Saturday, September 12, 2020
Mere ‘Christianity’: How Social Justice Is Corrupting the Faith
... As a political ideology, Social Justice is totalitarian. It cannot tolerate the presence of dissent or opposition and is never slow to play the censor when and wherever it achieves power, eliminating whatever it finds “problematic.” The ceaseless proliferation of outrage and grievances, easily observable in online cancel culture, is not a bug but a feature. ...
The American Spectator "Even during a season of numerous tectonic shifts in American life, one that deserves special note is the massive leftward political tilt that has occurred among many Christians. People who just a few months ago were filling their social media accounts with photos of their children, cooking recipes, and inspirational Bible verses now voice some of the most radical left-wing talking points about gender, “privilege,” and “Whiteness.” Pastors promote the work of Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo as if they were sacrosanct; post long, progressive screeds to their blogs and social media accounts; and insinuate that those who disagree are guilty of white supremacy. Christianity Today publishes articles that bemoan the fact that Christianity is not central to the activist movements going on in the streets and is instead “more like an awkward extra appendage to progressivism than its beating heart.” Dan Cathy, the outspokenly Christian CEO of Chick-fil-A, suggests that whites should shine the shoes of black people out of a sense of racial guilt. Groups of white Christians are filmed bowing down before their black church members to ask for forgiveness for the sin of “systematic racism.” As if some switch had been flipped, a huge portion of the professing Christians are suddenly parroting the most extreme views of what was, until only yesterday, the fringe left.
"Those Christians who do so rarely, if ever, understand how specious this movement’s arguments are or how they manipulate language by loading familiar words with entire orthodoxies. (For example, isn’t it interesting that words as well as silence are now routinely described as “violence,” but looting and setting fire to buildings isn’t?) Nor are they aware of how radical the agenda is. “Black lives matter” is an indisputably true statement, and there are legitimate causes for concern when it comes to policing, but why, for instance, does the official Black Lives Matter website have so many references to transgenderism? Why are there exhortations to “dismantle cisgender privilege” and “disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family”? Why all this talk of fostering a “queer-affirming network” and freeing themselves from “the tight grip of heteronormative thinking”? Why is there video footage of BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors, calling herself a “trained Marxist”? Does the average Christian supporter of BLM understand this language?" . . .
"A National Pity Party"...Michelle Deserves Pity, but the Rest of Us Deserve More
Michelle passes her resentments on to the graduating classes she addresses. TD
Mark DeVine . . . "Michelle is a product of the "infantilization" of black Americans John McWhorter so incisively warns of. The upshot of McWhorter's contention is that a victimhood culture flourishes among blacks that inhibits the maturity of blacks or people of any color who internalize a debilitating "blame others" and "depend upon others" ethos. "White people don't even see us!" What power over herself Michelle cedes to whites. And what bitterness and blame she harbors and feeds within her soul.
"According to McWhorter and other un-woke blacks, this infantilization was nurtured by the post-MLK civil rights leadership in cahoots with a Democrat Party anxious to win black votes by posing as their protectors and providers and by a nation of whites desperate to dissociate from racism. Infantilization inhibits the cultivation of that one adult psychic instinct Shelby Steele insists is uniquely necessary to human flourishing in America — taking responsibility for oneself."
. . . "Pity for Michelle? Absolutely. But pity a-plenty also for any family, community, or nation increasingly populated by Michelle-like, race-obsessed, infantilized sufferers.
"Widespread societal infantilization produces more like Michelle who seek shelter from the racist storm and succor for their racist-inflicted wounds in little enclaves inhabited by those similarly wounded who look and think like them.
"Others, however, seek release in collective tantrums bent on rock-throwing and building-burning. They spit into the black and brown faces of police, screaming, "You're a racist"; kick in the skull of a white man attempting to rescue a man from the mob; and assassinate a black American life-long Democrat who decided he would vote Trump come November. Michelle has no corner on pity these days. Where infantilization takes hold, occasions for pity abound indeed. But unlike Michelle and her husband, no island mansion hideaway beckons to which the rest of us might repair."
CNN Interviews Netflix CEO, Fails to Ask Single Question About 'Cuties' Controversy
Reed Hastings praised with softball interview in light of backlash
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings appeared on CCN on Thursday but was not asked a single question regarding the streaming platform’s controversial movie “Cuties," which has been accused of legitimizing pedophilia.
"Poppy Harlow of “CNN Newsroom” dodged any questions that may have placed Netflix in a bad light, and instead praising the platform for its diversity initiatives.
"But she notably failed to address the elephant in the room, “Cuties,” which caused outrage worldwide from both left and right.
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""CNN Newsroom co-anchor Poppy Harlow gave Netflix co-CEO Reed Hastings an almost entirely softball interview,” reported Newsbusters.
“She even found time to praise the company for being ahead of its competitors in ‘diversity’ programming and leadership.” . . .
Gallup: Public Favorability Towards The U.S. Sports Industry Has Collapsed
"According to Gallup, the sports industry now boasts a negative image among U.S. adults: 30 percent see the sports industry positively, compared to 40 percent reporting a negative image. This year’s survey illustrates a 30 percent decline from American views on the sports industry a year ago, when the corporate sports enjoyed a net positive 20 percent rating, with 45 percent of Americans reporting a favorable opinion compared to 25 percent who said otherwise." . . .
NFL Opens Season By Honoring Black National Anthem, Disrespecting Star-Spangled Banner . . . "Before the start of the game the crowd was told to stand for a moment of silence and racial equality.
"Instead, many in the crowd jeered and booed — as any red-blooded, patriotic American should’ve done." . . .
Police Just Arrested The Staffer For Oregon’s Top Democrat at Violent Portland Riot
Wayne Dupree "When we say the Dems "own" these riots, we're not joking. You don’t see any conservative lawmakers or their staff being arrested at riots, do you?"
"So much so, that Oregon’s top Dem just saw her legislative director arrested at a violent riot…for obstructing the police.
"How peaceful and patriotic, right?
"Here’s her mug shot:"
No way.
"As a matter of fact, her boss, the Speaker of the House, recently denounced the Portland police in a letter.
"So that means, this rioter will probably be getting a promotion and a raise."
Friday, September 11, 2020
What's the latest on George Soros?
Mr. President, It's Time to Investigate George Soros for Funding Domestic Terrorism
"Mr. President, you've taken step one: declaring antifa a domestic terrorist organization. That was a brilliant move. Now it's time for step No. 2: Cut the head off the snake. We've got to aggressively cut off the funding for domestic terrorism.
"Those who provide funding are terrorists themselves. Who is providing the funding? There are many suspects. Suspect No. 1 is globalist billionaire George Soros and his Open Society Foundations. It starts there.
"Is Soros guilty? That's way above my pay grade. That's why we need a global investigation.
. . . "This is no amateur hour. This was planned, organized, coordinated and funded by our enemies. Thugs are being bussed and flown into big cities to lead riots. Their weapons have been delivered to protest sites ahead of time. And where did all the violent thugs and hooligans come from? The liberal district attorneys (in many cases, put in place by the funding of George Soros and others like him) let the felons out of prison. Someone will pay for all of this. It's time to take aggressive action and prove who will pay. " . . .
This was tried in 2017 and Soros is still in business as of 9/11/2020. TD
July 2020; DESPERATION SETS IN – Soros Breaks Personal Record After Pouring $50 M Into 2020 Election . . . "Such rhetoric from Soros-backed candidates has drawn criticism from the right. “While Democrats across the country sanctimoniously rail against the influence of dark money in politics, their party’s largest donors are bankrolling a massive web of liberal organizations to get them elected,” one GOP operative told the Washington Free Beacon earlier this month. “George Soros’s unprecedented spending further highlights just how dependent Democrats are on contributions from billionaires, despite their hypocritical rhetoric.” "Soros is one of several Democratic megadonors who opened their checkbooks last month to provide large sums to outfits backing Biden and hammering Republicans. The Biden Victory Fund in particular has benefited from a windfall of cash. It pulled in a whopping $83 million thanks to the Democratic Party’s wealthiest donors, including Soros, who donated $500,000" . . .
White House petition demanding action against liberal billionaire passes 215k signatures
A popular petition at the White House’s petition website calls for an official governmental framing of George Soros as a terrorist. It reads:. . . "Declare George Soros a terrorist and seize all of his related organizations’ assets under RICO and NDAA law
Whereas George Soros has willfully and on an ongoing basis attempted to destabilize and otherwise commit acts of sedition against the United States and its citizens, has created and funded dozens (and probably hundreds) of discrete organizations whose sole purpose is to apply Alinsky model terrorist tactics to facilitate the collapse of the systems and Constitutional government of the United State, and has developed unhealthy and undue influence over the entire Democrat Party and a large portion of the US Federal government, the DOJ should immediately declare George Soros and all of his organizations and staff members to be domestic terrorists, and have all of his personal an organizational wealth and assets seized under Civil Asset Forfeiture law.
"The petition was created on August 20 by “E.B.” It has yielded just over 59,000 e-signatures by the time of this article’s publication." . . .
Many more sources here via Bing.
50+ Questions No Reporter Dares Ask Joe Biden And His Campaign
When Biden actually agrees to an interview or offers to take questions, most reporters simply ask leading, softball questions or merely state something for Biden to nod in agreement with.
"Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden doesn’t face the same scrutiny the media applies to President Trump. Whether it is due to gaffes, his inability to complete some sentences, or lack of knowledge on a subject, Biden has proven that interviews are not for him and the media has covered accordingly.
"When Biden actually agrees to an interview or offers to take questions, most reporters simply ask leading, softball questions or merely state something for Biden to nod in agreement with. Many times, Biden refuses to take questions altogether.
"If Biden ever decides to take questions from the press again, here’s a list of questions reporters wouldn’t dare ask him and his campaign for fear of risking their esteemed reputations as some of the loudest voices for Democrats.
. . . Read the questions here...
Jordan Davidson is a staff writer at The Federalist. She graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism.
Biden's Press Secretary Flips Out When if Asked Biden Uses a Teleprompter During Interviews
Biden's Press Secretary Flips Out When if Asked Biden Uses a Teleprompter During Interviews
"For months now, it’s been clear that Joe Biden has been using a teleprompter for supposedly off-the-cuff campaign interviews and conversations.
"In April, when Bernie endorsed Joe Biden, they had a live stream conversation on Periscope where it was clear Biden was reading off a script.
Ducklo rather angrily refused multiple times after that to even answer the question, deflecting the question with campaign talking points, ultimately telling Baier that he wouldn’t allow the Trump campaign to “funnel their questions through Fox News and get me to respond to that.”
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Karl Rove wipes the floor with Joe Biden using a timeline "Karl Rove wrecked Joe Biden with his own lies about Trump’s response to the virus. Rove went through a timeline of what Biden and his top advisers were saying for months.
"Rove made three points. Biden said President Trump deliberately killed people who died from the virus, which is so over the top.
"Biden said he told everyone in January that if the President acted one week earlier, 36,000 lives would have been saved. The Washington Post said that was completely inaccurate.
"The third point is Biden lying about the President creating the recession when it was clearly the result of the virus. Biden said it was because of the lockdown, which the doctors and scientists told the President to do. Didn’t Biden say over and over to listen to the scientists?" . . .
Amid evidence of scripted campaigning, questions about Biden mental stamina, acuity multiply . . . "Biden also drew questions after Porsche Bennett, an activist with Black Lives Matter, went off-script at a Biden listening event at a church in Kenosha, Wisc. last week because she said she wanted to tell Biden "the truth" about race relations.
"I'm just going to be honest, Mr. Biden," Bennett said at the event, held in the town where police shot Jacob Blake, an African-American male. "I was told to go off this paper, but I can't. You need the truth, and I'm part of the truth."
The Biden campaign did not respond to request for comment from Just the News about either the AFL-CIO event or whether questions were vetted beforehand at the Kenosha event.
WATCH: Press slammed for Biden softballs by Fox’s @HowardKurtz: “The questions reporters asked Biden were head shaking, just downright embarrassing.” pic.twitter.com/RZQm4vppex
— TV News HQ (@TVNewsHQ) September 6, 2020
9/11: 19 Years Later
Images of 9/11: A Visual Remembrance
Can we ever recover that patriotic unity we had in the aftermath of that horrible day? Or has 2020 set us on a path to utter disintegration? . . . "The elections of 2016 brought America’s divisions to a head. While Hillary Clinton railed at flyover state “deplorables”—expressing more empathy for illegal aliens and Islamic terrorists than for hard-working, law-abiding, middle Americans who’d been economically decimated by globalism—Donald Trump consecrated himself to the service of those deplorables. Yes, from the beginning of his administration, he sought to be a president for all the people. But it was far too late.
"Too many Americans had been conditioned to respond to America-first rhetoric with a reflexive, implacable contempt. From the moment Trump won, the Democratic Party treated his victory as illegitimate and—with the help of a mainstream media that, since 9/11, increasingly had become an instrument of left-wing propaganda—sought to bring him down by unlawful means. At totally unfounded impeachment hearings, House Democrats hit a new low for naked and mendacious partisanship." . . .
FLASHBACK: How the Lefty Media Used and Abused the Memory of 9/11
. . . "These are the profoundly unserious people that expect Americans to turn to them in times of strife, sorry and calamity? Not likely."For more examples from our FLASHBACK series, which we call the NewsBusters Time Machine, go here." . . .
Left-Wing Agitator Arrested for Starting Fire in Washington, Suspected of Starting Two Other Wildfires
By Debra Heine "A Washington man with a history of left-wing agitation was arrested Wednesday evening after he allegedly started a fire in the brush along a highway near Tacoma.
"Jeffrey Acord, 36, was charged for reckless burning in the second degree. He is now reportedly also a suspect in two other Washington wildfires.
"Acord appears to be a man of the left, according to his Facebook page." . . .
Previously in 2014, Acord was caught with a cache of weapons and arrested during the Ferguson Decision Protest. Officers found the man carrying a 7-inch knife in his backpack, a box of ammunition, an assault rifle, a shotgun, and a box full of illegal fireworks in his car, according to a KOMO news report. When officers contacted Acord, he admitted to carrying a loaded gun without a permit. His bail was set for $10,000. The following charges were levelled against him.
"In the 2014 incident, officers reportedly found Acord carrying a 7-inch knife in his backpack, a box of ammunition, an assault rifle, a shotgun, and a box full of large fireworks in his car." . . .
Antifa Radical Arrested For Arson In Washington State — Was Caught On Highway Live-Streaming On Facebook Before Arrest (Video) . . . "Jeff Acord also filmed a Bernie rally and posted on Facebook.
Chiefs and Texans Pre-Game ‘Moment of Unity’ Gets Booed by Fans
Maybe they are just sick of people's businesses and nights out with friends being destroyed by bullies screaming at them and looting stores in the name of BLM and "equality". TD
Folks on the left are already interpreting this as “racist.”
If I were to hazard a guess, people are just tired of politics in a football game, making the National Anthem not about the National Anthem. Most people want unity but they don’t view this as really trying to achieve unity. They’re tired of the endorsement of the BLM that isn’t really about unity but has been connected to rioting, assaults, death and disunity.
But there was something else that the moment seemed to have missed that perhaps should have been there, considering the timing and talking about “unity.” . . .
The kneeling players and the following are, for many of us, the face of BLM:
. . . "The footage, taken by a Washington Post reporter shows the woman, identified as Lauren Victor, being shouted at by white protesters after she refuses to raise her fist. "The group crowded Victor's table, with two female demonstrators leaning down and shouting in her face. " . . .