The New York Times published an article and a promotional tweet on Wednesday laying out the case against one of America&#8217;s most iconic monuments, Mount Rushmore, a move that came within a couple of days of a quickly deleted tweet by the Democratic Party expressing a similar sentiment.
In a since-deleted tweet Monday night, the Democratic Party  <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-democrat-party-begins-demonizing-mount-rushmore-refers-to-july-4-celebration-as-glorifying-white-supremacy">described</a> President Trump&#8217;s upcoming Independence Day celebrations at the famous monument as &#8220;glorifying white supremacy at Mount Rushmore — a region once sacred to tribal communities.&#8221;
“Trump has disrespected Native communities time and again,” the party tweeted. “He’s attempted to limit their voting rights and blocked critical pandemic relief. Now he’s holding a rally glorifying white supremacy at Mount Rushmore — a region once sacred to tribal communities.”
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The Democrats think Mt Rushmore is a display of white supremacy. 
There’s no saving this country if Biden gets elected. 
(They deleted their tweet.) <a href="https://t.co/hm6r11IjRR">pic.twitter.com/hm6r11IjRR</a>
&mdash; (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1277798547069386752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
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On Wednesday, The New York Times published a piece effectively expanding on the Democrats&#8217; swipe at Mount Rushmore.
In a tweet summarizing some of the article&#8217;s key points, the Times wrote: &#8220;Mount Rushmore was built on land that belonged to the Lakota tribe and sculpted by a man who had strong bonds with the Ku Klux Klan. It features the faces of 2 U.S. presidents who were slaveholders.&#8221;
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Mount Rushmore was built on land that belonged to the Lakota tribe and sculpted by a man who had strong bonds with the Ku Klux Klan. It features the faces of 2 U.S. presidents who were slaveholders.<a href="https://t.co/pHmJScnYbb">https://t.co/pHmJScnYbb</a>
&mdash; The New York Times (@nytimes) <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1278387954440904704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The article, titled &#8220;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/us/mount-rushmore.html">How Mount Rushmore Became Mount Rushmore</a>,&#8221; details how &#8220;the South Dakota landmark has drawn criticism over the land it occupies, the main sculptor behind it and the legacies of the men it memorializes.&#8221;
A few excerpts on the Times&#8217; report on the &#8220;big, big piece of Americana&#8221; [formatting adjusted]:
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Before he was recruited to create Mount Rushmore, Mr. [Gutzom] Borglum had been involved with another project: an enormous bas-relief at <a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/us/stone-mountain-confederate-removal.html">Stone Mountain</a> in Georgia that memorialized Confederate leaders. It was eventually completed without him, but Mr. Borglum formed strong bonds with leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and participated in their meetings, in part to secure funding for the Stone Mountain project. He also espoused white supremacist and anti-Semitic ideas, according to excerpts from his letters included in “<a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/john-taliaferro/great-white-fathers/9781586482053/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Great White Fathers</a>,” a book by the writer John Taliaferro about the history of Mount Rushmore. &#8230;
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Mount Rushmore is built on land that had belonged to the Lakota tribe. “Wherever you go to connect to God, that’s what the Black Hills are to the Lakota,” said <a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://ndncollective.org/people/nick-tilsen-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nick Tilsen</a>, a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe and the president of NDN Collective, an Indigenous activist group. Prospectors seized the land during a gold rush in the 1870s, violating the <a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/sioux-treaty#:~:text=In%20the%20spring%20of%201868,reservation%20in%20the%20Dakota%20Territory." target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fort Laramie treaty of 1868</a>, which recognized the Black Hills as belonging to Native Americans, Mr. Tilsen said in an interview.
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Like the Democratic Party&#8217;s rapidly pulled tweet, the Times&#8217; post promoting its Mount Rushmore piece was met with intense criticism online.
Below are just a few examples of the flood of overwhelmingly negative responses to the Times&#8217; apparent push to &#8220;cancel&#8221; the beloved monument, including many pointing out that the Times has its own &#8220;problematic&#8221; past:
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In 1851, <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a> founding editor Henry Jarvis Raymond published an editorial in which he supported a slaveowner’s legal right to recover his escaped slaves. 
Will you guys also be canceling yourselves? <a href="https://t.co/kaK6NtVZPz">https://t.co/kaK6NtVZPz</a>
&mdash; PragerU (@prageru) <a href="https://twitter.com/prageru/status/1278425645173874689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a>, a <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/formernewspaper?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#formernewspaper</a>, was built on land that belonged to the Canarsee tribe and covered up both the Holocaust and the Communist starvation of millions. <a href="https://t.co/pF94XtK8xj">https://t.co/pF94XtK8xj</a>
&mdash; Andrew Klavan (@andrewklavan) <a href="https://twitter.com/andrewklavan/status/1278467461721948161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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And the <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a> headquarters is built on Lenape land which was stolen. 
Until the <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a> gives up their building to their descendants, anyone working for them is clearly involved in white supremacy. <a href="https://t.co/faOnHGx6y0">https://t.co/faOnHGx6y0</a> <a href="https://t.co/DA8lOdSoQl">https://t.co/DA8lOdSoQl</a>
&mdash; Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) <a href="https://twitter.com/Neoavatara/status/1278392342077214721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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This building is built on land basically stolen for $24 from the Delaware Indians. You implode this temple of America-hating assholes I’ll give you the mountain. <a href="https://t.co/5tib3GLrJx">pic.twitter.com/5tib3GLrJx</a>
&mdash; Jon Nicosia (@NewsPolitics) <a href="https://twitter.com/NewsPolitics/status/1278399795787374592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The NY Times coverage of another person who had strong bonds with the KKK <a href="https://t.co/NFVznSPDx9">https://t.co/NFVznSPDx9</a> <a href="https://t.co/oQJFEKdSfY">pic.twitter.com/oQJFEKdSfY</a>
&mdash; Cox (@HOLYSMKES) <a href="https://twitter.com/HOLYSMKES/status/1278399811746533376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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From the “newspaper” that brought us the thoroughly discredited 1619 project… 
This just in. 
I can only imagine with the public trust numbers are going to look like by the end of 2020. <a href="https://t.co/CDfXKICZHI">pic.twitter.com/CDfXKICZHI</a>
&mdash; Howard Beale&#39;s hate child (@BealesHateChild) <a href="https://twitter.com/BealesHateChild/status/1278396671282601986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Mount Rushmore

NYT Lays Out Case Against Mount Rushmore; Critics Remind Paper Of Its Own Problematic Past

American History

Democratic Party

Donald Trump

New York Times

Virginia Senate Democrats are proposing the reduction of the charge of assault on a police officer from a felony to a simple misdemeanor offense.
The proposal, one of 28 championed by the Virginia Senate Democratic Caucus to reform the state&#8217;s law enforcement systems, would get rid of the current law that considers an assault of a police officer a Class 6 felony and imposes a mandatory minimum term of confinement of six months.
The <a href="https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title18.2/chapter4/section18.2-57/">Virginia code</a> states:
<blockquote>If any person commits an assault or an assault and battery against another knowing or having reason to know that such other person is a judge, a magistrate, a law-enforcement officer … a correctional officer  … a volunteer firefighter or any emergency medical services personnel member who is employed by or is a volunteer of an emergency medical services agency or as a member of a bona fide volunteer fire department or volunteer emergency medical services agency … such person is guilty of a Class 6 felony, and, upon conviction, the sentence of such person shall include a mandatory minimum term of confinement of six months.</blockquote>
The Virginia Senate Democrats issued a statement reading, “The deaths of [George] Floyd, [Ahmaud] Arbery and [Breonna] Taylor have awoken Americans and Virginians to long-standing problems in policing in America. After people are arrested, additional damage is done by a criminal justice system that has been streamlined to produce convictions and punishment instead of rehabilitation and justice.”
As the <a href="https://forthuntherald.com/virginia-senate-democrats-consider-defelonizing-assault-against-law-enforcement-officers/?fbclid=IwAR31Gk5scNJWs55Z8zkvh9FjEVEuBNkJMbNwPz7Va_tiZsoKYuUsDpepjpk">Fort Hunt Herald</a> reported, “<a href="https://forthuntherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Virginia-Senate-Democratic-Caucus-VSDC-Memo-Criminal-Justice-Reform-Proposals.pdf">The Virginia Senate Democratic Caucus’ list of proposed reforms includes</a>:
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<li>Prohibit No Knock Warrants</li>
<li>Ban Sex With Individuals Arrested by Law Enforcement</li>
<li>Prohibit Hiring of Officers Fired or Resigned During Use of Force Investigations</li>
<li>Create a Decertification Procedure for Law Enforcement Officers*</li>
<li>Ban chokeholds and strangleholds</li>
<li>Require Attempts at De-escalation Prior to Use of Force</li>
<li>Require Warnings Before Shots Fired</li>
<li>Require Law Enforcement to Exhaust All Other Means Prior to Shooting</li>
<li>Create Duty to Intervene by Fellow Law Enforcement Officers</li>
<li>Prohibit Shooting at Moving Motor Vehicles</li>
<li>Require Departments to Create a Use of Force Continuum</li>
<li>Require Comprehensive Reporting by All Law Enforcement Agencies Including Use of Force Data</li>
<li>Defelonize Assault on Law Enforcement Officer (Return to Misdemeanor Offense)</li>
<li>Cancel HB599 Funding (Virginia supplemental funding for local police departments) After Local Police Have Disproportionate Use of Force Incidents in their Jurisdiction</li>
<li>Create Local Authority for a Marcus Alert System – System to Report Acute Mental Health Crises</li>
<li>Create Local Option for Citizen Review Board Empowered to Investigate, Fire and/or Discipline Officers</li>
<li>Confirm Prosecutors’ Authority to Drop Charges*</li>
<li>Enhance Courts’ Ability to Expunge Charges for Dismissed Charges, Substance Convictions and Pardoned Offenses*</li>
<li>Prohibit Searches of Person or Vehicle Based on Odor of Marijuana Without Probable Cause for Other Offenses*</li>
<li>Prohibit Stops for Equipment Violations Not Covered by State Vehicle Inspection</li>
<li>Secondary Offense For Dangling Objects, Extinguished Tag Light, Tinted Windows or Loud Exhaust</li>
<li>Jury Sentencing Only at Option of the Accused*</li>
<li>Eliminate Commonwealth’s Right to Demand Jury Trial When Jury Trials Suspended for State of Emergency*</li>
<li>Require Agencies to Determine Cost Savings for Introduced Criminal Justice Legislation</li>
<li>Allow Earned Sentence Credit for Good Behavior During Prison*</li>
<li>Create Discretion for Compassionate Release for Terminally Ill or Permanently Disabled Prisoners*</li>
<li>Virginia Rental Assistance Fund for Families Economically Impacted by COVID</li>
<li>Require and Reimburse Localities for Postage Prepaid Envelopes for Absentee Voting*</li>
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Virginia Democrats Propose Reducing Charge For Assaulting Police Officers

Ahmaud Arbery

Breonna Taylor

George Floyd

Police

Virginia

The Democrat Party began attacking Mount Rushmore on Monday night from their official Twitter account and referred to upcoming Independence Day celebrations at the famed monument as &#8220;glorifying white supremacy.&#8221;
&#8220;Trump has disrespected Native communities time and again,&#8221; the Democrats wrote. &#8220;He’s attempted to limit their voting rights and blocked critical pandemic relief. Now he’s holding a rally glorifying white supremacy at Mount Rushmore – a region once sacred to tribal communities.&#8221;
The Democrat Party linked to an article from the left-wing British newspaper The Guardian, which promoted the extreme view that Mount Rushmore is a &#8220;symbol of white supremacy.&#8221;
The tweet sparked instant and widespread backlash, and was quickly deleted by the party after only being up for approximately an hour.
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The Democrats think Mt Rushmore is a display of white supremacy. 
There’s no saving this country if Biden gets elected. 
(They deleted their tweet.) <a href="https://t.co/hm6r11IjRR">pic.twitter.com/hm6r11IjRR</a>
&mdash; (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1277798547069386752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Political commentator Stephen Miller commented on the tweet, writing: &#8220;Gosh, it sure would be neat if there were an entire industry of professionals who could ask the Democrat nominee for President of his party if he agrees with this sentiment that Mount Rushmore glorifies white supremacy.&#8221;
&#8220;I mean we still don&#8217;t even know where he stands on removing statues,&#8221; Miller continued. &#8220;They let him out to run around once a week and give a 12-minute statement on something and then back to basement grandpa.&#8221;
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I mean we still don&#39;t even know where he stands on removing statues. They let him out to run around once a week and give a 12-minute statement on something and then back to basement grandpa.
&mdash; Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1277793432258310144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Political commentator Erielle Davidson wrote on Twitter: &#8220;Let the Democrats campaign on taking down Mount Rushmore. If they want to cater to the cultural Marxists, fine. But they’ll lose spectacularly.&#8221;
&#8220;It would be wise for the Democrats to realize that Twitter is not real life,&#8221; Davidson continued. &#8220;The cancel campaigns are much louder (and obnoxious) online than in real life.&#8221;
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It would be wise for the Democrats to realize that Twitter is not real life. The cancel campaigns are much louder (and obnoxious) online than in real life.
&mdash; Erielle Davidson (@politicalelle) <a href="https://twitter.com/politicalelle/status/1277800538952925184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Matt Wolking, Deputy Director of Communications &#8211; Rapid Response for President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, tweeted: &#8220;June 29, 2020, 9:57 PM ET, The moment the Democrat Party attacked Mount Rushmore, which features George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, as a symbol of white supremacy.&#8221;
Wolking added, &#8220;The (foreign media) article the Democrat Party linked to quotes an activist saying, &#8216;Mount Rushmore is a symbol of white supremacy, of structural racism that’s still alive and well in society today.'&#8221;
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The (foreign media) article the Democrat Party linked to quotes an activist saying, &quot;Mount Rushmore is a symbol of white supremacy, of structural racism that’s still alive and well in society today&quot;
&mdash; Matt Wolking (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@MattWolking) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWolking/status/1277796540711686144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Mark Lotter, Director of Strategic Communications for Team Trump, wrote: &#8220;The party of Joe Biden is now attacking Mount Rushmore.&#8221;
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The party of Joe Biden is now attacking Mount Rushmore. <a href="https://t.co/FtVYC6htWa">pic.twitter.com/FtVYC6htWa</a>
&mdash; Marc Lotter &#8211; Text TRUMP to 88022 (@marc_lotter) <a href="https://twitter.com/marc_lotter/status/1277802257262817281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Zach Parkinson, Deputy Director of Communications &#8211; Research for President Donald Trump&#8217;s 2020 Campaign, tweeted out photographs of top Democrats visiting Mount Rushmore.
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Shot/chasers <a href="https://t.co/cAFkywdEi2">pic.twitter.com/cAFkywdEi2</a>
&mdash; Zach Parkinson (@AZachParkinson) <a href="https://twitter.com/AZachParkinson/status/1277801812112879618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Oh no&#8230; DNC is going to need to cancel one of its National Committee members<a href="https://t.co/WYPehUAkv0">https://t.co/WYPehUAkv0</a> <a href="https://t.co/rCXVsmcS6L">pic.twitter.com/rCXVsmcS6L</a>
&mdash; Zach Parkinson (@AZachParkinson) <a href="https://twitter.com/AZachParkinson/status/1277803495769473024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Conservatives started warning last week that the political left was going to begin targeting Mount Rushmore as violent mobs toppled statues and destroyed monuments across the U.S.
Meghan McCain wrote on Twitter: &#8220;We&#8217;re like one week removed from entire cable news panels debating whether or not we should blow up Mount Rushmore.&#8221;
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We&#39;re like one week removed from entire cable news panels debating whether or not we should blow up Mount Rushmore.
&mdash; Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1275171150042214400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Ben Shapiro wrote on Twitter: &#8220;So, when is our woke historical revisionist priesthood going to insist on blowing up Mount Rushmore?&#8221;
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem responded to Shapiro&#8217;s tweet by writing: &#8220;Not on my watch.&#8221;
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Not on my watch. <a href="https://t.co/U6gGap5Ib6">https://t.co/U6gGap5Ib6</a>
&mdash; Governor Kristi Noem (@govkristinoem) <a href="https://twitter.com/govkristinoem/status/1275415631609958400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Old Glory and Mount Rushmore

Democrat Party Begins Demonizing Mount Rushmore, Refers To July 4 Celebration As ‘Glorifying White Supremacy’

Democrats in the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favor of admitting the majority of Washington, D.C., as the Union’s 51st state, and partially renaming the area after abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
“The United States is the only democratic country that denies both voting rights in the national legislature and local autonomy to the residents of the nation’s capital,” Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton, DC’s non-voting member of the House, wrote in prepared remarks ahead of the vote.
“Congress has two choices. It can continue to exercise undemocratic, autocratic authority over the 705,000 American citizens who reside in our nation’s capital, treating them, in the words of Frederick Douglass, as ‘aliens, not citizens, but subjects.’ Or Congress can live up to this nation’s promise and ideals,” she said. 
Congressman Collin Peterson (D-MN) was the only Democrat to note vote in favor of Norton&#8217;s legislation.
Under Norton’s legislation, two square miles of Washington, D.C., including the White House, Capitol Building, Supreme Court, and several other adjacent federal buildings, would not join the proposed state. The new area, which would be home to about 700,000 residents, would be named Washington, Douglass Commonwealth.
Congressman Andy Harris (R-MD), the Republican congressman from Maryland, has called the DC-statehood idea “pure political bull,” on account that Washington, D.C., could simply go to the government of Maryland and ask them to join, reports <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-statehood-vote/2020/06/25/c2ac1670-b6ee-11ea-a8da-693df3d7674a_story.html">The Washington Post</a>.
During an <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/andrea-mitchell-reports/watch/d-c-mayor-bowser-says-we-re-in-a-historic-march-for-statehood-as-house-gets-set-to-vote-86050373831">MSNBC</a> appearance on Friday, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser told host Andrea Mitchell that the move toward statehood was part of an “historic march,” and that “becoming the 51st state is the only way the 700,000 tax-paying Americans are fully represented and become full Americans.”
“Our population is already greater than that of two states, we’re bigger than Wyoming and Vermont, and unlike the territories, which we’ve been compared to recently, we pay all of the federal taxes that every American pays in the fifty states,” she said.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has refused to bring the legislation to a vote in the upper chamber, according to the Post. President Donald Trump told <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/05/05/trump-says-washington-dc-will-never-be-a-state-because-of-all-the-democrats/">the New York Post</a> last month that Washington, D.C., will never become a state: “Why? So we can have two more Democratic – Democrat senators and five more congressmen? No thank you. That’ll never happen.”
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has indicated that he is fully on-board with making a new state out of the land in the nation’s capital: “D.C. should be a state. Pass it on.”
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DC should be a state. Pass it on. <a href="https://t.co/xUJ1sud76f">https://t.co/xUJ1sud76f</a>
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1276285377595281408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2020</a></blockquote>
Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) has accused the House of ignoring more important priorities, such as protecting small businesses from lawsuits, getting Americans back to work, or holding China accountable.
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Want to know what Pelosi’s House prioritized today? Washington DC statehood. That was the vote.
-Not protecting small businesses from lawsuits 
-Not getting Americans off unemployment &amp; back to work 
-Not holding China accountable.
Progressive priorities. Not American priorities.
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1276648195016327175?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Washington D.C.

House Democrats Vote To Make Washington, D.C., The 51st State

U.S. House of Representatives

“Uncle Tom: An Oral History of the American Black Conservative,” wallows in victimhood for all of a minute.
Yes, we hear a crush of black voices describe being called you know what in the film’s opening moments, some of it framed in near comic fashion. Actvisit and YouTube star Candace Owens giggles at the notion she’s a “Black White Supremacist,” as some of her critics allege.
The black conservatives at the heart of the documentary refuse to be silenced by mere words. They have work to do, barriers to smash, and they’re grateful for the flawed but majestic land that made it all possible.
It’s a rare chance for pop culture to sit down and listen, really listen, to black Americans freed from the Democrats’ playbook. It’s both refreshing and enlightening, told by those whom the Left fears most — independent black Americans seeking their own solutions.
“Uncle Tom” doesn’t shove racism aside, nor does it suggest bigotry went away when Barack Obama took the oath of office. We see plenty of vile images, including the ubiquitous “white and colored” water fountains that littered the land for far too long.
The film does argue, though, that the black community in some ways prospered more during the nation’s toxic Jim Crow era than post-1960. Blacks in the first half of the 20th century, we’re told, married more often and enjoyed professional opportunities once denied to them.
The black family unit partially collapsed while civil rights rose to the fore. What changed? The Welfare state, the film argues.
“Uncle Tom” reminds us fathers matter, particularly within the modern black community. The assembled voices all had dads who taught them about dignity, hard work and treating women with respect. It wasn’t always easy to hear those lessons, they say, but each is grateful for those experiences now.
It might seem self-serving to have some “Uncle Tom” subjects praise talk show host Larry Elder, who executive produced the film, for the influence he’s had on their lives. There’s a critical point to be made, though. The media work in lockstep with Democrats to either ignore or demean prominent black conservatives like Elder.
Why?
They change hearts and minds, just like Elder has done so effectively. Just ask Dave Rubin, who recalls how <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Burn-This-Book-Thinking/dp/0593084292/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3GY2H664Y5B1D&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=don%27t+burn+this+book&amp;qid=1593018217&amp;sprefix=don%27t+burn+th%2Caps%2C182&amp;sr=8-1">Elder helped him evolve</a> from a generic liberal to a classical one in “Don’t Burn This Book.”
That’s never more clear than while watching black late-night host Trevor Noah mock Dr. Ben Carson, the brilliant black neurosurgeon. Dr. Carson’s life story should be a beacon of hope to black America. Instead, Noah wonders if Carson could “pass the black test,” mocking his elegant speech patterns in the process. Carson’s true crime? He’s a Republican and part of the Trump administration, so he cannot serve as a role model in Noah’s eyes.
And the comic is far from alone.
The film also recalls the blowback Carson endured after linking immigrants to slaves in a speech. It’s a comparison that could, indeed, open someone up to ridicule … except we then see President Obama make a similar comparison without anyone crying foul.
Elder notes Obama did so roughly 11 times.
Again, the Carson critics didn’t say a word when Obama compared the two groups.
Hmm.
Director Justin Malone dials down the flash in “Uncle Tom,” eschewing even basic title cards to show who’s who in any given interview. Of course we recognize Lt. Col. Allen West, Dr. Carson and Owens. Others aren’t as familiar, but they speak with one urgent voice.
We can choose the political ideology we wish, thank you.
The film pulls no punches in swatting the Republican Party and its inability to woo more black voters. The black community, we’re told, is “low-hanging fruit” for the GOP. And too often the party leaves it there.
Sure, Republicans preach the power of vouchers to improve the educational lives of black Americans. They still must do more, much more, to ensure their message reaches black voters.
President Donald Trump is an exciting, and notable, exception, to this maxim.
“Uncle Tom” wouldn’t exist without the liberating power of both talk radio and the Internet.
Elder used his clout, and savvy, to bring a documentary celebrating black conservatives to the masses. He bypassed the usual distribution channels to form <a href="https://uncletom.com/">UncleTom.com</a>, a web site where anyone could order up the film should they wish.
And they should.
But can you imagine the reaction if Elder attempted to bring “Uncle Tom” to Robert Redford’s Sundance Film Festival? Or Robert De Niro’s Tribeca soiree? That’s yet another reason to watch “Uncle Tom” from start to finish.

Candace Owens

TOTO: ‘Uncle Tom’ Film Allows People To Hear From Black Americans Freed From The Democrats’ Playbook

Hollywood

Larry Elder

Race

Violent rioters in Wisconsin reportedly attacked an openly gay Democrat state senator on Tuesday night as they engaged in the destruction of property outside the Wisconsin State Capitol.
The riots reportedly began after an African-American man was <a href="https://youtu.be/vSgI0vCoLMY?t=18">arrested</a> earlier in the day after he entered a restaurant shouting at people while on a megaphone and carrying a baseball bat.
&#8220;During the melee late Tuesday, Democratic state Sen. Tim Carpenter was assaulted after taking a photo of protesters,&#8221; USA Today <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/24/madison-protesters-pull-down-statues/3248384001/">reported</a>. &#8220;Protesters, chanting for the release of the man who&#8217;d been arrested earlier, also broke glass at the Tommy Thompson Center on West Washington Avenue and smashed windows at the Dane County Jail and at the state Capitol before police arrived just before 1 a.m. &#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/TimCarpenterMKE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TimCarpenterMKE</a> was just punched in the face by Madison protesters because he was filming. Several people attacked him. <a href="https://t.co/jyGIfe0Ogq">pic.twitter.com/jyGIfe0Ogq</a>
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I believe this is State Senator Tim Carpenter. Minutes earlier he told us the protesters assaulted him. Then he collapsed walking towards the Capitol. We called paramedics. An ambulance is here now. <a href="https://t.co/uUSdKyQ1hp">pic.twitter.com/uUSdKyQ1hp</a>
&mdash; Lance Veeser (@lanceveeser) <a href="https://twitter.com/lanceveeser/status/1275664180994080768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Carpenter told The Washington Post that he might have suffered a concussion and a fractured nose from the attack along with a bruises all over his body.
&#8220;In one photo of the melee, Carpenter, dressed in a blue T-shirt and shorts, is standing in the street and looks to be engaged in an animated conversation with at least two people. It is not clear what was said between Carpenter and the protesters before the situation turned violent,&#8221; The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/24/madison-police-protest-senator/">reported</a>. &#8220;Early Wednesday, Carpenter emailed The Washington Post a short video he took of a large group of protesters. In the 10-second clip, several people start yelling and pointing in Carpenter’s direction before at least two rush over to him and appear to grab at his phone.&#8221;
“I don’t know what happened … all I did was stop and take a picture … and the next thing I’m getting five-six punches, getting kicked in the head,” Carpenter told The Post. “This has got to stop before someone gets killed. Sad thing I’m on their side for peaceful demonstrations — am a Gay Progressive Dem Senator served 36 years in the legislature.”
Carpenter later wrote on Twitter, &#8220;This is the picture that got me assaulted and beat up by a mob. Punched &amp; kicked in the head. Might have concussion, left eye a little blurry, cheek shollen, sore neck and ribs. This has to stop before some innocent person get killed. I locked up in the Capitol until it’s safe.&#8221;
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This is the picture that got me assaulted and beat up by a mob. Punched &amp; kicked in the head. Might have concussion, left eye a little blurry, cheek shollen, sore neck and ribs. This has to stop before some innocent person get killed. I locked up in the Capitol until it’s safe
&mdash; Tim Carpenter (@TimCarpenterMKE) <a href="https://twitter.com/TimCarpenterMKE/status/1275710960171397121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The latest spate of violence from rioters comes after they have attacked law enforcement officials in recent weeks, burned buildings to the ground, looted stores, and destroyed statues and monuments across the country.
In response to rioters trying to destroy statues on federal property, President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-authorizes-feds-to-arrest-anyone-who-vandalizes-statues-on-federal-property">announced</a>, “I have authorized the Federal Government to arrest anyone who vandalizes or destroys any monument, statue or other such Federal property in the U.S. with up to 10 years in prison, per the Veteran’s Memorial Preservation Act, or such other laws that may be pertinent. This action is taken effective immediately, but may also be used retroactively for destruction or vandalism already caused. There will be no exceptions!”
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Rioters Attack Democrat State Senator In Wisconsin; He Responds: I’m A ‘Gay Progressive,’ ‘On Their Side’

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Democrat Senator Tim Kaine proved that millennials aren’t the only ones who’ve never read a history book when he stood on the floor of the Senate this week to denounce America’s <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1272960969862344704?s=20">invention</a> of slavery.
Kain said, “The United States didn’t inherit slavery from anybody; we created it,” tracing our alleged creation of slavery back to 1619, over 150 years before the United States was founded.
The most generous possible interpretation of this seemingly incoherent remark is that the United States “created” slavery in the United States. This would be true, of course, but by the same logic we might say that the United States created the wheel, irrigation, agriculture, and Chinese food, in that none of these things existed in the United States until the United States existed. In other words, the United States’ version of all of these things was created by the United States. An accurate statement, but also weirdly redundant and unnecessary.
The more obvious and direct interpretation is that Tim Kaine believes, or at least wants us to believe, that the institution of slavery itself was designed and implemented by Americans. Indeed many in this country, especially college students, seem to be under this impression. In fact, a university professor has <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/college-students-think-america-invented-slavery-professor-finds/">polled</a> students on their historical knowledge and found that a vast majority hold this very belief: that slavery is unique to our country, and we carry almost all of the blame for it.
This is the message sent loud and clear by the mobs tearing down statues, and the BLM activists demanding that white people kneel and apologize, and the leftists who degrade western civilization and its achievements. White westerners, it is said, have a unique reason to apologize. They are the descendants of history’s greatest villains. Any discussion of historical atrocities should begin and end with them.
This is all nonsense, of course. For one thing, nobody is responsible for the actions of their ancestors, and one man cannot and should not apologize to another man for events that occurred before either were born. To apologize for something is to take responsibility for it, but you obviously cannot take responsibility for things that were done at a time when you did not actually exist. We can discuss the legacy of these events, and how they still affect people today, but nobody involved in the conversation has any reason for guilt or remorse. Empathy and understanding are one thing, and a good thing, but there is nothing good about falling to your knees and begging forgiveness for actions you never took and decisions you never made. This, at best, is performative self-flagellation. At worst, it is a show of sincere and delusional self-loathing. In either case, it is not healthy.
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For another thing, the United States in fact did not invent slavery or racism. White Europeans did not invent it, either. If the guilt of slavery can be inherited from one generation to another, then we have all inherited it, we are all stained by it. The institution goes back 10,000 years or more to the Neolithic Revolution. As long as human society has had agriculture, it has had slaves to do the work. The soil on every continent on Earth, save Antarctica, has been tilled by slaves. Slavery was a common and almost unquestioned practice everywhere, all over the world, among nearly all people, for many thousands of years.
If Europeans did not invent slavery, can they at least be blamed for the formation of the slave trade? No. Slaves were traded as commodities as far back as Ancient Egypt. For centuries before the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Arab traders would conduct their own raids in Africa, capturing African villagers and shipping them back to the Arabian peninsula for sale.
Was slavery in the United States or the colonies more brutal and inhumane than other iterations of the practice? Again, no. It was brutal and inhumane, but it would be hard to argue that it was worse, morally, than the forms of slavery common across the globe. For example, in the Sub-Saharan slave trade, established about 1,000 years before the United States came into being, young boys were routinely castrated and then sold into forced labor in Asia, the Middle East, or within Africa. It’s worth noting that slavery was not fully abolished in Africa until <a href="https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2012/03/world/mauritania.slaverys.last.stronghold/index.html">1981</a>.
Can we at least blame Americans or Europeans for bringing slavery to North America? Once again, no. Slavery was commonplace in the Americas well before European settlers showed up. Native American tribes enslaved each other, often by conquest and capture. Those who wish to make the slavery practiced by Europeans seem appreciably worse than other forms will often claim that Native American slavery was more humane and less permanent. This may have been true in some cases, but certainly not all. In Mesoamerica, a slave would often have his period of servitude ended when he was ritualistically butchered as a human sacrifice, which was a widespread practice in the region for hundreds of years.
The Chimu in modern day Peru carried out the <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/04/mass-child-human-animal-sacrifice-peru-chimu-science/">worst mass sacrifice</a> of children ever to occur on Earth, as far as we know. Over 140 children were slaughtered, probably by having their hearts cut out of their chests while they were still alive. In another particularly grisly episode, the Aztecs killed and dismembered 84,000 human sacrifices in the span of just four days to consecrate a new temple. This is easily one of the worst cases of mass slaughter carried out anywhere, at any time in history, and the Aztecs pulled it off without modern weaponry. Granted, not all of these sacrifices would have been slaves, but the point is that this was not a civilization unfamiliar with brutality and inhumanity.
In fact, Native Americans <a href="https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/native-americans-who-owned-slaves/">took part</a> in African slavery as well. By the time of the Civil War, 15% of the Cherokee population was comprised of black slaves. Indian tribes could be quite brutal to their black slaves, too. In one case, a black slave named Lucy was accused of murder and then <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=5HpLmevAz3YC&amp;pg=PA30&amp;lpg=PA30&amp;dq=slave+lucy+burned+alive+choctaw&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=BhFN4-90iN&amp;sig=ACfU3U2au7_9QnPYsYGE-I1qAJJlIRHAPw&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjqyISb84jqAhWNRTABHfA1BwoQ6AEwAnoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&amp;q=slave%20lucy%20burned%20alive%20choctaw&amp;f=false">burned alive</a> by an angry group of Choctaws.
I am not arguing that the slavery practiced by white Americans was “less bad” just because everyone else was doing it. Slavery in America was a horrid abomination, which is why we celebrate its abolition — an abolition that came only 90 years after the formation of the country. The United States, as a nation, had legal slavery for less than a century. For comparison sake, China had slavery for 3,000 years and only officially abolished it in the 20th century, though unofficially it still exists today. This, again, does not lessen the brutality of American slavery or mitigate the evil of the institution. But it does go to show that the exclusive focus on slavery in America, and the insistence that white Americans have inherited unique guilt because of it, is simply wrong.
If there ever comes a time when we are ready to have a mature, nuanced discussion of slavery, racism, and their legacies in the modern day, I will be eager to participate in it. After all, we cannot understand where we are, or anticipate where we’re headed, until we know where we’ve been. But this discussion is only possible and can only be worthwhile if we look at history with a wider lens, understanding the context of the institutions and attitudes we rightly revile today. If we have already decided from the outset that, whatever happened in history, white people must have been especially bad and the evil they committed must have been unique to them, then there is no point. We cannot have any discussion. We are like children making reality into a cartoon.
But if we are prepared to look honestly at our history as a species, and see that we are all the descendants of deeply flawed human beings, who were often brutal and bigoted, and who, until very recently, had no concept of inherent human equality and little notion of racial tolerance, but who also struggled mightily and made great sacrifices and achieved great things for our sake, then perhaps a fruitful dialogue can finally take place.
More from Matt Walsh: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-if-you-value-our-national-history-and-the-rule-of-law-you-should-oppose-the-destruction-of-monuments">If You Value Our National History And The Rule Of Law, You Should Oppose The Destruction Of Monuments</a>

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WALSH: No, America Didn’t Invent Slavery. Here Are The Facts.

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Tim Kaine

Rock the Vote’s nonpartisan status is as laughable as experts saying progressive protests won’t spread COVID-19.
The group’s apolitical pose hasn’t fooled anyone for some time, but this week that label peeled off and drifted to the floor.
A trio of Democrats – and no Republicans – are joining Rock the Vote for a livestream event aimed at boosting voter turnout for a certain party.
Wink-wink!
Political observers have been crying foul of the group’s claims for some time.
The Washington Examiner captured a <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/rock-the-leftist-vote">surreal moment</a> from a 1996 Rock the Vote event, one that should have shredded its nonpartisan banner right then and there.
<blockquote>As George Stephanopoulos stepped to the mike, the young crowd whistled and cheered. &#8220;Because you voted in 1992,&#8221; Stephanopoulos said, &#8220;there are more student loans for young people. Because you voted in 1992, there are fewer guns on the streets. Because you voted in 1992, we made efforts to clean up the environment and to protect a woman&#8217;s right to choose. But in 1994, a lot of young people stayed home and you saw a Republican Congress come in led by Speaker Gingrich, who tried to take away a woman&#8217;s right to choose.&#8221;</blockquote>
A 2014 The Washington Times editorial noted the Obama White House <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/9/editorial-capturing-the-youth-vote/">had plenty of Rock the Vote alums</a> in key positions.
Here’s one example:
<blockquote>Mr. Obama tapped Fred Goldring, who formerly headed Rock the Vote’s board of directors, to serve on the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.</blockquote>
Former Rock the Vote president Ashley Spillane served as a John F Kerry Ohio field organizer and helped Atlas Project, a database created to aid the progressive cause.
The group routinely uses far-left celebrities to promote its efforts, sending an oh, so obvious message along the way.
“Wait, Lena Dunham wants me to vote … but for which candidate? I’m so confused!”
More recently, The Daily Signal noted Rock the Vote <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/22/nonpartisan-rock-the-vote-goes-after-electoral-college-embraces-other-liberal-talking-points/">took aim at the Electoral College,</a> a liberal bogeyman of the first order. The group worked alongside other “neutral” groups like Common Cause, Progress America and Daily Kos.
The group’s early days found it battling music censorship while promoting young Americans to vote. It’s why this reporter reached out to Rock the Vote earlier this week with two simple questions.
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<li>Will the group’s livestream event, which features notable Democrats, include any Republican officials? If not, did Rock the Vote attempt to invite any? Can you confirm which ones?</li>
<li>We&#8217;re seeing censorship issues spike across the culture, from HBO Max temporarily taking down &#8220;Gone with the Wind&#8221; to Big Tech giants removing content they deem incorrect about COVID-19 – even though much of what we know about the virus is evolving. Does Rock the Vote have any statement on these censorship issues given how important the issue has been to the group in the past – &#8220;Censorship is Un-American?&#8221;</li>
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The group’s press offense did not respond to the time-sensitive query. Then again, how could it? Take a gander at its <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/katy-perry-black-eyed-peas-rock-the-vote-livestream-1015056/">latest “nonpartisan” effort</a>.
The “Democracy Summer” event on June 18 will feature Katy Perry and the Black Eyed Peas along with performances from Ne-Yo, Big Freedia, Lucy Hale, Amara La Negra, Saweetie, Leslie Grace, Dove Cameron and Sofia Carson.
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker, plus former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro will share the spotlight, too.
“The young people of America are speaking loud and clear on the streets and online, and come November, it will be more important than ever to fight for justice and equality, and against systemic racism, with our ballots,” Perry said in a statement shared with Rolling Stone.
Does any of that sound remotely nonpartisan?
The group’s About Us page plays into the victimhood status of today’s Millennials, sharing liberal talking points in the process.
<blockquote>From the rise of voter ID laws to intensified efforts to remove polling sites from college campuses, young people must navigate obstacles designed to keep them from making their voices heard.</blockquote>
Rock the Vote could provide a valuable service in these turbulent times. Too many young Americans think hate speech should be illegal. College campuses are awash with students unwilling to broach debate, let alone consider<a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/no-safe-spaces-review/">, alternative views.</a>
We’re seeing that play out across the country right now, and it should be a deeply apolitical issue.
Rock the Vote could leverage its celebrity clout to speak up for free expression.
“I’m Katy Perry, and you may not like the way I vote, but I support your right to say so. Can’t we embrace that sentiment … again? This is still America, y’all!”
Instead, the group doubles down on its progressive bona fides while clinging to an absurd apolitical pose.
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‘Rock The Vote’ Once Again Reveals The Absurdity Of Its ‘Nonpartisan’ Status

A top mainstream fact-checker wrote on Tuesday that the Kente cloths that Democrats wore earlier this month after the death of George Floyd were &#8220;historically worn&#8221; by an &#8220;empire involved in [the] West African slave trade.&#8221;
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, and other top Democrats wore the cloth to an event on June 8 in response to Floyd&#8217;s death, which was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/africans-are-not-children-democrats-face-backlash-from-blacks-over-political-stunt">widely criticized online</a>.
USA Today fact-checked the following statement from a Facebook user:
<blockquote>Yesterday the Democrats wore kente scarfs and knelt down for their photo op. So check this out, Kente cloth was worn by the Ashanti. It&#8217;s made of silk so the affluent wore it. The Ashanti were also known as slave owners and traders. Huh? &#8230; This makes me wonder why they chose to wear this particular tribe&#8217;s garb.</blockquote>
It&#8217;s important to note that the cloth has historical significance that extends beyond the slave trade and has &#8220;become a symbol of pride for African Americans over the last 50 years.&#8221;
USA Today <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/16/fact-check-kente-cloths-have-ties-west-african-slave-trade/5345941002/">rated</a> the claim &#8220;true,&#8221; saying that the &#8220;kente cloth was historically worn by the Asante people of Ghana, who were involved in the West African slave trade.&#8221;
USA Today&#8217;s research found:
<blockquote>Kente cloth comes from the Asante, or Ashanti, peoples of Ghana and Ewe peoples of Ghana and Togo.
A popular legend claims creators of kente cloth presented the cloth to Asantehene Osei Tutu, the Asante kingdom&#8217;s first leader. Tutu named the cloth “kente,” meaning basket, and adopted the fabric as a royal cloth for special occasions.
Tutu, who lived from 1660 to 1712 or 1717, unified several small Asante kingdoms to create the Asante empire. He is credited with expanding the Asante throughout most of Ghana and introducing his subjects to the gold and slave trades along the West African coast.
The Asante supplied British and Dutch traders with slaves in exchange for firearms, which they used to expand their empire. Slaves were often acquired as tributes from smaller states or captured during war. Some slaves were brought across the Atlantic whiles others stayed in Africa to work in gold fields.
According to the BBC, by the end of the 18th century the region exported an estimated 6,000-7,000 slaves per year.</blockquote>
After Democrats wore the cloth, The Daily Wire highlighted how various reports noted that the cloth typically signified patriotism or was worn to celebrate special celebrations.
Pro-life advocate Obianuju Ekeocha, who lives in Africa, released a video on Twitter condemning the Democrats for “ignorantly using the Kente fabric as a prop in their virtue signaling.”
“I was just looking online today like most of you and what did I see? A bunch of Democrat politicians kneeling down, of which I have nothing to say about that because I am not an American, however, they were all having around their necks this colorful fabric which I’m sure they put around their necks as some kind of mark or show of unity or solidarity with black people,” Ekeocha said. “So, in other words, they put in for the Kente material or this colorful fabric they had around their necks as some kind of placating sign or symbol to show that they are not racist and they are together with black people.”
“Excuse me, dear Democrats, in your tokenism, you didn’t wait to find out that this thing that you’re hanging around your neck is not just some African uniform, it’s actually the Kente material,” Ekeocha continued. “The Kente belongs to the Ghanaian people, mainly the Ashanti Tribe. Excuse me, Democrats. Don’t treat Africans like we’re children. These fabrics and these colorful things that we have within our culture and tradition, they all mean something to us. I know you look at us and you say, ‘oh Africans are so cute in all your colorful dresses.’”
“Well, some of those dresses and patterns and colors and fabrics actually do mean something to us,” Ekeocha added. “Some of them belong to ancient tribes and mean something to them. So why are you using it your own show of non-racism or your own show of virtue? Why are you using the Kente material to signal your virtue? Stop it. We are not children. Africans are not children. And leave our tradition and our culture to us and if you don’t know much about it, ask somebody. I’m sure there would have been something else you could have done to show your solidarity with black people instead of taking the Kente material and making a little show of it.”
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I had to say something about the American politicians shameless and ignorantly using the Kente fabric as a prop in their virtue signaling.
*I’m usually more mild mannered than this so please forgive me, I’m upset. <a href="https://t.co/aZMjgsHujS">pic.twitter.com/aZMjgsHujS</a>
&mdash; Obianuju Ekeocha (@obianuju) <a href="https://twitter.com/obianuju/status/1270053042340139008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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AMERICA PROTESTS CONGRESS

Kente Cloth Worn By Democrats Was ‘Historically Worn’ By African Empire Involved In Slave Trade, Fact Checker Says

Racism

The death of George Floyd has set off a wave of violent unrest across the United States. In its wake, a disturbing narrative has emerged from the woke left deeming this violence a legitimate, effective means of compelling political change. Widely advocated by young, progressive liberals, this position aligns with an increasingly popular view among Democrats that peaceful protest is but one option rather than the rule, especially when supporting violence provides an opportunity to repudiate one’s privilege while proclaiming infallible allegiance to Black Lives Matter. But this normalization of violence proves a slippery slope that places American lives at the mercy of the liberal left’s group-think culture.
Since Floyd’s death, at least <a href="https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-protests-at-least-13-people-killed-10000-arrested-as-protests-continue-across-the-us/news-story/7e76ea770c1f0b048d34ff687a3fa011">13</a> people have been killed during demonstrations with little to no mention – much less condemnation – by Democratic leaders or the main-stream media. Business owners have been savagely <a href="https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2020/06/01/rochester-ny-looting-mom-of-woman-attacked-in-viral-video-during-unrest-speaks-out/5300655002/">beaten</a> and police officers viciously <a href="https://abc7ny.com/tremont-looting-riots-nypd-officer-struck-bronx/6226470/">attacked</a> with bricks, <a href="https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/06/02/nypd-struck-by-hit-and-run-drivers/">vehicles</a>, and <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/01/molotov-cocktail-tossing-lawyers-tried-to-pass-out-explosives-cops/">explosives</a>. Nation-wide looting and destruction have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to American businesses, and these costs come as no surprise. The 1992 L.A. riots resulted in more than 50 <a href="https://www.npr.org/2017/04/26/524744989/when-la-erupted-in-anger-a-look-back-at-the-rodney-king-riots">deaths</a>, 2,000 injuries, and some <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/28/us/la-riots-korean-americans/index.html">$1 billion</a> in damage – approximately half of which was sustained by minority-owned businesses. Nonetheless, a growing number of progressives openly advocate such violence in order to coerce political action – by definition embracing the use of terrorist tactics on American soil.
The USA Patriot Act (18 U.S.C. § 2331) defines domestic terrorism as activities occurring primarily within U.S. boarders involving acts “dangerous to human life” that violate state or federal criminal laws and appearing to be intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping. If even <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/us/david-dorn-st-louis-police-shot-trnd/index.html">murder</a> is just in the face of injustice, is this progressive contingent adopting openly a pro-terror stance? Surely under this logic woke liberals would forgive the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/20/greenpeace-ship-stormed-russian-coastguard">eco-terrorism</a> of Greenpeace. And was not the Irish Republican Army making a sympathetic plea for justice when it bombed civilian targets to end British rule of Northern Ireland? Even al Qaeda’s barbaric attacks on American civilians – carried out in a <a href="https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/testimony/al-qaeda-international">quest</a> to expel U.S. forces from Muslim territories and quell American political influence – would be deemed excusable in pursuit of justice under this twisted liberal logic. Will progressives know when they’ve gone too far down this ends-justify-the-means rabbit hole?
We assume the moral line would be self-evident, but clearly it is not. The deaths of David Dorn, Dave Patrick Underwood, and Italia Kelly have not rattled the liberal conscience, nor has the <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/05/30/woman-charged-with-attempted-murder-of-4-nypd-cops-during-protests/">attempted murder</a> of police officers, the destruction of first-generation American businesses, or the defacing of <a href="https://www.stripes.com/news/us/national-world-war-ii-memorial-is-vandalized-1.631954">national landmarks</a>. The crushing weight of liberal group-think has pressured Democratic leaders into relative silence on the matter or else into adopting the radical policy outright. Seattle Councilmember <a href="https://mynorthwest.com/1908812/rantz-seattle-council-endorse-looting-riot/">Tammy Morales</a> has publicly affirmed the notion that violence begets change, and Minneapolis City Councilmember Jeremiah Ellison tweeted “I hereby declare, officially, my support for ANTIFA” while riots ravaged his own city. Although such dangerous rhetoric has been countered by a few <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO7z6m2os2g">powerful voices</a> like that of Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, rebukes have been mild at best. Without a strong, unified denunciation of violence by Democratic leadership, today’s progressive youths will continue to condone its use as the leaders of tomorrow.
The arguments levied by violence-for-change advocates ignore ethics and logic in favor of an emotional appeal. Indeed, every terrorist likely shares the sentiment that peaceful protest does not compell adequate change – thus necessitating violence. Likewise, while the black community understands rage, it does not hold a monopoly. Surely every victim of rape, abuse, or terrorism understands the purest form of rage, yet has no moral authority to destroy a civilian’s livelihood. And alas, one can be simultaneously outraged by Floyd’s death and by the intentional destruction of a community. Putting aside the numerous riot-related deaths (of which these progressives appear blithely unaware), any good liberal should be quick to acknowledge the emotional damage caused by watching a symbol of the community burned to the ground. Indeed, the destruction of cultural heritage sites as well as private property not necessary to military operations are international war crimes due to the emotional and societal harm such acts inflict. This destruction at once offends our identity, our sense of community, and the American dream at large.
The vast majority of protestors have demonstrated peacefully, and their right to do so should be dutifully protected. But the violence-for-change narrative must be quashed. Caught up in the panicked, frenzied quest for atonement in an era of liberal group-think and political correctness – where simply saying “no” makes one a privileged racist – these over-zealous progressives are blinded by white guilt and moral self-righteousness, all but incapable of objectively analyzing the ramifications of their pro-violence stance. Where this contingent fails to recognize its own rot, the Democratic leadership must step in to forcefully denounce such treachery before violent protest becomes the new normal. Support for violence will never atone for the sin of whiteness; it will only validate terrorization of fellow Americans the liberal agenda calls for it.
Cameron J. Morgan is a Seattle-based attorney who writes on issues involving international law and foreign affairs.

Protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis

MORGAN: The Left Cannot Condone Violence To Assuage White Guilt – Here’s Why

Law Enforcement

Violence

It takes a lot to build a civilization, and though it is much easier to destroy a civilization, it takes a lot to do that, too.
But now we have four roots of evil that are guaranteed to do so.
No. 1: Victimhood.
The first is victimhood. The more people who regard themselves as victims — as individuals or as a group — the more likely they are to commit evil. People who think of themselves as victims feel that, having been victimized, they are no longer bound by normal moral conventions — especially the moral conventions of their alleged or real oppressors.
Everyone knows this is true. But few confront this truth. Every parent, for example, knows that the child who thinks of him or herself as a perpetual victim is the child most likely to cause and get into trouble. And criminologists report that nearly every murderer in prison thinks of himself as a victim.
On a societal scale, the same holds true — and being on such a larger scale, the chances of real evil ensuing are exponentially increased. One of the most obvious examples is Germany after World War I. Most Germans regarded themselves as victims — of the Treaty of Versailles; of a &#8220;stab in the back&#8221; German government; of the British, Americans and French; and, of course, of the Jews. This sense of victimhood was one of the most important factors in the popularity of the Nazis, who promised to restore German dignity.
That millions of black Americans regard themselves as victims — probably more so today than at any time in the past 50 years — can only lead to disaster for America generally and for blacks specifically. While victims generally feel free to lash out at others, they also go through life angry and unhappy.
No. 2: Demonization.
The second of the four ingredients of this civilization-destroying witches&#8217; brew is demonization — demonizing a group as inherently evil.
That is being done now with regard to the white people of America. All — again, all — whites are declared racist. The only difference among them is that some admit it and some deny it. The notion that whites are inherently evil has long been associated with Louis Farrakhan. But it has apparently migrated out from his relatively small following to many blacks, even those who might consider Farrakhan a kook. Former President Barack Obama, hardly a Farrakhan follower, described America as having racism in its DNA. That is as close to inherently and irredeemably evil as it gets; you cannot change your DNA.
In that sense, not only are whites demonized, but America is, too. Unlike traditional liberals, the left regards America as a moral cesspool — not only racist but, according to The New York Times, founded to be so. The New York Times has created a history of America that declares its founding not in 1776 but in 1619, when the first black slaves arrived. The American Revolution was fought, according to this malign narrative, not merely for American independence but in order to preserve slavery, a practice the British would have interfered with. This &#8220;history&#8221; will now be taught in thousands of American schools.
The combination of victimhood and demonization alone is dangerous enough. But there are still two more horsemen galloping toward the looming apocalypse.
No. 3: A Cause To Believe In.
Most Americans throughout American history found great meaning in being American and in being religious — usually Christian. Since World War II, we have lived in a post-Christian, post-nationalist age. Until very recently, Americans would have found the expression &#8220;for God and country&#8221; deeply meaningful; that term today, on the left, is risible and execrable.
But people need something to believe in. The need for meaning is the greatest human need after the need for food. Leftism, with all its offshoots — feminism, environmentalism, Black Lives Matter, antifa — has filled that vacuum. In Europe, communism, fascism and Nazism filled the hole left by the demise of nationalism and Christianity. Here it is leftism and its offshoots.
No. 4: Lies.
The fourth and most important ingredient necessary for evil is lies. Lies are the root of evil. Ironically, slavery itself was made possible only because of the lie that the black was inferior to the white. Nazism was made possible thanks to the lie that Jews were not fully human. And communism was built on lies. Lenin, the father of Soviet Communism, named the Soviet communist newspaper &#8220;Truth&#8221; (&#8220;Pravda&#8221;) because truth was what the Communist Party said it was.
The New York Times, CNN and the rest of the mainstream &#8220;news&#8221; media are becoming our version of Pravda.
Objective truth doesn&#8217;t exist on the left. The universities have already declared &#8220;objective truth&#8221; as essentially an expression of &#8220;white privilege.&#8221; See what happens to a student who says in class, for example, that &#8220;men cannot give birth.&#8221;
The public self-debasement demanded of anyone who differs with the left — like New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees just did when he said not standing for the national anthem desecrated the flag and those who have died for it — happens almost daily. The only difference between this and what dissidents underwent during Mao&#8217;s Cultural Revolution is that the self-debasement here is voluntary — thus far.
Last week, when this Jew saw a store in Santa Monica with a sign reading &#8220;black-owned business&#8221; so as to avoid being destroyed, it evoked chilling memories.
That&#8217;s how bad it is in America today.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; came to theaters fall 2019. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.

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PRAGER: The Four Horsemen Of America’s Apocalypse

Leftism

Media Bias

Riots

For those of us who truly believe black lives matter, Black Lives Matter is a criminally wicked movement.
BLM’s attacks on the police have resulted and will continue to result in more of the felonious violence that claims so many black victims – in L.A. alone, homicides are up 250 percent since the recent riots.
BLM’s disruption of businesses and encouragement of looting may cow some white liberals now, but they will ultimately increase anti-black sentiment and will slow blacks’ ability to rejoin a resurgent economy.
And BLM’s stated leftist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/black-lives-matter-what-we-believe-page-disrupt-the-western-prescribed-nuclear-family-dismantle-cisgender-privilege">commitment</a> to “disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement” is just one more stage in the Left’s destruction of precisely that family structure that is the only hope of black children.
The Democrats think they can control this violent outfit and use them to protect the multi-billion-dollar welfare patronage scam that has maintained their power base for 60 years while keeping blacks dependent and socially hobbled. It’s a cruel con. Because Democrats are in the pocket of corrupt teachers’ unions, they destroy the charter schools that give black kids a chance. But they absolutely love BLM’s gobbledygook talk of “white supremacy” and “systemic racism” because those are amorphous nothings that can never be addressed. They therefore allow whites a warming sense of self-accusatory virtue while keeping blacks mired in endless self-destroying grievance politics that will never undermine the oppressive systems that profit Democrat elites.
Now, because of the BLM-Democrat complex, all of virtuous Washington is focused on police reform. Police Departments are powerful organizations and should always be on the lookout for ways to lighten their touch while still controlling crime. But while relations between police and black Americans may be problematical, surely one important source of that trouble must be the extraordinary high crime rate in black neighborhoods. When 13 percent of the population – and it’s really six percent because we’re mostly talking about men – commit roughly 50 percent of the murders, mostly of other blacks, police reform is an issue on the margins.
Meanwhile, because of Democrat welfare policies that encouraged irresponsible parenting, Democrat feminist philosophy that discounted the worth of fathers, and Democrat encouragement of sexual liberation that discounted the value of marriage, blacks now have an illegitimacy rate <a href="https://www.hoover.org/research/race-and-economics">higher</a> than when Democrat slavemasters were actually breaking up their families by design. Study after study shows that, without fathers, children are at high risk of failure, substance abuse, and crime. But no one has the guts to address this central issue.
The Democrat Party is a cancer on black American lives. The latest stage of that cancer is Black Lives Matter.
Yet if you speak any of these truths online or out loud, you are in danger of losing your job or your reputation. A UCLA college professor was suspended after he followed a university directive and refused to bow to virtue signaling white students’ demands to reschedule an exam for black students in the wake of George Floyd’s death. An NBA play-by-play announcer had to resign after tweeting “All Lives Matter.” And so on.
Corporations, constrained by decades of restrictive and arbitrary civil rights legislation and law, are terrified. They can be sued for just thinking racist thoughts, and the evidence to prove the case against them can include some untoward remark some employee made ten years ago in the back of a taxi after a couple of drinks. No wonder they fire you if you say anything that might come back to haunt them.
The result is a fear of speaking the truth. Which means lies win. Which means the Left and its media have been allowed to create a Matrix – an entirely false narrative in which just those very prescriptions that will make black lives worse provide whites a sense of virtue while continuing the Democrat destruction of actual black lives.
My suspicion is that a great many black Americans know this. But they too are afraid. Their leaders are invested in this system. A scurrilous con man like Al Sharpton Junior draws all his prestige and power from it. Corrupt and incompetent black politicians around the country thrive in it. Stand up to them and you too will be penalized for transgressing the Matrix.
All people have tribal prejudices, but Americans are not racist in any way that hampers success. Jamaicans and Nigerians succeed here. Koreans and Chinese and Indians and Japanese and Jews and everybody else. 
Only that small segment of our society that has been the constant recipient of Democrat largesse and governance is continually mired in crime and dysfunction. That leads people to regard that segment with suspicion, hostility, and fear. Free blacks from the Democrats and they will rise like every other group in America.
But for that to happen, we’re going to need a bigger red pill.
More from Andrew Klavan: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/klavan-black-americans-are-being-used-as-pawns-by-the-leftist-elite">Black Americans Are Being Used As Pawns By The Leftist Elite</a>

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KLAVAN: The Racial Matrix

Black Lives Matter

Democrats

On Monday, prominent House and Senate Democrats took a knee à la Colin Kaepernick in an attempt to show solidarity with the radical Black Lives Matter movement as they announced police reforms in a bill dubbed the &#8220;Justice in Policing Act.&#8221;
Wearing African kente cloth scarfs, top Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and former presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), took a knee together for eight minutes and 46 seconds, a nod to the death of George Floyd.
Floyd, who is black, died last month after a police officer had his knee on the 46-year-old’s neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds during an arrest, as shown in viral video footage.
Since the incident, all four officers involved in the arrest have been fired, investigations from the FBI and state law enforcement have been opened, and the officer at the center of the incident was taken into custody and charged with second-degree murder The three other officers involved have since been <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/us/george-floyd-officers-charges/index.html">charged</a>, too.
Blexit founder Candace Owens quickly reacted to the &#8220;photo op,&#8221; hitting Democrats for stopping at &#8220;nothing&#8221; for the &#8220;black vote.&#8221;
&#8220;I have to say— I thought there was at least one or two things that the Democrats wouldn’t stoop to for the black vote, but there is a apparently nothing,&#8221; Owens mocked. &#8220;Dressing in African garb and getting on their knees for a photo op because it’s Monday, &amp; only 4 months to November.&#8221;
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I have to say— I thought there was at least one or two things that the Democrats wouldn’t stoop to for the black vote, but there is a apparently nothing. 
Dressing in African garb and getting on their knees for a photo op because it’s Monday, &amp; only 4 months to November. <a href="https://t.co/ZbEjor2R89">pic.twitter.com/ZbEjor2R89</a>
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Owens has been a vocal critic of the media narrative surrounding Floyd&#8217;s death. Last week, the conservative commentator released an explosive video explaining why she does “not support George Floyd and the media depiction of him as a martyr for black America.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/candace-owens-i-do-not-support-george-floyd-and-the-media-depiction-of-him-as-a-martyr-for-black-america?%3Futm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter">The Daily Wire</a> reported: &#8220;During her at-times impassioned video post, Owens, who is African-American, criticizes what she describes as the African-American community &#8216;cater[ing] to the bottom denominator of our society&#8217; by &#8216;demand[ing] support and justice for the people in our community that are up to no good.&#8217; The holding up of Floyd as a &#8216;martyr for black America,&#8217; she suggests, is an example of this trend that she forcefully rejects.&#8221;
During the kneeling event, House Speaker Pelosi was sure to speak.
“The martyrdom of George Floyd gave the American experience a moment of national anguish as we grieve for the black Americans killed by police brutality today,&#8221; she said.
“This moment of national anguish is being transformed into a movement of national action as Americans from across the country peacefully protest to demand an end to injustice,” Pelosi added. “Today, with the justice and policing at the Congress is standing with those fighting for justice and taking action.”
As noted by The Daily Wire&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-house-and-senate-democrats-kneel-as-they-unveil-justice-in-policing-act-to-rein-in-cops">Emily Zanotti</a>, the unveiling of the &#8220;Justice in Policing Act&#8221; &#8220;marked the first time that House and Senate legislators have met together in months since the start of a coronavirus-related lockdown which kept Congressional legislators working from home.&#8221;
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House and Senate Democrats kneel in silence in Emancipation Hall for 8 minutes and 46 seconds in remembrance of George Floyd <a href="https://t.co/RwRF3r3dVK">https://t.co/RwRF3r3dVK</a> <a href="https://t.co/clQwQEBgxk">pic.twitter.com/clQwQEBgxk</a>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-house-and-senate-democrats-kneel-as-they-unveil-justice-in-policing-act-to-rein-in-cops">WATCH: House And Senate Democrats Kneel As They Unveil ‘Justice In Policing Act’ To Rein In Cops</a>
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Candace Owens Shreds Dems For Kneeling ‘Photo Op’ In ‘African Garb’

Nancy Pelosi

Democrats faced intense backlash on Monday over a political stunt that they pulled in an attempt to show solidarity with the black community over death of George Floyd.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY), and other top Democrats took at knee at Capitol Hill while wearing Kente cloth, which, as noted by <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/democrats-kente-cloth-ghana/2020/06/08/dc33bcc4-a9b5-11ea-a43b-be9f6494a87d_story.html">The Washington Post</a>, &#8220;comes from Ghana, where people wear it to show patriotism or celebrate a special occasion.&#8221;
The photo-op moment for Democrats quickly went viral online — but not in a good way, as numerous people from the black community mocked and criticized Democrats for their political stunt.
Army combat veteran Jeffrey A Dove Jr., a Republican running in Virginia&#8217;s 10th Congressional District, responded: &#8220;Does wearing kente cloth and taking a knee mean you are all of a sudden &#8216;down with the struggle&#8217;? This is why people hate disingenuous politicians. Speaker Pelosi was there for the 94 crime bill. She is part of the problem.&#8221;
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Does wearing kente cloth and taking a knee mean you are all of a sudden &quot;down with the struggle&quot;? This is why people hate disingenuous politicians. Speaker Pelosi was there for the 94 crime bill. She is part of the problem. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/VA10?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#VA10</a> <a href="https://t.co/uLbdwOgOoS">https://t.co/uLbdwOgOoS</a>
&mdash; Jeffery A Dove Jr. (@JefferyADoveJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/JefferyADoveJr/status/1270158267654815745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Washington Post Global Opinions Editor Karen Attiah responded: &#8220;I look at this and think, who is the audience for this performance? Why was this necessary?&#8221;
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I look at this and think, who is the audience for this performance? 
Why was this necessary? <a href="https://t.co/RGFoGRCHCi">https://t.co/RGFoGRCHCi</a>
&mdash; Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) <a href="https://twitter.com/KarenAttiah/status/1270084328119308288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Pro-life advocate Obianuju Ekeocha released a video on Twitter condemning the Democrats for &#8220;ignorantly using the Kente fabric as a prop in their virtue signaling.&#8221;
“I was just looking online today like most of you and what did I see? A bunch of Democrat politicians kneeling down, of which I have nothing to say about that because I am not an American, however, they were all having around their necks this colorful fabric which I’m sure they put around their necks as some kind of mark or show of unity or solidarity with black people,&#8221; Ekeocha said. &#8220;So, in other words, they put in for the Kente material or this colorful fabric they had around their necks as some kind of placating sign or symbol to show that they are not racist and they are together with black people.&#8221;
&#8220;Excuse me, dear Democrats, in your tokenism, you didn’t wait to find out that this thing that you’re hanging around your neck is not just some African uniform, it’s actually the Kente material,&#8221; Ekeocha continued. &#8220;The Kente belongs to the Ghanaian people, mainly the Ashanti Tribe. Excuse me, Democrats. Don’t treat Africans like we’re children. These fabrics and these colorful things that we have within our culture and tradition, they all mean something to us. I know you look at us and you say, ‘oh Africans are so cute in all your colorful dresses.’&#8221;
&#8220;Well, some of those dresses and patterns and colors and fabrics actually do mean something to us,&#8221; Ekeocha added. &#8220;Some of them belong to ancient tribes and mean something to them. So why are you using it your own show of non-racism or your own show of virtue? Why are you using the Kente material to signal your virtue? Stop it. We are not children. Africans are not children. And leave our tradition and our culture to us and if you don’t know much about it, ask somebody. I’m sure there would have been something else you could have done to show your solidarity with black people instead of taking the Kente material and making a little show of it.&#8221;
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I had to say something about the American politicians shameless and ignorantly using the Kente fabric as a prop in their virtue signaling.
*I’m usually more mild mannered than this so please forgive me, I’m upset. <a href="https://t.co/aZMjgsHujS">pic.twitter.com/aZMjgsHujS</a>
&mdash; Obianuju Ekeocha (@obianuju) <a href="https://twitter.com/obianuju/status/1270053042340139008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I know we are in unexpected times and anything is possible but listen man I did not have &#8216;Pelosi in Kente cloth&#8217; on the bingo card,&#8221; GEN editor Hanif Abdurraqib wrote. &#8220;I was so certain that picture wasn&#8217;t real at first that I didn&#8217;t even bother to look for proof in either direction. I just mumbled &#8216;damn people on here are getting real good at photoshop&#8217; and kept moving along.&#8221;
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I was so certain that picture wasn&#39;t real at first that I didn&#39;t even bother to look for proof in either direction. I just mumbled &quot;damn people on here are getting real good at photoshop&quot; and kept moving along
&mdash; Hanif Abdurraqib (@NifMuhammad) <a href="https://twitter.com/NifMuhammad/status/1270014129919733762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Left-wing writer Roxane Gay wrote: &#8220;I am not sure what’s funnier, those ridiculous politicians wearing kente cloth or Cory Booker smartly opting out of that absurd performance.&#8221;
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I am not sure what’s funnier, those ridiculous politicians wearing kente cloth or Cory Booker smartly opting out of that absurd performance.
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Another commentator wrote: &#8220;I&#8217;m Black and I don&#8217;t even own that thing on their necks that supposedly represents Blackness. Also, I hate how Democrats always pretend that they have never had a chance to fix USA when they&#8217;ve been in government too.&#8221;
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I&#39;m Black and I don&#39;t even own that thing on their necks that supposedly represents Blackness. Also, I hate how Democrats always pretend that they have never had a chance to fix USA when they&#39;ve been in government too <a href="https://t.co/w6WV9fW2DX">https://t.co/w6WV9fW2DX</a>
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Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said that members of violent riots that have ravaged U.S. cities recently are products of “Democrat Party policies.”
Limbaugh offered the explanation on his <a href="https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/06/02/the-riots-are-an-offshoot-of-the-democrat-party/">radio show</a> on Wednesday. He urged listeners to read the autobiographies of former First Lady Michelle Obama and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor for examples of “rage” used to intimidate others and push an agenda.
For about a week, police officers and other law enforcement officers have been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-officers-hit-by-cars-shot-beaten-in-numerous-cities-on-monday-night-amid-violent-riots">targeted</a> by violent mobs and rioters. Numerous police officers have been shot, beaten, and run over by cars as they attempt to contain the riots and restore order. In other instances, heavy-handed tactics used by police and law enforcement have sparked more accusations of police brutality.
Rioters have burned and looted hundreds of businesses, costing millions of dollars in property damage and destroying the livelihoods of business owners already struggling to recover from state-mandated coronavirus lockdowns. In some cases, rioters have mauled business owners for trying to protect their shops.
Limbaugh said that the Black Lives Matter protest movement against police brutality and racism has been “hijacked” by members of the violent far-left group Antifa.
“Antifa is simply a new name for all of these left-wing, Democrat Party aligned and sponsored protest groups going back to the sixties. You had the Weathermen. He had the SDS, Students for Democrat Society. I can’t even think of all the names. Antifa is Occupy Wall Street. It’s Black Lives Matter. They’re all the same people and thinking under different names,” Limbaugh said.
Protests began last week over the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who died while in police custody on May 25. Derek Chauvin was fired from the Minneapolis Police Department and is facing murder charges after video shows that he held his knee on Floyd’s neck, pinning him to the ground for nearly nine minutes. Protests over Floyd’s death quickly devolved into violent riots and spread to the United States’ largest cities.
See the relevant portion of Limbaugh’s comments below (transcript via <a href="https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/06/02/the-riots-are-an-offshoot-of-the-democrat-party/">RushLimbaugh.com</a>):
<blockquote>Well, you know — okay. You know what? I — because I don’t want to be unnecessarily argumentative or provocative, I will go ahead and let it stand that Black Lives Matter has been hijacked. Ahem. I’m just gonna tell you. Antifa is simply a new name for all of these left-wing, Democrat Party aligned and sponsored protest groups going back to the sixties. You had the Weathermen. He had the SDS, Students for Democrat Society. I can’t even think of all the names. Antifa is Occupy Wall Street. It’s Black Lives Matter. They’re all the same people and thinking under different names. They have different organizations for the purposes of fundraising.
Membership is actively recruited. But it is the Democrat Party. They are the Democrat Party. What you see on the streets of New York and all these other blue states, this is — what’s the term, the outgrowth? This is what you get. This is the Democrat Party. This is what they sponsor. This is what they inspire. This is what their policies lead to. Democrat Party policies are conceived and created in rage and anger. And it’s not just me saying this. You go back and read the biographies, autobiographies of say — go ahead and read Michelle Obama’s or Sotomayor, the Supreme Court associate justice, and you’ll find that rage, in Sotomayor’s case at Princeton, rage was the order of the day.
Rage was used to intimidate, that they arrived on campus enraged in anger. It was their daily existence. It was the way they got their way. It was the way they intimidated. And they showed up angry. And the rage was due to being mistreated, being discriminated against because of being a minority, female, Hispanic minority, what have you. Much of it’s out of the Alinsky handbook, actually. But it’s all Marxist, folks, and it is all studied. It’s all practically applied. None of this is random. None of this is something happens and these people see it and they get mad and take to the streets. They are waiting. They are programmed. They are waiting for the call to action.
It’s not that George Floyd was murdered; it’s that somebody was at the hands of a cop, and that’s the go signal. They are paid, and they are laying in wait. They’re in homes, wherever they are, wherever they’re holed up, and they’re giving the go signal, and this stuff is then, with the aid of the media, it’s made to look spontaneous. That’s key. It’s made to look like these people were happy and fine and minding their own business until America became America again one day, when in fact this stuff is in the playbook, it is organized, it is programmed, it is paid for, and it’s very mobile.</blockquote>
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Valerie Plame, the former CIA operative who was outed during the George W. Bush administration, has lost her bid to become a congresswoman after losing Tuesday night to attorney Teresa Leger Fernandez in the New Mexico Democratic primary.
Plame announced her candidacy in September 2019, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-valerie-plame-launches-congressional-bid-ryan-saavedra">reported</a>, in an attempt to fill a vacancy left by Rep. Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM), who decided to run for the Senate to replace Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM), who retired. Plame originally said she would run for Senate to replace Udall, but changed her mind for a congressional bid.
Plame used her fame from being outed in 2003 in an op-ed citing Bush administration officials to launch her candidacy. Her announcement video, however, was riddled with falsehoods, including her suggestions that she operated in Iran and North Korea and that Scooter Libby was responsible for her outing. Her opening ad also made it clear she was running because she had “a few scores to settle.”
Plame’s candidacy was plagued by accusations of racism and anti-Semitism. In 2017 – two years before announcing her candidacy – Plame resigned from her position on the board of Ploughshares Fund after retweeting an article blaming Jews for America’s wars, The Daily Wire’s Frank Camp previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/valerie-plame-resigns-and-apologizes-after-frank-camp">reported</a>. After a backlash, Plame defended her tweet, writing:
<blockquote>First of all, calm down. Re-tweets don’t imply endorsement. Yes, very provocative, but thoughtful. Many neocon hawks ARE Jewish. Just FYI, I am of Jewish decent. I am not in favor of war with Iran, or getting out of the Iran nuclear treaty. There are simply too many who are so ready to go to war. Haven’t we had enough for awhile? Read the entire article and try, just for a moment, to put aside your biases and think clearly.</blockquote>
The statement didn’t help, so Plame tweeted a second response before resigning:
<blockquote>OK folks, look, I messed up. I skimmed this piece, zeroed in on the neocon criticism, and shared it without seeing and considering the rest. … I’m not perfect and make mistakes. This was a doozy. All I can do is admit them, try to be better, and read more thoroughly next time. Ugh.</blockquote>
During her candidacy, left-wing media outlets either ignored or downplayed Plame’s racism and anti-Semitism. National Review’s Jim Geraghty <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/valerie-plame-congressional-campaign-new-mexico/">outlined</a> her issues after she launched he campaign:
<blockquote>She repeated an urban legend about dancing Israelis sighted after 9/11 and an article touting “Israeli fingerprints all over the place” in the investigation of the worst terror attack in American history. She shared an article entitled “Why I Still Dislike Israel” that laments the “Israel Lobby electing and controlling a malleable congress [sic] and increasingly even officials at state and local levels.” She commented that Natalie Portman was a fine choice to play a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg because “they are both Jewish.” (By itself, that’s a harmless comment, but in the context of the other ones, Plame seems particularly focused on knowing who’s Jewish and who isn’t.)</blockquote>
Fox News <a href="She%20repeated%20an%20urban%20legend%20about%20dancing%20Israelis%20sighted%20after%209/11%20and%20an%20article%20touting%20“Israeli%20fingerprints%20all%20over%20the%20place”%20in%20the%20investigation%20of%20the%20worst%20terror%20attack%20in%20American%20history.%20She%20shared%20an%20article%20entitled%20“Why%20I%20Still%20Dislike%20Israel”%20that%20laments%20the%20“Israel%20Lobby%20electing%20and%20controlling%20a%20malleable%20congress%20%5bsic%5d%20and%20increasingly%20even%20officials%20at%20state%20and%20local%20levels.”%20She%20commented%20that%20Natalie%20Portman%20was%20a%20fine%20choice%20to%20play%20a%20young%20Ruth%20Bader%20Ginsburg%20because%20“they%20are%20both%20Jewish.”%20(By%20itself,%20that’s%20a%20harmless%20comment,%20but%20in%20the%20context%20of%20the%20other%20ones,%20Plame%20seems%20particularly%20focused%20on%20knowing%20who’s%20Jewish%20and%20who%20isn’t.)">reported</a> that ads from “anonymous backers” outlining Plames bigotry ran in the final weeks of her campaign.
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The following is satirical.
After several days of peaceful protests that have left major cities in flames, Democrats have released a new position paper entitled “Helping Black Americans by Helping White Americans Feel Better About Not Helping Black Americans.”
The Democrats say the paper lays out an ambitious progressive plan to continue doing exactly what they’ve been doing until the entire country is in ashes.
Bane — the Batman Comics Supervillain and Chairman of the Democrat National Committee — released the paper to those of his minions who call themselves the press in an attractive folder with a cover depicting a gothic scene of chaos captioned “Our Vision for the Future.”
The plan includes the following points:
1) Young white men will dance to exciting rap music glorifying black violence and degrading black women, and then return home to their moms and dads to prepare for college while young black men are left in broken homes amid violence-strewn streets.
2) White men will apologize to blacks for generations of bigotry and then return home to their wives and children while blacks return to their crime-filled neighborhoods thinking to themselves, “Wow. They sure apologized to us, didn’t they?”
3) Elites will teach blacks that their country was founded on racism and despises them so they have no chance to have a good life through education, hard work and good behavior. Then the elites will return to the great jobs they earned through education, hard work and good behavior, while blacks despair because they think their country despises them.
4) Whites will encourage blacks to demonstrate about things everyone already agrees about and will then incite violence at those demonstrations to show how woke they are while destroying black people’s property and reputation.
And 5) whites will encourage blacks to vote against Donald Trump, who might saddle them with those nasty jobs working for the white man for money and dignity.
After releasing the document, Bane urged all Americans to continue wearing a mask like his to protect from disease and to represent ultimate evil.
More satire from Andrew Klavan: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/minneapolis-mayor-issues-guidelines-to-keep-rioters-safe-from-virus-while-theyre-burning-down-his-city-satire">Minneapolis Mayor Issues Guidelines To Keep Rioters Safe From Virus While They’re Burning Down His City</a>

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Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), a former state attorney general floated as a potential 2020 running mate, announced Thursday afternoon she had withdrawn her name from the Biden campaign’s consideration, but she will continue to support him through the general election, reports <a href="https://apnews.com/77e99cbef5589a9887db594e384dcd5c">The Associated Press</a>.
“It is an honor to be considered as a potential running mate but I have to decide to withdraw my name from consideration,” said Cortez Masto in a statement. “Nevada’s economy is one of the hardest hit by the current crisis, and I will continue to focus on getting Nevadans the support they need to get back on their feet.”
Over the past month, Cortez Masto has been <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/catherine-cortez-masto-joe-biden-vp-candidate-running-mate/">described</a> in <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbrewster/2020/03/24/the-dark-horse-candidates-for-bidens-vp-choice/#4f294b886b5b">news reports</a> as one of the potential dark-horse candidates of the vice presidential selection process. Furthermore, The <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/personal-ties-to-biden-could-be-an-advantage-in-running-mate-race-11590312601">Wall Street Journal</a> recently reported that Cortez Masto was one of two candidates who had a close personal relationship with Biden, having worked closely with the former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, the former vice president’s son, before his death in 2015.
“My son had really very good judgment, and my son truly, truly, truly admired Catherine,” Joe Biden said in 2016 when he endorsed Cortez Masto for Senate. “He talked about her. He worked with her. She’s cut from the same cloth. She’s Latina, he suffers from being an Irish Catholic, like me, but they have the same value set.”
The Journal reports that Cortez Masto’s husband, a retired secret service agent, has a friendly relationship with the former vice president, adding that “they have occasionally played golf together, according to people familiar with their friendship.” And late last month, former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) publicly <a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/cortez-masto-could-boost-biden-candidacy-2015322/">welcomed</a> the idea of the Biden campaign looking at Cortez Masto more carefully.
As recently as Wednesday night, Cortez Masto hosted a fundraiser with former Second Lady Jill Biden on behalf of the presumptive Democratic nominee, which <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/28/politics/biden-kamala-harris-amy-klobuchar-vp/">CNN</a> editor-at-large Chris Cillizza mentioned Thursday when he ranked her as the fourth most-likely candidate to join the Biden ticket.
Cillizza currently ranks Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) as the leading contender for the person who may secure the spot as running mate. Notably, Harris is the other person the Journal reports as having a close relationship with former Vice President Biden.
“Beau showed courage all the time and conviction, and he spoke with so much love about the father who raised the man he was,” said Harris during an endorsement speech in March. “I know Joe, and that’s why I’m supporting him.”
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/val-demings-odds-surge-to-become-bidens-veep-pick">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported on Thursday morning, betting markets currently have Harris with the best odds of joining the 2020 ticket, followed by Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and former First Lady Michelle Obama (who has expressed no interest in the job).
Biden told attendees of a virtual fundraiser on Wednesday evening that he’s planning to announce his running mate on August 1, reports <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-hopes-to-announce-vp-pick-around-this-date">Fox News</a>.
“We&#8217;re in the process of deciding the basic cut — about whether or not they really want it. Are they comfortable? They&#8217;ve asked a lot of questions,” remarked Biden, the day before Cortez Masto withdrew from consideration.
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The following is satirical.
Democrats are worried that a rebounding economy could hurt their chances of fobbing off the braindead relic of a once dishonest human being on a population blinded by economic hardship in November’s election.
Speaking out of the more appealing side of his face, DNC Chairman Harvey Dent said, “They say you can’t fool all the people all the time and unfortunately that was our entire election strategy.&#8221;
&#8220;If people in Michigan are scrabbling in the dirt for roots to eat because Governor Gretchen Whitmer won’t let them out of their houses to make a living, that’s a state where we can run a wooden dummy speaking in Nancy Pelosi’s voice with Karl Marx’s hand up his tuchus and they’ll never know the difference,&#8221; Dent continued. &#8220;But if heaven forbid people can feed their children again, that’s bad for the Democrat party and what’s bad for the Democrat party is bad for America if by bad for America you mean good for America.&#8221;
Presumptive former Presidential Candidate Joe Biden says he knows he can convince people he’s a friend of the working man as long as the working man isn’t working.
Speaking to a potted plant he mistook for his own reflection, Biden said, “My hope is that come November people will be so hungry that a walking potato will look pretty good to them. I was even planning to put some butter and sour cream on my head and maybe a sprig of parsley so they could imagine by voting for me they’d get something to eat.&#8221;
&#8220;But if the economy should rebound and people are doing okay, then the only question is going to be: Who am I and what was I talking about? No, really. Who am I and what was I talking about?&#8221; he said.
President Trump, meanwhile, plans to continue his strategy of doing an excellent job while saying stupid stuff, because beating Biden would just be too easy if he weren’t shooting himself in the foot at the same time.
More satire from Andrew Klavan: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/journalists-complain-kayleigh-mcenanys-unkindness-is-interrupting-their-attempt-to-destroy-the-country-satire">Journalists Complain Kayleigh McEnany’s Unkindness Is Interrupting Their Attempt To Destroy The Country</a>
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Democrats Fear A Good Economy Will Hurt Their Chances Of Winning The Election And Destroying The Economy [Satire]

Recently, the bottomless memory of the internet unearthed an old routine from comedian Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show.” Since this was from back in the Obama era, leftist TV comics felt confident enough to take a very occasional swing at their own side. This routine had Jon Stewart looking at the famous picture of then-Vice President Joe Biden creepily nuzzling a very uncomfortable looking red-haired girl. Stewart tries to wash his eyes out and screams in agony as the image won’t go away.
Stewart then interviews Samantha Bee, now almost famous for slinging unfunny four letter words in the direction of the White House. Here, Bee plays a reporter who’s just come from interviewing the Vice President and still has his handprints on her breasts and backside. Yet she’s tremendously excited because, “The Vice President shook my hand! Can you believe it!”
Now, this was before what we now know to be the completely hypocritical #MeToo Charade. It was still legal in most states to laugh at the grotesque stuff some men get up to in trying to scratch the itch that bedevils us all. Still, it’s pretty clear from this that leftists like Stewart and Bee knew who Biden was – and knew also that the press would continue to be thrilled by his presence no matter how sleazily he behaved.
But Biden’s not just sleazy. He’s also corrupt and mentally compromised – and leftists know that too. They’ve covered his lies and his plagiarism in the past. Even George Stephanopoulos pressed him recently when he lied and said he knew nothing about the investigation into Michael Flynn. Biden corrected himself, but didn’t think to add what came out a few days later: he’d actually asked to unmask Flynn himself.
As for the failing of his mental faculties – go on YouTube and find virtually any video of Biden speaking a year or two ago. The difference is amazing. As I noted on my podcast many months ago, he is deteriorating in front of us.
Why then does the press continue to front for him? They abandoned the #MeToo Charade to protect him. They continue to dismiss Obamagate though the Attorney General has called the Democrat Russian collusion hoax “a grave injustice… unprecedented in American history.&#8221; And really, the non-sequiturs that come out of Biden’s mouth should make even a Democrat mouthpiece like Chuck Todd turn ashen. 
There are those on the Left who are willing to accept anything if it will get Donald Trump out of the White House. But clearly, there is a huge contingent on the Left who feel that Biden’s emptiness is a feature rather than a bug. His role is to appear to be what Democrats used to be so that Democrats can use him as cover to smuggle in the socialism they now represent. He’s a ventriloquist’s dummy who looks like a centrist Democrat but will speak with the voice of the far Left.
Bernie Sanders was asked recently if his socialist supporters will bet behind Joe. He said – with a smile reminiscent of a canary-eating cat – “Joe and his staff… are gonna reach out to our supporters and come up with an agenda…” that supports their cause.
More to the point, Nancy Pelosi is flagrantly pushing a three trillion-dollar bailout plan that shifts one trillion dollars to the states. The agenda is to move taxes paid by wisely run states like Texas and Florida to poorly run states like New York, California, and New Jersey.
These blue states not only carry huge tax burdens – New York is number one, while Illinois, New Jersey, and California are numbers eight, nine, and ten – their services stink. New York’s infrastructure is the 44th best, New Jersey’s is 43rd. Low tax Texas has the best infrastructure and no tax Florida is number eight.
Where does all the blue state tax money go? Public sector pensions and endless Medicaid. In short, Pelosi wants to use taxes from capitalist states to prevent socialist states from devolving into Venezuela as they deserve.
All this will be pushed through with Joe Biden looking Bidenesque and saying nothing anyone can comprehend. That’s the plan anyway. Biden may be creepy. He may be corrupt. He may be unable to express a coherent thought. Never mind. Bernie and Nancy will do the talking for him.
[Editor’s Note: A previous version of this op-ed contained an alleged quote from Joe Biden, “I’m going to beat Joe Biden.” That quote has recently come into dispute, and as such, we have removed it from the text.]
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