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RedState Weekly Briefing: Witness Stutters, Karl Splutters, Biden Mutters

Welcome to the RedState Weekly Briefing — where we take a quick look at the week’s most viewed stories in case you missed any of them. Grab a cup of coffee, and sit down with this 21st Century Weekend Edition of your favorite (online) publication!

#1 - Hilarious: Climate Activist Humiliated by Sen. Kennedy Reveals What Dems Said to Him Afterward — by Nick Arama

Kennedy was unfailingly polite and just asked him some simple questions about carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. He also just reminded him of some of the things he'd posted in the past on social media on such topics as "defund the police'" that Schumacher said he wasn't able to remember. It was a great example of the vacuousness of many of the Democratic witnesses. It appeared that they threw him up there just because he was a skier and looked nice, and they had no idea if he knew anything or if he could answer questions. It said so much about the Democrats.

#2 - Marco Rubio Leaves Jonathan Karl Spluttering As He Lays Out Successes of Trump Versus Failures of Biden — by Susie Moore

Then their discussion turned to the recent rumors that former President Donald Trump may be eyeing Rubio as a potential running mate. That's when things took a somewhat humorous (albeit darkly humorous) turn, with Karl expressing utter disbelief that Rubio would want to associate himself in any way with the Bad Orange Man or could possibly lay blame at the feet of President Joe Biden for much of the chaos we're seeing at present. Watch as Karl splutters in the face of Rubio's deft portrayal of the stunning contrast between the two administrations:

#3 - '60 Minutes' Gets Caught Red-Handed After Interview With 'Misinformation Expert' — by Bonchie

To clarify, Community Notes on X is not run by the social media company itself. As the name suggests, users of the platform suggest notes, and only notes with enough consensus are placed on posts to add context or offer a correction. There is no system whereby self-proclaimed "misinformation researchers" get to "flag" posts and then have their commentary added on demand by the powers that be.

So is Starbird lying about the Community Notes system or is she just ignorant of how it works? Either way, the fact that she's complaining on "60 Minutes" about it as an "expert" does nothing for her credibility. Sure enough, it has now been revealed that Starbird is actually a Joe Biden donor who has received grants from his administration and worked with the DHS on censoring so-called "misinformation."

#4 - Fani Willis Delivers a New Threat to Donald Trump, Sets Up a Constitutional Crisis — by Bonchie

Despite Willis' tough talk, she has actually been slowed down. It's unlikely the Georgia-based trial will happen before the November election at this point, which leads to a big question: What happens if Trump wins and then this vindictive, political prosecutor still garners a conviction in a county with a heavily left-wing jury pool?

There's no easy answer to that. Whether a president can pardon himself is an open question, though one that would likely be answered in the affirmative. Whether a president can pardon himself from a state-level conviction is another issue and one that has no precedent. On its face, the answer appears to be no.

So what then? Are Fulton County authorities going to head to Washington to battle the Secret Service and take Trump into custody?

#5 - Biden Gets Heckled in Raleigh and Folds Like a Cheap Camera — by Nick Arama

"Be patient with them," Biden continued, apparently saying that to the people dealing with the activists. "They have a point." What point would that be, Joe? Throwing a lifeline out to Hamas terrorists? Biden did that himself with his UN Security Council vote. And now he's doing it again by giving these activists any credence. That's the weak guy we have occupying the office now. He will bend over for these folks because he doesn't really support our ally, and he thinks he needs the left's votes. He doesn't want to lose Michigan in the election, and Trump is now up in the polling there, too.

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irvinenewshq · 2 years

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Fettermans health introduced into query Ukraine cities rocked by missile strikes and extra high headlines

Good morning and welcome to Fox Information’ morning e-newsletter, Fox Information First. Subscribe now to get Fox Information First in your electronic mail. And this is what it is advisable know to begin your day … FETTERMAN’S FITNESS – Dem Senate candidate’s string of verbal misfires following stroke gasoline questions on marketing campaign path. Proceed studying … RUSSIA’S REVENGE – Ukrainian cities, together with Kyiv, rocked by missile strikes in what could also be retaliation for bridge bombing. Proceed studying … EQUITY-OBSESSED EDUCATION – Biden’s DOE specializing in woke agenda amid ‘catastrophic’ studying scores. Proceed studying … NOT-SO-FRIENDLY SKIES – Democrat metropolis council member says Blue Angels ought to be banned from flying over his metropolis. Proceed studying … WILL DEMS PAY IN THE MIDTERMS?: Former gov says America’s power chaos is Biden’s fault. Proceed studying … – POLITICS CRIME CRISIS HITS HOME – Two teenagers injured in drive-by assault exterior Republican NY gov. hopeful Lee Zeldin’s house. Proceed studying … ‘LATE TERM’ CONTROVERSY – Arizona Dem gov nominee Katie Hobbs seems to help abortion as much as delivery. Proceed studying … SECURE CANDIDATE – Stacey Abrams’ marketing campaign has spent over $1.2M on non-public safety since December. Proceed studying … MEDIA HIGH HOPES – Rep. Elise Stefanik makes massive prediction about GOP’s success in November. Proceed studying … RECESSION PREDICTION – Larry Summers says ‘extra doubtless than not’ there will likely be a recession inside 18 months. Proceed studying … TWEET FREEZE – Ye locked out of Twitter because of ‘violation’ of insurance policies. Proceed studying … PRIME TIME TREY GOWDY – Take note of the phrases in Rep. Cori Bush’s ‘defund’ rhetoric. Proceed studying … MARK LEVIN – Democrats are attacking the Structure. Proceed studying … STEVE HILTON – Biden’s power insurance policies are endangering the US. Proceed studying … IN OTHER NEWS ‘CONSIDER TWEAKS’ – Adjustments might be coming to Illinois’ SAFE-T act following public outcry. Proceed studying … SENIORS BENEFITS – Social Safety COLA replace coming this week – and it might be large. Proceed studying … ‘BOLDLY GO’ – William Shatner displays on fallout with ‘Star Trek’ pal. Proceed studying … HEALTHY QUESTIONS – 3 key issues ladies of all ages ought to ask earlier than their mammograms. Proceed studying … FOX WEATHER What’s it trying like in your neighborhood? Proceed studying… THE LAST WORD “[Democrats] are attacking the Structure, the First Modification, the Second Modification, the Fourth Modification, the Fifth Modification, the Tenth Modification, separation of powers, checks and balances.” – MARK LEVIN FOLLOW FOX NEWS ON SOCIAL MEDIA Fb Instagram YouTube Twitter LinkedIn SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTERS Fox Information First Fox Information Opinion Fox Information Way of life Fox Information Leisure (FOX411) DOWNLOAD OUR APPS Fox Information Fox Enterprise Fox Climate Fox Sports activities Tubi WATCH FOX NEWS ONLINE Fox Information Go Thanks for making us your first selection within the morning! We’ll see you in your inbox very first thing Tuesday. Originally published at Irvine News HQ

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ravnlghtft · 2 years

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City National Bank is Hollywood's "Bank to the Stars", and its parent company, RBC, is financing violations of Indigenous rights and fueling climate chaos.

This tool will send an email directly to RBC's leaders and demand that they defund Coastal GasLink and stop financing fossil fuels.

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Yesterday’s election results were dismal, for the people. (Like the BBBA negotiations.) Republicans and Corporate Democrats BOTH serve Big Money. The Republicans get paid to win, and the Dems are paid to lose. So, THEY all won yesterday. But...

People want Economic Justice, Climate Action, and Democracy. They will stand up and fight for it, on the very steps of powerful American institutions:

On October 29th, people all around the country, protested the Federal Reserve and demanded that it “use its regulatory powers and stop banks from funding climate disasters.”

More. You. Me. More People Power!

It’s up to us to save democracy in the U.S., and other nations, and to stop climate destruction from ruining our planet.

#climate distruction #people power #democracy #economic justice #protests #demostrations #2021 elections #federal reserve #defund fossil fuels #defund climate chaos

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" DEFUND CLIMATE CHAOS! " by Peg Hunter, used under CC BY SA Tilt-shift from original

#tiltshift #news #defund climate chaos #climate change #extinction rebellion

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graphic by Jonas Goonface, the author of a zine on the movement to stop Line 3

#stop line 3 #no line 3 #defund line 3 #line 3 #climate crisis #climate chaos #climate catastrophe #climate

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#petition #please sign and share #petitions #please sign this petition #please share #please sign #go green #stop global warming #global warming #climate activism #climate politics #climate action #climate science #environmental activism #stop fossil fuels #fuck fossil fuels #fossil fuel subsidies #build back fossil free #fossil fuels

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#environment #climate collapse #climate change #climate catastrophe #climate activism

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The global climate and ecological crises are more alarming than ever. The Amazon rainforest now emits more carbon than it absorbs due to rampant burning and deforestation. As people around the globe suffer through worsening climate catastrophes, financial institutions continue to fund the corporations perpetuating ecological destruction and human rights abuses. In response, the Stop the Money Pipeline Coalition has launched Deadline Glasgow: Defund Climate Chaos, a bold campaign in the lead-up to COP26 demanding an end to financial institutions' funding of climate destruction.

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Commentary: Biden Plus Harris Equals California Everywhere, a Nightmare We Must Reject !

by Julie Strauss Levin

Imagine a country where rolling blackouts are a common occurrence, where gasoline-powered cars are outlawed, and all new car sales must be electric by a date certain. Imagine a country where borders are open, sanctuary cities and towns are everywhere, where people here illegally are celebrated with lots of free things like healthcare and housing, and wage-earners pay for it all. Imagine a country where the radical Green New Deal is thrust upon us (out goes natural gas, oil and coal; in comes renewables; goodbye to your warm/cool home) and a nationwide absence of forestry management causes out-of-control fires that threaten homes and air quality.

Imagine a country that dictates cultural norms, imposes a radical sexual education curriculum starting in kindergarten, where abstinence-only and religious doctrine education are prohibited, and parents may opt out on a limited basis only.

Imagine a country where police officers are ostracized and defunding police departments is the norm, where there’s chaos on the streets, and the mob is celebrated. Imagine a country where a family’s home is no longer considered its castle. Imagine a country where the Second Amendment is in the crosshairs and decimating it is the result.

Imagine a country where income taxes will go up regardless of your income. (Biden-Harris’ claim that under $400,000 wage earners won’t see increased taxes is false, as per multiple studies including Penn’s Wharton School. “Taxes would increase at every income level under [Biden’s] presidency, with the bottom quintile’s after-tax income decreasing 0.5 percent, and the second, middle, and fourth quintiles all seeing after-tax income drop 0.4 percent. Likewise, wages are projected to decrease.”)

Imagine a country where the federal government re-imposes an Obama-Biden housing regulation that Trump ripped up, where Washington, DC bureaucrats dictate the zoning of suburbia, make decisions where to put high-density, low-income housing, re-draw school districts, make roads and transportation decisions, and do away with single-family zoning.

Imagine a country where there is one-party rule, and the rule is by Marxists and socialists. Sounds like a nightmare, right? Just look West to see a beautiful state gone disaster under the grip of the Democrats, who have reigned for far too long. The United States will become California on steroids because Biden-Harris are radical. Don’t be fooled by the folksy Uncle Joe scheme. Biden selected the most radical member of the Senate to be his sidekick, and they surround themselves with fellow radicals like Bernie Sanders and AOC. Biden is the one who bragged, “I am the Democratic[sic] party.” Well, if the shoe fits, Joe …

A Biden-Harris administration will make California seem tame. They will turn our exceptional country into California and pile on from there. Medicare for all, packing the Supreme Court, returning to the disastrous Iran deal and resuming payments to the world’s largest sponsor of terrorism, re-joining the Paris Climate Agreement, and abandoning our strong and close ally Israel are all on their to-do list.

It’s too late for California but it’s not too late to preserve and protect our exceptional country. As Thomas Paine eloquently said, “these are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”

The time is now upon us to stand tall and serve our country by firmly rejecting Biden-Harris and leaving all the radicals behind. And for that, men and women who revere our republic and cherish liberty will love and thank you for future generations to come.

Source ~ https://tennesseestar.com/2020/10/21/commentary-biden-plus-harris-equals-california-everywhere-a-nightmare-we-must-reject/

#Julie Strauss Levin is an attorney and patriot who loves her country.#Walk Away democratic Party ...

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#Rickyrenuncia: Bowing to popular pressure, Puerto Rican governor Ricardo Rossello has resigned

After weeks of mass demonstrations touched off by the publication of a trove of leaked chats and evidence of mass corruption by Puerto Rico's Center for Investigative Journalism, Ricardo Rossello has done what he swore he would not: resigned.

Rossello's departure was preceded by so many other high-profile resignations that the governor pro-tem will be Justice Secretary Wanda Vazquez, as the secretary of state position is currently vacant. For the next 17 months, Puerto Rico's government will be "virtually symbolic," and "largely ceremonial," in the words of University of Puerto Rico economist Juan Lara.

Puerto Rico has been battered by a series of catastrophes, all stemming from its colonial past: first there were the Wall Street banks that arranged to flog off incredible quantities of state-issued bonds, pocketing hundreds of millions in fees. Then there was Congress's unwillingness to support Puerto Rico through the inevitable insolvency, as they would have done for a majority-white, majority-wealthy US state.

Then came the official federal overthrow of Puerto Rico's government and its replacement with appointed finance-sector managers who oversaw a reign of austerity that saw cuts to schools, hospitals, pensions and infrastructure, leaving the island terribly vulnerable to any kind of shock -- including Hurricanes Maria and Irma, which flattened the island and tore through the weakened, brittle infrastructure like wet kleenex. The island was plunged into powerless darkness for months, while the racist president of the USA literally threw paper towels at them while belittling the country's few principled leaders.

Then came the mercenary occupation, and the ghastly lies about the death-toll, the sweetheart deals for politically connected Trumpland cronies, the coverups, and even Mark Zuckerberg laughing his way through a VR tour of the ravaged island, even as ethnic-cleansing corporate titans moved in to refashion the island as a bolt-hole for the super-rich with a captive workforce of groveling untermenschen to clean their toilets and rub their backs.

Then Trump took away the pennies for relief that had been earmarked for the American citizens of Puerto Rico and used them to fund his racist concentration camps, and defunded the agency that would measure the harms from his looting.

People can only be pushed so far. After the disasters, radical groups moved to the forefront, providing the relief that neither the local nor the national government would supply.

It's these same radical groups that took the lead after the Rossello leaks, feminists and socialists, who formed the vanguard of a mass-movement supported both by Puerto Ricans on the island and the vast Puerto Rican diaspora on the mainland, refusing to let Rossello spin his way out of his career-ending corruption and callousness.

Now, their efforts have paid off. The judge overseeing Puerto Rico's bankruptcy case has suspended the proceedings until after the next election, saying that the case could cause "chaos that I’m trying to tamp down."

I think the chaos is coming, though: Puerto Ricans did not fill the sweltering streets, day after day, merely to remove Rossello: they want something better. They want the recognition and dignity that is their legal and moral right as American citizens. They want climate justice and decolonization. They want reparations for more than a century of looting. They want it all.

https://boingboing.net/2019/07/25/ya-basta.html

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“It stood by as the core Gospel message—concern for the poor and the oppressed—was perverted into a magical world where God and Jesus showered believers with material wealth and power. The white race, especially in the United States, became God’s chosen agent.

Imperialism and war became divine instruments for purging the world of infidels and barbarians, evil itself. Capitalism, because God blessed the righteous with wealth and power and condemned the immoral to poverty and suffering, became shorn of its inherent cruelty and exploitation.

The iconography and symbols of American nationalism became intertwined with the iconography and symbols of the Christian faith. The mega-pastors, narcissists who rule despotic, cult-like fiefdoms, make millions of dollars by using this heretical belief system to prey on the mounting despair and desperation of their congregations, victims of neoliberalism and deindustrialization.

These believers find in Donald Trump a reflection of themselves, a champion of the unfettered greed, cult of masculinity, lust for violence, white supremacy, bigotry, American chauvinism, religious intolerance, anger, racism and conspiracy theories that define the central beliefs of the Christian right.

Trump has filled his own ideological void with Christian fascism. He has elevated members of the Christian right to prominent positions, including Mike Pence to the vice presidency, Mike Pompeo to secretary of state, Betsy DeVos to secretary of education, Ben Carson to secretary of housing and urban development, William Barr to attorney general, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court and the televangelist Paula White to his Faith and Opportunities Initiative. More importantly, Trump has handed the Christian right veto and appointment power over key positions in government, especially in the federal courts. He has installed 133 district court judges out of 677 total, 50 appeals court judges out of 179 total, and two U.S. Supreme Court justices out of nine. Almost all of these judges were, in effect, selected by the Federalist Society and the Christian right. Many of the extremists who make up the judicial appointees have been rated as unqualified by the American Bar Association, the country’s largest nonpartisan coalition of lawyers.

Trump has moved to ban Muslim immigrants and rolled back civil rights legislation. He has made war on reproductive rights by restricting abortion and defunding Planned Parenthood. He has stripped away LGBTQ rights. He has ripped down the firewall between church and state by revoking the Johnson Amendment, which prohibits churches, which are tax-exempt, from endorsing political candidates. His appointees throughout the government routinely use biblical strictures to justify an array of policy decisions including environmental deregulation, war, tax cuts and the replacement of public schools with charter schools, an action that permits the transfer of federal education funds to private “Christian” schools.

I studied ethics at Harvard Divinity School with James Luther Adams, who had been in Germany in 1935 and 1936. Adams witnessed the rise there of the so-called Christian Church, which was pro-Nazi. He warned us about the disturbing parallels between the German Christian Church and the Christian right. Adolf Hitler was in the eyes of the German Christian Church a volk messiah and an instrument of God—a view similar to the one held today about Trump by many of his white evangelical supporters. Those demonized for Germany’s economic collapse, especially Jews and communists, were agents of Satan. Fascism, Adams told us, always cloaked itself in a nation’s most cherished symbols and rhetoric. Fascism would come to America not in the guise of stiff-armed, marching brownshirts and Nazi swastikas but in mass recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance, the biblical sanctification of the state and the sacralization of American militarism. Adams was the first person I heard label the extremists of the Christian right as fascists. Liberals, he warned, as in Nazi Germany, were blind to the tragic dimension of history and radical evil. They would not react until it was too late.

Trump’s legacy will be the empowerment of the Christian fascists. They are what comes next. For decades they have been organizing to take power. They have built infrastructures and organizations, including lobbying groups, schools and universities as well as media platforms, to prepare. They have seeded their cadre into the political system. We on the left, meanwhile, have seen our institutions and organizations destroyed or corrupted by corporate power.

The Christian fascists, as in all totalitarian movements, need a crisis, manufactured or real, in order to seize power. This crisis may be financial. It could be triggered by a catastrophic terrorist attack. Or it could be the result of a societal breakdown from our climate emergency. The Christian fascists are poised to take advantage of the chaos, or perceived chaos. They have their own version of the brownshirts, the for-hire mercenary armies and private contractors amassed by Christian fascists such as Erik Prince, the brother of Betsy DeVos. The Christian fascists have seized control of significant portions of the judiciary and legislative branches of government. FRC Action, the legislative affiliate of the Family Research Council, gives 245 members of Congress a perfect 100% for votes that support the agenda of the Christian right. The Family Research Council, which has called on its followers to pray that God will vanquish the “demonic forces” behind Trump’s impeachment, is identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group because of its campaigns to discriminate against the LGBTQ community.

The ideology of the Christian fascists panders in our decline to the primitive yearnings for the vengeance, new glory and moral renewal that are found among those pushed aside by deindustrialization and austerity. Reason, facts and verifiable truth are impotent weapons against this belief system. The Christian right is a “crisis cult.” Crisis cults arise in most collapsing societies. They promise, through magic, to recover the lost grandeur and power of a mythologized past. This magical thinking banishes doubt, anxiety and feelings of disempowerment. Traditional social hierarchies and rules, including an unapologetic white, male supremacy, will be restored. Rituals and behaviors including an unquestioning submission to authority and acts of violence to cleanse the society of evil will vanquish malevolent forces.

The Christian fascists propagate their magical thinking through a selective literalism in addressing the Bible. They hold up as sacrosanct biblical passages that buttress their ideology and ignore, or grossly misinterpret, the ones that do not. They live in a binary universe. They see themselves as eternal victims, oppressed by dark and sinister groups seeking their annihilation. They alone know the will of God. They alone can fulfill God’s will. They seek total cultural and political domination. The secular, reality-based world, one where Satan, miracles, destiny, angels and magic do not exist, destroyed their lives and communities. That world took away their jobs and their futures. It ripped apart the social bonds that once gave them purpose, dignity and hope. In their despair they often struggled with alcohol, drug and gambling addictions. They endured familial breakdown, divorce, evictions, unemployment and domestic and sexual violence. The only thing that saved them was their conversion, the realization that God had a plan for them and would protect them. These believers were pushed by a callous, heartless corporate society and rapacious oligarchy into the arms of charlatans. All who speak to them in the calm, rational language of fact and evidence are hated and ultimately feared, for they seek to force believers back into “the culture of death” that nearly destroyed them.

We can blunt the rise of this Christian fascism only by reintegrating exploited and abused Americans into society, giving them jobs with stable, sustainable incomes, relieving their crushing personal debts, rebuilding their communities and transforming our failed democracy into one in which everyone has agency and a voice. We must impart to them hope, not only for themselves but for their children.

Christian fascism is an emotional life raft for tens of millions. It is impervious to the education, dialogue and discourse the liberal class naively believes can blunt or domesticate the movement. The Christian fascists, by choice, have severed themselves from rational thought. We will not placate or disarm this movement, bent on our destruction, by attempting to claim that we too have Christian “values.” This appeal only strengthens the legitimacy of the Christian fascists and weakens our own. We will transform American society to a socialist* system that provides meaning, dignity and hope to all citizens, that cares and nurtures the most vulnerable among us, or we will become the victims of the Christian fascists we created.”

Chris Hedges is a Truthdig columnist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a New York Times best-selling author, a professor in the college degree program offered to New Jersey state prisoners by Rutgers…

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/onward-christian-fascists/

* “There are many varieties of socialism and there is no single definition encapsulating all of them...” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism

..."democratic socialism" is really social democracy, as found in much of Europe and especially in the Nordic countries.[19] In 2018, The Week suggested that there was a trend towards social democracy in the United States and highlighted elements of its implementation in the Nordic countries, suggesting that Sanders’ popularity was an element in favor of its possible growth in acceptance.”... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Bernie_Sanders

#nonreligious #atheist #agnostic #secular humanist #skeptic #Religion #Christianity #religious insanity

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