Tuesday, May 31, 2022

TLDR DIGEST 5/22-29

 “It's also not a great look when DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was caught being unaware that the woman he hired had a series of cringeworthy and inaccurate TikTok videos about disinformation. Janky is a Russian collusion peddler and thought the Hunter Biden laptop was a Russian PSYOP. The woman tasked with policing disinformation was herself a bastion of…disinformation. I don't need to remind you of this embarrassing fiasco that engulfed the DHS. So, Janky left, and the thought police squad was put on hold for now. It could come back.”

Ex-Biden Thought Police Chief Throws a Tantrum That Exposes DHS' True Goal

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2022/05/23/ex-head-of-biden-thought-police-attacking-me-is-a-national-security-threat-n2607554?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=272301c8f377cb4769525192b29cae221c10bb65c600b80a9e95a953d91ba2a2&recip=28870245


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“If Nina Jankowicz is a disinformation expert, why was her new board caught off guard and unprepared for a nefarious disinformation campaign and why didn't she know how to counter it?”


https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1527477129608167424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1527477129608167424%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftownhall.com%2Ftipsheet%2Fmattvespa%2F2022%2F05%2F23%2Fex-head-of-biden-thought-police-attacking-me-is-a-national-security-threat-n2607554


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“The surge in the early vote in Georgia shows that all the smears about the state’s new voting law, repeated by everyone from the president of the United States on down, were complete nonsense — a fevered fantasy that the credulous and fanatical believed because they didn’t know better, and the cynical and opportunistic believed because it served their purposes.”


The Big Lie about Georgia Voting Has Been Shredded

https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/05/the-big-lie-about-georgia-voting-has-been-shredded/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=top-bar-latest&utm_term=second


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“What Princeton is preparing to do gives off a revolting odor of using a long-settled matter as a pretext to punish one of its most distinguished professors because he dared to challenge race orthodoxy. The impression Princeton is creating is that elite institutions are now moving into punishing dissent from the leftist catechism by veering off into character assassination. The potential for a catastrophic chilling effect on academic freedom of thought is obvious. Princeton should take a deep breath and rethink whether appeasing the mob of race obsessives is worth the reputational damage to a nearly 300-year-old institution.”


Academic Freedom under Threat at Princeton

https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/05/academic-freedom-under-threat-at-princeton/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=top-bar-latest&utm_term=third


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“"The answer can't always be that someone from a marginalized community is automatically right — trump card, mic drop, end of discussion.  Because we're literally experimenting on children.”


Bill Maher: At This Rate 'We Will All Be Gay by 2054'

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/bill-maher-lgbtq-sexuality-children/2022/05/22/id/1070928/


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“The White House quickly tried to deny that the president meant what he seemed to be saying.”


https://twitter.com/rafsanchez/status/1528636538812260357?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1528708904028356608%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftownhall.com%2Ftipsheet%2Fspencerbrown%2F2022%2F05%2F23%2Fwhite-house-scrambles-to-clean-up-on-aisle-biden-after-another-botched-speech-abr-n2607655


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“Social Justice and Green New Deal dalliances were tolerated when things were good and dividends were rising. Shareholders may turn ugly when results turn red. The red wave coming in November may mean even more heartburn for these woke titans of business.”


The Day of Reckoning for Woke CEO's Is At Hand

https://townhall.com/columnists/gilgutknecht/2022/05/22/the-day-of-reckoning-for-woke-ceos-is-at-hand-n2607616


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"Senior FBI leaders refused to identify Clinton attorney Michael Sussmann as the source of evidence suggesting illicit back channel communications between the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa Bank, concealing Sussmann’s identity from the rank-and-file agents as they investigated the alleged Trump-Russia connection in 2016, FBI agent Ryan Gaynor testified Monday in Sussmann’s false-statement trial.


"FBI agent Ryan Gaynor — who “tracked” the course of the investigation from FBI headquarters in D.C. while it was carried out by agents in Chicago — was the focus of the defense’s efforts on Monday...


"Notably, Gaynor said that agents in Chicago repeatedly asked to be able to interview the source of the information (Sussmann), but that he denied them that opportunity because he had been told that senior FBI leadership placed a “close hold” on the source’s identity, limiting its distribution...Gaynor said that knowledge of Sussmann’s identity and professional connections would have altered the resulting investigation into the Trump-Alfa Bank evidence, calling Sussmann’s motivations “key” in determining what level of investigation to open."


Top FBI Officials Hid Sussmann’s Identity from Agents Working Trump-Russia Case, Agent Testifies

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/top-fbi-officials-hid-sussmanns-identity-from-agents-working-trump-russia-case-agent-testifies/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=breaking&utm_campaign=newstrack&utm_term=27819944&fb_news_token=yki0dUnjdrpwtlgtlr96tg%3D%3D.GDJzCxR4r2vDolz5cnV9e4U64SgZP%2B7Rj5FCK%2BADrUH1X5HuHji287J3Lz5Cr8R%2BD68%2FKvNxwg00F9BeaAb0CZtpLv7BNYjNn8j9k5VY47HK3uKOa7L1ycsgwJ%2BXX5%2FMk9vwRRAq%2BD9KgVQ2RL3BZOI4qsBVtSitk2RfsQ3LwrDd34T1xltQ2CwtIdOfr9JvShgpl0j7xOLoiRXW5AZ66fjkG9QbaDf%2Funu0ym8hcXYbpmVEvDjIrqQgS7gox4ZZQ809uZ42eGBbkATguJBSxAlHlWBCL9kHNq3Y1%2F1KUIoFamc9h7TnYlJ0L4JOnurGX6%2FfeMpvBhb%2BS7coV4MZ6i3fJInU59ThGllNTFrMVw7T5nevhGXS5iI8rHu%2F9JvYs7%2Btih57109PTFTLFi14aGSn1XrVZ71HoOE%2Fh4mmepkk0eYzFVf2BLVJs28am7EdrE7EgWJxzXn1qCuy44%2F%2FucEo6gqKqgGzoFB6%2BHTp0rc0vH6W9rml9HeAshAvSHwRutrCdorp2fgPwb6wggCttSN34El7wZ7WK1v6ovnmD2iDAz%2FlJBmVb3LQno6W3tXR8Aaub7dJAzTpFOTfGGDRQmG%2Fh9%2FXgwBpYK0ERw25bpoYJhtHj5r76ZAElpZMwAkPAkbX7Orp6ick73WDO3oNmX2kQSsHBF3XRStjz02Oa6kY3CarMeBh4S4zDlZ5FwSqQ407d7v9VEdPhoNJH%2FLVTizeUhg7ovKYKaPGhMtNzfN%2FI8Iz%2BYyCrWl3Glu%2BmB3z764kI5V7WPstv9f07knTjNeK3Je8%2BmzxPNzZjpaECDD62U1qJhVE7JskSufexTeJ&fbclid=IwAR2akk8Tteqf40tJKVF44EYpecSotFHM5RFbnPY3xYXS4JLig8hJICPLPvw


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“…Malliotakis is favored to win re-election in the 11th District after the Democrat-drawn map, which appeared to favor Democrats in what was a tightly contested area, was thrown out.”


The Bright Red District in the Heart of New York City

https://www.nysun.com/article/the-bright-red-district-in-the-heart-of-new-york-city?utm_content=The%20Morning%20Sun%3A%20Kissinger%20Wheels%20on%20Ukraine&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=Morning%20Sun%2024-MAY-2022


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“Four years before he was captured, Eichmann gave hours of interviews to Dutch Nazi journalist Willem Sassen at the reporter’s home in Argentina. Sassen was one of many Nazis who also fled to the South American country after the war.  The recordings include remarks attributed to Eichmann that prosecutors presented at the trial, but that he denied at the time, including his clear declaration of having no regrets about the mass murder and even an expression of disappointment that millions more Jews were not killed. … “In conclusion, I must say to you… I regret nothing. I have no desire to say that we did something wrong,” Eichmann said in the recordings.  “If we had killed 10.3 million Jews I would say with satisfaction ‘Good, we destroyed an enemy.’ Then we would have fulfilled our mission. And thus, to my regret, it was not to be,'” Eichmann is heard saying in parts of the recordings that feature in the film and in which he was apparently referring to the entire Jewish population of Europe on the eve of the Holocaust.”


New film brings Eichmann’s Holocaust confessions to life using his own voice

https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-film-brings-eichmanns-holocaust-confessions-to-life-using-his-own-voice/?fbclid=IwAR0VmWgeKPyAJJ1t9cYmIq3raG2ctseRJq-wgve7XzSaptvLLYFtAJKOUyU


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“If student loans could be discharged in bankruptcy, the worst horror stories would be addressed. I would favor that, especially if it were coupled with a requirement that if a student discharges his student loan debts in bankruptcy, the college or university that educated him (or at least took his money in exchange for various courses) would have to cover the loss to the taxpayers. That would make schools think long and hard before they admitted academically weak students who can only make it through by taking raft of Mickey Mouse classes.”


Let’s Cancel Student Loans – Not Forgive Them, But Cancel the Program

https://www.aier.org/article/lets-cancel-student-loans-not-forgive-them-but-cancel-the-program/amp/?fbclid=IwAR2PxFQ-4cKs3h1jD2E4kqDOZH0f-taBtkNz1GJ67iqUzL91egXADP_YeqY


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"The Russia-Trump collusion narrative of 2016 and beyond was a dirty trick for the ages, and now we know it came from the top—candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. That was the testimony Friday by 2016 Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook in federal court, and while this news is hardly a surprise, it’s still bracing to find her fingerprints on the political weapon…Most of the press will ignore this news, but the Russia-Trump narrative that Mrs. Clinton sanctioned did enormous harm to the country. It disgraced the FBI, humiliated the press, and sent the country on a three-year investigation to nowhere. Vladimir Putin never came close to doing as much disinformation damage.”


Hillary Clinton Did It

https://www.wsj.com/articles/hillary-clinton-did-it-robby-mook-michael-sussmann-donald-trump-russia-collusion-alfa-bank-11653084709?st=qyx6h50shqcr15l&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink&fbclid=IwAR0QIjBfdLE2mUo7PRBbVkAikKUBsarg4hwmpHO721L3bfi6EIjmKS7eZtE


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“Aimee Arrambide, the executive director of the abortion rights nonprofit Avow Texas, was asked by Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., to define what "a woman is," to which she responded, "I believe that everyone can identify for themselves.””


Dem witness tells House committee men can get pregnant, have abortions

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-committee-witness-men-get-pregnant-have-abortions

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“The vast majority of the arrested educators were men.”


At least 135 teachers, aides charged with child sex crimes this year alone

https://www.foxnews.com/us/135-teachers-charged-child-sex-crimes-this-year-alone


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“Tuesday's in-person voting saw the voters Abrams alleged were being suppressed increase their turnout by nearly 30 percent over the previous midterm primary for her own race in which she ran unopposed.”


Stacey Abrams Said Voters Were Being Suppressed. Her Own Base Proved Her Wrong.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2022/05/25/after-suppression-fearmongering-georgia-dem-turnout-surges-27-percent-n2607780


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“…we must do oversight, and then outline what we will do once we take power. Drag up the weirdos, losers, and mutations and make them testify to their insanity. Remember how memorable the goof who assured Congress that men could get abortions too was? We need lots of that, coupled with the promise of reform when we take power.”

These SJWs Are a Drag

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2022/05/25/these-sjws-are-a-drag-n2607695


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“A new law allows the cultivation and sale of gene-edited crops. Good. Tweak and ye shall find”


Gene-edited food is coming to Britain

https://www.economist.com/britain/2022/05/24/gene-edited-food-is-coming-to-britain?utm_content=article-link-8&etear=nl_today_8&utm_campaign=r.the-economist-today&utm_medium=email.internal-newsletter.np&utm_source=salesforce-marketing-cloud&utm_term=5/24/2022&utm_id=1179033


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“Darlingh a gave a short but fiery speech against what she described as “gender ideology” in schools during a Saturday feminist rally in Madison on April 23, according to a YouTube video of the rally. During her roughly three-minute speech, Darlingh spoke out against hormone treatments, social and medical gender transitions, and gender reassignment surgery for kids.  Darlingh used the F-word several times during the speech, including saying “F*** transgenderism.” She also said that she exists “to serve children,” and “to protect children.””


Wisconsin Threatens to Revoke School Counselor’s Teaching License for Railing against Gender Ideology

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/wisconsin-threatens-to-revoke-school-counselors-teaching-license-for-railing-against-gender-ideology/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=blog-post&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=top-bar-latest&utm_term=third


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“Some of us are old enough to remember the term “going postal,” and when the phrase “recently fired employee” was often associated with mass shootings. The NIJ report suggests that this isn’t a trick of memory; workplace shootings are now considered rare.  This may well indicate that the background-check system is working; the vast majority of employees in a workplace are legal adults, and if an adult accumulates a criminal record or has a restraining order filed against him, he is barred from purchasing a firearm.  The mass shooters who have horrified us the most in recent years are teenagers and very young adults who haven’t yet accumulated a criminal record, and who were children less than a decade ago. … If you go to CNN’s coverage of the shooting this morning, it is a long list of world leaders and NBA coaches calling for gun control. The site seems much less interested in telling you what actually happened.”


The Hard Truth about ‘Tougher Background Checks’

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-hard-truth-about-tougher-background-checks/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=right-rail&utm_content=top-stories&utm_term=second


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" Last Thursday, the FBI’s former general counsel, James Baker, testified at length that his old friend Sussmann had requested an urgent private meeting and provided the bureau damning, confidential information. Sussmann claimed he did so solely “as a good citizen,” not on behalf of any client. Sussmann made the same claim in a text message to Baker the night before. Baker testified that he was “100% confident” Sussmann had repeated his disclaimer at the beginning of their meeting. (Before Special Counsel John Durham’s team concluded their case on Wednesday, they showed the jury that Sussmann had actually billed the Clinton campaign for that meeting.) Baker’s testimony was especially powerful because he was clearly reluctant to provide it.”


Sussmann Trial Exposes Dems' Scandal-Industrial Process

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/05/26/the_three-ring_circus_of_todays_political_scandals__147658.html


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“”My target wasn’t trans folk, but trans activist ideology. I’ve always confronted dogma that oppresses people and limits freedom of expression.” … He is right to call this out. Whatever name we give it, trans activist ideology has shaken the foundations of our society, challenging the meaning of such fundamental concepts as men and women. When it becomes a courageous act to say that trans women are not women, we are being oppressed and our freedoms limited.”


Ricky Gervais is no ‘transphobe’

https://spectatorworld.com/book-and-art/ricky-gervais-transphobe-netflix/


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“From the Alger Hiss and Rosenberg years on, the celebrated Boudin family of lawyers championed pro-Soviet communists and fellow travelers. Kathy’s red-diaper private school included as students Robert de Niro and Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary. Angela Davis was an American Friends Service student from the south. Precocious in her radicalism, Kathy was valedictorian at Bryn Mawr in 1965.

“At the time of [her] robbery, Kathy had been a long-term fugitive, hunted by the FBI. The Weather Underground’s rich-kid thrill seekers were never going to bring down the country. They were never Italy’s Red Brigades. But thanks to the partisan Sixties mythos among leftist historians, they have entered textbooks as sentinels of social justice and political visionaries, lionized by the woke.


“According to Boudin, policing and sentencing is saturated in racism and violence. Vagrants and paupers are victims. They cannot be anything but victims in capitalist, racist, imperialist Amerika. And that’s the core problem. A close-minded Boudin and those of like mind remain tethered to Marxist premises, dated social theories, and multicultural nostrums, dismissive of cogent policy.


“Boudin’s public glow will not dim with a June 7 defeat. Powerful associates in the US and abroad will help him land on his feet. A high-visibility post in the Department of Justice or State Department could lie ahead. Should San Francisco voters dump Boudin — which now seems almost certain — his political visibility and influence will persist.”


Chesa Boudin’s soft-on-crime policies will doom him

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/californians-recall-progressive-prosecutor-chesa-boudin/


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“Chesa … maintains the outlook or the mindset of a public defender. His view is that crime is just a part of life, something that we all have to endure and deal with. It’s never going to go away. No amount of punishment for any offender is going to change what happened, even in a murder case….I don’t think he’s willing to listen to Black voices.  He believes, in his mind, that he knows what’s best for them.”


The People vs. Chesa Boudin

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/chesa-boudin-recall-san-francisco-crime/629907/


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“[L]aw-abiding Americans have no obligation to take ownership of a madman’s actions. Nor is there any reason for them to surrender their right to self-defense so that Chris Murphy, who, evidenced in many of his comments, is only interested in incrementally limiting gun ownership. That’s his right, of course. He should try and repeal the Second Amendment. Until then, however, Democrats interested in genuine compromise may want to offer realistic, productive, and germane ideas, rather than using another horrific tragedy to dunk on their political opponents.”


Don’t Surrender To Do-Somethingism On Guns

https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/25/dont-surrender-to-do-somethingism-on-guns/


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“An unholy alliance of technocratic management and the woke sacralization of historically oppressed groups is creating a new form of American governance: call it “techwokery.” Though it describes itself as a rational movement to address injustice, it more closely resembles a secular theology. Its catechism is equality, inclusivity, diversity: the imposition of equal outcomes, ideological homogeneity and the primacy of group characteristics over individual character.”

America’s ‘techwokery’ is infecting its allies

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/america-techwokery-infecting-allies/


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Jones still stands by her wrongful-termination claim that she was dismissed for refusing to take part in a massive cover-up, even though the inspector general’s investigation found no evidence to support it, and the state fired her for insubordination.  She currently awaits a trial on a felony charge of illegally accessing government systems and downloading private personnel data. She also has a misdemeanor stalking charge, stemming from a different incident in which she was fired from Florida State University for having sex with a student in her class.”


Florida IG Rejects Conspiracist Rebekah Jones’s ‘Unsubstantiated’ Covid Cover-up Claims

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/florida-ig-rejects-conspiracist-rebekah-joness-unsubstantiated-covid-cover-up-claims/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=breaking&utm_campaign=newstrack&utm_term=27855602


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“[[O]ne of her ex-staffers said] “She has done very little to cement [her] incumbency and the electorate is angry, and she has done nothing to address the issues that matter…AOC can beat Kirsten Gillibrand.”  In the 116th Congress, Gillibrand missed 15 percent of all Senate votes. By contrast, New York’s senior senator, Chuck Schumer, missed fewer than 1 percent of them. In the 2020 presidential election, Gillibrand dropped out with fewer than 2 percent of support, and nearly failed to qualify for Democratic primary debates.  Meanwhile, a study by the non-partisan Center for Effective Lawmaking, jointly run by Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia, ranked Gillibrand as one of the least effective Democrats in the chamber, with a score of 0.339 – a full 50 percent below the benchmark rating of 0.887, with no bills she introduced becoming law. Her action on gun legislation, meanwhile, was rated as 0.000 by the study.”


Kirsten Gillibrand Tells Voters Their Lives Depend on Electing Democrats

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/kirsten-gillibrand-tells-voters-their-lives-depend-on-electing-democrats/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=blog-post&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=top-bar-latest&utm_term=second


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“The document is the firmest proof to date that Obama-era officials were engaged in back-channel efforts to keep negotiations with Iran alive, even as former president Donald Trump and his administration worked to isolate the regime, former secretary of state Mike Pompeo told the Free Beacon in exclusive remarks. Pompeo, who was not aware of these meetings while leading the State Department, said the memo corroborates reports from the time about Kerry's efforts to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal through back-channel powwows with Iranian officials.  Pompeo said it is startling to learn that members of a former U.S. administration attempted to handicap a sitting president's policies, describing the disclosure as "bad stuff, dangerous stuff, un-American stuff." These former officials, he said, "should be ashamed of themselves. Working against their own nation's policies alongside such a brutal regime.””


Disclosed: How Obama Administration Officials Conducted Shadow Diplomacy With Iran To Undermine Trump

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/disclosed-how-obama-administration-officials-conducted-shadow-diplomacy-with-iran-to-undermine-trump/


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“The important variable does not seem to be guns. Americans shoot each other to death at a much higher rate than do citizens of most other countries, but they also stab each other to death, beat each other to death, burn each other to death, etc., much more frequently than do citizens of other countries. In fact, the number of murders committed by Americans armed with nothing more than their bare hands each year exceeds the number of murders committed by Americans with so-called assault rifles. The United States has unusually high rates of criminal violence across the board rather than just an unusually high rate of gun-related violence.  My conclusion: The problem with America isn’t that it is full of guns — the problem with America is that it is full of Americans.”


Explaining the Gun Debate

https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/05/explaining-the-gun-debate/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202022-05-29&utm_term=WIR-Smart












































 

Monday, May 23, 2022

TLDR DIGEST 5/15-22

“Freeland could have simply and honestly acknowledged this disturbing aspect of her grandfather’s legacy and moved on—plenty of contemporary German officials with troubled family histories are perfectly capable of doing so—but instead she has used it as an opportunity to sow fear and mistrust about foreign threats to Canadian democracy….[In] 2022, Freeland defended the Liberal government’s decision to freeze the bank accounts of those who participated in and supported the so-called Freedom Convoy to Ottawa…it was hard not to notice Freeland’s enthusiasm for citing “disinformation” to justify the use of extraordinary state powers against domestic political opponents while simultaneously leveraging the specter of “disinformation” to whitewash her own family history—all in the name of democracy…in a country like Canada, where the historical suppression of Nazi collaborationism has not only been tolerated but insisted upon at the highest levels of office, voters have every right to wonder about the person who many believe will be our next prime minister.”


Canada’s Future Prime Minister Needs to Come Clean About Her Nazi Collaborationist Grandfather

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/chrystia-freeland-needs-to-come-clean-about-her-nazi-collaborationist-grandfather


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“Stockpiling the right weapons and deterrence are only two of the benefits of planning ahead and learning from the Ukraine war. A third element is that, by building up the defenses of partners and working more closely with them to deter adversaries, the U.S. can reduce the chances of war breaking out. This would mean that Washington could concentrate on domestic crises, such as inflation, and focus on one conflict at a time…U.S. partners and allies express concern that the U.S. no longer is focused enough on their interests in places such as the Middle East. Providing the right defense systems could help to assuage these complaints.  Better to do that than to wait for the next threat to emerge and then try to rush missile interceptors or anti-tank weapons abroad.”

The best defense against another Ukraine crisis is weapons stockpiles for allies

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/3482051-the-best-defense-against-another-ukraine-crisis-is-weapons-stockpiles-for-allies/


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The homogenizing done under the sign "Arab" is complicated by the fact that the majority of Arab Amer­icans until the decades after the Arab-Israeli War of 1967 and perhaps even now were and are Arab Christians from Lebanon, Syria, and Pal­estine—many of whom do not consider themselves Arab. Arab Ameri­can studies as a scholarly endeavor is constantly inventing a people and deconstructing its own invention.”


Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal

Reviewed by Daniel Pipes

https://www.meforum.org/63039/arab-american-women-representation-and-refusal?goal=0_086cfd423c-0f47f1d2e7-33689901&mc_cid=0f47f1d2e7&mc_eid=a18d54a80a


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Americans are now entering uncharted, revolutionary territory. They may witness things over the next five months that once would have seemed unimaginable…Ruling elites would rather be politically correct failures and unpopular than politically incorrect, successful, and popular.  Is that not the tired story of left-wing revolutionaries from 18th-century France to early 20th-century Russia to the contemporary disasters in Cuba and Venezuela?  The American people reject the calamitous policies of 2021-2022. Yet the radical cadres surrounding a cognitively inert Biden still push them through by executive orders, bureaucratic directives, and deliberate cabinet nonperformance.”


Imagine the unimaginable

https://jewishworldreview.com/0522/hanson051222.php


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”The team is owned by the Qatari state through its sovereign wealth fund, and Qatar itself has come under scrutiny amid concerns from the gay community about their safety when the World Cup takes place in the Gulf country later this year. Homosexuality is against the law in Qatar, as it is in other countries in the Gulf, but World Cup organizers have insisted that all fans would be welcome during the tournament.  Same-sex acts are also illegal in Gueye’s native Senegal, where ultraconservative groups have burned rainbow flags during public protests against homosexuality.”


P.S.G. Player Refuses to Wear Rainbow Jersey

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/16/sports/soccer/psg-idrissa-gana-gueye.html?action=click&algo=bandit-all-surfaces-variants-time-cutoff-30&alpha=0.05&block=trending_recirc&fellback=false&imp_id=986422423&impression_id=365624d8-d583-11ec-af52-3d5225d502c1&index=0&pgtype=Article&pool=pool%2F91fcf81c-4fb0-49ff-bd57-a24647c85ea1&region=footer&req_id=968729065&surface=eos-most-popular-story&variant=0_bandit-eng30s


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“When conservatives control the denomination, the liberals — who want to ordain women and gays, abandon the traditional sexual ethic, and deconstruct the historic dogmas — beg for dialogue. When the liberals gain power…dialogue is no longer on offer. The vanquished conservatives are fundamentalist bigots, after all. It would be wrong to give them a platform.”


Here’s to the Christian knuckle-draggers

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/heres-to-the-christian-knuckle-draggers/


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"Andrew fully expects to be rehabilitated. He's not even accepted that he's going to have to have a quiet few years.  [He] believes strongly that he can get back and I'm told that this is something that he's obsessed with and that he believes that this is going to happen. That over due time he will get back into the mix and of course, his mother right now is the best route as he sees it because the queen's stature is such that no one is going to say to her 'you cannot see your son' and even though she has no desire now to have him seen with her on balconies and understands, knows and wishes for him not to be part of that he can keep pushing his face in."


Andrew 'Obsessed' With Making Royal Return, Using Queen to Do It

https://www.newsweek.com/prince-andrew-obsessed-royal-return-queen-elizabeth-tina-brown-1706987?utm_source=PushnamiMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1652745806457&subscriberId=60929ddbe94838e5a124142d


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“Leftist pro-abortion group Ruth Sent Us has had its TikTok account “permanently banned” after publishing what it claimed were the home addresses of the Supreme Court’s six conservative justices online as part of an organized “walk-by protest” earlier this month…While TikTok did not specify what content posted by Ruth Sent Us was deemed inadmissible, the group has faced intense backlash this month for using intimidation tactics to pressure the justices to uphold Roe, potentially jeopardizing their safety and the integrity of the Court.”


Pro-Abortion Group ‘Permanently Banned’ from TikTok after Doxing Supreme Court Justices

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/pro-abortion-group-permanently-banned-from-tiktok-after-doxing-supreme-court-justices/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=blog-post&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=top-bar-latest&utm_term=fifth


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“What we need to remember is how much of a failure these regulatory actions have been. The federal government sliced AT&T to ribbons in 1982 only to see most of them recombine over the years into, you guessed it, AT&T. Those that didn’t rejoin Ma Bell became Verizon and Lumen aka CenturyLink… It’s not worth putting an unelected board in charge of Big Tech. All that will do is ensure that Big Tech remains Big Tech. And that’s exactly the kind of market centralization that progressives like Bennet claim to want to combat.”


Say no to Democrats’ latest attack on Big Tech

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/say-no-to-democrats-latest-attack-on-big-tech/


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[H]ere's from the Department of Homeland Security, 'Disinformation is defined as false information that is deliberately spread with the intention to deceive or mislead,'" Maher quoted the DHS.  "Well, you could have said that about ‘If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor,’" Maher suggested, recalling Obama's vow that was proclaimed "Lie of the Year" by PolitiFact in 2013.”


Bill Maher Cites Obama's Big Lie When Warning Liberals About Biden's Thought Police

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2022/05/16/these-are-not-bright-people-bill-maher-comes-out-swinging-against-bidens-new-n2607258?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=272301c8f377cb4769525192b29cae221c10bb65c600b80a9e95a953d91ba2a2&recip=28870245


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“For the sport of swimming, the inclusion of transgender people on the grounds of fairness cannot co-exist in the current competitive model. Swimming should choose to offer competition in which the female category is protected for reasons of competitive fairness.”


Position Statement on Transgender Swimming

https://www.wscacoach.org/advocacy/wsca-position-statement-on-transgender-swimming


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“In front-page essay in WSJ weekend review, distinguished Yale law prof Akhil Amar (liberal who “supports abortion rights”) offers lots of praise for Alito draft in Dobbs, refutes critics. Alito ruling would *not* threaten other precedents, he explains.”


The End of Roe v. Wade

https://wsj.com/articles/the-end-of-roe-v-wade-11652453609


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“Unlike other mass shootings, like Boulder in 2021 and the most recent New York City subway shooting, this one will remain in the news. Gendron is white. He's racist. He's everything the liberal media wants when an incident like this occurs. Boulder's mass shooting was committed by a Syrian. The New York Subway shooter was black. Both stories vanished into the ether rapidly because they didn't fit the liberal narrative. Yet, there's another common element with this story: the shooter exhibited red flags that authorities knew about but did nothing.”


'It's Just Incompetence': There Were Red Flags Everywhere With the Buffalo Shooter

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2022/05/16/there-were-red-flags-everywhere-with-the-buffalo-shooter-n2607281


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“TPD said Vinik's ex-wife told law enforcement officials that the couple have been allowing the 15-year-old to live with them in their home. She reported that the 29-year-old and the 15-year-old have been co-sleeping together and she recently found Vinik's 'underwear hidden under a pillow on the bed' the student had been sleeping in."  The Tucson-based news outlet also said that police seized cell phones through a search warrant, which "revealed inappropriate messages between the two that supports a sexual/romantic relationship.””


Woke Arizona high school counselor, who helped organize drag show for students, arrested and accused of having sex with 15-year-old girl

https://www.theblaze.com/news/tuscon-high-school-counselor-sexual-drag-show#toggle-gdpr


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Americans have long understood the need for the separation of church and state, even if the line has gotten blurred over the years. Now they need to start thinking about the line between mosque and state. In particular, they need to confront the problem of taxpayer funds being handed to Islamist organizations in the United States.”


Don’t Fund Jihad, Even by Accident

https://islamism.news/2022/05/16/dont-fund-jihad/?goal=0_1ce70fade8-2e452dfba5-34174501


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“"You can lead a man to the presidency, but you can't make him think," Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) said on Fox News Tuesday morning during an interview about a resolution he and GOP colleagues introduced to get the Biden administration to focus on the real crises facing Americans.”


Sen Kennedy Drops Another Golden Biden One-Liner

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2022/05/17/senator-kennedy-you-can-lead-a-man-to-the-presidency-but-you-cant-make-him-think-n2607371?utm_source=breakingemail


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"Marli Brown and Lacey Smith said the airline posted an article about its support for the Equality Act to an internal employee message board and solicited comments. The two “felt compelled by their Christian faith to post one comment each, asking about the impact of the Equality Act on civil rights for religion and women in the workplace.”  Alaska Airlines immediately removed their posts, removed them from their flight schedules, and fired them.  Brown and Smith sued the airline for terminating them and the flight attendants’ union for failing to protect them.  Alaska Airlines called the fired flight attendants’ comments discriminatory, hateful, and offensive. Brown and Smith said in their complaint that religion is a protected class, but the airline doesn’t think so."


These Flight Attendants Said They Were Fired for Questioning Alaska Airlines’ Support for the Equality Act


https://blackcommunitynews.com/flight-attendants-fired-questioning-airlines-support/?fbclid=IwAR3MwBRQvmwqIndc3lp5qq2TMRI_EMxoJ-yllCSCit6Vpk5GfkDU2Go8mb0


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“Iran's regime believes that China is the future, and it wants to be untethered from relying on the West. But the West is perhaps weathering the economic storm better and also has different pandemic policies geared to opening up, while China is closing down. Iran didn't count on this, and now it is facing real troubles.”


Iran Facing Economic Uncertainty

https://www.meforum.org/63242/iran-facing-economic-uncertainty


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 “It is of some interest that the liberal-leaning Brookings Institution finds that the share of “hate crimes” committed by whites in the United States is slightly below the white share of the population (non-Hispanic whites make up about 61 percent of the U.S. population and about 55 percent of the hate-crime perpetrators) while African Americans make up a disproportionately high share of the hate-crime offenders (about 12 percent of the population and 21 percent of the hate-crime perpetrators), figures that mirror the National Institute of Justice’s data about mass shootings (52.3 percent white perpetrators, 20.9 percent black perpetrators). It doesn’t seem likely that the numbers would break that way if hate crimes and mass shootings in the United States were primarily the product of white-supremacist ideology.”

Even Our White Supremacists Aren’t Very Interested in White Supremacy

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/even-our-white-supremacists-arent-very-interested-in-white-supremacy/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=blog-post&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=top-bar-latest&utm_term=fourth


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“The gist of the Lorenz piece is that the Disinformation Governance Board was always a good idea, there was never a legitimate criticism of having a U.S. law-enforcement agency establish a new effort to define and police “disinformation,” Jankowicz did nothing wrong, and all of the criticism of her and the board is based on lies . . . and yet the Biden administration pulled the plug anyway. That version of events doesn’t make a lick of sense. (You might even call it “disinformation.”)”


Since When Does the Biden Team Quit in the Face of Conservative Criticism?

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/since-when-does-the-biden-team-quit-in-the-face-of-conservative-criticism/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab&fb_news_token=YpRDSjZEc8BtUbwD0tVZng%3D%3D.synLPdcaXyKDEC618KlpUdIDbSBcGof4zcJN72WyPdWReMjZtCcaG7nj1w6Zvnp4uu%2BsEj42mnmP8VsHuWWqz7iJ%2FPwJgQ7dQjfvwax2u0X3VXjS4%2FEsly%2BvIPXc51sWoJzvtW%2BgTKuR%2B%2BMov1zYI5zWqcTx%2BTqshRB1PgKkLIrQN%2BQpEvpGb09a3VB3hM68YwVqpbaAMpCtT3PJLvpVM2lcSDwKP1N7RUSkJkq1ozIvD685nixymcHpWycpoetxkB0EVheS9wJ8u7s9TvxZcWZkdHPJaXMHl25CIzpfacpqqTafxqLnJCcqz6df5PpyvJ3eI8Ql1vZusmx5lQXzac6G6L3VkfRQJ1zsuE%2FCUyv0iJsZWLb6VzxttlegEsJfPW%2FFcQwOGji00TpOf%2FqcO8Xgk4JYDRSvz85PEmAaTqDhjZ%2FXiu3c5IPN5lc2wemxJ7GdW5TsSeNcyPllNnRgm3XOeHXEEtzOJrTORhKjGAngpPNZglHMxrV9G1ua6lZW1AfBJ%2BDK2Z4%2F6KBKv64hq54UKioaPb7Ox3ffjuLzeELS4NkKEJELLCnRRe6S93uKws8GCzEt%2FN6Kt8BTSKlmL%2Bamzy7rsCdnhw45xVIMx4OdfDOCEOwqUZMCbMbyfxb2vD6j12vMQVSGbVTnHfEi5z00%2BjqSiv%2FDM8141SSszkOzTWA0TANvzBSQu5fClzt8QtCpAm6hKQrqXamKEgJVhVxh9JcAII25ExU4GoylaI8zXPeMmEd6rwYF1ps3XWZXhE%2BAYVUtsN6PUjce9DLUKP%2FsJCYOtP1rSH6vo9cU2LE%3D&fbclid=IwAR1qfvQbgydqxAM5T-uozbNLq_j6yycAYvz8RDq92b5MPUm2P11-6zEJqzI


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“"After filing a complaint, she says she received a response “right away” and was able to speak with someone representing the pediatric clinic. When she expressed her concerns about the questioning, she says she was told that the questions were recently added to the physical exams because of an increase in teens identifying as transgender and mental-health issues and that the doctors can’t assume a child’s pronouns anymore.  Kinzbrunner asked the representative if there aren’t better ways to screen for mental-health issues — that are common outside of transgender and sexual identity — and was told that the questions were added on because of the current social norms."


Parent Says Walter Reed Pediatrician Questioned Teen about Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/parent-says-walter-reed-pediatrician-questioned-teen-about-gender-identity-sexual-orientation/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=right-rail&utm_content=top-stories&utm_term=third


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“[L]et’s be honest: diversity is a cover. The real goal of the DEI brigade is to politicize what should be one of the most concrete and objective disciplines: engineering. While the “diversity” programs at Stanford’s School of Engineering may not actually achieve stated diversity goals and progressive hopes, don’t think that they aren’t making progress in the real agenda of eroding meritocracy.”


Woke Watch: Stanford Engineering’s DEI Bureaucracy

https://stanfordreview.org/woke-watch-stanford-engineering/?fbclid=IwAR0CJdrq6eEVupls-il1Qdc2yG8808Djy1A5hBP0kHCR3pltpQMfgNvqZnc


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“We were also perplexed when the Administration’s response to sky high gas prices was to plead with OPEC to produce and sell more oil, while working to lift sanctions on Iranian and Venezuelan exports.

White House officials have reportedly discussed a Presidential visit to Saudi Arabia to press for more production of their oil, and exports to the US.  Oil that is used to buy cluster bombs dropped on Yemeni civilians. 


“Senators, Calgary is a lot closer to Washington than Riyadh.  And you don’t need the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet to patrol the Great Lakes.  To quote former Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer, “we don’t have to send the National Guard into Alberta.””


Alberta Premier Mocks Biden for Refusing Canadian Oil: 'You Don’t Need the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet to Patrol the Great Lakes'

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/chris-queen/2022/05/18/alberta-premier-blasts-biden-for-importing-middle-eastern-oil-instead-of-canadian-oil-n1598687?fbclid=IwAR2lXD4GHbbtipji924YWExU5PPJ2ZTjaB-Rx1C5oR7ACZHCVV2EJEh61y0


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What Pelosi just did is a repeat of the 1970s when Congress gave the White House the power to enact gas rationing. Time magazine declared in 1974 that happiness was “a full tank” as Americans tried to make sure they had enough fuel amid shortages and gas lines. President Jimmy Carter gave his “moral equivalent of war” speech in 1979, saying that the US was running out of fuel and that sacrifices were necessary even if it “will lead to some higher costs, and to some greater inconveniences for everyone.” Yet rationing ultimately stifled the economy even further as independent gas stations went out of business because they had no product. The failed policy didn’t end until 1981.”


Everyone hates Nancy Pelosi’s gas bill

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/everyone-hates-nancy-pelosi-gas-prices-bill/


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“Perhaps spotlights are bad when they’re aimed at Democrats. If so, I have a fix for the Post’s motto. How about, “The Democratic Party Thrives in Darkness”?”


So Long, Disinfo Nanny

https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/05/so-long-disinfo-nanny/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=more-in-tag&utm_term=first


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Unburdened by ties with unions, public bureaucracies, and the academy, the Right can reimagine institutions and arrangements in ways the Left cannot. As the party of the campus crazies and the paymaster for the education establishment, the Democrats have little choice but to placate the base and subsidize the status quo. This sets up principled conservatives to take the high ground on a sheaf of 70–30 kitchen-table issues. 


The Right’s policy agenda should be rooted in five principles.

  • Extend educational choice.
  • Empower parents.
  • Defend shared values. 
  • Promote excellence.
  • Bust the college cartel. 


On Education, Democrats Are Losing Voter Support

https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2022/05/30/on-education-democrats-are-losing-voter-support/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=more-in-tag&utm_term=third


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“The failure of the federal case against Oracle had wide-ranging repercussions. For one thing, the firm moved its headquarters out of Redwood City to Austin, Texas within months of the judge’s decision. Oracle announced a move in the same week as Tesla, which was destined to be targeted by some of the same lawyers who’d worked the Oracle case. CEO Elon Musk told the Wall Street Journal that California regulators had begun behaving like a “monopoly that cannot go bankrupt,” preaching a religion that “regulations are immortal,” while adding the following acid commentary: If a team has been winning for too long, they do tend to get a little complacent, a little entitled and then they don’t win the championship anymore. California has been winning for too long.”


The Lawyers Who Ate California: Part II

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-lawyers-who-ate-california-part-1a8?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMzAwNDA3MCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NTQ2MjgxOTUsIl8iOiJqMU02dyIsImlhdCI6MTY1MjU4Mjk3MCwiZXhwIjoxNjUyNTg2NTcwLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMTA0MiIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ._fgCuU2f_0PglDxLaGy5rOaNSAIlX5y2s9Qwbc-5pXE&s=r