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 Ilhan Omar Derided for ‘Bigoted’ Comments Directed at Jewish Colleagues in Congress | The Jewish Press  ... "They also rejected Omar’s attempts to once more walk back her comments. “Her tweets this morning with examples of individual Jews and Jewish organizations that she finds noteworthy do not mitigate her bigoted comments."

HOT TAKES: Old Pic of Gwen Berry Has Trump, Jr, Others Asking if Anthem Response Was Act – RedState  ..".Whatever her intent, it’s clear that she was aiming for attention and she got it."

Gallup Poll: Third of Americans Say Pandemic is Over  ..."When broken down by demographic, the findings from Gallup’s June 14-20 survey show that 57 percent of Republicans say the pandemic is over compared to 4 percent of Democrats."...

Romney: I Trust President Biden - I Take Him at His Word..."Tapper said, “How many Republicans in the Senate do you have committed to vote for this bipartisan infrastructure deal?” "Romney said, “Well, I believe we will have enough to get it passed. I don’t know exactly where everybody is after the weekend."...

Nolte: Homophobe Joy Reid's MSNBC Ratings Are Collapsing 

..."MSNBC is still television’s best-produced cable news network, but none of that can paper over the fact that joyless Joy Reid has no charisma, isn’t terribly bright, is a painfully predictable ideologue, vindictive, and an intolerant bigot. Leftists were willing to put up with anyone to get their fix of Trump Hate, but now that Trump’s gone, it’s just Reid and her endless flaws.

 SoundCloud Blacklists Conservative Journalist Andy Ngo, Won't Say Why (breitbart.com)   ..."SoundCloud did not respond to Breitbart News’ request for comment and did not inform Ngo which of its policies he had violated or how.

“The list of violations Sound Cloud accuses me of violating include incitement to violence and terrorism,” Ngo told Breitbart News in a comment."...

Trump Dunks on Biden, and Acosta Gets What He Deserves During Border Visit – RedState  

Jen Psaki Cannot Name One GOP Member in Favor of Defunding Police (breitbart.com)

..."Psaki alleged that President Biden ran on a platform to boost funding for law enforcement “after Republicans spent decades trying to cut the COPS program.”

"The Dispatch fact check unearthed evidence to the contrary:  

The 2019 COPS budget, according to the Congressional Research Service, was $304 million, which although up from its 2018 budget of $276 million, is lower than it’s been in years past. In 1995 the budget was $1.3 billion and in 1998 it was around $1.6 billion, which was the highest it has ever been. . . .

Putin taunts US saying their world dominance is 'OVER' & threatens to strike back if any 'boundaries are crossed'

 UK Sun

VLAD'S RAGE: Putin taunts US saying their world dominance is ‘OVER’ & threatens to strike back if any ‘boundaries are crossed’

The Russian president issued the stark warning during a televised Q&A on Wednesday, during which he also boasted that even if Russia had sunk HMS Defender it would not have caused World War Three.

Putin boldly claimed his navy could have attacked the ship in the Black Sea because the West knows "full well that they can't win in that war".

During his annual “Direct Line” call in show, in which citizens can submit queries for the president, he spoke of how the “period of unipolar world is over”.

“No matter what sanctions are imposed on Russia, no matter what the scaremongering, Russia is developing and in some respects our country has surpassed the European countries and even the US,” he said.

While Putin said the nation would not be taking steps that would be harmful to themselves, he said if boundaries were crossed, they would find “asymmetrical ways” to respond.

“I hope the United States will change this attitude not only towards us, but also towards their other allies,” he said.

Putin went on to say that the world was “changing dramatically” - something he said the United States understood."...

Putin threatens 'harsh' punishment if West crosses 'red lines' - Washington Times

“Organizers of any provocations that threaten our core security interests,” he said, “will regret what they have done like they’ve never regretted anything for a long time.”

 Putin Threatens America with Nuclear Annihilation - Accuracy in Media (aim.org)

2015: “Organizers of any provocations that threaten our core security interests,” he said, “will regret what they have done like they’ve never regretted anything for a long time.”

BLM Shares Detailed Look at Finances: Report

Socio-Political-Journal...   For the first time in the Black Lives Matter movement's nearly eight year history, leaders of the organization have shared a detailed look at their finances.

"The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, largely seen as a driving force behind the Black Lives Matter Movement, took in just over $90 million last year, according to a financial snapshot obtained by AP.

"The organization is reportedly looking to build out its infrastructure to catch up to the speed of its funding and plans to use its endowment to become known for more than protests related to Black Americans dying at the hands of police or vigilantes.

" 'We want to uplift Black joy and liberation, not just Black death. We want to see Black communities thriving, not just surviving,” an impact report from the foundation shared with AP read." . . .

. . . "The BLM foundation was granted nonprofit status with the Internal Revenue Service in December, allowing the organization to receive tax-deductible donations directly. In the near future, BLM will also reportedly be required to file public 990 forms, revealing details of its organizational structure, employee compensation, programming and expenses.

" 'In exchange for getting tax exempt status, you as an organization committed to providing a greater level of transparency to confirm you are fulfilling your mission,” Melina Abdullah, co-founder of BLM’s first ever chapter in Los Angeles, told AP. “We’re turning a corner, recognizing that we have to build institutions that endure beyond us.' ”

‘CNN is about controlling negroes’: Vernon Jones puts CNN field reporter on the hot, burning spot

 “CNN is bigoted. CNN is race-based, and CNN is racist, and they use you to carry out their racist agenda,” the GOP candidate charged.

BPR  "Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidate Vernon Jones destroyed a CNN reporter during a brutal take-down at a campaign event this week, according to a viral video posted
online.

“ 'CNN is about controlling negroes,” Jones says in the video. “‘Controlling negroes.’ That’s what CNN’s about. They don’t want people of color to have conservative thoughts.”

"Pointing at a man standing next to him, Jones adds: “He’s here to keep me from running, to keep me from being governor of the state. Why? Because liberals…they do not want blacks thinking for themselves.”

"Jones served in the Georgia state House of Representatives as a Democrat from 1993-2001, and again from 2017-2021. He switched his political affiliation to Republican earlier this year when he filed as a gubernatorial candidate." . . .

Rep. Vernon Jones Lets CNN Reporter Have It: "CNN is about controlling Negroes" [VIDEO] (100percentfedup.com)

“If the liberal media thinks they can bully me, intimidate me, or silence me, they have another thing coming. I’m not a resident on their plantation.”

From What Lab Did ‘Cancel Culture’ Leak?

 

AAEC (editorialcartoonists.com)

American Greatness

Woke cancel culture is not just a set of ideas. It is, as its name implies, a culture that came from a specific place, even if that place exists only in cyberspace.

"In its wisdom, the Biden White House apparently has decided it is now permissible to speculate COVID-19 might have been deliberately leaked by the Chinese government from a lab intended for developing biological weapons. Even the Ministry of Truth that is Facebook has ceased censoring posts making this case, now that the Biden White House has realized the story can no longer be swept under the rug. 

"So much the better. Any victory against the criminalization of noticing things is worth celebrating. 

"While we may be closer to understanding where the most dangerous recent physical pathogen originated, however, we are not so lucky when it comes to the most dangerous recent intellectual pathogen. I refer to wokeness, and its most infamous applied practice, cancel culture. 

"When it comes to this particular virus, the Right has been far more confused than they were about COVID-19, and the opposition to wokeness/cancel culture/social justice/whatever you want to call it has suffered for it. Much of our analysis of cancel culture has fixated on its intellectual roots: say, in faculty lounges during the 1970s’ “deconstruction” boom. 

"There is merit to this understanding. Just because the ideas percolated there, however, it does not follow that the practices associated with cancel culture sprang, fully formed, from Zeus’s (or Hera’s) head in 2014 to colonize the internet, and civil society thereafter, any more than it makes sense to speak of the alt-Right solely with references to intellectual antecedents like Sam Francis, Joseph Sobran, or Francis Parker Yockey. Just because the alt-Right popularized ideas from those people, doesn’t mean those people are responsible for creating that culture. It is equally possible—indeed likely—that the alt-Right figured out what they believed before they even picked up a book, and then simply went back to establish their intellectual heritage ex post facto once they realized they needed one."... 

Patrick Chappatte: Cancel culture has gone too far | UN Today

Once you slap a label on something or someone or a cartoon, such as racist or transphobic, that label is absolute. There is no half-racist. You’re leaving no room for mistakes or jokes that are not as good as they could be. It’s all about la faute – guilt, which you cannot be absolved from.

 How Conservatives Should Take On Corporate America – Issues & Insights (issuesinsights.com)

. . . "Coming on the heels of the big-business response to Georgia’s recent voting reforms—replete with Major League Baseball pulling its All-Star Game from Atlanta in favor of Denver, where there are fewer days of early voting—this meeting feels like an exclamation point on the end of a collapsing relationship.  You now see influential conservatives calling for “war with the corporations.”. . .  

Dems: Don't Defund the Police. Break Them! End Their Qualified Immunity

How about allowing San Francisco business owners to sue the laughably unqualified, George Soros-sponsored DA, Chesa Boudin? Instead of prosecuting crime -- technically, his job -- he decided not to prosecute crime. As night follows day -- or crime follows Soros DAs -- local stores were emptied of their inventory by carefree shoplifters... 

Ann Coulter  "In the left's ongoing war on the police, their plan to strip cops of qualified immunity is among the most preposterous. The sole objective is to jam up cops and make them more passive.

"Qualified immunity means a police officer can't be sued for violating someone's constitutional rights unless those rights are "clearly established." Officers can still be fired. They can still be disciplined. And they can still be criminally prosecuted. They just can't be sued by every lowlife they arrest.

"Liberals act as if qualified immunity is some extra-special benefit bestowed only on police, unheard of in any other line of work. Michigan's power-mad Attorney General Dana Nessel says, "We're not asking that police officers even be held to a higher standard than other professions, just to the same standard as other professions."

"Liberals act as if qualified immunity is some extra-special benefit bestowed only on police, unheard of in any other line of work. Michigan's power-mad Attorney General Dana Nessel says, "We're not asking that police officers even be held to a higher standard than other professions, just to the same standard as other professions.". . . 

. . . In fact, throughout the criminal justice system, it's always the lawyers who get "absolute immunity" -- judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys. Only the guys on the street, having to make split-second decisions while battling lunatics, can ever be sued for violating someone's constitutional rights.". . .