‘Evangelicals for Trump’ Defy Nevada Church Restrictions by Worshiping in Casino

In Nevada, you can’t have more than 50 people meet for a religious service. However, the state’s lifeblood — casinos — can operate at 50 percent capacity, a much less strict restriction. If you’re Evangelicals for Trump, there’s an easy workaround to that: Hold a church service in a Las Vegas casino. The event took…

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With Church Services Restricted and Casinos Open, Worshipers Pack Gambling Floor To Praise God

Mingling praise, protest and politics, “Evangelicals for Trump” gathered Thursday at the Ahern Hotel and Convention Center in Las Vegas. The event’s purpose was to rally supporters of President Donald Trump while also protesting Nevada laws that limit the number of people in a church to 50 and let casinos fill up to 50 percent…

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Bobby Jindal: President Biden Would Be Radical, with Media Enablers Braking on Corona-Panic

Former Gov. Bobby Jindal, one of Donald Trump’s rivals in the 2016 presidential campaign, wrote a piece for Friday’s Wall Street Journal on “The Biden Bait-and-Switch.” He says Biden is running on normalcy and nostalgia, but he’s quietly promising the Bernie Bros to enact radical policies once elected.
What made it interesting is how Jindal emphasizes the role of the media in setting the table of our national conversation. Everything that’s a horrible headache now will suddenly vanish into an oasis of calm once that Orange Obstacle to the Left is removed:
Voters weary of lurching from one sensational crisis to the next are promised a respite. The international condemnation, Twitter tirades and polarization can be swept away simply by voting for inoffensive, bland Mr. Biden.
Media coverage of the nation’s standing would change dramatically after a Biden victory, even if the reality does not. Mr. Biden promises increased federal coronavirus spending, but as president he couldn’t override governors’ authority to restrict economic activity, and he doesn’t propose to alter Mr. Trump’s program to accelerate vaccine and treatment development. With Mr. Trump embracing masks and trillions in federal spending, and high case totals in blue California and red Florida alike, a Biden victory wouldn’t change the epidemic’s trajectory.
Yet, as the media hailed Gov. Andrew Cuomo despite his disastrous policy of transferring coronavirus patients into nursing homes and New York’s record high deaths, Mr. Biden’s election would also miraculously transform the virus from an existential threat into a manageable hindrance.
Mr. Biden, liberal activists and the media are holding the country hostage, threatening voters with exhausting crises, refusing to reopen schools and the economy, and filling the streets with violent protests. Normalcy, they claim, is only a vote away. Given Mr. Biden’s affable personality and lack of a radical record, it is tempting to hope he would bring temperance to the White House and allow the country to exhale and heal.
Jindal says that’s a false picture: “Rather than making the traditional move to the center after he secured the nomination, Mr. Biden has continued to move left. He seems more worried about persuading Mr. Sanders’s supporters to turn out than convincing Mr. Trump’s voters to consider a moderate alternative.”
But he’s right on about how we should expect the media to find the pandemic is much less sensational once the Democrats are in charge. “Science” would be in charge. No coronavirus death under Democrats would be blamed on the Democrats. No reporter would rudely stand up in the Rose Garden and suggest Biden killed tens of thousands of people through his incompetence. The “news” would change into promoting whatever dramatic changes the Democrats choose to impose first.
Jindal concluded: “The media portrays Uncle Joe as a familiar face, reliable statesman, and known quantity in contrast with the volatile Mr. Trump. In reality, he promises to be the most liberal president in history. Voters seeking a return to normalcy would get a radical new future instead.”

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SCHAEFFER: Civil War Battlefields: The Left’s Next Target In The War On History

A bill sponsored by Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) has passed the House and is currently in the Senate for committee review and an eventual vote. H.R. 7608 is entitled the “State, Foreign Operations, Agriculture, Rural Development, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act.”

The bill provides fiscal year 2021 appropriations for the Department of State, Department of Agriculture, the EPA, various foreign relations initiatives, and related programs. It is the “related programs” that has those who care about American history concerned. If one peruses the 772-page bill, they will find buried way down in the middle somewhere Sec. 442. It reads as follows:

REMOVAL OF COMMEMORATIVE CONFEDERATE WORKS

Notwithstanding any other provision of law or policy to the contrary, within 180 days of enactment of this Act, the National Park Service shall remove from display all physical Confederate commemorative works, such as statues, monuments, sculptures, memorials, and plaques, as defined by NPS, Management Policies 2006.

On the surface, this appears to be just an implementation of the drive to remove Confederate monuments and memorials from the public square. The mantra from the activists in favor of moving out these homages to the Confederacy has been that they should be moved to museums as they are a part of history.

Unfortunately, where Confederate monuments are concerned, there is no solution which would seem to satisfy all. And for those on the far-left, for whom it is always about the next crusade as they continue to march toward that unreachable mirage of a terrestrial Utopia, even allowing monuments to those who fought, and suffered, and died in battle where the combat actually took place is just too much. And H.R. 7608 is a manifestation of this vision of an American landscape wiped clean of any vestiges of one-half of the most consequential and cataclysmic event in U.S. History.

There are some twenty-five Civil War battlefields or related historical sites that would be subjected to the axe of H.R. 7608. That is because hallowed grounds like Antietam, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Vicksburg, Manassas, Petersburg, etc., are under the auspices of the National Park Service. If this bill is passed, as it now reads and can be interpreted, within six months of its passage every monument to Confederate participants on the very locations of some of the biggest and bloodiest battles in American history would be removed.

One can make a reasonable argument for taking down Confederate statues from the public square. After all, should African Americans on their way to work or just strolling the streets be forced to do so in the shadow of those who fought for an upstart nation that, had it been victorious, would have kept their race in chains?

But once removed, what are we to do with these monuments? Some have argued, as stated earlier, that they should be relegated to museums where they lose the aura of celebration and instead become tools for learning and remembering our past. There are, however, real logistical issues here. Even if a museum wanted them, it is not easy to store many tons of brass and stone.

It would seem, then, that the battlefields are the most logical refuge for these orphans of our past. Those who venture to Gettysburg, Antietam, or Shiloh do so precisely to learn about the fighting that took place there, and what it meant to American history. And it is, quite simply, impossible to give an accurate and full account of these engagements without telling the story of the men on both sides of the lines, both individual commanders, and the many units from so many states who did combat.

How can one, for example, possibly understand the story of Gettysburg without delving into the mind of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee? He was the man whose decisions, more than any others’, shaped the nature and ultimate outcome of the three-day bloodbath. It was Lee who invaded Pennsylvania, Lee who gave the nod to his generals to attack the Union Army outside of Gettysburg that first fateful morning, and it was Lee who then stayed to fight what would shape up to be the first major Confederate defeat of the war. And no better way can one understand the mind of Lee, to see what he saw, than to stand beneath his monument on Seminary Ridge, astride his horse Traveler, and gaze with him across the mile-wide open field toward that Union line where he sent so many of his soldiers to their dooms. The equestrian statue of the rebel leader is powerful in its sense of longing and regret. One can almost hear him as his battered and bloody survivors stream past him having had their grand assault violently repulsed saying to his men, “This has been all my fault.” Lose Lee and you lose the very essence of the Battle Of Gettysburg. The same can be said for his commanding officers, each with their own part to play in the drama. It is so with every battle of the war. Take away Albert Sydney Johnston and P.G.T. Beauregard, and you lose Shiloh. Banish Stonewell Jackson and James Longstreet to the ether, and 2nd Manassas just ceases to be.

And furthermore, how can one recount a true narrative of these battles while the voices of those men in the rank and file who fought for the South are muted and their visages erased? The story of these historic places is one of men, often in their teens, scared out of their wits, covered in grime and dust, and the caked blood of their comrades who’d already fallen all around them, who engaged in some of the most brutal and up close and personal modes of warfare one can imagine. Their emotions and experiences at those moments of terror knew no politics. A survivor of Antietam later recalled that at one point the action was so severe, his senses so overloaded, that the landscape appeared to briefly turn red. One imagines that during combat so intense, no Southerner loading, ramming, and firing as the balls whizzed all around him, was thinking of the larger question of slavery or free navigation of the Mississippi. As one Union private, David Thompson, 9th New York Volunteers, wrote after walking the still-smoldering Antietam battlefield after the bloodiest day in American history had ended:

All around lay the Confederate dead…clad in “butternut”…As I looked down on the poor, pinched faces…all enmity died out. There was no “secession” in those rigid forms, nor in those fixed eyes staring at the sky. Clearly it was not their war.

The fact is the Civil War did happen. And some 300,000 Southern men died fighting for their cause, even if it was, as Ulysses Grant said, “one of the worst for which people have ever fought. And one for which there was the least excuse.” But that doesn’t diminish the very real suffering of the Confederates who fought over these blood-soaked grounds. And even if one doesn’t wish to give those men at Gettysburg, who lined up and stared across an open field to the other side where they saw a solid line of blue with artillery lined hub-to-hub up on Cemetery Ridge just waiting for them, any credit at all for their feat, at least allow their story, on that place, to be told in toto to weave the complete tapestry of this great human tragedy that affected so many on all sides. And still does.

Speaking on behalf of Gettysburg in particular, Les Fowler, president of the Association of Licensed Battlefield Guides, has made a plea to the Senate to modify this bill to preserve the battlefields as they are. “We urge the U.S. Senate to strip out this provision that would destroy the unequaled collection of monuments, Union and Confederate, that set Gettysburg apart as the great battlefield park and top visitor destinations…The monuments representing all of the soldiers who fought here are a crucial component of interpreting these sacred grounds.”

Another veteran battlefield guide, Deb Novotny, makes a broader appeal. “The monuments serve as tools for us to tell the story not only of this battle but of the struggle of our nation to heal itself after the war.”

Some 75,000 Confederate troops engaged the Union Army at Gettysburg. That salient fact of history cannot be avoided or discarded. How does one go about erasing their memories from a place like this? If there remain any places in the country where it is contextually fitting to remember them, while acknowledging the moral bankruptcy of the broader notion for which they took up arms, it is on the fields where they fought and strove and perished.

It is said that the ghosts of soldiers, Confederate and Union alike, walk the now quiet fields of battle, unable to find peace with their violent deaths on the receiving end of enemy bullets, bayonets, shell fragments or solid shot that cut their lives short. They are a part of these places.

The cause of the Confederacy should be remembered for what it was: a new nation dedicated to the proposition that the black man was inferior to the white man and, as Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens said: “slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition.” But the battlefields, where those twisted notions went to die, and where all sides of those particular isolated events must be heard to gain a true understanding of what happened there, should not be the place to make such a symbolic rejection to what is an obviously revolting raison d’etat. The battlefield belongs to the soldiers who fought there. And it belongs to all who wish to travel to these grounds and hear all the voices from the past tell us what they saw and did there. History is not always pleasant. But it must be remembered. Otherwise we are living in a land of make-believe. That is not the country I want us to be.

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“Frankly, I Don’t Believe They Love Their Country” – Trump RIPS Democrats for Sabotaging Stimulus Talks — Goes Around Them – Part 2 (VIDEO)

President Trump announced on Saturday he will sign executive orders on China Coronavirus talks.

President Trump RIPPED Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democrats for holding the talks hostage.

Trump then bashed Democrats for eliminating election safeguards in their proposals.
Democrats also wanted stimulus checks for illegal aliens.

Trump added, “The only way they can win is to cheat… They want to steal the election.”

President Trump then said this, “Frankly, I don’t believe they love their country.”

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MUST SEE: President Trump SHUTS DOWN Liberal Hack Reporter — Pro-Trump Press Conference Crowd CHEERS AND APPLAUDS! (VIDEO)

President Trump announced on Saturday he will sign executive orders on China Coronavirus stimulus payments to the American public.

President Trump RIPPED Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democrats for holding the talks hostage.

Trump then bashed Democrats for eliminating election safeguards in their proposals.
Democrats also wanted stimulus checks for illegal aliens.

Following his announcement in Bedminster, New Jersey the president took a few questions from the reporters.

White House reporter Paula Reid attacked the president for going around the Democrats who stalled funds to the American public.
President Trump answered her questions then moved out

But Paula Reid was not done, ignored the president’s requests and continued to pepper him with questions.

President Trump told her, “No, no… You’re finished.”
The gallery crowd roared!

But hack reporter Reid was not finished, and continued to bark questions at the President of the United States.

So President Trump ended the presser.
The pro-Trump crowd roared again!

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Donald Trump: Democrats Want to Use Coronavirus Aid Bill to Steal the Election


President Donald Trump criticized Democrats Saturday for trying to use the coronavirus aid bill to steal the election, by making major changes to election laws.

The president said that Democrats had proposed changes in voting laws that would open up voting in 2020 to fraud, including eliminating voter ID and signature verification and enacting universal mail-in voting.

“You [know] what it’s about? Fraud,” Trump said. “They want to try and steal this election, because frankly, it’s the only way they can win the election.”

The president also warned that Democrats wanted to include stimulus payment checks for illegal aliens, the release of inmates, and the release of illegal aliens in custody.

“What does this have to do with stimulus of the economy?” Trump asked in disbelief. “What does this have to do with the coronavirus?”

Trump spoke about the measures he did favor, including support for schools so they can open, additional funding for the paycheck protection program, hospitals, testing, vaccines, direct payments for families, child and mental health care, and even funding for broadband internet, agriculture, and airports infrastructure.

“This is what we’re talking about,” Trump said. “Democrats are actively blocking the things we want, and what we want is good for people,” he said.

The president signed a payroll tax holiday, $400 federal and state-funded unemployment checks, a moratorium on evictions, and student loan payment deferments.

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Socialist Venezuelan Government Sentences Two US Veterans as Spies to 20 Years in Prison

The 4th Circuit Court in Venezuela with jurisdiction in terrorism, condemned two American citizens to 20 years in prison this week. Luke Denman and Airan Berry are linked to the “Gedeon” operation.  They were not offered their right to defense.

United States veterans Denman and Berry participated in a failed attempt to allegedly topple the failed socialist regime of Nicolas Maduro.  This was an episode that is still surrounded by numerous questions.

The attorney for the two Americans Alonso Medina said he was hired by the families of the two men they were not allowed access to him and they were forced to plead guilty.

Also, the attorney general appointed by the regime Tarek Wiliam Saab posted, “They  admitted having committed crimes of conspiracy, association, illicit trafficking in war weapons of war and terrorism established in the penal code: for which they were sentenced to imprisonment of 20 years and 9 days.”

Former Governor Bill Richardson was in Venezuela to meet with the dictator Maduro.  He requested information on the conditions of the “Gedeon” detainees and others.

It is current policy in the United States to not negotiate with regime.  The United States does not recognize the dictatorship.

THE DETENTION

Former members of the group of 10 former US special forces were arrested on May 4th when they tried to enter Venezuela in a maritime incursion.

According to reports the men were hidden for eight days while crossing the border to reach Venezuela.  Other sources revealed that in Jamaica the CIA had tried to persuade them to desist from the operation, because it was not official.

The veterans attempted to make landfall to allegedly be part of a plan that would capture the tyrant Nicolas Maduro.

The two men are former US military personnel who participated in missions in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

Both are sentenced in a country dominated by the failed socialist regime, where there is no rule of law, nor respect for civil liberties. Self-defense is practically a utopia and through cruel methods such as torture, prisoners in Venezuela are forced to decide between life and freedom.

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Navarro And Mnuchin Get Into “Knock Down, Drag Out” Oval Office Brawl Over TikTok Ban

Navarro And Mnuchin Get Into "Knock Down, Drag Out" Oval Office Brawl Over TikTok Ban

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Sat, 08/08/2020 – 18:30

In other TikTok-related news, the Washington Post published a lengthy report delineating what was going on inside the West Wing as Trump laid down the executive order, and others who have an interest in getting the deal done.

As Microsoft, under the impression it had the ‘all-clear’, moved ahead with the talks, only to be stymied by Beijing’s fury over Trump’s executive order, which soured the optics of the situation and would have made a sale of TikTok look like a concession on China’s part, others stepped in to intercede with President Trump, who was once again calling the shots while his advisors battled for his ear.

After a succinct refresher on the history of the Trump Administration’s national security concerns regarding TikTok, WaPo identifies VCs with a major investment in ByteDance who stepped in to intercede on the Chinese giant’s behalf, as big-time Silicon Valley dealmakers tried to get closer to the president.

TikTok is considered one of the biggest technological success stories to come out of China. People around the world use the app to make short videos about their lives, pets and dance moves. Parent company ByteDance CEO Zhang Yiming calls it a “window” into the world.

TikTok has 100 million U.S. users, many of whom are under 25 years old. Its success has drawn interest from prominent investors, including Sequoia Capital, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm. In 2014, its China arm made a prescient $35 million investment in TikTok’s parent company, giving it a stake that today is reportedly valued at more than $800 million. TikTok’s owner also acquired Musical.ly in 2017 for $1 billion, making it even more attractive to young users.

But with that success came scrutiny. TikTok was first identified as a potential national security threat in summer 2019, when U.S. officials approached ByteDance about concerns regarding its acquisition.

That turned into a formal national security investigation this year. It was led by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), an interagency body that screens foreign investment transactions for national security risks and recommends to the president on security grounds whether certain proposed acquisitions should be rejected.as well as completed acquisitions reversed.

In TikTok’s case, the app has been downloaded more than 175 million times in the United States, and like other apps accesses copious amounts of sensitive personal data, including Internet and browsing activity, location data and search histories. That information is potentially available to the Chinese government under a national intelligence law that requires any Chinese company to “support, assist and cooperate with state intelligence work.”

The news of the investigation sent shudders through the halls of Sequoia Capital. Global managing partner Doug Leone took the lead on advocating for TikTok with the Trump administration, telling people he could use his influence with Trump to help the company, according to a person familiar with the discussions who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private conversation. Leone and his wife have given $100,000 to Trump’s reelection bid, and Leone sits on the president’s task force for reopening the economy, according to public records.

As Trump’s anger simmered over the past two weeks, with periods of silence regularly punctuated by threats of a ban, the China trade hawk faction stepped up to try and push back against the horde of wealthy VCs seeking to dissuade Trump from pursuing the ban.

The hawks accused the finance guys of being dangerously sympathetic to the CCP, and ignoring the good of the country for the sake of the bottom line. Things (reportedly) got heated, and Pete Navarro and Steve Mnuchin got into what was described as a "knock down, drag out fight".

In front of Trump, trade adviser Peter Navarro and other aides late last week, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin began arguing that the Chinese-owned video-sharing service TikTok should be sold to a U.S. company. Mnuchin had talked several times to Microsoft’s senior leaders and was confident that he had rallied support within the administration for a sale to the tech giant on national security grounds.

Navarro pushed back, demanding an outright ban of TikTok, while accusing Mnuchin of being soft on China, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private discussions freely. The treasury secretary appeared taken aback, they said.

The ensuing argument — which was described by one of the people as a “knockdown, drag-out” brawl — was preceded by months of backroom dealings among investors, lobbyists and executives. Many of these stakeholders long understood the critical nature of establishing close connections with key figures in the Trump administration.

Of course, this isn’t the first time Navarro has reportedly "fought" somebody during a meeting, according to the American press. Remember that time he almost beat up Dr. Fauci?

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UPDATE: $20,000 Reward Offered for Information on Suspect in Milwaukee Conservative Bernell Tramell’s Murder

Black Trump supporter Bernell Trammell was murdered on Thursday just hours after a pro-Trump interview.

Trammell was gunned down shortly after noon.  He as a popular supporter of President Trump.

TMJ4 reported:

On Monday Milwaukee police asked the public for help in identifying Bernell Trammell’s killer.

Milwaukee police are searching for a suspect in the murder of Bernell Trammell, a well-known figure in the Riverwest community.

Milwaukee police said Trammell, 59, was shot and killed outside of his business on July 23, just after noon. The shooting happened near the intersection of Bremen and Wright.

Police said the suspect, a man believed to be in his 30s, was last seen wearing a white and red baseball cap, a black mask, a black and red long sleeve shirt and riding a black bicycle.

Now this…
Via the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel — Anonymous donors, working with the nonprofit Milwaukee Crime Stoppers, have posted a $20,000 reward for information in the shooting death of well-known Riverwest resident Bernell Trammell.

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