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It’s the middle that’s been holding back the tide of the left and they’re trying to suborn that. Via Free Beacon: Liberal billionaires George Soros and Scott Wallace are helping bankroll a new fund hosted by an intricate dark money organization and focused on helping Democrats make inroads with midwestern voters for the 2020 elections. […]
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The most potent concentration of flaming batshit crazy over the weekend has been in San Francisco where the California Democrats held their annual convention.
Aspiring 2020 potential candidates had to make the journey into the feces-strewn city that is literally the definition of an American shithole where they made their case to the most extremist elements of a party that has gone completely off the rails.
Unfortunately, former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper who is one of the nearly two dozen zanies crammed into the bursting at the seams clown car didn’t make a convincing case to the freaks and as a result, may the first one voted off the island once the primary season kicks off – if he even makes it that far.
Never one to be accused of moderation, Hickenlooper nonetheless chose to go off the reservation when he spoke the blasphemy that socialism is not the answer which did the amazing trick of making him look like the only rational candidate.
Which is why he was nearly booed off the stage.
Democrat John Hickenlooper:
“Socialism is not the answer”
“We shouldn’t try to achieve universal coverage by removing private insurance from 150 million Americans”
“We shouldn’t try to tackle climate change by guaranteeing every American a gov job”
Crowd boos loudly each time pic.twitter.com/Q3Oosgd8Wf
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) June 1, 2019
Via The San Francisco Chronicle, “‘Socialism is not the answer,’ Hickenlooper tells booing California Democrats”:
It wasn’t a message many of the California Democratic Party convention delegates were eager to hear.
Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, one of 14 presidential candidates speaking to the convention in San Francisco, styles himself as a moderate. When he got his turn Saturday, he told the delegates in the Moscone Center, “If we want to beat Donald Trump and achieve big progressive goals, socialism is not the answer.”
He smiled as a sustained round of boos rained down.
He was booed a second time when he said the country should strive for universal health care without eliminating private insurance.
Hickenlooper was followed by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who received a big reaction when he opened with the line, “I am the governor who doesn’t think we should be ashamed of our progressive values.”
In an interview after his speech, Hickenlooper said he did not come to San Francisco hoping to be booed.
But booed that he was and the next time that he speaks before a crowd of America hating leftist communist sympathizers, they will be better prepared and will likely pelt him with garbage and urine and feces bombs.
He has zero chance at winning the nomination but at least give the guy some credit for telling the truth.
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It’s no secret that Twitter censors and shadow-bans conservatives.
The Gateway Pundit has reported on this extensively over the past few years.
In July 2018 we reported that a study by the leftist website VICE News found that Twitter is censoring top pro-Trump lawmakers. Twitter is targeting pro-Trump Republican lawmakers Matt Gaetz, Devin Nunes, Mark Meadows, Jim Jordan and John Ratcliffe with the same shadowbanning technique.
Twitter is also censoring prominent pro-Trump accounts including: Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobiec, Paul Joseph Watson, TGP’s Jim Hoft, TGP’s Cassandra Fairbanks and Laura Loomer among others.
Last year Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) told the Daily Caller Foundation on Wednesday he is considering filing a FEC complaint over Twitter’s preferential treatment of liberals versus its censoring of prominent conservatives.
In July there was even video proof that President Trump’s Twitter page is being censored.
The President has over 57 million followers on his account but rarely does he receive more than 20,000 retweets or 100,000 likes on his tweets.
Now a new study at Quillette by Professor Richard Hanania at Columbia University found that Twitter censors conservatives over liberals at a 21 to 1 ratio.
But it’s not just in the US where Twitter destroys free speech.
Over the past several weeks Twitter has been suspending accounts of Chinese dissidents in the run-up to the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
According to Tech Crunch:
Twitter has suspended a large number of Chinese-language user accounts, including those belonging to critics of China’s government. It seems like a particularly ill-timed move, occurring just days before thirtieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre on June 4.
“A large number of Chinese @Twitter accounts are being suspended today,” wrote Yaxue Cao, founder and editor of the U.S.-based publication China Change. “They ‘happen’ to be accounts critical of China, both inside and outside China.”
Twitter responded saying the deletion of the dissident accounts was an accident.
It’s clear that Twitter has chosen sides. And it’s not with those who promote freedom at home or abroad.
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The video was posted to Facebook anonymously by the Trump supporter, who the Daily Beast identified as Shawn Brooks, a black forklift driver and Trump supporter from the Bronx.
By doxing Brooks, The Daily Beast followed the example of CNN, which threatened to unmask an anonymous Trump supporter over a parody video, forcing to him apologize in exchange for not revealing his identity. The scandal caused “CNNBlackmail” to trend on Twitter.
But there’s another aspect to the Daily Beast story which has major implications for the privacy of Facebook users — according to the Daily Beast reporter himself, Facebook gave him information on Brooks’ activity on the platform.
It’s conceivable that someone else actually edited the clip. But a Facebook official, confirming a Daily Beast investigation, said the video was first posted on Politics WatchDog directly from Brooks’ personal Facebook account. [emphasis ours]
If the Daily Beast’s description of Facebook’s actions is accurate, Facebook compromised the privacy of one of its users, handing over information on his activity to a journalist who was clearly engaged in a politically motivated hatchet-job.
Facebook has been rocked by repeated privacy scandals over the past two years, including giving major corporations access to user data without permission. CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently unveiled a re-branding effort emphasizing the company’s commitment to protecting the privacy of its users.
“I believe that the future is private,” Zuckerberg said at a recent Facebook conference.
Even left-wing feminist Caroline Orr, who described the Pelosi parody as “disgusting” (it’s simply a video of Pelosi slowed down to make her words appear slurred), expressed shock at the idea of Facebook handing over private information about its users.
So … it appears that Facebook helped the reporter who wrote this story identify the person behind the doctored video of Nancy Pelosi — i.e., Facebook used its own internal data to help publicly identify a private citizen.
That’s extremely troubling. 1/ https://t.co/DEXXL8C4uj
— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) June 2, 2019
“It appears that Facebook helped the reporter who wrote this story identify the person behind the doctored video of Nancy Pelosi — i.e., Facebook used its own internal data to help publicly identify a private citizen” wrote Orr.
“That’s extremely troubling.”
Facebook confirmed to the reporter that the video was first posted “directly from Brooks’ personal Facebook account.”
So… Facebook is handing over information to reporters regarding what people are doing on their personal Facebook accounts? 2/ pic.twitter.com/7D6MDcU5Es
— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) June 2, 2019
“Facebook confirmed to the reporter that the video was first posted “directly from Brooks’ personal Facebook account.”
“So… Facebook is handing over information to reporters regarding what people are doing on their personal Facebook accounts?”
“The guy didn’t break any laws. He didn’t even violate any of Facebook’s policies, according to the company. The doctored video is still up! In Facebook’s eyes, this guy did nothing wrong — yet they just handed over his private data to a reporter. How is that justifiable?”
Breitbart News has reached out to Facebook for its side of the story.
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The Supreme Court rejected a case regarding school policy in a district which allows transgender students to use bathrooms of their choice.
On Tuesday, the Supreme
Court denied cert to Doe v. Boyertown Area School District, a case concerning a
gender identity bathroom and locker room policy at a Pennsylvania high school.
In declining to take up the case, The Supreme Court let stand the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit’s decision, which dismissed the concerns of students who did not wish to share intimate spaces with members of the opposite sex.
As long as this policy
remains in place, the problems with the policy remain too. High school girls
like Alexis Lightcap will continue to have to share women’s spaces with
biological males.
“I don’t want a man in the bathroom with me. I’m already uncomfortable in my body, trying to grow up,” said Lightcap. “I have a thirteen-year-old sister who goes to this school. I don’t want her going into a bathroom where a male is allowed to just walk in there.”
“I wish that the school
had protected my privacy somehow. It felt like a specific group of people were
protected while the greater population was not,” Lightcap said.
Policies like the one at
Boyertown Area School District leaves girls vulnerable to emotional trauma–or
worse. At a school in Decatur, Georgia, a gender identity bathroom policy
similar to the one at Boyertown enabled a boy who identifies as gender fluid to sexually
assault a kindergarten girl.
Girls deserve to feel
safe and have privacy in women’s only spaces.
Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg understood this. When she penned the majority opinion requiring Virginia Military Institute
to admit women, she stipulated that VMI
would need to “afford members of each sex privacy from the other sex in living
arrangements.”
Why? As she wrote in an op-ed at The Washington Post while she was a law professor at Columbia, “Separate
places to disrobe, sleep, perform personal bodily functions are permitted, in
some situations required, by regard for individual privacy. Individual privacy,
a right of constitutional dimension, is appropriately harmonized with the
equality principle.”
Privacy and equality are
not mutually exclusive. In fact, upholding the former is essential to
preserving the latter—especially for women.
The #MeToo movement is a
prescient reminder that women still face unique social challenges. Taking away
women’s privacy from the male form and the male gaze directly by forcing them
to share spaces with males is a step backwards in the fight for equality.
This problem is not going
anywhere. As Ginsburg pointed out in her VMI opinion, “[p]hysical differences
between the sexes are enduring,” and quoting Ballard v. United States, “[t]he
two sexes are not fungible.”
The difference between
the sexes is here to stay; so too are the problems with gender identity
policies like the one at Boyertown.
Everyone deserves privacy
and safety in private facilities. However, one-size-fits-all policies like Boyertown’s
fail to take into account the very real needs of countless girls.
Better solutions exist.
In the absence of a Supreme Court decision, it is on school administrators to
find them.
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Former President Barack Obama told a crowd in Brazil Thursday that U.S. gun laws “don’t make sense” because people can buy “any weapon, any time.”
Obama’s remarks came during an interview at VTEX DAY, a conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil, after he was asked to describe his hardest day as president.
“The most difficult day that I’ve had was the day that there was a shooting in a school where 20 small children were shot,” he said.
“Some of you may be aware, our gun laws in the United States don’t make much sense. Anybody can buy any weapon, any time without much, if any, regulation. They buy it over the internet. They can buy machine guns.”
U.S. Federal firearms laws are stricter than Obama represented. Gun purchasers must be at least 18 for rifles and shotguns, and 21 for handguns, and pass a background check if they buy from a dealer, according to the National Rifle Association.
In addition, fully automatic machine guns cannot be sold to private citizens, as written in the National Firearms Act.
Obama’s comments about guns are timely for Brazil. In January, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro issued a temporary decree that expands access for people to buy and carry guns, according to the Daily Mail.
“Having to speak to parents who had lost a child just a day or two after it had happened, and not being able to assure them that…that would change, that we would fix this. I couldn’t bring their children back but I couldn’t even promise them that we would change the laws so this didn’t happen to somebody’s children.”
“That was the day that was emotionally most difficult for me,” he added.
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Socialism is the zombie ideology of our era: It fails everywhere,
and yet it keeps rising back from the dead.
Despite embarrassing socialist failures in China, Russia, North Korea,
Cuba, and now Venezuela, the true believers march onward. Good intentions are
unassailable. The revolution must go on.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., arguably has done more than any other
living American to market socialism to the next generation. And with Rep.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., following closely in his wake, rest assured
we’ll be contending with socialism for years to come.
A recent Gallup survey shows that their message is resonating with more and more Americans.
While 51% say socialism would be bad for America, 43% say it would
be good. And notably, among the 18-34-year-old cohort, 58% favor socialism
while 37% disfavor it.
Those numbers hang like a dark cloud over America’s future, but
they don’t tell the whole story.
Interestingly, according to Gallup, Americans still favor the free
market over government in multiple areas, including technological innovation,
health care, and even basic things like wages, distribution of wealth, and the
economy overall. And the comparison isn’t even close.
By contrast, Americans favor government over free markets when it comes to protecting consumers’ online privacy and environmental protection.
This creates quite a mixed picture, even a contradictory one. As a
matter of simple math, there have to be millions of Americans who say they
favor some form of socialism, yet favor the free market in general when it
comes to certain aspects of their lives.
How can that be?
As it turns out, Americans define “socialism” in quite different
ways. Traditionally, socialism has meant government ownership of the means of
production—businesses, factories, etc. But today, only 17% of Americans hold
that definition, according to Gallup. Meanwhile, 23% equate socialism with
vague notions of social equality. Another 23% have no opinion on the matter.
So, the public meaning of “socialism” today is indeterminate,
meaning that public opinion toward “socialism” doesn’t tell us very much about
people’s policy preferences.
But even if it did tell us a lot, public opinion isn’t the surest
predictor of what will pass in Washington. After all, big-government policies
have often passed in spite of public disapproval.
Obamacare is case-in-point here. At the height of the Obamacare
debate in 2010, 59% of Americans disapproved of the bill while just 39% approved. That didn’t stop Obamacare
from passing with a supermajority in the Senate.
We should also recall that big-government policies have often come
in moments of great national crisis. These moments are often exempt from the
dominant themes in public opinion.
Polling trends may be stable in a free-market direction, but when
a moment of crisis comes, the public often tolerates—and even demands—immediate
action from the government.
That usually translates into an expansion of government.
This happened in both the Great Depression and the Great Recession
following the 2007 financial crisis. A host of new programs were created that
had little to do with immediate economic recovery—yet they became entrenched
parts of the federal government and remain with us to this day.
What’s more, Americans have come to assume these programs are
legitimate functions of the federal government. The status quo trains us in
what is acceptable, so once a policy becomes enshrined in law, it’s very hard
to get rid of. That makes staving off such policies in the first place all the
more urgent.
Today’s fight over socialism is in large part a branding war. The
left constantly rebrands itself. In the mid-20th century, progressives decided
to adopt the word “liberal,” since “progressive” had fallen into disrepute. The
same thing eventually happened to the word “liberal,” so now, they’re back to
the word “progressive.”
We see this with socialism, too. America’s avowed socialists know
the word “socialism” is radioactive in America, so they’ve championed their
policies in terms of “fairness” and “equality” while allowing socialist
ideology to color those terms.
Such is the strategy with Sanders’ “Medicare for All” bill, a proposal
that would allow the government to take over American health care, putting us
in league with Canada and the U.K. The bill polls surprisingly well with the
public (56% approve) until respondents learn that the
bill would abolish private insurance. Then, support plummets to 37%.
That’s why the fight for truth in policymaking is so important—and
why the left’s branding tricks are so pernicious.
Americans still have a gut instinct in favor of freedom and the
free market, as shown in the details of the Gallup survey. Conservatives should
use that to their advantage by dismantling the left’s branding charade.
The truth of each policy proposal must be placed into the light of
day—because once such bills pass, America will “find
out what’s in it.” Once that happens, yesterday’s
fringe view could become the new normal.
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“We Build the Wall” released two absolutely shocking videos on Saturday night.
The first video is of “Foreman Mike” at the construction site in Sunland Park, New Mexico west of El Paso, Texas.
This past week and over the Memorial Day Weekend the “We Build the Wall” organization led by founder and organizer Brian Kolfage built their first major border wall section on the West Texas-New Mexico border.
Brian Kolfage and “We Build the Wall” raised over $20 million in private donations from over 260,000 individuals to build a border wall on the US southern border with Mexico. The GoFundMe page was launched after Democrat and Republican lawmakers refused to work with President Trump to secure the border.
In the first video “Foreman Mike” discussed the latest progress on the Sunland Park project. “We Build the Wall” is closing up on their first half mile of wall. They project is approximately 2,300 feet and they have 350 more feet to go to finish the project.
The construction team has used over 600 concrete trucks so far. They are also pouring concrete for a 25 foot speedway behind the all for Border Patrol agents.
Border Patrol officials say the current project when complete will cut off 19 different foot trails on Mount Cristo Rey on the border. The cartels are bringing $100,000 to $200,000 in drugs each day through the open border in this area.
Mike added this on the effectiveness of the current project, “When I got here 17 days ago there were 450 people a night crossing. When equipment started arriving it went to 300. When manpower started working we went down to 200. When we started placing the bollards it went from 70 to 30 to 0. We’ve had no crossings in the last 8 days.”
Then Mike added this on the very security situation, “We have military clad specialists from the cartels probing our line. The only thing stopping them is our specialists in the hills counteracting with them. We expect to be completed late, late, late this evening or early tomorrow with the first segment of the wall. “
When asked about the security needed to deal with the drug cartels, Mike replied, “It’s extremely dangerous. They got within 15 feet of the escavators last night. They’re coming down and trying to probe against the new wall… We have approximately 15 guards on post, armed security individuals.”
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It’s all downhill now for Robert Mueller and the very costly report fashioned by his team of Trump-hating lawyers. They have been exposed as propagandists attempting to falsely implicate President Trump’s team in obstruction of justice by doctoring a transcript of a telephone call, omitting exculpatory words.
Because they were paid tens of millions of dollars by taxpayers to accurately assess the Russia hoax charges 
only to come up with nothing, obstruction was their fallback option to fuel impeachment talk among House Democrats and thereby obstruct the performance of the duties of the presidency by the elected incumbent, Donald John Trump. But now we can plainly see that they stacked the deck out of sheer animus to the president.
On Friday, following an order from Judge Emmet Sullivan, who is tasked with sentencing General Michael Flynn for his guilty plea in a dubious process crime the Mueller Team charged him with, the government filed “on the public docket ‘the transcript of the voicemail recording’ from President Trump’s attorney John Dowd to Michael Flynn.” That recording — in doctored form — had been part of the Mueller Report section on obstruction of justice. The first to notice the discrepancy between the report’s version and the actual transcript was Rosie Memos:
Once again #MuellerReport edited messages to make them appear more damaging, full transcript of this phone call reveals Dowd’s message was pretty typical for a lawyer and he clearly states he’s not interested in any confidential info. What else did they manipulate🙄 pic.twitter.com/7JHRzgmh3Y
— Rosie memos (@almostjingo) May 31, 2019
Now that we know that the Mueller team was willing to cover up relevant facts in order to make it appear that something possibly illegal took place, there can be no more trusting of any parts of its report.
No wonder Robert Mueller doesn’t want to testify before Congress. Too bad. He can still get subpoenaed and compelled to answer questions under oath.
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It’s all downhill now for Robert Mueller and the very costly report fashioned by his team of Trump-hating lawyers. They have been exposed as propagandists attempting to falsely implicate President Trump’s team in obstruction of justice by doctoring a transcript of a telephone call, omitting exculpatory words.
Because they were paid tens of millions of dollars by taxpayers to accurately assess the Russia hoax charges only to come up with nothing, obstruction was their fallback option to fuel impeachment talk among House Democrats and thereby obstruct the performance of the duties of the presidency by the elected incumbent, Donald John Trump. But now we can plainly see that they stacked the deck out of sheer animus to the president.
On Friday, following an order from Judge Emmet Sullivan, who is tasked with sentencing General Michael Flynn for his guilty plea in a dubious process crime the Mueller Team charged him with, the government filed “on the public docket ‘the transcript of the voicemail recording’ from President Trump’s attorney John Dowd to Michael Flynn.” That recording — in doctored form — had been part of the Mueller Report section on obstruction of justice. The first to notice the discrepancy between the report’s version and the actual transcript was Rosie Memos:
Once again #MuellerReport edited messages to make them appear more damaging, full transcript of this phone call reveals Dowd’s message was pretty typical for a lawyer and he clearly states he’s not interested in any confidential info. What else did they manipulate🙄 pic.twitter.com/7JHRzgmh3Y
— Rosie memos (@almostjingo) May 31, 2019
Now that we know that the Mueller team was willing to cover up relevant facts in order to make it appear that something possibly illegal took place, there can be no more trusting of any parts of its report.
No wonder Robert Mueller doesn’t want to testify before Congress. Too bad. He can still get subpoenaed and compelled to answer questions under oath.
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The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has produced a summary report showing key performance measurements of America’s economy during the eight years of Obama/Democrat malfeasance. It’s another trip through the looking glass where everything that should be up is down while everything that should be down is up, and in the case of student loans, food stamps and federal debt, up stratospherically. Here’s the snapshot from Gateway Pundit:
When your liberal friends and relatives go on a silly rip about how great Obama’s economy was, whip this out—and be sure to point out that these numbers aren’t from a Republican source, but rather are analyses from the politically independent Federal Reserve, performing one of their assigned federal functions. Gaze upon these graphs for a while and contemplate whether or not the Obama administration was embarked upon a Cloward-Piven strategy to bring this nation to such a precarious and perilous financial state as to justify a massive federal seizure of local programs and local governance, centralizing all power in Washington, DC, the Democrat dream.
We dodged a bullet by keeping Hillary Clinton from continuing this destructive social, financial and amoral race to the abyss. Many of us reluctantly voted for Trump in 2016 as the lesser of two evils. We shall vote for him in 2020 as the savior of this great nation that Obama couldn’t kill.
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has produced a summary report showing key performance measurements of America’s economy during the eight years of Obama/Democrat malfeasance. It’s another trip through the looking glass where everything that should be up is down while everything that should be down is up, and in the case of student loans, food stamps and federal debt, up stratospherically. Here’s the snapshot from Gateway Pundit:
When your liberal friends and relatives go on a silly rip about how great Obama’s economy was, whip this out—and be sure to point out that these numbers aren’t from a Republican source, but rather are analyses from the politically independent Federal Reserve, performing one of their assigned federal functions. Gaze upon these graphs for a while and contemplate whether or not the Obama administration was embarked upon a Cloward-Piven strategy to bring this nation to such a precarious and perilous financial state as to justify a massive federal seizure of local programs and local governance, centralizing all power in Washington, DC, the Democrat dream.
We dodged a bullet by keeping Hillary Clinton from continuing this destructive social, financial and amoral race to the abyss. Many of us reluctantly voted for Trump in 2016 as the lesser of two evils. We shall vote for him in 2020 as the savior of this great nation that Obama couldn’t kill.
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