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When blue state travel bans have real world impact

Did you hear the latest about the travel ban? No… not the President’s temporary ban on immigration from a number of majority-Muslim nations. I’m talking about New York’s ban on official travel to North Carolina. Governor Cuomo put the ban in place in 2016 in response to the Tar Heel State’s efforts to stop men from using the women’s bathrooms, locker rooms and showers and it’s not yet been repealed. It was initially described as a ban on “official travel” for state employees, but the rule affected more people than state government workers.

The ban also applied to travel by anyone using state funds. This included students at State University of New York (SUNY) campuses. That’s now become a serious issue because a number of members of the swimming and diving teams at SUNY Geneseo qualified for the national championships this year. The problem is that they’re being held in Greensboro, North Carolina. Cuomo initially said that they couldn’t go at all, but recent developments have made the question more complicated. (Democrat and Chronicle)

Cuomo implemented a state travel ban to North Carolina in 2016 in response to the state’s controversial “bathroom bill.” With the championships being held in Greensboro, that presented the 10 qualifying student-athletes from Geneseo with a dilemma, and the community has responded.

On Tuesday, Geneseo alumni and former divers launched a GoFundMe “designed to secure the necessary funds to allow these athletes to stay within a reasonable distance to the championship venue.”

On Friday morning, the fundraiser had already raised $6,000, surpassing the original goal of $4,000. Organizers are hoping that these privately-raised funds will allow the swim team to stay at hotels in Greensboro as opposed to staying more than an hour away in Virginia.

These students bust their butts training all year long and competing for a chance like this. Cuomo’s initial instinct was to forbid them from attending entirely. After the inevitable pushback, his “compromise” isn’t all that much better. The teams raised their own money for the travel expenses, but now the Governor is saying that they can only go and spend that money if they stay at a hotel in Virginia, meaning there’s an extra hour of commuting time every day, to and from the event.

Yes, that’s right. Virginia is the state where the top three elected officials are all under fire for either racism (blackface photos) or alleged sexual assault. But Cuomo would rather see the money that didn’t even come from the government’s coffers going there than to some hotel in Greensboro. So what’s the message that’s being sent and who is being punished here? This isn’t a swipe at the government of North Carolina, but to the hotel where the students would stay and any other businesses in the Greensboro area where the team might spend some money.

And, of course, it’s a punishment to the diving and swimming teams. Having to get up an hour earlier and get back an hour later each day is obviously going to impact their training and preparation schedules as they prepare to compete in the national championships. And all for what? Just to show that a Democrat like Andrew Cuomo can pull off a travel ban better than President Trump?

Flee New York if you get the opportunity. I’m definitely already looking into it. The state is a hopeless pit of liberal-driven despair at this point.

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STUNNING ADMISSION: Freshman Dem Lawmaker Admits Standing Against Anti-Semitism is “Not the Priority” of the Entire Caucus (VIDEO)

Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA) joined squish Chris Wallace FOX News Sunday to discuss the New Democrat Party.

Hill represents California’s 25th district near Los Angeles a district that was held by Republicans since 1993 before she won in 2018. Hill benefited from California’s vote harvesting conducted by illegal immigrants.

When asked on Sunday about Rep. Ilhan Omar’s anti-Semitic remarks, Rep. Katie Hill assured Fox News’s Chris Wallace that being anti-Semitic is not the priority of the “entire” Democrat caucus.

The Democrat openly admitted that not all Democrats think the same way on anti-Semitism.
This was a stunning admission.

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INSANE VIDEO! Democratic Socialism In AOC’s Own Words: We Don’t Want To Take Over EVERY Form Of Production – We Just Want To Tell Every Workplace How To Operate

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Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez retweeted herself again, and this one is for the record books.

Watch as she explains Democratic Socialism. I’ve taken the liberty of transcribing it below for closer examination.

Ocasio-Cortez: Ya know just as there’s all this fear mongering that government is going to take over every corporation and government is going to take over every business or every form of production, um, we should be scared right now because corporations have taken over our government.

And in my opinion, we should be weary of any entity in which both of those things are combined, whether it’s through one way or the other. Um, and that’s why the emphasis in Democratic Socialism is on duhmocracy. And it’s not about, you know, it, it’s, it’s just as much a transformation about bringing duhmocracy to the workplace so that we have a say, and that we don’t check all of our rights at the door every time we cross the threshold into our workplace. Because at the end of the day as workers and as people in society, we’re the ones creating wealth. Not a corporate CEO. It’s not a CEO that’s actually creating four billion dollars a year. It is the millions of workers in this country that’s creating billions of dollars of economic productivity a year. And our system should reflect that.

Let’s deconstruct this–

Right out of the gate, she describes opposition to Democratic Socialism as “fear mongering” and without skipping a beat, tells us “we should be scared right now because corporations have taken over out government.” Who’s the fear monger again?

Like a broken clock, AOC gets something right when she says, “We should be weary of any entity in which both of those things (corporations and government) are combined” but then she pulls an immediate u-turn with this bit of insanity, “it’s just as much a transformation about bringing duhmocracy to the workplace.”

There should be exactly as much “duhmocracy” in the workplace as the owners decide they want/need in order to foster the environment they – as OWNERS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY, GOODS, AND SERVICES – deem necessary to remain profitable. What AOC is describing is literally the very definition of a marriage between the govt and corporations in order to regulate what people can and can’t do with their private property/business/investments. I’m certain there’s a name for that style of government but it escapes me at the moment.

LAST – AOC takes credit for “billions of dollars of economic productivity a year” on behalf of “workers” (as though CEOs don’t work).

She must be unaware that America’s GDP is just a bit higher than that.

That’s okay. She was only off by $20.5 trillion give or take. She’s still learning. Representing is hard.

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Washington Post Gives Clinton Four Pinocchios For Claim About Wisconsin Voter Suppression…

They tend not to vote for you when you don’t show up for them. Via Washington Post: Clinton claimed 40,000 to 80,000 Wisconsinites were turned away at the polls because of their skin color, age or “whatever excuse” in 2016. This matters because President Trump won Wisconsin by a narrow 22,748 votes. So this speech […]

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Hypocrisy: Ocasio-Cortez Calls for Tax Hikes While Her Own Company Owes Gov’t Big Chunk of Cash

For Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the bad tax news keeps coming.

It only made the Democratic “It” girl look foolish when news broke that her own mother had forsaken New York state for the sunnier climes of Florida – rather than pay the Empire State’s higher taxes.

Now, it looks like Ocasio-Cortez has a problem paying New York state taxes herself.

According to the New York Post, a now-defunct company Ocasio-Cortez founded in 2012 still owes almost $2,000 in corporate taxes, even though it’s no longer in business.

The company was called Brook Avenue Press, the Post reported, and like so much of what comes out of Ocasio-Cortez’s mouth these days, it was founded with what sounded like the noblest intentions.

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It was set up to “develop and identify stories and literature in urban areas like New York, specifically communities like the Bronx,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a YouTube video introducing the company.

Check out the bubbly then-22-year-old here:

Followers of the Ocasio-Cortez phenomenon probably won’t be surprised, but the venture apparently didn’t work out quite as well as it was envisioned.

Do you think Ocasio-Cortez is a hypocrite?

The Post was unable to find any books that were actually published by Brook Avenue Press, and it apparently wasn’t keeping its own books very well either.

According to the Post, the state dissolved the company in 2016, which the newspaper reported can happen when a business fails to pay taxes or file a return.

In July 2017, shortly after Ocasio-Cortez announced she was challenging incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley in the Democratic primary, the company was hit was with a warrant for unpaid taxes totaling $1,870.36, according to the Post.

The Post reported that the state’s Tax Department doesn’t comment on individual cases, but the article noted that filing a warrant against a business is typically a move of “last resort.”

An Ocasio-Cortez spokesman Corbin Trent told the Post it was all news to him.

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“This is the first we’re hearing of it, and we won’t have any additional comment until we look into it,” he said Saturday, according to the report.

Regardless of the details of the case, there are a few takeaways here that are pretty important.

Ocasio-Cortez built a political campaign, and is building a national movement, on the idea that government seizure of wealth in the form of taxation is necessary for the country to achieve its potential.

But Ocasio-Cortez herself appears unable, or unwilling, to pay even the minimal taxes required to keep a two-bit independent publishing business in good graces with the state taxing authorities.

(According to the Post report, New York’s corporate tax rate is based on a sliding scale, with the minimum payment being $25. Considering the bill for AOC’s press is less than $2,000, we’re not talking the world of high finance here.)

And the company Ocasio-Cortez pushed to “develop and identify stories and literature” for the communities Democrats like to pretend to champion apparently ended up producing exactly zero books that told those stories or shared that literature.

And yet, this is the woman who continually calls for tax hikes, the elected official Democrats are holding up as a champion of the Green New Deal? (Though thanks to previous Post reporting, we know her hypocrisy on that score.)

This is the woman leftists trust to be the spearhead of a movement to radically transform the economy and governing structure of the greatest nation the world has ever known?

For AOC, the tax news keeps getting worse.

Conservatives need to stop her agenda before the same happens to the rest of America.

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Alyssa Milano Tweets About ‘Being’ A Minority, Gets Scorched For Her ‘White Privilege’

On Friday, Alyssa Milano decided to weigh in on International Women’s Day, declaring herself an ally to all the downtrodden minorities and the poor, unfortunate souls left behind and oppressed by modern society, only instead of simply expressing her support for the underrepresented, she claimed to actively identify with them.
She started out with a very woke idea: congratulating transgender women on International Women’s Day.

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