Tunnel Wall: Aug 7, 2018

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Identity Politics and Kamala Harris

American Thinker "The fight for the 2020 presidential nomination is underway within the Democratic Party. Several personalities are vying to position themselves as far to the left as practical to garner adequate attention and support among the activists and power-brokers. Among the senators, Kamala Harris has found a unique approach to the internal debate." . . .

"Kamala Harris is trying to separate herself from the many other potential presidential candidates. She is also demonstrating her ability to argue against members of her party who want to appeal to a broader base and attract traditional working-class voters back to the fold from Trump's conservative nationalist platform. She has learned from Obama a winning strategy that she hopes to ride to victory in two years."

WATCH: Facebook Blocked This Republican Asian Woman's Campaign Ad

Daily Wire "Talk about election meddling.
"Facebook has reportedly blocked a California congressional candidate's campaign from using a video as an ad on the social media platform because they deemed it "shocking, disrespectful or sensational."

"The Christian Post reports that Facebook blocked 33-year-old Republican Elizabeth Heng's video which shows "her America immigrant parents, who survived brutalities by the Khmer Rouge communists during the Cambodian Civil War.' "

" 'This is why I wake up every single day with the fight and determination to have a voice
and make a difference in my community," Heng continued. "Neither Facebook nor any other company in the tech industry get to silence our stories. We’ve seen it over and over again with Republican candidates and organizations. This kind of censorship is an attack on the freedoms that we have as Americans to express what we believe in, and we must hold Facebook accountable."

Tokenism is killing liberalism

https://earloftaint.com/

Don Surber "Introduced in 1959, the Barbie doll took off like a rocket in sales. Some black people complained about not having a black Barbie. So Mattel injected brown plastic into the mold, and you had a doll with Caucasian looks and brown skin.
"D'oh.
"The New York Times hired Sarah Jeong for its editorial board because she is of Asian ancestry. That she is a racist sexist who is not talented enough to write a grocery list mattered not. She is the board's token Asian Barbie. She thinks just like the rest of the members. Only her skin is different.
"While she complains about white privilege, she sits on the board of the Newspaper of White Privilege Record.
"The left has pushed diversity for decades. Now it pays the price.
"Their goal is the Cabinet That Looks Like America, and not the Cabinet That Gets Things Done." . . .
. . .
"No more. It went out of its way to hire people based on the color of their skin, and not the content of their character. Elizabeth Warren got her job not because she was a top-notched law professor but because they thought she was an Indian.
"Mattel solved its problem by creating a mold for a doll with African-American features.
"In politics, President Trump broke the mold of tokenism."

Nineteen minutes into the movie, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri spouted two anti-American lies within 15 seconds of each other. Who needs that?

"Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — another movie I couldn’t watch"

Bookworm Room

"I very seldom can sit through the movies Hollywood has made of late. Indeed, I think the last movies that I fully enjoyed were Darkest Hour and Paddington 2. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is just the latest in a long line of movies I consider unwatchable.

"When I sat down in front of our TiVo to watch HBO’s showing of Three Billboards, I had no preconceived notions about the movie. I hadn’t paid any attention whatsoever to it when it came out and knew nothing about the plot. I was vaguely aware that Frances McDormand won an Oscar for it, but I only knew that because she made some mindless #MeToo speech or something like that at the Awards ceremony."

. . .

"For me, two big lies in 15 seconds — one that falsely savaged America while aggrandizing Cuban tyranny; and the other that falsely savaged Wyoming and America, while ignoring the victim’s terrible lifestyle choices — was too much. I could feel my blood pressure shoot up, and I headed upstairs for tea, chocolate, and some blogging. Life’s too short to waste on bad British/Hollywood propaganda. The only shame is that lots of Americans did watch the movie and that, while this 15 seconds of dishonest propaganda might have whipped by their conscious, it surely lodged in their subconscious. And that’s how people lose sight of truth."

Pope Francis Rewrites Catholicism ... and the Bible

Dennis Prager "Last week, the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had changed the Catholic catechism. After 2,000 years of teaching that a moral use of capital punishment for murder is consistent with Catholic teaching, the pope announced that the catechism, the church fathers and St. Thomas Aquinas, among the other great Catholic theologians, were all wrong." . .

. . . "Pope Francis, the product of Latin American liberation theology -- along with many other Catholic religious and lay leaders -- is remaking Catholicism in the image of leftism, just as mainstream Protestant leaders have been rendering much of mainstream Protestantism a branch of leftism, and non-Orthodox Jewish clergy and lay leaders have been rendering most non-Orthodox synagogues and lay institutions left-wing organizations." . . .

West Hollywood Fascists Vote Unanimously to Remove Donald Trump’s Star on Walk of Fame… But Guess Whose Star Remains?

The Gateway Pundit

"Far left actor Kevin Spacey was accused of sexual misconduct by at least a dozen men and several underage teens."

Donald Trump FIRES WARNING to EU: Do trade with Iran and you will NOT do business with US

Daily Express

DONALD Trump has piled pressure on EU leaders by warning them that if they ignore newly imposed sanctions and do business with Iran, they can forget about trading with the United States.

. . . "In addition, a mechanism has also been set up which would allow EU businesses affected by the sanctions to sue the US administration in the national courts of member states.
"Speaking after the publication of the EU statement, a senior Trump administration official told reporters: “This is completely consistent with what the president has done with other less friendly regimes to keep the maximum pressure until our goals are achieved.”
"Meanwhile, Iran’s President, Hassan Rouhani, praised the EU for its stance.
"He also dismissed the sanctions as “psychological warfare” aimed at helping Mr Trump’s political allies gearing up for November’s midterm elections." . . .

Ms. Joeng, meet the Americans who saved your country from the North Koreans

Silvio Canto, Jr. "According to what I learned, Sarah Jeong was born in South Korea and came here with her parents. In other words, her parents grew up in a South Korea made possible by the deaths of 30,000 U.S. soldiers who fought there. I don't know the statistics, but there's no doubt that most of them were white men.

"Her social media statements were awful, but people are making excuses. I like this editorial at the Weekly Standard:

. . . "It sounds like a lot of awful vitriol, especially the comments about police officers and white men in general.

"The New York Times should call on this young woman to go down to a police station in New York and explain to the police officers that she meant no harm.

"Then she should explain to the families of Korean War veterans why she does not appreciate the work they did to give her freedom.

"Or maybe we should buy her a one-way ticket to North Korea and let her see what repression looks like."

The woman who was arrested last month for trying to scale the Statue of Liberty as a protest of U.S. immigration policy, went on a bizarre rant outside a New York court this weekend.

Of course she did! Are there any Democrats who are sickened by all this?

Pinterest

Legal Insurrection . . . "The liberal media, which doesn’t want to talk about Okoumou’s horrid rant, chose instead to focus on how she ‘trolled Melania Trump’ through her clothing choice. There are literally dozens of articles which made this the focus of the story. Here’s one from the Huffington Post:

Melania Trump Gets Trolled By Statue Of Liberty Protester For ‘I Don’t Care’ Jacket

A Statue of Liberty protester who demonstrated against the Trump administration’s harsh immigration policies mocked Melania Trump’s controversial “I don’t care” jacket at her New York court appearance Friday.

In June, the first lady wore a jacket that read “I really don’t care, do u?” as she headed to an immigrant children’s detention center in Texas.

Patricia Okoumou, who climbed the foundation of Lady Liberty on July 4 to protest the forced separation of immigrant parents from their children, wore a dress for her appearance in Manhattan Federal Court that read, front and back, “I really care, why won’t u? Be Best.”

“Be Best” refers to Melania Trump’s program to promote children’s well-being and battle cyberbullying, which she launched in May. The first lady’s top policy aide who helped initiate the program, Reagan Hedlund, quit last week to work on foreign policy issues, though it’s not clear where, Politico reported.

"See? This story isn’t about what Okoumou said. It’s about Melania Trump getting owned.

"What media bias?"

Black Lives Matter protesters crash police officer's wedding: 'You're a murderer!'

. . . "Black Lives Matter protesters on Saturday crashed the wedding venue of one of the two police officers who shot and killed Stephon Clark in Sacramento earlier this year.

"A small group of protesters tracked down the officer’s wedding at a vineyard about an hour outside of Sacramento and showed up just hours before he was set to say, “I do,” a local CBS affiliate reported." . . .

Oh Chicago!

Rich Terrell

American Thinker . . . "Manhattan Institute Fellow Heather Mac Donald cuts to the chase:

"Policing is only a second-best solution to the anarchy in inner-city communities. The best solution is a culture of marriage that expects boys to take responsibility for the children they conceive."

"She continues... "As long as more than three-quarters of Chicago’s inner-city children are raised without their fathers, black-on-black violence will continue."

"But years of closely following this story tell her that politicos and media will pay little attention. Or not at least until "the numbers are too egregious to ignore."

"Aren't seventy plus shootings over one weekend in one city "egregious" enough?

"Apparently not.

"Just think of who politically controls these cities -- and has largely done so for several generations. Then none of the above, as terrible as it is, is reason for surprise. For it is they, more than anyone else, that have created the inner city culture that is making life key parts of America increasingly hellish."