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Unhinged Rapper Tells Crips to ‘F*ck Up Kanye’ for Supporting Trump
For whatever reason, going against the political tide is considered bad.
When rapper Kanye West unleashed a twitter storm last week expressing support for Trump and conservatives, the backlash was overwhelming. This weekend, west coast rapper (and Snoop Dogg’s cousin) Daz Dillinger posted a video to Instagram calling for street gang the Crips to “fuck up Kanye.” Although the video has since been deleted, Dillinger (whose career peaked in the 90s), has continued to post threatening statements directed at Kanye West and President Trump.
According to music mag Exclaim, Dillinger said in his video, “Yo national alert, all the Crips out there, y’all fuck Kanye up.” He then addressed West, “Stay in Calabasas, ya hear me? Better not ever see you in concert. Better not ever see you around the LBC. Better not ever see you around California. Stay in Calabasas, ya hear me? Cuz we got a Crip alert for Kanye.”
By calling on the gang that seems somehow linked to the west coast rap genre, Dillinger is potentially threatening violence on someone else for making a political statement. Looks like “refusing to be enslaved by monolithic thought,” as West put it, is a dangerous action that could put one’s life at risk.
Even after deleting the video, Dillinger made another Instagram post, screenshotting TMZ’s headline of the story and captioning it, “FREEDOM OF SPEECH FUC KANYE THIS CRIPPPPPPPPPPPPP THE REVOLUTION IS ON NOW.” In a video, Dillinger complained that the clouds above his head were sent by Trump.
The original tweet linking to the Instagram video is captioned, “FUCC KANYE UP ON G.P WORDS FROM THE CRIP GOD DAZ.”
According to TMZ, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Dept. is looking at the video to “determine if there’s a prosecutable crime.”
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Rapper Calls For Violence Against Kanye
Kanye West’s decision to break free of the Left’s "plantation" mentality and say a bunch of things that his fellow celebrities, particularly in the hip-hop world, don’t like, has officially turned dangerous for the MAGA-supporting star.
CBS Los Angeles reports that a former member of Snoop Dogg’s rapping entourage has issued a "Crip alert" to gang members calling for violence against West.
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‘Unsanitary and disrespectful’: VA clinic investigating after Army vet placed in filthy patient room
The Department of Veterans Affairs is conducting an investigation after a veteran’s father tweeted pictures of a patient’s room at a VA clinic in Salt Lake City.
Those pictures, which garnered a lot of attention on social media, show the filthy room his son stayed in April 5 during a routine appointment.
What happened?
The pictures show a patient’s room with an overflowing trash can, a messy counter, the sink full and overflowing with a white substance and just a generally dirty room. The father, who tweeted the pictures, described the room as “very unprofessional, unsanitary and disrespectful.”
My son is a Veteran of the United States Army. He went to the #VA in Salt Lake City yesterday. This was the condition of the room he was seen in. Very unprofessional, unsanitary and disrespectful. Please retweet. Maybe @realDonaldTrump will see it. pic.twitter.com/P4CMQeE74t
— Stephen Wilson (@GR8_2B_alive) April 27, 2018
Christopher Wilson, an Army veteran who was placed in the room, described to KSL-TV what he thought of the filthy room when VA employees placed him in it.
“I figured they would say, ‘Oh, this room’s not clean’ and take me somewhere else, but they just kind of blew past it, didn’t acknowledge it. They’re doctors, right? So I figure one of them was going to say ‘Let’s go somewhere else’ or ‘Give us a minute to clean it,’ but nothing,” he explained.
“There’s always something though,” he added. “It’s kind of weird that the people who are there to serve us kind of see us as a hindrance more than anything. [We] don’t seem to be a priority.”
However, he attributed the problem not necessarily to the individual staff members working at the clinic, but rather to the bureaucracy that manages the VA clinic system, which is short on funds and staff and heavy on the red tape.
Wilson attended the clinic as a part of a routine appointment where he received injections around his ankle to help treat an injury he sustained when deployed in Iraq.
How did the clinic respond?
Dr. Karen Gribbin, chief of staff at the clinic, told KSL the photos disturbed her and that the clinic has opened an investigation to determine how Wilson was placed in such a dirty room.
“I was taken aback by the condition of the room,” Gribbin said. “Mr. Wilson should not have been placed in the room in that condition.”
As the pictures made obvious, Wilson was placed in a room that had previously been used to apply casting to a patient.
“My understanding was that strictly these casts are applied in this room but there [are] not other types of debridement or surgical removal of tissue or anything like that that occurs [in the room], so I do not believe Mr. Wilson was exposed to any dangerous body fluids or blood. But regardless, the room should have been cleaned before he was placed in it,” she said.
The clinic had a meeting on Monday to address the situation and ensure that it never happens again.
Gribbin explained that she has since spoken with Wilson, where she apologized to him for his “experience.”
During her interview with KSL, she also boasted that in six years of working at that clinic, Wilson’s “experience” was the only one of its kind that she had ever seen or heard of.
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Michelle Wolf Says She’s ‘Happy’ With WHCD Speech, Attacks Sarah Huckabee Sanders For Not ‘Laughing At Herself’
The woman at the center of a broiling controversy says she’s not sorry she lobbed harsh jokes at Trump White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, that her comedy wasn’t intended for the in-room audience, and that Sarah Huckabee Sanders was the ill-behaved woman in the room.
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The Moving Personal Stories Behind Tucker Carlson’s Strong Pro-Life Stance
Fox News host Tucker Carlson articulately, unapologetically, and consistently holds the pro-abortion movement’s feet to the fire on his highly successful show, "Tucker Carlson Tonight." Almost weekly, Carlson spends precious time exposing those who advocate for and profit off of abortion and revealing the realities of the fatal procedure.
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Liberals Hate Rebooted ‘Roseanne’ Show; She Doesn’t ‘Give a F**k’
Yes, liberal America can’t stand Roseanne. The mere existence of a different political viewpoint can on popular television offends them. Some are freaking out that the half the nation that voted for the president of the United States is being normalized. The horror!
Roseanne Barr, everybody’s (well, not liberals) favorite sitcom mom, made a return to late night on Monday to let Trump haters know that she couldn’t care less about how they feel about her support for the current president.
Jimmy Fallon invited Barr to appear on his late show to congratulate about her stellar ratings. Kudos to Fallon.
Fallon mentioned that the reboot’s first episode drew 20 million viewers, to which the scrappy ABC star shot back, “Um, 27 million.” Barr mentioned that the viewer response was “so awesome,” and when asked if it was expected, she told Jimmy “I never have expectations. I just have hopes, and I was blown away.”
“I think people just identify with the family, and they missed ‘em.” She said. Barr seems to have a great pop-culture radar going, because bringing her middle class American family back, with a flavor of Trumpism, has made a killing in the primetime TV ratings.
Speaking of Trump, Fallon asked Roseanne about the anger she has inspired with her character’s support for the president. He stated, “But then also with a big hit comes people that aren’t so happy as well. If you say you’re a supporter of Donald Trump …” Roseanne interjected, stating, “Well yeah, people are mad about that.” What she said next was hardly surprising.
“But you know, I don’t give a f–k.”
What was surprising was that the crowd applauded and cheered the comment. She went on to explain it to Fallon and the audience, that promoting different views should be a no-brainer in this country. “Well everybody has to choose for themselves, according to their own conscience, who they thought was the lesser of two evils. You know, everybody chose that so I’m not gonna put anybody down who didn’t vote like me.”
“This is America. It’s a free country,” she added.
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Christian ministry cancels California event fearing the state ‘will forbid some of what it teaches’
Summit Ministries — a Christian organization that focuses on helping teenagers and young adults apply faith to their lives — said it canceled a California conference scheduled for this summer over fears that the state “will forbid some of what it teaches,” the organization said in a news release.
What’s the problem?
The problem, the organization said, is state Bill 2943, which deems “advertising, offering to engage in, or engaging in sexual orientation change efforts with an individual” an “unlawful business practice.” The bill passed the state Assembly and is headed to the state Senate.
Some have argued the bill, if it becomes law, could open the door for banning some Christian books. National Review writer David French said as much, adding that it “would loom over booksellers and churches, establishing a chilling effect and providing a pretext for even more secular booksellers to refrain from stocking certain Christian titles — no matter how well-reasoned, well-researched, or well-argued.”
But the author of the bill, Assemblyman Evan Low, countered that it applies only to conversion therapy offered as a paid service, wouldn’t shut down speaking or writing on the subject and wouldn’t apply to book sales, the Huffington Post reported.
What are Summit Ministries’ concerns?
Summit Ministries said its program would be impacted by the proposed law since its “lineup includes defenders of traditional man/woman marriage and people who advocate pursuing only those sexual activities approved in the Bible.”
French in his National Review piece also noted that the bill defines “sexual orientation change efforts” as including “efforts to change behaviors or gender expressions, or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attractions or feelings toward individuals of the same sex.” And that appears to be of primary concern to Summit Ministries.
Given that students commonly ask Summit staff how to address gender identity confusion and sexual attraction as it pertains to their faith, the group’s president, Jeff Myers, said in the release that the proposed law “prohibiting such conversations … would cripple Summit’s ability to care for and equip its students.”
Which spelled the end of the organization’s June 10-23 and June 24-July 7 sessions at Biola University near Los Angeles, the release noted.
“What are we going to say to a young person experiencing sexual confusion?” Myers asked. “That the state of California forbids us from allowing a biblical ethic embraced by billions of people for thousands of years to inform our answer?”
Myers characterized the bill is “the most blatant chilling of free speech in America in my lifetime” and because of it “we simply cannot put our students, staff and faculty at risk.”
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State Dept. Releases List of Top 10 Best Allies, Worst Opponents at United Nations
State Dept. Releases List of Top 10 Best Allies, Worst Opponents at United Nations
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The U.S. State Department has released a report on the voting behavior of other countries at the United Nations — and has identified the top ten best and worst countries in terms of voting for to against the U.S., respectively.
The April 26 report, “Voting Practices in the United Nations 2017,” was prepared after the Trump administration made clear it would consider cutting aid to countries that voted against the U.S. in UN institutions. That warning came after the UN General Assembly voted 128 to 9 (with 35 abstentions) last December to oppose President Donald Trump’s decision to relocate the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to the capital city of Jerusalem.
“They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars, and then they vote against us. Well, we’re watching those votes. Let them vote against us. We’ll save a lot. We don’t care,” the president said. His warning was reiterated by UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, who said after the vote: “We will remember it when we are called upon to once again make the world’s largest contribution to the United Nations and we will remember it when so many countries come calling on us, as they so often do, to pay even more and to use our influence for their benefit.”
The report on UN votes is prepared annually, but has additional significance this year due to those warnings.
In 2017, the best U.S. ally at the UN was Israel, and the worst U.S. enemy at the UN was Zimbabwe.
The report also notes the best ten: “The 10 countries with the highest voting coincidence with the United States were, in descending order: Israel, Micronesia, Canada, Marshall Islands, Australia, United Kingdom, France, Palau, Ukraine, and the Czech Republic.”
It also notes the worst ten: The 10 countries with the lowest voting coincidence with the United States were, in ascending order: Zimbabwe, Burundi, Iran, Syria, Venezuela, North Korea, Turkmenistan, Cuba, Bolivia, and South Africa.”
According to the USAID website, the latter countries received the following amounts of U.S. aid, across all agencies, in fiscal year 2016 (the last year for which full records are available, rounded to the nearest million):
- Zimbabwe: $261 million
- Burundi: $75 million
- Iran: $3 million
- Syria: $916 million
- Venezuela: $9 million
- North Korea: $0
- Turkmenistan: $3 million
- Cuba: $16 million
- Bolivia: $1 million
- South Africa: $597 million
The total was close to $2 billion.
Haley said last week, upon release of the report: “[T]his is not an acceptable return on our investment. When we arrived at the UN last year, we said we would be taking names, and this list of voting records speaks for itself. President Trump wants to ensure that our foreign assistance dollars – the most generous in the world – always serve American interests, and we look forward to helping him see that the American people are no longer taken for granted.”
Of the ten countries voting least often with the U.S., South Africa may already be feeling the consequences.
On Monday, South Africa learned that the U.S. would not be exempting it from new steel tariffs. The South African government released a statement in protest against the U.S. decision: “South Africa is concerned by the unfairness of the measures and that it is one of the countries that are singled out as a contributor to US national security concerns when its exports of aluminium and steel products are not that significant.”
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He was named to Forward’s 50 “most influential” Jews in 2017. He is the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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Lieberman: I Hope Trump Pulls Out of Iran Deal
Lieberman: I Hope Trump Pulls Out of Iran Deal
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast,” former Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) stated that he hopes that President Trump pulls out of the Iran nuclear agreement when the deadline for the deal comes in May.
Lieberman said, “I mean, to me, the big conclusion here is that the inspections agreed to by the Iranians under the Iran nuclear agreement of 2015 were lame, were inadequate, were weak. And whatever the president does as we come to this deadline, and I hope really he pulls out of this agreement. Because it’s a bad agreement. It was a mistake.”
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