This story is quite an encapsulation of modern Millennial life.
A now famous young woman named Claira Janover wanted to share the depth of her wokeness with her social media tribe. Ms. Janover used TikTok to record her video rant where she promised to go on a stabbing spree to kill all those who say “all lives matter.”
According to her plan, Claira Janover, who is a graduate of Harvard University, felt her social community would enjoy her stabbing spree idea and the subsequent applause would help fill the void she carries in her life. Go figure.
However, after outlining the approach she would take in order to support the Black Lives Matter community, her employer didn’t think it was a good idea to keep around a young woman who just promised to go on a stabbing spree. So they fired her. Imagine that.
Understandable.
Rather than reevaluate the instability of her stabby killing pledge. Ms. Janover goes back on TikTok to cry to her tribe about being fired for supporting Black Lives Matter; because conservatives or something.
New York – […] “Standing up for Black Lives Matter put me in a place online to be seen by millions of people,” a teary Claira Janover said in a new video posted Wednesday afternoon. “The job that I’d worked really hard to get and meant a lot to me has called me and fired me because of everything.”
Janover’s LinkedIn account lists her as an “incoming government and public business service analyst” at Deloitte, a UK-based accounting firm.
During the video, Janover gestured to what appears to be a page from the company’s website, and noted that she was axed “even though they claim to stand against systematic bias, racism and unequal treatment.”
Janover — who graduated from Harvard in May with a degree in government and psychology — went viral after posting a video to the platform railing against people with “the nerve, the sheer entitled caucasity to say ‘All Lives Matter.’” (read more)
Yeah… There’s a generation of people who are growing up on social media, and have absolutely no sense of self-awareness. Their unquenchable thirst for tribal acceptance is the dominant goal in their life.
This weird psychological disorder seems to create a disconnect between their interactions on-line, in cyber reality, and the needed norms and stability within real life interactions, relationships and employment. Toxic instability jumps into actual behavior as the difference between their devices and real world encounters is blurred.
Comrades, the ministry of COVID compliance in New York has now been given permission to issue subpoenas requiring the general public to comply with COVID compliance contact tracers. Any New Yorker who refuses to answer the interrogation questions by the COVID compliance police is now subject to arrest.
You do not have the right to remain silent, and everything you say will be guaranteed to be used against you as the state takes control over your life.
The process of “Contact Tracing” permits the state authority to identify the travel, contacts and associated risks presented by anyone who tests positive for the COVID-19 virus.
A positive test now results in a new class of citizen, considered of such a significant risk that their constitutional rights are suspended. Thus, it is in the interest of state security for the state to have legal authority to compel compliance with questioning.
Additionally, if a parent tests positive, it may become necessary for the state to control that person’s activity; which may include the removal of any children into the care of the state; saving the minor child from the risk their parent(s) represent. There is a myriad of new roles and responsibilities for the state in the life of a person who tests positive.
NEW YORK – Officials in New York’s Rockland County said Wednesday they are being forced to issue subpoenas to compel people to speak to contact tracers about a coronavirus outbreak because they are not speaking voluntarily.
The country’s health commissioner, Patricia Rupert, said at a news conference that subpoenas are being issued to eight people who were infected at a recent party in Clarkstown, N.Y., north of New York City, but who are refusing to cooperate with contact tracers seeking to interview them to determine who else they were in contact with and could be at risk of spreading the virus.
The drastic step of issuing subpoenas in a contact-tracing investigation illustrates a problem officials have cited around the country, that many people are not answering their phones or cooperating when contact tracers try to talk to them.
Public health officials say contact tracing is a key step in slowing the spread of the coronavirus. The process interviews infected people about who they have been in contact with so that those people can be notified and asked to quarantine for 14 days to prevent further spread of the virus. (read more)
Big Tech is working to facilitate the effort of the State, and will assist the COVID compliance police with identifying your travel. If you resist the efforts of the tracers to identify your location; and/or if you resist the effort of the state to place you into a quarantine facility; you will likely be identified as a subversive citizen, an “enemy of the state.”
We might anticipate to see an underground railroad for those attempting to avoid capture. This is all becoming very disconcerting…. Where does it end?
First, for those who have fought for decades against the baseline flaws within the NAFTA trade agreement, today is a very memorable day. Today the USMCA officially goes into effect and the trade brokerage system exploited by Mexico and Canada is officially ended.
NAFTA is DEAD! …This has been one hell of a decades-long battle.
Effective today the manufacturing of North American products must originate in North America. No longer will Canada and Mexico be allowed to “assemble” component goods from Asia and transport them as finished North American goods into the U.S. market.
The immediate impacts from this trade-loophole closure will be felt over the next several months and years. Yes, things are rapidly about to change… and when you understand the details you also understand why the Democrats need to exploit a fictitious COVID fear to stop the explosion of U.S. economic growth that will follow.
“Today marks the beginning of a new and better chapter for trade between the United States, Mexico and Canada – just as President Trump promised he would deliver for the American people.
“From day one of his Administration, President Trump has changed the focus of America’s trade policy away from what is best for big, multi-national corporations to instead what is best for America’s workers, farmers and ranchers. That’s a monumental change. His success in creating a bipartisan consensus on this new model for trade policy — in spite of the establishment critics who said it couldn’t be done — is truly remarkable.
“The USMCA contains significant improvements and modernized approaches that will deliver more jobs, stronger worker protections, expanded market access, and greater opportunities to trade for companies large and small. We have worked closely with the governments of Mexico and Canada to ensure that the obligations and responsibilities of all three nations under the agreement have been met, and we will continue to do so to ensure the USMCA is enforced.
“The recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic demonstrates that now, more than ever, the United States must stop the outsourcing of jobs and increase our manufacturing capacity and investment here at home. With the USMCA’s entry into force, we take another giant step forward in reaching this goal and advancing President Trump’s vision for pro-worker trade policies.” (link)
It is also important to recognize the team that put this together. USTR Robert Lighthizer did an exceptional job framing the agreement to the benefit of the American workforce. White House Trade and Manufacturing Advisor Peter Navarro; Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross; Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin; and the teams of staff and negotiators who put the details together.
Additionally, it is worthwhile noting who was NOT permitted to write the trade agreement for the first time in the last three decades. The absence of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce influence is another big part of the victory that Americans will benefit from, yet almost no Americans will know about.
Today, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) will go into effect. Thanks to the bold leadership of President Trump, the agreement will mean stronger economic growth, more jobs for American workers, and fairer trade for our country.
President Trump has delivered for American manufacturers, farmers, businesses, and workers.
The agreement will drive job creation and includes the strongest, most advanced, and comprehensive set of labor provisions of any United States trade agreement.
American farmers will have access to fairer markets in Canada and Mexico, opening up more opportunities to export their goods.
USMCA will strengthen American manufacturing, including incentivizing investment in high paying auto manufacturing jobs here in the United States.
Just as promised, President Trump is replacing the disastrous North American Free Trade Agreement, which drove American jobs overseas for years.
USMCA is a fair deal for American workers and finally brings our trade relationship with Canada and Mexico into the 21st century. (link)
Previously both Canada and Mexico structured key parts of their independent trade agreements to take advantage of their unique access to the U.S. market. Mexico and Canada generate billions in economic activity through exploiting the NAFTA loophole. China, Asia (writ large), and the EU enter into trade agreements with Mexico and Canada as back-doors into the U.S. market. So long as corporations can avoid U.S. tariffs by going through Canada and Mexico they would continue to exploit this approach.
By shipping parts to Mexico and/or Canada; and by deploying satellite manufacturing and assembly facilities in Canada and/or Mexico; China, Asia and to a lesser extent EU corporations exploited a loophole. Through a process of building, assembling or manufacturing their products in Mexico/Canada those foreign corporations can skirt U.S. trade tariffs and direct U.S. trade agreements. The finished foreign products entered the U.S. under NAFTA rules.
Why deal with the U.S. when they could just deal with Mexico, and use NAFTA rules to ship their product(s) directly into the U.S. market?
This exploitative approach, a backdoor to the U.S. market, was the primary reason for massive foreign investment in Canada and Mexico; it was also the primary reason why candidate Donald Trump, now President Donald Trump, wanted to shut down that loophole and renegotiate NAFTA.
This loophole was the primary reason for U.S. manufacturers to relocate operations to Mexico. Corporations within the U.S. Auto-Sector could enhance profits by building in Mexico or Canada using parts imported from Asia/China. The labor factor was not as big a part of the overall cost consideration as cheaper parts and imported raw materials.
Take away the market access and the ability for Mexico and Canada to broker themselves for economic benefit, and both nations would lose hundreds of billions in economic activity. This was always the NAFTA fatal flaw.
Earlier today White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany held a press briefing from the Brady room. [Video below, transcript will follow]
[Transcript] – MS. MCENANY: So I am pleased to inform everyone that Seattle has been liberated. The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, otherwise known as “CHAZ” — I think they switched their name to “CHOP,” but I’m told they went back to “CHAZ” — was a failed four-week Democrat experiment by the radical left. And the results are in: Anarchy is anti-American, law and order is essential, peace in our streets will be secured.
While the Democrat mayor of Seattle proclaimed that CHAZ was to be, quote, “the summer of love,” in fact, it was not. And other failed Democrat politicians also remained passive, or even silent, in the face of anarchy. But while that happened, President Trump set the tone: Law and order must prevail to preserve peace in our streets.
The President is not the Democrat governor of the state of Washington. The President is not the Democrat mayor of Seattle. But, nevertheless, the President must lead by example and be prepared to act in the face of failed Democrat leadership, which is what we saw in Democrat Seattle and Democrat Wisconsin.
President Trump has always stood on the side of law and order, and we are pleased to report that law and order has prevailed, and Seattle has been liberated from the anarchists.
In President Trump’s America, autonomous zones will have no sanctuary. The BHAZ, B-H-A-Z — which stood for the Black House Autonomous Zone, across from the White House — was swiftly dismantled. One hundred anarchists were arrested for rioting and destruction of federal property here in D.C; I believe that number is now above 300. Four men have been charged in federal court for attempting to tear down the statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square. And there are 200 open domestic terrorism investigations.
You contrast the President’s vision of law and order to that of the failed CHAZ experiments and anarchy, and here’s what you find in the failed Democratic experiment that took place out in Seattle: The Seattle Times said the shooting at Seattle’s CHOP protest tragically killed a 16-year-old boy, leaving a 14-year-old “seriously injured.” That’s what happens in an autonomous zone.
The police chief, Carmen Best, who did a marvelous job winding down the CHOP zone noted that CHOP has become “lawless and brutal” and “enough is enough,” and she took action. According to reports, quote, “Police also investigated several vehicles circling the CHOP zone” with “people inside carrying firearms and wearing body armor.” This was no, quote, “summer of love,” as the Democrat mayor in Seattle said.
And President Trump compelled action. He has said, “Take back your city NOW. If you don’t do it, I will.” He has said, “This is not a game. These ugly Anarchists must be stopped IMMEDIATELY. MOVE FAST!”
And finally, the Democrat mayor in Seattle, who was long delayed, finally gave the order to dismantle the CHAZ. And it was an admission — it was an admission that President Trump’s vision is right, that anarchy is wrong, and that law and order bring peace.
And with that, I’ll take questions.
Kristen.
Q Kayleigh, thank you so much. National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien said that the intelligence about the alleged Russia plot was being taken so seriously that U.S. allies were alerted and that it could impact military tactics. So how is that a hoax?
MS. MCENANY: Well, as I mentioned yesterday, what happens when any intelligence comes in unverified — if there is any way that it could affect American troops or allies — it is immediately communicated on the ground to ensure that troops and commanders and generals can make the best decisions, tactically speaking. So that’s the way it’s done.
But what I would say is: At the same time, until there’s a strategic decision for the President to make, until it is verified, it is not briefed up to the President of the United States. That’s how intelligence works.
Q Is he angry or frustrated or upset about the fact that he was not in the loop on this when members of Congress were briefed and U.S. allies were briefed?
MS. MCENANY: No, the President believes that — and has great faith in Ambassador O’Brien and the others who made the decision — that this shouldn’t be risen to his desk. It was a career CIA officer with more than 30 years of tenure who made the decision not to brief it up. And the National Security Advisor agreed with that decision — she’s an excellent officer and does great work — and made the decision not to brief it up. It was the right decision to make. And at this moment, as I speak to you, it is still unverified.
Q And, Kayleigh, just to follow very quickly, I’ve heard you and Robert O’Brien and others express real outrage about the leaks. Is there outrage about what the intelligence community is investigating, which is the possibility of these Russian bounties targeting U.S. troops?
MS. MCENANY: Make no mistake that this administration has acted tough on Russia; always makes the decision that’s in the best interest of protecting our troops, like killing General Soleimani — who killed 600 American troops, maimed thousands others — and al-Baghdadi. We always act in the best interest of our troops, but this is unverified still at this very moment.
Jon.
Q Kayleigh, why is the President calling “Black Lives Matter” a symbol of hate?
MS. MCENANY: Well, what the President was noting is that that symbol, when you look at some of the things that have been chanted by Black Lives Matter, like “Pigs in a blanket, fry them like bacon,” that’s not an acceptable phrase to paint on our streets.
Look, he agrees that all black lives matter, including that of Officer David Dorn, Patrick Underwood, two officers whose lives were tragically taken amid at these riots. All black lives do matter; he agrees with that sentiment. But what he doesn’t agree with is an organization that chants, “Pigs in a blanket, fry them like bacon,” about our police officers, our valiant heroes, who are out on the street protecting us each and every day.
Q Kayleigh, Americans of all races have protested in all 50 states around that phrase, “black lives matter.” And the President is here calling it a symbol of hate?
MS. MCENANY: He is talking about the organization. I would note to you that the —
Q He didn’t say organization in his tweet.
MS. MCENANY: — Greater New York BLM president has said, “If this country doesn’t give us what we want, [that] we will burn down [the] system…And I could be speaking…literally.” I’d call that a pretty hateful statement.
Q But, Kayleigh, he’s not —
MS. MCENANY: Yes. Ben.
Q — talking about the organization in his tweet. He says the words —
MS. MCENANY: Yes, Ben.
Q — he says the words, “Black Lives Matter.”
MS. MCENANY: Which — what’s the name of the organization again?
Q Black Lives Matter.
MS. MCENANY: There you go. You just answered my question.
Q Those are words that are going to be on Fifth Avenue.
MS. MCENANY: Go ahead, Ben.
Q A question on coronavirus. Earlier today, the President said, “I think that, at some point, that’s going to, sort of, just disappear — I hope.” Is hoping that it will disappear, the President’s strategy at this point?
MS. MCENANY: No. The President is confident that it will disappear. He’s confident that he’s put together a revolutionary first-class team that is going to break through bureaucracy and get us a vaccine. He’s confident that that will lead us to a place where we won’t have COVID on our hands.
And, in fact, there was very pleasing news today from Pfizer and BioNTech that showed positive results for their vaccines.
Q Dr. Fauci says that we’re heading towards 100,000 cases per day, so why does the President have evidence that it would just disappear?
MS. MCENANY: Well, one —
Q He distinguished between a vaccine and it just disappearing.
MS. MCENANY: One thing I would note, with regard to cases: We’re aware that there are embers in the country. We’re aware that there are places with rising cases, and that’s why Dr. Birx is on the ground and others. We’re continually assessing that.
But one thing I would note is just that when you do test more people, you do identify more cases. And that is rapidly ongoing. We’re testing more than a half a million a day. To give you an example: On April 6th, really, the height of the pandemic, we were doing 151,525 tests. One day, you know — Thursday is the number that I have here — we conducted 637,587 tests. So when you have more than a five-fold increase in tests, you have greater identification of cases.
Q But do you consider what’s happening in Florida, in Texas, and Arizona as “embers”?
MS. MCENANY: I would say that those are — we see rising cases, we see embers around the country. We always knew that would come with reopening. But those who are identifying as positive cases do tend to be younger individuals, as the Vice President noted. And I think the increase in testing is part of the contribution to what we’re seeing.
Yes.
Q Today, Mayor Bowser said her office has communicated with Department of Interior about the Fourth of July celebration, and it’s not, in her mind, in keeping with CDC guidelines, as well as D.C. Department of Health guidelines. The White House has said over and over again we should look to our local authorities for how we should act. Should the administration be following the local guidelines for this?
MS. MCENANY: The President has said that we should follow our local authorities with masks, so that’s the decision — that he encourages people to follow those authorities. The CDC guidelines, I’d also note, say “recommended,” but not required. And we are very much looking forward to the Fourth of July celebration.
Yes.
Q Are you preparing some options for the President to consider for retaliation against Russia, should this intelligence prove to be true?
MS. MCENANY: You know, I won’t get ahead of the President on action. I also won’t get ahead of the intelligence which, at this moment, is unverified.
Q Does the President want this intelligence to be corroborated or not? Or — I mean, what has he told his advisors on this front?
MS. MCENANY: The President — it’s unverified; it’s being assessed. It’s going through the same process normal intelligence would go through. But what’s unfortunate is we’re having this discussion because of the New York Times deciding to run with this erroneous information about the President being briefed, which was not true, and the erroneous information that there was a conclusion when, in fact, there was not a conclusion.
Jen?
Q Yeah. Kayleigh, can you confirm that the CIA director and the NSA director will brief the congressional Gang of Eight tomorrow about the Russia bounties?
MS. MCENANY: Yes, that is the plan.
Q Okay, so two of them? Anyone else that will be briefing the Gang of Eight?
MS. MCENANY: I’m not entirely sure who else will be in that briefing.
Q And can you also say, does the President generally have confidence in the intelligence community’s findings and conclusions about Russia?
MS. MCENANY: Yes, he does confidence. And he has, many times, acted on verified intelligence. And there’s times he’s decided that it’s in our strategic interest not to act. I gave you the example of Soleimani and al-Baghdadi, and then the example of Iran shooting down — when Iran engaged in actions and the President said it’s not time to engage because shooting down a — shooting down an entity is not the same as losing — loss of civilian lives.
Yes. Francesca.
Q Thank you, Kayleigh.
MS. MCENANY: Shooting down a drone, excuse me.
Q The President has come under criticism this week for statements that he has made, that his detractors say are “dog whistles” to a certain segment of his base that he’s trying to gin up for reelection. Those include comments like “Kung flu,” “our heritage” while talking about Confederate statues, and most recently they include the video — that I know you discussed in here the other day — but the video of a supporter of his using the term “white power.” So why hasn’t the President denounced that video and called that a hateful statement?
MS. MCENANY: The President took down that video. That deletion speaks strongly. And what I would note: The President has repeatedly condemned hate.
August of 2019: “In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy. These sinister ideologies must be defeated. Hate has no place in America.”
In April of 2019: “We have no tolerance for those who disrupt this peace, and we condemn all hate and violence, [especially] in our places of worship.”
August of 2018: “I condemn all types of racism.”
He’s repeatedly done this.
Q But why hasn’t he denounced that specific video and said that that is hateful language that was used in it?
MS. MCENANY: He deleted it. The deletion speaks for itself. His repeated condemnations of hate speak for themselves. And this is a President who has repeatedly condemned hate and repeatedly encouraged for us all to come together.
Yes.
Q Thank you, Kayleigh. Did the President meet today with Senate Republican Leader McConnell about the future recovery-aid package? And is there any sort of agreement on additional unemployment insurance or stimulus payments?
MS. MCENANY: Yeah, so I have no announcements with regard to his meetings. But what I would say is: He did mention that, in a phase four, he would be open to direct payments.
On the point of unemployment insurance, one thing that he is concerned about is he does not want to see an incentive not to work. And enhanced unemployment benefits that Senator Schumer has suggested would be an incentive for people not to get back to work, and he wants to encourage people to get back to work.
And at the same time, he’s mentioned a payroll tax holiday — a big win for our workers — that helps those who are on the lowest end of the payroll would help the Americans who need it most. So those are some things he’s talked about for phase four.
Yes.
Q Kayleigh, you used the word “embers” to describe the coronavirus, but yesterday, another all-time record of 47,000 cases, and four times this week a new record. Why do you use the word “embers” when many people would say it’s been more like a wildfire?
MS. MCENANY: So I use the word “embers” because that is what the President has acknowledged that would happen around the country. You would see spikes across the country. He said, at times, you would see a fire across the country — embers, fires. But at the same time, I would note the increase in cases — or the increase in testing. You know, a six-fold increase in testing; you identify more cases.
I’d also note that Secretary Azar said that we’ve seen nationwide that fatality is at a two-month low. So this is a different situation when those who are testing positive are younger. We have increased tests. We’re aware where there are surges. That’s why Dr. Birx is on the ground. But we believe we are equipped to handle what we see on the horizon.
Q Has the President made a conscious decision to talk less about the virus? You know, I think in his town hall with Sean Hannity, someone mentioned it was only three minutes that he discussed it. He tweets about it far less often than he used to.
MS. MCENANY: The President is not focused on talking; he’s focused on action. And this administration has taken historic action with regard to the coronavirus. We have an excess amount of PPE, surge — a huge amount of ventilators in the stockpile. Things that could never be done, we were told, have been done under this administration. Testing more than 600,000 a day. This President has done a historic job with regard to coronavirus.
Lalit.
Q Thank you. The President yesterday tweeted that he is angry against China. There is anger against China in India also. So India has banned 59 apps from China, including TikTok. How — does the President know about this? And what are his views on this?
MS. MCENANY: So with regard to India and China, we’re closely monitoring the situation; he is as well. Both India and China have expressed a desire to deescalate, and we support a peaceful resolution of the current situation. And he said that China’s aggressive stance along the India-China border fits with the larger pattern of Chinese aggression in other parts of the world. And these actions only confirm the true nature of the Chinese Communist Party.
Q And on TikTok — with India banning the TikTok app?
MS. MCENANY: No announcements on that. I would just point you to what Secretary Pompeo said earlier. Yeah.
Yes.
Q When can we expect the President to weigh in on Israel’s plan to annex parts of the West Bank and the Jordan Valley? And how much does this delay, perhaps, have to do with the concern about (inaudible) evangelicals here in the United States, who, of course, are a really important part of the President’s base in the election?
MS. MCENANY: Yeah, so I’ve not spoken to him about that specific issue, but he’s a great supporter of Israel, and I would just leave it at that.
Q But Kellyanne said that there could be something this week, so I’m just wondering what the delay is. And maybe you could weigh in on — you know, there are concerns this could be the final nail in the coffin on a Palestinian state. Like, what is the President thinking about?
MS. MCENANY: So no announcements on that front, and I won’t get ahead of him on anything that would happen this week or beyond.
Yes.
Q The President has said, in this room, that he wants to meet the Taliban leadership. Now that world leaders are coming here again, is that on the cards? Is that going to happen soon? Is there a timetable?
MS. MCENANY: So, again, I won’t get ahead of the President on that. What the President wants is to see our troops come home from Afghanistan. He has been on the record being against keeping a sustained presence in Afghanistan. He does not believe in foreign adventurism and wars that drag on. He believes the ultimate way to secure our troops is to bring them home.
Q But has the report of the Russian bounties and Taliban fighters affected that calculus?
MS. MCENANY: That’s unverified intelligence that’s currently being assessed.
Yamiche?
Q Hi. Thanks, Kayleigh. The first question I have — two questions. The first is: On Monday, the President went after stripping racist names on buildings. On Tuesday, he went after a rule to combat racial segregation. And then today, he said that he described the words “Black Lives Matters” as a symbol of hate. Why is he digging in on race in this way?
MS. MCENANY: So, first, I mean, if you’re saying that the fact that he does not want to rename our bases — if you’re considering that racist, then apparently 56 percent of America is as well, because 56 percent of America is against changing the name —
Q I just was (inaudible) things that he did just this week.
MS. MCENANY: — of U.S. military bases. He believes that our young men and women who left these bases overseas — many of whom lost their lives, and the last thing they saw was being on one of these military bases — that they should not be told that the base that they trained in, the last place they saw on American soil was a racist institution.
Q (Inaudible) I just listed three —
MS. MCENANY: And that’s a proposition the vast majority of America agrees with.
Q I just listed three (inaudible), including him saying that the words “Black Lives Matter” — as you noted, it has been chanted in 50 states — why is he saying that that’s a symbol of hate, on top of all the other things that he’s done just this week alone, in terms of race?
MS. MCENANY: Well, is “Pigs in a blanket, fry them like bacon” racist? I mean, is that — is that hateful? That is a hateful thing to say, I would argue. I would think the vast majority of America would agree with that, too.
I think the vast majority of America would think it’s hateful to say that “We will burn down this system.” And I could be speaking literally.
I think the vast majority of America would agree with him, yet again, that holding up a severed pig’s head is unacceptable. He —
Q If you’re not going to engage on that, I have a second question. Since you’re not —
MS. MCENANY: I did engage on that.
Q The second question I have is —
MS. MCENANY: I engaged on that, Yamiche, and I said we agree all black lives matter, with that sentiment, but we will not stand with an organization that exhibits that kind of hate against our police officers.
Q My second question is: What does the President have to say to military service — the families of service members who are really afraid that their loved ones might have been killed in connection to this to this Russia bounty? There are families that are already saying, “We want the United States to — and federal government to call us and settle us up.” Kristen had an interview with a father saying that, just this week. What is this President’s message to the military families in this country?
MS. MCENANY: So that — it’s unverified intelligence. It’s continually being assessed. And the Department of Defense has said they do not know of any Americans that have been killed in relation to this unverified intelligence that’s currently being assessed.
Q Quick follow-up.
MS. MCENANY: Yes. Chanel.
Q Thank you, Kayleigh. The President has stated in the past that he will not tolerate defunding police, and he said this multiple times. Considering that many Democrat-led cities have now done so — including New York City, as of this morning — what does not tolerating this move look like from the President’s vantage at this time?
MS. MCENANY: Yeah, I mean, speaking out fervently against it. And what it means is — you know, this executive order gives additional funding to police departments if they meet certain standards.
We want safe policing. We want to make sure that police officers are trained to de-escalate. That’s why there is this supplementary funding in the EO that incentivizes and rewards police departments that train their officers in de-escalation; that get rid of chokeholds, except when there’s an incident of lethal force.
But, look, he stands firmly with America yet again on this, with 64 percent op- — opposing defunding the police. That’s a huge number. Fifty-seven percent, according to another HuffPost/YouGov poll, stand against it.
And, look, they — where America stands is here, where — we’re at a place where 64 percent of the nation are concerned that the growing criticism of America’s police will lead to a shortage of police officers. That will harm all Americans. It’s an untenable principle. And it’s unacceptable when you have people like Representative Ocasio-Cortez really suggesting where the Democrat Party stands today — because taking a billion away from NYPD police officers wasn’t enough for her. She wants to take it all away. She doesn’t want police officers. And that’s a really unacceptable proposition.
Q On the USMCA also: It takes effect at midnight. What immediate changes is the White House hoping to see immediately starting tomorrow? And then, are there any elements of the USMCA that may be hindered because of COVID-19?
MS. MCENANY: The USMCA — today, that goes into effect. It’s a huge deal. For years, for decades, NAFTA wreaked havoc on American society — closing our factories, hemorrhaging American manufacturing jobs.
And the USMCA is a massive win. It will create 176,000 jobs, add $68 billion to the U.S. economy, 28,000 manufacturing jobs are expected to be added, and agricultural — agricultural and food exports will increase by 2.2 billion — a big win for our farmer — farmers.
So we expect to see that start to take effect. It’s a big deal, and it’s a reversal of decades of failed U.S. policy, with the [DEL: USMCA :DEL] [NAFTA], the Trans-Pacific Partnership — horrible trade deals that betrayed America’s workers. Under President Trump, the forgotten man and woman is forgotten no longer.
President Trump holds an interview with Fox Business News’ Blake Burman. The president hits on a variety of current headlines including ongoing COVID-19 mitigation, a potential fourth round of stimulus, the nonsensical Russia conspiracy nonsense and the 2020 election campaign.
During an interview with Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross notes that companies with headquarters in Hong Kong are likely to rethink those offices with China now taking control under Beijing’s sweeping new security law.
This is a significant statement and underpins the U.S. strategy that is dismantling the Chinese influence on global trade and manufacturing. As Secretary Ross noted: “I believe that there’s a good chance that all companies who have Hong Kong as their headquarters for Asia will begin rethink whether the new rules – the new relationship between Hong Kong and mainland China – whether those rules let Hong Kong be as favorable a place to have headquarters as it used to be.” WATCH (listen closely):
.
There is a deliberate and blunt focus in the statements by Ross that will have a significant impact. Globally the world needs to accept the future of Hong Kong as a communist state, and disavow the notion of any semblance of an autonomous region. Secretary Ross just threw a bucket of cold water in the face of those who refuse to accept the reality as it exists.
President Trump has been methodically advancing an economic position for several years that showcases a remarkable duality.
On one hand President Trump demands that China increase purchases from the U.S. to offset the trade imbalance; this approach is Trump using a deliberate panda mask and includes praise each time Beijing responds positively. China expected this approach.
However, on the other hand President Trump has been removing the tentacles of Chinese economic influence both in the U.S. and globally. This approach deconstructs the One Belt – One Road plan of Beijing; this approach is Trump using the dragon strategy. China did not see this part coming.
The duality of President Trump’s panda mask and the dragon strategy is very unique problem for Beijing to confront because it is the exact same strategy used by China. By expressing a public panda mask, yet concealing the underlying dragon moves, President Trump’s policy to China is a mirror of their own geopolitical scheme.
Citing two deaths and fourteen shooting incidents, Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best gives a briefing after police and FBI cleared the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone (CHOP). According to Ms. Best the police are preparing to move back into the East Precinct within Seattle’s Capitol Hill area. *UPDATE* Statement by AG Bill Barr added.
SEATTLE -Officers arrested at least 31 people by 9:25 a.m. for failure to disperse, obstruction, resisting arrest, and assault. SPD tweeted that officers made an additional arrest around 10:50 a.m. at Broadway and E. Pine St.
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan issued a 48-hour executive order for protesters to vacate the area due to the ongoing violence and public safety issues in the area of the East Precinct and Cal Anderson Park. Mayor Durkan’s order declared the gathering as an “unlawful assembly” that required immediate action.
Police moved into the CHOP just before 5 a.m. and issued a dispersal order to any protesters in the area. “Anyone who remains in the area, or returns to the area, is subject to arrest,” SPD tweeted. (read more)
“I commend Police Chief Carmen Best for her courage and leadership in restoring the rule of law in Seattle. For the past several weeks, the Capitol Hill area of Seattle was occupied by protesters who denied access to police and other law enforcement personnel. Unsurprisingly, the area became a haven for violent crime, including shootings that claimed the lives of two young people, assaults, and robberies.
As Chief Best made clear throughout the process, there is a fundamental distinction between discussion of substantive issues — including addressing distrust of law enforcement by many in the African-American community — and violent defiance of the law. Chief Best has rightly committed to continue the substantive discussion while ending the violence, which threatens innocent people and undermines the very rule-of-law principles that the protesters profess to defend.
Thanks to the Seattle Police Department, Capitol Hill parks, streets, and businesses are again accessible to the people of Seattle, who may travel throughout their city without fear of violence. The people of Seattle should be grateful to Chief Best and her Department for their professional and steadfast defense of the rule of law.
The message of today’s action is simple but significant: the Constitution protects the right to speak and assemble freely, but it provides no right to commit violence or defy the law, and such conduct has no place in a free society governed by law.” (link)
There are many things about COVID-19 that raise flags of suspicion:
1. Bill Gates, Dr. Fauci, and the Deep State have warned about such an event and indeed they have planned such a scenario as recently as last year.
2. Dr. Fauci made sure the lab in Wuhan received millions of dollars in taxpayer money to expedite their plan.
3. It has occurred during an election year–and that’s always suspicious, especially after the Deep State’s string of failed schemes to stop the president.
4. The virus serves as a distraction from the Deep State’s last gasp scramble to stay in power and avoid prosecution. They are now encouraging a violent, anti-American overthrow of Trump conservatives.
5. The virus helps advance the UN’s Agenda 21, Bill Gates’ ID 2020 and traceable ‘mark of the beast’ tattoos via vaccination, as well as a cashless society with a Chinese-style social credit system.
6. Free speech continues to get trounced by social media. Only the ‘official medial authorities’ are allowed a say. Those authorities are corrupt and untrustworthy. They include the CDC, the NIA, AMA, and everything the Gates Foundation pollutes with its dirty money. One of my cartoons that featured Bill Gates and his ‘plannedemic’ was banned by Facebook as being ‘harmful.’ This kind of censorship will only grow worse. Only ‘official’ opinions about the virus are allowed to be expressed.’ We have become the old Soviet Union or communist China.
7. Globalists switched off the “deadly pandemic” to accommodate the BLM protests, then switched it back on as soon as the protests subsided.
The masks symbolize compliance and a willingness to exchange personal freedom and control over one’s own body for ‘safety.’ The mandated masks condition citizens to take the upcoming mandated vaccine, courtesy of the eugenicist, Bill Gates. The vaccine will probably contain all sorts of noxious substances and if we refuse to take it we won’t be able to travel or do commerce. It’s coming and we need to wake up and resist.
We can resist by refusing to wear masks, which are far more harmful to our health than the extremely small chance of dying from the virus.
If the upcoming presidential election on November 3, 2020, were not so serious, it would be downright hilarious just watching the Democrats twist themselves into pretzels in their efforts to project onto President Trump their own lengthy and shameful record of racism.
As Bill Federer of AmericanMinute.com has exhaustively documented:
In 1857, the Supreme Court, with seven of the nine justices being Democrats, decided that Dred Scott, a black slave, was not a citizen, but property.
After the Civil War, when Republicans enacted the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery in America, southern Democrats reacted by creating the vicious anti-black Jim Crow laws.
In 1866, Republican Rep. Thaddeus Stevens introduced legislation to give former slaves “40 acres and a mule,” but Democrats opposed it.
This lopsided picture continued unabated through the 19thcentury and into the 20th century. Only space limitations prevent me from providing a doctoral thesis worth of sordid documentation.
In 1953, Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower (DDE) proposed “to use whatever authority exists in the office of the President to end segregation”…but Southern Democrat governors objected!
In 1964, Democrat senators held the longest filibuster in U.S. history––75 days––to try to prevent the Civil Rights Act from passing. Finally, Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) persuaded the leaders of his party to support a compromised bill, saying: “I’ll have those (N-words) -voting Democratic for the next 200 years.”
In 1994, as Stephen Frank documents, then-Senator Joe Biden sponsored a Bill that put tens of thousands of black men in prison—and it took 15 years till President Trump was able to get rid of that discriminatory law.
21st CENTURY DEMOCRAT RACISM
In 2009, Sammy Benoit in AmericanThinker.com wrote an article exposing former President Jimmy Carter’s lifelong animosity, contempt, indeed hatred toward Jews and Israel. Among numerous egregious examples he cited was this: “Former President Jimmy Carter once complained there were ‘too many Jews’ on the government’s Holocaust Memorial Council.”
We all know that Democrats lionized their fellow Democrat, WVA Senator Robert Byrd, who personally filibustered the Civil Rights Bill for 14 hours and 13 minutes on June 10, 1964.
In 2010, Byrd was still around and the Senate’s president pro tempore. And as all his colleagues knew, for many years he had also been a high-ranking member of the Ku Klux Klan–– Exalted Cyclops and Kleagle. That’s right, and Byrd also recruited 150 of his friends to start a new KKK chapter, as well as using the N-word on live television in 2001.
Not to omit that then-Senator Biden praised Byrd lavishly in his eulogy on the former-KKK member’s death in 2010, as did current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
It comes as no surprise to anyone who has followed Biden’s career that he also eulogized arch segregationist Strom Thurmond (D-SC), and had high praise for proud segregationists Sens. James Eastland (D-MS) and Herman Talmadge (D-GA), as well as for Governor George Wallace––“segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever”––who blocked black students from entering the University of Alabama.
CRINGE-PRODUCING DEMOCRAT RACISM
First Prize definitely goes to Hillary Clinton who never fails to break into a thick Southern accent when speaking before a black audience, as in this cringe-producing performance in a church in Alabama when quoting a hymn familiar to the audience––“I don’t feel no ways tired.”
Then there is the Democrat Governor of Virginia. Ralph Northam, all smeared in blackface and saying he’s not sure if it’s him but that he distinctly remembers wearing blackface on a different occasion. Can’t make it up.
And who can ever forget Joe Biden’s unforgettable words on hearing of the candidacy of Barack Obama for president: “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”
“Bright and clean.” Really.
And yet, former VP Biden is the only candidate the Democrats could think of to run for the presidency! And now he says he prefers a “woman of color” to be his VP. Right here, I could say “I rest my case” about Democrats being racists.
How utterly patronizing! How pathetically bowing to political correctness! How blazingly typical of a Democrat to cite race instead of experience, credentials, track record, character, voting record, on and on.
Biden sounds like his old boss, Barack Obama, who wanted his regime to “look like America,” and in the name of political correctness and a fetish with a globalist/Islamist philosophy ended up––by design, I believe––with the worst economy, the weakest military, and the most failed medical and education systems in American history….which didn’t look like any America most of the country recognized.
At this point, the Democrat Machine hopes they can get Joe Biden across the finish line so the really extreme far-leftist powers-that-be can inflict their noxious anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, and inherent racism––via Antifa and Black Lives Matter––on our entire country.
Clearly, what is systemic about racism in America can be found in the Democrats’ DNA.
Wishful thinking has become Fake News over at Fox News:
“A stretch of lackluster polling for President Trump has some Republican operatives nervous about the president’s reelection prospects in November – with some even floating the possibility for the first time that Trump could drop out if his poll numbers don’t rebound. (Fox News June 28, 2020)
“With some even floating the possibility for the first time that Trump could drop out if his poll numbers don’t rebound”?
The president’s poll numbers are not likely to rebound when it is Fox News running most recent polls.
That Trump will drop out of the presidential race—which is based on one or two ANONYMOUS GOP members—is nothing more than Fox News wishful thinking, run loosely on the mighty Power of Suggestion.
“It’s too early, but if the polls continue to worsen, you can see a scenario where he drops out,” one GOP operative who asked to remain anonymous told Fox News.” (Fox News)
“I’ve heard the talk but I doubt it’s true,” another said. “My bet is, he drops if he believes there’s no way to win.”
“Trump’s poll numbers in recent weeks have trended downward amid criticism over his administration’s handling of the coronavirus epidemic and the White House response to the protests and riots following the death of George Floyd in late May while in Minneapolis police custody.”
Few other networks have gone so far out of their way to make the public at large believe that there is no way for the president to win Election 2020 than Fox News, which rose to No. 1 on Cable News through identifying as “fair and balanced”.
Granddaddy of Fake News
Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh was spot-on when he told Fox, “This is the granddaddy of fake news.”
“Everyone knows that media polling has always been wrong about President Trump – they undersample Republicans and don’t screen for likely voters – in order to set false narratives. It won’t work. There was similar fretting in 2016 and if it had been accurate, Hillary Clinton would be in the White House right now.” (Fox News)
Loaded with common sense, most folk know that media polls are biased. It’s easy for Trump supporters to see that the left have progressed from knocking the MAGA hat off their heads, to knocking them out; from verbally abusing them to doxxing their entire family.
So when the media comes calling for their voting intentions, knowing that they have their name, phone number and geographical location, who would they tell them they’re voting for?
Suspiciously coinciding with myriad Internet clickbait suggestions that host Tucker Carlson is in trouble at Fox News comes this bold Carlson assertion:
“President Trump may lose this election,” Fox News host Tucker Carlson tweeted, hours after the release of his network’s polls. (Fox News)
“Carlson’s tweet linked to a video from his Thursday night primetime program, as he kicked off his show warning that “not many people are saying it out loud on the right, but the fact is that President Trump could well lose this election. In fact, unless fundamental facts change soon, it could be tough for him to be re-elected.”
Carlson’s assertion that “not many people are saying it out loud on the right” is disingenuous because the truth is only two ANONYMOUS GOP members saying it, found a ready soap box on Fox News.
Meanwhile, don’t buy into Fox News propaganda the same way you don’t buy into the propaganda and Fake News of MSNBC, CNN, and other “News” outlets.
Wishful thinking and the spewing of hate notwithstanding, if the Democrats are stopped from forging though their “non-partisan” Mail-in-Vote, President Trump will win reelection by a landslide.
I have created this site to help people have fun in the kitchen. I write about enjoying life both in and out of my kitchen. Life is short! Make the most of it and enjoy!
This is a library of News Events not reported by the Main Stream Media documenting & connecting the dots on How the Obama Marxist Liberal agenda is destroying America
Centinel2012 