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racissss bastard!!
“Wow, there were an unusually large number of African American agents that passed the exam this time. They must have been cheating.”
I can't believe anyone would ever say such a thing. Anyone who said it should be banned from ever being employed by the government. He should probably be banned from life!
EDIT:
I'm so sorry - forgot to give any links to the quote above. So, so, sorry!
The former Detroit-based ATF agent, who wished to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation, did not personally witness Chipman making the comment, but recalled colleagues talking about how Chipman “made this remark that all the African Americans must be cheating because there’s no way they could get these scores.”
“He made this remark in front of a bunch of witnesses,” the former Detroit-based ATF agent said. “It spread like wildfire at the agency. It got tremendous blowback, as it should. Here you have a middle manager saying something like that with absolutely no proof.
https://marketfud.com/david-chipmans-alleged-racist-remarks-about-black-atf-agents/
The American Accountability Foundation filed two Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits in May of this year in order to verify the allegation, but the ATF did not hand over the documents in the allotted timeframe.
Chipman said that:
“[The complaints were] resolved without any finding of discrimination and no disciplinary action was taken against me.”
CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb said the allegations are “alarming and incredibly disturbing.”
“With the racist history of gun control and past racist enforcement practices going back to Reconstruction,” Gottlieb said, “the last thing we need is someone heading ATF who not only wants to ban black guns, but also denigrates black people, including his own colleagues.
Jones, who has 13 years of experience vetting political nominees as a former Senate staffer, said Chipman’s apparent unwillingness to provide his personnel records shouldn’t be overlooked.
“Anything short of, ‘sure, what do I need to do to turn over my personnel record,’ should be a big red flag for folks,” Jones said.
Chipman’s confirmation faces an uphill battle in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
EDIT AGAIN:
The fool is a much bigger fool than I gave him credit for!
“While at ATF I conducted studies involving people who failed background checks to determine how many later committed crimes with a gun – many did. This is a perfect opportunity to arrest people before committing crimes rather than responding after the fact,” Chipman said during the Reddit event.
So - Minority Report time!!
Chipman also incorrectly claimed during the Reddit event that Branch Davidian members shot down two government helicopters using .50-caliber Barrett rifles during the Waco siege in 1993.
Only an idiot could make the claim, knowing how easy it would be to verify or disprove.
Not exactly sure what he's trying to pull here...
Re: Infrastructure bill(s)
Q Mr. President, you said you want both of these measures to come to you “in tandem.” Did you receive any assurances that that would happen? And how do you anticipate — what will you do if —
THE PRESIDENT: I control that.
Q — they don’t get to you in time?
THE PRESIDENT: If they don’t come, I’m not signing. Real simple.
So, but I expect — I expect that in the — the coming months this summer, before the count — the fiscal year is over, that we will have voted on this bill, as well — the infrastructure bill — as well as voted on the budget record [sic] — resolution.
And that’s when they’ll — but if only one comes to me, I’m not — and if this is the only thing that comes to me, I’m not signing it. It’s in tandem.
Q Mr. President, do you support, then, Speaker Pelosi’s stated plan to hold the bipartisan deal in the House until the Senate also passes reconciliation? Do you support that sequencing on her part?
THE PRESIDENT: Yes.
Q But, Mr. President, your own party is not on the same page about the reconciliation package. So, by moving forward with this two-track system, are you putting the bipartisan bill in jeopardy?
But whatever it is*, it still totally depends on Manchin/Sinema
*Thank goodness for transcripts. I can't imagine having to listen to that
UPDATE:
No, wait
"My comments also created the impression that I was issuing a veto threat on the very plan I had just agreed to, which was certainly not my intent,"
*I just lost my mind for a moment*
President Manchin in today's headlines, busy busy busy...
Democrats go down to the wire with Manchin
Manchin holds out until last minute on elections vote
Manchin-led committee puts forth sprawling energy infrastructure proposal
Like always, Biden is second in command, just there to make speeches. ~ wrong guy for that job ~
UPDATE:
So now the dems are making much ado over this "Schumer/Manchin agreement" because he is offering a "yes" vote on debating the matter.. And as usual dems play their favorite game, always vote for something they know won't pass.
Under the deal, Manchin will provide a 50th Democratic vote on advancing the For the People Act, though it will still fail to overcome Tuesday's procedural hurdle because of a GOP filibuster that requires 60 votes. But being unified, Democrats hope, will keep the focus on GOP opposition to the bill.
Yes, the dems have to keep focus on the irrelevant, not their complicity "compromise" that makes this GOP "opposition" a thing that matters
UPDATE 2:
So the vote went as expected, and as expected, the people that gave away the power to obstruct are blaming them for using it instead of the guy that gives them the power
Fake news? Could be.. But it's very plausible
So I'm running with it:
Here's Joe Manchin working his magic. This is the classic villain rotation game..
Manchin told the assembled donors that he needed help flipping a handful of Republicans from no to yes on the January 6 commission in order to strip the "far left" of their best argument against the filibuster. The filibuster is a critical priority for the donors on the call, as it bottles up progressive legislation that would hit their bottom lines.
When it came to Sen. Roy Blunt, a moderate Missouri Republican who voted no on the commission, Manchin offered a creative solution. "Roy Blunt is a great, just a good friend of mine, a great guy," Manchin said. "Roy is retiring. If some of you all who might be working with Roy in his next life could tell him, that'd be nice and it’d help our country. That would be very good to get him to change his vote. And we're going to have another vote on this thing. That'll give me one more shot at it."
Notice the fight he picks is for the totally theatrical "Jan 6 Commission", not voting rights or infrastructure, but to keep Trump and republicans in the headlines
Another "Clinton Suicide"
TV reporter who broke story of Bill Clinton tarmac meeting with Loretta Lynch dies of apparent suicide
I wonder how they do it. It's so weird, like the way the cast of Bewitched died off so quickly..
CRT FAQ.. The money shot
Q: Why do some people condemn critical race theory?
A: Misplaced sexual frustrations.
And speaking of Marx:
Will you run an engine lathe eight unfucking hours a day because the syndicate tells you the people need what the lathe produces? If you will, the people just becomes a new tyrant."
counterrevolution
Xi Van Fleet was six when Chairman Mao launched his Cultural Revolution. The lady lived through the revolution. She doesn't go into great depth to describe what she went through, or what she had to do to survive. But, she does warn America that we are on the brink of the same thing in the USA.
Yes, of course she's on Fox. Did you think CNN would give her a soapbox to stand on? The liberal mainstream media would rather cut her off at the knees.
Click the link, watch the video.
A Virginia parent, whose remarks at a Loudoun County school board meeting against critical race theory and cultural Marxism went viral this week, described on "Hannity" how the tenets public schools are using regarding CRT are similar to how Chinese Communist revolutionary Mao Zedong successfully divided the society she lived in as a young child in the 1960s.
Earlier this week, Xi Van Fleet spoke during a school board meeting in Leesburg condemning the school board for the critical race theory curriculum it is imposing on young students.
"We are teaching our children to be social justice warriors and to loathe our country and our history. Growing up in China, all of this sounds very familiar. The Communist regime use the same critical theory is to divide people. The only difference is that used class instead of race. This is indeed the American version of the Chinese cultural revolution," she said at the time.
On "Hannity," Van Fleet expanded on her warning to America as a onetime victim of mandated Maoist indoctrination:
"I just want to let the American people know that what is going on in our schools and in our country is really a replay of the cultural revolution in China," she said, calling the similarities "terrifying."
"[Critical race theorists] use the same ideology, the same methodology, even the same vocabulary. The ideology is cultural Marxism."
At school in Maoist China, Van Fleet recalled being divided into groups of "oppressor" and "oppressed' based on what social class the student came from.
The same is happening today in schools and other institutions, except it is based on White and non-White races, she noted.
Chinese dissenters from the Maoist doctrine were labeled "counterrevolutionary", as dissenters in America are labeled "racist" – a moniker that in both regards is "like a hat that fits all" that can ruin one's life and livelihood.
Van Fleet added that the left's intent on "cancel culture" and "canceling" everything from public statuary to references to uncomfortable historic events, to historic figures they deem flawed is the same thing that Mao sought when he essentially erased thousands of years of Chinese cultural history.
"We basically canceled the whole Chinese civilization pre-Communism and we changed our school names, street names, store names, even our personal names," she said.
"Wokeness – to be specific – we used class wokeness in China," she also recalled.
"Your level of wokeness determines your chance to get a promotion or to get benefits and who decides your level of wokeness? The party leaders," she said, implying the same can be said in the United States for people and workers who do not ascribe to their moral superiors' intended ideologies.
Van Fleet added that she knows from experience that "freedom is fragile" and that many other Chinese-Americans also know the struggle and see the parallels between the left's cultural Marxism and the Maoist revolution of the 1960s.
"[C]ritical race theory is not antiracism. It itself is racist. It is divisive, destructive and it is dangerous."
Those of you who haven't read of the Cultural Revolution might want to brush up. Here are some starting points:
https://aaww.org/surviving-chinas-cultural-revolution/
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2016/0531/How-an-ancient-Chinese-town-survived-the-tumultuous-Cultural-Revolution
https://spectator.org/china-cultural-revolution-world-turned-upside-down/
https://www.ydr.com/story/opinion/columnists/2016/05/11/survived-chinas-horrific-cultural-revolution-column/84192734/
*Not on my watch!* A promise democrats can keep:
President Joe Biden on Thursday promised to outspend China on innovation and infrastructure to prevent it from overtaking the U.S. to become the world’s most powerful country.
Watch out for that upper cut!
For they have sown the wind
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind Hosea 8:7
I don't rely on scripture to make my point very often, but couldn't resist that one.
'People are scared' as gang activity fuels Portland violence
PORTLAND: When Oregon's most populous city had a rampant gang problem 30 years ago, Portland detectives were stunned if they found more than a few dozen bullet casings after a shooting. Now, police are recording multiple shootings a week with 50 to 70 shots fired, and in one case more than 150, as gang attacks and retaliatory shootings again spiral into a vicious cycle.
With more bullets comes more bloodshed. There have been 37 homicides in Oregon's largest city so far this year, more than six times the number recorded in the same period last year. If nothing changes, Portland will surpass its all-time record for homicides of 70 set in 1987, when the city was in the midst of a gang siege.The violence has deeply affected Portland, a liberal city that continues to grapple with the role of its police force more than a year after thousands of Black Lives Matter protesters demanded change following the murder of George Floyd.
The surge in gang-related shootings, which has disproportionately impacted people of color, puts the spotlight on a sensitive and polarizing topic - felt in major cities across the country - where violence is increasing as people continue to call for defunding police.
“This touches all of us,” said Portland Pastor Matt Hennessee, a longtime anti-gun violence activist whose 33-year-old stepson was shot and killed in a parking lot in May. “I have lived here for 32 years and I have always seen this city as a safe place. This is not the Portland that we know.”Police estimate half of Portland's 470 shootings this year, which have injured more than 140 people, are gang-related. Mayor Ted Wheeler warned last month that perpetrators are being told by gangs to shoot someone within 30 days or be shot and that people are traveling from other states to engage in violence in the Rose City.
https://news.yahoo.com/people-scared-gang-activity-fuels-050223817.html
Another liberal city, another out-of-control crime problem. More than a year of rioting in the streets was supposed to have consequences, right? Oh, DAMN, we forgot about that pesky law of unintended consequences!!
Biden pushes Belt and Road rival 'Blue Dot'
NEW YORK -- U.S. President Joe Biden's administration, along with the governments of Japan and Australia, is reviving an infrastructure initiative that would provide emerging markets an alternative to China's Belt and Road initiative.
After a prolonged period of inactivity, the Blue Dot Network -- first announced during President Donald Trump's administration -- kicked off talks among stakeholders in Paris on Monday. The meeting and the launch of an executive consultation group was convened by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and funded by Washington and Canberra.
We'll just ignore that Biden is dusting off a Trump initiative, because Biden has no initiatives of his own.
Which is better, Belt and Road, or Blue Dot?
Well, China's idea seems pretty "inclusive", if I may use that term in a non-racist manner. Build a million miles of roads, that cut through jungles and coastlines, cross mountains and deserts, pulling a myriad of small towns, villages, and fogotten backwaters into that Big Globalist Economic Network.
Blue Dot? Huh - established players on the economic scene get to expand their own economic stranglehold on the world, pushing into undeveloped countries, and setting the rules as they go.
Are the neocons and the New American Century running this from behind the scenes? It is their goal that every man, woman, and child on earth work to enrich Wall Street, after all. With Blue Dot, you can join the America-centric global market. With Belt and Road, you can join in a China-centric global market.
If I were a third world resident, the Chinese option would look more attractive.
Here, in the US, the Interstate and US Highway systems have done more to develop our country, than all the development of ocean ports. A similar highways system spanning Asia and Africa could bring many third world countries out of limbo.
Odd that Establishment Joe aims to enrich three already wealthy countries, while opposing a Chinese idea that will benefit billions of not-so-wealthy people.
EDIT: Forgot to post my link:
