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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 18, 2019 4:18:11 GMT -6
amp.dailycaller.com/2019/06/17/gavin-newsom-republicans-waste-binCalifornia Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom compared the current political situation in the United States to that of California in the 90s, then predicted the eventual demise of the national Republican Party. During a wide-ranging interview with Politico published Monday, the former San Francisco mayor took some time to break from state politics to weigh in on what he considers a bright future for Democrats at the national level similar to what they’ve experienced of late in his state. America in 2019 is California in the 1990s,” said Newsom. “The xenophobia, the nativism, the fear of ‘the other.’ Scapegoating. Talking down or past people. The hysteria. And so, we’re not going to put up with that. We are going to push back.” Former Republican Governor Pete Wilson served two terms during the decade, leaving office in 1999 with a $16 billion budget surplus and a 55 percent approval rating. His term was marked by the passage of welfare reform and Proposition 187, a 1994 ballot initiative — later overturned by a federal court — that would have denied health care, social services, and public education to illegal immigrants. Likely referring at least in part to Proposition 187, which was divisive then but still passed by 59 percent of voters, Newsom told Politico that Republicans at the national level “are into the politics of what California was into in the 1990s … and they’ll go the same direction — into the waste bin of history, the way Republicans of the ’90s have gone. That’s exactly what will happen to this crop of national Republicans.” (RELATED: Governor Newsom Makes News By Not Making Sense) Republicans currently make up only around 25 percent of voters in California.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 18, 2019 4:24:14 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2019/06/17/victor-davis-hanson-california-third-world-state/Historian Victor Davis Hanson described why he feels his home state of California is America’s first “Third World state” during a Monday night appearance on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” Hanson’s comments came after the state’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, said that national Republicans will go “into the waste bin of history, the way Republicans of the ’90s [in California] have gone.” Responding to host Tucker Carlson’s question about why he considers California a “Third World state,” Hanson pointed to “symptoms” we typically “associate with failed states” such as high taxes, poor schools, a super-rich class, and a significant percentage of its people below the poverty line. “We have the most billionaires of any state in nation and then we have the largest underclass,” he said, blaming in part the overturning of the “very popular” Proposition 187, which would have denied non-emergency healthcare to illegal immigrants. “That was unfortunately part of a perfect storm,” said Hanson, describing the millions of people who chose to move elsewhere over the next two decades. Hanson then described the growth of “a very small but influential and wealthy manorial class” in Silicon Valley. “We’ve created a very a wealthy class that doesn’t mind high taxes because it has ways it can navigate around that and poor social circumstances,” he said. “And the people in between are sort of like peasants outside a medieval keep that can’t survive, and so they drift off. We are left with a sort of romanticized indigent class and the royal elite that doesn’t care about the vanishing middle class at all.” (RELATED: Tucker Asked Jorge Ramos How Many Caravan Migrants He Planned To Take In – Things Got Awkward Fast) If we look at Gavin Newsom or Dianne Feinstein or the former Senator Boxer and Nancy Pelosi, or Mark Zuckerberg or the architects of this system, they are all multi-millionaires. In some cases they are multi-billionaires. They feel good about being virtuous in the abstract. Meanwhile, on the ground level, we’re sort of like Constantinople or Justinian in the 6th century A.D. Hanson juxtaposed the current high-speed rail controversy in the state with the influx of diseases and “140,000 people living on the streets.” “Sort of like Road Warrior in the pre-modern world, where we dream of a post-modern high-speed rail system that will never be built,” said Hanson. “It is a lot like ‘Road Warrior,'” said Tucker. “Funny you said that.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 18, 2019 4:56:49 GMT -6
So, liberal leaders are about to pass something even liberal voters don’t even approve of? Sounds like a winning strategy: www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/17/upstate-new-yorkers-revolt-against-drivers-licenses-for-illegal-aliens/amp/While the business lobby and New York Democrats unite to give driver’s licenses to illegal aliens in the state, voters living upstate and in suburban neighborhoods are revolting against the plan. The New York state Senate is expected to pass a measure, already passed by the state Assembly, giving driver’s licenses to illegal aliens living across the state. The plan, supported by the open borders lobby and state Democrats, received the blessing of the state’s business lobby. The Business Council of New York State announced support for the plan, saying it is necessary to promote a nationwide amnesty for all 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the U.S. Business Council of New York State President and CEO Heather C. Briccetti said in a statement: We are supporting this bill because it sends a signal to Washington that comprehensive immigration reform is a necessary business issue, and because it’s the right and decent thing to do. It is an opportunity to support billions in annual economic activity, and state and local tax collections, driven by hardworking undocumented families around the state. This bill is also an opportunity to increase these New Yorker’s ability to support local employers and businesses. New York’s suburbanites and upstate voters, though, reject giving driver’s licenses to illegal aliens. The latest Siena College poll revealed that a majority of all New York voters, 53 percent, oppose the plan.files.constantcontact.com/9c83fb30501/348e560b-9f6c-4f23-a106-0007e7a151b1.pdfSpecifically, more than five-in-ten suburban voters oppose giving driver’s licenses to illegal aliens and only 40 percent support the plan. Likewise, voters living in upstate New York oppose giving driver’s licenses to illegal aliens by a majority of 62 percent, as well as nearly six-in-ten white voters in the state.
Between 82 and 84 percent of Republican and conservative voters in the state said they oppose giving driver’s licenses to illegal aliens and almost six-in-ten voters between the ages of 35 and 54-years-old said they, too. opposed the plan.
Even among voters in New York City, considered deeply liberal, the driver’s licenses for illegal aliens plan does not have broad support. Though 46 percent of New York City voters said they supported the effort, another 45 percent said they opposed it. Close to four-in-ten Democrat voters across New York said they oppose the plan, with about 53 percent voicing their support.New York state is home to at least 725,000 illegal aliens, making it the fourth most illegal-populated state in the county, following California, Texas, and Florida.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 18, 2019 11:18:07 GMT -6
So, is it racist when Impeach Trumpers hurl insults at a black Fox contributor? www.foxnews.com/entertainment/lawrence-jones-fox-news-racist-taunts-impeach-trump-rallyFox News contributor Lawrence Jones faces racist taunts from protesters at 'Impeach Trump' rally ....... A pair of anti-Trump protesters directed racist abuse at Fox News contributor Lawrence Jones at a New York City rally over the weekend. Jones, the editor-in-chief of Campus Reform, was interviewing participants at the demonstration held by the NYC Coalition to Impeach Donald Trump at Foley Square in Lower Manhattan on Saturday when he was heckled. "This is who they are, Sean," Jones told Fox News' "Hannity" Monday night. "So often, those of us that are on the right are painted as the racist people, the hateful people ... I was just asking these people simple questions about if they felt like the president should be impeached or not. These guys come up to me and they say, go back to Fox News to pick cotton. They say, go back to Kenya. This is who these people are, but I doubt many people in the media are going to condemn these people." According to a Fox News producer at the scene, two men walked up to Jones near the end of the rally and told him to go back to Fox News "where there's more cotton for you to pick." The producer said he asked one of the men: "What did you just say?" When the man made the same comment, the producer asked if he "was really going to say that," to which the man responded: "I sure am." With Jones' camera rolling, the man confronted by the producer, wearing a gray shirt, turned his back to the camera and made an obscene gesture. The second man, wearing a red shirt, told Jones: "He'll tell you to go back to Kenya next." "You say what now?" Jones asked. "He'll tell you 'go back to Kenya' next," the man in the red shirt said. Saturday's demonstration, which was attended by Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., was one of several around the country calling for President Trump to be removed from office. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Jones said Monday night that the men who insulted him Saturday were "upset" and "fearful." "They know that with our reports and exposing the poverty and the failure of policies that all these Democrat cities have been doing to many people that look like me... they believe that all black people need to think the same way. They want us to stay on the welfare system so we can't progress in life and I'm going to expose it every single day," Jones said. "If they think I'm going to stand down because they yelled obscene things to me, they got another thing coming."
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Post by redstripe on Jun 18, 2019 13:45:29 GMT -6
So, is it racist when Impeach Trumpers hurl insults at a black Fox contributor? www.foxnews.com/entertainment/lawrence-jones-fox-news-racist-taunts-impeach-trump-rallyFox News contributor Lawrence Jones faces racist taunts from protesters at 'Impeach Trump' rally ....... A pair of anti-Trump protesters directed racist abuse at Fox News contributor Lawrence Jones at a New York City rally over the weekend. Jones, the editor-in-chief of Campus Reform, was interviewing participants at the demonstration held by the NYC Coalition to Impeach Donald Trump at Foley Square in Lower Manhattan on Saturday when he was heckled. "This is who they are, Sean," Jones told Fox News' "Hannity" Monday night. "So often, those of us that are on the right are painted as the racist people, the hateful people ... I was just asking these people simple questions about if they felt like the president should be impeached or not. These guys come up to me and they say, go back to Fox News to pick cotton. They say, go back to Kenya. This is who these people are, but I doubt many people in the media are going to condemn these people." According to a Fox News producer at the scene, two men walked up to Jones near the end of the rally and told him to go back to Fox News "where there's more cotton for you to pick." The producer said he asked one of the men: "What did you just say?" When the man made the same comment, the producer asked if he "was really going to say that," to which the man responded: "I sure am." With Jones' camera rolling, the man confronted by the producer, wearing a gray shirt, turned his back to the camera and made an obscene gesture. The second man, wearing a red shirt, told Jones: "He'll tell you to go back to Kenya next." "You say what now?" Jones asked. "He'll tell you 'go back to Kenya' next," the man in the red shirt said. Saturday's demonstration, which was attended by Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., was one of several around the country calling for President Trump to be removed from office. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Jones said Monday night that the men who insulted him Saturday were "upset" and "fearful." "They know that with our reports and exposing the poverty and the failure of policies that all these Democrat cities have been doing to many people that look like me... they believe that all black people need to think the same way. They want us to stay on the welfare system so we can't progress in life and I'm going to expose it every single day," Jones said. "If they think I'm going to stand down because they yelled obscene things to me, they got another thing coming." These idiots are still buying the lie. Collusion. Russia. Collusion. Obstruction. Perfect evidence that the media pushing the lefts narrative is killing this country.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 18, 2019 19:15:28 GMT -6
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jun/18/transgender-athletes-wins-prompt-girls-discriminat/HARTFORD, Conn. — Three Connecticut girls who have run high school track have filed a federal discrimination complaint saying a statewide policy on transgender athletes has cost them top finishes in races and possibly college scholarships. The complaint filed Monday with the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights was submitted by the conservative Christian law firm Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of the girls, who are asking for an investigation of the policy and orders that would make competitions fair. The complaint also cites the federal Title IX rules aimed at equal rights in sports for female athletes.
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Post by kcrufnek on Jun 18, 2019 20:58:28 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 19, 2019 9:43:38 GMT -6
Pathetic & predictable. She blames President Trump for Iran’s behavior:
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 19, 2019 9:54:15 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2019/06/19/cnn-don-lemon-chris-cuomo-trump-hitler/CNN’s Don Lemon compared President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler during the host’s primetime show Tuesday night. Lemon claimed that the Holocaust began with “little lies,” and implied that the president shouldn’t have a platform. (RELATED: Cuomo Schools Lemon On How To Interview Republicans) “Think about Hitler,” Lemon said. “If you could look back in history, would you say ‘well, I’m so glad that that person was allowed a platform so that they could spread their hate, and propaganda, and lies.” Lemon’s fellow CNN host Chris Cuomo pushed back on the comparison, calling it “extreme.” “Comparing anything to an extreme like a Hitler weakens the argument because you are now taking a guy who says things you don’t like and comparing him to a genocidal maniac,” Cuomo said. Lemon said that Trump’s rhetoric, such as his refusal to apologize to the Central Park Five, is frightening for people of color. How the president feels about the Central Park Five, that can be a life or death issue for people like me,” Lemon said. (RELATED: CNN Host Don Lemon Congratulates Sen. Cory Booker On ‘Nice Job’ At Town Hall) After Trump announced Monday his plan to begin deporting millions of illegal immigrants in the U.S, several prominent Democrats compared said plan, as well as ICE detention facilities, to Nazi Germany. Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez compared the detention facilities to concentration camps, evoking imagery of the genocide of roughly six million Jews in the Holocaust. Democratic California Sen. Kamala Harris claimed that Trump was trying to rid the country of certain ethnic groups.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 19, 2019 12:35:09 GMT -6
amp.dailycaller.com/2019/06/19/black-democrat-booed-slave-reparations-congressBLACK DEMOCRAT BOOED FOR TESTIFYING AGAINST SLAVE REPARATIONS IN CONGRESS ......... A black writer was booed Wednesday for testifying against slave reparations in a congressional hearing. Quillette columnist Coleman Hughes said reparation payments to the descendants of slaves would insult black Americans, further divide the country, and make him and other descendants of slaves “victims without their consent.” The public present for the Democrat-led hearing did not take his opinion well, prompting Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen to tell them to “chill.” Racism is a bloody stain on this country’s history and I consider our failure to pay reparations directly to freed slaves after the civil war to be one of the greatest injustices ever perpetuated by the U.S. Government,” Hughes said. He added, however: “Black people don’t need another apology. We need safer neighborhoods and better schools. We need a less punitive criminal justice system. We need affordable health care. And none of these things can be achieved through reparations for slavery.” Members of the crowd booed at this point. “If we were to pay reparations today, we would only divide the country further, making it harder to build the political coalitions required to solve the problems facing black people today,” Hughes added. “We would insult black Americans by putting a price on the suffering of their ancestors, and we would turn the relationship between black Americans and white Americans from a coalition into a transaction, from a union between citizens, into a lawsuit between plaintiffs and defendants.” (RELATED: Here’s Where Each 2020 Democratic Candidate Stands On Slavery Reparations) Hughes pointed out that while he is a descendant of slaves who worked on Thomas Jefferson’s plantation, he was born into a privileged home in the suburbs and attended an Ivy League School. Reparations would give him resources, although he is not struggling financially, and withhold them from other black Americans “with the wrong ancestry” who might be poor. “I understand that reparations are about what people are owed regardless of how well they are doing,” he said. I understand that. But people who are owed for slavery are no longer here. And we’re not entitled to collect on their debts. Reparations, by definition, are only given to victims. So the moment you give me reparations, you’ve made me into a victim without my consent. Not just that, you’ve made one-third of black Americans who poll against reparations into victims without their consent. And black Americans have fought too long for the right to define themselves to be spoken for in such a condescending manner. The question is not what America owes me by virtue of my ancestry, the question is what all Americans owe each other by virtue of being citizens of the same nation. And the obligation of citizenship is not transactional. It’s not contingent on ancestry. It never expires, and it can’t be paid off. For all these reasons, bill HR 40 is a moral and political mistake. Thank you. Hughes was booed again as he concluded his testimony, causing Cohen to bang his gavel and hush the crowd. “Chill, chill, chill, chill,” he said. “He was presumptive, but he still has a right to speak.” The bill at issue was introduced by Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, and would commission a study on reparations payments. Democratic Sen. Cory Booker, who is running for president, introduced a companion bill in the Senate. A number of Democratic presidential candidates, including Sens. Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Kirsten Gillibrand, have endorsed the bills. Former Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke has also pledged his support. Republican senators, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, have panned the bills, indicating they’re unlikely to gain any real traction.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 19, 2019 14:34:57 GMT -6
Political commentator Julianne Malveaux called Republicans “The Devil” during a Congressional hearing regarding slavery reparations on Wednesday, where she was speaking as a witness. Malveaux said that Democrats were “the devil once upon a time,” but that “Republicans took that over, and they became the devil.” The hearing was held by the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties to discuss “the Path to Restorative Justice.” Specifically, they were discussing H.R. 40 — a bill that proposes a commission on reparations. Ta-Nehisi Coates, Danny Glover, Sen. Cory Booker and various other activists also spoke. “People want to talk ugly about Democrats, people change their ideology. So the Democrats were the devil once upon a time, there were these groups called the red shirts, which were the Klan, they were Democrats,” Malveaux said, according to a report from Mediaite. “However, the Republicans took that over, they became the devil,. She added, “I’m just saying. Forgive me, brother Chairman, I know you said I’m not supposed to say that. Forgive me.” “But in any case, people do change ideologies, so all this throwing at Democrats, Democrats and Republicans have been racist,” Malveaux continued. Former Oakland Raider Burgess Owens also testified before the committee — boldly declaring that Democrats should be the one paying reparations. “I used to be a Democrat until I did my history and found out the misery that that party brought to my race… Let’s pay restitution. How about the Democratic Party pay for all the misery brought to my race,” he said, bringing up slavery, Jim Crow, and abortion that is disproportionately killing black babies. Video of full hearing: ....... www.mediaite.com/tv/witness-at-slavery-reparations-hearing-calls-republicans-the-devil/Author, economist, and political commentator Julianne Malveaux responded to attacks on Democrats at a congressional hearing on slavery reparations by noting that Democrats were “the devil once upon a time,” but that “Republicans took that over, and they became the devil.” The House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties held a hearing Wednesday entitled “H.R. 40 and the Path to Restorative Justice,” at which witnesses testified about reparations for slavery. HR 40 is a bill which proposes a commission to study reparations. Earlier, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) used part of his time to trash the Democratic Party of 50 to 150 years ago, outlining the party’s past alignment with racist causes. The theme came up elsewhere in the hearing, and eventually, Malveaux addressed the critique head-on. “People want to talk ugly about Democrats, people change their ideology,” Malveaux said. “So the Democrats were the devil once upon a time, there were these groups called the red shirts, which were the Klan, they were Democrats.” “However, the Republicans took that over, they became the devil,” Malveaux continued, adding “I’m just saying. Forgive me, brother Chairman, I know you said I’m not supposed to say that. Forgive me.” “But in any case, people do change ideologies, so all this throwing at Democrats, Democrats and Republicans have been racist,” Malveaux said, then recounted some of the shameful history of Democrats in North Carolina oppressing black people in 1898. “In Wilmington North Carolina, Republicans and black people came together to form a fusion government, and white folks were so frightened that they took all the prominent black men in that town, arrested them, the next morning gave them tickets to leave town,” Malveaux said. “They had to leave their property, their livelihood, their families, everything. This is why we need reparations.” “Democrats, yes, Democrats were so threatened by the notion of this fusion government that they basically burned people out,” she said. “It was really about economic envy, so absent this economic envy and fear, black folks, we didn’t get the 40 acres and a mule, but we were still trying to do it, and then folks came in and said Wait a minute, if we let them do their thing, where is our cheap labor going to come from?” Malveaux concluded.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 19, 2019 14:52:30 GMT -6
amp.dailycaller.com/2019/06/19/mike-johnson-booed-reparationsRepublican Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson was booed during the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on slavery reparations after he contended that reparations may not be constitutional. “Here in the Judiciary Committee we have an obligation to acknowledge that any monetary reparations that might be recommended by the commission created by H.R. 40 would almost certainly be unconstitutional on their face,” Johnson said before he was booed by members of the crowd.Johnson spoke during a meeting of subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Tuesday to discuss a House bill to “study and develop reparation proposals for African-Americans.” H.R. 40 would also explore if the United States government would need to issue a formal apology for “the perpetration of gross human rights violations and crimes against humanity on African slaves and their descendants.” “The reason for that is a legal question,” Johnson continued after the chairman gaveled for silence. “See, the legal question is: the federal government can’t constitutionally provide compensation today to a specific racial group because other members of that group, maybe several generations ago, were discriminated against and treated inhumanely.” The House Republican Study Committee chairman further explained that the United States Supreme Court would likely consider the proposal to be an unconstitutional racial preference. (RELATED: Democratic Socialists Of America Split On Bernie Sanders Endorsement After He Refrains From Supporting Reparations)
“The holding of the 1995 case Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co. is that racial set asides and other entitlements are only constitutionally permissible to remedy the present effects of the government’s own widespread in recent discrimination,” Johnson explained. “The federal government is not allowed to provide race-based remedies that are ‘ageless in their region of the past and timeless in their ability to effect the future.'”
“Barack Obama opposed reparations when he ran for president in 2008,” he said. “Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders did as well eight years later.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 19, 2019 15:57:47 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2019/06/19/caster-semenya-biologically-male-iaaf/Women’s Olympic champion Caster Semenya is a biological male, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the world’s largest sports governing body, argued in court. Semenya, the South African runner who dominated the female competition in the women’s 800M at the 2016 London Olympics, is fighting an IAAF requirement that biologically male runners suppress their testosterone below a certain level in order to compete in female events. Media reporting on the subject has often left out the fact that the IAAF’s rule only applies to runners with male chromosomes rather than female runners with high testosterone levels.
The IAAF called the requirement “an extremely progressive compromise” between protecting the integrity of women’s sports and accommodating “certain biologically male athletes with female gender identities” like Semenya who want to compete in women’s sports, the court documents show…
…Semenya’s case, the IAAF reiterated, “is not about biological females and how their bodies respond to testosterone; it is about biological males with 5-ARD (and other [male sexual development disorders]), how their bodies respond to testosterone, and the performance advantages of that response when they compete against biological females.”
Athletes with 5-ARD are “biologically indistinguishable… in all relevant aspects” from typical male athletes, with the only major difference being the “size and shape of their external genitals,” the IAAF argued.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 19, 2019 16:06:55 GMT -6
amp.dailycaller.com/2019/06/19/steve-harvey-mitch-mcconnell-hillbillyTV and radio host Steve Harvey called Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a “hillbilly” for his comments regarding reparations on his morning radio show Wednesday. Harvey, who spoke as host of “The Steve Harvey Morning Show,” was responding to the Kentucky Republican’s Tuesday comments arguing reparations for the descendants of slaves over “something that happened 150 years ago” is not a good idea. “I don’t think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago for whom none of us currently living are responsible is a good idea,” McConnell said. “We’ve tried to deal with our original sin of slavery by fighting a civil war — by passing landmark civil rights legislation. We elected an African-American president.” (RELATED: Mitch Mcconnell Pans Democratic Talk Of Slave Reparations) Harvey began by incorrectly stating that 13 — rather than 11 — southern states represented the Confederacy. “The Civil War broke out because you wanted to keep slavery,” he argued. “…Because you 13 southern states wanted to keep slavery. You weren’t with this message that came from the North to free slaves. The second thing [is], we tried to correct its passage with Civil Rights laws. Y’all fought us on every tooth and nail, you sent guard dogs on us, firehouses, you killed Martin Luther King …” McConnell’s home state of Kentucky did not join the Confederate States of America and was initially neutral in the American Civil War before ultimately siding with the Union. Harvey then responded to McConnell’s statement that “we elected an African-American president,” saying, “‘We’ ain’t elect no-damn-body. I promise you, your a** did not vote for him … and you did nothing but try to destroy him. So, what would you expect this hillbilly to say other than what he said?” In his closing statement, Harvey brought up the Senate majority leader’s comment that he doesn’t think people should pay reparations for something “that happened 150 years ago.” “You say that you don’t want to be responsible for something that happened I think he said 150 years ago,” the “Family Feud” host said. “Well, you weren’t there when they wrote this Constitution that you love to throw up in everybody’s face.” He then brought up the Three-Fifths clause of the U.S. Constitution. “Do you remember when they was put in there?” Harvey asked. “Yeah, you had to change that, didn’t you? Oh, but I forgot — that whole time you was fighting to make amends to end slavery. The Kentucky Republican’s stance received backlash from many Democrats, including 2020 presidential candidate Cory Booker, who has consistently expressed support for reparations, along with his fellow presidential running mates. (RELATED: Here’s Where Each 2020 Democratic Candidate Stands On Slavery Reparations) The New Jersey senator is expected to speak Wednesday at a Civil Rights and Civil Liberties congressional hearing, according to Fox News. Booker’s expected remarks, obtained by CBS News, read, “As a nation, we have yet to truly acknowledge and grapple with the racism and white supremacy that tainted this country’s founding and continues to cause persistent and deep racial disparities and inequality. These disparities don’t just harm black communities, they harm all communities.” Democratic Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee introduced a bill at a Wednesday hearing that will “to create a commission for studying and recommending proposals for reparations.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 19, 2019 18:42:53 GMT -6
Syrian ‘refugee’ who was admitted to the US in August of 2016, was arrested Wednesday on terrorism charges after planning an attack on a Christian church on behalf of ISIS. Federal prosecutors accused Mustafa Mousab Alowemer, 21, of planning a terrorist attack on a Christian church on the north side of Pittsburgh “to support the cause of ISIS and to inspire other ISIS supporters in the United States.” abcnews.go.com/Politics/feds-arrest-syrian-refugee-accused-plotting-terrorist-attack/story?id=63819722According to the criminal complaint, Alowemer was born in Daraa, Syria and was admittedto the U.S. as a refugee in August 2016. He allegedly provided “multiple instructional documents” on how to build improvised explosive devices, referred to as IEDs, to an undercover FBI agent who he believed was a fellow ISIS supporter, according to the DOJ. The complaint also alleges that Alowemer further detailed his plans and support for ISIS and jihad in social media communications. “Alowemer also distributed propaganda materials, offered to provide potential targets in the Pittsburgh area, requested a weapon with a silencer, and recorded a video of himself pledging an oath of allegiance to the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,” the DOJ said in a statement. The DOJ also said Alowemer had drafted a “10-point handwritten plan” related to a plot to bomb the church, and printed out copies of satellite maps from Google which he provided to a source working for the FBI as well as an undercover FBI employee.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 19, 2019 18:54:01 GMT -6
Black NYTimes reporter on blacks testifying against reparations:
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 19, 2019 19:51:47 GMT -6
Bishop Eugene Taylor Sutton: When I’m talking about reparations. I’m talking about those left behind. But I’m actually talking to my white brothers and sisters. You need this more than we do. You need this for your soul. You need this to be able to look black peoples in the eye and say I acknowledge the mistake and I want to be part of the solution to repair that damage.
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Post by kcrufnek on Jun 20, 2019 1:12:29 GMT -6
You had me at SJ Lee. She should have a show on in prime time. She's a hoot!
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 20, 2019 7:37:09 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 20, 2019 7:43:30 GMT -6
You had me at SJ Lee. She should have a show on in prime time. She's a hoot! Agreed. This is still one of her best Evers though,(granted her people have pushed back against it big time & the liberals/MSM say it's just a "right wing conspiracy"): www.texasmonthly.com/preview/1997-11-01/lowtalkHer, then Chief of Staff, accused the reporter of bigotry.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 20, 2019 8:08:16 GMT -6
More hate on Burgess Owens for what he said yesterday: www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/19/womens-march-leader-lashes-out-at-burgess-owens-after-he-puts-democrat-party-in-its-place/Democrats – including Women’s March leader Tamika Mallory – are ripping former Oakland Raider Burgess Owens after he called out the Democrat Party for its role in slavery, segregation, and black oppression during a testimony before the House Judiciary Subcommittee Wednesday. The scheduled hearing featured testimony from Owens, who slammed the Democrat Party for its significant role in black oppression historically and currently, even mentioning the party’s support of aborting black babies. “Let’s pay restitution,” Owens said. “How about the Democratic Party pay for all the misery brought to my race?” This is not about about black and white, rich or poor, blue collar, white collar. We’re fighting for the hearts of our nation. We have a very, very special country– it’s called Judeo-Christian values. It allows every generation to become better than the last. That has not ended. That has not stopped. Until now. Owens pointed to the left’s victim mentality and the effect it is having on children. “We’re telling our kids something different – that they don’t have the opportunities we had,” he said. Leftist Democrats did not take kindly to Owens’ words. Women’s March lleader Tamika Mallory dismissed Owens as nothing more than the modern equivalent of an Uncle Tom. More reactions: What the hell is Burgess Owens talking about in this #Reparations hearing? Did he just say "Judeo-Christian values"? (A white supremacist term) Did he really bring up Marx, socialism and blame Democrats for slavery? I guess he's got to stay on those Fox News talking points. — Mariposa🐢 (@hell0nessa) June 19, 2019 Humorous thing is, this is not the first time Mr. Owens has addressed this topic. Here is his Op-Ed piece in the WSJ: www.wsj.com/articles/i-didnt-earn-slavery-reparations-and-i-dont-want-them-11558732429Didn’t Earn Slavery Reparations, and I Don’t Want Them My ancestor Silas Burgess came to America in chains. But even he was able to live the American Dream. By Burgess Owens May 24, 2019 5:13 pm ET My great-great-grandfather Silas Burgess came to America shackled in the belly of a slave ship. He was sold on an auction block in Charleston, S.C., to the Burgess Plantation. Orphaned by age 8, he was fortunately surrounded by elder slaves who, though physically chained, mentally envisioned themselves as free men. They escaped, taking young Silas with them, making their way to West Texas via the southern route of the Underground Railroad. Silas became a risk-taking entrepreneur and the owner of 102 acres of farmland, which he cultivated and paid off within two years. I proudly carry the name of my first American ancestor—who,...
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 20, 2019 12:59:23 GMT -6
Senate RINOS sided with Democrats to block Trump's arm sells to the Saudis,(also UK, Jordan, etc). In other words, they would prefer our men & women go over there to die in another pointless war, than to give our allies in the region the tools & weapons needed to finish the jobs themselves. So, expect President Trump to veto it & the Senate will not have the votes to override the veto. thehill.com/homenews/senate/449511-senate-votes-to-block-trumps-saudi-arms-salevoted to block President Trump’s Saudi arms deal on Thursday, paving the way for a veto clash with the White House. The Senate voted 53-45 on resolutions to block two of the sales, with GOP Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Mike Lee (Utah), Jerry Moran (Kansas), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Rand Paul (Ky.) and Todd Young (Ind.) joining Democrats. They voted 51-45 to block the additional 20 arms sales. Murkwoski flipped to vote for the sale, while Lee did not vote. The 22 arms sales, estimated to be worth more than $8 billion, would provide weapons to Saudi Arabia, as well as the United Arab Emirates and Jordan. But it sparked widespread backlash in Congress after Trump used an “emergency” provision of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) to sidestep the 30-day notification to lawmakers about a pending sale. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), who sponsored the resolution, argued that Congress needed to send a message that U.S. alliances with Saudi Arabia or the UAE are “not a blank check.” “For months upon months, this administration has failed to demonstrate how equipping the Saudis with more weapons would improve the Saudis’ respect for human rights in Yemen or advance America’s own values and national security interests,” Menendez said. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) added that if lawmakers didn’t try to block the sale they were effectively allowing this administration and future administrations to ignore Congress on arms sales. “If we don’t take a positive vote here, we are giving away this priority potentially forever, because you know, this emergency in the Middle East is not a new emergency,” he added. Under the AECA, lawmakers can block an arms sale with only a simple majority, instead of the 60 votes normally needed to pass legislation in the Senate. House Democrats have pledged they will also pass resolutions blocking the sale. Neither chamber is expected to be able to muster the two-thirds votes necessary to override all-but-guaranteed vetoes from Trump in response. The White House Office of Management and Budget issued a veto statement against all 22 resolutions of disapproval ahead of Thursday’s vote. “The transfer of these capabilities and services to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan directly supports the foreign policy and national security objectives of the United States by improving the security of friendly countries that continue to be important forces for political and economic stability in the Middle East,” OMB said in a statement. But Thursday’s votes are an unprecedented move, reflecting growing frustration on Capitol Hill about the U.S.-Saudi relationship and coming after two votes fell short in recent years to block arms deals with Saudi Arabia. One, in 2016, garnered support from only 27 senators. The other, in June 2017, had the backing of 47. Since then, U.S.-Saudi relations have soured further amid growing concerns about Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the years-long Yemen civil war and the death of Washington Post contributor and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. Congress passed a separate resolution earlier this year forcing Trump to remove troops in or affecting Yemen unless they were fighting al Qaeda; Trump vetoed the resolution. In addition to the arms sale votes on Thursday, Menendez announced that he had reached a deal with Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, to hold a committee vote on legislation limiting which countries a president can use the “emergency” provision to sell arms to and a broader Saudi bill being worked on by Risch. The administration has hit back at criticism from Congress over its tactics on the arms deal, arguing that a heightened threat from Iran is its justification in invoking the emergency. “These sales and the associated emergency certification are intended to address the military need of our partners in the face of an urgent regional threat posed by Iran; promote the vitality of our bilateral relationships by reassuring our partners; and preserve strategic advantage against near-peer competitors,” R. Clarke Cooper, the assistant secretary of State for political-military affairs, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee. They’ve been backed up by most Republicans including Risch and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), both of whom made the case for rejecting the resolutions ahead of Thursday’s votes. “I don’t think there’s anyone on this floor that is averse to the idea that action needs to be taken, and obviously the relationship is not the same as it’s been for a long time. Having said that, on a transactional basis, there are a number of basis that we are allied with the Saudi Arabians on,” Risch said. McConnell urged his colleagues to reject the effort to block the arms sale, arguing there were other steps lawmakers could take, including visiting the region or meeting with Saudi officials. “Rejecting long-planned arms sales strikes me as an overly blunt tool with several unintended consequences,” McConnell said. “The dynamics at play are not black and white. We can best shape these dynamics by working closely with our partners to encourage them in the right direction rather than turning our back.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 20, 2019 13:26:21 GMT -6
Devin Nunes says "Pervy" House Democrats asked Hope Hicks about her love life.
Seriously, this crosses serious lines and goes straight into harassment.
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Post by kcrufnek on Jun 20, 2019 13:44:06 GMT -6
Senate RINOS sided with Democrats to block Trump's arm sells to the Saudis,(also UK, Jordan, etc). In other words, they would prefer our men & women go over there to die in another pointless war, than to give our allies in the region the tools & weapons needed to finish the jobs themselves. So, expect President Trump to veto it & the Senate will not have the votes to override the veto. thehill.com/homenews/senate/449511-senate-votes-to-block-trumps-saudi-arms-salevoted to block President Trump’s Saudi arms deal on Thursday, paving the way for a veto clash with the White House. The Senate voted 53-45 on resolutions to block two of the sales, with GOP Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Mike Lee (Utah), Jerry Moran (Kansas), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Rand Paul (Ky.) and Todd Young (Ind.) joining Democrats. They voted 51-45 to block the additional 20 arms sales. Murkwoski flipped to vote for the sale, while Lee did not vote. The 22 arms sales, estimated to be worth more than $8 billion, would provide weapons to Saudi Arabia, as well as the United Arab Emirates and Jordan. But it sparked widespread backlash in Congress after Trump used an “emergency” provision of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) to sidestep the 30-day notification to lawmakers about a pending sale. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), who sponsored the resolution, argued that Congress needed to send a message that U.S. alliances with Saudi Arabia or the UAE are “not a blank check.” “For months upon months, this administration has failed to demonstrate how equipping the Saudis with more weapons would improve the Saudis’ respect for human rights in Yemen or advance America’s own values and national security interests,” Menendez said. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) added that if lawmakers didn’t try to block the sale they were effectively allowing this administration and future administrations to ignore Congress on arms sales. “If we don’t take a positive vote here, we are giving away this priority potentially forever, because you know, this emergency in the Middle East is not a new emergency,” he added. Under the AECA, lawmakers can block an arms sale with only a simple majority, instead of the 60 votes normally needed to pass legislation in the Senate. House Democrats have pledged they will also pass resolutions blocking the sale. Neither chamber is expected to be able to muster the two-thirds votes necessary to override all-but-guaranteed vetoes from Trump in response. The White House Office of Management and Budget issued a veto statement against all 22 resolutions of disapproval ahead of Thursday’s vote. “The transfer of these capabilities and services to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan directly supports the foreign policy and national security objectives of the United States by improving the security of friendly countries that continue to be important forces for political and economic stability in the Middle East,” OMB said in a statement. But Thursday’s votes are an unprecedented move, reflecting growing frustration on Capitol Hill about the U.S.-Saudi relationship and coming after two votes fell short in recent years to block arms deals with Saudi Arabia. One, in 2016, garnered support from only 27 senators. The other, in June 2017, had the backing of 47. Since then, U.S.-Saudi relations have soured further amid growing concerns about Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the years-long Yemen civil war and the death of Washington Post contributor and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. Congress passed a separate resolution earlier this year forcing Trump to remove troops in or affecting Yemen unless they were fighting al Qaeda; Trump vetoed the resolution. In addition to the arms sale votes on Thursday, Menendez announced that he had reached a deal with Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, to hold a committee vote on legislation limiting which countries a president can use the “emergency” provision to sell arms to and a broader Saudi bill being worked on by Risch. The administration has hit back at criticism from Congress over its tactics on the arms deal, arguing that a heightened threat from Iran is its justification in invoking the emergency. “These sales and the associated emergency certification are intended to address the military need of our partners in the face of an urgent regional threat posed by Iran; promote the vitality of our bilateral relationships by reassuring our partners; and preserve strategic advantage against near-peer competitors,” R. Clarke Cooper, the assistant secretary of State for political-military affairs, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee. They’ve been backed up by most Republicans including Risch and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), both of whom made the case for rejecting the resolutions ahead of Thursday’s votes. “I don’t think there’s anyone on this floor that is averse to the idea that action needs to be taken, and obviously the relationship is not the same as it’s been for a long time. Having said that, on a transactional basis, there are a number of basis that we are allied with the Saudi Arabians on,” Risch said. McConnell urged his colleagues to reject the effort to block the arms sale, arguing there were other steps lawmakers could take, including visiting the region or meeting with Saudi officials. “Rejecting long-planned arms sales strikes me as an overly blunt tool with several unintended consequences,” McConnell said. “The dynamics at play are not black and white. We can best shape these dynamics by working closely with our partners to encourage them in the right direction rather than turning our back.” A phone and a pen.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 20, 2019 14:51:36 GMT -6
Oregon Senate Republicans Flee State In Protest Of Cap and Trade Bill, Denying Dems Quorum, Governor Dispatches Police to Arrest Them. Interestingly, Democrats walked out once to stall/delay Republican legislation & law enforcement did not get involved. ....... www.oregonlive.com/politics/2019/06/oregon-governor-sends-police-to-find-missing-republicans-bring-them-to-capitol.html?fbclid=IwAR1jDrNTtiUqdAa0zof8AL9R304vpBC_70296IjQRawSDgYW7ukoENTTlkkOregon’s Democratic governor, Kate Brown, has dispatched state troopers to find missing Republican senators and bring them back to Salem to legislate. All 11 Republican senators are in hiding, at least some of them out of state, in order to prevent the Senate from having the quorum it needs to operate. They can’t abide the Democrat-backed carbon cap and spend bill that is up for a Senate vote today. When Republicans failed to show up on the Senate floor for today’s 11 a.m. session, Senate President Peter Courtney of Salem, a Democrat, asked the sergeant at arms to search the Capitol for the missing lawmakers. That search proved fruitless. In response to the walkout, Courtney formally requested that Brown dispatch Oregon State Police troopers to round up the missing Republicans. Brown quickly granted that request. “It is absolutely unacceptable that the Senate Republicans would turn their back on their constituents who they are honor-bound to represent here in this building,” she said in a statement. “They need to return and do the jobs they were elected to do.” Speaking on the partially vacant Senate floor, Courtney said, “I apologize to the citizens for taking (state troopers) off the streets to look for (missing lawmakers).” Oregon’s constitution allows the majority party to “compel” the attendance of absent members of the legislature. The process is rarely used, though. In 2001, Oregon Senate Democrats walked out and hid to stop a vote on a Republican legislative redistricting bill. They stayed away, bringing Senate business to a halt, for almost a week........ Hypocrites much?
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 21, 2019 7:45:53 GMT -6
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Post by kcrufnek on Jun 21, 2019 18:35:34 GMT -6
She could have been such a difference maker.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 22, 2019 5:02:59 GMT -6
Yesterday meme experts Carpe Donktum released their latest video spoofing a 2018 TIME magazine article on the Trump movement in America.
Which was a play on a cover from back on October 22, 2018. President Trump retweeted since he liked the troll.
Well, Time magazine saw it & had to reassure it’s readers that the covers in the video were not real.
This is more proof the American left has lost its mind and sense of humor.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 22, 2019 7:21:49 GMT -6
The Democrat leaders clearly wanted President Trump to make a wrong move so they could criticize him endlessly for getting America into another bloody war. They don’t care about protecting the US, standing for justice or protecting innocent lives.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 23, 2019 6:23:58 GMT -6
Esther Choo, an emergency medical doctor and professor in Oregon, took to Twitter to rail against white people and after getting called out for her racism, she asserted that it’s impossible to be racist towards whites. According to Choo’s bio, she’s an emergency physician and associate professor at the Oregon Health & Science University. Choo is the daughter of Korean immigrants and uses social media to talk about racism and sexism in healthcare, according to her bio.
When she received backlash for her racist tweet, Choo continued to taunt and disparage whites.
Twitter may not have a problem with racism against white people, but what about the medical community? Dr. Choo received huge backlash on Twitter.
It goes from there.
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