Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said Thursday morning on CNN that if you use straws or eat hamburgers, you are "part of the problem."
Appearing on CNN’s "New Day" with Alisyn Camerota, Buttigieg continued to push the notion, increasingly popular on the far-left, that fighting climate change is somehow equivalent to the United States’ fight against the Nazis in World War II.
Normally, I wouldn’t comment on a ridiculous demand from a leftist who feels triggered by something conservatives do and wants everyone to change their behavior so her emotional stability won’t be threatened any longer. But this snowflake bully is a serious author, a winner of many literary awards, and the demand is utterly, mind-bogglingly stupid.
Is anyone else made really uncomfortable these days by anyone wearing any kind of red baseball cap? Like, I see one and my heart does weird shit and then I finally realize it only says Titleist or whatever. Maybe don’t wear red caps anymore, normal people?
If you’re here to be contrary: an equivalent here would be western Hindus choosing not to use the swastika symbol in public despite it being sacred to their faith because it would offend/frighten people. The red hat has become a symbol of hate bc of how its wearers act.
This is an example of solipsism, a philosophical concept one’s own mind is the only thing a person can know exists, from which many corollaries follow. But it is most quickly grasped visually:
As you might expect, raucous laughter from the right has greeted this petulant demand. Mary Chastain of Legal Insurrection has a great selection of tweets, such as:
Maybe therapy is the answer for you. You are too fragile to handle a hat.
I was attacked by a Doberman as a child. This made me scared of all dogs. As an adult, I’ve only owned Dobermans. This killed what had become an irrational fear. I suggest you get a red hat, and a friend who wears one, and regain some clearly much-needed perspective and peace.
I suppose that Ms. Makkai will gain literary luster for her display of solipsism, because she has a new complaint against deplorable Trump supporters. Such is the level of corruption of oru cultural elites.
Normally, I wouldn’t comment on a ridiculous demand from a leftist who feels triggered by something conservatives do and wants everyone to change their behavior so her emotional stability won’t be threatened any longer. But this snowflake bully is a serious author, a winner of many literary awards, and the demand is utterly, mind-bogglingly stupid.
Is anyone else made really uncomfortable these days by anyone wearing any kind of red baseball cap? Like, I see one and my heart does weird shit and then I finally realize it only says Titleist or whatever. Maybe don’t wear red caps anymore, normal people?
If you’re here to be contrary: an equivalent here would be western Hindus choosing not to use the swastika symbol in public despite it being sacred to their faith because it would offend/frighten people. The red hat has become a symbol of hate bc of how its wearers act.
This is an example of solipsism, a philosophical concept one’s own mind is the only thing a person can know exists, from which many corollaries follow. But it is most quickly grasped visually:
As you might expect, raucous laughter from the right has greeted this petulant demand. Mary Chastain of Legal Insurrection has a great selection of tweets, such as:
Maybe therapy is the answer for you. You are too fragile to handle a hat.
I was attacked by a Doberman as a child. This made me scared of all dogs. As an adult, I’ve only owned Dobermans. This killed what had become an irrational fear. I suggest you get a red hat, and a friend who wears one, and regain some clearly much-needed perspective and peace.
I suppose that Ms. Makkai will gain literary luster for her display of solipsism, because she has a new complaint against deplorable Trump supporters. Such is the level of corruption of oru cultural elites.
The Trump administration has prepared draft legislation to expedite capital cases against mass shooters, it announced Monday.
Marc Short, Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, told reporters to expect the legislation as part of a larger gun control proposal from the White House, Fox News reports. The total legislative package is expected after Congress returns from its August recess on September 9th.
The announcement comes after a mass shooting in Odessa, Texas, in which a gunman killed five and injured 22 people. On Sunday, President Donald Trump called the shooter "another very sick person," and said that shootings were "a big problem. It’s a mental problem."
Short did not share further details, but the legislation has been in the works for at least a month. In early August, following the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, Trump called for the implementation of a federal death penalty for hate crimes, adding that it should "be delivered quickly, decisively, and without years of needless delay."
Later that month, Attorney General William Barr told the Fraternal Order of Police’s biennial conference that his department was working on legislation establishing "a timetable for judicial proceedings" involving the execution of mass murderers or offenders who murder police officers.
An expedited timetable for executions would reflect the growing concern among many conservatives that the capital trial process has become bloated by an indefinite appellate process. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the 23 people executed in 2017 had been on death row an average of over 20 years after conviction.
The new legislation is likely to draw sharp opposition from Democrats in Congress, including those running for president. Essentially every major 2020 Democrat publicly supports death penalty abolition, with the possible exception of former vice president Joe Biden. The White House’s push to execute mass murderers could give the president an electoral advantage on the issue, as majorities of the population consistently support the use of the death penalty.
At Kansas University, some faculty members, calling Chick-fil-A a "bastion of bigotry," are fighting against allowing America’s most popular fast-food chain to move from a campus basement to the school’s main student center as well as sponsor the "Chick-fil-A Coin Toss" for every home football game. The fast-food chain has operated for 15 years in the basement of KU’s Wescoe Hall, as Kansascity.com reported.
Democrat presidential hopeful Joe Biden pushed a ban on the very magazines Secret Service agents used to protect him while he was Vice President under former President Barack Obama.
Biden did this by calling for a ban on gun magazines holding “multiple bullets.”
Joe wants to ban “magazines that can hold multiple bullets in them,” and said that doing so is “no violation of #2A.”
He knows NOTHING about firearms or 2A. In June, he claimed to have gotten “the number of clips in a gun banned.”
The Secret Service uses an array of firearms to carry out its protection duties. The Military Times reports that Secret Service agents’ current sidearm is a Sig Sauer 229 variant chambered in .357 Sig. The 229 uses magazines that hold “multiple bullets.”
Sig Sauer’s website contains information for a 229 Nitro Compact, which ships with two ten-round magazines. Such magazines would fall apparently be banned if there were a prohibition against magazines holding “multiple bullets.”
Moreover, the Secret Service is working to trade the .357 Sig round for a 9mm. This entails switching from the Sig Sauer to a Glock 19 for “standard issue,” meaning 15-round magazines, at the least. Again, 15-round magazines are those that hold “multiple bullets” and would therefore be prohibited under the parameters Biden presented.
It is important to note that an individual Secret Service agent can carry more than one gun at once, depending on the assignment and whether the agent needs both hands free to carry out their duties. Agents carrying more than one gun could have their sidearm, with a magazine holding “multiple bullets,” and a sub-machine gun, also using magazines that hold “multiple bullets.”
Joe Biden is also campaigning for a requirement that all guns lock and unlock like smart phones.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.
At least 41 people were shot, seven fatally, over Labor Day Weekend 2019 in Democrat-controlled Chicago.
On Sunday morning–the halfway point of the weekend–Breitbart News reported 25 individuals had already been wounded and seven killed. Those fatalities included a 15-year-old boy who was killed Sunday morning.
The Chicago Sun-Timesreported the weekend’s fatalities began around 12:22 a.m. Saturday, when 42-year-old Willie Coker was shot to death on South Burley Avenue. A total of seven people were killed before Labor Day itself even began.
The Chicago Tribunereports six people were shot between Sunday night and “the first hours of Labor Day.”
Labor Day itself was quickly followed by another fatality, which occurred overnight between Monday and Tuesday. A 32-year-old man fatally shot in the head in the incident.
On Labor Day, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) used Chicago’s gun violence as an example to show gun control does not equate to crime control. He tweeted, “Gun control doesn’t work. Look at Chicago. Disarming law-abiding citizens isn’t the answer. Stopping violent criminals—prosecuting & getting them off the street—BEFORE they commit more violent crimes is the most effective way to reduce murder rates. Let’s protect our citizens.”
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.
Aging sitcom actress Debra Messing deleted a racist tweet promoting the idea that black Trump voters are “mentally ill.”
Over the weekend, the Will and Grace star responded with a big “THANK YOU” to a church sign in Alabama that reads, “A black vote or Trump is mental illness.” The other side of the sign reads, “A white vote for Trump is pure racism.”
This racist tweet came just a few hours after Messing and her Will and Grace co-star, Eric McCormack, openly called for a blacklist of Trump supporters who work in Hollywood.
After more than a decade of the establishment entertainment media ignoring and dismissing Hollywood’s blacklisting of conservatives, this was newsworthy, the first time the blacklist was openly publicized.
The 51-year-old, whose basement-rated sitcom was just canceled, undoubtedly deleted the tweet after the blowback exposed her naked racism.
A white celebrity on the left @DebraMessing is basically telling black people how to think. Seems like a form of intellectual slavery to me. Liberal policies have hurt black communities around the country and these same people are silent. #RealTalkpic.twitter.com/rRtIOyPcHb
If her open bigotry demanding a list of Hollywood Republicans yesterday wasn’t bad enough, now Debra Messing is endorsing the racist position that all black Trump voters are mentally ill and all white Trump voters are racist. Vile. pic.twitter.com/Kfb4FHv84i
Tolerant: willingness to allow the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with. I’d say that’s on full display by Will & Grace star @DebraMessing as she applauds a sign calling Black Trump voters mentally ill https://t.co/OIbp0RJxOX
Unfortunately, Messing’s racist beliefs are the historical norm in the Democrat Party she calls home.
Anyone with the intellectual courage to look back at the appalling history of the Democrat Party will discover that this is a Party that has spent the last 400 years oppressing black Americans for financial and political purposes. Democrats fought against emancipation during the Civil War, created the Ku Klux Klan afterwards, and then summoned Jim Crow and segregation in the South. By any objective standard, what you have is a Party that has literally spent centuries brutalizing black Americans who threaten their political power, and Messing fits right into this dynamic.
All Debra Messing is doing is what Democrats have been doing since the beginning, only now the plantation is an intellectual one, only now the tactics to against intellectual runaways are dehumanizing language and online bullying.
Imagine believing a black person is mentally ill for supporting a president who has lowered the black unemployment rate to its lowest level in history, who signed criminal justice reform into law, who is taking flaming arrows in the back fighting against an invasion of illegal aliens whose cheap labor disproportionately undermines crucial starter jobs needed in black communities, who backs school choice, and who is at long last a Republican who actually asks for and seeks their vote.
But in order to keep black people “in line,” in order to “control the black mind,” something Democrats have been desperate to do forever, all Debra Messing did was continue a sorry Democrat tradition of “othering,” of public intimidation and harassment.
Between the blacklisting and this, Messing is giving all of us an honest and clear look at who Democrats truly are and why they can never be allowed to grab hold of the levers of power over our lives, most especially black lives.
And let’s not forget that the Democrat’s current frontrunner, Joe Biden, spent the summer praising racial segregationists.
Racial oppression is, sadly, a big part of the Democrat Party’s DNA.
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There’s nothing like the power of dishonest journalism, and don’t think the mass media doesn’t know it.
One of the people Ben Rhodes probably meant when he spoke of 27 year-olds “who know nothing,” named Ben Penn over at Bloomberg, has come up with a dishonest story claiming to prove that a young Trump official named Leif Olson at the U.S. Department of Labor is an anti-Semite. His big scoop (his word, not mine) concerned some doxx-style digging of his on (or maybe an activist tip against), the low-level staffer, followed by an irony-challenged claim that a Facebook post the young man made was his presented evidence of anti-Semitism. It wasn’t true – it actually was the opposite of true – and wiser heads pointed it out. But Olson nevertheless, resigned.
Philip Klein at the Washington Examiner wrote a column exposing just how disgusting the whole story was, noting:
In reality, the Facebook post in question was the opposite of anti-Semitic. It was a clearly sarcastic post from 2016 about Paul Ryan crushing alt-right challenger Paul Nehlen. If the over-the-top language isn’t a tip off, it’s a fairly dead giveaway that Olson refers to Ryan having “suffered a massive, historic, emasculating 70-point victory.”
When one of the commenters suggests Ryan must be a “neocon” and a Jew, Olson, clearly joking, responded, “It must be true because I’ve never heard the Lamestream Media report it, and you know they protect their own.”
And yet Bloomberg used this to tear him down. Ted Frank, a lawyer and friend of Olson (who happens to be Jewish), has a Twitter thread on this disgrace. Frank also notes that “a good man who just moved his family from Texas to engage in public service has his life disrupted.” Even liberal Jonathan Chait, no fan of the Trump administration, acknowledged this was “terribly unfair.”
Has that served to chastise the Ben Rhodes’s finest?
Not in the least. He’s doubling down to defend his dishonest story because he’s happy he got his scalp:
SCOOP: Trump Labor Department’s new sr adviser Leif Olson posted on Facebook that Jewish media “protect their own.” In response to my request for comment on Olson’s anti-Semitic post, @USDOL says they’ve accepted his resignation. https://t.co/68kDvaFn0h
This is the latest in a series of mishaps under the Trump administration personnel vetting system. What makes this one remarkable is that Olson’s Facebook page was public to his non-friends. Any cursory screening of his social media accounts could’ve uncovered the anti-Semitism.
After that, Penn brought up what was really bothering him:
Before public service, he was an appellate atty in Texas advancing core religious conservative causes. Olson sued Houston law recognizing same-sex marriage licenses – even after Supreme Court ruled gay marriage legal nationwide.
Mollie Hemingway pointed out that Penn has a pattern of this kind of obsession.
After that, Penn played the victim:
Nothing says ‘I’m a great journalist’ like defending your garbage journalism by spilling private texts all over your Twitter feed to pretend you’re a victim https://t.co/sXyiBTYuwv
Klein points out that the Trump administration was remiss in forcing the young man out and should have doubled-down in exposing just how dishonest the report was, and certainly should have exonerated Olson. He’s right on that.
Along with Klein, Mollie Hemingway wrote a piece blasting the travesty. So did Rod Dreher, calling it ‘a revolting smear‘ and noting its resemblance to communism.
To cave on this slimey effort to slime an innocent man is very un-Trumpian behavior, raising questions about the competence of the Labor department’s bosses who caved so quickly.
One Twitterer had a good idea for how to make this right – by not just reinstating the man, but at a higher level (can’t find the tweet, will link when I do).
I have an even better one:
President Trump should step in and declare the resignation null and void. The doxxing of low level staffers by a dishonest press reporting a quote out of context in a bid to weaken the Trump administration has gotten out of control.
Regardless of what happens, an incident like this is certain to sour the public just a little bit more on the press with all its double standards (Hellooo, Ilhan Omar!)– and throw fuel to the already-growing public support for the backatcha doxxing of journalists as righteous payback.
There’s nothing like the power of dishonest journalism, and don’t think the mass media doesn’t know it.
One of the people Ben Rhodes probably meant when he spoke of 27 year-olds “who know nothing,” named Ben Penn over at Bloomberg, has come up with a dishonest story claiming to prove that a young Trump official named Leif Olson at the U.S. Department of Labor is an anti-Semite. His big scoop (his word, not mine) concerned some doxx-style digging of his on (or maybe an activist tip against), the low-level staffer, followed by an irony-challenged claim that a Facebook post the young man made was his presented evidence of anti-Semitism. It wasn’t true – it actually was the opposite of true – and wiser heads pointed it out. But Olson nevertheless, resigned.
Philip Klein at the Washington Examiner wrote a column exposing just how disgusting the whole story was, noting:
In reality, the Facebook post in question was the opposite of anti-Semitic. It was a clearly sarcastic post from 2016 about Paul Ryan crushing alt-right challenger Paul Nehlen. If the over-the-top language isn’t a tip off, it’s a fairly dead giveaway that Olson refers to Ryan having “suffered a massive, historic, emasculating 70-point victory.”
When one of the commenters suggests Ryan must be a “neocon” and a Jew, Olson, clearly joking, responded, “It must be true because I’ve never heard the Lamestream Media report it, and you know they protect their own.”
And yet Bloomberg used this to tear him down. Ted Frank, a lawyer and friend of Olson (who happens to be Jewish), has a Twitter thread on this disgrace. Frank also notes that “a good man who just moved his family from Texas to engage in public service has his life disrupted.” Even liberal Jonathan Chait, no fan of the Trump administration, acknowledged this was “terribly unfair.”
Has that served to chastise the Ben Rhodes’s finest?
Not in the least. He’s doubling down to defend his dishonest story because he’s happy he got his scalp:
SCOOP: Trump Labor Department’s new sr adviser Leif Olson posted on Facebook that Jewish media “protect their own.” In response to my request for comment on Olson’s anti-Semitic post, @USDOL says they’ve accepted his resignation. https://t.co/68kDvaFn0h
This is the latest in a series of mishaps under the Trump administration personnel vetting system. What makes this one remarkable is that Olson’s Facebook page was public to his non-friends. Any cursory screening of his social media accounts could’ve uncovered the anti-Semitism.
After that, Penn brought up what was really bothering him:
Before public service, he was an appellate atty in Texas advancing core religious conservative causes. Olson sued Houston law recognizing same-sex marriage licenses – even after Supreme Court ruled gay marriage legal nationwide.
Mollie Hemingway pointed out that Penn has a pattern of this kind of obsession.
After that, Penn played the victim:
Nothing says ‘I’m a great journalist’ like defending your garbage journalism by spilling private texts all over your Twitter feed to pretend you’re a victim https://t.co/sXyiBTYuwv
Klein points out that the Trump administration was remiss in forcing the young man out and should have doubled-down in exposing just how dishonest the report was, and certainly should have exonerated Olson. He’s right on that.
Along with Klein, Mollie Hemingway wrote a piece blasting the travesty. So did Rod Dreher, calling it ‘a revolting smear‘ and noting its resemblance to communism.
To cave on this slimey effort to slime an innocent man is very un-Trumpian behavior, raising questions about the competence of the Labor department’s bosses who caved so quickly.
One Twitterer had a good idea for how to make this right – by not just reinstating the man, but at a higher level (can’t find the tweet, will link when I do).
I have an even better one:
President Trump should step in and declare the resignation null and void. The doxxing of low level staffers by a dishonest press reporting a quote out of context in a bid to weaken the Trump administration has gotten out of control.
Regardless of what happens, an incident like this is certain to sour the public just a little bit more on the press with all its double standards (Hellooo, Ilhan Omar!)– and throw fuel to the already-growing public support for the backatcha doxxing of journalists as righteous payback.
Pro-life Americans believe in the inherent dignity and right to life of every human, regardless of race or ethnicity, declares a hard-hitting essay in the Wall Street Journal Monday.
WSJ writer Bill McGurn cites a tendentious Washington Post op-ed alleging that “antiabortion politics” can provide “cover for white nationalist sentiments” and then goes on to show that the Post has it exactly backwards.
Heading into 2020, the Democrat party has made it clear they support “federally funded abortion on demand up to the moment of birth—and even after birth, if necessary,” McGurn notes, a procedure that overwhelmingly affects blacks and minorities.
“The pro-life proposition is simple: Human life begins at conception, and every human life is equal in dignity and worth, Mc Gurn declares, which is “incompatible with white supremacism.”
“Perhaps that’s why so many African-Americans, especially African-American women, have been leaders in the pro-life cause,” he says.
Black pro-lifers — such as Mildred Jefferson, founding member of the National Right to Life Committee and Kay James, who founded Black Americans for Life — “are treated as if they don’t exist,” he observes.
Catherine Davis of the Restoration Project “notes that the estimated 20 million black abortions since Roe v. Wade in 1973 are more than the entire African-American population in 1960,” McGurn notes.
Yet it was Democrat poster-child Ruth Bader Ginsburg who said that the Supreme Court legalized abortion in part because it was concerned about “growth in populations that we do not want too many of,” McGurn observes, despite her efforts to “walk back her remark because of its plainly eugenic implications.”
“Eugenics have been used to justify abortion from the start,” McGurn writes. “It was Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, speaking of the Negro Project — a campaign to get African-Americans to have fewer children” who worried the “more rebellious members” of the black community might start thinking “we want to exterminate the Negro population.”
The high abortion rate among African-American women “is something people don’t talk about in polite society,” he observes, adding that in New York City, “more black pregnancies end in abortion than in live birth.”
The real white supremacists “understand and celebrate this” because abortion helps weed out “the least intelligent and responsible members of society,” who are disproportionately “Black, Hispanic and poor,” McGurn says, citing AltRight.com.
Pro-lifers, on the other hand, speak out on behalf of African-American babies, and not only. “They also speak for the unborn child with Down syndrome, for the child conceived in rape or incest, for the unplanned pregnancy that will undeniably crimp any career plans a mother might have if she carries the baby to term,” McGurn states.
“But no pro-lifer ever said life is easy. We say life is beautiful,” he concludes.
Colorado College announced last week that they will be dropping the SAT and ACT tests from its list of requirements for admission, to “increase the diversity of its student body.”
According to a press release, Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado, will be dropping their standardized testing requirement. Prior to the change, all students were required to submit an SAT or ACT score in order to qualify for admission. Now, students will be permitted to apply with just their high school transcript.
Colorado College claims that the decision to make SAT and ACT scores optional will “increase the diversity of its student body.”
Colorado College Assistant Professor of Psychology Kevin Holmes claims that standardized tests like the SAT and ACT are not perfect indicators of how students will perform in college. “Standardized test scores do not always reflect the academic potential of students from disadvantaged backgrounds,” Holmes said. “The new test-optional policy removes a barrier to admission for these students.”
Mark Hatch, Colorado College’s vice president for enrollment reminded critics that standardized test scores are only one factor in the holistic review process that determines whether or not a candidate is admitted. “Test scores are only one of many criteria that are considered in an applicant’s academic portfolio,” Hatch said.
The decision to make the SAT optional at Colorado College is just one of many decisions in a larger trend against challenging stressed-out students. Breitbart News reported in November 2016 on a Yale professor that decided to make a midterm exam optional for students that were upset over Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election.
In April 2019, Breitbart News reported that one version of the SAT test asked students to answer questions about a column penned by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT). The College Board, the organization responsible for writing the SAT test, claimed that students had previously been asked to analyze writings by President Ronald Reagan, Senator Ted Cruz, and Representative Darrell Issa.
