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Post by redrex on Jul 9, 2019 14:02:00 GMT -6
I wonder where the Idiot Icky is I want to hear more about the slow growth Obama economy and how that was as good as we are going to get-----Come on Ick lets hear it
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 9, 2019 16:28:33 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/07/09/elizabeth-warren-i-will-end-israeli-occupation/amp/Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) told anti-Israel activists on Monday that she would end Israel’s “occupation.” Warren, who is rapidly moving up through the ranks of Democratic Party presidential contenders, has taken increasingly anti-Israel stances in the past several years. She boycotted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress in 2015, and accused Netanyahu of corruption and “embracing right-wing extremism” earlier this year. An activist from the radical left-wing group IfNotNow named Becca Lubow approached Warren in New Hampshire on Monday after a town hall and asked Warren if she would commit to pushing “the Israeli government to end Occupation.” Warren answered, “Yes. Yes. So I’m there.” BREAKING: Our members in New Hampshire just asked @ewarren if she would commit to pressuring the Israel to stop their 52 year military Occupation over the Palestinian people. She said YES. pic.twitter.com/8GLhNMQ2gf — IfNotNow (@ifnotnoworg) July 8, 2019 In a statement, IfNotNow described, and applauded, what it described as Warren’s increasingly “progressive” stance on Israel: Here’s our press release detailing how @be_ccahh got a commitment from @ewarren to pressure Israel to end the Occupation and the significance of @ewarren breaking with the @aipac status quo of simply paying lip service to a two state solution. pic.twitter.com/sW270N8n8j — IfNotNow (@ifnotnoworg) July 9, 2019 The word “occupation” was not defined. Some anti-Israel activists consider the very existence of Israel to be an “occupation.” IfNotNow is a fringe group that began in the midst of Israel’s war against the Palestinian terror group Hamas in 2014 — a war for which Hamas was almost universally blamed, and in which Hamas fired rockets at civilian population centers. As Breitbart News noted earlier this year (original links): IfNotNow seeks to disrupt the connections that many American Jewish organizations have with Israel. It blames American Jewish support for Israel for the persistence of the Israeli occupation of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), though most Palestinians in that territory live under the administration of the Palestinian Authority. In addition to staging sit-ins and protests, members of IfNotNow attempt to infiltrate Jewish summer camps and tours of Israel, where they launch demonstrations or expose the mainstream Jewish community to anti-Israel propaganda. In one episode in 2018, members of IfNotNow were arrested while reciting the Kaddish — the traditional Jewish prayer for the dead — near the offices of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, memorializing Palestinians killed in “protests” at the Gaza border. (The vast majority of Palestinians killed were members of Hamas, and they were trying to infiltrate Israel to carry out attacks, not stage a non-violent protest against Israeli policies.) Recently, IfNotNow supported Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) after she repeatedly used antisemitic rhetoric.
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Post by ghostoficky on Jul 9, 2019 17:18:42 GMT -6
I wonder where the Idiot Icky is I want to hear more about the slow growth Obama economy and how that was as good as we are going to get-----Come on Ick lets hear it Shut up, looser. Trump cock sucker dummy.
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Post by kcrufnek on Jul 9, 2019 17:56:46 GMT -6
What a great loss to the country.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 9, 2019 22:38:07 GMT -6
abcnews.go.com/Politics/judge-blocks-doj-motion-withdraw-legal-team-census/story?id=64228596&cid=social_twitter_abcnThe federal judge overseeing the census case in the Southern District of New York has blocked the government’s motion to withdraw its team of lawyers who had been working on the case previously. Judge Jesse Furman’s order doesn’t block the new team of lawyers from entering the case, but he says the Department of Justice must provide “satisfactory reasons” for its surprise decision to withdraw the previous team. “Defendants provide no reasons, let alone “satisfactory reasons,” for the substitution of counsel,” Furman wrote in the ruling. “And as to the second factor, Defendants’ mere “expect[ation] that withdrawal of current counsel will [not] cause any disruption” is not good enough, particularly given the circumstances of this case.” Notably, the judge puts the government’s own arguments prior to the Supreme Court’s ruling against them, where it had repeatedly called for expediting the case in order to resolve the citizenship question dispute and get the census printed.
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Post by kcrufnek on Jul 10, 2019 2:58:25 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 10, 2019 16:27:16 GMT -6
So, Kamala Harris’ ancestors owned slaves? Interesting..... www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/07/10/kamala-harris-ancestors-owned-slaves-too/amp/The ancestors of Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) owned slaves — according to her father, Stanford University economics professor Donald Harris. The information was reported Wednesday by the Washington Free Beacon, citing a genealogical report written by Harris’s father, Stanford University economics professor Donald Harris. The Free Beacon noted: freebeacon.com/politics/kamala-harriss-ancestors-owned-slaves/Donald Harris, a Stanford University economics professor, revealed in 2018 that his grandmother was a descendant of Hamilton Brown, the namesake of Brown’s Town in northern Jamaica. “My roots go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy (née Christiana Brown, descendant of Hamilton Brown who is on record as plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown’s Town),” he wrote in a post for Jamaica Global. … A research archive of Jamaican records indicate that at one point in 1817, Hamilton Brown owned scores of slaves. The majority were brought in from Africa, though he also owned many Creole slaves. Harris is among the leading contenders for the Democratic Party presidential nomination. If elected next year, she would become the first black female president — and the first Asian-American president, she has claimed, based on her mother’s Indian origins. NBC News reported Monday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was descended from slave owners. In a report titled “Sen. Mitch McConnell’s great-great-grandfathers owned 14 slaves, bringing reparations issue close to home,” NBC noted: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who said recently he opposes paying government reparations to the descendants of American slaves, has a family history deeply entwined in the issue: Two of his great-great-grandfathers were slave owners, U.S. census records show. The two great-great-grandfathers, James McConnell and Richard Daley, owned a total of at least 14 slaves in Limestone County, Alabama — all but two of them female, according to the county “Slave Schedules” in the 1850 and 1860 censuses. In his defense, McConnell noted that former President Barack Obama, the nation’s first black president, had ancestors on his mother’s side who were slave owners. The New York Post reported that McConnell also noted that Obama also opposed reparations.
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Post by kcrufnek on Jul 10, 2019 16:28:57 GMT -6
So, Kamala Harris’ ancestors owned slaves? Interesting..... www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/07/10/kamala-harris-ancestors-owned-slaves-too/amp/The ancestors of Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) owned slaves — according to her father, Stanford University economics professor Donald Harris. The information was reported Wednesday by the Washington Free Beacon, citing a genealogical report written by Harris’s father, Stanford University economics professor Donald Harris. The Free Beacon noted: freebeacon.com/politics/kamala-harriss-ancestors-owned-slaves/Donald Harris, a Stanford University economics professor, revealed in 2018 that his grandmother was a descendant of Hamilton Brown, the namesake of Brown’s Town in northern Jamaica. “My roots go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy (née Christiana Brown, descendant of Hamilton Brown who is on record as plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown’s Town),” he wrote in a post for Jamaica Global. … A research archive of Jamaican records indicate that at one point in 1817, Hamilton Brown owned scores of slaves. The majority were brought in from Africa, though he also owned many Creole slaves. Harris is among the leading contenders for the Democratic Party presidential nomination. If elected next year, she would become the first black female president — and the first Asian-American president, she has claimed, based on her mother’s Indian origins. NBC News reported Monday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was descended from slave owners. In a report titled “Sen. Mitch McConnell’s great-great-grandfathers owned 14 slaves, bringing reparations issue close to home,” NBC noted: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who said recently he opposes paying government reparations to the descendants of American slaves, has a family history deeply entwined in the issue: Two of his great-great-grandfathers were slave owners, U.S. census records show. The two great-great-grandfathers, James McConnell and Richard Daley, owned a total of at least 14 slaves in Limestone County, Alabama — all but two of them female, according to the county “Slave Schedules” in the 1850 and 1860 censuses. In his defense, McConnell noted that former President Barack Obama, the nation’s first black president, had ancestors on his mother’s side who were slave owners. The New York Post reported that McConnell also noted that Obama also opposed reparations. Beat me to it. Bitch.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 10, 2019 19:08:03 GMT -6
So, Kamala Harris’ ancestors owned slaves? Interesting..... www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/07/10/kamala-harris-ancestors-owned-slaves-too/amp/The ancestors of Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) owned slaves — according to her father, Stanford University economics professor Donald Harris. The information was reported Wednesday by the Washington Free Beacon, citing a genealogical report written by Harris’s father, Stanford University economics professor Donald Harris. The Free Beacon noted: freebeacon.com/politics/kamala-harriss-ancestors-owned-slaves/Donald Harris, a Stanford University economics professor, revealed in 2018 that his grandmother was a descendant of Hamilton Brown, the namesake of Brown’s Town in northern Jamaica. “My roots go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy (née Christiana Brown, descendant of Hamilton Brown who is on record as plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown’s Town),” he wrote in a post for Jamaica Global. … A research archive of Jamaican records indicate that at one point in 1817, Hamilton Brown owned scores of slaves. The majority were brought in from Africa, though he also owned many Creole slaves. Harris is among the leading contenders for the Democratic Party presidential nomination. If elected next year, she would become the first black female president — and the first Asian-American president, she has claimed, based on her mother’s Indian origins. NBC News reported Monday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was descended from slave owners. In a report titled “Sen. Mitch McConnell’s great-great-grandfathers owned 14 slaves, bringing reparations issue close to home,” NBC noted: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who said recently he opposes paying government reparations to the descendants of American slaves, has a family history deeply entwined in the issue: Two of his great-great-grandfathers were slave owners, U.S. census records show. The two great-great-grandfathers, James McConnell and Richard Daley, owned a total of at least 14 slaves in Limestone County, Alabama — all but two of them female, according to the county “Slave Schedules” in the 1850 and 1860 censuses. In his defense, McConnell noted that former President Barack Obama, the nation’s first black president, had ancestors on his mother’s side who were slave owners. The New York Post reported that McConnell also noted that Obama also opposed reparations. Beat me to it. Bitch. Lol. My apologies but you’ll win the next one👍
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Post by kcrufnek on Jul 10, 2019 22:06:52 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 13, 2019 6:25:56 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/49461/watch-kamala-struggles-defend-support-ryan-saavedraDemocrat presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (CA) struggled to defend her support for decriminalizing illegal border crossings during an interview on Friday on ABC's "The View." Co-host Meghan McCain pressed Harris about the illegal border crossings, which Harris indicated during the Democratic presidential debate that she supported decriminalizing. "I’m going to try to make this as quick and dirty as possible," McCain said. "You’re for decriminalizing border crossings, you’re one of the people that raised your hand at the debate. Do you agree with AOC that we should get rid of DHS altogether?" "That is not correct. I am not in favor of decriminalizing um, or not having um consequences for, we have to keep, let me just be very clear," Harris said as she stumbled over herself. "We have to have a secure border but I am in favor of saying we are not going to treat people who are undocumented and cross the border as criminals, that is correct. I would not make it a crime punishable by jail," Harris later said, contradicting her previous statement. "It should be a civil enforcement issue but not a criminal enforcement issue."
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Post by kcrufnek on Jul 13, 2019 11:39:18 GMT -6
Sounds decriminalized to me.
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Post by kcrufnek on Jul 15, 2019 3:45:10 GMT -6
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Post by kcrufnek on Jul 15, 2019 3:46:13 GMT -6
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Post by kcrufnek on Jul 15, 2019 3:47:24 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 15, 2019 4:20:34 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 15, 2019 8:39:55 GMT -6
When the far left site Mother Jones calls you out, then you have issues as a Democrat: www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/07/are-democrats-now-the-party-of-open-borders/Elizabeth Warren has an immigration plan. Here are the highlights: Decriminalizes unauthorized immigration and returns to the civil enforcement we had before George Bush began Operation Streamline. Eliminates abusive immigration enforcement and keeps law enforcement at arms length from CBP and ICE. Reduces and reforms immigrant detention. Reforms immigration courts. Raises the refugee cap to 125,000 and affirms refugee protections. Reforms legal immigration and creates a path to citizenship. This is a curious plan. As near as I can tell, it recommends no actions to improve border law enforcement in any way. There’s nothing about either a wall or a “virtual wall.” There’s nothing about E-Verify. There’s nothing about “smarter” or “more efficient” enforcement. No one will ever be deported—except, presumably, for serious felons, though Warren doesn’t even say that explicitly. Expedited removal will be ended. The Border Patrol will be reshaped from “top to bottom,” and will focus their efforts on “homeland security efforts like screening cargo, identifying counterfeit goods, and preventing smuggling and trafficking.” The whole thing is very similar to Julian Castro’s plan. I have previously criticized Republicans who accused liberals of wanting “open borders.” President Trump tweets about this endlessly. But I have to admit that it’s hard to see much daylight between Warren’s plan and de facto open borders. As near as I can tell, CBP will be retasked away from patrolling the border looking for illegal crossings; if border officers happen to apprehend someone, they’ll be released almost immediately; if they bother to show up for their court date, they’ll have a lawyer appointed for them; and employers will have no particular reason to fear giving them a job.Am I missing something here? Does Warren’s plan explicitly make it vanishingly unlikely that anyone crossing our border will ever be caught and sent back?
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 15, 2019 9:05:16 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/14/influential-democrats-why-party-supporting-criminal-illegal-aliens/amp/One of New Jersey’s most influential Democrats is expressing concern over the Democrat Party’s broad support for illegal immigration and an open border. George Norcross, considered the leading unelected Democrat in the state of New Jersey, questioned last year why the Democrat Party has taken the extreme positions of supporting illegal aliens, including those who commit crimes against Americans, and an open border. “I have at times told people in Washington, whether it was Majority Leader Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi: ‘Why is the Democratic Party supporting criminals that are here illegally,'” Norcross said in the interview that was resurfaced recently by The Intercept. Norcross continues: If you’re a criminal, you do not belong here. And the American public doesn’t want it. Why do we as a party support that? I don’t understand it. And that’s why the Democratic Party has not been attractive to certain elements of the working class of our country. [Emphasis added] Norcross’s comments have come back to light after multiple 2020 Democrat presidential primary candidates have released platforms where they are promising to decriminalize illegal immigration to the U.S. and provide amnesty to all 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living across the country. Most prominently, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has endorsed decriminalizing illegal immigration and ending the detention of all border crossers. Meanwhile, the open borders lobby has attacked former Vice President Joe Biden for not supporting decriminalizing illegal immigration. Nearly every Democrat running for president has announced support for providing all 11 to 22 million illegal aliens with free health care that American taxpayers would be forced to pay for. Over the course of a decade, Breitbart News analysis finds that U.S. taxpayers would be billed at least $660 billion to provide health care for illegal aliens.
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Post by kcrufnek on Jul 15, 2019 23:23:03 GMT -6
I heard Yang(?) on Lars Larsen. He's as nuts as anyone.
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Post by kcrufnek on Jul 15, 2019 23:58:06 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 16, 2019 6:22:43 GMT -6
Not going to lie, when I read that I laughed.
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Post by kcrufnek on Jul 16, 2019 6:34:23 GMT -6
Not going to lie, when I read that I laughed. My question is at the next debate how many CNN hosts will press him on this? "Say, Joe, how come you are continuing to put forward the biggest lie your boss ever told?". Or something like that. Not holding my breath.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 16, 2019 6:38:42 GMT -6
Not going to lie, when I read that I laughed. My question is at the next debate how many CNN hosts will press him on this? "Say, Joe, how come you are continuing to put forward the biggest lie your boss ever told?". Or something like that. Not holding my breath. Agreed. It will be conveniently “overlooked” for some softball question.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 16, 2019 9:43:47 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/07/16/kamala-harris-on-reparations-writing-a-check-not-gonna-be-enough/Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) believes that “writing a check” to the descendants of slaves is not “going to be enough” when it comes to reparations. In an interview with Jemele Hill’s podcast that was released on Monday evening, Hill, playing a game of “for or against,” asked Harris if she was “for or against” reparations. Harris answered: “complicated.” Hill, who interviewed Harris during Essence Fest in New Orleans, told her “that wasn’t one of the choices.” /photo/1 The presidential candidate then elaborated, saying she supports Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s (D-TX) commission to study reparations. “We need to address how we’re going to do it… because back to the point I was making about home ownership…back to the point I was making about disparities around education… you can look at health outcomes when you know that black women are three to four times more likely to die in connection with child birth,” Harris said. “So there’s a lot that has to be about looking at this in a way that is about structural and systemic investment in communities.” Harris said she was “reluctant” to give a simple answer on the issue because she fears Americans will not want to talk about structural and systemic inequalities that reparations advocates have argued have been compounding if the government just writes checks to the descendants of slaves. “So that’s why I’m reluctant to have a simple answer to it because frankly I don’t believe that writing a check is gonna be enough,” Harris told Hill. “I really don’t… And the worst thing that I think could happen is that checks get written and then everybody says ‘ok, stop talking about this now’ without addressing the systemic inequities that are deep and require investment.” Harris previously told The Root that “there has to be some form of reparations”—even for “undiagnosed and untreated trauma”—because “we’re looking at more than 200 years of slavery” and “almost a hundred years of Jim Crow.” “We’re looking at legalized segregation and, in fact, segregation on so many levels that exists today, based on race,” she told The Root earlier this year. “And there has not been any kind of intervention done understanding the harm and the damage that occurred to correct course, and so we are seeing the effects of all of those years play out still today.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 16, 2019 10:01:05 GMT -6
thefederalist.com/2019/07/16/face-massive-border-crisis-democrats-tell-americans-citizenship-means-nothing/In Face Of Massive Border Crisis, Democrats Tell Americans Citizenship Means Nothing A left-wing mob tore down an American flag and replaced it with a Mexican flag. A gunman attacked an ICE facility. Democrats said nothing. By John Daniel Davidson A series of remarkable things happened over the weekend—all of them overshadowed by unfortunate tweets from President Trump and the hysterical overreactions they provoked. But these overshadowed events tell us much more about the state of the country than the controversy over Trump’s tweets, and what they reveal isn’t good. On Friday night, a mob of protestors tore down an American flag outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Aurora, Colo., and replaced it with a Mexican flag. Local police stood by and did nothing. The next day, a gunman reportedly associated with Antifa attacked an ICE detention center in Tacoma, Wash., throwing Molotov cocktails and attempting to set fire to a propane tank. He was reportedly killed by police in a gunfight. The attack in Tacoma coincided with left-wing protests at ICE facilities all over the country, prompted by nationwide ICE raids targeting Central American families whom immigration judges have ordered to be deported after reviewing their claims. If you’re a Democrat seeking your party’s nomination for 2020, what’s your response to these events? So far, nothing. No Democrat has said anything about the mob in Colorado or the gunman in Washington, but plenty have issued statements on the ICE raids and Vice President Mike Pence’s border visit. On Friday, Pence and a group of Republican lawmakers, accompanied by members of the press, visited a pair of immigration detention centers in Texas. Although Pence was blasted by the mainstream media for praising the U.S. Border Patrol, he freely admitted that conditions at the adult facility he visited were unacceptable, and called on Congress to take swift action. “I was not surprised by what I saw,” he said later at a news conference. “I knew we would see a system that was overwhelmed. This is tough stuff.” Julian Castro made the odd assertion that overcrowding at the detention center Pence visited was a result of the Trump administration “slashing aid to Central America and undermining the asylum process.” Sens. Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders all posted messages from the American Civil Liberties Union advising immigrants what to do if ICE shows up at their door. Warren went further, accusing the administration of physically and sexually abusing migrants and vowing to investigate “those responsible” once in office. Never mind that the asylum process has been undermined above all by the sheer numbers of people now claiming asylum. Never mind that those targeted by ICE have had their day in court and been ordered by a judge to leave the country. Never mind that the vice president’s very public visit to the detention centers was above all an indictment of Democratic congressional lawmakers who for months denied that there was a crisis at the border and withheld resources from the federal agencies that said they were overwhelmed. Democrats Are Losing the American Middle What’s most remarkable in all this is that not one Democratic 2020 contender has felt the need to breathe a word about the importance of American citizenship and sovereignty. Not one has issued a word of caution or tried to steer the seething left-wing of their party away from street violence. Not one has acknowledged the importance of enforcing our immigration laws. This is strange. According to a new Gallup poll, nearly a quarter of Americans now say immigration is the most important problem facing the country—the largest share since Gallup began asking the question in 1993. We hold mixed, somewhat incoherent views on the matter. One in three Americans think immigration levels should be decreased, a larger share than think it should be increased, and yet the vast majority (76 percent) think immigration is good for the country. It’s not going to be enough for 2020 Democrats to stick to their rote talking points about the border crisis and the suffering of migrants now in detention, especially since the policies in place are the same ones in place during the Obama administration (including ICE raids targeting Central American families). They don’t realize it yet, but they’re turning off Americans whose votes they need. A recent Axios focus group in Michigan was illuminating on this point. The group consisted of swing voters—Barack Obama voters in 2012 who voted for Trump in 2016 and three who flipped from Mitt Romney to Hillary Clinton. A majority in the group said Trump was handling the border crisis “professionally and responsibly.” Immigration came up repeatedly, and when it did, “Their responses sounded a lot like the ‘America First’ message President Trump has been championing.” They grew animated on the subject of 2020 Democrats offering free health care to illegal immigrants. “Why would you want to give it to another person from a different country for free?” Larry S. asked. “Give them free benefits, this that and the other thing. That is ridiculous,” said Rhonda H. “We need to focus on Americans and not the immigrants,” said Paul T. The upshot here is that Americans are paying attention to immigration and the border in ways Democrats and the media don’t seem to think they are. What Democratic candidates think they’re conveying—compassion, decency, outrage at injustice—isn’t what many Americans are seeing. They’re seeing a major political party cave to its most extreme elements and align itself with the idea that American sovereignty and citizenship aren’t important, that patriotism is problematic, and that the American people should have no say in who is allowed to enter the country and stay.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 16, 2019 12:51:54 GMT -6
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/beto-orourke-this-country-was-founded-on-white-supremacyWhile speaking with immigrants and refugees in Nashville, presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke said the United States was founded on white supremacy and "every single structure" reflects the nation's legacy of racism. "Here we are in Nashville, I know this from my home state of Texas, those places that formed the Confederacy, that this country was founded on white supremacy and every single institution and structure that we have in our country still reflects the legacy of the slavery and segregation and Jim Crow and suppression, even in our democracy," the former Texas congressman said on Monday During the same discussion, O'Rourke also said it has not been just Republican presidents who have deported illegal immigrants. “We also have to admit that Democratic presidents have used ICE raids mercilessly. Whatever the motivation, it instilled fear and broke up families," he said. Because of the country's history of slavery, O'Rourke said he “absolutely" supports reparations. While O'Rourke entered the crowded Democratic field with a lot hype and hopes to be the front-runner, he has dropped in the polls. RealClearPolitics shows his average polling is at 2.6%
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 16, 2019 16:00:52 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/49559/democrats-who-called-northam-resign-now-accepting-ryan-saavedra?ampMultiple Virginia Democrats who called on Democrat Governor Ralph Northam to resign earlier this year following his racism scandal involving a KKK and blackface photo are now accepting campaign donations from him of up to $25,000. The Washington Free Beacon reports that newly-released campaign finance reports released this week show that Northam has recently donated $117,500 to 11 Democrat candidates, which when combined with his previous donations following his scandal, total over $200,000 in donations to Democrats. "Two state Senate candidates, Cheryl Turpin and Ghazala Hashmi, received a $25,000 donation from Northam's Way Ahead PAC shortly after the state's legislative primary elections in mid-June," the Free Beacon reported. "Both candidates had previously called on Northam to resign." After Northam's scandal broke out in February, Turpin called for his resignation in a tweet, adding: "Though he has issued an apology, I do not believe it goes far enough." Hashmi also called for Northam's resignation, tweeting: "I stand in solidarity with @vablackcaucus and call for @governorva to resign."
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Post by kcrufnek on Jul 16, 2019 16:30:11 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/07/16/kamala-harris-on-reparations-writing-a-check-not-gonna-be-enough/Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) believes that “writing a check” to the descendants of slaves is not “going to be enough” when it comes to reparations. In an interview with Jemele Hill’s podcast that was released on Monday evening, Hill, playing a game of “for or against,” asked Harris if she was “for or against” reparations. Harris answered: “complicated.” Hill, who interviewed Harris during Essence Fest in New Orleans, told her “that wasn’t one of the choices.” /photo/1 The presidential candidate then elaborated, saying she supports Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s (D-TX) commission to study reparations. “We need to address how we’re going to do it… because back to the point I was making about home ownership…back to the point I was making about disparities around education… you can look at health outcomes when you know that black women are three to four times more likely to die in connection with child birth,” Harris said. “So there’s a lot that has to be about looking at this in a way that is about structural and systemic investment in communities.” Harris said she was “reluctant” to give a simple answer on the issue because she fears Americans will not want to talk about structural and systemic inequalities that reparations advocates have argued have been compounding if the government just writes checks to the descendants of slaves. “So that’s why I’m reluctant to have a simple answer to it because frankly I don’t believe that writing a check is gonna be enough,” Harris told Hill. “I really don’t… And the worst thing that I think could happen is that checks get written and then everybody says ‘ok, stop talking about this now’ without addressing the systemic inequities that are deep and require investment.” Harris previously told The Root that “there has to be some form of reparations”—even for “undiagnosed and untreated trauma”—because “we’re looking at more than 200 years of slavery” and “almost a hundred years of Jim Crow.” “We’re looking at legalized segregation and, in fact, segregation on so many levels that exists today, based on race,” she told The Root earlier this year. “And there has not been any kind of intervention done understanding the harm and the damage that occurred to correct course, and so we are seeing the effects of all of those years play out still today.” Wow. Talk about unlistenable.
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Post by kcrufnek on Jul 16, 2019 21:51:41 GMT -6
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Post by kcrufnek on Jul 16, 2019 23:28:28 GMT -6
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