Republicans are slamming Biden for hypocrisy in visiting Buffalo, New York after a mass shooting but refusing to visit Waukesha, Wisconsin in November
Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson noted the White House claimed it did not have the 'assets' or 'resources' to visit the site where six were killed and 60 injured
He told DailyMail.com: 'Within hours of the most recent senseless tragedy, the WH apparently found the resources to plan a presidential trip to Buffalo'
When asked about the trip on Tuesday and lack of trip in November, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre deflected, saying 'he's visited many communities'
Buffalo shooter Payton Gendron, 18, posted a racist manifesto and targeted black people with a firearm on Saturday
Waukesha attacker, 39-year-old Darrell Brooks, used a vehicle to carry out his attack and posted a slew of racist social media messages targeting white people
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Why would the Bidens go to Waukesha, or Chicago? For the Dems, those places are little more than abattoirs. They exist as a necessity, but why would anyone want to go there and watch that socialist sausage get made?
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...and watch that socialist sausage get made
For the record Rex, Waukesha is a pretty conservative city (as is the surrounding county). Mixed nationalities of residents, many who escaped the Milwaukee hellhole to the east but wanted to be close enough to work there.
The same situation exists in cites north of Milwaukee like Cedarburg, Mequon and Port Washington.
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[InformationLiberation] In the wake of the mass shooting in Buffalo, California Rep Ted Lieu (D)
...D-Beverly Hills since 2015, whip for the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, colonel in the Air Force Reserve Command, Taiwanese immigrant...
has been tweeting nonstop partisan attacks suggesting Republicans are to blame for the shooting for promoting "replacement theory."
"I looked through [Ted Lieu's] tweets and he is using the Buffalo mass shooting as a partisan attack against Republicans," Andy Ngo said Monday on Twitter. "He has said nothing about the mass shooting on the church in [southern] California (where he lives) by a suspect originally from China who allegedly targeted the Taiwanese."
Last year, Lieu boasted about what some call "replacement" migration in a tweet to Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Scott Perry.
Perry expressed concerns about mass immigration during a House Foreign Affairs Committee meeting in April 2021 by saying: "For many Americans, what seems to be happening or what they believe right now is happening is what appears to them is we're replacing national-born American -- native-born Americans to permanently transform the landscape of this very nation."
Lieu responded to Perry in a tweet boasting: "Native-born Americans like you are no more American, and no less American, than an immigrant like me. And with every passing year, there will be more people who look like me in the US. You can't stop it."
"So take your racist replacement theory and shove it," he added.
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UK Labour had internal memoes saying the wide-open immigration policies were specifically to make the UK "less British". The left has celebrated every prediction of a declining white population for the last 30+ years.
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But everyone knows 'replacement people' is an evil conspiracy theory.
[JustTheNews] A California law requiring publicly-held corporations to include women on their boards has been declared unconstitutional by a Los Angeles judge.
Superior Court Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis said the law, which requires corporations with principal executive offices in California to include women on their boards, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the state’s Constitution.
The law was challenged by Judicial Watch, who argued that the law created an unconstitutional gender-based quota system. Judicial Watch represented three California taxpayers who brought forth the case. The judge issued the ruling on Friday.
“Thankfully, California courts have upheld the core American value of equal protection under the law,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement Monday.
The 2018 law at the center of the case, Senate Bill 826, required that publicly held foreign or domestic corporations with principal executive offices in California add at least one female director to its board by the end of 2019. By January 2022, the law required corporations to have at least three female directors on boards of six or more members and at least two female directors on boards of five members.
Corporations that failed to file board member information to the Secretary of State regarding these regulations would face a fine of $100,000 for the first violation and $300,000 for subsequent violations and for failing to have the required number of female board members.
During the trial, however, the state admitted that the Secretary of State “had no plans to and has not taken any steps to issue the regulations necessary to impose fines.” According to the latest report, fewer than half of the almost 650 corporations failed to file a required corporate disclosure statement last year.
When the law passed, supporters of the bill hailed the law as a step to increase gender representation on corporate boards. But opponents of the bill, including the California Chamber of Commerce, were concerned that the mandate’s exclusive focus on gender “potentially elevates it as a priority over other aspects of diversity” when companies were looking at “all classifications” of diversity, according to a bill analysis.
A legislative analysis of the bill had previously said the law had a “significant risk for legal challenges,” saying that if the law was enacted, it would “likely be challenged on equal protection grounds.” When signing the bill, former Gov. Jerry Brown said he was aware of the “serious legal concerns” that were raised surrounding the legislation, according to Judicial Watch's complaint.
The state defended the constitutionality of the law during trial by arguing that the law as necessary to “remedy discrimination” and increase gender diversity in the selection process for directors on publicly held corporate boards. The court, however, said that SB 826’s text does not “reference discrimination nor remedying discrimination.”
Several states have followed California’s model by introducing similar proposals in their states. Washington, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Hawaii have introduced or enacted similar bills, according to the Associated Press.
Project Veritas have published a secretly recorded conversation with a Twitter engineer admitting the company has a left-wing bias
Siru Murugesan, described by Project Veritas as a senior engineer at the company, said it was 'commie as f***'
He said many employees were angry and worried about Elon Musk's takeover of the company, and 'did all we could, to like revolt against it'
Murugesan said that Twitter had operated an extremely left-wing, lax culture where people could take any time off they wanted and not worry about profit
He told the undercover operative that there was 'bias' against conservatives, and said: 'Twitter does not believe in free speech'
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"not worry about profit"
They been loosing money for years. Their money stream appears to be 'burn through cash, sell overpriced stock, repeat'. I kinda wondered why a successful billionare like Musk would want to get involved in it.
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05/17/2022 11:16 Comments ||
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...he hasn't forked over the $$$ yet. He may be playing with them, allowing them to destroy themselves.
Napoleon Bonaparte — 'Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.'
#4
The entire premise of the dotcom boom was "making money is no longer necessary." After the dotcom crash, the premise was refined to, "get funded and sell out before investors realize you have no plan to make money."
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I kinda wondered why a successful billionare like Musk would want to get involved in it.
Good question. Maybe it isn't about the money. Platforms like Twitter and Facebook have become the modern town square. Right now they are under the control of people who really do not have America's best interests at heart. Removing that control would be a noble thing, even more so than terraforming Mars.
He may be playing with them, allowing them to destroy themselves.
Could be. There does seem to be a meltdown in progress. Estimated bot count has gone up from 5% to 20%. At the very least, that is going to affect the sale price.
#6
The issue is whether you view management's job as maximizing returns to stockholders or maximizing benefits to "stakeholders". "Stakeholders" has no clear definition, but sort of means "people the right kind of people like". Or if you prefer, "Bullshit talks and money walks."
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[Western Journal] Throughout the tenure of former White House press secretary Jen Psaki, Fox News reporter Peter Doocy made a habit of asking her tough questions, which she often struggled to answer.
On her first day, new White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre
...lipstick lesbian married to a CNN political reporter, Israel-hating former national spokesperson for Soros-backed MoveOn.org, senior Biden2020 campaign advisor — she ticks all the Biden administration’s boxes independent of ability, for which she is no doubt properly grateful...
signaled this trend will not end anytime soon.
"The president’s Twitter account posted the other day, ’You want to bring down inflation? Let’s make sure the wealthiest corporations pay their fair share,'" Doocy began.
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Sounds like she stole most of Kamala's word salad...
Reminds me of a beautiful song.."When you say nothing at all..."
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How about better Federal Spending.
"President Joe Biden released a $6.011 trillion federal budget proposal in May 2021 for fiscal year (FY) 2022. The U.S. government estimates it will receive $4.174 trillion in revenue through Sept. 30, 2022, creating a $1.837 trillion deficit for Oct. 1, 2022."
In simpler financial terms.
The 2022 Federal Operations & Admin Overhead for the Federal Government is 144.01% MORE than Collected Revenues.
OF WHICH $3.478 Trillion is just to keep the lights on and pay everyone. Which is about 83.32% of collected revenues,
leaving 16.68% of our actual collected Tax $$$$ to do things. This in part is why THEY run $Trillion dollar deficits.
#14
Oh, come on now. She (It) was absolutely THE most qualified for the job. Surely the vetting process was quite rigorous...well, until they saw she/it checked the appropriate demographic blocks, et voila!
[twitter] KAMALA: "We will work together, and continue to work together, to address these issues, to tackle these challenges, and to work together as we continue to work operating from the new norms, rules, and agreements, that we will convene to work together...We will work together"
She forgot, “Shoulder to shoulder we march into the glorious future,” but I suppose it was implied.
They got tired of keeping their mouths shut. Now they’re fighting to take back the Democratic Party in New York State, ink blotting one race at a time.
[NYTIMES] The organization, the New York Solidarity Network, views itself as a counterweight to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement and the Democratic Socialists of America.
In the past year, the left-wing effort to boycott Israel over its treatment of Palestinians has won over The Harvard Crimson and the Irish novelist Sally Rooney. It’s even affected ice cream: Ben & Jerry’s has refused to sell its confections in the occupied territories.
It has also made inroads in New York, home to the world’s second-largest Jewish community, where the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has gotten support from the local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, the influential far-left political group.
But now a new group, backed by a billionaire hedge fund manager,
Lots of those around nowadays. Which bankster Jooooo is it?
is seeking to counter that movement by creating a political action network to support candidates in state legislative and local races who embrace Israel, and oppose candidates who do not.
The group, the New York Solidarity Network, will act something like a local American Israel Public Affairs Committee, commonly known as Aipac,
...AIPAC, actually, which looks ever so much more substantial. No doubt the New York Times editor mistook the acronym for a simple name, like George...
according to several individuals who have spoken with its organizers. Like Aipac, the New York network is set up as a membership organization whose leaders will encourage donors to give to candidates they regard as being pro-Israel. It has not ruled out the idea of creating its own political action committee.
The organization will oppose candidates aligned with initiatives like the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which encourages the shunning of Israeli businesses to end “Israel’s apartheid regime.”
Appearing to be among the first Israel-focused organizations in the nation to seek to influence elections at the local level, the group has hired Moonshot Strategies, a lobbying firm with close ties to the administration of Mayor Eric Adams, to help it choose which races to focus on. (Fabien Levy, a spokesman for the mayor, said Mr. Adams has no knowledge of the group.)
Corey Johnson, the former City Council speaker, has signed on as a consultant. The board also has the backing of Daniel S. Loeb, the billionaire hedge fund manager,
...a typically lefty of his profession, Columbia classmate and Friend of Obama, with a penchant for sending caustically evaluatory letters to his target executives explaining what they are doing wrong. His Wikipedia page is a delight...
according to three people briefed on the organization.
New York Times journalists love basing reports on unnamed people who claim to have been told about things, as opposed to actual witnesses.
Mr. Loeb declined to comment.
The creation of the network highlights the growing fissure between the left-leaning and younger flank of the Democratic Party, which often aligns with the policies of the Democratic Socialists of America, and the party’s more traditional, centrist flank, which has long considered support for Israel an inviolable foreign policy plank. Its rise also points to the growing role that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict plays in state and local elections in the United States, where pro-boycott activists increasingly tussle with politicians who implement anti-boycott laws.
“I’m not aware of any similar organization on the state level — untethered from a national one — that has launched an effort to affect legislative elections by supporting (or not) candidates based on a litmus test of their pro-Israeli credentials,” Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, wrote in an email.
The group charges $1,000 for an individual membership and asks members to pledge at least $5,000 to a slate of “candidates, causes and projects aligned with our mission.” Its 501(c)(4) structure allows donors to remain anonymous.
The group is joining a growing field of well-funded entities, including a PAC allied with Mr. Adams, aiming to sway the New York State Legislature — whose entire body is up for re-election this year — toward more centrist politics.
Not that Hizzoner is that much more centrist — but he does find it profitable to campaign as pro-police, as far as I can tell.
The New York Solidarity Network held a kickoff cocktail party in March at the Greenwich Village townhouse of its chairman, Gary Ginsberg, a former SoftBank senior vice president.
The New York Times journalist does not mention his financial worth, so presumably he is a mere deci- or centi-millionaire. Mr. Ginsberg is a Clinton supporter...
Ritchie Torres, a congressman from the Bronx, spoke, as did Mr. Johnson, the former City Council speaker. Both declined to comment for this story.
No respect for The Old Grey Lady, it appears.
The group has cast itself as an explicit counterweight not just to the B.D.S. movement, but also to the Democratic Socialists of America, the anticapitalism group that counts Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a member.
“This is in response to rising political challenges from far-left D.S.A.-aligned candidates supporting B.D.S. and other anti-Israel positions,” Tyler Deaton, a Republican L.G.B.T.Q. activist serving as the group’s senior adviser,
... more specifically he’s been a gay marriage advocate, both within the Republican garden and reaching across the aisle...
wrote in an email, shared with The Times, that was distributed before a group event. “Anti-Israel candidates and elected leaders are on the rise, emerging from the extreme political margins on both sides.”
Mr. Deaton promised to update attendees on “recruitment of pro-Israel candidates and efforts to defeat anti-Israel candidates across New York.” He declined to share those details with The New York Times.
Quite right, too.
Jeremy Cohan, a co-chairman of the D.S.A. of New York City, took the group’s formation as a sign of his own movement’s strength.
“There is a thriving and deepening support by American Jews for Palestinian rights, and opposition to carte blanche support for Israeli policy in violating those rights,” Mr. Cohan said.
The question of Israel, its right to exist, and its treatment of Palestinians has percolated through state politics for years.
...greatly helped by the New York Times, as it happens, which objected to Israel’s existence from the beginning.
In 2016, Andrew M. Cuomo, then New York’s governor, signed an executive order barring the state from doing business with companies aligned with the B.D.S. movement. The executive order was renewed by his successor, Kathy Hochul, and remains in effect.
In 2020, the D.S.A. caused a local firestorm when it asked City Council candidates seeking its endorsement to “pledge not to travel to Israel if elected to City Council in solidarity with Palestinians living under occupation,” in a questionnaire.
“We know there’s a long tradition of boycotts and sanctions being used against persecutory regimes,” Mr. Cohan said last week. “The U.S. is sanctioning Russia right now for the crimes it’s committing, and so we think this is a perfectly legitimate and important tool in applying pressure on the Israeli state to change its political behavior.”
The Jewish community is, of course, not monolithic; Jeremy Ben-Ami, the president of J Street,
...Mr. Soro’s bespoke tool for undermining support of the Jewish state, like all his other tools pretending to be a grassroots movement...
described it as “a disputatious people.” And several Jewish activists noted the presence of other New York organizations with less Israel-specific aims.
But Jessica Haller, a former City Council candidate from the Bronx, said she was drawn to join the New York Solidarity Network because she felt ostracized from progressive circles as an environmentalist who also identifies as a Zionist and supports the existence of Israel. She argued it is imperative for activists like her to ensure there is a space for progressive supporters of Israel.
Ms. Haller still smarts when she recalls the backlash she experienced on an environmental justice email chain, when fellow members discovered she identified as a supporter of Israel.
“The conversation went something like this: ‘We’ve discovered she’s a Zionist so therefore she can’t possibly take racial justice seriously,’” Ms. Haller said. “I was really shaken to my core.”
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] 
[twitter] KAMALA: "We will work together, and continue to work together, to address these issues, to tackle these challenges, and to work together as we continue to work operating from the new norms, rules, and agreements, that we will convene to work together...We will work together"
