The revolting scenes of Sen Sinema being abused in a ladies' room show that Democrat progressives have become as toxically intolerant as the Trump regime they despised
After four years of Trump have liberals succeeded in becoming the cliché of hating something so much they've become it their visceral, hysterical and sometimes irrational response to politics they oppose?
Don't get me wrong, the Trump years and Trump himself were awful, taxing, emotional and chaotic for all the reasons all of you already know. However the Left in this country in many ways has become a mirror version of Trump and Trumpism - the inverse of his mania and toxic divisiveness.
My Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema has gone viral this weekend in a series of videos taken at Arizona State University of a group of students protesters accosting her in a hallway, harassing her and then proceeding to follow her into the ladies bathroom.
They didn't stop as Senator Sinema entered the stall, they continued to film her as she used the facilities, washed her hands calmly and then exited.
The students proceeded to scream at her that they knocked on doors for her to help her get elected, yelled at her about holding back Biden's 'build back better agenda' and so forth.
I have seen the video 10 times at this point - from different angles. The more I watched it, the more horrified and disgusted I became. By the time I went to bed for the night, I was absolutely seething.
There are many things to unpack about this incident. First, how grotesque it is to follow a sitting Senator into a ladies bathroom and record her and then post it on the internet?
How disgusting have student protestors become not to see that harassing a woman entering a private space is inhumane, moronic and cruel - not to mention, a felony, under Arizona law.
The other thing I thought of was Congresswoman Maxine Watters infamously encouraging democrats during the Trump years to harass Trump administration officials in public.
The specific quote was 'Let's make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere.'
I remember this clearly because I was concerned given that I am a public and controversial conservative woman and also that it showcased a paradigm shift in what was once considered civilized decorum.
Democrats calling for Republicans to be harassed in public was a new shift that we have not come back from.
Since then it's happened to a litany of conservatives; Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Tucker Carlson's wife – who had to barricade herself in their home in the pantry because of protestors storming their home and Senator Rand Paul – who was physically beaten so badly by his neighbor he punctured a lung.
The Left does not get to complain about Donald Trump's character and personality when they sit and remain silent about the intensely growing harassment against people who break rank from the beliefs of progressive left in the country.
What we haven't seen until now is Democrat on Democrat violence. This is what is new about Senator Sinema.
Now, in the eyes of the progressive left, it is not only evil to be a conservative in the country, it is evil to be a moderate Democrat.
Apparently the most dangerous thing a person can be in America is a free-thinker who doesn't bend the knee to progressives.
What has been bizarre to watch is the hysterical reaction to Senator Sinema this week on social media and among democrats themselves.
It has apparently not occurred to the progressives and the Democrat politicans who bend over backward to make sure they and their agenda is coddled that there are still moderates still within the Democratic party who aren't down with Biden's $3.5 trillion agenda to turn America into a welfare state and who deserve to be heard.
And if you're not on board with them, they attack you.
The Left does not get to complain about Donald Trump's character and personality when they sit and remain silent about the intensely growing harassment against people who break rank from the beliefs of progressive left in the country.
It must be an infuriating cold dose of reality for progressives to see that the most powerful politician in America today is a moderate Democrat from Arizona who doesn't care at all what the D.C. media, the Squad or Twitter think of her.
Senator Sinema is not Jeff Flake, she is not someone who will be intimidated by an angry crowd in a small space.
Why do I believe she is doing what she is doing right now in regards to the infrastructure and reconciliation bill?
Because she believes it. She is not doing this for personal political gain. I believe she believes what she is fighting for and she doesn't think Biden's drunken spending spree is good for the country.
She is not alone, part of the reason progressives are having such a hard time passing this bill is because it is so radical and half the country doesn't agree with it.
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BLM Killed 2,000 Black People
Thanks to Black Lives Matter, the number of black murder victims rose 62% in one year.
The FBI recently released crime statistics for 2020, and the overall murder rate increased a record 29%. Keep in mind that was during a year that featured months-long lockdowns and social distancing. But also keep in mind it was the year of Black Lives Matter riots and violence.
Journalist Daniel Greenfield explains:
The worst one-year percentage jump in murders was a 12.7% increase in 1968 during a crime wave that led Democrats and Republicans to embrace tough on crime policies. 1968 was the year that LBJ signed the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act into law. But the opposite happened in 2020 as Democrats and some libertarian Republicans colluded to dismantle the criminal justice system, open up the jails, and endorse Black Lives Matter.
The pro-crimers have the blood of thousands on their hands.
The FBI’s numbers are in and they show that Black Lives Matter and its corporate backers killed more black people in one year than anything short of an African civil war.
3,595 black people were murdered in 2019. But in 2020, 5,839 black people were murdered.
That’s an additional 2,244 black people killed.
56% of the murder victims of 2020 were black.
While people of all races were more likely to be murdered in the year of Black Lives Matter, black people were disproportionately likely to be killed as a result of police defunding and the George Floyd Effect, as well as the pressure on the justice system to open up prisons, free criminals, and stop arresting new criminals in the name of fighting for the big lie of racial justice.
3,060 white and Latino people were killed in 2019, which rose to 4,167 in 2020. The 36% increase is devastating, but the number of black people murdered in 2020 shot up 62%.
The 62% increase in the murders of black people should be the headline in every single media outlet.
The media is, of course, focused on the relative few blacks killed by police — especially those who are “unarmed.” Yet there’s nary a peep about the bloody streets of Democrat urban centers.
If the 2,244 black people had been shot by white people, Asian people, or Republicans, we could talk about it. Indeed, the odds are that we would never talk about anything else. Ever.
But unfortunately it’s the devastating result of black-on-black crime.
Black perpetrators were responsible for 5,832 murders or approximately 50% of the murders despite making up only around 13% of the population.
Murder is “also the leading cause of death for black men from 20-44 years old at 27.6%.”
These are just statistics. These are just facts. Every American should be outraged at the murders happening in our country. And every American should be advocating for policies based on the fact that black lives actually do matter, not backing an organized Marxist group that’s little more than a front for the Democrat Party.
Greenfield lays out the bottom line: “The question is how many black people have to die until the big lie of systemic racism, the scam of anti-racism, and the criminal justice reform killing fields end.”
https://patriotpost.us/articles/83150-in-brief-blm-killed-2000-black-people-2021-10-04
******************************************American Liberty Must Not Become Coronavirus Casualty
Mike Pence
When announcing his nationwide vaccine mandate, President Joe Biden declared, “This is not about freedom.” But for Americans who live outside the Beltway, it is absolutely about freedom, because America is about freedom.
Yes, the coronavirus is still with us. Yes, it is still potentially dangerous, particularly to vulnerable Americans. But the need long since has passed for extraordinary measures such as lockdowns, mask mandates, and other restrictions on American liberty.
In a country with competent leaders, all such measures—most especially the forced vaccinations for COVID-19 recently ordered by Biden—would be repealed, and Americans would be allowed to return to their normal lives.
Aggressive measures made sense in early 2020, when I served as chairman of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Back then, scientists understood precious little about the virus and hospitals were rightly concerned about the possibility of running out of bed space for COVID-19 patients.
But 18 months later, we have three safe and effective vaccines thanks to the Trump-Pence administration’s Operation Warp Speed, and over 77% of American adults are at least partially vaccinated. I chose to get vaccinated, and so did my family. But that’s a choice that every American should be free to make for themselves.
The good news is, today we know a great deal about the coronavirus and the threat—or lack thereof—that it poses to American citizens.
Most importantly, we know that the virus does not affect populations equally, which is why one-size-fits-all mandates make absolutely no sense. For example, young, healthy people with no preexisting conditions typically experience only mild symptoms from the virus. In fact, nearly 98% of all COVID-19 deaths in the United States have occurred in those over 40.
Meanwhile, people who are obese or overweight face a much higher risk of severe symptoms and hospitalization. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 80% of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 were overweight or obese.
Yet, in his sweeping vaccine mandate on 80 million Americans, Biden and his public health bureaucrats make no distinction between groups based on age, overall health, or any other known risk factors.
Nor do they consider the 1 in 3 Americans who already have contracted and recovered from the virus, and thus have developed natural immunity—which multiple studies have shown is far more effective and longer lasting than the immunity achieved by vaccination.
Why should those who are naturally immune be penalized for refusing a vaccine that, for them, is probably medically unnecessary?
Likewise, thousands of American military personnel face a less-than-honorable discharge if they choose not to get vaccinated under Biden’s order. Our troops mostly are young and in excellent physical condition, and thus have weathered the pandemic better than almost any other group of human beings on the planet.
We have experienced just 26 known deaths out of more than 200,000 coronavirus cases in the U.S. armed forces. Why exactly does Biden want to fire thousands of our nation’s finest patriots simply for refusing a shot that all evidence suggests most of them do not need?
The president’s absurd, unscientific, unnecessary, and unlawful vaccine mandate is now being echoed by left-wing politicians across the nation.
In New York, after announcing that “God wants” people to get vaccinated, the new Democrat governor began firing nurses and health care workers who declined the vaccine. In what world does it make sense to fire nurses in the name of public health?
Likewise, the Biden administration is threatening to fire thousands of unvaccinated Border Patrol agents. On the other hand, the record number of illegal aliens streaming across the border are exempt from the tyrannical rules American citizens are forced to live under. In fact, the Biden administration knowingly has released thousands of COVID-19-positive illegal immigrants into American communities.
The president and other liberal politicians continue to move the goalposts every time someone has the audacity to ask when we can have our liberty back.
If Americans distrust the administration, it’s because of statements such as this by Dr. Anthony Fauci: “When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75%,” he said. “Then, when newer surveys said 60% or more would take it, I thought, ‘I can nudge this up a bit,’ so I went to 80, 85.”
If Biden and Democrats have their way, the pandemic-induced panic will never end. The coronavirus has given the radical left the perfect opportunity to create the utopia they have dreamed about for ages: a world of absolute conformity, where all dissenting opinions—and the people who hold them—are ostracized from polite society.
For the radical left, this is not even about the virus, or about public health. It’s about power, control, and forcing the American people to submit.
But the American people never have submitted to tyranny, and never will. Vaccinated and unvaccinated Americans, Republicans and Democrats, young and old, should stand together against Biden’s unlawful mandate and state-sponsored discrimination against those who choose to make their own health care decisions.
When Americans speak with one voice and demand the restoration of liberty, then and only then will the pandemic panic truly be over.
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Facebook Smeared Me With Its ‘Fact-Checking.’ Now, I’m Suing the Tech Giant
Chad Wolf
Chad Wolf, acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security during the Trump administration, is a visiting fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy.
I was surprised to read The Washington Post’s recent editorial concluding that pro-choice protesters had crossed the line by demonstrating in front of the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
After all, The Washington Post is not exactly a conservative or rational voice on these types of issues. Almost all the points in the editorial made perfect and logical sense, including the concluding statement: “Leave spouses, children and homes out of it.”
As I finished reading the editorial, one overriding thought came to mind. Where was this logical point of view in 2020 when many Trump administration officials, including me, had to endure months of protests outside our homes for simply doing our jobs?
My experience started in the summer of 2020, shortly after civil unrest began around the country in the wake of George Floyd’s death in police custody. I was acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, which got involved because it has responsibility to protect over 7,000 federal properties, some of which were targeted by violent extremists.
For doing my job and exercising the authorities provided by Congress, my home was targeted by “professional” protesters who gathered out front week after week after week. Although I had seen other Trump administration officials endure this sort of behavior, seeing it outside your own home, on your street, gives you a different perspective.
The “protest” in front of my residence usually played out the same way. The protesters would organize roughly a quarter of a mile away and march through my neighborhood streets, holding up traffic, until they arrived in front of my house. There they remained for an hour or more to shout through loudspeakers, again while holding up traffic.
At no point did these protesters apply for a permit, which is required in the city of Alexandria. Even so, city officials allowed the illegal protests to continue.
Worse yet, a third-term member of the Alexandria City Council, John Chapman, actively participated on several occasions. His participation not only legitimized the illegal nature of the protest, but signaled that doing so at someone’s residence was valid.
From a security perspective, I knew my family and I were relatively safe because of the round-the-clock protection of the U.S. Secret Service. I knew that if any of the protesters decided to take their actions to another level, Secret Service agents were on the ready and always one step ahead.
Nevertheless, this unwelcomed activity put me on edge, since such “protests” can turn ugly quickly.
The situation also required my wife and I to have tough conversations with our two sons, who were both in middle school. We had to explain to them why people protest to express their views but why you should never do so in front of someone else’s home, where a family resides.
As a family, we altered our routines regularly. We were especially attentive to apparent strangers and newcomers to our neighborhood.
One of the most disappointing aspects was the response of some neighbors whom we had lived among for over 10 years. A few of them joined in with the protesters, who regularly mentioned my children’s names and where they went to school.
Instead of asking me about and seeking to understand my work at the Department of Homeland Security, these neighbors chose to disrespect me and my family on numerous occasions.
This was particularly difficult for my wife, who is active in our community (raising thousands of dollars for our public school, for instance) and goes out of her way to be nice and neighborly to almost everyone in our neighborhood.
Over time, the protests diminished and eventually stopped. I long have respected anyone’s right to peacefully protest, something I reiterated numerous times publicly as acting DHS secretary. But there is a time and place to protest.
Showing up at someone’s residence or at a restaurant where he is dining is not it. Such action, in my opinion, diminishes the cause that the protesters seek to elevate.
It’s unfortunate that protesting outside private homes has become part of the left’s playbook. Any conservative who lives near Washington, D.C., knows that he probably is in the minority among neighbors. But the lack of decorum and decency from some of those who live closest to us was something we had not planned on.
Fast-forward to the Biden presidency, and such neighborhood protests appear to be nonexistent despite the administration’s many difficulties on the southern border and elsewhere.
Whatever the reason for this discretion, I will be the first one to say it’s a good development and one that should endure. For the first time in a long time, I agree with The Washington Post: Leave spouses, children, and homes out of it.
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http://dissectleft.blogspot.com (DISSECTING LEFTISM)
http://edwatch.blogspot.com (EDUCATION WATCH)
http://antigreen.blogspot.com (GREENIE WATCH)
http://australian-politics.blogspot.com (AUSTRALIAN POLITICS)
http://snorphty.blogspot.com/ (TONGUE-TIED)
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