31st August 2024
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Chicago has a budget deficit of nearly $1 billion. Tack on another $2.9 billion for a proposed teachers’ contract plus an unknown amount for firefighters.
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31st August 2024
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If you’ve been wondering how it’s possible for so many woke movies, streaming series and video games to continually fail yet still get made, the answer is of course ESG funding. These products don’t necessarily have to bring in consumer dollars because the companies already got paid by an army of NGOs and government programs.
Though the flow of ESG cash has slowed dramatically ever since central banks started raising interest rates there’s still a long list of projects that were initiated several years ago that are finally being released today. This is why, despite the complete public rejection of woke propaganda and dying ESG, we are still being inundated with far-left media.
For many years it has been suspected that leftist government officials are involved in directly financing social engineering projects using public tax dollars. In film and TV the influence is more obvious, but what about video games (the largest entertainment market on the planet)?
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31st August 2024
“How can you trust a man who wears both a belt and suspenders? The man don’t even trust his own pants.” — Henry Fonda, Once Upon a Time in the West
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31st August 2024
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This summer’s events could hardly have shown us more clearly how Europe’s spineless, self-loathing attitude to the fight against Islamism here and abroad is putting democracy and Western civilisation at risk. Yet our leaders refuse to face the truth.
Until the recent announcement of their big reunion gigs, 1990s Britpop band Oasis only featured in the news whenever there was a terror attack in the UK; most notably after the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing in which an Islamic suicide bomber killed 22 people, including children, and injured a thousand more at an Ariana Grande concert in the band’s home city.
After terror attacks, the authorities play the Oasis classic “Don’t Look Back in Anger” at every opportunity, as if it was a state anthem in a totalitarian regime. The message to the public is: be sad, weep for the cameras, but don’t show the ‘wrong’ kind of emotions; don’t get angry about the Islamist slaughter of innocents—and if you do, we’re coming for you.
‘Islamism’ is not a thing; it’s a euphemism used by people who are unwilling (or afraid) to voice the truth that Islam, not some ‘variant’ thereof, is the problem.
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31st August 2024
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It pays quite well, at least for the criminals being deported from Germany to Afghanistan. You get to come to Germany, live on the dole, rob and rape to your heart’s content, and then they give you a cool €1,000 when they send you home. What’s not to like?
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31st August 2024
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Near riots around several public libraries in San Francisco ensued when gay, lesbian and other gender-identifying parents discovered that cisgendered, heteronormative married couples who identify as men and women were scheduled to read storybooks to children in many of the city’s public libraries.
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31st August 2024
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Hey, me too…
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31st August 2024
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In a public hearing exclusively recorded and streamed by NewsBusters, on Friday, CNN defended their use of Taliban Sharia law in the courtroom. CNN’s lead counsel Deanna Shullman (of Shullman Fugate PLLC) repeatedly argued that the network was correct to suggest Plaintiff and Navy veteran Zachary Young took part in an illegal “black market” because he was getting women out of Afghanistan “without permission of the Taliban;” an argument that got some push back from Judge Scott Henry.
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31st August 2024
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Today in “victories by our Border Czar Kamala Harris” it was reported that this past week a group of about 20 migrants tried to board a children’s school bus in California, “terrifying” the children.
And the incident came one day after another group of migrants were walking down the highway trying to stop another bus, according to a report by the NY Post. On Tuesday, at least 3 migrants were in traffic on Highway 94 trying to stop a bus that was ultimately forced to go around them.
Then, early Wednesday, about 20 people tried to board a bus at a stop near the highway while students were getting on for school.
Both incidents took place in the Jamul-Dulzura Union School District close to the Mexico border, according to the Post.
Mother of one child, Nicole Cardinale, said: “It was definitely really scary. Your initial shock is you’re helpless.”
“He said these adults — they weren’t kids — had backpacks on and they were trying to get on our bus … He said there was a lot of them,” she continued, stating that the kids were “really confused” by the episode.
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31st August 2024
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On Tuesday, a federal appeals court in New Orleans ruled that illegal aliens do not have the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment, due to the fact that they are not American citizens.
As reported by Fox News, a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals determined that federal law prohibiting illegal aliens from owning firearms is legal, as the Constitution does not apply to anyone who has entered the United States illegally.
The decision came as the result of an appeal by an illegal alien named Jose Paz Medina-Cantu, who had been arrested in Texas in 2022 by the Border Patrol. He was charged with illegal possession of a handgun, and illegally re-entering the country after having already been deported.
No-brain journalism strikes again: ‘Not an American citizen’ and ‘in the country illegally’ aren’t the same thing.
“The Second Amendment protects the right of ‘the people’ to keep and bear arms. Our court has held that the term ‘the people’ under the Second Amendment does not include illegal aliens,” said U.S. Circuit Judge James Ho in a concurring opinion. “As to common sense, an illegal alien does not become ‘part of a national community’ by unlawfully entering it, any more than a thief becomes an owner of property by stealing it.”
Love that analogy.
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31st August 2024
New York Times.
How is this news? If you get rid of the rules pumping up the numbers of unqualified minorities, you’re going to wind up with fewer of them. A six-year-old could see this–but not, apparently, AWFUL writers for the New York Times.
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31st August 2024
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Right now, people in Germany can carry knives up to 4.7 inches long. The law will be modified so that they can only carry knives up to 2.4 inches long. No one appears to have considered the possibility that Muslim terrorists on the way to killing as many infidels as possible might violate the law and carry a concealed knife of 4 inches or longer. Such thoughts are unthinkable.
It’s not the knives, it’s the Muslims.
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31st August 2024
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As we previewed overnight, Elon Musk’s X has been ordered ‘immediately suspended’ by Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes, citing the company’s refusal to comply with a legal order to censor the judge’s political opponents, Bloomberg reports.
Officially, the ruling was due to Musk’s refusal to name a legal representative for the social network (after the judge froze his last attorney’s bank accounts).
This is the sort of thing that Democrats are trying to implement in this country.
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30th August 2024
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A leftist group financed by self-appointed Minister of Truth George Soros is partnering with a Big Tech-backed organization in an attempt to interfere in the 2024 election.
The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) boasted in an Aug. 21 press release how it was leading a joint effort for “Helping Election Officials Combat Misinformation in 2024” with a “course” co-led by the Google and Facebook-backed Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL), which was significantly involved in the whole “Zuck Bucks” scandal to influence the 2020 election. Notably, Soros pumped at least $1,496,000 into the coffers of CDT and its international affiliate between 2016 and 2023, according to grant disclosures reviewed by MRC Free Speech America.
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30th August 2024
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How many times have you heard the mainstream media tell you that the economy is doing just great in recent months? Personally, I have seen the word “booming” used over and over again to describe the economy, and it makes me sick. The level of gaslighting that we are witnessing right now is off the charts. Millions of Americans are sleeping in their vehicles, thousands of businesses are failing all over the nation, and most of the country now believes that the American Dream is no longer attainable.
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30th August 2024
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We have been discussing Democratic leaders and activists who have been calling for revolutionary change and a rejection of the foundation of the American constitutional system. The latest is Human Rights Campaign president Kelley Robinson, who spoke at the National Democratic Convention. In an earlier speech, Robinson rejected what she referred to as Founders’ “little piece of paper” and called for reimagining our constitutional system.
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30th August 2024
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A Christian infantry officer is now being punished by the Idaho Army National Guard for using his First Amendment right to speak out against the LGBTQ+ ideology that he believes is harming children.
In 2023, the officer posted about some of his deeply held beliefs on his private social media account while running for political office in his “private capacity.” According to Liberty Counsel, the legal group defending him, his posts included statements “against graphic, obscene children’s books in a library and the promotion of a ‘drag kids’ event and drag queens in schools.”
He also posted statements such as ‘No child is born in the wrong body,’ males should not be competing in female sports, and against the medical mutilation of gender-confused children.
His concern over LGBTQ+ indoctrination resulted in “a subordinate senior enlisted man who claims to be homosexual” filing “a formal discrimination military complaint against the officer” for sharing his beliefs. The complaint accused the infantry officer’s posts of showing “just how much [the officer] truly hates the LGBTQ community.”
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30th August 2024
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A video of what appears to be a young boy scantily dressed as a girl broke the internet this week. The child is seen provocatively dancing on a stage, surrounded by half-naked grown adults shaking their naughty bits in his face.
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30th August 2024
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You? Who cares about you?
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30th August 2024
The Guardian.
Robert Reich and his fellow fascists are all about control–especially of the Wrong Sort of People.
And they’re always on the look-out for ways to ‘rein in’ such people.
Wouldn’t it be nice if they would just mind their own business?
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30th August 2024
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30th August 2024
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The German government is financing procedural instructions for migrants that tell them how to avoid deportation. It’s not enough to just stand by passively and allow the invading hordes into the country: Interior Minister Nancy Faeser is teaching them how to circumvent Germany’s (and the EU’s) immigration laws.
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30th August 2024
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Books have been written, movies made and college courses taught about white privilege. Denouncing the evils of whiteness indiscriminately allows people of all races, even white people like Robin DiAngelo and Tracie McMillan, to earn a very good living from hunting for white privilege.
Less discussed is ‘whiteless privilege’. Even when one of the biggest beneficiaries of whiteless privilege, Vice President Kamala Harris, has made that her identity. What race is Kamala? Kamala is at once black and Indian, and none of the above because what matters most is not what race she is, but what race she is not. By not being white, she is a person of color and thus whiteless.
Kamala has white ancestry by way of her father, but in a world where men can be women and women can be androgynous and can then march in pride parades as Androgynes for Gaza while wearing half-burkas, what you are matters much less than what you identify as and what you don’t identify as.
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30th August 2024
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The modern Democratic Party operates like a Mafia family. Like the Mob, Democrats have a specific organizational hierarchy. There are the grand bosses who sit atop the entire food chain, such as the Obamas and the Clintons. There are the trusted consiglieres, such as Attorney General Merrick Garland and outside super-lawyer Marc Elias. There are caporegimes, such as Govs. Gavin Newsom and Kathy Hochul. Heck, there was even a yearslong omerta vow of silence surrounding President Joe Biden’s obvious physical and mental decline.
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30th August 2024
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Public health responses are most effective when they are grounded in reality. This is particularly important if the response is intended to address an ‘emergency,’ and involves the transfer of large amounts of public money. When we reallocate resources, there is a cost, as the funds are taken from some other program. If the response involves buying lots of products from a manufacturer, there will also be a gain for the company and its investors.
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30th August 2024
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The Islamic State group called on its supporters to conduct terror attacks in the United States and Europe, according to a post in its official weekly newsletter, al-Naba.
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30th August 2024
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Why are there suddenly so many stories about deadly diseases in the news? We are just a little over two months away from November, and so this is a perfect time to deeply alarm the general public about a coming health crisis, right? But this time around it isn’t just one major disease that is making news. As you will see below, people are freaking out about 3 different very frightening diseases.
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30th August 2024
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The Committee on House Administration subpoenaed high ranking officials at five government agencies on Thursday requesting they appear at depositions over concerns federal funds were used to encourage more Democrat voting.
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30th August 2024
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Federal immigration authorities confirmed that an MS-13 gang member charged in a shooting spree in Mississippi last week is an illegal migrant who had been previously deported from the U.S.
Fredy Antonio Amaya-Marin is a 39-year-old Salvadoran national living in the U.S. illegally, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokesperson confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation on Thursday.
The Philadelphia, Miss., Police Department arrested Amaya-Marin on Aug. 24 for allegedly shooting at about 15 vehicles and charged him with attempted murder.
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29th August 2024
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University of Michigan security broke up a pro-Palestinian student “die-in” demonstration Wednesday and police arrested four people, in the latest sign that campus activism across the country is resuming as the fall semester begins.
None of the four people arrested were students, a university spokesperson told press. One is a temporary university employee. At least one arrested protester got into a physical altercation with police, according to the Michigan Daily, the student newspaper.
The protest was backed by a pro-Palestinian student coalition that includes the university’s chapter of the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace and was staged during a popular outdoor showcase for fall student activities. Members of the collective claimed on Instagram that one student had been arrested and later released.
Michigan, otherwise known as Mecca on the Lake.
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29th August 2024
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The graffiti, sprayed across the sandstone monument, said “Jews are committing genocide” in English. The words “Free Palestine,” accompanied by the image of a Palestinian flag, were sprayed on the ground below it. A local tour guide discovered the vandalism on Wednesday, according to the Juedische Allgemeine, a German Jewish publication.
The incident is the latest in which Holocaust memorials and Jewish sites have been hit with pro-Palestinian and antisemitic graffiti since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war on Oct. 7. Earlier this summer, a Seattle Holocaust museum was tagged with pro-Palestinian graffiti, and U.S. synagogues have also been defaced with anti-Israel messages. In the Netherlands last month, a statue of Anne Frank was vandalized with spray paint, and in the fall a mural in Italy honoring Frank was also damaged.
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29th August 2024
Trump shares social posts with QAnon phrases, calls for jailing lawmakers and special counsel (Michelle L. Price/Los Angeles Times) I give up–what are ‘QAnon phrases’? (Remember: If you hear the ‘dog-whistle’, you’re the dog.)
Trump Goes Full Fascist in Truth Social Posting Spree (Rolling Stone)
How to give thousands to Trump without giving his campaign a cent (Philip Bump/Washington Post)
Harris Camp Trolls Trump with Ad Targeting Mar-a-Lago (Marc A. Caputo/The Bulwark)
Vance repeats a bogus Trump claim on ‘factories’ debunked years ago (Glenn Kessler/Washington Post)
Trump Reposts Crude Sexual Remark About Harris on Truth Social (Michael Gold/New York Times)
Sulky CNN Can’t Take Zuck’s Biden-Censorship Mea Culpa: ‘Election-Season Gift’ to GOP
Trump Images at Grave Dismay Family of Green Beret Buried at Arlington (New York Times)
Trump Dishonors Fallen Soldiers Again (Charles Sykes/The Atlantic) Yeah, laying a wreath–totally disrespectful.
How a Trump visit sparked turmoil at America’s most sacred cemetery (Washington Post)
CBS, NBC Outraged Trump Dared Visit Arlington, Unlike Biden-Harris
‘Furious’: Veterans slam Trump team’s altercation at Arlington National Cemetery (USA Today)
CNN’s Kasie Hunt Airs MORE ‘Resurfaced’ Dem Clips of Vance ‘Childless’ Leftist Talk
Trump Goes on Crazed, Violent Rant Calling for Death of His Enemies (Hafiz Rashid/New Republic)
Randi Weingarten, Jewish teachers union boss, calls J.D. Vance ‘gross’ for saying she ‘doesn’t have a single child’
MSNBC Host Puts Trump Campaign Adviser ‘On Notice’ For Pushing ‘False Quote’ On Air (Ben Blanchet/HuffPost) I’ll bet he’s worried.
Abba demands Trump campaign stop using their music at rallies (Miranda Bryant/The Guardian) “They may have won all the battles/But we had all the good songs!” — Tom Lerer
What the performative patriotism of Donald Trump reveals about his character (Jos Joseph/The Hill)
EXCLUSIVE: Gold Star Families Had Trouble Getting Trump Into Arlington Until House Speaker Intervened (Henry Rodgers/The Daily Caller)
Speaker Mike Johnson Helped Trump Break The Law (Jason Easley/PoliticusUSA)
Someone Take This Man’s Phone (William Kristol/The Bulwark) Kristol reveals his Inner Fascist.
CNN Host Kasie Hunt Slams Trump Words on Zuckerberg, Trump Aide Responds with MRC Poll
Playbook: 3 Trump transition issues that aren’t Project 2025 (Politico)
Exec at Trump Media Jumped the Line for U.S. Visa After Company Lobbied GOP Lawmaker (ProPublica)
Crockett on Arlington incident: MAGA is not ‘party of law and order’ (Tara Suter/The Hill)
24 hours of Trump: QAnon tributes, crude attacks and hawking pieces of his suit (Hannah Knowles/Washington Post)
Utah Gov. Cox faces scrutiny for using military cemetery photo with Trump in campaign email (Hannah Schoenbaum/Associated Press) Oh no! Trump cooties!
Trump aide ‘abruptly pushed aside’ an Arlington National Cemetery employee during commemoration, official says (NBC News)
Trump Threatens to Jail Mark Zuckerberg for Life (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)
Trump campaign strategy pivots to praying he wins September debate (Hugo Lowell/The Guardian)
Republicans for Harris: GOP gets ready to rescue MAGA from Trump (Brian Karem/Salon) MAGA is the New Nigger.
PolitiFact Rules Vance Was ‘False’ in Mocking Walz’s Weird ‘Trans Refuge’ Law
ABC Joins Smearing of Trump Over Arlington, Livid With Vance’s ‘Charged Language’
Trump’s Arlington Cemetery Campaign Event (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)
ABC Treats Kamala’s 21-Year Old Misstatement about Prosecutions as News but Not Trump’s Daily Lies about His Own Crimes (emptywheel)
Fallout from Trump’s Arlington National Cemetery visit continues after campaign video (NPR)
Johnson pulled strings to get Trump into Arlington – and now the scandal is spreading (David Badash/Raw Story) In the Narrative Media, anyway.
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29th August 2024
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29th August 2024
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Potential gang activity was caught on surveillance camera in a Colorado apartment building after what one former resident calls “no accountability” kept law enforcement from assisting.
The video shows many men armed with handguns, and one with a scoped rifle, bursting through the door of the apartment complex for unknown reasons.
The group appears to be Tren de Aragua, or TdA, a transnational gang based out of Venezuela. The gang, with reportedly 5,000 members, has a motto of “real until death,” or “real hasta la muerte.”
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29th August 2024
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Two groups of migrants attempted to board separate elementary school buses filled with children in Southern California, Fox 5 in San Diego reported Wednesday.
Thank you, Joe Biden.
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29th August 2024
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In the past decade, hundreds of public officials in California have been convicted on federal corruption charges, The New York Times reported Thursday.
According to the Department of Justice, in the last 10 years, 576 public officials have been found guilty of federal corruption, in what authorities called an “extraordinary” wave, the Times reported.
Perhaps none to the extent of one former city councilman, José Huizar, according to the Times.
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29th August 2024
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If a violent transnational gang coming over the border and overrunning a Denver suburb doesn’t get covered in the national news media, did it really happen at all? This appears to be the underlying calculus of the Regime Media’s outright refusal to cover a story that is critically adverse to the electoral prospects of Vice President Kamala Harris.
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29th August 2024
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Thank you, Joe Biden.
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29th August 2024
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The assembled cast of MSNBC’s Morning Joe joined former Obama State Department official and former managing editor of Time magazine, Richard Stengel, on Thursday in hailing Vice President Kamala Harris for supposedly taking back the mantle of American exceptionalism from Republicans.
The basis for the segment was an article Stengel wrote for Time where he claimed that Harris’s DNC acceptance speech was “the most full-throated and sincere expression of American exceptionalism since the presidency of George W. Bush, and the most direct and unambiguous expression of that idea by a Democratic presidential candidate since John F. Kennedy.”
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In proof that the thesis may need some revisions, elsewhere in the segment, Stengel would dance around counterexamples, such as the anti-American, anti-Israel demonstrators.
As it was, after Stengel claimed the Iraq War alienated many Democrats from the idea of American exceptionalism, he turned his attention to Donald Trump, “I mean, the other thing, the flip side, the fact that Republicans are embracing American exceptionalism, when their own candidate has basically derogated the term when he said the American dream is dead and has run as a declinist, as political scientists call him, someone who thinks America is in decline.”
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29th August 2024
NBC News.
If it’s ‘conservative’ it’s got to be bad.
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29th August 2024
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Investigators swooped on the Hamburg Islamic Center five weeks ago after concluding it was an “Islamist extremist organization” with links to Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah group.
Mohammad Mofatteh, 57, the former director of the center, has been ordered to leave Germany within 14 days and faces deportation if he does not comply, the spokesperson said.
He will not be allowed to re-enter Germany and could face up to three years in prison if he does.
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29th August 2024
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29th August 2024
ZMan keeps pointing out how the world is going to shit.
Western elites are in a competition with one another to see who can be the most creative in violating the old rules of the liberal order. Every week seems to bring a new outrage from a Western government. The reason it seems like they are looking to outrage rather than work from an understood ideological foundation is that they do not fully understand their new ideological foundation. It is an evolving paradigm, as they used to say, to which they are forced to adapt.
A good example is this rather weird story out of the UK. A company was taken to court because they paid warehouse workers more than their retail workers. The warehouse staff was predominantly male while the retail staff was predominantly female, thus creating a situation in which men are earning more than women. The company pointed out that this is normal and there was no evidence that women were discriminated against in hiring or evaluations. They lost the case anyway.
Something called an employment tribunal agreed that “the difference in pay rates between the jobs was not down to direct discrimination, including the conscious or subconscious influence of gender on pay decisions, but was caused by efforts to reduce cost and enhance profit. Even so, it ruled that the “business need was not sufficiently great as to overcome the discriminatory effect of lower basic pay.” In other words, it just looked bad so it must be bad.
‘Disparate impact’ forever!
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