“Clemson University undergraduate admissions counselor Monica Rozman wrote that "no one cares if you're Republican" and that applicants "identify with an oppressive group" if they fail to "actively denounce the white supremacy and misogyny" of the GOP.
“Joe Galbraith, associate vice president for strategic communications at Clemson University, said in a statement to Fox News that Rozman has been "reassigned" while a human resources investigation is conducted.”
“Galbraith also noted in a statement to Campus Reform that Rozman does not have a role in making decisions about admissions and that her comments "are not consistent with the admissions policies or practices" of the university.”
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“The likelihood that Russia is sitting on a wealth of compromising Ukraine-related material on Joe Biden and his family may come as a shock to media that pushed the Trump-Russia collusion narrative for four years. But the Biden-Russia kompromat story may be more than a political funhouse mirror. It may explain the president’s curious passivity toward Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline and why, almost as soon as Biden took office, Putin seized the opportunity to move more than 100,000 troops to Ukraine’s border.
“What’s more, it may also provide new insight into the Russiagate conspiracy theory that poisoned America’s public sphere and made people lose their collective minds.’…it’s worth asking if the 46th president of the United States was the initial target of the Hillary Clinton-funded Russia dossier?…The Steele dossier has long since been revealed as nothing but utter nonsense, but with the Bidens as a target rather than Trump, it’s at least easier to make sense of its contents, especially the notorious “pee tape.””
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/what-does-vladimir-putin-have-on-joe-biden
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“….in order to bridge its own contradictions, the Reform Movement always needed to show that there were aspects of Judaism that it really did take seriously—that the whole thing wasn’t an elaborate justification for ditching practices and beliefs that congregants found onerous or embarrassing, but rather a positive program that could help individuals and families lead a fulfilling Jewish life by incorporating liberal values, which could also help shape and strengthen the Jewish state.”
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-believer-ammiel-hirsch
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“By not engaging in a fight Republicans can’t win, the dynamic changes. Democrats are poised to raise a fortune off this fight. If there’s no fight, there’s a lot less money. Democrats need something their base can get excited about to bring energy to the midterms. Without a fight, that doesn’t exist. Democrats need something, anything to change the narrative from Biden’s failures. Biden’s failures should be all that comes out of the mouths of Republicans between now and Election Day. Don’t play dead, just don’t play the game Democrats need. …, Hell, consider voting for the nominee. The number of votes a nominee gets is irrelevant, they only have one vote on the court. But strategically, if Republicans act smartly, they can come out of this entire process, a process that is essentially over before it begins, with a win.”
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“A swimmer on the Penn women’s team, speaking on the condition of anonymity, claimed to Fox News that administrators were considering legal action if Thomas is prohibited from participating in the championship. “I have a feeling that if USA Swimming changes their rules, they will be filing a lawsuit for Lia to swim, but they wouldn’t do that for us.” The student told Fox News that she does not know if the university itself or if Penn athletics would file the lawsuit but said she "heard that from some of the administrators.”
"They're just proving, once again, that they don't actually care about their women athletes…these people in Penn's administrative department who just think that women should just roll over -- it's disturbing, and it's reminiscent of the 1970s when they were fighting for Title IX and stuff like that. They don't actually care about women at all.””
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/lia-thomas-penn-swimming-teammate-interview
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“Stephanopoulos asked Collins whether it was political when former President Ronald Reagan said he would nominate a woman and selected Sandra Day O’Connor or when then-President Donald Trump did the same with Amy Coney Barrett to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. ”Actually, this isn’t exactly the same. I’ve looked at what was done in both cases. And what President Biden did was, as a candidate, make this pledge. And that helped politicize the entire nomination process. …What President Reagan said is, as one of his Supreme Court justices, he would like to appoint a woman. And he appointed a highly qualified one in Sandra Day O’Connor ,” the Maine senator said.”
https://nypost.com/2022/01/30/sen-susan-collins-says-bidens-handling-of-nominee-has-politicized-supreme-court/
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“No one appears to have been in charge at Black Lives Matter for months. The address it lists on tax forms is wrong, and the charity's two board members won't say who controls its $60 million bankroll…BLM's shocking lack of transparency surrounding its finances and operations raises major legal and ethical red flags. No one appears to have been in charge at Black Lives Matter for months. The address it lists on tax forms is wrong, and the charity's two board members won't say who controls its $60 million bankroll…"Sixty million dollars is not chump change," charity expert Doug White said. "What BLM does is of tremendous social importance. That they won't give an honest or complete or straightforward answer in regards to its leadership is a concern. Not only do they not have an executive director right now, we think, but they also don't want to tell you how the organization is being run.””
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/blms-millions-go-unaccounted-for-after-leaders-quietly-jump-ship
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“It was never social media “misinformation” that harmed people, but rather a coordinated attempt by public health officials and reporters to limit open discussion and skew coverage of COVID. This campaign manipulated the public into acquiescing to measures with catastrophic second-order effects but little epidemiological value. Now that the damage has been done, the old arbiters of truth and morality will not get back the trust or credibility they’ve squandered.”
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/covid-affects-your-memory
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“The term “mansion Marxist” is an oldie and a goodie. It’s right up there with “limousine leftist,” but richer (pun intended) because it denotes an especially outrageous kind of left-wing hypocrite…Gus Hall, the corrupt head of Communist Party USA from 1959 to 2000 was a master of the craft, dutifully stuffing his wallet with cash from the Kremlin before sparing a dime for his union brothers on the factory floor… Castro was worth a cool $900 million at the time of his death, while all Cuban workers subsisted off an annual salary of $120. You couldn’t own a home or boat in Cuba, but Fidel damn well owned the island. Raul Castro, too, is a multi-millionaire. Marxism, you see, is for the ruled, not the rulers; it’s for the masses, not the masters.”
https://spectator.org/mansion-marxists/
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“I have had students ask me privately: “Professor, are you a Republican?” I ask what prompts such curiosity. They respond: “Because you never try shoving your beliefs down our throats. All you do is teach law and tell great jokes and drop-dead-funny anecdotes. You are the only professor here who does not manipulate class time to attack Republicans, push an agenda about ‘systemic racism,’ promote critical race theory, or force-feed us Black Lives Matter. That means you must be conservative. Are you?” I guess I must be.”
https://spectator.org/what-american-woke-cancel-culture-has-taught-me-about-nazi-germany-and-terrified-american-professors/
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“During 1948 War of Independence, the Israelis desperately needed arms; the world said no (and indeed doled out lectures on international law). So they went out and illegally bought a load of Czech arms. They refused to take lectures when facing the literal extinction of the nascent Jewish state. … Fukuyama-like triumphalism swept through governments and created a generation of “activist policymakers steeped in a progressive vision of the world” whose best intentions and half-baked promises brought about so much pain. Here in the West, the world of Brussels and the UN dominated the post-war settlement. We could afford the luxury of finger-wagging at Israelis for having to use old-fashioned means to repel old-fashioned threats; we sneered at their atavism. But out on the edges of Europe, and across the former USSR, geopolitics and history is returning; indeed, they probably never left. No one is coming to save Ukrainians or Georgians. Their only chance is self-reliance; and they have neither the time nor luxury to grandstand. Now the world of Moscow and Ankara and Beijing is rising — and the only way many countries can effectively respond is to adopt the principles and behaviour of a world that runs not through Brussels but Jerusalem.”
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“The United States remains a constitutional republic, but technocratic progressivism threatens its future as a representative democracy. It is telling that, in the mouths of the governing elites, the word “democracy” no longer refers to government of, by, and for the people, but to progressive policies that are endorsed by credentialed experts yet have little popular support. And now we must contend with a monstrous union of science and politics that lames and deforms both. … Americans have from the beginning been told to follow the science, but the science has mostly followed politics. In June 2020, for example, over 1,200 medical and health professionals signed a letter arguing that, despite the high risk of viral transmission, prohibitions then in force on small gatherings like church services should not apply to large (and frequently destructive and violent) demonstrations protesting what the authors called “the pervasive lethal force of white supremacy”. And when the science pointed toward the likely origin of Covid in a Wuhan lab, top health officials conspired — for political reasons — to smother that news.”
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“Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have since made it their business to get involved and tell the media that they had been “expressing concerns to [their] partners at Spotify about the all too real consequences of Covid misinformation on its platform.” Their partners? Ah, yes. In 2020 the pair signed a multi-year deal worth $25 million with the streaming giant. So far it has yielded a single podcast episode. Often, though not always, the people most interested in moderating other people’s creative output are the people who are least capable of creativity. …Rogan…had the biggest podcast in the world before he went to Spotify and he would have the biggest podcast in the world if he had to leave. Indeed, if it means that he can keep the $100 million they signed him for and escape their grousing employees, it might be a good deal for him. Joe Rogan is an institution now: he is bigger than Spotify, Neil Young and even Harry and Meghan.”
https://unherd.com/thepost/joe-rogan-is-bigger-than-spotify/?mc_cid=0296fb8b1b&mc_eid=22e9ae4a48
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“Given the climate prevailing in the American liberal faction, this authoritarianism is anything but surprising. For those who convince themselves that they are not battling mere political opponents with a different ideology but a fascist movement led by a Hitler-like figure bent on imposing totalitarianism — a core, defining belief of modern-day Democratic Party politics — it is virtually inevitable that they will embrace authoritarianism. When a political movement is subsumed by fear — the Orange Hitler will put you in camps and end democracy if he wins again — then it is not only expected but even rational to embrace authoritarian tactics including censorship to stave off this existential threat. Fear always breeds authoritarianism, which is why manipulating and stimulating that human instinct is the favorite tactic of political demagogues…All factions, at certain points, succumb to the impulse to censor. But for the Democratic Party's liberal adherents, silencing their adversaries has become their primary project.”
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-pressure-campaign-on-spotify
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“If this were Washington, then Jen Psaki would be advising everybody to have a margarita. But having a margarita is not the kind of advice that [Erdogna] typically gives. (My colleague Alexandra DeSanctis writes that Psaki hawks cocktails as though the country were full of nothing but callow Cosmopolitan readers, but I think Cosmopolitan readers drink more cosmopolitans than margaritas.)”
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-tuesday/fire-the-statisticians/?fb_news_token=9Gq7CgpUYcJySLo4ZMxWLg%3D%3D.A7Ueq6qnAPeeR8g5kSJvKqY9pAL48lR4R4YPQgH%2BeqqI6P3LXIlFbdGG5PGpSAq5pLtQLfMBe%2B9rftqau8KIDJZyxt0o8KG7c%2Fa4cAahOvsNCI7tyoXfV31fCq%2BAMI3%2FKE2RYiFHz1SqUw4%2FmaNPj8jpwge6Mbbdg0bux%2B9RbzwTw%2F8d%2BATgqBzgNPb29ptCuoCddR2EQAya5KpUg%2FDk8sdtF3jQIXE2rIK92jB%2Feko9FPzDqx8blPPiUqddkH9%2BNTr7XU9MPE8bsGJYfPr9ASTnXv9%2Bbo3TESVSxe68RPtI%2F8B%2Fj%2FNqWOxrun7BJiHPPSFFtMAG8uzQMVUoyOcp5mfk6oousfsstm%2B%2FAugmx%2FbS9AfYoatG1RvC3pNdkOv4URqJh4Fbi9P9zPPMzzpaChP4Y7uSj8xI4TFIVLNEMjxPBGh%2FoIPJO%2BUG6D83WgvcH5mFBfUGHP4Isi139BzMcVd1w5bOapGFb2H2CJi96bIlEWJ428swB6OaEy2v7TMmXaV0UkBcKiohiqvmi6dSONqcx2E04CSmMwSnXCYLUeCeOS63qJBoFZWqby8%2F6EhSrYPTj%2BPB%2Fr4rHRB9fc9j2HSp%2FQ2hGo10yVuQ9K6qNfxCJAlw%2FJvRk8y19LKQI3HcHTPQnYnH0zLhvSRk9fq3u%2FDY%2FDCwjfKkkbWnBflG1x1TrbbFD6Ajpe9y2rDNn93C2H9xMvp5%2BYtEysncG3ZlF9lGbCwCeo71MfSn6uyWP%2Fg%3D&fbclid=IwAR2FKlSuz66ezbslxABEA4seu0GR7eS7ei_EMIHRSXnGtpC8KoWl_kpvfag
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“[T]he purveyors of cancel culture want their opinions to be the ones proclaimed as absolute truth. The impulse to shut down Rogan isn’t ultimately about making him go away; it’s about controlling what his listeners believe and what they do as a result. It seems not to occur to Neil Young and his admirers that half of Rogan’s listeners might well be tuning in because they want to mock him, or because he’s entertaining, or because they want to understand how their opponents think. The assumption appears to be that every Rogan listener will necessarily adopt his every opinion and adapt their behavior accordingly, even if it means marching to their untimely death.”
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“There are only two possibilities you can go through. Do you know where you find that kind of black-white thinking? In people who have major personality disorders. And psychopaths. Psychopaths and people with narcissistic personality disorder engage in black-white thinking. America right now is in this weird situation in which it’s a country that to the outside looks psychopathic or disordered…Here’s what they do. They’re not fact checking facts. What they’re doing is checking narratives. They can’t say that your facts are wrong, so it’s like, “Aha, there’s no context.” Or, “It’s misleading.” But that’s not a fact check. You just don’t like the story.”
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“We still don’t know what caused the pandemic, but that’s not the issue here. The concept of telling the public you’re this certain of something when you quite obviously are not is at least somewhat new, both in politics and in media. The crucial problem shown in this reel is the complete absence of humility about the possibility of error. The most well-meaning scientists make mistakes…and there was a time not long ago when no responsible press outlet would have declared any hypothesis off-limits before the mystery had been solved.”
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“Xi's demand for absolute obedience worked while things were going well for the regime: He could claim credit for what everyone acknowledged as "China's rise." Yet Xi is now vulnerable because the country's intractable problems can no longer be ignored.”
https://www.newsweek.com/2022/02/11/if-xi-jinpings-zero-covid-olympic-coronation-fails-his-enemies-beijing-are-ready-1675166.html?utm_source=PushnamiMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Recovery
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“…in a way, [Whoopi] has done us all a favor. This catastrophically embarrassing episode showcases the final destination of the “woke” thinking that now dominates so many of the upper tiers of American society. If “anti-racist” dogma, when followed to its logical conclusion, results in these kinds of absurdities, then the whole edifice is completely rotten. This is what happens when you tailor your worldview to reinforce a single preoccupation … as Maslow’s law has it, “if the only tool you have is a hammer, [you] treat everything as if it were a nail.””
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/whoopi-goldberg-holocaust-problem-jews-view/
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“In Ancient Rome, Feb. 15 was the feast of Lupercalia, a fertility festival, regarded today by some as a precursor to Valentine’s Day given that it included some raunchier erotic elements. However, Lupercalia was more broadly a winter festival of civic purification, and appears to be a more direct antecedent of Candlemas. There were torchlight processions instead of candles, and the name of the month of February actually comes from the Latin “februare,” meaning “to purify,” and Lupercalia was called dies februatus, “Purified Day.” Lupercalia continued into the fifth century CE, when some scholars think that Pope Gelasius put an end to it by instituting the Church-sanctioned holiday of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary around the same time; before they settled on Dec. 25, early Christians celebrated Christmas on Jan. 6, which meant Feb. 14 fell 40 days after—right around Lupercalia.”
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/community/articles/groundhog-day-christian-roots
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“Sheldon Silver died in prison for the crime of using his office to benefit himself. Isn’t this basically what Pelosi is doing now? I don’t think I’d be that wrong to think she isn’t the only politician, Democrat and Republican, doing the same. The last president to leave office the same financially as when he entered was Truman. We learned in school that crime doesn’t pay. Apparently, it’s a one-way street.”
https://dailygazette.com/2022/02/01/letters-to-the-editor-tuesday-feb-1/
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“Black Lives Matter shut down all its online fundraising streams late Wednesday afternoon, just days after California threatened to hold the charity's leaders personally liable over its lack of financial transparency. The move comes less than a week after a Washington Examiner investigation found BLM has had no known leader in charge of its $60 million bankroll since its co-founder resigned in May. California and Washington recently ordered BLM to cease all fundraising activities in their blue states due to the failure of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, the legal entity that represents the national BLM movement, to report information about its finances in 2020, the year it raised tens of millions amid the racial protests and riots that followed George Floyd's killing.”
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“Amnesty’s own website explains … explains that “after more than 50 years of groundbreaking achievements, Amnesty has been through a major transformation.” On that much, AI is right: It has been transformed into a propaganda arm of the global struggle against the Jewish State, which uses language taken from the Soviet playbook and holds Israel to standards no other country is asked to meet.”
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“Back when Johnson became Goldberg, Jews weren’t considered “white,” exactly. And they weren’t not-white either…But it’s two generations since then. It’s obvious that a 2022 version of young Caryn Johnson would not choose the name Goldberg to gain that extra frisson of non-white pride. In fact, Whoopi Goldberg should just drop the Goldberg now. There are dozens of survivors of the Holocaust who bear the name — and an untold number who died in the Shoah with it. Caryn Johnson stains them both.”
https://nypost.com/2022/02/01/drop-the-goldberg-name-you-co-opted-whoopi-you-dont-deserve-it/
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“Why was there no Operation Warp Speed for therapeutics, just as there was for vaccines? This question is crucial for the obvious reason that countless lives could have been saved, but also because a warp speed initiative for therapeutics might have minimized the relentless lockdowns and mandates that have devastated and divided our country, not to mention triggered a mental health crisis and forced millions of school children to isolate at home in front of computer screens. A lot may have changed in two years as we’ve learned more about the virus and its variants, but this truth hasn’t changed: We should have treated therapeutics a lot more seriously from the very beginning. Why didn’t we?”
https://jewishjournal.com/cover_story/344434/why-was-there-no-warp-speed-for-therapeutics/
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“Seventy years and we alone bear all this denial. Therefore, it is time to put an end to all this by starting with cutting support from them, and without ending with mediation whenever one of them throws a missile at Israel. In this case, let them rebuild what they destroy by their own acts. Enough is enough! The camel’s back has been broken from the burden of grief we endure due to the ingratitude of the Palestinians. They have been encouraging terrorism against us, issuing calls to kill us, and raising slogans such as “The path of liberation passes through Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Manama, Riyadh and Doha”, while they are trying to lose the bearing. All the Gulf states should normalize relations with Israel due to the fact that peace with this most advanced country is the right thing to do. Let the foolish fend for themselves.” — Ahmed Al-Jarallah, Editor-in-Chief, the Arab Times
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“You can see this in how many Left-wing Americans now talk about the Middle East, too. More than 60 percent of Israeli Jews trace their heritage to Arab countries, yet Israel is often declared a racist regime by many on the Left for its restrictions on Palestinian Arab non-citizens. But just to Israel's north stands Lebanon, a country whose restrictions on native-born Palestinians are worse than Israel's, which has largely avoided similar international censure. Unlike in Israel, Palestinians in Lebanon are banned from owning businesses and property, or receiving public healthcare and education. Where is the outrage? Because it's harder to cast it as "racism" from a white perpetrator against a non-white victim, no one cares. It's why there's no outrage about the Houthi rebel atrocities in Yemen, or Saudi Arabia's restrictions on women and dissidents, or China's human rights abuses against Hong Kong. Americans are blind to all of this because it doesn't fit their narrative.”
https://www.newsweek.com/whoopis-holocaust-flap-reveals-danger-american-race-rhetoric-opinion-1675580
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“It is a mark of Amnesty's incredible shrinking credibility that the anti-Israel narrative it peddles, seeming to want to divert attention from the internal dissension that has recently come to light inside the organization, has less and less traction in the Middle East itself, where Amnesty appears to have "lost the room." In the last two years, a series of Arab nations have moved to normalize relations with Israel, among them the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco. More are close behind.”
https://www.newsweek.com/amnestys-lies-about-israel-only-hurt-its-own-credibility-opinion-1675397
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"Like the Nazis, the Palestinian leadership is appropriating history to justify its current actions; and like the German National Socialists, the Palestinians see one people in the way of their creating a purified territory...The Palestinian demand that the Jewish state be defeated and expunged is just a new version of an old theme. Neither the Jews, Jewish collectivity nor Jewish self-determination have a place in the world, the Palestinian narrative asserts. This threat should be taken as seriously as that of the Nazis."
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“It’s downplaying the minority status of Jews in order to uphold bullshit intersectional arguments that justify anti-Semitism today,” Shapiro added. “The intersectional argument is that Jews are white people, and that Jews are disproportionately successful thanks to ‘white supremacy.’ Because racism is ‘animus plus power,’ and Jews are powerful because they are white, anti-Semitism from non-white supremacists isn’t bigotry…“This logic is why the Left will condemn anti-Semitic attacks like the one at the Tree of Life but quickly memory hole anti-Semitic attacks by Black Hebrew Israelites in NJ or radical Muslims in TX…This logic is also why the Left will embrace and/or justify radical Islamists who wish to destroy the State of Israel rather than siding with a liberal democracy that includes a significant Muslim minority.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/whoopi-goldberg-is-in-deep-s-at-abc-for-holocaust-remarks-insiders-demand-she-be-fired-report?target_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fwhoopi-goldberg-is-in-deep-s-at-abc-for-holocaust-remarks-insiders-demand-she-be-fired-report%3Futm_source%3Dfacebook%26utm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_campaign%3Dmattwalsh&fbclid=IwAR2kEurAY0CcfUBpDBCGlXy7BPx1ZpTMOpJWCY9Ud_NVarSiY10uOy_EyqM
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“Nancy Pelosi would have recommended Jesse Owens give the Nazi salute in the Berlin Olympics”
https://nypost.com/2022/02/04/pelosi-tells-us-olympic-athletes-not-to-criticize-china/
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“Ronald Lauder is partnering with the Comics Conspiracy to ship copies of Maus to McMinn County, Whoopi Goldberg, and the staff of The View”
https://nypost.com/2022/02/05/ronald-lauder-blasts-whoopi-goldberg-maus-banning/
