Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida is being accused of assaulting a minor during an altercation about her record on the environment. The former Democratic National Committee chairwoman is facing challenger Jen Perelman on Tuesday in the Democratic primary for Florida’s 23rd Congressional District seat. The Floridian reported Perelman accused Wasserman Schultz of putting her…
Monday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA), also a U.S. Senate candidate in Georgia, slammed his colleague Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) for calling for civil unrest in America’s cities.
Collins warned it was highly irresponsible and called it a political effort against President Donald Trump.
“It’s highly irresponsible,” he said. “Those comments are just fanning the flames of what we’re seeing. I mean, we had officers hurt last night, again, in Seattle and in Portland. You know who she’s carrying the water for? She’s carrying the water for the anarchists that are looting and robbing and going through our cities. She’s carrying the water for those who want to defund our police and disrespect our police.”
“I’ll tell you, it’s time we actually get back to actually getting our civil society back to where it should be instead of this kind of rhetoric that just breeds the problems that we’re seeing,” Collin continued. “And again, when you’re willing to have more unrest but yet, you’re willing to take away our police and our security, I think that shows exactly what they’re wanting to do — is keep everything up in the air because they want to get at this election and they want to blame it all on Donald Trump.”
An entire neighborhood in Mesquite, Nevada, switched out their porch lights recently to let local officers know they are appreciated.
“They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but there aren’t enough words to explain what this picture means to us,” the Mesquite Police Department wrote on its Facebook page August 10, along with a photo of a street awash in blue lights:
“An entire neighborhood in Mesquite changed their front porch lights blue to show their support for law enforcement. This is just another reminder of how lucky we are to work in this community and we are grateful for such amazing support,” the department continued.
As of Monday, the post had been shared nearly 4,000 times on social media.
Resident Bobbi Kuspa said she participated because she wanted officers to know they were valued, according to Fox News.
“We had done this one other time. We have a neighbor that lost her son in the line of duty. Well, those lightbulbs burned out. Well, then when my neighbor got the blue, it was time to start all over again for our police doing their great job here in Mesquite,” she recalled.
“We have at this moment because two more were lit up last night, we now have 40,” she said regarding the number of homes that participated.
Mesquite Police Department Sgt. Wyatt Oliver told Fox News the gesture was important to his fellow officers.
“You look at the picture and you can tell it’s a very powerful image, and to actually drive through there at night, it’s even more… it brings out a lot of emotions, especially with everything going on in the country right now,” he stated.
Kuspa said she had experienced no backlash, only people asking where they could buy blue lightbulbs.
“We just found out that there’s a neighborhood right next to us that are trying to get permission from their HOA to start the program… to start this,” she commented.
Oliver said the officers were grateful for the kind gesture.
“This community really supports us,” he concluded.
With only 56 trading days and fewer than 80 calendar days to the election, the Deep State camps seeking to torpedo Trump’s re-election have reached the do-or-die point.
Back in June I speculated that the only way the Deep State could deep-six Trump’s re-election was to sink the stock market rally, which the president has long touted as evidence of his economic leadership.
Since then, stocks have lofted ever higher, with the Nasdaq index hitting new all-time highs and the S&P 500 reaching its pre-pandemic heights of euphoria.
So far, there’s nothing to support my thesis other than the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet, which has declined modestly over the past 11 weeks, from $7.165 trillion on 6/3/20 to $6.957 trillion on 8/12/20, more or less idling in neutral. This same neutral stance set up the late-February crash.
The context here is the Deep State is far from monolithic. Rather, it has fractured into warring camps that reflect the nation’s profound political disunity. I have written about the Deep State’s disunity for many years.
Historian Michael Grant identified profound political disunity in the ruling elites as a key cause of the dissolution of the Roman Empire. Grant described this dynamic in his excellent account The Fall of the Roman Empire. The chapter titles of the book illuminate the mutually reinforcing dynamics of profound political disunity in the ruling elites:
The Gulfs Between the Classes: a.k.a. soaring income/wealth inequality: check.
The Credibility Gap: The Mainstream Media and the Big Tech platforms laud their monopoly powers and the self-serving, failing elite they serve: check.
The Partnerships That Failed: the SillyCon Valley tech titans were supposed to "save" the neoliberal elite by managing social media the way the MSM managed broadcast propaganda/"news": check.
The Groups That Opted Out: nobody "important" noticed those who opted out of the neoliberal Kool-Aid: check.
The Undermining of Effort: if I don’t get my way, I’ll block yours. There is no common ground left. Only pseudo-reforms are possible, as the bureaucratic thicket is impenetrable.
Historian Peter Turchin explored the dynamic of social disintegration in his new book Ages of Discord. The cycle of social disintegration and integration is essentially universal to complex societies–a reality I discussed in Ungovernable Nation, Ungovernable Economy (October 11, 2016).
The globalist, neoliberal, neoconservative consensus in the Ruling Elite has splintered, reflecting the splintering of the Deep State, the unelected government that continues on regardless of which party or elected politico is currently in office.
Reading between the lines, the Imperial Project is being challenged and perhaps even sabotaged by a Deep State camp fearful of Imperial Over-Reach. Recognizing the over-reach, this camp understands that the Imperial Project’s expansion will lead to collapse, and to save the core assets the Imperial pretensions have to be jettisoned.
This is far from the only fracture in the Deep State, of course. The best description of the Deep State’s disunity may well be Byzantine.
In the larger Imperial scheme, the Federal Reserve’s only job is to maintain US dollar hegemony. In terms of the Imperial Project, the Fed’s constant goosing of the stock market is only useful to the degree it serves dollar hegemony. But the Imperial Project has survived financial crises and downturns; the stock market is only one of many signaling mechanisms of interest, but it isn’t the end all to be all. The Fed serves the Imperial Project, not the other way around.
The Deep State camps seeking to grease the skids of Trump’s defeat have zero interest in defending Bezos’ billions, or anyone else’s billions. To the degree that a stock market crash discombobulates the warring factions, it can be viewed as an excellent opportunity to slip a blade between the ribs of weakening rivals.
The benefits of a stock market crash that tarnishes Trump’s financial luster would be of unique value to these Deep State camps. The Fed whining about the need to prop up the economy via the stock market’s melt-up is an annoyance that these camps can no longer tolerate.
With only 56 trading days and fewer than 80 calendar days to the election, the Deep State camps seeking to torpedo Trump’s re-election have reached the do-or-die point: either reverse the stock market melt-up and begin a crash into late October, or hand Trump the potentially decisive narrative of a V-shaped recovery and a stock market relentlessly notching new highs.
Who knows, there may even be a few disaffected Deep Staters who want to see Bezos, Zuckerberg et al. go down as much as the rest of America.
All of which is to say: the next 11 weeks might become, well, interesting.
Forty-nine people were shot over the course of 72 hours in NYC between Thursday and Saturday, compared to eight shooting victims over the same time period last year, according to preliminary NYPD statistics sent to Gothamist Sunday morning.
Eight people were murdered—at least six by gun violence—compared to three homicides last year over those three days.
Those numbers do not yet reflect shootings on Sunday.
But about 2 a.m. Sunday, a 47-year-old was fatally shot in the head near Parkside and Ocean Avenues in Brooklyn at the entrance of Prospect Park.
The man was the ninth person in NYC murdered since Thursday.
Those 49 shooting victims were shot in 38 separate incidents between August 13th and 15th, the police department said.
The number of shootings rose by nearly five times—from eight to 38—compared to the same dates last year.
On Friday, August 14, Netflix premiered Teenage Bounty Hunters, a dramedy about high school girls who become assistants to a local bail recovery agent.
The two girls, fraternal twin sisters Sterling (Maddie Phillips) and Blair (Anjelica Bette Fellini), are hired by a seasoned bounty hunter named Bowser (Kadeem Hardison) after a car accident causes them to inadvertently catch a criminal.
The girls attend a Christian academy run by a sweet, but clueless woman. From the very first episode, Teenage Bounty Hunters mocks and sexualizes Christianity. The show opens with 16-year-old Sterling using Bible verses to seduce her longtime boyfriend into losing their virginity to each other. After he wants to pray for restraint, she quotes gospel passages as she mounts him culminating in 1 Peter 4:8 "Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins."
[Video Warning: No explicit nudity, but not safe for work, either.]
The series only gets worse from there. By episode five Sterling and Blair are imitating stripper moves at a club hiding a woman who skipped bail. "Look at these women. They are so comfortable in their bodies. It is so cool," Blair says as the women pole dance for oggling men.
Why an adult like Bowser thought it was appropriate for high schoolers to accompany him to a club with women swinging naked from poles is anyone’s guess.
In fact, many of Bowser’s decisions with his teenaged assistants are disturbing. They accompany him to catch a drug dealer at a hotel. This leads to the three of them barging in on a graphic menage-a-trois between the drug dealer, the dealer’s wife and another woman.
After catching the dealer, Sterling sits down with the dealer’s wife to find out how she got another woman to join them for the act. You see, while Sterling still "likes penises," in her own words, she also wants to become sexually active with a female classmate named April (Devon Hales). She decided this after thinking about April while masturbating.
When Sterling is working on a class project with April, she tries to broach the subject of a relationship by suggesting that the biblical characters of Ruth and Naomi were really lesbians.
Sterling: You know who’s also a really good team? Naomi and Ruth from the Bible. I really like that story.
April: Yeah, me too, actually.
Sterling: Really?
April: Yeah. Two women left on their own who make the best of a bad situation, securing their fortunes without the help of a man?
Sterling: I read that they were together?
April: Yeah, of course they were together. Women couldn’t travel alone back then.
Sterling: No, um…like, "together-together," like they cleaved or whatever.
April: What do you mean, "cleaved"? Like…"sex"?
Sterling: Yeah. It’s the same Hebrew word, like Naomi cleaved to Ruth like how Adam cleaved to Eve.
April: That’s a loose interpretation.
Sterling: Well, what about Jonathan and David? Jonathan grew "full" thinking of David. "Full," like erect.
An LGBT lens needlessly eroticizes close human relationships. It routinely rejects the reality of non-sexualized intimacy between those of the same sex. And, of course, twists the Bible while doing so.
Eventually, April and Sterling end up in a brief romantic relationship, although by the final episode Sterling is considering returning to the boyfriend she deflowered in episode one.
The show is set in Georgia and takes numerous potshots at Southerners. The bounty hunters delay the arrest of a vigilante beheading confederate statues in the middle of night. They wait until she finishes beheading a final one before arresting her. Nobody ever suggested legal processes by which a town could vote to remove a statue if they so chose.
The vigilante had mapped out the statues she beheaded to form the shape of a penis. She saw this as an additional attack on "patriarchy."
Sterling and her sister Blair also display their feminist bona fides. When Sterling’s boyfriend interrupts Blair once, Blair declares, "Of course, the man is co-opting the conversation." (The boyfriend is actually a pretty respectful and decent guy overall.) Are men really the only ones who have the market cornered on conversational interruption?
Christians in the show often come across as judgmental and hypocritical, unless they are openly and proudly violating Christian sexual ethics, in which case, they are nice people. As Sterling tells April, "Why should the Bible be a rule book for sex, anyway? It’s 2000 years old."
When Sterling is kicked out of her Christian fellowship clique after revealing she is no longer a virgin, she tries to hang with a darker crowd. They invite her to help with some of the charity work they do with the Church of Satan. She decides the charity work is too much. In this series, the satanists are more charitable than the Christians.
So many shows geared toward adolescent young women today promote the occult, lesbianism, man-hating and the hypersexualization of girls. Hollywood scripts promote the vision of bisexual angry radical feminists (what writer Peachy Keenan dubbed "B.A.R.F.").
The BARFs want young women to be angry, hypersexualized, sexually confused, and occult-interested. Parents cannot presume that a show geared towards either teens or children is "safe." A couple of the scenes in Teenage Bounty Hunters would have been considered downright pornographic for an under 18 audience just a few years ago.
Netflix has routinely been pushing inappropriate boundaries in its tween and teen programming. Skip Teenage Bounty Hunters and, if you have a kid, maybe skip Netflix altogether.
Joe Biden kicked off convention week from his basement bunker in Delaware because he’s too feeble to travel to Milwaukee.
Biden on Monday afternoon ‘virtually’ addressed the AAPI Caucus, which is one of the DNC’s official constituency caucuses after he wrapped up a trainwreck interview with rapper Cardi B.
Biden’s livestream DNC Caucus meeting was a dumpster fire.
One of Biden’s handlers seemed to yell “get out!” in the middle of his livestream event.
WATCH:
….did one of Joe Biden’s handlers just yell “get out!” in the middle of his live stream? pic.twitter.com/SmA6i9GUtJ
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President Donald Trump traveled to Minnesota today a state he barely lost in 2016.
During his campaign stop in Mankato, President Trump joked to the crowd, “I tell ya if I don’t win Minnesota I’m never going to do it in my third or fourth term. OK? I’ll never be back if I run. I’ve given up. I almost won last time. One more speech. I almost won.”
Hah-hah!
The crowd loved it.
Of course, the left was triggered.
Here is Trump again ‘joking’ about running "for a third or fourth term" — which would be unconstitutional. pic.twitter.com/fhch2fPobM
Last week, Judge Mary Brown, appointed to the “Save James” Texas case in January, reportedly scrapped a past ruling that allowed Jeff Younger joint conservatorship over his 8-year-old son James Younger, whom Jeff’s ex-wife Dr. Anne Georgulas claims is a transgender girl named “Luna.”
Now, Anne can reportedly enroll James as “Luna” in school without the father’s consent, and Mr. Younger will have to pay $5,000 a month for the child’s pro-trans counseling, as well as a $10,000 retainer required by the counselor, a Facebook post from “Save James” claims.
According to court documents, Jeff wanted his two sons homeschooled.
Jeff was awarded joint conservatorship last year, meaning he’d have to consent to parenting choices concerning James before his ex-wife moves forward, and vice versa. The father claims Georgulas has been telling his biological son that he is a girl since he was 3 years old, and that James wants to be a boy when he is with his father. Georgulas claims James identifies as a girl on his own and is apparently transgender.
The “Save James” account is run by a supporter of Mr. Younger and a journalist in contact with the father. Jeff was hit with a gag order from Judge Kim Cooks in October 2019.
Captioning a photo of Jeff hugging his boys James and Jude, a Facebook post from “Save James” said in part on Tuesday, “James and Jude did NOT have a victory in court today. Judge Mary Brown has condemned James and Jude to a life of therapy, confusion, and abuse without even having a hearing. There are no other words for what has happened today.”
Judge Brown, the post continues, “has forced James to live as ‘Luna’ in a school surrounded by teachers and therapists who do not acknowledge that he has said multiple times to multiple people (without Jeff around) that he wants to be a boy and hates being forced to be a girl. She has forced Jude into a stressful existence of constant lies and misery as he watches his brother get destroyed before him without any hope for an end to this madness.”
“Anne won this battle without even a hearing,” the post says. There was a scheduled hearing set on August 11, but the judge canceled it.
Judge Mary Brown, without even having a hearing, has wiped out thousands of dollars for Jeff. He had a Writ of Mandamus in place to appeal her order that forced him into therapy. That Writ of Mandamus cost him well above 15k. It is now gone. Jeff needs help with donations. Consulting lawyers, drafting responses, attending hearings easily wracks his cost into the thousands. By now, Jeff has spent enough money to put James and Jude through medical and law school. This is insane.
The post noted that a “special evidentiary hearing is scheduled for September,” though the exact date and time remains unknown.
“There is the sneaking suspicion that this hearing will be used to solidify Anne’s dominance over Jeff,” according to “Save James.”
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