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America seems to be descending into chaos. Many feel this nation is coming apart at its seams. Back in 2016, Roger Simon explained what’s going on in our culture today in his book “I Know Best: How Moral Narcissism Is Destroying Our Republic, If It Hasn’t Already.”
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🍔 Happy Friday! Labor Day getaway day certainly isn’t what it usually is. But wherever summer’s finale finds you, wishing you and your family safety … and smiles.
Photo: “Axios on HBO”
Mark Zuckerberg tells me for “Axios on HBO” that Facebook is imposing new election rules to deter use of the platform to spread misinformation and even violence, and to help voters see the results as “legitimate and fair.”
- “There is, unfortunately, I think, a heightened risk of civil unrest in the period between voting and a result being called,” Zuckerberg said in an hourlong interview Wednesday.
- “We’re trying to make sure that we do our part to make sure that none of this is organized on Facebook.”
🎬 Watch a clip.
- The interview airs this Tuesday, Sept. 8, at 11 p.m. ET/PT on all HBO platforms.
Zuckerberg said that since the outcome may not be known on election night, Facebook and news organizations need to start “preparing the American people that there’s nothing illegitimate about this election,” even if it takes “additional days or even weeks to make sure that all of the votes are counted.”
- “So we’re going to do a bunch of different messaging around that just to make sure that people know that that’s normal.”
- “I think we need to be doing everything that we can to reduce the chances of violence or civil unrest in the wake of this election.”
Facebook’s new measures, announced yesterday, include forbidding new ads within a week of Election Day (so the other side has time to reply), and throwing a flag on posts by candidates who claim premature victory:
- “We will attach an informational label to content that seeks to delegitimize the outcome of the election or discuss the legitimacy of voting methods, for example, by claiming that lawful methods of voting will lead to fraud,” Facebook said in its “New Steps to Protect the U.S. Elections.”
- “If any candidate or campaign tries to declare victory before the final results are in, we’ll add a label to their posts directing people to the official results.”
Photo illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images
Joe Biden spent a career cultivating the image of a deal-making centrist — and is making that a key selling point for swing voters in 2020. But the modern Biden has been pushed left by his party’s insurgent progressives, Axios’ Hans Nichols reports.
- Why it matters: Biden has moved to the left to accommodate party activists on crime, climate, education, immigration and health care. His central challenge with many swing voters: Prove he didn’t move too far, too fast.
Biden wants many suburban voters to associate him with his persona as a white, firehouse Democrat — over a more woke 2020 primary candidate who navigated through his rivals to win his party’s nomination.
- Biden has to confront the nation’s new dynamics by addressing police violence head on. At the same time, he subtly courted western Pennsylvania by saying his call in March for “no new fracking” only applied to public lands.
The bottom line: Voters are choosing between a composite of Biden that spans 48 years — or the undiluted Trump of the past four.
Michael Forest Reinoehl, the man wanted for killing a right-wing activist during a pro-Trump rally in Portland last weekend, was shot dead as federal law enforcement attempted to take him into custody overnight, The Oregonian’s Maxine Bernstein reports.
- A U.S. Marshals Service spokesperson said that Reinoehl produced a gun during the encounter, leading federal agents to fire back.
- Reinoehl had described himself in a social media posts as “100% ANTIFA” and suggested the tactics of counter-protesters amounted to “warfare,” per the AP.
Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios
The promise of a new generation of low-cost, long-lasting batteries is catalyzing a long-awaited shift to electric vehicles, Axios’ Joann Muller reports from Detroit.
- Two big obstacles have long stood in the way: cost and driving range.
- The ultimate goal: the “million-mile battery” — one that can last 30 years and enjoy second, or even third, lives powering the electric grid.
What’s next: Steady advancements in battery innovation — rather than a single breakthrough — have brought the electric vehicle industry to the cusp of widespread adoption, and it’s set to kick off a whole new war among auto giants.
President Trump talks to reporters at Andrews Air Force Base after returning from Latrobe, Pa., last night. Photo: Evan Vucci/AP
President Trump, the White House and the Trump campaign all mobilized last night to push back on a damaging article from The Atlantic, by editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, reporting that the president “has repeatedly disparaged the intelligence of service members.”
- When Trump landed at Andrews Air Force Base last night after a rally in Pennsylvania, Trump told reporters: “To think that I would make statements negative to our military and our fallen heroes, when nobody’s done what I’ve done … It is a disgraceful situation by a magazine that’s a terrible magazine — I don’t read it.”
Here’s a passage from Goldberg’s article:
On Memorial Day 2017, Trump visited Arlington National Cemetery … He was accompanied on this visit by John Kelly, who was then the secretary of homeland security, and who would, a short time later, be named the White House chief of staff. The two men were set to visit Section 60, the 14-acre area of the cemetery that is the burial ground for those killed in America’s most recent wars.
Kelly’s son Robert is buried in Section 60. A first lieutenant in the Marine Corps, Robert Kelly was killed in 2010 in Afghanistan. He was 29. …
[A]ccording to sources with knowledge of this visit, Trump, while standing by Robert Kelly’s grave, turned directly to his father and said, “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”
General Kelly declined to comment to The Atlantic.
Police officers force a line of demonstrators away from the front of the Public Safety Building in Rochester yesterday. Photo: Adrian Kraus/AP
Rochester, N.Y., faced its most intense night of unrest yet over the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man, with one city council member calling the law enforcement response “unnecessarily aggressive,” reports the Democrat and Chronicle’s Mary Chao.
- “A mix of Rochester and New York state police fired volleys of pepper balls, and officers in helmets and face shields, carrying batons, pushed back demonstrators … some lobbing water bottles and shielding themselves with umbrellas.”
Prude’s March 23 death only received public attention this week after his family released body cam footage showing police officers putting a hood over his head and holding his face to the pavement for two minutes.
- Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren announced yesterday that seven police officers involved had been suspended, saying the city would “change how we deal with these situations going forward.”
From London, The Economist writes that a “disputed result in November could be dangerous”:
To ensure the peaceful handover of power, democracies need the losing candidates and most of their followers to admit defeat. …
In the case of a landslide win for Mr. Trump or Joe Biden, about half of America will be miserable. … In the event of a narrow one, America might not be able to generate losers’ consent. And without that, democracies are in big trouble.
This summer’s Manhattan dining reality. Photo: Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images
Without more state and federal relief specifically for restaurants, “63.6% of New York restaurants said they are likely to close by the end of the year,” the New York State Restaurant Association reports from a survey of 1,042 restaurateurs.
- “Of those who are likely to close, 54.8% will be forced to shut their doors before November.”
“As if the novel coronavirus has not already wrought devastation aplenty on the world, physicians and researchers are seeing signs it is doing deep damage to people’s sleep,” the WashPost reports.
- “‘Coronasomnia,’ as some experts now call it, could prove to have profound public-health ramifications — creating a massive new population of chronic insomniacs grappling with declines in productivity, shorter fuses and increased risks of hypertension, depression and other health problems.”
Labor Day weekend, usually sleepy in theaters, is a pivotal Hollywood showdown as two high-priced experiments test the new reality, AP film writer Jake Coyle reports.
The $200 million “Tenet” is the first must-see main event of the pandemic, a mega-movie litmus test for how ready moviegoers are to return to cinemas:
- After debuting in Europe, Canada and Korea last weekend, “Tenet” yesterday landed in the 75% of U.S. theaters currently open.
- At one Boston AMC, “Tenet” is playing 86 times from today through Sunday.
Another $200 million movie, Disney’s live-action “Mulan” remake, is debuting not in theaters, as originally intended back in March, but on streamer Disney+, for $30 beginning today.
🎥 What’s next: “Wonder Woman 1984” (Oct. 2) … Marvel’s “Black Widow” (Nov. 6) … Pixar’s “Soul” (Nov. 20).
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POLITICO Playbook: Why Republicans aren’t really campaigning against Pelosi
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DRIVING THE DAY
BREAKING OVERNIGHT … AP/LACEY, WASH.: “Federal task force kills Portland shooting suspect at arrest”
FOR A MOMENT this week, Speaker NANCY PELOSI’S decision to get a haircut at a San Francisco salon in defiance of local pandemic restrictions was the No. 1 topic on U.S. Facebook. PELOSI, inexplicably, gave the story another 24 hours of life by accusing the salon of a “setup.” To her critics, it was an example of rank hypocrisy — proof that the speaker, a wealthy Left Coast liberal, thinks the rules are for others.
“CRAZY NANCY PELOSI is being decimated for having a beauty parlor opened, when all others are closed, and for not wearing a Mask — despite constantly lecturing everyone else,” President DONALD TRUMP tweeted. “We will almost certainly take back the House, and send Nancy packing!” The salon owner, ERICA KIOUS, went on Tucker to blast PELOSI; the White House played the salon’s recording on loop during a news conference.
DEMOCRATS may roll their eyes and mock the whole thing with hashtags like #ButHerHair, but the episode is a reminder that for core Republicans, PELOSI remains a powerful motivating force. Whether targeting her actually helps the GOP win is a different matter, though.
PELOSI was a major theme of the 2018 campaign cycle — by one count, more than 130,000 House and Senate ads mentioned her. Some Democrats in contested districts even said they wouldn’t back her for speaker — and yet Democrats picked up 41 seats. PELOSI ended up winning back the speakership with only 15 defections, and she remains in firm control of her caucus today.
THAT HELPS EXPLAIN why just 44 ads have mentioned PELOSI by name so far this cycle, by our ad tracker’s count, and the vast bulk of those came in GOP primaries. Republicans learned their lesson after the 2018 debacle. (h/t to Ally Mutnick for the data assist)
WHAT’S GOING ON? As an election foil, PELOSI pales in comparison to TRUMP. Even on the day the “salongate” story peaked, Tuesday, cable news networks spent roughly 160 minutes talking about the president, compared with just 27 minutes on the speaker.
AS HER ALLIES WILL POINT OUT, salongate has all the hallmarks of the last PELOSI scandal — her ice cream freezer. Remember that one?
Good Friday morning. Blake Hounshell here, filling in for Jake and Anna. They’ll be back Tuesday.
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE — The IHME model at the University of Washington, one of several used by the White House, is now projecting 410,451 Covid-19 deaths in the United States by Jan. 1, 2021.
YOWZA … THE ATLANTIC’S JEFFREY GOLDBERG: “Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’”: “When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that ‘the helicopter couldn’t fly’ and that the Secret Service wouldn’t drive him there. Neither claim was true.
“Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day. In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, ‘Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.’ In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as ‘suckers’ for getting killed.”
— FLASHBACK … NBC: “White House chief of staff John Kelly and Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made the roughly 50-mile long trip to the cemetery in a small motorcade of vehicles. The drive took about 90 minutes each way.”
— ONE OF MANY EMPHATIC WHITE HOUSE RESPONSES, via comms director Alyssa Farah: “This report is patently false. President Trump holds the military in the highest regard. He’s demonstrated his commitment to them at every turn: delivering on his promise to give our troops a much needed pay raise, increasing military spending, signing critical veterans reforms, and supporting military spouses. These nameless anecdotes have no basis in fact and are offensive fiction.” More pushback
TRUMP’S REACTION: “They made it up”
— YOU KNOW WHO COULD CLEAR THIS UP? JOHN KELLY. Will he weigh in?
RYAN LIZZA: “What we learned when the 2020 campaign came through Kenosha”: “Trump and Biden both visited Kenosha this week and turned the city of 100,000 in southeastern Wisconsin into the backdrop for competing visions not only about racism and crime in America, but the nature of presidential leadership in a time of crisis. By the end of the week, these two visits — and a bevy of polls — helped answer the question of which convention got the politics of the moment right.”
ABOUT LAST NIGHT … THE INKY in Latrobe, Pa.: “President Donald Trump rallied supporters Thursday night in Southwestern Pennsylvania, pledging to ‘keep your jobs in America’ and bring ‘rioters, looters, violent extremists,’ and ‘anarchists’ to justice.
“‘Joe Biden wants to surrender your jobs to China. You know that,’ Trump told cheering supporters inside an airport hangar. ‘He wants to surrender your nation to the radical left-wing mob.’
“Speaking for about 90 minutes, Trump took on a litany of familiar foes: ‘the fake news media,’ ‘the fake polls, the fake everything,’ ‘the plague from China,’ Mitt Romney, Nancy Pelosi, and mail ballots. He again encouraged those who vote by mail to also go to the polls on Election Day to make sure their ballot was counted.” Inquirer
HOT IN MIAMI … MARC CAPUTO: “Biden lags among Florida Hispanic voters”
WALL ST. LATEST … WSJ: “International shares fell, following a sharp technology-led selloff in American markets, but U.S. futures pointed to a calmer session ahead. S&P 500 stock-index futures declined 0.5%, suggesting U.S. shares were likely to come under less pressure Friday than in the previous session. …
“On Thursday, U.S. stocks fell sharply in their worst showing since June. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite declined nearly 5%, its biggest one-day percentage loss since June 11. The S&P 500 fell 3.5% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average retreated 2.8%.” WSJ
AP: “August jobs report likely to point to a still-slow recovery”
FOR THOSE KEEPING TRACK … JOHN BRESNAHAN: “Pelosi and Mnuchin agree on plan to avoid government shutdown”
NANCY COOK and GABBY ORR: “Trump team plots how to bust Biden in the debates”: “The Trump team has been studying Biden’s idiosyncrasies in debates and other venues and preparing tactics for Trump, according to interviews with a dozen campaign aides, White House officials and outside advisers. Some have noticed the way he says, ‘C’mon, man,’ whenever he feels frustrated, and they’re trying to identify words or phrases that trigger him to ‘reboot,’ as one person familiar with the planning described it. Essentially, Trump aides are looking for ways to trip up Biden in an effort to spur an incoherent or unsatisfactory response — bolstering a key Trump argument against Biden built around his age.”
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — The Committee to Defend the President, a pro-TRUMP super PAC, is reserving a $1 MILLION ad campaign in Arizona. The minute-long ad hammers JOE BIDEN and Democrats on Black Lives Matter and recent looting/rioting: “Just how long do you think you’ll be safe in Joe Biden’s America?” It will air statewide on cable and broadcast, plus a smaller digital and CTV spend targeting swing voters and suburban women. Advertising will start Wednesday.
THE WASHINGTON WOMEN IN JOURNALISM AWARDS announced their seventh annual awards recipients: CBS’ RITA BRAVER with the Hall of Fame Award, NBC’s KRISTEN WELKER as Outstanding Journalist in Broadcast Television, Time’s MOLLY BALL as Outstanding Journalist in Print and our very own ANNA PALMER as a Star to Watch. The ceremony will take place virtually Sept. 24.
TRUMP’S FRIDAY — The president is in Washington, where he is due to host Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and Kosovar PM Avdullah Hoti for talks on economic normalization. He’ll hold a signing ceremony in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, followed by a trilateral meeting with the three leaders in the Oval Office.
— BIDEN is scheduled to deliver “remarks in Wilmington, Delaware on the economic crisis that has been worsened by Trump’s failure to get the virus under control” this afternoon, per his campaign, and attend an unspecified number of virtual fundraising events.
TV TONIGHT — PBS’ “Washington Week” with Bob Costa: Peter Baker, Arlette Saenz and Nikole Killion.
SUNDAY SO FAR …
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“State of the Union” (Dana Bash guest-hosting): Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.).
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“Meet the Press”: Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose … Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson … Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections … Marc Elias … Ben Ginsberg. Panel: Clint Watts, Michael Waldman and Janai Nelson.
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“America This Week with Eric Bolling”: acting CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan … Brian Bennett … Glenn Loury … Mike Solan … Charlie Kirk.
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“Fox News Sunday”: Symone Sanders. Panel: Ben Domenech, Jessica Tarlov and Tom Bevan. Power Player: Brian Stokes Mitchell.
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“Full Court Press with Greta Van Susteren”: Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-Conn.) … Alberto Carvalho … Tom McMillen.
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“Face the Nation”: Scott Gottlieb … David Rubenstein … Mohamed el-Erian … Wes Lowery … Anthony Salvanto.
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“This Week”: Panel: Matt Dowd, MaryAlice Parks and Greg Moore.
PLAYBOOK READS
E-RING READING … WSJ’S REBECCA BALLHAUS: “Trump Expected to Nominate a New Ambassador to Afghanistan”: “President Trump is expected to nominate William Ruger, a foreign-policy expert who has called for withdrawing all U.S. troops from Afghanistan, as ambassador to the country, according to people familiar with the matter.
“Officials view the pick, which could be announced as soon as this month, as the president’s way of signaling his intent to make good on his campaign promise to sharply reduce the U.S. presence in the region, the people said.
“The State Department earlier this week alerted the Afghan government that Mr. Ruger was the pick for the job, one of the people familiar with the matter said. Mr. Ruger has undergone vetting for the job for at least three months, the person said.” WSJ
WHOOPS … WAPO’S MATT ZAPOTOSKY: “Barr claims a man collected 1,700 ballots and filled them out as he pleased. Prosecutors say that’s not what happened.”
HEADS UP — “Justice Dept. Plans to File Antitrust Charges Against Google in Coming Weeks,” by NYT’s Katie Benner and Cecilia Kang: “The Justice Department plans to bring an antitrust case against Google as soon as this month, after Attorney General William P. Barr overruled career lawyers who said they needed more time to build a strong case against one of the world’s wealthiest, most formidable technology companies, according to five people briefed on internal department conversations.
“Justice Department officials told lawyers involved in the antitrust inquiry into Alphabet, the parent company of Google and YouTube, to wrap up their work by the end of September, according to three of the people. Most of the 40-odd lawyers who had been working on the investigation opposed the deadline. Some said they would not sign the complaint, and several of them left the case this summer.
“Some argued this summer in a memo that ran hundreds of pages that they could bring a strong case but needed more time, according to people who described the document. Disagreement persisted among the team over how broad the complaint should be and what Google could do to resolve the problems the government uncovered. The lawyers viewed the deadline as arbitrary.
“While there were disagreements about tactics, career lawyers also expressed concerns that Mr. Barr wanted to announce the case in September to take credit for action against a powerful tech company under the Trump administration. But Mr. Barr felt that the department had moved too slowly and that the deadline was not unreasonable, according to a senior Justice Department official.”
WOMP, WOMP … NPR: “Top Adviser To Operation Warp Speed Calls An October Vaccine ‘Extremely Unlikely’”
DATA DU JOUR: “About 93 percent of the racial-justice protests that swept the United States this summer remained peaceful and nondestructive, according to a report released Thursday, with the violence and property damage that has dominated political discourse constituting only a minute portion of the thousands of demonstrations that followed the killing of George Floyd in May.
“The report, produced by the nonprofit Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, also concluded that an escalation in the government response to protests and a sharp uptick in extremist activity means the United States faces a growing risk of ‘political violence and instability’ ahead of the 2020 election.” WaPo … The report
ALWAYS READ THE FINE PRINT … STEVEN OVERLY: “Facebook’s unwillingness to fact-check political ads means that candidates can still promote new misleading statements as long as the ads are in place before Oct. 27. And under Facebook’s new policy, existing ads will be allowed to stay up even during the campaigns’ final week.” POLITICO
— NYT’S CHARLIE WURZEL: “Mark Zuckerberg Is the Most Powerful Unelected Man in America”
MEDIAWATCH — “The Laura Flanders Show” is joining the Sunday shows lineup this weekend, debuting on the World Channel and PBS stations around the country Sunday at 11:30 a.m. Flanders has hosted the show since 2008. American Public Television started distributing it last year.
— NYT’s @marcatracy: “From the inbox: Virtually all NYT employees are getting a $1000 bonus due to ‘the difficult and unsettled circumstances.’”
— FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: Longtime editor and producer STEVE KRAKAUER has launched a new podcast, “The Fourth Watch Podcast,” featuring interviews with major media and journalism figures and produced by The First. The first two guests are Tucker Carlson and Ben Smith. Listen
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FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — Kathleen Porter is now a special assistant in the front office of the NSC. She most recently was receptionist of the United States in the White House. Chamberlain Harris is now ROTUS. She previously was a staff assistant in the White House’s Office of Administration.
STAFFING UP — Sara Guerrero will be a deputy press secretary for the Biden campaign in Nevada. She currently is a press assistant for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
TRANSITIONS — Blue State is adding Christopher Huntley as VP of strategic comms, Rachel Kopilow as VP of strategic comms and creative director, and Lauren Tsuboyama as senior director of strategic comms. Huntley and Kopilow both previously worked for Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign, and Tsuboyama previously worked for the Regional Plan Association. … Mimi Alemayehou is joining Mastercard as SVP for public-private partnerships. She most recently was at Black Rhino Group, and is an Obama OPIC and Bush Treasury alum. …
… Nathan Levine will be China adviser and senior program officer at the Asia Society Policy Institute. He previously was an associate at the Asia Group. … Savita Bowman is now a policy analyst at ClearPath. She previously was a business resolution analyst at Tesla. … Talley Sergent has been named chief development and marketing officer of West Virginia Wesleyan College. She was previously at the Markham Group, ran for Congress in 2018 in West Virginia, and is a Jay Rockefeller and State Department alum.
ENGAGED — Bob Shepler, a director of government affairs at Lockheed Martin, proposed to Laura Davison, a reporter for Bloomberg News, at sunset Tuesday on his sailboat on Lake Champlain near Burlington, Vt. They were introduced at an after-party for the Tax Foundation’s annual Tax Prom in 2017. Pic
BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Marcus Goodwin, D.C. Council candidate. A fun fact about him: “I love running. I typically run six days a week. The pandemic has allowed me (and all other Washingtonians) to run through Rock Creek Park a lot more freely and frequently. I highly encourage others to get out and explore new routes.” Playbook Q&A
BIRTHDAYS: Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas) is 53 … Playbook’s own Blake Hounshell, POLITICO editorial director for digital, is 42 … Hagar Hajjar Chemali (h/ts Ben Chang) … former acting CIA Director Mike Morell is 62 … Washington Examiner’s Susan Ferrechio … Dana Gartzke … Kelu Chao, VOA program director … Claire Bischoff … Matt Sonneborn, comms director for Rep. Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.) … Patrick Collins … Will Taliaferro (h/ts Jon Haber) … POLITICO’s Dave Brown and Jeff Ahn … Matt Modell … Chad Horrell, managing director at DCI Group … Michael McAuliff … Jared Allen, VP of comms at the National Automobile Dealers Association … Dennis Wharton is 64 … Estephania Gongora … Center for Public Integrity’s Kristine Villanueva is 27 … Brock McCleary … Sam Dagher … Lynn Stinson … Zach Leighton, COS at Zeta Global …
… Laura Schlapp, director of regional media for VP Mike Pence, is 3-0 … Anu Rangappa (h/t Tim Burger) … Harold Ickes is 81 … Tom McInerney (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) … Bernard Coleman III, chief diversity and engagement officer at Gusto … Vivienne Gould is 1 (h/t mom Alexis Weiss) … former Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer is 65 … Maggie Moore, director of government relations at the Learning Experience … Tyler Jones … Jared Weinstein, general partner at Thrive Capital … Uber’s Keith Hensley … Jocelyn Pickford … Sean O’Hollaren, SVP of government and public affairs at Nike … Emily L. Armstrong … Jordan Fischer … Devin McBrayer … The Economist’s Alex Travelli … Victoria Cram … Anamarie Rebori Simmons … Graham Weinschenk … Ashley Harvard … Bernie Bennett … Bailey Cultice … Gabrielle Tarbert … Lisa Christiansen
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The Morning Briefing: ‘The Atlantic’ Barfs Up 2020’s Worst Trump Hit Piece Yet
RIP The Atlantic
Happy Friday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends.
Well, faithful readers, here we are again, dealing with more egregious media malpractice.
As we get closer to the election and the polls tighten, the media is going into panic mode. We expected that.
The Atlantic — a once respected publication — hit the toilet with a Trump hit piece yesterday that was spectacularly awful even in this toxic, biased media era. Using the now go-to anonymous source approach, writer Jeffrey Goldberg tried to portray President Trump as anti-military.
Good luck with that.
My friend and colleague John Sexton wrote about this nonsense at our sister site HotAir:
Writing at the Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg has published a claim which he says is backed up by several people who were there as part of Trump’s 2018 trip to Paris, though none of them are named in his story.
The whole article is pathetic. Goldberg pretends to be legitimately curious about Trump’s patriotism but the thing reads like something a drunk BuzzFeed intern wrote after his daddy told him he was disappointed again.
A bombshell piece like this that relies solely on anonymous sources doesn’t pass the smell test. The New York Times and The Washington Post have been wearing out this unprofessional tactic since January 20th, 2017.
Even in the modern era of media awfulness, The Atlantic was one of the publications that did a lot of good work to go along with the predictably biased stuff. This article just threw it onto the tabloid trash heap. It’s Trump Derangement Syndrome taken to the next level.
The Atlantic has been moving in the wrong direction for a while now, so this probably shouldn’t have surprised me.
Goldberg’s smear job began running into facts that weren’t anonymous almost immediately:
Trump’s former press secretary Sarah Sanders was on this trip and said that Goldberg’s story “never happened.”
There is some John McCain stink on this story. So much so that I wouldn’t be surprised to find that his spiteful, Trump-hating widow was behind it somehow.
We won’t be rid of these blatantly biased, tabloid-esque hit pieces on Trump, of course. What’s fun from this end is seeing that so many in the mainstream media still don’t realize that they can’t write unsubstantiated garbage to attempt to destroy a politician they don’t like and get away with it like they used to. They’re all stuck in the early 21st century and don’t really get the nature of new media.
Let them keep it up. They think they’re being effective when all they are doing is proving the president right.
The MSM’s Revisionist Love Affair With McCain Is a Bit Much to Stomach
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Governor Ron DeSantis Says Florida Will Never Lockdown Again for COVID-19
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Retired Cop Blows Up ‘False, Fake’ Democrat Narrative on the Execution of a Portland Trump Supporter
One Photo Shows Seems to Disprove the Idea That the Trump Supporter Shot by Antifa Was Racist
NY Mayor Bill de Blasio Defunded Police. More New Yorkers Keep Dying For It.
Media Malfeasance: Rasmussen Reports Creates Hideously Biased Image of Trump for New Poll
As Congress Wrestles With Stimulus Bill, Government Shutdown Looms
Antifa/BLM Rioters Now Screaming ‘Death to America’
Can Vladimir Putin Be Prevented From Killing His Political Opponents?
CDC Tells States to Be Ready for a Coronavirus Vaccine in October or November
Ha! Anti-Trump Network Snubbed by the Commission on Presidential Debates
Lock him up. Did Cuomo Just Threaten President Trump?
Anti-Trump Hysterics Looking to Block Emergency Authorization of COVID-19 Vaccine
Trump Orders All-Department Review in Effort to Defund New York City
Are African Americans Truly Warming up to Trump?
Australia’s Arrest of a Pregnant Peaceful COVID Protester Proves the Genius of America’s Founders
A New Middle East of Arab-Israeli Rapport? Not So Fast
VodkaPundit: Insanity Wrap #42: Pelosi’s Class Privilege vs. Kristy Swanson’s Class Act
Prof. Biden Claims ‘a Black Man Invented the Light Bulb, Not a White Guy Named Edison.’
Kayleigh McEnany Puts Nancy Pelosi’s Black Market Blow-Out on Blast at WH Briefing
Busted! Biden Town Hall Attendees in Kenosha Were Given Scripts to Follow
Devastating New Trump Ad Says ‘Biden Takes a Knee’ for Political Violence
Treacher: Colorado Woman Beats Up Child for Carrying Trump Sign
Black Pastors Demand Nike Drop the ‘Anti-Christian’ Marxist Black Lives Matter Movement
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RNC Chair Demonstrates Just How Ridiculous Virtual Learning Is Getting
D.C. Stops Targeting Felons With Guns In High Crime Neighborhoods
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Is “I Support The Second Amendment” The Most Meaningless Phrase In Politics?
LOL…OK. Media Now Blaming Record Gun Sales On “Trump’s Scare Tactics”
Minneapolis Law Prevents Protection Of Property For Dumbest Of Reasons
One In Nine Democrats Among New Gun Buyers
Why Gun Control Will Likely Come Up During The First Presidential Debate
What the Hell Is Going on With the National Polling? Maybe This Twitter Thread Can Clear Things Up.
Oops: Maybe BLM Protesters Should Start Waiting for the Facts Before Protesting
After That Horrible Joke By Biden in Kenosha, I Can See Why Some Dems Don’t Want Him to Debate Trump
Antifa Effect? Yes, the Rioting Is Starting to Impact the House Races
President Trump Signs Memorandum to Hold Local Politicians Accountable to Violence in Communities
Not Good: Bush-Appointed Federal Judge Sides with Anti-Gun Left in Washington
He was too polite. Watch How AG Bill Barr Responds When Wolf Blitzer Calls CNN ‘Fair and Balanced’
St. Louis Mayor Is The Next To Bug Out After Protesters Strike
LAW AND ORDER. DoJ: Operation Legend Arrests 147 Murder Suspects — And 2,000 Overall — In Six Weeks
Prince Harry And Meghan Cash In With Massive Netflix Deal
Fauci: “Conceivable” We Could Have Vaccine By October
Okayyyyy…ProPublica: Police Pull Back When Morale Sinks And That Can Lead To More Violent Crime
More Barr: Mass Mail-In Voting Is “Playing With Fire”
Temporary Victory: Texas Supreme Court Stops Harris County Plan For Mail-In Voting
Dems all belong in an insane asylum. Pelosi Salon Owner Now Receiving Death Threats
Ted Cruz Accuses Democrats of Keeping States in Lockdown to Hurt Trump and He’s Right
Amazing Ad: ‘Say No to the Mob’ Rips Dems Apart for BLM Riot Violence
Joe Biden’s Moral Depravity Was Laid Bare Today
Jim Jordan Nukes Biden’s Claim That Trump Is Causing Widespread Violence by Noting Critical Flaw
Buck Sexton: Mitt Romney’s life mission ‘is to embarrass everyone who voted for him in 2012’
‘This is quite incredible’: Time to play ‘Is this a CNN anchor, Joe Biden press secretary, or both?’
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- France’s ‘re-launch’ is a model American leftists will use to push Green New Deal
- Leftist media’s beatification of Michael Forest Reinoehl is disturbing
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| France’s ‘re-launch’ is a model American leftists will use to push Green New Deal
Posted: 04 Sep 2020 01:25 AM PDT As France’s socialist government struggles to recover from the COVID-19 lockdowns and economic turmoil, they’ve devised a recovery plan that fits in perfectly with their radical progressive ideology. They’re going to spend huge amounts of money—equivalent to 4% of their entire annual economic output—on jumpstarting the nation’s economy with the majority of the money going to “green” initiatives. You never let a serious crisis go to waste, I suppose. Their plan is to pump tens of billions of Euros into environmental projects in an effort to convert the nation into one dependent on a green economy. According to the BBC: Unveiling the plan, whose €100bn price tag is the equivalent of 4% of France’s annual economic output, Prime Minister Jean Castex said it was almost four times bigger than the rescue strategy implemented after the financial crisis of 2008. Its goal is to move away from the emergency funding of the coronavirus crisis and to make long-term investments in employment and training, as well as in France’s transformation to a green economy. About €40bn of the funding will come from the new European Union recovery fund. About €35bn has been earmarked for projects to make the economy more competitive, and €30bn will be used on greener energy policies. About €6bn is slated for making public buildings and homes better insulated. The hydrogen industry, a sector which is receiving huge investment in Germany, will get €2bn. The rest of the investment package will go on supporting jobs, training and broader social initiatives with the aim of creating at least 160,000 jobs next year. Leftists in the United States will be monitoring this closely as it’s a microcosm of the Green New Deal. The similarities are striking, though the investment relative to the size of France’s economy is still much lower than what radical progressives in America envision for their project. With the far-left winning primary elections across America, including Green New Deal co-sponsoring Senator Ed Markey defeating Joe Kennedy III this week, it is conceivable that they can garner enough support to start implementing components if Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are elected in November. The perceived success of France’s recovery will be used to promote it here in the United States. But just as socialism in Venezuela was once touted by radical leftists in America, so too will any benefits from the French plan be short lived. Striving for a green economy is an incremental process, but radical leftists use it as the predicate to create revolutionary economic changes. They know if their plan is implemented piecemeal, it has no chance of succeeding long enough to make it viable. Modern Monetary Theory, which is one of their end goals for the U.S. and world economies, is reliant on rapid implementation. It must be done as a whole or it can never be done at all. This is why climate change alarmists have been co-opted as the vehicle through which to promote their plans. If seen as a counter to an existential threat, the chances of it being made operational increase dramatically. In the short term, France’s plan will likely succeed. But it’s ironic that driving an economic plan based on environmental sustainability makes it nearly impossible for it to sustain fiscal viability in the long term. COVID-19 may take down an independent news outletNobody said running a media site would be easy. We could use some help keeping this site afloat.Colleagues have called me the worst fundraiser ever. My skills are squarely rooted on the journalistic side of running a news outlet. Paying the bills has never been my forte, but we’ve survived. We have ads on the site that help, but since the site’s inception this has been a labor of love that otherwise doesn’t bring in the level of revenue necessary to justify it. When I left a nice, corporate career in 2017, I did so knowing I wouldn’t make nearly as much money. But what we do at NOQ Report to deliver the truth and fight the progressive mainstream media narrative that has plagued this nation is too important for me to sacrifice it for the sake of wealth. We know we’ll never make a ton of money this way, and we’re okay with that. Things have become harder with the coronavirus lockdowns. Both ad money and donations that have kept us afloat for a while have dropped dramatically. We thought we could weather the storm, but the so-called “surge” or “2nd-wave” that mainstream media and Democrats are pushing has put our prospects in jeopardy. In short, we are now in desperate need of financial assistance. The best way NOQ Report readers can help is to donate. Our Giving Fuel page makes it easy to donate one-time or monthly. Alternatively, you can donate through PayPal as well. We need approximately $11,500 to stay afloat for the rest of 2020, but more would be wonderful and any amount that brings us closer to our goal is greatly appreciated. The second way to help is to become a partner. We’ve strongly considered seeking angel investors in the past but because we were paying the bills, it didn’t seem necessary. Now, we’re struggling to pay the bills. This shouldn’t be the case as our traffic the last year has been going up dramatically. June, 2018, we had 11,678 visitors. A year later in June, 2019, we were up to 116,194. In June, 2020, we had 614,192. We’re heading in the right direction and we believe we’re ready talk to patriotic investors who want to not only “get in on the action” but more importantly who want to help America hear the truth. Interested investors should contact me directly with the contact button above. 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| Leftist media’s beatification of Michael Forest Reinoehl is disturbing
Posted: 03 Sep 2020 11:30 PM PDT When Cultural Marxism meets mainstream media propaganda, the worst scenarios become possible. That’s what we’re seeing playing out in real-time following the police killing of Michael Forest Reinoehl, a man who wanted to destroy America. He’s also a man who admitted to killing right-wing protester Aaron Danielson.
Moments after President Trump called for the police apprehension of Reinoehl, a report from the NY Times said police had shot and killed him.
In the NY Times article and nearly every other post we reviewed from mainstream media, Reinoehl was portrayed as a positive force of change in society. He isn’t being portrayed as a domestic terrorist despite unambiguous evidence that he was. He isn’t being described as a cold-blooded murderer even after admitting that he shot and killed Danielson; the interview in which he admitted it claims he was acting in self-defense despite evidence to the contrary. Those who get their news from mainstream media would come away believing Reinoehl just wanted peace and goodwill towards men. Nothing could be further from the truth. Reinoehl was a revolutionary. His stated intention was to tear down the fabric of America’s existence in order to rebuild it in the Neo-Marxist image of the cause he embraced. He was “100% Antifa,” as he once proclaimed, and used a combination of violence and vitriol to make certain his vision for the future was achieved. In an Instagram post, Reinoehl wrote: Every Revolution needs people that are willing and ready to fight. There are so many of us protesters that are just protesting without a clue of where that will lead. That’s just the beginning that’s where the fight starts. If that’s as far as you can take it thank you for your participation but please stand aside and support the ones that are willing to fight. I am 100% ANTIFA all the way! I am willing to fight for my brothers and sisters! Even if some of them are too ignorant to realize what antifa truly stands for. We do not want violence but we will not run from it either! If the police continue to pick on and beat up innocent citizens that are peacefully voicing their objections, it must be met with equal force! We are currently living through a crucial point in Humanities evolution. We truly have an opportunity right now to fix everything. But it will be a fight like no other! It will be a war and like all wars there will be casualties. I was in the army and I hated it. I did not feel like fighting for them would ever be a good cause. Today’s protesters and antifa are my brothers in arms. This is a Cause to fight for This truly is fighting for my country! I have children that need to live in a world run by Common Sense and human decency. And I will do anything to make sure that happens. Now is the time to change the course of humanity. If we fold now just because they show some Force we will be lost for another hundred years. And I don’t think the planet will let us live that long if we don’t straighten shit up. Please be safe strong and United. I love you all The NY Times story notes that their contacts in the U.S. Army were unable to find records of Reinoehl ever serving in the military. But as a leader in the militant arms of the Antifa and Black Lives Matter movements, he often espoused the necessity for violent responses to law enforcement. He demonstrated his willingness to kill for the cause when he shot Danielson. Conservatives on social media noted how mainstream media, especially the NY Times, painted Reinoehl as a hero.
It isn’t just the media who is pushing the narrative that Reinoehl was a freedom-fighter and victim of the police. Antifa is busy making claims that he was unarmed and executed by police with several viral posts trying to prop him up as a martyr who would have been apprehended peacefully had police not murdered him. But a report by The Post Millennial indicates he was armed and firing at law enforcement: The suspect reportedly exited his car and fired what was believed to be an assault rifle at the SUVs. Bystanders noted hearing 40 or 50 shots, then officers returned fire, hitting Reinoehl. … It was reported that on Antifa message boards Reinoehl’s death was being called a police “execution.” An Antifa Twitter account called for the names of the officers involved in Reinoehl’s shooting to be reported, using a pig emoji and listing a site where names could be sent. Mainstream media is painting a portrait of Michael Forest Reinoehl as a righteous revolutionary. Their support for Antifa domestic terrorists should worry us all as they’ve sided, once again, with enemies of the nation. COVID-19 may take down an independent news outletNobody said running a media site would be easy. We could use some help keeping this site afloat.Colleagues have called me the worst fundraiser ever. My skills are squarely rooted on the journalistic side of running a news outlet. Paying the bills has never been my forte, but we’ve survived. We have ads on the site that help, but since the site’s inception this has been a labor of love that otherwise doesn’t bring in the level of revenue necessary to justify it. When I left a nice, corporate career in 2017, I did so knowing I wouldn’t make nearly as much money. But what we do at NOQ Report to deliver the truth and fight the progressive mainstream media narrative that has plagued this nation is too important for me to sacrifice it for the sake of wealth. We know we’ll never make a ton of money this way, and we’re okay with that. Things have become harder with the coronavirus lockdowns. Both ad money and donations that have kept us afloat for a while have dropped dramatically. We thought we could weather the storm, but the so-called “surge” or “2nd-wave” that mainstream media and Democrats are pushing has put our prospects in jeopardy. In short, we are now in desperate need of financial assistance. The best way NOQ Report readers can help is to donate. Our Giving Fuel page makes it easy to donate one-time or monthly. Alternatively, you can donate through PayPal as well. We need approximately $11,500 to stay afloat for the rest of 2020, but more would be wonderful and any amount that brings us closer to our goal is greatly appreciated. The second way to help is to become a partner. We’ve strongly considered seeking angel investors in the past but because we were paying the bills, it didn’t seem necessary. Now, we’re struggling to pay the bills. This shouldn’t be the case as our traffic the last year has been going up dramatically. June, 2018, we had 11,678 visitors. A year later in June, 2019, we were up to 116,194. In June, 2020, we had 614,192. We’re heading in the right direction and we believe we’re ready talk to patriotic investors who want to not only “get in on the action” but more importantly who want to help America hear the truth. Interested investors should contact me directly with the contact button above. Election year or not, coronavirus lockdowns or not, anarchic riots or not, the need for truthful journalism endures. But in these times, we need as many conservative media voices as possible. Please help keep NOQ Report going. Check out the NEW NOQ Report Podcast. American Conservative MovementJoin fellow patriots as we form a grassroots movement to advance the cause of conservatism. The coronavirus crisis has prompted many, even some conservatives, to promote authoritarianism. It’s understandable to some extent now, but it must not be allowed to embed itself in American life. We currently have 8000+ patriots with us in a very short time. If you are interested, please join us to receive updates.
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| Will law enforcement stop Daniel Prude riots before they swell up?
Posted: 03 Sep 2020 04:26 PM PDT The police killing of Daniel Prude in Rochester, NY, in March is certain to spark riots. A cuffed, unarmed, and naked Black man killed by police officers with a “spit hood” over his head is the type of crime Black Lives Matter and Antifa Provocateurs crave. The only question is whether or not local, county, and state law enforcement will be able to prevent the coming riots from getting out of hand. For background, we turn to The Blaze: Authorities found Prude, fully naked and reportedly attempting to break into a vehicle. Prude reportedly told authorities that he was infected with COVID-19 when they arrived on the scene. In the footage, Prude can be seen handcuffed with his hands behind his back and shouting. Officers reportedly placed a spit hood on Prude to prevent him from spitting on police. As the hood is placed over Prude’s head, he can be heard shouting, “Give me that gun. Give me that gun.” Three officers push Prude to the ground, where he becomes further agitated. At least one officer can be seen pushing Prude’s head into the pavement. Another officer can be seen placing a knee in Prude’s back. An officer can be heard telling Prude to “calm down” and to stop spitting. Snow falls lightly and quietly on the wet street. After two minutes in this position, Prude falls lifeless and makes no more sounds. An officer can be heard asking Prude, “You good, man?” and sees that Prude has vomited on the pavement. As with past incidents such as George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, and Jacob Blake, a suspect police was trying to take into custody resisted arrest and refused to comply with police. But this incident is, if anything, a bit more disturbing because there seemed to be no reason at all to keep a Prude pressed to the ground they way they did. He was unruly and his actions and words clearly indicated he was both mentally ill and under the influence of drugs (PCP, as it turned out), but he was cuffed and the situation seemed to be under control. What makes this incident more “riot-worthy” is that a spit hood was placed on his head. This was during the beginning of the coronavirus panic and many, including law enforcement, were hyper-diligent about not getting infected. Prude was spitting towards the police officers, prompting the use of the hood. Still, it’s terrible optics, especially considering he died from asphyxiation. Riots are coming. They’re certainly coming to Rochester and may spread to other cities. Will law enforcement be able to keep the peace? If they are more aggressive and actively making arrests, then it’s possible they’ll be able to mitigate damage. If not, Rochester may soon look like Minneapolis during the George Floyd riots, Atlanta during the Rayshard Brooks riots, or Kenosha during the Jacob Blake riots. For law and order to be maintained, Rochester will need an overwhelming level of law enforcement present AND a willingness to act against crimes in progress. They cannot have their hands tied like past Black Lives Matter riots because this can and will get out of hand quickly if they do. In the latest episode of Conservative News Briefs, JD breaks down the situation and what it will take to prevent a repeat of what’s happened in the recent past.
Black Lives Matter and Antifa will try to burn Rochester as they’ve burned other cities where Black men are killed by law enforcement. Will police be allowed to do their jobs or will Rochester turn the city over to domestic terrorists? COVID-19 may take down an independent news outletNobody said running a media site would be easy. We could use some help keeping this site afloat.Colleagues have called me the worst fundraiser ever. My skills are squarely rooted on the journalistic side of running a news outlet. Paying the bills has never been my forte, but we’ve survived. We have ads on the site that help, but since the site’s inception this has been a labor of love that otherwise doesn’t bring in the level of revenue necessary to justify it. When I left a nice, corporate career in 2017, I did so knowing I wouldn’t make nearly as much money. But what we do at NOQ Report to deliver the truth and fight the progressive mainstream media narrative that has plagued this nation is too important for me to sacrifice it for the sake of wealth. We know we’ll never make a ton of money this way, and we’re okay with that. Things have become harder with the coronavirus lockdowns. Both ad money and donations that have kept us afloat for a while have dropped dramatically. We thought we could weather the storm, but the so-called “surge” or “2nd-wave” that mainstream media and Democrats are pushing has put our prospects in jeopardy. In short, we are now in desperate need of financial assistance. The best way NOQ Report readers can help is to donate. Our Giving Fuel page makes it easy to donate one-time or monthly. Alternatively, you can donate through PayPal as well. We need approximately $11,500 to stay afloat for the rest of 2020, but more would be wonderful and any amount that brings us closer to our goal is greatly appreciated. The second way to help is to become a partner. We’ve strongly considered seeking angel investors in the past but because we were paying the bills, it didn’t seem necessary. Now, we’re struggling to pay the bills. This shouldn’t be the case as our traffic the last year has been going up dramatically. June, 2018, we had 11,678 visitors. A year later in June, 2019, we were up to 116,194. In June, 2020, we had 614,192. We’re heading in the right direction and we believe we’re ready talk to patriotic investors who want to not only “get in on the action” but more importantly who want to help America hear the truth. Interested investors should contact me directly with the contact button above. Election year or not, coronavirus lockdowns or not, anarchic riots or not, the need for truthful journalism endures. But in these times, we need as many conservative media voices as possible. Please help keep NOQ Report going. Check out the NEW NOQ Report Podcast. American Conservative MovementJoin fellow patriots as we form a grassroots movement to advance the cause of conservatism. The coronavirus crisis has prompted many, even some conservatives, to promote authoritarianism. It’s understandable to some extent now, but it must not be allowed to embed itself in American life. We currently have 8000+ patriots with us in a very short time. If you are interested, please join us to receive updates.
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| Trump Tweet censored as he trolls left into talking about mail-in ballot voter fraud
Posted: 03 Sep 2020 12:09 PM PDT For months, President Trump has called out the potential for voter fraud through ubiquitous mail-in balloting. It’s clear that there will be tremendous challenges with mail-in balloting as the standard absentee ballots requested by some could be replaced by a full-blown mail-in balloting free-for-all. Nevertheless, both mainstream media and Democrats have tried to debunk legitimate concerns from the right in general and the President in particular. But the President was able to not only get nearly everyone in the media talking about mail-in voter fraud, but also get his Tweets censored. How? He called on voters to mail in their ballots, then to check to see if their votes were counted by going to the polling places in person. Twitter placed warnings on two of the three Tweets in his thread.
The censored Tweets read as follows: Based on the massive number of Unsolicited & Solicited Ballots that will be sent to potential Voters for the upcoming 2020 Election, & in order for you to MAKE SURE YOUR VOTE COUNTS & IS COUNTED, SIGN & MAIL IN your Ballot as EARLY as possible. On Election Day, or Early Voting,.. …..go to your Polling Place to see whether or not your Mail In Vote has been Tabulated (Counted). If it has you will not be able to Vote & the Mail In System worked properly. If it has not been Counted, VOTE (which is a citizen’s right to do). If your Mail In Ballot arrives…. ….after you Vote, which it should not, that Ballot will not be used or counted in that your vote has already been cast & tabulated. YOU ARE NOW ASSURED THAT YOUR PRECIOUS VOTE HAS BEEN COUNTED, it hasn’t been “lost, thrown out, or in any way destroyed”. GOD BLESS AMERICA!!! Twitter, Facebook, Democrats, and mainstream media were up in arms over it, calling out how this possibility is… wait for it… vote fraud. So after months of saying voter fraud was essentially impossible with mail-in balloting, the President was able to make them acknowledge that it’s very possible. In fact, it’s almost certain to happen if the mail-in balloting push is not stopped. Lest we forget, any legal American voter has the opportunity to request absentee ballots. The rules for them differ from state-to-state, but at the worst one would have to give a reason for the request. So there is no “voter suppression” in the right’s desire to keep mail-in balloting off the table. With ubiquitous mail-in balloting, everyone gets a ballot mailed to them. Some get more than one. Others who may have moved or even died get one. The risk for voter fraud is tremendous with the Democrats’ plan, which is the entire point. Twitter even went so far as to make their top trending topic all about the President’s calls for mail-in voting plus confirmation:
This was absolutely epic. By playing with Democrats’ and mainstream media’s standard operating procedure of being opposite of whatever he proposes, President Trump got them to start talking about the risks of mail-in voter fraud. Brilliant.
COVID-19 may take down an independent news outletNobody said running a media site would be easy. We could use some help keeping this site afloat.Colleagues have called me the worst fundraiser ever. My skills are squarely rooted on the journalistic side of running a news outlet. Paying the bills has never been my forte, but we’ve survived. We have ads on the site that help, but since the site’s inception this has been a labor of love that otherwise doesn’t bring in the level of revenue necessary to justify it. When I left a nice, corporate career in 2017, I did so knowing I wouldn’t make nearly as much money. But what we do at NOQ Report to deliver the truth and fight the progressive mainstream media narrative that has plagued this nation is too important for me to sacrifice it for the sake of wealth. We know we’ll never make a ton of money this way, and we’re okay with that. Things have become harder with the coronavirus lockdowns. Both ad money and donations that have kept us afloat for a while have dropped dramatically. We thought we could weather the storm, but the so-called “surge” or “2nd-wave” that mainstream media and Democrats are pushing has put our prospects in jeopardy. In short, we are now in desperate need of financial assistance. The best way NOQ Report readers can help is to donate. Our Giving Fuel page makes it easy to donate one-time or monthly. Alternatively, you can donate through PayPal as well. We need approximately $11,500 to stay afloat for the rest of 2020, but more would be wonderful and any amount that brings us closer to our goal is greatly appreciated. The second way to help is to become a partner. We’ve strongly considered seeking angel investors in the past but because we were paying the bills, it didn’t seem necessary. Now, we’re struggling to pay the bills. This shouldn’t be the case as our traffic the last year has been going up dramatically. June, 2018, we had 11,678 visitors. A year later in June, 2019, we were up to 116,194. In June, 2020, we had 614,192. We’re heading in the right direction and we believe we’re ready talk to patriotic investors who want to not only “get in on the action” but more importantly who want to help America hear the truth. Interested investors should contact me directly with the contact button above. Election year or not, coronavirus lockdowns or not, anarchic riots or not, the need for truthful journalism endures. But in these times, we need as many conservative media voices as possible. Please help keep NOQ Report going. Check out the NEW NOQ Report Podcast. American Conservative MovementJoin fellow patriots as we form a grassroots movement to advance the cause of conservatism. The coronavirus crisis has prompted many, even some conservatives, to promote authoritarianism. It’s understandable to some extent now, but it must not be allowed to embed itself in American life. We currently have 8000+ patriots with us in a very short time. If you are interested, please join us to receive updates.
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| Yes, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are planning to legalize abortion up to birth
Posted: 03 Sep 2020 08:26 AM PDT Overview In the face of overwhelming facts to the contrary, five prominent “fact checkers” are claiming that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris don’t support legalizing abortion up until birth. To reach this false conclusion, these individuals repeatedly use a propaganda technique condemned by George Orwell, the author of 1984. The resulting misinformation shrouds the policies of Biden and Harris, who are planning to legalize abortions of humans who are capable of living outside the womb. This stance is opposed by about 80% of Americans and involves ending the lives of pre-birth humans who have passed the following milestones:
Conflicting Claims At the 2020 Republican National Convention, keynote speakers and others stated:
Taking issue with those statements, various fact checkers reported:
In support of those claims, these fact checks all use a mix of similar half-truths that lead readers to believe the polar opposite of reality. The Implications of Roe v. Wade Biden’s campaign website says that he “will work to codify Roe v. Wade,” the Supreme Court’s 1973 ruling that struck down the laws of 30 states that prohibited abortions except to save the life of the mother. This means he will try to pass federal laws that enforce the provisions of Roe instead of relying upon judicial dictates. Biden’s website also says that he will “appoint U.S. Supreme Court justices and federal judges” who will uphold Roe. The 2020 Democratic Party Platform embraces the same position. In and of themselves, these stances constitute support for abortion up till birth because Roe v. Wade:
The implications of Roe were made clear by late-term abortionist Warren Hern, author of “the nation’s most widely used textbook on abortion standards and procedures.” He stated, “I will certify that any pregnancy is a threat to a woman’s life and could cause grievous injury to her physical health.” In direct contradiction to the actual words of Roe, all of these fact checkers allege that supporting Roe does not mean supporting late-term abortions. PolitiFact, for example, writes that the Democratic Party platform “does not address late-term abortion” and that Biden’s goal to codify Roe “would generally limit abortions to the first 20 to 24 weeks of gestation.” PolitiFact then casually adds that Roe and “related precedents” require states to allow abortions after viability “to preserve the life or health of the mother.” This is a quintessential half-truth because it fails to reveal that “health,” as defined by Roe, means virtually anything that any abortionist says it means. The Women’s Health Protection Act Further proof that Democrats plan to legalize abortions up till birth is found in the text of the Women’s Health Protection Act, which is actively cosponsored by 44 of 47 Democrats in the U.S. Senate and 217 of 235 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Both the House bill and the Senate bill, which is cosponsored by Kamala Harris:
The Washington Post Fact Checker is aware of the Women’s Health Protection Act but claims that it would merely prohibit states “from banning abortion before the fetus reaches viability.” This description is at flagrant odds with the text of the bill, which again, bans states from prohibiting “abortion after fetal viability” when any licensed abortionist says there is “a risk” to the “health” of the mother. State Laws A third line of evidence that Biden, Harris, and other Democrats are intent on legalizing abortion after viability is the enactment of state laws that do just that, along with promises to nullify state laws that limit late-term abortions. For example, New York governor Andrew Cuomo signed a law in 2019 that repealed a section of the state’s criminal code which had banned third-trimester abortions except when necessary to protect a woman’s life. In its place, the new law allows such abortions “at any time when necessary to protect a patient’s life or health.” As a NY State agency explains, the purpose of the bill was to bring the state’s law “in line with” with Roe v. Wade. States such as Rhode Island and Illinois have recently enacted similar laws. Biden is also on board with this agenda, as his campaign website says that his “Justice Department will do everything in its power to stop the rash of state laws that so blatantly violate Roe v. Wade.” While she was running for president, Kamala Harris’ campaign website vowed that she “will require, for the first time, that states and localities with a history of violating Roe v. Wade obtain approval from her Department of Justice before any abortion law or practice can take effect.” Given that Roe has not been overturned, and the Supreme Court “reaffirmed” its “essential holding” in the case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey, how can states defy Roe? A 2011 New York Times commentary by Yale Law School fellow Emily Bazelon explains that this is the norm because abortion advocates have decided not to challenge such laws in court. She writes that “abortion rights groups” have “been wise to avoid” suing states that prohibit “abortion after 20 or 22 weeks of pregnancy” because:
Likewise, a 2018 Gallup survey found that 65% of U.S. adults favor making abortion illegal in the “second three months of pregnancy,” and 81% favor making it illegal in the “last three months of pregnancy.” Yet, NPR misleads their audience to believe the converse by reporting that “a majority of Americans (61%) say abortion should be legal in all or most cases.” NPR provides no evidence or link to support his claim. Downplaying the Number of Late-Term Abortions Bazelon’s commentary, which provides strategic advice for abortion advocates, stresses that “abortion foes … reduced popular support” for abortion by “making late-term abortion seem as if it were the norm rather than the exception. Yet only 1.5 percent of abortions occur late in the second trimester.” Four of the five fact checks present that same narrative. PolitiFact, for instance, writes that “late-term abortions are very rare, about 1%.” In the context of whether such abortions should be legal, this is a brazen half-truth because it fails to mention that the total number of abortions is so enormous that this small percentage amounts to thousands of late-term abortions per year. A 2013 paper in the journal Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health estimates that “more than 15,000” abortions are performed each year in the U.S. “at 21 weeks or later.” The authors note that this amounts to about 1% of all abortions, “but given an estimated 1.21 million abortions in the United States annually,” “later abortions” add up to “a substantial number of abortions.” Hence, these supposedly “very rare” late-term abortions are more numerous than incidents that the media portrays as common occurrences in the United States. Examples include:
Pro-Abortion Rhetoric Beyond the common arguments of the other fact checkers, the Washington Post adds a unique one to the mix. “Experts told us,” say the Post’s fact checkers, that just because “some Democrats support abortion rights,” this “doesn’t mean they support ‘extreme late-term abortions’.” As proof of this, they name one “expert,” who they describe as “Katie L. Watson, a professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.” That is yet another half-truth because Watson’s official bio reveals that she is not a doctor but “a lawyer” and “bioethicist” who “is currently serving terms on the Board of the National Abortion Federation (NAF, the professional organization of independent abortion clinics) and on the National Medical Council of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.” After whitewashing Watson’s bio, the Post quotes her stating, “That’s like saying everyone who ‘supports’ the Second Amendment ‘supports’ school shootings.” This analogy is inapt because Second Amendment advocates don’t support legalizing school shootings, but abortion advocates do support legalizing abortions. This follows another attempt by the Post’s Fact Checker to place a veneer of factuality on a pro-abortion talking point. In a fact check published earlier this year, the Post argued that “supporting abortion rights is not the same as supporting abortions.” This is akin to saying that “supporting the legalization of rape is not the same as supporting rape.” Or “supporting the legalization of murder is not the same as supporting murder.” Or “supporting the legalization of slavery is not the same as supporting slavery.” All of the examples above materially differ from saying something like “supporting drug legalization is not the same as supporting drugs.” This is because abortion, rape, slavery, and murder all involve actions that people take against other humans. In contrast, taking drugs is something that people do to themselves. Summary George Orwell is the author of 1984, a famed novel that depicts tactics of mass propaganda. In his renowned essay, “Politics and the English Language,” Orwell identified one of these strategies as using words “in a consciously dishonest way. That is, the person who uses them has his own private definition, but allows his hearer to think he means something quite different.” Thus, in the writings of fact checkers at NPR, FactCheck.org, the New York Times, PolitiFact, and the Washington Post:
Based on those semantic distortions and half-truths, these so-called fact checkers are claiming that Biden and Harris don’t want to legalize abortions of humans who are capable of living outside the womb. However, an abundance of verifiable facts prove that they clearly do and are planning to pursue this agenda. James D. Agresti is the president of Just Facts, a think tank dedicated to publishing rigorously documented facts about public policy issues. COVID-19 may take down an independent news outletNobody said running a media site would be easy. We could use some help keeping this site afloat.Colleagues have called me the worst fundraiser ever. My skills are squarely rooted on the journalistic side of running a news outlet. Paying the bills has never been my forte, but we’ve survived. We have ads on the site that help, but since the site’s inception this has been a labor of love that otherwise doesn’t bring in the level of revenue necessary to justify it. When I left a nice, corporate career in 2017, I did so knowing I wouldn’t make nearly as much money. But what we do at NOQ Report to deliver the truth and fight the progressive mainstream media narrative that has plagued this nation is too important for me to sacrifice it for the sake of wealth. We know we’ll never make a ton of money this way, and we’re okay with that. Things have become harder with the coronavirus lockdowns. Both ad money and donations that have kept us afloat for a while have dropped dramatically. We thought we could weather the storm, but the so-called “surge” or “2nd-wave” that mainstream media and Democrats are pushing has put our prospects in jeopardy. In short, we are now in desperate need of financial assistance. The best way NOQ Report readers can help is to donate. Our Giving Fuel page makes it easy to donate one-time or monthly. Alternatively, you can donate through PayPal as well. We need approximately $11,500 to stay afloat for the rest of 2020, but more would be wonderful and any amount that brings us closer to our goal is greatly appreciated. The second way to help is to become a partner. We’ve strongly considered seeking angel investors in the past but because we were paying the bills, it didn’t seem necessary. Now, we’re struggling to pay the bills. This shouldn’t be the case as our traffic the last year has been going up dramatically. June, 2018, we had 11,678 visitors. A year later in June, 2019, we were up to 116,194. In June, 2020, we had 614,192. We’re heading in the right direction and we believe we’re ready talk to patriotic investors who want to not only “get in on the action” but more importantly who want to help America hear the truth. Interested investors should contact me directly with the contact button above. Election year or not, coronavirus lockdowns or not, anarchic riots or not, the need for truthful journalism endures. But in these times, we need as many conservative media voices as possible. Please help keep NOQ Report going. Check out the NEW NOQ Report Podcast. American Conservative MovementJoin fellow patriots as we form a grassroots movement to advance the cause of conservatism. The coronavirus crisis has prompted many, even some conservatives, to promote authoritarianism. It’s understandable to some extent now, but it must not be allowed to embed itself in American life. We currently have 8000+ patriots with us in a very short time. If you are interested, please join us to receive updates.
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| Proof the narrative on COVID-19 is a lie, wrapped in a coverup, inside a conspiracy
Posted: 03 Sep 2020 06:44 AM PDT The notion that COVID-19 is not as deadly as they’ve been claiming from the start is not allowed. By the reckoning of the “arbiters of truth” in mainstream media, Big Tech outlets like Facebook or Google, and a combination of some Republican lawmakers and nearly every Democratic lawmaker, such notions about the coronavirus are just conspiracy theories and therefore anathema. But here’s the thing. Those demonstrating that the coronavirus is only truly dangerous to the elderly and that the rest of us should be completely off of any lockdown mandates are using real science, real data, and actual common sense. The left is desperately trying to subvert the truth we’re trying to spread. With a 99.94% recovery rate for those under the age of 40, COVID-19 truly is on par with the flu. In fact, it is far less deadly than the flu for children. Nonetheless, leftists continue to pretend like the coronavirus is an existential threat and if we do not willfully submit to their draconian mandates, we are risking it decimating the entire population. This could not be further from the truth, as Sweden has demonstrated. Out of 5,820 deaths, only 26 of them were people under the age of 40. They had no lockdowns. Face masks were optional. Schools and businesses stayed open. Now, they’re to the point that in the month of August, the most deaths they had on any given day was five. On six days in August, Sweden had zero reported coronavirus deaths. Where Sweden messed up is in not properly protecting the elderly. There should be appropriate precautions taken by those over 70, those who have serious preexisting health concerns, and anyone who comes in regular contact with such people. But for the rest of us, a life of normalcy is in order. At least it should be. The fact that it’s not tells us beyond a shadow of a doubt that this who debacle has nothing to do with healthcare and everything to do with control. On August 29, The Gateway Pundit revealed changes made by the CDC that indicated further evidence of the lower severity of the pandemic. But instead of taking this wonderful news and broadcasting it to the world, mainstream media has bent over backwards trying to debunk and discredit the information. Even Dr. Anthony Fauci and many Democratic politicians have spoken out against the data, telling us in essence that we’re all too stupid to understand what the data really means.
They’re spinning. They’re manipulating. They’re backtracking. And now they’re moving forward as if the data is a lie unless it matches their prescribed narrative. This is no longer about healthcare, if ever it really was. This isn’t even about the election, though they hope it will benefit Democrats in November. This is 100% about control and about establishing the “new normal” they’ve dreamed of where the common man is under the thumb of and beholden to government. A perfect example can be found at Gregory-Portland school district in Texas. They released a video demonstrating their version of the “new normal” in which children are ushered around like obedient sheep, maintaining extreme separation so as not to catch a disease that has an infinitesimal chance of killing them if they contracted it. Again, it’s less dangerous to children than the flu, yet we never see such precautions taken during flu season. They’ve gone so far as to use an online tracker to log when a student leaves the classroom to go to the restroom, when they actually enter the restroom, when they leave, and when they get back to class. Their whereabouts are tracked on four different occasions just to use the restroom. As noted in that article, this is about training drones to accept tracking.
Then, there’s the vaccine component. Is it about huge sums of money being distributed? Yes, but it’s worse than that. Once again, it’s about control and we should not be surprised if vaccines are leveraged by forcing people to get them in order to get access to certain things. They want us beholden to them, compliant, and not speaking out about it. In the last part of this episode of NOQ Report, I talked to Tammy about the extreme levels of censorship that are happening right now on Big Tech “platforms” like Facebook and Google. We run a great risk to the show by simply talking about this stuff, which is why we strongly encourage anyone who can help to contribute to us to help keep us afloat and get the word out. The ferocity with which they are protecting their COVID-19 narrative is telling. They aren’t just hiding the truth. They’re actively working to denounce it, pushing lies as the information we are to accept. We must push back and get the truth out there. COVID-19 may take down an independent news outletNobody said running a media site would be easy. We could use some help keeping this site afloat.Colleagues have called me the worst fundraiser ever. My skills are squarely rooted on the journalistic side of running a news outlet. Paying the bills has never been my forte, but we’ve survived. We have ads on the site that help, but since the site’s inception this has been a labor of love that otherwise doesn’t bring in the level of revenue necessary to justify it. When I left a nice, corporate career in 2017, I did so knowing I wouldn’t make nearly as much money. But what we do at NOQ Report to deliver the truth and fight the progressive mainstream media narrative that has plagued this nation is too important for me to sacrifice it for the sake of wealth. We know we’ll never make a ton of money this way, and we’re okay with that. Things have become harder with the coronavirus lockdowns. Both ad money and donations that have kept us afloat for a while have dropped dramatically. We thought we could weather the storm, but the so-called “surge” or “2nd-wave” that mainstream media and Democrats are pushing has put our prospects in jeopardy. In short, we are now in desperate need of financial assistance. The best way NOQ Report readers can help is to donate. Our Giving Fuel page makes it easy to donate one-time or monthly. Alternatively, you can donate through PayPal as well. We need approximately $11,500 to stay afloat for the rest of 2020, but more would be wonderful and any amount that brings us closer to our goal is greatly appreciated. The second way to help is to become a partner. We’ve strongly considered seeking angel investors in the past but because we were paying the bills, it didn’t seem necessary. Now, we’re struggling to pay the bills. This shouldn’t be the case as our traffic the last year has been going up dramatically. June, 2018, we had 11,678 visitors. A year later in June, 2019, we were up to 116,194. In June, 2020, we had 614,192. We’re heading in the right direction and we believe we’re ready talk to patriotic investors who want to not only “get in on the action” but more importantly who want to help America hear the truth. Interested investors should contact me directly with the contact button above. Election year or not, coronavirus lockdowns or not, anarchic riots or not, the need for truthful journalism endures. But in these times, we need as many conservative media voices as possible. Please help keep NOQ Report going. Check out the NEW NOQ Report Podcast. American Conservative MovementJoin fellow patriots as we form a grassroots movement to advance the cause of conservatism. The coronavirus crisis has prompted many, even some conservatives, to promote authoritarianism. It’s understandable to some extent now, but it must not be allowed to embed itself in American life. We currently have 8000+ patriots with us in a very short time. If you are interested, please join us to receive updates.
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| William Barr owns Wolf Blitzer on question about police racism
Posted: 03 Sep 2020 04:51 AM PDT The Attorney General of the United States took the bold step of doing an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. The “news” network has demonstrated an extreme level of hatred for President Trump and anyone working for him, and that includes Attorney General William Barr. But at every turn, Barr dismantled Blitzer’s attempts to corner him on issues he believed to be damning to the President. With Barr answering the questions, everything turned out just fine. Blitzer was trying to trap Barr into either claiming there was no racism in law enforcement or that the racism was acceptable. Instead of taking the bait, Barr referred to a quote by civil rights activist Jesse Jackson and wondered if Blitzer would have considered the African-American icon a racist against Black people.
Barr said, “Didn’t Jesse Jackson say when he looks behind him and he sees a group of young Black males walking behind him, he’s more scared than when he sees a group of white youths behind him? Does that make him a racist?” Reforms are needed in law enforcement and the criminal justice system, but the left is not pushing for reforms. They want to tear the whole system down and push us into anarchy. Kudos to William Barr for fighting the narrative on CNN. COVID-19 may take down an independent news outletNobody said running a media site would be easy. We could use some help keeping this site afloat.Colleagues have called me the worst fundraiser ever. My skills are squarely rooted on the journalistic side of running a news outlet. Paying the bills has never been my forte, but we’ve survived. We have ads on the site that help, but since the site’s inception this has been a labor of love that otherwise doesn’t bring in the level of revenue necessary to justify it. When I left a nice, corporate career in 2017, I did so knowing I wouldn’t make nearly as much money. But what we do at NOQ Report to deliver the truth and fight the progressive mainstream media narrative that has plagued this nation is too important for me to sacrifice it for the sake of wealth. We know we’ll never make a ton of money this way, and we’re okay with that. Things have become harder with the coronavirus lockdowns. Both ad money and donations that have kept us afloat for a while have dropped dramatically. We thought we could weather the storm, but the so-called “surge” or “2nd-wave” that mainstream media and Democrats are pushing has put our prospects in jeopardy. In short, we are now in desperate need of financial assistance. The best way NOQ Report readers can help is to donate. Our Giving Fuel page makes it easy to donate one-time or monthly. Alternatively, you can donate through PayPal as well. We need approximately $11,500 to stay afloat for the rest of 2020, but more would be wonderful and any amount that brings us closer to our goal is greatly appreciated. The second way to help is to become a partner. We’ve strongly considered seeking angel investors in the past but because we were paying the bills, it didn’t seem necessary. Now, we’re struggling to pay the bills. This shouldn’t be the case as our traffic the last year has been going up dramatically. June, 2018, we had 11,678 visitors. A year later in June, 2019, we were up to 116,194. In June, 2020, we had 614,192. We’re heading in the right direction and we believe we’re ready talk to patriotic investors who want to not only “get in on the action” but more importantly who want to help America hear the truth. Interested investors should contact me directly with the contact button above. Election year or not, coronavirus lockdowns or not, anarchic riots or not, the need for truthful journalism endures. But in these times, we need as many conservative media voices as possible. Please help keep NOQ Report going. Check out the NEW NOQ Report Podcast. American Conservative MovementJoin fellow patriots as we form a grassroots movement to advance the cause of conservatism. The coronavirus crisis has prompted many, even some conservatives, to promote authoritarianism. It’s understandable to some extent now, but it must not be allowed to embed itself in American life. We currently have 8000+ patriots with us in a very short time. If you are interested, please join us to receive updates.
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| Burnt by Hate, Responding with Love
Posted: 03 Sep 2020 08:25 PM PDT  by Joshua Arnold: “My heart just dropped.” Scott Carpenter said it was “devastating” to watch the riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin. His father had started a business selling office furniture out of his garage 42 years ago. On Washington Watch with Tony Perkins, Scott explained how he had taken over the family business — that is, until the rioters burned his building and his entire inventory to the ground. “We’re not getting rich over here,” he said. “We have a building, and inventory, and vehicles, and a couple of employees.” Scott said that Donald Trump, as a business owner, knows what it feels like “to have the rug pulled out from underneath your feet.” Scott Carpenter and other families with small businesses have seen their life’s work and life’s savings literally go up in flames over the past weeks. “The building is gone. Everything in it gone,” said Scott. The Kenosha mayor has asked for $30 million to repair the damage to the city. Perhaps the celebrities donating millions of dollars to Black Lives Matter could put their fortunes to better use helping families rebuild their lives. Meanwhile, Scott Carpenter has determined to respond to this hate-fueled destruction with the love of Christ. Listen to the interview to hear how he has used his burnt-out business to proclaim the gospel. Joshua Arnold is a media coordinator, under the Vice President of Communications at Family Research Council Tags: Burnt by Hate, Responding with Love, Family Research Council To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| Why Trump Doesn’t Just ‘Send In the Troops’
Posted: 03 Sep 2020 07:54 PM PDT  by Kurt Schlichter: There are a lot of solid conservatives frustrated and appalled by the Biden Riots, and a lot of those folks wonder why Donald Trump doesn’t just make it all stop – you know, sort of like Grandpa Badfinger implicitly promises he will do if we restore the garbage liberal establishment, except with military force. “Call up the Guard,” right? But what folks do not understand are the practical problems with Trump using troops (sending federal law enforcement officers presents similar problems, but also a unique and big one – there just aren’t as many federal cops as there are soldiers). The devil is in the details, and the devil here makes Trump pulling the trigger on the troops in the current situation a very bad idea. We should support his strategic patience and not do what the Democrats want by getting mad at the president for refusing to stumble into an ambush. Let me share some background. After I got off active duty the first time, I joined the California Army National Guard. For the next 23 years I participated in, planned, and commanded during multiple civilian support operations. I was in the Los Angeles Riots, the Northridge Earthquake, and I commanded two battalions along with other forces in northern San Diego County during the 2007 fires. I planned ops from platoon to state headquarters level, and wrote about civil support ops in Infantry magazine and even in a first-of-its-kind law review article. So, I know a little about this stuff. And what I know tells me that, despite our fantastic soldiers’ abilities, this is a bad idea. But why? Let’s address the donkey in the room – Democrat governors, mayors and district attorneys do not want military forces deployed and will at least refuse to cooperate with them, if not actively hinder them. That makes a blue city like Portland a “non-permissive environment,” and the military is certainly designed to operate in them. That’s why when the military moves in force with, say, an infantry brigade combat team (IBCT) of 5,000 soldiers plus support elements (thousands more), we essentially deploy a small town with everything we need to survive – food, fuel, ammo, medical, maintenance, commo, power, transportation, even lawyers. Typically, in cities engulfed in chaos, it’s a permissive environment. The cops work with us. They take custody of arrestees, hold them, and the DA prosecutes them. Hospitals take in our wounded and sick. We use local government property to operate out of. We have access to the infrastructure of society. But what if the Democrat regime refuses to allow all that? Then the troops are on their own; it’s now an invasion, and while doable logistically, it takes a massive footprint. A permissive environment solves some, but not all of the issues we will review. A non-permissive environment makes the whole thing exponentially worse. First, let’s think through the force package. Who do we send, and under what rules? We keep hearing about the National Guard, but few understand it. The Guard is a reserve force trained and equipped just like active duty troops and containing a large number of active duty veterans (I joined after serving in Desert Storm). It works for the state governor – the Democrat who hates Trump – unless it is “federalized,” in which case it becomes an active duty unit and Trump is its commander-in-chief. Now, federal troops are barred from enforcing civilian law by the Posse Comitatus Act, unless the president invokes the Insurrection Act. On state status, Posse Comitatus does not apply and Guard forces are not prohibited by federal law from enforcing civilian law. Got it? Seems complicated, huh? Yeah, because it’s a giant cluster fark that only gets more farked as we dive in to the details of implementing the idea of sending in soldiers. Oregon has the 41st IBCT. It has five “maneuver battalions,” the ~500-soldier or so sub-units that would actually be on the street (well, maybe two-thirds tops of those units’ personnel would actually be on the street with guns. All the rest are support, as are the IBCT’s other units). Only three battalions are actually in Oregon, and one of those is an artillery unit. The rest are in other states. What is the readiness of the 41st? Are elements deployed overseas? What’s their manning? Their maintenance readiness? Who knows? Maybe Trump uses federal forces, like the 82nd Airborne Division’s ready brigade. Now they have to fly from Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, to Portland. Can they land at the airport? Remember, it’s a non-permissive environment. Will the Democrat regime refuse to allow them to land, or if they do land, refuse to service the planes? I guess we need to send in an Air Force airbase unit to run things. That’s more troops. And how are we supporting this rapidly expanding force package? Will local contractors serve the military, or be too intimidated to work with the military (they will still be in Portland long after the Army goes home). I guess we could bring in a support brigade. We’re over 10,000 troops now. Say, how do we get their vehicles there? Drive them across the country? Put them on trains? That takes time. Where does this military force assemble if the state and local government are not letting them use local facilities? Maybe the military just moves into, say, a stadium parking lot to use as a base. And maybe a federal judge issues an injunction saying it can’t. Oh, we’ll need more troops to defend this logistics and command and control base. And we’ll need a combat support hospital in case the local government refuses to allow local hospitals to treat the sick and wounded.Please, try and maintain a straight face saying there is no way Democrat politicians in a blue city would forbid our troops from getting medical care. Let’s put the awkward issues of logistics aside and talk tactics, though professionals always think logistics while amateurs only think tactics. What do the troops actually do? Patrol? Got to wait on our vehicles. Do they go arrest looters? For what? If the looters violate federal law – like crossing a state line to riot – that’s easy. You hook them up, turn them over to the federal cops and the US attorney prosecutes them. But what if they commit a state crime, which most routine crimes are? In LA ‘92, we grabbed a crook and handed him over to the LAPD and he went to jail and got prosecuted. But the Portland police will be ordered not to cooperate. Moreover, the Portland DA will not charge them, much less prosecute them. What do you do with them? How do the feds hold a rioter for a state crime that he is not charged with? Non-permissive environments suck, huh? Then there is the rules of engagement (ROE) issue. What are the ROE going to be? Basically, the ROE outlines what force can you use on the rioters, with particular interest in when you can shoot them. That’s always a huge deal. You want these soldiers to go out and do something to the rioters, so you need to decide what. Remember, they are the ones who can get prosecuted if they kill someone. Oh, Trump’s Department of Justice won’t prosecute them today, but will a Democrat administration’s DOJ do that tomorrow? Don’t scoff – British ex-soldiers today are, despicably, getting prosecuted for killing IRA terrorists in Northern Ireland back in the 1970s. Now, the Democrat regime would love nothing more than for a military unit to open fire on “peaceful protesters.” So, would the media. Looking for fairness? How many of the mainstream outlets have reported that one of the criminals Kyle Rittenhouse shot in self-defense was a convicted pedophile? The demagogues are aching for Trump to throw them into the briar patch of a military crackdown. Remember, this whole riot scheme is an information operation designed to present the country as out of control and Trump as, alternatively, ineffectual or authoritarian. These rioters have no actual power. They don’t hold ground and a determined police response by local cops with a DA who prosecutes them would scatter them. The Democrats are using them to intimidate voters into accepting Biden’s implicit argument that if we allow the liberal establishment back into power, these bad people will go away (they won’t, but that’s what the Dems want you to think). These Antifa and BLM street punks can serve the liberal elite’s cause just as well as martyrs. Bottom Line: All in all, sending military forces into a non-permissive environment in a blue city is a recipe for disaster. It’s easy to fume about Trump not waving his magic camo wand and making the Antifa and BLM rioters disappear, but the reality of the situation created by the Democrat regime makes it a disaster waiting to happen. You either go in and essentially invade the cities and use an iron fist to crush the rioters – and make Kent State’s body count look as paltry as the audience for a Joe Biden rally – or you alienate some on your own side when you refuse to save the Democrat demagogues’ bacon by becoming the villain in their information operation. These hard truths are not to say there is nothing for the feds to do. Until the Democrat regimes decide this needs to end and cooperate, the feds should do one of the few things the feds are good at – taking down large criminal organizations. Antifa is just like the drug cartels with less testosterone, and just like the mafia except with worse clothes and less testosterone. The feds should ignore the street thugs who make up the shock troops. It was no coincidence that 100 percent of the people Kyle shot had criminal records. The feds should focus on the LARPing middle class SJWs and the dedicated Marxist cadre and use RICO, conspiracy, and other federal charges to take them out and lock them up. When little Ashleigh from the suburbs realizes that she’s looking at five years in federal prison instead of heading back to the Evergreen State to finish her Bolivian Trans Dance of the 13th Century degree, the lawyer daddy buys her will get her to sing like a canary about her commie pals. The feds should identify and map the whole criminal organization, identify its players and funding, and wipe it out. Look, it’s perfectly understandable to be frustrated. But getting mad at Trump because he is not doing something that would turn into the cluster fark to end all cluster farks is doing exactly what the liberal elite and its media minions want. Let Portland and the rest of the blue cities trash themselves. Let the DOJ, which has already charged dozens of these degenerates with federal beefs, do its thing. And make sure you get out and vote straight Republican if you want any hope of this ever ending. Tags: Kurt Schlichter, Why Trump, Doesn’t Just, ‘Send In the Troops’ To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| Good News, Biden Follows Trump, Barr Busts Left-wing Narratives
Posted: 03 Sep 2020 07:30 PM PDT
by Gary Bauer: Good News So, having a vaccine ready sooner rather than later is good news, right? Well, not everyone seems to think so. The deranged media and their Democrat allies, who have been demanding a vaccine for months in order to reopen the economy, are now accusing the president of pushing out a dangerous vaccine for political purposes. They just cannot accept good news. There is something fundamentally wrong when one of the two major parties is constantly hoping for bad news and the continued suffering of the American people. If American companies were lagging in the worldwide race to develop a vaccine, the same people who are complaining about the possible early production of a vaccine would be accusing the president of incompetence if we didn’t have one before Europe or Japan. It is so obvious what is motivating the left. They are desperate to get power back so they can pass their far-left agenda while crushing all conservative resistance. Biden Follows Trump Biden recently suggested that we are not safe in “Donald Trump’s America.” But this rioting isn’t unique to Donald Trump. Remember the Oakland riots in 2010? Remember the Occupy Wall Street riots? What about the Ferguson and Baltimore riots? They took place during the Obama/Biden years. Barack Obama regularly prejudged confrontations between the police and citizens, always to the detriment of the police. Yet his own Justice Department cleared Officer Darren Wilson and found that the “hands up, don’t shoot” narrative from the Ferguson riots was a total lie. Now Biden is prejudging the situation in Kenosha, insisting that Officer Rusten Sheskey be charged with a crime for the shooting of Jacob Blake. The evidence we have now does not support Biden’s conclusion. But I guess police officers in Joe Biden’s America will be guilty until proven innocent. Blake was charged with sexual assault. He was at the home of the woman he assaulted. She called 911. Officers responded and attempted to arrest Blake. He struggled with police and resisted arrest. He was armed with a knife. He escaped, and reached inside his car. The standard in such cases is whether a reasonable man would fear for his life or the lives of others. Officer Sheskey knew Blake had at least one weapon and likely concluded he was going for another. Plus, he knew there were children in the car. State and federal authorities are investigating all aspects of the Blake shooting. In the meantime, we should be urging calm. But Joe Biden is stoking hatred against law enforcement. Biden also reportedly met with Blake’s father, Jacob Blake, Sr. I wonder if Biden’s staff briefed him on the elder Blake’s views? Biden Embraces Farrakhan Supporter I’m not suggesting that this online history has any relevance to the confrontation between his son and Kenosha police. But I am raising it in the context of why Joe Biden is meeting with a man who has said things like this: “The same pink toe Jewish people that control the interest rate control the media they control Minds and money.” “The Chicago Police are murderers they are the biggest gang in Chicago.” “I’m with Farrakhan.” Blake Sr. also posted a picture of Jesus in a toilet. Barr Busts Left’s False Narrative On police shootings, Barr said: “The fact of the matter is, it’s very rare for an unarmed African American to be shot by a white police officer. There were ten cases last year, six of them the suspect was attacking the police officer physically. So they are rare things compared to the 7,000-8,000 young black men who are killed every year.” On election interference, Wolf Blitzer asked which country – Russia, China or Iran – was being the “most aggressive” and “most assertive” in attempting to influence the election. Barr said, “I believe it’s China.” Blitzer seemed surprised and pushed Barr to explain why he believes that. Barr responded, “Because I’ve seen the intelligence.” Barr also warned that the country was “playing with fire” when it comes to mail-in voting. The Audacity Of Biden There are more than 13,000 school districts in the country. They have been opening every year for more than one hundred years. They know how to open. But each district is different and will have different needs. Biden seems to think the federal government can impose a one-size-fits-all model on all 13,000 districts. There’s no magic here. The local officials know who is at risk and who isn’t, what the conditions are in their area. Some are better prepared than others. The president and the CDC have repeatedly insisted that we need to open the schools. But when you look around the country, it’s been liberal governors, big city mayors and the teacher unions, all part of the Biden team, who are the ones keeping the biggest school districts shut down. Yet now Biden has the audacity to insist that the schools be opened. And adding insult to injury, he’s blaming the president for the resistance of his Democrat allies! Here’s what you need to know:
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| Operation Legend Makes 2,000 Arrests, Seizes 182 Pounds of Drugs in 5 Weeks, DOJ Says
Posted: 03 Sep 2020 06:59 PM PDT
by Jake Dima: Operation Legend, a federal initiative to combat murder and violent crime in major U.S. cities, has recorded over 2,000 arrests and seized large quantities of narcotics since the program’s July inception, according to the Department of Justice. A total of 147 people have been arrested for homicide, 544 firearms have been seized, and around 182 pounds (83 kilograms) of narcotics—including heroin, cocaine, meth, and fentanyl—have been removed from the streets during the operation, according to a Thursday Department of Justice press release. Around 480 of the arrestees were charged with federal offenses throughout Kansas City, Missouri; Chicago; Albuquerque; Cleveland; Detroit; Milwaukee; St. Louis; Memphis; and Indianapolis, the release said. Chicago had the most felony arrests with 103 since the program took effect in there on July 22, according to the news release. Kansas City, Missouri, was a close second with a total of 99 felony apprehensions, the DOJ wrote.
Operation Legend began July 8 under the direction of Attorney General William Barr. It was named after 4-year-old LeGend Taliferro, who was fatally shot at his Kansas City, Missouri, home, the press release said. Taliferro’s alleged killer has since been arrested and the program has spread to crime-ridden cities throughout the nation, offering federal assistance to investigate and prevent violent crime, according to an Aug. 13 DOJ press release. Civil unrest, rioting, and crime has risen in cities across the country since the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a Minneapolis, Minnesota, police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes, video showed. Unrest was sparked again after the officer-involved shooting of Jacob Blake, a black man, who was shot multiple times in the back during a confrontation in Kenosha, Wisconsin, video showed. Tags: Jake Dima, The Daily Caller, The Daily Signal, DOJ, Operation Legend, Makes 2,000 Arrests, Seizes 182 Pounds of Drugs, in 5 Weeks To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| When Democrats Act Like COVID Is A Crisis, I’ll Believe It’s A Crisis
Posted: 03 Sep 2020 06:26 PM PDT  by Brian C. Joondeph: Watch what people do, not what they say. Politicians who say one thing and do another are called hypocrites, but perhaps they have inside knowledge that the average person does not possess. When it comes to COVID-19, several prominent officials say one thing and do another. The laws, regulations and admonitions applied to you and me do not apply to them. Is it because they cannot be bothered? Or is because they know the rules are largely nonsensical and are mandated not for public health reasons but for power and control? Since mid-March we have endured a daily barrage of fear porn from the media. Inaccurate or inflated death counts and positive tests were used to justify shutting down the economy, closing businesses, restaurants, hair salons, churches and schools. Mask use became mandatory and those defying any of these orders were called murderers. Democrats, particularly those in blue states, whether at the local, state or federal level have been particularly vocal about coronavirus mandates. But how do they live up to their own rules? In June, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat who has been particularly draconian in her coronavirus restrictions, marched in a George Floyd demonstration in complete violation of her own social distancing mandate. Many in her state – but not her and her fellow marchers – have been ticketed for just such a violation with fines up to $1,000. Dr. Anthony Fauci, leading the charge to shut down the country and keep it closed until everyone can be vaccinated, told America to wear masks and social distance. Yet at a baseball game in July, he was photographed in the bleachers, yucking it up in close proximity to two friends, mask under his chin. This week House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited a closed hair salon in San Francisco for a “blow-out,” videoed not wearing a mask. Yet hair salons are considered non-essential businesses in California, and by government orders are closed. Blow driers are dangerous in COVID days, potentially spreading respiratory droplets around the room from someone who is sick. Did Pelosi know for sure her hair stylist or anyone else in the room was not sick or contagious? She is 80 years old, and Fauci is 79. According to the Centers for Disease Control, someone their age has an eight times higher rate of hospitalization and a 220 times higher death rate compared to an 18-29 year old. Might she, Whitmer and Fauci be taking prophylactic hydroxychloroquine as President Trump did in May? The same drug Democrats and the media claim will kill anyone who dares take it? Moving east, Philadelphia Jim Kenney, another Democrat, dined indoors in Maryland, while restaurants in his city are only permitted to serve customers outside. It may have been permitted in Maryland, but what example is he setting for his constituents in the city he rules? How many restaurants in Philly will be closed for good by the time the good mayor deems it acceptable to eat indoors? New York is a mask-wearing state, “A New York State mandate requires everyone to wear a face covering when outside their home if unable to maintain at least six feet of distance from others.” Guess who was photographed the other day walking his dog without a mask? Governor Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo preaches, “Wearing a mask is about respect.” Yet here he is in Georgia in July, not wearing a mask and not social distancing. He also forgot what he told New Yorkers in April: “Cuomo says he is wearing a mask when he’s walking his dog because he can’t maintain social distancing.” Attending church is verboten but that didn’t stop the numerous George Floyd protests. We cannot gather for church or a sporting event, but protests and rallies that are pro-Democrat are just fine, and encouraged. But it is more than just hypocrisy. I suspect those making and breaking the rules know these rules are mostly for show, keeping the economy shut down and dispiriting working Americans ahead of the November presidential election in the hopes of defeating President Trump. At one time such mandates made sense when flattening the curve kept hospitals from being overwhelmed. But COVID deaths and hospitalizations peaked in mid-April. It’s now September, almost five months post peak. Yet the mandates and restrictions remain in place, at least for the little people. Why would Democrat politicians put themselves, their families and constituents in harm’s way by ignoring the safety rules? Unless it is more hype than harm, more about fear than fact. Tags: Brian C. Joondeph, When Democrats Act Like, COVID Is A Crisis, I’ll Believe, It’s A Crisis, Rasmussen Reports To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| CDC Vindicates Dr. Bukacek, Indicts Itself
Posted: 03 Sep 2020 05:39 PM PDT
by Dr. Chuck Baldwin: At the height of the government’s coronavirus lies and lockdowns, 30-year veteran physician, Dr. Ann Bukacek, stood at the podium of Liberty Fellowship and exposed the gross exaggeration of corona death certificates that were being encouraged by the CDC as a way of manipulating public perception regarding the nature and extent of the virus. She used the CDC’s own statements to prove her assertions. For daring to tell the truth about the coronavirus and the CDC’s hype and fear mongering over the virus, a tsunami of hate, vitriol and personal and media attacks were hurled at this respected physician (she has been voted Best Family Physician in the county two years running and three times overall) at a level most of us cannot imagine. Even many of her peers in the medical profession attacked her mercilessly—some even threatened to get her license revoked. She didn’t flinch. She has more courage than most men you will ever meet. Well, hold onto your seats. A recent report published by the CDC itself totally vindicates Dr. Bukacek and, at the same time, indicts itself. For the most part, of course, the mainstream media is ignoring the report. For this, Montana liberals who were prone to believe whatever was told to them by Governor Bullock and state health officials and castigate any opposing view as a “conspiracy theory” launched a petition to oust Dr. Bukacek from the Flathead County Health Board. The petition to remove her, which has roughly half the signatures than the petition to keep her, reads, “Dr Annie Bukacek has violated public trust by putting her political and religious views ahead of science in regards to the Covid-19 outbreak.” It turns out, Dr. Bukacek was right all along, and her understanding of science and medicine has been vindicated in the latest report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. According to the CDC, only 6% of deaths originally reported as caused by Coronavirus were deaths exclusively caused by Coronavirus. As Dr. Bukacek warned Montanans from the beginning, the rest of the deaths attributed to COVID-19 were in cases in which patients tested positive, but who had other underlying health conditions that actually caused their death. While news outlets all across the country are pointing out that the CDC has provided this data, showing that COVID-19 is the exclusive or primary cause of death in only 6% of the cases (and has been inflated a whopping 1,567%), it should be noted that it doesn’t mean per se that COVID-19 didn’t have a role to play in the other 94% of deaths. What it does mean is that patients died with or from other ailments that are far more serious. Essentially, what the CDC has admitted is that those who have died from heart attacks or the flu were claimed to have died from COVID-19 on death certificates and in CDC reporting, whether or not that was the primary cause of their death (or necessarily a cause at all). If Montana COVID-19 rates are largely similar to those across the United States, this means that approximately six Montanans have died exclusively from COVID-19. Meanwhile, Governor Bullock and many local health boards seem to be unmoved by the latest scientific findings. (Source)Did you get that? The primary cause of death attributed to the coronavirus has been inflated by a whopping 1,567%. And did you hear this? “Essentially, what the CDC has admitted is that those who have died from heart attacks or the flu were claimed to have died from COVID-19 on death certificates and in CDC reporting, whether or not that was the primary cause of their death (or necessarily a cause at all).” That’s EXACTLY what Dr. Bukacek told us back in April. This local NBC news report states that the CDC is now admitting that only 9,683 people in the U.S. have died exclusively from the coronavirus—NOT the reputed 160,000 plus. The rest of the deaths had other serious underlying diseases that took their lives. Please let that sink in. The CDC’s own report says less than 10,000 people have died exclusively from the coronavirus. That fact is a blatant admission that the entire CDC/WHO/medical establishment/White House/congressional/news media corona narrative has indeed been grossly exaggerated and manipulated. Jordan Hall, Publisher of the Montana Daily Gazette, which was quoted above, gave an excellent summary of “The Great Coronavirus Panic Of 2020.” * Far more have had COVID-19 than we were led to believe. * The so-called “experts” who insist we listen to them have been wrong on almost everything from the beginning. * We self-sabotaged our economy and stripped ourselves of liberty for what amounts to a paper tiger. * The government now has a far better idea exactly how far they can push citizens before we push back (and it’s further than any of us previously thought). This isn’t merely a strategy; it is a test. * There is clearly a coordinated effort to keep us afraid of this virus and afraid of each other in a way that far surpasses common-sense communicable virus mitigation. The media, technocrats, and at least half of our politicians want you to remain terrified (or should I say, terrorized). * Masks are clearly far less effective at preventing the spread of COVID-19 than social distancing (especially if you are sick), but almost all the PSAs from our Nanny State focus on masks exclusively. I’d suggest this is because without masks there would be no visible reminder in your daily life that you’re supposed to be terrified of something. * In fact, if it weren’t for media propaganda and the hysteria propagated by politicians, I submit to you we would not know there was a ‘pandemic’ at all. That’s right; without their fear mongering, we might have noticed nothing but a nasty respiratory bug going around, but it would not have struck us as a particularly deadly pandemic.Amen, Jordan! This means it’s time for the American people to call the bluff and throw away those worthless masks, forget those stupid social distancing mandates and demand that their State and local authorities give the People their country back. The CDC has lost all credibility. There is now no doubt: The CDC is nothing but a criminal cabal of white-coated pimps working for Big Pharma. Anthony Fauci should go to prison. Bill Gates should go to prison. The medical “experts” who regurgitated and went along with this fraud should find other work, and the politicians and government bureaucrats who helped shut this country down, who helped destroy millions of jobs, who helped ruin the careers of millions of people and who helped take the homes and livelihoods of millions of Americans should be tarred and feathered and put on a slow boat to China. And let’s not forget a president and Congress that stole over 6 trillion dollars from the American taxpayers—two thirds of which went to their big banker buddies at the Federal Reserve. Not only has the CDC lost credibility, so has the U.S. medical establishment. Doctors HAD to have known that the narrative was false, but they sacrificed their integrity and honesty and played along—they played along for BIG MONEY. A few weeks earlier, HCA had received about $1 billion in bailout funds from the federal government, part of an effort to stabilize hospitals during the pandemic. HCA is among a long list of deep-pocketed health care companies that have received billions of dollars in taxpayer funds but are laying off or cutting the pay of tens of thousands of doctors, nurses and lower-paid workers. Many have continued to pay their top executives millions, although some executives have taken modest pay cuts. The New York Times analyzed tax and securities filings by 60 of the country’s largest hospital chains, which have received a total of more than $15 billion in emergency funds through the economic stimulus package in the federal CARES Act. The hospitals — including publicly traded juggernauts like HCA and Tenet Healthcare, elite nonprofits like the Mayo Clinic, and regional chains with thousands of beds and billions in cash — are collectively sitting on tens of billions of dollars of cash reserves that are supposed to help them weather an unanticipated storm. And together, they awarded the five highest-paid officials at each chain about $874 million in the most recent year for which they have disclosed their finances. At least 36 of those hospital chains have laid off, furloughed or reduced the pay of employees as they try to save money during the pandemic. Seven chains that together received more than $1.5 billion in bailout funds — Trinity Health, Beaumont Health and the Henry Ford Health System in Michigan; SSM Health and Mercy in St. Louis; Fairview Health in Minneapolis; and Prisma Health in South Carolina — have furloughed or laid off more than 30,000 workers, according to company officials and local news reports. The bailout money, which hospitals received from the Health and Human Services Department without having to apply for it, came with few strings attached. (Source)Of course, this also means that there is absolutely NO REASON to take a corona vaccination. None. Zero. Zilch. It means Gates and Fauci are international con men who make P.T. Barnum look like a choir boy by comparison. It means that all of these lockdowns, shutdowns, closings and mandates were total frauds. It means the entire corona narrative is a fraud. It also means there is something much more sinister at work here. Planting fear, paranoia and hysteria into the hearts and minds of millions of people over a virus that has directly taken the lives of fewer than 10,000 people (doubtless, the true number of low corona deaths globally are similar to those in the U.S.) betrays a massive conspiracy to scare the world into total submission and subjugation. As I have said from the beginning: This is NOT about our health and safety; this is about our control and enslavement. NOW WE HAVE THE EVIDENCE. Everyone who attacked and besmirched Dr. Bukacek for her courageous stand should crawl on their knees and beg for her forgiveness. And those who embraced and promoted the phony corona narrative should publicly renounce this global medical Ponzi scheme and go to work repairing the damage that they have wreaked on our society. Tags: Chuck Baldwin, CDC, Vindicates Dr. Bukacek, Indicts Itself To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. 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| The Shamelessness of the Speaker
Posted: 03 Sep 2020 05:06 PM PDT . . . Nancy Pelosi’s galling hypocrisy takes a back seat only to her astounding arrogance.  by Douglas Andrews: An apology. That’s what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi demanded when she got caught sneaking into a tony San Francisco salon to have her hair washed and styled. Never mind that the salon had been closed to the rest of us for the past six months due to her political party’s COVID-19 restrictions. And never mind that Pelosi — who’d been chirping in President Donald Trump’s ear for months about wearing a mask — had been captured on the salon’s security tape without wearing a mask herself. No, never mind all that. Because Nancy is the victim here, folks. Poor, poor, pitiful Pelosi has been bamboozled by a bad old businesswoman, and she’s indignant. “I think that this salon owes me an apology for setting me up,” she said. “I take responsibility for trusting the word of a neighborhood salon that I’ve been to over the years many times,” she continued. “And that when they said, ‘Well, we’re able to accommodate people one person at a time, and that we can set up that time,’ I trusted that. As it turns out, it was a setup. So I take responsibility for falling for a setup.” This, of course, was the equivalent of tarring herself and calling out for the feathers. And the inimitable veteran journalist Brit Hume was more than happy to oblige. Hume harkened back to the days of longtime Washington, DC, Mayor Marion Barry, who in 1990 found himself in a hotel room with a hooker, some crack cocaine, and a slew of FBI agents. Unbowed and unapologetic, Hizzoner quickly assessed the situation and delivered one of the most stirring bits of oratory in modern political history: “B—h set me up.” Of course, the circumstances surrounding Speaker Pelosi’s scandal are slightly different than Barry’s, but if we hold our ear to a large conch shell, we can almost hear her gnashing her teeth and sputtering the same thing: “B—h. Set. Me. Up.” Unfortunately for the speaker, there was plenty more ridicule where Hume came from. “Between Pelosi eating ice cream while people head to the breadlines and Pelosi getting a blow dry while business-owners are barred from opening, she’s definitely got a Marie Antoinette thing going here,” mocked Ben Shapiro. “Describe how the government handled the pandemic & economic crisis using just two photos,” teased Jason Howerton while juxtaposing pictures of Pelosi eating $13-a-pint ice cream in front of her $24,000 fridge and Pelosi waltzing through a ritzy San Francisco salon for a nice blowout. This is all very funny, and so is the notion that Nancy Pelosi is some sort of master political strategist. She’s a dolt, as Jim Geraghty painstakingly points out. “So far this year,” he writes, “Pelosi has denounced the drone strike against Iranian leader Qasem Soleimani as a ‘provocative and disproportionate action,’ torn up the State of the Union Address behind Trump, tried to put abortion funding in a coronavirus relief bill and then tried to put state and local tax deductions for high earners in a relief bill, called for a police reform bill that is ‘worthy of George Kirby’s name,’ and made an embarrassingly patronizing photo-op wearing a kente cloth. Admit it, you forgot about half of these.” And you thought all we had to worry about was Joe Biden. Tags: Douglas Andrews, The Patriot Post, The Shamelessness of, the Speaker, Nancy Pelosi To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| Security
Posted: 03 Sep 2020 03:18 PM PDT  by Kerby Anderson: Recently, one of the guests on my radio program told me about a poll that discovered that words like safety and security were being frequently mentioned as a reason to vote for a particular candidate. Key issues in any political campaign include the economy and social issues. Now the word “security” surfaced in many political polls. Marc Lotter believes the election will come down to the word security in three different ways. First, is economic security. Donald Trump opposed NAFTA and TPP, while Joe Biden supported those treaties. President Trump has cut taxes, while former Vice President Biden proposed programs that the Tax Foundation estimated would cost $4 trillion over ten years. Domestic security has become a big issue. Every night, it seems, we see more images of American cities burning as rioters and looters destroy property and attack police and average citizens. Most of these cities are run by Democrats. Many of the police departments are run by competent black police chiefs. But the riots and property damage continues. Speakers at the Democratic National Convention ignored the violence and property destruction. Many of the speakers at the Republican National Convention noted the riots and looting. The two parties almost seemed to come down on different sides. Security from foreign enemies is the third factor. President Trump has pushed to rebuild the military along with striving to end America’s involvement in what he has called “senseless wars.” Democratic leaders want to reduce military spending. Senator Bernie Sanders put forth a proposal that would reduce Pentagon spending by $74 billion. The Democratic Party Platform also calls for ending what it calls “forever wars.” Security seems to be an important election issue. As you can see, there are striking differences between the candidates and parties on security issues. Tags: Kerby Anderson, Marc Lotter, Security To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| Democrats Are The Lion King Party
Posted: 03 Sep 2020 03:03 PM PDT  by Newt Gingrich: Watching Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s agonizingly painful and humiliating press conference Sunday night, I was reminded that liberals simply have no capacity for dealing with reality when it comes to violence at home or abroad. Here is a mayor who has presided over 90-plus consecutive nights of violence in the city which has the most active Antifa faction in the country. Stores have been invaded, buildings have been burned, police have been injured, while the Portland city government and the Oregon state government have been relentlessly incompetent and ineffective. On Saturday, a supporter of President Donald Trump was killed by the left-wing activists. Apparent Antifa members there practically celebrated his murder. Faced with this grim reality and the very real threat that the violence could escalate and a lot more people could get hurt or killed, the mayor went on a tirade attacking President Trump. The mayor was reduced by his ideological straight jacket of avoiding effective force into pathetically appealing – in a 45-minute press conference – for people to quit being violent. This might have been understandable 94 days ago when the first violence occurred. But having the mayor begging people to be nice after more than 13 weeks of nightly violence is a sign of serious, deep derangement. Mayor Wheeler’s commitment to opposing the violent with appeasement and groveling is made even more bizarre by the reality that in Minneapolis, Kenosha, and elsewhere, the National Guard has suppressed violence rather than placated it. In city after city, we are watching liberal Democratic city governments fail in their first duty – to protect their fellow citizens. If the failure was only in one or two cities, you could blame the personalities. Mayor Bill de Blasio, the worst big city mayor in the entire country, could be pushing New York City into a downward spiral of violence because of personal incompetence. However, when the collapse of safety and explosion of crime are occurring in city after city (with the singular common thread that they are run by liberals who attack and defund the police while pandering to and protecting criminals) it is obvious we are dealing with a systemic problem, not a personality problem. The fascinating thing is that liberal Democrats have the same problem dealing with violence and predators overseas that they have at home. Whether it is a foreign predator or a domestic predator, liberals simply can’t be honest identifying threats – or acknowledging the scale of the threat they represent. Faced with a predatory dictatorship in Syria, the Barrack Obama-Joe Biden administration drew a so-called red line. When Bashar al-Assad crossed it Obama promptly collapsed. Faced with a violently anti-American dictatorship in Iran, which the American State Department said was the leading state sponsor of terrorism in the world, the Obama-Biden team sent Iran more than a billion dollars in cash and billions more through banks. Faced with a rabidly anti-Western ISIS, Obama called them “the junior varsity” and then did nothing as they took over a large area in Syria and Iraq. The Obama-Biden strategy for Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua enabled those dictatorships to grow even stronger and bolder. The Obama-Biden strategy of placating the Chinese Communist dictatorship and sending Vice President Biden to make speech after speech praising their achievements as a dictatorship emboldened General Secretary Xi Jinping to push harder on every front (from stealing our secrets, to setting up concentration camps, and to aggressively developing China’s military investment in the South China Sea). The No. 1 outcome of the killing of an American Ambassador in Benghazi was to send the national security adviser out to lie to the American people for a week. It was as though the American people rather than the terrorists were the opponents of the Obama-Biden Administration. Having looked for several decades at this liberal inability to deal with predators and evil whether domestic or foreign, I finally concluded that liberals thought the Lion King was a documentary. The Lion King is a great show. We took our grandchildren to see the Disney World and Broadway versions. It is a remarkable movie. It deserves its amazing success. However, liberals seem to think it is nonfiction. They behave as though predators, foreign and domestic, are like the lions, zebras, wart hogs and other good friends in the Lion King. That seems to be the rationale behind the George Soros-funded district attorneys who refuse to prosecute crimes. That seems to be the rationale behind a generation of elected mayors and city councils who can consider defunding or even disbanding the police in the middle of crime waves and riots. It would be a great experiment to invite a group of hard-core liberals to watch a lion documentary rather than the Lion King. Imagine the liberal horror at learning that lions love zebras and wart hogs – but it is because they like to eat them. Imagine Mayor Wheeler begging a real lion to be friendly and pleasant and avoid violence. The rule of law requires the ability and willingness of courageous people to stop evil – not just beg it to be nice. The core of the debate this fall is not about law and order, it is about the nature of reality. Liberalism cannot bring itself to confront the reality of predators and evil. That is why again and again it finds itself presiding over domestic and foreign disasters. Mayor Wheeler’s press conference Sunday night was a pathetic reality of just how far liberals will go to avoid reality. Tags: Newt Gingrich, commentary, Democrats Are, The Lion King Party To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| The Puppeteers . . .
Posted: 03 Sep 2020 02:51 PM PDT . . . Joe Biden and his puppeteers have allowed left-wing violence, riots, and Lawlessness to go on too long.
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| Pro-Abortion “Catholic” Group Should Fold
Posted: 03 Sep 2020 02:43 PM PDT  by Bill Donohue: In 1973, in the year that abortion was legalized, an anti-Catholic group was founded to promote abortion rights. But it was not the usual anti-Catholic outfit. This one falsely assumed a Catholic identity. Initially called Catholics for a Free Choice, it would later shorten its name to Catholics for Choice. Having been around for almost a half century, it now looks like it is in disarray. When it was founded in New York City, it did not set up shop in the New York Archdiocese (as did the Catholic League when it moved to the Big Apple in 1992). No, this “Catholic” pro-abortion outfit rented space from Planned Parenthood. Its first president was Father Joseph O’Rourke; he was expelled from the Jesuits in 1974. It now appears that its time is up: It has been curiously without a president this entire year. Jon O’Brien was president of Catholics for Choice for 12 years, having succeeded Frances Kissling, the long-time champion of abortion-on-demand. On December 2, 2019, this well-funded letterhead (it has no members) announced that he resigned. In his place was named an acting president, Sara Hutchinson Ratcliffe. She is still acting president. Ratcliffe honed her abortion-rights skills at Planned Parenthood. Under her tutelage, almost nothing has been done. Its quarterly magazine, “Conscience,” stopped publishing in the fall of 2019. In 2020, Catholics for Choice issued a mere seven press releases, and the last time it was cited in the news was March 31, 2020 (before that it was August 16, 2019). By contrast, the Catholic League generates news releases on a steady basis and is cited in the news almost daily. Every presidential-election year, Catholics for Choice tries to convince the public that it is entirely acceptable for Catholics to be pro-abortion. It is not. From the Vatican to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, directives have repeatedly been issued making it clear there are not two legitimate Catholic positions on abortion. There is only one: pro-life. This year, the invisibility of this faux Catholic outlet will not be of any use to Joe Biden. Without funding from the Ford Foundation and other left-wing philanthropies, Catholics for Choice would fold. It’s time it should. Even its allies must know that its time is up—it is accomplishing nothing. Tags: Bill Donohue, Pro-Abortion, “Catholic” Group, Should Fold To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| Is Rogue Trump Appointee Trying To Deep Six President’s America First Trade Agenda?
Posted: 03 Sep 2020 02:36 PM PDT  by Rick Manning: As improbable as it may seem, a high-level Trump appointee in the Commerce Department may be working against the President’s America first trade agenda. Assistant Secretary of Commerce Jeffrey Kessler is said to be slow-walking investigations into countries that may be cheating on trade deals, at the expense of American manufacturers and workers. According to American Jobs Alliance President Dennis Black, writing for Breitbart.com in August, “Commerce recently gave itself a 110-day extension in more than 200 ongoing trade cases, ostensibly to help free up ‘resources and personnel’ to do its job during the pandemic. But that excuse doesn’t add up. Kessler’s Commerce Department is routinely granting extensions when the foreign companies charged with violating our trade laws ask for them. Kessler is also letting foreign companies delay turning over the evidence our investigators need to do their job. These delays are inconsistent with what other countries are doing during the pandemic. And when those same foreign companies try to game the system by asking to change the evidence they previously certified was accurate, Kessler plays along and says yes, sure. On top of that, the agency is now canceling audits of foreign producers. Without these verifications to hold foreign companies accountable, the Commerce Department can’t enforce the law.” Making matters worse, since March the Commerce Department and other federal departments have been working from home. As a result of COVID-19 delays in trade enforcement, per Black, “Over the last few months, Commerce has effectively imposed zero tariffs on various categories of unfairly priced steel dumped on our shores including Forged Steel Fluid End Blocks, Fabricated Structural Steel, Oil Country Tubular Goods (OCTG) and Flat Rolled Steel.” On July 7, Assistant Secretary Kessler issued a proposed regulation in the Federal Register to supposedly “Improve Administration and Enforcement of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws,” but according to Black, the opposite is occurring. Kessler is responsible for enforcing U.S. trade law with other countries and has wide latitude and authority to issue sanctions against cheaters. However, in recent months, he appears to be asleep at the wheel. With the pandemic delays in trade remedy enforcement in recent months, at a time when more and more antidumping and countervailing cases are being filed and the U.S. is emerging from the spring COVID-19 recession, manufacturing, agriculture and Americans workers have never been more vulnerable to subsidies and illegal dumping. The so-called 232 remedy which imposes a 25 percent tariff on foreign steel (with exceptions for Canada and Mexico) provides only partial coverage for steel products, making anti-dumping and countervailing duty enforcement all the more important. A big part of Donald Trump’s appeal in 2016 was his promise to restore American jobs and get tough on countries that were taking advantage of us. Kessler, who was confirmed by the Senate in 2019, presumably knew the president’s agenda when he took the job. His role as an appointee is to implement it, not block it. American workers suffer when foreign countries cheat on trade deals. If Kessler is not willing to enforce our trade deals, and support President Trump’s America First agenda, he should resign. If workers in America’s heartland suffer because China and other countries are artificially lowering the price of steel, President Trump could suffer politically in November. The stated COVID-19 excuse for these delays is wearing thin. Workers in America’s vital manufacturing sector are getting back to work, but somehow, D.C. bureaucrats are still stuck at home? It is time for the Commerce Department and the International Trade Administration to get back to work like the rest of America and do their jobs. Tags: Rick Manning, Americans for Limited Government, Rogue Trump Appointee, Trying To Deep Six, President’s America First, Trade Agenda To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| Violent Crime More Important to Voters Than Black Lives Matter
Posted: 03 Sep 2020 02:17 PM PDT  by Daniel Greenfield: Real crises end with a solution. Fake crises end when they become a real crisis. Black Lives Matter began as a fake crisis that used out-of-context viral video clips to falsely claim that police shootings of innocent black people were a national crisis. Black Lives Matter became a real crisis when its riots looted, burned, and beat their way across major cities. A Pew poll at the end of July asked voters which issues were most important to them when deciding who to vote for the big office in 2020. 59% of voters said that violent crime was very important and another 27% said that it was somewhat important. Racial and ethnic equality had fallen behind with 52% of voters calling it very important and another 28% describing it as somewhat important. 86% of voters see violent crime as a significant presidential election issue while 80% are touting Black Lives Matter. The structural difference here is bigger than that 6%. While Black Lives Matter has benefited from a non-stop media push, violent crime has been lightly covered. How concern about violent crime became the fifth most important issue for voters, slightly behind the coronavirus, would be baffling to anyone who gets their reality from the media. That 86% of voters aren’t worried about crime based on what they see in the media, but because they feel personally threatened by what’s going on in their own neck of the woods. There is a huge difference between supporting BLM in the abstract or fearing crime personally. The Pew map of voter concerns shows that the election issues are tilting away from big picture abstractions and are being dominated by concrete issues that affect voters personally. With the exception of Supreme Court appointments, the top 5 issues, the economy, health care, the pandemic, and violent crime, are about the things that personally worry Americans. Meanwhile the abstractions have fallen off the pyramid, with racial and ethnic equality coming in seventh place, economic inequality, a Democrat favorite, falling to ninth, and climate change and abortion coming in in the tenth and eleventh spots. All of this is bad news for the Dems. As the DNC convention approached, the creaky messaging machine had tilted against the riots. The New York Times and the Washington Post officially ended the embargo by running negative stories about white BLM activists in Seattle, Portland, and Washington D.C. And the media and Democrat officials began openly voicing concerns that the violence would hurt their chances. “The rioting has to stop,” CNN’s Don Lemon intoned, while writing a proposed speech for Biden to deliver on the air. “As you know and I know, it’s showing up in polls, it’s showing up in focus groups, it is the only thing right now that’s sticking. And the Democrats are stuck with it.” They are indeed stuck with it. Mayor Ted Wheeler of Portland, which has seen some of the worst of the violent rioting, appeared to suggest that nothing was working, and that it “will ultimately burn itself out.” The people whose businesses are being burnt out may be less sanguine about the crisis. But the Democrats have no answers to offer. Even those national figures who didn’t explicitly embrace police defunding, a suicidal and unpopular political strategy, can’t push too hard against it because a sizable section of their activist base and media have been radicalized. Democrat efforts to split the difference, limiting police defunding measures and playing numbers games, only led to more direct harassment with BLM contingents showing up at their homes at night, yelling, screaming, and intimidating elected officials. The pressure may not result in the actual elimination of the police that the hate group’s activists demand, but they ensure that the Democrats will continue trying to square the circle, split the difference, and avoid a decision. More crucially, the Democrat donor base is also deeply divided. Rejecting BLM too sharply would alienate George Soros, whose funding is not only crucial to Democrat election efforts, but whose infrastructure makes up a vital part of the American Left, but embracing it would alienate moderate Democrat donors who want Biden to stop the chaos, not give it a great bear hug. Unlike Republicans, the Democrats are deeply conflicted on this issue. And the conflicts are undermining Democrat messaging and electability. The shift from BLM to violent crime is particularly significant when it affects the black voters on whose turnout Democrats depend. Not only isn’t BLM effectively mobilizing black voters (though it seems to be doing a great job of radicalizing white college students and some of their blue region suburban parents) but black voters are increasingly putting violent crime ahead of BLM as an urgent issue. That reflects a national trend, but it’s particularly devastating to the Democrat strategy in this election. Black urban voters are bearing the brunt of the violent crime and they’re not hearing the Dems talking about the issue dominating their neighborhoods and threatening their lives. The Democrats are caught in a trap of their own making. They’re no longer able to turn off the violence. And mildly critical media coverage won’t do it. Even if they could get some of the billionaires who have been pouring money into radical groups to turn off the spigot, there’s enough money to keep them going until November. The Democrats barely managed to stop Bernie Sanders from becoming the nominee. They can’t stop national riots by their usual backroom tactics. And they’re too ideologically hagridden to use the police. Black urban mayors have shown the most willingness to confront the rioters and have the most political immunity for cracking down on criminals, but as long as Portland, Seattle, New York City, and other major cities are controlled by feckless white progressives, the violence will go on. And the riots and crime are not only shifting attention away from BLM, but from the pandemic. People can only focus on one crisis at a time, and the violence and chaos consuming entire cities is becoming more visible than an invisible virus. If this trend continues, then the Democrats will lose both of the big issues that they expected to propel them to victory. The Democrats sowed the winds of political terror, they’ve begun to reap the whirlwind. 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| Cultural Suicide Is Painless
Posted: 03 Sep 2020 02:01 PM PDT The story of all Dark Ages is that when civilizations finally prefer suicide, they do it easily, and the remnants flock to the countryside to preserve what they can—allowing the cities go on with their ritual self-destruction.  by Dr. Victor Davis Hanson: In February, New York was the world’s most dynamic metropolis. By August, the city was more like the ruins of Ephesus. It is not all that hard to blow up a culture. You can do it in a summer if you haven’t much worry about others. When you loot and burn a Target in an hour, it takes months to realize there are no more neighborhood Target-stocked groceries, toilet paper, and Advil to buy this winter. You can in a night assault the police, spit at them, hope to infect them with the coronavirus, and even burn them alive. But when you call 911 in a few weeks after your car is vandalized, your wallet is stolen, and your spouse is violent, and no one comes, only then do you sense that you earlier were voting for a pre-civilized wilderness. You can burn down a Burger King in half an hour. But it will take years to find anyone at Burger King, Inc., who would ever be dumb enough to rebuild atop the charred ruins—to prepare for the next round of arson in 2021 or 2023. Today’s looter carrying off sneakers and smartphones in 10 years will be tomorrow’s urban activist, understandably but in vain demanding stores return to a charred no man’s land, to do their fair share, and to help restore the downtown, neighborhood, inner-city, or the “community.” Old Liberal Ideas Are Being Destroyed America’s past, present, and future are in the process of being recalibrated entirely through the lens of one’s skin color. Columbus is reduced to nothing more than another racist white Italian sailor of a half-millennium past. Grant might as well have fought for slavery in the mind of today’s campus ignoramus. Apparently, the Antifa thug thinks he could just as easily have written the Gettysburg Address or sculpted a statue of Frederick Douglass. The old liberal ideas of assimilation, integration, and intermarriage are being destroyed by the Left under the specious doctrines of cultural appropriation, or “acting white” or “how we look is who we are.” A new fuzzy Jim Crow returns with racially segregated campus safe spaces and theme houses or the race-based reeducation and training sessions in the workplace—all predicated to stop racism! Somehow selecting strangers on the basis of their race to bully in a restaurant, or targeting old anonymous men and women to beat up in the street by their race, or singling out suburbanites by their race for racial taunts and profanity is redefined as reparatory justice or overdue payback—on the assumption that no one would dare say that the arson, looting, and rhetoric are descending into ever more hate-filled nihilism. Our collective future of nationalized tribalism will become what always results when citizens identify by superficial appearance or shared religion. Just go to Lebanon, the Balkans, or Iraq to see what is in store first hand. Tribalism Rising Liberal elite whites themselves are now uneasy, since the abstract doctrines they so nihilistically advocated, from defunding the police to recalibrating looting as “redistribution,” are now becoming reified and closer to home. They see that when BLM protestors jam a restaurant to demand fealty or lecture on “white privilege” or march into a suburb to wake up the commuter to apprise him of his immorality, the racialists will not qualify their agendas with “except for woke whites.” When tribalism is distilled to its innate and terrifying essence, there are never exemptions for individuals: you are reduced to what you appear superficially as to strangers. The white felon is no different than the white Harvard president, the black shoplifter is the same as the black physicist. We are all condensed to a sort of collective nothingness, or rather a racial “allness.” The Self-Immolation of Pro Sports But what the NBA and NFL, and perhaps MLB won’t survive is cultural suicide as players fragment into causes. The NBA existed on the premise that billionaires were willing to pay multimillionaires to lose billions as a prestige lark—as a franchise became a sort of a huge, showy Louis Vuitton bag. But even billionaires have limits. Snobbery and appearing cool do not always trump losing the equivalent of a Ferrari every hour or a Gulfstream each week. The NBA, we are told, is a woke industry. But it’s also the strangest, most non-diverse, right-wing, money-obsessed woke institution in America. More than three-quarters of the multimillionaire players are African-American. Over 90 percent of the billionaire team owners are white. Yet the entire industry — players, coaches, owners, staff — lecture Americans ad nauseam about their supposed sins. The monotonous sermons have become transparent medieval redemptions—given the mortal sin that the NBA sold its very soul to a racist, genocidal, and totalitarian China—to recover billions abroad for the billions lost in viewership and attendance at home. Non-diverse multimillionaires, working for even less diverse billionaires, finger-pointing at middle-class Americans on the evils of privilege, in the pay of the Chinese Communist Party, is not a way to win back fans. Institutional Crack-Ups Charging $30,000-$40,000 for tuition over Zoom is a bad business model in a recession. And the alphabet soups after the names of professors and deans will not make a bit of difference. Thousands of college-educated protesters and rioters are not especially good advertisements for the building of lifelong character on woke university campuses. Once undergraduate institutions decided to make students socially conscious rather than educated, and once their graduates seem to be neither, then who really finds their mentors essential? Our major cities, emerging from lockdown, and on the edge of nightly violence, remind us of what Procopius, the Byzantine historian, saw of Rome in AD 538, once the cultural and political megalopolis of the world: a mostly deserted shell of weeds, deserted streets, collapsed stone, choked fountains, and fortified villas where lawlessness reigned and feuding tribes were what was left of a government that once had enshrined habeas corpus. No city gets a pass from history, not Athens, not Rome, not Alexandria—not Detroit, Baltimore, or Chicago. After all, there is no rule that just because Bill Gates and Amazon headquartered in Seattle that its mayor, city council, and state governor will not abandon its signature downtown. What once made Portland great can be undone in a few weeks. Wall Street may run the world, but it certainly does not run the New York City government. Electronic capital really does still have human legs and when the proverbial suited investor thinks he will be infected, short of toilet paper, or assaulted on the street, he leaves, taking his laptop with him. Bill de Blasio is left to govern, like a horned and bearded Visigoth, over an increasing shell of former grandeur. To venture into San Francisco is to return in a time machine to 1855, a boomtown based on silicon chips, not gold dust, but one likewise lawless, fetid, and safe only for those with private security guards. To the casual visitor, it appears a lunatic place now recalibrated for the homeless, the looter, the assaulter—and the very rich. Crimes like public defecation and drug use, or shattering the windows of a parked car window to steal its contents are not crimes unless the targets are the well-connected. The story of all Dark Ages is that when civilizations finally prefer suicide, they do it easily, and the remnants flock to the countryside to preserve what they can—allowing the cities to go on with their ritual self-destruction. So it has begun to seem this endless summer. Tags: Cultural Suicide, Is Painless, Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness, To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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| Problematic Women: Sen. Marsha Blackburn Explains Why She Is Unapologetically a Conservative Woman
Posted: 03 Sep 2020 01:32 PM PDT
by Virginia Allen & Lauren Evans: Progressive society appears to be at a loss when it comes to understanding conservative women. Women who are pro-life, in favor of smaller government, and uphold traditional family values don’t fit the left’s mold. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., has just released a new book, “The Mind of a Conservative Woman: Seeking the Best for Family and Country,” to explain why conservative values are women’s values. Blackburn joins “Problematic Women” to discuss her new book, why she is a proud conservative, and her 2018 controversy with pop star Taylor Swift. Also on today’s show, Janae Stracke, the grassroots director of Heritage Action for America, and Jeanne Seaver, a Heritage Action sentinel from Savannah, Georgia, join the show to share how they are supporting law enforcement in local communities across America, and how you can as well. And as always, we’ll be crowning our “Problematic Woman of the Week”! Listen to the lightly edited transcript: Virginia Allen: I am thrilled to be joined by Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee. Senator, thanks so much for being here. Sen. Marsha Blackburn: I am so excited to be with you, and conservative women are problematic women. So, there you go. It’s a great point of my book. Allen: Senator, on Sept. 1, you released your brand new book, “The Mind of a Conservative Woman.” Now, liberals, I think, have been trying unsuccessfully to understand the mind of a conservative woman for a very long time. So, I do hope that they buy the book and read it. So, maybe, hopefully, they can finally understand, but I want to begin by asking you: Why did you feel the need to write this book? Blackburn: One of the things that had happened through the years is dealing with the mainstream media and dealing with policymakers in Washington, D.C. I found it so interesting that conservative women are generally considered to be fourth-class citizens. They’re kind of at the bottom of the pecking order, and the mainstream media like to ridicule women who are pro-life, pro-family, pro-business, pro-military, and they kind of shove them aside or mock them. And then I would notice how when you’re out in the heartland and around the country, most women will say, “Oh, well, I’m not partisan.” They’re not Democrat or Republican, but they will tell you that what they want, their hopes and dreams and desires. They want government off their back, out of their pocketbook. They want lower taxes. They want to make certain that their children have every opportunity possible to live their version of the American dream. And I began to realize most of these women tilt conservative, but they didn’t have a landing spot. Likewise, I was hearing from a lot of women who said, “My child that was raised in the church went to a good conservative school. They go to college, and they come home, and they’re leaning left.” And they had a need to help their children understand why they as a family believe what they believe, and why it is important to hear both sides of an issue and have discussion. And then with the advent of the “cancel culture,” again, we were hearing from women who were saying, “My kids are being taught if someone’s not in complete agreement with you, then you can’t have anything to do with them.” And diversity is one of the richnesses of our lives. Having robust, respectful, bipartisan debate helps us to create a stronger government. So, I decided that this would be my project during 2019 and I would write a book that is a landing spot for women, that is an instruction guide for women on how to talk about conservatism. It’s a guidebook for how to … debate some certain issues and a book that would be a history book on the roots of conservatism and how we got to modern-day conservatism. Allen: And how did you come to be a conservative? Blackburn: I was so fortunate to grow up in a conservative family. We were always taught give back more than you take and leave things in better shape than you found them and not to sit around waiting on the opportunity, to make your opportunities so that you could be learning more, doing more, giving back more. And that was the spirit in which I was reared. So, I came to the process of conservatism by seeing it lived out for me every single day in my family, in my community, and then going to college, having the opportunity to debate with my friends who were on the other side of the aisle from me and debate those issues, and being challenged in debating strengthens your resolve and your belief. Allen: You do such a great job right at the beginning of the book of painting a clear distinction between the conservative and liberal vision for America. Explain how those two visions differ and, specifically, how they each view women. Blackburn: Yes, indeed. And I was so fortunate to have one of my favorite mentors, [former House] Speaker Newt Gingrich, write the foreword for this book. And, of course, he has been one of the wonderful visionaries of the modern conservatism, and we all appreciate the leadership and the vision he brought to our movement. One of the things that I did in the book was talk about how the left likes to have government control. And I use an example of Julia. Remember Julia from “The Life of Julia” from the Obama campaign, and how Julia’s life, when you looked at that, and of course, that cartoon was widely mocked by the mainstream media, as well as the conservative media, but what did they do? Julia had no need for anything else other than the federal government, who was there to provide the needs for her, and then for she and her child and for her in retirement. And that is an underpinning of the left, that you [had] government first to solve your problems. When you look at conservatives, conservatives look at the strength of the individual, of the fact that government should be there to protect us from government coming in and taking our rights that are given to us. That is why we have the rule of law. And so you have these two very different footings. Conservatives who say, “Get government in the right spot. Get them over on the side,” and liberals who say, “Oh, we’re going to go to government first to solve everything.” And liberals who say, “Give your rights to the government,” and conservatives who say, “No, these are our rights. And the rule of law in government should be to protect the government from coming in and using a heavy hand and taking those rights and freedoms away.” So, using the example of “The Life of Julia,” and then also a chapter that I did on “The Stepford Wives of Liberalism,” where I talk about how the liberal, the left, uses the same words, same phrases to try to communicate a message. So, we kind of draw that paradigm and that difference. And then I follow that with talking about the history of conservatism, going back into our [country’s] Judeo-Christian founding and looking at Jerusalem, looking at the 12 tribes of Israel for the foundation for federalism, then Athens, then London, and then Philadelphia, then D.C., and bringing us to modern conservatism. As we look at writings from de Tocqueville and Burke, looking at the French Revolution and what Burke learned from that, looking at William F. Buckley and Russell Kirk, and I’ve even put a reading list in the book, because I think it would be helpful for individuals that are just figuring out they’re more center-right than anything else politically—just some good things for them to read to kind of shore them up as to what real conservatism is. Allen: We are so pleased to be talking with Sen. Marsha Blackburn about her new book “The Mind of a Conservative Woman,” and Senator, I do really love how right at the beginning, close to the beginning of the book, you paint this wonderful picture of the history of conservatism. I found that really, really helpful. One of my favorite stories that you get into and that you share in your book is about your trip to Iraq in 2003. And on that trip, you spoke with Iraqi women, who lost so much. Their nation had been ravaged by war, and [then-Iraqi dictator] Saddam Hussein had essentially created an anti-American culture, where women were frequently raped and abused. Can you just tell us a little bit more about that trip and how it impacted your political views? Blackburn: One of the things that was so impactful to me on this trip was hearing from those that were working on the ground, our State Department, U.S.A. personnel, our military personnel, and Gen. David Petraeus had established a women’s center in Mosul, where we were visiting. And one of what we saw at this women’s center was Iraqi women who huddled around the openings of this shell of a building that was left, just to listen to our words be translated to them. They had their daughters with them, and to them, this was such a sign of hope. They loved getting our business cards, rubbing their hands over our business cards. And they loved the fact that we came to see them. And to me, it really was such a lesson that hope lives in the human heart, that your children are not going to have to endure what you have had to endure. Allen: You describe your mission and passion as being faith, family, freedom, hope, and opportunity. Why those five words? Blackburn: This is something that came about through my political life, as people would say, “Well, tell me what you’re working on. Tell me what’s important to you.” And I realized that I needed to hone it down so that it wasn’t a 10-minute speech. And I just began to distill it and came down to those five things that I’m the happy warrior for. I get up every day, and I go to fight to protect our faith, our families, our freedoms that are so precious, and I hope for better days, opportunities for individuals to live their version of the American dream. And I realized that that is kind of the lens through which I look at policymaking and legislation. Is this something that is going to further the cause [of] faith, family, freedom, hope, and opportunity? Is it something that is going to diminish or weaken freedom? And Ronald Reagan told us over and over, “You do not pass freedom along into the bloodstream. Every single generation has to fight for it and pass it on strong to the next generation.” Allen: The media [don’t] do a great job of showing what conservative women actually believe and why we believe it. Why do you think that the media [get] this wrong? Blackburn: Yeah. The reason the media [get] it wrong nearly every day is because they do not have respect for the belief system of conservative women, because they’ve created this caricature of what conservatism is. If you listen to the mainstream media, you think conservatives are gray-haired, old guys that are sitting in a room, and they’re greedy and trying to hoard everything for themselves. And you don’t realize that there is a country full of people who are center-right, who are saying, “I love my family. I want the best for my family. I want more opportunities, not fewer opportunities. I want to make certain that we can go to church on Sunday and that we have the right to exercise our faith, that we are free of the fear of religious persecution.” They want to make certain that there is job security, that they can go to work every day and work hard and be compensated. And if they start a business or create some wonderful invention that our laws are going to protect them and allow them to benefit from this. I have many times said that the Republican Party should change the meaning of GOP and make it the “Great Opportunity Party,” because that is what we are for. We are the land of opportunity. We want more opportunities for everyone in this country, everyone equal opportunities. Allen: Senator, we cannot have you on the show and not bring up Taylor Swift. We covered Swift’s decision to get political quite extensively on the show, including her targeted attack against you. For those who might be unaware, during your 2018 run for Senate, Swift not only endorsed your opponent, but she also spoke out against you, and she attacked your record, and you discuss Taylor Swift’s film, “Miss Americana,” and her attack on you in the book. Swift pointed to specifically your vote on the Violence Against Women Act as the central reason why she opposed you. And she says she opposed you because you voted against that act. You set the record straight though in your book. Can you just take us a minute and explain what happened between you and Taylor Swift? Blackburn: Yes, absolutely. And I’ll say first I’ve had a great working relationship with our fabulous creative community in Tennessee. And I have been one of the fiercest defenders of their intellectual property rights and have authored legislation that has been very helpful to the music industry, and so to have someone from that industry come out with this diatribe against me, which was incorrect information, it was like some of those talking points and that everybody on the left starts to use, and they’re going to stick with them. So, someone had given her this list of campaign talking points. And so, as I’m talking about how legislation is made and getting into that in the book, I talk about this incident with Taylor Swift, and she had pointed to different things she thought I’d done wrong that had offended her. And so, I pointed out the fact that I had quite a history of working hard to help women and children who had been adversely impacted and had faced abuse and violence. I’ve done a tremendous amount of work on those that have been caught in that horrific web of human trafficking. And I talk about this specific bill that I had voted for and the version that we had in the House. And then the bill goes to the Senate, and then the bill gets changed, and all of these other things get added on to the bill, and then this final version comes back to us. And that is a version that I voted against, because I want to make certain that resources are going to our abuse centers and actually going into things like rape kits and are going to help women and children that have been suffering abuse. So, I think it’s so interesting how, and this is a part of the “cancel culture,” if someone thinks that you have an opinion, or they have assigned an opinion to you, then they assign everything that is negative to you. And this is how you end up having this “cancel culture.” I’ve said so many times, “I am always willing to have a conversation with anyone who wants to make the lives of Tennesseans better, and my door is always open to have those conversations.” Allen: Now, I know that you invited Taylor Swift to your home to sit down and have a conversation about these issues. Did Swift ever respond to your invitation one way or another? Blackburn: No, but we are certainly … I’m always open to have a conversation and discuss issues and see, this is one of those things, Virginia, that you get when you have individuals that say, “Only this opinion is the valid opinion.” You lose that opportunity for that respectful, robust, political debate. If you do not have that, you’re never going to be able to work toward a more perfect union. It’s important for us to remember that. Allen: At the top of Chapter 9, you write, and I have to read this because I just love it. It’s so good. You say, “You are a conservative woman. You are beautiful. You are gifted. You are capable. You are both passionate and compassionate. I admire you. I’m glad you’re in the world. I’ll tell you something else. You can’t hide. You can’t go about your quiet way. To be a conservative woman in this generation means you are going to stand out.” I love that so much, but I also recognize the weight of those words. As conservative women, we do stand out, and that can be highly uncomfortable. Sometimes, when friends and family members are asking you to defend what you believe because in their mind, as a woman, you must believe in a woman’s right to abortion. You must believe in big-government welfare programs to support single moms and so on. So, what is your battle cry to conservative women who honestly are just weary of always feeling like they’re kind of on the outside? Blackburn: Yes. And that is one of the reasons for putting the history of conservatism in there and giving this landing spot, because too many times women who are conservative feel is if they are on defense. They go to work. They hear from other women. They listen to some of these TV shows that are so tilted left, and they feel as if there is not a spot for them. And it’s important that they realize they are the majority. They are the majority of women in this country. There are more women who are independent or center-right agree with them than agree with the programming on all of these shows that fill up daytime TV. And conservative women are caring and compassionate. They care not only for their children and their families, but for their communities. They are givers. They’re constantly stepping up to help other people. In Tennessee, we’re known as the Volunteer State. There are wonderful women who are leading outreach with different community groups simply to stand up and to help others. They have a servant’s heart. Allen: And how do we, as conservative women, articulate to our friends, sisters, mothers, female co-workers, how do we articulate our conservative views to them in order to bring more women into the conservative movement? Blackburn: I think one of the things, when you talk about communicating, is being able to learn how to talk about issues and to engage someone to talk with you and to not be combative. And that’s why I actually have some guidance in the book. How do you talk about some of these issues, whether it’s taxes or health care or abortion or immigration, and talk about it and see the other point of view? You’ve got to learn to engage so that you can help change people’s minds. And many times the issue of health care will come up and people will say, “Well, of course, I think everybody ought to be able to have access to health care.” Then you ask some of the questions. “Do you think you should have to give up your health insurance in order for someone else to have access to health care?” And people will say, “Well, no. I don’t see the connection between those two.” And you can agree that health care is expensive, and we need to get the cost down. How do you get the cost down? You have more opportunities for insurance products in the marketplace. You have transparency, price transparency, so that you know what things are going to cost. You look at the cost of pharmaceuticals and you say, “How do we get those down?” That’s something that President [Donald] Trump has done a tremendous amount of work on. So, you began to look at the different components of the issue. Likewise, immigration, looking at that. And as you talk about these individuals that were being brought by “coyotes,” taken from their families and their villages in Central America and brought to the Southern border and then put into gangs, put into labor crews, put into human-trafficking rings. And these families in Central America thought they were sending their child to the U.S. and then they would be able to follow, and they never hear from that child. So, there’s another side to these issues, and it’s important to be able to have good discussions on these issues. Allen: Senator, we ask all of our guests on this show one question. We love hearing the various answers and responses that we get. Do you consider yourself to be a feminist? Blackburn: I’ve never applied the term “feminist” to myself. Am I a trailblazer? Yes. Am I constantly breaking barriers and opening doors for women? Absolutely. And indeed, we have kind of chuckled a few times about a profile that was done on me and my college newspaper when I had talked a company into hiring me to let me sell books door to door during the summertime. And the whole thing was about breaking barriers and opening doors for women. And I think that it is so vitally important that we constantly do this so that we are making it easier for the next generation of women. And I’m going to continue to do that. I don’t know if there is a label that goes with it. Trailblazer, ceiling-breaker, barrier-pusher. I don’t know. It’s just that women and conservative women, they’re going to be there to help preserve freedom for the next generation. I want to do everything I can to encourage and embolden them. Allen: Senator Blackburn, it has been such a pleasure talking with you. Your book, “The Mind of a Conservative Woman,” is available wherever books are sold. K.T. McFarland, the former deputy national security adviser, wrote about your book: “This book is a joy to read the story of a happy warrior driven by a code of integrity, decency, and common sense.” And I can certainly concur with that. The book is truly a joy to read. And again, it can be found wherever books are sold. We’ll be sure to put a link in today’s show notes if you’d like to buy it, but Senator, thank you so much for your time today. We really appreciate you coming on the show. Tags: Virginia Allen, To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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Posted: 03 Sep 2020 12:51 PM PDT  by Mario Murillo Ministries: In security footage timestamped Monday at 3:08 p.m. Pacific Time, Nancy Pelosi is seen walking through ESalon SF in San Francisco with wet hair, and without a mask over her mouth or nose. The stylist doing her hair can be seen following her wearing a black face mask. Salons in San Francisco had been closed since March and were only notified they could reopen on Sept. 1 for outdoor hairstyling services only. Salon owner Erica Kious, explained she has independent stylists working for her who rent chairs in her salon. “One of the stylists who rents a chair from me contacted me Sunday night,” Kious said. A screengrab of the text message she received from one of her stylists said: “I’ll be there at 2:45 tomorrow. Pelosi assistant just messaged me to do her hair.” Kious replied: “Pelosi?” Kious cast Pelosi’s visit as a double standard. “It was a slap in the face that she went in, you know, that she feels that she can just go and get her stuff done while no one else can go in, and I can’t work,” adding that she “can’t believe” the speaker didn’t have a mask on. “We’re supposed to look up to this woman, right?” Kious said. “It is just disturbing.”  “The Speaker always wears a mask and complies with local COVID requirements. This business offered for the Speaker to come in on Monday and told her they were allowed by the city to have one customer at a time in the business. The Speaker complied with the rules as presented to her by this establishment,” he said. But the owner pushed back. Kious said Pelosi received a wash and a blow-dry, but told Fox News that “you’re not supposed to blow dry hair” according to coronavirus safety precautions for hair salons. “We have been shut down for so long, not just me, but most of the small businesses and I just can’t – it’s a feeling – a feeling of being deflated, helpless and honestly beaten down,” Kious said. Below is her interview with Tucker Carlson. She added: “The fact that they did this, and she came in, it’s like a slap in the face.” But Kious said she is not alone in the hardships she has faced amid closures during the coronavirus pandemic. “This is for everybody,” she said. “I am sharing this because of what everyone in my industry, and my city, what every small business is going through right now.” “No one can last anymore,” she said. “I have also lost 60 percent of my clientele because everyone is fleeing the city.” Kious said that the area where her salon is located has turned into “a third world country,” saying that “every other storefront is completely vacant and shut down and boarded up.”  “It has gotten so extreme,” she said. “It is so night and day from what it was a year ago, that everyone is fleeing.” Here’s the most important point to this story. Nancy Pelosi demonized Erica Kious. Pelosi lied to protect her reputation and power. Pelosi made the victim the villain. As a result, Erica was flooded with hateful messages and even death threats. Her Yelp site was overwhelmed with negative reviews. Do you think that Nancy Pelosi will apologize and exonerate this innocent woman from the hate that the Speaker has rained down on her? What more do you need to know? Nancy sees one standard for herself and another for everyone else. The pandemic is our problem not hers. The shutdown is our problem not hers. What was unmasked today is the total disregard for people’s businesses, reputation and safety. Example: their military arm, Antifa/BLM has left nothing but destroyed businesses behind them—businesses that never rise again from the ashes. Witness the pathetic plea of a single mom as she begs these thugs to spare her business which lay in the path of the rioters:  ———————– Mario Murillo is an evangelist, minister, blogger. Tags: Mario Murillo, Ministries, Nancy Pelosi, UnMasked To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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Friday, Sept.4, 2020
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Good morning, NBC News readers.
The suspect in the fatal Portland shooting was killed by officers during his attempted arrest. President Donald Trump denies a new report that he called fallen soldiers “losers.” And seven police officers have been suspended after the details of the death of a Black man in Rochester, New York, became known.
Here’s what we’re watching this Friday morning.
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Man who admitted fatal shooting of right-wing activist in Portland killed by officers during arrest
A suspect who earlier appeared to admit shooting dead a man who had been part of a pro-Trump caravan in Portland, Oregon, last weekend was himself killed during an attempted arrest on Thursday, officials said.
Michael Forest Reinoehl was fatally shot in Olympia, Washington, as a federal task force tried to detain him, a U.S. Marshals spokesperson said.
Reinoehl was a suspect in the killing of Aaron “Jay” Danielson, 39, the marshals service confirmed.
The shooting in Portland occurred after skirmishes between protesters and the pro-Trump caravan in the Oregon city.
Earlier Thursday, VICE News published part of an interview with a man who said he was Reinoehl in which he said he acted in self-defense.
In the same interview, the man who identified himself as Reinoehl said “I am 100 percent anti-fascist. I am not a member of Antifa. I’m not a member of anything.” Antifa is a loosely organized network of groups that use direct action to confront far-right and fascist groups.
The U.S. Marshals confirmed that Michael Forest Reinoehl was killed in Washington state.
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Trump denies report claiming he called dead U.S. service members ‘losers’ and ‘suckers
The White House denied a report Thursday that President Trump called dead American service members “losers” and “suckers.”
“Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers,” Trump told aides after he scrapped a visit to Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018 to honor the dead service members, according to the report in The Atlantic magazine, which cited four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion.
Trump, on the same trip, later referred to the more than 1,800 Marines who lost their lives in the Battle of Belleau Wood in France as “suckers” for getting killed, the magazine reported.
“What animal would say such a thing?” Trump said Thursday night as he returned from a campaign rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. “We can refute it. We have other people that will refute it.”
The comments, which are in stark contrast with the president’s public persona as a champion of the military and a fighter for veterans, are likely to have repercussions on the campaign trail.
Meantime, at the rally in Pennsylvania Trump doubled down on his call for supporters to vote twice.
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‘I want to see the data’: Scientists express skepticism over Nov. 1 vaccine target
Successfully rolling out a coronavirus vaccine by Nov. 1 will rely on clinical trials conducted at unprecedented speed, coupled with public release of research that shows it is both safe and effective, experts say.
Reaction to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s letter to states to prepare for “large-scale” distribution of the vaccine in November — specifically, two days before the presidential election — triggered swift concern that political pressure could override commitments to safety.
“I want the physician scientists and not the political leadership to make these decisions,” said Dr. Steven Nissen, a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic. “If it’s made from the Oval Office, there’s going to be a lot of skepticism.”
As the global effort to find a COVID vaccine continues, the U.S. has already begun to scale down its engagement with the World Health Organization.
The State Department said in a statement Thursday that includes “recalling the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) detailees from WHO headquarters, regional offices, and country offices, and reassigning these experts.”
Meantime, as Labor Day weekend approaches, lots of travelers are heading to COVID-19 hot spots such as Florida.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, reminded people on NBC’s “Today” earlier this week to be careful over the 3-day weekend so the country can avoid the surge in cases that happened after Fourth of July and Memorial Day.
“Wear a mask. Keep social distancing. Avoid crowds,” Fauci said on NBC’s “Today.” “You don’t want to be someone who’s propagating the outbreak. You want to be part of the solution, not part of the problem.”
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7 Rochester officers suspended in case of Daniel Prude, who died after police restraint
Seven police officers involved in the response to a call in which a Black man was put in a hood and later died have been suspended, the mayor of Rochester, New York, announced Thursday.
Mayor Lovely Warren said at a news conference that the officers involved in the response to the man, Daniel Prude, were suspended with pay “against the advice of counsel.”
Warren indicated that she might be in for a fight with the local police union over the suspensions.
“I understand that the union may sue me for taking these officers off our streets. They should feel free to do so.”
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- Twitter, Facebook slapped warning labels on Trump’s posts about voting twice.
- Colon cancer took Chadwick Boseman’s life and has renewed concerns about Black men’s disproportionately high risk of the illness.
- Beirut rescuers resumed search operations in the hopes of finding a survivor one month after the city’s deadly explosion.
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Meghan and Harry’s story is a made-in-America fairy tale, culture writer Patricia Grisafi writes in an opinion piece.
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One fun thing
It may be the last weekend of the summer, but “Tenet” the first big blockbuster of the season has just been released in theaters after months of COVID-19 delays.
Still, moviegoers say they are mixed about whether they feel comfortable returning to theaters.
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From NBC’s Chuck Todd, Mark Murray and Melissa Holzberg
FIRST READ: Trump changed the subject, but he’s still losing the race
Had you told us, at the beginning of the week, that Joe Biden would travel to Kenosha, Wis., and that the coronavirus would remain a backburner issue on the campaign trail, we would have concluded that this would have been a good week for President Trump.
Instead, it’s been a brutal one for Trump – now 60 days out until the election.
Poll after poll showed Biden ahead nationally and in the key battlegrounds, all conducted AFTER the Republican convention and the GOP’s “law and order” focus.
Poll after poll found Trump losing the message battle on law/order/safety.
After Trump’s continued warnings about voter fraud in 2020, he was the one who appeared to urge his supporters to vote twice in the election.
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And then Thursday night – right before the Labor Day weekend – came Jeffrey Goldberg’s Atlantic article revealing that the president has disparaged fallen military service-members, according to anonymous sources with firsthand knowledge of Trump’s rhetoric. (Trump and his White House have denied the accusations.)
Trump and his team have spent so much energy and so much time trying to shift the focus and rhetoric of the 2020 campaign.
But what do they have to show for it?
Answer: a pretty rough week.
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Trump’s language in that Atlantic article sounds very familiar
Despite Trump’s denials, maybe the biggest problem he has in arguing that he never disparaged fallen and wounded U.S. military members is that he’s said SIMILAR things in the past.
On John McCain back in 2015: “He’s not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”
On Sgt. La David Johnson, who died in Niger: He “must have known what he signed up for,” according to Rep. Frederica Wilson, who overheard Trump’s call to Johnson’s widow.
On the Khan family: “I saw him [at the 2016] Democratic convention. He was, you know, very emotional. And probably looked like — a nice guy to me. His wife, if you look at his wife, she was standing there. She had nothing to say. She probably — maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say.”
And on former Defense Secretary James Mattis: “Probably the only thing Barack Obama and I have in common is that we both had the honor of firing Jim Mattis, the world’s most overrated General,” Trump tweeted this past June.
When you read the Atlantic article, there’s one person who can help settle this he-said-vs.-he-said debate: former White House chief of staff John Kelly.
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DATA DOWNLOAD: The numbers you need to know today
6,173,028: The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the United States, per the most recent data from NBC News and health officials. (That’s 39,831 more than Thursday morning.)
187,811: The number of deaths in the United States from the virus so far. (That’s 861 more than Thursday morning.)
79.8 million: The number of coronavirus tests that have been administered in the United States so far, according to researchers at The COVID Tracking Project.
8.4 percent: The new unemployment rate for August, after the economy added 1.4 million jobs last month.
3 and 8 percentage points: The lead Joe Biden has over President Trump among likely voters in Florida and Pennsylvania, respectively, according to new Quinnipiac University polls.
55 percent: The share of Americans who believe that what President Trump has said about protests has made matters worse, per an ABC/Ipsos poll.
881,000: The number of first-time jobless claims in the last week of August (the lowest since the start of the pandemic).
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2020 VISION: The Uncertainty Principle
This week, we’ve seen as many as 11 different polls showing Joe Biden leading President Trump – either nationally or in key battleground states.
But writing in the Washington Post, data analyst David Byler makes an important point: While the polls have been pretty consistent, there is so much other uncertainty with this presidential election.
You have a pandemic, an economy in tatters, and a significant change in HOW Americans will be casting their ballots
And although many of the fundamentals are currently breaking against the incumbent, that uncertainty is important to keep in mind.
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Ad Watch from Ben Kamisar
Today’s Ad Watch heads to New Mexico, where we find a familiar advertising bogeywoman, but from an interesting candidate.
Republicans have long used Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a villain in stump speeches and ads. But in New Mexico, freshman Democratic Rep. Xochitl Torres-Small argues that “too many in Washington don’t appreciate the hard work that goes into fueling economy.”
“That’s why I spoke up for New Mexico and stood up to members of my own party who want to ban fracking,” she adds, as a headline flashes on the screen reading “Torres Small opposes AOC fracking ban bill.”
It’s an example of the tightrope that freshman Democrats need to walk in the red-leaning districts they won in 2018 as Republicans try to tie them to the left. But it’s also an example of a Democrat embracing that challenge, too.
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Avoiding a government shutdown
The Trump administration and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are planning to work together to avoid a government shutdown, per NBC’s Hill team. Our team reports that they’ve made an informal agreement to support continuing funding for existing programs – also known as a “clean CR” (or continuing resolution).
Pelosi’s spokesman Drew Hammill said in a statement, “House Democrats are for a clean continuing resolution.”
As far as coronavirus negotiations go, this means that it seems the budget talks won’t be affected by moves to push for unemployment insurance and state aid. However, our team also reports there’s no deadline or point of leverage for coronavirus money to be levied.
And there’s a chance Americans won’t see major federal help before Election Day.
Of course, there’s no way to know how long a CR would be for. Traditionally, per NBC’s Hill team, funding would extend through mid-December and renegotiated once the results of the presidential race are determined.
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ICYMI: What ELSE is happening in the world?
The man who admitted to that fatal shooting in Portland has himself been killed after an attempted arrest.
President Trump doubled down on encouraging his supporters to vote twice in the presidential election on Thursday.
A spokesperson for the World Health Organization said to not expect widespread COVID-19 vaccinations until mid-2021.
Seven police officers in Rochester, N.Y. were suspended after the restraint used on a Black man led to his death.
President Trump is denying reports that he called dead American service-members “losers” and “suckers”.
Human rights experts affiliated with the United Nations are raising concerns over Hong Kong’s new security law.
Facebook says it will now prohibit new political ads in the week leading up to Election Day.
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