NY Magazine Brutally Exposes the Real Reason Behind the DHS' Now-Defunct Truth Police

NY Magazine Brutally Exposes the Real Reason Behind the DHS' Now-Defunct Truth Police

Matt Vespa

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 @mvespa1

At least someone had the courage to say it. Not many on the Left have the chutzpah to deliver a tough-love lecture to their own side. Shooting inside the ship isn’t popular. In liberal America, it could end you, or at the very least put you on the progressive enemies list even if you hold very liberal views. Any deviation is viewed as treason. Disagree with one little thing and you might as well be a Republican in liberal land. Yet, Sam Adler-Bell appears to be unable to keep his mouth shut and wrote in New York magazine that the Left’s obsession with disinformation and fighting it is just a means for them to avoid self-introspection. It’s an escape hatch from which they can lie to themselves and feel good about their state of being. As we’ve noted ad nauseum for years, a lot of American liberalism is based on what’s trendy and what feels good. Screw facts. I feel that I have the better position, conservatives are evil, and therefore, I am right. That’s the Left in 2022. There is no room for debate. It’s why silly ideas like college debt forgiveness become major action items. Did they ever consider how 75 percent of the country, who don’t have higher education degrees, would feel about bailing out lazy and entitled white woke women who don’t get that 22-year-olds don’t get high six-figure salaries out of college? The working class will be forking over money to the privileged in this exchange, the elite. The Left’s response is to mock most of the country for being ‘uneducated.’ It’s their fault they’re without degrees. Again, this mindset is how we get the Biden administration telling people to just buy an electric car which is akin to telling a homeless person that they could solve their predicament by…buying a house. 

The Left has become illiberal, immoral, unhinged, and all-around gross and weird. There is nothing relatable about the Left—nothing. It’s a bunch of rich, white, woke, and shrill urban-based professional elites who don’t know real people. When confronted with their faults, it’s disinformation. When Biden has trash poll numbers, it’s disinformation. It’s what’s at the core of this failed thought police initiative by the Department of Homeland Security. Now, it could come back, but with the resignation of its czar, Nina Janowicz--it's defunct for now (via Fox News):

Author Sam Adler-Bell began his article with some skepticism towards the Washington Post’s recent assessment that a coordinated attack shut down the board in which "far-right influencers attempt to identify a target, present a narrative and then repeat mischaracterizations across social media and websites." 

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The author admitted he sees the importance of "smart people" looking at how "the architecture of social media facilitates and incentivizes witch hunts and the dissemination of hateful, dishonest content," but clarified, "I don’t think it requires any great leap of conspiratorial thinking to find fault with a disinformation board under the aegis of the DHS."

"Government officials — whoever resides in the White House — are professional liars," he declared, adding, "They lie haughtily in the interest of ‘national security,’ sheepishly in the interest of saving face, and passionately when their jobs are on the line."

Adler-Bell also wondered, "Would Jankowicz’s office have been empowered to counter ‘disinformation’ coming from her own department? Or only from those criticizing it?"

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Adler-Bell continued, hitting liberals even harder: "But the other pernicious problem with liberals’ fixation on ‘disinformation’ is that it allows them to lie to themselves." 

The author said, "’Disinformation’ was the liberal Establishment’s traumatic reaction to the psychic wound of 2016. It provided an answer that evaded the question altogether, protecting them from the agony of self-reflection."

You need to reach actual people. You need white working-class voters—who number in the tens of millions—and you need to not treat those who don’t agree with you like proto-Nazis. The Left might have screwed themselves for years doubling down on focusing just on winning nonwhite voters, LGBT, and single, college-educated women. Wealthy white liberals, Biden’s biggest supporters, filled the war chests to the max. Their phone calls will be returned at the expense of the legions of nonwhite voters who have been voting for Democratic for years. These nonwhite voters aren’t as ideologically rigid. Wealthy whites taking over the Democratic Party agenda might have disastrous results. The Left’s repulsive attitude is causing Hispanic voters to flee to the GOP. Hispanic voters are a diverse group. Tejanos consider themselves white. They’re not gung-ho about abortion. They’re worried about the economy. They’re not happy about inflation. And the southern border is totally out of control. Democrats want to do the exact opposite of what these people want on key issues. Oh, and being pro-amnesty/pathway to citizenship isn’t really an election winner dividend, left-wingers. It barely breaks 50 percent and it’s remained that way for decades. David Shor, a liberal, has fired multiple warning flares about the current state of Democratic politics. In all, he said that his side has lost the ability to moderate, reach out, and find action items that appeal to a large swath of voters, not just their elitist (and snobby) friends who also shop at the same Whole Foods. 

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Spencer Brown

The truth is that Hillary Clinton was beaten in 2016. It happens. Get over it. 

Also, most of your agenda, the one that Biden is trying to get passed, is a pile of hot garbage that no one wants. Again, circling back to the Left’s inability to communicate anymore. It also doesn’t help when the leader of your party, Biden, is truly lost mentally. Oh, and the GOP still has a learning curve here too—believe me. In 2012, the party was truly lost in the wilderness. 

Biden is bad. The Democrats are bad. They’re going to lose in November. And Joe is a one-term president. That’s not disinformation. That’s a fact. 

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2022/05/23/ny-magazine-brutally-exposes-the-real-reason-behind-the-dhs-now-defunct-truth-po-n2607638

A makeshift memorial at Robb Elementary School is filled with flowers, toys, signs, and crosses bearing the names of all 21 victims of the mass shooting that occurred on May 24, in Uvalde, Texas, on May 27, 2022. (Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times)

TEXAS

Teacher Propped Open Door to Texas School Before Shooter Entered: Official

By Jack Phillips

 

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Panicked children and teachers placed half a dozen calls to 911 emergency services from the Texas classrooms where a massacre was unfolding, according to an official on Friday, who also said that a teacher propped open a door minutes before the shooter entered.

At least two children called the 911 emergency number from the two connecting classrooms after 18-year-old Salvador Ramos entered with a rifle, said Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Some of the students trapped in the classrooms with the shooter survived the massacre, including at least two who called 911, McCraw said, though he did not offer a specific tally.

Ramos also entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde through a door that was propped open by a teacher just minutes before, McCraw added. McCraw said that there was also no school resource officer at the school, and he could not say why. The officer, he said, later responded when someone called 911.

At around 11:27 a.m. Tuesday, the teacher propped open the door at Robb Elementary, coming about 1 minute before Ramos crashed his vehicle nearby, McCraw said. The same teacher about two minutes later at 11:30 a.m. reported the crash and a male with a gun.

It’s not clear why the teacher propped open the door or didn’t close it after they saw the suspect crash.

The on-site commander, McCraw said, thought Ramos was barricaded in a classroom and that children weren’t at risk, giving police time to prepare.

“From the benefit of hindsight where I’m sitting now, of course, it was not the right decision,” McCraw said. “It was the wrong decision” to delay engaging with the suspect, he added.

In all, 21 people, including 19 children, were killed by Ramos in the attack. The shooter was also killed by responding law enforcement officials.

“A decision was made on the scene … that this was a barricaded subject situation, there was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team with the equipment to go ahead and breach the door and take on the subject,” he said, adding that he wasn’t there at the time. “At that point, that was the decision, that was the thought process.”

Someone whom McCraw did not identify called the 911 line multiple times starting at 12:03 p.m., telling police in a whisper that there were multiple dead and that there were still “eight to nine” students alive, the colonel said. One student called at 12:47 p.m. and asked the operator to “please send the police now.”

Officers did not go into the classroom until 12:50 p.m., according to McCraw, when the U.S. Border Patrol tactical team used keys from a janitor to open the locked door and kill Ramos.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/teacher-propped-open-door-to-texas-school-before-shooter-entered-official_4496090.html?utm_source=Morningbrief&utm_campaign=mb-2022-05-28&utm_medium=email&est=m4z8f88fUyzHxyMg0EKdsUOwNhPID7uF99n4VS1ePiqXD%2BR%2BQZQUAz6iOjHn

Happy News Weekend Roundup: Hillary Getting Spanked in Court and More!

Happy News Weekend Roundup: Hillary Getting Spanked in Court and More!

BY KEVIN DOWNEY JR. 

 

AP Photo/Seth Wenig

These articles are my favorite to write. Not only are they full of good news for us, but just imagine the shrill squeals that come from the agony of defeat emanating from green-haired, scrotum-hating, sideshow slobs in hipster coffee shops, located in every Warsaw-ghetto-looking American city nationwide. Squeal, you commie piggies, SQUEAL.

Let’s start with the one we’ve all been waiting/praying/sacrificing roosters for: Hillary is getting spanked in a courtroom this week.

The carnage is so delicious even CNN had to admit it.

As I have mentioned before, I am a New Wave Republican. I don’t turn the other cheek, nor do I forgive and forget as easily as some of our more religious friends do. I want to see this she-demon perp-walked into the same D.C. gulag holding peaceful J6 protestors. I hope she gets the cell with the broken toilet and her stomach has a bad reaction to chipped beef.

In a nutshell, here is what happened in court:

• Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook testified UNDER OATH that he ran the bogus info re: Trump colluding with Russia past the Hillda-beast, and she personally OK’d it being released to the public. He also testified that NO ONE had verified any of the information in it and that Jake Sullivan knew about it as well.
• Mook also testified that he ran the lie past Jake Sullivan, who is now Gropey Joe Biden’s national security adviser, meaning, Sullivan was in on the myth.

Hillary tweeted the lie on Halloween, 2016, less than a week before the election.

Hillary has tweeted nothing about the damning testimony. I guess if her political career is finished she can audition for the role of Flo’s evil grandmother in those Progressive Insurance commercials.

Democratic National Convention via AP

Elon Musk has been throwing some dukes at the libs lately, even Hillary. The left loved him and his electric cars. Now that he is buying Twitter and, my God, threatening to allow FREE SPEECH on the once-liberal lie app, they spit-scream at their phones every time he tweets something juicy like this:

And wouldn’t you know it, now that Elon Musk is for free speech and voting Republican, here come the attacks. Though no woman ever accused Elon of anything when he was voting for Donkeys, someone now claims he exposed himself to her.

Here is his response;

FACT-O-RAMA! Elon Musk is a fighter who doesn’t care what the toilet people on the left throw at him. I’m thrilled he is on our side!

But wait, there’s more! Six more reasons to smile a little brighter this weekend:

• Democrats got thwacked in New York state redistricting
• Hunter’s laptop proves he made $11 million pimping his dad’s name
• A recent Rasmussen poll shows Elephants stomping the Donkeys in November’s midterm elections
• A federal judge stopped Biden from lifting Title 42, which will “supposedly” keep the southern border from being inundated with illegal immigrants
• Hispanic voters’ approval rating for Gropey Joe has plummeted to a dismal 26%
• The documentary “2,000 Mules” is sparking election integrity investigations nationwide

If these aren’t good enough reasons to light up a cigar and pour a glass of 1776 bourbon, I don’t know is.

P.S.: I heard a rumor that the pink-hairs are going to hit the steps at the Supreme Court on Monday after they hear something they won’t like. Pop some corn, it’s gonna be a hoot!

https://pjmedia.com/columns/kevindowneyjr/2022/05/21/happy-news-weekend-roundup-hillary-getting-spanked-in-court-and-more-n1599675

Everybody except Democrats sees inflation as the big issue

by Washington Examiner

In a recent survey, pollsters from Quinnipiac University asked 1,526 adults what is "the most urgent issue facing the country today?"

For Republican respondents, the easy winner was inflation, at 46%. For self-described independents, it was also inflation, at 37%. In both cases, the next most important issue was a very distant second.

In fact, nearly every demographic group agreed that inflation is the most important issue. Men (39%), women (28%), white people (36%), black people (21%), Hispanic people (36%), youngsters (29%), millennials (41%), baby boomers (39%), seniors (26%), white college graduates (34%), and white non-college graduates (37%) all agreed that inflation is the most important issue facing the country right now.

The one group that didn't agree? Democrats. For them, abortion (18%) is the most important issue facing the country right now. Inflation is in second place at just 14%, just barely ahead of election laws (13%) and climate change (10%).

Maybe this explains why Democrats think they can survive the 2022 midterm elections, so long as the Supreme Court justices follow through with their anticipated ruling overturning the Roe v. Wade abortion decision. But as we have noted previously, their basis for such hopes is pretty weak. We are talking about an issue that only 11% of U.S. adults prioritize overall — and don't forget that a sizable number of those abortion-focused voters oppose abortion.

Perhaps the more appropriate and obvious conclusion to draw here is that the Democrats are way out of sync with the daily realities that most other groups are facing.

And if they are being pinched personally by inflation, they are willing to turn a blind eye to the biggest problem facing the country — to do otherwise would require an admission that the Biden administration is not going so well. After all, the same poll shows Biden with a 32% approval rating and a 63% disapproval rating on his handling of the economy. Any election run on that issue will become a rout.

In the last 16 months, the completely predictable, slow-rolling disasters of Afghanistan, the immigration crisis at the border, the current baby formula shortage, and inflation have all run over President Joe Biden's asleep-at-the-wheel administration despite his having ample time to prevent all of them.

Now, his Democratic Party is staring down its own electoral tractor-trailer, heading up the road at a leisurely 5 mph. To step out of the way in time for this fall's election would require Democrats to get their priorities straight — to align them with those of most of the public.

And that's why this politically fatal road accident is inevitable.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/everybody-except-democrats-sees-inflation-as-the-big-issue

Trump Releases Ad Going After Clinton Following Bombshell Testimony From Former Campaign Manager

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BRIANNA LYMANREPORTER

May 23, 202212:20 PM ET

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Former President Donald Trump released a new ad on Truth Social targeting Hillary Clinton after her former campaign manager testified the former presidential candidate personally OK’d the spread of false information.

The ad opens with a clip of Clinton speaking during the 2016 presidential debate.

“It is awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country,” Clinton had said.

Trump responded with “because you’d be in jail.”

The ad then transitions to a series of recent clips breaking the news that former campaign manager Robby Mook testified Clinton herself personally approved the dissemination of the Trump-Alfa Bank connections to the media despite concerns of faulty evidence.

“They tried to steal thee 2016 election by spreading the Russia hoax” the ad read. “Trump was right. Hillary fabricated the Russia hoax.” (RELATED: One Devastating Paragraph From The WSJ Editorial Board Sums Up Durham’s Clinton/Russia Revelation)

The ad then transitions to chants of “lock her up” with pictures of Clinton before Trump is heard saying “the collusion delusion is over.”

Mook testified Friday in special counsel John Durham’s case against former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann that general counsel Marc Elias first informed him of the Alfa Bank situation, noting the Clinton campaign was unsure whether the data was legitimate. Mook testified the campaign discussed whether they should disseminate the information to reporters, with Clinton herself personally approving the send out.

“I discussed it with Hillary as well,” Mook said, according to Fox News. “I don’t remember the substance of the conversation, but notionally, the discussion was, ‘hey, we have this and we want to share it with a reporter.’”

He then said that “she [Hillary Clinton] agreed” to have the information released to the media.

https://dailycaller.com/2022/05/23/donald-trump-releases-ad-going-after-hillary-clinton-robby-mook-allegations/