Month: June 2018

The liberal media has declared all-out war on President Donald Trump, evidenced by their incessant and self-righteously indignant negative coverage of virtually everything he says and does.

The latest outrage du jour for the virtue-signaling liberal media is the “zero tolerance” border policy — based on court precedent set in 1997 and clarified in 2016 — that results in illegal immigrant families being temporarily separated when detained and processed following illegal entry into the country.

That policy from the administration has been likened to the vile and despicable acts of the Nazis, and the media has gleefully perpetuated the notion that Trump and his administration have taken delight from splitting up families and throwing children in “concentration camps.”

Along those lines comes the latest magazine cover from TIME — who have a history of slamming Trump on their covers — which juxtaposes a smugly smiling Trump looking down on a sobbing illegal immigrant girl who’d been detained with her mother at the border.

The story behind TIME’s Trump “Welcome to America” cover https://t.co/zTTjFs9leu

— TIME (@TIME) June 22, 2018

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There’s just one big problem with TIME’s cover and accompanying piece — the separation of illegal immigrant families at the border didn’t start with the Trump administration, but occurred under the past few administrations as well, including that of former President Barack Obama.

Conservative Hollywood actor and social media firebrand James Woods said as much when he posted his own modified version of TIME’s magazine cover, which featured Obama walking away from yet another problem that Trump would have to fix.

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— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) June 22, 2018

As the Washington Examiner reported, an Associated Press article covered a lawsuit that alleged abuse and mistreatment by illegal immigrant minors at detention facilities … which occurred during the years Obama was in office.

Of course, the AP went out of its way to not even reference Obama once in the article — though they mentioned Trump no less than four times — even as the article made clear the alleged abuse occurred during 2015-2016.

Furthermore, TIME’s magazine cover in and of itself was extremely misleading.

As was reported by The Daily Wire and many other outlets, the little girl who TIME chose to represent children separated from their parents at the border was in fact never separated from her parents.

In fact, as per the girl’s father who still lives in Honduras, the girl’s mother took the young child and abandoned three other children in her home country so she could seek economic opportunity in America.

When the mother and daughter were detained — and kept together — after crossing the border illegally, she falsely attempted to claim asylum. According to the father, both mother and child were doing well and were in fact much safer now in U.S. custody than they had been traversing Mexico with the aid of “coyote” smugglers and traffickers.

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In the end, TIME’s cover reeks of “fake news” promulgated by an obsessively anti-Trump liberal media that is so consumed with hatred for the president that they refuse to allow inconvenient facts to get in the way of their narrative.

It has, unfortunately, become necessary for individuals like Woods and many others to routinely call out the media for their disgustingly overt bias, as distastefully tedious — though at times hilarious — as that task may often seem.

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Actress and pop megastar Jennifer Lopez spread fake news about President Trump’s border policies by using two hoax-photographs that have nothing to do with America’s decades-old policy of separating illegal alien children from illegal alien adults in detention centers.

Using her Instagram account, Jennifer Lopez published the photograph of a crying child, a photograph that we now know is fake news, a photo that had nothing to do with the separation of children from adults who commit the crime of entering our country illegally. Lopez is basically doing what our irresponsible, anti-Trump establishment media is doing: endlessly broadcasting a hoax.

Actor Tom Arnold jumped to Twitter to claim that he intends to show up at 12-year-old Barron Trump’s New York school and harass the child to protest President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.

In his June 19 tweet, Arnold claimed that he wanted to go to the school because he thought he might see First Lady Melania Trump there with Barron.

Twitter has long seen itself as a noble warrior in the fight against so-called “fake news” — but many people believe the social media site has gone too far.

Whether it’s banning users who dare hold unapproved opinions, restricting users who defend Israel or using a well-known biased source to label certain people “hate groups,” there has been a hint of Orwell’s “1984” in many of their recent decisions.

Now, you can add “The Emperor’s New Clothes” to the list of cautionary tales that Twitter is emulating. Even after the company claimed to be on a crusade against so-called “trolls” and inaccurate news sources, it’s CEO was just revealed to be spreading the same “fake news” he pretends to be against.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey shared over a dozen tweets around the time of the presidential election which originated from an account that investigators now know to be part of a Russian trolling operation.

Dorsey “between late 2016 and mid-2017 shared at least 17 tweets from a Russian troll who went by Crystal1Johnson on Twitter, the Journal’s analysis found,” the respected newspaper stated.

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“The tweets from the Russian account that Mr. Dorsey shared touched on topics including Bob Marley’s son converting a prison into a place to grow marijuana and former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who first sparked the anthem controversy to make a statement on the treatment of African-Americans in the U.S.,” The Wall Street Journal continued.

While Dorsey did not originate the “fake news” tweets, he willingly shared them, despite the fact that they were from unconfirmed news sources known to be connected to the Internet Research Agency, a Russian propaganda effort.

“The Kremlin-aligned Internet Research Agency ran a propaganda campaign in an attempt to sow discord in the U.S. before and after Election Day, prosecutors say,” The Journal reported.

Although media outlets and liberals — most famously Hillary Clinton — tried to pin President Donald Trump’s victory on Russian meddling, a detailed analysis found that the Kremlin was most likely trying to sow seeds of distrust on both sides of the political aisle, and was “trolling for both teams,” you might say.

Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma described the Russian efforts as meant “to create instability and doubt in governments, because they believe they benefit from the chaos and the loss of confidence in U.S. institutions.”

Why American voters need Twitter trolls to lose confidence in U.S. institutions is a mystery; a visit to the local DMV is enough for most people to swear off government entirely.

The revelation about Twitter CEO’s unintentional promotion of Russian “fake news” highlights the big problem with policing speech online: It’s almost impossible to separate “legitimate” opinions from meddling troll posts, even when it’s somebody’s job to know the difference.

A major side effect of setting up complex but flawed algorithms or offices full of human workers to screen and censor speech is that important voices are silenced in the process.

Computers have never been good at detecting the subtle cues that differentiate straight news from satire, and human censors will always have political and personal biases, no matter how much they insist that this isn’t the case.

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When even Twitter’s social justice CEO gets caught sharing “fake news,” one question begs to be asked: Is it time to re-think the way social media companies deal with censorship, and take a much more laissez-faire approach?

The solution, in a word, is freedom. Centralized solutions rarely work, and the beauty of the internet is that crowd-sourced data can be more accurate and up to date than any stuffy old newspaper or slow-moving institution.

Ironically, this is why people flocked to Twitter in the first place: By seeing what groups of people think in real time, patterns emerge and users can be more informed, with more variety of sources, than if they relied on an old-fashioned legacy news source.

Stories can be cross-checked and confirmed or debunked in seconds, without the need for a biased arbiter of truth essentially filtering information for users.

In other words, let freedom work and allow people to screen content for themselves. The battle against “fake news” shouldn’t destroy freedom of speech and diversity of opinions in a blind quest for a goal that was never realistic in the first place.

Each morning, I wake up and wonder just how much more farcical the media’s coverage of illegal immigration will get. Hearsay reports of children being kept in dog cages and having cigarette smoke blown on them? Allegations that detained Hondurans are now being used as forced labor in sugar mines to appease our new insect overlords?

It hasn’t gotten there yet, and I use the word “yet” with the fear and apprehension that those stories aren’t far off. #TheResistance, after all, gets stranger and stranger by the day. And the state of New York is adding to that ridiculously bizarre state.

Those of you who have looked at a map recently (or at all) will have noticed that New York is not on the Mexican border. In fact, it’s a solid 2,000 miles away from our southern neighbor. That’s quite a ways.

Has that stopped Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s liberal satrapy from getting itself stuck in the mire on the issue of illegal immigrants being separated from their children while their cases are adjudicated? Of course not. Precedent be damned — Gov. Cuomo is about to strike a blow for #TheResistance, whether he actually has the legal standing or not. (Spoiler alert: He probably doesn’t.)

Oh, and the people he’s suing on behalf of aren’t even citizens. Just thought I’d throw that one out there, as well.

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“Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced New York State intends to file a multi-agency lawsuit against the Trump Administration on the grounds that the federal government is violating the Constitutional rights of thousands of immigrant children and their parents who have been separated at the border,” a Wednesday news release from the governor’s office reads.

“We now know of more than 70 children who are staying in federal shelters in New York State and that number is expected to increase as other facilities are contacted.”

Yes, 70 children who are housed in federal facilities in the Empire State. That apparently gives Cuomo standing, at least in his eyes. Ay dios mio.

“The Governor is directing the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, the Department of Health and the Office of Children and Family Services to commence legal action against the federal government’s ‘Separation of Families’ policy,” the statement continues.

“Following the callous and inhumane treatment of immigrant families at the border, New York is suing to protect the health and well-being of children being held at least 10 different facilities across the state and at others throughout the nation.”

“The Trump Administration’s policy to tear apart families is a moral failing and a human tragedy,” Cuomo said in the statement. “We will not tolerate the Constitutional rights of children and their parents being violated by our federal government.  New York will act and file suit to end this callous and deliberate attack on immigrant communities, and end this heartless policy once and for all.”

The state’s suit is based on the the 1997 Flores Settlement Agreement, which “set national standards regarding the detention, release, and treatment of all children in immigration detention and prioritizes the principle of family unity. It requires that juvenile immigrant detainees be released from custody without unnecessary delay, or when no appropriate placement is available, be held in the least restrictive setting appropriate to age and special needs.”

The proposed lawsuit doesn’t mention any legal developments since the Flores Agreement, which are of some significance. It was also filed before President Trump signed an executive order allowing families to be detained together, which would end the issue addressed in the lawsuit but also could come with a host of legal challenges on its own. Presumably, Gov. Cuomo can work himself into a towering rage over that, too.

There are a lot of questions raised by this preposterous lawsuit. Where, for example, are illegal immigrants “afforded rights under the United States Constitution to familial integrity,” particularly when they’ve committed a crime? Is that in the director’s cut of the Constitution?

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Furthermore, what legal standing does New York State have when this is happening thousands of miles outside of its jurisdiction involving citizens of Central American countries?

The short answer to this is that none of this matters. Andrew Cuomo — or at least his lawyers — will lose and lose big in court, but this is all about visibility. Cuomo is among the 862 Democrats thought to have a reasonable chance at winning the presidential nomination in 2020, and he needs to be seen as being conspicuously against Trump.

So, even if the lawsuit has less than zero when it comes to merits, that’s not particularly important so long as it aids in Cuomo’s visibility. This will do nothing for illegal immigrants and less for their children, but it will certainly do a great deal for one Andrew Cuomo.