NBA Bans The Phrase “Free Hong Kong” From Custom Jersey Maker – Allows “Kill Cops” Though…

NBA Bans Custom Jerseys With ‘FreeHongKong,’ But Allows ‘Burn Jews’ And ‘Kill Cops’  "The National Basketball Association is now blocking fans from customizing jerseys to include “FreeHongKong,” while allowing a range of gross activist slogans on its merchandise. Through its online store, the league has long let fans create jerseys with personalized messages on the back. In fact, the feature recently become a key part of the NBA’s push to allow players to sport activist statements on their jerseys. Today, however, it became clear the NBA doesn’t love all protests equally.

"As first pointed out by Twitter users, the NBA store is blocking any fans from making jerseys with popular protester slogan “FreeHongKong.” This happens despite the site allowing numerous antisemitic and anti-police slogans. Right now, you can make a custom NBA jersey with “Kill Cops,””‘F-ck Police,” and “Burn Jews” among many other objectionable phrases. It appears that supporting a pro-democracy movement, however, is too extreme."

 . . ."F-ckHongKong,” which contains the same number of letters as “FreeHongKong,” is also allowed, meaning the ban seems only to extend to statements affirming the pro-democracy movement." . . .

Added by TD from Weasel Zippers

. . . "As the NBA blocks statements offensive to the Communist Party of China, protesters are being arrested in the city under a harsh new “security” law. Pro-democracy demonstrators can now be jailed for life. Disrupting roads is now considered a terrorist act, and any attempts to work with the international community have been made criminal." . . .

Whatever happened to American journalism?

Yellow Journalism earned the founder of Hearst newspapers that magnificent castle above San Simeon, CA   
. . . "Today, the term “yellow journalism” is used negatively to describe any journalistic style that treats real news either unprofessionally or unethically. or that puts forth information as true, which has no basis in fact. Examples of yellow journalism stories that would be treated in such a way are those that are either scare-mongering or scandal-mongering. The late American historian and journalist Frank Luther Mott said that examples of yellow journalism can essentially be defined by the following traits: . . ." This 2016 article fails to discuss CNN and MSNBC, only Fox.

https://www.lucianne.com/

Jake Tapper Receives Inconvenient Reminder About CNN Guests He’s Interviewed After Trying to Mask-Shame Trump  . . . "Many media outlets erroneously “reported” that it was the first time Trump had been seen in public wearing a mask since the pandemic began, which in reality was not true, as this May 21st tweet from NBC News proves:" . . .

Liberal Lawyer Shreds CNN Legal Analyst’s Take on Roger Stone’s Commutation in Less Than Five Paragraphs

CNN Host Don Lemon’s Bigoted Blasphemy: “Jesus Christ Was Not Perfect”

On Monday, CNN’s Don Lemon undermined his own argument when it comes to removing statues by engaging in what any Christian should consider outright blasphemy. In a truly bizarre moment, the CNN host suggested that the Founders were not perfect … just like Jesus Christ.“But here’s the thing. Jesus Christ, if that’s who you believe in, Jesus Christ, admittedly was not perfect when he was here on this earth,” the CNN host falsely claimed. “So why are we deifying the Founders of this country? Many of whom owned slaves.” 

Local Gun Store Offers Free AR15 to St Louis Couple After Gun Used to Protect Home from BLM was Confiscated

100%FedUp  "The McCloskey family has been through so much since they were filmed pointing guns at BLM protesters who came on their property. They had to hire security and boarded up their windows because the BLM thugs kept coming to harass them in front of their home.

Their boarded-up home

. . . "As if they haven’t been through enough, a search warrant was issued for Mark and Patricia McCloskey’s home on Friday. The McCloskey’s lawyer handed over the gun used by Patricia McCloskey on Saturday and Mark McCloskey told Todd Starnes on Friday:
“We complied with the search warrant. They took my AR. I’m absolutely surprised by this.”
"After the local gun store, Alien Armory Tactical caught wind of what happened; the store announced they would donate a free AR15 to the McCloskeys.
"Gateway Pundit reported that the gun store posted an announcement on Facebook:

(IF ANYONE KNOWS THE ST. LOUIS COUPLE PLEASE PASS THIS POST ALONG TO THEM ) Let me say this to all the St.Louis city cops. You should of protested serving this warrant! This couple did what they needed to do to protect private property as the property was being ambushed. I’ve seen videos and some of these so called protesters were carrying firearms and they clearly broke the gate to make way on to the private property ( A THREAT ) To the couple that had this warrant served, please come on by our shop and we will gladly rearm you with a brand new ar15 for ( FREE ) thats right if you see this post contact our page and we will gladly assist you with a replacement for you to protect your private property for FREE! Also we will assist you with some FREE firearms training so if anything were to happen you will be better prepared, we will take you with your brand new ar15 and show you how to be better prepared! Thank you from your friendly neighborhood watch😆

Goya boycott backfires bigly as Trump supporters buy up Goya products like it’s Christmas

BPR

"The Left’s “Boycott Goya” campaign to bully and silence Goya Food CEO Robert Unanue for praising President Trump backfired in epic fashion after scores of Trump supporters launched their own counter-boycott called “Goya Buy-cott.”
"The “Buy-cott” campaign inspired countless Trump supporters to go to their local stores and buy up Goya olives, seasonings, beans, and frozen foods like it’s Christmas.
"In fact, Goya couldn’t have asked for better marketing if it had paid millions of dollars in prime-time TV and newspaper ads.
"President Trump kicked things off by tweeting, “I love Goya Foods!”'   . . .

Naturally, this silliness could not avoid the satire of Babylon Bee:
Democrats Call For Labels Warning Consumers If A Company's CEO Voted For Trump
It could work well in California. That state is deeply committed to warning labels and to hating anything Trumpish. TD

"Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other Democratic representatives proposed a new law today that would help consumers make better-informed decisions when it comes to really political purchases like beans."The new law would force CEOs who voted for Trump to disclose this important nutritional information on all the company's products."When you're shopping for beans, like, the first thing you want to know is, like, if the CEO is a Trump supporter," said Ocasio-Cortez. "My abuelita and I would, like, go shopping at the bodega when I was growing up in hard-knock Yorktown Heights. And she'd always tell me, 'Mija, the first thing to know about buying good food is you have to make sure the CEO of the company isn't a Republican.' And, like, that always stuck with me.""When asked what nutritional value this could possibly have, Ocasio-Cortez called the reporter racist and said he was "catcalling" her." . . .

LA teachers union wants more money by defunding the police, calls for medicare for all

Fox News  "United Teachers Los Angeles recently released a research paper on steps needed to safely reopen public schools amid the coronavirus outbreak and pointed to the need to free up additional funding by defunding the police.
“ 'Police violence is a leading cause of death and trauma for Black people, and is a serious public health and moral issue,” the paper said, citing the American Public Health Association. “We must shift the astronomical amount of money devoted to policing, to education and other essential needs such as housing and public health.”
"Teachers unions have long been criticized by Republicans as an extension of the Democrat Party. Republicans will likely use the paper to support that claim. The union's paper also took aim at charter schools and reportedly called for a federal Medicare-for-All program.
"The union's paper did not offer a dollar amount to cut from the police. The Los Angeles City Council already cut the LAPD budget by $150 million and said the money will be earmarked for disadvantaged communities.  The union did not immediately respond to an after-hours email from Fox News." . . .

Hilton calls for education tax refund if schools don't reopen: 'Why should you pay for service you are not getting?'

"The Next Revolution" host Steve Hilton suggested on his show Sunday that parents should receive education tax dollar refunds if schools stay shuttered in the fall.
"We believe in decentralization on this show and we believe above all in people power," Hilton said during his opening monologue.
"It is time to use it over this school fiasco. If your child's school won't open in the fall, demand your money back so you can find an alternative. It is your child, your tax dollars. Why should you pay for service you are not getting?' " . . .

Did saying 'all lives matter' to a group of blacks get a mother of a young child shot and killed?

Mike Harris

Thomas Lifson  "The demonization of the commonsense expression "all lives matter" has reached the point of lethal violence against those who utter it, if an eyewitness account of a murder in Indianapolis is true.  This deeply distressing story of an incident on Independence Day weekend had received zero coverage in the mainstream media until Fox News picked it up a few hours ago.  Bradford Betz writes for Fox: . . ."
Full article here.
"If anything good can be salvaged from this awful killing, it would be a pushback against the demonization of "all lives matter."  Claims that those three words are racist are self-evidently ridiculous.  If it is untrue that all lives matter because "black lives matter" is trendy and being pushed heavily, then some lives logically do not matter.  Because of race.  That position is abhorrent.  And it may have led to murder."

Mother of 3-Yr-Old Shot and Killed While Walking Away From Argument Over Allegedly Responding “All Lives Matter” To Group of Strangers Shouting “Black Lives Matter”  . . . "Cassandra Fairbanks of The Gateway Pundit reached out to the family of Jessica Doty-Whitaker and reported- Unlike Charlottesville or any violence from the right, this killing was reported so quietly that barely anyone even noticed.
"Her grandfather posted on Facebook that “multiple black assailants” shot her in the head.
“ 'Why isn’t anybody outraged about this?” he asked in the post. “Is it that BLM was involved or that it was white young adults that [were] the victims?' ” . . .

The woke white woman: America's latest casualty in the culture wars  "Stella Morabito over at the Federalist has just written a masterful piece describing a bizarre new phenomenon in America: the woke white woman.  The article is called "Why Do So Many White Women Hate Themselves?"
"Why, indeed?
"These young, middle-class white women can be found spitting harangues into the faces of police officers, including black officers, trying to lecture and shame them into obedience, writes Morabito, plus more:  . . ." 

Never Trumpers turn on their own

Benjamin Franklin, 250 years ago, when asked which is preferred, a monarchy or a republic answered, “A republic . . . if you can keep it.” The NeverTrump so-called “constitutional conservatives” are playing with fire, willing to destroy our republic over petty spite. President Trump is the last bulwark against monarchy or worse. NeverTrumpers are happily helping to burn down the lone gate between America the beautiful and anarchy.

NeverTrumpers Out of the Closet as Liberal Democrats in Drag  . . . "I do not recall the NeverTrumpers endorsing Obama and his policies, in fact some were actively working against Obama. Yet their hatred of the Orange Man is so over the top that they are now endorsing an older demented version of Obama and a far more radically left party compared to 2008.

"What happens if the NeverTrumpers get their wish? If Biden wins, his coattails will likely give Democrats control of the House and Senate.  Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer would immediately eliminate the filibuster, giving Democrats full control of the Executive and Legislative branches of government, with the Judicial branch soon following.

"Taxes could be raised with impunity, regulations added without resistance. The Green New Deal and Medicare-For-All would easily become law on a party-line vote. Democrats want to expand the Supreme Court and with full control of Congress, could easily confirm a Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder, Lawrence Tribe, or Michelle Obama to the high court, creating a permanent far-left majority to rewrite the Constitution.

"How is that for the Lincoln Project’s fidelity to the Constitution? Is this the same Constitution NeverTrumpers have been advocating for in their think tanks and on their cruises?" . . .

. . . "NeverTrumpers have joined forces with the anti-American left and the Marxist BLM group all because they don’t like Trump’s style or his tweets.   Since President Trump did not purchase their services and won the election on his own with a handful of campaign staff rather than scores of ego-inflated GOP consultants, the Republican establishment is pouting and willing to throw their lifetime work and principles to the wind to teach the country a lesson."

Beyond the Bubble podcast: Never Trumpers turn on their own  . . . "Join McClatchy’s Alex Roarty, Francesca Chambers and David Catanese as they discuss why some anti-Trump Republican operatives are not only working against the president, but some GOP senators who are up for reelection this fall. Plus, we examine why even famed Republican pollster Frank Luntz is baffled by Trump’s recent 2020 campaign message." . . .

Roger Stone Fires Back at Mitt Romney: “You Are As Phony As Your Hair Color” "On Saturday, Roger Stone punched back at never-Trump Republican Senator Mitt Romney who blasted President Trump for commuting his prison sentence.

“ 'Mitt Romney is such a pathetic butt hurt loser. He can’t even get facts regarding my case correct,” Stone started.
“ 'I was prosecuted because I refused to lie about the President. Because I refused to bear false witness against him,” he continued. “Because I refused to say what prosecutors wanted me to say not because I was hiding any inappropriate act by the President. I would tell you go back to Utah but the people back there don’t want you either.
Mitt Romney, you are as phony as your hair color.”
"The comments from Stone came after Romney accused President Trump of “historic corruption.' ” . . .

RINO Mitt Romney Blasted After Falsely Claiming Trump’s Commutation of Roger Stone was “Unprecedented”  . . . "Romney was slammed for his false claim that the move by the president was “unprecedented” with some experts bringing up Iran-Contra.
"GWU Law Professor Jonathan Turley commented:
“Romney stated that it is ‘unprecedented’ that ‘an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president.’ However, Romney has long heralded his respect and support of President George H.W. Bush despite Bush’s executive clemency actions for six former senior government officials implicated in the Iran-Contra scandal, including former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. Bush himself was implicated in that scandal and some alleged was protected by their silence.”

In the Tunnel Wall blog recently

Tunnel Wall; 7/12/2020

Democrat’s Call to Remove Gettysburg’s Confederate Statues Receives Backlash

Biden’s 2020 Party Platform Proposal Seeks to Abolish America’s Suburban Communities

Cuban Immigrant Warns About the Deadly 'Pill' Americans Are About to Swallow

Hollywood's identity crisis: Actors, writers and producers warn of 'reverse racism' in the film industry which has created a 'toxic' climate for anyone who is a white, middle-age man

In a withering video, black NYPD cop demonstrates the value of those new 'use of force' rules

AOC, Julián Castro Lead Calls to Boycott Goya Foods after CEO Praises Trump

Life under Socialism

BLM Agitator's Advice Could Turn Road Blockers into Road Kill or Lifers

St. Louis couple who defended home have rifle seized during police search

Goya Foods CEO won’t apologize for praising Trump

U.S. Supreme Court: Religious Orgs Can’t Be Forced to Fund Abortion

 Nightmare Campaign of Outright Idiocy

Democrat’s Call to Remove Gettysburg’s Confederate Statues Receives Backlash

I did say "Democrat" didn't I?

Breitbart 

 "A Pennsylvania county commissioner recently called for Confederate statues at Gettysburg National Park to be removed, then deleted the online post due to major criticism.

“ 'The only thing I could think of to do was, okay, I’ll just take it down. I actually unpublished my page for a little bit. Next week, I’ll probably bring it back up,” said Adams County Commissioner Marty Qually (D).

"Qually claimed he was not trying to erase history but pointed to what happened when counterprotesters showed up at Gettysburg over the Independence Day weekend in response to online rumors about an Antifa flag burning.

"Friday, ABC 27 provided screenshots of what appeared to be the commissioner’s since-deleted Facebook post.

"It read:" . . .

“ 'We cannot allow our county to become a holiday destination for hate, racism, and false patriotism,” he wrote, adding that among them were  “clear white supremacists, Klan members, coming to protect our monuments.”

"Qually said he removed the post because it got so many comments and became difficult to monitor.

"Later, State Rep. Dan Moul (R) of Adams County commented that “Those people who carry those symbols of hate have no place here. Don’t bring your hate here. That’s not what this town’s all about.”

"However, Moul added that Qually’s call to bring down the Confederate monuments at Gettysburg was “insanity.”

“ 'If you wipe our history away, we are bound to repeat it. And, that’s a place we never want to go again in this country,” he contined.

"After receiving so much criticism, Qually said Thursday that the removal should only be a last resort.

“If we can’t educate the public to the point where people aren’t driving from eight hours away to come here to protect [statues], then I think we have to look at their removal as an option,” Qually noted.

“ 'I don’t know that there’s enough education in the world to get them to understand they’re harming our local economy,” he concluded."

Notable Gettysburg's Monuments

From CNN, of all sources! Smerconish: Confederate statues should remain in Gettysburg. Here's why

Gettysburg: Animated Battle Map

Biden’s 2020 Party Platform Proposal Seeks to Abolish America’s Suburban Communities

Breitbart Politics 

 "Joe Biden’s radical proposal for the Democrat Party platform for 2020 seeks to put an end to America’s suburban communities by forcing low-income housing into every neighborhood and flooding every community with immigrants, legal or otherwise.

"The proposal, known as the Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force Recommendations, would provide instant amnesty and a pathway to U.S. citizenship for the 22 million illegal aliens now living in the nation. Astoundingly, it would also give legal status to all the world’s refugees regardless of the legitimacy of their claim to the status.

"But on top of all that, Biden and Sanders are proposing that Barack Obama’s so-called Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rules will be put into full force.

"For instance, in the “executive orders” section of the platform proposal, Biden/Sanders note that Biden would, “Implement the Obama-Biden Administration’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule requiring communities receiving certain federal funding to proactively examine housing patterns and identify and address policies that have discriminatory effects.”

"The Biden/Sanders platform also scolds Trump, and says Biden would “Roll back Trump Administration policies gutting fair lending and fair housing protections.”

In another section, the platform states Biden would: “Ensure effective and rigorous enforcement of the Fair Housing Act and the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act. Hold financial institutions accountable for discriminatory practices in the housing market.”

"With a longer explanation, the platform states:" . . . Full article here...

Cuban Immigrant Warns About the Deadly 'Pill' Americans Are About to Swallow

Beth Baumann

Cuban immigrant Maximo Alvarez issued a stark warning to Americans last week  . . .According to Alvarez, the President of Sunshine Gasoline, the American Dream is at risk of being destroyed by the Left. The tactics that are being used are the same ones he saw in Communist Cuba when he was 11-years-old

" 'We come over here, in my case because my parents chose that I would not be indoctrinated by the communist country, by the totalitarian country, by the totalitarian regime. They don’t educate children. Absolutely not. And this is something that we need to understand. What is happening in our backyard today, I experienced as an 11-year-old. I remember vividly all the promises that a guy named Castro gave, and how 99 percent of the people swallowed the pill," he warned. "It took many years later, after I read somebody named Saul Alinsky, that I realized that all those people were nothing but useful idiots. I remember Castro while in the mountains being interviewed and asked if he was a communist. He went crazy. ...  He was going to save Cuba. I remember how he promised to the farmers, to the wahitos that you’re going to own the land. I remember all the promises that we hear today about free education and free health care and free land."
"Alvarez reminded people that Fidel Castro abolished the police, the military and even took over the Catholic church. The immigrant's dad, however, saw through Castro's words because he experienced the same thing under communist Spain. Alvarez's father saw parallel's between Castro and his home country.
"The businessman explained that the left uses fancy terms and promises to try and indoctrinate others. It's the same tactics he saw in Cuba."
. . . 
" 'So with that, please keep that in mind. And please, people, explain that to our young people who are demonstrating out there. Don’t be useful idiots," he said. "Please understand what’s happening in our country. See what happens to our parents and see what is happening to America today.' "

Hollywood's identity crisis: Actors, writers and producers warn of 'reverse racism' in the film industry which has created a 'toxic' climate for anyone who is a white, middle-age man

UK Daily Mail  As the wooden boards are taken down from shopfronts and studio lots grind slowly back to life, Hollywood is basking in an unseasonable heatwave. 
"The famous boulevards shimmer in 40C haze and warm Santa Ana winds fan the Beverly Hills mansions.
"Shaken by #MeToo, paralysed by Covid-19, the $50 billion film industry is finally emerging from a four-month lockdown – only to find a new and very different world, where tension is rising as surely as the thermometer." . . .

The new intolerance: As BLM protests rage, Refuse Fascism demonstrators dump water on Donald Trump's star on LA's Hollywood Walk of Fame

"A revolution is under way. White actors are being fired. Edicts from studio bosses make it clear that only minorities – racial and sexual – can be given jobs.

"A new wave of what has been termed by some as anti-white prejudice is causing writers, directors and producers to fear they will never work again. One described the current atmosphere as 'more toxic than Chernobyl', with leading actors afraid to speak out amid concern they will be labelled racist.

"The first sign came with one of the most powerful black directors in Hollywood, Oscar-winning Jordan Peele – the man behind box office hits such as Get Out and Us – stated in public that he did not want to hire a leading man who was white. 

" 'I don't see myself casting a white dude as the lead in my movie,' Peele said. 'Not that I don't like white dudes. But I've seen that movie before.'

As one studio executive responded privately: 'If a white director said that about hiring a black actor, their career would be over in a heartbeat.' Few doubt it." . . .