The Columbia Bugle's Sunday Newsletter
The Columbia Bugle's Sunday Newsletter
August 15th-21st
Tucker Carlson returned from a week off to deliver powerful monologues reacting to the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago, the FBI’s involvement in the Whitmer Plot and the GOP’s failed messaging heading into the Midterms. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene joined Tucker to highlight the horrific abuse of America’s children perpetrated in the name of “gender affirmation.” Liz Cheney officially became a lame duck loser.
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Table Of Contents
Tucker Carlson’s Triumphant Return
Tucker is Back!
Reaction To The Raid
Tucker Carlson opened his first show back with a nearly 30 minute monologue reacting to the raid on Mar-a-Lago.
We've had a few days to reflect on it and have concluded that no honest person could believe that the raid on Donald Trump's home last week was a legitimate act of law enforcement. It was not. Even the Biden administration didn't really bother to pretend otherwise. The official explanations that we have heard for the raid make no sense at all. It doesn't matter how forcefully they are repeated by the media, they're nonsensical.
Tucker quotes Matt Boose’s excellent piece in the American Greatness.
Matt Boose: Is the Biden Administration Trying to Start an Insurrection?
There should be no tut-tutting about the unprecedented FBI raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. It is exactly what it looks like: a show of force against the opposition leader by the head of state and his personal bodyguards.
This raid is an unequivocal travesty for democracy. It will not “lower the temperature” in our fracturing republic, as Biden once promised to do. To the contrary, it will bring us further along to a boiling point, inflame deep and bitter divisions, and make a hellish descent into violent unrest more likely. It cannot but provoke a large part of the country, and solidify a conviction among them that they are living under the boot of a despotic occupation.
Americans in 2016 had a simple request: stop plundering our country and enforce the immigration laws. The regime answered by waging a soft coup which, lately, is looking more like a real coup. The political history of America over the past six years can be summed up as the struggle of a corrupt, self-serving political class to eliminate the democratic process and assert its will by fiat. The message they have sent is that in Our Democracy™ the people cannot peacefully change their government. If they dare to choose new rulers, the political class will strike back with a vengeance.
In addition, to calling out the raid on Mar-a-Lago, Tucker Carlson brought up the disturbing political persecution of Douglas Mackey.
Now you don't have to be a right-winger to find that terrifying. In a free country, you have an absolute right to say what you think in public, period, doesn't matter who is offended by what you say. It doesn't matter if people consider your views ugly. Even if every person on the planet finds your opinions horrifying and beyond the pale, you still have the right to express them because you were born with that right. It's inherent. You cannot be sent to prison for your political views ever. That is the core principle of the United States. That is the principle that Marines fought their way to the top of Mount Suribachi to protect.
So, whatever you think of his means, Douglass Mackey’s freedom of speech was very much worth defending, but virtually nobody defended it. Aside from a few brave and honorable exceptions, even so-called conservative media stayed silent as Douglass Mackey’s life was destroyed by the Biden Justice Department. He's still in limbo, facing ten years. Why? Well, because The New York Times had called him a far-right Twitter troll and no respectable person wanted to be anywhere near that. So, the purge continued.
Tucker has been one of the few and one of the earliest to discuss Mackey’s case before, here are a few clips.
The persecution of Douglas Mackey is on it’s own very disturbing, but the silence by many “conservatives” is just as disturbing. Here you have a young guy who ran a very influential twitter account, but because he had some views that were deemed too controversial his life is being destroyed while many “conservatives” watch in silence. If you’d like to help out Mr. Mackey, here is a link to his GiveSendGo.
Tucker continued his monologue by listing off some of the people in Trump’s orbit who are also being persecuted by Garland’s DOJ.
Over the last 18 months, virtually every significant figure in the orbiter at Donald Trump has been swept up by Merrick Garland at Department of Justice. Their homes raided, their personal communications seized and leaked to the media. Some have been arrested and thrown in jail. Donald Trump's lawyers are the primary targets.
Tucker Carlson on what this is all really about.
Tucker Carlson calls out the pathetic RINOs who are either silent or downplaying the corruption of the FBI.
Tucker Carlson joined Laura Ingraham later that week to call out Mike Pence’s Regime groveling.
Tucker Carlson closed his monologue with a call for the Regime to back off and reverse course.
We covered many of the details of the raid on Mar-a-Lago in last week’s newsletter and the persecution of the MAGA Movement in our July 24th newsletter.
The raid on Mar-a-Lago is exactly what it appears to be, a naked power grab and fishing expedition to block the American people from launching Donald Trump back into to the Swamp to finish what he started.
Whitmer Kidnapping Hoax And The Mystery Of The January 6th Pipe Bomber
Tucker followed up his incredible 30 minute monologue with an equally impressive and important monologue on Tuesday calling out America’s out of control FBI and providing an update on the FBI’s Whitmer Kidnapping Hoax Trial.
Tucker brought up the curious case of the FBI’s Steven D’Antuono, a man who was not punished after overseeing the Whitmer Kidnapping Hoax, but was instead promoted.
Julie Kelly’s Piece In American Mind: Rogue Agency
Whitmer fednapping exposes moral rot of FBI.
Shared hotel rooms. Fake militias. Booze and pot. Planted evidence. Phony bomb makers. Criminal FBI informants. Wife-beating wife-swappers.
No, that’s not the latest iteration of the “X Files” but the real-life drama of the FBI-concocted scheme to “kidnap” Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020.
Regardless of the trial’s outcome, the FBI must answer for this entrapment operation. Two innocent men spent 18 months in jail before they were released. Barry Croft and Adam Fox, if acquitted this month, will have spent nearly two years in jail.
The only individuals who deserve to be behind bars are the FBI officials, agents, and informants culpable for this shameful abuse of power that interfered in a presidential election, unfairly smeared Donald Trump and his supporters, wasted millions in federal and state resources, and destroyed the lives and families of innocent men. That’s the only imaginable happy ending to this sad farce.
Senator Ted Cruz and Congressman Dan Bishop have been asking important questions about D’Antuono.
We covered the questions surrounding D’Antuono and the FBI’s conduct in the Whitmer Kidnapping Hoax in our newsletters from July 31st and August 7th.
After Tucker’s monologue he spoke with Darren Beattie about the Mystery of the January 6th Pipe Bomber and Revolver News’ investigation into it.
Revolver News: Jan 6 Pipe Bomber’s Mechanical Timer Detonates Fedsurrection Lie
Ray Epps even makes an appearance in the Revolver News piece.
Darren discussing Epps’ bizarre comments about potential “explosions” on “side streets” on January 6th.
Two other critical Revolver News pieces to read regarding the Mystery of the January 6th Pipe Bomber:
Why should anyone believe the Media and FBI’s (hard to differentiate the two at times) story when it comes to January 6th when they’ve engaged in nothing but bad faith and deception? We need answers about January 6th, but we’re not going to get them until the National Security Apparatus is brought to heel. Hearings are fine and whistleblowers are welcome but until the FBI faces real accountability especially through defunding and even dismantlement, nothing will change. We cannot allow these important questions about the FBI’s conduct to be lost to time.
GOP’s Messaging Failure Heading Into Midterms
The Midterms should be an easy slam dunk for the GOP in 2022. Biden is incredibly unpopular, the economy is a mess, and crime and our border are out of control. So why does victory appear to be slipping away from Republicans? Tucker analyzed this question in his monologue on Thursday.
So, let's say again, just for the sake of argument that you ran a campaign on illegal immigration and crime. Now, these are two issues that didn't just arise out of nowhere. They're the product of policies the Democratic Party put in. They were intentional outcomes. We have millions of people coming in illegally and we have a lot more murders than we had two years ago. These two issues, immigration and crime, don't simply annoy voters, though they very much do. These two issues threaten the existence of our society. So, maybe you should run on them. That seems reasonable, but that's not what they're doing.
These are all big, big problems, but changing the population of the United States, allowing people to be murdered in the street, letting drug addicts live on the sidewalk and sending them crack pipes that will change everything forever. These are offenses against the most basic rules of any civilization and the most basic of all is you reward people for doing the right thing and you penalize them for doing the wrong thing. If you start doing the opposite, then everything falls apart and everybody knows that.
Tucker listed off a few candidates who are running on this bold law & order message, all of whom, to the dismay of McConnell and the GOP Swamp, defeated their establishment opponents in their primaries.
There are candidates who are talking about the stuff—J.D. Vance in Ohio, Blake Masters in Arizona, Joe Kent in the Pacific Northwest. The leaders of the Republican Party in Washington would rather those guys lose and people like them lose than change the focus of the party to issues that voters actually care about. But the truth is, you can't win elections unless you listen to voters. They're telling you what they want. Republicans have less than three months to figure this very simple riddle out, or it's going to be an actual disaster.
Former Senior Advisor to President Trump Stephen Miller joined Tucker Carlson after his monologue and explained how people actually drive up turnout and win elections.
2022 can be a Red Wave, but only if Republicans step up and run on the issues that actually matter. Voters may despise Biden, but turnout will hinge on whether voters believe that Republicans, when given power, will take bold actions to oppose the Regime.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Powerful Legislation To Protect America’s Children
The mutilation of America’s children is one of the most evil crimes going on in this country right now. Thousands of children being fed lies and butchered for the sake of the Left’s ghoulish LGBT agenda. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene took the lead on this issue this week with her new bill called the “Protect Children’s Innocence Act.” Here she is on Tucker Carlson’s show this week announcing it and here is the text of the bill.
The Post Millennial did an excellent write up of the details of the bill.
The Protect Children's Innocence Act would outright prohibit all so-called "gender affirmative" care for minors in US and offer civil protections to any minor upon whom these procedures were done.
The bill would make pharmaceutical "gender affirmation" of minors a class C felony, punishable by up to 25 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, and stop any taxpayer funded insurance plans from paying for this kind of treatment. The law would bar any school from providing instruction on those practices.
That which characterizes what is known as "gender affirming care" includes dozens of procedures, as well as the application of drugs, that would be prohibited under the bill. That the procedures and drugs are laid bare shows the scope of what kind of butchery is considered justifiable under the cause of "trans" care.
These include: castration, orchiectomy, scotoplasty, vasectomy, hysterectomy, oophorectomy, ovariaectomy, metoidoplasty, penectomy, phalloplasty, vaginectomy, vulvoplasty, reduction thyrochondroplasty, chondrolaryngoplasty, and mastectomy, in the event that these are done on healthy minors for the purpose of gender affirmation or to "cure" gender dysphoria.
Cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers are also prohibited for purpose of gender affirmation or curing gender dysphoria.
List of some of the co-sponsors so far for Greene’s bill.
A few more have joined since that tweet:
Senate candidates JD Vance and Blake Masters have said they’re onboard with Greene’s legislation.
This is but one example of the evil we are up against and that legislation seeks to combat.
Jason Whitlock characterized this madness perfectly on Tucker’s show.
Protecting America’s children from this satanic agenda is not only incredibly popular with the base and a ton of Americans, it is our duty. The mutilation and brainwashing of America’s children must end and the people behind it must be held responsible.
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