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April 8, 2021

‘Senseless, Irrational, Cowardice Bulls***’: High School Track Coach Fired After Refusing To Make His Team Wear Masks

A New Hampshire high school track and field coach was fired after refusing to tell his team they had to wear masks when they competed.

Pembroke Academy track and field coach Bradley Keyes, who coached at Pembroke for four years but was not a teacher there, asked the school if the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association’s guidelines requiring masks were guidance or a mandate. Informed that Pembroke and fellow competing schools agreed with the policy, on Saturday Keyes issued a blog post encouraging others to tell the school they opposed the policy, while adding an email he sent to the school’s athletic director that stated:

I’ll come straight to the point. I will not put kids on the track and tell them to run any races while wearing masks. I will not stand up in front of the kids and lie to them and tell them that these masks are doing anything worthwhile out in an open field with wind blowing and the sun shining. These insane policies are robbing kids of once-in-a-lifetime opportunities for no valid reason other than irrational fears and going along with the sheep. … Fire me if you must.

Keyes called the guidelines, “Senseless, irrational, cowardice bulls***.”

As noted by WBZ, the mask guidelines were set by New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association. The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association also requires track athletes “to wear cloth face coverings/masks per EEA guidelines, including always covering both the nose and mouth.” The CDC recommends that people wear masks “in public settings, at events and gatherings, and anywhere they will be around other people.”

On Monday, Keyes posted another blog entry that stated:

I have been fired. I am not surprised. I made my choice to speak out. They made theirs.

My only regret is not being able to be there everyday to teach and encourage all of my athletes. I have just one parting thought that came to me yesterday that helped clarify this situation and why I made the choice I did.

High school sports in their ideal should:

instill a joy of physical activity

show the value of hard work and a long-term view towards self improvement

teach teamwork and cooperation

help learn how to face both success and failure with dignity and grace

One of the fundamental parts of all of this is learning to play by the rules. The rules supposedly put in place in order to create a fair and level playing field, to let everyone know what is expected and allowed, and then to let the best man, woman, or team win.

Except now we are adding arbitrary, senseless, ill-thought rules.

I have had a few coaches thank me for speaking out — for saying what they would like to say. Some have even stated that they will be telling their athletes that there’s nothing that can be done if their masks happened to fall down or off at the start of the race. That is how many coaches are going to deal with these new mask rules – they are going to tell their athletes to ignore them, to cheat.

We now have some coaches telling athletes to play by some rules and ignore others. Then we’ll have other coaches who tell their athletes that the new mask rules suck but they’ll still need to play by those rules.

So now you’ve got an un-level playing field and blatant violation of rules. And that leads to the real crime in this situation – an undermining one of the cornerstones of high school sports and the lessons we hope to teach these young adults.

I won’t be a part of that.

Keyes told WBZ:

I backed them into a corner. What I wanted was to make a point. I was hoping the word would get out some and maybe there would be enough reaction that down the road, maybe in a few weeks or later, some of the restrictions would be changed. I just think people haven’t pushed back and I decided it was time to push back. … I wear a mask where I have to. I’ll wear a mask when I go into stores or any private business that wants me to. Based on what I read honestly I don’t believe they do much good.

Track team member David Testerman told WBZ of his concerns over wearing a mask: “It gets you really tired especially when it gets up to 80 degrees soon and it’s going to be really hard for us to keep doing what we live to do.”

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April 8, 2021

Spotify Has Censored 42 Episodes of ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ Podcast

Music streaming service Spotify has reportedly continued to censors episodes of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast from its platform as part of its $100 million exclusive deal with the show. 42 episodes have now been censored by the platform, with reports indicating more episodes are likely to disappear. Some censored episodes appear to have been targeted based on jokes.

DigitalMusicNews reports that the music and podcast streaming service Spotify has continued to remove episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast as part of its $100 million deal with the show. Spotify has more reportedly removed 42 episodes of the podcast, with more shows still at risk of being deleted.

Digital Music News reports:

Among the newly-missing is an episode (#411) with Bulletproof Coffee founder Dave Asprey, a frequent guest on The Joe Rogan Experience. Strangely, Spotify has deleted three total episodes with Asprey for reasons that aren’t entirely clear.

One explanation for the removals is that Asprey frequently backs controversial anti-aging and scientific theories, including claims that Bulletproof Coffee is extremely healthy while other coffee brands are not. Asprey has designed the ‘Bulletproof Diet,’ and frequently criticizes coffee manufacturers for leaving high levels of damaging mycotoxins in their blends.

Asprey — who has predicted that he will live to the age of 180 — is certainly unconventional in his theories, though it appears that Spotify has decided to debunk his claims by removing his episodes entirely.

Other removed episodes include episode #149, “Live from the Icehouse,” which featured host Joe Rogan, Little Esther, Al Madrigal, Josh McDermitt, Brendon Walsh, Felicia Michaels, and Brian Redban. What caused the deletion of the episode is unknown although many raunchy jokes were made during the recording.

Spotify also recently deleted episode #276 also featuring Little Esther, Al Madrigal, Josh McDermitt, Brendon Walsh, Felicia Michaels, and Brian Redban. A total of seven different episodes featuring guest David Seaman have been nixed, as have seven episodes featuring Brian Redban.

Four episodes featuring the comedian Chris D’Elia who was recently accused of sexual misconduct by a number of women. Other guests who have had episodes removed include Owen Benjamin, Joey Diaz, Gavin McInnes, and Eddie Bravo. Breitbart News previously reported on the removal of episodes featuring Alex Jones and Milo Yiannopoulos.

Spotify has not provided a full explanation for the removal of the episodes or even addressed complaints from fans of the podcast. Joe Rogan himself confirmed that Spotify removed certain episodes as a condition of their $100 million agreement with him. “There were a few episodes they didn’t want on their platform, and I was like ‘okay, I don’t care’,” Rogan stated in an interview with Fahim Anwar.

YouTube Censors Coronavirus Roundtable Hosted by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis

Google-owned YouTube took down a video of a roundtable conference hosted by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), featuring former White House coronavirus task force member and medical scholar Scott Atlas, and the three co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration.

The Great Barrington declaration argues that blanket lockdowns and mask mandates are counterproductive, instead advocating for a targeted approach focused on protecting vulnerable segments of the population.

The three co-authors, who attended Gov. DeSantis’ roundable, are Harvard professor of medicine Martin Kulldorff, Oxford professor of epidemiology Sunetra Gupta, and Stanford professor of medicine and epidemiologist Jay Bhattacharya.

Via the American Institute for Economic Research:

The efforts in Florida to protect the elderly while permitting the rest of society to function normally led to a success that has been celebrated the world over. It causes major disruption to the lockdown narrative that the only way to suppress a virus is to suppress rights and freedoms.

As a retrospective on the policy, the governor held a roundtable with all four scientists. Lasting an hour and a half, they covered all the major issues. The video itself came to serve as a tutorial in the relationship between public policy and virus mitigation.

With no warning, no announcement, and no explanation, YouTube on April 7, 2021, suddenly deleted the entire video from its platform. Once hosted by WTSP Tampa Bay, an NBC affiliate, it originally appeared as embedded in a story on WTSP.com. The video that once lived here is now replaced by this.

This is the second time in two weeks that Kulldorff, who servers on a vaccine safety subgroup that advises the CDC, FIH, and FDA, has faced Big Tech censorship. On March 30, the widely-cited epidemiologist was censored by Twitter over a post challenging the notion that children and young people require vaccination against COVID-19.

Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News. He is the author of #DELETED: Big Tech’s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.

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April 8, 2021

Joe Manchin Reiterates Opposition to Democrat’s Filibuster Cancelation and Partisan Reconciliation Schemes

Moderate Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) wrote Wednesday he would oppose any attempt of his party to “eliminate or weaken the filibuster” or abuse the scheme of reconciliation.

“The filibuster is a critical tool to protecting that input and our democratic form of government. That is why I have said it before and will say it again to remove any shred of doubt: There is no circumstance in which I will vote to eliminate or weaken the filibuster,” Manchin bluntly stated to the Washington Post.

Manchin’s sensibilities for bucking his party’s potential vote to alter or to end the longstanding filibuster is due to a belief that he should always be able to explain his votes to his constituents. “If I can’t go home and explain it, I can’t vote for it,” he said.

Manchin reasoned his constituents from a rural state are just as important, indeed, significant as those residents of other states, who may constitute more populous and influential states as a whole.

“The Founding Fathers understood that the challenges facing a rural or small state would always be very different from a more populous state,” Manchin said. “Designating each state with the same number of senators — regardless of the population — ensured that rural and small states and the Americans who live in them would always have a seat at the table.”

“It’s no accident that a state as small as West Virginia has the same number of senators as California or Texas. It goes to the heart of what representative government is all about,” he said.

Manchin also said he understands the desire from progressive states to cancel the filibuster, saying, “each of my colleagues has the same responsibility to their constituents.”

Manchin deduced that “We will not solve our nation’s problems in one Congress if we seek only partisan solutions. Instead of fixating on eliminating the filibuster or shortcutting the legislative process through budget reconciliation, it is time we do our jobs.”

The West Virginia Senator additionally stated a partisan workaround of the filibuster, called reconciliation, should not “replace regular order in the Senate.”

“I simply do not believe budget reconciliation should replace regular order in the Senate. How is that good for the future of this nation? Senate Democrats must avoid the temptation to abandon our Republican colleagues on important national issues,” Manchin said.

He continued, “If the filibuster is eliminated or budget reconciliation becomes the norm, a new and dangerous precedent will be set to pass sweeping, partisan legislation that changes the direction of our nation every time there is a change in political control.”

“The consequences will be profound — our nation may never see stable governing again,” Manchin warned.

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April 8, 2021

Nolte: Far-left PolitiFact Says the ’60 Minutes’ DeSantis Video ‘Could’ Be ‘Deceptive Editing’

PolitiFact, a dishonest and discredited left-wing fact checker, can only bring itself to admit video of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) that was deliberately and maliciously edited by the long-discredited 60 Minutes, “could constitute deceptive editing.”

“The ’60 Minutes’ segment omits some of the background on why Florida partnered with Publix to distribute coronavirus vaccines. That omission could constitute ‘deceptive editing,’ as some social media users have claimed,” the far-left PolitiFact wrote on Wednesday (I don’t link to fake news).

And this is how the corporate media cult protect one another….

60 Minutes is caught red-handed telling lies so provably false and so audacious that two Democrat state officials are now siding with DeSantis… 60 Minutes is caught red-handed editing out DeSantis giving a 60 Minutes hack a full and complete answer to her question… And the left-wing hacks at PolitiFact run in to the rescue.

When you ask a politician a question and the politician answers your question at length and to the satisfaction of any reasonable person, and then you edit out his answer and only include the part where he’s pushing back against the questioner, that is CLEARLY a case of deceptive and malicious editing. It is also a case of media fraud and a deliberate act on the part of 60 Minutes to deceive whoever is stupid enough to still watch that stupid show.

PolitiFact is so dishonest it doesn’t even laugh at 60 Minutes’ ridiculous explanation for its malicious edit:

A CBS News spokesperson told PolitiFact the comments were edited for clarity, a common journalistic practice. “As we always do for clarity, ‘60 Minutes’ used the portion of the governor’s over two-minute response that directly addressed the question from the correspondent,” the spokesperson said.

On what planet is editing out the politician answering your question an act of “editing for clarity?”

Who in their right mind believes editing out the answer to the question will in some way bring “clarity?”

This hideous woman at 60 Minutes asked DeSantis a question, and here is about 95 percent of his answer:

So first of all … the first pharmacies that had it were CVS and Walgreens. And they had a long-term care mission, so they were going to the long-term care facilities. They got vaccine in the middle of December, they started going to the long-term care facilities the third week of December to do LTCs. So that was their mission, that was very important and we trusted them to do that.

As we got into January we wanted to expand the distribution points. So yes, you had the counties, you had some drive-thru sites, you had hospitals that were doing a lot. But we wanted to get it into communities more, so we reached out to other retail pharmacies — Publix, Walmart. Obviously CVS and Walgreens had to finish that mission, and we said we’re going to use you as soon as you’re done with that. For the Publix, they were the first one to raise their hands (and) say they were ready to go. And you know what? We did it on a trial basis. I had three counties. I actually showed up that weekend and talked to seniors across four different Publix — How was the experience? Is this good? Should you think this is a way to go? — and it was 100% positive. So we expanded it and then folks liked it.

And I can tell you, if you look at a place like Palm Beach County, they were kind of struggling at first in terms of the senior numbers. … So we did that, and what ended up happening was, you had 65 Publix in Palm Beach. Palm Beach is one of the biggest counties, one of the most elderly counties. We’ve done almost 75% of the seniors in Palm Beach, and the reason is because you have the strong retail footprint. So our way has been multi-faceted, it has worked — and we’re also now very much expanding CVS and Walgreens now that they’ve completed the long-term care mission.

Every word of the above was edited out by 60 Minutes, the meat of the answer was deliberately removed. Not one word of that was included. But 60 Minutes did leave this part of the DeSantis answer in:

I just disabused you of the narrative and you don’t care about the facts, because obviously I laid it out for you in a way that is irrefutable. And so it’s clearly not.

Again, how is that “editing for clarity?” And how does that fall under “could be” deceptive editing for any fair-minded person, especially one that poses as a fact checker?

But this is how the game is played…

A member of the elite media cult is caught red-handed committing fraud….

Another member of the elite media cult is sent in to pose as fact checker and gaslight the public by muddying the waters with words like “could.”

Bottom line: All the corporate media do is lie, lie, lie, lie, lie; and when they’re caught lying, their fake fact checkers, like PolitiFact, rush in with more lies, lies, lies, lies to protect them.

Look at all the lies PolitiFact has told over the years. Lie after lie after lie after lie.

Shamelessly dishonest propaganda all up and down the line.

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April 8, 2021

Coke, Delta and Major League Baseball duped by a race-baiting con job for the ages

Coke, Delta and Major League Baseball duped by a race-baiting con job for the ages, Those who wonder why Democrats absolutely despise Tucker Carlson need look no further than the must-see opening monologue of his April 2 primetime Fox News show. In the segment titled “Corporatocracy,” Carlson tore into the CEOs of The Coca-Cola Company, Delta Air Lines and Major League Baseball over their knee-jerk capitulation to President Biden’s shameless use of the race card in response to Georgia’s new election integrity law, legislation designed to prevent rampant voter fraud.

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April 8, 2021

8 Times Ron DeSantis Stood Up To The Media And Went Viral

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is a rising star in the Republican Party.

DeSantis clinched the Governor’s race in 2018 after a three-term stint in the United States House of Representatives. Over the past several months, the 42-year-old Harvard Law School graduate and former JAG Corps member gained national recognition after taking a hands-off approach to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Accordingly, DeSantis has emerged as a popular choice for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. One recent poll — which did not include former President Donald Trump — shows DeSantis leading a crowded primary field with 17% of primary voters, closely followed by former Vice President Mike Pence.

In the same survey, DeSantis notably emerged as the only Republican with a neutral net favorability rating among the national electorate, indicating that he could feasibly contend with the Democratic nominee in the general election.

In addition to high popularity among Republicans, DeSantis is known for his matter-of-fact commentary when taking aim at his opponents — from big tech firms and Joe Biden to those hounding him for enjoying a beer at a football game.

Here are eight times DeSantis went viral for his actions as Governor.

COVID restrictions — “We will never do any of these lockdowns again”

In comparison to other Democratic — and Republican — governors, DeSantis was reluctant to use executive powers in shutting down businesses and mandating face masks.

As early as August of 2020, DeSantis announced that he would end the state’s restrictions on private freedoms.

“We will never do any of these lockdowns again, and I hear people say they’ll shut down the country, and honestly, I cringe. The most draconian lockdown in the world has been Peru — military enforced since March. They have the highest per capita mortality in the world from COVID,” he remarked at a press conference.

“And at best, what the lockdown will do is delay. It does not reduce the ultimate mortality … it creates a lot of other problems with mortality that a lot of people don’t necessarily focus on,” he added.

Republicans were not the only ones to cheer the governor’s move. Noting that the state managed to minimize both COVID-19 deaths and unemployment, many Florida Democrats quietly acknowledged that DeSantis’ policies were well-executed.

Vaccine passports — “Two classes of citizens”

In step with his COVID-19 approach, DeSantis recently banned vaccine passports throughout the state of Florida via executive order.

Commenting on the measure, which bans government entities and businesses from forcing “patrons or customers to provide any documentation certifying COVID-19 vaccination or post-transmission recovery,” DeSantis said that “requiring so-called COVID-19 vaccine passports for taking part in everyday life — such as attending a sporting event, patronizing a restaurant, or going to a movie theater — would create two classes of citizens based on vaccination.”

“You want to go to a movie theater, should you have to show that? No. You want to go to a game, a theme park? No. So, we’re not supportive of that.”

Legacy media — “Smear merchants”

CBS’s “60 Minutes” accused DeSantis of giving special treatment to Publix for COVID-19 vaccine distribution, then appeared to deceptively edit footage of the interview to remove the bulk of his refutation.

DeSantis was not pleased.

“They cut out everything that showed that their narrative was a piece of horse manure and it shows you how dishonest, these are smear merchants — that’s why nobody trusts corporate media. They are a disaster in what they are doing,” he explained. “They knew what they were doing was a lie. I knew what they were doing was a lie. Everybody here knows what they were doing is a lie. They know that we know they’re lying and yet they continue to lie.”

“We offered them the information and they declined to interview the key people because they didn’t want to let go of the narrative. Well, guess what? There are going to be consequences for that,” added the governor.

DeSantis was equally enraged during the interview in question.

“First of all, what you’re saying is wrong, that’s a fake narrative,” DeSantis told “60 Minutes” reporter Sharyn Alfonsi. After explaining that Publix had a different mandate and received vaccine doses after retail pharmacies, DeSantis exclaimed, “I just disabused you of the narrative and you don’t care about the facts.”

Immigration surge — “Intentional,” “Ideological”

DeSantis blasted President Biden for lax immigration policies that created a surge in illegal border crossings.

Commenting on the White House’s handling of the border, DeSantis suggested that though President Trump managed to control migrant inflow, Biden “created this crisis. … I think that this is intentional. I think this is ideological.”

Weeks earlier, DeSantis slammed the Biden administration for allegedly failing to test migrants for COVID-19.

“So, he’s opening the border. He’s letting illegals pour in. They’re not doing any COVID tests. They’re just coming into the communities,” said DeSantis. “We have no idea what type of COVID or other things [they] may be carrying, but yet he wants to potentially make you take a test if you just get on an airplane and fly from one American city to the next, or he wants to prevent travel to the state of Florida?”

Florida travel ban — “We will respond very swiftly”

In the early days of the Biden administration, the White House had allegedly considered a travel ban on the state of Florida for a reported surge in COVID-19 mutations.

DeSantis spared no time in denouncing any such move from the President.

“I think it would be unconstitutional, it would be unwise, and it would be unjust,” said DeSantis, quipping that “restricting the right of Americans to travel freely throughout our country while allowing illegal aliens to pour across the southern border unmolested would be a ridiculous, but very damaging farce.”

“We will not back down, and if anyone tries to harm Floridians or target us, we will respond very swiftly,” he added.

No such travel ban on Florida has since come to fruition.

National Guard in DC — “They’re not Nancy Pelosi’s servants”

After it became clear that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi intended to keep National Guard forces in Washington, D.C., indefinitely, DeSantis was among the first governors to call troops home.

As Mary Ellen Klas of the Miami Herald reported, DeSantis ordered Florida National Guard members to leave the nation’s capital because “they’re not Nancy Pelosi’s servants.”

He also flamed the Democrats’ intention to keep soldiers in D.C. as a “half-cocked mission.”

Social media firms — “Big tech cartel”

DeSantis was among the first governors to fight technology companies’ banning of conservatives.

In February, DeSantis announced support for a bill that would fine social media platforms up to $100,000 for censoring political candidates.

“What began as a group of upstart technology companies from the west coast has since transformed into an industry of monopoly communications platforms that monitor, influence, and control the flow of information in our country and among our citizens,” said DeSantis at a press conference. “These platforms have played an increasingly decisive role in elections and have negatively impacted Americans who dissent from orthodoxies favored by the big tech cartel.”

DeSantis pulled no punches in denouncing Big Tech for suppressing reports about Hunter Biden: “You’re trying to tell me if there was hacked information that could damage me you guys wouldn’t print it? Give me a break. You can whiz on my leg, but don’t tell me it’s raining.”

Maskless Super Bowl pictures — “How the hell am I supposed to drink beer?”

Leftists hounding DeSantis for not wearing a mask at the Super Bowl apparently barked up the wrong tree — or, whizzed on the wrong leg.

As DeSantis told Politico’s Marc Caputo, “Someone said, ‘Hey, you were at the Super Bowl without a mask’… but how the hell am I going to be able to drink a beer with a mask on? Come on. I had to watch the Bucs win.”

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April 8, 2021

‘Because I’m White, You Think I’m Racist? That’s BS.’ Eric Bolling Slams Debate Opponent During BBC Discussion On Georgia Election Integrity

Eric Bolling decided to walk away from a controversial debate on BBC News on Wednesday after another guest described his comments as “disrespectful,” and that it was “really rich” for “a white man” to “run around and claim they care about the economic condition of black communities and black businesses.”

BBC News anchor Emily Maitlis was moderating a discussion between the former Fox News host and political commentator Aisha Mills on the subject of Georgia’s election integrity bill, and the corporations who have pulled their businesses out of the state in response.

As a controversial new voting law in the US state of Georgia is passed, companies are under pressure. But should corporations take a stand when it comes to social and political issues?

Political commentators @AishaMoodMills and @ericbolling debate ⬇️ #Newsnight pic.twitter.com/LoH3MNdPnh

— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) April 7, 2021

“Here’s what they did to the African American community and minority businesses in Atlanta, in Cobb County,” Bolling said, speaking of the actions of the political Left and numerous corporations. “They took $100 million of revenue. They took 8,000 booked hotel rooms, and they moved them out of the state and put them in a state and a city with far less diversity than [Atlanta].”

“And, by the way,” Bolling continued, referencing a moment prior when Mills attempted to interrupt him. “If Aisha wants to complain about this, take it up with Stacey Abrams who’s the voting advocate in Georgia who said it was a mistake. Take it up with both Senators, who are both Democrats, one of them African American who said it was a mistake.”

“I think it’s really rich for any Republican, especially a white man, to run around and claim that they care about the economic condition of black communities and black businesses when that’s all a lie,” Mills responded. “OK? There’s nothing in their polices…”

Bolling immediately rejected this apparent accusation of racism. “That’s not fair,” he interjected. “That’s insulting and not fair. You don’t know me, you don’t know who I am.”

“I don’t work for the Biden administration,” Mills responded. “Never have, but what I am is a black person in America, and everything that these voting laws stand for and what they look like are reminiscent [of] the Jim Crow policies that my families lived under. Every single thing about it. This is all about racial discrimination.”

“And how dare you,” Mills continued, “try to act like you are somehow a proponent of black people and businesses just to make a point and try to create a wedge? It’s ignorant and it’s just disrespectful.”

“You know what? That’s disgusting,” Bolling replied in response to Mills’ continued apparent accusations of racism. “I’m done. Put me off. That’s disgusting. I am nowhere near anything you are painting me to be, and the problem with American politics is exactly that. Because I’m white, you think I’m racist? That’s BS. I’m done.”

After Maitlis asked Bolling to remain for one question, he responded “I don’t know why I’m staying here. I need an apology.”

Mills replied, “I’m not going to apologize for being offended,” to which Bolling left, saying, “I’m done.”

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April 8, 2021

Arizona Should Sue the Far-Left ‘Protect Democracy Project’ for Misrepresenting Itself and Claiming It’s Not Political Which Doesn’t Appear to Be the Case

The state of Arizona should say “Enough!” Far left “Protect Democracy Project” appears to be masquerading as a non-political and non-biased not-for-profit but looks more like another far-left entity taking advantage of the not-for-profit status to prevent paying its fair share in tax dollars.

We mentioned yesterday that the corruption from the Obama years is not over. It’s just beginning. The so-called “Non-For-Profit” group, the Protect Democracy Project, is now involving itself in the Arizona Senate’s audit of Maricopa County. They are connected to Obama, Soros, China, and Biden’s DOJ, and are fighting to prevent an accurate count of the valid votes in the county.

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: ‘Protect Democracy Project’ – The Group Threatening Arizona Auditors Is Connected to Obama, Soros, China and Biden’s DOJ

The problem with the Protect Democracy Project is that it, like so many other far-left outfits, claim a not-for-profit status but there are good arguments that this is just not the case.

Now the nonprofit Project Democracy Project, along with teams of lawyers including Hillary Clinton’s Perkins Coie, sent threatening letters to the Maricopa County ballot auditors chosen by the Arizona State Senate. Is this not interfering with official acts?

The Protect Democracy Project was one of the 24 powerful, progressive and activist nonprofits singled out in the February 4, 2021, Time article, “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election,” which The Thinking Conservative called “The Real Conspiracy to Steal the 2020 Election and Screw the American People.”

Ian Bassin, founder of the Protect Democracy Project, who served as associate White House counsel under the Obama administration from 2009-2011, and his nonprofits are continuing their vicious, partisan activism and are, in fact, likely guilty of “interfering in the proper outcome of the election” by sending threatening letters to the auditors selected by the Arizona Senate to audit the outcome of the Maricopa County 2020 election. Bassin’s nonprofit, and the large team of lawyers it has engaged – including Hillary Clinton’s Perkins Coie, may now be crossing into the area of election interference.

Conservapedia shares this about the Protect Democracy Project:

[The Protect Democracy Project] was born in ‘early 2017’ by ‘a group of former high-level executive branch officials who served in the White House Counsel’s Office and upper echelons of the Department of Justice” from the Obama administration. Among the cohort are high-ranking officials such as Special Assistant to the President and Associate White House Counsel Michael Gottlieb, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, and Senior Deputy Director of Operations and Director for Finance Beau Wright. Advisors to the group include a bevy of vocal Trump critics such as failed presidential candidate Evan McMullin, NYT reporter Anne Applebaum, and Jerry Taylor, President of the Niskanen Center, which has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from George Soros’s Open Society Institute. PDP’s mission statement vows that President Trump ‘must be blunted.’”

The Protect Democracy Project has the well-used, typical nonprofit corporate structure which the Democrats have utilized for decades, the marriage of a 501(c)(3) with a 501(c)(4). Linking these two corporate entities serves to allow for the obscuring of the names of donors and donor amounts; obscuring the fact that political activism and electioneering and election influencing is being conducted utilizing “charitable” dollars, which must remain apolitical; and keeping secret how much donor money, exactly, is actually going into partisan political activism and electioneering.

In other words, a 501(c)(3) – 501(c)(4) corporate platform is designed as what appears to be a sneaky, well-oiled, nonprofit political money-laundering scheme.

The two nonprofit arms, in this case, are the 501(c)(3) – Protect Democracy Project, and the 501(c)(4) – United to Protect Democracy (UPD). 501(c)(3)’s, doing apolitical charitable work, are empowered by the IRS to grant tax exemptions to their donors. This benefits Democrat-progressive millionaires and billionaires who can park money there and get a tax advantage. Then, the (c)(3) can turn around and shift monies from the (c)(3) books to the (c)(4) books – (c)(4)’s (which can not give donors tax exemption) being allowed to do political activism by the IRS. Those funds can then be secretly utilized for the most partisan, sneaky, underhanded political gambits you can imagine.

The donors, wealthy Democrat-progressive millionaires and billionaires, get the best of both worlds: tax exemption with their donor gift and the implementation of their dark and secretive, partisan “grassroots, social justice” political goals.

Here’s how they describe their ethical donation process on their website:

“Please note this contribution to United to Protect Democracy, a 501(c)(4) organization, will support advocacy work to protect democracy, and is not tax deductible. If you would like to make a donation to Protect Democracy Project, our partner 501(c)(3) organization, for educational work about protecting democracy.”

The people of Arizona and the state Senate of Arizona should immediately demand that this nonprofit and its legal henchmen be forced to cease their activities in the state – be “defeated” in their attempts to “interfere with the proper outcome of the election,” if need be through a court order.