Posts on Monday, January 11, 2021
Two of Donald Trump’s favored banks are pulling away from the billionaire president in the wake of last week’s deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Deutsche Bank AG has decided to refrain from further business with Trump and his company, said a person with knowledge of the matter, asking not to be identified because the deliberations were confidential. Trump owes the Frankfurt-based lender more than $300 million. And Signature Bank, the New York lender that’s long catered to his family, said it’s cutting ties while it presses for his resignation. Signature is closing two personal accounts in which Trump held about $5.3 million,
San Francisco—Cloud software giant Salesforce says it has “taken action” against the Republican National Committee to prevent it from sending fundraising emails that claim election fraud and contain inflammatory language that could lead to additional political violence. Since election day, the RNC has been sending out hundreds of emails using Salesforce-owned email marketing firm ExactTarget to subscribers saying that Democrats stole the election and that Congress needs to overturn the results of the election won by President-elect Joe Biden. Referring to the rioting at the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday, a Salesforce spokesperson said in a prepared statement, “We are all deeply troubled
Trump acknowledged he bears some blame
for Capitol riot in conversation with
McCarthy: sources replies
for Capitol riot in conversation with
McCarthy: sources replies
President Trump acknowledged that he bears some blame for the Capitol riot last week during a conversation with House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, a source familiar told Fox News. Two sources say McCarthy R-Calif., relayed the president’s sentiment on a call Monday with the House GOP Conference.
McCarthy, on the call Monday with Republicans, agreed that Trump bore blame for the unrest which sent Congress into lockdown as they tried to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election last week.
The White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The riot left five people dead, including one Capitol Police officer.
Hallmark asks senators involved in
challenging election certification to return
campaign donations replies
challenging election certification to return
campaign donations replies
Kansas City, Missouri-based Hallmark is asking Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) and Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) to return campaign contributions made by its political action committee in the wake of the riot at the U.S. Capitol last week. “Hallmark believes the peaceful transition of power is part of the bedrock of our democratic system, and we abhor violence of any kind,” the company said in a statement confirming the request. “The recent actions of Senators Josh Hawley and Roger Marshall do not reflect our company’s values. As a result, HALLPAC requested Sens. Hawley and Marshall to return all HALLPAC campaign contributions.”
With Democrats soon to control the White House and Congress, Gov. Andrew Cuomo ratcheted up pressure Monday on President-elect Joe Biden to deliver billions in aid that would help New York state’s cash-strapped government dig out from the coronavirus-fueled recession after he takes office. During his 11th annual State of the State address, which was heavy on rhetoric and light on specifics, Cuomo threw down the gauntlet for his fellow Democrats who will be running DC—even invoking the New York City fiscal crisis of the 1970s, when Washington and President Gerald Ford were accused of leaving a teetering Big Apple in the lurch.
As rioters were gathering around the US Capitol last Wednesday, a familiar question began to echo around the offices of the large social networks: what should they do about Donald Trump and his provocative posts?
The answer has been emphatic: ban him.
First he was suspended from Twitter, then from Facebook. Snapchat, Spotify, Twitch, Shopify, and Stripe have all followed suit, while Reddit, TikTok, YouTube and even Pinterest announced new restrictions on posting in support of the president or his actions.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel considers it “problematic” that Twitter would toss President Trump off its social media platform, saying through a spokesman Monday that the president’s ability to express his opinion is a fundamental right of “elementary significance.”
“This fundamental right can be intervened in, but according to the law and within the framework defined by legislators — not according to a decision by the management of social media platforms,” Merkel spokesman Steffen Seibert told reporters in Berlin.
Where was this 60 Minutes before the 2020 presidential election? On Sunday, co-host Lesley Stahl grilled Nancy Pelosi, telling the House Speaker that she has no “mandate” on policy and hitting the Democrat for failing to compromise with Republicans. Stahl even brought up Pelosi’s obstruction of the COVID relief bill. In contrast, in a big pre-election 60 Minutes, this same woman said that Joe Biden was "not" part of any controversy related to his son Hunter.
On Sunday, Stahl used the famous “someone says” line, often an excuse to tout Democratic talking points, against Pelosi. She hammered
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is telling his supporters to stop blaming left-wing activists for the attack on the U.S. Capitol. Patrick, one of President Donald Trump’s most important allies in Texas, told supporters in a lengthy message over the weekend that the people involved in storming the Capitol were Trump supporters. Some in the conservative world have tried to claim it was left-wing activists who were parading at Trump supporters. “There are no excuses for those who stormed the Capitol on Wednesday,” Patrick said. “Five people died. And, sadly, it appears that most of the protesters inside the Capitol were Trump supporters.”
Patriots head coach Bill Belichick has decided not to accept the Presidential Medal of Freedom, citing the horrific events at the Capitol last week.Here’s what the Patriots coach wrote in a statement: “Recently, I was offered the opportunity to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which I was flattered by out of respect for what the honor represents and admiration for prior recipients. Subsequently, the tragic events of last week occurred and the decision has been made not to move forward with the award. Above all, I am an American citizen with great reverence for our nation’s values, freedom and democracy
Last Wednesday, a pro-Trump protest descended into a violent riot as some of the massive hoards of people who protested the Electoral College certification breached the U.S. Capitol. A public school teacher in Allentown, Pa., attended the protest and the Allentown School District has penalized him for it.“On January 7, 2021, the Allentown School District (ASD) was made aware of a staff member who was involved in the electoral college protest that took place at the United States Capitol Building on January 6, 2021,” Superintendent Thomas E. Parker said in a statement. “We understand that many members of our community are upset
The Digital Imprimatur
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Today when censorship is being advocated to counter ‘disinformation’ or the ‘Big Lie’ it may be time to remember John Walker, the man who anticipated way back in 2003 that a digital imprimatur would be required to say anything substantial online. Walker was the man who wrote Autocad. (Snip) The word ‘imprimatur’ is Latin for “let it be printed.” Historically it is “a declaration authorizing publication of a book. The term is also applied loosely to any mark of approval or endorsement. The imprimatur rule in the Roman Catholic Church effectively dates from the dawn of printing, and is first seen in the printing and publishing
The U.S. on Monday announced that it is imposing sanctions on seven people linked to Russia’s efforts to influence the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
The Trump administration also announced sanctions on four entities that are associated with Andrii Derkach, a member of the Ukranian parliament and Russian agent who was sanctioned by the Trump administration in September for his attempt to influence the election. Those sanctioned include former Ukranian Government officials Konstantin Kulyk, Oleksandr Onyshchenko, Andriy Telizhenko, and current member of the Ukrainian parliament Oleksandr Dubinsky.(Snip) U.S. intelligence officials have testified that Russia attempted to interfere in the 2020 election, along with China and Iran.
In an editorial published by the Washington Post on Monday entitled, “Trump should be impeached. But that alone won’t remove white supremacy from America,” failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton described last Wednesday’s “attack on the Capitol” as a function of “white-supremacist grievances fueled by Donald Trump.”Clinton repeated the false claim that President Donald Trump praised neo-Nazis as “very fine people” following the 2017 riots in Charlottesville VA. She framed “whiteness” — a term she did not define — as the president’s political priority. Clinton wrote:
The 2020 election was very much about who controlled the information and who got to tell the story. The Capitol “Riots” were no different. It’s hard to gauge how many people were truly there for the rally and event that day, in part because the mainstream media outlets would never want to give accurate totals for those numbers. It’s doubtful the scene or event would have made that much of a blip on the news radar that day if the events at the Capitol Building did not take place. Prior to that, CNN and others had little interest in explaining how a “losing” President presided over one of
The Marriott hotel chain will be suspending donations to the GOP senators who objected to certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
"We have taken the destructive events at the Capitol to undermine a legitimate and fair election into consideration and will be pausing political giving from our Political Action Committee to those who voted against certification of the election," Bloomberg reported spokespeople for the hotel told the political publication Popular Information.
Republican Sens. Josh Hawley (Mo.) and Ted Cruz (Texas
Facebook is removing all content with the phrase “stop the steal” ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, the company announced on Monday. Facebook issued a statement saying that it was removing all content with the phrase, used by supporters of President Trump to question the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, because it violates the company’s policy against “coordinating harm.” Facebook said that it made the decision in light of the pro-Trump riot in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.“We are now removing content containing the phrase ‘stop the steal’ under our Coordinating Harm policy from Facebook and Instagram,” Facebook said in a statement.
After months of stoking anger about alleged election fraud, one of America's largest talk-radio companies has decided on an abrupt change of direction. Cumulus Media, which employs some of the most popular right-leaning talk-radio hosts in the United States, has told its on-air personalities to stop suggesting that the election was stolen from President Donald Trump - or else face termination. A Cumulus executive issued the directive on Wednesday, just as Congress met to certify Joe Biden's election victory and an angry mob of Trump supporters marched on the Capitol, overwhelmed police and briefly occupied the building, terrorizing lawmakers and leading to the deaths of five people.
Facebook, Google and Microsoft announced Monday they won't be giving out any political donations on the heels of the capitol siege, while a growing number of businesses said they will cut off campaign contributions to Republicans who voted to challenge the Electoral College count. HALLPAC, Hallmark's political action committee, told Popular Information's Judd Legum that it had requested a $3,000 donation back from Sen. Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, and one of the ringleaders of the so-called 'treason caucus.'(Snip) HALLPAC also asked Sen. Roger Marshall, the newly minted GOP senator from Kansas, for a $5,000 donation to be returned.
Acting Secretary of Homeland Security
Chad Wolf resigns; FEMA Administrator
Pete Gaynor to take over replies
Chad Wolf resigns; FEMA Administrator
Pete Gaynor to take over replies
Chad Wolf is resigning as the acting secretary of Homeland Security, he said in a letter to the department Monday obtained by CNN.
FEMA Administrator Pete Gaynor will be the new acting secretary, (Snip)
"I am saddened to take this step, as it was my intention to serve the Department until the end of this Administration," Wolf wrote, citing ongoing litigation challenging the validity of his appointment.
"Unfortunately, this action is warranted by recent events, including the ongoing and meritless court rulings regarding the validity of my authority as Acting Secretary.
WASHINGTON—Department of Homeland Security acting Secretary Chad Wolf is resigning in the wake of the deadly US Capitol siege, according to a new report Monday.Wolf sent a letter to his colleagues at the department on Monday afternoon announcing his decision, according to Fox News reporter Jake Gibson.“I am saddened to take this step, as it was my intention to serve the Department until the end of this Administration,” he wrote, per a tweet from Gibson.“Unfortunately, this action is warranted by recent events, including the ongoing and meritless court rulings regarding the validity of my authority
Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) on Sunday said pro-Trump rioters who ran wild inside the Capitol may be have had inside information.
Clyburn, the House majority whip and prominent member of the Congressional Black Caucus, said the rioters found his second office, even though there is no sign on the door.
“I have an unmarked office that you got to know exactly where it is,” Clyburn told CNN anchor Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.” He said he spends “most of” his “time” in that office instead of his more official office, which has his nameplate above the door.
Think about this– Last week the demonic left used the assault on the US Capitol to take away your First Amendment right of Free Speech. Tens of thousands of Americans were removed from social media along with the US President. The far left tech giants took away President Trump’s ability to communicate freely to the American public. The next planned operation is to take your guns. We are very concerned the radical left is using this to start a firefight and take away your gun rights! The left is unafraid. The Democrats just stole a massive landslide election from President Trump.
The State Department website was reportedly manipulated Monday by a “disgruntled staffer” to say that President Donald Trump’s last day in office was Jan. 11, sparking resignation rumors online. “Donald J. Trump’s term ended on 2021-01-11 19:49:00,” the site said. (Tweet) “UPDATE: Sources tell [BuzzFeed News] a ‘disgruntled staffer’ is behind the State Department site’s change of Trump and Pence’s biographies,” reported BuzzFeed’s Christopher Miller. (Tweet) Democrats have moved to impeach President Trump in reaction to the breach on the U.S. Capitol last week, claiming POTUS “encouraged” and “incited” the “insurrection.” House Democrats released the single article of impeachment Monday that they will file against the president,
Former Rep. Ron Paul said Facebook suspended him from managing his account, citing a violation of its community standards. “With no explanation other than 'repeatedly going against our community standards,' @Facebook has blocked me from managing my page. Never have we received notice of violating community standards in the past and nowhere is the offending post identified,” Ron Paul tweeted Monday. “The only thing we posted to Facebook today was my weekly 'Texas Straight Talk' column, which I have published every week since 1976,” he continued. An executive for the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity confirmed to the Washington Examiner that Paul “has been locked out
Cumulus Media is clamping down on claims about election fraud across their network of radio stations which feature right-wing talkers such as Mark Levin and Dan Bongino. In a memo sent internally, executive vice president Brian Philips made clear that radio hosts will be fired if they start or continue to make baseless claims about election fraud. 'We need to help induce national calm NOW,' the memo read. 'The election has been resolved, and there are no alternate acceptable 'paths,' the memo continued. 'If you transgress this policy, you can expect to separate from the company immediately.'
The FBI is warning of possible armed protests at capitols in all 50 states in the days leading to Inauguration Day as cities around the country brace for violence in the wake of last week's deadly riots at the US Capitol.An FBI bulletin obtained by ABC News on Monday raised alarm about a group calling for the 'storming' of state, local, and federal government administrative buildings and courthouses should President Donald Trump be removed from office prior to Joe Biden's inauguration on January 20.
The bulletin came to light just as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced an article of impeachment accusing Trump of incitement to insurrection, five days after
An internal FBI memo is warning of plans for armed protests in all 50 state capital cities ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s Inauguration, Fox News has learned. A federal law enforcement source told Fox News that an internal bureau memo is warning that the protests could be before, on, and after Inauguration Day. The memo comes as Fox News has learned the FBI has received more than "40,000 digital media tips, including video and photos, from the public" regarding participants in last week’s Capitol riot.
Sources told Fox News on Sunday that the FBI visited extremists prior to the Jan. 6 pro-Trump rally and Capitol riot, urging
The Supreme Court announced Monday it would not expedite a group of election challenges. The move is yet another legal blow to President Trump who has pushed to overturn the 2020 results through the courts. The president has cases pending before the justices against Wisconsin and Pennsylvania officials, and pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood also has litigation pending against the Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. The lawsuits have asked the justices to take up the challenges, and halt further certification of the November election. But by not expediting the cases, it’s likely the issue will become moot and dismissed by the high court
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday that the U.S. is re-designating Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, citing its harboring of terrorists.
“The Trump Administration has been focused from the start on denying the Castro regime the resources it uses to oppress its people at home, and countering its malign interference in Venezuela and the rest of the Western Hemisphere,” Secertary of State Michael Pompeo said in a statement. “With this action, we will once again hold Cuba’s government accountable and send a clear message: the Castro regime must end its support for international terrorism and subversion of U.S.”
During a rare meeting of North Korea’s party congress last week, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called the United States “our arch-enemy” and vowed to bring the U.S. “to its knees.”
Shares of Twitter on Monday dropped 12 percent, after the company banned President Donald Trump and a slew of other conservatives.
Shares dropped after the market opened on Monday, reaching a low of $45.17. Twitter shares closed at $51.48 on Jan. 8.
Twitter said it removed Trump’s account on Friday because some of his recent posts were glorifying violence. The company echoed critics who attempted to connect Trump’s rhetoric with the breach of the U.S. Capitol.
Trump responded by accusing Twitter of coordinating “with the Democrats and the Radical Left in removing my account from their platform, to silence me—and YOU, the 75,000,000 great patriots who voted for me.”
President-elect Joe Biden has grown frustrated with the team in charge of plotting his coronavirus response, amid rising concerns that his administration will fall short of its promise of 100 million vaccinations in the first 100 days, according to people familiar with the conversations.
Biden has expressed criticism on multiple occasions to groups of transition officials — including one confrontation where Biden conveyed to Covid coordinator Jeff Zients and his deputy, Natalie Quillian, that their team was underperforming.
The tensions have surfaced as Biden's advisers plan a dramatic scale-up of vaccinations starting Jan. 20, when the incoming team inherits a troubled Trump administration vaccine rollout
Outgoing Capitol Hill Police Chief Says
Efforts to Summon National Guard Were
Thwarted: Report replies
Efforts to Summon National Guard Were
Thwarted: Report replies
Steven Sund, the outgoing chief of the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP), said that House and Senate security officials rejected or slow-walked multiple calls by the agency ahead of the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol to call in the National Guard to assist.
Sund told The Washington Post(Snip) that, in the days leading up to last Wednesday’s incident where protesters and rioters breached the Capitol building and committed acts of violence, that he asked House and Senate security officials to let him request that the D.C. National Guard to be put on standby. He told the outlet that the officials denied or postponed his requests six times.
Rep. Alex Mooney (R-W.Va.) on Monday blocked Democrats from introducing a resolution via unanimous consent to call on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Donald Trump.
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Mooney said Pelosi “should not attempt to adopt a resolution of this magnitude without any debate on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives,” (Snip) “it is wrong to have sent members of Congress home and then try to adopt without any debate a precedent-setting resolution that could imperil our Republic. The U.S. House must never adopt a resolution that demands the removal of a duly elected president, without any hearings, debate or recorded votes.”
How dare they?
How dare Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg tell Americans they can no longer hear from their president on Twitter and Facebook? How dare they take down followers from scores of conservatives and suppress their voices?
I have personally lost over 2,000 followers on Twitter, even though I have not railed about election fraud or, heaven knows, incited anyone to violence. This is not about Big Tech "protecting" Americans; this is about stifling dissent from those who do not buy into the Left’s woke agenda.
It gets worse.
Millions of conservatives have abandoned Twitter and Facebook, migrating to Parler,
A top Democrat said Monday that Republicans could end up on the no-fly list for actions surrounding last week’s assault on the Capitol by supporters of President Trump. House Homeland Security Committee Chair Bennie G. Thompson specifically listed Sens. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley, who helped lead an objection to counting some Electoral College votes—just as Mr. Trump was riling up supporters over the same matter. Those supporters would later attack Congress. Asked by SiriusXM host Joe Madison whether the no-fly sanction should be applied if they are found liable, Mr. Thompson said “there’s no question about it.” “There’s no exemption for being put
Let’s be perfectly clear, fellow conservatives. 2021 started off on a poor note.
Two hazardously progressive lawmakers are headed to the United State Senate to give the Democrats a slim majority. Minimizing this reality will not furnish a beneficial outcome, nor will submitting to the notion that the left is not actually serious about their espoused platform. That platform includes providing a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants; repealing economy-stimulating tax cuts; moving forward with public-option healthcare; eliminating the filibuster; conferring statehood on Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico; and packing the highest court in the land with progressive judges.
Senate, the Republican party is at war with itself.
President-elect Joe Biden has grown frustrated with the team in charge of plotting his coronavirus response, amid rising concerns that his administration will fall short of its promise of 100 million vaccinations in the first 100 days, according to people familiar with the conversations. Biden has expressed criticism on multiple occasions to groups of transition officials — including one confrontation where Biden conveyed to Covid coordinator Jeff Zients and his deputy, Natalie Quillian, that their team was underperforming. The tensions have surfaced as Biden's advisers plan a dramatic scale-up of vaccinations starting Jan. 20, when the incoming team inherits a troubled
House Democrats introduced a single article of impeachment against President Trump on Monday, charging him with “incitement of insurrection” after his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol last week, leaving five people dead.
The four-page impeachment resolution includes Trump’s false comments about his election defeat to President-elect Joe Biden, his push to have state officials in Georgia “find” him additional votes and his “Save America” rally that took place Wednesday at the White House just before the Capitol riots, during which he urged his supporters to “fight like hell.”
“President Trump gravely endangered the security of the United States and its institutions of Government,” the legislation said.
The social media site Parler is suing Amazon for "antitrust violations, breach of contract, and unlawful business interference" after Amazon's web hosting service wiped Parler from its servers, according to The Hill reporter John Kruzel.
House Republicans on Monday blocked a resolution from Democrats calling on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer attempted to pass the resolution through unanimous consent, but Representative Alex Mooney, a West Virginia Republican, objected, nixing the move. The House must now call a full vote on the measure in order to pass it.
Pence has not publicly indicated that he would consider invoking constitutional authority to remove the president, but he has reportedly discussed resorting to the 25th amendment, which requires the support of a majority of cabinet secretaries,
Insurrectionists that stormed Capitol Hill and uploaded videos to the right-wing social media app Parler gave away their GPS coordinates to the app.
That data has now been scraped and archived by researchers, who could use the data to help identify criminals. Many rioters including the Proud Boys—a Southern Poverty Law Center designated hate group—shared videos on the app, but hacker “@donk_enby” on Twitter has shown that the metadata (information about the content uploaded, such as number of megapixels in the videos or rotation) includes GPS positioning.(Snip) The hacker was previously working with academic researchers, helping them ingest Parler data, they told The Independent.
CNN’s chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta is becoming an anchor, the network announced in a press release Monday.Acosta has become well-known throughout President Donald Trump’s time in office, in part for his consistent swipes at the president and administration. He briefly had his press credentials revoked by the White House in 2018, prompting a lawsuit from CNN.As President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office, the network announced a slew of changes in both reporting positions and anchor jobs. Acosta “has been named anchor and chief domestic correspondent for CNN,” the network wrote.
Rep. Gaetz: Trump Not Resigning
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GOP Rep Matt Gaetz (R-FL) dropped a bomb during an interview on Fox News. He said that not only will President Trump not resign but even after Biden is inaugurated he will still be on the public stage. (Tweet/Video) This is why the left and Mainstream Press want to impeach him. They know that President Trump is not giving up and that he plans on running again in 2024. They know that President Trump still has a ton of support all across the country. They are scared he will run and win in 2024.
This matches up with our recent reporting that President Trump is planning a “defiant” final days
For those who missed it yesterday when it was circulating on social media, here’s what “back the blue” meant to some of the cretins who descended on the Capitol last Wednesday. I don’t know for a fact that the cop being attacked is Officer Sicknick but I’d be amazed if the person who took this beating survived it. The chanting of “USA!” while the mob unleashes is the sort of too-sinister dystopian flourish that would make you roll your eyes if it were fiction. As would the fact that the president whose fans did this refused to lower the flags at the White House to half-staff
The pilots of the Indonesian airliner that plunged into the sea off Jakarta with 62 people aboard did not declare an emergency or report technical problems before the Boeing 737-500 went down, according to a report. National Transportation Safety Committee investigator Nurcahyo Utomo said recordings of conversations between the crew of the Sriwijaya Air flight bound for Pontianak and air traffic control were routine. “It’s like a normal conversation and nothing suspicious,” he told Agence France-Presse. “There’s no talk of an emergency or something like that.” Preliminary data suggest it was “most likely” that the jet was intact when it hit the water
You knew this was coming. Democrats are planning to censure Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) in the coming days for challenging the stolen 2020 election. Democrats want to pin the rioting in the US Capitol by Trump supporters and Antifa on the Republican lawmakers who Had Nothing To Do With It! This is how a tyrannical government behaves. Democrats have all the power and they are going to use it to punish anyone who stands in their way.
Andrew Yang, ex-presidential hopeful,
faces different challenge if he
runs for NYC mayor: experts replies
faces different challenge if he
runs for NYC mayor: experts replies
Running for New York City mayor—if Andrew Yang ultimately decides to do so—will pose an unusual challenge to the entrepreneur who not so long ago was vying for the nation’s highest office. Unlike any of the other mayoral contenders, Yang recently ran for president, and in that race he made political calculations based on an entirely different set of circumstances.(Snip) One of the most glaring examples of an area Yang may try to stake out different terrain centers around his rhetoric about white voters.(Snip) “The group I worry about most is poor whites,” he wrote. “Even now, people of color report higher levels
President-elect Biden intends to release nearly every available dose of Wuhan coronavirus vaccine to the states. This is a reversal of President Trump’s policy, which was to hold back doses of the vaccine to make sure there is enough for people who receive a first shot to get a second one within the recommended period (21 days or 28 days, depending on the vaccine in question).
Is this a good idea? I don’t know. I doubt that anyone knows.
I do believe strongly that there is a moral obligation to provide a second dose of the vaccine within the recommended time period
Black Capitol Police officers say they were attacked by “racist a– terrorists” during the riots—some of whom repeatedly called them the N-word, according to a report. Two officers described being subjected to racial abuse—including slurs—during Wednesday’s chaos that left five people dead, including one of their colleagues, BuzzFeed reported. “I got called [an N-word] 15 times today,” one of the officers, who is a veteran of the force, recalled yelling once the pro-Trump mob dispersed, the outlet reported.(Snip) “We were getting pepper sprayed in the face by those protesters, I’m not going to even call them protestors, by those domestic terrorists,”
Enough! Enough of the gaslighting by the press. Enough of the gaslighting by the party of slavery, Jim Crow, the KKK, want, deprivation, envy and murder of the unborn in the womb. Most especially, enough of their “Republican,” enablers, who believe they can gain political favor or DC cocktail circuit invites, by promoting these blatant lies.
What is even more egregious, these lies have already become, “common knowledge.” Her Majesty and I attended church yesterday, which we do every Sunday that she manages to pry my fat fundament out of bed. As part of the warm up to the sermon, one of our Associate Pastors offered a few thoughts,
AOC Loses Her Mind With Hyperbole About
Capitol Protest, But Here's a Little Reality
Check for Her replies
Capitol Protest, But Here's a Little Reality
Check for Her replies
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was running fast and free with with the hyperbole when she appeared on ABC with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, attacking Republicans over the Capitol protest and demanding “accountability.” [Video]
“And so, if we allow insurrection against the United States with impunity, with no accountability, we are inviting it to happen again,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “We came close to nearly half of the House dying on Wednesday.”
She also then later made a misleading comment about the number about police deaths in relation to the protest. “Five people died and we just learned another officer lost his life,” she claimed.
'Hello, my wonderful social justice
warriors': School sued over critical
race theory instruction replies
warriors': School sued over critical
race theory instruction replies
Critical race theory has made the jump from the ivory tower to public school classrooms. Now it’s in the courtroom. A Las Vegas charter school is being sued in federal court by a family alleging the school is indoctrinating children into the view that White people are inherently racist and perpetuate their economic and political power by oppressing people of color.
“This isn’t some passing ideological trend,” said Jonathan O’Brien, a lawyer with SchoolhouseRights.org who filed the lawsuit for the family. “These people are crackpot bigots.”(Snip) The charter school in the Nevada lawsuit, the Democracy Prep at the Agassi Campus, allegedly forced students to
The U.S Capitol Police rejected National Guard and FBI assistance in the days and hours leading up to a massive Capitol security breach carried out by protestors and rioters.
Days before the event, the Pentagon asked the U.S Capitol Police if it needed National Guard manpower, but the offer was declined. Additionally, as the mob descended upon the Capitol, Capitol Police rejected an offer of FBI support from Justice Department leaders, (Snip)
Despite plenty of warnings, Capitol Police still found themselves overwhelmed (Snip)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Thursday that a “painstaking investigation” would commence into Capitol security protocols.
McConnell asked for and received the resignation of the Sergeant at Arms
The proper conservative response to last Wednesday’s violent entry into the Capitol and vandalism, as well as assaults on law-enforcement, is to identify the guilty parties and ensure they are arrested.Such deterrence will prevent any future devolution from legal popular protests into thuggery. No constitutional republic can tolerate its iconic heart stormed, breached, and defiled.
Is Some Violence Worse than Others?Of course, there is no such thing as “good” or “acceptable” violence of either Trump supporters or of the Antifa and BLM sort.Yet the latter were largely exempt from any consequences for most of the summer—despite Joe Biden’s demagogic implication that the now multibillion-dollar funded BLM was treated harshly
We appear to be at the beginning of a massive crackdown on people who have supported Donald Trump, led by big tech and big media. These entities are making Trump into an example of their power to frighten the half of America that supported him in November. We cannot allow them to intimidate us.But they sure are trying, and on some, they will succeed. They are using the excuse of an unrepresentative group of fools criminally ransacking U.S. Capitol offices with a lighter touch than many of this summer’s often unpunished Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters. Remember: Some of those rioters got away with murder, attacking public buildings including
Incoming representative Ashley Hinson (R., Iowa) petitioned House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) to stop distributing a Chinese Communist propaganda paper to House offices on Capitol Hill, according to a letter sent late last week and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.Hinson, who was elected in November, said she is "appalled" that lawmakers receive unsolicited copies of China Daily, a Chinese state-controlled newspaper that has been designated as Communist propaganda by the State Department. China Daily has been delivered to congressional offices each morning for many years despite outrage among some members
Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris’ team has reportedly reached out to American Vogue editors to express their disapproval with the California Senator’s photo featured on the February cover of the print edition.This weekend, Vogue unveiled two covers for its February issue — a print edition cover featuring Harris in sneakers and a digital cover where Harris is wearing a powder blue suit.According to a report by the Associated Press (AP), who spoke to an anonymous source with Harris’ team, Harris’ team was under the impression that the photo of her in the blue suit would be the print edition cover.Since its unveiling, AP reports that Harris’ team has reached out
Joe Biden plans to help small businesses hard-hit by COVID with federal funds, but apparently only if those establishments fit within the parameters of identity politics, a philosophy which itself is a priority for Democrats.Reading off a teleprompter, Biden explained that “Our focus will be on small businesses on Main Street that aren’t wealthy and well connected that are facing real economic hardships through no fault of their own. Our priority will be Black, Latino, Asian, and Native American-owned small businesses, women-owned businesses, and finally having equal access to resources needed to reopen and rebuild.“But we’re gonna make a concerted effort to help small businesses in low-income communities,
First Lady Melania Trump has broken her silence on Wednesday’s storming of the U.S. Capitol by protesters, denouncing violence and urging Americans to “rise above what divides us.” She was eloquent and heart-felt in her discussion of America’s path forward.Melania issued a statement titled “Our Path Forward” and posted it Monday morning to the official White House website. She said her “heart goes out to” both the Capitol Police officers and the protesters who died as a result of the riot: “Air Force Veteran Ashli Babbit, Benjamin Phillips, Kevin Greeson, Rosanne Boyland, and Capitol Police Officers Brian Sicknick and Howard Liebengood.
Last week’s Senate runoff elections in Georgia gave the Democrats full control of the federal governing apparatus. America is now a one-party state, and the Californication of the country will soon begin. But there’s one man who can slow it down if not stop it, at least for a while: Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin.
The West Virginian could erase the Democrats’ de facto Senate majority (the Democratic vice president is the tie-breaker in the 50-50 chamber) simply by changing parties. This is no radical suggestion. Manchin is the most conservative Democrat in the Senate, if not all of Washington, and
Americans are expected to be aghast at the events in Washington, D.C. on January 6. A vicious mob of revolutionary Trump supporters, we are told, swarmed the nation’s capital and, in an act of insurrection, unlawfully entered the hallowed halls of Congress. Unlike the “fiery but mostly peaceful protests” that were reported over the summer, the media have been quick to claim that this was not a “mostly peaceful” protest (despite the protestors being, by any estimation, mostly peaceful), but the entire event is being categorized as a bona fide riot that had been fueled by Donald Trump’s irresponsible and untruthful rhetoric.
Pearl-Clutchers on Parade
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Time to get out the ledger.
On the left––literally––we have had nearly eight months of rampaging criminality and violence in the many Democrat-controlled cities in our country, all conducted by thugs belonging to groups called Black Lives Matter and Antifa. This is the short list of what they have done:
Committed widespread arson, including burning down hundreds of minority-owned businesses in the Latino, Asian and black communities (the black owners clearly didn’t matter);
Incinerated cars and burned down buildings, court houses, police stations, et al;
Shot laser beams in the eyes of policemen;
Assaulted civilians, resulting in 30 deaths and thousands of hospitalizations;
In 2020, Democrat riots caused billions of dollars in property damage, destroyed historic sites, and assaulted and murdered dozens of people. Meanwhile, on January 6, President Trump asked patriots to walk peacefully to the Capitol to cheer politicians who, copying Democrat, objected to Electoral College votes. Some hotheads (encouraged by Antifa plants?) entered the Capitol, as Democrat protesters have done many times before. This time, though, Democrats demand that Trump leave office immediately under the 25th Amendment or be impeached and that all Trump-supporting politicians across America be expelled from office.
During an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) invoked Watergate and former President Richard Nixon as she discussed her push to impeach President Donald Trump. This comes in the wake of last week’s riots in which a group of Trump’s supporters breached the U.S. Capitol.
Pelosi announced Sunday in a letter that the House of Representatives would move to impeach Trump just 10 days before his presidential term is over because he “represents an imminent threat” to “our Constitution and our Democracy.”
There Was No Revolution
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There was no revolution. There was no pro-Trump coup attempt. Everyone knows it.
A couple of crackpots who pranked at the Capitol are now being called a “revolution.” As if that crazy, painted-face shaman with the buffalo-horn hat was leading -- what are they calling it? Ah yes, an insurrection.
There was a call by millions of Americans for election integrity. It was met with “shoot to kill” behavior and then a great purge. It wasn’t a revolution; it was more like an ambush. No one is asking who gave the shoot-to-kill order or who gave the order to invite protesters into the Capitol building.
Well, so much for that whole unity thing. Democrats are out for blood, emboldened by the idiotic alt-right fools who rushed the Capitol last week, and they are seemingly going to play every card they have. Impeachment is already being talked about, perhaps even after Biden’s inauguration, in order to ban Trump from every holding office again. But if that wasn’t dumb enough, Nancy Pelosi is now looking at the 14th Amendment as a way to expel Republican members of the House for supposedly taking part in an “insurrection.”
Get Ready for the Biden Gun Grab
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Democrats now have single-party control of the federal government. President Joe Biden styled himself as the most moderate candidate his party had to offer. And still, during the campaign he promised to put Beto O’Rourke – the man who blurted out “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15s” in charge of his administration’s gun policies.
Whether or not President Biden and gun czar Beto aim for a program of national gun confiscation, we should expect some sort of major crackdown against the Second Amendment and against our other liberties. The congressmen who ducked, covered, and cowered – in now iconic photos –
I don't have a problem with arresting people who break the law. I do have a huge problem with selective prosecution and enforcement.
When Black Lives Matter mobs besieged Washington D.C., attacked the White House, assaulted Secret Service members, vandalized national monuments, and set a church on fire, the Attorney General had to lean hard just to get the most basic arrests and prosecutions going. (It goes without saying that none of the rioters were fired.)
And the media played defense for the rioters and feigned outrage at criminalizing "protest".
By September, the DOJ had managed to charge just 300 rioters for taking part in the BLM violence nationwide.
House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-CA) on Sunday called for a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) investigation into Big Tech stifling the new social media platform Parler.
"The effect of this is there is no longer a free and open social media company or site for any American to get on anymore because these big companies – Apple, Amazon, Google – they likely destroyed what was likely a billion dollar company," Nunes explained to Fox News' Maria Bartiromo. "Poof. It's gone."
The congressman explained the concern is bigger than a company taking a financial hit.
"Republicans have no way to communicate.
The Lib-Fascist Purge
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I’m not sure which is my favorite aspect of this disgraceful and dangerous festival of bans, gagging, and silencing that the Establishment embarked upon last week after it finally discovered one kind of riot it didn’t approve of. Maybe it was the journalists cheering censorship. Maybe it was True Conservatives™ like that geek from National Review giving censorship a soft, girlish thumbs-up – perhaps if the libs shut down the competition then people will sign up for NR’s cruises again. Ahoy! Or maybe it was the ACLU trying to balance the realization that having corporations not totally control what people say is bad with the imperative that Orange Man Bad.
More big businesses continued a boycott on Sunday of Republican members of Congress who followed Donald Trump's demands and voted to overturn the election.
JPMorgan Chase said that it will pause all contributions from its political action committee for at least the next six months, saying 'the focus of business leaders, political leaders, civic leaders right now should be on governing and getting help to those who desperately need it most right now. There will be plenty of time for campaigning later.'
U.S. digital payments company Stripe is to also stop processing payments for Trump's campaign website following the riot, a company spokesperson said.
A new fauxrage has been instigated by the Left following word that Ginni Thomas, a well-known conservative and wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, supported Turning Point USA, which bused in Trump supporters to the “Save America Rally” last Wednesday on The Ellipse in Washington, D.C.
As everyone knows, after the rally was over, some attendees turned into rioters and breached the U.S. Capitol Building, causing so-far un-tallied damage and chaos. When it was over, Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick had died. It is believed that the Capitol Police officer died from a head injury, possibly from a thrown fire extinguisher.
Four protesters died during the siege.
Less than a week has passed since the Capitol riot, and the Democratic Party, the establishment media, and Big Tech now present it as axiomatic that President Donald Trump incited the mob for the purpose of preventing the electoral vote certification and, presumably, grabbing dictatorial powers. Republican Senators Pat Toomey and Lisa Murkowski have joined the calls for Trump either to resign or face a second impeachment, and even Ted Cruz has said that Trump’s rhetoric “certainly contributed to the violence that occurred.” But before the lynch mob gets the noose ready and hangs the president from the nearest tree, it would be useful to step back
In addition to the fact that Trump openly called for the “cheering on” of Congressman, and “peaceful” protests, the timeline as established from numerous, establishment media reports simply doesn’t stack up. The admission that House and Senate security leaders failed to provide Capitol Police with resources on the day will raise questions over their role in the day’s events.
WaPo reported late Sunday night:
Two days before Congress was set to formalize President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund was growing increasingly worried about the size of the pro-Trump crowds expected to stream into Washington in protest. House
Democrats will proceed with the impeachment of 'deranged, unhinged and dangerous' Donald Trump this week unless Mike Pence uses the 25th Amendment to force him from office, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday night. Pelosi made the announcement in a letter to colleagues, framing it as an ultimatum to Pence to invoke the powers of the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. If not, she said, the House would proceed with impeachment. Trump could become the only president to be impeached twice.'In protecting our Constitution and our Democracy, we will act with urgency,
The majority of working-class Trump supporters who traveled to DC last week were "repulsed" by Wednesday's riots that engulfed the Capitol in chaos and resulted in at least four deaths, conservative activist Charlie Kirk said Sunday. "The strength of the president's movement is about giving a voice to working people all across the country," Kirk told "The Next Revolution" host Steve Hilton on Sunday, "and I can tell you, working people who voted for the president were repulsed by what they saw. In fact, they were saddened." Kirk argued that Trump supporters gathered in the nation's capital to demand that lawmakers take various steps to preserve the integrity