"Diplomatic sources have described Robert Malley, the US Special Representative for Iran, who is leading the negotiations in Vienna, as ‘the most dovish official we’ve ever seen’. In fact, [he] has bent over backwards so far that, as one official put it, he now speaks to Tehran from between his legs."
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“…the Biden administration had considered the broadest energy and bank sanctions on the Russians. The sanctions would aim to curb energy exports from Russia or to “expel the country from the dollar-denominated international financial system.” …Yet such tough measures …“risk raising energy prices for U.S. consumers already struggling with high inflation.” And risk “hurting European economies that have deeper trade and financial ties to Russia’s,” per “officials and analysts.” So we’re sending to Geneva a delegation headed by an avatar of appeasement, Wendy Sherman, our deputy state secretary, who’s famous for negotiating the Iran nuclear pact.”
https://www.nysun.com/editorials/appeasement-and-the-dollar/91888/
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“So, the garbage regime and it’s ridiculous legacy media minions must try to stifle this rebellion. They especially hate that this in no Astroturf meme passed around on some media server list after being decreed from on high. LGB is infinitely more dangerous. It’s an organic response that is not pushed or guided, but that evolved totally outside the approved channels. They hate it because it is not theirs, and because they cannot direct it or tame it. So they try to squelch it. But it will come back even stronger. And worse, we’ll be laughing at them as we repeat it.”
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“… if Harris were white and male, she wouldn't be vice president. Because Harris is our first diversity hire V.P. From the get go, the plan was to pick a woman of color. Not the most competent person, or the most liked, but someone who simply won the "by birth" lottery. A man of Joe Biden's age and dwindling health decided that what America needed was for us to be one heartbeat away from our first diversity hire President of the United States.”
https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-diversity-hire-opinion-1663788
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“You may have read that one website has already nominated her as the 2021 Wall St. trader of the year. Jacobinmag.com I’m told is a left-wing outfit, but it has a fabulous story about Mrs. Pelosi and her trading acumen.
“The Gordon Gekko of the New York Stock Exchange. The oracle of Omaha is dead. Long live the Queen of Stonks. According to reports, she and her husband Paul Pelosi have traded over $50 million in assets over the past year with annualized returns at 69 percent as of October according to an estimate from the Nancy Pelosi portfolio tracker.
“That’s higher than Warren Buffet, George Soros, Cathy Wood, and other star investors. Apparently the Pelosi portfolio beat the S&P 500 by 4.9 percent in 2019 and a big 14.3 percent gain in 2020, according to an outfit called “fine print.” Mrs. Pelosi is becoming a cult figure among stock investors.”
https://www.nysun.com/national/nancy-pelosi-queen-of-stonks/91894/
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“And then there’s voter ID, which merely 74% of Americans supported in a recent poll. There’s pretty much nothing else in American society that 74% of us agree on, except for mourning Betty White and that Brian Stelter is a potato.”
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“Our national elite is united enough to have the vices of a ruling class, but not the virtues. In particular, they are cohesive enough to be perceived as oppressive by much of the populace, but they are rarely gracious and conciliatory when needed. They know how to make enemies, but not friends.
“Culturally and ideologically, America’s elites have consolidated into a regime, with Big Tech, the legacy media, academia, Big Business, the entertainment industry, and, of course, the leaders of the Democratic Party, all singing from the same hymnal, even if they sometimes squabble over the key. But many citizens refuse to join in.”
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“The maudlin displays of patriotism during the January 6 festivities were as hard to take as the newfound respect for law enforcement. “Deep in the heart of America burns a flame lit almost 250 years ago—of liberty, freedom and equality,” Biden said in his Thursday speech. This is the same Biden who in his first address as president found something else “deep in the heart of America:” “systemic racism.” Our “darkest impulses,” he said then, were engaged in a “constant battle” to deny “racial justice” to millions of Americans. On January 6, though, Biden praised the “promise of America.” This version of America was barely recognizable in light of Democratic policymaking and philosophy…”
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“Cruz stepped in it last week with the stupid quote about “violent terrorist attacks” on Jan. 6. But he stirred up a delightful shambles when he let Sanborn and the assistant deputy attorney general, whose last name was Olson (I didn’t catch his first name and it doesn’t matter; he had no answers to offer about the Jan. 6 charges and imprisonments despite his agency stonewalling Senate inquiries for six solid months), have both barrels.This isn’t just empty rhetoric. These are the kinds of fireworks it’s going to take to stir up enough public interest and discontent to make it impossible for the current false Jan. 6 narratives to persist. Cruz did a good job Tuesday. Let’s have more of this than the gaffes of last week.”
https://spectator.org/ted-cruz-january-6/
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“So, let me get this straight. The January 6th Committee, which supposedly cares deeply about holding people accountable, not only has no interest in Epps, but they are now operating as his PR firm? Does any of that smell right to you?
“In other words, none of this adds up. If the goal here was to produce criminal referrals for those who helped cause January 6th, no one has more evidence stacked against them than Epps. Again, this is a man who was caught on video — multiple times — inciting people to riot. He told people to enter the Capitol Building. He also took part in the unrest itself, allegedly directing people to tear down barricades. I understand Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Liz Cheney, and the rest want to send Donald Trump to jail, but how does that preclude them from holding Epps accountable?”
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“…anonymous emails were sent out to the Rhodes Trust and the University of Pennsylvania. The emails included photos from Fierceton’s high-school yearbook that showed her skydiving, riding a horse, and whitewater rafting. The current annual tuition of her private high school? $29,875. Fierceton was “blatantly dishonest in the representation of her childhood,” one of the emails alleged. Her mother, it turned out, is a highly accomplished doctor, and Fierceton lived for most of her childhood in a neighborhood where the median household income is $160,000. Fierceton had been attending expensive private schools her whole life.
(Fierceton legally changed her last name in college, later saying her name “reflects who I am broadly and specific to my identities as a queer, low-income, survivor, and former foster youth living with a disability and chronic illness.”)
https://spectator.org/mackenzie-fierceton-penn-student-rhodes-scholarship/
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“Besides his wokeness, James gets a lot of social credits for helping to fund the “I Promise School,” which opened in his hometown of Akron, Ohio, a few years ago.
“Rather than being a disruptor, “I Promise” is another government-run failure. Talk about a bad stat sheet. A paltry 28 percent of students are math proficient. Reading proficiency is more pathetic: 13 percent.
“LeBron is a woke player in a woke league. Recall that after being pressured by radical transgender activists, the NBA pulled the 2016 All-Star Game out of Charlotte, North Carolina, over a state law requiring public school students to use the bathroom and locker facilities corresponding to their birth-certificate designated sex — all while aggressively expanding its footprint in Communist China.”
https://spectator.org/lebron-james-is-a-cancel-culture-bully/
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“Biberaj was elected in 2019 with the help of $850,000 from George Soros, ultimately winning 51% of the vote. Since then, Democratic county leaders have criticized her for going easy on criminals, saying women have particularly suffered as their abusers go unpunished. Biberaj appeared in court, but did not speak. The juvenile prosecutor who took the lead asked for the perpetrator to be placed on the sex offender registry, a more severe step than that requested by a juvenile parole officer. The judge said she had never ordered a juvenile onto the registry despite hearing numerous juvenile cases, but that “I am ordering you onto the sexual offender registry.””
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The Heritage digital team sat down with myself, Patrice Onwuka, and Patti Hidalgo Menders, having each of us read several children’s books that promote gender identity and sexual orientation policies.
We read “I Am Jazz,” “Who Are You?: The Kid’s Guide to Gender Identity,” and “My Princess Boy” while offering our feedback, which was blunt at times.
“Now, you know, this is where I get really upset,” said Onwuka halfway through reading “I Am Jazz.”
“Because if I had a little girl, and then a little boy, who says, ‘Oh, I want to be like your little girl,’ says, ‘I’m going to start using the same bathroom,’ at such a tender age where they are still discovering their sexuality and their bodies, I would be so uncomfortable,” said the mother of three who is the economic policy center director at the Independent Women’s Forum as well as the co-host of WMAL DC Radio’s “O’Connor & Co.”
Menders, a mother of six and president of the Loudoun County Women’s Republican Club, warned, “I think these books are harmful to children because it is not reality.”
“It’s pushing a narrative into this child’s mind to think a certain way, to be a certain way.”
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“McKay’s doomsday fantasy offers know-it-all-ism under the guise of absurdity, then makes the error of using annihilation as an analogy for climate change…Don’t Look Up’s better-than-you comedy reveals the nastiness of liberals who cannot abide difference of opinion. Experts DiCaprio and Lawrence (a bloated egotist and a hipster egotist) sneer at “climate deniers,” creating their own coterie of bourgeois elite, spending the end-times at an elite dinner among new civil-war separatists. All who oppose them are fools, including an executive branch leader who is essentially of their own kind — depicted by Streep with lofty giddiness.”
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“You can almost hear the damage control party holding its breath. “Did they buy it? Did they take the bait? Can we get back to pretending that January 6 was an attempted coup, ‘worse than 9/11,’ as bad as the Civil War, etc.?”
“I don’t think so. For one thing, the public at large isn’t buying into the insurrection porn narrative that the Dems are selling. A year on, no one outside the regime media complex cares that much about January 6.
“Then there is the overwhelming video evidence. Really, it all boils down to the question: what are you going to believe, the narrative formulated by the Democrats that the January 6 protest was a Trump-directed insurrection designed to overturn the 2020 election or your lying eyes? Ted Cruz (along with Tom Cotton, who was also magnificent at the Senate hearing) has done the country a great service by ripping the bandage off of the festering clot of partisan lies. The official narrative will not survive.”
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/ted-cruzs-glorious-about-face-january-6/
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“Reader Tony D. has an idea…: The women swimmers go to the starting line [starting blocks or positions]. When the gun goes off, nobody moves. Let him-to-her compete alone. That would create even more attention, create a bigger embarrassment.
“Not bad. Of course, after such inactive activism to promote or sustain fair play, the conspirators could face even presidential censure. But such are the risks in a world gone nuts.”
https://nypost.com/2021/12/24/lia-thomas-dominance-is-the-antithesis-of-fair-play/
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“Is he senile? Of course. Is he corrupt? Absolutely. Is he dumb? Without question. Which of these truths is the overriding factor in how this week fell apart? Does it really matter? That’s like judging a soup by each individual ingredient. If the whole things sucks, who cares if it’s because you had bad celery or bad noodles? Joe Biden is a bad soup, and this week the country sent it back. We’re all better for it.”
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“Most Afghan diplomats were blindsided by former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s departure, and although many are left serving in exile without a country to return to, by and large, they have chosen not to respond to the Taliban’s entreaties. Foreign Policy spoke to 12 Afghan ambassadors and lower-level diplomats who are still staffing these embassies about their experiences and how they are navigating the new reality of a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Some spoke to FP on the condition of anonymity for fear the Taliban could retaliate against their families. Nearly all the exiled officials said the militant group’s values and harsh brand of Islam were incompatible with the Afghanistan they had sworn to serve. …
“Every diplomat said they would not return to Afghanistan under Taliban rule, no matter what promises the fledgling Taliban government makes. All the diplomats also expressed fear for their futures and their families’ futures—particularly those based in countries outside the West that lack asylum systems.”
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“Tehran’s most egregious nuclear advances occurred after Biden was elected, not after Trump pulled out of the deal in 2018. Does Blinken believe Tehran is ignoring Washington’s outstretched hand because it is still angry about Trump’s withdrawal from the nuclear deal more than three and a half years ago? Unlikely. Rather, Biden has incentivized Tehran’s march toward the bomb by refusing to impose any consequences on the clerical regime for its provocations.”
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/12/31/biden-iran-nuclear-deal/
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“While Lemon's points are typical for the Democratic narrative, the legislation in question is not so much about "protect[ing] the right to vote," but rather about the federal takeover of elections and the dismantling of our system of the separation of powers because. With outlandish claims that Election Day in the future will merely be a "charade," or that 2022 could be the last election, Democrats are reacting with hysteria to the possibility that elections may not go their way.”
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““Leadership set out with a failed strategy, and while I guess, maybe they can message that they tried, it actually isn’t going to yield real laws,” said Representative Stephanie Murphy, a Florida centrist, who is retiring but has signaled aspirations for a future Senate run.”
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“The main reason why China will not change its policy to one of learning to live with the virus, as is happening in much of the rest of the world, is political. Too much is at stake for Xi Jinping. He has staked his reputation on the zero-tolerance approach. ‘Victory’ over the virus has become a key part of the growing cult of Xi in a year where the Party will endorse his bid to become leader for life. It underpins the CCP’s triumphalism and Xi’s boasts of being superior to the bungling West.”
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“When Elon fires off a laughing emoji under a Babylon Bee article or calls out Bernie’s bullshit on Twitter, the Left just doesn’t have any recourse. … how refreshing is it to see someone speak freely and not just play along with the political celebrities and woke influencers? It takes a bit of courage and it puts a little bit of your life on the line, which no Resister ever had to do. The Left got to be as crazy as they wanted without any consequences…resisting was really just complying with the institutional trends. … Do what you want — that’s the point. Don’t be controlled or pressured or coerced into doing things you don’t want to do.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-elon-musk-has-taught-us-about-the-left?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro&fbclid=IwAR3zVrcotOjF2x7s9BEJ6c164ca8646gcTvb7sd5xr5buqNJYuwK8ZO2ZVE
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“If Georgia has been moving toward Jim Crow 2.0, one has to wonder: Why are so many blacks moving there, never mind staying there? The black population of Georgia nearly doubled from 1990 to 2019. Whatever you think about their right to vote, a lot of them voted with their feet to live in Georgia—and disproportionately from states like Chuck Schumer’s New York, where voting is notoriously difficult compared to places like … Georgia. Again, Georgia has 17 days of early voting. New York? Nine. Georgia allows “no excuse” absentee voting. In 2020, Andrew Cuomo signed a bill allowing people to use COVID as an excuse. A ballot initiative to allow “no excuse” voting failed by a healthy margin in 2021, a state where registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans by more than 2 to 1.”
https://gfile.thedispatch.com/p/about-that-speech-
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