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Prominent members of the Democratic Party showed they have no problem with racists as they tried mainstreaming the racist and anti-Semitic preacher Louis Farrakhan at Aretha Franklin’s funeral, giving him a front-row seat.
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Every time I hear a liberal call Donald Trump a fascist, I often want to ask them what the definition of a fascist is.
I would really go for anything in the ballpark of Merriam-Webster’s definition, “a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.”
Yes, that’s a bit much, but I wouldn’t even be asking them to hit the green on that definition. The fairway would suffice. Or just don’t get it into the bunker.
As it turns out, I’m probably asking the wrong question. I’m assuming these individuals had a reason why Donald Trump was a fascist and were integrating it into their definition of fascism.
Thanks to the inimitable Steven Crowder, I now know I was assuming way, way too much.
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The CRTV host did one of his legendary “Change My Mind” segments regarding the president and accusations that he’s a fascist, and he did it right across from the White House.
The results were, um, well … let’s take a look:
That’s not even near the bunker, or the parking lot.
So, let’s look at the three major accusations here:
#1) Racism
#2) Suppression of the media
#3) Um, you know, stuff.
So, as for number one, our participants say that he’s a bigot, with one of them saying that he’s even said the n-word (there’s no evidence for this, mind you). The basic gist seems to be that he feels like a racist to them, which isn’t the same thing as being a racist, but that doesn’t necessarily seem to matter here.
The second thing seems to be that he’s suppressing the media. Which is funny, considering the media can’t stop covering him or calling him a racist. (See point number one.) When Crowder points out that he goes after the “fake news media” as opposed to the media in general, the response is to not distinguish between the two.
All we have to say is that if he wants to engage in “forcible suppression of opposition,” he really ought to do a better job of it.
So then there’s point number three, which is, um, you know, Trump is like, I heard, stuff and yeah.
This, I admit, may be totally true — once we figure out what it actually is.
There you have it — why Donald Trump is a fascist. Severe social and economic regimentation? Hardly. Centralized autocratic government? That’s what he’s fighting against. Forcible suppression of opposition? These individuals were all speaking out on camera.
But then again, it’s not that they don’t even know what a fascist is. It’s that they don’t even know why Donald Trump is one.
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Facebook has never been particularly conservative-friendly. However, as the late evening of Nov. 8, 2016 turned into the early morning of Nov. 9 and it became clear Newsweek wouldn’t be using that “Madame President” cover after all, things took a definite turn for the worse.
How bad has it gotten? Well, two heads of conservative publishers — including our own Floyd Brown — say they’ve lost 1.5 billion Facebook pageviews since Trump won.
And no, I didn’t accidentally hit the “b” instead of the “m.”
Those numbers come from The Gateway Pundit, who recently spoke to Brown and another top publisher in the right-wing opinion sphere.
“Floyd Brown is a conservative author, speaker and media commentator. In 2008 Floyd launched Western Journal which quickly became one of the top conservative websites in America,” they write.
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“By 2016 Floyd’s organization of Western Journal and other conservative websites under his umbrella had more than a billion page views. Since 2016 Floyd’s organization lost 75% of its Facebook traffic.”
“Likewise, we spoke with Jared Vallorani from Klicked Media. Jared traveled to Washington DC with The Gateway Pundit and website owners at 100%FedUp in June to discuss Facebook targeting against conservative publishers with Republican lawmakers,” they report.
“Jared told The Gateway Pundit his organization Klicked Media, which hosts over 60 conservative websites, lost 400 million page views from Facebook in the last six months if you compare the traffic to a year ago.
“Jared said, ‘We lost 70% to 80% of our traffic if you compare January to May 2017 vs Jan to May 2018.’
“If you combine the total number of pageviews lost by just these two conservative online publishers you are looking at a loss of over 1.5 billion pageviews from Facebook in one year.”
And keep in mind, that’s just two publishers. That means pageviews are down way more than 1.5 billion on the conservative side of the coin.
The Gateway Pundit called this a “bloodbath.”
All we’ll say is that we tracked the situation using our own data and found that liberal outlets hadn’t faced the same sort of drops. That means that there was almost certainly a political element to this.
That might have been on the mind of President Trump when he said, a few weeks ago, that “too many voices are being destroyed” by social media and compared it to “Fake News.”
Social Media is totally discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices. Speaking loudly and clearly for the Trump Administration, we won’t let that happen. They are closing down the opinions of many people on the RIGHT, while at the same time doing nothing to others…….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 18, 2018
…..Censorship is a very dangerous thing & absolutely impossible to police. If you are weeding out Fake News, there is nothing so Fake as CNN & MSNBC, & yet I do not ask that their sick behavior be removed. I get used to it and watch with a grain of salt, or don’t watch at all..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 18, 2018
….Too many voices are being destroyed, some good & some bad, and that cannot be allowed to happen. Who is making the choices, because I can already tell you that too many mistakes are being made. Let everybody participate, good & bad, and we will all just have to figure it out!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 18, 2018
“Let everybody participate, good & bad, and we will all just have to figure it out!” Trump said.
That’s apparently not going to happen anytime soon.
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On Tuesday, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will go before the Senate Judiciary Committee and begin his confirmation hearings. That’s when the left has promised the personal attacks and bloodshed are going to begin in earnest — and it’s already been ugly.
The Democrats have promised to block Kavanaugh’s hearing in any way possible despite the fact that he’s one of the most eminently qualified justices to be nominated for the position, having authored over 300 opinions on what’s widely considered the nation’s second-highest court. No one can assail Kavanaugh’s record on the bench.
So instead, they’re going after him as a human being. Despite the fact that they haven’t even met with Kavanaugh and his hearings haven’t begun, they’ve promised they’re going to go after him “with everything (they’ve) got” because he’s “complicit” in “evil” — all because he was nominated by President Donald Trump.
The Democrats are attacking him this way because Brett Kavanaugh is their worst nightmare, and not just from a judicial standpoint. Here are three reasons why:
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As a human being, almost nobody that the Trump administration could have nominated for the Supreme Court would have been as respected as Kavanaugh, and I don’t just mean for his judicial opinions. What I mean is, as a human being, this is someone who’s not just respected but beloved by those who deal with him on a day-by-day basis.
Take Julie O’Brien, whose daughter goes to school with Kavanaugh’s. In an opinion piece for The Washington Post, not exactly a publication that’s been leading the charge for the judge’s nomination, O’Brien described how Kavanaugh spends his time coaching school sports or as a “carpool dad,” bringing kids to and fro when it comes to extracurriculars.
It was one incident, however, that really left O’Brien touched.
“Brett’s friendship and mentorship have touched my family in an especially personal way. A few years ago, my husband died,” she wrote. “One of the many difficult aspects of that loss was that my daughter had no one to accompany her to the school’s annual father-daughter dance. That first year — and every year since my husband’s passing — Brett has stepped forward to take my daughter to the dance alongside his own.
“I’ll leave it to others to gauge Judge Kavanaugh’s qualifications for the Supreme Court as a jurist. But as someone who would bring to his work the traits of personal kindness, leadership and willingness to help when called on, he would receive a unanimous verdict in his favor from those who know him.”
But what about those who work with him? Amit Agarwal, a former clerk, wrote an article for Fox News saying Kavanaugh would attend the weddings of his clerks, have frequent lunches with them and take them out to Washington Nationals baseball games.
“It has been 11 years since I left the judge’s chambers, and eight years since I’ve moved to Florida with my family,” Agarwal wrote. “I still call him for guidance whenever I have to make an important decision. His response is always the same: He listens carefully, offers his own view, and then asks a simple but extraordinarily generous question: ‘How can I help?’
“I can count on one hand the number of people in my life who regularly ask me that question and mean it. It is astonishing to me that one of them is a former boss who also happens to be one of the most distinguished judges in the country.”
In fact, when The Washington Post decided to run a putative hit piece on how much of an “elitist” Kavanaugh was, their article included the fact that his local bartender didn’t even know he was a judge — much less one of the most important ones in the nation — and that he’s friendly with his mostly liberal neighbors in Chevy Chase, Maryland, even though he’s a Republican. That’s what they could dig up on him. If that’s the worst they can do, the Democrats have very good reason to be scared.
One of the most common (and immature) attack lines used by the liberals was that Kavanaugh represents some sort of overgrown frat boy. We all know what that’s supposed to mean, particularly in the era of #MeToo: Here’s an overgrown sexist and member of a boy’s club, a throwback to a Neanderthal’s past.
Here’s what the pro-abortion group NARAL had to say:
ICYMI: Trump’s White House sent reporters 34 testimonials in support of Brett Kavanaugh. Wanna take a *guess* how many of these testimonials came from women?
ZERO. 100% were men. Definitely no cause for us to worry that #SCOTUSPick is out to undermine our freedoms. pic.twitter.com/C39nsAAqTR
— NARAL (@NARAL) July 10, 2018
That’s a lie, and we can tell you that because the numbers don’t lie.
“As a judge, I hire four law clerks each year,” Kavanaugh said in his nomination remarks. “I look for the best. My law clerks come from diverse backgrounds and points of view. I am proud that a majority of my law clerks have been women.”
And that’s not just tokenism, either. The Daily Signal spoke to some of his past female clerks.
“There was at least one term where I believe all four of his law clerks were women. He has support from all corners and all walks of life,” said Jennifer Mascott, former Kavanaugh clerk and assistant professor of law at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University.
“There just could not be a more terrific, qualified nominee.”
And it wasn’t like he was coming from a part of the judicial system where female inclusion was the rule, either.
That 2014 term in which all four of his clerks were women “was the first year that any judge on the D.C. Circuit had hired four female law clerks,” clerk Katie Wellington told The New York Times.
“It was important to him,” she said. “His mother was a judge.”
Just after his nomination, CNN published a piece in which it noted that Kavanaugh is a white male chosen for a court where almost everyone has been a white male. The point had to have been conspicuous to everyone — again, Kavanaugh just wasn’t right for the times.
Yet here was The New York Times‘ take on Kavanaugh’s staff: “Judge Kavanaugh’s Former Clerks: Diverse, and Deployed to Vouch for Him.”
That last part, of course, is a pithy remark about clerks coming out in the media to vouch for Kavanaugh — something that’s happened for almost every nominee in recent memory. However, this is The New York Times. If any paper was going to find a lack of diversity among Kavanaugh’s staff, it would be The Times — the same way that if anyone was going to find out how elitist Brett Kavanaugh was, it was going to be The Washington Post. Neither found anything. Brett Kavanaugh has been great for diversity on a court that simply hasn’t been known for it. Even The New York Times is forced to admit that. Shouldn’t that tell you something?
This is why Kavanaugh is the Democrats’ nightmare. All they have are personal attacks: He’s going to be bad for division in America, he’s going to be bad for women and he’s going to be bad for minorities.
On all three counts, they’re wrong — and that’s not just a matter of opinion. The facts simply mean none of this holds water.
It’s time to stop the demagoguery and gridlock, and give Brett Kavanaugh a fair hearing.
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A library in South Carolina has started offering classes to teach teens how to “adult.”
The Pickens County Library System has started offering “Adulting 101,” a class for teens taught by millennials. The class will teach teens ages 12-18 how to do things like laundry, interview for a job, manage finances, or change a flat tire.
“It’s a program to teach them things they won’t necessarily learn in school or their parents didn’t think to teach them, because it’s not school based,” Laura Wells, a research assistant at Captain Kimberly Hampton Memorial Library, told WSPA-TV.
Wells said that the course would cover “stuff that you learn kind of like on your own, sometimes” and “things we floundered with when we were out of school.”
The teens, who have already signed up for the class, said they appreciated the opportunity to learn these skills. Jordan McDonald, a local high school senior, told WSPA that “having somebody tell you ‘Hey, don’t worry, you’re not the only person that doesn’t know what to do’ is helpful.”
On Monday, teens learned how to submit college applications. In September’s class, they will learn how to sew buttons and make pincushions.
Earlier this year, the Pew Research Center tried to come up with a more clear-cut definition for the age range for the much-maligned “millennial” generation, to keep the term “analytically meaningful.” Pew defined a millennial as anyone who was born in between 1981 and 1996. Based on this definition, the youngest millennial is 4 years too old to take this class.
However, as Pew noted when it declared this new policy, defining when a generation starts and ends isn’t “an exact science.” There is not a consensus yet on what to call the generation that begins in 1997.
The class is held at 5 p.m. every fourth Tuesday at the Captain Kimberly Hampton Memorial Library in Easley, South Carolina.
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A top U.S. counterintelligence official is warning that Chinese espionage agencies are using fake LinkedIn accounts to attempt to get information from Americans with access to government and commercial secrets, Reuters news reported.
Intelligence and law enforcement officials have informed LinkedIn that China is aggressively attempting to recruit spies through the popular networking site, William Evanina, director of the U.S. National Counter-Intelligence and Security Center, told Reuters.
The Center’s role includes protecting the U.S. from intelligence and security threats, according to its website.
China’s campaign is contacting “thousands of LinkedIn members at a time,” Evanina told Reuters. He declined to indicate the number of fake accounts that U.S. intelligence has uncovered. He also declined to say how many Americans may have been contacted.
Targets of the recruitment campaign are often experts in the fields of super-computing, nuclear energy, nanotechnology, semi-conductors, stealth technology, health care, hybrid grains, seeds and green energy, the report states.
Chinese intelligence may also use bribery or phony business propositions to entice people, according to the report. One way this is done is by offering academics and scientists payment for scholarly papers. In some cases, they are later pressured into revealing U.S. government or commercial secrets, the report states.
German and British authorities have previously warned citizens that Beijing uses LinkedIn to try to recruit spies. According to Reuters, this appears to be the first time a U.S. official has publicly discussed China targeting the U.S. in the same way.
Evanina suggested LinkedIn should follow the actions of Twitter, Google and Facebook — and purge fake accounts with suspected ties to Iranian and Russian intelligence agencies.
“It is highly unusual for a senior U.S. intelligence official to single out an American-owned company by name and publicly recommend it take action,” Reuters stated.
Paul Rockwell, LinkedIn’s head of trust and safety, confirmed to Reuters that the company has had discussions with U.S. law enforcement agencies regarding Chinese espionage.
“We are doing everything we can to identify and stop this activity,” Rockwell told the news agency. “We’ve never waited for requests to act and actively identify bad actors and remove bad accounts using information we uncover and intelligence from a variety of sources including government agencies.”
The U.S. maintains that China’s Ministry of State Security works with outside contractors to set up fake accounts that are used to approach potential recruits.
Earlier this month, LinkedIn announced that it took down almosst 40 fake accounts with users who attempted to contact members associated with unidentified political organizations. Rockwell did not indicate if the accounts originated in China, according to the report.
China’s foreign ministry denied Evanina’s allegations, Reuters reported.
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Prominent and powerful Kentucky Democrat Jerry Lundergan was indicted Friday for making a series of illegal campaign contributions to his daughter’s campaign.
Federal prosecutors allege that Lundergan made corporate contributions that exceeded the $25,000 limit to Alison Lundergan Grimes’ failed 2014 Senate campaign against Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.). Lundergan has been indicted on 10 counts, while fellow political operate Dale Emmons was indicted on six.
Lundergan Grimes, who serves as Kentucky’s secretary of state and has hinted she might run for governor in 2019, responded to the allegations on Twitter, promising her father would be vindicated.
These allegations started as a result of a politically motivated complaint filed against my campaign nearly five years ago. That complaint was already investigated and completely dismissed by the bipartisan Federal Election Commission. 2/4
— Alison L. Grimes (@AlisonForKY) August 31, 2018
I love my father, and I have faith in the judgment and fairness of the people of Kentucky, and believe when all of the facts are in, my father will be vindicated. 3/4
— Alison L. Grimes (@AlisonForKY) August 31, 2018
Lundergan served three terms in the Kentucky House of Representatives, and twice served as chairman of the Kentucky Democratic Party. His final state house term ended in 1989 after he was convicted of using his political influence to secure a no-bid government contract for his catering company. The conviction was late overturned on appeal.
The Lexington businessman soon regained political power by becoming an early supporter and personal friend of Bill Clinton. In 2008, he served as state chairman of the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. Both Clintons would later campaign for Lundergan Grimes in 2014.
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During an interview on Wednesday with CBS Miami, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) made a salient point regarding the different ways "elites" and average Americans view politics:
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Best way to memorialize them? Steamed with drawn butter. Update to this story.
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Maine officials on Thursday denied a recent request from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to erect a memorial to remember the lobsters that were lost in a crash last week.
PETA had hoped to erect a 5-foot gravestone to memorialize the “countless sensitive crustaceans” who were killed during the Aug. 22 crash in Brunswick, the animal rights group said.
Police said 7,000 pounds of live lobsters were destroyed, and it’s suspected more than 4,500 lobsters died, according to the Portland Press Herald.
However, Maine Department of Transportation officials said they had to turn down the request, citing safety concerns and regulation rules for busy highways like Route 1, where the crash occurred.
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