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Revealed: In January Trump called-out Mahmoud Abbas for Jew-hatred

The New Yorker broke the story deep into a long, long article (“Donald Trump’s New World Order”) that in January President Trump called out Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas for his public disparagement of Jewish history:


…at a meeting of the Palestinian National Council in late April, in Ramallah, he declared that Ashkenazi Jews came not from the Biblical holy lands but from the Turkic empire of Khazaria, and that the Nazi slaughter of European Jews was the result not of anti-Semitism but of their financial activities—“usury and banking and such.”



This is a discredited (by DNA!) attempt to claim that Jews have no right to Israel because they are imposters posing as the people of the Bible. It enjoyed some popularity among anti-Semites for a number of years, but has faded thanks to scientific refutation. Except, apparently, among the Palestinian leadership.


Trump’s response:


On January 17th, the New York Post published a column by Michael Goodwin, a Trump partisan, with the headline “abbas’ jew hatred exposed.” The column described a speech in which Abbas had made comments disparaging Jewish history. It featured a photograph of Abbas waving two clenched fists. On a copy of the article, Trump wrote a note in large black script, “Mahmoud, Wow—This is the real you?” He signed it, “Best Wishes, Donald Trump.” Some of his aides argued that it would be undiplomatic to send the message. Kushner loved it. “That was the President being the President,” he told aides. The White House sent Trump’s message to Donald Blome, the consul-general in Jerusalem, who had it delivered to Abbas at his headquarters in Ramallah. Kushner told aides that Trump was challenging Abbas, saying, in effect, “I want to know, are you a great leader or are you a terrorist? You show me. It’s your choice.”


Here is a photo of the message that has appeared in a few places.



The New Yorker broke the story deep into a long, long article (“Donald Trump’s New World Order”) that in January President Trump called out Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas for his public disparagement of Jewish history:


…at a meeting of the Palestinian National Council in late April, in Ramallah, he declared that Ashkenazi Jews came not from the Biblical holy lands but from the Turkic empire of Khazaria, and that the Nazi slaughter of European Jews was the result not of anti-Semitism but of their financial activities—“usury and banking and such.”


This is a discredited (by DNA!) attempt to claim that Jews have no right to Israel because they are imposters posing as the people of the Bible. It enjoyed some popularity among anti-Semites for a number of years, but has faded thanks to scientific refutation. Except, apparently, among the Palestinian leadership.


Trump’s response:


On January 17th, the New York Post published a column by Michael Goodwin, a Trump partisan, with the headline “abbas’ jew hatred exposed.” The column described a speech in which Abbas had made comments disparaging Jewish history. It featured a photograph of Abbas waving two clenched fists. On a copy of the article, Trump wrote a note in large black script, “Mahmoud, Wow—This is the real you?” He signed it, “Best Wishes, Donald Trump.” Some of his aides argued that it would be undiplomatic to send the message. Kushner loved it. “That was the President being the President,” he told aides. The White House sent Trump’s message to Donald Blome, the consul-general in Jerusalem, who had it delivered to Abbas at his headquarters in Ramallah. Kushner told aides that Trump was challenging Abbas, saying, in effect, “I want to know, are you a great leader or are you a terrorist? You show me. It’s your choice.”


Here is a photo of the message that has appeared in a few places.





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Corey Stewart: GOP Establishment Could Go ‘Way of the Dodo’

Fresh off his Tuesday primary victory, GOP nominee for U.S. Senate in Virginia Corey Stewart appeared on Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Daily Wednesday morning where he was able to tout a presidential endorsement.

Setting the stage for his general election campaign, Stewart told Breitbart News editor in chief Alex Marlow that Democrats like Tim Kaine (D-VA) have “turned their backs” on working Americans. He also attacked the establishment Republican elements who vigorously opposed his nomination, citing their lack on enthusiasm for the president’s immigration and trade agenda.

“If the Republican establishment wants to continue to oppose the president, myself, and others who support him on those things, they’re going to go the way of the dodo. They’re going to disappear,” Stewart told Marlow.

Cracking down on illegal immigration forms the centerpiece of Stewart’s run for Senate as it did in his gubernatorial race last year and his career as chair of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors.

Stewart and Marlow discussed how, on his way back from his historic summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, President Donald Trump tweeted congratulations on Stewart’s narrow victory over Delegate Nick Freitas:

Freitas, who Stewart had congratulated on a hard-fought campaign, also stood behind Stewart in a Facebook post after his concession. “We have our ticket,” Freitas wrote. “It is going to need our help. Let’s continue to account for ourselves with honor and dignity. God speed and on to November.”

The arch-establishment National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), the main party organ charged with supporting Republican Senate candidate, however, has stated it has no plans to support Stewart against incumbent Senator and Hillary Clinton’s running mate Tim Kaine. The NRSC’s chairman, moderate Sen. Corey Gardner (R-CO), told Politico, “At the senatorial committee we’re focusing on Missouri, Indiana, North Dakota, Montana, West Virginia and Florida.  … We have a big map this year, and what I’ve laid out in races that I’ve talked about, Virginia’s not on it.”

Lame duck, pro-mass immigration Republican Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) was even more emphatic in his refusal to support Stewart, telling Politico backing Kaine in November “has crossed my mind.”

The tight race between Freitas and Stewart was precipitated by a last-minute attack on Stewart, who had been the front-runner for most of the race. Certain elements of the conservative media unleashed a series of misleading attacks and groups like the Koch Brothers’ Americans for Prosperity threw their weight behind Freitas, leading to a photo finish Tuesday.

“It’s not a big surprise of course. I think what the big surprise was was that I was able to withstand all of those … well-financed attacks,” Stewart told Marlow. “But I’m not gonna worry about it. It’s all full speed ahead. I’m gonna be turning my attention to just kicking the snot out of Tim Kaine.”

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Kim Kardashian, Alice Johnson Reveal Commutation Details — ‘Are You Ready to Go Home?’

In a preview of a sit-down interview that NBC’s Hoda Kotb conducted that aired NBC’s “Nightly News” on Wednesday, Kim Kardashian and Alice Johnson offered up some of the details of

Johnson relayed what Kardashian said to her on the phone when she learned her sentence had been commuted by President Donald Trump.

Johnson said, “‘You can go home now, are you ready to go home?’ When she said that, I went into full-fledged Pentecostal holy dance. I started screaming and jumping.”

“I thought she knew because the news was starting to break and we had to get her on the phone,” Kardashian added. “So, she was kind of quiet on the phone, and I know her personality enough to know that she would’ve been screaming or something. And I said, ‘Wait, you don’t know?’ And she was like, ‘Know what?’ And I was like, ‘You’re going home.’”

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Maoists and Mumus: Genderless Fashion Coming to a Mall Near You

Could the men’s and women’s sections at your local clothing store be obsolete? The LGBTQ etc. movement’s latest attack on traditional gender understanding is in fashion.

Ungendered fashion is a trend that attempts to get rid of gender stereotypes with clothes. It has ultimately failed and been met with criticism for putting everyone in menswear.

Many stores have adopted gender neutral sections. Zara released it’s version of non-gender specific clothes that featured baggy sweatshirts, white t-shirts and jeans. This was met with criticism because “[T]he models used were all thin and white, and the clothes were all oversized basics” that “are often coded as menswear.”

Target has a “gender neutral” section on its website, but the clothing itself are mostly pride shirts and plain white or grey t-shirts. And it has the same problem as Zara had.

Mic fashion writer Rachel Lubitz explored this idea in an article titled “What would the ideal ungendered fashion collection really look like?” Trying to get behind what activists ultimately want and why “high designers have gotten the concept more clearly.”

Lubitz cited Palomo Spain, a high fashion designer is “known for putting models of various genders in elaborate gowns and skirts.” Thankfully, everyday fashion hasn’t been this successful. It doesn’t mean that activists and designers haven’t dreamed of the future without gender. Lubitz noted that, “with the fashion industry being so divided and devoted to the binary” it would be hard to do.

The founder of gender neutral brand Chromat, Becca McCharen-Tran’s ideal “would be accepting everyone and allowing them to [wear] whatever they want regardless of their gender presentation.”

The “ideal genderfree collection” for Jacob Tobia, a “genderqueer” writer and model, would be a “colorful parade of djellabas,” a unisex garment traditionally worn by men and women in Africa and Asia. “[T]here are no gender roles imposed on these robes, so anyone can wear them.”

He doesn’t want to “live in a euphoric future where there is no gender.” Rather, he wants to “live in a euphoric future where there is so much gender and it’s shimmering everywhere.” But isn’t everyone wearing the same unisex garment ultimately getting rid of gender?

Yet another ridiculous attempt to rid the world of gender. First gender neutral bathrooms, now this. What’s next?

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Leaked version of pending House immigration bill calls for amnesty for millions of illegals

Breitbart News claims that it received a leaked draft of Paul Ryan’s immigration bill to be voted on before the House’ recess. I have my fingers crossed that this is not the bill that will be introduced, but rather a preliminary wish-list version. The excerpts posted by Breitbart indicate a complete sell-out of the base in favor of the corporate donors wanting cheap labor.


According to a leaked draft of the amnesty deal, obtained by Breitbart News, Ryan’s plan would allow the entire “DACA population” to be eligible for amnesty so long as they meet low educational, work and criminal requirements, prompting the amnesty to explode in size.



That DACA population could include the nearly 3.5 million DACA-enrolled and DACA-eligible illegal aliens, and even more illegal aliens who arrive in the U.S. to fraudulently obtain the amnesty. (snip)


A second amnesty is included in the leaked draft, one that would allow the children of temporary foreign guest workers and “anyone who has a ‘contingent nonimmigrant status’” to apply for the amnesty.



This amnesty for the children of temporary foreign workers does not have a numerical cap, allowing for an endless amount of foreign nationals to obtain amnesty through this avenue known as “Pathway Concept B.”


“The winners are the DREAMers cause they get their amnesty, Democrats because they don’t have to concede much to get the amnesty and donor-class Republicans who are interested in perpetuating the current system,” Center for Immigration Studies Director of Policy Jessica Vaughan told Breitbart News of Ryan’s leaked amnesty deal.


This sounds like a plan to keep the GOP base at home on November 8 and hand over the speaker’s gavel to Nancy Pelosi.



photo: Wikimedia Commons


Paul Ryan by then will be a lobbyist, of course, and (if this bill passes) very popular with the US Chamber of Commerce.


The GOP establishment remains wedded to the concept that it can bamboozle the base and prosper. That worked well on illegal immigration for a long time, but we have a president that ran on controlling the uncontrolled entry of people by the millions. I don’t think they understand the reaction that will ensue if they pass this. 


Breitbart News claims that it received a leaked draft of Paul Ryan’s immigration bill to be voted on before the House’ recess. I have my fingers crossed that this is not the bill that will be introduced, but rather a preliminary wish-list version. The excerpts posted by Breitbart indicate a complete sell-out of the base in favor of the corporate donors wanting cheap labor.


According to a leaked draft of the amnesty deal, obtained by Breitbart News, Ryan’s plan would allow the entire “DACA population” to be eligible for amnesty so long as they meet low educational, work and criminal requirements, prompting the amnesty to explode in size.



That DACA population could include the nearly 3.5 million DACA-enrolled and DACA-eligible illegal aliens, and even more illegal aliens who arrive in the U.S. to fraudulently obtain the amnesty. (snip)


A second amnesty is included in the leaked draft, one that would allow the children of temporary foreign guest workers and “anyone who has a ‘contingent nonimmigrant status’” to apply for the amnesty.



This amnesty for the children of temporary foreign workers does not have a numerical cap, allowing for an endless amount of foreign nationals to obtain amnesty through this avenue known as “Pathway Concept B.”


“The winners are the DREAMers cause they get their amnesty, Democrats because they don’t have to concede much to get the amnesty and donor-class Republicans who are interested in perpetuating the current system,” Center for Immigration Studies Director of Policy Jessica Vaughan told Breitbart News of Ryan’s leaked amnesty deal.


This sounds like a plan to keep the GOP base at home on November 8 and hand over the speaker’s gavel to Nancy Pelosi.



photo: Wikimedia Commons


Paul Ryan by then will be a lobbyist, of course, and (if this bill passes) very popular with the US Chamber of Commerce.


The GOP establishment remains wedded to the concept that it can bamboozle the base and prosper. That worked well on illegal immigration for a long time, but we have a president that ran on controlling the uncontrolled entry of people by the millions. I don’t think they understand the reaction that will ensue if they pass this. 




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Retail Sales Boom: Biggest Rise in Six Months, Double Expectations

U.S. retail sales in May far exceeded forecasts, rising by the most in six-months and signaling faster economic growth.

Overall retail sales rose 0.8 percent from the prior month, double the consensus economic estimate of 0.4 percent, according to Commerce Department data released Thursday. The prior month was revised up to 0.4 percent, indicating a stronger April than earlier data suggested.

The retail “control group” sales, which excludes some of the more volatile numbers, rose 0.5 percent, which also exceeded forecasts.
The results likely reflect the high levels of consumer confidence, a very strong labor market, and lower taxes. The unexpected strength in the control group, which excludes gas stations sales, indicates that higher fuel prices have not stolen consumer demand from other sectors of the economy

The Federal Reserve said yesterday that it would raise its target interest rate range by a quarter of a point, citing a strong labor market and other signs of economic expansion. Fed chief Jerome Powell described the economy as “very strong” in a press conference Friday.

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Elizabeth Warren caught speaking with forked tongue on billionaires

Investor’s Business Daily has a good one today about a little-noted snippet from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) in her interview with The Intercept, who said:


“Until we have all the Democrats who are willing to take on the billionaire class, until we have all the Democrats who are willing to fight for the American people and not for a handful of billionaires and giant corporations, then it’s going to stay an uphill fight.”



Yup. Billionaires, those dreadful tubby white men on the Monopoly Chance and Community Chest cards we’re all supposed to rise up against.


Feel the urge?


Actually, it’s such bull hockey.


Investor’s Business Daily makes mincemeat of Warren’s red-flag-waving call to comradely action, by citing who today’s billionaires are, going down the full list – from the always well-meaning liberal Howie Schultz of Starbucks, to the obsessive environmental wacko Tom Steyer, to the horrible stateless statesman with big designs for wrecking America, George Soros. They have a monster list, and they’ve gone through the whole 500-plus compiliation from the Forbes billionaires list.


Maybe she should have consulted the Forbes billionaire list before declaring that this group is the enemy of the state. After all, the billionaire club — all 585 of them — includes people like George Soros, Warren Buffett, Howard Schultz, Oprah Winfrey — who’ve not only given $140+ million to her party, but support a wide array of liberal causes.


Liz Warren is exposing her fake-Indian roots by once again, speaking with forked tongue.


 


Image Credit: Tim Pierce, via Flickr // CC BY-SA 2.0


 


Investor’s Business Daily has a good one today about a little-noted snippet from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) in her interview with The Intercept, who said:


“Until we have all the Democrats who are willing to take on the billionaire class, until we have all the Democrats who are willing to fight for the American people and not for a handful of billionaires and giant corporations, then it’s going to stay an uphill fight.”


Yup. Billionaires, those dreadful tubby white men on the Monopoly Chance and Community Chest cards we’re all supposed to rise up against.


Feel the urge?


Actually, it’s such bull hockey.


Investor’s Business Daily makes mincemeat of Warren’s red-flag-waving call to comradely action, by citing who today’s billionaires are, going down the full list – from the always well-meaning liberal Howie Schultz of Starbucks, to the obsessive environmental wacko Tom Steyer, to the horrible stateless statesman with big designs for wrecking America, George Soros. They have a monster list, and they’ve gone through the whole 500-plus compiliation from the Forbes billionaires list.


Maybe she should have consulted the Forbes billionaire list before declaring that this group is the enemy of the state. After all, the billionaire club — all 585 of them — includes people like George Soros, Warren Buffett, Howard Schultz, Oprah Winfrey — who’ve not only given $140+ million to her party, but support a wide array of liberal causes.


Liz Warren is exposing her fake-Indian roots by once again, speaking with forked tongue.


 


Image Credit: Tim Pierce, via Flickr // CC BY-SA 2.0


 




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Is this Trump’s “secret plan” to end DACA?

If you listen to NBC News (and several other outlets), the President has hatched a diabolical new top-secret plan to eliminate DACA and boot all of those lovable “Dreamers” out of the country once and for all. This comes as something of a surprise since the only things keeping DACA afloat at the moment are a couple of court injunctions, and upcoming congressional action may make the entire question moot anyway. But be that as it may, let’s examine this scheme. Take it away, NBC.

In a motion filed late Friday, Justice Department lawyers asked a judge in Texas to rule that the program violates federal immigration law. Assuming, as expected, that the judge grants the request and orders the government to stop enforcing DACA, the ruling would conflict with orders from two other federal courts that require continued enforcement of the program.

If faced with competing court orders, the Justice Department said it would then rush to the U.S. Supreme Court and tell the justices that the government would be in violation no matter what it did — keeping DACA going would violate the Texas order, while trying to shut it down would violate the other court orders.

In that event, the government would ask the Supreme Court to put a hold on all the lower court rulings. And if the justices agreed, the Trump administration would be free to shut DACA down immediately, because nothing would be in effect to prevent the government from taking that action.

The funny part of this story is that the end result could, at least in theory, be precisely what the report predicts. Judges in California and New York have ruled that the government needs to continue accepting DACA renewal requests. If a judge in Texas rules that the program itself is illegal, then the White House is left between a rock and a hard place. Whether they end the program or continue accepting renewals they will be in violation of a court order. That could certainly compel the Supreme Court to act quickly and either put the entire thing on hold or rule on the legality of the program and whether or not the President has the authority to end it. (Spoiler alert: that’s probably not going to end well for DACA advocates.)

But what’s the actual motivation for the Department of Justice in doing this? The White House (along with most conservatives) has been arguing that DACA was either illegal to begin with or it fell under the discretion of the executive branch to modify or end it at the president’s discretion. Taking a fresh run at that question with a court in Texas is a logical step in attempting to prove that point. And if Congress can get off their butts and actually pass an immigration bill for the President to sign, the executive order ceases to have any real meaning anyway. That’s what Trump has been pushing for since he made the initial announcement.

Personally, I’ve never seen much merit in the argument that Obama wasn’t able to institute DACA unless we want to dig deeper and place some sort of limit on executive power as wielded through such orders. (And who wants to do that, amirite?) The more compelling case to make here is to simply say that if a president can create such a program in an extra-legislative fashion with the stroke of a pen, a subsequent president can modify or terminate it the same way. And you can call me a sentimental fool if you wish, but I predict that the Supreme Court would see it the same way.

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Thefts Rise After California Reduces Criminal Penalties

Cause and effect.

Via Fox News:

California voters’ decision to reduce penalties for drug and property crimes in 2014 contributed to a jump in car burglaries, shoplifting and other theft, researchers reported.

Larcenies increased about 9 percent by 2016, or about 135 more thefts per 100,000 residents than if tougher penalties had remained, according to results of a study by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California released Tuesday.

Thefts from motor vehicles accounted for about three-quarters of the increase. San Francisco alone recorded more than 30,000 auto burglaries last year, which authorities largely blamed on gangs. Shoplifting may be leveling off, researchers found, but there is no sign of a decline in thefts from vehicles.

Proposition 47 lowered criminal sentences for drug possession, theft, shoplifting, identity theft, receiving stolen property, writing bad checks and check forgery from felonies that can bring prison terms to misdemeanors that often bring minimal jail sentences.

While researchers can link the measure to more theft, they found it did not lead to the state’s increase in violent crime.

Violent crime spiked by about 13 percent after Proposition 47 passed, but researchers said the trend started earlier and was mainly because of unrelated changes in crime reporting by the FBI and the Los Angeles Police Department.

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