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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 16, 2019 8:51:40 GMT -6
They'd get tossed. Fans have already gotten that for wearing shirts and having signs supporting Hong Kong. Oh, I know that. To me, it would be interesting if it was an ongoing ordeal throughout the season and it forced the league to have to address it,(which they don't & is why they are censoring reporters questions in that matter).
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 16, 2019 8:53:29 GMT -6
thefederalist.com/2019/10/16/nba-stands-behind-political-protest-when-its-anti-american-rebukes-protest-when-its-anti-china/NBA Stands Behind Political Protest When It’s Anti-American, Rebukes Protest When It’s Anti-China The NBA's embrace of Chinese censorship is understandably drawing comparisons to the NFL's debacle with Colin Kaepernick, but such comparisons are unfair because what the NBA is doing is much worse for two reasons. Mitchell Blue By Mitchell Blue OCTOBER 16, 2019 The NBA has received deserved criticism for caving to the demands of the Chinese government to preserve their business relationship. Much of that criticism has focused on the NBA’s perceived hypocrisy. The NBA has long positioned itself as the “woke” league. Teams wore warm-ups that supported Eric Garner. Their commissioner Adam Silver said he wanted players to be political and speak up for social inequities, as CNN reported: Silver said the ‘sense of an obligation, social responsibility, a desire to speak up directly about issues that are important’ is something that’s been passed down over the decades. It’s ‘part of being an NBA player.’ Silver said the league wants NBA players to ‘be multi-dimensional people and fully participate as citizens.’ But after Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey’s tweet in favor of Hong Kong protesters jeopardized the NBA’s business dealings in China, it is hard to see how speaking up about important issues is part of being an NBA player — since no player spoke up in favor of democracy. James Harden certainly didn’t look like a multidimensional person when he stared into the camera and declared his unequivocal love of China, like he was in a weird cult in which, instead of sex, the cult leader controls his members via shoe contracts. Days later, everyone in the NBA is saying exactly what China wants them to say. LeBron James claimed Morey “wasn’t educated” on the subject. After being called out by Trump for being too scared to criticize China, coaches Gregg Popovich and Steve Kerr fought back, not by saying anything critical of China or supportive of the Hong Kong protesters, but by criticizing Trump and AR-15s. The NBA’s embrace of Chinese censorship is understandably drawing comparisons to the NFL’s debacle with Colin Kaepernick, but such comparisons are unfair because what the NBA is doing is much worse for two reasons. First, Kaepernick purposefully made his protests part of the games. By kneeling during the national anthem, his political views were made front and center during the NFL’s television product, and it dominated NFL media. The fact that liberal politics invaded a football game alienated many viewers who disagreed with his protest, as well as many viewers who agreed with Kaepernick but just wanted to watch a football game instead of receive a lecture on race. Conversely, the entire NBA controversy centered around a singular tweet from an executive’s personal account. Watching a basketball game, you wouldn’t even know the tweet existed unless you sought it out. Not to mention that China blocks Twitter from its citizens, so the “offended” parties couldn’t even read it if they wanted to. With Kaepernick, the NFL tried to police the presentation and content of its product and brand, while with Morey, the NBA is now policing the off-the-court private speech of its employees. The second major difference between the controversies is the party applying pressure on each league. While there have been allegations of collusion against Kaepernick, it seems likely that each NFL team just independently concluded that a backup quarterback is not worth losing fans over. It just doesn’t make business sense to anger 10 percent of your loyal customers to bring in a politically toxic non-starter, especially when someone like Josh McCown will gladly be your backup without any fanfare until he’s 50 years old. But the NBA’s pandering to China has little to do with fan reaction. The issue is not that people in China will turn off the NBA if they see Morey’s team on their TV sets. The issue is that because someone in the NBA said something in favor of the protesters, Chinese state-run TV made it so that Chinese fans couldn’t even turn on the NBA games if they wanted to. The NBA is not listening to the voice of its fans — it is taking direct orders from the Communist Party of China. It is like the NBA is voluntarily subjecting itself to China’s social credit system (wherein people can lose points if they are caught praying) by allowing China to dictate what is said on each and every one of its employee’s personal social media feeds. In the end, the difference between the leagues boils down to the fact that the NFL adhered to one of the classic tenets of capitalism: When you’re in the store, the customer is always right. Unfortunately, with its complete cowardice on China, the NBA adhered to a classic tenant of communism: No matter the time, place, or situation, Xi Jinping is always right.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 16, 2019 15:16:21 GMT -6
So, the Democrats stormed out and had their little temper tantrum before the media. Funny thing is, this a mirror reaction to when Pelosi, etc stormed out over infrastructure when President Trump told them he would not work with them, unless they dropped their sham investigations of him.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 16, 2019 18:17:57 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 16, 2019 18:21:54 GMT -6
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Post by kcrufnek on Oct 16, 2019 18:50:48 GMT -6
So, the Democrats stormed out and had their little temper tantrum before the media. Funny thing is, this a mirror reaction to when Pelosi, etc stormed out over infrastructure when President Trump told them he would not work with them, unless they dropped their sham investigations of him. He needs to start setting up a camera for these things. If someone wants to call someone a lunatic or something we coulod just go to the tape.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 17, 2019 4:55:07 GMT -6
Credit to Lou Dobbs, he got Scalise with a good question:
Lou Dobbs: Do you think voters Congressman, are going to ask of congressmen running for reelection what did you do for the president at the moment when he needed the greatest support, that he needed people standing shoulder to shoulder with him instead of voting with the damn Democrats on a resolution that the America people and Republicans in the latest survey by 57% approve of that troop withdrawal! Cngressman, you went against 57% of the voters in that poll. You went against the President who’s been right on issue after issue!…
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 17, 2019 4:59:35 GMT -6
Lindsey Graham this week lectured President Trump for removing US troops from northern Syria saying, “I will become President Trump’s worst nightmare!…
Response:
President Trump: Lindsey Graham would like to stay in the Middle East for the next 1,000 years with thousands of soldiers and fighting other people’s wars. I want to get out of the Middle East. I think Lindsey should focus right not on Judiciary. He ought to find out with what happened to Comey, with what happened to McCabe, with Lisa, what happened with Peter Strzok, what happened with President Obama, what happened with Brennan. That’s what Lindsey ought to focus on. That’s what the people of South Carolina want him to focus on. The people of South Carolina don’t want to get us in a war with Turkey, a NATO member, or Syria. Let them fight their own wars.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 17, 2019 5:27:13 GMT -6
Back to James:
This did not age well:
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 17, 2019 5:31:03 GMT -6
Elijah Cummings has passed away: www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/17/elijah-cummings-longtime-baltimore-congressman-dead-at-68/Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) – a key figure in the impeachment ment inquiry into President Donald Trump – has died of “health complications” at 68. Cummings died at Johns Hopkins Hospital at 2:45 a.m. Thursday morning from “complications concerning longstanding health challenges,” his office said. ........ I believe Clarence Darrow said it best: "I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 17, 2019 8:51:02 GMT -6
This left a mark: www.politico.com/news/2019/10/16/trump-abc-syria-reporter-048688Trump rips ABC News reporter over network’s Syria screw-up President Donald Trump called on ABC’s chief White House correspondent at Wednesday’s news conference and then proceeded to call out his network for a recent error covering Syria. During the Q&A portion, Trump selected ABC’s Jonathan Karl, who asked the president about his decision to abandon Kurdish allies in Syria. “Even after all you have seen — ISIS prisoners freed, all the humanitarian disaster — you don’t have any regret for giving Erdogan the greenlight to invade?” Karl asked, referring to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey. While Trump routinely lobs accusations of “fake news” at journalists, the president shot back on Wednesday with a specific screw-up that he recently described as a “big scandal” on Twitter. “When you ask a question like that, it’s very deceptive, Jon,” Trump said. “It’s almost as deceptive as you showing all of the bombings taking place in Syria and it turned out the bombing you showed on television took place in Kentucky.” ABC aired video on Sunday on “World News Tonight” and on Monday on “Good Morning America” that it said had appeared to show Turkish attacks on Syria’s border. The video was actually from a Kentucky gun range.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 17, 2019 10:56:50 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2019/10/17/hogan-gidley-secretary-press-nancy-pelosi-trump-staff-disrespect/Hogan Gidley claimed Thursday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi treated White House staffers with “disrespect” after she stormed out of a meeting with the president. Democratic congressional leaders met Wednesday at the White House to discuss President Donald Trump’s decision to pull U.S. troops from Syria, a move that has been sharply criticized by members of both parties. However, the meeting quickly went off the rails as the president reportedly called Pelosi a “third grade politician,” causing the Democratic leaders to leave in protest. In a Fox News interview, Gidley accused Pelosi of constantly hijacking meetings at the White House to “insult” the president and push her own agenda, and added that she was rude to staff when she left. I was just outside. I heard this activity the whole time. And I will say, when she actually left the room … she was extremely disrespectful to our staff, calling them incompetent. And she does that repeatedly as well,” Gidley explained. “It is very disgraceful behavior for a Speaker of the House to act that way.” Pelosi previously met with the president about a potential infrastructure deal in May, but that meeting was cut short by Trump at least partially because she accused him of a “cover-up” in regards to the Mueller probe. (RELATED: Trump Blasts Dems In Surprise Presser, Demands They Stop Investigations)
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 17, 2019 12:47:41 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 17, 2019 14:35:26 GMT -6
www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-secretly-ordered-nba-commissioner-fire-rockets-gm-over-hong-kong-tweetChina Secretly Ordered NBA Commissioner To Fire Rockets' GM Over Hong Kong Tweet ........ NBA Commissioner Adam Silver revealed on Thursday that the Chinese government insisted the league fire Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey over a now-deleted October 4 tweet supporting the protesters in Hong Kong, according to Time. time.com/5703259/adam-silver-nba-china-time-100-health-summit/We made clear that we were being asked to fire him, by the Chinese government, by the parties we dealt with, government and business," Silver said in his first US interview about the league's ongoing free speech scandal. "We said there’s no chance that’s happening. There’s no chance we’ll even discipline him." Speaking at the TIME 100 Health Summit, Silver noted that "The losses have already been substantial," adding "Our games are not back on the air in China as we speak, and we’ll see what happens next." consequences have been and may continue to be fairly dramatic." Silver said that the media coverage of the NBA’s response to Morey’s tweet “frankly was confusing to me when I got home [from China]. Only because I had thought we’d taken a principled position. I thought we hadn’t so-called acquiesced to the Chinese.” The NBA’s initial statement last week used the world “regrettable,” which Silver emphasized was describing the reaction of Chinese government officials, business executives and NBA fans in China — not the content of Morey’s tweet itself. “Maybe I was trying too hard to be a diplomat,” Silver said. “I didn’t see it as my role as the commissioner of the NBA to weigh in on the substance of the protest, but to say here’s this platform” for free expression. -Time Silver says the NBA didn't cave in to China's demands, noting "These American values — we are an American business — travel with us wherever we go."
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Post by kcrufnek on Oct 18, 2019 4:25:55 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 18, 2019 11:58:01 GMT -6
As we've stated numerous times previously, President Trump has successfully ripped off the liberals mask and exposed them for what they really are.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 23, 2019 5:04:22 GMT -6
So, President Trump once again Trumped the leftists. It all started with a tweet: The reactions were as expected: Well, a brief history search reveals something interesting: But, but Orange Man bad. Yes, he’s bad for you because he keeps revealing who you guys truly are & you despise him for it.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 23, 2019 20:01:23 GMT -6
LeBron being LeBron again:
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 24, 2019 10:04:13 GMT -6
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz blasted Democrat Rep. Jackie Speier for referring to him as a “white man” while discussing GOP lawmakers storming the secretive impeachment inquiry on Wednesday.
Rep. Gaetz was responding to an interview on Morning Joe in which Rep. Speier said that their protest was “a high school prank by a bunch of 50-year-old white men.”
“Did she say we were a bunch of white men?” Gaetz asked. “What does the fact that we are white men have to do with our desire to represent the millions of constituents we serve?”
“I was deeply offended by that,” he continued. “When Jackie Speier walks in a room, I don’t sit there and say a white woman came in…This is the type of identity politics from the left that seems to permeate any substantive or procedural arguments they make, and it’s sickening to me that that’s how we would be thought of…It’s just really kind of sickening.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 25, 2019 11:04:46 GMT -6
Hillary Clinton took a veiled swipe at President Trump and First Lady Melania
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 25, 2019 14:50:44 GMT -6
www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-press-has-been-repeating-the-exact-same-stories-about-trump-since-day-oneThe press has been repeating the exact same stories about Trump since day one On Wednesday, journalist Carl Bernstein had a hot scoop. President Trump “is behaving and conducting himself in a way that Republicans themselves, especially talking with reporters privately, are questioning his sanity and his stability,” the Watergate reporter claimed. Do you feel that? That is called déjà vu. If Bernstein’s remarks sound familiar to you, that is because they are. You have heard this exact line, or some approximation of it, about Trump’s mental fitness repeated since even before he took office in 2017. Indeed, Bernstein’s comments are merely the latest iteration of one of the handful of media-hyped Trump stories that get repeated every so often, as if on a continuous loop. No, really. It is easy to miss if you are not paying close attention, but pundits and reporters alike have been repeating essentially the same stories about Trump since Trump jumped into the 2016 GOP primary. The thing that is really frustrating is that more than half of these repeated news cycles end up not even being true or are horribly overblown, yet we seem doomed to hear the claims again and again. Arc Digital columnist Varad Mehta has been cataloging these greatest hits since January of this year, carefully tracking the repetition in the press’ supposedly “bombshell” news cycles. It is really quite a sight, when you see it all in laid out, the press’s addiction to the exact same narratives. Stop me if you heard this one before: “Trump rages,” he is “unraveling,” he is “fuming": November 2016: “Trump rages as Clinton helps recount” May 2017: “We May Be Witnessing the Unraveling of Donald Trump’s Presidency” March 2017: “Inside Trump’s fury: The president rages at leaks, setbacks and accusations” October 2017: “Upstairs at home, with the TV on, Trump fumes over Russia indictments” Oct. 2018: “The unraveling of Trump” July 2018: “Spotting CNN on a TV Aboard Air Force One, Trump Rages Against Reality” January 2019: "Trump Is Screaming": Giuliani's Fate Uncertain After Botched Interviews” Sept. 2019: “Carl Bernstein: Trump is unraveling” Oct. 2019: “Trump Rages Over Republican Defections as Democrats Press on Impeachment” “Trump is isolated”: Feb. 2017: “The very peculiar isolation of Donald Trump” May 2017: “Trump isolated as world unites on Paris climate deal” August 2017: “President Trump Is More Isolated Than Ever” March 2018: “Raging, isolated Trump can’t bluff his way out this time” August 2018: “People who have known Mr. Trump for years pointed out that he has never been as cornered — or as isolated — as he is right now, and that he is at his most volatile when he feels backed against the wall.” September 2018: “But President Trump has never been more isolated from allies he needs most.” December 2018: “Trump increasingly isolated as aides leave, friends flip and investigations advance” Jan. 2019: “How Trump's Rhetoric Against Allies Has Often Isolated Him” Feb. 2019: “DONALD TRUMP IS THE 'MOST ISOLATED' PRESIDENT SINCE RICHARD NIXON, WATERGATE JOURNALIST BOB WOODWARD SAYS” Oct. 2019: “Donald Trump isolated as Republican allies revolt over US withdrawal from Syria” This is the "end" for Trump: June 2016: “The beginning of Trump’s end” June 2016: “The beginning of the end for Trump?” August 2016: “Will Trump’s Attack on the Khans Be the Beginning of the End for His White House Hopes?” October 2016: “Is This the Beginning of the End for Donald Trump?” February 2017: “This is the Beginning of the End for Donald Trump” February 2017: “Is General Flynn a Sacrificial Lamb, or the Beginning of the End for Donald Trump?” March 2017: “In the White House things are looking bad. This could be the beginning of the end for Trump” March 2017: “If CNN's New Russia Report Is True, We May Be Seeing the Beginning of the End of Donald Trump's Presidency” May 2017: “It's the Beginning of the End for Trump. Even Elected Democrats Can Feel It.” May 2017: “Is the Comey Memo the Beginning of the End for Trump?” December 2017: “Will 2018 Be the End of the Trump presidency?” February 2018: “John Dean warns Gates's testimony may be 'the end' of Trump's presidency” March 2018: “Is This the Beginning of Trump’s End?” April 2018: “Michael Cohen and the End Stage of the Trump Presidency” August 2018: “The beginning of the end of the Trump presidency” August 2018: “Donald Trump may have finally reached the beginning of the end” November 2018: “The end of Trump” December 2018: “Trump’s Latest Meltdown Shows Even He Knows This Could Be the Beginning of the End” January 2019: “This looks like the beginning of the end for Trump” Sept. 2019: "Could this impeachment inquiry end Trump’s presidency?" If you say it enough times, it will come true. It’s in the Constitution.
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Post by kcrufnek on Oct 25, 2019 16:56:57 GMT -6
Hillary Clinton took a veiled swipe at President Trump and First Lady Melania
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 26, 2019 5:32:53 GMT -6
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Post by kcrufnek on Oct 26, 2019 7:28:26 GMT -6
Can you imagine the outrage if the right were using the funeral of a "great statesman" to act like this? Remember how well the Wellstone memorial/rally worked for them?
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 26, 2019 12:27:33 GMT -6
Big shock, I know. www.dailywire.com/news/me-me-me-obama-uses-elijah-cummings-funeral-to-talk-about-himself-againME ME ME: Obama Uses Elijah Cummings Funeral To Talk About Himself — Again One thing Barack Obama loves — really loves — is… himself. Over the years, the former president has used all kinds of events to talk about himself. Often, they’re the most inappropriate venues at which to deliver an egocentric speech. Like Elijah Cummings’ funeral. Cummings was a civil rights icon. Born in 1951 to sharecropper parents, he was destined for big things. When he was just 11, he led a group of boys to a whites-only pool in Baltimore and jumped in. Whites protested, holding up signs that said, “Keep Our Pool Germ Free” and “White People Have Rights Too,” the Washington Post reported. At one point, a mob “surrounded the pool, held back by a line of police with K-9 dogs, while the kids tried to splash and play. Then, over the police officers’ heads, the mob threw rocks and bottles. One of them hit Cummings in the face, cutting his eyebrow and leaving a scar he carried all his life.” Cummings attended college and then got his law degree. He served for 14 years in the Maryland House of Delegates and then won election to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served until his death Oct. 17 at age 68. But Obama used a eulogy for the late Democratic lawmaker on Friday to talk about himself. In a 15-minute speech, “Obama referenced himself 30 times, averaging twice per minute. Overall, he used the word ‘I,’ 24 times, ‘me’ 3 times, and ‘my’ another 3 times,” Grabien reported. “I remember I had the pleasure of meeting Elijah’s mother, Ruth, and she told me she prayed for me every day, and I knew it was true, and I felt better for it,” Obama said. “I was thinking I would want my daughters to know how much I love them, but I would also want them to know that being a strong man includes being kind — a strong man includes being kind,” he said. Obama even sought to buck up his flagging legacy. “Once during my presidency, when the economy still looked like it might plunge into depression, when the health-care bill was pronounced dead in Congress, I would watch Elijah rally his colleagues,” Obama said. It’s not the first time Obama obsessed about himself in a speech. In April, Obama outdid himself. “President Obama was in Germany on Saturday, ostensibly to speak about ‘community leadership and civic engagement’ on behalf of his eponymous Obama Foundation, but Berliners soon discovered his main topic of interest was Barack Obama. Obama talking about himself in an almost obsessive manner is no new phenomenon, but today he shattered his own records. Over the course of a 90-minute town hall with ‘emerging leaders,’ Obama mentioned himself an eye-popping 467 times,” Grabien reported then. After that speech, Thomas Lifson, editor and publisher of American Thinker, offered an insight. “The post-presidential era of his life seems to be a bit of a challenge to the ego of Barack Hussein Obama. Never shy about referring to himself while president, now that man in the White House is reversing his policies and spectacularly succeeding, it’s got to be hard on his self-esteem. And let’s not forget the psychological pressure that may be building in the wake of the collapse of the Russia Hoax and the possible investigation of its origins,” he wrote. In his eulogy, Obama also targeted his successor — without naming him, of course. “There’s nothing weak about kindness and compassion,” he said. “There’s nothing weak about looking out for others. There’s nothing weak about being honorable. You’re not a sucker to have integrity and to treat others with respect.” Wrote Grabien: Pointing to a sign referring to “the Honorable,” Mr. Cummings, Obama continued: “That’s a title that we confer to all kinds of people who get elected to public office. We’re supposed to introduce them as honorable. But Elijah Cummings was honorable before he was elected to office. There’s a difference. There’s a difference if you were honorable and treated others honorably outside the limelight.” The crowd knew Obama was digging at President Trump — who had a notoriously testy relationship with the departed lawmaker — and cheered wildly.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 26, 2019 12:32:48 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/mizzou-steps-in-it-again-this-time-with-failed-diversity-stunt-involving-white-and-black-athletesThere may be no other single college in America that is a better example of the failures of being “woke” than the University of Missouri, more commonly known as Mizzou. The latest embarrassment for the university comes from its attempt at a PR campaign featuring student athletes. The aim or the campaign was simple enough: Show that student athletes are more than the stereotypical jock. The school asked athletes who they are as a person. But when the school made images using the photos of these athletes, something went wrong. The photos highlighting white female athletes included quotes saying what they want to be in the future. “I am a future doctor,” reads the quote from Chelsey Christensen. “I am a future corporate financer,” reads the quote from CJ Kovac. But the images featuring African-American athletes don’t include information about their futures. Arielle Mack’s photo quote reads: “I am an African American woman.” Caulin Graves’ quote says, “I am a brother.” This might not have been such a problem if there was a little more explanation. If they simply asked the students to finish the sentence, “I am a/an,” one might get more insight into the students. We would commend Graves for putting his family first. But a video released with the images shows that the black students did talk about their futures, but that’s not what the school included. Graves did not simply say he “is a brother.” He also said he was an uncle “and a leader.” Mack said she was “a future physical therapist” in addition to the quote included on her image. Another black student athlete said he was an electrical engineer. Why couldn’t those quotes be included on images to continue the theme? After a swift backlash, Mizzou deleted its tweet featuring the athletes’ images and apologized. RedState’s Kira Davis included screenshots of the failed tweets in her article about the PR disaster, writing: To recap: at Mizzou white student athletes are future doctors and business people. Black student athletes are…black. Poor Caulin Graves doesn’t even get to be black, just “a brother.” *insert laughy-cry emoji here* Mizzou’s social justice troubles began in 2015, when it became the poster child for protests from students claiming their school was a hotbed of racism. During the protests, professor Melissa Click pushed a student journalists and threatened to call some “muscle” over. She was eventually fired and charged with assault. The incident was embarrassing for the school, which saw a massive drop in admissions the following year. The drop in admissions led to a $32 million budget shortfall, which resulted in the closure of two dorms. Earlier this year, the school was threatened with a loss of funding due to its lack of due process for students accused of sexual assault. Local media sneered at legislators’ attempts to provide basic fairness to murky he said/she said accusations by scoffing at the idea that an accused student deserved to see the evidence against him and to cross-examine his accuser. www.redstate.com/kiradavis/2019/10/25/epic-fail-mizzou-athletics-attempt-diversity-campaign-goes-horribly-horribly-wrong/
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 26, 2019 16:07:06 GMT -6
Here’s another lesson in: Republicans Build Jobs – Democrats Kill Jobs. Earlier this month Strauss Brands announced that they were moving a new plant and relocating its headquarters to Milwaukee’s Century City, a lagging community in Milwaukee’s northside. The move would have brought 250 high paying jobs to the northside. But then the Democrats stepped in and slaughtered the plans. Far left loons protesting for a “Slaughter Free Milwaukee” ruined the plans. As a result, Milwaukee aldermen deferred a vote on Strauss’ plans for a new headquarters and meat facility. www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2019/10/21/strauss-brands-rescinds-60m-plan-to-move.htmlFollowing backlash from elected officials and anti-slaughterhouse organizers, meat production company Strauss Brands says it’s no longer pursuing a $60 million plan to relocate its headquarters and meat processing facility — along with 250 jobs — to Milwaukee’s Century City.
“It was our hope that Strauss Brands’ move to Milwaukee’s Century City neighborhood would have created jobs, provided an economic boost, and inspired other businesses to follow suit,” said Randy Strauss, president and CEO of Strauss Brands, in a statement Monday. “We honor and respect the opinions of the community and don’t want to make our home in a place where our presence would not be seen as a benefit. We are no longer pursuing relocation to Century City.”
The project is now likely headed back to the city of Franklin, where Strauss Brands already has a location.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 26, 2019 16:09:30 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 27, 2019 6:00:01 GMT -6
And while saying this, she was doing this for her daughter: freebeacon.com/politics/waters-pays-daughter-56k-more-from-campaign/Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) ontinues to pay tens of thousands of dollars from her campaign's coffers to her daughter for running a slate mailer operation while other debts remain untouched, filings show. Waters's campaign committee disbursed $56,000 to the congresswoman's daughter Karen during the third quarter, according to the committee's most recent filings. The committee's payment to Karen reduced some of the accrued debt owed to her for running a slate mailer, or endorsement mailer, operation for the campaign. At the end of 2018, the campaign reported being $183,000 in the red to Karen. Since that time, it has steadily chipped away at the debt, bringing the amount currently owed down to $52,000. As Waters has continued to pay her daughter from her campaign's coffers, other committee debts have remained untouched.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 27, 2019 6:07:04 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2019/10/26/california-blackouts-wildfires/Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom is warning citizens that they could be in for a long weekend as the state’s public utility announced Saturday plans to shut down huge sections of the electric grid. The Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s move could black out an estimated 940,000 homes and businesses in parts of more than 30 counties up and down California. PG&E is trying to prevent potential wildfires from spreading through the state while keeping tabs on downed power lines. Newsom, who is under pressure as gas prices increase, told Californians things are going to be tough for the next few days. “The next 72 hours will be challenging,” the Democrat said at a news conference. “I could sugarcoat it, but I will not.” The rolling blackouts could surpass those of the 750,000 customers who dealt with similar shut-offs earlier in October. Newsom started to circulate blame for many of the problems Californians are facing, including the blackouts and rising gas prices. These are difficult calls,” he said at Saturday’s conference. “But a society as industrious and entrepreneurial and innovative as ours should not have to face a choice between public safety and public blackouts. We can do both together. And that is what path we are on.” Newsom also lit into PG&E. (RELATED: Gavin Newsom Stumped By High Gas Prices In California — Where Gas Taxes Outstrip The Other 49 States) “It’s more than just climate change. It’s about the failure of capitalism to address climate change,” he told reporters Friday as he spoke about the utility’s continued use of rolling blackouts. Newsom also leaned in on oil companies as the state faces staggering gas prices. The Democratic governor asked his attorney general Oct. 23 to investigate oil companies for conspiring to keep gas prices artificially high. Newsom based his request on a report suggesting California drivers are paying $1 more per gallon of gasoline than the rest of the country, according to The Associated Press. As for the blackouts, PG&E said the utility is keeping tabs on wind conditions. “We are working vigilantly to forecast conditions, and the weather is dynamic and changing,” PG&E spokeswoman Suzanne Hosn said in a statement Saturday. “We are adjusting start times based on the weather forecast.” Newsom’s office has not responded to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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