WATCH: An Entire Nation Stands Still For Two Minutes To Honor Holocaust Victims

On Thursday, on Yom HaShaoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, the entire nation of Israel stood still for two minutes to honor the six million Jews killed by the Nazis in World War II. One million Jewish children were slaughtered by the Nazis in heir attempt to wipe out the Jewish people; the official State of Israel arose out of the ashes of Europe.

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Plan to break up California reportedly has enough signatures for November ballot

Billionaire venture capitalist Tim Draper has been trying for years to give California voters the opportunity to vote on splitting the state up in an effort to better represent its regions. He announced on Thursday that he now has enough signatures for the initiative to be added to the November ballot for citizens to decide.

After failed attempts for similar ballot initiatives in 2014 and 2016, Draper has amassed roughly 600,000 signatures for his petition to divide California into three separate states — 585,000 was the required number of signatures needed to make it onto the ballot. The signatures are expected to be filed with the office of Secretary of State Alex Padilla next week.

Draper said, “This is an unprecedented show of support on behalf of every corner of California to create three state governments that emphasize representation, responsiveness, reliability and regional identity.” He says his plan would “diminish the power of teachers’ unions and politicians in Sacramento,” according to Reuters.

The current plan — known as “CAL 3” — would require congressional approval, and if passed, would split the state into the regions of “California,” “Northern California,” and “Southern California.” Citizens of the respective new states would be able to change the names if they so choose.

California would not be the first state to undergo such a partitioning, as the Carolinas, Dakotas and Virginias were also created from splitting larger states into separate, smaller ones.

But the plan has been met with opposition, with Democratic strategist Steve Maviglio calling the effort a “colossal waste of resources, energy and time.” He said: “Dividing the state into three random slices doesn’t fix any of our state’s problems.” Maviglio told City News Service that CAL 3 would do nothing but triple the state’s challenges.

A separate plan dividing California into two states was proposed earlier this year by “New California” co-founders Robert Preston and Tom Reed. The two were motivated to launch their initiative because they believe that the state’s high taxes have made it “ungovernable.”

CAL 3 is not part of any secession efforts which have also been proposed by California citizens in recent years.

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Rod Rosenstein Skips Speaking Engagement After Unexpected White House Meeting

Rod Rosenstein was unexpectedly seen leaving the White House Friday morning, then was noticeably absent from a press conference at which he was scheduled to appear, fueling speculation the Deputy Attorney General may be slated for the chopping block.

“Unfortunately, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has been called away on another matter today, so [Acting Associate Attorney General Jesse] Panuccio will have the honor of introducing the attorney general later in our program,” acting DOJ Civil Rights Division head John Gore told reporters at a major press conference at the Main DOJ building in Washington, DC.

Rosenstein appeared on the program for the event – distributed to reporters that day – as scheduled to appear alongside Attorney General Jeff Sessions, HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson, and Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act.

Hours earlier, reporters saw Rosenstein exiting the White House after an unexpected meeting. Some cited sources claiming he was there to discuss the ongoing controversy over the speed of document production for the House Judiciary Committee’s subpoena and other requests from Congress.

A White House official, meanwhile, told Fox News that “Rod Rosenstein met with the president at the White House regarding routine department business.”

President Donald Trump has found himself in an increasingly antagonistic relationship with Rosenstein, and the number two man’s future at the Justice Department is now rumored to be in question. Crucially, firing Rosenstein would bring Special Counsel Robert Mueller, whom he appointed after Sessions recused himself from matters concerning the 2016 presidential election, under new supervision.

The FBI’s raid, at Mueller’s direction, of the New York offices of Trump’s personal lawyer Micheal Cohen – later reported to have been devised to obtain information on the infamous “Access Hollywood tape” that came to light during the 2016 presidential election – appears to have soured the relationship further, perhaps irrevocably.

On Wednesday, the president turned his frustrations directly at Rosenstein, calling him “conflicted” because of his role in drafting the memo used to justify the firing of then-FBI Director James Comey and his role in approving a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) application regarding one-time Trump associate Carter Page:

The criticism was amplified by Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), who threatened Rosenstein with impeachment Saturday.

CNN is reporting Friday not only that sources tell them Trump is considering firing Rosenstein, but that the White House is rolling out a plan to undermine the Deputy Attorney General’s credibility.

Trump had long been critical of Mueller’s investigation – that appeared at times to go far beyond its original gambit of Russian interference in the 2016 election – frequently referring to it as a “witch hunt” or similar. The investigation, by the terms of Rosenstein’s original order of appointment, was only to cover:

(i) any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump; and
(ii) any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation; and
(iii) any other matters within the scope of 28 C.F.R. §600.4(a).

Due to Paul Manafort’s criminal trial, a much more detailed memo from Rosenstein to Mueller defining the scope of the special counsel’s investigation came to light, but remains heavily redacted. Rosenstein had reportedly once considered recusing himself from the “Russia investigation” but took on the role – appointing Mueller and then drafting this memo defining his role in August.

Rosenstein has since defended Mueller from accusations of misconduct related to his one-time underling Peter Strzok’s bias-laden texts with his extra-marital lover, FBI attorney Lisa Page. “I am not aware of any impropriety,” Rosenstein told Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) in December.

Some Senate Republicans, in the meantime, are preparing a vote on a new law that would protect Mueller further.

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Attacking Trump’s Attorney: Calling All Tea Partiers

Raiding the office of the personal attorney of the president of the United States is the most outrageous of the Deep State’s unprecedented, unhinged, and relentless attempts to overturn the 2016 election.  This raid should tell everyone that the Deep State will twist and bend the law to get rid of Trump.  As stated by President Trump, the Deep State truly is engaged in a disgraceful witch hunt


Obama and Bill and Hillary Clinton are loyal Deep State operatives.  They have been stealthily transforming America into a socialist-progressive nation in which the federal government controls every aspect of our lives.  Trump is the new sheriff in town determined to crush the Washington, D.C. cartel by draining the swamp.  The Deep State is determined to block and destroy Trump at any and all cost.



This is why the Deep State outrageously turned a blind eye to Obama’s, Bill’s, and Hillary’s numerous unconstitutional acts, numerous confirmed lies, policies bad for America, bags of money under the cover of darkness, and extreme character and moral failures


For example, the Deep State ignored the fact that their President Obama outrageously won PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year award


The Deep State ignored the semen-stained dress that surfaced after Bill Clinton lied about not having sex with intern Monica Lewinsky.  The Deep State ignored revelations that Bill and Monica used his $1,000-each Gurkha cigars as sex toys.


The Deep State ignored the fact that Clinton had so many adulterous affairs that his campaign formed the Bimbo Eruptions team to immediately destroy women who considered going public about their sexual encounters with Bill Clinton.  The Deep State ignored the fact that Hillary (Miss I’m a Champion for Women) Clinton headed the Bimbo Eruptions team in bullying, silencing, and destroying Bill’s women


The Deep State ignored credible women such as Juanita Broaddrick, who accused Bill Clinton of rape, sexual harassment, and sexual assault. 


The Deep State ignored Hillary’s blatant multiple crimes.  The Deep State ignored Hillary illegally using an unsecured private server, deleting thousands of emails, and lying by saying the emails were not work-related.  The Deep State ignored that Hillary deleted 1,000 work-related emails to General David Petraeus. 


The Deep State ignored Bill’s and Hillary’s history of corruption unmasked in the documentary Clinton Cash.  The Deep State ignored the Clintons’ corruption exposed in Dinesh D’Souza’s movie, Hillary’s America.


The Deep State ignored the fact that Hillary paid for the disgusting, bogus Trump golden shower hit piece. 


Folks, I could go on and on with documented prosecutable crimes by the Clintons that have been ignored by the Deep State.


Displaying extreme arrogance and glaring hypocrisy, these evil people in the Deep State are digging deep into the bowels of President Trump’s life and businesses over the decades to find something to use to kick him out of office.  The Deep State obviously believes that We the People will passively allow it to remove our president.  In essence, the Deep State is saying: Screw you, America; we’re taking this country back.


The Deep State, which is void of morals, seeks to play on our morals to remove our president.  While the Deep State ignores the deviancy, lies, and crimes of its operatives, the Deep State will pressure Republicans to back away from Trump for moral reasons.  Sadly, some Republicans will fall for the Deep State’s dirty trick.  I pray that We the People will stand strong, unwavering in our support of Trump and his vow to make America great again.


I agree with a dear conservative activist friend who said it is time we stop allowing the Deep State to control the public’s focus.  Let’s get the Tea Party visible again with rallies in support of Trump’s agenda, the border wall, ending sanctuary cities, and other important issues.  We must inform the masses about Trump’s remarkable achievements.  Here’s a taste: for each regulation that Trump has introduced, he has ended 66 of Obama’s overreaching, job-killing, and insane leftist regulations. 


“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” –Edmund Burke


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Raiding the office of the personal attorney of the president of the United States is the most outrageous of the Deep State’s unprecedented, unhinged, and relentless attempts to overturn the 2016 election.  This raid should tell everyone that the Deep State will twist and bend the law to get rid of Trump.  As stated by President Trump, the Deep State truly is engaged in a disgraceful witch hunt


Obama and Bill and Hillary Clinton are loyal Deep State operatives.  They have been stealthily transforming America into a socialist-progressive nation in which the federal government controls every aspect of our lives.  Trump is the new sheriff in town determined to crush the Washington, D.C. cartel by draining the swamp.  The Deep State is determined to block and destroy Trump at any and all cost.


This is why the Deep State outrageously turned a blind eye to Obama’s, Bill’s, and Hillary’s numerous unconstitutional acts, numerous confirmed lies, policies bad for America, bags of money under the cover of darkness, and extreme character and moral failures


For example, the Deep State ignored the fact that their President Obama outrageously won PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year award


The Deep State ignored the semen-stained dress that surfaced after Bill Clinton lied about not having sex with intern Monica Lewinsky.  The Deep State ignored revelations that Bill and Monica used his $1,000-each Gurkha cigars as sex toys.


The Deep State ignored the fact that Clinton had so many adulterous affairs that his campaign formed the Bimbo Eruptions team to immediately destroy women who considered going public about their sexual encounters with Bill Clinton.  The Deep State ignored the fact that Hillary (Miss I’m a Champion for Women) Clinton headed the Bimbo Eruptions team in bullying, silencing, and destroying Bill’s women


The Deep State ignored credible women such as Juanita Broaddrick, who accused Bill Clinton of rape, sexual harassment, and sexual assault. 


The Deep State ignored Hillary’s blatant multiple crimes.  The Deep State ignored Hillary illegally using an unsecured private server, deleting thousands of emails, and lying by saying the emails were not work-related.  The Deep State ignored that Hillary deleted 1,000 work-related emails to General David Petraeus. 


The Deep State ignored Bill’s and Hillary’s history of corruption unmasked in the documentary Clinton Cash.  The Deep State ignored the Clintons’ corruption exposed in Dinesh D’Souza’s movie, Hillary’s America.


The Deep State ignored the fact that Hillary paid for the disgusting, bogus Trump golden shower hit piece. 


Folks, I could go on and on with documented prosecutable crimes by the Clintons that have been ignored by the Deep State.


Displaying extreme arrogance and glaring hypocrisy, these evil people in the Deep State are digging deep into the bowels of President Trump’s life and businesses over the decades to find something to use to kick him out of office.  The Deep State obviously believes that We the People will passively allow it to remove our president.  In essence, the Deep State is saying: Screw you, America; we’re taking this country back.


The Deep State, which is void of morals, seeks to play on our morals to remove our president.  While the Deep State ignores the deviancy, lies, and crimes of its operatives, the Deep State will pressure Republicans to back away from Trump for moral reasons.  Sadly, some Republicans will fall for the Deep State’s dirty trick.  I pray that We the People will stand strong, unwavering in our support of Trump and his vow to make America great again.


I agree with a dear conservative activist friend who said it is time we stop allowing the Deep State to control the public’s focus.  Let’s get the Tea Party visible again with rallies in support of Trump’s agenda, the border wall, ending sanctuary cities, and other important issues.  We must inform the masses about Trump’s remarkable achievements.  Here’s a taste: for each regulation that Trump has introduced, he has ended 66 of Obama’s overreaching, job-killing, and insane leftist regulations. 


“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” –Edmund Burke


Lloyd Marcus, The Unhyphenated American

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Chinese Spies Engaged in Massive Theft of U.S. Technology

China is engaged in large-scale theft of American research and technology from universities, using spies, students, and researchers as collectors, experts told Congress on Wednesday.

Compounding the technology theft, the administration of President Barack Obama weakened U.S. counterintelligence efforts against foreign spies by curbing national-level counterspy efforts, a former counterintelligence official disclosed during a House hearing.

Michelle Van Cleave, former national counterintelligence executive, said shortly after the creation of the office of the director of national intelligence in 2004, a national counterspy program against foreign spies was restricted during the administration of President George W. Bush.

"Unfortunately, the backsliding continued under President Obama," Van Cleave told two subcommittees of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.

Van Cleave said a directive issued by then-DNI James Clapper in 2013 and still in force reduced the national counterintelligence program authority by directing all counterspy programs to be run by individual departments or agencies.

"The national head of counterintelligence was rebranded director of a security and CI center, his duties further dissipated by the fixation on leaks and insider threats driven by the grievous harm done by Snowden, Manning, et al," Van Cleave said, referring to intelligence leakers Edward Snowden, an NSA contractor, and Army Sgt. Bradley Manning.

"Gone was any dedicated strategic [counterintelligence] program, while elite pockets of proactive capabilities died of neglect," she said.

"Read between the lines of existing CI guidance and you will not find a whiff of a national-level effort left, other than caretaker duties such as taking inventory and writing reports."

Several intelligence and security experts testified during the hearing that China poses the most significant threat of technology theft from an estimated $510 billion spent annually on U.S. research and development.

"China has a government-directed, multi-faceted secret program whose primary task is technology acquisition, as well as a highly refined strategy to develop and exploit access to advantageous information through the global telecommunications infrastructure," Van Cleave said.

Along with Russian intelligence agents, Chinese technology spies have developed specific lists of technology for theft. Beijing uses clandestine agents, front companies, and joint research ventures in the theft program.

"Indeed, the United States is a spy’s paradise," Van Cleave said. "Our free and open society is tailor-made for clandestine operations."

Michael Wessel, chairman of the congressional U.S.-China Economic Security Review Commission, testified that the Chinese are focused on stealing American advanced technology related to artificial intelligence, robotics, and other cutting edge technology.

Beijing has national-level programs to obtain advanced technologies with both military and commercial applications. They include acquisition of know-how related to new energy vehicles, advanced information technology, biotechnology, new materials, aerospace, ocean engineering, railway systems, robotics, power equipment, and agricultural machinery.

"In the case of robotics and AI, two fields of study with the potential to fundamentally change the international economy as well as the future of war-fighting, China has released the Robotics Industry Development Plan and Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan with the goals of China assuming global leadership in the coming decades," Wessel said.

China also is infiltrating American universities by funding language and cultural centers called Confucius Institutes that are being used as cover for technology theft. About 100 of the institutes are operating on American campuses and use their funding as part of "soft power" efforts in the United States.

China is also using some of the 350,000 Chinese students in the United States for intelligence work. Chinese spies recruit students with appeals such as "can you help China?" Wessel said.

Recent spy cases have included an electrical engineering professor at the University of Tennessee, John Reese Roth, who in 2008 was convicted of illegally sending defense technology through Chinese students back to China.

In 2009, Ruopeng Lieu, a researcher at Duke University, passed sensitive technology data to China. The information helped Beijing create the Kuang-Chi Science Ltd, a multibillion metamaterials company engaged in wireless internet and mobile payment fields.

In 2015, Chinese professors were among six defendants charged with economic espionage by the Justice Department. An indictment charged stolen American trade secrets were used to assist Chinese universities and state-run companies in China.

Wessel said 20 percent of those working on advanced artificial intelligence at the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab are Chinese nationals. Also, 30 of the 38 post-doctorial researchers at the University of Maryland’s Bing Nano Research Group are from China, he said.

"While we should continue to work to contribute to the world’s efforts to address the most vexing problems facing the world, we must take greater steps to protect the fruits of our work," Wessel said. "Efforts to infiltrate our universities and labs and exfiltrate their work must be a greater priority."

Van Cleave, the former counterintelligence official, said greater efforts are needed to stem the loss of technology to China.

"Counterintelligence—identifying, assessing, and neutralizing foreign intelligence threats—has been little more than an afterthought in U.S. national security strategy, a legacy of neglect that has cost us dearly in lives lost, resources squandered, and dangers unchecked," she said.

Counterspy efforts currently are divided among the FBI, CIA, and Pentagon. The division has created gaps allowing foreign spies to operate in the United States with impunity.

Congress passed the Counterintelligence Enhancement Act in 2002 to fix the problems, but intelligence bureaucracies resisted the reforms and as a result counterspying has been weakened, not improved, Van Cleave said.

"U.S. counterintelligence is finely tuned to work individual cases, but it is not postured globally to detect, deter, or disrupt the intelligence activities of China or any other foreign power, or to execute strategic counterintelligence operations," she said.

"We know surprisingly little about adversary intelligence services relative to the harm they can do."

Van Cleave urged going on the offense against foreign spies by penetrating and disrupting foreign intelligence organizations before they reach the United States.

The goal is to degrade foreign spy services and their ability to conduct operations against the United States.

"We can chase individual spies or technology thieves case by case, or we can target the services that send them here," Van Cleave said. "In short, we can go on offense but national leadership must be willing to direct and empower America’s counterintelligence enterprise to carry out that vital mission."

Joel Melstad, a spokesman for the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, did not directly address Van Cleave’s criticism. But he said: "Our workforce remains strongly focused on strategic counterintelligence capabilities."

Melstad said that other than the name change, counterintelligence authorities of the director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center remain the same as those under the 2002 law.

"And while we must respond to demand signals from our government partners concerning important issues like insider threats and leaks, we have not lost sight of the larger strategic CI goal," Melstad said.

The hearing was a joint session of the committee’s research and technology subcommittee and oversight subcommittee.

Oversight subcommittee chairman Ralph Abraham (R., La.), told the hearing China is the most aggressive at stealing U.S. technology but the problem involved other foreign nations as well and the activities must be stopped.

"Essentially, China steals our fundamental research and quickly capitalizes by commercializing the technology," he said.

Research and technology subcommittee chairman Rep. Barbara Comstock (R., Va.) said the theft of American technology is a serious problem.

"It is imperative that our academic institutions not close their eyes to the very real threat posed by foreign intelligence spies," she said. "They cannot be blinded by naiveté or ignorance when distinguishing between friend and foe."

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Hateful Hip-Hop: Top U.S. R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Objectify Women 55 Times

In the #MeToo era, many in the music industry have been producing and awarding sexually exploitive lyrics.

For the week of March 31st, 2018, 8 of the top 20 songs in Billboard’s “R&B/Hip-Hop” chart were blatantly sexist and misogynistic. In these songs, women were portrayed as commodities or luxury goods — something to be owned or consumed and of no more importance than money, cars, liquor or drugs. Sexual lyrics are casually graphic and almost solely about women giving men pleasure.

In eight of the 20 songs, singers used the word “bitch” a total of 55 times, with 15 blatant instances of women being treated as sex objects. Cardi B, a woman and a wanna-be #MeToo activist, had a new Top-20 song about dominating “bitches” and giving them drugs. Newly minted rapstar, Post Malone, and Ty Dolla $ign rapped that they “can take yo’ bitch,” and receive oral sex from “hoes.” And Kendrick Lamar’s “King’s Dead” (which used “bitch” seven times) grossly detailed oral sex.

Graphic Lyrics Deriding Women as Mere Sex Objects

The song “Psycho” occupied the No. 3 spot on Billboard’s R&B/Hot-Hip Hop chart. Written by Post Malone and featuring artist Ty Dolla $ign, it depicted the luxuries the young rappers have earned, with the worst lyrics concerning the women they’ve acquired. They rapped about stealing “bitches,” and getting them to perform sex acts for them.

In just the second verse, several lines included the lyrics, “You should see the whip, promise I can take yo’ bitch. Dolla ridin’ in an old-school Chevy, it’s a drop top. Boolin’ with a thot-thot, she gon’ give me top top.”

Translation: “thot” is slang for a slut or a whore. It’s a word condensed from the phrase, “that hoe over there.” “Top” is also slang for oral sex.

Another current Top-20 fixture has been the rap group Migos. These three rappers have frequently written songs that objectify and are disparaging towards women. This week, their song “Stir Fry” sat at No. 8 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop listing. It’s lyrics stated that they have the “finest hoes,” and that one “hoe” in particular has “got a big ol’ onion booty, [that] make[s] the world cry.”

Another Migos’ song, “Walk It, Talk It,” was high in the chart as well. The song sat at No. 12 and was written about the rap moguls’ decadent lifestyle which included dominating loose and easy women. Several lyrics portrayed rappers’ desire for a threesome with women, “I want that thot, this thot, menagin’,” [as in menage a trois]; and a disparaging objectification of women’s bodies, “She just bought a new ass, but got the same boobs.”

“Him and I” by G-Eazy and Halsey came in at No. 13. A sort of Bonnie and Clyde romance, if you will, the song’s lyrics depicted the two lovers/partners in crime living a fast and hard lifestyle. “We do drugs together, fuck up clubs together,” the song lyrics read. Although the songwriters expressed some type of dependency and intimacy towards one another, it devolved into expressing how the female of the duo is the man’s “down bitch.” G-Eazy and Halsey write:

My bitch was the most solid, nothing to solidify. She would never cheat, you’d never see her with a different guy. Ever tell you different, then it’s a lie. See that’s my down bitch, see that’s my soldier. She keeps that thang-thang if anyone goes there… We keep mobbin’, it’s just me and my bitch. Fuck the world, we just gon’ keep getting rich, you know?

No. 14 in the hip-hop top 20 was “Plug Walk,” by Rich the Kid. It was a song dedicated to his drug supplier, or “Plug,” in which Rich the Kid rapped about a day driving around with his dope-slinger, and getting into gang banger mischief. (“Pick him up in a space coup, I don’t let my plug walk.”)

Rich talked about making deals as a Gucci-wearing “boss,” and picking up women along the way, while discarding old ones. He rapped in the chorus, “New freak, had to cut my other lil’ bitch off (ooh, ooh, lil’ bitch.)” In the second verse, the rapper described a woman he was planning on having have sex with. He wrote, “Bitch this ain’t no Henny in my cup (lil’ bitch.) Stayed down, now the racks up (racks up.) She gon’ let me fuck, ass up (ass up.)”

Another Rich the Kid song in the top 20 last week, called “New Freezer” similarly treated women as sexual commodities. In the chorus, he rapped, “My bitch too foreign need a visa, I don’t need her… New bitch wanna fuck to my AP, New Freezer.” Verse one contained the lyrics, “I fuck that bitch ‘cause she bougie (she bougie.) She suck my dick in the movies (yuh.) Trap jumpin’ like 2-3, She a foreign lil’ freak (freak.)”

The second verse featured Kendrick Lamar, who rapped, “Get a bitch with a tan by the pool everyday.” He also wrote about receiving oral sex from twins, saying, “I want some top from like two sets of twins. Twenty twin twins, yeah (yeah.) Ayy, bitch (bitch,) where your friends? (Yeah, yeah.)”

Speaking of Kendrick Lamar, an artist who was nominated for several Grammy nominations this year, his song “King’s Dead” ranked at 16 in Billboard’s list. The song was off the Black Panther soundtrack and featured several of this generation’s hip-hop heavyweights. For a movie that has been touted by some as the cultural achievement in 2018, it’s a shame that this song was filled with graphic violence, drug use, general disregard towards humanity, and one particularly graphic instance of misogyny.

The word bitch was thrown around everywhere (not to mention other kinds of profanity,) and, again, women were sex objects. In the second chorus, featured artist, Future, rapped about stealing another man’s “baby mama” and having sex with her: “Fuck his baby mama, tryna sneak diss. I took her to my penthouse, then I freaked it (I freaked it.)” Not sure whether he should discard her or not, he rapped, “I haven’t made my mind up, should I keep it? (Should I keep it?) I got big dog status, it ain’t no secret.”

The following stanza sums up the obscene chaos that is “King’s Dead,” including a vile, sing-song lyric in which rappers Future and Jay Rock talked about receiving oral sex in a vehicle. It goes:

La di da di da, slob on me knob. Pass me some syrup, fuck me in the car. La di da di da, mothafuck the law. Chitty chitty bang, murder everything. Bitch, I’m on a roll, and I put that on the gang.

The 19th spot on the R&B/Hip-Hop chart belonged to Cardi B’s “Cartier Bardi.” Cardi has recently become an advocate for the #MeToo movement, using her status as a powerful hip-hop woman to demand better female inclusivity. But the irony and hypocrisy became all too-evident when the female rapper and her featured guest, 21 Savage, contributed to the abuse of women in this song’s explicit lyrics.Cardi’s chorus and verses included:

Bardi, put that lil’ bitch on molly, Bardi! Bitch on Molly… Your bitch wanna party with Cardi. Cardi got your bitch on molly… Who took your bitch out to party? I took your bitch and departed… I got your bitch and she naked, Ice on the cake when I bake it.

And 21 Savage’s lines included:

Diamonds all over my body, Fucked that bitch on molly, ask him if I’m bout it… Bitch, I’m drippin’, ho, you trippin’, told the waitress I ain’t tippin’. I like hot sauce on my chicken, I pulled the rubber off and I put hot sauce on her titties. I’m in a Bentley truck, she keeps sucking like it’s tinted. All these VVS’s, nigga, my sperm worth millions. The bitch so bad, I popped a Molly ‘fore I hit it.

Billboard.com recently reported that Cardi B was frustrated because she didn’t see the #MeToo “support reaching women in the hip hop world anytime soon.” She also told Cosmopolitan that “A lot of video vixens have spoke about this and nobody gives a fuck. I bet if one of these women stands up and talks about it, people are going to say, ‘So what? You’re a ho. It don’t matter.’”

If Cardi B wants to be consistent, especially as a powerful face for #MeToo, why has she penned songs that include references to abusing sluts and hoes, in this case, giving them “molly” (ecstasy) so that they’re more willing to be coerced? Shouldn’t she be opposed to the copious use of the term “bitch” in her songs?

“Outside Today” rounded out the top 20. Written and performed by rapper YoungBoy Never Broke Again, the song portrayed his life as a young rap star dealing with legal troubles. It involved the same recurring themes of purchasing expensive cars and jewelry, tussling with gang-bangers in the streets, avoiding bad press and legal conviction, and, of course, showing the females who’s boss.

He rapped, “I just bought a brand new watch from God, I ain’t put it on yet. I don’t care bout no bitch, I ain’t giving her shit, spend it all on the homies.” In verse two, YoungBoy apparently declined a prostitute his friend bought for him, and ended up shooting both “Ben” and “his bitch.” His lyrics said, “Ben bought me a bitch, but I don’t really want her… He say he want smoke, but I know he don’t want it. Shoot him and his bitch and I up one of his homie.”

“Insidious Connotations”

So those were the eight songs out of this week’s R&B/Hip-Hop top 20 that were explicitly sexist. That number was even higher the previous week, when it was 10 out of the top 20 songs. Obviously, the rate fluctuates, but the genre regularly facilitates a large chunk of content that is inflammatory towards females.

And Americans are consuming it.

Nielsen ratings have found that “it’s the first time in U.S. history that the genre has risen to the top of the musical food chain,” with it making up “25.1 of all music consumption in the U.S.” as of 2017. Rock music is second place with only 23%. This is particularly problematic for youth. In a recent article for the The Harvard Crimson, contributing writer Uzochi Nwoko wrote that the “average age of hip hop listeners is the lowest of all major music genres in the United States. Because of this impressionable demographic, the content of hip hop and rap music has particular potential for impact.”

Nwoko discussed that, while the message of wealth and empowerment have been appealing to African-American youth, they have also been receiving the more “insidious connotations.” One such example, the writer claimed, is “the saturation of rap and hip hop music with misogynistic lyrics that hypersexualize and give little or no respect to women.” Nwoko also reported her Billboard hip-hop findings for the week of Feb. 24, which was that an astonishing 18 out of the top 25 songs used language belittling towards women, such as “bitch,” “hoe,” and “whore.”

Take it from Grammy-winning, female rapper, Eve. She spoke to Newsweek about how misogyny is present in rap music “way more than it has ever been now.” Unlike many in the industry who seem reluctant to tackle the nature of Hip-Hop itself, Eve has argued that it’s the obscene lyrics that need to disappear. She stated, “Guys shouldn’t be rapping about it, guys shouldn’t be calling girls bitches, sluts — that should not be done, I do not condone it at all, but it needs to be a bigger change.”

Dr. Carolyn West, Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington wrote in 2008 about the dangerous implications Hip-Hop culture poses towards young black women in particular. As far as rap music’s expansion from its urban roots to the corporate mainstream, West claimed, “What’s changed over time is the greater sexualization of hip-hop. Initially it started off as a revolutionary form of music. Now, large corporations produce images that sell, and there is a blatant link between hip-hop and pornography.”

Looking the lyrics of the recent top- 20, it’s hard not to recognize this pornographic material. West argued that “Black adolescent girls are being bombarded with graphic sexual images… Black Entertainment Television, plays more than 15 hours of music videos per day.” Considering that rap has become the predominant music genre in the decade since, furthered by the enormous prevalence of social media in America today, it’s safe to say that even more youngsters are plagued by hip-hop’s negative connotations.

Why Does Hip-Hop Get a Pass?

This is problematic in and of itself, but what’s worse is that many of the media elite have made sweeping calls for universal reform in the realm of female inclusivity, without addressing the abusive implications of the hip-hop genre. They have mobilized to purge anyone who has done anything remotely abusive to women but ignore the industry’s worst offenders. All of this leads to the obvious question: Why do rappers get a pass from the media elites who impose and enforce politically correct speech and conduct?

Take the 2018 Grammys for example. The evening’s #MeToo sentiments were at a fever-pitch. Celebrities took to the red carpet wearing symbols of female solidarity (Cardi B included). Many speeches, and melodramatic performances were given for the sake of undoing sexism (here’s looking at you, Kesha), and even the Recording Academy’s president was all but run out of town for his insinuation that women should work harder to earn more in the industry. If it was such a dressing down of sexism in music media, why was the actual artistic content of the “woke” industry not even given a second glance?

Looking at the awards themselves, the most nominated artists at the 2018 Grammys were Jay-Z, with eight nominations, and Kendrick Lamar, with seven. (Lamar won five of his eight nominations) The LA Times reported that the “the Recording Academy’s big leap leap into the future appeared to be a long overdue recognition of hip-hop as a cultural force.” If this is the “future,” women haven’t come a long way at all, baby..

To have a high-profile music awards show celebrate a genre that is inundated with blatant sexism in the height of Hollywood’s #MeToo movement seems like doublethink. It shows that the toxicity of sexual abuse and misogyny in pop culture is not really being taken seriously, despite the celebrity virtue-signaling. Rap continues to outsell every other genre, and also sells to the most impressionable demographic. Even the Daily Beast argued that the rap industry practically promotes artists accused of real-life violence towards women. For those who care about our culture, obviously there is a huge problem, and for outspoken #MeToo advocates, a huge disconnect.

Still, if the political grandstanding of the past months is any indicator, it seems that average Americans will be subject to a healthy dose of sanctimonious activism on how bad women are treated in the industry without much action being taken to correct the problem where it really lies. Hollywood bodes problematic for American values, but will turn around and scream against the degeneracy in our culture. They say that everyone else isn’t listening, but are they?

Methodology

MRC Culture considered the weight of the recent #MeToo movement’s publicity and decided to look at Billboard’s “Hot R&B/Hip Hop” for trends that were exploitative of females. The MRC writer used Genius.com to reference the lyrics for each of the songs in the chart’s top- 20 songs, and found blatantly sexist material for eight out of the 20. MRC counted the amount of times the word “Bitch” appeared in the songs, as well as the amount of times obscene sex scenes with women were employed. Urbandictionary.com was used to translate the heavy use of slang in the rap songs as well.

 

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ABC Analyst: Trump Supporters Are Doing More Damage to America Than ISIS

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ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd tweeted Wednesday that Donald Trump and those who support him were doing more damage to the United States than the terrorist group ISIS.

“When people repeat lie after lie after lie to further their political agenda or to protect people they want in power, then they do incredible damage to our Republic,” he tweeted. “More damage than ISIS has ever done to America.”

Dowd was intentionally vague in his original tweet about who he was referring to, but in his responses to critics, he made it clear his critique was of the Trump administration and its backers.

Dowd was a strategist for the 2004 George W. Bush presidential campaign but has since emerged as a regular critic of Republicans. Following the 2016 election, he issued a mea culpa apologizing for the “arrogant, close-minded, judgmental, and sometimes mean-spirited way” he attacked those who thought Trump might win.

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March For Our Lives Isn’t a Youth Movement

March For Our Lives Isn't a Youth Movement

A month after the Parkland shootings, a Quinnipiac poll showed that voters 18-34 were much less likely to support either an “assault weapons” ban or a ban on the sale of “semi-automatic rifles”.

80% of voters 65 years of age and older supported an “assault weapons ban”, but those 18-34 split over it. A majority of voters 65 and over backed the “semi-automatic rifle” bans, but a majority of 18-34 voters opposed it.

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