Nike’s Betsy Ross-themed athletic shoes, which the company pulled before their Fourth of July debut, have garnered a $15,200 bid on eBay.
The sports giant decided not to sell the shoes after former NFL player Colin Kaepernick objected because he said they were offensive, symbolizing a time when slavery existed in the United States.
“While the company’s decision sparked a cultural discussion about the significance of the flag and the history of the country, buyers rushed to purchase the shoes, and the price quickly ticked upward,” Newsweekreported. “A pair of the ‘Betsy Ross’ sneakers reportedly sold for $2,500 on e-commerce website StockX after Nike announced that it would be pulling the shoe.”
The eBay website showed on Saturday 101 bids with a $15,200 top offer posted.
“I have never seen so many watchers or views, and it has to be the hottest item on eBay right now,” Isaiah Miller, the man selling the shoes, said in an email to Newsweek. “Call it patriotism, the need to have something you have been told you can’t have, or just a desire for shoe or antique collectors (these could be historical one day), they are paying amazing amounts.”
Miller, 21, told Newsweek he is an entrepreneur and said that his primary business effort is auctioning goods on eBay.
He said he bought the pair of shoes from a woman because the “seller was getting a lot of harassment and threats, and so she decided to just sell them to me.”
The StockX website said it had halted the resale on its website because it “does not align with our value system,” Newsweek reported.
Ross, who ran a flag-making and upholstery business in the 1700s, is credited with producing the iconic American flag with red and white stripes and 13 stars for the 13 colonies.
A disturbing new report says that a current U.S. lawmaker is potentially helping thousands of asylum seekers — who were returned back to Mexico while they await their court hearing — re-enter the United States by exploiting a loophole in the system. According to the Washington Examiner, the National Border Patrol Council’s El Paso chapter,…
Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar urged Americans to celebrate the Fourth of July by reflecting on “how much further we have to go,” standing in contrast to her joyful celebration of Somali Independence Day four days prior.
“Today gives us all a chance to reflect on how far we have come as a country and how much further we have to go to achieve full equality for all people,” Omar tweeted July 4. “We are at a tipping point for progress right now.”
Ilhan Omar slams America on 4th of July.
She hates this country that has given her so much.
Today gives us all a chance to reflect on how far we have come as a country and how much further we have to go to achieve full equality for all people.
We are at a tipping point for progress right now. ✊?
The Democrats are doing everything they can to secure the illegal alien vote.
Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX) is secretly sending staff to Mexico to coach asylum-seekers on how to exploit loopholes under the “remain in Mexico” policy by telling the migrants to pretend that they can’t speak Spanish.
According to a Customs and Border Protection agent, Rep. Escobar’s team has attempted to conduct interviews with 6,000 migrants who were returned last month from El Paso to Mexico.
Under the “remain in Mexico” asylum policy, anyone returned must be fluent in Spanish because they have to live in Mexico for up to 5 years until a US judge makes a decision on their asylum claim.
“What we’re hearing from management is that they’re attempting to return people, and the story was changed in Mexico, where a person who understood Spanish before now doesn’t understand — where a person who didn’t have any health issues before now has health issues,” the union representative said, according to the Washington Examiner.
A Democratic congresswoman is sending staff to Mexico’s northern border town of Ciudad Juárez to find migrants returned from El Paso, Texas, under the “remain in Mexico” policy, then coaching them to pretend they cannot speak Spanish to exploit a loophole letting them to return to the U.S.
The National Border Patrol Council’s El Paso chapter and several Customs and Border Protection personnel told the Washington Examiner aides to Rep. Veronica Escobar, who took over 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke’s district, and the local Catholic diocese have interviewed thousands of migrants in Juarez over the past few weeks to find cases where Department of Homeland Security officials may have wrongly returned people.
“What we believe is happening is Veronica Escobar’s office is going … to basically second-guess and obstruct work already done by the Border Patrol,” said one senior union official, who shared evidence with the Washington Examiner from concerned CBP managers and rank-and-file members. Those documents have been held to protect identities.
Democrat lawmakers no longer work for American taxpayers. Their first and only priority is to make sure illegal aliens are taken care because they want their votes.
Just eight percent of Democrats say the migration crisis is solely caused by the huge number of migrants who are trying to cross the border — while 81 percent of Democrats say there is either no crisis or blame the crisis on the federal government, according to a CNN poll.
Only 70 percent of Democrats say the TV-displayed migration of almost 800,000 men, women, and children into the United States counts as a crisis — and 54 percent of all Democrats say the crisis is caused by the “way migrants are treated” by the federal government.
Only eight percent say the crisis is solely caused by the number of migrants, while a further 7 percent blame both the government and the migrant numbers, even as the migrants flood into Americans’ blue-collar neighborhoods, pushing down wages, boosting rents and adding ore chaotic diversity to schools, communities, and politics.
In contrast, 35 percent of independents and 65 percent of Republicans solely blame the crisis on the migrants’ numbers. Roughly seven percent of GOP and independent respondents blame both migrant numbers and the government, said the poll of 1,613 respondents, including voters and non-voters.
The poll puts some data on the escalating pro-migrant skew in the Democrat Party.
But it also shows how that pro-migrant view is held by 32 percent of all respondents, according to the CNN poll. The poll was taken late June 28 to 30, amid much emotional media coverage of the overcrowded border centers. The contrary view — that migrants’ numbers caused the crisis — is backed by just 34 percent of the respondents.
The Democrats’ rising support and sympathy for migrants date back to around 2012 when President Barack Obama dragged the party leftward as he announced his “dreamer” amnesty for roughly 800,000 young illegals in the depths of an economic recession that left millions of Americans on the sidelines.
This progressives’ pro-migrant perspective was supercharged as the left reacted to the public’s rejection of the progressives’ candidate in the 2016 election. That shocking defeat was a psychological and social-status rejection of the elite by ordinary people, and the elite has not been in a forgiving mood towards their fellow Americans.
This elite rejection of Americans is being exacerbated by angry immigrants, who bring their homeland resentments and ambitions into the United States. Somali-born Rep. Ihlan Omar, for example, tweeted that the nation’s immigration enforcement agency should be defunded:
ICE is requesting 500 beds from Sherburne County to detain immigrants. It’s un-American to criminalize immigrants for wanting to come to this country for a better life. This is why ICE needs to be defunded. https://t.co/W4znvAiHV3
Similarly, NPR interviewed Indian-born Suketu Mehta, an “associate professor,” who wants revenge against the British for the indignities they imposed on his Indian homeland during the 1800s and 1990s:
So my grandfather, who was born in India – he was sitting in a park one day in North London minding his own business. And this elderly British gent comes up to him and wags a finger at my grandfather and says, why are you here? Why don’t you go back to your country? And my grandfather, who came from a business family, said, because we are the creditors, because you came to my country. You took all my gold and my diamonds. You prevented our industry from growing, so we have come here to collect.
This inflow of migrants is imposing chaotic diversity throughout Americans’ economy, society, and culture, complete with media-magnified demands that Americans’ history be rewritten to downplay the achievements of Americans and play up claims from the progressives’ coalition of people outside the nation’s core of middle class families. The Washington Postreported July 4:
The city council in Charlottesville — near Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation — voted this week to scrap the former president’s local holiday in favor of one that celebrates the emancipation of African American slaves.rs, including gays, immigrants, blacks, and others.
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Mayor Nikuyah Walker said that the conversation around Jefferson hasn’t been that balanced. While the city has long acknowledged Jefferson, it hasn’t given the same recognition to the “people who did the work, who built the buildings that wouldn’t exist without them,” referring to the University of Virginia.
The loose term for this migration-boosted eruption against ordinary Americans by “woke” liberals is the “Great Awokening.”
The “Great Awokening” term echoes the moral campaigns by Christians in the 1800s, and it was coined by Matt Yglesias, an editor at the left-wing site, Vox.com. He wrote:
For all the attention paid to the politics of the far right in the Trump era, the biggest shift in American politics is happening somewhere else entirely.
In the past five years, white liberals have moved so far to the left on questions of race and racism that they are now, on these issues, to the left of even the typical black voter.
This change amounts to a “Great Awokening” — comparable in some ways to the enormous religious fomentin the white North in the years before the American Civil War. It began roughly with the 2014 protests in Ferguson, Missouri, when activists took advantage of ubiquitous digital video and routine use of social media to expose a national audience in a visceral way to what otherwise might have been a routine local news story.
The “Great Awokening” and its causes are detailed in a long argument posted by researcher Zach Goldberg in a June 5 article at Tablet Magazine:
A sea change has taken place in American political life. The force driving this change is the digital era style of moral politics known as “wokeness,” a phenomenon that has become pervasive in recent years and yet remains elusive as even experts struggle to give it a clear definition and accurately measure its impact …
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There are growing levels of support for [left-wing] policies without such obvious connections to race. For instance, between 1965 and 2000, the percentage of white liberals preferring increased immigration levels never deviated far from 10%. From the mid-2000s to roughly the end of President Obama’s term in office, this figure gradually ascended into the 20-30% range. As of 2018, it sits at over 50%. Then, there is the marked shift in attitudes toward Israel. Between 1978 and 2014, white liberals consistently reported sympathizing more with Israel than the Palestinians. Since March of 2016, this trend has turned on its face: Significantly more white liberals now report greater sympathy for the Palestinians than for Israel.
Some of these changes arguably stem from Trump’s rhetoric and policies on immigration. But a glance at the data shows that, as with their attitudes toward blacks, the percentage of white liberals perceiving “a lot” or “a great deal” of discrimination against immigrants more than doubled between 2000 (29%) and 2013 (57%)—i.e., well before Trump arrived on the scene. Additionally, between 2006 and 2014, the percentage of white liberals saying they feel “very sympathetic” toward illegal immigrants and their families grew from 22% to 42%.
This left-wing shift against Americans — and of Americans’ huge effort to build a race-blind society — also includes a class fight between wealthy people and Americans who work with their hands.
Overall, most upper-income Americans welcome immigration because it provides them with cheap labor for domestic servants, restaurant help, and much else. Moreover, the elite feels no class conflict while receiving such cheap labor — as it would if the domestic servants were black — because the elite sees itself as benevolently providing shares of American citizenship to poor people from Central America and other poor countries:
Gallup poll shows major class divide on migration: 64% of college grads favor it b/c it provides more cheap labor. But the poll also shows just 19% of c-grads say migration creates job opportunities for their peers/kids – and 28% say it worsens job oppts. https://t.co/07whWZakRJ
A central part of this “Great Awokening” is that liberals prefer foreigners to the Americans who oppose their progressive policies. If a policy provides some gain to foreigners at great cost to anti-progressive Americans, then it is doubly good for progressives’ political ambitions:
In a press event at a border detention center, Democratic legislators offer love and aid for foreign migrants, but nothing for Americans — except a not-subtle threat of government power. I’m not sure that is the best way to win Americans’ votes in 2020. https://t.co/a78BYu6GHS
Democrats’ favoritism towards migrants is aided by the establishment’s post-1965 claim that America is a “Nation of Immigrants” — not a nation of settlers — even though more than 80 percent of Americans were born in America:
Nikki Haley does the estb. ‘nation of immigrants’ schtick: “We need as many immigrants as we can … we need the culture,” etc. Hmm. What’re so inadequate about Americans and America that they need immigrants? https://t.co/EzzKcDZNfM
The migration-boosted progressive backlash against Americans is likely going to be a key feature of President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign. His tweets suggest he will hit progressives hard on this issue throughout the election:
On no issue are Democrats more extreme – and more depraved – than when it comes to Border Security. The Democrat Agenda of open borders is morally reprehensible. It is the great betrayal of the American Middle Class and our Country as a whole! #Trump2020pic.twitter.com/f9RJhpp50J
Democrats must change the Loophole & Asylum Laws – but they probably won’t! They want Open Borders, which means massive crime and drugs! https://t.co/IWxH16arMW
Each year, roughly four million young Americans join the workforce after graduating from high school or university.
But the federal government then imports about 1.1 million legal immigrants and refreshes a resident population of about 1.5 million white-collar visa workers — including approximately one million H-1B workers — and approximately 500,000 blue-collar visa workers.
The government also prints more than one million work permits for foreigners, tolerates about eight million illegal workers, and does not punish companies for employing the hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants who sneak across the border or overstay their legal visas each year, despite the rising loss of jobs to automation.
This policy of inflating the labor supply boosts economic growth for investors because it ensures that employers do not have to compete for American workers by offering higher wages and better working conditions.
Flooding the market with cheap, foreign, white-collar graduates and blue-collar labor also shifts enormous wealth from young employees towards older investors, even as it also widens wealth gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, and hurts children’s schools and college educations. It also pushes Americans away from high-tech careers and sidelines millions of marginalized Americans, including many who are now struggling with fentanyl addictions. The labor policy also moves business investment and wealth from the Heartland to the coastal cities, explodes rents and housing costs, shrivels real estate values in the Midwest, and rewards investors for creating low-tech, labor-intensive workplaces.
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry has announced the arrest of an undocumented immigrant accused of more than 100 counts of sex crimes.
Miguel Martinez, 44, was arrested on 100 counts of possession of pornography involving juveniles under the age of 13 years old, one count of production under the age of 13, and one count of sexual battery of a juvenile under the age of 13.
Landry says Martinez was living in Harvey, Louisiana illegally.
Landry quote tweeted CBS 17’s tweet regarding Martinez’ arrest and said:
Illegal immigration has real-life consequences – countless numbers of needless crime victims, including too many Louisiana families and children. It’s time to join @POTUS in demanding action on our Southern Border. #BuildTheWall
Martinez was previously deported in 2005.
Illegal immigration has real-life consequences – countless numbers of needless crime victims, including too many Louisiana families and children. It’s time to join @POTUS in demanding action on our Southern Border. #BuildTheWallhttps://t.co/hn5su0JGoG
It is never a good idea to write while suffering from a case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Such was the case with Washington Post columnist David Von Drehle on Friday when writing about the imminent demise of Mad Magazine. However instead of concentrating on Alfred E. Newman, poor Drehle just couldn’t get his mind off of You-Know-Who.
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign has finally condemned Antifa’s brutal assault on journalist Andy Ngo in Portland last weekend.
Ngo, an editor for Quillette, was repeatedly punched and kicked by Antifa members while reporting live from a rally organized by the radical group. The attack landed Ngo in the hospital with a brain bleed.
In a statement to the New York Post, the Biden campaign said the Democrat presidential frontrunner “believes violence directed at anyone because of their political opinions is never acceptable, regardless of what those beliefs might be.”
“He believes freedom of expression is fundamental to who we are as Americans, and that Andy Ngo’s attackers should be identified and investigated,” the campaign added.
Earlier this week, longshot White House hopeful Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) condemned the attack and renewed his call for Congress to pass the Journalist Protection Act, a bill that would make it a federal offense to assault a reporter.
“I don’t agree with much of what @MrAndyNgo ever says. But that’s not the point. He should not be harmed for his views and his attackers should be prosecuted. *And Congress should pass my Journalist Protection Act, which makes it a federal crime to assault or batter a journalist,” Swalwell wrote on Twitter Tuesday.
I don’t agree with much of what @MrAndyNgo ever says. But that’s not the point. He should not be harmed for his views and his attackers should be prosecuted. *And Congress should pass my Journalist Protection Act, which makes it a federal crime to assault or batter a journalist.
The day prior, Andrew Yang expressed concern about the violent incident, tweeting: “I hope @MrAndyNgo is okay. Journalists should be safe to report on a protest without being targeted.”
I hope @MrAndyNgo is okay. Journalists should be safe to report on a protest without being targeted.
“I haven’t heard from the [Portland] mayor or any local politicians. Their muted response has been deafening. I thank Yang, Swalwell, and Cruz for their public support,” Ngo told the Post.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell have called on the Department of Justice and FBI to investigate the attack.
Harmeet Dhillon, Ngo’s attorney, has vowed to sue those behind the assault “into oblivion.”
We reported in November 2018 that the Miami Herald published an extensive report on Democrat donor and Clinton confidant Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex allegations –
But they continued their work, finding evidence that supported the girls’ allegations: Phone calls and messages like, "Tanya can’t come at 7 p.m. tomorrow because she has soccer practice," and naked photographs of girls in Epstein’s closet. pic.twitter.com/AtE7BY9lHE
Epstein abused dozens, if not hundreds, of teen girls.
It is well documented that former President Bill Clinton flew on convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet.
And Robert Mueller was FBI director when Epstein was given a lenient 13 month jail stint for his years of child sex abuse.
In June 2016 TGP reported that Bill Clinton visited the infamous Orgy Island (as reported by ZeroHedge) –
If you can name it — it has likely taken place this the lavish private island off the coast of Puerto Rico which boasts a beautifully landscaped plush luxury estate complete with its own helipad, privy only to certain members of the global elite.
Owned by Jeffery Epstein, a wealthy American financier and convicted sex offender, Little St. James Island appears to be somewhat of a gathering place and is a well desired hangout among key figureheads, actors and royalty to the likes of former U.S. President Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey and even Prince Andrew.
However, the people attending the lavish residence are likely do not go there to discuss “cutting edge scientific and medical research” as the Epstein VI Foundation would like you to believe, but rather go there to experience full-on sexual encounters with underage girls as young as fourteen.
That’s right, just like a scene out of the Hollywood blockbuster film Eyes Wide Shut, starring Tom Cruise, from wild parties to prostitution, orgies and even underage sex, Little St. James reportedly has it all and is seemingly a gathering point frequented by prominent jet-setters, and it is all being exposed. The cat is out of the bag so to speak…
Back in 2005 police conducted an 11-month-long undercover investigation on Jeffery Epstein and his estate after the mother of a 14-year-old girl went to police after suspecting her daughter was paid $300 for at least one sexual act on the island in which she was ordered to strip, leaving on just her panties while giving Epstein a massage.
Although police found tons of photos of young women on the island and even interviewed eyewitnesses, Epstein was hit with a mere slap on the wrist after “pleading to a single charge of prostitution.” Epstein later served 13-months of his 18-month service in jail.
In 2008 Epstein was hit again, this time with a $50 million civil suit after another victim, a woman, made a filing in a federal court claiming that she was “recruited” by Epstein to give him a “massage” but was essentially forced into having sexual intercourse with him for $200, which was payable upon completion.
Additionally it is important to point out that Bill Clinton has been mentioned by the press often over the years — and not just for his controversial relationship with Monica Lewinsky, but rather his friendship with Jeffery Epstein.
In fact, flight records indicate that ol’ Billy-boy would frequent the island paradise around the 2002 and 2005 era, while Hillary, Bill’s wife, was a Senator in New York.
Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.
In November we found out that corrupt Robert Mueller, from the phony Russia Collusion hoax, was the Head of the FBI and Mueller was involved in the Epstein case!
The Epstein case was run out of DC and it appears that Epstein was an informant for Mueller’s FBI:
Here’s the thing: I’m seeing nothing in Epstein’s 2007 plea deal with the DOJ that required him to provide information to the FBI. (see pics)
This begs the question of whether there was a separate agreement – still undisclosed – with the FBI. pic.twitter.com/fLQ00Q50jc
Mueller’s FBI again didn’t do its job in a high level criminal case involving the Clintons. The girls Epstein molested were not even interviewed by the FBI –
Hugely important dates:
9/27/2007: Epstein signs the non-prosecution agreement
10/31/2007: Internal emails show that FBI agents still had not interviewed all the victims. pic.twitter.com/xKI6fk09dj
Five months after the plea deal with Epstein, the girls he molested still hadn’t been contacted. The kicker is – Mueller was involved – the case was ran out of DC! –
Ok Techno, what does this have to do with Mueller?
The case was being run from DC.
Spring of 2008: Emails between FBI agents and the local ass’t US attorneys reveal "continued delays" in getting the case to a grand jury "due to the failure to receive decision from DC" pic.twitter.com/u7AQPXuuhz
It looks like Mueller and his Deep State gang protected Jeffrey Epstein and gave him a pass for molesting children. They possibly did this to protect his guests at Orgy Island. Two of the guests were reportedly Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Mueller gave Epstein a pass by pretending that the crimes of some Bear Stearns executives were greater than the crimes of a child molester. Who knows if the Bear Stearns execs even committed crimes. Epstein was basically freed, the Clintons were out of danger, and Mueller fixed some more Deep State crimes.
Corrupt Mueller destroyed the FBI with years of corruption. This man in no way should be leading an investigation into anything on behalf of this great country. It’s time to hold Mueller accountable.
Florida billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on Saturday in New York for sex trafficking of minors, reported The Daily Beast.
NBC NEWS: Four sources with direct knowledge of the matter say that Jeffrey Epstein was taken into custody today in New York after arriving from an overseas flight.
He faces federal sex trafficking charges.
BREAKING / NBC NEWS: Four sources with direct knowledge of the matter say that Jeffrey Epstein was taken into custody today in New York after arriving from an overseas flight.
