Op-ed:

Actions Do Indeed Have Consequences

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor 

The article posted here is the authors opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google  

Simply, this is a “cut and dry case” as I see it...a woman who behaves badly by breaking the law and who pays for her actions with her life.

“This is an experienced officer who followed his training.” "He acted appropriately to protect his life and the life of his colleagues and fellow law enforcement officers," so said Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem at a New York City press conference held early yesterday afternoon, And Noem added that not only had the shooting victim, 37-year old Renee Nicole Good, “been ordered to get out of her car multiple times before the officer opened fire.”... what is “ justifiable homicide” in my option...but that the FBI was going to take over the case investigation in full...which they have every legal right to do so.

Renee Nicole Good knew exactly what she was doing when she was doing it. In fact, Good was so successful in blocking traffic, that she prevented ICE agents from doing their job...as in conducting legally authorized immigration arrests, all while her “wife” was in the crowd filming the protest as it was going on. In fact, Good's car was claimed to be the main car leading the protest, so said the man who was driving the car behind Good's when questioned by both reporters and the police.

This woman was no saint, she was just another leftist indoctrinated activist/hater willingly protesting against federal government given orders. Good, like so many others, knew well what the outcome for her could be if she and her fellow protesters tried to prevent the ICE agents from doing what they were tasked to do. In fact, her death, to some degree, should lay at the feet of Minnesota state investigators who did not do their job in stopping those that were harassing and inciting violence against the ICE officers...those like Renee Nicole Good who were Minneapolis' so-called "ICE Watch Warriors," as in those individuals who were specifically trained to resist the federal officers.

If the harassing of the officers had been stopped Renee Nichole Good might still be alive, a child would still have its mother, and an officer would be both unhurt and seeing himself now being tried in the court of public opinion...a public sham of a court trying to make Renee Nicole Good into a saint to stand alongside already publicly anointed Saint George Floyd. And we all know how well that turned out for our country now don't we. Case closed.

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Op-ed: 

The Media...An Enemy Within 

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

The Op-ed posted here is my opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com nor Google.

 

...The fix was in, and FOX might as well now officially call itself “Trump Central”  as their once “Fair and Balanced” moniker is one for the media history books as their sole driving force seems to be to dominate the entire media discourse by any and all means possible. And last Monday night's actions has led me to believe that FOX is...to some degree...guilty of overt “election interference” and maybe even “election suppression” by their...and the other networks...calling the election caucus way too early not to have swayed votes.

And while some will say it would not have changed the final outcome in favor of Trump, it indeed did. How so? While Trump might still have been the winner, he might not have reached the all-important 50% thresh hold which would have allowed the other candidates to be awarded more delegates and Trump less delegates...a key factor numbers wise in regards to the nominating convention.  

So now FOX joins the collective of what I consider to be the media being the one who actually does choose our candidates and nominees for us...with no vacillation or disagreement allowed as to their discourse...Read entire article and see video here.

Op-ed: 

The Media...An Enemy Within 

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

The Op-ed posted here is my opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com nor Google.

 

Author's Note: This article was written before my chosen candidate Ron DeSantis dropped out of the race. The media's unceasing push for Trump and the Iowa Caucus going forward when it should have been delayed due to the weather...only 18.5% of the those eligible to vote where able to vote...set the stage for what was to follow.

“Absolutely outrageous that the media would participate in election interference by calling the race before tens of thousands of Iowans even had a chance to vote.” ”The media is in the tank for Trump and this is the most egregious example yet.” - DeSantis spokesperson Andrew Romeo

After last Monday's Iowa Caucus...believed by many to be a “bellwether” for who will go on to become the presidential candidate for each party....I am more convinced than ever that the media... both mainstream and otherwise...are truly an “enemy within.” Why so...because while said caucus had basically just started, The Associated Press declared a Trump victory at 7:31p.m. local time...a mere 31-minutes into the caucus...with only eight of 99 Iowa counties having reporting their results. And FOX immediately took their cue from the AP as did other media outlets, thus basing their winning call on but a mere 1,000 votes tallied in two or three precincts in a rural area of Iowa...which equated to less than one percent of the total votes yet to be counted.

Simply, FOX was the first to officially declare Donald Trump the Iowa Caucus winner...as they so hoped he'd be. After all Trump is the very man FOX...and most especially Sean Hannity...has been pushing down viewers throats for months. And they did so no matter their standing, in-place policy not to call any election until all the polls are closed.

Guess FOX was too greedy to pass up a ratings bonanza, hence bottom line monetary profits, not to do so. A ratings bonanza that in actuality equated to a stab in the back for the other four candidates and most especially for Iowa caucus goers themselves. How so? This announcement by FOX was heard in the precincts where caucusing was still ongoing with many folks still undecided and not yet having cast their vote, along with votes already cast but yet to be counted across the entirety of the state.

The fix was in, and FOX might as well now officially call itself “Trump Central”  as their once “Fair and Balanced” moniker is one for the media history books as their sole driving force seems to be to dominate the entire media discourse by any and all means possible. And last Monday night's actions has led me to believe that FOX is...to some degree...guilty of overt “election interference” and maybe even “election suppression” by their...and the other networks...calling the election caucus way too early not to have swayed votes.

And while some will say it would not have changed the final outcome in favor of Trump, it indeed did. How so? While Trump might still have been the winner, he might not have reached the all-important 50% thresh hold which would have allowed the other candidates to be awarded more delegates and Trump less delegates...a key factor numbers wise in regards to the nominating convention.

So now FOX joins the collective of what I consider to be the media being the one who actually does choose our candidates and nominees for us...with no vacillation or disagreement allowed as to their discourse. No wonder a recent Hill-Harris poll found that 33% of Americans deem the media to be an “enemy of the people”...no wonder the DeSantis campaign has called FOX News to task.

And while my chosen candidate Ron DeSantis did finish in second place garnering nine Iowa delegates as opposed to Trump's 20; with Nikki Haley garnering eight; Vivek Ramaswarmy getting three, and Assa Hutchinson with no delegates allotted...this early call by FOX and the others was not only unfair to all the candidates, but now the Democrats are truly on their way to seeing a Trump/Biden rematch...s something the majority of Americans still do not want to see happening.

Why so...because most know well that the Democrats have had eight years to fine tune their infamous “election irregularities”...to put what amounts to “election fraud” in more politically acceptable terms.

Another key component regarding the unfairness of Monday's caucus itself, is the fact that Paul D. Pate...Iowa's Secretary of State and also the State Commissioner of Elections...who, while this is not an accusation by any means, was supported by Trump in his run for Secretary of State...knew days ahead of time...as did we all...what the severity of the weather on caucus night would be. In fact, the weather was so bad Monday night that not only did it break a two-decades-long low regarding frigid weather, but saw minus 40-degree wind chills and roads encased in ice and snow being what forced the majority of caucus goers to stay home...and rightly so in such dangerous conditions.

Simply, Pate should have put the “health, safety, and welfare” of Iowans first by postponing the caucus, by at least a few days, until the system moved eastward and away from Iowa, which would have allowed for what he had to know would be a more representational vote tally across the state.

But sadly, thanks to the weather, truly representational the caucus numbers were not. And this can be seen in the actual tallies and corresponding facts as they pertain to the how and why this worked out in Trump's favor. First the numbers. Fact number I: Iowa has 594,533 registered Republican voters of which only 110,298 of said voters showed up to caucus due to the inclement weather. Fact 2: This translated into only 18.5 percent of all those who could caucus actually caucusing then voting, meaning 81.5 percent of Iowans were not...I repeat not...able to caucus and vote, again because of the weather. Fact 3: this most important of caucuses not only saw the lowest number of voter turnout since 2000...a year when only 86,000 Iowa Republicans were able to cast their ballots due to temperatures reaching but 5 degrees...a warm streak compared to last Monday night...but sadly was decided by less than 20 percent of all Republicans who were eligible to vote.

And now the media is on a Trump roll...for the liberal media it means counting on Trump losing to Biden...while the conservative, right-leaning media claims that Iowa is the start of a “domino affect” for Trump, something they claim will be akin to Ronald Reagan's landslide victory over Jimmy Carter in 1980. This was when Reagan garnered 489 Electoral College votes along with 50.8% of the popular vote as opposed to Carter's 41.0% of the popular vote and carrying just six states and Washington, D.C.

But even primary/caucus wins come replete with certain caveats, one being that while Donald Trump...who is no Reagan...even the MAGA slogan is not his...won the 2020 Iowa Republican caucus, he did not win the general election. In fact, Iowa has not determined the outcome of the actual presidential election correctly but two times in the past six elections...not a great record I'd say. And yet the media...especially FOX News...as I write this...heralds this one caucus win that due to the weathers low voter turnout does not truly represent the whole of Iowa's Republican voters...yet they shove Trump news down our throats in almost every news block.

And with reporting like that both Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley have basically been deemed by FOX “talking heads” to be losers months before the nominating convention has even taken place, let alone all the primaries. And it's my opinion that this type of reporting is indeed a form of “election interference” for it leaves a bad taste in one's mouth that there's now no reason to go vote...no reason because a once trusted news source has already declared Trump the winner. 

And the gullible and lazy amongst the uniformed and misinformed Republican masses will fall into line and do as FOX is basically, albeit veiled, telling them to do...as in only vote Trump...no matter this truly not funny under the dangerous weather conditions comment Trump made before the caucus started.

But it's not just the media “talking heads” that are the problem, but so too are some of the print reporters. Take the case of an article that appeared in last Thursday's “Townhall Tipsheet” where Matt Vespa reported on possible Trump VP picks. He listed four possible VP choices, Sen. Tim Scott (R-NC); Gov, Krisi Noem (R-SD); Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL); and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY). But of these four mentioned, I believe Trump is more likely to choose a women to counter Kamala Harris on the Biden ticket.

As for Trump loyalist Kristi Noem...a great governor able to counter balance the ego and overblown rhetoric spewed by Trump himself...saw Vespa pushing for New York Rep. Elise Stefanik who, at this point in time, seems to be the one Trump is leaning towards especially after his having recently stated that Stefanik, “would be a killer VP pick.”

So why did Matt Vespa basically write South Dakota's governor out as a VP pick...because and I quote, “Noem caved on trans athletes,” something which is beyond a shadow of a doubt not true.

Let me briefly explain just how the media twists the facts to meet its political agenda by using the above stated example. If Matt Vespa had done his research instead of buying into the propaganda FOX and others are spewing out, he would have found that SD-46, banned trans youth from participating in school sports consistent with their gender “identity.” Forced upon vote in 2021 to veto a bill addressing this issue, Noem did so because of called into question verbal “legalize”...”legalize” that would have opened up South Dakota to numerous leftist initiated lawsuits...lawsuits that might well have bankrupted the state. 

Also, Vespa failed to mention that later in 2021, Gov. Noem actually issued two executive orders...stop gap measures to restrict participation on female sports teams only to those “assigned female at birth." Then in 2022, Noem rewrote the bill in correct “legalize” which passed the legislature and which she then signed into law.

In other words, Gov. Kristi Noem first via executive order overrode the previous “legalized” flawed bill giving herself some time to rewrite and replace said bill with what was unchallenged wording, thus putting into law the very thing Matt Vespa said she caved to.

I bring this up to show that it's not just the left who are influencing the upcoming election courtesy of words written or spoken, but that our side is too. In the case of Townhall's Matt Vespa, this involves a possible VP choice...a choice which while somewhat veiled could, he hopes, see his piece as a way to help sway those of us currently supporting Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley, to cross over to the Trump side. 

In the case of FOX News it's more in your face obvious that FOX has indeed become the spokes-mouth for Trump, and will do any and everything to see him win...which via viewership ratings puts money in their pockets...even if it includes flooding the airwaves with everything Trump giving little air time to his Republican opponents, with the airtime they do give likely to be negative in nature.

Simply, unless the media in general is reigned in regarding their overtly biased and partisan reporting...unless election fraud itself is dealt with...which reality shows it has not even started to be...we will continue to see the media complicit in dictating who the candidates will be, meaning we will never see a fair unbiased election again. A lack of ethics, common sense, and in Trump's case decorum, will surely see to that. Case closed.

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Op-ed:

An Open Letter To President Trump Re: His Hugh Hewitt Interview

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

The Op-ed posted here is my opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com  

 

... Really Mr. President, the governor who made Florida the “Free State of Florida”...a state where those from around the country started flocking to because our great governor dared to defy your and Fauci's indoctrination regarding mask and then vax mandates, and what became an unneeded long term lock down...that man did not do a “good job” according to you. Are you really that politically fearful of him that you have to state such unabashed lies...apparently you are. And to that I say, shame on you!

So Mr. President...and I still call you “Mr. President” because I do honor and thank you for all the good things you did for both “We the People” and for our country on the economic front...but you really do need a lesson in truth as do those who worship at your altar... especially now as many Republicans and independents have started to turn away from you...and rightfully so I might add. But it really is sad that now your self fabricated lies can be added to all the political baggage that you continue to carry...Read entire article here.

Op-ed:

An Open Letter To President Trump Re: His Hugh Hewitt Interview

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

The Op-ed posted here is my opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com

Dear President Donald J. Trump,

Earlier this month you went on Hugh Hewitt's radio show and stated that, “Dr. Anthony Fauci was not a big player in my administration,” that you weren't “allowed” to fire him, and that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, was “not in the category' of conservative governors who did a “good job” handling the coronavirus.”

Really Mr. President, the governor who made Florida the “Free State of Florida”...a state where those from around the country started flocking to because our great governor dared to defy your and Fauci's indoctrination regarding mask and then vax mandates, and what became an unneeded long term lock down...that man did not do a “good job” according to you. Are you really that politically fearful of him that you have to state such unabashed lies...apparently you are. And to that I say, shame on you!

So Mr. President...and I still call you “Mr. President” because I do honor and thank you for all the good things you did for both “We the People” and for our country on the economic front...but you really do need a lesson in truth as do those who worship at your altar... especially now as many Republicans and independents have started to turn away from you...and rightfully so I might add. But it really is sad that now your self fabricated lies can be added to all the political baggage that you continue to carry.

First, as to your partly false statement regarding Dr. Anthony Fauci...Fauci was not only “the leading member” of your coronavirus task force...you yourself called him that on many occasions along with your calling him a “good man”...but he was its most visible and vocal members as well with his appearing almost daily on TV with covid updates, and whose musing were part and parcel of major internet news sites. And in case you have forgotten let me remind you that you appeared many times in White Hose press conferences with Fauci standing by your side. 

Simply, Dr. Fauci was the man whose words you hung onto more times than not, and of whom on March 17, 2020 you said, and I quote, “He's become a major television star for all the right reasons.” You mean “right reasons” like the fact that you listened to Fauci about the lock down; you listened to Fauci about wearing masks; and you listened to Fauci about pushing ahead with a program to develop a covid vaccine in record time instead of taking the time needed to fully test possible long term side effects...time usually required for any new vaccine...that man is a “star” in your eyes.. .pathetic indeed.

Mr. President, and again with all due respect...while you might have given the name “Operation Warp Speed” to the vaccine endeavor and you did have it reach market in record time, the truth remains that said vaccine did not do all that you and Fauci had promised it would do. And why is that...because booster shot after booster shot have been needed to keep covid not even truly at bay, but only to lessen its severity in some folks. Simply, you and Fauci pushed “Warp Speed” down America's throat which has, in my opinion, now created a generation of vaccine dependent individuals...medically dependent vaccine addicts if you will...folks whose immune systems are now so immunocompromised that said folks have but a limited scale of immunity to covid even with their constantly getting “reboosted” or in some cases needing to get a whole new series of “jabs.”

And why so...because these overly “vaxxed and boosted” folks are the ones who seem to get covid over and over again. Mr. President, you can ask Dr. Jill about that if you dare and then explain to “We the People” exactly why you presented Dr. Fauci and a few others with “Presidential Commendations” for their work on now proven to be ever so questionable “Operation Warp Speed.”

Simply, Mr. President, you failed to listen to real science regarding our population's need for true natural “herd immunity”...which many in the medical field did try to tell you is the best immunity of all. And now way too many Americans are paying the price...health wise...for your listening to the man you recently said played “no major part” in your administration. And while some differences of opinion did arise between you and Dr. Fauci...mostly over the use of anti-viral drugs like hydroxychloroquine... you continued to maintain that you and Fauci have been “on the same page” about dealing with the coronavirus right “from the beginning.” That is until the Hugh Hewitt radio interview it sadly seems.

So here is my second reason why, in my opinion, you seem to relish in speaking untruths. And again, “shame on you Mr. President” for it seems you do so for political expediency alone...which is just another example of your embracing “revenge politics” as your main campaign strategy. And why do I believe this...because when you made those comments to Hewitt about Governor DeSantis “not doing a god job handling the coronavirus,” you crossed a dangerous line into not just outright lying, but you allowed your true liberal leaning Democrat self to poke through.

How so...guess you don't remember...age does that to one at times after all you are just a few years younger than Joe Biden...but on May 24, 2023 you stated that “even” former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D )...whom I refer to as the “Nursing Home Reaper of Death”... did a “better job” of handling the pandemic than did Florida Governor Ron DeSantis...the man heralded nationwide for his not only keeping Florida “open and free,” but where businesses of all kinds remained open and flourished, and where covid numbers declined compared to other areas of the country.

The moniker “The Free State of Florida” was and remains a reality thanks to Governor Ron DeSantis, who while he did shut down Florida as per your original federal lock down orders, rightfully made the decision to reopen Florida at the beginning of May 2020, while you, on Fauci's advice of course, kept the country locked down for many more months thus leading to more businesses closing, more jobs being lost, and our nation's schools being closed which itself directly led to a drop in our children's math and reading scores. And I'm sorry to say this, however truth is truth Mr. President, but the fact is that your overextended lock down did indeed lead to the start of our country's economic downfall, and as president that lays directly at your feet.

And so Ron DeSantis, the man whom you love to attack daily on your “everything must always be about and revolve around me” Truth Social media site, has become the prime focus of your now signature “revenge politics” in action. ..which goes directly against your 2019 “State of the Union Address.”  And you did so as but payback for DeSantis' pandemic remark said last month at the first FOX News debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that, “Why are we in this mess? Part of it and a major reason is because how this federal government handled COVID-19 by locking down this economy.”

Hate to tell you Mr. President but not only were DeSantis' words correct, but he had the decency and enough respect for you and your position as a former president not to mention you by name in his statement which he well could have. By Governor DeSantis' saying “this federal government” he did not place blame directly on you...which was the correct thing to do as many were involved in the covid fiasco...but the fact remains that as president you could have chosen not to listen to Fauci and his gaggle of cover-up cronies. And how it must irk you that Governor DeSantis is the only candidate in the nomination race who stood strong against both you and the DC bureaucrats by rejecting the continuing lock down and the then still in effect mask and vax mandates. And Governor DeSantis has publicly stated that Florida will never be locked down again no matter who becomes president...something you have yet to say regarding any calls for a future lock down.

Ron DeSantis rightfully walked the “high road” that night with his carefully chosen words, but now the gloves are off. Why so Mr. President...because after all this time you still don't know when to keep your big and sometimes lying mouth shut!

And lastly back to the Hugh Hewitt interview...you stated that you could not fire Dr. Fauci, but then you added that, “I don't necessarily go by everything,” in regards to the legal sense, which is quite interesting, but were not wise words to say while in the throes of all your current legal woes. Technically, however, you were right in stating that you could not fire Fauci what with federal law not allowing any president to directly remove the director of the NIAID directly without what is called “cause.” And why...because there are in place civil service protections for career federal employees...of which Fauci still was at the time of your administration...that prevents them from being removed or demoted for “political reasons.”

However, there were legal processes that you, Mr. President, could have gone through to get Fauci removed if you had really wanted to, and it simply involved your going through the proper chain of command an option you most certainly should have known about. And in this case said chain would start with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) where Fauci would be given “first notice” of what the allegation(s) for removal was...an allegation of misconduct or failure to follow orders for example. Then after the allegation(s) was made Fauci would be given a chance to respond, and if your decision remained to fire him, he could still go to the Merit Systems Protection Board or to court to claim, via appeal, that he was fired in violation of the civil service rules. Yet the fact remains that you followed Fauci's advice to extend the lock down instead of Fauci following you thoughts to end said lock down...which you claim you made to him on a number of occasions.

Simply, Mr. President, even without actually firing Fauci, you did not have to listen to his advice on anything, but you did most times, nor did you have to include Fauci in the task force in the first place let alone allow him to play a deciding role in how the pandemic was handled. You knew about Fauci's political leanings, his Obama loyalty, and his decidedly partisan allegiances...or at least you should have. And if truth be told it was your bad judgment regarding Dr. Fauci that not only helped to extend both the lock down and mask mandate which hurt “We the People,” but you actually helped set the stage for not only medically bad judgment calls...most especially relating to the rushed to market covid vaccine...which itself might have been a factor in your not being re-elected in 2020...but to be fair that is of course if the “voting irregularities” (aka “fraud”) were removed from the mix.

And so, Mr. President, I close with this thought...I'm glad you recently went to South Dakota as it was good to see your relationship solidified with their state's Governor Kristi Noem who rumor has it might be one of your VP considerations. Kristi Noem...whom some call a conservative while others call a Rino...would, in my opinion, at least help to balance your faux, all for show, Republican/conservative leanings. And she would make having to vote for you...only if you do get the nomination that is...at least a bit more palatable for folks like me who do not and will not worship at your altar.

 

Sincerely Yours,

Diane Sori...a two-time now disillusioned former Trump voter 

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