The same day at least 12 U.S. service members, including 10 U.S. Marines, were killed in a terror attack in Afghanistan, Vice media ran a story titled, &#8220;Why Are So Many Marines Neo-Nazis?&#8221;
Meghan McCain, daughter of the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), reacted to the story on Twitter, bluntly posting, &#8220;Go f*** yourselves.&#8221; The tweet from Vice, which hosted the article, has since been deleted.
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Go fuck yourselves. <a href="https://t.co/v1lb0Ch4DY">https://t.co/v1lb0Ch4DY</a>
&mdash; Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1431003553418686469?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 26, 2021</a></blockquote>
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The Vice article, published at 8:15 a.m., complained about U.S. Maries supposed ties to &#8220;far right&#8221; politics and &#8220;neo-Nazism.&#8221;
&#8220;While many vets are being outed as far-right extremists, one branch keeps popping up when it comes to neo-Nazis: the United States Marine Corps,&#8221; Vice claimed.
&#8220;The Corps reported to NPR in April that it had, in ​​the past three years alone, found 16 cases of extremism within its ranks,&#8221; Vice said. <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/04/07/984700148/the-military-confronts-extremism-one-conversation-at-a-time">According</a> to the NPR report, the 16 &#8220;ties&#8221; to &#8220;extremism&#8221; were linked &#8220;mostly&#8221; to &#8220;postings on social media.&#8221;
&#8220;Though these numbers account for only a tiny fraction of those Marines who enlist and serve,&#8221; Vice admitted, before adding, &#8220;the problem is worth noting, especially given the USMC’s past.&#8221;
The piece then said that &#8220;at least seven former Marines have openly avowed or been identified with neo-Nazism or the extreme right, with some allegedly involved in planned terrorist acts.&#8221; The &#8220;extreme right&#8221; is not defined.
McCain, who has openly criticized former President Donald Trump and has often said kind words about President Joe Biden, has not shied away from slamming Biden over the debacle in Afghanistan. As highlighted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mccain-turns-on-biden-he-is-unfit-to-lead-has-brought-shame-dishonor-and-embarrassment-to-u-s">The Daily Wire</a>, McCain posted the following message to Instagram last week concerning her views on the withdrawal and Biden:
<blockquote>“I have been physically ill, more depressed than I have been since the beginning stages of the pandemic and filled nothing short of pure rage and anger since the calamity of a ‘pull out’ which will be seen as one of the greatest foreign policy catastrophes of my lifetime,” McCain wrote on Instagram. “I am furious our President was so incompetent not to see what every expert on the planet could have seen coming. I am furious for my friends and family who have been fighting in these wars since I was 16 (many who have lost limbs, had their life terrorized by PTSD from their experiences in war and deployments, or worse).”
“I am furious seeing our allies and innocent Afghan citizens who trusted us are being left to be slaughtered or so desperate to escape the pure evil the Taliban will bring in that they are falling out of f***king planes,” she continued. “This is not who America is; this is not the values this country was founded in. Our veterans deserve better; the innocent Afghan people and our allies and translators who have stood by us for the past 20 years deserve better. The shame, dishonor and embarrassment the Biden administration has brought to our country will take generations to undo. Not to mention our standing in the world and the cruel reality that the likelihood of another significant domestic terror attack has now risen to the highest levels since 9/11 and will usher in ISIS 3.0. — I could say so much more (and have been raging on Twitter), but please reach out to your veteran friends and their families — everyone I know is struggling. May God have mercy for what we have done to these people abandoning them.”
“Biden is unfit to lead and I am nothing short of disgusted he and his staff can’t seem to be bothered to leave their vacation during an international crisis of our own creation,” she concluded. “There should be an emergency congressional hearing before more innocent lives are lost. My heart is broken, this tragedy will absolutely haunt our country. Also — every single Afghan refugee fleeing must be granted a safe haven in America!”</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mccain-turns-on-biden-he-is-unfit-to-lead-has-brought-shame-dishonor-and-embarrassment-to-u-s">McCain Turns On Biden: He ‘Is Unfit To Lead,’ Has Brought ‘Shame, Dishonor, And Embarrassment’ To U.S.</a>
This article has been updated to include additional information.

Meghan McCain Joins Host Julie Mason During A SiriusXM Event In New York

Vice Media Says ‘So Many’ Marines Are ‘Neo-Nazis’ On Day 10 Killed. Meghan McCain: ‘Go F*** Yourselves’

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Some Capitol Hill reporters recently recounted what they described as their lingering trauma from the Capitol riot six months ago, prompting ridicule from those who claimed they blew their own suffering out of proportion.
The reporters said they have had to see therapists or retire early; some are losing sleep, and are afraid to be in the Capitol or even their own homes, according to <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/4avqqn/reporters-survived-capitol-riot-struggling?utm_source=vicenewstwitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Vice News</a> in a piece titled &#8220;&#8216;So, So Angry&#8217;: Reporters Who Survived the Capitol Riot Are Still Struggling.&#8221;
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NEW: Reporters who survived the deadly Capitol riot are still struggling. Some won’t go back into the building. Several have sought therapy to deal with trauma. Many still aren’t sleeping well. <a href="https://t.co/UzRIZg3GiQ">https://t.co/UzRIZg3GiQ</a>
&mdash; VICE News (@VICENews) <a href="https://twitter.com/VICENews/status/1412435959694741508?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2021</a></blockquote>
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As Vice News reported in part:
<blockquote>Reporters have discussed their personal experiences in the days immediately following the Capitol insurrection. But few have publicly talked about the lasting effects in the months since—the toll that day took on them, the difficulty some have faced in returning to a site where they experienced trauma, and what it’s been like covering a Congress still deeply divided on the events of that day.
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And the emotional scars are still there. Six months after their office was attacked, the Capitol Hill press corps is grappling with how to cover the insurrection’s fallout, as well as its impact on them personally and professionally. </blockquote>
Of the five people who died during the Capitol riot, the District of Columbia&#8217;s chief medical examiner Dr. Francisco Diaz <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/04/07/capitol-riot-deaths-cause-death-released-4-5-not-sicknick/7128040002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ruled</a> that two died of natural causes from cardiovascular disease, one died by accident from acute amphetamine intoxication, and Ashli Babbitt died by homicide from a gunshot to the left shoulder. The identity of the Capitol Police officer who shot her remains unknown.
Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/officer-brian-sicknick-what-we-know-about-his-death-11619010119" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">died</a> a natural death the day after the riot on January 7, according to Diaz.
Not everyone on social media was willing to extend their sympathy to the reporters.
&#8220;This is ridiculous,&#8221; tweeted congressional candidate Robby Starbuck. &#8220;Grow up you weirdos. How can one group of people be so addicted to pretending they’re victims?&#8221;
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This is ridiculous. Grow up you weirdos. How can one group of people be so addicted to pretending they’re victims? <a href="https://t.co/9hJlhwpM3n">https://t.co/9hJlhwpM3n</a>
&mdash; Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) <a href="https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1412544346646274051?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2021</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Confronting trauma is one of the most valuable human endeavors,&#8221; wrote journalist and podcast host Aaron Maté. &#8220;Reducing it to a solipsistic exercise for self-important Beltway media personalties is a perversion of that experience. The real Capitol trauma is that which its occupants inflict on their own country and the world.&#8221;
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Confronting trauma is one of the most valuable human endeavors. Reducing it to a solipsistic exercise for self-important Beltway media personalties is a perversion of that experience. The real Capitol trauma is that which its occupants inflict on their own country and the world. <a href="https://t.co/WnjHnSrv8S">https://t.co/WnjHnSrv8S</a>
&mdash; Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) <a href="https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1412536489154600963?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2021</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Now do Kenosha,&#8221; tweeted Daily Caller reporter and chief video director Richie McGinniss, who covered both the violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last summer as well as the Capitol riot, where he was repeatedly tear gassed. &#8220;Oh wait, there were no all-important legacy reporters there, NYT reporter went home because she was scared.&#8221;
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Oh wait, there were no all-important legacy reporters there, NYT reporter went home because she was scared
&mdash; Richie🎥McG🍿 (@RichieMcGinniss) <a href="https://twitter.com/RichieMcGinniss/status/1412499649630441480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2021</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Never forget the trillions of journalists who perished in the deadly Capitol riot,&#8221; snarked Washington Examiner contributor Harry Khacatrian.
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Never forget the trillions of journalists who perished in the deadly Capitol riot <a href="https://t.co/vX1p63oEN3">https://t.co/vX1p63oEN3</a>
&mdash; Harry Khachatrian (@Harry1T6) <a href="https://twitter.com/Harry1T6/status/1412519239274143744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2021</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Dear Vice News: I was at the Capitol that day in the Cannon building. It was no big deal. Put your big boy pants on,&#8221; tweeted Newsmax White House correspondent Emerald Robinson.
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/VICENews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VICENews</a>: I was at the Capitol that day in the Cannon building. It was no big deal. Put your big boy pants on. <a href="https://t.co/FYDBVkuNtO">https://t.co/FYDBVkuNtO</a>
&mdash; Emerald Robinson ✝️ (@EmeraldRobinson) <a href="https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1412517779333320705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2021</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Remember when the left mocked Andy Ngo when he was surrounded by ANTIFA thugs and assaulted on camera?&#8221; tweeted author Chad Felix Greene. He also noted how &#8220;the left mocked and demonized&#8221; Mark and Patricia McCloskey last summer for standing with guns outside their home while a mob walked by.
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Remember when the left mocked Andy Ngo when he was surrounded by ANTIFA thugs and assaulted on camera? <a href="https://t.co/NjoN2uriTj">https://t.co/NjoN2uriTj</a>
&mdash; Chad Felix Greene 🇮🇱 (@chadfelixg) <a href="https://twitter.com/chadfelixg/status/1412516013179015173?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Remember when the left mocked and demonized that couple defending their house from a mob of rioters? <a href="https://t.co/NjoN2uriTj">https://t.co/NjoN2uriTj</a>
&mdash; Chad Felix Greene 🇮🇱 (@chadfelixg) <a href="https://twitter.com/chadfelixg/status/1412516563203334145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2021</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Get a freaking grip, you bunch of whiny babies,&#8221; wrote Federalist co-founder Sean Davis.
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Get a freaking grip, you bunch of whiny babies. <a href="https://t.co/oQOEBkT9wm">https://t.co/oQOEBkT9wm</a>
&mdash; Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href="https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1412503378136031246?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Daily Caller reporter Greg Price mocked the journalists for making the Capitol riot about themselves.
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Nobody:
Journalists: &quot;How can I make this about me?&quot; <a href="https://t.co/6HwKml2b77">https://t.co/6HwKml2b77</a>
&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1412508661767884802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Blaze TV host Sara Gonzales noted that every reporter involved in the Capitol riot survived.
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“Reporters who still survived…” 
You mean…all of them? <a href="https://t.co/l3z7NIDzBt">https://t.co/l3z7NIDzBt</a>
&mdash; Sara Gonzales (@SaraGonzalesTX) <a href="https://twitter.com/SaraGonzalesTX/status/1412563621280980992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 7, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-still-hunting-for-hundreds-six-months-after-capitol-riot" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">FBI Still Hunting For Hundreds Six Months After Capitol Riot</a>

Congress Holds Joint Session To Ratify 2020 Presidential Election

‘Whiny Babies’: Hill Reporters Mocked For Lamenting Lingering Trauma From Capitol Riot

Capitol Riot

Journalism

On Thanksgiving, <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vb3w7a/the-pilgrims-were-queer?utm_source=vicetwitterus%E2%80%99">Vice</a> published a piece called, &#8220;The Pilgrims Were Queer,&#8221; a title which was highly inaccurate in its implication that homosexuality was widespread in Puritan society , but apparently necessary in order to permit social justice warriors to feel better about celebrating the holiday.
The author writes of a 1625 colony called Merrymount (originally called Passonagessit) surmising it was a gay enclave, writing, &#8220;In fact, <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ozXI_IFIErgC&amp;pg=PA134&amp;vq=Chapter+XIV&amp;source=gbs_search_s&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q=Chapter%20XIV&amp;f=false">as historians note</a>, the name &#8220;Merrymount&#8221; can also refer to a Latin phrase meaning &#8220;erect phallus&#8221;&#8212;quite a coincidence, given the men erected an 80-foot pole in the center of town.&#8221; Except Morton <a href="http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/maypole-infuriated-puritans/">said</a> of the pole that it stood as a &#8220;fair sea mark for directions,&#8221; describing it as &#8220;a goodly pine tree of 80 foot long, was reared up, with a pair of buckshorns nailed on, somewhat near unto the top of it; where it stood as a fair sea mark for directions, how to find out the way to mine Host of Ma-re Mount.&#8221;
Other, more credible evidence the author cites of tolerance for same-sex practices in that particular colony: that &#8220;Morton declared himself &#8216;&#8216;Lord of Misrule&#8221; and his people were described by Nathaniel Hawthorne as a &#8220;<a href="http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/mmm.html">crew of Comus</a>,&#8221; a reference to a mythological figure during whose ceremonies <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=cxPPAAAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PA72&amp;lpg=PA72&amp;dq=comus+festivals+greece&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=LIATBMowaG&amp;sig=XV4y3Ext6pYfqnqNGh-SPS1UBV0&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjDsovFj8TXAhUV_mMKHSPbCyoQ6AEIOzAE#v=onepage&amp;q=comus%20festivals%20greece&amp;f=false">men and women exchanged clothing</a>.&#8221;
More evidence: &#8220;On one particularly exciting occasion, the residents of Merrymount erected a maypole and danced in a manner described as <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=5YUDAQAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PT30&amp;lpg=PT30&amp;dq=merrymount+ganymede&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=_jXCcZzds8&amp;sig=tI022-XhdlAOBzVz4AN8oFjZtmg&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjq1beYlcTXAhWmgVQKHR6qBSEQ6AEINDAD#v=onepage&amp;q=merrymount%20ganymede&amp;f=false">evoking Ganymede and Zeus</a>&#8212;figures that <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/20/style/myth-of-ganymede-exhibit-explores-subtexts-of-sexuality-aspects-of.html">often symbolized</a> same-sex couplings. This proto-Pride proved a bit too much for the neighbors, who arrested Morton, chopped down the pole, and scattered the residents.&#8221;
The author quotes Michael Bronski, a Professor of Practice in Media and Activism in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard, who states, &#8220;[Indigenous] gender roles&#8212;not all the time, but a considerable amount&#8212;were completely foreign to the Europeans. Every tribe had their own word for it, but there was a considerable amount of gender fluidity.&#8221;
The author describes people whose apparent homosexual behavior was punished: five men sent back to England after their behavior was discovered, two men in 1637 accused of lewd behavior, one who beaten, branded, and exiled, the other whipped and returned to indentured servitude, and two women accused of lewd behavior in 1649, one of whom was sentenced to acknowledge her behavior.
Bronski stated, &#8220;The earliest sodomy laws are not prohibiting homosexual sex per se. They&#8217;re prohibiting non-reproductive sex. So if you had anal sex with your wife, that would be a crime. The most important thing was to reproduce, because half the children died when they were infants. &#8230; My reading of this is that the Puritans were like, &#8216;people do this stuff, but it really shouldn&#8217;t be public. We don&#8217;t want to go too far punishing them, because that would hurt the community.&#8217; The most important thing is to keep the community stable.&#8221;
He concluded, &#8220;I think Thomas Morton would have loved it. I&#8217;m rather fond of the Puritans. I wouldn&#8217;t want to live with them, but they totally understand that human beings are fallible. And what really matters is keeping the community together &#8212; which I can relate to as part of a gay community.&#8221;

Vice: ‘The Pilgrims Were Queer’

It&#8217;s election time, which means the Left is out in full force trying to tell us people are too stupid or lazy to figure out how to vote.
Some people may be too lazy, but Americans are not stupid, and can figure out how to follow the law in order to vote. But here comes Vice attempting to prove Voter ID laws disenfranchise voters, but the report&#8217;s author makes it clear he wanted to vote without following simple state laws.
Tennessee law requires someone wanting to vote to provide either state or federally issued photo identification. And by state, I mean &#8220;state of Tennessee,&#8221; in case that wasn&#8217;t clear, because it apparently wasn&#8217;t clear to Davis Winkie, who claimed recently in Vice that despite having a &#8220;valid driver&#8217;s license&#8221; a student ID card, a voter registration card, his birth certificate, utility bills, and a copy of his lease, <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xjwmp/what-it-feels-like-to-be-disenfranchised-by-a-voter-id-law?utm_source=vicetwitterus">he wasn&#8217;t allowed to vote</a>.
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I had my: 
&#8226; valid driver&#8217;s license 
&#8226; student ID 
&#8226; voter registration card 
&#8226; a copy of my birth certificate 
&#8226; my lease
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Again, Tennessee requires a state or federally issued photo ID to vote. None of that other stuff matters, and these laws were passed in 2013 (a year before Winkie and his wife moved to the state) and are advertised heavily.
The state also lists what counts as valid ID: an up-to-date or even expired state driver&#8217;s license, a U.S. passport, or a military ID. Tennessee also provides a free Department of Safety and Homeland Security-issued photo ID at state DMVs.
Winkie had none of those things. He had a Georgia driver&#8217;s license and refused to change that or his residency to Tennessee until a month before the 2016 election. He <a href="https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/contributors/2016/11/04/how-tennessees-voter-id-law-silenced-me/93283838/">wrote about his problem with voting back in 2016 as well</a>, and at the time said he and his wife &#8220;planned to maintain our voter registration and residency at my parents&#8217; home, our permanent address in Georgia, so I kept my Georgia driver&#8217;s license when moving to Tennessee. &#8230; we also continued to pay Georgia state income tax.&#8221;
So, he didn&#8217;t want to vote in Tennessee or even be a real resident until a month before the election. He and his wife only decided to &#8220;become residents of Tennessee&#8221; because his parents moved.
He claimed they registered to vote in Davidson County and received voter registration cards, but this was impossible, as my former Washington Examiner colleague Beckett Adams <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/vice-shocked-to-discover-student-id-and-a-copy-of-a-lease-dont-work-as-valid-voter-id-in-tennessee">wrote</a>. Tennessee didn&#8217;t implement an online voter registration system until 2017 &#8212; the year after the election Winkie wrote about.
Oh, and in an update to the original Vice article, Winkie &#8220;realized&#8221; that he registered to vote during a campus drive (he was attending Vanderbilt University at the time).
But Winkie wrote that he &#8220;felt&#8221; he had what was needed to prove he lived in Tennessee. &#8220;I had my valid Georgia driver&#8217;s license. I had my Vanderbilt University student ID. I even had my voter registration card, a couple of utility bills, my lease, and a copy of my birth certificate,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;I have doubts about the prevalence of in-person voting fraud and therefore the necessity of voter ID laws &#8212; but there are three reasonable components to test for: identity, citizenship, and residency, which I felt I was able to supply with everything I had with me.&#8221;
Yeah, that&#8217;s not how laws work.
As Adams pointed out, Winkie simply decided to become a resident of Tennessee without actually doing anything to become a resident.
&#8220;He didn&#8217;t register his vehicles in Tennessee and he didn&#8217;t apply for a driver&#8217;s license. He didn&#8217;t even apply for a free State-sponsored photo ID from one of Tennessee&#8217;s driver centers. The only effort he put into becoming a Tennesseean was when he supposedly registered online at the last possible moment to vote in the 2016 election. But even that is doubtful given it&#8217;d be another year before this was even an option for state residents,&#8221; Adams wrote. &#8220;Basically, he was a Georgian who decided suddenly he wanted to be a Tennessean and did nothing to make it happen. The Volunteer State didn&#8217;t accommodate his whims and he has been crying foul ever since.&#8221;
But yeah, voting is really hard.

Vice Writer Upset He Can’t Vote Without Following State Laws

Tennessee

Voting Rights

In the last couple of days, a troubling trend on Google has come to light: For some reason, anti-Republican sentiment keeps finding its way into the search engine&#8217;s supposedly unbiased &#8220;knowledge panel.&#8221; For several days, Google told users that among the ideologies connected to California&#8217;s Republican Party is &#8220;Nazism.&#8221; Now, the world&#8217;s dominant search engine has been forced to apologize for labeling a Republican state senator a &#8220;BIGOT.&#8221;
On Thursday, reporter Colin Campbell pointed out a disturbing image posted by Google in its &#8220;knowledge panel&#8221; mini-bio on Republican North Carolina Sen. Trudy Wade:
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Looks like Google is not a fan of N.C. Sen. Trudy Wade&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/qEcJuPZjjw">pic.twitter.com/qEcJuPZjjw</a>
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Here&#8217;s a screenshot of Google&#8217;s bio sketch for &#8220;bigot&#8221; Wade:
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Vice News, which had just called out Google a day before for linking California Republicans to Nazism, <a href="http://news.vice.com/en_us/article/4354nb/google-is-labeling-trump-supporting-republican-state-senator-a-bigot">highlighted</a> the &#8220;bigot&#8221; image on Friday. Here&#8217;s how Vice begins its piece:
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Trudy Wade is a Republican state senator from North Carolina and an enthusiastic supporter of President Trump.
But if you search &#8220;Trudy Wade&#8221; on Google, the search giant displays an old photo in the &#8220;knowledge panel&#8221; of its search results with &#8220;BIGOT&#8221; superimposed in big red letters.
It&#8217;s just the latest example of Google not vetting the information that gets pulled into its &#8220;knowledge panels,&#8221; which are meant to give users quick information without them having to click through search results (often on other, non-Google websites).
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In response, Google issued an apology to the senator and explained what went wrong: It had relied on a &#8220;student news blog&#8221; for its supposedly unbiased information.
&#8220;We apologize to Senator Wade that this image appeared in the Knowledge Panel in Search,&#8221; Google <a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article212403734.html">said</a> in a series of tweets Friday. &#8220;Images that appear in the Knowledge Panel are either selected by verified users or are automatically sourced from sites across the web.&#8221;
&#8220;In this instance, the image was hosted on a student news blog. Upon being alerted to this issue, we immediately removed it from the Knowledge Panel,&#8221; Google explained. 
&#8220;We encourage individuals with a Knowledge Panel to get verified to select their own image, which can help prevent this in the future. To get verified, click the link below your Knowledge Panel,&#8221; Google concluded.
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We apologize to Senator Wade that this image appeared in the Knowledge Panel in Search. Images that appear in the Knowledge Panel are either selected by verified users or are automatically sourced from sites across the web.
&#8212; Google Communications (@Google_Comms) <a href="https://twitter.com/Google_Comms/status/1002722268441600000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2018</a></blockquote>
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In this instance, the image was hosted on a student news blog. Upon being alerted to this issue, we immediately removed it from the Knowledge Panel.
&#8212; Google Communications (@Google_Comms) <a href="https://twitter.com/Google_Comms/status/1002722341078511616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2018</a></blockquote>
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We encourage individuals with a Knowledge Panel to get verified to select their own image, which can help prevent this in the future. To get verified, click the link below your Knowledge Panel.
&#8212; Google Communications (@Google_Comms) <a href="https://twitter.com/Google_Comms/status/1002722417460965377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Vice&#8217;s article on Wade came just one day after the outlet <a href="https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/vbq38d/google-is-listing-nazism-as-the-first-ideology-of-the-california-republican-party">reported</a> on Google&#8217;s similar smear of California Republicans:
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Less than a week before the California primary, Google listed &#8220;Nazism&#8221; as the ideology of the California Republican Party.
In the &#8220;knowledge panel&#8221; that provides easy access to information next to search results, Google was showing &#8220;Nazism&#8221; as an &#8220;ideology&#8221; of the party as of Thursday morning. The word &#8220;Nazism&#8221; was hyperlinked to a secondary page that shows &#8220;Nazism&#8221; alongside other &#8220;ideologies&#8221; of California Republicans like &#8220;Conservatism,&#8221; &#8220;Market liberalism,&#8221; &#8220;Fiscal conservatism,&#8221; and &#8220;Green conservatism.&#8221;
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Pressed for an explanation by Vice, a spokesperson for Google insisted that no one in the company manually added &#8220;Nazism&#8221; to the &#8220;knowledge panel&#8221; entry and stressed that the company does not manipulate that information for political reasons.
&#8220;Sometimes people vandalize public information sources, like Wikipedia, which can impact the information that appears in search,&#8221; the spokesperson told Vice in a statement. &#8220;We have systems in place that catch vandalism before it impacts search results, but occasionally errors get through, and that&#8217;s what happened here.&#8221;
Screenshot of Google&#8217;s Republican &#8220;Nazism&#8221; entry below:
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Google: Sorry About Labeling That Republican State Senator A ‘Bigot.’ Here’s Why It Happened.

Google

Nazis

Republican Party

Vice News is losing their s*** over defenders of free speech.
In a bizarre piece lamenting a new coalition of &#8220;far-right&#8221; figures rallying around the right to freedom of expression, journalist James Poulter pouts: The &#8220;far-right&#8221; is &#8220;uniting to defend their right to spout bulls*** to whoever will listen.&#8221;
Here&#8217;s the heading and sub-heading of the insane piece (notice free speech is in scare quotes):
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The Far Right Are Uniting Around Their Right to &#8216;Free Speech&#8217;
AKA spreading a load of racist bullshit.
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Of course, even if these &#8220;far-right&#8221; figures, or anyone else for that matter, wanted to spread subjectively-deemed &#8220;racist garbage,&#8221; that, too, should be protected from government censorship and punishment if you actually believe in freedom of expression. A wild concept, I know.
Poulter goes on to identify Tommy Robinson, Martin Sellner, Brittany Pettibone, and Lauren Southern as the &#8220;far-right&#8221; subjects of his scorn. For their controversial speech, Sellner and Pettibone were deported from the U.K. and Southern was stopped from entering the country under the Terrorism Act. Robinson subsequently held a rally in celebration of free speech at Speakers&#8217; Corner in Hyde Park.
After acknowledging these instances and the stream of censorship occurring on college campuses, Poulter mocks the notion that freedom of speech is under attack at all.
&#8220;All of these incidents, combined with the disruption of some talks at universities, have convinced the far-right that their right to free speech is under attack. Robinson even released a video claiming, in characteristically understated manner, that he &#8216;won&#8217;t be around for much longer,'&#8221; he writes.
&#8220;The far-right have nothing if not a persecution complex, so all of this is giving them something to unite around,&#8221; the journalist complained.
This view and mocking attitude is seriously dangerous. The U.K. is clamping down on the freedom of expression in Orwellian fashion. On Tuesday, a British court found a YouTube personality dubbed Count Dankula <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/28497/man-faces-prison-posting-something-online-deemed-joseph-curl">guilty</a> of being &#8220;grossly offensive&#8221; over a joke. He&#8217;s now facing jail time.
Just because Poulter happens to disagree with the speech being punished at the moment, what will happen if the tide turns and language he agrees with becomes the target of attack? This is the whole problem with censorship in the first place. Such shallow thinking from leftists is tragically ubiquitous.
Alas, Poulter does get one thing right: the move to censor speech is only helping the speakers&#8217; cause:
<blockquote>
The British state may have banned Sellner, Pettibone and Southern from the UK, thinking it would decrease inter-communal tensions. But the move may have backfired: thanks to the internet, none of the trio need to physically be in the country for their words and actions to have an impact on our society. The Robinson-UKIP-FLA-GI coalition may have been forming anyway, but the government&#8217;s ban looks like it&#8217;s accelerated the process. 
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‘Vice’ Runs INSANE Piece Bashing Defenders Of Free Speech

Free Speech

Race

Left-wing outlet Vice is apparently disturbed that conservatives believe the Second Amendment applies to black people and women, too.
Vice created a bizarre list of people &#8220;gun rights advocates&#8221; have argued should be, or should have the right to be armed. &#8220;<a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gqkxkq/an-incomplete-list-of-people-gun-rights-activists-think-should-be-armed?utm_source=vicetwitterus">A Very Incomplete List of People Gun Rights Activists Think Should Be Armed</a>&#8221; was the mocking headline of the article, originally published in 2014 and reposted on social media on Friday.
&#8220;America won&#8217;t be safe until every judge, preacher, pilot, bar patron, and doctor is armed to the teeth,&#8221; reads the sub-headline.
Some of the groups of people included on the list were preachers, women, black people, people in movie theaters, paramedics, Jews, Holocaust victims, trans people, and gay people.
In the Twitter re-posting of the piece, Vice complained that the NRA &#8220;wants to put guns in the hands of&#8221; women, schoolteachers, preachers, and nightclub goers:
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The NRA wants to put guns in the hands of: 
&#8226; Schoolteachers 
&#8226; Preachers 
&#8226; Anyone who goes into a nightclub 
&#8226; Women
&#8230;just to name a few. <a href="https://t.co/Zk0KzPRKtj">https://t.co/Zk0KzPRKtj</a>
&#8212; VICE (@VICE) <a href="https://twitter.com/VICE/status/967135983039844353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Of course, the NRA, or gun rights advocates, or conservatives, are arguing that these people should and do have the right to be armed, granted to us by the Second Amendment, and that it would be a good idea for them to be armed in order to protect themselves and others around them.
Vice&#8217;s post was seemingly arguing that these people should not be allowed to be armed, and denied their constitutional rights.
The internet perfectly dragged the outlet for their not-so-progressive &#8220;progressive&#8221; viewpoint:
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First you give &#8217;em the right to vote. Then you let &#8217;em drive. Next thing you know, they start wantin&#8217; guns.
&#8212; Jim Treacher is a dumb pseudonym (@jtLOL) <a href="https://twitter.com/jtLOL/status/967154004332564480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2018</a></blockquote>
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You let women carry guns, next thing you know they&#8217;re gonna want to vote. And then they&#8217;ll demand we teach them how to read. <a href="https://t.co/u6Y8lEGLZP">https://t.co/u6Y8lEGLZP</a>
&#8212; Allahpundit (@allahpundit) <a href="https://twitter.com/allahpundit/status/967155958983135233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2018</a></blockquote>
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I thought women was bad until I read the article to find that they also want Jews, Blacks, Gays, and Trans people to own guns! This equality for all needs to STOP, <a href="https://twitter.com/NRA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NRA</a>, how dare you!
&#8212; Mandie (@mandiefressh) <a href="https://twitter.com/mandiefressh/status/967164139750744064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2018</a></blockquote>
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So, women aren&#8217;t entitled to the protection of the 2nd amendment? You guys on crack, or what?
&#8212; Tony Bruno (@TonyBrunoShow) <a href="https://twitter.com/TonyBrunoShow/status/967155334933557249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Oh no, not armed ladies! <a href="https://t.co/wvpLx7KS8M">https://t.co/wvpLx7KS8M</a>
&#8212; Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) <a href="https://twitter.com/bdomenech/status/967153851294994433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2018</a></blockquote>
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2nd Amendment applies to WOMEN??? Big, if true&#8230;
&#8212; Chet Cannon (@Chet_Cannon) <a href="https://twitter.com/Chet_Cannon/status/967152803813605376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2018</a></blockquote>
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So Vice is against allowing women to own guns? Thought you were &#8216;progressive&#8217;
&#8212; Mark Dice (@MarkDice) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/967156237417693184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2018</a></blockquote>
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NEWSFLASH: The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/2A?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#2A</a> applies to ALL American citizens. And, <a href="https://twitter.com/NRA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NRA</a> has numerous programs to help anyone learn how to be a responsible gun owner.
&#8212; Stephen Clayton Jr (@sclaytonjr) <a href="https://twitter.com/sclaytonjr/status/967262887336120326?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2018</a></blockquote>
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The Internet Drags ‘Vice’ After Complaining NRA Wants Women, Black People Armed

Guns

Second Amendment

As 2017 came to a close, Vice News profiled a woman named Barbara Harris, whose organization pays drug addicts to get themselves sterilized or have an IUD implanted.
Traveling the country in her branded RV, Harris thinks of herself as a crusader for the many unfortunate children born into a miserable life with drug addicted parents. Indeed, many of the women whom Harris works with have as many as seven children, despite being addicted to heroine, meth, cocaine or crack.
&#8220;Nothing positive comes to a drug addict who gives birth to eight children that are taken away from her. This is a win-win for everybody,&#8221; Harris says of her operation.
Having operated for over 20 years and receiving millions in donations, Harris has now paid for the sterilization and long-term birth control of roughly 7,000 people, a majority of whom are black women. She began her operation after adopting four children who were all born from the same drug-addicted mother.
Harris&#8217; moral reasoning is purely Machiavellian. In her mind, the ends justify the means because sterilization means fewer babies will be born into an unfortunate situation, some of whom suffer severe birth defects. &#8220;I think if there&#8217;s anything that everyone can agree on &#8230; It&#8217;s that it&#8217;s not okay to abuse children,&#8221; Harris says in justifying her practice.
One prevention that Harris (as well as many misguided Libertarians) disagrees with is sending hard drug users to jail, as in the case of one woman who was prosecuted for taking drugs while pregnant.
When asked if the addicts have informed consent in their taking money to sterilize themselves, Harris hands the responsibility off to doctors.
On the flipside, Vice News also profiled the National Advocates for Pregnant Women, which has sharply disagreed with the tactics used by Harris for the past 20 years. Lynn Paltrow, the organization&#8217;s executive director, says that Harris &#8220;perpetuates really destructive and cruel myths about pregnant women and their children.&#8221; In sum, Harris operates under false assumptions, which are: that children of drug addicts have no hope, that drug addicts cannot improve, and that children of drug addicts are destined for medical disabilities.
Paltrow notes that only 3% of women on the hardest drugs give birth to children with serious birth defects, and of those drug-addicted women, some do recover to become productive members of society.

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This Woman Pays Drug Addicts To Get Sterilized

Birth Control

Drugs

VICE Media announced Thursday that it has fired three employees amid independent investigations into claims of sexual harassment and improper workplace conduct.
In a <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/page/statement113017">memo</a> published on the VICE website Thursday, Global Chief Human Resources Officer Susan Tohyama provides an update on the results of her probe into a &#8220;handful of workplace complaints,&#8221; including the firing of three employees. The memo also lays out some of the changes taking place in the company, including the formation of the new Diversity &amp; Inclusion Advisory Board, &#8220;achieving pay parity by 2018,&#8221; and &#8220;implementing sensitivity training.&#8221;
The memo opens by acknowledging that &#8220;as our company has evolved&#8221; since it was founded 23 years ago, &#8220;our workplace culture has fallen short. We acknowledge this, which is why we have committed ourselves to making the changes necessary to create an inclusive workplace where all our employees can flourish, while being safe and respected.&#8221;
Among those changes are &#8220;achieving pay parity by 2018, hiring a new global Head of HR (Susan Tohyama), tightening standards and practices, updating reporting processes for any inappropriate behavior, restructuring and diversifying the company&#8217;s board of directors, implementing sensitivity training in the workplace, and forming an advisory board to work with management and employees to evaluate company culture and make any necessary changes.&#8221;
Toyhama, who was brought in four weeks ago apparently to clean house, then provides some updates on her team&#8217;s &#8220;thorough investigations&#8221; into the &#8220;handful of workplace complaints&#8221; that resulted in the firing of three employees.
&#8220;Today we took disciplinary action, including terminating three employees,&#8221; writes Toyhama. &#8220;The conduct of these employees ranged from verbal and sexual harassment to other behavior that is inconsistent with our policies, our values, and the way in which we believe colleagues should work together.&#8221;
Citing the need to protect the &#8220;confidentiality of the process&#8221; and &#8220;those who wish to bring allegations to me and to create a fair, safe and inclusive environment for all employees,&#8221; Toyhama says she will not offer more details about the complaints, but does offer some explanation of how she will handle investigations and the company&#8217;s &#8220;zero tolerance&#8221; policy going forward.
She closes by urging those who have experienced any &#8220;inappropriate conduct&#8221; to come forward to help ensure that the company is &#8220;an inclusive, fair, safe, creative and fun place to be.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/page/statement113017">​Read the full memo here</a>.

VICE Media Fires Three Employees For Sexual Misconduct, Rolls Out ‘Sensitivity Training’

Sexual Misconduct

Several female reporters and editors told The Daily Beast, <a href="https://amp.thedailybeast.com/unsafe-and-just-plain-dirty-women-accuse-vice-of-toxic-sexual-harassment-culture">in an exclusive published on Wednesday</a>, that Vice, the internet-based multi-media, non-traditional news company, is a &#8220;toxic&#8221; and &#8220;unsafe&#8221; place to work.
According to The Beast, the women — only a few of whom agreed to be named, because of outstanding non-disclosure agreements — accused the media company&#8217;s Los Angeles and New York bureaus of being &#8220;breeding grounds&#8221; for sexual harassment. Higher-ups at Vice, the women say, use the magazine&#8217;s offbeat brand to encourage bad behavior among its high-profile hosts and talent.
Former Vice associate producer Phoebe Barghouty gave The Daily Beast their most detailed narrative, explaining how bureau chief Kaj Larsen allegedly acted inappropriately, touching her on her back and thighs, and inviting her out to private parties where Barghouty claims he showed her off as &#8220;arm candy.&#8221;
Eventually Barghouty and one other women complained to human resources, but little was done except move Larsen and Vice Editor-in-Chief Jason Mojica, also accused of inappropriate behavior, around within the company. Barghouty says the magazine tried to hide behind its branding — that of an edgy, politically incorrect publication — to explain the alleged locker room atmosphere that pervaded Vice&#8217;s news bureaus.
The company even required new hires to sign a sort of blanket waiver agreement, acknowledging that they understood Vice could be a raucous place, and promising not to be offended.
Vice News issued a statement to The Beast, echoing the idea that Vice has a reputation for edginess that extends to their reporting and editorial staff, though the publication also says they do not tolerate sexual harassment, assault, and misuse of the &#8220;non-traditional workplace agreement.&#8221;
<blockquote>The nature of Vice’s content runs the gamut, from travelogues and news series to more provocative programming like our shows exploring drug culture, Weediquette and Bong Appétit. A non-traditional workplace agreement is often used by companies to certify employees’ comfort with content that could be considered edgy. However, it does not in any way sanction conduct that is disrespectful or biased, and we will investigate all allegations of such behavior, including any incidents where employees purportedly attempted to justify their conduct through the agreement. We have immediately begun reviewing this matter.</blockquote>
But Barghouty and others tell The Daily Beast that the behavior within the news bureaus went above and beyond mere political incorrectness, or &#8220;locker room talk.&#8221; They claim women who slept with their bosses and producers were promoted faster.
Other former Vice employees suggested on social media that the only reason the &#8220;toxic&#8221; and &#8220;unsafe&#8221; work environment wasn&#8217;t more well known was because employees who&#8217;d suffered were required to sign non-disclosure agreements and refrain from disparaging the network.
These allegations remain just that — allegations — but it&#8217;s become increasingly clear, over the past several weeks, that cultures of abuse are pervasive across media. Since the first accusations emerged against Harvey Weinstein, dozens of entertainment industry bigwigs have been targeted with sexual harassment claims, including higher-ups at places like NPR and Mother Jones.

Female Reporters Accuse Vice News Of ‘Toxic,’ ‘Unsafe’ Work Environment

Many interesting events occurred after the House Republicans passed the American Health Care Act (AHCA) ranging from Democrats spreading <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/16094/moron-alert-kamala-harris-claims-129-million-elliott-hamilton">false propaganda</a> to claiming that Republicans would now be <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/16085/nuts-republicans-pass-american-health-care-act-ben-shapiro">accomplices to murder</a>. However, one rumor emerged that put the Democratic Media Complex into its natural state of outrageous disarray, <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-poised-pass-gop-health-care-bill-n754801">led</a> by House Minority Leader and Obamacare architect Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
The story? Republicans popped beer bottles following the passage of the AHCA. It all started from the following tweet from VICE News&#8216; Alexandra Jaffe:
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Cases upon cases of beer just rolled into the Capitol on a cart covered in a sheet. Spotted Bud Light peeking out from the sheet
&#8212; Alexandra Jaffe (@ajjaffe) <a href="https://twitter.com/ajjaffe/status/860189985856770048">May 4, 2017</a></blockquote>
Naturally, some of America&#8217;s finest propagandists joined the party.
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ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
THESE FRAT BOYS ARE GONNA FUCKING PARTY AFTER STRIPPING 24 MILLION OF INSURANCE?!?!
WILL THERE BE KEGS FOR PAUL?!?! <a href="https://t.co/hxJUcmJYoy">https://t.co/hxJUcmJYoy</a>
&#8212; igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) <a href="https://twitter.com/igorvolsky/status/860192262080405505">May 4, 2017</a></blockquote>
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/HouseGOP">@HouseGOP</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerRyan">@SpeakerRyan</a> celebrating 24M losing their coverage &amp; 14M getting kicked off Medicaid w/ ? Seriously, have they no shame? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SMH?src=hash">#SMH</a> <a href="https://t.co/DZpROZesQa">https://t.co/DZpROZesQa</a>
&#8212; Gwen Moore (@RepGwenMoore) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepGwenMoore/status/860212409868443651">May 4, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Millions of Americans are about to lose health care coverage and the Republicans are drinking beer. Outrageous. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/VoteNoAHCA?src=hash">#VoteNoAHCA</a> <a href="https://t.co/H37cCCTXGW">https://t.co/H37cCCTXGW</a>
&#8212; Rosa DeLauro (@rosadelauro) <a href="https://twitter.com/rosadelauro/status/860191901257015296">May 4, 2017</a></blockquote>
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They had time to plan a beer bash but not to read the bill or get a CBO score.
&#8212; Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) <a href="https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/860194195247681537">May 4, 2017</a></blockquote>
But there was a major problem with this story: This was fake news. Washington Free Beacon&#8216;s Alex Griswold <a href="http://freebeacon.com/politics/democrats-reporters-baselessly-accuse-gop-throwing-beer-party-celebrate-health-care-bill/">reported</a> that two hours after breaking the story, Jaffe tracked down the man carting the beer only to discover that the beverages were not headed to a Republican meeting. Furtheremore, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI)&#8217;s communications adviser Michael Shapiro slammed CBS News for reporting the fake news and said that it was irresponsible for the press to push this story without any evidence.
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This is completely and utterly false. Totally irresponsible to report this with zero evidence. <a href="https://t.co/lW6hvHRwiR">https://t.co/lW6hvHRwiR</a>
&#8212; Michael Shapiro (@mis2127) <a href="https://twitter.com/mis2127/status/860225414215684096">May 4, 2017</a></blockquote>
Swing and a miss, Democratic Media Complex. Better luck next time.
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Eve Peyser, a staff writer for Vice, didn’t know she was ultimately going to be body-slammed by Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro when she reacted to Yale University Republicans trolling Yale graduate students staging a supposed hunger strike. The graduate students had stated that if a striker was hungry, they could leave and get food; the Yale Republicans then threw a barbecue in close proximity to the hunger strike.
That prompted Peyser to tweet:
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/emmaroller">@emmaroller</a> this is so gross I wanna die why are people so fucking cruel
— eve peyser (@evepeyser) <a href="https://twitter.com/evepeyser/status/858138154376855553">April 29, 2017</a></blockquote>
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That prompted derisive responses on Twitter:
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/evepeyser">@evepeyser</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/emmaroller">@emmaroller</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/literallyshaking?src=hash">#literallyshaking</a>
— Jim Treacher (@jtLOL) <a href="https://twitter.com/jtLOL/status/858386612539072513">April 29, 2017</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/evepeyser">@evepeyser</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/emmaroller">@emmaroller</a> Time to toughen up, my beautiful tulip.
— Scott (@FiveChels) <a href="https://twitter.com/FiveChels/status/858302476835016704">April 29, 2017</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/evepeyser">@evepeyser</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/emmaroller">@emmaroller</a> Why not just don the Pink Hat of Shame?
— The Morning Spew (@TheMorningSpew) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheMorningSpew/status/858426914897362944">April 29, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Even before Peyser’s handwringing, she had tweeted her love for communism:
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">all u need to say, baby, I&#8217;m sold <a href="https://t.co/ndUea2EW4s">pic.twitter.com/ndUea2EW4s</a>
— eve peyser (@evepeyser) <a href="https://twitter.com/evepeyser/status/857973443962314752">April 28, 2017</a></blockquote>
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But after the derision elicited by her tweet about people being cruel, Peyser doubled down hard on her communist sympathies on Saturday morning:
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">when some capitalist attempts to own me online <a href="https://t.co/jkaYW1mf81">pic.twitter.com/jkaYW1mf81</a>
— eve peyser (@evepeyser) <a href="https://twitter.com/evepeyser/status/858379697868165120">April 29, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Shapiro, observing Peyser’s vitriolic hatred of capitalism, had had enough, tweeting Saturday night:
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">No, see, under capitalism you own yourself, like you just did right now <a href="https://t.co/RE5pm5J0P7">https://t.co/RE5pm5J0P7</a>
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/858549013397749760">April 30, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Requiescat in pace, Peyser.

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