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Author Hakim Bey Dies and News Conveniently Forgets His NAMBLA Activism

Hakim Bey, born Peter Lamborn Wilson, is a well known figure in the counterculture. Like William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg and many...

Conflicting Accounts Regarding Tragic Mass Shooting in Texas

The shooting at a Texas elementary school has claimed the lives of 14 children and one teacher. This is just one of several mass shootings in...

A Brief History of New Jersey Corruption

New Jersey's corruption is infamous. So well known its filtered its way into pop culture with movies like American Hustle and acclaimed tv...

Turkey's Erdogan is Upset for Good Reason

The Turkish has accused Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of telling the US to not sell fighter jets to Turkey. He has called off...

Pope Francis Joins Democrats In Calling for More Gun Control

Nine Ways to Raise Fearful, Unhappy, and Woke Kids (Without Really Trying)

Quadruple-Jabbed WA Governor Jay Inslee Has Symptomatic Covid

COVID Vaccines Might Impair Longterm COVID Immunity

Former Pfizer VP Dr. Michael Yeadon: COVID and MRNA Injections Are About Depopulation & Control Not Health

Stacey Abrams Suggests There Will Be Voter Suppression in the Georgia Gubernatorial Race Despite Increased Voter Turnout

Google Lite: DuckDuckGo Signs Secret Deal with Bill Gates to Track Users Online

Jack Dorsey ‘will leave Twitter’s board of directors TODAY’: CEO set to step down 16 years after co-founding social media giant

Mike Rowe Says Feds "Revoked" Film Permit Because Official "Didn't Like His Personal Politics"

Secret Video Recordings LEAKED from Inside “The Hole” of DC Gitmo — First Footage Ever Released of Cockroach and Mold Infested Cell of J6 Political Prisoner

Psaki: “Growing up in the northeast I will never understand the closing of stores and restaurants when there is barely an inch of snow on the ground yet.” - Twitter Retorts Brutally

Father Of Parkland Victim: ‘We Send Out Billions To Other Countries All The Time. Why Not Fund School Safety In America?’

MI Dem Chair’s Hypocrisy On Full Display As He IGNORED SOS Benson Telling Clerks To Ignore Signature Matching During 2020 Election, But Mocks GOP Candidates For Fraudulent Signatures They Had NOTHING To Do With

Multiple Attorneys General Considering Criminal Charges Against Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci for Illegal Gain of Function Research

Violent crime is surging on New York subways because the justice system switched its focus from enlightened prevention to post-mayhem mop-up.

Carbon monoxide poisoning was determined to be the cause of death for three Americans found dead at a Sandals resort in the Bahamas

Newly Released Draft Memo: National School Boards Wanted Biden to Use Military Force Against Parents Concerned Over Radical Agenda

Watch Live: Day One Of World Government Summit In Geneva, NWO Crime Syndicate Declares War On The Nation-State, Populism & Medical Freedom

WHO is Set to Officially Recommend Every Country Adopt COVID Lockdowns in Abrupt Change to Policy

Chief Globalist Klaus Schwab Who Dreams Of Installing Chips Into Citizen’s Brains, Tells Members of World Economic Forum: “The future is being built by us!”

Busted: Disinformation Operative Who Attacked Elon Musk’s Push for “Free Speech” Caught Red-Handed in Secret Influence Operation

After Spending Three Years and Millions of Dollars How Did Mueller and Weissmann Not Figure Out Hillary Created the Russia Hoax?

Tales From the Swamp: How a Republican Senator’s Son Partnered With a Liberal Dark Money Group To Sink Voter ID Expansion

International, Peer-Reviewed Journal ‘Vaccines’ Finds Potential Safety Signal for Severe Blood Clots After COVID-19 mRNA Inoculation

Biden’s climate policies realized: New York’s ‘Home Energy Crisis’ – ‘More than a million households are 60 days in arrears on their energy bills, with an avg. of $1,427.71 in debt, & shut-offs are increasing’

The KAPIKILL Files, chapter 1: FBI files reveal the inside story of the 1982 assassination of a Turkish diplomat outside Boston and the hunt to find his killers

The Babylon Bee Would Like To Announce We Have Obtained Dirt On Hillary Cli

Pro-Abortion Leftists Go All In on Eugenics

The people hiding behind Biden are committing sabotage against the United States. They are purposely making sabotage look like mere incompetence, which, considering Biden, would have been no surprise

Congress to pass anti-price gouging legislation targeting Big Oil while PROTECTING insane price gouging and racketeering of Big Pharma

America LAST: US Senate REJECTS $48 Billion Aid Package For Small Businesses and Restaurants Just Hours After Approving ANOTHER $40 Billion for Ukraine – 34 RINOs Voted Yes for Ukraine and No for Americans

New York Attorney General Launches Probe of Twitch, 4chan, 8chan, Discord, Other Social Media Companies After Buffalo Attack

Tales From the Swamp: How a Republican Senator’s Son Partnered With a Liberal Dark Money Group To Sink Voter ID Expansion

Peter Doocy to WH Press Secretary: “So... the disinformation board is being shut down because of disinformation?” [VIDEO]

Alberta Premier Mocks Biden for Refusing Canadian Oil: 'You Don’t Need the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet to Patrol the Great Lakes'

“Effective”? Latest CDC Data Shows FULLY Vaccinated Children Have Higher Covid Infection Rates Than Unvaccinated Children

Possible Recount in Pennsylvania Senate Race — McCormick Leads But Dr. Oz Cuts His Lead to 2,000 Votes, Kathy Barnette Trails in 3rd Place

Last year, the School District of Philadelphia encouraged teachers to attend a conference on “kink,” “BDSM,” “trans sex,” and “banging beyond binaries.”

The Formosa Club, 94 Mexican lawmakers, 70 Brazilian lawmakers and others signed a letter recommending Taiwan’s inclusion to the WHO director-general

Did PA Lt. Gov and Dem Candidate For US Senate John Fetterman Commit A Felony By Offering Gift Cards and Lottery Tickets As Incentives For “Banked” Votes?

Transgender ‘Human Rights Activist’ Once Celebrated by New York Times is Charged with Sexually Abusing and Blackmailing a Child

The Manifesto Which Is Now Blocked By Google Shows That The Buffalo Shooter Is A Self-Described “Authoritarian Leftist” Who Hates Fox News – The Left Claims That The Shooting Is Tucker’s Fault

Busted: Biden’s “Minster of Truth” Nina Jankowicz Participated in Secret NATO-Funded Cabal to Subvert Western Democracies Using Disinformation as Cover

Church Shooting in Southern California; Four Critically Wounded, One Fatality; Police: One Person Detained, Weapon Recovered

Guess Who Said This? “We Will Work Together, and Continue to Work Together… and to Work Together as We Continue to Work… To Work Together… We Will Work on This Together”

China's rival to Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 completes its first pre-delivery Shanghai test flight ahead of handover to customer

Bezos calls on Joe Biden’s new Disinformation Board to review this economically illiterate tweet from Joe Biden on inflation

The White House — over 24 hours later — finally corrected its tweet on when vaccines were available BUT added a brand new misleading statement

Rogan On Jan 6 Capitol Protest – “How About The F*cking FBI Agents Who Were Inciting Violence? They Had People That Were There. For A FACT, We Know That.”

15-year-old went missing after going to the bathroom at a Dallas Mavericks game. Her parents found her through sex trafficking ads on the internet.

“There’s a Number of VERY Troubling Things Happening at the FBI”: Whistleblower Leaks Documents to Project Veritas Showing Agency is Targeting News Organizations With Criminal Investigations

Pelosi Tells Far-Left Activists To Pressure Supreme Court In To Upholding Roe v. Wade... They Show Up At Her House Instead

Militant Activist Group Takes Credit for Arson at Wisconsin Pro-Life Organization, Promises ‘Increasingly Extreme Tactics’

After Creating the Inflation Crisis with Record Government Spending, Joe Biden Now Says His Top Priority is Fighting Inflation

WHO Propaganda Outlet from France Attacks Gateway Pundit Reporting and Dr. Li Who Claims COVID Was Created in a Lab and Released Intentionally by China

Wealthy Americans are buying second passports as a 'plan B' for their families, citing the pandemic, climate change, and political turmoil

Biden has trouble recognizing his grandchildren…

Clarence Thomas resolute: ‘We won’t be bullied’ over Roe ruling, Roberts slams ‘appalling’ leak

Dinesh D’Souza Speaks At Save America Rally In PA: “In This Movie, We Show That There Are At Least 400,000 FRAUDULENT VOTES – TRUMP WON THE 2020 ELECTION”

FOX News Joins Mainstream Media in Boycotting Coverage of “2000 Mules” Documentary on Nation-wide Ballot Trafficking Conspiracy to Steal 2020 Election

Horrifying moment Putin's forces fire thermobaric weapons on besieged Mariupol steelworks - as 'contact lost' with hero defenders left inside

'Leftists have suddenly realized what a woman is again!' Pro-abortion zealots mocked for transgender crusade that's harmed biological females

Those who care about norms, decorum, civility, institutions, and rule of law must hold the leaker and any co-conspirators fully accountable for this egregious breach.

Elon Musk Calls For Investigation Into Dem Activist Groups: “Who funds these organizations that want to control your access to information, sunlight is the best disinfectant”

Blue-check ‘Catholic priest’ mocks Trump for canceling his Nebraska rally over a tornado warning, tells ‘MAGA peeps’ to attend anyway

Biden Regime Announces Creation of “Disinformation Governance Board” Under the Authority of Homeland Security with a Lunatic in Charge

Double amputee who lost his legs after being impaled on fence for FIVE DAYS asks 'do they think my legs will grow back' with DWP still to declare him unfit to work

Jameela Jamil posts her 'last tweet,' suggests Elon Musk's 'free speech bid' will result in 'totally lawless hate, bigotry, and misogyny' on Twitter

Jen Psaki asked if White House Feels any Responsibility for Border Death of National Guardsman Bishop Evans, Responds Well, He Wasn’t Working for us

Seattle boss praised for hiking employee pay to $70k accused of sexual assault, blames opponents of his progressive advocacy

Fauci Signed Deal with China Agreeing to “Destroy and/or Return the Secret Files, Materials and Equipment without Any Backup”

Schumer Compares Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Confirmation to Supreme Court to Jesus Christ’s Resurrection: ‘The Stone Has Been Rolled Away From The Tomb’

NYPD's suspect in savage killing of Queens mom found stuffed in duffel bag in custody

Passengers slam US airlines for encouraging mask-free passengers and ‘rewarding’ them with champagne

Up to 2,000 Delta and 1,000 United passengers banned for COVID-19 mask-wearing violations will be allowed to fly with the airlines again

Bill O’Reilly tells Newsmax that White House chief of staff Ron Klain was the man making the final decisions, not President Joe Biden

Former Intel Officials, Citing Russia, Say Big-Tech Monopoly Power Vital To National Security

Reporter RIPS Lori Lightfoot: “How Could You Possibly Even Consider Running for Re-election as Mayor of Chicago After All the Harm You’ve Caused?”

Andy Ngo shares videos of protesters in G.R. Mich. outside Kid Rock concert, attempting to enter hotel & threatening drivers

Shanghai Descends into Chaos as Taiwan Military Distributes Survival Handbook to Citizens in Preparation for China Invasion

'I will never be bullied into silence': Libs of Tik Tok Twitter account suspended again shortly after being reinstated from prior suspension

English Teachers Association Will 'Decenter Book Reading and Essay Writing' as It Addresses 'Systemic Inequalities and Social Justice'

“None of Them Should Be in Jail. They Should All Be Out On Bail…It Is an American Gulag” – Judge Napolitano on the DOJ’s and Court’s Actions with January 6ers

Latest on Elon Musk Twitter Deal

Vanguard Swoops in, Buys Majority Stake in Twitter

"The Twitter Board of Directors will carefully review the proposal to determine the course of action that it believes is in the best interest of the Company and all Twitter stockholders."

MNSBC’s Katy Tur warns there are ‘massive, life and globe-altering consequences’ for ‘letting people run wild’ on Twitter

Mike Bloomberg Pays Less than Half the Tax Rate Paid by Average American

"Best And Final Offer" - Elon Musk Offers To Buy Twitter For $54.20 Per Share

Far-Left Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo Lashes Out at Prosecutors After Two of Her Staffers Indicted in $11 Million ‘Vaccine Contract’ Investigation

People push back after Jill Filipovic claims that 'Men with stay-at-home wives are more sexist than men with working wives'

NYC subway shooter's Philly-rented U-Haul is found abandoned on Brooklyn highway five miles from where he shot ten straphangers: Gunman was on FBI's terrorist radar until 2019

...ranted about race issues and claimed that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was proof that black people were treated with disdain in society

"Kill All The Whiteys" - Suspect In Brooklyn Subway Shooting Spouted Hateful "Black Nationalist" Rhetoric, Praised "Beautiful" 9/11

Video Shows Frustrated Target Shopper Stepping in to Stop Thief, Rip Bin From His Hands: ‘Stop That S, Man! Get a FIng Job!

Jen Psaki reminds Americans to direct their anger at Putin and only Putin when they see tomorrow’s ‘extraordinarily elevated’ inflation data [videos]

‘Go capture her!’ Crazed woke mob pursues Buffalo U student who invited black Republican to speak

Trump splits conservatives by endorsing Dr. Oz

Dr. Fauci admits COVID-19 'is not going to be eradicated,' concedes that Americans should assess their own personal risk with the virus

$54 million in Chinese gifts donated to Penn, home of Biden Center. Ethics watchdog group calls for federal probe into Hunter Biden's deals with China.

Video appears to show Ukrainian soldiers executing Russian soldier captured in an ambush outside Kyiv, New York Times reports

Utah "republican" Governor Spencer Cox shares his preferred pronouns with students to teach kids leadership with Equity & Inclusion

Mr. T announces that he got his second Moderna COVID-19 vaccine booster and plans to keep masking: '[T]he virus ain’t over, Fool!'

Alec Baldwin suffers loss after career update

Arizona Attorney General Releases Maricopa County 2020 Election Interim Report – Individuals To Be Prosecuted For Election Fraud

Biden FEC Nominee ADMITS Her Name Is On Legal Document Attesting Voting Machines Used In GA ILLEGALLY SWITCHED VOTES From One Candidate To Another

Psaki REFUSES To Tell Fox News’ Peter Doocy If Joe Biden Wrote College Letter of Recommendation for Son of Hunter Biden’s Chinese Business Partner

Jan 6 Defendant ACQUITTED on All Charges After Convincing Judge He “Reasonably Believed” Capitol Police Let Him Into the Building

Drop the Knife: Brandy Takes a Spill Edition (Folks at Police Gunpoint… Carefully Follow Instructions. Hire Cochrin Later.)

California Assembly Committee Passes Bill That Could Legalize Infanticide

Americans Sour on Disney’s LGBTQ Agenda

‘It Does Not Justify It’: Peace Corps Guidance for Black Volunteers In Ukraine Causes a Stir After Being Exposed on Twitter

Disney Employee Caught On Camera Molesting 11-Yr-Old Girl In Elevator…Disney Security Guard Investigating Sexual Assault Told “Keep your mouth shut!”…Disney Reportedly Flew Accused Molester Back To India

Black Lives Matter Secretly Bought a $6 Million House Allies and critics alike have questioned where the organization’s money has gone.

Freie Presse: A German man is under investigation after authorities discovered he'd received the coronavirus vaccine at least 87 times

Black Philadelphia Journos Beg Local News Networks To Stop Reporting Breaking News On Gun Violence Because It Makes Blacks Look Bad

O’Reilly: “Mass chaos and cancellations all over USA on airlines. Jet Blue the worst. Biden's FAA collapsing. Something has to be done”

A pilot who lied about his flying experience to secure a job at British Airways was said to have been caught when he pressed a button 'no qualified pilot would

Britney Spears vows to ‘speak up & blow the house down about abuse’ during conservatorship & tells family ‘f**k you all’

‘The biggest election fraud in Hungary’s history’ – Hungarian left opposition accused of using illegal offshore database before April 3 vote

Switzerland decides not to ban swastikas

YouTube & Google placed on Red List for Child Safety after Children’s Union proves they are endangering Kids through Censorship

“Person Speaker”: GOP Rep. Destroys Pelosi and SCOTUS Nominee Kentanji With One Funny Phrase

Twitch is shutting down app for MILLIONS of viewers later this month – and gamers are furious

Former British Spy Involved in Chemical Weapons Deceptions During Syrian Conflict Resurfaces to Broadcast Chemical Weapons May Be Used in Ukraine

US Postal Service Refuses to Release Investigative Report on Whistleblower Truck Driver Who Hauled 288,000 Suspicious Ballots Across State Lines Before 2020 Election

Hunter Biden Laptop Reveals Treasure Trove Of Vile Texts and Emails Including Racial Slurs and Gay Jokes Including “N” Word With $845/Hr. Lawyer

Pfizer CEO Attacks Those Who Dare Question the Experimental Vaccine… Again: “They Literally Cost Lives… They’re Criminals”

“Bill Barr Broke the Law… The Fix Is In… Bill Barr Did Not Do His Job” – EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Tony Shaffer on Barr’s Actions After the 2020 Election

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich Refers Criminal Action Against AZ Secretary of State Katie Hobbs For Election Crimes

Over 800 Athletes Drop Dead On The Field In The First Year After The Injections

Day After FEC Fines Hillary’s 2016 Campaign for Lying About Creating and Funding the Fake Trump-Russia Conspiracy — She Tweets Out a NEW Trump-Russia Conspiracy

Poison Control Issues Nationwide “Toxic” Warning About Covid-19 Rapid Antigen Tests – Kit Includes Poisonous “Liquid Substance” Used Commonly in “Pest Control”

Washington Post reveals details about Biden family influence peddling after ignoring bombshell reporting from New York Post

Monster who kidnapped bus full of school kids and buried them alive in sick ransom bid is to be FREED on parole after 46 years

GOP Leader McCarthy Plans to ‘Talk To’ Madison Cawthorn Over His Remarks on DC Elites Doing Cocaine, Inviting Him to Orgy Parties

Cockroaches and Termites, The Marxists are normalizing criminal behavior and too many Americans are letting them get away with it

Shut Up, Mickey: Disney Vows to Fight DeSantis in Court While a Fourth-Grade Teacher Is Arrested for Attempted Child Rape

Under Biden’s tax proposal, wealthy people would be rewarded for consumption and penalized for reinvesting to grow their businesses

Putin and his high command 'are already hunkering in secret bunkers' - after Kremlin spokesman said Russia would use nukes in face of 'existential threat'

‘This tweet is GROSS’: Kamala Harris pandering to ‘LGBTQI+’ (shew!) youth about so-called hateful legislation is just SO MUCH cringe

Clinton-Appointed Judge Rules Trump “More Likely Than Not” Committed Crimes When He ‘Attempted to Obstruct’ Congress on January 6

Biden Refuses to Rule Out First-Strike Use of US NUCLEAR WEAPONS Under ‘Extreme Circumstances’ in Dramatic Reversal of His Campaign Vow

Taylor Hawkins had at least 10 different psychoactive substances in his body including "THX (Marijuana), tricyclic antidepressants, benzodiazepines, and opioids, among others,"

Trump: "Yet you have people like John Kerry worrying about the climate... 'The ocean will rise one-hundredth of one percent over the next 300 fuckin' years!"

CPS has lost 8% of schools’ ‘tech assets’ during COVID, tens of thousands of computers, even air purifiers, defibrillators

Boom! Trudeau Reversal Motive Surfaces: Canadian Banking Association Was Approved by World Economic Forum to Lead the Digital ID Creation

New Polling Shows That Almost 1/4 of DEMOCRAT Voters Believe Biden Would Not Be President Today if the Media Had Fully Reported About Hunter’s ‘Laptop From Hell’

Check Out Joe Biden’s Stunning Jump In Income While His Crack-Smoking Son Was On The Board Of Ukraine’s Top Energy Company

Twitter has spoken, declaring that ‘we will not overturn our decision’ to punish The Babylon Bee for following basic biological science

Sen Ted Cruz to Biden’s SCOTUS Nominee: “I think you’re the only Supreme Court nominee in history who’s been unable to answer the question: ‘what is a woman?'”

Fact Checkers Fail Miserably At Debunking Biden’s QUOTE: “We’ve established a liberal world order...There’s gonna be a new world order out there and we’ve gotta lead it”

‘Cowboys For Trump’ Founder and Jan 6 Defendant Tears Into Far-Left Reporter Outside DC Courthouse: “You come after me, when we have all these pedophiles in America?”

NBC News’ fact-check of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s ‘twisted’ record notes it’s ‘not a radical view’ that some child-sex offenders may have nonsexual motivations

Republicans eyeing probes into Hunter Biden, Anthony Fauci, and more after midterms: 'It's like a mosquito in a nudist colony. It's a target-rich environment.'

Meltdown: CNN’s Brian Stelter Refuses to Walk Back His False Claims Hunter Biden’s Laptop Emails Were ‘Russian Disinformation’

White Leftist dude tells other white people not to use ‘reaction gifs of Black people’ because it’s digital blackface and OMG-STFU

DOJ Claimed Kamala Harris and VP Pence Were in the Capitol on Jan 6 During the So-Called Riots – It Turns Out that Likely Neither Was the Case

Will the Next J6 Trial Expose Another Justice Department Lie?

Additional Data Corroborates Excess Deaths Among Millennials Since the Experimental Vaccines Were Mandated – Confirms Covid is Not the Cause

NJ Substitute Teacher Arrested After Video of Him Allegedly Masturbating in Front of Students Goes Viral – This Isn’t the First Time, Either

Fox News Host Shoots Down Crenshaw After He Claims People Who Question US Involvement in Ukraine War Are Parroting 'Putin Talking Points' (VIDEO)

The Most Savage Case For Impeaching Joe Biden Gets Laid Out By Steve Hilton

White House Spokesperson Jen Psaki Gets Very Nervous When Questioned About Joe Biden Financial Conflicts of Interest in Russia, Ukraine and China

NOAA Spring Prediction 2022: The West megadrought will persist and get worse in coming months making water availability a high concern

Republican Rep. Don Young, 88, of Alaska, the longest-serving member of the current Congress, has died after having served for 48 years

Biden: “It appears that China is moving in the opposite direction by refusing to condemn this aggression, while seeking to portray itself as a neutral arbiter."

Planning To Use Oil Crisis, the Global Climate Change Agenda Is Triggered – Biden Declaring Climate Emergency, IEA Proposing Global Economic Changes, AOC and Bernie Sanders Join Drumbeat

“I Expect Him to be Indicted” – Lawyer For Hunter Biden’s Baby Mama Hands Over “Significant Amount of Hunter’s Financial Records” in Criminal Tax Probe

Fox Nation host Lara Logan links President Zelensky's entertainment career to the occult, and claims the entire Ukrainian military has Nazi links

Sun: Russians ‘could buckle in 10 DAYS’ as Ukraine claims to have killed 13,500 troops and destroyed hundreds of tanks & jets

Trump: “The Fake News Said My Personality Would Get Us Into a War. But Actually, My Personality Is What Kept US Out of War”

Internet Turns on George Takei for Telling Americans to Shut Up and Pay 'Patriotic Donation' to Cover Biden's Spiking Inflation

Elementary School Children Segregated By Hair Color, Harassed, and Forced to View Graphic Content of Murdered Black Children to Teach Them About Racism

Mayorkas Releases New Rules on Extremism – DHS Will Target Anyone Who Believes Election Was Stolen or Who Challenged Fauci’s Everchanging COVID Narrative

Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates Continues to Play Victim and Refuses to Turn Election Routers Over to Inspectors… Why Is That?

Multiple ‘Iranian-Produced Ballistic Missiles’ Rain Down on US Army Base in Iraq – Days After Biden Announced Plans to Buy Iranian Oil

Many captured Russian troops claim that they believed they were conducting training exercises in the border regions and did not know they were being sent to invade Ukraine

George Soros: United States, European Union Must Remove Putin And Xi From Power ‘Before They Can Destroy Our Civilization’

Texas state-funded shelter meant to help female victims of sex trafficking was revictimizing them, according to federal judge

Report: Putin ‘has “roid rage” from CANCER treatment’ as Western spies say bloated face & lust for violence down to medical care

Idiot at USA Today “Fact-Checks” Babylon Bee Article Titled "Biden Sells Alaska Back To Russia So We Can Start Drilling For Oil There Again."

Democrats gathered in Philadelphia this week to regroup. They were looking for Biden to hit reset. And now, they’ve solidified their new strategy: BLAME PUTIN!