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Over 500 Harvard faculty members support university president in letter to board after antisemitism hearing (Fox 12/11/2023)
| • | ... Harvard faculty members "urge you in the strongest possible terms to defend the independence of the university and to resist political pressures that are at odds with Harvard's commitment to academic freedom, including calls for the removal of President Claudine Gay." |
| • | "The critical work of defending a culture of free inquiry in our diverse community cannot proceed if we let its shape be dictated by outside forces." |
Antisemitism issues at elite colleges masks 'deeper rot' of DEI dominance in higher education (Fox 12/11/2023)
| • | "The answers must lie with boards of trustees willing to appoint presidents who will stand up to the DEI censors and require intellectual diversity among the faculty. Donors will also have to follow through on boycotting schools until they do. Too many trustees and donors are happy to settle for getting their names on buildings and their children admitted." |
| • | "[E]ffective reform means only one thing: getting those political activists out of the classrooms and replacing them with academic thinkers and teachers. (No, that isn't the same as replacing left with right.)" |
| • | "Nothing less will do. Political activists have been converting money intended for higher education to an unauthorized use — advancing their goal of transforming America. That is tantamount to embezzlement. While we let it continue we are financing our own destruction as a society." |
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New disease erases Dems' memories of their post-2016 attack on democracy (Fox 09/12/2022)
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Scowling Biden haunted by order to treat people with 'decency and dignity' as he lobs serial insults (Fox 01/25/2022)
| • | "I am not joking when I say this, if you are ever working with me and I hear you treat another colleague with disrespect, talk down to someone, I promise you I will fire you on the spot," Biden said. "On the spot. No ifs, ands or buts." |
| • | "Decency, honor, respect, treating people with dignity, making sure that everyone has an even chance. I'm going to make sure you get that. You haven't been getting it the last four years." |
| • | "You ran on a return to civility," he was told. And then ... Biden went and characterized those who opposed his voting bills – namely, every Republican in Congress – as being in league with racists like Bull Connor and George Wallace. |
| • | "No, I didn't say that," Biden snapped. "That is an interesting reading of English. You — I assume you got into journalism because you liked to write." |
| • | ... shouted a question to Biden on the Ukraine situation. "Why are you waiting on Putin to make the first move, sir?" |
| • | "What a stupid question," was his answer. |
| • | "Do you think inflation will be a political liability ahead of the midterms?" Doocy shouted to the president as the press was being escorted out of an event. |
| • | "That's a great asset, more inflation," Biden scowled sarcastically. "What a stupid son of a b****." |
| • | See related Presidential Portrait (Gary Varvel, 01/19/2022) cartoon from Government picture album |
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Media lectures Democrats when they vote against Biden, praises Republicans when they vote against Trump (Fox 01/25/2022)
| • | Then: When Senator Mitt Romney, R-Utah, broke ranks with the party and voted to convict President Trump during the February 2020 impeachment trial, CNN host Don Lemon could not conceal his delight. |
| • | Lemon praised Romney for "risking the wrath of the party" and putting his commitment to "faith, duty and doing what's right" before all else. #"It is so rare to see someone take a stand the way that Mitt Romney did. It deserves to be seen." |
| • | Now: Lemon trashed Manchin and Sinema in an on-air rant earlier this month, scolding the "biggest hypocrites on the planet" for posting about Martin Luther King Jr. on his birthday while blocking the Democrats' voting rights legislation by supporting the filibuster. |
| • | "For some reason they are mired in tradition...it's time to amend the rules," Lemon said... "You're supposed to be a Democrat who espouses to the ideals of Dr. King. That's B.S. and you should be ashamed of yourself." |
| • | Then: NBC's "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd gleefully hailed Romney as the "president of the Republican resistance to Donald Trump" in February of 2020 for voting outside the party to convict the former president on impeachment charges. |
| • | Now: An irked Todd wondered how Manchin and Sinema could personally justify their decisions to not get rid of the filibuster and abandon their party just to preserve a longstanding Senate rule. |
| • | Then: "The View" co-host publicly thanked Romney on Twitter for breaking ranks with the Republican Party and encouraged him to challenge Trump in a future presidential run. Behar doubled down on-air days later, remarking that "the only patriot on the right, right now is Romney. He stuck his neck out, and the rest of them are trash." |
| • | Now:+ A visibly angry Behar lost it on air when asked about the infighting between progressive and moderate Democrats in Congress, declaring that Manchin and Sinema were going to be the "ruination of the nation" and were "the enemies" of democracy. |
| • | "The Democrats have the numbers to make it happen, but Manchin and Sinema are standing in their way. They call themselves Democrats, and they will be the ruination of this nation. Those two." |
| • | Then: CNN senior political analyst John Avalon showered Romney with praise for his speech where he defended his decision to vote across the aisle to convict Trump. |
| • | "That was a true profile in courage speech that we just heard. That was the sound of a man who'd wrestled with his conscience, who tried to think bigger than partisan politics," Avlon gushed at the time." |
| • | Now: An irritated Avlon resorted to personal attacks of the moderate lawmakers responsible for stalling an "entire party's agenda." Avlon called Manchin a "deficit hawk who represents coal country," and suggested Sinema wasn't taking negotiations as seriously as she should. |
| • | "To have a prayer of staying in power, Democrats are going to need to win more swing states and swing districts..." |
| • | Then: The late-night "comedian" devoted an entire opening monologue to the courage Romney's displayed for bucking the party, telling his audience that the lawmaker provided a "ray of hope" and spoke the truth" before the American public. |
| • | "Please join me in thanking Mitt Romney for being honest, for not lying to us, for serving the Constitution...," Colbert said, before asking, "Why can't he be president?" |
| • | Now: Colbert labeled both the legislative filibuster and Sen. Sinema as "anti-democratic tools" last week as he blasted her support for the former and mocked her appearance. |
| • | "Stop acting like the filibuster is anything other than an anti-democratic tool, which is also a pretty good description of Kyrsten Sinema." |
| • | Then: Washington Post columnist and frequent MSNBC guest Jennifer Rubin credited Romney for restoring faith in humanity with his vote to convict Trump, gushing over the "political martyr" in a column she wrote that focussed on the "uncommon decency and honor" he showed by walking across the aisle. |
| • | "His vote and more importantly his speech matter greatly, if only as reminders that every American has the capacity for greatness, the ability to stand on principle and the spine to refuse the entreaties of the mob." |
| • | Now: Rubin's tone was unrecognizable in a more recent column, where she wondered what Democrats are "supposed to do with someone so seemingly irrational and obstinate as Manchin?" |
| • | "It's time for Manchin to put up or share blame for Republicans' subversion of democracy. Manchin's bland platitudes suggest he prefers stalemate to taking hard votes... Elevating the filibuster to the sine qua non of our constitutional system is absurd. It is not in the Constitution." |
| • | See related Fake News (Mike Lester, 11/27/2016) cartoon from Media picture album |
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| • | See related Unmasking (Glenn McCoy, 04/04/2017) cartoon from Media picture album |
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Beyond the Supreme Court: Sotomayor's new kids' book urges 'action to change the world' (Fox 01/24/2022)
| • | "I want kids to do this intentionally, to think that this is a requirement of living almost, that trying to figure out how they will make a better world should be a part of the charge of their living," Sotomayor told... |
Dr. Seuss books to stop being published because of racist imagery (Fox 03/02/2021)
| • | "These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong," Dr. Seuss Enterprises told... "Ceasing sales of these books is only part of our commitment and our broader plan to ensure Dr. Seuss Enterprises' catalog represents and supports all communities and families." |
| • | Copies of "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street," "If I Ran the Zoo," "McElligot's Pool," "On Beyond Zebra!," "Scrambled Eggs Super!," and "The Cat's Quizzer" will no longer be published. |
| • | "Dr. Seuss Enterprises listened and took feedback from our audiences including teachers, academics and specialists in the field as part of our review process. We then worked with a panel of experts, including educators, to review our catalog of titles." |
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Virginia's new AG Miyares outlines Day 1 investigations, rebuffs 'far-left,' 'woke' crowd (Fox 01/19/2022)
| • | "I like to say Virginia is not a red state or a blue state — it's really just a common-sense state." |
| • | "Voters felt like the far-left monopoly had really gotten off the rails pushing a lot of issues that were way outside where most mainstream Virginians were, and that's probably the biggest reason that propelled it." |
| • | "You had a bunch of far-left social justice warriors that had gotten control of the parole board and were implementing a victim-last mindset, letting out cop killers, murderers and rapists, some of them with decades on their sentence, out back on the street without notifying families." |
| • | "In Virginia, the parole board is required by law to get input from the victims before letting out folks on parole." |
| • | "In the Loudoun County school system, the idea that they would have somebody who committed a violent sexual assault against an innocent 14-year-old girl and then transfer that individual to another school where a second alleged assault took place is just tragic." |
| • | "The fact that they just decided to essentially not disclose and not report some of this that is alleged, we're going to get to the bottom of it and understand what happened." |
| • | See related Thus Always to Tyrants (Antonio Branco, 11/04/2021) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | See related Virginia Kickes out Marxism (Dick Wright, 11/03/2021) cartoon from USA picture album |
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LA county deputy DA rips progressive crime policies: ‘My boss, George Gascon, has a soft spot for criminals’ (Fox 01/19/2022)
| • | "We are not focused on victims, we are not focused on public safety, and in Los Angeles County you know, my boss, George Gascon, has a soft spot for criminals." |
| • | "He has created an environment where crime thrives here in Los Angeles County by explicitly telling the criminal community you can commit crimes, certain crimes I will not prosecute you at all." |
| • | ... added that Gascon has made a number of prosecutorial decisions that have made the city less safe, including, "down-charging" violent crimes, failing to prosecute theft crimes, gun crimes, and advocating for people to be released with minimal or no bail. "It's just a mess here in Los Angeles County and it happened so quickly." |
| • | After a homeless man identified as Shawn Laval Smith allegedly knifed 24-year-old Brianna Kupfer in an upscale California furniture store, longtime LA prosecutor Jon Hatami also spoke out, urging voters to pay close attention to D.A. races in their communities and choose qualified candidates. |
| • | "When you say, ‘here's a list of crimes I'm not going to prosecute,' — Yeah, you are not a good D.A. And you are not a good prosecutor. That shouldn't be the first thing you do when you become D.A." |
| • | See related Woke DA\\\'s (Dick Wright, 01/06/2022) cartoon from USA picture album |
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Penzeys Spices CEO declares MLK weekend 'Republicans are racists weekend' (Fox 01/18/2022)
| • | "Remember how Republicans, going against a mountain of evidence to the contrary, once again lied and said BLM wasn't a peaceful movement but instead terrorists inciting violence throughout the country and then raced out to buy a crapload of guns because maybe they were finally going to get their chance to shoot a Black person? What a bunch of racists." |
Brianna Kupfer sent pal ominous text before she was stabbed to death (Fox 01/18/2022)
| • | ... called the attack "random" and said nothing had been stolen and no other crime appeared to have been committed. |
Detroit restaurant employee who was stabbed shoots attacker dead inside steakhouse (Fox 01/17/2022)
| • | A Detroit steakhouse worker who was stabbed early Sunday fought back against his attacker, fatally shooting the knife-wielding man inside the restaurant... |
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UCLA grad student stabbed to death while working at LA luxury furniture store (Fox 01/17/2022)
| • | Brianna Kupfer, 24, was working alone inside Croft Furniture on North La Brea Avenue on Thursday about 1:50 p.m. when a man walked in and attacked her with a knife... |
Detroit restaurant employee who was stabbed shoots attacker dead inside steakhouse (Fox 01/17/2022)
| • | A Detroit steakhouse worker who was stabbed early Sunday fought back against his attacker, fatally shooting the knife-wielding man inside the restaurant... |
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The Dems' Exploitation of January 6 Gives Away Their Game (JWR 01/05/2022)
| • | One need not downplay the events — the horrifying image of rioters bashing police officers with metal poles, storming through the halls of Congress shouting for Mike Pence — in order to recognize Jan. 6 for what it was: an ugly but not pivotal moment in American history. The event resulted in one direct death — rioter Ashli Babbitt was shot by a Capitol police officer — and some $1.5 million in property damage to the Capitol building; the Capitol was cleared within hours of the riot, and Vice President Mike Pence and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell promptly presided over the certification of the 2020 election. Those who broke into the Capitol or even trespassed have ended up in jail. |
| • | Meanwhile, by contrast, the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020 resulted in some $2 billion in insured property damage (and likely billions more in uninsured property damage), two dozen people died, and the resultant political movement against the police led to an unprecedented nationwide spike in homicides in major cities. |
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White parents of school shooters are culpable; black parents of inner-city gangbangers are blameless (JWR 01/05/2022)
| • | On April 19, 2021, McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski suggested in a text to Chicago's mayor that the parents of two children recently killed in Chicago's gang activity had "failed those kids." Kempczinski's text became public in November 2021, prompting widespread accusations of racism and calls for his resignation. Kempczinski confessed to his white privilege and apologized profusely for holding parents responsible for the fate of their children. |
| • | On December 3, a district attorney in Michigan filed involuntary manslaughter charges against the parents of Ethan Crumbley. The 15-year-old Crumbley allegedly killed four fellow students during a shooting rampage at his Oxford, Michigan high school on November 30. |
| • | Even if one agrees with the indictment holding them criminally responsible for their son's murder rampage, one can still wonder why other parents are treated as nonexistent. |
| • | If the Crumbley parents are found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, there are many more parents out there whose passivity in the face of likely lawlessness deserves equally strict scrutiny. |
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Amazon reportedly took down reviews of Chinese president's book after demands (Fox 12/22/2021)
| • | "As a bookseller, we believe that providing access to the written word and diverse perspectives is important," an Amazon spokesperson told... |
| • | "That includes books that some may find objectionable, though we have policies governing which books can be listed for sale in every country and jurisdiction in which we operate." |
| • | Amazon ... faced backlash earlier this year when it delisted conservative author Ryan T. Anderson's book, "When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment." The book was published in 2018 and reached the top of the site's bestseller lists. |
| • | "We carefully consider the content we make available in our stores, and we review our approach regularly. As described above, we have chosen not to sell books that frame LGBTQ+ identity as a mental illness." |
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Dems, media figures who rushed to judgment on Jussie Smollett called out for silence on Larry Elder assault (Fox 09/11/2021)
| • | In 2019, "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett claimed he was assaulted by White Trump supporters while returning from dinner in an affluent Chicago neighborhood. His account of the incident had gaping holes that left several questions unanswered. |
| • | Nevertheless, Smollett's "attack" – immediately dubbed an act of racism, dominated the coverage in many major media organizations. Several Democratic lawmakers called for congressional action. Media pundits said the incident was a symptom of a divisive Oval Office occupant. |
| • | Two years later, Republican California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder, a Black man seeking to unseat Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom was publically attacked by a White person – this time on camera. |
| • | But despite the disturbing footage and unquestionable nature of the assault, liberal media organizations didn't seem particularly interested. |
| • | Mainstream outlets appeared to take their cues from Democratic lawmakers, who have chosen to stay silent on Elder's attack despite their online outrage and public condolences for Smollett in 2019. |
| • | "JussieSmollett is one of the kindest, most gentle human beings I know," then-Sen. Kamala Harris wrote in a tweet at the time. "I'm praying for his quick recovery. This was an attempted modern-day lynching. No one should have to fear for their life because of their sexuality or color of their skin. We must confront this hate." |
| • | Vice President Harris did not address the Elder incident as of Friday morning. |
| • | House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the "racist and homophobic attack" on Smollett an "affront to our humanity." |
| • | The Speaker's Twitter feed however made no mention of Elder in the hours after his attack. |
| • | Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders denounced "the racist and homophobic attack on Jussie Smollett" as "a horrific instance of the surging hostility toward minorities around the country. We must come together to eradicate all forms of bigotry and violence." |
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AOC, 'Squad' members promote 'Defund the Police' but spend thousands on private security (Fox 04/20/2021)
| • | "Defunding police means defunding police," Ocasio-Cortez said ... "It does not mean budget tricks or funny math. It does not mean moving school police officers from the NYPD budget to the Department of Education's budget so the exact same police remain in schools." |
| • | ... Ocasio-Cortez said the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright happened not as an accident but because of "an indefensible system that grants impunity for state violence, rewards it [with] endlessly growing budgets at the cost of community investment, [and] targets those who question that order." |
| • | Meanwhile, however, Ocasio-Cortez has paid $3,000 per month on a New York-based "security consultant" service since December, 2020, though she was spending $5,000 per month on the same security consultant beginning May 5, 2020... |
| • | Since the start of 2021, she has spent more than $25,000 on "security" costs dated Jan. 25... |
| • | In a June tweet, Pressley said "the defund movement isn't new" but that "folks are just finally listening." |
| • | Pressley's own safety system, however, cost nearly $4,200 in 2021, FEC filings show. |
| • | Omar's state and district have been rocked by both violent and peaceful protests... "What we are saying is the current infrastructure that exists as policing in our city should not exist anymore, and we can't go about creating a different process with the same infrastructure in place," she said... |
| • | "Don't fall for the fear-driven narratives," Omar tweeted... "We can craft a justice system that prioritizes people's basic needs like mental health [and] violence prevention, [and] allow the city to put public safety first." |
| • | The Minnesota lawmaker, however, has spent upwards of $3,100 on security-related services so far in 2021. |
| • | Bush, the newest member of the "Squad," has previously taken issue with both police and Defense Department spending. "Defunding the police isn't radical, it's real," she tweeted... |
| • | But Bush has spent the most on security services so far this year compared to her other progressive colleagues. In 2021 alone, Bush spent more than $30,000 on "security services" from different companies. |
| • | See related Almost Died... (Michael Ramirez, 02/09/2021) cartoon from Politics picture album |
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Daunte Wright shooting: Ex-Minnesota police officer Kim Potter to be charged with second-degree... (Fox 04/14/2021)
| • | Washington County Attorney Pete Orput is expected to announce the second-degree manslaughter charge... The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison... |
| • | Both Potter, who had worked for the Brooklyn Center Police Department for 26 years, and Police Chief Tim Gannon resigned... |
| • | Police said officers pulled Wright over for expired tags, but after running his driver's license, leaned he had a warrant for his arrest. |
| • | Body-camera footage shows Wright struggling with police when a female officer shouts, "I'll Tase you! I'll Tase you! Taser! Taser! Taser!" |
| • | She draws her weapon after the man breaks free from police and gets back into the car. After firing a single shot, the car speeds away, and Potter says, "Holy (expletive)! I shot him." |
Capitol riot: Police officer won't face charges in fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt, prosecutors say (Fox 04/14/2021)
| • | ... determined "that there is insufficient evidence to support a criminal prosecution." |
| • | "Specifically, the investigation revealed no evidence to establish that, at the time the officer fired a single shot at Ms. Babbitt, the officer did not reasonably believe that it was necessary to do so in self-defense or in defense of the Members of Congress and others evacuating the House Chamber." |
| • | "Eventually, the three USCP officers positioned outside the doors were forced to evacuate. As members of the mob continued to strike the glass doors, Ms. Babbitt attempted to climb through one of the doors where glass was broken out." |
| • | "An officer inside the Speaker's Lobby fired one round from his service pistol, striking Ms. Babbitt in the left shoulder, causing her to fall back from the doorway and onto the floor." |
| • | Video clips posted online depict Babbitt, wearing a stars and stripes backpack, stepping up and beginning to go through the waist-high opening of an area of the Capitol known as the Speaker's Lobby when a gunshot is heard. She falls backward. |
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FLASHBACK: Obama defended filibuster in 2005, now calls it ‘Jim Crow relic’ (Fox 03/26/2021)
| • | In 2005, then-senator Obama delivered a speech arguing against ending the filibuster and thereby allowing one party to "change the rules in the middle of the game so that they can make all the decisions while the other party is told to sit down and keep quiet." |
| • | "If the majority chooses to end the filibuster, if they choose to change the rules and put an end to Democratic debate, then the fighting and the bitterness and the gridlock will only get worse," Obama said. |
| • | In a speech he gave at the funeral for civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., in July 2020, Obama said that if the filibuster needed to be eliminated in order to pass civil rights and voting rights legislation, then it should be. |
| • | "And if all this takes eliminating the filibuster, another Jim Crow relic, in order to secure the God-given rights of every American, then that's what we should do," Obama said. |
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Portland police detain more than 100 people during protest (Fox 03/13/2021)
| • | Ongoing anti-police protests turned violent on Thursday when rioters smashed windows near a federal court and set fires. |
| • | The detained protesters were released after being photographed individually by the police; it was unclear if any were charged with crimes. |
| • | Meanwhile, suspected rioter Darby Howard, 22, spent another night in jail after being arrested twice on Thursday... |
| • | Howard allegedly caused more than $1,000 in vandalism damage at the downtown Wells Fargo Center Friday afternoon by smashing up a flat-screen TV and a glass sliding door; police say he then punched a cop in the head while they tried to arrest him. |
| • | Released Friday night, he was quickly re-arrested for allegedly smashing a window at the downtown courthouse using a Lime rental scooter... |
Capitol riot investigation: DOJ expects at least 100 more to be charged (Fox 03/13/2021)
| • | More than 300 people have been arrested in connection with the attack, which attorneys described as "likely the most complex investigation ever prosecuted" by the Justice Department. |
| • | Charges include trespassing, engaging in violent or disruptive behavior on Capitol grounds, destruction or theft of government property, assaults on federal and local law enforcement officers, firearms offenses, civil disorder, obstruction of an official proceeding, use of destructive devices and conspiracy. |
| • | More than 900 search warrants have been executed in nearly all 50 states, and evidence compiled to date includes more than 15,000 hours of surveillance or video footage, 1,600 electronic devices, 210,000 tips and 80,000 witness interviews. |
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Cancel culture strikes again: Mumford & Son banjoist steps away from band after praising... (Fox 03/10/2021)
| • | "Over the past few days, I have come to better understand the pain caused by the book I endorsed. I have offended not only a lot of people I don't know but also those closest to me, including my bandmates and for that, I am truly sorry. As a result of my actions I am taking time away from the band to examine my blind spots." |
| • | "For now, please know that I realise [sic] how my endorsements have the potential to be viewed as approvals of hatred, divisive behavior. I apologize, as this was not at all my intention." |
| • | See related Gone with the Wind (Chip Bok, 06/12/2020) cartoon from USA picture album |
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Piers Morgan polarizes twitter as he doubles down on criticism of Meghan Markle's 'diatribe...' (Fox 03/10/2021)
| • | "I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in the right to be allowed to have an opinion. If people want to believe Meghan Markle, that's entirely their right. I don't believe almost anything that comes out of her mouth and I think the damage she's done to the British monarchy, and to the Queen, at a time when Prince Philip is lying in hospital, is enormous and frankly contemptible." |
| • | "If I have to fall on my sword for expressing an honestly held opinion about Meghan Markle and that diatribe of bilge that she came out within that interview, so be it." |
| • | "... I said I didn't believe Meghan Markle in her Oprah interview, I've had time to reflect on this opinion, and I still don't. If you did, OK. Freedom of speech is a hill I'm happy to die on. Thanks for all the love, and hate. I'm off to spend more times with my opinions." |
| • | ... posted the message attached to a picture of former Prime Minister Winston Churchill with his famous quote, "Some people's idea of [free speech] is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage." |
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Canceled by Amazon: Clarence Thomas, Michael Brown documentaries, books on gender top... (Fox 03/04/2021)
| • | In recent memory Amazon has removed books from its online store, used its web services to deplatform a social media app popular with conservatives an even blocked a film about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas from its streaming service. |
| • | Here are some of the examples so far: "Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words"* |
| • | The documentary about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas vanished from Amazon's streaming service during Black History Month. |
| • | The film, which chronicles Thomas' journey from "the depths of poverty" to the Supreme Court and everything in between, features archival footage of then-Sen. Joe Biden grilling Anita Hill during the infamous confirmation hearings. |
| • | "When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment" |
| • | "When Harry Became Sally," which had previously been on Amazon's bestseller list, aimed to provide "thoughtful answers to questions arising from our transgender moment" and offered a "a balanced approach to public policy on gender identity, and a sober assessment of the human costs of getting human nature wrong." |
| • | A search of Amazon for "When Harry Became Sally" doesn't find Anderson's book, instead suggesting books with the opposite view such as "The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society," "Understanding Gender Dysphoria: Navigating Transgender Issues in a Changing Culture" and "Let Harry Become Sally: Responding to the Anti-Transgender Moment." |
| • | Parler |
| • | Parler, a social media platform popular with conservatives because of its emphasis on free specch, was booted off Google Play and the Apple App Store following the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Soon after, Amazon Web Services disconnected Parler from its servers with just 24 hours notice. |
| • | "Unreported Truths about COVID-19 and Lockdowns" |
| • | The former New York Times reporter quickly launched a protest on Twitter, calling the move "outrageous censorship from a company that gained hugely from lockdown" as millions were forced to shop online. |
| • | "What Killed Michael Brown?" |
| • | Filmmaker Eli Steele said last year Amazon blocked his film about the death of Michael Brown from appearing on its platform and he feels it was simply because his story "is not the politically correct narrative." |
| • | Brown's 2014 death sparked massive demonstrations in Ferguson, Mo., and around the country, helping solidify the Black Lives Matter movement in the process. |
| • | Ads for "Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters" |
| • | The book was written by Abigail Shrier, who has been outspoken on the issue, and, according to its description, it warns that ideas surrounding gender are prompting teenage girls to "disfigur[e] their bodies" with courses of testosterone. |
| • | See related Out of Books (Mike Lester, 01/11/2021) cartoon from Corporate picture album |
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LeBron James fires back at Zlatan Ibrahimovic after soccer star's comments on politics (Fox 02/27/2021)
| • | "I would never shut up about things that are wrong. I preach about my people and I preach about equality, social injustice, racism, systematic voter suppression, things that go on in our community. I know what's going on still, because I have a group of 300-plus kids at my school that's going through the same thing, and they need a voice, and I'm their voice." |
| • | "I'll use my platform to continue to shed light on everything that's going on around this country and around the world, There's no way I would ever just stick to sports, because I understand how powerful this platform and my voice is." |
LeBron James lists Los Angeles mansion for $20.5M (Fox 03/02/2021)
| • | ... the home features six bedroom suites (including a master bedroom with its own terrace and sitting area) as well as two family rooms, a media room, a library and a "cook's" kitchen with a large breakfast nook. |
| • | With oak flooring throughout, the interior is also marked by "exquisite finishes" and "extensive woodworking" as well as four stone fireplaces. |
| • | The backyard, which can be accessed through a loggia, also features a long lap pool (with its own cabana) overlooking the Pacific Palisades. |
| • | See related LeBron James Sports Basketball (Sean Delonas, 06/02/2017) cartoon from USA picture album |
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US Soccer council member removed over speech against repealing anthem-kneeling ban (Fox 03/01/2021)
| • | "I'm sure I'm going to ruffle some feathers with what I'm about to say, especially given the athletes council that I'm on, but given the evolution of our quote-unquote, progressive culture where everything offends everybody, those willing to take a knee for our anthem don't care about defending half of our country and when they do so, then I don't have too much concern in also exercising my First Amendment right." |
| • | "... I also feel compelled to articulate that I'm of mixed race and representative of undoubtedly the most persecuted people in our country's history, Native Americans." |
| • | "I keep hearing how our country was founded on the backs of slaves, even though approximately only 8% of the entire population even owned slaves, Every race in the history of mankind has been enslaved by another demographic at some point time. Blacks have been enslaved. Hispanics have been enslaved. Asians most recently in our country in the freaking 20th century, have been enslaved. Natives have been enslaved. Whites have been enslaved. Shoot, I lived in Africa for two and a half years where I could purchase people, slaves, between the price of $300 and $800 per person, per head depending on their age, health and physicality." |
| • | "Where were the social justice warriors and the news journalists there to bring their ruminations to these real atrocities? And yet in all of history, only one country has fought to abolish slavery, the United States of America, where nearly 400,000 men died to fight for the abolishment of slavery underneath the same stars and bars that our athletes take a knee for. Their sacrifice is tainted with every knee that touches the ground." |
US Soccer council member removed over speech against repealing anthem-kneeling ban (Fox 03/01/2021)
| • | ... had removed Jahn because he "violated the prohibited conduct's policy section on harassment, which prohibits racial or other harassment based upon a person's protected status (race), including any verbal act in which race is used or implied in a manner which would make a reasonable person uncomfortable. The athlete's council does not tolerate this type of language and finds it incompatible with membership on the council. While the council understands that each person has a right to his or her own opinion, there are certain opinions that go beyond the realm of what is appropriate or acceptable." |
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Bruce Springsteen calls for unity in 2021 Super Bowl ad after previous criticism of Donald Trump (Fox 02/08/2021)
| • | "Now, fear has never been the best of who we are and as for freedom, it's not the property of just the fortunate few. It belongs to us all. Whoever you are, wherever you're from, it's what connects us and we need that connection. We need the middle. We just have to remember the very soil we stand on is common ground. So we can get there. We can make it to the mountaintop. Through the desert. And we will cross this divide. Our light has always found its way through the darkness. And there's hope. On the road. Up ahead." |
Bruce Springsteen calls for unity in 2021 Super Bowl ad after previous criticism of Donald Trump (Fox 02/08/2021)
| • | "It is time for an exorcism in our nation's capital. Welcome to our Halloween/Election Day monster mash. This is Vol. 14 of ‘From My Home to Yours' titled ‘Farewell to the Thief.' In just a few days, we'll be throwing the bums out. I thought it was a f — ing nightmare but it was so true." |
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Rep. Cori Bush under fire for defending riot at St. Louis city jail (Fox 02/07/2021)
| • | "'A riot is the language of the unheard.' - Dr. MLK Jr." |
| • | "I want to talk to my constituents in the window. Their lives and their rights must be protected." |
| • | "My team and I are working to ensure that the urgent needs of people who are incarcerated are not ignored." |
Rep. Cori Bush under fire for defending riot at St. Louis city jail (Fox 02/07/2021)
| • | "I'm in the Capitol. I'm safe, and my team and I are sheltering in place." |
| • | "The President of the United States has incited a riot that has now stormed the Capitol. There are rioters roaming the halls of the Capitol. I saw them with my own eyes." |
| • | "Our country deserves better." |
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Obama center in Chicago, estimated at $500M, to break ground this year despite complaints (Fox 02/04/2021)
| • | The largely privately financed construction is expected to take about four years to complete, with taxpayers expected to pick up the tab for an estimated $174 million in related roadway changes... |
| • | The planned project has faced complaints from residents in the city's South Side neighborhood, who have argued that the facility – to be composed of a public library and other features – would displace some of the area's Black residents. |
| • | "Getting to this point wouldn't have been possible without the folks in the community who have been a part of this process along the way," Obama said. |
| • | "We know that by working together, we can unlock the South Side's fullest potential – and help set up our city, our country and our world for even better years to come." |
| • | The multi-building project, planned for a 19-acre portion of Jackson Park, will include a museum, public library, athletic center, children's playground and test kitchen... |
| • | It will not include a formal "presidential library" because Obama did not want to deal with National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) rules that would apply to such as designation... |
Limbaugh slams Washington Post argument Trump shouldn't have presidential library: 'They're in...' (Fox 02/03/2021)
| • | ... art and architecture critic Philip Kennicott published a column last week demanding that Congress deny former President Donald Trump a presidential library. |
| • | "It's a long story, it goes on, it's filled with 'blah, blah, blah.' They're deathly afraid that Trump will triumphantly return to public life." |
| • | "Theyre not going to be able to stop this. They're not going to be able to stop Trump from having a public life, if he wants it." |
| • | "Who are these people to decide if an ex-president deserves a library or not? If he can raise the money for it, then he can have the library." |
| • | Limbaugh added that the left is further terrified that a Trump Presidential Library and Museum would quickly become one of the most popular tourist attractions in the nation. |
| • | "I know you have the 'Clinton Library and Massage Parlor' in Arkansas, but can you imagine what the traffic is? Not much." |
| • | "They're worried that it would become the biggest tourist attraction in the country, and it would." |
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House Dems who challenged 2016 election results escalate fight with Republicans behind 2020 challenges (Fox 01/19/2021)
| • | "Trump and Congressional Republicans continue to display their disdain for the Constitution by challenging the Electoral College vote count while the world watches in horror," Waters said... |
| • | "Today, some Republicans in the House and Senate will make a mockery of our democracy in their attempts to undo the will of the people." |
| • | Waters continued, saying, "Each member who moves forward with this ploy will be remembered for their willingness to subvert democracy." |
| • | "The 12th Amendment obligates each and every one of us to count the electoral votes, to recognize the will of the people in the 2020 presidential election," Raskin said. |
| • | "We are not here, Madam Speaker, to vote for the candidate we want. We are here to recognize the candidate the people actually voted for in the states. Madam Speaker, the 2020 election is over, and the people have spoken." |
| • | This was a different attitude than the one Raskin had four years ago. "I would love to challenge the Electoral College vote because our election was badly tainted by everything from cyber-sabotage by Vladimir Putin, to deliberate voter suppression by Republicans in numerous swing states." |
| • | McGovern acknowledged his own objection in 2017 before Republicans did the same this year. "I was the first Democrat to object to the Electoral College tally in 2017." |
| • | "What some Republicans are planning for tomorrow is not the same. It's an attempted coup that could damage the fabric of our democracy for generations to come." |
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Pence uses Pelosi's own words to justify not invoking the 25th Amendment (Fox 01/13/2021)
| • | Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., who drafted the resolution calling for the creation of a 25th Amendment Commission in October last year, argued ... "I don't think there is a reasonable person in the country with his or her eyes open who doesn't understand that the President was hell-bent on trying to challenge, undermine, and overturn the result of the election in all of the events leading up to January 6th, and on January 6th." |
Twitter silent after Pelosi tweet declaring 2016 election was 'hijacked' resurfaces (Fox 01/12/2021)
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| • | "This tweet by @SpeakerPelosi from 5/7/17 is an illustration of how months after the 2016 election, leading Dems were still sowing doubt about the integrity of the election just as they did after FL 2000. This rhetoric paved the way for the other side to do the same." |
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McConnell furious with president, supports move to initiate impeachment proceedings: sources (Fox 01/12/2021)
| • | "... Donald John Trump engaged in high Crimes and Misdemeanors by inciting violence against the Government of the United States." |
| • | ... "repeatedly issued false statements asserting that the presidential election results were the product of widespread fraud and should not be accepted by the American people or certified by State or Federal officials." |
Twitter silent after Pelosi tweet declaring 2016 election was 'hijacked' resurfaces (Fox 01/12/2021)
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| • | "This tweet by @SpeakerPelosi from 5/7/17 is an illustration of how months after the 2016 election, leading Dems were still sowing doubt about the integrity of the election just as they did after FL 2000. This rhetoric paved the way for the other side to do the same." |
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Democrats were for riots before they were against them (INN 01/11/2021)
| • | In 2018, the media was writing up glowing stories about the hundreds of Women's March members who were engaging in "direct action" to disrupt the Senate's Kavanaugh hearings. |
| • | Radicals from the March and other leftist groups blocked hallways, shouted down Senate members, and draped protest banners from balconies. Democrats cheered them on. |
| • | When a leftist mob assailed the Supreme Court, pounding on the doors, MSNBC called it an "extraordinary moment" and praised the crowd, "besieging the Supreme Court" and "confronting senators" . |
| • | In 2020, Black Lives Matter rioters vandalized the Lincoln Memorial and the WW2 Memorial, along with statues of Gandhi, General Kosciuszko, and Andrew Jackson. The racist thugs marched through the city starting fires, including at a historic church, and tried to besiege the White House. |
| • | Attempts by federal law enforcement to fight BLM terrorism were falsely denounced as a brutal attack on "peaceful protesters", and as "militarism" and "fascism". |
| • | Meanwhile the BLM mob besieged the White House and battled Secret Service personnel, allegedly forcing the evacuation of President Trump and his family to a bunker. |
| • | A bail fund backed by Senator Kamala Harris and Biden campaign staffers focused on helping the rioters and looters get out of prison. Along with any other criminals along for the ride. |
| • | Violent protests, including those targeting public officials and legislative bodies, had been championed and normalized by Democrats and their media over the last four years. That included the harassment of officials, property destruction, and assaulting law enforcement. |
| • | D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine had responded to the Black Lives Matter assault by condemning law enforcement. |
| • | He had issued a statement falsely accusing President Trump of "responding to nonviolent demonstration with war-like tactics" . |
| • | "We — the Mayor, the Council, OAG, and MPD — must commit to standing in between our community and the boot of tyranny. And we must act on this commitment. We must start by promising to defend our residents from harm while they engage in peaceful, nonviolent protest." |
| • | The Democrats and media had cheered Black Lives Matter violent protests. |
| • | They had colluded in previous invasions of Congress and the harassment of elected officials. |
| • | "Please, show me where it says protesters are supposed to be polite and peaceful," CNN's Chris Cuomo had barked while his news network showed rioting and looting in New York. |
| • | Martin Luther King's infamous quote, "a riot is the language of the unheard" , popped up in Time, USA Today, and on CNN. |
| • | "Violence was critical to the success of the 1960s civil rights movement," a Washington Post op-ed argued. |
| • | The AP urged reporters to use "uprising" instead of "riot" to describe the violence, while suggesting that protests can be violent and that reporting should not focus on the "property destruction" , but instead on the "underlying grievance" . |
| • | A subsidiary of one of the big 5 publishers put out a book titled, "In Defense of Looting." |
| • | After months in which BLM mobs attacked a federal courthouse in Portland, throwing fireworks and shining lasers in the eyes of law enforcement personnel, toppled statues across the country, and injured hundreds of police officers, the Democrats and their media are suddenly outraged. |
Democrats were for riots before they were against them (INN 01/11/2021)
| • | Now, as the Democrats expect to take power, they suddenly decided that rioting is bad. |
| • | "We want the military, we want troops from out of state out of Washington, D.C.," Mayor Muriel Bowser had ranted when BLM was attacking national memorials and the White House. |
| • | "We will not allow people to incite violence, intimidate our residents or cause destruction in our city," Bowser now insisted, demanding that the National Guard come out to stop the protests. Unless they're Democrats, she failed to mention. |
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Facebook blocks Trump indefinitely after Capitol riot response (Fox 01/07/2021)
| • | Zuckerberg ... said that the "last 24 hours clearly demonstrate that President Donald Trump intends to use his remaining time in office to undermine the peaceful and lawful transition of power to his elected successor, Joe Biden." |
| • | "His decision to use his platform to condone rather than condemn the actions of his supporters at the Capitol building has rightly disturbed people in the US and around the world." |
| • | "We removed these statements yesterday because we judged that their effect — and likely their intent — would be to provoke further violence." |
| • | "... use of our platform to incite violent insurrection against a democratically elected government." |
Facebook blocks Trump indefinitely after Capitol riot response (Fox 01/07/2021)
| • | In the president's video, addressing supporters, he said: "I know your pain, I know your hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us, It was a landslide election and everyone knows it, especially the other side." |
| • | "We had an election that was stolen from us, It was a landslide election and everyone knows it, especially the other side." "But you have to go home now. We have to have peace, we have to have law and order we have to respect our great people in law and order. We don't want anyone hurt." |
| • | ... went on to say that it is a "very tough period of time — there has never been a time like this where such a thing happened, where they could take it away from all of us — from me, from you, from our country." |
| • | "This was a fraudulent election, but we can't play into the hands of these people, We have to have peace." |
| • | "So go home, we love you, you're very special, you've seen what happens, you've seen the way others are treated that are so bad, so evil. I know how you feel." "But go home and go home in peace." |
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Tucker Carlson: A death in the Capitol, and what we must do now (Fox 01/07/2021)
| • | Millions of Americans sincerely believe the last election was fake. You can dismiss them as crazy. You can call them conspiracy theorists. You can kick them off Twitter. But that won't change their minds. |
| • | Rather than trying to change their minds, to convince them and reassure them that the system is real, that democracy works — which you would do if you cared about the country or the people who live here — our new leaders will try to silence them. |
| • | What happened Wednesday will be used by the people taking power to justify stripping you of the rights you were born with as an American: Your right to speak without being censored, your right to assemble, to not be spied upon, to make a living, and to defend your family. |
| • | These are the most basic and ancient freedoms that we have. They're why we live here in the first place. They're why we're proud to be Americans. They're what make us different, and they're all now in peril. |
| • | When thousands of your countrymen storm the Capitol building, you don't have to like it. We don't. You can be horrified by the violence, and we are. |
| • | But if you don't bother to pause and learn a single thing from your citizens storming your Capitol building, then you're a fool, you lack wisdom and self-awareness, and you have no place running a country. We got to this sad, chaotic day for a reason. |
Mitt Romney accuses Trump of inciting an insurrection (Fox 01/06/2021)
| • | "We gather today due to a selfish man's injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning." |
| • | "What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States." |
| • | "Those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the results of a legitimate, democratic election will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy. They will be remembered for their role in this shameful episode in American history. That will be their legacy." |
James Mattis denounces Trump, says he will be 'left a man without a country' (Fox 01/07/2021)
| • | "Today's violent assault on our Capitol, an effort to subjugate American democracy by mob rule, was fomented by Mr. Trump." |
| • | "His use of the Presidency to destroy trust in our election and to poison our respect for fellow citizens has been enabled by pseudo political leaders whose names will live in infamy as profiles in cowardice." |
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Democrats who praised 2004 objections to Electoral College certification now slam Hawley (Fox 12/31/2020)
| • | "The political equivalent of barking at the moon," Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said of Hawley joining the challenge to electoral slates. "This won't be taken seriously, nor should it be. The American people made a decision on Nov. 3rd and that decision must and will be honored and protected by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives." |
| • | "Sen. Hawley's actions are grossly irresponsible. He's attempting to undermine our democratic process, fuel Trump's lies about voter fraud, and delay the certification of Biden's win," Van Hollen said... |
| • | "In the end, this reckless stunt will fail, and Joe Biden will become President on Jan. 20, 2021." |
| • | Markey ... said Hawley's challenge "is just an extension of what Donald Trump is trying to perpetrate as a fraud on the American people" and "there is no basis for any questioning of Joe Biden as our next president." |
| • | House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. ... "I have no doubt that on next Wednesday, a week from today, that Joe Biden will be confirmed by the acceptance of the vote of the Electoral College as the 46th president of the United States." |
Democrats who praised 2004 objections to Electoral College certification now slam Hawley (Fox 12/31/2020)
| • | "Some may criticize our colleague from California for bringing us here for this brief debate," Durbin said on the Senate floor following Boxer's objection, while noting that he would vote to certify the Ohio electoral votes for Bush. "I thank her for doing that because it gives members an opportunity once again on a bipartisan basis to look at a challenge that we face not just in the last election in one State but in many States." |
| • | "I believe that Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH) have performed a very valuable public service in bringing this debate before the Congress. As Americans, we should all be troubled by reports of voting problems in many parts of the country," Van Hollen... |
| • | "I have been particularly concerned about the lack of a verifiable paper record in connection with electronic voting systems. I am proud to be a co-sponsor of legislation to solve that problem." |
| • | One current senator who did vote to outright reject the Ohio electoral votes in early 2005 was then-Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass. He was among 31 House members at the time to vote in favor of rejecting Ohio's electoral slate. |
| • | In 2005 on the House floor, Pelosi lauded Boxer's challenge. "Today we are witnessing Democracy at work. This isn't as some of our Republican colleagues have referred to it, sadly, as frivolous. This debate is fundamental to our democracy. The representatives of the American people in this house are standing up for three fundamental American beliefs: The right to vote is sacred; that a representative has a duty to represent his or her constituents; and that the rule of law is the hallmark of our nation." |
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Gutfeld on the expanding Hunter Biden investigation (Fox 12/14/2020)
| • | First: There's the Steele dossier: |
| • | CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota: "The dossier has been corroborated by the intelligence community." |
| • | CNN's Jim Sciutto: The dossier in fact is far from bogus... |
| • | MSNBC: So far nothing in this dossier has been disproved... |
| • | CNN: Increasingly, it's the accurate dossier. |
Gutfeld on the expanding Hunter Biden investigation (Fox 12/14/2020)
| • | Now, let's compare this to the coverage of Hunter Biden. |
| • | CNN's Brian Stelter: We do know that this is a classic example of the right-wing media machine... |
| • | ABC's George Stephanopoulos: Talking about Biden's personal corruption, a little bit about Hunter Biden, most of those charges unverified. |
| • | MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire: "...peddling baseless conspiracy theories about Joe Biden and his son. |
| • | CNN's Christiane Amanpour: As you know, I am a journalist and I follow the facts, and there has never been any issue with corruption...... |
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Deroy Murdock: COVID feud — Gov. Andrew Cuomo bites the hand that healed New York (Fox 11/17/2020)
| • | "The good news is that the Pfizer tests looks good and we'll have a vaccine shortly" ... "The bad news is that it's about two months before Joe Biden takes over, and that means this administration is going to be implementing a vaccine plan." |
| • | Slamming the president by name, Cuomo continued: "When you deny a problem the way Trump did, you can never solve it and that's true in life. The Trump administration denied COVID, so they were never ready for it. There was no mobilization of the government." |
Deroy Murdock: COVID feud — Gov. Andrew Cuomo bites the hand that healed New York (Fox 11/17/2020)
| • | "I want to thank the vice president and especially the president, who facilitated this and moved quickly," Cuomo said March 13. |
| • | "We need obviously more testing capacity, and we need it quickly. So I spoke to the vice president about this." |
| • | "Fairness dictates that kudos where kudos are due, and here the vice president and the president responded very quickly. So, I want to thank them for that," Cuomo said March 16, as a "Fox & Friends" montage reminded viewers last Saturday. |
| • | "I spoke to the president this morning, again. He is ready, willing, and able to help," Cuomo announced March 17. |
| • | "His team is on it. They have been responsive late at night, early in the morning. And thus far, they have been doing everything that they can do, and I want to say thank you, and I want to say that I appreciate it." |
| • | "I want to thank the president of the United States, President Trump, who mobilized this effort, and he did it with all rapid speed," Cuomo said March 30, as the U.S. Navy's newly refurbished USNS Comfort steamed up the Hudson, moored at Manhattan's Pier 88, and opened its 1,000 hospital beds to sick New Yorkers. |
| • | "He has been good in delivering for New York," Cuomo told radio host Howard Stern about Trump on April 13. "He has delivered for New York." |
| • | "I'll tell you, he's been amazingly accessible. Either he gets on the phone, or he calls me back in 10 minutes." |
| • | "The president always makes a point of saying to me ‘How is Chris? Is he doing OK?' And that's not in his usual character. We're not chit-chatty on the phone." |
| • | "Do I have faith in the president?" Cuomo asked April 19. "Look. What the federal government did, working with states, as I just said, was a phenomenal accomplishment. The federal government stepped up and was a great partner, and I am the first one to say it. We needed help and they were there." |
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Marine vet Joey Jones slams media's 'abhorrent' double standard after Tony Bobulinski's... (Fox 10/29/2020)
| • | "Vindman got an entire hearing, nationally televised in the middle of an impeachment, and every word out of his mouth, we were supposed to believe because he said it in uniform." |
| • | "And then to say this for some reason Tony Bobulinski is a Russian disinformation person. Like maybe, respect his service just a little bit and hear what he has to say, and then check it out." |
| • | "John Kelly is a good example of this. He was the devil incarnate when he worked for the president, and now he's Jesus Christ the savior because he doesn't like the president." |
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Biden questions ‘memory’ of voters in poll who say they’re better off now than 4 years ago (Fox 10/13/2020)
| • | "They think 54 percent of the American people believe they're better off economically today than they were under our administration? Well, their memory is not very good, quite frankly." |
| • | See related About Right... (Michael Ramirez, 08/11/2019) cartoon from Politics picture album |
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Trump claims Biden's 'dementia' is 'rapidly getting worse' after campaign trail gaffes (Fox 10/13/2020)
| • | ... that he was "running as a proud Democrat for the Senate" before amending the error and saying he was "running as a proud Democrat for president." |
| • | "You're the ones who sent Barack Obama the presidency. And I have a simple proposition here: I'm here to ask you for your help." |
| • | "... My name's Joe Biden. I'm a Democratic candidate for the United State's Senate. Look me over. If you like what you see, help out. If not, vote for the other Biden. Give me a look though, OK?" |
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Pelosi announces bill on 25th Amendment after questioning Trump's health (Fox 10/09/2020)
| • | "This is not about President Trump. He will face the judgment of the voters. But he shows the need for us to create a process for future presidents." |
Trump hits back at Pelosi's 25th Amendment move, says her real target is 'Sleepy Joe' (Fox 10/09/2020)
| • | "Crazy Nancy Pelosi is looking at the 25th Amendment in order to replace Joe Biden with Kamala Harris." |
| • | "The Dems want that to happen fast because Sleepy Joe is out of it!!!" |
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Trump accuses Democrats of 'using COVID to steal our election' in defiant RNC remarks after... (Fox 08/24/2020)
| • | "What they will hear from Donald Trump this week are the last thing our country needs: more desperate, wild-eyed lies and toxic division in vain attempts to distract from his mismanagement." |
Pelosi calls Trump, GOP lawmakers 'domestic enemies,' 'enemies of the state' over mail-in voting... (Fox 08/24/2020)
| • | "We take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. And sadly, the domestic enemies to our voting system and our honoring of the Constitution are right at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with their allies in the Congress of the United States." |
| • | "And again, support the postal system, which is Election Central. They're doing everything they can [to] suppress the vote with their actions, scare people, intimidate by saying law enforcement will be there, diminish the role of the postal system in all of this. It's really actually shameful. Enemies of the state." |
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More Random Thoughts When Not Out Protesting (JWR 08/20/2020)
| • | Portland, Oregon, Mayor Ted Wheeler warned the rioters that they've become "a prop for the reelection campaign of Donald Trump." |
| • | Assaults on residents and property destruction couldn't get the mayor to condemn the rioters. That took the prospect of Donald Trump getting reelected. |
| • | Michelle Obama says "quarantine," the "racial strife" and the "hypocrisy" of the Trump administration are "dispiriting," giving her "some form of low-grade depression." |
| • | The Obamas have good health, daughters in good schools, a $12 million pad in Martha's Vineyard and a net worth conservatively estimated at $40-70 million, with a high trajectory given the Obamas' youth and earning potential. Hardscrabble existence. But they manage. |
| • | "The California Supreme Court ... agreed to lower the passing score for the (bar) exam, a victory for law school deans who ... hoped the change would raise the number of Black and Latino people practicing law." — Los Angeles Times, July 26, 2020. |
| • | Why doesn't the same argument apply to medical doctors and airline pilots? When can we expect the NBA to lower the hoop to get more white players? |
| • | The No. 1 domestic problem in America is not "institutional racism" or "police brutality" or "inequality." |
| • | The No. 1 domestic problem in America is the breakdown of the nuclear family. No fathers. No peace. |
| • | "Today we witness with our own eyes police officers kneeling on the necks of Black Americans."?? — Barack Obama, July 30, 2020. |
| • | "Officers"? "Necks"? "Black Americans"?? That's like saying when O.J. Simpson murdered Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson, "Blacks" slit the "necks" of "white Americans."?? |
| • | Democrats and the media call Trump a fascist/Nazi/tyrant/Russian asset/mentally unfit/grifter/sexist/racist/xenophobic/homophobic/anti-Semitic/stupid/congenital liar/sex predator/hate monger/illegitimately elected. |
| • | How dare respected constitutional law professor John Eastman merely ask about the legal status of Harris' parents at the time of her birth? |
| • | A fact to a liberal is like daylight to a vampire. |
| • | Let's see if we have this straight. Seattle's first and only Black female police chief resigns after department funding is cut and her pay is reduced by Seattle's all non-Black city council in response to street protests about ... white privilege? Only in America. |
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Barack Obama: A one-trick pony (INN 08/20/2020)
| • | Obama kicks off his speech to the 2020 Democratic National Convention by calling the Constitution racist. He goes on to scold President Trump for not finding "common ground." |
| • | That's quite a whine from a radical who never bothered to find common ground. And treated everyone who disagreed with him with outright contempt. |
| • | See related Miss Me? (Glenn McCoy, 02/28/2017) cartoon from USA picture album |
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Dr. Alveda King on John Lewis' funeral: The left will 'grab at any opportunity' to politicize (Fox 07/31/2020)
| • | "I have chosen not to politicize the death of Congressman Lewis, but to remember him as a peaceful, nonviolent warrior and encourage everyone to resolve our conflicts peacefully." |
Tucker Carlson: America is witnessing a brazen power grab (Fox 07/31/2020)
| • | BARACK OBAMA: "By ending some of the partisan gerrymandering so that all voters have the power to choose their politicians, not the other way around." |
| • | "And if all this takes eliminating the filibuster, another Jim Crow relic, in order to secure the God-given rights of every American, then that's what we should do." |
| • | ... take three steps back, imagine if some greasy politician showed up at your loved one's funeral and started throwing around stupid partisan talking points about Senate procedure, can you imagine that? |
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Portland rioters used metal spikes to target federal vehicles: CBP leader (Fox 07/25/2020)
| • | "Early this morning, metal spikes were used by criminals in Portland to puncture the tires of CBP vehicles." |
| • | ... rioters using power tools to saw through a fence protecting the federal courthouse in Portland. |
| • | ... another night of violence that included rioters throwing rocks, launching fireworks, attacking officers with mortar-style fireworks and lasers, and igniting a fire inside the fence. |
| • | "During the evening's violence a CBP officer suffered a chemical burn resulting from a substance thrown by rioters, one suffered a severe blow to his face from a hard object, and another suffered a possible broken bone." |
| • | ... 28 federal law enforcement officials have been injured during the rioting, including broken bones, hearing damage, eye damage and a dislocated shoulder. |
| • | "The most serious injury to an officer to date occurred when a protester wielding a two-pound sledgehammer struck an officer in the head and shoulder when the officer tried to prevent the protester from breaking down a door to the Hatfield Courthouse." |
Feds clash with Portland protesters again, hours after judge denied Oregon's request to restrict...' (Fox 07/25/2020)
| • | Among various organized groups, including Healthcare Workers Protest, Teachers against Tyrants, Lawyers for Black Lives and the "Wall of Moms," was Portland Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, who spoke to protesters outside the Justice Center. |
| • | ... at least 43 people have been arrested on federal charges at that point. ... All the defendants are local and were released after making a court appearance. |
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Ocasio-Cortez delivers emotional floor speech slamming Rep. Yoho's 'abusive language' (Fox 07/23/2020)
| • | ... led one hour of passionate speeches ... calling out Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., for "dehumanizing" insults against her and slamming his attempt to apologize as falling way short. |
| • | "I will not stay up late at night waiting for an apology from a man who has no remorse over calling women and using abusive language towards women." |
| • | Ocasio-Cortez ended her 10-minute monologue thanking Yoho for showing just how common harassment against women is — even against members of Congress — and how it's a "pattern" of dehumanizing behavior. |
Rashida Tlaib calls Trump an expletive during pitch to impeach (Fox 01/04/2019)
| • | "And when your son looks at you and says, 'Momma, look you won. Bullies don't win.' And I said, 'Baby, they don't, because we're gonna go in there and we're gonna impeach the mother***er.'" |
| • | See related Ms. Tlaib Goes to Washington (Mike Shelton, 01/07/2019) cartoon from Politics picture album |
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Portland riots – it is Trump's constitutional duty to enforce federal law and he should (Fox 07/21/2020)
| • | "[H]e shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." The Constitution says that's the president's job, but we're not hearing much about that from the chattering classes. |
| • | We hear plenty of bloviating from the media-Democrat complex, dutifully masquerading the rioting in Portland as "mostly peaceful protest." |
| • | And there is no shortage of faux outrage over President Trump's purported trampling on state sovereignty by dispatching federal agents to address the mayhem. |
| • | The president has two principal, closely related responsibilities: to provide for national security and to see that the laws are enforced. |
| • | The latter duty very much includes the protection of federal property and the execution of laws Congress has constitutionally enacted to address violent crime. |
| • | Federal officers in Portland are not a military force. They are deputized law enforcement agents of the Department of Homeland Security and other federal police agencies. |
| • | They are not, as Senator Paul misleadingly suggests, "rounding up people at will." They are making arrests based on probable cause that laws enacted by Congress have been violated. |
| • | To my knowledge, Senator Paul has not proposed any legislation to repeal federal penal statutes that prohibit, for example, mutilating federal property, arson, and conspiring to oppose government authority by force. |
| • | In circumstances where police are being targeted for assault and harassment, which includes being "doxed" by radicals who use identifying information to threaten the police and their families, it is perfectly reasonable to withhold the names of the agents – particularly when their badges and numbers are visible. |
| • | Notwithstanding, the political demagogues who would have us turn a blind eye to violent crime under the guise of honoring free expression, the Trump administration has the constitutional duty to uphold federal law. |
| • | In Portland, federal agents are faithfully executing our nation's laws. |
In Portland, actions of federal agents are unlawful, unconstitutional and harmful (Fox 07/23/2020)
| • | The Supreme Court has ruled that state and local elected officials — not police — are empowered to determine the depth and breadth of law enforcement. |
| • | And the court has also ruled that the police have no legal obligation to protect lives and property. Stated differently, the police cannot be sued for their willful failures. |
| • | The remedy for those failures — according to the court — is to elect different officials who will deploy police assets differently. |
| • | Yet, the police have a moral obligation to protect lives and property. For what other purpose have we hired and empowered them? |
| • | Public dissent against the government is a core personal freedom. It is as American as apple pie. It was integral to the creation of our republic. |
| • | Government repression of dissent is totalitarian. It is as un-American as the governments against which we fought world wars to preserve our core freedoms. |
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GOP Rep. Yoho overheard making profane comments about AOC; Hoyer says he should be 'sanctioned' (Fox 07/21/2020)
| • | House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer issued a stern condemnation of Rep. Ted Yoho after he reportedly got into a heated exchange in the Capitol with the left-wing freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that allegedly ended with Yoho uttering the words "f***** b****." |
| • | "The comments related to me were despicable. Unacceptable. Mr. Yoho owes not only the Congresswoman an apology, but an apology on the floor of the House." |
Rashida Tlaib calls Trump an expletive during pitch to impeach (Fox 01/04/2019)
| • | "And when your son looks at you and says, 'Momma, look you won. Bullies don't win.' And I said, 'Baby, they don't, because we're gonna go in there and we're gonna impeach the mother***er.'" |
| • | See related Ms. Tlaib Goes to Washington (Mike Shelton, 01/07/2019) cartoon from Politics picture album |
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Biden calls for America to tackle 'systemic racism' in 4th of July message (Fox 07/04/2020)
| • | "We have a chance now to give the marginalized, the demonized, the isolated [and] the oppressed a full share of the American Dream." |
| • | "We have the chance to rip the roots of systemic racism out of this country." |
| • | "We're all created equal. We've never lived up to it — but we've never stopped trying." |
| • | Former President Obama retweeted Biden's July 4th video message and urged everyone to support his former vice president. |
| • | "Our founding promise has never been guaranteed. Each generation has been called to bring us a little closer to our highest ideals — and history's calling on us right now. So let's all do whatever we can to help [Biden]." |
| • | See related About Right... (Michael Ramirez, 08/11/2019) cartoon from Politics picture album |
| • | See related Miss Me? (Glenn McCoy, 02/28/2017) cartoon from USA picture album |
Trump, in fiery Mount Rushmore address, decries rise of 'far-left fascism,' calls on Americans to... (Fox 07/04/2020)
| • | "This monument will never be desecrated. These heroes will never be defaced. Their legacy will never, ever be destroyed. Their achievements will never be forgotten. And Mount Rushmore will stand forever as an eternal tribute to our forefathers and to our freedom." |
| • | "We only kneel to Almighty God," Trump remarked, in a clear shot at athletes who kneel in protest during the national anthem. "We will not be intimidated by bad, evil people. It will not happen." |
| • | "Against every law of society and nature, our children are taught in school to hate their own country and to believe that the men and women who built it weren't heroes, but villains. The radical view of American history is a web of lies." |
| • | "As we meet here tonight, there is a growing danger that threatens every blessing our ancestors fought so hard for, struggled, and bled to secure," Trump said, warning of a concerted attempt to "wipe out our history" and "indoctrinate our children." |
| • | "They think the American people are weak and soft and submissive," the president continued, to applause, "But no, the American people are strong and proud. And they will not allow our country and its values and history and culture to be taken from them." |
| • | "Those who seek to erase our heritage want Americans to forget our pride and our great dignity, so that we can no longer understand ourselves or America's destiny." |
| • | "We will never surrender the spirit and the courage, and the cause of July 4, 1776. Upon this ground we will stand firm and unwavering." |
Trump gives optimistic Independence Day message, says US is ‘coming back’ after ‘terrible plague from China (Fox 07/04/2020)
| • | "We will state the truth in full, without apology: We declare that the United States of America is the most just and exceptional nation ever to exist on Earth." |
| • | "We are proud of the fact that our country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles, and we understand that these values have dramatically advanced the cause of peace and justice throughout the world." |
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Tucker Carlson: Trump could well lose the election - he must defend America's institutions (Fox 06/26/2020)
| • | Consider the targets that the mob chose. Law enforcement, obviously, but not all law enforcement. Local police departments must be eliminated, they said, but the FBI is just fine — and that was telling. |
| • | Then they claimed that capitalism was the enemy, but only certain kinds of capitalism. The mob burned independent businesses to the ground by the score. |
| • | They didn't say a word about those businesses' digital competitors, Google and Apple and Amazon. All of those companies were funding the destruction. |
| • | Then the mob told us that traditional Christianity was racist. They desecrated churches in the name of avenging slavery. |
| • | And yet Antifa did not touch a single mosque, despite the fact that historians say Mohammed owned slaves. |
| • | "They're on my car! They are on my car!" "Ma'am," comes the reply. "We would suggest you call up city hall to let them know about your frustrations." |
| • | A woman and her child were terrorized by a violent mob, and then they were intentionally abandoned by the state that has promised to protect them. It was the ultimate betrayal of citizenship. |
| • | You should know that the mayor of Fredericksburg, Virginia, a woman called Mary Katherine Greenlaw later apologized. But Greenlaw did not apologize to Tara Durant or her young daughter. The mayor apologized to the mob. |
| • | Police had tried to disperse them while they were rioting. "I am personally sorry," Mayor Greenlaw slobbered. "I want to apologize to those who went through this fearful experience." |
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Twitter slaps warning label on Trump tweet about 'autonomous zone,' says it violates... (Fox 06/23/2020)
| • | "There will never be an "Autonomous Zone" in Washington, D.C., as long as I'm your President. If they try they will be met with serious force!" |
| • | By the afternoon, Twitter added a label above the tweet, saying Trump's post had "violated the Twitter Rules about abusive behavior." |
Twitter censors Trump's Minneapolis tweet for 'glorifying violence' (Fox 05/29/2020)
| • | "I can't stand back & watch this happen to a great American City, Minneapolis," Trump tweeted. "A total lack of leadership. Either the very weak Radical Left Mayor, Jacob Frey, get his act together and bring the City under control, or I will send in the National Guard & get the job done right." |
| • | A second tweet continued, "These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won't let this happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you." |
| • | A few hours after the president sent those tweets, Twitter added a disclaimer onto the second tweet, which hides the message until users click "view." |
| • | "This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about glorifying violence. However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public's interest for the Tweet to remain accessible," the disclaimer read. |
Tucker Carlson: The real reason mobs across the country are tearing down American monuments (Fox 06/23/2020)
| • | ... an activist called Shaun King issued the following demand on Twitter: "All murals and stained glass windows of white Jesus and his European mother and their white friends should also come down. They are a gross form of white supremacy created as tools of oppression, racist propaganda. They should all come down." |
| • | Before you dismiss that idea as absurd, the rantings of some crank on social media, keep in mind that Shaun King is the most famous Black Lives Matter leader in this country. Black Lives Matter is now more popular than either major political party. |
| • | So, don't be surprised when they come for your church. Why wouldn't they? No one is stopping them. |
Cruz calls for criminal investigation into Twitter for violating US sanctions on Iran (Fox 05/29/2020)
| • | "Fundamental values of openness, free expression, public accountability, and mutual understanding matter now more than ever," a Twitter spokesperson said |
| • | "Regardless of the political agenda of a particular nation state, to deny our service to their leaders at a time like this would be antithetical to the purpose of our company, which is to serve the global public conversation." |
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2 California men employed by sheriff and DA cited for vandalizing Black Lives Matter sign (Fox 06/22/2020)
| • | Two men charged with vandalizing a Black Lives Matter sign in California were employees of a sheriff's office and district attorney's office. They were issued citations for vandalism following investigations... |
| • | "I'm deeply disappointed that one of our employees involved himself in this type of illegal activity, especially when this is an infringement on someone's First Amendment right to freedom of speech," Sheriff Bill Ayub said... |
Immigrant owner of small business ransacked by looters speaks out: 'We are innocent victims' (Fox 06/22/2020)
| • | "At the end of May, here at the Santa Monica Promenade, 80 businesses were looted, ransacked, and destroyed while police did nothing. Laura and Raymond. In all, 225 businesses suffered damage." |
| • | "They broke in, [I] immediately, got a call from [the] alarm company to notify us that the police officers are not showing up." |
| • | "They had guns. You never think such a thing [would happen] in the city of Santa Monica, [in] broad daylight and no police officer is showing up. |
Ulysses S. Grant statue toppled in San Francisco (Fox 06/20/2020)
| • | A statue of former President Ulysses S. Grant — the Union general who led his army to victory against the Confederacy during the Civil War — was toppled on Friday as hundreds gathered in San Francisco to celebrate Juneteenth. |
| • | During his tenure in the White House, Grant advocated for the civil rights of former slaves and helped ratify the Fifteenth Amendment, which gave blacks the right to vote. |
| • | Nearly 400 people gathered to knock down the effigy on the anniversary commemorating the day African Americans in Texas were finally informed that President Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves living in Confederate states two years earlier. |
| • | No arrests were made during the statue incident. |
DC protesters pull down, burn statue of Confederate general (Fox 06/20/2020)
| • | Cheering demonstrators jumped up and down as the 11-foot (3.4-meter) statue of Albert Pike — wrapped with chains — wobbled on its high granite pedestal before falling backward, landing in a pile of dust. |
| • | Protesters then set a bonfire and stood around it in a circle as the statue burned, chanting, "No justice, no peace!" and "No racist police!" |
| • | Eyewitness accounts and videos posted on social media indicated that police were on the scene but didn't intervene. |
| • | "The DC police are not doing their job as they watched a statue be ripped down and burn. These people should be immediately arrested. A disgrace to our Country!" |
| • | Jubilant protesters read out Trump's tweet over a bullhorn and cheered. |
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NBC News called out over tweets about Trump’s Tulsa event and a 'packed' rally in Brooklyn (Fox 06/15/2020)
| • | ... "Rally for Black trans lives draws packed crowd to Brooklyn Museum plaza." |
| • | About an hour later ... "President Trump plans to rally his supporters next Saturday for the first time since most of the country was shuttered by the coronavirus. But health experts are questioning that decision." |
| • | ... told her Twitter followers that she would join a rally "to speak with our community as America grieves." |
| • | A few days later, she came out against Trump's plan to hold rallies and called the decision "irresponsible and selfish." |
| • | New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo had previously lashed out at protesters calling to reopen the state, saying, "you have no right to jeopardize my health ... and my children's health and your children's health." |
| • | Cuomo said he now "stands" with those defying stay-at-home orders: "Nobody is sanctioning the arson, and the thuggery and the burglaries, but the protesters and the anger and the fear and the frustration? Yes. Yes, and the demand is for justice." |
| • | "To justify this, Democrats have decided to claim being outside with masks is now safe." |
| • | "Would have been nice to have known that when the super-awesome Grim Reaper guy was shaming people for being at deserted beaches & billions were subjected to stay-home orders, but here we are." |
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Atlanta cop who shot Rayshard Brooks could face felony murder: DA (Fox 06/15/2020)
| • | "The fact that it would escalate to his death seems unreasonable," ... "There are really three charges that are relevant: One would be the murder charge in the state of Georgia. That charge is a charge that is directly related to an intent to kill." |
| • | "We don't know what was in the mind of the officer when someone turns around and points a weapon at him. Is he absolutely sure that's a non-lethal weapon? This is not a clear-cut circumstance." |
Las Vegas officer shot in head during George Floyd protest likely paralyzed: report (Fox 06/15/2020)
| • | ... paralyzed from the neck down, on a ventilator and unable to speak... |
| • | Prosecutors have charged a 20-year-old man with deliberately shooting Mikalonis during the protest, one of hundreds being held across the nation. ... police video shows Edgar Samaniego "walking by, taking out a gun and firing ... at officers." |
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Ben Shapiro: George Floyd aftermath – These points we agree on drowned out in the chaos (Fox 06/10/2020)
| • | Thus, we hear that silence is violence, that being non-racist simply isn't enough and you must actively fight racism. |
| • | But we also hear that speech is violence, that if you oppose policies the political left supports, your words are a form of violence and you must be silenced. The only safe path, therefore, is parroting the messages of those initiated in the religion of "wokeness." |
| • | Thus, we hear that individuals ought not to be held responsible for the sins of those in their racial group, and that's why it's so wrong for the police to engage in profiling. |
| • | But we also hear that white Americans bear full responsibility for the sins of both modern racists and historic racists, and ought to atone on behalf of their race and their country. And if you refuse, you must be considered racist. |
| • | Thus, we hear that the police are the greatest threat to black Americans, and that's why they must be defunded. |
| • | But we also hear that police absence, a product of racism, created the conditions that originally led to higher crime rates in black communities. |
| • | Thus, we hear that the rioting and looting were exaggerated by the media, or that they were largely the product of white Antifa members. |
| • | But we also hear that rioting and looting are the justified outgrowths of centuries of black rage. You cannot, therefore, oppose rioting and looting too strenuously, lest you be labeled a racist. |
| • | Thus, we hear that COVID-19 is so extraordinarily dangerous that anti-lockdown protesters were endangering the lives of other Americans; in fact, they were racist... |
| • | But we also hear that protesting racism is so extraordinarily important that we can freely ignore all restrictions surrounding COVID-19 – and, indeed, that we have an obligation to do so. |
| • | Thus, we hear that journalists ought to be treated with the utmost respect because they are doing a difficult job and pursuing facts and the truth... |
| • | But we also hear that journalists are actually activists and thus have a duty not to be objective... |
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Cleveland bakery owners arm themselves to defend business amid riots: 'We had no choice' (Fox 06/05/2020)
| • | ... bakery owner said her family and her employees had "no choice" but to brandish rifles to defend their business from rioters earlier this week. |
| • | At one point, an African-American man with his arms raised kneeled on the brick sidewalk in front of the barrel of the rifle — until a window was broken and the crowd quickly dispersed |
| • | "So, we had to protect ourselves and we had to protect our business. We work too hard for it...to, you know, let anything happen. Our business is our life, you know?" |
| • | "I was there with my children — two of my three sons and my husband. And, all we thought about was to protect ourselves and our business." |
| • | "We really weren't thinking about anything else, to be honest with you. You know, were we nervous? Of course. Were we scared? Of course. But, you know, we thought we had no choice." |
| • | "We work 60 [to] 70 hours a week. You know this is our life. So, we couldn't let it be destroyed. I mean, what if this happened to your door? You know, they came to your home or your business? You know, what would you do?" |
| • | "You have to protect yourself. You can't just allow it to happen." |
Violent, armed looters overrun Santa Monica Music Center: 'They took everything from us, and no one...' (Fox 06/04/2020)
| • | ... from every direction, there were hundreds of people barreling toward them in a scene she depicted as "pandemonium." |
| • | There were cars speeding up to the center – including brand new luxury Mercedes SUVs and Infiniti vehicles – with trunks popping open ready to be filled with loot, and while it was mostly young men, every ethnicity and age assaulted the building before her eyes. |
| • | "I saw 16-year-old girls in designer clothes stealing, I saw a woman with a small child in the back drive up and push her 13-year-old son, who looked nervous, out of the car to go in and steal." |
| • | "There were just so many groups of people there who had nothing to do with the George Floyd protests. Parents there stealing with their children." |
| • | Calling 911 proved to be futile. According to the frightened Music Center owner, they were informed that police could not get to the scene, and if they were registered gun owners, they could protect their private property. |
| • | "There were gunshots fired, and those trying to help us had guns pulled on them. One of the guys got out of his car and looked at my friend's baseball bat and said, 'what the f*ck you going to do with that?' and pulled out his gun. Another friend had a gun put in his face and was called a f**got-ass b*tch." |
| • | Tons of bricks were also used to smash windows in and around the area. |
| • | ... bricks are typically placed underneath trash cans earlier in the day ahead of scheduled protests, and when the looters arrive, they know where they are and put them to use to terrorize. |
| • | In the end, and over the course of many hours, criminals had a field day taking dozens of cellos, trumpets, bases, amplifiers, speakers, and random merchandise... |
| • | But if that wasn't enough, the looters also went about destroying the cash registers, smashing display cases and busting up furniture. |
| • | "It wasn't just about taking the stuff. It was absolute anarchy." |
| • | ... the police still had not come to take a report. "They told me it would take two or three weeks. And I even have a cell phone here from one of the looters." |
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Mattis 'angry and appalled’ as he unloads on Trump, says president ‘does not try to unite the...' (Fox 06/03/2020)
| • | "We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers." |
| • | "Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people — does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership." |
Deroy Murdock: Mattis 'should have picked up a couple of his history books' before denouncing... (Fox 06/05/2020)
| • | "Mattis, as a member of the Cabinet, was at the State Of The Union — he was sitting in the front row — when Donald J. Trump said this [in] 2018: 'I want to talk about what kind of future we are going to have, what kind of nation we are going to be. All of us together as one team, one people and one American family,' That seems like an effort to try to unify us." |
| • | "Then you look at the policies he supported. For example, supporting historically black colleges and universities, providing federal funding, finding corporate sponsors to help with their apprenticeship programs. I think the huge thing he's done is to try to unify the country." |
| • | "Criminal justice reform. This is something Black Lives Matter has screamed for, for years. Obama and Biden didn't deliver that, guess who did? Donald J. Trump. That seems like quite the effort to try and unify the country." |
| • | "Look, these are tough times and the other side is not polite to him. We've seen the other side's behavior out in the streets over the last few days. So he's supposed to be nice and sweet and gentle like Mr. Rogers while these other people call him names, call him racist, call him Hitler, worse than Hitler, somebody actually called him. I don't see a lot of politeness on that side." |
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Mattis 'angry and appalled’ as he unloads on Trump, says president ‘does not try to unite the...' (Fox 06/03/2020)
| • | "We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers." |
Violent, armed looters overrun Santa Monica Music Center: 'They took everything from us, and no one...' (Fox 06/04/2020)
| • | ... from every direction, there were hundreds of people barreling toward them in a scene she depicted as "pandemonium." |
| • | There were cars speeding up to the center – including brand new luxury Mercedes SUVs and Infiniti vehicles – with trunks popping open ready to be filled with loot, and while it was mostly young men, every ethnicity and age assaulted the building before her eyes. |
| • | "I saw 16-year-old girls in designer clothes stealing, I saw a woman with a small child in the back drive up and push her 13-year-old son, who looked nervous, out of the car to go in and steal." |
| • | "There were just so many groups of people there who had nothing to do with the George Floyd protests. Parents there stealing with their children." |
| • | Calling 911 proved to be futile. According to the frightened Music Center owner, they were informed that police could not get to the scene, and if they were registered gun owners, they could protect their private property. |
| • | "There were gunshots fired, and those trying to help us had guns pulled on them. One of the guys got out of his car and looked at my friend's baseball bat and said, 'what the f*ck you going to do with that?' and pulled out his gun. Another friend had a gun put in his face and was called a f**got-ass b*tch." |
| • | Tons of bricks were also used to smash windows in and around the area. |
| • | ... bricks are typically placed underneath trash cans earlier in the day ahead of scheduled protests, and when the looters arrive, they know where they are and put them to use to terrorize. |
| • | In the end, and over the course of many hours, criminals had a field day taking dozens of cellos, trumpets, bases, amplifiers, speakers, and random merchandise... |
| • | But if that wasn't enough, the looters also went about destroying the cash registers, smashing display cases and busting up furniture. |
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NY Times writers in 'open revolt' after publication of Cotton op-ed, claim black staff 'in danger' (Fox 06/03/2020)
| • | "His piece was inflammatory and endorsing military occupation as if the constitution doesn't exist." |
NY Times writers in 'open revolt' after publication of Cotton op-ed, claim black staff 'in danger' (Fox 06/03/2020)
| • | "These rioters, if not subdued, not only will destroy the livelihoods of law-abiding citizens but will also take more innocent lives." |
| • | "Many poor communities that still bear scars from past upheavals will be set back still further. One thing above all else will restore order to our streets: an overwhelming show of force to disperse, detain and ultimately deter lawbreakers." |
| • | "This venerable law, nearly as old as our republic itself, doesn't amount to 'martial law' or the end of democracy, as some excitable critics, ignorant of both the law and our history, have comically suggested." |
| • | "In fact, the federal government has a constitutional duty to the states to 'protect each of them from domestic violence.' Throughout our history, presidents have exercised this authority on dozens of occasions to protect law-abiding citizens from disorder." |
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Mattis 'angry and appalled’ as he unloads on Trump, says president ‘does not try to unite the...' (Fox 06/03/2020)
| • | "We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers." |
Obama-era ex-intel official secures bail for NYC lawyer suspected of hurling Molotov cocktail... (Fox 06/03/2020)
| • | "I am a citizen of this place name only; my nationality is not Americanas far as I am concerned. Black people, use the US for a passport and nothing else. Mine this den of hypocrisy for the privileges it can afford you, and shun it otherwise. I pray for Michael Brown's family, but do not pray for this country. Indeed, I hope we burn it to the ground." |
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Ex-Joint Chiefs chair 'sickened' by action against DC protesters, says not 'appropriate' to call in... (Fox 06/03/2020)
| • | "It sickened me yesterday to see security personnel — including members of the National Guard — forcibly and violently clear a path through Lafayette Square to accommodate the president's visit outside St. John's Church," wrote Mullen, who served as America's highest-ranking military officer from October 2007 through September 2011. |
| • | "I am not convinced that the conditions on our streets, as bad as they are, have risen to the level that justifies a heavy reliance on military troops." |
Ex-Joint Chiefs chair 'sickened' by action against DC protesters, says not 'appropriate' to call in... (Fox 06/03/2020)
| • | "... violent protestors on H Street NW began throwing projectiles including bricks, frozen water bottles and caustic liquids. The protestors also climbed onto a historic building at the north end of Lafayette Park that was destroyed by arson days prior." |
| • | "Intelligence had revealed calls for violence against the police, and officers found caches of glass bottles, baseball bats and metal poles hidden along the street.To curtail the violence that was underway, the USPP, following established policy, issued three warnings over a loudspeaker to alert demonstrators on H Street to evacuate the area. Horse mounted patrol, Civil Disturbance Units and additional personnel were used to clear the area. As many of the protestors became more combative, continued to throw projectiles, and attempted to grab officers' weapons, officers then employed the use of smoke canisters and pepper balls. No tear gas was used by USPP officers or other assisting law enforcement partners to close the area at Lafayette Park. Subsequently, the fence was installed." |
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Schumer, who called Kavanaugh allegations ‘extremely credible,’ calls Biden denial ‘sufficient’ (Fox 05/13/2020)
| • | "Now I've heard Joe Biden's explanation. I think it's sufficient." |
| • | "I think he will be a great candidate. I think he will be a great president. And I think he will help us take back the Senate." |
| • | "I think the allegations of Professor Ford are extremely credible." |
| • | "She took a lie detector test. She talked [about] this to her therapist. They were having family counseling in part because of what happened to her five years ago and told all the details. And third, to come out and say something like this puts you and your family through incredible scrutiny. People throw brick bats at you and everything else." |
| • | "She didn't do it on a whim. I don't think she did it for political reasons. She has a great deal of credibility," he said. |
| • | He also reiterated his calls for a full FBI investigation into the accusation. |
| • | "They should go interview Professor Ford. They should interview Judge Kavanaugh. They should ask a whole lot of questions. They should interview anybody else, that third person who was in the room, anyone else who was at the party, anyone else she may have said this to in addition to her therapist." |
| • | "They will give a report to the Senate and then Judge Kavanaugh and Professor Ford ought to come publicly and they ought to be asked a lot of questions. And then I think, in my view, the public will see that these allegations are true." |
| • | See related About Right... (Michael Ramirez, 08/11/2019) cartoon from Politics picture album |
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Biden assault allegations — VP candidates', Dems' response a master class in hypocrisy (Fox 04/30/2020)
Dem VP shortlisters condemned Kavanaugh: Here’s their response to Biden accusation (Fox 04/29/2020)
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Dem lawmaker wants Trump prosecuted at international court for 'crimes against humanity' (Fox 04/06/2020)
| • | A Democratic state representative in Ohio said she "can't take it anymore" and vowed to refer President Trump to the International Criminal Court for "crimes against humanity" over Trump's promotion of a drug that has not been conclusively proven to fight the coronavirus. |
| • | "I can't take it anymore. I've been to The Hague. I'm making a referral for crimes against humanity tomorrow." |
| • | "Today's press conference was the last straw. I know the need for a prosecution referral when I see one." |
MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski wonders if Trump has a ‘financial tie’ to hydroxychloroquine (Fox 04/06/2020)
| • | "A lot of people would say, follow the money. There's got to be some sort of financial tie to someone, somewhere that has the president pushing this repeatedly." |
| • | See related Trump Press (Glenn McCoy, 08/12/2016) cartoon from Media picture album |
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Thousands of coronavirus-infected New Yorkers treated with anti-malarial drug (Fox 04/06/2020)
| • | As many as 4,000 seriously ill coronavirus patients in New York are being treated with the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine, state health officials say. |
| • | There are also clinical trials being conducted to see whether the drug can help block transmission. |
| • | Health officials are treading cautiously, saying they don't anticipate hydroxychloroquine will be a "miracle drug" against the coronavirus — but the studies are worth the gamble. |
| • | "If everything goes as planned, the eight-week trial could provide answers by summer on whether a preventive dose of the drug is safe and effective,'' |
| • | "If so, the strategy could give health officials a much-needed boost in slowing person-to-person transmission." |
| • | The federal Food and Drug Administration granted emergency-use authorization to use hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 patients amid the pandemic. |
| • | There has been anecdotal evidence — including from China — that the drug helps patients clear the virus sooner. |
Michigan Dem lawmaker describes how Trump's boosting of hydroxychloroquine 'saved my life' (Fox 04/07/2020)
| • | A Democratic Michigan state lawmaker has credited President Trump's publicizing of the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine with saving her life after her health "plummeted" when she contracted coronavirus. |
| • | ... told ... that if it wasn't for Trump pushing the drug through the Food and Drug Administration's approval process for off-label use and touting it repeatedly during his daily press briefings, she may not have made it through the terrible contagion. |
| • | "I really want to say that you have to give this an opportunity. For me, it saved my life. I only can go by what it is that I have gone through and what my story is, and I can't speak for anyone else. So that's not what I'm trying to do here. I'm only speaking for myself." |
| • | "It went from the headaches being severe to fluid building up in my lungs, to sweats breaking out to the cough and my breathing being labored. It all happened in a matter of hours." |
| • | When Whitsett did make it to the hospital, she found out about a state order prohibiting the use of hydroxychloroquine. |
| • | "I did have a difficult time, even that day, obtaining the medication because of an order that was put down in my state." |
| • | "And it was on that day so you can imagine how terrified I was that I had to beg and plead and go through a whole lot to try to get the medication." |
| • | Whitsett says that she has chronic Lyme disease and had heard of hydroxychloroquine but would not have thought of it as a potential coronavirus treatment if not for Trump's briefings. |
| • | "If President Trump had not talked about this it wouldn't have been something that would be accessible for anyone to be able to get right now," she said, adding that within a few hours of taking her prescription, she was feeling much better. |
Dr. Marc Siegel opens up about his father, 96, and his use of hydroxychloroquine (Fox 04/08/2020)
| • | ... his 96-year-old father was recently weak and struggling to breathe but recovered after he was administered an anti-malaria drug and antibiotics. |
| • | "He got up the next day and was fine." |
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De Blasio: If Trump does not act on coronavirus outbreak, 'people will die' (Fox 03/22/2020)
| • | "The president of the United States is from New York City and he will not lift a finger to help his hometown. I don't get it." |
Chuck DeVore: President Trump calls it quits on New York taxes. He's not alone (Fox 11/10/2019)
| • | New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio ... commented as well, saying, "Don't let the door hit you on your way out." |
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Chief Justice Roberts issues rare rebuke to Schumer's 'dangerous' and 'irresponsible' comments... (Fox 03/04/2020)
| • | "We will tell President Trump and Senate Republicans who have stacked the court with right-wing ideologues that you're gonna be gone in November, and you will never be able to do what you're trying to do now ever, ever again!" |
Chief Justice Roberts issues rare rebuke to Schumer's 'dangerous' and 'irresponsible' comments... (Fox 03/04/2020)
| • | Trump quickly shot back: "Sorry Chief Justice John Roberts, but you do indeed have ‘Obama judges,' and they have a much different point of view than the people who are charged with the safety of our country." |
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With liberty and two-track justice for all (JWR 02/21/2020)
| • | ... sentenced President Donald J. Trump's friend Roger Stone to three years and four months in prison for witness intimidation and lying to Congress. |
| • | President Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, is doing 7.5-years for his pre-Trump tax and bank fraud. |
| • | Former campaign aide George Papadopoulos served 12 days in the slammer for false statements to FBI officers. His steep legal bills and spooked clients drove him back into his parents' house. |
| • | Former national security adviser Michael Flynn awaits sentencing, and wants his charges dropped, after pleading guilty to false statements. Flynn reportedly took a plea after selling his house to pay his lawyers... |
| • | Compare the plight of these Trump allies with the charmed lives of just a few of his and the Right's tormentors. |
With liberty and two-track justice for all (JWR 02/21/2020)
| • | The OIG concluded: "Comey violated applicable policies and his Employment Agreement" and spilled state secrets. |
| • | So, is Comey breaking rocks? |
| • | "He's been traveling the country giving six-figure paid speeches on leadership." |
| • | Despite 588 security violations that the State Department attributed to Hillary Clinton and her associates in the E-mailgate scandal, as well as her role in purchasing the "dirty dossier" that triggered the Russia hoax, the former first lady has suffered zero consequences for an entire career of professional misconduct. |
| • | Lois Lerner ran the IRS unit that perpetrated the systematic political profiling of conservative groups that sought tax-exempt designation. Lerner supervised this virtual gag-the-right scheme. |
| • | When GOP congressional overseers sought Lerner's hard drive, they learned that it was shredded. |
| • | Was Lerner punished? |
| • | Lerner was placed on administrative leave. She received her $177,000 annual salary at home. |
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Mark 'Oz' Geist: Trump's decisive leadership would have saved my Benghazi team (Fox 01/10/2020)
| • | I fought to defend the American diplomatic post and CIA annex in Benghazi for more than 13 hours against a determined, organized assault by dozens of Al Qaeda fanatics armed with belt-fed machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, and heavy mortars. |
| • | The Obama administration's mishandling of this attack — which resulted in the first murder of a U.S. ambassador in the line of duty since the 1970s — was a far cry from the Trump administration's decisive response to threats against our embassy in Iraq. |
| • | My team and I were told to "stand down" no fewer than three times in the face of what the media later called "protesters" — even as Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, were being killed and maimed by the terrorists. |
| • | No U.S. military reaction force was sent, despite our numerous requests for help. |
| • | Only by our own tenacity and courage were more than 30 Americans able to escape with our lives. |
| • | Failures of leadership cost lives and leave subordinates scrambling to cover for the leadership that was needed. |
| • | That's what we saw after Benghazi, as senior Obama administration officials insisted for days that the Al Qaeda attack, which was clearly planned and organized to kill Americans on the anniversary of 9/11, was a spontaneous protest in reaction to an amateurish "Islamophobic" YouTube video that hardly anyone had seen. |
| • | That story was plainly absurd, but it would have allowed inept leaders to save face had it not fallen apart under scrutiny. |
Mark 'Oz' Geist: Trump's decisive leadership would have saved my Benghazi team (Fox 01/10/2020)
| • | When Iran-backed militias and their supporters stormed the embassy grounds and Iraqi forces refused to do their duty to defend American lives and property. |
| • | President Trump reacted forcefully. In roughly the same amount of time it took to the Obama administration to get an unarmed American drone over our heads as we fought for our lives in Benghazi, more than 100 U.S. Marines were on the scene to defend the Baghdad embassy and two Apache helicopter gunships were in the air asserting American sovereignty. |
| • | In no small part due to that decisive reaction, no Americans were seriously hurt in the attack. |
| • | The difference comes down to one thing: leadership. |
| • | President Trump is demonstrating bold and effective leadership, whereas President Obama showed only weakness and cowardice. |
| • | After making sure the military was fully prepared to protect our embassy and our interests, President Trump was forthright and open with the American people. |
| • | He didn't try to hide who was attacking us — Iran-backed Shiite militias — nor why they were doing so: anger at American airstrikes on militants. |
| • | Rather than scramble to defend a lie, and relying on solid intel of impending attacks, President Trump quickly struck back to ensure that our enemies understood the consequences of attacking an American embassy. |
| • | Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the man most responsible for fomenting those militias in Iraq, paid the ultimate price for underestimating those consequences. |
| • | Throughout the region, his compatriots are quickly learning similar lessons. |
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Sen. Chris Murphy condemns Soleimani airstrike days after claiming 'no one fears' US... (Fox 01/03/2020)
| • | "Soleimani was an enemy of the United States. That's not a question. The question is this - as reports suggest, did America just assassinate, without any congressional authorization, the second most powerful person in Iran, knowingly setting off a potential massive regional war?" |
Sen. Chris Murphy condemns Soleimani airstrike days after claiming 'no one fears' US... (Fox 01/03/2020)
| • | However, the Democratic senator struck a different tone on Tuesday following the violence at the embassy. |
| • | "The attack on our embassy in Baghdad is horrifying but predictable. Trump has rendered America impotent in the Middle East. No one fears us, no one listens to us. America has been reduced to huddling in safe rooms, hoping the bad guys will go away. What a disgrace." |
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Iowa man who sets LGBTQ flag on fire gets over 15 years in prison (Fox 12/20/2019)
| • | ... was found guilty last month of a hate crime, third-degree harassment and reckless use of fire... |
| • | ... stole an LGBTQ flag hanging from the United Church of Christ in Ames – about 35 miles north of Des Moines – and set it on fire outside a strip club... |
| • | ... admitted to police that he stole the flag from church and burned it because he opposed homosexuality... |
| • | He received 15 years for the hate crime of arson, one year for the reckless use of explosives or fire and 30 days for harassment. |
When the Supreme Court ruled to allow American flag burning (06/21/2019)
| • | Johnson's actions, the majority argued, were symbolic speech, political in nature, and could be expressed even at the expense of our national symbol and to the affront of those who disagreed with him. |
| • | "Johnson was convicted for engaging in expressive conduct. The State's interest in preventing breaches of the peace does not support his conviction because Johnson's conduct did not threaten to disturb the peace." |
| • | "Nor does the State's interest in preserving the flag as a symbol of nationhood and national unity justify his criminal conviction for engaging in political expression." |
| • | In 1984, Gregory Lee Johnson burned a flag at the Republican National Convention in Dallas. |
| • | Officials in Texas arrested Johnson and convicted him of breaking a Texas law that prohibited desecration of the flag; he was sentenced to one year in prison and ordered to pay a $2,000 fine. |
| • | "If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the Government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable." |
| • | ... Justice Scalia explained why he cast the deciding vote in the Johnson case, on the principal of a textual reading of the First Amendment. |
| • | "If it were up to me, I would put in jail every sandal-wearing, scruffy-bearded weirdo who burns the American flag. But I am not king." |
New Mexico teen gets 30 days in jail for killing man, shouting 'that's what you get!' after shooting him (Fox 12/23/2023)
| • | ... Judge Christina Jaramillo sentenced Armijo to 30 days in juvenile jail after the teen, who was 15 at the time of the shooting, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, tampering with evidence, one misdemeanor count of unlawful possession of a handgun and conspiracy to commit armed robbery. |
| • | Prosecutor Natalie Strub said during the sentencing hearing that Armijo and De La Pena had texted about a plan to rob someone days before Santiago was killed. |
| • | Armijo's defense attorney argued that De La Pena was a bad influence on the 17-year-old. De La Pena has also pleaded in the case but has not yet been sentenced. |
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House Democrats vote to adopt Trump impeachment report, blast scheme to 'solicit foreign...' (Fox 12/03/2019)
| • | "President Trump's scheme subverted U.S. foreign policy toward Ukraine and undermined our national security in favor of two politically motivated investigations that would help his presidential reelection campaign." |
| • | "The President engaged in this course of conduct for the benefit of his own presidential reelection, to harm the election prospects of a political rival, and to influence our nation's upcoming presidential election to his advantage." |
| • | "In doing so, the President placed his own personal and political interests above the national interests of the United States, sought to undermine the integrity of the U.S. presidential election process, and endangered U.S. national security." |
| • | "The impeachment inquiry uncovered overwhelming and uncontested evidence that President Trump abused the powers of his office to solicit foreign interference in our election for his own personal, political gain." |
| • | See related The Hearsay Impeachment (Gary Varvel, 11/17/2019) cartoon from Politics picture album |
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| • | See related Impeachment (Bob Gorrell, 11/12/2019) cartoon from Politics picture album |
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House Democrats vote to adopt Trump impeachment report, blast scheme to 'solicit foreign...' (Fox 12/03/2019)
| • | "At the end of a one-sided sham process, Chairman Schiff and the Democrats utterly failed to produce any evidence of wrongdoing by President Trump." |
| • | "This report reflects nothing more than their frustrations. Chairman Schiff's report reads like the ramblings of a basement blogger straining to prove something when there is evidence of nothing." |
| • | "The evidence presented does not prove any of these Democrat allegations, and none of the Democrats' witnesses testified to having evidence of bribery, extortion, or any high crime or misdemeanor." |
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San Francisco's new DA pledges not to prosecute public urination, other quality-of-life-crimes (Fox 11/12/2019)
| • | "We will not prosecute cases involving quality-of-life crimes." |
| • | "Crimes such as public camping, offering or soliciting sex, public urination, blocking a sidewalk, etc., should not and will not be prosecuted. Many of these crimes are still being prosecuted; we have a long way to go to decriminalize poverty and homelessness." |
| • | The son of parents who were members of the radical left-wing Weather Underground, Boudin grew up with his parents incarcerated for their roles in an armed robbery that left three men dead. |
| • | "There can be no justice when we utilize prison and jail as the solution to all of our problems. We must think differently." |
California woman claims homeless man dumped bucket of hot feces on her head (Fox 11/12/2019)
| • | A California woman claims she was assaulted by a homeless man who pulled her out of her car, dragged her into the middle of the street and poured a bucket of hot feces on her head. |
| • | "It was diarrhea. I was soaked, and it was coming off my eyelashes and into my eyes." |
| • | "Paramedics who came to treat me said there was so much of it on me, that it looked like the man was saving it up for a month." |
| • | "He just kept pouring it and splattering it all over me." |
| • | ... tested for infectious diseases caused by contact with feces — something she will have to do every three months. |
| • | The man who attacked her was identified in court records as Jere Blessings, a transient with "schizophrenia and psychotic disorders." |
| • | Blessings was charged with battery and taken to jail. |
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Nancy Pelosi says Trump's rally comments about Biden 'beyond the pale,' rips Senate Republicans... (Fox 10/27/2019)
| • | "One thing, I do want to say is that, POTUS – you know, that's the President – POTUS has become a potty mouth and children are listening." |
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Rashida Tlaib calls Trump an expletive during pitch to impeach (Fox 01/04/2019)
| • | "And when your son looks at you and says, 'Momma, look you won. Bullies don't win.' And I said, 'Baby, they don't, because we're gonna go in there and we're gonna impeach the mother***er.'" |
| • | See related Ms. Tlaib Goes to Washington (Mike Shelton, 01/07/2019) cartoon from Politics picture album |
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Bill Maher rejoices in David Koch's passing: 'F*** him ... I'm glad he's dead and I hope the end...' (Fox 08/24/2019)
| • | "And now, some funeral news to report. Yesterday David Koch of the zillionaire Koch brothers died ... of prostate cancer." |
| • | "I guess I'm going to have to re-evaluate my low opinion of prostate cancer." |
| • | "As for his remains, he has asked to be cremated and have his ashes be blown into a child's lungs." |
| • | "He and his brother have done more than anybody to fund climate science deniers for decades. So f** him, the Amazon is burning up, I'm glad he's dead, and I hope the end was painful." |
David Koch spent billions giving back to charity, here’s where it all went (Fox 08/24/2019)
| • | "Twenty-seven years ago, David was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer and given a grim prognosis of a few years to live." |
| • | "David liked to say that a combination of brilliant doctors, state-of-the-art medications and his own stubbornness kept the cancer at bay. We can all be grateful that it did, because he was able to touch so many more lives as a result." |
| • | Some of the ways the conservative philanthropist was able to change lives was ... giving more than a billion dollars to a variety of organizations. |
| • | ... those included research arms looking into cancer cures, medical centers, educational institutions, arts and cultural centers and public policy organizations. |
| • | "I really want to put my money to work making the world a better place." |
| • | $185 million - Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| • | $150 million - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
| • | $100 million - New York-Presbyterian Hospital |
| • | $100 million - New York State Theater at Lincoln Center |
| • | $66.7 million - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
| • | $65 million - The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| • | $35 million - Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History |
| • | $26.5 million - M.D. Anderson Cancer Center |
| • | $26.2 million - The Hospital for Special Surgery in New York |
| • | $20 million - American Museum of Natural History, New York |
| • | $10 million - Jaffe Food Allergy Institute at the Mount Sinai Medical Center |
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Young Beto O'Rourke wrote 'murder fantasy' about running over children, was part of famed... (Fox 03/15/2019)
| • | ... teenage Beto, in connection with the group, wrote stories under the name "Psychedelic Warlord"... |
| • | One piece in particular detailed the narrator's murder spree, as part of his goal seeking "the termination of everything that was free and loving." |
| • | The piece described the first kill as the murder of two children crossing the street. |
| • | "Then one day, as I was driving home from work, I noticed two children crossing the street. They were happy, happy to be free from their troubles. I knew, however, that this happiness and sense of freedom were much too overwhelming for them." |
| • | "This happiness was mine by right. I had earned it in my dreams. As I neared the young ones, I put all my weight on my right foot, keeping the accelerator pedal on the floor until I heard the crashing of the two children on the hood, and then the sharp cry of pain from one of the two. I was so fascinated for a moment, that when after I had stopped my vehicle, I just sat in a daze, sweet visions filling my head." |
| • | "... It was simply ecstasy. As I drove home, I envisioned myself committing more of these 'acts of love,' and after a while, I had no trouble carrying them out. The more people I killed, the longer my dreams were. ... I had killed nearly 38 people by the time of my twenty-third birthday, and each one was more fulfilling than the last." |
America Is Drowning in the Left's Lies About Trump (JWR 08/06/2019)
| • | Beto O'Rourke, in an obscenity-laced statement against the president the day after El Paso: |
| • | "He's not tolerating racism, he's promoting racism. He's not tolerating violence, he's inciting racism and violence in this country. We shouldn't be asking if ... he's responsible for this when we know the answer." |
Beto O'Rourke calls Trump 'white supremacist,' says US 'has been racist since it's been a country' (Fox 08/07/2023)
| • | "He's not the source of racism in this country. This country has been racist as long as it's been a country, but he is certainly fanning the flames, he is certainly making violence like this more possible and more real." |
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AOC blasts border officials after new report on offensive Facebook posts... (Fox 07/05/2023)
| • | "These posts are completely inappropriate and contrary to the honor and integrity I see — and expect — from our agents day in and day out." |
| • | "Any employees found to have violated our standards of conduct will be held accountable." |
| • | "Reporting this week highlighted disturbing & inexcusable social media activity that allegedly includes active Border Patrol personnel. These statements are completely unacceptable, especially if made by those sworn to uphold the @DHSgov mission, our values & standards of conduct." |
| • | "Today, U.S. Customs and Border Protection was made aware of disturbing social media activity hosted on a private Facebook group that may include a number of CBP employees." |
| • | "CBP immediately informed DHS Office of the Inspector General and initiated an investigation." |
Google exec slams GOP over Kavanaugh nomination: ‘F**k. You. All. To. Hell' (Fox 10/08/2018)
| • | A design lead at Google has slammed Republicans in an angry Twitter rant over the nomination of now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh. |
| • | "You are finished, GOP. You polished the final nail for your own coffins. F**K. YOU. ALL. TO. HELL." |
| • | "Yes, I deleted that tweet. Yes, those opinions are mine personally, and I am responsible for them. Yes, I should have been more eloquent and less condemning. Yes, I still believe the %GOP is wrong and not serving your best interests. Yes, I still believe we can do much better." |
| • | "What employees say in their personal capacity has no bearing on the way we build or operate our products," a Google spokeswoman told Fox News, via email. |
'F*** Trump' chant led by California Democratic Party Leader: What's next? (Fox 05/22/2017)
| • | Outgoing California Democratic Party Chairman John Burton performed the only action left to an impotent, leftist, cadre head in a lawful society. He shouted. |
| • | He likely would've preferred some kind of violent action, but instead he simply advocated for one. |
| • | ... as they were flashing their hands in applause for his service to the party, he put his middle finger in the air and lead a chant, "F** Donald Trump!" |
| • | Perhaps more remarkable was the eager willingness of the crowd to join in with him, chanting, while House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Obama's Former Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis looked on, laughing it up in the background. |
Rashida Tlaib calls Trump an expletive during pitch to impeach (Fox 01/04/2019)
| • | Fresh-faced U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib wasted no time in calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump just hours after being sworn in. |
| • | "And when your son looks at you and says, 'Momma, look you won. Bullies don't win.' And I said, 'Baby, they don't, because we're gonna go in there and we're gonna impeach the mother***er.'" |
| • | "President Donald Trump is a direct and serious threat to our country. On an almost daily basis, he attacks our Constitution, our democracy, the rule of law and the people who are in this country." |
| • | "Each passing day brings more pain for the people most directly hurt by this president, and these are days we simply cannot get back. The time for impeachment proceedings is now." |
CBS drama 'The Good Fight' sparks outrage after tweeting 'Assassinate,' 'President,' and 'Trump' (Fox 04/15/2019)
| • | ... tweeting an image from one of its episodes that shows a list of "target words" including: "Assassinate," "President" and "Trump" in a red column and a second orange column that started with the words: "Mar-a-Lago" and "Eliminate." |
| • | See related Which One? (Mike Lester, 06/13/2017) cartoon from USA picture album |
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Florida Democrat says those 'making fun' of members of Congress online should be 'prosecuted' (Fox 07/03/2019)
| • | "Those people who are online making fun of members of Congress are a disgrace, and there is no need for anyone to think that is unacceptable." |
| • | "We're gonna shut them down and work with whoever it is to shut them down, and they should be prosecuted." |
| • | "You cannot intimidate members of Congress, frighten members of Congress. It is against the law, and it's a shame in this United States of America." |
| • | ... blamed President Trump for people losing respect for Congress and the White House, saying he has "taken this country to its knees." |
'Mini AOC' ends parody videos after receiving 'death threats,' 'harassment' from the left (Fox 07/04/2023)
| • | "Ava will not being doing any more MINI AOC content." |
| • | "The Left's Harassment and death threats have gone too far for our family. We have been getting calls on our personal phone numbers." |
| • | "For our safety and for our child's safety, we deleted all Mini AOC accounts." |
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Florida Democrat says those 'making fun' of members of Congress online should be 'prosecuted' (Fox 07/03/2019)
| • | "Those people who are online making fun of members of Congress are a disgrace, and there is no need for anyone to think that is unacceptable." |
| • | "We're gonna shut them down and work with whoever it is to shut them down, and they should be prosecuted." |
| • | "You cannot intimidate members of Congress, frighten members of Congress. It is against the law, and it's a shame in this United States of America." |
| • | ... blamed President Trump for people losing respect for Congress and the White House, saying he has "taken this country to its knees." |
Susan Collins reveals vulgar, threatening voicemails left during Kavanaugh confirmation (Fox 12/19/2018)
| • | "You are so f***ing naive. You will go down in history as the most naive person ever to be in Congress. You f***ing, f***ing feckless naive woman. Trying to make Americans more equal. F** you." |
| • | "Don't be a dumb c***. Don't' be a stupid f***ing hypocrite. If you care at all about women's stories, vote no on Kavanaugh. Don't be a dumb b****. F** you also." |
Spike Lee slams Trump in expletive-laced monologue at movie premiere (Fox 05/16/2018)
| • | "And we have a guy in the White House — I'm not gonna say his f***ing name — who defined that moment not just for Americans but the world, and that motherf***er was given the chance to say we are about love, not hate." |
Robert De Niro attacks Trump in profane rant at awards gala (Fox 01/10/2018)
| • | "Today the world is suffering from the real Donald Trump. Come on. You know. What are we talking about? This f***ing idiot is the president. It's the Emperor's New Clothes – the guy is a f***ing fool." |
| • | "Our baby-in-chief – the j***off-in-chief, I call him – has put the press under siege, ridiculing it through trying to discredit it through outrageous attacks and lies." |
| • | See related De Niro (Antonio Branco, 11/01/2018) cartoon from USA picture album |
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| • | See related Last Movie (Mike Lester, 01/07/2017) cartoon from USA picture album |
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'F*** Trump' chant led by California Democratic Party Leader: What's next? (Fox 05/22/2017)
| • | Outgoing California Democratic Party Chairman John Burton performed the only action left to an impotent, leftist, cadre head in a lawful society. He shouted. |
| • | He likely would've preferred some kind of violent action, but instead he simply advocated for one. |
| • | ... as they were flashing their hands in applause for his service to the party, he put his middle finger in the air and lead a chant, "F** Donald Trump!" |
| • | Perhaps more remarkable was the eager willingness of the crowd to join in with him, chanting, while House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Obama's Former Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis looked on, laughing it up in the background. |
Rashida Tlaib calls Trump an expletive during pitch to impeach (Fox 01/04/2019)
| • | Fresh-faced U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib wasted no time in calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump just hours after being sworn in. |
| • | "And when your son looks at you and says, 'Momma, look you won. Bullies don't win.' And I said, 'Baby, they don't, because we're gonna go in there and we're gonna impeach the mother***er.'" |
| • | "President Donald Trump is a direct and serious threat to our country. On an almost daily basis, he attacks our Constitution, our democracy, the rule of law and the people who are in this country." |
| • | "Each passing day brings more pain for the people most directly hurt by this president, and these are days we simply cannot get back. The time for impeachment proceedings is now." |
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CNN anchors celebrate Trump's leaked tax docs: He's 'literally the biggest loser' (Fox 05/08/2019)
| • | "It turns out Donald Trump is our con man in chief and his biggest con was pulling the wool right over your eyes, convincing voters that he would be the best dealmaker ever in the White House." |
| • | "The man who ran for president on his reputation as a billionaire business genius was a really, really, really lousy businessman. Literally the worst businesman in the country! I'm speaking the truth here!" |
| • | See related He's Crazy! (Glenn McCoy, 05/16/2017) cartoon from Media picture album |
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Main Street is booming with a businessman in the White House (Fox 05/08/2019)
| • | Thanks to the GOP tax reform (TCJA), thousands of companies across the country ... were able to increase wages, hire new employees and reinvest in innovation that has spurred historic economic growth for our country. |
| • | Under President Trump's leadership, America has added 5.4 million new jobs and wages have increased by 2.7 percent. Additionally, the national unemployment rate fell to 3.6 percent in April, with an unemployment rate of 3.1 percent for women: the lowest since 1953. |
| • | Nearly half of all privately employed Americans work at a small business, and in 2019 companies with fewer than 20 employees got the biggest benefits from the Trump economic boom: adding over a million new jobs across the country. |
| • | President Trump's economic policies have pulled America's economy back from the brink of the wage stagnation and dwindling job numbers of just a few years ago, and put us on a path to long-term prosperity. |
| • | ... let's remember that America's new era of economic prosperity is due to finally having a businessman like President Trump in the White House. |
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Mississippi police feel ‘vindicated’ after chance encounter leads to arrest of suspected cop killer (Fox 05/07/2019)
| • | The 19-year-old accused in the brazen murder of a decorated, veteran cop flashed a smirk as he walked a gauntlet of law enforcement officials who'd gathered to watch him booked into the same Biloxi police station outside of which he's believed to have killed Robert McKeithen. |
| • | "These officers... some of them have been up for 38, 40, 44 hours... We thought it would be fitting for them to be here and see the arrest that they worked so hard to try to make." |
| • | ... an Air Force veteran and recipient of the Medal of Valor for helping save the lives of special needs children during Hurricane Katrina – was targeted Sunday night, just months before his planned retirement. |
| • | McKeithen, who served the Biloxi Police Department for 24 years, was shot near his police car in the facility's parking lot. He later died at a local hospital. |
Chicago protesters march against 'racist' police union, several arrested after obstructing traffic (Fox 05/07/2019)
| • | "We are here to call out the hypocrisy of FOP and declare that they are a racist organization and they must be shut down." |
| • | "And they say police officers and police departments are supposed to serve and protect, but who the f** are they protecting? The system." |
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Pelosi moves to ensure Ilhan Omar's safety, calls for Trump to take down video (Fox 04/14/2019)
| • | ... "to ensure that Capitol Police are conducting a security assessment to safeguard Congresswoman Omar, her family and her staff." |
| • | "The President's words weigh a ton, and his hateful and inflammatory rhetoric creates real danger." |
| • | "President Trump must take down his disrespectful and dangerous video." |
| • | See related First Responders (Mike Lester, 04/28/2013) cartoon from Media picture album |
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CBS drama 'The Good Fight' sparks outrage after tweeting 'Assassinate,' 'President,' and 'Trump' (Fox 04/15/2019)
| • | ... tweeting an image from one of its episodes that shows a list of "target words" including: "Assassinate," "President" and "Trump" in a red column and a second orange column that started with the words: "Mar-a-Lago" and "Eliminate." |
| • | See related Which One? (Mike Lester, 06/13/2017) cartoon from USA picture album |
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Google has a dilemma as employees demand removal of conservative from AI council (JWR 04/03/2019)
| • | Last year, Google pulled out of Project Maven, a high-profile contract with the Pentagon to build drone artificial intelligence, following backlash from employees who raised ethical concerns about building technology that could be weaponized for war. |
Microsoft employees slam $480M HoloLens military contract, refuse to create tech for 'warfare and...' (Fox 02/24/2019)
| • | "We are alarmed that Microsoft is working to provide weapons technology to the U.S. military, helping one country's government 'increase lethality' using tools we built. We did not sign up to develop weapons, and we demand a say in how our work is used." |
| • | The workers demand that Microsoft cancel the contract, cease developing any and all weapons technologies, draft a public-facing policy around the acceptable use of such technology, and appoint an independent, external ethics review board with the power to enforce compliance. |
Putin warns: Russia will target US with new weapons if it deploys missiles to Europe (Fox 02/20/2019)
| • | ... will not only target the host countries but field new weapons that will target U.S. decision-making centers. |
| • | ... the nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile and the Poseidon nuclear-powered underwater drone, have been undergoing tests successfully. |
| • | See related Arising from Hibernation (Jeff Koterba, 12/14/2007) cartoon from World picture album |
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Kalashnikov unveils new kamikaze 'suicide' drone (Fox 02/25/2019)
| • | ... the drone's advantages in combat include hidden launch, the overall accuracy of shot, noiselessness, affordability and ease of handling. |
| • | "I think of it as democratizing smart bombs." |
| • | "It means disseminating smart bombs more widely. This would shrink the gap between the most advanced militaries and the smaller ones." |
| • | ... terrorist groups such as Islamic State are known to have used drones in Syria and Iraq to carry out a range of deadly attacks. |
Sinking US aircraft carriers will resolve tension in South China Sea, says Chinese admiral (Fox 01/04/2019)
| • | "What the United States fears the most is taking casualties." |
| • | He said sinking one carrier would kill 5,000 and sinking two would double that number. |
| • | "Americans have gone soft ... [they] no longer have an appetite for sacrifice and at the first sign of genuine trouble they will cut and run." |
| • | ... said there were "five cornerstones of the United States" open to exploitation: their military, their money, their talent, their voting system — and their fear of adversaries... |
| • | See related US-China Maritime Tensions (Dave Granlund, 10/28/2015) cartoon from World picture album |
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar announces 2020 presidential bid (NYP 02/10/2019)
| • | President Trump ... paid particular attention to Klobuchar's plans to combat global warming. |
| • | "Well, it happened again. Amy Klobuchar announced that she is running for President, talking proudly of fighting global warming while standing in a virtual blizzard of snow, ice and freezing temperatures. Bad timing. By the end of her speech she looked like a Snowman(woman)!" |
Sarah Silverman rips Trump in expletive-filled tweet about Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Fox 02/12/2019)
| • | Silverman responded to the tweet with an expletive-filled tirade directed at the president, opting less for rebutting his statements and more for insulting his character. |
| • | "No point in explaining how mind blowingly stupid this tweet is so I'm just gonna go with F** YOU, and also add that you are a smelly penis hole with balls that touch water. Eat s***, you greedy t***," the "I Love You America" star wrote. |
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Many Disneyland employees struggle to pay living expenses, face homelessness (Fox 02/28/2019)
| • | While Disneyland might be the happiest place on Earth for visitors, the reality might be a lot less magical for resort employees who keep the park running on a daily basis. |
| • | According to a new survey of 5,000 workers, called "Working for the Mouse," almost three quarters (73 percent) reported that they "do not earn enough money to cover basic expenses every month." |
| • | The Disneyland employees, known as cast members, cited extra-long commutes, struggles with paying rent and even facing homelessness and an inability to afford basic health care. |
| • | Average hourly wage has also decreased since from 2000 to 2017, from $15.80 to $13.36, even though the park has seen a steady increase in profit. |
| • | "I am not asking to get rich by working for Disney, but I am asking for fair pay for fair work. I expect to be able to not worry, to not stress, about having food to eat and a roof over my head." |
Disney CEO Bob Iger got an 80 percent pay raise in 2018 (Fox 01/12/2019)
| • | The chairman and chief executive of the California-based studio earned $65.6 million in 2018, about an 81 percent raise from 2017... |
| • | Disney also revealed that it pays general counsel and secretary Alan Braverman $10 million;, CFO Christine McCarthy $12 million;, chief human resources officer M. Jayne Parker $7 million; and COO Zenia Mucha $5 million. |
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Judge orders deported asylum seekers to be returned to US, in Trump administration rebuke (Fox 12/19/2018)
| • | ... ordering that asylum seekers who sued after their deportation be returned to the U.S. to have their claims heard anew... |
| • | "The Court holds that it has jurisdiction to hear plaintiffs' challenges to the credible fear policies, that it has the authority to order the injunctive relief, and that, with the exception of two policies, the new credible fear policies are arbitrary, capricious, and in violation of the immigration laws." |
| • | ... ordering that "the government to return to the United States the plaintiffs who were unlawfully deported and to provide them with new credible fear determinations consistent with the immigration laws." |
| • | A group of asylum seekers, backed by the American Civil Liberties Union, sued the Trump administration in federal court. |
Michael Flynn's sentencing delayed by judge after dramatic hearing for ex-national security adviser (Fox 12/18/2018)
| • | ... ordered Flynn to stay within 50 miles of the D.C. area and give up his passport by January. |
| • | The judge asked prosecutors if Flynn could have been charged with treason, telling Flynn "arguably, you sold your country out." |
| • | "I'm not hiding my disgust, my disdain for this criminal offense." |
| • | ... walked back his treason comments, saying he wasn't suggesting Flynn committed treason, but was "just curious." |
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Tucker Carlson: Lessons the activist left have learned from the Kavanaugh experience (Fox 10/09/2018)
| • | "I want to apologize to Brett and the entire Kavanaugh family for the terrible pain and suffering you have been forced to endure," the president said. |
| • | "Those who step forward to serve our country deserve a fair and dignified evaluation. Not a campaign of political and personal destruction based on lies and deception. What happened to the Kavanaugh family violates every notion of fairness, decency and due process." |
| • | "[In] our country, a man or a woman, must always be presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty," |
| • | "And with that, I must state that you, sir, under historic scrutiny were proven innocent. Thank you." |
Tucker Carlson: Lessons the activist left have learned from the Kavanaugh experience (Fox 10/09/2018)
| • | Finance billionaire Tom Steyer, one of the Democratic Party's biggest donors, is on a new crusade against - and prepare now for a blast of hot irony - "rich, entitled white men." |
| • | "A group of very rich, very entitled white men wanted to tell the rest of the country we are going to have our way," he railed recently. "And if you don't like it, that is too darn bad." |
| • | He's saying Brett Kavanaugh is not on the Supreme Court because the majority of the U.S. Senate voted for him as the Constitution prescribes. |
| • | What's actually happening, says Tom Steyer, is that Kavanaugh was installed by a specific racial group in order to hurt and disempower every other racial group in America. |
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News anchor leaves CBS station after defending Kavanaugh in online post (Fox 10/07/2018)
| • | A veteran California broadcast journalist has resigned after writing a 400-word Facebook post last month defending then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh from sexual assault allegations. |
| • | "I want to thank those who have offered support and apologize again for any I may have offended. I hope to return to the news business in the future." |
| • | ... Long wrote that "few things are more serious than rape" but the timing of Ford's claim "stinks of political maneuvering." |
| • | He also said that the #MeToo movement was long overdue but that the allegation against Kavanauagh amounted to "lesser miscreant behavior." |
| • | "You are beyond dreaming if you think 17 year old boys are not going to misbehave from time to time as they begin to attempt relationships with the opposite sex. That is just the way we animals are made!" |
| • | Long initially stood by his remarks but eventually deleted the post the next day and issued an apology. |
| • | "I wish I hadn't a written (the post) because it's caused me a lot of headache. This is a sensitive and controversial subject and I apologize for any offense that this has caused." |
| • | "Perhaps I may have broken our social media standards by putting my article a little bit too far to one side." |
| • | Long's resignation comes as a reporter for an NBC affiliate in Minnesota was fired after wearing a "Make America Great Again" cap while covering President Trump's rally in that state. |
Georgetown professor who wished death to GOP senators supporting Kavanaugh on leave (Fox 10/05/2018)
| • | Fair stirred up controversy on Twitter when she wished miserable deaths upon Republican senators supporting Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. |
| • | "Look at [this] chorus of entitled white men justifying a serial rapist's arrogated entitlement," |
| • | "All of them deserve miserable deaths while feminists laugh as they take their last gasps. Bonus: we castrate their corpses and feed them to swine? Yes." |
| • | A Georgetown spokesperson told ... Fair is no longer teaching students, but will be traveling internationally for university research. |
| • | "To prevent further disruption to her students and out of an abundance of caution for the security of our community, we have mutually agreed for Professor Fair to go on research leave effective immediately" |
| • | "Professor Fair will accelerate previously scheduled international research travel." |
| • | "My tweet, as I have explained, was an attempt to make YOU as UNCOMFORTABLE as I am using the language of the abuse I receive by the hundreds." |
| • | Days before, Fair went on a Twitter tirade against Kavanaugh, calling the embattled nominee a "rapist" and "perjurer." |
| • | She described the GOP as a "f***ing death cult" and "filthy swine." |
Google exec slams GOP over Kavanaugh nomination: ‘F**k. You. All. To. Hell' (Fox 10/08/2018)
| • | A design lead at Google has slammed Republicans in an angry Twitter rant over the nomination of now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh. |
| • | "You are finished, GOP. You polished the final nail for your own coffins. F**K. YOU. ALL. TO. HELL." |
| • | "Yes, I deleted that tweet. Yes, those opinions are mine personally, and I am responsible for them. Yes, I should have been more eloquent and less condemning. Yes, I still believe the %GOP is wrong and not serving your best interests. Yes, I still believe we can do much better." |
| • | "What employees say in their personal capacity has no bearing on the way we build or operate our products," a Google spokeswoman told Fox News, via email. |
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Israeli UN ambassador demands UN secretary-general resign after 'shocking' speech (Fox 10/24/2023)
| • | "I have condemned unequivocally the horrifying and unprecedented 7 October acts of terror by Hamas in Israel," Guterres continued. "Nothing can justify the deliberate killing, injuring and kidnapping of civilians – or the launching of rockets against civilian targets." |
| • | Yet Guterres also said "It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. |
| • | "The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation. They have seen their land steadily devoured by settlements and plagued by violence; their economy stifled; their people displaced and their homes demolished. Their hopes for a political solution to their plight have been vanishing," said the secretary general. |
| • | "But the grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the appalling attacks by Hamas. And those appalling attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people." |
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UK teacher calls 8th-grader 'despicable' for saying people can't identify as cats: 'How dare you' (Fox 06/20/2023)
| • | "How dare you, you just really upset someone, saying things like that [you] should be in an asylum," said a teacher at Rye College... |
| • | The student responded, "I didn't say that. I said if they want to identify like a cat or something then they're like genuinely unwell." |
| • | "If you don't like [these ideas], you need to go to different school, and I am reporting you to [the assistant headteacher]. You need to have a proper educational conversation about equality, diversity and inclusion." |
| • | The student attempted to explain it was their opinion. "If I respect their opinion, why can't they respect mine?" |
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In France “justice” serves Islamism (INN 10/10/2021)
| • | The writer Renaud Camus has been literally annihilated as a public and literary figure after his conviction for "hate speech". Camus had correctly described the Muslims as "colonizers". |
| • | But black rapper Nick Conrad has just been cleared of the same charge for a song called "Hang the Whites." |
| • | "Go into the nurseries and kill the white babies, catch them and hang their parents," he sings, in one of the lines of his "songs", in which a choir says: "Hang them all, hang the whites. No mercy, let them all die together, lead by example, torture them as a group". |
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"Do Russians want another war?" — Vadim Ruslanov and the Alexandrov Red Army Choir (1962)
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| • | Ask of the stillness evermore. |
| • | Ask of the field, or ask the breeze. |
| • | And ask the birch and poplar trees. |
| • | Ask of the soldiers who now lie |
| • | Beneath the birch trees and the sky. |
| • | And let their sons tell you once more |
| • | Whether the Russians long |
| • | Whether the Russians long |
| • | Whether the Russians long for war. |
"On the Wages of Servicemen" [3 rubles a month] (1980 – 02/23/2019)
| • | (Lyrics of 1980, performance on 02/23/2019 — for the "Day of Fatherland Defender" St. Isaac's Cathedral, St. Petersburg, Russia) |
| • | On a submarine with an atomic motor |
| • | And with a dozen bombs of a hundred megatons |
| • | I crossed the Atlantic and I call on the gunner: |
| • | "Aim, I say, Petrov, at the city of Washington!" |
| • | . . . . . |
| • | And the crew of the submarine with an atomic motor |
| • | Started to sing a happy song. |
| • | Tru-la-la Tru-la-la |
| • | We can do everything for 3 rubles |
| • | Burn, burn the enemy land! |
"Do Russians want another war?" — Vadim Ruslanov and the Alexandrov Red Army Choir (1962)
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| • | Whether the Russians long |
| • | Whether the Russians long |
| • | Whether the Russians long for war. |
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Russia launches huge 'doomsday' supersub (Fox 04/24/2019)
| • | The Russian Navy said the submarine designed to carry Poseidon drones is set to enter service next year. |
| • | The Poseidon can target coastal areas with a heavy nuclear weapon, causing a devastating tsunami wave. |
| • | Putin has said its tests have been successful. |
| • | He first mentioned the nuclear-powered drone among an array of other new weapons in a state-of-the-nation address last year, saying they would render U.S. missile defense systems useless. |
| • | ... at around 604 feet, Belgorod would be the world's longest submarine. |
Russian TV lists potential nuclear strike targets in US after Putin warning (Fox 02/26/2019)
| • | Russian state TV on Sunday listed potential targets in the U.S. in the event of a nuclear strike and claimed that its new hypersonic missile technology could reach them in less than five minutes. |
| • | ... "unusual even by the sometimes bellicose standards of Russian state TV." |
| • | Putin reaffirmed that Russia will not be the first to deploy new intermediate-range missiles in Europe, but warned that it will retaliate if the U.S. puts such missiles on the continent. |
| • | He said it will not only target the host countries but field new weapons that will target U.S. decision-making centers. |
| • | The U.S. insisted that it has no plans to deploy missiles in Europe. |
| • | A Putin spokesman said he did not name any "geographic site Russian missiles" might be aimed at. |
| • | ... said the government does not interfere with news programs. |
| • | ... other U.S. sites included Maryland's Fort Ritchie, McClellan air force base in California and Jim Creek naval communications base in Washington state. |
| • | See related Pathetic and Weak (Glenn McCoy, 03/04/2014) cartoon from World picture album |
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Putin warns: Russia will target US with new weapons if it deploys missiles to Europe (Fox 02/20/2019)
| • | ... Russia will aim new hypersonic missiles at the U.S. should it deploy new intermediate-range missiles in Europe. |
| • | The announcement follows the U.S.' recent withdrawal from a key arms control pact. |
| • | He charged that the U.S. made false accusations against Russia to justify its decision to opt out of the pact. |
| • | ... will not only target the host countries but field new weapons that will target U.S. decision-making centers. |
| • | "We don't want confrontation, particularly with such a global power as the U.S." |
| • | ... also criticized what he described as the "destructive" U.S. policy of targeting Russia with sanctions. |
| • | ... the nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile and the Poseidon nuclear-powered underwater drone, have been undergoing tests successfully. |
| • | See related Arising from Hibernation (Jeff Koterba, 12/14/2007) cartoon from World picture album |
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Air Force chief details US response to Russian nuclear attack (Fox 07/02/2019)
| • | An enemy has launched a nuclear attack on the U.S. homeland, an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile packed with destructive power...is heading toward North America. |
| • | Just what would the U.S. do? |
| • | ... in an instant, U.S. and NATO forces would launch a massive counterattack including, as he put it, "fighters, bombers, tankers, space, command and control, ISR, cyber, special operations and aeromedical teams trained and ready for high-end warfare." |
| • | This kind of integrated response raises an interesting and relevant question for analysis... what would the respective missions be? |
| • | Time is, of course, of the essence as millions of lives hang in the balance. |
| • | An enemy ICBM, after a fast boost-phase launch, will take about 20 minutes to travel through space during the mid-course phase — not much time. |
| • | ... forward-positioned nuclear-armed F-35As ... would enter enemy airspace to instantly attack enemy air assets, but perhaps of even greater significance, destroy enemy nuclear-launch sites. |
| • | Should F-35s be close to the attacking country and informed of a potential launch by virtue of U.S.-gathered intelligence information, there may be time for an F-35 to attack the ICBM itself during the boost phase with missiles, guns or even lasers. |
| • | An F-22 would likely be launched to quickly engage any potential enemy aircraft, given that it is regarded as the best air-to-air combat platform in the world. |
| • | Sensors, air-to-air missiles and even dogfighting ability would help ensure air supremacy during any possible counterattack. |
| • | Also, its speed and stealth configuration might enable it to hit enemy targets faster than other attack options. |
| • | Bombers, such as the B-2, would likely use stealth and altitude to go after enemy air-defenses while themselves eluding enemy radar. |
| • | These air platforms could, potentially, attack enemy targets before a U.S.-launched ICBM could reach its target. |
| • | "The potential for ship-based lasers, electromagnetic railguns, and hypervelocity projectiles to contribute in coming years to Navy terminalphase BMD operations and the impact this might eventually have on required numbers of ship-based BMD interceptor missiles." |
| • | "No other nation (other than Russia) is likely to have a force with the number and accuracy of nuclear weapons needed to threaten US silo-based ICBMs in 2030, although China has the resources and technology to pose a threat by perhaps 2035 if Chinese leaders choose to expand their arsenal." |
| • | Homeland defense, it goes without saying, would include the use of Ground-Based Interceptors. These GBIs would be launched into space to find and intercept attacking ICBMs. |
| • | ... an often-cited and crucial element of the nuclear triad - nuclear-armed ballistic submarines quietly patrolling the undersea. |
| • | These weapons are, among other things, intended to ensure a massive "second strike" capability to ensure destruction of anyone launching a nuclear attack upon the US. |
| • | ... to tell potential enemies contemplating a nuclear attack on the US ... "don't even think about it." |
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