Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker,
The Fourth Estate is constitutionally illiterate...
On Sunday morning’s Meet the Press, NBC News hack Kristen Welker pressed newly sworn-in Attorney General Todd Blanche to “pledge that the Justice Department will always act independently of the White House.” The fake “journalist” performed this bit of moralizing theater with her “very serious” face, as if to suggest that the nation’s survival depended upon Blanche’s answer. Blanche calmly swatted Welker’s solicitation away, while pointing out that no competent, law-abiding attorney general should ever make such an absurd pledge.
It was another ridiculous moment in “journalism” and reminded viewers that the biggest names in corporate news are stupid, partisan, and duplicitous. Why would Welker believe that she is entitled to demand some kind of public oath from the attorney general? Why does she think the United States should have an “independent” Department of Justice? Does she not understand that the DOJ is part of the Executive Branch? Is she not aware that AG Blanche serves in President Trump’s cabinet? Does she not realize that Trump is his boss? Does she not grasp that AG Blanche is now seventh in the presidential line of succession?
Many idiot “reporters” ran to social media so that they could be seen collapsing on their digital fainting couches. “Pretty amazing confession here by the AG,” moron Chuck Todd whimpered before further whining, “Still can’t believe he was confirmed. I guess he gets points for being honest?” Yes, Chuck, it is stunning that the attorney general recognizes his constitutional obligation to serve the president of the United States. AG Blanche has “confessed” that he is not a rogue dictator empowered to run the Department of Justice by kingly prerogative. (Be careful kids: Mixing too much Kristen Welker and Chuck Todd in the same Kool-Aid punch bowl will kill millions of brain cells.)
What is it with these people?
They scream constantly about America’s descent into dictatorship, and then they demand that administrative department heads rule the country with complete disregard for the constitutional authority of the elected president. Welker and Todd’s insistence that the AG behave as a monarch beholden to no-one reeks of the same foul odor that the corporate news media produced on an industrial scale during COVID.
When the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci, was telling the world, “I represent science,” and, “Now is the time to do what you are told,” fake “journalists” clapped like seals. Fauci and his fellow institutional health frauds ordered people to wear useless masks, stay indoors, and inject their bodies with experimental mRNA serums, and the so-called Fourth Estate — the self-adulating phonies who claim to speak truth to power — told anyone with a functioning brain to stop questioning the omniscient Dr. Fauci and obey the mass murderer’s (hey, anyone who helped fund the creation of COVID in a Wuhan bioweapons laboratory before conspiring with the pharmaceutical industry to pump poison into every human being surely must be guilty of crimes against humanity) every command.
Now that the COVID Era has been exposed as a wretched period in which pseudoscience and fake “expertise” were weaponized to justify the rapid onslaught of government totalitarianism and the obliteration of the Bill of Rights, any journalist worthy of the job title should be more wary than ever of administrative state megalomaniacs wielding unconstrained power. Instead, the Welkers and Todds of journalism’s inbred propaganda class beg for new Deep State authority figures to act unilaterally. Corporate news talking heads call President Trump an “authoritarian” while expressing shock when unelected bureaucrats refrain from mimicking fraud Fauci’s cult leader demeanor.
This is who they are.
Corporate “journalists” despise the Constitution. They sneer at Americans who speak of their God-given rights. They worship so-called “experts.”
They pray at the altar of the permanent government bureaucracy.
They probably all have tattoos expressing deep love for the Deep State.
When the “right” candidate wins an election - such as King Barack Hussein Obama II - the Welkers and Todds of “journalism’s” obsequious priestly caste demand that the American people treat the Fourth Estate-approved president as part demigod, part adoptive father.
When the “wrong” candidates win elections, the Welkers and Todds are the first to question the results. They will spend years defending the Russia Collusion Hoax, even though Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign paid for those lies, while Barack Obama, John Brennan, James Clapper, Jim Comey, Susan Rice, and so many other Deep Staters used the machinery of the CIA, NSA, and FBI to perpetrate a mass disinformation campaign against the American people. They will cover up Hunter Biden’s incriminating laptop linking the Biden family to quid-pro-quo corruption in Ukraine, while working with the Intelligence Community, Mitt Romney, and other immoral and unethical frauds to turn a damning Biden scandal into a Trump impeachment. They will stay completely silent as Democrat lawfare specialists use COVID to upend the 2020 presidential election with mail-in-ballot fraud, social media manipulation, Facebook election-rigging, and total disregard for statutory election law. Then they will lose their ever-loving minds when Trump voters question the likelihood that perennially unpopular politician Joe Biden somehow eclipsed the vote totals of both President Obama and President Trump to become the “most popularly elected president” in American history.
The Kristen Welkers and Chuck Todds of “journalism’s” pathetically myopic clique of Democrat Party bootlickers never protested when corrupt Attorney General Eric Holder (who turned the USA PATRIOT Act into a weapon for spying on political enemies) referred to himself as Obama’s “wingman.” They said nothing when Attorney General Merrick Garland and Democrat prosecutors Jack Smith, Matthew Colangelo, Alvin Bragg, and Fani Willis worked with Joe Biden’s White House to imprison President Trump for the rest of his natural life. They said nothing when the Biden White House conspired with Democrat prosecutors and judges to impose “gag orders” on President Trump while he was campaigning for re-election. They said nothing when the Biden White House dedicated significant FBI and DOJ resources to hunting down J6 protesters and inexcusably defaming them as “traitors,” “seditionists,” and “domestic terrorists.” They said nothing when the Biden White House investigated, threatened, and prosecuted Trump’s attorneys, employees, and associates. They said nothing when Biden’s DOJ harassed and intimidated hundreds of MAGA-aligned organizations, donors, and influencers. They said nothing when Biden’s DOJ spied on Republican members of Congress while pursuing “seditious conspiracy” charges against Trump. They said nothing when members of the Biden White House used an autopen to pardon hundreds of violent criminals. While Obama and Biden used the DOJ to ruin the lives of ordinary Americans for the “crime” of having “incorrect” political beliefs, the Welkers and Todds of “journalism’s” toxic junkyard ignored the pungent stink of White House corruption.
From the point of view of corporate news propagandists, a Democrat-controlled White House is permitted to use the FBI and DOJ to target political enemies. When a Republican sits in the Oval Office, the White House’s authority over the DOJ must be severed and the attorney general must be made to swear a loyalty oath to the permanent bureaucracy. According to our dumb and ideologically partisan corporate “journalists,” there is a special Fourth Branch of government entitled to ignore the Constitution and the president’s inherent Executive authority while protecting the Deep State and the Democrat Party’s interests.
What’s particularly galling about Welker and Todd’s constitutional illiteracy is each buffoon’s insistence that independent bureaucrats somehow safeguard “democracy.” Unelected government employees do not represent the American people. To accord them more power than elected officials is to weaken the public’s control over their own government.
Treating the Faucis, Holders, Garlands, Brennans, and Comeys as if they possess distinct Executive power derived separately from that of the president’s is not conducive to a constitutional republic. It is the gateway drug to future dictatorship.
Tyler Durden Thu, 08/20/2026 - 16:20Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,
The salmonella outbreak connected to jalapeño peppers from Mexico has spread to additional states, U.S. authorities said on Aug. 19.
Thirty-two states have now reported cases in the outbreak, up from 27 states earlier in the month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in an update.
The states are: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
Colorado and Minnesota have each recorded more than 100 cases, while more than two dozen have been logged in Georgia and Illinois. The other states have reported one to 14 cases.
The outbreak has reached 431 cases, with 86 of those new cases and 57 hospitalizations. No deaths have been reported.
The outbreak has been linked to jalapeños from a farm in Sinaloa and distributed to the United States earlier in the year. Stores that sold the peppers and products containing them include Kroger, Target, Trader Joe’s, and Whole Foods Market.
Taylor Fresh Foods, Whole Foods, NatureBest, and Hardie’s Fresh Foods have recalled both the peppers and products containing them.
The products include Spicy Jarlsberg Dip, sold at Kroger, and Taco Dip, sold at Target. The full list of products can be found on the Food and Drug Administration website.
The public is advised not to consume the recalled products. They can either be thrown out or returned to the place of purchase for a refund. Restaurants and other companies should not sell or serve the peppers, authorities said.
Salmonella, caused by consuming contaminated food, typically causes symptoms such as diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramps 12 to 72 hours after consuming the food. If a person experiences symptoms such as a fever higher than 102 degrees Fahrenheit combined with diarrhea, they should call their health care provider, according to the CDC.
A digitally colorized scanning electron microscopic image of a grouping of Gram-negative bacilli, or rod-shaped, Salmonella sp. bacteria. Janice Haney Carr/CDC
Illnesses in the outbreak started as early as June 19 and as late as Aug. 2.
Of the 224 patients interviewed by investigators, 91 percent reported eating at a Mexican-style restaurant before getting sick, including Chipotle Mexican Grill and QDOBA.
Amid the outbreak and a spike in cases of cyclosporiasis, a disease caused by food contaminated with feces, the acting Food and Drug Administration commissioner said recently that people should have confidence in the country’s food supply.
“We have the safest food supply in the world,” Kyle Diamantas said.
“FDA investigates dozens of foodborne illness outbreaks each year,” he added later. “There is definitely a heightened narrative right now. People are more aware.”
Tyler Durden Thu, 08/20/2026 - 15:40