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Release the Videos Showing Capitol Rioters Calling the Crying Police Officer the ‘N Word.’
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https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/07/some-dare-call-it-infrastructure.php
SOME DARE CALL IT INFRASTRUCTURE
I don’t think we have a text to go to yet, but I have absolutely no doubt that the editors of the Wall Street Journal correctly assess the so-called bipartisan infrastructure deal as “not so grand.” If the Journal has these details right, that is a grand understatement. They highlight “an epic binge of green subsidies and more handouts for states and localities.” To wit:
Consider mass transit, which received $70 billion in pandemic relief. Only about $20 billion of that has been spent. Yet Congress now will dole out another $90 billion over five years.
This is the “largest Federal investment in public transit in history,” a White House fact sheet boasts. Taxpayers in Little Rock are again subsidizing New York City’s subway and its fat union contracts. The deal includes an additional $66 billion for rail, $30 billion of which is earmarked for Amtrak’s northeast corridor—a subsidy for political commuters.
Rail has long been an obsession of President Biden, though he’s lately become fixated with electric cars. He scored $7.5 billion for a “national network” of electric-vehicle charging stations. Even FDR didn’t get a New Deal program to build gas stations.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is also a big winner. She’ll run a green venture capital fund rivaling Kleiner Perkins with tens of billions to throw around at carbon capture, hydrogen, electric flying taxis, buses and high-speed mass-transit hyperloop. She will also be in charge of creating a “smart” grid with no less than $73 billion for transmission lines and batteries to back up heavily subsidized wind and solar power.
One of the worst parts of the deal is the $65 billion government intrusion into broadband markets. States—i.e., politicians—will get $40 billion to build out broadband in “underserved” areas. The nation’s broadband networks have been built by private companies, which invest tens of billion dollars each year, including $67 billion in a government spectrum auction that Senators plan to use to pay for their deal.
Some 99% of American households have access to high speed fixed or mobile broadband. But liberals complain about phantom “digital redlining,” so the deal creates a $30 monthly broadband subsidy for low-income households. According to a White House summary, internet providers will have to abide by rules in Mr. Biden’s competition executive order. Could the return of Barack Obama’s net neutrality rules be coming by this back door?
Sickening, with worse yet to come.
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THE STATE THINKS YOUR KIDS BELONG TO IT:
Schools Trying To Get Critical Race Theory Into Classrooms Under Parents’ Noses.
And the democrats want to make them as racist as the democrats themselves are.
https://tomknighton.substack.com/p/schools-trying-to-get-critical-race
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PLAINLY ILLEGAL RACE DISCRIMINATION:
The City of Portland, Oregon plans to spend millions in federal funds on “struggling artists of color.”
Note that Portland isn’t talking about giving money to just any struggling artist. Whites don’t count, no matter how much they are struggling and no matter how artistically gifted.
This kind of blatant race discrimination isn’t going to stop until lawsuits—lots of ‘em—are brought. To do that here, we need a struggling artist of pallor in Portland who might be willing to be the plaintiff.
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Yeah, Nobody Really Likes Kamala Harris.
“Biden ended up picking Kamala Harris as a running mate because he’d been studying the Book of Things Democrats Say and barfed up a diversity promise during a debate.
Apparently, his entire team hadn’t paid any attention to the primary season that their boss had just triumphed in and was unaware that even Democrats don’t like Kamala Harris.”
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Nope, I Won’t Mask Up Again
by David Catron
Last March, I followed the CDC’s advice and got fully vaccinated against COVID-19. I did so more out of a sense of civic duty than any actual fear that I might contract the virus. It was just an easy and scientifically sound way to help slow its spread. Naturally, I was delighted when the CDC finally announced that fully vaccinated people could safely participate in indoor and outdoor activities without wearing inconvenient and clinically useless face masks. Now, the CDC has reversed itself and issued new guidance telling 163.6 million fully vaccinated Americans to put our masks back on. Sorry, no sale.
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10 weeks ago:
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Jan. 6 Was Deplorable. It Was Not a Coup
David Harsanyi
When several hundred extremists mobbed Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, they engaged in a deplorably un-American act of criminality. It was an embarrassing day for the nation, and a dangerous one for the many innocent people and officials engulfed in the mayhem.
Here's what Jan. 6 wasn't:
It wasn't the "worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War." Nor did it veer anywhere near the vicinity of being as dangerous as 9/11. Nor was it a "coup" or an "insurrection" -- not in any way we commonly understand those words. It wasn't a "putsch." Nor did it, as the chairman of the Jan. 6 committee, Rep. Bennie Thompson, claimed, come "dangerously close to succeeding" in upending "American democracy." That's all a myth. It was a riot. Or, as Christopher Caldwell more forgivingly called it in The New York Times, perhaps "a political protest that got out of control."
And, contra House Republican Adam Kinzinger's overwrought contention on the first day of the Jan. 6 select committee, there's no evidence that "self-governance" was threatened by the rioters. Only two sets of people gain anything from pretending that these rioters had anything approaching the wherewithal to overthrow the United States government: Democrats and the extremists.
Kinzinger is, of course, correct when he notes that rioters were "rejecting the rule of law." There's a lot of that going on these days. He'd have more credibility on the matter if he, and others who talk about Jan. 6 as if it were a modern-day Gettysburg, showed any genuine concern about the wide-ranging leftist political violence of 2020, which cost billions in damage and numerous lives. But Kinzinger rejects even the notion that BLM/antifa riots should be considered in the same terms, saying "some have concocted a counternarrative" -- which is actually a textbook example of a false dilemma, as both narratives can comfortably coexist.
A lot of genuine anger is caused by the media's and Washington's demanding that we play by two sets of rules. In May 2020, Secret Service agents, for instance, had to stick then-President Donald Trump into a bunker for hours as hundreds of protesters began overwhelming police, some throwing rocks and bottles and trying to break down police barricades. Good thing law enforcement was prepared for that one, I guess. Let's also not forget the attempted firebombing of a federal building in Portland, Oregon, (and other cities) and the killing of five police officers by a self-professed BLM activist in 2016. Cops are being attacked around the country right now. Do we get to blame all progressives for fueling the anger that motivates those extremists to act out?
Kinzinger will tell you there is an important "difference" between "a crime -- even grave crimes -- and a coup." Right. Which is why it's important to stress there was no coup on Jan. 6. The protesters had no plan. There isn't any evidence that Trump, who used grossly irresponsible rhetoric that day, was scheming -- or knew how to scheme or knew anyone who knew how to scheme -- a coup d'etat. Not even Gen. Mark Milley, who was allegedly nervous about such a possibility, makes that claim. The Electoral College had already been counted. Then-Vice President Mike Pence had already spurned Trump's request to reject the results. No court was going to overturn an election or stand with the cretins wandering around vandalizing Congress.
It would be one thing if the commission were principally concerned with figuring out how protesters breached security. But the central purpose of the commission -- whether Republicans cooperate or not -- is to create the impression that the GOP is in the midst of attempting to overturning "democracy." They want to use Jan. 6 to push their unconstitutional efforts to nationalize elections. And they definitely want to use it to make Trump the central topic of the 2022 midterms.
These days, anyone who fails to adopt Kinzinger's hyperbolic tone and obsess over Jan. 6 is accused of "minimizing" the event or being in league with the insurrectionists. For the past five years, we have been engulfed in political hysteria. Sure, a number of conservatives have tried to whitewash the ugliness of that day. Rep. Elise Stefanik's contention that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi "bears responsibility, as Speaker of the House, for the tragedy that occurred on Jan. 6" is weak tea. That fact, however, doesn't make the claim that the American republic faced an existential threat on Jan. 6 any less preposterous.
More at the link: https://townhall.com/columnists/davidharsanyi/2021/07/30/jan-6-was-deplorable-it-was-not-a-coup-n2593339
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Carl Levin, Michigan's longest serving U.S. senator, dies at 87
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2021/07/29/carl-levin-dies/7983742002/
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The disappointing GDP report is a wake-up call for Democrats
Inflation has consequences
https://theweek.com/politics/1003152/gdp-report-wake-up-call-democrats
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Welcome back, Milhouse! Glad you're still a fascist.
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L.P. continues to own themselves..............
Lincoln Project Donors Silent on Underage Grooming Scandal of Founder John Weaver
The Lincoln Project is primarily known for 2 things: their young male grooming scandal, and neocons raising money from liberal elites.
Now, the Lincoln Project is running ads going after Trump and Republican donors as well as advertisers on conservative media, attempting to link them to causing COVID or the January 6th Capitol riot.
However, the donors of the Lincoln Project themselves have never come clean about their own funding of an organization that had at its head a founder making sexual overtures to young men, offering to help them boost their careers in politics. 21 young men came forward, including one who received grooming-style messages when he was only 14 years old.
However, while this scandal raged, the Lincoln Project’s donors and funders remained silent about the grooming of young men that occurred while the Lincoln Project was financially supported by them.
Here is a list of the Lincoln Project’s most high-profile donors:
Hedge fund billionaire Stephen Mandel
Bain Capital Chairman Joshua Bekenstein
Silicon Valley billionaire Ron Conway
Former Disney Chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg
Walmart heir Christy Walton
Chuck Schumer’s Majority Forward Group
Hollywood billionaire David Geffen
Hyatt heir John Pritzker
The Senate Majority PAC, funded by Reed Hastings, George Soros, and Heather Podesta
More at the link: https://humanevents.com/2021/07/29/lincoln-project-donors-silent-on-underage-grooming-scandal-of-founder-john-weaver/
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Sen. Schumer reminds us that if the $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill doesn’t pass we could be dead in ‘a few short years’
Chuck must be exhausted from all the “we’re all gonna die” goalpost shifting over the last few decades.
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3 minutes ago, BillStime said:
When we get elected to office?
1 minute ago, SoCal Deek said:You and I are gonna make quite a pair...that's for sure! We'll show 'em.
TERM LIMITS !!
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WHERE IS KAMALA HARRIS?
Has Kamala Harris been sent into the federal witness protection program? It seems so. She’s disappeared from view suddenly. No more interviews with network anchors apparently. Think of it as the “Democratic Election Prospects Protection Program.”
The Hill reports today:
Harris’s bad polls trigger Democratic worries
One thing to keep in mind in reading a story like this is that The Hill, being part of the “mainstream” media, bends over backwards to downplay just how bad Harris’s plight is. (In fact the story tries to blame her problems on Republican attacks to “negatively brand Harris, oftentimes relying on racist and sexist stereotypes [boy, didn’t see that coming] to minimize her standing as the first female, Black and Asian American vice president.”
Yeah, sure, that’s explains the whole thing. Funny how that didn’t work with Obama.) And yet the story still turns out this bad.
What this means is that behind the scenes, her poll numbers must be really bad, and leading Dems are panicked about it.
Pass the popcorn please.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/07/where-is-kamala-harris.php
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BIDENFLATION: Fed Chair Makes an Ominous Admission About Inflation.
““As the reopening continues, bottlenecks, hiring difficulties, and other constraints could continue to limit how quickly supply can adjust, raising the possibility that inflation could turn out to be higher and more persistent than we expected.”
The only things we don’t seem to be running out of are make-believe dollars.
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Back to the topic:
North Carolina Congressman Proposes to Kill 2,378 Pet Projects in New Budget
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It was a protest turned riot. (by several hundred)
You can trot out all the quotes you want,
no one has an 'insurrection' and 'unleashes hell" without being armed.
Your desperation is showing.
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It's Time to Mandate Vaccines
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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