Wednesday, October 20, 2021
NY Officials Vote to Scrap City Hall's Thomas Jefferson Statue
A statue of Thomas Jefferson that has watched over the New York City Council in its chambers for more than a century will be removed after city leaders voted unanimously to get rid of the monument.
The vote means that the likeness of America's third president — one that's been in city council chambers since 1915 — will be relocated by the New York Historical Society to a museum where more "context" can be added to the display.
According to members of the council's Black, Latino, and Asian Caucus who'd pushed for the statue's removal, Jefferson's presence in the chamber was "a constant reminder of the injustices that have plagued communities of color since the inception of our country."
For these social justice warriors, statues of the men who created our revolutionary system of government are "disturbing images" and erasing their visages is the "right step" to take.
For his part, Democrat Mayor Bill de Blasio refused to defend the statue in the days before the vote and said he assumed that the statue would be removed by officials.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis — a Republican who represents portions of New York City — called out New York's leaders for trying to remove not just the likeness of Jefferson from City Hall, but seeking to remove his values from city government.
The warning from Rep. Malliotakis follows a prescient prediction from then-President Donald Trump in 2017 who warned the left's erasure of history would not stop when the mob got to America's founders such as Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. Trump was widely mocked by the mainstream media at the time, but the New York City Council has again proven his worry over American history was justified.
Signe Nielsen, the individual overseeing statues and other art in properties owned by New York City added another warning in a hearing before the city council voted to remove the Jefferson statue: "There are 700 pieces of art under our jurisdiction, we cannot make a rash decision that will set a precedent for the other 699 pieces of artwork that may also have challenges from people or other groups of people."
For the woke New York City Council, it doesn't matter that Jefferson played a pivotal role in American — and world — history, nor that his belief in universal innate equality proved to be the intellectual root of the abolition of slavery in the United States. For them, as Malliotakis pointed out, removing founders' statues is about getting rid of touchstones that might evoke ideals of liberty.
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Anti-Semitic DC Councilman Who Thought Jews Control the Weather Is Running for Mayor
I mean, this probably isn’t shocking. Washington DC has had its fair share of terrible people running for mayor. They’ve had terrible people occupying that office. The late Marion Barry was elected to the office, went to jail for smoking crack, got out, ran again—and won. So, when an anti-Semitic DC council member decided that he’s going to run for mayor—should we really be surprised? Trayon White was engulfed in controversy in 2018 for saying that Jewish people controlled the weather. He did some penance by attending a tour of the Holocaust Museum, but he reportedly left early. He survived this public relations fiasco of course—it’s DC. It’s the most Democratic of cities (via Fox News):
A D.C. Council member who made national headlines in 2018 after suggesting that Jewish financiers control the weather is now running for mayor in the district.
Ward 8 Council member Trayon White Sr., a Democrat, is throwing his hat in the ring to possibly unseat Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser, who has not yet announced whether she intends to seek another term.
"He has a tremendous amount of support coming his way because he is willing to speak out for and advocate for those who need the leadership the most," an adviser for White told local media Wednesday.
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Trayon White sparked a firestorm in March of 2018 after he filmed himself driving through downtown Washington as snowflakes fell on his windshield and ranted about "climate manipulation."
"And D.C. keep talking about, ‘We’re a resilient city.’ And that’s a model based off the Rothschilds controlling the climate to create natural disasters they can pay for to own the cities, man," he said in the now-deleted video. "Be careful."
In any other situation, this would be a disqualifying incident. Actually, any other people would probably be forced to resign or be outright fired, but this is Washington DC. Say something stupid, act like you didn’t know what you said was horrible, and then bank on the media to not really care after a couple days.
The Rothschilds reference is a dead giveaway that he probably knew what he was saying was anti-Semitic and wrong. That’s a very specific swipe at this group of people. At any rate, anyone who gets elected or re-elected to this office is going to be garbage, so I’m just glad I don’t live in that hell hole.
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'The World Has Gone Mad': Bari Weiss Tells Brian Stelter How CNN and MSM Perpetuate Cancel Culture
Substack writer Bari Weiss explained to CNN host Brian Stelter on Sunday how the mainstream media, like CNN, helps perpetuate the worst aspects of cancel culture.
Stelter asked why Weiss thinks the "world has gone mad."
“Well, you know, when you have the chief reporter on the beat of COVID for The New York Times talking about how questioning or pursuing the question of the lab leak is racist, the world has gone mad. When you’re not able to say out loud and in public that there are differences between men and women, the world has gone mad. When we’re not allowed to acknowledge that rioting is rioting, and it is bad, and that silence is not violence, but violence is violence, the world has gone mad," Weiss said.
"You say we’re not allowed, we’re not able. Who’s the people stopping the conversation? Who are they?" Stelter asked.
"People that work at networks, frankly, like the one I’m speaking on right now, who try and claim that you know, it was — it was racist to investigate the lab leak theory," Weiss replied.
"But I’m just saying though when you say allowed, I just think it’s a provocative thing you say —you say — you say we’re not allowed to talk about these things," Stelter said. "But they’re all over the Internet. I can Google them and I can find them everywhere. I’ve heard about every story you mentioned.”
Weiss noted many subjects have become "third rail" issues where even hinting at the notion of not believing what the vast majority believe can be detrimental to one's career or professional life. She used the example of Dorian Abbott, a geophysicist at the University of Chicago, who had a lecture canceled from MIT after an online mob voiced outrage over his argument "that people should be hired on the basis of their merit and their individual — you know, in their individuality, not based on their identity as a group."
"Now, you can say to me, 'Oh, that’s cherry-picking; oh, that’s a one-off.' What are the downstream effects of an example like that? Every other scientist, every other academic who’s watching that is saying, 'Wait, hold on. If he’s being canceled for that, what does that mean for me? I might as well shut up. I might as well practice double-think in the freest society in the history of the world,'" Weiss said.
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Biden Called Trump’s Remain in Mexico Policy ‘Inhumane’; Now He’s Begging to Reinstate It
On the 2020 campaign trail, President Joe Biden repeatedly demonized then-President Donald Trump for his treatment of immigrants. Now that he is in office, Biden is realizing that securing the border is a lot harder than he predicted.
On Thursday, the Biden administration told courts it was planning to reinstate Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, The Hill reported.
The policy, formally known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, required asylum-seekers to stay in Mexico while awaiting their case determinations instead of living in the United States.
It is the exact same policy Biden called “inhumane” and “dangerous” just a year and a half ago.
According to CNN, Biden initially kept his campaign promise and officially ended the policy on June 1 of this year.
Now, as record numbers of illegal immigrants flood the U.S. border, the Biden administration has been reduced to begging Mexico for the policy’s reinstatement.
In April, the states of Missouri and Texas sued the Department of Homeland Security for suspending the policy. They won the suit at the district court level, as wells as appeals to both the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court, Fox News reported.
If Mexico agrees to terms, the DHS must take action to reimplement the policy. But thanks to the Biden administration, that is a big “if.”
After the president ended the policy, Mexico apparently decided they were not so fond of it either.
DHS filings from Thursday said, “Mexico has made clear that it has concerns about aspects of how MPP was previously implemented, and that without certain improvements to the program, it will not decide to accept MPP enrollees.”
Since the individuals would be sent to their country, Mexico has a good bit of leverage in negotiations about the policy.
According to the filings, Mexico’s proposed changes to the policy include the U.S. promising to rule on all asylum cases in six months, as well as increased protections against sending “particularly vulnerable populations” to Mexico.
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt accused the DHS of dragging out the process in a statement obtained by Fox News.
“In April, we sued the Biden Administration over their cancellation of the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy and won at the district court, 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, and at the United States Supreme Court, requiring the Biden Administration to reimplement the policy,” he said.
“Despite multiple courts ordering the Biden Administration to reimplement the policy, they have repeatedly slow-walked that reimplementation. The ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy should be implemented today, especially as the crisis at the border continues to worsen every single day. We have taken concrete action to secure the border, it’s time for the Biden Administration to do the same.”
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Re vote to hide the Thomas Jefferson statue away: it is indeed a constant reminder to some of the minorities that people who do not have the same skin color as them have achieved great things. They are green with envy and react by parading their usual BS, in sheep's clothing of course. The effect is turning one's country into a dump, one step at a time.
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