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CNN’s @brikeilarcnn: Some of @GlennYoungkin’s messaging was “dog whistle racism”

@KirstenPowers: “1,000 percent"
@brikeilarcnn @GlennYoungkin @KirstenPowers CNN’s Nia-Malika Henderson (@niaCNN) on Va.: "We see the enduring power of the culture wars. It is essentially white identity politics that works for Republicans."
@brikeilarcnn @GlennYoungkin @KirstenPowers @niaCNN MSNBC’s @JoyAnnReid: Exit polls show voters motivated by “education," “which is code for white parents don’t like the idea of teaching about race”
@brikeilarcnn @GlennYoungkin @KirstenPowers @niaCNN @JoyAnnReid Rep. @JacksonLeeTX18 on Va.: “Racism raised its ugly head and the Republican candidate used it very aptly. He followed the Trump playbook — use race and get a win. And that’s very sad."
@brikeilarcnn @GlennYoungkin @KirstenPowers @niaCNN @JoyAnnReid @JacksonLeeTX18 .@cornellbelcher on Va.: Critical Race Theory is the latest iteration of “school bussing” and “welfare queens”

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Jun 25
Thread!

A bill in the Senate that would offload some of the central government’s land holdings is stirring up a lot of talk online, and I think it’s time for conservatives to remember two quick important points:

1) If you care about the preservation of land, getting it out of the control of the feds is the priority, not the risk.

2) Teddy Roosevelt is hands down one of the top 5 worst presidents in American history.

Let's start with the latter and then segue into the former.Image
Before I quickly address Roosevelt as a politician, I’ll note that as a man he was indeed very brave. He was beset with all kinds of health issues as a child but largely overcame them through sheer determination. He also overcame tragedy; his wife and mother died on the same day, Valentine’s Day 1884. Most of us already know of his affinity for exploration, travel, hunting — he was an ubermensch who relished overcoming the hardest challenges life offers. He declined running for re-election in 1908 so he could instead go on a 2-year African safari. Toward the end of his life he organized a trip through the Amazon from which he barely escaped alive.

And yes, once while en route to a speech, he was shot, but still attended & delivered the speech, only seeking medical attention afterward. (Roosevelt's 50 page speech and steel glasses case saved his life, but the bullet remained lodged in his ribs for the rest of his life.)

However, some of this bravery is probably better classified as bravado, and he had a tendency toward violence even as a child. (When his girlfriend broke up with him as a youth, he was so angry he shot & killed his neighbor’s dog.) After helping engineer the start of the Spanish-American War — he once wrote, "I should welcome almost any war, for this country needs one” — Roosevelt created his own unit, “The Rough Riders,” made up largely of privileged Ivy Leaguers who sought glory. In his book glamorizing the experience, he recounted how once when he saw one of his fellow soldiers dodging gunfire, he felt it cowardly & badgered him into charging into the gunfire, which of course led to his immediate death. TR was amused.Image
Nonetheless, Americans hear his stories of bravery and automatically assume someone so valiant could have only been a great president. And that's true, if you dislike freedom, the Constitution, and a humble foreign policy. As a politician, Roosevelt regulated railroads, regulated curriculums, regulated what we can eat and drink, & ultimately tried to turn the United States into the British Empire, conquering distant lands merely to expand the supposed American Empire.

J.P. Morgan, desperate to create a central bank that would help consolidate his power while phasing out smaller local banks, played Teddy Roosevelt like a puppet. Despite Roosevelt branding himself as an anti-capitalist "trust buster" who helped create the Progressive Era, his second run for the presidency, via the Bull Moose Party, was actually a Wall Street endeavor. (Roosevelt only realized he'd been played after suffering a humiliating defeat to Woodrow Wilson, perhaps another Top 5 terrible president.) Although maybe this wasn't entirely necessary since Teddy Roosevelt himself supported the creation of a central bank.

Roosevelt’s faith in the state, after all, was absolute: "I have always believed that it would be necessary to give the National Government complete power over the organization and capitalization of all business concerns in inter-state commerce."Image
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Apr 29
THREAD: Does the early administration of vaccines increase the risk of autism? Let's see what Pubmed says.

"A review of medical literature and US government data suggests that: (i) many cases of idiopathic autism are induced by early mercury exposure from thimerosal; (ii) this type of autism represents an unrecognized mercurial syndrome; and (iii) genetic and non-genetic factors establish a predisposition whereby thimerosal's adverse effects occur only in some children." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11339848/
"Thimerosal-treated mice exhibited neural development delay, social interaction deficiency, and inclination of depression. Apparent neuropathological changes were also observed in adult mice neonatally treated with thimerosal. High-throughput RNA sequencing of autistic-behaved mice brains revealed the alternation of a number of canonical pathways involving neuronal development, neuronal synaptic function, and the dysregulation of endocrine system." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24675092/
"In phase I, it was observed that there was a significantly increased risk ratio for the incidence of ASD reported following the Thimerosal-containing DTaP vaccine in comparison to the Thimerosal-free DTaP vaccine. In phase II, it was observed that cases diagnosed with an ASD were significantly more likely than controls to receive increased organic-Hg from Thimerosal-containing hepatitis B vaccine administered within the first, second, and sixth month of life."

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC38…
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Nov 14, 2024
At the UN's taxpayer-funded #COP29, self-appointed philosopher kings are ordaining we plebes be forced to eat vegetarian; meanwhile, what do you think is on the menu at their confab? You guessed it!

The following images & video reports come via my friend Marc Morano (@ClimateDepot), who is on the ground at COP29.Image
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Marc reports that despite demanding taxpayers start paying extra for the crime of eating meat, at COP29 there is no such "meat tax"
At #COP29, while not lecturing about the horrors of livestock, delegates enjoy dining on beef & chicken burgers
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Aug 20, 2024
THREAD: In addition to his military career & drunk driving arrest, there’s another topic about which @Tim_Walz has been lying for political purposes —the conception of his own children. Since IVF treatments entered the news earlier this year, Walz has been repeatedly claiming he & his wife owe their two children to IVF. But today both CNN & the NYT confirm the Walzes did not in fact use IVF.

Here’s Walz a month ago on Chris Hayes’s show: “Today is IVF day. Thank God for IVF, my wife and I have two beautiful children.”
Here’s Walz two weeks ago in Philadelphia talking about IVF: “This gets personal for me and my family”
Here’s Walz in Wisconsin two weeks ago again claiming his kids were conceived thanks to IVF: “Some of you may have heard this. [IVF] is personal for my wife and I. When Gwen & I decided to have children, we went through years of fertility treatments. The phone would ring, tenseness in my stomach, & then the agony when you heard the treatments hadn’t worked. So it wasn’t by chance that when we welcomed our first child, our beautiful daughter, we named her Hope.”
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Jun 24, 2024
REVIEW: Jake Tapper has always been a far-left partisan.

1) In August 2020, Tapper asks fellow liberal Democrat Charlie Dent, "Is it possible the Republican Party is now the party of deranged bigots?"
2) Tapper is an anti-science mask shamer 
3) In August 2019, Tapper asks fellow liberal Democrat Beto O'Rourke: "Do you think it's racist to vote for President Trump?"
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Jun 21, 2024
As usual, Justice Thomas is the only justice who seems to have read the U.S. Constitution. The 2nd Amendment prohibits the federal govt from restricting an individual's right to bear arms, regardless of how politically unpopular they may be. As Justice Thomas notes, Americans can now lose their 2nd Amendment rights without due process.Image
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Justice Thomas: The majority cites 17th century English law to justify disarming citizens, without acknowledging the 2nd Amendment was specifically intended to protect Americans from laws like this Image
Justice Thomas also mocks the majority for having to rely on proposed constitutional amendments that were ultimately rejected — as if their original proposition carries more weight than their being voted down.
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