Responding to the news that the United States reportedly has more known cases of coronavirus than any nation on earth, leftist GQ columnist Julia Ioffe took a vicious shot at President Trump with a side order of seeming indifference to the suffering of Americans, snapping on Twitter, “Who’s the s***hole country now?”
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Who&#39;s the shithole country now? <a href="https://t.co/7NL4aHbyHq">https://t.co/7NL4aHbyHq</a>
&mdash; Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) <a href="https://twitter.com/juliaioffe/status/1243297913863835648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Ioffe’s nasty rhetoric ignored one salient fact: that despite the vast number of cases of coronavirus in the United States, the percentage of mortality rate is <a href="https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries">far less</a> than other countries stricken with the virus, such as Spain, Italy, Iran, and France. In Italy, the mortality rate was over 10% through Thursday; in Spain, roughly 8%; in Iran, 7.6%; in France, almost 6%. The current rate in the United States is 1.5%, and there is mounting evidence that many more people may be infected across the nation, which would drop the mortality rate even further.
Conservative commentators pilloried Ioffe for her comment:
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If you needed anymore evidence these people hate America &#8212;&gt; <a href="https://t.co/dWMIpzKhzk">https://t.co/dWMIpzKhzk</a>
&mdash; Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) <a href="https://twitter.com/KatiePavlich/status/1243304918791925761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The left and their media partners are rooting for the virus. Waiting for the “death to America” chants. <a href="https://t.co/jVsfCOIxSV">https://t.co/jVsfCOIxSV</a>
&mdash; Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArthurSchwartz/status/1243321168377139207?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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This is precisely how the so-called “elite” media feels about our country. <a href="https://t.co/mzVquZCxqj">https://t.co/mzVquZCxqj</a>
&mdash; Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteHegseth/status/1243338785670250502?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Chinese Communist Party thanks you for your propaganda. <a href="https://t.co/4E4gZDZvWp">https://t.co/4E4gZDZvWp</a>
&mdash; Josh Hammer (@josh_hammer) <a href="https://twitter.com/josh_hammer/status/1243339768601116674?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In WW2 Japan had to take a Japanese American out of the USA to broadcast propaganda. Today our media does it for China for free. <a href="https://t.co/VGrrMNme9h">https://t.co/VGrrMNme9h</a>
&mdash; EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) <a href="https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/1243311823136468996?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Ioffe&#8217;s &#8220;s***hole&#8221; comment was in reference to a story in the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-attacks-protections-for-immigrants-from-shithole-countries-in-oval-office-meeting/2018/01/11/bfc0725c-f711-11e7-91af-31ac729add94_story.html?utm_term=.8d4e02f0ba74">The Washington Post</a> from January 2018 that claimed when President Trump met with members of Congress over his prospective immigration deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) plan, Trump reacted to the so-called diversity visa lottery, which favors immigrants from non-European countries, saying, “Why are we having all these people from s***hole countries come here?”
In October 2018, Ioffe, who was previously fired from Politico after she <a href="http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/12/julia-ioffe-finished-at-politico-over-obscene-trump-tweet.html">suggested</a> President Trump was &#8220;f***ing his daughter&#8221; Ivanka,  <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-leftist-claims-trump-has-radicalized-more-ryan-saavedra">claimed</a> on CNN’s &#8220;The Lead&#8221; with Jake Tapper that President Trump had &#8220;radicalized so many more people than ISIS ever did.”
The comments came in reference to the Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue massacre. Ioffe stated, &#8220;I think this president, one of the things that he really launched his presidential run on is talking about Islamic radicalization. And this president has radicalized so many more people than ISIS ever did. I mean, the way he talks, the way he — the way he —&#8221;
&#8220;That is, it&#8217;s unconscionable for you to say that,&#8221; commentator David Urban responded.
Ioffe continued, &#8220;The way that he talks, the way that he allows these — the way he winks and nods to these groups. The way he says, &#8216;I know I’m not supposed to say it, but I’m a nationalist.&#8217; The way that he hems and haws when he has to condemn these people, gritting his teeth says, says &#8216;fine, OK, I condemn this.'&#8221;
Ioffe tweeted, “And a word to my fellow American Jews. This president makes this possible. Here. Where you live. I hope the embassy move over there, where you don’t live was worth it.”
In December, appearing on CNN with host Don Lemon, there was <a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1912/10/cnnt.02.html">this exchange</a>:
<blockquote>Lemon: So, Julia, let me ask you. Let&#8217;s take a step back here then. So this meeting with Trump and (Russian Foreign Minister) Lavrov even have happened today? Did the Russians do anything to earn this?</blockquote>
Ioffe: &#8220;Well, yeah, they helped him win the presidency. Right? If you&#8217;re Trump, you&#8217;ve earned it. And in fact, the Ukrainians who have been dying for a White House visit haven&#8217;t earned it. They haven&#8217;t meddled in the elections the way Trump has asked them to. So they didn&#8217;t do what was asked of them. I think it&#8217;s telling that Lavrov got a White House meeting for no reason the day that Trump&#8217;s impeachment &#8212; articles of impeachment are announced.&#8221;
She continued:
<blockquote>Last time Lavrov was in the White House, it was the day after he fired Comey, and he told the Russians, you know, I fired him over this Russia thing. Also here&#8217;s some super classified Israeli intelligence that you just might want to see.
And, you know, we still don&#8217;t know what happened in that hour that he was in the White House. And I have a feeling in the coming days and weeks, we&#8217;re going to be finding out that Trump said some pretty &#8212; again, I&#8217;m speculating, but if last time was anything to go by, given that Trump hasn&#8217;t changed, I&#8217;m guessing we&#8217;re going to learn that Trump said some pretty eyebrow-raising things.</blockquote>

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Leftist Journalist Mocks Trump And Americans: ‘Who’s The S***hole Country Now?’

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A few weeks ago, I devoted my column to an article about me published in Newsweek under the headline &#8220;Conservative Radio Host Ridicules Anne Frank.&#8221; As the full context of my comments in the video made clear, it was a lie.
To its credit, after its editor was notified of this fact, Newsweek changed the headline and made revisions to the article and issued a correction.
Since then, two more smears have been spread about me, one by an official at Purdue University and the other by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the major source of news in Canada.
The Jan. 21, 2020, issue of The Exponent, the Purdue University student newspaper, published the following in a story about John Gates, Purdue&#8217;s newly appointed vice provost for diversity and inclusion: &#8220;John Gates has seen quite distinct viewpoints at Purdue, even in his first week at Purdue in early 2019. When he attended a Turning Point event that Dennis Prager spoke at, he noted that he was one of three black people in the room.”
&#8220;&#8216;His central thesis was as follows: Diversity is bad. Every dollar spent on diversity is a dollar wasted,&#8217; Gates said. &#8216;He said slavery was not bad. In fact, every civilized nation was founded in slavery, and that blacks should just be happy to be in this country. And he got a rousing ovation.'&#8221;
Needless to say, I never said anything remotely like that.
After mentioning this on my radio show, some of my listeners wrote to Gates, which prompted him to write to me — not with a retraction or an apology but an invitation to have a chat.
I wrote vice provost Gates a letter, which began: &#8220;Dr. Gates:
&#8220;I am attaching eight video files of my speech at Purdue. See if you can find where I said, implied or hinted that slavery is not bad.”
&#8220;Allow me to react to your invitation to chat over the phone. Had I, as a Jew, written in some publication that you said, &#8216;the Holocaust wasn&#8217;t bad,&#8217; and then invited you to have a chat, would you agree to do so? Or would you first demand that I retract such a vile smear of you?”
&#8220;When you unequivocally retract in The Exponent what you said and apologize for saying it, I will be happy to chat with you. In fact, I will even invite you on to my national radio show.&#8221;
I never received a response from Gates.
Then, about a week ago, on my radio show, I discussed the issue of private speech versus public speech, and the issue of character, using former President Harry Truman as an example of a good man who used foul language privately, specifically using &#8220;kike&#8221; when writing or talking about Jews, and the N-word when talking about blacks. A listener called to ask me why I could say &#8220;kike&#8221; but not the N-word. I told him that the left had rendered the N-word the only word unutterable in the English language, even when merely discussing it, as I was with regard to Truman. And, of course, I added that to ever refer to a black using the N-word is &#8220;despicable.&#8221;
On Sunday, the CBC published an article headlined &#8220;It&#8217;s &#8216;idiotic you can&#8217;t say the N-word,&#8217; says radio host Dennis Prager, soon to speak at Calgary conference.&#8221;
The headline was an echo of the Newsweek headline, using an entirely out-of-context quote to make it sound as if I want to use the N-word in referring to blacks.
Now, why would the CBC bother writing about an American talk-show host, and how did it come up with this smear?
The answer to the first question is that the CBC, described to me by former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper at a PragerU event as &#8220;to the left of MSNBC,&#8221; wants to charge Canadian conservative organization The Manning Centre with inviting racist speakers. (I will be speaking in Ottawa at the Centre&#8217;s annual conference next month.)
And how did the CBC come up with the phony headline and story? The author himself wrote how in his piece: from Media Matters for America, a left-wing site that each day distorts or lies about what conservatives say. The author never bothered to listen to my broadcast. He took what Media Matters wrote and recycled it.
So, then, why do left-wing media do this?
There are two major reasons.
First, truth is not a left-wing value. As I have said and written ever since studying communism and the left in graduate school at the Columbia University Russian Institute, truth is a liberal value and a conservative value, but it is not a left-wing value. However, destroying opponents by destroying their reputations is a left-wing value — whether it&#8217;s charging Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh with multiple rapes, preoccupying the country with the fake charge that Donald Trump&#8217;s presidential campaign colluded with Russia to manipulate the 2016 election, or the charges such as those made against me.
Second, smearing opponents is not only a left-wing value; it is the left&#8217;s modus operandi. And the reason for that is: The left does not win through argument. It wins through smear. If you differ with the left, you are, by definition, sexist, racist, bigoted, intolerant, homophobic, Islamophobic, xenophobic, fascist and/or a hater. The proof? You cannot name a single opponent of the left who has not been so labeled.
Readers can fight back by contacting the president of Purdue, Mitch Daniels, at president@purdue.edu. Contacts from Purdue alumni would be particularly helpful. And readers can contact the CBC through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or an email to its ombudsman:
Facebook.com/cbccalgary
Twitter.com/cbccalgary
Instagram.com/cbccalgary
ombud@cbc.ca
The CBC needs to change its headline and issue a correction, as Newsweek did. My email to the author of the article, in which I asked for these changes and explained the entire context, did not receive a reply. You can read the letter on my website and send it or link it to the CBC.
If good liberals and conservatives don&#8217;t fight the left, truth loses. If truth loses, all is lost.
It&#8217;s that simple.
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: Why the Left Calls Good People Racist

Dennis Prager

John Gates

A recent Pew Research Center survey finds that only half of American adults think colleges and universities are having a positive effect on our nation. The leftward political bias, held by faculty members affiliated with the Democratic Party, at most institutions of higher education explains a lot of that disappointment. Professors Mitchell Langbert and Sean Stevens document this bias in &#8220;Partisan Registration and Contributions of Faculty in Flagship Colleges.&#8221;
Langbert and Stevens conducted a new study of the political affiliation of 12,372 professors in the two leading private and two leading public colleges in 31 states. For party registration, they found a Democratic to Republican (D:R) ratio of 8.5:1, which varied by rank of institution and region. For donations to political candidates (using the Federal Election Commission database), they found a D:R ratio of 95:1, with only 22 Republican donors, compared with 2,081 Democratic donors.
Several consistent findings have emerged from Langbert and Stevens&#8217; study. The ratio of faculty who identify as or are registered as Democratic versus Republican almost always favors the Democratic Party. Democratic professors outnumber their Republican counterparts most in the humanities and social sciences, compared with the natural sciences and engineering. The ratio is 42:1 in anthropology, 27:1 in sociology and 27:1 in English. In the social sciences, Democratic registered faculty outnumber their Republican counterparts the least in economics 3:1. The partisan political slant is most extreme at the most highly rated institutions.
The leftist bias at our colleges and universities has many harmful effects. Let&#8217;s look at a few. At University of California, Davis, last month, a mathematics professor faced considerable backlash over her opposition to the requirement for faculty &#8220;diversity statements.&#8221; University of California, San Diego, requires job applicants to admit to the &#8220;barriers&#8221; preventing women and minorities from full participation in campus life. At American University, a history professor recently wrote a book in which he advocates repealing the Second Amendment. A Rutgers University professor said, &#8220;Watching the Iowa Caucus is a sickening display of the over-representation of whiteness.&#8221; University of California, Berkeley, professor and former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich chimed in to say: &#8220;Think about this: Iowa is 90.7% white. Iowa is now the only state with a lifetime voting ban for people with a felony conviction. Black people make up 4% of Iowa&#8217;s population but 26% of the prison population. How is this representative of our electorate?&#8221; A Williams College professor said he would advocate for social justice to be included in math textbooks. Students at Wayne State University no longer have to take a single math course to graduate; however, they may soon be required to take a diversity course.
Then there&#8217;s a question about loyalty to our nation. Charles Lieber, former chairman of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard, was arrested earlier this year on accusations that he made a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement about work he did for a program run by the Chinese government that seeks to lure American talent to China. He was paid $50,000 a month and up to $158,000 in living expenses for his work, which involved cultivating young teachers and students, according to court documents. According to the Department of Justice, Lieber helped China &#8220;cultivate high-level scientific talent in furtherance of China&#8217;s scientific development, economic prosperity and national security.&#8221;
It&#8217;s not just Harvard professors. Newly found court records reveal that Emory University neuroscientist Li Xiao-Jiang was fired in late 2019 after being charged with lying about his own ties to China. Li was part of the same Chinese program as Lieber. A jury found a University of California, Los Angeles, professor guilty of exporting stolen U.S. military technology to China. Newsweek reported that he was convicted June 26 on 18 federal charges. Meanwhile, NBC reported that federal prosecutors say that University of Texas professor Bo Mao attempted to steal U.S. technology by using his position as a professor to obtain access to protected circuitry and then handing it over to the Chinese telecommunications giant, Huawei.
The true tragedy is that so many Americans are blind to the fact that today&#8217;s colleges and universities pose a threat on several fronts to the well-being of our nation.
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. To find out more about Walter E. Williams and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

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WILLIAMS: Political Bias And Anti-Americanism On College Campuses

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On Wednesday, actress and pro-life advocate Patricia Heaton tore into the Democratic Party for its increasingly radical position on the issue of abortion and its open shunning of pro-lifers.
&#8220;I don’t understand why pro-life people want to know if they are &#8216;welcome&#8217; to join the [D]emocrat[ic] [P]arty,&#8221; Heaton posted via social media.
&#8220;Why would any civilized person want to support a barbaric platform that champions abortion for any reason through all nine months funded by taxpayers?&#8221; the &#8220;Carol&#8217;s Second Act&#8221; star asked.
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I don’t understand why pro-life people want to know if they are “welcome” to join the democrat party. Why would any civilized person want to support a barbaric platform that champions abortion for any reason through all nine months funded by taxpayers?
&mdash; Patricia Heaton (@PatriciaHeaton) <a href="https://twitter.com/PatriciaHeaton/status/1227643710646566914?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Heaton noted that she did not vote for President Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election and does not plan to do so this year, either — thus further underscoring the alienating extremism of the modern Democratic Party.
&#8220;P.S. I didn’t vote in the last presidential cycle and will not be voting in this one,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;I am not a Trump supporter.&#8221;
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P.S. I didn’t vote in the last presidential cycle and will not be voting in this one. I am not a Trump supporter.
&mdash; Patricia Heaton (@PatriciaHeaton) <a href="https://twitter.com/PatriciaHeaton/status/1227649279319105537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Democratic presidential candidates have started to openly shun pro-life Democrats from their party.
For example, former South Bend, Indiana, mayor and presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg, an open Christian framed by the media as the party&#8217;s moderate candidate, told a pro-life Democrat in January that her views on abortion are not welcome in the party.
“So my question was would you be open to language like that in the Democratic platform that really did say that our party is diverse and inclusive and we want everybody?” the pro-life Democrat asked Buttigieg, as highlighted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pete-buttigieg-tells-woman-her-pro-life-views-not-welcomed-in-democrat-party">The Daily Wire</a>.
“Well I support the position of my party, that this kind of medical care needs to be available to everyone, and I support the Roe vs. Wade framework that holds that early in pregnancy there are very few restrictions and late in pregnancy there are very few exceptions, and again the best I can offer is that we may disagree on that very important issue and hopefully we will be able to partner on other issues,&#8221; the candidate responded.
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Called out by Pro-Life Democrat, Buttigieg backs position of Democrat Party to exclude pro-life voters<a href="https://t.co/AwCrai0vF4">https://t.co/AwCrai0vF4</a> <a href="https://t.co/TkLrs2DXzx">pic.twitter.com/TkLrs2DXzx</a>
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Moreover, this month, Buttigieg refused to denounce abortion post-birth. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-democrat-pete-buttigieg-refuses-to-disavow-infanticide">The Daily Wire</a> reporter:
<blockquote>“But what if a woman wanted to, I don’t know, invoke infanticide after a baby was born, you’d be comfortable with that?” [asked &#8220;The View&#8221; co-host Meghan McCain.]
“Does anybody seriously think that’s what these cases were about?” Buttigieg lashed out.
“There are people pushing for that, yes,” McCain noted.
Buttigieg responded by refusing disavow infanticide.
“Think, think about the situation, if this is a late-term situation, then by definition it’s one where a woman was expecting to carry the pregnancy to term, then she gets the most perhaps devastating news of her life,” Buttigieg responded. “We’re talking about families that that may have picked out a name, may be assembling a crib, and they learn something excruciating and are faced with this terrible choice, and I don’t know what to tell them morally about what they should do; I just know that I trust her and her decision medically or morally isn’t gonna be any better because the government is commanding her to do it in a certain way.”</blockquote>
It&#8217;s not just &#8220;moderate&#8221; Buttigieg, of course. Not one Democratic presidential candidate has outlined a single restriction on abortion with which the candidate claims to agree.

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Actress Patricia Heaton Rips Democratic Party And Its ‘Barbaric’ Abortion Platform

Abortion

Democratic Party

As Soviet Union-honeymooning, Sandinista-supporting, Fidel Castro-praising, full-on socialist loon bag Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) emerges as the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/who-will-win-democratic-primary-latest-2020-josh-hammer">undisputed front runner</a> for the Democratic Party&#8217;s 2020 presidential nomination, it nonetheless seems that the median American is rather lukewarm about the possibility of supporting someone for the presidency who holds such historically fringe views.
According to a Gallup <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/285563/socialism-atheism-political-liabilities.aspx">survey</a> released yesterday, &#8220;[m]ore than 90% of Americans say they would be happy to vote for a presidential candidate their party nominated who would be black, Catholic, Hispanic, Jewish or a woman; 80% would accept evangelical Christians, homosexual men, and lesbians; 60-70% are willing to embrace a presidential candidate who is under 40, over 70, a Muslim or an atheist; but only 45% say they would vote for a socialist for president,&#8221; the Jewish Press <a href="https://www.jewishpress.com/news/us-news/gallup-90-of-americans-would-vote-for-jewish-black-catholic-hispanic-woman-candidates-but-not-for-a-socialist/2020/02/12/">summarized</a>.
&#8220;Gallup’s bottom line conclusion is: The self-declared socialist Sanders could count on 76% of Democratic voters, 45% of Independents and &#8230;  only 17% of Republicans,&#8221; the Press noted.
As Gallup noted at the top of its report, socialists are the &#8220;one group tested&#8221; who &#8220;receive[] majority opposition.&#8221; After all, &#8220;[l]ess than half of Americans, 45%, say they would vote for a socialist for president, while 53% say they would not.&#8221;
The is fairly brutal news for the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and it goes a long way toward explaining why various levers of the DNC&#8217;s broader party apparatus have recently sounded the alarm about a possible Sanders nomination.
“The only thing, the only thing between the United States and the abyss is the Democratic Party. That’s it. If we go the way of the British Labour Party, if we nominate Jeremy Corbyn, it’s going to be the end of days. … So I am scared to death, I really am,” former top Bill Clinton strategist James Carville said earlier this week while likening Sanders to the far-left Corbyn, as The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/end-of-days-carville-warns-dems-about-choosing-sanders-im-not-interested-in-being-in-a-cult">reported</a>.
“There’s a certain part of the Democratic Party that wants us to be a cult. I’m not interested in being in a cult. I’m 75 years old. I’m just not a very cult-y person,&#8221; Carville continued.
Similarly, former Obama-era secretary of state and failed 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry had to deny a recent report that he was considering jumping into the 2020 Democratic presidential race in a purported last-ditch attempt to stave off an impending Sanders nomination.
&#8220;NBC News reported on Sunday that Kerry &#8216;was overheard Sunday on the phone at a Des Moines hotel explaining what he would have to do to enter the presidential race amid &#8220;the possibility of Bernie Sanders taking down the Democratic Party — down whole,&#8221;&#8216;&#8221; The Daily Wire also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fing-false-john-kerry-explodes-over-report-indicating-he-may-jump-in-2020-race">noted</a> earlier this month.
Sanders has a lifelong history as a rabid socialist activist, and Paul Sperry <a href="https://nypost.com/2016/01/16/dont-be-fooled-by-bernie-sanders-hes-a-diehard-communist/">argued</a> at the New York Post in 2016 that Sanders is actually best described as a “diehard communist”:
<blockquote>In the early ’70s, Sanders helped found the Liberty Union Party, which called for the nationalization of all U.S. banks and the public takeover of all private utility companies.
After failed runs for Congress, Sanders in 1981 managed to get elected mayor of Burlington, Vermont, where he restricted property rights for landlords, set price controls and raised property taxes to pay for communal land trusts. …
In 1985, he traveled to [Nicaragua] to celebrate the rise to power of the Marxist-Leninist Sandinista government. He called it a “heroic revolution.” …
Sanders also adopted a Soviet sister city outside Moscow and honeymooned with his second wife in the USSR. He put up a Soviet flag in his office, shocking even the Birkenstock-wearing local liberals. At the time, the Evil Empire was on the march around the world, and threatening the U.S. with nuclear annihilation.
Then, in 1989, as the West was on the verge of winning the Cold War, Sanders addressed the national conference of the U.S. Peace Council — a known front for the Communist Party USA, whose members swore an oath not only to the Soviet Union but to “the triumph of Soviet power in the U.S..”</blockquote>

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Top Pollster: Only 45% Of Americans Would Vote For A Socialist For President

2020 Election

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Actress and left-wing activist Jane Fonda signaled her goodness this weekend via social media, posting a photo of herself in a recycled designer dress and her &#8220;ethically harvested&#8221; and &#8220;sustainable&#8221; jewelry.
Fonda, an abortion enthusiast and avid climate activist, presented &#8220;Best Picture&#8221; at the 2020 Oscars on Sunday.
&#8220;At Oscars wearing Pomellato jewelry because it only uses responsible, ethically harvested gold and sustainable diamonds. #Oscars,&#8221; the actress posted early Monday morning. 
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At Oscars wearing Pomellato jewelry because it only uses responsible, ethically harvested gold and sustainable diamonds. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Oscars?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Oscars</a> <a href="https://t.co/IBfJzM84v2">pic.twitter.com/IBfJzM84v2</a>
&mdash; Jane Seymour Fonda (@Janefonda) <a href="https://twitter.com/Janefonda/status/1226736313841352704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 10, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Fonda&#8217;s designer dress was also reportedly &#8220;recycled,&#8221; meaning she wore it to an award show once before.
The actress took the Oscar &#8220;stage in a gray pixie cut and a crimson beaded Elie Saab gown she previously wore to Cannes in 2014,&#8221; according to <a href="https://people.com/style/oscars-2020-jane-fonda-gray-hair-recycled-gown/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;xid=socialflow_twitter_peoplemag&amp;utm_campaign=peoplemagazine">PEOPLE</a> magazine.
The 82-year-old paired the dress with a red coat, which she said was the &#8220;last article of clothing that I will ever buy&#8221; during a recent climate change protests in D.C., dubbed the &#8220;Fire Drill Fridays&#8221; protests.
“You see this coat? I needed something red and I went out and found this coat on sale. This is the last article of clothing that I will ever buy,&#8221; she told fellow protesters, according to PEOPLE. &#8220;When I talk to people and say, ‘We don’t really need to keep shopping. We shouldn’t look to shopping for our identity. We don’t need more stuff,’ I have to walk the talk. So I’m not buying any more clothes.”
Fonda&#8217;s &#8220;ethical&#8221; and &#8220;sustainable&#8221; jewelry boast grabbed the attention of folks online.
&#8220;&#8216;My gold and diamonds are ethically sourced&#8217; is the best elitist virtue signal I have ever heard,&#8221; said BlazeTV&#8217;s Lauren Chen, mockingly adding, &#8220;A true voice for the people.&#8221;
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&mdash; Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1227246487874265088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
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A true voice for the people
&mdash; Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1227247005296144384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Conservative Jason Howerton made fun of Hollywood&#8217;s choices in tackling climate change:
<blockquote>Hollywood: &#8220;Climate Change is about to end the world!&#8221; 
America: &#8220;ok, what do we do?&#8221; 
Jane Fonda: &#8220;Well um, I&#8217;m wearing &#8216;sustainable&#8217; diamonds now.&#8221; 
America: &#8220;Uh, okay&#8230;&#8221; 
Leo DiCaprio: &#8220;I fly my private jet to lecture the world about it.&#8221; 
America: &#8220;That&#8217;s not&#8211;ugh whatever.&#8221;</blockquote>
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Hollywood: &quot;Climate Change is about to end the world!&quot;
America: &quot;ok, what do we do?&quot;
Jane Fonda: &quot;Well um, I&#39;m wearing &#39;sustainable&#39; diamonds now.&quot;
America: &quot;Uh, okay&#8230;&quot;
Leo DiCaprio: &quot;I fly my private jet to lecture the world about it.&quot;
America: &quot;That&#39;s not&#8211;ugh whatever.&quot;
&mdash; Jason Howerton (@jason_howerton) <a href="https://twitter.com/jason_howerton/status/1227246947767083009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I&#8217;ve worn these same Target earrings six days in a row. I am basically Captain Planet,&#8221; said The Daily Wire&#8217;s Emily Zanotti.
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I&#39;ve worn these same Target earrings six days in a row. I am basically Captain Planet. <a href="https://t.co/pGSIsYYNIa">https://t.co/pGSIsYYNIa</a>
&mdash; Emily Zanotti (@emzanotti) <a href="https://twitter.com/emzanotti/status/1227252805141966848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Fonda wasn&#8217;t the only celebrity who signaled his/her &#8220;wokeness&#8221; at the Oscars. Actress <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/natalie-portmans-girl-power-oscar-dress-sparks-mockery">Natalie Portman</a> wore a high-end gown and cape to the Oscars that included the names of female directors who were apparently “snubbed” from receiving nominations at the award show.
“I wanted to recognize the women who were not recognized for their incredible work this year, in my subtle way,” the actress said on the red carpet.
According to <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/482269-natalie-portman-attends-oscars-in-gown-featuring-names-of">The Hill</a>, the Dior cape complementing Portman’s dress included the names of “Hustlers” writer and director Lorene Scafaria, Melina Matsoukas, the director of “Queen &amp; Slim,” “Honey Boy” director Alma Har’el, and Greta Gerwig, who directed “Little Women.”
And, of course, there was &#8220;Joker&#8221; actor Joaquin Phoenix bizarrely speaking about the insemination of cows at the Oscars.
“We feel entitled to artificially inseminate a cow and when she gives birth, we steal her baby,” Phoenix said. “Even though her cries of anguish are unmistakable. And then we take her milk that’s intended for her calf and we put it in our coffee and our cereal.”

Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda Bragging About ‘Ethically Harvested’ And ‘Sustainable’ Jewelry Sparks Mockery

Oscars

Following the very &#8220;woke&#8221; Oscars on Sunday night, British comedian Ricky Gervais highlighted a warning to the privileged leftists who spouted off about their pet causes during acceptance speeches.
&#8220;I have nothing against the most famous people in the world using their privileged, global platform to tell the world what they believe,&#8221; posted Gervais.
&#8220;I even agree with most of it,&#8221; he said
&#8220;I just tried to warn them that when they lecture everyday, hard working people, it has the opposite effect,&#8221; emphasized the &#8220;After Life&#8221; star. &#8220;Peace.&#8221;
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I have nothing against the most famous people in the world using their privileged, global platform to tell the world what they believe. I even agree with most of it. I just tried to warn them that when they lecture everyday, hard working people, it has the opposite effect. Peace.
&mdash; Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) <a href="https://twitter.com/rickygervais/status/1226912751009878016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 10, 2020</a></blockquote>
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On Sunday night, Mr. Gervais, who went brutally hard at Hollywood hypocrisy during his stint hosting the 2020 Golden Globes, listed off a couple of jokes he would have made if he were hosting the 2020 Oscars.
“I can’t wait to hear all your inspirational speeches about equality, and it’s great that the [three] hours you’re here tonight is the only time your badly paid migrant house staff will get some time off to sleep this week,&#8221; the comedian said, when asked what his first joke of the night would have been. 
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“I can’t wait to hear all your inspirational speeches about equality, and it’s great that the 3 hours you’re here tonight is the only time your badly paid migrant house staff will get some time off to sleep this week” <a href="https://t.co/fsFbdDkv6u">https://t.co/fsFbdDkv6u</a>
&mdash; Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) <a href="https://twitter.com/rickygervais/status/1226524684734410753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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For good measure, Gervais rattled off another joke: “It’s great to see such diversity in the room tonight. Rich sex pests of all shapes and sizes,&#8221; he said.
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“It’s great to see such diversity in the room tonight. Rich sex pests of all shapes and sizes” <a href="https://t.co/fsFbdDkv6u">https://t.co/fsFbdDkv6u</a>
&mdash; Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) <a href="https://twitter.com/rickygervais/status/1226528551337385990?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Despite Gervais&#8217; &#8220;warning,&#8221; there was no shortage of privileged Hollywood liberals&#8217; virtue-signaling.
For example, &#8220;Joker&#8221; actor Joaquin Phoenix bizarrely bloviated about the insemination of cows, The Daily Wire reported.
“I’ve been thinking a lot about some of the distressing issues that we are facing collectively, and I think at times we feel or are made to feel that we champion different causes,” the award-winning actor sounded off. “But for me, I see commonality. I think whether we’re talking about gender inequality or racism or queer rights or indigenous rights or animal rights, we’re talking about the fight against injustice.”
“We feel entitled to artificially inseminate a cow and when she gives birth, we steal her baby,&#8221; Phoenix said. &#8220;Even though her cries of anguish are unmistakable. And then we take her milk that’s intended for her calf and we put it in our coffee and our cereal.&#8221;
&#8220;And I think we fear the idea of personal change because we think that we have to sacrifice something to give something up but human beings, at our best, are so inventive and creative and ingenious, and I think that when we use love and compassion as our guiding principles, we can create, develop, and implement systems of change that are beneficial to all sentient beings and to the environment,&#8221; he added.
Following his hosting gig at the Golden Globes, Gervais posted similar tweets to liberals.
“I didn’t roast Hollywood for being a bunch of liberals,” he explained via social media. “I myself am a liberal. Nothing wrong with that.”
“I roasted them for wearing their liberalism like a medal,” Gervais added. “I’m such a snowflake, liberal, I can’t even really hate them for it. But my job is to take the p[*]ss. I did that.”
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I didn&#39;t roast Hollywood for being a bunch of liberals. I myself am a liberal. Nothing wrong with that. I roasted them for wearing their liberalism like a medal. I&#39;m such a snowflake, liberal, I can&#39;t even really hate them for it. But my job is to take the piss. I did that. 😇 <a href="https://t.co/bYwqxiyeKu">pic.twitter.com/bYwqxiyeKu</a>
&mdash; Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) <a href="https://twitter.com/rickygervais/status/1215043466738176000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ricky-gervais-responds-to-critics-upset-over-him-accepting-conservatives">Ricky Gervais Responds To Critics Upset Over Him ‘Accepting’ Conservatives</a>

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Ricky Gervais Not Done With Oscar Comments, Highlights ‘Warning’ To Liberals

Golden Globes

Hollywood

Liberalism

Political Correctness

Last night&#8217;s Academy Awards ceremony was quite possibly the greatest display of heroism since D-Day. I may, in fact, be underselling it. After all, the men who stormed the beaches of Normandy were wearing gauche, cliched uniforms. At least the actor Billy Porter had the courage and fashion sense to step out in a flowing <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/oscars-2020-billy-porter-gold-ensemble-red-carpet">dress</a>. Sure, the dress was ugly and he looked ridiculous, but nonetheless he is, the media tell us, a &#8220;<a href="https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a30667840/billy-porter-grammys-style/">hero</a>&#8220;.
Joaquin Phoenix engaged in some heroics of his own. After winning the Academy Award for Best Actor, he launched into a lengthy discourse that included a sermon on the ethics of dairy products. &#8220;We feel entitled to inseminate a cow,&#8221; he said, though to be honest I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ve ever felt so much as the desire to inseminate a cow, much less the entitlement. I do, however, like milk for my coffee and cereal, and that is a grave evil in itself, Phoenix explained. He covered many other topics in his acceptance speech, which finally concluded around 8:30 a.m. this morning.
But of all the feats of bravery last night, none came close to the gestures of female empowerment offered by some of the celebrity women in attendance. For example, actress Natalie Portman graced the red carpet <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/natalie-portmans-girl-power-oscar-dress-sparks-mockery">wearing</a> a custom Dior cape embroidered with the names of female directors who weren&#8217;t nominated for an award. In the night&#8217;s most &#8220;<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/women/oscars-2020-feminist-sigourney-weaver-brie-larson-gal-gadot-a9326256.html">empowering</a>&#8221; speech, Sigourney Weaver, Gal Gadot, and Brie Larson declared that &#8220;all women are superheroes.&#8221; This seems an odd way to describe Eva Braun and Andrea Yates, but who am I to judge?
On second thought, perhaps there is a better word than &#8220;courageous&#8221; to describe all of this. Perhaps terms like &#8220;patronizing,&#8221; &#8220;stupid,&#8221; &#8220;hypocritical,&#8221; &#8220;vapid,&#8221; &#8220;vacuous,&#8221; and &#8220;irritating,&#8221; may get closer to the mark.
What exactly is Portman&#8217;s point? Never mind that she made her point by decorating her $20,000 cape. Is she suggesting that all of the female directors on her list should have been nominated simply because they&#8217;re female? Does she want women in the arts to be awarded for having vaginas rather than for the quality of their work? One of the &#8220;snubbed&#8221; female directors is Marielle Heller, who directed the perfectly nice and unobjectionable Mr. Rogers biopic, &#8220;A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood.&#8221; Does anyone really think that this was a master class in film direction? Which male director should have been kicked to the curb for Heller&#8217;s sake?
I would think that the way to empower a woman is to treat her like an individual human person, not an avatar for her entire gender, and to recognize her art on its merits rather than by chromosomal makeup. As it happens, this appears to be what Natalie Portman does when selecting projects. A look at her IMDB page shows that <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000204/">nearly all</a> of her starring roles have been with films directed by men. The last female-directed movie she headlined was back in 2015, and she was the director herself. It seems that the courageous Portman is a huge supporter of female directors named Natalie Portman. Otherwise, she chooses the projects that seem interesting to her — not the projects that have the most estrogen. Yet Portman, like most feminists, expects the rest of the world to operate exactly as she herself does not operate.
The same can be said for the &#8220;all women are superheroes&#8221; declaration. To understand how utterly childish and nonsensical this statement is, just imagine how it would sound if you said it about men. There are good men and bad men and men in between. Likewise with women. And once again, the Hollywood celebrities who pretend to think all women are universally admirable do not remotely come close to living by that belief. Just imagine what Hollywood&#8217;s reaction is going to be when Donald Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett with his next Supreme Court pick. The girl power schtick will get chucked out the window fast enough to give you whiplash. Recall how Hollywood treated Sarah Palin — now amplify it by a factor of 10.
Of course, I realize that my criticisms of the never-ending &#8220;You go, girl!&#8221; pep rally must be taken with a grain of salt because they are coming from a man. Then again, the fact that I&#8217;m a man by no means excludes me from being a woman. That&#8217;s the other major problem with Hollywood&#8217;s woman empowerment crusade: None of the people engaging in it actually know what a woman is. Or if they know, they won&#8217;t say. Ask any single one of those actresses to provide a workable definition of the word &#8220;woman,&#8221; and they&#8217;ll stammer and stutter before disappearing into the bushes like Homer Simpson. They are trying to empower a group of people that, according to their own theories of gender, doesn&#8217;t actually exist. That should be reason enough to cut it out.

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WALSH: Enough Of Hollywood’s Vapid, Hypocritical Girl Power Schtick

Feminism

Rarely do we see businesses, small or large, voluntarily abandon a tax credit. When those tax credits are used to help low-income and inner-city kids escape failing schools and find a pathway to success, it’s even more surprising.
Several days before President Donald Trump called on Congress during his State of the Union Address to pass legislation providing a million students with an opportunity scholarships, the Orlando Sentinel published a lengthy investigative <a href="https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/education/os-ne-voucher-schools-lgbtq-discriminate-20200123-s5ue4nvqybcgrbrxov5hcb46a4-htmlstory.html">article</a> detailing how corporations support these low-income families by way of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program. Pushing more of an ideological agenda than straight reporting, the Sentinel suggests that the use of these funds by many religious schools is meant to be “anti-gay.”
I went to one of the school (whose mascot, ironically, happens to share a name with the Sentinel) on the list. My parents sent me to Christian school because they believed no education was complete without a thorough understanding of the Bible. If you’ve never been to one of the schools on the list, let me tell you what you will find there.
First, you will see students from every corner of America represented: Black, white, Hispanic, rich, poor, middle income. As a fifth grader, when I started attending Evangelical Christian School in Fort Myers, Florida, it struck me as completely ordinary that my classmates looked pretty much the same as any room I ever entered in America. Selma, my friend of Indian-American descent, was just Selma. We played football together during recess and tried not to get in trouble during lunchtime.
My school was very disciplined, growing out of a religious conservative tradition that valued respect for elders and one another. We stood to answer questions when called upon. We did not talk during the lunch hour or in the hallways. We wore uniforms. Mrs. Dunn, the headmistress, was feared by all, but it was clear she cared for her students.
And there was chapel and prayer and Bible study. In fact, by the time I got to high school, we had an entire class period dedicated to Bible. It was insightful: We studied not only the Scriptures that formed the basis of our faith, but also learned to appreciate and respect the differences of our faith with that of others&#8217; faith.
Of course, we also studied math, science, literature, and the rest. Each class had a distinctive approach of not only mastering the subject at hand, but evaluating what our Christian worldview had to say about it. Before every baseball practice, Coach Kieffer would lead the team in a brief devotion drawn from the Bible and pray for us. I respected that man for his commitment to “the Man in the chair,” an empty chair meant to remind us that God is ever present, a help in time of need.
Florida’s tax scholarship program came about after I was out of school. Thanks to the Sentinel (the newspaper, not our mascot), I know that my alma mater receives scholarships through the Florida Tax Credit program to assist students to attend school. I believe there are families who have always wished to send their kids to a school that unashamedly teaches according to the Christian tradition but, for financial reasons, never could afford to do so.
But because of this newspaper article, fewer low-income families will have that choice. Wells Fargo, Wyndham Vacation Properties, Fifth Third Bank, and others <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/third-company-pulls-florida-voucher-donations-over-anti-gay-school-n1126686">pulled their funding</a>. (Fifth Third, perhaps realizing the error, <a href="https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/02/07/fifth-third-continue-funding-scholarships-anti-lbgtq-florida-schools/4691279002/">reversed that decision</a>). Activists are hard at work trying to convince Waste Management, and others, to do the same.
Rather than let inner-city kids or low-income families from the rural areas of Acadia and Belle Glade pursue private education that meets the needs of their children, they would cancel their scholarship to score “woke” points with the Left. It’s a shame.
In 2018-19, over 104,000 students received scholarships because of this program.  The typical <a href="https://www.stepupforstudents.org/research-and-reports/">student</a> receiving the scholarship lives at the poverty line (roughly $29,000), has only one parent in the home, and struggles academically. Sixty-eight percent of them are Africa-American or Hispanic.
Wells Fargo, Wyndham, and others are literally taking money away from poverty-stricken, minority children and the Left is praising them for doing so. Why? In their mind (and that of the Sentinel), it is less risky to a child’s future to live in poverty, with one parent in the home, and continue to struggle academically than attend a Christian school.
Such hostility toward religion should have no place in Florida, the news room, or a corner office. Businesses are welcome to forgo whatever tax credits they want. If they want to pay more in taxes, I suppose we cannot stop them. Still, they should understand that the price of appeasing the Sentinel and other ideologues is a low-income child’s future.
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Jeremy Dys (<a href="https://twitter.com/jeremydys">@JeremyDys</a>) is Special Counsel for Litigation and Communications for First Liberty Institute, a non-profit law firm dedicated to defending religious freedom for all Americans. Read more at <a href="https://firstliberty.org">FirstLiberty.org</a>.

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DYS: Pulling Scholarship Funds Punishes Low-Income Children

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Christianity

Congress

Florida

Homosexuality

LGBT

Media Bias

It&#8217;s safe to say that James Carville is not a fan of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
The &#8220;Ragin&#8217; Cajun,&#8221; a longtime political strategist and former top adviser to President Bill Clinton, has been making the rounds blasting the socialist from Vermont — who polls currently show may blow away the field in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday.
Carville said Monday that if Democrats give Sanders the 2020 presidential nomination, it will be the &#8220;end of days&#8221; for the party. And he said Sanders does not have the broad appeal necessary to win the general election in November, likening him to Jeremy Corbyn, the far-left leader of Britain&#8217;s Labour Party who was crushed in a recent high-profile British election.
“The only thing, the only thing between the United States and the abyss is the Democratic Party. That’s it. If we go the way of the British Labour Party, if we nominate Jeremy Corbyn, it’s going to be the end of days. &#8230; So I am scared to death, I really am,&#8221; Carville said on MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe.&#8221;
“If we lose that, we’re going to be the British Labour Party and be out in some theoretical left-wing la-la land,” Carville said.
Carville said Sanders does not appeal to black voters, whom he said are not interested in socialism, a revolution, or &#8220;all this foolishness you hear.&#8221;
And the strategist who pushed Clinton to repeat the mantra, &#8220;it&#8217;s the economy, stupid,&#8221; said Sanders&#8217; appeal to the far-left of the Democratic Party is downright cultish.
&#8220;There’s a certain part of the Democratic Party that wants us to be a cult. I’m not interested in being in a cult. I’m 75 years old. I’m just not a very cult-y person,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;Some people in this country want a revolution, they want disruption. I don&#8217;t know — they scream at people, they go and bully people. I don&#8217;t know how you win an election like that, 78 years old standing up screaming at a microphone about revolution. But you gotta&#8217; give people an alternative,&#8221; Carville said.
It&#8217;s not the first time Carville has railed about Sanders. Last week, he said, “it matters who the candidate is, it matters what a party chooses to talk about!”
“I’m 75 years old. Why am I here doing this? Because I am scared to death, that’s why! Let’s get relevant here, people, for sure. All the Sanders people are taking pictures wishing Jeremy Corbyn the best. I don’t want to go down that path!”
And in a recent interview with Vox, Carville said he was “scared to death” of the upcoming election.
“Look, the turnout in the Iowa caucus was below what we expected, what we wanted. Trump’s approval rating is probably as high as it’s been. This is very bad. And now it appears the party can’t even count votes. What the hell am I supposed to think?” he said.
“I’ll just say it this way: The fate of the world depends on the Democrats getting their s**t together and winning in November,” Carville said. “We have to beat Trump. And so far, I don’t like what I see. And a lot of people I talk to feel the same way.”

Politicon 2019 – Day 1

‘END OF DAYS’: Carville Warns Dems About Choosing Sanders — ‘I’m Not Interested In Being In A Cult!’

Bill Clinton

Jeremy Corbyn

Morning Joe

On Sunday, CNN’s Brian Stelter, host of “Reliable Sources,” discussed President Trump awarding the Medal of Freedom to conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, and how he was disgusted by individuals celebrating Limbaugh’s recent cancer diagnosis.
<blockquote>STELTER: There’s also controversy about Rush Limbaugh receiving this Medal of Freedom at the State of the Union. Rush announced on Monday that he has been diagnosed with advanced-stage lung cancer. And I know some people don&#8217;t think he should have been getting this metal, but Sarah, some of the comments I&#8217;m seeing on social media from lefties who hate Rush, saying they hope that the cancer takes him away as fast as possible, it’s revolting to me, and I just, you know, as much we talk about Trump and misinformation, there is a strain of contempt on the Left that also worries me. Why can&#8217;t people just say, “We hope that Rush gets better quickly”?</blockquote>
After Stelter’s initial comments, CNN political analyst and Dispatch staff writer Sarah Isgur pushed back, suggesting that the Limbaugh-hatred “highlights a larger problem with Twitter and what we elevate on Twitter.”
Stelter replied: “You’re right. Those are not the normal voices. You&#8217;re right, you’re right.”
Isgur then noted that it’s difficult to know from whom some of the vile comments are coming, and Stelter agreed, saying they might not even be “real people.”
<blockquote>ISGUR: But when candidates, journalists often find – we&#8217;re all on Twitter, frankly, all the time, let’s be honest – but we think of that as some type of reality when in fact, it&#8217;s not. We don&#8217;t know who some of those people are. They’re not checked by Twitter&#8230;
STELTER: You’re right. They may not even be real people.
ISGUR: They could be Russian bots; they can be paid. So then candidates respond to that because reporters respond to it. And a lot of, I think, the Democratic candidates have fallen into that trap of living in a Twitterverse that is not actually representative in the country&#8230;</blockquote>
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Isgur is broadly correct in her assessment that Twitter is home to many unidentified people and bots. However, it should be noted that one of the critical hits on Limbaugh came from an individual associated with CNN.
When the radio host announced his cancer diagnosis, producer and religious scholar Reza Aslan tweeted: “Ask yourself this simple question: Is the world a better place or a worse place with Rush Limbaugh in it?”
Aslan later claimed that he wasn’t “celebrating” Rush’s diagnosis, but posing a philosophical question. He then added that Limbaugh is a “a curse upon this nation, a purveyor of hatred and racism who’s at the very least indirectly responsible for the mass suffering of countless people.”
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1. I am not “celebrating” anyone’s diagnosis. I’m posing an important philosophical question 
2. Rush is not “my adversary” &#8211; he is a curse upon this nation, a purveyor of hatred and racism who’s at the very least indirectly responsible for the mass suffering of countless people. <a href="https://t.co/buUdG0V3IF">https://t.co/buUdG0V3IF</a>
— Reza Aslan (@rezaaslan) <a href="https://twitter.com/rezaaslan/status/1224476896227778561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
Producer and author Tariq Nasheed tweeted: “Rush Limbaugh has spend decades spewing dangerous anti-Black racism. Now he has cancer&#8230;I know we shouldn&#8217;t celebrate one&#8217;s misfortunes&#8230;.but #PartyOverHere.” Nasheed followed his comment with a gif of a man dancing.
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Rush Limbaugh has spend decades spewing dangerous anti-Black racism.
Now he has cancer&#8230;
I know we shouldn&#8217;t celebrate one&#8217;s misfortunes&#8230;.
but
<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PartyOverHere?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PartyOverHere</a> <a href="https://t.co/NVI1mVg2hW">pic.twitter.com/NVI1mVg2hW</a>
— Tariq Nasheed (@tariqnasheed) <a href="https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/1224443800791109636?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
Self-proclaimed comedian Johnny McNulty tweeted: “It&#8217;s not cool to joke about Rush Limbaugh having cancer. You might jinx it.”
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It&#8217;s not cool to joke about Rush Limbaugh having cancer. You might jinx it.
— Johnny McNulty (@JohnnyMcNulty) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnnyMcNulty/status/1224434062095310850?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
Limbaugh began treatment for his cancer this week.
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Brian Stelter.

CNN’s Brian Stelter On Those Celebrating Limbaugh’s Cancer Diagnosis: ‘Revolting To Me’

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If you want to understand a human being or the human condition, what is the single most important question you should ask?
Most religious people would probably ask, &#8220;Do you believe in God?&#8221;
The most important question most secular people, especially progressives, could imagine asking is probably a policy question. Today it would be &#8220;Do you support Donald Trump?&#8221; Otherwise it might be &#8220;Do you support abortion rights?&#8221; or &#8220;Do you support gay marriage?&#8221;
As important as all of these questions are, in attempting to understand human beings, especially large groups of human beings — i.e., their society — the most important question to ask is &#8220;What in life gives you the most meaning?&#8221;
The answer does not explain everything, of course, but it explains the human condition better than any other question.
The reason is this: After food, the greatest human need and human desire is meaning. Even more so than the ability to reason or even to speak, this is the great divide between human and animal. We share all other needs with the higher animal species and share many needs with some of the lower animal species. Like them, we need food, shelter and companionship. But, while human beings seek and need meaning more than anything except food (and companionship — but for human beings, companionship usually provides some meaning, and sometimes enough), no animal needs or seeks meaning. As an aside, this is one of the reasons I believe in God, the Creator. There is no evolutionary explanation for the need for meaning. Meaning is not a biological need.
Given its unique importance, that is why what gives us meaning must be deemed the most important question.
The problem, however, is that just as the need for food has no inherent moral quality, the need for meaning has no inherent moral quality. Meaning can be found in evil just as it can be found in good. Nazism provided millions of Germans with as much meaning as helping the dying in Calcutta provided Mother Teresa. Slaughtering infidels gives radical Islamic terrorists as much meaning as feeding the poor gives those who work for the Salvation Army. Killing the &#8220;Christ-killer&#8221; Jews gave some medieval Christians as much meaning as saving Jews gave some European Christians during the Holocaust.
For most Americans until the last generation, the need for meaning was filled by family, religion, community and patriotism (i.e., love of America and belief in America as Abraham Lincoln put it: as &#8220;the last best hope of earth.&#8221;)
All, or nearly all, of those sources of meaning are being lost. In fact, the present generation of Americans has few or none of those meaning providers.
As regards family, Americans are marrying at a later age than ever before. Fewer Americans are marrying than ever before. And fewer are having children than ever before.
With regard to religion, more than a third of millennials — by far the largest percentage of any generation in American history — do not identify with any religion.
As for community, a vast number of Americans — of every age — have lost ties to any community. This is a major reason for the epidemic of loneliness that afflicts so many Americans (and so many others) at the present time. For example, The New York Times reported in 2018 that in Britain, &#8220;more than nine million people in the country often or always feel lonely, according to a 2017 report published by the Jo Cox Commission on Loneliness.&#8221; Then-Prime Minister Theresa May actually appointed a minister of loneliness.
And regarding America, what is there to believe in? For more than a generation, young Americans have been taught contempt for this country: Its past is essentially racist, genocidal and imperialist. So much for patriotism.
So, then, what is to give meaning to Americans who have lost all or most of the above? Something has to, because the need for meaning is as built in and as universal as the need for food.
The answer is self-evident: Whatever it is, it must provide meaning without being dependent on family, community, religion or patriotism.
And what is that? Leftism.
All of leftism (not liberalism, which affirms all the traditional meaning providers) consists of meaning providers that replace community, religion, America and even family (single women are a major, even dominant, demographic of the left).
For leftists, feminism, environmentalism, socialism and trans rights provide meaning. The life-filling meaning of leftism is most evident in the constant leftist use of the term &#8220;existential threat.&#8221; President Donald Trump &#8220;is posing an existential threat to America,&#8221; wrote leftist Frank Rich in the latest issue of New York Magazine. &#8220;Bloomberg, in Campaign Event, Calls Trump an &#8216;Existential Threat,'&#8221; ABC News headlined two months ago. A Mother Jones headline two weeks ago read, &#8220;Trump Is an &#8216;Existential&#8217; Threat: Ilana Glazer, Eric Holder, and 2020.&#8221; A ThinkProgress headline last July read, &#8220;The Existential Threat Trump Poses to the World Political Order Is a 2020 Campaign Issue.&#8221; The Sioux City Journal headlined last week, &#8220;Biden: Trump Represents &#8216;an Existential Threat to the Future of Our Country.'&#8221;
Fighting President Trump means fighting for the very existence of the world&#8217;s order and for democracy in America. What could possibly give those devoid of meaning more meaning than that?
Well, there is one other thing: fighting for the very existence of the world itself. That is the animating impulse of the left&#8217;s obsession with global warming. &#8220;(T)he world is going to end in 12 years if we don&#8217;t address climate change,&#8221; says Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said at a recent CNN town hall that the &#8220;climate crisis&#8221; is an &#8220;existential threat to the planet.&#8221; There are as many assertions of fossil fuels posing an existential threat to Earth&#8217;s survival as there are leftists (and the many liberals who fear the left).
The proof that this alleged saving of democracy and the world from extinction are nothing more than left-wing meaning givers is this: The only communities who don&#8217;t believe this continue to possess all the traditional meaning givers. We don&#8217;t need the left&#8217;s substitutes.
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 Question That Explains Almost Everything

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Longtime Democratic Party strategist and top Bill Clinton ally James Carville unloaded on the Democratic Party during an interview published on Friday, saying that when it comes to the party&#8217;s ideas, the American people &#8220;don&#8217;t want to hear this s**t&#8221; and that Democrats are losing their minds over the upcoming election.
When asked by left-wing <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/2/7/21123518/trump-2020-election-democratic-party-james-carville">Vox</a> why he was &#8220;scared to death&#8221; of the upcoming election, Carville responded, &#8220;Look, the turnout in the Iowa caucus was below what we expected, what we wanted. Trump’s approval rating is probably as high as it’s been. This is very bad. And now it appears the party can’t even count votes. What the hell am I supposed to think?&#8221;
&#8220;I’ll just say it this way: The fate of the world depends on the Democrats getting their s**t together and winning in November,&#8221; Carville continued. &#8220;We have to beat Trump. And so far, I don’t like what I see. And a lot of people I talk to feel the same way.&#8221;
Carville said he does not know where the party went wrong, considering that it did well in House races in 2018: &#8220;Now it’s like we’re losing our damn minds.&#8221;
It&#8217;s fair to note that after the 2018 races, radical far-left Democrats like socialist Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Ilhan Omar (MN), and Rashida Tlaib (MI) have driven the party increasingly to the far-left.
&#8220;We have candidates on the debate stage talking about open borders and decriminalizing illegal immigration,&#8221; Carville said. &#8220;They’re talking about doing away with nuclear energy and fracking. You’ve got Bernie Sanders talking about letting criminals and terrorists vote from jail cells. It doesn’t matter what you think about any of that, or if there are good arguments — talking about that is not how you win a national election.&#8221;
Carville said that if Sanders gets elected, &#8220;there’s no chance in hell we’ll ever win the Senate with Sanders at the top of the party defining it for the public.&#8221;
Carville then continued to repeat the lie that &#8220;18% of the country elects more than half of our senators,&#8221; a false statement that he also made on <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari/watch/-wake-up-dem-vet-calls-for-party-to-be-more-relevant-diverse-after-iowa-chaos-78129221946">MSNBC</a>.
Newsweek <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/senators-who-voted-convict-trump-represent-18-million-more-americans-those-who-voted-acquit-1485972">reported</a> that the Republican-controlled Senate seats represent 44% of the U.S. population, not 18% — although the actual number may be as high as 47.19%.
When asked if the party has gone too far left, Carville responded, &#8220;They’ve tacked off the damn radar screen. And look, I don’t consider myself a moderate or a centrist. I’m a liberal. &#8230; Here’s another stupid thing: Democrats talking about free college tuition or debt forgiveness. I’m not here to debate the idea. What I can tell you is that people all over this country worked their way through school, sent their kids to school, paid off student loans. They don’t want to hear this s**t. And you saw Warren confronted by an angry voter over this. It’s just not a winning message.&#8221;
Carville then claimed, without evidence, that Trump was a &#8220;career criminal who’s stealing everything that isn’t nailed down out of the White House.&#8221;
Carville then went off on the leftist mainstream media over a New York Times editorial board member&#8217;s mocking comments about Louisiana State University (LSU) canceling classes for the NCAA football national championship game, saying: &#8220;You know how f***ing patronizing that is to people in the South or in the middle of the country? First, LSU has an unusually high graduation rate, but that’s not the point. It’s the g*****n smugness. This is from a guy who lives in New York and serves on the Times editorial board and there’s not a single person he knows that doesn’t pat him on the back for that kind of tweet. He’s so fucking smart. &#8230; The Democratic Party has to drive a narrative that doesn’t give off vapors that we’re smarter than everyone or culturally arrogant.&#8221;

CNN 2007 Election Breakfast

Top Democrat Strategist James Carville On 2020 Elections: ‘We’re Losing Our Damn Minds’, People ‘Don’t Want To Hear This S**t’

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In a now-viral clip, 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was caught on camera, while campaigning in New Hampshire, affirmatively agreeing with a questioner&#8217;s utterly vile depiction of prominent bipartisan pro-Israel organization American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
&#8220;I&#8217;m an American Jew,&#8221; the leftist begins, &#8220;and I&#8217;m terrified of the unholy alliance that AIPAC is forming with Islamophobes and anti-Semites and white nationalists. And no Democrat should legitimize that kind of bigotry by attending their annual <a href="https://event.aipac.org/PolicyConference">Policy Conference</a>. I&#8217;m really grateful that you skipped the AIPAC Conference last year. And so my question is if you&#8217;ll join me in committing to skip the AIPAC Conference this March.&#8221;
All along, Warren is seen visibly and passionately nodding. She then simply responded to the interlocutor: &#8220;Yeah.&#8221;
Trump re-election campaign Deputy Director of Communications – Research Zach Parkinson tweeted out the following accurate description to accompany the video: &#8220;Tonight, Elizabeth Warren nodded along and smiled as a questioner slandered AIPAC as &#8216;an unholy alliance&#8217; of &#8216;Islamophobes,&#8217; &#8216;anti-semites, and white nationalists&#8217; that perpetuates &#8216;bigotry&#8217; Without blinking, Warren then agreed to boycott next year&#8217;s AIPAC conference.&#8221;
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Tonight, Elizabeth Warren nodded along and smiled as a questioner slandered AIPAC as &quot;an unholy alliance&quot; of &quot;Islamophobes,&quot; &quot;anti-semites, and white nationalists&quot; that perpetuates &quot;bigotry&quot;
Without blinking, Warren then agreed to boycott next year&#39;s AIPAC conference <a href="https://t.co/U2MJ6DCTdZ">pic.twitter.com/U2MJ6DCTdZ</a>
&mdash; Zach Parkinson (@AZachParkinson) <a href="https://twitter.com/AZachParkinson/status/1225619091739881472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Warren has been consistently anti-Israel, in terms of both policy and personnel, throughout her entire campaign.
“It is the official policy of the United States of America to support a two-state solution,” Warren <a href="https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1186052533405528067?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1186052533405528067&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fwatch-elizabeth-warren-says-shes-open-to-cutting-off-aid-to-israel">intoned</a> back in November, “and if Israel is moving in the opposite direction, then everything is on the table.”
&#8220;Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) revealed on Saturday that she is open to withholding billions of dollars in military aid to Israel until the government ceases building settlements in the country’s West Bank,&#8221; The Daily Wire similarly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-elizabeth-warren-says-shes-open-to-cutting-off-aid-to-israel">reported</a> at the time.
Sounds a lot like a quid pro quo, no?
The Daily Wire has also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/where-does-elizabeth-warren-stand-issues-heres-josh-hammer">criticized</a> Warren&#8217;s naive foreign policy views with respect to Israel and her mollycoddling of anti-Semitic congresspeople: &#8220;She supports a &#8216;two-state solution&#8217; to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and has often been critical of Israel’s need to robustly defend itself amid a sea of existential enemies surrounding it. Warren has disingenuously implied that congresswoman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has merely engaged in criticism of Israel’s present government, rather than also engaging in overt anti-Semitism.&#8221;
Perhaps worst of all, last summer Warren <a href="https://www.jta.org/2019/07/29/united-states/meet-max-berger-the-jewish-anti-occupation-activist-on-elizabeth-warrens-campaign">hired Max Berger</a>, a co-founder of vehemently anti-Israel, self-hating &#8220;Jewish&#8221; group IfNotNow, to be a top campaign operative. Amazingly, Berger was actually <a href="https://myemail.constantcontact.com/ANTI-SEMITE-OF-THE-WEEK--MAX-BERGER--ELIZABETH-WARREN-S-NEW-STAFFER--WANTS-TO-BE-FRIENDS-WITH-HAMAS.html?soid=1131491229186&amp;aid=9lf-XdrU8EU">once named &#8220;Anti-Semite of the Week&#8221;</a> by the organization <a href="http://StopAntiSemitism.org">StopAntiSemitism.org</a>: &#8220;<a href="https://canarymission.org/individual/Max_Berger" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Max Berger</a> is a co-founder and one of the most prominent leaders of the radical &#8230; group IfNotNow. The groups calls for the destruction of the state of Israel, idolizes terrorists and spreads lies and false propaganda against the Jewish State. &#8230; This week, Berger caused outrage for a now-deleted 2013 tweet in which he confesses he would &#8216;totally be friends with Hamas&#8217; — a designated terror organization in the U.S. which is affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.&#8221;
AIPAC, of course, is not exactly a fiery right-wing group. Last March, following its 2019 Policy Conference, I wrote a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-what-exactly-current-role-aipac-josh-hammer">Daily Wire op-ed</a> entitled, &#8220;What Exactly Is The Current Role For AIPAC?&#8221;:
<blockquote>And yet AIPAC is hardly a particularly conservative group. Indeed, many of us in the more traditional, Eretz Yisrael-inspired camp of Zionism tend to view AIPAC as a nuisance at best and a counterproductive gadfly at worst. AIPAC stubbornly continues to lend <a href="https://www.aipac.org/news-hub/articles/25-years-since-oslo">de facto</a> support to the Oslo Accords — the single biggest geopolitical blunder in Israel’s national history. Two bloody intifadas, countless thousands killed by Islamist extremism, and one <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44732/hammer-israel-must-destroy-hamas-once-and-all-josh-hammer">outrageous</a> Gaza unilateral withdrawal later, AIPAC <a href="https://www.jta.org/2018/03/04/politics/aipac-launches-conference-appeal-progressives">continues</a> to support a <a href="https://www.aipac.org/learn/issues/issue-display/the-peace-process">“two-state solution”</a> entailing the carving out of a new PLO terrorist state somewhere between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. AIPAC’s institutionally self-aggrandizing support of mass U.S. military aid to Israel, furthermore, actually <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/09/04/support-israel-which-why-don-support-aid-israel/SXvLm92jTazjoV33k7Y65L/story.html">redounds against</a> the <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/rand-paul-is-right-about-aid-to-israel/">long-term interests</a> of Zionism.</blockquote>

Elizabeth Warren Holds Get Out The Vote Event In Derry, NH

WATCH: Elizabeth Warren Nods Along While Questioner Calls AIPAC An ‘Unholy Alliance’ Of ‘Islamophobes, Anti-Semities, And White Nationalists’

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After taking a surprising lead in the faith-focused Iowa caucuses, presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg is now being discussed as a Democratic Party presidential frontrunner. But despite being a self-proclaimed Christian, Buttigieg’s rhetoric and policies undermine rather than support religious liberty.
Buttigieg has unabashedly embraced House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-house-democrats-equality-act-both-josh-hammer">Equality Act legislation</a> that would strike a massive blow to our nation’s religious institutions. Specifically, the Equality Act would create a federally protected status for gender identity, defined as the “gender-related identity, appearance, mannerisms or other gender-related characteristics of an individual, regardless of the individual’s designated sex at birth.”
Any faith-based establishment — including churches, schools, and hospitals — with theological beliefs in conflict with this definition would likely face expensive legal battles, lawsuits, and public scrutiny. Case in point: A <a href="https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-wa-and-peacehealth-agree-settle-lawsuit-involving-transgender-healthcare" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-wa-and-peacehealth-agree-settle-lawsuit-involving-transgender-healthcare&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1581100427416000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGAth8sOEO3vpXX7ZIu4u4Xmi5vXA">Catholic hospital</a> was sued last year by the ACLU because it would not perform a risky sex-change surgery on a 16-year-old girl.
Unfortunately, the Equality Act would coerce health care and mental health professionals into providing dangerous gender-transition treatments for young children and adolescents, counter to their medical advice — and for many, against their religious beliefs.
Just as alarming, Buttigieg has imposed litmus tests based on what he deems theologically acceptable. We witnessed this first-hand when the former South Bend, Indiana mayor attacked Second Lady Karen Pence for teaching at a private school that adheres to her Judeo-Christian belief about marriage. In response, Buttigieg ridiculed the Pences and likened their religious views to that of “<a href="https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg/status/1086297780514115585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1086297780514115585&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthefederalist.com%2F2019%2F11%2F11%2Fwhy-pete-buttigieg-is-the-most-destructive-candidate-for-christianity%2F" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg/status/1086297780514115585?ref_src%3Dtwsrc%255Etfw%257Ctwcamp%255Etweetembed%257Ctwterm%255E1086297780514115585%26ref_url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fthefederalist.com%252F2019%252F11%252F11%252Fwhy-pete-buttigieg-is-the-most-destructive-candidate-for-christianity%252F&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1581100427416000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGwUBGJvLf5CXMJu3hcs6dg6abQ5g">Pharisees</a>.”
As a private institution, like thousands of such private schools that have long existed in our country, the school where Mrs. Pence teaches has the right to govern its school according to its own religious beliefs. Islamic schools, Buddhist schools, and Jewish schools are also free to do so under the United States Constitution.
As an individual running for our nation’s highest office, Pete Buttigieg is signaling how a Buttigieg administration would handle religious liberty. And his signals should frighten many.
When explicitly asked about religious freedom, Buttigieg <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/10/10/buttigieg_religious_freedom_makes_god_smaller_when_used_used_as_an_excuse_to_harm_other_people.html" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/10/10/buttigieg_religious_freedom_makes_god_smaller_when_used_used_as_an_excuse_to_harm_other_people.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1581100427416000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGJ6Rk7gZclZ3HMbhwVWW9qPgHRiw">claimed</a>, “the right to religious freedom ends where religion is being used as an excuse to harm other people.” He gave no further explanation of his definition of “harm,” placing the ironclad religious protections that our nation has valued for generations at considerable risk under his vague interpretation.
Our founding charter, the Constitution, defends and supports the belief that America was established on the freedom of ALL religions. Furthermore, it is not just freedom afforded to spiritual individuals to put their trust in religious faith or belief. Rather, it is an essential aspect of a well-ordered society to respect that human beings are made in the image of a higher power and should be able to order their lives around their personal religious beliefs.
Mayor Pete has ignored that right, choosing instead to weaponize his beliefs as a litmus test against the beliefs of others. If an individual or entity gets in his way, he will marginalize them — no questions asked.
This complete disregard for our nation’s freedom isn’t how freedom actually works. Our rights aren’t good enough when a leader deems them acceptable to their standards; they stand on their own because the Constitution says so.
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Ms. Vought is executive director of the <a href="https://www.senateconservatives.com">Senate Conservatives Fund</a>. Her husband, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/russ-vought">Russ</a>, is acting director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget.

Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg Begins Bus Tour Across NH Ahead Of Primary

VOUGHT: Pete Buttigieg Is No Friend Of Religious Liberty

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On Thursday, far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), speaking literally about a common expression on hard work, said it was &#8220;physically impossible&#8221; for people to pull themselves up by their own &#8220;bootstraps&#8221; or &#8220;shoelaces.&#8221;
&#8220;This idea of a bootstrap,&#8221; started AOC. &#8220;You know this idea, this metaphor of a bootstrap started off as a joke.&#8221;
&#8220;Because, it&#8217;s a physical impossibility to lift yourself up by a bootstrap, by your shoelaces,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s physically impossible!&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez, a former bartender who is now a congresswoman, added: &#8220;The whole thing is a joke.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> on America’s rags-to-riches ideal: “It’s a physical impossibility to lift yourself up by a bootstrap, by your shoelaces? It’s physically impossible. The whole thing is a joke.” <a href="https://t.co/9WNf8UE06T">pic.twitter.com/9WNf8UE06T</a>
&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1225506336781357057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Ocasio-Cortez was seemingly referencing a piece from the <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps-nonsense_n_5b1ed024e4b0bbb7a0e037d4?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvL2o3TXNrSzdOYU8_YW1wPTE&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABocZRdY1bU6ySfkwaOIokQ89kdcJRLsH0p6EdZ9zzbLZCRK7MV6xTtqaVsMCrjEpf3NJIsASWonygQrMKhuQtLNpuWwOURNnNuK5tZzOhZZtXwXOM3UwEIo2vxpEfMkoJzKIpVuOYqvWf-cWJ8hFeYPEPCoLy3PHtVcXQUHjao4">HuffPost</a>: &#8220;Why The Phrase ‘Pull Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps’ Is Nonsense.&#8221;
Here&#8217;s a bit from the post:
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<blockquote>“Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.” It’s a common phrase in American political discourse, particularly present in conservative rhetoric about self-reliance.</blockquote>
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The concept is simple: To pull yourself up by your bootstraps means to succeed or elevate yourself without any outside help.
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But when you examine this expression and its current meaning, it doesn’t seem to make much sense.
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<blockquote>To pull yourself up by your bootstraps is actually physically impossible. In fact, the original meaning of the phrase was more along the lines of “to try to do something completely absurd.”</blockquote>
AOC was roundly mocked for the comments, not just for the bizarre literal take, but for the anti-American sentiment, which is disproven every day in America.
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&#8220;Long gone are the days when, say, a lower-middle class, outer-borough bartender could ascend to the commanding heights of America&#8217;s ruling elite,&#8221; The Daily Beast&#8217;s Lachlan Markay said, clearly speaking of Ocasio-Cortez herself.
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Long gone are the days when, say, a lower-middle class, outer-borough bartender could ascend to the commanding heights of America&#39;s ruling elite <a href="https://t.co/NCA8R28XkR">https://t.co/NCA8R28XkR</a>
&mdash; Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) <a href="https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/1225514432740110342?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;In other news, cats don&#8217;t actually have people&#8217;s tongues, nor do pots have the ability to call kettles black,&#8221; joked Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro.
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In other news, cats don&#39;t actually have people&#39;s tongues, nor do pots have the ability to call kettles black <a href="https://t.co/XN6pA1OsNV">https://t.co/XN6pA1OsNV</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1225512210660720640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Blaze TV&#8217;s Lauren Chen posted:
<blockquote>&#8220;Not sure what&#8217;s funnier: &gt;AOC taking metaphors literally &gt;AOC, a former bartender who is now a congressman, dismissing the idea of pulling yourself up by the bootstraps.&#8221;</blockquote>
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Not sure what&#39;s funnier:
&gt;AOC taking metaphors literally
&gt;AOC, a former bartender who is now a congressman, dismissing the idea of pulling yourself up by the bootstraps <a href="https://t.co/VuMYnlEmtR">https://t.co/VuMYnlEmtR</a>
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Ocasio-Cortez also made headlines on Tuesday, when she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-aoc-six-other-democrats-boycotting-trumps-state-of-the-union-address">announced</a> that she would boycott President Donald Trump&#8217;s annual State of the Union Address.
The Democrat wasn&#8217;t alone, of course. According to reports from <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/481424-at-least-four-democrats-to-boycott-trump-state-of-the-union-address">The Hill</a> and <a href="https://www.axios.com/aoc-pressley-state-of-the-union-boycott-79523e81-ddad-41b0-981b-41b981bc2e36.html?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=organic&amp;utm_content=1100">Axios</a>, the following Democrats boycotted the speech, too (and four more Democrats walked out mid-speech):
<blockquote>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA)
Rep. Al Green (D-TX)
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN)
Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA)
Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL)
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)</blockquote>
“After much deliberation, I have decided that I will not use my presence at a state ceremony to normalize Trump’s lawless conduct &amp; subversion of the Constitution,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a Twitter thread on Tuesday. “None of this is normal, and I will not legitimize it. Consequently, I will not be attending the State of the Union.&#8221;
“This is a deeply personal decision for each member to make, and a choice I did not take lightly. I will be hopping on Instagram Live later this evening to connect with my constituents and follow up with their questions about #SOTU,” AOC added.
Instead of attending the speech, the congresswoman spoke to viewers via Instagram. While responding to questions, Ocasio-Cortez mocked conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, who announced earlier this week that he was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer.
Limbaugh, who was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom during the SOTU, is a “virulent racist,” AOC claimed, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-aoc-mocks-cancer-stricken-rush-limbaugh-suggests-conspiracy-behind-trump-reaching-out-to-blacks">The Daily Wire</a> reported Wednesday. Furthermore, the Democrat said Limbaugh&#8217;s reaction to the award was “disingenuous,&#8221; calling the cancer-stricken host a &#8220;joke&#8221; who &#8220;needed an &#8220;Oprah moment.&#8221;
Here&#8217;s the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-aoc-mocks-cancer-stricken-rush-limbaugh-suggests-conspiracy-behind-trump-reaching-out-to-blacks">transcript</a>:
<blockquote>“First of all, the Presidential Medal of Freedom is an extraordinarily scared, um, award. We’re talking about putting someone on the same level as Rosa Parks, you know, for example in terms of their contributions to American progress. Rush Limbaugh is a virulent racist, um, but even just on top of that, um, to do it in the middle of a State of the Union and not even dignify it with its own ceremony as it has, there’s all sorts of norms that are being violated, not just for people’s humanity, but also it truly just cheapens the value of it. Um, also him pretending to be surprised was such a joke that this has been news all day, there have been multiple reports from multiple news outlets saying that Rush Limbaugh was going to receive the Medal of Freedom and then Trump announced it and he had to like pretend that this was some kind of Oprah moment, um, was so disingenuous and to do that and to give it to Rush Limbaugh when there were plenty of people in that audience that have contributed positively to the fabric of American society, much more frankly, than he has, um. You know, but it’s red meat to his base, Trump knows what he is doing and he wants to assert that Rush Limbaugh is somehow on the same level as Rosa Parks, um, and it’s truly nauseating.”</blockquote>

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Actress Jameela Jamil, a radical feminist and ethnic minority who made the news recently for bragging about her abortion, discovered this week that she still somehow lacks in Identity Points. As the BBC <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51399416">reports</a>, controversy erupted and backlash ensued when HBO hired Jamil as a judge for an upcoming &#8220;unscripted voguing contest.&#8221; We&#8217;re informed that voguing is a dance genre &#8220;founded by black and Latino LGBT people.&#8221; The trouble is that Jamil is not LGBT, which somehow makes her unqualified to judge a dance competition, despite the fact that this style of dance was apparently popularized by the white, heterosexual Madonna.
Jamil knew just what to do. Taking to Twitter, the actress promptly announced that she&#8217;s &#8220;queer&#8221; — marking, after Kevin Spacey, the second time in recent history that an actor has come out of the closet as a defensive tactic. Smartly, especially because she has a boyfriend, Jamil did not claim any definitive sexual orientation or label. &#8220;Queer&#8221; can mean just about anything. All that matters is that it&#8217;s in the Sacred Acronym.
I don&#8217;t know if Jamil is really &#8220;queer,&#8221; or even what it would mean if she were, nor do I care in the slightest. The point is simply that her residence in the LGBTQ camp provides her cover from criticism and gives her access to just about any opportunity in Hollywood without fear of &#8220;appropriation&#8221; charges. On the Left, victimhood is currency. And LGBTQ victims are the wealthiest of all. They stand at the very top of the Victim Hierarchy, over and above mere women and racial minorities.
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Whenever there are competing victimhood claims — for example, when transgender males say they are &#8220;victimized&#8221; by a lack of access to female locker rooms while females say they would be victimized by the privacy infringement such access would entail — the victory will always go to the claimant with the larger victimhood cache. And when one claimant is LGBT and the other is not, the former will win every time. This is why leftists feel perfectly comfortable screaming at adolescent girls to shut up and know their place as boys come into their locker rooms and get naked beside them.
On the Left, all that matters is identity. Your identity will decide what you have the right to say, think, do, and feel. Your identity will decide the content of your character and your value as a person. Your identity will decide if you are persecutor or persecuted, oppressor or martyr, slobbering racist bigot or bold and beautiful hero above reproach. But there is a rather massive problem with this system. Well, there are many problems, starting with its fundamental incoherence, but let&#8217;s focus on just one.
The problem is that the Left hangs everything on the hook of identity, but that hook is not connected to anything itself. It&#8217;s hanging precariously in the ether, not nailed into any sort of sturdy surface. According to their doctrines, identity is a nebulous, fluid, largely arbitrary, and entirely subjective concept. All that matters is how you identify, but anyone can identify as anything, so the edifice collapses in on itself. It becomes like a monetary system where everyone has a money-printing machine at their house. Just look at how the great scourge of white men have been able to manipulate things to their benefit.
By all rights, white men should be at the very bottom of the Victim Hierarchy. They are the serfs, the scum, the class beneath the peasant class. They are inherently bigoted, inherently oppressive, and inherently possessing a mythical privilege that renders all of their achievements moot. All victimhood claims supersede the white man&#8217;s claim, because the white man can make no claim. He is always the scoundrel and bully in every situation. But all that a dastardly white man need do is announce that he is a woman. This will not just move him onto the same victim status as real women, but in fact will put him above women. Five seconds ago he was a patriarchal pseudo-rapist for spreading his legs too wide on the subway. Now he is an awe-inspiring hero for barging into the women&#8217;s bathroom. He has ascended the pyramid all the way to the top simply by speaking a word. And nobody may question it or demand that he prove it or explain himself.
This is the trouble with declaring that everyone in such-and-such category is a drooling bigot and everyone in this other category is a blameless champion of human rights, and then following that declaration with the further declaration that everyone has the absolute and unquestioned power to decide the category in which they belong. It&#8217;s not hard to see why there is now a rush to get to the top of the Victim Hierarchy, with more and more people discovering their inner LGBT identity just in time to get whatever they want.
Consider the timely self-realization of Jonathan Yaniv, who found out he was a woman and then immediately sued a bunch of female estheticians for <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/transgender-activist-jessica-yaniv-loses-wax-her-balls-complaint-against-salon-workers">refusing to wax his genitals</a>. Indeed, Yaniv seems very much to be a <a href="https://www.thepostmillennial.com/the-truth-about-jessica-yaniv-is-beginning-to-emerge/">degenerate and predator</a> who uses his &#8220;womanhood&#8221; to manipulate and prey upon girls. And yet even now, the media will report about him while reverently using his preferred pronouns, still feeling obliged to pretend that his &#8220;transgenderism&#8221; is anything but a perverse ploy by a deranged and despicable adult male. The only doctrine cherished more than the one that gives Yaniv ultimate victimhood privileges is the one that forbids us from questioning the self-identification that accorded those privileges in the first place.
The Left has a tangled mess on its hands. I don&#8217;t think there is any way out of it, aside from abandoning one or all of their key doctrines. But I don&#8217;t think they will ever do that. So all that the rest of us can do now is sit and watch, not without satisfaction, as the house of cards comes tumbling down.

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WALSH: The Left’s System Of Identity Politics Is Collapsing On Itself, And It’s A Fascinating Sight To Behold

Jameela Jamil

Sexuality

Last week, the Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/01/16/legos-toys-for-stressed-adults/">reported </a>that the iconic toy company, Lego, is now focusing on the new demographic of “stressed-out adults.” According to the report, the 87-year-old company “increasingly bills its brightly colored bricks as a way to drown out the noise of the day and perhaps achieve a measure of mindfulness.” Presumably zeroing in on childhood nostalgia, the product line <a href="https://www.lego.com/en-us/categories/exclusives?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI1Lj6sNy15wIVFmKGCh1uYAKLEAAYASAAEgL37PD_BwE&amp;ef_id=EAIaIQobChMI1Lj6sNy15wIVFmKGCh1uYAKLEAAYASAAEgL37PD_BwE:G:s&amp;s_kwcid=AL!790!3!339153893198!e!!g!!lego%20adult%20sets&amp;Buffer&amp;cmp=KAC-INI-GOOGUS-GO-US-EN-PS-BUY-SHOP-General-BC-EX-RN-Adult_Focused">includes</a> the Batman Batmobile, the Millennium Falcon of Star Wars fame, and a set from the 1990s’ sitcom “Friends.”
According to Lego audience marketing strategist Genevieve Capa Cruz:
<blockquote>“Adults with high-pressured jobs are telling us they’re using Lego to disconnect from the mania of the day. They’re looking for a relaxing, calming experience — and they like instructions because that’s what helps them be in the zone.”</blockquote>
While it seems like harmless fun, this effort by Lego is just the latest contributor to the trend of mass infantilization of American adults.
This drift toward mass infantilization is nothing new. We hear stories from college campuses so often that it barely registers in the minds of most people anymore, considering the ever-so-common safe spaces in reaction to certain speakers and protests in reaction to microagressions. Adults throughout the country, displaying an enormous sense of entitlement and narcissism usually found in children, desire the government to take from others and give to them through mass socialism. It’s the foundation for why many people walk around miserable, thinking they are being oppressed by imaginary racism, sexism, bigotry, and various other phobias and “isms.”
What is the reason this is happening? Why is society becoming increasingly immature?
The reason is that humans have a base desire to be taken care of, rather than having to work to reap the fruits of their labor, even if that means losing their liberty. Hence, humans, consciously or not, fight the obligation to grow.
And an immature person will generally believe that whatever they want is rightfully theirs, and will do anything to achieve what they believe they deserve.
Any parent will tell you that this is how their children behave, and through children’s maturation and parents’ proper discipline, kids learn that a knee-jerk sense of entitlement is not the way to live in a civil society.
Constant, default narcissism is the way of a child at birth. A newborn has no compunction about waking up his or her parents, no matter what time of night it is. As a child grows, he or she is taught how to interact with the world, and arguably most importantly, how to put their needs or desires aside if necessary. However, if children are not taught this, they remain children for life in every way other than chronological age.
This is how we end up with Leftists being perpetually miserable and triggered. It’s the foundation for why they believe that anyone who disagrees with them is “dumb” (just ask CNN’s Don Lemon) or a hateful racist. It’s why they never accept the results of elections they lose, most notably President Trump’s election in 2016, but other examples include President Bush’s 2000 election (“selected, not elected”) and the election of Georgia Governor Kemp in 2018 (ask Stacey Abrams if she’s the rightful governor).
And it’s how we reached the point where adults are playing with children’s toys. Because, in reality, they never really grew up at all.
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FRANKEL: Why Society Is Immature And Refuses To Grow Up

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A new documentary is currently making the rounds of limited release that explores the life of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. &#8216;Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in his Own Words&#8217; offers its viewers a unique perspective on one of America’s most contentious and quietly brilliant men.
Thomas has, of course, been a contentious figure in American politics ever since his confirmation hearing in 1991 — when President George H. W. Bush nominated him for the position of Supreme Court associate justice. Thomas was quickly accused of sexually harassing a female subordinate, Anita Hill, earlier in his career. While the FBI quickly ruled out the claim, her testimony was leaked to the public and devolved into a heated series of public sexual harassment hearings prior to his confirmation.
The movie doesn’t pretend that it isn’t taking a stance on Justice Thomas’s innocence. If anything, his accusation draws immediate comparisons in the movie to the conspicuously similar accusations made 27 years later against then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Alas, in the scheme of lionizing Supreme Court justices, a single documentary about Justice Thomas pales in comparison to the multitude of biopics and documentaries made about progressive darling Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
&#8216;Created Equal&#8217; is a documentary that merely puts his perspective in the spotlight. It’s primarily composed as a one-on-one sit-down interview with the now 71-year-old justice as he reflects on his life, politics, and his stances on constitutional law. Anyone who has read his memoir, &#8216;My Grandfather’s Son,&#8217; will likely be familiar with some of the highlights of his journey — but for first-time viewers, his life will likely be rather striking. Born in rural Georgia during segregation, Justice Thomas endured both poverty and unimaginable racial prejudice.  He was largely sheltered from the worst of it via his relationship with his grandfather, who put him to work as a part-time laborer and a farmer with strict standards and expectations. After a falling out with his grandfather, he underwent a period of radicalization amidst the turmoil of the Civil Rights Movement and moved politically to the far-left. After graduating from College of the Holy Cross and subsequently Yale Law School, he eventually received a job working with the attorney general of Missouri, and future Republican U.S. senator, John Danforth.
While most of the back half the documentary deals with the results of his Supreme Court nomination and subsequent confirmation, the first half ends up being the more revealing half. Seeing his path from the most oppressed rungs of American society to becoming an associate justice is nothing short of inspiring. He is, in every respect, the embodiment of the American dream. His position of power now is a reflection of a lifetime of struggle, hard work, and self-reflection as he grew into the man he is today.
Seeing him grow from a leftist into the most famously conservative man on the Supreme Court is equally fascinating. That journey, though less fraught than his upbringing, required years of intellectual wrestling with his leftist tendencies as he developed his originalist stance on constitutional interpretation. After years of attending political conventions and arguing with friends, he developed a strong sense of constitutional fidelity birthed from his love for the Founders and their vision for an American government.
That immense wellspring of knowledge about the nature of the American Founding subsequently gives Thomas&#8217;s perspective of his confirmation hearings a rather hilarious undercurrent. Watching him explain how then-Senator Joe Biden’s (D-DE) contortions of political theory amounted to little more than an attempt to make him reveal his positions on abortion is nothing short of hilarious. The Democrats&#8217; line of interrogation during the Senate confirmation hearings was clearly nothing but an attempt to make him stumble as part of the Left’s effort to destroy a black man holding, as Thomas puts it, the &#8220;wrong&#8221; opinions.
Being black and a conservative always put Justice Thomas at odds with the progressive Left. Given his Catholic faith, as well as his personal stances against forced busing and welfare, he drew immense amounts of acrimony from those who hated him well before Anita Hill made her accusations known. Thomas is, in every respect, the kind of public figure the Left should hold up as a success story for the black community. Yet the Left casually dismisses him as a race traitor. Thomas is clearly still bothered by some of the horrifically racist rhetoric that has been used against him throughout his career.
For bringing much of this history to the public’s attention, &#8216;Created Equal&#8217; is a vitally important piece of both journalism and history. Thomas’ stories feel all too familiar in an age of #MeToo accusations and racial identitarianism. Much of the vitriol he spent his career fighting sadly remains a stubborn fact today. The perspective he brings to life, law, and morality is immensely valuable and inspiring. To this day, his name is invoked on the Left as an example of a prominent man being let off the hook for sexual impropriety. The film makes clear Thomas’ name, reputation, and beliefs were dragged through the mud. Thankfully, such a horrific show didn’t destroy the man. He is today as humble, intelligent, proud, faithful, and patriotic as he’s ever been.

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HUMMEL: ‘Created Equal’: New Documentary Sheds Light On The Life Of Justice Clarence Thomas

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned Democrat voters on Saturday that if they support the far-left wing of the party in the primaries, they are setting themselves up to lose to President Donald Trump in the general election.
“I just say to all of our friends, you know, you want to go to the left? You want to win the election? Let’s make a decision to win the election. And when you make a decision to win the election, you have to make every decision in favor of winning,” Pelosi told the South Florida Sun Sentinel. “We all understand what is at stake.”
Pelosi called government-run health care &#8220;lovely in concept,&#8221; but &#8220;not a winning message,&#8221; and said &#8220;this is not going to happen.&#8221;
Pelosi has repeatedly tried to push back on the far-left candidates running in the Democrat primary, the two most notable of which are Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
“What works in San Francisco does not necessarily work in Michigan,” Pelosi told Bloomberg News in November. “As a left-wing San Francisco liberal I can say to these people: What are you thinking?”
The Daily Wire reported at the time:
<blockquote>Pelosi specifically raised the alarm over socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) proposed $93 trillion “Green New Deal,” which Ocasio-Cortez’s former Cheif-of-Staff Saikat Chakrabarti <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aocs-chief-staff-admits-green-new-deal-about-ryan-saavedra">admitted</a> was about <a href="https://www.uschamber.com/series/above-the-fold/the-green-new-deal-trojan-horse-socialism">implementing socialism</a>.</blockquote>
“There’s very strong opposition on the labor side to the Green New Deal because it’s like 10 years, no more fossil fuel,&#8221; Pelosi continued. &#8220;Really?”
Numerous critics have suggested that Pelosi withheld House Democrats&#8217; partisan articles of impeachment from the Senate in an effort to keep Sanders and Warren in Washington, D.C., which keeps them off the campaign trail in Iowa.
Political analyst Ari Fleicher was the first to state that was what Pelosi was doing, <a href="https://twitter.com/AriFleischer/status/1215623354738065413">writing</a> on Twitter, “Don’t rule out that the reason Pelosi hasn’t sent impeachment to the Senate is to hurt Warren and Sanders, and to help Biden. She knows she has no leverage over Sen. McConnell, but by timing the trial so it takes place during the Iowa lead-up, she has leverage over the liberals.”
President Trump also agreed, <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1218195021930926082">writing</a> on Twitter: “They are rigging the election again against Bernie Sanders, just like last time, only even more obviously. They are bringing him out of so important Iowa in order that, as a Senator, he sit through the Impeachment Hoax Trial. Crazy Nancy thereby gives the strong edge to Sleepy Joe Biden, and Bernie is shut out again. Very unfair, but that’s the way the Democrats play the game. Anyway, it’s a lot of fun to watch!”
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo: “This is the dirty little secret nobody is talking about: why the Speaker held these papers. This benefits Joe Biden. This harms Senator Sanders, who is in first place and could become their nominee.”
Donald Trump Jr. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/donald-trump-jr-pelosi-had-devious-plan-in-holding-articles-of-impeachment-had-nothing-to-do-with-trump">told</a> Fox News host Maria Bartiromo that he also believed that was what Pelosi doing, saying, “I love that they collude against themselves in this way, because the last time they colluded to rig the Democrat primary, it worked out perfectly for us because we got Hillary, and that was a godsend.”

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Pelosi Warns Democrats That If They Support Certain Candidates, They Will Lose

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