Ex-White House interpreter says she was ‘canceled’ for supporting Trump

 NY Post  "The White House sign language interpreter who was outed as a supporter of former President Donald Trump said Sunday she hasn’t been offered a return engagement since — and blasted critics who attacked her credibility and professionalism.

"Heather Mewshaw, who began working as an independent contractor for the White House last year, said she hasn’t been contacted by the Biden administration in the wake of a Time magazine report that revealed she translated speeches for conservative social media groups.

“ 'The goal of my activity — at the White House or with Hands of Liberty — is that it’s all about access,” Mewshaw told The Post.

“ 'The thing is, I was canceled and humiliated publicly and it was unjust and unfair.' ” . . .

Mewshaw, a 41-year-old married mother of four from Glen Burnie, Md., also said she’s been “harassed” and “intimidated” online for providing American Sign Language translation for the Hands of Liberty Facebook group and its defunct predecessor, Right Side ASL.

Sign language interpreter Heather Mewshaw
 wearing a hat supporting President Donald Trump

Those videos include one featuring former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani that’s titled “What Really Happened On January 6th?” — the day of the deadly storming of the US Capitol by Trump supporters — and another, since removed, that featured controversial Dr. Stella Immanuel, who has promoted treating COVID-19 with hydroxychloroquine, which the FDA has banned for that purpose." . . .

Democrat-run 2021 is right out of Orwell’s 1984

 Bookworm Room

The Dems’ attempts for 4 years to analogize Trump’s administration to 1984 fell flat. It’s a different story with the Biden administration.

"During Trump’s presidency, Democrats kept likening his style to 1984. They did so either because they hadn’t read 1984 or did not understand it. 1984 is about total government control in a technological world. This allows a massive government to spy on people and control everything they say, do, see, or hear. When people challenge this government totalitarianism, they are “re-educated” or deleted.

"Endless war is a necessity in 1984’s Oceania because it forces people to believe that total government is necessary to protect them from an unseen enemy. And of course, language is not a tool for communication; it’s a means of controlling thought.

"Trump was the antithesis of 1984. He spent four years trying to shrink the government. He made no effort whatsoever to spy on people or to control anything they said, did, saw, or heard. When people challenged him, he fought back on substance and, often, called them silly nicknames. Trump pulled America out of existing wars and did not start any new ones. And of course, while his language was blunt to a fault, Trump was never the speech police, constantly changing what words one must use, and what perfectly good words (at least, as of yesterday) that they abandon if they wish to avoid being de-personed.

"Trump was not Orwellian. He was not even Wilsonian, as in Woodrow Wilson, the first Progressive president, who tried to impose a police state on America during WWI. Trump greatly expanded American liberty and the Democrats hated him for it." . . .

News flash! We are no longer living in a free country

"The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow." — Jim Hightower (Leftist commentator)

. . . "Bottom line?  American is no longer a free country.  Our elections are not free and fair.  Our formerly most trusted law enforcement agencies have been proven corrupt.  And with this new administration's overt authoritarianism made so evident in just three weeks, we should all make plans to survive what is to come.  It will not be pretty, nor will it be constitutional.  It will be tyrannous.  It is coming."

As Rick Fuentes wrote on these pages last Sunday, "[o]n November 3, we went to bed in America.  On November 4, we woke up in Venezuela."  Indeed, we did.

 

Will a Hard-Left Turn Lead to Pushback?

Our next generations are being immersed in this culture of hard-left doctrines and philosophies; I see no signs they are being inoculated against all this by media or academia. TD

 Victor Davis Hanson

Biden is advancing radical policies that most Americans do not support.

"The corruption of the Renaissance Church prompted the Reformation, which in turn sparked a Counter-Reformation of reformist, and more zealous, Catholics.

"The cultural excesses and economic recklessness of the Roaring ’20s were followed by the bleak, dour, and impoverished years of the Great Depression.

"The 1960s counterculture led to Richard Nixon’s landslide victory in 1972, as “carefree hippies” turned into careerist “yuppies.”

"So social, cultural, economic, and political extremism prompt reactions — and sometimes counter-reactions." . . .

"The Bush-Clinton-Obama continuum of 24 years cemented the bipartisan fusion administrative state. Trump and his “Make America Great Again” agenda were its pushback.

"The counter-reaction to the populism of the Trump reset — or Trump himself — is as of yet unsure.

"Joe Biden’s tenure may mark a return to business as usual of the Bush-Clinton years. Or, more likely, it will accelerate the current hard-left trajectory." . . .

The Real Problem with the Bruce Springsteen Super Bowl Ad

National Review

"There was a fair amount of buzz last night and this morning about Bruce Springsteen’s Jeep commercial during the Super Bowl, which traveled to a deep-red small town in Kansas to call for unity:" . . .

. . . "The real problem is this: Bruce is, by now, well-known as a Democratic partisan. He hit the campaign trail for John Kerry, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden. He performed for Biden’s inauguration. For a celebrity so identified with one party to go to the other side’s turf after his side has won the election and call for unity is not really an effective tactic. People see it for what it is: We won, now get together behind us. I don’t doubt that Bruce is disturbed by where the descent into mad tribalism has taken us in the past twelve months — who isn’t? — but you can spend your credibility on partisanship, or you can spend it on unity. Either is an honorable choice. But nobody can do both."

Where were the calls for unity back during the Trump Administration?