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The Inappropriate Relationship Between the FBI and the Mainstream Media

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Ryan DeLarme,
June 15th, 2022

A report from the Washington Free Beacon has revealed that the FBI’s top national security official had dozens of improper meetings with journalists, something that has historically been seen as “dangerous”.

The FBI Official in question, Michael Steinbach, met regularly with a cadre of select mainstream “reporters” regularly between the years 2014 to 2017. Upon his retirement, Steinbach was granted a cushy position as the head of fraud prevention at Citi, but kept in close contact with the circle of establishment media personnel.

According to an FBI inspector general’s report obtained by the Beacon, Steinbach had “at least 27 in-person meetings with seven media members outside of FBI headquarters” between April 2014 and February 2017. 

The FBI is supposed to prevent its employees from accepting gifts from “prohibited sources”, without prior authorization from the FBI’s Office of Public Affairs (OPA).

In the report, an OPA representative says that Steinbach’s meetings and the events he attended with the press were not approved and would likely not have been approved. “You’re putting people into positions that are untenable. You know, nobody from OPA is there to chaperone. Nobody is there to set the ground rules. You never know what can be said. You don’t know under what conditions it can be said. So it can lead to a lot of problems,” the unidentified OPA officer said.

Unfortunately, the FBI had lost its credibility well before this most recent expose. There is no shortage of instances where the FBI has blatantly violated its sacred duty. 

A few examples worth recalling here include:

  •  Former Director James Comey constantly injected himself into the 2016 election through a ceaseless stream of editorializing his then-ongoing investigation into then-candidate Hillary Clinton.
  • During Robert Mueller’s special investigation, the FBI implausibly claimed it had no idea how requested information on FBI cellphones mysteriously disappeared.
  • Under Comey’s directorship, the FBI submitted inaccurate requests for warrants to a FISA court. FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith forged elements of an affidavit to surveil Trump supporter Carter Page; he later pleaded guilty to a felony.
  • The FBI hired the disreputable ex-British spy Christopher Steele as a contractor while he was peddling his fantasy — the Clinton-bought dossier — to Obama government officials and the media. 
  • Comey flagrantly leaked to the media on many occasions, including confidential memos detailing private meetings with President Donald Trump. 
  • Inspector General Horowitz reviewed 29 random FISA applications and found that the FBI was “not meeting the expectations of its own protocols.”

To learn more about how the FBI has no oversight ensuring that the Bureau operates in the best interest of the American People and not as a personal police force for the corpo/political elite, read our article: No Oversight: Who Does the FBI Really Work For?

Pelosi in Peril: 32 House Democrats Have Announced Retirement

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Ryan DeLarme,
June 14th, 2022

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is in a real political pickle ahead of November’s midterm elections. Of the 49 House lawmakers who’ve announced they will not be seeking reelection, 32 of them are Democrats.

Fifty-five total members of Congress will not be running this year, which breaks down into 6 U.S. Senators and 49 House lawmakers.

Ballotpedia reports:

  • The 55 retiring members include 32 Democrats and 23 Republicans, accounting for 11.9% of the Democratic caucus and 8.8% of the Republican caucus.
  • The 11.9% retirement rate among Democrats is the largest since 2014 when 8.5% of Democrats did not run for re-election.
  • The 8.8% retirement rate among Republicans is the second-lowest since 2014. The only year with a lower retirement rate was 2016 when 8.6% of Republicans retired.
  • Democrats had their lowest retirement rates out of the past five cycles in 2018 and 2020, when 7.4% and 3.4%, respectively, of the caucus did not seek re-election.
  • Republicans had their highest retirement rates out of the past five cycles in those years, with 12.6% of the caucus retiring in 2018 and 11.5% in 2020.

The 8.8% retirement rate among Republicans is the second-lowest since 2014. The only year with a lower retirement rate was 2016 when 8.6% of Republicans retired. Democrats had their lowest retirement rates out of the past five cycles in 2018 and 2020, when 7.4% and 3.4%, respectively, of the caucus did not seek re-election. Republicans had their highest retirement rates out of the past five cycles in those years, with 12.6% of the caucus retiring in 2018 and 11.5% in 2020

As it stands, Pelosi has a minuscule majority in the House of Representatives and Republicans win back the lower chamber, well, it’s already being reported that Pelosi will likely retire.

Nationwide redistricting is about to take place and will likely see Republicans picking up some seats. Even Democrats see the writing on the wall, many believe they will lose control of the house after the midterms.

While speaking with Politico, Tim Persico, the executive director of the Maloney-led Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), shared data with incumbents showing that several House Democrats are at risk of losing their seats to Republican challengers.

“We are not afraid of this data … We’re not trying to hide this,” Persico told Politico. “If [Democrats] use it, we’re going to hold the House. That’s what this data tells us, but we gotta get in action.”

No matter which way you slice it, Democrats have their work out for them. The GOP are raking in historic gobs of cash, setting fundraising records. In addition to that, the once-in-a-decade redistricting process – pegged to the 2020 census – is expected to generally favor Republicans over Democrats

Suspected FBI Front Group “Patriot Front” Arrested Outside of Pride Parade in Idaho

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Ryan DeLarme,
June 13th, 2022

31 members of the highly suspicious “Patriot Front” group were arrested in Coeur d’Alene Idaho on Saturday, allegedly en route to disrupt a gay pride event being held in a city park.

The group was picked up on “conspiracy to riot” charges which stemmed from law enforcement penetrating the group chats. Many conservatives view the group with contempt, believing the Patriot Front is an FBI concoction or at the very least heavily influenced by the feds.

The weirdly coordinated group made its debut back in December after conducting a march through DC. The band of white males dress awfully similar to FBI personnel in khaki pants with blue tops and tend to be in better shape than the average American male. 


The group came out of nowhere and immediately drew scrutiny. Right Angle’s Bill Whittle and Steve Green were among the first to talk about the group and their strange display.

Even Joe Rogan called out the group for looking suspiciously fed-like:

The group has also appeared outside of several Donald Trump rallies, mask-clad and brandishing upside-down American Flags (Two things decried by most patriots).

And now we have this, conspiracy to riot.

Independent reporter Alissa Azar posted videos from the scene:

As per Alissa Azar:

“and then there were none. I need to cool down then I’ll post some more footage. got images of almost all their faces. cops said that they got arrested because of the feds in their group chats. all charged with conspiracy to riot. a helicopter followed before they got pulled over”

Law enforcement has claimed that they were tipped off via a chatroom that they had personnel embedded in, similar to a story we reported on recently about the FED who knew the Buffalo shooter was going to act through a similar chatroom. Unlike the Buffalo shooting,  a bunch of idiots in masks was actually worth their time.

The Tax-Exempt Foundation Rebranding Pedophilia as ‘Ageplay’

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Ben Bartee
June 9th, 2022
Originally published @ The Daily Bell

Ageplay is the latest attempt to mainstream the obscene fetishes of “minor-attracted persons” (“MAPS”), who normal people call pedophiles.

Prostasia Foundation, the “nonprofit” that promotes it, defines ageplay as “a form of role-play in which at least one of the participants adopts the role or mindset of someone younger—a teenager, child, or even a baby.”

Prostasia Foundation: ‘online ageplay’ with ‘underage partners’ is ‘hot’

San Francisco-based nonprofit Prostasia Foundation’s blog post titled “Online ageplay safety tips” says:

“Although it may be tempting to launch into an online ageplay scene while the energy is hot, it’s important to begin the scene by having the ‘underage’ partner confirm their real age.”

By “confirming their real age,” presumably, the Foundation means the foolproof method of clicking a button that says “I am 18.”

Fascinatingly, Prostasia markets itself as a sex-positive “child protection organization”.

Their PR people made an “Our Values” graphic to let law enforcement know they are all about preventing child sex abuse.

The Foundation hosts a “MAP Support Club (MSC),” a “safe, chat-based peer-support network for teenagers and adults who self-identify as being attracted to younger minors.”

It’s safe! There’s definitely not any networking of child porn traffickers going down on the MAP Support Club! No sharing of explicit images there! It’s about support, and understanding. Because it’s liberal, and loving.

The whole goal is preventing child sexual abuse — not destigmatizing, normalizing, and mainstreaming it!

Meet totally trustworthy, non-predator Prostasia founder/director Jeremy Malcolm

Here’s Prostasia founder/director Jeremy Malcolm, the man in charge of promoting greater acceptance of pedophilia and “ageplay”:

Above: Jeremy Malcolm is totally trustworthy around your children. Protecting them is job #1 for Malcolm — it says so in Prostasia’s “our values” pyramid.

Prostasia founder: we’re open to pedophile ‘volunteers’

Jeremy Malcolm wants potential Prostasia “volunteers” to know that the children’s safety advocacy Foundation is a safe space for open pedophiles.

 

Via a May 2020 Prostasia newsletter titled Rising to the challenge of prevention:

“Why do we welcome people who are sexually stigmatized* as allies in our mission of child sexual abuse prevention?…

The short answer is we don’t treat people as assets or liabilities, we treat them as human beings. We won’t dehumanize or scapegoat anyone for the sake of our boosting our popularity with donors.”

*”people who are sexually stigmatized” = outed pedophiles

Prostasia defends child porn on social media

Doubtless, the ultra-libs at Prostasia would mindlessly cheerlead social media censorship of “anti-vaxxers” or Russians or MAGA domestic terrorists or whatever other opponents of the Deep State.

But the institution will adamantly defend child porn on those same platforms.

Prostasia recruits corporate media goon as communications director

In August 2021, Prostasia onboarded Atlantic, the Washington Post, and NBC Think contributor Noah Berlatsky as communications director.

Here Noah is communicating how criticizing pedophile advocacy “nonprofits” like Prostasia is actually anti-semitic, and transphobic:

“pedophilia as an identity can be and often is conflated with and attached to the identity of other hated identities; Jewish people, Black people, LGBT people.”

Noah Berlatsky,NBC journalist, totally not a child sex predator, wants you to understand that criticizing sexual abuse of children basically makes you a Holocaust denier

Why doesn’t Prostasia have to pay any taxes for its ‘child advocacy’?

The sweet cherry (no sexual pun intended) on top: Prostasia doesn’t have to pay taxes for its advocacy work “protecting children” by fighting for more child porn on the internet and rebranding pedophilia as a sexual kink, on equal moral footing with a cowboy/cowgirl fantasy.

It’s a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. As such, its $151,699.81 in 2021 income, a $100,000-increase from 2021, was totally tax-free.

 

Who said the tax code is broken? It’s working super well for lucratively-funded nonprofits mainlining pedophilia under the guise of “human rights” advocacy.

Pedophilic grooming is now mainstream leftist politics

MSNBC-of-the-internet Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian melted down recently on air over Joe Rogan’s calm explanation regarding the epidemic of pedophilic grooming among LGBTQ+++© activists.

Rogan cited and criticized the prolific child grooming videos that American millennial teachers routinely post to TikTok (which then get reposted to Libs of TikTok, here’s just one example. They appear daily).

 

As always, the Young Turks reframe Rogan’s criticism of LGBTQ+++© child grooming as “transphobia.” So defending children from sexual predators becomes some sort of culture war wedge issue.

But any honest assessment will show that child grooming, which was once a bridge too far, has gone mainstream in leftist and academic circles.

New York professor: ‘It’s not obvious to me that [adult sex with 12-year-old girls] is wrong’

Publicly-subsidized New York professor Stephen Kershnar explains that adult-child sex is a normal evolutionary impulse — and, therefore, by implication, morally correct. He even absurdly cites the fact that bonobos apparently engage in such activities as further evidence of its moral correctness.

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1488707103023722497?s=20&t=MFu7g5AmIrE9TXsU0UWssg

This guy is no fringe basement-dweller:

“Stephen Kershnar is a distinguished teaching professor in the philosophy department at the State University of New York at Fredonia and an attorney.”

(Kershnar was suspended from SUNY Fredonia for his pedophilia advocacy despite a widely-signed letter of support from 157 of his colleagues).

Occidental College instructor: ‘you’re talking to a guy who for 25 years has been making arguments more or less in defense of adult-child sex in classrooms’

Another professor at a major US university, Thaddeus Russell, concurred with Kershnar’s moral arguments. But he took it a step further — not merely arguing that it’s morally innocuous, but openly defending “adult-child sex” in classrooms.

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1488713883451748352?s=20&t=KFfuu3o-Lx1PlhxcxHWzqQ

Like Kershnar, Thaddeus Russell is a mainstream academic and writer:

“[Thaddeus Russell] teaches history and cultural studies at Occidental College and has taught at Columbia University, Barnard College, Eugene Lang College, and the New School for Social Research.”

These are not one-offs; one could literally fill volumes with examples of public school educators from the pre-k to university level engaged in destigmatizing and normalizing pedophilia.

Decency compels us to re-stigmatize them.

Ben Bartee is a Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs. Follow his stuff via Armageddon Prose, Substack, Patreon, Gab, and Twitter. Please support his independent operations however you can.

J6 Hearings Yield Terrible Ratings Despite James Goldston’s Attempts to Turn the Sham Into Reality TV

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Ryan DeLarme,
June 11th, 2022

The Jan. 6th Committee’s attempt to turn the hearings into some sort of Hollywood production is not only indicative of how propagandized this whole affair truly is, but it’s also causing viewers to tune out en masse.

The ratings are in and it’s a bust for the mainstream across the board. Cable news watch shared the ratings:

https://twitter.com/CableNewsWatch/status/1535297304931999744?s=20&t=NCS7hYqJO5gbRq0QXwXtFw

The Hill’s Joe Concha took the time to explain how bad the viewership really was.

 

The monumental tanking comes despite the Committee bringing on Ex-ABC News exec James Goldston.

Goldston, who served as president of ABC News from 2014 until early 2021, has been working as an adviser to the House select committee and quietly producing the hearing. This included the use of a massive teleprompter, which wouldn’t be controversial if it weren’t an official congressional hearing.

Politicians on both sides of the aisle have long expressed that the Jan. 6 committee is a politically motivated attack. Proponents say it is a necessary examination of the events that led to the Capitol riot and a broader effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Other commentators, such as YouTube personality Tim Pool, have claimed the events of May. 29th 2020, which actually saw an assault on the White House and the moving of the President to a secure bunker, was much more worthy of attention. 

“Here’s what I don’t understand,” Pool said, “why the Right isn’t marching in protest against all of the waves of destruction caused by Antifa, the 5-29-20 insurrection when leftists set fire and tried to raze St. John’s Church, when they set fire to a White House guard post, when they tried to break down the fence surrounding the White House and the President was forced into a bunker.”

How soon we forget when things aren’t given wall-to-wall coverage by the mainstream media.