theblaze--2020-10-27--Reality TV star ‘Human Ken doll’ — who had more than $650,000 in surgeries — transitions into ‘Barbi

Reality TV star ‘Human Ken doll’ — who had more than $650,000 in surgeries — transitions into ‘Barbie’

Reality TV star ‘ Human Ken doll ’ — who had more than $ 650,000 in surgeries — transitions into @ @ @

Reality TV star Jessica Alves — formerly known as Rodrigo Alves — has successfully transitioned from her former persona of "Human Ken doll" to that of a decidedly more "Barbie" appearance.
What are the details?
According to the New York Post, Alves — a 37-year-old biological male — underwent surgery to become more like a plastic Ken doll — at a price tag of at least $650,000. The outlet reported that some of Alves' previous surgeries included rib removal and several facelifts as well as various body sculpting surgeries.
In 2019, however, Alves — famous for a stint on "Celebrity Big Brother" — announced she was transgender and began the process of transitioning from male to female.
The outlet reports that Alves has only a "few more steps left" in her latest makeover, which includes hormone therapy.
She told Caters News that she had a "great life" as a male, and now looks forward to life after transition.
"As a man I had a great life, I achieved and did lots of very fun, cool things — but I was never truly happy, because I kept having surgeries to modify myself, when what I actually really wanted was to transition," Alves reasoned. "When I look at myself in the mirror, I feel really happy. I see the woman that was inside me all along."
'It was meant to be'
Alves said that she believes she has done a "very good job" during her year-long transition process.
"I transitioned very quickly, very fast, my body is responding very well to the hormone treatment, and it was meant to be," she explained. "If people don't know that I am Jessica Alves, previously Rodrigo Alves, they assume that I am a biological woman, which is great."
Alves added that she receives a lot of attention from males when she goes out, but finds that when some of them discover that she is transgender, they are disinterested.
"When I go out I get a lot of attention from men — they normally realize that I am a transgender after a few minutes because of my voice, then their attitude changes towards me," she told the news agency. "When they realize that I am a transgender woman they can get put off a little bit, which is very frustrating.
"I believe that having a stable relationship will be very difficult as a transgender woman because many men see you as kind of a sex doll and that's not what I am looking for."


theblaze--2020-10-27--Hunter Biden's business group shopped Joe Biden's influence in Colombia in an investment pitch to Ch

Hunter Biden's business group shopped Joe Biden's influence in Colombia in an investment pitch to Chinese energy firm: Report

Hunter Biden 's business group shopped Joe Biden 's influence in Colombia in an investment pitch to Chinese energy firm @ @ @ @ @ some eyebrows

Hunter Biden's business group highlighted former Vice President Joe Biden's influence in Colombia in 2017 when seeking a $10 million deal with a Chinese energy firm that sought oil investments in the South American country, the Daily Caller reported Tuesday.
The news appears to further corroborate claims made last week by former Hunter Biden business associate, Tony Bobulinski, who alleged that the Biden family "aggressively leveraged" their family name to make millions of dollars from foreign entities, including from communist China.
What are the details?
Included in a 42-page investment proposal sent from Hunter Biden's group, EEIG, to the Chinese firm, CEFC China Energy, is a picture of Joe Biden shaking Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos' hand with a blurb about the United States' newfound "pragmatic" relationship with Colombia under the Obama administration.
"The relationship between Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and Joe Biden has been a strong one throughout the Obama administration," reads the document, which was obtained by the Daily Caller.
"With this in mind, EEIG has built the framework for partnership between CEFC China and local partners in Colombia, with a solid basis starting at the very foundations of the country's administration," it continued.
The photo of Biden and Santos along with the description of their relationship can be found on pages 27 and 28 of the document.
The sales proposal would go on to list several "target opportunities" for the partnership, which included investing in both an oil field and a port in Colombia, as well as other opportunities in Oman, Romania, and Luxembourg.
According to the Daily Caller, the investment proposal is part of "a trove of records" held by Bobulinski and since turned over to a Senate committee investigating Hunter Biden's overseas business dealings.
What's the background?
Hunter Biden's group, which included his uncle, James Biden, Bobulinski, and three other businessmen — eventually called SinoHawk — ended up not doing business with CEFC China Energy. But according to a Senate report, the firm did secure a separate deal with Hunter and James Biden.
The Senate report said that "on Aug. 8, 2017, CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to the bank account for Hudson West III," Hunter Biden's law firm.
The report also noted a significant extortion and counterintelligence risk over the deal, since CEFC's chairman, Ye Jianming, reportedly has ties to the China's military, the People's Liberation Army.
After seeing the report, Bobulinski claimed that it "connected some dots in a way that shocked me — it made me realize the Bidens had gone behind my back and gotten paid millions of dollars by the Chinese, even though they told me they hadn't and wouldn't do that to their partners."
Bobulinski, in a video announcement last week, claimed that Joe Biden was directly involved in the business dealings with CEFC. The former vice president has been adamant that he never discussed his son's overseas business dealings with him.


theblaze--2020-10-27--Pregnant supermodel Emily Ratajkowski says she and her husband 'won't know' baby's gender 'until our

Pregnant supermodel Emily Ratajkowski says she and her husband 'won't know' baby's gender 'until our child is 18' and 'they'll let us know then'

Pregnant supermodel Emily Ratajkowski says she and her husband 'wo n't know ' baby 's gender 'until our child is @ @ @ @ @ let us know then '

It's become standard fare for leftist celebrities to proclaim they're letting their children choose their genders. And pregnant supermodel Emily Ratajkowski is the latest, writing in Vogue that she and her husband "won't know the gender" of their baby "until our child is 18" and "they'll let us know then."
What are the details?
Ratajkowski added to her essay, "I like the idea of forcing as few gender stereotypes on my child as possible" but that she doesn't like "that we force gender-based preconceptions onto people, let alone babies. I want to be a parent who allows my child to show themself to me. And yet I realize that while I may hope my child can determine their own place in the world, they will, no matter what, be faced with the undeniable constraints and constructions of gender before they can speak or, hell, even be born."
Indeed, the woke pronoun thing is primed and ready to go.
Still, she acknowledged that she's asked her husband — actor-producer Sebastian Bear-McClard — if he wants a boy, and that "he refuses to give me an answer, swearing that he doesn't have a preference. But one Sunday as he's watching football he makes a remark about how it'd be fun to have a little boy to watch with."
Ratajkowski said she shot back, "Girls watch football, too!"
One thing's for sure, though: The supermodel has fears about raising a son — particularly due to the child's inevitable whiteness.
"I've known far too many white men who move through the world unaware of their privilege, and I've been traumatized by many of my experiences with them," Ratajkowski wrote. "And boys too; it's shocking to realize how early young boys gain a sense of entitlement — to girls' bodies and to the world in general. I'm not scared of raising a 'bad guy,' as many of the men I've known who abuse their power do so unintentionally. But I'm terrified of inadvertently cultivating the carelessness and the lack of awareness that are so convenient for men. It feels much more daunting to create an understanding of privilege in a child than to teach simple black-and-white morality. How do I raise a child who learns to like themself while also teaching them about their position of power in the world?"
'Nothing worse than the undisturbed sleep of a white man in a patriarchal world'
She then shared a story about a friend's struggle with white males — namely her husband and new baby boy:
My friend who is the mother to a three-year-old boy tells me that she didn't think she cared about gender until her doctor broke the news that she was having a son. She burst into tears in her office. "And then I continued to cry for a whole month," she says matter-of-factly. After a difficult birth experience, she developed postpartum depression and decided that she resented her husband more than she'd ever imagined possible. She told me she particularly hated — and she made an actual, physical list that she kept in her journal, editing it daily — how peacefully he slept. "There is nothing worse than the undisturbed sleep of a white man in a patriarchal world." She shakes her head. "It was hard to come to terms with the fact that I was bringing yet another white man into the world. But now I adore him and can't imagine it any other way." She also eventually learned to love her husband again. The sound of his perfect sleep next to her at night is now tolerable.
Anything else?
Ratajkowski is no stranger to expressing left-wing views. She publicly backed Democratic socialist presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in 2016 and took some heat for partnering with Planned Parenthood a year earlier. But in fairness, Ratajkowski in 2017 said she stood up for Melania Trump after a New York Times journalist called the first lady a "hooker."


theblaze--2020-10-27--Coming Friday: Mississippi heartbeat bill among first cases Justice Amy Coney Barrett will consider

Coming Friday : Mississippi heartbeat bill among first cases Justice Amy Coney Barrett will consider The newly installed justice begins @ @ @ @ @ most divisive issue the modern court could consider

The Supreme Court will deliberate Friday on whether it will review a Mississippi pro-life law that bans abortion after an unborn child's heartbeat can be detected.
If the Supreme Court takes the case, it will be the first potential challenge to Roe v. Wade's precedent to come before the court with newly installed Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett hearing the arguments.
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch petitioned the court last week to review the state's 15-week abortion ban, asking the court to clarify how lower courts should interpret a previous Supreme Court decision striking down a Louisiana pro-life law, CBS News reported. He cited several opinions from federal appeals court judges that varied in their reasoning on separate abortion-related cases, some citing the Supreme Court's majority opinion from Medical Services v. Russo to strike down restrictions on abortion, others referring to Chief Justice John Roberts' concurring opinion to keep those regulations in place.
"This case remains an ideal vehicle to promptly resolve both that question and the first question presented — the contradictions in this Court's decisions over use of 'viability' as a bright line for measuring pro-life legislation," Fitch wrote in a supplemental brief sent to the Supreme Court.
The case asks the court to decide "whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional," taking direct aim at the heart of the Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion before fetal viability at 24 weeks nationally.
The lawyer for the pro-choice group challenging Mississippi's heartbeat law told CBS News the law explicitly violates Roe's precedent.
"Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban defies nearly fifty years of Supreme Court precedent," Hillary Schneller, the staff attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights, told CBS News. "Mississippi's abortion ban, by definition, is a complete and insurmountable obstacle for pregnant people seeking abortion care after 15 weeks."
On Friday, the nine justices of the Supreme Court will meet to discuss and vote on whether they will hear this case and others. Four justices must agree to take the case before the Supreme Court will hear the arguments. An announcement on the Supreme Court's decision is expected to come Monday.
All eyes are on newly confirmed Justice Amy Coney Barrett as the court weighs this decision. Progressives fear and conservatives hope that Barrett's addition to the court has cemented a 6-3 originalist-leaning majority that will overturn Roe, ending the national legalization of abortion and sending the issue back to the states.
The last abortion-related case to come before the court was Medical Services v. Russo, in which a 5-4 majority blocked a Louisiana law that required abortionists to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. Chief Justice John Roberts joined the four progressives on the court in a concurring opinion, saying that while he disagrees with prior rulings declaring such restrictions unconstitutional, the court is bound by precedent.
Multiple senators questioned Barrett on the role of Supreme Court precedent during her confirmation hearings, with Democrats attempting to have her clarify her views on Roe in particular. Barrett, following Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's example, refused to give her opinion on Roe v. Wade's precedent, noting that there were pending cases before the court system challenging aspects of Roe and that it would be unethical for her to signal to potential litigants how she might rule.
During one exchange with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), however, Barrett did not list Roe among several cases she called "super-precedents" that the court cannot overturn because they are established law. An example of one such case would be Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 court ruling that declared "separate is not equal," ending racial segregation in public schools.
She didn't tip her cards, though, deftly answering Klobuchar's questions in a way that left her position on Roe's precedent ambiguous.
"Roe is not a super-precedent because calls for its overruling have never ceased, but that doesn't mean that Roe should be overruled," Barrett explained.
Other pending cases the Supreme Court may consider are whether a New York prosecutor will get access to President Donald Trump's financial information and election-related cases.


theblaze--2020-10-27--Angry homeless man opens fire in New York City deli, kills customer. But off-duty cop is in store, t

Angry homeless man opens fire in New York City deli, kills customer. But off-duty cop is in store, too — and tackles, detains shooter.

Angry homeless man opens fire in New York City deli , kills customer .
But off-duty cop is in store @ @ @ @ @ , detains shooter .
'So you think a social worker would have had the balls @ @ @ @ @ want to get rid of police ? '

An angry homeless man who had just been kicked out of a deli in Queens, New York, on Monday returned to the store and opened fire, fatally shooting a customer, police told the New York Daily News.
What are the details?
Steven Cohen, 63, lives out of his blue Honda Odyssey, the paper said, and he was at the store in Ozone Park to buy lottery tickets but was acting disorderly.
Mohmediyan Tarwala, 26, helped a worker escort Cohen out of the Cross Bay Express Deli, the Daily News said.
But Cohen returned around 6:15 p.m., opened the door, and opened fire, the paper said, hitting Tarwala twice in the stomach. Cohen then turned the gun on the clerk but lowered it after seeing the plexiglass barrier at the counter, sources told the Daily News.
The accused shooter took off, but New York City Police Officer Jason Maharaj — who was off duty and in the store — followed the suspect outside, wrestled him to the ground, and grabbed the gun, police told the paper.
Police recovered a Colt .45 handgun at the scene, sources told the New York Post.
Medics rushed Tarwala to Jamaica Hospital, but he could not be saved, the Daily News said.
Anything else?
Just prior to the shooting, Cohen entered another store, Beer Town, across the street, and told the clerk to call 911, the Daily News said.
"He seemed like he was in the middle of a medical emergency," Beer Town clerk Chris Hanlon told the paper. "He then just walked away."
Cohen is charged with murder, attempted murder, and criminal use of a firearm, the Daily News said.
Officer Maharaj is from the 77th Precinct and has been with the NYPD for two years, the Post reported.
What did folks have to say about the off-duty officer?
Commenters on the NYPD News page on Twitter praised the off-duty officer for stepping up.
"Great job!! So you think a social worker would have had the balls to do that?" one commenter asked. "Still want to get rid of police? GOD BLESS THE MEN & WOMEN OF THE NYPD!!"
"God bless our police!!! Never listen to the idiots out there. Mature sensible people appreciate and support you," another commenter said.
Although one quipped that "the officer will be suspended for assaulting the criminal because he tackled him!"


theblaze--2020-10-27--Leftist celebrities foam at the mouth on social media following Amy Coney Barrett confirmation — and

Leftist celebrities foam at the mouth on social media following Amy Coney Barrett confirmation — and one even apologizes to Hillary Clinton

Leftist celebrities foam at the mouth on social media following Amy Coney Barrett confirmation — and one even apologizes to @ @

Leftist celebrities took to Twitter in rage on Monday night after the U.S. Senate voted 52-48 to confirm Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
What's a brief history here?
Barrett, 48, was sworn in during a ceremony presided over by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Ahead of the vote, Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), said that "today ... will go down as one of the darkest days in the 231-year history of the United States Senate."
He added, "You may win this vote ... but you will never, ever get your credibility back. And the next time the American people give Democrats a majority in this chamber, you will have forfeited your right to tell us how to run that majority."
What are the details?
Entertainers and celebrity activists alike banded together on Twitter to spew their outrage over Barrett's confirmation on Monday night.
Leading the outrage pack was actress Debra Messing, who apologized to failed presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the confirmation.
Earlier in the evening, Clinton herself issued regrets over Barrett's confirmation, writing, "Senate Republicans just pushed through a Supreme Court justice who will help them take away Americans' health care in the middle of a pandemic. For them, this is victory. Vote them out."
An emotional-sounding Messing responded, "Im [sic] sorry that this tragic day in American history has landed on your birthday. I, for one, am grateful for you, and all that you have given our country. Happy birthday. May this next year be one of enlightenment and healing."
Leftist filmmaker Michael Moore also shared a disturbing poem. It is unclear whether he is the author of the odd, Dr. Seuss-like missive.
It reads, "Whack the Court. Pack it Stack it Frack it Smack it. Shellack it Clack it Knick-knack & Paddy-whack it Crack it Open Shack it Up Rack it! Yes, it's a RACKET. Black it Brown it Green it Blue it Expand it! Term limit it! Fix it! Now."
Earlier, he wrote, "Revolting. Disgraceful. Unconscionable. GOP R.I.P."
Actor Jon Cryer complained, "Truly a shameful day for every Republican Senator and anyone who has ever voted for them."
Actress and comedian Sandra Bernhard added, "[N]ot [sic] shred of doubt that this woman has total contempt of other women who demand #reproductivejustice she will do anything to destroy #LGBTQ marriage & protection, she is controlled by her religious dogma & has relented all sense of intellectual acuity we need to brace ourselves."
Entertainer Cher wailed, "New Supreme Court Crazy's 1st Case,May Decide Presidency. One Week After Election She'll Vote Down Affordable Care Act,No Preexisting Condts.She'll Keep Trump's Taxes Hidden, Bring Up ROE V.WADE. Undo & Vote Against LGBTQ Rights,& ON& ON. VOTE NOW,OUR LIVES DEPEND ON YOUR VOTE[.]"
Actor and animator Seth MacFarlane chimed in, "The cemented conservative majority on the Supreme Court will be a hard lesson for many people on the importance of voting — a lesson that will last decades. Unfortunately, all the marches and protests in the world can't reverse voter apathy in 2016. This time around, vote."
Many other celebrities such as actor Patton Oswalt and actress and former TV host Rosie O'Donnell — both of whom have been wildly outspoken against Trump during his first administration — called for Democrats to pack the court if former vice president and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden wins the 2020 presidential election.
Oswalt simply wrote, "Expand the court."
O'Donnell added, "[B]iden blue landslide — #EXPANDTHECOURTS."
A bevy of other celebrities — including "Seinfeld" actors Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jason Alexander — shared the same message, which read, "6-3 doesn't represent me. Flip states blue, stop the GOP. Donate: http://FlipTheStates.com/Donate Volunteer: http://FlipTheStates.com/Volunteer."
Actress and activist Alyssa Milano added, "Now more than ever: women's rights are on the ballot. That's why I'm voting for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. If you haven't voted yet, make your plan to vote today: makeaplan.com[.]"


theblaze--2020-10-27--Polling firm asks two unique questions, forecasts Trump will win again

Polling firm asks two unique questions , forecasts Trump will win again

President Donald Trump is building another upset election victory, according to experimental polling from the University of Southern California.
Despite Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's lead in the polls, two polling questions from USC have analysts predicting that Trump will win re-election.
What is the background?
Biden has held a commanding lead over Trump in national polling since the start of the general election season.
Currently, Biden's lead stands at an average of 7.4% nationally, down three points in just two weeks, according to RealClearPolitics. Among top battleground states, Biden's lead is less than 4% on average.
What did the poll find?
To survey which candidate is expected to win an election, pollsters typically gauge voter interest by simply asking respondents for whom they plan to vote; this is known as the "voter intention question."
But the operators of the USC Dornsife Daybreak Poll are asking respondents two additional questions: the "social-circle question" and the "state-winner question," which probes which candidate respondents think will win their state.
The reasoning behind the "social-circle question" is simple, according to USC Dornsife. Asking respondents who they think their social circle will vote for is extremely reliable, the polling institute said. In fact, USC Dornsife has asked the question in five elections — and each time the outcome has been more reliable than the "voter intension question" outcome.
Using these two questions, the pollsters discovered great news for Trump.
From USC Dornsife:
The social-circle question is predicting Biden will win the popular vote, but by a much slimmer margin than what's being predicted by the standard voter intention question — in the USC Dornsife Daybreak Poll and most others — regarding how poll participants themselves plan to vote. When we calculate how many electoral votes each candidate could get based on state level averages of the own-intention and social-circle questions, it's looking like an Electoral College loss for Biden.
Meanwhile, the pollsters said the "state-winner question" indicates an even bigger Electoral College loss for Biden than the "social-circle question."
While it remains to be seen how the polling will turn out this time, final polling in 2016 actually wasn't far off, showing Clinton winning by an average of about 3 points. Clinton won the popular vote by 2.1 points.


theblaze--2020-10-27--New Lincoln Project ad implies Trump has won third presidential term — and leftists are reacting to

New Lincoln Project ad implies Trump has won third presidential term — and leftists are reacting to ad with 'pain & rage'

New Lincoln Project ad implies Trump has won third presidential term — and leftists are reacting to ad with 'pain @ @ @ @ @ the other hand , ca n't seem to contain their laughter over the spot

The Lincoln Project — a group of Republicans intent on getting President Donald Trump voted out of office — released a dramatic new ad Monday night titled "Good Night, America."
And boy, does it ever have leftists flipping out.
What are the details?
Beginning with a nighttime scene in a house with heart-stirring taps on piano keys, a mother opens the door to her young son's bedroom as a sounds from a TV news station follow her in.
She has the look of someone who's about to break the news that there was a death in the family.
Image source: Twitter video screenshot
The mother bends down to her sleeping boy, rousing him awake with a soft entreaty: "Hey, honey."
"Hey, Mommy," her son replies.
"You asked me to wake you and tell you what happened in the election," she continues.
Image source: Twitter video screenshot
"Who won?" the boy inquires.
"Trump," the mom answers with subtle disgust. "Trump won."
The boy seems perplexed: "I thought you could only be president two times."
Image source: Twitter video screenshot
The mother pauses and appears distressed before relaying even more terrible news: "Not any more."
Image source: Twitter video screenshot
With that, white text on a black background flashes on the screen: "STOP HIM OR IT WILL NEVER STOP" and "VOTE HIM OUT."
What has been the reaction?
To say nothing about the ad's glaring flaw — the son's shock presumably regarding the abolition of presidential term limits would've occurred long before Election Day — conservatives are getting a big laugh over the video's ridiculous premise.
Becket Adams of the Washington Examiner said he "audibly snorted" in laughter while watching the spot. Others reacted similarly:
"Holy s**t I am choking from laughing too hard," another commenter noted.
"Do these people not understand that in order for this to happen we would have to amend the Constitution, a process which would require 38 states to ratify a new amendment repealing the 22nd Amendment?" another commenter asked. "Who am I kidding, of course they f***ing don't."
And here's a nifty suggestion borrowing from "The Handmaid's Tale":
Image source: Twitter
But the ad put leftists and other anti-Trump folks in anything but a lighthearted mood:


theblaze--2020-10-27--VIDEO: Teacher holds 13-year-old after class to lecture him about Trump's 'racist' immigration polic

VIDEO: Teacher holds 13-year-old after class to lecture him about Trump's 'racist' immigration policy

VIDEO : Teacher holds 13-year-old after class to lecture him about Trump 's 'racist ' immigration policy

A middle school teacher in Washington state kept a 13-year-old student after class to lecture him over his support for President Trump — and the student recorded the whole thing.
It's the latest in a growingstringofincidents in which teachers are bringing their anti-Trump political biases into the classroom. Now that remote learning is more prevalent, more and more incidents are being caught on tape.
What are the details?
Connor Seaman, a language arts teacher at Kopachuck Middle School in Gig Harbor, had apparently taken issue with the student's choice of Trump as his "hero" for a recent assignment. So he asked the student to stick around after class for a quick chat before he proceeded to spend nearly 10 minutes attempting to convince the student that his hero's immigration policy is nonsensical and "racist."
KTTH-TV talk radio host Jason Rantz, who first reported the news, said, "What started off as a reasonable — and correct — conversation about proper sourcing quickly devolved."
Like Rantz said, at first it appeared that Seaman would simply advise the student to use more than one source for his project and move on, but that was not the case. Before long, the obviously anti-Trump educator proceeded to grill the student on border wall effectiveness and immigration policy.
After spending a few minutes debating border wall construction with the student, Seaman cut to the chase with a pointed question for the student: "Why is it heroic to make a wall to keep out immigrants?"
From this point on, it is blatantly obvious that Seaman intends only to lecture the student — not on his project, but on his politics. First, he compares illegal crossings to jaywalking, and soon after, he sets up something of a false dichotomy, asking, "What would be a bigger accomplishment: lowering murder rates or lowering illegal border crossing?"
The clever student stood his ground for a while, but eventually grew tired of the lecture and asked if he could leave. Yet, amazingly, Seaman pressed on to make a few final points.
"So if you're gonna introduce bullet points, you kinda have to back [them] up with why that's heroic. Because a lot of people who would argue that it's not heroic and ... a lot of the rhetoric that has been said has been very racist," Seaman said in reference to a 2015 speech in which Trump alleged Mexico was sending "rapists" and "murderers" into the United States.
"It's pretty racial language, so a lot of people would argue that it's actually creating a lot of racist tensions by saying that," he argued.
What else?
After seeing the video, the student's mother reportedly contacted both the school's superintendent and principal. According to KTTH-TV, the principal acknowledged that the lecture was inappropriate and passed along that Seaman was apologetic.
The district, however, has come to Seaman's defense.
"The comment that the teacher tried to convince the student he was wrong for supporting President Trump's immigration policy is not accurate," district spokesperson Aimee Gordon told the local news outlet. "The student and teacher spoke about immigration policy in the context of providing evidence for why President Trump is a hero. The teacher's intent was to encourage the student to use more than one source (whitehouse.gov) for his assignment."


theblaze--2020-10-27--Kanye West calls out liberals for 'one of the most racist things': 'Institutionalized racism'

Kanye West calls out liberals for 'one of the most racist things ' : 'Institutionalized racism '

Rapper Kanye West is calling out liberals for what he says is "one of the most racist things."
What did West say?
Speaking with Joe Rogan on his podcast, "The Joe Rogan Experience," West said the attitude Democrats hold toward the black community — assuming they have the black vote in the bag or only catering to the black community when they need their vote — "is one of the most racist things."
According to West, Democrats often subtly communicate they think that black voters cannot think for themselves.
"One of the most racist things that liberals who pride themselves on not being racist have said to me is, like, 'You're going to split the black vote.' And that makes it seem like black people can't make decisions for ourselves," West told Rogan.
"Liberals literally make it seem like only black people will vote for me. Think about that statement! The nuance of institutionalized racism," West added.
"They just have a place where no one has really been able to embrace the idea of blacks not being in a bloc and staying in one place," he continued.
Earlier in the podcast, West said that "liberal elites" have accused him of being a "pawn" for the Republican Party.
But according to West, turning black people into "pawns" is a tactic employed by liberals.
"Democrats do create black pawns, they do have celebrities that they'll sit down and meet with and say, you're going to be an advocate for the Democratic Party," West explained.
West's comments begin around the 1:48:10 mark:
Joe Rogan Experience #1554 - Kanye West www.youtube.com
Any recent examples?
Unfortunately, there have been two recent prominent examples demonstrating what West told Rogan.
Earlier this summer, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden incited controversy after telling hip-hop radio host Charlamagne Tha God that black people aren't really black if they don't vote for him, a Democrat.
"Well, I'll tell you what: If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black," Biden said.
Then, just last week, liberal comedian Chelsea Handler scolded rapper 50 Cent, whom she once dated, for seemingly supporting President Donald Trump over the fact that Biden's tax plan would raise taxes on wealthy Americans like 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson.
"I had to remind him that he was a black person, so he can't vote for Donald Trump and that he shouldn't be influencing an entire swath of people who may listen to him because he's worried about his own personal pocketbook," Handler told Jimmy Fallon.
Jackson has since appeared to recant his support for Trump.


theblaze--2020-10-27--Horowitz: More evidence coronavirus is instead of, not in addition to, the flu

Horowitz : More evidence coronavirus is instead of , not in addition to , the flu

What if COVID-19 actually supplants the circulation of the flu and serves as this year's only seasonal flu? What if all the panicking over coronavirus hospitalizations wrongly presupposes COVID-19 cases being added to the typical level of flu hospitalizations, which have now been reduced thanks to the immunobiological factors behind the circulation of SARS-CoV-2? Well, there is now more evidence that this coronavirus is this year's version of the flu, and therefore, hospitals are not in danger of being overwhelmed.
The entire impetus for these unprecedented, draconian response policies was the threat of hospitals being overrun beyond capacity. Now, putting aside whether lockdown policies are even successful in avoiding that outcome, there is no place in this country where our hospitals, especially given the surge in resources, could not handle this epidemic. The only way to suggest that our hospitals would be overrun would be to posit that we will suffer from at least an average flu and pneumonia season this winter together with COVID-19. But as I've noted before, that appears to be a false assumption.
According to the CDC's "Influenza Surveillance Report," there have been just 126 lab-confirmed flu cases in the entire country for the first three weeks of the flu season – from week 40 through week 42 (ending Oct. 17). While it's still very early in the season, at this point last year, there were already 1,975 confirmed positive cases. Phil Kerpen, president of American Commitment, tallied the five-year average through week 42 and found that the numbers are down roughly 90%.
The disappearance of the flu is not because of a lack of testing. The number of tests being administered is well within the historic average despite the focus and resources being directed toward COVID-19 testing. It's that the positivity rate dropped 90% over the five-year average. In fact, I could not find a year when the positivity rate was anywhere near this low ever since we started mass-testing for the flu.
As I reported earlier this month, data from all over the world shows that the flu disappeared from the Northern Hemisphere when COVID-19 hit in March or April and from the Southern Hemisphere throughout the northern summer. Now, the pattern appears to be holding as we head into the new flu season for the Northern Hemisphere.
Europeans are also beginning to observe this astonishing but promising phenomenon. Stefan Homburg, director of the Institute of Public Economics Leibniz University in Hanover, Germany, tweeted out a chart of World Health Organization (WHO) flu surveillance data showing a similar trend throughout the world:
As you can see, all strains of the flu disappeared during the spring.
Great Britain's Office for National Statistics (ONS) recently posted data showing that flu and pneumonia deaths were down by nearly one-third this past September, compared to the five-year average. The flu isn't the only ailment that can trigger pneumonia; however, a spokesman for the ONS told the U.K. Daily Telegraph that those who would have died from pneumonia likely died earlier this year in the first wave of COVID-19. This demonstrates that coronavirus tends to kill many of the same people who die every year from flu/pneumonia. Thus, with the death rate of the virus much lower than it was in March and April, yet still seemingly having a biological effect of crowding out the flu, hospitals might actually be better off than in some flu seasons, assuming this trend continues into the core months of what should be a typical flu season.
In an article titled, "Has COVID killed off the flu?" the U.K. Daily Mail cites the WHO statistics first observed by Kyle Lamb of RationalGround.com – that confirmed flu cases across the globe were down 98%. The article cites two virologists who explain a possible theory behind the "crowding out" effect of coronavirus:
Virus expert Professor James Stewart, at the University of Liverpool, says: "Immune system cells come in and help destroy the first infection, and if another virus comes along that same response will fight it off."
Dr Groppelli adds: "Viruses are parasites. Once they enter a cell, they don't want other viruses to compete with. So the virus already in the body will effectively kick the other parasite out."
As such, could it be that over a period of several years, we will see weaker flu seasons, thereby resulting in few excess deaths over time? Remember, many have observed that while Sweden had fewer deaths per capita than other major European countries that had lockdowns, it seemed to have more recorded deaths initially than the other Scandinavian countries. However, among the many likely reasons for that dichotomy is the fact that Sweden had very weak flu seasons over the past two years, and 2019 was an all-around low mortality year.
Furthermore, Sweden is now experiencing the lowest all-case mortality month on record. What's becoming clear is that the virus might kill some people several months early but might also kill those who, statistically speaking, should have died in the previous year. Consequently, unlike during the Spanish flu – when the median age of death was 29 and the world still suffered from bad flu seasons throughout the 1920s – we will not see a lot of excess deaths in the long run (except for lockdown deaths).
Already in the spring, a researcher at the University of Cambridge published a working paper showing an eerie correlation between the countries that had weak flu seasons since 2018 and higher COVID death rates – and vice versa. The analysis found, for example, that Belgium, which still has the highest death rate per capita in Europe, had the weakest flu seasons of all the European counties examined in the study. What this all means for hospitals headed into the winter is that an epidemic would only overrun hospitals if it augments rather than supplants existing ailments.
The only question now is how long the best-kept secret about COVID-19 will be covered up by the U.S. media? Perhaps, if Joe Biden wins the election, we will find out all about this and many other nuggets of good news that were too good to share with the public while Trump was president.


theblaze--2020-10-27--Fauci says early COVID vaccines will prevent symptoms, not block disease — and may be only 50% to 60

Fauci says early COVID vaccines will prevent symptoms, not block disease — and may be only 50% to 60% effective

Fauci says early COVID vaccines will prevent symptoms , not block disease — and may be only 50 % to @ @ @ @ @ will a vaccine be ready ?

Dr. Anthony Fauci says that early COVID-19 vaccines will likely only prevent symptoms — not stop transmission.
He also pointed out that such vaccines may only be 50% or 60% effective.
What are the details?
According to a report from Yahoo! Finance, Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, cautioned that early vaccines are simply aimed at preventing or reducing symptoms of coronavirus infection.
Fauci made the remarks during Monday's Yahoo! Finance's All Markets Summit.
"If the vaccine allows you to prevent initial infection, that would be great," he said in remarks. "[But] the primary endpoint [is] to prevent clinically recognizable disease."
At the time of this reporting, four biotechnology companies are nearing their end of clinical trials as they furiously work to develop a vaccine for COVID-19 — AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, and Pfizer, which is partnered with BioNTech.
"The primary thing you want to do is that if people get infected, prevent them from getting sick, and if you prevent them from getting sick, you will ultimately prevent them from getting seriously ill," Fauci said. "If the vaccine also allows you to prevent initial infection, that would be great. [But] what I would settle for, and all of my colleagues would settle for, is the primary endpoint to prevent clinically recognizable disease."
What else?
Earlier this week, Fauci said that a COVID-19 vaccine may be ready as early as November, but will take months to roll out to the American public.
In remarks on BBC One's "The Andrew Marr Show," Fauci said, "I think we will know whether a vaccine is safe and effective by the end of November, the beginning of December."
"The question is, once you have a safe and effective vaccine, or more than one, how can you get it to the people who need it as soon as possible," he added.
He also explained that the country could begin to "approach some form of normality."
"I think when we get a vaccine, and we start getting people vaccinated, over a period of several months into 2021, we will begin to approach some form of normality, depending upon how many people, what proportion of the people, take the vaccine," Fauci added.
"That should be combined with some degree of public health measures," he continued. "I don't think that a vaccine alone right off will get us back to normality."


theblaze--2020-10-27--Ted Cruz: Hunter Biden's emails don't move a single voter

The senator from Texas said the Trump campaign needs a positive message

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) doesn't think the Trump campaign attacks on Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's foreign business dealings are landing.
In an interview with Jonathan Swan on "Axios on HBO," Cruz reportedly said the focus on revelations from Hunter Biden's emails isn't an effective line of attack against the Biden campaign. "I don't think it moves a single voter," Cruz said.
American voters were handed an October surprise when the New York Post published emails obtained from a laptop allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden. Among the revelations were emails that suggest Hunter Biden had set up meetings with foreign partners to pursue "lucrative" deals that would be "interesting to my family." A business partner of the Biden family later came forward to allege that Joe Biden was involved in these business deals, despite Biden's multiple denials that he had anything to do with Hunter's foreign entanglements.
The topic came up during the final presidential debate between President Donald Trump and Biden, when Trump confronted Biden on the emails and asked him to explain to the American people what was going on.
"I have not taken a penny from any foreign source in my life," Biden said.
Reviewing last Thursday's presidential debate, Cruz thought Biden had an effective counter to Trump's attacks.
"One of Biden's best points was when he said, 'All of these attacks back and forth about my family and his family, they don't matter. What matters is your family,'" Cruz said.
He added that for Trump to win, Republicans need to pivot to a positive message and ensure that the president's supporters get to the polls.
"I think we should be unifying, we should be explaining, we should be lifting people up," Cruz said. "I think it's a turnout election. But my assessment of turnout is the left is showing up no matter what. That those who hate Trump will crawl over broken glass to vote against him."
"The big unknown in this election is: Is everyone else gonna show up?"
The Nov. 3 election is just one week away. According to the Daily Caller, recent polling has shown that Biden's 9.1-point lead over Trump has remained more or less unchanged since the New York Post published the Hunter Biden emails in mid-October.
According to the Associated Press, 58.6 million Americans have voted early, far surpassing the number of early or absentee votes in 2016. Democrats lead Republicans in the early ballot casting, but Republicans are catching up.


theblaze--2020-10-27--French citizens in majority-Muslim countries warned to take precautions as Muslim anger boils over d

French citizens in majority-Muslim countries warned to take precautions as Muslim anger boils over display of Mohammad cartoons There is @ @ @ @ @ Muslim world over the French teacher who was beheaded

In a sign of the growing tensions between France and much of the Muslim world, French citizens were warned by the French government on Tuesday about traveling abroad, particularly in some majority-Muslim countries where anger against France is running particularly high after French citizens displayed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in solidarity with schoolteacher Samuel Paty.
The controversy flared when Paty, a history teacher, displayed the cartoons of Muhammad to his class in October in order to make a point about free expression. The father of one of his students began an internet campaign against Paty, uploading videos to YouTube and Facebook, blasting the teacher, and claiming that he showed cartoons of Muhammad with his genitals exposed. The campaign caught fire in the Muslim world, with worldwide calls for reprisal against Paty and against the French government, who naturally refused to take action against Paty.
Ultimately, Paty was murdered and beheaded on Oct. 16 by an 18-year-old Chechen Muslim refugee named Abdoullakh Abouyedovich Anzorov, who was himself caught and killed by police as he attempted to flee the scene.
Paty's brutal murder, which was condemned as an act of Islamic terrorism by French President Emmanuel Macron, galvanized the French population and caused huge numbers of French citizens to publicly display cartoons of Muhammad in solidarity with Paty and principles of free expression.
This has served to further enrage the Muslim world, which has called for boycotts of French goods. Macron, for his part, has responded by condemning the "separatism" of France's large Muslim community, which he views as a threat to national security.
The anti-France anger has become so acute in some countries that France's foreign ministry warned its citizens traveling there on Tuesday to avoid all public gatherings and to specifically avoid dangerous protests occurring in those countries. Those countries include Indonesia, Bangladesh, Iraq, and Mauritania. A statement released by the foreign ministry stated, "It is recommended to exercise the greatest vigilance, especially while travelling, and in places that are frequented by tourists or expatriate communities," according to Reuters.
In addition to violent protests and calls for boycott, Turkish thug dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan publicly questioned Macron's health for his refusal to crack down on displays of the cartoon, which led the French government to recall its ambassador from Turkey.
This story has been updated.


theblaze--2020-10-27--Ben Shapiro hits AOC with history lesson after she lashes out over Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation

Ben Shapiro hits AOC with history lesson after she lashes out over Amy Coney Barrett 's confirmation Democrats rewrote the @ @ @ @ @ chickens are coming home to roost

Democrats exploded in anger Monday after Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the Supreme Court and then sworn in as the court's newest associate justice. They promised retaliation and blamed Republicans for escalating tribalism in American politics.
But conservative commentator and lawyer Ben Shapiro was quick to provide Democrats with a history lesson.
What did Democrats say?
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said expanding the Supreme Court and packing it with liberal justices is necessary because such measures will fix what she called a "broken system."
"Remember that Republicans have lost 6 of the last 7 popular votes, but have appointed 6 of the last 9 justices," Omar claimed. "By expanding the court we fix this broken system and have the court better represent the values of the American people."
Meanwhile, Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) said Democrats should not stop at the Supreme Court — he said Democrats should pack the entire federal judiciary with liberal justices.
Enter Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who claimed that Republicans are "bulldozing" their agenda into reality.
"Expand the court," Ocasio-Cortez said immediately after the Senate confirmed Barrett.
"Republicans do this because they don't believe Dems have the stones to play hardball like they do. And for a long time they've been correct. But do not let them bully the public into thinking their bulldozing is normal but a response isn't. There is a legal process for expansion," she added.
What's the truth?
As Shapiro was quick to point out, Democrats began political escalation — particularly in the Senate — years ago, and those chickens are now coming home to roost.
According to Shapiro, Democrats are responsible for the political environment that has resulted in the confirmation of judges like Barrett.
"The funniest part about this tweet is that Democrats were first to destroy judicial candidates for mere interpretational disagreement, the first to use the filibuster against judges, and the first to nuke the filibuster against judges...but she thinks the Republicans started it," Shpairo wrote in response to Ocasio-Cortez.
Indeed, Senate Democrats have spent decades tearing down conservative-leaning judges nominated to the federal judiciary.
The climax of such behavior happened in the fall of 2018 during Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation, when Democrats pushed unsubstantiated claims that he was a serial sexual assaulter.
Meanwhile, as the Heritage Foundation explains, the filibuster, implemented in the early 1800s, was originally meant for legislative purposes, but Democrats were the first to invoke the filibuster in 2003 against nearly one dozen federal judicial nominees appointed by then-President George W. Bush.
And who could forget when, in 2013, then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) forever changed the landscape of the Senate by invoking the so-called "nuclear option" to lower the vote-threshold required to approve federal judges. Democrats did this in retaliation against Senate Republicans — who at the time were in the minority in the Senate — for taking a play from the Democratic playbook and using the filibuster to block many of then-President Barack Obama's executive nominees.
Previously, judges and executive nominees needed three-fifths approval, or 60 votes in the Senate, to end debate on their confirmation. But because Democrats changed the rules, only a simple majority, or 51 votes, is required to end debate on confirmation.
One year later, Democrats confirmed 89 federal judges using the re-written rules.
After Democrats changed the rules, then-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell left Democrats with a sobering warning, "You'll regret this — and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think."
Turns out, McConnell was right.


theblaze--2020-10-28--Rapper Cardi B melts down after seeing 'scary' Trump supporters in Los Angeles: 'I don't like it!'

Rapper Cardi B melts down after seeing 'scary ' Trump supporters in Los Angeles : ' I do n't like @ @ @

Rapper Cardi B says the notion of Trump supporters in Los Angeles — who were there for a rally to support President Donald Trump — terrifies her.
What are the details?
In a recent video shared to social media, the rapper — real name Belcalis Almanzar — loudly complained that Trump supporters were "everywhere" in Los Angeles.
She made the remarks while apparently being driven near a recent pro-Trump parade.
"Oh my God, ahhh!" she said in the video. "I don't like this s**t. Look at this. Look at this. Look how they're walking around, with fake guns out and covering their f***ing faces. I don't like this s**t. ... Trump supporters are everywhere. I'm scared. I don't like it."
She even complained about the supporters' trucks.
"Trump supporters are everywhere, I'm scared," she repeated. "I don't like it, with their big-ass trucks."
Almanzar went on to say that she was worried that she would "get jumped."
"Nah, we're gonna get jumped!" she fretted. "I really feel like we're gonna get jumped."
It seems fair to point out that no one involved in the Trump demonstration and parade paid any mind to the rapper or her vehicle, as evidenced by her video.
What else?
In September, conservative firebrand Candace Owens lashed out at the rapper after saying that former vice president and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden was pandering to minorities when he interviewed with Almanzar in an attempt to draw in black voters.
“You wanna know why Joe gotta talk to me Candice cause I have the #1 song & yet my sister can't go to the beach in the Hampton's wit out trump supporters harassing cause they were by themselves & Santa Claus was harassing my sis GF all because they are a Afro/Hispanic gay couple," the rapper fired back at Owens.
Owens responded with a series of tweets urging black Americans to wake up to "Democrat racism," mocking wealthy "Hollywood idols," and declaring that she "broke" Cardi B.


theblaze--2020-10-28--Chad Prather: AOC cries 'voter suppression' over long early voting lines

Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call , Inc via Getty Images

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) claimed long lines at voting locations in New York last weekend are a form of "voter suppression."
"There is no place in the United States of America where two-, three-, four-hour waits to vote is acceptable," the Democratic socialist congresswoman complained. "And just because it is happening in a blue state doesn't mean it isn't voter suppression."
In a recent episode of "The Chad Prather Show," Chad and the crew reacted to AOC's latest soapbox speech as the election draws closer, as well as the Biden campaign's attempts to dodge more stories about Hunter Biden's business dealings.
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theblaze--2020-10-28--Rush Limbaugh issues plea for Americans to re-elect Trump: 'This is not the old 'Republicans versus

Rush Limbaugh issues plea for Americans to re-elect Trump: 'This is not the old 'Republicans versus Democrats ... It's serious, and it's scary'

Rush Limbaugh issues plea for Americans to re-elect Trump : 'This is not the old 'Republicans versus Democrats ...
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Rush Limbaugh on Monday issued a passionate plea to Americans to re-elect President Donald Trump on Nov. 3.
The longtime conservative commentator announced last week that his Stage 4 lung cancer is terminal.
What are the details?
In a video filmed in the 69-year-old's home library, Limbaugh reaffirmed his support for Trump just moments before Barrett's Supreme Court confirmation.
“Hey, folks, sitting here in the library getting ready to watch the confirmation vote — Amy Coney Barrett, Supreme Court — and it just reminds me: Folks, we don't have a choice in this election," Limbaugh began. “It's got to be Donald Trump."
Limbaugh pointed out that the 2020 presidential election is especially important because the Democratic Party simply isn't what it used to be.
“We're not going to have the kind of country everybody thinks we're going to have," he predicted. "This is not the old 'Republicans versus Democrats,' where we all have the same objectives, just different philosophies on how to get there. They do not have those objectives any more. Their purpose is to erase the Constitution, start over rewriting it, eliminating the concept of 'The citizen has rights which prevail over government.'"
Limbaugh continued, pointing out that the notion is frightening at best. “It's serious, and it's scary, and we don't have a choice," he insisted. "You have to get out there and vote Trump."
Limbaugh added, "It's got to be Trump ... we've got to be America."
What else?
Following his admission that his lung cancer has taken a turn for the worse, the conservative commentator pointed out that he's heavily relying on his Christian faith to endure until it's time to go home.
"I have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ," the host said during last week's broadcast. "It is of immense value, strength, confidence. And that's why I'm able to remain fully committed to the idea that what is supposed to happen will happen when it's meant to."
"There's some comfort in knowing that some things are not in our hands," Limbaugh added. "There's a lot of fear associated with that, too. But there is some comfort. It's helpful to be able to trust and to believe in a higher plan."


theblaze--2020-10-28--First lady Melania Trump warns Joe Biden's 'socialist agenda' would 'destroy America'

Mrs. Trump made the case for reelecting her husband in a Pennsylvania campaign speech

First lady Melania Trump made a campaign speech Tuesday in Pennsylvania, making the case for voters to reelect her husband, President Donald Trump, and warning that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's "socialist agenda" would "destroy America."
Mrs. Trump was making her first solo trip of the 2020 campaign in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. The polls show Trump and Biden in a tight race in the state, the Associated Press reported. Biden also visited the state Monday.
What are the details?
"As an American, I am proud that we have a president who puts our country first," Mrs. Trump told a crowd in Atglen, Pennsylvania. "Remember, we are a strong nation, again. With Donald Trump as president, we will be even stronger when we beat COVID-19.
"This election isn't just about the next year," the first lady continued. "It's about the next four years, and beyond. It's about continuing to set this country on a course of real prosperity and success. We can't, and we shouldn't, go backwards."
Then, Mrs. Trump went after Biden directly, saying, "Joe Biden's policy and socialist agenda will only serve to destroy America and all that has been built in the past four years."
The first lady began her speech by thanking supporters for the well-wishes her family received after she, President Trump and their 14-year-old son, Barron, all contracted COVID-19. But she defended her husband's handling of the coronavirus pandemic before declaring, "We don't close down and hide in fear. We get to work to find real and lasting solutions."
Mrs. Trump also took a swipe at the media during her talk, condemning their coverage of what she described as "idle gossip and palace intrigue" surrounding the White House.
You can watch the speech in its entirety below:
First Lady Melania Trump delivers remarks in Pennsylvania www.youtube.com
Anything else?
Not everyone was a fan of Mrs. Trump's message.
The Associated Press reported:
Pennsylvania Democratic Chairwoman Nancy Patton Mills ridiculed Mrs. Trump's campaign stop, saying the first lady would not have an answer for Pennsylvania's soaring unemployment rate or why her husband's administration has "stopped trying to combat a virus that's killed 8,700 Pennsylvanians and counting."


theblaze--2020-10-28--BlazeTV reporter beaten while filming the looting inside Philadelphia store

Violence continues for second night after police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr .

BlazeTV reporter Elijah Schaffer was attacked Tuesday night inside a Philadelphia store while filming ongoing looting in the wake of the police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr., who was killed after allegedly charging at officers while holding a knife on Monday.
What are the details?
The Daily Caller reporter Shelby Talcott, also reporting from Philadelphia, tweeted Tuesday night, "Mass looting across the river and @ElijahSchaffer just got beaten up for filming. This is inside the Five Below store. Police are in the same parking lot near the Walmart, but there seem to be too many looters."
Talcott posted footage showing her walking inside the store and seeing Schaffer, who was wearing a white patterned bandana, being approached by alleged looters amid calls for him to "Stop recording!" Schaffer was seen on the video being surrounded by several people who threw punches.
Talcott then posted images of Schaffer with a busted lip, reporting, ". @ElijahSchaffer got beaten up inside one of the stores for filming."
Schaffer explained in a video posted on his own Twitter feed that he "was jumped by BLM rioters while they were looting more than a dozen stores, including Wal-Matt, T-Mobile, & 5-below."
He continued, "Though in pain, I didn't stop reporting because Americans need to see what the corporate media refuses to show."
Schaffer then shared the footage he took leading up to when he was attacked. In the tweet accompanying the video, he wrote, "PHILADELPHIA: This is the footage I was recording when BLM assaulted me. Other journalists were filming but I was the only white person in the store I do believe I was targeted for being white as they accused me of being a white supremacist & did not attack people of color."
What's the background?
After the police shooting of 27-year-old Wallace went viral, Philadelphia erupted in violent protests and looting caught on social media that evening. More than 90 people were arrested and 30 officers were hurt in the rioting on Monday. The rioting started up again Tuesday with more protests and looting across the city.


theblaze--2020-10-28--BLM protesters chant 'Every city, every town, burn the precincts to the ground!' as second night of

BLM protesters chant 'Every city, every town, burn the precincts to the ground!' as second night of Philadelphia riots erupt

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Black Lives Matter protesters in Philadelphia were recorded reciting a violent anti-police chant during the second night of rioting over the deadly police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr. on Monday.
The protesters' chant was recorded by BlazeTV reporter Elijah Schaffer, who was told to stop recording shortly after capturing the video.
"Every city, every town, burn the precincts to the ground!" They chanted on the video before the frame jerks as an Antifa girl hits his camera. She is heard saying, "Stop filming!"
Protesters immediately mobilized after video of the police shooting of 27-year-old Wallace went viral on social media.
The video shows Wallace walking toward police as they yell at him and eventually shoot him. Police say he was armed with a knife and allegedly had it out as he approached them and ignored their commands.
Philadelphia erupted in violent protests and looting caught on social media that evening. On Tuesday, the rioting sparked up again with more videos of looting across the city.
Earlier in the evening, Schaffer documented some of the protesters, which he estimated at 400, marching through the streets.
Looters have reportedly struck at a Foot Locker, a Five Below store and a Walmart.
More than 30 officers were hurt in the rioting on Monday, including a 56-year-old sergeant who was intentionally struck by a truck racing through an intersection with police officers attending to the riot. She suffered a broken leg as well as other injuries, police said.
More than 90 people were arrested during the rioting on Monday, most of which were charged with burglary, while 11 were arrested for assault on a police officer.
Here's news video of looting in Philadelphia on Tuesday:


theblaze--2020-10-29--LIVE NOW: President Biden's First 100 Days: America's Dystopian Future

With just a handful of days before the election , Glenn Beck makes absolutely clear what we 're facing : The radical Left has targeted November 3 , 2020 , as a movement-defining moment .
Every big government advance , from Woodrow Wilson to FDR to LBJ , will culminate in just a few short days if Biden wins .
America will wake up on day 101 and feel like they just woke up in someone else 's house .
The country will be completely unrecognizable .
Glenn reveals how socialists have been planning the total takeover of the Democrat @ @ @ @ @ @ @ war room '' has been created to make sure sweeping changes to the Constitution and country commence if Democrats take back the presidency and Senate .
If they succeed , this will be their first 100 days ... .
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With just a handful of days before the election, Glenn Beck makes absolutely clear what we're facing: The radical Left has targeted November 3, 2020, as a movement-defining moment.
Every big government advance, from Woodrow Wilson to FDR to LBJ, will culminate in just a few short days if Biden wins. America will wake up on day 101 and feel like they just woke up in someone else's house. The country will be completely unrecognizable.
Glenn reveals how socialists have been planning the total takeover of the Democrat Party for decades and how a "war room" has been created to make sure sweeping changes to the Constitution and country commence if Democrats take back the presidency and Senate.
If they succeed, this will be their first 100 days....
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theblaze--2020-10-29--Someone is planting 'Racism Lives Here' signs in lawns of Trump supporters in California

Someone is planting 'Racism Lives Here ' signs in lawns of Trump supporters in California

Supporters of President Donald Trump are being pranked by someone posting "Racism Lives Here" signs in their front yards as a way to criticize their political preference.
The signs popped up in front yards of Trump supporters in Coronado, California, near San Diego.
The red, white, and blue signs were designed in the style of Trump signs, but were clearly meant to insult Trump supporters.
One couple spoke to KNSD-TV about the racist sign they found in their yard. They were likely targeted because they had a Trump flag hanging at their home.
"It was sad that anybody would think that about us, first of all, just because of the flag we have, because that's just not us," Ken Slanie said.
"We've lived in Coronado since 1968," he added. "So we've been here 52 years, and I've never seen anything like this before, where people are so divided and it's ridiculous. Everybody, we've got friends that are Biden fans and friends that are Trump fans and friends of all nationalities, and I've never seen anything like this before in Coronado, and it's kind of sad to see that."
Police spokeswoman Lea Corbin told KNSD that police had investigated three homes where the unwanted signs were installed, but that there was no crime committed.
"We do not have a crime," Corbin said in the email statement. "Simply placing a sign in another's yard may be unwanted but [is] not a crime."
The San Diego-Union Tribune reported that the Coronado Police Department received six calls from residents reporting the unwanted signs in their yards. They added that one resident posted a photograph of the sign on a private Facebook group and called it, "shameful, hateful and really pathetic."
Here's a local news report about the incidents:


theblaze--2020-10-29--Nancy Pelosi says Biden will win, and Trump should 'stand up like a man and accept' election results

Nancy Pelosi says Biden will win , and Trump should 'stand up like a man and accept ' election results @ @ @ @ @ said the president has a 'lack of patriotism '

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) predicted Wednesday that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will win the White House and suggested it would be in President Donald Trump's best interest to "stand up like a man and accept" the results of the election.
What are the details?
Pelosi made the comment during an interview with MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin. The Hill reported that the host "asked the speaker what Democrats can do if Trump prematurely declares victory on Election Night."
"On January 20, 2021, Joe Biden will be inaugurated president of the United States," Pelosi declared. "The states will count the votes that they have in a timely fashion, and if the president wins in that format, then, so be it, then he's president. We don't anticipate that that will be the case, and neither does he, and that's why he's trying to, as they say, 'stir the pot' so that people will think that he really won when he didn't."
She continued, "Of all the things the president has done, and they have been horrible — undermining the Constitution, degrading our environment, denigrating who we are as a people, undervaluing who we are in terms of our priorities as a country, taking children out of the arms of their parents, dimming the bright light that we are of hope to the world. ... the list goes on and on.
"The easiest thing for [Trump] to do is to stand up like a man and accept the results of an election of the American people," she concluded. "For him to make these kinds of statements shows his lack of patriotism, his undermining of our elections while he allows foreign countries like his friend [Russian President Vladimir] Putin to undermine the integrity of our election, he himself is doing it as well."
The speaker reinforced her message by tweeting out the video of her remarks.
President Trump has repeatedly voiced concerns of fraud associated with mail-in voting, which has been vastly expanded across the U.S. amid the coronavirus pandemic. The large volume of mail-in ballots has sparked widespread speculation that voters may not know the results of the general election on Nov. 3, due to the additional time needed to tally the votes.
Democrats have warned that the president would not go peacefully if he were to lose to Biden.
When pressed on the issue during the Oct. 15 presidential debate, Trump said, ""They spied heavily on my campaign and they tried to take down a duly elected sitting president, and then they talk about 'will you accept a peaceful transfer?' And the answer is, yes, I will, but I want it to be an honest election and so does everybody else."


theblaze--2020-10-29--Mark Levin warns: 'This is the election that determines if we REMAIN a Republic'

Mark Levin warns : 'This is the election that determines if we REMAIN a Republic' This is our stand against @

The 2020 election will determine the course of our republic. In fact, it will determine whether or not our nation will remain a republic at all.
In what he called the "most important episode of Levin TV," Mark Levin warned Americans that the outcome of the upcoming election could alter our society, our liberty, and our lives by undermining the principles of the Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution.
"This is a different election. We need to keep the Senate. We need to take the House. We need to win the presidency. We need to send a message throughout the land and throughout the world, and we need to stand firm for our republic — or we're going to lose it," Levin said.
"In a few days, people are going to vote in the election that will be remembered for 100 years or more," he added. "This is the election that determines the course of this republic. In fact, it will determine whether we remain a republic."
Levin encouraged listeners to take a stand against tyranny by voting for the re-election of President Donald Trump, and encouraging friends, family members, and colleagues to vote. Then he traveled back in time to explore the history of our republic, the philosophy of the Founding Fathers, and how the progressives of the early 20th century have led us to where we are today.
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Mark Levin: This Is Our Stand Against Tyranny
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theblaze--2020-10-28--Philadelphia DA warns President Trump on election poll-watchers: 'Break the law here, and I've got s

Philadelphia DA warns President Trump on election poll-watchers: 'Break the law here, and I've got something for you.'

Philadelphia DA warns President Trump on election poll-watchers : 'Break the law here , and I 've got something for @ @ @ @ @ campaign has threatened to sue over the poll watchers

The district attorney in Philadelphia issued a fiery statement warning President Donald Trump about supporting uncertified poll watchers for the election.
DA Larry Krasner issued the statement on Wednesday as a third night of violent protests were expected to erupt in the historic city.
"The Trump Administration's efforts to suppress votes amid a global pandemic fueled by their disregard for human life will not be tolerated in the birthplace of American democracy. Philadelphians from a diversity of political opinions believe strongly in the rule of law, in fair and free elections, and in a democratic system of government. We will not be cowed or ruled by a lawless, power-hungry despot. Some folks learned that the hard way in the 1700s," read the statement.
Krasner went on blame the president for the coronavirus pandemic deaths, and then addressed the rioting over the deadly police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr.
"Philadelphians are grieving the fatal shooting by police of a Black man who appeared to be in mental health crisis. Instead of working with cities and states to improve accountability and efficacy in policing, instead of supporting and strengthening Black communities, the Trump Administration seeks to throw gasoline on a long-burning fire in order to provoke further unrest and violence ahead of an election he is terrified to lose," he said.
Krasner then said his office was pursuing serious charges against a suspect who allegedly ran over a police sergeant, seriously injuring her, during the protests.
"My office is also investigating the police shooting death of Walter Wallace, Jr., because justice demands accountability for every death at the hands of government actors — whether on the streets or in prisons or in the ICE facilities where Donald Trump is caging children," he added.
"Keep your Proud Boys, goon squads, and uncertified 'poll watchers' out of our city, Mr. President. Break the law here, and I've got something for you," Krasner concluded.
The Trump campaign had said they were prepared to sue the city over their lack of cooperation with the insertion of "poll watchers" for the election. The president tweeted about the issue in September.
Krasner said during an interview on Democracy Now! that the law would apply to any federal officers that the president might send to the city and if they attempted to arrest people without probable cause that he would press charges against them and litigate the issue as a crime. He went on to say that he believed Trump was a "wannabe fascist" during the interview.
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theblaze--2020-10-28--Ex-DHS staffer Miles Taylor reveals himself as anti-Trump author 'Anonymous' after previous denials

Ex-DHS staffer Miles Taylor reveals himself as anti-Trump author 'Anonymous ' after previous denials The former aide is now a @ @

Former Department of Homeland Security staffer Miles Taylor declared Wednesday that he is "Anonymous," the secret alleged "senior Trump administration official" who penned a New York Times op-ed and subsequent book criticizing President Donald Trump.
Taylor, now a contributor at CNN, recently denied to his current employer on multiple occasions that he was "Anonymous."
What are the details?
In 2018, the New York Times published a scathing op-ed from an "anonymous" senior Trump administration official, that lambasted the president's character from the perspective of an insider. The piece was given enormous attention in the press, and the "anonymous" author then published a book titled "A Warning" the next year, which promised to pull "back the curtain even further."
The author promised to eventually reveal their identity. Meanwhile, the book hit the number one spots on both the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists.
Now, Taylor says he is "Anonymous," revealing in a statement that he penned both works, arguing, "Issuing my critiques without attribution forced the President to answer them directly on their merits or not at all, rather than creating distractions through petty insults and name-calling. I wanted the attention to be on the arguments themselves."
The Hill noted that "Taylor has been public about his criticism of Trump for months, and even endorsed Democratic presidential nomineeJoe Biden earlier this year." The outlet also pointed out that "he served in the Department of Homeland Security from 2017-2019, a stint that included time as chief of staff to former DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen."
After Taylor left the Trump administration, he joined CNN. Network host Anderson Cooper asked Taylor on air in August if he was aware of who "Anonymous" is, and he answered, "I am not. Look, that was a parlor game that happened in Washington, D.C., of a lot of folks trying to think of who that might be. I've got my own thoughts about who that might be..."
Cooper then asked directly, "You're not Anonymous?"
"I wear a mask for two reasons, Anderson," Taylor replied, "Halloweens and pandemics. So, no."
Miles Taylor in August: I didn't write anonymous op-ed www.youtube.com
After Taylor's revelation on Wednesday, fellow CNN employee Josh Campbell tweeted, "I asked Miles Taylor back on August 17 if he was 'Anonymous.' Rather than declining to comment, he said: 'No. Sorry to disappoint. You weren't the first though today!'"
A Washington Post media critic tweeted Wednesday afternoon, "A CNN spox just told me that Miles Taylor will remain a contributor despite lying to Anderson Cooper. CNN cannot have it both ways -- slamming Trump for his lies, yet condoning a very big and blatant one by its own contributor."
Anything else?
Following Taylor's announcement, several critics hit out at the New York Times for misleading readers by giving the impression that "Anonymous" was a "senior administration official." Axios reporter Jonathan Swan tweeted, "I also didn't realize the definition of 'senior administration official' could be *this* expansive. Wasn't even an agency chief of staff at the time the op-ed ran."
Steve Krakauer, executive producer of Megyn Kelly's podcast, tweeted, "Let's be perfectly clear - the ONLY reason the New York Times would grant a middle level staffer who no one in the world had heard of anonymity to write that column is because they wanted to deceive readers into thinking it was someone of significantly more prominence."
Taylor was also torched by the left and the right following his unmasking.
Former Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro tweeted, "Miles Taylor helped spin the Trump administration's policy of separating migrant children from their parents. How many of those parents were offered media contributorships?"
White House press secretary Kaleigh McEnany issued a statement saying:
"President Trump is focused on leading the great American comeback and keeping his promises to the American people. This low-level, disgruntled former staffer is a liar and a coward who chose anonymity over action and leaking over leading. He was ineffective and incompetent during his time as DHS Chief of Staff which is why he was promptly fired after only serving in this role for a matter of weeks. It is appalling a low-ranking official would be granted anonymity and it is clear the New York Times is doing the bidding of Never-Trumpers and Democrats. The American people elected President Trump to carry out his vision for the country, not an arrogant deep state operative trying to put their agenda ahead of the President's America First policies."


theblaze--2020-10-28--VIDEO: An Honest Ad From Your Democratic Party Spokesperson (Parody)

VIDEO : An Honest Ad From Your Democratic Party Spokesperson ( Parody )

Here's your Democratic 'Spokesperson' with a brutally honest message for Americans about the great reasons to vote for Joe Biden and other wonderful Democratic candidates this November.
BlazeTV's Allie Stuckey demonstrated a kind demeanor that perfectly showcased her destruction of the values and principles upheld by the Democratic party in 2020.
"You know us as the party of love, tolerance, and compassion, but we're much more than that. We're the party of science, and the science is clear," Allie said with a smile. She then listed gender issues, abortion rights, and vaccines (which are only successful if created when Trump isn't president).
"Democrats stand for justice. That means we will ruin a man's based on no evidence because we believe all women," Allie said sarcastically. "Unless they're Tara Reade."
Later, Allie addressed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
"Our candidate is sharp and not at all in cognitive decline. I mean, who really knows what the Declaration says anyway," Allie said.
Watch the video and enjoy the smackdown in this on-time political ad parody.
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Here at the Democratic Party, we can't wait to tell you all the great reasons to vote for Joe Biden and all of our other wonderful candidates.
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theblaze--2020-10-28--WATCH: BlazeTV reporter details TERRIFYING moment looters surrounded and attacked in Philadelphia

' I 'm actually really happy to be alive '

Protests following the fatal police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr quickly devolved into violence, rioting, and looting in Philadelphia, and BlazeTV's Elijah Schaffer was there to document what the mainstream media won't. But while filming the carnage inside a Five Below on Tuesday, Elijah was surrounded and attacked by looters.
Elijah joined Glenn Beck on the radio program Wednesday to detail his experience and to explain why mainstream media efforts to downplay the violence just show that independent media has never been more important.
"Unfortunately, [the attack] escalated from one person to about a dozen very quickly," Elijah explained. "I'm actually really happy to be alive. Because in that same shopping center, right there, there was a 15-year-old girl who was shot, according to reports. And I heard multiple gunshots throughout the night. Another individual is reported to have heard a gunshot as well, so we try to confirm. I watched people get pummeled beyond belief."
Glenn asked Elijah to respond to mainstream media claims that conservatives are exaggerating the looting and violence in Philadelphia.
"It's so funny to hear people that aren't there try to counter what we're reporting," Elijah replied.
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theblaze--2020-10-28--Megyn Kelly and Piers Morgan dismantle notion of suppressing free speech: 'Who are you going to allo

Megyn Kelly and Piers Morgan dismantle notion of suppressing free speech: 'Who are you going to allow to speak?'

Megyn Kelly and Piers Morgan dismantle notion of suppressing free speech : 'Who are you going to allow to speak @ @

Conservative commentator and TV host Megyn Kelly spoke with former CNN host Piers Morgan about the importance of protecting free speech no matter the cost.
What are the details?
On the recent broadcast of her podcast, "The Megyn Kelly Show," Kelly and Morgan, who hails from the U.K., discussed Second Amendment rights and the suppression of free speech on college campuses.
"One of the great things about living in a free society is you can engage in hate speech, and somebody may not like it," Kelly began. "And they're allowed to respond with their argument in response to what they or someone might consider hate speech. But we're at this place now ... on college campuses the vast majority want a constitutional amendment to ban hate speech.
"They want it to be not covered by the First Amendment, which is so absurd, because of course the First Amendment is necessary not to protect speech you like, but speech you do not like," the veteran broadcaster reasoned. "No one is trying to shut down speech everyone loves."
Morgan responded by pointing out that differing points of view are simply integral to evolving viewpoints.
"I follow lots of people on Twitter whose opinions I don't agree with precisely so I hear something outside of my own kind of echo chamber," he admitted. "And I urge everybody else to do the same. When you only follow people on social media that agree with you, you start to develop this very tribal, entrenched view of things, which doesn't allow for any nuance or any movement."
He continued, "But it gets really insidious when you mean universities or colleges around America. We haven't the same problem in this country. When they decide that even someone like Bill Maher is unacceptable, and has to be no-platformed, because he's held a shining light to wokery and all things around it.
"When that starts happening, you really think, 'What? Who are you going to allow to speak? What kind of education are kids going to be getting in these universities? What are they going to be taught if they find everything offensive?'" he asked. "If they're triggered by everything, and they can't even have a speaker like Bill Maher, who's a liberal, come and talk to them, let alone a bonafide conservative."
Morgan insisted that an attempt to squash free speech — even if some consider it to be "offensive" speech — is nothing short of scary.
"I don't know where this takes education," he said. "I don't know where it takes students. I don't know where it takes democracy. But I do know it's taking us ... into a dangerous place."
After the pandemic, he continued, "Where are we left as a society?
"Because if we don't wake up ... I think the attack on free speech over time, afterwards, will end up being far more dangerous than any virus," Morgan insisted.


theblaze--2020-10-28--Florida woman in labor showed up to vote, refused go to hospital until she cast her ballot

Florida woman in labor showed up to vote , refused go to hospital until she cast her ballot

A pregnant Florida woman in labor refused to go to the hospital to give birth Tuesday afternoon until after she cast her ballot in the U.S. presidential election.
The determined voter had her husband run into the Orange County Supervisor of Elections Office to fetch her a mail-in ballot while she waited in the car at the office's parking lot, the Orlando Sentinel reported.
Eileen Deliz, an early voting clerk for the Supervisor of Elections, told the Sentinel that the woman's husband spoke with a customer service representative who gave him the ballot and waited as she filled it out in her car. She said neither the woman nor her husband told election officials why she insisted on voting while she was in labor.
Danaë Rivera-Marasco, communications and community outreach coordinator for the Orange County Supervisor of Elections, said the unidentified woman was already in labor when she arrived to request her ballot.
Deliz speculated that the woman may have wanted to vote in-person but went into labor before she had the opportunity.
"Maybe she wanted to come in-person at one point and that's why she was waiting, who knows. But she wouldn't go to the hospital until she voted," Deliz said.
She added that elections staff were thrilled by her enthusiasm for voting.
"We are very, very busy, but when something like that happens it just makes our day," Deliz said. "It kind of validates what we do [and] the importance of voting. Every election cycle brings us a great little story."
According to the Sentinel's report, after turning in her ballot the woman's husband drove her to Orlando Health Winnie Palmer Hospital.
Florida is considered a pivotal swing state in the 2020 election. The state permits early voting, allowing voters to request a ballot by mail or vote early in-person at 10 days before Election Day. According to WFOR-TV, 41% of eligible voters in Florida have already cast their ballots, totaling more than 6.4 million votes.
More than 65.5 million votes have already been cast in the 2020 presidential election, already more than half of the total votes cast for the presidential election in 2016.
With six days remaining before the election, President Donald Trump has taken a slight lead ahead of Democratic nominee Joe Biden in the RealClearPolitics average of Florida polls. Trump will campaign in the Sunshine State on Thursday after completing rallies on Wednesday in Arizona.


theblaze--2020-10-28--Petition demanding that the 'Peanuts' holiday specials be brought back to network TV nears 200,000 s

Petition demanding that the 'Peanuts' holiday specials be brought back to network TV nears 200,000 signatures: 'Obviously, we can't let this stand'

Petition demanding that the 'Peanuts ' holiday specials be brought back to network TV nears 200,000 signatures : 'Obviously , @ @ @ @ @ stand '

Last week, Apple TV announced that the beloved "Peanuts" holiday specials would appear exclusively on the Apple TV platform.
The move means for the first time since 1965 classics such as "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving," and "A Charlie Brown Christmas" would not be seen on American network television.
Needless to say, the announcement was poorly received.
The day after the Apple TV revealed it's plot to rob Americans of the joy of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, and the gang marking the holidays — especially during this chaotic time America as we all deal with a global pandemic and a divisive election — a man named Michael Nebbia took to Change.org to launch a petition to get the animated features back on the airwaves.
In a matter of days, the petition has garnered 170,000 signatures — well on its way to 200,000.
The petition recalls the history of "Peanuts" in the U.S. and the massive betrayal by Apple TV, saying, "For over 50 years, we have celebrated the holidays with the airings of the Peanuts holiday specials on TV - first on CBS, then on ABC. To our shock and dismay, last night it was announced that Apple had swiped the football from us and claimed the specials for their Apple TV platform, leaving us devoted fans who have grown up with Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang in the dark, unable to watch."
So it's time to take a stand and "fight back" against "corporate greed" that would rob freedom-loving Americans of this unique and treasured tradition of the holidays, according to the petitioners:
Obviously, we can't let this stand. We can not let Apple take the football away from us like Lucy always does to Charlie Brown! It's time for us Peanuts fans to stand up to Apple and Wildbrain Studios (current owners of Peanuts) and show them they're making a mistake. With this petition, we are making a statement - the statement that #AppleHatesTradition and that the tradition of watching the Peanuts holiday specials should be renewed as soon as possible! All we have to do is sign this, send it off and and share it.
Win or lose, we are telling Apple and Wildbrain Studios that we will not fall for their corporate greed. But our goal is to get our Peanuts back on television and bring back the tradition! The time for saying 'Good Grief' is over. Now's the time to take action. Now's the time to fight back! Do it for Charlie Brown and for Peanuts fans everywhere, young and old!
You can sign the petition here.
(H/T: Christian Post)


theblaze--2020-10-28--Mark Zuckerberg was 'not aware' that Facebook's head election integrity official used to work for Bi

Mark Zuckerberg was 'not aware' that Facebook's head election integrity official used to work for Biden

Mark Zuckerberg was 'not aware ' that Facebook 's head election integrity official used to work for Biden

During a period of intense questioning with senators on Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that he was not aware that a person who identifies herself as the person who "leads efforts to ensure election integrity on [Facebook]" was formerly a policy adviser to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
The exchange, which was held via video conference, came in response to a question from Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), who was quizzing Zuckerberg about the prevalence of prominent former Democratic staffers in key positions at Facebook.
According to Fox News, Thune asked, "My understanding is that the person that is in charge of election integrity and security at Facebook is a former Joe Biden staffer, is there someone closely associated with President Trump in the same role at Facebook?"
Thune's question appears to have been referring to Atlantic Council Senior Fellow Anna Makanju, whose work for Biden is prominently stated on her Atlantic Council biography. Facebook announced a partnership with the Atlantic Council in 2018 to help boost its election security efforts. According to the Atlantic Council's website, Makanju leads those efforts.
In response, Zuckerberg claimed that he was unaware of the connection, stating, "I think having balance is valuable, and we try to do that. I am not aware of the example of you say of someone in charge of this process who worked for Biden in the past, so we can follow up on that."
Makanju's connection with the Biden campaign is relevant because of the bitter fight that has been waged between Biden and Trump supporters over the reliability and security of widespread mail-in voting. The Trump campaign has alleged that encouraging widespread mail-in voting could lead to potential voter fraud or disenfranchisement, while the Biden campaign disagrees.
While some states have successfully implemented secure mail-in voting after a yearslong process, the United States has never attempted mail-in voting on the scale that is being attempted this year as part of efforts to help people avoid in-person voting due to the coronavirus pandemic. In spite of the fact that mail-in voting in this manner and on this scale has never been attempted before, Facebook announced four weeks ago that it was coming down squarely in the Biden camp and would take action to penalize pages that shared stories questioning the reliability or integrity of mail-in voting.
Makanju's role at Facebook also came under scrutiny after Facebook announced that it would throttle the reach of a New York Post story alleging that Biden's son, Hunter, was trading on the Biden name in a series of shady business dealings with Chinese energy company known as CEFC, which functions as a de facto arm of the communist Chinese government.
At the time Facebook made the decision, many media outlets (including MSN) noted that Makanju told the Washington Post in 2019 that she "listened to the calls and said release of the transcripts would only strengthen Biden's case that he acted properly."
Also, Andy Stone, the Facebook official who announced Facebook's decision to throttle the Post story indicates in his Twitter biography that in the past, he worked for the Democratic House Majority PAC, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer (Calif.), the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and Democratic Rep. Jerry McNerney (Calif.).