“If this thing doesn’t pass, Biden will be the second president in a row to tell voters in Georgia there’s no point in voting because the system is rigged. If it does pass, thanks to a successful effort of abolishing the filibuster, these idiot demagogues will still probably lose the House and Senate in 2022. And if they lose the presidency in 2024—a reasonable bet—they might see all of these “reforms” repealed by Republicans. And Democrats would be powerless to stop them without the filibuster. Biden’s presidency is spiraling into abject failure. Calling tens of millions of Americans racists to change the subject isn’t just bad politics and bad policy, it’s immoral, and it deserves to put him on the wrong side of history he keeps prattling about.”
https://gfile.thedispatch.com/p/about-that-speech-
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“In later years, King Jr. had mixed feelings about his namesake…The German priest was himself a bigot, who persecuted Jews and favored death for heretics\…ML's opinion was that although the German theologian was courageous in rebelling against the Catholic Church, he didn't care enough for the common people of his time," Parr writes in his book "The Seminarian." "ML shied away from the comparisons," Parr said. "Instead of embracing any similarities, he chose to focus on the differences.””
https://apple.news/A8z6vUociQr-ABjIniRCfLw
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“Imagine the FBI suggesting, in the wake of the murder of nine black parishioners at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church by Dylann Roof, that it wasn’t specifically related to the black community.”
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/being-jewish-in-an-unraveling-america?fbclid=IwAR1Eq-6uDVwo0IDk3NdiVtND3Wm-q79wmtsScS2qXNuMa9GfinNxng9nF4o
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"The Senate won’t repeal the filibuster. They won’t pass Biden’s bill to nationalize election rules. Moreover, as the polls show, voters have caught on to Joe Biden’s diatribes and incompetence. He entered office with a lot of goodwill, despite the close election. Now, however, the public has seen enough. Less than one third think he’s doing a good job. The lower he sinks in public esteem, the more he fulminates. His speech in Atlanta is the latest example. He fouled the public square as he slunk off into the last refuge of a scoundrel."
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/little-president-falsely-cried-racism-biden-atlanta/
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“Imagine the average Joe Rogan listener. Not the alt-right white nationalist monster sketched out in thinkpiece after thinkpiece, but the representative of the American median, the “barstool conservative.” He’s economically agnostic, an admirer of entrepreneurship who distrusts large corporations. Socially, he’s slightly to the left of center. The idea of giving puberty blockers to kids freaks him out, but he has no interest in outlawing gay marriage or no-fault divorce. He’d be more likely than Polumbo to support trade protectionism and breaking up big tech, but Ahmari would have a hard time selling him on porn bans and blue laws.
“Polumbo and Cox are betting that this voting bloc will be more open to Friedrich Hayek than to Thomas Aquinas. Their plan seems to be to stan capitalism while casting wokeness as a collectivist distortion of individual liberty rather than its natural outgrowth. It’s possible, they promise, to combat the excesses of progressivism — to be “based” — without throwing out many of the fundamental assumptions of American politics and culture.”
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/battle-based-libertarians-trads/
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“Members of the mainstream media have spent the Biden era doing one of two things: clapping like seals, or furrowing their brows over why the rest of the country isn’t joining them in idol-worshipping the decrepit president. But how just how undying is their loyalty to the Old One? …
“Progressive outlets aren’t afraid to take the gloves off once they know they have permission from the Democratic Party. Don’t take my word for it. Just ask Andrew Cuomo and Michael Avenatti. The media will protect a useful idiot — but Joe Biden is no longer useful.”
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/media-president-joe-biden-honest-appraisal-polling/
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“[Hitchens’] penchant for intentionally eliding evidence was reflected in his description of faith as “the origin of all dictatorship.” These were words written by a man who had witnessed a century marked by militantly atheist Communist dictatorships that murdered more members of humanity than any faith community in history. His brother, Peter, has powerfully pointed out that Hitchens’s religion writings were recycled talking points of the very regimes he claimed to oppose…Why would a man who inveighed with such passion about the War on Terror continue to write in such a putrid way about the very country that was on that war’s front lines? I am not certain of the answer, but I do have a guess. What drove Hitchens above all was his hatred of faith; he began God Is Not Great by explaining, “I have been writing this book my whole life.” Perhaps the one fact that Hitchens was never able to explain, the best piece of evidence for the existence of God that would not go away, was Israel itself.”
https://www.commentary.org/articles/meir-soloveichik/christopher-hitchens-anti-religion/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=SocialSnap&fbclid=IwAR0lTSShZaLumZylM3eMuKqF2Pr_12GZ21FEm5TcZPEeDHvpv9A_vER54Qw
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“…now that [Biden] has tasked the FBI to chase down conservatives, it is not unreasonable to ask if the organization has taken its eye off the infiltration into the country of a terrorist like Akram. When the feds are busy rounding up MAGA grandmothers and Capitol paraders, are they paying attention to the potential terrorist magnet provided by the porous southern border? We know that at least two Yemeni nationals on the FBI’s terrorism watch list were apprehended in separate incidents last year after illegally crossing from Mexico into California, and that Yuma Sector Chief Border Patrol Agent Chris Clem in December announced the apprehension of a “potential terrorist” from Saudi Arabia who had illegally crossed into Arizona. So the threat is still real.”
https://nypost.com/2022/01/16/dems-are-using-the-capitol-riot-to-hunt-political-foes/
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“Why Can’t We Turn Away From the N.F.L.?
“The N.F.L. does not care about your concerns.
“It does not care if you think the most recent purge of Black head coaches is proof the league’s vow to end racism is a sham.
[JT—“purge” lol. Two were fired. The Dolphins weren’t racist, just unbelievably stupid. Flores will have his pick of jobs. Pressure or no pressure, by the time the SB is over, you can count on there being 4 or 5 new vacancies filled by POC HC. And for now, viable candidates like Todd Bowles, Byron Leftwich and Eric Bienemy will stay where they’re winning, especially with the possibility that—with Arians and Reid getting on in years—they’re all in line to inherit the KC and TB jobs.]
“It does not care if you think the league is too “woke” or caught up in virtue signaling.
“It does not care if you’ve had enough of the debilitating injuries and the beloved players shellshocked by the game’s inherent brutality.
“The N.F.L. does not care because it does not have to. It weathers all storms — from Hurricane Kaepernick to the deluge of pain, uncertainty and death caused by Covid-19. It has an ever-tightening grip on America and its culture, tapping into our fascination with violence, our need for high drama, our desire to witness brilliance unfurling under extreme duress. (See: Brady, Tom.)
“Rather than being in retreat, the league this year added a 17th game to its regular season — never mind exposing the players to even more concussive hits. For the first time, fans watched an N.F.L. playoff game held on a Monday night.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/18/sports/football/nfl-playoff-ratings.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab&fb_news_token=idx8V7CV%2FlYb9Upiaiqvsw%3D%3D.BzGEUfkMSBlCyWBQaHP1fycdd4DkWYJEyQ5Wxu5yWd1D363EcT%2BUlexd0zgVy6zPA56%2BvunuiBYO7EZ72lSRoq4gZnE0ogmVs6U88iofO36977i2RBK7OxkCjFHyUpU9lV2RM32auY3Zc2c7byvzjr2QuY7BQoUBAQ%2FqCFTWOOqftuit9UIvAJ5G%2B9Bwu3trqB%2FwLoPIvHiGKRVvNwyUy5yeBPuf2Vmoc%2BRIjJzpfBqG6mPotjmTS3KUcQOD5FnQqjMyCLrFY3ahEf6HXwD4yw%2FzoVOgODh6YqtEQ%2Bon%2FuE%3D
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“Whatever you may think of Biden’s team (and I actually think very highly of several people who work in the West Wing), they can count to 60. So what explains it? I hate to say this because I really don’t like what it says about where their heads are at, but it looks to me like an administration far more interested in finding a wedge issue for the midterms than getting any legislation through Congress.
“But will it work? Alex Samuels at FiveThirtyEight breaks it down. Sure, “even if Democrats aren’t able to pass voting rights legislation, they can at least establish themselves as the party in favor of democracy and voting rights.” Then again, “the party risks looking feckless, if not useless, if they cannot deliver.”"
https://sweep.thedispatch.com/p/the-sweep-party-realignment-is-real?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMzAwNDA3MCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDczMTQ2NzMsIl8iOiJqMU02dyIsImlhdCI6MTY0MjUyODIxNSwiZXhwIjoxNjQyNTMxODE1LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNzIzMDAiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.60dBGkIXtaz2p-pyYdNGnYqHBodmLVpcKaBq0lOpPVU
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“China is pulling out all the stops to prevent a "collapse" in credit, with President Xi Jinping addressing the World Economic Forum and Liu Guoqiang, China's central bank's deputy governor, speaking overnight about policies to stabilize the economy. Economic growth in China slowed to 4 percent, the slowest since early 2020. "If major economies slam on the brakes or take a U-turn in their monetary policies, there would be serious negative spillovers," Xi said. "They would present challenges to global economic and financial stability, and developing countries would bear the brunt of it.””
https://www.newsweek.com/us-dismisses-china-maritime-claims-south-china-sea-state-department-report-1668973?utm_source=PushnamiMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Noticeboard
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“I hear that several Big Business community fundraisers who have either given to Hochul or planned to do so are now looking to play hardball because she’s gone silent on the new Manhattan DA…My business-community sources say Hochul, at least for now, doesn’t want to upset the lefties, as she’s still dealing with some election-primary challenges. They also tell me Hochul may have to choose between their campaign contributions or tacit support of Bragg’s idiocy if she doesn’t wise up.”
https://nypost.com/2022/01/15/manhattan-da-alvin-bragg-has-become-a-big-problem-for-gov-hochul/
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“When national Democrats talk to the country they always seem to be talking to themselves. They are of the left, as is their constituency, which wins the popular vote in presidential elections; the mainstream media through which they send their messages is of the left; the academics, historians and professionals they consult are of the left. They get in the habit of talking to themselves, in their language, in a single, looped conversation. They have no idea how they sound to the non-left, so they have no idea when they are damaging themselves. But this week in Georgia Biden damaged himself. And strengthened, and may even have taken a step in unifying, the non-Democrats who are among their countrymen, and who are in fact the majority of them.”
https://nypost.com/2022/01/14/joe-bidens-georgia-speech-backfired-more-than-he-ever-could-have-imagined/
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“The answer… explains all you need to know about the total incompetence and incoherence of the Biden presidency. It turns out that he and his team, feeling pressure from left-wing activists to get the voting bills passed, believed Biden needed to prove he was still fighting for them despite the odds against passage…The idiotic language he used aside, the effort highlights how Biden’s decision to side with the party’s most radical elements has left him cravenly dependent on their support at the expense of abandoning all moderate voters — the people he pledged to represent. Even then, the president struck out. Many of the activists he was trying to please believe Biden had not prioritized the election-bill issue enough, and some stayed away. Among those was Stacey Abrams, the uber-activist who is running again to be Georgia’s governor. She and the White House said her absence was due to a “scheduling conflict.” Right — the president comes to your state to talk about your issue and you are too busy? Pure and simple, this was a snub and a sign of Biden’s weakness.”
https://nypost.com/2022/01/15/bidens-a-dud-man-walking/
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“In mid-January, China’s Xi Jinping has already won the Chutzpah Award for 2022 with his call at the World Economic Forum “to discard Cold War mentality and seek peaceful coexistence and win-win outcomes…A zero-sum approach that enlarges one’s own gain at the expense of others will not help,” he managed to say without rolling on the floor in laughter. Amazing: Beijing’s ruler is all about enlarging his nation’s gains at the expense of others. Beijing’s whole approach to the outside world is “we win, you lose.” It bullies its neighbors from Australia to Taiwan to India. It’s occupying Tibet and oppressing Hong Kong in violation of the agreement that restored its sovereignty over the island city.”
https://nypost.com/2022/01/17/xi-jinping-wins-the-chutzpah-award-for-2022/
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Six Facts on the Texas Synagogue Terror Attack:
1. U.S. Vetting for Potential Jihadist Infiltrators Is Weak
2. Islamists Bear a Moral Responsibility for the Attack
a. Advocating for the release of convicted terrorists
b. Trafficking in Antisemitism
3. Aafia Siddiqui is a Terrorist Icon
4. Jihadists Have Long Sought Siddiqui's Release
5. Siddiqui's Champions Are Welcome in Washington
6. Gunman Akram May Have Belonged to the Radical Deobandi Sect
https://www.meforum.org/62952/six-facts-on-the-texas-synagogue-terror-attack?goal=0_086cfd423c-616d2c3f14-33689901&mc_cid=616d2c3f14&mc_eid=a18d54a80a
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“Sonia Sotomayor, the only justice to wear a mask during all Supreme Court hearings since the coronavirus outbreak, sits next to Neil Gorsuch, the only justice to not wear a mask during any Supreme Court hearings since the coronavirus outbreak. Nina Totenberg, the college dropout who acted as Anita Hill’s propagandist and once fantasized aloud about Jesse Helms contracting AIDS, reports that the “prickly” Gorsuch refused a request to wear a mask from Chief Justice John Roberts to all members of the high court. Totenberg does not reveal whether the request originated with Sotomayor…”
Spectator A.M. #993, 1-19, Dan Flynn
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“It has always struck me as odd, even perverse, that former Marxists have been permitted, yes invited, to play such a leading role in the conservative movement of the twentieth century. It is splendid when the town whore gets religion and joins the church. Now and then she makes a good choir director, but when she begins to tell the minister what he ought to say in his Sunday sermon, matters have been carried too far.”
—Stephen Tonsor, Philadelphia Society lecture, 1986
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“Party hacks first tried to push Kamala Harris on reporters, then it was “Kennedyesque” Beto O’Rourke (whose schtick was looking really sad about immigration), then it was Mayor Pete (perfect, except for the whole no-black-supporters thing), then Kamala again (in a preview of the “bad followers” problem, voters stubbornly refused to respond to her, despite multiple intense marketing campaigns). Finally, in a surrender of sorts, there was a late mad dash to back “hilarious” Amy Klobuchar, who would at least be a “first” something (the New York Times hedged its bets there, endorsing both Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren, saying, “May the best woman win”). The irony, of course, is the party ended by making the panic move we should have seen coming all along, returning to Obama’s 2008 idea of just trotting out Joe Biden.”
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/joe-bidens-awesome-first-year?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMzAwNDA3MCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDcyOTg3MTcsIl8iOiJqMU02dyIsImlhdCI6MTY0MjYyMTczMCwiZXhwIjoxNjQyNjI1MzMwLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMTA0MiIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.jfWe_5RUarBC2MrOVhdK1dXSCctfVaKcGDh79QOYnp8
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“While most academics support free speech, they simultaneously back politically discriminatory measures that restrict the freedom of political minorities such as conservatives and gender-critical feminists. In other words, the free speech crisis springs from the political discrimination that runs rampant on campus…academics in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) lean strongly Left, many are biased against conservatives, and the latter are massively self-censoring. This restricts academic freedom and the truth-seeking mission of the university, permitting confirmation bias to flourish.”
https://unherd.com/thepost/political-discrimination-is-fuelling-a-crisis-of-academic-freedom/
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“[Sinema] was brilliantly articulate in explaining the role of the filibuster in maintaining some semblance of policy stability in the face of partisan swings. It wasn’t a partisan speech; it was an American history lesson from an unusually thoughtful senator…And Senator Kelly? Nowhere to be found. Whatever happened to the brave, patriotic American who risked his life in the service of the American space program? Where is he when his constituents need him to step up and show a little of the courage and leadership that once informed his life? Upon election to the Senate, Mr. Kelly seems to have opted for early retirement. Can one name a single issue on which the ex-astronaut has taken a position demonstrating an inkling of moral courage or independent thought?”
https://www.nysun.com/national/tale-of-two-senators/91945/
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“Paulo Freire’s book Pedagogy of the Oppressed is often considered the seminal work of critical pedagogy. It has sold millions of copies since its publication — a rare feat for a niche book on education. Academic journals dedicate entire issues to it, and university libraries host special events for it. It is canon in schools of ed. Ironically, while a tract on “education,” the book provides little practical insight on instruction. Where he does give explicit directions, Freire encourages educators to travel from town to town, observe local needs, and encourage workers into action. He cites the mass murderer Che Guevera as an example of a loving teacher and the Maoist Cultural Revolution — with a death toll in the millions — as his thought process when systematized.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/01/where-critical-race-theory-comes-from/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=blog-post&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=more-in&utm_term=fourth
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“All engaging dramas need a fool for the whetstone, and so, in its infinite jest, Nature has sent America the gift of Nicole “Nikki” Fried, the most inadequate, embarrassing, and downright befuddling political candidate the great state of Florida has seen in a long while.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/01/nikki-fried-is-so-so-bad-at-this/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=top-bar-latest&utm_term=first
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“One year into his presidency, Joe Biden is an aging joke. Worse still, his vice president, Kamala Harris, is even less popular. Come 2024, the Democrats will have three choices, none of them good. The first will be to run Biden again, at age 82. The second will be to convince Biden to drop out in favor of Harris. The third will be to spurn both Biden and Harris and host a brutal primary while the two of them are serving out their terms. It is too early to tell whether this month’s “Hillary 2024” talk is anything more than a trial balloon, but one thing is for sure: Such gossip only begins when the incumbent is considered DOA.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/01/did-republicans-pick-the-right-time-to-lose/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=top-bar-latest&utm_term=second
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“What moves people to act heroically or to accomplish a great thing seems more mysterious than what moves people to acts of indecency, cruelty, betrayal and criminality. We get that. People come equipped with the capacity to do atrocious things. So it is appalling when Malik Faisal Akram, the Islamist who had tea with the Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker in Colleyville, Texas before taking him and others hostage, but his motive isn’t opaque at all. Likewise when Simon Martial pushed Michelle Alyssa Go in front of a New York City subway train, he inspires revulsion in ordinary people, but police commissioner Keechant Sewell is wrong to say it was an “absolutely senseless act of violence.” Evil is not senseless. It is self-gratifying. Malik Faisal Akram and Simon Martial sought the sense of power over life and death that comes from stepping completely outside the moral order. Martial, arrested immediately after murdering Go told reporters who asked if he did it, “Yeah because I’m God. Yes I did. I’m God, I can do it.””
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/false-mystery-motives-simon-martial-malik-faisal-akram/
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“…no one has a “right” to vote without an ID. No one has a “right” to ballot-harvest. And many Democrats’ proposals, as in empowering the federal government to mandate gerrymandering and forcing taxpayers to finance congressional campaigns, have absolutely nothing to do with voting rights. Nor do proposals meant to dismantle First Amendment protections. Obsessed with rolling back Citizens United, Democrats have proposed forcing organizations that engage in political discourse to disclose their donors, creating more bureaucratic impediments for those who engage in speech.
“On the voting front, House Democrats have passed a bill that would compel states to count mail-in votes that arrive up to ten days after Election Day; require states to allow ballot-harvesting; coerce states to ban voter-ID laws; induce states to allow felons to vote; and mandate 15 days of early voting, automatic voter registration, and online voter registration.
“Okay, I’ve run out of synonyms for “force.””
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/01/schumers-ugly-voting-rights-gamble/
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““How many Americans understand what Jim Crow was?” asked Sen. Tim Scott (R., S.C.), after Democrats repeatedly invoked the segregationist era in arguing why new voter protections were needed. Mr. Scott, the only Black Republican senator and one of only three Black senators overall, cited Jim Crow’s literacy tests and threats of job losses and lynching used to deter an earlier generation of Black Americans from voting. “If we’re going to have an honest conversation about the right to vote, let’s engage in that on the facts of the laws that are being passed, not the rhetoric surrounding those laws.””
https://www.wsj.com/articles/senate-democrats-brace-for-defeat-on-elections-bill-filibuster-changes-11642617597
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“Those who disagree that, for instance, white privilege/supremacy is the leading problem in the United States in 2022 are simply denounced — “SATAN?!” — in the way that Dana Carvey’s Church Lady used to describe all suspicious phenomena on Saturday Night Live. McWhorter writes: “Antiracism’s progress . . . has taken it from the concrete political activism of Martin Luther King [Jr.] to the faith-based commitments of a Martin Luther.” Ouch. “Progress” can look an awful lot like rolling back the calendar 500 years.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/01/the-church-ladies-of-the-new-woke-religion/
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“One only needs to consider that the Biden DOJ sued Georgia for changes to its generous early voting standards (as the Obama DOJ did with North Carolina) while ignoring Democratic states (New York among them) that have far fewer early voting opportunities to see what a rigged game this could become when partisan operators at the Justice Department can sue to put states it doesn’t agree with politically under federal supervision, with the ability to block any voting law they don’t like without going to court. … skepticism about or even flat-out opposition to the John Lewis Voting Rights Act is hardly tantamount to opposition to the Voting Rights Act, opposition to civil rights, or being a segregationist. Biden was elected to lower the temperature, but it’s unfortunately the case that his comments about Republican opposition to his preferred voting legislation is a slander and beneath him and the office he holds.”
https://thedispatch.com/p/what-the-voting-rights-act-doesand
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That does not change that his viewpoint is 180% different from what BLM and others argue today, who quote young Malcolm X who was at odds with MLK.
They don’t want the color blindness of King, they want to strife of Malcolm now.
As for the socialist aspect when it comes to the economic that MLK thought of, I simply say, so what?
He was a preacher, not an economist. And even then, one can give quite the drubbing to people that think the Bible is socialist (or capitalist).
Which is fine by me. He did the work he was out here on earth to do.
He didn’t have to be right about everything.
Let them point to the wrong economic policies of King. It won’t change the fact that they, in this current generation are the people that missed out on the civil rights era, and are just the left over wannabe’s of the greatest that came before them and paved the roads they walk on, and plough the untamed fields that they themselves have not planted and eat from with lack of awareness.
https://substack.com/profile/11033153-victor-clairmont
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“Ryan Crocker, former U.S. ambassador in Kabul: “What could be more damaging to internationalism in this country than an internationalist who is perceived as having just completely screwed the pooch?” in a period of historic crisis, the President has been a shrinking figure, giving fewer interviews or press conferences than his predecessors. Voters widely question his capabilities. Privately, top Democrats acknowledge the public is losing faith in his leadership. “What people don’t see is an overarching plan,” a senior Administration official tells TIME.
One major party donor predicts a midterm wipeout. “When they f-cked up Afghanistan, they obliterated the competency thesis, and I don’t know how he comes back from that.” If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog, the old saying goes, but Biden can’t even get that right: Major, a rescued German shepherd featured in Biden’s campaign ads, was rehomed last month after injuring the President and biting two staffers.”
https://apple.news/AkqK88CjFTZmZV6YT846XGg
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“After every antisemitic attack on a synagogue, we have a communal conversation about increased security and armed guards at synagogues, and the effect it has upon Black Jews and other Jews of Color. As a Black Jew, I knew this argument was coming. But I never thought there would be people who would center this argument during a time of ongoing crisis, as four Jews wondered whether they would live or die for simply being Jewish.
“Furious anger filled my heart as I read these posts by rabbis and communal leaders throughout social media. It was not the time to hold this conversation as Jews possibly faced death. It was despicable to drag Black Jews into this debate like a weapon against anyone who disagreed.
“I distrust the police, but I still can see reality. When antisemites target Jews at synagogues, they will kill all of us, Black and white-passing alike. This threat of violence is the reality for our Jewish sisters and brothers in Israel and Europe every day.”
https://forward.com/opinion/481093/i-have-been-racially-profiled-by-the-police-i-still-want-them-protecting/?fbclid=IwAR0Izdpha-LHRd2oHtbFbXL7UX4UKbeXaUxe2nCtiEMLl29vYuLZcKrJbMc
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“Like Biden, Clinton lacked principles, but used that flexibility to move toward the national consensus rather than chase the approval of the activist base. Many people remember the famous Sister Souljah moment, but Bill basically fired his own wife after her unpopular socialized-medicine scheme threatened to sink his presidency. Once the “Republican Revolution” was won, Clinton compromised with the House GOP on major policy issues. Between the poll Scarborough mentions and the presidential election of 1996, Clinton signed both the Defense of Marriage Act and the welfare-reform bill — one of the foundations of the GOP’s “Contract with America.” …Clinton led his party. Biden is led by it. Biden doesn’t have Sister Souljah moments, he drops 40-year policy positions overnight to placate left-wing Twitter pundits and donors. Joe Biden’s problem is that he’s always going to be Joe Biden.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/president-biden-youre-no-bill-clinton/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=blog-post&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=top-bar-latest&utm_term=third
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“At the heart of this lies a centuries-old tension in America between the worlds of politics and religion. It was always said that the genius of keeping religion in the background during the founding of America was that it allowed it to flourish in the foreground later on. By contrast, the centrality of the established church in England almost guarantees the obscurity of religion’s place in public life. And yet in America, the desire on the Right to mix religion and politics remains a significant temptation…this overlap between politics and religion remains a special type of kryptonite to any separation-of-church-and-state liberal. And that would be a subject of niche interest were it not also for the fact that it is electorally disastrous for the American Right, however enjoyable it may be as a religious or intellectual enterprise…why would people who share 95% of your political attitudes not wish to join you? More often than not, the answer is not because of any lack of fortitude, but because of that 5% of beliefs you had hoped they might overlook.”
https://unherd.com/2022/01/why-is-the-right-so-unattractive/?tl_inbound=1&tl_groups[0]=18743&tl_period_type=3&mc_cid=323a4cd05c&mc_eid=22e9ae4a48
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“… progressives have done a great disservice to our collective memory of that day by conflating the commonsense election integrity legislation that passed in states like Florida, Georgia, and Texas, with the “big lie.” Voting access has never been easier in American history, and claiming that we’re witnessing a new “Jim Crow” is almost as deleterious to trust in our electoral process as the stolen election myth itself. The more significant threat to voting is the counting, not the casting.”
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/real-villains-january-6-hawley-trump/
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“Yes, Trump had an itchy Twitter finger, but his attacks were were on politicians, celebrities, and corrupt institutions — i.e. the elites. Biden’s offense is that he, as the commander-in-chief, punches down on the citizenry. His hate flows directly to the American voter….Voters don’t like it when you insult them. Hillary Clinton learned this the hard way when she referred to Trump supporters as “deplorables.” President Barack Obama’s biggest rhetorical folly was referring to evangelical voters as “bitter clingers” to guns and religion. Psaki is paid to defend her boss. Maybe next time she can come up with something better than “yeah, well, the other guy was worse,” especially when it’s just not true.”
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/truth-jen-psaki-trump-whataboutism-biden-georgia/
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“Biden is not suddenly going to become coherent when he speaks to the press. The pundits who bought the gingerly grandpa act may be praying that he can capture any fleeting fairy dust bestowed upon him by Barack Obama’s pop-culture prowess. But … [f]rankly, any paid pundit begging for Biden to become the fantastical wise elder statesman they fantasized about should keep their thoughts to themselves. The rest of us should ignore their “expertise” when making any serious assessment of this defeated old man’s tenure.”
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/joe-biden-never-change-press-conference-pundits/
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“Being a left-wing institution certainly comes with privileges. Because such organizations’ research often serves the mainstream media’s preferred narratives, their new studies and reports can become news events in ways that comparable right-wing research wouldn’t. And for the same reason, media outlets often don’t bother to check their work before making it news.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/01/mainstream-media-boost-dishonest-anti-billionaire-screed/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=top-bar-latest&utm_term=third
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