Month: February 2019

The Green New Deal is horribly unrealistic. Even Nancy Pelosi agrees on that one.

It’s also entirely unlikely to be approved, even as a symbolic resolution. If it did, it’s not binding — and if it ever became binding, making America a net-zero greenhouse gas emitter would reduce the global temperature by a whopping 0.14 degrees.

But, according to the Green New Deal’s architect, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, unless you can come up with a better plan, she’s the boss. As conservative actor James Woods pointed out, however, that’s not quite “the way it works in America.”

First, Ocasio-Cortez’s statements regarding criticism of the Green New Deal, which are even more hilarious when you realize they’re coming from someone still defending herself about an FAQ regarding farting cows.

“Like I just introduced the Green New Deal two weeks ago, and it’s creating all of this conversation. Why? Because no one else has even tried. Because no one else has even tried,” she said at a Girls Who Code event in New York City on Friday, according to the Washington Examiner.

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“So people are like, ‘Oh it’s unrealistic. Oh it’s vague. Oh it doesn’t address this little minute thing,’” she continued. “And I’m like, ‘You try. You do it. Cause you’re not. Cause you’re not. So, until you do it, I’m the boss.’ How about that?”

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on the widespread criticism of her Green New Deal: “I’m like, you try. … Until you do it, I’m the boss! How about that?!” pic.twitter.com/vkp15KBttd

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) February 24, 2019

The logic here seems to be this: “Oh, you think I have a bad idea on an issue that inspires a lot of bad ideas? Well, where’s your bad idea on said issue? Huh? Look at me: I’m the captain now.“

Well, surely she didn’t mean that. Maybe there was some context lost, or…

Yup. If you don’t like the #GreenNewDeal, then come up with your own ambitious, on-scale proposal to address the global climate crisis.

Until then, we’re in charge – and you’re just shouting from the cheap seats. https://t.co/h3KSJhHqDN

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 23, 2019

Nope, that’s apparently exactly what she meant.

Actor and conservative icon James Woods noted that there was a bit of a flaw in this argument.

So, you may have missed this, but the way it works in America is YOU work for US. The last time somebody told Americans to sit down and shut up was 1776. If you ever learn to read, look it up. You are not only a idiot, you’re an arrogant idiot, and there is nothing more dangerous https://t.co/5Hn8IoHFn8

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) February 23, 2019

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“So, you may have missed this, but the way it works in America is YOU work for US,” Woods wrote.

“The last time somebody told Americans to sit down and shut up was 1776. If you ever learn to read, look it up. You are not only a idiot, you’re an arrogant idiot, and there is nothing more dangerous.”

Well, dang. But he’s not wrong.

The problem with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s rhetoric on the Green New Deal is that it demands that something along the lines of her legislation must be done, even if the vast majority of Americans would oppose it.

But that’s not how it works. That’s never how any of this works.

Telling people to sit down and shut up won’t get legislation passed. It won’t make us more amenable to a bad piece of legislation. It won’t make conservatives come up with an equally bad piece of legislation on the topic.

It did, however, give James Woods material for an epic tweet — and an opportunity to educate Ocasio-Cortez on 1776.

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Dianne Feinstein caught a lot of flack over the weekend after an out-of-context video went viral. The clip shows Feinstein’s exchange with a bunch of kids from a radical environmentalist group called the Sunrise Movement. The kids demand that Feinstein support the Green New Deal while the Senator does her level best to educate the youngsters on the finer points of the legislative process.

The outraged masses claim that Feinstein was “disrespectful” and “rude” to the children. The full video clearly shows that she was enormously patient, at one point offering an internship to one of the kids. Even the short clip is favorable to Feinstein. She isn’t the one who needs to apologize for her behavior. The impertinence was entirely on the part of the kids, who spent several minutes lecturing and scolding an adult. I’m old fashioned enough to still believe in respecting your elders. The parents of these children have clearly neglected to teach them that crucial lesson.

But the most disturbing thing about the footage, aside from the bratty behavior of those poorly-raised children, is the very real fear you can hear in their voices and see on their faces. They really believe that the world might soon end and the Green New Deal is the only thing that can pull us back from the brink. They believe such nonsense because that’s what the adults in their lives have told them. Environmentalism is a doomsday cult, and millions of kids are being indoctrinated into it.

The high priestess of the cult, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, warns us that the situation is so dire that we should probably stop having kids. That makes sense, I guess, because she also thinks the world is going to end in 12 years. The UN takes a slightly more optimistic view, prophesying mere catastrophe in 12 year’s time, though perhaps not the end of all things.

A climate alarmist with a huge social media following put the prophesy in more colorful terms:

Preventing the Earth from descending into a lifeless husk of a planet in a geological blink of an eye is technologically possible, experts say. But it will require confiscating unearned wealth from billionaires and ending the pointless wars we’ve been fighting for generations.

A lifeless husk? We couldn’t turn the Earth into a lifeless husk if we tried. The Earth is 4.5 billion years old. It has survived asteroids, super volcano eruptions, nuclear blasts, ice ages, and countless other cataclysms. The idea that a couple hundred years of industrialized society could, as they claim, “destroy the planet,” is absurd in the extreme. It’s incredibly arrogant, too. A cosmic scale event is required to destroy a planet. The collapse of a star, a planetary collision, a black hole — these are planet destroyers. Your SUV won’t cut it.

These people are moments away from strapping on sandwich board signs with “THE END IS NEAR” written across in black marker. From there it’s only another step to a bowl of cyanide Kool-Aid. Ocasio-Cortez is the organic Harold Camping, an End Times prophet shouting about Armageddon. Al Gore carried that mantle before her, and there were others before him. When I was a kid, I was told that we’d all soon suffocate because of oxygen depletion due to deforestation. Environmentalists have more failed apocalypse predictions than Jehovah’s Witnesses. And they’re only getting bolder, and louder, and more hysterical as time passes.

Despite all of this madness, it is actually possible to advocate for environmental responsibility, conservation, recycling, and other wholesome practices, without sounding like the Book of Revelation. We cannot and will not “destroy the planet” or turn it into a “lifeless husk” or bring about the end of all existence through cow farts and car exhaust, but we can make our planet a more or less pleasant place to live depending on our stewardship of it. That may not be a very dramatic or attention-grabbing message, but at least it has the benefit of truth and sanity. And it won’t traumatize our children.

President Donald Trump urged Republican Senators on Monday to back his declaration of a State of Emergency at the southern border.

“I hope our great Republican Senators don’t get led down the path of weak and ineffective Border Security,” he wrote on Twitter.

The president reminded them that their voters supported the idea of more physical barriers at the Southern border.

“Be strong and smart, don’t fall into the Democrats ‘trap’ of Open Borders and Crime!” he wrote.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to vote Tuesday on a bill opposing Trump’s declaration of a State of Emergency to help fund his long-promised wall.

Pelosi decried Trump’s action as a Constitutional crisis.

“We battled against a monarchy — we did not intend to establish one in our country,” she said to reporters on Friday

Trump has vowed to veto the bill “100 percent” if it makes it past the Republican-led Senate

“We have a State of Emergency at our Southern Border. Border Patrol, our Military and local Law Enforcement are doing a great job, but without the Wall, which is now under major construction, you cannot have Border Security,” he wrote Monday. “Drugs, Gangs and Human Trafficking must be stopped!”

I hope our great Republican Senators don’t get led down the path of weak and ineffective Border Security. Without strong Borders, we don’t have a Country – and the voters are on board with us. Be strong and smart, don’t fall into the Democrats “trap” of Open Borders and Crime!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 25, 2019

We have a State of Emergency at our Southern Border. Border Patrol, our Military and local Law Enforcement are doing a great job, but without the Wall, which is now under major construction, you cannot have Border Security. Drugs, Gangs and Human Trafficking must be stopped!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 25, 2019

Presenters and winners at Sunday’s Academy Award’s ceremony once again took the opportunity to preach their political opinions, with Hollywood stars lecturing viewers at home on everything from Holocaust-level racism in America today to the importance of immigration.

The annual Oscars ceremony, which took place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, saw both presenters and nominees share their range of politically-charged declarations, further exacerbating the stark divisions that already exist in American society.

Rami Malek

Accepting his Oscar for Actor in a Leading Role for his performance as Queen singer Freddie Mercury, Bohemian Rhapsody star Rami Malek wasted no time in comparing his own life story to that of the troubled singer.

“We made a film about a gay man, an immigrant, who lived his life just unapologetically himself,” he said. “I am the son of immigrants from Egypt. I’m a first-generation American. Part of my story is being written right now, and I could not be more grateful to each and every one of you.”

Best Actor goes to @ItsRamiMalek. “To anyone trying to discover their voice, listen – we made a film about a gay man and immigrant who lived his life unapologetically himself.” https://t.co/AKHT4BwOJ9 #Oscars pic.twitter.com/VyklhSIY6d

— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) February 25, 2019

Spike Lee

Accepting the Oscar for “Best Adapted Screenplay” for his film, BlacKkKlansman, Lee discussed the legacy of slavery and called on people to “mobilize” against President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.

“Four hundred years [ago], our ancestors were stolen from all over Africa and brought to Jamestown, Va., enslaved,” Lee said. “Before the world tonight, I give praise to our ancestors who helped build this country.”

“The 2020 presidential election is around the corner. Let’s all mobilize,” he continued. “Let’s all be in the right side of history. Make the moral choice between love versus hate. Let’s do the right thing!”

Pres. Trump slams Spike Lee, calling the director’s speech at the #Oscars a “racist hit on your President.”

“The 2020 presidential election is around the corner,” Lee said last night. “Let’s all mobilize…Let’s do the right thing!” https://t.co/aoHCsiKBmp pic.twitter.com/hI2Un41Yns

— ABC News (@ABC) February 25, 2019

Guy Nattiv

Israeli filmmaker Guy Nattiv said in his acceptance speech for the Best Live Action Short award that the prejudice that unraveled during the Holocaust can now be seen “everywhere” in Europe and the United States.

“I moved here five years ago from Israel,” Nattiv declared. “My grandparents are Holocaust survivors. The bigotry that they experienced in the Holocaust, we see that everywhere today, in America, in Europe. This film is about education, it’s about teaching your kids a better way.”

Guy Nattiv, accepting Best Live Action Short award: “My grandparents are Holocaust survivors. The bigotry that they experienced in the Holocaust, we see that everywhere today, in America, in Europe. This film is about…teaching your kids a better way.” https://t.co/zSrvQG8ZE6 pic.twitter.com/wDoHAICDgM

— ABC News (@ABC) February 25, 2019

Javier Bardem

Introducing the Best Foreign Language Film category with actress Angela Bassett, three-time Oscar winner Javier Bardem appeared to aim a veiled criticism President Donald Trump’s plan to construct a wall on the southern Mexico border.

“There are no borders or walls that can restrain ingenuity and talent,” he said. “In any region of any country of any continent, there are always great stories that move us.”

Javier Bardem slams “borders” and “walls” during #Oscars speech #Oscars2019 pic.twitter.com/Cp4JT1mdOu

— Newsweek (@Newsweek) February 25, 2019

Emilia Clarke

Actress Emilia Clarke paid tribute to United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, even comparing her Game of Thrones character “Khaleesi.” She later described the 85-year-old liberal Justice as “a woman who has spent her career at the forefront of the fight against gender discrimination.”

“Khaleesi has nothing on her,” she said. “Justice Ginsburg, if you’d ever like to borrow the dragons, ring me.”

“Khaleesi has nothing on her. Justice Ginsburg, if you’d ever like to borrow the dragons, ring me.”

Emilia Clarke with the best #Oscars offer of the night 😂 pic.twitter.com/X25KXoRUVe

— UPROXX (@UPROXX) February 25, 2019

Maya Rudolph

Actress and comedian Maya Rudolph used the opening of the ceremony to warn President Donald Trump that Mexico would not pay for the cost of a border wall with the United States.

“There is no host tonight, there will not be a popular film category, and Mexico is not paying for the wall,” Rudolph said as she prepared Best Supporting Actress alongside fellow comediennes Amy Poehler and Tina Fey.

“Just a quick update for everybody in case you’re confused, there is no host tonight, there won’t be a popular movie category and Mexico is not paying for the wall.” Well said, Maya Rudolph. #Oscars pic.twitter.com/ATDDu14teS

— Adam Best (@adamcbest) February 25, 2019

José Andres 

While introducing Best Picture nominee Roma, Spanish celebrity chef José Andres singled out “immigrants and women” as the two groups who are moving humanity forward.

“People of the world, each person’s life is a recipe all on its own with different measures of joy and sadness, struggles and success, love and loss,” he said. “[The film] gives a voice to the voiceless reminds us of the understanding and compassion that we all owe to the invisible people in our lives — immigrants and women — who move humanity forward.”

Chef José Andrés: Roma, the Oscar-nominated film, “reminds us of the understanding and compassion that we all owe to the invisible people in our lives: immigrants and women, who move humanity forward!” https://t.co/jUTPEwRqUN pic.twitter.com/sMuQtOiGeO

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) February 25, 2019

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According to a recently published investigative report, leftist interest groups are secretly playing a major role at many American Universities, often funded in part by mandatory student fees.

According to a report by the Capital Research Center, “public interest research groups” are playing a silent yet major role at many major American universities. The report makes the case that these interest groups use universities and their students to advance a progressive partisan agenda.

Public interest research groups often raise funds via dishonest or deceitful methods. For example, many groups are funded by mandatory student fees. According to the report, the New York Public Interest Research Group has been able to raise $1 million each year from mandatory student fees.

As David Seidemann, an environmental science professor at Brooklyn College, wrote in 2016: “administrators at public universities across the country have granted [the PIRGs] unique campus privileges and funneled millions of dollars—in part, from mandatory student fees.” As a result, the New York chapter of PIRG (NYPIRG) now “raises more money than all other campus student groups and surreptitiously diverts those funds to its statewide lobbying operations”—as much as $1 million forcibly raised from the pockets of college students each year.

Many of these groups are using these funds to promote a partisan political agenda, such as the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group. This group, which was founded in 1972, utilizes its resources on campuses to encourage young college students to support Democratic candidates for public office.

MASSPIRG is one of the largest and oldest state PIRGs, created in 1972. It markets itself as “an independent voice for consumers” and has lobbied for various environmentalist policies, including a plan to run the University of Massachusetts system with 100 percent renewable energy by 2050. It took credit in 2015 for the scheduled shutdown of the Pilgrim nuclear power plant, has called for a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, and regularly performs voter registration and mobilization drives on college campuses intended to turn out young voters to support Democratic Party candidates.

Students and their families deserve the right to know where exactly their money is going when they pay mandatory student fees. Students should demand transparency from their universities on all matters that involve third-party interest groups.

Stay tuned to Breitbart News for more updates on this story.

Monday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson revealed “there is a lot more evidence” going against “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett’s version of an alleged hate crime.

Johnson said as of now, Smollett will still get his day in court, but he said physical evidence, video evidence and testimony “does not support the version he gave.”

“[T]here’s a lot more evidence that hasn’t been presented yet and does not support the version he gave,” Johnson told ABC’s Robin Roberts.

He added, “But there’s still a lot of physical evidence, video evidence and testimony that just simply does not support his version of what happened.”

Johnson wanted to make it clear that the Chicago Police Department is not coming out against Smollett. Instead, he said the evidence, facts and witnesses are saying Smollett created a fake hate crime.

“It’s important for people to recognize that it’s not the Chicago Police saying he did something,” he argued. “It’s the evidence, the facts and the witnesses that are saying this.”

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Self-declared “socialist” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) got blasted by his followers on Twitter this weekend after tweeting out lukewarm support for humanitarian efforts aimed at citizens of Venezuela, and encouraging another socialist, Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, to allow shipments of food and medical supplies to enter the country.

Maduro is struggling to hold on to power in Venezuela, as protesters rally behind opposition leader and “President-in-exile,” Juan Guaidó, who says Maduro’s summer re-election was rigged, making him an illegitimate leader. Over the weekend, Maduro blocked off roads leading in and out of Venezuela in order to prevent $20 million in aid shipments from reaching Venezuelan citizens, triggering violence between riot police and protesters at several border checkpoints that left five people dead and more than 300 injured.

“The people of Venezuela are enduring a serious humanitarian crisis. The Maduro government must put the needs of its people first, allow humanitarian aid into the country, and refrain from violence against protesters,” Sanders tweeted.

The people of Venezuela are enduring a serious humanitarian crisis. The Maduro government must put the needs of its people first, allow humanitarian aid into the country, and refrain from violence against protesters.

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) February 23, 2019

The Tweet was somewhat ironic, of course. Sanders supports socialist governments and has, in the past, expressed admiration for Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chavez, whose rule led to the horrors now being experienced by Venezuelan citizens, quipping that “these days the American dream is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina.”

His Tweet essentially admits that, eventually, socialism fails.

But Sanders’ latest comments didn’t fly with his socialist followers, either, given that they still maintain Maduro is being set up, and that the United States intends to use the aid shipments as a way of sneaking weapons and assistance to anti-Maduro forces, undermining the socialist paradise they value so deeply.

Roger Waters (yep, of Pink Floyd) led the way.

“Bernie, are you f-ing kidding me! if you buy the Trump, Bolton, Abrams, Rubio line, “humanitarian intervention” and collude in the destruction of Venezuela, you cannot be credible candidate for President of the USA. Or, maybe you can, maybe you’re the perfect stooge for the 1 %,” Waters tweeted at Sanders.

Bernie, are you f-ing kidding me! if you buy the Trump, Bolton, Abrams, Rubio line, “humanitarian intervention” and collude in the destruction of Venezuela, you cannot be credible candidate for President of the USA. Or, maybe you can, maybe you’re the perfect stooge for the 1 %.

— Roger Waters (@rogerwaters) February 23, 2019

Journalist Michael Tracey piled on: “Imagine being Bernie Sanders and thinking Mike Pence, John Bolton, and Elliott Abrams are innocently committed to alleviating the humanitarian plight of the Venezuelan people, and that the ‘food and medicine’ they’re sending has no ulterior motive.”

Imagine being Bernie Sanders and thinking Mike Pence, John Bolton, and Elliott Abrams are innocently committed to alleviating the humanitarian plight of the Venezuelan people, and that the “food and medicine” they’re sending has no ulterior motive. Have you lost your mind???

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) February 23, 2019

Journalist Abby Martin: “you know better than to endorse a stunt led by war criminals who have snuck weapons in aid shipments in the past. This stance will not make democrats like you more and will only lose you support from socialists,” she tweeted.

you know better than to endorse a stunt led by war criminals who have snuck weapons in aid shipments in the past. This stance will not make democrats like you more and will only lose you support from socialists

— Abby Martin (@AbbyMartin) February 23, 2019

” Foreign policy “expert,” Max Blumenthal:

A sad commentary on US politics that the country’s most prominent self-proclaimed socialist feels compelled to feed into an interventionist narrative crafted by the Trump administration.

— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) February 23, 2019

“A sad commentary on US politics that the country’s most prominent self-proclaimed socialist feels compelled to feed into an interventionist narrative crafted by the Trump administration,” Blumenthal mused.

The conspiracies, of course, get weirder and less logical than that (if you can believe it). A handful of Sanders supporters tried to chime in, pointing out that Maduro is essentially starving his own people, that nearly 10% of all Venezuelans are undernourished, that foreign aid is desperately needed, and that inflation within the country has skyrocketed, making its currency nearly valueless.

Sanders has not apologized or clarified his Tweet.

Abortionist Willie Parker, who identifies as a Christian, admitted that abortion procedures kill innocent human beings in shocking footage from a Thursday night debate at the University of North Carolina.

Debating Dr. Mike Adams, Parker willingly conceded that human beings are gruesomely killed, having their skulls crushed, during abortion procedures. “Abortions kills a human being, I agree,” he bluntly states.

In the shocking footage captured by pro-life organization Created Equal, Parker admits:

“It is wrong to kill an innocent human being, I agree. … Abortion kills a human being, I agree. When I do an abortion, I am clear what she is asking me to do for her. I am clear that she is asking me to remove a fetus from her. I am clear that, in your terms, it is intentional killing of a fetus.”

When Adams asks the abortionist specifics about the gruesome procedure, Parker callously asks repeatedly, “What does it matter?”

Adams: “So when you crush a human skull, it’s not really gray matter, it’s white brain matter that oozes out?”

Parker: “What’s your point?”

Adams: “I’m asking you a question. Is the brain matter that oozes out when you crush a human skull white?”

Parker: “What does it matter?”

Parker then asks Adams: “You’ve described what I do. So, what is your point?”

“My point is that [abortion] intentionally kills an innocent human being. Would you concede that point?” responds Adams.

Parker does just that: “My first concession was to your first two syllogisms: That abortion kills a human being; it is the intentional disruption of a pregnancy, it kills a human being,” he says

The abortionist was then asked how many human beings he’s killed. For whatever reason, Parker dismissed the idea that the number matters at all.

“How many human beings have you intentionally killed in your life’s work?” asks Adams.

“I don’t know, I don’t measure my work by —” starts Parker.

“You lost count,” interjects Adams. “You’ve lost count.”

Parker then shockingly asked, “If it’s a million, what does it matter?”

“10,000?” asks Adams.

“20,000. 30,000.” Parker quickly shock back. “What’s the difference?”

“What’s the difference between 20,000 and 30,000?” says Adams. “10,000 dead human beings.”

Dr. Parker believes he’s doing the Lord’s work when he kills unborn babies in the womb with his own “capable hands.” The self-proclaimed Christian actively advocates for abortion by invoking his faith and views his Mississippi abortion clinic as a “ministry.”

​In 2017, Parker bashed pro-life Christians and redefined the term “pro-life” during an appearance on The Daily Show.

“I think pro-life is [a] misnomer for people who are against abortion,” Parker told host Trevor Noah. “People who are opposed to abortion are pro-fetus. I’m pro-life; I’m pro-life of the woman.”

Parker has quickly become a darling on the Left. The Daily Wire reported:

When Parker began promoting his vile new book, Life’s Work: A Moral Argument for Choice, he became a fixture in the upscale unborn baby-killing circle: appearing alongside Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards, attending conferences where he evangelizes to the masses about the relativistic good of abortion, and popping-up in leftist outlets like Elle, Jezebel, Rolling Stone, New York Magazine, Time, Cosmopolitan and The New York Times, among many others.

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