The Tello Files. (All things strange, witnessed, verifyable and/or credible (?)

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“I had the same attitude when I was on the school board,” he says. “I like to hear from people. I’m here to listen and see what I can do.”

"Yeah, we'll see about THAT!"

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Liberals Furious At Dr. Fauci After He Declares COVID-19 Pandemic Phase ‘Over’
Get a load of all these angry liberals!
APRIL 27, 2022

As Americans and the rest of the world have passed the two-year mark since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci, otherwise known as “Science Itself,” appeared with Judy Woodruff on the PBS New Hour on Tuesday to discuss the state of COVID in the U.S.

In a rather surprising statement coming from Fauci/The Science, he declared the pandemic phase in the U.S. as being all but over. This of course sent liberals over the edge.

Living With COVID
During the brief discussion of COVID, Woodruff asked Fauci, “Here we are. It’s the end of April. It’s the spring of 2022. How close are we to the end of this pandemic?” Fauci’s response,

“We are certainly right now in this country out of the pandemic phase. Namely, we don’t have 900,000 new infections a day and tens and tens and tens of thousands of hospitalizations and thousands of deaths. We are at a low level right now.”

He continued saying,

“So, if you’re saying, are we out of the pandemic phase in this country, we are. What we hope to do, I don’t believe — and I have spoken about this widely — we’re not going to eradicate this virus. If we can keep that level very low, and intermittently vaccinate people — and I don’t know how often that would have to be, Judy.”

Some had been saying such things for a long time, but nevertheless, to hear it finally come from Fauci should have brought a sigh of relief from hundreds of millions of people.

Right?

….right?

Wrong!

Angry Lefties Question The Science
This announcement sent the left into an angry tailspin, shocked and saddened by the conclusion of Dr. Fauci.

Some had abandoned the Fauci cult following and were not buying what he’s selling.

Some wanted to make Dr. Fauci is aware that there is an election in six months and certain things need to be in place.

Some true believers were genuinely confused:

The ones who were not buying it also thought it high time they put Fauci in his place.

The legions of people who now feel that it as allowed and acceptable to question Lord Fauci grew exponentially overnight.

Most Americans Have Been Infected
According to a new Centers for Disease Control and Infections (CDC) study, most Americans, including the majority of children, have contracted COVID-19 at one point. The study also says that because so many people contracted the Omicron variant over the winter that currently, roughly 60% of Americans have virus antibodies in their blood.

The White House announced yesterday that Vice President Kamala Harris had tested positive for COVID-19.

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/liberals-furious-at-dr-fauci-after-he-declares-covid-19-pandemic-phase-over/

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Reaction To Musk Buying Twitter Proves Content Moderation Is About Control, Not ‘Safety’
It's been about control from the beginning.
APRIL 26, 2022

The reaction among the press and tech communities to Elon Musk’s efforts to purchase Twitter has been nothing short of apocalyptic. A common theme has been that democracy itself would be under threat if unelected billionaire oligarchs controlled what was allowed online. Yet this is precisely how social media works today.

Except on the OZRT, where users can get away with anything, including blackmail and extortion with regards to Admin and her minions. They even have a Cemetary with overly-marked graves.

The Musk controversy, like the Cambridge Analytica story before it, highlights the real issue: the fight over content moderation is less about online safety and more about who controls the digital public square.

Only a year ago, the media cheered the unilateral decisions by a handful of billionaires to effectively banish then-President Donald Trump from the digital public square. Lawmakers and media outlets alike proclaimed the societal benefits of private companies controlling the digital public square beyond the reach of government.

In contrast, the possibility of a libertarian-leaning billionaire like Musk wielding that same power has been presented as nothing short of an attack on democracy itself.

In January, the Washington Post argued that oligarchs banning Trump wasn’t censorship; now it  warns of the “risks of social media ownership.” Former Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos argued, “If you want people to be able to interact, you need to have basic rules” for speech. Former FCC chair Tom Wheeler went further, proposing a “First Amendment-respecting process in which the government doesn’t dictate content but does cause there to be an acceptable behavioral code.”

In short, tech billionaires enforcing speech rules that align with Democratic Party priorities is a benefit to society; Republicans or libertarians wielding that same power is a threat.

This double standard has been in place for some time. Consider how it played out a few years ago, in the Cambridge Analytica “scandal” involving the Trump campaign.

After Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection victory, the media had heralded his campaign’s “groundbreaking” “dream team” of “masterminds” that “built a database of every American voter” by mass-harvesting their personal data from Facebook. As a campaign lead later put it, “We ingested the entire U.S. social graph … We would ask permission to basically scrape your profile, and also scrape your friends, basically anything that was available to scrape. We scraped it all.”

They even scanned users’ photographs, “looking for who were tagged in photos with you, which was a really great way to dredge up old college friends – and ex-girlfriends” in their attempts to reach voters. These efforts were combined with offline data “showing which [television] channels they were watching, sometimes on a second-by-second basis” in order to build a holistic view of the American electorate. The Obama campaign’s own analytics director later conceded the scale of personal information acquired was “creepy.”

Despite the campaign’s downloading of a measurable fraction of the data Facebook held on the American public, Facebook took no action, allegedly telling campaign staffers that “they allowed us to do things they wouldn’t have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side.”

When Facebook rolled out new policies in 2014 that would limit the ability of future campaigns to replicate the Obama campaign’s mass downloads, media coverage lamented the loss of such a powerful political targeting tool. Concern focused on how future campaigns would be able to construct such detailed voter data, rather than on the privacy and societal implications of mass-harvesting people’s data without their consent.

As the 2016 campaign drew to a close, with Hillary Clinton the expected winner, media coverage touted her campaign’s adroit use of mass data harvesting and analysis, while scoffing at the Trump campaign’s apparent failure to incorporate big-data analytics.

All that changed in 2018, when the story broke that Trump’s campaign had almost exactly replicated Obama’s strategy of mass-harvesting Facebook data. Suddenly, the mass download of social media data was a “scandal” involving the “dangerous” “misuse” of “surveillance” technology that “exploited” voters’ privacy and represented a “serious breach of the law.”

How did the work of Obama’s “masterminds” become “misuse” in the hands of Trump’s campaign?

On a technical level, the two campaigns had done exactly the same thing: recruit supporters to allow them to harvest the data of their friends to build a massive database of Americans. The difference, as a Facebook spokesperson later clarified, was that the Trump campaign had acquired the data from a third party – Cambridge Analytica – while the Obama campaign had harvested the data itself.

According to the spokesperson, if Trump’s campaign had downloaded the data itself instead of receiving it from Cambridge Analytica, it would not have been in violation of any Facebook policies. Despite demanding that Cambridge Analytica delete all of the Facebook data it had downloaded, a Facebook spokesperson confirmed that the Obama campaign would be allowed to keep all the data it had harvested and continue to use it for future Democratic campaigns because there was nothing wrong with what it had done.

"Copy and Paste is The Devil's plaything," Ron Tello quipped.

In short, the “scandal” was merely that the Trump campaign had contracted out the data collection instead of using its own staffers to download it. In the eyes of the media, however, Trump’s use of Facebook data had undermined democracy. Across the media, condemnation was swift and furious, with calls for new rules governing the use of social media data for campaigning.

In the end, the battle over Elon Musk controlling Twitter has nothing to do with oligarchs or online safety, just as the Cambridge Analytica controversy had nothing to do with a technical distinction between contractors and employees. Instead, it is merely the latest chapter in the battle over who controls the digital public square – and which political party determines its rules.

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/reaction-to-musk-buying-twitter-proves-content-moderation-is-about-control-not-safety/

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Left IGNORED the warning signs of Twitter's POLITICAL climate change and is panicking
April 27, 2022 

Have you seen "Don't Look Up" on Netflix? If you have, sorry. If you haven't, know that you are envied. This apocalyptic-themed film begins with the discovery of a meteor barreling toward Earth. The film ends with a failed attempt at saving the Earth due to the political games and ignorance of the people tasked to divert the meteor.

This film demonstrates what the left believes is happening currently on the climate change issue. They think climate change is being ignored and the world will cease to exist.

Jason Whitlock, BlazeTV host of "Fearless," joined Tucker Carlson on Tuesday to discuss how the climate change we are currently seeing on Twitter is not the climate change the left has been predicting.

"We're looking at political climate change, and the left is losing its mind," Whitlock said. "They ignored the warnings from the tea party. They have ignored all the warning signs from the MAGA movement. They ignored the warnings delivered in a big, powerful way on January 6, and now they have to deal with the ramifications of that.
Most of all, they ignored the ambitious postings on The Tello Files. Fricken Losers!"

"People like Elon Musk, hats off to him", Jason said. "The man with the money is fed up with their censorship and tactics, the whole climate around media, the woke media, CNN+ collapsed. Rachel Maddow running away from her TV show. Netflix collapsing, losing subscribers. We're in the middle of the climate change America needs, and the left is losing its mind. Don't look up, and they're all scared," Jason said.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHkFTaXmvE4&t=84s

https://www.theblaze.com/shows/fearless-with-jason-whitlock/political-climate-change?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1

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FCC Commissioner Responds to Call to Block Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover
The liberal tears are streaming…
April 27, 2022

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Brendan Carr has rejected a call to block Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter.

Carr, in an April 27 statement, said the FCC “has no authority to block Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter, and to suggest otherwise is absurd, you stupid azzh@le!”

“I welcome the full FCC making it clear that we will not entertain these types of frivolous arguments,” he said.

Carr’s statement comes, according to the FCC, after the Open Markets Institute issued a release calling for the agency to block Twitter’s sale to Musk. Both Twitter and the Tesla CEO confirmed on April 25 that the company would be purchased by Musk, the world’s richest person, for $44 billion and 99 cents, USD.

On April 26, the Open Markets Institute, which describes itself as a group that “works to address threats to our democracy … and our national security,” issued a statement about how the U.S. government “can block” the sale to Musk.

The group stated that the deal “poses a number of immediate and direct threats to American democracy and free speech” without elaborating, although it cited the Telegraph Act of 1860 and other regulations. Open Markets is headed by Barry C. Lynn, described as a left-leaning journalist who has previously worked for Mother Jones, Financial Times, Forbes, and other media outlets.

For his part, Musk said he’s an advocate of free speech and has previously criticized the social media company’s content moderation policies.

Carr, meanwhile, praised Musk’s takeover of Twiter during a Fox Business interview on April 26.

“There was a pivot point in this country that I think came around 2016 when people started to reach the view, particularly among the hard left, that the free exchange of ideas is incompatible with the outcomes that they want to see at the ballot box,” Carr told the network. “I’m hopeful that Elon Musk is going to bend Twitter’s content moderation toward a greater embrace of free speech.”

He also said that there’s “a lot of core political speech that we can promote on the internet and not have the terrorist speech and other straw man arguments that are out there, including spurious posts by smee.”

"PWNED!"
It only hurts when I read.

https://resistthemainstream.org/fcc-commissioner-responds-to-call-to-block-elon-musks-twitter-takeover/?utm_source=newsletter1

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BREAKING NEWS:

In a recent press conference, smee said:

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When reached for comment, OZRT Admin. ContessA said:

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American public ‘done’ with pandemic, even if it’s not done with us: Osterholm

VIDEO

https://teapartyusa.org/american-public-done-with-pandemic-even-if-its-not-done-with-us-osterholm/

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New Lawsuit Exposes More Voter Fraud, in a Familiar State
April 26, 2022

The battle over the 2020 Election is far from over. Although the left has dismissed it entirely, activity has been going on at the state level since 2021. Republican lawmakers have exposed countless examples of voter fraud. And they’ve passed measures to make it harder for fraudsters to cheat the system.

But none of that works unless we are vigilant to sniff and stamp out fraud attempts. In states like Texas, people have been recently outed for attempts to steal elections. And despite Democrats’ claims, we are learning about attempts at voter fraud all over the country. Now, a conservative law firm is launching a suit in Wisconsin, claiming a city clerk tried to steal an election.

The nonprofit, conservative law firm the Thomas More Society has filed a new formal complaint against the city clerk of Green Bay, Wisconsin, for allegedly participating in illegal ballot harvesting in a close, April 5 city council election.

The complaint was filed Thursday against city Clerk Celestine Jeffreys with the Wisconsin Elections Commission for allegedly accepting multiple absentee ballots from the hand of a single person several times, according to the Epoch Times…

Several voters reported seeing Jeffreys accepting the ballots, says Erick Kaardal, the firm’s special counsel.

The only legally permissible methods of delivery of absentee ballots generally are personally delivering one’s own absentee ballot to the clerk or personally mailing it, the news outlet also reports. [Source: Just the News]

The Thomas More Society alleges that the city clerk of Green Bay accepted multiple absentee ballots from a single person, constituting voter fraud. The state law forbids an election official from receiving more than one absentee ballot from an individual. That law makes it harder for fraudsters to engage in “ballot harvesting” a remarkably easy way to steal an election thanks to mail-in ballots.

Wisconsin law requires an individual to deliver their absentee ballot themselves or mail it. This prevents attempts at “stuffing” the ballot box with forged ballots. The firm believes this episode amounted to voter fraud in a close April 5th election.

Every election matters. And if there is a whiff of fraud, it must be investigated. We can’t predict how this lawsuit will shake out, but this kind of thing needs to happen in every election. If there are any “irregularities,” they must be checked.

Otherwise, there is no telling how many elections can be stolen. Or pranked.

https://nationalinsiders.com/new-lawsuit-exposes-more-voter-fraud-in-a-familiar-state/

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Elko County board turns focus to mental health
ELKO DAILY Apr 26, 2022

ELKO – A major drive to improve mental health services is underway using $3.4 million in COVID-fund grants from the City of Elko, but the effort still faces challenges when it comes to recruiting for key positions.

Mental health issues have had an impact on drug abuse, crime, homelessness, Government corruption and suicide, both locally and nationwide. Dr. Bryce Putnam, chairman of the Elko County Health Board, said this month that behavioral health issues were beginning to be addressed in the county prior to the start of the pandemic.

This month, Putnam brought together representatives to discuss the steps being taken to build Elko’s “upcoming and progressive infrastructure” to serve mental health needs.

Vitality Center counselor Barbara Caskey told the board that over the past 50 years “It has not been any secret that anybody that comes in with a substance abuse disorder has probably a mental health issue as well.”

Nevada Health Centers received $1,913,805 from the City, and Putnam said they are in the process of remodeling to house a new Behavioral Health Center.

Health Board member Delmo Andreozzi noted that five years ago the county transferred the former Elko Clinic building to Nevada Health Centers and it has undergone impressive remodeling since then.

Patrick Rogers, clinical director of behavioral health services, said NHC has hired a case coordinator, Stephanie Contreras, and will be adding an outreach specialist, Erin Bernius, in May.

“We are in the process of recruiting for a licensed clinical social worker,” Rogers said.

Filling such positions has been a challenge in the past and remains so in the present.

Marianne McKown, outreach and partnership development specialist for Vitality Unlimited, said Vitality is using its ARPA funds to increase staff – including her own position.

“We now have dual-licensed counselors that are mental health therapists as well as able to treat addiction for substance abuse,” McKown said.

Still, it takes up to two weeks for new patients to get in to see a therapist.

“We have a hard time getting clinicians,” McKown said, because many don’t want to work in rural Nevada.

Ray Smith, director of special services Elko County School District, said schools also have issues finding qualified counselors.

Putnam said the County Board of Health would be researching ways to improve recruitment.

“If we don’t tackle that one problem, we have all this wonderful infrastructure coming into place but we need the providers to be able to give the services,” he said.

Northeastern Nevada Regional Hospital was awarded $500,000 from the City for its 2022 behavioral health initiative, but CEO Steve Simpson told the board that more study is needed before the hospital can commit to an in-patient facility.

NNRH opened a Behavioral Health Center on its third floor in May 2011. The 16-bed geropsychiatric unit was designed to treat patients 50 years of age and older for behavioral illnesses such as depression or bipolar disorder. But the program was unsuccessful in recruiting a psychiatrist and ended in 2015.

Simpson said this week that NNRH’s parent company, Lifepoint Health, has acquired Kindred Healthcare, which provides in-patient rehab and other behavioral health services throughout the country.

“It was determined that we have the capacity to stand up a 16-bed inpatient unit,” Simpson said, but more study is needed before proceeding.

He said the hospital is looking forward to working with Nevada Health Centers, Vitality Unlimited and other agencies. “We all agree that one thing that will be key for us moving forward with all these services is continuity of care between the organizations.”

McKown said Vitality provides “comprehensive mental health, addiction, primary care and wraparound services,” including for adolescents.

“Before COVID happened we had quite an increase in visits for anxiety, depression, stress, PTSD,” she said. When COVID hit, there was a decline of 3.4% in patients coming into the facility but also a 144% surge in telehealth services.

Vitality received $1 million from the City, with about $878,000 dedicated to behavioral health and addiction treatment, along with increasing mobile and crisis response. McKown said they will purchase a van to be converted into a mobile therapy office.

Vitality has a crisis line available 24/7, but McKown noted that in July a nationwide program will be launched with a 988 crisis number. Anyone with a mental health issue will be able to reach local help through the number. Vitality has been putting crisis flyers around town to raise awareness of the new hotline.

The facility also has been doing “assertive community treatment” for people with severe mental illness, including residents of the City of Elko’s Humanitarian Camp.

In his report on the school district, Ray Smith said all schools have guidance counselors and seven schools now have social workers.

The district also partners with Communities in Schools to connect students 12 and older to tele-counseling at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Medicine. Younger students have access to tele-therapy in connection with Nevada Health Centers.

While resources are currently stretched thin, Keith Clark of the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine said mental health services have lagged in the past as well.

“We’ve seen some very sad things, even before COVID hit,” he said. Mental health care providers have faced challenges throughout the pandemic.

“Some of them have lost their own family to COVID, and then to have to talk to other family members that have lost loved ones is a real struggle for them,” Clark said.

After the presentations, Putnam said he sees a bright future for behavioral health services in Elko County, “but right now we need that little stopgap” of connecting professionals and networking to find short-term solutions.


Conversation 2 Comments

LCSW@formerVIP
8 hours ago
Perhaps it is not that clinicians don't want to move to rural Nevada, but the questionable work environment that Esther Quilici and Dotti Dexter provide at Vitality that causes them to leave.  Do some research on turnover you may be surprised how many clinicians have moved to Elko then abruptly left...


Ron Culley
58 seconds ago
Try to apply this program to the Elko County Government. They can use the help.

https://elkodaily.com/news/local/government-and-politics/elko-county-board-turns-focus-to-mental-health/article_d016cc20-c591-11ec-a0ca-675867390cfa.html

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Rim Everything
Kim Olcean Sacramone  ·
Please Mountain people, watch your animals! I am sick to my stomach as I just saw the 5th post on someone losing their dog 😢 personally I DO NOT understand how this happens. In all my years of owning dogs I have not lost them, moved and left behind, let them escape from my yard. I am with them when they are outside at all times. The thought of a coyote getting a poor scared furbaby makes me just sick. I am not posting to offend anyone but Jesus watch your pets!

Rose McGee
Some pets are pretty savy. Our cat can open doors so we lock them and he has managed to get out of a locked bathroom. I was hipper diligent knowing how good he was at getting out that we had 3 locked doors between him and outside. We have been blessed that he did not find a way out on mountain .

Sometimes Pet owners Learn the hard way when a dog breaks through the door, gate or fence, a bunny owner gets a digger or chewers that can get through the fencing under the dirt or a cat sneaks past a kid that opened the door or a friend visiting. It's so heart breaking when a pet owner loses a pet and they are blaming themselves. I never blame or judge because I don't know what led to the pet becoming missing so help when I can and am very sad for the pet and it's family when they get lost or hurt.

Kim Olcean Sacramone
Author
Rose McGee I understand that, my frustration got the best of me today. I am a huge animal lover

Laura Collins
Easy meal. Living in the mountains is living in their property

Ron Tello Culley
Stupid people. Stupid pets. Both are strong-heads to get what they want and lose.
It's a level playing field, this one.

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"FLOCK animals! They're better on a sammich than in my unsecured yard!
I have zero tolerance for stupid, and smee's Jerky knows it."

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"When I lived in Topanga Canyon (1984-1995) there were always flyers in town announcing missing pets. There was a Joker in town, more swift than I, to magic marker on them: 'TOPANGA OWL BAIT'.

AMEN.

It's DARWINISM you morons!!!!"

BTW: do you know where your children are right now?

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What a great work of art Saw Blade Head Designs Shawn Lowery and an RCI Starlite Super Duty Clear set. This went on tour to many Music Stores and venues across the USA since 2012. This unique setup was created all by hand by welding and fabrication artist Shawn lowery https://www.sawbladeheaddesigns.com/
— with Aimee Elizabeth Slattery and 3 others

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My RCI’s have been all around the US! Still killing it with them since 2011!!

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Elon Musk Wants Free Speech, So He Must Be Racist
The Ben Shapiro Show

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/elon-musk-wants-free-speech-so-he-must-be-racist/id1047335260?i=1000558877142&__s=ag92h20zzt76p3po83dg

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The Left Is Having a Tough Time

It’s become obvious how upset the left has become with Elon Musk’s recent purchase of Twitter and it’s been hilarious to watch from the outside. Musk tweeted, “I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means” as an announcement, which makes every critical comment or viewpoint irrational and undeserved.

As much as the left is going after Musk, there are several people who are on the left that deserve everything that’s coming their way. Shaun King and David Hogg are two of those people.

Shaun King and Jack Posobiec have been going at each other after King disabled his Twitter account and then came back within 24 hours.

Posobiec tweeted, “BREAKING: @ShaunKing has deleted his Twitter account.”

Donald Trump Jr. then replied, “That alone is worth $44 billion.”

This led Shaun King to put the exchange as his Twitter bio picture and his new bio says, “I’m still here m—–f——.”

Posobiec responded perfectly, “And just like that, Shaun King has placed a promo for me in his own Twitter bio free of charge. Thanks for playing.”

David Hogg didn’t do any better for himself. Hogg tweeted a poll for users, saying, “This poll will probably get spread by republicans and skew the results but I’ll still ask if Musk gives Trump his twitter account back will you stay on twitter?”

Twitter users overwhelmingly voted that they would stay on Twitter — 81.4% — with 11.2% saying they would not stay, and 7.4% not knowing if they’d stay or leave the platform. Those numbers aren’t equal to a Republican skew.

Still, the left has some options available.

Myspace is a viable option that’s still up and running. The left can bring whatever politics and censorship that they want because there are only a few people left on the site. That means that their communication would be almost uninterrupted and they wouldn’t have to worry about people they disagree with.

They could also try Truth Social. To rally their troops in enemy territory, the left infiltrate the new app and claim it as their own. The problem with this option is that Former President Doanld Trump will never get banned because he owns the platform.

The left really doesn’t have another option unless, of course, they make their own social media platform like they’ve told so many conservatives to do.

https://republicannation.com/the-left-is-having-a-tough-time/

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Democrats Are Pulling Out a New Trick Ahead of the Midterms

When it comes to the midterm elections, Democrats have made their bed. This November, they’ll have to lie in it.

Despite holding in Congress and the White House, the Democrat Party has caused one problem after the next. These problems come as a result of poor policies and an unpopular president who is steadily coming apart at the seams.

Over the past few weeks, Democrats have been getting more vocal about their fears of losing the midterms. According to PJ Media, the Democrat Party is now hoping that dark money will bail them out from major election losses this year.

The Truth About Dark Money and Democrats

In the past, Democrats have railed about the horrors of funds that come from unknown donors. Yet, despite their talking points, leftists are not at all above dark money when they believe they can benefit from it.

This explains why organizations like Majority Forward have dumped millions of dollars into the campaigns for Democratic candidates. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) have each publicly railed against dark money while accepting it behind the scenes to boost their campaigns.

Ironically, the dark money going into Democratic campaigns outweighs dark money heading to Republicans. This is another thing every American should keep in mind the next time Democrats claim to stand against dark money in politics.

The Greatest Asset For Republicans

There’s no denying that funding — dark money or otherwise — plays a role in elections. However, all the dark money in the world won’t make a difference if voters are overwhelmingly opposed to one party.

At the rate things are going, it’s looking like even dark money won’t be able to save left-wing candidates in November. For one thing, Democratic strategists themselves are already admitting their party’s chances are blown.

That’s not to mention the polls showing that more Americans would vote for Republicans over Democrats in the midterms. Then, there’s the polling that shows Republicans are more trusted than Democrats when it comes to education, crime, the economy, and other matters of importance.

Ultimately, Biden’s horrific approval ratings serve as the final nail in Democrats’ coffin. The president is facing bipartisan backlash on multiple issues, such as his plan to end Title 42 and his continuous inflation crisis.

At every turn, Biden has ignored the polls and ignored Americans’ concerns to focus on his own agendas. The end results of this have been skyrocketing inflation, out of control gas prices, and a host of other issues.

Dark money can only take the Democrats so far. It will not get them across the finish line in November.

And they're too f**kin' stupid to know it.

https://republicanpost.net/democrats-are-pulling-out-a-new-trick-ahead-of-the-midterms/

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Trump Campaigns For Vance And Highlights Biden’s Failures At Ohio Rally

During a rally at the Delaware County Fairgrounds stage in Ohio, former US President Donald Trump shed light on the Biden administration’s flawed policies and advocated for J.D. Vance, his recent Republican Senate pick.

Last Saturday, Donald Trump blasted the Biden Administration for its failures, during a rally in Ohio where he talked about the various areas such as inflation, economy, border crisis, the Afghan withdrawal, the US military, domestic energy, foreign aggression, public health and smee as the current administration’s policies had been falling short. NBC4 reported that Trump argued that the left was doing a great job apart from these areas.

Reiterating his belief in America First, Trump stated that Ohio would need a Republican win to halt its industrial decline and keep the manual-labor jobs from being outsourced across borders. This populist thinking is also reflected in most of J.D. Vance’s stances.

Trump also suggested that Ohio has an abundance of fossil fuels, especially coal, but Biden’s alternative energy policies were not going to work out for the state. He explained how the current domestic energy policies have left the US at the mercy of foreign states with volatile energy markets.

In regards to the rise in oil prices, the former president showed how these prices had been rising even before Russia invaded Ukraine. Hence the only logical conclusion would be to assume this gas price hike stemmed from Biden’s weak policies.

J.D. Vance also addressed the rally and praised the former president for addressing how China exploits the US. He also touched upon abortion and other issues, explaining how the Biden administration was failing the people. Vance added how he was skeptical of the former president at first but eventually aligned goals with his vision.

According to Vance, Trump exposed how corrupt American politics really were and that it was necessary to regain control. Even though Vance was late to jump on the bandwagon and support him, Trump admitted that he made for a great candidate to win the Ohio Senate race. Trump hopes that Vance will be able to push forward the America First objective in Congress.

According to the polls, Vance’s popularity is increasing after he got endorsed by Trump.

https://americanwatchdog.com/trump-campaigns-for-vance-and-highlights-bidens-failures-at-ohio-rally/

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Foul ball pop-up heads into the stands — directly at a man bottle-feeding an infant. What happens next is nothing short of incredible.
April 27, 2022  

Video footage of a foul ball flying into the stands at a recent game between the Cincinnati Reds and San Diego Padres has gone viral after a man bottle-feeding an infant deftly caught the ball — all while avoiding spilling a single drop of milk.

What are the details?
The now-viral foul ball came rushing at spectator Jacob Kingsley while he was bottle-feeding his child during Tuesday night's game at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Video captured the moment the ball flew at Kingsley as he held the baby in his arms. Kingsley could be seen ever so slightly leaning out of his seat and putting up his free hand to catch the ball — never once flinching or disrupting the child's feeding time.

What is being said about this?
Kingsley told Bally Sports that he saw the ball and immediately went into protection mode.

"Safety first, obviously," he told reporter Jim Day. "I saw the ball pop up and just wanted to keep him happy and so did my best to protect him at the same time. I reached a hand up, had some fierce competition, but it ended up happening great, but baby first."

Kingsley added that the heroic save coincided with his infant son's very first Reds game.

"He probably didn't even know what was happening, but this will be a great memory to share with him," he told Day. "It's his first Reds game and so we have the certificate there, too."

Kingsley's wife, Jordan, said that she was proud of her husband's actions.

"He took the job seriously," she gushed. "Baby's happy, I'm happy, and I'm just impressed."

The Cincinnati Reds shared the moment on the team's Twitter page, where they captioned the clip, "Catching a foul ball while bottle-feeding the baby... just dad things."
The video has been viewed more than 1.5 million times at the time of this reporting.

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MSNBC Host Complains Elections Could Be Swayed Through Twitter Censorship
April 26, 2022

Liberal pundits will find any way to tie things back to Donald Trump. After multi-billionaire Elon Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion MSNBC host Ari Melber reacted to Twitter’s purchase by telling viewers that they should be paying attention to Twitter since “the world’s richest person, who is very good at accumulating wealth and power, thinks this is worth spending ten of billions of dollars on because, frankly, he thinks it’s that valuable and he thinks it may help him.”

The Daily Wire reports:

“Trump, by the way today is claiming that he won’t even return to Twitter if the ban were lifted but few take what Donald Trump says seriously on that score,” said Melber. “So, what is happening here? This is far bigger than Trump or Elon Musk. They are symptoms of the world we are living in where technology has outpaced any of our ability to deal with it.”

Melber expressed anxieties that one person can own “all of Twitter,” saying, “If you own all of Twitter or Facebook or what have you, you don’t have to explain yourself.”

“You don’t even have to be transparent,” he continued, before suggesting that the owner of Twitter could sway elections. “You could secretly ban one party’s candidate, or all of its candidates, all of its nominees, or you could just secretly turn down the reach of their stuff and turn up the reach of something else and the rest of us might not even find out about it until after the election.”

“Elon Musk says this is all to help people because he is just a free speech, philosophically clear open minded helper, a world helper, if you will,” he added. “Is that true? Should you take him at his word?”

Less than 24 hours since buying Twitter and Musk is already being accused by the left of trying to steal an election. What wild narrative will liberals come up with next?

It really doesn't matter because whatever they say, we all know that they are f**ked in the head. And that keeps us amused.

https://trumptrainnews.com/2022/04/26/msnbc-host-complains-elections-could-be-swayed-through-twitter-censorship/?wmg=1

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The Challenges Ahead for Musk and Twitter
Now comes the heavy lifting of ensuring free speech while getting rid of the platform's odious extras.

Apr. 27, 2022

Now that the world's richest man has purchased what National Review's misanthropic Kevin Williamson calls "an embarrassing, grotesque, vicious, money-losing social-media company" — now that he's paid 44-freaking-billion dollars for a snowflaky entity whose employees hate his guts and whose leadership lost $221 million last year — now the hard work begins.

The hard work, of course, is ensuring real free speech while remaking Twitter into what Musk has dubbed "the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated." Williamson doesn't think Musk can do it, because, in his words, "mankind is a fallen creature." He's right about our fallenness — especially the fallenness of certain fanatics who live on Twitter — but he's also unduly pessimistic, especially where it concerns a non-car guy who remade the car industry, and a non-space guy who remade the space industry. Think about it: The "progressive" board of a "progressive" social media company slammed the door in Musk's face little more than a week ago. And now he owns them. So we suspect Musk won't be calling Williamson for business advice, nor working overtime to secure his sanction.

"I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features," said Musk, "making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans."

Great. But how? It's an ambitious vision, and it'll be a heavy lift for Musk.

As columnist Christopher Bedford writes:

The first two are important steps: If successful, these changes will make the service far more usable, tame bot-driven mobs, and finally and permanently deflate the censors' favorite "Russian bots" bogeyman (as well as future bot-boogeymen to come). Publicizing algorithms, however, is essential. Silicon Valley's algorithms have achieved near-mythic status within the censorship regime, catching fact and fiction, journalists and politicians, Christians and activists, scientists and concerned parents alike in their nets.

As Bedford correctly notes, the resulting censorship "leans heavily toward viewpoints that dissent from the left-wing narrative," but when those decisions to silence the opposition prove indefensible, Twitter's leaders simply blame "the algorithm" — and then they skip off merrily in search of their next conservative victim. Algorithmic transparency puts an end to this.

Whom Musk picks to run the show will also be critical. He needs someone who shares his vision on free speech, and Twitter's current CEO, hard-left Parag Agrawal, ain't it. Nor is Agrawal's more Musk-friendly predecessor, Jack Dorsey, who simply doesn't have enough steel in his spine to stare down The Mob. "Personnel is policy," as Ronald Reagan's director of personnel, Scott Faulkner, once said. And now more than ever.

As for the rank and file, we saw somewhere that today's threats of migration and mass resignation from Twitter are likely as hollow as that hardy perennial of moving to Canada now that [insert Republican] is president. Go ahead: Make our day. Besides, Joe Biden can teach coal miners to code, right?

Content moderation will also be a challenge. After all, just because speech is free doesn't mean all speech is acceptable — think porn, spam, racial slurs, smee posts and calls to violence, for example.

But, as Vivek Ramaswamy and Jed Rubenfeld write in The Wall Street Journal: "Racist and sexist speech expresses an opinion, however odious, and banning opinions is the essence of viewpoint discrimination. That's why the U.S. Constitution doesn't allow the government to ban hate speech."

One way to curtail this is, as they suggest, through simple opt-in buttons: "Mr. Musk could keep in place all of Twitter's offensive-speech protocols, but give every user the ability to opt in or out of them. If a user doesn't want to see hate speech, there's no reason he should have to. The same goes for constitutionally protected sexually explicit material. A more ambitious option would be to harness artificial intelligence and develop an individualized filtering mode." Of course, this latter solution would tend to create online echo chambers, which aren't conducive to a true digital marketplace.

For a clue as to how Musk might moderate Twitter's content, he wrote last week, "A social media platform's policies are good if the most extreme 10% on left and right are equally unhappy." This shows that the guy is as much a pragmatist as he is an absolutist. He realizes that the latter necessitates the former.

It'll be interesting to see how all this unfolds — and, hopefully, it unfolds favorably for freedom.

https://patriotpost.us/articles/87969-the-challenges-ahead-for-musk-and-twitter-2022-04-27?mailing_id=6637&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.6637&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

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Two Tech Titans Take Their Lumps
The market has humbled Facebook and Netflix in recent weeks, proving that today’s tech giants are just as vulnerable as everyone else.

It’s been a rough stretch for Mark Zuckerberg and Reed Hastings. Given their companies’ shockingly poor stock performance in recent months, one might even say that these two tech titans have been defanged.

Zuckerberg and Hastings, the CEOs of Facebook and Netflix, respectively, represent two-fifths of the vaunted FAANG group, which also includes Amazon, Apple, and Google. As CNBC reports: “In the five months since the Nasdaq’s peak late last year, Netflix and Facebook (now Meta Platforms) have gotten crushed, giving up most of the gains they’d accumulated over the prior half decade. Netflix is down nearly 68% since the Nasdaq peak on November 19, while Facebook has lost over 45% of its value since then and is down more than 50% from its high two months earlier.”

Just how big and bad is the FAANG group? Economist Stephen Moore puts it in perspective: “Among the five of them, their market cap reached $6 trillion last year, which is more than the GDP of all but a small handful of entire countries. Moreover, their net worth is larger than the entire annual output of India, with more than 1 billion people.”

So when Netflix, the video streaming service that has become nearly as ubiquitous in American households as high-speed Internet, loses a whopping 35% of its stock value, which it did last Wednesday, it leaves a mark. But that’s what happens when you lose subscribers for the first time in more than 10 years, and when you report that you expect to lose as many as two million more in the current quarter. As Moore notes, Netflix’s Black Wednesday was one of the most significant single-day sell-offs in the history of stocks.

Facebook, which reports its earnings next week, isn’t likely to take as big a hit as Netflix, but the folks whose CEO brought you President Joe Biden will likely get some additional comeuppance to go along with the creative destruction they felt when they missed their numbers during their last earnings report in February. Indeed, Zuck’s social networking behemoth has lost a stunning half a trillion dollars of late.

Moore, the unabashed free-marketeer who was once the senior economics writer for the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, laments the loss of wealth caused by the collapse of these widely owned stocks. But, he writes, the ultimate effect is a good one:

I carry no water for Big Tech, and I’m as frustrated with the free speech infringements against conservatives as anyone. But cries of “monopoly” are so early 20th century. Just as no one worries about Standard Oil, Microsoft or General Motors taking over their industries, we see the same cutthroat survival tactics in the hypercompetitive tech sector. This kind of competition is great news for the consumer. It lowers prices and makes a mockery of the “monopoly” rants.

As he rightly notes, our nation dominates the tech world because we’ve allowed the digital economy to remain mostly tax- and regulation-free. On the other hand, of course, we’ve allowed these Silicon Valley leftists to suppress the free expression of those with whom they disagree politically. But that reality, too, was dealt a serious blow this week when self-proclaimed free-speech absolutist Elon Musk acquired Twitter.

What’s next? It’s hard to say. And it’s hard to imagine that the likes of Google and Amazon are looking over their respective shoulders. But they are. And they ought to be. Pussies!

https://patriotpost.us/articles/87947-two-tech-titans-take-their-lumps-2022-04-27?mailing_id=6637&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.6637&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body

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POLL: Numbers Hurt Biden Plans For The Country
A New Poll Has Thrown A Wrench in Biden’s 2024 Plans

From the way Joe Biden talks about the 2024 presidential election, one might think that he’s got glowing approval ratings and many accomplishments to be proud of since taking office.

Of course, as Americans are painfully aware, the opposite is true when it comes to the current president. Biden’s national disapproval rating surpasses five in ten.

Meanwhile, at the state level, the president is also carrying net negatives that will seriously derail his party members with elections coming up in the midterms.

Despite all of these problems and so many others, the president speaks with confidence about his plans to seek re-election. Apparently, Biden even informed his ex-boss, former President Obama, that he’s very much eager to run for re-election and face former President Trump again.

A new poll shows that few others share this outlook, as documented by PJ Media.

The Latest Horrible Poll For Biden

At this point, having terrible poll numbers is par for the course for this president. However, data from I&I/TIPP brings especially bad news to Biden.

When the public was questioned on which Democrat they’d like to see run for president in 2024, 28% told the pollster they were uncertain. This was then followed up by 19% who expressed support for Biden running again and 6% who wanted “other” Democrats to seek the Oval Office.

It’s not a good look for an incumbent president when fewer than two in ten Americans would like him to seek re-election. However, this data isn’t all that shocking. People of all different political views are dealing with more expensive prices, higher interest rates, growing crime, etc.

Meanwhile, Biden’s earned backlash from his own party for failing to follow through on student loan debt promises and working to rip down Title 42.

No matter what Biden is telling Obama or others close to him, he’s in extremely poor shape when it comes to re-election plans.

More Bad Polls For Biden’s 2024 Plans

As the president talks about his interest in running for a second term, he remains adamant that he’s the only Democrat who can beat Trump.

However, the polls don’t support this outlook, either. Multiple polls putting Trump against Biden have shown the former president leading his successor by six points or more.

It’s unclear where Biden is getting his information from or why he thinks he’s in a strong position for re-election. If the president were truly paying attention to the polls and overall sentiment from the American public, he’d realize just what poor shape he’s in.

https://republicanpost.net/a-new-poll-has-thrown-a-wrench-in-bidens-2024-plans/

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The Explanation to Joe Biden’s Lack of Interviews is Finally Here

During the very onset of Biden’s time in the White House, the administration worked at length to keep him hidden from the public. Very quickly, it became clear the president’s handlers were not comfortable with him openly communicating with the public.

As Biden’s presidency carries out its second year, the White House is still trying to keep him on a short leash. Look no further than this past Easter. During a White House event, one of the staffers dressed up as an Easter bunny had to move Biden away from a pack of reporters.

Between this and other open gaffes that the administration has been forced to correct, it’s clear that Biden is a loose cannon.

However, when it comes to the lack of interviews the president engages in, the mystery behind this has finally been revealed, per Red State.

More Coverups From the White House

During a CNN segment, host Chris Wallace pressed White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Biden’s lack of interviews. The current president has given notably fewer interviews than others to come before him. It stands out, especially in light of all the other open issues Biden faces.

Psaki, of course, didn’t want to give an upfront answer. The White House press secretary instead dodged the question and avoided sharing the truth with the American public.

Meanwhile, Wallace laid various examples at Psaki’s feet of Biden being “sheltered” from the media. Still, even with all the examples laid out before her, the press secretary refused to vocalize the obvious answer.

The Truth About Biden’s Lack of Interviews

Psaki’s refusal to be open about Biden’s lack of interviews doesn’t make the truth any less real.

The reality is that Biden’s interviews are rare because he’s simply not up to them. Americans have seen this time and time again.

Last week, the president was asked at the White House about the immigration policy known as Title 42; yet, he replied with comments about mask mandates on airplanes.

During a recent visit to South Carolina, the president finished his speech and then stuck out his hand to absolutely no one. Before this, Biden went overseas and made reckless comments about the war in Ukraine that his administration later walked back.

The White House will never come out and openly admit that Biden is dealing with serious cognitive issues. Nevertheless, every time America gets even a glimpse at the president, this reality becomes more apparent. Those morons are fooling no one but themselves.

https://informingamerica.com/the-explanation-to-joe-bidens-lack-of-interviews-is-finally-here/

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"No idea is final."

-Taika Waititi

To Taika Waititi, directing, writing, and acting aren’t just jobs, but tools for his true profession: being creative. The New Zealander describes his artistic process as neverending, because every work elicits a conversation with his audience.

In an interview with The Talks, published the day after Waititi won the 2020 Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for Jojo Rabbit, he revealed the importance of experimentation. Once a plan is in place, it’s time to consider fresh perspectives. There are no limits to where your imagination — or other people’s insights — can take you.

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Discovery+ Launching New Series Spotlighting Teen Drag Queens

Discovery+ plans to launch a new show in June called “Generation Drag” that follows five teens as they enter the world of drag queens.

It’s a wonder Disney did not conceptualize this first.

The six-episode series is executive produced by “Dancing With the Stars” host Tyra Banks, and follows the preparation of Jameson, Noah, Vinny, Bailey, and Nabela — along with their parents — for the grand finale. From the “some connections are too obvious to ignore” file, the series will conclude with a full drag queen performance by the teens at an annual event called “Dragutante.”

In Denver, Colorado. A quick internet check confirms this is the same Colorado that just last week offered asylum to Mickey and Minnie Mouse over Florida’s draconian laws protecting small children.

Organizers call Dragutante a “drag ball” for children ages eight to 18 where the kids “can express themselves through the performance art of Drag.” They boast that the participants are able to work side by side with professional drag queens to create their makeup and look as an expression of their “inner diva.”

They go on to tout the event as a way for professional drag queen performers and LGBTQIA+ community organizations to make a difference in the lives of the next generation. That’s an interesting admission.

Banks says the teens are “bravely navigating” their coming maturity and applauds the “beauty” of their acceptance. The former model adds she cannot wait for “these popping personalities” to display their “fierceness” for the audience.

Howard Lee, President of TLC Streaming and Network Originals, calls Generation Drag “a heartfelt and joyous coming of age series.”

In a nation where public libraries host events such as the “Drag Queen Story Hour,” such as this can hardly be surprising. The program actually has a website that touts having drag queens read stories to children “captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood.”

A reality television series about teenage, often referred to as underage, drag queens. Is it any wonder that parents in Florida and Virginia along with cities and towns across the country are rebelling against what the entertainment industry feels is appropriate for their underage children?

https://thecongressionalinsider.com/discovery-launching-new-series-spotlighting-teen-drag-queens/

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The Left Hates Real Fairness, Wants Equity
Equity to them is another word for revenge.

APRIL 27, 2022

Ben Carson is one of the most outstanding men of our times. World famous neurosurgeon, writer, Cabinet member, and presidential candidate are just a few of his achievements. Here he explains the difference between fairness and equity.

Carson: Just over a year ago, I wrote about the dangers of the left’s seemingly innocuous shift of vernacular from “equality” to “equity.” Instead of pursuing the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s ideal of judging people by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin, the Biden administration committed to a different path.

Equity’s worldview, as I see it, starts with the proposition that the white majority is guilty of bigotry and oppression, and that all differential outcomes between groups are solely the result of that bigotry and oppression. Equity proponents therefore argue that retributive actions against the majority are necessary to correct those wrongs – we’ll get to that later.

So, what has the Biden administration done to achieve its goal of redistribution, driven by race-based victimization narratives that demonize entire groups, AKA “equity” since I last wrote on the topic?

First and foremost was the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson. From the beginning, the administration said it was going to appoint a woman of color. Full stop. Not the best person for the job, not the most qualified person for the job; the only qualification in their mind was based on race and sex.

That is not to say, Justice Jackson was not qualified for the position, but it follows a pattern of treating groups of people differently based solely on race, as long as it serves their agenda. This is what we used to call racism, and those not blinded by identity politics still recognize it as such. Take for example the many members of the liberal media who underscored that Judge Jackson would be the: “First Black Supreme Court Justice”, only to undercut and in many cases completely ignore the accomplishments of Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas.

This race-based hiring initiative is not just a qualification to be appointed to the highest court in the land. No, the Biden Administration has taken that misguided idea and applied it to almost all of their personnel decisions. Executive Order 14035 is littered with mandates to every Executive Agency and Department demanding that all recruitment; hiring; background investigation; promotion…performance evaluations… professional development programs; mentoring programs…internship, fellowship, and apprenticeship programs… pay and compensation policies; benefits…disciplinary or adverse actions, all be based on equity. Your background and skin color now determine your job performance, not how hard you work or how well you perform. Can you imagine if this was implemented in any other profession?

Another striking section from this Executive Order reads as follows: “implement workplace policies to prevent gender-based violence (including domestic violence, stalking, and sexual violence); and reasonable accommodations for employees who are members of religious minorities.”

There is nothing innately sinister about that ordinance, but the administration’s implementation proves it was not designed to be enforced as written. The administration’s COVID vaccine requirement for federal workers did not make “reasonable accommodations” for those with a religious exemption. That decision was subsequently struck down by the Supreme Court with that as a partial basis. This is a perfect illustration of equity being used as an agenda implementation tool.

https://www.lifezette.com/2022/04/the-left-hates-real-fairness-wants-equity/?utm_source=daily-email&utm_medium=email

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Psaki Blames Trump for Border Crisis Claiming
Biden Has It Under Control

There is nothing new about presidential administrations blaming the previous administration for its ills. It is to be expected at the beginning of any administration. The Biden administration has taken it to a new art form, however. Jen Psaki was asked a question about the border and managed to throw Trump under the bus while at the same time claiming Biden is leading from the front.

The Border Patrol is reporting that it is on pace for 2 million known contacts in 2022. That is a record by all accounts. There is a direct correlation between when Biden was elected and when the numbers at the border began to surge. The administration has adopted specific strategies that it knows will increase the numbers. Retracting Title 42, for example.

Jen Psaki knows that the border crisis has been purposefully engineered by the administration and so does the press corps. Mentioning Trump is the ultimate red herring. It distracts both conservatives and liberals from the real issue. Namely, that the far left wants as many people coming across the southern border as possible.

The common wisdom is that this strategy is to build future voters. This is only partially true. The crisis also has the added benefit that it pulls focus from other things that the administration is doing. Immigration is a hot-button issue for conservatives. It is one of the reasons that Donald Trump got elected. The left would love for there to be an endless fight over the immigration issue as they continue to erode the rest of the nation’s institutions.

The Democrats know that they are going to suffer generational losses in the midterms. That means they must try and solidify whatever gains they can before then. As the border crisis worsens there will be only so much oxygen left for conservatives to battle on other fronts. The blame-shifting by Psaki is not the result of lazy thinking. She knows exactly what she is doing. If conservatives do not wake up, an open border will be the least of their problems.

https://republicanpost.net/psaki-blames-trump-for-border-crisis-claiming-biden-has-it-under-control/

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Elon Musk Slams Trump’s TRUTH Social App
April 27, 2022

Is a feud brewing between former President Donald Trump and new Twitter owner Elon Musk?

The multi-billionaire smacked Trump’s social media app TRUTH Social for its “terrible name” and said the app only exists because of Twitter’s censorship– an issue Musk says he intends to tackle head-on.

Fox Business reports:

Musk, who struck a deal Monday to buy the social media giant for roughly $44 billion, replied to a post he wrote late Tuesday that showed Truth Social has passed Twitter on a ranking of Top Free Apps in Apple’s app store.

“Truth Social (terrible name) exists because Twitter censored free speech,” Musk wrote.

“Should be called Trumpet instead!” the SpaceX CEO replied shortly after, referencing the fact that Truth Social was founded by former President Donald Trump’s Trump Media & Technology Group.

Musk, who has frequently criticized Twitter for its abundant censorship, has said he intends to use the platform to promote free speech.

Trump and Musk have had a friendly relationship in the past. On Tuesday, Musk enraged his liberal critics by tweeting that Twitter’s suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story was “obviously incredibly inappropriate.”

https://trumptrainnews.com/2022/04/27/elon-musk-slams-trumps-truth-social-app/?wmg=1

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12 Job Alternatives For Soon To Be Fired
Twitter Content Moderators

Twitter will be going through some changes in the coming weeks as it transitions from a thought police enforcement zone to an actual social media platform. One big change will be the removal of employees who don't understand the difference between disagreement and hate speech. But don't worry! We see you and we hear you, former Twitter employees!

Here are some new jobs that fit your expansive skillset:

1) White House Press Secretary: Wow! What a prestigious position! Too bad there can be only one. You'll have to fight it out with your several hundred colleagues for this one.

2) Person who dresses up as the Easter Bunny to secretly run the country: What little boy, girl, or non-binary "they" hasn't dreamed of growing up to be a shadow president in an uncomfortable costume?

3) North Korean General: This job is just so perfect for you.

4) Jr. Pronoun Enforcer at your local middle school: Sorry, no internet anonymity this time. You'll have to call MAGA hat-wearing Suzy Mayworth a gender racist to her face.

5) The person at Pfizer who pays test subjects to keep quiet: Meet interesting people with strange and exotic new mutations!

6) Elite Hacker for Chinese State Media: It's a full-time job deleting pictures of Tiananmen Square from the Internet. Job security! Nice!

7) Cashier for the CNN+ "Going Out Of Business Extravaganza!": This is a temporary position.

8) Chief of Staff to the Vice President: Also a temporary position.

9) Disney Groomer: You're probably already doing this for free. Why not get paid?

10) Clown: Be the Bozo you were born to be!

11) Tesla Parking Attendant at Twitter HQ: The new Twitter overlord is most merciful.

12) Chinese Movie Editing: It's like normal movie editing but you cut out all the LGBT content from Hollywood films. It's censorship in the other direction. You got this!

Or just go work at Google I guess.

https://babylonbee.com/news/12-job-alternatives-for-soon-to-be-fired-twitter-content-moderators

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