'Patriotic Millionaires' Won't Sign Pledge to Pay More Taxes Voluntarily

Michael W. Chapman April 20, 2023

The Patriotic Millionaires organization, whose millionaire members claim they want to pay higher taxes to the federal government, were unwilling to sign a pledge to do just that because it would require them as individuals to voluntarily pay higher taxes. Instead, the Patriotic Millionaires want Congress to pass laws making all millionaires pay more in taxes.

"A bunch of millionaires said they want to pay higher taxes and they're advocating for it, but they won't sign a pledge saying they're willing to pay the taxes that they endorse," said Stepehn Moore, a co-founder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity. 

At an April 18 (Tax Day) press conference outside the U.S. Capitol, millionaire Morris Pearl, a former BlackRock executive and current chairman of the Patriotic Millionaires, said, "We are a group of hundreds of wealthy Americans and business leaders united in our concern about historic levels of inequality and the destabilizing level of wealth and power  in America."

"I'm joined by Dr. Abigail Disney and a few dozen other members of Patriotic Millionaires here today with one request to our lawmakers in there: Tax us!  We want to pay higher taxes and everyone else wants to pay higher taxes as well."..........To Read More....

My Take - Abigail Disney....first of all, that's no longer her name.....she's married, and is worth 120 million dollars,and  name dropping for some semblance of credibility, and there's something seriously wrong with her, as I outline in my article, Abigail Disney's Stunt Against Capitalism.

Brooklyn professor openly calls for ‘aufhebung’ of the family

December 14, 2022  By Olivia Murray  

Despite its proven track record of oppression, misery, and death, communism won’t just die — and we largely have American leftists to thank for that. Their philosophies are so depraved, and so antithetical to truth and morality, modern leftism provides the perfect asylum for Marx’s ideas to proliferate.

The most brutal figures in the last century were its adherents, but apparently that’s not a red flag to people like Sophie Lewis, a professor at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. According to her staff biography, Lewis is the author of Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family and Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation. She “teaches courses on feminist, trans and queer politics and philosophy, including family abolitionism” and for her doctoral program, “sought to reframe the political economy of contract pregnancy for the purposes of antiwork [sic] polymaternalist utopianism” — a communist who doesn’t want to work, imagine that — and lastly, Lewis “helped foster communities of Marxist-feminist cultural criticism.” 

She is a scholar of crackpot academia; and frankly, a cheap ‘Made in China’ knockoff. Marx and Engels already called for “abolition of the family” and they already called their book a “manifesto” — these people are seldom original...............To Read More...

My Take - Sure, she's a loon and a crackpot, but she's more representative of academia than not, and another good reason to stop funding academia. Here's the take on this misfit nitwit. 

Sophie Lewis is a writer, translator and feminist geographer living in Philadelphia.  Her translations include Communism for Kids by Bini Adamczak (MIT, 2016, with Jacob Blumenfeld), A Brief History of Feminism by Antje Schrupp (MIT, 2017) and Unterscheiden und Herrschen by Paula-Irene Villa and Sabine Hark (Verso, 2019). Lewis is a member of the Out of the Woods collective, an editor at Blind Field: a Journal of Cultural Inquiry, and a queer feminist committed to cyborg ecology and anti-fascism. She has published her work, on subjects ranging from Donna Haraway to dating, in Boston Review, Viewpoint magazine, Signs, Dialogues in Human Geography, Antipode, Feminism & Psychology, Science as Culture, Frontiers, Gender Place & Culture, Jacobin, The New Inquiry, Mute, and Salvage Quarterly.   

I had no idea what a feminist geographer was so I looked it up.....and believe it or not......there actually is a Wikipedia link for this:

Feminist geography is a sub-discipline of human geography that applies the theories, methods, and critiques of feminism to the study of the human environment, society, and geographical space.^[1] Feminist geography emerged in the 1970s, when members of the women's movement called on academia to include women as both producers and subjects of academic work.^[2] Feminist geographers aim to incorporate positions of race, class, ability, and sexuality into the study of geography. The discipline has been subject to several controversies.^[3][4]

Subject to several controversial?  Really?  Imagine that.  If anyone can believe there's an iota of rational thinking and logic in that.....they're certifiable.  Here's the link to Out of the Woods Collective, and these other things she's involved with are just as loony. 

The ADL's Radical Boss Must Go

Daniel Greenfield September 21, 2022 @ Sultan Knish Blog

 The latest numbers show that only 1 of the 118 thugs arrested for assaulting Jews in New York City since 2018 was sentenced to actual prison time. While attacks on Jews tripled, the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) is promoting police defunding in its curriculum. The lesson’s only mention of crime proposes that it can be fought through police defunding by “investing more money in education, health care.”

Another high school lesson plan claims that evidence of privilege is parents telling a child “to find a police officer if I need help”. The numerous Jewish children assaulted by thugs in New York needed a police officer, not because they were ‘privileged’, but because they were beaten while the ADL treated their attackers as the victims threatened by a “school-to-prison pipeline”.

And so the antisemitic violence continues through the complicity of the ADL.

The ADL’s lesson plans promote the racist hate group Black Lives Matter, despite its support for BDS, and the Women’s March, despite the overt antisemitism of its leadership at the time,

The latest outrage over critical race theory materials in the ADL’s curriculum isn’t shocking.

Two years ago, CEO Jonathan Greenblatt wrote a post defending BLM’s antisemitism and celebrating the “clarion call of ‘Black Lives Matter'” which in Los Angeles and a number of other communities were followed by pogroms against Jewish synagogues and businesses.  Last year he authored another op-ed opposing “divisive concept” legislation to keep hate out of schools. That’s understandable since many of the ADL’s teaching materials foster such extremism.

That racist concepts such as ‘white privilege’ and ‘intersectionality’ are harmful not only to all Americans, but to Jews in particular, inculcating antisemitism as a progressive value, does not trouble Greenblatt or the ADL who care nothing about the consequences of leftist antisemitism.

Much of this is the responsibility of Jinnie Spiegler, the ADL’s curriculum director, whose Twitter account is a steady stream of leftist derangement, but has nothing to say about Jews or antisemitism. Her philosophy can be summarized with the headline of one of her op-eds, “Forget Kindness. Schools Need to Foster Social Justice”.

“The first step is to facilitate students’ learning about the issues in a rigorous and complex way, and then to get them involved in action, advocacy and/or activism,” she has insisted.

Spiegler promotes antisemitic figures like AOC, Cori Bush, and Ilhan Omar.

The ADL has announced that it’s reexamining some of its hateful lesson plans, not because it’s truly sorry, but because it knows they run afoul of some of those “divisive concept” laws.

A variety of Jewish leaders whose organizations are actually fighting antisemitism, including Morton Klein of the ZOA, as well as Charles Jacobs and Avi Goldwasser of the Jewish Leadership Project have called for ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt to step down or be fired.

“The only thing ADL’s board and donors should be reviewing in the wake of this expose is the continued employment of Greenblatt. If the ADL really wants to demonstrate that it is rejecting CRT and the anti-Semitism that comes with it, then Greenblatt has got to go,” Jonathan Tobin, Editor-in-Chief of JNS, wrote in a recent editorial.

Greenblatt and his hires have spent the years in power building antisemitism into the ADL until the organization has become a stronghold of the antisemitic and anti-Israel element of the Left. All of this was accomplished under the false flag of fighting antisemitism. Even now the ADL keeps promoting antisemitism while claiming to be in the business of fighting antisemitism.

In August, the ADL announced the fellows for its inaugural Center for Antisemitism Research Fellowship, to identify “new approaches to combating antisemitism in society.”

One of its fellows, Michael Zanger-Tishler, has called for protesting Birthright Israel to “change Israeli policy toward the Palestinians” and his work has accused Israel of “constructing Palestinian criminality”.

Another, Sara Yael Hirschhorn, tweeted that, “the Palestinian case shares some common features with South Africa—population transfer/ethnic cleansing”, and falsely claimed that Israel is guilty of “daily violations of human rights.”

Hirschhorn has cultivated a career of bashing Israel with New York Times op-eds like, “Israeli Terrorists, Born in the U.S.A.” Her book, “City on a Hilltop”, attacking Jews living in their historical homeland in Judea and Samaria, was featured, along with the author, at a Foundation for Middle East Peace event. FMEP, a part of the Arab Lobby, accuses Israel of “apartheid”.

Her new book, “New Day in Babylon and Jerusalem: Zionism, Jewish Power, and Identity Politics”, already being promoted by the ADL, will discuss how “how the Six Day War and its aftermath transformed Zionism from a national liberation movement of the Jewish people to a colonialist enterprise in the Middle East in international eyes”.

Michael Boxer of Brandeis, has dismissed the reality of leftist campus antisemitism. “When I tell people the communal freak-out over antisemitism on campus is overblown, I’m usually told by people who haven’t set foot on any campus in decades that I don’t understand the climate today. Much Jewish communal discourse can be summarized by ‘ok boomer,’: he sneered.

He also argued that, “The American Jewish community’s fear that BDS permeates college campuses is almost entirely overblown.”

This is the level of contempt that the ADL has for the Jewish community and for its stated mission of fighting antisemitism. It’s a contempt that is a product of the Greenblatt era.

It can end when the Greenblatt era and everyone he hired are finally shown the door.

CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, an Obama administration veteran, has transformed the ADL, much as his counterparts have transformed the ACLU and other civil rights groups, from their original mission into another generic component of the national leftist network. And that network is venomously hostile toward Jews and aimed at the destruction of the Jewish State.

Under Greenblatt, the ADL has become a threat to Jews. Either he must go or it must go.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. Thank you for reading.

Offsetting guilt: Eco-minded descendants of billionaire oil barons are PAYING hundreds of activists $25,000-a-year to protest around the world because they feel 'a moral obligation to put genie back in the bottle

By James Gant For Dailymail.Com August 2022

Three American oil scions have been bankrolling mobs of eco-zealots who have terrorized the world by slashing tires, blocking traffic and attacking firms.  Aileen Getty, Rebecca Rockefeller Lambert and Peter Gill Case, who are heirs to their families' huge fortunes, are paying the salaries for thugs through their non-profits in an apparent bid to offset their relatives' legacies.  Getty, whose grandfather created Getty Oil, has so far splashed out $1million through her California-based Climate Emergency Fund.........To Read More....

Pope Francis: 'In the Name of God, I Ask the Great Extractive Industries…to Stop Poisoning Food and People’

By CNSNews.com Staff | July 25, 2022 |

 

Pope Francis has already released his statement to mark the “World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation,” an annual event which he created in 2015 and which is marked on September 1 of each year. “In the first place, it is our sister, mother earth, who cries out,” says Francis.“Prey to our consumerist excesses, she weeps and implores us to put an end to our abuses and to her destruction,” he says. “Then too, there are all those different creatures who cry out,” says the pope. “At the mercy of a ‘tyrannical anthropocentrism,’ completely at odds with Christ’s centrality in the work of creation, countless species are dying out and their hymns of praise silenced............ To Read More...

Pope apologizes for 'evil committed by so many Christians' -Pope Francis issued a historic apology Monday for the Catholic Church’s cooperation with Canada’s “catastrophic” policy of Indigenous residential schools, saying the forced assimilation of Native peoples into Christian society destroyed their cultures, severed families and marginalized generations. “I am deeply sorry,” Francis said to applause from school survivors and Indigenous community members gathered at a former residential school south of Edmonton, Alberta. He called the school policy a “disastrous error” that was incompatible with the Gospel and said further investigation and healing is needed.............. 

 

Pope Francis Begs Forgiveness for ‘Evil’ Committed Against Indigenous Canadians - Pope Francis held his first meeting with the indigenous peoples of Canada on Monday, in which he repeatedly apologized for the sins and evil committed by Christians against the native population. Reiterating the nature of his visit as “a penitential pilgrimage,” the pontiff said he traveled to Canada “to tell you in person of my sorrow, to implore God’s forgiveness, healing and reconciliation, to express my closeness and to pray with you and for you.”  Referring back to meetings with representatives of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit in the Vatican earlier this year, Francis said he feels a “deep sense of pain and remorse” when thinking back on “the tragic situations that so many of you, your families and your communities have known; of what you shared with me about the suffering you endured in the residential schools.”.........

 

Nolte: Fascist Transsexual Artist Calls for Warner Bros. to Blacklist J.K. Rowling

John Nolte 4 Jul 2022 

Some guy or girl (who can be sure anymore?) named Fox Fisher is openly calling for Warner Bros. to blacklist Harry Potter scribe, J.K. Rowling.  Get a load of Fascist Fox’s Newsweek bio blurb… “Fox Fisher is a brown, queer, pansexual, non-binary, trans masculine artist, author, film-maker and educator.”

Oh, okay.

In other words, Fascist Fox is a narcissistic weirdo who’s fabricated an endless series of triggers around an identity to ensure people trip over them. This, of course, allows Fascist Fox to assume a position of superiority by pretending to be offended. You see, when you can’t feel good about yourself through merit or accomplishment, your self-esteem can only come from things that don’t matter, like your skin color and sex life.........In a sane world, Fox Fisher would be called what he is… a neurotic loser..............One area where Rowling and I might disagree is that I see transsexuals as mentally ill. The evidence is everywhere.................I would add that patronizing these people is doing them no favors. It’s also doing society no favors. Most especially, it’s doing women and girls no favors...............To Read More....

 

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Calls Out Anti-Asian American Discrimination in U.S. During Trip to Singapore Defense Sec’y Austin Trashes Americans While in Singapore

Kristina Wong 28 Jul 2021

 

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called out anti-Asian American discrimination in the United States during a trip to East Asia this week to reassure allies and partners.

“Our partnerships draw strength from our shared belief in greater openness, and our belief that people live best when they govern themselves. Now, our democratic values aren’t always easy to reach. And the United States doesn’t always get it right,”...... “We’ve seen some painful lapses, like the unacceptable and frankly un-American discrimination that some Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have endured in my country in recent months,”

The Biden administration has made diversity a key focus at the Pentagon. Austin is the first African American secretary defense, and the first defense secretary to hire a senior adviser on human capital and diversity, equity, and inclusion issues.........To Read More.... 

My Take - What we've really seen in recent months are losers like this guy spouting clabber that clearly violates their oath of office.  As for all these hate crimes against Asian Americans, who exactly are responsible? Is it white America? Is it Hispanic America?  Is it Asian on Asian Americans?  Or is it black America?  You can only take one guess!  

 This man is a disgrace, right along with Colin Powell who openly supported Joe Biden for President. 

Is Eric Adams New York’s Best Mayoral Hope?

Cops, in particular, are wary of the supposed law-and-order candidate. 

 Heather Mac Donald June 7, 2021 @ City Journal 

If Eric Adams wins New York’s June 22 Democratic mayoral primary, all but guaranteeing a win in November’s general election, he would be only the second former police officer to preside over city hall. (William O’Dwyer, mayor from 1946 to 1950, was the first.) Adams retired from the New York Police Department in 2006, served four terms as a New York state senator, and is now Brooklyn’s borough president. Many New Yorkers, desperate for a mayor who will fight the city’s rising violence, have embraced Adams’s candidacy, encouraged by his recent statements in support of law enforcement.

NYPD cops and commanders, however, are decidedly unenthusiastic. A newly retired captain with 26 years on the job characterizes the choice of Adams versus the other candidates as: “Do you want to break your right leg or your left leg?” A lieutenant observes that Adams will “say and take any position that will help him”—what he actually believes is impossible to know. A retired sergeant from the detective bureau reports: “Many cops thought he was an out-and-out racist and two-faced phony.”

Adams’s public persona during his nearly two decades on the force was as the leader of the activist group 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care. In that role, he relentlessly called the NYPD racist. His most influential contribution to public policy came during the long-running lawsuit Floyd v. New York. That case, brought by a coalition of civil rights organizations and elite law firms, challenged the constitutionality of the NYPD’s pedestrian stops (sometimes known as “stop, question, and frisk”). As a plaintiffs’ witness, Adams accused then–NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly of announcing: “We stop African American and Hispanic youths because we want to instill the fear in them that every time they leave their home, they can be stopped and searched by the police.” Kelly issued this pronouncement twice, according to Adams: first during a July 2010 meeting with then-governor David Paterson, state assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, and state senator Martin Golden; and second at an August 2010 policing forum at CUNY’s Medgar Evers College.

The allegations were incredible. Uncharacteristically, Adams said nothing about Kelly’s statement until Floyd. Nor did any of the other attendees at the two meetings utter a word about Kelly’s purported admission of racial intimidation. Martin Golden denied that Kelly said anything like what Adams claims; then–NYPD deputy inspector Juanita Holmes, who attended the Medgar Evers gathering, testified at the trial that Kelly did not make the comment that Adams attributes to him; and Kelly swore by affidavit that Adams’s charges were untrue.

Even without these sworn denials, the accusations didn’t make sense. Kelly had met with Paterson in 2010 to try to persuade him to veto a bill that the NYPD deemed inimical to crime-fighting. All the officials except for Golden at that July 2010 meeting were black, yet according to Adams, the commissioner chose to make his case by stating that the NYPD gratuitously harasses blacks. This scenario was just as fanciful regarding the Medgar Evers meeting, whose audience included the Central Brooklyn Black Legislative Coalition.

U.S. district judge Shira Scheindlin had a low threshold for crediting anti-NYPD evidence, however. Her opinion, declaring the department guilty of unconstitutional conduct, cited Adams’s testimony to support her finding that NYPD top brass approved of racial profiling. Scheindlin referred to Adams’s testimony again in accusing Kelly of suggesting “that it is permissible to stop racially defined groups just to instill fear in them.”

Adams brags of his role in the case. “Inside the ruling the federal judge acknowledged it is Eric’s testimony that talked about the abuse in the police department,” Adams said during a mayoral debate this month, speaking of himself in the third person. And he continues to make statements that stretch the limits of credulity. He claims to have been instrumental in building the “first computerized system for tracking crime in the city”—referring to the heralded CompStat crime analysis method developed in 1994 under then-commissioner William Bratton. That instrumental role is news to several of CompStat’s architects. Perhaps, one of those architects speculates, Adams is referring to his time in the transit bureau before Bratton took over the NYPD. But that bureau was still using pin maps, not computers, for crime-tracking. A former chief says that Adams’s claimed role in creating CompStat is “akin to me working the assembly line at a Tesla factory tightening the lug nuts on the tires and claiming I was instrumental in the development of Tesla automobiles.”

Though Adams now portrays himself as a supporter of law enforcement, he has not foresworn race-baiting regarding the police. His campaign literature claims that the “NYPD continues to be plagued by incidents of bias and brutality” and that “systemic bias” is “entrenched” in the department. The reason for this alleged bias, in Adams’s view, is that “about half of the force is white.” The only way to eradicate this systemic bias is to “add as much diversity to the NYPD as fast as we can.” In other words: white officers, bad; officers of color, good.

There is no evidence that white officers are more likely to use excessive force than black and Hispanic officers, however; in fact, some studies show the opposite. And if “about half of the force is white,” that means that about half the force is nonwhite, a high proportion compared with other departments. Adams’s remedy for the deplorable whiteness of the NYPD—“adding Black and Brown officers who will respect and protect New Yorkers”—is hardly a novel idea. The NYPD recruits minorities relentlessly and has done so for decades. Putting an even greater emphasis on racial quotas will only water down entry standards further.

Adams’s other solution for the NYPD’s “systemic bias” is to appoint the “city’s first woman police commissioner.” He is thus eliminating 83 percent of available talent from consideration, assuming he promotes from within. Such an artificially narrow search could in theory result in the best possible candidate, but the odds are against it.

Adams does not confine his race-mongering to police matters. He even accused the New York Times of racism for reporting on his apparent violations of campaign-finance laws. “Black candidates for office are often held to a higher, unfair standard—especially those from lower-income backgrounds such as myself,” he complained in a statement.

Adams’s supporters have seized on his intention to reconstitute at least some part of the undercover anti-crime unit as evidence of his support for law and order. (Police commissioner Dermot Shea disbanded the unit in June 2020 in response to the city’s race riots.) No other candidate has offered a like proposal. Recreating the unit would be a solid start to combating rising gun violence, assuming that Adams stands up to the inevitable opposition.

In an aggressively anti-law-enforcement mayoral field, Adams is one of the only candidates speaking reasonably about crime. Like his minority-recruitment plan, however, many of his alleged innovations merely recycle what the NYPD has been doing since the mid-1990s. He wants to “deal with crime spikes before they get out of control.” That is the essence of CompStat policing: the rapid identification of, and response to, emerging crime patterns. He wants to “reinvent the anti-crime unit as an anti-gun unit.” But the anti-crime unit was an anti-gun unit. He wants to shift officers from “low-crime areas to crime hot-spots when surges occur.” The NYPD redeploys to crime hot spots every summer. He wants to be “laser-focused on violent crime—especially guns.” But that laser focus on violent crime is the mantra of progressive reformers as well. Those reformers call for an exclusive focus on violent crime, as opposed to low-level public-order enforcement, which they oppose as racially discriminatory.

Adams says nothing about such public-order enforcement, otherwise known as Broken Windows policing. Broken Windows enforcement has been radically dialed back under Bill De Blasio’s mayoralty. The resulting increase in public disorder is driving New Yorkers out of the city. Restoring quality-of-life policing would do more to fight the growing anarchy than anything else the NYPD could do.

Broken Windows policing has been discredited and discarded—as with every other unwinding of the criminal-justice system over the last decade—because it has a disparate impact on minorities. But there is no law enforcement practice that does not have a disparate impact on blacks and Hispanics, because the vast majority of street crime is committed by blacks and Hispanics—against a vast majority of black and Hispanic victims.

Standing up to the disparate-impact charge will be the prerequisite to reversing New York’s descent into lawlessness. Would a Mayor Adams do so? His record of racial demagoguery suggests not. A former high-ranking official warns that it is a “big threat to put someone that dishonest in that position of power.” Adams lacks the gravitas for the job, the official says, arguing that Andrew Yang, a “smart guy,” is the least harmful of the Democratic field.

Perhaps, however, Adams has turned a corner. The desperate desire of New Yorkers to believe that he has done so is understandable and may prove justified. “Adams is at least saying some good things,” says the newly retired captain. “If I did not know his history, I would probably say he is the best of the worst.” The question for voters is: has Adams transcended that history? In a tragic indictment of New York’s present political culture, many New Yorkers feel that they have no choice but to find out.

Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and the author of the bestseller The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture.

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Nancy and Maxine: Loons in Toons

By Rich Kozlovich

As I go back to research old news about issues and those involved I run into some stuff I ran that's even more appropriate now than it was then.   Nancy insisted the Congress pass Obamacare in order to find out what's in it.  Of course sane people laughed because the Congress is supposed to read bills before voting on them.  But under Obama and Nancy that was just silly, since it would be so much easier to just wait and find out after it's passed.  

Right?  

As Obama used to say, don't wait, just pass it, now!

 

Pelosi questioned President Trump’s fitness before lapsing into insanity, but hey, that's just Nancy being Nancy. Right?  After all, why isn't it normal for her to repeatedly call President Trump, President Bush, forget simple facts about the world and butcher the English language so bad it appears to be rambling nonsense? 

Well, Nancy's 80 years old (another sound reason to pass age and term limits on Congress) and is way past her level of intellectual mediocrity, and getting worse, and the problem is two fold.  How can anyone remember all the illogical, nonfactual clabber she spews out regularly?  And how can anyone explain the unending contradictions of their views and still seem rational?  Could anyone work all that into their comments and seem sane?  That has to be mentally exhausting!  So then, it appears to me at least, Nancy is too mentally exhausted to seem sane.

Then there's Mad Maxine (who the Democrats call Auntie Maxine, imagine that, nothing wrong with their minds!  Right?) who thinks burning down a city is responsible civics training.  I going to miss Nancy when she ends up in a nursing home with Alzheimer's.  Of course, when she's gone there's still Mad Maxine.  What a great minority leader she could make.  As I said Maxine is known as Auntie Maxine to the Democrats, she's now become an icon, a meme and a hero of the left for her righteous indignation and uncowering fury against Trump, against Republicans, against conservatives, against cops, against law and order, against whites, against the existence of the United States.  The perfect representation of the Democrat party.

On a daily basis she gave the Democrat party - who during the Trump administration we're filled with desperation, anger and exasperation -  hope for the future.  All others may feel like fools, and thought of as fools with their antics, but not Maxine.  No one can make Mad Maxine think she's a fool, since she actually thinks she's brilliant and wise! 

Now, most loons are pretty much shunned by their peers.  But what about Maxine?   Shunned?  Never!  She's their spiritual leader.  Can you name one Democrat who has come out to condemn her insane rants?  Has there even been one Democrat who has the courage to even attempt to ameliorate her insane rants?  

Mad Maxine for Majority Leader, the gift that keeps on giving!!!!!!  

Anyone against that is a racist, and I want to see any Democrat refute that!  Oh, sure, she's claimed Russia is out to get her, along with anyone on the right, since all conservatives are either KKK, white nationalists and extremists, and it matters not that she's clearly nuts, she's Auntie Maxine, so that's all just fine and dandy.

RINO's and their Democrat allies had no fear of Donald Trump, and couldn't wait to attack him.   Remember, this is the President they said was a fascist dictator.   No fear of a "fascist dictator"? Really?  Remarkable, yet every one of them fear Maxine.  

 

Make no mistake about this - Maxine is the Mother Superior of the Democrat Party.  She is their voice and face.  Get used to it because she will be there as long as she likes - and presumably she's the best her district has to offer, which is a clear demonstration her constituents aren't the brightest pebbles in the brook.  

I've often wondered how much Maxine must have hated the Obama administration.  Why?  Because she's a big mouth blithering idiot that would run over anyone who stood between her and a camera - much like her fellow Club For the Galacticly Stupid members Nancy Pelosi, John McCain when he was alive, and Lindsay Graham, John Kasich and Liz Chaney, all in order to say the most outrageously stupid things, and in an outrageously stupid way.  She's the gift that keeps on giving.  Even better than Nancy Pelosi, who's clearly being enveloped with either senility, dementia or even Alzheimer's. 

 

 In the Meanwhile, As Porky Pig Would Say: 

 

Hollywood Choked by Wokeness

April 8, 2021 By Janet Levy 

 

At the 78th Golden Globe Awards ceremony in 2020, host Ricky Gervais savagely roasted Hollywood's woke hypocrisy.  The British actor-comedian said this was the last time he would be hosting the show, so he would fire away with some nothing-to-lose sarcasm.  He joked about Felicity Huffman — who got a 14-day jail term plus a fine and community service for bribing an SAT proctor to boost her daughter's scores — designing the license plate of the limo that ferried him to the gala; about sex offenders Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein; and about Hollywood's protracted, politicized acceptance speeches.  The reactions of many in the audience — including actor Tom Hanks's priceless display of restrained apoplexy and discomfiture — were later meme-ified across the internet.

But what was really important was that Gervais drove home points about Hollywood's sham wokeness, a sickening obsession that threatens to deep-six entertainment.  Apple, Amazon, Disney — he spared none: "Apple roared into the TV game with The Morning Show, a superb drama about the importance of dignity and doing the right thing, made by a company that runs sweatshops in China.  

Well, you say you're woke but the companies you work for in China — unbelievable.  Apple, Amazon, Disney. If ISIS started a streaming service, you'd call your agent, wouldn't you?"  And he punctured many an inflated ego, saying, "So if you do win an award tonight, don't use your platform to make a political speech.  You're in no position to lecture the public about anything.  You know nothing about the real world."

Indeed.Ruled by the messages of leftists and social justice warriors, whose beliefs have long informed the culture of political correctness, Hollywood — like the community of political insiders designated "the swamp" — is out of touch with the American public and with reality.  The frequent injection of woke points of view into scripts makes them unrepresentative of the life experiences of the masses.  But to protect jobs or careers and to avoid being canceled, writers and other entertainment professionals hide any conservative leanings and toe the ideological line.  Hollywood's political donations go almost exclusively to Democrats and Democrat-leaning political action committees and organizations........To Read More....

 

How good a judge is Biden’s nominee to the D.C. Circuit?

by Paul Mirengoff

Joe Biden has nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. She currently sits on the U.S. District Court in D.C. This nomination was 100 percent expected. In fact, there has been speculation that Biden promised to nominate Judge Jackson to pacify radicals unhappy with the selection of Merrick Garland for Attorney General (as if the selections of radical race mongers Vanita Gupta and Kristen Clarke for top DOJ jobs weren’t enough). Garland’s move to the Justice Department opened up a seat on the D.C. Circuit...................

Judge Jackson is a left-liberal, but doesn’t appear to fall outside the mainstream of left-liberal thinking on legal issues. All of this — her credential and her ideology — point in the direction of Senate confirmation.  However, Ed Whelan, who follows these things much more closely than I do, raises a salient point. He contends that Judge Jackson is a mediocre jurist at the district court level.

He writes:

Jackson is not highly regarded as a judge. Inquiries I have made recently of folks knowledgeable about her work confirm that she continues to have a middling reputation. This criticism, I’ll emphasize, is on grounds of quality, not ideology. Indeed, she is not regarded as ranking high among the ten or so district judges that President Obama appointed to the federal district bench in D.C. . . .Jackson has a striking record of reversals by the D.C. Circuit—including by liberal judges—in her high-profile rulings:.........The D.C. Circuit reversed Judge Jackson. All three judges on the panel agreed that she got things very wrong. They differed only on which error required vacating her injunction.........

There is a good chance, then, that Judge Jackson is an affirmative action nominee for the D.C. Circuit. In other words, she was selected because of her race, which trumped her mediocre record.............it’s unsettling to think that the quality of the appellate bench — especially that of the all-important D.C. Circuit — might be diluted in the name of diversity............To Read More. 

   See my list of updates on this SCOTUS nominee. 

Today’s journalists are often little more than left-wing thugs

March 31, 2021 By Andrea Widburg 

 

One of the more interesting things about 2021 is seeing which well-known left-wing people are true civil libertarians – that is, they actually believe in the Constitution, although they still have a very different vision for America than conservatives do. The two most surprising ones (for me, at least) are Naomi Wolf and Glenn Greenwald. Both of them have been staunch leftists from the get-go, but both are deeply concerned by the constitutional breakdowns we’re seeing in America.That’s why, if you’re going to read one article today that isn’t already on American Thinker’s site, I recommend Glenn Greenwald’s look at how major media companies aggressively target ordinary people.

 

To the extent media types thought of themselves as knights on white horses, they used to see their role as attacking the powerful while protecting and defending the little guy. Indeed, as old Hollywood movies showed to the point of cliche, journalists came from the “little guy,” blue collar class

 

 Old-time reporters were scrappy, working-class men and women who used their bully pulpit to inveigh against wealth and power. They were patriots, but they felt that their job was to keep a gimlet eye on the government to ensure that the Constitution and laws of the United States applied to all.

 

Today, journalists are graduates of pricey schools. They’re not scrappy, working-class people. Instead, they’re whiny, entitled, privileged, and anti-American. They believe that their bully pulpit is to be used to advance a neo-socialist ideology that puts their rarefied, college-educated middle class cohorts in charge of America for the good of all the little black and brown people and the punishment of all those blue collar white people who still think they’re entitled to a piece of the American pie. 

 

Glenn Greenwald has written an epic and scathing take down of these spoiled, vindictive leftist journalists. He makes an important point, which is that they routinely attack ordinary people who don’t align with their political views, and then, when those ordinary people fight back, these journalism school graduates use that same bully pulpit to play the victim card..........To Read More.....

Biden Calls the Republicans 'Un-American'

Editorial of The New York Sun | March 26, 2021 

President Biden was clocking along fairly well, we thought, as he worked his way toward the end of his first presidential press conference. He may have been a bit halt here and there, but he tried to speak in paragraphs, a refreshing change. Plus, he sketched his priorities a bit, which showed glimpses of strategic thinking (read, retreat). Then, however, he flung at the Republicans the word “un-American.”

We confess we’ve never liked that epithet. It’s not the McCarthy-ish tone that puts us off. It’s the nastiness of the phrase that we don’t like, and its imprecision. One wouldn’t get the same definition of the word from, we’d hazard, two in a hundred persons. Plus, the phrase is warned against in “The New York Sun Reporters Handbook and Manual of Style.”

In that guide to usage, the expression “un-American” is tucked between “ultra-Orthodox” (which is not allowed in the Sun; it prefers simply “Orthodox”) and “unattributed negative quotes” (which are also not allowed absent special dispensation). Use of the word “un-American” is not banned outright. Reporters, though, are prompted to try instead using the word “unconstitutional.”.........To Read More...

 

Antifa Not “Real”? Tell That To Americans Whose Businesses Were Burned To The Ground

Joy Behar is the only Looney Tune out there that will NEVER be taken out by the Cancel Culture

By Judi McLeod —— Bio and Archives--March 16, 2021 @ Canada Free Press

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 In television celebrity Joy Behar of ABC’s “The View” Democrats have their best pinch hitter in a never-ending Marxist game aping baseball. Vitriolic Behar delivered a home run to the Democrats yesterday by claiming that destructive Antifa is “not a real thing”. “Joy Behar told her co-hosts Monday on ABC’s “The View” that the far-left group Antifa was a “fictitious idea” and “not a real thing.” (Breitbart, March 15, 2021)

Is Behar trying for a way to absolve Antifa from their

 outrageous rampage during the summer of 2020

According to Behar the thousands of people who lost businesses burned to the ground last summer didn’t suffer great setbacks because they’re only fictional characters in a fictional storyline. Their burned down businesses didn’t exist, and neither does the misery they were left in.

But real life yahoo members of Antifa are back in the news now that Democrats are pushing the narrative that Trump supporters and conservative media-suppressed outlets are trying to blame Antifa and Black Lives Matter for the Jan. 6 siege at the Capitol.

Well, the best description of what took place on January 6 is ANARCHY, and who is more anarchy supremacist than members of Antifa?

In the midst of all of the confusion of the finger pointing and blame game about who did what at the Capitol on that fateful day, is Behar trying for a way to absolve Antifa from their outrageous rampage during the summer of 2020?

The theory that ‘Antifa Is a ‘Fictitious Idea’—It’s ‘Not a Real Thing’ was tossed out on “The View” during the discussion of Republican Sen. Ron Johnson saying he would have been concerned if the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was filled with members of Antifa and Black Lives Matters.

Massive layoffs at Huffington Post after it pushed to deplatform right

Left-leaning website previously said 'inaction is dangerous' 

  By Joe Kovacs March 9, 2021

After having pushed for the deplatforming of conservative voices, the left-leaning Huffington Post announced massive layoffs of its workforce on Tuesday – 47 U.S. writers including eight in management – and entirely shuttering its Canadian operation.

The decision was made to "fast-track the path to profitability," enabling the company to break even this year and eventually turn a profit, according to Jonah Peretti, the CEO of BuzzFeed which acquired HuffPost from Verizon Media just three weeks ago...........To Read More......

My Take - Somehow these leftist loons think having a union would have prevented these layoffs....wrong!  Back in the 70's a steel mill in Youngstown, Ohio shut down and laid everyone off.  The union sued.  And what did they base their suit on?  They had a contract so the company was obligated to stay open, in spite of the fact they were losing money.   The courts made it clear no company can be forced to keep losing money for the sake of union members.  

Hello world!

 As for all these leftist media outlets, this is going to continue.  And the day the NYT goes out of business should be a day of national celebration.

•  N.Y. Times mocked after attempt to dig up dirt on Sen. Josh Hawley falls flat

 

Robot Dog Saves Latino Family From Sex Abuse Thug, AOC Accuses It of Racism

In our dystopian future, everyone will be accused of racism. Even the robots. 

Tue Mar 9, 2021 Daniel Greenfield  74

Wilbert Wilson and Tex Ortiz broke into a house in Queens, New York. The career criminals pried open the back door with a crowbar at night, and took four women and a baby hostage.  Wilson had done prison time 5 times. Ortiz had been arrested 8 times before, including on charges of sex abuse and assault. But even though he had robbed people at gunpoint 2 years ago, he was back on the loose. And both of them were armed and inside the house in Queens.

The thugs zip tied three of the women, one of whom was 92 years old, and used the fourth as a human shield when the cops showed up. Wilson and Ortiz broke into the house on 125th Street because its owner had died after a battle with cancer and they thought he had a lot of money stashed away in the house. They were wrong and their brilliant plan didn’t go according to plan.

With the cops outside and no money to show for it, the thugs held their hostages at gunpoint, one of whom was 92, another was 62, and a third was a young mother with a 9-month old baby.

The thugs pistol-whipped the young mother who managed to call 911 and escape the house.

But that’s when Night of the Hunter turned into C.H.O.M.P.S. when the cops sent in a robot dog.

After prolonged negotiations, the thugs began releasing their hostages, but they demanded pizza. Unwilling to risk officers or a delivery boy, the police sent in Digidog: a robot dog carrying up the pizza. The thugs eventually freed all the hostages and gave up. They were taken into custody, where one of them kept stripping naked, and both have probably been set loose by the Democrats who love criminals almost as much as they love false accusations of racism.

You might think that Digidog would be everything that police defunders want in a cop.

Digidog is unarmed, incapable of racism, and is just a walking drone mounted with cameras. His only real contact with criminals has been to deliver pizza to one of them. But once the NYPD took custody of Digidog and painted him in department blue, he became a racist. In our dystopian future, everyone will be accused of racism for 15 minutes. Even robots.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez accused Digidog of racism for being deployed in “low-income communities of color.”...........To Read More.....

The Edict of Warren

By John W. Childs, Special to the Sun | February 15, 2021

The first thing to be said about Senator Elizabeth Warren’s plan for a wealth tax — she’s promising to release the particulars soon — is that it attacks one of the pillars of American greatness. It is hard to imagine anything more un-American than an attack on wealth. Accumulation of wealth is central to our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is the fruit of that uniquely American personality trait — optimism.

That can-do spirit has beaten the odds countless times, including all the Horatio Alger stories that populate American history. The impact of American wealth is not limited to the obvious manifestations of leading businesses and standards of living. It includes the universities, foundations, and private health, conservation, and other charitable organizations, which are the ultimate beneficiaries of much of our commercial wealth and are the envy of the world.

Yet attacking wealth is precisely what that the senior senator from Massachusetts proposes to do. Though she’s yet to issue the details, Mrs. Warren is now advertising on her Web site what she’s calling the “Ultra-Millionaire Tax.” It proclaims that a “small tax on the great fortunes of more than $50 million can bring in nearly $4 trillion to rebuild America’s middle class.” It adds: “It’s time for the rich to pay their fair share.".....To Read More....

 

Who’s Crazy?

February 6, 2021 By John Hinderaker

Democrats are busily trying to portray Republicans as crazy extremists and conspiracy theorists. Marjorie Greene is the latest target of this campaign, and of course the Dems continue to milk the January 6 D.C. mini-riot for all it is worth, and more. (Meanwhile, they have no interest in what would seem to be the real story, the inexplicable breakdown of security at the Capitol. And, contrary to the Democrats’ usual practice, the identity of the officer who shot and killed an unarmed woman, Ashli Babbitt, is a closely guarded secret.)

But where do we look for maximum craziness? How about Maxine Waters, who says that President Trump “should be charged with premeditated murder” (of whom?) because he was involved in “advance planning about the invasion” at the Capitol. Talk about a conspiracy theory! But Waters’ claims aren’t much crazier than those of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who asserted that Ted Cruz was trying to get her killed.

There was a time when making such reckless, extreme, and–to say the least!–unsupported claims about one’s political opponents would have been considered far out of bounds by pretty much everyone. No longer. When is the last time you have seen a Democratic politician–any politician–denounce even the most hateful and potentially violence-producing rhetoric from a fellow Democrat? I can’t think of a single instance. There is a spirit of insanity abroad in the land, but if the Democrats want to see its principal manifestations, they need to look in the mirror...........To Read More....

Why Bernie Sanders Is Now An Evil Promoter of 'White Privilege'

Matt Vespa Feb 02, 2021 

The standard is meant to be impossible. That’s how the Left can make their case that America, as a country, should be ripped apart and rebuilt in a Marxist image. The attacks on our history are a prime example. Anyone who did anything wrong has to be erased. There is no nuance. No analysis of the norms at that time—it’s all centered on tearing it all down. That’s not to defend past attitudes that were undeniably racist, but that’s how things were back then. Deal with it. We have made progress on a whole host of fronts that liberals love to ignore in order to sell their false narrative about this country. Slavery was normal in our early days. Hell, it was normal dating back to the Sumerians and Hammurabi. You all know this, but history oftentimes is incredibly violent. If that triggers you, education cannot be your field.

Speaking of education, did you get a glimpse of this San Francisco Chronicle op-ed that accuses Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) of engaging in white privilege because…he wore recycled mittens. No, I’m not kidding. Bernie was present at Joe Biden’s inauguration and he wore mittens because it was cold outside. The man has a lot of nerve, huh (via NY Post):....To Read More.....

My Take - Well, isn't that special?  How could anyone find fault with her reasoning?  Right?  However, she's failed to point out he had on a dark suit with brown shoes.  Now, let's face it, nothing clearly  demonstrates white privilege more than that.  Does it?   Or perhaps there's another explanation.  

She's nuts!  

Okay, I like that one better, even if I break out in a case of hives for defending Bernie.

‘All’ Republicans are ‘Guilty’ of Capitol Attack and Should be ‘Forced to Shut the Hell Up,’ Louisville Professor Says

January 18, 2021 by Benjamin Zeisloft

University of Louisville professor Ricky Jones wrote in an op-ed that Republicans should “be forced to shut the hell up” about the Capitol Hill attack unless they denounce their former support of  President Donald Trump.

“Republicans, you should not be allowed to speak about being shocked by President Donald Trump or the recent right-wing raid in Washington, D.C., for your words ring hollow,” wrote Jones, who is the chair of the Pan-African Studies department.

“You all should be forced to shut the hell up unless whatever you have to say begins with, ‘I’m sorry.’ You should not be allowed to condemn Trump or attempt to distance yourselves from him unless you begin with, ‘I have helped him, and I’m sorry,’” he wrote.

Because of their support for their “lord and savior” Donald Trump, Jones demanded that Republicans admit their support and apologize.

“You ALL should apologize because you all are guilty,” he added.........To Read More.....