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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 30, 2019 13:59:10 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2019/06/30/stephanopoulos-castro-borders-immigration/George Stephanopoulos on Sunday challenged Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro over whether his proposals to provide health care to illegal immigrants and to decriminalize illegal border crossings amount to open border policies. Stephanopoulos asked Castro, who served as secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Obama administration, whether he gave an opening to Republicans who have accused Democrats of supporting open border policies in an interview on ABC’s “This Week.” “Not at all,” said Castro, who later in the interview derided claims that Democrats support open border policies as “just a right-wing talking point.” “It always has been.” Castro gained traction during a Democratic presidential debate Wednesday when he said his proposed health care plan would allow illegal immigrants to purchase health insurance. Castro also said he wants to decriminalize crossing the border. In a Democratic debate Thursday, all 10 candidates raised their hands to say they would support government-funded health care for illegal immigrants. (RELATED: Democrats Push Immigration Policies That Amount To Open Borders During Second Debate) Castro mounted a case to include illegal immigrants in his health insurance plan, saying “undocumented immigrants already pay a lot of taxes.” “Secondly, we already pay for the health care of undocumented immigrants,” he added. “It’s called the emergency room. People show up in the emergency room and they get care, as they should.” But Stephanopoulos pressed Castro on how his proposals differ from a policy supporting open borders. “The question is, at what cost, though?” Stephanopoulos asked. “When you add up all the proposals you’re calling for right now, decriminalization of crossing the border, no deportation absent other crimes, the offer of health benefits, also a possible path to citizenship. I know you reject the rhetoric about open borders, but isn’t that effectively open borders, not limiting how — immigration in any real way?” Castro pushed back, saying that “there’s no way that we can call that open borders because we have 654 miles of fencing, we have thousands of personnel at the border. We have planes, helicopters, boats, security cameras, guns. That’s by no stretch of the imagination open borders.” “Open borders is just a right-wing talking point. It always has been,” he said. Castro did not say, and was not asked, whether he would cut back on the resources and manpower currently at the border. Like most Democrats, he has opposed calls to build a wall on the border. Castro told a reporter Feb. 21 in Iowa he would support the removal of parts of the border wall that have been erected under Trump. .......
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 30, 2019 14:13:35 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/06/30/willie-brown-still-no-democrats-can-beat-trump-including-kamala-harris/Former California State Assembly speaker and San Francisco mayor Willie Brown has declared, in the wake of the first Democratic Party presidential primary debate, that there is still no candidate who can beat President Donald Trump. Brown made his observations in his most recent column for the San Francisco Chronicle on Saturday, titled, “Bad news for Democrats — none of these candidates can beat Trump.” Brown wrote: www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/williesworld/article/Bad-news-for-Democrats-none-of-these-14059874.phpThe first Democratic debates proved one thing: We still don’t have a candidate who can beat Donald Trump. California Sen. Kamala Harris got all the attention for playing prosecutor in chief, but her case against former Vice President Joe Biden boiled down in some ways to a ringing call for forced school busing. It won’t be too hard for Trump to knock that one out of the park in 2020. … Trump must have enjoyed every moment and every answer, because he now knows he’s looking at a bunch of potential rivals who are still not ready for prime time. Read Brown’s full column here. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/williesworld/article/Bad-news-for-Democrats-none-of-these-14059874.phpIt was the second time Brown has panned the Democratic primary field. He wrote in February, after President Trump’s widely-praised State of the Union address: “Make no mistake, President Trump’s State of the Union address was the kickoff for his 2020 re-election campaign, and so far I’ve yet to see a Democrat who can beat him. … They all have impressive credentials, winning personalities and positive messages, but none displays the “people personality” that our media-savvy president has mastered.” www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/williesworld/article/Democrats-have-a-2020-problem-Trump-is-good-at-13603018.phpBrown’s criticism included Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), whom he infamously dated in the 1990s, appointing her to state jobs commanding significant salaries. He wrote in January: m.sfgate.com/politics/article/Sure-I-dated-Kamala-Harris-So-what-13562972.php?t=c1bc437ba8 Yes, we dated. It was more than 20 years ago. Yes, I may have influenced her career by appointing her to two state commissions when I was Assembly speaker. And I certainly helped with her first race for district attorney in San Francisco. I have also helped the careers of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Gov. Gavin Newsom, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and a host of other politicians. The title of his column on that occasion: “Sure, I dated Kamala Harris. So what?”
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 30, 2019 14:29:11 GMT -6
DNC Chair: "Health care for illegals is not a handout". The humorous part is, some actually believe that. www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/06/30/dnc-chair-perez-defends-health-care-for-illegal-immigrants-this-is-not-a-handout/On this weekend’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez defended the proposal of health care for immigrants who entered the United States illegally. Thursday at the Democratic debate all ten candidates raised their hands when asked if they support health care for undocumented immigrants. Perez said, “It’s an insurance program, so you got to pay into it. Immigrants, including undocumented immigrants, pay billions of dollars in taxes. That is the reality.” He continued, “Democrats believe that you should be able to buy into a health insurance system. It is not a handout.” He added, “I live in a community right now where if you are a pregnant woman and you are undocumented, we provide you with access to health care because we believe that having good prenatal care is an essential health care issue an essential issue of economics and frankly an essential issue of morality. The party of Lincoln is dead, and one of the things that died with it is compassion, and this is not a handout. again, this is allowing people to buy into an insurance program, people who pay billions of dollars in taxes.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 30, 2019 17:56:16 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/06/30/kamala-harris-i-will-not-let-trump-take-america-back-to-before-same-sex-marriage-was-legal/On Sunday MSNBC played a clip from the Alice B. Toklas Club Annual Pride Breakfast in San Francisco in which 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) said she was running for president so President Donald Trump could not take the country back before all couples could marry. Harris said, “The current occupant of the White House has no appreciation, no interest clearly and probably no knowledge of this history, of this work.” She continued, “He says he wants to make America great again. Again for whom? Back before couples could marry, all couples? Back before gay couples could adopt? ” She added, “Well, I’m president because we’re not going back.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 30, 2019 17:58:50 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/06/30/kamala-harris-hides-her-push-college-grad-outsourcing-bill/Sen. Kamala Harris is declaring herself the supporter of working families — but she is the lead Democratic sponsor on legislation which offers green cards to hundreds of thousands of Indian college grads who agree to take middle-class jobs sought by young American graduates.
If Harris’ outsourcing law is adopted, the rush of Central Americans migrants at the southern border will be overshadowed by a huge rush of Indian college graduates walking into professional jobs throughout the United States. “It is impossible to understate the significance of this,” said Jessica Vaughan, policy director at the Center for Immigration Studies. Vaughan continued:
A lot of people believe this is only for IT [professionals] but the potential impact goes way beyond IT – healthcare, accountants, and other professional jobs will be at risk. These are jobs which offered a gateway into the middle class for kids from families where the parents did not have white-collar jobs… American graduates are going to see their employment prospects severely restricted by Harris’ bill.
This is “white-c0llar labor trafficking,” she added.
“Working families need support and need to be lifted up,” Kamala Harris told the TV audience at the June 28 Democrat debate, adding:
Frankly, this economy is not working for working people. For too long, the rules have been written in the favor of the people who have the most and not in favor of the people who work the most.
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We have all been traveling around the country, I certainly have, I’m meeting people who are working two and three jobs … So when we talk about jobs, let’s be really clear. In our America, no one should have to work more than one job to have a roof over their head and food on the table.
Harris is the lead Democratic sponsor for the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act. The legislation is intended to help Indian graduates get roughly 120,000 green cards each year — or roughly five times as many green cards as they receive now.
But Harris’ bill is a special-interest fix for a problem collectively created by the federal government, India’s government, CEOs, investors, and their hired foreign contract-workers.The huge career and financial cost of Harris’ fix will be imposed on young American graduates, including million of U.S. graduates who are likely to vote Democratic in 2020. The Problem: The federal government offers 140,000 green cards to foreign graduates who are nominated by their U.S. employers. Unsurprisingly, companies love this green card giveaway because it allows them to dangle green cards to motivate their foreign workers. Unsurprisingly, many foreign workers rationally will do tough work at low wages for many years to get those hugely valuable green cards for themselves and their families — and Americans companies hire them instead of more expensive American graduates. Companies can nominate as many foreign workers as they wish, even though the federal government only provides 140,000 cards for foreign college-graduates each year. So, of course, there is a growing backlog in the green card line as companies nominate more people than there are green cards. Only some categories of foreign workers are eligible for these green cards. The most important group is the army of the foreign contract-workers in H-1B work-visa program. Workers with H-1B visas have to go home after six years of work — unless they get nominated by their company for one of the 140,000 green cards. Once nominated, the H-1B workers continue working for the same employer until they get their green card, after which they can try to find jobs with better pay and conditions. So companies have a huge financial incentive to hire and import cheap foreign workers on temporary visas, and to then nominate many of the temporary workers for green cards once their temporary status is about to expire. Already, companies employ roughly 1 million foreign contract-workers via the H-1B program. That hidden subsidy to U.S. business means at least 1 million college-graduate jobs are closed to American graduates. It also means that most Americans graduates are earning lower salaries because companies do not have to compete for their skills. Instead, Americans graduates have to compete hard for jobs that pay more than the wages earned by baristas, waiters, and temps. Indian Graduates Almost 70 percent of incoming H-1B workers are Indian because the Indian government has used the program as an economic development policy. That government policy has been extremely successful and Indian firms have won subcontracts worth billions from American investors who want to boost their stock values by outsourcing many of their operations to cheap Indian subcontractors. Roughly 1 million Indian foreign graduates have cycled through the H-1B program. While in the United States, the H-1B workers work closely with teams of India-based workers to boost the Indian economy with a huge variety of outsourced work — including software design, database maintenance, health-records management, banking networks, customer support services, and even the development of avionics software for Boeing aircraft. Most of these workers return home — bringing with them the skills, connections, and contracts that have created a national technology boom and a new middle-class. Understandably, American employers have extended the stay of their Indian H-1B workers by nominating them for green cards. This has spurred the creation of many communities of H-1B and ex-H-1B workers around Microsoft’s headquarters in Washington State, around Wal-Mart in Bentonville Ark., as well as in Silicon Valley, Northern Virginia, New Jersey, and Connecticut. In January 2018, for example, the San Jose Mercury News reported: About 71 percent of tech employees in the Valley are foreign born, compared to around 50 percent in the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward region, according to a new report based on 2016 census data … the paper’s research indicated that 63 percent of Seattle’s foreign-born tech workers were not American citizens. In Wal-Mart’s Arkansas, the Forsyth County News reported: “The Indian population has grown a lot in Forsyth County,” said Gina Sharma, a team leader with Keller Williams Realty North Atlanta. “I moved here in 2005 from Fulton County, and over the past years, I’ve seen personally the change in Forsyth County. A lot of people are moving here from Alpharetta into Forsyth for the schools and just overall the growth that is in Forsyth County.” There are so many H-1B contract-workers in the United States — roughly 1 million — that they are found in every state and in every congressional district. This breadth also gives them the ability to lobby many legislators. Country Caps This is where the H-1B and the green card programs collide to generate even more benefits for U.S. companies. The green card law contains a “per-country cap” which was intended to ensure that a diversity of foreign workers from a variety of countries could get green cards. In practice, the cap means that only 23,000 Indians can get green cards each year.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 30, 2019 19:26:51 GMT -6
amp.dailycaller.com/2019/06/30/mcconnell-supreme-court-2020Democratic 2020 contenders were largely at a loss when asked how they would navigate Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his Republican majority during the primary debates in Miami, offering answers that were alternatively vague or unrealistic. Some candidates spoke in generalities about pressuring Republicans through mass political action, while others promised elusive structural reforms could end the GOP’s dominance in the upper chamber. Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts said she would make Congress “reflect the will of the people” by applying pressure from inside and outside Congress on GOP lawmakers. Similarly, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio promised to lead Democrats into red states to court conservative voters and pressure their Republican representatives. Nor were answers impressive when candidates offered specifics — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said Democrats could end obstructionism by getting rid of the 60-vote threshold to move legislation. Yet that step is impossible unless Democrats take control of the Senate. Even if the party attains a legislative majority, many elder statesmen in the caucus would oppose such a measure. Former Vice President Joe Biden said he was uniquely positioned to work with Republicans given his decades of experience in the Senate. Biden said he got McConnell to raise $600 billion in taxes during a 2012 deficit reduction deal as proof he could work with the GOP. That claim prompted a retort from Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado who said the deal — which made Bush-era tax cuts permanent — was a “complete victory for the tea party.” Whether Republicans will keep control of the Senate in 2020 is an open question. The GOP is defending 22 of the 33 seats on the ballot, with vulnerable incumbents in Arizona and Colorado. However, Democrats have struggled to recruit marquee talent for Senate races, with promising recruits like former Rep. Robert “Beto” O’Rourke and former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper forgoing Senate campaigns in favor of presidential bids. Democrats might hope to move a Supreme Court nominee through the Senate after 2020, however. Though McConnell cautioned that confirmation is a different question, the majority leader told reporters Thursday it would be “unsustainable” to refuse a new president a floor vote on a Supreme Court nomination. (RELATED: Supreme Court To Decide On Trump’s Bid To End DACA) I can’t imagine any scenario under which — in the early part of a president’s term you would not have a vote,” McConnell told reporters. “That doesn’t mean the person would necessarily be confirmed.” McConnell also said the best course of action would be extended discussions between both sides in hopes of producing a consensus nominee. “I would guess there would be much more consultation and much more back-and-forth discussion in a situation like that,” McConnell said. Two left-leaning justices on the high court are in retirement range — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 86 and Justice Stephen Breyer is 80. Whether Republicans will keep control of the Senate in 2020 is an open question. The GOP is defending 22 of the 33 seats on the ballot, with vulnerable incumbents in Arizona and Colorado. However, Democrats have struggled to recruit marquee talent for Senate races, with promising recruits like former Rep. Robert “Beto” O’Rourke and former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper forgoing Senate campaigns in favor of presidential bids.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 30, 2019 19:47:49 GMT -6
2020 Democrats slam President Trump for meeting with Kim Jong Un in North Korea/DMZ. www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-30/2020-democrats-slam-trumps-north-korea-visitDemocrats running for President slammed President Trump's Sunday visit to North Korea, claiming it was an ill-conceived waste of American bargaining power, according to The Hill's Alex Bolton. thehill.com/homenews/campaign/451071-2020-democratic-candidates-pounce-on-trumps-north-korea-visitAfter becoming the first US president to set foot on North Korean soil, Trump met with leader Kim Jong Un in a surprise negotiation session that lasted just under an hour on the South Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone - a meeting which will improve future communication just one week after Trump sent Kim a "friendly" letter (probably telling him he'd swing by after the G20). Unsurprisingly, Democrats threw shade at the US president, who suggested that the meeting was an achievement that former President Obama had strived for but failed. Former Vice President Joe Biden's team slammed Trump for "coddling" dictators "at the expense of American national security and interests," and said "we urgently need a president who can restore our standing in the world, heal relationships with key allies Trump has alienated, and delivered real change for the American people." Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the democratic socialist candidate who honeymooned in Moscow, said that Trump's visit "weakened the state department," adding "The concern here is his incredible inconsistencies. I have no problem with him sitting down with Kim Jong-un in North Korea or any place else. But I don’t want it simply to be a photo opportunity, the whole world’s media was attracted there." Sen. Elizabeth Warren went for the scalp, tweeting "Our President shouldn’t be squandering American influence on photo ops and exchanging love letters with a ruthless dictator." Both Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Julián Castro also weighed in, with Klobuchar telling CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday "We want to see a denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, a reduction in these missiles but it’s not as easy as just going and, you know, bringing a hot dish over the fence to the dictator next door" "This is a ruthless dictator and when you go forward, you have to have clear focus and a clear mission and clear goals," she added. Castro sounded a lot like Sanders, telling ABC's "This Week": "It's worrisome that this president erratically sets up a meeting without the staff work being done. It seems like it's all for show, it's not substantive," adding 'I am all for speaking with our adversaries, what's happened here is this president has raised the profile of a dictator like Kim Jong Un and now three times visited with him unsuccessfully because he’s doing it backward" Yang did not gang up Democratic candidate Andrew Yang was the only 2020 Democrat to praise Trump's meeting with Kim, tweeting: "Anything that improves the political climate on the Korean peninsula and engages North Korea on its nuclear program is a good thing."
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 1, 2019 6:17:04 GMT -6
So, it's either because they were "colonized" by Republicans, or they are Russians are the reasons for African-Americans to not vote for Democrats? Video at link: www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/06/30/msnbcs-guest-african-americans-who-dont-vote-democrat-colonized-by-the-republicans-or-by-russia/Sunday on MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” network regular Elie Mystal took a shot at African-American voters who cast a ballot for Republicans. In reference to questions from Donald Trump, Jr. about Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and her race, Mystal accused African-American voters that vote Republican of having their votes “colonized” by Republicans or Russia. Donald Trump Jr., talking about whether Kamala Harris is black enough is like me talking about whether Idris Elba is hitting the gym hard enough,” Mystal said. “It’s dumb, it’s ridiculous. Obviously, look: There’s always going to be five, to ten, to 12 percent of African-Americans who have their vote colonized by the Republicans, or by Russia. And that’s just–look–you can’t free everybody. So like that’s just going to be a thing that happens. And we have to try hard not to overreact to your black Republican friend telling you Kamala Harris isn’t black enough.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 1, 2019 9:02:32 GMT -6
Kamala Harris rehearsed her attack on Joe Biden for days before the debate. It was all staged. www.politico.com/story/2019/06/28/kamala-harris-joe-biden-debate-1390383(Kamala) prepped with a small team of aides in Washington and then in Miami. A senior strategist, Averell “Ace” Smith, imitated Sanders, while Biden was played by Harris’ national press secretary, Ian Sams. While walking through her planned exchange with Biden over busing, Harris’ campaign planned for a variety of answers from him, from contrition to a more measured approach to the more forceful denial of the position that he ended up giving — a stance that was called out by fact-checkers as untrue given his past quotes rejecting the wisdom of busing. Harris herself ended up settling on a line that within minutes would appear in social media memes and just a few hours later would be screen printed on t-shirts selling for $29 on her website: “That little girl was me,” she said, of her desegregated class. ........ She’s as athentic as a Chinese Gucci bag.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 1, 2019 10:51:50 GMT -6
www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-01/cnn-admits-2020-democrats-voters-youre-all-wrong-strategy-dumbest-everDemocratic presidential candidates appear to have painted themselves into a corner - abandoning their giant moderate base in order to 'out-left' each other, while promoting "radical, nonsensical, unpopular ideas that please only a slim minority of your own people" according to CNN's S. E. Cupp. In a blistering monologue on Saturday, Cupp suggested that the 2020 candidates may be setting themselves up for failure in the general election with one of the "dumbest strategies" she's ever encountered. Proposals that were widely agreed upon by the candidates included; support for a woman's unfettered access to abortion, free heathcare for people who live here illegally. Other items that had some support on the debate stage; government-run healthcare for all, free college tuition, and decriminalizing illegal border crossings.
For people who, I don't know, think that there should be some abortion restrictions, who believe we should probably work on increasing access to healthcare for American citizens, people who might like to keep their private insurance - who don't want to pay other students' college debt, who cross the border legally and pay taxes."
Are there any Democrats running for those people? People who, I'm guessing probably constitute a majority?
Who stood up on that stage this week and attempted to reach any disaffected Trump voters? Moderates? Independents? I guess in the Democratic party those folks don't matter. They're unimportant. They don't count.
Only the far-left progressives who believe government is the cure-all for every problem deserve a presidential candidate's attention and concern. The rest of you, well, you're just wrong. If you think the economy is doing well, you're wrong according to Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker. All 71% of you. If you think you're health insurance works just fine and you'd like to keep it, you're wrong, according to Warren, Bill de Blasio and Bernie Sanders.
If you think record unemployment is a good sign of a strong economy, you're wrong - it isn't, according to Kamala Harris.
Telling a majority of voters you're all wrong has to be one of the dumbest strategies I've ever encountered.
If this is the message Democrats have for voters, they should all just change their slogans to "I know better than you." If the aim is to beat the President, I'm pretty sure that's a loser idea. So is pitching radical, nonsensical, unpopular ideas that please only a slim minority of your own people. In fact, the winner of both debates might just have been Donald Trump.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 1, 2019 13:40:35 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 1, 2019 14:19:50 GMT -6
www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/07/01/no_debate_america_last_dems_will_lose_to_trump__140679.htmlNo Debate: 'America Last' Dems Will Lose to Trump ....... After watching the first Democratic debates, it is now obvious why President Trump selected “Keep America Great” as his official 2020 campaign slogan. At his rallies, his supporters still showed an affinity for “Make America Great Again,” but Trump’s political instincts told him to switch. Here’s why: The Democrats want to undermine Americans’ current success with foolhardy social and economic programs that represent not just a redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor, but even from citizens to non-citizens. This is their fatal mistake. By taking the side of non-voters over voters, the Democrats have once again veered into “basket of deplorables” territory. Who is going to defend the USA against this assault? Donald Trump, of course. With “Keep America Great” emblazoned on his brow, Trump will stand athwart history and atop the ramparts and shout once again, “I alone can fix it!” Or in this case, “I alone can protect you!” The Democrats have no idea of the power that slogan — Keep America Great! — conveys, nor of the ideas behind it. As Rush Limbaugh and a caller summed it up recently, this is a “binary election” between socialism and capitalism. It is also a binary election between globalism and Americanism, between lawlessness and order, between fantasy and reality. Fantasy was on full display in Miami last week when 20 of the top Democrats gathered for two nights to paint President Trump as a dangerous criminal who must be stopped. At times, they looked like they were rehearsing a scene from “Toy Story 4” when Mr. Potato Head and the rest of the toys clamor to see who could most loudly condemn Sheriff Woody. (Spoiler alert: Sheriff Woody was wrongly accused and is vindicated in the end as a man of principle.) The MSNBC and NBC hosts deserve some blame for the confusing chaos on the debate stage, and the moderators continually tried to shove the Democrats ever more leftward on the issues, especially immigration. But most of the fault rests squarely on the shoulders of the candidates. When, on the second night, they all raised their hands in support of free health care for illegal immigrants, they were virtually conceding defeat 16 months early. The first night wasn’t much better, but it had the benefit of low expectations — not to mention the comic relief of the “hot mic” incident as America waited with bated breath to find out if Savannah Guthrie would ever locate her lost binder. Opening night also had the same bone-headed insistence on putting a thumb in the eye of the average American that we have come to expect from Democrats. Almost unanimously, the candidates said that anyone who gets into our country illegally should be handed an official apology; a path to citizenship; and an IOU good for free health care, a free college education, and a good-paying job. The president must have been delighted. MSNBC commentator Claire McCaskill said it best in the post-debate analysis: “I’m just telling you: ‘Open borders’ is not the way we beat Donald Trump.” Take it from the woman who is the former senator from Missouri for good reason. But the Democratic candidates weren’t listening to her. They were busily taking their cues from Bernie Sanders, the socialist oracle from Vermont, and from Elizabeth Warren, the socialist feminist from Massachusetts. More free stuff. More abortion. More free abortion. And finally more free abortion for illegal aliens. Meanwhile, there’s President Trump waiting in the wings, dancing a jig with Lady Liberty, and celebrating our great American traditions, our great capitalist economy, our great Constitution and our great country. If you want to keep America great (and who doesn’t?), then you have no choice. It’s Trump or bust. He alone can defeat the “America last” Democrats. Bet against him — and America — at your own risk.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 1, 2019 14:25:34 GMT -6
pjmedia.com/trending/fact-check-kamala-harris-exaggerates-her-history-on-busing/Fact Check: Kamala Harris Exaggerates Her History on Busing .......... moment in the second night of the 2020 Democratic presidential debate on Thursday when she attacked former Vice President Joe Biden on the issue of federal mandated busing to racially integrate schools. Harris repeated a powerful talking point about why the issue is personal for her, with the memorable tagline: "That little girl was me." The only problem? She has consistently exaggerated the story, at one point making the claim that if she hadn't attended an integrated elementary school, she wouldn't have become a U.S. senator. In that standout debate performance, she overstated the claim on busing. Harris noted that Biden worked with segregationist senators to oppose federally mandated busing to achieve racial integration. "And there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day, and that little girl was me," she said. Again Harris repeated the claim: "I was part of the second class to integrate Berkeley California public schools almost two decades after Brown v. Board of Education." Harris has widely been considered the winner of her exchange with Biden, and of the debate in general. Her campaign seized on the moment, tweeting the photo of Harris as a little girl and selling "That Little Girl Was Me" t-shirts for $30 on her campaign website. those two statements about busing and integration. As the Sacramento Bee's Ryan Anderson pointed out, Harris was indeed among the second class of students at Thousand Oaks Elementary School to participate in a fully integrated busing program, but she was far from the first black child to attend that school. Worse for her debate claims, other schools in the Berkeley Unified School District had been fully integrated long before she went to that school. Harris can rightly say she was "part of the second class to integrate her elementary school," but she cannot say she was "part of the second class to integrate her public schools." This is an important distinction. She was not "part of the second class to integrate Berkeley California public schools." As the Bee reported, Berkeley Unified School District data shows that her elementary school "had 15 black students in 1963 — a year before Harris was born. They represented 3% of the total elementary school student body, while other schools in the district had a black population as high as 97%." Neil Sullivan, a fierce advocate of racial integration, took over as superintendent in 1964. In 1967, his team drafted a plan for all elementary schools to have black representation between 35 percent and 45 percent. By that time, the district had already desegregated its middle schools and high schools. In 1967, the district considered its schools to be "partially segregated." In 1967, ten percent of students at Thousand Oaks Elementary School were black. That year, Sullivan predicted that "these schools shall be totally desegregated in September, 1968, and we might make history on that day." During the first year of the program, 1968, black enrollment at Harris's future elementary school jumped from 10 percent to 37 percent. In 1969, Harris's first year at the school, black representation rose from 37 percent to 41 percent. Harris did indeed benefit from busing, and she was among the second class at her elementary school to attend after the integration plan had gone into effect, but this does not mean she was in the second class of black students integrated in the "Berkeley California public schools." Berkeley High School had always been integrated because it was the only high school in the district. Junior high schools were integrated in 1964. Had Harris made the more limited claim of saying she was "part of the second class to fully integrate her public elementary schools," she would have been correct. Yet claiming to have been in the second class to integrate the public schools gives a false impression on many counts: it suggests there were no black students at the schools and it suggests the integration at every level of schooling only happened right before Harris attended. Furthermore, Harris also exaggerated the impact of school busing on her personal history. When she opposed Brett Kavanaugh's nomination on the Supreme Court, Harris tweeted, "Two decades after Brown v. Board, I was only the second class to integrate at Berkeley public schools. Without that decision, I likely would not have become a lawyer and eventually be elected a Senator from California. That’s the power a Supreme Court Justice holds." Harris told a powerful story, but it just isn't true. Harris's mother, Shaymala Gopalan Harris, was a breast cancer scientist and a university professor. Her father, Donald Harris, is a Standford University economics professor. It was never likely Kamala Harris would drop out of school, because her parents taught her to value education at an early age. Furthermore, while Harris benefited from the integrated busing during elementary school, her mother moved with the children to Montreal, Canada. It is extremely unlikely that the integrated busing is at all responsible for Harris's intelligence, work ethic, or determination to graduate high school and attend higher education. None of this should be construed as an attack on Harris's history or her accomplishments. Yet her claims about integrated busing being central to her future career are exaggerated and misleading, if not outright false. Since Harris is clearly aiming to capitalize on this standout debate moment, it's important to note that she isn't telling the whole truth. It's also important to note, as PJ Media's Paula Bolyard reported, that forced busing to achieve racial integration was unpopular in the 1970s, didn't work, and likely remains far less popular than school choice today — yet many 2020 Democratic presidential candidates support it.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 1, 2019 15:28:13 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/01/hunter-biden-helped-set-up-chinese-tycoon-meeting-dad-china-visit/Former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, did conduct business during his infamous 2013 trip with his father to China, despite previous denials, according to the New Yorker in a story published on Monday. In previous stories about his connections with a China investment fund, Hunter Biden’s attorney insisted that Hunter did not conduct business during his trip. business partner, Jonathan Li, during the 2013 trip, but arranged for Li to shake hands with Biden in the hotel. “How do I go to Beijing, halfway around the world, and not see them for a cup of coffee?” Hunter Biden said, defending his meeting. Hunter Biden’s attorney told ABC News that he “conducted no business during the visit” and told the New York Times that “he did not conduct any business related to the China investment fund on that trip.” Hunter Biden continues as a minority stakeholder in the Chinese investment company at approximately $430,000, according to ABC News. www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/08/will-hunter-biden-jeopardize-his-fathers-campaignwww.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/us/politics/trump-hunter-biden-china.htmlAuthor Peter Schweizer first reported the details of Hunter’s questionable dealings with China in his bestselling book, Secret Empires. www.amazon.com/Secret-Empires-American-Political-Corruption/dp/0062569368/?tag=breitbart035-20
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 1, 2019 15:30:58 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/01/beto-orourke-campaigns-mexico/Democrat 2020 presidential candidate Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke campaigned in Mexico Sunday with migrants not admitted to the U.S. at the southern border. O’Rourke called the Trump administration’s policies “unlawful and inhumane” in a post about crossing into Mexico on Sunday to meet with migrants waiting there for U.S. court dates. He used the visit to promote his own immigration plan. The 2020 contender faced harsh reviews for his first presidential primary debate performance last week. In the days that followed, he demonstrated outside three U.S. migrant detention facilities in three days before crossing into Mexico: O’Rourke and several other Democrat 2020 hopefuls visited a migrant detention facility in Homestead, Florida, after their respective debates over two nights in Miami. From Florida, O’Rourke returned to his home state of Texas, where he demonstrated outside facilities in Houston and Clint, Texas. He put out a call ahead of those visits for supporters to join him in fighting “inhumane policies.” At times, he used a bullhorn to proclaim his message to those gathered around: Outside the Clint facility, O’Rourke blamed “all of us” producing “emissions” and “excesses,” which he blamed for a drought. He found fault, too, with the U.S. for deporting foreign nationals from U.S. prisons back to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. He also blamed deportation for gangs rising up in those countries to which these countries’ nationals are now fleeing.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 2, 2019 9:47:13 GMT -6
So, sidestepping Congress is ok for Democrats, but not Republicans? dailycaller.com/2019/07/02/cory-booker-immigration-plan/Democratic New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker’s immigration plan announced Tuesday would sidestep Congress and drastically change U.S. immigration policy through executive orders. “But we can’t wait for Congress to act, which is why, as president, Cory will start on Day One to end the abuses of the Trump Administration and use his executive authority to reform our immigration system,” a statement on Booker’s presidential campaign website reads.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 2, 2019 12:33:41 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/02/pete-buttigieg-warns-black-americans-of-another-civil-war/Buttigieg on Tuesday warned Black Americans of a new civil war if the federal government failed to end racist institutions and pay reparations for slavery. “If we do not tackle the problem of racial inequality in my lifetime, I am convinced that it will upend the American project in my lifetime,” he warned. “It brought our country to its knees once and if we do not act, it could again.” Buttigieg spoke about racial issues during a Chicago speech at Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition and Citizenship Education Fund. Bend mayor spoke about the burden he carried after a white police officer shot and killed a black man who was suspected of breaking into cars. He acknowledged that there was much more to do on issues of race in the police department, but that was only the beginning. “Yes, the uniform is burdened by racism, but it goes far beyond that, our health care system is burdened by racism … we know that our housing is burdened by racism … our schools are burdened by racism,” he said. He spoke about the need for racial reparations, citing the “compound interest” owed to the black community after slavery. “Every dollar plundered 150 years ago costs the descendants of the victim a thousand today,” he said. Buttigieg recalled his campaign theme of freedom, security, and democracy, noting that he benefited from white privilege. “It is going to take extra effort applying our deepest values and our biggest ideas to drive out the darkness,” he said. “And it is candidly particularly urgent that we hear this from any candidate that runs for office with the benefits and privileges of whiteness on his or her side.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 2, 2019 18:02:25 GMT -6
Interesting poll: thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/451398-poll-majority-say-the-census-should-be-able-to-include-citizenship Sixty-seven percent of voters said the census should be able to ask whether people living in the U.S. are citizens, going against the recent Supreme Court decision on the matter, according to a new Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll.
The poll also found that the inclusion of the question was supported among members of both parties, with 88 percent of Republicans and 52 percent of Democrats supporting its inclusion.
Sixty-three percent of independents said they supported including the question on the census.
“The public here agrees with the administration that it makes sense to ask citizenship on the census,” Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll Director Mark Penn said. “It is a clear supermajority of Americans on this issue.”....... So, the Democrats, the SCOTUS & the MSM are not in line with the super majority of the nation.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 2, 2019 19:58:39 GMT -6
Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden gave an interview to the New Yorker this week and spoke very candidly about his drug and alcohol abuse and also about his foreign dealings while his daddy was the Vice President of the United States. In a shocking admission, Hunter Biden, 49, told the New Yorker that he once accepted a diamond bribe from a shady Chinese business tycoon in exchange for his powerful contacts in the US. The 2.8-carat diamond was reportedly worth $80,000 and was sent to Hunter in 2016 in exchange for help making contacts in the liquefied-natural-gas industry in the US. www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/08/will-hunter-biden-jeopardize-his-fathers-campaignHunter was on the board of the World Food Program USA, a nonprofit that generates support for the U.N. World Food Programme, and he had hoped that Ye would make a large aid donation. At dinner that night, they discussed the donation, and then the conversation turned to business opportunities. Hunter offered to use his contacts to help identify investment opportunities for Ye’s company, CEFC China Energy, in liquefied-natural-gas projects in the United States. After the dinner, Ye sent a 2.8-carat diamond to Hunter’s hotel room with a card thanking him for their meeting. “I was, like, Oh, my God,” Hunter said. (In Kathleen’s court motion, the diamond is estimated to be worth eighty thousand dollars. Hunter said he believes the value is closer to ten thousand.) When I asked him if he thought the diamond was intended as a bribe, he said no: “What would they be bribing me for? My dad wasn’t in office.” Hunter said that he gave the diamond to his associates, and doesn’t know what they did with it. “I knew it wasn’t a good idea to take it. I just felt like it was weird,” he said. ........ ....... Despite this admission, there has been a virtual media blackout over it. No social media outrage. No Twitter hashtags. No calls for an investigation. Crickets. Imagine if Eric Trump or Don Jr. received an $80,000 diamond from a shady Russian businessman in exchange for their powerful DC contacts because of their well-connected father, the media would be calling for their heads on a pike. But Hunter Biden can be bribed with diamonds by a Chinese businessman, receive a $1 billion equity deal from the Bank of China and wheel and deal in Ukraine without any blow back. Meanwhile, the Democrats are vigorously investigating whether Trump violated the emoluments clause of the Constitution because he owns a hotel a few blocks away from the White House.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 3, 2019 12:21:32 GMT -6
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Post by bk2x on Jul 3, 2019 12:35:01 GMT -6
Majority of illegals wouldn't answer truthfully on the census about their citizenship anyways...
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 3, 2019 14:15:48 GMT -6
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Post by redstripe on Jul 3, 2019 14:17:38 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 3, 2019 14:24:23 GMT -6
Census related: Then this happened: After - Then this happened: - is blank Apologies. I sneezed and accidentally hit the post button. I've since gone back and put in the rest of my post.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 3, 2019 17:53:46 GMT -6
Later Wednesday, the Department of Justice told a federal judge in Maryland that it has been “instructed to examine whether there is a path forward consistent with the Supreme Court’s decision, that would allow us to include the citizenship question on the census.”
Jody Hunt, the assistant attorney general for the Civil Division, told the judge that if they find a viable path, they plan to go to the Supreme Court for “instructions … to simplify and expedite the remaining litigation and provide clarity to the process going for
The judge asked for more information from the DOJ by 2 PM Friday.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 3, 2019 17:58:06 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2019/07/03/trump-citizenship-question-fight/One day after senior officials publicly abandoned their ambitions to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census form, the Trump administration abruptly reversed course and told a federal judge it would continue its legal fight. Though government lawyers and census officials said the question would be excluded, President Donald Trump said by tweet Wednesday morning that his administration would press the issue. “We at the Department of Justice have been instructed to examine whether there is a path forward, consistent with the Supreme Court’s decision, that would allow us to include the citizenship question on the census,” assistant Attorney General Jody Hunt told a federal judge in Maryland. Government lawyers seemed bewildered when the Maryland judge asked them about the government’s rapidly evolving position. “The tweet this morning was the first I had heard of the president’s position on this issue, just like the plaintiffs and your honor,” said government lawyer Josh Gardner. “I do not have a deeper understanding of what that means at this juncture other than what the president has tweeted. But, obviously, as you can imagine, I am doing my absolute best to figure out what’s going on.” “What I told the court yesterday was absolutely my best understanding of the state of affairs and, apparently, also the Commerce Department’s state of affairs,” Gardner added. “You probably saw Secretary Ross issued a statement very similar to what I told the court.” (RELATED: White House Says Judge Is Forcing ‘Open Borders’ On The Country) Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross released a statement under his own name Tuesday announcing the Census Bureau had begun printing questionnaires without the citizenship question. A Justice Department spokesperson confirmed the decision to the Daily Caller News Foundation. Demonstrators rally at the Supreme Court on April 23, 2019. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images) Demonstrators rally at the Supreme Court on April 23, 2019. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images) Chief Justice John Roberts led a five-justice majority to find Ross was concealing his real reason for adding the citizenship question. The decision gave the Commerce Department another opportunity to give legitimate reasons for adding the field to the census form. Time is of the essence in the dispute. Government lawyers repeatedly told the courts that census forms must be finalized by July 1 to ensure timely printing and distribution. Wednesday’s announcement was a reversal on that representation. The judge in Maryland is considering legal arguments that have not yet reached the high court. The Maryland plaintiffs said evidence shows top administration officials conspired with a Republican redistricting consultant called Dr. Thomas Hofeller to collect granular citizenship data to give “Republicans and non-Hispanic whites” an advantage in redistricting.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 4, 2019 8:05:52 GMT -6
So, Kamala Harriss attacks Joe Biden for opposing busing during the first Democratic debates, & now she backtracks on it: dailycaller.com/2019/07/04/kamala-harris-joe-biden-busing-backtrack/ Kamala Harris on Wednesday backtracked from her support for federally-mandated school busing, saying that local school districts should use busing as a tool to integrate schools.
But that’s a flip-flop of sorts for Harris, who suggested at the first Democratic debates that she supports a federal role in busing.
Harris attacked Joe Biden for his opposition to mandated busing in the 1970s.
California Sen. Kamala Harris has seen a surge in presidential polls after her performance in June 27’s Democratic debate, thanks in part to an exchange in which she hammered Joe Biden over his past opposition to federally-mandated busing. But Harris backtracked Wednesday on the controversial issue, saying on the campaign trail in Iowa that busing is merely a “tool that is in the toolbox” of local school districts seeking to integrate schools. “I think of busing as being in the toolbox of what is available and what can be used for the goal of desegregating America’s schools,” she said following a campaign event in West Des Moines, according to the Associated Press. When pressed on whether she supports a federal mandate for busing, Harris said: “I believe that any tool that is in the toolbox should be considered by a school district.” Harris’ remarks are a far cry from her exchange with Biden, as well as from her commentary to reporters on Sunday. (RELATED: Harris, Near Tears, Rips Into Joe Biden On Busing) In one of the most dramatic moments of the debate, Harris confronted Biden over his opposition in the 1970s to federally-mandated busing. Harris also pressed Biden, a former Delaware senator, over remarks he’s made on the campaign trail about working with Democratic segregationists early in his career. “But, Vice President Biden, do you agree today — do you agree today that you were wrong to oppose busing in America then? Do you agree?” Harris said to Biden. “I did not oppose busing in America. What I opposed is busing ordered by the Department of Education. That’s what I opposed,” replied Biden, who appeared caught off guard by Harris’s direct attack. MIAMI, FLORIDA - JUNE 27: Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) speaks as Sen. Bernie Sanders (C) (I-VT) and former Vice President Joe Biden look on during the second night of the first Democratic presidential debate on June 27, 2019 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) speaks as Sen. Bernie Sanders (C) (I-VT) and former Vice President Joe Biden look on during the second night of the first Democratic presidential debate on June 27, 2019 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Harris said that states failed to integrate public schools, while noting that she was a student in the second class to integrate Berkeley, California, public schools. “Because your city council made that decision. It was a local decision,” said Biden. Harris then endorsed a federal role in busing, saying, “That’s where the federal government must step in.” Harris, who is now running third in some polls, appeared to support a federal role in busing a few days later. “I support busing,” she told reporters in San Francisco. She said that American schools are “as segregated, if not more segregated” than when she was in school. “We need to put every effort, including busing, into play to de-segregate the schools,” she continued, adding that “there’s no question that the federal government has a role and a responsibility to step up.” Harris’s remarks Wednesday drew attention on social media, including from the Biden campaign and David Axelrod, the chief strategist for Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns. It sounds here like @kamalaharris is now taking something more like the @joebiden position on school busing. So what was that whole thing at the debate all about?https://t.co/bRDGzp7nvy — David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) July 4, 2019 Biden’s deputy campaign manager accused Harris of distorting Biden’s position on busing while “tying herself in knots” on the issue. “It’s disappointing that Senator Harris chose to distort Vice President Biden’s position on busing — particularly now that she is tying herself in knots trying not to answer the very question she posed to him!” wrote Kate Bedingfield. It’s disappointing that Senator Harris chose to distort Vice President Biden’s position on busing — particularly now that she is tying herself in knots trying not to answer the very question she posed to him! t.co/kiYYk5kg3m— Kate Bedingfield (@kbeds) July 4, 2019 Harris capitalized on her debate exchange with Biden. Her campaign began selling t-shirts saying “That Little Girl Was Me,” referring to an applause line at the debate when she said she spoke of being bused to school in Berkeley.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 4, 2019 9:19:56 GMT -6
Ever wonder why the recent trend of Democrats hating the American flag began? Well, there is an interesting study that came out in 2011 that sheds some light on why Democrats/Liberals & their MSM sycophants hate the American flag. www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/07/20/shock-study-us-flag-only-boosts-gopJUST A BRIEF EXPOSURE to an image of the American flag shifts voters, even Democrats, to Republican beliefs, attitudes and voting behavior even though most don't believe it will impact their politics, according to a new two-year study just published in the scholarly Psychological Science. What's more, according to three authors from the University Chicago, Cornell University and Hebrew University, the impact had staying power. "A single exposure to an American flag resulted in a significant increase in participants' Republican voting intentions, voting behavior, political beliefs, and implicit and explicit attitudes, with some effects lasting 8 months," the study found. "These results constitute the first evidence that nonconscious priming effects from exposure to a national flag can bias the citizenry toward one political party and can have considerable durability." Theirs is the first study to look at the political impact on Americans who have seen an American flag, and it seems to back up another recent Harvard University professor's study that found that kids who attended a July 4th parade ended up leaning Republican when they grew up. It's also sure to prompt GOP presidential candidates to add more U.S. flags at their events and speeches. For this study, the scholars asked mostly Democratic-leaning voters to join in the survey conducted just before the 2008 election of President Obama over Sen. John McCain. All were given a survey to fill out. Half of those surveys included a small picture of an American flag in the top left corner. Some 90 percent said that they believed their voting behavior wouldn't be influenced by the presence of a flag. But after asking how the participants voted, the study concluded: "In contrast to the beliefs of the participants in the pilot study, the results from the experiments reported here show that exposure to the American flag introduces a bias toward the Republican Party over the Democratic Party. In one experiment, we tested whether subtle exposure to the American flag shifted people's beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors toward the Republican end of the political continuum. We found that a single exposure to a small American flag during deliberation about voting intentions prior to a general election led to significant and robust changes in participants' voting intentions, voting behavior, and political attitudes, all in the politically conservative direction." And apparently politics didn't have anything to do with how those shown the flag changed their voting. "It is important to note that political ideology and party affiliation did not moderate these effects. That is, both liberal and conservative participants were influenced by the flag prime, and in the same (conservative) direction," said the study. Eight months after the election eve survey, the group was then asked about Obama's performance and remarkably those in the group shown the American flag on the initial survey "felt less positively about Obama's job performance." To prove the shocking results, the scholars in the spring of 2010 conducted another test, this time to see if exposure to an American flag produces a bias toward Republicanism, rather than the party that controls the White House. For this, they showed some pictures of buildings that included a flag, and others photos with the flag digitally erased. That result: "Subtle exposure to the American flag significantly shifted both Democratic and Republican participants' beliefs, attitudes, and voting behavior toward Republicanism."
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 4, 2019 9:38:28 GMT -6
Jon Voight with Gold Star families on the Capitol Lawn for President Trump's Celebration.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 4, 2019 9:40:44 GMT -6
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