THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
"Kamala Harris suddenly wants to enforce immigration law"
Tom Joyce
14 JUNE 2021
When it comes to immigration, Vice President Kamala Harris and presidential candidate Kamala Harris are not the same.
In a news conference on Monday, the vice president had a message for the Guatemalan people. "I want to be clear to folks in this region who are thinking about making that dangerous trek to the United States-Mexico border: Do not come. Do not come," she said, according to CBS News.
"The United States will continue to enforce our laws and secure our border,” she added.
That’s a good message amid the southern border crisis and influx of people trying to enter the country, primarily from Latin America.
Let’s ignore the fact that the Biden administration's promises of a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants and President Joe Biden's desire to halt deportations likely contributed to this mess.
What Harris said is notable because it’s not what she ran on when she was seeking the Democratic Party’s nomination for president in 2019 and 2020.
Back then, Harris had a more liberal stance on immigration.
When Harris says that the U.S. will enforce its laws, that presumably includes how illegally crossing the border is a criminal offense.
Entering the country illegally may result in a fine or a prison sentence of up to six months for first-time offenders, while repeat offenders may get two years in prison.
However, when Harris ran for president, she was in favor of decriminalizing border crossings.
Harris told The View in 2019, “Let me just be very clear: We have to have a secure border."
"But I am in favor of saying that we’re not going to treat people who are undocumented [and] cross the borders as criminals."
"That is correct.”
It wasn’t just presidential candidate Kamala Harris who felt that way either.
Sen. Kamala Harris, who had presidential aspirations, felt the same way.
In 2018, Harris compared Immigration and Customs Enforcement to the KKK because, clearly, the only reason why any country would want to enforce immigration law is straight-up racial hatred.
It’s not as if countries want to make sure they aren’t letting in criminals, are maintaining social cohesion, and are protecting the jobs and earnings of low-wage earners.
Someone like Harris, who wants to expand the welfare state to provide universal healthcare, tuition-free college, and subsidized childcare, should want to restrict both legal and illegal immigration to manage the costs of such big government programs.
New Zealand, for example, recently decided it will cut low-wage immigration and prioritize higher earners.
If you want to encourage more illegal immigration into the country, then what Harris ran on is a great idea.
If not, then her current position is better.
Hopefully, the Biden administration can solve the problem at the border, but unless it gets tough on immigration quickly, that probably won’t happen.
Tom Joyce (@TomJoyceSports) is a political reporter for New Boston Post in Massachusetts. He is also a freelance writer who has been published in USA Today, the Boston Globe, Newsday, ESPN, the Detroit Free Press, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Federalist, and a number of other outlets.
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Re: KAMALA HARRIS
CNBC
"Biden signs Juneteenth bill, creating new federal holiday commemorating end of slavery in U.S."
Kevin Breuninger @KEVINWILLIAMB
PUBLISHED THU, JUN 17 2021
KEY POINTS
* President Joe Biden signed a bill establishing Juneteenth, the date marking the end of slavery in the United States, as a federal holiday.
* Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris delivered remarks in the East Room of the White House.
* The New York Stock Exchange will not close Friday for Juneteenth this year, but will evaluate a closing markets for the holiday in 2022.
* Juneteenth National Independence Day is the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983.
President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a bill establishing Juneteenth, the date commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, as a federal holiday.
Biden, in what he called “one of the greatest honors” of his presidency, signed the bill two days before Juneteenth itself, which is on June 19 each year.
“We have come far, and we have far to go."
"But today is a day of celebration,” said Vice President Kamala Harris, who spoke before the president at the signing event in the White House.
“Great nations don’t ignore their most painful moments,” Biden told the East Room crowd, which included dozens of politicians, activists and community leaders.
“They embrace them.”
“In short, this day doesn’t just celebrate the past."
"It calls for action today,” Biden said.
Juneteenth National Independence Day will become the 12th legal public holiday, including Inauguration Day, and the first new one created since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was signed into law in 1983 by then-President Ronald Reagan.
Juneteenth celebrates the emancipation of the last enslaved African Americans.
On that day in 1865, Union soldiers led by Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in the coastal city of Galveston, Texas, to deliver General Order No. 3, officially ending slavery in the state.
The final act of liberation came months after the Confederate army’s surrender ended the Civil War, and more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Lincoln was assassinated on April 15, 1865, two months before his proclamation made it to Texas.
Most federal workers will observe Juneteenth on Friday this year because June 19 falls on a Saturday.
The New York Stock Exchange will not close for Juneteenth this year, but will evaluate closing markets for the holiday in 2022, according to the exchange.
The Securities Exchange Commission will close its offices Friday in observance of the new holiday, a spokesman said.
The SEC’s online data platform, EDGAR, will “also be closed and will not accept filings or assist with filer support,” the spokesman said.
The holiday legislation passed this week with overwhelming support in both chambers of Congress.
The Senate approved the bill unanimously Tuesday night, and the House passed it in a 415-14 vote.
The only votes against the bill came from Republicans.
On the House floor before the vote, some GOP lawmakers complained about the name of the holiday, and others expressed concern about the cost of giving the federal workforce another day off.
Some also railed against Democrats for pushing the bill to a vote without first allowing committees to examine the legislation and offer amendments.
Still, most House Republicans, even those who objected to parts of the bill, ended up voting for it.
The Juneteenth legislation was sponsored in the Senate by Edward Markey, D-Mass.
The House version, sponsored by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, was co-sponsored by 166 lawmakers.
The 14 no votes were:
Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala.
Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz.
Rep. Scott DesJarlais, R-Tenn.
Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis.
Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Calif.
Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala.
Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C.
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas
Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz.
Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif.
Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont.
Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.
Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga.
-- CNBC’s Bob Pisani contributed to this report
Data also provided by Reuters
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"Biden signs Juneteenth bill, creating new federal holiday commemorating end of slavery in U.S."
Kevin Breuninger @KEVINWILLIAMB
PUBLISHED THU, JUN 17 2021
KEY POINTS
* President Joe Biden signed a bill establishing Juneteenth, the date marking the end of slavery in the United States, as a federal holiday.
* Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris delivered remarks in the East Room of the White House.
* The New York Stock Exchange will not close Friday for Juneteenth this year, but will evaluate a closing markets for the holiday in 2022.
* Juneteenth National Independence Day is the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983.
President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a bill establishing Juneteenth, the date commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, as a federal holiday.
Biden, in what he called “one of the greatest honors” of his presidency, signed the bill two days before Juneteenth itself, which is on June 19 each year.
“We have come far, and we have far to go."
"But today is a day of celebration,” said Vice President Kamala Harris, who spoke before the president at the signing event in the White House.
“Great nations don’t ignore their most painful moments,” Biden told the East Room crowd, which included dozens of politicians, activists and community leaders.
“They embrace them.”
“In short, this day doesn’t just celebrate the past."
"It calls for action today,” Biden said.
Juneteenth National Independence Day will become the 12th legal public holiday, including Inauguration Day, and the first new one created since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was signed into law in 1983 by then-President Ronald Reagan.
Juneteenth celebrates the emancipation of the last enslaved African Americans.
On that day in 1865, Union soldiers led by Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in the coastal city of Galveston, Texas, to deliver General Order No. 3, officially ending slavery in the state.
The final act of liberation came months after the Confederate army’s surrender ended the Civil War, and more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Lincoln was assassinated on April 15, 1865, two months before his proclamation made it to Texas.
Most federal workers will observe Juneteenth on Friday this year because June 19 falls on a Saturday.
The New York Stock Exchange will not close for Juneteenth this year, but will evaluate closing markets for the holiday in 2022, according to the exchange.
The Securities Exchange Commission will close its offices Friday in observance of the new holiday, a spokesman said.
The SEC’s online data platform, EDGAR, will “also be closed and will not accept filings or assist with filer support,” the spokesman said.
The holiday legislation passed this week with overwhelming support in both chambers of Congress.
The Senate approved the bill unanimously Tuesday night, and the House passed it in a 415-14 vote.
The only votes against the bill came from Republicans.
On the House floor before the vote, some GOP lawmakers complained about the name of the holiday, and others expressed concern about the cost of giving the federal workforce another day off.
Some also railed against Democrats for pushing the bill to a vote without first allowing committees to examine the legislation and offer amendments.
Still, most House Republicans, even those who objected to parts of the bill, ended up voting for it.
The Juneteenth legislation was sponsored in the Senate by Edward Markey, D-Mass.
The House version, sponsored by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, was co-sponsored by 166 lawmakers.
The 14 no votes were:
Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala.
Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz.
Rep. Scott DesJarlais, R-Tenn.
Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis.
Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Calif.
Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala.
Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C.
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas
Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz.
Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif.
Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont.
Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.
Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga.
-- CNBC’s Bob Pisani contributed to this report
Data also provided by Reuters
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THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
"Mayor Lightfoot declares racism a public health crisis in Chicago"
Jeremy Beaman
18 JUNE 2021
Racism against black Chicago residents constitutes a public health crisis within the city, Mayor Lori Lightfoot declared on Thursday.
Lightfoot said in a press conference that it is “way past time that as a city” made the declaration, which followed the publication of a Tuesday report by the Chicago Department of Public Health reporting the difference in life expectancy between black and non-black residents is 9.2 years.
“We’ve made undeniable progress in our city, and I’m standing here today as the first black woman and first LGBTQ mayor as a testament to that progress,” the mayor said.
“But no one thinks that we’ve gone far enough, and in fact, we have not.”
Redlining, “racist public housing practices,” and poor access to healthcare are among a list of things responsible for the city’s legacy of systemic racism, according to Lightfoot.
“Those historic practices still reverberate today."
"The result of these events and practices are the source of the great disparities we still see at this moment in health, wealth, and almost every other indicator of well-being,” she said.
“At almost every single point in our city’s history, sadly, racism has taken a devastating toll on the health and well-being of our residents of color and particularly those who are black.”
The health department report titled “The State of Health for Blacks in Chicago” found that, on average, black residents live 71.4 years compared to non-black residents who live to be 80.6.
It identified five primary factors contributing to the disparity: higher rates of chronic disease, death by homicide, infant mortality, HIV and other infections, and opioid overdose.
The homicide rate among black residents of Chicago was nearly nine times higher than non-black residents in 2017, the report found.
It also identified higher rates of obesity, hypertension, and diabetes-related deaths in black residents.
The report’s authors — Blair Aikens, Dana Harper, Rachelle Paul-Brutus, Donna Scrutchins, and Yaa Simpson, who are all five black female doctors working within the health department — wrote the report aimed to “address the historical and present forms of racism, systematic exclusion, and sources of toxic stress that prevent Black Chicagoans from achieving health equity.”
“The inequities in health outcomes and root causes highlighted in this brief are glaring,” the authors concluded.
“In order to address these health inequities, it is important to focus on and call out to the population most in need.”
City Alderman Raymond Lopez, a frequent critic of the mayor who Lightfoot once called “full of sh**," roped in “wokeness” in slamming Lightfoot’s announcement.
“Don’t be fooled — this ‘declaration’ is NOT about racism,” Lopez wrote on Facebook Thursday.
“It is about giving comfort to the ‘White Guilt’ crowd that she needs to support her as our city descends further into chaos."
"Otherwise, if she cannot continue to stoke their wokeness, they will abandon her immediately like every other demographic in Chicago.”
Lopez has been especially outspoken about the city's problem with violence, repeatedly demanding Lightfoot and the city do more to address the issue as shootings continue to kill and injure residents of all ages.
During the June 4-6 weekend, five people were killed, and more than 50 others were shot, including an 11-year-old girl.
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"Mayor Lightfoot declares racism a public health crisis in Chicago"
Jeremy Beaman
18 JUNE 2021
Racism against black Chicago residents constitutes a public health crisis within the city, Mayor Lori Lightfoot declared on Thursday.
Lightfoot said in a press conference that it is “way past time that as a city” made the declaration, which followed the publication of a Tuesday report by the Chicago Department of Public Health reporting the difference in life expectancy between black and non-black residents is 9.2 years.
“We’ve made undeniable progress in our city, and I’m standing here today as the first black woman and first LGBTQ mayor as a testament to that progress,” the mayor said.
“But no one thinks that we’ve gone far enough, and in fact, we have not.”
Redlining, “racist public housing practices,” and poor access to healthcare are among a list of things responsible for the city’s legacy of systemic racism, according to Lightfoot.
“Those historic practices still reverberate today."
"The result of these events and practices are the source of the great disparities we still see at this moment in health, wealth, and almost every other indicator of well-being,” she said.
“At almost every single point in our city’s history, sadly, racism has taken a devastating toll on the health and well-being of our residents of color and particularly those who are black.”
The health department report titled “The State of Health for Blacks in Chicago” found that, on average, black residents live 71.4 years compared to non-black residents who live to be 80.6.
It identified five primary factors contributing to the disparity: higher rates of chronic disease, death by homicide, infant mortality, HIV and other infections, and opioid overdose.
The homicide rate among black residents of Chicago was nearly nine times higher than non-black residents in 2017, the report found.
It also identified higher rates of obesity, hypertension, and diabetes-related deaths in black residents.
The report’s authors — Blair Aikens, Dana Harper, Rachelle Paul-Brutus, Donna Scrutchins, and Yaa Simpson, who are all five black female doctors working within the health department — wrote the report aimed to “address the historical and present forms of racism, systematic exclusion, and sources of toxic stress that prevent Black Chicagoans from achieving health equity.”
“The inequities in health outcomes and root causes highlighted in this brief are glaring,” the authors concluded.
“In order to address these health inequities, it is important to focus on and call out to the population most in need.”
City Alderman Raymond Lopez, a frequent critic of the mayor who Lightfoot once called “full of sh**," roped in “wokeness” in slamming Lightfoot’s announcement.
“Don’t be fooled — this ‘declaration’ is NOT about racism,” Lopez wrote on Facebook Thursday.
“It is about giving comfort to the ‘White Guilt’ crowd that she needs to support her as our city descends further into chaos."
"Otherwise, if she cannot continue to stoke their wokeness, they will abandon her immediately like every other demographic in Chicago.”
Lopez has been especially outspoken about the city's problem with violence, repeatedly demanding Lightfoot and the city do more to address the issue as shootings continue to kill and injure residents of all ages.
During the June 4-6 weekend, five people were killed, and more than 50 others were shot, including an 11-year-old girl.
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Re: KAMALA HARRIS
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR JUNE 19, 2021 AT 10:13 PM
Paul Plante says:
Four long years ago, back on July 9, 2017, when I started this thread, I stated thusly, to wit:
“Ah, yes, the Fourth of July, and lucky us this year, ain’t it people?”
“Gas the cheapest its been in years, and the same with hamburgers!”
“Isn’t this a wonderful country we live in, then?”
“But if so, why aren’t we happy?”
end quotes
That was four years ago, now, as I say, an age, actually, despite the shortness of the number of actual years, and where are we today, as the now-thoroughly discredited “WHITE MAN’S RACIST HOLIDAY” of the Fourth of July fast approaches?
Which raises a question in my mind today of why do we even bother having holidays anymore in this country?
What purpose do they serve, and here, I am thinking of America’s newest holiday, brought to us from the pen of Joe Biden, a holiday that goes by the ridiculous name of JUNETEENTH.
What on earth is JUNETEENTH?
Who came up with that ridiculous term for a national holiday?
And what is the purpose of having JUNETEENTH, a ridiculous name, as a national holiday, given that Joe Biden was on NPR just the other day going on about how the “stain” of slavery continues to exist here in the United States of America, as if slavery still exists, and people – it does!
The supposed “stain” of slavery exists today and will never go away because pandering hack politicians like Joe Biden will never let it go away, because if it were to do so, they would lose one of the only issues they have remaining to them to keep us divided as a people, which is exactly what this JUNETEENTH is going to do – further divide us.
And for some much-needed insight into that statement. let’s go to a CNBC article entitled “Biden signs Juneteenth bill, creating new federal holiday commemorating end of slavery in U.S.” by Kevin Breuninger on June 17 2021. where we have as follows to consider concerning this new national holiday, to wit:
President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a bill establishing Juneteenth, the date commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, as a federal holiday.
Biden, in what he called “one of the greatest honors” of his presidency, signed the bill two days before Juneteenth itself, which is on June 19 each year.
end quotes
So there we have it, people, Joe Biden created JUNETEENTH for no other purpose than to honor himself as the greatest president we have ever had, or ever will, or that matter, which takes us back to CNBC, as follows:
“We have come far, and we have far to go.”
“But today is a day of celebration,” said Vice President Kamala Harris, who spoke before the president at the signing event in the White House.
end quotes
OH ******* BULL****!
Just what we need – a RACIST “holiday” where white people now have to feel “white guilt” and flagellate themselves in atonement for the BLACK people in Africa having made slaves out of themselves for sale to among other places, the British-run colonies that comprised the original American “states” that came into being after the Revolution, and I’m not for having it, given that I lost a grandfather several times removed in the Civil War fighting down South to free the BLACK slaves from the DEMOCRATS who were holding them in bondage.
And that takes us to a USA TODAY article entitled “Kamala Harris agrees with Tim Scott that America not a ‘racist country’ but says must ‘speak truth’ on racism” by Matthew Brown on 29 APRIL 2021, where we had as follows:
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris said America is not a “racist country” but the nation must “speak the truth” about its history with racism on ABC News’ “Good Morning America” on Thursday.
end quotes
So, people, if we are not a “racist” country, then why did Joe Biden just “gift” us with a decidedly racist holiday?
And if we’re not a “racist” country, then what is Kamala Harris on about with respect to JUNETEENTH when she said “We have come far, and we have far to go but today is a day of celebration,” speaking before old Joe at the signing event in the White House?
And what on earth are we celebrating?
Going back to that USA TODAY story for a moment, we have:
The vice president’s comments were in response to Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., who gave the Republican Party’s rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s speech to Congress on Wednesday.
The senator contended “America is not a racist country” and said progressives perpetuate discrimination akin to Jim Crow-era policies.
end quotes
And that is exactly what this JUNETEENTH holiday is all about – a furtherance of that PROGRESSIVE agenda intended to further divide us along color lines, since there is but one race of people in the US, that being the human race, which takes us back to USA TODAY, as follows:
“A hundred years ago, kids in classrooms were taught the color of their skin was their most important characteristic.”
“And if they looked a certain way, they were inferior.”
“Today, kids again are being taught that the color of their skin defines them, and if they look a certain way, they’re an oppressor,” Scott said in his speech.
“It’s backward to fight discrimination with different types of discrimination,” the senator continued.
end quotes
Amen, Senator Scott, and white kids today are being taught they are oppressors precisely because of an executive order signed by the RACIST Joe Biden on his first day in office.
And now we have a national “holiday” to reinforce that sick Biden-esque policy that demonizes white children in America’s schools while Joe panders for the BLACK vote, which takes us back to USA TODAY, as follows:
“Well, first of all, no, I don’t think America is a racist country, but we also do have to speak the truth about the history of racism in our country and its existence today,” Harris said while praising Biden’s comments on race and domestic terrorism in his first joint address to Congress on Wednesday.
She applauded Biden for “having the ability and the courage to speak the truth” about the country’s history with racism.
“He spoke what we know from the intelligence community: One of the greatest threats to our national security is domestic terrorism manifested by white supremacists,” Harris said, referencing reports from federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies identifying white supremacists as a persistent and rising terror threat.
“And so these are issues that we must confront, and it does not help to heal our country, to unify us as a people, to ignore the realities of that,” the vice president said.
“The idea is that we want to unify the country but not without speaking truth and requiring accountability where it is appropriate,” she urged.
end quotes
And so we now have a RACIST national holiday to divide us further, which takes us back to the CNBC article, to wit:
“Great nations don’t ignore their most painful moments,” Biden told the East Room crowd, which included dozens of politicians, activists and community leaders.
“They embrace them.”
“In short, this day doesn’t just celebrate the past.”
“It calls for action today,” Biden said.
end quotes
What BULL****!
I’m not suffering WHITE GUILT because the RACIST Joe Biden created a national holiday to demonize white people in America, and with respect to the FOURTH OF JULY, which used to be INDEPENDENCE DAY, but is no more, let us go back to the CNBC article to see why that is so, to wit:
Juneteenth National Independence Day will become the 12th legal public holiday, including Inauguration Day, and the first new one created since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was signed into law in 1983 by then-President Ronald Reagan.
end quotes
JUNETEENTH NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE DAY!
Which means the FOURTH OF JULY can no longer be be celebrated as INDEPENDENCE DAY because JUNETEENTH has pre-empted that title, and how many national independence days can one nation have?
Going back to CNBC, we have:
Juneteenth celebrates the emancipation of the last enslaved African Americans.
On that day in 1865, Union soldiers led by Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in the coastal city of Galveston, Texas, to deliver General Order No. 3, officially ending slavery in the state.
The final act of liberation came months after the Confederate army’s surrender ended the Civil War, and more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Lincoln was assassinated on April 15, 1865, two months before his proclamation made it to Texas.
end quotes
So, back to the question, then – what is the FOURTH OF JULY going to be this year?
A national day of shame for white people?
Seems a strange way to “unify” the country to me, anyway!
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Paul Plante says:
Four long years ago, back on July 9, 2017, when I started this thread, I stated thusly, to wit:
“Ah, yes, the Fourth of July, and lucky us this year, ain’t it people?”
“Gas the cheapest its been in years, and the same with hamburgers!”
“Isn’t this a wonderful country we live in, then?”
“But if so, why aren’t we happy?”
end quotes
That was four years ago, now, as I say, an age, actually, despite the shortness of the number of actual years, and where are we today, as the now-thoroughly discredited “WHITE MAN’S RACIST HOLIDAY” of the Fourth of July fast approaches?
Which raises a question in my mind today of why do we even bother having holidays anymore in this country?
What purpose do they serve, and here, I am thinking of America’s newest holiday, brought to us from the pen of Joe Biden, a holiday that goes by the ridiculous name of JUNETEENTH.
What on earth is JUNETEENTH?
Who came up with that ridiculous term for a national holiday?
And what is the purpose of having JUNETEENTH, a ridiculous name, as a national holiday, given that Joe Biden was on NPR just the other day going on about how the “stain” of slavery continues to exist here in the United States of America, as if slavery still exists, and people – it does!
The supposed “stain” of slavery exists today and will never go away because pandering hack politicians like Joe Biden will never let it go away, because if it were to do so, they would lose one of the only issues they have remaining to them to keep us divided as a people, which is exactly what this JUNETEENTH is going to do – further divide us.
And for some much-needed insight into that statement. let’s go to a CNBC article entitled “Biden signs Juneteenth bill, creating new federal holiday commemorating end of slavery in U.S.” by Kevin Breuninger on June 17 2021. where we have as follows to consider concerning this new national holiday, to wit:
President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a bill establishing Juneteenth, the date commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, as a federal holiday.
Biden, in what he called “one of the greatest honors” of his presidency, signed the bill two days before Juneteenth itself, which is on June 19 each year.
end quotes
So there we have it, people, Joe Biden created JUNETEENTH for no other purpose than to honor himself as the greatest president we have ever had, or ever will, or that matter, which takes us back to CNBC, as follows:
“We have come far, and we have far to go.”
“But today is a day of celebration,” said Vice President Kamala Harris, who spoke before the president at the signing event in the White House.
end quotes
OH ******* BULL****!
Just what we need – a RACIST “holiday” where white people now have to feel “white guilt” and flagellate themselves in atonement for the BLACK people in Africa having made slaves out of themselves for sale to among other places, the British-run colonies that comprised the original American “states” that came into being after the Revolution, and I’m not for having it, given that I lost a grandfather several times removed in the Civil War fighting down South to free the BLACK slaves from the DEMOCRATS who were holding them in bondage.
And that takes us to a USA TODAY article entitled “Kamala Harris agrees with Tim Scott that America not a ‘racist country’ but says must ‘speak truth’ on racism” by Matthew Brown on 29 APRIL 2021, where we had as follows:
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris said America is not a “racist country” but the nation must “speak the truth” about its history with racism on ABC News’ “Good Morning America” on Thursday.
end quotes
So, people, if we are not a “racist” country, then why did Joe Biden just “gift” us with a decidedly racist holiday?
And if we’re not a “racist” country, then what is Kamala Harris on about with respect to JUNETEENTH when she said “We have come far, and we have far to go but today is a day of celebration,” speaking before old Joe at the signing event in the White House?
And what on earth are we celebrating?
Going back to that USA TODAY story for a moment, we have:
The vice president’s comments were in response to Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., who gave the Republican Party’s rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s speech to Congress on Wednesday.
The senator contended “America is not a racist country” and said progressives perpetuate discrimination akin to Jim Crow-era policies.
end quotes
And that is exactly what this JUNETEENTH holiday is all about – a furtherance of that PROGRESSIVE agenda intended to further divide us along color lines, since there is but one race of people in the US, that being the human race, which takes us back to USA TODAY, as follows:
“A hundred years ago, kids in classrooms were taught the color of their skin was their most important characteristic.”
“And if they looked a certain way, they were inferior.”
“Today, kids again are being taught that the color of their skin defines them, and if they look a certain way, they’re an oppressor,” Scott said in his speech.
“It’s backward to fight discrimination with different types of discrimination,” the senator continued.
end quotes
Amen, Senator Scott, and white kids today are being taught they are oppressors precisely because of an executive order signed by the RACIST Joe Biden on his first day in office.
And now we have a national “holiday” to reinforce that sick Biden-esque policy that demonizes white children in America’s schools while Joe panders for the BLACK vote, which takes us back to USA TODAY, as follows:
“Well, first of all, no, I don’t think America is a racist country, but we also do have to speak the truth about the history of racism in our country and its existence today,” Harris said while praising Biden’s comments on race and domestic terrorism in his first joint address to Congress on Wednesday.
She applauded Biden for “having the ability and the courage to speak the truth” about the country’s history with racism.
“He spoke what we know from the intelligence community: One of the greatest threats to our national security is domestic terrorism manifested by white supremacists,” Harris said, referencing reports from federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies identifying white supremacists as a persistent and rising terror threat.
“And so these are issues that we must confront, and it does not help to heal our country, to unify us as a people, to ignore the realities of that,” the vice president said.
“The idea is that we want to unify the country but not without speaking truth and requiring accountability where it is appropriate,” she urged.
end quotes
And so we now have a RACIST national holiday to divide us further, which takes us back to the CNBC article, to wit:
“Great nations don’t ignore their most painful moments,” Biden told the East Room crowd, which included dozens of politicians, activists and community leaders.
“They embrace them.”
“In short, this day doesn’t just celebrate the past.”
“It calls for action today,” Biden said.
end quotes
What BULL****!
I’m not suffering WHITE GUILT because the RACIST Joe Biden created a national holiday to demonize white people in America, and with respect to the FOURTH OF JULY, which used to be INDEPENDENCE DAY, but is no more, let us go back to the CNBC article to see why that is so, to wit:
Juneteenth National Independence Day will become the 12th legal public holiday, including Inauguration Day, and the first new one created since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was signed into law in 1983 by then-President Ronald Reagan.
end quotes
JUNETEENTH NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE DAY!
Which means the FOURTH OF JULY can no longer be be celebrated as INDEPENDENCE DAY because JUNETEENTH has pre-empted that title, and how many national independence days can one nation have?
Going back to CNBC, we have:
Juneteenth celebrates the emancipation of the last enslaved African Americans.
On that day in 1865, Union soldiers led by Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in the coastal city of Galveston, Texas, to deliver General Order No. 3, officially ending slavery in the state.
The final act of liberation came months after the Confederate army’s surrender ended the Civil War, and more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Lincoln was assassinated on April 15, 1865, two months before his proclamation made it to Texas.
end quotes
So, back to the question, then – what is the FOURTH OF JULY going to be this year?
A national day of shame for white people?
Seems a strange way to “unify” the country to me, anyway!
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Paul Plante says:
And taking a further look into JUNETEENTH, the new holiday that replaces the Fourth of July as “Independence Day,” since that only applied to 13 British colonies with slave-owning racist, white nationalist/white supremacists in them practicing systemic racism against the BLACK folks, let’s go right to the source, which is a white house Press Release titled “Remarks by President Biden at Signing of the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act” on June 17, 2021, where we have the following on this new holiday, to wit:
East Room
3:51 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Well, thank you, Madam Vice President.
One hundred and fifty-six years ago — one hundred and fifty-six years — June 19th, 1865 — John, thanks for being here — a major general of the Union Army arrived in Galveston, Texas, to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation and free the last enslaved Americans in Texas from bondage.
end quotes
Those were white people freeing the last of the BLACK folks the Democrats were holding in bondage as their slaves, and how we get JUNETEENTH as JUNETEENTH NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE DAY eludes me, given that “independence” is defined as “the fact or state of being independent,” as in “Argentina gained independence from Spain in 1816.”
So what are we as a nation celebrating then?
That thanks to the white people in America who stood up to and defeated the slave-owning, racist, white supremacist DEMOCRATS, we no longer have BLACK people as their slaves in America?
But how does that translate to a NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE DAY?
For that answer, let’s go back to Joe’s press release to see what more we can learn of his intentions for this new holiday, to wit:
A day, as you all know — I’m going to repeat some of what was said — that became known as Juneteenth.
You all know that.
end quotes
And actually, Joe, no, we don’t all know that.
Why, of all the descriptive terminology the English language makes available to its users, was an ignorant, gibberish term chosen to denote that day?
And while we wait for that answer, which will never be forthcoming, let’s go back to the press release to see what the hell it is we are supposed to be “celebrating” on JUNETEENTH, to wit:
A day that reflects what the Psalm tell us: “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.”
end quotes
HUH?
Is JUNETEENTH now a new religious holiday like Easter and Christmas?
Are we now all supposed to be psalm singers on JUNETEENTH with Joe Biden as our Psalmist-In-Chief leading us in our prayers as we white folks beg forgiveness for being white?
Getting back to Joe’s press release, it continues thusly:
Juneteenth marks both the long, hard night of slavery and subjugation, and a promise of a brighter morning to come.
end quotes
Doesn’t that also apply to the Israelites who were in bondage to some powerful dude back then?
And what about all the slaves of the Romans and Moors?
Shouldn’t we really be celebrating them, as well, along with all the slaves held by the BLACK folks in Africa?
Getting back to the Biden press release, it continues as follows:
This is a day of profound — in my view — profound weight and profound power.
A day in which we remember the moral stain, the terrible toll that slavery took on the country and continues to take — what I’ve long called “America’s original sin.”
end quotes
Good ******* *****, Joe!
Get real, dude, and read my lips – thanks to the white folks in America who stood up to and defeated the slave-owning DEMOCRATS, we don’t have slavery in America, and if there is a stain, it is on the DEMOCRAT party, not the American people, so stop laying a guilt trip on all of us because the DEMOCRATS were slave owners.
And what kind of a sick people in a very sick nation stay focused on something that has not existed now for one hundred and fifty-six years, or some eight generations, according to Joe’s figures?
What is this obsession with wearing hair shirts and living in the past in the name of a national holiday?
Why don’t we celebrate the end of the Civil War, then, as a national holiday?
Because it would remind us today of the fact that the DEMOCRATS were the slave owners?
Getting back to Joe’s press release, it goes on as follows concerning what it is we are supposed to be doing on JUNETEENTH, to wit:
At the same time, I also remember the extraordinary capacity to heal, and to hope, and to emerge from the most painful moments and a bitter, bitter version of ourselves, but to make a better version of ourselves.
end quotes
Stop projecting, Joe!
Stop demonizing us, because there is no white person alive today who was a DEMOCRAT slave owner, and because the DEMOCRATS owned slaves does not make the rest of us who are not DEMOCRATS into bad people simply because we are white.
Getting back to the Biden press release, we have:
You know, today, we consecrate Juneteenth for what it ought to be, what it must be: a national holiday.
end quotes
CONSECRATE?
We are now “consecrating” JUNETEENTH?
Where “consecrate” means “make or declare something sacred; dedicate formally to a religious or divine purpose,” what the **** has just happened here?
We in fact now have a new religious holiday called “JUNETEENTH” is the only possible answer, given Joe’s choice of the word “consecrate” to describe why he made JUNETEENTH a national holiday!
Getting back to the Biden press release:
As the Vice President noted, a holiday that will join the others of our national celebrations: our independence, our laborers who built this nation, our servicemen and women who served and died in its defense.
And the first new national holiday since the creation of Martin Luther King Holiday nearly four decades ago.
I am grateful to the members of Congress here today — in particular, the Congressional Black Caucus, who did so much to make this day possible.
I’m especially pleased that we showed the nation that we can come together as Democrats and Republicans to commemorate this day with the overwhelming bipartisan support of the Congress.
I hope this is the beginning of a change in the way we deal with one another.
And we’re blessed — we’re blessed to mark the day in the presence of Ms. Opal Lee.
As my mother would say, “God love her.”
(Applause.)
I had the honor of meeting her in Nevada more than a year ago.
She told me she loved me, and I believed it.
(Laughter.)
I wanted to believe it.
(Laughs.)
end quotes
As an aside, this is about Joe Biden, afterall, and what a great human being he really is, loved by all, because he is so lovable, which takes us back to the press release, to wit:
Ms. Opal, you’re incredible.
A daughter of Texas. Grandmother of the movement to make Juneteenth a federal holiday.
And Ms. Opal is — you won’t believe it — she’s 49 years old.
(Laughter.)
Or 94 years old, but I — (laughter).
You are an incredible woman, Ms. Opal.
You really are.
As a child growing up in Texas, she and her family would celebrate Juneteenth.
On Juneteenth, 1939, when she was 12 years old, the white — a white mob torched her family home.
But such hate never stopped her any more than it stopped the vast majority of you I’m looking at from this podium.
Over the course of decades, she’s made it her mission to see that this day came.
It was almost a singular mission.
She’s walked for miles and miles, literally and figuratively, to bring attention to Juneteenth, to make this day possible.
I ask, once again, we all stand and give her a warm welcome to the White House.
(Applause.)
As they still say in the Senate and I said for 36 years, “if you excuse me there for a point of personal privilege,” as I was walking down, I regret that my grandchildren aren’t here because this is a really, really, really important moment in our history.
By making Juneteenth a federal holiday, all Americans can feel the power of this day, and learn from our history, and celebrate progress, and grapple with the distance we’ve come but the distance we have to travel, Jim.
You know, I said a few weeks ago, marking the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, great nations don’t ignore their most painful moments.
Great nations don’t ignore their most painful moments.
They don’t ignore those moments of the past.
They embrace them.
Great nations don’t walk away.
We come to terms with the mistakes we made.
And in remembering those moments, we begin to heal and grow stronger.
The truth is, it’s not — simply not enough just to commemorate Juneteenth.
After all, the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans didn’t mark the end of America’s work to deliver on the promise of equality; it only marked the beginning.
To honor the true meaning of Juneteenth, we have to continue toward that promise because we’ve not gotten there yet.
The Vice President and I and our entire administration and all of you in this room are committed to doing just that.
That’s why we’ve launched an aggressive effort to combat racial discrimination in housing — finally address the cruel fact that a home owned, to this day, by a Black American family is usually appraised at a lower rate for a similar home owned by a white family in a similar area.
That’s why we committed to increasing Black homeownership, one of the biggest drivers of generational wealth.
That’s why we’re making it possible for more Black entrepreneurs to access — to access capital, because their ideas are as good; they lack the capital to get their fair — and get their fair share of federal contracts so they can begin to build wealth.
That’s why we’re working to give each and every child, three and four years of age, not daycare, but school — in a school.
(Applause.)
That’s why — that’s why we’re unlocking the incredibly creative and innovation — innovation of the history — of our Historical Black Colleges and Universities, providing them with the resources to invest in research centers and laboratories to help HBCU graduates prepare and compete for good-paying jobs in the industries of the future.
Folks, the promise of equality is not going to be fulfilled until we become real — it becomes real in our schools and on our Main Streets and in our neighborhoods — our healthcare system and ensuring that equity is at the heart of our fight against the pandemic; in the water that comes out of our faucets and the air that we breathe in our communities; in our justice system — so that we can fulfill the promise of America for all people.
All of our people.
And it’s not going to be fulfilled so long as the sacred right to vote remains under attack.
(Applause.)
We see this assault from restrictive laws, threats of intimidation, voter purges, and more — an assault that offends the very democracy — our very democracy.
We can’t rest until the promise of equality is fulfilled for every one of us in every corner of this nation.
That, to me, is the meaning of Juneteenth.
That’s what it’s about.
So let’s make this June- — this very Juneteenth, tomorrow — the first that our nation will celebrate all together, as one nation — a Juneteenth of action on many fronts.
One of those is vaccinations.
Tomorrow, the Vice President will be in Atlanta on a bus tour, helping to spread the word, like all of you have been doing, on lifesaving vaccines.
And across the country this weekend, including here in Washington, people will be canvassing and hosting events in their communities, going door-to-door, encouraging vaccinations.
We’ve built equity into the heart of the vaccination program from day one, but we still have more work to do to close the racial gap in vaccination rates.
The more we can do that, the more we can save lives.
Today also marks the sixth anniversary of the tragic deaths of — at Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
A killer motivated by hate, intending to start a race war in South Carolina.
He joined his victims in a Bible study class, then he took their lives in the house of worship.
It’s a reminder that our work to root out hate never ends — because hate only hides, it never fully goes away.
It hides.
And when you breathe oxygen under that rock, it comes out.
And that’s why we must understand that Juneteenth represents not only the commemoration of the end of slavery in America more than 150 years ago, but the ongoing work to have to bring true equity and racial justice into American society, which we can do.
In short, this day doesn’t just celebrate the past; it calls for action today.
I wish all Americans a happy Juneteenth.
I am shortly going to — in a moment, going to sign into law, making it a federal holiday.
And I have to say to you, I’ve only been President for several months, but I think this will go down, for me, as one of the greatest honors I will have had as President, not because I did it; you did it — Democrats and Republicans.
But it’s an enormous, enormous honor.
Thank you for what you’ve done.
And, by the way, typical of most of us in Congress and the Senate, I went down to the other end of the hall first and thanked your staffs because I know who does the hard work.
(Laughter and applause.)
They’re down there.
They’re at the other end, but I thanked them as well.
May God bless you all.
And may God protect our troops.
Thank you.
(Applause.)
Now, I’d like to invite up, while I sign, Senator Tina Smith, Senator Ed Markey, Senator Raphael Warnock, Senator John Cornyn, Whip John [Jim] Clyburn, Representative Barbara Lee, Representative Danny Davis, Chair Joyce Beatty, and Sheila Jackson Lee, and Ms. Opal.
(The act is signed.)
(Applause.)
4:06 P.M. EDT
end quotes
So what do we do on the FOURTH OF JULY, then?
Feel guilty?
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Paul Plante says:
And taking a further look into JUNETEENTH, the new holiday that replaces the Fourth of July as “Independence Day,” since that only applied to 13 British colonies with slave-owning racist, white nationalist/white supremacists in them practicing systemic racism against the BLACK folks, let’s go right to the source, which is a white house Press Release titled “Remarks by President Biden at Signing of the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act” on June 17, 2021, where we have the following on this new holiday, to wit:
East Room
3:51 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Well, thank you, Madam Vice President.
One hundred and fifty-six years ago — one hundred and fifty-six years — June 19th, 1865 — John, thanks for being here — a major general of the Union Army arrived in Galveston, Texas, to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation and free the last enslaved Americans in Texas from bondage.
end quotes
Those were white people freeing the last of the BLACK folks the Democrats were holding in bondage as their slaves, and how we get JUNETEENTH as JUNETEENTH NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE DAY eludes me, given that “independence” is defined as “the fact or state of being independent,” as in “Argentina gained independence from Spain in 1816.”
So what are we as a nation celebrating then?
That thanks to the white people in America who stood up to and defeated the slave-owning, racist, white supremacist DEMOCRATS, we no longer have BLACK people as their slaves in America?
But how does that translate to a NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE DAY?
For that answer, let’s go back to Joe’s press release to see what more we can learn of his intentions for this new holiday, to wit:
A day, as you all know — I’m going to repeat some of what was said — that became known as Juneteenth.
You all know that.
end quotes
And actually, Joe, no, we don’t all know that.
Why, of all the descriptive terminology the English language makes available to its users, was an ignorant, gibberish term chosen to denote that day?
And while we wait for that answer, which will never be forthcoming, let’s go back to the press release to see what the hell it is we are supposed to be “celebrating” on JUNETEENTH, to wit:
A day that reflects what the Psalm tell us: “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.”
end quotes
HUH?
Is JUNETEENTH now a new religious holiday like Easter and Christmas?
Are we now all supposed to be psalm singers on JUNETEENTH with Joe Biden as our Psalmist-In-Chief leading us in our prayers as we white folks beg forgiveness for being white?
Getting back to Joe’s press release, it continues thusly:
Juneteenth marks both the long, hard night of slavery and subjugation, and a promise of a brighter morning to come.
end quotes
Doesn’t that also apply to the Israelites who were in bondage to some powerful dude back then?
And what about all the slaves of the Romans and Moors?
Shouldn’t we really be celebrating them, as well, along with all the slaves held by the BLACK folks in Africa?
Getting back to the Biden press release, it continues as follows:
This is a day of profound — in my view — profound weight and profound power.
A day in which we remember the moral stain, the terrible toll that slavery took on the country and continues to take — what I’ve long called “America’s original sin.”
end quotes
Good ******* *****, Joe!
Get real, dude, and read my lips – thanks to the white folks in America who stood up to and defeated the slave-owning DEMOCRATS, we don’t have slavery in America, and if there is a stain, it is on the DEMOCRAT party, not the American people, so stop laying a guilt trip on all of us because the DEMOCRATS were slave owners.
And what kind of a sick people in a very sick nation stay focused on something that has not existed now for one hundred and fifty-six years, or some eight generations, according to Joe’s figures?
What is this obsession with wearing hair shirts and living in the past in the name of a national holiday?
Why don’t we celebrate the end of the Civil War, then, as a national holiday?
Because it would remind us today of the fact that the DEMOCRATS were the slave owners?
Getting back to Joe’s press release, it goes on as follows concerning what it is we are supposed to be doing on JUNETEENTH, to wit:
At the same time, I also remember the extraordinary capacity to heal, and to hope, and to emerge from the most painful moments and a bitter, bitter version of ourselves, but to make a better version of ourselves.
end quotes
Stop projecting, Joe!
Stop demonizing us, because there is no white person alive today who was a DEMOCRAT slave owner, and because the DEMOCRATS owned slaves does not make the rest of us who are not DEMOCRATS into bad people simply because we are white.
Getting back to the Biden press release, we have:
You know, today, we consecrate Juneteenth for what it ought to be, what it must be: a national holiday.
end quotes
CONSECRATE?
We are now “consecrating” JUNETEENTH?
Where “consecrate” means “make or declare something sacred; dedicate formally to a religious or divine purpose,” what the **** has just happened here?
We in fact now have a new religious holiday called “JUNETEENTH” is the only possible answer, given Joe’s choice of the word “consecrate” to describe why he made JUNETEENTH a national holiday!
Getting back to the Biden press release:
As the Vice President noted, a holiday that will join the others of our national celebrations: our independence, our laborers who built this nation, our servicemen and women who served and died in its defense.
And the first new national holiday since the creation of Martin Luther King Holiday nearly four decades ago.
I am grateful to the members of Congress here today — in particular, the Congressional Black Caucus, who did so much to make this day possible.
I’m especially pleased that we showed the nation that we can come together as Democrats and Republicans to commemorate this day with the overwhelming bipartisan support of the Congress.
I hope this is the beginning of a change in the way we deal with one another.
And we’re blessed — we’re blessed to mark the day in the presence of Ms. Opal Lee.
As my mother would say, “God love her.”
(Applause.)
I had the honor of meeting her in Nevada more than a year ago.
She told me she loved me, and I believed it.
(Laughter.)
I wanted to believe it.
(Laughs.)
end quotes
As an aside, this is about Joe Biden, afterall, and what a great human being he really is, loved by all, because he is so lovable, which takes us back to the press release, to wit:
Ms. Opal, you’re incredible.
A daughter of Texas. Grandmother of the movement to make Juneteenth a federal holiday.
And Ms. Opal is — you won’t believe it — she’s 49 years old.
(Laughter.)
Or 94 years old, but I — (laughter).
You are an incredible woman, Ms. Opal.
You really are.
As a child growing up in Texas, she and her family would celebrate Juneteenth.
On Juneteenth, 1939, when she was 12 years old, the white — a white mob torched her family home.
But such hate never stopped her any more than it stopped the vast majority of you I’m looking at from this podium.
Over the course of decades, she’s made it her mission to see that this day came.
It was almost a singular mission.
She’s walked for miles and miles, literally and figuratively, to bring attention to Juneteenth, to make this day possible.
I ask, once again, we all stand and give her a warm welcome to the White House.
(Applause.)
As they still say in the Senate and I said for 36 years, “if you excuse me there for a point of personal privilege,” as I was walking down, I regret that my grandchildren aren’t here because this is a really, really, really important moment in our history.
By making Juneteenth a federal holiday, all Americans can feel the power of this day, and learn from our history, and celebrate progress, and grapple with the distance we’ve come but the distance we have to travel, Jim.
You know, I said a few weeks ago, marking the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, great nations don’t ignore their most painful moments.
Great nations don’t ignore their most painful moments.
They don’t ignore those moments of the past.
They embrace them.
Great nations don’t walk away.
We come to terms with the mistakes we made.
And in remembering those moments, we begin to heal and grow stronger.
The truth is, it’s not — simply not enough just to commemorate Juneteenth.
After all, the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans didn’t mark the end of America’s work to deliver on the promise of equality; it only marked the beginning.
To honor the true meaning of Juneteenth, we have to continue toward that promise because we’ve not gotten there yet.
The Vice President and I and our entire administration and all of you in this room are committed to doing just that.
That’s why we’ve launched an aggressive effort to combat racial discrimination in housing — finally address the cruel fact that a home owned, to this day, by a Black American family is usually appraised at a lower rate for a similar home owned by a white family in a similar area.
That’s why we committed to increasing Black homeownership, one of the biggest drivers of generational wealth.
That’s why we’re making it possible for more Black entrepreneurs to access — to access capital, because their ideas are as good; they lack the capital to get their fair — and get their fair share of federal contracts so they can begin to build wealth.
That’s why we’re working to give each and every child, three and four years of age, not daycare, but school — in a school.
(Applause.)
That’s why — that’s why we’re unlocking the incredibly creative and innovation — innovation of the history — of our Historical Black Colleges and Universities, providing them with the resources to invest in research centers and laboratories to help HBCU graduates prepare and compete for good-paying jobs in the industries of the future.
Folks, the promise of equality is not going to be fulfilled until we become real — it becomes real in our schools and on our Main Streets and in our neighborhoods — our healthcare system and ensuring that equity is at the heart of our fight against the pandemic; in the water that comes out of our faucets and the air that we breathe in our communities; in our justice system — so that we can fulfill the promise of America for all people.
All of our people.
And it’s not going to be fulfilled so long as the sacred right to vote remains under attack.
(Applause.)
We see this assault from restrictive laws, threats of intimidation, voter purges, and more — an assault that offends the very democracy — our very democracy.
We can’t rest until the promise of equality is fulfilled for every one of us in every corner of this nation.
That, to me, is the meaning of Juneteenth.
That’s what it’s about.
So let’s make this June- — this very Juneteenth, tomorrow — the first that our nation will celebrate all together, as one nation — a Juneteenth of action on many fronts.
One of those is vaccinations.
Tomorrow, the Vice President will be in Atlanta on a bus tour, helping to spread the word, like all of you have been doing, on lifesaving vaccines.
And across the country this weekend, including here in Washington, people will be canvassing and hosting events in their communities, going door-to-door, encouraging vaccinations.
We’ve built equity into the heart of the vaccination program from day one, but we still have more work to do to close the racial gap in vaccination rates.
The more we can do that, the more we can save lives.
Today also marks the sixth anniversary of the tragic deaths of — at Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
A killer motivated by hate, intending to start a race war in South Carolina.
He joined his victims in a Bible study class, then he took their lives in the house of worship.
It’s a reminder that our work to root out hate never ends — because hate only hides, it never fully goes away.
It hides.
And when you breathe oxygen under that rock, it comes out.
And that’s why we must understand that Juneteenth represents not only the commemoration of the end of slavery in America more than 150 years ago, but the ongoing work to have to bring true equity and racial justice into American society, which we can do.
In short, this day doesn’t just celebrate the past; it calls for action today.
I wish all Americans a happy Juneteenth.
I am shortly going to — in a moment, going to sign into law, making it a federal holiday.
And I have to say to you, I’ve only been President for several months, but I think this will go down, for me, as one of the greatest honors I will have had as President, not because I did it; you did it — Democrats and Republicans.
But it’s an enormous, enormous honor.
Thank you for what you’ve done.
And, by the way, typical of most of us in Congress and the Senate, I went down to the other end of the hall first and thanked your staffs because I know who does the hard work.
(Laughter and applause.)
They’re down there.
They’re at the other end, but I thanked them as well.
May God bless you all.
And may God protect our troops.
Thank you.
(Applause.)
Now, I’d like to invite up, while I sign, Senator Tina Smith, Senator Ed Markey, Senator Raphael Warnock, Senator John Cornyn, Whip John [Jim] Clyburn, Representative Barbara Lee, Representative Danny Davis, Chair Joyce Beatty, and Sheila Jackson Lee, and Ms. Opal.
(The act is signed.)
(Applause.)
4:06 P.M. EDT
end quotes
So what do we do on the FOURTH OF JULY, then?
Feel guilty?
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Re: KAMALA HARRIS
THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
"'Repeat problem': Fingers point at Kamala Harris as history of staff unrest continues"
Katherine Doyle
1 JULY 2021
A toxic work environment that is alleged to be inside the office of Vice President Kamala Harris stems from the top, with complicating “power centers” plaguing her road to the White House.
“Look, this is a bottom-line business."
"And the bottom line is the vice president has challenges with staff — wherever she is,” one senior Democratic operative told the Washington Examiner.
President Joe Biden handed Harris a politically fraught portfolio of issues, which could cause some strife within any official's staff, but the complaints are not new.
This source called the office discord a “repeat problem” for Harris, adding that the troubles are "not surprising."
“The Harris inner circles, and I'll use that plural, because they've been different inner circles in California, in her Senate office, on her presidential campaign, and now in her vice presidential-campaign-in-office, they've always been rife with a lot of dissension, and a lot of infighting,” this person said.
“It's probably a little unfair to say it's just her."
"But she is a common denominator in all of these situations.”
“Being the junior senator from California, that's different to being vice president,” the person added.
"I don't think there have been any major dust-ups that you can't recover from."
"But I do think that this is endemic of a pretty uneven start to her time in this role.”
One report published Wednesday detailed a climate of fear inside the Office of the Vice President, including “a tense and at times dour office atmosphere.”
“Ideas are ignored or met with harsh dismissals, and decisions are dragged out,” the article read, with aides and associates pointing the finger at Tina Flournoy, a longtime Democratic Party operative and Harris’s chief of staff.
Two top advance staffers recently announced their departures, according to another report, along with Harris’s head of digital strategy, Rajan Kaur.
Kaur was welcomed to Twitter by another Harris staffer just one month earlier.
Symone Sanders, the senior adviser and chief spokesperson for Harris, rebuked the claims, saying in the first media report: “We are not making rainbows and bunnies all day."
"What I hear is that people have hard jobs, and I’m, like, ‘welcome to the club.’”
“We have created a culture where people, if there is anything anyone would like to raise, there are avenues for them to do so."
"Whoever has something they would like to raise, they should raise it directly," she said.
"Power centers"
Reports say Flournoy walled off Harris from longtime friends, donors, and associates, a move that the Democratic operative defended.
“It does feel like the intentions of Tina Flournoy are good, which are to kind of clean up some of the mess and keep the hanger-ons away."
"And to establish some order and a standard, which is understandable,” this source said.
The source added: “The consistent thread with all of the infighting and dissension, with all of the different power centers of Kamala Harris, is Vice President Harris.”
In Guatemala last month, the former California senator was asked whether she would visit the southern border, a persistent question since Biden tasked her with stemming the migrant flow.
The vice president threw cold water on the idea during a press briefing, saying that she would focus on the root causes of migration from the region "as opposed to grand gestures" and repeating that in an interview with NBC.
Asked why she had yet to visit U.S. border states, Harris appeared frustrated by the question that has dogged her for months.
"And I haven't been to Europe," she said.
"I don't understand the point that you're making."
"I'm not discounting the importance of the border."
The remarks drew blowback from political opponents and allies, and from the press, for seeming to dismiss concerns about what Republicans and some Democrats see as an accelerating crisis.
"Wake-up call"
Harris visited the border last week with a trip to El Paso, Texas, quieting some of the noise.
“Hopefully, this is a wake-up call,” a Democratic strategist who used to work for Harris told the Washington Examiner, singling out what he identified as “self-inflicted wounds.”
“She’s taking on incredibly complex issues and is under the microscope like never before in her career."
"So, this sort of treatment comes with the territory,” this person said.
“But she really can’t afford any self-inflicted wounds as they will distract from the important work she has in front of her.”
Allies said that Harris, who made history with her election as Biden’s vice president, confronts challenges not shared by others who’ve held the role.
“There's a challenge that comes along with being the first woman in that position and the first woman of color in that position,” the Democratic operative said.
“That doesn't mean that she and her team are above critique — they're not."
"But I think it would be naive to not consider that [in observing] kind of an uneven rollout of her time as vice president.”
Reports of friction with donors and outside political forces are unlikely to plague her down the line, the other Democrat said.
“Is it going to matter in three years, if she’s the nominee for president, or in seven years if she's nominee for president?"
"Like, are they not gonna give her money?"
"No, they're going to."
"They'll be there,” the person said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... d=msedgntp
"'Repeat problem': Fingers point at Kamala Harris as history of staff unrest continues"
Katherine Doyle
1 JULY 2021
A toxic work environment that is alleged to be inside the office of Vice President Kamala Harris stems from the top, with complicating “power centers” plaguing her road to the White House.
“Look, this is a bottom-line business."
"And the bottom line is the vice president has challenges with staff — wherever she is,” one senior Democratic operative told the Washington Examiner.
President Joe Biden handed Harris a politically fraught portfolio of issues, which could cause some strife within any official's staff, but the complaints are not new.
This source called the office discord a “repeat problem” for Harris, adding that the troubles are "not surprising."
“The Harris inner circles, and I'll use that plural, because they've been different inner circles in California, in her Senate office, on her presidential campaign, and now in her vice presidential-campaign-in-office, they've always been rife with a lot of dissension, and a lot of infighting,” this person said.
“It's probably a little unfair to say it's just her."
"But she is a common denominator in all of these situations.”
“Being the junior senator from California, that's different to being vice president,” the person added.
"I don't think there have been any major dust-ups that you can't recover from."
"But I do think that this is endemic of a pretty uneven start to her time in this role.”
One report published Wednesday detailed a climate of fear inside the Office of the Vice President, including “a tense and at times dour office atmosphere.”
“Ideas are ignored or met with harsh dismissals, and decisions are dragged out,” the article read, with aides and associates pointing the finger at Tina Flournoy, a longtime Democratic Party operative and Harris’s chief of staff.
Two top advance staffers recently announced their departures, according to another report, along with Harris’s head of digital strategy, Rajan Kaur.
Kaur was welcomed to Twitter by another Harris staffer just one month earlier.
Symone Sanders, the senior adviser and chief spokesperson for Harris, rebuked the claims, saying in the first media report: “We are not making rainbows and bunnies all day."
"What I hear is that people have hard jobs, and I’m, like, ‘welcome to the club.’”
“We have created a culture where people, if there is anything anyone would like to raise, there are avenues for them to do so."
"Whoever has something they would like to raise, they should raise it directly," she said.
"Power centers"
Reports say Flournoy walled off Harris from longtime friends, donors, and associates, a move that the Democratic operative defended.
“It does feel like the intentions of Tina Flournoy are good, which are to kind of clean up some of the mess and keep the hanger-ons away."
"And to establish some order and a standard, which is understandable,” this source said.
The source added: “The consistent thread with all of the infighting and dissension, with all of the different power centers of Kamala Harris, is Vice President Harris.”
In Guatemala last month, the former California senator was asked whether she would visit the southern border, a persistent question since Biden tasked her with stemming the migrant flow.
The vice president threw cold water on the idea during a press briefing, saying that she would focus on the root causes of migration from the region "as opposed to grand gestures" and repeating that in an interview with NBC.
Asked why she had yet to visit U.S. border states, Harris appeared frustrated by the question that has dogged her for months.
"And I haven't been to Europe," she said.
"I don't understand the point that you're making."
"I'm not discounting the importance of the border."
The remarks drew blowback from political opponents and allies, and from the press, for seeming to dismiss concerns about what Republicans and some Democrats see as an accelerating crisis.
"Wake-up call"
Harris visited the border last week with a trip to El Paso, Texas, quieting some of the noise.
“Hopefully, this is a wake-up call,” a Democratic strategist who used to work for Harris told the Washington Examiner, singling out what he identified as “self-inflicted wounds.”
“She’s taking on incredibly complex issues and is under the microscope like never before in her career."
"So, this sort of treatment comes with the territory,” this person said.
“But she really can’t afford any self-inflicted wounds as they will distract from the important work she has in front of her.”
Allies said that Harris, who made history with her election as Biden’s vice president, confronts challenges not shared by others who’ve held the role.
“There's a challenge that comes along with being the first woman in that position and the first woman of color in that position,” the Democratic operative said.
“That doesn't mean that she and her team are above critique — they're not."
"But I think it would be naive to not consider that [in observing] kind of an uneven rollout of her time as vice president.”
Reports of friction with donors and outside political forces are unlikely to plague her down the line, the other Democrat said.
“Is it going to matter in three years, if she’s the nominee for president, or in seven years if she's nominee for president?"
"Like, are they not gonna give her money?"
"No, they're going to."
"They'll be there,” the person said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... d=msedgntp
Re: KAMALA HARRIS
THE WASHINGTON EXMINER
"Supreme Court ruling is a damning condemnation of Harris and Xavier Becerra"
Kaylee McGhee White
2 JULY 2021
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 this week that California’s donor disclosure requirement violated donors’ First Amendment rights and is thus unconstitutional.
State officials upset with the decision should thank Vice President Kamala Harris and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, both of whom served as California’s attorney general at different times, for making it necessary.
Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts noted that California didn’t even bother to enforce the donor disclosure requirement until 2010, which is when Harris became the state’s attorney general.
At that time, Harris’s office demanded that all nonprofit groups seeking to raise money in the state report the names and addresses of their major donors nationwide.
And although she claimed this information would be kept private, Roberts noted a lower court found that California “was unable to ensure the confidentiality of donors’ information.”
One of the nonprofit organizations that sued the state “identified nearly 2,000 confidential Schedule Bs that had been inadvertently posted to the Attorney General’s website, including dozens that were found the day before trial,” Roberts wrote.
An expert witness for the plaintiffs “also discovered that he was able to access hundreds of thousands of confidential documents on the website simply by changing a digit in the URL.”
In other words, California not only demanded that nonprofit groups hand over confidential, sensitive data, but it also then made that data available to the general public by opening up these disclosures to public record requests and failing to supervise the third-party vendors who accessed the registry.
And who was the one responsible for these mistakes?
Harris’s office — and, later, Becerra’s.
Roberts agreed with the lower court that California’s donor disclosure requirement had a “chilling” effect on potential donors, many of whom had good reason to remain anonymous.
He pointed to evidence provided by the plaintiffs that several of their supporters had been “subjected to bomb threats, protests, stalking, and physical violence.”
Despite this, Harris and Becerra continued to compile a wealth of information, including sensitive details such as an individual donor’s home address, and took to court any nonprofit organization that refused to comply with the mandate.
Harris and Becerra proved time and time again throughout their respective tenures as California's attorney general that they did not care one lick about constitutional liberties.
Harris spent years targeting the Americans for Prosperity Foundation simply because it was funded by the libertarian-conservative Koch brothers, and Becerra used the majority of his time in office to sue Catholic nuns who believed that Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate violated their religious beliefs.
At least the Supreme Court saw Harris and Becerra as the power-hungry authoritarians that they are.
Let's hope that the next California attorney general is better.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/supre ... d=msedgntp
"Supreme Court ruling is a damning condemnation of Harris and Xavier Becerra"
Kaylee McGhee White
2 JULY 2021
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 this week that California’s donor disclosure requirement violated donors’ First Amendment rights and is thus unconstitutional.
State officials upset with the decision should thank Vice President Kamala Harris and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, both of whom served as California’s attorney general at different times, for making it necessary.
Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts noted that California didn’t even bother to enforce the donor disclosure requirement until 2010, which is when Harris became the state’s attorney general.
At that time, Harris’s office demanded that all nonprofit groups seeking to raise money in the state report the names and addresses of their major donors nationwide.
And although she claimed this information would be kept private, Roberts noted a lower court found that California “was unable to ensure the confidentiality of donors’ information.”
One of the nonprofit organizations that sued the state “identified nearly 2,000 confidential Schedule Bs that had been inadvertently posted to the Attorney General’s website, including dozens that were found the day before trial,” Roberts wrote.
An expert witness for the plaintiffs “also discovered that he was able to access hundreds of thousands of confidential documents on the website simply by changing a digit in the URL.”
In other words, California not only demanded that nonprofit groups hand over confidential, sensitive data, but it also then made that data available to the general public by opening up these disclosures to public record requests and failing to supervise the third-party vendors who accessed the registry.
And who was the one responsible for these mistakes?
Harris’s office — and, later, Becerra’s.
Roberts agreed with the lower court that California’s donor disclosure requirement had a “chilling” effect on potential donors, many of whom had good reason to remain anonymous.
He pointed to evidence provided by the plaintiffs that several of their supporters had been “subjected to bomb threats, protests, stalking, and physical violence.”
Despite this, Harris and Becerra continued to compile a wealth of information, including sensitive details such as an individual donor’s home address, and took to court any nonprofit organization that refused to comply with the mandate.
Harris and Becerra proved time and time again throughout their respective tenures as California's attorney general that they did not care one lick about constitutional liberties.
Harris spent years targeting the Americans for Prosperity Foundation simply because it was funded by the libertarian-conservative Koch brothers, and Becerra used the majority of his time in office to sue Catholic nuns who believed that Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate violated their religious beliefs.
At least the Supreme Court saw Harris and Becerra as the power-hungry authoritarians that they are.
Let's hope that the next California attorney general is better.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/supre ... d=msedgntp
Re: KAMALA HARRIS
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR JULY 4, 2021 AT 9:34 PM
Paul Plante says:
The Washington Examiner had a recent article on this very subject entitled “‘Repeat problem’: Fingers point at Kamala Harris as history of staff unrest continues” by Katherine Doyle on 1 July 2021, as follows:
A toxic work environment that is alleged to be inside the office of Vice President Kamala Harris stems from the top, with complicating “power centers” plaguing her road to the White House.
“Look, this is a bottom-line business.”
“And the bottom line is the vice president has challenges with staff — wherever she is,” one senior Democratic operative told the Washington Examiner.
end quotes
Which is to say that Kamala Harris has a long established history with staff problems in her office, wherever she is, which takes us back to that article as follows:
President Joe Biden handed Harris a politically fraught portfolio of issues, which could cause some strife within any official’s staff, but the complaints are not new.
This source called the office discord a “repeat problem” for Harris, adding that the troubles are “not surprising.”
“The Harris inner circles, and I’ll use that plural, because they’ve been different inner circles in California, in her Senate office, on her presidential campaign, and now in her vice presidential-campaign-in-office, they’ve always been rife with a lot of dissension, and a lot of infighting,” this person said.
“It’s probably a little unfair to say it’s just her.”
“But she is a common denominator in all of these situations.”
end quotes
Kamala Harris is clearly not ready for prime time, but we are now stuck with her for the duration, God help the nation for that!
Getting back to the article, it continues as follows:
One report published Wednesday detailed a climate of fear inside the Office of the Vice President, including “a tense and at times dour office atmosphere.”
“Ideas are ignored or met with harsh dismissals, and decisions are dragged out,” the article read, with aides and associates pointing the finger at Tina Flournoy, a longtime Democratic Party operative and Harris’s chief of staff.
Two top advance staffers recently announced their departures, according to another report, along with Harris’s head of digital strategy, Rajan Kaur.
Kaur was welcomed to Twitter by another Harris staffer just one month earlier.
Symone Sanders, the senior adviser and chief spokesperson for Harris, rebuked the claims, saying in the first media report: “We are not making rainbows and bunnies all day.”
“What I hear is that people have hard jobs, and I’m, like, ‘welcome to the club.’”
“We have created a culture where people, if there is anything anyone would like to raise, there are avenues for them to do so.”
“Whoever has something they would like to raise, they should raise it directly,” she said.
end quotes
Oh, really!
Getting back to the article:
Reports say Flournoy walled off Harris from longtime friends, donors, and associates, a move that the Democratic operative defended.
“It does feel like the intentions of Tina Flournoy are good, which are to kind of clean up some of the mess and keep the hanger-ons away.”
“And to establish some order and a standard, which is understandable,” this source said.
The source added: “The consistent thread with all of the infighting and dissension, with all of the different power centers of Kamala Harris, is Vice President Harris.”
end quotes
Joe Biden seems to have a propensity to reward incompetence with positions of power in his administration, so none of this should be surprising, which takes us back to the articles for the excuses we are supposed to accept for the incompetence of Kamala Harris, as follows:
Allies said that Harris, who made history with her election as Biden’s vice president, confronts challenges not shared by others who’ve held the role.
“There’s a challenge that comes along with being the first woman in that position and the first woman of color in that position,” the Democratic operative said.
“That doesn’t mean that she and her team are above critique — they’re not.”
“But I think it would be naive to not consider that [in observing] kind of an uneven rollout of her time as vice president.”
end quotes
The vice president of the United States of America is essentially a no-show job, and if Kamala Harris cannot handle a no-show job as vice president, we are in serious trouble if God forbid, Joe Biden goes out on 25th Amendment grounds of mental instability, and Kamala Harris ends up in the oval office.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/k ... ent-376995
Paul Plante says:
The Washington Examiner had a recent article on this very subject entitled “‘Repeat problem’: Fingers point at Kamala Harris as history of staff unrest continues” by Katherine Doyle on 1 July 2021, as follows:
A toxic work environment that is alleged to be inside the office of Vice President Kamala Harris stems from the top, with complicating “power centers” plaguing her road to the White House.
“Look, this is a bottom-line business.”
“And the bottom line is the vice president has challenges with staff — wherever she is,” one senior Democratic operative told the Washington Examiner.
end quotes
Which is to say that Kamala Harris has a long established history with staff problems in her office, wherever she is, which takes us back to that article as follows:
President Joe Biden handed Harris a politically fraught portfolio of issues, which could cause some strife within any official’s staff, but the complaints are not new.
This source called the office discord a “repeat problem” for Harris, adding that the troubles are “not surprising.”
“The Harris inner circles, and I’ll use that plural, because they’ve been different inner circles in California, in her Senate office, on her presidential campaign, and now in her vice presidential-campaign-in-office, they’ve always been rife with a lot of dissension, and a lot of infighting,” this person said.
“It’s probably a little unfair to say it’s just her.”
“But she is a common denominator in all of these situations.”
end quotes
Kamala Harris is clearly not ready for prime time, but we are now stuck with her for the duration, God help the nation for that!
Getting back to the article, it continues as follows:
One report published Wednesday detailed a climate of fear inside the Office of the Vice President, including “a tense and at times dour office atmosphere.”
“Ideas are ignored or met with harsh dismissals, and decisions are dragged out,” the article read, with aides and associates pointing the finger at Tina Flournoy, a longtime Democratic Party operative and Harris’s chief of staff.
Two top advance staffers recently announced their departures, according to another report, along with Harris’s head of digital strategy, Rajan Kaur.
Kaur was welcomed to Twitter by another Harris staffer just one month earlier.
Symone Sanders, the senior adviser and chief spokesperson for Harris, rebuked the claims, saying in the first media report: “We are not making rainbows and bunnies all day.”
“What I hear is that people have hard jobs, and I’m, like, ‘welcome to the club.’”
“We have created a culture where people, if there is anything anyone would like to raise, there are avenues for them to do so.”
“Whoever has something they would like to raise, they should raise it directly,” she said.
end quotes
Oh, really!
Getting back to the article:
Reports say Flournoy walled off Harris from longtime friends, donors, and associates, a move that the Democratic operative defended.
“It does feel like the intentions of Tina Flournoy are good, which are to kind of clean up some of the mess and keep the hanger-ons away.”
“And to establish some order and a standard, which is understandable,” this source said.
The source added: “The consistent thread with all of the infighting and dissension, with all of the different power centers of Kamala Harris, is Vice President Harris.”
end quotes
Joe Biden seems to have a propensity to reward incompetence with positions of power in his administration, so none of this should be surprising, which takes us back to the articles for the excuses we are supposed to accept for the incompetence of Kamala Harris, as follows:
Allies said that Harris, who made history with her election as Biden’s vice president, confronts challenges not shared by others who’ve held the role.
“There’s a challenge that comes along with being the first woman in that position and the first woman of color in that position,” the Democratic operative said.
“That doesn’t mean that she and her team are above critique — they’re not.”
“But I think it would be naive to not consider that [in observing] kind of an uneven rollout of her time as vice president.”
end quotes
The vice president of the United States of America is essentially a no-show job, and if Kamala Harris cannot handle a no-show job as vice president, we are in serious trouble if God forbid, Joe Biden goes out on 25th Amendment grounds of mental instability, and Kamala Harris ends up in the oval office.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/k ... ent-376995
Re: KAMALA HARRIS
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR JULY 5, 2021 AT 8:29 PM
Paul Plante says:
And before we go further into this INCIPIENT DEMOCRAT DESPOTISM descending down on America the way the Iron Curtain of the Communists descended down in Europe in the 1950’s, let us go back to the CNBC article entitled “Pelosi names 8 members of Jan. 6 committee, including Republican Liz Cheney, to probe pro-Trump riot” by Jacob Pramuk on 1 July 2021, where we have this bull**** to debunk, to wit:
The panel’s formation comes as Democrats and Republicans splinter over how much more Congress needs to do to investigate what led to the attack on the Capitol, which interrupted the transfer of power.
end quotes
Interrupted the transfer of power?
That’s pure bull****, because according to the 20th Amendment to the Constitution, adopted in 1933, the transfer of power takes place on 20 January, not 6 January.
So why are the Democrats lying to us like we are all more stupid than they are?
And let us go back to the article in THE HILL entitled “Pelosi sets up call on election challenge: ‘No situation matches Trump presidency’” by Joseph Choi on 01/03/21, where we had as follows:
She said the result would end with President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris being “officially declared the next President and Vice President of the United States,” but acknowledged this declaration might have to take place in “the middle of the night.”
end quotes
And then the Business Insider article entitled “Senate aides rescued boxes containing the electoral votes as a mob besieged the Capitol. Without them, Congress may not have been able to affirm Biden’s win as quickly” by Aylin Woodward on Jan 7, 2021, where we have, to wit:
Lawmakers returned to the Congressional chambers, boxes in hand, around 8 p.m. local time to finish the joint session.
Lingering objections to the results by some Republicans were overruled, and Congress finished the certification process and vote count eight hours later.
They concluded Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris won the 2020 election with 306 Electoral College votes.
end quotes
So, on 6 January 2021, exactly what Nancy Pelosi predicted would happen three (3) days before on 3 January 2021, is what happened – the result ended with President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris being officially declared the next President and Vice President of the United States in the middle of the night, like Nancy had it all scripted well in advance, and that takes us back to 6 November 2020, and a POLITICO story entitled “Pelosi confident Biden will win presidency, ‘This morning, it is clear that the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris ticket will win the White House,’ the speaker says” by Sarah Ferris, to wit:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that Vice President Joe Biden would win the White House, repeatedly calling him “president-elect” as she discussed the Democratic Party’s agenda next year.
“This morning, it is clear that the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris ticket will win the White House,” Pelosi said in her first press briefing since the Nov. 3 election.
Pelosi spoke to reporters in the Capitol as thousands of votes were still being counted in battleground states.
Biden gained the lead Friday morning in Pennsylvania, potentially clinching his path to victory, though Trump has made clear he will pursue legal challenges.
Pelosi said the outcome was “imminent,” and could be declared “momentarily.”
“It’s a happy day for our country,” Pelosi said, adding: “President-elect Biden has a strong mandate to lead.”
end quotes
So what are we seeing here, people?
Extreme bias, is it not?
And consider that this so-called “select committee” is in reality a JURY, which should be impartial, but it is not, which means that the members of it, especially Elaine Luria and the smarmy Adam Schiff and Jamie Raskin, should all be challenged for cause, which is a challenge that aims to disqualify a potential juror for some stated reason, typically bias, prejudice, or prior knowledge that would prevent impartial evaluation of the evidence presented in court.
But that is not going to happen, and those members of this “select committee” were picked by the DEMOCRAT DESPOT Nancy Pelosi precisely because they are biased and prejudiced, and thus guaranteed to produce the results that the DEMOCRAT DESPOT Nancy Pelosi has predetermined she wants produced!
McCarthy-ism all over again, except Democrat style this time around, and stay tuned, because this Democrat ****-show is just getting started.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/r ... ent-377637
Paul Plante says:
And before we go further into this INCIPIENT DEMOCRAT DESPOTISM descending down on America the way the Iron Curtain of the Communists descended down in Europe in the 1950’s, let us go back to the CNBC article entitled “Pelosi names 8 members of Jan. 6 committee, including Republican Liz Cheney, to probe pro-Trump riot” by Jacob Pramuk on 1 July 2021, where we have this bull**** to debunk, to wit:
The panel’s formation comes as Democrats and Republicans splinter over how much more Congress needs to do to investigate what led to the attack on the Capitol, which interrupted the transfer of power.
end quotes
Interrupted the transfer of power?
That’s pure bull****, because according to the 20th Amendment to the Constitution, adopted in 1933, the transfer of power takes place on 20 January, not 6 January.
So why are the Democrats lying to us like we are all more stupid than they are?
And let us go back to the article in THE HILL entitled “Pelosi sets up call on election challenge: ‘No situation matches Trump presidency’” by Joseph Choi on 01/03/21, where we had as follows:
She said the result would end with President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris being “officially declared the next President and Vice President of the United States,” but acknowledged this declaration might have to take place in “the middle of the night.”
end quotes
And then the Business Insider article entitled “Senate aides rescued boxes containing the electoral votes as a mob besieged the Capitol. Without them, Congress may not have been able to affirm Biden’s win as quickly” by Aylin Woodward on Jan 7, 2021, where we have, to wit:
Lawmakers returned to the Congressional chambers, boxes in hand, around 8 p.m. local time to finish the joint session.
Lingering objections to the results by some Republicans were overruled, and Congress finished the certification process and vote count eight hours later.
They concluded Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris won the 2020 election with 306 Electoral College votes.
end quotes
So, on 6 January 2021, exactly what Nancy Pelosi predicted would happen three (3) days before on 3 January 2021, is what happened – the result ended with President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris being officially declared the next President and Vice President of the United States in the middle of the night, like Nancy had it all scripted well in advance, and that takes us back to 6 November 2020, and a POLITICO story entitled “Pelosi confident Biden will win presidency, ‘This morning, it is clear that the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris ticket will win the White House,’ the speaker says” by Sarah Ferris, to wit:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that Vice President Joe Biden would win the White House, repeatedly calling him “president-elect” as she discussed the Democratic Party’s agenda next year.
“This morning, it is clear that the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris ticket will win the White House,” Pelosi said in her first press briefing since the Nov. 3 election.
Pelosi spoke to reporters in the Capitol as thousands of votes were still being counted in battleground states.
Biden gained the lead Friday morning in Pennsylvania, potentially clinching his path to victory, though Trump has made clear he will pursue legal challenges.
Pelosi said the outcome was “imminent,” and could be declared “momentarily.”
“It’s a happy day for our country,” Pelosi said, adding: “President-elect Biden has a strong mandate to lead.”
end quotes
So what are we seeing here, people?
Extreme bias, is it not?
And consider that this so-called “select committee” is in reality a JURY, which should be impartial, but it is not, which means that the members of it, especially Elaine Luria and the smarmy Adam Schiff and Jamie Raskin, should all be challenged for cause, which is a challenge that aims to disqualify a potential juror for some stated reason, typically bias, prejudice, or prior knowledge that would prevent impartial evaluation of the evidence presented in court.
But that is not going to happen, and those members of this “select committee” were picked by the DEMOCRAT DESPOT Nancy Pelosi precisely because they are biased and prejudiced, and thus guaranteed to produce the results that the DEMOCRAT DESPOT Nancy Pelosi has predetermined she wants produced!
McCarthy-ism all over again, except Democrat style this time around, and stay tuned, because this Democrat ****-show is just getting started.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/r ... ent-377637
Re: KAMALA HARRIS
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR JULY 5, 2021 AT 4:51 PM
Paul Plante says:
When she was running for president, before she was soundly rejected by the American people as not being anywhere near presidential material, Kamala Harris did an interesting interview with NPR, wherein she stated that in her opinion, Black people like herself have some serious mental issues because they were slaves and were raped by the Democrats who owned them, which serious mental issues may well be at play here, where Kamala Harris cannot seem to handle the stress of being vice president, which is hardly “summer non-news” as some in America would have us believe:
NPR
“Sen. Kamala Harris On Reparations”
March 14, 2019
Heard on Morning Edition
Sen. Kamala Harris, a candidate for president, is floating a new idea: funding for mental health treatment as a form of reparations for slavery.
She talks with NPR’s Steve Inskeep.
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: One of the Democratic presidential candidates is floating an idea.
It’s a way to pay reparations for slavery and racial discrimination.
Several candidates have endorsed that notion, although they’re rarely giving specifics.
Senator Kamala Harris also says the matter needs study.
But in a talk with NPR, she did suggest what’s on her mind.
Can you give me an idea of one possible form this could take?
KAMALA HARRIS: Sure.
You can look at the issue of untreated and undiagnosed trauma.
end quotes
One has to presume that she is in fact talking about herself there as suffering from untreated and undiagnosed trauma due to her being Black and her ancestors having been slaves, and that is a serious issue for us in her case, where we have the present incumbent, Democrat Joe Biden, teetering his own way towards a 25th Amendment removal from office based on mental incapacity.
Getting back to Kamala on NPR:
African-Americans have higher rates of heart disease and high blood pressure.
It is environmental.
It is centuries of slavery, which was a form of violence where women were raped, where children were taken from their parents – violence associated with slavery.
And that never – there was never any real intervention to break up what had been generations of people experiencing the highest forms of trauma.
And trauma, undiagnosed and untreated, leads to physiological outcomes.
end quotes
As I say, I think that goes a long way towards explaining why Kamala Harris simply cannot stand the pressure of her no-show job as Joe Biden’s vice president, which takes us back to that interview as follows:
INSKEEP: We’re talking about the same thing as post-traumatic stress from a war.
HARRIS: Sure.
INSKEEP: That’s the kind of thing we’re talking about.
HARRIS: Absolutely.
end quotes
And as Rensselaer County Attorney Gordon Mayo, a real hot-shot attorney really up on this kind of stuff related to PTSD from war famously told a Supreme Court judge in New York, post-combat stress condition can result in irrational behavior, which certainly works for me in explaining why Kamala Harris is unable to deal with being vice president, and as a result, has so many issues with the people around her, because she herself has PTSD that makes her act irrationally.
As to this Michelle Flournoy who the Democrats have put in place as Kamala Harris’s “minder,” she is an Obama-era retread who seems to have come down quite a few notches in the Democrat pantheon, given she was once being considered by Hussein Obama as his secretary of defense, to wit:
“US defense chief confirms plans to leave office in 2011”
Mon Aug 16, 9:47 am ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US Defense Secretary Robert Gates confirmed Monday plans to leave office next year, saying he first wanted to make sure the start of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan is on track.
The Foreign Policy report said there was much speculation about who might replace him.
It mentioned Michele Flournoy, the current under secretary of defense for policy, John Hamre, president of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, CIA Director Leon Panetta, and former Navy Secretary Richard Danzig, as possible candidates.
end quotes
I would guess her star got tarnished somewhere along the trail, so that now she is essentially demoted to being the “minder” of Kamala Harris who is in way over her head as vice president.
And then we have her showing up again in the Associated Press story “Sex is major reason military commanders are fired” by Lolita C. Baldour on 21 January 2013, as follows:
WASHINGTON (AP) – Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair, fired from his command in Afghanistan last May and now facing a court-martial on charges of sodomy, adultery and pornography and more, is just one in a long line of commanders whose careers were ended because of possible sexual misconduct.
Sex has proved to be the downfall of presidential candidates, members of Congress, governors and other notables.
It’s also among the chief reasons that senior military officers are fired.
The figures bear out growing concerns by Defense Department and military leaders over declining ethical values among U.S. forces, and they highlight the pervasiveness of a problem that came into sharp relief because of the resignation of one of the Army’s most esteemed generals, David Petraeus, and the investigation of a second general, John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan.
From sexual assault and harassment to pornography, drugs and drinking, ethical lapses are an escalating problem for the military’s leaders.
“I think we’re on the path.”
“I think the last two defense secretaries have made this a very high priority and have very much held people accountable.”
“But we’ve got a ways to go,” said Michele Flournoy, a former undersecretary of defense under President Barack Obama.
She said the military must enforce a “zero tolerance” policy and work to change the culture so service members are held accountable and made to understand that their careers will be over if they commit or tolerate such offenses.
“The policy is in place,” she said.
“I don’t know that it’s as evenly and fully enforced as intended.”
end quotes
So one must wonder what it is she has done to get herself demoted to being Kamala Harris’s “minder.”
And thanks to the Cape Charles Mirror for bringing this serious matter involving Kamala Harris’s inability to perform the duties of vice president, which essentially are nothing at all, to our attention as concerned American citizens!
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/k ... ent-377534
Paul Plante says:
When she was running for president, before she was soundly rejected by the American people as not being anywhere near presidential material, Kamala Harris did an interesting interview with NPR, wherein she stated that in her opinion, Black people like herself have some serious mental issues because they were slaves and were raped by the Democrats who owned them, which serious mental issues may well be at play here, where Kamala Harris cannot seem to handle the stress of being vice president, which is hardly “summer non-news” as some in America would have us believe:
NPR
“Sen. Kamala Harris On Reparations”
March 14, 2019
Heard on Morning Edition
Sen. Kamala Harris, a candidate for president, is floating a new idea: funding for mental health treatment as a form of reparations for slavery.
She talks with NPR’s Steve Inskeep.
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: One of the Democratic presidential candidates is floating an idea.
It’s a way to pay reparations for slavery and racial discrimination.
Several candidates have endorsed that notion, although they’re rarely giving specifics.
Senator Kamala Harris also says the matter needs study.
But in a talk with NPR, she did suggest what’s on her mind.
Can you give me an idea of one possible form this could take?
KAMALA HARRIS: Sure.
You can look at the issue of untreated and undiagnosed trauma.
end quotes
One has to presume that she is in fact talking about herself there as suffering from untreated and undiagnosed trauma due to her being Black and her ancestors having been slaves, and that is a serious issue for us in her case, where we have the present incumbent, Democrat Joe Biden, teetering his own way towards a 25th Amendment removal from office based on mental incapacity.
Getting back to Kamala on NPR:
African-Americans have higher rates of heart disease and high blood pressure.
It is environmental.
It is centuries of slavery, which was a form of violence where women were raped, where children were taken from their parents – violence associated with slavery.
And that never – there was never any real intervention to break up what had been generations of people experiencing the highest forms of trauma.
And trauma, undiagnosed and untreated, leads to physiological outcomes.
end quotes
As I say, I think that goes a long way towards explaining why Kamala Harris simply cannot stand the pressure of her no-show job as Joe Biden’s vice president, which takes us back to that interview as follows:
INSKEEP: We’re talking about the same thing as post-traumatic stress from a war.
HARRIS: Sure.
INSKEEP: That’s the kind of thing we’re talking about.
HARRIS: Absolutely.
end quotes
And as Rensselaer County Attorney Gordon Mayo, a real hot-shot attorney really up on this kind of stuff related to PTSD from war famously told a Supreme Court judge in New York, post-combat stress condition can result in irrational behavior, which certainly works for me in explaining why Kamala Harris is unable to deal with being vice president, and as a result, has so many issues with the people around her, because she herself has PTSD that makes her act irrationally.
As to this Michelle Flournoy who the Democrats have put in place as Kamala Harris’s “minder,” she is an Obama-era retread who seems to have come down quite a few notches in the Democrat pantheon, given she was once being considered by Hussein Obama as his secretary of defense, to wit:
“US defense chief confirms plans to leave office in 2011”
Mon Aug 16, 9:47 am ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US Defense Secretary Robert Gates confirmed Monday plans to leave office next year, saying he first wanted to make sure the start of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan is on track.
The Foreign Policy report said there was much speculation about who might replace him.
It mentioned Michele Flournoy, the current under secretary of defense for policy, John Hamre, president of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, CIA Director Leon Panetta, and former Navy Secretary Richard Danzig, as possible candidates.
end quotes
I would guess her star got tarnished somewhere along the trail, so that now she is essentially demoted to being the “minder” of Kamala Harris who is in way over her head as vice president.
And then we have her showing up again in the Associated Press story “Sex is major reason military commanders are fired” by Lolita C. Baldour on 21 January 2013, as follows:
WASHINGTON (AP) – Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair, fired from his command in Afghanistan last May and now facing a court-martial on charges of sodomy, adultery and pornography and more, is just one in a long line of commanders whose careers were ended because of possible sexual misconduct.
Sex has proved to be the downfall of presidential candidates, members of Congress, governors and other notables.
It’s also among the chief reasons that senior military officers are fired.
The figures bear out growing concerns by Defense Department and military leaders over declining ethical values among U.S. forces, and they highlight the pervasiveness of a problem that came into sharp relief because of the resignation of one of the Army’s most esteemed generals, David Petraeus, and the investigation of a second general, John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan.
From sexual assault and harassment to pornography, drugs and drinking, ethical lapses are an escalating problem for the military’s leaders.
“I think we’re on the path.”
“I think the last two defense secretaries have made this a very high priority and have very much held people accountable.”
“But we’ve got a ways to go,” said Michele Flournoy, a former undersecretary of defense under President Barack Obama.
She said the military must enforce a “zero tolerance” policy and work to change the culture so service members are held accountable and made to understand that their careers will be over if they commit or tolerate such offenses.
“The policy is in place,” she said.
“I don’t know that it’s as evenly and fully enforced as intended.”
end quotes
So one must wonder what it is she has done to get herself demoted to being Kamala Harris’s “minder.”
And thanks to the Cape Charles Mirror for bringing this serious matter involving Kamala Harris’s inability to perform the duties of vice president, which essentially are nothing at all, to our attention as concerned American citizens!
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/k ... ent-377534