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There is a purpose
For being here
As time moves forward
What is trying to be accomplished
Is much more than individual
But understanding
Beyond banter
Perspectives are key
To understanding
Do you understand what your trump was trying to convey with these five quotes? I'm sure you can explain it to those of us who don't speak psychobabble. Take them one at a time and please interpret it for us "in your perspective to understanding".
1. Trump Suggests Hunter Biden Should Be Put to Death
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-suggests-hunter-biden-death-penalty-1234786435/
2. Trump posts video that shows image of Biden tied up in the back of a truck
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/30/politics/trump-biden-video-truth-social-violent-rhetoric/index.html
3. Trump Adviser: Hillary Clinton 'Should Be Shot in a Firing squad ...
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/clinton-baldasaro/496199/
4. Donald Trump calls for Hillary Clinton to be jailed
https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/02/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-imprisoned/index.html
5. Donald Trump: Hillary's killed 'hundreds of thousands'
https://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-216726
Gmenfan: That is a riot. And that is a terrier for you!
Depending on where one goes
Will depend on the outcome
Perspectives are key
To understanding
When it permits
In doing so
With grace
Why the divisiveness
Beats me.
Trump Suggests Hunter Biden Should Be Put to Death
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-suggests-hunter-biden-death-penalty-1234786435/
Trump posts video that shows image of Biden tied up in the back of a truck
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/30/politics/trump-biden-video-truth-social-violent-rhetoric/index.html
Trump Adviser: Hillary Clinton 'Should Be Shot in a Firing squad ...
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/clinton-baldasaro/496199/
Donald Trump calls for Hillary Clinton to be jailed
https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/02/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-imprisoned/index.html
Donald Trump: Hillary's killed 'hundreds of thousands'
https://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-216726
Understanding
From where one comes
Is key
If one was to spare the superfluous
Why the divisiveness
Big money has already moved in and bought gold - Brien Lundin says investors aren't waiting
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Obama, Biden, Att. Gen., & CIA Dir. Murdered More Children
BY Tory Smith
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He's losing/lost his mind. 🤣🤣
'Whoops': Social media slams Trump after he 'mistakes Beijing for Taiwan' at rally
Donald Trump made a splash by rallying in New Jersey, a state where some polls show he doesn't have a shot, but social media users were more focused on the former president's slip-up on China.
One of the first things Trump said at his rally in the Garden State went viral online. He thanked someone in the crowd, a former football player and Trump "golfing friend," named O.J. While Trump was roundly mocked, some said Trump was referring to someone other than the late accused murderer O.J. Simpson.
The next thing that caught attention online was Trump's reference to China.
"Take a look at Xi, president Xi of China, talking about Beijing. Now they've got ships circling, they have planes, but they never were doing anything," Trump said at his Saturday rally. He was likely intending to say "Taiwan."
A Biden-Harris campaign account said a "confused Trump" was claiming that "Chinese president Xi Jinping has 'ships circling' Beijing." The account noted that "Beijing is the landlocked capital of China."
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-whoops-china-beijing/
Sounds like one is expressing bidenism
But then
Projection is key
Whether on purpose or not
Get the pine tar out
For a better grip
From the outside
Looking in
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Obama, Biden, Att. Gen., & CIA Dir. Murdered More Children
BY Tory Smith
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'His deterioration is accelerating': Psychologists express alarm at latest Trump gaffes
Two professional psychologists this weekend explained why they are growing increasingly alarmed at what they say is former President Donald Trump's "deteriorating" mental state.
Harry Segal, clinical psychologist and senior lecturer in the Psychology Department at Cornell University, and John Gartner, a psychologist and former assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, hosted a podcast on Saturday where they discussed the urgent need to talk publicly about Trump's mental stability heading into the 2024 presidential election.
"We are going to be documenting his cognitive deterioration," Gartner during the podcast. "I always say to people: Look at Donald Trump right now, because that's the best Donald Trump you're ever going to see because dementia is a deteriorating illness and his rate of deterioration is accelerating."
Gartner then scolded the media for largely avoiding questions about Trump's mental acuity while running multiple stories about President Joe Biden's age.
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"I don't know what it will take for the mainstream press to actually ask the question, 'Is there something wrong with Trump's brain?'" he said. "I think, even if he was caught wandering down Fifth Avenue in his pajamas, they wouldn't ask the question."
Segal then chimed in to talk about Trump's potentially malignant narcissistic personality disorder, which he said would be even worse in his second term given his reported determination to avoid hiring anyone who will push back on his ideas.
"It's a disorder that doesn't get better," he said. "It gets worse when there's less structure."
He then predicted that in the coming months "we're going to seeing... an interaction between the cognitive decline and the personality disorder, both of which are severe diagnoses for anybody, and this is for somebody who never should have been in power in the first place."
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-dementia-2668240527/
Bill Maher dredges up 2018 Stormy Daniels interview that totally undermines her Trump trial testimony
By Ryan King Published May 12, 2024, 12:42 p.m. ET
"... She said she blacked out. Blacked out? She’s a porn star!” Maher exclaimed.
“Do you really think she blacked out? A porn star is used to having sex with people she doesn’t [like],”
Comedian Bill Maher is seeing through the stormy weather surrounding former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan.
Maher dredged up an old interview porn star Stormy Daniels gave to him back in 2018 — which raises questions about the credibility of her testimony on the witness stand.
“She’s a bad witness,” Maher declared during Friday night’s episode of “Real Time,” after joking, “It’s Stormy or bust.”
The comic and political pundit played a clip from the 2018 interview in which Daniels was emphatic that her alleged July 2006 hanky-panky with Trump was consensual and not to be construed as part of the MeToo movement that was in full swing at the time.
“You say it’s not a MeToo case,” Maher pressed Daniels at the time.
“It’s not a MeToo case,” Daniels replied. “I wasn’t assaulted. I wasn’t attacked, or raped, or coerced or blackmailed.”
“They tried to shove me in the MeToo box to further their own agenda. And first of all, I didn’t want to be part of that because it’s not the truth and I’m not a victim in that regard.”
But in the new segment Maher assessed, “That’s not what she’s saying now.”
He cited Daniels’s at times salacious and graphic description of her foreplay with the future president during her recent testimony, in which she described a power imbalance with the billionaire.
Daniels claimed that Trump “was bigger and blocking the way,” that at the end of it, saying “my hands were shaking so hard,” and “I just wanted to leave.” She also claimed that she “blacked out” during the encounter.
Throughout parts of Daniels’ testimony, Trump appeared livid shaking his head and cursing audibly, according to reporters in the room.
He denies having an affair with Daniels and said he paid hush money to her to protect his family.
Back when Daniels first came forward with her allegations against Trump, she mocked his sexual prowess and claimed that an unidentified man confronted her after a fitness class in 2011.
Daniels said she felt threatened and pressured to sign a non-disclosure agreement, which she did, before fighting to break out of it during Trump’s presidency.
Maher contended that Daniels’ testimony now has deviated from her original iteration of the alleged encounter.
“She’s talking about ‘he was bigger and blocking the way.’ It’s all the MeToo buzzwords. She said, ‘There was an imbalance of power for sure.’ ‘My hands were shaking so hard.’ She said she blacked out. Blacked out? She’s a porn star!” Maher exclaimed.
“Do you really think she blacked out? A porn star is used to having sex with people she doesn’t [like],” he went on. “I just think she’s not a good witness.”
Daniels’ former lawyer Michael Avenatti, who is now behind bars and had a falling out with her, accused his client of not being forthcoming with the truth and alleged that she “extorted Trump in Oct. 2016.”
Maher has long been an ardent Trump critic, though earlier this month on his “Club Random Podcast,” in which he typically drinks and smokes weed during candid conversations, Maher vowed that he “won’t go f—ing nuts again” if Trump wins.
Maher accused Daniels of using "Me Too buzz words" during her testimony.
Recently, Maher lashed out at Attorney General Merrick Garland, accusing him of slow-walking the spate of Justice Department inquiries into the former president, and thereby, giving him a window to win again.
He also previously sounded optimistic that the hush money trial could be Trump’s undoing.
“This one, I got to say I was always against [it] because I thought of all the ones you’re bringing, this is the least serious,” Maher said on his show two weeks ago.
“Now I think Trump could lose.”
Trump is facing a 34-count indictment for allegedly falsifying business records to conceal alleged hush money payments including to Daniels to kill negative stories about him during the 2016 election.
The former president has vehemently denied wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty as he has done with all 88 criminal counts against him spanning four indictments.
https://nypost.com/2024/05/12/media/bill-maher-trashes-bad-witness-stormy-daniels-for-changing-her-story-with-trump-trial-testimony/
Working at the Bee is hard work. This is spot on and just an inch from the truth.
The dems back him for this very reason!
Good one Al, sadly speaks the truth!
Rep. Huizenga to Newsmax: Union Members Flocking to Trump
By James Morley III | Saturday, 11 May 2024 10:22 AM EDT
Rep Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., told Newsmax on Saturday that President Joe Biden's inability to deliver a clear message has seen many of Michigan's union members "flocking to Donald Trump."
On Wednesday, Biden made a threat to withhold heavy artillery transfers to Israel if the country proceeded with a full assault on the city of Rafah, the last remaining stronghold of Hamas terrorists. Biden has faced criticism from members of both parties who view his stance on Israel as inconsistent. Huizenga said Biden's decisions are based on "politics not policy."
"He's losing [in Michigan] and there's a couple of very important affiliations here in Michigan on the Democrat side. You've obviously got the Arab American coalition, Jewish coalition, but also African American and union members," he said during an appearance on "Wake Up America Weekend."
In April, a Kaplan Strategies poll showed Trump with a commanding 51%-36% lead in the key battleground state.
"And we know what's happening with the union members. They're all flocking to Donald Trump. So they've got to make up these vote somewhere here in Michigan," Huizenga added.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/israel-bill-huizenga-joe-biden/2024/05/11/id/1164343/?ns_mail_uid=110c4f27-b39e-4490-8c9e-becd156886f8&ns_mail_job=DM620639_05112024&s=acs&dkt_nbr=010102ueemhr
‘I’m Outraged At Accusations I’ve Taken The Side Of Hamas,’ Says Angry Biden Wearing New Keffiyeh
WASHINGTON, D.C. — At a press conference held at the White House today, a keffiyeh-wearing President Joe Biden pushed back against accusations that he has sided with Hamas in its ongoing conflict with Israel.
The president vehemently argued that his wearing of the traditional headdress of Palestinian nationalism should in no way be misinterpreted by anyone as him showing support for Hamas in the war in Gaza.
"I'm outraged at accusations I've taken Hamas's side!" an angry Biden shouted at reporters as he brushed the edge of his keffiyeh out of his face. "We're heading into the hotter months of the year, folks. I'm wearing this keff… this… kefir… keffel… keffin… this thing… to protect myself from the harmful effects of the sun. For people to try to claim that I've sided with Hamas is a bunch of malarkey. Knock it off. Let me be clear. If I keep hearing these scurrilous accusations, then I'll… I'll… larbinzinforbinate."
When asked for further clarification, the White House reiterated that Biden's new keffiyeh was not a sign of support for Hamas. "Don't be ridiculous," said black and gay Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who is black and also gay. "The president is wearing a headdress traditionally worn to show support for Palestine. How does that translate to people thinking he has taken a side? This keffiyeh, just like his decision to continue sending supplies to Palestine while cutting off shipments to Israel, proves he is completely impartial."
At publishing time, the administration issued a press release stating that video footage of President Biden raising the Palestinian flag above the White House and setting the American flag on fire was further proof of his neutrality on the Middle East conflict.
https://babylonbee.com/news/im-outraged-at-accusations-ive-taken-hamass-side-says-angry-biden-wearing-new-keffiyeh
Biden won’t let America supply the world with low-carbon gas. It’s green energy madness
David Blackmon
May 11, 2024
Supreme Court Justices Thomas and Alito Issue Warnings About State of America
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/supreme-court-justices-thomas-and-alito-issue-warnings-about-state-of-america-5648293?utm_source=rtnewsnoe&src_src=rtnewsnoe&utm_campaign=rtbreaking-2024-05-12-1&src_cmp=rtbreaking-2024-05-12-1&utm_medium=email&utm_content=access0&est=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZeMgIkRb6dvH5LxAvWpUFB4ARlJpfEWq9FYrFR9g5Q%3D%3D
‘Support for freedom of speech is declining dangerously,’ Justice Alito said, while Justice Thomas decried ‘nastiness and the lies’ in the Beltway.
In separate remarks at two different events on Friday, Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito issued warnings about the state of affairs in America today, including support for freedom of speech “declining dangerously” and the nation’s capital becoming a “hideous” place where cancel culture runs rampant.
Justice Thomas spoke at a conference of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Point Clear, Alabama, while Justice Alito delivered a commencement address at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, a Catholic college in Ohio, with both of the conservative-minded judges painting a dark picture—while encouraging action and offering hope.
At the Alabama event, Justice Thomas was asked to comment by the moderator—U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle—about what it’s like to work “in a world that seems meanspirited.”
“I think there’s challenges to that,” Justice Thomas said. “We’re in a world and we—certainly my wife and I the last two or three years it’s been—just the nastiness and the lies, it’s just incredible.”
Justice Thomas has faced heavy fire from Democrats who accuse him of skirting disclosure rules, of corruption in general, and of being too cozy with wealthy Republicans. They have not been able to point to any specific court cases in which the justice has misbehaved. Some activists have even pushed for Justice Thomas’s impeachment.
By contrast, over 100 former Supreme Court clerks signed an open letter last year defending Justice Thomas’s integrity, calling him a man of “unwavering principle” whose independence is “unshakable.” They called various critical stories that have targeted him as “malicious” and “perpetuating the ugly assumption that the Justice cannot think for himself.”
“They are part of a larger attack on the Court and its legitimacy as an institution,” the letter also stated. “The picture they paint of the Court and the man for whom we worked bears no resemblance to reality.”
Public opinion polls suggest public trust in the Supreme Court recently fell to new lows.
Addressing the criticism, Justice Thomas said at the Alabama conference that Washington had become a “hideous” place where “people pride themselves in being awful,” while characterizing America beyond the Beltway as a place where regular people “don’t pride themselves in doing harmful things.”
Justice Thomas also expressed concern that court writings have become inaccessible to the average person, engendering a sense of alienation.
“The regular people I think are being disenfranchised sometimes by the way that we talk about cases,” Justice Thomas said, while expressing hope that this could change.
‘It’s Rough Out There’
Justice Alito warned graduates at the Catholic college in Ohio that freedom of speech and religion were both being assailed in today’s America, while expressing hope that young people would take up the mantle and fight for positive change.
In his address, Justice Alito made a reference to pop culture, namely to a graduation speech delivered by the character Thornton Melon (played by Rodney Dangerfield) in the movie “Back to School.”
He jokingly cited Mr. Melon’s advice to graduates, which was not to go out into the world after graduating because “it’s rough out there” and instead move back in with their parents, let them pay all the bills, and “worry about it.”
“As Mr. Melon said, it is rough out there,” Justice Alito said. “It’s probably rougher out there now than it has been for quite some time. But that is precisely why your contributions will be so important.”
Justice Alito said that, outside the walls of the campus, “troubled waters are slamming against some of our most fundamental principles,” referring to freedom of speech.
“Support for freedom of speech is declining dangerously,” he continued, noting that this problem is especially acute on college campuses, which he said are places where the exchange of ideas should be most protected.
“Very few colleges live up to that ideal. This place is one of them … but things are not that way out there in the broader world,” Justice Alito said.
He also raised the issue of freedom of religion being “imperiled,” noting that graduates may find themselves in jobs or social settings where they will be pressured to renounce their beliefs or adopt ones they find morally objectionable.
“It will be up to you to stand firm,” he said.
Notably, Justice Alito authored the 2022 ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade and handed the matter of deciding on abortion rights to states.
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Obama, Biden, Att. Gen., & CIA Dir. Murdered More Children
BY Tory Smith
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Alvin Bragg’s Office Deleted Phone Call Records of Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels’ Lawyer
By Tom Ozimek
May 11, 2024
A paralegal from Manhattan Attorney General Alvin Bragg’s office testified on Friday during former President Donald Trump’s “hush money” trial that some phone call records between Michael Cohen and Stephanie Clifford’s (a.k.a. Stormy Daniels) lawyer were deleted, raising questions about evidentiary integrity.
In a bid to challenge some of the evidence being put forward in President Trump’s business records falsification trial in Manhattan, Trump attorney Emil Bove asked paralegal Jaden Jarmel-Schneider in court on May 10 about roughly three pages worth of records that the attorney claimed Mr. Bragg’s office had deleted.
Mr. Jarmel-Schneider confirmed some deletions. He acknowledged that some phone call records from 2018 between Mr. Cohen and Keith Davidson (Ms. Clifford’s lawyer) had been deleted, along with some records of conversations between Ms. Clifford’s manager Gina Rodriguez and then-National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard about Ms. Clifford’s claim that she had an affair with President Trump.
The Trump attorney alleged that the deletions were “significant,” prompting Mr. Jarmel-Schneider to dispute that characterization, though he acknowledged that some of the records had indeed been deleted.
Prosecutors have submitted the call records into evidence in a bid to bolster their case that the alleged affair—which President Trump has denied—took place and that the former president falsified business records to conceal payments allegedly made to Ms. Clifford to stay silent.
President Trump has denied any wrongdoing and maintains the case is a politically motivated bid to undermine his 2024 presidential campaign.
The fact that prosecutors submitted the call records into evidence but didn’t tell the Trump defense team that some of them had been deleted raises questions about the integrity of the proceedings, according to Trump attorneys, and others.
“Insanity! How on earth is this not a felony committed by Bragg and his minions? It sure would be if team Trump did it,” the former president’s eldest son, Don Trump Jr., said in a post on X.
Mr. Trump Jr. was presumably referring to the fact that evidence tampering is a class E felony in the state of New York.
Mr. Bragg’s office did not respond to a request for comment on the deleted records.
The development comes at the tail end of an intense week that saw President Trump subjected to gag order sanctions, two failed attempts by the defense team to have a mistrial declared, and Ms. Clifford taking the stand.
Mr. Cohen is expected to take the stand next week.
Trial End in Sight
After four weeks in court, prosecutors signaled that the first-ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president will be coming to an end.
Jurors will soon have to decide whether prosecutors have proved beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump was involved in falsifying business records as part of a scheme to influence the 2016 election.
President Trump was charged by Mr. Bragg with 34 counts of falsifying business records. Typically, this is a misdemeanor charge, but in this case prosecutors allege the records were falsified to cover up a scheme to influence the 2016 election and therefore amounts to a felony.
A number of legal experts have challenged the way Mr. Bragg elevated the misdemeanor into a felony. This includes retired Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, who argued that Mr. Bragg was operating on an invalid legal premise because he invoked federal statutes over which New York has no jurisdiction.
Mr. Dershowitz also recently said that he believes that Mr. Bragg’s office has violated voters’ rights with the Trump prosecution, with the legal scholar arguing that the case amounts to a criminal conspiracy to influence elections.
Prosecuting attorney Joshua Steinglass said Friday that prosecutors plan to call just two more witnesses and that it’s “entirely possible” that the prosecution will rest its case at the end of next week.
Mr. Cohen, who is set to testify next week, made the original claims that led to the case. Specifically, the allegation of falsified business records pertains to 11 checks Mr. Cohen received and their corresponding invoices and vouchers.
The defense team says that Mr. Cohen was paid attorney’s fees, while prosecutors allege that the legal expense categorization of the payments was fraudulent in order to cover up that they were meant to buy Ms. Clifford’s silence about the alleged affair.
Ms. Clifford testified over the course of two days, with attorneys and the judge expressing some frustration that she frequently responded to questions with commentary that did not directly answer the question.
Defense attorneys moved for a mistrial, arguing that her statements were “extremely prejudicial” and would improperly influence the jury.
The judge denied that motion.
https://www.ntd.com/alvin-braggs-office-deleted-evidence-of-phone-calls-between-michael-cohen-and-stormy-daniels-lawyer_992099.html?src_src=ntddailynoe&src_cmp=ntd-2024-05-12
The NY Times tries to cast Republicans as the party of real antisemitism
By Wolf Howling
Democrats believe in miraculous money
By Ron Ross
The essentials of a new Trump administration
By Richard Berkowitz
Should Biden be re-elected, which I seriously doubt, then America will become a historical asterisk.
If Trump is re-elected, and has the voting plurality to accomplish his goals, what should we expect?
In no particularly strict order, I submit the following:
1) He will address border issues and probably complete the wall, plugging it where it has been destroyed or penetrated.
2) He will make sure border staffing is adequate.
3) I suspect he will begin a series of returning illegal aliens back to their countries of origin.
4) After addressing border issues, Trump should turn his attention to those universities and colleges who have violated America’s civil rights laws and threaten to take away their government funding while calling for the resignation of their presidents, administrators and board members.
5) After that, I suspect he will fire the head of the FBI and demand that this corrupt agency enforce the law in at least two ways:
a) Begin an investigation to determine who has been financing the rioting campus marauders engaged in anarchy.
and
b) Gather and present evidence, to a newly constructed and staffed Department of Justice, that will form the basis of trials of rioters who broke the law.
6) The next neo-Marxist group Trump must attack is the education union for its illegal activities of subjecting students to a curriculum that results in teaching them to hate America and to be free to act outside parental authority and rid the description of parents as domestic terrorists.
7) Next, he should do his best to lay the groundwork for the Saudis to join the Abraham Accords so Israel, in conjunction with the other members, can begin to craft a post–Hamas war, self-governed Palestinian entity void of any Hamas and PLO involvement or connections.
8) He must unshackle Bibi and allow him to pursue the war as Bibi sees fit and re-instate delivery of any requested and approved arms deliverance, including all congressionally approved funding.
9) In terms of America’s economy, if The Fed has not already reduced rates, Trump will discuss with Fed chair Jerome Powell the need to do so immediately.
10) All of the above and more, if possible, could be implemented in the first two weeks after his inauguration. He will outline all of this in a major presidential speech to the nation.
11) He should pardon all of his former administration personnel who have been jailed because of their association with him, as a result of the weaponization of politics, and I would hope he would establish a government fund to reimburse them for their legal fees, etc.
12) I would hope and expect him to allow any impeachment of Biden and his family members to continue without any personal demands, pressures, or personal involvement. Leave that to Congress.
Were I one of his advisers, I would inform Trump if he does not do the above and more, I will no longer support him.
Even if the above is accomplished, I still remain fearful that too much toothpaste is out of the tube. But the above are the minimum essentials to get America back to where it needs to be.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/the_essentials_of_a_new_trump_administration.html
After admitting there are no real facts, Biden effectively accuses Israel of war crimes
By Andrea Widburg
Made in Cuba: The pro-Hamas campus protests
By Monica Showalter
Marilyn Mosby: finally, justice comes to Baltimore
By Mike McDaniel
Brave Sir Biden
By Pete McArdle
When fiction turns into leftist propaganda
By Greg Moo
American appeasement engenders Islamist aggression
By Joseph Puder
Congressional hall monitors
By M. Walter
In the seventeen-second ad below, “Why Monitor a Problem?” a credit monitoring service is in the role of what appears to be a dentist. He looks inside the patient’s mouth, tells the patient he has the worst cavity he’s ever seen, puts his instruments down, swivels away, then tells him to have a good day as he gets up to leave. The patient, horrified, is then informed the dentist isn’t an actual dentist; he’s just a dental monitor.
Time to Balance Racial History for Justice’s Sake
By Helen Louise Herndon
Selective history that omits salient facts—especially those involving diverse races—is nothing less than grave injustice. When race is involved, it is itself a form of racism. Sadly, this is true of the general narrative and teaching of America’s slave history. Calls are made to teach more about what slaves endured, yet not about who all the oppressors were. The truth is that America’s slavery represents multi-racial guilt based on multi-racial participants, except for the slaves themselves.
It’s time to balance an untold record for justice’s sake. Selective justice is injustice. As to America’s slavery history, injustice has been allowed for too long. It’s time to balance facts and end racist blame games toward one race only. Teaching false or incomplete narratives as to the participants in this historical tragedy to America’s children and youth is unfair to them. Most importantly, it promotes unnecessary race-based enmities at a very young age. Many black adults are shocked to learn the role of blacks in that tragedy. Such omissions to authentic history sadly play a role in supporting racist huckstering and profiteering from a falsified blame game.
Where should we begin correcting a false, inaccurate, and incomplete record of America’s slave history? Rationally, of course, from where slaves originated, who captured them, and who sold them to Americans. American slaves originated in western Africa south of the Sahara Desert—thus, all black Africans. That historical narrative is true. Missing is who the oppressors were who captured and sold them not only to the Americas but also to millions more to the Middle East Arab Muslim world. Those oppressors were black Africans. Slavery was a very profitable commerce not officially ending in Africa until the late 20th Century. Mauritania—the last nation—finally abolished slavery in 1981. Since American slaves originated in Africa, why is the fact they were captured and sold by blacks not included in teaching in most K-12 schools? Blame is incorrectly and solely aimed at whites who bought, transported, sold, and owned them.
Coming to America’s shores, the participants in slave trading, ownership, and escaped slave bounty hunting were racially diverse. One of the first legal slave owners in the American colonies, Anthony Johnson, was black, and he came from Angola as an indentured servant. Becoming free, he bought land and slaves. Virginia 1655 Court records indicate he owned slaves. He became significantly wealthy, as did other black slave owners. It is alleged the wealthiest slaveowner in Louisiana with the most slaves was black. It’s incredible to understand how so many relevant facts remain under wraps yet today.
History classes and textbooks mainly teach slaves were black and slave owners were white—neither accurate nor the total story. Far less than five percent of whites owned slaves. Though the free black population was much smaller, as is today’s black population, it possessed a much higher percentage population-wise of slave owners. Very few know these facts. Thanks to black historians and scholars, such historical data is addressed. Some of those writers are John Franklin Hope, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Larry Koger, Glenn Loury, and Carter G. Woodson, et al.
In both Carolinas and Louisiana, thousands of free blacks owned black slaves. Black slave owners existed in the North, too. Also noted is that their slaves were treated as poorly and abused as those owned by whites. One has to wonder if the descendants of black slave owners might also receive reparations where they are being paid out, as it’s difficult today to differentiate descendants of slaves from descendants of free blacks or black slave owners. Nonetheless, those slave owners justly deserve to be included in history textbooks and classes, sharing the same apportionment of blame as white slave owners.
Other important facts omitted from history textbooks and classes relate to Native American ownership of black slaves. Specifically, five tribes—Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cree, and Seminole—owned black slaves in the thousands. Three tribes would not emancipate their slaves following the Civil War but were forced to when signing a treaty with the United States. Where are they included in this tragic history? No mention of them is heard from those voicing a desire for more to be taught about the hardships slaves endured or demand for reparations.
Constant reiterations of slave history and claims of alleged continuing consequences in effect yet today via false, inaccurate. and incomplete narratives contribute to promoting racial division and enmity currently. Restoring factual history is just one antidote to the malicious division fostered by various individuals. A false emphasis is unhealthy diminishing a nation’s cohesion of national harmony and unity.
Furthermore, falsely blaming and holding people of one race guilty only among others who were guilty is pure, poisoned racist injustice. If “equal justice for all” is genuinely desired, this racist myth needs to end. If other parts and people of history are being canceled, the cancelation of this myth deserves prominence and priority.
Finally, no entire race is monolithic in actions or attitudes. To stereotype any race solely by the evil of some is racist. To do so exclusively to any specific race is unjust and, thus, grave injustice. Stereotyping any entire race made up of diverse individuals—some evil but most good people—demands every race be held equally guilty for those in their race who are also evil. Justice always demands a single standard—as opposed to a double standard—which this myth perpetuates.
Remember Rodney King’s question, “Can’t we all just get along?” Perhaps we should add, “Can’t we all just agree, ‘It’s time to balance racial history for justice’s sake?’”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/time_to_balance_racial_history_for_justice_s_sake.html
Biden’s Complicity in the Cancellation of Israel
By William Manning
Biden and His ‘Ironclad’ Support of Israel
By Clarice Feldman
I always thought “ironclad” meant binding, but to President Biden it apparently means a pledge that’s good until it becomes politically inconvenient to stick to it. On at least two occasions he asserted his (and our) commitment to Israel’s defense was “ironclad”:
“On July 18, 2023, seated beside Mr. Herzog. “And as I affirmed to Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu yesterday, America’s commitment to Israel is firm. And it is ironclad.”
He reiterated this pledge last month:
"As I told Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu, our commitment to Israel's security against these threats from Iran and its proxies is ironclad - let me say it again, ironclad," Mr. Biden said.
His comments come one day after an interview, recorded a week ago, was aired in which Mr. Biden urged Mr. Netanyahu to "just call for a ceasefire" in Gaza and in which he said he disagreed with the prime minister's war strategy.
"I think what he's doing is a mistake. I don't agree with his approach," he said in the interview with US network Univision”.
With rockets pouring into Israel from Lebanon and Gaza after the most murderous barbaric attack of October 7, “The Biden administration told Congress it would waive sanctions on military sales to several Middle Eastern nations the day before President Biden himself publicly declared that the U.S. would not give Israel offensive aid if it invaded Rafah. (Israel had already begun to invade Rafah.)
Some of those countries have been accused playing an active role in the proliferation of Hamas and other terror groups intent on wiping Israel off the map.
The State Department sent Congress a notification on Tuesday that it would extend existing sanctions waivers for Lebanon, Iraq, Kuwait, Yemen Libya, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia through April 30, 2025, according to a copy of the notice obtained by Fox News Digital on Friday.
This week, in accord with a National Security Memorandum issued in February, the Department of State released a report which covers Israel and six other states concerning whether these states, which receive U.S. defense aid, have provided assurances that they will abide by U.S. and International law. Respecting Israel, its report is convoluted and provides little cover for the President, who is now being charged with Articles of Impeachment for threatening to cut off aid to Israel, a move predictable because the congressional authorization for arms sales to Israel was most certainly a quid pro quo for the defense authorization for continued aid to Ukraine.
In relevant part the unclassified version of the report states, per Michael Crowley of the New York Times, as Powerline's Scott Johnson quotes and discusses:
"The Biden administration believes that Israel has most likely violated international standards in failing to protect civilians in Gaza but has not found specific instances that would justify the withholding of military aid, the State Department told Congress on Friday.” Crowley also observes that the report adds that “the results on the ground, including high levels of civilian casualties, raise substantial questions” as to whether the Israel Defense Forces are making sufficient use of those tools…
Even so, the report -- which seemed at odds with itself in places -- said the United States had no hard proof of Israeli violations. It noted the difficulty of collecting reliable information from Gaza, Hamas’s tactic of operating in civilian areas and the fact that “Israel has not shared complete information to verify” whether U.S. weapons have been used in specific incidents alleged to have involved human rights law violations.
The report addresses Israel’s compliance with international law at pages 21-25. Here is a key paragraph at pages 21-22:
Given the nature of the conflict in Gaza, with Hamas seeking to hide behind civilian populations and infrastructure and expose them to Israeli military action, as well as the lack of USG personnel on the ground in Gaza, it is difficult to assess or reach conclusive findings on individual incidents. Nevertheless, given Israel’s significant reliance on U.S.-made defense articles, it is reasonable to assess that defense articles covered under NSM-20 have been used by Israeli security forces since October 7 in instances inconsistent with its IHL obligations or with established best practices for mitigating civilian harm. Israel’s own concern about such incidents is reflected in the fact it has a number of internal investigations underway.
[snip]
The report addresses the IDF’s responsibility for civilian harm at pages 25-28. As I read it, Israel has undertaken heroic efforts to mitigate harm to civilians at great risk to its own soldiers, but that’s not quite what it says.
[snip]
How accurate are Hamas’s accounts of “reported deaths”? Perhaps it would make sense to resort to serious statistical analysis, such as that conducted by Abraham Wyner in his Tablet column “How the Gaza Ministry of Health Fakes Casualty Numbers.” The report offers no such analysis or even any standard of comparison by which to assess “proportionality.”
Aside from any reliance on admittedly “highly questionable data,” the State Department report makes clear the alliance of Hamas and UNRWA in Gaza.
As Powerline reminds us, John Spencer, the West Point modern urban warfare expert, has already assessed the great and remarkable efforts by the Israelis to protect civilians behind whom the murderous, cowardly Hamas hides:
In their criticism, Israel’s opponents are erasing a remarkable, historic new standard Israel has set. In my long career studying and advising on urban warfare for the U.S. military, I’ve never known an army to take such measures [as the IDF has] to attend to the enemy’s civilian population, especially while simultaneously combating the enemy in the very same buildings. In fact, by my analysis, Israel has implemented more precautions to prevent civilian harm than any military in history -- above and beyond what international law requires and more than the U.S. did in its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
As perfidious as this report is, I conclude it gives no cover for Biden’s halting arms shipments to Israel now, at its greatest time of need.
In the words of my favorite online poster, Alex Bensky, the report says “we want to favor Hamas and hinder Israel even more and we can’t find any actual reason to do so.”
In the meantime, the Administration is continuing building a pier to Gaza even under fire by Hamas and even though it will continue to provide an attractive, easily accessible target for it, and Israel continues to urge civilians to leave Rafah where any remaining hostages and Hamas leaders are hidden underground.
There are two cheering bits of news this week. Two notable left-wing outfits, BLM and Tides, are at odds, with BLM suing Tides for fraud in withholding $33 million in donations. It’s one of those things where we could hope they’d both lose.
At Harvard, 170 professors have sent a signed letter to interim president Alan M. Garber which states:
Dear Interim President Garber,
We have been watching with increasing alarm the continuing situation with the encampment in the Yard and agree entirely with your statement that this must end. We agree with the following principles, which we have edited from a similar document which MIT faculty members sent to their President.
We support you fully in recognizing the following principles:
1. Freedom of speech on campus is subject to limitations in time, place and manner, and subject to other applicable US laws, including Titles VI and IX.
2. The right to free speech is not a right to cancel the speech of others. The encampment’s violation of Harvard rules is not theoretical. It has prevented the use of a central campus space by many students, and now threatens to displace and marginalize activities by groups following the rules.
3. The right to protest does not imply the right to impose unlimited costs on the University. The Harvard police and other elements of the Harvard administration which are tasked with supporting our entire community have been stretched to the breaking point by the encampment. This cannot continue indefinitely.
4. Conduct rules should not be set aside in troubled times. On the contrary, it is at times like these that they must be applied rigorously and fairly, along with free speech protections and a respect for diverse viewpoints.
5. Students engaged in civil disobedience must accept the consequences of their actions. The willingness to accept the consequences of one’s actions is a critical difference between civil disobedience and mob rule.
6. Academic freedom is not negotiable. Harvard should never negotiate away the rights of its faculty, students and staff to engage in research and engage in scholarly collaborations which advance the academic mission. Any concession on this front, including minor adaptations to Harvard’s current processes or a commitment to review them in light of the protestors’ agenda, is likely to be interpreted as politicization of Harvard’s procedures.
7. The administration must not make concessions to protesters that would have not been granted had they followed the rules. Concessions of this type would reward bad behavior and undermine our commitment to fundamental principles of civil discourse. Furthermore, it may encourage other groups to engage in disruptive behavior.
8. Prompt removal of the encampment should be followed by civil dialogue with those representing the views of the protesters who remain in good standing with the university. The sooner the encampment is removed, the sooner a meaningful conversation can begin.
On the basis of these principles, and recognizing that there can be no academic freedom in an atmosphere of lawlessness, we fully support your efforts to end the encampment swiftly and as peacefully as possible, so that the academic missions of our community, including exams and commencement, can go forward without further disturbance.
As you might expect, the signatories are not from the gender studies programs but almost entirely from the medical school, business, and science faculties, and this is significant because it’s my understanding these are the programs which receive the most donations to the school.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/biden_and_his_ironclad_support_of_israel.html
Mothers Make Patriots
By J.B. Shurk
I love America. I love her history — good and bad — and everything she represents. I walk down forgotten streets in old industrial towns, read lost words chiseled on hidden tombstones, and breathe deeply whenever I find myself standing on hallowed ground where Americans fought and died. I treat old American books and maps like treasures, tracing the texture of their faded pages with my fingertips as a jeweler would rare stones. The spirit of America affects me in an emotional way. I have a vested interest in making sure she survives.
Not long ago, we would have called my condition good old-fashioned patriotism — a healthy affliction that tugs at the heart and soul like any other meaningful kind of love. Now the FBI hunts down patriots as “extremists,” and I suppose the federal government won’t be happy until there is no one left to love this country we call home. In defiance, I will love her anyway.
Although I come from a long line of veterans and witnesses to America’s glorious past, my ancestors did not fasten this patriotic love inside my heart. My mother did. From as long as I can remember, she told stories of the American Revolution, life on the frontier, the Civil War, and so much more. She would choke up as she recounted the hardships at Valley Forge, the moments when George Washington almost lost everything, and the miraculous triumphs that brought the cause of liberty back to life. We visited battlefields, and she would describe the morning fog and smoke as it had been when so many gave their lives so that we could enjoy what they could not. She spoke of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin in such personal terms that you could see them vividly in your mind. “Think of how much the Founding Fathers risked,” she would say. “Imagine how terrifying Gettysburg was,” she would insist. “Think about all the people who sacrificed everything so that we could be here today,” she would remind us regularly. Her love of American history created in me a love for America, too.
For decades, Marxist historians have condemned America’s past as intolerably “patriarchal,” and feminist academics have insisted on rewriting America’s story as part of “HER-story.” My mother has never played those silly games. She is a strong woman who doesn’t need to recreate America’s past in her own image in order to make it meaningful. More to the point, she is a courageous and patriotic American who finds as much of a connection to Washington, Jefferson, and Madison as anyone could. She can tell you all about Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, and Mary Todd Lincoln, but her love of America is not segregated by sex. America’s history is her history and a remarkable story that we have all inherited.
I see all these kids protesting against America today, and I think, “Dang, their mothers never taught them why they should cherish this country.” I remember thinking something similar when Barack Obama went on his global apology tour as president and frequently suggested that there was nothing “exceptional” about the nation he represented. “How could you rise to the highest office in the land,” I used to wonder, “and not be entranced by America’s significant contributions to human history?” In a world long dominated by monarchs, emperors, militaries, and aristocracies, America stands alone as a country founded on the principles that human liberty is precious and that human government is corrosive. Only in America have people fought and died not only to be free, but also to be the perpetual stewards of their own freedom. Our free speech, our religious freedom, our right to defend our lives and properties, our right to kick government agents the hell out of our homes — all these things form the bedrock of a nation conceived in an earth-shattering truth: legitimate government power comes exclusively from the consent of the governed. That truth — so simple, yet so rarely defended over the course of human history — is what makes America “exceptional.” And those who either never understood this or were tragically taught to erase it from their minds have grown up as impoverished orphans in their own country — inheriting nothing from America’s rich past.
I have a friend who grew up in Nigeria. Both he and his wife come from families that are held in high esteem. Because those families are Christian, though, they have survived some dangerous situations and barely escaped threats on their lives. Over many years, they immigrated to the United States and became American citizens.
I remember asking my friend what it was about America that drew them. He told me that as he and his siblings were growing up, his mother would often tell them stories about America’s Founding Fathers and later leaders. She talked about George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin. She talked about Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation. She described their physical features, what they accomplished, what they wrote, and what they meant to human history. My friend said that his mother had put a love for America in his heart.
Over time I met many of his family members, and two things always stuck out: (1) even though they had endured an awful lot of hardship, they were some of the happiest people I had ever met, and (2) they all loved America. Once while I was far from my own family, they insisted that I spend Easter with them. When my friend’s mother found me, she embraced me as one of her own. Eventually, I asked her about those stories she would tell her children, and she beamed as she started telling me what makes America such a special place. I remember thinking how unusual it was that this woman from another nation seemed to know and love America more than so many ungrateful Americans born here. And as a new citizen of the United States, she repeated something that I had heard her son say many times before. She looked at me and said, “I really do not like it when people refer to me as African-American. I am African, yes, but I am wholly American.” (Even now her words remind me of the late, great Lloyd Marcus, another wonderful “unhyphenated” American.) After meeting her, I realized why my friend is such a proud American.
That’s kind of funny, is it not? Two mothers in two very different parts of the world taught their children to love America by educating them about America’s magnificent past. No wonder the Marxists who run public schools in this country are so desperate to deprive young students of a solid education in American history. Knowing what makes America “exceptional” is the first step toward falling in love with America. And a person who falls in love with America falls in love with liberty. Understanding the foundations of our country creates patriots for life.
America may have an outsized share of tremendous Founding Fathers. But this, too, is certain: generations of patriotic mothers have made sure she survives. I thank them all.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/mothers_make_patriots.html
Trump Boogies in NJ, and a COVID Vax Is Taken Off the Market
From a Trump rally to Hillary on Broadway to conspiracy theories proving true, it has been a wacky week in the heartland.
by Sarah Cowgill | May 12, 2024
Heartlanders kept up a lively conversation this week as student protesters parroted their favorite anti-Israel phrases, clearly liking the sound but without any idea of what they really mean. Former President Trump went to the beach to rally the faithful in Wildwood and forget about court for a while. Astra Zeneca has pulled its COVID vaccine, and Hillary Clinton hit Broadway.
Indoctrination, Meet Reality
A pro-Israel group, Facts for Peace, braved the angry leftist mobs next to New York University to discuss actual events happening between Hamas and Israel. The headliner was the strikingly beautiful Miss Israel, Noa Cochva, who carried a poster that read: “I am an IDF soldier. Ask me anything.” Out of approximately 100 encounters, only one bothered to engage in conversation. Instead, slurs were screamed, including such classics as “war criminal” and “little Zionist.”
It ramped up quickly when a student approached Cochva wielding a knife and shouting at her, “I heard there was a Zionist here.”
And parents fund this kind of education?
Facts for Peace intended to conduct a social experiment. It was eye-opening: “It’s an awful thing to see what’s going on at the universities,” Cochva said. “It’s hard to see a generation of future leaders not even open to asking questions.” She continued, “I’ve been to war, and I know what it looks like from within. But none of them wanted to talk or listen.”
Rhonda Krominger Wilson commented in Pontiac, IL, “Hate speech, right? OH, I forget, that only works on certain demographics.” And Martha Raj in Michigan wrote these words or warning: “Hamas has taken over the West. The West, trying to be noble, has its hands tied. Get real West, protect your nations from Ottoman Empire invasion.”
A Peek Behind the Virus Veil
News leaked from across the pond that AstraZeneca pulled the Vaxzevria brand because of low demand. In a brief statement, an unidentified spokesperson wrote:
“We are incredibly proud of the role Vaxzevria played in ending the global pandemic. According to independent estimates, over 6.5 million lives were saved in the first year of use alone.”
But here’s what had flyover folks yakking: European Medicines Agency (EMA) admitted that reports across Europe linked the vaccine to rare blood clots shortly after approval in the UK. After the potential side effects were publicly listed, demand for the drug tanked.
As conspiracy theories go, some are more likely to be true than others. COVID-19 vaccines have killed at least some otherwise healthy people. Most heartlanders will tell you that even a paranoid person is right on occasion.
Cameron Michael in Indianapolis weighed in: “Ignore the part that they admitted that it’s causing blood clots. Just like the ones here.” Mike Ukleja from Las Vegas stated: “Every ‘conspiracy theory’ about Covid was a fact. Everything they told you about Covid was a lie.”
Luckily, this vaccination never made it to America – and it’s gone now even in Europe.
Trump’s Beach Blanket Bingo Moment
Wildwood, NJ, rolled out the red carpet for Donald Trump and a crowd estimated at between 80,000 and 100,000 this weekend. The campaign shelled out over $54,000 to cover local EMS, fire, and police services to manage the flock arriving from as far away as Tennessee and as close as New York and Ohio. Even the young folks were out braving the whipping winds and chilly temps. Joe Sereday was on hand with other Burlington County Young Republicans to assist partygoers in getting to where they needed to be for the rally.
“This … is a once-in-a-lifetime event for some, and being able to see any president, former or future, speak is a gift. I think it’s just an amazing event to be a part of. My friend is a Democrat who is coming just for the experience. Like him, if I had a chance to see former President Obama speak, I would jump on regardless of me disagreeing with some of what he has done.”
Julie Minton of Columbus, OH, commented: “That goes to show that Trump is gaining more younger voters while Biden is shedding them like skin over Hamas.”
S’Nuff
Hillary Clinton was nominated for a slew of Tony Awards for her musical, Suffs, based on the Suffragette Movement. The show is three hours long and features a politically correct cast of women and non-binary performers. So how did it go for the two-time presidential loser? Not great. The Broadway audience is a tough crowd that prefers celebrity stars, fantastical stories, family fare, and Disney imprimatur. Suffs, on the other hand, is history and another beating around the head and shoulders with progressive messaging.
The musical catalyzed a conversation with Randall Stine of Judyville, IN, while pondering today’s politics. Here’s how that went:
ME: Would you go see Snuffs, Rando?
Randall: Stuffs?
ME: Snuffs.
Randall: Sniffs?
ME: Still Snuffs.
Randall: Oh, (light going off) like a one of those crazy live-killing genre things?
Me: No
Randall: Well, since it’s Hillary, Stiffs would be a better title. I’d go see that and sit with Trump.
The musical seems destined for a short run – and just before the Tony Awards on June 16. But maybe the entertainment gods will smile down on Hillary and finally let her win something.
https://www.libertynation.com/trump-boogies-in-nj-and-a-covid-vax-is-taken-off-the-market/
How the ACLU Became the Illegal Alien Civil Liberties Union
The organization took the Big Philanthropy money, and now it works against American citizens.
by Joe Schaeffer | May 12, 2024
Perhaps it’s time to take the word “American” out of ACLU. The once-famed American Civil Liberties Union is all-in on defending illegal aliens, even to the point where it has a formerly “undocumented” top official on the staff whose sole job is to combat efforts to enforce US immigration laws.
The aggressiveness on this issue by an organization ostensibly devoted to protecting the individual rights of American citizens is startling. On May 8, ACLU chapters in New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arizona, California’s San Diego and Imperial Counties, Colorado, Missouri, Arkansas, and Kansas issued a travel advisory for Oklahoma after the state passed a new law making it a crime for an illegal alien to enter its domain. The law also criminalizes re-entering the state for those who have been ordered out of the US.
The triumph of pure politics over legal standing is evident from the organization’s verbal assault against Oklahoma.
A Threat to the Undocumented?
“[House Bill] 4156 is an attack on immigrants everywhere. By taking on unconstitutional immigration enforcement power, the government in Oklahoma is threatening immigrants who have lived and worked in their communities for decades,” ACLU of New Mexico Border and Immigration Policy Advocate Leonardo Castaneda said. “This is also a threat to New Mexicans who are undocumented, have mixed-status families or are simply a target for racist profiling by overeager and undertrained local law enforcement officers.”
The travel advisory clearly states that the ACLU is dedicated to backing the “civil liberties” of illegal aliens, warning that such laws “do nothing to welcome people seeking safety and refuge.” One day later, on May 9, the organization was at it again, filing suit against Iowa for passing a law similar to the Oklahoma measure. It made no attempt to hide its blatantly partisan leanings in linking up with pro-illegal alien activist groups.
“The American Immigration Council, American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Iowa filed the suit on behalf of Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice. The groups are requesting an injunction before the law takes effect July 1,” The Des Moines Register reported.
An Early Warning Ignored
There’s no mystery behind how the ACLU completely lost its way; an avalanche of progressive money poured into the organization’s coffers in response to the election of President Donald Trump in 2016. “Online donations had been in the $3 million to $5 million annual range before the coming of Trump. With him in office, that number has risen to $120 million,” Liberty Nation noted in 2018.
Then there are the omnipresent loaded greenbacks of notorious globalist billionaire George Soros. In 2014, Soros gave the ACLU a whopping $50 million in one “grant” for the organization to work to end “mass incarceration” in the US.
New banner Perpective 1Interestingly, a co-founder of the ACLU warned against the dangers of powerful moneyed philanthropists over a century ago. When oil baron John D. Rockefeller lobbied Congress for a federal charter to establish a “general-purpose private charitable foundation” in the first two decades of the 20th century, he faced strong opposition from those who feared the undue influence that would inevitably be a part of such “donations.”
“Unitarian minister John Haynes Holmes, a co-founder of the ACLU and the NAACP, testified that he presumed Rockefeller had good motives, but ‘it seems to me this foundation, the very character, must be repugnant to the whole idea of a democratic society,’” leftist publication Mother Jones wrote.
The political left has long abandoned any such concerns. That is how an American Civil Liberties Union became virulently committed to supporting foreigners illegally residing in the nation over US citizens.
ACLU Immigration Director Has Curious Ties
Maribel Hernandez Rivera is the “Director of Policy and Government Affairs, Border and Immigration” for the ACLU. Before that, she served as Deputy National Political Director for the organization. Rivera regularly touts her “undocumented childhood” experience as fundamental to her current job duties.
“I came to the United States from Mexico in 1993, when I was 13, not speaking a word of English,” Rivera wrote in a 2023 article for Ms. magazine. “For many years, I lived in the country without permission to be here. I often wondered what would happen if I were to be deported.” What does this have to do with American civil liberties? Nothing. The ACLU openly states that Rivera’s entire purpose is “to fight for people who are seeking asylum, for families to remain united, for families like mine.”
While she frequently touts her impoverished “undocumented” upbringing, Rivera has been traveling in quite lofty circles for well over a decade. She was awarded a 2009 PD Soros fellowship. Paul Soros, the late brother of George, established the program along with his wife, Daisy. Rivera’s resume since then touches an astonishing number of elitist bases. Harvard, Goldman Sachs, the Clinton Foundation, and the United Nations are just a few of the names that jump out.
Many believe the 2024 model of the ACLU does not remotely serve the civil interests of the American people. That says little for the integrity of a once-respected organization, but, hey, the financial bottom line has never been better.
https://www.libertynation.com/how-the-aclu-became-the-illegal-alien-civil-liberties-union/
The Census – Where Citizens and Illegal Aliens Collide
If voting is a right of citizenship, why should non-citizens expect representation?
by James Fite | May 12, 2024 |
House Republicans have pushed a bill through that aims to add a citizenship question to the next census in 2030. The plan is to ask people if they’re citizens, legal non-citizen residents, or illegal immigrants, then only count the citizens when setting congressional districts. But Democrats are solidly against it, calling it everything from unfair and racist to overly expensive.
Apportionment by the Numbers
The current number of representatives in the US House is set at 435, where it has been since 1929. This is split among the 50 states relative to state populations. This total would only change if Congress passed a law to increase or decrease the overall size of the House. The distribution, however, can change every ten years after the census, when the new national population count shows which states have lost residents and which have gained. For example, after the 2020 census, Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina, and Oregon each gained one seat and Texas gained two. Those seven House seats came from seven other states, each of which lost one: California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.
The Electoral College distribution is determined by the number of congressional seats – so the number of US representatives a state has plus two senators equals its number of presidential electors. Since there are 435 seats in the US House and 100 in the Senate, that means there are 535 electors spread out across the 50 states, plus three in Washington, DC, for a total of 538. The states that either gained or lost representatives after the last census also gained or lost an equal number of electors.
Fixing a Broken Census, or Playing Politics?
Currently, everyone counted by the census – citizens, non-citizen residents, and illegals alike – is counted toward the apportionment of congressional districts. If the GOP effort succeeds, non-citizens won’t count toward the total population for determining the spread of House seats and electors after the 2030 census, meaning the states with the highest concentration of undocumented residents stand to lose the most. According to the Pew Research Center, the states with the most non-citizens – the biggest losers, in this situation – are California, Texas, Florida, New York, New Jersey, and Illinois.
It’s important to note that the two red states on that list – Texas and Florida – are the two biggest contributors to Republican electors. Yes, the Democratic Party stands to lose more than a few representatives and presidential electors, but so does the GOP. Still, Democrats unanimously oppose this effort. The House passed the bill 206 to 202, split precisely along party lines. The only bipartisanship here were the 11 representatives from each party who didn’t vote.
The White House warned that this bill – which the president “strongly opposes” – would be costly and make it more difficult to obtain accurate data. “It would also violate the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, which requires that the number of seats in the House of Representatives ‘be apportioned among the several States according to their respective members, counting the whole number of persons in each State,’” the Office of Management and Budget’s statement added.
But Republicans point out that non-citizens already can’t vote in federal elections and, therefore, should not be counted specifically for the allocation of House seats. Allowing non-citizens to affect the distribution of House seats and presidential electors, they argue, creates an imbalance in power between states, in which everyone’s vote is not equal. For example, Illinois and Pennsylvania both have 17 seats in the House and 19 presidential electors – but there are considerably more non-citizens in Illinois than in Pennsylvania, giving actual voters in Illinois a stronger voice in national politics.
Introducing the bill in the House, Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) said, “Incentivizing illegal immigration and exploiting our democracy to skew the number of congressional seats or electoral votes for the presidency is immoral and a sure path to the downfall of our nation. Only American citizens can vote, and only American citizens should be counted when determining federal representation.”
However, with such strong Democrat opposition to the bill, it’s sure to die in the Senate. Barring that, Biden would almost certainly nix it, and it’s inconceivable that such a measure would gain enough votes to overturn the veto. Still, the bill raises an interesting question: If voting is a right of citizenship, why should non-citizens expect representation in Congress or the White House?
https://www.libertynation.com/the-census-where-citizens-and-illegal-aliens-collide/
Corporate Media Appears To Just Now Be Learning How Fundraising Works
David Blackmon
May 12, 2024
When they discovered Donald Trump had hosted a roundtable meeting at Mar-a-Lago with invited guests from the oil and gas industry, many legacy media platforms responded as if news of a politician making promises at a fundraiser had never happened in America before.
Some of the reports brought to mind the famous scene in “Casablanca” in which the French inspector declares he is “shocked! Shocked to find gambling going on in here!”
The meeting, organized by Oklahoma oil man Harold Hamm, took place on April 11, yet most media outlets failed to report on it until this week, in what almost appeared to be a coordinated effort to amplify the story. The Washington Post beat everyone to the punch with an initial report on April 17, but saw fit to file a second amid this week’s feeding frenzy, with the New York Times, Politico, The Hill, The Guardian, Reuters, Axios, and an array of other Democrat-friendly legacy outlets piling on.
[Note: This piece is also published at the Daily Caller]
So, what was the big news? The Washington Post’s initial story focused on negative comments Trump allegedly made about the wind industry, including a blunt statement, “I hate wind.” But is that really anything new? Trump’s enmity to the wind industry has been well known since at least 2015, so what has changed?
In its own story this week, the New York Times complains that Trump “has publicly railed for months against President Biden’s energy and environmental agenda.” But the truth is Trump has consistently opposed the heavy debt-funded subsidization of wind, solar, and electric vehicles since the outset of his 2016 bid for the presidency.
Both the Times and Post also detail Trump promises to encourage drilling in Alaska, hold more federal lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico, and end Biden’s ill-considered pause on LNG permitting.
Writers at these legacy outlets seemed horrified that, in the same meeting in which he discussed his plans to restore some balance to federal energy policy, Trump also made a bold and blunt request for the executives to support his campaign, allegedly tossing out the number of $1 billion. Try as I might, I was unable to find similarly inflammatory reports from these same media outlets related to the Biden campaign’s efforts to raise money from leftwing billionaires with names like Gates and Bloomberg and Soros.
A couple of the stories complain about the “transactional approach” Trump takes to fundraising, and indeed the former president is unusually blunt in that regard. But that is how he has always communicated in the political realm, and thus it is hardly newsworthy all these years later.
(RELATED: DAVID BLACKMON: New EPA Auto Emission Rules Reflect The Madness Of King Biden)
Mike McKenna, a DC-based consultant who served in the first Trump term, told the New York Times, “That has been his pitch to everybody,” adding: “Look, you want me to win. You might not even like me, but your other choice is four more years of these guys,” i.e. Biden and his appointees. “The uniform sentiment of guys in the business community is ‘We don’t want four more years of Team Biden.’”
Like it or not, this is how American politics works: Individuals, NGOs, unions, companies and entire industries tend to donate money to politicians who promise to take policy actions that are best for their own interests. And it is key to note here that the promises related to oil and gas and energy policy in general that Trump reportedly made during this roundtable essentially promise a return to the dominant policy direction of his first term in office. That’s hardly newsworthy, especially enough to become fodder for a coordinated effort among so many outlets to amplify a story a full month after the event took place.
Despite their having covered Trump’s political endeavors in one form or another for almost a decade now, these Democrat-leaning media operations still do not understand the reality that Trump’s blunt, transactional approach to politics is in fact a major asset for him. It is as if many journalists have become so conditioned to expect dissembling and obfuscation tactics from politicians that they don’t quite know how to react to someone who, like Trump, treats the process for what it actually is: A business transaction.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/corporate-media-appears-to-just-now?publication_id=712558&post_id=144553934&isFreemail=false&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Washington Update From the US Oil & Gas Association - 5.12.2024
David Blackmon
May 12, 2024
Shocked. Shocked to Find Lobbying Going on Here
May 10, 2024
Gasp! The Oil and Gas Industry Has Been Lobbying the potential Trump Administration
Shocking news from a publication focused on politics—the oil industry is lobbying a potential Trump administration. That’s the gist of a recent article from Politico. Politico writes:
The U.S. oil industry is drawing up ready-to-sign executive orders for Donald Trump aimed at pushing natural gas exports, cutting drilling costs and increasing offshore oil leases in case he wins a second term, according to energy executives with direct knowledge of the work.
We can’t believe we need to say this, but that’s how good lobbying works. Apparently, it’s a secret that Politico’s reporters have uncovered that good industry lobbyists give elected officials as much as information as possible and provide information with specificity. That’s the job of lobbyists—to provide information that helps the elected officials make good decisions. It’s really that simple.
Politico thinks it’s a bit “gross” for the oil industry to draft potential executive orders for a Trump administration despite the fact that Democratic constituencies obviously did the same thing before Biden was elected. On Day 1 of the Biden administration, President Biden issued 9 executive orders and then issued 8 additional executive orders the next day. With so many executive orders issued so quickly, you can safely bet that many of these executive orders were drafted by outside groups before President Biden was elected.
Here's one more thing that Politico does not understand—besides the oil and gas industry, other groups are drafting potential executive orders for Trump, if he is elected. It is no secret that conservative groups are working to produce potential executive orders on a wide range of topics.
If Trump is elected, the Trump transition team will meet with conservative groups and the transition team will review potential executive orders. From November until January, they will put together executive orders and other policies to hit the ground running on Day 1. The Biden Administration did this. All Administrations do this. A Trump administration will do the same thing.
Elections matters—Sen. Sherrod Brown edition
Ohio Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown is up for reelection this November and is in a tight race. As a result, he is suddenly a moderate again. He has signed on to Senator Manchin’s Congressional Review Act resolution to overturn Biden’s EV tax credits because they are too lenient on China.
Senator Brown and Senator Manchin voted for these credits in the Inflation Reduction Act. They should have ensured the law was well-written in the first place, but they didn’t do that and now they are complaining that their own Administration isn’t interpreting the law correctly. Senator Brown and Manchin were critical votes for Biden when Biden needed them when the bill passed on a party-line vote. Now they are acting like moderates. But now, Senator Brown knows he must be much more moderate if he wants to get reelected in Ohio.
Senators Manchin and Brown backtracking on these EV tax credits is one more example of why elections are good—they force lawmakers to consider what their constituents want.
Registered voters don’t like requiring automakers to sell more EVs
The Liberal Patriot is a center-left publication focused on American politics. One of the central concerns of the people who run The Liberal Patriot is that the Democratic party has moved too far to the left. Their latest polling has more examples of how out of touch Biden’s signature policies are with Independents.
One of Biden’s most important policies—one that he was touting a couple of weeks ago--was new regulations from EPA that will require car companies to sell ever-increasing numbers of EVs. The Independents and Republicans don’t like the plan. The Liberal Patriot explains:
The Biden administration’s proposed tailpipe regulations that would “require auto companies to sell more electric vehicles after 2030” is one of the worst performing ideas in the entire poll—opposed by a nine-point net margin among all voters. But the partisan divide on EVs is stark: Democrats support the idea of requiring more electric vehicle sales by a 40-point net margin while Republicans oppose it by a 57-point net margin with independents also opposed by a 22-point net margin.
I’m always heartened to see poll results like this. It’s good to see reasonable opinions from Independents.
Voters doubt Biden’s signature legislative achievements are working
Politico reports:
Voters say they don’t know very much about President Joe Biden’s major domestic spending initiatives. They don’t think they’re working. And they don’t give him credit for their benefits, anyway.
Those are among the key takeaways from a new POLITICO-Morning Consult poll about four major laws passed in the first two years of Biden’s administration — and the impact that spending has had on voters and the communities around them.
It is amusing the President used all his political capital to pass laws that normal people don’t care about.
Governor Hair Gel is coming for your car
This headline from E&E News is too good—"Gavin Newsom is coming for your car, and he wants you to know it.” It’s perfect because Newsom is pandering to the far-left and alienating Independents. It might be helpful for fundraising purposes from the far left but will make it nearly impossible to move to the center for which we are grateful for.
AI and the coming collision with EPA
For the first time in over a decade, electricity demand is increasing in the United States. This is obviously good news for natural gas. Not only is natural gas the biggest sources of electricity generation, but its growth over the past 10 years has outpaced all other sources of generation. Over the past 10 years, electricity generation from natural gas grew 70% more than the growth in generation from wind and solar. Wind and solar get the headlines, but natural gas keeps the lights on.
The challenge for natural gas is that EPA recently released new regulations on carbon dioxide emission that require CCS on new natural gas plants. The EPA regulations will kill coal, reduce the current fleet of electricity generators, and make it impossible to build new reliable power plants. EPA’s latest regulations cannot be allowed to stand if the United States wants to keep electricity rates somewhat affordable and if we want to compete globally for the rollout of AI.
For more than 50 years after World War II, electricity demand steadily increased in the United States. But starting in the mid-2000s, electricity demand leveled off and hasn’t really grown since. There were two major factors in that contributed to this leveling off—improved energy efficiency and the continued loss of energy-intensive manufacturing. Tech companies that helped grow the economy like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple, used less electricity than aluminum smelters and other large industrial uses of electricity, but with the continued growth of data center, especially for AI, these tech companies are now starting to drive growth in electricity consumption.
The WSJ reports that:
Dominion Energy, which supplies electricity to most of the data centers in Virginia, expects their power use to quadruple over the next 15 years, representing 40% of the utility’s demand in the state.
Utilities in Georgia and North Carolina are adding fossil-fuel power or considering delaying the shutdown of coal-fired plants to meet the demands of data centers and other industries. Duke Energy told regulators it needs three new gas-fired power plants in the Carolinas. Otherwise, it says it will have to keep coal plants open.
Dominion Chief Executive Robert Blue said the utility expects its peak load to increase at least 5% each year for the next 15 years. “We’re going to continue to be a big builder of renewables. We’re building a big offshore wind farm. We’re building a lot of solar. We’re adding a lot of storage,” Blue said. “But we also recognize that we’re going to need some more natural gas in order to keep the lights on.”
To reiterate, Dominion Energy expects data centers alone to represent 40% of Dominion’s load in 15 years. One reason the demand is so great is that Northern Virginia, especially the area near Dulles Airport is the data center capital of the world.
The headline of the WSJ explains the left-wing concern with data centers. The article is titled "How Big Data Centers Are Slowing the Shift to Clean Energy.” The point is that natural gas and coal-fired power plants are necessary to keep the power flowing to data centers. Data centers need electricity 24/7/365 and it is incredibly difficult to power data centers with weather-dependent wind and solar, no matter how aggressive the tech companies' sustainability goals are.
While it will be hard to meet data center demand, Biden’s EPA is making it even harder. As noted above, last week Biden’s EPA released new regulations on carbon dioxide emissions that require CCS on all coal plants and new natural gas plants. EPA is trying to close all coal plants and make it impossible to build new natural gas plants, just as electricity demand is starting to increase.
If continued leadership in artificial intelligence matters, we need to stop EPA’s assault on reliable, affordable energy. Affordable electricity is critical for the welfare of American families and American industries today and in the future.
Why can't you power data centers with wind—some years the wind doesn't blow very much
This chart below from the U.S. Energy Information Administration is kind of amazing. Wind generation fell in 2023 compared to 2022. This is despite continued growth in wind installations. The most important factor is that 2023 wasn't a big wind year, while 2022 was a big wind year. Not only does wind vary from hour to hour, day to day, month to month, season to season, but also year to year. Here's EIA explaining what is happening with wind generation in the United States:
U.S. wind capacity increased steadily over the last several years, more than tripling from 47.0 GW in 2010 to 147.5 GW at the end of 2023. Electricity generation from wind turbines also grew steadily, at a similar rate to capacity, until 2023. Last year, the average utilization rate, or capacity factor, of the wind turbine fleet fell to an eight-year low of 33.5% (compared with 35.9% in 2022, the all-time high).
The 2023 decline in wind generation indicates that wind as a generation source is maturing after decades of rapid growth. Slower wind speeds than normal affected wind generation in 2023, especially during the first half of the year when wind generation dropped by 14% compared with the same period in 2022. Wind speeds increased later in 2023, and wind generation from August through December was 2.4% higher than during the same period in 2022. Wind speeds had been stronger than normal during 2022.
How are you going to power your data centers on wind power?
Biden’s plans to electrify trucking face harsh reality in the desert
A few weeks ago, the Biden administration finalized rules that would require semi-trucks to switch from diesel to batteries or to hydrogen-fuel cells even though neither is ready to replace diesel. E&E News explains the challenge of charging electric semi-trucks:
But creating a corridor for green trucking is easier said than done.
A single charging plaza may need as much power as the Empire State Building, according to TeraWatt. Adding to the challenge is the limited range of today’s electric trucks, which means a string of charging stations are necessary to keep them running.
Then there’s the landscape itself. Much of the southwestern United States is remote desert — making it difficult to connect power-hungry charging stations to the grid.
A serious problem is getting enough electricity to the middle of nowhere to charge large trucks. That is expensive and difficult to get the necessary permits for new power lines, as well as new, large transformers.
The challenges of trying to electrify trucking is much more difficult than the Biden administration seems to believe. They do not understand what is required to get enough electricity to where it needs to go. They seem to think all you need to do is flip a switch and electricity magically appears.
Electric charging faces harsh really at Tesla
I can’t say that I understand this move by Elon Musk, but he laid off the entire Supercharger team. Tesla’s Supercharger network has been one of the biggest perks of driving a Tesla. Just last year, several automakers did deals with Tesla to get access to Tesla’s Supercharging network and now Tesla has laid off its Supercharger team.
Whatever this means for Tesla, it is not bullish for EV adoption.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/washington-update-from-the-us-oil-357?publication_id=712558&post_id=144552853&isFreemail=false&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Raise your hand if you think the NYPD should have stood back and allowed the streets to administer justice to the guy who randomly slashed an 11 year-old girl.
Raise your hand if you think the NYPD should have stood back and allowed the streets to administer justice to the guy who randomly slashed an 11 year-old girl. pic.twitter.com/tpRRVaUckG
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) May 11, 2024
Obama, Biden, Att. Gen., & CIA Dir. Murdered More Children
BY Tory Smith
31.9K subscribers
Donald Trump was the first president in 129 years to lose the popular vote twice.
He was the first president in 89 years to lose the presidency, the House and the Senate in a single term.
He was the first president in 28 years to lose re-election.
He lost the most jobs of any president since Herbert Hoover.
He lost the Trump University case, the fake charity case, the NY business fraud case, the E. Jean Carroll sexual assault and defamation case, he lost a lawsuit against The NY Times, lost countless appeals, lost 61 lawsuits related to the 2020 election, lost the state of Georgia three times, lost Pennsylvania, Arizona, Texas & Wisconsin twice, and he even managed to lose 8 times at the friggin Emmy Awards.
He’s under 4 indictments, facing 91 felony charges and to date, he’s been ordered to pay more than a hundred million dollars in penalties with a potential $370 million more in the week ahead where he may also lose his right to engage in the state's real estate industry for life and be barred entirely from doing business in New York.
All of this, while he’s been saying that windmills kill whales, that magnets stop working when wet, that he ran against Obama, that E. Jean Carroll is a political rival and that Nikki Haley was in charge of security on January 6th, for which one could ostensibly make the case that in addition to everything else he’s been losing — he is also losing his damn mind.
He once said there would be so much winning people would get sick of it. When in reality, when it comes to Donald Trump in the last several years, there’s been nothing but losing.
He was right about one thing however — we are sick of it.
And by it, I mean him.
We like former presidents who aren’t losers and at the end of the day, Donald Trump is a loser, maybe the biggest loser in history. Many people say so. The best people.
Believe me.
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