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Dems pin Trump in NYC courtroom and he just turns it into his own personal campaign stage
By Miranda Devine Published May 12, 2024, 9:57 p.m. ET
When Joe Biden flew to San Francisco on Thursday for some fancy fundraisers, reporters noted that all the televisions on Air Force One were tuned to MSNBC, where the chyron read: “Stormy Daniels wraps 7-plus hours of testimony in Trump hush money trial.”
The president might be enjoying the wall-to-wall coverage of his opponent stuck in a Manhattan courtroom, but it probably is not the electoral gift Biden imagines.
Ever the showman, Donald Trump has flipped the adversity of his lawfare travails into a triumph of free media hits worth almost $2?billion, according to data provided exclusively by his campaign.
With cameras banned inside the courtroom, the former president makes his own news when he turns up at the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse at Centre Street each day.
Every morning and some afternoons, Trump stands in the draughty 15th-floor corridor outside courtroom 1530 and addresses the assembled press pack without notes for three to five minutes, delivering pithy political bullets on the news of the day, trashing Biden, Judge Juan Merchan and the lawfare that Democrats are waging against him.
Free media coverage
His monologues, carried live by most TV networks and amplified online, have delivered his campaign an average of $260 million in earned (a?k?a free) digital media each day, according to a report by the Meltwater media monitoring agency, which estimates the equivalent cost of placing advertisements.
The first day of the Trump trial, April 15, delivered a whopping $440 million equivalent. The average weekly earned media during the trial has been $1.2 billion per week.
Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, Dems.
The Meltwater figures cover only digital media. On TV, Nielsen ratings showed an initial boost in viewers in the first week of the trial for the most obsessed networks, CNN and MSNBC, of 30% and 6%, respectively.
Viewership fell in the second week because, without cameras in the courtroom, coverage relies on pundits giving breathless play-by-plays of Trump’s head movements or lip pursing. Breaking news! A new courtroom sketch!
With an eye for optics, Trump delights in the fact that the 80-year-old Art Deco granite courthouse with its harsh fluorescent lights has turned out somehow to be a flattering stage set, and the vault-like ceilings make his voice resonate rather than echo.
Every day, he takes pleasure in laying into “Trump-hating” Merchan, who has not recused himself despite the fact that his daughter Loren heads a political consulting firm that runs digital campaigns for Democrat candidates and posted a photo on social media of Trump behind bars.
A gag order prevents Trump from mentioning Loren, so he contents himself with lambasting her father. “He’s a corrupt judge, and he’s totally conflicted.”
He usually complains about being forced off the campaign trail and proclaims his innocence.
“I should be right now in Pennsylvania and Florida, in many other states, North Carolina, Georgia, campaigning. .?.?. I’m not supposed to be here. I’m innocent, and I’m being held in this court with a corrupt judge who’s totally conflicted.”
Has his dais in court
And he pitches the promises of his second presidency, to “drill, baby drill, to bring energy down, to close up the border, to get rid of all the criminals that are being allowed into our country .?.?. They’re taking [them] out of mental institutions [and] jails. .?.?. All of this is greatly affecting our country and very negatively. Now, we’re going to make America great again. Thank you very much.”
On Friday morning before court, Trump even took the opportunity to promote his rally the next day in Wildwood, NJ. He tried out some of the lines he would use at Wildwood, railing against the “horrible gag order” and reading aloud extracts from articles in the New York Post that he said declared the case a “legal catastrophe.”
“I’ll go now sit in that freezing courtroom for 8 or 9 hours and think about being on the campaign all day.”
Perhaps having seen the Meltwater figures, Trump extended his corridor remarks on Friday afternoon to 10 minutes and announced he was unafraid of jail.
Merchan is a “thug” who “wants to put me in jail.”
“And that could happen one day, and I’d be very proud to go to jail for our Constitution because what he’s doing is so unconstitutional.?.?.?. So fake, the whole case is fake. The judge is corrupt. It’s not a case. There’s no crime. .?.?. This is election interference. It all comes out of Washington.”
He gave a soliloquy on inflation: “It’s a tax on the American people due to gross incompetence.”
He said Biden “lies about everything, including his golf game” and that Biden and his donors are “against Israel.”
All week, he used his media moments to smash Biden on the politics of the day, deciding the topics in his limo during the 4-mile drive downtown from his apartment atop Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue.
Thursday, it was Israel.
“If any Jewish person voted for Joe Biden, they should be ashamed of themselves. He’s totally abandoned Israel, as nobody can believe it. I guess he feels good about it because he did it as a political decision.”
It was campus protests on Tuesday.
“The country is on fire. There are protests all over the country. I’ve never seen anything like this. Many graduation ceremonies are being canceled. .?.?. And we have a president that just refuses to talk because he can’t talk.”
It was Biden donors Monday.
“Many of the protesters are backed by Biden’s donors. OK, are you listening, Israel?”
Off the battleground
You get the feeling Trump revels in the fact he is getting more publicity in the courthouse than he would from standing in an Ohio cornfield. It is reminiscent of 2016 when he was financially outgunned by his adversaries but ended up with more media coverage.
His Wildwood rally went ahead Saturday in front of a whopping crowd of more than 100,000 attendees, according to official estimates, and proved to be an extended version of his courtroom diatribes, with bonus impersonations of Biden.
Of course, the big crowds and the earned media bonanza reflect the fact that Trump is a consummate entertainer who puts on a free show.
But 2020 showed that crowd numbers are no guarantee of electoral victory. The hard work is still to be done in the swing states.
Overshadowing the unexpected upside of his courtroom travails is the fact that, while the media spotlight is fixed on Trump in New York, Democratic governors in the crucial battlegrounds of Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona and Pennsylvania are quietly using their powers to tilt the playing field in favor of Biden.
https://nypost.com/2024/05/12/opinion/dems-pin-trump-in-nyc-courtroom-and-he-just-turns-it-into-his-own-personal-campaign-stage/
Trump now leading in 5 battleground states — all of which Biden won in 2020: poll
By Isabel Keane Published May 13, 2024 Updated May 13, 2024, 7:38 a.m. ET
Former President Donald Trump is leading President Biden in five critical, toss-up swing states — all of which Biden had won in 2020, a new set of polls revealed.
Surveys by The New York Times, Siena College and The Philadelphia Inquirer found that Trump was more popular than Biden among voters in Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania, while Biden led among voters in only one battleground state, Wisconsin.
All six of the battleground states looked at in the polls were won by Biden in 2020, and victories in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in 2024 would be enough for Biden to secure his re-election, as long as he did not lose any of the states he won four years ago.
The poll numbers revealed how issues like inflation, the Israel-Hamas war and immigration have caused widespread dissatisfaction among Americans, all while raising concerns over Biden’s ability to improve quality of life for Americans.
Nearly 70 percent of voters polled said that the country’s political and economic systems need a major overhaul — and only 13 percent of Biden’s supporters believe he would be able to bring about such change during his second term.
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Many of the voters polled even admitted that even while they dislike Trump, he would be the candidate to change things up.
Trump and Biden are currently tied among 18 to 29-year-olds and amongst Hispanic voters, even though over 60 percent of the demographic voted for Biden in 2020.
Trump has also secured 20 percent of Black voters’ support — the highest level of Black support for any Republican presidential candidate since the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
https://nypost.com/2024/05/13/us-news/trump-now-leading-in-5-battleground-states-all-of-which-biden-won-in-2020-polls/
This may be the week Alvin Bragg’s case against Trump falls apart
By Jonathan Turley Published May 12, 2024, 1:42 p.m. ET
Even for those of us who have long been critics of the “hush money” case against Donald Trump and its dubious legal theory, it has been surprising to see that the prosecutors had no more evidence than we previously knew about.
The assumption was that no rational prosecutor would base a major criminal case almost entirely on the testimony of Michael Cohen, who was recently denounced by a judge as a serial perjurer peddling “perverse” theories in court.
The calculus of Alvin Bragg is now obvious. He is counting on the jury convicting Trump regardless of the evidence.
Which is also why Bragg likely fears that the judge, not the jury, will decide the case. After the government closes its evidence this week, the defense will move for a direct verdict by the judge on the basis that the evidence is insufficient to sustain a conviction.
Many of us agree with that assessment. After three weeks of testimony, there is still confusion on what crime Trump allegedly committed.
Bragg has vaguely referred to the labelling of payments to Stormy Daniels as “legal expenses” as a fraud committed to steal the election.
However, the election was over when those denotations were made. Moreover, many believe that such a characterization for payments related to a nondisclosure agreement is accurate. (Hillary Clinton’s campaign claimed in the same election that hiding the funding for the Steele dossier as legal expenses was perfectly accurate).
Judge Juan Merchan, in my view, has failed repeatedly to protect the rights of the accused in this case.
But if he wants to show he is truly neutral, Merchan should grant the motion for a directed verdict.
To prevent that, Bragg has to show Merchan that someone claimed to have evidence directly tying Trump to an intentional fraudulent scheme to conceal a crime.
Thus far, Bragg hasn’t come close. Indeed, many of his witnesses helped Trump more than they hurt him.
Bragg started with the testimony of David Pecker, former publisher of the National Enquirer tabloid, on an uncharged transaction to kill a story of a Trump affair with a different woman, Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model.
The relevancy was marginal but the testimony backfired in that Pecker admitted that Trump told him that he knew nothing about any reimbursement to Cohen for any hush money.
He further said that he had killed or promoted stories for Trump in the years before he ever announced for president. He also said that he had killed stories for other celebrities and politicians, including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tiger Woods, Rahm Emanuel and Mark Wahlberg.
For good measure, Pecker noted that Cohen often exaggerates and would become loud and argumentative in their discussions.
Witnesses said that Trump likely had a mix of motivations for wanting to kill a story, including sparing his family from embarrassment. Daniels’ own counsel contradicted the prosecution’s reference to the payment as “hush money.”
Judge allows Stormy Daniels to give irrelevant, salacious testimony just to humiliate Trump
So prosecutors now turn to a witness, Michael Cohen, with a record of saying whatever serves his interests and those of his sponsors.
Everything is riding on his testimony. It is not enough to say that Trump wanted to hush up the alleged affair. That is no crime and NDAs are common and legal.
Cohen has to say that Trump specifically knew and approved of the characterization of the payments as “legal expenses.”
He further has to establish that Trump intended the denotation to conceal the payments for the purposes of election violations or fraud.
That could make this a “he said, he said” case if Trump were to actually testify. However, Merchan’s earlier rulings make such testimony highly unlikely.
The court approved a sweeping scope for cross examination if Trump dares to take the stand. No competent lawyer would advise him to do so after Merchan’s rulings.
That is exactly where Bragg wants to be: with a “he said” not a “he said, he said” case. With Trump effectively silenced, Bragg will argue that Cohen’s testimony is enough to get to the jury.
Given the blind rage of many New Yorkers for Trump, the testimony of a convicted, disbarred, serial perjurer may be enough. The question, then, is whether the judge will let it get that far.
Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.
https://nypost.com/2024/05/12/opinion/this-may-be-the-week-alvin-braggs-case-against-trump-falls-apart/
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Yep RACE and Slaves we have been lied too
Time to Balance Racial History for Justice’s Sake
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Bill Gates Wants To Vaccinate Cows To Stop Their Farts And Fight The Climate
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ArkeaBio, a Boston developer of a vaccine to reduce livestock methane emissions, raised a $26.5 million in venture capital funding led by an investment fund founded by Bill Gates.
Caring about cow farts (or burps) has become a political punchline, but they’re estimated to create more than 5% of global greenhouse gasses.
Vaccines could be a relatively low-cost, scalable solution, particularly as food demand increases.
Methane is much more potent than is carbon dioxide, in terms of its trapping atmospheric heat, although it also dissipates down faster.
Breakthrough Energy Ventures led the Series A round, and was joined by Grantham Foundation, AgriZeroNZ, Rabo Ventures, Overview Capital and The51 Food & AgTech Fund.
BEV previously funded ArkeaBio’s $12 million seed round.
The whole thing feels a little dystopian — giving animals injections so they cook the planet a little less before we cook some of them — but agribusiness sailed over the dystopian hurdle long ago.
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/
The DNC’s worst nightmare is unfolding in New Jersey right now.
— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) May 12, 2024
NFL legend, Lawrence Taylor, openly endorsing Trump, and vowing that his entire family will never vote Democrat again.
This is a microcosm of the larger ongoing movement away from the Left.
America wants Trump! pic.twitter.com/ItLITU08Pa
I still have never seen Joe Biden this scared. Joe Biden was terrified when he heard the report of $1 million plus payment from Chinese energy company. This is where everything changed if you have been paying attention. pic.twitter.com/9B1YeC0Scp
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Story Time:
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Went to Wawa to get some breakfast on this rainy New Jersey morning. As I parked, I noticed the vehicle next to me had Pennsylvania plates & a Trump bumper sticker. The driver, a woman, was opening her car door & I asked her what county she lives in. When she said…
Never elected, no right to make decisions for humanity. Just say NO to all of it. https://t.co/cxXK3Ok6WU
— Lara Logan (@laralogan) May 12, 2024
So the term "American Patriot" violates TikTok's guidelines because it doesn't promote "a safe and positive experience."
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 12, 2024
But searching "I hate America" is perfectly fine.
TikTok is an anti-American propaganda tool. pic.twitter.com/giE3HN0edi
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BREAKING: Another of former President Trump’s female former aides has defended him during her testimony in court during his so-called “hush money” trial in New York.
— Leading Report (@LeadingReport) May 11, 2024
Madeleine Westerhout was responding to questioning from the prosecution about whether he was detail-oriented,… pic.twitter.com/swtEkxkXAq
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HUGE NEWS
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Slovakia has announced they will NOT be supporting the WHO pandemic treaty.
This comes as Britain is also REFUSING to sign it.
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A typical doctor could make an extra $250,000 if they injected 75% of their patients.
This was discovered through a leaked Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield document.
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NEW: NFL great Lawrence Taylor says he was a Democrat his entire life until he met Donald Trump.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 12, 2024
“I grew up a Democrat, and I've always been a Democrat until I met this man right here.”
“Nobody in my family will ever vote for a Democrat again.”
Taylor was joined by former NFL… pic.twitter.com/MZxBKw5dV7
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Democrats are purposely destroying our country from within. https://t.co/F4iBpxHHix
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@LauraLoomer
EXCLUSIVE:
🚨New Jersey Democrat Congresswoman
@MikieSherrill
, who told President Trump to “go back to court” in New York City (where he’s on trial under Judge Merchan) yesterday while he was having a MASSIVE rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, is a CLIENT of Judge Merchan’s daughter, Loren Merchan, who is the President of the Democrat Political Consulting firm “Authentic Campaigns”
@Authentic_HQ
.🚨
This is evidence of a Democrat elected official in Congress using President Trump’s trial under Judge Merchan as a form of social media content which directly financially benefits the Judge’s daughter since
@MikieSherrill
is paying Loren Merchan for “digital consulting”, which includes social media management for the clients of Authentic Campaigns.
Over the last 9 months,
@MikieSherrill
has paid Judge Merchan’s daughter’s company Authentic Campaigns over $216,793.98
This is another example of yet ANOTHER conflict of interest and another reason why Judge Merchan should recuse himself from President Trump’s trial in NYC.
This is ELECTION INTERFERENCE of the highest order, and it’s being carried out via malicious and unconstitutional gag orders and shady high dollar payments to a Judge’s daughter under the guise of “political digital consulting”.
It’s worth noting how large the payments are by elected Democrats to Authentic Campaigns for their “services”. These rates are considered to be EXTREMELY high for “digital consulting” to a single vendor, and really reiterates the need for an independent
@HouseGOP
investigation into Authentic Campaigns and their bank records.
Donald Trump has been gagged and threatened with arrest by Judge Merchan, all while Judge Merchan’s daughter’s clients are using her father’s position as the NY judge overseeing Trump’s trial as a way to attack President Trump online, which then turns into payments for the judge’s daughter, Loren Merchan who bills this service as “digital consulting” to her Democrat, anti-Trump clientele, which also includes the Biden-Harris campaign, the Democrat Senate Majority PAC, and
@RepAdamSchiff
, among many other high profile Democrats.
EXCLUSIVE:
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) May 12, 2024
🚨New Jersey Democrat Congresswoman @MikieSherrill, who told President Trump to “go back to court” in New York City (where he’s on trial under Judge Merchan) yesterday while he was having a MASSIVE rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, is a CLIENT of Judge Merchan’s… https://t.co/RQByLl1eBx pic.twitter.com/RkcNbEJBvX
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My patriot ancestor was at Orangeburg, Cowpens, where he was wounded, and Eutaw Springs.
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General Thomas Sumter captures Orangeburg
On this day in history, May 11, 1781, General Thomas Sumter captures Orangeburg, South Carolina, as the American patriots sweep across South…
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Seth Warner captures Fort Crown Point
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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
This is why the dems want Johnson to stay the speaker of the house!
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.
That's the problem with Congress: our Republican leaders aren't using the power they have, they're just monitoring things. They can diagnose the problems. But, gosh, they just can't seem to access the same power the Democrats have accessed to do a darn thing about it.
This ad came to mind when I was reading a recent post at The Conservative Treehouse.
It included a video clip which Sundance described this way:
“…(Fox’s) Maria Bartiromo gets very angry with South Carolina Republican Representative Russell Fry who talks about the political attacks against President Trump. Congressman Fry outlines the problem, yet provides no solution.
Again, this is the problem. To be fair, the Legislative branch cannot put anyone in handcuffs, no matter how many referrals they send to DOJ, because those who can won’t. Doesn’t mean they shouldn’t send them. They should. But what’s also fair, and painfully clear, is the lack of a unified voice, from the top down, making un-ignorable hay out of all the wrong we’re seeing.
It shouldn’t be some backbencher on television “outlining” the problem. It should be House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, with an army of Republicans behind them, every single day, in every single committee, all over television, radio, print, everywhere, all the time, with not only the blessing of leadership, but the urgent encouragement of leadership, with dozens and dozens of Republicans standing behind them.
The country is incinerating and these clowns are wondering if it’s hot in here. “Norms and institutions” are being violated, weaponized, transmogrified, and this president is (actually) doing things the last guy was (wrongly and absurdly) impeached for, and what’s Speaker Johnson doing?
Tweeting through it, here, here, and here. There’s even a strongly worded letter.
Withholding weapons from Israel is a catastrophic policy.
This will be devastating and go directly against the will of Congress. pic.twitter.com/iLPK3fyCmn
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) May 9, 2024
Gotta love the two word tweet, “Never Again,” featuring the gates of Auschwitz on May 8th, then on May 9th the Johnson tweet which stated “Withholding weapons from Israel is a catastrophic policy. This will be devastating and go directly against the will of Congress.”
Notice it’s been up for two days and unless my Twitter counter isn't working, the video has zero views. Zero. Not even a reporter. Not even one member of the press cares what the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States of America has to say. The guy is third in line to be POTUS. And no one. Not one. Not one. Anywhere. On planet earth or any other planet. Nobody cares what this “leader” with the power to impeach has to say about this ghastly, lethal betrayal of an ally.
October 7 was the worst single day loss of life for Jews since the Holocaust and they’re in a hot war, right now, with the enemy. America has the largest population of Jews anywhere outside of Israel, and nobody cared enough what this “leader” had to say to click “play.”
Because everyone knows. Everyone knows he won’t do anything meaningful.
Everyone knows.
But nothing gets past you, Mike! There was no May 10th tweet, or any tweet, actually, in which you followed up your May 9 and May 10 Twitter outrage with a plan to actually use the power you have, but you’re monitoring it! Yes you are!
They should be fighting like a girl … well, like a pint-sized octogenarian from San Francisco. Nancy Pelosi is many things, but her most valuable trait is her ability to rally the troops and make one hell of a noise, everywhere, all the time. Gallons of ink have been spilled on the hagiography that is Speaker Pelosi; editorials, columns, news items, round-tables, glamour shoots in fashion magazines with the airbrush burning hot, and lighting guys on two coasts getting the Speaker’s keylight angled juuuuuust right before her friendly cable news hit.
Speaker Johnson can’t get anyone to click “play.”
Because everyone knows.
Everyone knows he’s just a congressional hall monitor. His job is to monitor the incineration of this country with just enough outrage to make us think he might actually, maybe, really, soon, do something; use his power like Nancy Pelosi did.
Really.
But in the meantime, if you want to know what the problem is, Speaker Johnson, and all his GOP flying monkeys can “outline” the problem. They can see there's a cavity there. They don’t dare use the sharp instruments to do anything meaningful about it, but they’re aware of it, by golly.
So take your two tweets in the morning and shut up.
All this monitoring is exhausting. Sh-t’s going sideways everywhere.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/congressional_hall_monitors.html
Brave Sir Biden
By Pete McArdle
Let the history books note that when trouble came his addle-pated way, Joe Biden simply ran away, away.
When brave Sir Biden rode south from Scranton toward the dark, fetid swamp of D.C., he was not afraid to die.
No, based on his many, many tales of personal bravery, Joe was not at all afraid of being killed in nasty ways.
Like being mashed to a pulp while driving a 16-wheeler, or getting knifed in the gut in the Puerto Rican neighborhood where he grew up, or having his brains beat out by racist police while bravely standing with a black family on their porch.
Nor was Biden in the least concerned about being sliced to shreds by Corn Pop’s rusty razor, or being left to rot in a South African jail after being detained while trying to visit Nelson Mandela, or drowning in shark-infested waters during battle after being nominated to the Naval Academy.
Heck, he wasn’t even the least bit worried about having his legs torn off playing Navy football — it was only because Roger Staubach was already at the academy that valiant Sir Biden retreated to Delaware U.
Fearless Joe likewise laughed at the prospect of being eaten by cannibals, as his Uncle Bosie was, or coughing up blood from black lung disease like his coal-mining Kinnock forebears, or completely tearing a pectoral muscle during a push-up contest with one of his constituents.
Sir Joe was so tough that he often fantasized aloud about getting into it with Donald Trump behind the gym, blithely ignoring Trump’s obvious advantage in height, weight, reach, age, accomplishment, intelligence, and real-world experience.
Joe the Lionhearted was also unafraid to die in Iraq like his son Beau, having been shot at several times while visiting that war-torn land. Biden likewise laughed at the prospect of contracting small-cell carcinoma while visiting the World Trade Center hellscape the day after 9/11. And Sir Joe was totally unfazed by the threat of being burned alive when his helicopter was suddenly forced down in Afghanistan. And, it goes without saying, he also laughed in the face of being incinerated in that terrible fire in his Delaware home that almost destroyed his beloved Corvette...er, wife!
Based on his own words, it seems clear that absolutely nothing — real or imagined — scares Joe Biden.
But when it came time to kill bin Laden, Joe slunk away from that tough task. A worried V.P. Biden also turned tail when President Obama surged troop levels in Afghanistan in an attempt to turn that war around.
As president, Biden was quick to run away from Afghanistan, leaving behind thousands of Americans and allies, and thirteen dead U.S. soldiers. Our lily-livered president further distanced himself from those dead heroes by frequently checking his watch as their remains were being repatriated.
Sensing Biden’s innate cowardice, Russia decided to take over a neighboring country, correctly guessing that our support for Ukraine would be half-hearted and ineffective — unless dead Ukrainians was the goal.
Iran also noticed the obvious yellow streak on Biden’s back and instructed its Hamas minions to commit atrocities against Israel unseen since the Holocaust.
They correctly guessed that the absolute chicken in the Oval Office would offer lip service to Israel before eventually siding with the terrorists, and now publicly criticizing Israeli leaders in the middle of an existential war while also withholding promised munitions.
And when radical leftists took over college campuses across America, vandalizing buildings, endangering students and staff, and openly calling for “death to Jews,” scaredy-cat Biden did nothing, hoping in vain to please Muslim voters in Michigan.
Why China hasn’t annexed Taiwan during feckless Joe’s term in office is a mystery future historians will struggle to understand.
Suffice it to say that despite Biden’s many stories of personal courage, when danger rears its ugly head, brave Sir Joe has always turned tail and fled.
He fled from COVID to his basement lair, he ran from baldness with his phony hair, he met the pope and then pooped his pants, and he scares the world with his senile rants, brave, old, demented Sir Biden.
In every conflict he runs away, he’s seen only a few hours a day, he’s scared to do interviews or speak off the cuff, his aides all fear that he’ll fall on his duff, he’s bound to fail putting The Donald in jail, he can’t even tell you what constitutes a “male,” there’s no one he can’t beat when it comes to retreat, brave, brave, brave Sir Robinette.
Let the history books note that when trouble came his addle-pated way, Joe Biden simply ran away, away.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/brave_sir_biden.html
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