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-Great Cultural Revolution
Biden Executive Order Mandates 'Race Training' For Federal Gov’t
[Victory Girls] Let’s mandate "race training" for all levels of federal government. That’s the latest from Joe Biden’s handlers at the White House. On Friday an executive order was announced that mandates equity, inclusion, and diversity for every federal employee.

The entire executive order is a piece of work. Please, read it all. This is what we are up against. When the federal government becomes a vehicle for "race training" ie; Critical Race Theory, we have a very big problem. As I noted yesterday, having the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff point out the problems of "white rage" and the fact that the so-called assault on January 6, need to be dealt with??!! As one reader of our blog pointed out, having Milley turn our military around to be looking inward towards the so-called problems within our country instead of doing their job which is standing the line against our FOREIGN enemies...that is NOT the role of our military!

And now we have the Biden Administration mandating critical race theory "race training" across the board.
The directive builds on Biden’s Inauguration Day promise for "an ambitious whole-of-government equity agenda," according to a White House fact sheet accompanying the order. The White House statement said "the enduring legacies of employment discrimination, systemic racism, and gender inequality are still felt today. Too many underserved communities remain under-represented in the Federal workforce, especially in positions of leadership." The order, the White House said, is designed to "take a systematic approach to embedding" diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility in federal hiring and employment.

It’s all in the name of FAIRNESS! The problem is...mandating equity is not fair to anyone. It isn’t fair to the person who was hired specifically because of their skin color. It isn’t fair or right for the person who got passed over because they were only LBT instead of LGBTQZM, nor is it fair for the person who did get hired because their disability checked more boxes than the other candidates with disabilities.

It’s specifically not right to shunt aside someone who is ACTUALLY qualified for the job, yet that person is either a white female or white male.

There is nothing diverse or inclusive about this Executive Order. What this type of equity "race training" will do is further hamstring the federal government from doing their job. Oh wait, what if we don’t want the federal government to do their job?

Quite honestly, I can think of a great number of federal agencies and sub-agencies that need to go away because they are a detriment to this country, such as the Department of Education or the IRS.

That said, this mandate from the Biden Administration is a danger to us all.

For our military, we need that soldier to be QUALIFIED to GO TO BATTLE when necessary. We don’t need a military who will be scrambling to have the new E7, Sgt First Class, Major, Colonel, or General attain that rank because they are the right "color," right gender, or have the right pronouns! No, we need them to be able to swing into action to DEFEND our country and drop-kick all this politically correct horseshit to the curb!
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/28/2021 06:54 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fascinating that the one group that basically supports the party and programs already is going to be subjected to this. Preaching to the choir. I guess if its not selling anywhere else...
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/28/2021 8:23 Comments || Top||

#2  this is more than just requiring employees to sit through power point training

operationally this will mean that performance reviews will rate employees on how much preference they gave to equity candidates, equity grants, equity contracts and equity regulations

promotions will also require this
Posted by: Lord Garth || 06/28/2021 10:07 Comments || Top||

#3  I suspect this has been going on for awhile in the Fed government. Now they have formalized it.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 06/28/2021 10:16 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ Indeed it has.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/28/2021 10:17 Comments || Top||



Award-winning liberal author roasts university for its 'Oppressive Language List'
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates on Thursday mocked an "Oppressive Language List" posted by Brandeis University that deemed words like "picnic" and "trigger warning" offensive.The private Massachusetts university made headlines this week over its "Oppressive Language List" published on its website, which encourages the school community to stop using certain terms "that may hurt those who have experienced violence." It lists phrases like "trigger warning" and "killing it" as violent mostly peaceful language, and "you guys" and "freshman" are labeled "gender exclusive" instead of inclusive.

An entry suggesting "outdoor eating" as an alternative word to "picnic," because "picnic" has been "associated with lynchings of Black people," appeared to have been removed since the list went viral — but not before it caught the attention of Ms. Oates, a visiting professor at the University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Berkeley, and an outspoken liberal.

"What is strange is that while the word ’picnic’ is suggested for censorship, because it evokes, in some persons, lynchings of Black persons in the US, the word ’lynching’ is not itself censored," Ms. Oates tweeted.

"What sort of punishment is doled out for a faculty member who utters the word ’picnic’ at Brandeis?— or the phrase ’trigger warning’? loss of tenure, public flogging, self-flagellation?" she mused.

Brandeis spokeswoman Julie Jette released a statement saying the list was developed by students who have "noted that many people who have experienced violence may be further harmed by the language others use in speaking with them," the New York Post reported.

"The list is in no way an accounting of terms that Brandeis students, faculty or staff are prohibited from using or must substitute instead," the statement said. "It is simply a resource that can be accessed by anyone who wants to consider their own language in an effort to be respectful of others who may have different reactions to certain terms and phrases."
Posted by: Fred || 06/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under:

#1  she is 83

once upon a time she was cutting edge lefty
Posted by: Lord Garth || 06/28/2021 0:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Bullshit, it was going to be punishments and expellings for anyone who spoke this crimethink.
Posted by: Knuckles Slererong5344 || 06/28/2021 0:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Polar bear hunting isn't on the banned list.
Posted by: Ulolump Grumble1426 || 06/28/2021 2:07 Comments || Top||

#4  "picnic" has been "associated with lynchings of Black people,

What really? Like... pick-a-nig... ?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/28/2021 2:19 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ Oh I just found out. It's not in the word. It's because 'white people often lynched black people at picnics'.

While the historicity of this 'fact' is as debatable as Michelle Obama being pretty, the association of picnics forever with lynchings is ridiculous.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/28/2021 2:23 Comments || Top||

#6  You can have my cold fried chicken when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
Posted by: Snomomble Spump9269 || 06/28/2021 4:19 Comments || Top||

#7  If one were to say that what African-Americans need is Moses of their own, would it be racist?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/28/2021 5:23 Comments || Top||

#8  I'm old enough to remember when 'words will never hurt me'

that was long before being a victim paid so well, however
Posted by: Retard_Strength || 06/28/2021 8:38 Comments || Top||

#9  ^Heh you're still alive senpai.
Posted by: Wren || 06/28/2021 11:16 Comments || Top||

#10  ^🙄
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 06/28/2021 13:28 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
The Guy That Designed the AZ Ballots Blows the Lid Off What's About to Come Out Monday
[Top Trade Guru via iotwreport.com] In this video, BOB HUGHES receives a standing ovation after previewing some of the security features used during the Arizona audit. This includes the fact that the ballots were authenticated by police forensic cameras. On Monday, additional details of the audit will be revealed.
Posted by: Hupolutle Chosh1350 || 06/28/2021 07:43 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 06/28/2021 16:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Let's just make ballots scratch offs. Lottery style results would at least have random distribution.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/28/2021 17:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Nah... let Facebook and Twitter handle it online. One login - One Vote.

(Unless, of course, your account is suspended due to WrongThink).
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/28/2021 18:59 Comments || Top||


Report: First Lady to Replace Joe Biden at Tokyo Olympics, Host Diplomatic Meetings
[Breitbart] Difficult to decide which category: "Sign, Portents" or "Obits"
This is exactly the kind of unimportant but pleasurable diplomatic assignment that spouses of heads of state are perfect for. She can’t really do any harm, and nobody expects her to accomplish anything beyond dressing more or less appropriately and making occasional polite conversation while the working spouse continues working. Or in this case, “working”.
Madame President First Lady Jill Biden is tipped to visit Japan for the Tokyo Olympics on a solo trip in place of President Joe Biden, the Yomiuri Shimbun daily reported Sunday.

The two countries are seeking ways for the president's wife to attend the opening ceremony, set for July 23, as well as meet with Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and other senior diplomatic officials during her stay, according to sources cited by the outlet.
Posted by: Snomomble Spump9269 || 06/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  good

she won't have to watch Joe drool during the women's gymnastics or women's diving contests
Posted by: Lord Garth || 06/28/2021 0:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Create a 'Pre-Obit' category and stick all the Biden replacement stories there.
Posted by: Raj || 06/28/2021 2:02 Comments || Top||

#3  This is exactly the kind of unimportant but pleasurable diplomatic assignment that spouses of heads of state are perfect for.

It's what Vice Presidents are for and also going to funerals for foreign heads of state and dignitaries. Guess those running the country think Jill is more competent at playing the role than the VP. They need to quickly fall back to the old play book in which they removed Agnew before they went after Nixon.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/28/2021 7:28 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ You don't want Kamala there trust me. I'll bet neither do the japanese.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/28/2021 7:34 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ She's... "never been to Europe" either.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/28/2021 7:43 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm on the ground in Tokyo. I'll let you know how it goes...
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 06/28/2021 8:09 Comments || Top||

#7  FLOTUSes routinely host “diplomatic meetings” ?
Posted by: KBK || 06/28/2021 9:12 Comments || Top||

#8  First Lady Wilson pretty much ran the Presidency 100 years ago.
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/28/2021 9:53 Comments || Top||

#9  You can just imagine what the time change and jet lag might do to the Big Guy.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/28/2021 12:16 Comments || Top||

#10  Wouldn't want him to miss his nap.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/28/2021 12:16 Comments || Top||

#11  The Japanese prefer their young women unsniffed
Posted by: Frank G || 06/28/2021 14:48 Comments || Top||

#12  First Lady Wilson pretty much ran the Presidency 100 years ago.

Which was vastly easier a 100 years ago when most federal laws and regulations could probably fit in one average size library stack. It was a time when the feds didn't stick their fingers into everyone eyes and business. A time when Congress could actually pass all appropriations during the fiscal year and didn't run the printing presses day and night infinitum.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/28/2021 15:04 Comments || Top||

#13  To paraphrase CPT Willard, I don't see anybody running anything at all.
Posted by: Cesare || 06/28/2021 15:21 Comments || Top||

#14  An area of history I'm not up to speed on, but let me guess: Edith Wilson did less harm than her husband.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/28/2021 17:25 Comments || Top||


Europe
In Europe, U.S. Allies Gush over Friendly New Administration
They gushed over the new B.O. regime, too, until they started complaining they were cowboys, just like all their predecessors.
[AnNahar] Germany's top diplomat could barely stop smiling as he had a beer with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Berlin. Not so long ago, he acknowledged bluntly, he had less fun talking to American leaders.

"I still have to get used to the fact that I can speak to the American secretary of state and always be of the same view because that used to be different," Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said, recounting his first conversations with Blinken.

If anyone was uncertain that he was referring to tensions with former president Donald Trump
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Posted by: trailing wife || 06/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ""So I'm very happy that we can work together to preserve this international order based on cooperation and the rule of law," he said."

Translation: it's back to ripping America off for free shit they can easily pay for themselves.
Posted by: Knuckles Slererong5344 || 06/28/2021 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  In Europe, U.S. Allies Gush over their ability to roll brain dead Biden and the rest of the clowns Friendly New Administration

That's more like it.
Posted by: Raj || 06/28/2021 1:39 Comments || Top||

#3  They know a mark when they see one. So did Trump.
Posted by: Snomomble Spump9269 || 06/28/2021 4:29 Comments || Top||

#4  No longer have to be concerned about a President Trump telling them to 'pay up' for their NATO protection.

Referring to the Euros as a collection of indolent, warring, hypocrites had begun to wear on them.

Posted by: Besoeker || 06/28/2021 6:24 Comments || Top||

#5  'Allies' - I don't think you understand the meaning of the word. How many of those allies would be willing to accept the incineration of their country in the defense of the US as the US was willing 1950-92 for European 'allies'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/28/2021 9:14 Comments || Top||

#6  Well, I don't imagine that Pompeo was there to drink beer with Merkel's stooges.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/28/2021 12:18 Comments || Top||

#7  The poor Eurines. They are in for long term disappointment.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/28/2021 18:46 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
San Francisco Weighs Continuing Homeless Encampment Program That Costs $60k Per Tent Each Year
[Daily Wire] Elected officials in San Francisco will soon decide whether the city should keep spending millions on "safe sleeping villages" for homeless people as its COVID-19 emergency response winds down.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the city's homelessness department "is pushing to continue an expensive tent encampment program that it says is crucial for keeping people off the sidewalks, despite its high price tag of more than $60,000 per tent, per year." The outlet reported that "the program currently costs $18.2 million for about 260 tents," and "the department is now asking for $15 million in the upcoming fiscal year for a similar number of tents, which amounts to about $57,000 per tent per year."

Some of the sites are operated by nonprofits, while the tent program is entirely financed through a business tax measure overwhelmingly passed by voters in 2018.

"If the funding is approved, San Francisco will pay about twice the median cost of a one-bedroom apartment for people to sleep in tents for the second year in a row," the Chronicle reported.
Posted by: Snomomble Spump9269 || 06/28/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  $60,000 per tent, per year.

You could buy a mobile home with that. It's San Fran with racist white oppressor zoning laws. Can't do that.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/28/2021 7:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Socialist bureaucrats need care and feeding too.
Posted by: Hupolutle Chosh1350 || 06/28/2021 7:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Parking lots are essentially renting parking spaces for 160 dollars a day.... who doesn't like that idea, the kickbacks and guaranteed income make for some amazing graft, and it looks like the city is doing something when in fact they do nothing but use taxpayer money to pay off friends and maintain the status quo.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/28/2021 13:59 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Zero for 24 - White Males Absent From Biden Judicial Slate
[Free Beacon] Over six months in office and four waves of judicial nominees, President Joe Biden has yet to name a white male to the federal courts.

Biden has named 24 nominees for the federal bench in the opening six months of his presidency, 19 of whom are minorities. He has also vowed to name the first black woman to the Supreme Court, and may have the opportunity to do so this summer.

The selections are a plain signal that the administration’s judicial selection is driven by racial preference. The prioritization of minority nominees is unprecedented since the administration of former president Jimmy Carter, who openly placed a premium on female and minority candidates. Biden and his outside supporters frame the issue in terms of judicial legitimacy, arguing the courts will not command public confidence if they do not broadly reflect the country’s increasing diversity. The challenge, they add, was exacerbated during the Trump years, when about three-quarters of the president’s nominees were male and more than 80 percent were white.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/28/2021 06:39 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
You are surprised...
what you forgot
Joe is a sniffer...
he don't 'do' men.


Posted by: Theper Snoper6970 || 06/28/2021 23:00 Comments || Top||



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Mon 2021-06-28
  Somalia's Puntland region executes 21 al-Shabab fighters
Sun 2021-06-27
  Massive Manhunt Ends Up at Black Nationalist Encampment
Sat 2021-06-26
  Car-bomb attack wounds 15 UN peacekeepers in north Mali
Fri 2021-06-25
  Somali army bombs Al-Shabaab hideouts, 17 confirmed dead
Thu 2021-06-24
  Attack on Iranian nuclear site damaged centrifuge production facility
Wed 2021-06-23
  Taliban capture Afghanistan's main Tajikistan border crossing
Tue 2021-06-22
  Suicide car bomber has attacked French troops patrolling in central Mali, wounding six soldiers
Mon 2021-06-21
  Clashes Reach Gates of Faryab's Capital in Northern Afghanistan
Sun 2021-06-20
  Two Districts Fall to Taliban in North as Clashes Continue
Sat 2021-06-19
  Kabul arrests dozens of Afghan tribal chiefs over troop surrenders to Taliban
Fri 2021-06-18
  All officers of Portland Police riot response team resign
Thu 2021-06-17
  Expelled Jordanian MP Osama Al-Ajarmeh arrested
Wed 2021-06-16
  IDF hits Gaza terror targets after arson attacks, in first raids since ceasefire
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  Egypt upholds death penalty for 12 Muslim Brotherhood members
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