Month: March 2021

Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D., N.Y.) on Friday defended his refusal to resign by invoking the Democratic Party’s proud tradition of consequence-free sexual misadventure.

The embattled governor, who faces numerous accusations of inappropriate sexual behavior, blamed the scandal on "very different theories within the Democratic Party," suggesting that younger, more progressive members were out of touch with the party’s storied history, and the contributions of legendary perverts such as Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, and Chris Dodd.

Cuomo bravely spoke his truth after repeatedly questioning the motives of his accusers and those calling on him to resign, including left-wing celebrity Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.). "People know the difference between playing politics, bowing to cancel culture and the truth," he said.

In refusing to resign while facing multiple investigations and possible impeachment, Cuomo joins a long line of Democratic statesmen who refused to let criminal misdeeds get in the way of politics.

Many thought Ted Kennedy’s political career would end after the 1969 "incident" in which Kennedy drove a car into a pond, leading to the death by drowning of 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne. But Kennedy persevered, and went on to serve another 40 years in the Senate, during which time he was best known for making "waitress sandwiches" with fellow Democratic senator Chris Dodd (D., Conn.).

Like Kennedy, Dodd refused to let the fact that he publicly forced himself on a screaming waitress stand in the way of success. After leaving the Senate, he became a lobbyist for the Motion Picture Association of America, where he maintained a "friendship" with convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein, a longtime Democratic donor. In 2020, then-candidate Joe Biden tapped Dodd to head his vice-presidential selection committee while refusing to answer questions about his own legacy of alleged sexual harassment.

Biden refused to bow out, and won the election. At the same time, former president Bill Clinton, a notorious skirt chaser who was impeached for hooking up with his 22-year-old intern, has been remarkably resilient in the face of the so-called #MeToo movement. His wife, Hillary, almost became president in 2016 but was ultimately deemed even less likable than Donald Trump.

Biden’s been handling Cuomo’s scandal like an old pro, refusing to answer questions about allegations against the governor at his own press conferences. Across the Potomac, Justin Fairfax (D.) still serves as lieutenant governor of Virginia despite facing multiple allegations of sexual misconduct.

A lesser Democrat might bow out after more than 30 women described his creepy, perverted behavior to New York magazine. But not Cuomo. Like the proud Democrats of old, the "Luv Guv" plans to stand his ground. He recently retained the services of a top defense lawyer best known for defending Weinstein and Woody Allen. He already won an Emmy. His mommy still supports him. Resign? Not a chance.

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Investigative reporter Drew Hernandez joined Steve Bannon and the War Room on Friday morning to discuss the crisis at the US southern border. Over 100,000 illegals are currently flooding across the US border with Mexico each month during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Democrats support this.

Drew Hernandez reported on the immoral human smuggling operation along the border.

Drew Hernandez: “The cartels will literally tell these people, ‘If you have a minor with you we’ll give you a lower price of $3,200. We’ll give you safe passage.’ On top of child smuggling, “we have all these pedophiles, rapists, and kidnappers being released into the United States.”

Within two months of President Donald Trump leaving office the cartels are already selling off kids at the border.
Aren’t Democrats great?

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Clay Travis, a radio host and the founder of sports media website Outkick.com, testified to Congress on Friday about the power of Big Tech censorship, accusing Facebook of "content-based speech discrimination" against his media company.

Travis was invited by the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust, commercial and administrative law to speak to the relationship Big Tech shares with the media as Congress considers legislation that would allow media outlets to collectively negotiate ad rates with tech companies like Google or Facebook.

In his opening statement, Travis provided the subcommittee with examples of how Facebook allegedly punished Outkick’s traffic for posting positive coverage of former President Donald Trump and heterodox opinions from medical experts on COVID-19 lockdowns.

On August 11, President Trump was a guest on Travis’ radio program, joining the show to discuss the importance of playing college sports in the fall. Articles covering what the president said about the NBA, the NFL, and college sports were published on Outkick’s website.

"The day after that interview Facebook tanked our traffic," Travis said. "The next day and over the next week, Facebook removed 68% of our audience, 76% of our new users. That cost my company hundreds of thousands of dollars."

Travis provided documents to the subcommittee showing the precipitous decline in Outkick’s traffic during the timeframe he mentioned.

"To me, it was clear content-based speech discrimination," Travis said. "Facebook didn’t like that we had the president of the United States on our radio program and they also didn’t like that the majority of the coverage of that interview was positive, which as a sports fan, it’s hard to be negative when the favor of the president is aligned with games actually being played."

He warned Congress of the "overwhelming power" that Big Tech holds over media companies, giving a second example of how he says Facebook discriminated against certain speech.

In February, Outkick published an article covering an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal by Dr. Marty Makary, a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine & Bloomberg School of Public Health. In the op-ed, Makary argued that herd immunity was responsible for COVID-19 cases falling and predicted that the United States would reach herd immunity against the virus sometime in April.

"Certainly some scientists and doctors agree with that, certainly some scientists and doctors disagree with that opinion. We wrote about that editorial opinion on our website," Travis said. "Within a matter of days, we received a notification from Facebook with the downright Orwellian subject, ‘Important Notification: Misinformation Violation.’ Facebook told us we were not allowed to share the opinion of a doctor on our website because they said it was a fact-checked inaccuracy.

"It was, members of the subcommittee, AN OPINION. An opinion of a reasoned and well-learned doctor. That is what the scientific method is, we argue about what the truth is in this country with an idea that we reach a better conclusion. Facebook’s own fact-checkers labeled our article about an opinion to be factually inaccurate, which is an impossibility."

He continued: "Who checks the fact-checkers? Our traffic declined by 80%, as you can see, as soon as Facebook found this violation. We would all be rightly concerned if the government of the United States was making these kind of decisions. My concern is all of the Big Tech companies now have the same power that China has to regulate the internet in its country.

"Instead of the government doing it, we have allowed Big Tech to do it."

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Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) has been the target of progressive cable news hosts this month. First, there was liberal MSNBC host Joy Reid and then there was CNN’s left-wing anchor Don Lemon. The Republican senator fired back at his detractors, who he says are threatened by "African Americans willing to speak their minds from a conservative perspective."

Scott got under the skin of liberals earlier this month during a Fox News appearance where he said, "Woke supremacy is as bad as white supremacy. We need to take that seriously."

Scott advised people who lack "common sense" should read the Bible verse Matthew 5:44, which states, "But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you."

Lemon went on a shrieking rant about Scott’s "woke supremacist" comment, and claimed that the senator from South Carolina was "gaslighting" people. Lemon lost his temper and yelled, "Tim Scott! What are you doing?!"

"I’ve never seen a woke supremacist lynching anybody," Lemon said. "Never saw a woke supremacist denying anybody access to housing or a job or education or voting rights."

"At one point, Lemon was seemingly told not to yell by his producer, but he replied, ‘I have to. I know you don’t want me to yell, but this is ridiculous,’" Yahoo reported.

On Friday morning, Scott offered a retort to Lemon’s blowup.

"I would say that white supremacy and woke supremacy have their roots in racism and discrimination. It is bad. I’m not talking about tomorrow, or yesterday, I’m talking about today. If we don’t deal with it today, we are going to have something on our hands that we can’t deal with," Scott said on Fox News.

"It was the woke supremacists, by the way, who said that me and Herschel Walker were the coon squad," Scott noted.

"If you watch the folks who are yelling the loudest right now, it includes people who are at their wits’ end because there are African Americans willing to speak their minds from a conservative perspective," Scott added. "Why that requires people to threaten my life, to have a security detail because I decide to stand up for my values, my convictions based on my faith, I don’t understand that."

Scott addressed Lemon’s fit of rage directed toward him, "Don Lemon can say whatever Don Lemon wants to say. Until he has taken a serious look at what’s happening on his side of the aisle and come out strong against that, we’re going to continue to have a conversation in America that keeps us divided and not building a bridge so that we can live in this nation together."

Earlier this month, Reid went after Scott for the crime of standing during a news conference.

Reid commented on a news conference by Republican lawmakers who were opposed to raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour.

"You’ve got to love Tim Scott standing there to provide the patina of diversity over that round of words, that basket full of words," Reid said.

While Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) was speaking, Scott and other Republicans stood in the background until it was their time to speak. Scott’s press secretary Caroline Anderegg blasted Reid on Twitter. Anderegg pointed out that the senator is not a "prop," and she shared a video clip of Scott speaking at the same event.

"Unsurprising someone like Joy would stoop that low — I guess that’s what you do in the absence of a substantive policy critique," Anderegg said. "The senator has been leading the fight against the misguided Dem wage hike for weeks."

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78-year-old Joe Biden on Friday mumbled through a 20 minute speech from the Rose Garden on the American Rescue Plan.

The nearly $2 trillion Covid relief bill Joe Biden signed into law this week has nothing to do with Covid.

Joe Biden on Friday falsely claimed that the $1400 stimulus payments are “what he promised.”

Then he attacked wealthy, hardworking Americans.

“We don’t have anything against wealthy people. You got out and make millions of dollars, that’s fine. I have no problem with that. But guess what? You gotta pay your fair share–you gotta pay somethin,’” said Biden.

Biden said we need to build the economy that “grows from the bottom up” as he attacked Trump’s tax cuts.

Because unemployed people, minimum wage workers and welfare recipients create jobs and cause the GDP to grow.

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Promised weeks ago…

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Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro ripped into President Joe Biden and the Democrats for cynically using the coronavirus pandemic to pass a radical $1.9 trillion bill they claim is “relief” for Americans. Shapiro argued that Biden is the “friendly face” Democrats are using to put on radical policies, while the media protect POTUS, who’s yet to hold a solo presser with the media since he took office Jan. 20.

“President Houseplant is not fully there. We all know this,” Shapiro posted Thursday via Twitter. “But Democrats desperately need him in order to put a non-threatening face on some of the most radical policy we have ever seen. So he will be shielded from media questions.”

President Houseplant is not fully there. We all know this. But Democrats desperately need him in order to put a non-threatening face on some of the most radical policy we have ever seen. So he will be shielded from media questions.

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) March 11, 2021

Notably, data from a Rasmussen poll released Tuesday shows that 52% of Americans are concerned about Biden’s lack of access to the press, with 37% percent identifying as “very concerned”:

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 52% of Likely U.S. Voters say they are concerned that Biden has not held a press conference, including 37% who are Very Concerned. Twenty-four percent (24%) say they’re Not Very Concerned and 22% are Not At All Concerned.

In another tweet, the podcast host wrote, “Anybody pretending that #PresidentHouseplant is an expedient rather than an obstacle to American reopening at this point isn’t looking at either the CDC standards or the data on the pandemic trajectory. The media attempt to turn him into a wise leader is ridiculous.”

Anybody pretending that #PresidentHouseplant is an expedient rather than an obstacle to American reopening at this point isn’t looking at either the CDC standards or the data on the pandemic trajectory. The media attempt to turn him into a wise leader is ridiculous.

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) March 12, 2021

“Small gatherings by July 4? Come on. Getting us back to school faster? Most schools in non-Democrat-run-areas are open and have been for months,” Shapiro highlighted. “Vaccines being tranched out by May? We’re already on pace for it, thanks to governors.”

“The media is treating Biden as though he’s a prophet rather than a guy reading yesterday’s news – and trying to reverse some of the progress,” he added.

The media is treating Biden as though he’s a prophet rather than a guy reading yesterday’s news – and trying to reverse some of the progress.

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) March 12, 2021

During his Thursday episode of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” the conservative thinker expanded on his criticisms.

After outlining data and quoting medical experts to underscore that we are no longer in the throes of a crisis, Shapiro zeroed in on the Democrats’ monstrous spending bill: “The Democrats have been using this virus as an excuse to pass a completely unnecessary bill — it’s completely unnecessary,” he said. “The vast majority of the funding is going to people who did not lose their jobs; the vast majority of the funding is going … to bailouts for union pension funds; it’s going to bailouts for states and localities who blew out their own budgets, who, by the way, have not lost tax revenue during this downturn because the first relief bills actually increased tax revenues in certain states.”

Shapiro also highlighted the added entitlement programs that incentivize having children out of wedlock. The Democrats, he said, will “never let go” of the pandemic.

Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw (TX) similarly slammed the $1.9 trillion relief bill, tweeting, “Bribing people with their own money is dishonest and unsustainable. Democrats just passed a $1.9 trillion bribery bill and they handed our children the bill (with some inflation too.)”

Only 22% of the relief bill, about $420 billion, is set aside for direct stimulus payments to individuals, according to ABC 10 News.

As noted by The Daily Wire, $1,400 direct payments are going to some Americans, though millions have been left out: “The amount begins to phase out at $75,000 in individual income, capping at $80,000, based on individuals’ most recent tax returns.”

Related: The Ben Shapiro Show: President Houseplant’s Big Blowout Bonanza

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Kroger will be shutting down two Ralph’s locations and one Food 4 Less store, as Los Angeles recently passed a $5 “hero pay” temporary wage hike for pharmacy and grocery workers. The ordinance from the L.A. City Council — approved on March 3 and spoken of highly by Mayor Eric Garcetti — was intended to…

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Amazon admitted that it will not sell books “that frame LGBTQ+ identity as a mental illness” following backlash over its removal of “When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment.” The book’s author, Ryan T. Anderson, told the Daily Caller News Foundation on Friday that he only learned of Amazon’s reasoning after Amazon gave…

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