Month: October 2019

Carpetbagging Sen. Mitt Romney’s (R-UT) obsession with criticizing President Trump does not prove him to be a decent man, it proves him to be an immoral coward.

Agreeing or disagreeing has nothing to do with my admiration for someone’s character. Anyone familiar with my work knows that while I disagree with almost everything they stood for, I consider Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X to be two of our greatest 20th century Americans.

You see, it’s easy to admire Abraham Lincoln and Rev. Martin Luther King (and I do); it’s easy because there’s very little to disagree with either of them about.

Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X, however, could be very disagreeable.

But in pursuit of what they believed in, both men stood firm against the unrelenting wrath of the two most powerful forces in America: the federal government and the media. What’s more, both men were willing to be ostracized by their own. Ali enraged a mostly-Christian black community when he converted to Islam and joined the Nation of Islam. And when Malcolm X left the Nation of Islam, he left impoverished (he didn’t even own his home) and with a target on his back an assassin’s bullet would soon find.

Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X were great Americans for a reason that has nothing to do with politics or issues and everything to do with principle: Muhammad Ali was his Own Man. Malcolm X was his Own Man.

Nothing is more American than being your Own Man.

With that in mind, I have a question for those who fall all over themselves to gush over Moral Mitt Romney…

Why is it that oh-so principled Mitt Romney ONLY attacks Donald Trump?

Why does oh-so courageous Mitt Romney single out Trump and only Trump with his Mighty Morality?

Seriously, answer me that: Why ONLY Trump?

A quick perusal of Romney’s verified Twitter account reveals that Moral Mitt’s oh-so principled courage is saved for one man … the man who turned him down for Secretary of State, the man who won the job Mitt lost, the man who captured the Republican Party by discarding all of Mitt’s terrible ideas: forever wars, discriminating against gays, being the world’s policeman, open borders, lousy trade deals, and driving around with the family dog on the roof of your car.

I fail to see the courage or morality within a man who only ever attacks Trump, and does so to the eternal glee of the establishment media, the Deep State, left-wing Democrats, and pious Never Trumpers.

True character requires moral courage, the willingness to take flaming arrows from your own, to risk the “good opinion” of those who already hold a “good opinion” of you.

Has no one other than Trump offended this oh-so decent man’s sense of decency?

According to his public statements and Twitter feed, other than a tweet or two criticizing socialism and one weak, little, platitudinal tweet about how “Rep. Tlaib took the politics of Washington deeper down the drain,” the answer is no. Not once has Romney dared to color outside “approved” boundaries enforced by Democrats and the media.

Think about this…

When the media compare Republican voters to Nazis, Moral Mitt remains mum.

When antisemitism finds safe haven in the Democrat Party, Moral Mitt remains mum.

When Democrats openly advocate for post-birth abortion, Moral Mitt remains mum.

When the media repeatedly lie about Brett Kavanaugh and the Covington High School boys, Moral Mitt remains mum.

All these deep state leakers? Not a word from Moral Mitt.

Where is this courageous man of character, this fearless truth-teller, this brave and principled moral leader when it comes to someone other than President Trump?

He’s nowhere.

Because he’s not a man of character willing to call them as he sees them.

If he were, he would criticize Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez every once in a  while — meaning he would risk the fury of the corporate media.

Moral Mitt has not even tweeted criticism of a left-wing terrorist group we call Antifa.

No, it’s only ever Trump…

Oh, and heaven forbid Moral Mitt turns his oh-so principled principles on the media — on CNN, or MSNBC, or the Washington Post or the New York Times. 

Moral Mitt refuses to do that because no matter how bigoted or nasty or dishonest or hateful or violent any of the above get, were Moral Mitt to speak up, he would be risking the good opinion of the media and Never Trump, and all the other members of his awful, little tribe.

As I write this, my respect for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has increased. You want to know why? Because he’s a staunch Trump ally who is right now criticizing Trump over his decision to exit Syria.

On this matter, I agree with Trump and disagree with Graham, but Graham is showing character in his public break with Trump.

You see how this works?

Romney has no character. None. If he did, he would lash out at someone other than the man who turned him down for Secretary of State, he would aim his Mighty Morality at a target that might result in an ugly CNN news-cycle or a mean tweet from fangirl Jennifer Rubin.

But Moral Mitt will never do that because he is not a decent man. Rather, he is a small, cowardly, bitter, envious member of a small, cowardly, bitter, and envious tribe. And it was this smallness and cowardice that cost him the presidency in 2012. Imagine the difference it would have made if Romney had been half as willing to go after Obama as he does Trump. But going after Obama requires actual courage.

Mitt Romney is a quisling hiding behind a phony shield of virtue, and if the rest of the Republican Party ever decide to follow his lead again, the Party will be doomed for a generation.

The grassroots will never support a quisling. 

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Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday the intelligence community inspector general (ICIG), with whom an intelligence official filed a whistleblower complaint against President Trump, “knowingly changed” the complaint form in order to help get the complaint out publicly.

Nunes told Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Sunday host Matt Boyle, “[The ICIG is] either totally incompetent or part of the deep state, and he’s got a lot of questions he needs to answer because he knowingly changed the form and the requirements in order to make sure that this whistleblower complaint got out publicly.”

Nunes’s comments come after the ICIG, Michael Atkinson, testified to lawmakers on Friday.

“So he’s either incompetent or in on it, and he’s going to have more to answer for, I can promise you, because we are not going to let him go; he is going to tell he truth about what happened,” Nunes added.

Nunes also said the intelligence official who filed the complaint had filled out an old complaint form that said the complainant must have firsthand information related to the alleged wrongdoing. The form was updated sometime after the official filed his complaint, to not require firsthand knowledge.

“First of all, you have the change of the forms. … You no longer had to have firsthand information; you had to have secondhand information. Clearly they backdated it to August. The evidence is clear that it didn’t change on the website until the 25th of September,” he said.

“So the form that the whistleblower filled out — he actually filled out the old form that said you had to have firsthand knowledge. The whistleblower readily admits he doesn’t have firsthand knowledge. So conveniently the IG did this, claims that was always the case, claims it wasn’t the law; I already told you, he’s going to have more questions to answer,” he said.

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The cartoon, “South Park,” known for its irreverent — and often pointed — political humor, has been banned in China and mentions of it removed from the internet after the show poked fun at Chinese censors in its latest episode.

The episode, appropriately titled “Band in China,” mocked American submission to Chinese government demands, and for that, Business Insider reports, “South Park’s” creators got precisely what they predicted (and, arguably, asked for).

The Hollywood Reporter adds that “South Park” has been “scrubbed from the internet” in the Asian powerhouse country, and Chinese authorities have deleted “all clips, episodes, and discussions of the Comedy Central show” from the government-run social network, Weibo, and from the Chinese YouTube clone, Youku.

“A cursory perusal through China’s highly regulated Internet landscape shows the show conspicuously absent everywhere it recently had a presence. A search of the Twitter-like social media service Weibo turns up not a single mention of South Park among the billions of past posts. On streaming service Youku, owned by Internet giant Alibaba, all links to clips, episodes and even full seasons of the show are now dead,” according to the Hollywood reporter.

Other Chinese networks were clear that viewers were banned by the government from accessing “South Park” by design. “If users manually type in the URL for what was formerly the South Park thread [on China’s discussion forum, Baidu], a message appears saying that, ‘According to the relevant law and regulation, this section is temporarily not open.’”

The episode was a one-two punch at China over both its strict censorship of American media and its use of concentration camps to hold political prisoners, including more than one million ethnic Chinese Muslims. In it, Randy is sent to a Chinese indoctrination camp, “similar to those Beijing has been using in Xinjiang Provence to hold as many as a million Chinese Muslims for political indoctrination” after he’s caught selling marijuana while on vacation.

The show’s main characters, Stan, Jimmy, Kenny and Butters, form a metal band that becomes intensely popular in China and inspires a documentary, which, subsequently, has to be edited over and over (including by Chinese government officials) to meet censorship requirements for Chinese distribution. The boys eventually begin a new band and vow not to support anyone who changes their art for China. Randy ends up fully indoctrinated (and then some).

The episode even poked fun at China’s ban on Winnie the Pooh, which they instituted after Chinese citizens were reportedly using the Disney character to mock Chinese president-for-life Xi Jinping, and skewered both Disney and Marvel for repeatedly bowing to Chinese censors.

The episode was very timely, as the Hollywood Reporter points out. On Sunday, the NBA and the Houston Rockets basketball team was forced to issue a groveling apology to China after Rockets general manager Daryl Morey dared to express support for pro-democracy protests currently taking place in Hong Kong in a single Tweet.

The move met with anger from both sides of the aisle, and both the NBA and Morey were deeply criticized for trying to “save” the NBA’s presence in China by begging for Chinese forgiveness.

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The Trump administration will require many future immigrant applicants to prove they can afford health insurance, marking the White House’s latest move to restrict immigration from those who could become a financial burden on the government.

President Donald Trump, invoking his executive authority, issued a proclamation Friday evening that will prohibit the entry of immigrants applying for visas unless they prove they can obtain health insurance within 30 days of entering the U.S. or otherwise indicate they can afford their own medical care.

“The United States has a long history of welcoming immigrants who come lawfully in search of brighter futures. We must continue that tradition while also addressing the challenges facing our healthcare system, including protecting both it and the American taxpayer from the burdens of uncompensated care,” Trump said in the proclamation. “Continuing to allow entry into the United States of certain immigrants who lack health insurance or the demonstrated ability to pay for their healthcare would be detrimental to these interests.”

The directive, published on the White House’s website, will go into effect on Nov. 3.

Notably, the subsidized health care plans found on Obamacare exchanges will not qualify as eligible forms of insurance under the new rule.

“While lawful immigrants qualify for [Affordable Care Act] subsidies, they’ll be stuck in a catch-22 because subsidized coverage does not qualify as insurance under the proclamation,” Larry Levitt, executive vice president for health policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation, said Friday on Twitter.

The order will apply to any foreign national who applies for an immigrant visa abroad and cannot obtain health insurance within 30 days of entering the U.S. or does not have the financial ability to cover their own medical care. Those with ties to family members in the U.S. are not exempt from the rule. However, asylees and refugees will not be impacted, and neither will noncitizen children of U.S. citizens. Those who have already obtained immigrant visas also will not have worry.

The health care proclamation is Trump’s latest move to restrict immigration from those who are likely to become dependent on U.S. government benefits.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services acting Director Ken Cuccinelli, for example, rolled out a directive in August that takes into account an immigrant’s use of government benefits when deciding whether or not to grant them permanent status.

Known as the “public charge” rule, the directive makes it more difficult for immigrants to obtain permanent status if they have used any number of public benefits, such as Medicaid, food stamps, Section 8 housing, cash assistance, or other programs.

“Immigrants who enter this country should not further saddle our healthcare system, and subsequently American taxpayers, with higher costs,” Trump wrote in his proclamation.

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Volodymyr Zelensky has been Ukraine’s president since May. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images)

(CNSNews.com) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday again denied having been put under any pressure by President Trump, during a July phone conversation, to investigate Joe Biden or his son’s business dealings in Ukraine – an allegation at the center of the Democratic impeachment inquiry.

In what was billed as his first major interview by non-Ukrainian media since the row erupted, Zelensky was quoted as telling Japan’s Kyodo News agency that neither his invitation to the White House nor the sale of anti-tank missiles to Ukraine were made conditional on his willingness to cooperate in the Biden matter.

“I was never pressured and there were no conditions being imposed” to secure an Oval Office meeting with Trump or the weaponry, he said.

Zelensky said he had had no discussions with Kurt Volker, the former U.S. special envoy for Ukraine, about investigations into Biden, as a condition for being invited to visit Washington. Neither would he have accepted such a condition, he said.

According to a memo on the July 25 phone call, released by the White House last month, after Trump raised concerns about the Biden issue Zelensky told him that Ukraine’s new prosecutor general will “look into the situation.”

Zelensky told Kyodo News he was merely stating that if U.S. investigators want help on the matter and take the necessary steps, then Ukraine could oblige by setting up a joint investigative committee.

He pointed out that under Ukraine’s Constitution the country’s president does not have the power to compel the prosecutor-general or investigative authorities to look into a particular case.

Zelensky said he told Trump that if U.S. prosecutors asked for Ukrainian cooperation in an investigation based on international law, then – in line with Ukraine’s domestic laws – it could set up a joint investigative committee to probe the issue at hand.

In 2014 Vice President Biden’s son, Hunter, joined the board of Ukraine’s largest independent gas producer, Burisma Holdings, whose owner, an oligarch and former government minister named Mykola Zlochevsky, was under suspicion of corrupt practices.

At a time of escalating tensions with Russia over its military intervention in Ukraine, President Obama had given his vice president the task of overseeing U.S.-Ukraine relations.

In the course of his dealings with Ukraine – he visited the country six times as vice president – Biden in 2016 threatened to withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees for Kyiv unless then-President Petro Poroshenko fired his prosecutor-general, Viktor Shokin.

Shokin, who was widely viewed as ineffective in combating endemic corruption in Ukraine, was soon thereafter removed from his post. But the fact he had been in the process of investigating Burisma’s oligarch owner Zlochevsky prompted suspicion in some quarters that Biden’s threat to withhold the loan guarantees had been improper.

‘Self-interest’

Armed with a complaint by an anonymous whistleblower, Trump’s Democratic critics are accusing him of abusing his power as president to pressure Zelensky to provide damaging information on Biden, who is campaigning for the party’s 2020 presidential nomination.

They claim that his decision to hold up military aid for Ukraine that Congress had appropriated was part of this supposed pressure; Trump denies that, asserting that he withheld the aid because of concerns of corruption in Ukraine, and out of frustration that Ukraine’s European neighbors were not doing more to help.

Zelensky told the Japanese news outlet that he believes different parties and camps are releasing information in their own self-interest ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential elections.

Ukraine’s Interfax news agency on Friday quoted the country’s current prosecutor-general, Ruslan Riaboshapka, as saying his office was conducting an audit of previous investigations relating to Burisma Holdings.

“We are now reviewing all the cases which were closed, fragmented or investigated earlier in order to make a decision on cases where illegal procedural decisions were taken,” he said.

Hunter Biden reportedly stood down from the Burisma board in April this year.

 

 

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The nation’s leading Spanish-language network newscasts offered differing versions of the latest jobs report: one positive, the other negative. One network covers the jobs report fairly and objectively. The other, blinded by its anti-Trump animus, tells only half the story and finds a way to spin the report negatively.

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Seyi Omooba landed a dream role as Celie in The Color Purple earlier this year. The musical was to be performed in Birmingham and Leicester in England.

But The Daily Mail reported that the day after Omooba was cast, an actor from the West End production of Hamilton sent her a tweet with screenshot of a September 2014 Facebook post. From the Mail:

In a discussion about homosexuality, she had written: ‘It is clearly evident in 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 what the Bible says on this matter. I do not believe you can be born gay and I do not believe homosexuality is right…’

The sender was Aaron Lee Lambert, who stars in the West End production of Hamilton.

He particularly objected to her views because the character of Celie is seen by some readers as being gay.

He asked in his tweet: ‘Do you still stand by this post? Or are you happy to remain a hypocrite? Seeing as you’ve now been announced to be playing an LGBTQ character, I think you owe your LGBTQ peers an explanation. Immediately.’

Omooba told the Mail that her agent called her the next day and told her “not to speak to the media and to keep [her] head down.”

“Later, I was urged by the theatre and my agency to not only retract my post but apologise for what it said,” she added.

When Omooba refused to go against her faith — “to lie just to keep a job” — she lost the role and was dropped by her agent. She contacted six other agents who previously expressed interest in signing her, but only one responded, calling her “talented but misguided.”

Omooba is now looking to sue the Curve Theatre in Leicester and her former agents for break of contract.

As the Mail reported, England’s Court of Appeal ruled last summer that a university could not force a student out for their religious views, as had happened to Felix Ngole.

Omooba told the outlet she is not homophobic and was merely quoting the bible’s views on homosexuality.

“I just quoted what the Bible says about homosexuality, the need for repentance, but ultimately God’s love for all humanity. I stand by what I wrote, but had I known that it would have come to this, I would have set my account to the privacy mode,” she said.

She also told the outlet that she has received support from former costars, some of whom are homosexual.

“I have support from actors that I’ve worked with, including those in same-sex relationships, who say that even though they don’t agree with my views, they know that I’m not hateful or malicious,” she said.

The Christian Legal Centre has also lent its support to Omooba, saying the Curve’s action “sends a chilling message that if you express mainstream biblical views, you will be punished and lose your career if you do not immediately renounce your beliefs.”

The Curve told the outlet it stood by its earlier statement that Omooba was let go because her comments “caused significant and widely expressed concerns both on social media and in the wider press.”

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Shannon Maley had a seeming vendetta against a 20-year-old man with learning disabilities who was dating her sister. She barely knew him, yet claimed he sexually assaulted her and her friends. Maley then created multiple social media accounts under the young man’s name and sent herself disturbing and threatening messages in order to frame him.

She has since pleaded guilty to “perverting the course of justice and also to harassing witnesses,” The Daily Record reported.

The young man, who will not be named by The Daily Wire because he is the victim and will instead be referred to as John Doe, told the Record he was on the brink of suicide until he was acquitted last November on five charges of sexual assault. The outlet reported that he “sat on the ledge of his 14th-storey flat window seriously contemplating whether life was worth living because of the vicious lies that had ‘destroyed’ him.”

Maley’s messages to herself included threats “to set you on fire and watch you burn alive” and claims that John was “not going to stop causig [sic] you pain.”

Maley had apparently intimidated her friends into making accusations against John as well. One of those friends eventually admitted that the young man had not sexually assaulted her and that Maley had harassed her and tried to influence their testimony at John’s trial.

John was also accused of sexually assaulting two 15-year-old girls who were also allegedly friends of Maley. A witness explained that John didn’t do what he was accused of doing, leading to acquittal on those charges.

Maley’s story unraveled after she accused John of sending a threatening message while he was in prison without access to the Internet.

No reason has been given for Maley’s vendetta against John, and the young man still fears for his safety.

“It feels like Shannon Maley has destroyed my life. I still can’t walk down Coatbridge Main Street without people shouting abuse at me,” John told the outlet. “I’ve had voicemails from people I don’t even know saying they’re going to blow up my house.”

“Unfortunately, people believe what they see online and it’s a very dangerous situation. I walked free from court and now she’s admitted making up all these messages and telling witnesses what to say,” he added. “She’s an absolute monster.”

John also told the Record that he tried to slit his wrist while he was on remand, which is what led to him being relocated. But he was relocated to an apartment on the 14^th floor, and he sat on the ledge and contemplated jumping.

“But I didn’t want to die because of someone else’s lies,” he told the outlet. “I’m happy I didn’t, because now I will hopefully see her punished for ruining my life.”

He said he would like to thank the woman who came forward to admit Maley was lying, but that he still doesn’t “feel safe to walk the streets because of what Maley has made people think about me.”

His mother said that she received angry messages from around the world, including in America, where any accusation made by a woman is supposed to be believed.

“She saw [John] as an easy victim because even though he’s 20, his difficulties mean he has a mind more like a young teenager,” his mother told the Record. “Like [John], I want to see her punished for the devastation she has caused.”

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President Trump ordered massive cuts to the National Security Council staff following a hit from a Deep State CIA snitch who filed a whistleblower complaint about Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Former CIA Chief John Brennan called on an unlimited number of Deep State snitches to file whistleblower complaints against President Trump and surprise, surprise, a second ‘whistleblower’ is weighing whether to file a complaint against Trump.

President Trump responded to this madness by ordering massive cuts to the NatSec Council staff.

Bloomberg reported:

President Donald Trump has ordered a substantial reduction in the staff of the National Security Council, according to five people familiar with the plans, as the White House confronts an impeachment inquiry touched off by a whistle-blower complaint related to the agency’s work.

Some of the people described the staff cuts as part of a White House effort to make its foreign policy arm leaner under new National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien.

The request to limit the size of the NSC staff was conveyed to senior agency officials by acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney and O’Brien this week. The whistle-blower complaint, focused on Trump’s conduct in a July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has been followed by damaging reports on the president’s private conversations with other world leaders.

The CIA officer who filed a whistleblower complaint against President Trump used second-hand knowledge and gossip to allege President Trump engaged in quid pro quo to pressure Zelensky to investigate the Biden crime family.

The CIA officer, who is a registered Democrat, ran to House Intel Chairman Adam Schiff’s staffers with the allegations without alerting the Intel Community’s Inspector General.

Furthermore, Schiff broke the House rules by withholding the classified information from the Minority members of the Intel Panel (such as Devin Nunes).

The President released the transcript of his phone call to Zelensky and it shows there was no threat and no pressure using quid pro quo.

Testimony from Ukrainian special envoy Kurt Volker also blew massive holes in Schiff’s narrative that Trump committed an impeachable offense.

The so-called ‘whistleblower’ may have also perjured himself because Sean Davis of The Federalist confirmed that the ‘whistleblower’ signed the complaint form under penalty of perjury without disclosing prior contact with House Democrats regarding his allegations.

UPDATE: @FDRLST has confirmed that the anti-Trump complainant signed the complaint form under penalty of perjury without disclosing prior contact w/ House Democrats regarding his allegations. https://t.co/9FK2HIsftH

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) October 4, 2019

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