Long known, but here it is again
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Twitter senior executives and it “neutral fact-checkers” have a long history of Trump-hating
Twitter’s senior executives have a long history of anti-Trump hatred, a Post review of dozens of accounts of top employees found.
The venom, vitriol and, in some cases, vows to help Joe Biden across the finish line in next month’s presidential election continue to live online as the company earlier this week decided to censor The New York Post’s revelations about Hunter Biden’s emails to a consultant for the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
“GET HIM OUT,” posted a senior site reliability engineer on Aug. 18. “What a f–king baboon.”
One manager with almost nine years on the job said he was quite keen to watch Biden “crush [Trump] in the election” and that he hoped the president would “be utterly humiliated while also suffering greatly from #COVID19.” In another post he fantasized about the president being put on a ventilator.
He calls Trump “a f–king idiot” and the voters who elected him — “hysterically f–king stupid people.”
At the same time the employee has been a consistent cheerleader of his company’s efforts to rein in the president on the platform and curb the spread of “misinformation.”
“I’m really proud of how quickly we’ve worked to make this possible for the US elections,” he wrote.
Others publicly wish the president harm.
One Twitter engineering manager said Trump should “die in a fire” in a January 2017 tweet. A year later, he rang in the new year by saying “Happy 2018! Donald Trump is dead!”
One woman has worked at Twitter since 2012, with her only career interruption being a four-month stint as a data analyst for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. She boasted how her husband twice sued the Trump administration.
“Trump must be defeated,” opined another exec, a group product manager.
One employee took to Twitter last month to inform the world that her pup was part of the resistance as well.
“Every night my dog takes a crap on the lawn of the one house on our street with a Trump sign,” she said proudly.
And so on.
Related, “Biden slumps in polls after Ukrainian revelations. And that’s despite the news embargo imposed by the Democrats’ captive press.
Biden vows to place Muslims "at every level" of his government
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Administrator EPA? Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff? Joe will let us know after the election.
Isn’t that nice. Of course, if he’s going for proportional representation, only 1% of the population is Muslim, so he need only appoint one terrorist per 100 new hires (and probably place them in our intelligence services and the military).
What about the boys who think they’re girls? They’re only 0.006 percent of the population, but just yesterday Joe called transgenderism “the number one civil rights issue in this country”, so perhaps we’ll see more than one general sporting a van Dyke and a mini skirt — heels optional, of course.
On Wednesday, Biden released a video message to Muslim Advocates, the association of Muslim lawyers that bears the primary responsibility for demanding, back in 2010, that the Obama administration remove all mention of Islam and jihad from counterterror training. Obama, of course, immediately complied, despite the fact that this would hamstring the ability of law enforcement and intelligence agencies to understand, and defeat, jihadists. And now Joe is working hard to show them that he will be just as solicitous.
“Today,” Biden declared, “trust is ebbing; hope seems elusive. Instead of healing, we’re being ripped apart.” That’s actually true, Joe, but whose fault is it, really? Biden continued: “And I refuse to let that happen. We have too bright a future to leave it shipwrecked on the shoals of anger and division.” After that poetic flight, Biden got to the point: “As president, I’ll work with you to rip the poison of hate from our society, honour your contributions and seek your ideas. My administration will look like America, Muslim Americans serving at every level.”
It doesn't matter, Joe could be strapped into a straight jacket and wheeled off stage at the next debate and the Trump haters would still give him their vote
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Joe, “I never discussed my son’s overseas business dealings” Biden with new friends.
Oops! New emails reveal that Hunter was busy in Kazakhstan, too, and guess who met with the intrepid businessmen? (Hunter’s business partner, John Kerry’’s daughter, also cashed in, and got a million dollar “investment” from the same people, but her father’s not running for president)
The Mail can reveal that between 2012 and 2014, Hunter worked as a sort of go-between for Kenes Rakishev, a self-styled 'international businessman, investor and entrepreneur' with close family connections to the kleptocratic regime of his homeland's despotic former president Nursultan Nazarbayev.
(Nazarbayev is a name readers may be familiar with: he's the dictator famed for taking Prince Andrew on occasional goose hunts.)
Emails passed to this newspaper via anti-corruption campaigners from the Central Asian country reveal that Biden Jr held extensive meetings with Rakishev, who was looking to invest a portion of his personal fortune in New York and Washington DC. He also travelled to the Kazakh capital of Astana to hold business discussions.
Hunter Biden then attempted to persuade Rakishev to buy into a Nevadan mining company, brokering a series of meetings with the firm, before convincing him to invest a cool million dollars with Alexandra Forbes Kerry, the film-maker daughter of Democrat Senator and former Presidential candidate John Kerry.
Rakishev, who wrote messages in broken English, appears to have become intimate with the Vice President's son, calling Hunter 'my brother!' and 'my brother from another mother!'.
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Actually, this is already on Biden's platform as a national policy
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143 Sound Beach Avenue. Threatened 60 units, settled for 34
Reader “My Rant” sends along a link to this article on CT’s proposed law to abolish single-family zoning and force more low-income housing onto towns.
As our state economy continues to struggle, the latest “fix” coming out of Hartford is state control of local zoning. This is purportedly to address issues of housing affordability and opportunity. Yes, Hartford would be in charge of making decisions on zoning in Norwalk and Darien and every other city in Connecticut, not your locally elected zoning officials.
Highlights of this proposed legislation include:
· Eliminating single-family zoning throughout the state.
Allocating 10% of the land in every town with 5,000 or more residents to multifamily housing and mixed-use properties
· Financially penalizing towns with zoning codes considered segregationist or exclusionary.
Requiring 50% as-of-right multifamily zoning within a half-mile radius of transit stations and a quarter-mile radius of major corridors, downtowns, and other commercial areas.
Obama spent 8 years forcing this sort of plan on Westchester County in preparation for expanding his plan nationwide. Trump stopped it; it’s coming back.
Stae control of local zoning, or national control? It won’t be good either way (I do like the Hartfords’ idea of giving Stamford the right to force low-income housing onto Greenwich — that will be popular everywhere except Greenwich, because everywhere but Greenwich hates Greenwich). There is in fact already a similar law on the books, one that developers have used to blackmail the town: approve our plan, or we’re coming back with a project 50% larger, with more low-income units — but it’s limited; our Hartfords intend to change that.
Next: regionalization of schools, elimination of gifted and talented programs, and more. Equality!
It won't end until the fields are plowed with salt
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Trump foes licking their lips in anticipation of suing Trump til Doomsday.
It’s not about reconciliation, it’s not about uniting the country: It’s about destroying every single person who worked for or supported Trump, and teaching foes of the State to never, ever think of threatening it again.
Without some of the protections afforded him by the presidency, Trump will become vulnerable to multiple investigations looking into possible fraud in his financial business dealings as a private citizen -- both as an individual and through his company. He faces defamation lawsuits sparked by his denials of accusations made by women who have alleged he assaulted them, including E. Jean Carroll, the former magazine columnist who has accused him of rape. And then there are claims he corrupted the presidency for his personal profits.
…[W]ith the polls showing that Democratic rival Joe Biden is leading in the race, the stakes become much higher for Trump if he loses the election. A raft of legal issues, including a criminal investigation by New York prosecutors, will come into focus in the weeks after Election Day.
But with the polls showing that Democratic rival Joe Biden is leading in the race, the stakes become much higher for Trump if he loses the election. A raft of legal issues, including a criminal investigation by New York prosecutors, will come into focus in the weeks after Election Day.
"In every regard, his leaving office makes it easier for prosecutors and plaintiffs in civil cases to pursue their cases against him," said Harry Sandick, a former federal prosecutor in the Manhattan US attorney's office. ….
Some have suggested a formal apparatus for investigating Trump after he leaves office. Rep. Eric Swalwell, a California Democrat, has floated the creation of a "Presidential Crimes Commission," made up of independent prosecutors who can examine "those who enabled a corrupt president," as he put it in an August tweet. "Example 1: Sabotaging the mail to win an election."
The attempted coup against a sitting oresident by the country’s intellegence services and the Washington establishment will be buried, the war against Trump will go on. Sad; tragic, even, as we’re dragged closer to dictatorship.
An Englishman asks
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What did you do in the Great Culture War, Daddy? By Nigel Jones
It is now painfully clear that the western world is divided into two warring camps, armed with the modern weapons of the culture wars – the internet and social media – that are defining our times.
On one side are the legions of the Left. These are no longer the mass organisations that comprised the Left in the twentieth century (trade unions and socialist parties drawing their support from the working class salted with a sprinkling of “progressive” middle-class intellectuals).
The explosive growth in prosperity of the masses following the Second World War disproved the predictions of Karl Marx that pauperisation of the working classes would be the downfall of capitalism and make way for a proletariat revolution. Instead, the workers themselves became the new bourgeoisie with a car in the garage, their own homes and annual holidays.
Deprived of their dreams of revolution by the brute facts of economic reality, the progressive intelligentsia revised Marxism and came up with a new theory: the “long march through the institutions”. Abandoning all faith in working-class revolution, they embarked on a revolution of the elites from above.
In Britain the long march is now approaching journey’s end
Inspired by the theories of Weimar Germany’s Frankfurt School and the Cultural Marxism of Italy’s Antonio Gramsci, they set about capturing the cultural citadels of capitalism: the schools and universities, the broadcast media and, finally, the machinery of state rule itself including the civil service, the judiciary, police, and government quangos. By these means over the past half century they have hollowed out the state from inside like woodworms burrowing through ancient beams in a beloved house.
In Britain at least the long march is now approaching journey’s end. As the battle over Brexit and the long months of Covid-19 have proved, the Left is now firmly entrenched in command of such formerly independent and impartial organs of state as the BBC, the higher ranks of the police, university councils, local government and the law. We see the pernicious results on our streets every day.
The mass demonstrations of the Left like Extinction Rebellion and Black Lives Matter are unmolested, while ordinary citizens holding garden parties, protesting against lockdowns, or merely visiting their quarantined grandma are fined and vilified. The supposed guardians of our cultural and historical heritage either fold their arms and do nothing, or actively encourage the vandals to sack and pillage.
Freedom of speech has become a thing of the past
Freedom of speech has become a thing of the past in a world in which academics and actors can lose their jobs and careers if they speak or write out of turn to express views disliked by the Twitterati keyboard warriors. Not a week goes by without some fresh outrage against liberty and history to add to an ever-lengthening list. The continued police persecution of Darren Grimes and the decision by the bosses of Greenwich Naval Museum to “recontextualise” Britain’s greatest naval hero, Admiral Horatio Nelson, are but the latest idiocies.
Faced with this open assault on our values, how can the other side in the Great Culture War best defend the achievements of western civilisation and roll back the attack of our enemies and the foot soldiers of ignorance who follow them? Small ‘c‘ conservatives and the great majority of unpolitical ordinary people alike, are at a distinct disadvantage compared with the woke Left in this conflict as they generally have better things to do with their lives than dedicate themselves 24/7 to political mania.
So, the first necessity for all those opposed to the extremes of wokeism and the delusional lockdowns is to stir themselves from their slumber, take a leaf from the Left’s own book and organise their opposition into a coherent cause. They need radio and TV stations to broadcast their case; think tanks to develop their ideas; journals like The Critic to challenge the prevailing consensus; and foot soldiers on the ground to call phone-ins, write to local newspapers, and badger cowardly MPs and local councillors by email.
Our current political parties are all falling over themselves to worship at the altar of woke
To be fair, there are hopeful signs already that such things are beginning to happen. Plans are already afoot for new TV and radio stations to provide an alternative to the stranglehold of wokeism that holds both the BBC and our other broadcasters in thrall. Various think tanks are generating and debating notions of freedom and independence outside the closed circuits of suffocating left-liberal orthodoxy, and a small but growing band of courageous journalists are speaking out against the conformism of established opinion.
What is still missing, however, is an organised political opposition. With the major existing political parties mindlessly committed to the economic suicide of a new lockdown, and all falling over themselves to worship at the altar of woke, never has there been a more urgent need for a proper grassroots organisation to support freedom and halt our destructive path towards totalitarianism.
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Meanwhile, the so-called Conservative party, despite an 80-seat majority, has not performed a single conservative act or articulated any conservative policies: rather the reverse. Indeed, in Churchill’s words, this pathetic and purblind government is “Going on in strange paradox. Decided to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful only to be impotent”.
Nature abhors a vacuum. In the absence of a proper party to provide a focus and a forum for their discontent, the increasingly unhappy people of this country, incensed at seeing their values attacked, their beliefs mocked, their jobs destroyed, their heroes traduced, and their freedoms curtailed are unlikely to stay passive and silent forever.
I don’t share Nigel Jone’s optimism, at least for the United States. The academy is gone, permanently I fear, and with the suppression of all independent thought, it won’t be back. Worse, we’ve lost television, forever. The last bastion of conservatism on the airwaves was FOX, but Rupert Murdoch turned control of the network to his son Lachlan, and Lachlan is a woke, social dilettante, ensconced in Hollywood and desperate to be liked by his new peers. He’s turned the operation of Fox to a liberal underling and turned his attention to other matters. Hannity and Tucker Carlson remain, because they’re the money-makers, but the rest are being culled and, slowly, the network is turning left. Four more years and Fox will be unrecognizable.
So I’m not hopeful, but at my age, it’s my children who will suffer, not me, and sadly, they won’t realize what’s happened until it has. Can’t save the unwilling.
Bring back the Lincoln-Douglas debates
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The “non-bartisan” Debate Commission will provide, for the third time, a Democrat partisan to moderate the next debate. Why do Republicans tolerate this? Let’s return to the glory days of political debating, the Lincoln - Douglas battles.
The format back then was 60 minutes given to the first speaker, 90 minutes to the second, then another 30 minutes to the first. Can you imagine Biden trying to speak coherently for 90 minutes? We know Trump can, because he can go on for 2, 2 1/2 hours at his rallies, but Slo Joe? It’d be a cruelly amusing spectacle.
But so what? The current format is a ridiculous exercise in Democrat abuse of their opponents.
Oh, the humanity!
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Look, I said I was sorry, Kamala, Kampoola, Kamlaka
Senator mispronounces Kamla Harris name
Harris’ political opponents have repeatedly mispronounced her name since she became the first Black woman and first person of South Asian descent on a national ticket. Democrats say the mispronunciations smack of racism. Her first name is pronounced “KAH’-mah-lah” — or, as she explains in her biography, “‘comma-la,’ like the punctuation mark."
Trump and Vice President Mike Pence are among the top Republicans who have repeatedly mispronounced it. A few Democrats, including former President Barack Obama, have said it incorrectly, too.
Harris’ spokesperson, Sabrina Singh, responded to Perdue's remark in a tweet: “Well that is incredibly racist. Vote him out."
Well, Obama’s only half-black, so I guess he can be excused for getting it only half-right: blacks are incapable of racism.
Over at Powerline, "The Week in Pictures"
/There’s a wide selection from which to choose your favorite. Lead-in by the collection’s compiler, Steven Hayward:
Has there ever been a more eloquent and effective smackdown of political posturing than a blank notepad? In future discussions of jurisprudence among law professors, we might well think to observe that “this is the greatest assemblage of legal thinking since Amy Coney Barrett’s blank notepad sat alone.”
