Elitist Obama romanticizes George Floyd's death for street cred
Former President Barack Obama told his 132 million Twitter followers how they could get involved with reimagining policing. George Floyd's death certainly reimagined policing. You can see the consequences of "Saint George's" reimagined police force in the reluctant and deliberate reaction to the 18-year-old psychopath Salvador Ramos.
This reimagined system of policing kept officers in the parking lot of an elementary school for 40 minutes while second, third, and fourth graders and two teachers were at the mercy of Ramos, who eventually killed 19 kids and two adults.
Those poor children and teachers were alone with a deranged boy for nearly an hour without facing resistance. Thanks to the police being scared to do their jobs in the wake of George Floyd, they stood in the parking lot for close to 40 minutes debating what exactly to do.
BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock of "Fearless" believed those police officers stood outside that elementary school and rejected men's natural masculine instinct to sacrifice their safety and lives to protect women and children.
"Man's instincts have been reimagined in the last two decades, and the left and feminists have told us that our masculinity is toxic. Police are told by the Democratic Party and radical political activists that George Floyd, Jacob Blake, Eric Garner, and Brianna Taylor's trigger-pulling boyfriend are heroes and law enforcement is the villain. We've incentivized police to stand down, stand back, and give criminals a safe space to work out their frustrations," Jason said.
"Obama's veneration of George Floyd is an outgrowth of a cultural lot sweeping America. We've made heroes of men who contributed nothing to our society and demonize men whose jobs require them to risk everything," Jason added.
Jason lost a close relative to police misconduct and empathizes with George Floyd and his family. But according to Jason, "The last nine minutes of George Floyd's life do not make him a hero."
"Obama is romanticizing George Floyd, and it's not surprising given Obama's resume. He's mixed-race, half black, half white. He grew up in Hawaii and was raised by white people. He attended elite schools, including Harvard. Obama desires street cred, but he knows absolutely nothing about the streets. Other than what he learned from watching his favorite TV show, 'The Wire.' Obama naively thinks George Floyd is 'The Wire' character Bubbles — a well-intentioned gold-hearted dope fiend. The truth about Floyd is more like an older just-released-from-prison version of Marquis Byrd Hilton — the violent enforcer Omar Little framed for murder," said Jason.
"I'm not arguing that Floyd got what he deserved, but no one on the streets cried when Omar lied about Bird in court," he added. Anyone with an ounce of street sense knows that Obama is playing politics.
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Top 5 times Corporate WOKENESS crossed the line
Intelligent people know that wokness plagues society and must be ridiculed and eradicated from conversations. But what happens when people lose their jobs for calling out the absurdity of woke ideology? What happens when corporations and media sources weaponize wokeness?
Here are five videos that will help us better understand a few of the many issues that wokeness inflicts on society and how we can stand against it.
Bye bye, Target. You crossed the line!
In this clip, BlazeTV host Allie Stuckey of "Relatable" explains how Target recently announced the sale of chest binders and "packing underwear" for women. She expresses how children can be negatively impacted by the sale of confusing clothing items for people suffering from gender dysphoria and the importance of loving the body God gave us.
Today, Allie notices that Target's stock experienced a 35-year record drop. Apparel was named as one of the two underperforming departments. Was pushback from critics of gender-affirming apparel the cause? It is hard to tell, but Allie encourages her audience to continue speaking out when corporations cross the line by making harmful products available for sale to the public.
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Wokeness can get you fired
In this clip, Stu Burguiere covers a story about a man who challenged Black Lives Matter using nothing but data and was fired.
Here's the story: "I had been at Thomson Reuters for over six years—most recently, leading a team of data scientists applying new machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms to our legal, tax and news data. We advised any number of divisions inside the company, including Westlaw, an online legal research service used by most every law firm in the country, and the newsroom, which reaches an audience of one billion every day around the globe. I briefed the Chief Technology Officer regularly. My total annual compensation package exceeded $350,000." Read more
"We live in the era of woke religion," says Stu.
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Coca-Cola circumvents Constitution with TERRIFYING mandates on diversity
Glenn Beck loves Coca-Cola. So much so, in fact, that he refuses to drink Pepsi if Coke isn't available. But ... he says the time has come for him to give up his favorite soda. Why? Because Coca-Cola just announced some terrifying new company policies on diversity and equity. It sent out notices to all partnered law firms, demanding a required percentage of diverse attorneys on any legal team working for the corporation. The notice says all legal teams also must report these numbers quarterly and they will lose Coca-Cola's business if they do not comply.
"Equity is not the same thing as equality," Glenn said, adding that equality means we all have an equal chance, while equality means we all have the same outcome.
Glenn explains how mandates like this could affect everybody — even the guy working on the factory line or the truck driver delivering the drinks. Glenn also explains how Coke's new move is nothing less than a circumvention of the Constitution, and he predicts more companies (especially those in support of the Great Reset) will follow with similar policies, too.
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Coca-Cola takes a 'pause' on woke initiatives after after pressure from the Right
Glenn followed up on a story about Coca-Cola becoming the poster child for how a corporation could shove leftist ideologies onto its consumers. The company suspended advertising on Facebook in a push to censor former President Donald Trump, published a manifesto about racial equity, and demanded all legal teams working for Coke meet certain diversity quotas.
But, after Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), and many other conservative voices called for a boycott of the company's products, Coca-Cola appeared to shift directions.
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Calvin Klein's gender blender ruins sex and Mothers' Day
Chad Prather reflected back to the Great Depression era of enticing photographic entertainment, otherwise known as the callow and deprived years of his youth, when a Calvin Klein pictorial of old would have represented something exciting, something to, say, think about at the end of the day. Had he run across this present weird concept at that age, he would have either been disgusted on sight … or possibly really disgusted when his dumb a** put two and two together the next day. Anyway, his point is: Has the whole world gone crazy? Do we really need this? At this inclusive embracing point in our recent history, what in the world makes Calvin Klein feel the need to be the standard-bearer for a lifestyle screamed largely into existence by a very vocal minority?
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Former Disney artist SPEAKS OUT: ‘It’s time to do something’
A former Disney artist, who wishes to remain anonymous, joins Glenn to describe WHY he recently took action against his former employer: ‘I'm tired of watching my country go down the drain. And it's time to do something.’ Today’s woke Disney is not what Walt once imagined, he says, and his recent video release — "It’s A Woke World After All" — exposes Disney’s large stray from its roots ...
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Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam blames motorists for getting stuck overnight in freezing temperatures on I-95 — and gets torched for it
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) blamed motorists for getting stuck overnight Monday in freezing temperatures on a gridlocked Interstate 95 as they were running out of food and fuel.
"We gave warnings, and people need to pay attention to these warnings, and the less people that are on the highways when these storms hit, the better," Northam told the Washington Post.
“I feel for these people that are stranded but just want to let them know we’re doing everything we can to get to them in a very challenging situation," the outgoing governor added to the paper.
Oh, yeah?
But the Post spoke to motorists who asserted it wasn't their fault that Virginia officials didn't plan ahead.
Ronni Schorr told the paper that state agencies were “not at all” ready for the extended traffic jam and that she didn't see snow plows until Tuesday morning. Schorr added to the Post that she was stuck for 14 hours after a plow cleared an exit ramp on the other side of the highway.
“I’m not angry at the snow,” Schorr also told the paper. “I’m just upset at the way they handled it.”
What it was like to be stuck in the I-95 traffic jamyoutu.be
She added to the Post that the most frustrating thing was not getting a push alert on her phone until Tuesday morning: “In a world today when everybody’s got their cellphones with them, there was no information, there was nothing. If they were able to send an alert out this morning, why couldn’t they do that yesterday?”
Virginia state Sen. David W. Marsden (D) — who chairs the state Senate’s Transportation Committee — told the paper a “perfect storm” hampered a transportation department that's “one of the best-run in the country.”
Marsden added to the Post that the storm began with rain, which made it impossible to pretreat roads before colder weather brought sleet and then snow.
“It was a catastrophe for people,” he added to the paper. “Our road guys are first-rate, and I’ve never heard of anything quite like this occurring in Virginia.”
However, Stafford County Board Chair Crystal Vanuch (R) told the Post that VDOT and state officials made “mistake after mistake” and should have declared a state of emergency.
“It seems like they weren’t taking it seriously,” Vanuch added to the paper. “It seems like they didn’t think it was the emergency that it was.”
How did others react to Northam?
It appears the governor didn't receive a lot of support for pointing fingers at the stranded motorists:
Northam is victim blaming his constituents for driving on I-95? Ridiculous. Thank goodness he\u2019s gone in 10 days.https://twitter.com/charliespiering/status/1478725646616600576\u00a0\u2026— Gabriella Hoffman (@Gabriella Hoffman) 1641391401
Others couldn't have agreed more:
- "So your excuse is that rain prevented the VA DOT from pre-treating. Ok makes sense. But here’s the thing, NY and the NE 95 corridor have rain to snow and yet [our] DOTs can manage?" one Twitter user asked. "This sounds more like incompetent leadership in VA."
- "Could have been done way sooner to prevent a lot of pain and suffering if you had called for help from the National Guard who you yourself said was standing by and ready," another commenter noted. "Why not utilize them and cut all this in half? BTW my street is now on hour 20 of no power/heat. Great work"
- "Good ol' Ralph had to screw Virginians over one last time before he left," another user said.
- "You really dropped the ball on this one! I guess this happens when you have one foot inside the door and one foot outside the door. Seems like you didn’t care if all these people were stranded for such a long time on I-95. I bet a lot of Virginians are counting the days!" another commenter said.
- "You failed, Governor. This is what you’ll be remembered for. The beginning and the end is what people remember the most. THAT part you should care about," another user declared. "Clearly you don’t care about the people who were stuck in this terrible situation. Shame on you for how you handled this."
Anything else?
Hilariously, some presumably left-of-center folks said the traffic debacle actually was the fault of Glenn Youngkin, a Republican who was elected Virginia governor in November.
But given that Northam's still in charge — Youngkin will take office Jan. 15 — the blame-Youngkin crowd got a dose of truth soon enough.
Psaki Blames Military, Not Political Leadership, For Afghanistan War Stalemate
Just 1.3% of Massachusetts drug deaths stemmed from valid prescriptions
There is too much money and too much political power riding on the twin goals of abolishing immigration enforcement and abolishing incarceration for drug and most other violent offenses. As such, the political elites keep perpetuating the big lie that prescription painkillers are responsible for the drug crisis and not open borders, sanctuary cities, and release from jail of drug traffickers. That’s why we are seeing endless lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies. However, a new study of Massachusetts drug overdose deaths demonstrates once again that this is all an illicit drug trafficking crisis and not a prescription problem.
According to a new study of drug deaths in the Bay State by Alexander Walley, an associate professor of medicine at Boston University, just 16.8 percent of opioid-related deaths between 2013 and 2015 involved prescription opioids, and only 1.3 percent of the decedents had valid prescriptions. Walley and his team looked at 2,916 opioid-related deaths in Massachusetts over those three years and published their findings in the journal Public Health Reports.
Overall, 61.4 percent had heroin and 45.3 percent had fentanyl detected in postmortem toxicology reports. But the real kicker is that just 1.3 percent had active, valid prescriptions for each drug found in their bodies. What this demonstrates is that the chronic pain or post-surgery patients who are getting valid prescriptions do not overdose on these drugs. It’s drug addicts who use illicit drugs. Also, 32 percent of those with traces of prescription drugs in their toxicology included methadone, which is prescribed to those addicts involved in drug treatment, not legitimate pain patients. The crisis is almost exclusively driven by illicit drugs, and even when it involves prescription drugs, they are usually abused by addicts who are already abusing illicit drugs and are often accessing the pain medicine on the black market, the same way they do heroin.
However, the role of prescription painkillers in the crisis is even more miniscule than this study indicates. The universe of this study only included opioid-related deaths – illicit (heroin and street fentanyl) or prescription (oxycodone, etc.) As I’ve noted before, cocaine and meth, which are psychostimulants, not opioids, have been an increasingly problematic part of this crisis since the time period of this study ended in 2015. According to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, 39 percent of those who died of drug overdoses in the first quarter of this year had cocaine in their toxicology. Obviously, 100 percent of those fatalities are from illicit drugs, which would make the prescription share of the pie even smaller. In Massachusetts, deaths due to cocaine and benzodiazepines (sleeping pills), in particular, are skyrocketing.
So, if the crisis is not due to prescriptions, what is the culprit?
Massachusetts is a state that is friendlier to criminal alien drug networks than perhaps any other state besides California. State judges have declared the entire state a sanctuary. They have done everything possible to thwart enforcement of drug laws both for American defendants and illegal aliens. It is a state where weak-on-crime and weak-on-drugs policies are merging with sanctuary policies to allow cartel contractors to operate lucrative networks in plain sight that are poisoning the entirety of New England.
Ilhan Omar accuses America of committing ‘atrocities’ at southern border
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., rose to new heights of outrage Thursday, accusing America of committing "atrocities" on the southern border after yet another migrant child died in U.S. custody.
Omar shared the story of a 10-year-old girl with a history of congenital heart defects who made the dangerous journey from El Salvador to the United States. A spokesman for the Department of Health and Human services said the girl arrived in a "medically fragile" state and died in U.S. custody after complications from surgery.
Omar blamed America for her death and the deaths of other migrant children in U.S. custody.
How many more children must die before we address the atrocities our country is committing at our southern border? https://t.co/0W5TQ6Of8V— Ilhan Omar (@Ilhan Omar) 1558653720.0
This narrative of blaming America first for the border crisis is a popular line of attack on the Trump administration from the Left. Another House Democrat, Rep. Lauren Underwood, D-Ill., recently accused the administration of intentionally killing migrant children, saying during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing that these deaths were "more than a question of resources."
"Congress has been more than willing to provide resources and to work with you to address the security and humanitarian concerns," Underwood said. "But at this point, with five kids that have died, 5,000 separated from their families, I feel like, and the evidence is really clear, that this is intentional. It's intentional. It's a policy choice being made on purpose by this administration, and it's cruel and inhumane."
After Underwood's comments were criticized by Republicans, she was backed up by yet another leftist, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who went even further and accused the United States of trafficking children.
Yesterday, GOP moved to silence Lauren Underwood’s words bc she had the audacity to say the obvious: that stealing… https://t.co/7qDO7viOvl— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) 1558652538.0
The rhetoric coming from these Democrats is divorced from any semblance of fact or reality. Just a few months ago, when President Trump asked Congress to secure the border and prevent tragedies like this, Democrats and their media allies were denying that any sort of crisis existed at all. House Democrats have repeatedly refused to give the Trump administration the funding necessary to secure the border and process the unprecedented flow of migrants attracted to the U.S. by weak border laws and the promise of amnesty. Now the Left is opportunistically using the deaths of children to attack Trump for not doing enough to solve a crisis Congress refuses to address.
The accusation that the United States government is committing "atrocities" like human trafficking is outrageous on its face. If you bother to read the story Omar shared, you'll find that the poor child was given medical care in the United States that she was otherwise unable to obtain traveling across Central America. The reality is that the American government tried to save that girl's life. It's the transnational cartels that are trafficking human beings and importing drugs and horrific acts of violence into the United States, harming both migrants and Americans.
President Trump is trying to save migrant lives and American lives by securing the border, and Democrats are wasting time in Congress investigating bogus obstruction of justice claims and ignoring real issues. Americans ought to turn the question on Omar and the other Democrats. How many migrant children must die before the Democratic majority appropriates funds that Border Patrol, DHS, and President Trump say they need to secure the border? How many Americans must die at the hands of illegal immigrant criminals before Democrats address our border crisis?
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Shapiro: How to silence debate, New Zealand edition
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has unleashed a barrage of openly anti-Semitic commentary. She suggested that Israel had "hypnotized the world." She recently suggested that Jewish money lay behind American support for Israel. Finally, she suggested that American Israel supporters are representatives of dual loyalty. Her fellow Democrats shielded her from blowback by subsuming a resolution that condemns her anti-Semitism within a broader resolution that condemns intolerance of all types. Many of them suggested that labeling Omar's anti-Semitism actually represents a type of censorship -- an attempt to quash debate about Israel, though none of Omar's comments even critiqued the Israeli government, and though many on the left have made anti-Israel arguments without invoking anti-Semitism.
Now Omar's defenders have come out of the woodwork to suggest that criticism of her anti-Semitism was somehow responsible for the white supremacist shooting of 50 innocent people in a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand. Two protesters, New York University students and best friends Leen Dweik and Rose Asaf, confronted Chelsea Clinton, who had gently chided Omar for her Jew hatred. "After all that you have done, all the Islamophobia that you have stoked," Dweik screamed, "this, right here, is the result of a massacre stoked by people like you and the words you put out in the world. ... Forty-nine people died because of the rhetoric you put out there." Dweik, it should be noted, has called for the complete elimination of Israel.
Her message was parroted by terror supporter Linda Sarsour, who tweeted: "I am triggered by those who piled on Representative Ilhan Omar and incited a hate mob against her until she got assassination threats now giving condolences to our community. What we need you to do is reflect on how you contribute to islamophobia and stop doing that."
Meanwhile, mainstream commentators attempted to use the New Zealand anti-Muslim terror attack to blame critics of radical Islam. Omer Aziz, writing for The New York Times, slammed Jordan Peterson for calling Islamophobia "a word created by fascists" and Sam Harris for calling it "intellectual blood libel." Bill Maher has come in for similar criticism; so have I, mostly for a video I cut in 2014 in which I read off poll statistics from various Muslim countries on a variety of topics, concluding that a huge percentage of Muslims believed radical things.
Here's the truth: Radical Islam is dangerous. The Islamic world has a serious problem with radical Islam. And large swaths of the Muslim world are, in fact, hostile to Western views on matters ranging from freedom of speech to women's rights. To conflate that obvious truth with the desire to murder innocents in Christchurch is intellectual dishonesty of the highest sort. If we want more Muslims living in liberty and freedom, we must certainly demolish white supremacism -- and we must also demolish radical Islam, devotees of which were responsible for an estimated 84,000 deaths in 2017 alone, most of those victims Muslim.
And here's another truth: Anti-Semitism is ugly, whether it's coming from white supremacists or Ilhan Omar. Making that point has nothing to do with the killing of Muslims in Christchurch.
So long as the media continue to push the narrative that criticism of Islam is tantamount to incitement of murder, radical Islam will continue to flourish. So long as the media continue to cover for the dishonest argument that criticism of anti-Semitism forwards the goals of white supremacists, anti-Semitism will continue to flourish. Honest discussion about hard issues isn't incitement.
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