Much is made of the racism supposedly imbued in President Donald Trump’s recent tweets (hint: there isn’t any).
But much is ignored of the racism inherent in the words of four freshman Congresswomen: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D, NY), Rashida Tlaib (D, MI), Ilhan Omar (D, MN), and Ayanna Pressley (D, MA). Here’s Tlaib, providing a canonical example of those four’s blatant racism on last Tuesday’s CBS This Morning. In speaking of their relationship with Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Tlaib said
That’s how many describe some tweets that President Donald Trump sent out a few days ago, when he suggested that some Congresswomen “go back” to their troubled origins.
Except that that’s not all that he said. Here’s the middle tweet of the three (the other two are at the link):
….and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 14, 2019
Here’s another example of the Europe the Left demands we emulate.
Vincent, the 42-year-old man’s name is, had a terrible accident 11 years ago that left him a brain-damaged quadriplegic. He’s been in a French hospital, in Reims, ever since, variously rated as “semi-conscious” and “in a vegetative state.” Yet, he eats, sleeps, and responds to his mother’s conversation.
The French medical system is not the central, government-as-single-payer “medical” system that is the ideal of our own Left, but the French government does decide on euthanasia. That government has made the decision that Vincent is no longer worth the trouble of helping to live. His feeding tube is to be removed, and he’s to be killed by starvation.
The City Council of St Louis Park, MN, a Minneapolis suburb and in Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s (D, MN) district, has objected to our nation’s Pledge of Allegiance to the point of voting to stop their practice of reciting it prior to Council meetings.
The mayor objected, and so did 100 protestors present for the vote—when was the last time 100 protestors assembled for a city council meeting? Despite that, the Council’s vote was unanimous: 5-0.
The amendment to the council’s rules was characterized as an effort to serve a more “diverse community….”
Hong Kong Chief Executive and People’s Republic of China Senior Employee Carrie Lam claims that her Extradition to the PRC Bill is “dead.”
However, the subheadline says it all:
We hope people will not read a different meaning just because we are using a different word
She continues, after all, to refuse to explicitly withdraw her bill. “Trust me.”
The people of Hong Kong are right to be…skeptical. Lam really does need to go, as do most of her subordinates down through several layers of her hierarchy, but PRC President Xi Jinping is unlikely to permit it.
Lance Morrow wrote about forced busing in a “back to the future” piece in The Wall Street Journal. Here’s the larger, more important thing about that early forced busing, of which Senator and Progressive-Democratic Party Presidential candidate was so proud and about which Progressive-Democratic Party Presidential candidate Joe Biden was so helpless to comment on.
Forced busing, as bandied about today, is all about using children as tools to achieve a political goal. As in other milieus, we see an example of the Left not seeing people, here children, as human beings, but only as machines for achieving the Left’s goal.
A Starbucks in Tempe, AZ, had one of its baristas ask five police officers who were having a pre-shift coffee either go sit somewhere else or leave altogether because one customer felt “threatened” over their being where the customer could see them.
In the hoo-raw ensuing, Starbucks spokesman Reggie Borges said
We have a deep respect for the Tempe Police and their service to the community.
That’s plainly not true. If Starbucks really cared, if it had any actual respect for the police—much less a shred of self-respect—it would have had a better-trained crew of baristas who wouldn’t knee-jerk insult cops over a snowflake’s made-up beef.
President Donald Trump held America’s Independence Day celebration with a Salute to America, centered at the Lincoln Memorial.
Together, we are part of one of the greatest stories ever told—the story of America. Today, just as it did 243 years ago, the future of American Freedom rests on the shoulders of men and women willing to defend it.
Just to pick out a couple of things: The Wall Street Journal cited “Democrats” complaining about
the use of military hardware for a traditionally nonpartisan celebration.
Because defending our nation’s existence and celebrating those who do that defense isn’t nonpartisan. Sure.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center sued Commerce and the Census Bureau in Federal court over the inclusion of a citizenship question in the upcoming census. EPIC centered its case on the premise that these agencies must explain the impact on privacy of such a question prior to
initiating a collection of new information
when that collection involves electronically stored, personally identifiable information.
The DC Circuit correctly tossed the case on the grounds that EPIC had suffered no harm, so it had no standing to sue.
…Progressive-Democrat style. Here’s Congresswoman Frederica Wilson (D, FL):
people who are “making fun of members of Congress” online “should be prosecuted”
Because, she went on, making fun of Congress intimidates Congressmen. In fact, she went on in that vein for more than 40 seconds, just in the recording.
Wow.