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-Great Cultural Revolution
This is ‘the MOST destructive major company in existence' says Bill O'Reilly, ‘the most DESTRUCTIVE to America'
[Right Scoop] The bad behavior by the left has been even more out of control than usual, lately, enabled as they are by the far left administration of mush brain Biden. And corporations can’t WAIT to be a part of the woke party. From CRT to attacking voting legislation and more, corporations are on the far left bandwagon, even while leftist activists sneer and laugh at the assertion (because they want to trick you and because nothing is ever far left enough for their taste anyway.)

"Good evening, dreamers of all ages," says Disney Corp. in their new intro to the nightly fireworks at their parks. They have removed "Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls" because it’s not "inclusive." Bill O’Reilly explains below why that is seditious, wrong, and, in my words, evil.

It’s not innocuous. It’s not minor. It’s not just a greeting. It’s a deliberate attempt to modify language and thinking. And it’s just one facet. Disney owns a lot of other woke garbage, too, including The view.

O’Reilly explains the motivations behind the execs who make these decisions. Listen, via The First.

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/11/2021 04:31 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The mouse is not your friend.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/11/2021 10:14 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Foreign Office denies claims Joe Biden floated Barack Obama becoming US ambassador to the UK
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/11/2021 11:27 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Tough for Baraq to call the shots in Washington all the way from London?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/11/2021 15:17 Comments || Top||

#2  I would hope the Queen PNG's him if he is put forward.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/11/2021 21:15 Comments || Top||

#3  The queen was not impressed with either he or his wife, as I recall.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/11/2021 21:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Didn't the Obama's give the Queen some stupid gift once? And didn't Obama try to interfere in UK elections?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/11/2021 21:37 Comments || Top||

#5  I believe the stupid gift in question was a set of Obama's speeches on DVD. No idea if the DVD region code was for the UK. But I'm guessing no one thought about it.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/11/2021 21:55 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Dem PAC Worried Dems DOn't Know Biden's Accomplishments
[Fox News/Bongino] A super PAC supporting President Biden warns that Democrats could face defeat in the 2022 midterm elections if they don't campaign more "aggressively" on Biden's policies. The party in power in the White House traditionally loses seats in Congress during the first midterm election.

A June strategy memo from Unite the Country, obtained by Politico, raised serious concerns that voters are virtually clueless about the successes so far under the Biden Administration. Democrats need to tout the $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill that Biden signed into law in March and do a better job selling the two infrastructure plans that Biden is currently trying to usher through Congress, the group says.

"Even among voters who have a favorable view of Joe Biden, there is a real lack of information about the specifics of the Biden Agenda," the memo reads.
Boodle to special interests? More Obama Marxisms?

But the memo, based on focus groups with voters in the swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, offers a dire warning to Democrats about their hopes of hanging on when their voters aren't even sure about what Biden stands for.
Swing States? Don't they all have Dominion voting systems?

"Unfortunately, the [American Rescue Plan] and these other proposals remain worryingly undefined in the public consciousness and voters are primed with misinformation that helps Republican[s] justify their opposition," the memo obtained by Politico reads. "Democrats must communicate much more aggressively to define success for the ARP and to explain why it is important to pass the American Jobs Act and the American Families Plan."
I thought you had to pass it to know what's in it.

Unite the Country spent about $49 million to help Biden win in 2020, according to data from opensecrets.org. The liberal PAC hasn't announced its spending plans for the midterm elections but intends to target specific groups that are critical to the Biden coalition, including suburban college-educated voters who supported Biden in 2020, Black voters who support Biden but are less likely to turn out in midterm elections, and White working-class voters, particularly women.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/11/2021 13:05 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Depends on whether or not they count evil acts as an accomplishment, but given they are demonrats, the party of slavery, human sacrifice and pure anti-humanity, it's par for the course.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/11/2021 18:13 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Gallery Showing Hunter Biden Paintings is Vandalized
[WashingtonExaminer] A man accused of vandalizing Hunter Biden's art gallery and attacking an employee has been arrested, police say.

Rodrick Webber, 47, was detained at approximately 3:40 p.m. Friday at the George Burgess Art Gallery in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City after he defaced artwork inside the gallery, representatives for the New York Police Department said in an email to the Washington Examiner.

Webber allegedly spray-painted the word "Daddy" on a wall inside the gallery, damaging a painting worth $14,500...
I think there was no damage to any of Hunter's paintings
Not that physical damage would reduce their artistic value, and might actually add to their sales price — now they’d have an interesting story.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 07/11/2021 00:06 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Artist in His Studio & Select Example of Work(s)


Posted by: Herman the Imposter2866 || 07/11/2021 6:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Hunter Biden now that victim of crime. How very interesting.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/11/2021 8:17 Comments || Top||

#3  "There was graffiti and worthless gibberish posted on the walls"

"Uhhh, those are Hunter's paintings"

"Nevermind"
Posted by: Frank G || 07/11/2021 8:25 Comments || Top||

#4  They look like a series of greeting cards. President George W. Bush has better technical skills, I think, although his habit of making the bad guys he dealt with look like clowns is a bit silly. (George W’s paintings)
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/11/2021 8:42 Comments || Top||

#5  "None of Biden's artwork was ruined."

How can you tell?
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/11/2021 8:51 Comments || Top||

#6  Hunter's Inspiration or a Muse ?

A muse is someone who provides a source of inspiration for an artist. Instilling a renewed sense of passion in the artist to create better works, the muse is often a female; however, many men have also provided artistic inspiration. From lovers to spouses to friends, inspiration comes from many different individuals.

Other individuals of note have said otherwise, not referring to a muse, but to there interpretation of their worlds. James MacNeill Whistler. "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.". -- Henry Ward Beecher. "Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day." -- Winston Churchill.

The people, who view their artistic works, seem to search for the artists inspirations for their works.

Posted by: Chesney Ulolugum1858 || 07/11/2021 9:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Insurance fraud gone bad
Posted by: KBK || 07/11/2021 11:46 Comments || Top||

#8  Why do I think this is a distraction from the Hunter Biden 'Art' Money-Laundering pipeline?
And to somehow legitimise Hunter's 'art' as 'Art'.
(and why do I get the impression Hunter didn't create the art himself?)
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/11/2021 12:08 Comments || Top||

#9  If not planned, certainly welcomed.

Not sure which is cheesier - the sequined shirt or the dentures.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/11/2021 14:03 Comments || Top||

#10  Why can't we just have a frank diversionary discussion about alien spacecraft toilet waste? I think Skid tried to get something going in that regard a day or two ago.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/11/2021 14:09 Comments || Top||

#11  Why can't we just have a frank diversionary discussion about alien spacecraft toilet waste?

Wait, are you suggesting that Hunter is a space alien here to help lead humanity to a new age of Art and Reason?
Posted by: SteveS || 07/11/2021 14:32 Comments || Top||

#12  are you suggesting that Hunter is a piece of shit?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/11/2021 15:13 Comments || Top||

#13  Point of clarification....comments 11 and 12 are in no way mutually exclusive.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/11/2021 16:07 Comments || Top||

#14  I'm suddenly seeing a movie script:
Grifters From Beyond The Stars - An alien race came to Earth to save Humanity... but they got side-tracked...

I bet we could get Keanu Reeves to play Hunter.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/11/2021 17:18 Comments || Top||

#15  An alien checkin' his Garmin:
"Hey, ain't that the place with the Charmin?"
Departing the crater
A quick pit stop later:
"That bathroom was pretty alarmin'."
Posted by: Unomose Spawn of the Bunions5019 || 07/11/2021 18:14 Comments || Top||

#16  And speaking of [skim skim skim] insurance...

A señora de Coyoacán,
Out walking her dogs, told me, "Hon,
These xoloitzcuintles
Is featured in screenplays.
Insured for a billion a ton!"
Posted by: Unomose Spawn of the Bunions5019 || 07/11/2021 18:29 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Dems' outrageous attempt to tilt elections in their favor
[NYPOST] Civil-rights leaders met with Team Biden at the White House on Thursday to protest what they claim is a widespread assault on voting rights "for blacks and people of color," according to civil rights hustler Al Sharpton
...Tawana Brawley's spiritual advisor...
. Another participant, Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, said the group’s message was that "democracy is under vigorous, vicious and sinister attack."

Disregard the phony handwringing and Morial’s flamboyant warning about an "effort to impose a system of an American apartheid."

Their goal isn’t making voting easier. They want to outlaw safeguards that many state politicians believe are needed to keep voting honest.

At the top of their list of grievances was the Supreme Court
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
’s June 1 ruling upholding Arizona’s anti-fraud voting laws. The left is using the ruling as a pretext to demand Congress pass the For the People Act, also dubbed HR1.

HR1 would override laws like Arizona’s, ban voter-identification requirements and lay the groundwork for a permanent Democratic majority.

In the Arizona case, the justices, by a 6-3 majority, found no evidence that state voting laws put minority voters at a disadvantage or made voting too hard. Truth is, explained Justice Samuel Alito, "Arizona law generally makes it very easy to vote."

Alito explained that states have the authority to pass "non-discriminatory voting rules," to deter fraud. That’s what Arizona did. Arizona requires that voters cast ballots in their assigned precinct, and it outlaws the sleazy practice of ballot-harvesting, where paid workers walk through neighborhoods, knock on doors and offer to help residents return the ballots they’ve received in the mail.

Ballot-harvesting invites cheating, since harvesters invariably are trying to get a particular candidate elected.

The New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

claims "Republican-controlled legislatures across the country have raced one another to pass laws that make voting harder." Untrue. They’re aiming to make cheating harder.

In Texas, Republican politicians are trying to push through reforms that would outlaw ballot-harvesting and require identification for voting by mail, while at the same time expanding voting hours and early-voting days. More voting. Less mischief.

Biden called the Texas reforms "un-American," but perhaps he doesn’t know and is just parroting Democratic talking points. After all, Delaware currently has no early voting at all, and he hasn’t protested that.

Democrats treat voter-fraud claims as Republican hallucinations. Not true. An alleged ballot-harvesting scheme in Minneapolis was exposed last fall by the undercover news organization Project Veritas, showing harvesters exploiting the elderly and immigrants colonists.

Europeans get it. To deter fraud, three-quarters of European countries either bar absentee voting or require showing a photo ID to get a ballot.
Posted by: Fred || 07/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "HR1 would override laws like Arizona’s, ban voter-identification requirements and lay the groundwork for a permanent Democratic majority." Do you have to show ID to visit the capital or Federal buildings? How about for a driver's license? Cigarettes? Buy booze? Mailing things or picking them up from the P.O., Fed Ex and UPS? 24 things you need an Id to do (there are others as well).

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/24-things-that-require-a-photo-id

And HR1 would allow the Dems to steal elections ad infinitum into the future But that's not considered an assault on voting rights? It's all about power. Dems need to stop being hypocrites and lying about this.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/11/2021 9:10 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ I ain't holdin' my breath.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/11/2021 15:11 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
AOC vs. Hillary: Ohio race a proxy fight for progressives, Dem establishment
[NYPOST] It’s AOC versus Hillary as the two Dem heavyweights duke it out for an open Congressional seat in Ohio — and possibly control of the party.

The raging proxy fight in the Buckeye state’s solidly Democratic 11th District
...portions of Cuyahoga and Summit counties in the Northeast part of the state, including most of the majority-black precincts between Cleveland and Akron and what is described as a “substantial” Jewish population...
pits Rep. Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez
Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore...
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 07/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  will be more like a referrendum on Medicare for all which Turner supports and Brown opposes
Posted by: Lord Garth || 07/11/2021 0:34 Comments || Top||

#2  AOC didn't kill herself?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/11/2021 2:30 Comments || Top||


Eric Adams' win in high-crime areas proves liberals are out of touch
[NYPOST] If there’s a lesson to be learned from the Democratic mayoral primary — and there definitely is one! — it’s that it’s easy to ignore street violence when there’s very little street violence to be seen. Such is the oblivious attitude of mostly white Manhattanites who voted against Eric Adams
...retired New York City police captain, member of the New York State Senate, first Black Brooklyn borough president, law and order Dem after a brief fling with the Publicans. The New York Times isn't fond of him, suspecting he may not actually be black...
, the only real law-and-order candidate in the race.

The de Blasio-era rise in violence did not impact all areas of Gotham equally. Not even close.

Inhabitants of lower-income, high-crime, mostly minority neighborhoods turned out for Adams in huge numbers, up to 70 percent of votes. The only major candidate who pledged crime-fighting strategies with real teeth, he earned the New York Post’s endorsement for making public safety his campaign’s centerpiece.

Meanwhile,
...back at the argument, Livia had made her point with her knee to Jane's stomach...
the neighborhoods that voted for Kathryn Garcia (and her wishy-washy crime-fighting strategy of replacing the NYPD’s "warrior culture" with a "guardian mindset," whatever that means) are among the city’s least dangerous, as shown by NYPD CompStat data for each of the city’s 77 precincts.

Adams, who was himself a cop for 22 years, wants to put more officers on the street and bring back undercover anti-crime units. He even suggested that stop-and-frisk — horrors! — can be part of a legitimate law-enforcement strategy.

If you listen to "progressives," black and Hispanic New Yorkers — some of whom have indeed endured police abuses — ought to recoil over Adams’ positions. Fortunately, those minority voters instead heeded the evidence witnessed by their own eyes.

The leftist media is scrambling to explain away Adams’ triumph in terms of a "platform that was part law-and-order, part police reform," as The New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

put it. But Adams’ voters feared a stray bullet entering their living rooms more than they did rogue actions by a handful of bad cops. While every candidate pledged to curb errant officers, only Adams pledged to go after the bad guys on the streets.

The sections of Manhattan that voted for Garcia are the safest bubble within the bubble. Despite a few widely reported outrages, such as a tourist hit by a stray bullet in Times Square and nightly mayhem in Washington Square Park, most Manhattan districts are barely any more dangerous than they were prior to 2020, when misguided anti-bail laws and anti-cop sentiment allowed criminals to run free.

Guess how many murders have happened so far this year in my own vast, Upper East Side 19th Precinct, extending from East 59th to 96th street and from the East River to Central Park. Exactly one, along with three shootings. Garcia took most of the election districts here, with 36-45 percent of the votes compared to 15-22 percent for Adams.
Posted by: Fred || 07/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now, to see whether he can actually deliver - or, if he's just another AAA (affirmative action a$$hole).
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/11/2021 5:31 Comments || Top||

#2  ^^ I vote the latter
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/11/2021 10:01 Comments || Top||

#3  The sections of Manhattan that voted for Garcia are the safest bubble within the bubble

The epicenter of leftist white privilege
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/11/2021 10:16 Comments || Top||



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