2020 Dem: Being Pro-Life Is the Same as Being Racist

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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) compared pro-life beliefs to racism and suggested the pro-life viewpoint is “not acceptable” during an interview with the Des Moines Register.

Gillibrand’s comments came in response to a question about if having a litmus test for judicial nominees would threaten judicial independence. The senator has promised to only appoint justices who would uphold Roe v. Wade.

“I think there’s some issues that have such moral clarity that we have as a society decided that the other side is not acceptable. Imagine saying that it’s okay to appoint a judge who’s racist or anti-Semitic or homophobic. Asking someone to appoint someone who takes away basic human rights of any group of people in America—I don’t think that those are political issues anymore,” Gillibrand said.

“And we believe in this country in the separation of church and state, and I respect the rights of every American to hold their religious beliefs true to themselves, but our country and our Constitution has always demanded that we have a separation of church and state,” Gillibrand continued. “And all these efforts by President Trump and other ultra-radical conservative judges and justices to impose their faith on Americans is contrary to our Constitution and that’s what this is. And so I believe that for all of these issues, they are not issues that there is a fair other side. There is no moral equivalency when you come to racism, and I do not believe there is a moral equivalency when it comes to changing laws that deny women reproductive freedom.” (Read more from “2020 Dem: Being Pro-Life Is the Same as Being Racist” HERE)

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Congress Moves to Approve Space Force, but Trump Isn’t Getting Any Credit

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NextGov reports that the House Armed Services Committee is expected to approve a modified version of the Pentagon’s proposal for a new space defense branch — a.ka. “Space Force” — as part of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act markup this week. However, Democratic committee members urged their fellow lawmakers to not think of the idea as a victory for President Donald J.Trump, let alone it being the commander-in-chief’s idea.

“Don’t think of this as, ‘if you’re for the Space Force, that means you 100-percent support President Trump,’” chairman Adam Smith, D-Wash said on Monday. “We were talking about this long before the president even knew Space Force could possibly have existed. He grabbed onto it. But this isn’t about him.”

“This isn’t about whether we’re going to support one of his proposals or give him a win — I don’t care about that,” he continued. “I want to organize our space assets in the most efficient, effective way possible.”

“The main difference from the administration’s approach is less bureaucracy. We don’t have three four-stars, we only have the one,” Smith said of the streamlined House proposal. “There’s a lot less mandatory transfers of personnel into the Space Command.”

A source told NextGov that despite previous opposition to the idea, “The HASC deal anticipates a seat on the Joint Chiefs of Staff for space…and that the GOP was ‘very gratified with where things currently stand'” (Read more from “Congress Moves to Approve Space Force, but Trump Isn’t Getting Any Credit” HERE)

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We Have Another Global Warming Prediction That Got Busted…and Glacier National Park Was Forced to Respond

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They’re wrong about everything. This applies to the wider liberal media, but it especially applies to the environmental Left that has been preaching doomsday since Earth Day was created. The appalling condescension from this crew, despite peddling straight trash for years is exceedingly entertaining. It’s great because you know what the ending is—these folks eating it…hard. We had global cooling hysteria in the 1970s. It never happened. Now, we’re in the throes of this so-called global warming chapter, where we need to enact this Green New Deal by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) because in 12 years—we’re all toast or something. Funny, we’ve heard all of these predictions before. And now, people are saying by 2050, if nothing is done, we’re cooked. So, which is it, experts? Well, while you cobble together another wrong analysis, let’s go to Glacier National Park in Montana, where the signs indicating that the ice masses would be gone by 2020 have been removed because the area has been pounded by snow for years. Jazz Shaw touched on this over at Hot Air, citing the post by Jeff Dunetz who delivered a sledgehammer to this narrative:

Glacier National Park quietly removed a sign at its visitor center saying the glaciers will disappear by 2020 which were originally placed because former President Obama believed the predictions pushed by the left’s climate change hypothesis.

According to federal officials, several years in a row of high snowfall and cold temperatures totally obliterated a computer model that authorities relied on to claim that the glaciers would all be melted by 2020…

(Read more from “We Have Another Global Warming Prediction That Got Busted…and Glacier National Park Was Forced to Respond” HERE)

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Democrat Attacks Trump Supporters for Their ‘Religious Beliefs’

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By The Blaze. Republicans objected after a speech from Democratic Rep. Marcia Fudge (Ohio) which contained insults to President Donald Trump and his supporters. . .

The letter criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for not pushing for an impeachment vote against the president, and then turned its ire to his supporters.

“It is glaringly apparent that many who support the present administration are either racist, steeped in religious beliefs, ignorant, or, as my mother used to say, just plain dumb,” Fudge read.

“They have chosen to support a president who has a proven record of being sexually condescending to women,” she continued, “will not oppose the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan and other hate organizations, is indecisive, is condescending to anyone who challenge him, and hides behind his twitter account rather than dealing with the real issues in our country and around the world.” . . .

Fudge also read the accusation that the president is a “proven liar,” and described the Republican party as a “Trump cult.”

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GOP Rep Clashes with House Dem After She Reads Letter Calling Trump Supporters ‘Racist,’ ‘Dumb’

By Fox News. . .After Fudge read the letter, which described Trump as a “gangster” and “sexually condescending to women,” presiding officer Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Texas, reminded her that she couldn’t read other people’s remarks attacking the president.

“The chair will remind members that remarks and debate may not engage in personalities towards the president, including by repeating remarks made elsewhere that would be improper if spoken in the members own words,” Veasy said.

Fudge seemed indignant and appeared to ask what Veasy meant by “personalities.” As she stayed near the front of the chamber, Rep. Larry Bucshon, R-Ind., called her out by asking, “Are we in order or what are we doing?” After Fudge responded to him, Bucschon shot back, “No, you’re out of order.” (Read more from “GOP Rep Clashes with House Dem After She Reads Letter Calling Trump Supporters ‘Racist,’ ‘Dumb'” HERE)

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Joe Biden Attempts to Blame Trump for Deaths of Transgender Black Women

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By The Blaze. Former Vice President Joe Biden suggested that President Donald Trump’s administration is responsible for the violent deaths of black transgender women. . .

“We’ve already had five, just this year, five black transgender women killed violently in 2019,” Biden said. “It’s outrageous. It must, it must, it must end.”

And as the crowd applauded, Biden broke in with a stern declaration: “And the fastest way to end it is, end the Trump administration!” Hoots and hollers and cheering followed.

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Biden: Fastest way to end transgender violence ‘is to end the Trump administration’

By CNN. . .Democratic presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden on Saturday accused President Donald Trump’s administration of endangering the LGBTQ community by failing to defend LGBTQ individuals’ rights and safety.

In a speech to the Human Rights Campaign on the first day of Pride Month, Biden described the difficulties still faced by many transgender people, including lack of access to health care and social services, as well as transphobic violence that he said was enabled by the Trump administration. . .

“This President, this White House has literally, literally a bully pulpit, is callously extending his power over the most vulnerable — implementing the most discriminatory policies like Muslim bans, turning away asylum seekers, putting children in cages,” Biden said.

“And the current vice president uses religious freedom as an excuse to license discrimination,” he continued. “It’s wrong and it is immoral what they’re doing.” (Read more from “Biden: Fastest Way to End Transgender Violence ‘Is to End the Trump Administration'” HERE)

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Yoga Instructor Teaches Classes to Undo Whiteness

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By Breitbart. A Seattle yoga instructor is teaching a class that is aimed at “Undoing Whiteness,” by showing white yoga students how white supremacy is present in their “body, mind and heart.”

The class is taught by Laura Humpf, a yoga teacher of 15 years who claims that the class known as “Undoing Whiteness,” will teach students how to “unpack the harmful ways white supremacy is embedded” in the culture.

“I do stand behind white people needing to talk to other white people on how to undo whiteness,” Humpf told the Seattle Times. “Can I keep refining it and doing it differently and better? Yeah, and I will forever and ever. But I believe in this space as one tool.” . . .

“I was seeing white people show up in yoga spaces in racist ways,” Humpf explained. Particularly irksome to Humpf, was witnessing white yoga instructors make racially insensitive jokes.

“Her class tries to neutralize defensiveness, perfectionism and the ‘white savior complex’ as participants try to physically interpret words such as ‘oppression” and “liberation,’” according to the New York Post. (Read more from “Yoga Instructor Teaches Classes to Undo Whiteness” HERE)

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Seattle Yoga Teacher’s ‘Undoing Whiteness’ Class

By The Seattle Times. . .This spring, Humpf publicized an “Undoing Whiteness” yoga class at Rainier Beach Yoga, geared toward white people wishing to “unpack the harmful ways white supremacy is embedded” in their “body, mind and heart.” Along with providing a contemplative space, the class would dissect the “pathology of whiteness” — an obliviousness to the batch of privileges society grants white skin — and how it operates in daily life. . .

After posting the “Undoing Whiteness” class on neighborhood Facebook groups, some responded that Humpf had “lost her mind.” Others interpreted the class as “a bunch of white people” getting together to discuss their “white shame” without consulting people of color, and one equated it with embarking on a pub crawl to tackle alcoholism. (Read more from “Seattle Yoga Teacher’s ‘Undoing Whiteness’ Class” HERE)

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Dems Block Funding for Border Crisis

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Democratic Senator Pat Leahy bluntly told GOP Senators that Democrats are blocking $4.5 billion needed to manage the Central American migration emergency until Republicans submit to their pro-migration demands.

“We’re willing to put [up] the money,” the Vermont Senator said at the June 11 hearing at the Senate’s judiciary committee. But, he added:

Now whether a supplemental gets done is up to the administration. If they continue to block bipartisan legislation, nothing happens. I hope the Republicans will finally realize we have to do this, Republicans and Democrats, together … We want long term solutions.

The May 1 funding request sought $3.3 billion to process and temporarily house many thousands of so-called “Unaccompanied Alien Children,” plus $1.2 billion for border agencies to register, shelter, and transport the huge flow of migrants as they walk through the catch-and-release loopholes at the border. . .

In contrast, the political priorities set by Democrats would likely accelerate the movement of Central American populations into blue-collar Americans’ workplaces, schools, and neighborhoods. The huge inflow — perhaps one million people in the 12 months up to October — provides an economic stimulus to cities run by Democratic mayors and to companies run by Democratic donors. (Read more from “Dems Block Funding for Border Crisis” HERE)

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Armed Homeowner Kills Alleged Intruder

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By Breitbart. A homeowner in Clayton County, Georgia, awoke to banging sounds Friday morning, grabbed a rifle, and shot an alleged intruder multiple times.

Portia Bruner posted a video in which Clayton County Police Major Anthony Thurman identified the alleged intruder as 18-year-old Jayven Jackson. . .

11 Alive reports that the homeowner was awakened by banging sounds around 3 a.m. Fox 5 reports Jackson was allegedly banging on the homeowner’s door before breaking a window then reaching through the window to unlock and open the door. . .

Thurman affirmed that “people have the right to defend themselves,” and he stressed that no charges have been brought against the homeowner for the actions he took. (Read more from “Armed Homeowner Kills Alleged Intruder” HERE)

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Police: Homeowner Will Not Be Charged in Intruder’s Death

By Fox 5. . .It happened along Jenni Circle near Jonesboro. The homeowner told police he woke up to a loud banging on his front door.

The homeowner said the intruder then broke a window reached through an unlocked the door and came inside. Clayton County Police said the homeowner grabbed a rifle to defend himself and fired several shots.

The suspect later died at the hospital. (Read more from “Police: Homeowner Will Not Be Charged in Intruder’s Death” HERE)

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Trump Has a BIG WARNING for Companies Who Discriminate Against Him

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By The Blaze. President Donald Trump said that he would consider taking action against big tech companies that he thought were discriminating against him during the election.

In a phone-in interview with Joe Kernen on CNBC Monday, the president accused companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon of colluding with the Democrats against his campaign in 2016.

“I can tell you they discriminate against me,” Trump responded to Kernen. “You know, People talk about collusion. The real collusion is between the Democrats and these companies because they were so against me during my election run. Everybody said if you don’t have them you can’t win, well I won, you know, and I’ll win again, because we’re doing well.”

Kernen later asked the president if he believed that the companies had monopolistic power and perhaps anti-trust action was needed by the government against them.

“Every week you see them going after Facebook, and Apple, and all of these companies that are, you know, great companies,” Trump said of authorities in Europe. “But I will say that the European Union is suing them all the time. (Read more from “Trump Has a BIG WARNING for Companies Who Discriminate Against Him” HERE)

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Donald Trump Tweets Support for Conservative Voices Banned from Twitter

By The Daily Beast. President Trump tweeted his support for conservative voices that have been banned from Twitter on Sunday morning. The tweet was sandwiched between tweets offering self praise over the tariff deal with Mexico and criticism of former president Barrack Obama. “Twitter should let the banned Conservative Voices back onto their platform, without restriction,” Trump wrote, adding, “It’s called Freedom of Speech, remember. You are making a Giant Mistake!” (Read more from “Donald Trump Tweets Support for Conservative Voices Banned from Twitter” HERE)

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Oh, so That’s Who the Liberal Media Thinks Will Indict Trump as AG

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. . .The Trump impeachment/Trump is out of office dream scenarios that this “facts first” network tossed in there last week. The brave, brave souls at Newsbusters are tasked with covering the daily insanity that has ensued since the 2016 election. On June 8th’s episode of Trump Derangement Theater, CNN speculated that a new president would indict Trump in 2021 under…Attorney General Sally Yates. Tim Graham has more on CNN Host Brooke Baldwin’s venture into fantasyland:

CNN’s Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin… asked legal analyst Renato Mariotti to explain an article he wrote for Politico magazine gleefully exploring “How Trump Could Be Prosecuted After the White House,” arguing that “winning the election might be Trump’s best path to avoid being charged with a felony.” . . .

BALDWIN: So, Renato, if we take Speaker Pelosi at her word, it assumes, number one, that he doesn’t get reelected in 2020, and, number two, that a prosecutor would indict him on the evidence in the Mueller report or perhaps other ongoing investigations. And so you wrote this piece in Politico about what that could look like. How might this play out?

MARIOTTI: Well, what I would expect is a Democratic president, if — I assume he or she would leave that to the attorney general. There’s a pretty broad consensus amongst federal prosecutors, former federal prosecutors that you have highly prosecutable evidence in the Mueller report of obstruction of justice.

Sally Yates, for example, who might be the next attorney general, said publicly that she thought Trump would be indicted if he was not president. So what I would expect is an indictment, at least a three- count indictment for obstruction of justice for Trump trying to fire Mueller, trying to limit the scope of the investigation, and then trying to get the former White House counsel to create a false record.

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