The Columbia Bugle's Sunday Newsletter
July 25th-31st
A little bit of a slow news week, but the promise of a wild one next week with the big primary day August 2nd. Voters in five states (Arizona, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri and Washington) are going to have a huge opportunity to reshape the Republican Party for years to come with a slate of impressive America First Candidates.
With that being said, let’s dive into some of the stories that happened this week.
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Table Of Contents
The Beggar King Of Ukraine’s Blacklist
The Proxy War in Ukraine rages on while the BRAVE “Reincarnation of George Washington” Volodymyr Zelensky fights in the trenches. No, not in literal trenches on the battlefield with Ukrainian soldiers. That is too antiquated for a MODERN head of state. From posing for photoshoots in Vogue to censoring his political opponents, Zelensky is fighting the war the trained thespian and loyal servant of the Liberal World Order has trained for his entire life, the Propaganda War.
We think he is well compensated.
On Monday, the website UnHerd published a piece revealing the Ukrainian Government’s Blacklist.
The Government of Ukraine has issued a blacklist of individuals who they judge to be “promoting Russian propaganda” — including a number of prominent Western intellectuals.
The Blacklist comes from Ukraine’s recently established Center for Countering Disinformation.
The “Center for Countering Disinformation,” established in 2021 under Volodymyr Zelensky and headed by former lawyer Polina Lysenko, sits within the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine. Its stated aim is to detect and counter “propaganda” and “destructive disinformation” and to prevent the “manipulation of public opinion.”
Now wait a second, a Government project focused on countering “disinformation” that sure sounds familiar.
UnHerd went on to report that this list is not simply of Zelensky’s enemies within his state, but his enemies without. Included in this Blacklist are citizens and elected officials of his country’s main ally and benefactor, the United States of America.
On July 14th it published on its website a list of politicians, academics, activists that are “promoting Russian propaganda” — including several high-profile Western intellectuals and politicians. Republican Senator Rand Paul, former Democrat Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, military and geopolitical analyst Edward N. Luttwak, realist political scientist John Mearsheimer and heterodox journalist Glenn Greenwald were all included on the list. The list does not explain what the consequences are for anyone mentioned.
Journalist Glenn Greenwald joined Tucker Carlson this week to respond to himself and others being put on this Ukrainian Blacklist.
Former Congresswoman and 2020 Presidential Candidate Tulsi Gabbard responded as well.
Are we paying for this? Hard to say since we just shovel billions of dollars into this corrupt little country without any oversight. Of course, the one Senator who did demand oversight, Senator Rand Paul, was included in Ukraine’s Blacklist.
Every single member of Congress who voted for dumping billions of dollars into Ukraine must be asked about this Ukrainian Blacklist of Americans and whether they know if even a penny of the foreign aid we have given Ukraine has gone to Zelensky’s Center for Countering Disinformation.
But don’t hold your breath.
In addition, to fighting the propaganda war with censorship, Zelensky is also fighting it with the help of lavish photoshoots in Vogue.
But it’s not just the goofy photoshoot that makes the Vogue puff piece obscene, it’s the petulant demands by Zelensky for more foreign aid and military support.
Zelenskyy wants more military support for defense and to claw back territory Russia has seized since February, if not since 2014, when Russia first invaded Crimea and parts of eastern Ukraine. International attention has been flagging, while inflation and gas prices are on the rise worldwide. When I asked him about this, Zelenskyy was direct. “I will be very honest and maybe not very diplomatic: Gas is nothing. COVID, even COVID is nothing when you compare it to what’s going on in Ukraine,” he said. “Just try to imagine what I’m talking about happening to your home, to your country. Would you still be thinking about gas prices or electricity prices?” The battle, he said, goes beyond Ukraine. “We are fighting for things that could happen in any country in the world,” he told me. “If the world allows this to happen, then it is not upholding its values. That’s why Ukraine needs support—significant support.”
One of Zelensky’s aides echoed his demand that Americans must suffer for a conflict that means absolutely nothing to the security of the America people.
After all we’ve done (too much) for this little guy, he continues to lecture us about “values” and approach us with his hands out. It may be easy to dismiss inflation as “nothing” when your entire fake country is held up by the Liberal World Order, but the American people are beginning to wake up to this scam.
Tucker Carlson responded to Zelensky’s photoshoot and comments in Vogue on Thursday.
Ukraine has worn out its welcome and Americans are getting tired of funding them and their Beggar King to the tune of tens of billions of dollars.
The American people are weary of fighting and funding other country’s wars. Our country is in a recession (despite the denial and mutilation of the definition by the Biden Administration) and we face a very treacherous and uncertain future.
Best of luck to the rest of the world, but it is time we took care of our own.
Congressman Dan Bishop Grills Biden’s DOJ On The Governor Whitmer Kidnapping Plot
This week, Congressman Dan Bishop did what so few in Washington are willing to do, he questioned the DOJ and the FBI’s role in the Governor Whitmer Kidnapping Plot.
Questions about the Whitmer really took off when Buzzfeed reported on July 21st, 2021 that the FBI had a much larger role in the plot than we had all been led to believe.
An examination of the case by BuzzFeed News also reveals that some of those informants, acting under the direction of the FBI, played a far larger role than has previously been reported. Working in secret, they did more than just passively observe and report on the actions of the suspects. Instead, they had a hand in nearly every aspect of the alleged plot, starting with its inception. The extent of their involvement raises questions as to whether there would have even been a conspiracy without them.
Tucker Carlson And American Greatness Journalist Julie Kelly Discussing The Buzzfeed Report
Jesse Watters And Glenn Greenwald Discussing The Buzzfeed Report
Glenn Greenwald also wrote an excellent piece in his Substack discussing the revelations in the Whitmer Kidnapping Plot and the long history of the FBI being involved in similar plots.
For anyone covering the FBI during the first War on Terror, none of this is new. So many of the supposed “terror plots” the FBI purported to disrupt over the last twenty years were — just like the Michigan plot — ones that were created and driven by, and would not have happened without, the FBI's own planning, funding and direction.
It is this long history and mountain of evidence that compels an investigation into the role played by the FBI in the planning of the 1/6 riot at the Capitol. And it is that same evidence that made the corporate media's derisive reaction to such demands — as voiced by Darren Beattie's Revolver News, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson and myself — so ignorant and subservient. They acted as if only some unhinged conspiracy theorist could possibly believe that the FBI would have informants and agents embedded in the groups that planned that Capitol riot rather than what it is: the only logical conclusion for anyone who knows how the FBI actually behaves.
Unsurprisingly, DOJ NSD Chief General Matthew G. Olsen was not very cooperative with Congressman Dan Bishop’s questioning.
More on Matthew Olsen.
American Greatness Reporter Julie Kelly did a great breakdown of Congressman Dan Bishop’s questioning, the Whitmer Case and the upcoming trial.
Matthew Olsen, head of the National Security Division, repeatedly rebuffed questions by U.S. Representative Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) about the case during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday. A Michigan jury in April acquitted two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Whitmer after defense attorneys successfully argued their clients had been entrapped by the FBI; the jury deadlocked on two other defendants. Shortly after the stunning verdicts were handed down in what the Justice Department considers one of its most prominent “domestic terror” investigations in recent history, prosecutors announced they would retry Barry Croft and Adam Fox, the alleged ringleader of the group.
The new trial involves Olsen’s division, but rather than take time to perform the usual self-indulgent back slapping and preening common among top law enforcement officials during public hearings, Olsen had little to say except to confirm the Whitmer case was a good example of how the Justice Department handles domestic terror threats.
“I would include that case among many others that are part of our efforts to ensure that people who serve in public office are safe,” Olsen told the committee.
Olsen’s comments come after whistleblowers have recently come forward to say they’re being pressured to juice domestic terrorism data.
America’s FBI has been out of control for decades and is in desperate need of either reform or a complete reset. At this point, the latter might be the only option.
Darren Beattie
Everything in our politics will be fake and performative until we bring the National Security State, including the FBI, to heel. It’s not a Left issue. It’s not a Right issue. Every politician who cares about our country should demand a Church Committee 2.0.
Biden’s Sick Economy
Our Vegetable-In-Chief is still sick, recovering from a virus that he should not be able to get!
He tested positive again this week.
But Biden isn’t the only one who is sick. So is the United States economy.
The Biden Recession is officially here.
Not only did gross domestic product drop by 0.9 percent in the second quarter of 2022, but inflation reached yet another record high, which severely damaged Americans’ purchasing power. As a result, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis reported decreases in “private inventory investment, residential fixed investment, federal government spending, state and local government spending, and nonresidential fixed investment.”
Of course Biden and his minions in the Administration quickly tried to downplay it.
Their favorite word.
Tucker Carlson’s Monologue On The Biden Recession
New economic numbers show our GDP has declined for two quarters in a row. That's the definition of a recession. We're in a recession. That's why Joe Biden had to hold the briefing. And yet Biden never once mentioned those numbers, not a single time. Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? It was completely bizarre. Instead, Biden simply announced that there is no recession in the United States, no matter what you may have noticed about your own country.
Everything about the Biden Administration is sick, but their destruction of the American economy is by no means an accident. This has been a long project to mutilate and transition this country from a Middle Class Dream into a Globalist Nightmare where “you will own nothing and be happy.”
Other Stories We’re Tracking
West Virginia And Florida Take Action On ESG
States are stepping up and taking action to combat the Left’s Radical “Green” Energy Agenda starting with fighting ESG. Here are two of them:
Florida
Governor Desantis
We are going to do through Florida State Pension System a flat ban on any type of ESG.
We also want to provide protections for people in the financial marketplace from being discriminated against based on ideology.
We want to stop these kind of Masters of the Universe from trying to do through economic power what they can not achieve at the ballot box.
Victims of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) funds: o Americans who fill up their gas tanks. o 2nd Amendment supporters. o Soon to be retirees. o Conservative Americans. o Americans with strong held religious beliefs. o Victims of the Biden Border Crisis.Florida’s proposed legislation to protect against ESG will: • Prohibit big banks and credit cards from discriminating against customers for their religious, political, or social beliefs. • Prohibit SBA fund managers from considering ESG factors when investing state’s money.Full Press Conference
West Virginia
Upcoming Tuesday Primary
The Big August 2nd Primary Day is nearly upon us and the MAGA Movement has a chance to make a dramatic change to the Republican Party going forward in Arizona, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri and Washington.
Stay tuned for our full coverage of the primaries on Twitter.
Lib Freakout Over Monkeypox Facts
The Great Ned Ryun went on Fox Business and told the truth about Monkeypox and the entire panel did what Libs always do, whine and scream “BIGOT!”
Even the WHO agrees with Ned.
Oh look, kids. Even WHO agrees with me: WHO recommends gay and bisexual men limit sexual partners to reduce the spread of monkeypox. . . As in don't do orgies.
The WHO’s monkeypox expert, Rosamund Lewis, said men who have sex with men are the group at the highest risk of infection right now. About 99% of cases are among men, and at least 95% of those patients are men who have sex with men, Lewis said.
“For men who have sex with men, this includes, for the moment, reducing your number of sexual partners, reconsidering sex with new partners and exchanging contact details with any new partners to enable follow-up if needed,” said Tedros.
DC Mayor Bowser Activates The National Guard To Deal With Illegal Immigration
We all knew Democrats were hypocrites, seeking open borders for every community in America except their own. But leave it to one of the worst Mayors in America, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, to make it incredibly clear.
We need space and we need the federal government to be involved so I’ve asked for the deployment of the Guard as long as we need the Guard to deal with the humanitarian crisis that we expect to escalate,” Bowser continued.
The reported 4,000 border crossers and illegal aliens who have arrived in D.C. in recent weeks is a fraction of the total that American border communities face every day.
Also, #RepealDCHomeRule.
The Status Of The “Respect For Marriage Act”
Earlier this week we published a “Call to Action” for Americans to call their Senators and demand that they vote NO on the ludicrously named “Respect for Marriage Act” and prevent the Federal codification of Obergefell v. Hodges. The bill passed the House two weeks ago and is sitting in the Senate right now. So far there appears to not be much movement on the bill, but Republican voters must remain vigilant and contact their Senators ASAP before Schumer or other Senators dig their claws into them.
Interesting Reads Of The Week
The National Pulse: Jan 6th Committee Producer Posted About Assaulting Trump Supporters With a Car, As AntiFa Rioted Through D.C.
On the afternoon Trump’s inauguration – as AntiFa activists rampaged through the nation’s capital – Przygoda tweeted that he would be “getting this new attachment for my car when I drive around Trump country…” Included in the tweet was a short, black-and-white animation, or “gif,” of a car punching pedestrians as it passes with an automatic, metal arm.
The January 6th committee’s recent production staff hire is also an Emmy-nominated news producer whose résumé includes stints as a producer and editor at outlets including Bloomberg and ABC News.
Revolver News: Nine Reasons Why MTG Blows Neocon Dan Crenshaw Out of the Water
Plenty of Republicans have come around to rejecting the politically-motivated sham narrative of January 6th. But few have done as much as MTG to highlight the worst abuses of the January 6th witch hunt and defend rank-and-file Trump supporters from a calculated effort to humiliate and destroy them.
When it comes to politics, MTG is the one with real political courage, willing to take a position even at the moment when it is maximally unpopular.
Glenn Greenwald’s Substack: Court Rejects Google's Attempt to Dismiss Rumble's Antitrust Lawsuit, Ensuring Vast Discovery
Friday's decision against Google ensures that the suit now proceeds to the discovery stage, where Rumble will have the right to obtain from Google a broad and sweeping range of information about its practices, including internal documents on Google's algorithmic manipulation of its search engine and the onerous requirements it imposes on companies dependent upon its infrastructure to all but force customers to use YouTube.
Michael Anton’s Piece In Compact: They Can't Let Him Back In
Love him or hate him, during Trump’s presidency, the economy was strong, markets were up, inflation was under control, gas prices were low, illegal border crossings were down, crime was lower, trade deals were renegotiated, ISIS was defeated, NATO allies were stepping up, and China was stepping back (a little). Deny all that if you want to. The point here is that something like 100 million Americans believe it, strongly, and are bewildered and angered by elite hatred for the man they think delivered it.
Our rulers’ wealth and power rise with open borders, trade giveaways, and endless war. Trump, at least in principle, and often in practice, threatens all three.
Ned Ryun’s Piece In American Greatness: Trump Should Announce His Candidacy Before the Midterms
Donald Trump revitalized a crumbling, corporatist Republican Party and began making it his own America First party, which reinvigorated it.
Trump’s announcement and presence during the last two months of the midterm campaign would be a stark reminder of what was compared to what is and his message would be that it is time to start taking our country back now and we’re going to do it this November.
Trump’s Truth Of The Week: Dementia Joe
