How You Can Join the Movement to End Cancel Culture

Alliance Defending Freedom  "The United States has a rich heritage in the city of Philadelphia.
"It was there that our nation’s Founders came together to sign the documents that established our country and ensured that generations after them had a fighting chance at taking up the mantle of liberty.
"While we continue to live under the freedoms protected by the Constitution, we are currently a nation divided. Not a week goes by without people being fired from their workplace or “canceled” in the court of public opinion for expressing their viewpoints.

"Free speech is under attack.
"This is why a diverse group of leaders have come together to create and sign the Philadelphia Statement: to commit to a better future, for current generations and, hopefully, many more to come.
"The Significance of Philadelphia
"Known as the “birthplace of America,” Philadelphia served as the convening hub of our nation’s founding. Every year, millions of Americans visit the city to tour Independence National Historic Park, home to the Liberty Bell, the First Bank of the United States, and the site of the First Continental Congress. The highlight of the park, however, is Independence Hall, where our nation’s Founders declared independence from the English Crown and later drafted the highest law in the land, the United States Constitution.
" 'Our founding documents are the products of much discourse and disagreement. After all, out of 70 delegates invited to the Constitutional Convention, only 39 agreed to sign.
" 'Yet one bedrock principle united the signers: Each person possesses inherent worth and is therefore endowed with inalienable rights which deserve protection.
" 'The Philadelphia Statement, named in honor of that, affirms the need for free speech, civil discourse, and true tolerance in America—principles which we are seeing practiced less and less." . . .
"The truth is, in the current cultural climate, many are hesitant to express their opinions for risk of being attacked, online and off. Anyone who expresses an opinion is at risk of demonization and blacklisting. It is these tactics that are eroding our ability to truly tolerate—and respect—our neighbors." . . .

Audio from Goodyear training session reveals more about ‘zero tolerance’ policy

WJW and FOX 8 Web Central  "TOPEKA, Kansas, (WJW) — “Democrat. Republican. Trump. Biden. Sanders. Whatever. That will no longer be allowed in the plant.”

New audio from a training session at a Goodyear plant in Topeka sheds more light on a conversation with employees about the company’s zero-tolerance policy.
"A photo leaked from the meeting had a list of what was acceptable and unacceptable at the workplace, but the new audio gives more context to that conversation.
"WIBW obtained that recording.
"The meeting references racial graffiti in the locker room.
“Some people may wish to express their views on social justice or inequity or equity issues such as black lives matter or LGBTQ pride on their face coverings, shirts or wristbands. That will be deemed approved because it applies with a zero-tolerance stance,” the speaker on the recording said during the meeting. “However if any associate wears all, blue, white lives matter shirts or face coverings, that will be not appropriate.”
“ 'Let’s try and comply with these so you know everybody feels good in this factory. I want to make sure guys, think about what we do in this factory, in this factory right. We all work together to make tires. That’s what we do,” the speaker said. “That’s what we get paid to do. So, let’s continue to do that and do the right thing and keep this place what it has always been, a good place to work.”
"The speaker does not specifically mention President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan, but only says political messages are not allowed.
"Trump tweeted Wednesday about the single image that was leaked, urging people not to buy Goodyear tires, citing their ban on “MAGA hats.' ” . . .

Goodyear president affirms company's support for police, says employees can wear pro-police clothing  "President Trump on Wednesday had urged people to boycott the company. " 
"Goodyear Chairman, CEO and President Rich Kramer on Thursday released a statement following public uproar over a slide shown at a Topeka, Kansas plant that suggested pro-police apparel should be banned.

"The slide categorized "Blue Lives Matter," "All Lives Matter," "MAGA Attire" and "Political Affiliated Slogans or Material" as "unacceptable" but described "Black Lives Matter" and "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgender Pride" as "acceptable."
"The slide in question was created by a plant employee to try to explain what is acceptable to wear in the workplace. The slide was not approved or distributed by Goodyear Corporate or anyone outside of that facility," Kramer explained.
"President Trump on Wednesday had urged people to boycott the company." . . .

The Stench of Mendacity* at the Democratic Convention; There were no positive suggestions, nothing but hatred of President Trump.

Conrad Black

The virtual gathering was an unintended profession of the total moral bankruptcy of the Democratic campaign. There were no positive suggestions, nothing but hatred of President Trump.

"The opening two nights of the Democratic national convention this week produced the greatest deluge of monstrous political falsehoods in any two evenings of American television history.
"The champion mythmaker was the venerable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). After the usual fictions about “systemic racism,” the most convenient way of ignoring this summer’s widespread urban terrorism, came the familiar pieties about climate change, an issue that, happily, has run largely out of steam during the coronavirus crisis. 
"Sanders then decried “the greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression.” After four years of the Great Depression, unemployment was over 30 percent and there was no direct aid for those out of work. This recent artificial dip was a response to a shutdown supported by a broad political and scientific consensus and has already shrunk through a reduction of unemployment in the last three months larger than the entire number of net new jobs created in the eight Obama-Biden years.
"Sanders declared that Donald Trump is “leading us down the path of authoritarianism . . . greed, oligarchy, and bigotry.” He urgently assured the convention that the election was about “preserving our democracy,” because Trump had “tried to prevent people from voting, undermined the U.S. Postal Service, deployed the military and federal agents against peaceful protesters, threatened to delay the election, and suggested he will not leave office if he loses.”
“ 'Under this administration,” Sanders said, “authoritarianism has taken root in our country . . . I will work to preserve this nation from the threat that so many of our heroes fought and died to defeat.' ” . . . 

*Mendacity  "An attempt to deceive or persuade, usually by means of insincere, exaggerated, or false claims; a line, particularly one used to impress a member of the opposite sex or a business associate; excessive flattery; a cover-up. Snow, especially in large amounts, tends to obscure one’s vision and mask the true nature or appearance of objects on which it falls; thus, the expression’s figurative implications.

 Russia, the Popular Vote, and Hatred of Trump: Hillary Clinton Plays the Hits for the DNC  .  .  . "Clinton urged viewers not to forget to vote, reminding them that she lost by a close margin. Actually, she besmirched the constitutional Electoral College and rode the wave of the popular but ignorant talking point that, in fact, she had won the election by popular vote. Only the constitution got in her way." . . .

In DNC Speech, Obama Spends Most of His Minutes Tearing Down Trump

The death of Cannon Hinnant and the existence of evil

Bookworm Room

Whether or not race was at the bottom of Cannon Hinnant’s horrible death, I still think the real issue is the profound evil that leftism injects into America.

"A reader called me out for saying that I didn’t think that Cannon Hinnant died because of racism. I said, instead, that he died because of sheer evil. I think I ought to explain what I meant. You can still disagree with me, but at least he and others will be disagreeing with what I meant rather than a guess about what I meant.

"To begin, last I read, we have no details about what motivated Darius Sessoms. According to the little girls who watched him execute their brother (and I can’t even imagine their trauma), Sessoms just walked over and shot the boy. In other words, you can’t impute anything to his actions because, other than the murder itself, there’s no evidence of racial animus or its absence.

"There’s also the fact that Sessoms socialized with Hinnant’s family. Maybe he was sitting there all the time hating them for being white, but there’s no evidence of that either. The Hinnants were stunned that Sessoms would act that way.

"There’s the fact that Sessoms didn’t seem to have any association with black rights groups.

"In that informational vacuum, my thinking was that Sessoms was either drugged up, insane, or outright evil. And if he was drugged up, he was evil for taking the drugs. If he was completely insane — e.g., if he thought God told him to kill that poor child — that’s a different kettle of fish. That type of insanity, incidentally, is very rare.

On the information available, racism, if it exists, lies, not in the killing itself, but in the media’s deliberate decision to ignore it. Black on white killings are not the fashion for the media.

"On further thought, though, even racism doesn’t describe the media. After all, this is the same media that studiously ignores all those children who die in black neighborhoods because of black-on-black crime. The media doesn’t really care about blacks, just as it doesn’t care about anybody’s skin color. All the noise that the media makes about racism is because racism is another tool in the leftist shed. Leftists are cynical and — here’s that word again — evil." . . .

Democrats Have Proven They are Unworthy of Power

Dex Bahr  "If a person or entity has proven to  be abusive or irresponsible with power, then it is the duty of the people, while freedom still prevails, to resist and to ensure that such a person or entity is never entrusted with such power ever again or, at least until they have regained the confidence of the people.  Such is the case with today’s Democrat party.

"Americans have given their lives and blood to liberate people from fascism and Marxism/communism. But now it is unassailable that those oppressive political philosophies now have their home in the Democrat Party.  In six months, with the pandemic and nationwide riots, Democrat leaders have revealed that their natural penchant is not for freedom, but tyranny.

"The past six months have shown that we are long past the days of mere policy differences between the two political parties.  Now our battle is against Democrats, a party that has been usurped by the radical left, is literally for the preservation of America as founded.  This election is about whether America will remain a light of liberty or descend into the darkness of Soviet-style communism with elements of Nazism. This is not hyperbole.

"The nation’s crucible has been steadily escalating. Neighbors are snitching against neighbors.  Those who complain about the masks, lockdowns, etc. have been denigrated as the “Other”, worthy only of scorn, assault and ridicule. And recently we have had the spectacle of shoppers falsely imprisoned and later arrested by police for the crime of not wearing a mask in conservative Orange County, California. The police were just following orders when detaining the shoppers.  Where have we heard that before?  On a national and global level, the censorship of all information countering the Wuhan virus narrative (as with the demonization of hydroxychloroquine) is aided by journalists who long ago removed their guises as objective fact finders. Journalists have instead become willing know-nothings in their efforts to help the Democrats." . . .

The reason Kamala Harris was a bad presidential candidate is the reason she could be a good vice presidential candidate

"The knock on Kamala Harris, presidential candidate, is that she was all California flash and no substance: She was impressive on paper and had an inspiring background, but she lacked an ideological compass." . . .

Rich Terrell

MSN   . . . "Critics point to many examples of political expediency that would make Mitt Romney blush, but the most high-profile one was on Medicare-for-All, the signature policy issue of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary season.

Preparing for a run for president, Harris became the first senator to co-sponsor Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All bill. Once she ran for president, she dropped her support and came up with her own bill that was such a mind-meld of moderate and progressive takes that even she struggled to explain it during debates.
"But that’s history. Now, what Biden requires in his running mate is someone who is politically flexible. And someone with whom he has few areas of fundamental disagreement that President Trump can exploit, the way there would have been if, say, Elizabeth Warren were the choice
"Check.
"He also needs someone who is charismatic.
"Check.
"And he needs a political street fighter.
"Check.
"Remember her powerful debate performance where she went after Biden? Picking someone who doesn’t pull punches is probably the right person to be a running mate, while Biden can float about it with lofty rhetoric.
"Biden may well have picked Harris for other reasons. He already promised he would pick a woman. There was political pressure in the era of Black Lives Matter to pick a Black woman." . . .

Kamala deserves to get the full Kavanaugh treatment

Michele Obama’s former Chief of Staff Tina Tchen has formed a support group to attack anyone who dares critique Kamala or her record. “We Have Her Back” purports to claim that any attack on Harris is sexist and misogynist. That criticism of Saint Harris is unthinkable. Tell that to Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

CDN. . . Kamala Harris savaged Brett Kavanaugh, openly and repeatedly calling him a serial rapist during his confirmation hearings. There were few people as caustic, vicious, and horrifically without common decency during the Christine Blassy Ford farce than Senator Harris.
"She willingly destroyed the lives of Justice Kavanaugh and his entire family in an orgy of serial lies about alleged sexual misconduct going back to his high school days. The public humiliation of Kavanaugh and his family on national television in a sordid spectacle is seared in the memory of the  American public.
"Kamala Harris will always be an integral part of the ugliness of that national disgrace.
So it is only fair that Kamala Harris is held to the same standard.
"That every aspect of her life and conduct, from the sacred to the profane, must be unearthed. Discussed in intimate detail. From her affair with Willie Brown to her protection of pedophile priests.  Fortunately, we don’t have to go all the way back to her high school yearbook. Although by her standards we could."

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Kamala Harris At DNC Telethon: She Worked Hard to Not Excite Anyone With Her Acceptance Speech

Image by Rash Manly.

RedState  "When the lede of many major news organizations’ coverage of her speech merely a reference to the self-evident fact that she is the first “woman of color” to be nominated to run for Vice President, the content of the speech that followed must have been pretty bland.

"And Kamala Harris delivered exactly that.

"In going through the text of a quite pedestrian speech, one line stuck out:

In this election, we have a chance to change the course of history.

"Joe Biden was Vice-President for eight of the past twelve years.  If “changing the course of history” was so vital, why didn’t they do it then?

"And there were two odd references to events of the past that seem to me to have all the trappings of historical revisionism:

I knew Joe as Vice President. I knew Joe on the campaign trail. But I first got to know Joe as the father of my friend.

Joe’s son, Beau, and I served as Attorneys General of our states, Delaware and California. During the Great Recession, we spoke on the phone nearly every day, working together to win back billions of dollars for homeowners from the big banks that foreclosed on people’s homes.

"This claim might very well be true.  At the same time, this claim might very well be fact-checked, and if it is an embellishment or not true at all, it could stick around a while." . . .

Katrina Pierson To Newsmax TV: Trump Did More Than Obama for Black America

News Max

"President Donald Trump accomplished things Black America expected from former President Barack Obama, Katrina Pierson, senior adviser to the president, told Newsmax TV "Greg Kelly Reports."

" 'When you hear former President Obama really criticize a president who, in my opinion, really serves as a mirror, President Trump really reflects back, not just to former President Obama or Joe Biden, but really to all of the elected Democrats who've been in office for decades. Because he's been able to achieve accomplishments that all of them have just talked about for years and then some.

" 'With Barack Obama, specifically, President Trump was able to accomplish the things most Black Americans expected the first Black president to accomplish and even more, with regards to the First Step Act, criminal justice reform, Second Chance Act, the historical funding increase and permanency of HBCUs, all things that Black America expected from the first Black president but instead Donald Trump has delivered on,"

        'Pierson added, "So if I was Barack Obama, I'd be pretty upset as well.' " . . .

After Day Three Of The DNC, Still No Denunciation Of Riot Violence

The Federalist  . . . "While Democrat powerhouses condemned Trump for killing Americans with the China virus and spent time celebrating their ticket’s pledge to pursue widespread gun confiscation, there was no mention of the left-wing militants terrorizing the nation’s cities.
     "To the contrary, the surge in city homicides this year accompanying anarchic demands to defund police in Democrat-controlled cities was all but ignored, save for the routine blame on firearms. It was just 24 hours earlier that mob rioters in Portland on their 83rd straight night of lawless unrest set ablaze the municipal building home to Oregon’s first same-sex wedding. There wasn’t one indictment, however, of the societal breakdown coming from the party’s own base Wednesday night, only charges of Trump’s supposed incompetence for refusing to heed protestor demands to allow cities to burn in the absence of law enforcement.
     "Just hours before the convention’s third prime-time kickoff, Fox News Contributor Marie Harf claimed on the network’s “Outnumbered” that “Democratic leaders are screaming that this is not what people like John Lewis would have wanted us to do.”

     “ 'If you do not think the Democrats are speaking out about it, you’re not listening,” Harf said on the five-person panel, some of whom appeared visibly confused on-screen and for good reason. If Democratic leaders were “screaming” to denounce the riots, one would presume its prime-time national convention would be the place to do it." . .  .

'Concerned for the country': AG Barr rips Dems' refusal to condemn Portland violence  . . . "The attorney general also challenged claims by committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, New York Democrat, that Antifa-led violence in Portland is “a myth.”
“ 'I don’t think it’s a myth,” Mr. Barr said, adding that the anarchist group was “heavily represented” in the riots, which have flared up in racial justice protests that have lasted 62 days." . . . If Jerry Nadler says the riots are a myth, they're a myth!

Tony Branco

Democrats Refuse to Condemn ANTIFA  . . . "In May, President Trump rightfully designated ANTIFA a terrorist organization due to its members’ violence and destruction of businesses, homes, and federal property.
"These radical groups have wreaked havoc on cities. In its path of destruction, ANTIFA has ruined countless communities and injured innocent citizens and police officers.
"The Acting Deputy of Homeland Security reported an estimated 140 federal law enforcement officers who were protecting a federal courthouse in Portland sustained over 270 injuries.
"During the Congressional hearing, Texas Senator Ted Cruz welcomed bipartisan criticism of the group given its known record of violent acts.
"Democrats on the Committee couldn’t bring themselves to condemn ANTIFA despite the riots and unpeaceful demonstrations." . . .

‘You’re Welcome To Say Something Negative About Antifa Right Now’: [Republican] Ted Cruz Spars With [Democrat} Mazie Hirono At Senate Hearing  . . . “ 'OK, she declined to speak, so that is the position of the Democratic Party,” Cruz shot back. “I would note also that of the seven Democratic senators who spoke, not one of them apologized for or denounced multiple Democrats calling law enforcement officers Nazis, stormtroopers and Gestapo. To be fair, I have not heard the word Nazi, but stormtrooper was Nancy Pelosi and Gestapo was another Democratic leader. That was less than helpful.' ” . . .

Democrat's own brand of violence in the streets

Portland protester with long rap sheet who is on the run from cops after kicking unconscious a truck driver BEGS people on social media to give him money in case he gets jailed  "A Black Lives Matter protester on the run from cops after being 'positively identified' as the man who kicked a truck driver in the face in Portland on Sunday is begging for cash.
"Police are searching for Marquise 'Keese' Love, 25, after he fled the scene of a brutal attack on Adam Haner, who was knocked unconscious and suffered two black eyes in the vicious beating.
"Haner was identified as the victim in a GoFundMe campaign, which claimed he was trying to defend a transgender woman from being robbed before he was set upon by protesters.  

Since fleeing the scene, Love has been posting messages on Snapchat, according to The Sun.
" 'Might go to jail for murder tonight for a racist when all I did was fight him look it up on twitter put money on my books and come see me,' he allegedly sent from his account, alongside a selfie. 

Victim Adam Haner said he was trying to help a transgender woman who had some of her belongings stolen when he was set upon by protesters

Man bun forces him to kneel

Meet Marquise Love – Black Lives Matter Peaceful Protester, Father, And Local DJ Who Kicked A Man Unconscious For Trying To Save A Woman From Getting Beaten By More BLM Thugs

 "While neighborhoods burn, business owners lose everything, people die at the hands of looters and rioters, communities are destroyed, Ayanna Pressley, from her comfortable and safe perch, explicitly encourages more “unrest.” This is pure evil."

Meanwhile Congresswoman Ayanna “Mrs. Potato Head” Pressley, who still has not denounced her campaign organizer Monica Cannon-Grant for making a racist video in which she accuses Pressley black female opponent of “riding white penis for a credit score,” spent the weekend urging mobs like this to continue to riot and loot. Meanwhile Congresswoman Ayanna “Mrs. Potato Head” Pressley, who still has not denounced her campaign organizer Monica Cannon-Grant for making a racist video in which she accuses Pressley black female opponent of “riding white penis for a credit score,” spent the weekend urging mobs like this to continue to riot and loot.ideo from MSNBC's #AMJOY

But first: How to Identify a Narcissist

Barack Obama Reminds Americans Why He Was the King of “I” in DNC Speech

Because if Americans recall anything from Obama’s eight years in the White House, it’s this: Everything’s about the king of “I” — Barack Obama himself.

Obama’s DNC speech was vicious, dishonest, and mostly about Obama  . . . "Standing in a room in Philadelphia, with the words “Writing the Constitution” over his right shoulder, Obama gave a speech that almost wholly ignored Biden, whom he’d ostensibly come to praise. Instead, Obama viciously attacked Trump and did a constitutional rewrite that allowed him to cast Trump as a constitutional threat.
"From the start, Obama was up to his old tricks. Even while he wanted to use the Constitution to challenge Trump, he couldn’t praise it. Instead, he opened by describing it as an imperfect document that “allowed for the inhumanity of slavery and failed to guarantee women — and even men who didn’t own property — the right to participate in the political process.”
"Democrats aren’t progressive; they’re regressive. They draw power by telling the public that Democrats are the only thing standing between Americans and the Constitution as ratified in 1791 as if nothing has changed since then.
"Still, Obama conceded that the Constitution has some virtue. That’s why, said President Obama, who once boasted that “I’ve got a pen, and I’ve got a phone,” was shocked that Trump has never shown “some interest in taking the job seriously, that he might come to feel the weight of the office and discover some reverence for the democracy that had been placed in his care.” . . . Watch Obama's speech

.Obama accuses Trump of running US like ‘reality show’ in DNC speech  . . . "Former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, and his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) believe in “a fidelity to facts and science and logic, and not just making stuff up,” Obama said.
“ 'They believe that no one, including the president, is above the law — that no public official, including the president, should use their office to enrich themselves or their supporters,” Obama said." . . .

Obama Misses The Mark In Critique Of Trump  . . . "Trump also helped people through measures he has taken in response to the Wuhan coronavirus. The federal push to produce ventilators, for example, must have saved lives. A number of governors, including Andrew Cuomo, praised Trump for his efforts.
"If Democrats want to argue that aspects of Trump’s response have been misguided and that his overall response has been inadequate, that’s fine. But to pretend he has no interest in helping to combat the virus is ridiculous.
"As for finding common ground, Trump has been at least as interested in this as Obama ever was. Trump found common ground with Democrats on sentencing reform. Even Van Jones applauded the administration for this.
"Trump also tried to find common ground with Dems on DACA reform. Recall his televised meeting with lawmakers from both sides of the aisle.
"Obama never showed interest in finding common ground with Republicans. Sure, many Republicans weren’t interested in working with Obama, just as many Democrats aren’t interested in working with Trump. However, Obama couldn’t even find common ground with Susan Collins on health insurance/care. He rammed through Obamacare without the support of a single GOP Senator." . . .