Posts on Saturday, June 20, 2020
President Donald Trump criticized the media for ignoring the coronavirus risks while covering the Black Lives Matter riots during his campaign speech in Oklahoma on Saturday.The president said that the mainstream media is being manipulative with their coverage, which has been overwhelmingly negative towards largely right-wing shut down protesters and positive towards BLM rioters. “And they [US media] never talk about COVID … when you see 25,000 people walking down 5th Avenue
President Trump relaunched his campaign Saturday night in Tulsa, Oklahoma.The Oklahoma crowd was THRILLED to see President Trump tonight. And President Trump was happy to be back with the American people. President Trump opened the rally saying, “We are the party of Abraham Lincoln and we are the party of law and order.” The crowd roared! (Video)
President Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday evening.Stay tuned to Breitbart News for live updates. All times eastern.
—8:26 PM: Trump says the protesters outside are “thugs” and not “wonderful” like “the Boston Tea Party.” Trump says the fake news media are trying to insist that the protesters are “peaceful.”8;25 PM: Trump says if AOC is in charge of energy, it will make the “pandemic look like child’s play….”
8:20 PM: Trump says he never knew the D.C. swamp was so bad. He says it is “deep and thick” with bad characters.
Three people are feared dead and nine injured following a suspect terrorist attack 'by a Libyan man' at a Reading park, two hours after a Black Lives Matter protest had taken place. The mass stabbing, which took place at around 7pm on Saturday, led to at least two victims being taken to the Royal Berkshire Hospital following the 'serious incident' in Forbury Gardens in Reading's town centre. The knife-wielding suspect was reportedly arrested at the scene by a hero lone police sergeant who rugby-tackled him to the floor.
Both Sky and the Telegraph reported that three people had died after the 'random' attack,
The Oklahoma National Guard started arriving in Tulsa last night, nearly 24 hours before President Trump’s rally tonight. This is how you protect a city from the violent leftist mob. (Tweets/Videos) The National Guard marched into Tulsa, Oklahoma this morning. They were sent in to keep the peace during President Trump’s rally today and tonight. The Trump supporters cheered them as they marched into Tulsa. (Tweet/Video)
Fired FBI Director James Comey on Saturday lashed out at US Attorney General Bill Barr and President Trump for firing SDNY US Attorney Geoffrey Berman.
Barr on Friday fired Mueller hack and US Attorney Geoffrey Berman and nominated Jay Clayton to replace him.
The crooked attorney refused to step down and released a statement of his own, which Barr referred to as a ‘public spectacle.’
Berman’s office was the lead in several high profile cases assembled by Robert Mueller and Andrew Weissmann.
Comey whined in a WaPo op-ed that Barr and Trump fired a US Attorney who was ‘handling cases close to the president.’
“Something stinks.” Comey wrote.
There is no need to name names. The so-called conservatives who have been coddling mindless calls to destroy public art know who they are,(Snip)These are the reasonable conservatives, the good ones, so ever careful no to be called racist. They had a compromise in mind because they always do. Throw the Confederate statues under the bus and we can save the rest. Well.
Friday night a statue of Ulysses S. Grant was toppled. Also the statue of a Catholic saint. Do you know who is to blame? It is not the hordes of progressives with ropes and chains; it is every conservative who thought those Jacobin lunatics could be appeased
Tonight in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the official start of the Trump 2020 campaign begins with a MAGA/KAG rally at the BOK Center. Over a million people requested tickets for the event. A stage was constructed outside the main venue to facilitate pre-rally activities & in case a dual event was needed. 6:45pm outdoor POTUS remarks were cancelled. The approximately start time is 8:00pm ET for President Trump to deliver remarks inside the arena. Livestream Links Below:
RSBN Livestream Link – Trump Campaign Livestream – The Hill Livestream
CHOP Hosts Black-only Event in Park
for Juneteenth; White ‘Allies’ Asked for
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for Juneteenth; White ‘Allies’ Asked for
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The radical enclave in Seattle known as the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) will apparently feature a Juneteenth celebration on Friday that will be restricted to black people, while white people are being asked to provide security and donations.
Fox News reported Friday that the CHOP, formerly known as the “CHAZ” (for Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone), would be entirely closed to white people.
However, it appears that the segregation is only taking place in Cal Anderson Park.
The Mayor of Seattle Jenny Durkan now has blood on her hands after two people were shot last night and one killed inside the lawless Seattle Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) zone.
After two people were shot the responding police and paramedics were blocked by the lawless occupying mob. One of the people died; the other was taken to the hospital by occupiers. Obviously, the autonomous zone has become a severe danger to those within it.
Capitol Hill Seattle has the very disturbing story: “Seattle Police have confirmed CHS’s early reports on the shooting and say that a 19-year-old is dead and that there have been no arrests:”
Attorney General William Barr told Geoffrey Berman, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, in a letter on Saturday that President Donald Trump has fired him.
Read the full letter:
"Dear Mr. Berman:
I was surprised and quite disappointed by the press statement you released last night. (Snip)Unfortunately, with your statement of last night, you have chosen public spectacle over public
service. Because you have declared that you have no intention of resigning, I have asked the
President to remove you as of today, and he has done so.
Gov. Roy Cooper ordered three Confederate monuments removed from the state Capitol grounds to protect public safety, he said in a statement, less than 24 hours after protesters pulled down two bronze soldiers from the 75-foot Confederate monument at the Capitol. The monuments include memorials that have stood at the State Capitol for more than a century: the remainder of the North Carolina Confederate monument, the monument to the Women of the Confederacy and the Henry Wyatt Monument.(Snip) About 60 people crowded around the work crews, chanting “Black power” and singing “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” “Once we get past this, we’ll be a better nation,”
President Donald Trump declared victory over John Bolton, his former national security adviser, despite a judge denying a request from his administration to block Bolton’s book from publication.
The Trump administration filed a court injunction demanding that the book not be published, as it included information they deemed classified.
U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth sternly criticized Bolton’s reckless behavior with his memoir but acknowledged that it was too late to stop the book from publication.
“Defendant Bolton has gambled with the national security of the United States,” Lamberth wrote in his court memorandum. “He has exposed his country to harm and himself to civil (and potentially criminal) liability.”
The Michigan rapper who shot a viral video of his brother slugging a white man inside a Macy’s department store spoke out for the first time Saturday, telling The Post they clearly heard the man call them the N-word. FT Quay said his brother acted on instinct and that his violent reaction “was spur of the moment.” “I just want people to know the real story of really what happened and what’s in the description of me and my brother just walking into Macy’s just minding our own business,” the 22-year-old rapper said. “And, yes, we made a petty joke
In America, woe betide anyone who dares to say that "all lives" rather than just "black lives" matter. There is an ash heap behind Black Lives Matter headquarters on which lie the rotting carcasses of those foolish enough to say that "all lives matter."
A viral video, however, shows that the contention that, for Democrats, the mantra that "black lives matter" is a slogan (snip) This is a woke white crowd that's signaling its virtue.
In the video, an unseen man with a stentorian bass voice — a man who is almost certainly black himself — asks the healthcare workers, "Do all black lives matter or just some black lives?"
Berkeley Law professor John Yoo is very comfortable around controversy. But voting for then-candidate Donald Trump in 2016 was a step too far. (Snip) “My study of the separation of powers, and my time in the three branches of government, led me to worry that Trump would test, evade, or even violate the Constitution,” he added in his upcoming book, Defender in Chief.
Now, as Trump campaigns for reelection on a platform of tough executive orders, expanding conservative voices on federal courts, and beating back impeachment, Yoo is telling a different story.
“Boy was I wrong. Trump campaigns like a populist but governs like a constitutional conservative,” he wrote
pecial Asst. to President Trump and National Security Advisor to Vice-President Mike Pence, Keith Kellogg, appears with Lou Dobbs to provide some background context into former National Security Advisor John Bolton.
As Lt. General Kellogg explains, Bolton came into the administration with a hidden personal agenda; perhaps organized by DC elements and and assisted by covert conservative media who were trying to eliminate the presidency.
The Tulsa police arrested their first far left protester this morning.The woman sat in a street protest in a “I can’t breathe” T-shirt.When the police took her away and cuffed her she started screaming about having a ticket to the rally. Sorry, maam. (Tweet/Video) The Trump campaign had her removed. She was in the private event area.
Buh-bye! (Tweet)
Father Daniel Moloney is the latest victim of cancel culture’s inquisition against all who question the Black Lives Matter movement. Moloney was forced out of his job as the Catholic chaplain of MIT last week after a university administrator deemed his writings on the death of George Floyd “deeply disturbing” and the Archdiocese of Boston asked him to resign.
In a blog post and an email to students published at the beginning of June, Moloney spoke out about the errors of the new approach to fighting racism (snip) and called instead for a Christian path of charity and solidarity.
'Not enough to say sorry': British
firms should pay reparations for
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firms should pay reparations for
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British financial institutions that benefited from slavery should go further than saying “sorry” for their role in slavery and commit to reparations by funding development in the Caribbean, an alliance of countries in the region has said. The Lloyd’s of London insurance market apologised on Thursday for its “shameful” role in the 18th-century Atlantic slave trade and pledged to fund opportunities for black and ethnic minority people. The Bank of England also apologised for the “inexcusable” ties former governors and directors had to slavery and said it was “committed to improving diversity”. But a representative for an alliance of 12 countries–including Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados
Prince Harry has backed the moves to ban Swing Low, Sweet Chariot from rugby games due to its association with slavery. He has sung the rugby anthem many times since childhood and he is a fan and patron of the Rugby Football Union (RFU). Prince Harry has signalled support for the RFU's review into the song, written by Wallace Willis, a freed Oklahoma slave, in light of the Black Lives Matter movement, The Sunday Times reported.(Snip) Former head of the Commission for Racial Equality Trevor Phillips, 66, condemned the RFU for reviewing the popular sporting song. He slammed plans to ban Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
The mayor of Leicester has refused to tear down a statue of Mahatma Gandhi despite claims he was a 'facist, racist, sexual predator'. Sir Peter Soulsby's words come as an online petition, which has gathered more than 6,000 signatures, was set up calling for the statue of the Indian independence leader to be removed. Academics have suggested Gandhi held racist views and was prejudiced about black people, claiming he accepted white minority power and referred to black Africans as the derogatory term Kaffirs.(Snip) Earlier this month residents formed a 'ring of steel' around the statue to stop it from being vandalised or toppled
Multiple people are believed to have been knifed in a mass stabbing in a park in Reading this evening. Distressing video on social media showing four people on the floor as they are helped by witnesses and police. Extremely graphic footage shows a chaotic scene with people covered in blood and appearing not to move as they lay in the grass in Forbury Gardens in Reading, Berkshire.
The head of Seattle's police union lamented the lack of "leadership" in the city Saturday after reports emerged that an early morning shooting in the so-called 'CHOP' left one person dead and another in critical condition.
According to The Seattle Times, police homicide and assault detectives are investigating the shooting, citing a post on the Seattle Police Department's blotter.
"On June 20th, at approximately 2:30 AM, East Precinct officers responded to a report of shots fired in Cal Anderson Park," a statement on the blotter said.
"This is inside the area referred to as the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP). Officers attempted to locate a shooting victim
Amazon is once again in hot water after its Chicago warehouse offered workers chicken and waffles to celebrate Juneteenth–the day the slaves were freed. “We stand in solidarity honoring the black community by supporting local black businesses. We are happy to share an authentic meal crafted by Chicago’s Chicken + Waffles June 19th,” a sign read, which was posted n the DCH1 Amazonians United Facebook Page the group.(Snip) “As people throughout the world are rising up against cops, corporations and this anti-Black capitalist system we live under, Amazon mocks us with this racist form of ‘celebration.’ “So much for supporting your Black/African
The woman who'll sing the national anthem prior to President Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Okla., on Saturday evening calls the opportunity "an honor." (Photo) Cathy Costello will perform at the city's BOK Center five years after her husband, former state Labor Commissioner Mark Costello, was fatally stabbed by their son, who was found to have suffered a psychotic episode due to schizophrenia. Mark Costello died in his wife's arms.The widow is now a national mental health advocate and has helped pass related state and federal legislation, the Tulsa World reported.
Trump prepares for first campaign rally
in months in Tulsa amid concerns
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in months in Tulsa amid concerns
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President Trump on Saturday will head to Tulsa, Oklahoma to address what is likely to be a packed rally of supporters -- despite objections from local officials about the potential spread of the coronavirus, and fears that violence could break out as protesters as well as supporters flock to the event.The rally is the first since the coronavirus pandemic shut down much of the country in March, and is predicted to pack the 19,000 capacity BOK Center.Trump supporters have been lining up for days to secure their seat at the event and the Trump campaign touted Monday receiving over 1 million ticket requests.
Life is tough for statues dedicated to dead white men. At the bare minimum, these statues will be spray painted. Worse, and more common these days, an unlucky statue will be dragged across town and dumped in the nearest body of water.Authorities seem not to mind the recent destruction. Police stand idly by as mobs deface our heritage and disregard all rules and laws. Some authorities want to finish the mob’s work and topple the statues with taxpayer-funded services.Republicans and conservatives appear remarkably unconcerned with this war on history. They’re too busy repeating Black Lives Matter talking points to notice our monuments being defaced and our statues razed.
SEATTLE—On June 8, Seattle police frantically loaded what they could from the east precinct onto trucks and cars. Within hours, they boarded up and abandoned the station. That night, left-wing protesters from Black Lives Matter and Antifa declared ownership of the six-block neighborhood in the middle of the Pacific Northwest’s largest city. They named their new territory the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” or CHAZ. No laws or rules applied here except for one: “No cops allowed.”During five undercover days and nights in the zone, I witnessed a continuing experiment in anarchy, chaos and brute-force criminality. In order to avoid being exposed as a journalist —
Graham says he won't advance Trump
nominee for SDNY prosecutor without
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nominee for SDNY prosecutor without
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Sen. Lindsey Graham said Saturday he will not take up President Trump's nomination for a new U.S. attorney for Manhattan unless New York's Democratic senators sign off.
Graham, a Republican from South Carolina who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he will honor the "blue slip" tradition and require the consent of home state senators to proceed -- in this case, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand. Graham's statement signals an uphill climb for Trump to get a new Senate-confirmed federal prosecutor in one of the nation’s most high-profile districts. It comes hours after Attorney General Bill Barr made a Friday night announcement
The statues of Junipero Serra, Francis Scott Key, U.S. Grant laid on the ground in the pre-dawn darkness of Golden Gate Park Saturday, toppled, broken and defaced by a large crowd of Juneteenth protesters who gathered Friday night to demand an end to racial injustice. San Francisco police said they received several calls around 8:15 p.m. Friday reporting an unruly gathering in Golden Gate Park in the area of Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr. and Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Arriving officers saw several protesters — many dressed in all black — vandalizing multiple statues. As they approached, objects were thrown at the officers.
Wow. There’s no way the DNC and/or James Clyburn can advance their candidate with this reliable poll result…. It might not be discussed openly; but this resonates loudly.
Zogby Analytics finally asks the poll question everyone talks about but no media journalists will admit to discussing. Zogby Polls asked 1,007 likely voters: (Graphic)55% of Total likely voter respondents said it is likely.
77% of Republicans said it is likely.
56% of Independent voters said it is likely.
32% of Democrat voters said it is likely Joe Biden has dementia.(Snip) Younger voters aged 18-24 (60% more likely/40% less likely) and 18-29 (59% more likely/41% less likely) were more likely to believe Biden had
New York City parks in each borough will be renamed to honor Black Americans. The announcement was made Friday by Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver on Friday in honor of Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S. The holiday took on added meaning this year amid ongoing protests calling for racial equality, and in that spirit, Silver said it is time to recognize and correct the inequities laid to bare in the course of creating the city parks system.(Snip) Nineteen benches along the path have been repainted in the red, black and green colors of the globally recognized Pan-African Flag.
On the fourth anniversary of his death, Muhammad Ali’s only biological son says that his father would be against Black Lives Matter, calling the movement “racist” and the protesters “devils.” The legendary boxer and activist stood up against racism throughout his life, but Muhammad Ali Jr. says his dad would have been sickened by how the protests have turned to violence and looting after the death of George Floyd. “Don’t bust up s–t, don’t trash the place,” he told The Post. “You can peacefully protest.(Snip) “Police don’t wake up and think, ‘I’m going to kill a n—-r today or kill a white man
The statue of former Washington Redskins owner George Preston Marshall, who nicknamed his team the Redskins and was the last NFL owner to integrate his franchise, was removed Friday from outside the team’s former home at RFK Stadium in D.C. Events DC, the government agency who oversees RFK Stadium, said the removal was an “overdue step on the road to lasting equality and justice.” After years of resisting, Marshall was forced to integrate the Redskins in 1961 when the franchise faced pressure from the federal government to do so. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall threatened to revoke the lease of D.C. Stadium,
A federal judge has denied the Trump administration's attempt to block the upcoming publication of a book by former national security adviser John Bolton.
Judge Royce Lamberth of the DC District Court wrote in a 10-page decision Saturday morning that the Justice Department's arguments weren't enough to stop the book's release. He cited how the book, which is scheduled to be released Tuesday, had already been widely distributed, and could easily be distributed further on the internet, even if the court said it could not be.
"For reasons that hardly need to be stated, the Court will not order a nationwide seizure and destruction of a political memoir," Lamberth wrote.
Protesters on Friday toppled a statue in San Francisco of former President Ulysses S. Grant, who famously led the Union Army to victories that crippled and ultimately brought down the Confederacy. The statue of Grant, who also served as the nation’s eighteenth president, was among three monuments in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park knocked down during the evening by a group of protesters. Other monuments toppled include a statue of Junípero Serra, an 18th century missionary recently declared a saint in the Catholic Church, and Francis Scott Key, the author of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the national anthem. Police said roughly 400 protesters
President Donald Trump hit out at Washington D.C. police late on Friday night, claiming they were ‘doing nothing’ as protesters tore down and burned a statue of a Confederate general. The monument of General Albert Pike was hit by demonstrators as a protest in Raleigh, North Carolina, also targeted statues of soldiers at a Confederate monument. The statues were pulled to the ground with ropes around their necks and dragged through the streets before one was hung from a street sign. Another statue was left in front on the Wake Court courthouse. Amid the continuing protests against racial inequality taking place across the country, demonstrators
Just as the infamous Dred Scott case in 1857 would have extended slavery throughout America, so Thursday’s decision in Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California threatens to make the machinations of bureaucratic government supreme and unrepealable.
Chief Justice John Roberts’ 5-4 court opinion strengthens the grip of the administrative state—the interlocking network of bureaucracy and political correctness—over the democratically elected branches that are supposed to make us a nation of self-governing citizens.
The Supreme Court, in a seeming conspiracy with lower federal courts, has tilted the table against the elected president and his appointees in favor of bureaucratic governance.
Friday on MSNBC, network political commentator former Rep. Donna Edwards (D- MD) accused President Donald Trump of choosing Tulsa, OK for his rally on Saturday to spread chaos among black Americans to please his “hardcore white supremacist base.”Host Joy Reid said, “It is a weird thing. The candidate creates the vibe that they want. They create what they want reflected back to them in the audience. Donald Trump seems to luxuriate in creating atmospheres of violence. That’s what he enjoys at his rallies. As somebody who has been an elected official in the South, people leave Maryland out of the South, but it’s the upper South, what kind of message
Historian Douglas Brinkley on Thursday evening predicted hat President Donald Trump’s Saturday evening Oklahoma rally will “look horrific” in history. Speaking to CNN host Don Lemon, Brinkley said he was thinking back to when “Trump teargassed protesters in front of the White House” to take an awkward photo-op in front of a church while holding up a Bible. He said this weekend’s rally will not look good, especially since it is scheduled as coronavirus cases are “spiking in Oklahoma and Texas and Florida.”“And going in without masks and doing an irresponsible thing like that, it’s going to look horrific…in American history,” Brinkley said before adding
MINNEAPOLIS — Political leaders in Minnesota promised sweeping reforms after George Floyd’s killing turned their state into a focal point for nationwide fury and grief over police killings and racism.
But those efforts collapsed early on Saturday as leaders in the Minnesota Legislature — the only one in the country where Democrats control one chamber and Republicans the other — failed to compromise on a package of law-enforcement reform measures before a special session ended.
'Without each other we will not make it':
Crowds celebrate
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Crowds celebrate
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Juneteenth celebrations throughout the Twin Cities on Friday became community gathering places, calling for racial justice and equality.
Governor Tim Walz also called on the legislature to make Juneteenth a state holiday. Juneteenth is the commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States.
"We celebrate Juneteenth because it took two years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation to actually free every black man in every corner of this country," said Eric Willis, organizer and emcee of a Juneteenth event in south Minneapolis, hosted by CTUL’s Future Fighters, a workers' rights organization in Minneapolis.
How's this for a disgusting evasion of responsibility?
Fox News reports:
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday again defended his administration’s now-scrapped nursing home policy that critics say contributed to thousands of coronavirus deaths, slamming the controversy as “a shiny object” and “pure politics.”
Cuomo’s comments came during an interview on New York’s WAMC-AM on Thursday. He was asked about the criticism and whether he acknowledged the policy was “on the wrong track.”
Chief Justice John Roberts strikes again.In a 5–4 judgment in Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California, the Supreme Court held that the Trump administration’s rollback of the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), the statute that sets the standard of review for federal agency action.
Put aside for a moment the dubious notion that the APA even governs this case. If something seems fishy about why a court would block an incumbent administration’s executive action on immigration that simply rescinds similar action on the same issue by a prior administration,
When President Trump takes the stage in Tulsa on Saturday for his first post-coronavirus live rally, 21 members of the Black Voices for Trump advisory board and four of the group’s co-chairs are scheduled to appear with him. This accounts for nearly half of the over 50 surrogates the Trump campaign announced will be on hand for the resumption of in-person “Make America Great Again” events.
Despite daunting poll numbers nationally and in the battleground states, the Trump campaign says it hasn’t given up its drive to increase the president’s share of the black vote from the 8% he won in 2016.
Language, Freedom, And Law
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision this week in Bostock imposes on Americans a rule of greater import than any ever asserted by any government. Its adoption into law of a meaning of the word “sex” that is at war with that of the dictionary, of biology, and of common use, and enlists the U.S. legal system against the way of life of most Americans. As a matter of law, the Bostock decision, like so many others since Dred Scott(Snip)rewrites the Constitution and statutes to reflect the opinions of elites currently in power. (Snip) Respect for the court is the only reason to treat its rulings as valid generally.
Attorney General Bill Barr Removes SDNY
Attorney Geoffrey Berman – UPDATE:
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Attorney Geoffrey Berman – UPDATE:
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Officially it’s being called a “resignation” according to the Associated Press. However, all the right Lawfare “beach friends” are going bananas as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey Berman, is being replaced. [DOJ Announcement Here]
According to the DOJ release Berman is being replaced by the nomination of Jay Clayton, currently the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Additionally, “Craig Carpenito, currently the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, will serve as the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, while the Senate is considering Jay Clayton’s nomination.”
As thousands have gathered across the country — and the world — to protest the death of George Floyd, police brutality and systemic racism, photographs and videos from the protests have gone viral. At the center of the protests is the phrase Black Lives Matter, a movement that began in 2013 following the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the man who fatally shot the unarmed Black teenager Trayvon Martin. (Snip) One viral post included two photos and claimed that witches and the Amish had joined protests saying "You know how wrong you gotta be for witches and Amish to be on the same side?"
In a new secret recording of New Jersey Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli, she says she told a former assistant commissioner to “turn around” and scrap a plan to administer a private coronavirus test for the relatives of a top aide to Gov. Phil Murphy. The health commissioner said in the recording she informed Christopher Neuwirth “not to do that” after he questioned whether it was ethical. But she said the department then handled the request for the test anyway.
Exclusive: ‘A Much Dirtier Game’ — Trump
Wants To ‘Get Involved’ In Making Advertiser
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Wants To ‘Get Involved’ In Making Advertiser
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President Donald Trump wants to personally “get involved” in making advertiser boycotts illegal, he told the Daily Caller in an exclusive interview.Trump spoke with the Caller for more than an hour on a variety of issues — including racial inequality, coronavirus, China, John Bolton and the 2020 election — but opened the conversation by accusing activist groups calling for advertising boycotts, a means of protesting platforms or groups they don’t agree with, of playing “a much dirtier game.”“A friend of mine bought a couple of conservative sites,” the president stated from behind the Resolute Desk. “And he said, anybody that advertises on the site is being harassed.”
CHICAGO — The world has entered a “new and dangerous phase” of the coronavirus pandemic, a top official from the World Health Organization said on Friday, a stark warning that came as the United States struggled to control spiraling outbreaks and as business leaders signaled growing unease with the country’s ability to effectively contend with the virus. Coronavirus cases spiked sharply across the American South and West, particularly in states that loosened restrictions on businesses several weeks ago. In Florida, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Arizona, daily counts of new coronavirus cases reached their highest levels of the pandemic this week.
Commie Mayor Bill De Blasio appointed his communist wife Chirlane McCray to head up a commission to reevaluate historical narratives and markers in New York City. In one of her last “jobs” in New York City McCray managed to lose track of $850 million. So she must look forward to the new challenge.(Photo) Bill told reporters this week they will look at the Thomas Jefferson statue inside City Hall that has been there inside the building since 1834.
Jefferson is also the founder of the Democrat Party — which seems to get lost in the current conversation.
Do you remember how Democrats were openly scheming to help nominate Donald Trump during the 2016 Republican primary? Paul Krugman wrote a Labor Day column back in 2015 defending Trump from Jeb Bush and praising his economic platform. Jimmy Carter told the British Parliament the following February that he preferred a President Trump to a President Cruz because Trump would be a pragmatic and non-ideological leader. A Democratic National Committee email released by WikiLeaks later that year revealed that the Clinton campaign and the DNC were colluding to ensure that Trump won the nomination.
BLM at War with America
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Outrageously, cowardly and traitorous politicians are allowing Black Lives Matter, a racist hate group to engage in an “Everything Must Go” fire-sale against America. BLM is literally pulling down monuments and demanding that large portions of our history be removed from the records. They are burning down homes which dare fly the U.S. flag. They are taking control of portions of cities, absurdly claiming it as their new country. Why is BLM behaving like spoiled-brat bullies on America's playground? The answer: Because they are allowed to do it.
My stomach turned watching Tucker Carlson on Fox News cite a Rasmussen poll
The United States of Appeasement
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The problem with appeasement is that you can never truly appease. A famous example of naïveté occurred on September 30, 1938. British prime minister Neville Chamberlain returned home waving a worthless paper signed by Hitler. Placating the Führer by giving Germany the Sudetenland, Chamberlain happily announced to the world, "Peace in our time." Less than one year later, Hitler invaded Poland, and that was the start of World War II. So much for peace for anyone's time.
Once they see how easy it is to get what they want, their list of demands only grows longer.
Supporters of President Trump are irked to no end when people who used to work for him betray him. their basic lack of decency in turning on a man who appointed them to some of the highest offices in the land, we worry that their criticism may carry more weight to the undecided voter than the usual political hacks. The latest attack, however, is different. John Bolton’s over-the-top accusations are self-defeating and we are already seeing this story lose its luster. Here’s why:
1) He wants us to believe that the president of China admitted to the president of the United States (!) that he runs concentration camps.
Thank God for cops
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During widespread violence in the aftermath of the unwarranted police killing of George Floyd, more than 800 police officers tasked with maintaining order in America’s cities were shot, stabbed, spit on, hit by cars, cursed, called Nazis, smeared as racists, viciously beaten and seriously injured by bricks and bottles of frozen water hurled at them. Deliberately shot in the head by a cop-hating protester in Nevada, Las Vegas police officer Shay Mikalonis, pictured below, remains paralyzed from the neck down, and will likely be on a ventilator for the rest of his life, according to his family.
Outrage over Floyd’s inexcusable killing is understandable,
The Green Civil War
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Like many contemporary social movements—#metoo, Black Lives Matter, the Women’s March—the environmental lobby has tended to create an atmosphere of unanimity. In its struggle to win public and elite opinion, it has frequently evoked “science” as something settled and immutable, warning that those who dissent are either self-serving or seriously deranged.
Yet in recent months, there has been growing criticism about the current green orthodoxy, including from people long associated with environmental causes. This has been most widely seen in the strange case of the Michael Moore–produced Planet of Humans, which exposes the rapacious profit-seeking and gratuitous environmental damage caused by the renewable energy industry.
A man accused of shooting eight people outside a San Antonio bar after he was turned away because he was too inebriated was arrested Thursday by U.S. marshals and Florida sheriff's deputies, police said.
Jenelius Crew, 37, was arrested at a Miami hotel by a regional fugitive task force, San Antonio police said in a statement. On Wednesday, the department obtained eight aggravated assault and deadly weapon arrest warrants for him, the statement said.
Crew is accused of opening fire on people outside a bar Friday night after he and others were denied entry because they were too drunk, police said. The victims suffered non-life-threatening injuries, officials said.
Defund colleges, not cops
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‘Defund the police!’ That’s the spray-painted, placarded, pixeled demand of the moment. The American left, from Black Lives Matterers to their knee-taking social-justice allies in their hydrangea-colored masks, has decided now is the moment to drain public resources from the custodians of public order.
I have an alternative. Now is the moment to defund the colleges. We should defund them because they are the root of the virulent anti-Americanism that feeds the riots, the looting and the learned helplessness that afflict the country. And they have been feeding the protest culture for generations. The chief lesson taught by our nation’s colleges and universities
Here’s a key question for the Rev. Derrick DeWitt, director of the Maryland Baptist Aged Home in West Baltimore, a 100-year-old nursing facility that has had no coronavirus infections: What was the moment you realized the threat was real and that you had to take action to protect your residents and staff?
I dare not put words in a Baptist minister’s mouth, but it sounds like he listened to what the President of the United States had to say, then decided just the opposite would be true.
Trump, of course, has lied or made misleading statements thousands of times. So, by the fourth February since his inauguration, none but the Trumpiest
The folks at Black Lives Matter are really worried about black deaths. Not most black deaths, not even very many black deaths, mind you, but only that tiny fraction of a percent of blacks who have died at the hands of (presumably) white cops. (snip) For their nominal political pals in the Democrat party, these are the worst of times. They’ve got a tiger by the tail, and they know it. Their political survival depends upon getting an overwhelming majority of the black vote, and if that majority should shrink to 85 percent or so, they’re politically dead. Black Lives Matter, or revulsion to it, could make that happen.
It goes without saying that the death of George Floyd was shameful and wrong. However, the rhetoric in response to Mr. Floyd’s death by otherwise decent people has been no less shameful and wrong. It’s encouraging that so many Americans are finding common cause with black Americans on the issue of police brutality, but they are wrong to have accepted uncritically the claim that systemic racism against blacks infects nearly all aspects of America and its institutions. This corrosive claim has now been embraced by titans of the tech and financial industries like Facebook, Google, Goldman Sachs, and Bank of America. Establishment political figures on the right
Pater Familiar
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I was 40 when my first child was born, a son who looked just like me. My easy identification with him was probably crucial, because even at an age that in earlier times would have augured impending senescence, I wasn’t well prepared to be a father. Had my son been born even a few years before, I would have had difficulty doing the job well, and he would have suffered.
I wasn’t alone in my suspended adolescence. An American male who hasn’t served in the military or cared for an aging parent or grandparent likely has little experience of being responsible for another human being
Vice President Mike Pence declined to say the words "Black lives matter" during an interview with an ABC affiliate in Pennsylvania on Friday, instead saying that "all lives matter."
"Let me just say that what happened to George Floyd was a tragedy," Pence told 6ABC Action News in Philadelphia when asked directly if he would say that Black lives matter. "And in this nation, especially on Juneteenth, we celebrate the fact that from the founding of this nation we've cherished the ideal that all, all of us are created equal, and endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights. And so all lives matter in a very real sense."
The right has been up in arms over Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts voting with the liberal majority in overturning Trump administration policy on DREAMers and the citizenship question on the 2020 census. But Roberts wasn’t giving his opinion of DREAMers or citizenship questions. Roberts’ ruling was entirely consistent with the law; specifically the Administrative Procedure Act.
It could be argued that the APA saved the nation from Franklin Roosevelt’s dreams to turn America into a socialist nation. During the New Deal, the Democratic Congress created several new agencies — an alphabet soup of them that has since grown out of control.
But Republicans and conservative Democrats
Joe Biden is 112 years old and can barely speak a coherent sentence. So it matters greatly whom he picks to be his running mate. The chances that his veep selection might end up becoming president during his term can’t be discounted.
Democrats have spent the Trump years talking about the virtues of the 25th Amendment. It lays out a process inside the executive branch that would temporarily and, if necessary, permanently replace a living president deemed by his Cabinet to be too infirm to serve as the most powerful man in the world.
Bye, Bye, Eskimo Pie
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Eskimo Pie joins the brands that featured minorities and now are destined for history’s dust bin:
The maker of Eskimo Pies will change the 99-year-old brand name of the ice cream treat, the company said Friday — becoming the latest organization to overhaul the marketing of a product with a racially tinged moniker in recent weeks.
What does “racially tinged” mean? It is bad, supposedly. But why? The “Eskimo Pie” ice cream bar was obviously named in recognition of the fact that Eskimos live in cold places. Eskimo Pies come from the freezer. They are ice cream–cold. That is it. How is this somehow derogatory?
John Bolton has few friends left in D.C.
A day after excerpts from his bombshell new book emerged excoriating President Donald Trump, the former national security adviser has managed to turn everyone against him.
Republicans say he’s a disgruntled sensationalist who’s merely trying to make money off his book. And Democrats, once buoyed by Bolton’s turn against Trump, now say he is “unpatriotic” for documenting his claims in a book rather than testifying before Congress during Trump’s impeachment inquiry.
Several Republicans this week took direct shots at Bolton, a neoconservative once heralded as the gold standard for the GOP on foreign policy and national security issues.
War of the Bottle Caps
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I write only with my index finger. The other four are bandaged. The guy who invented child-resistant packaging must also own a Band-Aid company. I woke up with a severe headache and I hadn’t even read the papers yet. I tried to get to my headache pills. After reading the instructions for unlocking the cap, I understood: squeeze, turn the bottle over, turn left, lift one leg, push, wink, shake the bottle, turn right, call your doctor immediately to report the fracture of all the fingers.
These pills are definitely the real deal. A quarter of an hour ago I had a terrible headache,
The White House said in a statement Friday it will be hosting a “2020 Salute to America” on the South Lawn for the Fourth of July.
The announcement signals another big celebration in honor of Independence Day, set with “music, military demonstrations, and flyovers to honor our Nation’s service members and veterans.”
President Trump will also give a speech prior to the traditional firework display at the end of the evening. Democratic lawmakers from D.C., Maryland and Virginia in the House and Senate, led by Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., sent a letter to Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt requesting
President Trump on Tuesday unveiled a plan to make reforms in police departments and acknowledged for the first time the existence of "systemic racism." He also promised to meet with some African American families whose relatives have been killed by police officers.
That is one step toward healing our deep racial divisions.
The next opportunity comes Saturday as the president is scheduled to break his rally "fast" in Tulsa. The Trump campaign claims they have received 800,000 ticket requests. Though not all will get into the 20,000-seat venue, the Trump re-election effort will have mined additional names for its digital campaign.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo keeps trying to dodge the blame for Health Commissioner Howard Zucker’s deadly nursing-home order by pretending that The Post has created a phony scandal for purely partisan reasons. It’s a big, fat lie — and easily disproven. At least three times in the last month, he’s pushed his “it’s just all politics, and it’s frankly The New York Post” line, claiming it’s a vendetta by columnists Michael Goodwin and Bob McManus. Huh. Then why have The Associated Press and Politico reported the same basic facts? Why has PolitiFact (run by the nonprofit Poynter Institute) debunked his claims?
More and more, CNN seems to be doing away with any pretense that it’s an actual news outlet when it comes to covering President Donald Trump.Casual viewers may be excused if they believe the network dedicates 24/7 coverage to destroying the Trump presidency, as it is all bad news all the time when it comes to the nations’ 45th president.After giving disgruntled former national security adviser John Bolton’s new book red carpet treatment, a book that features enough scandalous allegations against Trump to ensure brisk sales — one such claim being that he asked China to help him with the 2020 election — CNN apparently had little interest in offering
Vice President Mike Pence plans to meet Saturday with some Black leaders while in Tulsa, Gov. Kevin Stitt said during a press conference Friday.“I’ll be with him,” Stitt said. “He’s going be meeting with some African American leaders around Greenwood. … We’re excited to have him here. I think this is really good for Tulsa.”Stitt indicated he hopes to secure some federal funding for the Greenwood history center planned for Greenwood Avenue and Archer Street.“It’s really putting a lot of focus on Oklahoma, and the story is going to be told,” Stitt said. “It’s going to be good for Oklahoma.”
As Father's Day specials go, it was hardly stirring. But it was very Trumpian.(Snip)If Trump owned a media company, which advisors say he discussed when he believed he would lose the 2016 election, it might look something like "Team Trump Online," the current production. And if he or his family start one after he leaves the White House, this could be the pilot.(Snip)At times, the Trump channel resembles Trump-friendly media like Fox News or the more conspiratorial One America News Network. It relies on hosts who amplify Trump's tweets, denigrate the national media, and ignore or explain away facts that challenge the president's falsehoods.
Juneteenth in the District has long been a day of reflection, rallies and celebration. But after weeks of nonstop protests near the White House and throughout the nation’s capital, the holiday this year is also a day of defiance. Invigorated by weeks of protests that began after the police killing of George Floyd, more than 20 rallies, marches and events were scheduled for Friday in the District.
AMC Theaters will require its customers to wear face masks after catching backlash for its initial reopening plan, which did not include making masks mandatory out of fear of "political controversy."
The popular theater chain debuted its “AMC Safe & Clean” policy on Friday, designed to allow for a safe reopening for its customers after shutting down theaters in March due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, the initial plan did not make the use of masks mandatory despite numerous health experts saying they're an essential step to curtail the spread of COVID-19.
However, after some intense public outcry, AMC reversed its decision later in the day.
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department moved abruptly Friday night to oust Geoffrey S. Berman, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan overseeing key prosecutions of President Donald Trump’s allies and an investigation of his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. But Berman said he was refusing to leave his post and his ongoing investigations would continue.(Snip) He vowed to stay on the job until a Trump nominee is confirmed by the Senate, challenging Barr's power to remove him from office because he was appointed to the job by federal judges, not by the president. Under federal law, a U.S. attorney who is appointed by district court judges can serve “until the vacancy is filled.”
With states being buried in an avalanche of unemployment claims as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, processing the vast number has proven to be a challenge.
Michigan is among the states struggling to get benefits to those who, for no fault of their own, have been left unemployed.
In a scene that perfectly captures the ineptitude of progressivism, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s solution to the crisis was to offer a hot dog.
The controversial governor was serving hot dogs at Lafayette Coney Island in Detroit on Thursday when she was approached by a man who claimed to be an unemployed health care worker. [Tweet / video]
Flyers call for NYPD strike on July 4 so cops
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The chasm between the NYPD and a mayor and city who have sided with Black Lives Matter and other Left-wing groups seeking to “defund” or “disband” them has grown wider since the death of George Floyd, as police officers around the country suddenly feel under siege like never before.
Cops in New York may be planning a department-wide strike on July 4 to give the city and its pandering Democratic leaders a look at what it’s like to have their ‘independence’ from police, as many have said they want, according to the New York Post.
The news outlet reports that cops have said flyers that are being circulated among NYPD rank-and-file officers