Democratic Rep. Cori Bush once again screams 'racist' after not getting her way, this time targeting Rep. Steve Scalise



Democratic Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri, fresh off another anti-Israeli boycott, has reissued her go-to smear, this time targeting Republican House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (La.).

Scalise touted the successful passage of House Republicans' first fiscal 2024 spending bill Thursday, allocating funding for military construction projects, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and other agencies.

Roll Call indicated the $317.4 billion Military Construction-VA bill passed in a 219-211 vote, with Democrats united in opposition to the funding for veterans' initiatives.

Upon the bill's passage, Scalise announced that Friday votes would be canceled and that the August recess was to commence, meaning the $25.3 billion Agriculture bill would have to wait.

"We could stay here and watch you vote against every single other appropriations bill. We're going to continue negotiations during the August recess to make sure we get back to funding the priorities of the nation," said Scalise.

Some Democrats, upset over not getting their way, erupted in unceremonious fits of rage, Bush among them.

The Missouri Democrat screamed out, "Your bills are racist."

The outburst was met with boos and jeers.

Scalise, who has survived far more serious leftist attacks, looked to House Leader Kevin McCarthy to demand order.

Republican lawmakers subsequently sought to have Bush's words struck from the official record, reported The Hill.

After the shouting died down, Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Mass) — whose radical-leftist son Jared Dowell recently attacked a police officer after first reportedly vandalizing a historic monument — told Republican lawmakers, "We hope that you will say no to extremism, to hatred, to bigotry, that is put into these appropriations bills and say yes to solutions and fairness for the American people."

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Bush later took to Twitter, writing, "I said what I said," with a shrugging emoji.

Bush has made a habit out of accusing people, places, and things of racism.

Last month, she said that Republicans' "war on woke" was racist, writing, "We know it's rooted in anti-Blackness. We cannot sit idly by as these folks get in front of cameras and yell 'woke' at everything. It's our communities that the GOP is targeting. We have to stand up for us."

In March, she accused congressional witness and fossil fuel advocate Alex Epstein of "espous[ing] white supremacist views."

During another congressional hearing concerning the environment, Bush claimed that oil executives who promote fossil fuels are a "striking example of white supremacy."

In January, Bush intimated that Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), who is black, perpetuates "white supremacy," calling him a "prop."

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Following the 2022 Dobbs ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, Bush referred to the court as a "far-right extremist" institution and suggested the ruling was "racist," even though abortion has claimed the lives of an estimated 20 million black babies in the U.S. since 1973.

The previous summer, she suggested that Republicans critical of critical race theory — which defines and damns people on the basis of their immutable characteristics — were "ok with racism."

The 47-year-old Democrat called America "racist AF" in May 2021 and Israel an "apartheid state" just months later.

Ahead of the 2020 election, she claimed that former President Donald Trump was "the current father of racism."

She has also claimed the death penalty, private prisons, the Jan. 6 riot, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the filibuster, Kyle Rittenhouse, Patricia and Mark McCloskey of St. Louis, and the whole American policing system are racist.

While many of her smears may have gone unanswered, Bush may be headed for a reckoning of a different sort.

The Washington Examiner reported that the right-leaning watchdog Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust and a super PAC, the Committee to Defeat the President, are now expanding on a prior ethics complaint against Bush.

The group previously alleged Bush had violated federal law in funneling $60,000 in campaign funds in 2022 to her husband, Cortney Merritts, for private security. On Wednesday, the group pressed the Federal Election Commission to take a look at how she allegedly paid her husband an additional $30,000 this year for "security services" and "wage expenses."

Dan Backer, a Republican campaign finance lawyer for the PAC, told the Examiner, "Bush has walked into a legal trap of her making. She’s either falsifying FEC reports that her husband illegally provided security services he’s not licensed to provide, or he did illegally provide them and she violated the law prohibiting paying for illegal things."

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Former Trump chief of staff wants to know why Dr. Fauci isn't saying something about the COVID dangers of the border crisis



Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, has been more than happy to speak his mind on a multitude of topics whenever he believes there might be even the most tangential coronavirus connection.

He has warned against going to holiday gatherings, attending sporting events, living life without face masks even if vaccinated, allowing maskless kids to play together, and anything else that tickles his fancy.

But he has been strangely silent about the current border crisis, where our Border Patrol is being overrun by thousands of illegal aliens surging into the U.S. The migrant crisis has raised COVID-19 questions in the minds of many observers.

How many of these illegals are positive for the virus? Is our government even bothering to test them? Have they released known COVID-positive migrants into the country?

It turns out that thousands of migrants have been released into the U.S. without evidence of ever having submitted to a COVID-19 test, the New York Post reported.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention even changed its COVID protocol guidelines to allow the Biden administration to house illegal immigrant children in shelters at 100% capacity — and more.

And at least one mayor of a U.S. border town has repeatedly sounded the alarm that the government was shipping illegals to his community and refusing to reveal the migrants' COVID-19 infection rates.

Yet Dr. Fauci has remained curiously quiet about all of this.

His silence has not gone unnoticed.

One of the leading voices calling out Fauci's refusal to call out the border crisis' COVID-19 threat is the man who served as chief of staff to former President Donald Trump.

Mark Meadows made his observation Wednesday afternoon on Twitter.

"There was no policy, medical or otherwise, that Dr. Fauci wouldn't weigh in on when President Trump was in the White House," Meadows wrote. "Curious we haven't heard from the same Dr. Fauci on Joe Biden releasing thousands of COVID untested migrants into the U.S."

There was no policy, medical or otherwise, that Dr. Fauci wouldn’t weigh in on when President Trump was in the Whit… https://t.co/LGyuCIb4aQ
— Mark Meadows (@Mark Meadows)1617215106.0

Meadows isn't the only Fauci critic to note the good doctor's refusal to comment on the border situation.

Alabama Republican Rep. Mo Brooks and a number of other GOP lawmakers fired off a letter to Fauci on March 12 asking him to use his clout to stop "a dangerous new foreign pipeline for COVID-19" along the U.S.-Mexico border, AL.com reported.

The letter stated that Biden's "dangerous" policy of "catch-and-release" along the southern border has caused an uptick in illegal crossings, exposing "the lack of any uniform testing requirements or quarantine protocols — despite the fact that Mexico now has the highest per capita COVID fatality rate in Latin America."

"Even more troubling," the letter continued, "are recent reports indicating that the surge in illegal migration is worsening by the day, creating a dangerous new foreign pipeline for COVID-19 infections in border communities, and the nation at large."

Fauci, the lawmakers noted, is "in a unique position to make recommendations based on scientific evidence and data on what you believe to be best practices when it comes to containing the spread of the virus — something you have not hesitated to do on multiple occasions over the course of the last several months."

Yet, Fauci has remained silent.

I joined 9 of my colleagues in sending a letter to Dr. Fauci & Dr. Collins @NIH, explaining that the Biden border c… https://t.co/zsyDF9RkCg
— Mo Brooks (@Mo Brooks)1615817708.0

eBay bans the sale of 6 'offensive' Dr. Seuss books, but continues to allow sales of Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf'



Online retailer eBay is banning the sale of several Dr. Seuss books, claiming that the books are "offensive." EBay is removing six Dr. Seuss books from its platform: "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street," "If I Ran the Zoo," "McElligot's Pool," "On Beyond Zebra!," "Scrambled Eggs Super!" and "The Cat's Quizzer." The books are said to have "offensive imagery."

"EBay is currently sweeping our marketplace to remove these items," an eBay spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal.

I was reliably informed yesterday that this is nothing like book burning. https://t.co/7jSk37Wk75
— Mo Mo (@Mo Mo) 1614867843.0

"At eBay, we have a strict policy against hate and discrimination to ensure our platform remains a safe, trusted and inclusive environment for our global community of buyers and sellers," eBay Corporate Communications Specialist Parmita Choudhury told the Washington Examiner. "We're currently sweeping our marketplace to remove these items. It can take some time to review all existing listings and provide education to impacted users. We're also monitoring the newly published list to be reviewed."

Choudhury cited eBay's offensive material policy, which states: "Listings that promote or glorify hatred, violence, or discrimination aren't allowed."

"In order to promote trust and respect among our diverse community of members, eBay does not allow items that promote or glorify racial, sexual or religious intolerance, or promote organizations that hold such views," the e-commerce giant says in its policy.

The company's policy bans:

  • Slavery items, including reproductions, such as tags, shackles, documents, bills of sale, etc.
  • Slurs or epithets of any kind
  • Items with racist, anti-Semitic, or otherwise demeaning portrayals, for example through caricatures or other exaggerated features, including figurines, cartoons, housewares, historical advertisements, and golliwogs
  • Confederate battle flag and related items with its image
  • Historical Holocaust-related and Nazi-related items, including reproductions
  • Media identified as Nazi propaganda

Despite eBay's own offensive material policy, there are controversial books listed on the website, including Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf." There are also Adolf Hitler stamps and plaques sold on eBay.

Benito Mussolini's "Doctrine of Fascism" is also sold on eBay. Joseph Stalin's book "Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR" and North Korea's Kim Il Sung's book are available on eBay. "The Anarchist Cookbook," a book with instructions on how to build explosive devices and other weapons, is also available for sale on eBay. The retailer also sells a variety of products celebrating Louis Farrakhan.

Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the company that manages the estate of the late Theodor Seuss Geisel, announced on Tuesday that it would stop selling six Dr. Seuss titles. The books were alleged to have "racist and insensitive imagery."

Following the announcement that the company was discontinuing the six books, the prices skyrocketed online, including a copy of "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" going for $1,500 on eBay.

President Joe Biden erased Dr. Seuss from the White House's annual "Read Across America Day" proclamation.

A 2019 study claimed that Dr. Seuss books featured "orientalism, anti-blackness, and white supremacy."