Progressive PAC Linked to Ocasio-Cortez Escalates Attacks Against DCCC

Justice Democrats, a PAC that helped send Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Congress in 2018, launched another attack against the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, one of the biggest and most important establishment fundraising operations for House Democrats.

In a fundraising email, Justice Democrats blasted the DCCC for accepting corporate PAC money, suggesting it had corrupted the committee and some members of the party on policy issues such as health care and the Green New Deal:

Across the country, Democratic candidates are finally starting to embrace the progressive goal of refusing all corporate PAC donations. Justice Democrats swore off corporate PACs from the very beginning, and we’re glad many of our fellow Democrats are finally following suit.

But apparently, the DCCC didn’t get the memo that voters aren’t happy about selling out their interests to the health care, insurance, oil, gas, and coal lobbies.

In just the first quarter of 2019, the DCCC accepted over $440,000 from corporate lobbyists and bundlers — many who coincidentally have fought ferociously against Medicare for All, and a Green New Deal.

And then, purely by chance we’re sure, DCCC chair Cheri Bustos went on the record saying that the "price tag for Medicare for all is a little scary." Meanwhile, former members of Congress turned pharma lobbyists have raised $10,000s on behalf of the DCCC.

The email comes roughly one week after Justice Democrats launched a website, DCCCBlacklist.com, in protest of a new policy by the DCCC of refusing to do business with vendors who work with any candidate running a primary challenge to an incumbent Democrat.

"The DCCC is using their financial leverage to intimidate and blacklist many hardworking people in our movement in a blatant attempt to protect a handful of out-of-touch incumbents," the website says.

"We’re launching The Blacklist to fight back and provide potential primary challengers with a database of go-to vendors, organizations, and consultants who will continue to support efforts to usher in a new generation of leaders into the Democratic Party."

The fundraising email is notable because it goes a step beyond the main grievances listed on the website and accuses the DCCC of being corrupted by campaign donations, and pandering "to the interests of Medicare-for-all sabotaging, and climate denying corporations," amounting to a "betrayal of our Democratic and progressive values."

All of which points to the continuing notion that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.,) has remained unable to corral the progressive flank in the Democrat caucus, something she has struggled with since the new Congress was sworn in in January.

Pelosi appeared to take a small swipe at Ocasio-Cortez earlier in the week.

"While there are people who have a large number of Twitter followers, what’s important is that we have large numbers of votes on the floor of the House," Pelosi said to USA Today, appearing to make reference to the nearly four million followers of Rep. Ocasio-Cortez.

While many political pundits have drawn analogies on the tension between the progressive flank and Pelosi to the tussles between the Republican "Freedom Caucus" and former Speaker John Boehner, the Freedom Caucus never advocated for or tried to build an apparatus to circumvent traditional elements of the party machinery such as the National Republican Congressional Committee.

"It’s similar to what we, as Republicans, dealt with when we were in the majority," former Republican Rep. Ryan Costello told USA Today in the same article in which Pelosi mentioned Ocasio-Cotez’s Twitter followers. "You have an ascendant left that is very angry, very blunt, frankly a little irresponsible in the things they say. And the base soaks it up."

At the same time, Justice Democrats is working to aid a primary challenge against Democratic Representative Henry Cuellar of Texas. A separate fundraising appeal by Justice Democrats referred to Cuellar as "the most conservative Democrat in Congress," according to OpenSecrets.com.

Justice Democrats is also associated with freshmen Democrat representatives Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), and Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), all of whom have had controversial starts to their congressional tenure.

Requests for comment to the DCCC, the office of Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Cheri Bustos, and Justice Democrats were not returned.

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Trump trolls the Democrats to highlight their hypocrisy

It is difficult to grasp the scope of Democrat/media hypocrisy.  But regarding immigration it is beyond description.  They are making their disingenuousness so obvious that they might as well put it on billboards.  Tolstoy wrote,

“Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.”  (Anna Karenina)  

President Trump suggested, perhaps seriously, that the hundreds of thousands of illegals that the Democrats insist be allowed to flow into the country unimpeded be distributed to those states and cities throughout the nation that have designated themselves sanctuaries to such migrants.  After two years of doing everything in their power to keep our borders open to all comers, asserting that these illegal immigrants are “gifts of love” (Pelosi) to America, you would have thought Trump suggested depositing dumpsters full of fetid rodents to all those virtue-signaling cities and states.  

The leftist media spent the day hysterical that he would dare imagine such a ploy.  They called it retribution, illegal (sanctuary cities are illegal), inhumane, vengeful, and worse.  In short, they had a full-blown meltdown that rivaled the hysteria of a few days ago after AG Barr confirmed that spying on the Trump campaign and presidency did occur.   

The Democrats, having lost their minds, leaped at the chance to display for all their blatant hypocrisy. They demand that those pawns (the migrants) in their game of remaking America for their purposes not be shipped to their their cities!  No way, Jose.

For the duration of Trump’s presidency, the Democrats have done their level best to foil his promise of immigration reform, no matter how many rapes, murders, and other crimes are committed by such non-citizens, who for the left deserve more rights and more compassion than Americans.  Pelosi, Schumer and their acolytes have once again proven beyond all doubt that they value the prerogatives, if not the lives, of illegal immigrants over American citizens.   But they don’t value lives at all; not those of American victims nor those of the thousands of migrants who die on the long journey here because the left has lured them with promises of government largesse.  This on the same day that the New York State Assembly blocked a bill to help Goldstar families with college tuition but approved $27m for tuition for illegals, even those present in the US for only thirty days!  What a murder of crows, our progressives! 

The Democrats’ loving embrace of illegal immigrants is a scam.  They do not want them in their own sanctuary cities, the biggest of them already fraught with homelessness, drug abuse and all that accompanies those pathologies. Nancy Pelosi’s city of San Francisco, like Seattle and Los Angeles, has been disfigured by leftist notions of compassion.  Tourists, long a mainstay of the local economy are appalled.  Those who still come are given maps in order to avoid the paths benighted by fecal matter and discarded, contaminated needles.  

The progressive vision for the Obama-imagined transformed America is a Democrat-created bust.  Obama’s polices transformed the country alright; he nearly destroyed us, which is why Trump won in 2016. 

All of which leads us to the Left’s refusal to admit that the Obama administration did indeed weaponize our alphabet agencies in order to take Trump out.  E. Nesbit, the British author of children’s’ books wrote, ”Trying not to believe things when in your heart you are almost sure they are true, is as bad for the temper as anything I know.”  The Left has for over two years now refused to acknowledge that a group of self-appointed thugs at the top of those institutions did indeed violate countless laws in order to sabotage a candidate they opposed.  They surely know that it is true; there is too much evidence available to all to deny it.  Still, they pretended to be shocked when AG Barr pronounced that spying did take place.  They’ve spent two years trying not to believe that what is true is, in fact, true.  ”One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside.” (John Lennon) The Democrat Party is crippled, economically, ethically and morally.  All they have is their exposed hypocrisy and their rage at losing an election they took for granted.

The Left’s hysteria over Trump’s suggestion that the many thousands of illegals who have invaded the country be sent to sanctuary cities would be hilarious if it were not so unspeakably hypocritical.  It is the Democrats who have done everything in their power to encourage these people to come, to breach our borders.  But they do not want them in their communities.  Trump, as usual, trolled them into revealing who they really are: disingenuous, elitist snobs.  The man is a genius and he is the best president since Reagan.  

“It takes a common thug to commit injustice, but it takes an exceptional thug to call it “social justice.” (Jakub Wisniewski)

Photo credit: Gage Skidmore (cropped)

It is difficult to grasp the scope of Democrat/media hypocrisy.  But regarding immigration it is beyond description.  They are making their disingenuousness so obvious that they might as well put it on billboards.  Tolstoy wrote,

“Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.”  (Anna Karenina)  

President Trump suggested, perhaps seriously, that the hundreds of thousands of illegals that the Democrats insist be allowed to flow into the country unimpeded be distributed to those states and cities throughout the nation that have designated themselves sanctuaries to such migrants.  After two years of doing everything in their power to keep our borders open to all comers, asserting that these illegal immigrants are “gifts of love” (Pelosi) to America, you would have thought Trump suggested depositing dumpsters full of fetid rodents to all those virtue-signaling cities and states.  

The leftist media spent the day hysterical that he would dare imagine such a ploy.  They called it retribution, illegal (sanctuary cities are illegal), inhumane, vengeful, and worse.  In short, they had a full-blown meltdown that rivaled the hysteria of a few days ago after AG Barr confirmed that spying on the Trump campaign and presidency did occur.   

The Democrats, having lost their minds, leaped at the chance to display for all their blatant hypocrisy. They demand that those pawns (the migrants) in their game of remaking America for their purposes not be shipped to their their cities!  No way, Jose.

For the duration of Trump’s presidency, the Democrats have done their level best to foil his promise of immigration reform, no matter how many rapes, murders, and other crimes are committed by such non-citizens, who for the left deserve more rights and more compassion than Americans.  Pelosi, Schumer and their acolytes have once again proven beyond all doubt that they value the prerogatives, if not the lives, of illegal immigrants over American citizens.   But they don’t value lives at all; not those of American victims nor those of the thousands of migrants who die on the long journey here because the left has lured them with promises of government largesse.  This on the same day that the New York State Assembly blocked a bill to help Goldstar families with college tuition but approved $27m for tuition for illegals, even those present in the US for only thirty days!  What a murder of crows, our progressives! 

The Democrats’ loving embrace of illegal immigrants is a scam.  They do not want them in their own sanctuary cities, the biggest of them already fraught with homelessness, drug abuse and all that accompanies those pathologies. Nancy Pelosi’s city of San Francisco, like Seattle and Los Angeles, has been disfigured by leftist notions of compassion.  Tourists, long a mainstay of the local economy are appalled.  Those who still come are given maps in order to avoid the paths benighted by fecal matter and discarded, contaminated needles.  

The progressive vision for the Obama-imagined transformed America is a Democrat-created bust.  Obama’s polices transformed the country alright; he nearly destroyed us, which is why Trump won in 2016. 

All of which leads us to the Left’s refusal to admit that the Obama administration did indeed weaponize our alphabet agencies in order to take Trump out.  E. Nesbit, the British author of children’s’ books wrote, ”Trying not to believe things when in your heart you are almost sure they are true, is as bad for the temper as anything I know.”  The Left has for over two years now refused to acknowledge that a group of self-appointed thugs at the top of those institutions did indeed violate countless laws in order to sabotage a candidate they opposed.  They surely know that it is true; there is too much evidence available to all to deny it.  Still, they pretended to be shocked when AG Barr pronounced that spying did take place.  They’ve spent two years trying not to believe that what is true is, in fact, true.  ”One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside.” (John Lennon) The Democrat Party is crippled, economically, ethically and morally.  All they have is their exposed hypocrisy and their rage at losing an election they took for granted.

The Left’s hysteria over Trump’s suggestion that the many thousands of illegals who have invaded the country be sent to sanctuary cities would be hilarious if it were not so unspeakably hypocritical.  It is the Democrats who have done everything in their power to encourage these people to come, to breach our borders.  But they do not want them in their communities.  Trump, as usual, trolled them into revealing who they really are: disingenuous, elitist snobs.  The man is a genius and he is the best president since Reagan.  

“It takes a common thug to commit injustice, but it takes an exceptional thug to call it “social justice.” (Jakub Wisniewski)

Photo credit: Gage Skidmore (cropped)

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On PBS, Never-Trumper David Brooks Backs Reparations, Due to the ‘Election of Trump’

On the PBS NewsHour, New York Times columnist David Brooks is somehow expected to be identified as the conservative (or at least center-right) pundit, and he keeps sounding like a leftist instead. On Friday, he came out for reparations because "we’re in a make-or-break moment on race" due to "the election of Trump," and "aggressive gestures" are needed to show "we’re all part of the same country." 

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Ocean Power Generating Systems–Going Nowhere Fast

Ocean Power Generating Systems--Going Nowhere FastThe number of companies that hoped in vain (some still do) to harness ocean power for “free energy” is steadily increasing.

One of the latest outfits not doing so well is Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (OPT) of Monroe Township, NJ, USA.  According to its website ( https://oceanpowertechnologies.gcs-web.com/  ), it “is a pioneer in renewable wave-energy technology that converts ocean wave energy into electricity” and they have several patents to prove it.

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Terrifying video on antisemitic conference at the University of North Carolina

Ami Horowitz, the investigatory film maker who often exposes campus madness, has produced a video that ought to terrify anyone familiar with the history of Weimar Germany. Then, as now, universities were among the leaders in whipping up Jew-hatred and actually persecuting Jews. One of the neglected aspects of the origins of the Holocaust is that the purge of Jews from Germany’s famous universities opened up new career possibilities for those faculty and students who remained once their institutions were Judenrein.

We are not (yet) at the point of expelling Jews from faculties and student bodies, but we are at the point of violent attacks on Jews being justified by faculty members at prestigious universities, as a jaw-dropping interview in Horowitz’s latest video (embedded below) shows. We are also at the point where multiple academic departments at such a university – a publicly-owned and funded institution of (purported) higher learning – are comfortable sponsoring an academic conference with open Jew-hatred, and government funds (nearly a quarter million dollars!) are allocated to sponsor it.

Horowitz was denied access to the film the conference but snuck in sound equipment and somehow managed to get a clip of the crowd cheering when the speaker onstage complimented them, “You look beautifully antisemitic,” to the accompaniment of loud music and strobe lights.

If you are not Jewish and think that this doesn’t affect you, think again. Jews are only the first on the list of targets.

Inage credits: YouTube screen grabs

Hat tip: Geller Report

Ami Horowitz, the investigatory film maker who often exposes campus madness, has produced a video that ought to terrify anyone familiar with the history of Weimar Germany. Then, as now, universities were among the leaders in whipping up Jew-hatred and actually persecuting Jews. One of the neglected aspects of the origins of the Holocaust is that the purge of Jews from Germany’s famous universities opened up new career possibilities for those faculty and students who remained once their institutions were Judenrein.

We are not (yet) at the point of expelling Jews from faculties and student bodies, but we are at the point of violent attacks on Jews being justified by faculty members at prestigious universities, as a jaw-dropping interview in Horowitz’s latest video (embedded below) shows. We are also at the point where multiple academic departments at such a university – a publicly-owned and funded institution of (purported) higher learning – are comfortable sponsoring an academic conference with open Jew-hatred, and government funds (nearly a quarter million dollars!) are allocated to sponsor it.

Horowitz was denied access to the film the conference but snuck in sound equipment and somehow managed to get a clip of the crowd cheering when the speaker onstage complimented them, “You look beautifully antisemitic,” to the accompaniment of loud music and strobe lights.

If you are not Jewish and think that this doesn’t affect you, think again. Jews are only the first on the list of targets.

Inage credits: YouTube screen grabs

Hat tip: Geller Report

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Republicans Plan To Make 2020 A ‘Referendum’ On Socialism

Freedom hangs in the balance now that the seeds of socialism have been sown with the younger generation…

Republicans could have a winning strategy for next year’s all-important elections as well as a legitimate chance of retaking the House Of Representatives.

With the White House and the fate of the republic hanging in the balance and Democrats calling for the imposition of socialism on the nation, it cannot be overstated that 2020 will be the most critical election in American history.

Driven mad by Trump Derangement Syndrome and transformed into an angry mob led by Bernie Sanders and a 29-year-old bartender, the Democrats have degenerated into the barbarians at the gates and unless they are thoroughly crushed, the future looks bleak.

But despite the media dominance that allows them to promote their dangerous ideology, the party’s ideas are political poison to the vast majority of the country – the areas that are sneered at and mocked by the coastal elitists and their celebrity mouthpieces who would force their views on voters living in areas that they derisively refer to as the “flyover states” who they despise.

However, the vast majority of Americans who live there despise them as well and hate their radicalism even more.

To take advantage of the loathing for the left, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has tipped his hand at the GOP’s plans and that is to make the election into a “referendum” on socialism.

Via The Hill, “GOP leader on 2020: We need a ‘referendum on socialism’”:

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday said he wants to make the 2020 presidential and Senate elections a “referendum on socialism” by pinning down Democrats on proposals like “Medicare for all” and the Green New Deal.

“We need to have a referendum on socialism,” McConnell told a group of reporters when asked for his assessment of next year’s elections, when Senate Republicans will have to defend 22 seats, compared with12 for Democrats.

“I’m going to be arguing, and I’m encouraging my colleagues to argue, that we are the firewall against socialism in this country,” McConnell added.

He said Republicans need to make the case to the American people, “if you’re uncomfortable with things like the Green New Deal and Medicare for none, the best way to avoid that is to have a Republican Senate.”

McConnell predicted that Republicans would have a target-rich environment with at least five Democratic presidential candidates backing Medicare for all legislation and at least six supporting the Green New Deal, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) ambitious plan to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

“We’ve got five credible candidates for president in the Senate signed up for the Green New Deal and Medicare for none. If we can’t make that case, we ought to go into another line of work,” he said.

With a year and a half to go until the elections and the Democrats already proposing such lunacy as the elimination of the private health insurance industry, free college tuition, stealing money from white people to pay out reparations to those who have never been slaves and more, they are only going to get more extreme to energize their rabid base.

But in doing so, Democrats may be on a suicide mission because, despite the illusion of what’s on CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, Facebook and Twitter, rational Americans and those moderates that are neeed to win nationally are horrified at what they have become.

McConnell is really onto something here and it could pay off big time.

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Dem Hypocrites Explode After Trump Suggests Relocating Illegals To Sanctuary Cities

So it now looks like all of the political left’s pontificating and phony concern about open borders and illegal immigrants has been complete hogwash.

President Trump came up with a brainstorm to alleviate overwhelmed border detention centers by suggesting that those who have invaded the U.S. under the pretense of being refugees should be transported to sanctuary cities across the country where liberals could roll out the red carpet.

Instead of gratitude, the celebs, activist media, and Democrats exploded in outrage showing once and for all that these sanctimonious sacks of snake shit don’t practice what they preach.

Via The Hill, Trump proposal for ‘sanctuary cities’ infuriates Dems”:

Democrats are fuming over President Trump’s consideration of a plan to move asylum seekers to “sanctuary cities” as a form of political retribution.

Top Democratic lawmakers were quick to criticize the morality of the proposal, while also saying it’s hard to take it seriously.

“You have policymakers at the highest levels throwing tantrums,” said Rep. Lou Correa (D-Calif.), the chairman of the House Homeland Security oversight subcommittee. “I can’t even begin to address this issue.”

The proposal, first reported by The Washington Post on Thursday, was floated by White House officials to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

President Trump on Friday confirmed the proposal in a tweet, saying, “we are indeed, as reported, giving strong considerations to placing Illegal Immigrants in Sanctuary Cities.”

White House officials in November and February tried unsuccessfully to pressure DHS officials to release thousands of detainees in small and mid-sized “sanctuary cities” as a form of political pressure against Democrats, the Post reported.

“This reflects how much policymakers at the highest level of a government don’t understand what they’re dealing with,” Correa said before Trump’s tweet. “When they say they’re going to punish sanctuary states, don’t they understand these workers are needed in this economy?”

And OH how they HOWLED like scalded cats instead of taking the side of their beloved illegals…

The stench of hypocrisy is overwhelming!

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So now we’re trolling the black hole picture lady?

It’s been an exciting week for science, hasn’t it? The second Falcon Heavy launch went off without a hitch and Israel came very close to landing a probe on the moon. The cherry on the cake might have been the publication of the first photograph of a black hole. But for one person involved with that photo, the week that should have been a celebration of a notable achievement went downhill quickly. That would be Dr. Katherine “Katie” Bouman, one of the imaging scientists involved in processing the massive mountains of data that went into creating the image.

As soon as the photo was released, a picture of Dr. Bouman clasping her hands over her face in delight went viral. While not claiming all the credit herself (she was actually quite modest about it), people in the media, the government and across Facebook and Twitter quickly began treating her as if she had flown across the universe to snap the picture herself. And then came the trolls. (NBC News)

Researcher Katie Bouman, 24, quickly gained internet fame after her role in helping to publish the black hole image that went viral. But internet trolls soon followed, questioning Bouman’s work and floating false claims that she did not have much of a part in the project. “Woman Does 6% of the Work but Gets 100% of the Credit: Black Hole Photo” was the top video result when searching her name on YouTube.

Colleagues rallied to her defense, but the situation highlighted the vitriol women continue to face on the internet and the continued vulnerability of major internet platforms to trolling campaigns.

One of the worst examples of this backlash came in the form of a YouTube video titled, “Woman Does 6% of the Work but Gets 100% of the Credit: Black Hole Photo.” The video itself is based on inaccurate information and seeks to shift the credit for the project to a “straight white male.” (The straight white male in question later came out and announced that he was also only one part of a vast team, that claims about the code he supposedly wrote were hugely overblown, and oh, by the way… he’s gay.) The video quickly collected more than 50,000 views.

While it would be easy to blame this misconception about how much of a role Bouman played in creating the photo on the internet troll that created that video, it’s just not the case. Nor did Katie Bouman once claim to be the driving force behind the project. The photo she posted doesn’t even insinuate as much. As Bouman herself said, she was one of many people contributing. And it turns out that the algorithm she developed didn’t wind up being used in this project, though she was still heavily involved in the process.

But that’s not we were seeing online or in the media. The Washington Post quickly put out a video titled “Meet the woman behind the first photo of a black hole.” The New York Times ran with a similar theme, though they later softened it a bit.

Perhaps one of the biggest cheerleaders was Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. To say that AOC was a bit “over the top” is putting it mildly.

And AOC was reacting to this tweet which was similarly lionizing Bouman as if she’d handled the entire project by herself.

So in the end, Dr. Katie Bouman was a valuable, contributing member of a 200 person team that developed the black hole photo. And after posting one innocent photo of herself enjoying the team’s moment in the sun she was turned into a feminist hero and then a glory-grabbing monster, all in the space of a few hours. Is anyone really surprised? That’s life on social media in 2019.

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