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Hey Ilhan! Hey Alexandria! Venezuela’s democratic president wants you to come to Venezuela to see some socialism

In the past, lefties have flocked to political pilgrimages to newly created socialist countries to drink in the collectivism and praise the new regimes. It happened in Cuba with the Venceremos Brigade sugar cane-cutting harvest, it happened in Nicaragua with the Sandalistas (ain’t that right, Bill de Blasio), and it certainly happened in Venezuela during the salad days of socialist Hugo Chavez (until socialized Cuban Castrocare actually killed him in 2013). Oliver Stone, Sean Penn, Naomi Campbell, and Dial Joe-4-Oil Kennedy were all in, and don’t think they weren’t loud about it.

Well, now a new invitation has been issued to the same lefties – from Venezuela’s democratically elected president, Juan Guaido:

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó, speaking in an exclusive interview with FOX Business’ Trish Regan, is telling those on the far left, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. of New York and Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, that the root of Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis is directly tied to socialism.

“It’s about a lack of information,” Guaidó said about Ocasio-Cortez and Omar on Monday. “So if you want to talk about the economy, we’re seeing 53 percent rates, 1,000 percent in inflation, lack of basic products, medication and food. If we look at the day-to-day suffering of the Venezuelan people that’s not about numbers it’s about human beings. It’s about lives, people who are suffering right now who see their lives in danger and who cannot provide for themselves as human beings to sustain a society and the world. So regarding the crisis going on in Venezuela, I invite everyone to see what’s going on in Venezuela.”

He’d like to educate these socialists about what socialism looks like up close, given that he lives in it. All that free health care? Come see what it looks like in power-darkened Venezuela, where preemies freeze to death without their incubators, doctors have fled the country, the remaining medical staff can’t get to work on a now gutted electrical subway system, and Band-Aids are scarce. Free food? The Chavista socialist elites have let it rot on the docks and stolen the money for it. Aid? They’ve blocked it from coming in. Free money printed up wholesale to pay for social services? Only if you like carting it in wheelbarrows, given the country’s gargantuan inflation rate that came of it. Free education? Ask the millions of students out protesting in the streets as the protest vanguard what free education looks like.

So much of what is strangling Venezuela now is precisely what leftists such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Ilhan Omar are proposing. It’s no surprise that the pair of them are among the few people out there still defending monstrous socialist regime. Now they’re hearing from the legitimate leader of the Venezuelans, the man who may well end up taking the reins if the detested and failed regime is dislodged, and it’s not pretty for them.

A political pilgrimage indeed, it’s time for a reality tour for all the Chavista shills out there, still creepily promoting the nightmare of socialism.    

 

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Perfect: A robot to fill Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s job in Congress

By now, you’ll have read that Sandy O thinks people whose jobs are taken over by robots should be excited to be unemployed and have more time for creating art or whatever.  I would like her to have the same opportunities as the rest of the workforce, so I propose “Sophia for Congress!”

Sophia is a robot built by Hanson Robotics.  Like Sandy O, it appeared at the SXSW conference, but in 2016.  It is able to display more than fifty facial expressions, which seems like more than the congresswoman has in her human repertoire, but perhaps she is on camera only when she’s complaining about something.  (She seems too young to be doing Botox, which can make facial muscles less responsive.)

If you know of Sophia, you may be aware that she is a citizen of Saudi Arabia.  One might snarkily say this proves that Saudi Arabia isn’t interested in a woman’s intelligence, not even the artificial kind.  But let’s be tolerant and consider how difficult it is for a man to find a woman when his country allows a man to marry multiple women, leaving slimmer pickings for the other men.  You didn’t think Muslim men marry little girls because they prefer them, did you?  Or keep sex slaves because they’re convenient?  No, the guys are just trying to make the best of a bad situation, where the pool of available women is just too small.  Sophia has been criticized as a “chatbot with a face” (all in the Wikipedia article), but I expect she can be programmed to be quiet and submissive.  Or to practice taqiyya.  Did I mention she has a little sister?

So is the foreign citizenship a problem?  After Rashida Tlaib wrapped herself in a Palestinian flag to celebrate her victory?  After Democrats passed a bill allowing non-citizens to vote in local elections?  Ilhan Omar has accused Jews of having dual loyalty, but Sophia isn’t Jewish (supposedly, she is intended to look like Audrey Hepburn; might be an issue if her looks copied Gal Gadot), so probably not an issue.  Heck, non-citizens already vote in our elections — why not let one serve in Congress?

Sophia has accounts on Facebook and Instagram (where she has 97.9K followers).  On Twitter, Sophia has 96.3K followers, while Sandy O has about 3 million.  The only issue I can think of from the standpoint of the Democratic Party is that Sophia is intended to have learning capability.  Sandy O seems to have avoided that possibility.

Sophia does appear to be white and female rather than gender-fluid, but let’s not hate the non-organic beings among us.  She can always request “sex reassignment” surgery or simply self-identify as something else.

I wonder if she’s pro-life.

By now, you’ll have read that Sandy O thinks people whose jobs are taken over by robots should be excited to be unemployed and have more time for creating art or whatever.  I would like her to have the same opportunities as the rest of the workforce, so I propose “Sophia for Congress!”

Sophia is a robot built by Hanson Robotics.  Like Sandy O, it appeared at the SXSW conference, but in 2016.  It is able to display more than fifty facial expressions, which seems like more than the congresswoman has in her human repertoire, but perhaps she is on camera only when she’s complaining about something.  (She seems too young to be doing Botox, which can make facial muscles less responsive.)

If you know of Sophia, you may be aware that she is a citizen of Saudi Arabia.  One might snarkily say this proves that Saudi Arabia isn’t interested in a woman’s intelligence, not even the artificial kind.  But let’s be tolerant and consider how difficult it is for a man to find a woman when his country allows a man to marry multiple women, leaving slimmer pickings for the other men.  You didn’t think Muslim men marry little girls because they prefer them, did you?  Or keep sex slaves because they’re convenient?  No, the guys are just trying to make the best of a bad situation, where the pool of available women is just too small.  Sophia has been criticized as a “chatbot with a face” (all in the Wikipedia article), but I expect she can be programmed to be quiet and submissive.  Or to practice taqiyya.  Did I mention she has a little sister?

So is the foreign citizenship a problem?  After Rashida Tlaib wrapped herself in a Palestinian flag to celebrate her victory?  After Democrats passed a bill allowing non-citizens to vote in local elections?  Ilhan Omar has accused Jews of having dual loyalty, but Sophia isn’t Jewish (supposedly, she is intended to look like Audrey Hepburn; might be an issue if her looks copied Gal Gadot), so probably not an issue.  Heck, non-citizens already vote in our elections — why not let one serve in Congress?

Sophia has accounts on Facebook and Instagram (where she has 97.9K followers).  On Twitter, Sophia has 96.3K followers, while Sandy O has about 3 million.  The only issue I can think of from the standpoint of the Democratic Party is that Sophia is intended to have learning capability.  Sandy O seems to have avoided that possibility.

Sophia does appear to be white and female rather than gender-fluid, but let’s not hate the non-organic beings among us.  She can always request “sex reassignment” surgery or simply self-identify as something else.

I wonder if she’s pro-life.

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Developing: Corrupt DOJ Attorney Bruce Ohr Caught in Major Lie Protecting His CIA Wife Nellie

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Bruce Ohr, the corrupt US attorney at the top of the Department of Justice, was caught lying in his testimony to Congress.  He consistently denied that he knew what his wife Nellie was up to related to the Russia witchhunt.  This was a lie!

In December 2017 the head of opposition research firm Fusion GPS admitted in a court filing that his firm paid Nellie Ohr, the wife of senior Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, to help dig up damaging information on then-candidate Donald Trump.

The connections between Nellie Ohr and the ‘Spygate’ scandal were hidden at a distance for months.

As noted previously at TGP, Nellie Ohr is a Communist sympathizer connected to Russia as well as a corrupt Never-Trumper.

Author Diana West at the American Spectator posted an article on Nellie Ohr last year.  Nellie Ohr is “the “dossier” spying scandal’s woman in the middle.”

To one side of Ohr, there is the Fusion GPS team, including fellow contractor Christopher Steele. To the other, there is husband Bruce Ohr, who, until his “dossier”-related demotion, was No. 4 man at the Department of Justice, and a key contact there for Steele.

What’s more revealing about Nellie Ohr is the men in her life are protecting her involvement in the Russia scandal:

Notably, the “dossier” men in her life have tried to shield Ohr from public scrutiny, even at professional risk. Her husband, as the Daily Caller News Foundation reports, failed to disclose his wife’s employment with Fusion GPS and seek the appropriate conflict-of-interest waiver, which may have been an important factor in his demotion from associate deputy attorney general late last year.

Under Senate and House questioning, Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson consistently failed to disclose Nellie Ohr’s existence as one of his firm’s paid Russian experts, let alone that he hired her for the red-hot DNC/Clinton campaign Trump-Russia project.

Even Christopher Steele may have tried to keep Nellie Ohr “under cover.” Steele, put forth as the “dossier” author ever since its January 2017 publication in BuzzFeed, does not appear to have let on to his many media and political contacts that he had “dossier”-assistance from at least two fellow Fusion GPS Russian experts, Nellie Ohr and Edward Baumgartner. Baumgartner, interestingly, was a Russian history major at Vassar in the 1990s when Nellie Ohr taught Russian history there.

It appears that the men in Nellie’s life did all they could to prevent Nellie Ohr from being outed for being involved in the dossier because she also has links to the CIA and therefore to John Brennan.

Last week TGP reported that new evidence suggests Nellie Ohr was working for the CIA and Fusion GPS when she passed on the junk Trump-Russia dossier and information on the Trump Children to the DOJ-FBI.

Now this…

In Bruce Ohr’s testimony in front of Congress that was released to the public last week by US Representative Doug Collins (R-GA) Ohr claimed throughout his transcript that he was never involved with his wife’s dealings with Fusion GPS and really didn’t know anything about what was going on.

This was a lie. 

Ohr contradicted his testimony in one sentence during his interview –

There’s no way Ohr could share an email address with his wife and not know what she was up to. 

If Nellie is tied to the CIA then she is tied to former Obama CIA Head John Brennan which would implicate by association, his boss, former President Obama.

It now appears likely that communist sympathizer Nellie Ohr, and the men who surrounded her, her husband, business partners, John Brennan, and by association President Obama, were all connected.  These people lied to prevent her from being identified as a CIA spy.  She and all the men in her life attempted to prevent Candidate Trump from being elected and later to remove duly elected President Trump from office. 

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NYC Could Go Bankrupt For First Time In 40 Years

The proven result of socialism and unbridled government spending. Meanwhile people can’t figure out what Mayor de Blasio’s wife has done with $850 million. Via Breitbart Financial experts predict that there are already signs the city is headed for financial disaster, as many individuals and businesses are leaving the city for lower tax areas and city government […]

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KNOWLES: AOC Wants To Pay People Not To Work

On Monday’s episode of “The Michael Knowles Show,” bestselling author and bestselfpromoting podcast host Michael Knowles critiques New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s idea to pay for folks who are “unwilling to work.” Transcript and video below
How is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez going to pay for everybody not to work?

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Lawyer for Covington Student Will Sue CNN for Defamation, More than $250 Million

In a pre-recorded interview with radio host Mark Levin for Fox News that will air during Sunday’s Life, Liberty & Levin, lawyer Lin Wood, who represents smeared Covington Catholic student Nicholas Sandmann, revealed that they planned to sue CNN for more than $250 million in a defamation suit in the coming days.

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Holy Biblegate! Trump signs Bibles in Alabama, critics pounce

President Trump and Melania went to Alabama Friday to survey tornado damage and comfort those suffering in the aftermath. The President and First Lady do quite a good job of that sort of thing. Unfortunately, they have been getting lots of practice dealing with victims of natural disasters. That’s not good enough for the folks looking for any excuse to criticize the First Couple. They both signed some Bibles, handed to them by local people in Alabama, and faux outrage on social media commenced.

President Donald Trump signed Bibles for survivors of the Alabama tornado that killed 23 people during a visit of the disaster area on Friday.

During his visit five days after the storm hit, Trump met with state and leaders and assessed the damage for himself in Beauregard. He also met with the families of tornado victims, including Marshall Lynn Grimes, who died alongside his fiance.

Prior to being on the ground, Trump took an aerial tour of the devastation after landing at Fort Benning.

“I saw this and it’s hard to believe,” Trump said. “You saw things that you wouldn’t believe.”

After surveying the storm’s damage, President Trump and Melania stopped at a church with Alabama Governor Kay Ivey. Crosses were set up in memory of the victims and the Trumps stood before each and read the names. Then they went inside the church which serves as a shelter and distribution center for donations. As happens, a crowd gathered to see the president and maybe get an autograph. One 12-year-old boy came forward with a Bible for Trump to autograph. I’ll remind you that they were standing in a church and no doubt there were few options of items for the president to autograph.

The impromptu autographing by Trump began innocently enough. Trump was responding to a child. Melania signed some too. He signed his name on the cover of the Bibles. He wasn’t playfully spiking them to the onlookers as he did with the paper towels that one time. So while our betters in the media made certain to play up the bible signing, religious leaders didn’t think it was any big deal. It may be odd but it’s not heresy.

Hershael York, dean of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary School of Theology in Louisville, Kentucky, said he didn’t have a problem with Trump signing Bibles, like former presidents have, because he was asked and because it was important to the people who were asking.

“Though we don’t have a national faith, there is faith in our nation, and so it’s not at all surprising that people would have politicians sign their Bibles,” he said. “Those Bibles are meaningful to them and apparently these politicians are, too.”

The people in that church were mostly Trump supporters. They were happy he was there. It’s common that President Trump is criticized or mocked on social media. All presidents come under scrutiny by their opponents and in the case of President Trump, the press is part of that opposition. I just don’t remember this exaggerated reporting when other presidents signed Bibles.

Look at this reaction from someone who wasn’t there and I’d bet not a Trump supporter, either.

But the Rev. Donnie Anderson, executive minister of the Rhode Island State Council of Churches, said she was offended by the way Trump scrawled his signature Friday as he autographed Bibles and other things, including hats, and posed for photos. She viewed it, she said, as a “calculated political move” by the Republican president to court his evangelical voting base.

“For me, the Bible is a very important part of my faith, and I don’t think it should be used as a political ploy,” she said. “I saw it being used just as something out there to symbolize his support for the evangelical community, and it shouldn’t be used in that way. People should have more respect for Scripture.”

York said that he, personally, would not ask a politician to sign a Bible, but that he has been asked to sign Bibles after he preaches. It feels awkward, he said, but he doesn’t refuse.

“If it’s meaningful to them to have signatures in their Bible, I’m willing to do that,” he said.

Sure, a critic can make a political connection but so what? When someone asks a politician for an autograph, they are doing so because the person’s fame is in the political world. The President of the United States is president of all Americans, however, and not just the evangelicals with which Rev. Anderson seems to have a problem. A presidential autograph is a historical keepsake. The “but politics” criticism is just petty. He was doing what he could do to comfort Americans in their time of need.

And then there’s the critic who was quoted complaining not only that President Trump signed Bibles but where on the Bible he signed. The minister even brought a straw man into the argument – it could show that Trump was not only violating the separation of church and state but that he favors Christianity. That’s some over-thinking of a simple gesture, if you ask me.

Trump should have at least signed inside in a less ostentatious way, said the Rev. Dr. Kevin Cassiday-Maloney.

“It just felt like hubris,” said Cassiday-Maloney, pastor at the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Fargo, North Dakota. “It almost felt like a desecration of the holy book to put his signature on the front writ large, literally.”

He doesn’t think politicians should sign Bibles, he said, because it could be seen as a blurring of church and state and an endorsement of Christianity over other religions.

I’m guessing that the folks in Alabama don’t really give a rip what clergy in Rhode Island and North Dakota have to say about the matter.

Left-leaning Slate actually brought a bit of historical context to presidential autographs.

Atten may have been shocked by the move, but it isn’t as odd as you might think. The Post talked to Peter Manseau, the Smithsonian’s curator of religion, who said many past presidents have signed Bibles, including President Barack Obama. And it’s not like Trump was handing out stacks of signed bibles, but rather, he was doing what some people asked of him. “Presidents seem to sign a lot of random things put in front of them,” Manseau added.

Manseau notes that Presidents Reagan and George W. Bush signed Bibles, too.

Maybe everyone should just take a breath now and then. If a trip to comfort tornado survivors by the president sets you off, maybe a little quiet contemplation is in order.

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Wow! Deep State FBI Offers New Fitness App — That Spies on Your Location and Downloads Your Stored Information

In February the FBI started offering a new fitness app that “takes you to the next level.”

The FBI advertised their app as an informative and interactive way to track your fitness routine.

They even published a video to promote the new app.

What they didn’t tell you is that the new FBI app will spy on your location and download your stored information.

Joe Cunningham did not fall for their spin.

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