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-Great Cultural Revolution
Klimate Kerry's deputies discussed keeping discussions 'off paper'
[FoxNews] Multiple top officials within Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (SPEC) John Kerry's office engaged in a discussion about keeping certain budgetary items "off paper," according to recently-released documents.

"I would also suggest a call or meeting soon with jk to update him on FY22 and 23, focusing on all the elements we can’t put on paper," Martinez-Diaz told the other officials in a March 9, 2022, email.

The emails, obtained via records request by watchdog group Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) and shared with Fox News Digital, shed additional light on the internal deliberations in Kerry's climate office. The SPEC office, which is housed in the State Department, has been notably tight-lipped about its operations and doesn't publicly disclose its members.

"This statement epitomizes the SPEC office’s lack of transparency, even to the point of appearing to actively skirt federal records obligations," PPT Director Michael Chamberlain told Fox News Digital. "If the work of this office is as vital to the future of the United States and the world as John Kerry and others claim, they owe it to the American public to be honest, forthright, and open about what they are doing and who is doing it."
Posted by: Bobby || 04/06/2023 09:13 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  We need to start using the term "subversive" again. Anyone who thinks keeping agreements made ostensibly on behalf of the American people but hidden from their view fits that description! The modern "JFK" certainly fits that description.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/06/2023 12:06 Comments || Top||

#2  International Communism ought to give him a lifetime service award.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/06/2023 12:49 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ They used to do that. It was called "a trip to Lubyanka," or a "Trotsky Mexican vacation."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/06/2023 13:31 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Trump Critics Worried About DA's Charges
[Epoch Times] "Speaking as someone who very strongly does not want Donald Trump to get the Republican presidential nomination, I’m extraordinarily distressed by this document," Bolton told CNN Tuesday. "I think this is even weaker than I feared it would be."

"And I just what I understood the District Attorney to say that he thinks there’s a New York election law involved here. All I can say is the Federal Election Campaign Act [of 1971] absolutely preempts any state or local law to the contrary. How could it be otherwise? You’ve got one law governing corporate finance and a presidential election at the federal level. You’re gonna have 50 state laws interfering with it, so he’s just wrong on the applicability of the New York statute," Bolton said Tuesday.

Other Trump critics have raised questions about the viability of Bragg’s indictment. Among them, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe claimed to CNN that Bragg is haphazardly trying to elevate a misdemeanor offense to a felony.

"It’s disappointment. I think everyone was hoping we would see more about the direction that they intend to take this prosecution. What is the legal theory that ties that very solid misdemeanor case, 34 counts of misdemeanors, to the intent to conceal another crime, which is what makes it a felony?" he told CNN. "It simply isn’t there."

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), who voted to impeach Trump twice and has frequently criticized him, stated that he wasn’t impressed with the charges Bragg laid out on Tuesday.

"I believe President Trump’s character and conduct make him unfit for office," Romney said Tuesday. "Even so, I believe the New York prosecutor has stretched to reach felony criminal charges in order to fit a political agenda."
Posted by: Bobby || 04/06/2023 13:18 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The only thing that will prevent Maoism of the US is a bloody insurrection against the ruling hard line left.
Posted by: Kojo Unolump9756 || 04/06/2023 16:22 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ Feeb-bot weighs in...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/06/2023 16:23 Comments || Top||

#3  The Trump Critics have no ideals they are afraid this bad case will make Trump stronger.
Posted by: ruprecht || 04/06/2023 21:59 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Swiss billionaire-backed environmental groups spent big targeting millions of Biden voters
[FoxNews] Environmental groups heavily financed by a Swiss foreign national spent big on data mining operations targeting millions of President Biden's voters, efforts that could be replicated ahead of the 2024 presidential elections.

The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) Victory Fund, LCV's independent political action committee, and Climate Power shelled out $15 million last year for a "sophisticated targeting project unlike anything they'd ever undertaken before" to propel Democrats, Politico reported earlier this month. The LCV and Climate Power are two prominent far-left environmental groups that push aggressive green transition policies and have received large funding from Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss' nonprofits.

As part of the operation, LCV Victory Fund and Climate Power hired BlueLabs Analytics, a Washington, D.C.-based data science organization, to mine data of more than two million Biden voters in crucial swing states with advertisements and mailers ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.

The operation, and other similar funding schemes for political activity during last year's midterms potentially tied to Wyss, raises legal questions given the billionaire's nationality. Under federal election law, foreign nationals — Wyss is listed as recently as 2021 in financial filings as a "citizen of Switzerland" — are prohibited from contributing directly or indirectly to U.S. political campaigns.

"Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss spent nearly $73 million to influence American politics and policy, routing most of that money through the Arabella Advisors network," Caitlin Sutherland, the executive director for watchdog group Americans for Public Trust (APT), told Fox News Digital. "Without offering any evidence, Mr. Wyss’ groups insist that his foreign money does not end up in partisan electoral activities."

"But now we have proof that the climate groups he funds funneled money to specifically target Biden voters in key states," she continued. "This dangerous pattern of giving by the left’s largest foreign mega-donor warrants immediate congressional oversight."

For more than two decades, Wyss has been highly involved financially in various left-wing causes. Wyss founded the Wyss Foundation in the late 1990s as his main tax-exempt funding arm, and the Berger Action Fund in 2007. The billionaire has pushed hundreds of millions of dollars to his two nonprofits which have then spread his money to a vast array of groups, many of which like the LCV are actively involved in political issues.

According to tax filings obtained by APT and shared with Fox News Digital, a single anonymous donor, likely Wyss himself, wired a staggering $278.9 million to the Berger Action Fund between April 2021 and March 2022. The group in turn contributed $72.7 million to 12 separate dark-money organizations.

LCV was among the 12 groups and received $3.5 million from Wyss' nonprofit. Other groups, including the Center for Popular Democracy, Moms Rising Together, National Redistricting Action Fund, and WorkMoney, received millions of dollars in additional contributions from the Berger Action Fund. The groups are involved in political campaigns.

"President Biden has the power of the Executive Order at his command and he should use it to deliver for our communities – Black and brown people, immigrants, working class and low income people, disabled and LGBTQ people," Center for Popular Democracy Co-Executive Director DaMareo Cooper said last year.

"We won’t stop pushing Congress, but we can’t wait," he added. "Biden must commit … to using executive action to get off fossil fuels, protect immigrants, cancel student debt, lower prescription drug costs and pursue justice reform."

The Berger Action Fund also funneled $20.3 million to a group called Fund for a Better Future (FBF), according to the tax documents provided by APT. While FBF isn't required to disclose its donors in its tax forms, Wyss' contribution amount was the largest anonymous donation FBF reported that year, meaning the Swiss national was FBF's biggest donor.

FBF sent nearly $10.7 million to LCV in 2021, the most significant contribution FBF gave to any group that year. And FBF oversees Climate Power, providing the group with financial, legal, technological, and human resources support.

Climate Power was originally founded as a project of the LCV, Center for American Progress (CAP), and the Sierra Club in 2020. Wyss has donated to CAP and remains a board member of the influential left-wing think tank.

Climate Power, meanwhile, boasts advisory board members that are also members of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. For example, both South Carolina state Rep. Harold Mitchell and Jerome Foster II, the executive director of the youth-led political advocacy group OneMillionOfUs.

FBF also contributed more than $2.9 million to Building Back Together, an advocacy group that works to primarily promote the Biden administration's policy agenda.

"Thanks to President Biden’s bold economic agenda, communities across the country are seeing billions of dollars in manufacturing investments and millions of new, good-paying jobs," Building Back Together spokesperson Olivia Eggers said Monday. "The president’s policies are investing in people and places that have historically been left out and left behind."

Additionally, Wyss' Berger Action Fund contributed about $42.5 million to the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a key cog in a billion-dollar dark money network.

The dark money network consists of five nonprofits that include the Sixteen Thirty Fund, New Venture Fund, Windward Fund, Hopewell Fund, and North Fund. The funds each act as a fiscal sponsor to other liberal nonprofits by providing their tax status to the nonprofits housed beneath them.

The arrangement allows the fiscally-sponsored progressive groups to evade filing tax forms to the IRS, effectively obscuring their financial information.

The five funds — each managed by the Washington, D.C.-based Arabella Advisors consulting firm — also do not disclose donor information on their tax forms, keeping the public in the dark to the full extent of who is using the network as a conduit to bankroll left-wing initiatives across the country.

The funds combined for nearly $1 billion in total spending in 2021, their tax documents show.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/06/2023 06:54 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) Victory Fund, LCV's independent political action committee, and Climate Power shelled out $15 million last year for a "sophisticated targeting project unlike anything they'd ever undertaken before" to propel Democrats, Politico reported earlier this month. The LCV and Climate Power are two prominent far-left environmental groups that push aggressive green transition policies and have received large funding from Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss' nonprofits. ... "
Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672 || 04/06/2023 8:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Sure am glad we have all those campaign-financing reform laws.
Posted by: Tom || 04/06/2023 11:42 Comments || Top||

#3  It’s almost like our tax dollars are being sent overseas only to be funneled back into American elections via shell NGOs. We need some meddling kids to solve the mystery.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/06/2023 12:46 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ I believe you have already 'solved' it Supe.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/06/2023 14:06 Comments || Top||

#5  It’s almost like our tax dollars are being sent overseas

See
Migrant remittances to Mexico and Central America are soaring
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/06/2023 20:00 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Leonardo DiCaprio Testifies In Trial Against Fugees Rapper Accused Of Illegally Funneling $30M To Obama Campaign
[DAILYWIRE] A-list actor Leonardo DiCaprio took the stand in the federal trial against recording artist Prakazrel "Pras" Michel, a founding member of the Fugees, who stands accused of funneling money into former president Barack Obama
I inhaled. That was the point...
’s re-election campaign in 2012.

DiCaprio, 48, used to associate with the runaway Malaysian financier Jho Low, who allegedly gave the money to Michel to donate to the campaign through shell accounts. Michel is accused of conspiring to make illegal campaign contributions using foreign money, witness tampering, and failure to register as a foreign agent of the Chinese government.

The actor, who was on the stand for about an hour, said he thought Low was "sort of a prodigy in the business world and ultra-successful."

Low apparently told the actor he planned to contribute funds to the campaign. "It was a significant sum — something to the tune of $20-30 million," DiCaprio said in court on Monday. "I said, ’Wow that’s a lot of money!’"

DiCaprio was connected with Low for years. The financier also helped fund the actor’s film "The Wolf of Wall Street," which earned him a Golden Globe for Best Actor. DiCaprio often partied with Low, accompanying him on private jets to events where Michel was sometimes present as well, he said.

Michel was selected to facilitate the donations because Low could not legally do so as a foreigner, per United States election laws. Prosecutors charged Michel with accepting tens of millions of dollars to lobby the government on behalf of Low and the Chinese government.

Low stands accused of embezzling a whopping $4.5 billion from Malaysia’s state investment fund known as 1MDB, per The New York Post.

Other witnesses also testified that Michel wired them thousands of dollars and requested that they make shadow donations to Obama’s campaign, the Post noted. Michel was allegedly paid $70 million for his efforts.
Posted by: Fred || 04/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  2012 eh? At this point, what difference does it make?
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 04/06/2023 8:57 Comments || Top||

#2  As in the previous story, sure am glad we have all those campaign-financing reform laws.
Posted by: Tom || 04/06/2023 11:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Hopefully all the accounting terminology was correct.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/06/2023 12:28 Comments || Top||

#4  The actor, who was on the stand for about an hour, said he thought Low was "sort of a prodigy in the business world and ultra-successful."

Easy to be a prodigy in the business world when you have the Chinese Communist Party backing your every move. Then you get to seduce Hollywood movie stars and funnel CCP money to the likes of Baraq.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/06/2023 12:47 Comments || Top||


Wisconsin Supreme Court Race Marred by Yet Another Voting Machine Malfunction
[TRENDINGPOLITICSNEWS] Another contentious election, another voting machine controversy. As reported by local Fox affiliate WLUK, a voting machine in Green Bay broke down and needed to be replaced during Tuesday’s election.

"City clerk Celestine Jeffreys said the machine at the Green Bay Botanical Garden wasn’t working," WLUK reported. "Backup machines also did not work."

The city had to borrow a voting machine from Brown County.

"Those machines had been serviced, so we have to take a much more close look after this election as to whether or not we need to purchase new machines and exactly how we can ensure that that doesn’t happen again," Jeffreys said. "It’s the same problem we’ve been having at that ward for a couple of different election cycles."

Jeffreys said more than 7,000 absentee ballots had been returned to the city as of 4 p.m. About 30% of the city’s ballots are cast absentee, she added.

According to Wisconsin Right Now, Brown County, where Green Bay is located, has ES&S ExpressVote voting machines. According to ES&S, "the paper-based ExpressVote Universal Voting System uses touch-screen technology that produces a paper record for tabulation."

ES&S, based in Omaha, Nebraska, controls around 50% of the country’s election system market. As reported by election watchdog Pro Publica in 2019, ES&S’ systems has been "plagued by mishaps at the local level."
Posted by: Fred || 04/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Since Dominion, most people on the right do not trust voting machine companies.

On the other hand, ES&S has been heavily attacked by Democrats over the years, which means ES&S may not be partnering with the Democrat's election fraud schemes.

One machine crashing on election day, the only day every few years the machine is used is not necessarily a big issue. As the article said a work around was emplemented.
Posted by: Clem Pholuque8480 || 04/06/2023 0:30 Comments || Top||

#2  One machine crashing on election day, the only day every few years the machine is used is not necessarily a big issue.

Alternative view, 'one machine' used for a critical compilation task twice a decade, crashed. That speaks ill for operations and administration, not just architecture and updates.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/06/2023 7:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Folks whose voting place is the Green Bay Botanical Garden are from a fairly upper-middle class area so, in this case, are probably a mixed bag as to who they voted for.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 04/06/2023 8:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Paper ballots. They can be verified and recounted as necessary.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/06/2023 11:16 Comments || Top||

#5  Very sad to see that a woman whose main platform was killing babies flipped the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

My lament for the hundreds or thousands of babies who will be killed in cold blood once she gets her mitts on an abortion case.
Posted by: Tom || 04/06/2023 11:44 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ Voted for by a bunch of box wine aunties way past child killing age and their faggish "male feminist" partners.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/06/2023 12:00 Comments || Top||

#7  The abortion battle continues. For some reason the Catholic Church has left the field like the Russian army in WWI.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/06/2023 12:21 Comments || Top||

#8  I think when you are asked "What did you do about the abomination of abortion?" on that Greatest Day, the answer they will be looking for won't be "Oh, I carried a sign and voted for a guy who lost by 14 points."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/06/2023 12:37 Comments || Top||

#9  You cannot trust these machines. Even when they are supposedly "certified" the potential for hacking remains. Even if they show you the source code, it means nothing because the object code can be compromised after the source code is printed. This is not paranoia, it's fact. Always remember, these machines are Made in China. Are you seriously willing to believe the CCP didn't put a backdoor in there? You're willing to trust our elections to the commies? You can never know for sure what is happening inside that box. All elections in which these machines are used are suspect.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/06/2023 13:02 Comments || Top||

#10  What a clever way to destroy a republic.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/06/2023 13:05 Comments || Top||

#11  Is anyone surprised!?
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/06/2023 21:38 Comments || Top||


Donald Trump Calls on Republicans to Defund the DOJ and FBI
[BREITBART] Republicans in Congress should defund the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), at least temporarily, former President Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
said on Wednesday morning, the day after his arraignment in New York City.

"REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS SHOULD DEFUND THE DOJ AND FBI UNTIL THEY COME TO THEIR SENSES," Trump wrote in an all caps post on Truth Social, concluding Democrats have weaponized law enforcement and are attempting to interfere in the upcoming election.

He continued: "THE DEMOCRATS HAVE TOTALLY WEAPONIZED LAW ENFORCEMENT IN OUR COUNTRY AND ARE VICIOUSLY USING THIS ABUSE OF POWER TO INTERFERE WITH OUR ALREADY UNDER SIEGE ELECTIONS!"

Trump’s post came the morning after his address to a crowd at his Mar-a-Lago home following his arraignment, the latter of which occurred earlier in the day.

A circus appeared outside of the courthouse as anti-Trump deep thinkers clashed with Trump supporters ahead of the historic event.

One anti-Trump deep thinker wearing Black Lives Matter
...An organization allied with Antifa with the goal of the overthrough of the nation as we know it....
(BLM) patches on her clothes shouted, "Trump’s a dick!" repeatedly toward one man who claimed to be one of Trump’s number one fans. Another woman, who painted herself white, continually called white people racist while seemingly instigating trouble within the crowd.

When confronted on why she was instigating violence, the woman said, "Because I’m black and I like violence. I’m an animal. I’m a black animal! Let’s kill all white people! Yeah, baby!" Someone claiming to be the woman’s friend said she was engaging in "performance art."
Posted by: Fred || 04/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I would prefer to Petersburg them.
Posted by: Elminens Chusorong3648 || 04/06/2023 7:12 Comments || Top||

#2  I think the Republicans (along with Democrats) increased their budgets.
Posted by: airandee || 04/06/2023 11:18 Comments || Top||

#3  In this war, we routinely bomb Pearl Harbor ourselves to save the Dems the effort.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/06/2023 12:15 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Howard University Hires Stacey Abrams to Focus on ‘Race and Black Politics'
[Breitbart] Two-time failed Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is set to join the faculty of Howard University, where she will be the inaugural Ronald W. Walters Endowed Chair for Race and Black Politics.

"The work she has been doing on voter registration and voting irregularities, especially in Georgia but across the country, speaks to a lot of what Ronald Walters embodied," Howard President Wayne A.I. Frederick said of Abrams, according to a report by Washington Post.

"This appointment is extremely important for our students," said the university president, who went on to say that when it comes to topics of black politics and the role politics plays in the lives of black people, "Stacey Abrams epitomizes that in our contemporary experience, in our society."

Abrams, who is expected to begin the multiyear appointment in September, said, "We are entering an inflection point in American politics where the conversation of race and black politics will be a central facet."

"And having the chance to help guide part of the conversation for young people who are studying at Howard University is an exceptional opportunity," the twice-failed gubernatorial candidate added.

Abrams also touched upon the location of Howard University, saying, "Washington, D.C. is an essential part of how we protect democracy, how we think about social policy, how we challenge norms."
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/06/2023 06:14 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She finally lands a Government job:

In the 20th and 21st centuries, an annual congressional appropriation, administered by the U.S. Department of Education, funds Howard University
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/06/2023 6:18 Comments || Top||

#2  "We are entering an inflection point in American politics where the conversation of race and black politics will be a central facet."

Wow, really? First time for everything, I guess.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 04/06/2023 6:56 Comments || Top||

#3  ^^^What does that word salad even mean?

Not that actually meaning anything is important in academia anymore.
Posted by: Tom || 04/06/2023 11:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Palnetary Payoff, and brings all that election fraud skill into the Swamp orbit permanently. Don't you love the skill with which the Marxist's put enemies of traditional America on the taxpayer-funded payroll?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/06/2023 11:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Will they be paying her campaign vendors?
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/06/2023 13:02 Comments || Top||

#6  Is that Moe Howard, of the 3 stooges?
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/06/2023 19:07 Comments || Top||


Joe Biden Is Now Creepily Laughing At Inappropriate Times, Just Like Kamala
[Federalist] Vice President Kamala Harris has earned a reputation for creepily snickering at utterly inappropriate moments, but recent events indicate her off-putting tic is rubbing off on her boss. In response to serious questions about sobering circumstances, President Joe Biden has been doing a lot of gleeful giggling lately. The out-of-touch habit casts doubt not only on his cognizance of what’s going on in the country but also on his willingness to provide the transparency and accountability he boasted his administration would exhibit.

LAUGHING AT POLITICAL PROSECUTION
In a video circulated online on Tuesday, Biden can be seen making no attempts to hide his glee after a reporter asked him if the indictment of former President Donald Trump, Biden’s foremost political opponent, is "politically divisive."

After the president gave no answer, a White House staffer ushered reporters away.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/06/2023 06:05 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


#2  "Joe Biden Is Now Creepily Laughing At Inappropriate Times, Just Like Kamala"

Lie (?lay?) down with dogs, get fleas...
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/06/2023 10:34 Comments || Top||

#3  He has begun a slow metamorphosis into an evil version of the Jim Carrey character from The Mask. I think they have a makeup guy covering up the greenish tinge.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/06/2023 12:42 Comments || Top||

#4  He laughed about those boys who overdosed and died on fentanyl and their mother's grief. He can't help himself. Ten years ago he would have been able to think on his feet fast enough to make up some kind of a lie about it. But now the mask is slipping and he can't help it. He is now too demented to hide the evil.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/06/2023 13:14 Comments || Top||

#5  Exactly correct Abu. At that stage of dementia the masks are off.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/06/2023 14:02 Comments || Top||


Missouri Republican Buries Racist Democrat with EPIC Response When Questioned About His Ethnicity
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Black Missouri Republican State Rep. Justin Hicks was peppered with vicious questions from a racist Democrat about his ethnicity for daring to support a bill that would hamstring the woke
...the on-going war against good sense...
left’s divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled...
racial agenda.

But Hicks had an epic and true response that buried his hater and won the admiration of his colleagues.

Last Thursday, Democrat State Rep. Marlene Terry questioned whether Hicks really was black after the Republican said he said he supported a bill called which bars state funding for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) activities for Missouri’s departments of agriculture, natural resources and conservation.

Specifically, the legislation blocks funding for staff, vendors, consultants and programs "associated with diversity
We are assured it's our strength. If you actually believe that, you may consider an IQ test to see if you've been Fettermanned
, equity (and) inclusion" throughout state government and public colleges and universities according to Fox News.

The prohibitions also apply to other woke initiatives that promote "collective guilt," "the concept that disparities are necessarily tied to oppression," and "intersectional or divisive identity activism."

Terry: You agree with this DEI Bill?

Hicks: I did say I’m okay with the bill as it stands currently.

Terry: Can I ask you what you identify as? Ethnicity?

Hicks: I identify as American.

The chamber then erupted in applause.

Terry then went on a tirade and called Hicks "delusional" for supporting racial equality, whining that it took her 20 years to become a state politician. She even accused Hicks of promoting privilege and tokenism according to The Heartlander.

Hicks, who grew up in a low-income household and lost his father when he was just 12-years-old, buried the race-baiting Democrat once more:

I think that you’re given the same opportunity as anyone else in this building to get there.

I didn’t come from a privileged background. I had to work my butt off to get where I am today.

Hicks went on "Fox and Friends First" Monday morning to discuss the DEI bill and expressed his dismay over being questioned whether he was really black by Terry.

This is actually ridiculous that I’m being questioned on issues of race.

I think the left is kind of just lost, lost face of reality on what’s going on. We’ve moved beyond the issues of race here in America.

This is not an issue of race anymore. And I think they look for words to divide us instead of unite us
Posted by: Fred || 04/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wonderful. More of this, please.

With this on top of the Missouri AG's being in process of removing the St. Louis so-called District Attorney, thanks are definitely looking up in the Show-me State.
Posted by: Tom || 04/06/2023 11:46 Comments || Top||

#2  DEI is a Marxism paddy wagon wrapped in a progressive vinyl decal.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/06/2023 12:25 Comments || Top||


Chicago Elects Mayor Even More Radical Than Lightfoot as Her Replacement
[TRENDINGPOLITICSNEWS] Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse for the Windy City, there is yet another election that will have residents blowing out for greener pastures.

Brandon Johnson, a radical socialist candidate, defeated moderate Democrat Paul Vallas in the race to replace reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
mayor/Beetlejuice-lookalike Lori Lightfoot
...the diminutive and vacuous former Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rose she blamed the guns, which are banned anyway...
.

As noted by journalist Andy Ngo, Johnson had called for "removing law enforcement from society. During the 2020 riots, he defended looters, saying they were lashing out against racism."

"Chicago’s violent mostly peaceful crime has surged over the last few years under Lori Lightfoot," he added.

Indeed it had. Violent crime had risen steadily throughout Lightfoot’s tenure. Gun violence went kaboom! in 2021, with some neighborhoods seeing over a 100% increase in fatal shootings.

The crime wave had played a major role in Lightfoot becoming the first Chicago mayor in four decades to lose a re-election bid.

But it looks like Chicago will be electing a candidate who is even more radical than Lightfoot to replace her.

Brandon Johnson has lied about his positions on the failed Democratic Party police known as "defund the police."

Johnson had claimed, "I never said, defund the police." But he avoided explaining his 2020 comment when he was shown on video during a debate saying that defunding police is not "a slogan, it’s an actual real political goal."

The incoming mayor also believes in structural racism and seeks "equity" through $800 million more in local taxes to benefit black and Latino communities and reduce crime.

No wonder Johnson was even endorsed by democratic socialist Senator Bernie Sanders
...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being an Independent socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around...
. But it doesn’t stop there. The radical communist "Squad" loves him, as well.
Posted by: Fred || 04/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Chicago paper is stunned new mayor honored God but not Obama
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/06/2023 8:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Chicago Elects Mayor...

An inadvertently truthy headline. Not Chicago voters but Chicago itself.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/06/2023 8:48 Comments || Top||


#4  Can the entire city be donated to Goodwill as a tax write-off?
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/06/2023 11:00 Comments || Top||

#5  Good and hard, Chicago, good and hard.
Posted by: Nero || 04/06/2023 11:32 Comments || Top||

#6  Voters concerned and upset about crime elected someone who will give them more crime.

Makes sense in Chicago, I guess.
Posted by: Tom || 04/06/2023 11:47 Comments || Top||



RFK Jr. will challenge Biden for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination
[NYPOST] Prominent anti-vaccine deep thinker and environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday to officially launch his 2024 presidential campaign.
"Deep thinker" *Snicker*
Kennedy Jr. filed to challenge President Biden next year as a Democrat, joining self-help guru Marianne Williamson
...foemer Dem presidential candidate for 2020, campaigning on a platform of Hope and Change™, massage therapy, feng shueh, incense, Love©, and half a trillion bucks in reparations to black folk...
as the only other declared major candidate in the party in the White House race.

The 69-year-old is the son of former US attorney general, senator, and 1968 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy — who was shot and killed by Sirhan Sirhan on the campaign trail.

He is also the nephew of former President John F. Kennedy, who was also assassinated while in office.
Posted by: Fred || 04/06/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Cheryl Hines would be a 1st lady I’d like
Posted by: Beavis || 04/06/2023 8:24 Comments || Top||

#2  It will be fun watching progressives trash the once sacred-to-the-left Kennedy name.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/06/2023 8:57 Comments || Top||

#3  What has he done for them lately? Not much.
Posted by: Maggie Phuth8997 || 04/06/2023 9:44 Comments || Top||

#4  I can see CIA leaking his uncle JFK's sex life.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/06/2023 9:48 Comments || Top||

#5  This will confront young voters with history. They will be very confused.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/06/2023 9:52 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ Yeah. History is a pandora's box. Deep State might have to deep fake it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/06/2023 9:53 Comments || Top||

#7  If the Dems/Deep State don't go after RFK, Jr., then it'll be the pharmaceutical-industrial complex which does.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 04/06/2023 11:38 Comments || Top||

#8  Oh, yeah, and Dr. Science, as well - The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health

Not a lot that's new for 'Burgers, but presented thoroughly, and well documented. I hope he has good security...
Posted by: Bobby || 04/06/2023 12:53 Comments || Top||

#9  I hope he has good security...

That's always a consideration, especially with the Kennedys. But I have to wonder, as bad as the Kennedys were and are, could they be any worse than Biden?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/06/2023 13:22 Comments || Top||

#10  ....Here, hold my Chardonnay.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/06/2023 13:59 Comments || Top||

#11  I would laugh like hell if he gets the Dem nomination, and then the night before the election, withdraws and concedes the election.

Could you imagine the frothing apoplexy on the Dem's side?
Posted by: Silentbrick || 04/06/2023 21:36 Comments || Top||



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