Actress Patricia Heaton says 'Because of people like [Sen. Elizabeth Warren] we now have to hire armed security' for pregnancy clinic



Actress Patricia Heaton said that individuals like Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts are the reason that a pregnancy clinic must enlist armed security.

"Our medical pregnancy clinic serves client families for five years, providing superior services for anyone who asks. We raised $250K for a mobile medical clinic for underserved areas, treating everyone. Because of people like @SenWarren we now have to hire armed security," Heaton tweeted.

She made the comment in response to a tweet on Warren's official Senate account that declared, "With Roe gone, it’s more important than ever to crack down on so-called 'crisis pregnancy centers' that mislead and deceive patients seeking abortion care. My bill with @SenatorMenendez would stop these harmful practices."

\u201cOur medical pregnancy clinic serves client families for five years, providing superior services for anyone who asks. We raised $250K for a mobile medical clinic for underserved areas, treating everyone. Because of people like @SenWarren we now have to hire armed security.\u201d
— Patricia Heaton (@Patricia Heaton) 1656513953

Last week the Supreme Court issued a ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade — while the decision marked a critical victory for the pro-life movement, pro-choice proponents have been bemoaning the ruling.

Warren and other Democrats who have been advocating for adding more seats to the high court have continued calling for the radical policy, which critics typically refer to as court packing.

"I believe we need to get some confidence back in our court, and that means we need more justices on the United States Supreme Court," Warren recently told Martha Raddatz of ABC News.

Heaton, who has acted in television shows such as "Everybody Loves Raymond," "The Middle," and "Carol's Second Act," has four sons.

"No one has ever died from visiting a pregnancy clinic," Heaton tweeted.

\u201cNo one has ever died from visiting a pregnancy clinic.\u201d
— Patricia Heaton (@Patricia Heaton) 1656519711

"What would you tell a women with pulmonary hypertension at your 'clinics'?" someone on Twitter asked the actress.

"Hi Julie, as with all our clients, we prioritize their health and they would get the appropriate treatment. No need to try and denigrate our clinic by putting the word in quotes," Heaton responded.

Heaton has also noted, "we continually come under attack from the state. We have also been vandalized."

\u201cHi Julie, as with all our clients, we prioritize their health and they would get the appropriate treatment. No need to try and denigrate our clinic by putting the word in quotes.\u201d
— Patricia Heaton (@Patricia Heaton) 1656527023
\u201c@LW89340992 @SenWarren It does have all those things and yet we continually come under attack from the state. We have also been vandalized.\u201d
— Patricia Heaton (@Patricia Heaton) 1656513953

Elizabeth Warren slapped with math lesson after claiming 'minority' blocked pro-abortion Senate bill



Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was mocked on social media Wednesday after she claimed a bill to codify abortion was the result of a minority ruling the majority.

The Senate failed to advance the Women's Health Protection Act by a 51-to-49 vote. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who voted with the Republican Party, explained he would not support the bill because it went beyond simply codifying abortion into federal law. According to Manchin, the bill would effectively overturn hundreds of state laws.

What did Warren say?

After the bill was defeated, Warren claimed the Senate filibuster must be eliminated. Her reason? Because the vote demonstrated minority-rule.

"I believe in democracy, and I don't believe the minority should have the ability to block things that the majority want to do. That's not in the Constitution," Warren told reporters.

"What we're talking about right now are the individual rights and liberties of half the population of the United States of America. I think that's enough to say, 'It's time to get rid of the filibuster,'" she added.

.@SenWarren: "I believe in democracy, and I don't believe the minority should have the ability to block things that the majority wants to do. That's not in the Constitution. [...] It's time to get rid of the filibuster." http://hill.cm/Q1zVreV\u00a0pic.twitter.com/UwZuKxrotg
— The Hill (@The Hill) 1652307028

Later, Warren claimed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has "made clear" that Republicans "are coming after everybody." This, of course, is not true, but a talking point that Democrats have repeated since the leak of an opinion draft indicated the Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion precedents.

In fact, Justice Samual Alito, who authored that draft, specifically said the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization would not be exploited to overturn other cases.

What was the reaction?

Warren's claim that a minority is ruling over the majority was swiftly denounced because, in fact, a majority won when the Senate failed to advance the Women's Health Protection Act to a full-floor vote.

  • "Um, a bipartisan MAJORITY of the Senate just voted down the Dems’ radical abortion bill. 51 is greater than 49, even using Harvard math.You don’t get to call the losing side the majority just because you agree with it," Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) mocked.
  • "It went down 51-49, girl. Math!" political commentator Mary Katharine Ham said.
  • "We must not let the will of a 51-vote minority block the will of a 49-vote majority," journalist Jim Antle mocked.
  • "I guess CRT math says 49 is greater then (sic) 51," another person mocked.
  • "I mean… the filibuster didn’t even factor in. It lost 51-49. The majority literally did what it wanted to do: kill the bill," radio host Jason Rantz said.
  • "Someone needs to explain to @SenWarren that 51 is greater than 49," Republican strategist Matt Whitlock observed.
  • "Hmmm 51 votes is a majority isn’t it? I know that we lawyers have a reputation for being bad at math, but even I know that the 51 Senators voted against the bill which are more than the 49 who voted for it," another person said.
  • "The vote was 51 to 49... Sounds like she does not believe in Democracy," another person noted.

Importantly, the bill was not defeated by a filibuster. With only 49 supporters, the Senate could not reach the cloture threshold (60 votes), which meant the bill was defeated without ever going to a full-floor vote.

Elizabeth Warren: I'll fight to break up Big Tech to stop companies from... 'heckl[ing] senators with snotty tweets'?



Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) vowed on Thursday to fight to "break up Big Tech" companies so they are not powerful enough to "heckle senators with snotty tweets."

Warren advanced this anti-free speech argument after the Twitter account for Amazon News challenged the progressive senator when she falsely asserted that Amazon paid "close to nothing" in federal taxes.

"Giant corporations like Amazon report huge profits to their shareholders – but they exploit loopholes and tax havens to pay close to nothing in taxes," Warren tweeted Wednesday, sharing a clip from a Senate Finance Committee hearing in which she argued for legislation to increase the tax burden on corporations.

Warren claimed that between 2018 and 2020, when the corporate tax rate was 21 percent, Amazon only paid an effective tax rate of 4.3% by exploiting various loopholes, deductions, and profit-shifting provisions of the tax code.

Amazon News responded to Warren's tweet telling her, "You make the tax laws @SenWarren; we just follow them. If you don't like the laws you've created, by all means, change them."

@SenWarren 1/3 You make the tax laws @SenWarren; we just follow them. If you don’t like the laws you’ve created, by… https://t.co/21DXVmzbZ9
— Amazon News (@Amazon News)1616719591.0

Amazon went on to say that the company paid $1.7 billion in federal taxes in 2020, excluding the additional $18 billion revenues generated for state governments through various sales taxes nationwide. The account noted Amazon made $350 billion in investments since 2010 and created 400,000 new jobs last year.

In a parting shot, Amazon told Warren, "While you're working on changing the tax code, can we please raise the federal minimum wage to $15?"

The senator from Massachusetts responded to the criticism with a threat to break up Big Tech companies like Amazon so they can't tweet disagreements at her.

"I didn't write the loopholes you exploit, @amazon — your armies of lawyers and lobbyists did," she claimed. "But you bet I'll fight to make you pay your fair share. And fight your union-busting. And fight to break up Big Tech so you're not powerful enough to heckle senators with snotty tweets."

I didn’t write the loopholes you exploit, @amazon – your armies of lawyers and lobbyists did. But you bet I’ll figh… https://t.co/YuApiIAFrK
— Elizabeth Warren (@Elizabeth Warren)1616728140.0

Warren has previously proposed a plan to increase regulation on social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter to "fight disinformation." Her proposal calls for reforms to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — a law that grants liability protections to social media platforms so they can't be sued for content posted on their websites by third parties.

Warren wants Big Tech companies to share data with the federal government, moderate even more content with warning labels about disinformation, and otherwise increase censorship to combat so-called "false information" — and apparently to stop "snotty tweets."

Liberals attack Joe Biden as a 'racist' over his refusal to forgive up to $50K of student debt



Socialists and others on the left excoriated President Joe Biden over his admission that he didn't have the power to forgive student debt for those who owed up to $50,000.

The president voiced his unpopular stance Tuesday evening during a town hall event on CNN when a young woman asked him when he would forgive more than the $10,000 he had previously suggested.

"I will not make that happen," Biden responded.

"It depends on the idea that, I say to a community, I'm going to forgive the debt of billions of dollars ... for people who have gone to Harvard and Yale and Penn," he explained.

Biden had other plans to extend debt relief to some Americans according to different criteria, but many on the left angrily denounced him for not supporting a blanket relief for all student debt up to $50,000.

"[I]t's extremely classist and racist to assume that only rich people can get into 'elite' schools," said one user.

Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) expressed her anger in a tweet as well.

"Who cares what school someone went to? Entire generations of working class kids were encouraged to go into more debt under the guise of elitism. This is wrong," she responded.

Others were simply outraged.

"Biden gives the middle finger to people drowning in student debt. You still think you can push him left?" tweeted activist Rania Khalek.

"This is an issue of racial, LGBTQ+, and economic justice," said New York state lawmaker Mondaire Jones.

"Black women hold the most degrees of any women and also the most student loan debt. They heavily vote for Democrats. Biden is failing his base," tweeted activist Dr. Victoria Dooley.

"Again, these are maneuvers that make no sense either economically or politically. They are in service to an ideological moderatism that doesn't align with the base of the party or with the views of a rising electorate that is younger & less white," said activist Bree Newsome.

"This is Biden's biggest miss so far -- the core of student debt crisis is Black and Brown young people attending state schools or -- far too often -- ripped off by for-profit scams and nearly worthless degrees. Ivy League U.'s have very little to do with this," said columnist Will Bunch.

Even Sen. Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) implied that there was a racial dimension to Biden refusing to forgive more student debt.

Student debt is weighing down millions of Americans and especially Americans of color.@SenWarren and I will keep… https://t.co/fxC26J2A3V
— Chuck Schumer (@Chuck Schumer)1613580002.0

"Student debt is weighing down millions of Americans and especially Americans of color," tweeted Schumer.

Here's more on the debate over student debt:

Student loan debt forgiveness would 'make a mockery' of those who paid: Steve Forbeswww.youtube.com