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"She'd already remedied the voter registration issue by the time the appointment was officially announced, according to Pete Wilgoren of Los Angeles TV station KTLA." . . .
Friday, October 6, 2023
Laphonza Butler sworn in as replacement for late Sen. Dianne Feinstein
Thursday, October 5, 2023
Evidence exists that shows U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is a multi-millionaire after spending just over four years in Congress.
Fact Check: AOC Achieved Multi-Millionaire Status After Serving 4 Years in Congress? (msn.com) Rating: False (About this rating?)
"In September 2023, a user on X posted that U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., perhaps best known simply as AOC, had achieved the status of a multi-millionaire after serving in Congress for just over four years.
"I'm more interested in how she became a multimillionaire in 4 years," the user posted (archived).
This post received thousands of likes and appeared as a response under a discussion in which X owner Elon Musk had earlier said (archived) of Ocasio-Cortez, "She's just not that smart."
Many other users repeated the same rumor about her finances in subsequent tweets, not to mention the fact that we've also received reader mail about this subject in the past.
For example, one user replied (archived), "@AOC has become a multi-millionaire since coming to Congress. Can't be too dumb, @elonmusk."
Another person posted (archived) about the congresswoman, "You have done zero good since elected and somehow on a modest politician salary you have become a multi millionaire in 4 years."
Other posts claimed Ocasio-Cortez had around $24 million (archived) or perhaps $29 million (archived) in the bank.
These examples were just a sampling of the numerous other posts (archived) making the same central claim that said Ocasio-Cortez had become a multi-millionaire in just over four years.
However, according to Ocasio-Cortez's own financial disclosures that were posted to the U.S. House website, this rumor was false.
As Reuters previously reported in August 2022, Ocasio-Cortez's financial disclosures showed that she was far from being a millionaire, much less a multi-millionaire. (Her campaign website ocasiocortez.com also mentioned this same article.)
We reviewed Ocasio-Cortez's financial disclosures from 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. (These disclosures on the U.S. House website displayed some data in ranges rather than exact dollar figures.)
According to the most recent disclosure from 2023, Ocasio-Cortez had documented that she had no more than between $1,001 and $15,000 in each of three different bank accounts. The total for these three accounts would land somewhere between $3,003 and $45,000.
She also recorded in the disclosure having between $1,001 and $15,000 in additional funds in a fourth account for a 401k plan.
Further, she noted in the disclosure that she was still paying off student loans, with an "amount of liability" landing somewhere between $15,001 and $50,000.
In other words, Ocasio-Cortez was at least $940,000 short of being a millionaire, with the maximum possible amount of the four accounts totaling $60,000, and that's before even factoring in her student loan debt.
By email, we presented the Reuters article and the financial disclosures to Ocasio-Cortez's press office and asked if they had any further comment or resources. "Nothing to add," they replied.
We previously reported on a similar false rumor that claimed Ocasio-Cortez owned one of the world's most expensive houses.
Guess Who Attended a Dinner to 'Celebrate' Karine Jean-Pierre
Guess Who Attended a Dinner to 'Celebrate' Karine Jean-Pierre (townhall.com)
"White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had a dinner in her honor and according to Politico, there were plenty of people within the mainstream media who were happy to attend.
"Big names from both the media world included: Andrea Mitchell, Joy Reid, Jen O’Malley Dillon, Karen Finney, Tasia Jackson, Kasie Hunt, and Maya Wiley. It was also not just rank-and-file reporters who were in attendance. Both the presidents of ABC News, Kimberly Godwin, and MSNBC, Rashida Jones, were there to toast to President Joe Biden's press secretary. " . . .
Just the presidents of ABC News and MSNBC and multiple major journalists all at a dinner party "celebrating" the current White House press secretary pic.twitter.com/9Ll1XYdbrJ
— Philip Letsou (@philipletsou) October 5, 2023
WATCH: Fox Reporters Dismantle KJP's Absurd Answers, Leading Her to Make an Even Bigger Fool of Herself – RedState . . ."Such was the case on Monday when KJP once again chose to go toe-to-toe with Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy — and that was just for starters.
"Doocy began his back-and-forth with Jean-Pierre by asking how Biden felt about the pending healthcare workers' strike:
Since President Biden is so pro-union, is he okay with 75,000 healthcare workers possibly walking off the job this week?
"KJP responded like she always responds — with pre-canned White House talking points.
What I can tell you is that — I’ve said this many times already this morning: The President believes all workers — all workers, including healthcare workers and those that make their work possible — they [sic]deserve a [sic] fair pay and they deserve fair — a fair benefit.
I’ll have to say, like, the Treasury Department laid out recently a major report that unions and collective bargaining are good for the overall economy and help raise wages at [sic] — for everybody, whether they are a union member or not and I think that matters.
"Doocy then hit KJP with a well-thrown right hook, deftly alluding to Biden's recent 12-minute photo-op picket-line stunt with striking autoworkers in Michigan: "Would he consider joining them [healthcare workers] on the picket line if they strike?"
"That was all it took to knock KJP off her game.
Universities Without Freedom of Speech Are Worthless -
The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
Students leave university without aspiring at all to freedom; they leave feeling at home in slavery, even seeming delighted with it.
"For years, whenever Europeans wanted to impress guests, they would say, “I studied at Harvard.” These days, however, to impress guests and gain their respect, it is better to say, “And I didn’t study at Harvard!” The “2024 College Free Speech Rankings” by College Pulse and the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) offers results that should shock us — because there seems to exist almost nothing left of the spirit in which universities were once founded by European Christian monks back in the Middle Ages, and which constituted a restricted community between students and professors to train and to teach how to think, research, and debate, activities that could never be achieved outside of an environment of freedom. It is shocking to read the report and discover that advocating that abortion is not a right or that climate change is not man made, or suggesting that the best treatment for gender transitions is a psychiatric one, is subject to immediate cancellation by both authorities and students. There is no longer any freedom in the institution that one day was born precisely to endow us with it.
"It should surprise no one that the Catholic Church was the main promoter of those primitive universities (not so different from those of today in their organization and purpose), as historian Lowrie Daly points out when he affirms that it was “the only institution in Europe that showed consistent interest in the preservation and cultivation of knowledge.” Today, evil historians have rewritten history to denigrate Christians who sowed that cultural germ in Europe, and, although the myth that the Middle Ages were the Dark Ages has triumphed, the truth is that never did so much light shine on the Old Continent. Without those universities, we would never have had a Western civilization to be proud of.
"Today, on the contrary, an alarming number of universities are competing to renounce the great purpose of the medieval university: to teach how to think, to debate freely, to achieve excellence. Today many of the most important universities in the world teach only to repeat like parrots a few stupid slogans from the Woke Catechism, the basic textbook of any faculty. Biology, philosophy, history, or art — everything is subdued and perverted under the yoke of contemporary extreme-left single thought. " . . .
Speaker Donald Trump? Yep, Trump says he's open to becoming Speaker of the House
President Trump as replacement for ousted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy at a time when the GOP is flat on its back? What could be more dramatic, more Trumpian?
Monica Showalter- American Thinker . . . "He would have rivals -- Rep. Jim Jordan and Rep Steve Scalise are said to want the chair, too, and how Trump's entry would play out against their ambitions is up for grabs. Either would be good at the job, too, and Trump did note in his statement that the GOP does have talent.
"What's more, he might not even have a majority to win, given that all Democrats would vote no, the GOP majority is razor-thin and there are never-Trumps among them.
"And there's the broader picture of whether Trump would be right for this job, which requires a nerd-like focus on legislative details, and an ability to smooth ruffled feathers from various egos of all kinds, as well as get along with ideological foes. He has strengths, but probably not those strengths.
"But oh, the fun of it if it happens.
"Congress is a positive zoo of bad activity and gridlock, passing through gargantuan spending bills and feathering their nests. It's why polls show that voters can't stand Congress.
"Trump could be quite an antidote to that, not having those kinds of conflicts of interest, let alone greed.
"Better still, he could drive the left bonkers. Imagine the expressions on the faces of the White House staff if they learn that Trump will be their Speaker of the House. It's hard to say whether they hate him or fear him more. Just the talk of Trump becoming Speaker is sure to throw them off balance and have them raving for awhile, even if it doesn't happen.
"It's worth asking whether he might even be shielded from some of the crazed prosecutors who are after him as a private citizen with some kind of immunity -- legal eagles would know.
"If it happens, it could be quite a satisfying retort to all the garbage the left has thrown at Trump and the leftist hate for the voters who voted for him.
"Fingers crossed that we can hope for the best. The cool thing about Trump is that anything can happen." . . .
Destroying Civilization! Without security, there is anarchy. And where there is anarchy, the state can command neither legitimacy nor respect.
American Greatness
"Arguably, the greatest indictment of leftism is its preference for the vagrant and the criminal over the law-abiding citizen and victim. In politics, there are all kinds of disagreements about the role and scope of the state, but the one thing the state must do is protect the innocent.
"Without security, there is anarchy. And where there is anarchy, the state can command neither legitimacy nor respect. Yet racial idolaters on the Left have pushed society to forgo basic expectations of public order and civilized conduct. Demanding anything more than day-to-day chaos would be cruel to “marginalized” people like deranged homeless black men on the subway.
"The Left has a warped infatuation with society’s most entitled, recalcitrant, and destructive elements. Their latest martyr is a lunatic named Jordan Neely, who was killed while threatening commuters in Manhattan on Monday morning. The man, portrayed by sympathetic media as a “Michael Jackson impersonator,” was throwing garbage at people and making vaguely threatening statements about his willingness to go to prison for life. A reasonable person would feel afraid in this situation, as passengers doubtless did. A heroic vigilante intervened and put Neely in a chokehold. Two other men helped restrain Neely, who later died.
"Seldom is the line between civilization and savagery drawn so clearly as it was in Jordan Neely’s subway car. The Left has demonized the vigilante for his “barbaric” supposed “lynching,” but this gets it precisely backward. Barbarism on the subway is a daily occurrence; it is part of the atmosphere. Barbarism is forcing commuters to fear for their lives and property on a Monday morning. It’s what you call it when vagrants shove people to their deaths in front of moving trains, and all the state can do is shrug.
"In places like New York City, criminals are a protected class. Just days ago, a homeless man stabbed a commuter with an ice pick. Jordan Neely himself had 42 prior arrests and an open warrant for assaulting a 67-year-old woman at the time of his death. He is widely reported to have been a menace to the safety of others, in short, a net negative on society.
"Jordan Neely had no business being on the street. Only a deranged society would treat such a man like an equal.
"But rather than permit the “injustice” of locking up violent blacks, governments in places like New York empower criminals to terrorize innocents. This is called “social justice,” and it’s happening everywhere.
"Roving caravans of “youths” in Chicago regularly riot and loot with impunity. The city wrings its hands over a lack of “resources” in the hood and stages ineffectual “awareness” campaigns. Civilized society is extorted, literally and morally. Philadelphia recently paid off rioters who were tear-gassed while blocking highways during the George Floyd riots.
"No matter how bad it gets, no matter how many people get hurt, it will never be enough to satisfy the Left. They will always find a way to justify the criminals and blame the real victims, whose cries for justice are drowned out by the endless wailing of black entitlement. We are often told that the politics of “white grievance” is transforming America into some kind of authoritarian state, but the opposite is true. We are racing into the ghetto.
"It is impossible to have civilization when it is a crime to hold members of a protected class accountable for their conduct. In Manhattan on Monday, justice momentarily took the reins away from “social justice.” The normal course of state-sanctioned disorder was disrupted by a brave onlooker, who very well could have ignored the threat, like most commuters have been conditioned to do. Instead, he chose to act at great risk to his safety, reputation, and freedom. It would be surprising if he is not hanged, drawn, and quartered for doing the right thing. He is a fool if he does not expect it."
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Democrat Congressman Has Three Words After Being Carjacked at Gunpoint
The Federalist Papers "Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas had three words of advice after being carjacked at gunpoint Monday night in an upscale neighborhood near Capital Hill: Support law enforcement.
"Some would argue the lawmaker’s record in doing so is mixed.
"In 2021, Cuellar issued a news release to brag about voting for the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.
"Had the bill become law, it would have greatly hampered police officers’ ability to do their jobs. Among other measures, it would have restricted the situations when police can respond with deadly force and greatly expanded the opportunity of civilians to sue individual officers, rather than local governments, when alleging wrongdoing.
"However, Cuellar voted with Republicans in February to override the District of Columbia’s revised criminal code passed by the city council that would have lessened the penalties for carjackings and other violent crimes.
Looks like the dog caught the car
JUST IN: Biden looks as if he is going to croak after he suddenly lost his train of thought during a press conference at the White House.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 1, 2023
The moment came after Biden said he hoped Speaker McCarthy has had a “personal revelation.”
“I hope this experience for the speaker has been… pic.twitter.com/LkTB0Y5gJs
After McCarthy's Ouster, Speaker Pro Tempore McHenry Kicks Pelosi Out of Her Office (townhall.com)
Pelosi was not in DC when all hell broke loose on Tuesday. She was in California for the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s memorial arrangements. She wasn't the only person served with an eviction notice. Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) was also asked to vacate his hideaway office. House Republicans are getting what revenge they can get for Democrats working with Matt Gaetz. In the meantime, Republicans must sprint to find someone for speaker who can get 218 votes unless they want to own this political disaster in the House.
Jim Jordan Reveals Bid to Replace McCarthy As House Speaker (ijr.com)
Speaker McCarthy Is Ousted. Who, Then, Shall Replace Him? – RedState
Why Republicans Are Evicting Top House Dems From Their Capitol Hideaway Offices (townhall.com)
WATCH: Fox Reporters Dismantle KJP's Absurd Answers, Leading Her to Make an Even Bigger Fool of Herself –
"As the wise old adage warns, never engage in a battle of wits with no ammunition. Unfortunately for Karine Jean-Pierre, the most inept White House press secretary in memory, she's either unaware of the advice or intentionally ignores it. Then again, one can't use what one doesn't have.
"Such was the case on Monday when KJP once again chose to go toe-to-toe with Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy — and that was just for starters.
"Doocy began his back-and-forth with Jean-Pierre by asking how Biden felt about the pending healthcare workers' strike:
Since President Biden is so pro-union, is he okay with 75,000 healthcare workers possibly walking off the job this week?
"KJP responded like she always responds — with pre-canned White House talking points.
What I can tell you is that — I’ve said this many times already this morning: The President believes all workers — all workers, including healthcare workers and those that make their work possible — they [sic]deserve a [sic] fair pay and they deserve fair — a fair benefit.
I’ll have to say, like, the Treasury Department laid out recently a major report that unions and collective bargaining are good for the overall economy and help raise wages at [sic] — for everybody, whether they are a union member or not and I think that matters.
"Doocy then hit KJP with a well-thrown right hook, deftly alluding to Biden's recent 12-minute photo-op picket-line stunt with striking autoworkers in Michigan: "Would he consider joining them [healthcare workers] on the picket line if they strike?"
"That was all it took to knock KJP off her game." . . .
How to Be a New York Times Reporter
To use a professional journalist's technique: This Is the Steep Cost of the Times' Descent Into Mindless Left-Wing Activism ... a grim chapter the paper leaves out of its history.
Ann Coulter "You probably think the job of a reporter is to report news. How old-fashioned, cis-gendered, white supremacist of you! That's not it at all, certainly not at the august New York Times.
"Instead, a reporter's mission is to find out what kind of story would help the Democrats at any particular moment in time, and then write it, no matter how preposterous. Obviously, skills in sophistry and legerdemain are crucial.
"Right now, nothing would help the Democratic Party more than somehow blocking Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida from becoming the Republican presidential nominee.
"That's a tall order. DeSantis is not only running on 70-30 popular issues, but he's following through by actually enacting those policies -- on everything from immigration to crime, to trans-mania, to anti-white racism. Most spectacularly, he made utter fools of the entire liberal brain trust over COVID." . . .
"You'll get a fair trial and then I'll hang you personally"
Viewers not only witnessed the hatred, pettiness, and smallness of the left, but also the corruption of America’s legal system through the reactions of these two. James and Engoron are symbolic of a system no longer trained on murderers, thieves, and other criminals, but on political enemies.
Trump trial: The camera never lies - American Thinker "The judge presiding over the New York civil fraud case against President Donald Trump decided to invite the media cameras into the courtroom, but what became obvious is the camera never lies.
"I don’t doubt for a moment that showing Trump at bay motivated Judge Arthur Engoron’s allowing of the media to show the beginning of the proceedings. Trump gave the cameras nothing: no anxious movements and no emotional reactions to feed the media pundits.
"Instead, viewers saw the mad dog glare of New York Attorney General Letitia James focused on Trump like a laser.
"Maybe her stare was genuine or maybe she was playing for the cameras? Maybe both?
"Anyway. As the photogs made their way out, Engoron gladly removed his glasses and flashed a creepy smile for the cameras as if he landed the big one." . . .
Viewers not only witnessed the hatred, pettiness, and smallness of the left, but also the corruption of America’s legal system through the reactions of these two. James and Engoron are symbolic of a system no longer trained on murderers, thieves, and other criminals, but on political enemies.
Whom did Trump harm? - Mark C. Ross . . ."Trump's situation is particularly scary, not because of the damage being done to his reputation, but as an example of how evil our government of today can be when it wants to destroy someone for political purposes. What is also disheartening is that Trump's New York enemies felt confident that the pervasive ignorance of the media and general public concerning these matters would allow them to freely pursue this endeavor in spite of how little, if any, substance was behind the charge. If boasting about one's wealth were a crime, we'd need to build a lot more prisons." . . .
Smile a little smile for me, Mister Judge -Silvio Canto, Jr.
. . ."Well, he is partisan Democrat, and that's clear. He is also too clownish to be a judge. Is this the best they can do in New York?
For short, I think that these New York cases are as partisan as ever. We are seeing justice based on "Get Trump," exactly the kind of garbage that you see in a banana republic.
Whether you love or hate Trump, you should hate this kind of injustice.
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