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Trump scored bigly at amazing ‘Howdy, Modi’ event in Houston

The Trump-hating media are doing their best to ignore or denigrate the landmark, triumphal event yesterday in Houston, as at least 50,000 Indian Americans attended a rally featuring President Trump, India’s newly re-elected Prime Minister Modi, and a variety of dance numbers celebrating their community.  For instance, the New York Times, formerly America’s paper of record, has no news coverage this morning, and one sneering editorial page column by Roger Cohen,  describing the “rah-rah Lone Star State show.”

It was, as far as I know, by far the largest crowd that Donald Trump has ever addressed in his life:

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Fox News offered live coverage of President Trump’s remarks, and a little bit of PM Modi’s address to the crowd, delivered in Hindi, but when they were unable to access a simultaneous translation into English, dropped the feed from Houston.

It was a hoot, and true celebration of diversity. Check out the dancers in both Indian costumes (eat your heart out, Justin Trudeau) and Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders-like costumes:

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But, in addition to the sheer cultural exuberance on display there were very serious political points being scored by both Modi and Trump.

For Trump, the event was an opportunity for outreach to one of the fastest-growing ethnic groups in the United States.  

The population of Indian-origin people in America grew by 38 per cent in seven years between 2010 and 2017, a South Asian advocacy group has said in its latest demographic report.

In 2017, the population of Indian-Americans with multiple ethnicities was recorded as 4,402,363, up 38.3 per cent from 3,183,063 in 2010, the South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) said in its snapshot.

There are at least 630,000 Indians who are undocumented, a 72 per cent increase since 2010. [number display corrected to American use of commas]

Indian Americans are a natural constituency for Republicans, tending toward high levels of education, intact families, entrepreneurship, and culturally conservative values.  Plenty of Democrat politicians attended the cent, including Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Houston, but it was President Trump who enjoyed the embrace of PM Modi, who was very, very popular with the crowd.

The event was an implicit message to China that the United States and India are best buddies and will work together on security and economic issues. It was also a message to Iran that the United States is displacing it as an energy supplier to India. Prior to the rally, a major long-term contract was signed for supply of LNG gas to India, including an investment of $2.5 billion dollars in a new LNG terminal by India’s Petronet.

For his part, Modi reaped considerable political benefit from the event televised live in India (at midnight local time) affirming his importance on the world stage. Modi used the occasion to boast of his moves to make Kashmir a part of Inida like any other state, rejecting the former status/
If you missed it on television, take a quick look at a couple of the videos embedded below.

Here is VOA’s excerpts of President Trump’s address:

And here is the full event, almost 4 hours long:

The Trump-hating media are doing their best to ignore or denigrate the landmark, triumphal event yesterday in Houston, as at least 50,000 Indian Americans attended a rally featuring President Trump, India’s newly re-elected Prime Minister Modi, and a variety of dance numbers celebrating their community.  For instance, the New York Times, formerly America’s paper of record, has no news coverage this morning, and one sneering editorial page column by Roger Cohen,  describing the “rah-rah Lone Star State show.”

It was, as far as I know, by far the largest crowd that Donald Trump has ever addressed in his life:

YouTube screen grab

Fox News offered live coverage of President Trump’s remarks, and a little bit of PM Modi’s address to the crowd, delivered in Hindi, but when they were unable to access a simultaneous translation into English, dropped the feed from Houston.

It was a hoot, and true celebration of diversity. Check out the dancers in both Indian costumes (eat your heart out, Justin Trudeau) and Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders-like costumes:

YouTube screen grabs

But, in addition to the sheer cultural exuberance on display there were very serious political points being scored by both Modi and Trump.

For Trump, the event was an opportunity for outreach to one of the fastest-growing ethnic groups in the United States.  

The population of Indian-origin people in America grew by 38 per cent in seven years between 2010 and 2017, a South Asian advocacy group has said in its latest demographic report.

In 2017, the population of Indian-Americans with multiple ethnicities was recorded as 4,402,363, up 38.3 per cent from 3,183,063 in 2010, the South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) said in its snapshot.

There are at least 630,000 Indians who are undocumented, a 72 per cent increase since 2010. [number display corrected to American use of commas]

Indian Americans are a natural constituency for Republicans, tending toward high levels of education, intact families, entrepreneurship, and culturally conservative values.  Plenty of Democrat politicians attended the cent, including Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Houston, but it was President Trump who enjoyed the embrace of PM Modi, who was very, very popular with the crowd.

The event was an implicit message to China that the United States and India are best buddies and will work together on security and economic issues. It was also a message to Iran that the United States is displacing it as an energy supplier to India. Prior to the rally, a major long-term contract was signed for supply of LNG gas to India, including an investment of $2.5 billion dollars in a new LNG terminal by India’s Petronet.

For his part, Modi reaped considerable political benefit from the event televised live in India (at midnight local time) affirming his importance on the world stage. Modi used the occasion to boast of his moves to make Kashmir a part of Inida like any other state, rejecting the former status/
If you missed it on television, take a quick look at a couple of the videos embedded below.

Here is VOA’s excerpts of President Trump’s address:

And here is the full event, almost 4 hours long:

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Woke Emmys Fail: Ratings Hit Record Low

The 71st Primetime Emmy Awards on Fox drew a record low viewership on Sunday as TV fans opted to tune out of the telecast that featured woke celebrities lecturing America on issues including the gender pay gap and transgender rights.

Sunday’s broadcast drew a paltry 5.7 rating and a 10 share in the overnight metered market ratings, down 23 percent from last year’s Monday night show on NBC and down 30 percent from the preliminary rating for the 2017 ceremony, which aired on a Sunday night on CBS, according to Variety.

Deadline noted that the figures represent the “lowest rating the annual ceremony has achieved in early metrics.”

The Emmys were up against NBC’s Sunday Night Football, which saw the Los Angeles Rams beat the Cleveland Browns in a score of 20-13.

Fox chose to go hostless for this year’s Emmys for the first time in more than 15 years.

The decision came after the Academy Awards did the same earlier this year when comedian Kevin Hart withdrew from duties following a backlash over the resurfacing of old gay jokes and tweets.

On Sunday, the Emmys featured acceptance speeches in which celebrities ranted about their political and cultural views.

Actress Michelle Williams, who won for her lead role in FX’s Fosse/Verdon, spoke about the gender pay gap, invoking white men.

“So the next time a woman, and especially a woman of color, because she stands to make 52 cents on the dollar compared to her white, male counterpart, tells you what she needs in order to do her job, listen to her, believe her, because one day she might stand in front of you and say thank you for allowing her to succeed because of her workplace environment, and not in spite of it,” the actress said.

Patricia Arquette, who won an Emmy for her supporting role in Hulu’s The Act, devoted much of her speech to transgender people, invoking her late transgender sibling, Alexis Arquette.

“Give them jobs,” she said. “They’re human beings. Let’s give them jobs. Let’s get rid of the bias that we have everywhere.”

Actor Billy Porter invoked James Baldwin while accepting his award for FX’s transgender-themed series Pose.

“It took many years of vomiting up the filth I was taught about myself and halfway believed before I could walk around this Earth like I had the right to be here,” Porter said Sunday. “I have the right. You have the right. We all have the right.”

Hollywood awards shows have seen their ratings tank in recent years.

The Golden Globe Awards on NBC saw its ratings drop in January, while Video Music Awards on MTV saw record low ratings this year.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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CNN Reports on Dems Mass Defecting to Trump in Ilhan Omar’s Minnesota

If I were to ask you to name a Minnesota Democrat, I would imagine the first politician to come to mind for most of you would be Rep. Ilhan Omar. I’m sure there would be a few votes for Sen. Amy Klobuchar and her sputtering presidential campaign, and maybe a few of you would have memories of disgraced former Sen. Al Franken. But the freshman congresswoman from Minneapolis would likely come in first.

From that, you might intuit that Minnesota is getting more progressive. After all, the state hasn’t gone Republican in a national election since 1972. Omar took her seat from Keith Ellison, a progressive who became the state’s attorney general. Surely this isn’t Trump territory.

A funny thing is happening in Minnesota’s mining country, however — and it could mean that the Gopher State might turn red in 2020.

The trend is so pronounced in this usually Democratic corner of the world that even CNN is covering it. Take the mayor of Eveleth, Minnesota — who votes Democrat in local elections but has a Trump sticker on the front of his desk.

He’s in the middle of the Iron Range, a mining area much closer to Canada than it is to the Twin Cities:

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Robert Vlaisavljevich recalled the glory days of the town — “40 or 50 years ago,” when Iron Range cities like Eveleth had “big city prosperity,” CNN reported.

“Things were just going gangbusters,” Vlaisavljevich said, walking down the town’s main street with CNN’s Martin Savidge.

“Businesses all over. Then, when it crashed, everybody was caught by surprise. When it crashed, it crashed hard.”

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Trump, the mayor says, has focused on mining in a way the Democrats haven’t.

“He’s our guy, he supports mining. He’s our guy,” Vlaisavljevich said.

He’s not alone. When Savidge asked the mayor whether or not this was “thousands of people shifting and changing their politics,” he responded that was indeed the case.

If Savidge found any evidence to dent that statement, it wasn’t presented in the segment. The complaint was one we’ve heard before: Residents didn’t leave the party, the party left them.

“I think they’ve changed. I see conservative candidates seem to be more for the working person,” Melissa Axelson, whose husband works for a mining company, said.

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Mike Volker, meanwhile, said, “the Democrats kinda shifted more to the left and the Republicans are … the party for jobs.”

As for Ilhan Omar, well, she doesn’t get a whole lot of love up in that part of the world.

“She offends a lot of people,” Vlaisavljevich said.

“She’s not popular here,” Savidge responded, which got an emphatic no from the mayor.

Trump has stated that he thinks Omar will help him win in 2020.

“In 2016 I almost won Minnesota,” he tweeted in July. “In 2020, because of America hating anti-Semite Rep. Omar, & the fact that Minnesota is having its best economic year ever, I will win the State! ‘We are going to be a nightmare to the President,’ she say. No, AOC Plus 3 are a Nightmare for America!”

While CNN’s Chris Cillizza doesn’t buy that Ilhan Omar will deliver Minnesota into Trump’s hands in 2020, he also doesn’t think the state is a slam dunk for Democrats — which could be why reliably liberal CNN is sounding the alarm.

After Trump’s tweet in July, Cillizza wrote, “there’s no question the state has been trending more competitive for Republicans in recent years. In 2012, it was the 11th closest state — by margin of victory — as then-President Barack Obama won it by 7.6 points over Mitt Romney. In 2016, it was the sixth closest state, with Clinton winning by 1.5 points.

“That’s in keeping with Trump’s gains more broadly in the industrial Midwest — putting Ohio out of reach and winning in places like Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — where GOP presidential nominees hadn’t won in decades,” Cillizza wrote.

While it may not be Omar herself who’s inspiring these gains in the industrial Midwest, it’s what she represents: the Democratic Party’s lurch to the left. Mining country is, by its very nature, union country. That would ordinarily represent easy pickings for the Dems.

Instead, what we see is blue-collar Americans turning away from the Democrats because the Democrats have turned away from them. Yes, the Iron Range is just one part of the state, but the results from 2016 indicate there are a lot more voters thinking like the mayor of Eveleth is.

That should worry whomever Donald Trump’s opponent is since the last thing they need is another state to defend.

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Biden Says If Male Identifies As Woman He Should Be Housed With Female Inmates In Prison

What could possibly go wrong? Joe Biden says that if a Male is sentenced to jail, and he identifies as a woman, that he should be housed with female inmates.pic.twitter.com/XZ4V7wjnpf — CHIZ ?? (@CHIZMAGA) September 21, 2019 And he wants us to pay for “gender-affirming” surgery. Joe Biden backs taxpayer-funded "gender-affirming" surgery pic.twitter.com/wsgXift9Vg — Ryan […]

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UK: No Charges for Muslim Taxi Driver Who Threatened to Sodomise Christian Converts in Viral Video

British police have announced they take no action against a Muslim taxi driver who threatened “any mother f**ker wants to convert to f**king Christianity, we’re both gonna f**k you up the a**e” in a viral video.

41-year-old Zaheer Hussain shot the video, which went viral in December 2018, alongside a laughing companion in a car in Preston, Lancashire.

Press reports on the video are short on details, with one downplaying the rant as merely “criticising ‘anyone who converts’ to Christianity”, but copies can still be found on social media.

The footage shows Hussain telling the camera, “Bruv, listen… any motherf**ker wants to convert to f**king Christianity, we’re both gonna f**k you up the a**e, you under-f**king-stand? … We’re gonna f**ck you up the a**e; we’re gonna come to f**cking [place name], and we’re gonna f**ck you, f**ck you up the [unintelligible],” as he simulates an act of sexual assault.

Over the course of his rant, extended sections of which are in a foreign language, he also demands “Why you f**king converting for [sic], you motherf**kers? Huh? Why you f**cking — why would you want to become a Christian? You f**king [unintelligible] s**t motherf**kers.”

Hussain was reported to Lancashire Constabulary by a Christian woman from Preston, who said “it frightens me now to identify myself as a Christian to someone that I don’t know” and that it was “sad that I have to hide my religion.”

“This man’s dangerous views on something so normal like people changing religions is unacceptable, she added.

“His threats to sexually assault those who convert to Christianity is the heart of hate speech.

“To me, he is displaying extremist tendencies and is encouraging violence.

“I’m genuinely concerned for the welfare of the public who may not be aware of his extreme views.”

Under Islamic law, enforced by the state in many Muslim-majority countries, the penalty for leaving Islam is death.

The police, however, ultimately opted to take no action against Hussain or four other men interviewed in connection with the video, apparently accepting his claims that he only intended for the video to be seen by a few friends, and that there was therefore no evidence to prove that the arrested man had any intention to incite or stir up religious hatred amongst the general public”, to quote a local report.

“A separate offence of sending a grossly offensive/indecent or menacing message by a public communication network” was also considered, according to the same report, but prosecutors decided “that it did not meet the evidential test for a criminal offence.”

Hussain’s generous treatment by the authorities contrasts sharply with that meted out to Scottish comedian Markus Meechan, better known as Count Dankula, who was arrested, charged, and convicted in a trial without a jury for causing gross offence with a viral video in which he trained his girlfriend’s pug dog to imitate the “least cute thing that I could think of, which is a Nazi” — despite his having also told the authorities it was only intended for a small circle of friends.

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Hypocrites: Nineteen 2020 Dems Campaign At Dem Party Steak Fry, After Many Condemned Meat As Bad For Climate

Nineteen candidates are appearing at the Polk County Democratic Party Steak Fry in Des Moines this weekend. It’s part parade, part organizing show of force, four months out from the caucuses. https://t.co/9TG5t1kVHE — The Associated Press (@AP) September 21, 2019 Let them eat meat… Stop eating beef because it’s killing the environment. Now come to […]

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Tlaib Defends Anti-Israel Activist Who Was Voted Off Women’s March Board

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) on Friday came to the defense of an anti-Israel activist who was voted off the Women’s March board earlier in the week, telling her, "we have the truth on our side."

Tlaib took to Twitter to defend Zahra Billoo, the executive director of the San Francisco Bay area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Billoo, who was voted off the board after serving for two days, sent out a 25-tweet thread about the vote, where she blamed an "Islamophobic smear campaign" and "right-wingers" for the scrutiny she and her colleagues received.

"#FreePalestine always sis! They won’t silence us for speaking out against human rights violations," Tlaib tweeted. "They will lie, smear our names and call us anti this and that, but we always be pro- humanity & we have the truth on our side. Stay strong @ZahraBilloo."

Billoo, who has been a vocal supporter of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), said the campaign against her was "driven by people who oppose me and my work challenging the occupation of Palestine, our country’s perpetuation of unjust and endless wars, and law enforcement operations targeting the American Muslim community."

She has sent out several controversial tweets over the last decade, including tweets attacking U.S. troops, Memorial Day, and Israel.  Back in 2016, she quote-tweeted a Twitter user asking her whether she believes it’s "wrong" for the United States to honor soldiers on Memorial Day. She replied, "You think we should honor people who commit war crimes?"

She also refers to Israel as "Apartheid Israel" multiple times on her Twitter account and claims Israel "commits war crimes as a hobby" and "kills children as a hobby."

This isn’t the first time Tlaib has sided with someone vehemently opposed to Israel. Tlaib met with anti-Israel activist Joe Catron during American Muslims for Palestine Advocacy Day back in April. Catron and the New Jersey AMP chapter support the the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement which wages economic boycotts on the Jewish state.

The Anti-Defamation League previously stated the BDS movement is "the most prominent effort to undermine Israel’s existence" and has been critical of AMP for helping promote anti-Semitism.

Tlaib also took a picture back in January with Abbas Hamideh, a "Palestinian right of return" activist with a history of calling Israel a "terrorist entity." He attended Tlaib’s swearing-in ceremony and a private dinner afterwards.

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Sandy Hook Promise’s Back to school PSA shamefully exploits (and terrifies) kids

“It’s back to school time and you know what that means.” Sandy Hook Promise released a Public Service Announcement (PSA) this week as a back to school message on mass shootings in schools. The purpose is alleged to be to encourage conversation between parents and children.

The problem with the PSA, though, is it is the latest example of exploiting children in order to deliver a political message from adults. It is meant to shock the viewer and uses school kids talking about new school supplies to do so. The title is “Back-to-School Essentials”. It opens with a boy and his new backpack and a girl with new binders.

As you see, by the time the third student is shown with his new earphones, the background action is becoming clear. It begins to get chaotic and the kids start to use their new supplies as tools of survival. It ends with a girl in a bathroom stall texting her mother as the viewer hears the bathroom door open and footsteps of what we are to assume are the shooter.

The PSA ends with “School shootings are preventable when you know the signs.” This is where the video ad fails. A PSA is supposed to educate. The only information delivered here outside of the dramatic use of school supplies is a phone number offered of Sandy Hook Promise and website.

It comes off as child exploitation. Just as the climate change extremists are using children to push their political agenda, the gun grabbers are doing the same with this type of action. Sandy Hook Promise is using child actors to strike fear into parents and students in order to begin conversations about school shootings. It strikes me as being in the vein of shock jock radio – just grab the attention of the audience with crude or exploitive language, or in this case, visuals of children in harm’s way.

Their videos get eyes on them, that’s for sure. The press release for this video states that one video in 2016 received a billion views worldwide. Think how much more effective their PSA would be if it actually delivered information for the parents to give to the kids. How about mentioning “the signs” mentioned at the end of the PSA? It doesn’t have to be detailed but signs in general. For example, in health-related PSAs, signs of diseases are mentioned without going into medical detail.

There is no need to shock people about school shootings or mass shootings in general. Everyone is already well aware of the tragedies and loss of life. I don’t think exploiting children for dramatic effect will move people on either side of the debates going on about Second Amendment rights.

This video plays into the stress of the drills that happen now in many schools. Students are taught what to do if a shooting happens. This is necessary and a sign of the times. It is scary for them and that’s understandable. The only thing I can think of from my school days that might compare is the drills during the Cold War and worries of a nuclear attack. The burden is on parents and teachers, though, to keep students calm and don’t overreach to the point of adding to the stress of an event that statistically likely won’t happen.

The environmental alarmists have freaked out kids at such young ages that they are suffering emotional distress and this is child abuse, in my opinion. Next thing you know, kids are skipping school and marching in the streets with their parents and teachers. The Parkland students were exploited by the gun-grabbing lobby, and funded by billionaires, like Michael Bloomberg, as they took bus tours across the country.

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Sandy Hook Promise usually releases a video at the end of the year, about the time of the anniversary of the shooting. This year they released it at the beginning of the school year and hope to make it an annual event.

Sandy Hook Promise usually releases a PSA in December, around the anniversary of the school shooting. They play on the major networks and across digital platforms. Co-founder Mark Barden says this is the first release around the start of the school year, and he hopes it becomes a routine discussion for back-to-school time.

“Our students should be worried about just the regular back-to-school things like their clothes and their folders and their backpacks and their lunchbox,” Barden said. “Not how to respond or hide or evacuate in a school shooting.”

Barden says Sandy Hook Promise has trained more than 7.5 million students and adults in preventing mass casualty incidents and suicides.

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PRAGER: Do You Know What The Democrats Said At Their Debate?

The last debate among 10 Democrats seeking their party’s nomination for president set a new low for demagoguery, contempt for America and just plain foolishness.
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Andrew Yang: "In America today, everything revolves around the almighty dollar — our schools, our hospitals, our media, even our government."
It is difficult to imagine a more contemptuous, not to mention erroneous, view of America.

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