Posts on Thursday, July 23, 2020
77-year-old Joe Biden on Thursday participated in a livestream event with SEIU member and nursing home worker, Shanrika.The livestream was a total disaster.
Biden uttered gibberish, got confused and forgot what he was saying so he had to be prompted by staffers.Then he said this: Joe Biden: “I had nurses at Walter Reed hospital who would bend down and whisper in my ear, go home and get me pillows. They would … actually breathe in my nostrils to make me move, to get me moving,” said Biden.
On Wednesday’s CNN Newsroom, host John King brought on former Obama administration senior advisor-turned-CNN host David Axelrod to celebrate President Obama’s attempt to boost Joe Biden’s campaign. The Democratic hacks praised Obama’s involvement and Axelrod blasted President Trump in comparison to his former boss. King began the segment by praising a staged Biden campaign stunt of Biden and Obama sitting down to talk about how much they detest President Trump, calling it “an important video.” He then brought on Axelrod to hype up his former bosses:
Through its rhetoric on the coronavirus pandemic, CNN has made it abundantly clear its goal has been to send Americans into mentally-crippling fear over the coronavirus pandemic and blaming President Trump directly for the rampant loss of life. Thursday’s Situation Room did that in reacting to the White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing, bragging that “the chickens [have come] home to roost” for the “dishonestly rosy” Trump as it’s “beating him and beating him badly.”In other words, optimism and hope for tomorrow is poisonous to the health of CNN’s narrative. There’s an obvious balance between denial of the pandemic’s seriousness and outright doom and gloom, but CNN has never
The coronavirus pandemic and recession that followed make it hard for any other news to make it to the front page, but the end of the tragedy is in sight. Just this week, researchers at Oxford announced positive results in human trials for their vaccine. Even if we are not yet at the beginning of the end, we may be, as Winston Churchill once said, at the end of the beginning.That means it might be time, at last, for the presidential campaign to focus on more than the pandemic. By this point in the election cycle, we should be hearing about the two candidates’ visions for the next four years.
Washington Heights, Manhattan—A group beat a man and his daughter in a Washington Heights deli, knocking the dad out, police said Thursday. The 22-year-old daughter was punched, kicked and struck in the head with beer bottles inside the Amsterdam Avenue store on July 7 around 11:15 p.m., officials said. Video shows an attacker open a fridge and grab a beer bottle during the assault. Attackers knocked the 41-year-old dad to the ground where he was kicked repeatedly. The group took a 39-year-old woman's cell phone when she tried to call police. Emergency medical services rushed
It is with saddened hearts that we report longtime Townhall columnist Mike Adams was found dead at his North Carolina home on Thursday. No details surrounding his death have been released, according to local news reports.For the last 20 years Adams appeared regularly on these pages in defense of conservative principles. But free speech and abortion were the issues he was most passionate about. Adams had long tussled with the University of North Carolina – Wilmington, where he was a professor of criminology, set to retire Aug. 1, over the opinions he expressed at Townhall, in speeches, and on social media.
Mike Adams, the former University of North Carolina Wilmington professor who angered the campus community on Twitter, was found dead in his home Thursday afternoon, according to the New Hanover County Sheriff's Office.
Adams was found dead and alone in his home during a welfare check at about 2 p.m., Jerry Brewer, a public information officer with the sheriff's department, told CNN. The investigation into his death is ongoing, Brewer said.
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he would cancel the in-person mass gathering of the Republican National Convention (RNC) scheduled for August in Jacksonville, Florida.“To have a big convention, it’s just not right,” he said.Trump said that the recent flareup of the coronavirus in Florida would put too many people in danger, including people traveling to the convention.“I just felt that it was wrong to have people to got to a hot spot,” Trump said.Trump said that his plans for his acceptance speech were still underway and that he would announce them in the future.The planned first night of the convention in Charlotte, NC with delegates would still take place,
If you missed Dr. Anthony Fauci throw out the first pitch for the Washington Nationals Opening Day game against the New York Yankees, it’s probably because you were looking where the catcher sets up at home plate. Fauci’s first pitch did not go to home plate. Let’s say it was juuuuust a bit outside. (Tweets/Videos) Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases, is celebrated for maintaining his ability to run considerable distances despite being 79 years old. Well, while the running ability may be there, the throwing ability is definitely not. Fauci is an avid Nationals fan and was very excited about the
Washington—The Senate on Thursday passed a $740 billion defense spending bill that includes a provision to remove the name of Confederate leaders from military bases—setting up a showdown with President Trump who is opposed to the move. The GOP-controlled chamber overwhelming passed the legislation with a vote of 81 to 14—well over the number required to override the presidential veto which Trump threatened to wield last month in a bid to stop the bill. The National Defense Authorization Act includes a plan to change the names of army bases named after Confederate soldiers, such as Fort Bragg in North Carolina
President Trump on Thursday announced he will throw the opening pitch at Yankee Stadium on August 15.Trump told reporters at a White House coronavirus task force briefing that he was asked to throw the pitch by his friend Randy Levine, president of the New York Yankees.The president made the announcement as he hosted Yankees Hall of Fame relief pitcher Mariano Rivera at the White House.“They say, ‘How’s the crowd gonna be?’ And you know, it’s like you don’t have a crowd, there was no such thing it’s gonna be interesting,” Trump said.The president also gave journalists a briefing on
An anti-war group has successfully tanked Lego’s plans to sell its take on the iconic V-22 Osprey. German Peace Society—United War Resisters (DFG-VK) recently started a “Love Bricks! Hate War!” campaign against the Bell/Boeing-inspired toy and found a receptive ear with the top brass at Lego.
At issue is the company’s 2010 pledge to “avoid realistic weapons and military equipment.” “The Lego Technic Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey was designed to highlight the important role the aircraft plays in search-and-rescue efforts,” the company said in a statement, Military.com reported Wednesday. “While the set clearly depicts
The Bureau of Land Management on Thursday issued a right-of-way permit supporting a roughly 200-mile industrial road through the Northwest Alaska wilderness to a region that the state says could support several mines.
(Snip).. the agency said the road will serve the public interest, including boosting revenues to the state of Alaska and employing thousands of workers during construction of the road and mines.
Critics have blasted the road as costly and a threat to subsistence resources and the region’s rivers.
The Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, the state agency that applied for the permit, lauded the decision in a statement.
Joe Biden’s campaign was forced on Wednesday to clarify comments the presumptive Democrat nominee made asserting President Donald Trump is the first racist to be elected to the White House.The former vice president, who in the past has lambasted Trump for his divisive rhetoric, made the bewildering statement on Wednesday during a virtual town hall with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).“No sitting president has ever done this,” Biden told the union’s members, when discussing Trump’s use of terms like “China virus” to describe the novel coronavirus. “No Republican president has done this — no Democratic president. We’ve had racists, and they’ve existed, they’ve tried to get elected president.
President Trump on Thursday cancelled the Jacksonville portion of the RNC Convention in Jacksonville, Florida. (Tweet/Video) President Donald Trump: “For me, I have to protect the American people. That’s what all I’m about. There’s nothing more important in this country than keeping the people safe… So I told my team it’s time to cancel the Jacksonville portion as it was planned. (Tweet) President Trump made the announcement today.
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With so many big stories breaking, it’s hard to get attention even for important news about the FBI’s and CIA’s misdeeds. Still, the wrongdoing at James Comey’s FBI and John Brennan’s CIA was serious, as the news this week amply demonstrates.
On July 17, we learned that the FBI knew, just as Trump’s presidency was beginning, that there was no evidence his campaign had colluded with Russia. That’s the significance of a memo written by FBI agent Peter Strzok in mid-February 2017 and just released.
Ten years ago I published an article called “No More Crying ‘Spanish Flu,’ ” in part because with every pandemic or potential pandemic that’s exactly what public health service gurus and the media were doing. And in part because the comparison to the 1918–19 flu was always ludicrous, based not on science but primal fear.
Well, it’s happened again. And this time the klaxon-ringer is no less than the nation’s top health official, (Snip) Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Even a virus far more deadly than that of the Spanish flu would not pose a similar threat because of tremendously different conditions then and now.
Fauci’s advice and counsel during the coronavirus pandemic has been
Exclusive – Sen. Tom Cotton Presses DOJ
to Investigate Google over Potential Antitrust
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to Investigate Google over Potential Antitrust
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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is pushing the Department of Justice (DOJ) to probe whether search giant Google is in violation of antitrust laws on a number of fronts, a new letter he wrote to Attorney General Bill Barr provided to Breitbart News exclusively shows.“In recent weeks, news outlets have reported that the Department of Justice is nearing a decision about whether to take enforcement action against Google for anticompetitive behavior that violates U.S. antitrust law,” Cotton wrote to Barr, citing a recent Politico report on looming DOJ action against Google. “I ask that the Department also investigate whether Google’s dominance of online searches violates antitrust law”:
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump caught flak for wishing alleged sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell “well” after he was asked about her case during a news briefing at the White House. (Snip)White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany was asked about the controversy and said the comment was noting that Jeffrey Epstein “ended up dead in a jail cell” while awaiting trial, and Trump “wants justice to be served for the victims.”
Host Bret Baier asked, “The other day he was asked about Ghislaine Maxwell who’s been federally prosecuted for allegedly recruiting, grooming, sexually abusing underage girls, he said ‘I just wish her well. Frankly, I wish her well.’ That raises eyebrows,
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has made the maximum personal donation allowable to Joe Biden’s campaign for president, according to Federal Election Commission records.
The donation appears on the FEC’s website of itemized receipts for donations to the Biden for President committee, OutKick the Coverage reported.
Biden has repeatedly come to China’s side during this latest run for the White House. Biden slammed the president for calling the coronavirus the “Chinese virus,” and recently said that Trump is “racist” for using the term.(Snip)
It is no wonder, then, that the NBA’s top man is supporting Biden for president in 2020, especially because the NBA has deep business ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Tuesday decried President Donald Trump’s executive order which will exclude Illegal aliens from being counted for purposes of congressional apportioning.
“Counting every person in our country through the Census is a principle so foundational that it is written into our Constitution,” Newsom said in a statement. “This latest action by the administration to exclude undocumented immigrants when determining representation in Congress, rooted in racism and xenophobia, is a blatant attack on our institutions and our neighbors.”
Earlier Tuesday, President Trump signed the order, saying the memorandum is designed to bar “illegal aliens from the apportionment base following the 2020 Census.”
NFL fans are trolling the team formerly known as the Redskins for revealing their hotly-anticipated new name on Thursday: Washington Football Team. In an announcement on Thursday, the team said: 'We're retiring our old name—and building a new kind of team. For the upcoming season, we're calling ourselves The Washington Football Team.' The new logo is the word Washington with the 'Football Team, EST 1932' beneath it. It replaces the old logo, which was of an Native American chief. Sponsors started calling for a name change earlier this year as the Black Lives Matter movement swept America, wiping out anything that was deemed
Rioters accidentally set one of their own on fire Wednesday in yet another night of Portland, Oregon, rioting, which has spanned weeks.
Andy Ngo tweeted the video of the incident on Thursday:
“Rioters outside the Portland federal courthouse accidentally set their comrade on fire with a flammable device. #antifa #PortlandRiots” (Tweets)The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sent federal officers to aid colleagues already on the ground who have been battling protesters as they try to destroy property and injure law enforcement personnel.
The former British spy who wrote the so-called Steele Dossier told a British court that U.S. President Donald Trump may have posed a serious risk to U.K. national security. (Snip)Steele is cross-examined as part of a libel suit brought against his firm by Aleksej Gubarev, a Russian technology entrepreneur whose company was named in the dossier. Steele, who Trump once called a “lowlife,” lost a separate libel suit earlier this month, after a London judge ruled a central allegation in his dossier was “inaccurate and misleading.” The White House dismissed Steele’s claims.
Disturbing footage released by police this week shows at least six young men pummeling a 12-year-old boy inside a Brooklyn deli. The clip, made public by the NYPD late Wednesday, shows the young men punching, kicking and hurling multiple shopping baskets, as well as soda cans, at the pre-teen crouched on the floor of the First Stop Grocery on Marcy Avenue near Pulaski Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 5:30 p.m. July 13. One of the suspects gets in a last stomp on the victim’s head before the whole crew takes off, the footage shows.
Are the police defunded enough yet? I “I can’t believe we survived” – those are the words of a terrified Uber driver who was caught in the middle of hundreds of teens getting pushed through the downtown area by Chicago Police. The driver is fearful after his Kia ended up getting each and every window busted out – all by a group of teens who were getting ushered by police from Millennium Park on July 4th weekend. “I knew they were coming I said, ‘Oh f***, and so they came and jumped on the car and started dancing around on the hood,” he said.
San Diego, Calif. – Normally, one who binge eats does so privately. Wendy, on the other hand, shares her gluttony on YouTube in hugely popular online dinner parties. The Southern Californian has a secret ingredient for her success, ASMR, which stands for autonomous sensory meridian response, a relatively new phenomenon in which people experience a feeling of euphoric tingling and relaxation when they watch certain videos or hear certain sounds. Wendy delivers. One million users have subscribed to her channel. More than 19 million tuned in to one meal alone, Wendy gorging on Giant Takis.
President Trump has described CNN’s Don Lemon as the “dumbest man on television” and Chris Cuomo has received the nickname “Fredo” (a reference to the dumb brother in The Godfather) from the public. Well, both men proved they deserved their titles during Wednesday's handoff between PrimeTime and CNN Tonight, when neither man could accurately identify an animal on the mental acuity test they were mocking the President for doing well on.“Person, woman, man, camera, TV. Can you remember that,”
President Trump called Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Wednesday evening to confirm his plans to send 200 federal agents to the city to combat “a rampage of violence.”In a statement obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times, the mayor’s office said Trump “reached out to Mayor Lightfoot this evening to confirm that he plans to send federal resources to Chicago to supplement ongoing federal investigations pertaining to violent crime.”“The conversation was brief and straightforward,” the statement said. Lightfoot, who previously vowed to turn away the feds, and Trump
In his zeal to throw every hyperbolic superlative at the wall to criticize Donald Trump, Joe Biden has unwittingly undermined one of the foundational principles guiding the Democrats' attack on the American system.
The setting was yet another of Biden's basement video conferences watched by hardly anyone, except perhaps the Trump campaign's war room which seems poised to point out every nonsensical utterance of the Democrats' presumptive nominee for president. Biden, wishing to pile-on the already over-the-top "Trump is literally Hitler!" attacks on his opponent, proclaimed that Trump is "the first racist president in history."
The Media and the Virus
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On April 18, 40 days after Italy became the first Western country to go into lockdown to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, found solace amid the worsening pandemic in the words of Jennifer Lopez. “What I know is how much we need each other,” he tweeted, attributing the words to the star of such pop hits as “Booty.” Then, not content with quoting (as Emerson would have it) “some saint or sage,” he imparted to his 1 million followers a few exhortations of his own. “No to hate,” he said. “No to stigma. No to divisions.
Breaking huge news – President Trump is crushing Sleepy Joe Biden in current polls in the swing states where it matters.President Trump is running away with the lead in polling where it matters. Sleepy Joe may be slightly ahead of the President in Delaware where Biden is campaigning but that may be it.Last night President Trump’s Media Director released polling numbers in the swing states where the President is showing sizable leads.Dan Scavino tweeted results from recent polling at the American Principals Project (although his tweet is no longer available):
Joe Biden’s campaign has clarified a statement from the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee that President Trump is the "first" racist president. “We’ve had racists, and they’ve existed, and they’ve tried to get elected president. But he’s the first one that has,” Biden said during a virtual town hall event on Wednesday. Biden campaign senior adviser Symone Sanders later issued a statement clarifying Biden’s comments.
Joe Biden seems to think that federal law enforcement is “brutally attacking peaceful protesters” and using “egregious tactics” in Portland, Oregon. He ought to get out of his basement more often.
On Saturday, over 50 days into a riot that has done millions of dollars in damage to downtown Portland and caused tens of millions of dollars in economic losses, rioters broke into the headquarters of the local police union, the Portland Police Association, and set it on fire. govern-their-cities
There have been conflicting reports about federal agents in camouflage and unmarked vehicles detaining protesters in Portland, Ore., without cause. This comes on the heels of scenes of federal officers, outfitted in blue shirts and tactical vests but no official patches or badges, protecting facilities in Washington, D.C., in June. The events have called into question the role of federal law enforcement and how it intersects with traditional policing.
While many federal law enforcement agencies are investigative in nature and have special agents, not police officers, some do have a more traditional police role. The Secret Service Uniformed Division has been in operation since 1922
The mayor of Portland and the governor of Oregon might not like it, but President Trump has a winning issue with his federal law enforcement deployments.
The simple truth, one that Democratic politicians such as Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot need to grasp quickly, is that most people don't want to get shot dead. Their ignorance of that reality, willful or otherwise, reflects a quite stunning failure of political leadership.
The facts are clear. The chaos in Portland is a direct consequence of Mayor Ted Wheeler's appeasement of roving criminals. But rather than confront the destruction of private property and attacks on police
Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying two gunmen shown in a video taken on the Wabash Avenue Bridge during a deadly downtown Chicago shooting where hundreds had gathered for a street party. The attack left a 35-year-old Maywood man dead and a 25-year-old woman injured. They had been inside a car.
The video, a little more than three minutes long, begins with several people strolling back and forth across the bridge about 2:25 a.m. Sunday in the 300 block of North Wabash Avenue. Bright blue lights of a few police cars twinkle on a street nearby.
Dems: The Antifa Party
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— “These soldiers are disregarding and overriding the elementary rights of American citizens by applying tactics which must have been copied from the manual issued the officers of Hitler’s storm troopers.”
— The president is substituting “military dictatorship for the Constitution of the United States.”
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All this because, after 50 days of raging violence, President Trump has finally sent federal agents to restore order in Portland, Oregon.
No — wait. Different Democrats and different president.
Although all those quotes are indeed from Democrats about a Republican president, it wasn’t Trump. They were Democrats Richard Russell, George Wallace and Orval Faubus, denouncing President Dwight Eisenhower for sending troops to enforce desegregation
The FBI official who ran the investigation into whether the Donald Trump campaign colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 presidential election privately admitted in newly released notes that a major New York Times article was riddled with lies, falsehoods, and “misleading and inaccurate” information. The February 2017 story was penned by three reporters who would win Pulitzers for their reporting on Trump’s supposed collusion with Russia.
The FBI’s public posture and leaks at the time supported the now-discredited conspiracy theory that led to the formation of a special counsel probe to investigate the Trump campaign and undermine his administration.“We have not seen evidence of any individuals affiliated with the Trump
Former Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX), a conservative champion unjustly convicted and imprisoned on questionable campaign finance charges, faces what amounts to the death penalty thanks to outrageous behavior within the Federal Bureau of Prisons. (snip) Steve is the only over-60 diabetic prisoner remaining at the Beaumont, Texas federal prison facility, which also has the highest per capita COVID-19 infection rate of any prison in the country.
And he’s been told by prison officials he will not be leaving on orders “straight from the top” in Washington!!!
It’s clear someone wants him dead.
Someone in Washington is ordering that his life not be saved by being released to home detention.
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I watched the interview of my friend and former political opponent, Senator Mike Braun, Republican of Indiana, on the Tucker Carlson show recently regarding the topic of BLM and police reform. I know Senator Braun because we are both from Jasper, Indiana, a small town in south-central Indiana, population of 15,000. Braun is an immensely successful businessman whose company employs more than 600 individuals. I came to know Mike when we ran against one another for the state representative seat for Indiana’s 63rd district in 2014. We spoke before the same audiences and sat at the same tables. We discussed issues and philosophies.
The coronavirus pandemic has made all of us acutely aware of the fragility of health. People in fine shape one day have died in a matter of weeks or even days, and the burden of this disease falls especially hard on racial and ethnic minorities. Even patients who survive face long-term consequences from their illness. COVID-19 has caused kidney failure in some patients and lung failure in others, and some of these patients may require a transplant to recover fully from the virus and maintain their quality of life.
In the 1960s and early ’70s, the U.S. was convulsed by massive protests calling for radical changes in the country’s attitudes on race, class, gender and sexual orientation. The Vietnam War and widespread college deferments were likely the fuel that ignited prior peaceful civil disobedience.
Sometimes the demonstrations became violent, as with the Watts riots of 1965 and the protests at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago. Terrorists from the Weathermen (later called the Weather Underground) bombed dozens of government buildings.
The ’60s revolution introduced to the country everything from hippies, communes, free love, mass tattooing, commonplace profanity, rampant drug use, rock music and high divorce rates to the war on poverty,
Sen. Mitt Romney says he doesn’t know where the Republican Party is headed as the president cozies up to dictators, and character doesn’t seem to matter in leaders anymore.
The Utah Republican also said during a Center for Strategic and International Studies webcast Tuesday that the U.S. response to COVID-19 has hurt its role as a world leader.
“I have no idea what’s going to happen with my party. I represent a very small slice of my party. The party has taken a different course. My party was very strong anti-dictators, anti-authoritarian leaders, anti people like Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin,
The premeditated attack by violent leftists on Sunday that shut down a pro-police rally in Denver, injuring several of the speakers, is not being forgotten. Yesterday, Michelle Malkin, the best known invited speaker who was roughed up and had to run for her life to safety, filed a formal Colorado Open Records Act Request addressed to the Denver Police Department. (snip) the Denver police did nothing to stop the leftist mob from attacking and shutting down the legal pro-police rally, allowing mayhem, injuries, and the squelching of free speech to go forward unchecked.
The internet is awash with conspiracy theories about President Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell. These theories don’t claim that Trump was somehow involved in the despicable sex trafficking and other perversions of which Maxwell stands accused. Instead, they revolve around Trump’s seemingly careless statement that he wishes Maxwell “well.”
What could that mean? If you take the time to think it through, what it means is that Trump is a very smart man.
Attorney General Maura Healey has turned her office into a virtual nonstop onslaught against President Trump, in the process elevating her own political aspirations on the backs of taxpayers.
Partisan politics has permeated the office of the state’s top cop to an unprecedented level — whether it’s the scores of lawsuits she’s filed against Trump or the pro-Democrat tweets put out by her press aides.
Healey has dropped any illusion of being fair and objective to the point of whether it’s unclear she’d be an effective advocate for a Republican looking for legal protections.
Give the global warming alarmists credit. They never let circumstances distract them. Even amidst a pandemic, they continue to pump fear and fanaticism. It doesn’t matter to them if their fearmongering produces grave human costs.
Take a look at these headlines from just the last few days:
• “Climate change: Summers could become ‘too hot for humans.’” — BBC
• “Climate change: Polar bears could be lost by 2100” — BBC
• “Climate Change Poses ‘Systemic Threat’ to the Economy, Big Investors Warn” — New York Times
• “Major new climate study rules out less severe global warming scenarios” — Washington Post
• “Why the next president should establish
Hillary Clinton’s weird and fiercely loyal troupe of admirers is determined to make you love her.
They are so determined, in fact, that they will even rewrite the story of her life to make her seem more appealing.
The online streaming service Hulu, for example, has optioned the rights to Curtis Sittenfeld’s Rodham, a work of “alternate history” fiction that imagines Hillary Clinton’s life without Bill Clinton. Sittenfeld’s book envisions a world in which an unmarried Hillary Rodham becomes successful and powerful enough to make a run at the White House, all without riding the coattails of her eminently more charismatic and politically savvier real-life husband.
Self-censorship is on the rise according to a new Cato Institute survey that reports nearly two-thirds of Americans are afraid to share their political views.
A new CATO Institute/YouGov national survey found 62% of Americans say the political climate today prevents them from saying what they believe. This is up several points from 2017 when 58% of Americans said they were afraid to share their political beliefs.
“31% of liberals, 30% of moderates and 34% of conservatives are worried their political views could get them fired or harm their career trajectory,” the CATO survey stated.
A recent poll conducted by Politico found that a plurality
GOP considers extending unemployment benefit
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Republicans are considering extending the enhanced unemployment insurance benefit at a dramatically reduced level of $400 per month, or $100 a week, through the rest of the year, sources told CNBC.
Congress passed a $600 per week, or $2,400 a month, boost to jobless benefits in March to deal with a wave of unemployment unseen in decades as states shut down their economies to combat the coronavirus pandemic. The policy expires at the end of July as the U.S. unemployment rate stands above 11%, despite two strong months of job growth.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.), whose failed presidential campaign flamed out before any primary votes were cast, is a top contender to be Joe Biden's running mate in 2020. Curiously enough, negative stories about Harris's potential rivals for the VP slot have been popping up of late in mainstream media outlets. Imagine that.
Biden's promise to select a female running mate, along with the increasing pressure to pick a woman of color, has left the former vice president with limited options. Only two women of color—Harris and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.)—campaigned for the Democratic presidential nomination.
An African American single mom who lost her job during the CCP coronavirus pandemic lockdowns, and was down to her last $7, donated her winnings from a lottery ticket to a police officer who was shot in the line of duty. When the police department set up a donation link to help her out, she expressed disbelief and asked, “Don’t the officer and his family need it more?” This is how America heals, everyone.
Shetara Sims, from Kansas City, MO, found a dollar in a parking lot of a grocery store and used it to buy a scratch off lottery ticket. Sims won $100,
Basement Joe
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Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis held a 17-point lead over Vice President George W. Bush in July 1988, as they prepared to contend for the White House. A month later Bush was up eight. And Bush won 40 states that November.
We are at an amazing moment in our history. We all have been thrown off-balance by COVID-19, another pandemic gift from China. Other than the guy who created Zoom, the rest of humanity has been messed up really badly. It is the same all over the world. Coronavirus has ruined all economies. It has jammed hospital emergency rooms everywhere. For example, I follow the nightly TV news out of Israel
With a lot of the country either locking down again or getting close to the brink, worth noting a study published yesterday in The Lancet. I know, The Lancet has been badly politicized and unreliable in recent years (and months), but it does still pull great weight with the establishment, so our public health Faucists should know about it at least.
The study bears the typically dense academic-style title, “A country level analysis measuring the impact of government actions, country preparedness and socioeconomic factors on COVID-19 mortality and related health outcomes.” Here’s the beginning of the long abstract describing what the researchers did:
Every day, evidence mounts that Democratic politicians are delusional by design. They may or may not believe their increasingly absurd versions of unreality, but they are intent on fooling the rest of us until Election Day.
Take New York’s version of Dumb and Dumber, Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio.
This dimwit duo doesn’t just deny the errors that have made New Yorkers’ lives worse than they needed to be during the pandemic. Like true delusional Dems, Cuomo and de Blasio actually pose as our saviors.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said Wednesday he simply could not explain why a suspected ringleader arrested in connection with the brutal murders of three Florida friends during a fishing trip had been on the streets, rather than behind bars.
In an interview on "The Daily Briefing," Judd explained that 26-year-old Tony "TJ" Wiggins had 230 felony charges already under his belt.
"And, he’s out on bond for jumping on a guy and breaking his arm with a crowbar," he said. "This guy is evil in the flesh. And, he murdered, he massacred three guys simply going fishing on Friday night near Frostproof, Florida."
The Chinese consulate in San Francisco is harboring a biology researcher who falsely denied connections to the Chinese military to obtain a visa and gain access to the country, according to court documents filed by the FBI.
The filing came as part of a document that cited a slew of other episodes in which Chinese nationals allegedly lied on their visa applications by hiding their military connections.
Tang Juan, a researcher at the University of California, Davis, stated on her J-1 visa application that she "had never served in the military, but open source investigation revealed photographs of her in the uniform of the Civilian Cadre of the PLA [People's Liberation Army],
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggested Monday night that President Donald Trump commuted Roger Stone’s prison sentence to prevent his former adviser from revealing what happened during the 2016 election.
Stone blackmailed the president, forcing Trump into commuting the longtime GOP operative’s sentence or risk having his former confidante turn on him, Clinton told MSNBC’s Joy Reid Monday night.
“Well, I think it’s pretty clear that Stone threatened him,” Clinton said. “He probably threatened him privately, but he also threatened him publicly about what he would say if he had to go to prison, and this is a continuation of the cover-up.”
Trump commuted Stone’s sentence on July 11,
If Trump said this you’d never hear the end of it. On the same day Joe Biden accuses President Trump of being a racist — he dropped this line: Joe Biden: Look what he’s doing now. He’s blaming everything on China. He’s blaming everything on the Chinese. And people don’t make a distinction. As you well know from a South Korean and someone from Beijing. They make no distinction. It’s Asia. And that’s the way and he’s just using it as a wedge. Wow. (Tweet/Video)
Protester At Black Lives Matter Event:
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‘The White Man’ Is The ‘Common
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A protester at a Black Lives Matter event in London said over the weekend that “the white man” was the “common enemy” of everyone who believes in leftist intersectionality, and that “we need to get rid of them.”The video, originally reported by Breitbart London, shows a man speaking for a couple of minutes about racial issues before launching an anti-Semitic attack on Israel by claiming that they want “to take over everything.”“You can’t talk about black issues and LGBT issues and exclude them as if they’re some individual issue, you need to be looking at this using intersectionality, which is a word that is thrown around,
Tesla has picked Texas as the site for its largest auto assembly plant where it has vowed to employ at least 5,000 workers and will get more than $60million in tax breaks from Travis County and a local school district over the next decade.Work on the plant, which will be over 4 million square feet, is already underway, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said during the company's second-quarter earnings call on Wednesday evening.'It's going to be an ecological paradise ... open to the public,' he said about the new factory on a 2,100-acre (85-hectacre) site along the Colorado River, which is about 13 minutes from downtown Austin.
Oakland, Calif.—Police are investigating an act of vandalism at Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf's house. "Defund OPD," "homes 4 all," and "blood on your hands" were all spray-painted on the garage, sidewalk and stone wall outside Mayor Schaaf's Oakland home overnight. Witnesses say 30 to 40 people dressed in black and wearing masks shot projectiles and set off fireworks around 2 a.m.(Snip) This week, President Trump threatened to send federal troops into Oakland like he has in Portland. The President declared, "Oakland is a mess. We are not going to let this happen in our country." Mayor Schaaf fired back, "I don't need
The socialists are coming—to the state Assembly. A half dozen insurgent candidates in Brooklyn and Queens—some backed by the Democratic Socialists of America—toppled veterans incumbents in Democratic primary races, including close allies of Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx). With Heastie’s backing, the Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee poured more than $400,000 combined to prop up 46-year-veteran Joe Lentol, Felix Ortiz and Walter Mosley in Brooklyn and Aravella Simotas, Michael Den Dekker and Michael Miller in Queens. They all lost. Insurgent Zohran Mamdani, who defeated four-term incumbent Aravella Simotas in the 36 AD covering Astoria, said in a tweet: “Socialism won.”
New York—Major League Baseball players have the option of having a patch with “Black Lives Matter” or “United For Change” on a jersey sleeve on opening day of the pandemic-delayed season, and Washington Nationals pitcher Sean Doolittle says his team may is considering whether to take a knee in support Thursday night.(Snip) Teams have the option of stenciling an inverted MLB logo with “BLM” or “United for Change” on the back of the pitcher’s mound during opening weekend games. Washington opted for the MLB/MLB stencil. “It's freedom of speech. It's the Bill of Rights. It’s what the country's founded on,