Sunday, February 27, 2022
Trump news – live: Ex-president’s intelligence chief ‘stunned’ by former boss’s praise for Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich has clearly outsmarted Joe Biden and the West generally. Western "sanctions" have been exposed as a paper tiger. Trump can see that and rightly notes the sad comparison between Biden and Putin. It is Biden his remarks are aimed at, not Vladimir Vladimirovich. Biden is very much a hopeless dummy. Trump does say that he is angry about the debacle in Ukraine
Trump does NOT say so but it might be noted that a lot of Western conservatives quietly admire the way old-fashioned values survive without much challenge in Russia. The American Left often is so extreme as to seem borderline insane. That doesn't wash in Russia. Conservative support for any action against Russia can therefore be expected to be reluctant and Trump's remarks may give some voice to that
Amusing, though, that Communist China is also supporting Russia. Strange bedfellows
Donald Trump’s former director of national intelligence has voiced his dismay at the ex-president’s remarks praising Vladimir Putin as he mounts a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Speaking to The Daily Beast, Dan Coats said he was “stunned” by Mr Trump’s remarks. “I cannot think of any other US president that would in a situation like this say what he said,” he told the site.
Twice in two days, the former president hailed Mr Putin as “smart” and blamed Joe Biden for what is happening. “He [Mr Putin] was going to be satisfied with a piece and now he sees the weakness and the incompetence and the stupidity of this administration,” Mr Trump said while speaking with Fox News presenter Laura Ingraham. “As an American I am angry about it and I am saddened by it. And it all happened because of a rigged election.”
In another video clip from Wednesday night that was circulated on social media, Mr Trump can be heard saying: “Trump said Putin is smart. He’s taken over a country for $2 worth of sanctions. I’d say that’s pretty smart.”
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'Left loves to deride capitalism' but also 'love what it creates for them,'
Florida Republican Rep. Byron Donalds said Friday that Democrats often “deride capitalism” but they also "love what capitalism does for them."
Donalds made the comment at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, and specifically target New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in his remarks about Democrats seeming duplicity over capitalism.
"She literally believes that we can print whatever [money] we want," he said. "It doesn't matter how much we borrow. It doesn't matter how much we spend. But she can believe all that when she drives her nice little Tesla and lives in one of the most expensive apartments in Washington D.C. You see, the left loves to deride capitalism but they actually love capitalism.
The Florida lawmaker also said about Democrats: "They love what it creates for them but they want you and they want me and they want every hard working American to bend the knee but America has woken up. We've realized we're not going down a socialism road and we are going to fight them this November," he added.
Donalds attributed record inflation levels to the Democratic-led Congress passing President Biden's $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act last March. He said they said are still pursuing a way to pass their signature, multi-trillion-dollar renewable-energy plan known as the Green New Deal.
"They've killed the Keystone pipeline," Donalds said. "They've opened up our borders. They want to spend massively."
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The Reason White People Have Disappeared From Commercials Is Totally deranged
If you were someone from the past and you time-traveled to this time period and watched television, you would think that all white people disappeared.
This is not coming from a place of malice, but an observation.
Now, I am not one to watch a lot of television, to be honest, and when I do I prefer streaming services. Even with streaming services, there are commercials and truthfully, I didn’t even really pay attention since I mute them when they come on.
However, while watching some television with my father, he made the comment that white people in commercials seemed to disappear.
At first, I said to him that I didn’t think so, but my opinion changed.
It is sort of like when you get a new car and then you notice that particular car all over the roads. I started to pay attention and he was correct, as usual.
Now, I am of Hispanic and Sicilian descent, so I obviously have no issue seeing other ethnic people on television. That’s not the issue. It’s the erasing of white people/couples in commercials that has me wondering what the heck is going on.
If we’re supposed to be a great big, diverse society, why are advertisers erasing a huge chunk of it?
Here is what American Thinker had to say on this topic, and as usual, they nailed it:
In the United States today, the White population (not including Hispanics) is 57.8%. In real life, Caucasians are still in the majority, but now on TV and the Internet, they are swept under the rug like trash. Blacks comprise 14% of the U.S. population but appear in 50% of commercials. White actors now appear to promote health insurance, gold, loans, and some medicines. Moreover, if a White person appears in a commercial, he/she is usually old, sick, a freak, or at the very least, an appendage to a Black partner. If there’s a doctor on the screen, he’s usually Black, while the patient is usually White. Caucasian young men appear in only 4% of the commercials! If some aliens began to study the population of Planet Earth through our TV commercials they would have a somewhat distorted picture of Americans, to put it mildly.
So why do advertisers ignore the long-standing rules of marketing, and to the detriment of their own financial interests, fill the media space with content that displaces and degrades its biggest market segment? The answer is simple. At the heart of this nonsense is political correctness in a form even an Orwell could not have foreseen. Business executives go out of their way to publicly show their conformity with the universal “diversity” and “critical racial theory” (CRT), demanding that the White man be blamed for all the sins one can imagine. Replacing ancient, long-vanished oppression of Blacks with real oppression of Whites, overcompensating and planting racism-in-reverse.
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Ordinary people keep their mouths shut for fear of losing their jobs, not getting a holiday bonus, not getting promoted, or being socially ostracized This is understandable, and I wouldn’t blame them, although I wouldn’t respect them either. But what are people of higher position afraid of — the heads and owners of businesses? What is threatening them? Indeed, nobody is going to drive them out of their positions or take their business, though fear of boycotts can be realistic. They are afraid of various inconveniences: negative articles in the leftist press, social shunning, frivolous lawsuits, loss of state and federal licenses, government contracts, unexpected audits by the IRS, fines for alleged violations of minorities’ rights, and the like small and large troubles.
It’s a fascinating piece and really gets down into the nitty-gritty over how political correctness and social Marxism have rooted themselves in our society. To such a point now, where you wonder if we’ll ever break free.
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This Religious Prosecution in Finland Could Be ‘Harbinger’ for Other Democracies
A court in Finland heard final arguments this week in the prosecution of a member of Parliament and a Lutheran bishop for expressing opposition to same-sex marriage.
Charged under Finland’s “ethnic agitation law” are Päivi Räsänen, a member of Parliament who also is a medical doctor and former interior minister, and Lutheran Bishop Juhana Pohjola. Each faces up to two years in prison if convicted.
Andrew Brunson, an American pastor who was imprisoned in Turkey for about two years, traveled to Finland on behalf of the Family Research Council, an educational institute focused on traditional values, for closing arguments that wrapped up Tuesday.
Brunson brought 14,000 pledged prayer requests for the two defendants, FRC President Tony Perkins told The Daily Signal, adding that the Finnish court likely would issue a decision in early March.
Räsänen, 62, published a pamphlet in 2004 about the Bible’s teaching on marriage. In 2019, she was on a radio program and tweeted a picture of a Bible passage.
She is charged with three counts of violating Finland’s ethnic agitation law.
Authorities charged Pohjola with one count of violating the law in connection with hosting Räsänen’s pamphlet on his church’s website.
This type of prosecution could come to other Western democracies, including the United States, Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said.
“The idea of Christians being persecuted in America just for living out our faith is not far away,” Roy told The Daily Signal in a written statement, adding:
In fact, we have already seen it happen here to Jack Phillips and Masterpiece Cakeshop out in Colorado, and a football coach in Washington state—Joseph Kennedy—being fired for praying after high school football games. Think about all the surveillance going on, about the persistent intrusions on our liberties.
Roy co-wrote an op-ed with Perkins for Fox News about the case, noting a prosecutor had said that “the Bible cannot overrule Finnish law.” The prosecutor also said that use of the word “sin” can be “harmful,” they wrote.
“In regards to the Finnish law at the center of this case, we face the possibility of having a similar problem with American law in the future, particularly if the Democrats succeed in passing the Equality Act,” Roy told The Daily Signal. “That’s why Republicans cannot be focused only on taking back the House or the White House; we have to fight to take back America. Our freedom depends on it.”
Early in the case, the prosecutor’s office said that Räsänen’s statements “violate the equality and dignity of homosexuals, so they transcend the boundaries of freedom of speech and religion.”
In her defense, Räsänen said:
Ultimately, the three charges brought against me have to do with whether it is allowed in Finland to express your conviction that is based on the traditional teaching of the Bible and Christian churches. I do not see I would have in any way defamed homosexuals whose human dignity and human rights I have constantly said to respect and defend.
Perkins said the Finnish prosecution could be a “harbinger” of similar laws in Western democracies.
“This could be a warning for what is coming even in liberal democracies if they have lost their way on religious freedom and Christianity,” Perkins told The Daily Signal in a phone interview.
The Family Research Council chief said the Equality Act, which passed the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives, poses threats to Americans’ religious speech and religious freedom.
That bill stalled in the Senate, where Democrats and Republicans each control 50 seats. If passed, the bill would add sexual orientation and gender identity as characteristics protected by the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Critics assert that the bill would adversely affect parents, adoption agencies, religious organizations and schools, and girls and women’s sports.
“This is coming to America if we go down that path,” Perkins said, warning of a situation where “citizens just can’t express or act on [biblical] beliefs.”
“Finland says it’s fine to have beliefs in the Bible … as long as those beliefs stay between your ears. That’s not religious freedom,” he said. “Western civilization is a byproduct of a Judeo-Christian worldview.”
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