wnd--2020-11-30--Report: 'Smartest man in the room' has joined Sidney Powell's team

In a brand-new analysis published in American Thinker , a prominent witness has reportedly joined the team of attorney Sidney Powell and has `` stated under oath that there was massive computer fraud in the 2020 election , all of it intended to secure a victory for Joe Biden . ''
The report , authored by Andrea Widburg , identifies the expert as Dr. Navid Kershavarz-Nia , whom she calls `` one of the weightiest names in the world when it comes to sniffing out cyber-security problems . ''
`` We know how important Dr. Kershavarz-Nia is because , just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the New York Times ran one of its Sunday long-form articles about a massive , multi-million-dollar fraud that a talented grifter ran against the American intelligence and military communities '' Widburg writes .
`` Dr. Kershavarz-Nia is one of the few people who comes off looking good : '' TRENDING : Researcher : Casinos and RV parks were listed as home addresses for some Nevada voters The piece in American Thinker touts the doctor 's `` extraordinary academic and practical skills in cyber-fraud detection and analysis , '' explaining it took `` seven @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the declaration he signed to support the Georgia complaint . ''
Among his qualifications are a B.A.
, M.A.
, and Ph.D. in a variety of electrical and computer engineering .
Keshavarz-Nia noted : `` I have advanced trained from the Defense Intelligence Agency ( DIA ) , Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) , National Security Agency ( NSA ) , DHS office of Intelligence & Analysis ( I & A ) and Massachusetts Institution of Technology ( MIT ) . ''
Widburg says , `` Take it as given that Dr. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anyone else in America . ''
Her analysis highlights some of the doctor 's top concerns , including : 1 .
Hammer and Scorecard is real , not a hoax ( as Democrats allege ) , and both are used to manipulate election outcomes .
2 .
Dominion , ES & S , Scytl , and Smartmatic are all vulnerable to fraud and vote manipulation – and the mainstream media reported on these vulnerabilities in the past .
3 .
Dominion has been used in other countries to `` forge election results .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ is deliberately confusing to hide relationships with Venezuela , China , and Cuba .
6 .
Dominion memory cards with cryptographic key access to the systems were stolen in 2019 .
Despite not having access to the voting machines used in 2020 , Dr. Kershavarz examined election data and results of the balloting , and concluded : 1 .
The counts in the disputed states ( Pennsylvania , Wisconsin , Michigan , Arizona , Nevada , and Georgia ) show electronic manipulation .
2 .
The simultaneous decision in Pennsylvania , Wisconsin , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pretend to halt counting votes was unprecedented and demonstrated a coordinated effort to collude toward desired results .
3 .
One to two percent of votes were forged in Biden 's favor .
5 .
The scanners failed to keep records for audits , an outcome that must have been deliberately programmed .
6 .
The stolen cryptographic key , which applied to all voting systems , was used to alter vote counts .
7 .
The favorable votes pouring in after hours for Biden could not be accounted for by a Democrat @ @ @ @ @ @ @ demonstrated manipulation .
For example , in Pennsylvania , it was physically impossible to feed 400,000 ballots into the machines within 2–3 hours .
8 .
Dominion used Chinese parts , and there 's reason to believe that China , Venezuela , Cuba interfered in the election .
9 .
There was a Hammer and Scorecard cyber-attack that altered votes in the battleground states , and then forwarded the results to Scytl servers in Frankfurt , Germany , to avoid detection .
10 .
The systems failed to produce any auditable results .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the election 2020 data were altered in all battleground states resulting in a [ sic ] hundreds of thousands of votes that were cast for President Trump to be transferred [ sic ] to Vice President Biden . ''
Widburg noted : `` This is going to be tough evidence for Democrats to counter .
Back when the naïve Democrats thought Trump would be the one to commit fraud , they held congressional hearings and wrote articles about the voting machines ' vulnerability .
And with the New York Times touting Dr. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sniff out fraud , they 'll struggle to that he 's not a reliable expert . ''

In a brand-new analysis published in American Thinker, a prominent witness has reportedly joined the team of attorney Sidney Powell and has "stated under oath that there was massive computer fraud in the 2020 election, all of it intended to secure a victory for Joe Biden."
The report, authored by Andrea Widburg, identifies the expert as Dr. Navid Kershavarz-Nia, whom she calls "one of the weightiest names in the world when it comes to sniffing out cyber-security problems."
"We know how important Dr. Kershavarz-Nia is because, just two and a half months ago, the New York Times ran one of its Sunday long-form articles about a massive, multi-million-dollar fraud that a talented grifter ran against the American intelligence and military communities" Widburg writes. "Dr. Kershavarz-Nia is one of the few people who comes off looking good:"
Navid Keshavarz-Nia, those who worked with him said, "was always the smartest person in the room." In doing cybersecurity and technical counterintelligence work for the C.I.A., N.S.A. and F.B.I., he had spent decades connecting top-secret dots. After several months of working with Mr. Courtney, he began connecting those dots too. He did not like where they led.
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The piece in American Thinker touts the doctor's "extraordinary academic and practical skills in cyber-fraud detection and analysis," explaining it took "seven paragraphs for him to list them in the declaration he signed to support the Georgia complaint."
Among his qualifications are a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in a variety of electrical and computer engineering.
Keshavarz-Nia noted: "I have advanced trained from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA), DHS office of Intelligence & Analysis (I&A) and Massachusetts Institution of Technology (MIT)."
"My experience spans 35 years performing technical assessment, mathematical modeling, cyber-attack pattern analysis, and security intelligence[.]"
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Widburg says, "Take it as given that Dr. Kershavarz-Nia may know more about cyber-security than anyone else in America."
Her analysis highlights some of the doctor's top concerns, including:
1. Hammer and Scorecard is real, not a hoax (as Democrats allege), and both are used to manipulate election outcomes. 2. Dominion, ES&S, Scytl, and Smartmatic are all vulnerable to fraud and vote manipulation – and the mainstream media reported on these vulnerabilities in the past. 3. Dominion has been used in other countries to "forge election results." 4. Dominion's corporate structure is deliberately confusing to hide relationships with Venezuela, China, and Cuba. 5. Dominion machines are easily hackable. 6. Dominion memory cards with cryptographic key access to the systems were stolen in 2019.
Despite not having access to the voting machines used in 2020, Dr. Kershavarz examined election data and results of the balloting, and concluded:
1. The counts in the disputed states (Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, and Georgia) show electronic manipulation. 2. The simultaneous decision in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, and Georgia to pretend to halt counting votes was unprecedented and demonstrated a coordinated effort to collude toward desired results. 3. One to two percent of votes were forged in Biden's favor. 4. Optical scanners were set to accept unverified, un-validated ballots. 5. The scanners failed to keep records for audits, an outcome that must have been deliberately programmed. 6. The stolen cryptographic key, which applied to all voting systems, was used to alter vote counts. 7. The favorable votes pouring in after hours for Biden could not be accounted for by a Democrat preference for mailed in ballots. They demonstrated manipulation. For example, in Pennsylvania, it was physically impossible to feed 400,000 ballots into the machines within 2–3 hours. 8. Dominion used Chinese parts, and there's reason to believe that China, Venezuela, Cuba interfered in the election. 9. There was a Hammer and Scorecard cyber-attack that altered votes in the battleground states, and then forwarded the results to Scytl servers in Frankfurt, Germany, to avoid detection. 10. The systems failed to produce any auditable results.
The doctor concluded with "high confidence that the election 2020 data were altered in all battleground states resulting in a [sic] hundreds of thousands of votes that were cast for President Trump to be transferred [sic] to Vice President Biden."
Widburg noted: "This is going to be tough evidence for Democrats to counter. Back when the naïve Democrats thought Trump would be the one to commit fraud, they held congressional hearings and wrote articles about the voting machines' vulnerability. And with the New York Times touting Dr. Keshavarz-Nia's brilliance and his ability to sniff out fraud, they'll struggle to that he's not a reliable expert."


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wnd--2020-11-30--'Monty Python' comedian accused of 'transphobia' for supporting J.K. Rowling

English actor John Cleese let loose on sensitive members of the progressive left last week over widespread social media accusations of anti-trans bigotry .
The LGBT community and its allies have bombarded Cleese with aggressive public reprimand , scandalized by the actor 's defense of English best-seller J.K. Rowling , who divided her fan base this year with the apparently shocking suggestion that men are not women and women are not men .
But famous for his role in the sketch comedy classic `` Monty Python , '' Cleese has remained flippant in the face of controversy , prodding emotional @ @ @ @ @ @ @ riffs on the topic of transgenderism .
`` Deep down , I want to be a Cambodian police woman , '' the actor wrote last Sunday .
`` Is that allowed , or am I being unrealistic ? ''
TRENDING : Researcher : Casinos and RV parks were listed as home addresses for some Nevada voters The admittedly rough remark came in response to several months of user comments denouncing the actor as `` transphobic , '' hateful and controlling .
Cleese was not without a heart for individuals struggling with gender identity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ held and incredibly public progressive values while also reminding onlookers that his personal opinions and open jests did not come from a place of ill-will toward any one community .
He was a comedian defending free speech and having a laugh .
`` I 'm afraid I 'm not that interested in trans folks .
I just hope they 're happy and that people treat them kindly , '' Cleese wrote .
`` Right now I 'm more focussed on threats to democracy in America , the rampant corruption in the UK , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about police brutality ... '' Covid19 , the incompetence of the British government , China 's complete disregard for the necessity to abandon fossil fuels , the developments in France between Macron and Islamicists , diabetes , and the recent deaths of several of my close friends , '' the actor went on .
Of course , the comedian 's willingness to stand firm on the subject would only earn him a handful more allegations of hard-heartedness .
Those allegations began piling up by the thousand in late September when Cleese outed himself @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a letter of support for Rowling .
`` Dear Twits , I have added my name to the signatories of the letter in solidarity with JKRowling , '' Cleese wrote on Twitter .
`` Proud to be in the distinguished company of Ian McEwan , Andrew Davies , Frances Welch , Lionel Shriver , Ben Miller , Tom Stoppard , Frances Barber , Griff Rhys-Jones and Matthew d'Ancona . ''
Rowling had reheated months-old controversy over the summer when she suggested recently popularized inclusive terms like `` people who menstruate '' minimize the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ biological women in an attempt to normalize transgenderism .
The novelist 's statement -- one of several made in a similar vein this past year -- left her short of allies in Hollywood and the modern literary world .
Even actors from the film adaptation of Rowling 's hit series `` Harry Potter '' were quick to lambaste her on social media in response .
The resulting calls for Rowling 's cancellation have , as in other instances , polarized a handful of high-profile Hollywood figures , however , prompting vocal pushback against @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sit-down with Reuters , Cleese cemented his stance with regard to political correctness , suggesting the concept `` misunderstands the main purposes of life which is to have fun . ''
“ Everything humorous is critical , '' Cleese said , astutely pointing out that humor can cut both ways politically .
`` If you have someone who is perfectly kind and intelligent and flexible and who always behaves appropriately , they ’ re not funny .
Funniness is about people who don ’ t do that , like Trump . ''
He @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who can not take their turn as the butt of a joke should not be made arbiters of what is acceptable for the rest of us .
Tantrum-throwing children do n't make decisions for their parents after all .
`` If you ca n't control your own emotions , you 're forced to control other people 's behaviour , '' the actor reiterated last Sunday on Twitter .
`` That 's why the touchiest , most oversensitive and easily upset must not set the standard for the rest of us . ''
This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .

English actor John Cleese let loose on sensitive members of the progressive left last week over widespread social media accusations of anti-trans bigotry.
The LGBT community and its allies have bombarded Cleese with aggressive public reprimand, scandalized by the actor's defense of English best-seller J.K. Rowling, who divided her fan base this year with the apparently shocking suggestion that men are not women and women are not men.
But famous for his role in the sketch comedy classic "Monty Python," Cleese has remained flippant in the face of controversy, prodding emotional members of his Twitter audience with unfiltered riffs on the topic of transgenderism.
"Deep down, I want to be a Cambodian police woman," the actor wrote last Sunday. "Is that allowed, or am I being unrealistic ?"
Deep down, I want to be a Cambodian police woman Is that allowed, or am I being unrealistic ? https://t.co/oGPwEWJM9a — John Cleese (@JohnCleese) November 22, 2020
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The admittedly rough remark came in response to several months of user comments denouncing the actor as "transphobic," hateful and controlling.
Cleese was not without a heart for individuals struggling with gender identity disorder, however, pointing to deeply held and incredibly public progressive values while also reminding onlookers that his personal opinions and open jests did not come from a place of ill-will toward any one community. He was a comedian defending free speech and having a laugh.
"I'm afraid I'm not that interested in trans folks. I just hope they're happy and that people treat them kindly," Cleese wrote. "Right now I'm more focussed on threats to democracy in America, the rampant corruption in the UK, the appalling British Press, the revelations about police brutality...
"Covid19, the incompetence of the British government, China's complete disregard for the necessity to abandon fossil fuels, the developments in France between Macron and Islamicists, diabetes, and the recent deaths of several of my close friends," the actor went on.
"Does [that] sound hard-hearted ?"
Dear Twits, I have added my name to the signatories of the letter in solidarity with JKRowling Proud to be in the distinguished company of Ian McEwan, Andrew Davies, Frances Welch, Lionel Shriver, Ben Miller, Tom Stoppard, Frances Barber, Griff Rhys-Jones and Matthew d'Ancona — John Cleese (@JohnCleese) September 30, 2020
Of course, the comedian's willingness to stand firm on the subject would only earn him a handful more allegations of hard-heartedness.
Those allegations began piling up by the thousand in late September when Cleese outed himself as one of several high-profile signatories to a letter of support for Rowling.
"Dear Twits, I have added my name to the signatories of the letter in solidarity with JKRowling," Cleese wrote on Twitter.
"Proud to be in the distinguished company of Ian McEwan, Andrew Davies, Frances Welch, Lionel Shriver, Ben Miller, Tom Stoppard, Frances Barber, Griff Rhys-Jones and Matthew d'Ancona."
Rowling had reheated months-old controversy over the summer when she suggested recently popularized inclusive terms like "people who menstruate" minimize the female experience and hurt the cause of biological women in an attempt to normalize transgenderism.
The novelist's statement -- one of several made in a similar vein this past year -- left her short of allies in Hollywood and the modern literary world. Even actors from the film adaptation of Rowling's hit series "Harry Potter" were quick to lambaste her on social media in response.
If you can't control your own emotions, you're forced to control other people's behaviour That's why the touchiest, most oversensitive and easily upset must not set the standard for the rest of us https://t.co/bAX5zT0ja7 — John Cleese (@JohnCleese) November 22, 2020
The resulting calls for Rowling's cancellation have, as in other instances, polarized a handful of high-profile Hollywood figures, however, prompting vocal pushback against social justice culture.
In a July sit-down with Reuters, Cleese cemented his stance with regard to political correctness, suggesting the concept "misunderstands the main purposes of life which is to have fun."
“Everything humorous is critical," Cleese said, astutely pointing out that humor can cut both ways politically. "If you have someone who is perfectly kind and intelligent and flexible and who always behaves appropriately, they’re not funny. Funniness is about people who don’t do that, like Trump."
He would go on to add that those who cannot take their turn as the butt of a joke should not be made arbiters of what is acceptable for the rest of us. Tantrum-throwing children don't make decisions for their parents after all.
"If you can't control your own emotions, you're forced to control other people's behaviour," the actor reiterated last Sunday on Twitter.
"That's why the touchiest, most oversensitive and easily upset must not set the standard for the rest of us."
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.


wnd--2020-11-29--GOP woman expected to win by 6 votes after recount, taking seat last held by a Democrat

In one of the tightest congressional elections of the year , Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks has emerged with a six-vote lead in Iowa 's 2nd District , based on a recount that ended Saturday .
A state canvassing board meets Monday to certify the results .
More than 394,000 votes were cast in the contest between Miller-Meeks and Democrat Rita Hart , according to Fox News .
`` While the race is extraordinarily close , I am proud to have won this contest and look forward to being certified as the winner by the state 's Executive Council on Monday , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ `` It is the honor of a lifetime to be elected to serve the people of eastern and southern Iowa . ''
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`` When we began this recount Rita Hart was down by 47 votes , '' Meunier said .
`` As more ballots have been counted , the margin has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a mere 6 votes — making this the closest Congressional race in recent history , and one of the very closest in the last hundred years .
`` Unfortunately , as this process continues , the Miller-Meeks campaign has sought to keep legitimate votes from being counted — pushing to disqualify and limit the number of Iowans whose votes are counted , '' he said .
“ We will closely review what the county and state boards do on Monday with an eye toward making sure all Iowa voices are fully and fairly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ step would likely be the Hart campaign taking the race to court .
The contest has had more than its share of post-election drama .
Miller-Meeks had a 282-vote lead as of Nov. 4 .
Although she declared victory , a Nov. 6 recount gave Hart a 162-vote lead due to an initial error from one county in the district .
Four days later , another county recounted its votes , giving Miller-Meeks a 40-vote margin .
Prior to Thanksgiving , her lead dropped to eight votes , before dropping even further on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a victory for Miller-Meeks would cement a stunning reversal for Republicans .
Democrats had three of Iowa 's four congressional seats going into the election and will emerge with only one .
The seat Miller-Meeks appears to have won had been held by Democratic Rep. Dave Loebsack , who is retiring .
Nationally , Republicans flipped multiple seats held by Democrats , giving House Republicans new clout on Washington as the Democratic majority becomes exceedingly narrow .
Miller-Meeks will join a group of about 20 Republican women in the House .
One race @ @ @ @ @ @ @ State , remains too close to call , with the differing numbers being reported daily that give either Democratic Rep. Anthony Brindisi a slight lead or give a narrow lead to former Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney .
Tenney won the 2016 election to represent the district but lost to Brindisi in 2018 .
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal .

In one of the tightest congressional elections of the year, Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks has emerged with a six-vote lead in Iowa's 2nd District, based on a recount that ended Saturday.
A state canvassing board meets Monday to certify the results. More than 394,000 votes were cast in the contest between Miller-Meeks and Democrat Rita Hart, according to Fox News.
"While the race is extraordinarily close, I am proud to have won this contest and look forward to being certified as the winner by the state's Executive Council on Monday," Miller-Meeks said in a statement. "It is the honor of a lifetime to be elected to serve the people of eastern and southern Iowa."
It is the honor of a lifetime to be elected to serve the people of eastern and southern Iowa. Iowans are tenacious, optimistic and hard working, and I will take those same attributes to Washington, D.C. #ia02 pic.twitter.com/WKkAuap5Qf — Dr. Miller-Meeks (@millermeeks) November 28, 2020
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Congratulations to my friend, and the first woman to represent Iowa’s 2nd District, @millermeeks! Looking forward to serving alongside you in Congress representing our Great State of Iowa. — Joni Ernst (@joniernst) November 29, 2020
Hart’s campaign manager, Zach Meunier, did not telegraph the campaign's next move, according to the Iowa City Press-Citizen.
"When we began this recount Rita Hart was down by 47 votes," Meunier said. "As more ballots have been counted, the margin has narrowed dramatically and is now down to a mere 6 votes — making this the closest Congressional race in recent history, and one of the very closest in the last hundred years.
"Unfortunately, as this process continues, the Miller-Meeks campaign has sought to keep legitimate votes from being counted — pushing to disqualify and limit the number of Iowans whose votes are counted," he said. “We will closely review what the county and state boards do on Monday with an eye toward making sure all Iowa voices are fully and fairly heard.”
After certification, the next step would likely be the Hart campaign taking the race to court.
The contest has had more than its share of post-election drama. Miller-Meeks had a 282-vote lead as of Nov. 4. Although she declared victory, a Nov. 6 recount gave Hart a 162-vote lead due to an initial error from one county in the district.
Four days later, another county recounted its votes, giving Miller-Meeks a 40-vote margin. Prior to Thanksgiving, her lead dropped to eight votes, before dropping even further on Saturday.
If the results hold, a victory for Miller-Meeks would cement a stunning reversal for Republicans. Democrats had three of Iowa's four congressional seats going into the election and will emerge with only one. The seat Miller-Meeks appears to have won had been held by Democratic Rep. Dave Loebsack, who is retiring.
Nationally, Republicans flipped multiple seats held by Democrats, giving House Republicans new clout on Washington as the Democratic majority becomes exceedingly narrow. Miller-Meeks will join a group of about 20 Republican women in the House.
Republicans have now flipped 13 seats in the House. https://t.co/noXa75Wen1 — Kirk A. Bado (@kirk_bado) November 27, 2020
One race, the 22nd District in New York State, remains too close to call, with the differing numbers being reported daily that give either Democratic Rep. Anthony Brindisi a slight lead or give a narrow lead to former Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney.
After an audit and correction by the Herkimer County Board of Elections, Claudia Tenney leads Anthony Brindisi by 13 votes in the contest to represent NY 22 in Congress. — Bob Lonsberry (@BobLonsberry) November 29, 2020
Brindisi campaign says he’s taken lead over Tenney in #NY22 race -- by 12 or 13 votes.https://t.co/vjPp0mrkSJ — Josh Weinberger (@kitson) November 29, 2020
Tenney won the 2016 election to represent the district but lost to Brindisi in 2018.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.


wnd--2020-11-29--Report: Woman sexually battered after allowing homeless man to sleep on her floor

Authorities say a Good Samaritan in Florida who gave a homeless man a place to sleep on Thanksgiving night was allegedly a victim of sexual battery after she awoke to find the man 's hands around her neck .
Fox News reported that the purported crime happened in the city of St. Pete Beach .
According to WTVT-TV , the Pinellas County Sheriff 's Office reported that 44-year-old Clark Caplan knocked on the woman 's door near midnight Thursday and asked if he could stay .
Deputies said the woman agreed to let the man sleep on the floor in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a bedroom .
At some point during the night , according to WTVT , the woman awoke to find Caplan with his hands around her neck , sexually assaulting her .
TRENDING : Researcher : Casinos and RV parks were listed as home addresses for some Nevada voters While the victim tried to escape through the front door , WTVT reported , the man grabbed her hair to prevent her from leaving .
The report did not explain who called authorities or how Caplan was arrested , but he was taken into custody @ @ @ @ @ @ @ battery and false imprisonment .
His bail was set at $ 112,500 , WTVT reported .
Florida has n't been the state hardest hit by the homelessness epidemic in terms of its population .
According to data from 2019 , the estimated homeless rate had Florida at 15th per capita , with 13.5 homeless individuals per 10,000 population .
New York , Hawaii and California were the top three states , with 46.4 homeless per 10,000 , 44.9 and 38.3 , respectively .
( The District of Columbia was by far No .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but it is n't a state . )
However , the Sunshine State does have the third-largest homeless population in the United States by raw numbers , with over 28,000 , according to the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness .
There are plenty of solutions forwarded to deal with the issues , most of which assume the issue is simply a matter of getting a roof over the homeless person 's head .
The rest of the problems will sort themselves out , the liberal line will go .
There 's @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a homeless person 's head -- in fact , that 's the ultimate aim -- but it also does n't solve the root issues behind homelessness .
In many cases , it actually perpetuates them .
In this case , according to reports , it 's a woman who put her personal safety at risk to give a man in need a place to stay .
No one can blame her , but the impulse should be warned against , even if it 's driven by the most charitable impulses .
Even in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a bit less ad hoc and personal , there are still issues .
In May , as homeless individuals were being given free room and board in many cities due to the pandemic , San Francisco said it was also providing free alcohol and drugs to some of the individuals who were staying in hotels at the time .
At the time , a Twitter user calling himself `` T Wolf '' wrote that `` I just found out that homeless placed in hotels in SF are being delivered Alcohol , Weed and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for FREE.
” He wrote , not wrongly , that the city is `` supposed to be offering treatment .
This is enabling and is wrong on many levels.
” The city did n't just confirm that this was the case , it also essentially told `` T Wolf '' to check his privilege .
`` These harm reduction based practices , which are not unique to San Francisco , and are not paid for with taxpayer money , help guests successfully complete isolation and quarantine and have significant individual and public health @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the city 's Department of Public Health tweeted .
Except , at some level , it was being paid for with taxpayer money .
Even if the drugs and alcohol were not purchased with public funds , it was all part of a city program that is paid for by taxpayers .
( That bureaucrat who wrote the tweet defending the practice , for instance , was n't working for free . )
But this was n't quite the point : Drunken and drugged individuals have a higher propensity to pose a danger @ @ @ @ @ @ @ harm reduction based practices '' may work in certain circumstances , they 're based on science from situations that do n't involve hotel rooms in a pandemic .
We 've seen more than a few occasions during the COVID crisis where allowing those with substance abuse and mental health problems into subsidized hotel housing has created serious issues with public safety .
So , yes , it 's a moral thing to spare a thought for the homeless , particularly in these grim times .
You should first think of your own safety @ @ @ @ @ @ @ others .
Homelessness may be ameliorated by acts of kindness , but not when they cut against reason and common sense .
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal .

Authorities say a Good Samaritan in Florida who gave a homeless man a place to sleep on Thanksgiving night was allegedly a victim of sexual battery after she awoke to find the man's hands around her neck.
Fox News reported that the purported crime happened in the city of St. Pete Beach.
According to WTVT-TV, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office reported that 44-year-old Clark Caplan knocked on the woman's door near midnight Thursday and asked if he could stay.
Deputies said the woman agreed to let the man sleep on the floor in her living room while she slept in a bedroom.
At some point during the night, according to WTVT, the woman awoke to find Caplan with his hands around her neck, sexually assaulting her.
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While the victim tried to escape through the front door, WTVT reported, the man grabbed her hair to prevent her from leaving.
Pinellas County deputies arrested Clark Caplan, 44, after they say he sexually battered a woman who gave him a place to spend the night. https://t.co/4oVpBsUViA — FOX 13 Tampa Bay (@FOX13News) November 27, 2020
The report did not explain who called authorities or how Caplan was arrested, but he was taken into custody and charged with sexual battery, felony battery and false imprisonment.
His bail was set at $112,500, WTVT reported.
Florida hasn't been the state hardest hit by the homelessness epidemic in terms of its population. According to data from 2019, the estimated homeless rate had Florida at 15th per capita, with 13.5 homeless individuals per 10,000 population. New York, Hawaii and California were the top three states, with 46.4 homeless per 10,000, 44.9 and 38.3, respectively. (The District of Columbia was by far No. 1 with 94 homeless per 10,000 population, but it isn't a state.)
However, the Sunshine State does have the third-largest homeless population in the United States by raw numbers, with over 28,000, according to the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness.
There are plenty of solutions forwarded to deal with the issues, most of which assume the issue is simply a matter of getting a roof over the homeless person's head. The rest of the problems will sort themselves out, the liberal line will go.
There's nothing wrong with getting a roof over a homeless person's head -- in fact, that's the ultimate aim -- but it also doesn't solve the root issues behind homelessness. In many cases, it actually perpetuates them.
In this case, according to reports, it's a woman who put her personal safety at risk to give a man in need a place to stay. No one can blame her, but the impulse should be warned against, even if it's driven by the most charitable impulses.
Even in cases where the "solution" is a bit less ad hoc and personal, there are still issues. In May, as homeless individuals were being given free room and board in many cities due to the pandemic, San Francisco said it was also providing free alcohol and drugs to some of the individuals who were staying in hotels at the time.
At the time, a Twitter user calling himself "T Wolf" wrote that "I just found out that homeless placed in hotels in SF are being delivered Alcohol, Weed and Methadone because they identified as an addict/alcoholic for FREE.”
He wrote, not wrongly, that the city is "supposed to be offering treatment. This is enabling and is wrong on many levels.”
The city didn't just confirm that this was the case, it also essentially told "T Wolf" to check his privilege.
These harm reduction based practices, which are not unique to San Francisco, and are not paid for with taxpayer money, help guests successfully complete isolation and quarantine and have significant individual and public health benefits in the COVID-19 pandemic. — SFDPH (@SF_DPH) May 5, 2020
"These harm reduction based practices, which are not unique to San Francisco, and are not paid for with taxpayer money, help guests successfully complete isolation and quarantine and have significant individual and public health benefits in the COVID-19 pandemic," the city's Department of Public Health tweeted.
Except, at some level, it was being paid for with taxpayer money. Even if the drugs and alcohol were not purchased with public funds, it was all part of a city program that is paid for by taxpayers. (That bureaucrat who wrote the tweet defending the practice, for instance, wasn't working for free.)
But this wasn't quite the point: Drunken and drugged individuals have a higher propensity to pose a danger to themselves or others. While "harm reduction based practices" may work in certain circumstances, they're based on science from situations that don't involve hotel rooms in a pandemic.
We've seen more than a few occasions during the COVID crisis where allowing those with substance abuse and mental health problems into subsidized hotel housing has created serious issues with public safety.
So, yes, it's a moral thing to spare a thought for the homeless, particularly in these grim times. You should first think of your own safety, however, or the safety of others.
Homelessness may be ameliorated by acts of kindness, but not when they cut against reason and common sense.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.


wnd--2020-11-29--'Prestigious' media outlets accused of being 'enforcers of leftwing orthodoxy'

[ Editor 's note : This story originally was published by Real Clear Politics . ]
When my liberal friends share their apocalyptic fears about right-wing brown shirts , I say , “ I ’ ve never encountered one of those people ; have you ?
” The answer is always no .
If the patio isn ’ t a tinderbox , I ’ ll then ask if they ever worry that something they or their children might say could spark a catastrophic blowback .
Most reply yes .
TRENDING : Researcher : Casinos and RV parks were listed as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when I inquire whether they believe such punitive retribution at work , at school or on social media would come from the right or the left , they usually fall silent .
To state the obvious , the censorship now prevalent on campus and the corporate office , the cancel culture and Twitter mobs that have cost scores of people their jobs , and the violence of antifa , are a specialty of the left .
So , too , is the latest wrinkle : the McCarthyite blacklists that have mushroomed since Election @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and their media allies , the Trump Accountability Project seeks “ to make sure those members of the Trump administration responsible for loosening the guardrails of our democracy are not rewarded with book deals , TV contracts , or six-figure salaries in the private sector based on that experience.
” Some students at Harvard , supported by the union that represents the university ’ s graduate students , have written an open letter demanding the creation of “ a system of accountability for high-level political appointees and Trump administration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or to teach or speak on campus.
” Trump officials aren ’ t the only ones caught in the career-ending crosshairs – and the threats are not just coming from partisan Democrats but from journalists , too .
As many Republicans questioned the election results , CNN ’ s Jake Tapper tweeted that they should “ think not only about what ’ s best for the nation ( peaceful transfer of power ) but how any future employers might see your character defined during adversity.
” In a post-election pitch for new subscribers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ should stop wasting their time talking with “ jackasses ” who supported a “ racist , misogynistic , narcissistic ” president and read its morally infallible writers instead .
“ Under normal circumstances , we agree to disagree , accept that our friends and colleagues are honorable even when we don ’ t accept their ideas , ” the letter read .
“ But these are not normal times.
” Given this eliminationist attitude , it ’ s no surprise that the headline of a recent Washington Post article reported : “ Fox @ @ @ @ @ @ @ job market : Having Fox on the résumé.
” The Post article echoed other evidence that prestigious media outlets – which have traditionally acted as brakes on illiberal tendencies , especially regarding free speech – have become enforcers of leftwing orthodoxy that is linked to the brutalist practice of silencing , canceling and exiling .
In her resignation letter from The New York Times this summer , conservative columnist Bari Weiss observed that “ a new consensus has emerged in the press , but perhaps especially at this paper : that truth isn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.
” Her take was confirmed in a reported piece on the Times ’ newsroom culture by Reeves Wiedeman .
It documented a brewing civil war at the Gray Lady between older , more traditional journalists and younger “ insurrectionists ” – as well as increasingly left-leaning readership that pays the bills – who believe the paper ’ s coverage should not describe the world as it is but as it should be , according to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
( The Wall Street Journal reported that a similar dynamic is occurring at Spotify , where some employees are up in arms because Joe Rogan ’ s popular podcast airs views they find distasteful . )
Note the irony that Wiedeman ’ s article ran in New York Magazine just weeks after columnist and relentless anti-woke scourge Andrew Sullivan , a pioneer of the gay marriage movement , resigned from the publication because he said progressive staffers felt threatened by him , ostensibly because he refused to disavow a controversial issue of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that he had edited back in 1994 .
The legions of moderate liberals troubled by all this tend to offer two arguments to downplay the threat .
Echoing their favorite “ conservative ” columnist , David Brooks , they say the right is ginning up hysteria over the isolated actions of a tiny fringe , “ a few extremists in Portland ” and “ the leftist illiberals on campus.
” Other moderates , who admit that position is hard to reconcile with the mountains of contrary evidence , cast the rise of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trumpism that will dissipate once the pestilential orange boil has been lanced .
Both views are naive .
As Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay detail in their indispensable new book , “ Cynical Theories : How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race , Gender and Identity , ” this radical movement has been percolating for decades , metastasizing from academia to the broader corridors of power .
Critical race theory , queer theory and related social justice ideologies fueling Black Lives Matter , the New York Times ’ 1619 Project , anti-whiteness programs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Awokening comprise a puritanical worldview that is being embraced by the nation ’ s elites .
This secular Calvinism , denouncing capitalism ’ s winners in the hands of an angry mob , is not going away .
The issue is not just whether that morally absolutist world view represents a rejection or a fulfillment of our nation ’ s Enlightenment ideals .
It is the unwillingness of the illiberal left to engage in meaningful debate , its impulse to censor rather than solicit opposing views .
Almost all of the pushback , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whom the left has vilified and liberals have largely tuned out .
The right does not have the power to curb these forces on its own .
Moderates must rise up and say enough – not to the social justice goals they may support , but to the intolerance that forces many of them to live in fear of what they say and do , and increasingly what they don ’ t say and don ’ t do .
Moderates must advance a liberal progressivism rooted in tolerance that advances their views while @ @ @ @ @ @ @ That is easier said than done , as Northwestern professor Gary Saul Morson demonstrates in his recent essay , “ Suicide of the Liberals.
” His topic is not modern America but pre-Revolutionary Russia , but the parallels are eerie .
Then , like now , he writes many “ liberals recognized their differences from the radicals , ” including Lenin and his murderous henchmen .
The alternative , however , seemed even worse .
“ Socialized to regard anything conservative as reprehensible – and still worse , as a social faux pas @ @ @ @ @ @ @ intolerance and violence as forced , understandable , and noble.
” Historical analogies are inherently imprecise and often tendentious .
But one does not have to believe America is on the path to Bolshevism to grasp the gravity and relevance of Morson ’ s concluding paragraph : One sometimes hears that “ the pendulum is bound to swing back.
” But how does one know there is a pendulum at all , rather than—let us say—a snowball accelerating downhill ?
It is unwise to comfort oneself with metaphors .
When a party is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as it can go , it will keep going until it meets sufficient opposition .
In the French Revolution , terror was eventually stopped by “ Thermidor , ” and then by Napoleon .
But in Russia , Stalin proclaimed “ the intensification of the class struggle ” after the Revolution , entailing an unending series of arrests , executions , and sentences to the Gulag .
What meets no resistance does not stop .

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Politics.]
By J. Peder Zane
Real Clear Politics
When my liberal friends share their apocalyptic fears about right-wing brown shirts, I say, “I’ve never encountered one of those people; have you?” The answer is always no.
If the patio isn’t a tinderbox, I’ll then ask if they ever worry that something they or their children might say could spark a catastrophic blowback. Most reply yes.
TRENDING: Is this the 'Final Battle'?
But when I inquire whether they believe such punitive retribution at work, at school or on social media would come from the right or the left, they usually fall silent.
To state the obvious, the censorship now prevalent on campus and the corporate office, the cancel culture and Twitter mobs that have cost scores of people their jobs, and the violence of antifa, are a specialty of the left.
So, too, is the latest wrinkle: the McCarthyite blacklists that have mushroomed since Election Day. Backed by Democrat leaders such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and their media allies, the Trump Accountability Project seeks “to make sure those members of the Trump administration responsible for loosening the guardrails of our democracy are not rewarded with book deals, TV contracts, or six-figure salaries in the private sector based on that experience.”
Some students at Harvard, supported by the union that represents the university’s graduate students, have written an open letter demanding the creation of “a system of accountability for high-level political appointees and Trump administration consultants before they are invited as fellows or to teach or speak on campus.”
Trump officials aren’t the only ones caught in the career-ending crosshairs – and the threats are not just coming from partisan Democrats but from journalists, too. As many Republicans questioned the election results, CNN’s Jake Tapper tweeted that they should “think not only about what’s best for the nation (peaceful transfer of power) but how any future employers might see your character defined during adversity.”
In a post-election pitch for new subscribers, the New Republic argued that people should stop wasting their time talking with “jackasses” who supported a “racist, misogynistic, narcissistic” president and read its morally infallible writers instead. “Under normal circumstances, we agree to disagree, accept that our friends and colleagues are honorable even when we don’t accept their ideas,” the letter read. “But these are not normal times.”
Given this eliminationist attitude, it’s no surprise that the headline of a recent Washington Post article reported: “Fox News veterans face a hurdle in the job market: Having Fox on the résumé.”
The Post article echoed other evidence that prestigious media outlets – which have traditionally acted as brakes on illiberal tendencies, especially regarding free speech – have become enforcers of leftwing orthodoxy that is linked to the brutalist practice of silencing, canceling and exiling. In her resignation letter from The New York Times this summer, conservative columnist Bari Weiss observed that “a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.”
Her take was confirmed in a reported piece on the Times’ newsroom culture by Reeves Wiedeman. It documented a brewing civil war at the Gray Lady between older, more traditional journalists and younger “insurrectionists” – as well as increasingly left-leaning readership that pays the bills – who believe the paper’s coverage should not describe the world as it is but as it should be, according to the moral certitudes of the social justice intelligentsia. (The Wall Street Journal reported that a similar dynamic is occurring at Spotify, where some employees are up in arms because Joe Rogan’s popular podcast airs views they find distasteful.)
Note the irony that Wiedeman’s article ran in New York Magazine just weeks after columnist and relentless anti-woke scourge Andrew Sullivan, a pioneer of the gay marriage movement, resigned from the publication because he said progressive staffers felt threatened by him, ostensibly because he refused to disavow a controversial issue of the New Republic on race and IQ that he had edited back in 1994.
The legions of moderate liberals troubled by all this tend to offer two arguments to downplay the threat. Echoing their favorite “conservative” columnist, David Brooks, they say the right is ginning up hysteria over the isolated actions of a tiny fringe, “a few extremists in Portland” and “the leftist illiberals on campus.”
Other moderates, who admit that position is hard to reconcile with the mountains of contrary evidence, cast the rise of the illiberal left as a temporary response to Trumpism that will dissipate once the pestilential orange boil has been lanced.
Both views are naive. As Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay detail in their indispensable new book, “Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender and Identity,” this radical movement has been percolating for decades, metastasizing from academia to the broader corridors of power. Critical race theory, queer theory and related social justice ideologies fueling Black Lives Matter, the New York Times’ 1619 Project, anti-whiteness programs in the workplace and the broader Great Awokening comprise a puritanical worldview that is being embraced by the nation’s elites. This secular Calvinism, denouncing capitalism’s winners in the hands of an angry mob, is not going away.
The issue is not just whether that morally absolutist world view represents a rejection or a fulfillment of our nation’s Enlightenment ideals. It is the unwillingness of the illiberal left to engage in meaningful debate, its impulse to censor rather than solicit opposing views.
Almost all of the pushback, however, is coming from conservatives, whom the left has vilified and liberals have largely tuned out. The right does not have the power to curb these forces on its own.
Moderates must rise up and say enough – not to the social justice goals they may support, but to the intolerance that forces many of them to live in fear of what they say and do, and increasingly what they don’t say and don’t do. Moderates must advance a liberal progressivism rooted in tolerance that advances their views while vigorously opposing enemies of free speech.
That is easier said than done, as Northwestern professor Gary Saul Morson demonstrates in his recent essay, “Suicide of the Liberals.” His topic is not modern America but pre-Revolutionary Russia, but the parallels are eerie. Then, like now, he writes many “liberals recognized their differences from the radicals,” including Lenin and his murderous henchmen. The alternative, however, seemed even worse. “Socialized to regard anything conservative as reprehensible – and still worse, as a social faux pas – they contrived ways to justify radical intolerance and violence as forced, understandable, and noble.”
Historical analogies are inherently imprecise and often tendentious. But one does not have to believe America is on the path to Bolshevism to grasp the gravity and relevance of Morson’s concluding paragraph:
One sometimes hears that “the pendulum is bound to swing back.” But how does one know there is a pendulum at all, rather than—let us say—a snowball accelerating downhill? It is unwise to comfort oneself with metaphors. When a party is willing to push its power as far as it can go, it will keep going until it meets sufficient opposition. In the French Revolution, terror was eventually stopped by “Thermidor,” and then by Napoleon. But in Russia, Stalin proclaimed “the intensification of the class struggle” after the Revolution, entailing an unending series of arrests, executions, and sentences to the Gulag. What meets no resistance does not stop.


wnd--2020-11-29--Gridlock forecast for stocks, no matter results in Georgia

[ Editor 's note : This story originally was published by Real Clear Markets . ]
Following America ’ s election , you may be blissful over Biden ’ s win or terrified by Trump ’ s ( apparent ) defeat .
But cold , emotionless stocks view this election differently .
The absence of a blue or red wave leaves razor-thin electoral margins rendering big legislative change dead on arrival .
However you feel about this-or-that race ’ s outcome , that ’ s great stock market news .
In October , I detailed why falling uncertainty boosts stocks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stocks are jumping .
Since the vote , the S & P 500 is up 7.9 % .
World stocks are up more , 10.3 % .
The divided results ushered in a do-little government bringing bullish relief here and abroad .
In the House , Democrats expected to increase control about 15 seats above their 232 pre-November total seats .
Instead the Republicans gained at least 10 seats—with three still undecided with Republicans slightly ahead .
However they go , this will be the Democrats ’ thinnest House majority since at least @ @ @ @ @ @ @ takes those three , it will be their smallest edge since 1900 .
Hence , bold legislation is a non-starter .
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If Republicans win at least one of Georgia ’ s two January 5th runoffs , they retain a slim majority .
If not , it ’ s a 50-50 deadlock with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris casting the tie breaking vote for the very slimmest edge possible .
Hence , again @ @ @ @ @ @ @ simply too thin .
Moderate Democrats and so-called progressives already blame each other for a “ Blue Wave ” failing to materialize .
To pass anything partisan , both sides need effective 100 % uniform support—and there is nothing controversial all members of either party agree on .
Any one or two dissenters can kill any issue .
Things will only pass with broad agreement .
Moderate democrat Joe Manchin and Moderate Republican Susan Collins are reportedly talking about joining forces to ensure moderation .
Gridlock rules , at least until 2022 ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their views to dominate , creating change .
But stocks love it .
I ’ ve studied politics ’ influence on markets for decades .
One constant : In developed country markets , stocks do best when big legislative risk is low .
Why ?
More clarity for executives and investors to plan .
Fewer wild cards to fret .
Legislation redistributes money , property rights , or regulations—creating winners and losers .
Behavioralism shows people hate the pain of loss vastly more than loving equal-sized gains .
So new legislation ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they may be next to suffer .
This uncertainty makes returns much less variable when gridlock rules .
Typically , new presidents arrive touting big ideas .
That is when they have the most political capital , hoping to get the most done—that ’ s why so many people talk up actions in the first 100 days .
It ’ s also why President Donald Trump ’ s 2017 tax cuts came early .
Ditto for President Barack Obama ’ s early 2010 healthcare overhaul .
That doesn ’ t guarantee stocks struggle—they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Obama ’ s first years while their parties controlled Congress .
But since good data begin in 1925 , US stocks have risen in 58 % and 63 % of presidents ’ first and second years , respectively—noticeably behind the overall 73.7 % annual frequency of gains .
Fear over policy shifts helps explain why .
Then midterms arrive .
The president ’ s party almost always loses relative power in Congress , ushering in gridlock on an absolute or relative basis .
Bullish !
The result : Stocks have risen in 92 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 83 % of fourth years .
Those years also boast the highest median returns—22.6 % for third years and 12.0 % for fourth years , both topping US stocks ’ long-term average annualized return of 10 % .
Now ?
We needn ’ t wait for midterms for gridlock .
We get it perfectly immediately ahead .
This all augments the repeat trend I detailed here in October .
When a Democrat wins the presidency , election-year returns are typically tepid before the election , thanks to biases painting the party as anti-business @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rebound big as investors ’ fears don ’ t come true and relief ensues .
( Vice-versa when a Republican wins . )
It usually takes some time , as investors need to see sweeping change isn ’ t coming .
Said simply , since World War II every democrat President ’ s inaugural year has been double digit positive except Carter ’ s which was only a negative 7.4 % .
But this year ?
The early , golden gridlock means no waiting—like Christmas in July .
Investors will feel that benign @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at home but globally .
While pundits often highlight differences in US and non-US markets , developed markets typically move together .
Non-US developed world stocks have a 0.85 correlation with the S & P 500 over the past 20 years—sky-high considering -1.0 is polar opposite and 1.0 is lockstep movement .
Politics are , of course , merely one factor for stocks .
But after a tense election year , the long lasting relief gridlock provides blows a forward wind in stocks ’ sails .
Take advantage now and own stocks—at home @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : This story originally was published by Real Clear Markets . ]

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Markets.]
By Ken Fisher
Real Clear Markets
Following America’s election, you may be blissful over Biden’s win or terrified by Trump’s (apparent) defeat. But cold, emotionless stocks view this election differently. The absence of a blue or red wave leaves razor-thin electoral margins rendering big legislative change dead on arrival. However you feel about this-or-that race’s outcome, that’s great stock market news.
In October, I detailed why falling uncertainty boosts stocks after elections. Now clarity comes and stocks are jumping. Since the vote, the S&P 500 is up 7.9%. World stocks are up more, 10.3%. The divided results ushered in a do-little government bringing bullish relief here and abroad. In the House, Democrats expected to increase control about 15 seats above their 232 pre-November total seats. Instead the Republicans gained at least 10 seats—with three still undecided with Republicans slightly ahead. However they go, this will be the Democrats’ thinnest House majority since at least World War II. If the GOP takes those three, it will be their smallest edge since 1900. Hence, bold legislation is a non-starter.
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Ditto in the Senate. If Republicans win at least one of Georgia’s two January 5th runoffs, they retain a slim majority. If not, it’s a 50-50 deadlock with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris casting the tie breaking vote for the very slimmest edge possible. Hence, again, minimal legislation. The margins are simply too thin. Moderate Democrats and so-called progressives already blame each other for a “Blue Wave” failing to materialize. To pass anything partisan, both sides need effective 100% uniform support—and there is nothing controversial all members of either party agree on. Any one or two dissenters can kill any issue. Things will only pass with broad agreement. Moderate democrat Joe Manchin and Moderate Republican Susan Collins are reportedly talking about joining forces to ensure moderation. Gridlock rules, at least until 2022’s midterms.
Gridlock frustrates voters—who want their views to dominate, creating change. But stocks love it. I’ve studied politics’ influence on markets for decades. One constant: In developed country markets, stocks do best when big legislative risk is low. Why? More clarity for executives and investors to plan. Fewer wild cards to fret.
Legislation redistributes money, property rights, or regulations—creating winners and losers. Behavioralism shows people hate the pain of loss vastly more than loving equal-sized gains. So new legislation’s losers really hate it. Others fear they may be next to suffer. This uncertainty makes returns much less variable when gridlock rules.
Typically, new presidents arrive touting big ideas. That is when they have the most political capital, hoping to get the most done—that’s why so many people talk up actions in the first 100 days. It’s also why President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts came early. Ditto for President Barack Obama’s early 2010 healthcare overhaul. That doesn’t guarantee stocks struggle—they soared in both Trump’s and Obama’s first years while their parties controlled Congress. But since good data begin in 1925, US stocks have risen in 58% and 63% of presidents’ first and second years, respectively—noticeably behind the overall 73.7% annual frequency of gains. Fear over policy shifts helps explain why.
Then midterms arrive. The president’s party almost always loses relative power in Congress, ushering in gridlock on an absolute or relative basis. Bullish! The result: Stocks have risen in 92% of presidents’ third years and 83% of fourth years. Those years also boast the highest median returns—22.6% for third years and 12.0% for fourth years, both topping US stocks’ long-term average annualized return of 10%. Now? We needn’t wait for midterms for gridlock. We get it perfectly immediately ahead.
This all augments the repeat trend I detailed here in October. When a Democrat wins the presidency, election-year returns are typically tepid before the election, thanks to biases painting the party as anti-business. But in inaugural years, stocks rebound big as investors’ fears don’t come true and relief ensues. (Vice-versa when a Republican wins.) It usually takes some time, as investors need to see sweeping change isn’t coming. Said simply, since World War II every democrat President’s inaugural year has been double digit positive except Carter’s which was only a negative 7.4%. But this year? The early, golden gridlock means no waiting—like Christmas in July.
Investors will feel that benign political backdrop increasingly ahead—helping stocks not only at home but globally. While pundits often highlight differences in US and non-US markets, developed markets typically move together. Non-US developed world stocks have a 0.85 correlation with the S&P 500 over the past 20 years—sky-high considering -1.0 is polar opposite and 1.0 is lockstep movement.
Politics are, of course, merely one factor for stocks. But after a tense election year, the long lasting relief gridlock provides blows a forward wind in stocks’ sails. Take advantage now and own stocks—at home and abroad.
Ken Fisher, the founder, Executive Chairman and co-CIO of Fisher Investments, authored 11 books and is a widely published global investment columnist. For more, see Ken’s full bio, here
[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Markets.]


wnd--2020-11-30--Harris reminded she bailed out rioters

Harris reminded she bailed out rioters

( FOX NEWS ) -- Vice President-elect Kamala Harris was widely slammed on Twitter this weekend for committing to helping @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus pandemic despite having openly supported protesters at the height of social unrest over the @ @ @ @ @ , especially Black and minority-owned businesses , urgently need relief to survive the effects of @ @ @ @ @ Harris , 56 , tweeted on Saturday .
“ @ JoeBiden and I are committed @ @ @ @ @ this pandemic and get them the support they need to thrive in years to come.
@ @ @ @ @ to compare Harris ’ post to one she made in June , a tweet in @ @ @ @ @ behind protesters “ on the ground in Minnesota .

(FOX NEWS) -- Vice President-elect Kamala Harris was widely slammed on Twitter this weekend for committing to helping small businesses affected by the coronavirus pandemic despite having openly supported protesters at the height of social unrest over the summer.
“Small businesses, especially Black and minority-owned businesses, urgently need relief to survive the effects of coronavirus this winter,” Harris, 56, tweeted on Saturday. “@JoeBiden and I are committed to helping these businesses during this pandemic and get them the support they need to thrive in years to come.”
Twitter users were quick to compare Harris’ post to one she made in June, a tweet in which she threw her support behind protesters “on the ground in Minnesota.
Read the full story ›


wnd--2020-11-30--Dominion server crashes during Georgia recount

( WASHINGTON EXAMINER ) -- Officials in Fulton County , Georgia , said a Dominion Voting Systems mobile server crashed @ @ @ @ @ recount requested by President Trump .
`` Technicians from Dominion have been dispatched to resolve @ @ @ @ @ County officials said in a statement reported by WXIA-TV , a local NBC affiliate .
@ @ @ @ @ State ’ s office has also been alerted to the issue and is aware of @ @ @ @ @ . ''
Fulton County officials told the outlet that a newly purchased Dominion mobile server @ @ @ @ @ The Washington Examiner reached out to Dominion for comment .

(WASHINGTON EXAMINER) -- Officials in Fulton County, Georgia, said a Dominion Voting Systems mobile server crashed on Sunday, delaying a recount requested by President Trump.
"Technicians from Dominion have been dispatched to resolve the issue," Fulton County officials said in a statement reported by WXIA-TV, a local NBC affiliate. "The Georgia Secretary of State’s office has also been alerted to the issue and is aware of efforts to resolve the problem."
Fulton County officials told the outlet that a newly purchased Dominion mobile server crash was to blame. The Washington Examiner reached out to Dominion for comment.
Read the full story ›


wnd--2020-11-30--Joe Biden fractures foot playing with dog

( WASHINGTON EXAMINER ) -- Joe Biden sustained hairline fractures in his right foot and will likely require a walking @ @ @ @ @ doctor said after the president-elect slipped and twisted his ankle on Saturday while playing with @ @ @ @ @ The injury raises the possibility that Biden will be wearing some sort of brace on @ @ @ @ @ a campaign during which Biden and President Trump questioned each other 's mental and physical @ @ @ @ @ Kevin O ’ Connor , director of executive medicine at GW Medical Faculty Associates , @ @ @ @ @ X-rays showed no `` obvious fracture '' in Biden 's foot .

(WASHINGTON EXAMINER) -- Joe Biden sustained hairline fractures in his right foot and will likely require a walking boot for weeks, his doctor said after the president-elect slipped and twisted his ankle on Saturday while playing with his dog, Major.
The injury raises the possibility that Biden will be wearing some sort of brace on Inauguration Day, which follows a campaign during which Biden and President Trump questioned each other's mental and physical fitness to hold office.
Kevin O’Connor, director of executive medicine at GW Medical Faculty Associates, provided an update after initial X-rays showed no "obvious fracture" in Biden's foot.
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wnd--2020-12-01--Articles of impeachment filed against Ohio governor

( BREITBART ) -- A total of 12 articles of impeachment have officially been filed against Ohio Gov .
Mike @ @ @ @ @ during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic .
Ohio State Rep. John Becker ( R ) was @ @ @ @ @ ( R ) , Nino Vitale ( R ) , and Paul Zeltwanger ( R @ @ @ @ @ impeachment against Governor DeWine , according to a report by Cleveland 19 News .
The @ @ @ @ @ abused his power during the pandemic , noting that the governor vetoed Senate Bill 55 @ @ @ @ @ other General Assembly legislation , including Senate Bill 311 — which seeks to severely limit @ @ @ @ @ during a pandemic .

(BREITBART) -- A total of 12 articles of impeachment have officially been filed against Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine over abuse of power during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
Ohio State Rep. John Becker (R) was joined by Representatives Candice Keller (R), Nino Vitale (R), and Paul Zeltwanger (R) in filing articles of impeachment against Governor DeWine, according to a report by Cleveland 19 News.
The representatives argue that DeWine has abused his power during the pandemic, noting that the governor vetoed Senate Bill 55 — and threatened to veto other General Assembly legislation, including Senate Bill 311 — which seeks to severely limit the governor’s power during a pandemic.
Read the full story ›


wnd--2020-12-01--Media warned to 'let the process play out' in election-fraud dispute

[ Editor 's note : This story originally was published by Real Clear Politics . ]
The allegations of election fraud that have divided the country in the weeks since Nov. 3 , and the dismissal of them by the establishment as “ conspiracy theories , ” remind me of another November day 57 years ago .
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22 , 1963 , was officially assigned to the hand of Lee Harvey Oswald , a former U.S. Marine who had defected to the Soviet Union several years earlier and then returned to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their newborn daughter .
Of course , Oswald was never convicted of the assassination because he was himself murdered by a shadowy mob-associated bar owner less than 72 hours later .
Anyone who didn ’ t believe “ Oswald did it ” was labeled as a conspiracy theorist , or worse .
But for many Americans , the official lone-gunman story accepted by the Warren Commission was itself the conspiracy .
TRENDING : Trump speaks out about alleged fraud in first post-election interview , rips judges ' election decisions There was an alternative @ @ @ @ @ @ @ yet given little credence in official Washington and the establishment media : that Kennedy was murdered by elements of the intelligence community as revenge for his failure to play ball with the Deep State on various national security issues .
I need not go into detail here about how such a conspiracy could have operated , and yet to this day anyone who speculates on its scope is marginalized .
A similar dynamic is operating today regarding those who have argued that Democrats stole the presidential election from President Trump .
Prominent attorneys @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rudy Giuliani have been painted as right-wing kooks , and the press repeatedly labels their allegations of cheating “ baseless , ” despite hundreds of affidavits from eyewitnesses , inexplicable vote counting anomalies , and blatantly unconstitutional changes in the voting process itself .
Baseless ?
As Inigo Montoya says in “ The Princess Bride , ” “ You keep using that word .
I do not think it means what you think it means.
” The lesson , of course , is to not jump to any conclusions .
Let the process @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Report short-circuiting the quest for truth about the JFK assassination that led to so many Americans distrusting their government in the first place .
Let ’ s not magnify that distrust by allowing the power brokers in D.C. to coronate a new president whose legitimacy is suspect .
Last week , the Trump team got its first chance to roll into public view a mountain of evidence .
The Pennsylvania Senate held a hearing in Gettysburg to give Giuliani an opportunity to present witnesses who told of how Trump poll watchers were impeded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ballots were counted without inspection , and how the numbers don ’ t add up regarding how many mail-in ballots were issued versus how many were received .
Meanwhile , Powell filed lengthy lawsuits in both Georgia and Michigan that spelled out a host of irregularities , and Wood got word from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals that it was giving him a hearing on his own suit in Georgia .
None of which means anything to the tech overlords , who just want Trump to go away and are willing to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ including suspending Twitter accounts , blocking websites , and slapping warning labels on anything that doesn ’ t toe the ( Democratic ) party line .
Although there was no Twitter or Facebook in the 1960s to try to discredit news stories that questioned the official version of JFK ’ s death , the same dynamic operated then that prevails now in the coverage of 2020 election fraud .
But instead of adding a “ disputed ” label on stories that doubted the lone gunman theory , CBS and NBC just had their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government would never lie to them .
“ Nothing to see here ; move along.
” The trouble for the powers that be , however , is that Donald Trump refuses to move along .
Indeed , with him in the White House , the unstoppable forces of the Fake News Media and the Deep State seem to have met an immovable object unlike anything ever yet encountered in American politics .
This battle royal began even before Trump took office as president when the FBI and CIA conspired with CNN and MSNBC @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was a Russian asset .
This was supposed to end his presidency in a coordinated strike that was far more subtle than what happened to JFK but just as malevolent .
It was Chuck Schumer who warned Trump way back in January 2017 that it was not a good idea to challenge the intelligence community .
“ Let me tell you , you take on the intelligence community , they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you , ” Schumer told MSNBC 's Rachel Maddow .
“ So even for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he ’ s being really dumb to do this.
” What had Trump done exactly ?
That same day — Tuesday , Jan. 3 , 2017 — President-elect Trump had publicly chastised the intelligence agencies for delaying a briefing on alleged Russian cyber activities .
`` The 'Intelligence ' briefing on so-called 'Russian hacking ' was delayed until Friday , perhaps more time needed to build a case .
Very strange ! ''
Trump wrote on Twitter .
A fairly innocuous comment , especially by Trump ’ s standards , but Maddow characterized @ @ @ @ @ @ @ agencies , and asked Schumer , “ What do you think the intelligence community would do , if they were motivated to ?
” “ I don ’ t know … but from what I am told , they are very upset with how he has treated them and talked about them , ” Schumer responded .
Remember , this was on Jan. 3 .
It was the next day , Jan. 4 , when the FBI was prepared to clear Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn of any wrongdoing for his contacts with Russians @ @ @ @ @ @ @ national security adviser .
But later that same day , FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok wrote to the official case agent investigating Flynn and told him not to close the case after all .
Strzok noted in his message , “ 7th floor involved , ” a reference to the top brass in the FBI wanting to keep the case alive .
Maddow claimed that NBC had verified that the briefing of Trump was always scheduled for Jan. 5 , suggesting that Trump was just being paranoid , but circumstantial evidence suggests this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jan. 20 , 2017 , memo by President Obama ’ s national security adviser , Susan Rice , we now know that Obama met on Jan. 5 with Rice , FBI Director James Comey , Vice President Joe Biden and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to order them to handle their investigations into Russian hacking “ by the book.
” We also later learned from declassified FBI documents that this was a direct reference to the investigation of Gen. Flynn .
Yet if we know anything about the Flynn probe , it ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the book , ” but rather by mandate of the “ 7th floor.
” That led to four years of persecution of Gen. Flynn by the Justice Department , the appointment of a special counsel to try to destroy the Trump presidency , and ultimately the impeachment of the president for not following the dictates of the intelligence community and the mysterious “ interagency consensus ” in his foreign policy .
The question now is whether this war against Trump ever stopped or whether it continued right through the election of Nov. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that Rachel Maddow asked Chuck Schumer on Jan. 3 , 2017 : “ What do you think the intelligence community would do [ to Trump ] , if they were motivated to ?
” Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani want answers .
Do you ?

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Politics.]
By Frank Miele
Real Clear Politics
The allegations of election fraud that have divided the country in the weeks since Nov. 3, and the dismissal of them by the establishment as “conspiracy theories,” remind me of another November day 57 years ago.
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, was officially assigned to the hand of Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine who had defected to the Soviet Union several years earlier and then returned to the United States with his Russian bride and their newborn daughter. Of course, Oswald was never convicted of the assassination because he was himself murdered by a shadowy mob-associated bar owner less than 72 hours later. Anyone who didn’t believe “Oswald did it” was labeled as a conspiracy theorist, or worse. But for many Americans, the official lone-gunman story accepted by the Warren Commission was itself the conspiracy.
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There was an alternative explanation believed by millions of Americans, yet given little credence in official Washington and the establishment media: that Kennedy was murdered by elements of the intelligence community as revenge for his failure to play ball with the Deep State on various national security issues. I need not go into detail here about how such a conspiracy could have operated, and yet to this day anyone who speculates on its scope is marginalized.
A similar dynamic is operating today regarding those who have argued that Democrats stole the presidential election from President Trump. Prominent attorneys like Sidney Powell, Lin Wood and Rudy Giuliani have been painted as right-wing kooks, and the press repeatedly labels their allegations of cheating “baseless,” despite hundreds of affidavits from eyewitnesses, inexplicable vote counting anomalies, and blatantly unconstitutional changes in the voting process itself. Baseless? As Inigo Montoya says in “The Princess Bride,” “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
The lesson, of course, is to not jump to any conclusions. Let the process play out. It was the Warren Report short-circuiting the quest for truth about the JFK assassination that led to so many Americans distrusting their government in the first place. Let’s not magnify that distrust by allowing the power brokers in D.C. to coronate a new president whose legitimacy is suspect.
Last week, the Trump team got its first chance to roll into public view a mountain of evidence. The Pennsylvania Senate held a hearing in Gettysburg to give Giuliani an opportunity to present witnesses who told of how Trump poll watchers were impeded from watching the count, how suspicious ballots were counted without inspection, and how the numbers don’t add up regarding how many mail-in ballots were issued versus how many were received. Meanwhile, Powell filed lengthy lawsuits in both Georgia and Michigan that spelled out a host of irregularities, and Wood got word from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals that it was giving him a hearing on his own suit in Georgia.
None of which means anything to the tech overlords, who just want Trump to go away and are willing to do anything to make it happen — including suspending Twitter accounts, blocking websites, and slapping warning labels on anything that doesn’t toe the (Democratic) party line.
Although there was no Twitter or Facebook in the 1960s to try to discredit news stories that questioned the official version of JFK’s death, the same dynamic operated then that prevails now in the coverage of 2020 election fraud. But instead of adding a “disputed” label on stories that doubted the lone gunman theory, CBS and NBC just had their esteemed anchors assure the public that the government would never lie to them. “Nothing to see here; move along.”
The trouble for the powers that be, however, is that Donald Trump refuses to move along. Indeed, with him in the White House, the unstoppable forces of the Fake News Media and the Deep State seem to have met an immovable object unlike anything ever yet encountered in American politics.
This battle royal began even before Trump took office as president when the FBI and CIA conspired with CNN and MSNBC to spread the fake story that Trump was a Russian asset. This was supposed to end his presidency in a coordinated strike that was far more subtle than what happened to JFK but just as malevolent.
It was Chuck Schumer who warned Trump way back in January 2017 that it was not a good idea to challenge the intelligence community.
“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Schumer told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. “So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he’s being really dumb to do this.”
What had Trump done exactly?
That same day — Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017 — President-elect Trump had publicly chastised the intelligence agencies for delaying a briefing on alleged Russian cyber activities.
"The 'Intelligence' briefing on so-called 'Russian hacking' was delayed until Friday, perhaps more time needed to build a case. Very strange!" Trump wrote on Twitter.
A fairly innocuous comment, especially by Trump’s standards, but Maddow characterized it as “taunting” the spy agencies, and asked Schumer, “What do you think the intelligence community would do, if they were motivated to?”
“I don’t know … but from what I am told, they are very upset with how he has treated them and talked about them,” Schumer responded.
Remember, this was on Jan. 3. It was the next day, Jan. 4, when the FBI was prepared to clear Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn of any wrongdoing for his contacts with Russians in his role as Trump’s national security adviser. But later that same day, FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok wrote to the official case agent investigating Flynn and told him not to close the case after all. Strzok noted in his message, “7th floor involved,” a reference to the top brass in the FBI wanting to keep the case alive.
Maddow claimed that NBC had verified that the briefing of Trump was always scheduled for Jan. 5, suggesting that Trump was just being paranoid, but circumstantial evidence suggests this was not true. Thanks to a Jan. 20, 2017, memo by President Obama’s national security adviser, Susan Rice, we now know that Obama met on Jan. 5 with Rice, FBI Director James Comey, Vice President Joe Biden and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to order them to handle their investigations into Russian hacking “by the book.” We also later learned from declassified FBI documents that this was a direct reference to the investigation of Gen. Flynn. Yet if we know anything about the Flynn probe, it’s that it was not done “by the book,” but rather by mandate of the “7th floor.”
That led to four years of persecution of Gen. Flynn by the Justice Department, the appointment of a special counsel to try to destroy the Trump presidency, and ultimately the impeachment of the president for not following the dictates of the intelligence community and the mysterious “interagency consensus” in his foreign policy. The question now is whether this war against Trump ever stopped or whether it continued right through the election of Nov. 3.
It is the very question that Rachel Maddow asked Chuck Schumer on Jan. 3, 2017: “What do you think the intelligence community would do [to Trump], if they were motivated to?”
Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani want answers. Do you?


wnd--2020-12-01--New GOP coalition is 'multiethnic, multiracial ... and it's conservative'

[ Editor 's note : This story originally was published by Real Clear Politics . ]
Democrats are scrambling to explain away the inroads Republicans have made with minorities , as evidenced in the November election results .
Instead of listening to the concerns of the Black and Hispanic voters who voted for President Trump — after years of being assured that Trump is one of the “ most racist presidents ” in history — Democrats are instead blaming them .
“ Some Democrats argue that the support for Mr. Trump is an example of machismo culture , venerating traditional @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” the New York Times reported .
But Axios admitted , “ The media ( and many Democrats ) are fairly clueless about the needs , wants and trends of Hispanic voters .
Top Latinos warned about overlooking and misreading the fastest-growing population in America — but most didn ’ t listen.
” TRENDING : Trump speaks out about alleged fraud in first post-election interview , rips judges ' election decisions The same is true of Black voters ( Trump gained 4 more percentage points of the Black vote over his 2016 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Chauncey DeVega at Salon still insist that white supremacy “ now controls the Republican Party.
” Here ’ s what they ’ re missing : A new coalition is taking shape .
It ’ s multiethnic , multiracial — and it ’ s conservative .
It rejects the regimentation of identity politics , and even rejects the attendant language ( just 3 % of Hispanics use the term “ Latinx , ” for example ) .
It ’ s working class and it ’ s growing .
The new coalition rejects the premise @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1619 Project , ” the grand critique of America , which says the U.S. is fundamentally racist and a real-life dystopia .
They know better .
It ’ s the country they or their parents or their grandparents came to , and in many cases , fled to .
The America they experience is one of opportunity and freedom .
The left tells them the past was unbearable , yet plans to ensure that the future will be worse .
Minority-owned small businesses were hit disproportionately hard by the pandemic lockdowns , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the same .
Working from home is a privilege that Blacks and Hispanics are far less likely to enjoy .
They also reject any Green New Deal .
In 2018 , California lawyers filed a massive civil rights lawsuit claiming that the Golden State ’ s climate policies disproportionately punish the poor , especially Blacks and Hispanics .
“ California ’ s climate policies guarantee that housing , transportation and electricity prices will continue to rise , ” the lawsuit says , “ while ‘ gateway ’ jobs to the middle class @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as manufacturing and logistics , will continue to locate in other states.
” Democrats pledge to make California a model for the nation .
More than anything , the new coalition has come together over jobs .
They see Republican policies as more likely to result in job creation , and Democratic policies as less likely to .
They know this because they ’ ve seen it .
“ During each of the [ first ] three years of Trump/Pence , about 380,000 Blacks climbed their way out of poverty , compared to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” a University of Colorado study found .
“ More than a half-million Hispanics moved up the economic ladder past the poverty line in each of the three years of Trump/Pence , compared to only 150,000 for the Obama/Biden era.
” We shouldn ’ t leave out Asian Americans , who also moved in greater numbers to the R camp .
There ’ s evidence that affirmative action is behind much of that movement ; the Trump administration has backed a lawsuit brought by Asian Americans against Harvard ’ s affirmative action policies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about opportunity .
Of course , the prevailing narrative is that the GOP of the future is the man-cave of the aging white male in decline .
The truth , however , is that Republicans on Nov. 3 lost ground with white men , while gaining greater support from white women and minorities .
For years , the left has divided America along the lines of race and gender , and attempted bring together these camps into a working-class , multiethnic coalition .
They have succeeded .
It ’ s just that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Politics.]
By Kevin Roberts
Real Clear Politics
Democrats are scrambling to explain away the inroads Republicans have made with minorities, as evidenced in the November election results. Instead of listening to the concerns of the Black and Hispanic voters who voted for President Trump — after years of being assured that Trump is one of the “most racist presidents” in history — Democrats are instead blaming them.
“Some Democrats argue that the support for Mr. Trump is an example of machismo culture, venerating traditional gender roles and a kind of hyper-masculinity,” the New York Times reported. But Axios admitted, “The media (and many Democrats) are fairly clueless about the needs, wants and trends of Hispanic voters. Top Latinos warned about overlooking and misreading the fastest-growing population in America — but most didn’t listen.”
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The same is true of Black voters (Trump gained 4 more percentage points of the Black vote over his 2016 numbers), yet progressives such as Chauncey DeVega at Salon still insist that white supremacy “now controls the Republican Party.”
Here’s what they’re missing: A new coalition is taking shape. It’s multiethnic, multiracial — and it’s conservative. It rejects the regimentation of identity politics, and even rejects the attendant language (just 3% of Hispanics use the term “Latinx,” for example). It’s working class and it’s growing.
The new coalition rejects the premise of the New York Times’ “1619 Project,” the grand critique of America, which says the U.S. is fundamentally racist and a real-life dystopia. They know better. It’s the country they or their parents or their grandparents came to, and in many cases, fled to. The America they experience is one of opportunity and freedom.
The left tells them the past was unbearable, yet plans to ensure that the future will be worse. Minority-owned small businesses were hit disproportionately hard by the pandemic lockdowns, but the incoming Biden administration hints at more of the same. Working from home is a privilege that Blacks and Hispanics are far less likely to enjoy.
They also reject any Green New Deal. In 2018, California lawyers filed a massive civil rights lawsuit claiming that the Golden State’s climate policies disproportionately punish the poor, especially Blacks and Hispanics. “California’s climate policies guarantee that housing, transportation and electricity prices will continue to rise,” the lawsuit says, “while ‘gateway’ jobs to the middle class for those without college degrees, such as manufacturing and logistics, will continue to locate in other states.”
Democrats pledge to make California a model for the nation.
More than anything, the new coalition has come together over jobs. They see Republican policies as more likely to result in job creation, and Democratic policies as less likely to. They know this because they’ve seen it.
“During each of the [first] three years of Trump/Pence, about 380,000 Blacks climbed their way out of poverty, compared to only 80,000 for the Obama/Biden era,” a University of Colorado study found. “More than a half-million Hispanics moved up the economic ladder past the poverty line in each of the three years of Trump/Pence, compared to only 150,000 for the Obama/Biden era.”
We shouldn’t leave out Asian Americans, who also moved in greater numbers to the R camp. There’s evidence that affirmative action is behind much of that movement; the Trump administration has backed a lawsuit brought by Asian Americans against Harvard’s affirmative action policies. Again, it’s all about opportunity.
Of course, the prevailing narrative is that the GOP of the future is the man-cave of the aging white male in decline. The truth, however, is that Republicans on Nov. 3 lost ground with white men, while gaining greater support from white women and minorities.
For years, the left has divided America along the lines of race and gender, and attempted bring together these camps into a working-class, multiethnic coalition. They have succeeded.
It’s just that the working-class, multiethnic coalition votes Republican.


wnd--2020-12-01--Fauci finally admits children rarely spread COVID-19

White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci famously dueled with Sen. Rand Paul , R-Ky. , last summer over whether or not children should go back to school in the fall .
Now , three months into the school year , Fauci essentially is admitting that Paul was right .
`` If you look at the data , the spread among children and from children is not very big at all , not like one would have suspected , '' Fauci said told ABC 's `` This Week '' on Sunday .
`` So let 's try to get the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ things that maintain and push the kind of community spread we are trying to avoid . ''
TRENDING : Trump speaks out about alleged fraud in first post-election interview , rips judges ' election decisions During a Senate hearing in June , Paul argued the science indicates it 's safe to return to school , and the consequences otherwise are enormous .
`` If we keep kids out of school for another year , what 's going to happen is the poor and underprivileged kids who don ’ t have a parent that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ home are not going to learn for a full year , '' Paul argued .
`` I think it ’ s a huge mistake if we don ’ t open the schools in the fall .
`` Dr. Fauci , every day we seem to hear from you things we ca n't do , '' Paul said .
`` But when you 're asked , 'Can we go back to school , ' I do n't hear much certitude at all .
'Well , maybe . '
'It depends . '
Guess what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to transmit this .
I don ’ t hear that coming from you .
All I hear is , 'We can ’ t do this , we can ’ t do that , we can ’ t play baseball , ' '' Paul in the June hearing .
President Trump , meanwhile , pushed back on the insistence of Democrats , the media and teacher 's unions .
`` We have to open our schools .
Open our schools .
Stop this nonsense , '' Trump said Sept. 10 .
`` It 's @ @ @ @ @ @ @ want to open because they think it will help them on November 3rd .
I think it will hurt them on November 3rd . ''
See Fauci 's remarks Sunday on `` This Week '' :

White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci famously dueled with Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., last summer over whether or not children should go back to school in the fall.
Paul chastised Fauci for equivocating, arguing children rarely transmit COVID-19.
Now, three months into the school year, Fauci essentially is admitting that Paul was right.
"If you look at the data, the spread among children and from children is not very big at all, not like one would have suspected," Fauci said told ABC's "This Week" on Sunday. "So let's try to get the kids back and try to mitigate the things that maintain and push the kind of community spread we are trying to avoid."
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During a Senate hearing in June, Paul argued the science indicates it's safe to return to school, and the consequences otherwise are enormous.
"If we keep kids out of school for another year, what's going to happen is the poor and underprivileged kids who don’t have a parent that’s able to teach them at home are not going to learn for a full year," Paul argued. "I think it’s a huge mistake if we don’t open the schools in the fall.
If you have just 2 minutes to spare... watch this right now. Rand Paul takes it to Dr. Fauci. Get kids back to school. #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/enNz4DVoHd — Justin Hart (@justin_hart) June 30, 2020
"Dr. Fauci, every day we seem to hear from you things we can't do," Paul said. "But when you're asked, 'Can we go back to school,' I don't hear much certitude at all. 'Well, maybe.' 'It depends.' Guess what? It’s rare for kids to transmit this. I don’t hear that coming from you. All I hear is, 'We can’t do this, we can’t do that, we can’t play baseball,'" Paul in the June hearing.
President Trump, meanwhile, pushed back on the insistence of Democrats, the media and teacher's unions.
"We have to open our schools. Open our schools. Stop this nonsense," Trump said Sept. 10. "It's only political nonsense. They don't want to open because they think it will help them on November 3rd. I think it will hurt them on November 3rd."
See Fauci's remarks Sunday on "This Week":