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18-1958 refers to the Parkland shooter, that’s his case number.
Hunter Pollack and his father are focused on school safety and they believe that the gun control focus is distracting from basic safety that can be done to help secure schools with things like armed security, single-point entry and metal detectors.
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Publix grocery store chain is a longtime supporter of conservative causes and has publicly announced its support of Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Putnam, who strongly backs the National Rifle Association.
However, shortly after anti-gun activist David Hogg and other anti-gun protesters staged “die-ins” in Orlando and Coral Springs Florida on Friday, Publix announced it would suspend political donations in the wake of Hogg’s organized protest.
“At Publix, we respect the students and members of the community who have chosen to express their voices on these issues,” the grocery store said in a statement. “We regret that our contributions have led to a divide in our community. We did not intend to put our associates and the customers they serve in the middle of a political debate. At the same time, we remain committed to maintaining a welcoming shopping environment for our customers.
“We would never knowingly disappoint our customers or the communities we serve,” the statement continued. “As a result, we decided earlier this week to suspend corporate-funded political contributions as we reevaluate our giving processes.”
A Publix customer service representative spoke with Gateway Pundit’s Kristinn Taylor Friday and said that the company is only suspending contributions while it reviews the situation and that it is not rescinding any donations.
Hogg is demanding Publix donate $1 million to the Stoneman Douglass student fund.
I call on @Publix to donate double the money they gave to Putman to the Stoneman Douglas Victims fund, $1,000,000. And never support an A rated NRA politician again.
— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) May 24, 2018
The representative assured Gateway Pundit that Publix has not yet decided whether it will provide the $1 million donation .
Publix is one of Putnam’s biggest contributors.
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan group that tracks funding and lobbying efforts, the grocery store donated over $118,000 to Putnam’s campaigns from 1999 to 2012. Putnam, who has served as Florida state agricultural commissioner since 2010, is running in this year’s election to replace Rick Scott as governor.
Putnam is an outspoken supporter of the NRA. He tweeted on July 25, 2017, “The liberal media recently called me a sellout to the NRA. I’m a proud #NRASellout!” He was given an A+ by the NRA in its ratings in 2010, prompting Hogg and his legion of gun control activists to protest Publix.
After the Tampa Bay Times reported Publix donated $650,000 Putnam last week, Hogg started campaigning against Putnam and Publix, calling for a for people to “die in” at the store until it rescinded its endorsement of the candidate.
Anyone who supports an NRA sellout is an NRA sellout. That is why I am calling on everyone to stop shopping at Publix until they pull their endorsement of Putnam publicly. Publix is supporting the inaction after pulse, strozier, Douglas, liberty city. Don’t support an NRA sellout
— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) May 23, 2018
.@Publix is a #NRASellOut
In Parkland we will have a die in the Friday (the 25th) before memorial day weekend. Starting at 4pm for 12 min inside our 2 Publix stores. Just go an lie down starting at 4. Feel free to die in with us at as many other @Publix as possible.— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) May 23, 2018
Hogg’s followers laid in the aisles of Publix grocery stores for 15 minutes on Friday, blocking customers from shopping.
Die-in @Publix by @davidhogg111 and other protesting the grocery chains political contribution to @adamputnam who is backed by @NRA @WPLGLocal10 pic.twitter.com/b8YmaL23Dj
— Todd Tongen (@toddtongen) May 25, 2018
After Publix announced its decision to halt political donations, Hogg tweeted “Together we can do anything.”
Together we can do anything. Together the young people will win by choosing love. pic.twitter.com/TRrfTJL2Wb
— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) May 26, 2018
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Are you a guilty, rich white liberal with a kush government job getting paid to shuffle around papers in some useless bureau for $90,000 a year and harbors internalized racism? Well now you can absolve your white guilt with the new Reparations Happy Hour. That’s right, the aforementioned guilty white liberals can show up to a bar in Portland, Oregon and give away free money to black folks so they can booze it up. I’m sure these white liberals feel a lot better about themselves with that burden of whiteness off their shoulders now.
It’s been four years since Ta-Nehisi Coates made an exhaustive case for reparations in the pages of The Atlantic.
And on Monday, white Portlanders who agree with the idea had the chance to kick in $10 and buy a drink for a neighbor of color. It was an event billed as a “reparations happy hour” by prominent local activist Cameron Whitten, 27, and hosted by Brown Hope, a nonprofit he co-founded.
The premise was simple: Black, brown and indigenous folks could show up and collect $10 at the door donated by their white neighbors. In total, 40 people attended Monday’s event.
“The best part for me was showing up like Portland Oprah and see their eyes light up when I handed them $10,” Whitten said. “Because it was about more than that.”
The reparations happy hour signified the transformation of an idea that progressive Portlanders support into something tangible for the city’s residents of color.
“We do a lot of talking. We do a lot of making excuses,” Whitten said. “But how often do we actually recognize and acknowledge someone’s suffering? We’re so used to being denied any sort of justice that $10 is a respite.”
In fact, the longtime activist, best known for a 55-day hunger strike in front of City Hall to protest housing issues and his presence on the front lines of the many Portland demonstrations during the first year of the Trump administration, recruited seven white allies to fend off possible threats from alt-right groups threatening to disrupt the happy hour.
“We see a lot of folks who want to paint us in a bad light just because black, brown and indigenous people want a safe space,” Whitten said.
The happy hour is just one of many events Whitten and Brown Hope are organizing to address inequality across the city. He’s finalizing details for another event in August. And fundraising is currently in the works for a $2,000 Brown Hope Prize for an individual or group that promotes the organization’s core mission.
“Our goal is to heal from the disease of racism. And we see that happening through deep civic empowerment and through trauma-informed activism,” he said.
The Root adds:
Let’s get drinks, but make it reparations.
To be fair, I’m not certain what that means, but apparently Portland, Ore., is now the place to go if you want to take part in a Reparations Happy Hour, where black attendees get $10 cash, mainly from white donors.
According to Raw Story, the event, which happened for the first time Tuesday night, was thought up by longtime social justice organizer Cameron Whitten and organized through his new group Brown Hope.
“It’s exactly what it sounds like,” Whitten said, according to the site. “What I want to do is end the cycle of exploitation. For black, brown, indigenous people, you face so many barriers, whether it’s tokenization or straight-up poverty.”
Whitten says that several white people donated and signed up to be regular, monthly donors. He’s also gotten donations from black people, too.
“I felt so good. That was my best part of the night, just giving out that money,” he added. “I feel like Oprah—like, fuck, I’m Portland’s Oprah right now. And I want to give more than $10.”
As Raw Story notes, Whitten is known throughout Portland politics. He held a 55-day hunger strike at City Hall over the city’s housing crisis and then exposed the racism within a city housing-advocacy group. In one particularly shocking incident, white activists in the group were caught mocking an indigenous person’s request not to sing “This Land Is Your Land” and locked the individual out of the room and sang the song loudly. The white woman at the head of the housing group ended up resigning because of Whitten’s work.
Whitten was recently fired from the city’s Office of Neighborhood Involvement, an act that he says is a result of racism and for which he is seeking to file a lawsuit, according to Raw Story.
“In Portland in general, when they say ‘people of color,’ they mean light-skin, white-passing Asian and Latino,” he said. “Very often we don’t see black people in charge of things. And we see a lot of anti-blackness.”
“This is a hostile environment,” he added, noting that was why many black friends of his have left the city. “They don’t die physically, but they leave Portland because they’re not getting what they need to nourish their spirit here.”
It is through events like the happy hour that Whitten hopes black and brown people can start to feel more comfortable in the city.
If you’re a guilty white liberal who feels the need to absolve themselves of their whiteness and inner racism, you can donate to Whitten’s organization on their Donor Box page right here.
I suppose the real question is what would happen if Rachel Dolezal and Shaun King walk in and demand a cut of the loot?
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It seems every time the mainstream media throws a tantrum, President Donald Trump ends up winning.
The latest in a long line of media meltdowns involved the president’s description of MS-13 as “animals.”
At first, the press tried to skew or even outright lie about the comment, and falsely reported that Trump had been speaking about all immigrants and not specifically violent gang members.
Even after the media was forced to admit that Trump was answering a question about the infamous El Salvadorian gang, which is known to rape, murder and behead, they continued to criticize his comment.
Numerous pundits ended up essentially siding with the violent gang, while wringing their hands about how calling them “animals” was demeaning and dehumanizing.
You would think gang members cutting off someone’s head would do a pretty good job at dehumanizing themselves, but we digress.
Now, the left-leaning media is being forced to eat crow once again. It turns out that not just conservatives but the majority of all Americans agree with Trump, and had no problem with his remarks.
“Fifty-six percent of American adults in the Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll said referring to members of the gang as ‘animals’ is fair, compared to 44 percent who said the characterization was unfair,” reported The Hill.
Remember, those numbers include people from all over the political spectrum. Amazingly, there were actually more Democrats asked the poll question than Republicans, skewing the result somewhat.
“The Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll online survey of 1,347 registered voters was conducted May 21-22. The partisan breakdown is 37 percent Democrat, 32 percent Republican, 29 percent independent and 2 percent other,” The Hill explained.
Even with that factor giving a slight over-sampling advantage to Democrats, the majority still sided with Trump’s comment.
This is the unacknowledged genius of the president, and the mainstream media keeps playing directly into his hands. Trump says something that he knows the majority of Americans agree with, and uses blunt language like everyday people.
Elitists in the media, increasingly isolated from the citizenry in their own echo chambers, squawk and gnash their teeth. Like moths to a flame, they cannot help but attack Trump… and in the process, begin defending things like MS-13.
The result is that Trump is seen as being on the same page as the people, while the mainstream media paints themselves into a corner and appear even more out of touch and ridiculous than before.
That’s exactly what the commander in chief himself pointed out in a recent tweet discussing both the “animals” controversy and North Korea.
“Democrats are so obviously rooting against us in our negotiations with North Korea. Just like they are coming to the defense of MS 13 thugs, saying that they are individuals & must be nurtured, or asking to end your big Tax Cuts & raise your taxes instead. Dems have lost touch!” he posted.
Say what you want about Trump, but he seems to have an instinct for tripping up his opponents and tuning in to the pulse of the people.
This drives the establishment insane, but it’s incredibly refreshing to see the president — and the American people — vindicated for simply speaking the truth about the world.
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The Florida-based grocery store chain Publix is facing severe backlash after they caved to far-left activist David Hogg and his intimidation tactics on Friday as many customers are now saying they will no longer shop at the store.
Hogg and other far-left activists laid on the floor of the grocery store for 720 seconds – which Hogg falsely claimed is a second for each mass shooting that has happened in the U.S. since the Pulse nightclub massacre – and screamed for a boycott of the store.
The boycott came after it was revealed that the grocery store had donated money to a politician in the past who had described himself as a major advocate for the NRA and the Second Amendment.
Following Publix’s decision to cave to the far-left activists, many people announced that they were no longer going to be shopping at the store:
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President Barack Obama claimed this week that his eight-year administration was free of political scandals. His comments came during a technology conference in Las Vegas.
“I didn’t have scandals, which seems like it shouldn’t be something you brag about. But actually, if you look at the history of the modern presidency, coming out of the modern presidency without anybody going to jail is really good. It’s a big deal,” Obama said, according to Newsweek.
Unfortunately for Obama, his comments don’t stand up to the facts.
Obama and other top members from his administration have made similar claims since President Donald Trump assumed office last January, despite the overwhelming amount of facts that disprove their outright dishonesty.
Even Obama’s messaging has not been consistent. He admitted earlier this year that his administration “didn’t have a scandal that embarrassed us.” At that private event, Obama never disputed his administration had scandals, like he did publicly this week.
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McCain trying to sabotage another campaign same as he did with his.
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In his newly released book, Sen. John McCain admits he knew the anti-Trump dossier that he infamously passed to the FBI contained “unproven accusations,” “mostly raw, unverified intelligence” and allegations about which the senator “had no idea” if “any were true.”
Yet McCain maintains he had an “obligation” to pass the wild charges against Donald Trump to FBI Director James Comey and he would even do it again. “Anyone who doesn’t like it can go to hell,” McCain exclaimed.
In the book The Restless Wave, McCain provides an inside account of how he says he came across the dossier.
He writes that he was told about the claims in the document at a security conference in Canada in November 2016, where he was approached by Sir Andrew Wood, a former British ambassador to Moscow and friend of ex-British spy Christopher Steele, the author of the dossier.
McCain wrote that Wood told him Steele “had been commissioned to investigate connections between the Trump campaign and Russian agents as well as potentially compromising information about the President-elect that Putin allegedly possessed.”
McCain, however, did not address the obvious question of whether he was told exactly who “commissioned” Steele to “investigate” the alleged Russian ties.
The dossier was commissioned by the controversial Fusion GPS opposition research firm, which was paid for its anti-Trump work by Trump’s primary political opponents, namely Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) via the Perkins Coie law firm.
McCain goes on to describe Wood as telling him Steele’s work “was mostly raw, unverified intelligence, but that the author strongly believed merited a thorough examination by counterintelligence experts.”
The politician says the dossier claims described to him were “too strange a scenario to believe, something out of a le Carré novel, not the kind of thing anyone has ever actually had to worry about with a new President, no matter what other concerns.”
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Speaking hours after Hollywood veteran Morgan Freeman was accused of by several women of engaging in “inappropriate behavior,” the 78-year-old was asked his opinion on reports that Freeman could lose multiple endorsements as a result of the allegations.
“No comments on Morgan he’s a good guy,” The Godfather star told a TMZ reporter outside Craig’s restaurant in West Hollywood. “We’re becoming a very strange place. You know, I think that’s why God made men and women, so they could be attracted to each other.”
After decades-old allegations against movie producer Harvey Weinstein were uncovered by The New York Times last October, major figures within Hollywood and other entertainment industries became subject to waves of allegations of sexual harassment.
“Anyone who knows me or has worked with me knows I am not someone who would intentionally offend or knowingly make anyone feel uneasy,” Freeman said in a statement on Thursday. “I apologize to anyone who felt uncomfortable or disrespected — that was never my intent.”
Caan is not the only figure to suggest that the #MeToo movement, at least in some cases, has morphed into a witch hunt. Similar sentiments have also been echoed by the likes of talk show host Tavis Smiley, Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Haneke, and the iconic French actress Catherine Deneuve.
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Remember this guy, Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif? Here he was meeting with John Kerry in 2016 working on the Iran Deal.
Then this past month, shortly before President Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran Deal, it was reported that John Kerry had been holding secret meetings with the Iranians including Zarif as well as many European leaders interfering in American foreign policy. Among other things, he reportedly told them that Trump didn’t represent everyone and that he wasn’t likely to be president much longer.
The Iranians acknowledged that they met with Kerry and seemed to reiterate the script that Kerry had impressed upon him, that they didn’t believe that they had to listen to Trump, that there were other voices in America.
Kerry was essentially violating the Logan Act and undermining U.S. foreign policy to help the Iranians.
But here’s the extra kicker. Here’s ‘moderate’ Javad Zarif, that trustworthy soul, chanting ‘Death to America.’
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After news broke that, on Thursday, a gunman trying to perpetrate a mass shooting in Oklahoma City was stopped by two armed citizens who used their own guns against him, FNC has given the story a substantial amount of attention while ABC and CBS have also run full stories on the event.
But CNN barely touched the story, burying it between 4:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m Eastern in a couple of 25-second briefs Friday morning, while NBC and MSNBC have ignored it entirely.
Fox News Channel first began running briefs on Thursday night during Fox News at Night with Shannon Bream, and, on Friday, correspondent William La Jeunesse followed up by presenting several full reports through the day, including on Special Report with Bret Baier. In all FNC has spent almost 10 minutes on the story across three full reports and five briefs.
On CBS, both CBS This Morning and the CBS Evening News on Friday each devoted a full report of more than two minutes to the event, and ABC’s World News Tonight gave it one and half minutes.
CBS correspondent David Begnaud recalled that the gunman arrived at a restaurant where a children’s birthday party was being held and began shooting, injuring three. He then related an eyewitness account of two men who went back to their vehicles and retrieved handguns to confront the gunman. Begnaud: “Two armed civilians — Bryan Whittle and Juan Carlos Nazario — confronted the gunman. Police say they each grabbed a handgun from the trunk of their vehicles.”
They ended up killing him when he refused to put down his gun.
As MSNBC totally ignored the story, host Stephanie Ruhle did find time for a brief about Parkland survivors trying to sue a gun manufacturer, as well as a full report on another school shooting in Indiana. But a story about armed citizens successfully fighting off a mass shooter was not considered newsworthy.
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