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James Woods is back on Twitter, and thank God for it. Without him, who would be owning the libs via memery?

Woods’ latest viral tweet comes courtesy of the migrant caravan working its way up through Mexico toward our southern frontier.

This whole thing was orchestrated by organizers as a media event to draw attention to the “migrant cause.” When the media suddenly realized that this wasn’t quite as popular as it originally looked, they suddenly became angry that American voters were paying attention to the whole thing and didn’t like it.

Woods, however, had a better take on why he thought the media might be sympathetic to the migrant caravan:

Here come the Democrats…! pic.twitter.com/9AioeGhxRK

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) November 2, 2018

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Well, them and the denizens of graveyards in major metropolitan areas, yes.

And, of course, there were plenty of tweets in response to Woods’ lib-owning:

At the McAllen Texas Medical Center (2008) forty percent of the children born there, nearly 2,400 last year, were the babies of illegal immigrants. Joe Riley, CEO of the hospital: “We have uncompensated care of over $200 million a year.”https://t.co/YqgFgUyzS1

— DonPJenn (@DonPJenn) November 3, 2018

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— _EllieMae_ (@pam_4Kings) November 2, 2018

Fresh, imported #Democrats to replace those who #WalkAway.

— Jim G (@AxialEquatorial) November 2, 2018

Don’t be so sure about the last one. Sure, as long as they’re illegal, they’re probably going to hide behind the Democrats. However, once they realize how much money the Democrats have been stealing from them and how the party expects them to stay on the plantation too, they’ll likely see how they’ve been had and #WalkAway, too.

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Given the tenseness of the situation and the potential for violence, President Donald Trump has made clear that the troops deployed to the border won’t be firing on the caravan members.

“They won’t have to fire,” Trump said Friday, according to the Washington Times.

“I don’t want these people throwing rocks. What they did to the Mexican military is a disgrace. They were throwing rocks in their faces. It’s not going to happen to our soldiers. They do that with us, they’re going to be arrested for a long time. I didn’t say ‘shoot.’”

As for whether U.S. forces will have to use force, Trump was more ambivalent. “I hope they won’t. We’re going to see,” he said. “They want to throw rocks at our military, our military fights back.”

Either way, however, it looks like these future Democrats probably won’t be making their way in.

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First Man has officially flopped, and not just here at home, but all over the world.

After three full weeks in distribution, the critical darling will barely creep over $40 million domestic and, according to Deadline, has already fallen out of the top ten.

As of Thursday, and after 20 full days in release, First Man had grossed only $39 million domestic. Outside North America, the story about Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, is doing even worse, with just $37 million.

With a $60 million production budget and somewhere between $30 and $50 million spent on publicity (a reasonable guess), after exhibitors take their 50 percent (an industry accepted formula), this Ryan Gosling film would have to gross something close to $200 million just to break even.

First Man is not going to reach $100 million worldwide.

Early predictions had First Man opening with $20 to $25 million. Nevertheless, even though it roared out of the festival circuit with a ton of critical acclaim and buzz, it crash landed with a hideous $16 million opening.

The spin, then, was that First Man would have “legs,” would be a sleeper, would eventually reach $75 to $85 million domestic, when the truth is that it might not reach $85 million worldwide.

Because no one has the moral courage to admit that insulting Middle America might be bad for business, no one in the entertainment media will say so, but the controversy about the American flag no doubt soured the public on this movie.

And it was not just writer-director Damien Chazelle’s inexplicable decision to ignore one of the most iconic moments of the last century, Armstrong planting the American flag on the moon — it was the snobbish and tone-deaf way in which both he and his star, Gosling, mishandled it.

My mind still can’t quite grasp Gosling dismissing the most American of American achievements as “a human achievement [and] that’s how we chose to view it.”

Well, after you are done choosing to view it that way, you can go right ahead and choose to kiss my red, white, and blue ass.

Also worthy of note, especially in a world where entertainment writers will come up with every reason to excuse First Man’s dreadful box office — except for the actual one — is how wildly successful First Man-type movies have been.

America loves our astronauts, our modern-day pioneers, and so does the rest of the world. Just look at these box office results (domestic – foreign – total):

• The Martian (2015) – $228 million – $401 million – $630 million.
• Interstellar (2014) –  $188 million – $489 million – $677 million.
• Gravity (2013) – $274 million – $449 million – $723 million.

Look at how well these astronaut movies did before the international market really opened up, and these numbers are not adjusted for inflation.

• Space Cowboys (2000) – $90 million – $38 million – $129 million.
• Contact (1997) – $101 million – $70 million – $171 million.
• Apollo 13 (1995) – $172 million – $181 million – $355 million.

Another lie the media like to tell is that international audiences do not like patriotic movies.

And they say this even after two of the most patriotic movies of the last ten years — National Treasure 1 & 2 — grossed over $400 million overseas, and this was before China opened up.

 

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It’s notoriously hard to describe vulgar speech. There’s a famous quote about obscenity from the late Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, who admitted in 1964 that he couldn’t define it, but that knew it when he saw it.

In 2018, media outlets are still struggling to find the line between free expression and off-limits speech. It’s something that online platforms in particular have struggled with — and a Christian user on Twitter just found out that hard way that on social media, things sometimes get weird.

On Wednesday, conservative activist and preacher Demetrius Minor, who has over 13,000 followers on Twitter, was banned from the platform.

Twitter did reinstate him after a review, but figuring out what happened has some people scratching their heads and asking questions about bias.

In an email that Minor shared, Twitter informed the conservative that he had been locked out of his account for “violating our rules against hateful conduct.”

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His hateful conduct? Well, there wasn’t any. In the tweet referenced by Twitter itself, Minor actually defended himself against a racially charged insult and turned the other cheek in a very Christian way.

More bizarrely, the tweet wasn’t from this year, or even last year. It was dated October of 2012.

“House n—-r kill yourself,” a tweet from another user was hatefully directed at Minor. In reply, the conservative man of faith wrote “I don’t have to die. Jesus already died for you.”

Somehow, that 6-year-old message had caused the conservative to be locked out of his own account.

“Why I got locked out for something I didn’t do 6 years (ago) is beyond me. PLEASE investigate charges before making reckless choices,” Minor posted once he had re-gained access to his account.

Again, it does look like Twitter lifted the ban quickly, and this could have been some sort of automated detection filter that went awry. With that said, there has been an alarming trend of conservatives dealing with all sorts of hoops and pitfalls on social networks.

African-American conservative commentators Diamond and Silk, for instance, were flagged as “unsafe” and blocked by Facebook. Another black conservative, Candace Owens, was hit with a ban on Twitter after she re-posted and criticized a liberal’s hateful comment — while that original didn’t get flagged.

“Twitter is apologizing after ‘Red Pill Black’ pundit and Turning Point USA director of communications Candace Owens was blocked from the platform for tweets she sent out criticizing the social media posts of Sarah Jeong, the controversial new pick for the editorial board of The New York Times,” Conservative Tribune reported in August.

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There have also been instances of “shadow banning” by Twitter, which means that certain users’ posts seem normal to them, but are quietly covered up by the system and not shown to other users.

At what point does a sweeping attempt to scrub the internet of anything remotely offensive go too far, and become uncontrollable censorship?

There is no easy answer, but it’s something that society will need to solve soon.

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A plurality of likely midterm election voters in the battleground states of Florida, Arizona, and Indiana say a 7,000 to 10,000-strong migrant caravan headed to the United States is a “threat” to the nation.

In the latest CBS News/YouGov battleground tracker poll, Florida, Indiana, and Arizona likely voters expressed their concern with mass immigration at the country’s southern border. The three states see hotly contested Senate races between Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Gov. Rick Scott (R), Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Rep. Martha McSally (R-AZ), and Sen. Joe Donelly (D-IN) and Mike Braun (R).

In each state, when asked about the migrant caravan, a plurality of likely voters said the group of thousands of Central Americans headed to the U.S.-Mexico border are a threat.

A majority of likely voters in Indiana say the U.S. “should not try to help” the migrants in the caravan, while a majority of Arizona likely voters say the same. By a slim margin, likely Florida voters say that while the caravan is a threat to the country, the U.S. should try to help the migrants.

Likely voters’ concerns with the caravan come as Breitbart News has extensively reported on the violent, chaotic, and criminal nature of the mass group of Central Americans. Nearly two weeks ago, the caravan stormed through Mexico by tearing down the country’s border fence with Guatemala.

Watch–Caravan Migrant Admits to Previously Being Deported from U.S. for Attempted Murderhttps://t.co/r3iA0rt8BR

— John Binder 👽 (@JxhnBinder) October 29, 2018

During an interview with Fox News, one of the migrants with the caravan admitted he had been previously deported from the U.S. for a conviction of  attempted murder. Days later, Mexican officials warned that a second group of Central American migrants were building Molotov cocktails to be used against authorities at international borders.

Most recently, Mexican authorities say they arrested two Honduran nationals with the migrant caravan after they say the individuals shot at them while crossing through Chiapas, Mexico.

As Breitbart News has chronicled, though the establishment media has repeatedly claimed that the caravan is seeking to enter the U.S. to seek asylum, the Central American migrants have continuously admitted they are not seeking asylum.

Instead, the migrants are looking for jobs, crime-free communities, and many are previously deported illegal aliens who are looking to go back to their former, illegal life in the U.S. None of these cases is eligible as asylum claims.

President Trump has authorized the deployment of 5,200 troops to the southern border thus far and his administration has signaled that more troops could be sent in the near future.

President Donald Trump defended Wednesday his decision to send the military to the border in response to the migrant caravan headed for the United States.

“It’s very important,” Trump said. “We have to have a wall of people —very highly trained people, terrific, dedicated patriots.”

The president commented on his commitment to secure the border during an interview with ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl.

Trump dismissed Karl’s description of the caravan as mostly women and children who were “deeply impoverished people fleeing violence.”

“Actually mostly young men,” Trump said. “And a lot of rough people … they are pushing the women right up to the front — not good — and the kids right up to the front.”

The Pentagon announced that they were sending 5,200 troops to the border on Monday, but Trump said he would send up to 15,000 troops to secure the border if necessary.

Trump defended his decision as a way to send the strongest message possible to the continued flood of migrant caravans toward the United States.

“They can’t invade our country,” he said. “You look at that it almost looks like an invasion.”

Andrew Gillum has more problems than he can handle at the moment between corruption allegations and dealing with the aftermath of a hurricane. Project Veritas adds a couple of more to the pile today, however, with its latest undercover report on Democratic candidates. Their operatives get a couple of Gillum’s campaign workers — one in particular — saying extraordinarily foolish and/or revealing things on camera, such as their strategies to win in a “f***ed up … cracker state.”

Like other previous PV videos, this shows a lot of excuse-making for a lack of truth in advertising. For instance, did you know that Gillum is “part of the crazy, crazy crazies”? “Medicare for All, borderline socialism”? Gun control? No?

Featured in this report is a campaign staffer who works on Andrew Gillum’s gubernatorial campaign. Omar Smith, who says he went to college with Gillum, reveals Gillum cannot fulfill his campaign promises even if he wanted to.

When asked how Gillum would fund all the programs he says he wants to fund, Smith says Gillum “can’t,” and when asked if voters are aware that Gillum cannot deliver on his proposed programs, Smith says:

SMITH: “That’s not for them to know… That’s not for them to know. Remember our saying, modern day fairy tales start with ‘once I am elected.’”

Smith explains that most of Gillum’s campaign promises could never be implemented, and that the Gillum campaign knows this:

SMITH: “So, let’s go back to Mr. Gillum’s platform, right? Raise the corporate tax in Florida from 7 to 11 percent. That will never happen. Raise teacher’s pay to $50,000, that will never happen. Give me another position. Medicare for all, that will never happen. The reason being, the legislature that write the bills is all Republican controlled. Democratic governor, Republican legislature. So, unless the legislature writes a bill, and it got voted on the floor, it cannot pass.”

Smith says that “the rules in Florida are f***ed up” and that Florida is a “cracker state,” explaining that the Florida legislature has to become racially black for Gillum’s agenda to advance.

So how can Gillum win in a “cracker state”?

SMITH: “You whip ’em up. The poor, the middle income. You have to whip them up into a frenzy in order for them to vote. Once Gillum is in, in another 2 years, other Republican Senators and Legislators will be on the ballot. So, you have to whip up the Andrew Gillum voters again in those counties to vote out the Republican to get a Democratic Legislature in order for his (Gillum) will to be executed. … You have to appeal to white guilt… [be]cause that’s what it is.”

There’s plenty more at the link and in the video, so be sure to watch and read it all. The biggest lesson here is don’t hire your old college buddies to run your campaign. Most PV videos have featured a number of campaign workers, some volunteers and low-level paid staffers. Much of PV’s material in this video features Omar Smith, a salaried campaign worker who has been with Gillum since their days as college-campus progressive activists. You’d think that much experience would have taught Smith a thing or two about discretion, or Gillum a thing or two about Smith. Instead, here’s Gillum’s college pal telling everyone who will pay attention to him that it will take “force” to achieve Gillum’s agenda.

Right now, Gillum’s beginning to show some daylight between him and Ron DeSantis, and thanks to early voting, it might be took late for this video to reverse that momentum. However, a few more days of Omar Smith might still have an impact.

Tree of Life Synagogue Rabbi Jeffrey Myers on Thursday discussed the president’s visit in the wake of the shooting that took the lives of 11 over the weekend.

Myers said President Donald Trump was “very consoling” and he saw a “warm and personal side to the president.”

“[Trump] put his hand on my shoulder and the first question he asked me was, ‘Rabbi, tell how you are doing?’ Myers recalled on CNN’s “New Day.”

He added, “And I must say throughout the time we spent together, I was pleasantly surprised by a warm and personal side to the president that I don’t think America has ever seen.”

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Fewer Americans lost their jobs to layoffs last week.

The number of Americans filing new applications for state unemployment benefits fell by 2,000 to 214,000 last week, the Labor Department said Thursday. Jobless claims remain near lows not seen for close to 40 years.

Jobless claims are a proxy for layoffs and have been closely watched this year for signs that trade disputes might weigh on the U.S. labor market. So far, there are no signs that tariffs have cost the U.S. economy any jobs.

The four-week moving average of claims, which smooths out weekly volatility and is considered by many economists to be a more reliable gauge of conditions,  to 213,750. That is also near the lowest level since December 1969, according to the Labor Department.

Economists had expected jobless claims to fall by even more, to 212,000. Nonetheless, Thursday’s figures show the labor market in the U.S. remains very strong.

The number of people receiving benefits after an initial week of aid also fell in late October, by 7,000 to 1.63 million for the week ended October 20. That is the lowest level since July 1973. The four-week moving average of continuing claims dropped 6,250 to 1.64 million, the lowest level since August 1973.