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Rep. Brandon Williams (R- NY) in a 5/16/24 X post: Antisemitic protestors received virtually NO punishment for supporting Hamas violence. They learned that violence and vandalism are tolerated on leftwing campuses and in leftist States. Will demonstrations return in September? They’re just getting started — we must stamp out antisemitism.
New York Post 5/16/24 headline: Douglas Murray: Take off the masks, you anti-Israel cowards! Protesters aren’t really scared of COVID — they’re hiding shame of their prejudice
Maj. Gen. Joe Arbuckle (USA, Ret.) contributor to American Thinker: Contrary to the DEI slogan that “Diversity is Our Strength,” the historical truth and battle-tested reality is: “Unity and Assimilation are Our Strengths.”
Jessica Marie Baumgartner contributor to The Federalist: Our leaders know that. They weaponize our fear all the time. They used it against us in 2020, and they will continue using it against us until we rely on ourselves and refuse to accept their manipulation. Self-reliance takes power away from those who seek control. That’s why they don’t want us facilitating our own food sources. We witnessed just how many of our “leaders” only care about control in 2020, and the latest bird flu narrative cannot be used to repeat the mistakes of our past.
Joe Barnes contributor to The Telegraph: White House has warned Kyiv that continued strikes on oil and gas infrastructure could harm Joe Biden’s re-election chances.
Jack Cashill contributor to American Thinker: The real threat comes from the unlikeliest of suspects: educated liberal females, or “ELFs” for short. These are the women who will proudly vote Democrat regardless of soaring inflation, rising gas prices, rampant crime in the streets, the unchecked flood of illegal aliens. . . .
John Dale Dunn contributor to American Thinker: Why are all these plump, unhappy white girls protesting for Hamas and against Israel? Ms. MacDonald offers: One possible reason is that women constitute majorities of both student bodies and the metastasizing student-services bureaucracies that cater to them. Another is the sex skew in majors. [snip] In progressive movements, the default assumption now may be to elevate females ahead of males as leaders and spokesmen. But most important, the victim ideology that drives much of academia today, with its explicit enmity to objectivity and reason as white male constructs, has a female character. The female influence has increased inside and outside of the academy. The left is dominated by a grievance narrative founded on the idea that women are oppressed and that it’s up to the government to keep them safe.
John Daniel Davidson contributor to The Federalist: In corporate America today, there’s a permission structure in place to attack, defame, and destroy anyone who dares to be publicly Christian.
DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: ABOLISH THE FIRST AMENDMENT
The Baby and the Bathwater
Campus chaos is no excuse to increase government control of speech. Among the pressing matters of state in recent weeks, Mike Johnson’s Congress thought it prudent to answer left-wing mobs by passing speech restrictions that will likely only be applied to law-abiding Americans. It seems congressional Republicans remain eager to hand progressives a lifeline when the malevolent nature of their aims are put on clear display. The Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023 would give the regime carte blanche to crack down on speech they deem to be politically incorrect. You can bet that the Left will make aggressive use of such power immediately. If fully implemented, this legislation will be a gift to the administrative state. It will allow governmental agencies and progressive courts to essentially criminalize speech that’s critical of groups favored by the left-wing cultural elite. And it will be zealously abused by the full array of intersectional identity groups to further their agendas at the expense of true liberty. Tying federal law to the definitions of anti-Semitism put forth by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) means that private entities which are unaccountable to voters would get to determine the speech rights of all Americans. Today its IHRA, tomorrow it could very well be BLM.
Read more: https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-baby-and-the-bathwater/
(H/T GC) Talbot: Petition to boot Harrison Butker from the Kansas City Chiefs surges to 70,000 signatures after the kicker’s ‘sexist, homophobic, anti-trans, anti-abortion and racist’ college graduation speech
A Change.org petition demanding the release of Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker from the team and NFL has gone viral in wake of his controversial graduation speech at a private college in Kansas. Butker, an outspoken Catholic and married father-of-two, congratulated the women receiving their degrees at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, last weekend, and said most of them were probably more excited about getting married, having children and staying at home to raise them, rather than establishing their careers. He also assailed Pride month, a particularly important time for the LGBTQ+ rights movement, and President Joe Biden‘s stance on abortion. ‘His comments were sexist, homophobic, anti-trans, anti-abortion and racist. These dehumanizing remarks against LGBTQ+ individuals, attacks on abortion rights and racial discrimination perpetuate division and undermine human rights. [NOTE: In today’s woke anti-Christian America an opposing view is characterized as sexist, homophobic and dehumanizing. I believe that more people agree with Butker than not. Bravo for having the courage to not self-censor. Butker is a traditional Catholic not a Biden Catholic.]
Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-13423431/petition-chiefs-dismiss-harrison-butker-gathers-thousands-signatures.html
Ingraham Angle: The gatekeepers want us silent
“At a time when woke secularists dominate the media, corporate America, Hollywood and most universities being a public witness to your Christian faith now that takes courage. Because speaking-up may mean you lose everything. Everything you’ve worked for. Meet Harrison Butker.”
Watch the 7:02 minute monologue: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6353054252112
FROM ELECTION INTERFERENCE TO ELECTION SUBVERSION?
Agresti: Study: 10% to 27% of Non-Citizens Are Illegally Registered to Vote
Based on the latest available data and an enhanced version of a stress-tested methodology from a scholarly journal, a new study by Just Facts has found that about 10% to 27% of non-citizen adults in the U.S. are now illegally registered to vote. The U.S. Census recorded more than 19 million adult non-citizens living in the U.S. during 2022. Given their voter registration rates, this means that about two million to five million of them are illegally registered to vote. These figures are potentially high enough to overturn the will of the American people in major elections, including congressional seats and the presidency.
Read more: https://pricklypear.news/study-10-to-27-of-non-citizens-are-illegally-registered-to-vote/
(This is what Democrats want to stop) Lord: Trump and the Significance of the Wildwood Rally
It can only be described as a movement. If ever there were a snapshot of serious political message being sent, it would be that coming from the estimated 100,000 Americans who gathered this past Saturday in Wildwood, New Jersey, to hear and cheer on former President Donald Trump.
Trump’s detractors called the attendees a cult, which is not only designed to insult but also wrong. What was in evidence in vivid fashion in Wildwood — in decidedly blue-state New Jersey — can only be described as a movement. American history has seen movements before. Most prominently there was the “civil rights movement” of the 1960s. It existed because millions of Americans came to see that black Americans were being deliberately discriminated against. They were not allowed to vote, to prosper economically, or to share in what was known as “the American Dream.” The civil rights movement demanded change — and, in time, it got it.
Read more: https://spectator.org/trump-and-the-significance-of-the-wildwood-rally/
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY
Greenfield: As Biden’s Polls Drop, Hunter’s Patron Stops Paying His Bills
Morris is a Hollywood lawyer who met Hunter at a Biden fundraiser, took over his investments, paid his bills and bought his artwork. Morris provided Hunter with $6.5 million in loans, which including paying his back taxes, covering rent, payments on a Porsche, lawyer fees, child support and whatever else might been on the tab. This presumably does not count the paintings that sold for a total of over $1 million and of which Morris supposedly bought about half. Why did Morris do all this?
Read more: https://www.frontpagemag.com/as-bidens-polls-drop-hunters-patron-stops-paying-his-bills/
BIDEN’S DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: PERSECUTE YOUR OPPOSITION, PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP & HIS FORMER TRUMP EMPLOYEES, SUPPORTERS & WH STAFF
Revolver.news: The true story of how a Trump official started a conservative dating app and is now leading a movement to alter America as we know it. . . .
[…] Democrats are worried. They’re concerned about Biden’s plummeting poll numbers and how radicalized the left has become—like savages in the wild. They’re driving many average Americans away and pushing them closer and closer to President Trump. But it’s not just the chaos on their side of the aisle that scares them. As this left-wing political disaster unfolds, they see the right capitalizing on it with some dazzling and engaging personalities who are preaching common sense and good values in a very clever and effective way. So, who are they terrified of these days? Well, his name is John McEntee, and they have good reason to be scared—he’s a former top Trump official turned cultural entrepreneur, and he’s taking the country by storm. So much so that Democrat activist Parker Krex recently posted a “deep dive” on John, alerting other left-wingers to his popular movement. Just listen to the fear and loathing in his words. It’ll warm the cockles of your heart. Such smear campaigns would be disgusting if they didn’t remind us how utterly terrified the regime journos are of effective people like McEntee. The author “Parker” here is clearly nervous, and he has an agenda.
Parker Krex: […] The regime has a lot more reason to attack Johnny than just his Tik Tok, however. […] We mentioned that he was a top official in the first Trump administration, but what is more important is that he was one of the very few who truly believed in and was willing to fight for the agenda Trump ran on in 2016. The establishment media went apoplectic when it came out that Johnny almost single-handedly engineered an end to the Afghanistan war, only to be overruled by war-drunk generals at the last minute. The irony is that these war-loving snakes likely wouldn’t have been around had Johnny had more time to carry out his agenda within the personnel office of purging the Trump White House of backstabbers and saboteurs working around the clock to subvert the agenda Trump ran on. The media, of course, was scandalized by the fact that, as head of personnel for Trump, Johnny actually expected executive branch employees to like Trump and support his agenda—the horror!
Read more/Watch the short videos: https://revolver.news/2024/05/true-story-trump-official-conservative-dating-app-now-leading-a-movement/
TYRANNY IN THE NAME OF CLIMATE: GLOBALIST POLITICIANS & BIG BUSINESS ACCUMULATE MORE POWER & CONTROL
Baumgartner: Covid Fearmongering Worked So Well, The Government Is Now Creating A Poultry Panic
In 2020, the supply chain experienced disruptions that no one in my generation had ever seen. It became even more apparent to those who believe in the power of self-reliance that it is up to us to take care of ourselves. Backyard farming began booming, along with an increased interest in raising chickens. Since then, efforts to balance self-sustainable lifestyles have been threatened. Government interference in normal healthy practices continues to grow amid concerns over “public safety.” […] Now as avian flu is making headlines, fears that “they’re coming for your chickens” are being realized. […] We should all be suspicious of why the big, bad bird scare keeps getting pushed. […] In the United Kingdom, they’ve already implemented a bird registry. Poultry papers, please. […] In Wisconsin there is no chicken registry, just a requirement that anyone who owns them register their land. […] In addition, the latest bird flu scare happens to coincide with climate alarmists’ movement to prevent people from eating meat.
Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/17/covid-fearmongering-worked-so-well-the-government-is-now-creating-a-poultry-panic/
Beatty: Biden’s Climate Change Scare Tactics Aren’t Working
First, the stage must be set. The joke that currently occupies the Bully Pulpit says he’s the first climate president, says he’s making history by confronting the climate crisis, not denying it. “I’m taking the most significant action on climate ever in the history of the world.” […] There’s little doubt that our “first climate president” is trying to scare people, especially young voters, into thinking climate change has reached crisis mode and we must do whatever it takes to mitigate it — now! So with Biden’s daily emphasis on climate change (or crisis), one would expect the issue to be of grave concern, to be among the top issues on the public’s list […] and therefore be reflected on the CBS/YouGov survey. But no, it’s eighth, next to last. Look at the list (ranked by Very Important): How important are each of these issues in the U.S. Today? […] (In fact, one wonders if Biden — and Democrats — have seen this survey, as his and their primary issues [abortion, climate change] are far from the most important ones.) As an evaluation of the effectiveness of Joe Biden’s scare tactic, examine the results for question 14 in the survey: “From what you know, which candidate’s approach to dealing with climate change do you agree with more?” […] The following questions address exclusively opinions about Joe Biden’s dealing with climate change. Consider survey question 24: […] Bottom line: As Rachel Marsden says, “Judging by the YouGov poll, much of the American public is getting wise to climate change nonsense, as well, which is rather remarkable considering the incessant global propaganda.”
Read more at American Thinker.
(Uh, oh) Nolte: Thieves Steal Tesla’s Electric Vehicle Charging Cables for Copper in California
If Democrat-run California wants to force residents into electric vehicles (EVs), Democrat-run California had better start cracking down on crime. Talk about the law of unintended consequences […] “Thieves are targeting high-powered Tesla and other EV charging stations and stealing the heavy cable for the copper metal inside,” reports San Francisco’s NBC affiliate. “In Vallejo, someone cut cables from nine charging stations — leaving Tesla drivers in a bind and causing tens of thousands of dollars in damage and repair costs.”
Read more: https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2024/05/16/nolte-thieves-steal-teslas-electric-vehicle-charging-cables-for-copper-in-california/
REPUBLICAN U.S. HOUSE MAJORITY
War Room: Sebastian Gorka Explains The Biden Admin Claiming Executive Privilege
Watch the 9:46 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v4vnca3-sebastian-gorka-explains-the-biden-admin-claiming-executive-privilege.html
Ballasy: In bipartisan vote, GOP-led House passes Israel Security Assistance Support Act
In a repudiation of President Joe Biden, the Israel Security Assistance Support Act passed in the House on Thursday with bipartisan support. The bill passed 224-187, with 16 Democrats joining the Republicans. […] The White House said the bill “would undermine the president’s ability to execute an effective foreign policy” and declared that President Biden would veto it.
Read more: https://justthenews.com/government/congress/hold-gop-led-house-passes-israel-security-assistance-support-act-biden-vows
Gomez: ‘Don’t Tell Me To Calm Down!’: GOP Oversight Committee Hearing Turns Into Absolute Chaos
The GOP Oversight Committee hearing Thursday evening devolved into absolute chaos between a handful of Republican and Democratic representatives who argued over insults thrown across the aisle. The Oversight Committee held a vote to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for failing to hand over the audio recording of former special counsel Robert Hur’s interview with President Joe Biden. Nearly an hour into the hearing Republican House Oversight Chair James Comer could be heard asking if any other member would be seeking recognition, to which Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene responded by asking if any Democrats on the committee were employing Judge Juan Merchan’s daughter.
Read more/Watch the three short videos: https://dailycaller.com/2024/05/17/oversight-committee-marjorie-taylor-greene-jasmine-crockett-aoc/
BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE U.S. MILITARY
Barkoukis: Secretary of the Navy Has ‘No Regrets’ About Firing Service Members Who Refused Covid Vaccine
Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) on Thursday pressed Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro on the impact diversity, equity, and inclusion courses and the COVID vaccine mandates have had on recruitment levels.
During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Schmitt wondered if the secretary was an “ally” for the “1,878 soldiers who were fired or the 3,746 Marines who were fired for not taking the Covid shot?”
“Sir, I followed the laws,” Del Toro replied. “They disobeyed the law.”
“Did they feel included,” the Republican senator followed up.
“They disobeyed a law,” Del Toro reiterated.
“They were fired,” Schmitt shot back.
“They were fired because they disobeyed the law,” Del Toro responded.
“Do you regret that? Do you regret that?” Schmitt wondered.
“As it currently exists, I have no regrets,” the secretary said.
Read more/Watch the 51 second hearing exchanging: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2024/05/17/secretary-of-the-navy-has-no-regrets-about-firing-service-members-who-refused-covid-vaccine-n2639196
BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA
Thornton: A Landmark on the Road to Decline
The normalization of antisemitic terror we have witnessed among protestors since the October 7 attacks on Israel is a portentous landmark on the West’s road to civilizational degeneration. Every dimension of our socio-political order––all three branches of the federal government, and many blue-state governments; popular entertainment and high-brow culture; mainline churches; corporate boards and C-suites; national security and defense agencies, and education from K-12 to universities–– has been corrupted by illiberal, if not antihuman ideologies that undercut the foundations both of our political freedom and equality, and the morality and ethics that nourish both. We’ve known for decades that our educational systems have been failing to educate the young, even as politics, social fads, and culture war propaganda have replaced foundational skills like reading, writing, basic science, critical thought, and history. More inimical to learning is the illiberal attacks on First Amendment rights to free speech and academic freedom, and the enforcement of a rigid orthodoxy that punishes and “cancels” those who challenge the party line. Such a regime stifles truth and replaces history with false narratives that serve autocratic agendas. […] Which brings us to the most important landmark on the road to decline, the Biden presidency itself. Both at home and abroad, Biden––or more accurately, the cabal of Edgar Bergens moving his mouth––has piled up failure after failure.
War Room: Trennert: Biden’s Fiscal And Monetary Policy Has Set Us Up For Another Wave Of High Inflation Later
Watch the 10:41 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v4vlfxf-trennert-bidens-fiscal-and-monetary-policy-has-set-us-up-for-another-wave-o.html
Beaton: Biden bribes and dopes youngsters into voting for someone quadruple their age and half their cognition
With young people, it’s worse than that – it appears likely that a majority of 18–30-year-olds may vote against him. He’s not exactly an inspirational figure with the aviator glasses, sneakers, hair plugs, stumbling gait, bumbling words, and luminescent teeth caps. […] But even cash has not pulled the wayward youngsters back into the Democrat tent. Biden’s handlers are now teeing up Plan B. Plan B is to re-classify marijuana as a less-dangerous drug. If he can’t bribe young people into voting for him, Biden will dope them into it. The Biden campaign figures there are votes to be gotten here. A recent survey showed that nearly a third of Americans 19-30 had used marijuana in the previous 30 days. That’s triple the number that had used cigarettes. Re-classifying marijuana gets their vote, the Biden campaign theorizes, because it endorses their lifestyle. It panders to them.
Read more: https://theaspenbeat.com/2024/05/12/biden-bribes-and-dopes-youngsters-into-voting-for-someone-quadruple-their-age-and-half-their-cognition/
WAR IN ISRAEL
Mroue: Hezbollah introduces new weapons and tactics against Israel as war in Gaza drags on
The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah this week struck a military post in northern Israel using a drone that fired two missiles. The attack wounded three soldiers, one of them seriously, according to the Israeli military. Hezbollah has regularly fired missiles across the border with Israel over the past seven months, but the one on Thursday appears to have been the first successful missile airstrike it has launched from within Israeli airspace. The group has stepped up its attacks on Israel in recent weeks, particularly since the Israeli incursion into the southern city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip. It has struck deeper inside Israel and introduced new and more advanced weaponry. “This is a method of sending messages on the ground to the Israeli enemy, meaning that this is part of what we have, and if needed we can strike more,” said Lebanese political analyst Faisal Abdul-Sater who closely follows Hezbollah.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-israel-hezbollah-hamas-gaza-drone-missiles-cd9f59ffa7f876aa755b3c6612246763
21ST CENTURY LEFTIST (DEMOCRAT PARTY) MARXIST INDOCTRINATION CENTERS
Lind: The Left’s Campus Protest Scam
“The issue is not the issue.” This saying of the campus left is as true today as it was in the 1960s. Whatever the ostensible issue may be that provides the occasion for a nationwide wave of campus protests, the list of demands presented to university administrators by student protesters and allied outside agitators is remarkably similar—suggesting that the point of the exercise may lie closer to home. For half a century now, the passion of idealistic students involved in campus protests that were purported to be about national and global issues—the Vietnam War, racism, police shootings, climate change, and now Israel’s war against Hamas—has been diverted into narrow efforts to multiply jobs and teaching opportunities for leftist professors, administrators, consultants and other foot-soldiers and clients of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. In turn, these campus activists have helped to transform American universities from engines of upward mobility and economic growth to taxpayer-funded ideological indoctrination centers. The modern era of left-wing identitarian studies programs on campus dates back to 1968. . . .
Read more: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/left-campus-protest-scam
TUCKER
Carlson: WATCH: Tucker Carlson: Just who is wrecking this country?
Tucker interviews Libertarian Dave Smith. How neocons wrecked the country.
Watch the 2:24:44 hour interview: https://www.wnd.com/2024/05/watch-tucker-carlson-just-wrecking-country/
OTHER NEWS, COMMENTARY, OPINION
Cashill: January 6, Covid Stir the Fascist Soul of the Educated Liberal Female
In researching my new book, Ashli: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6, I discovered something unexpected: an alarming confirmation of my September 2022 article in which I argued that Educated Liberal Females (ELFs) are the single greatest threat to our enduring liberties.
My new book deals specifically with the ELF’s natural foes, the women of January 6. Among the ten women I profile is Dr. Simone Gold. Even before getting caught up in the events of that memorable day, Dr. Gold had set the ELFs on edge through her work with America’s Frontline Doctors, a group she founded. An M.D. as well as a lawyer, Dr. Gold, 55 at the time, went to Washington not to protest the election but to address the issue of medical freedom. She had secured a permit to speak at a venue on the east side of the Capitol, but when organizers cancelled the event, Gold decided to give the speech on the Capitol steps. The daughter of a Holocaust survivor, she did not readily surrender her right to speak freely. […] Along with 1200 or so other citizens, Dr. Gold was hunted down by the FBI in the most sweeping series of arrests on American soil since the notorious Palmer raids of a century ago. Twelve days after January 6, roughly 20 agents came knocking at her Los Angeles door with a battering ram. […] The first 19 people to post an original comment were female, all of them hostile. A supportive male broke the streak. Of the first 50 people, 42 were female. Of that 42, two more or less defended Gold, but the other 40 met the general definition of an ELF. These are New York Times readers after all. The comments of the 40 were uniformly negative. Of note, some expressed as much anger at Dr. Gold’s Covid skepticism as they did her designation as insurrectionist. Some samples: . . . .
Read more at American Thinker.
INTERNATIONAL
Greenfield: Geert Wilders to Join New Dutch Government
“‘strictest-ever’ asylum policy”: Last November, Dutch voters rallied for Geert Wilders. The PVV party became the largest party in the Dutch parliament. Normally that should have meant that Wilders, who has spoken out against Islamization and globalization, should have been on track to become prime minister. But after quite a few months of negotiation, there will be a coalition government. Wilders isn’t being allowed to be PM but he has announced a tough asylum policy and an end to the EU’s ‘green’ war on farmers. And the EU, the media and the rest of the machine will do everything possible to stop it. Dutch voters have come out over and over again against an invasion of their country. According to November exit poll data, men and women, urban and rural, old and young voted for the far-right party.
Read more/Watch the 1:17 minute video: https://www.frontpagemag.com/geert-wilders-to-join-new-dutch-government/