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There Is Nothing Liberals Can’t Ruin
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CNN Continues to Warn About the Dangers of Bad Poll Numbers for Biden
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Once Greenblatt took over The ADL the entire organization swung left. Greenblatt is a devotee of O'Bummer. Gaetz is correct. It is amazing how one person can wreck an otherwise decent organization.
A Florida congressman slammed the Anti-Defamation League over the weekend, accusing the organization of racism. History is replete with Fauci's and Napolean's and worse.
Florida congressman: 'The ADL is a racist organization'
Congressman defends Tucker Carlson amid spat with ADL, accuses the organization of 'racism'.
Rep. Matt Gaetz, a conservative Republican who represents Florida’s First Congressional District in the northwestern edge of the state, responded Saturday to accusations of bigotry levelled by the ADL against Fox News host Tucker Carlson and calls for Carlson’s removal.
Gaetz defended Carlson, and called the ADL “racist” in a tweet.
“Tucker Carlson is CORRECT about Replacement Theory as he explains what is happening to America. The ADL is a racist organization,” Gaetz wrote, linking to an article on the ADL’s calls to fire Carlson.
On Friday, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, a former official from the Obama administration, accused Carlson of xenophobia and demanded Fox News drop Carlson from its lineup.
“For @TuckerCarlson, host of one of the most watched news programs in the country, to use his platform as a megaphone to spread the toxic and xenophobic ‘Great Replacement’ theory, is repugnant and a dangerous abuse of power,” Greenblatt tweeted.
In April, Greenblatt accused Carlson of pushing a “white supremacist tenet” which he said “is anti-Semitic, racist and toxic.”
The accusations stem from Carlson’s claims that the Democratic party has used immigration – including illegal immigration – to shift the electorate of the US in their favor.
In a segment Wednesday, Carlson went on to accuse senior Democrats, including then-Vice President Joe Biden, of racism, citing comments by Biden in 2015 lauding data projecting that non-Hispanic whites were expected to become a minority of Americans by 2017.
“Folks like me who are Caucasian, of European descent, for the first time in 2017 we'll be an absolute minority in the United States of America. Absolute minority. Fewer than 50% of the people in America from then and on will be white European stock. That's not a bad thing. That’s a source of our strength.”
On Friday, Carlson defended his claims during an interview with Megyn Kelly on Sirius/XM, saying they had “nothing to do with anti-Semitism” and that Democrats have been explicit in their support for using immigration to reshape the US electorate.
“The great replacement theory is, in fact, not a theory,” Tucker said Friday. “It's something that the Democrats brag about constantly up to and including the President. And in one sentence at that, it's this: rather than convince the current population that our policies are working and they should vote for us as a result, we can't be bothered to do that.”
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Flood America with illegals from different cultures and change the entire nation's character:
Then eliminate a mass media that once spoke truth to power and what do you have? Biden's America.
Mayorkas admits 12,000 Haitians released in US — and more could follow
By Mark Moore
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas admitted on Sunday that more than 12,000 Haitian migrants who had been camped out under a bridge near Del Rio, Texas, have been released into the US and more may follow them.
He told “Fox News Sunday” that there are about 12,400 Haitians in the process of having asylum claims heard by an immigration judge, while around 5,000 are being processed by the Department of Homeland Security.
About 3,000 are being detained.
“Approximately, I think it’s about 10,000 or so, 12,000,” Mayorkas responded when asked how many migrants have already been released.
He added that the number could go beyond 5,000 as other cases are processed.
“It could be even higher. The number that are returned could be even higher. What we do is we follow the law as Congress has passed it,” Mayorkas said.
The secretary said the administration “will make determinations whether they will be returned to Haiti based on our public health and public interest authorities.”
He also bristled under questioning by Fox News’ Chris Wallace who said DHS figures show the “flood” of illegal immigration has gotten worse under the Biden administration.
“I wouldn’t call it a flood,” Mayorkas said.
Many of the migrants being released into the US may have coronavirus because the Biden administration is not requiring them to be tested or be vaccinated after they enter the US illegally.
And:
Here is an example:
Ilhan Omar’s Idea of Progress
She would replace GDP with a measure that includes time spent fishing.
By Andy Kessler
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), along with five other Democrats, recently introduced H.R. 4894, the Genuine Progress Indicator Act of 2021. The bill, only six pages long, is a glaring example of why Congress has a meager 28% approval rating.
The goal is a progressive alternative to gross domestic product, which presumably is an unjust tool to prop up big bad business. “The world needs new economic indicators and economic policies that will prioritize and encourage truly sustainable and equitable development,” Ms. Omar claims. The bill requires that “the head of each Federal agency, the President, the Chair of the Federal Reserve, and Congress shall” use both the genuine progress indicator and GDP when budgeting or forecasting economic activity.
The new measure, a cousin of the United Nations’ squishy World Happiness Report, is likely being proposed to rationalize the progressive multitrillion “infrastructure” spending blowout. The genuine progress indicator aims to blur the lines between entitlement and investment. This is dangerous. As Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) tweeted, “Paid leave is infrastructure. Child care is infrastructure. Caregiving is infrastructure.” No, they’re not.
So what is genuine progress? A 2018 paper in Ecological Economics—regrettably, my subscription has lapsed—defines it as the net of benefits and costs neglected in GDP, things like “inequality, regrettable defensive expenditures, uncounted environmental externalities, depletion of natural resources, and trade-offs with non-work uses of time.” Squishy indeed.
In H.R. 4894, benefits that don’t show up in GDP but would in the genuine progress indicator include “environmental and social factors” addressing “ecological scarcities” and directing “resources to sustainable development without degrading the environment,” you know, things like carbon sequestration and “maintenance of biological and genetic diversity.” Probably on purpose, these are not as easy to measure as lemonade sales or how many widgets roll off an assembly line. I would guess when Democrats are in control, genetic diversity and social factors would rise, and when Republicans are, environmental degradation would send genuine progress spiraling.
Home improvements, especially solar panels, would be a benefit, as would infrastructure like sewers and bridges. OK. And higher education. Got to fund those professors. But then it gets fuzzy. “Time spent on leisure activities,” “household duties” and “volunteering” are all benefits. So are “hunting and fishing” and “harvesting of plants for medicinal and edible purposes.” So yes, playing “Call of Duty: Black Ops” is a sign of genuine progress. So is cleaning your garage. And growing rutabagas—or weed—in your garden. As is a lazy day fishing for trout. Do your part to juice genuine progress by vacationing all year!
But sadly, there are costs. Aren’t there always? Income inequality is the first cost listed. It must be really bad for genuine progress. According to the World Bank, whose credibility shattered after it was caught juicing economic numbers for China, the U.S. ranks 51st in the world in inequality with a GINI coefficient of 41.5. A GINI coefficient of 0 is perfect equality and 100 is total inequality. If only we could be like countries with lower GINI numbers, like Haiti or Iran or Tunisia or Kazakhstan or the most equal country in the world, with a GINI of 25, Ukraine. On second thought, no thanks.
There are plenty of other costs to genuine progress: underemployment, homelessness, domestic abuse, pollution and “the loss of natural wetlands.” Fair enough, these are legitimate and undermeasured economic concerns. But, wouldn’t you know it, “high amounts of carbon dioxide” and “depletion of nonrenewable sources of energy” are also costs.
Then the bill adds this doozy as a cost: “lost leisure time due to traffic congestion.” No one likes to be stuck in traffic, though it’s often a productive time to make long phone calls and to think. Or, if you dare, you could put your Tesla on autopilot and watch Netflix in the back seat.
But here’s the rub: The pandemic lockdowns would have caused an improvement in some factors of the genuine progress indicator. There was no traffic anywhere. As the economy tanked, we used less oil. The smog cleared in Los Angeles and coyotes joined the homeless on the streets of San Francisco. We don’t need fantasyland economic indicators so politicians could argue for more lockdowns.
Yes, GDP is flawed. Official inflation numbers miss the technology-driven improvements in our lives. The billionfold drop in computing costs over the past 50 years barely shows up in GDP. There should be serious debate about how we should measure an economy, or if we even have to.
But Ms. Omar’s bill is meant to change the subject, similar to stakeholder vs. shareholder capitalism. And it would become an excuse factory: “Yes, our schools are failing, but the genuine progress indicator was up 0.3% last month.” Sadly, the time spent debating or even thinking about the bill, like being stuck in traffic, would lower the genuine progress indicator. Better if Congress goes fishing.
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Emory has historically had anti-Semitic issues. Years ago, it was the Dean of Their Dental School followed by an entire series of episodes. Meanwhile, the school has a significant number of Jewish students as well:
NOT THE FIRST INFRACTION AND WON'T BE THE LAST AT EMORY
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Has Israel gone soft on Iran? Glick thinks so.
Israel has gone soft on Iran
The Lapid-Gantz-Bennett government has decided to raise the white flag of surrender. Op-ed.
By Caroline Glick, JNS
(JNS) Two weeks ago, Foreign Policy magazine published an interview with Defense Minister Benny Gantz. In it, Gantz said that Israel has dropped its opposition to the Biden administration’s plan to return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. With Gantz’s statement, the full expanse of the Lapid-Gantz-Bennett government’s strategy for contending with Iran’s nuclear program has come into view.
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Dov Fischer says his crowd has Carlson's back:
Yoo Hoo, Tucker Carlson, We’re Here and We’ve Got Your Back | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
Jonathan Greenblatt at the so-called Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is back at it again, demanding Tucker Carlson’s termination at Fox News for speaking simple obvious truths that have absolutely no bearing on matters pertaining to Jews or to bigotry. So it now devolves on me once again to join this nonsensical fray on the other side — to defend Tucker, to reiterate that Greenblatt simply is an Obama Administration holdover who managed to get hired by the ADL after Obama’s people found themselves out of jobs when that Administration’s tenure ended. Greenblatt has turned a once-vaunted organization that was created to fight anti-Semitism into a wing of the Democrat Party.
Replacement theory absolutely is correct. It indeed is true that Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and the Democrats have embraced and are busily executing a methodical plan to replace — to replace — the American GOP majority electorate with an imported foreign voter pool, brought in from outside the United States. For the pedantic, the term “Replacement” as used in this context does not mean literally to remove from the country and to replace 74,216,154 voters with 74,216,154 other voters. Rather, it means that a conscious, concerted, methodical Democrat effort is afoot to import into the American voting pool a sufficient number of people from outside the demographic of conservative- and centrist-oriented United States citizens eligible to vote so as to create an overwhelming imbalance in voting margins that assures a quasi-permanent majority for the Left’s agglomeration of liberals, progressives, socialists, and others identifying among their “Intersectionalists” and their “Woke.”
The Replacement Voters carefully have been targeted to come from societies that have left them destitute so that they depend desperately on government handouts to survive. Thus, they are not being imported from Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, or Valencia. It is not about language. Such Replacement Voters will vote Democrat by the millions for years to come until they finally get on their own two feet (multiplied by millions). None of this has anything to do with color, religion, language. Rather, it has to do with the culture of the societies from which they now are being imported. It plainly is true.
The 1970s saw the American voter pool move decidedly conservative and Republican after the LBJ era’s excesses destroyed core American values and disillusioned Americans to turn away from the liberalism that had won some endearment after the 1929 crash and the rebounds — both economic and military — that took place during the FDR years, though often despite Roosevelt. The 1960s saw the Warren Court take federal law to extremes on the Left and coddle murderers while Lyndon Johnson moved forward with a “Great Society” myth that, among other things:
- Destroyed the Black family.
- Drove Black men from their homes, their jobs, their wives and their children.
- Consigned Black America to a new era of poverty and economic disadvantage.
- Assured that Black male youths would grow up without fathers as role models at home.
- Laid the foundation for Black young men to populate American prisons disproportionately to their 12 percent of the population.
You wanna talk about “Systemic Racism,” baby? There it is, courtesy of the Democrat Left.
That Leftist agenda of government handouts encouraged masses to stop working harder to pull themselves ahead by their own bootstraps and fooled them into believing that government would pave their paths to middle-class comforts. The reality is that no one ever is going to hand you more money than he has. If I have $1,000 I ain’t going to give you $501, leaving you richer than I am. I will give you help — because I have a decent soul, a Jewish heart of compassion. But I am not a fool. If I am only for myself, what am I? But, c’mon: If I am not first for myself, who will be for me? I won’t make you richer than I am. Neither will George Soros. Neither will Nancy Pelosi. Neither will Ocasio. She gets to pose with $14,000 outfits — not the poor.
The Government never will make handout recipients wealthy nor set them on the path to the top. The Government may offer “help.” But it will not ever help the needy to transcend their need. The only way forward is the idea that emanates from American genius: self-help, self-betterment, risk-taking, and — at the very, very, very top of the list: assuming and bearing personal responsibility. Sooner or later, each and every immigrant population wave has figured this out — and boomed as a result: Germans, Irish, Poles, Italians, Jews, Indo-Asians, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Vietnamese, everyone.
Americans saw what the Lyndon Johnson Years — the Great Society and his Warren Court — did. Crime soared. Inner cities became crime hubs. Downtown stores that once could remain open until 9 p.m. had to close downtown at 5 p.m. Suddenly closing four hours earlier daily, such stores had to lay off workers. Fewer store hours generated less sales revenue, hence reduced sales taxes paid into the system. Fewer store hours generated less income for hourly employees, hence reduced income taxes paid into the system. Those who previously paid income taxes into the system now instead started collecting tax handouts from the system: food stamps, welfare, whatever else they came up with. Public housing expected no “sweat equity” — no contributing aspect from people being moved into the homes — so residents, with no personal stake in their brand-new residential units, let them decay and rot. Public housing became festers for crime, for drug sales. Lighter prison sentences doled out by liberal judges, revolving-door justice, and more compassion for even hardened criminals meant the villains stayed in prison for shorter periods of time, got to spend more time free to perpetrate and perpetuate the same crimes again and again — became recidivists — and even stopped fearing getting caught in between crimes because they knew they would escape incarceration or be “out on parole” soon enough.
People — even liberals — just got sick of it. The word “liberal” became so shameful a name that they started calling themselves something new: ”progressives.” Americans jumped over and elected Nixon-Agnew in 1968 over Humphrey-Muskie. Despite Watergate, which everyone knew was coming — and despite few people actually liking Nixon — they reelected the two presumed GOP crooks in 1972 over the Left’s McGovern-Eagleton-Shriver alternative. After a brief moment of national doubt, when Americans got deceived into believing that Georgia governor Jimmy Carter would be a conservative or at least very moderate Christian evangelical, a church Sunday School teacher and peanut farmer from deep in the heart of Dixie, they flocked to Reagan once and then to Reagan again in 1980 and 1984. Holding their noses, Americans then elected George H.W. Bush in 1988 because he falsely presented as the supposed bearer of Reagan’s legacy as Reagan’s two-term Vice President. When Americans grasped that this Bush was no Reagan, America turned again to a Dixie-deep Democrat, this one in Arkansas. Clinton allowed Dick Morris to convince him wisely to moderate after Hillary caused catastrophe by spurring him initially to the left, costing the Democrats the House in 1994. And then, after the Clinton Sex Frolics, it was back to the GOP when America elected another George Bush in 2000 and 2004 rather than opting for Al Gore’s inconvenient truths or the Swift Boat Kid.
By 2004, with Arab Islamist crazies in Al Qaeda and Hamas and Hezbollah and Palestine-Terror-Against-
- We Democrats have lost the American electorate.
- We Democrats got our chance when Franklin Roosevelt came in on the heels of a Great Depression under Republican Herbert Hoover.
- We Democrats dominated American public policy for 36 consecutive years from 1932 under FDR, his successor Harry Truman, a Dwight Eisenhower who really was quite the liberal who gave us Earl Warren and did not shake up but rather reinforced our liberal agenda, and then John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson through 1968.
- As we implemented our vision and strategies, at home and abroad, everything great in this country became very ruined — and a strong majority eventually came to see the clear straight line that connects all our policies to the mess.
- We did not realize initially how badly we had lost the mainstream middle of America’s electorate. But, looking back, even Nixon land-slid us despite (i) Watergate hovering, (ii) Agnew at his side, and (iii) he being so unlikable. Even Reagan — a clown, a moron, an actor, a guy who made a movie with a chimp or a monkey in bed with him — killed us twice … ultimately surviving even Iran-Contra. We even lost one to George H.W. Bush and then two to that idiot son of his who never learned how to pronounce “nuclear” like an educated high school grad but kept saying “nookyooler.” For G-d’s sakes, his Vice President actually shot a guy while hunting, and we still couldn’t dislodge them.
- We Democrats have lost the American electorate so badly that our fallback impenetrable iron wall — the durable Deep South — that voted straight Democrat for 120 years from 1860-1980 has turned on us.
- It will take us a generation or two, if we still even are around that long, to win back the electorate with our ideas. But, at this rate, we may not even be around in a generation or two.
- Faced with this political calamity — a lost electorate and no reasonably attainable solution on the horizon for winning back the voters — the Democrats very wisely devised a new strategy: Let’s replace the electorate.
To replace the electorate, they literally decided to import millions of new voters from Latin America and South America to switch red conservative states like California, Nevada, and Arizona over to their column, while moving others like Colorado to purple. This was the Great Replacement Agenda. That is why the Democrats — who always had taken the lead in opposing illegal immigration from the south because of the way it devastates salaries and hourly pay among their historic constituencies of low-income Blacks, Hispanics, and White Midwestern blue-collar union workers — suddenly changed course overnight. They saw how the California of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George Deukmejian, and Pete Wilson could be replaced. The Arizona of Barry Goldwater, Jon Kyl, Jan Brewer, and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The Nevada of Jim Gibbons, Brian Sandoval, Pete Laxalt, Chic Hecht, John Ensign, and Dean Heller.
Just bus ’em in. Open the borders. Play dumb and blind and unaware. Talk tough about controlling security with high-tech lasers and overhead drones but keep busing them in, catching and releasing ’em, just bring ‘em in to replace the conservative and even the moderate and otherwise disillusioned electorate. Move the Replacers up north if possible — to Virginia, to North Carolina, to Georgia. Put some anti-American Somalians in Minnesota. Make sure the ones who come have no means of support so that they will have no choice but to vote for Big Government handouts. Create a new word: “Entitlements.” Tell them the craziest thing ever: that they actually are entitled to handouts of other people’s money.
Are you “entitled” to have my wife? No? Are you entitled to have my kids? No? Are you entitled to receive my car, my house, my personal library of 4,000 volumes of Torah commentary, several centuries of published rabbinic responsa and Judaica, and secular American law? No? (You may have my 8-track music cartridges and Beta Max movies.) Are you entitled to take possession of my Chanukah menorah, my Purim megillah, my Rosh Hashanah shofar, or my Passover seder plate? No? Well, then, by what measure does anyone who suddenly enters this country — even if legally, and all-the-more-so if otherwise — have entitlement to receive part of my income taken from me without my consent and given to them? I worked many long and hard hours for the money to buy that $3,000 Talmud set. I also worked many longer and harder hours to acquire and save the additional cash to put my four kids through college, to buy my home, and to set aside additional assets I might someday need for my retirement, too. By what right is the Replacement Voter entitled to that?
But this became Democrat public policy strategy: to replace the conservative Republican-leaning American electorate with voters addicted to a permanent dole. Thus, Tucker Carlson is absolutely right. They replaced the California Republican majority, and they are proceeding state by state.
Alas, unfortunately but inevitably, this country of 300 million does have among its number a small group of hate-filled Nazi White supremacists. You see them hidden among the anonymous trolls who comment on the internet. Some of those Wannabe Nazis, a small handful who interwove themselves among a much larger majority of many good and very fine people, went to Charlottesville one fateful day with idiotic comments painted on placards asseverating that Jews were being brought in to replace them. Idiots. Real G-d awful idiots. That idiocy has proven to be the excuse an Obama hack like Jonathan Greenblatt at the ADL waited for to argue that “Replacement Theory” is a code word for “anti-Semitism.” Really? And shall we say that, because Hitler and Eichmann, Goehring and Dr. Mengele spoke German, that any time we hear the word “kindergarten” or “gezuntheit,” a closet Nazi lurks?
So it falls on bona fide Jewish spokespeople, honest-to-goodness religious and Judaic leaders like the 1,500 rabbis of the Coalition for Jewish Values, to issue statements that in fact it is Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL who needs to be terminated, not Tucker — and it is ADL that needs to be replaced by real Jewish defenders who stand at the ready to defend Jews and American values.
A real ADL — if it existed as it once did before Jonathan Greenblatt — would be demanding not that Tucker be fired but that Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar be fired, removed from Nancy Pelosi committees, removed exactly as Republicans removed Iowa Rep. Steve King for far less egregious statements and reasons. In a fair world, where Jew-haters in this country like AOC and Tlaib and Omar really would be called out for anti-Semitism, ADL would be demanding that the most severe action be taken against those very Nazi-type Democrats who repeatedly attack Jews, post the most hateful anti-Semitic tweets built around the worst of Hitler’s canards and stereotypes about Jews, and then even try to prevent Israel from defensively shooting down rockets aimed at its civilian centers.
But Greenblatt won’t demand that those Nazi-like Democrats be taken off committees. ADL is now so deeply conjoined with the Intersectional Woke Left that even Ben Carson would not be able to detach them safely.
It is a matter of public record that 1,500 American rabbis want Jonathan Greenblatt to stop abusing the historic legacy of ADL — now. He must stop speaking in our name or in the name of any Jews. He does not speak for American Jews and has led the ADL down a path that now leaves it as anathema in wide swaths of American Jewish life. He speaks only for the Obama Left, as he is entitled to do. But not in the name of Jews or in the name of opposing anti-Semitism.
Now, that is a worthy Replacement Agenda: Jonathan Greenblatt has got to be removed from the Anti-Defamation League, or ADL has to be replaced by a new Jewish defense organization.
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What this police officer did may have been wrong but the emotions of the moment and the way his trial was conducted was a travesty of justice.
Derek Chauvin Files Own Conviction Appeal in George Floyd Death
(LibertySociety.com) – When the courts find someone guilty in the United States, their conviction is not always the end of the story. In fact, a convicted person has the right to appeal the judge and jury’s decision if they so choose. That’s exactly what Derek Chauvin intends to do in an attempt to overturn his murder conviction and sentencing in the May 2020 death of George Floyd.
Chauvin alleges Judge Peter Cahill made decisions during the trial that negatively affected the outcome and gave him some of the 14 grounds he plans to use to file an appeal. A few of the reasons cited include alleged prejudicial misconduct, preventing testimony of key witnesses, and disallowing part of the defendant’s defense.
Typically, the trial attorney would file an appeal brief on behalf of their client, but not in this case. The ex-police officer revealed on September 21 he would represent himself through this leg of the judicial process. Considering Mr. Chauvin is currently serving his 22.5-year sentence, he claims to have no income to hire defense counsel.
He requested the Supreme Court reverse an earlier decision denying him a public defender during the appeals process. Once the court makes its ruling, the next step is for Chauvin to move forward with his appeal.
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