France expresses alarm about America’s drift into left-wing radicalism

"When the French think you're tilting left, you're about to capsize."  Daniel F. Melton

Via Current Affairs

Liberty Unyielding  "America has moved to the left so rapidly that Europeans are now expressing alarm about it. As journalist Glenn Greenwald notes, “Obama-endorsed French President Emmanuel Macron has joined numerous French intellectuals & journalists in warning that ‘out-of-control woke leftism of US campuses and its attendant cancel culture’ poses a grave threat due to the social strife it creates.”

"Greenwald links to a New York Times article that asks, “Will American ideas tear France apart? Some think so. Politicians and prominent intellectuals say” that left-wing “social theories from the United States on race, gender, and post-colonialism are a threat” to French unity and stability:

"French politicians, high-profile intellectuals and journalists are warning that progressive American ideas — specifically on race, gender, post-colonialism — are undermining their society. “There’s a battle to wage against an intellectual matrix from American universities,’’ warned Mr. Macron’s education minister.

"Emboldened by these comments, prominent intellectuals have banded together against what they regard as contamination by the out-of-control woke leftism of American campuses and its attendant cancel culture…..

Students at Catholic Georgetown U. Protest Appearance by MLK’s Pro-Life Niece

 Legal Insurrection

Student activists at Georgetown University, a Catholic school, have decided that Dr. Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., should be condemned after speaking there.

Her crimes? She is pro-life and supported President Trump.

Hank Berrien writes at the Daily Wire:

Student Activists At Catholic University Protest MLK’s Pro-Life, Trump-Supporting Niece

Self-described “pro-choice” students at Georgetown University have demanded that the Catholic university “publicly condemn” the pro-life speakers who participated in the Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life in late January. Among the speakers singled out by the student activists is Dr. Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whom the students accused of “promot[ing] bigotry and hatred.”

“The conference, which bills itself as ‘the largest student-run, pro-life conference in the nation,’ has been held at Georgetown for more than two decades,” Angela Morabito of Campus Reform noted.

"Here’s an excerpt of the petition attacking King:

Speaker Alveda King is Martin Luther King Jr.’s niece. However, unlike her uncle who preached tolerance and justice, Alveda King promotes bigotry and hatred. She uses her platform to publicly promote extreme anti-LGBTQ ideologies: she has compared same-sex marriage to genocide, compared homosexuality to fatness, and written that same-sex marriage and abortions cause natural disasters. She is also an avowed Trump supporter, and has publicly and continuously countered allegations condemning Trump for being racist, tweeting “President Trump is not a racist!! He is one of the best presidents America has ever seen! I fully support him!”

Furthermore, she has referred to abortions as “womb-lynchings,” stating that “lynching is not a sacred cow reserved for the lamentations of descendants of black slaves in America.” In addition, she has publicly voiced her opposition to the Black Lives Matter Organization, inaccurately claiming that it supports “genocide and mayhem.' ” . . .

Fox News Reporter's Exchange with 'Circle Back' Psaki Shows Once Again How We Got Trump

"There's that refreshing condescending tone toward energy sector workers that led to 8 years of Donald Trump. I've missed this." Stephen L. Miller

 Townhall  "Should we be shocked? No. Joe Biden cannot help coal miners or workers on the Keystone Pipeline. The Environmental Left won’t allow it. These people think these jobs are in some way immoral, killing the planet, and, therefore, should die out. They don’t care about the workers or the families that will be left destitute. They don’t need to — the folks who think this way are coastal elitists. The problem with the Democratic Party ethos is that people who don’t have college degrees or are part of the working class simply can't do something else, like make solar panels. John Kerry exposed his liberal elitism when he pretty much said that the people who lost their jobs were dumb, to begin with, but don’t worry — solar energy will save them. How? Those jobs pay $20,000 less than oil and natural gas.

"Fox News reporter Peter Doocy sparred with White House Press Secretary Jen "circle back" Psaki over green jobs, once again showing how Donald Trump became a political phenomenon. Also, she didn’t answer Doocy's question. Curtis Houck at Newsbusters clipped the exchange, particularly the part where Doocy noted how Biden climate czars Gina McCarthy and John Kerry have gone underground after both figures made idiotic remarks about what to do about the tens of thousands of those who have lost jobs or no longer have such prospects thanks to Joe Biden’s executive orders." . . .

No, the 2020 Election Wasn’t STOLEN — But YES, it was UNDERHANDEDLY Tilted

 Socio-Political-Journal...

If you read the headline of a blockbuster, 6,000-word-plus story in Time magazine, you might think former President Donald Trump wasn’t so wrong about the election, after all.

"Despite the tease, Molly Ball’s “Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election” doesn’t allege widespread voter fraud in what some Trump supporters still insist was a “stolen” election. Nor is the essay an exposé of illegal activity that would justify the Trumpian challenges to the results that threatened to tear the country apart.

"But what Time did uncover is disturbing enough, even if most of those involved are proud of what they did to help elect President Biden: underhanded methods made all the more galling by the preening self-righteousness of those who deployed them.

"As the magazine reports, a secret alliance of left-wing activists, union leaders and corporate CEOs worked together to help craft unprecedented changes in the rules governing the way America votes. They did their best to encourage and facilitate mail-in voting on an unprecedented scale." . . .

My Nation-Unifying Impeachment Solution

There’s no hope for our media, who are irredeemable liars. But there’s still a chance for everyone else to come out a winner here! Trade conviction for a wall, Republicans"

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 Ann Coulter  "Senate Republicans should offer to convict Donald Trump in return for Democrats agreeing to fund the wall.

"Trump is not going to run again anyway. In four years, he will be as viable a presidential candidate as Hillary was in 2020. You wouldn’t have guessed that, either, from all the gnashing of teeth about the MOST QUALIFIED WOMAN EVER TO SEEK THE PRESIDENCY immediately after she lost.

"The reason elected Republicans, Fox News, OAN, Newsmax and a hundred talk radio hosts are terrified of supporting conviction is that they don’t want to look like Mitt Romney and incur the wrath of the Trump base (whatever remains of it).

"Trading conviction for a wall solves that. It will remind Trump loyalists that he betrayed them on his central campaign promise, and also will actually fulfill that promise.

"Democrats, if they have half a brain, will leap at the offer. They are about to destroy Biden’s presidency by defining themselves — as The New York Times’ Frank Bruni put it — as “antonyms to Trump.” Trump was for a wall. Ipso facto, Democrats are for open borders.

"Trump was lying, liberals! Even President Obama was for border security. Great socialist hope Bernie Sanders has denounced open borders as a gift to the Koch brothers." . . .

"They don’t care. Trump supporters wanted a wall, so we’re going to punish them by throwing open the border!" . . .

Democrat impeachment crusade, second day

Chris Wallace Gushes Over Dems' 'Powerful' Argument for Impeaching Trump " . . . Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) argued it was constitutional to impeach a former president.

"Raskin, who promised to impeach President Donald Trump as soon he took office, while also objecting to the certification of 2017 election results, is now arguing the case for the impeachment of a private citizen." .  . .

Hannity Said Trump Lawyer ‘Had a Great Day.’ Then the Lawyer Went on Fox and Made Democrats’ Case for Them.  “If we apply the Democratic standards for how they define incitement and insurrection,” Hannity asked before rattling off a laundry list of Democratic Party politicians. “If that same standard is applied, do they not all deserve impeachment, too?”

"To which Schoen replied [emphasis added]:

Yeah, I would say, you know, listen, if they tried to impeach them, I would say that also is an abuse, was an abuse, of the impeachment process. But your point is: they’re using rhetoric that is just as inflammatory or more so. The problem is, they don’t really have followers, you know, they’re dedicated followers, and so, when they give their speeches.

Trump lawyer: Impeachment case ‘undemocratic,’ ill-advised

Democrats are using the upcoming Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump as a political “weapon” to bar the former president from seeking office again and are pursuing a case that is “undemocratic” and unconstitutional, one of his lawyers says.

 Why are Democrats so scared of Donald Trump when they just defeated him? "Donald Trump is washed up. A has-been. Everyone hates him, and he has no future. That’s what the press is constantly telling us.

"So why are the Democrats still afraid of him?

"According to the press narrative, Trump suffered a crushing electoral defeat. Democrats are firmly in charge of the White House and Congress. America is returning to normalcy, with the reassuring (if sometimes a bit confused) face of President Biden beaming over all of us like a benevolent grandpa. We’re ready to move on."

Aug, 2020: MSNBC Producer Quits, Calls Network 'Cancer' That’s Dividing Americans

  But this channel was regularly promoted on programs such as "Law & Order". Note this story is from August 2020 and MSNBC is still the same. TD

Jack Murphy  "A former producer for MSNBC explained why she quit her role in a scathing letter, calling the left-leaning anti-Trump TV network a “cancer” that is “stoking national division” among Americans.

"Ariana Pekary accused MSNBC of amplifying “fringe voices” while forcing “journalists to make bad decisions on a daily basis.”

"Pekary wrote on her personal website:

"July 24th was my last day at
MSNBC. I don’t know what I’m going to do next exactly but I simply couldn’t stay there anymore."

 "My colleagues are very smart people with good intentions. The problem is the job itself. It forces skilled journalists to make bad decisions on a daily basis."

"Pekary also shared quotes of what people said to her during her years while working for MSNBC before pondering the harmful effect the network is having on society." . . .

. . .  “ 'Context and factual data are often considered too cumbersome for the audience,” Pekary later added.  “There may be some truth to that (our education system really should improve the critical thinking skills of Americans) – but another hard truth is that it is the job of journalists to teach and inform, which means they might need to figure out a better way to do that." . . .

MSNBC producer resigns from network with scathing letter: They block 'diversity of thought' and 'amplify fringe voices'

Joy Reid, angry MSNBC opinionist

Bari Weiss, the former New York Times op-ed staff editor who recently resigned from the newspaper with her own letter, praised Pekary's "integrity" on social media.

 Snopes grudgingly agreed    . . . "But it’s misleading to state that Pekary’s letter was directed solely at the liberal MSNBC, because Pekary’s critique was aimed at the entirety of the commercial news industry, which she said offers viewers ideological bias-confirming sensationalism over informative and nuanced reporting." . . .

National Review: A Brutal Assessment of Cable News . . . "I hope somebody in the cable-news world heeds Pekary’s assessment — which sure looks accurate to me — and is willing to try something different in another time slot, perhaps with Pekary or someone like her calling the shots of how the news ought to be covered. Just try covering the news with depth and nuance and take a shot at leaving viewers knowing more than before they tuned in. Who knows, some people might like it, particularly people who don’t watch cable news right now, because they find it a predictable shout-fest." . . .

MSNBC Host Calls for Drone Strikes to Be Used to Kill American Citizens

 Jay Greenberg

"MSNBC host Nicole Wallace has called for drone strikes to be used to kill American citizens on U.S. soil.

"Wallace floated the idea of the U.S. government killing protesters with drones during a discussion regarding domestic terrorism.

"The left-wing anchor brought up the National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin." . . .

Calling out the Unholy Six Republican senators who voted to advance Trump's impeachment trial

American Thinker  "The following is copied and pasted from the CBS News website, February 9: Senators Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania joined all 50 Democrats in voting to uphold the constitutionality of [Trump's post-presidency impeachment] trial.

"First, concerning a certain Senate Democrat: you too, Joe Manchin?

"Clearly, the Republican senators listed above have, by their vote against the express language of the Constitution, made common cause with the rabid Senate Democrats and must be primaried next election.  Should the GOP regain their Senate majority in 2022, these senators should be either denied membership on any Senate committee or placed on the most non-consequential of Senate committees.

"The Unholy Six have previously made clear their loathing for a now private citizen and have placed their personal disregard of former president Trump far above their duty to the Constitution and their responsibilities to their constituents.  It is worth speculating that these sad excuses for Republicans — call them CRINOs (Craven Republicans In Name Only) — were emboldened by the example of Liz Cheney, who has shown that she can vituperate against the former president with the worst of Democrat anti-Trump propagandists and get away with it.

"What profit is there in turning to Republicans for succor against the self-aggrandizing, tyrannical Democrats if they lack the will to call to account the GOP turncoats in their own ranks?  It is to be expected that the power-mad Democrats will place themselves not only above the law, but above our Constitution.  It is unforgivable for elected Republicans to ignore people in their own ranks who are no more committed to the rule of law, to the Constitution, than the malevolent Democrats.

"The readiness of the Unholy Six to accept the lie of the Democrats that this affront to the Constitution is acceptable is indication enough that these six sorry servants of the left will accept all the lies the rabid left hurls at and heaps upon private citizen Trump, including the malicious accusations that he incited the January 6 events at the Capitol.  

"The forty-four Republican senators who stood fast against this travesty of a "trial," and stood tall in defense of the Constitution, against the leftist horde intent on undermining our legacy of liberty, must now make common cause with the 74 million (or is it really more than 80 million?) and, to borrow from Madison in Federalist No. 57, nourish our spirit of freedom, as we nourish theirs.

"Truth is under attack, along with such essential rights for democracy as free speech, freedom of thought, and due process of law.  We cannot expect to prevail if we tolerate the sowers of discord and chaos in our own midst.  If we fail to stand against the enemy within, how can we succeed in prevailing against  the enemies of democracy from the left?

"The test is simple enough: any Republican ready to make common cause with the deceiving, discordant Democrats is not a Republican at all and, thus, is undeserving of being treated as a member of the GOP.  Unholy Six — be gone!  Along with Cheney."

The "world's greatest deliberative body"? So THIS is the best we have?

 

Rich Terrell

Thomas Sowell on AOC, Sep 18, 2020

 

Lawrence Thompson"...The scary thing is how many people take her seriously. She literally said "the world is going to end in 12 years because of climate change" - that one statement should tell you everything you need to know about her intellect, her lack of perspective and her hysterical and myopic understanding of the human condition."

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." . . .