The Humanitarian Hoax of the 2019-2020 Equality Act

The Humanitarian Hoax is a deliberate and deceitful tactic of presenting a destructive policy as altruistic. The humanitarian huckster presents himself as a compassionate advocate when in fact he is the disguised enemy.

The Humanitarian Hoax of the 2019-2020 Equality ActThe 116th Congress 2019-2020 Equality Act is a Democrat bill prohibiting discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity in multiple areas including public accommodations and facilities, education, federal funding, employment, housing, credit, and the jury system. Sounds great – what’s the problem?

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PRAGER: America, Google And Me: My Senate Speech

Last week, at the invitation of Sen. Ted Cruz, I spoke to the Senate Judiciary Committee about Google’s having placed more than 60 Prager University videos on its restricted list. Any family that filters out pornography and violence cannot see those particular videos on YouTube (which is owned by Google); nor can any school or library.

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Out of power, out of ideas, and with no goodies to dispense, Democrats turn on each other

Democrats are turning on each other. Out of money, out of ideas, zero accomplishments, and with no goodies to dispense, they are now moving into a full-blown hatefest against one other. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her squad, it turns out, were just the least of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s problems.

Here’s the dumpster fire going on with angry black and Latino representatives effectively accusing the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the group charged with holding the House for the Democrats, of racism, according to Politico:

Senior Hispanic and black members of Congress have privately clashed with Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.) over her personnel decisions, what they say are tone-deaf comments on race and whether she’s lived up to the promises she made during the campaign to win the chairmanship of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

“There is not one person of color — black or brown, that I’m aware of — at any position of authority or decision-making in the DCCC,” said Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio), a former chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus. “It is shocking, it is shocking, and something needs to be done about it.”

Bustos sought a meeting with Fudge, and Fudge said no.

“Until they show me they are serious about diversity, there’s no reason for me to meet with them,” Fudge said.

And Fudge isn’t alone. Interviews with more than two dozen Democratic lawmakers, aides and strategists detailed months of frustration and unanswered questions about Bustos’ efforts to retain staffers of color in top positions, boost Latino voter outreach and hire firms run by people of color. They said Bustos was tactless when challenged by lawmakers of color.

“The overall plan for Latino outreach seems to be some 1980s playbook, which doesn’t work anymore,” Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) said.

So it’s not about winning, it seems, it’s about winning with the right color of people on staff that’s what’s important. As if one person could perform the job as well as the next one, so get the chocolate box right. This is some amazing bean-counting, focused less on actual winningm which would mean more black and Latino seats in Congress, than it is on the meta-process, on how the winning is done. This is how far-left splinter groups, turning inward on themselves, behave. Far-left communist groups always spew their biggest rage on internal dissenters, which is one reason why they never get anywhere in politics, they are always focused very intensely upon themselves. As I have argued earlier, the Democratic Party is becoming DSA-ified, and apparently, the phenomenon is extending well beyond DSA catspaw Ocasio-Cortez. Even the Democratic consultants on the outside are growing angry, yelling racism, too.

And it’s not all that surprising. Grandstanding about Getting Trump has turned out to be a fast road to nowhere with voters. Democrats have wasted their two years in office, spending so much time thwarting President Trump’s reasonable requests on border security as well as promoting the now-collapsed Russian collusion narrative that they have not gotten around to passing much legislation, certainly nothing they can brag about. They haven’t even bothered to secure goodies for their districts, a Democrat speciality. In the absence of any record they can point to with pride, the donor money has dried up, diminishing the party further. All of that acts to reduce their prospects for more of this nonsense in the coming election.  Now they’re busying themselves with accusations of racism within their own group, sending a message to the voters that all they are interested in is looking at themselves. They’re naval gazing, except by color. And they’re getting pretty public, just as the Ocasio-Cortez – Pelosi fight got real public.

What’s more, Fudge is not the lightweight born-yesterday flash in the pan that Ocasio-Cortez is, she’s a substantial established black congrresswoman who’s often called ‘respected’ in the press. For Pelosi and her DCCC to have Fudge on their backs is a real problem, probably a bigger one than the fringy freshman squad. 

And for grizzled old Grijalva to be calling the Democratic playbook something out of the 1980s is pretty damning, too. It highlights again that Democrats are out of ideas.

For Republicans, it’s all good. The infighting is a signal that the path is clear toward retaking the House in 2020. A rival party that hates itself that badly is a party that offers nothing to voters. It’s time to throw them out. 

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Democrats are turning on each other. Out of money, out of ideas, zero accomplishments, and with no goodies to dispense, they are now moving into a full-blown hatefest against one other. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her squad, it turns out, were just the least of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s problems.

Here’s the dumpster fire going on with angry black and Latino representatives effectively accusing the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the group charged with holding the House for the Democrats, of racism, according to Politico:

Senior Hispanic and black members of Congress have privately clashed with Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.) over her personnel decisions, what they say are tone-deaf comments on race and whether she’s lived up to the promises she made during the campaign to win the chairmanship of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

“There is not one person of color — black or brown, that I’m aware of — at any position of authority or decision-making in the DCCC,” said Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio), a former chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus. “It is shocking, it is shocking, and something needs to be done about it.”

Bustos sought a meeting with Fudge, and Fudge said no.

“Until they show me they are serious about diversity, there’s no reason for me to meet with them,” Fudge said.

And Fudge isn’t alone. Interviews with more than two dozen Democratic lawmakers, aides and strategists detailed months of frustration and unanswered questions about Bustos’ efforts to retain staffers of color in top positions, boost Latino voter outreach and hire firms run by people of color. They said Bustos was tactless when challenged by lawmakers of color.

“The overall plan for Latino outreach seems to be some 1980s playbook, which doesn’t work anymore,” Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) said.

So it’s not about winning, it seems, it’s about winning with the right color of people on staff that’s what’s important. As if one person could perform the job as well as the next one, so get the chocolate box right. This is some amazing bean-counting, focused less on actual winningm which would mean more black and Latino seats in Congress, than it is on the meta-process, on how the winning is done. This is how far-left splinter groups, turning inward on themselves, behave. Far-left communist groups always spew their biggest rage on internal dissenters, which is one reason why they never get anywhere in politics, they are always focused very intensely upon themselves. As I have argued earlier, the Democratic Party is becoming DSA-ified, and apparently, the phenomenon is extending well beyond DSA catspaw Ocasio-Cortez. Even the Democratic consultants on the outside are growing angry, yelling racism, too.

And it’s not all that surprising. Grandstanding about Getting Trump has turned out to be a fast road to nowhere with voters. Democrats have wasted their two years in office, spending so much time thwarting President Trump’s reasonable requests on border security as well as promoting the now-collapsed Russian collusion narrative that they have not gotten around to passing much legislation, certainly nothing they can brag about. They haven’t even bothered to secure goodies for their districts, a Democrat speciality. In the absence of any record they can point to with pride, the donor money has dried up, diminishing the party further. All of that acts to reduce their prospects for more of this nonsense in the coming election.  Now they’re busying themselves with accusations of racism within their own group, sending a message to the voters that all they are interested in is looking at themselves. They’re naval gazing, except by color. And they’re getting pretty public, just as the Ocasio-Cortez – Pelosi fight got real public.

What’s more, Fudge is not the lightweight born-yesterday flash in the pan that Ocasio-Cortez is, she’s a substantial established black congrresswoman who’s often called ‘respected’ in the press. For Pelosi and her DCCC to have Fudge on their backs is a real problem, probably a bigger one than the fringy freshman squad. 

And for grizzled old Grijalva to be calling the Democratic playbook something out of the 1980s is pretty damning, too. It highlights again that Democrats are out of ideas.

For Republicans, it’s all good. The infighting is a signal that the path is clear toward retaking the House in 2020. A rival party that hates itself that badly is a party that offers nothing to voters. It’s time to throw them out. 

Image credit: Tim Evanson, via Flickr // CC BY-SA 2.0

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MUST READ: Fired FBI Director James Comey Is Culpable for Numerous Crimes Related to His Leaked Classified Notes On President Trump Alone – Lock Him Up!

Former FBI Director James Comey leaked numerous notes he had taken while Director of the FBI to the media.  These criminal actions should put him behind bars for years to come.  It’s time he’s held accountable.

Disgraced and fired dirty cop James Comey leaked his classified memos to numerous individuals in various entities.  He leaked his memos to the following that we know of: [source]

  1. Andrew McCabe [source]
  2. James Baker [source]
  3. James Rybicki [source]
  4. Daniel Richman [source] Daniel Richman had SGE status with the FBI at the time he leaked Comey’s memos to the NYT [source] Daniel Richman’s Columbia bio page says he “served as a consultant to the Department of Justice” and he is “currently an adviser to FBI Director James B. Comey.” [source]
  5. Patrick Fitzgerald [source]
  6. David Kelly [source]
  7. Benjamin Wittes- Comey’s friend, former aide, and recipient of Comey’s leaks editor-in-chief of the blog Lawfare
  8. James Comey admits to leaking his memo content to the NYT for political purposes [source]

Comey’s actions were criminal when he leaked his memos regarding President Trump to the far-left mainstream media (MSM)

  1. Comey claimed he released his memos in response to a Tweet from President Trump, but Comey’s memos were released prior to the date of the tweet [source]
  2. Comey also lied when he said he gave the memo to the New York Times (Via Daniel Richman) on Monday May 15th. We know this because the NYT article came out on the 11th [source]
  3. Comey claims that he did not consider his memos to be government property: “No, and I didn’t consider it a part of an FBI file…it was my personal memoir,” Comey said of his classified memos [source]
  4. If the Comey memos were not classified information, why were portions redacted? [source]
  5. Former US Attorney General: When Comey Wrote His Notes They Were Classified – Those Were Government Memos [source]
  6. Additionally, his memos were reclassified by the FBI at a later date.
  7. Comey sent his memos to his fellow FBI agents, and he even addressed his fellow agents in his memos.  Did he handle the memos properly at this time?
  8. Likewise, Comey’s transmission of memos to his lawyers about classified conversations he had with Trump are troubling. Those forced the government to send “scrub teams” to recover any classified information that may have been transmitted, according to multiple sources briefed on the operation [source]

Comey is in big trouble just for leaking the information he maintained related to his interactions with President Trump.  He lied numerous times outside of this memo scandal.  He also committed crimes in attempting a coup of our US government.

Comey either goes to jail, along with Hillary, Strzok, Page, Brennan and Obama, or we the people will  march on Washington to demand justice!

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President Trump DESTROYS Corrupt Democrat Elijah Cummings — Calls for Investigation into His “Rat and Rodent Infested” District

On Monday The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust asked the Maryland attorney general to investigate whether Rep. Elijah Cummings and his wife used a charity for improper self-enrichment.

This came after previous reports that a charity run by Maya Rockeymoore, the wife of Rep. Elijah Cummings, received millions from special interest groups and corporations that had business before her husband’s committee.

Earlier this month House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) demanded private emails from Trump Administration officials to determine if they violate record-keeping laws.

Cummings is leading the charge on the continued harassment of President Trump, his family and his associates.

On Saturday President Trump took to twitter to demand an investigation of Rep. Elijah Cummings and his corrupt Maryland district.

President Trump: Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA. As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient & well run, just very crowded. Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place. Why is so much money sent to the Elijah Cummings district when it is considered the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States. No human being would want to live there. Where is all this money going? How much is stolen? Investigate this corrupt mess immediately!

Maybe Cummings never heard the expression — People in glass houses should not throw stones!

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Donald Trump Floats Barack Obama Investigation: ‘Let’s Look into His Book Deal’

President Donald Trump expressed his disappointment with Democrats on Friday for continuing to push the idea of impeachment proceedings, suggesting that the House could investigate former President Barack Obama instead.

“We want to find out what happened with the last Democrat president, let’s look into Obama the way that they’ve looked at me from Day One, they’ve looked into everything that we’ve done,” he said. “They could look into the book deal that President Obama made.”

The president spoke about the possible investigation with reporters at the White House after a signing agreement with Guatemala.

Obama and his wife Michelle famously signed a book deal estimated at $65 million in 2017.

Trump appeared to use the example of the book deal to show that Republicans never took their presidential investigations as far as Democrats do in Congress.

He noted that Republicans were “gentlemen and women” for not harassing Obama and Clinton with subpoenas when they were in the majority, unlike Democrats.

Trump predicted that Republicans would probably take back majorities in the House and keep the Senate in 2020 and the presidency.

He noted that the ongoing march toward impeachment was “politics” in order to rally their base in 2020.

“It’s a disgrace that they’re doing it, they’re doing it for political reasons and most of them, many of them are admitting that it’s politics,” he said.

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Poll: 61% of Americans Believe School Children Should Recite Pledge of Allegiance

A majority of Americans believe that the Pledge of Allegiance should be recited in school classrooms, but the number who support it is down from the 77 percent who felt that way in 2008, with 61 percent in favor today, a Rasmussen Reports poll shows.

Twenty-eight percent oppose children saying the Pledge of Allegiance every school day, and 11 percent were undecided in the poll of 1,000 Americans aked on July 17-18 online and by telephone.

The margin of sampling error in the poll is plus or minus three percentage points.

The Pledge of Allegiance was written in August 1892 by the socialist minister Francis Bellamy, according to an Independence Hall Association website. It was originally published in The Youth’s Companion on September 8, 1892.

It originally said, “I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

In 1923, the words “flag of the United States of America” were added. The revised pledge read: “I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower asked Congress to add the words “under God,” creating the 31-word pledge said today: ”I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

Section 4 of the United States Flag Code states that the pledge “should be rendered by standing at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. When not in uniform men should remove any non-religious headdress with their right hand and hold it at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart. Persons in uniform should remain silent, face the flag, and render the military salute.”

According to the American Legion website: “The Flag Code specifies that any future changes to the pledge would have to be with the consent of the president.”

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Border victory: U.S. and Guatemala sign agreement on asylum-seekers

President Trump’s very good week ended with a surprise announcement on an agreement with Guatemala on asylum-seekers. Late Friday afternoon, President Trump summoned the White House press pool to the Oval Office. He, along with Enrique Degenhart, the Guatemalan minister of government, and acting homeland security secretary Kevin McAleenan announced that a deal has been reached for Guatemala to be a safe third country for migrants seeking asylum en route to the U.S. southern border.

The agreement offers a safe harbor in Guatemala for those who are determined to have legitimate asylum claims. Central Americans arriving in caravans at the U.S. southern border have overwhelmed the American system for those seeking asylum, most specifically Salvadorans and Hondurans. The new system should be in effect in August.

On a call with reporters Friday, McAleenan said the agreement with Guatemala would “be up and running in August,” after the two governments had completed several steps to ratify the deal. Under the agreement, Salvadorans and Hondurans would need to seek asylum in Guatemala, McAleenan said.

“If you have, say, a Honduran family coming across through Guatemala to the U.S. border, we want them to feel safe to make an asylum claim at the earliest possible point,” he said. “If they do instead, in the hands of smugglers, make the journey all the way to the U.S. border, [they would] be removable back to Guatemala.”

President Trump voiced support for such an agreement with Guatemala, as a previous attempt failed.

“We’ve long been working with Guatemala, and now we can do it the right way,” Trump said Friday. He claimed the agreement will put “coyotes and the smugglers out of business.”

He added: “These are bad people.”

This is a sensible move, especially in terms of trying to ease the burdens of overcrowding at the border. The Trump administration sees it as a way to shrink the number of migrants arriving and making asylum claims. It is a step in the right direction, especially given the non-stop complaints from President Trump’s opponents and social justice warriors about conditions at detention facilities. It just makes sense that migrants file a claim in the first country they come to once they are outside of their own.

Last week a deal fell through with Guatemala’s President Jimmy Morales. He was to sign it but the country’s Constitutional Court is on summer recess, therefore unable to issue approval of such an agreement. President Trump, unhappy about the delay, threatened to impose tariffs on Guatemala. And, just like that, there is now a deal. At least a tentative agreement, pending any legal challenges to the designation as a safe third country. If those traveling to the U.S. border don’t first apply for asylum in Guatemala, they will not be eligible for asylum in America. They will be sent back to Guatemala, though, not to their home country.

Kevin K. McAleenan, the acting secretary of homeland security, described the document signed by the two countries as a “safe third” agreement that would make migrants ineligible for protection in the United States if they had traveled through Guatemala and did not first apply for asylum there.

Instead of being returned home, however, the migrants would be sent back to Guatemala, which under the agreement would be designated as a safe place for them to live.

“They would be removable, back to Guatemala, if they want to seek an asylum claim,” said Mr. McAleenan, who likened the agreement to similar arrangements in Europe.

The Spanish text of the deal was released late Friday, calling it a “cooperative agreement regarding the examination of protection claims”, instead of “a safe third country”. This appears to be a decision made by President Morales to get around a court ruling that blocks him from signing such an agreement with the United States without the approval of his country’s congress. Morales leaves office in January and some running to replace him grumble that the next president should be the one making an agreement, not Morales.

Critics point to the dangerous conditions in Guatemala and say that the country can’t provide safe conditions or a fair system of protection for the migrants.

But critics said that the law clearly requires the “safe third” country to be a truly safe place where migrants will not be in danger. And it requires that the country have the ability to provide a “full and fair” system of protections that can accommodate asylum seekers who are sent there. Critics insisted that Guatemala meets neither requirement.

They also noted that the State Department’s own country condition reports on Guatemala warn about rampant gang activity and say that murder is common in the country, which has a police force that is often ineffective at best.

Asked whether Guatemala is a safe country for refugees, Mr. McAleenan said it was unfair to tar an entire country, noting that there are also places in the United States that are not safe.

It may not be perfect but the agreement is a start. Anything, at this point, to ease the burdens and chaos on our southern border is a win.

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