossible for him to tell his story, and so for the first year after J6, nobody heard a word about Epps.

“I thought it was a big story but I was banned off Twitter, I was banned off YouTube, I was banned off all social media so I couldn’t get the story out,” he explained.

He acknowledged that he had no proof that Epps was a “fed,” but remains convinced that he was.

Former Washington DC FBI Field Office chief Steven D’Antuono has acknowledged in sworn testimony that the Bureau had so many informants on the ground on January 6 that they lost track and had to order an audit to account for all of them.

Federal prosecutors finally filed a criminal charge against Epps in September.

The former Marine and Oath Keepers member was charged with a single misdemeanor count of disruptive or disorderly conduct in a restricted area in U.S. District Court in Washington in September, despite his lead role in orchestrating chaos on that day. The charge carries a maximum punishment of a year in prison.

In part two of Truth in Media’s report on Ray Epps, Logan interviewed a friend of Epps. The woman said that “something happened after he left the Oath Keepers until January 6. What, I don’t know but those are two different people.”

Part two, which will air next week, also features a video clip of Epps photographing Gionet without his knowledge during a Trump rally in Phoenix.

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For the crime of questioning the 2020 election, Willis wants to punish Clark ‘with the full penal and coercive power of the State.’

Jeffrey Clark’s Lawyers Demand Fani Willis’ ‘Grotesque Abuse Of Prosecutorial Power’ Be Dismissed

BY: JORDAN BOYD  NOVEMBER 01, 2023  The Federalist 

Trump-era Department of Justice official Jeffrey Clark’s legal team filed a 39-page special plea in the Fulton County Superior Court on Tuesday demanding Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis dismiss her “massive and grotesque abuse of prosecutorial power” indictment against Clark over his First Amendment right to question the 2020 election due to a lack of personal jurisdiction.

“There is zero allegation or evidence that Mr. Clark directed any purposeful activity into the State of Georgia,” the lawyers wrote. “The inquiry ought to end there. But it gets worse: there are zero specific allegations or evidence that Mr. Clark agreed with any resident defendant to do anything. An arm-waving general and conclusory allegation that all defendants conspired to unlawfully overturn the 2020 election is not sufficient to meet the threshold due process requirements for establishing personal jurisdiction.”

Willis’ attempt to “punish a thought crime with the full penal and coercive power of the State” by indicting Clark, former President Donald Trump, and 17 others, Clark’s lawyers wrote, has forced the U.S. into a constitutional crisis unlike anything this nation has ever seen before.

“So here we are: this District Attorney seeks to imprison the leading presidential candidate of her opposite political party, to the acclaim of those baying for his destruction. She has dragged all of us not just into the outskirts of dangerous constitutional territory but into the maelstrom of a full-blown constitutional collapse,” the special plea states.

Clark’s association with former President Donald Trump, who nominated Clark first as assistant attorney general of the Environment and Natural Resources Division and later as acting assistant attorney general for the Civil Division, made him one of the 19 “co-conspirator” targets in Democrats’ wide-ranging election indictment in Fulton County, Georgia.

“The Indictment rests on a dogmatic premise that the election of President Biden was free of material irregularity and that any thought, expression, or conduct of the Defendants to the contrary was necessarily wrongful and criminal, and thus constituted a massive (but on its face preposterous) Georgia RICO conspiracy,” the attorneys wrote.

Clark specifically came under scrutiny for drafting a letter to Georgia officials shortly after the 2020 election that claimed the Department of Justice had “identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple States, including the State of Georgia.” Clark did not send the letter after his DOJ superiors claimed the Civil Division should play no role in election issues.

In a personal affidavit filed on the same day as the special plea, Clark confirmed that he does not live in Georgia, never sent a letter to Georgia, and never visited the state during his tenure in the Trump administration. He merely made a legal recommendation involving the state.

For the crime of questioning “the Democrat Party’s prevailing creed that there were absolutely no significant or potentially outcome determinative problems in the 2020 election in Georgia or in Fulton County in particular,” Willis charged Clark with multiple crimes such as “alleged postelection interference with the 2020 presidential election in Georgia” even though his letter was never delivered.

Clark found allies in several people, including former Attorney General Ed Meese, who, in a 19-page affidavit, argued that the letter “fit squarely within the privileges discussed above as recognized by Presidents, the Congress, and various courts throughout our history.”

“It also fits squarely within the protections of the Opinion Clause of the Constitution,” Meese wrote, noting that Clark’s case should be moved to federal court.

But even Meese’s word wasn’t enough to call off the “witch hunt.”

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Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour.

Why is he STILL head of the FBI ??

FBI Director Goes Silent When Asked Simple Question

Story by Andrew Rodriguez • 17

FBI Director Christopher Wray admitted that the safety of the United States has been compromised since President Joe Biden took office, with threats being greater.

“When asked whether the safety of the United States has been compromised since the election of President Joe Biden, FBI Director Christopher Wray fell silent,” the report found.

Wray highlighted that tensions in the Middle East have raised the potential for attacks on America to a higher level.

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I asked FBI Director Wray a simple question: is the U.S. safer today than it was before

I asked FBI Director Wray a simple question: is the U.S. safer today than it was before @JoeBiden took office? After nearly 10 seconds of silence, he finally admitted what we all know…

“…the terror threats have elevated…”

“Is the United States safer from foreign terror threats today? Are we safer than when Joe Biden took office — from the day he took office?” Sen. Rick Scott, (R-FL) questioned Wray.

After a long pause, Wray responded.

“What I would say to you is that the terror threats have elevated. But I also think there are a lot of things the country has done throughout law enforcement to be better prepared to deal with them,” he stated.

While Wray acknowledged the elevated terror threats, he also mentioned that the country has taken measures to better prepare for dealing with them.

Senator Rick Scott criticized Wray’s response, stating that the terror threats have indeed increased.

“I asked FBI Director Wray a simple question: is the U.S. safer today than it was before [Joe Biden] took office? After nearly 10 seconds of silence, he finally admitted what we all know… ‘…the terror threats have elevated…'” Scott posted online.

“The reality is that the terrorism threat has been elevated throughout 2023, but the ongoing war in the Middle East has raised the threat of an attack against Americans in the United States to a whole other level,” Wray stated.

We have a lot of terrorist sympathizing trash in Congress and in our media, though it’s been that way for quite some time.

Hamas Executes a Hostage and the Media Are Concerned About...

Matt Vespa | Nov 01, 2023   Townhall 

This honeymoon is going to end, but until it does, I will give John Kirby props for debunking pro-Hamas propaganda. The White House Press Corps this week has been insufferable regarding the Israel-Hamas war. Hamas is keeping two million of its people from evacuating to safety, using them as human shields. Civilian casualties and deaths are unavoidable, and this isn’t some Kadima (party no longer exists) government.

This is Benjamin Netanyahu, who will not stop until the main objective of degrading Hamas into irrelevancy is accomplished. Hamas has controlled Gaza for 17 years, violently seizing control in 2007 after ‘winning’ the previous year’s elections. It’s been a Jihadi hell hole ever since, though one with an extensive terror tunnel infrastructure and some 40,000 terrorists waiting to kill Israeli troops. It’s why Netanyahu says this could be a long war.

On Monday, Kirby had to remind people of the differences between Hamas and Israel, which is a sad commentary. Also, the press’ obsession with Israel and the rules of war hasn’t gone unnoticed. Is Hamas following those international laws? We’re dealing with literal evil—this isn’t an academic exercise. And I could give a baker’s you-know-what about the US or Israel being isolated from the rest of the world in this war. If the so-called international community can’t see Hamas as the bad guys, then we are lost. Hamas beheaded a hostage, folks, but the media is trying to cast Israel as the state that's committed war crimes. Newbusters' Nicholas Fondacaro clipped the exchanges:

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We Have Another Payment Development in the Biden Bribery Scandal
Matt Vespa | November 01, 2023

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We have a regional war brewing in the Middle East, a crumbling economy, labor strikes, and House Republican drama, so this story got buried six feet under, but it doesn’t mean it’s gone away. The fiasco caused by the removal of Speaker Kevin McCarthy paused the hearings about the Biden corruption scandal, which involves structured payments from Eastern European oligarchs to an array of shell companies owned and operated by the Biden family.

The most damning evidence coming from the Burisma deal, where the payments correlate with legal protections—Joe firing the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating the energy company for corruption—and the ledger and phone recordings from its executives that allege a $10 million bribe was wired to Joe and Hunter around 2015-2016. There are also over 170 suspicious activity reports from six banks regarding the financial transactions of this family. No direct evidence linked Joe Biden to the payments until this month. Spencer wrote it up:

Remember over the summer when Joe Biden, asked about House investigators' findings about a Biden family business scheme to peddle influence for cash, quipped, "Where's the money?" Well, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) produced evidence of at least some of the money being paid directly to Joe Biden.

… Comer explained what his committee's investigation has found and how a loan and a $200,000 check to Joe Biden from his brother, James, looks to be the evidence of direct financial benefit for President Biden Republican investigators have been searching for.

"We're still digging into evidence subpoenaed from bank accounts belonging to Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, and James and Sara Biden – the brother and sister-in-law of the President," Comer explained in a video published Friday. "A document that we're releasing today raises new questions about how President Biden personally benefited from his family's shady influence peddling of his name and their access to him."

"Bank records obtained by the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability have revealed a $200,000 direct payment from James and Sara Biden to Joe Biden in the form of a personal check," Comer revealed.

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Is the executive branch spying on us?: Rep. Jim Jordan   Fox Business  

'HOW FAR DOES IT GO?': Jim Jordan raises questions over DOJ snooping

Nov 1, 2023      Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, discusses the new probe to investigate how big tech may have helped DOJ officials spy on Congress on ‘The Evening Edit.’

Vladimir Putin is 'Dead' After Rumored Illness, 'Understudy' Recognized as Stand-in President: Kremlin Source Say    Story by Haley Gunn • 1d 

Rumors swirled that Vladimir Putin succumbed to his terminal illnesses over the weekend.MEGA© Radar Online

A Kremlin source alleged that Vladimir Putin died over the weekend, and a body double has been officially recognized as the president of Russia, RadarOnline.com has learned.

The report follows rumors that Putin, 71, suffered a heart attack in recent weeks and was living out his final days in solitude while the alleged doppelgängers carried out official duties.

According to the Telegram channel General SRV, which claims to relay information from a Kremlin insider, Putin diedat his Valdai residence last week.

"There was a 'viewing' of the double of the late Russian President Vladimir Putin by a representative composition of the permanent members of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. In essence, the understudy has already held similar meetings, but this was during Putin’s lifetime, and now Nikolai Patrushev has arranged a kind of acceptance of the understudy in the image of the President by everyone who is related to the first and, partially, the second circle of people close to the 'President,'" the channel posted.

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Just happened to have 2-3/4 million laying around the house...??? DOESN'T EVERYONE ??

Biden Bought $2.75 Million Beach House in Cash Around The Time Hunter Texted Chinese Pal Urging $10 Million Deal: Report  By Jack Davis  October 22, 2023

The timing of the 2017 purchase of President Joe Biden’s beach house is raising eyebrows among Republicans investigating the Biden family.

According to a report in the U.K. Daily Mail, said that no mortgage was issued at the time Biden bought the $2.75 million home on June 8, 2017. That would mean Biden paid in cash with no borrowing.

The purchase came weeks before a July 30, 2017, WhatsApp message from Hunter Biden to his Chinese business associates demanding to be paid and adding, “I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.”

The deal Hunter Biden wanted to close was worth $10 million a year.

Earlier this year, House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer of Kentucky said that between 2015 and 2017, the Biden family received about $1.3 million from a deal Hunter Biden and his associates struck with a Chinese company, according to a news release on the committee’s website.

In May, a news release from the committee said that bank records show the Biden family received as much as $10 million from various foreign interests.

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I;m not an author or a historian BUT, I know this article is WRONG! The civil war was about "taxation without representation" NOT slavery!

Has A Second American Civil War Begun?  Story by Stephen Silver  • 9h  19FortyFive 

A Second Civil War? Americans, very clearly, are extremely polarized at the moment. Americans often believe contradictory or completely opposite things, based in part on the media they consume and the politicians to whom they listen.

These divides, more than they should, have sometimes manifested themselves in real-life violence, while one official, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has even called for a “national divorce.”

Even amid all of that, descriptions of the situation as an incipient “civil war” remain overstated.

A Civil War? No.

First of all, in times of actual war, such as right now, it’s kind of irresponsible to say “This is a war” about things that are not actually wars.

Beyond that, it’s not clear how a new “civil war” would work. It wouldn’t form the same geographical lines as the original Civil War, between North and South, especially now that Georgia is a blue state. Not to mention, there are minorities of Democrats in every Red State and Republicans in every blue one.

Plus, the Civil War, the one in the 1860s, was about slavery, and about whether Southern states could continue to have it. Today’s conflicts are about many different things, not about one big one. LINK  FOR ARTICLES ABOUT THE CIVIL WAR ---civil war here  AND The Truth About Tariffs and the War – Abbeville Institute

“We are living in a time of great division where the left is bullying and abusing the right and basically forcing the right to accept the left’s ways whether we like it or not,” Greene said in calling for a “national divorce.”

There are some moments that are dispiriting. This week, Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), long a solidly conservative member of Congress, had his bid for the House speakership derailed, in large part because Donald Trump opposed it, and because Emmer had voted to certify to the 2020 election. The next Speaker-designate, meanwhile, is Rep Mike Johnson (R-LA), who played more of an active role in the effort to overturn that election.

Therefore, it certainly says a lot that one party absolutely demands not only faulty to one man in order for another man to lead them in Congress but to submit to an alternate set of facts about what happened in an election three years ago.

But no, a civil war that does not make.

Last fall, the New York Times op-ed page hosted a discussion on this topic, between op-ed columnists Jamelle Bouie and Jane Coaston and journalist Tim Alberta.

“I think we probably start with what civil war is not in this context. We’re not talking about armies of red and blue fighting another Battle of Antietam,” Alberta said during the podcast. “We’re not talking about the forces of Charlie Kirk clashing in the streets with the forces of Keith Olbermann, or pick your figurehead. We’re not talking something anywhere near I think the scale or anywhere resembling the organization of what we saw in the mid-19th century.”

“What we are discussing is some significant scale of semiorganized, lethal, civil conflict that is organized around not just political and ideological disputes but perceived threats to economies, and livelihoods. And I don’t know that we would recognize it in the U.S.,” he added.

Bouie, the Times columnist, agreed.

“I think that if we’re going to define civil war as basically being low-intensity civil conflict, then we shouldn’t refer to it as civil war. Because I think that when you look at what civil wars generally look like, they do involve organized factions or if not armies, then military forces,” he said.

“They may not necessarily involve entities trying to themselves become states. It may be a struggle for control of the existing state.

But there are organized armed forces, there are organized political entities, and they’re vying through armed conflict for control of the state. And that I don’t see happening in the United States any time soon.”

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Stephen Silver is a Senior Editor for 19FortyFive. He is an award-winning journalist, essayist and film critic, who is also a contributor to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Broad Street Review and Splice Today. The co-founder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, Stephen lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. Stephen has authored thousands of articles over the years that focus on politics, technology, and the economy for over a decade. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) at @StephenSilver, and subscribe to his Substack newsletter.

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Americans Furious After GOP Picks New Speaker-Designate: 'No Thanks' By Bryan Chai  Oct 24, 2023    The Western Journal

The drama and chaos surrounding the vacant Speaker of the House role appears set to continue unabated after the latest nomination failed to generate much positive buzz.

On Tuesday, House Republicans officially nominated House Majority Whip Tom Emmer to be the new speaker.

Politico reporter Olivia Beavers noted that Emmer beat out Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson for the nomination, 117-97, with five voting for others, and one voting present.

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The Right Resistance: ‘Democracy’ the Biden Democrat way means they decide, you submi   Jeffrey A. Rendall  2 days ago

Be honest folks, would you hold it against senile president joe biden if he were tired??

The topic of Biden’s endurance came up last week after the current White House bumbler-in-chief appeared on the sometimes interesting -- when it’s not horrifically biased -- 60 Minutes program, whereupon host Scott Pelley described his interviewee’s demeanor: “As we spoke to the president, his Secretary of State was in Israel; his Defense Secretary was at a NATO meeting on Ukraine,” Pelley said. “America's oldest president seemed tired from directing all of this.”

“It had been a rough week and we could see it on him,” Pelley added.

My initial reaction to Pelley’s observation was to sympathize with the poor man (Biden), since he does have a lot on his proverbial plate and he is kinda broken-down and fatigued-looking, not simply because of his age (senile Joe will be 81 in less than a month) but because the weight of the world is on him. When Obama’s veep decided to run for president going on five years ago now, little could the simpleton from Scranton, Pennsylvania have figured that it would be this taxing.

These days, lots of people are constantly interrupting his naps, his dog has a biting problem (and so did the one previous to Commander) and his wife, “Dr.” Jill, must show little mercy to the tired man whenever the president begs her for permission to skip mounting another presidential campaign so he can just hang out at their beach house, eat ice cream and spend lazy afternoons driving his favorite corvette rather than stare at pictures of human rights atrocities that he himself helped foster by placating the Iranians.

That’s right -- leave the sifting through boxes of classified documents in his garage to someone else. What’s Hunter doing these days? Is he hooked on crack and hookers again? And as far as the shooting wars happening halfway around the globe are concerned, didn’t senile Joe already say stuff about how bad it all is and that America is deeply committed to dumping oodles of money into the meat grinder (in Ukraine’s case) and we’ll stay there until the job is finished?

Whereas the average person of senile Joe’s age and position in life has long since retired to environs much more hospitable to octogenarians than the DC swamp, and such retirees devote most of their free moments to activities that please themselves, Biden purposely opted to receive round-the-clock crisis briefings and give interviews to establishment media honks like Scott Pelley, who, let’s face it, would be much more intrigued by Biden committing another embarrassing gaffe than they would hearing Joe pontificate about Israel or Vladimir Putin or NATO or Iran, or… whether Joe really means it when he says he’s in the 2024 race for good.

Because those Republicans, well…? They just don’t believe in democracy the same way Democrats do! In an article titled “Ironic: Biden Says Republicans Don't Look at Democracy ‘The Same Way You and I Look at Democracy'”, Craig Bannister reported at MRCTV.org recently:

“In Sunday’s interview, Host Scott Pelley invited Biden to blame ‘hard-right Republicans’ for putting the world in danger. [Pelley asked:] ‘The president is asking for billions of dollars for Israel and Ukraine, but Congress is paralyzed. Hard-right Republicans are obstructing the election of the speaker of the House. Does the dysfunction that we've seen in Congress increase the danger in the world?’

“’Yes. Look, this is not your father's Republican Party,’ Biden answered, before launching into, what he believed to be, a slur:

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Haven't posted Dan Bongino for a while and....this is a GOOD one

 Ep. 2113 The Enemy Is Already Here

by: Team Bongino  October 19, 2023
Fight tech tyranny. Join Dan on Rumble    

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Some Believe the Navy is Trying to Warn Americans of What's to Come By Displaying Upside Down Flag    Opinion by Carissa Moore • 53m  TrendyMatter  

The American flag is a symbol of freedom, liberty, and justice for all. However, an upside down flag is often viewed as a "signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property." Seeing an upside down American flag usually indicates that something has gone terribly awry. An inverted American flag can even be a sign of war. That's why some people have been left feeling worried and concerned after noticing an upside down flag on display at a U.S. military base.

On October 3, a TikTok user who goes by the handle @highaf.onlife_ re-shared a video taken by another TikToker, @gregbullmorrow2.0. The brief clip shows two Navy Sailors saluting a flag that is flying upside down outside of a nearby military base. The video, which has gotten over 1.8 million views since October 3, has sparked panic for those who believe that the upturned flag comes with a hidden message. The clip features overlay text that says, "Very alarming,” along with the caption, "The Navy does NOT make these mistakes, and even if they do, they do NOT salute the flag in distress. This is ABSOLUTELY A SIGNAL. Get ready y'all."

More than 2,500 commenters expressed their opinions on the interesting video, with some firmly insisting that the upside down flag can only mean that something bad is on the horizon. "Silent war has begun," wrote one commenter, while another added, "I've never seen that before in my entire life." Although a handful of viewers were convinced that the flag meant trouble, the majority of commenters revealed that accidentally raising an inverted flag is a common occurrence. Many commenters claim to either have served in the Navy themselves, or directly know someone who has.

"The Navy absolutely does make these mistakes. I've spent the better part of the last 15yrs [witnessing] these mistakes, including this exact thing,” shared one unbothered TikTok user. “Sailors 100% make that mistake. They are kids often doing colors. Stop reaching for clout content,” said another. One user even chalked up the incident to be the result Navy Sailors not getting enough rest, saying, “I swear civilians don’t be understanding how sleep deprived we really are.” Another commented added, “I’m in the Marines and this happens outside my unit at least one every other month.” Hundreds of commenters were quick to assure others that the upside down flag shouldn’t be cause for concern in this instance.

Several TikTok users throughout the comments section asked when this video was originally taken and if it is even legitimate. Of course, these are valid questions - especially because things are hardly ever what they seem on social media. The original video seems to have been uploaded by @gregbullmorrow2.0 on September 26, but there's no telling if the clip was obtained elsewhere or if it even depicts two real Navy Sailors saluting the flag. Regardless of the video's legitimacy, the viral video has managed to cause quite a panic for those who believe everything they see. While the inverted flag was likely just a mistake made by a young Navy Sailor, it's safe to assume that conspiracy theorists are reaching for a more nefarious explanation of what is being shown in the video clip.

The single greatest threat to America is hiding in plain sight  Opinion by Jonathan Turley• 8h    FOX News

A startling poll was released last week showing that a majority of voters not only view the opposing party as a threat to the nation but justifying violence to combat their agenda. The poll captures a crisis of faith that I have been writing about for over a decade as an academic and a commentator. Many now question democracy as a sustainable system of government. It represents the single greatest threat to this nation: a citizenry that has lost faith not just with our system of government but with each other.

The polls by the University of Virginia Center for Politics shows a nation at war with itself. Fifty-two percent of Biden supporters say Republicans are now a threat to American life while 47 percent of Trump supporters say the same about Democrats.

Among Biden supporters, 41 percent now believe violence is justified "to stop [Republicans] from achieving their goals." An almost identical percentage, 38 percent, of Trump supporters now embrace violence to stop Democrats.

Not surprisingly, many of these people have lost faith in democracy. Some 31 percent of Trump supporters believe that the nation should explore alternative forms of government. Roughly a quarter (24 percent) of Biden supporters also question the viability of democracy.

Faith is the one thing that no system of government can do without. Without faith in the underlying values of a constitutional system, authority rests on a mix of coercion and capitulation.

For years, I have written about this growing loss of faith and how it has been fueled by our intellectual and political elites. In the echo chamber of news and social media, citizens constantly hear how the opposing party is composed of "traitors" and how the constitutional system works to protect enemies of the people.

Viewers now get a steady diet of figures like MSNBC commentator Elie Mystal who called the U.S. Constitution "trash" and argued that we should simply just dump it.

In a New York Times column, "The Constitution Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed," law professors Ryan D. Doerfler of Harvard and Samuel Moyn of Yale called for the Constitution to be "radically altered" to "reclaim America from constitutionalism."

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Joe Biden Is Now in Serious Trouble

Story by Peter Suciu •58m

Abortion rights, gun control, infrastructure, support for Israel and Ukraine, and even the border crisis are all issues that voters will consider next year when they cast their ballot for president – yet, once again as James Carville pointed out 21 years ago, it's the economy, stupid.

That explains why voters in seven key battleground states could determine whether President Joe Biden serves a second term.

Decision intelligence company Morning Consult, on behalf of Bloomberg News, conducted a study in the top seven 2024 political swing states – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin – and found that Biden is trailing former President Donald Trump by four percentage points on a ballot that includes both of the candidates as well as a Libertarian candidate, a Green Party candidate, and a No Labels candidate.

Yet, even in a forced head-to-head between Biden and Trump, the former president continues to lead the current commander-in-chief by four points overall – and as noted, it is all about the economy.

"Swing state voters trust Trump significantly more than Biden on the economy (49% to 35%), with independents holding even less trust in Biden on this key issue (47% to 25%)," Morning Consult explained.

Lack of Trust in Bidenomics

The poll found that the economy was the most important issue heading into the 2024 presidential election, and a majority of voters disapproved of Biden's economic policies – 65 percent disapproval to 14 percent approval. Moreover, 51 percent of swing-state voters said they felt the national economy had been better under the former president.

Overall, only 26 percent of voters polled said they agreed that "Bidenomics" had been good for the economy, while 49 percent disapproved of the policies. However, there is still just over a year until voters will actually cast their ballots.

"Predictions more than a year out tend to look a little different a year later," Biden campaign spokesperson Kevin Munoz told Axios via a statement. "We'll win in 2024 by putting our heads down and doing the work, not by fretting about a poll."

The Lucky Seven

Former president Donald Trump won six of those seven states in 2016 – with only Nevada going for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Trump's success in smashing the "Blue Wall" states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin was seen as crucial to his victory.

However, four years later in the 2020 presidential election, the situation was reversed.

The Biden campaign successfully rebuilt the Blue Wall – winning all three states along with Nevada – while he also flipped Arizona and Georgia. North Carolina was the only state Trump won in both elections, but it is increasingly looking more "purple" than deep red.

Trump won the Tar Heel State by just 1.34 percent in 2020 and by 3.66 percent over Hillary Clinton – compared to the more than 12-point advantage that former President W. Bush had when he won the state in 2000 and 2004.

Those seven swing states may favor Trump in a hypothetical rematch with Biden, but by all accounts, it will still be a very close race.

Author Experience and Expertise

A Senior Editor for 19FortyFive, Peter Suciu is a Michigan-based writer. He has contributed to more than four dozen magazines, newspapers, and websites with over 3,200 published pieces over a twenty-year career in journalism. He regularly writes about military hardware, firearms history, cybersecurity, politics, and international affairs. Peter is also a Contributing Writer for Forbes and Clearance Jobs. You can follow him on Twitter: @PeterSuciu.

 

BREAKING: An “Insurrection” Is

Happening NOW Inside The Capitol

— Pro-HAMAS/Palestine Take Over! 

by Noah 2 hrs ago WLT Report

The precedent has been set by the Crooked J6 Committee and Crooked DC judges….

Whenever you “storm the Capitol” and overtake it, you must go to prison.

For multiple years.

Looks like we’re going to need more prisons built because this is a full-scale Insurrection.

I have video.

First we start with MTG who is reporting live on the scene:

There’s an insurrection happening now on Capitol Hill https://t.co/hBMIcv3pqW

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) October 18, 2023

More here:
BREAKING:
There is currently an actual pro-HAMAS insurrection inside the US Capitol in DC where pro-terror rioters are disrupting official proceedings by attacking Israel’s right to defend itself.

When is @FBI going to raid their homes and send them to jail for 22 years on… pic.twitter.com/5OmBfaw7NO

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) October 18, 2023

Today we just witnessed the worst attack on our democracy in history.

Far-left extremists stormed Capitol Hill.

Rashida Tlaib incited the crowd outside the Capitol. A sitting member of Congress.

Never Forget the 10/18 insurrection.

We need to see 22-year sentences for the… pic.twitter.com/LUhTwXoAJp

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 18, 2023

WATCH: Pro-Palestinian hoard stages insurrection inside US Capitol, yelling pro-Palestinian incantations with massive banners reading “LET GAZA LIVE” with occupying halls used by Congressmen and staff

“The dirty underbelly of the Deep State” – South Carolina Republicans are backing Trump, and they shared their reasons   Story by Milla •8h  BuzzLoving

“The dirty underbelly of the Deep State” – So uthCarolina

Republicans are backing Trump, and they shared their reasons©Provided by BuzzLoving

Guests at the Silver Elephant Dinner gave their versions of why they support the four times indicted former president, and often their explanations include “the deep state” and “the establishment.”

Trump “showed us how to fight”©Illustration. Image credit: thenews2.com via Depositphotos
USA Today talked to Trump’s supporters in South Carolina. One of them, a 62-year-old woman, who is a researcher, told the publication, “He showed us how to fight.”

The “deep” state©Illustration. Image credit: Shutterstock
She added that Trump “revealed to us − to the average American − the dirty underbelly of the Deep State.”

Some liked Trump in the White House©Illustration. Image credit: ifeelstock via Depositphotos
A retired audiologist from Charleston told USA Today, “He is fixing a lot of the problems and the corruption that has been ingrained in this country.”
Trump’s promises©Provided by BuzzLovingOthers offered they liked Trump’s promises, including lower taxes and confrontations with other countries over free trade.

Trump’s appeal is that he’s not a politician©Illustration. Image credit: s_bukley via Depositphotos
A 37-year-old South Carolina resident offered his view, saying, “He’s not a politician; he’s a businessman.” A woman, 56, from Edisto Island, declared, “I’ve never seen anyone persecuted like this, politically.”

Echoing Trump’s words©Provided by BuzzLoving
The same woman echoed Trump’s words while defending him. She asked, “Why now? Because it’s election season,” she said. “People see that, and it makes them mad,” obviously referring to the indictments.

“They” do not want Trump to run©Illustration. Image credit: thenews2.com via Depositphotos
Another woman shared how she believes there is a “two-tiered” justice system and added, “I really believe (they) are picking on him because they don’t want him to run.” The woman added, “I am not offended by his brashness. I am going to stand by him.”

Trump gave an interesting speech©Illustration. Image credit: jctabb via Depositphotos
During a GOP 56th annual Silver Elephant Dinner, Trump, who was a keynote speaker, said, “You know I have this gorgeous head of hair – when I shower, I want water to pour down on me. When you go into these new homes with showers, the water drips down slowly, slowly.”

The former president also hinted at more legal troubles© Illustration. Image credit: Depositphotos
The twice-impeached president told the audience, “I never heard the word indictment, then all of a sudden, over a period of a couple of weeks, you get four indictments.”

It is all a “cover-up”©Provided by BuzzLoving
Trump criticized the Biden family, saying, “Every time more Biden corruption is exposed, his henchmen indict me because they want to knock out the bad publicity. Whenever they have something big happening, they put another indictment or a special indictment. It’s called a cover-up.”

Trump against Jack Smith©Provided by BuzzLoving
“If I wasn’t, we wouldn’t be under investigation by deranged Jack Smith. He’s a deranged human being,” Trump said. “You take a look at that face, you say that guy is a sick man. There is something wrong with him.”

What about McConnell?What about McConnell?©Elizabethtown, Kentucky – June 30, 2017: 

Republican Senator Mitch McConnell greets people at fundraiser in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, on June 30, 2017.
The former president asked the Senate for help and shared, “What they’re doing with this election interference and the Senate needs to step up. The House is doing a lot of things… They have something on Mitch McConnell. There’s no way he’s doing this. They got something on Mitch McConnell.”

 

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