Biden in ​Prayer Breakfast pulpit calls out 'white supremacy,' 'domestic terrorism' — then fellow Catholic slams him for backing abortion, transgenderism



President Joe Biden made sure to use his pulpit for the National Prayer Breakfast to hit all the Democratic talking points.

Let's see: Climate change, racial justice, lives and jobs lost due to COVID-19, the Capitol riots — which he characterized as "an assault on our democracy ... a violent attack that threatened lives and took lives" — and the need to "confront and defeat political extremism, white supremacy, and domestic terrorism."

"For so many in our nation, this is a dark, dark time. So, where do we turn?" the Democrat inquired.

He had an answer; but the first Catholic commander-in-chief since John F. Kennedy didn't say "God" or "Jesus" — or even "Buddha" or "Muhammad."

"Faith," Biden replied to himself before finally quoting a religious figure — philosopher Soren Kierkegaard — saying "faith sees best in the dark."

"I believe that to be true," he continued. "For me, in the darkest moments, faith provides hope and solace. It provides clarity and purpose as well. It shows the way forward as one nation in a common purpose to respect one another, to care for one another, to leave no one behind."

After reminding us that "the Bible tells us 'weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning,'" Biden concluded his speech by finally invoking God: "May God bless you all, and may God protect our troops."

Pushback

As you might guess, not everyone was tickled pink by Biden's address.

The Christian Post reported that Brian Burch — president of CatholicVote, a national faith-based advocacy organization — stated that the president ignored "the aggressive and hostile steps taken by his administration against people of faith, including the anti-science transgender mandate and the deeply unpopular decision to fund abortion around the world."

While Biden has been criticized by Catholics and other Christians for such views, he's seen plenty of support elsewhere. The New York Times called Biden the "most religiously observant commander-in-chief in half a century," pointing out that he "regularly attends Mass and speaks of how his Catholic faith grounds his life and his policies. And with Mr. Biden, a different, more liberal Christianity is ascendant: less focused on sexual politics and more on combating poverty, climate changes and racial inequality."

But Burch wasn't buying any of it.

"It's important to also remember that President Biden does not speak for Catholics or the church," he said, according to the Post. "In fact, he explicitly departs from many of the church's non-negotiable beliefs and teachings. For this reason, the Catholic Bishops of the United States have rightly pointed to deep concerns about Biden's policies that would 'advance moral evils' on issues such as marriage, family, religious liberty, and the defense of vulnerable children in the womb."

He added, "Our country is desperately in need of healing and unity. Throughout our history, our leaders have called the country to prayer and obedience to the truths of our Judeo-Christian heritage. President Biden's words this morning were both underwhelming and disappointing," the outlet noted.

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Acronyms are 'symptom of white supremacy,' San Francisco school official says. So acronym is thrown out and replaced with — another acronym.



San Francisco's public schools have been making some pretty negative national headlines of late:

And now the district's Arts Department is getting into the act and taking the radical step of dropping its acronym name "VAPA" — which stands for Visual and Performing Arts — and changing it altogether, KGO-TV reported.

'Acronyms are a symptom of white supremacy culture'

Why? Well, the station said the director of the arts department wrote in a memo that "acronyms are a symptom of white supremacy culture."

"The use of so many acronyms within the educational field often times tends to alienate those who may not speak English to understand those acronyms," department Director Sam Bass told KGO.

Image source: KGO-TV video screenshot

So what's the new name?

Drumroll, please ... SFUSD Arts Department.

(Just don't tell 'em the new moniker leads with yet another acronym.)

Still, Bass told the station that "it's a very simple step we can take to just be referred to as the SFUSD Arts Department for families to better understand who we are."

The anti-acronym thing is based on a 1999 paper by Tema Okun titled, "White Supremacy Culture," KGO said, adding that Okun told the station that "our culture perpetuates racism when things continue to be written down in a certain way."

Image source: KGO-TV video screenshot

Bass added to KGO that his department also is "prioritizing antiracist arts instruction in our work."

The station also wondered if the district's acronym "SOTA" — which stands for School of the Arts — should instead be called the Ruth Asawa School, and Bass was all in favor of it.

Image source: KGO-TV video screenshot

Image source: KGO-TV video screenshot

"In the same sprit of getting rid of acronyms, I do believe in calling it Ruth Asawa," he told KGO.

The district also informed the station that there's no official districtwide policy or plan related to acronyms.

But there's always hope.

Jason Whitlock tells Tucker Carlson: 'I compare Black Lives Matter to the KKK. I really do.'



Conservative journalist Jason Whitlock said Wednesday that he likens Black Lives Matter to the Ku Klux Klan — and that BLM and Antifa are the "enforcement arm of the Democratic Party."

What are the details?

Whitlock made his statements during an interview with Fox News' Tucker Carlson, who had just noted that Democrats apparently have abandoned the faith-based opposition to racism espoused by the likes of Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement and instead seem intent on enforcing the right way of thinking through power and intimidation.

Carlson then asked Whitlock what he compares Black Lives Matter to, given that it's become an influential sociopolitical force.

"Well, I compare Black Lives Matter to the KKK. I really do," Whitlock replied. "And some people don't understand it, but if you go back to the 1860s, after the Emancipation Proclamation, the KKK was started, and it was the enforcement arm of the Democratic Party. And what's the enforcement arm of the Democratic Party right now? Black Lives Matter and Antifa. They will come to your home and violate your home, try to intimidate the people in your home if they disagree with you politically."

He continued: "Black Lives Matter [is] a Marxist organization. Marxism is hostile toward religion; that's why I'm glad you went there today. These are atheist values being expressed from our leaders, demonizing individual citizens here in America, branding them as white supremacists ... because we disagree with their opinion about something."

Whitlock added that "this is lunacy, and it's dangerous."

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Anything else?

Whitlock's entire interview with Carlson is worth watching.

In it he also said that black people are "being fooled" into believing that the leftist, Democratic movement to blot out white supremacy and racism by force has black people's best interests in mind. Instead, Whitlock warned fellow black Americans that the left will be coming for them also.

"It's happened to me, I'm black!" he told Carlson, adding, "But because I express conservative values — conservative, non-political values — I'm seen as a friend to white supremacists."

Whitlock even said that others have called him a white supremacist as well and added that leftists view all those who disagree with them as white supremacists.

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(H/T: The Daily Wire)

Democratic US rep calls out 'white supremacy' of Capitol siege, says rioters 'would have been shot' if they were black



Brand-new U.S. Rep. Cori Bush — a Black Lives Matter proponent who was part of the mob that confronted Mark and Patricia McCloskey outside their St. Louis home over the summer as the couple armed themselves — said the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol Wednesday "would have been shot" had they been black.

What are the details?

Bush — a Missouri Democrat — told MSNBC "had it been people who look like me, had it been the same amount of people, but had they been black and brown, we wouldn't have made it up those steps. We wouldn't have made it to be able to get into the door and bust windows and go put our feet up on the desks of Congress members. We wouldn't have made it that far. We would have been shot. We would've been tear gassed ... rubber bullets. That would've happened before we made it there."

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She continued: "We need to call it what it is. It's white supremacy. It was white privilege, and it was the call of our president, and it was encouraged by our Republican colleagues."

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Several hundred supporters of President Donald Trump — among tens of thousands who gathered Wednesday in Washington, D.C., to protest the results of the 2020 election — breached police lines, broke into the Capitol building, and rioted, forcing a lockdown and evacuation of elected officials and their staff members.

She also wants GOP legislators expelled who wanted to overturn election

Bush also told MSNBC that Republican lawmakers who disputed the election results "have been the ones trying to steal this election. That's why we are calling for them to be removed. They should not be seated."

Indeed, the Hill reported that her first legislative act is introducing a resolution to investigate and possibly remove them.

"I believe the Republican members of Congress who have incited this domestic terror attack through their attempts to overturn the election must face consequences," Bush said, according to the outlet. "They have broken their sacred Oath of Office. I will be introducing a resolution calling for their expulsion."

Questions for law enforcement

Bush in her MSBC interview also questioned the actions of law enforcement during the Capitol rioting.

"It was strange because it was almost like there was this call to not use force," she said. "I'm not used to seeing this where there could be this many people, and there is nothing that looks like it's in place. There are pictures and video of police officers ... walking away. I'm even hearing people talking about ... that they just stood by."

Bush added that lawmakers at the Capitol have been reassured that "when we are here on these grounds that we are safe ... but today was not that day."

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During their appearance at the Republican National Convention in August, the McCloskeys called Bush a "Marxist liberal activist" who was "leading the mob through our neighborhood" and "stood outside of our home with a bullhorn screaming 'you can't stop the revolution'" — and "that Marxist revolutionary is now going to be the congresswoman for the 1st District of Missouri," the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said.

Bush responded to the couple's remarks that "this is their way of just trying to get attention, trying to get some notoriety," the paper added.

Last month a judge dismissed the St. Louis prosecutor from the McCloskey case, saying improper fundraising emails by Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner's campaign infringed on the couple's right to a fair trial. Gardner filed felony gun charges against the McCloskeys in July.

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Portland official blames fear of 'white supremacists' for Lyft ride faux pas — despite living in global capital of violent Antifa militants


It's bad enough that Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty has been pushing to defund police when officers have been overwhelmed by left-wing rioters since the nation blew up over the death of George Floyd in late May.

It's bad enough that Hardesty actually called 911 on a Lyft driver who canceled her ride earlier this month after he said she was "rude and abusive" toward him, even though part of her agenda as she oversees Portland's emergency dispatch system is to pull cops from 911 calls that don't involve crimes.

But now she's blaming her fear of "white supremacists" — in a far-left city that has allowed violent Antifa militants to dominate its streets for months — for her decision to call 911.

What are the details?

Hardesty offered her take on the incident during a Portland City Council meeting Thursday, according to a KPTV-TV clip on YouTube.

"It was my responsibility to make sure I got home safe, and I did everything I could to get home safe," she said during the video session of the meeting. "When you're living in a city where white supremacists are proudly riding around in their big trucks, with their flags, and you're a black person, and somebody wants to put you on the side of the road at night? Not gonna happen."

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Hardesty presumably was referencing the Aug. 29 vehicle caravan that supporters of President Donald Trump organized in Portland — which culminated in an Antifa militant fatally shooting a pro-police, Patriot Prayer supporter in an unprovoked attack.

"He was a f***ing Nazi," a woman with a megaphone shouted during Antifa gathering in the street after the shooting. "Our community held its own and took out the trash. I'm not going to shed any tears over a Nazi."

What's the rest of the Lyft ride story?

"She was not a pleasant person," driver Richmond Frost told the Oregonian in regard to Hardesty, adding that he didn't even know who she was until after the ordeal had concluded. "That has nothing to do with her political position as a Portland council person. I'm out here doing my job. She was very disrespectful to me, made me uncomfortable. I don't feel like I have to sit in a car for anyone to have to argue unrelentingly and be rude and abusive, telling me what I have to do in my own vehicle."

On Nov. 1, Hardesty ordered a pickup from a casino resort in Washington state — and things went downhill right off the bat when there was a pickup location mixup, the Oregonian said, adding that Frost said Hardesty got angry about it.

Then the driver said as he was headed out of the casino lot, Hardesty demanded he close the windows and that she wouldn't ride with them down, the paper said, adding that the driver needed them down slightly for coronavirus safety.

"I did say, 'It's for my safety and your safety.' But that was like pouring gas on her fire," Frost recalled to the paper. "She demanded that I close that window right now. She was kind of ballistic at that point."

When Hardesty wouldn't let up, the driver told the Oregonian he took an early exit off Interstate 5 south.

"So I made a decision, it would be in the best interest for both of us to cancel the ride," Frost noted to the paper, adding that he pulled into a Chevron station.

"It's lit up like a football field. It's safe. It's warm," he told the paper. "She could order another Lyft or Uber, whatever she wants to do, and I can be done, and I can get on with my work."

But Hardesty wouldn't exit the vehicle — and called 911.

"I've got a Lyft driver that decided he would just drop me off at a filling station," Hardesty told dispatch when asked what her emergency was, according to the Oregonian, which said it obtained dispatch records through a public records request. "Well, I'm not getting out of the car, in the dark, at a filling station, not happening — all because I asked him to put the window up. I'm not leaving."

Was there violence? No. Weapons used? No.

"He says I've got to get out of his car, or he would call the police, so I decided to call for him," Hardesty added to dispatch, according to the paper.

The dispatcher told Hardesty several times the circumstance wasn't a crime but a civil matter, the Oregonian reported, adding that the vehicle was the driver's property.

But the Portland commissioner who wants to defund the police wanted police to respond to her, the paper said.

"I am not going to allow him to leave me at the side of the road," she told dispatch, the Oregonian reported.

Soon a police car pulled behind Frost's vehicle just as another Lyft driver arrived, the paper said.

"Peace restored and involved parties sent their separate ways," a 10:16 p.m. entry said on the dispatch report, the Oregonian noted.