Democrats and their media sycophants have ignored or dismissed voter fraud around the country, even in instances when indictments occur. But they have suddenly concluded that “nonexistent” voter fraud is real and needs to be thoroughly investigated because it allegedly may have benefited the Republican candidate in a North Carolina congressional district.
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Conservative firebrand Laura Loomer has handcuffed herself to the front door of Twitter headquarters in New York City to protest online censorship and is live-streaming the encounter. Twitter recently put Loomer’s account on a permanent suspension.
Update: the NYPD has reportedly arrested Laura Loomer.
So Laura Loomer handcuffed herself to the Twitter headquarters.https://t.co/iWI2O2qyMz
— Kassy Dillon (@KassyDillon) November 29, 2018
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Although Loomer — who often uses the left’s confrontational tactics against them — is receiving criticism by dismissive liberals and conservatives, especially the blue-check Twitter cohort, the demonstration continues with a heavy police presence. It doesn’t appear that she is leaving anytime soon.
That said, in this era of politically motivated social media suspensions, outright bans, shadowbanning, de-platforming, de-monetization, inflated or squelched trends, and so on, is this form of street theater completely out of line?
I support Laura Loomer. https://t.co/FPiPM36Av3
— Jeff Giesea🌿 (@jeffgiesea) November 29, 2018
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In June 2017, Loomer, an independent journalist, rushed the stage at Shakespeare in the Park during a contemporary interpretation of Julius Caesar to protest the the assassination of a Trump lookalike in the play’s Caesar role.
Y'all liberals (I love you all) who read me don't get this Laura Loomer stuff.
Breaking the 4-minute mile was seen as impossible. Roger Bannister broke it, and since then 1,400 followed him.
"Conservatives" never engaged in left-wing style activism.
Today the game changed.
Brexit champion Nigel Farage admits that the pending withdrawal agreement is a good deal…for the European Union. For the United Kingdom, just the opposite.
In the Brexit back and forth, Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May and her team essentially gave away the store, plus the farm and the fisheries, to EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier with next to nothing in return. Given the one-sided outcome, Farage says it’s the worst deal in history.
In the June 23, 2016, referendum, the British public voted to leave or exit the EU and reclaim the country’s sovereignty, including control over its borders, Virtually the entire political and media establishment coalesced around the anti-Brexit or “Remain” viewpoint.
Leave Doesn’t Mean Leave?
May’s plan, which already gained the quick approval of EU top leadership, seems to be Brexit in Name Only or soft/fake Brexit, or even worse. That’s because the U.K. will lose its voting representation in the EU Parliament while still subject to EU governance if May’s plan goes through.
Speaking at the European Parliament where he is a member, Farage pointed out that the flawed deal “keeps Britain in the Customs Union and stuck with the EU’s rulebook.” See clip below.
I bet Barnier can hardly believe his luck that he has come up against someone as weak as @Theresa_May. pic.twitter.com/js1HZ379UD
— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) November 29, 2018
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Perhaps one of the world’s best orators who speaks without relying on a teleprompter, Farage also predicted that the British Parliament, the House of Commons, would vote against the deal when it comes up on or about December 11.
He again insisted that a no-deal outcome would allow the U.K. to effectively negotiate individual trade deals under World Trade Organization rules when the country officially separates from the EU on March 29, 2019.
May Receives a Message
Several vocal pro-Brexit members of parliament have sent a letter to Theresa May asking that she change course before the vote because the deal she is pushing makes “a no-deal scenario more likely.”
Based on current atmospherics and what the bookies think, most parliamentarians in the Conservative and Labor parties intend to vote down the deal, but never underestimate the ability of politicians to cave.
A devoted globalist, May supported the Remain side in the referendum, but upon taking office as prime minister, promised that Brexit means Brexit and she would honor the will of the people.
She also said that no deal is better than a bad deal.
Related story:
Theresa May’s Brexit Deal Is a Tough Sell or Sell Out
Westmonster published the letter, signed by Brexiteer luminaries such as Jacob Rees-Mogg, Priti Patel, David Davis, which reads in part:
“But while respecting your efforts, we have grave concerns that your proposal does not take back control of our borders our money and our laws; does not permit us to negotiate new trade deals with the rest of the world; and does not safeguard our own precious United Kingdom…Being unable to leave the customs union without the EU’s permission would place the UK into a legal black hole. This is unprecedented in international treaty law.”
The authors also note that May’s plan requires the British taxpayer to fork over to the EU an estimated $39 billion and “hand the EU the keys to our destiny.”
For reasons that defy common sense, Northern Ireland would also be subject to more onerous EU rules than the rest of the U.K. under May’s agreement.
To protect British interests, this Brexiteer group also recommends that the short-from, so-called Brexit Political Declaration have the same legal effect as the complicated, EU-friendly Withdrawal Agreement itself. They also advocated a Canadian-style free-trade deal that would free Britain of the heavy-handed EU oversight and bureaucracy.
May’s FrEUdian Slip https://t.co/qOcXGdVclj pic.twitter.com/hJ0BGEsmoc
An MSNBC reporter on the scene contradicted the mainstream media narrative that Central American migrants are primarily women and children and were comprised of those seeking political asylum rather than economic benefits.
The media rolled out this same trope in promoting open-borders, mass-immigration policies in Europe.
Said fair-and-balanced reporter MSNBC Gadi Schwartz:
“You’re going to see a lot of families here, a lot of women and children, but the truth is the majority of the people that are part of this caravan … the majority of them are men…From what we’ve seen, the majority are actually men, and some of these men have not articulated that need for asylum. Instead, they have talked about going to the United States for a better life and to find work.”
Hopefully this reporter won’t be hauled into HR for straying from the liberal groupthink.
The echo chamber is also engaging in predictable faux outrage over border patrol agents using tear gas on mostly adult male migrants who were throwing rocks and bottles at them.
Yet another example of a quote attributed to playwright/filmmaker David Mamet who apparently opined that “In order to continue advancing their illogical arguments modern liberals have to pretend not to know things…”
The Democrat-media establishment seems to have forgotten that the Obama administration also used the same techniques at the border when necessary.
I'm certain that all of the media figures attacking @realDonaldTrump for using tear gas at the border publicly spoke out against Obama for doing the same when he was in office.
Our fair & balanced media would never engage in selective outrage. 🙄https://t.co/imOmDZ0kiy
Twitter has reinstated the account of U.S. Marine Corps combat veteran and Houston-based talk show host Jesse Kelly. What was originally deemed an out-of-the blue, as it were, permanent ban on Sunday for the conservative pundit was reclassified by the influential social network as a temporary suspension, but without a specific explanation for either action.
From The Daily Wire:
“‘The account was temporarily suspended for violating the Twitter Rules and has been reinstated,’ a Twitter spokesperson told The Daily Wire. ‘We have communicated directly with the account owner.'”
"Temporarily suspended"? What a boldface lie. Twitter “permanently suspended” Jesse Kelly's account and told him it “will not be restored.” But now under the threat of a Congressional investigation, they say it was just "temporary," and now it's magically restored. https://t.co/T4w6D14AzF
Despite various coughing episodes, Hillary Clinton’s apologists in the national and international media dismissed as a conspiracy theory any speculation about the 2016 (and perhaps 2020) presidential candidate’s health.
The perception changed somewhat what the Democrat politician collapsed at the 2016 9/11 commemoration ceremony in lower Manhattan and was whisked away by Secret Service agents in footage captured by an ordinary citizen and put out on social media. Who knows if a news agency would have ever released the clip into the public domain.
Clinton’s doctor attributed the fainting spell to pneumonia.
Her doctor previously pronounced her fit to serve as commander in chief in a July 2015 statement, Fox News reported at the time. The report indicated that Clinton takes medication for an underactive thyroid and also suffers from allergies. She also suffered a concussion in 2012 and takes a prescription for blood clots.
“Hillary Clinton coughed her way through the primaries, hacked her way through the 2016 election and now is rasping her way through a 13-city book tour with Bill,” The Daily Wire quipped.
The Clinton presidential campaign deemed unfounded any allegations that the candidate was unwell.
Coughing in Canada
Last summer, Jesse Kelly predicted that the de-platforming of a fringe media personality like Alex Jones was merely a trial run for banning mainstream conservatives, libertarians, and populists from social media.
Exhibit A for the accuracy of this prediction is Jesse Kelly himself.
Similarly, perhaps the shenanigans in Broward County, Fla., Arizona, California, and elsewhere in the 2018 midterm elections constituted a trial run for the 2020 presidential contest.
A Marine Corps combat veteran and Houston-based talk show host, Kelly made these observations about free speech or lack thereof in The Federalist in August 2018.
“The leftists will not stop (and did not stop) at nutty Alex Jones, because they do not think you are much different from him…They just knew Jones was the weak member of the herd. They could pick him off as a test run. Next they’re coming for you.,.The same people who ceded control of public education, the federal bureaucracy, the media, movies, and music to the left have once again found another hill not worth dying on. ‘It’s only social media,’ they say. Yeah, fear not. Around 2.5 billion people use Facebook and Twitter. What’s the worst that can happen if we just let the left have them?…We need to stop whistling past the graveyard and realize the left is seeking total victory. They do not want to compete in a marketplace of ideas. Their goal is to silence dissenting voices.”
On Sunday, Twitter abruptly permanently suspended Jesse Kelly for unspecified rules violations without providing an explanation.
Shortly after his article hit the Internet, former congressional candidate Jesse Kelly discussed the censorship with FNC’s Tucker Carlson, likening it to modern-day book burning.
U.S. Senator Ben Sasse, a vocal Never Trumper in the GOP, backed Kelly even they disagree on politics.
“Jesse Kelly can’t stand me. And I think his tribal war scalping stuff is stupid and wrong. But that doesn’t matter much compared to the bigger picture here: The trend of de-platforming and shutting down speech is a bad precedent for our free speech society.”
Jesse Kelly can’t stand me. And I think his tribal war scalping stuff is stupid and wrong.
But that doesn’t matter much compared to the bigger picture here: The trend of de-platforming and shutting down speech is a bad precedent for our free speech society. https://t.co/V11v6uDZY3
Perhaps channeling John Kerry in a completely different context, British Prime Minister Theresa May was against Brexit before she was for it, which perhaps is all you need to know about the status of the negotiations with the European Union over the withdrawal agreement.
In a June 23, 2016, Brexit referendum, the U.K. voted to leave the EU and reclaim its sovereignty, The U.K. is formally scheduled to leave the EU on March 29, 2019.
As Home Secretary (roughly equivalent to the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary), May supported the Remain — i.e., anti-Brexit — side, but upon taking office from predecessor PM David Cameron, declared that Brexit means Brexit.
That she dragged her feet on invoking Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty to get the Brexit ball rolling, however, probably was a precursor to what has turned out, by many assessments, to be a virtual capitulation to the EU in the divorce settlement.
May has been criticized for giving away the store, the farm, and the fisheries in the negotiations over exiting the EU and in so doing, betraying the will of the British electorate. “Throughout, her overriding priority appears to have been: give the European Union whatever it asks for; then, when it grumbles that it’s not enough, give it some more,” Breitbart London asserted.
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Brexit in Name Only
Although many of the nuances of the complicated agreement which, to the surprise of no one won the approval of EU leaders, may be lost on those of us on this side of the Atlantic, May’s approach appears to be Brexit in Name Only.
May’s Conservative Party itself may be Conservative in Name Only, but that’s another matter.
Critics have argued that with all the one-way compromises and concessions, it forces the U.K. into vassal-state status and serfdom to the EU instead of a “proper” Brexit.
In an interview with the British online magazine Spiked, an Oxford professor gave the Brexit deal less than a ringing endorsement, adding that May’s inner circle of paper pushers wanted to stay in the EU.
“May’s deal seems to mean the most extraordinary set of constitutional innovations. It would give, for an indefinite period, power over a large part of our economy and legislation not only to a foreign power but also to an unelected committee. The EU will have the power to decide upon and implement a whole load of laws and regulations. We will be required to accept them and we will have to pay for the pleasure. I cannot think of any historical precedent for this – certainly not in any democratic country. It is astonishing that any government could for a moment consider this acceptable.”
May apparently never got the memo that good policy is often good politics, especially for careerist politicians who want to keep their jobs above all else.
By championing the current deal, she risks driving a wedge in the Conservative Party, losing her premiership, splintering the coalition with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) of Northern Ireland that is propping up her control of government levers in parliament, and possibly handing the reins of power to Jeremy Corbyn and the far-left Labor Party in the 2020 election, or possibly before.
By any measure, even if she is devoted to the globalist, corporatist agenda, how does this make any sense as practical matter?
Brexit Deal or No Deal?
According to Conservative MP Priti Patel, the EU outmaneuvered the May administration at every step and “instead of being bold enough to prepare to walk away from negotiations, we’ve succumbed to the EU’s bullying tactics.”
Does it sound to you like Obama’s handling of the Iran nuclear deal?
Brexit architect Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party who is a member of the European Parliament, has said, and continues to say, that no deal is better than bad deal.
According to Farage, the current proposal is the worst deal in history.
He added that a no vote would allow World Trade Organization rules to kick in, allowing the U.K. to negotiate trade arrangements with any country without the heavy-handed oversight by the Brussels-based EU bureaucracy. President Trump has already said that he would put the U.K. at the top of the list for a new free-trade accord.
Watch Nigel Farage on the BBC in which he maintains that May and her team have given in to virtually every demand from the EU.
https://youtu.be/a1fQX1Wk3aA
As an aside, Farage is no fan of de facto EU boss Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor as evidenced in the clip below.
Catch up on my latest European Parliament speech from earlier in the week. ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/LSPVYBowQB
— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) November 18, 2018
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Northern Ireland Expects the Same Status As the Rest of the U.K.
DUP official Sammy Wilson made these observations in Westmonster about the so-called “confidence and supply arrangement” through which his party is keeping May and the Conservatives (a.k.a. Tories) in power after she lost the parliamentary majority in the ill-advised June 2017 snap election.
“In return we expected the Prime Minister to bring back a deal from Brussels which freed the UK from the EU Customs Union, Single Market and the dictats of the [European Court of Justice]. We also expected her to ensure that the demands of the Irish Government and the EU negotiators to keep [Northern Ireland] tied to the EU would be resisted. She publicly and privately promised to honor these requirements which were part of her election manifesto but as the deal which she presented to the Cabinet and Parliament clearly shows she has broken her promises to the electorate, her own MPs and the people of [Northern Ireland].
“Instead of a deal which frees the UK from the shackles of EU membership she has volunteered to handcuff this country to the EU and then has handed the key to the EU to allow [chief negotiator] Michel Barnier and Co to decide if or when they will let us go free. In the case of [Norther Ireland] the handcuffs have been applied and the key has been thrown away.”
Nonetheless, May is stubbornly pushing Parliament to approve the deal in a vote that is scheduled for on or about December 11.
Several high-profile “Brexiteer” (Leave-supporting) members of the cabinet, including former London Mayor Boris Johnson, previously resigned from the government in protest over what they consider a deal that will keep Britain under the EU thumb.
Note that in the U.K., the “government” is equivalent to the administration in U.S. terms. Moreover, unlike here where a senator or congressman would have to step down to take a position with the administration, members of parliament routinely and simultaneously become government ministers and thus hold two jobs. Johnson and his like-minded colleagues still retain their seats in the House of Commons, the British parliament.
Brexit Deal “May” or “May” Not Get Through Parliament
Flip-flopping is always possible in politics, especially if inducements are on the table in exchange for votes (e.g., remember the “Cornhusker Compromise” and the “Louisiana Purchase” that, among other things, enabled Obamacare to pass?).
Many Conservative MPs have already announced they are voting against the deal, however, and even parliamentarians in the opposition, more globalist Labor Party, including Corbyn, have denounced the deal.
From Bloomberg Politics:
“Euroskeptics in May’s Conservative Party hate the withdrawal agreement and are vowing to oppose it because it forces the U.K. to keep close to the EU’s trade rules. Many pro-EU politicians in Britain also regard it as unacceptable because the U.K. will have no say over the rules it must observe.”
According to polls, the British public overwhelmingly wants a full Brexit rather than May’s watered-down version, but she doesn’t seem to be listening.
And making matters worse for those outside the globalist cohort, the transition period could be open ended and be equivalent to continued EU membership, as Breitbart London reported.
“The Remain-voting Prime Minister’s deal with the European Union — if ratified by the British Parliament and European Parliament — could condemn the United Kingdom to ‘perpetual purgatory’ or even no Brexit at all, as Britain’s departure would be followed by a lengthy ‘transition’ period in which it would remain subject to all the rules and regulations of an EU member-state, but without representation in the EU’s institutions.”
While all this is going on, the deal also requires the U.K. to continue to pour billions of taxpayer money into EU coffers.
The Spectator of London outlines five different scenarios that could emerge upon the upcoming Brexit vote in parliament.
May Makes Her Move
Theresa May spoke in the House of Commons on Monday to try to sell the Brexit deal to many skeptical lawmakers after which she will go on a Brexit sales-pitch tour try to convince the public at large.
The prime minister’s presentation starts at about the 14-minute mark.
Added: On his LBC radio show, Nigel Farage critiqued Theresa May’s Commons selling job.
I don’t think Theresa May is convincing anyone with her Brexit deal. #FarageOnLBC https://t.co/zHZ1Fe7sv0
In a quirk of professional sports, NBA nickname-sakes Linsanity and Vinsanity wound up playing for the same team this season, namely the Atlanta Hawks.
Undrafted out of Harvard, journeyman point guard Jeremy Lin had an headline-making ascendancy, that led to his Linsanity moniker, with the New York Knicks in February 2012. He leveraged that performance to a lucrative three-year, free-agent contract with the Houston Rockets. The oft-injured Lin was subsequently traded to the Los Angeles Lakers, and later landed with the Charlotte Hornets before signing a three-year deal with the Brooklyn Nets in July 2016. He missed most of the 2017 season because of a knee injury, and in July 2018, the Nets traded him to Atlanta.
https://youtu.be/JIHTi7cz3Qo
Future Hall of Famer Vince Carter, a.k.a. Vinsanity, still active in the NBA at age 41, reached a career 25,000-point milestone on Wednesday night in his first season with the Hawks. The Olympic Gold Medalist small forward is an eight-time NBA All-Star and Rookie of the Year who broke in with the Toronto Raptors after the Golden State Warriors traded him to the Canadian franchise in the first round of the 1998 NBA draft. After seven-plus seasons, the Raptors traded him to the-then New Jersey Nets in December 2004. The Nets traded him to the Orlando Magic in June 2009. Carter subsequently played for the Phoenix Suns, the Dallas Mavericks, the Memphis Grizzlies, and the Sacramento Kings, before signing with Atlanta in August 2018. He is a 17.6 points per game scorer over his long career.
Stop the Insanity?
With the Hawks mired in last place in the NBA’s Southeast division with an abysmal 3-16 record going into tonight’s home game at the Sate Farm Arena against the Charlotte Hornets, trade rumors are circulating around Jeremy Lin. It wouldn’t be outside the realm of possibility that a squad seemingly going nowhere this season would also consider moving a player of Vince Carter’s stature to a team in the playoff hunt.
In an interview with The Daily Caller, strident anti-Trump Hollywood and entertainment industry gossip blogger Perez Hilton admitted that, in general, agrees with the president about ending birthright citizenship, prompting an immediate backlash.
“The gossip king says he has been called a ‘racist’ among other nasty names on social media since he made the remarks a couple weeks ago. He also says he lost a thousand Twitter followers over it,” TDC reported.
I don’t agree with Donald Trump on many things, but I DO think that if a child is born in America to parents who are here illegally that they should not be granted automatic citizenship. And I say this as a liberal and Latina! https://t.co/AcLNjB9C37
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