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.@JoeBiden: “The only person calling to defund the police is Donald Trump.” pic.twitter.com/CKi51jaXOS
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 8, 2020
MSNBC’s Al Sharpton said Tuesday that defunding the NYPD is something “a latte liberal’ may support, but “people living on the ground need proper policing.”
“Morning Joe” namesake Joe Scarborough asked Sharpton about the crime in his native New York City, which has seen a surge in shootings during the coronavirus pandemic. [Read More]
Obsession: Inside the Washington Establishment’s Never-Ending War on Trump (Amazon)
From the moment Donald Trump was elected president—even before he was inaugurated—Democrats called for his impeachment. That call, starting on the margins of the party and the press, steadily grew until it became a deafening media and Democratic obsession. It culminated first in the Mueller report—which failed to find any evidence of criminal wrongdoing on the part of the president—and then in a failed impeachment.
And yet, even now, the Democrats and their media allies insist that President Trump must be guilty of something. [Read More]
Disney’s Mulan Takes Heat for Bowing Down to Beijing (Washington Free Beacon)
Hollywood powerhouse Disney is facing criticism after reports that portions of its new live-action remake of Mulan were filmed in Xinjiang, where China detains and abuses millions of Uighur Muslims.
Not only did Disney fail to recognize atrocities committed by the Chinese government in the Xinjiang province where Mulan was filmed, but it went out of its way to thank Chinese Communist Party (CCP) entities responsible for human rights abuses in Xinjiang in the closing credits. In western China—particularly in the province of Xinjiang—the CCP oversees a “culture of death” where late-term abortions, forced sterilization, and cultural genocide are common. [Read More]
Trump: If Biden is elected, ‘China will own our country’ (Fox News)
President Trump told Fox News’ Steve Hilton on Sunday that he would be open to completely decoupling the U.S. economy from China, before warning: “If Biden is elected, China will own our country.”
“I don’t want to set the world on fire right now,” Trump said during an exclusive interview on “The Next Revolution.” [Read More]
A new book, “Let Them Eat Tweets,” by political scientists Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson, is the latest attempt to shift the blame for identity politics, maintaining that conservatives are exploiting ethnic anxiety sparked by “changing demographics.”
Yes, after creating a caste order dividing society into identity silos based on race, ethnicity, sex —anything that conveys feelings of victimhood — the left is now shocked that some whites could, too, fall prey to identity politics. Nothing could better illustrate the left’s gaping blind spot about human nature. [Read More]
Preview: “Axios on HBO” interviews Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Axios)
On the next episode of “Axios on HBO,” Axios co-founder Mike Allen interviews Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a candid and wide-ranging conversation about the upcoming election, regulating disinformation and much more. [Read More]
