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Trump’s MS-13 ‘Animals’ Line Was a Trap – and the Liberals Fell Right into It

“I’m not an animal. I’m a human being,” John Hurt famously said in his Oscar-nominated performance as the Elephant Man.

If only he were alive today, he could have reprised that classic line – only this time playing a tattooed gang leader from MS-13, perhaps one with a bloodied meat cleaver but a heart of gold.

We know MS-13 members are lovely, lovely people deserving exactly the same respect as might be accorded your grandma, your family doctor or your parish priest because liberals have been telling us so all day.

Isn’t this great? Isn’t this just about the best thing when progressive loons make such fools of themselves in their increasing desperate attempts at anti-Trump virtue-signalling? Isn’t it exactly the kind behavior guaranteed to make Middle America go “I want nothing to do with these people” and vote in even greater numbers for Trump in 2020?

Trump likely knew exactly what he was doing when he made his “animals” remark: drawing his opponents out from under their rock with bait carefully calculated to make them show themselves at their worst.

So, in the eyes of liberals, it’s wrong to call someone an “animal” even if he belongs to the most violent and organized criminal network in the U.S. Even if he does stuff like this…

Good to know. So 100 stabs, decapitation and heart removal definitely still qualifies you as a human.

But what about when MS-13 start taking off the kid gloves, stop playing nicey-nice and start becoming seriously unpleasant. What then?

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The DNC Is Flat Broke, So Why Has It Paid Hillary Clinton Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars?

Hillary Clinton will speak, ostensibly at no cost, to the Democratic National Committee’s Women’s Leadership Forum in Washington, D.C., Thursday night, but it might just be the most expensive speech she’s ever given.

According to NTK Network, over the last several months, Clinton has taken nearly $1 million from the “cash strapped” DNC and its partner organization, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, for “list rentals,” per FEC filings, making Thursday night’s address one of the most expensive motivational speech Clinton has ever delivered.

As of April 2018, the DNC has only about $10 million in cash on hand, and has mostly added debt since the 2016 Presidential election. It now owes its creditors approximately $6.3 million.

But while it says its cash on hand is going directly to 2018 midterm campaigns, several large DNC checks have gone straight into Hillary Clinton’s pockets. January 8th, the DNC paid Clinton $300,000 for “list rentals” (even though her campaign list was proven ineffective in the closing days of the 2016 campaign). The DCCC, which is a little better off financially, has cut several similar checks — one for $286,000, one for $140,000, and one for $145,000 — to Clinton’s “Onward Together” political action committee, also for “list rentals.”

These payments were all made while state-based Democratic organizations were begging the DNC and DCCC for money, according to the Washington Free Beacon.

The Clinton campaign has provided little of value to subsequent races. In fact, Clinton blamed the DNC, in part, for her loss, saying the organization was “bankrupt” and out of ideas, unhelpful, and difficult to work with. Democrats running in midterm elections have been noticeably silent on whether they’ll be welcoming Clinton to their campaign rallies, perhaps because she has an approval rating hovering around 27%, a little more than half that of President Donald Trump’s.

That means that when she takes the stage in D.C. on Thursday night, she’ll do so at a great cost to Democrats who’ve learned little from her efforts. If you take just the DNC’s contributions into consideration, Clinton is performing for around $300,000 — a cool $50,000 more than she received for her most expensive pre-Presidential campaign speech. If you take into consideration the full amount of Democratic contributions, Clinton is earning nearly a million dollars for a single hour’s work.

That’s bad news for Democrats — and especially their donors — but good news for Clinton. Since losing the election in 2012, her price for public appearances has dropped dramatically. Her last public paid speech, at Rutgers University in March, netted her only $25,000. Barely enough to cover the trip to New Jersey.

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Mike Rowe Sounds Off On The ‘Death Of The Boy Scouts’

On Wednesday, former “Dirty Jobs” host Mike Rowe answered a social media follower’s question on his Facebook page, as he frequently does. A woman named Sharon Freeman wanted to hear Rowe’s thoughts on what she described as “the tragic death of the Boy Scouts of America,” an organization which recently opened their enrollment to females and upgraded to a new politically correct name: “Scouts BSA.”

“I’m curious as to your opinion on the tragic death of the Boy Scouts of America?! I have several cousins that are Eagle Scouts, and I know that you are one also, so I feel you have somewhat of a vested interest in this matter. I didn’t have a problem with entire families going on Boy Scout camping trips, but to force them to become co-ed…I think that’s sad,” wrote Freeman.

Rowe’s thoughtful reply noted the massive drop in membership within the 108-year-old organization and suggested this was caused by the group clinging lifelessly to “inclusion” while lacking relevance. To be a vital service to our youth, as they were to him as a child, explained Rowe, the Boy Scouts must stand firmly in opposition of so-called “safe space” culture.

“If the Boy Scouts want to attract a new generation of members, they’ll need to stand for something more than inclusion. Because being inclusive doesn’t make you relevant,” he stated.

“In Troop 16, merit badges reflected merit. There was a boxing ring where differences were often settled, monthly camping trips, frequent visits to the shooting range, weekly fitness tests, poetry readings from memory, and many other activities tailor-made to pull every kid out of his particular comfort zone,” he fondly recalled.

The host said the inclusion of trans troops and past sex scandals were likely contributing factors to the steep decline in enrollment numbers, but had a different general diagnosis (emphasis added):

“In my opinion, this kind of attrition can only [be] explained by an increasing lack of relevance, or, the perception of irrelevance,” he wrote. “Right now, there’s a perception that The Boy Scouts have gone soft. That’s the real tragedy, Sharon, because I can’t think of anything more needed in our country today, than a youth organization that offers kids the same experience I underwent in the basement of Kenwood Church. Why? Because our country’s current obsession with ‘safe spaces’ is destroying character faster than the Boy Scouts of today can build it. … I also know the ‘safe space movement’ is real, and I can think of no better way to push back than to expose more kids to the brand of Scouting that I was lucky enough to encounter four decades ago.”

“If by some miracle, the dynamic I experienced in Troop 16 were available to everyone today — if Scouting could somehow recapture that combination of risk and wonder and pride and personal accountability — I believe their ranks would swell with the sons and daughters of millions of anxious parents, desperate to expose their kids to a program that prepares them for the real world,” he added.

If Rowe were in charge, he’d “take a stand against the safe space movement and everything it embodies,” he wrote. “As we all know, in 1974, a chipped tooth or a black eye didn’t lead to a lawsuit, and today, I’m pretty sure a boxing ring and a trip to the shooting range would make a lot of parents … uncomfortable. But that’s exactly the point. In a world that values safety above everything else, discomfort is never welcome. Neither is risk. And yet, discomfort and risk are precisely why my time in Scouting was so valuable, and why Troop 16 was the polar opposite of a safe space.”

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H/T The Daily Caller

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Mike Flynn Jr. Reacts to Bombshell News Comey & Yates Began Spying on His Father ONE YEAR Before Call to Russian Ambassador Kislyak

Mike Flynn Jr. Reacts to Bombshell News Comey & Yates Began Spying on His Father ONE YEAR Before Call to Russian Ambassador Kislyak

Cristina Laila
by Cristina Laila
May 17, 2018

As previously reported, former FBI Director James Comey and former acting Attorney General Sally Yates targeted General Flynn with a counterintel investigation ONE YEAR before his December 2016 phone call to Russian Ambassador Kislyak during the Trump transition.

The reason? Because he was sitting at a table with Vladimir Putin at a Moscow event in December of 2015–the same event Green Party candidate Jill Stein attended. Jill Stein was also sitting at the same table as Flynn and Putin.

General Flynn’s son, Mike Flynn Jr. is furious over the Deep State’s witch hunt of his father, a decorated 3-star General.

Investigative reporter Paul Sperry dropped this leak from Horowitz’s report Thursday afternoon:

BREAKING: Comey/Yates targeted Gen. Flynn in C.I. investigation a yr BEFORE he communicated w Russian ambassador in Dec 2016 as a transition official–and the trigger was Flynn sitting at same table w Putin at Dec 2015 Moscow event, even tho Green Party’s Jill Stein also at table

That’s right–Comey and Yates began spying on General Flynn over a picture of him sitting at a table next to Putin and Jill Stein.

Russian network RT paid Michael Flynn $45,000 to speak a 10 year anniversary gala in December of 2015.

Big deal. There is nothing illegal about what General Flynn did.

Mike Flynn Jr., who is very vocal about defending his father against the Deep State swamp, reacted to this news.

Flynn Jr. tweeted: If a PICTURE is what got this CI investigation going, shame on @Comey and @SallyQYates for having the obvious partisan standards to open in the first place…

How does a PICTURE prove two people have a relationship? What a joke.

Earlier Thursday, General Flynn’s brother slammed Obama’s criminal CIA Director and Deep State FBI/DOJ.

 

You can donate to General Flynn’s defense fund here.

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Planned Parenthood, NARAL Are Very Upset That The President Called Violent Gang Members ‘Animals’

Leaders of the abortion rights movement blasted President Donald Trump Thursday for daring to compare members of the violent MS-13 street gang to animals, un-ironically calling on the president to acknowledge that human beings have inherent dignity and deserve respect.

Both Cecile Richards, formerly the head of Planned Parenthood and NARAL President Ilyse Hogue spoke out against the president’s suggestion that MS-13 gang members shouldn’t be given special treatment under American immigration laws, apparently believing Trump was referring to all illegal immigrants as “animals.”

Hogue stepped foot into more bizarre territory, warning that dehumanizing even murderous individuals was the pathway to “very dangerous territory,” where more human beings might face dehumanization. Hogue is apparently unaware that her own organization fights for the right to murder innocent, tiny humans in the first three to nine months of their lives — definitely dangerous territory.

Both women’s respective organizations joined in the chorus without a hint of self-awareness.

Planned Parenthood called the president “hateful” for speaking out against a gang that is frequently accused of engaging in the sex trade, decapitating enemies, and committing brutal beatings and murders. At one point, MS-13 strung several of its victims from a highway overpass — all women, presumably members of the “Planned Parenthood family,” as it counts all people of a female persuasion among its supporters.

NARAL, like its leader, failed to recognize the irony in calling on the president to afford rapists and murderers “dignity and respect.”

As Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro suggested on Twitter this morning, perhaps they’d be better attuned to what the president means if they thought of each member of MS-13 as a 19-week old unborn baby.

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Not ‘Strong Enough’: Sarah Sanders Defends Trump Comments About Violent Illegal MS-13 Members

But media and Democrats went into overdrive lying that it was about immigrants in general.

Via Washington Examiner:

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders defended President Trump on Thursday amid growing backlash over his use of the word “animals” to describe immigrant members of the MS-13 gang, saying she would have used an even stronger term.

Several Democratic lawmakers and members of the media criticized the president on Wednesday after he used the term during a meeting about illegal immigrants and sanctuary city policies. Some claimed he was referring to all immigrants, even though he was responding to an attendee’s complaint about MS-13 gang members.

“The president was very clearly referring to MS-13 gang members who enter the country illegally and whose deportations are hamstrung by our laws,” Sanders said.

Keep reading…

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Who Needs Computers in the Classroom? Not Students

Last month Adi Robertson wrote an award-worthy mini history of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) fiasco, which many of us have long forgotten about. Near the end, this quote stuck out: “What the project did not demonstrate is that kids could use computers for learning.”

OpinionsIt’s a point that needs to be reiterated as the never-ending push to load up the classroom with computers goes unabated.

OLPC is the brainchild of Seymour Papert, an early promoter of computers in the classroom and was soon co-opted by the MIT Media Lab and its extraordinary promoter/director Nick Negroponte, who wowed the World Economic Forum with a $100 prototype.

The whole raison d’etre, though, for the idea stems from the mistaken belief that computers in the hands of children or, for that matter, computers in the classroom are a good thing by definition.

Ironically, as OLPC emerged, a true revolution was taking place that was indeed putting computers in the hands of children around the world: the introduction of the iPhone in 2007. But none of this is education in the traditional sense. Even as a teaching machine utilizing specific learning software, the computer is second to a teacher guiding a student through a chapter in a book.

The computer can be—and is—used as a testing station. It does that well. Papers can be written on the computer. The student can learn keyboarding and some programming skills. It can expedite the submission of papers and speed up the writing process. But as a raw teaching tool, the computer has never been that good.

If there is nothing else available and you have one teacher per 200 students, then maybe it’s better than nothing. But the machines are expensive and need constant replacement. In short, the whole computers in the classroom idea was a Silicon Valley scam to dump computers and complex networking gear on some suckers with a government purse.

The money is better spent on sincere and hard-working teachers whose job it is to teach and can do a better job than a Windows 10 rig.

So what needs to be done? At this point in history, kids do need computer literacy skills and one classroom filled with machines where computer literacy and coding is taught. This lab would also be available to students to do homework and write papers if they have no equipment at home.

The architecture would be internet-centric, but not dependent. Students would have their homework as storage on personal USB thumb drives. Everyone would be taught how to use the technology to the point where, for example, they understood the difference between RAM, disk memory, flash memory, and ROM in its various forms. I am shocked how many people cannot understand these differences.

If you begin to research computers in the classroom, the search tends to bring up “the benefits of…” and article after article extols these benefits, all written on behalf of people selling computers. When you look at real research such as the OECD report on Students, Computers and Learning, the usefulness is quite sketchy and may even have a negative influence.

And to my way of thinking computers invite time-wasting especially when they are of the handheld phone variety. Just look at the zombies!

So let’s take this pull-quote used on the OLPC article seriously: “What the project did not demonstrate is that kids could use computers for learning.” Always keep that in mind.

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