Most socialist politicians are very wealthy, yet they portray themselves as the champions of the
little guy. Even the politicians who are multi-millionaires talk about rich people in the third person.
The socialist Democrats say Republicans are the party of the rich, and that was once true, but now the Republicans
better represent the middle class, while the socialist Democrats are the political home of the wealthiest and the
neediest in America. Celebrities who are both wealthy and outspoken are (mostly) also Democrats, and the news
media can't get enough of them; but they represent a very thin slice of the population.
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Net
Zero Is Asinine. Over the past few decades, the UN, the mainstream media, academia,
Hollywood, and governments all over the world have peddled similar talking points regarding the
existential threat of climate change. But the facts tell a very different story. In
truth, the world is not on the verge of an environmental collapse. Weather events like
tornadoes, hurricanes, droughts, etc. are not becoming more frequent nor deadlier. Sea rise
is not a dangerous threat and all the glaciers have not melted. Wildfires are not increasing
in intensity and neither are heatwaves. The UN does not want you to be aware of these facts
because they directly undercut the core of their alarmist message and therefore undermine the
supposed urgency for net zero. Moreover, the UN is adamantly opposed to developing nations
utilizing fossil fuels so that they can become economically competitive while drastically reducing
the abject poverty that still exists in far too many countries. If the continued use of
fossil fuels poses no imminent threat to humanity, why is the UN so gung-ho about net zero?
Perhaps the answer is money. The sheer cost of transitioning the world from fossil fuels to
renewable energy and achieving net zero is estimated to cost about $75 trillion, according to
Goldman Sachs.
To
Move Forward, Democrats Must Oust Obama. Obama pretends to rise above grievance, but
he's reliant upon it like an addict, like the "Revs" Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, though far
silkier and smoother. Remember just weeks ago when Obama was lecturing young black men who
weren't enthralled with the presidential candidacy of Kamala Harris. Bitter and angry, he
harangued them on what he could only understand as the sexism of the great unwashed. It was a
rap he had used before. And it had treated him so well in the past. It reverberated in
the halls of his many mansions. Perhaps even in that mansion on liberal Martha's Vineyard,
the vacation paradise for the immensely wealthy that was off limits to impoverished illegal
migrants who'd crossed the border on Democrat invitation. Yet those young men who he tried to
shame didn't live among the elites of Martha's Vineyard or the Gold Coast of Chicago. And
they weren't insulated from the poor economy and pressure from the illegals. Instead, Obama
was revealed by his own mouth to be be a complete and utter phony.
Another
scandal rocks Kamala Harris's failed presidential campaign. A fortnight back, it was
learned that Kamala Harris's catastrophic presidential campaign cost $1 billion, and despite
the astronomic amount, the campaign was $20 million in debt. It was also revealed that
the Harris campaign splurged large amounts on event management firms, consultants, celebrities,
private jets, and building lavish sets for one podcast interview. The situation with Kamala's
campaign is so bad that they are sending donation requests to regular supporters. While
Kamala has been vacationing in a $7 million luxury mansion in Hawaii following her rout, her
staff members have been unceremoniously laid off without a proper notice period and severance
payment. The DNC Union was compelled to set up GoFundMe accounts to help the staff
financially. It will be interesting to know who is funding Kamala's luxury vacation.
There is a running theme here of exploiting the working class.
Newsom
Buys $9.1 Million Bay Area Mansion in Ritzy Enclave with Shady LLC Formed Two Days Before
Purchase. After flooding his state with millions of illegals, Newsom bought a $9.1 [million]
Bay Area mansion in a ritzy enclave so his children can attend an elitist school in Marin County. The
home, which was owned by Daniel Pritzker, cousin of Illinois Democrat governor JB Pritzker, was originally
listed for $10 million, but Newsom got a sweetheart deal. Newsom bought the mansion with MHBD Farms,
LLC, an entity that was formed just two days before the purchase. What's the source of the funds?
Who
is more dangerous: RFK Jr. or Bill Gates? The media and other Democrats love
Bill Gates, who lives in a 60,000-sq.-ft. mansion and flies around the world in private jets, because
he is a green pusher. RFK Jr. wants to get a lot of chemicals out of food to make it
more natural, and we are told he is dangerous. Bill Gates wants to put more chemicals in cows
to pretend he can control the climate. Who is nuts? [...] Gates also thinks the way to block
warming is to block the sun. What a genius. How will he determine how much to
block? How did he decide what the correct temperature is?
Kamala's
billion-dollar campaign. Kamala Harris's catastrophic campaign for president launched
on July 21, 2024, when the Democrats unceremoniously dethroned Joe Biden and installed Harris
as their nominee. The campaign came to a crashing end on Nov. 5, 2024, lasting only
107 days. In these 107 days, it was reported that the Harris campaign has spent
over $1 billion. You read that correctly: the figure is $1 billion. The
campaign spent roughly $9.3 million per day. What was the outcome? Harris lost all
the swing states, the Electoral College, and the popular vote. She won 382 counties,
whereas President Trump won six times more — i.e., 2,552 counties. [...] Once the
funds were accessible, special interests took over. They probably knew that Kamala would
lose, hence they used the campaign as their expense account and drained it completely. The
vendors that received contracts are likely to be linked to Democrat leaders. There will be
paybacks. Much like the hypocritical lawmakers who claim to care for Ukraine, all those
asking for votes for Kamala, claiming to care for abortion rights, the environment, democracy,
etc., were doing so merely for personal enrichment.
Did
celebrities have to be paid to endorse Kamala? Even those of us who were appalled by
Kamala Harris's campaign, the ever more embarrassing interviews during which she could not answer
the simplest of questions unless they were what she ate for breakfast, did not realize that
employing celebrity endorsers cost millions of dollars. Most of us probably assumed that
those who graced her rally stages or interviewed her for television or podcasts did so because they
actually supported her. We were wrong. Many of them — even Oprah, who is
worth three billion dollars — got paid to interview her. She got one million (h/t
Jesse Watters). Cardi B got $2.5M. Beyoncé allegedly got even more and did not
even sing. These super-rich star endorsers deny this, of course, and the posts that revealed
the payments have been removed. But it makes sense. We will likely never know the
truth, but the campaign was certainly charged for all the expenses incurred when dealing with
spoiled rich folks. There are travel expenses, hotels, sets, staff, preferred foods and
drinks, etc. [...] The point is that it is possible that none of them actually supported her; they
were hired to pretend they supported her.
Harris
campaign gave Oprah Winfrey $1M, paid other celebs to appear with her in doomed presidential
bid. Vice President Kamala Harris paid Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions
$1 million, just one example of millions the campaign spent on various entertainers during the
vice president's failed bid for president. The Harris campaign paid $1 million to
Winfrey's company on October 15, according to a report in the Washington Examiner, coming
after a star-studded town hall that Winfrey hosted for the vice president in September.
Winfrey also appeared at Harris' final rally in Philadelphia on the eve of Election Day, with the
talk show star offering a rare endorsement of a presidential candidate.
Update / Rebuttal:
Oprah
Denies Million Dollar Payment By Harris Campaign. A TMZ reporter confronted Oprah
Winfrey about claims she was paid a million dollars to host a town hall for Kamala Harris' failed
presidential campaign. Oprah rejected those claims. While she may be correct that she
did not receive a personal fee, her production company did receive campaign funds from the Harris
team. [Tweets] Oprah's presence on the campaign trail, as well as that of many other leftist
Hollywood stars, had zero impact on the election outcome.
Oprah
Winfrey denies report that Harris campaign paid her $1 million. Oprah Winfrey on
Monday shut down a report that Kamala Harris' failed presidential campaign paid her $1 million
to stump for the Democrat. "I was paid nothing — ever," Winfrey told a TMZ reporter
who approached her as she walked to her car. The reporter asked about the claims that the
Harris team paid her the massive figure for the star-studded, virtual town hall called "Unite for
America" that the talk show star hosted on behalf of the Democratic nominee in September.
How
Kamala Harris killed the celebrity endorsement — parading A-listers over policies was
always a recipe for disaster. Kamala Harris' candidacy is dead and so is the
Hollywood celebrity endorsement. She officially killed that too. She turned her failed
presidential effort into a three-month-long variety show with splashy performances, boldface
speakers and a carefully rolled-out succession of endorsements from La La Land's most coddled
citizens. Why not? It worked so well for Hillary Clinton and her "Fight Song" of 2016.
When a majority of the electorate overwhelmingly says the country is moving in the wrong direction and
they're being financially crushed by inflation, don't bother with policy. Offer them a song.
Sung by a rich person. Preferably a very rich person with a mansion — who can also
lecture them on how to vote.
Here
are all the Hollywood stars vowing to leave the US over Trump's presidential election
win. After former President Donald Trump's election victory over Vice President
Kamala Harris, some of the biggest stars in Hollywood have threatened to leave the US.
America Ferrera is reportedly ready to pack her bags after Trump's victory. The 40-year-old
is allegedly looking to start a new life in the UK with her husband, Ryan Piers Williams, and their
two children, [...] Sharon Stone echoed her fellow actress's sentiments, stating it's time for her
to flee America. [...] Meanwhile, in a 2023 interview with the Guardian, Cher, 78, said she fell
ill under Trump's administration. "I almost got an ulcer the last time. If he gets in, who
knows? This time I will leave [the country]." "Game of Thrones" vet Sophie Turner also
pledged to "get [...] out" of America and move back to her home country of the United Kingdom if
Trump were to step into power. During Trump's first run for the Oval Office in 2016,
Raven-Symoné expressed on "The View" that if a Republican won the election, she
would leave the country.
The Editor says...
All of Hollywood should halt production of all motion pictures and TV shows until the end of Trump's second term.
At the end of four years, we can get a good idea of how many people miss them, and how many DON'T.
Marianne
Williamson: The Democratic Elite Should Resign. People are feeling hopeless out
in America now. In my opinion, Donald Trump offers false hope. He'll name a pain, but
he will not name a policy that's going to fix it. But people will take false hope over no
hope. And the Democratic Party offered no hope. Instead of talking about these things,
what the Democratic elite did was this: They just decided on an agenda. We weren't even
supposed to discuss what an agenda might be. They suppressed a presidential primary.
They felt, in their smug arrogance, such a sense of entitlement: They would choose Joe, then
they would choose Kamala, and they would suppress any candidate or any conversation about the wider
issues that could have provided a compelling alternative — a compelling
vision — for the American people.
From
'Clingers' to 'Garbage' — Why the 16 years of Vilification?
Statisticians tell us that the new non-clinging Democratic Party finds its greatest support from
those who earn less than $50,000 and those who make considerably more than $100,000. These are
the rich/poor bookends that surround the reformed Republican party in between. So, in terms
of generalized income and earnings, the left is now the party of the well-to-do professional and
credential class and the rich, along with the subsidized poor. The Republicans, by contrast,
are increasingly represented by the middle classes. The Democratic top dogs are most likely
to embrace agendas that never garner 51 percent of public support — vast reductions
in gas and oil to lessen "climate change," open borders to welcome in the world's needy, the
government promotion of a third, transgendered sex, abortion on demand without restrictions, the
reifications of various critical (race/legal/penal/modern monetary) "theories," and radical changes
in the current system (ending the Senate filibuster, the Electoral College, the nine-justice
Supreme Court, the 50-state union, etc.).
Idiot
celebrities who sell their souls for Kamala. As Kamala Harris continues to sink in
the polls, she enlists a host of A-lister celebs to campaign for her. Talk about
tone-deaf! Every one of them is filthy rich, with no connection to the working- and
middle-class people who support Trump. [...] They believe in their own perceived
magnificence. But not one of them has to worry about paying his rent, mortgage, or grocery
bills. Not one. One might think that the billionaires would be smart enough to support
Trump, but no — a gang of them are in Kamala's corner, or pretend to be. Much of
their wealth depends on their power to affect if not control the economy. They do this with
money, vast sums of it aced in the right pockets, and they get the legislation they want.
Mark Cuban, Laurene Jobs, Michael Bloomberg, John Pritzker, Sheryl Sandberg Steven Spielberg, Reed
Hastings, Bill Gates and his ex Melinda. Even Jamie Dimon has professed to support
Harris. Every one of these people knows that Harris is almost hilariously but disastrously
unqualified. But she would be their puppet, their tool, their ticket to continued power over
the powers that be.
Meet
Kamala's Megadonors. A collection of philanthropists, Silicon Valley titans, and
Democratic megadonors are using their fortunes and influence to see Vice President Kamala Harris
elected into the White House in November. Tens of millions of dollars in political donations
have been routed to the Harris campaign, its joint fundraising committee, and a super PAC called
Future Forward, which is supporting Harris through ad buys, according to a Washington
Examiner analysis of Federal Election Commission filings, reprinted here by The Free
Press. Taken together, the donations are a window into how wealthy and well-connected
Democrats in finance, Big Tech, Hollywood, and the philanthropy world are going all out to thwart
former president Donald Trump's third run for the Oval Office in nine years.
How
BLM Blew $90 Million. Plus. Earlier this month, Tyree Conyers-Page — a.k.a. Sir
Maejor Page — the 35-year-old former leader of the BLM chapter for Greater Atlanta, was
sentenced to 42 months in federal prison for money laundering and wire fraud. Instead of
spending the $450,000 raised from 18,000 donors to "fight for George Floyd," Page splurged on
tailored suits, nightclub bar tabs, an evening with a prostitute and, as he texted to a friend, "a
big-[...]" mansion in Ohio. Page is not an outlier. Take Melina Abdullah, co-director of
BLM Grassroots, who media reports accuse of using the organization's money to pay for vacations to
Jamaica and her own personal expenses. Though Abdullah has not been charged with a crime,
California's attorney general has threatened to revoke her organization's tax-exempt status if she
fails to turn over its delinquent tax filings and late fees by Sunday. "Abdullah has denied
the allegations, but at least $8.7 million in donations is unaccounted for," writes
investigative reporter Sean Patrick Cooper in his first piece for The Free Press.
"The answer to where the money went may come soon."
Union
boss who threatened to 'cripple' economy lives in luxe 7,000-square-foot mansion.
Harold Daggett — the union boss who has vowed to "cripple" the US economy if ports don't
ban automation and raise dockworkers' wages sharply — had a Bentley convertible parked
outside his sprawling mansion in New Jersey this week, exclusive photos obtained by The Post
reveal. Photos taken by drone on Tuesday show the British luxury car parked with its top up
outside what appears to be a five-car garage that's connected to his 7,136-square-foot, Tudor-style
home by a covered skyway. The hulking, two-story mansion — located on a 10-acre
property in Sparta, a leafy enclave 50 miles west of New York City — encircles a
spacious backyard patio with an amoeba-shaped pool.
Longshoremen
Union Bosses Are Raking In The Cash. The demand was for a 77% pay increase. And
then the union bosses nixed a 50% pay increase. In the meantime, we now find out that the
union bosses themselves are raking in the cash. As I wrote yesterday, this strike has brought
fourteen ports along the eastern seaboard and the Gulf to a standstill. We are talking about
nearly 50% of the goods imported into the U.S. now parked off the coast with nowhere to go.
We are talking about a nearly $3-5 BILLION hit on our economy PER DAY. It isn't just the
wage increases. The ILA Union absolutely does NOT want automation of any kind on the docks.
Longshore
Union President Who Pledged to "Cripple" the United States, Owns 76-Ft Yacht, Bentley, Is Paid
Almost 1 Million Per Year. Americans have been warned to stock up on food, gas,
and necessary items for several weeks. Many claim massive shortages of items we use every day
will occur due to a looming strike by the ILA (International Longshore Association). On
Sept. 27, US Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene warned about the ramifications of a strike in a
tweet. Rep. Greene claims, "It's very important to understand how critical this is given
that America is now in a $36 billion dollar food trade deficit for the first time in our
nation's history. Also, the Biden-Harris administration and congressional out-of-control
spending have driven inflation so high that many Americans can't afford quality of life. I
think this situation is serious and, depending on whether they strike and how long it lasts, could
be a crisis going into the election, holidays, and winter.
Keywords: Presumptuous, bad taste, tone-deaf, flaunt, oligarchy.
'Border
czar' Kamala Harris panned for wearing reported $62K necklace to southern border: 'You look
ridiculous'. The border crisis has been an albatross around Kamala Harris'
neck — and now her jewelry is too. The Democratic presidential nominee was snapped
Friday at the southern border in Arizona, trying to look tough on one of her major political
weaknesses as she walked near a razor-wire protected fence in the town of Douglas, chatting with an
agent from US Border Patrol. Harris, 59, was wearing dark sunglasses, a brown jacket over a
black top and dark colored pants, and sporting what critics claimed was a $62,000 necklace from
Tiffany's. "Dems decided to send Kamala Harris out in a $62,000 Tiffany necklace to reassure
the middle class that she and the corpse we just saw wheeze through a debate have their best
interests at heart!" one detractor wrote on X.
Alex
Soros' dinner date with Tim Walz reveals who'll pull the strings in a Harris White House.
Far-left billionaire George Soros has invested heavily in the narrative that anyone who notes that the
web of influence he's spun does in fact exist must be a conspiracy theorist — or worse, an
antisemite. His son Alex Soros, who was handed the keys to the $25 billion kingdom last
year, has gone the opposite route: He practically brags about his sphere of influence on social
media, where he posts photos of all the heads of state and influential figures he's cozied up to,
including Chuck Schumer, Bill Clinton, Nancy Pelosi — and Kamala Harris. Surely
some of them wish Alex was a bit more private; when Soros met with Harris in June of last year
(and posted the evidence to his socials) the tete-a-tete was excluded from Harris' public schedule,
implying that she thought that could prevent people from noticing.
Why
Did George Soros Buy 200 U.S. Radio Station[s] Right Before the Election? Billionaire
George Soros is known for writing massive checks to Democrat candidates and funding a network of
leftist dark money organizations under the disguise of his "Open Society Foundations." Adding to
his resume, he now owns hundreds of U.S. radio stations. The Federal Communications
Commission approved a decision to allow Soros to purchase 200 Audacy radio stations across 40 U.S.
markets just weeks before the 2024 election — a move that has never been done before.
[...] Under the Federal Communications Act, a radio station license cannot be held by a corporation
with more than 25 percent foreign ownership. Soros acknowledged that the level of
foreign ownership of Audacy will exceed that. However, he still requested that the FCC
expedite the approval of the application for ownership and bypass the foreign ownership review,
which would allow them to quickly "realize their ownership interests in, and take the reins at,
these hundreds of local radio stations across the country," Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said in a
letter to the FCC.
Weekends
in Palo Alto, Private School, Trips to Jamaica: A Look at Kamala Harris's 'Middle Class'
Childhood. Vice President Kamala Harris has tried to portray her upbringing as
"middle class" and even working class — touting a summer job at McDonald's and claiming
to be from Oakland, a blue-collar city with a large black population. For example, during a
recent interview with Oprah Winfrey, Harris said, "I grew up a child of a mother who worked very
hard. She raised me and my sister and she saved up. And by the time I was a teenager,
she was able to buy a home." [Advertisement] On September 13, she posted on X, "Let
me be clear: I will always put the middle class and working families first. I know
where I came from." [Advertisement] When asked during the presidential debate if Americans
were better off than they were four years ago, she responded, "I was raised a middle-class kid."
However, a close look at her childhood shows that Harris and her younger sister grew up with many
opportunities that many "middle class" children do not have, such as living abroad, private school
education, and growing up in some of the wealthiest locales in the world. [Advertisement]
But Harris has downplayed her privilege throughout her political career.
"Kamala
Demands a Life of Luxury". "Kamala demands a life of luxury," a former aide
revealed. "She treats the campaign like a personal checking account to fund a lifestyle she aspires
to," another aide warned. "Staff has always worried about Kamala's spending, but she is
adamant about using campaign money as she wants," that aide on her former Senate campaign said.
"She wants to live the life of someone in the White House," a strategist described Kamala in 2015,
"and she hasn't even won the Senate yet. Her hanging around the president and first lady",
referencing the Obamas, "it's gotten her hooked. She thinks it's her birthright and it's
not." Kamala was raising and spending massive amounts of campaign cash. Much of it on
herself. While Kamala falsely claimed that she was raised in "a middle-class household", she
was actually the "privileged child of foreign grad students" who traveled the world, and grew up
surrounded by wealth. Her career as a prosecutor failed to satisfy her taste for luxury so
she turned to Willie Brown: the first in a series of men who would support her in high style.
Kamala
Harris: The Multi-Millionaire Politician Masquerading As A Champion Of The People.
When Harris first ran for District Attorney of San Francisco in 2003, her net worth was estimated
to be a modest $300,000. Fast forward to her tenure as U.S. Senator, and her net worth had
ballooned to an impressive $1.9 million by 2017. As of 2021, her net worth is estimated
to be a staggering $6 million, with her and her husband, Douglas Emhoff, owning multiple high-end
properties, including a $5.8 million mansion in Brentwood, Los Angeles, and a $1.7 million
condo in San Francisco. Harris's annual income has also seen a significant boost since becoming
vice president. She now earns a salary of $230,700 per year, along with additional income from
book deals and investments, bringing her total annual income to an estimated $400,000. This
stark contrast between Harris's public rhetoric and her personal wealth accumulation is a prime example
of the hypocrisy that plagues many professional politicians. While she campaigns on issues like
income inequality and the need for wealth redistribution, her own financial success story belies her
commitment to these causes.
Obama
Hosting High-Dollar Fundraiser for Harris. Former President Barack Obama is hosting a
high-dollar fundraiser for Vice President Kamala Harris this Friday in his first campaign event for
the Democrat nominee. Tickets for the event range from $50,000 to $250,000 and coincides with
former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's lunchtime fundraiser in Los Angeles. Both Obama
and Clinton held fundraising events for President Joe Biden when he was the Democrat nominee
earlier this year. According to NBC News, Obama and Clinton both plan to campaign for Harris
in the final stretch of the 2024 presidential election.
The
New Gods Among Us. I've always wondered why some of America's richest people,
particularly tech and finance types, lean to the left. How could someone who has benefited so
extraordinarily from the American system support ideas that are anathema to its very existence?
[...] While Wall Street may be heavily regulated regarding advertising and fiduciary
responsibilities, the actual buying and selling is relatively unregulated when compared to the red
tape that blue-collar industries face. When it comes to higher taxes, this is usually a red
herring for America's barons. Many of America's wealthiest leftists call for higher income
taxes, but they don't pay income taxes. That's because most don't pay themselves much of a
taxable salary. Most of their liquidity comes from stock sales or dividends, which are
typically taxed at a lower rate. Even if capital gains taxes were increased, they'd find
opaque tax avoidance schemes that would reduce their taxes to zero or less, options that are rarely
available to the average millionaire, never mind the average Joe.
The
Political 1%. The 1% want to use the cloak of democracy to nullify resistance to
some of the most heinous and ludicrous proposals, like eating bugs, while they dine on steak;
public transportation while they fly around in jets; marginal and occasional electric service,
while they make side deals with nuclear power plants for a constant stream of reliable electric
service to play AI. AI is important so they can generate fake supporters for more deadly
proposals. Almost everyone understands the propaganda associated with their ploys, but no
major media or even cable network have stepped out to call them on it.
Kamala's
Stolen Working-Class Valor. Harris and her campaign have been bragging about her
modest roots and her supposed connection to working-class folks, exemplified by her having toiled
at McDonald's while in college, a claim she repeatedly makes in her speeches and that came up
countless times at the Democratic National Convention. But, like so many things about Harris
and Walz, this story started to fall apart on closer inspection. Earlier in the month,
Harris' campaign said that "Vice President Harris is the daughter of a working mother and worked at
a McDonald's to put herself through college." An ad produced by a pro-Harris PAC said she'd "worked
her way through school at McDonald's." That's fishy enough. Even if Harris worked
full-time all summer every summer at McDonald's, she'd have earned only a fraction of Howard
University's tuition and fees. (The line about Harris' "working mother" is also a
stretch. Her mom was an eminent cancer researcher, and her dad was a tenured Stanford
economist.) In any event, Harris couldn't keep up this particular fabrication, and later in
August at a campaign event said only that she'd "worked at McDonald's to earn spending money."
Still later in the month, the New York Times said she'd worked at a McDonald's in Alameda,
California, "for a summer" while going to college in Washington, D.C.
Wealth
on display at the DNC convention in Chicago. [Scroll down] Michelle
Obama, gussied up in about three grand worth of designer clothes and shoes and stepping away from
her four mansions and almost 200 million dollars in assets, also played the race and class
card, wagging her finger at the rich and saying her parents were "suspicious of folks who took more
than they needed." Ignoring the multi-millions the Obamas set aside for her own children, she
talked about the fact that most "will never benefit from the affirmative action of generational
wealth." Translated, this means she's still for reparations and redistribution of
wealth — though surely not from her. [...] On the same roster as Mrs. Eat the Rich
were Caroline Kennedy's son Jack Schlossberg, due to inherit about $100 million; Governor
J B. Pritzker, scion of a family worth over $3.6 billion, Doug Emhoff, worth about
$10 million, and Senator Gary Peters, also a multi-millionaire.
Barack
and Michelle Are Greedy Grifters Who Hate America. Barack and Michelle Obama pretend
to be evangelists preaching the political gospel of hope and change in a post-racial America.
But in reality, they are nothing but race-baiting con artists who loathe our way of
life — using the race card to line their pockets with tens of millions of dollars.
And last night — they exposed their ugly underbellies — Americans who hate
America. [...] Michelle told the DNC that her father was always suspicious of folks who took more
than they needed. The lack of self-awareness was something to behold. They also own an
$8 million mansion in Washington, D.C., a million-dollar apartment in New York City, and a
house in Chicago. And their real estate empire also includes an estate in Hawaii. Just
last year Mrs. Obama was invited to deliver a speech on diversity, equity and inclusion.
She was paid nearly $750,000 for the one-hour
speech. How much of that money did she spread around Chicago's South Side? Before the
Obamas moved into the White House, they had a combined income of about $1.6 million.
Today, the Obamas are worth about $70 million. Anybody want to explain how that happened?
Who's
to decide what's needed? We often use the word "need" a little more than we probably
should. [...] The truth is that our needs are much more basic than that. We need clothing,
food, shelter, etc. And that worries me because Michelle Obama thinks that taking more than
we absolutely need is a problem. To be accurate, she said, "suspicious of people who took
more than they need." I find this fascinating because, well, the Obamas own three homes.
The least amount they paid for a home was $1.65 million, and that was in 2005. I'm always
amazed at how people who spend their lives working in the public sector and for non-profits can
amass so much wealth, but apparently, that's just what they need. Let's understand that most
of us are living with far more than we absolutely need to survive. We also have a lot of
things that simply provide comfort, such as smartphones, televisions, computers, and so on. [...]
Who decides what one needs? To what level are we ascribing the term "need" anyway? Does
anyone need $750,000 for an hour-long speech?
Michelle
Obama wore nearly $3K pantsuit to DNC while touting her parents were 'suspicious' of the
wealthy. Michelle Obama wore a nearly $3,000 pantsuit to the Democratic National
Convention (DNC) in Chicago while touting to attendees that her parents were "suspicious" of the
wealthy. The former first lady began her DNC speech on Tuesday by saying the last time she
was in her hometown of Chicago was to memorialize her mother, the woman "who showed me the meaning
of hard work and humility and decency" and "who set my moral compass high and showed me the power
of my own voice." "She and my father didn't aspire to be wealthy. In fact, they were
suspicious of folks who took more than they needed," Obama said. "They understood that it
wasn't enough for their kids to thrive if everyone else around us was drowning. So my mother
volunteered at the local school."
The Editor says...
As I understand it, the Obamas have a mansion in Chicago, 29 acres at Martha's Vineyard,
a mansion in Hawaii, and a residence in Washington DC which is probably quite nice, too.
Companies (like Netflix) give them money for apparently doing next to nothing, unless the Obamas
are providing some service that is hidden from the public, and what legitimate service would
that be? (Nobody gives a politician millions of dollars without expecting something in
return.) If ever there were "folks who took more than they needed," they are the
Obamas themselves.
Deep
State Plutocrats Have Nowhere to Hide. Over the last forty years, middle-class
Americans who put their faith in "free markets" have gotten smacked upside the head by corporate
interests time and again. The savings and loan scandal, pension scams, derivatives-juiced
market crashes, the housing collapse, the offshoring of good jobs, tech bubbles, predatory lending,
reverse mortgages, and countless other corporate schemes have left working-class Americans in dire
straits. All of these various gut punches have produced a kind of "awakening" among "live
free or die" Americans: "free markets" are an illusion, and the economic game is rigged. To
be clear, freedom-loving Americans of every generation have known that powerful economic interests
manipulate markets and take what is not theirs. When private bankers conspired with corrupt
congressmen to establish the Federal Reserve over Christmas in 1913, many horrified observers
predicted how the ascending oligarchy would distort markets, weaken the dollar, and instigate
unnecessary economic crashes.
Our
Three Silent Mice. [#2 — Harris] But stranger still is the month-long
vaporization of Vice President and the now de facto Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. How
weird that she sought to hog airtime and attention as vice president (although not via interviews
or impromptu remarks), but once she gained an even wider portfolio as the Democratic presidential
nominee, she recoiled from interviews and went into hibernation. In the last month amid the
frenzy of the Biden collapse, her coronation, and the selection of her running mate Tim Walz, a
mute Harris has made up all the ground Biden lost as the prior nominee. She is flooded with
hundreds of millions of dollars in left-wing tech and Wall Street cash. All are eager to
donate given their money will no longer be wasted on a sore loser but might now earn something in return
from a future president. So, a silent Harris is rising in the polls, once the Biden albatross was
cut away and relieved Hollywood/Wall Street/Silicon Valley grandees poured in their riches.
One
old guy's perspective on why we are where we are. [Scroll down] But as
things stand today the democrats are the party of big money and elite luxury positions. They
are the party of the Martha's Vinyard set, the Malibu set, the Zuckerburg and Beezos [sic]
set. The party of hedge fund bundlers and social justice warriors that are not much more than
useful idiots to the monied guys and foot soldiers for the party and the children of the
professional class. The SJWs are the moral cover for the monied interests running the
party. Have the democrats done ONE thing in the last 30 yrs that was a real threat to the
economic interests of Wall Street or Silicon Valley? No. Are they likely to?
No. Lina Kahn maybe? But the donors are pushing Harris to get rid of her. Sure,
they will TALK about it, but it is all just gaslighting. It was not the democratic voters
that got Biden to step down, it was the money drying up in a donor revolt. The party is run
by the donors and the donors are not going to countenance any real action that threatens their interests.
With
Harris, the Dems Double Down on Elitism. [Scroll down] [Kamala Harris]
was the daughter of immigrant professionals and grew up near Stanford, one of the sites of postwar
America's power concentration. She rose through San Francisco legal power centers and became
California's attorney general. Today she is married to Doug Emhoff, a former corporate lawyer
and the ex-husband of a prominent Hollywood producer; her sister Maya, who attended Stanford Law,
is married to the chief legal counsel for Uber who served as an associate attorney general in the
Obama Administration and is currently helping the Harris campaign when it comes to "polling and
running mates."
Democracy
and the Donor Class. Among recent political events, perhaps the most notable has been
the power of a small group of super-rich Americans to exercise outsized political influence.
Recall how President Biden soldiered on, despite sinking poll numbers, pleas from worried
down-ballot Democrats to drop out, and the clear evidence of cognitive decline. Joe remained
steadfast, but then overnight, he dropped out. Why? The dramatic decline of super-sized
donations did the trick. When major contributors said, "No dough until Joe goes," Biden
surrendered to reality. If there was ever an instance of "money talks" in politics, this is it.
Something's
Not Right About the $50 Million Dumped Into Montana's Senate Race. Nearly
$57 million has been dumped into the Montana senate race between far-left Democrat candidate
Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) and Republican Senate candidate Tim Sheehy. The pro-Second
Amendment Republican is seen as a threat to the Democratic Party in Montana, which is why big-time
progressive donors are pouring funds into the state's senate race. Tester, who is seeking a
fourth term, has raised $6.4 million from May to June and has $11 million in cash on
hand. Sheehy, a newcomer to the political world, raised only $3 million in donations
from mid-May to June and has $3.2 million on hand. He has acquired $13.7 million
since announcing his candidacy for the Senate in 2023.
Anointing
Harris Completes Divorce Between Dems, Working Class. The Democrat Party did a lot
more this month than just torpedo its own incumbent president and ignore the will of
14 million of its voters. Both in process and result, the Democrat establishment has
sent its only real connection to its past identity to the trashbin. And in rushing to anoint
Joe Biden's replacement rather than trust even a representative-democracy process, they have gone
all-in on a radical new identity, based largely on radical identitarianism and hard-Left
progressivism — and all-in on elitism. That shift began during the Obama
presidency, which came to power in the wake of an unpopular war and a financial crisis.
However, even then Democrat leadership knew it needed a connection to working-class Americans, and
used Joe Biden to bridge that gap. His 2012 convention speech, largely under-appreciated,
hearkened back to those populist impulses and party identity — even as Obama himself
shifted the party toward big corporate interests and Academia-driven Leftism.
Democrats
Have Put Corrupt Obama AG Eric Holder in Charge of Vetting VP Candidates for Kamala Harris.
Democrats have reportedly put Obama's corrupt attorney general Eric Holder in charge of vetting VP
candidates for Kamala Harris. What could possibly go wrong? How much do you suppose
Democrats are paying Holder's law firm for this service?
The Editor says...
The candidates are supposed to be selected by the rank-and-file voters, not an elite committee.
That's why they call the process "democratic."
Oxford
students are mocked for closing their pro-Palestine encampment as students break up for summer
holidays. Oxford University students have been ridiculed after the city's
pro-Palestine encampment ended in time for summer getaways to the south of France. [...] Oxford
University's summer term ended on June 15, and students will not return for teaching until the
start of October. Though OA4P protests are not entirely made up of students, it describes
itself as a 'student-led collective'. Other acerbic responses to the move to cease the camps
read: 'Just in time to head to Mummy and Daddies house in the South of France. What a
stroke of luck that is... [¶] 'Lol you just went home to your daddy's mansion for
the summer didn't you?... [¶] 'We really care about this movement unfortunately
we've booked a villa in Tuscany for the summer. Up the revolution!... [¶]
'Revolution postponed! Summer holidays in Tuscany or the Dordogne beckon...
The Rockefellers
created 990 "Climate Change" institutions, foundations, and activist groups. In the
climate change arena, the Rockefellers call the shots. The whole thing was their idea, they
took a silly but interesting theory and amped it up with hundreds and hundreds of million of
dollars. They founded institutions and linked the survival of those institutions to promoting
climate change and population reduction. They adopted one likely politician after
another. The Rockefellers have created 990 Climate Change activist organizations. They
give them directions, financing, and launch them on the world. The Green Movement was
started, financed, organized, and militarized by the Rockefellers.
Mark
Cuban Epitomizes The Hypocrisy Of Liberal Billionaires. The always media-hungry Mark
Cuban wants to insert himself into presidential politics. The billionaire TV show host is now
pushing himself as one of President Biden's top cheerleaders. He's fundraising for Biden and
Democrat groups are utilizing his media appearances to gin up donations. [Advertisement]
He's volunteered to be an attack dog for Biden. He regularly uses his X account to attack Donald
Trump and claim Biden will do wonders for the country if given another term. Cuban even
asserts that he would vote for Biden even if the president was on his deathbed and Trump was the
only other option. That's dedication to the cause. [Advertisement] Cuban isn't cozying
up to Biden simply out of some deep political conviction. He may claim that the president is
morally superior to his opponent or that he prefers Biden's social policies. But the real
motivation is something far more shallow. Cuban sees Biden and the Democrats as better for
his business interests.
Green
Billionaire Funding of 'Climate Emergency' Reporting in Mainstream Media. A massive
global grooming programme aimed at mostly mainstream media involving climate catastrophism and Net
Zero promotion is detailed in a recently published report from the green billionaire-funded
Internews's Earth Journalism Network (EJN). The work is a shocking insight into the corruption of
independent, investigative journalism. At one point the report observes "a concerning trend
among journalists in some countries still seeking to 'balance' their climate change reporting". The
report shows clearly that the green billionaires are calling most of the shots in promoting stories
of Net Zero-inspired climate collapse. It is noted that they may fund journalists "to cover
stories in a particular subject area, determined by funder interests and goals". Over the
last 20 years the tax-efficient billionaire foundations have stepped into the funding gaps
left by declining circulation and advertising sales across mainstream media. It is noted by
the EJN that journalists "overwhelmingly agreed" that support from external funding organisations
was "essential" to enabling their climate and environmental reporting.
California's billionaire
utopia may not be as eco-friendly as advertised. Silicon Valley billionaires are
still aggressively moving forward with their attempt to create a utopian, sustainable "city of
yesterday" near San Francisco atop what they describe as "non-prime farmland." However, an
accredited land trust now claims California Forever's East Solano Plan is intentionally misleading
local residents about the "detrimental harm" it will cause ecosystems, as well as its potential to
"destroy some of the most self-reliant farmland and ranchland" in the state.
President
Donald Trump's sacrifices are like no other leader in the history of America.
[Scroll down] The Clintons were worth $1.3 million before they came to the White
House. Following lucrative book deals and speaking gigs their combined net worths grow by
more than 6,000%. Today, their combined fortune is more than $240 million, and counting.
The Clinton Foundation was used like an expense account by the Clintons, and most of the "donations"
were collected during Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State. [...] The Obamas entered the
White House with $1.3 million. Upon leaving, they received lucrative book, oratory, movie,
and podcast deals which caused their net worth to multiply by almost 24 times, to
$70 million. Experts claim that if the Obamas proceed on this trajectory they will be
worth $242.5 million when all is said and done.
Why
is Bill Gates breeding millions of mosquitoes? Bill Gates wants to transform Earth
into the kind of hellscape that belongs in Dante. For example, his fixation with
mass-breeding mosquitoes pulses with a scheming mind that surely can't be benevolent. Wall
Street Silver recently connected a supposed looming mosquito-borne pandemic to Gates'
overenthusiastic farming of mosquitos. Here's a video from the Bill Gates YouTube account
describing the mosquito factory in Medellín, Colombia, where "scientists work long hours in
muggy labs breeding millions and millions of mosquitoes." [Video clip]
Biden's
Incompetence Is Outstripping Voters' Fear Of Trump. Last week, President Biden said
he would withdraw military aid to Israel if it commenced military operations to go into Rafah and
go after Hamas. There were many reactions to this announcement because it seemed to perfectly
encapsulate the incoherent Israel policy the Biden administration has been developing since Hamas'
brutal attack last October that touched off the war in Gaza. On one hand, the American people
are broadly supportive of Israel and the moral justification for this war. Lest anyone
forget, Hamas is still holding American citizens hostage at this very moment. On the other,
the hard-left grassroots that are an important part of the Democrat Party's coalition are radically
pro-Palestinian and eager to engage in street violence domestically to prove the point. It's
also worth noting that the hard-left shock troops aren't just emblematic of the party's activist
heart — their efforts to destabilize colleges and worse are being funded by George
Soros, the Tides Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and those that hold the purse strings for
billions of dollars of funding for Democrats and their lefty causes.
Michelle
Obama's Big Day Out. Michelle Obama wrote a book. [...] I get the idea of a new
author feeling giddy that she has a book on the shelves and maybe even going out to the stores to
bask in the moment. But Obama is hardly a stranger to the spotlight. She is not an
"unknown." This is her fourth book, not her first. [...] The Obamas are just like us!
They shop at Target! They are celebrities in their own right, but they still empathize with
the masses who are paying way too much for gas and groceries and who have maxed out their credit
cards just trying to stay alive. [...] The problem is that none of that is true. Among their
many properties, the Obamas have an opulent home in Martha's Vineyard and continue to rub elbows
with the elite. They haven't the slightest clue or concern about the things that are giving
ulcers to the people who shop at Target every day. They are beyond those things but still
expect Americans to back the president and party that have made it impossible to gauge if one's
paycheck will outlast the month. Some critics on X were of the mind that this was a stealth
campaign ad. Others saw it as a blatant attempt to peddle books.
Dark
Money Group Backed By Foreign Billionaire Has Dumped $100 Million Into State Ballot
Initiatives. A Swiss billionaire whose personal goal is to "(re)interpret the
American Constitution in the light of progressive politics" has donated hundreds of millions of
dollars to a left-wing group that is dumping millions into state ballot initiatives, a new report
from Americans for Public Trust (APT) revealed. Hansjörg Wyss, through his Berger Action
Fund, has donated $243 million to the Sixteen Thirty Fund, which "uses its war chest ... to
support massive get-out-the-vote drives, issue advocacy campaigns bolstering President Biden's
agenda, liberal pet projects from abortion to immigration, and attack ads against Republican
lawmakers," according to APT. The group also pours resources into state ballot
initiatives — to the tune of $97,593,151 over the past decade, according to the
report. The cash infusions are "often concentrated in battleground presidential states such
as Arizona, Michigan, and Ohio or states with competitive U.S. Senate races like Colorado,
Missouri, and Nevada."
NPR's
queen of the Karens. Sometimes, a person enters the public spotlight and is such an
embodiment of an established stereotype that it seems impossible for him or her to be a real
person. If Tom Wolfe wanted to capture the essence of arrogant, alienated progressivism, he
would reject NPR's new CEO, Katherine Maher, as too unbelievably on point. The daughter of
wealthy parents whose wedding was announced in the New York Times, Maher grew up in a
wealthy white suburb of New York City before studying at the American University in Cairo, the
Institut français du Proche-Orient in Syria, and finally New York University. She then
got internships with the Council on Foreign Relations and Eurasia Group in London and Germany
before landing a job in New York City at UNICEF. She had stops with the National Democratic
Institute and the World Bank, among other global nonprofit groups, before rising to become the CEO
of Wikimedia in 2019. It would be impossible to create a resume of a person more disconnected
from Americans and more intertwined with the wealthy, urban, globalist elite who run the largest
banks, media companies, and nonprofit groups in the United States. In other words, Maher has
the perfect resume to run NPR.
Dark
Money Group Funding Hamas Protests. Of course it is George Soros who is funding the
Pro-Hamas protests that shut down major highways yesterday. It's almost as if the guy enjoys
being considered a supervillain even more than he wants to destroy Western culture. [Advertisement]
[Tweet] I have never understood Soros' hatred for the West. After the collapse of the Soviet
Union, he was all about "Open Societies," and early on I assumed he would be a good guy despite his rather
nasty way of making his money. Boy, was I wrong. Admittedly, I caught onto his shtick pretty
quickly, but I am still ashamed that I never thought nice things about him. These days, Soros has
his fingers in every poisonous pie, working diligently to destroy all that is good. He is like
Klaus Schwab with a billion or seven dollars.
Also posted
under Astroturf.
Down to
the Sea in Super Yachts. Especially in the US since August 15th, 1971, western
mega-Elites and Oligarchs have exploited, extorted, and rigged markets, rigged US debt instruments
and commodities, to support a supremely corrupt Empire. It's a corruption and lying that we
see in the west at the very highest levels, every single day, day after day. They are so
brazen, the US Department of Justice even calls their kleptocracy the "KleptoCapture Task Force",
in spite of us all. It is not a United States of America... but a United States of
rules-based theft. And it's interesting to compare Russia's business people to the US
American ones. In Russia, they produce something real. Oil. Gold. Silver
and palladium. Agricultural chemicals, and fertilizers, steel and iron. While in the
US, the mega-Elites rule over a kingdom of nothingness. Amazon. Google.
facebook. Starbucks. AI. It's a fake empire built on falsehood and lies.
And dangerous to us all.
The
Optics Go From Bad to Worse at Wax Statue Biden's Tone-Deaf 'Grassroots' NY Fundraiser.
How important is money in an already saturated presidential election? We are all going to find
out, but Joe Biden certainly seems to believe it's the key to his re-election. On Thursday
evening, he appeared at a "grassroots" fundraiser with Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, with estimates
of $25 million being raised. [Tweet] Just how "grassroots" was this thing?
The base-level entry plate was $100,000, while it cost somewhere between $250,000-500,000 to take
a picture with the guests of honor. Truly, Biden is a man of the people. [Tweet with
video clip] Even moving past how tone-deaf and out of touch this is, Biden's physical
appearance is a story unto itself. He looks like a wax statue with animatronic limbs built in,
from the weird "flex" he does at the beginning, to the awkward pointing and the fact that he can't
seem to put his arms fully down. Then, right on cue, Biden gets confused and has to ask
Stephen Colbert what he's supposed to do next.
Democracy
By Deception. A recent poll showed who's in charge. Of those who have a
favorable opinion of members of congress, 6% of voters did, but 69% of the elite one percent
did. Of those who had a favorable opinion of journalists, 10% of voters did, but 71% of the
elite one percent did. Of those who had a favorable opinion of professors, 17% of voters did,
but 76% of the elite one percent did. That's not democracy; that's an oligarchy of the global
elite whose only purpose is to fool us. They want to fool us about the border, about the
economy, about the strength of the military, about what's going on in the schools. All of the
congress, the press and the professors are their agents in this deception, while they drain our
pockets and build sewers around our homes. None of congress, media or universities mind being
hypocrites, that's a badge of honor in their minds.
One more thing to boycott:
Paris
Hilton video is new focus of Bud Light-style outrage. [Scroll down] After
viewing the ad, activist group One Million Moms (OMM) published a story on its website with the
title, "Hilton Attempts to Glamorize Sin." [...] One Million Moms writes that it believes Hilton is
advocating an agenda with the commercial. "Hilton is attempting to normalize the LGBTQ lifestyle
with its liberal advertising choices," the organization wrote. "The hotel chain is obviously
pushing the LGBTQ agenda with this commercial, which depicts individuals, couples, and families,
all in obviously gender-confused roles." The petition states, in part, "Your commercial
featuring a homosexual couple and men in drag offends me, and it also offends many other
conservative consumers."
Obama
Defends Biden After Protesters Disrupt Biden-Obama-Clinton $25 Million 'Grassroots' Fundraiser
in New York City. Activists protesting in support of Hamas — and one
against nuclear war with Russia — repeatedly disrupted a $25 million Democrat
fundraiser featuring Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton held at Radio City Music Hall in New
York City Thursday night. Through their disruptions, the protesters took control of the
event, forcing Biden, Obama and Clinton into an extended discussion about what the protesters
wanted them to talk about as the Democrats are facing an internal war of their own this election
year between the party's old pro-Israel base and their new pro-Hamas base.
Protesters
paying up to $500K a ticket heckle Biden, Obama and Clinton at Radio City. President
Joe Biden's appearance at a $25 million Radio City Music Hall fundraiser with former
Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton descended into chaos as the trio of presidents being
interviewed by Stephen Colbert got interrupted by protesters. A handful of pro-Palestinian
protesters shouted down the presidents, with one woman telling Biden 'you have blood on your
hands,' as another loud guest warned of a nuclear war with Russia: 'you're out of your [...]
minds.' The event was supposed to be a star-studded evening with major donors, with some
tickets costing as much as $500,000.
The Editor says...
A "grassroots" fundraiser doesn't sell $500,000 tickets.
RFK
Jr Picks Soros Advocate Nicole Shanahan as His VP Running Mate. In an apparent move
to stir up greater support from the hardline leftists in the progressive movement, RFK Jr has
announced 38-year-old Nicole Shanahan as his Vice-Presidential running mate. The move appears
to be an effort to appeal to the Bernie Sanders, ecology-centric, radical leftist, earth-saving
environmentalist wing of the Democrat base voter. Positioning the ticket to carve out a
younger voting bloc and stir interest amid the Sanders/AOC crowd. Shanahan had previously
donated $4 million to the SuperPAC supporting Robert Kennedy Jr and given thousands of dollars
to the Soros funded progressives in politics and activism circles. Shanahan was previously
married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, one of the wealthiest men in the world; the financial
windfall from their divorce funded her ability to contribute heavily to far-left causes.
Wisconsin
Voters Have A Chance To Rid Their Elections Of 'Zuckbucks' For Good. Badger State
voters have the opportunity on Tuesday, April 2 to kill the snake of private funding in
election administration, which consumed the 2020 elections under cover of Covid thanks in large
part to the "generous" donations of Facebook founder and conservative speech silencer Mark
Zuckerberg. Coupled with a meaningless presidential primary and a spate of local elections,
two critical questions on the spring election ballot ask voters whether they want the state
constitution to ban private funds in elections and stop local election officials from using private
funds in administering elections.
Bill
Gates Wants to Shut Down West Virginia's Coal Industry. Bill Gates is working
hand-in-hand with West Virginia's political establishment to crush the coal industry. Last
year, he met with a bipartisan group of politicians that included Carol Miller, Joe Manchin, and
Jim Justice, to, as Miller put it, "discuss energy investments and best practices to improve our
workforces in [West Virginia]." "Innovation makes West Virginia coal, gas, and carbon capture
the backbone of U.S. energy independence that supplies reliable, affordable power to the world,"
Miller added, talking out of both sides of her mouth as she tried to convince her constituents that
inviting in, Bill Gates, one of the world's foremost climate scam artists and an open-borders
advocate, will somehow benefit West Virginians.
The
Russians Aren't the Only Ones with Oligarchs. [Scroll down] At that
moment, I realized it is America's oligarchs who are destroying our currency. It is our
oligarchs who want our border, our cities, and our nation to collapse. It is our oligarchs
who installed a senile fool in the Presidency. It is our oligarchs who control the
media. It is our oligarchs who feted Chairman Xi in San Francisco last year. It is our
oligarchs who likely gave the world COVID as their response to a public that dared to think we
could elect people who would actually represent us. It is our oligarchs who inflicted their
"vaccines" on the world. Can we doubt that it is our oligarchs who are now directing our own
government against us? Indeed, our government has long been a helpless tool in their hands.
Elites'
Contempt for Ordinary Americans Exposed in Surveys. What does America's overclass
think of the rest of us? The short answer is "not much." They think ordinary people's
splurging on natural resources is destroying the planet and needs to be cut back forcefully.
And that the government needs to stamp down on ordinary people enjoying luxuries that, in their
view, should be reserved for the top elites. These are the implications of the results of two
surveys of elite people conducted by pollster Scott Rasmussen by the Committee to Unleash
Prosperity, an organization that supports low tax rates and low government spending. The
surveys covered not large swaths of the population but were confined to the top 1 percent of
society. One survey, the Elite, included only respondents with postgraduate degrees,
household incomes above $150,000 and residents in a ZIP code with more than 10,000 people per
square mile. Another, Ivy League graduates, included adults who attended Ivy League or other
selective private colleges such as Chicago, Duke, Northwestern, or Stanford. You probably
won't be surprised that the large majority of this Elite feels economically well off. Nor, if
you've kept up with recent changes in party identification, will you be much surprised that
73 percent of these elites identify as Democrats and only 14 percent as Republicans.
You
Will Live In Tiny Homes & Drive EVs And Be Happy: This Is The Future They Have Planned For
Us. In recent years, "van life', "car life" and "tiny homes" have all become
extremely hot topics on social media. Millennials and Generation Z have been particularly
eager to try out these "minimalist" lifestyles. At a time when home prices have risen to
absurd levels and the cost of living has become exceedingly oppressive, it can be very tempting to
adopt a low cost way of life. But it is also important to understand that the elite are very
much encouraging these trends. If they could get most of us happily living in tiny homes and
electric vehicles, they would be very pleased. You see, the truth is that the smaller our
living spaces are, the less carbon emissions we will produce, and that is precisely what they want.
American
Billionaires Bankrolled Activist Crusade Against Natural Gas Hubs Before Biden Signed Off On
Approval Pause. American billionaires bankrolled an activist campaign targeting
liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals that influenced the White House's decision to pause
new and pending approvals for the projects, according to The Wall Street Journal. The
philanthropic organizations of the Rockefeller family and Democratic megadonor Michael Bloomberg
cumulatively provided millions of dollars to activists who pressured Biden administration officials
to crack down on LNG export hubs over the past several years, according to the WSJ. The
activists ultimately got their way on Jan. 26, when the White House announced that the
administration would pause new project approvals as the Department of Energy (DOE) widens the scope
of its reviews to include climate impacts of LNG export terminals alongside considerations like
national security and economic benefits.
The
Elites Hate Us — But We Outnumber Them. Elites are individuals who occupy
the upper strata in society through either wealth, politics, sports, religion, and/or social status
(such as entertainment), and they have been a part of society for millennia. Because of human
nature, elites have usually — though not always — considered themselves to be
better than those below them or have simply been indifferent to them. [...] Within the past decade,
however, a radical change has come over many elites: they have declared war on us. They hate
us and they have contempt for us. And, although they may be occasionally reprimanded socially
for doing so, they have been openly voicing their hatred and contempt. What makes this a
serious development is that they are arrogant and in positions of power and have no compunctions to
exercising that power against us, particularly since they are operating within the framework of
ideologies. But aside from intending to ram their ideologies down our throats, they
simultaneously have hatred and contempt for us.
Fury
over Justin Trudeau's £49,000 luxury Jamaican holiday. Boasting an infinity
pool overlooking a private slice of Caribbean paradise, an onsite cook, gardener and butlers, it is
the sort of luxury escape most people can only dream of. So when details emerged this week
that Justin Trudeau had spent the Christmas holidays at a sprawling Jamaican retreat for a nine-day
stay worth an estimated £49,000 ($63,000), it left a sour taste in the mouths of many
Canadians. When asked by reporters whether the holiday might be viewed badly by Canadians
struggling amid a double-pronged cost of living and housing crisis, a visibly frustrated Mr Trudeau
said: "Like a lot of Canadian families, we spent the Christmas holidays with friends. All the
rules were followed." But Mr Trudeau's opponents, and even some of his allies, have seized on
the winter getaway as evidence that the Liberal leader, whose party is languishing in the polls, is
increasingly out of touch with the electorate. Sharing a clip of Mr Trudeau's response,
Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, wrote on Twitter: "Like most Canadians, Justin Trudeau
got a C$84,000 Christmas vacation for free from his friends. "It's nice to have a regular guy
as Prime Minister."
The
World Economic Forum's Marie Antoinettes. To the great consternation of those who
believe it is their noble prerogative to manipulate the public by controlling the narrative,
ordinary people are now "much more questioning" about what is reported as truth. The public's
rising discernment troubles the "ruling class." Perhaps that is why government schools refrain
from sharpening students' critical thinking skills these days. Authoritarianism thrives amid
hive-mind ignorance. So sorry, Davos dictators, we commoners are rapidly waking up to
the bitter reality that corporate news spin-doctors are just as culpable for today's civilizational
chaos as the malicious central bank money-printers, out-of-control spy agencies, and multinational
corporate behemoths that have long worked together to manipulate global events. We have
opened our eyes and see you for the monsters that you really are.
George
Soros Has a Plan to Transform This State From Red to Blue. As part of an overall
effort to turn Texas from a Republican stronghold into a blue state, billionaire progressive
financier George Soros is pouring oodles of cash into the state's races to bolster support for
far-leftist candidates. The idea is to transform Texas into a Democratic playground, and the
strategy could work if the state Republican Party doesn't find an answer to this political
offensive. ["]George Soros is pouring money into local Democratic parties in Texas in a
ploy to help Democrats turn the state blue, according to the Texas Tribune. Soros, working
with the Texas Majority PAC, donated six-figure sums to the Democratic parties of Hidalgo, Cameron
and Dallas counties, all of which are plurality or majority Hispanic, the Texas Tribune
reported. Soros' spending comes as Democrats have lost ground nationally and in Texas with
Latino voters.["]
Al
Gore has made $330m with climate alarmism. Warning the world that it is on the brink
of disaster has been lucrative for Al Gore. His wild prediction at Davos that Earth faces
'rain bombs' and 'boiling oceans' is just his latest in decades of climate alarmism. At the
same time, the former VP has been at the forefront of green technology investment that has seen his
wealth balloon to an estimated $330 million.
What
the WEF Has in Store For You. One of the things I keep pointing out about the
transnational elite is that, for the most part, they aren't hiding who they are and what they
want. It's not some deep, dark conspiracy. They are proud of what they are doing.
You can go to the websites of major corporations, universities, our federal government, or most
conveniently the World Economic Forum and see what kind of dystopia they have planned for
you. Basically, it boils down to this: let your betters run your lives, and by the way,
we are your betters. If you find it surprising that people with such an offensive attitude
are so open about their intentions, you shouldn't be. Oligarchs have, for time immemorial,
said pretty much the same thing. Sometimes they say it with a "it's good for you to listen to
us" spin, and sometimes it's with the more menacing "you will do what we say if you know what is
good for you" spin. But the message is pretty much the same.
Davos's
party secrets: Caviar, magic mushrooms, champagne and A-list private concerts.
Caviar, magic mushrooms, gold-leaf desserts, A-list selfies, $2,500-per-night hookers and secret
dinners are likely to be on the menu as scores of private jets touch down in Switzerland as soon as
Sunday to bring the world's elite to the small Alpine resort town of Davos for what's officially
known as The World Economic Forum 2024. More than 3000 masters of the universe are expected to
show up for the 54th annual event at the Alpine resort nestled in the snowy Landwasser
valley. The theme this year is "Rebuilding Trust." "You can almost smell the magic of
the place when you're there," a well-connected Davos regular told The [New York] Post.
"Everyone's got an agenda and you never know who you're going to run into when you come out of the
restroom. It could be Bill Gates.
Those
Behind the Efforts to Disqualify Trump Have Something in Common. All over America,
party loyalists whose preferred candidate is President Joe Biden are engaging in lawfare to win at
the ballot box by any means necessary. Some of the bad-faith actors spearheading the efforts
to defeat former President Donald Trump — the GOP's far-and-away
frontrunner — before Election Day even begins are beneficiaries of puppeteering
philanthropist George Soros. [...] Maine was the second state to officially declare Trump
ineligible. In Colorado, the state Supreme Court decided on Dec. 19 to enforce Trump's
disqualification. Leading the charge in the Colorado case to ensure Trump's removal is the
Orwellian-named Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). Between FY 2017 and
2021, CREW was given more than $2.8 million in grants by the Foundation to Promote Open Society,
which acts as one of Soros's two chief grantmaking vehicles, for "general support" and "support[ing]
political advocacy on ethics in government," according to an Open Society Foundations database.
Dem
elitist mayor living like royalty mocked for hilariously corrupt antics. Tiffany
Henyard, a progressive Democrat mayor from Illinois, has been living it up on
the taxpayers' dime and is being called out for corruption as well as her hilarious antics worthy
of "Parks & Rec." Dolton, Illinois is a small town on the outskirts of Chicago. Residents
there make an average of $24,000 a year, according to Fox News. Their taxes have been
reportedly supporting the extravagant lifestyle of Henyard who was elected in April 2021.
Voters tried to recall her a year ago but a court invalidated the results. After the recall
failed, Henyard showed up at the next board meeting blaring disco music and then dancing on the podium.
The
Underground People. Citing various sources, Stephen Green at PJ Media reports that "a
5,000-square-foot underground lair featuring its own energy and food supplies is under
construction." According to Housing.com, also cited by Green, Zuckerberg's $270 million Koolau
Ranch project "is designed to function as a self-sufficient space, ready to withstand global
catastrophes: It is packed with security measures, encompassing
keypad locks, soundproofing and concealed doors, while an extensive camera network ensures
surveillance." [...] Apparently, "a smaller-scale 'bunker' is being built on nearby Maui by
none other than Oprah Winfrey." Mr. Portfolio himself, Bill Gates, who owns at least seven
multi-million dollar homes, extensive farmland, hotel chains, and a private island in Belize, is
rumored to have bunkers at all his properties. Billionaire bunkers are in, it seems, to
protect the world's oligarchs from an impending apocalypse that they have conspired to bring about.
The
7 Wealthiest Counties Are All Suburbs Of DC And San Francisco. If you want to drive
through the seven wealthiest counties in the United States — when measured by median
household income — you will only have to visit two of the nation's metropolitan
areas. And it would be best to start your trip from the Ellipse in front of the White House.
[...] The East Coast side of this trip, according to Google Maps, need never take you more than
30 miles from the White House. Nor need the West Coast side take you more than 30 miles
from the San Francisco airport.
We
Must Save Ourselves from the Public Health Professionals. Humans are prone to think
themselves important if they seem to have power over the lives of others. With international
public health staff this is reinforced by people they meet, and the media glorifying their
work. The public hears little of the high, often tax-free salaries or the travels and 5-star
hotels that boost these egos still further, but instead are fed pictures of (usually brown)
children lining up to be saved by people in (usually blue) vests with nice logos. It all
feels good. The result, inevitably, is an international public health workforce that has a
very high opinion of itself. Possessing values that it considers superior to those of others,
it feels justified in imposing its beliefs and values on the populations who are the target of its
work. As their role seems to them more important than bringing up kids in some random village
or working at an airport check-in counter, they can feel virtuous when seeking to impose their
superior opinions on others.
COP
28 kicks off in another country made rich by oil. I know this is repetitive, but we
currently have climate change gabfest number 28 going on in a country that is wealthy because of
oil. The United Nations, rich elitists, politicians, bureaucrats, and others are gathering to
see how quickly they can destroy highly advanced, and prosperous, countries around the world, but
especially the United States. They fly in their private jets, live in multiple
mansions, and sail on their private yachts as they lecture us about our carbon footprint. It
is all a massive fraud to control us. If they can destroy reasonably priced energy that makes
economies thrive, they can control everything, and that is their goal.
Everything
you hate about climate change virtue signaling in the most absurd story you'll read this
year. In 2019, Michael and Jennifer Monteiro dropped $2.6 million on an
oceanfront vacation house in Harwich, Massachusetts. Good for them! Michael was just
about to sell Buildium, a cutely named software company he had cofounded, for
$580 million. The Monteiros didn't just want a oceanfront second home, though.
They wanted a oceanfront second home they could feel good about. A oceanfront second
home that would tell the world (and themselves) they weren't merely rich people who owned an
oceanfront second home, but thoughtful wealthy people who brought an ethos of sustainability
wherever they went, even to their oceanfront second home. [...] And how much did all this
efficiency cost? The Times — and the Monteiros — are too modest (too
classy!) to give us an exact figure. But they do drop a hint: the project cost about
$1,200 a square foot. So, let's see, $1,200/square foot * 6,000 square feet =
$7.2 million, give or take. Not counting the furnishings.
After
Pledging $70 Million, Charles Koch Selects Nikki Haley as the Vessel to Remove His Trump
Problem. In the era where they refuse to accept their irrelevance, billionaires and
their political money are easy parted. So goes the game of grift amid the professional
political class when contrast against the power of We The People. It's actually quite funny
to watch and doesn't annoy me one bit. Charles Koch, a man of notorious disposition who loves
open borders and multinational trade — which puts him on the outside of the America
First movement, had previously pledged to spend $70 million (through his Americans For Prosperity
political action committee) to remove President Trump. Today, Charles Koch selected Nikki
Haley over Ron DeSantis to be the vessel for his effort.
It
is extremely dangerous when government bureaucrats decide who has to comply with regulations and laws and who doesn't.
America is a great country and it is very important that people are allowed to succeed and get rich. Many billionaires
have achieved wealth honestly and I admire and respect them. But I do not admire or respect billionaires like:
· Warren Buffet who believes he shouldn't have to be transparent about his stock purchases so he can make more money at the expense of others.
· The Google CEO, George Soros, and his son, who have had so much access and influence in the Obama and Biden White Houses.
· Bill Gates, Buffett, Soros, and others who do everything they can to keep their taxes low while falsely claiming they want to pay more and supporting Democrats who want to raise tax rates.
· Jeff Bezos, Gates, Michael Bloomberg, and others who live in multiple mansions, fly in private jets, and own yachts while supporting the green pushers and telling everyone else they must watch their carbon footprint to pretend they can control the climate. They buy worthless pieces of paper called carbon credits to pretend they care and to fake moving their carbon footprint towards zero.
· Social media billionaires at Google, Facebook, and others who intentionally bury speech from people who disagree with the government agenda, especially on COVID.
Hamas
leaders are billionaires, rolling in the dough. Can someone explain to the rest of us
why the leaders of Hamas, the world's evilest terrorist organization which has just murdered 1,400
innocent people, are actual billionaires living their best lives in Qatar? [...] They need to be
like Osama bin Laden in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks, wearing rags and hiding in some
stinking cave, staring at their stashes of child porn, not living large in Vegas-like Qatar. [...]
Instead, Hamas is loaded with characters like this guy, Hamas leader Khalid Mishal, who's worth
more than $2 billion, living in the lap of luxury, and getting glamour shots in Vanity Fair
and this magazine cover satire. Why [...] is that going on? The 1,400 torture-murders
they planned and executed in Israel, and the 200 hostages they are holding now in their filthy
tunnels under Gaza City pretty well puts them in the same category as Mexico's evil cartels.
Burning babies and beheading 10-year-olds is what they do, not what normal people do. They
are the vilest of criminals and need to be completely rubbed out. Yet nobody in Qatar seems
to be upset by this evil ensconced at the heart of their regime, nobody wants them out, they and
their billions seem to be as protected as ever. It's the kind of thing that makes Qatar a state
sponsor of terror, but we don't see any action from the Biden administration to make that declaration.
Liberal
billionaire commits $500 million to destroying America's coal industry.
[Scroll down] Enter Michael Bloomberg, former New York mayor, and one-time 2016
Democratic presidential nominee. Recently, Bloomberg announced a $500 million initiative
aimed at closing all remaining U.S. coal-fired power plants. Why would someone commit such
resources against an industry that has provided affordable and reliable energy for decades?
The likely culprits: greed, ego, and political influence. Bloomberg's contributions aren't
solely for environmental causes. While pinning down his full portfolio is challenging, he's
invested in natural gas, renewable energy, and media outlets such as Bloomberg Green, which promote
a green-focused narrative. It seems Bloomberg might view environmentalism not just as a cause
but also as a business venture.
Your
Tax Dollars Pay For Millionaire Democrats' Swanky D.C. Apartments. Taxpayers are
funding luxury housing accommodations for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) and over
200 other members of Congress, many of whom boast net worths over $1 million. As one of their
last actions with their majority, Democrats quietly tucked a provision into internal House rules
that grants lawmakers access to an optional $34,000 annual subsidy to pay for their Washington,
D.C., housing and meal expenses. Taxpayers have doled out over $8,700 to pay for the
democratic socialist's lodging and meals throughout the first half of 2023, records show. In
total, 113 Democrats and 104 Republicans have taken advantage of the program, raking in a combined
$1.4 million from taxpayers during the first half of 2023, House disbursement records reviewed
by the Washington Free Beacon show. Recipients of these funds include at least 17
millionaire Democrats, including Rep. Katie Porter, who reported a net worth of up to $1.8 million
in her latest financial disclosure, and House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D., Mass.), who boasts
a net worth of up to $13.5 million.
Hamas
leaders worth staggering $11B revel in luxury — while Gaza's people suffer.
While their people languish in poverty and are treated as human shields, the leaders of Hamas live
billionaire lifestyles. The terror group's three top leaders alone are worth a staggering $11 billion
between them and enjoy a life of luxury in the sanctuary of the emirate of Qatar. The emirate has
long welcomed the leaders of the terror group and installed them in its luxury hotels and villas at the
same time as hosting a vast American military presence. Now Republican Tennessee Congressman Andy
Ogles is co-sponsoring a bill that would strip Qatar of its status as a key US ally, The [New York] Post
has learned, unless it kicks out the Hamas leadership.
The
Gaza Strip is one of the poorest places on earth, but its leaders bask in huge wealth. [Tweet with video clip]
Groups
behind Israel-bashing protests backing Hamas attacks got $15M-plus from Soros.
Far-left billionaire kingmaker George Soros has funneled more than $15 million since 2016 to
groups behind this month's pro-Palestine protests, where demonstrators openly cheered Hamas
militants' craven terrorist attacks on Israel. A [New York] Post examination of Open Society
Foundations records shows Soros' grant-making network gave $13.7 million of the money through Tides
Center, a deep-pocketed lefty advocacy group that sponsors several nonprofits who've justified
Hamas' bloody attacks while claiming Palestinians obsessed with the eradication of the Jewish state
are the real victims.
Hamas
Big-Wigs Found Living in London, One With a Home Subsidized by UK Taxpayers. Hamas
heavyweight Muhammad Qassem Sawalha, 62, was discovered living in London in a home bankrolled by UK
citizens. Here's the kicker: he lives in a Jewish neighborhood. Apparently, living
amongst Jews isn't so bad if a huge chunk of your home is paid for with someone else's
cheddar. Sawalha and his wife scored a tasty $136,500 taxpayer-funded kiss when they bought a
two-story home in London for $390,000. The house is paid off. Sawalha, who is wanted in
Israel for being a member of Hamas, skedaddled to London using a cousin's passport in the 1990s and
snagged his own British passport in the early 2000s. A 2004 indictment from the U.S.
Department of Justice (DOJ) claims Sawalha engaged in clandestine meetings to discuss
"revitalizing" terror attacks in Israel as well as creating a money-laundering scheme to supply
funds for activities in Gaza as well as the West Bank. But wait, there's more. More
terrorists! Sawalha has a Hamas homie named Zaher Birawi, who lives nearby. Israel
named Birawi as a "senior Hamas operative in Europe." He is also a trustee of a British
charity called "Education Aid for Palestinians."
American
Oligarchy: Meet the Billionaire Mega-Donors Behind the Biden Presidency. Joe
Biden is the quintessential oligarch. He has empowered America's moneyed elite, and they have
empowered him. Biden's 2020 campaign was the first to raise over $1 billion. Democrats
raised $600 million more in "dark money" than Republicans in 2020. Look for those numbers to
explode even higher in 2024. It is important to understand a key principle in modern
Democratic politics: if you're not at the table, you're on the menu. Today, it's Joe Biden's
table, and he's happy to provide the entertainment. Remember, unlike Joe Biden, all of these
oligarchs are good with money. They aren't giving away tens of millions of dollars out of the
goodness of their heart. They want something in return. In each and every case, Joe
Biden serves a purpose for them — maybe many purposes.
ACLU,
George Soros and Planned Parenthood Pour Millions Into Ohio for Issue 1. Shadowy
out-of-state groups are pouring money into the campaign to enshrine a radical new abortion law in
Ohio's constitution, but will voters fall for it? In the wake of Roe v. Wade's
defeat in the Supreme Court last year, leftist groups are clamoring to dramatically expand abortion
up to the day of birth in red states. In Ohio, that means pushing Issue 1 — which
would establish a right to abort babies long past the point of "fetal viability," the limit
established under Roe. [...] The Sixteen Thirty Fund, which has dumped $1.3 million into
the race, is the biggest lobbying arm of the world's largest "dark money" network, run by Arabella
Advisors. The Arabella network spends billions of dollars each election cycle — in
2020, twice as much as the RNC and DNC combined — electing Democrats and
attacking Republicans. It's the Left's ultimate secret weapon: A nexus of groups that
quietly pour millions of dollars into campaigns to flip red states blue and shift the country leftward.
Michael
Bloomberg's $1 Billion Assault on The Electric Grid. Climate-related philanthropy in
America has been hijacked by a radical agenda that will hurt the affordability, reliability, and
resilience of the U.S. electric grid. More proof of that hijacking came last month when
mega-billionaire Michael Bloomberg announced that Bloomberg Philanthropies would give $500 million
to the Beyond Carbon campaign. The goal of the effort is to shutter the bulk of our most
important power plants — the ones that burn coal and natural gas and are therefore
dispatchable and weather-resilient — and, in Bloomberg's words, replace them with
"renewable energy." The September 20 announcement quotes Bloomberg as saying the
$500 million gift marks a "new chapter in the Beyond Carbon campaign, as we move to finish the
job. By working with our partners across the country, we hope to transform the way we power
America by moving beyond fossil fuels and replacing them with renewable energy." The press
release goes on to say the goal is to "shut down every last U.S. coal plant," and "slash gas plant
capacity in half, and block all new gas plants."
Why
are globalist elites trying to eliminate their fellow man? Who is the biggest funder
of anti-people population control programs in the world? If you answered, "The U.S.
government," you would be wrong. A small group of the world's wealthiest individuals and
their foundations collectively fronts more money for the abortion, sterilization, and contraception
of the human race than Washington. These men all have billions on their minds, and not just
in their bank accounts. They believe that overpopulation is the greatest threat to the
planet, the single most important issue facing mankind today. And they put their money where
their mouth is where the abortion, sterilization, and contraception of the human race is
concerned. At the top of the list is Warren Buffett, who may be the single largest funder of
abortion in human history. Just this year Buffett gave away a total of some $4.6 billion, a
substantial chunk of which will wind up in the coffers of the abortion industry.
Climate
Change Lies. We Americans have become extremely worried in the last two and a half
years because we have suffered a dramatic fall in our standard of living and personal safety.
We sense a steep decline in America's national and economic security and are at last beginning to
understand how it happened and who was responsible. Those who are fundamentally destroying
the United States are legion, and their names and organizations are at last becoming known.
The organizations include progressive federal and state governments bent on circumventing our
Constitutional liberties, a military more concerned about diversity than defending the Republic, a
mainstream media in the pocket of special interests like Big Pharma, and billionaire oligarchs like
Bill Gates who are only interested in accumulating more wealth, depopulating the planet with lethal
vaccines, and indulging their evil fantasies on Epstein's island. Tools they use to
accomplish those goals include global lockdowns, deadly vaccines, money laundering in wars fought
in corrupt countries, and the lie that rising temperatures will soon destroy life on our planet.
Biographer:
Sam Bankman-Fried Sought to Pay Trump $5 Billion Not to Run for Reelection. Sam
Bankman-Fried, the disgraced former CEO of FTX, sought to pay former President Donald Trump $5 billion
not to run for president again, according to biographer Michael Lewis. Lewis clarified that
he was not sure if the former FTX CEO, who has been indicted for many alleged crimes surrounding
the collapse of the FTX digital currency exchange, actually spoke to Trump or Trump's team.
Bill
Gates — The Man Behind The Curtain. To this day, some individuals still
see Bill Gates as the philanthropic saviour, the man who gave up millions of dollars to offer
protection to the people. They are mainly those people who choose not to see that a Trojan
horse has come stampeding into our lives under the guise of a deadly virus. They will dismiss
as conspiracy theories any talk of a global coup d'état and supranational organisations that
have interfered with our governments worldwide, our lives, relationships and health in order to
centralize power and establish a planetary dictatorship. Conversely, there are others that
see Bill Gates as a man with a lust for control and power, akin to the man behind the curtain in
the fictitious OZ. He has even been thought of as a would be dictator.
Dianne
Feinstein leaves stunning properties to her and billionaire husband's feuding daughters.
Dianne Feinstein was one of the Senate's richest members throughout her trailblazing
career — thanks to her billionaire husband. While others in Congress struggled to
make ends meet, sleeping in their offices to save on rent, Feinstein commuted from San Francisco
aboard a Gulfstream G650 jet (pre-owned, the aircraft averages $61,815,000), sported expensive
jewelry and flitted from one mansion to the next. Her last disclosure, in May, put her net
worth at $69.4 million.
Has
Bill Gates bailed out on the climate crisis? At the New York Post this week, the
Blogfather, Glenn Reynolds, poses the question, "Has the air gone out of the climate crisis
balloon?" He suggests that it's at least deflating a bit, along with several other panic-inducing
liberal themes of the moment. (I would argue that the "gun violence crisis" is still going full
steam ahead on the left, but perhaps that's the exception to the rule.) He points to a few examples
where leftists seem to be losing their endless enthusiasm for screaming about climate change and
making demands that everyone must sacrifice everything they hold dear to Save The Planet.
Greta Thunberg doesn't seem to be drawing the same rave reviews that she used to routinely
enjoy. But perhaps more than anyone else, Instapundit points to Bill Gates, who has recently
started saying some things that are very unpopular on the left. And almost nobody from his
camp appears to be calling him out over it. It's just strange.
Michael
Bloomberg pumps $500 million into [a] bid to close all US coal plants. Former New
York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced on Wednesday he will pump $500 million into the next
phase of his energy transition campaign, aiming to shut down "every last" coal plant in the United
States and slash gas-fired capacity in half by 2030. The $500 million infusion into his
decade-long Beyond Carbon initiative aims to "finish the job on coal" by working with state and
local organizations to force the closure of the roughly 150 coal plants that have not yet retired,
slash current gas generation in half and block the construction of new gas-fired plants.
Of
Course Public Offices Are for Sale. When House speaker Kevin McCarthy finally got
around to initiating an impeachment inquiry into Chinese Puppet Joe Biden, he somehow managed to
keep a straight face while claiming that America's "public offices are not for sale."
Really? That must come as a bit of a shock to all the people who regularly purchase them.
Most of our overseas ambassadors hold their prestigious positions not because they are adept
diplomats with years of experience under their belts, but rather because they have been longtime
supporters of the president and generous party donors. Cushy cabinet jobs often go to
political cronies, competitors cajoled into selling their support, or Mitch McConnell's wife.
The ranks of the federal Judiciary are filled with ideological partisans whose nominations to the
bench coincidentally followed years of maxing out campaign contribution limits to lawmakers sitting
on powerful committees. Presidential candidates raise hundreds of millions, if not billions,
of dollars from aristocratic families, corporations, unions, and special interests of every
kind — all of whom expect a certain return on their investments.
Mountain
of evidence points to George Soros's leverage over the Biden Administration. Who
besides the Chinese Communist Party and Barack Obama are filling the vacuum of power at 1600
Pennsylvania Ave.? One should never overlook one sugar daddy with deep pockets for
death-to-America causes who also gets results. Here's an updated overview of how globalist
billionaire George Soros is able to exert control over the installed presidency of Joe Biden and
his vice president Kamala Harris. [...]
The
Hypocrisy Of The Tech Mavens Who Want To Control You. [T]here's an entire universe
out there of people who are, by every objective measure, exponentially smarter than I am, but who
think exactly the opposite of the way I do on practically every single issue. [...] They're
animated by and put their money behind things like "Climate Change," "DEI," and open borders.
Most supported the BLM scam, and many of their companies regularly censor conservative
speech. They support things like the Paris Climate Accords, the WHO, and were largely all in
on the COVID scam. Most of all, they support Democrats who push for higher taxes, defunding
the police, and more government regulations, particularly on businesses. This is where the
trouble comes in. These guys are really smart. They've succeeded in ways few human
beings ever have. They've become rich and powerful beyond belief. And they all did it
in the United States... yet they support policies that are not only antithetical to traditional
American values, but they also actively subvert the framework that allowed them to succeed in the
first place.
Oprah
Receiving Massive Blowback Over Lahaina Fundraiser Racket. Oprah has apparently
disabled comments on her Instagram posts shortly after the billionaire asked for donations to help
victims of the Maui wildfires. Oprah was joined by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson last week to
solicit donations after claiming they both contributed $10 million kickstart the People's Fund of
Maui. [Tweet] But the duo, who shared a combined net worth of $2.8 billion, were
dragged online by users for forking over only 0.2% and 1.9% of their net worth for the fundraiser.
Teachers
Union Pres. Who Conflated Private Education With Facism Sends Her Son To Elite Private Catholic
School. Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) president Stacy Davis-Gates sends her
son to an elite private Catholic school, despite having voiced her opposition to school choice
policies in the past, according to multiple reports. Davis-Gates reportedly sends her son to
the well-regarded De La Salle Institute, nestled on Chicago's south side, according to Wirepoints.
The private Catholic school costs $14,750 in tuition per year, according to their website.
Tragic
Maui fire has Oprah's brand up in flames. Only Oprah Winfrey's problem seems to be
one of self immolation by association vice actual flames tickling her toes. For such a
carefully cultivated image after all these decades, old girl's been coming apart at the seams these
past few weeks, with jarring, insensitive gazillionaire misstep after misstep. The things
that might have passed unnoticed otherwise have been magnified by the enormous loss of life and
property, the scope of the overall devastation, parcity of the emergency and relief response, and
miserable performance of elected officials.
Bill
Gates is funding a scheme to cut down and bury trees to 'reduce global warming.'.
Kodama Systems, with the injection of $6.6 million in seed funding from Gates' Breakthrough Energy
and others, wants to cut down 70 million acres of Western forest over the next decade, according
to reports. [Tweet with video clip] After cutting the (mostly Californian) trees,
Kodama plans on burying them, allegedly to prevent them from "spewing" carbon back into the
air. The coordinators of the project are choosing to reap the salable carbon offsets by
burying the biomass in dry & oxygen-free "earthenvaults" instead of using it for conventional
means, like timber for housing.
Bill
Gates and others behind massive deforestation scheme, for 'global warming,' of
course. As reported by Joshua Philipp, [...] Bill Gates's company Breakthrough Energy
Ventures is a main player behind a new deforestation scheme. Per Philipp, Gates and "other
investors" have contributed $6.6 million in a "stealth effort" to a California startup called
Kodama Systems, which is offering a "novel" approach to the net zero agenda. Wondering who
those "other investors" might be? Well, for one, a woman named Jackie Kossman. Kossman
is a partner at Congruent Ventures, a San Francisco-based investment firm, and according to her
company bio, she previously worked for In-Q-Tel (the venture capital firm of U.S. government
intelligence agencies, notably the CIA). So what does Kodama Systems have in mind?
Well, the company is launching efforts to deforest about seventy million acres, or around
110,000 square miles of trees, and then bury the biomass, all with the help of the U.S.
Forest Service. (For reference, the entire state of Nevada is also 110,000 square
miles.) Yes, really, they're going to waste the wood instead of turning it into lumber,
despite there apparently being a "housing crisis" with not enough homes on the market, and despite
sky-high lumber prices, allegedly due to supply and demand and supply chain issues.
GOP
Megadonors Are Secretly Courting Two Popular Governors To Challenge Trump. GOP
megadonors are privately courting popular Republican Govs. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia and
Brian Kemp of Georgia to challenge former President Donald Trump in 2024, Axios reported
Saturday. As Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has struggled to gain traction in the polls
against the former president, the Republican contributors are seeking other potential alternatives
to jump in last minute, according to Axios. Though Youngkin and Kemp have both previously
ruled out a 2024 bid, several sources told the outlet they're keeping the door open as top donors
reach out. "People are desperate. They are concerned with what could happen if Trump wins
the primaries and they want a viable alternative," a Republican source told Axios.
The
Economy's 'Red Death' Will Come for DC, Too. The rift between Beltway conventional
wisdom and the day-to-day reality of ordinary Americans is growing into an unbridgeable crevasse.
While families struggle to afford food, fuel, and essentials for young children, the White House
continues to assure Americans that the economy has never been better. While the
Department of Homeland Security insists that America's borders are secure and that illegal
immigration is under control, small towns across the country struggle to deal with spiking fentanyl
deaths, transnational crime networks, and forced multiculturalism that often drives a wedge within
communities. International trade deals that were negotiated and signed by residents of D.C.
have hollowed out once thriving industrial towns and left multiple generations of blue-collar
workers poor and adrift. The "Rust Belt" has never been more corroded, yet Wall Street and
Washington seem to be doing better than ever. It is as if the wealthiest and most influential
Americans have holed themselves up inside a luxurious castle, so that they may ignore the
devastation afflicting the rest of the country.
They
Break Every Family, Every Town, Every Country. This is the second in an August series
about the Head of the Snake, an examination of the cabal that is behind the Great Reset, the Covid
and Global Warming hoaxes, and every profit-bonanza war of the last thirty, if not 500 years, but
especially Ukraine. They call themselves by a proliferation of names: the Olympians, the
Elect, Bilderbergers, the 300, demi-gods, the Black Nobility, other silly secret names that must
not be spoken. They are secret because their intent is evil. They practice the
occult — foolish and irresponsible — they are "Masons" of the crazy branch, a
cult that operates entirely in the dark and entirely for themselves. They are as power-hungry
as Hillary Clinton and far more corrupt than she or Biden or his dreadful son.
'Elites'
cannot hide from the consequences of their actions. [Scroll down]
Together, central banks and global health authorities are the gateway drugs for communism.
The party will take care of all your needs. The World Health Organization will decide
whether you can leave your homes. The climate scientists will tell you how much food you may
eat and how much fuel you may use to stay warm. In every iteration of Marxist hubris, the
promise is framed a little differently. However it is formulated, it always brings tragedy.
Marxist socialism, communism, planned sustainability, new world order, global
government — whatever it is called, it remains "rule by the elite." Any system that
refuses to protect individual freedoms and empowers a small coalition of authorities to control
everyone else should simply be called "elitism." The distinction between political parties becomes
meaningless when "elites" learn, as Lenin did, that the "best way to control the opposition is to
lead it." Forget Republicans versus Democrats. The real contest is between regular people
and the privilege-hoarding "elites" who maintain a stranglehold over government.
The
splooting squirrel: a true picture of climate change alarmists. By the turn of the
21st century, the American people were already afflicted with climate grievance hustlers. It
would be laughable to hear AOC tell us that the world has only twelve years left if she didn't have
so much influence in the world of politics. It would be beyond hysterically funny to see
Greta Thunberg hiding from her prediction in 2018 that the world would end in five years if we
didn't stop using fossil fuels — except that this disturbed girl is worshiped all over
the world in the church of climate change. It's worth noting that both these women enjoy very
posh lives. AOC wears designer clothes worth more than I make in a month when she goes to
functions where tickets cost more than I make in a year. She doesn't pay for these
things. She just gets them from people who adore her. Greta Thunberg travels the world
in a luxury yacht because she refuses to fly. She didn't work to earn the yacht. It's
just supplied to her with a crew. The crew flies to get to the yacht when Greta gets
wanderlust, and they fly home when she's done traveling. That's a lot of carbon emissions to
support Greta's carbon-free traveling, but I digress.
America
Must Reclaim What the Left Has Attempted to Destroy. Today, we think of America's
Revolution, founding, and history as a heroic story about the triumph of the human spirit: the
little guy standing up to the bullies, fighting for freedom against oppressors. But as you
know, there are always some people who don't like a David and Goliath story: the Goliaths. [...]
For two centuries, every generation of global elites looked down on American freedom —
and ended up looking up at our success. Now in the 21st century, the so-called "Great
Awokening" is just the latest iteration of the empire striking back. From Washington and Wall
Street to Beijing and Brussels, they are coming for our freedom, for our Constitution, for our
faith, and, yes, even for our children — all in the name of global order. They
want to take from us our birthright as Americans. They say they want us to become "citizens
of the world." But in truth, they want us to be subjects of them.
BBC
Climate Editor back home... from 1,800-MILE Spain jaunt by plane. The BBC was accused
of hypocrisy after its Climate Editor jetted off to Spain to report on its heatwave —
which he blamed on carbon emissions. The Corporation repeatedly refused to say if Justin
Rowlatt, 57, had made the 1,800 mile round trip to Spain by plane. But our exclusive picture
shows the moment he arrived back at his £2.8 million north London home on Thursday
afternoon — with Iberia Airlines bag tags attached to his backpack.
Running for
President Inc.. Every four years, America holds a presidential election, and every
four years a bunch of people with no chance of winning enter the race and raise money. They
do so because they can spend the money they raise pretty much as they want. It beats working
for a living. The federal government used to match some of the money raised, which was a
porch light to these moths. Obama killed it in 2008 by refusing the money. He refused
because the matching money placed restrictions on his fund-raising. His opponent, world-class
mooch John McCain, took the money because it was there. [...] Obama and McCain actually had a
chance to win that year, as did Hillary. But Governors Bill Richardson and Tom Vilsack, and
Senators Evan Bayh and John Edwards had no chance in heck. Still, they ran, raised money, and
spent millions.
Disney
Heiress Arrested at Climate Protest Against Private Jets at Hamptons Airport. Abigail
Disney, the granddaughter of Roy O. Disney and self-described Patriotic Millionaire, was arrested
Friday as she joined a climate protest at an airport in the Hamptons. Fox News reports the
left-wing heiress added her voice alongside members of New York Communities for Change, Planet Over
Profit, and Sunrise Movement NYC, on the East End of Long Island.
The
Brutal Crushing of the Lower 50%. Last week the WEFers held their summer camp in
China. More to come, they warned us. More pandemics, more catastrophic global warming,
more inflation, hell on wheels, they promise us, Armageddon is coming. Be very afraid.
The following was a particularly lovely event: "How to Stay Within Planetary Boundaries -
Carrot or Stick?" which focused on whether to incentivize or force compliance with "climate goals".
It was hosted by some joker who edits a magazine called Nature Energy, no doubt funded by
the WEF and read by exactly nobody.
Messaging
vs. reality: Democrats leave ordinary Americans behind. A car in front of me recently
at a traffic light had a political sticker on its rear bumper that read, "Leave no one
behind — vote Democrat." The message isn't new, and I've seen the sticker before,
but I found it freshly notable because it has surely never been more obviously false than it is
today. It expressed the quintessence of the party's message that Democrats are for the
masses, the millions of little guys, rather than the big guys who have too much power
already. The Blue party supposedly considers everyone and ensures that all stragglers are
given a helping hand. In one form or another, that's the core of almost any Democratic slogan
you read or debating point you hear expressed by their legion of TV pundits. It is the
justification for every item on the Left's agenda — we're making sure no one is
stranded, hurt, forgotten, or dismissed. But the reality is that there is an adamantine vein
of contempt in Left-liberal politics for the opinions and concerns of ordinary people, who are
regarded as too stupid or selfish to know what is good for them.
The
Left's New Sugar Daddy Alex Soros Had 20 Meetings at Joe Biden's White House (So Far).
Alex Soros, the son and heir apparent to billionaire left-wing philanthropist George Soros, had 20
meetings at President Joe Biden's White House with Biden administration officials, according to the
latest White House visitor logs. According to the visitor logs, the younger Soros has visited
the Biden White House 15 times, met with officials 20 times, and attended a state dinner for
French President Emmanuel Macron at which President Biden was in attendance.
Michelle
Obama Takes Time From Opulent Greek Isles Vacation to Tweet About Oppression.
Everyone in life faces disadvantages of one form or another. Almost all children get called an
unpleasant name or two in grade school. Some are oppressed by a drunk, abusive, or absent parent.
Others may be trapped in horrific schools or extreme poverty. Still others are simply not gifted with
high IQs or the ambition to work hard and succeed. The list of reasons why most people don't go to
Ivy League schools and then on to lucrative careers is long, and "oppression" comes in many forms.
If you are the first black White House family, oppression takes the shape of having only two exclusive
island waterfront mansions in which to spend your days. Sometimes, you simply must jet to the Greek
isles to vacation with your Hollywood besties at their Aegean private island manse. People
covered the former first family's sad exile these past few weeks: [...]
NY
Democrat complains about her student debt after SCOTUS ruling, gets slammed for million dollar
home. Former New York state Democrat Sen. Alessandra Biaggi took to social media
Friday to discuss the pricey student loans she had amassed during law school, despite purchasing a
$1.14 million home last summer. "In 2012, I graduated from Fordham Law School with $180,000
is student loan debt," Biaggi wrote in a tweet. "I've been paying loans for 11 years. Even
paid two of them off completely." "In 2023, my balance is $206,000," added Biaggi, who
represented New York's 34th district during her three-year tenure in the state Senate. The
remarks from Biaggi — who posed an unsuccessful primary challenge to former
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y., in the 2022 midterm elections — came nearly one
year after it was reported that she and her husband had purchased and moved into a $1,137,500 home
located in the state's 17th Congressional District, which she had hoped to represent in Congress.
Let
them Drink Water: Alcohol Ban at Paris Olympics for All but VIP Elites. Alcohol
consumption at the 2024 Paris Olympics will be restricted to special VIP areas only, a report
Tuesday confirmed, meaning the elites can happily quaff Champagne while those in the cheap seats
will be forced to look on and sip water. Thanks to an edict called Elvin's Law which began in
1991, alcohol sales have long been banned to the general public in France's sports stadiums.
Justin
Trudeau dropped $61,000 in taxpayer money for a 5-star hotel stay to attend an anti-poverty gala in
NYC. If there is any one indicator that those comprising the political establishment
are nothing more than self-interested wannabe celebrities, you'd be hard-pressed to determine
whether it is their over-the-top infatuation with big time actors and reality television
personalities, or their devotion to the high life, despite their failure to legitimately earn
it. Nearly two months ago, an organization called Global Citizen held a ritzy, star-studded
anti-poverty function in New York City, an event at which Canada's Justin Trudeau can be seen next
to Hollywood heavyweight Hugh Jackman in an embarrassing display of fanboy-ism; [...]
BlackRock
Recruiter Spills Info on Company's World Impact. James O'Keefe and O'Keefe Media
Group on Tuesday dropped their biggest story yet. OMG released footage of a BlackRock
recruiter Serge Varlay spilling the beans on the company's world impact. BlackRock is one of
the largest (manages $20 trillion) and most powerful (and dangerous) asset and investment managers
in the world. Serge Varlay said BlackRock doesn't want to be in the news and they don't want
people talking about them. "It's not who the president is — it's who's controlling the
wallet of the president," BlackRock recruiter Serge Varlay told an undercover journalist. Serge Varlay
said all the financial institutions — hedge funds, BlackRock, the banks — buy
politicians — and US Senators are the cheapest. "These guys run the world," Varlay said.
Carpetbagger!
Dem
in Congress said the quiet part out loud on MSNBC, that Trump 'needs to be shot'.
Call it a "Freudian slip," where a person accidentally says what she really is thinking.
Stacey Plaskett is a nonvoting member of Congress, a delegate representing the US Virgin Islands
in the House of Representatives. She was born and grew up in New York City, and graduated
from the elite and expensive Choate Rosemary Hall prep school in Connecticut before going on the
School of Foreign Service at Georgetown and law school at American University. She says that
she and her family frequently visited St. Croix, where her parents are from, in her childhood,
and that apparently was good enough for the voters to choose her to represent them in Congress.
Four
More Startling and Uncomfortable Ways Today's Leftists Emulate the Nazis. [#1] Big
corporations collaborated with the Nazis and now with big business collaborates with the
Democrats. Far-left concerns such as Ben & Jerry's, Starbucks, Nike, Ford, Kohl's, Pfizer,
Gillette, PayPal and most prominently Target are pushing leftist dogma. They are
collaborating with the Democrat party just as many corporations - Volkswagen, Hugo Boss, and IBM
collaborated with the National Socialist Workers' (Nazi) Party. The egregious actions of
far-left corporations like Target and many others absolutely destroy one of the authoritarians' big
lies about the pro-freedom right. People imbued with the precepts of individual liberty and
limited government supposedly are somehow connected to totalitarian collectivist groups displaying
the exact opposite of those values. Since the pro-freedom right favors economic liberty and
free enterprise, we're closely tied to business. The vague leftist 'logic' is that this means
that a government set with public/private partnerships is somehow 'right wing'. So, keep this
in mind whenever leftists bring up this ever-vague assertion that flies in the face of facts.
It
Was Always Only About Power With the Left. Why do so many liberal climate-activist
grandees fly on private jets? Or why do those who profited from Black Lives Matter have a
propensity for estate living? Or why do the community-activist Obamas prefer to live in not
one, but three mansions? The answer is that calls for radical equity, "power for the people,"
and mandated equality are usually mostly sloganeering for those who enjoy power and the lucre it
brings, and their wish is to augment both for themselves. The result is that the issue du
jour of mandated equality often becomes secondary if not irrelevant. There is neither
fear of inconstancy nor hypocrisy, given the central theme that governs a leftist party line is
political utility — or the ends of power always more than justify the hypocritical means
used to obtain it.
The
Soros Activist at the Heart of California's $800 Billion Slave Reparations. In 2021,
the Equal Justice Institute celebrated a settlement with the University of California in which the
system agreed to stop using SAT and ACT test scores, objective merit-based metrics, in college
admissions, until 2025. The racialist lawsuit claimed that test scores violate the California
Constitution's Equal Protection Clause as "indicators" of race. The "SAT is a barrier to
equal opportunity", Lisa Holder, a counsel with the Equal Opportunity Institute, claimed.
Like a lot of destructive leftist activists, Lisa Holder received a Soros Justice Fellowship from
the radical billionaire's Open Society Foundation. The similarity in the names of the Equal
Justice Society and Soros' Open Society Foundation is more than strictly coincidental as Soros was
one of the EJS' founding donors. Beyond drawing six figures in compensation from the Equal
Justice Society, Lisa Holder has her own law practice that focuses on racial issues and
occasionally draws a check for teaching at UCLA.
American Despotism.
The upper echelons of the ruling class come from wealthy cosmopolitans (as opposed to the
rich in rural areas), those in the top .01 percent (about 23,000 individuals, or .007 percent
of the population worth over $10 million) who control each fiefdom, limit access to its ranks, and
jockey for political influence and benefits. Almost 25 percent of those in the Forbes 400
derived their wealth from finance, especially hedge funds and private equity, which grows faster than the
economy, while 15 percent came from technology companies and 10 percent from food and
beverage. While the Rothschild, Walton, Koch, and Mars families manage and maintain their wealth,
a significant number of the Fortune 400, such as Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jack Dorsey, rose
through skills in the technologies that have globalized and enhanced business growth. But one
cannot simply look at profits. Wealth guarantees political influence but not political power —
it is necessary but not sufficient. The wealthy seek to retain control of their fiefdoms by funding
political initiatives, buying off politicians, and developing and maintaining close ties with the
decision-makers who craft and enforce the rules they agree to play by.
WEF
Lizard Calls For Massive Depopulation Of The Earth, Says Over 80% Needs to Go. A
celebrated member of the globalist World Economic Forum (WEF) has called for a staggering 86
percent reduction in the population of humans, arguing that the goal can be achieved "peacefully."
Dennis Meadows, one of the main authors of the Club of Rome's 1972 pro-depopulation book "The
Limits to Growth." Meadows argues that most of the world's population must be wiped out so
that the survivors can "have freedom" and a "high standard of living." [Video clip]
Dem
Megadonor Funding Trump Rape Lawsuit Visited Jeffrey Epstein's 'Pedophile Island'. A
Democratic megadonor who is helping bankroll a rape and defamation lawsuit against former president
Donald Trump visited the private Caribbean island of Jeffrey Epstein years after Epstein registered
as a sex offender for soliciting underage girls. LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman visited
Epstein's compound in the Virgin Islands in 2014, known as "Pedophile Island" because he allegedly
housed young girls there. Hoffman may have also stayed overnight at Epstein's New York City
residence in December 2014, according to the Wall Street Journal. Those visits came
years after it was publicly revealed that Epstein pleaded guilty on charges that he solicited sex
from underage girls. Hoffman has been funding former journalist E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit
against Trump since 2020.
The
New Robber Barons. A free country will always have its robber barons. But not
all such barons are equal. Nor are they all equally bad — or good. The title
was not meant to be a compliment when it was first given to the Rockefellers and Carnegies of the
late 19th century. Curiously, it has not been attached at all to today's Big Tech barons.
[...] Today's tech barons — Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the like — are
much more powerful, much more insidious, and much more dangerous than their counterparts of long
ago. They are also just as willing as any Rockefeller to crush their competitors and just as
committed as any Carnegie to controlling their workers. More than that, they are also willing
to do the bidding of America's enemies. Witness Apple's kowtowing to the "request" of the
Chinese communist regime that it shut down communication among Hong Kong anti-regime protesters.
Congress'
unconstitutional pay scam gets members $34K raises. Thanks to a backroom deal, House
members can now claim automatic reimbursement of $258 a night for lodging expenses and $79 a day
for meals in DC — even if they don't spend a dime. But though House members can
pocket up to $34,000 a year in additional tax dollars, it's not a pay raise because politicians are
entitled to use false labels for everything they do. There is a pity party in Washington: You
weren't invited, but you'll pay the bill.
Who
Runs The World? If you've been wondering how the world economy has been hijacked and
humanity has been kidnapped by a completely bogus narrative, look no further than this video by
Dutch creator, Covid Lie. What she uncovers is that the stock of the world's largest
corporations are owned by the same institutional investors. They all own each other.
This means that "competing" brands, like Coke and Pepsi aren't really competitors, at all, since
their stock is owned by exactly the same investment companies, investment funds, insurance
companies, banks and in some cases, governments. This is the case, across all
industries. As she says: "The smaller investors are owned by larger investors.
Those are owned by even bigger investors. The visible top of this pyramid shows only two
companies whose names we have often seen... They are Vanguard and BlackRock. The power of
these two companies is beyond your imagination. Not only do they own a large part of the
stocks of nearly all big companies but also the stocks of the investors in those companies.
This gives them a complete monopoly.["]
Obama
and his friends are a perfect illustration of the modern-day elitist Democrat. Just
yesterday was saw more proof that the mainstream media in the U.S. and beyond are P.R. agencies for
the Democrats. The media gave great prominence to former president Obama, filmmaker Steven
Spielberg, and rock star Bruce Springsteen making a surprise appearance at a Barcelona restaurant
with a last-minute dinner reservation on Thursday. The BBC carried details about the
restaurateur being surprised by the visit and what he served his guests. There were details
about the monument that the Obamas, Spielberg, and Springsteen visited. [Photo] [...] This is
the modern Democrat party. There is no connection between what they say and what they
are. There is no connection between what they practice and what they practice.
Hypocrisy is their religion. When Michelle Obama and the Democrats pushes for diversity she
know that none of her rich white friends will ever be affected.
What
leftist insurrection? Nothing to see here! Gallup found that 46% of state
government employees identify as Democrat and 24% as Republican, the rest as independent (most
likely to conceal partisanship). Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Twitter
employees and leadership donate almost exclusively to Democrats. In the 2022 midterms,
Twitter employees donated 99% to Democrats. The NEA teachers' union in 2020-2021 donated
$374 [million] to political — i.e., Democrat — causes, making 32% of its
expenditures. Nine percent of its support went to direct assistance for its members. It
is quite apparent that the left comprises half the electorate, progressive politicians, the federal
bureaucracy, the media, and the education system.
Republicans
Wide-Open Door to Win in 2024. Democrats have left the back door off the hinges with
working-class, middle-class, and even suburban voters as they have morphed into the party of the
front-door rich and elite. Their policies increasingly reflect this new dynamic and, media
tropes aside, Republicans can pounce on this wide-open opportunity with aggressive, disciplined
messaging encompassing plenty of strategic punching back. The media is working overtime to
bury this truth about the Democratic Party, but with every election, the Republican Party is
becoming the de facto party of the middle class, working class, and working minorities,
while the Democratic Party is increasingly the party of wealthy white elites.
Gates
funds millions to NGO claiming kids born sexual, 10-year-olds should learn about 'commercial sex
work'. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation donates millions annually to a
nongovernmental organization which claims that children are born sexual and should learn about
"commercial sex work" under 10 years of age. The International Planned Parenthood
Federation (IPPF) — a separate entity from the U.S. nonprofit — wields
significant influence on global sex education. The NGO comprises 120 independent
organizations in over 146 countries and has received — including its European
network — over $80M from Gates. Other significant donors included the World Health
Organization. A toolkit released in 2017 showed an insight into how the NGO teaches sex
education to children around the globe.
A
Billionaire Progressive Has Transformed America — by Destroying It. He's
the biggest donor to the Democratic Party. He spent millions to elect district attorneys who
are freeing felons to wreak havoc in American cities. Evidence of his influence is everywhere
you look, from Ukraine to the U.N. And his billions back everything from the U.S. media to the
climate change agenda. The 92-year-old's legacy will outlive even his fortune. So
what's motivating George Soros to punish the country that took him in? [Video clip]
How
Walmart Pushed Arkansas Public Schools to Go Woke. In January 2020, Walmart
approached public school administrators in Bentonville, Arkansas, about hosting diversity training
sessions for the district. "We want people to feel welcomed, comfortable, and safe living
here" in Northwest Arkansas, Candice Jones, Walmart's head of diversity, emailed district leaders,
according to documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. To that end, the company
was offering to arrange teacher training sessions with a North Carolina-based consultancy known as
the Racial Equity Institute, a group "devoted to creating racially equitable organizations and systems."
Leftist
Money, Not National Mood, Drove Last Week's Election Wins. Off-year elections reflect
the clout of big-money institutions such as public employee unions, advocacy organizations, and
large corporations, with the first-named being the most powerful of all in municipal
elections. Accordingly, Chicagoans elected Brandon Johnson, a candidate to the left of
incumbent Lori Lightfoot, a radical progressive whose failures in crime control and education
caused her to miss the runoff election held April 4. Johnson defeated Paul Vallas, a
lifelong Democrat and former CEO of the Chicago Public Schools and other public school
systems. Johnson, a Cook County commissioner and former teacher and union organizer, received
powerful support from the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and other progressive organizations.
Johnson "raised some $10.1 million through March 31, and 91% came from unions, more than
half from the CTU, according to the Illinois Policy Institute," the Wall Street Journal reports.
How
the Left Uses Transgenders. In our current era of corporate fascism, which draws
heavily on the Soviet playbook for tactics and procedures, many parallels are clear. Consider
the Antifa and Black Lives Matter crowd. They function as the shock troops of the New
Age. Yes, they're shielded from legal consequences of the sundry crimes they commit in the
name of anti-racism. And their leaders and organizers are paid well and housed magnificently
(there's good money in radical action, apparently). But do you think for a minute that once
Klaus Schwab and George Soros and Bill Gates and the other world shakers have consolidated their
Great Reset, the circle of leadership will include any of those desperate, face-pierced,
pink-haired street urchins? The glass ceiling is even more evident when it comes to
transgender activists.
Son
of billionaire George Soros has visited the White House 14 times in just over a year.
The son of billionaire philanthropist George Soros made more than a dozen trips to the White House
last year as he follows in his father's footsteps as a prolific Democratic networker.
Alexander Soros, 37, frequently posts shots of himself with Democratic politicians including Nancy
Pelosi, Barack Obama and Sen. Chuck Schumer — whom he called a 'good friend.' And
recently-updated White House logs reveal he has visited at least 14 times since December 2021.
Who's
"They"? If you think "Republicans" are the solution, then you don't understand the
construct of the 'Big Club.' Political parties were created to present you with: (1) a
controlled outlet for your focus (pro-tip the Big Club "they" control it); and (2) the illusion
of choice. Now there are some differences between the two political parties —
between the two wings of the same DC vulture.
• The DNC wants power. The RNC wants money.
• The DNC uses money to get power. The RNC use power to get money.
• The ideology of the DNC drives their donor
activity. The ideology of the donors drives the RNC ideology.
This is the essential difference in their business models. This is also how the system works
when you think about 'money' and raw 'ideological power'.
Swiss
Billionaire Hansjörg Wyss Becomes Democrat Mega-Donor with Millions Funneled to Left-Wing
Groups. Billionaire Hansjörg Wyss, a Swiss national who lives in Wyoming, has
become a "Democrat-aligned mega-donor," according to the Associated Press (AP), thanks to his
funneling hundreds of millions of dollars to left-wing groups. "Newly available tax documents
show that his giving through the Berger Action Fund, which describes itself as advocating for
'solutions to some of our world's biggest problems,' swelled in 2021 to $72 million, cementing
Wyss' status as a Democratic-aligned megadonor," the AP reports.
America's
Geriatric Megalomaniacs. The root of all nation-destroying evil is the megalomaniacal
abuse of power. In the United States of 2023, no two people personify that more than
ninety-two-year-old George Soros and eighty-year-old Joe Biden, who are essentially working in
tandem to destroy the United States as founded. George Soros, despite being someone who saw
first-hand the death and destruction wrought by a megalomaniac in World War II, has become one in
his single-minded determination to be the man who reshaped the United States into a
Marxist/socialist one-party nation and permanently uprooted the Judeo-Christian foundation of
American society. To achieve this end, Soros has deviously attacked the soft underbelly of a
constitutional republic, the integrity of the voting process and confidence in an equitable justice
system. He knows that once these two pillars have collapsed, this nation will undergo an
unalterable transformation. [...] American sycophants mindlessly regurgitate the assertion that
since Soros is Jewish and survived World War II, any criticism is out-of-bounds and tantamount to
unbridled antisemitism whenever he is justifiably criticized.
Female
California police union exec, 64, is charged with running eight-year, global FENTANYL operation
from her gated community. A San Jose grandmother has allegedly been importing
fentanyl from India and other countries into the U.S. and has been using her home as a base for the
global drug operation. Joanne Marian Segovia, 64, is the executive director of the San Jose
Police Officers' Association, and was charged with attempting to unlawfully import valeryl
fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, federal prosecutors said in a statement Wednesday. If
convicted, she faces up to 20 years in prison.
Report:
George Soros Donates $1 Million to Wisconsin Democrats Ahead of State Supreme Court
Election. George Soros and other out-of-state billionaires have donated millions of
dollars to Wisconsin Democrats ahead of the upcoming state Supreme Court election — a
race which has "2024 consequences," Fox News reported on Tuesday. Soros, an infamous
left-wing financier, donated $1 million to the Democratic Party of Wisconsin on
February 22, according to campaign finance records. Illinois
Gov. J.B. Pritzker donated $1 million on March 14, and Tulsa philanthropists
Stacy and Lynn Schusterman made four donations in March totaling $1 million, after previously
donating $40,000 to the party. "Soros and Pritzker's cash accounted for roughly
30 percent of the $6.6 million in individual contributions the Wisconsin Democratic Party
raised during that time. A handful of other major liberal donors — including Karla
Jurvetson and Fred Eychaner — added hundreds of thousands of dollars," the outlet reported.
The Dark Money
Behind The Gas Bans. Last Tuesday, Rewiring America announced that it has hired
Georgia politician Stacey Abrams to help the group "launch and scale a national awareness campaign
and a network of large and small communities working to help Americans go electric." [...] Rewiring
America is part of the NGO-industrial-corporate-climate complex that, as I reported here last
month, is now spending some $4.5 billion per year to promote anti-industry policies.
While their agendas vary, the anti-industry NGOs are generally trying to mandate increased use of
weather-dependent renewables, hinder (or stop) hydrocarbon production, prevent the construction of
new hydrocarbon infrastructure, mandate building electrification, and of course, ban the use of
natural gas in homes and businesses. As I explained in January, Rewiring America's mission to
electrify everything, ban the use of natural gas in homes and businesses, (and gas stoves), is part
of a years-long, lavishly funded campaign that is being bankrolled by some of the world's richest
people. But here's the pernicious part: the big-money donors backing Rewiring America, and
other groups pushing the gas bans, are hiding their identities behind a dark money network of NGOs
that are purposely obscuring their funding and the groups they are bankrolling.
France's
Emmanuel Macron excoriated after removing luxury watch during TV interview. Social
media users were outraged by a recent clip of French President Emmanuel Macron appearing to hide a
luxury wristwatch during an interview, as pension-related protests in France intensify.
Macron appeared to take off his watch under a table during a TF1/France 2 interview. Twitter
users speculated that the president removed his watch to appear less wealthy. The Élysée
Palace made a statement to French newspaper L'Independant dismissing the rumors, saying that Macron
wanted to avoid hitting the watch on the table.
Who
is Klaus Schwab? Klaus Schwab is a German economist and engineer who is the founder
and executive chairman of WEF. Schwab is concerned about elected officials who are "too often
caught in traditional, linear (and non-disruptive) thinking or too absorbed by immediate concerns
to think strategically about the forces of disruption and innovation". Instead of trusting
the open marketplace and the established rules and customs of the Western liberal democratic
system, Schwab wants a planned economy based on what is called "public-private partnerships".
In practice, these public-private partnerships resemble fascism, which its initiator, Benito
Mussolini, described as the merger between the corporation and the state. In this spirit of
authoritarianism, Schwab works closely with China and has praised China as an optimal model.
In fact, he keeps a bust of Lenin, who imposed communism onto the Soviet Union, in his personal study[.]
Bill
Gates Calls for Sovereign Nations to Surrender Health Authority to WHO. Microsoft
co-founder Bill Gates is calling on the leaders of sovereign nations to surrender the authorities
of their countries to the World Health Organization's (WHO) "global health emergency corps."
Gates argues that the WHO should be viewed as a "fire department for pandemics" that seizes control
of nations on a global level during health emergencies. Speaking in a New York Times op-ed
published Sunday, Gates voiced his support for the WHO's Global Pandemic Treaty. The WHO's
treaty will essentially establish an unelected global regime that will override local laws with
global protocols if the United Nations agency declares a health emergency.
Black
Lives Matter and Related Causes Received Nearly $83 Billion from Corporations. The
Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and related causes received an astonishing $82.9 billion from
corporations, a new funding database from the Claremont Institute has found. The Claremont
Institute's Center for the American Way of Life explained the necessity of their report in an
article published in Newsweek, where the Center asserted that the 2020 BLM movement was about more
than just "rioting and destruction." The Center explained that "The BLM pressure campaigns,
harassment, and moral blackmail also amounted to possibly the most lucrative shakedown of corporate
America in its history."
Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez hadn't been paying the help. [Scroll down] She's got quite a
track record of not paying the help based on her appearance at the Met Gala last year, according to
revelations from the congressional ethics investigation on her. She not only took "gifts"
(really big gifts, which started with the $35,000 price of the ticket), but failed to pay in any
timely manner the staff who fluffed her up in her famous "Tax the Rich" gown that got her so much
fawning publicity. [...] This is an amazingly crummy way of treating tradespeople, who no doubt
gave their all to make Ocasio-Cortez look like a million bucks for the other Beautiful People at
that Vogue-sponsored gala. Ocasio-Cortez makes a six-figure congressional salary, so we know
she had the means to pay. She just didn't want to, and had there not been a congressional
ethics investigation, she might not have. Most of these people who went unpaid for months
weren't high-paid workers, as Nicole Gelinas wrote in her excellent description of the scandal for
the New York Post.
AOC:
Tax the Rich, Except For Me. In socialist countries, the political elites nobly and
selflessly refrain from enjoying the fruits of the workers' paradise they create. Instead of
living in soulless apartment blocks, eating stale and unpalatable scraps, and toiling all day at
state-owned factories for the sole benefit of the state itself, they luxuriate in magnificent
dwellings and feast on lobster and caviar. The rules are for those who actually believe in
the socialist propaganda or who have no choice but to comply. Those who actually make the
rules in the dictatorship of the proletariat don't feel any obligation to live as if they really
were proletarians. It works the same way among socialists in the U.S., as has been made
abundantly clear in the congressional ethics investigation of one of the nation's foremost
spokespeople for the workers, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Swizzle Stick).
Inside
The 'Ideological' Bank Profiting Off Democrat Dollars And Funneling The Money Back To Leftist
Causes. Amalgamated Bank, with just five branches across three cities, would seem an
unlikely mover and shaker in the world of Wall Street, let alone Washington, D.C. Yet last
fall, it successfully pressured colossal credit card companies Visa, Mastercard, and American
Express to use the financial system to track and report gun purchases. Amalgamated is "more
than a bank," says Michael Watson of the Capital Research Center. "It's a bank for an
ideological movement." This "ideological" bank holds $7 billion in deposits and manages
or maintains custody of some $51 billion. That pales in comparison to financial
institutions such as JP Morgan, with its $2.4 trillion in deposits, or the $8.6 trillion
in assets managed by BlackRock. But Amalgamated's outsize influence owes to its role as cue to
the wider corporate world given the major sources of that money — the Democratic Party,
progressive activist groups, and major labor unions.
How to Lose
in 2024. Industrial-scale fraud, committed by organized actors, accelerates over time
like a drug-resistant bacterium. If you want to know how America is going to get screwed in
2024, follow the dough. That is the Zuckerberg dough. Zuck and pals are spending tens
of millions of dollars, not padding voter rolls, not fighting lawsuits, not getting voters out
early... they are spending the dough infiltrating and controlling election commissions. For
those who think cleaning the voter rolls and voting early are enough protect 2024, our data proves
you are delusional. The Left is all in controlling election commissions. Expect Kari
Lake's outcome to move from an outlier to a standard outcome in 2024. Election commission fraud,
which we coined as sovereign fraud two years ago, has attractive characteristics for the
Left. It always works — because it is invisible.
'Woke'
Ben & Jerry's Caught Using Child Labor to Make Ice Cream. Of course, the brand has
never met a left-wing cause it didn't like, including boycotting Israel, championing illegal
immigration, and fighting for the environment. But as I have learned in my time on this earth,
the more someone tells you how woke they are, the more they want to keep hidden from you.
Ben
& Jerry's Boycotted Israel While Using Child Labor. In the United States, the leftist
brand debuted a new flavor 'Pecan Resist', and bragged that it would "resist the Trump
administration's regressive and discriminatory policies" to build a future for "refugees and
immigrants". The ugly truth behind the virtue signaling was that Ben & Jerry's depended on
migrant labor to make its overpriced ice cream. A year before Trump took office, the
progressive company faced protests by migrant workers who spoke of having to live in barns without
heat during the Vermont winter while milking cows at midnight and being injured by exploding glass
milk bottles. Ben & Jerry's claimed that it supported open borders because of the company's
"social mission" and "values". Those values were measured in the dollar and cents bottom
line. The milk that went into the company's ice cream depended on the cheap labor of those
same migrants. Open borders wasn't an abstraction, it was a steady source of labor to be
churned into ice cream.
How
Biden's 'Green Energy Economy' is Benefiting Left-Wing Billionaires. President Joe
Biden's taxpayer-funded push to build a "clean energy economy" is benefiting the left's most
prominent billionaire megadonors, including Bill Gates and Laurene Powell Jobs, a Washington
Free Beacon analysis found. Biden's Energy Department has in the last two months
announced nearly $3 billion in loans to two electric battery companies, Redwood Materials and
Ioneer, which are backed by seed funding from Gates, Jobs, and other left-wing billionaires.
Now those billionaires, who have poured millions into the effort to win Democrats power in
Washington, are likely set to see a handsome profit from their initial investment. Ioneer,
for example, won a $700 million loan from Biden and saw its stock price increase by
33 percent after the announcement. Biden's Energy Department is funding Redwood and
Ioneer through its Loan Programs Office, which is no stranger to controversy. Under former
president Barack Obama, the office approved a $529 million loan to electric car manufacturer
Fisker, which declared bankruptcy in 2013 and was subsequently sold to China.
Whitmer
Enjoys an Evening Out While 700,000 Michiganders Freeze Without Power. Leftists have
already made it abundantly clear that they don't feel bound to observe the rules they impose upon
us. Remember Nancy Pelosi's hair salon appointment while the salons were closed to other
women in 2020 because of the COVID-19 hysteria? Pelosi's nephew Gavin Newsom was likewise
caught dining at a fancy French restaurant in defiance of his own COVID protocols. And now
another star of the contemporary Left, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-FBI Kidnapping Hoax),
took Thursday evening off to head in to Detroit, where she caught a performance of the musical
"Jagged Little Pill" at the Fisher Theatre. This would have been an utterly unremarkable
incident were it not for the fact that while Whitmer was enjoying her fun-filled evening out,
700,000 Michiganders were without power, smack in the middle of winter. This, once again, is
how the Left governs.
Migrant
hotels fatten Manhattan's real estate interests — and crush its small businesses. Who says
Democrats are the party of the little guy? Turns out that Joe Biden's open borders, which has led to the creation
of migrant hotels in central Manhattan, has been a money-spigot for the city's real estate interests — and
hammered the city's little-guy small businesses. And take a wild guess as to which ones kick back campaign
donations to Democrats. [...] By importing tens of thousands of indigent foreigners into the U.S., who otherwise would
not be here, the Democrats' favorite constituency, the rich, are automatically bolstered, coming at the expense of the
small fry. The migrants amount to perfect pawns through the funnel of city contracts because no expense is spared
on migrants by the state and local governments. That cash goes to local real estate interests at full fare with no
bulk discounts given to the city. All the same, it's draining the city coffers. But instead of cutting back
on services for migrants as the money runs low, New York's Mayor Eric Adams is calling for federal funds to keep the
payments to the big guys, and he may eventually get them. As for the small business owners who rely on the tourist
trade, well, tough luck. The migrants get free meals paid for by the city, in quantities so huge they reportedly
waste tons of it daily. That doesn't matter to the big guys, who get paid up front.
Author
Matt Palumbo Reveals Why George Soros is the Most Dangerous Man in America. Matt Palumbo, author and
content manager for the Bongino Report, sat down with The Political Insider's own Brett Smith to discuss his book and
explain why he views George Soros as the most dangerous man in America. Palumbo outlined how Soros's influence on
the national stage has been somewhat muted, but it's his influence at a more local level that has been most destructive.
Smith notes that Palumbo, author of the Publishers Weekly best-selling book, The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the
Secret Network of George Soros, has detailed how the left-wing billionaire is a danger to the nation.
Closing
In on the Classified Cover-up. At the center of the Biden document cover-up is the question of who blocked
the National Archives and Records Administration from informing the U.S. public about the classified records found in
the president's office in early November. The archives' general counsel told members of the House Committee on
Oversight and Accountability that he couldn't divulge that information, but GOP House leadership concluded that only
Attorney General Merrick Garland or Biden himself could have given those orders. But there's a third powerful name
in play, this one from outside of the government: David Rubenstein. Co-founder of the Washington, D.C.-based
private equity firm the Carlyle Group, Rubenstein is one of the archives' most generous patrons.
World
Economic Forum secures a seat on the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal
Government. In September of 2017, Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, delivered a lecture
on "strengthening collaboration in a fractured world" (what a handy euphemism for global tyranny!) before a group of
students and faculty at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. [...] Now, the North American roster for
the latest class of Schwab's Young Global Leaders is out, and one individual in particular stood out to me. He's a
Texan Democrat, his name is Colin Allred, and he's sitting on the newly-conceived Select Subcommittee on the
Weaponization of the Federal Government. [...] I find it interesting that of all the committees in the House,
Allred found his way onto this one.
The Billionaires
Behind The Gas Bans. The Climate Imperative Foundation is the newest and richest anti-hydrocarbon,
anti-natural gas group you've never heard of. How rich is Climate Imperative? According to the latest
report from Guidestar, the group took in $221 million in its first full year of operation. (Guidestar calls
the income "gross receipts.") That means that Climate Imperative, which is less than three years old, is already
taking in more cash than the Sierra Club, which bills itself as the "nation's largest and most influential grassroots
environmental organization." According to Guidestar, the Sierra Club collected $180 million in its latest
reporting year. Climate Imperative is also taking in more money than the Rocky Mountain Institute which collected
about $130 million in its latest reporting year. I use those groups for comparison because they are pushing
anti-gas initiatives across the country.
Report:
George Soros Funds Global 'Fact Checking' Empire. Over the past few years, a cottage industry of "fact
checkers" and "misinformation" experts has emerged to advance the left's mission of silencing dissent to its agenda
around the world. Analysis of the funding of these organizations leads back to a familiar figure: left-wing
billionaire George Soros. The New York Post broke down the trail of Soros dollars linking a global network
of organizations intent on suppressing and discrediting conservative voices online.
Bill
Gates Flies Around Australia on $70 Million Dollar Private Jet Lecturing People About Climate Change. The
Microsoft founder is trying to drum up business for his Breakthrough Energy company by telling investors, "The
reason why climate change is worth investing in massively is because it will get worse and worse over time." The
potential for climate catastrophe doesn't appear to be enough for Gates to change his own behavior, however, as he burns
around 1,700 liters of fuel per hour while gallivanting around in his $70 m[illion] Gulfstream. The
billionaire spent some time relaxing on Lizard Island (how appropriate) on Queensland's Great Barrier Reef before taking
the gas guzzling form of transport to travel to Sydney for a meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
Maserati Manchin's
next grift. I am a West Virginian. I am not now nor have I ever been a supporter of Joe
Manchin. Over the decades, I did not vote for him for secretary of state, governor or senator. But I must
salute his unapologetic abuse of campaign finance laws. He is living large on other people's money. He owns
a yacht and a Maserati, and racked up $1 million in fine-dining bills as he lives the lifestyle of the rich and
famous — and he just may run for president next year. That's where the big money is. Just ask
Democrat Martin O'Malley. He served two terms as governor of Maryland and then ran for president in 2016. Scoff
all you want but he raised and spent $5,706,888, which placed him between Mike Huckabee and Lindsey Graham in raising
money. Presidential elections are now a multi-billion-dollar industry. Everybody who runs and loses the
election can be a winner when it comes to money because they can spend the money pretty much as they please.
'Maserati
Manchin' spent a week in Davos and racked up a $1 million fine dining bill. The National Republican
Senatorial Committee (NRSC) is gearing up for 2024 and putting conservative Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin in its
crosshairs before he's even said whether he'll run for reelection. In a new ad called 'Maserati Manchin,' the
Senate GOP's campaign arm highlights Manchin's luxury vehicle, his $700,000 houseboat, and DailyMail.com's reporting
that he has blown over $1 million in campaign donation on fine dining. The 75-year-old moderate is likely the
only one from his party who can hold on to West Virginia's Senate seat, and the ad looks designed to dissuade him from running.
Keywords: Slush fund, black hole, quixotic, money pit.
Soros
And Bezos Back Initiative To Raise $3 Trillion Annually To Fight Climate Change. Left-wing billionaire
George Soros and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos are helping a World Economic Forum (WEF) climate financing program that aims
to raise $3 trillion annually to help slash emissions and restore "nature loss" by 2050. The WEF and the
Soros-backed Open Society Foundations and Bezos Earth Fund, along with more than 43 other nonprofits, businesses
and academic institutions, will become part of the "Giving to Amplify Earth Action" (GAEA) initiative that will fund
efforts intended to limit global warming, according to a Tuesday WEF announcement. GAEA and its partners will
finance charitable partnerships between public and private entities while identifying where the $3 trillion in
funding is most needed.
America, Behold Your God.
George Soros contributed $128,485,971 to Democrat candidates in the 2022 midterm elections, which no doubt played a
considerable role in the outcome. And it isn't as if we weren't warned. As far back as 2004, then-Senator
Hillary Clinton (D-What [...] Happened to MY Turn) declared: "We need people like George Soros, who is fearless and
willing to step up when it counts." Soros himself then came to the podium and said: "It is the first time that I
feel that I need to stand up and do something, really, uh, imp-, uh, and become really engaged, um, in the electoral
process in, in this country." Oh, he's engaged in the electoral process, all right. That's our
problem. One indication of the difference Soros made was that he gave, according to Politico, "$1 million for
the Georgia runoff, which Sen. Raphael Warnock won on Tuesday night, giving Democrats a 51-seat majority in the
Senate." He is also working for the long term.
Liz
Warren's Disappearing Act. [Elizabeth] Warren has made herself famous over the years decrying the
supposedly malicious behavior of large financial institutions and creating all manner of investigatory boards to search
for wrongdoing. Her efforts have never actually accomplished anything productive for the average person. She
just gloms a lot of favorable coverage from the liberal media and draws a lot of underserved attention to herself.
Warren has mastered the art of public hand-waving and shrill histrionics, but it amounts to nothing of substance. [...]
It's pitifully obvious that Warren and her liberal ilk have absolutely zero clue about any of this. They don't
know what financial challenges real middle-class people face on a daily basis, nor do they care in the slightest.
Her kindred spirit, Bernie Sanders, owns multiple homes, is financially independent, has gotten rich from public money,
yet all he does is criticize, regulate, and over-tax the private companies that employ his constituents. Greenies
like John Kerry fly in private jets and rationalize it, while Gavin Newsome dines maskless in pricy French restaurants.
Purchasing government.
These days you are wasting your money if you pour resources into lobbyists. These days you can directly buy
government. Mark Zuckerberg spent his money in 2020 purchasing the actual mechanism by which which elections are
conducted; and while this was expected, I think we can be pretty confident that he was satisfied with the results of his
purchase. "Zuckerbucks" went directly to election officials, and while they didn't directly purchase vote totals,
they certainly had an effect on the outcome.
21st
Century Robber Barons: the WEF. In the 1870s, the term "robber baron" was first used to describe an
exploitative class of industrialists who utilized their wealth to create monopolies of resources and amass control in
the fledgling United States. The name describes an illegitimate aristocracy of unelected plutocrats. [...] One
hundred fifty years later, we face a new global class of robber barons. Once a year, the world's richest and most
influential people meet behind closed doors in Davos, Switzerland, to discuss the future direction of the globe.
Known as the World Economic Forum, they were originally founded in 1971 by German engineer Klaus Schwab. Look at
any major global policy push in recent history, and you'll likely find the fingerprints of the World Economic
Forum. From climate alarmism to ESG investing to our obsession with sustainability and population control or a
push for centralized and authoritarian government, we find the handiwork of the World Economic Forum.
The Tyranny of the Minority.
[Scroll down] Expertly manipulating the voters in the upstairs-downstairs coalition, they're actively destroying
everything we love and everything we need. The minority occupying the top position in the upstairs-downstairs
coalition are the plutocrats who run America. A 2017 analysis identified the top 0.01 percent
(1 in 10,000 Americans) to have an average annual income of over $30 million. A 2019 Stanford study
found the top 0.1 percent (1 in 1,000 Americans) control a total net worth equal to the entire cumulative
net worth of the bottom 90 percent of Americans. At the pinnacle, however, are America's billionaires, a
scant 735 of them at last count. This is a vanishingly small minority of people, roughly one in every half-million
Americans. But their influence is decisive. Every year, these billionaires and the corporations they control
disburse billions — often getting tax deductions for doing so — to maintain standing armies of
activist groups that conduct lawfare, fund civil disobedience, run massive propaganda campaigns, engage in targeted
"get-out-the-vote" activities, prop up financially dependent media properties, and produce "expert" studies with
paid-for ideas.
Meet Raphael Warnock's Paymasters.
Since early voting commenced in the Georgia runoff between Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel
Walker, the corporate media has made much of the former's funding advantage as if this is somehow unusual for an
incumbent seeking reelection. Far more newsworthy are the sources of Warnock's cash. The Federal Election
Commission (FEC) shows that Warnock has received individual contributions totaling $65.2 million, of which 88.8
percent came from out-of-state donors. Indeed, Warnock raised slightly less money from individual Georgians that
did Walker. Peach State residents contributed $7.3 million to Warnock while donating $7.5 million to
Walker. The senator, however, received $57.8 million from contributors who don't live in the state he ostensibly
represents — including $13.4 million from California and $6.9 million from New York.
According to OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan research group that tracks political donations, Warnock is the top Senate
recipient of contributions from outside his own state.
Language warning!
Four nefariously managed events meant to harm us.
[#3] Wokery, the Marxist campaign to disorder society in order to overthrow existing institutions and replace them with
a utopian dictatorship of the intersectionally oppressed — also known as The Revenge of the
Losers. [...] It laughs at the idea of redemption. Its adversaries are never forgiven, only dealt additional
punishments for asking.
Is
the IRS Letting Sharpton Run His Own Personal Piggybank? Al Sharpton was BLM before there was a BLM and
its grift is closely modeled on his work and that of Jesse Jackson. Sharpton's habits aren't news to anyone.
The latest developments just reaffirm that the National Action Network is not only Sharpton's political platform, but
maintains his lifestyle. [...] New York AG Letitia James, who has illegally targeted Trump and the NRA, would not be
likely to investigate. But Sharpton's habits do raise legal questions. The National Action Network is a
501(c)(4) and while C4s have more leeway than C3s, they're not supposed to be the personal piggy banks of an executive
or a group of them.
John Fetterman
Is The New Normal. Pennsylvania's still-recovering stroke victim and senator-elect, whose parents provided
him with his main source of income for a considerable amount of his adult life, is the blueprint for America's future
politicians. Why bother proving your merit as a statesman when the system in which you're entrenched is calibrated
to ensure your success? [...] Fetterman and his opponent, longtime daytime TV personality Mehmet Oz, had their one and
only debate on Oct. 25 — literally two weeks before Election Day. Why did it take so long for
Fetterman and Oz to share the stage? He was either hiding the fact that he was still in the early stages of
recovering from a stroke and did not have full control of his audio-verbal faculties, as footage from the debate and
pre-election interviews clearly indicate, or he was hiding the fact that his policy proposals are utterly insane and
would only further exacerbate issues, such as violent crime, his constituents face on a daily basis. Either way,
at the end of the day, he hid important information from the people he wanted to trust him with power. And it
worked because he had access to a mountain of money, with $56,690,623 raised by Fetterman's campaign and $35,091,809
provided by outside groups, and benefited from a state election system that has effectively broken with the American
political tradition by implementing a mail-in voting apparatus whose legality is dubious at best and threatens to turn
formerly competitive states into post-political strongholds for the Democratic Party.
Al
Sharpton still raking it in and lining his pockets. Today's story is actually a follow-up to a
cozy/corrupt news item that we covered way back in December of 2018. At that time, Reverend Al Sharpton announced that
he was "retiring" from his racially divisive organization, the National Action Network. But as with nearly
everything else NAN had been involved with, there was an obvious scam being run because Sharpton charged the network
more than half a million dollars to purchase the rights to his life story. At the time, we speculated that
Sharpton, along with his family, would continue to be involved with NAN and milking that cash cow for all it's
worth. And according to a new report this week from the New York Post, that's exactly what he's been doing.
Despite supposedly being retired, Sharpton is being "compensated" by NAN as its president and CEO at more than double
the rate he received before his alleged retirement. He accepted a salary of nearly 350 thousand dollars last year
plus bonuses and benefits bringing the total to more than 600 thousand. And NAN also forked over another
300 thousand for private jets and accommodations so he could attend "important gatherings" around the world.
Covid
PsyOps Are Now Being Used for Climate Change. As the eco-zealot group Just Stop Oil continue to break the
law and cause mayhem, perhaps it is time to investigate who is pulling the strings of this and other fake grassroots
movements. Even a cursory glance will make it clear that the people behind it are not everyday members of the
public but a group of highly influential American billionaires.
Who
funded Dems' super-PACs?. Shockingly the news breaks right after the
midterm elections: the 2nd largest Democrat mega donor after George Soros turns out to be a total fraud. Call me
cynical, but does it surprise anyone that the news hits just after all that money was spent on campaign ads, and not a
day or two before? Do you think voters might like to know that $40 million of the money spent to influence their
choices was stolen? Sam Bankman-Fried — a billionaire of whom I never heard before today —
donated more than $40 million to Democrat candidates and super-PACs, including providing the initial funding for the
Protect Our Future PAC. He was the second largest donor to the 2020 Biden campaign, pouring over $10 million into
Biden-related campaign organizations.
Soros
Gave $128 Million This Midterm Season to Help Elect Democrats. Wealthy citizens who've donated heavily to
political campaigns this year include supporters of both of the major political parties, although none of the others
comes close to billionaire philanthropist George Soros, who has given more than $128 million to help elect Democrats,
according to a new tally released by OpenSecrets, a Washington-based research organization. The recipients of
donations aren't limited solely to individual candidates but also include parties, political action committees (PACs),
the hybrid PACs known as Carey Committees, and tax-exempt 527 organizations. Soros, operating under the aegis of
Soros Fund Management, leads the pack of donors, with all of his donations going to Democratic candidates and causes.
Pelosi
Was Asked About Inflation While She's Wearing A 5k Custom Jacket. This week on "Face the Nation" with
just 15 days to go until Election Day they invited House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on
Sunday declined to say if she will remain in House leadership following next month's elections when pressed by CBS "Face
the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan. [...] "I'm not here to talk about me," Pelosi responded. "I'm here to talk about
the future. America's working families. For the children. It's always about the children." But
when she was questioned on Inflation her answer might have won the midterms for the GOP. She was wearing her 5k
custom-made jacket when she give her opinion on inflation!
Is
This the Beginning of the End for George Soros? It's no secret that billionaire philanthropist and
financier George Soros has had a hand in the rise of many major political players. From his heavy investment in
the sheriffs in Arizona to his funding of grassroots activists in Ferguson, Soros's money and influence seem to be
nestled in every nook and cranny across the country. But just in the past month, two judges in two different
states have stood up against prominent figures that are heavily funded by Soros: Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey
Abrams and Virginia's Loudoun County commonwealth attorney Buta Biberaj.
As
Michigan Braces For Major Abortion Vote, Ford Heir Sics City Government On A Church's Pro-Life Signs. The
heir to the Ford family fortune demanded that a local Catholic church in his Detroit-area suburb strip down a pro-life
display established to remember the 64 million lives lost to abortion after the 1973 Roe v. Wade
decision. The city buckled and ordered the church to modify its signs by trimming down the size. In a letter
addressed to the Grosse Pointe city manager, which was also sent to the reverend of St. Paul on the Lake Catholic
Church and the local newspapers, Edsel B. Ford II, the great-grandson of Henry Ford, condemned the memorial as
a "blight" on the community.
Study:
Support for defunding the police a 'luxury belief' held by white Democrats gripped by 'collective shame'.
A report published last month by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research indicated that even in areas rife with high
levels of violent crime, white Democrats are more likely than their nonwhite ideological peers to support defunding the
police. The author attributes white leftists' advocacy for policies that not only adversely impact minority
communities but even themselves in part to "unique group-based moral pressures, including collective moral shame and
guilt." Amid the 2020 George Floyd riots, there were repeated calls to defund or abolish the police. These
calls predominantly came from self-identified Democrats. A 2020 Cooperative Election Survey indicated that over
one-third of Democrats (35.4%) wanted their state legislatures to reduce spending on law enforcement. Even more
Democrats (53.6%) expressed support for reducing the number of police on the streets by 10%. This support was
articulated despite skyrocketing rates of violent crime across the United States.
Billionaire
Democrat Mike Bloomberg tried to fund Philly election workers in 2020. Former New York Mayor Michael
Bloomberg offered to pour millions of dollars into the Philadelphia election office to pay for poll workers and other
election-related expenses during the 2020 election, new emails reveal. The offer from Mr. Bloomberg, a news
media and financial services mogul who ranks among the richest men in the world, was arranged through an
intermediary — Stanford Law School professor Nathaniel Persily, according to the emails. At the time,
Mr. Persily was co-director of the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project, which worked with local officials to
help them carry out the 2020 elections amid the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. He asked Philadelphia
officials to provide a list of funding they needed to carry out the election.
Dr.
Fauci and wife's wealth 'skyrocketed' by $5 million during pandemic: analysis. Dr. Anthony Fauci and
his wife's net worth grew by $5 million during the COVID-19 pandemic as thousands of US residents struggled financially,
according to a government spending watchdog group. The combined wealth of the 81-year-old retiring director of the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and his bioethicist wife, Christine Grady, soared from $7.5 million
in 2019 to $12.6 million at the end of 2021, according to a report from the non-profit OpenTheBooks. "Despite becoming
a figure of controversy, the system has rewarded Dr. Fauci handsomely," the group's CEO, Adam Andrzejewski, told Fox News
Digital. "While Dr. Fauci has been a government bureaucrat for more than 55 years, his household net worth
skyrocketed during the pandemic."
Barack
Obama's Secret Service SUV [was] parked in [a] handicapped space for two hours while he enjoyed dinner.
Former President Barack Obama's Secret Service SUV was spotted parked in a handicapped spot for two hours as he dined at
a swanky West Los Angeles sushi restaurant with his two daughters. The black SUV stayed in a spot marked for
handicap parking as it waited for the Obamas to finish eating at the pricey Hamasaku restaurant, where eight-piece sushi
rolls cost $50 and specialty rolls go for more than $20 each. The former president was pictured in all white as he
stepped out of the restaurant alone while being escorted by secret service agents. His daughters, Malia and Sasha,
left separately.
George
Soros: The Man Behind The Curtain. Billionaire George Soros is that rare megalomaniac who not only
believes he's a god but revels in behaving like one. "It's a sort of a disease when you consider yourself some kind of
god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out," he once boasted to
The Independent. This god complex, combined with his downright amorality and bizarre ideas about society, makes
the 92-year-old extremely dangerous to democracies, especially America. The warning comes loud and clear in Matt
Palumbo's recent book, The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros, which documents
Soros'sdecades of financial dealings, political operations, and nefarious networks.
Tucker
Carlson Notices the Missing Jubilation in Martha's Vineyard as Dozens of Illegal Aliens Arrive. A strange
thing happened. After lecturing the nation on the virtues of mass migration, the white liberal democrats on
Martha's Vineyard did not celebrate the arrival of the non-white immigrants they have been demanding for years.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson noted in his monologue that Martha's Vineyard famous nimby residents, including former
President Barack Obama, did not welcome the people of color as one would expect. Instead of celebrating the new
diversity, oddly the residents quickly moved to find alternate off island locations to accept the arriving immigrants.
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Patagonia
founder just donated the entire company, worth $3 billion, to fight climate change. Patagonia founder Yvon
Chouinard, his spouse and two adult children are giving away their ownership in the apparel maker he started some 50 years
ago, dedicating all profits from the company to projects and organizations that will protect wild land and biodiversity and
fight the climate crisis. The company is worth about $3 billion, according to the New York Times. [...] The
privately held company's stock will now be owned by a climate-focused trust and group of nonprofit organizations, called
the Patagonia Purpose Trust and the Holdfast Collective respectively, the company said in a statement, noting "every dollar
that is not reinvested back into Patagonia will be distributed as dividends to protect the planet."
The Editor says...
By all means, if you want to squander your own money on a futile attempt to change the weather, go
right ahead — as long as it doesn't impede everyone else's progress.
Wait — here's the rest of the story:
Patagonia
owner giving away company for climate change avoids $700M tax hit. Not everyone was impressed by Patagonia
founder Yvon Chouinard's decision to transfer his ownership of the company to a climate change group. After
Mr. Chouinard received glowing reviews for his philanthropy, led by a New York Times exclusive headlined "Patagonia
Founder Gives Away the Company to Fight Climate Change," those crunching the numbers pointed out that the move offers
considerable tax advantages. "Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard has described his decision to give away the company
as his last-ditch effort to do all he could to protect the planet, however, it's also helping him skirt around
$700 million of tax bills. Funny that!" tweeted Net Zero Watch.
When will Obama
have made enough money? Cantor Fitzgerald LP will pay former President Barack Obama $400,000 to speak at a
conference in September, likely the first of many lucrative Wall Street paydays. Good for him. Obama doesn't
really need the money: He earned over $14 million for his first three books, and bidding for his next deal (a package
with Michelle) has run over $60 million. But he has every right to cash in on his star power and his hard-won
expertise. No doubt he'll wind up giving a good chunk of it to charity (though we'd be majorly surprised if he set
up anything resembling the Clinton Foundation).
Fetterman's
Prior Remarks About Criminals Are Making Jaws Drop. The Senate race shouldn't be at
all close in Pennsylvania if people just take a look a John Fetterman and his radical ideas.
But some of his prior remarks on crime are now getting a lot more attention now that he's running
for the Senate. While styling himself as a working-class everyman, Fetterman lived off his
well-off parents into his late forties. Most people can't live off their wealthy parents,
most of us have to earn a living. Perhaps that's why Fetterman has such an affection for
far-left politics because he hasn't had to live in the real world for most of his life with
real-world responsibilities.
Barack
Obama Hosting Martha's Vineyard Fundraiser for Eric Holder's Army of Election Workers. Former President
Barack Obama will host a fundraiser for his former Attorney General Eric Holder's redistricting committee on August 30th,
in a major step forward for Democrats in the midterms. The fundraiser for Holder's National Democratic Redistricting
Committee will feature a dinner and a discussion about democracy, supporting legal efforts to help Democrats in the 2022
midterm elections, according to Politico's Playbook. The event will take place at Martha's Vineyard.
The Worst and the Stupidest?
Elites have always been ambiguous about the muscular classes who replace their tires, paint their
homes, and cook their food. And the masses who tend to them likewise have been ambivalent
about those who hire them: appreciative of the work and pay, but also either a bit envious of
those with seemingly unlimited resources or turned off by perceived superciliousness arising from
their status and affluence. Yet the divide has grown far wider in the 21st century.
Globalization fueled the separation in a number of ways. One, outsourcing and offshoring
eroded the rust-belt interior, while enriching the two coasts. The former lost good-paying
jobs, while the latter found new markets in investment, tech, insurance, law, media, academia,
entertainment, sports, and the arts making them billions rather than mere millions. So, the
problem was one of both geography and class. Half the country looked to Asia and Europe for
profits and indeed cultural "diversity," while the other half stuck with tradition, values, and
custom — as they became poorer.
Rashida
Tlaib Kept up to $100,000 in Rental Income During Pandemic While Calling for Rent Cancellation.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) kept up to $100,000 in rental income during the coronavirus pandemic despite calling on
Congress to cancel rent, according to her most recent financial disclosures. Tlaib's financial disclosure report,
released Thursday [8/11/2022], showed she received anywhere from $15,001 to $50,000 in rental income in 2021, Fox News
reported. Tlaib received this rental income from a Detroit property she owns. Her rental income from 2021 is on
top of the $15,001 to $50,000 she already reported for 2020, bringing her total rental income throughout the pandemic to
anywhere from $30,000 to $100,000. However, while the Michigan congresswoman was collecting a steady flow of rent checks,
she was at the forefront of a progressive movement in Congress to cancel rent and mortgage payments during the pandemic.
Eco-minded
descendants of billionaire oil barons are PAYING hundreds of activists $25,000-a-year to protest around the
world. Three American oil scions have been bankrolling mobs of eco-zealots who have terrorized the world by
slashing tires, blocking traffic and attacking firms. Aileen Getty, Rebecca Rockefeller Lambert and Peter Gill Case,
who are heirs to their families' huge fortunes, are paying the salaries for thugs through their non-profits in an apparent
bid to offset their relatives' legacies. Getty, whose grandfather created Getty Oil, has so far splashed out $1million
through her California-based Climate Emergency Fund.
How
the newest megadonor wants to change Washington. One of the biggest donors in Democratic politics this year
isn't sure if he really wants to be a Democratic megadonor — at least not on the party's terms. But then,
part of life as Sam Bankman-Fried is about embracing paradoxes. The 30-year-old, who has amassed an estimated $20billion
fortune over the last four years through cryptocurrency, drives a hybrid Toyota Corolla. A monk-like aesthetic extends
from his clothes — he showed up to chat in a wrinkled T-shirt and beat-up New Balance sneakers — to his
personal life. He shares a penthouse with about 10 roommates and cooks for himself. He still uses his parents'
Netflix account.
Everything
Is Worse and You Are Just Supposed to Take It. You are asking for too much, you terrible person. You want
cheap gas and a functioning supply chain, air conditioning and not to eat bugs. But most of all, you expect the elite
to actually do its job, and for that, you are terrible. And racist. Bums litter our streets figuratively
and — in ghastly form — literally. Criminals run rampant unmolested by the gendarmes, who have
been told — expressly and impliedly — to let the crooks be. Our economy is sensational, groovy,
glorious — except for the inflation and the hollowing out of your 401K. Try to buy a house instead of
renting — just try. The globalist elite has failed in doing what we want, but it seems to be doing what it
wants. It is gathering power and payoffs unto itself, and that is precisely the goal.
George
Soros contributes $1 million to Beto O'Rourke's Texas gubernatorial campaign. Progressive mega-donor George
Soros contributed $1 million to Texas Democratic gubernatorial nominee Beto O'Rourke's staggering fundraising haul last
month. O'Rourke, who's challenging two-term Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in November's election, last week announced
that he hauled in $27.6 million in fundraising from late February through June, topping Abbott by $2.7 million and
shattering the existing record for fundraising in Texas. O'Rourke's campaign finance report was posted online on
Tuesday and indicates that Soros contributed $1 million — issued on June 23 — to the Democratic
gubernatorial nominee's campaign.
Republican
Tim Michels pours nearly $8 million into self-funded run for Wisconsin governor. Republican candidate for
governor Tim Michels has spent nearly $7.7 million since entering the race three months ago — an aggressive
strategy that has pushed him to the top of the Republican primary in recent state polling. Michels, a multimillionaire
who co-owns the state's largest construction company, has donated $7.9 million of his own money to his campaign since
April — accounting for nearly all of the money the campaign raised as of July, according to Michels' first
campaign finance report.
Biden's
wealthy and clueless White House. How does President Joe Biden, with pride, call oppressive gasoline prices "an
incredible transition?" The same way his millionaire energy secretary tells hard-pressed Americans to solve their financial
problems by buying a $60,000 electric car. This White House is inhabited by revolving door careerists who got rich
through decades of moving into a plum federal job, then out to a law firm/PR/lobbyist/consultant — and then back
in again to burnish the resume. It's called losing touch with middle America and everyday hardships.
Our New Antoinettes.
Americans, almost uniquely among modern nations, mostly do not envy, much less despise the rich. But there is a certain
sort of privilege that they do not like: the sanctimonious and hypercritical rich whose rhetoric is at odds with their own
lifestyles and the methods by which they inherited or made vast sums. And they especially are turned off by those who
exude open disdain for the clinger/deplorable/dregs class — to paraphrase the Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and
Joe Biden nomenclature.
'The
View' hosts face backlash for $14K a night luxury Bahamas getaway. The rambunctious hosts of "The View" have
had their share of controversy and scandals in the past year — and what better way to unwind from all the drama
than with a $14,000-per-night luxury vacation? Celebrating 25 years of the show, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sara
Haines, Sunny Hostin and recurring guest Ana Navarro are currently staying at Baha Mar in Nassau, Bahamas, with alum Sherri
Shepherd even dropping in. The women have been recording their show from their luxury stay. The resort is made up
of three hotels: Rosewood, Grand Hyatt and SLS. According to The Sun, the Rosewood is the most expensive hotel of
the three with the oceanside six-bedroom villa setting customers back $14,358 a night.
The
Biden White House caters to the rich just as Obama's did. BlackRock has $10 Trillion under management and holds
great power with Biden's Whitehouse. They are a big pusher of the green agenda. The green agenda is destroying
America with rampant inflation, especially the poor, middle class, and small businessesm but BlackRock has done great. [...]
After Biden and Michelle got out of the White House, they got a huge kickback from Netflix despite having no product or
experience. I wonder why Netflix is having financial trouble today? Most of the media has never [cared] about the
Clinton, Obama, or Biden corruption, which is massive. There is more evidence every day about the connections of Joe to
Hunters' kickbacks from China, Russia, and Ukraine, yet the media is virtually silent. It is no wonder that there is so
much corruption and such deep economic problems throughout the country when the media has been complicit in infecting the
public with the pandemic of the Biden Administration. We learn new information everyday about the sewer of despicable
and corrupt behavior of Joe and Hunter and it's as if almost all of the media has buried their heads in the sand so the
public doesn't see it. Can anyone imagine the interest if Trump had wired thousands of dollars to Don, Jr. or Eric
so they could support their Russian hooker habit?
Barack
and Michelle Obamas' Amazon Audible deal is worth $20 million. Barack and Michelle Obama's multiyear deal with
Amazon's podcast platform Audible is worth at least $20 million, experts have claimed. The couple will have to
contribute two shows and appear in up to eight episodes each, the industry insiders said. The move will give the former
first lady the scope to make less personal appearances than what was wanted under their former partnership with Spotify, the
sources said. Audible said the pair plan to use their new platform to 'tell stories that elevate diverse voices and and experiences'.
The Editor says...
With the exception of a few tabloid-reading middle-aged women, nobody cares what the Obamas do from now on; so a lucrative deal like this
leads to some questions: Is this lucrative deal a payback for services already rendered, or (more likely) an investment in the upcoming Michelle
Obama administration? If you think Joe Biden is Obama's puppet, wait til you see Michelle in the Oval Office./p>
Queens
DA Melinda Katz uses security detail 'as her personal car service': sources. Queens District Attorney Melinda
Katz used members of her taxpayer-funded security detail to help her move to her new million-dollar digs —
potentially running afoul of ethics rules, The [New York] Post has learned. The borough's top prosecutor was spotted
wearing her gold DA's badge on her hip last week as she carried four boxes of belongings to a black Ford Expedition parked
outside the Forest Hills house where she's been temporarily living since selling her former childhood home for $1.05 million
in February. She then climbed into the official vehicle and was driven about 1.2 miles by a pair of plainclothes NYPD
cops to her new three-bedroom, 2-1/2 bathroom Colonial-style house, which city records show she bought late last month for
$1.1 million. The trip was one of four that The Post saw Katz, 56, and her detail make between her old and new homes
Tuesday morning.
The Selfish Californian.
We hear plenty of reasons for the perfect storm that imploded California. One-party, progressive government, of
course. Decades of unchecked illegal immigration, without doubt. Years of mass flight out of state of the
productive middle classes, certainly. But perhaps the most important, but overlooked, reason has been the infusion of
trillions of dollars of mostly tech capital into the state. Unimaginable sums of market capital warped politics and led
to a top-down, feudal society, run by progressive elites who are shielded from the ramifications of their own toxic
ideologies. More specifically, the common denominator was the emergence in California of a selfish, monied, left-wing
political class. In concrete terms, it cared little for others but masked that unconcern with abstract leftism,
emulating medieval penance and indulgences to assuage guilt over its enjoyment of sheltered and very good lives.
Jill
Biden Brags at Hollywood Fundraiser: After Trump, People Come to Me Saying 'I Feel Like I Can Breathe'.
First Lady Jill Biden reportedly trashed former President Donald Trump at a glitzy Hollywood fundraiser on Friday
[6/10/2022], bragging that since Trump left office, people have come up to her saying "I feel like I can breathe." The
Bidens attended a Los Angeles fundraiser thrown by Democratic mega-donor Haim Saban and his wife, Cheryl. The event was
intended to raise money for Democratic National Committee's Democratic Grassroots Victory Fund, with tickets starting at
$1,000 per person and going as high as a whopping $36,500.
The Editor says...
Random people don't just walk up to DOCTOR Jill Biden and give her their opinions. Jill Biden's anecdotes are about as believable as Joe's.
Report:
Soros Prosecutors Run Half of America's Largest Jurisdictions. George Soros spent more than $40 million in the
past decade to elect scores of liberal prosecutors in half of America's largest jurisdictions, many of which are now roiled
by crime. The Democratic megadonor has backed 75 so-called justice reform prosecutors through direct contributions,
PACs, and other third-party entities, the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund revealed in a June report. Though many had
little prosecutorial experience when elected, they represent 72 million Americans in some of the nation's most populous
municipalities. Ten Soros prosecutors, including Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner (D.) and Los Angeles
district attorney George Gascon (D.), received $13 million in just the last four years, going on to win races where they had
vastly outraised their competition — sometimes by as much as 90 percent. In each race, Soros was the single
greatest donor to the campaign.
Democrat
senator says it doesn't matter — to her — how high gas prices are. If you want to know
just how ignorant, aloof, and removed your rulers are from the everyday life you lead, look no farther than Sen. Debbie
Stabenow (D-Mich.). [p...] Talk about tone-deaf! Does she know who her constituents are? Does she care? The
poor gal had to wait "a long time" to "finally" get her expensive new electric vehicle (and drive it to her brownstone in a
tony Georgetown neighborhood... or to wherever she lives in the Capital City). But when she did [...], it "didn't matter"
to her how expensive gasoline had become. She added, "And so I'm looking forward to the opportunity for us to move to
vehicles that aren't going to be dependent on the whims of the oil companies and the international markets." The
"opportunity" for us to move to expensive vehicles whose batteries cost around $10,000 and that may take hours to
recharge? Vehicles that aren't "dependent on the whims of the oil companies and the international markets"? You
can't be more ignorant or disingenuous than that.
Let
them buy Teslas: Electric car owner Stabenow says gas prices don't matter. Sen. Debbie Stabenow
(D-MI) said it "doesn't matter" how high gas prices go because she drives an electric vehicle, sparking backlash as gas
prices in the United States climb to record highs with no short-term relief in sight. Stabenow's remarks came during a
Senate Finance Committee hearing Tuesday to discuss Biden's budget for the upcoming fiscal year. When the subject
turned to record-high fuel costs in the U.S., Stabenow chimed in: "I do have to say, just on the issue of gas prices,
after waiting for a long time to have enough chips in this country to finally get my electric vehicle, I got it and drove it
from Michigan to here this last weekend and went by every single gas station, and it didn't matter how high it was," the
Michigan Democrat said.
Neither the price of electricity nor the price of gas matters to her, because she makes $174,000 a year.
Democratic
Sen. Debbie Stabenow brags that it doesn't 'matter' to her how high gas prices are because she drives an electric vehicle.
Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow said that record-high gas prices 'don't matter' to her because she has an electric vehicle
as she urged Americans to by eco-friendly vehicles and decrease reliability on greedy oil companies. Her comments came
on the day the average price per gallon of gas in the U.S. reached a new high of $4.92. In Michigan the average sits
higher at $5.17 per gallon, according to AAA's tracker. 'On the issue of gas prices — after waiting for a long time to
have enough chips in this country to finally get my electric vehicle — I got it and drove it from Michigan to here this last
weekend and went by every gas station and it didn't matter how high it was,' the Michigan senator said.
Suspicious
technology group to spend $80 million 'improving' election operations across America. A controversial
organization once funded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has launched an $80 million initiative ostensibly to "improve"
operations of local elections, but which critics suspect has a far more nefarious purpose. The National Pulse reports
that the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) has announced the so-called U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence, a
"nonpartisan collaborative that is bringing together election officials, designers, technologists, and other experts to help
local election departments improve operations, develop a set of shared standards and values, and obtain access to
best-in-class resources to run successful elections."
'Tax
the Rich'? North Carolina Dem Stashes More Than $1 Mil in Cayman Islands Fund. As Democrats call on the rich to
"pay their fair share" in taxes, North Carolina congresswoman Kathy Manning (D.) has more than $1 million stashed in a Cayman
Islands-based fund. One of the wealthiest members of Congress, Manning and her husband hold more than $1 million in
Seven Bridges Multi-Strategy Fund Ltd., her financial disclosure shows. The private fund is located in the Cayman
Islands, a notorious tax haven for America's elite, according to SEC filings. Manning in 2020 earned up to $100,000
from the fund, which feeds into another investment fund that holds roughly $350 million from 144 investors. An investor
must put up at least $1 million to join.
Over
$50 for a burrito? World's elite splash the cash on snacks at Davos. Hungry attendees at this year's
World Economic Forum may have found some of the food a little hard to stomach, with some eye-popping prices in some
locations. Just a stone's throw away from the main Davos Congress Center, the fancy Steigenberger Grandhotel Belvedere
was charging punters 49 Swiss francs ($51) for a burrito on its "snacks" menu. It was accompanied by a small bowl of
guacamole and salsa. For comparison, a burrito in Taco Bell can cost as little as $2. A portion of French fries
was also on offer at the Belvedere for 21.50 Swiss francs ($22.41).
Meet
The Billionaires' Club Pumping Critical Race Theory Into Your Child's Classroom. A decade ago, when an
Obama-era initiative called "Common Core" convinced 41 states to give up control of their education standards, it was
infamously the result of a massive influence campaign by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Now, with America's
K-12 landscape being turned upside down by "equity" initiatives that divide children by ethnicity and devalue rigorous
academics, the culprit is much the same: Gates and other philanthropic foundations. That's a takeaway from the
two years I spent poring through educational and financial records for my new book, "Race to the Bottom: Uncovering the
Secret Forces Destroying American Public Education." These philanthropic foundations are perhaps the most powerful and least
understood force in American politics — and a key node in moving critical race theory from academic papers to
society. Pick any radical racial initiative in your child's school, and it is likely to tie back to the Ford, Kellogg,
Gates, Annie E. Casey, MacArthur, or Surdna foundations.
BLM
says capitalism is bad, but then gorges on its luxuries. In 1848, Marx and Engels birthed the toxic philosophy
of communism. Among other things, they detailed their hatred for capitalism; the necessity to dissolve the family unit,
as it perpetuated the bourgeois; and the toxic tenet of "the end justifies the means." [...] Now, it's no secret that the
organization known as "Black Lives Matter" is an ideologically Marxist entity. Co-founder Patrisse Cullors openly said,
"The first thing, I think, is that we actually do have an ideological frame. Myself and Alicia in particular are
trained organizers. ... We are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories." [...] Yet, as
it turns out, when it comes down to it, Cullors and the Black Lives Matter organization are truly the exploitative class
against which they claim to stand. According to an article published last year by The New York Post, Cullors purchased
four luxury homes for $3.2 million in the U.S. alone — she and the woman she lives with were also seen looking
for homes at a highly exclusive Bahamas resort, home to Tiger Woods and Justin Timberlake.
Swiss-born
billionaire, mega-donor to Democratic causes, is 'not a US citizen or resident', lawsuit claims. A Swiss-born
billionaire who funneled hundreds of millions to left-leaning US groups may have violated bans against political donations by
foreign nationals, according to a lawsuit. Hansjorg Wyss, who has an estimated net worth of $5.1 billion and in lives
in Wyoming, has become a major donor to liberal groups in recent years, but remains tight-lipped about his citizenship
status. Foreign nationals who don't hold US green cards are barred from making direct donations to candidates for
office or political action committees, but they are are allowed to contribute to advocacy groups that seek to sway public policy.
Hey
Liberals: Let's Talk about Biden's Lies. [Scroll down] Right now, the liberal "lived experience" is
that the planet is going to die unless we convert to renewable energy. I was down at the waterfront in Newport, Rhode
Island, on Saturday and they had a placard all about trash skimming in the harbor, that included this message:
["]BE RESPONSIBLE A healthy ocean is critical to our planet and our economy. Do your part to protect
it!["] Now, if I were an ordinary educated liberal, I would know that the statement is true. But as an
engineer who had experience in water pollution control back in the day, I know that we've already done about 97.2 percent of
what we need to do to keep water pollution down to a dull roar. It is, for instance, a staggering human achievement
that we have modern cities like Newport where you can look into the water in the harbor right by the Newport Marriott and see
right to the bottom. Guess what, liberals: been there, done that. Water pollution in the United States is not
threatening the planet or the economy! We went to work on it 50 years ago, and did a pretty good job fixing the problem.
Bill
Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos Invested in Lab-Produced Breast Milk to Prevent Effects of 'Climate Change'.
An article published by Daily Mail on June 19, 2020, revealed that Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and other
billionaires invested in a new startup company to produce artificial breast milk from cultured human mammary epithelial.
According to the article, U.S. firm BIOMILQ has received $3.5 million from an investment fund that is co-founded by Bill Gates,
Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Mark Zuckerberg to 'prevent climate change due to gases created in formula manufacturing.' [...]
Netizens find this news timely, considering the recent news of the baby formula shortage. Candace Owens tweeted, "Doesn't
Bill Gates just have the best luck? Just like with the COVID vaccine — he makes an investment, and then suddenly
there is a pandemic or shortage and everyone must line up for his product. Of course he's invested in lab produced breast milk!"
Bernie
Sanders is snapped flying First Class to make speech about [the] working class. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders
was snapped ditching his socialist principals to fly first class to campaign for a woke Democrat state representative
candidate. Sanders was spotted on an American Airlines flight to Pittsburgh Friday to stump for State Representative
Summer Lee, running for an open seat in Pennsylvania's 18th District. Sanders, wearing a mask, appears to head for the
front of the plane in the photos obtained by Fox News from a fellow first class traveler.
The
slimy hand of Soros emerges in abortion protest outrages. Over the weekend, we were treated to outrageous
demonstrations of incivility and outright illegality with specters like this: [Tweets] Crazed abortion protestors
illegally descended upon the homes of several Supreme Court justices in a bid to influence their upcoming ruling on Roe
v. Wade, a ruling so badly reasoned back in 1973 that even liberal but principled Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had
misgivings about its legal grounding. According to Fox News, their descent, led by a badly named group called "Ruth
Sent Us" was in violation of 18 USC 1503, which "prohibits 'endeavors to influence, intimidate or impede... officers of
[the] court'." Similarly, the equally vile disruption of the sacred Catholic mass, by crazed maniacs lobbying with banners
and foul shouting to kill children, was also illegal.
Official
Co-Leading Biden Disinfo Board Worked for George Soros. A member of President Joe Biden's Orwellian
Disinformation Governance Board has close ties to liberal billionaire activist George Soros. Disinformation Governance
Board leader Jennifer Daskal has at least three connections to Soros. Daskal previously served as an Open Society
Institute fellow "working on issues related to privacy and law enforcement access to data across borders." Daskal also worked
as senior counterterrorism counsel for the anti-Semitic Human Rights Watch. HRW received at least $32,106,746 from
Soros between 2000 and 2014 alone. Daskal was also founding editor of the Just Security blog. Soros' Open Society
Foundations gave $675,000 to Just Security between 2017 and 2019. Daskal's involvement with the censorship board fits
right in with the Soros agenda. Soros has been involved in funding a litany of so-called fact-checking operations,
making the revelation of Daskal's Soros-tie par for the course.
Soros
floods cash into Arkansas prosecutor race. A political group funded exclusively by liberal financier George
Soros has dumped over $100,000 in support of a former public defender running to become a prosecuting attorney in Little
Rock, Arkansas. Soros is the only contributor to the Arkansas Justice and Public Safety PAC, which was founded in
mid-April around the same time the financier donated $321,000 to the group. The PAC has since spent about $100,000 on
research, polling, and consulting work, and in late April, the group purchased $40,000 worth of television advertisements in
support of Alicia Walton's bid to serve as prosecuting attorney in Pulaski and Perry counties, the Arkansas Times reported.
George
Soros, Clinton and Obama staffers and European governments are behind anti-Musk campaign to force big corporations to boycott
Twitter. Some of the most high-profile liberal figures have joined together to encourage advertisers to boycott
Twitter if Elon Musk brings in his promised policy of unfettered 'free speech.' Twenty six NGOs and advocacy groups
signed a letter expressing concern about the world's richest man's plan. Musk himself responded to the letter asking
who funded them: the answer being an assortment of 'dark money groups' like George Soros's Open Society Foundation; NGOs
founded by former Clinton and Obama administration staffers; wealthy Democrat donors and their family foundations; labor
unions; and the governments of European nations.
Democrats
Are Now The Party Of The Elite And Super Rich. Conservative historian and scholar Victor Davis Hanson recently
appeared on the Tucker Carlson show and offered his impressions of today's Democratic party. According to Hanson,
Democrats have become the party of the elite and super rich. It's quite a difference from the Democrats of years ago
that claimed to be the party of the working man.
What
Were Black Lives Matter Leaders Doing With a $6 Million House? Black Lives Matter began as a hashtag marking
the death of Trayvon Martin and the failure to find justice after his killing. In the years since, Black Lives Matter
has grown into a movement with international recognition and power. It's always important to remember that Black Lives
Matter is a movement but also a political ideology and a complex web of organizations. The movement has inspired
millions to protest police violence. The ideology has influenced American politics for the last decade, and the
organizations have pushed for social justice and policy. Now, one of those core groups, the Black Lives Matter Global
Network Foundation, is the subject of a recent report about its finances, specifically its purchase of a $6 million home in
Malibu, California, under the guidance of the group's former leader, Patrisse Cullors, ostensibly as both a safe house and as
a space to film social media videos.
Blacks
complain about Biden's open borders, and Democrats' foundations silence them. [Scroll down] There's no
thinking, no debate, no exchange of ideas that's going on in the left. The left takes its talking points from the
"program officers" of far-left money behemoths such as George Soros's Open Society Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the
Omidyar Foundation, or a few Silicon Valley-ish others. That's why all of a sudden, borders must be open, gay marriage
is no longer open to debate, transgender indoctination is de rigeur, and greenie nonsense and critical race theory permeate
all fields of public policy no matter how tenuous the connection. Anyone, including anyone on the left, who might just
prefer a more nuanced interpretation of the proclamation or be concerned about cost-benefit analysis, is dubbed an instant
bigot and all the foundation cash upon which the little magazine, or the university endowment, or the activist organization
is dependent, is swiftly cut off. That keeps them in line, and the "program officers" in firm control.
How
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Rigged the 2020 Election to Defeat Trump. Mark Zuckerberg is best known for creating
and leading Facebook, a company that's made him one of the wealthiest men in the world. With an estimated worth of $80
billion, he poured hundreds of millions of his fortune into the 2020 election. Here's the thing: You probably had
no idea at the time Zuckerberg was influencing the outcome of the most contentious presidential election in our
lifetime. That's because we didn't learn the true extent of Zuckerberg's financial contributions until the voting
already took place. Now, thanks to a new 40-minute documentary film from Citizens United Productions, we know what he
did and how to prevent it from happening again.
Millionaire
Heiress Abigail Disney Trashes U.S. in Documentary. Abigail Disney inherited her fortune from her famous
family, which built an empire on selling the public an idealized version of Main Street, USA. Now the left-wing heiress is
trashing the same ideal in a new documentary in which she calls the American Dream a "nightmare" for most people. The
American Dream and Other Fairy Tales, which premiered this year at the Sundance Film Festival, examines the pay gap of
Disney employees — focusing on wage earners, or "cast members," at Disneyland, some of whom say they are unable to
afford sufficient food on their pay.
Mark
Zuckerberg says he won't be so naked about it anymore. Mark Zuckerberg, whose $419 million "Zuckerbucks"
vote-rigging operation played a significant part in swinging the election to Joe Biden in 2020, now says he's a changed man.
[...] Don't believe it. Don't believe it for even one second. Zuckerberg's mother-of-all-sleazeball political
operations, which was described as "bribery" by Wisconsin state special counsel last month, directed cash to two
non-government organizations run by veteran Soros and Obama operatives, to help city officials supposedly improve the
election experience for voters under the rubric of increasing "inclusiveness" and improving democracy.
While
Americans Suffer Their Economy, Detached Pelosi Orders Catered Luncheon and Dancers for Her Entertainment. It
is important for us to accept the reality of our current situation. As millions of American citizens are suffering the
economic damage from rising inflation, gas prices, and the working class are trying to figure out just how to make ends meet,
it becomes critical to know how our political leadership is responding. This video is an unfortunate representation of
the state of our union. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi holds court, hosting a catered luncheon and calling for dancers to
perform for her and the congressional delegation. [Video clip]
AOC
plays victim card with student loans while living large. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has often
spotlighted her own student loans since entering Congress, personalizing a hot-button issue to decry a system that saddles
millions of people with debt coming out of school. However, unlike most Americans struggling to pay off student loans,
Ocasio-Cortez, 32, has spent her money lavishly and appears to be in a position to pay off her full debt at any time,
according to a review of her student loan history. As of 2020, Ocasio-Cortez owed between $15,001 and $50,000 in
federal student loans, according to her most recent personal financial disclosure report, which was filed in August 2021.
That debt was incurred from August 2007 to May 2011. Student loans are often paid off under a 10-year plan. In
December, however, Ocasio-Cortez said she had "over $17,000" in student loan debt.
Bribery, he says. What are the chances that Mark Zuckerberg is going to be arrested? I'm guessing zero.
Zuckerbucks
declared 'bribery' by special counsel in Wisconsin. Is the needle finally moving? Seems the election
takeover by Mark Zuckerberg's minions in Wisconsin has now been declared "bribery" by Wisconsin's special counsel, who was
appointed to investigate the state's 2020 election. [...] Can you imagine what that must have been like for those officials
affected — to see well heeled Zuckerbuck leftists from out of state waltz in and take over local election efforts,
arbitrarily changing rules, redoing forms to manipulate results, telling elected officials to [stand down] because they
were in charge here? It would have been like a coup or terrorist attack, a clearly illegal takeover by outside dirtbags
who otherwise belonged in jail. That was hardly all. The report focuses on the unequal treatment of voting districts,
with urban districts getting virtually all the cash and the rest of the state getting nothing.
How
South Carolina Took Millions in California Cash to Boost Vote-By-Mail. South Carolina was not a swing state in
November 2020. Yet, millions of dollars from at least three private entities flowed into the state. Plenty of
reporting has been done on how Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, through the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), flooded
county election offices in battlegrounds with cash to subsidize election processes preferred by the outside group. But
in the Palmetto State, counties and even the state government had hands out for more than ZuckBucks — eventually
totaling $6.5 million in grants available to be spent as late as Summer 2021. South Carolina demonstrates how the desire
to directly influence election administration by funding preferred election processes is a long-term programmatic goal for
left-wing nonprofits. And unless the practice is banned by legislation, it will continue.
Bill
Gates funnels $1 million to push 'math is racist' narrative. With a $1 million check from the Gates Foundation,
leading universities and local governments are building an effort to bring "anti-racism" efforts to mathematics. A
Pathway to Equitable Instruction exists to address "barriers to math equity" by offering "guidance and resources for
educators to use now as they plan their curriculum, while also offering opportunities for ongoing self-reflection as they
seek to develop an anti-racist math practice."
Bill
Gates Writes a Giant Check to Choke the Capitalism and Racism of Objective Math. Is two plus two five? It
could be... unless you're racist. That idea is being bandied about, amid a social justice analysis of
mathematics. Oddly, such a campaign is being supported by none other than Bill Gates.
Durham
scandal: The sheer dishonesty of the media is astounding. For more than six years, the media have set out
to destroy President Trump with lies. Now, I see a report that Trump is profiting like no other president by getting
paid for appearances. [...] It's as if the journalists have never heard of the Clintons or the Obamas. The Clintons
have sold their soul since Bill left office in 2001. Massive funds were paid to them for speaking fees or were donated
to the Clinton slush-fund Foundation in return for political favors, including uranium for Russia. [...] President Obama gave
Netflix and other big internet users a massive financial benefit with Net Neutrality, and after Obama was out of office,
despite having no expertise or products, got a $50 million contract from Netflix. The contract comes a year after the
Obamas inked a joint book deal with Penguin Random House valued in excess of $65 million.
Kellogg
Foundation Bankrolls $500 Monthly Income for Illegal Aliens. The left-wing W.K. Kellogg Foundation, which
effectively controls the Kellogg Company, is bankrolling a pilot program that will provide hundreds of illegal aliens living
in the United States with a guaranteed basic income. A coalition of activist organizations has teamed up to institute
the pilot program across 13 counties in New Mexico where 330 illegal alien households will receive monthly payments of $500
for the next year.
The Left's Moneybag.
George Soros has financed immigrant caravans, abortion on demand, legalization of drugs, Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and most
recently, district attorney races in many American cities with radical pro-criminal candidates. But most of all, he is
100 percent into ending Trump and Trumpism — and, with that, any semblance of American greatness. A "dark
money" group that received millions from Soros' advocacy network was the source of a seven-figure ad blitz urging vulnerable
Republicans in swing districts to support the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. Soros then dumped tons
of cash into purple states, much of it disguised, to ensure Trump's defeat or the rigging of the 2020 election. Last
week his PAC announced a huge $125 million donation to Democratic candidates before this year's November midterm
elections. It was dubbed "a long-term investment." In the battle royale between patriots and globalists,
between Trump and his myriad of adversaries, one person stands out as the dominant player — against Trump and
patriots, everywhere, anywhere, and always.
Dr.
Evil gets out his checkbook. George Soros is back, and he's gotten out his checkbook. [...] Those moneybags
will go to elect the craziest, most compromised, most surreal-talking leftists, including legislators, secretaries of state,
and presumably district attorneys, three types of officials he's been funding for the past few election cycles, as well as
Black Lives Matter-type activists. But in the Sorosian style, which means the opposite of what it says, the whole
donation is couched in the language of saving "democracy" and promoting non-partisanship. It may be a tax dodge, for
one, but it's also how Joe Biden, who gets a lot of Soros cash at least indirectly talks. Wonder why. [...] ouring cash
into races sometimes succeeds, but only if the public is unaware of what is going on, and even more important, it doesn't
have a name attached. That puts Soros in a bad position on both fronts.
Anger
over BLM's purchase of $8.1 million Toronto mansion grows as group's finances scrutinized. Canadian Black Lives
Matter activists are furious over the group's recent $8.1 million cash purchase of a mansion in downtown Toronto that once
served as the headquarters of the Communist Party of Canada. The U.S. charity that serves as the face of the BLM
movement provided the bulk of the funding for the purchase of the 10,000-square-foot property in July. The purchase
flew largely under the radar at the time, but anger has now reached a boiling point amid other revelations about BLM's
management and its finances. "For BLM Canada to take money from BLM Global Network [Foundation] for a building without
consulting the community was unethical," Canadian BLM activists Sarah Jama and Sahra Soudi said in a recent statement.
"For BLM Canada to refuse to answer questions from young Black organizers goes against the spirit of movement-building."
Zuckerberg's
'Report for America' Is a Media Take Over Dressed Up as Philanthropy. "First, let's stipulate to an undeniable
truth of history," writes talk host, Steve Deace in a series of Twitter messages about the media, "whoever has control over
the flow of information in any society ultimately has control." And it's why Mark Zuckerberg and his cronies want to have a
bigger stake in local news. During the last couple of days, PJ Media has highlighted an effort by the Facebook (now
Meta) founder and other moneyed interests and foundations to save local newspapers and local news sources. Their idea
has been to spend millions of dollars to embed reporters, in a program called Report for America (RFA), in America's
newspapers and public radio stations. Their stated objective is to tell "under-covered" stories in those cities,
hamlets, and burgs out of the goodness of their hearts. RFA reporters, called "corps members," in the paramilitary
parlance the Left so often labels its foot soldiers, will tell these stories which have been circumscribed for them by the
publications and the RFA.
Big
Left-Wing 'Dark Money' Groups Fund Schumer's Secretive Anti-Filibuster Ally. Fix Our Senate, the obscure outfit
leading a coalition of 70 liberal advocacy groups backing Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's (D-N.Y.) anti-filibuster
drive, is a left-wing "dark-money pop-up," according to a political nonprofit finance expert. "Fix Our Senate may
present itself as a standalone, grassroots activist group, but it's actually a front for the Sixteen Thirty Fund, itself part
of a $1.7 billion left-wing 'dark- money pop-up' empire run by the shadowy consulting firm Arabella Advisors," said Capital
Research Center (CRC) senior investigative researcher Hayden Ludwig. "We call these fronts 'pop-ups' because they're
websites which pop into existence, run attack campaigns, and disappear in an instant and almost never reveal their connection
to Arabella or its nonprofits," Ludwig told The Epoch Times on Jan. 4. The CRC is a conservative nonpartisan foundation
that specializes in tracking trends among the most influential charities, nonprofits, and special-interest groups affecting
the public policy process in the nation's capital.
Race
Racket! Nikole Hannah-Jones Speaks at Colleges for $25,000 a Pop. Ibram X. Kendi and Robin diAngelo
aren't the only ones who can cash in on trashing "white fragility." After filing Freedom of Information Act requests, Corey
Walker at Campus Reform reports Nikole Hannah-Jones is making $25,000 a pop to speak at colleges. Nikole Hannah-Jones
spoke at the University of Michigan in January 2020 for a fee of $16,000. According to the documents from the Lavin agency,
Jones participated in a conversation about the 1619 Project with invited students, gave a Keynote address with a Q&A, and had
dinner at the Wallace House with a cohort of invited fellows. A year later, after all the post-George Floyd rioting and
tumult, Hannah-Jones commanded even higher speaking fees from universities. Documents from the APB speakers bureau
acquired from Georgia Tech show that Hannah-Jones was paid $25,000 to speak at the 2021 MLK Day Celebration Lecture in
January. For that event, Jones gave a 40-minute moderated conversation followed by a 20-minute question-and-answer session.
Nancy
Pelosi's millionaire husband Paul purchased millions in Alphabet, Disney and Salesforce stocks. Just as House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed back on the idea that lawmakers should not be able to make individual stock trades while in
office, her husband Paul bought shares in Google's parent company Alphabet, Disney and Salesforce worth millions. 'We're
a free market economy,' Pelosi told reporters during a news conference on Dec. 15. 'They [lawmakers] should be able to
participate in that.' Two days later, Paul Pelosi bought stock in Alphabet worth between $500,001 and $1 million.
He also bought shares in Disney worth between $100,001 and $250,000.
Race
Huckster Ibram X. Kendi Gets Paid $207 Per Minute for University Lecture. The leading intellectual light behind
the Critical Race Theory that has already severely damaged racial harmony in the United States and is corroding American
society itself, Ibram X. Kendi, has discovered the fundamental truth of our absurd age: the quickest path to elite status and
highly lucrative remuneration is to be oppressed, victimized, and marginalized. Kendi has mastered the art of parlaying
his alleged oppression into big bucks, fawning coverage from the establishment media, and respect and influence in the
academic world. Many others have done this, but none with the breathtaking audacity and extraordinary success of
Ibram X. Kendi.
Bill
Gates' Obsession With Abortion, Contraception & Population Control Started With His Father. Bill Gates has an
obsession with funding abortion, contraception and population control projects in developing nations. However, not many
are aware that it was his father who inspired him to carry out the depopulation agenda. In 2003, Bill Moyers, an
American journalist, asked Bill Gates a question. Moyers wanted to know why he was so interested in reproductive
issues? Gates considered. "But did you come to reproductive issues as an intellectual, philosophical pursuit?"
Moyers insisted. "Or was there something that happened? Was there a revelation?" "When I was growing up, my
parents were always involved in various volunteer things," Gates responded. "My dad was head of Planned
Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that. And so it's fascinating."
Excellent. If you've lived under a rock for the past few decades, Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion providers
in the world. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation preserves the legacy of Bill Gates' father.
The Wisconsin
Purchase. What happened in 2020 involved a highly coordinated and privately funded "shadow campaign" for Joe
Biden that took place within the formal structure of the election system itself. Through the injection of over
$419 million of Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's money, laundered through the Center for Technology and Civic Life
(CTCL) and the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR), the professional left presided over a targeted, historically
unprecedented takeover of government election offices by nominally nonpartisan, but demonstrably ideological, nonprofit
organizations and activists in key areas of swing states such as Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Our research shows that CTCL spending in Wisconsin generated enough votes for Joe Biden to secure him an Electoral College win
there in 2020. We estimate that CTCL spending in Wisconsin purchased Joe Biden an additional 65,222 votes, without which
Donald Trump would have won the state by 44,540 votes. Although CTCL and CEIR are chartered as non-partisan 501(c)(3)
corporations, our research shows that the $419.5 million of CTCL and CEIR spending that took place in 2020 was highly
partisan in its distribution, and highly partisan in its effects.
How
much more powerful are the media than you? America is 100% top-down. Zero percent bottom-up. In
North Carolina, in the last senatorial race between Cal Cunningham and Thom Tillis, over 250 million dollars was
spent. The people of North Carolina have no representation. Two hundred fifty million dollars does. The
people of North Carolina are being played for fools and are voiceless and powerless.
IRS
Filing Confirms: Zuckerberg Grantee Spent $332 Million for 'Local Election Administration' in 2020. A
compliance document filed with the Internal Revenue Service by the Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center for Technology and Civic
Life (CTCL) confirms the nonprofit spent $332 million in "grants and other assistance to domestic organizations and domestic
governments" in the 2020 election to "increase civic participation by modernizing engagement between local gov[ernment] and
the people they serve." As Breitbart News reported in October 2020, "Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced
on Tuesday that he and his wife have donated an additional $100 million to a 'safe elections' project run by the non-profit
Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL), bringing their total contributions to that project to $350 million since
September 1."
IRS
Filings Confirm Left-Wing Zuck Bucks Recipient Funneled Millions Into Manipulating 2020 Election For Biden.
Internal Revenue Service disclosure filings from the Center for Tech and Civic Life, a left-wing election takeover
organization, confirm that the nonprofit used millions of dollars from Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to manipulate the 2020
election in favor of President Joe Biden. According to reporting from the Capital Research Center, CTCL used tens of
millions of funds funneled from Zuckerberg's community foundations, other leftist "dark money empires," and even federal
dollars designated for personal protective equipment, to monetarily urge secretaries of state to adopt sloppy election
practices such as mass mail-in balloting and unmonitored dropboxes in the name of protecting voters against COVID-19.
CTCL claims that the complete modification of safe election practices in cities across the United States resulted in "the
most secure election in U.S. history," but reporting from multiple sources including The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway, who
wrote "Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections," suggests the opposite.
How
George Soros funded progressive 'legal arsonist' DAs behind US crime surge. For the last several years,
billionaire philanthropist George Soros has been quietly financing a revolution in criminal justice reform, doling out tens
of millions of dollars to progressive candidates in district attorney races throughout the country amid movements to abolish
bail and defund the police. Working with an activist attorney, Soros, 91, mainly funnels cash through a complicated web
of federal and state political action committees as well as non-profits from coast to coast, public records show. Last
year, the Foundation to Promote Open Society, a nonprofit in Soros' orbit, gave $3 million to the Community Resource Hub
for Safety and Accountability, according to a recent report. The group provides resources to "local advocates and
organizations working to address the harm of policing in the US."
Sen.
Richard Blumenthal 'excited and proud' to help Communist Party USA celebrate its 102nd anniversary. The
alliance of mainstream Democrats with communism is becoming obvious. I am so old that I can remember when embracing the
Communist Party was a political death sentence. [...] Senator Blumenthal's second term in the U.S. Senate ends in 2023,
meaning he must stand for re-election next year in a year expected to be very difficult for Democrats. Of course,
Connecticut is so Democrat-friendly that he received 63% of the vote when he ran for re-election in 2016, so maybe he has
nothing to fear. He'll be 76 years old next year and is estimated to be worth well over $100 million thanks to his
father's Wall Street career as a commodities trader. (I wonder how the CPUSA regards the legitimacy of such wealth!
It's a good thing he didn't live in Cambodia under communist Pol Pot.)
Media
ignoring the utter weirdness of Biden's Nantucket stay at a billionaire's estate. Normally, when going to stay
at a friend's house, etiquette requires bringing a gift — say, flowers, some wine, or something to eat. But
what about the strange circumstances Joe and Dr. Jill Biden face while staying at the Nantucket estate of
multi-billionaire hedge fund founder David Rubenstein? It's a really, really long (since Tuesday night) weekend stay,
so one might wonder if Benjamin Franklin's famous aphorism, that guests, like fish, start to smell after 3 days, comes into
play. But nope, not a chance. You see, while "visiting" their "friend's" estate, Joe and Dr. Jill are not
going to see the Rubensteins at all. They've cleared out. Traveling overseas, doncha know. I very much
doubt that they had booked a non-refundable airfare when Joe's staff called up and asked about "visiting" over Thanksgiving
weekend. They no doubt have at least one private jet at their disposal. So, they cleared out of their estate to
make room for Mr. and Dr. POTUS. How thoughtful!
Joe
Biden is spending Thanksgiving at private-equity billionaire's home. President Biden and first lady Jill Biden
said they will spend Thanksgiving at the Nantucket home of a private-equity billionaire. In a statement to reporters,
the White House said, "The First Family will stay at the home of their friend, David Rubenstein, as they have done previously."
The buyout tycoon's Nantucket spread spans 13 acres and is worth a reported $20 million. Rubenstein, who is worth
$4.6 billion, according to a Forbes estimate, co-founded private-equity behemoth The Carlyle Group. The Washington-based
firm, which boasts $293 billion in assets, is known for its leveraged buyouts and investments that have included Dunkin',
Oriental Trading and Hertz.
Three
Foreign Billionaires Finance the Dem Dark Money Machine. A Swiss human experimenter, a Hungarian Nazi
collaborator, and an Iranian tech tycoon walk into Washington D.C. What do you call them? The absentee owners of the
Democrat Party. It's not a joke. Unfortunately it's grimly serious. Politico recently reported that the
Sixteen Thirty Fund, the leading dark money machine of the Left, had pumped $410 million into Dem 2020 efforts to defeat
Trump and Republicans. The Sixteen Thirty Fund had raised a record $390 million that year and half the money came from
just 4 donors. While the names of the donors are secret, the article did note the names of three major known STF backers:
Pierre Omidyar, Hansjörg Wyss, and George Soros. Aside from their support for leftist causes, the three billionaires have
another thing in common. Hansjörg Wyss, the richest man in Switzerland, may not even be a United States citizen.
The article notes that his $135 million in STF dark money donations were "earmarked for non-electoral purposes".
Bezos
gives $100 million to Obama Foundation, nonprofit's largest single gift. Former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos donated
$100 million to former President Barack Obama's private foundation, the nonprofit's biggest single gift to date, the
Chicago-based foundation announced Monday [11/22/2021]. Mr. Bezos, who owns The Washington Post, made the donation
in honor of the late Rep. John Lewis. The plaza where the Obama Presidential Center is located will be renamed for
the civil rights activist. "Freedom fighters deserve a special place in the pantheon of heroes, and I can't think of a
more fitting person to honor with this gift than John Lewis, a great American leader and a man of extraordinary decency and
courage," Mr. Bezos said in a statement released by the Obama Foundation. "I'm thrilled to support President and
Mrs. Obama and their foundation in its mission to train and inspire tomorrow's leaders." Mr. Bezos' fortune
has been estimated at $210 billion.
The Editor says...
As I see it, this is a down payment on the influence Mr. Bezos hopes to buy in the upcoming Michelle Obama administration.
At this point, it just looks like a charitable donation. Clever. Mr. Bezos must know something, because
$100 million is a lot of money, even for him.
Why The Left Always
Projects. [Scroll down] Take for example, the worn-out charge of "privilege," as in the phrase "check
your privilege." This trope originates exclusively from the Left. Purportedly, it signifies a rigged system in which
white males have gained, unfairly and undeservedly, "privilege" to exercise cultural, economic, political, and social control
over the "other" — occasionally defined as women, more often "people of color," and most frequently African
Americans. How odd, given that by any indicator the political Left is the party of wealth and privilege. The
wealthiest ZIP codes are found in blue states such as California, Illinois, Massachusetts, and New York. Twenty-six of
the 27 wealthiest congressional districts, gauged by per capita incomes, are represented by liberal Democrats.
Registered Democrats on average have higher incomes than their Republican counterparts. Democratic presidential
candidates have vastly outspent Republicans over the last 20 years. Note that the old liberal saw about "dark money"
has steadily disappeared from the left-wing lexicon (nothing is darker than Mark Zuckerberg's infusions of cash to warp
particular voting precincts).
Bill
Gates Spent $18 Million Pushing Population Control on Africa. One of the world's richest men spends
considerable amounts of money pushing population control on women in Africa. Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, donated
$18 million to family planning programs through the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), All Africa reports. Their
foundation made the announcement during an international family planning conference in Rwanda. The Gates Foundation has
a long history of pushing birth control on some of the world's poorest countries while their people cry for clean water, food
and basic health care. Though the Gates family says the money does not go toward abortions, it gives money to some of
the largest abortion companies in the world, including the International Planned Parenthood Federation and Marie Stopes
International.
8
big problems with Biden's 'Build Back Better' bill. [#4] The House bill would hike the cap on the state and
local tax (SALT) deduction from $10,000 all the way to $72,500. This $500 billion tax cut (relative to keeping the $10,000
cap) would provide 84 percent of its benefits to the top-earning 10 percent of households (saving as much as $19,000 each),
while the typical median-earning family would save just $20. And Democrats say Republicans are the party of the rich!
The result is that — even with other new tax hikes — many wealthy families could see a net tax cut in this
bill. No, capping SALT is not about forcing blue states to subsidize red states. States don't pay taxes, individuals do.
Getty
Wedding Guest List Shows Exactly Who California's Political Elite Are Listening To. If you were lucky, you
might've seen billionaire oil heiress Ivy Love Getty strut up San Fransisco City Hall's red carpet-lined steps in her couture
wedding gown last weekend. Or, you might've witnessed police contain hundreds of homeless onlookers, making sure none
of them ruined Getty's picture-perfect frame. For the Saturday nuptials, Getty paid the San Francisco County Sheriff's
Office a hefty $42,314 — which presumably helped cover the cost of keeping homeless populations out of the way and
clearing the tents, trash, human feces, and heroine [sic] needles lining the streets — all so she and celebrity
photographer Tobias Engel could have their fairytale wedding, complete with plenty of California elites. A maskless
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi officiated the ceremony. Pelosi has been one of California's staunchest advocates for
mask-wearing policies, such as those mandating the facial restraints for children age 5-17 in schools. But when you're
at a lavish billionaire wedding, rules don't apply. Especially if you're the one making them.
Bezos
Receives Bipartisan Criticism For Climate Change Hypocrisy. Jeff Bezos, one of the chief beneficiaries of
pandemic lockdowns and supporter of Hilary Clinton's 2016 Presidential bid, has been under fire this past week or so for
being one of the most stunningly hypocritical human beings in recorded human history, which is quite an achievement [...]
According to Daily Mail, Bezos is receiving tremendous criticism for being egregiously out of touch and hypocritical by both
the left and the right for flying to the Cop26 being held in Glasgow, Scotland in his $65 million private jet. Nadia
Whittome, Labour MP for Nottingham East, called Bezos a "hypocrite" whilst former Republican Congressional candidate for
Florida's 24th District Lavern Spicer lambasted the founder of Amazon, saying that "While you're busy at home turning off
lights and keeping your thermostat down, Jeff Bezos's $65m Gulf Stream just lead a parade of 400 private jets into COP26" as
part of a barrage from the grassroots against the hypocrisy of the globalist elite that is flouted ever more brazenly with
each passing year.
Nancy
Pelosi slammed as hypocrite for attending Ivy Getty's wedding maskless. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been
branded a hypocrite for attending the lavish wedding of billionaire oil heiress Ivy Getty over the weekend without a
mask — while children in California are being made to wear them in the state's schools. Pelosi (D-Calif.),
who officiated the ceremony at San Francisco City Hall, faced backlash on social media after photos of her mingling with
other maskless wedding guests were published by Vogue on Tuesday [11/9/2021]. Critics immediately lashed out and
questioned why it was mandatory for children to wear masks in California schools, but not for guests at the billionaire
wedding of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty's great-granddaughter and Tobias Alexander Engel. "Why does @SpeakerPelosi insist
on children wearing masks when she's in more danger due to her age? Seems like she's not concerned, why are you?" one
person tweeted.
It
Looks Like Gavin Newsom's Been Located — at an Ostentatious Getty Wedding. As our Jennifer O'Connell
reported earlier today, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-French Laundry) hasn't been seen in public since October 27, the
day he received his COVID-19 vaccine booster. Newsom was scheduled to fly to Glasgow to attend the COP26 climate change
conference two days later, but his trip was abruptly canceled. Initially some speculated that perhaps he realized how
silly it was to fly across the globe to speak at a climate change conference when he could simply participate virtually. Then,
Newsom's office claimed he was attending to "unspecified family issues" and his office wouldn't elaborate when asked by the press.
Kamala
Harris pumps rich, left-wing donors in France before Macron meeting. Vice President Kamala Harris will have one
foot stateside as she arrives in Paris for a week of face-to-face meetings with European leaders, delivering prerecorded
remarks at the George Soros-backed Democracy Alliance annual donor summit, according to a White House official, for an
audience of prominent liberal megadonors. [...] In the United States, Democrats have moved further to the left, aided by the
Democracy Alliance's vast, deep-pocketed network. Co-founded by billionaire George Soros and the late Progressive
Insurance chairman, Peter Lewis, the Democracy Alliance has advised Democratic donors to invest in groups that obscure their
funding from the public. One of those groups, the Sixteen Thirty Fund, has directed tens of millions of dollars to
causes at the state and federal levels, including a slew of successful ballot measures, spending $141 million during the 2018
midterm election year, nearly doubling the $79 million it spent in 2017. Midterm elections aren't the only time the
organization spends big. The Sixteen Thirty Fund spent more than $137 million in 2019, the last year for which public
data are available online.
Where's
Gavin Newsom been? At Getty heiress's wedding. The Twitter-sphere, The Daily Mail, and even The
Sacramento Bee were looking everywhere for Gavin Newsom on Monday after the California governor canceled events and ducked
out of sight for a few days. Did he have COVID or a reaction to his recent booster shot? Nope. Newsom was
at the Ivy Getty wedding on Saturday at City Hall, a guest and two media outlets say. Getty is a billionaire oil
heiress and great-granddaughter of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi officiated the
500-person wedding under the grand rotunda of the closed City Hall.
Jeff
Bezos's £48m Gulf Stream leads parade of 400 private jets into COP26. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos'
£48million Gulf Stream has led a 400-strong parade of private jets into COP26 including Prince Albert of Monaco, scores
of royals and dozens of 'green' CEOs — as an extraordinary traffic jam forced empty planes to fly 30 miles to
find space to park. Some environmental activists at the COP26 climate conference will be urging others to cut down on
air travel and eat less meat, but little has been said about the billionaires flying in on their own planes on routes already
served by commercial airlines. Meanwhile, as the super-rich were whisked away into waiting limos, hundreds of less
fortunate delegates were left unable to get to Glasgow after brutal storms crippled rail links, forcing travellers to sleep
on the floor of Euston station in London.
Will
Governments Survive the Coming Peasant Revolt? Why has the world been turned on its head these last few
years? Why does it seem as if everything true is labeled false and everything false is labeled true? [...] What do you
mean, uncontrolled illegal immigration is tearing communities apart and destroying the common bonds of shared culture?
That's racist! Multiculturalism and diversity are our strengths! If a population influx happens to cause
social friction while putting deflationary pressure on low-paying wages and mitigating the actuarial insolvency of the
welfare system, that's purely coincidental. Believe me, wealthy elites worry about the plight of the weary immigrant
more than they care about their own happiness. That's why the doors to their gated communities, country clubs, and
private schools are always open to those in need.
Leftist
Shadow Governments Control A Lot More Than Our Elections. Many Americans are awakening to the fact that we seem
to have no local control of a lot of local things: public schools, our terms of employment, local governments, local
elections. That last one popped again recently with the release of my colleague Mollie Hemingway's deeply reported 2020
election investigation book, "Rigged." That book, and some great corroborating independent reporting, show that 2020
election chaos was part of an effective and well-funded plan to help Democrats win by rigging the playing field. One
key strategy deployed to that end has become default on the left yet still often goes unremarked and unchallenged. It's
called "advocacy philanthropy." In the 2020 election, Facebook zillionaire Mark Zuckerberg used this strategy to deploy
nearly half a billion dollars to help Democrat activists infiltrate local government election apparatuses, literally
paying for election equipment and the salaries of partisans who counted ballots. This kind of tax-exempt political
interference is now standard practice for the world's far-left ultra-rich, and it's affecting a whole lot more than
elections. It's constructed essentially a shadow government that pits elected officials against their voters on behalf
of moneyed interests.
George
Soros Drops $1M To Stop City of Austin Hiring Police to Combat Rising Crime. America-hating billionaire George
Soros is stepping up his efforts to personally increase the violent crime rate in America's cities. Not content to just
sponsor pro-crime DA's who release and/or fail to prosecute criminals, Soros is now pouring money into defund the police
efforts. As cities, some of them on the down low, have been refunding police they previously defunded or are increasing
hiring due to police forces being decimated by low morale fueled by lack of local support, ridiculous pro-crime policies, and
various WuFlu-related mandates, Soros is busily shelling out money to keep crime up, criminals on the streets, and fewer
police to keep communities safe.
Team
Biden is out of touch with the misery its policies inflict. President Joe Biden's chief of staff brushes off
record-high inflation and the supply-chain crisis helping fuel it as "high class problems." It's a stunning admission of
indifference from a well-connected multimillionaire — but just the latest example of this administration's
cluelessness about Americans' suffering from its failures. "This," Ron Klain emphasized Wednesday [10/13/2021] in
quote-tweeting Harvard economist Jason Furman, who wrote, "Most of the economic problems we're facing (inflation, supply
chains, etc.) are high class problems. We wouldn't have had them if the unemployment rate was still 10 percent.
We would instead have had a much worse problem." Fine: The rising cost of everything from groceries to diapers to
cars is no problem for Klain, who's worth between $4.4 million and $12.2 million.
Watters
probes Pelosi's wealth explosion, says she and husband seem to 'always know what the right investment is'. As
of 2020, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, and her husband, real estate developer Paul Pelosi, had accumulated a
combined $315,000,000 in wealth, and according to an investigation by Fox News host Jesse Watters, something about this
doesn't seem right. During a segment Saturday on Fox News' "Watters' World," he dug deep into her and her husband's
past and discovered nuggets of information suggesting corruption may be afoot. He started by noting that sometime after
Pelosi's husband opened the real estate and venture capital investment and consulting firm Financial Leasing Services, Inc.,
he used his newly made "connections" to push her into politics, "helping her get elected to Congress in 1987."
Following her election to office, their wealth exploded. [...] The most recent wealth explosion occurred after she became
House speaker again in 2018. "That year, her financial disclosure report revealed a net worth of over 114 million.
Then in 2019, Pelosi's assets totaled up to a whopping 271 million. And in 2020, those numbers went up even more to
as high as 315 million bucks. Quite a lot of crumbs," Watters said. He then asked the question on everyone's
mind: "Where's the money coming from?"
Democrat
Manchin looks down on protesters from his $700K yacht and tells them 'we're going to make the rich pay'.
Protesters and political activists rowed towards US Sen. Joe Manchin's yacht this week, demanding to know why the
senator refuses to support President Joe Biden's $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill. In a video capturing the exchange,
Manchin, aboard his $700,000 house boat named Almost Heaven, assured the kayakers that Democrats were working to pass a
reasonable bill. West Virginians waived signs saying 'don't sink out healthcare, and shouted at the Senator while he
was aboard the vessel, which was moored on the Potomac River in Washington DC.
The Masking of the
Servant Class: Ugly COVID Images From the Met Gala Are Now Commonplace. Last month, a delightful event
was hosted by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for wealthy Democratic donors in Napa — the same wine
region of choice for Gov. Newsom's notorious dinner party — at which the cheapest tickets were $100 each and
a "chair" designation was available for $29,000. Video of the outdoor festivities showed an overwhelmingly white crowd
of rich Democratic donors sitting maskless virtually on top of one another — not an iota of social distancing to
be found — as Pelosi imparted her deep wisdom about public policy. Pelosi's donor gala took place as
millions face eviction, ongoing joblessness, and ever-emerging mandates of various types. It was also held just five
days after the liberal county government of Los Angeles, in the name of Delta, imposed a countywide mask requirement for
"major outdoor events." In nearby San Francisco, where Pelosi's mansion is found, the liberal-run city government has
maintained a more restrictive outdoor mask policy than the CDC: [...]
'Tax
The Rich' AOC Wore $450 Earrings, $600 Shoes To Met Gala: Report. Rep. Alexandria-Cortez may have
worn a dress emblazoned "Tax the Rich" to Monday's Met Gala, but she was also wearing earrings reputedly valued at $450 and
shoes reportedly valued at roughly $614. The "Tax the Rich" dress designed by Aurora James was worth hundreds of
thousands of dollars, the Daily Mail noted, adding that the 14-karat designer Mejuri jewelry gold hoop earrings were listed
as worth $450 and the open-toed red shoes from James' Brother Vellies fashion line were valued at roughly $614.
Ocasio-Cortez also carried a James purse that also featured the "Tax the Rich" mantra.
Woman
of the people: The cost of AOC's Met Gala shoes could have fed an American family for a month. New York
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made her fashion debut this week in a dazzling appearance at the annual Met Gala, wowing
attendees of the $30,000-per-ticket event with a stunning gown that called for the government to "tax the rich." [Tweet]
Though the self-declared socialist has taken a lot of heat for wearing the bespoke Brother Vellies dress to the event, little
attention has been paid to her shoe ensemble, which, according to Vogue, consisted of "a pair of red shoes from Brother
Vellies, with long laces and bright flowers along the heel." [Photo] Those really pop! Judging from Brother
Vellies's website, the company's line of ribbon-adorned high-heeled shoes hover around $615. Assuming that the
representative's footwear for the evening did not rise above that baseline, that mean's Ocasio-Cortez's shoes for the Met
event cost significantly more than the low end of an American husband and wife's average monthly food budget, according to
the USDA.
AOC
Just Bought Herself More Trouble With Her Attendance at Met Gala and 'Tax the Rich' Dress. We reported earlier
on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) wearing a designer dress that said "Tax the Rich" at the Met Gala, where a
ticket to attend costs at least $30,000. She was called out for her hypocrisy by people like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)
and Donald Trump, Jr. because she and the other guests flouted the masks required for the indoor event, while the "help" all
had to be masked, and because she was partying with the rich who she was attacking. [Tweets] If there is any clearer
picture of hypocrisy, I don't know what it would be as we watch the socialist, trying to make a point attacking the rich,
while partying with them, going to an elite event and being waited on.
The
full Versailles: Met Gala ruling class pour on the hypocrisy — led by Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez. In the decrepit, doddering Joe Biden era, the odor of decay, decadence, and borrowed glory from
the entitled ruling class is the order of the day based on what was seen at last night's Met Gala, "the party of the year"
according to the New York Times. Nobody embodied that better than Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who wore a
custom-designed white evening gown graffitied with 'Tax the Rich' in red spray paint on the back of it, just perfect for an
event brimming with the superrich. She knows they like that 'beat me, beat me' vibe and blathered to a credulous press
about being there to show 'what it means to be working-class women of color at the Met.' Maybe she could have consulted
the dark-skinned women at the sidelines, forced to wear masks as she was not about that one.
AOC
is slammed as a hypocrite for donning a custom Aurora James dress to the Met Gala where tickets cost $30,000
each. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez has been slammed for attending the ultra exclusive, elitist Met Gala on Monday
night [9/13/2021] in a dress with the words 'tax the rich' plastered on them [sic], in what she claims was a political
statement but what others say is yet another example of her tone-deaf hypocrisy. The 31-year-old socialist firebrand
attended the event with her boyfriend Riley Roberts after getting ready at The Carlyle Hotel on the Upper East Side.
She claims she went for free to the event, where tables can cost upwards of $200,000, and that it was her responsibility to
do so as an elected official.
The Editor says...
Nothing is free, especially in New York. Somebody paid for AOC's admission to the event. Who was it?
Here's the answer:
Museum
comped AOC, her boyfriend, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, his wife and son tickets together worth up to $175K for their Met Gala
appearance. The Office of Congressional Ethics was asked by a conservative group to launch an investigation of
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for accepting free tickets to Monday's Met Gala, where she wore a custom gown that said
'Tax the Rich.' Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attended the the ultra-elitist, $35,000-a-head Met Gala as guests of
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, DailyMail.com can confirm. In an ethics complaint, Thomas Jones, founder of the
American Accountability Foundation, said he believes Ocasio-Cortez, who represents parts of the Bronx and Queens, broke House
rules by accepting 'an impermissible gift' of free tickets to attend the annual gala.
Did
AOC Break the Law with Her Met Gala Stunt? As Matt covered earlier, socialist Congresswoman Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez made an appearance at the Met Gala in New York City Monday night [9/13/2021]. She wore a white dress with
large red letters on the back reading, "Tax The Rich." [Tweet] A ticket to the Met Gala costs $30,000. A table
nabs $275,000. So, how did she get in? Here's her explanation. [Tweet] But there are questions about the
legality of her attendance, especially when it comes to election laws, donations and what she may owe to the IRS if her
ticket was a gift. [Tweet]
Nancy
Pelosi Hosts "Super Spreader" Event In Napa For Maskless Old White Liberals. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
(Calif.) was seen without her mask over the weekend at a Democrat Party fundraiser event full of unmasked attendees.
The event was hosted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in Napa, California, where Pelosi was seen
delivering remarks unmasked. The event was exclusively for old white liberals at a super spreader event while their
ethnic, masked staff wait on them hand and foot.
With
Infamous "Wine Cave" Donor Help, Pelosi Greases the Palms of 9 Democrats and the West Coast Elites. Kathryn
Walt Hall is one of those blue-blooded, monied elites who own politicians through their largesse. Walt Hall and her
husband Craig Hall were the infamous "wine cave" purveyors behind the 2020 Primary election brouhaha with then-Presidential
candidates Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Liawatha). The couple hosted Mayor Pete for a $1,000 a
glass fundraiser for his campaign, and Sen. Fauxcahontas called him on it. [...] This couple, through their shell
corporation the Hall Financial Group, Inc., has given billions of dollars to Democrats since the 1980s, to make sure they
have a controlling interest in who will be the next President, Governor, Senators, and Congressmen. This last cycle, to
the tune of $50,000, they contributed to Dementia Joe's Biden Victory Fund. The couple has also hosted our Governor
Hair Gel for a few events, and other Democrat candidates and office holders who they considered malleable and influential
(remember Tom Daschle?)
Another
Famous "Socialist" Just Purchased a Million Dollar Home and His Defense Is Incredibly Weak. If you've never
heard of Hasan Piker, he's the nephew of The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur who's made a name for himself as a political Twitch
streamer. [...] Piker is, like most young first-world leftists, a socialist. As original a concept as this is, what's
even more common about him is that Piker's popularity has made him wealthy with no small help from the innovation made
possible by the capitalist system. This led to Piker doing exactly what young wealthy socialists do; he purchased a
very expensive home. Earlier this week, it was reported that Piker purchased a home in West Hollywood worth
$2.74 million in the Beverly Grove neighborhood. Like other champaign socialists, this multi-million dollar home
fits right in with his for-the-people, eat-the-rich preaching.
DC
Is Ensuring Only Billionaires Can Get a Loan — in the Name of 'Helping the Little Guy'. Welcome to
DC. Where Big Government policies always end up helping Big Businesses — and hurting the rest of us.
Because, of course, only Big Businesses can afford the direct and indirect costs of Big Government — while they
crush the rest of us. And, of course, Big Businesses are the ones bribing Big Government for ever-more-preferential
policies — which screw the rest of us. Sometimes DCs denizens are nakedly obvious about helping their rich, crony
benefactors. But far more often, Big Businesses' elected officials obfuscate their cronyism. Dressing up ever-more
Big Business assistance in "Help the Little Guy" verbiage. Ohio Democrat Senator Sherrod Brown is excellent at it.
Zuckerberg-Funded
Group Gave $11.8 Million to Democrat Consulting Firms for 'Nonpartisan Voter Education' in Michigan. The Center
for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) gave $12 million in September 2020 to a Michigan nonprofit, which then funneled
the money to two Democrat consulting firms for the purpose of "nonpartisan voter education efforts." The Michigan Star
first reported on the tax form filed in May 2021 by the Michigan nonprofit, the Michigan Center for Election Law and
Administration (MCELA), which revealed the MCELA directed 99 percent of the $12 million it received from CEIR
to two Democrat-aligned consulting companies.
Atlantic
Magazine Owner Publishes Unvaccinated Should Not Fly, Owns Two Private Jets. Atlantic magazine
billionaire owner and widow of Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell Jobs, who also owns two private jets, published an article Tuesday
[8/3/2021] encouraging the Biden administration to mandate the unvaccinated be on a no fly list. While her publication
issued an article pushing for "a no-fly list for unvaccinated adults" as "an obvious step that the federal government should
take" due to TSA PreCheck, which "divide[s] passengers into categories according to how much of a threat the government
thinks they pose," Jobs has the ability to skirt commercial airport security and restrictions for which her magazine is advocating.
Valerie
Jarrett Asks For Donations To Obama Library Ahead Of His Martha's Vineyard Birthday Bash. Former Obama staffer
Valerie Jarrett is asking Americans to donate money to Obama's presidential library, just days before he is about to hold a
celebrity filled birthday bash at his mansion on Martha's Vineyard. Jarrett has a lot of nerve to make such a
request. Oprah Winfrey is expected to be at the party. Maybe she could cough up the needed cash.
Gates
Foundation Is Longtime Partner Of Chinese Communist Group Which Funded Military-Linked Coronavirus Research At Wuhan
Lab. The National Natural Science Foundation of China, which has extensive ties to China's military and the
Wuhan Institute of Virology, has partnered with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on scientific research for over five
years. The unearthed ties between the Gates Foundation and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
follow a National Pulse exposé revealing how the Chinese scientific organization funded People's Liberation Army (PLA)
research and bat coronavirus studies at the Wuhan lab. Beyond describing itself as a state-owned scientific group that
is "guided by President Xi Jinping's Socialist thoughts," the NSFC has inked "strategic cooperative agreements" with the
Chinese Communist Party's Central Military Commission. In October 2015, however, the Gates Foundation signed a
memorandum of understanding with the NSFC to "jointly support research projects and bilateral workshops." Together, the Gates
Foundation and NSFC would "co-fund awards of up to US$1M and 4 years for collaborations between Chinese and international
investigators."
Activist
Shaun King lives lavishly in lakefront New Jersey home. Shaun King has built his image on being a champion of
the poor and disenfranchised, but the controversial civil rights activist lives like a one-percenter in a sprawling lakefront
home, records show. King, 41, moved earlier this year from a luxury two-bedroom apartment in downtown Brooklyn, to the
five-bedroom, 3,000 square foot North Brunswick, NJ, property, with "a lakefront backyard" and gourmet kitchen, according to
public records. The property, surrounded by lush, tall trees, was purchased by King's wife, Rai-Tonicia King, a Ph.D.
candidate and educator, in November 2020 for $842,000, public records show. King has been dogged for years by
allegations of shady dealings in his charitable efforts in movements he has founded — including a lack of
transparency in money he has raised for several criminal justice initiatives he has backed.
BLM
activist Shaun King moves into luxury five-bedroom lakefront home. Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King, who
claims he advocates for the poor and disenfranchised communities, has been living large in a luxury five-bedroom, 3,000
square foot New Jersey lakefront home. King, who famously got upset when someone vandalized a George Floyd statue, but
wanted statues of Jesus to be torn down, apparently moved away from his place in downtown Brooklyn earlier in 2021. According
to the New York Post, "the property, surrounded by lush, tall trees, was purchased by King's wife, Rai-Tonicia King, a Ph.D.
candidate and educator, in November 2020 for $842,000." The house, located on property in North Brunswick, New Jersey,
purportedly boasts of five bedrooms and 3,000 square feet of living space.
Obama
defies CDC guidance by inviting 500 people to his celebrity-studded 60th birthday party at his $12m mansion on Martha's
Vineyard. Former President Barack Obama has come under fire for his plans to host nearly 500 people at his
Martha's Vineyard mansion for his 60th birthday, despite a nationwide rise in COVID cases. The former president is set
to turn 60 on August 4, and is said to be planning a large soiree at his 7,000-square-foot mansion in the Edgarton section
of Martha's Vineyard next weekend. An official familiar with the plans told Axios that there are now 475 confirmed guests
for the party — including Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney and Steven Spielberg — with more than 200 staff members.
The
Dissident California Right Is the Future. The Left, no longer the party of the common man, the little man, or
the forgotten man, is now a party entirely for the made man. Those already among the rich and powerful are
automatically accepted, and the Left graciously allows plebs to join and minister unto them, so long as they attend the
proper institutions, perform the proper induction ceremonies, and devote their lives to the bureaucracy or mechanism of the
state. The lowest rung of the leftist coalition is composed of the sainted hordes, which — as is obvious to
every Californian not currently making money or gaining influence by servicing the Left's one-percenters — is
defined roughly as any group of disadvantaged people likely to vote for leftists. Much of the time the sainted hordes
are synonymous with immigrants, but not always. The Left is very meticulous in its support for the lowly. Only
those likely to be made useful in further empowering the made Left are welcome. Cubans, Eastern Europeans, and those
who (like the California Right) might properly be called "dissidents" are wise to the game and are, therefore, unwelcome.
Barack
Obama is planning star-studded party at his $11.75 million Martha's Vineyard mansion to celebrate his 60th birthday.
Barack Obama plans to ring in his 60th birthday hosting a party at his Martha's Vineyard mansion with a star-studded guest list
who've all been COVID tested. It has been reported that big names such as Oprah Winfrey and George Clooney have already
scored an invite to join the former president. The party will take place at Obama's his $11.75 million 30-acre oceanside
getaway on the exclusive Massachusetts island as he hits the big birthday on August 4.
Oprah
sells Orcas Island waterfront sanctuary for $14M. Oprah Winfrey has sold her 43-acre waterfront estate known as
Madroneagle on Orcas Island's Catspaw Lane for $14 million, the Business Journal has learned. Sources familiar with the
deal say it is the highest price ever paid for an Orcas Island property. Winfrey, who bought the property in 2018
without personally visiting it, paid $8.3 million at the time. The property first went on the market two years earlier
at $12 million but failed to sell at that price. The Catspaw Lane property is a gated island sanctuary that includes a
10,251-square-foot main mansion, essentially gutted by Winfrey in a remodel. The property includes several other
houses, a half-mile of waterfront and beach, a greenhouse, a huge shop and a mother-in-law apartment.
The
Left's Contempt for the Masses. [Joe] Biden has amassed and spent millions on the backs of ordinary
Americans. According to a Forbes estimate, Biden was spending $2,000 a day on personal expenses during the four years
he was out of office — not exactly an Average Joe budget. And Biden's declared net worth of $8 million does
not accord with reports of payments from foreign governments, money that may be held the names of family members. Other
Democrats live like royalty as well. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and her husband have a reported net worth of over
$1 billion. Nancy Pelosi's net worth (with her husband) is $115 million, while the richest U.S. senator is
Democrat Mark Warner ($214 million). The Clintons, who claimed to have left the White House "without a nickel,"
now have a net worth of $120 million. All of these Democrats claim to be working for "the poor," but the poor
don't get rich under their rule — they do. And none of these rich leftists has made large charitable
contributions to benefit American working people directly.
The
secret that Biden, Obama, Hillary won't say aloud about today's Democratic Party. How often during the last
year of wokeness have middle- and lower-class Americans listened to multimillionaires of all races and genders lecture them
on their various pathologies and oppressions? University presidents with million-dollar salaries virtue-signal on the
cheap their own sort of "unearned white privilege." Meghan Markle and the Obamas, from their plush estates, indict
Americans for their biases. Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors Brignac decries the oppressive
victimization she and others have suffered — from one of her four recently acquired homes. Do we need
another performance-art sermon on America's innate unfairness from billionaire entertainers such as Beyoncé, Jay-Z or
Oprah Winfrey, or from multimillionaire Delta or Coca-Cola CEOs?
The ESG Threat. Once upon a time,
lefty sorts could put their money where their mouth was by "socially responsible investing." [...] But these days, that's
simply not enough for the Big Sisters of Social Justice Warriorhood. Why make something voluntary when they can force
it down your throat? Hence the push for Environmental Social Governance (ESG), a backdoor way to impose far-left values
on corporations without having to deal with shareholders at all.
Mitt
Romney sells $23.5M home after years of backlash from neighbors. The notorious San Diego home of Mitt Romney,
which made headlines in 2012 for having planned an installation of a car elevator, is now in escrow for $23.5 million.
The move comes after years of enduring backlash from neighbors for tearing down and demolishing the initial oceanfront
structure and building a new, bigger home. Anthony Ciani, a La Jolla, California, architect and former neighbor of
Romney at the time, told The [New York] Post that his issue was mostly concerning public use of the beach. "Not all of
the neighbors had issues with the Romneys' project," Ciani said, "but others, including me, disputed their claim to own the
sandy beach west of the historic property line which could interfere with the historical public use of the beach, and because
that uses that additional area of land to build a larger house than would otherwise comply with the development
regulations."
You can be Joe
Biden's neighbor for $2.4 million. During his 2020 campaign, now-President Joe Biden was compared to children's
television figure Mister Rogers — and now you can really be Joe and Jill Biden's neighbor. A property next
to Biden's custom-built three-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bathroom Wilmington, Delaware, home was listed Monday for $2.39 million,
according to Realtor.com. Biden, who also owns a Delaware beach house but spent this past holiday weekend at the White House,
purchased his Wilmington plot for $350,000 in 1998. The property, including the 6,850-square-foot mansion, is now estimated
to be worth at least $2 million, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Jeff
Bezos retires with 739,489 times the median American's wealth. When Jeff Bezos steps down Monday as Amazon's
CEO at age 57, he will carry with him an estimated $197 billion — a staggering fortune that is 739,489 times the
median net worth of an American at age 65. That median net worth is $266,400, Business Insider reported, citing data
from the Federal Reserve. Amazon announced in February that Bezos would step down this year and assume the mantle of
executive chairman of the e-commerce giant's board.
White
House salary report reveals Psaki, Tanden, Klain and others earn top dollar. Who are the highest-paid people in
President Biden's White House? That question was answered on Thursday [7/1/2021] with the release of an annual report
with staffers' salaries, which max out at $180,000. Twenty-two White House employees make the maximum yearly salary.
That list includes White House press secretary Jen Psaki, chief of staff Ron Klain and Neera Tanden, who is now senior adviser
to the president after her nomination for Office of Management and Budget director was withdrawn.
Stacey Abrams
now owns two homes totaling $1.4M after starting 2018 campaign in massive debt. Former Democratic Georgia
gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams now owns two homes in Georgia collectively worth $1.4 million despite having been
hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt before her unsuccessful run against Gov. Brian Kemp. The former candidate
was catapulted into the national spotlight during her slugfest 2018 run against Kemp that saw her claim victory for months
after the fact. Since her electoral failure, though, Abrams has made a series of property purchases in DeKalb County
that have been scrubbed from the county tax assessor's website, according to records obtained by Fox News.
Big
Salaries at Conservation Group Created by Congress Raise Eyebrows. While working to restore wildlife and plant
habitats, a federally chartered conservation foundation pays lavish salaries to officers at the expense of environmental
initiatives that are central to its mission, policy analysts and former employees say. Compensation figures in Form 990
tax records prepared for the IRS ought to raise questions about the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's internal
financial practices and the potential impact on conservation programs, a former employee told The Daily Signal in a phone
interview. Top officials, including Jeff Trandahl, the foundation's executive director and CEO, receive annual
compensation packages that appear to be "out of proportion" with those at other nonprofit conservation groups, said Alex
Echols, who was the foundation's deputy policy director from 1995 to 2000. Trandahl received $1.29 million in annual
compensation in 2018 alone, according to the most recent available Form 990 tax records.
BET
billionaire Robert Johnson calls for $14T in reparations — and wants a check too. America's first
black billionaire, Robert Johnson, is pushing hard for the government to pay $14 trillion in reparations — and he
wants his check just like everyone else. "Reparations would require the entire country to ... admit that the result of
slavery has been 200 years of systemic racism," the Black Entertainment Television (BET) founder told Vice. "And for
that reason, black folks have been denied $13-15 trillion of wealth and therefore we as a country now must atone by paying
black people of all stripes — the rich ones, the poor ones, and the middle — out of our pocket,"
Johnson told the outlet. Johnson, who owns several homes and heads an asset management firm, insists that means money
for himself and other rich and famous black Americans, naming Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan and LeBron James.
Biden's
$118 million cabinet: Net worth of secretaries revealed. President Joe Biden's cabinet members have
managed to build back their portfolios — with the average member of his team amassing $7 million in wealth, for a
total haul of $118 million. The hefty total in fact represents a considerable drop-off from the Donald Trump years,
when the president's cabinet contained several multi-millionaires, with a combined worth of $6.2 billion. Two cabinet
members are worth considerably more than the president himself, who comes in at about $8 million.
Soros
quietly drops $200,000 backing another far-left prosecutor in Virginia. Liberal billionaire George Soros
continues his push for his preferred left-wing prosecutors across the country, this time quietly racking up a guaranteed
victory with $200,000 spent in Norfolk, Virginia. Soros's cash infusion, which has slipped under the radar, includes
$157,000 from his Justice & Public Safety PAC and $41,500 from his Democracy PAC to Ramin Fatehi, a state and federal
prosecutor who won a three-way Democratic primary on June 8. He is now the only candidate on the ballot for the November
general election for Norfolk's commonwealth's attorney. Fatehi is the latest in a string of prosecutor candidates Soros
has backed to reshape the Virginia criminal justice system. In 2019, Soros provided a significant cash infusion to
three winning progressive candidates, Parisa Dehghani-Tafti in Arlington County (nearly $1 million from Soros); Buta Biberaj
in Loudon County ($850,000 from Soros); and Steve Descano in Fairfax County ($600,000 from Soros). Soros also pushed
$5,000 to Jim Hingeley in Albemarle County. However, unlike the other areas, most of that race's funds did not come
from Soros, but rather Sonjia Smith, a Democratic megadonor in Virginia politics.
Why Are They Woke?
There are lots of reasons why wokeism spread like wildfire once America lost its collective mind during the pandemic,
quarantine, self-induced recession, and rioting of 2020. Wokeism was never really about racism, sexism, or other
-isms. Instead, for some, it illustrated a psychological pathology of projection: fobbing one's own concrete prejudices
onto others in order to alleviate or mask them. So should we laugh or cry that Black Lives Matter's self-described Marxist
co-founder turns out to be a corporate grifter? Patrisse Cullors has accumulated several upscale homes and is under
investigation by the IRS for allegations of the misuse of funds from one of her foundations. Is it the case that the
more Cullors professes Marxist ideology and damns toxic whiteness, so all the more she feels at home living in a $1.4 million
Topanga Canyon home, in an almost exclusively ritzy white neighborhood?
California'
Marin County is seeing the return of the NIMBYs. In November 2020, over 80% of Marin County, California
residents voted for Joe Biden. This was to be expected. In 2018, 64% of Marin's residents voted for Gavin
Newsom. Only 12% voted for John Cox, the Republican candidate. Another 8% of votes went to yet another
Democrat. Now that Marinites have gotten their solid Democrat governance, though, they're not happy with one of the
main Democrat goals: turning expensive suburbs into densely populated urban areas. [...] Marin County is one of the
wealthiest areas in America, coming in at number 13 according to a 2016 American Community Survey. In 2016, the median
Marin household income was $103,845. Marin might be doing even better now because it weathered the COVID lockdowns very
well. This is probably because Marin's wealth comes, in significant part, from people who can make deals sitting at
their computers.
How
Zuckerberg Money Could Have Led to Biden Victory in Texas. Texas lawmakers passed a law restricting use of
private money for election administration almost two months after research showed that at least $36 million in grants
financed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had the potential to alter the state's political landscape dramatically.
Though prompted by the Zuckerberg grants, the new Texas law likely will prevent a flood of private money from multiple
sources to pay for running future elections, the sponsor of the measure told The Daily Signal. "Unless we get it
stopped, I think we would have seen money coming in from many sources," state Rep. Phil King, a Republican, said in a
phone interview. "Uncontrolled, dark money of this nature is just very, very ripe for corruption." Texas
Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, signed the bill into law June 12.
Kamala
hosted a nice dinner for female senators and the woke mob ate her alive for hanging out with "rich white women" and "being
served by Black servants". The Woke Monster comes for all, and it's coming for Kamala Harris sooner rather than
later. On Tuesday night, the VP held a bipartisan dinner for female senators, which aside from the general political
grandstanding, seemed like a nice gesture. CNN wasted no time offering Kamala glowing praise, quickly fangirling with
thinly-veiled enthusiasm: [Tweet] Outside the praise from the mainstream media and white suburban moms, the faithful
devotees of Wokeism had serious problems with the event: [Tweet]
Jane
Fonda Encourages Anti-Pipeline Activists in Minnesota to Mess with Critical US Infrastructure. The 83-year-old
Communist and traitor encouraged activists to "raise a ruckus" and create a headache for the Canadian oil company,
Enbridge. "Biden has taken a very clear and very beautiful position on the climate crisis," Hanoi Jane said. "But
we are really facing a potential catastrophe and the science is very clear — it's not enough to do something good
here like shutdown Keystone XL, shut down drilling on the Arctic national refuge and then allow Line 3 to go through."
"We can't do this in bits and pieces," she added.
Here's How Wealthy
Some Of America's Most Prominent Socialists Are. Some of America's highest-profile advocates for socialism live
quite luxurious lifestyles compared to average, working-class Americans. The average income for individual Americans is
$35,977; for a household, it's $68,703. [...] Jane Fonda has been a prominent hard-left activist for decades. She
infamously earned the nickname "Hanoi Jane" after touring North Vietnam during the Vietnam war and posing for a picture on a
North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun. Fonda, who once said she hoped her daughter would grow up in an "unpolluted,
Marxist, socialist country," has appeared in films grossing hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of her career and
has produced a number of high-selling workout videos. Her net worth is reportedly in the tens of millions of dollars.
The
Richest Homeless in the World. Last year, Davon Brown, a former fashion model turned homeless activist, conned
his way into an LA Ritz-Carlton luxury suite alongside Jed Parriot, the son of a producer on Grey's Anatomy. It was May
Day, Brown was wearing a blazer and sunglasses. The former fashion model and son of a wealthy producer were there to
'occupy' a luxury suite for the homeless. And demand that the city take over hotel rooms and hand them out to the
population of junkie vagrants. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti held a press conference and assured Brown that he would
get him a room. When the son of the Grey's Anatomy producer was asked how to spell his name, he sneered, "Parriott,
like Marriott — which has 900 empty rooms." Jed, a Democratic Socialists of America activist, appears to live
in a $1.3 million home in Silver Lake owned by a trust controlled by his parents: a prolific TV producer and a TV
actress. The trust also appears to own at least one other home, with 4 bedrooms, in the city.
How
Zuckerberg Millions Paid for Progressives to Work With 2020 Vote Officials Nationwide. In the months leading up
to November's election, voting officials in major cities and counties worked with a progressive group funded by Facebook
founder Mark Zuckerberg and its allies to create ballots, strategically target voters and develop "cure" letters in situations
where mail-in ballots were in danger of being tossed out. The Center for Tech and Civic Life, or CTCL, provided millions
of dollars in private funding for the elections that came from a $350 million donation from Zuckerberg and his wife,
Priscilla Chan. The CTCL gave "COVID-19 response" grants of varying amounts to 2,500 municipalities in 49 states.
In exchange for the money, elections divisions agreed to conduct their elections according to conditions set out by the CTCL, which is
led by former members of the New Organizing Institute, a training center for progressive groups and Democratic campaigns.
'Breaking
the News' Reveals: Amazon's Black Lives Matter Donation Tied to Convicted Terrorist. Last summer, Amazon
announced a $10 million donation for "organizations supporting justice and equity," including a donation directly to the
Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation. At the time, BLM Global Network was sponsored by Thousand Currents, a
non-profit whose vice-chairman is Susan Rosenberg, a convicted left-wing terrorist. It's a major oversight for Amazon,
the self-anointed arbiter of domestic terrorism.
Mark
Zuckerberg Should Never Be Allowed To Touch U.S. Elections Again. After decades of whining about the evils of
privatization, the same set of leftists who once cried "eat the rich" and "abolish billionaires" in 2020 embraced a
billionaire's efforts to partially privatize American elections. Anyone paying attention to election integrity efforts
following serious questions some legislators raised after the 2020 general already know his name. Facebook CEO Mark
Zuckerberg poured a shocking $350 million into a nonprofit called the Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL), massively
inflating the organization's revenues from only $1.4 million in 2018. The "Zuck bucks" were then distributed as CTCL grants
to hundreds of county and city elections officials in 47 states and the District of Columbia. CTCL, which has a highly
partisan history, claims its grants were strictly for COVID-19 exigencies and denies any partisan pattern to their
distribution. The data suggest otherwise.
Smart
People Say Dumb Things: Bill Gates Edition. Bill Gates has written a book: How to Avoid a Climate
Disaster. Unfortunately, the book is a disaster. He doesn't get past the introduction before making mistakes that
negate the rest of the book. He claims Carbon Dioxide emissions must be reduced to zero to avoid a climate
disaster. Assuming that CO2 can even cause a climate disaster, about half the CO2 emitted every year is reabsorbed by
the Earth — by the oceans and by plants. Thus, you don't need zero, a fifty percent reduction would stop the
rise of CO2 in the atmosphere. It is vastly more difficult to cut out all emissions compared to cutting them in
half. Gates claims we have to deploy solar and wind faster and smarter. I wrote a book about wind and solar with
the title: Dumb Energy. There is no smart deployment of wind and solar. They are very dumb and very, very
expensive. It is routine for solar to cost five times more than electricity from natural gas. Heavy solar
deployment makes it even more expensive due to the use of auxiliary batteries. Gates says we need to create and roll
out breakthrough technologies. That's called the pie in the sky.
Soros
kicked in $2M to elect Maricopa County sheriff now stonewalling election audit. More than four years before Maricopa County
Sheriff Paul Penzone used his law enforcement credibility to resist subpoenas in the Arizona Senate audit of the county's general election,
he was running for the office he now holds. Crucial to the Democrat's victory over incumbent Republican Joe Arpaio: $2 million
from progressive megadonor George Soros. It was the largest single donation Soros made in a local race in the 2016 election cycle,
according to a Politico report at the time. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, kicked in another $250,000 to
the pro-Penzone effort.
Woke
Foundations Use Dollars Acquired Through Capitalism to Undermine Free Market Principles. Recently, the Ford
Foundation announced plans to provide $1 billion in funding toward social justice programs, an extension of the $1 billion it
handed out in 2015. The resulting press coverage, including a profile of its president on "60 Minutes," was effusive.
Ford is not alone in its philanthropic wokeism. Many other large foundations have followed suit. The Mellon Foundation,
one of the largest funders of the arts and humanities, is now prioritizing social justice in all its grant-making. The Rockefeller
Foundation too is committing $1 billion over the next three years to "catalyze a more inclusive, green recovery from COVID."
Biden's
War on Single-Family Homeowners. If you saved your money and bought a house in the suburbs, your investment and
lifestyle are under attack. President Joe Biden is pushing to end single-family zoning. The biggest item in
Biden's infrastructure bill, now being negotiated with Congress, is $213 billion he claims will to increase affordable
housing. Biden wants to put the federal government in charge of zoning and distribute apartment buildings throughout
single-family home neighborhoods. That $213 billion is nearly twice the spending on roads and bridges. It will
change towns everywhere and torpedo the American dream of a house with a patch of lawn. Biden's plan should be called
"hypocrisy housing." Its backers are hypocrites. Biden himself owns a four-acre lakefront home in upscale
Greenville, Delaware, where there is absolutely no public housing, affordable housing or rentals that accept housing
vouchers. And don't expect any to be built next door to the Bidens.
Is
Bill Gates really who you want in charge of the world? Bill Gates has been prominent during the COVID
panic. He has all sorts of ideas about controlling people's lives and "solving" climate change. However, now that
his wife is leaving him, the floodgates are opening. The Bill Gates we're seeing isn't the amiable, slightly weird
genius. Instead, he's "sexual predator adjacent" — a man who befriended Jeffrey Epstein and had a
questionable relationship with the Clinton Foundation. For many people, Bill Gates was the genius behind the Microsoft
empire. For others, he was a mediocre programmer who had a nose for spotting other people's talent and, like a mob
boss, pressuring them into handing their valuable products over to him.
Jill
Biden's Valentino bag has hand-painted portraits of her dogs. First Lady Jill Biden stepped off Air Force One
on Thursday [5/13/2021] toting a one-of-a-kind accessory: a custom Valentino Rockstud purse featuring hand-painted
portraits of the Bidens' German Shepherds, Major and Champ. She reportedly carried the personalized purse en route to a
vaccination center in Charleston, West Virginia, pairing it with a light pink blazer and pearls. The First Lady, 69,
also toted it during a trip to Colorado Springs earlier this month. [...] Those looking to get their paws on a purse like
hers can order it for $2,200 on Valentino's website or in select Valentino boutiques. The style is available in a range
of colors; simply upload several photos of your pet, and illustrator Riccardo Cusimano will create a portrait.
The
Treason Party's Swiss Banker. The Nazis had a Swiss banker and so do the Democrats. During President
Trump's first year in office, Indivisible, which the New York Times had described as a left-wing version of the Tea Party,
launched a smear campaign falsely accusing President Trump of being subject to Russian foreign financial influence. "Is
Trump colluding with Russia?" the leftist group insinuated. "Until we see Trump's tax returns, we cannot be certain
that foreign governments don't have leverage over Trump." Indivisible repeated this slander a few years later when it
held a "Nobody is Above the Law Day", and demanded "full and total transparency" from Trump even while refusing to name its
backers. The leftist group was pushing the same big Russiagate lie that had originated in the Steele dossier assembled
by the Hillary Clinton campaign and was taken up by the Mueller investigation. It was part of a coordinated campaign to
slander President Trump as a Russian agent. At the same time, Indivisible was being funded by Hansjörg Wyss:
the richest man in Switzerland. When Indivisible was asked where its money was coming from it refused to be
transparent, invoking "privacy" concerns. The privacy was that of its billionaire foreign donor.
Tuning Out Wokeism.
If wokeness should continue and "win," by now we all know where it will end up. After all, this is not a prairie-fire,
peasants-with-pitchforks, spontaneous bottom-up revolution. The woke Left seeks a top-down erasure of America,
engineered by the likes of LeBron James from his $40 million estate talking revolution to Oprah at her $90 million castle,
as Mark Zuckerberg throws in $500 million here, and his colleagues $400 million there, and as the top executives of Coke,
Target, and Delta Airlines believe their $17 million-a-year salaries make them experts on the crimes of non-diversity, exclusion,
and inequity. Anytime revolutionaries at the outset of their enterprises seek exemption from the consequences of their own
ideology, we know their plans will end badly for everyone else.
Who funds the riotous
American Left & why? Why do giant corporations and billionaires fund Black Lives Matter and Antifa, both avowed
socialist groups? And why do the leftists accept their aid? They both want a kind of socialism, but only one of
them could get their way. If you're at all familiar with the corporate and billionaire funding sources behind Black
Lives Matter and Antifa and the socialist commitments of these groups and their leaders, you've probably wondered why the
'capitalist class' would support a movement whose doctrine is apparently antithetical to their own interests. Aren't
these funders capitalists after all, and don't capitalists naturally oppose socialism? And why do American leftists
dance like marionettes attached to strings pulled by globalist billionaires? Don't they understand that they're
actually serving the masters they claim to oppose?
Swiss
Billionaire Gave Millions to Eric Holder's Partisan Gerrymandering Group. A liberal Swiss billionaire known for
meddling in U.S. elections has funneled millions of dollars to former attorney general Eric Holder's effort to redraw
electoral maps in favor of Democrats, newly obtained documents reveal. The Berger Action Fund, the advocacy arm of
Swiss megadonor Hansjörg Wyss's Wyss Foundation, passed $3 million to the National Redistricting Action Fund (NRAF)
between 2018 and 2020. The NRAF is the 501(c)(4) lobbying arm of Holder's National Democratic Redistricting Committee, a
self-described "centralized hub for executing a comprehensive redistricting strategy" to give Democrats an edge in
congressional races. Holder, who chairs the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, launched the group in 2017
with the goal of electing Democratic majorities in state legislatures in order to control the 2021-2022 redistricting process.
Obamas
share intimate dinner with A-listers Hanks, Springsteen and Spielberg. Former President Obama and wife Michelle
partied into the wee hours Monday [5/3/2021] with a few A-list pals — Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, Steven Spielberg
and Kate Capshaw and Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa. The powerhouse pairs gathered at the Hanks' $26 million
Pacific Palisades manse in California around 7 p.m. Sunday — and kept the party going till well after
midnight, according to Splash News. But despite the long night, the well-heeled guests appeared no worse for the wear afterward.
Seattle's
socialist councilmembers collectively [are] worth over $3.5 million. Socialists on the Seattle City Council
have taken advantage of our capitalist system, getting wealthy off the low-income voters they claim to fight for. In
fact, Socialists Kshama Sawant and Tammy Morales are collectively worth over $3.5 million. In Washington state, they're
both one-percenters: the very people they regularly demonize. Councilmembers must submit financial disclosure forms
every year. It allows the public to see any potential conflicts of interest. But it has the added bonus of
highlighting how many get wealthy off their socialist grift. It turns out, the only way socialism works, apparently, is
selling your brand to kids who live at their parent's homes, while convincing them to give you more power.
Diamond
Life: BLM founder dropped $26,000 at luxury Malibu resort, Daily Caller reports. Looks like it's not just
mansions for smooth operator Patrisse Cullors, who co-founded Black Lives Matter. She's also into stretches at luxury
resorts, with some very curious accounting. [...] Some of it yes, was for conference space, so some kind of meeting may have
happened. But a lot of it was not, and it was done in a three-month window in 2019. Self-described "trained Marxist"
Cullors elsewhere has dropped a cool $3.2 million on four houses and mansions, at least two of them in the Los Angeles
area. She couldn't hold these off-the-record "meetings" in one of those places? Sounds a little funny.
BLM
Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors in Hot Water Again Over Lavish Spending. BLM Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors is under
scrutiny again for lavish spending. The self-proclaimed Marxist previously came under fire for buying multiple houses
totaling over $3 million in value. Her defense for how a Marxist could justify that kind of capitalist indulgence fell
short. Now, it's been revealed that one of Cullors "reform" organizations dropped $26,000 for "meetings" at a Malibu,
CA resort. [...] There are legal and moral issues at play here. The group is apparently some kind of political
fundraising arm, therefore they are subject to some campaign finance laws. What exactly those are, I can't offer any
insight into. There's no chance any prosecutor would touch this with a ten-foot pole anyway. It's too small
potatoes when compared to the possible backlash.
Democrats
are the party of the wealthy, IRS data shows. Democrats are the party of the wealthy, a flip from decades ago
when it was the party of the poor and middle class. Democrats represented 65% of taxpayers with a household income of
$500,000 or more in 2020, according to IRS data, while 74% of taxpayers in Republican districts have household incomes of
less than $100,000. In 1993, the dynamic was reversed, with the typical Republican congressional district showing it was
14% wealthier than its Democratic counterpart. In 2020, data shows those Republican districts were now 13% poorer.
The
disabled couldn't access public transit hub for a month thanks to the Oscars. Not surprised that woke Hollywood
and Los Angeles couldn't care less about real people, including real people of color.
Coca-Cola's
Craven Cockwomble Capitulates. Just this month, Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey decided that he, a British subject,
would unilaterally take a stand in the name of the iconic American company he runs and inveigh headlong against Georgia's
newly passed voter integrity law. Quincey is an engineer and a marketing guy. A guest in this country. When
did he suddenly acquire such enormous political acumen on American domestic politics? Save for his green card and his
King's English, Quincey is not that far removed from those tattooed MS-13 punks who slip across the southern border to
exploit the economics of America. A person loyal to the Queen had the gall to use the outstanding reputation of his
very American company to bash [...] his host country's and host state's proper legislative process.
Coca-Cola
to conservatives: Never mind, let's be friends. After Georgia's election reform law was signed, Delta
Airlines and Coca-Cola came under pressure from black CEOs to come out against the new law. So, they did. Others
caved to the pressure, like Home Depot, but Coke and Delta were the most public about their opposition. The CEOs gave
cable television interviews and used social media to get their messages of woke opposition out. Amazon and Google are
two of the big companies that signed the two-page ad in Wednesday's newspapers. Others include General Motors, Netflix,
Starbucks, BlackRock, Target, Facebook, Bank of America, MasterCard, and United Airlines. United Airlines made
headlines last week for announcing a new quota system to be implemented in hiring pilots to increase diversity. The
letter is an exercise in virtue-signaling where none is needed. The Georgia bill, for example, has been criticized yet
those doing so do not point to any specifics. Blanket statements are for dramatic effect, not for productive discussion.
Delta
Airlines CEO, others prove that the woke revolution is not a grassroots movement. Ed Bastian made $17 million
in 2019 as chief executive officer of Delta Airlines, Georgia's largest employer. Bastian just blasted Georgia's new
voting law. He thinks it is racist to require the same sort of ID to vote that Delta requires for its passengers to
check in. Yet most Americans believe voting is a more sacred act than flying Delta and, moreover, may have noticed that
Delta has partnerships with systemically racist China. Also, a recent Associated Press poll showed that 72 percent
of Americans favor requiring photo ID to vote. The most privileged CEOs of corporate America — those who
sell us everything from soft drinks and sneakers to professional sports and social media — now jabber to America
about its racism, sexism and other assorted sins.
How
corporations conspire with Democrats to hoard power at the public's expense. Georgians adopted voter-integrity
measures supported by a large majority of Americans, that are in the mainstream of state regulation and in fact are less
stringent than the rules in Delaware, President Joe Biden's home state, and New York. By more than a 2-1 margin,
Americans think such rules are not unfair or discriminatory. Nonetheless, these measures have produced an unprecedented
effort by large corporations to interfere in the workings of a democratic government. Major League Baseball moved its
All-Star Game out of (majority-black) Atlanta to (majority-white) Denver in protest. Coca-Cola's president weighed in
against the changes. And in a statement organized by Kenneth Chenault, former chief executive of American Express, and
Kenneth Frazier, the chief executive of Merck, hundreds of CEOs voiced opposition.
Black
Lives Matter Co-Founder Cashes in on 'Systemic Racism'. Patrisse Cullors is a co-founder of Black Lives
Matter. About her background, she said in 2015: "The first thing, I think, is that we actually do have an ideological
frame. Myself and Alicia [Garza, BLM co-founder,] in particular are trained organizers." Cullors also
said: "We are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories. And I think that
what we really tried to do is build a movement that could be utilized by many, many black folk." Cullors, the
self-described "trained Marxist," appears to be doing quite well for herself. Last year, she signed a major Hollywood
production deal. Variety
Report:
Black Lives Matter co-founder made $20K a month as jail reform group chairwoman. It turns out the co-founder of
the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation made upwards of $20,000 a month while she served as the chairwoman of a Los
Angeles based jail reform group back in 2019, according to campaign finance records. This happens to be the same
individual that has come under a bit of scrutiny for the recent acquisition of a $1.4 million home purchased in Los Angeles
back in March. Pitrisse Cullors has managed to acquire quite the large sum of money through her efforts that have
essentially been enabled via co-founding the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation. Records show that Cullors
managed to rake in upwards of $20,000 a month while serving as the chairwoman of the group known as Reform LA Jails back in
2019. This sum of money was acquired through Cullors' consulting firm, known as Janaya and Patrisse Consulting.
BLM
Sent Legal Threats To NY Activist Who Called For Audit Of Cofounder's $3.2 Million Home-Buying Spree. The
national Black Lives Matter (BLM) organization sent legal threats to a prominent New York BLM activist for using the Black
Lives Matter name, according to both parties. BLM Global Network Foundation, cofounded by Patrisse Cullors, sent
cease-and-desist letters to BLM Greater New York leader Hank Newsome claiming Newsome's group is illegally uses the Black
Lives Matter name, according to The Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF). Newsome earlier this week called for an independent
investigation into Cullors' finances after she reportedly spent millions on new properties. BLM Greater New York is
unaffiliated with the national BLM group and is illegally operating under the BLM name, the foundation argued in its letters
to Newsome.
While spending millions on luxury homes,
BLM co-founder told college students that capitalism is 'more tragic' than COVID-19. Black Lives Matter
co-founder and self-described Marxist Patrisse Cullors — who has accumulated over $3 million in luxury real estate
in recent years — told college students just last summer that "capitalism" is "more tragic" than COVID-19. In
March, Cullors purchased a $1.4 million home in Topanga Canyon, California — a town near Malibu in which less than
2 percent of the population is African-American. The property features "soaring ceilings, skylights and plenty of
windows," as well as a guesthouse. According to the New York Post, Cullors also purchased a $415,000 home outside of
Atlanta last year. In 2016, she purchased a three-bedroom home in Inglewood for $510,000, and in 2018, she acquired a
four-bedroom home in South Los Angeles for $590,000. The values of the latter two properties have appreciated to $800,000 and
$720,000, respectively. She has also reportedly eyed homes in Nassau priced between $5 million and $20 million.
BLM
Co-Founder Breaks Silence on Criticism About Real Estate Binge. I've been writing a lot about Patrisse
Khan-Cullors, the self-described trained Marxist leader of Black Lives Matter over the past week, after the news came out
that she'd just dropped a bundle on a mini-compound in Topanga Canyon, California. She secured the property, which has
two houses on it, for $1.4 million through a corporate entity which she controls. It's also in an area that is only
about 1.4 percent black. Then the information also came out that she had three other high-end homes — two in
Los Angeles and one in Georgia with an indoor swimming pool, an airplane hangar, and access to a landing strip. The
homes added up to $3.2 million according to the report. She allegedly was also was looking into securing a home in the
Bahamas at a resort where the homes ranged in price from $5 million to $20 million. Not exactly living up to her
Marxist creed. Or perhaps we should say, she really is, since most Marxist leaders preach a lot but then aggregate all
the trappings of wealth to themselves.
BLM
says stories about co-founder's new multi-million dollar home are fueled by 'white supremacy'. Black Lives
Matter put out a statement on Tuesday [4/13/2021] in reaction to the revelations that co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors
purchased a multi-million dollar home, and questions as to whether BLM was the source of the funding that enabled that real
estate buy. The statement claims that the source of the revelations about the home buy, which were first reported in
Dirt, are from conservatives who seek to do Khan-Cullors and her mission harm. Many conservatives, including
Candace Owens and Jason Whitlock, were simply horrified that an avowed Marxist would be indulging in capitalistic
luxuries. The statement reads that: "Patrisse Cullors is the Executive Director of Black Lives Matter Global
Network Foundation (BLMGNF). She serves in this role in a volunteer capacity and does not receive a salary or benefits.
Patrisse has received a total of $120,000 since the organization's inception in 2013, for duties such as serving as spokesperson
and engaging in political education work. Patrisse did not receive any compensation after 2019.["]
The Editor says...
Black Lives Matter wants you to know that the organization's co-founder "does not receive a salary or benefits." Okay, then
just out of curiosity, where did she get the money to buy a $1.4 million house? Keep reading...
Marxist
BLM leader reportedly raked in big bucks from jail reform initiative. Patrisse Khan-Cullors, the self-described
Marxist leader of Black Lives Matter, raked in upwards of $20,000 a month as the chairwoman of a jail reform initiative,
according to reports on Wednesday [4/14/2021]. Reform LA Jails paid Cullors' consulting firm, Janaya and Patrisse
Consulting, a total of $191,000 in 2019, according to campaign finance data cited by Fox News and The Daily Caller.
Cullors, who is listed as "principal officer" and "business owner" on the payments, started the firm with her spouse and BLM
co-founder Janaya Khan. The reports came as the 37-year-old activist faced criticism over a real estate spending
spree — in which she snagged four high-end homes for $3.2 million in the US alone.
Report:
Marxist Black Lives Matter Co-founder Bought Four Homes since 2016. Patrisse Khan-Cullors, one of the
co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement and a "trained Marxist," is reported to have bought four homes over the past
several years, as her activist profile grew and protests raged around the country. Last week, real estate website
Dirt.com reported that the "37-year-old social justice visionary" Khan-Cullors had bought a $1.4 million compound in Topanga,
a remote Los Angeles neighborhood nestled deep in the Santa Monica mountains. [...] However, it turns out that Khan-Cullors
also owns a house in the predominantly black neighborhood of Inglewood — among several other homes. The
New York Post reported Saturday [4/10/2021] that she bought a $510,000 home there in 2016, which is worth about
$800,000 today. She also bought a $590,000 home in South Los Angeles that is worth $720,000 today, and bought a ranch
in rural Georgia for $415,000 last year, "featuring a private airplane hangar with a studio apartment above it."
Black
Lives Matter activists want investigation of leader after real-estate binge. If there's one thing that unites
activists the political left and the political right, it's ... grift. From ultra-nationalists to Marxists, eventually
someone figures out how to use organizing to get rich. This time around it's the turn of Black Lives Matter activists,
who are shocked, shocked to find their founder and leader Patrisse Khan-Cullors buying up high-end real estate with
seven-figure price tags. [...] If you go around calling yourself a socialist, you probably shouldn't keep snapping up
personal property in the form of real estate. (One could ask Bernie Sanders about that, too.) Socialists oppose
personal property, especially in the form of real estate, and especially when the wealthy collect more of it
than they can use at any one time. Investments in real estate are usually the hallmark of capitalists, and occasionally
grifters as well.
Head
of NYC BLM chapter calls for probe into organization's co-founder. The head of New York City's Black Lives
Matter chapter is calling for an independent investigation into the organization's finances after it was revealed a
co-founder snapped up a $1.4 million home in a ritzy Los Angeles neighborhood. Patrisse Cullors, 37, who is a
co-founder of BLM and self-professed 'trained Marxist', recently purchased a plush property in Topanga Canyon complete with a
separate guest house and an expansive back yard. In Topanga Canyon, 88 percent of residents are white and just
1.8 percent are black, according to the census.
Woke
CEOs Gather to Fight Against Election Integrity Laws. Roughly 100 of America's top corporate leaders and CEOs
gathered both in-person and virtually on Saturday [4/10/2021] to strategize ways to combat new election integrity laws like
Georgia's H.B. 531. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a Yale University management professor who helped organize the meeting, framed it as
a response to threats of reprisals after Georgia-based companies like Delta Air Lines, Coca-Cola, and Aflac Insurance
condemned the Georgia bill. He called election integrity measures "anti-undemocratic."
100+
Corporate Leaders Meet To Plot Opposition To Election Security Measures: Report. More than 100 corporate
leaders met this weekend to plot their opposition to voter integrity laws across the United States following false statements
made by far-left activists and top politicians like Democrat President Joe Biden. CBS News reported that leaders from
American Airlines, United Airlines, Levi Strauss & Co., Walmart, ViacomCBS, Ariel Investments, LinkedIn, Twitter, AMC
Theaters, and "others" were invited to the leftist event. Kenneth Chenault, the former chief executive of American
Express Co., and Kenneth Frazier, CEO of Merck & Co., reportedly urged others to join their pressure campaign by signing onto
a statement that could be released as soon as this week.
Twitter
does not want you to know that the co-founder of BLM just bought a $1.4 million house in an exclusive lily-white
neighborhood. Social media censorship is escalating and ever more blatant. Unfettered knowledge is
dangerous to the phony narratives that progressives wish to brainwash the public into accepting, and with social media, the
blockade imposed by mainstream media potentially can be breached by people posting otherwise obscure media sources to their
social media accounts. The latest prominent victim is Jason Whitlock, originally a sportswriter but now a social critic
who brings insightful commentary on many issues, including race. (For the record, Whitlock is Black, a fact that seems to
make a difference to most people on the left.) Yesterday [4/9/2021], Jason Whitlock posted a link to a story about
Patrice Cullors and her apparent spouse Janaya Khan (who self-identifies as "black, queer, and gender-nonconforming") buying
a $1.4-million compound in the Topanga Canyon area of Greater Los Angeles. [...] When Jason Whitlock noted the purchase on
his widely followed Twitter account, Jack Dorsey's minions decided this was too much information.
BLM's Lady of the Canyon.
The co-founder of Black Lives Matter has found a personal solution for the big black crime wave that she has done so much to
instigate. [...] Topanga is not terribly welcoming to outsiders. Back before GPS, the locals would frequently tear down
the road sign pointing to the trailhead of the Topanga Canyon State Park. But it's perhaps the safest non-gated
community in Los Angeles County for staying far, far away from black crime. Topanga was only 1.4% black in the 2010
Census and 84.5% non-Hispanic white, which is very white for L.A. County. Of course, Black Lives Matter has gotten
thousands of incremental blacks murdered by other blacks, but Ms. Khan-Cullors' black life matters enough to stay
secluded from other blacks.
Marxist
BLM Co-Founder Buys 1.4M Mansion In Predominantly White Neighborhood. The Black Lives Matter movement is not
only anti-police, anti-white, anti-capitalist but also proudly neo-Marxist. Patrisse Cullors is an American artist and
activist. Cullors is an advocate for prison abolition in Los Angeles and a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter
movement. She also identifies as a queer activist. That's what the mainstream media and the Wikipedia page will
tell you but what was a huge secret since the BLM movement was founded now is out.
Bill Gates, George Soros Team Up
To Form Organization to Combat 'Disinformation'. The American ruling class is now trying to fight what they are
calling "misinformation" and "disinformation" on social media. A report from NewsBusters reveals that the Aspen
Institute Commission on Information is being funded by left-wing billionaires Bill Gates and George Soros, among others, to
"fight 'mis- and disinformation.'" [...] It's clear that the ruling class wants to prevent Donald Trump from being the
leading face of the Republican Party. One could also argue that they want to prevent the rise of another Donald Trump.
Inside
Biden White House's ties to dark money group seeking to pack Supreme Court. President Biden's White House has
close ties to a left-wing dark money group that seeks to expand the Supreme Court. Both White House press secretary Jen
Psaki and Paige Herwig, Biden's point person on judicial nominations, previously worked for Demand Justice, which is part of
a massive dark money network, the Sixteen Thirty Fund. Demand Justice is open about seeking to overhaul the federal
court system to advance progressive goals.
Wealthy and Woke.
Ed Bastian makes $17 million a year as chief executive officer of Delta Airlines, Georgia's largest employer. Bastian
just blasted Georgia's new voting law. He thinks it is racist to require the same sort of ID to vote that Delta
requires for its passengers to check-in. Yet most Americans believe voting is a more sacred act than flying Delta and,
moreover, may have noticed that Delta has all sorts of partnerships with a systemically racist China. So polls show
Americans approve of voter IDs. Bastian fears the woke mob more than the majority of Georgia residents who support the
law. Apparently, his theory is that the greater numbers of average folks won't threaten his multimillion-dollar perch
as much as fewer but more powerful left-wing elites. The most privileged CEOs of corporate America — those
who sell us everything from soft drinks and sneakers, to professional sports and social media — now jabber to
America about its racism, sexism, and assorted sins. [...] Bastian is paid about $65,000 for each working day of the
year. In a sane world, he might seem a ridiculous voice of the oppressed.
Boycott
boomerang: Genius Dems start to realize Georgia boycott will cost them votes in the Peach State.
Democrats thought they had a brilliant plan to force Georgia to permit widespread voting fraud by getting their woke pals in
corporate America to bully the state into repealing its brand-new voting integrity law that mandates voter ID and other
commonsense measures. Two Atlanta-based corporate giants, Coca-Cola and Delta Airlines, denounced Georgia's new voting
integrity bill, and Major League Baseball announced it was moving the All-Star Game away from Atlanta. Oops!
Guess who gets hurt in the estimated $100 million impact from the loss of the MLB showcase. That would be the little
guys who work at hotels and restaurants, who are vendors at the game, and who work in other service industries. The
local Dem pols realized this quickly.
The
Commonalities Between the Rise of the Nazis and the Tactics of the American Left Cannot be Ignored. [Scroll
down] The American left and the Democrat party hierarchy, true to socialist ideology, has long blamed the evil one
percent or greedy billionaires for income and economic inequality in order to foment class envy and resentment. But the
similarity does not end there. In an extraordinary juxtaposition the Nazis were able to vilify the wealthy and the
industrialists while the subjects of their vitriol voluntarily financed the Nazi Party and its political campaigns.
Hitler assured the German corporate titans that, despite their rhetoric, the Nazis would leave them alone and award them
lucrative contracts if they supported the Party through massive financial support and favorable newspaper coverage.
Greed overcame good sense, and they did so. These gullible cowards were ultimately responsible for unleashing the Nazis
on an unsuspecting planet. The American left has established a similar rapport with the corporate establishment, in
particular the tech titans, by tacitly letting them know that the Democrat party will leave them alone if they financially
support the party.
Election
'Safety' Grants May Have Swung Arizona to Biden, Report Finds. Money from the founder of Facebook touted as
being for safe elections during the pandemic may have affected the outcome of the presidential race in Arizona by driving up
Democrat turnout, according to a government watchdog report. The grant from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife
Priscilla Chan focused more on "voter education" than personal protective equipment to guard against COVID-19, the report
says. The Zuckerbergs gave a total of $350 million to the Center for Tech and Civic Life, a left-leaning technology
group, that in turn issued grants to 2,500 election offices in 49 states. The spending included $5 million for Arizona,
according to preliminary data by the Foundation for Government Accountability, the watchdog group.
How
Did Susan Rice Make As Much As $149 Million? Democrats fight for the people. And by the people, they mean
the oppressed and downtrodden working classes of the swamp. Themselves. [...] It goes without saying that no one is
inviting Susan Rice to speak because of her deep insights into how to get ahead by using your political connections. No
more than they were paying Hillary millions because they wanted to listen to her shriek from a teleprompter. And the
speaking tour has died down, for the same reason that Rice kept cashing in. Companies invest in people who are going to
be power players in the government. Everyone knows it.
Obama-era
officials return to White House worth millions. As several Obama-era officials return to the White House under
President Joe Biden, their reunion comes with fuller pockets and deeper ties to corporate interests, new financial disclosure
reports show. According to ABC News' analysis of the most recent disclosure reports, many of Biden's top White House
officials, including Chief of Staff Ron Klain, Domestic Policy Council Director Susan Rice, National Economic Council
Director Brian Deese, and coronavirus response coordinator Jeff Zients, have substantially multiplied their wealth over the
past few years. Rice, who is among the wealthiest members of the Biden White House team, dramatically increased her
wealth since her previous White House job during the Obama administration, reporting between $36 million and $149 million
in various assets in her new disclosure filing released Saturday morning [3/20/2021]. That's nearly three to four times the
amount she reported back in 2009, when she joined the Obama administration as the ambassador to the United Nations.
Vanita
Gupta Says She Backs $15 'Livable Wage.' Her Family Business Pays Mexicans $1.30 an Hour. President Joe Biden's
nominee for a top Justice Department post is a longtime advocate for raising the minimum wage to $15, but she owns up to $1
million in stock in a company chaired by her father that pays its Mexican workforce as little as $1.30 an hour. Vanita
Gupta — whose net worth of between $42 and $187 million makes her the Biden administration's wealthiest
nominee — owns at least $500,000 in Aptiv PLC, an international auto parts manufacturer chaired by her
father. In contrast with Gupta's advocacy for a $15 an hour minimum wage, the company pays some of its Mexican
employees hourly rates as low as $1.30, according to active job listings reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.
One job posted on Indeed.com, for example, offers a line operator role at a Zacatecas plant that pays the U.S. dollar
equivalent of $260 a month for a 50-hour per week job. In her nonprofit work and her personal social media, Gupta has
repeatedly expressed support for both the $15 per hour minimum wage and a so-called livable wage.
Trump
supporters need to play hardball. I am sorely tempted to play hardball with the rich. After what they did
to conservatives in America, I want to make them pay. I am tempted to say soak the rich and tax [...] them. None
of these companies showed even an ounce of gratitude for President Donald John Trump's 2017 corporate tax cut. They
worked to elect Chairman Xiden. We must exact a price for their disloyalty. Politics must be played to win.
Turncoats must be punished. Savagely. Corporate America has abandoned the American people. We must return
the favor. But how? Supporting a tax increase strikes against what I stand for. But there is a part of me
that says go for it.
The
DNC's Virtual Convention Was Really Coming From Martha's Vineyard. So much for the "We're All In This Together"
in both senses of the phrase. Forget statehood for D.C. and Puerto Rico. If the Democrats were more honest, they
would demand statehood for D.C. and Martha's Vineyard, per this anecdote from a WaPo review of 'Lucky: How Joe Biden
Barely won the Presidency'. ["]Planners of the Democratic Party's virtual convention thought about featuring a
national map that would highlight the locations of various speakers, thus countering the notion that the party was a club for
coastal elites — only to can the idea when they realized multiple speakers would be broadcasting from Martha's
Vineyard.["] It's awkward when you keep talking about how you represent the working class and the oppressed
proletariat of Georgia and Pennsylvania while broadcasting from Martha's Vineyard. So, no map for you. But, back
to, "We're all in this together", the 'Vineyard' had a special status during the pandemic. ["]The ultra-rich are
hoping to escape the coronavirus pandemic by fleeing to summer homes on Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, drawing fury from
locals who fear they will decimate supplies and bring the infection with them.["]
America's
elections must never be for sale. Wealthy individuals and corporations, including Google and Arnold
Schwarzeneggar [sic], gave money to election officials all over the country during the last election cycle. None,
however, came close to donating as much money as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who spent over $400 million on public
elections through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. That's roughly the same amount of money that the federal government
appropriated to help state and local election officials cope with the additional expenses incurred because of COVID. The
overwhelming majority of Zuckerberg's money went to an organization founded and run by leftist activists called the Center
for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL). Especially early in the cycle, when it made the biggest impact, CTCL distributed the
lion's share of the Zuckerberg money to urban areas in the key swing states that ultimately decided the 2020 presidential
election, such as Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Detroit.
The
Dangers of Climate Change Activists. What is it about people who are successful in one field and believe that
gives them credence to serve as an expert in a totally unrelated field? Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and
reportedly the fourth-richest person on the planet, now self-identifies as a climate expert, and not only an expert, but a
fervent disciple of the latest religion for the non-religious, which would be "climate change." In a new book,
"How to Avoid a Climate Disaster," Gates takes the rhetoric to a new and hysterical level when he claims the battle
against changing climate is "an all-out effort, like a world war, but it's us against greenhouse gases." As all statists
do, he urges "regulation to force people to eat synthetic meat." Gates invests in a synthetic meat company called Beyond
Burgers. Anyone else see a potential conflict of interest? He's not alone. Al Gore, the original "Chicken Little"
of climate panic, has lobbied for climate policies that limit meat while his firm invests $200 million in meat substitutes.
Bill Gates, Climate
Warrior, and Super Emitter. During the pandemic, Bill Gates's personal fortune has increased by an impressive
$20 billion, but even these gains pale in comparison to his soaring political influence — as the news media has
widely trumpeted his leadership on Covid-19, praising his charitable donations or extolling him as a "visionary" who
predicted the outbreak. It's a highly questionable narrative, one that ignores widespread controversy over the way
Gates made his fortune and how he chooses to spend it, but which nonetheless has delivered a windfall of political capital
for our philanthropist in chief — which he is now spending down. [...] Given Gates's track record of success
inserting himself into other policy debates — everything from US education to global health — it seems
likely he will continue to take up oxygen in the climate discourse going forward. If so, he proceeds from a precarious
position, not just because of his thin credentials, untested solutions, and stunning financial conflicts of interest, but
because his undemocratic assertion of power — no one appointed or elected him as the world's new climate
czar — comes at precisely the time when democratic institutions have become essential to solving climate change.
The Editor says...
The climate will always change, very gradually. It is not something that can be (or needs to be) solved.
California's
Multibillionaires Intend to Conquer the World. As the oldest man ever to be elected U.S. president begins his
administration, his immediate blizzard of executive actions suggests the energy of someone much younger. The reason for
this is obvious. Joe Biden is not running the country. He is a president in name only. The edicts coming
out of the Oval Office, along with the imminent legislative initiatives, are produced by the American equivalent of a Soviet
politburo, with the political and financial power behind this politburo coming from California. The
political actors occupying key roles include Kamala Harris, whose role as the tie-breaker in the U.S. Senate makes her the
most powerful vice president in recent memory, and Nancy Pelosi, who presides over the U.S. House of Representatives —
both San Francisco Democrats. These two politicians are only the most visible Californians in a group that includes cabinet
secretaries, administrative appointees, and what is by far the largest state Democratic congressional caucus. More
significant is the fact that Californians also provide the financial power behind the Biden politburo, as well as
the cultural power that propels the Democratic narrative.
Hunter
Biden moves family to $5.4 million canal-front home in Venice. Hunter Biden has moved his family to a stylish
$5.4 million canal-front home in Venice, California, DailyMail.com can reveal. The president's son moved into the
three-story property with wife Melissa and their 10-month-old son Beau toward the end of last year and the family is now
under 24-hour Secret Service protection. It's believed the father of five, who turned 51 on Thursday, is paying $25,000
a month to rent the posh property owned by Sweetgreen co-founder and CEO Jonathan Neman. Hunter has some fresh cash to
help pay for the pricey rental. On Thursday it was revealed he has written a memoir titled Beautiful Things, that will
be published April 6. The advance for the book is said to be as much as $2 million.
Biden
Breaks Fundraising Records For "Uniquely Corrupting" Donations, But... Bad news, Republicans — Democrats figured out
The Secret of Citizens United. At least that seems to be the outrage over this report about Joe Biden's record-breaking advantage in
"dark money," amplified by Fox News today from a Bloomberg report over the weekend. Fox's Megan Henney leans heavily into the hypocrisy
angle of a political party taking money through channels it opposes. [...] There's nothing hypocritical about playing by the same rules as your
opponent, albeit there might be something hypocritical about denouncing the mechanism at the same time you're leveraging it.
Especially if you keep griping about it being "uniquely corrupting."
The
Lincoln Project Sets a New Standard for Shameless Grift. It's difficult to put into words what is so
distasteful about The Lincoln Project. Not that the words don't come to mind; they do, almost too readily. But
seeing them all put down, next to each other — it starts to feel a little cruel. The obvious starting point
is last week's revelation that Lincoln Project co-founder John Weaver allegedly offered young men jobs in exchange for
sex. Those reports were enough to elicit criticism even from the left-wing press, which had previously fawned over the
Lincoln Project for months. But the truth is that this was only the lowest act in a long string of lows for the group:
the shameless grift, the questionable political strategy, and of course, the disgusting attacks on Trump supporters.
Taken together, it's almost pitiable to behold. Not that they're in need of too much pity. They have, after all, raised
more than $87 million in their short existence, much of which has gone to their board members or their board members' firms.
Biden
2020 Run [was] Backed By $145 Million In 'Dark Money'. President Biden's campaign received a record-breaking
amount of anonymous donations to outside groups backing him, which means the public "will never have a full accounting of who
helped him win the White House," according to Bloomberg. In total, $145 million in so-called dark money donations, "a
type of fundraising Democrats have decried for years," backed the Biden campaign — and combined with his $1.5 billion
record-breaking haul. Of note, Biden's campaign called for banning certain types of nonprofits from spending money to
influence elections, and that any organization spending over $10,000 to benefit a candidate register with the Federal Election
Commission (FEC) and disclose its donors. They didn't specifically call on their own supporters to do so, however.
Biden
Raked in More 'Dark Money' Than Any Candidate in History, Dwarfing Trump's Donations. Sometimes, I
almost feel like "The hypocrisy of the Left knows no bounds" should be permanently affixed as the opening sentence of
my articles if not the headline. The 2020 presidential election was and remains a quintessential case in point.
As is the case with every presidential election, the "pure as the driven snow" Democrat Party — this time
with addled old Joe in tow — incessantly hyperventilated — lied — about the untold vast
amounts of "special interest" money flowing into Donald Trump's evil coffers. Just one problem. While Biden and
his handlers continually bragged about his campaign's small-dollar donations — as a "moral" contrast to
Trump's "corrupt" "special interest" donations, of course — it appears that again they were either lying,
clueless, or both.
Report:
Joe Biden Rode Record-Breaking 'Dark Money' Donations Into The White House. President Joe Biden rode a
record-breaking $145 million in "dark money" donations into the White House, Bloomberg News reported Saturday [1/23/2021].
"Dark money" is donations from anonymous donors to outside groups backing a given candidate. Biden's $145 million is the
all-time record for a candidate challenging an incumbent president, according to Bloomberg. Former President Donald Trump
received $28 million from such donations. Many Democrats have called for an end to dark money donations as it is difficult
for the public to discover where the donations are coming from. The pro-Biden outside spending group Priorities USA defended
their donations in a statement to Bloomberg.
New
York Times feels the wrath of angry libs after story on Biden wearing a 'luxury' watch. Reporters for left-wing
publications and other liberal critics tore into The New York Times after the paper published a story focusing on an
expensive Rolex watch worn by President Joe Biden. Reporter Alex Williams, in a story headlined, "Is That a Rolex on
Biden's Wrist?" claimed that the president is "breaking from prevailing presidential tradition" by wearing a brand of watch
often associated with luxury. "At his inauguration, Mr. Biden laid his hand on the family Bible wearing a
stainless steel Rolex Datejust watch with a blue dial, a model that retails for more than $7,000 and is a far cry from the
Everyman timepieces that every president not named Trump has worn conspicuously in recent decades," wrote Williams.
Busting
the Myth of Conservative 'Dark Money'. Here's a popular myth: Rich people are all conservative, so
conservatives have more money to affect politics than liberals, because the left, which cares about the poor, doesn't have
the same kind of resources. A new report from the Capital Research Center, where I work, busts this myth and showcases
the disparity between "dark money" giving on the left and the right following the Supreme Court's consequential Citizens
United v. FEC decision in 2010. Spoiler alert: According to the report's data, liberals beat conservatives
in philanthropic giving that supports public policy fights by almost 4 to 1, despite the constant, histrionic
rhetoric about dark money corruption on the right.
Anderson
Cooper clarifies he's not too 'fancy' for Olive Garden after backlash, likes their artichoke dip. CNN's
Anderson Cooper on Friday [1/8/2021] clarified a seemingly elitist remark he made earlier this week, suggesting the U.S.
Capitol rioters were the type of people who might patronize Olive Garden. Many perceived it as condescending to both
Trump supporters and the popular restaurant chain. "Look at them, they're high-fiving each other for this deplorable
display of completely unpatriotic, completely against law-and-order, completely unconstitutional behavior. It's
stunning," Cooper said on his show "AC360." "And they're going to go back, you know, to the Olive Garden and to the
Holiday Inn they're staying at, and the Garden Marriott and they're going to have some drinks and they're going to talk about
the great day they had in Washington." The host Friday claimed his words were misinterpreted.
CNN's
Anderson Vanderbilt Cooper Mocks Olive Garden, Holiday Inn as Deplorable Hot Spots. CNN star Anderson Cooper,
the son of the famous and uber-wealthy fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt, can't help it sometimes if his white-haired
privilege gets the best of him. On Wednesday, in the immediate aftermath of the Capitol rioting in the Jake Tapper
hour, Cooper made an obvious conclusion that rioting at the Capitol was deplorable, and then added that the Deplorables then
went to the Olive Garden to celebrate. [Video clip]
2020
taught us one good thing: Celebrities are meaningless. [Scroll down] The list goes on:
Madonna whining that COVID was "the great equalizer" from her rose-petaled bathtub. David Geffen's superyacht
selfie. Ellen DeGeneres broadcasting from her gorgeous estate, a wall of greenery behind her floor-to-ceiling windows,
complaining that quarantine was "like being in jail." Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas' staged and incessant paparazzi walks
during lockdown. Arnold Schwarzenegger posting videos from his hot tub, puffing on a cigar or from his kitchen with his
mini-ponies. Harry and Meghan's logorrheic online videos. Chrissy Teigen and countless Kardashians engaging in
luxury travel, still, now, as numbers spike and ICUs verge on overflow.
Zuckerberg's Election.
[Thread reader] Funded by $350 Million from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, activist organizations created a two-tiered
election system that treated voters differently depending on whether they lived in Democrat or Republican strongholds.
Mark Zuckerberg was invited into the counting room, and the American people were kicked out. Zuckerberg-CTCL funds
allowed these Democrat strongholds to spend roughly $47 per voter, compared to $4 to $7 per voter in traditionally Republican
areas of the state. In Michigan, $5,939,235 was awarded to jurisdictions where Clinton won & $402,878 where Trump
won. In Pennsylvania, $13,063,828 for Clinton and $692,742 for Trump. CTCL hidden COVID-19 grant agenda was to
increase the votes for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Zuckerberg money & money from other "leftist"
organizations totaled $500M, while the Federal Government only appropriated $400M for the 2020 election. This
effectively created a "two-tiered election system" and a "shadow government" running our elections.
Ossoff,
Warnock bankrolled by donors in New York and California. The record-shattering fundraising hauls made by
Georgia Democratic Senate hopefuls Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are being driven by out-of-state donors in liberal cities
like New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, campaign filings show. As Democrats try to claw back control of the
Senate in enormously consequential run-off races on Jan. 5, Ossoff, an investigative journalist, and Warnock, a senior pastor
of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, each raised a stunning $100 million in the last two months, becoming the best-funded
Senate candidates in history. But 95 percent of that money is coming from outside of the Peach State, records show.
Bill
Gates' Savior Complex Spirals Out of Control, Funds Sun-Dimming Plan To Save the Human Race. Bill Gates is now
best known as a philanthropist, not the guy who started Microsoft or was the avatar for everyone's annoyance with Windows 95.
He's also known for wanting to save us from ourselves. Now, apparently, he wants to save us from the sun. Gates, for
those of you who don't follow these things, has been big on both vaccination and pandemic prevention. Fair enough. That
certainly means his moment has arrived. However, he's about as much of a lockdown guy as you can get — which is
just fine if you're a billionaire who can afford to hide away as if this were Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death," but the
real-world consequences for the rest of us can be, ahem, problematic.
Dark
Money Behemoth That Hosts BLM Foundation Received $16 Million in Government Grants. The dark money network that
houses the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation received nearly $16 million in taxpayer-funded grants last year,
financial filings reveal. The Tides Center, a California-based nonprofit incubator, reported the government grants on
its 2019 tax forms. It operates by acting as a fiscal sponsor to several left-wing nonprofits, including the BLM Global
Network Foundation, which has advocated for abolishing the nuclear family and defunding the police. This arrangement
lets the nonprofits avoid disclosing their financial activity, and thus makes it difficult to know where the taxpayer-funded
cash ultimately ends up. The center's 2019 windfall adds to the $170 million it has received in government grants since
2001 — grants that have drawn criticism from nonprofit watchdogs. Scott Walter, president of the Capital
Research Center, has called Tides as "liberal and politically active as they come" and questioned whether American tax
dollars should be awarded to groups housed at such networks.
I
Served 8 Months for a Campaign Contribution. Will Zuckerberg Get Punished for His $500M? [Video clip]
Report:
Mark Zuckerberg's $419 Million Non Profit Contributions 'Improperly Influenced 2020 Presidential Election'. A
report released by the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society at a press conference on Wednesday alleged Facebook founder
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife made $419.5 million in contributions to non-profit organizations during the 2020 election
cycle — $350 million to the "Safe Elections" Project of the Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) and
another $69.5 million to the Center for Election Innovation and Research — that, "improperly influence[d]
the 2020 presidential election on behalf of one particular candidate and party."
Money
From Facebook's Zuckerberg Used to Undermine Election, Violate Law: Report. Hundreds of millions of
dollars from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg were used to violate election laws, according to a new report. The
Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society, a national constitutional litigation organization, released the 39-page report,
alleging that Zuckerberg's $500 million given to election officials was used to treat voters unequally and to improperly
influence the election for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. The bulk of the funds went to the Center for
Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), a nonprofit started by former managers and staff at the New Organizing Institute, a progressive
nonprofit. According to the report, the nonprofit earlier this year "began sending agents into states to recruit
certain Democrat strongholds to prepare grants requesting monies from" it. For example, the center gave $100,000 to
Cory Mason, the mayor of Racine, Wisconsin, to recruit four other cities to develop a plan and request a larger grant from
it. Those five cities submitted such a plan in June and received $6.3 million to implement it.
Gleeful
Bill Gates: Keep Restaurants and Bars Closed for Six Months, Allow Slow Return to New Normal Activity in
2022. The technocrats of modern globalism have a way of carrying inappropriate gleefulness as they laugh, smile
and pontificate their detachment from life under their control. Thus the ever present smirk, smile and laughter from
Bill Gates as he describes how workers on Main Street USA must accept their economic destruction as part of their larger
responsibility to the global community. [Video clip]
Dem
Dark Money Network Rakes in $715 Million to Bankroll Liberal Causes. Anonymous donors pumped an eye-popping
$715 million into a massive dark money network used to bankroll liberal efforts across the country, new tax forms
reveal. The cash went to funds managed by Arabella Advisors, a D.C.-based consulting firm, in 2019. Once donors
send the cash to the funds, it is then transferred to dozens of left-wing initiatives that fall under their auspices, as well
as to outside groups. The Arabella network consists of four funds: the Sixteen Thirty Fund, New Venture Fund,
Windward Fund, and Hopewell Fund. Each Arabella-managed fund provides its tax and legal status to the groups that sit
beneath them. Under this setup, known as fiscal sponsorship, the sponsored groups are not standalone nonprofits and do
not have to file tax forms to the IRS, effectively obscuring information such as financials, board members, and other
important details.
What
Is Mark Zuckerberg's Election Money Doing In Georgia? Imagine if a billionaire of conservative or libertarian
leanings — Charles Koch, say — had given $350 million to a nonprofit run by Republican operatives who
previously worked at a "dark money" outfit tied to Karl Rove where they trained digital activists and campaign workers.
Then imagine this nonprofit group re-granted the millions of dollars to local election officials to "help" them carry out the
2020 election — buying drop boxes for ballots, hiring temporary staff, conducting "voter education," and the
like. Finally, imagine that in 2020, a state that usually voted for the other party in presidential elections narrowly
flipped to the donor's preferred party, and counties receiving "help" were disproportionately ones that helped the Republican
win the state, with many counties shifting dramatically from their historical patterns in a red-ward direction. Even
supposing there were perfectly ethical and legal reasons for all this, because of the appearance of election influence from
private parties with deep pockets, it would be front-page news.
Report:
Nancy Pelosi to Lead High-Priced Fundraiser for Democrats Raphael Warnock, Jon Ossoff. House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi (D-CA) will fundraise [sic] Monday [12/7/2020] for Georgia Senate Democrat candidates Raphael Warnock and Jon
Ossoff. Former Baltimore County Executive Ted Venetoulis said Monday that Pelosi will headline a fundraiser Monday [12/7/2020]
at 7:30 p.m. ET for the pivotal Georgia Senate runoffs. [...] The flyer for the fundraiser has suggested giving starting
at $500 and up to $15,6000. [sic] Venetoulis added that the Democrats' fundraising would boost the candidates' ground game
in Georgia.
The Editor says...
[#1] Please show me the dictionary — and by that I mean a dusty old book with a bunch of words and
definitions — which includes the word fundraise. [#2] If the runoff election is
rigged as flagrantly as the November presidential election, what is the purpose of fundraising? If the Socialist
Democrats have rigged the election, the only purpose for a generous donation would be to purchase influence. Democrats
and Republicans really like grassroots activists, until the moment they find out that you don't really have a lot of money in
the bank or influence in your neighborhood.
AOC Is Selling
Anti-Rich Sweatshirts That Only Rich People Can Afford. The funny thing about socialists is that they hate the
rich but rely on them for everything. The money has to come from somewhere and since the poor don't have it, socialists
have to steal it from those who do. In the same way, New York Democrat Party sweetheart Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez needs
you rich people to use your capitalist tendencies to purchase a shirt to support her socialist ones.
Austin
Mayor Tells Residents To Stay Home... From His Condo In Mexico. Austin Mayor Steve Adler is concerned for the
health and safety of his constituents. So much so that he repeatedly warns Austinites about the dangers of resuming
normal activities. Adler has been a staunch advocate of COVID restrictions, begging people before Thanksgiving to stay
home to save lives. The Austin Health Authority even issued a statement saying "it's important that we drive the
(COVID-19) numbers down in advance of Thanksgiving." Adler agreed, and just ahead of Thanksgiving he posted a video to
his Facebook page once again encouraging Austinites to stay home, avoid travel and forgo Thanksgiving with family in the name
of safety. He suggested that Austin may have to close again if people did not comply. What he did not disclose is
that he sent the message from his family timeshare in Cabo San Lucas.
Will
CA Liberals Wake Up Now? SF Mayor London Breed Also Caught at French Laundry. Monday [11/30/2020] we learned that LA County
Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, who represents the ritzy areas of Malibu and Santa Monica, went out to eat "al fresco" just hours after voting to uphold
"Dr." Barbara Ferrer's unscientific, draconian order shutting down all restaurants in the county for the next three weeks. We also learned
that San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo attended a family Thanksgiving dinner where five separate households were represented, despite the "guidance" from
Gov. Newsom that no more than three households gather for the holiday. [...] And now we know that Gavin Newsom wasn't the only San Francisco
politician to go to a birthday party at the French Laundry last month. Just two days after Newsom's infamous soiree, San Francisco Mayor London
Breed attended the 60th birthday party of socialite Goretti Lo Lui at the exclusive restaurant — in the very same private dining room
Newsom's party occupied.
Schumer-Aligned
Dark Money Outfit Funnels Record $40 Million to Advocacy Groups. A dark money organization aligned with
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) funneled a record $40 million to liberal advocacy groups for voter engagement efforts, new
filings show. Majority Forward, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that is affiliated with Schumer's Senate Majority PAC, sent the
grants to more than a dozen left-wing groups, several of which are active in Georgia's pivotal runoff elections. The
new tax forms show that Majority Forward experienced a financial windfall heading into the 2020 elections. The group raised
$76 million from anonymous donors between June 1, 2018, and May 31, 2019. It then flooded 16 liberal advocacy groups
with funds for voter registration efforts. The largest grants include $14.8 million to America Votes, $10.1 million to
the Black Progressive Action Coalition, and $3.5 million to the League of Conservation Voters.
2020
was a reminder that money can't buy elections. One of the most undercommented on features of the 2016 election
was the fact that Hillary Clinton outspent President Trump 2-to-1. She lost a squeaker. In 2020, little changed.
Joe Biden outspent Trump by nearly 2-to-1. Although he won, his margin of victory in the states that he needed for the required
electoral votes was smaller. For all of his financial dominance, the favored candidate won by the skin of his teeth.
Earlier this year, Tom Steyer spent hundreds of millions of dollars to go nowhere in the Democratic presidential primary.
Michael Bloomberg put an exclamation mark on that folly with his futile presidential candidacy. It turns out that you can
spend a billion dollars and get nowhere in an election.
The
Greatest Electoral Heist in American History. Under the pretext of assisting election officials conduct "safe
and secure" elections in the age of COVID, [Mark] Zuckerberg donated $400 million — as much money as Congress
appropriated for the same general purpose — to nonprofit organizations founded and run by left-wing
activists. The primary recipient was the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), which received the staggering sum of
$350 million. Prior to Zuckerberg's donations, CTCL's annual operating expenses averaged less than $1 million per
year. How was Zuckerberg even aware of such a small-potatoes operation, and why did he entrust it with 7/8 of the money
he was pouring into this election cycle, despite the fact that it had no prior experience handling such a massive amount of
money? [...] All of this sounds like the stuff of fiction — the sort of thing one would expect from a cinematic
thriller or a spy novel. Sadly, it's the reality that our country is faced with after years of placidity in the face of
increasingly aggressive intervention into our electoral process on the part of Big Tech oligarchs and activists with deep
pockets and shallow motivations.
Analysis
Busts Pelosi Sneaking $350 Million For 50 Richest Zip Codes Into COVID Relief Bill. Oh, but they claim they are
for the little guy, right? Look, both parties are being used against the people, and this is just another example of the
corruption in DC. The HEROES Act is nothing more than the former COVID stimulus bill: unconstitutional wealth redistribution.
Nancy
Pelosi Snuck $350M for 50 Richest Zip Codes into COVID Relief Bill, Analysis Reveals. At some point, when the
election chaos is finally settled, Congress will likely turn to passing another COVID-19 stimulus/relief bill. (Despite the
last one being plagued by rampant fraud and dysfunction). One starting point for negotiations will be the "HEROES Act," a
$2.2 trillion bill the House passed in October on a party-line vote by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and her fellow
Democrats. One of the most significant aspects of the HEROES Act is that it allocates nearly $700 billion in federal
money for state, local, and tribal governments. Proponents say this gives localities the funds they need to pay
emergency responders and fund programs necessary to protect their communities. Critics point out that much of this
money is used to "bail out" blue states that were already mismanaging their budgets and running up large unfunded pension
programs before the pandemic.
Gavin
Newsom's apology for flouting his mask and social distancing regs make him the most obvious liar since Joe
Isuzu. I am enjoying the squirming of Nancy Pelosi's nephew, California Governor Gavin Newsom, now that he has
been exposed as completely disregarding the COVID guidelines he is trying to force 40 million Californians to follow.
The very same man who told us that when dining out we should put a mask on in-between bites, that we should have no more than
10 people (from no more than 3 households) at our outdoor Thanksgiving celebrations was spotted and photographed
violating all of his strictures on the rest of us. Even worse, the party was held at The French Laundry, one of the fanciest
and most famous restaurants in the world. And it was a 50th birthday party for one of his old friends, who just happens to
be a lobbyist. Also in attendance: The CEO and chief lobbyist of the California Medical Association, who like
Newsom obviously don't believe the mask and social distancing regulations are genuinely important. You've probably seen
the utterly phony "apology" he made to Californians at a press conference. But take a good look at his smiles as he
lies like a Persian rug. He seems to think that the rubes, who are expected to give up their family gatherings at
Thanksgiving, are so dumb that they will buy it.
Rules For Us and Rules For Them.
Of all the quotable lines in George Orwell's Animal Farm, few resonate as much as this one: "All animals are equal, but
some animals are more equal than others." [...] That quotation has been referred to often in recent days after
Gov. Gavin Newsom — fresh off of issuing a new set of edicts admonishing Californians to dine alone at home
and curtail their Thanksgiving celebrations — was caught dining with his wife and 10 other friends at a birthday
party for a prominent lobbyist at the French Laundry in Yountville. It's bad enough for the governor to seemingly violate
his own edicts, but to do so in Napa Valley, at one of the nation's toniest restaurants, certainly gave off the wrong vibe.
Don't
[Bring California's Problems To] The Rest Of America. California's political class is widely regarded as among
the most corrupt, irresponsible, hypocritical, hard left and incompetent of any comparable group of state politicians in the
country, which is saying a lot. The troubles have been on full display this week. A week after imposing sweeping
new restaurant closures across much of the state and telling Californians not to gather in groups for Thanksgiving,
California Gov. Gavin Newsom admitted on Monday that he attended a birthday party for an old friend at an ultra-swank
Napa Valley restaurant, The French Laundry. Never mind that the party for his buddy, himself a lobbyist, also included
a bunch of medical industry lobbyists. The photos show not only more people in attendance than allowed under state
guidelines, neither the governor nor his wife were wearing masks.
Bloomberg
Spent $100M in 3 Key States That Trump Still Won. Billionaire Mike Bloomberg reportedly poured over $100 million
into an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to support 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in the key swing states of Florida,
Ohio and Texas. Bloomberg had hoped to use his millions to sway the election in Biden's favor, according to Fox
Business. "Our singular goal was electing Joe Biden," senior Bloomberg advisor Howard Wolfson told Fox News.
Michael
Bloomberg Might be the Biggest Loser of 2020. Remember when former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was a
presidential candidate? It already seems like a million years ago. As you may know, after dropping out, Bloomberg
decided to pump millions upon millions of dollars into the election. He might as well have just set it on fire.
Donald
Trump: Biden's Donors Were Wall Street Bankers; Mine Were Policemen, Farmers, Everyday Citizens.
President Trump touted his support among America's working- and middle-class citizens in the 2020 presidential election,
noting that Democrat Joe Biden was backed majorly by Wall Street. During a press conference on the state of the
uncalled presidential race, Trump noted that while Biden got big backing from all the nation's largest banks, his candidacy
was supported by a working-class coalition.
Bloomberg
Spent More Than $100 Million In Florida, Ohio, and Texas To Stop Trump. He Failed. The biggest loser in
all of 2020 won't be whichever presidential candidate fails to win the Electoral College. No, the biggest loser in 2020
has already been determined to be former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. In the weeks leading up to the
election, Bloomberg announced that he would be spending $100 million to ensure Florida voted for Democratic presidential
candidate Joe Biden. As The Daily Wire previously reported, Bloomberg said in mid-September that the buy was due to
tightening polls in the Sunshine State.
The
Police Defunding Foundation Behind Kamala Harris. [Scroll down] When Maya Harris, Kamala's sister and a
close advisor, was chosen to head the ACLU of Northern California, [Quinn] Delaney made the announcement as the chair of its
board of directors. The head of the Akonadi Foundation, Lateefah Simon, is a close friend of Kamala's. The two
women have campaigned for each other and Kamala has been described as Lateefah's mentor. Delaney and Jordan don't just
donate to candidates: they finance radical leftist causes. Proposition 16, the push to legalize racial
discrimination using affirmative action in California, was financed by millions of dollars from them. But their biggest
vehicle was the Akonadi Foundation named after an African goddess. Fueled by critical race theory, the Akonadi
Foundation declared that it was out to stop "structural racism" which it defined as the "privileges associated with
whiteness". Quinn Delaney is white. Her son, TMG Fresh, enjoys a privilege that not only includes two
mansions, but also blonde cornrows, and rapping, "let me give you some advice, it might just save your life" and "that's
called cappin where I'm from". Where he's from is a suburban mansion in the Bay Area where they call that
appropriation. But the Akonadi Foundation has poured millions into pro-crime projects, critical race theory agitprop,
and radical Marxist groups interlinked with the racist Black Lives Matter movement. Akonadi boss Lateefah Simon is not
only closely connected to Kamala, but she also serves as an advisor to Governor Newsom. And Newsom appointed her to a
task force on "police reform". Simon, who also serves as BART's board president, pushed a move to defund the police by
shifting money from officers on the transit system to "unarmed ambassadors". When her attacks on police officers were
criticised, she falsely accused a board director of racism.
Billionaire
Bloomberg funding last-minute Biden Texas spending spree. Billionaire financier Michael Bloomberg is spending
millions in Texas and Ohio to fund a last-minute spree meant to bolster Democratic candidate Joe Biden's chances in those
closely contested states. The New York Times reports that Bloomberg is directing millions towards late television
advertising in two traditionally red states that appear to be shifting away from President Donald Trump in the upcoming
Nov. 3 election.
Former
Goldman Sachs Chief Pours $100K into Joe Biden's Campaign. A former Goldman Sachs president made a huge,
last-minute donation to Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden's campaign against President Trump. Harvey Schwartz,
former president of Goldman Sachs, donated about $100,000 to the Biden Action Fund in October, according to Federal Election
Commission data.
Biden's
most revealing gaffe yet. Joe Biden has a well-deserved reputation as a gaffe machine, but an offhand comment
yesterday in Pennsylvania while addressing a parking lot with a few cars in it, tells us exactly what we need to know about
him at this precise moment. [...] A chump is someone to exploit with con games. And because Democrats always accuse
Republicans of doing the nefarious activities that they, the Democrats, are doing, it is Biden's voters who are treated as
the chumps. That's always been true because Biden's pose is as "Scranton Joe," the working class guy, while he acts to
exploit those very people.
Facebook's
Zuckerberg Put $250 Million to Help Turn Out Democrats in Philadelphia. Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg donated
$250 million to a group dedicated to turning out tens of thousands of new Democrat voters in Philadelphia. According
to a report at Just The News, Zuckerberg donated his millions to a group that is working to quadruple the number of voting
places in heavily Democrat areas of Philly to massively grow the Democrat vote in the city.
Tired,
Hungry, and Poor: Everything Antifa Is Not. [Scroll down] Here is a brief cross-section of the
"tired, hungry, poor, and huddling" foot soldiery of the radical Left:
• Clara Kraebber, who attends
the prestigious Rice University, was arrested for felony rioting in New York City. [...] Kraebber's mother is an architect
and her father a professor, and they own a $1.8 million apartment on the Upper East Side. They also own a mansion in
Connecticut.
• Frank Fuhrmeister, who studied fine arts and photography at Florida State College, was
arrested for felony rioting in New York. [...]
• Elliot Rucka of Portland was arrested for felony
rioting in New York City. His parents are accomplished comic book writers who have worked for DC Comics, Marvel Comics,
ABC, and Netflix.
• Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman, both attorneys, were arrested for firebombing a
police car. Mattis attended the private St. Andrews Boarding school before attending Princeton University and
then the New York University School of Law. [...]
• Loewy Malkovich, a software engineer who grew up
in southern France and then Cambridge, Massachusetts, was arrested while rioting in Portland. [...]
•
Linwood Kaine, who attended the elite private Carleton College in Minnesota and majored in cinema and media studies, was
arrested for rioting and resisting police in Minneapolis.
The Unapologetic
Bias of the American Left. [Scroll down] Liberal writers used to warn us of "dark money," as in the
anti-Trump Koch family donations to libertarian causes. Now there is no such thing as money being "dark." The
Left is proud that most of the Fortune 400's top-20 multibillionaires are generous progressive-giving leftists, and that
George Soros and Michael Bloomberg promise to infuse tens of millions of dollars not just to fortify leftist candidates, but
to massage the rules of voting itself by reexamining voter eligibilities and methods of voting to enhance progressive agendas.
The
virus is all they've got and they're clinging to it. [Scroll down] Now with just a few weeks until the
election, the Biden family's corruption is coming into full view, despite social media's rapacious attempts to squelch the
news of Hunter's career as an influence peddler. How has all this ill-gotten wealth escaped the notice of the IRS? The
same way the many millions of the Clintons' ill-gotten wealth was overlooked by the IRS. Outside of D.C., little people go
to prison for a fraction of the crimes committed by the Bidens and the Clintons. That is how the world works these
days. Powerful crooks like the Clintons, the Bidens, the Feinsteins, Pelosis, et al, operate on a plane reserved for
the likes of their ilk.
Adelson
shells out $75 million to pump up pro-Trump super PAC in final stretch. Casino magnate and Republican megadonor
Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam contributed $75 million last month to a super PAC backing President Trump's re-election
bid as the race for the White House entered its closing weeks. The massive contributions by the Adelsons —
confirmed in filings to the Federal Election Commission — helped pump up Preserve America, a super PAC formed at the end of
August to help the president, who's been vastly outspent by Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in the ad wars the past
two months.
Soros
Triples Election Spending, Pouring $70 Million Into 2020 Efforts. Liberal billionaire George Soros has funneled
nearly $70 million into the 2020 elections, tripling his previous record, new filings show. The Democracy PAC, a super
PAC created by Soros to fund left-wing groups working to defeat Republicans, has poured $68.5 million into electoral efforts
this cycle, according to the Federal Election Commission. That sum is $46 million more than Soros's previous high of
$22 million, which came during the last presidential cycle. The billionaire has amplified his election spending as
deep-pocketed donors attempt to oust Trump from office and flip control of the Senate to Democrats. Soros's cash is
part of a spending blitz that has primarily benefited Joe Biden. So far this cycle, outside spending has exceeded
$1 billion and is on track to shatter previous records.
President
Trump Has Put Some Very Stupid Rich People on Notice. The most prominent public figure people think of when it
comes to wealthy people funding international Leftist revolutionary causes is billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist,
George Soros. Over the course of his life Soros is rumored to have given away as much as $30 billion of his money,
something that might look strange for a miser. He is said to be currently "only" worth $8 billion. Since he
gives away such a large amount of the money he's made over his life it's clear Soros is far from a miser. For Soros it's
about playing the game to make the money, not the money itself. Once you understand that you have an easier time
seeing what he's doing. [...] What Soros has been doing is [...] betting heavily on a steep decline of the US Dollar by
a certain date. How much he's bet and what the expiration date is only he knows.
Schumer
Pours Huge Funds Into Michigan To Save Democratic Senate Seat, Defeat John James, Report Says. The GOP, with 53
votes in the Senate, is more vulnerable to a takeover by the Democrats as there are 23 seats currently held by Republicans
and only 12 by Democrats that will be decided in November. Thus a GOP win for a seat currently held by a Democrat would
be a huge boost to the GOP's chances of retaining the Senate. Thus Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is
pouring $5.4 million in one week, reportedly the most that Schumer's Senate Majority PAC is spending in any race, to support
incumbent Michigan Senator Gary Peters in his race against GOP candidate John James.
Wealthy
Biden: 'I Don't Own Any Stock. The People I Grew Up With Didn't Own Any Stock.' Democrat Joe Biden and
his wife earned almost a million dollars — $985,233 in adjusted gross income — in 2019 alone, but never
mind that. He's portraying himself as working-class Joe on the stump, making a rich vs. poor pitch.
Man
Raised Nearly Half-A-Million For Black Lives Matter But Spent The Money On Himself. He called himself Sir
Maejor Page but his real name was Tyree Conyers-Page. He started to make a name for himself as an Atlanta-area
activists in 2015 and founded an organization called Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta. For most of the past
several years his efforts to promote the organization weren't terribly successful, but that all changed after the killing of
George Floyd and the police shooting of Rayshard Brooks. This summer BLM of Greater Atlanta benefited from a huge
influx of donations totaling nearly half-a-million dollars.
Left-Wing
'Dark Money' — Ignored By The Press — Could Tip Several Elections. News broke recently of
shadowy, left-wing nonprofit network Arabella Advisors' plans to "carpet bomb" the 2020 election, per a new report detailing
the $635 million in revenues the network boasted in 2018. But the presidential race isn't the only focus of this merry band
of barely visible left-wing funders. State races are also on the menu as part of Arabella's plans to deploy "dark
money" spending leftists once defined and then decried. From Wisconsin to North Carolina — and several
states in between — Arabella's network of some 340 pop-up nonprofits have been busy working to influence state
elections even as one of the main nonprofits under the network's umbrella, the Sixteen Thirty Fund, has given $27 million
to pro-Biden affiliated PACs in an effort to boost the Democrats' chances in the national contest.
Rep.
Matt Gaetz Calls for Election Bribery Probe Against Mike Bloomberg for Paying Florida Felons' Fines for Biden
Votes. As reported earlier former New York City Mayor and billionaire Mike Bloomberg raised $16 million to
pay off the fines for 32,000 black and Hispanic Florida voters so they can vote for Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
Basketball icon Lebron James is also looking to pay convicted felons' fines so they can vote for Joe Biden. Legal
analyst J. Christian Adams argued that Michael Bloomberg is breaking federal and likely Florida state law by buying votes
from felons.
Michael Bloomberg,
felon? The Democrats' Daddy Warbucks is back and once again using his money to try to buy an election.
Michael Bloomberg is among a group of rich people hanging around Florida and offering free fine payoffs to released felons in
a more-than-implied exchange for their votes for Democrats. Bloomberg isn't playing non-partisan in this, a frequent
dodge of leftists, he's shoveling $100 million of his own cash to make sure Florida votes for Democrats, and this is
part of his game. That would be the same Michael Bloomberg who was last seen blowing a billion on his own presidential
campaign and then stiffing his campaign workers, by promising to employ through the election, and then dumping them and
leaving them out on their ears when he left the race. Money for cons, see, but not the help. It's otherwise known
as bribery, the exchange of votes for something of value, and it's explicitly forbidden under Florida law.
Florida
attorney general calls for investigation into Michael Bloomberg. Florida's attorney general asked state and
federal law enforcement on Wednesday to investigate possible election law violations after billionaire and former Democratic
presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg helped raise more than $16 million for Florida felons to pay their debts so they can
vote in the presidential election. Attorney General Ashley Moody sent letters to the Florida Department of Law
Enforcement and the FBI saying that further investigation is warranted. Governor Ron DeSantis and House Rep. Matt
Gaetz had asked Moody to review allegations that Bloomberg and the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition had violated the law
by offering incentives for voting.
Did
Bloomberg Commit A Crime In Paying Off The Debts Of Black and Hispanic Former Felons To Allow Them To Vote?
Billionaire Mike Bloomberg has pledged to pour $100 million dollars in Florida alone to elect Joe Biden as part of his
earlier pledge to pump hundreds of millions into the election. The role of billionaires like Bloomberg and Sheldon
Adelson in pouring hundreds of millions into the election for each side remains controversial, though many past critics of
such windfall campaign financing are now demanding more support. Bloomberg however is now under fire for pledging to
pay off the debts of Black and Hispanic former felons to allow them to vote. The Washington Post reported that the
funding of only Black and Hispanic former felons was due in part to the fact that they are more likely to vote for Biden.
Bloomberg raises millions to help
Florida felons vote. Just days after after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis won a court victory to keep felons
from voting until they've paid off fines, restitution and court fees, billionaire Mike Bloomberg has stepped in to help them
pay off the debts. The former Democratic presidential candidate has helped raise more than $20 million so that
felons who completed their prison sentences can vote in the presidential election. Bloomberg also has pledged $100
million to help Joe Biden win Florida.
Matt
Gaetz Calls On Florida AG To Investigate Mike Bloomberg "For Potentially Engaging In Bribery And Vote Buying".
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has called on the state's Attorney General to investigate Bloomberg for "Potentially Engaging In
Bribery And Vote Buying." [Video clip] [...] [Earlier,] Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who has committed
at least $100 million in Florida towards electing Joe Biden, has raised another $16 million to pay the court
fines and fees of nearly 32,000 Black and Hispanic felons so that they can vote in the November election.
Mike
Bloomberg Is Likely Breaking Federal Law by Paying off Felon Debts for Democrat Votes. As reported earlier
former New York City Mayor and billionaire Mike Bloomberg raised $16 million to pay off the fines for 32,000 black and
Hispanic Florida voters so they can vote for Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Basketball icon Lebron James is also
looking to pay convicted felons' fines so they can vote for Joe Biden. But tonight legal analyst J. Christian Adams
argued that Michael Bloomberg is breaking federal and likely Florida state law by buying votes from felons. And
J. Christian Adams also argued that Bloomberg is putting the felons in legal and financial jeopardy by paying off
their debts for votes.
Heiresses on the Barricades.
Whatever Clara Kraebbe may do with the rest of her life, the 20-year-old Rice University student won't outdo the publicity
she's received since her recent arrest by the NYPD for felony vandalism. Reading in the New York Post about young
Clara, who lives with her father, a child psychiatrist, and her mother, an architect, in a $1.8 million Upper East Side
luxury condo and a pre-Revolutionary War Connecticut mansion, I asked myself: Whom does this girl remind me of?
And then it came to me. Of course: she's a modern-day Jane Fonda. While Clara is a Manhattan princess, Jane
was Hollywood royalty, daughter of one of the great actors of the movies' golden age. While Jane was a poster girl for
the hordes of well-off kids who protested the Vietnam War and looked down their noses at "hardhats," Clara is the face of
BLM/Antifa rioters who sneer at cops and other inferiors.
The
Billionaire Backers of the 'Insurrection'. As I reported last week, a cabal of Democrats and NeverTrump
Republicans are plotting a post-election civil war of sorts to make sure Joe Biden assumes the presidency even if Donald
Trump legitimately wins. "It's insurrection," President Trump said on Fox News last week when asked about the
widely-circulated plan. "We'll put them down very quickly if they do that." Let's hope. A document released
last month by the Transition Integrity Project, a headfake name to give the depraved group the appearance of decency, is a
shocking battle plan that would plunge the country into more chaos. The same agitators on the Left and NeverTrump Right
who've stoked nonstop political upheaval over the past four years will exploit our current instability to throw the election
to the Democrats. But this is more than the far-fetched hallucinations of political outcasts. The mayhem they've
been war-gaming will be heavily funded by a number of Trump-hating billionaires, and those people have no intention of losing
out on their investment.
The Second Civil War is Here!
[Scroll down] Democrats in cities do their best to keep their constituents poor and uneducated, even though they promise to make life better. It's
all one big lie. Remember, Democrats are the party of big government. Actions speak louder than words. If Democrats cared about their citizens,
they would dissolve every government program. (The same goes for Republicans.) Let's look at the programs Democrats encourage. Notice that
they all discourage personal responsibility.
• Public schools. Private schools always perform better. Have you noticed the declining education scores of kids over the
last 30 years? If Democrats cared they would eliminate public schools, or at least endorse school vouchers.
• Free abortions. Encouraging women to kill their children is pure evil.
• Minimum wage. A minimum wage is a job-killer. Democrats tirelessly support this myth of a better life.
• Public transportation. Would you rather take a bus or an Uber? The more public services, the higher your taxes.
• Higher taxes. Wasting your money on programs to "help" the poor actually perpetuates poor people in being poor.
• Public housing. Would anyone really want to live in squalor?
The above list is just a smattering of a lengthy and never-ending scroll of public programs the Democrats dream up to "help" the poor.
The Democrats have had over a hundred years of public policies and programs to help the poor. Strangely, the number of poor and uneducated
people in America is larger than ever. So is the number of Democrat voters. Why is that?
Retailer
Lululemon Mocked For Urging Customers To 'Resist Capitalism' While Selling $120 Leggings. Luxury "athleisure"
brand Lululemon is under fire for suggesting customers and social media followers "resist capitalism," participating in a
workshop given by one of the brand's top Instagram influencers. The Canadian brand, popular among higher-income
American women, mostly sells workout wear and comfortable, yet stylish, clothing items, regularly priced between around $38
(for a basic workout tank top) and $500 for a styled parka. Their best-selling items, though, are likely their
leggings, which retail between $88 and $300, depending on style, fabric, and quality. The average price for a pair of
Lululemon leggings is around $128 — a difficult point for a company pressing for its own customers to "unveil
historical erasure and resist capitalism," according to an Instagram post on its official account from one of its key
affiliates. The brand itself is worth a reported $40 billion and rising as Americans increasingly turn to
comfortable daily clothing amidst pandemic-related lockdowns and stay-at-home orders.
Who
is Buying District Attorneys? Long time cable TV show host Bill O'Reilly says, "Of all the people in my entire
46-year career, George Soros, in my opinion, has harmed America more than any other human being on the planet." George Soros
is now 90 years old. For the last several decades, within the bounds of an odd decorum, he has done all he can to
destroy America and her allies. "More than [Osama] bin Laden. More than ISIS," O'Reilly says, Soros, "has
subverted our traditional system of justice, he has supported the worst Bolshevik elements you could support." It's
long been known that George Soros influences governments and impacts economies around the world, whether it's fomenting riots
to undermine national sovereignty or sinking a nation's currency to enrich himself.
Michael
Bloomberg pledges $100 million to help Biden in Florida. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced
Sunday that he is making a $100 million investment to help Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in Florida. The
state is considered a key battleground state, with CBS News Battleground Tracker showing Biden with a slight edge over
Mr. Trump in Florida and the state is deemed a toss-up. The multi-million-dollar injection of cash from Bloomberg,
who was among the Democrats who vied for the party's presidential nomination, will be spent through Democratic groups,
including Bloomberg's Independence USA, and used to turnout voters for Biden in the Sunshine State.
Vatican
Coup? George Soros Funds Jesuit NGOs with $1.7 Million. Three Jesuit charities close to Pope Francis have
received more than $1.7 million in recent years from George Soros' Open Society Foundations, reveals veteran Vatican
journalist Marco Tosatti. The Jesuit Refugee Service received $176,452 from Soros in 2018 to "support migrant rights"
in Latin America. The Spanish Jesuit Migrant Service received $75,000 since its founding in 2016 and $151,125 in
2018. Jesuit Worldwide Learning USA received $890,000 in 2016 and another $410,000 in 2018, the only Catholic NGO to
list Open Society as one of its "partners" on its website, Tosatti writes. In total, George Soros' donations to Jesuit
foundations totaled $1,702,577 over the past four years. The funding is particularly controversial due to Open Society's
aggressive support of abortion, gay marriage, drug liberalization and Islamization of the West. Over the past four years,
the Soros Foundation has donated nearly $12 million to the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and its
US political arm, the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
Inside
the privileged lives of protesters busted for rioting in Manhattan. The so-called revolutionaries who were
busted for rioting at a New Afrikan Black Panther Party rally took a break from their yacht club lives and modeling careers
to be a part of the mayhem. The seven "comrades" — including wealthy Upper East Sider Clara
Kraebber — had their mugshots tweeted out by the NYPD early Wednesday, days after their arrests for smashing
storefront windows in the Flatiron District. They were cuffed during a protest organized by the Panthers and the
Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement groups condemning the death of Daniel Prude, who was killed while in custody of the
Rochester Police Department in March. Aside from Kraebber, the redhead daughter of an architect and a child
psychiatrist with a second home in Connecticut, five of the others arrested appear to also come from privileged
backgrounds — leading one police source to call their actions "the height of hypocrisy."
Biden's Billionaires.
[Scroll down] I was reminded of that observation after reading an article describing the 131 billionaires who are
pouring millions into the coffers of the Democrat party and Joe Biden's campaign in their mindless obsession to defeat
President Trump in November. Among the prominent names are Jeff Skoll, a founder of eBay who has contributed $4.5 million;
Laurene Powell Jobs of Apple and owner of The Atlantic magazine has donated $1.2 million, and Josh Bekenstein, Chairman of Bain
Capital (co-founded by Mitt Romney), $5 million. [...] The tech billionaires, not content to simply cough up untold millions
in direct political contributions, are also funding massive voter drives, promoting mail-in balloting, creating divisive partisan news
sites, aiding and designing the Democrat party's digital campaigns and unabashedly censoring the social media accounts of the Trump
campaign and innumerable conservatives.
How
many of the rioting 'protesters' come from super-rich families? As the definitely non-peaceful rioters continue
their destructive, violent force in this most bizarre year, the know-it-all, know-nothing, life-insulated narcissist young
adult offspring game-playing pouters of wealthy parents emerge — surprise! — unscathed. The past
few days provided some interesting examples. Clara Kraebber, 20 years old, the school-smart, life-dumb, over-educated,
under-knowledgeable daughter of wealthy, highly accomplished parents, recently profiled on this blog for her protest
demonstration temper tantrum for over six years, is currently confined in her family's second mansion — complete
with four fireplaces to complement the ecologically correct heating system — in an upscale Connecticut suburb,
awaiting the next step for damages caused in a riot in which she participated. Elsewhere, some of her peers are also
suffering similar fates. Elliot Rucka, 20, nabbed in the same riot (I repeat, not "peaceful protest"!) as Kraebber
"that caused at least $100,000 in damages, authorities said," is also the offspring of prominent parents.
Spoiled
White Portland Protesters Harass Black Woman In SUV In The Name Of Racial Justice. The brave and stunning
Portland protesters were back out on the streets late Sunday night, marching through the traditionally black part of town,
where they proudly surrounded a black woman in an SUV trying to get through. These heroic white saviors spent the
better part of two minutes shouting obscenities at her, refusing to let her through, ordering her to back up and go the other
way, and possibly even used a racist slur. "Move, get out of the way," she asks of the protesters. One screeching
brat can be heard shrieking repeatedly in the background [...]
"Stumptown" Creator's Son Arrested in NYC
BLM Riot. Another privileged young revolutionary was arrested at the latest social justice riot in NYC, Elliot
Rucka. Rucka was arrested in NYC on rioting and other charges in the spree Friday that damaged and vandalized banks,
Starbucks, and Duane-Reades from Foley Square up to 24th Street, the NY Post reported. Ironically, Elliot Rucka, the
20-year-old son of a successful comic book writer, is from the capital of social justice violent riots, Portland. This
young, idealistic window smashing crusader's father, Greg Rucka, is a New York Times best-selling author.
Wealthy NYC woman
busted in BLM rampage. One of the Black Lives Matter protesters now facing felony rioting and misdemeanor
graffiti charges — after a window-smashing free-for-all in Manhattan — is a wealthy Upper East Sider
whose mother is an architect and whose father is a child psychiatrist. Clara Kraebber, 20, is one of eight people
arrested Friday night [9/4/2020] after a roiling, three-hour rampage that police say caused at least $100,000 in damage from
Foley Square up to 24th Street. "Every city, every town, burn the precinct to the ground!" the group chanted as it
moved up Lafayette Street while busting the plate glass facades of banks, Starbucks and Duane-Reades. The protest was
organized by groups calling themselves the "New Afrikan Black Panther Party" and the "Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement."
[...] She is now facing a maximum of four years prison on her top charge of first-degree riot.
20-year-old
college student from wealthy elite family facing possible 4-year prison term for violent BLM rampage in
Manhattan. [Scroll down] Young Ms. Kraebber is no dummy. She is a student at Rice University,
one of the most selective schools (a mere 9% of applicants were admitted in 2019) in the country and is a graduate of Hunter
College High School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, whose students score in the top one-quarter of one percent of
students based on test scores. Her parents are members of the nation's academic elite — her father is a
psychiatrist on the faculty of Columbia University, while her mother is the principal of an architectural firm bearing her
name whose clients include Columbia and NYU. Her family lives in the Upper East Side in an apartment for which they paid
$1.8 million 4 years ago, and also boasts a house in Connecticut with 4 fireplaces. On Friday [9/4/2020],
young Clara was arrested for participating in a 3-hour rampage that did an estimated $100,000 in damage, smashing store
windows and doing other damage to lower Manhattan.
Tom
Donohue and U.S. Chamber of Commerce Announce Support for Far-Left Democrats in 2020. [F]or well over a decade
we have tried to share the truth behind the financial mechanisms that run Washington DC; and the primary machine has always
been a completely corrupt, deceptive and anti-American U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Against the entirety of the
conservative media; and against the entirety of every organized group that ever attended CPAC; this website has attempted to
educate people about the genuinely fraudulent purposes of the U.S. CoC and their President Tom Donohue. I have written
hundreds of articles over the years outlining "there are trillions at stake" and the elements of importance behind that
statement. Every single mainstream conservative voice has denied the truth; and likely most of them are probably on the
CoC payroll. Every former administration took massive payments from the CoC and allowed the Chamber to write trade
agreements language for decades. The CoC business model was to take payments from Wall Street multinationals and then
write the agreements to their benefit.
Trump
Takes $0 Salary, Reportedly Lost $300 Million This Year; Biden Made Millions After Leaving Office. Supporters
of President Donald Trump contended during the Republican National Convention this week the former businessman and reality
television star has truly been seeking to serve the American people since taking office. It has come at a financial
cost to him. Meanwhile, former Vice President Joe Biden, now the Democratic Party's nominee for president, took in
$15.6 million in his first two years after leaving office, according to The Wall Street Journal.
From DNC Irony to Parody.
[T]he Democratic Party is now that of the upper- and upper-middle-class and the very rich. The Obamas are worth well
over $100 million. The Clintons are worth perhaps as much or more. Elizabeth Warren wrote a book that included
advice about profiting from house flipping. Joe Biden became a multimillionaire while a senator. When one is rich
and privileged with government largess and an array of subordinates, and one is professedly equalitarian, then one is also
worried about one's own apparent lack of egalitarianism.
Twitter
founder gives $10 million to university research center that promotes anti-white discrimination. The religion
of "antiracism" requires racial discrimination against whites, as its leading apostle Ibram Kendi has made clear.
Anti-white discrimination is getting an enormous boost courtesy of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, who donated $10 million
through his charitable foundation to Boston University's Center for Antiracist Research, launched by Kendi just six weeks
ago, the private university said Thursday [8/20/2020]. The gift from Dorsey has "no strings attached," which shows his
"unqualified support of Kendi's vision of putting academic researchers at the forefront of the movement to dismantle policies
that underlie racial inequity and injustice," the university gushed.
Multimillionaire Obamas Haven't
Donated to Joe Biden's Campaign. Barack H. Obama and his wife Michelle became fabulously wealthy after leaving
the White House in 2017. For whatever reason, they haven't given a single dollar of their massive fortune to Joe Biden's
presidential campaign. President Obama has hosted virtual fundraisers for his former running mate and urged Democrats
to give "any amount you can" to Biden's campaign. Michelle addressed the virtual Democratic convention on Monday, but
didn't even show her arms. Barack is scheduled to give the primetime address on Wednesday night. But neither have
personally contributed a dime to Biden's campaign, according to federal election records.
Longtime
friend 'builds Obama's multi-million dollar Hawaii ocean villa using loopholes to bypass coastal protection
laws'. The beachfront compound in Hawaii where former President Barack Obama reportedly plans to someday retire
used a planning loophole to retain a seawall that is likely causing beach erosion, according to a new report. State
officials and community members confirmed to ProPublica that Obama plans to reside in the compound on Oahu, which was
purchased for $8.7 million by his close friend Marty Nesbitt in 2015. After tearing down the site's mansion made famous
as the house from Magnum PI, developers are building three homes, two pools and a security perimeter on the three-acre
beachfront parcel, permits show.
Here's
A List Of Corporations Funding The 'Defund The Police' Movement. Dozens of corporations from around the world
have collectively donated millions of dollars to left-wing organizations that advocate for defunding America's police
departments, a Daily Caller News Foundation review found. Companies including Microsoft, Intel and Airbnb have donated
to Black Lives Matter Global Network and Color of Change, both of which want to defund police departments across the country.
Facebook
CEO Mark Zuckerberg's net worth just ballooned above $100 billion for the first time ever. Facebook CEO Mark
Zuckerberg's net worth just passed the $100 billion for the first time as the social media firm has enjoyed a soaring
stock price during the COVID-19 pandemic. Per a Bloomberg report, the ballooned fortune lands Zuckerberg with the likes
of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, both of whom crested the $100 billion mark already. The
three are reportedly the only people in the world worth at least $100 billion. Zuckerberg, who has a 13% stake in
Facebook, and other executives of online companies have enjoyed a surge in sales during the COVID-19 pandemic as people are
ushered into their homes and more so onto their devices.
George
Soros Spends $52 Million on 2020 Election Cycle. Left-wing and partisan Democrat billionaire George Soros spent
more than $52 million in political spending, per Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings, according to a report for the
Washington Free Beacon. The total does not include ostensibly philanthropic spending via his Open Society
Foundations network.
Gavin
Newsom's $3.7 Million Estate Was Gifted to Him in 2019; 3 Months Later He Got a $2.7 Million Tax Free Cash-Out. One thing
that's become extraordinarily clear to Californians in 2020 is that there's one set of rules for Gov. Gavin Newsom, and there's
another set of rules for the rest of us. He preaches that we're all in this together and that we have to sacrifice to "meet this
moment," yet he's not missing a paycheck. As California businesses struggle, he sends a $1 billion contract for masks to a
Chinese company. When he shut down wineries throughout 80 percent of California, he kept his open. While the dream of
owning a home is increasingly out of reach for California's families, it appears that Newsom received a $3.7 million estate from
an LLC owned by his cousin then, a few months later took out a $2.695 million (tax-free) cash-out mortgage on it — and
didn't report the gift on any of his financial disclosure forms.
George
Soros Pumps Another Quarter Billion Dollars into Black Lives Matter. Far-left billionaire George Soros has
announced he is pumping another staggering amount of cash into the radical Black Lives Matter organization. With
America burning under the leftist push for socialism, Hungarian-born financier Soros announced he is donating another $220
million to the "Black Lives Matter movement." Much of Soros' money is going into efforts to defund the police and control
2020 voting systems, his foundation revealed.
Democrats
Project their own Character Flaws onto Republicans. Democrats accuse Republicans of being the political party
that represents the "evil" rich but in reality, but there are plenty of Democrats among of the richest members of
Congress. Obscenely wealthy Democrat contributors include George Soros, Warren Buffett, Eric Schmidt, most of
Hollywood, most of Silicon Valley, public-sector labor unions, and the lamestream media. By comparison, who do the
Republicans have, besides the surviving Koch brother? The last time I checked, the Koch brothers hadn't even cracked
the top 50 list of political donors, and that was when David was still alive. Know who was #1 on that list? Act
Blue. Do you know where all the money currently being donated to the "Black Lives Matter" movement is going?
Act Blue.
Mystery,
Democratic-linked super PAC meddles in Kansas GOP primary. A mysterious new super PAC with links to Democrats
released a TV ad on Wednesday meddling in next month's Kansas Republican Senate primary. The super PAC, Sunflower
State, formed on Monday and two days later launched its first TV ad, focused on Kris Kobach and Rep. Roger Marshall, two
of the Republicans running in the Aug. 4 primary. National Republicans have expressed concern that
Kobach — the former secretary of state who lost the 2018 governor's race to Democrat Laura Kelly —
would put the seat in jeopardy if he becomes the nominee, while Marshall has attempted to consolidate support from the
establishment in the primary.
Lincoln
Project's Co-Founder John Weaver Was a Registered Agent for Russia. The Lincoln Project has hit upon some hard
times. For a while this Quisling Republican firm founded by George T. Conway III, Rick Wilson, Steve Schmidt,
John Weaver, Jennifer Horn was the toast of the town. Democrats and NeverTrumpers, to the extent there is a difference,
saw them as the giant killers. The were the team who was going to evict Trump from the White House and install a demented,
doddering lecher because Principles and also because Grift. [...] Yesterday [7/15/2020], we saw the first filing of Lincoln
Project that gives the appearance that it is a Scam-PAC.
Lincoln
Project Paid More than $2 Million to Firms Owned by Its Founders. The Lincoln Project, a political action
committee run by a cadre of GOP campaign operatives opposed to President Donald Trump, has paid out more than two million
dollars to firms owned by its founding members. The group, which was formed last December, has made national headlines
for its viral ads, many of which attack Trump and his congressional allies. Since its launch, the Lincoln Projected has
raised more than $19 million, with most of the money ($16.8 million) coming in over the last three months. A
significant portion of the group's newfound contributions, as noted by the Center for Responsive Politics, come from Democrat
mega-donors, some of whom have donated as much as one million dollars.
'Lincoln
Project' Co-Founder John Weaver Signed Six-Figure Deal with Russia, Pulled Out After Backlash. John Weaver, one
co-founder of The Lincoln Project Super PAC, signed a deal in 2019 with a Russian state-owned company to advocate for its
interests — but ultimately rejected the contract once he was accused of hypocrisy for his years of calling
President Donald Trump a pawn of Vladimir Putin. Weaver, a career political consultant who started The Lincoln Project
to defeat President Donald Trump's reelection bid, signed an agreement on May 10, 2019 with Tenam Corporation, "a
subsidiary of Rosatom, the Russian state-owned nuclear energy company," Politico reported at the time.
George
Soros group to spend $220M on causes promoting racial equality and criminal justice reform. A prominent
nonprofit group founded by liberal mega-donor George Soros announced plans to dump more than $200 million into initiatives
dedicated to ending racial inequality. The Open Society Foundation will announce its $220 million funding mission on
Monday [7/13/2020], committing $150 million to racial justice organizations that are under the leadership of black people and
$70 million to organizations that promote civic engagement or local criminal justice reform initiatives.
Bill
Gates: Philanthropist or Scoundrel? He has already subjected America's children to educational quackery
as the main sponsor of Common Core, and he has gathered more data on you and every American than you could imagine.
Now, as this article will show, one of the world's leading population-control zealots wants to inject you, your whole family,
and every single person on the entire planet with an as-yet undeveloped and untested vaccine — supposedly to
protect against coronavirus. Then he wants to track you using technology that sounds like it comes out of a science
fiction movie. And unless and until everybody on Earth submits to his vaccination demands, the technocratic globalist
has declared repeatedly, society cannot and will not return to normal. That man, of course, is Microsoft founder Bill
Gates — perhaps one of the most controversial people in the world right now, despite media adulation. With
all Gates' connections, media appearances, and demands, one might be forgiven for thinking that he was emperor of the
world. And if humanity is not careful, the agenda Gates represents may well succeed — potentially in the
near term. That means liberty, health freedom, the family, self-government, much of the population, and the economy are
in mortal danger.
'Can
I buy ya a hot dog?' Gov. Whitmer offers coney dog to unemployed worker asking for help. With states being
buried in an avalanche of unemployment claims as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, processing the vast number has proven
to be a challenge. Michigan is among the states struggling to get benefits to those who, for no fault of their own,
have been left unemployed. In a scene that perfectly captures the ineptitude of progressivism, Gov. Gretchen
Whitmer's solution to the crisis was to offer a hot dog. The controversial governor was serving hot dogs at Lafayette Coney
Island in Detroit on Thursday [6/18/2020] when she was approached by a man who claimed to be an unemployed health care worker.
National
Arm Of Black Lives Matter Spent Millions On Travel And Consultants, Financial Statements Show. The national arm
of Black Lives Matter spent millions on consultants, travel and compensation for its own staff between July 2017 and June
2019, according to audited financial statements prepared by its fiscal sponsor, Thousand Currents. BLM Global Network
spent $899,000 on travel, $1.6 million on consulting and $2.1 million on personnel costs during its 2017, 2018 and
2019 fiscal years, the financial statements show, together comprising 83.3% of its total spending during the three year
period. BLM Global Network granted $328,000 to outside organizations, which include local BLM chapters, during that
same time frame, a figure that represents about 6% of its total spending.
Warren
Said High-Dollar Fundraisers Would Rip 'This Democracy Apart.' She Just Had A $6 Million Fundraiser For Biden.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) held a $6 million fundraiser for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden this
week despite having denounced high-dollar fundraisers during her failed presidential campaign. In comments denouncing
high-dollar fundraisers, Warren told reporters during a campaign stop in February that we are "tearing this democracy apart."
"She talked in early states like Iowa and New Hampshire about her disdain for the typical fundraising practices used by
most candidates; she was often rewarded with thunderous applause (but not enough votes)," The Washington Post notes.
"She talked about it on the debate stage, where she zinged other candidates for raising cash in fancy settings —
like a California wine cave. She talked about it in friendly interviews with anchors like MSNBC's Rachel Maddow."
The
Democrats' Corruption of America's Inner Cities. What are the real problems in America's inner cities? Is
it all about racism, or could it be a combination of several factors? According to a survey of Chicago parents by the
Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, poverty, violence, and crime are also some of the biggest concerns in
their neighborhoods. Good jobs and capitalism could solve the poverty part of the problem, but if cities make it hard
for businesses to come into town or for a local person to start a small business, citizens with little mobility stay
poor. Why wouldn't these cities want the freest, most business-friendly laws and policies imaginable for their
citizens? The answer is often that politicians care very little about their constituents but care deeply about their
own power and money. High taxes, crony capitalism (meaning favors for politicians and others who have the power to give
the "right" companies the contracts), excessive regulations, and a culture of "it's who you know" combine to crush
entrepreneurs and small business owners who are not among those favored by the powers that be.
Minnesota
Freedom Fund Reveals Only $200,000 of Millions in Donations Has Been Spent to Bail Out Protesters. The
Minnesota Freedom Fund (MFF) faced a social media backlash after it revealed on Twitter that it has spent around $200,000 to
bail out protesters — despite receiving millions in donations in recent weeks. "Appreciate all those calling
for transparency. We see y'all. Our values and mission have not changed since 2016. Be on the lookout for things
coming on our end. Be well," the nonprofit, which works to bail out those who couldn't otherwise afford it, posted on
Twitter. "Without jeopardizing the safety of the folks we bailed out we paid well over $200k in the weeks since the
uprising alone. We are working on doing more."
Twins
owners commit $25M to help combat social injustice in Twin Cities. The Pohlad Family, owners of the Minnesota
Twins, announced that they are committing $25 million to combat racial injustice in the Twin Cities. "Black people have
experienced oppression and racism for far too long in this country," said Bill Pohlad, president of the Pohlad Family
Foundation. "We condemn racism in all its forms, and we are firmly committed to helping to enact meaningful
change. We know this will take time and effort, and we are committed to this work beyond this seminal moment in our
country's history." The Pohlads will partner with other equally committed organizations to help change the systems that
create racial inequities and marginalize people of color.
The Editor says...
What systems exist that "marginalize people of color?" Exactly the opposite is
true: Exhibit A is Affirmative Action.
Biden
attending high-roller fundraiser headlined by defund-the-police activist John Legend. Joe Biden is set to
attend a high-roller fundraiser Thursday evening [6/11/2020] headlined by anti-police activist John Legend, who has openly
promised that he'll try to push the former vice president towards totally defunding law enforcement and adopting other
far-left positions.
Yes,
George Soros Sent Money to Fund the Riots — and So Did Taxpayers. Ever since the protests turned to
riots over the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis, rumors have flown that George Soros and his Open
Society Foundation had to be involved. After all, OSF funded Black Lives Matter in 2015. It didn't take long to
reveal the financial ties to current riots and to show that OSF and George Soros directly support the movement today.
Particularly infuriating are the taxpayer-funded grants received in conjunction with the Soros funding. Daniel Bice of
the Milwaukie [sic] Journal-Sentinel reports that a group called Freedom, Inc. has received grants from the Wisconsin
Department of Justice: ["]The Madison-based nonprofit has advocated for the release of all African Americans from
jail and the defunding of police departments. As for the current protests, the group's leaders say "all actions against
racist state violence are justified."["]
Report:
Silicon Valley Billionaires Join Forces Behind Joe Biden; Plans Include 'Partisan News Sites'. Left-wing
"explainer" website Vox reports Wednesday [5/27/2020] that leading billionaires in Silicon Valley are joining forces to build
a digital campaign around former Vice President Joe Biden, who is holed up in his Wilmington, Delaware, home. Biden and
the Democrats are considered far behind their rivals in building digital tools for the 2020 presidential
campaign — and Biden's technological ineptitude has become a subject of public mockery.
Mommy
Warbucks shuts her purse on The Atlantic's lefty denizens. At a time when the news is filled with stories about
small business-owners making humongous sacrifices to save their employees' jobs, and corporations and governments are running
ads saying "we're all in this together," billionaire wifey investor Laurene Powell Jobs (estimated net worth: $32 billion),
whose cash keeps the left-wing Atlantic Monthly afloat, has pulled a Bloomberg on the Atlantic Monthly staff and laid off a
large number of them. Her minions did it just as unemployment hits double digits, so with the job market collapsed,
these newly laid off staffers can get ready for new careers as Walmart greeters and Amazon deliverymen.
Obama
Staffer, Bill Gates, Soros Behind the Group Pushing a Celebrity Global Response to Chinese Coronavirus. The
celebrity campaign #PasstheMic is enlisting Julia Roberts, Hugh Jackman, and other A-list Hollywood stars to hand over their
social media accounts to the likes of Dr. Anthony Fauci and other experts to promote a "global response" to the Chinese
coronavirus pandemic. Who's behind the push? The roster of donors and leaders reads like a who's-who of left-wing
globalists — U2 frontman Bono, George Soros, and Bill Gates. At the head of the organization is Gayle Smith,
a former special assistant to President Barack Obama.
Bain
Capital Chairman Donates Big Money to Biden Super PAC. The chairman of Bain Capital, the infamous venture
capital firm excoriated by Democrats during the 2012 election for outsourcing American jobs, is putting big money behind a
Super PAC working to elect former Vice President Joe Biden. Joshua Bekenstein, who was one of the founders of the firm
alongside Mitt Romney and now serves as its chairman, donated $250,000 to Unite the Country at the start of April, according
to the Super PAC's Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings. On the same day that donation was made, Bekenstein's
wife, Anita, contributed a further $250,000, raising the couple's total to half a million dollars. Bekenstein and his
wife have also each contributed the max amount of $5,600 to Biden's official 2020 campaign.
Soros
Donor Network Quietly Launched New Big-Money Entities. A powerful donor club cofounded by liberal billionaire
George Soros quietly established two big-money entities to help its effort to inject $275 million into the 2020
election. The Democracy Alliance, a coalition of deep-pocketed Democratic donors, launched the Strategic Victory Fund
super PAC in March. The PAC appears to be aimed at state-based initiatives and can collect and spend unlimited sums on
political advertisements. The group also created the Strategic Victory Fund nonprofit arm, which supplied the PAC's
initial $500,000 deposit. Democracy Alliance helps set the Democratic agenda and Vox has called it the "closest
thing that exists to a 'left-wing conspiracy' in the US."
She has a Ph.D. in Social Welfare, whatever that is.
Woman
Dictating LA County Shutdowns Isn't a Medical Doctor, Paid More than $500K. Los Angeles County Director of
Public Health Dr. Barbara Ferrer made news Tuesday [5/12/2020] when she told the county's board of Supervisors that the
"Safer at Home" order would almost certainly be extended for three more months when it expired May 15. Outrage ensued, and
the Board of Supervisors and Ferrer herself walked back those comments. Turns out that walk-back was just a giant "psych!"
because Ferrer announced the new order Wednesday — one with no expiration date. But, give her credit for being
literal — it wasn't a three-month extension. To say that the vast majority of county residents are upset is an
understatement. As we at RedState have argued throughout our collective quarantine, the people making these decisions are
people with stable, steady paychecks — paid for by We the People. Ferrer definitely fits in that category, but
the amount of her salary is stunning. According to Transparent California, a watchdog group, Ferrer's total compensation
package in 2018 was $553,249.
Michelle
and Barack Obama rake in millions of dollars, as adoration by liberal media continues. The Hollywood Reporter
recently broke a scoop about the latest Netflix documentary from the Obamas, designed to offer us an oasis of joy as we
suffer through the coronavirus pandemic. The documentary is called "Becoming" and it will be available worldwide
Wednesday. As the title suggests, it promotes Michelle Obama's memoir of the same name, which has sold more than
10 million copies. So let's get this straight. The Obamas were awarded a book deal worth an estimated $65 million
for their memoirs, hers and then his. They also struck an estimated $50 million production deal with Netflix. (We
don't have actual numbers. Could someone in the media ask for a tax return?) With this self-aggrandizing documentary,
the second deal is being used to accentuate the profits of the first. The buck raking here is intense.
Southern
Poverty Law Center Now Has $162 Million Stashed in Offshore Accounts. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC),
which last year faced accusations of racism among its highest ranks, reported $162 million stashed in offshore investments
and paid its disgraced former leaders over $1 million. The controversial group has continued to build its massive war
chest by tens of millions of dollars even after employees claimed that the group's leadership allowed sexual harassment and
racial discrimination against its minority staffers. The ensuing media firestorm ultimately led to the ousting of
cofounder Morris Dees, longtime president Richard Cohen, and legal director Rhonda Brownstein from the group in March 2019.
New forms, covering a period beginning Nov. 1, 2018, and ending on Oct. 31, 2019, show that Cohen and Brownstein
each received six-figure severance packages.
Financing Poverty,
Malnutrition and Death — Part 1. [Scroll down] Indeed, "philanthropic" foundation support for
radical environmentalist groups and campaigns is one of the best kept secrets of modern society. It's time to spotlight
some of them and call them to account. Wealthy foundations — often created with profits and fortunes made in
industry and technology — directly and indirectly support some of the most radical anti-energy, anti-technology
and agro-ecology activism in America, Europe and the world. Their wealth, direct and indirect aid mechanisms, and
inter-locking global network of funders, managers and advisors make them a powerful, callous, oppressive force.
Pelosi
Shows Off Her Kitchen and Gourmet Ice Cream Collection as Americans Stand in Line at Food Banks. House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) showed off her expensive kitchen appliances and massive gourmet ice cream collection during an appearance
on a late night show as Americans stand in line at food banks. Pelosi slammed President Trump over his Coronavirus
response on Monday's episode of "The Late Show" with James Corden before showing off her 15 flavor ice cream
collection. Pelosi, who is one of the wealthiest members of Congress, held Americans hostage by delaying the first
Coronavirus stimulus package.
Nancy
Pelosi Struggles Through Coronapocalypse With Her Fancy Designer Ice Cream. Well, nothing says "Woman of the
People" quite like posing in front of two of your enormous gleaming stainless-steel luxury refrigerators with a sweater tied
around your neck. What color is that, is that peach? No, more of a tangerine. Pumpkin, perhaps. Very
comforting, in any case. Whoever dresses Pelosi is earning his and/or her pay. [...] Down with ICE, up with ice
cream! This is something every single American can appreciate, and it's not at all tone-deaf. Those containers of
Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams you saw packed into Pelosi's freezers are only $12 per pint, so you can buy literally 100 of them
with your Trump check. Almost as many as Pelosi has.
Biden
Super PAC Joins Forces With David Brock Group to Form $175 Million Anti-Trump Coalition. The super PAC
supporting former vice president Joe Biden has joined forces with liberal operative David Brock's opposition research group
to form a $175 million network opposing President Donald Trump. Pro-Biden super PAC Unite the Country and Brock's
American Bridge PAC announced Monday they will collaborate on research, polling, and ad buys against President Trump.
The groups are teaming up in hopes of surpassing the Priorities USA super PAC, which is affiliated with the Democratic Party,
as the largest outside group backing Biden's candidacy.
Bernie's
Billionaire: How the Richest Man in Hawaii Funds Bernie's PR and Opposition Research. If there's one
thing everyone knows about Senator Bernie Sanders, it's that he hates billionaires. Now a newly minted millionaire and
member of the 1%, Sanders reserves all his old hatred for millionaires, exclusively for billionaires. Billionaires
shouldn't exist, he insists. And while Bernie virtue signals about not having a PAC or taking money from billionaires,
a big chunk of his media operation is financed by Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay, and the richest man in Hawaii.
Omidyar, a Franco-Persian who lives in Hawaii, pledged $250 million to First Look Media. FLM's signature project is The
Intercept, a radical leftist, anti-American, and anti-Semitic media hate site. And The Intercept has a clear and
definite candidate in the 2020 race. The Intercept's election coverage is filled with hysterical Sanders cheerleading,
[...]
Deep
Pocket Democrats Intend to Buy Congress. Michael Bloomberg made a stunning admission last month during his
second appearance in a Democratic presidential primary debate. Speaking in defense of his new identity as a member of
the Democratic Party, he said, "All of the new Democrats that came in, put Nancy Pelosi in charge, and gave the Congress the
ability to control this president, I b ... bought ... I got them." Indeed he did. He bought them. Bloomberg
bought congressional seats in 2018, spending an estimated $110 million to help Democrats win. This included
$28 million through his super PAC Independence USA, which backed 22 Democratic congressional candidates, 19 of whom
won. These efforts promise to be minor compared to what is happening now.
Liberal
Children Of Privilege. One of the weirdest things about the modern left isn't how much the activist class
despises people who succeed, it's how many of those activists actually come from money themselves. Not that they want
you to know it, they pretend it isn't true while enjoying the freedoms that come from their family's accomplishments.
The latest example of this comes from the New York Post, which exposed a guy named Carlos Maza as a hypocrite on Saturday
[3/7/2020]. Maza, who goes by the name "gay wonk," is known for whining about people who've earned a lot of money and
trying to "cancel" conservatives for making fun of him. The "wonk" part of his name must be used ironically since his
resume exhibits nothing remotely close to an area of policy expertise.
Exposing
Liberal Hypocrisy is Dangerous. Before this New York Post story, I had never heard of Carlos Maza. But a
lot of people had; he has 150,000 followers on Twitter and YouTube. Maza is a social justice warrior, and he hates rich
people. [...] Maza's mother is the partner, to use contemporary lingo, of the founder of a successful software company, who
is Maza's de facto stepfather. They also have a $7 million condominium on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
They are worth hundreds of millions of dollars, estimating conservatively. All of which is fine with me. But
there is something unhealthy about railing against other people's wealth — and hypocrisy! — while
enjoying extreme financial privilege. Yet somehow, it is rather common — there are more socialists among the
upper crust than among the working class.
Bloomberg
[and] Steyer Spent at Least $1,063,718,074 Trying to Oust Trump. Liberal billionaires Michael Bloomberg and Tom
Steyer spent over $1 billion in their attempt to oust President Donald Trump from office, an effort that began even before
their 2020 presidential campaigns. In fact, it began when Steyer spent $123 million on a massive Need to Impeach
campaign to push for Trump's impeachment between 2017-2018. Adding Steyer's 2017-2018 spending ($123 million) to both
billionaires' current estimated campaign spending totals, a whopping $1,063,718,074 was spent in an attempt to oust Trump.
To put this into perspective, that's nearly $600 million shy of Steyer's entire net worth estimated at $1.6 billion.
Tom
Steyer Reportedly Spent $23.6M on South Carolina Campaign Ads. Despite Michael Bloomberg's unprecedented
spending, his billionaire rival Tom Steyer has "nearly tripled the rest of the field combined in TV and digital ad spending
in South Carolina through mid-February," according to The Dallas Morning News Feb. 28. Steyer has reportedly
spent a whopping $23.6 million on campaign advertising just in South Carolina alone, according to NPR Politics deputy editor
Ben Swasey's summary of Advertising Analytics data Feb. 27. Swasey's tweet indicates that Steyer's spending currently
trounced the number two spender in the state, Mayor Pete Buttigieg (who spent $2.8 million), nearly ten times over. And
yet, RealClearPolitics polling averages currently show Steyer in distant third place in the state.
Has
any candidate ever imploded like Michael Bloomberg? Mr. Bloomberg spent more than $463 million in the
first two months of his campaign, according to a report filed to the Federal Election Commission. In January alone,
Mr. Bloomberg dumped $220 million of his own money into his campaign — an average of more than $7 million
per day. Those expenditures included $126 million on TV ads and $45 million in online advertising. [...] Mr. Bloomberg
has an estimated net worth of $64 billion. That means his expenditures so far amount to just 0.7% of his fortune.
The
million-dollar property listings of Bernie Sanders and Mike Bloomberg. Socialist Bernie Sanders likes to
vacation in a fixer-upper wood cabin in Vermont, calling it his "summer camp." Billionaire Mike Bloomberg's summer
camp, on the other hand, consists of a $10 million waterfront mansion in Bermuda and a $20 million estate in
Southhampton. The presidential wannabes traded blows on Wednesday's debate stage when Bloomberg suggested Sanders
was a hypocrite posing as a humble socialist who in fact owned three homes.
Michael
Bloomberg, Arrogant Elitist. There is a YouTube video featuring Michael Bloomberg speaking at the University of
Oxford on the verge of Trump's inauguration in December 2016. The video reveals much about Bloomberg's beliefs and
thinking: He is dismissive of the working class, seeing them as ignorant and insufficiently intelligent to be able to
find useful work in this advanced technological age. He sees himself as a member of an intellectual elite. And
the voters will quickly grasp his real opinion of them. They are unlikely to vote for someone who sees them as serfs in
need of guidance and patronage from nobility such as himself. In three years, Donald Trump has blown apart Bloomberg's
theory that the working class is composed of useless oafs. Under Trump's policies, the workers that Bloomberg wrote off
have found jobs and it wasn't necessary for the government to hire them with make-work programs.
Michael
Bloomberg spent over $200M on campaign in January. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is spending
money at breakneck speed as he seeks the Democratic presidential nomination. The billionaire spent $220 million in
January, the same dollar amount he spent from November, when Bloomberg announced his campaign, through December, according to
a Federal Election Commission filing.
Will
Bloomberg News Ignore NYT Story on Bloomberg's Massive Spending? No wonder liberal billionaire 2020 candidate
Michael Bloomberg does not want his own news outlet investigating him. They might have to do journalism and risk
exposing where his money has been going all these years. The liberal New York Times chose to do some actual
journalism by digging up records on Bloomberg's enormous spending between 1977 and 2019 in a report Feb. 15.
Bloomberg spent "at least" a whopping $10 billion split between charitable and political causes. Some of those
causes included: abortion, climate change and gun control. As of now, the billionaire has poured an unheard of
$401 million just into his own personal campaign in the first three months of his bid. All of it came from his
own wallet. But do not expect to see this from Bloomberg News, considering its controversial policy to not investigate
its owner.
Bloomberg
Is Now 'Highest Spending Presidential Candidate of All Time'. Liberal billionaire 2020 presidential candidate
Michael Bloomberg is willing to spend $2 billion to defeat President Donald Trump, and he continues to put his money where
his mouth is. Advertising Analytics, which provides information on advertising spending, said in a tweet that
"@MikeBloomberg is the highest spending presidential candidate of all time." Bloomberg has apparently spent a jaw-dropping
"$338.7M on traditional media, surpassing @BarackObama's 2012 record of $338.3M," Advertising Analytics said Feb. 18.
The billionaire has poured an unheard of $401 million into his personal campaign within just the first three months of his
bid. All of it came from his own wallet. He spent over $180 million in the first month alone.
Jeff
Bezos Delivers $10 Billion To The Wrong Address. When it comes to virtue signaling, it will be tough to top
Jeff Bezos, who has pledged to put $10 billion — nearly 8% — of his net worth to help "save Earth."
He'd be better off investing that money in his own company, which has probably done more to reduce CO2 emissions than the do-gooders
lining up for his handouts ever will. [...] We don't have anything against private charity. It's the backbone of this
nation. And Bezos is free to spend his wealth however he wants. But he's missing an opportunity to educate the public
about how the free market — and his own company — are doing far more to "save Earth" than he will giving his
money away to embolden "collective action."
The
Revolution Will Be Subsidized By Bloomberg. The apparent disagreements among the "centrist" and "radical"
Democratic presidential candidates are not significant or substantial. In the end, they will unite and depend on Mike
Bloomberg's billions of dollars to take down President Trump. Mr. "Stop-and-Frisk" has already pledged $2 billion
or more to do so. This makes Trump beatable. If you don't think money matters, look at Bloomberg's rise in
the polls based on millions of dollars of commercials alone. Bloomberg is not a socialist but a technocrat prepared to
usher in a socialist state. He wants to bring "Stop-and-Frisk" to all of us, on a nationwide basis. This means
getting shoved up against a wall and losing our economic, political, and personal freedoms.
Socialist
Bernie looks nervous after he's caught flying first class. Bernie used to ride coach like us commoners, but no
longer. He is now a millionaire with three homes who spends exorbitantly on air travel. That makes him a
socialist hypocrite as he travels the country ranting against the 1%. He is the 1%. A passenger caught Bernie
flying first class, and he does look nervous having his photo taken. The tweet has since gone viral.
Bloomberg's
money [is] sowing the seeds of destruction of the Democrat party. Right before our eyes, a mega-billionaire is
buying the presidential nomination of a political party, and oddly enough, it is the party that decries inequality of wealth
and whose leading lights debate taxing billionaires out of existence. This will not end well for the Democrats.
Bloomberg is luring the party's elites into visibly betraying the principles most of its rank-and-file hold dear and
identifying themselves as sellouts who can be bought by sheer force of lucre. A bitter split will be hard to avoid.
Mad
Maxine: 'Fancy Parties' In Beverly Hills Ought To Give CA 'More Say' Than Iowa, NH. Rep. Maxine Waters
(D-CA) says her home state of California should have "more say" in the Democratic Party's primaries because they have "fancy"
big-money parties in Beverly Hills. "As you know, we have candidates who fly out to Los Angeles from everywhere to
raise money," the California Democrat told CNBC on Thursday [2/13/2020]. "As a matter of fact, it had gotten so that
you would have two, three, four at a time in Beverly Hills having dinners. And some of our contributors who are very rich
were holding, you know, fancy parties, trying to accommodate the request for donations and contributions. And so, you know,
the conclusion, the thinking is that if we are supplying tremendous dollars to candidates, we ought to have more say."
Maxine
Waters: CA Should Have More Say In Primary Because Of Big Money Raised At Beverly Hills Parties. For
years now, Democrats have been claiming they want big money out of politics. Yet Maxine Waters just claimed on national
television that California should have more sway in the Democrat primary process because of all the big cash generated for
Democrats at fancy parties in Beverly Hills.
Steven
Spielberg and Spouse Gave $3,500,000 to Liberals So Far This Electoral Cycle. The liberal director of The
Washington Post-touting film The Post (2017) Steven Spielberg has not kept silent about his disdain for President
Donald Trump, and neither has his wallet. Liberal filmmaker Steven Spielberg and his wife Kate Capshaw have contributed
$3,500,000 collectively to liberal outside spending groups so far this cycle. Pacronym, which received $500,000 each
from the celebrity duo, is the affiliated political action committee for Acronym, the company behind the Iowa Democratic
Caucus app fiasco. The duo also contributed $1,000,000 collectively to the Senate Majority PAC, which works to help
Democrats win control over the Senate. They also gave to the Democrat super PAC Priorities USA Action, whose 501(c)(4)
advocacy organization Priorities USA announced last year it was "launching an advertising campaign that would repackage local
news into Democratic propaganda, in an attempt to assist the DNC with its 2020 presidential campaign."
Steyer,
Bloomberg, Sussman & Eychaner Gave $63,970,900 to Liberals, Dwarfing Top 39 Conservative Donors' Spending.
Liberal outlet The Guardian reported Feb. 10 that conservative donor Sheldon Adelson is allegedly gearing up to
spend $100 million to help boost President Donald Trump and Republican candidates this fall. The outlet used its reporting
(citing "three Republican fundraisers familiar with Adelson's initial plans") to suggest later that "The president's courting of the
Adelsons contradicts his claims in 2016, when Trump donned a populist mantle and pledged to 'drain the swamp' of big money and
lobbying." Yet, Adelson, at this point, is tied for 43rd in contributions to outside spending groups, according to Open
Secrets. In fact, current data reveal that the top four liberal donors dwarf the spending of the top 39 donors to
conservative outside spending groups combined.
How
NeverTrump Could Cost the GOP the House and Senate. Donald Trump's chances for reelection in November have
never been higher. The latest Gallup poll puts his approval rating at 49 percent, other polls have measured even
higher, and he just gave the speech of his life in his 2020 State of the Union address. But watch out. Without
Republican control of the Senate in 2020, much less recovering control of the House of Representatives, the impact of a
second Trump term will be profoundly diminished. Left-wing billionaires like Michael Bloomberg, Tom Steyer, Donald
Sussman, James Simons, George Soros, Kenneth Griffin, Stephen Schwarzman, Fred Eychaner, Karla Jurvetson, and Jeff Bezos have
contributed hundreds of millions of dollars almost exclusively to Democrats over the past few years. For example, in
2018 these Democratic mega-moguls constituted 10 of the top 12 individual political contributors to federal elections.
Bloomberg's
naked bid to buy the White House is an assault on democracy. Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg has elbowed
himself into the Democratic nomination race solely on the basis of his fortune. His campaign is high-handed as only a
billionaire many times over could even contemplate. He entered late, is skipping the early contests and hasn't
participated in any of the debates to date (although that will change soon, thanks to the Democratic National Committee
retrofitting its rules for Bloomberg). Without more than $50 billion to his name, Bloomberg would almost certainly be
running a campaign like another late entrant, former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, who hasn't been heard from.
Bloomberg's political strategy has always been built on the belief that nothing succeeds like excess. If he wants it,
he can buy it; money is no object.
Michael
Bloomberg's Campaign Spent Over $180,000,000 in First Month of Presidential Bid. Liberal billionaire Democratic
presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg is whipping out ridiculous amounts of cash to beat President Donald Trump in
November. Recent Federal Election Commission records revealed that the campaign for the billionaire owner of Bloomberg
News had spent over a whopping $180 million just in the first month of his candidacy, CNBC reported Jan. 31.
"Bloomberg spent more during that month than any of his individual Democratic rivals have raised in total during the cycle,"
CNBC said. Bloomberg had also personally contributed over $200 million to his own campaign.
Bloomberg's
Plan For Black Americans Doubles Down On The Left's Failures. Perhaps for the first time in many years,
politicians are directly competing for black votes. This goes hand-in-hand with signs that black America is no longer
monolithically supporting Democrats. For example, President Donald Trump's approval rating among black Americans is in
the mid-30s. Enter Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg, who just launched his new plan for black America,
the Greenwood Initiative, named after a site of both incredible black achievement and pain. Bloomberg, speaking to a
mostly white audience of only several hundred in Tulsa, Oklahoma, unveiled his plan's three points. The plan is a
perfect example of the failure of center-left policy concoctions meant to help black Americans, invariably cooked up
by rich liberals.
This portion of the impeachment circus is sponsored by The Washington Post.
WaPo's
Jennifer Rubin Says Bloomberg Could Help Dems by Spending $50,000,000 on Impeachment Ads. The Washington
Post's "conservative blogger" Jennifer Rubin is at it again. This time she's saying that liberal billionaire
Michael Bloomberg could help Democrats by using his vast wealth to support impeaching President Donald Trump. The
self-described "conservative blogger" wrote a fairly liberal op-ed Jan. 20 headlined, "Here's how Bloomberg could help
himself, Democrats and America." The way to "help," wrote Rubin, was for Bloomberg to: "Spend $50 million
or so in the next week on impeachment ads". Strange, given that she wrote in January, 2019 (roughly one year ago),
that such spending on impeachment ads was "financial wastefulness." Rubin's opinion from a year ago was a rebuke to liberal
billionaire and now current Democratic presidential contender Tom Steyer, who had spent years and a massive $120 million
promoting the impeachment of President Donald Trump[.]
Michael
Bloomberg Does Not Rule Out Spending a Whopping $1,000,000,000 to Beat Trump. The New York Times reported Jan.
11 that Bloomberg "did not rule out spending a billion dollars of his own money on the 2020 presidential race, even if he
does not win the Democratic nomination". The Times noted that Bloomberg would mobilize his "well-financed political
operation" to help rivals Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), "despite their sharp policy
differences." Is this attempt to buy the election a showcase of political expediency or just downright obsession?
Bloomberg has already spent a massive $200 million on advertising for his campaign, The Times noted. He is also
spending $10 million on an anti-Trump ad spot for the Super Bowl Feb. 2.
Jane Fonda Saves
the Planet From Herself. Last year, Jane Fonda sold her "eco-conscious" Beverly Hills mansion, with its 7,102
square feet on a 36,000 square foot lot enclosing a his and her master suite, a glass elevator, 5 bathrooms, glass walls,
fireplaces, a fountain, a meditation garden, a fully stocked gym, a pavilion with heat lamps, and a huge pool for
$8.5 million after she found no takers at its original $13 million sale price. "This was the first time in
my 79 years," Fonda enunciates with the deep pathos of an orphan finally getting a full meal as the camera zooms through
the cavernous interior of a walk-in closet the size of some people's homes, "that I have had a closet that you could walk in
and see everything you have." [...] Fonda didn't sell her mansion because she suddenly realized that two people living on a 36,000
square foot estate was bad for the environment. Even if the pool was solar heated. She had just broken up with
her record producer boyfriend and was looking to scale down by getting something for the single life.
Hunter
Biden owns massive home in swanky Hollywood Hills, court docs reveal. Recovering crack addict Hunter Biden owns
a home in one of the swankiest neighborhoods in America, it was revealed Monday [12/23/2019]. The son of former Vice
President Joe Biden shares a ZIP code in the Hollywood Hills with celebrities such as Ben Affleck, Christina Aguilera and
Halle Berry, according to documents filed in Hunter's Arkansas paternity case. The three-bedroom, three-bathroom
mid-century home is valued at $2.5 million.
Feted or fetid?
Inside
Mayor Pete's $2,800-a-head wine cave fundraiser that prompted debate fury. The now-famous wine cave in Napa
Valley where billionaires hosted a fundraiser for Pete Buttigieg features a chandelier with 1,500 Swarovski crystals, an onyx
banquet table to reflect its luminescence, and bottles of cabernet sauvignon that sell for as much as $900. The event
was attended by between 150 and 200 supporters of the South Bend, Indiana, mayor, who is looking to make history as the first
openly gay candidate to win the presidential nomination of a major political party. Guests at the fundraiser paid
$2,800 to attend. For an additional $1,000, they got to take a photo with the candidate.
We
Three Kings of America Are: Soros, Steyer, and Bloomberg. The biggest lie in American politics today is
that Republicans are the party of the wealthy elite, and the Democrats are fighting for the little guy. While corporate
political spending is split roughly down the middle between Democrats and Republicans, in all other categories the Democrats
are way in front. Labor unions, which collect and spend at least $14 billion per year in the United States, are almost
exclusively committed to Democratic candidates. And while Republicans still have some mega-donor individuals, most of
them only contribute to candidates who espouse the same agenda as the Democrats — open borders, "free" trade, and
endless wars.
Ukrainian
Oligarch Paid $700,000 To The Husband Of A House Judiciary Committee Democrat. Robert Powell, the husband of
Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, D-Fla., reportedly took $700,000 from a Ukrainian oligarch named Igor Kolomoisky.
Mucarsel-Powell sits on the House Judiciary Committee, the committee that drafted two articles of impeachment against
President Donald Trump for his alleged abuse of power with regards to Ukraine. In 2018, the Daily Beast reported that a
number of businesses linked to Kolomoisky hired Powell as an attorney. One of those firms paid Powell at least $700,000
over two years, according to public records. The Miami Herald reported Powell was working for companies tied to
Kolomoisky for 10 years. Powell made most of his money in the two years leading up to his wife's election in 2018.
Liberal
Organizations Contributed $43,817,937 to NPR from 2003 to 2019. National Public Radio ("NPR") has historically
been criticized for liberal bias. Is it any wonder why, particularly when there's a money trail from liberal
organizations bankrolling an already taxpayer-funded news outlet? Ten liberal organizations, including the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation ($14,164,937), the Ford Foundation ($12,350,000), the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
($7,000,000) the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation ($6,285,000), liberal billionaire George Soros' Foundation to Promote Open
Society ($2,900,000), the Ploughshares Fund ($550,000), Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc. ($218,000), The Rockefeller Foundation
($200,000), the Craig Newmark Foundation ($100,000) and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc. ($50,000) have contributed $43,817,937 to
National Public Radio (NPR) between 2003-2019, according to Foundation Directory Online data. This raises major concerns over its
liberal bias, especially given that NPR also receives federal funding.
Obama
gave Common Core contract to publisher, got $65-million book deal in return? As far-left Democrats yell about
bribery and high crimes and misdemeanors, let's turn to their own side of the aisle, starting with the once penniless
President Obama, who left public office a very, very rich man. He just bought a Martha's Vineyard mansion for a cool
$11.75 million, which is in addition to his Kalorama lookout post, his Chicago home, and possibly a Hawaii spread.
At some point, you've made enough... but not him. Ostensibly, it's mainly the work of his book deals. No bribery
there, right?
George
Soros: A New Kind of Tyrant? The venomous careers of Hitler and Stalin provoked the study of totalitarian
regimes as the very epitome of evil, depriving their citizens of freedom and of life itself. A state captured by a
demagogue is considered a sure sign of danger ahead — hence the alleged justification by the Left for their
hysteria over "rabble rouser" Donald Trump's election. Overlooked until more recently are the unelected, bloated
bureaucratic fiefdoms and regulatory encroachments of both national and global government and non-governmental institutions,
which have created the opportunity for a sinister, large scale violation of political power. This new abuse was
foreshadowed in the career of FBI architect and director, the corrupt J. Edgar Hoover. It has been notched up
to a planetary level of hyper-coordination by George Soros as preliminary to the installation of his global Open Society.
Obamas
pay $11.75M for Martha's Vineyard home on nearly 30 acres: report. Former President Barack Obama and former
first lady Michelle Obama have purchased a nearly 7,000-square-foot home on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts for $11.75 million,
according to a report. The purchase price was recorded Wednesday with the local Registry of Deeds, the Vineyard Gazette
reported. The Obamas paid about half the original asking price for the property when it first became available in 2015,
the report said.
Soros
cash flows to pressure vulnerable GOP Congress members to impeach Trump. Apparently, it's not enough that
leftist hedge fund billionaire and 'stateless statesman' George Soros and his non-government organization front groups made a
lunge to take over much of eastern Europe, visibly in the case of Ukraine during the Maidan revolution. Nor is the
Soros seeding of first the Obama administration, and then the Trump administration, with former operatives of his from other
outfits. Some, in the case of Trump, are now testifying as witnesses in the impeachment hearings. Now, the Soros
cash is rising to flood levels, targeting GOP Congress members to vote in support of impeaching Trump.
Documents
reveal massive 'dark-money' group boosted Democrats in 2018. The "green wave" of campaign cash that boosted
Democrats and liberal causes in 2018 included an unprecedented gusher of secret money, new documents obtained by
Politico show. The Sixteen Thirty Fund, a little-known nonprofit headquartered in Washington, spent $141 million
on more than 100 left-leaning causes during the midterm election year, according to a new tax filing from the group. The
money contributed to efforts ranging from fighting Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and other Trump judicial nominees to
boosting ballot measures raising the minimum wage and changing laws on voting and redistricting in numerous states.
Impeachment
is not Playing in Peoria. In the days of vaudeville when a show was destined to not play well in Peoria the
producers would cut their losses and shelve the production. So, Nancy Pelosi what are you going to do? Stick with
The Ukraine debacle to the bitter end rather than admit a mistake? Try and create out of whole cloth yet another
impeachment theory? Slink off into the shadows and not have an impeachment vote?
Al Sharpton
gets $1M in pay from his own charity, tax filings show. He's the million-dollar minister. The
Rev. Al Sharpton raked in $1,046,948 from his own charity last year, according to National Action Network's latest tax
filings obtained by The [New York] Post. Sharpton got a $324,000 salary — 32% higher than his 2017
pay — in addition to a $159,596 bonus and $563,352 in "other compensation."
California
Dems Flood Colorado With Cash Ahead of National Popular Vote Referendum. California Democrats have been cutting
six-figure checks to promote the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPV) in Colorado ahead of a referendum vote in the
state next November. The NPV would change how the Electoral College operates without amending the Constitution.
It pledges a state's Electoral College votes to the candidate receiving the most votes nationwide in a presidential
election. The Colorado political committee Yes on National Popular Vote has collected just under $750,000 since its
creation in late July. Over 98 percent of that money is from California donors, most of which is courtesy of a $500,000
donation from Stephen Silberstein, a board member of the National Popular Vote nonprofit that has driven the movement for
more than a decade.
The
Curious Activity of George Soros in Virginia. You'd think that by so generously "investing" (as Soros puts it)
in political candidates and causes, he would receive more positive attention in the media. Truth is, Soros knows the
majority of America does not want what he's selling, so he tries not to call attention to himself. Soros also knows
populations are easily influenced by impressive-sounding names and that most people don't investigate things beyond a surface
level. Therefore, he sets up and funds shell-organizations to elect marionettes who will vote and make policy in ways
Soros wants.
Mike
Bloomberg's gun-control group just vastly outspent the NRA to help Democrats win in Virginia. A gun-control
lobbying group funded largely by billionaire Michael Bloomberg just helped Democrats take over the state government in
Virginia — right in the National Rifle Association's backyard. In Tuesday's [11/5/2019] elections, the
Democrats tipped the Virginia House and Senate in their favor, giving them full control of the state government for the first
time since 1994. The election had stronger-than-usual turnout in the suburbs, according to media reports. While the
results could be a good omen for Democrats' chances in 2020, it may also be a tipping point in the money battle over gun
rights. Everytown for Gun Safety, the gun-control advocacy group that the former New York mayor helps fund, spent
$2.5 million this year to influence voters in Virginia versus approximately $300,000 by the NRA, which has its
headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia.
Far-left
candidates appear to flop in Seattle city council race after Amazon dumps dollars. Preliminary results are in
for the Seattle City Council election, and it appears far-left candidates who were expected to be hostile to business
interests have faltered after Amazon dumped more than a million dollars into the race in October.
Don't
Let the Deep State Divide Us. [Scroll down] But what if Tom Steyer is just a guy that made a mint
financing coal plants in the Third World that has now got a bee in his bonnet about saving the planet, because polar
bears? What if George Soros, speculator extraordinaire, is still the kid that absorbed the conventional wisdom of 1948
that we must never let the nationalist dogs out of the kennel again, because jackboots? And what about those deep
staters in the "intelligence community?" Could it be that they just don't have the cojones to conspire in a real
coup? But are willing to give it a little nudge that they hope will not jeopardize their pensions? But is that
all there is in today's ruling class?
How Central Banks
Fund Our Age of Endless War. The 20th century was the century of total war. Limitations on the scope of
war, built up over many centuries, had already begun to break down in the 19th century, but they were altogether obliterated
in the 20th. And of course the sheer amount of resources that centralized states could bring to bear in war, and the
terrible new technologies of killing that became available to them, made the 20th a century of almost unimaginable
horror. It isn't terribly often that people discuss the development of total war in tandem with the development of
modern central banking, which — although antecedents existed long before — also came into its own in
the 20th century. It's no surprise that Ron Paul, the man in public life who has done more than anyone to break through
the limits of what is permissible to say in polite society about both these things, has also been so insistent that the twin
phenomena of war and central banking are linked. "It is no coincidence," Dr. Paul said, "that the century of total
war coincided with the century of central banking."
Blowing the Whistle
on the Whistleblower. Paul Sperry of RealClearInvestigations wrote the name Eric Ciaramella on Wednesday
[10/30/2019]. [...] America merely lacked a name. We knew the type. Ciaramella graduated from a high school that
costs $30,000 a year to attend, received his undergraduate degree from Yale, and obtained a master's from Harvard. A
few years after graduation from that tony private high school, the youngster estimated to its alumni magazine of trips to 28
different countries (he admits he lost count). When others provide you with the best education and pricey junkets to
obscure parts of the globe, not getting the president you asked for might come as a terrible blow. So Ciaramella sought
to rectify this injustice by anonymously peddling secondhand gossip — false in large part — designed to
instigate another round of impeachment discussions. He did so by first going to Congressman Adam Schiff. When you
seek to report a federal crime, go to the FBI. When you seek to gin up political trouble, go to Adam Schiff.
The Left's Billionaires
Have Been Pushing Impeachment All Along. Leftist activists, the Democratic National Committee, their
billionaire benefactors, and representatives of some of the world's largest charitable foundations came together in the days
following Donald Trump's election. At a meeting deliberately planned for Inauguration Day 2017, they finalized the
resistance. [...] This plan, first reported by the Washington Free Beacon in 2017, included working directly with social
media giants to access and manipulate their data, planting news stories in the mainstream media critical of President Trump,
mounting campaigns against his policies, framing everything he does through a racial lens, and normalizing violence in the
streets as a form of resistance. Their goal? To box Donald Trump in and ensure that he would never be
"normalized" in American culture. The amount of money dedicated to these efforts is staggering. Tracing the
sources of that dark money has proven elusive.
Michelle
Obama castigates whites for 'running from us'. Speaking at an event in Chicago called the "Obama Foundation
Summit" (were any heads of state present?), Michelle Obama let slip her resentment of white people. The grudge goes
back to her childhood, and she does not seem to see much progress in the behavior she attributes to Caucasian-Americans.
[...] This is remarkably un-self-aware, considering that the Obamas currently reside in Kalorama and Martha's Vineyard.
How many blacks live near their two mansions?
Is
California Becoming Premodern? The nobodies have struggled to buy high-priced gas, pay exorbitant power bills
and deal with shoddy infrastructure — all of which resulted from the policies of the distant somebodies.
California's three most powerful politicians — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and
Gov. Gavin Newsom — are all multimillionaires. Their lives, homes and privileges bear no resemblance
to those of other Californians living with the consequences of their misguided policies and agendas.
Elizabeth Warren is the Hillary Clinton of 2020.
Why is it fine for Warren to menace the rich — but not for Bernie Sanders? With some polls placing her ahead
of the former vice president Joe Biden, the Massachusetts senator is suddenly basking in praise from mainstream newspapers as
well as 'progressives' like Emily Tisch Sussman, a 'Democratic strategist' who appears regularly on MSNBC. Led by its
star hosts, Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow, MSNBC functions as the mouthpiece of an official Democratic party still
dominated by the Clintons and Barack Obama. 'If you are still supporting Sanders as opposed to Warren,' said Sussman
recently, 'it's kind of showing your sexism.' Besides being a courageous feminist, Sussman happens to be the daughter
of two billionaires. She seems unafraid of Warren's plan to increase taxes on the super-rich. Warren ticks all
the boxes marked 'progressive' that used to belong mostly to Sanders.
Democrats
Represent the Rich While Working Class Flocks To GOP. In research produced by the Wall Street Journal,
Democrats and Republicans have seemingly switched voter bases through the decades, shifting political positions on trade and
immigration to benefit those voters. For instance, in 2008, Democrats pulled most of their votes from congressional
districts with some of the least economic output and toward those with the highest economic output. Fast-forward to
2018, and Democrats now largely represent voters who live in districts with the largest economic output with only a sliver of
low economic output districts.
Leftist
Dark Money Group Pushes Scheme to Pack Supreme Court with Liberal Justices. Demand Justice, an organization
founded by former members of Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and associated with a secretive "social welfare
organization" financed by billionaire activist George Soros, is pushing a scheme to pack the Supreme Court with liberal
justices by adding new seats to the nation's highest court. This comes after Demand Justice has failed in its repeated
attempts to bring about the impeachment of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Polish
MP: Soros 'Wants to Rule the World' as 'Master of Puppets'. The left-liberal establishment is attacking
Poland's conservative government ahead of national elections on Sunday because its success "damages the Soros Plan",
according to Polish lawmaker Dominik Tarczyński. In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, the outspoken
Polish parliamentarian said it was "obvious" that the international interest in his country's elections is a result of
"globalist" distaste for its conservative-populist Law and Justice Party (PiS) government and its pro-sovereignty, anti-mass
migration agenda, [...]
AOC
responds to report on pricey haircut: 'They're just mad we look good doing it'. Rep. Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez dismissed criticism over her pricey trip to a beauty salon last month as pure envy, suggesting people are
jealous over how good she looks while championing progressive policies. The freshman New York Democrat said Thursday
[10/10/2019] the Washington press should be covering more important issues than her latest visit to a downtown salon to
refresh her locks, citing healthcare costs, poverty and "extreme inequality."
Ocasio-Cortez
Pays Nearly $300 for Haircut While Preaching Socialism. My colleague and PJM senior editor Tyler O'Neil put
AOC's latest slice of hypocrisy best: "She's such a typical millennial — we enjoy the benefits of capitalism
but advocate against the engine of growth behind it." AOC does not appear to practice what she preaches. She
recently visited "The Last Tangle" hair salon and dropped nearly $300 for a haircut.
The Editor says...
Yes, but $300 in New York is like $100 in Dallas, and think of the poor hairdresser who has to listen to AOC rant for half an hour.
Imagining Chelsea
Clinton's America. [Scroll down] In city after city, draconian ordinances overrode zoning laws with
decades of precedence. Investors could demolish single family homes and erect fourplexes, or more units, where one
household had previously stood. Rent control laws, combined with mandated conservation retrofits (to prevent climate
change), made it hard for anyone apart from large institutional investors to maintain rental properties. Single family
homes became worth more to buyers if they were demolished and replaced with apartments. New laws made it obligatory to
accept Section 8 renters whose rent would be paid by taxpayers. Corporate behemoths busted block after block, in city
after city, turning communities into government housing projects. Those who objected were branded as racists, deniers,
xenophobes, and NIMBYs. They were silenced. Chelsea Clinton, of course, along with all the politically connected,
well fed animals in this new Animal Farm called America, resided in a gated community.
Understanding
the Climate Movement Part 3: Follow the Money. I became quite despondent while putting this together as I
started to understand the huge, eye-watering amount of money that is dependent upon the unproven notion that atmospheric CO2
arising from the use of fossil fuels is causing catastrophic global warming/climate change/ pestilence and doom. Some headline
numbers: the capitalisation of the renewable energy industry is over $1 trillion; the funding of the NGOs being used
as alarmist publicity and lobbying agencies exceeds $2 billion; and the amount of government research funding committed to
the issue exceeds $1billion. Good luck expecting that the resolution of some matter of scientific importance will cause
these agencies to admit that their business is based upon a lie and that they will go away quietly, or at least scale back to
a size more commensurate with the real market needs.
The
Greta Thunberg phenomenon is nothing but a money-making scheme set up by her handlers to profit from climate hysteria. Many Americans
are scratching their heads trying to figure out what's up with this Greta Thunberg child, including how she was able to quickly rise to prominence
as the newest mouthpiece promoting the climate change hoax. Well, the answer is simple: Greta is a pawn of the global climate mafia, which
we know is all about money and power. Besides working for George Soros, Greta is also tied to the domestic terrorist group Antifa through her
parents, both of whom identify as members of this far-left hate group. Greta also has a handler who followers her nearly everywhere she goes.
Her name is Luisa-Marie Neubauer, and she's an operative for "ONE Movement," a climate hoax group that's funded and controlled by not only Soros, but
also eugenicists Bill and Melinda Gates, as well as washed-up rock singer and political operative Bono. Right on its website, the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation admits that the ONE Movement is a globalist organization that uses celebrities and other assets to push climate change activism and
other leftist causes on the masses.
George
Soros Emerges as Major Funder of 'Global Climate Strike' Groups. George Soros financed radical environmental
groups partnering in this week's "Global Climate Strike" to the tune of nearly $25 million, according to a new report.
At least 22 of the left-wing activist groups listed as partners in the Global Climate Strike received $24,854,592 in funding
from liberal billionaire George Soros between 2000-2017 through his Open Society Network, Joseph Vazquez reported Thursday
[9/26/2019] for the Media Research Center.
Senator
Elizabeth Warren's net worth revealed as the 2020 Presidential Election heats up. Warren, who is currently a
U.S. Senator in Massachusetts, is regarded as one of the more liberal candidates in the current Democratic race. The
senator has built her campaign on promising middle-class Americans to fight for their equality. "Rich guys have been
waging class warfare against hard-working people for decades," Warren said in her speech announcing her candidacy for
president. "I say it's time to fight back!" [...] Forbes reported the presidential hopeful is worth an estimated
$12 million.
Would
You Pay $4,200 to Listen to Michelle Obama Scold You? "At a certain point, you've made enough money." Back in
2010, President Barack Hussein Obama said that out loud into a microphone. But now, once again, Past Obama and Present
Obama find themselves at odds. I cannot imagine Barry is saying the same thing today to his wife. [...] At a certain
point, you've made enough money. But you don't get to decide when that "certain point" arrives. The
Obamas get to decide that. And obviously, they've decided that their own "certain point" isn't anywhere close yet.
Trump
recommends congressional investigations into Obama family book and Netflix deals. In 2017, Barack and Michelle
Obama signed a joint book deal worth a reported $65 million. They also inked a deal with Netflix in 2018 to produce
content for the streaming company. Last month, the Obamas' first produced documentary, American Factory, streamed
on Netflix.
The
impenetrable, gloomy rage of the Democrat presidential candidates. The Clintons and the Obamas all became
fabulously wealthy during and after their terms in the White House. Just how did they do that? We know more about
the Clintons and their foundation that was a pay-to-play scheme for access to power and preference, like the sale of 20% of
U.S. uranium to Russia. It is still a mystery, aside from their books and Netflix, how the Obamas did it, but they are
obviously not worried about the seas rising any time soon. Their $15M mansion is on the water at Martha's
Vineyard. And they travel to the world's most luxurious places with abandon.
The Truth about Huey Long.
[Scroll down] He was among the earliest American politicians advocating for redistribution of wealth, insisting that
true equality would only be achieved when big corporations — in his case, Standard Oil — were forced to
pay higher taxes to fund a more robust welfare state. In public, Huey P. Long boasted of his populist policy bona
fides, hiding his well-to-do upbringing to convince Louisiana's poor and working class that he understood their plight.
But in private, Long lived lavishly at taxpayer expense. In speeches, he condemned J. P. Morgan Jr. for owning
100 suits, which Long said he stole off the backs of working people. Meanwhile, Long used state funds to outfit a
luxurious wardrobe of as many suits or more. Deciding that the existing governor's mansion wasn't grand enough for him,
Long demanded that a new one be constructed. When the legislature wouldn't approve the funds for the project, Long simply
ordered construction to begin, and it did.
A
Kennedy launches a campaign to tell us little people to quit eating hamburgers. One of the beautiful people out
there riding jets for book tours and maybe global warming conferences is very, very, upset with the rest of us for our "inconspicuous"
consumption. Pay no attention any more to the superrich for that conspicuous consumption on carbon-spewing yachts and jets
flying to global warming conferences, the big problem now is shaming those who can only afford hamburgers.
The Hate Factory. [Scroll down]
Going back at least as far as FDR and the New Deal, Democrats portrayed themselves as champions of the working class, and
vilified "big business" as corrupt and oppressive. This tradition endures in the rhetoric of candidates like Vermont
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who rail against the "rich" whom they promise to
punish with confiscatory taxes. Never mind the fact that both Sanders and Warren are millionaires, of course. No
matter how rich Democrats themselves might be, they always assail "corporate America" as a force of evil, because this kind
of anti-business rhetoric stirs up a sense of envy and resentment among the ignorant poor.
Rich
part of Washington, D.C. goes tooth-and-claw to prevent new child-migrant shelter in its neighborhood. Actually,
the area has been plagued by some of these child migrants, getting its name in the news more than once for its gruesome murders.
[...] It's indisputable that bringing in more unvetted migrants mean there are going to be more of these killings going on,
something that might just affect property values and the quality of life in this tony district.
Inside
The Obamas $15 Million Dollar House of Hypocrisy on Martha's Vineyard. The home, which the Obamas reportedly
made a bid on, is a whopping 7,000 square foot sprawling mansion that sits on 29-acres of pristine land, and would reportedly
be a "summer home" for the former First Family.
Obamas
fight climate change by... buying an oceanside estate. Remember that time when former President Barack Obama
was addressing Wall Street reform and said, "I do think, at some point, you've made enough money."? Well, what better
way to celebrate his own good fortune than buying a fabulous 29-acre estate on the island of Martha's Vineyard, right?
Unless, of course, people paying attention say, "Hey, wait a minute. What about your carbon footprint, Mr. Obama?"
Do As I Say,
Not As I Do. Then there is Barack Obama. "At a certain point you've made enough money." "You didn't
build that." "There's only so big a house you can have." It turns out, though, that the Obamas haven't yet reached
those limits. Barack and Michelle have bought a $14.85 million estate on Martha's Vineyard from the owner of the Boston
Celtics. This is not, of course, their only home, but most of us would find it more than adequate: [Photo]
[...] [M]ost Americans have figured out that when Obama said, "At a certain point you've made enough money," he was talking about
you, not him.
Why
Would the Obamas Buy a Doomed Beach House? It has 29 beachfront acres. The main residence is just shy of
6900 square feet. [...] It's got the obligatory pool, the outdoor fireplace, vaulted ceilings, two guest wings, but it's
right on the beach. It's right on the beach. The Obamas have just sunk $15 million into something that may not
be there in 10 years because of climate change and rising sea levels. So why would the Obamas do that? Why
would the brilliant Barack Hussein O plunk down $15 million on a property that's gonna be ruined and destroyed inside
of 10, maybe 12 years at the outside because of climate change?
Obama
Family Purchasing Swanky Martha's Vineyards Mansion. The Obama's are reportedly purchasing 29 beachfront acres,
7 bedrooms, just shy of 6,900 square feet, $14.85 million mansion in Martha's Vineyard. The home is currently owned
by Boston Celtics co-owner Wyc Grousbeck. The Martha's Vineyard estate was previously listed for $22 million, but the
Obamas are paying less than the current listing price according to "multiple island sources."
Obamas
Buying $15 Million Mansion; Socialists AOC and Bernie Oddly Quiet. Someone needs to alert Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, and the rest of the socialists in this country that leftist fan-favorites Barack and Michelle
Obama will soon have new digs. More importantly, because their new mansion in Martha's Vineyard costs a cool $15 million,
those new digs are a vivid demonstration of the income disparity between the haves and the have-nots. [...] However will the Obamas
cope with only a two-car garage? With 29 acres, I'm sure that they can find a spot to build a bigger garage if they want.
In the meantime, Comrade Bernie Sanders will no doubt be more than happy to store any of their extra cars at one of his three houses.
Report: The Obama
Family Is Purchasing Massive Martha's Vineyards Mansion. Former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle
are reportedly set to purchase a mega-mansion in Martha's Vineyard. The Obamas will purchase the house from Boston
Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck for a discount, according to a report published by TMZ Thursday. The property contains 29
beachfront acres, 7 bedrooms, and is listed at $14,850,000. The report stated that the former first family rented
the house for the summer and enjoyed it so much that they decided to purchase it.
The Editor says...
Where did Barack H. Obama get that kind of money?
George
Soros's secret 2016 access to State exposes 'big money' hypocrisy of Democrats. Liberal mega-donor George Soros
made some big bets during the last U.S. presidential election. One was that Hillary Clinton would win the
presidency. Another was that he could reshape Ukraine's government to his liking, and that his business empire might
find fertile ground in that former Soviet state. So when Donald Trump's improbable march to the White House picked up
steam in the spring of 2016, Team Soros marched to the top of the State Department to protect some of those investments,
according to newly released department memos providing a rare glimpse into the Democratic donor's extraordinary access to the
Obama administration.
Here
Are The Democratic Presidential Candidates With The Most Donations From Billionaires. Dozens of American
billionaires have pulled out their checkbooks to support candidates engaged in a wide-open battle for the Democratic
presidential nomination. As of the last filing deadline with the Federal Election Commission on July 15th, 67
billionaires — including spouses and members of billionaire families — had donated to the 20 Democratic
candidates that debated in Detroit last week.
Bill
Maher: Recession 'Worth It' To Prevent Trump Winning. Comedian Bill Maher of HBO, a wealthy man who will
most likely never experience economic hardship for as long as he lives, now actively hopes that people lose their jobs,
having their lives completely upended by way of a recession so that President Trump loses the 2020 election.
Income
inequality is a big topic for rich Dem candidates, but their audience yawns. To hear all the wealthy Democratic
candidates for president tell it, economic inequality is a major issue, right up there with other unrealistic proposals like
free college and a multi-trillion-dollar government takeover of healthcare. That message is then multiplied and
magnified by mainstream media's ubiquitous megaphone. But to hear average Americans talk about income inequality, well,
you don't actually hear much of anything about that. They're seemingly too busy chasing their own economic dreams to
pay much attention to meaningless political primary palaver aimed at a tiny population sliver of even wealthier donors.
Prince
Harry 'gives barefoot speech' at secretive Google Camp climate change conference in Italy. Tech giants and
celebrities flocked to Sicily to show off their green credentials for the camp that focuses on global warming, but many
failed to leave their private jets at home. More than 110 fuel-guzzling planes are scheduled to land at Palermo, the
nearest airport, between now and August 4, reports Giornale di Sicilia. Others brought their super yachts to the
three-day conference which has A-lister attendees including Harry Styles, Katy Perry and Bradley Cooper. Buckingham
Palace refused to confirm Prince Harry's attendance at the event or how he travelled to Sicily.
A-listers
flock to Google summit in private jets, mega yachts to talk climate change. The world's rich and famous have
flocked to a posh Italian resort to talk about saving Mother Earth — but they sure are punishing her in the
process. The billionaire creators of Google have invited a who's who of A-list names — including former
President Barack Obama, Prince Harry, Leonardo DiCaprio and Katy Perry — to the Sicilian seaside for a mega-party
they've dubbed Google Camp. The three-day event will focus on fighting climate change — though it's unknown
how much time the attendees will spend discussing their own effect on the environment, such as the scores of private jets
they arrived in and the mega yachts many have been staying on.
Your Sunday
schadenfreude. Senator Ted Cruz faced down and won re-election in a heated campaign against not just a fake
Hispanic pretty boy named Robert Francis O'Rourke, he defeated an intense propaganda offensive undertaken by Texas and
national media. That propaganda was not enough to convince Texas voters to hand a majority to O'Rourke, the
already-wealthy populist who married an heiress to an estimated half billion-dollar fortune.
Middle-Class Joe
Cashes In. The American middle class just got a lot richer. Joe Biden, who invariably and tiresomely
refers to himself as "Middle-Class Joe," made $15 million the first two years after the end of the Obama
administration. This hardly qualifies as a rounding error in the portfolio of any billionaire mogul, but for the
average American, a million here, a million there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
Biden and wife made more
than $15 million after leaving office. Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, earned more
than $15 million in the two years after Biden left government in early 2017, according to tax records released by his
campaign on Tuesday [7/9/2019].
Biden
releases financial info, made more than $15.5M before taxes over past two years. Former Vice President Joe
Biden, who has raked in millions since leaving office, released his financial disclosure form as well as three years of tax
returns Tuesday [7/9/2019]. The documents showed that Biden and his wife, Jill, made more than $11 million in 2017
before taxes and made more than $4.5 million in 2018 before taxes. Biden's campaign said that the vast majority of that
income ($10,048,739 in 2017 and $3,236,764 in 2018) derived from payments to the couple for the writing of two books: Joe's
"Promise Me, Dad" and Jill's "Where the Light Enters," as well as paid speaking engagements.
Rich
father-in-law has helped, complicated O'Rourke's career. Beto O'Rourke was running for the El Paso City Council
in 2005 when he asked to meet with the illustrious real estate investor William Sanders.
The
Left's Endgame Is Not Chaos. It's Worse. Writ large, what the self-styled "progressive left" is selling
amounts to a modern version of feudalism, in which a self-appointed elite, whose status is maintained by the promotion of a
self-serving "progressive," neo-Marxist dogma, is anointed to tell the rest of us peasants how we must live our lives, not
unlike the Divine Right of Kings. The Rest of Us will be compelled to create wealth for them, as they enjoy an opulent
existence without earning it; the likes of Obama, Hillary, Macron, Merkel, etc., couldn't produce something genuinely useful
if their lives depended on it. In their world, over-educated uselessness becomes a virtue, as they are simply "above"
having to produce anything.
WaPo:
Biden's Had 'An Explosion of Wealth' Since Leaving White House. Biden's newfound wealth since leaving public
office has mostly come from paid speeches, some of which earned him as much as $200,000, and book deals. The book deal
for his 2017 memoir Promise Me, Dad was reportedly worth $8 million and covered three books from Biden and his wife,
of which two have been published. The former vice president's campaign said he has given fewer than 50 paid speeches in
the years since serving alongside President Obama but declined to give further details to the [Washington] Post about
how much he made from these speeches. Four contracts unearthed by the Post show Biden making between $150,000 to
$200,000 per speaking appearance.
'Middle
class Joe' Biden is renting a $20,000-a-month Virginia home from a venture capitalist. Joe Biden has raked in
the cash since he's left the vice presidency, making speeches at up to $200,000 a pop, signing a seven-figure book deal, and
renting a 12,000-square-foot home in Northern Virginia from a wealthy venture capitalist. He even has demands in his
contract for raspberry sorbet and chartered flights for his speeches. The details about the new life of the man who
calls himself 'Middle Class Joe' were revealed Tuesday [6/25/2019] by the Washington Post, which used public records to track
down Biden's new lifestyles of the rich and famous.
Joe
Biden Demands 'Angel Hair Pomodoro, Caprese Salad, Raspberry Sorbet' Before $150,000 Speaking 'Performance'.
[Joe] Biden's thinking about running for president for a third time. And there's good reason for the 76-year-old to
jump into the 2020 race: Money. Candidates live the high life, jetting around the country in private planes,
lounging in five-star hotels, eating like a king — all while hauling in millions from contributors who end up
footing the bill. Nice work if you can find it (just ask socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, who owns three houses).
But Biden's already living the rock star life, giving paid speeches at colleges and theaters all across the country (he even hit
Proctor's Theatre, a former vaudeville house, in Schenectady, New York, recently, not your usual stop). And throughout his
tour, he had some heavy demands, just like any bona fide rock star.
A
civil war is coming for the Democratic Party — and it won't be pretty. For starters, is the
Democratic Party a party of the rich or a party of the little guy? For many years, they've been the party of the rich
playing a good game of pretending to be for the little guy. And the Democratic establishment does it in insidious ways
that are too clever by half: They are for the marginalized guy or gal in the race, gender, and sexuality issues
because, hey, that doesn't hurt their and their affluent constituents' pocketbook much. But in the economic issues that
matter, they often sock it to the average Democratic working-class voter: in the global trade deals that've offshored
jobs and have decimated the American manufacturing base; in their looking the other way as illegal immigrants depress the wages of
working-class Americans, and more.
Who
Are the Rich, White Men Institutionalizing Transgender Ideology? As an environmental activist who was
deplatformed from a speaking venue by transactivists, in 2013 I developed curiosity about the power of this group to force
this development. A year later, when Time magazine announced a transgender tipping point on its cover, I had
already begun to examine the money behind the transgender project. I have watched as all-women's safe spaces,
universities, and sports opened their doors to any man who chose to identify as a woman. Whereas men who identify as
transwomen are at the forefront of this project, women who identify as transmen seem silent and invisible. I was
astonished that such a huge cultural change as the opening of sex-protected spaces was happening at such a meteoric pace and
without consideration for women and girls' safety, deliberation, or public debate.
Iran
Drone Incident An Obama-Thrown Bombshell? The Obamas are staying in a $62,000-a-week vacation rental in Avignon,
France, a small town in the Provence region of France, known for its scenic landscapes, nearby vineyards and historic sites,
like Palais des Papes, where the Pope lived in the 14th century. Next stop, Lake Como, Italy, and the home of George and Amal
Clooney. Being an in-the-closet 'Resistance' leader leaves plenty of time for lavish holidays when the plants back home do your
job while you're away from home.
O'Rourke:
'I Don't Know That Anybody Deserves to Have a Billion Dollars'. Former Texas congressman Robert Francis "Beto"
O'Rourke suggested no one deserves to have a billion dollars during an interview with the New York Times. "I don't know
that anyone deserves to have a billion dollars," O'Rourke told the Times when asked if anyone deserves to have that much money.
It is unclear if O'Rourke thinks his father-in-law, who is estimated to be worth $500 million, deserves his money.
Joe Biden
Holds Fundraiser In $34 million NYC Penthouse. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden held a fundraiser
Monday night [6/17/2019] in a $34 million New York City penthouse. Close to 200 wealthy supporters of Biden drank wine
and took in the Central Park view from investment billionaire Jim Chanos's three-story, 7,800 sq. ft. home, reported The
Washington Examiner. They were apparently unfazed by liberal protesters gathered outside, chanting about global warming
and the need to ban fracking.
Dirty
Rotten Climate Scandals: Reality of big climate funding will shock you. Other scientists try to help
humanity, but while climate scientists may kid themselves and others that they share that goal, their practical intent is to
raise energy costs and harm nations' energy efficiency via renewables. While they posture as planet-savers in white
coats, some of them pocket awards of half-million dollars, even a million, and notch up more career-enhancing medals than a
North Korean general.
Obama
playing dictator-in-exile from a kingly south of France palace? President Obama is living the life of a former
king, vacationing these days at a palatial estate in the south of France. At what point has he made enough? [...] Why
the taxpayers should pay for this via the security guard details, as if the man can't afford any of his own after all the
payoffs he's now collecting from speeches and book deals is rather a side issue. The problem is that this comes as he's
engaging in quite a few shenanigans on his own around Europe. DCWhispers, a pretty reliable blog, reprinted an item
stringing together all the Obama spottings around Europe with its leaders, all of whom are of the #NeverTrump ilk, calling it
the activity of a "dictator in exile."
Soros
Implementing His Radical Leftist Agenda by Investing in Criminal Justice. For many years leftist billionaire
George Soros has used his wealth to remake our society. His latest area of focus is criminal justice. From Texas
to Philadelphia to Virginia, Soros has reportedly spent millions in backing candidates for district attorneys or
prosecutors. "Philadelphia is the laboratory where this experiment of Soros funded prosecutors is playing out," said
William McSwain the US Attorney for Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Tucker Carlson Show. [Video clip]
Are
you tired yet of how DC works? The people in Washington don't really care about you or me. Yes, they
care, but about different things — such as getting re-elected, and hanging on to power, and making money.
It's an ego trip, basically, and a handsome source of collateral income along the way. They work for it, what with
their endless calls to donors and lobbyists, plus the added leverage of their political influence. And their efforts
are not in vain. Just ask Joe Biden and his son Hunter. They made out quite well.
Mike
Bloomberg Devotes $500 Million To Kill Coal Jobs, Influence 2020 Elections. Former New York City Mayor Michael
Bloomberg will spend $500 million to close every remaining U.S. coal-fired power plant and stop the expansion of natural
gas. Bloomberg will fund environmental activist lobbying campaigns in state legislatures, city councils and public
utility commissions. Activists will demand officials replace coal plants with renewable energy, not natural gas.
"We're in a race against time with climate change, and yet there is virtually no hope of bold federal action on this issue
for at least another two years," Bloomberg said in a statement Thursday [6/6/2019].
The Editor says...
We are NOT "in a race against time" to stop global warming. There is no abnormal global warming. Any time you hear a
politician push for immediate action, it is almost always for the purpose of deception.
Michael
Bloomberg pledges $500M to shutter U.S. coal plants. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday
will launch what he calls the largest ever coordinated campaign to beat climate change, which will close all U.S. coal plants
by 2030. Bloomberg said the $500 million program, Beyond Carbon, will put the United States on track toward a 100 percent
clean energy economy by working with advocates to "build on leadership and climate progress already underway."
Donor
fires back after University of Alabama returns $21.5 million. The philanthropist who pledged a record $26.5 million
to the University of Alabama said the school is harming students by returning his donation after he spoke out about abortion.
Hugh F. Culverhouse Jr. encouraged students to boycott the university in response to the state's controversial new abortion
law, which does not allow for exceptions in instances of rape or incest.
Anti-Trump AG Sued
For Using Bloomberg-funded Attorneys To Promote a Climate Crusade. Virginia-based law firm sued Massachusetts
Attorney General Maura Healey Monday for using attorneys financed by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to engage
in a climate crusade against Exxon Mobil. Government Accountability & Oversight (GAO) filed the lawsuit against Healey
for using two privately funded attorneys to focus on prosecuting oil and gas companies. The attorneys are paid through
a $6 million grant from Bloomberg and have ties to the anti-Exxon campaign.
Soros,
Wallace Help Bankroll Dark Money Fund Aimed at Midwestern Voters. Liberal billionaires George Soros and Scott
Wallace are helping bankroll a new fund hosted by an intricate dark money organization and focused on helping Democrats make
inroads with midwestern voters for the 2020 elections. The deep-pocketed donors moved the money from the Open Society
Foundations, Soros's foundation, and the Wallace Global Fund, Wallace's foundation, to the newly launched Heartland Fund, a
collaborative effort focused on building "power across the divides of the American heartland" as overall Democratic efforts
have veered towards the region. The Heartland Fund recently disbursed $500,000 in its first round of grants to nine
left-wing groups and will begin its efforts with organizing and issue advocacy. The initiative is housed at the
Windward Fund, which falls under the auspices of Arabella Advisors, a major dark money "fiscal sponsor" network founded by
Eric Kessler, a former Bill Clinton appointee.
Obama
Earning Almost $600K for Speech in Colombia. Former President Barack Obama is being paid almost $600,000 to
speak at a marketing conference in Bogota, Colombia on Tuesday [5/28/2019]. According to a report from El Tiempo, a
Colombian news outlet, Obama is earning "2 mil millones de pesos" for a speech and discussion on-stage about leadership
strategies at the EXMA Conference in Bogota. When converted from Colombian pesos to U.S. dollars, Obama's payment for
participation in the event is equivalent to $594,000. According to the Colombian news website Publicmetro.co, conference
attendees who want to attend the event with Obama and take a photo with him have to pay 11 million Colombian pesos, which is
approximately $3,267.
The
Calming Feeling as Jew-Hate Now Takes Deeper Root in the Democrat Party. When Ilhan Omar tweeted that Jews
control because "It is about the Benjamins, baby," she revealed herself not a convenience-store-quality bigot but a
ready-for-primetime Nazi. Not every Nazi in the 1940s acted violently. Most Nazis simply stood along the avenues
and highways of Germany and cheered as Hitler's limo drove by. Some made speeches. Muslims led by the Grand
Mufti, Haj Amin el-Husseini, were among Hitler's best Nazis. When Omar tweeted about "the Benjamins," she revealed her
Nazi moorings. The irony, hardly surprising, is that it is she who rakes in the cash. Ilhan Omar has
leveraged her anti-Semitism to raise more than a million dollars in record time. [It certainly] was about the
Benjamins — hers.
San
Francisco: The Radical Left in Charge. In America's largest coastal metropolises, Democrats rule.
For all intents and purposes, there are no Republicans. Today, for instance, the New York City school commissioner is
hard at work trying to destroy the city's public schools. He is firing white administrators. He is telling school
principals to give special privileges to minority children. He wants to dumb down New York's premier high schools, in
the name of diversity. And yet, New York is not quite in the league of San Francisco, now become America's urban basket
case. It is worth noting that the city is home to House Speaker Pelosi, who is hard at work slandering the president of the
United States. [...] As I said, wealthy radical leftists do not care about other people. They care mostly about themselves.
Trump,
Pareto, and the Fall of the Elites. Encouraging mass immigration of illegals who compete for lower-level jobs
does not help the underprivileged, rather it creates a new group of voters that will support the Democrats. It also
helps privileged groups by supplying cheap labor. Take, for example, wealthy Marin County, California. Marin is
largely populated by well-to-do and highly educated professional people. An underclass of often illegal immigrants
provides affordable services such as yard work and babysitting. In the 2012 presidential election, Marin voted 74% for
Obama. In the 2016 election, Marin voted 77% for Hillary and only 16% for Trump. Another wealthy California
county, Santa Clara County, is the heart of Silicon Valley. In the 2016 election, Santa Clara County voted only 21% for
Trump. Fresno County, California, a county that is majority Hispanic with a very high poverty rate, voted 43% for
Trump. California as a whole voted 32% for Trump. The nation as a whole voted 46% for Trump. In the borough
of Manhattan, in New York City, one of the wealthiest places in the country, only 10% of the votes went for Trump. Clearly
the privileged class votes Democratic and strongly opposes Trump. In places inhabited by elites, the Democrats dominate.
With
illegals surge, Border Patrol officers are catching the measles and mumps and ... That's the situation with the current border
surge, which has seen 109,000 illegal migrants pour into this country without any vetting, medical screening, or paperwork in just the past
month. With little in the way of a wall, a Democratic Party that's encouraging mass illegal migration from abroad, a Democrat-led House
that refuses to do anything to halt the current border surge, and numerous incentives from blue states for illegals to enter illegally,
at least one end result is this effective standing order for Border Patrol agents to take the diseases the illegals they apprehend are
bringing in with them, before releasing them to move about the country. [...] So much for the Democrats' supposed concern for the working
man. So much for Democrats' 'narrative' about being the party of OSHA, living wages, and humane working conditions, something the
supposedly mean Republicans are supposedly all against. Where's their concern for the unprotected Border Patrol agents subject to
infectious diseases from unvetted migrants?
Linda
Sarsour Posts Selfie on Private Jet While Complaining about 'Injustice'. Women's March leader Linda Sarsour was
ripped on social media after posting a selfie with Roger Waters on a private jet with an accompanying text extolling the Pink
Floyd frontman's "empathy" and "personal risk" in standing up for the Palestinians.
The
Dems Don't Even Believe Themselves. Yet Bernie is a millionaire with several houses, Beto gave less than 1% of
his income to charity and Liz Warren lives in a beautiful house valued at over $2 million dollars while earning nearly half a million
dollars annually for teaching a single course at Harvard. They talk the talk, but they certainly don't walk the walk.
Biden
Backers Launch $60 Million Secret Money Dem 'Strategy Center' for 2020. A group of Democratic strategists that
includes an individual who established a political action committee backing presidential candidate Joe Biden will lead a $60 million
secret money "strategy center" for Democrats for the 2020 election cycle. Future Majority, a Washington, D.C.-based strategy
center that will work to "rebrand" the Democratic party, was launched with the intent of providing "strategic advice" to other liberal
organizations, communications, and a "war room" to debunk "fake news" and "counter conservative social media," Politico reports.
Judge
signs off on homeless shelter on 'Billionaires' Row'. A Manhattan judge on Monday gave city officials the green
light to open a controversial homeless shelter in the ritzy "Billionaires' Row" neighborhood. State Supreme Court
Justice Alexander Tisch rejected arguments from the West 58th Street Coalition and other opponents that the former Park Savoy
Hotel doesn't meet current safety standards and is unsafe in case of fire. Tisch ruled that while the only way out is
through the lobby and the stairwell may be too narrow for both tenants and first responders at the same time, "these are all
aspects for which the City and its agencies are supposed to be given deference."
Rich
Dems Spend $60 Million to Hide the Party's Far-Left Agenda. Politico reported Monday [4/29/2019] that a group
of "Democratic operatives" is putting $60 million into a campaign "to reclaim values-laden terms like 'freedom' and 'opportunity'
for their party ahead of the 2020 election." What it really amounts to is an effort to mask the party's headfirst plunge
into the deep end of left-wing extremism that would push the country in the exact opposite direction from freedom and
opportunity. The group, called Future Majority, is co-chaired by Berkshire Hathaway billionaire Charles Munger's son
Philip, and Dan Tierney, the founder of an electronic market trading firm called Getco. Amalgamated Bank CEO Keith
Mestrich is also funding the effort. In other words, rich people.
Now
we know for sure that Trump is the better man. [Scroll down] These are arrogant people who, like most
leftists today, see nothing good in America worth preserving. They are supremely confident that none of the nonsense
policies being promulgated by the crazy gaggle of Democrat presidential candidates will ever affect them. The
widespread contamination of San Francisco's streets with human feces and discarded needles does not seem to bother Nancy
Pelosi one bit, as she has opposed every possible solution. She continues to encourage migrants from Central America
to make their way to her sanctuary city. As long as the border remains a thorn in Trump's side, the Democrats are willing
to see the country invaded. So what if the criminals among them maim and kill innocent Americans? They won't likely
be roaming about in their neighborhoods.
Calling
socialism 'democratic' is like putting lipstick on a pig. When asked in a recent townhall by a Harvard student
whose family fled Soviet Russia why he embraced the same type of socialist policies that had failed there and worldwide,
presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., did what he always does. He deflected. According to
Sanders, he isn't advocating for that kind of socialism. No, he has dressed his philosophy up with a fancy moniker
called "democratic socialism." It's a phrase that many on the far left have embraced as they push anti-free market
propaganda and policies that seek to concentrate more power within the hands of a few political elites.
Disney
Heir Blasts Bob Iger's $65 Million Paycheck: 'Insane,' 'Too Much Going Around The Top'. Disney Chief Executive
Officer Bob Iger's $65.6 million paycheck last year is an "insane" amount, according to Disney heiress Abigail Disney
(grandniece of Walt). In a viral Twitter thread on Sunday, Abigail Disney said that Iger's salary (reportedly
1,424 times more than median employee pay) is too much money going to the top.
Opposing viewpoint:
My Least Favorite
Disney Princess. If it were not for her last name, Abigail Disney would be just another alumna of Yale (B.A.),
Stanford (M.A.), and Columbia (PhD) living in Manhattan. No one would pay much attention to her opinions, none of them
especially unique or different from others shared by her class. But she is a Disney, [...] and in America in the
twenty-first century we must pay attention to the rich and privileged, especially if they parrot the current line of the left
wing of the Democratic Party.
Wealthy
Elitists Freak Out As Hordes Of Homeless People Take Over Their Neighborhoods. The elite are very "tolerant" of
the homeless until they start showing up in their own neighborhoods. Even though the mainstream media keeps telling us
that the U.S. economy is "booming", the number of Americans living on the streets continues to grow very rapidly, and this is
particularly true in our major west coast cities. More than half a million Americans will sleep on the streets of our
cities tonight, and they need help, care and shelter. Sadly, as economic conditions deteriorate that number is likely
to double or even triple. Of course, many among the elite are all in favor of doing something for the homeless, as long
as they don't have to be anywhere around them.
Finally,
some transparency on public sector unions' political spending. The Democratic Party has a simple strategy: Continue
pumping funds into Democratic candidates until traditionally Republican-leaning states turn purple, and then finally flip blue.
It may have taken decades, but the steady stream of dollars to the Left is finally moving the needle.
Beto Gives the Gift of Beto.
There comes a time in every political campaign where Democrats have to explain why they don't give money to charity.
They want you to vote for them so they can spend your money on their whims, but they don't like parting with their own
cash. Their excuses for this hypocrisy are never good, but sometimes they can be revealing.
'Shadowy' dark money network
behind left-wing causes exposed in new report. An expansive network of "shadowy" dark money donors has grown to
rival the influence of the conservative Koch network — pumping millions into left-wing causes ranging from health
care to climate change to abortion — all while flying well under the radar of public scrutiny, according to an
explosive new report obtained by Fox News. The report, by conservative watchdog Capital Research Center, describes a
band of nonprofits operating under the banner of Washington-based philanthropy company Arabella Advisors. Those "pop up
groups" are housed in four Arabella-controlled "sister" nonprofits, according to the report: the New Venture Fund, Sixteen
Thirty Fund, Hopewell Fund and Windward Fund.
Bernie
Sanders donated less than one percent to charity first year he made over one million dollars. Sanders released
10 years of tax returns Monday, revealing that he earned an average of $280,975 per year from 2009 through 2015, and that his
income skyrocketed to $1,062,626 in 2016 due to sales of his best-selling book, "Our Revolution." Sanders reported
$10,600 in charitable contributions in 2016, making up slightly less than one percent of his reported income and falling
under the $21,365 average charitable contribution for Americans who earned $250,000 or more that year, according to the
latest available IRS data.
Bernie
Sanders tells Fox News town hall that he won't pay his 'fair share' in taxes unless he is forced to. Conservatives have
let rich lefties off the hook for too long for their insistence that they will follow their own moral guidelines only when forced to.
Confidential
Memo: Secretive Liberal Donor Club Plots $275 Million Spending Plan for 2020. A secretive group of top
liberal donors has budgeted $275 million to be injected into progressive infrastructure leading up to the 2020 elections,
confidential documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. The Democracy Alliance, which has been
pivotal in helping bankroll left-wing causes and organizations since its founding in 2005, held its annual Spring conference
at the ritzy Four Seasons Hotel in Austin, Texas, last week. Members and liberal groups mapped out their goals of
expanding and strengthening the progressive political base, building and supporting progressive governance at every level,
and restoring and expanding structural power.
Hillary Clinton Waiting Her
Whole Life to Be President Only to Lose to Donald Trump Is Still Grimly Hilarious. Hillary Clinton spent nearly
her entire adult life on a desperate quest for power and money. She stood by as her horny husband achieved both, and
longed to escaped his crooked shadow, to step into the spotlight on her own, to make history. Political success was
insufficient. Overcome with rage and class envy — at having so much raw power and prestige yet still having
to debase herself before the altar of America's financial elite — she vowed to abandon all shame in her crusade to
join their ranks. She would take their money: $675,000 from Goldman Sachs, $505,000 from Deutsche Bank, $265,000 from
the National Association of Convenience Stores, $250,000 from Drug Chemical and Associated Technologies, 225,500 each from the
Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers, the International Deli-Dairy-Bakery Association, and the Institute of Scrap Recycling
Industries. And so on. She would taunt them with her massive endowment.
Sanders
Admits He's A Millionaire. On Tuesday, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) revealed some very bad news for his campaign:
he's a millionaire. Sanders, who has been pressured to turn over his tax returns for the last ten years, finally acquiesced,
announcing he would do so — and admitting that he is, in fact, worth more than a million dollars.
The
College Admissions Scandal: You Did It, Liberals. According to Caitlin Flanagan at The Atlantic, when
prep-school college counsellor Katie would tell rich liberal parents that their kid — on whom they had spent a ton
of private-school tuition — probably wouldn't get into one of those selective colleges, those same rich liberal
parents would get mad [...] Actually, I wouldn't worry, Katie. Those rich liberals will find a way to sneak their kids
into some silk-stocking job in the ruling class, somehow. Money talks. Just ask Hillary Clinton.
Democrats
Want to Restore Tax Break for the Wealthy. Democrats often complain that tax cuts primarily benefit "the rich,"
but apparently they only think it's a problem when rich conservatives get a tax break, because they're outraged that
President Trump's tax cuts scaled back a generous subsidy enjoyed by well-off taxpayers in liberal states. A key
provision of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was a new cap on the so-called State and Local Tax ("SALT") Deduction, which
allows taxpayers to deduct state and local taxes on their federal tax return. This provision forces taxpayers in
low-tax states such as Florida and Texas to effectively subsidize those in high-tax states such as New York and California.
Bernie Travels First Class.
I wonder if at the outset of his career back in woodsy Vermont Bernie Sanders — Crazy Bernie, as we
say — ever imagined that years later at the age of 77 he would be running for president, have developed a taste
for private jets, be the master of three homes, and run on a platform that included Medicare for All, Free College for All,
and a Minimum Wage of $15 an Hour for All, that and the rest of the Green New Deal with no hint of how he would pay for
it. No one is making a very big issue of it that Crazy Bernie has already rung up a tab of trillions of dollars that
the taxpayers will have to pay somewhere down the road. There was a day when we chuckled about Limousine Liberals.
What do you call Bernie? A Sybaritic Socialist? Sure he still dresses like a rag doll, but his transportation is
another matter. He does not fly first class. He flies private jet, and lounges about in his three homes, all
tended to by his wife who just bankrupted a minor university. I wonder if she is paying off any of that university's
debt that she rang up.
Andrew
Cuomo to become the highest-paid governor in the US. Even with Albany passing a $175 billion budget underpinned
by a series of new taxes, there's at least one New Yorker whose bank account will be better off: Gov. Cuomo.
Lawmakers voted in the wee hours of Monday morning [4/1/2019] to hike Cuomo's salary to $250,000 by 2021, making him the highest-paid
governor in the nation. Voting largely along party lines, the Senate signed off on the raise around 2:45 a.m. in a
35-to-24 vote.
Dems
publicly tout small dollar donations, while quietly courting big dollar donors. Following the financial success
of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential run in 2016, the growing field of Democratic candidates in 2020 are
publicly all about the small dollar donations. But as the first quarterly fund-raising deadline comes to a close on
Sunday [3/31/2019], the candidates in the Democratic field are all also trying to quietly haul in as many big dollar
donations as they can get.
Do
Left-Wing Billionaires 'Own' House Democrats? As the Democratic presidential field begins to take shape,
liberal and left-wing billionaires are shopping around for the best candidate to support. Some, as we shall see, are
also seeking to torpedo President Trump's presidency through impeachment long before the 2020 election takes place. But
we shouldn't lose sight of what these billionaires have already accomplished: they helped elect a Democratic House of
Representatives in 2018 that largely can be relied upon to do their bidding. In other words, the Democrats have become
what they always professed to loath [sic] : a party propped up by big-money interests and beholden to a small
clique of ambitious billionaires.
AOC
bristles as GOP lawmaker blasts Green New Deal as 'elitist' pet project of rich liberals. Rep. Sean Duffy,
R-Wis., mocked Ocasio-Cortez's plan to combat climate change during a Financial Services Committee hearing on Monday [3/25/2019],
introducing an amendment to a homelessness bill that would create "green" standards — and demonstrate what he viewed
as the impracticability of the Democrat's plan. "The Green New Deal is one that if you are a rich liberal from maybe New
York or California it sounds great because you can afford to retrofit your home or build a new home that has zero emissions, that
is energy efficient, affordable and safe," Duffy said.
Hollywood
celebrities champion higher wages for waitresses who say 'no thanks'. Several Hollywood celebrities are pushing
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to eliminate the wage difference between hourly employees and tipped workers like waitresses
and bartenders. Sarah Jessica Parker, Michelle Williams, Amy Poehler and Amy Schumer are among the more prominent
actresses pushing the proposal. But, not suprisingly the waitresses have written a letter to the celebrities, telling
them "no thanks."
Blue-Collar
Hero Joe Biden Is Actually Super-Duper Rich, A Bona Fide 1 Percenter. Joe Biden likes to call himself "Middle
Class Joe," but nowadays, he's anything but that. Biden is a bona fide member of the "1 Percent," which according
to the Economic Policy Institute means you make more than $421,926 a year.
'Middle-Class
Joe' rakes in millions. "Middle-Class Joe" Biden has a $2.7 million vacation home. He charges more than
$100,000 per speaking gig and has inked a book deal likely worth seven figures. Since leaving office in 2017, the 76-year-old
former vice president has watched his bank account swell as he continues to cultivate the image of a regular, Amtrak-riding
guy. He's repeatedly referred to himself as "Middle-Class Joe" on the campaign trail and in speaking engagements as he
publicly mulls whether to run for president.
Beto
O'Rourke, The Ultimate Limousine Liberal Gen Xer, Announces For Prez. [Scroll down] In other words, 2020
contender Beto is getting a heavy lift from the media. Expect this to continue throughout the election, unfortunately.
Of course, perhaps his candor and coolness is a double-edged sword — a selling point that makes profiles of him
oh-so-colorful that media ilk just can't resist churning them out, and a cringey furtherance of limousine liberal stereotypes
that make him far too mockable on Twitter.
Who
Declared this to Be Crazy Week? The college admission scandal is just too delicious to be believed. It
couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of hypocritical, liberal-run institutions. One aspect of the scandal is clear: if you
are kinda, sorta rich but not Wall Street/Goldman Sachs rich, you can't afford to buy your kid's admission to an elite school
the old-fashioned way — by donating a building. The unofficial over-under amount seems to be about
$10 million. But if you're only Hollywood rich, you can try the "side door" with a $500,000 bribe to a sports
coach. In other words, the old back door for the super-rich will remain untouched, while the striving semi-rich will
go to jail for the sin of cutting out USC's development department.
Southern
Poverty Surpasses Half Billion in Assets; $121 Million Now Offshore. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a
far-left nonprofit known for its "hate group" designations, has surpassed a half billion dollars in total assets and now has
$121 million parked offshore, according to the group's most recent financial statements. The SPLC, which is based in
Montgomery, Ala., has not publicly posted its most recent financial statements on its website. However, the organization
applied for renewal in the state of California days ago and submitted a number of documents pertaining to its financial standing
including its most recent audited statement and tax forms for calendar year 2018, which covers Nov. 1, 2017 to Oct. 31,
2018. According to the filings submitted to California's Office of Attorney General, the group reported total assets of
$518 million from November 2017 to the Oct. 31, 2018, an increase of $41 million from the $477 million in
total assets it reported on its previous year's tax forms.
Dem
Rep. Bobby Rush-Linked Entity [was] Given $3 Million in Gov't Grants Last Year. An entity linked to a church
founded by Illinois Democratic representative Bobby Rush received $3 million in taxpayer-backed government grants last year,
according to records. Rush established the Beloved Community Christian Church, a Chicago-based non-denominational church,
in 2002 after paying $800,000 for its site with the backing of a $500,000 loan secured from the New City Bank.
Also posted
under The one-sided separation of church and state.
Socialist
Democratic Capitalist Pigs Living High On The Hog. All Socialist Democrats define 'capitalist pigs' as right of
centre millionaires and billionaires, claiming there is no such thing as a well-heeled Socialist Democrat Capitalist
Pig. Beto O'Rourke? He's just an Irish dude who swiped a Spanish-sounding name for himself and like John Kerry
before him, only got rich through his Daddy-blessed spouse. Hillary Clinton? Foreigners, Hollywood and Harvey
Weinstein kept the cash flow going in her campaigns and the dead-but-still-walking, cash infused Clinton Foundation. [...]
The top three Socialist Democratic Capitalist Pigs are the Obamas, Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Soros-Backed
Priorities USA to Invest $100 Million in Four Swing States Ahead of 2020. Priorities USA, the largest Democratic
super PAC, announced on Thursday [2/21/2019] it will spend $100 million in four of the top swing states as part of an initial
investment to try and defeat President Donald Trump. Guy Cecil, the super PAC's chairman, held a briefing with reporters
earlier in the morning, where he argued polling shows Democrats have "opportunity to expand the electorate to the largest, if not
certainly the largest in a generation." In order to do that, the Democratic party shouldn't waste time and must start
building an apparatus, he said. The group's initial investment will be in Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania,
according to NBC News.
Barack
Obama spends Presidents' Day dining at high-end San Francisco barbecue restaurant. Barack Obama spent Presidents' Day
dining in San Francisco with Steph and Ayesha Curry, as well as Hollywood A-listers Chrissy Teigen and John Legend. The former
president had dinner on Monday night at International Smoke — a high-end barbecue restaurant run by actress Ayesha and celebrity
chef Michael Mina. Obama was joined by Ayesha and her Golden State Warriors star husband. Chef Mina later shared a
photo on Instagram of him posing with Obama and the Currys.
These
Are the Wealthiest Towns in the U.S. The Silicon Valley town that billionaires Eric Schmidt of Google and
Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg have called home is America's richest community for the third year in a row. Atherton,
California, whose household income averaged $450,696 in 2017, topped the Bloomberg Richest Places annual index.
Atherton Mayor Bill Widmer said the tree-lined streets and lot sizes of at least an acre offer residents privacy with
Stanford University, Google and Facebook all a short drive away.
Ocasio-Cortez
Living in Luxury Navy Yard Apartment Building. After fretting about whether she'd be able to afford rent, Rep. Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) has moved into a luxury apartment building in the District of Columbia's Navy Yard neighborhood, the Washington
Free Beacon has learned. Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, got a big raise with her election to
Congress, a job that comes with a $174,000 annual salary. She told the New York Times she was concerned about how she would
get an apartment before that salary kicked in. She ended up moving into a luxury apartment building with a wide array of
amenities where rent for even a studio apartment exceeds $2,000 a month.
Warren
Forgets One Thing As She Announces. Senator Elizabeth Warren, announcing her campaign for president [...] over
the weekend, used the word "rich" or a variation on it — "richer," "richest" — at least nine times in a
single 45-minute stump speech. [...] Mrs. Warren's rich-bashing also risks getting a bit awkward in a Democratic Party
where the governor of Illinois is Hyatt hotel heir J.B. Pritzker and the governor of Connecticut is J.P. Morgan banking
heir Ned Lamont. Senator Warren was introduced in Lawrence as "the next president of the United States of America" by Joseph
Kennedy III, a congressman from Massachusetts. His disclosed wealth of about $42 million derives primarily not from the
Hyannis Port and Palm Beach Kennedy side of his family but rather from his mother Sheila Brewster Rauch's status as an heir to the
Standard Oil fortune.
Billionaire
liberal threatens to unload on Dems if they don't impeach Trump. Billionaire Tom Steyer is cranking up pressure
on key House Democrats to impeach President Donald Trump where he thinks they'll feel it most — back in their home
districts. Steyer's first targets are three powerful committee chairmen, Richard Neal (D-Mass.), Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.)
and Elijah Cummings (D-Md.). But the liberal megadonor isn't stopping there: He will soon turn his attention to
rank-and-file members seated on the committees that would be involved in impeachment proceedings, including freshmen.
The Left's Idea of Generosity. Studies consistently
show that Republicans give more than Democrats to private charities. But as any liberal will happily tell you, that
doesn't capture the whole picture. The left, they say, is far more generous than the right. It's just that they
don't express their concern for the disadvantaged via charitable giving. Rather, they raise taxes and spread the wealth
via big government. There's only one problem: The disadvantaged don't always want that kind of help. For
proof, consider the recent "yellow vest" protests in France. President Emmanuel Macron's unpopular gas-tax
increase — aimed at stopping climate change — will only negligibly reduce global greenhouse
emissions. What it will do is empty rural workers' pocketbooks. Compared with their urban political leaders, the
rural French must travel great distances for work without ready access to public transit. Higher taxes take a real bite
out of their paychecks. And all so that France's political leaders can appear virtuous, while accomplishing nothing.
Will
America's Rich Fund Their Own Dispossession? While today's leftists rage against the corrosive effects of big
money in politics, the reality is the Democrats are now the party of the monied interests. What has changed is the new
big-money donors are no longer hedging their bets, but have gone all in for the Dems. [...] Today's Democrats are awash in
cash from Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Hollywood. Leftist billionaires like George Soros, Mark Zuckerberg, Warren
Buffett, and Jeff Bezos not only max out Democrat party and candidate donations but fund a massive interlocking network of
political action committees and "progressive" non-profits to promote leftist causes.
The
Progressive Race to the Bottom. The left-wing approach to billionaires has radically changed. Aside from
the rhetorical boilerplate about robber barons and the need for an income-tax rate of 70 percent, in reality the hard Left
has partnered with the nation's richest. The new big fortunes of America are now mostly in high-tech, media, and
finance, not in the old conservative and muscular corporations centered in farming, manufacturing, or oil and minerals.
And the new zillionaires are left-wing, and they are activist: Bezos, Bloomberg, Buffett, Gates, Zuckerberg, the Google
and Apple teams, Soros, Steyer, and a host of others. Through grants, foundations, purchased media, and super PACs,
astronomical amounts of money flow into federal, state, and even local midterm election campaigns, and into voter harvesting
and issues from global warming and late-term abortion to open borders, gun control, and identity politics. The 2018
midterms were a mere precursor of things to come.
Jeff
Bezos gives a pitiful amount of his $160B fortune to charity. For the world's richest man, charity
begins — and stays — at home. Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has given only a tiny fraction of
his $160 billion fortune to philanthropic causes, falling far behind fellow billionaires such as Bill and Melinda Gates
and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, public records show. Although Bezos, 55, and his estranged wife MacKenzie
recently pledged $2 billion to a new charitable initiative, their previous giving amounts to a total of just over
$145 million or .0906 percent — far less than one percent — of their net worth. Out of
$100,000, that would be like spending $90.06 on charity.
Congressional
Hispanic Caucus PAC Spent $300K at Luxury Resorts Last Cycle. The political action committee linked to the
Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) disbursed hundreds of thousands of dollars of its funds on luxury resorts, upscale
restaurants, nightclubs, and tickets to Vegas events throughout the last election cycle, Federal Election Commission filings
show. The CHC BOLD PAC, the fundraising arm of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, came under fire this week for a
delegation trip to a seaside resort in San Juan, Puerto Rico, during the government shutdown where its members mingled with
more than 100 lobbyists, attended a viewing of the Broadway show "Hamilton," and met with Puerto Rican officials. The
trip was met with condemnation from a number of Republican leaders.
Partying
hearty: Menendez's bikini shot blows up Dems' narrative about Puerto Rican junket during shutdown.
President Trump is staying put in snowy Washington while his government shutdown duel with Democrats continues, canceling
every fancy trip out (that doesn't include a non-touristy one to the Texas border), including even a Christmas trip to his
home in Florida. That's fitting for the times, and it suggests a leader looking for a resolution. But then there
are... the Democrats. A whole slew of them packed off to Puerto Rico for a junket, getting hold of those hard-to-get
Hamilton tickets (no shutout there); bunking in with 109 K Street lobbyists in $429-a-night hotel rooms; and,
sure enough, partying hearty.
Second
death, more accusations sharpen focus on Ed Buck, California Democratic megadonor. Democratic Party megadonor
Ed Buck faces new questions this week after Los Angeles County sheriff's detectives opened an investigation into the second
death of a man — who authorities have reportedly identified as 55-year-old Timothy Dean — at Buck's
home in less than two years, and a third man came forward with an account of what he described as his drug-fueled
interactions with the well-connected Californian.
Top
Democrat Donor Ed Buck With His Democrat Pals and His Black Male Prostitutes — 2 Dead Now. The body
of another young black gay escort was found at the West Hollywood home of Ed Buck, a top Democrat donor and and
political activist. Sheriff's deputies are investigating after an African-American male was found dead early Monday
morning [1/7/2019] at the Laurel Avenue apartment belonging to one of Hillary Clinton's donors, Ed Buck.
The
Party of the Rich goes to bat for its constituents. The Democrats are the Party of the Rich. They were
swept into the House majority by a revolt of the elites. This party of Orange County, Westchester County, and Chicago's
North Shore is playing the part, wasting no time pushing policies to hand special tax breaks to their upper-middle-class
constituents. Consider Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y. As the chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee, former
chairwoman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and in the top 10 in seniority among Democrats, Lowey is among
the most powerful members of Congress. She has introduced two bills so far. One is the appropriations
measure to reopen the government. The other is a major tax cut for the rich.
The
Only Privilege in America is Liberal Privilege. When you think about it, it is obvious that left-wing politics
is fake politics. Instead of allowing the grievances of the people to develop organically, our modern elite creates an
artificial politics with its activists — who do not represent the people but are instead the bribed apologists of
the ruling class pretending to be the voice of the people.
Nancy
Pelosi Endures Partial Government Shutdown at Luxury Resort in Hawaii. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), House minority
leader and, most likely, soon-to-be House speaker (D-CA), is enduring the partial federal government shutdown at a luxury
resort in Hawaii. The Washington Free Beacon reported that Pelosi, who calls the impasse over $5 billion for a border
wall the "Trump shutdown," is at Fairmont Orchid resort, where prices range from $899 per night for a standard room to $4,899
a night for the presidential suite.
Nancy
Pelosi Takes Advantage Of Government Shutdown; Vacations At Luxury Hawaiian Resort. Democrats are standing firm
on their commitment to make America less safe, by refusing to give President Trump the funding he's requested to construct a
wall on our southern border. Democrat lawmakers, like Nancy Pelosi, were quick to blame President Trump for the partial
shutdown of the government. They warned about how government employees and members of our US military would suffer the
consequences. Unlike the Democrat lawmakers, President Trump canceled his trip to Florida for Christmas, choosing
instead, to visit our troops overseas and to stay back at the White House, making himself available in case the Democrats
want to come back to D.C. and agree to fund the wall.
Nancy
Pelosi is spotted vacationing at $899-a-night Hawaii hotel as White House blasts her for refusing to enter talks to end
week-long government shutdown. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was spotted at a luxury hotel in Hawaii just
before the partial government shutdown entered its seventh day Friday, with little sign of progress to end it. The
likely speaker didn't appear to miss out on any negotiations, as talks between the White House and Democratic congressional
leaders appear to have ceased, even as hundreds of thousands of federal employees remain on furlough. Pelosi's office
says the White House hasn't contacted them since December 11, when Trump said at a tense meeting he would claim the
'mantle' of a shutdown.
'I'm
not allowed to talk about that': Nancy Pelosi office stonewalls on her shutdown vacation in Hawaii. Nancy
Pelosi, the next speaker of the House of Representatives, is reportedly spending the government shutdown at a Hawaiian
resort. A person answering the media contact number for Pelosi's office identified herself as "press desk." When asked
about the vacation, she told the Washington Examiner: "I'm not allowed to talk about that." She said she would pass on
a message on to the deputy chief of staff, Drew Hammill, who did not respond. According to the Washington Free Beacon, the
California Democrat was seen Thursday [12/27/2018] at the Fairmont Orchid resort, which features accommodations up to almost $5,000
a night.
John
Kerry's Family Fights to Keep Peasants Away from Ancestral French Villa, Claiming Terror Threat. Saint-Briac-sur-Mer
on the Brittany coast in France is a private playground for the European elite. It's also the home of Les Essarts, the
ancestral home of former Democratic presidential candidate and former Obama Secretary of State John Kerry. It has been
in his family since 1923 and was the place he regularly vacationed as a child. But Saint-Briac is now a legal battleground
between the French state and the uber-rich villa owners, including Kerry's family, who for decades have defied a French law that
allows for a small right-of-way on the city's beach for hikers and visitors. Now it seems that the illegal efforts by the
villa owners to keep the hoi polloi out of Saint-Briac is nearing an end.
Linkedin
founder Reid Hoffman apologizes after $750,000 campaign donation linked to misinformation in Alabama senate race.
Linkedin co-founder and Greylock Partner's investor Reid Hoffman apologized Wednesday for funding a group linked to a misinformation
campaign during Alabama's 2017 special election for the US Senate. It was the first time that Hoffman, a prominent Silicon
Valley billionaire, acknowledged his donation to the group, called American Engagement Technologies, or AET. AET allegedly
funded another project, called New Knowledge, which used social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to boost support for Democrat
Doug Jones in his ultimately successful campaign against Republican Roy Moore.
Liberal Billionaire
Apologizes For Funding Russian Bot 'False Flag' But Questions Remain Unanswered. Billionaire Reid Hoffman
apologized Wednesday for funding an effort to dupe Alabama voters into believing Russian bots were fueling Republican Roy
Moore's failed senatorial bid. But he left crucial questions unanswered. His statement left several important
facts about the so-called experiment unaddressed, including a detailed accounting of everyone involved in the caper, as well
who crafted and executed the campaign. The effort was the subject of a closed-door presentation in Washington, D.C.,
to a group of liberal technology experts, The Washington Post reported, citing anonymous sources.
If
You Only Get Your News From CNN, You Have No Idea This Story Happened. A left-wing billionaire gave $100,000
towards an online misinformation campaign that mimicked Russian interference operations — but if you only get your
news from CNN, then you have no idea that happened. Linkedin co-founder Reid Hoffman, an early investor in Facebook,
was behind a six-figure misinformation campaign that involved falsely linking Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore to
Russian influence operations during Alabama's December 2017 special election. Hoffman funded Democratic operatives who
staged a "false flag" — in their own words — meant to falsely link Moore's campaign to Russian bots in
order to boost Democratic candidate Doug Jones' Senate campaign. Jones went on to win the election after defeating
Moore in an upset.
Disinformation
campaign targeting Roy Moore's Senate bid may have violated law, Alabama attorney general says. Alabama Attorney
General Steve Marshall said Thursday that his office is exploring whether disinformation tactics deployed against Republican Roy
Moore during last year's special election violated state campaign laws and said he was worried that the operation could have
affected the closely fought Senate race. "The information is concerning," Marshall, a Republican, said in a phone
interview. "The impact it had on the election is something that's significant for us to explore, and we'll go from
there." Moore lost the election to Democrat Doug Jones.
If
Russian Bot Tactics Didn't Defeat Roy Moore, They Didn't Defeat Hillary Clinton. It turns out the Russians
aren't the only ones who know how to employ the Internet for political dirty tricks. As The New York Times reported in
a front-page story on December 20, Russian bots were part of what the newspaper called a "secret experiment" in Alabama
during the special Senate election won by Democrat Doug Jones in December 2017. The tale involves a cyber-security firm
that has played a role in hyping the claim that foreign intervention "influenced" the 2016 presidential election. It
sought to duplicate the scheme in order to help Jones defeat Roy Moore. Although the Times dismisses the effort as "too
small to have a significant impact on the race," it acknowledged that the scheme, which involved fake Facebook and Twitter
accounts, was patterned after the Russian meddling in American elections the year before.
Fight for $15!
Schumer's
'unpaid internship' ad sparks outrage and fast reversal. At a time when Democrats are demanding higher pay for
low-wage workers, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer appeared to wrong-foot himself when his office advertised a job
opening for an unpaid internship. His staff quickly issued a statement saying that was an error and the position would
be paid. The fast reversal underscored the new reality on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers earlier this year created a new
$14 million fund in its budget to finally pay interns. Backers said it was an effort to help would-be interns from
poorer families who, unlike their wealthier counterparts, can't rely on parents to fund their Washington experience.
Cash-rich
Schumer gets caught exploiting the interns. Has anyone been louder in advocating for a higher minimum wage than
New York's Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer? He's bellowed that minimum wages should be raised to at
least $12 an hour, attempting to shame Republicans for opposing him, by calling it, (kid you not), "a moral issue," as he put
it. He's pretty much defined the Democratic Party in the minds of voters by his hammerings on the minimum wage.
Then he went and put out an ad calling for unpaid interns. [...] It is exploitation, as it deprives anyone who's not
independently wealthy of the opportunity to serve in the Senate. For free unpaid interns under Schumer, they labor, and
he gets the end product of it for nothing, presumably in exchange for a good job recommendation to work for money from
someone else.
Michelle
Obama dresses to impress in $4,000 glittery thigh-high Balenciaga boots. Michelle Obama made a fashionable
appearance on the final stop of her book tour where she was interviewed by Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker.
Obama, wearing $4,000 glittery thigh-high Balenciaga boots, packed out the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Wednesday night,
where Parker interviewed her about her new book, Becoming.
Michelle
Obama's horrifying $4,000 Balenciaga boots. Recently, former first lady Michelle Obama closed out her
money-grabbing "Becoming" a gazillionaire book tour of America at the Barclay Center in Fort Green, Brooklyn, where
Michelle's welcome was on a level comparable to Beyoncé's. After being introduced by an anorexic Sarah Jessica
"Sex in the City" Parker, Michelle emerged from candy-pink curtains donned with what had to be 100 yards of blinding
yellow tie-waist satin. Then, before sitting down, the towering former FLOTUS applauded herself Hillary-style and
feigned humility by crossing her arms across her chest, appearing shocked that so many dupes were willing to pay $3,000
for a ticket.
Soros
Gave $1.35M to 'Nonpartisan' Watchdog Inundating Trump with Lawsuits. Liberal billionaire George Soros provided
$1.35 million to a "nonpartisan" government watchdog organization last year that is hitting the Trump administration
with a steady flow of complaints and lawsuits in an attempt to "damage" his presidency, according to tax filings provided to
the Washington Free Beacon. Separate state filings also reveal that the "nonpartisan" watchdog shares employees
with the liberal Media Matters for America, an organization that was founded by Democratic operative and Clinton loyalist
David Brock. Confidential documents handed out by Brock to big money donors in early 2017 and obtained by the Free
Beacon previously shed light on how Brock planned to attack Trump over the course of his presidency using his constellation
of organizations. Soros gave $1.35 million to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a
Washington, D.C.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that does not reveal its donors. The group has been involved with a number
of high-profile lawsuits and complaints against Trump and other Republicans. Its top members regularly appear on news
programs attacking the administration and members of the GOP but are rarely identified as having a left-wing mission by the
outlets and on-air personalities.
Settled
Science: There Really Are 'Latte Liberals'. I'm sure most readers took note of the hoax identity politics
academic journal articles recently, but I have found a real article that you could easily suppose to be a hoax. The
article is "The Real Reason Liberals Drink Lattes," and it appears in PS, which is a secondary journal of the American
Political Science Association (APSA). This relevant bit of social science deserves to be savored at length, especially
as the article is behind a paywall that costs more than a week's quota of liberal lattes. The authors examine and test
with data four hypotheses for why liberals may drink more lattes than normal Americans (my term, not theirs).
Census
Bureau: 5 Richest U.S. Counties Are D.C. Suburbs; 10 of Nation's 20 Richest Counties in D.C. Area. The five
richest counties in the United States when measured by median household income are all still suburbs of Washington, D.C.,
according to American Community Survey data released today by the Census Bureau. In fact, ten of the top twenty richest
counties in the country are suburbs of Washington, D.C., according to this new data. The same five suburban Washington,
D.C., counties that were the richest in the country according to estimates that the Census Bureau released last year are also
the five richest this year. However, their rankings have changed slightly in the new data release: Fairfax
County, Va., and Howard County, Md., moved ahead of Falls Church City, Va.
Have We Reached
Peak Soros? All around you, if you look closely enough, you will see the spectre of George Soros lurking behind
the headlines. The caravan, net neutrality, regulating Facebook, the de-platforming of independent media, color
revolutions and election meddling, refugee creation and manipulation, the trolls on Twitter, your blog and YouTube,
etc. All of these things we see in the headlines today are a product of George Soros' money and his singular
obsession with re-creating the world in his image.
Keyword: slush fund.
Obama
Foundation Sees $232 Million Windfall in 2017. Contributions to President Barack Obama's foundation skyrocketed
last year as the group hauled in more than $230 million, its most recent tax forms show. The drastic increase in funds
also coincided with hefty pay raises for its executives, with one individual pulling in more than $800,000 in total
compensation. The Barack Obama Foundation, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit that was launched in 2014 and carries a
primary goal of building the Obama presidential center in Jackson Park on the South Side of Chicago, reported $231,993,748 in
contributions and grants in 2017. This was an increase of more than $218 million from the $13 million in
donations the foundation reported in 2016. A majority of the foundation's money last year came from just 13 undisclosed
donors.
Saint
Michelle Cashes in, Big Time. Michelle Obama has a new memoir out called "Becoming." Add two words:
"Very Wealthy." The Obamas struck a $65 million book deal for his-and-hers memoirs, and next to it is their $50 million
production deal with Netflix. They are set to cash in to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. One outlet has
called them a "billion-dollar brand." None of their media sycophants find this the tiniest bit controversial. They
are the royal family. They cannot possibly be compensated enough. (President Trump's wealth? Wealth generated
by a lifetime of work in the private sector? Unacceptable.) Mrs. Obama's interviews — entirely with
women, and mostly black women — are servile in every "objective news" venue and even worse during TV promotional
pit stops. Ellen DeGeneres aired a sappy tribute video stuffed with adoration and proclaimed that Obama is "a human
being that we all look up to." She said, "you inspire all of us. So, we put together a little something for you
to just show you how amazing you are."
Report:
'Impeachment' Billionaire Tom Steyer Prepares to Launch Presidential Bid. Left-wing billionaire Tom Steyer, who
spent millions in the 2018 midterm elections pushing for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, is preparing to launch a
campaign for president in 2020, according to Politico.
At a certain point you've made enough money.
Right, Barry?
Super-Rich
Obama Should Give Taxpayers Their Money Back. By his own admission, Barack Obama is now fabulously rich.
So why are middle-class taxpayers paying him roughly a million dollars each year?
The
Obamas Are on Their Way to Becoming a 'Billion Dollar Brand'. Michelle Obama, wife of former president Barack
Obama, is in the midst of a book tour to sell her autobiography Becoming. It's a sure-fire best seller and the book
tour itself will net her millions. She also gets $225,000 a pop in speaking fees. Combine that with the cash
being raked in by her husband and a strong case can be made that the former first couple should be placed at the front of
the line when the redistributionist policies they so fervently support become law.
Soros Money
Standing Behind Climate Activism in Texas. A George Soros-funded government attorney in Texas has been leading
the charge against a chemical manufacturing company that stands accused of jeopardizing the public safety. The optics
of the case have not been good for the company. But the money trail that flows between Soros and elected officials
comes with its own baggage and points to an agenda that is not necessarily in the public interest. Lawsuits can make
lawyers rich; they can advance political careers and impact public policy. But how much they improve public safety and
protect the environment is debatable.
Somewhat related:
The Bishops Go Bust in Baltimore.
In the early days of Baltimore, if a Catholic leader had proposed a religious gathering at a swanky hotel, he would have been
ridiculed. Such a suggestion would have been taken as a mark of spiritual unseriousness. Ascetic, serious-minded
bishops might meet in monasteries or religious houses to discuss matters of grave importance to the Church. But a
hotel? That practice only became popular after worldly, faux-populist fetishes saturated the post-Vatican II
Church. And so now every November, Catholics in the pews have to pony up hundreds of thousands of dollars for the
bishops to enjoy a cushy get-away at such luxury hotels as the Inner Harbor Marriott (where they held it this year), with
their creepy entourages and security teams in tow. Far from populist, the behavior of the bishops at the hotels is
utterly insular. They spend much of the meeting hiding behind police officers, goons, six-figure mercenaries of one
stripe or another, and a battalion of gray-haired ex-nuns turned witchy episcopal aides.
Democrats
Are Emerging As Party of the Rich. This month saw the election of Jay Robert "J.B." Pritzker as governor of
Illinois. Mr. Pritzker, an heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune, is worth an estimated $3.2 billion, and spent $171.5 million
to get himself elected, according to Money magazine. Another winner was Edward M. "Ned" Lamont Jr., in the Connecticut
governor's race. Mr. Lamont, an heir to the J.P. Morgan banking fortune of his great-grandfather Thomas Lamont,
estimated his assets in 2006 at between $90 million and $300 million, and showed reporters tax returns last month with
income totaling $18 million over 5 years. The winner of the election for governor of Colorado, Jared Polis, filed
financial disclosure forms as a member of the House of Representatives indicating estimated wealth of more than $300 million.
Progressive
Politics Are Not Really Progressive. [Scroll down] Multibillion-dollar fortunes are now usually the
domain of progressives who were enriched through globalized high tech, international finance, and media. The ensuing
rules are that when the Koch Brothers give money, it is "dark," and when the masters of the universe at Amazon, Apple,
Facebook, Google, Microsoft and the likes of Michael Bloomberg, Warren Buffett, George Soros, or Tom Steyer give far more
millions to enhance progressive agendas, the cash is as light as can be. We saw that disconnect unapologetically in
2008 when the progressive reformer and social justice warrior Barack Obama railed about big right-wing cash, while becoming
the largest fundraiser on record and in particular the greatest recipient of Wall Street cash in history.
Thread
breaks down money wasted per Beto O'Rourke vote and the Left flips out. Robert O'Rourke lost last night even
though he raised more money than any other person who has ever run for the Senate. Hollywood dumped millions of dollars
into his campaign hoping to beat Cruz ... and Bob still lost.
Beto
O'Rourke's loss to Ted Cruz is a heartwarming reminder that money can't buy elections. Democratic candidate
Beto O'Rourke's Senate campaign crashed harder Tuesday evening than a speeding Volvo driven by a drunk judge's son.
Glum-faced news anchors have called the Texas Senate race for incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. [...] His defeat will no
doubt come as a terrible blow to all the hard-hitting news reporters who dedicated thousands of words to detailing how much
he loves driving and practicing his Spanish. But they shouldn't think of it as a loss! They should think of the
"Kennedyesque" candidate's failure to unseat Cruz as an uplifting reminder that money can't buy elections.
In 2016, Soros
Boasted Of Spending $500 Million On Migrants. Democratic donor George Soros earmarked half a billion dollars in
2016 to support migrants, writing that "harnessing the power of the private sector" is critical to support the "tens of
millions of people [who] are on the move, fleeing their home countries in search of a better life abroad." [...] But The [New
York] Times also acknowledged that Soros has contributed $75 million to federal candidates and political committees,
as well as $32 billion to his liberal-leaning Open Society Foundations. And Israel, a nation of refugees,
has benefited little from his largess.
The
mystery of Nike founder Phil Knight's huge political donation ahead of the midterms. [Scroll down] Nike
founder Phil Knight, who remains chair emeritus of the company, has donated a total of $2.5 million to Knute Buehler,
Republican gubernatorial candidate in Oregon. That amount far exceeds any other individual donation to political
candidates in the state. Knight, who is thought to be worth about $30 billion and is famously private, hasn't explained
what's behind this exceedingly generous gift to the Republican candidate. Buehler's campaign team has also declined to
comment on the donations.
Is It 'Hate Speech' to Tell
the Truth? George Soros has been a major funder of much of the institutional infrastructure the Left has built
during the past 20 years. David Horowitz's site Discover the Networks says that "a strong case can be made for the
claim that Soros today affects American politics and culture more profoundly that any other living person." Such
organizations as Media Matters for America are beneficiaries of Soros's vast wealth. While the total of his political
expenditures over the years is perhaps beyond calculation, it is known that between 2003 and 2011, for example, Soros spent
more than $48 million to fund media properties.
Navajo Nation
Spokesman Calls Tom Steyer's Green Energy Campaign A 'Slap In The Face'. Navajo Nation leaders are not
supportive of Tom Steyer's campaign to force Arizona into dramatically increasing its renewable energy mandate, a mandate
they argue would financially ruin their community. Arizona voters will head to the polls on Tuesday to decide the fate
of Proposition 127, a ballot initiative that would mandate utility companies acquire half their electricity from renewable
energy sources, such as wind and solar, by 2030. The proposal would amend the state's constitution and be a sharp
increase from its current renewable mandate — which stands at 15 percent by 2025.
Why did nobody mention that Beto
O'Rourke's wife is a billionaire heiress? Young Beto O'Rourke casts himself as the 'anti-Trump'. But his
father-in-law, it turns out, is a billionaire property developer with a contentious relationship with non-white
residents — not unlike the President. Beto's more the proto-Jared Kushner. The New York Times
today [10/29/2018] revealed the highly interesting news that friend-of-the-little-guy Beto married well. Very
well. His wife is not only the daughter of William D. Sanders, aka the Warren Buffet of real estate, Cockburn
can reveal she is the only daughter. Sanders's portfolio is valued at about $20 billion.
The
Truth about George Soros Is [Bad] Enough. Whatever Soros's worldview and philosophies as a boy during World War
II were, he's a committed, outspoken, extraordinarily deep-pocketed liberal progressive now. It is not an exaggeration
to characterize Soros's views as radical, particularly compared to the American mainstream. Because Soros grew to
prominence on the U.S. political scene when he spent more than $25 million trying to defeat President Bush in the 2004
election, most members of the media think of him as just another liberal billionaire — Tom Steyer or Michael
Bloomberg with a different accent. But his views are genuinely shocking to middle America when they hear them.
Kennedys
profit off 'nonprofit'. Do you know how much money Joe Kennedy, the former congressman, is now making at his
"nonprofit"? According to the most recent documents, his "public charity" has filed with the state attorney general, in
2016 Kennedy pocketed a total of $824,929 — $109,336 from Citizens Energy and $715,703 from "related organizations."
Economic
Profile of 50 States Reveals Republicans Represent the Poor, Democrats the Rich. Democrats paint themselves as
the party looking out for the little guy and more interested than Republicans in representing the poor and their best
interests. But according to Ken Fisher, the founder and executive chairman of Fisher Investments, best-selling author
and one of the richest men in the United States, a USA Today study released earlier this month that shows the economic
profile of all 50 states, ranked by household income, reveals much more. When Fisher read what he called "a breathtaking
economic profile" of the states he found in it something that was "embedded" in it that reveals what he believes is "arguably
the greatest unseen political truth of our time."
No Hope For Democrats.
According to the so-called experts, the real question is not whether the Democrats will win the midterm elections, but what
will be their margin of victory? The Democrats are leading because of the powerful institutions that support them,
namely, the media, Hollywood, academia, government bureaucracies and special interest groups. In addition, Democrats
have significant backing from the wealthiest Americans. For example, there has been a tremendous outpouring of campaign
cash flowing into the coffers of Democratic candidates and political action committees from billionaires such as George
Soros, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer.
Billionaire
Bloomberg's Radical Green 'Fellows' Use States To Sue Corporations. We all know what a bang-up job President
Trump has done in fulfilling his campaign pledge to "drain the swamp" in Washington. Unfortunately, he can't do the
same at the state level. There, wealthy leftist activists are inserting privately-funded progressive lawyers into state
attorneys general offices. Why? To sue energy companies and others for "global warming" related crimes, of course.
Despite
everyman image, Beto O'Rourke twice as wealthy as Ted Cruz. Congress is rife with rich people, but [Beto]
O'Rourke had a 2015 net worth of about $9 million, ranking 51st out of 435 House members, according to the non-partisan
Center for Responsive Politics. That's more-than double the $3.8 million worth of his Republican opponent,
Sen. Ted Cruz, who ranked 41st of 100 senators.
Democrats'
'socialism' prescription is a war on the poor. The most striking difference between Democrats and Republicans
is not their views on #MeToo, affirmative action or the Supreme Court: It's how they view the economy.
Republicans deplore socialism. But more than half of Democrats view socialism favorably, according to Gallup. The
Democratic Party's left flank is turning the midterm elections into a referendum on capitalism. Sens. Bernie
Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, New York congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and dozens of other federal and state
candidates protest that our economic system is unjust and needs an overhaul. They demand radical changes like giving
workers control of 40 percent of corporate-board seats, and making boards serve vague goals like social justice instead of
maximizing profits. They're also pushing for huge minimum-wage hikes.
George Soros's March on Washington. I started
following the money for the "resistance" when it was born, hours after Election Day 2016. I have organized my findings in a
spreadsheet I have made public. At least 50 of the largest organizations that participated as "partners" in the Jan. 21,
2017, Women's March had received grants from Mr. Soros's Open Society Foundations or similar funds in the "House of Soros,"
as his philanthropic empire was once called internally. The number of Soros-backed partners has grown to at least
80. At least 20 of the largest groups that led the Saturday anti-Kavanaugh protests have been Open Society grantees.
Delusion on Campus. We
are constantly lectured about how the increasingly distant past has apparently permanently marginalized various identity
groups, so they must be handed ever more power in the present. But aren't those who are being paid to do this lecturing
part of the powerful?
Inside The $4 Billion
Wealthy Liberal Foundations Handed To Environmentalists. Major foundations handed nearly $4 billion to global
warming activists, anti-fossil fuel campaigners and other environmentalists over the past eight years, according to a database
debuted Monday [9/17/2018]. The website Big Green, Inc. tracked $3.7 billion in commitments from major grant-making
foundations to environmental causes from 2008 to 2016. It's a project of the free market Institute for Energy Research and
is based on nonprofit tax filings. IER president Tom Pyle said the vast web of funding detailed by Big Green, Inc. shatters
the notion environmentalists are locked in a David versus Goliath-like struggle against energy companies.
George Soros Funded
Fusion GPS, His Spokesman Confirms. George Soros has indirectly funded Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm
behind the infamous Steele dossier, a spokesman for the billionaire financier has acknowledged. Michael Vachon, the
Soros aide, told Washington Post columnist David Ignatius that Soros provided a grant to a nonprofit group called the
Democracy Integrity Project. That organization, which was formed in 2017 by Daniel Jones, a former Senate Intelligence
Committee staffer for Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, paid Fusion GPS as a contractor to continue an
investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Bill De Blasio Caught On
Camera Dismissing Homeless Woman Who Interrupted His Workout. New York City Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio
was captured on camera telling a homeless woman that he could not speak to her about the city's affordable housing crisis
because he was in the middle of his workout. "I'm in the middle of doing my workout," de Blasio told 72-year-old
Nathylin Flowers Adesegun after she approached him while he was stretching at the Park Slope YMCA.
Elizabeth
Warren has a luxury wardrobe to put Imelda Marcos to shame. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who's getting
ready to run for president, is cleaning out her closets. [...] Not since Bill Clinton tried to tell the IRS his used
underwear was worth $5 a pop have we heard an excuse like this one from a Democrat. First, note that Team Warren claims
that the $9,376 amount is approximately the same as the $8,000 she claimed on her 2014 taxes. So it wasn't exactly a
decades' worth of closet-clearing, some Swedish death-cleaning mother of all cleanouts to pare down. Nope, it's an
annual event, amounting almost ten thousand bucks a year off her taxes.
Tom
Steyer to spend at least $5 million on Andrew Gillum. Tom Steyer, the billionaire investor and Democratic
activist, has directed his political operation to spend more than $5 million aiding Andrew Gillum's campaign for governor of
Florida, an enormous investment that will test whether fired-up Democratic voters can flip control of a state long dominated
by Republicans. The campaign between Mr. Gillum, who is the progressive mayor of Tallahassee, and Representative
Ron DeSantis, a conservative lawmaker who has aligned himself closely with the White House, has become one of the clearest
contests of strength nationwide between the Democratic Party's rising liberal wing and the Republican Party as President
Trump has reshaped it. Mr. Steyer, who is based in California and has crusaded since last year for Mr. Trump's
impeachment, said in an interview that he would spend more money in Florida this fall than any other state.
H-2B
Foreign Workers Sue Billionaires Club for Wage Theft, Poor Treatment. A ski resort frequented by billionaires
like Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates is being sued by a group of Jamaican nationals who were brought to the
United States to take blue-collar seasonal jobs. The Yellowstone Club in Montana has been hit with a lawsuit by a group
of foreign workers in the country on H-2B visas that were hired by the resort for allegedly cheating them out of tips and
pay. The H-2B foreign workers also claim they were treated worse than other employees at the resort.
Soros
Money Behind 'Black Political Power' Outfit Supporting Andrew Gillum in Florida. Billionaire George Soros is a
financial contributor to The Collective, a little-known but increasingly influential political organization that says it is
seeking to build a "black political power" movement in the U.S., Federal Election Commission records show. The
Collective was one of the primary donors central to funding Andrew Gillum's recent meteoric rise in the Tallahassee mayor's
successful primary fight for Florida's Democratic gubernatorial nomination. It reportedly injected nearly $2 million
into Gillum's campaign, funding television and radio ads, get-out-the-vote drives, and playing a key role in helping Gillum
defeat his Democratic opponents, some of whom were better-funded and had more statewide name recognition. The group
announced plans to continue backing Gillum during the current general election campaign.
Obama Won. [Scroll down]
Obama institutionalized the idea that a Silicon Valley hipster billionaire could and should play act being left-wing, if only
he would pledge to use his wealth and power to promote progressive causes, whose consequences he cynically would be able to
avoid by virtue of his influence and riches. Hollywood celebrities, Wall Street schemers, and techie billionaires all
entered the public square demonizing "white privilege" that the rich enjoyed by fobbing it off on those poorer who had none
of it. The substitution of race and gender for class, then, was Obama's truly signature achievement. It was no
accident that in the days after he left office, the Obamas cut nearly $60 million in book and film deals, while Obama himself
took off to millionaires' yachts and islands to deplore the Trump Administration, whose policies were beginning to help the
unemployed that had been most left behind by his own boutique environmental and regulatory policies so cherished by the affluent.
Michelle
Obama charging $3,000 for VIP tickets during book tour for her memoir. The tickets for Michelle Obama's
upcoming book tour are selling fast, and at a price that is unheard of in the publishing world. Mrs. Obama will be
making 12 stops in 10 cities to promote her memoir Becoming, and given the hype around the book will be appearing in arenas
such as the Barclay's Center in Brooklyn and TD Garden in Boston. Tickets for these events are going for as low as $29.95, but
for a VIP package fans will have to shell out $3,000 to meet and greet Michelle Obama while also getting a front row seat, their very
own photo with the former first lady and a autographed copy of her book. Those fans will have to hurry however, because despite
the jaw-dropping price the VIP package tickets are sold out at almost every venue just hours after going on sale.
Ben
and Jerry team up with MoveOn.org to create Democrat-inspired ice cream flavors. Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield
of Ben & Jerry's ice cream are teaming up with MoveOn.org to hold a contest for a new line of Democrat-inspired ice cream
flavors. The contest, announced Friday, will select the seven best ice cream flavors inspired by Democratic House
challengers Jess King, Lauren Underwood, Aftab Pureval, J.D Scholten, Ammar Campa Najjar, Stephany Rose Spaulding and James
Thompson. "We need a Democratic majority to check President Trump's unrestrained power," Mr. Cohen and
Mr. Greenfield said in a press release on MoveOn.org's website. "And we also need to send progressive champions to
Congress who will fix our health care system with Medicare for All, protect clean air and water, and get big money out of politics.
The Editor says...
Oh! Get big money out of politics — like the money coming from George Soros and Tom Steyer?
Michelle's
'Becoming' a Gazillionaire Book Tour. For those who forgot — or would like to forget —
despite waking up every morning for eight years "in a house built by slaves," America's former first lady, Michelle Obama,
indulged in 100 million dollars' worth of vacations at taxpayers' expense; wore haute couture; and, while attempting to limit
every morsel Americans put in their mouths, ate epicurean fare fit for a queen. Recently, Penguin Random House and an
advance in excess of $65 million for two memoirs ensured that Mrs. Obama can continue to live the lifestyle she'd grown
accustomed to, which now includes things like an $8.1-million Kalorama mansion and back-to-back vacations in Martha's Vineyard
and Mallorca, Spain. For those of us who "at this point have made enough money," if a $65-million tome reiterating the
minutiae Michelle and Barack have subjected America to for a decade weren't enough, like U2 on steroids, Mrs. Obama has
now decided to embark on a hard-knock-life stadium-sized expedition.
'Socialist'
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wears $3,500 Outfit For Photo Shoot With Construction Workers. Socialists want
everybody to get everything — as long as they get theirs first. And socialists looooove money. Take
Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont Independent who touts himself as a socialist. He's got three houses, including a
shorefront house on Lake Champlain. Same goes for the hot new socialist, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She's
everywhere now as she runs for a New York seat in the U.S. House. And with that comes money — and
bling. In a photo shoot for Interview magazine, Ocasio-Cortez was pictured wearing a $3,500 outfit as she posed with
construction workers. She was decked out in a Gabriela Hearst blazer ($1,990), Gabriela Hearst pants ($890), and some
Monolo Blahnik shoes ($625).
Gues
[sic] How Much Socialist Ocasio-Cortez' Outfit Cost — $49? $180? $3,500? If NYT weren't so busy reporting misleading
stories about Nikki Haley's curtains, maybe they would pick up on the hypocrisy of the budding Democrat Socialist Superstar, Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez. The New York Times, with their usual smug satisfaction, thought they'd scored with a 'gotcha' story implicating our
take-no-prisoners Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley.
Michael
Moore Accused of Stiffing, Smearing Vendors. Last week at the Toronto International Film Festival, Michael
Moore debuted his latest film, Fahrenheit 11/9. The Daily Beast described the political documentary as a
fast-paced, wide-reaching project, jumping from Flint, Michigan to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (and stopping along the way to
compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler). As Natalia Winkelman wrote, "Moore's best zingers and most penetrating indictments
land on the Democratic Party, whom he implicates (along with dominant liberal news media) as part of an establishment system
continually churning in place to maintain the status quo and impede forward movement. He even calls out Obama on a few
occasions: for letting down the people of Flint, for accepting Goldman Sachs money, for deporting immigrants, for drone
strikes. But best of all, Moore acknowledges and emphasizes that he himself is not totally free from that establishment
either." Apparently, Michael Moore is struggling to reconcile his revolutionary brand with his status as a famous,
wealthy filmmaker. Simultaneously, critics of the documentarian are calling hypocrisy, insisting that Moore's conduct
is at odds with his reputation as a champion of the people.
Hollywood
Elites Gush over Socialist Andrew Gillum's Victory in Florida. Hollywood elites gushed over the victory of
Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum in Florida's Democratic primary for governor on Tuesday, after the socialist-backed candidate
scored an upset victory over his more moderate opponents. Gillum, who received the backing of prominent socialist
figures including Sen. Bernie Sanders and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, defeated Rep. Gwen Graham and former mayor of
Miami beach Phillip Levine with 34.3 percent of the vote. He was also endorsed and funded by left-wing billionaires
such as Tom Steyer and George Soros.
When Obama mocked McCain.
While "the betters" on the Sunday talk shows were praising John McCain, who died from brain cancer Saturday, Mrs. Marathon Pundit
turned to me and asked, "Why isn't anyone talking about the number of houses he owned?" The TV talking heads weren't. In his
laudatory statement about the Arizona senator's passing, of course Barack Obama didn't bring up the houses. But in 2008, when
a Politico reporter asked the Arizona senator how many houses he owned, and in a awkward manner, McCain replied that he didn't know.
He suggested that the reporter check with his staff. [...] The correct number was eight, if you include the homes owned by McCain's wife.
Obama's campaign used the McCain houses remark in television ad. Which, in one of the McCain campaign's better moments, led a spokesperson
to retort, "Does a guy who made more than $4 million last year, just got back from vacation on a private beach in Hawaii and bought
his own million-dollar mansion with the help of a convicted felon really want to get into a debate about houses?"
Senator
Elizabeth Warren Made A Lot Of Money Last Year. Senator Elizabeth Warren has routinely campaigned on redistributing wealth
and counts herself as a champion of the "99%" of Americans who aren't millionaires. But according to financial records obtained by
MassLive, Warren is solidly within the 1%. In 2017, Warren and her husband, a Harvard University professor, hauled in nearly $1 million
in adjusted gross income. Warren was the moneymaker, though her husband claims to have earned around $430,379. The numbers aren't
much of a surprise. Warren is believed to have a net worth somewhere in the ballpark of $7 million to $10 million [...]
San
Francisco billionaire surges in 2020 presidential election odds. Could San Francisco billionaire activist Tom
Steyer really become the next president of the United States? Oddsmakers are giving him the same odds as Democratic
Senators Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker as of Tuesday afternoon [8/21/2018].
Report:
Obama Wealth Grew 40-Fold Since Entering White House. Former President Barack Obama and wife Michelle entered
the White House in 2008 with a net worth of $1.3 million, but in the 10 years since that time, that has grown to an
estimated $40 million, and could earn as much as $242.5 million in the years ahead. Obama made $20 million
from the time he joined the U.S. Senate in 2005 through the end of his presidency, including money from his government salary,
book royalties, investment income, and from Michelle Obama's income from the University of Chicago before she became first lady,
reports Business Insider.
Democrat
Sen. Feinstein employed [a] Chinese spy for 20 years: new details. Veteran Democrat Sen. Dianne
Feinstein of California, whose husband Richard C. Blum has significant business in China, employed a Chinese spy on her staff
for 20 years. According to various reports, a Chinese man served on Feinstein's staff in San Francisco while he reported
to China's Ministry of State Security (MSS). China focuses on San Francisco and the Bay area because of the large Asian
community there and its proximity to Silicon Valley tech giants such as Apple and Google. With a fortune estimated to be
approximately $45 million, Feinstein is believed to be one of the wealthiest members of Congress. However, by some
estimates, her husband's holdings may be valued at $1 billion. Feinstein has been an inveterate proponent of closer
bilateral relations with China. However, the Democratic party of California did not endorse her re-election bid for this year.
Dem
governor flees to $7M Italian vacation home as political, personal problems mount. His constituents are
complaining about the state's crumbling transit system. His own party wants to strip him of gubernatorial powers.
The soccer team he owns is living in dire conditions, and one of his sons has been in trouble with the law. What's a
newly elected governor with no experience in elected office to do? He takes a vacation far, far away. New Jersey
Gov. Phil Murphy raised eyebrows last week as he embarked on a swanky 11-day trip to Italy, where he owns a $7 million
home he bought during his 23-year stint at Goldman Sachs.
Democrats'
Impeachment Army: $110 Million, 1000 Staff, 2000 Volunteers. Democrats who are pushing for the impeachment of
President Donald Trump will have $110 million to spend on the cause, thanks to the efforts of left-wing billionaire Tom
Steyer. Steyer's organizations, NextGen America and Need to Impeach, will also have a combined 1,000 employees and
2,000 staffers as they take the case for impeachment to voters in November, according to Politico. Though House
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has discouraged impeachment talk, grass roots Democrats favor the idea.
George
Soros Spent $10.37 Million Lobbying During Second Quarter. Liberal billionaire George Soros's nonprofit spent
more on lobbying during the second quarter of 2018 than he has in any previous quarter, disclosure forms show. The Open
Society Policy Center, a Washington, D.C.-based 501(c)(4) nonprofit that deals with domestic and international advocacy
efforts that is a separate entity from Soros's Open Society Foundations, reported spending $10.37 million between April 1
and June 30 — an increase of nearly $8 million from the first quarter of the year when the center reported spending
$2.52 million on its lobbying efforts. The increase in its lobbying activities can be attributed to the group adding a number
of issues related to the nomination of Donald Lu as the U.S. Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan and the nomination of David B. Cornstein
as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary, where Soros was born.
DNC Chair Tom Perez spotted
carrying $1,840 designer bag at airport after calling Socialism "Future of the Party". A sharp-eyed sleuth snapped
a picture Friday of Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez at DC's Reagan National airport. The former Obama
secretary of labor was standing in line, carrying a travel bag that looked outside the working man's budget.
Board
of Elections says Wilson's cash giveaway didn't violate rules. Chicago mayoral candidate Willie Wilson says he
wasn't trying to buy anyone's vote when he handed out close to $200,000 to churchgoers. The millionaire businessman
said Sunday's appearance at the New Covenant Missionary Baptist Church was nothing more than "one of the biggest property tax
relief assistance" events of the year and the kind of thing he's done before.
Obama Attacks Wealthy For Big Houses
Before Returning to His $8 Million Mansion. At a recent speech in South Africa, former President Barack Obama
criticized wealth inequality, saying those who have more money should share their earnings with the less fortunate.
"Right now, I'm actually surprised by how much money I got," Obama said of the more than $20 million he earned between 2005
and 2016. Obama then chided wealthy individuals for excess, saying, "There's only so much you can eat. There's only
so big a house you can have. There's only so many nice trips you can take. I mean, it's enough."
Ethel
Kennedy's hunger strike hypocrisy. Wearing a green jacket that read 'I really do care,' Ethel Kennedy celebrated at the
annual Hyannis Port annual Fourth of July parade with a clear slap at the first lady. Just a week before, it was announced that
the 90-year-old would be participating in a hunger strike to protest President Trump's immigration policies on the southern border.
But Ethel's protestations may be somewhat hypocritical, as Robert F. Kennedy's widow 'treated her immigrant servants like dogs,'
according to insiders who worked for her.
Billionaire
Richard Branson: America should give out free cash to fix income inequality. One solution to income
inequality is giving out free cash, according to the British billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson. "A basic income
should be introduced in Europe and in America," Branson told David Gelles of The New York Times.
The Editor says...
If Mr. Branson wishes to mitigate his guilt by dissipating his wealth, I see nothing wrong with the idea; however, it appears
that he is proposing to have taxpayer money re-distributed to non-taxpayers, which is essentially communism.
Fact
Check: 'Girl from the Bronx' Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Grew Up in One of Richest U.S. Counties. Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic Party's rising socialist star, describes herself as "a girl from the Bronx" to project a
working-class image. However, this claim is only half true — to borrow a phrase from the left-wing website
PolitiFact. [...] Ocasio-Cortez omits that for most of her formative years, she was actually raised in one of the United
States' wealthiest counties. Around the age of five, Alexandria's architect father Sergio Ocasio moved the family from
the "planned community" of Parkchester in the Bronx to a home in Yorktown Heights, a wealthy suburb in Westchester County.
Report:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 'girl from the Bronx,' raised in one of wealthiest US counties. [Scroll
down] Yorktown Heights, ironically, is the opposite of the Bronx. In a 1999 New York Times profile of Yorktown
Heights, the town supervisor described it as "a folksy area where people can come, kick off their shoes, wander around, sit
in a cafe, listen to a concert in the park, or go to the theater." Ocasio-Cortez would have been about 10 years old at the
time. Overall, Westchester County is one of the most wealthy counties in the United States; it's even where former
President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton reside. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, nearly three-quarters of the
county's 980,000 people are white, the average home price is more than a half million dollars, the median household income is
nearly $90,000 and just 10 percent of the county lives in poverty.
Top
Venture Capital Firm Tight Lipped About Barack Obama Visit. Former President Barack Obama on Friday visited a
prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm. Andrew Chen, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, posted a photo on
Twitter of Obama posing Friday [6/29/2018] with a large group of people, including several venture capitalists at the firm
based in Menlo Park, California.
Democrats
Party Hard on Martha's Vineyard, Mark Warner Jokes About Mueller Leaks. Leading Democrats over the weekend
rubbed shoulders in one of the country's most liberal enclaves, according to reports. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) and
philanthropist Connie Milstein threw a ritzy bash at her Edgartown abode on Saturday.
Bloomberg
to Spend $80 Million Boosting Democrats in Midterms. Billionaire and former New York City Mayor Michael
Bloomberg has approved a plan to spend $80 million helping Democrats in their efforts to flip the House of
Representatives in the midterm elections. Bloomberg is a political independent but holds liberal stances on issues like
climate change, gun control and immigration, and he spoke at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. He was a Democrat
before first running for mayor in 2001, then became a Republican, was re-elected in 2005, left the party to become an
independent, and was re-elected once more in 2009. Bloomberg told the New York Times Republicans had "failed" in
their opportunity to show they could "govern responsibly."
Bernie
Sanders' income tops $1M for second year in row, reports say. A financial disclosure document filed in May
shows that the indepedent lawmaker from Vermont made more than $1 million in 2017, given him income of that figure or
more for the second year in a row, VTDigger reported. Most of that income — $885,767 — came from
cash advances and royalties for his 2016 book, "Our Revolution," which recounted the Sanders' failed bid for the Democratic
Party's presidential nomination.
Bloomberg
commits $80M to rid Congress of Republicans. Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City,
will pour at least $80 million into Democratic campaigns for the midterm elections in an attempt to drive
Republicans out of the House, according to a report Wednesday [6/20/2018]. Bloomberg, an independent who backs gun
control, progressive immigration reform and efforts to fight climate change, has approved the plan to use the funds to flip
the House, the New York Times reported. In a statement, Bloomberg took the "absolutely feckless" Republican leadership
to task for failing to check President Trump or provide oversight of his administration.
Melinda
Gates Upset President Trump Defunded International Planned Parenthood. Melinda Gates, wife of billionaire
Microsoft founder Bill Gates, wishes President Trump had allowed International Planned Parenthood to continue its murderous
agenda across the globe instead of defunding it. Keeping true to his pro-life promises, President Trump implemented the
Mexico City Policy shortly after taking office. Approximately $100 million was stripped from International Planned
Parenthood thanks to the President's signature, which will save countless lives from abortions.
Jane
Fonda urges Hollywood elites to 'save' America, time to take 'back our government'. When will the Hollywood
elite ever learn that average Americans don't really care what they think? Actress and political activist Jane Fonda
took an award ceremony opportunity to whine about the current state of government, warning her fellow Democrats that America
is facing an "existential crisis" under President Trump.
Obama
to headline DCCC fundraiser with Pelosi, Eshoo: Report. Former President Barack Obama will reportedly
headline a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraiser in Northern California later this month. The former
president will appear alongside House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., at the June 29
event, which will be hosted by Liz Simons and Mark Heising at their house in Atherton, Calif., according to Politico. [...]
Tickets to the fundraiser start at $10,000.
Facebook
Cofounder's Wife Bankrolls BLM Activist Shaun King's PAC. The wife of a Facebook cofounder has provided a bulk
of the funding to a political action committee that was co-founded by Black Lives Matter (BLM) activist Shaun King to target
district attorney races across the country in an attempt to "fight structural racism." Liberal activists and entities,
such as billionaire George Soros and the Color of Change PAC, have quietly flooded local district attorney races across the
country with cash and organizational support in an attempt to overhaul the criminal justice system by electing far-left
DAs. King, who first spoke to media on the formation of the Real Justice PAC in February, told the Huffington Post at
the time that "No position in America, no single individual has a bigger impact on the criminal justice system —
including police brutality, but the whole crisis of mass incarceration in general — than your local district attorney."
George
Soros, buying a district attorney near you. George Soros, the billionaire of progressive-slash-socialist and
globalist causes the world over, has been busy buying his way into local district attorney campaigns in the United
States. Talk about trying to turn the judicial system into an activist camp for the left. It's one thing to
exercise one's First Amendment rights to support candidates with similar political leanings. It's another thing
entirely to try and collapse a limited government republic, from the bottom up, and implement, in its place, a judicial
branch filled with people who twist the Bill of Rights into something it's not, the Constitution into something it was never
intended to be, and the rule of law into a mocking tool for far-left gain.
The
Clinton Foundation is back!. The Clintons partied like it was 2015 on Thursday night, hosting a $100,000-a-table
star-studded gala designed to relaunch their troubled family charity. Sting and Shaggy performed together on stage,
Jon Bon Jovi introduced Bill and the audience included millionaires and Hillary super-fans who got in line for selfies.
On offer at a post-dinner auction was a trip to the Caribbean with Bill — or chardonnay with Hillary.
Campaign
contributor helped Obamas score Netflix deal. Barack and Michelle Obama are raking in the cash, thanks to the
influence of a former campaign supporter. The couple last week signed a creative production deal with Netflix that one
entertainment-industry source said could be valued at more than $50 million. Ted Sarandos, a major campaign
contributor for Obama and the streaming giant's creative-content chief who oversees an $8 billion budget, helped to
broker the deal, the source told The [New York] Post.
Soros
spends big in California's DA races in bid to reshape criminal justice system. New York billionaire George
Soros is leading a campaign to reshape the nation's criminal justice system — and targeting with cash four of the
56 district attorney positions in California up for grabs June 5. In fact, he and other wealthy liberal donors are
pouring millions of dollars and liberal groups are offering support to would-be prosecutors who favor lower incarceration
rates, crackdowns on police misconduct and changes in a bail system that they argue discriminates against the poor, the Los
Angeles Times reported.
Tom
Steyer Allegedly Using Convicted Felons For His Renewable Energy Initiative. An organization backed by
environmentalist Tom Steyer is allegedly paying convicted felons to gather signatures for a ballot initiative in Arizona — a
crime in the state. Steyer, an environmentalist billionaire who has spearheaded numerous climate change initiatives
across the country, is behind a push to increase Arizona's renewable energy portfolio. The California activist,
through his national NextGen America organization, has completely funded Clean Energy for a Healthy Arizona — a
group that is campaigning to force utilities to obtain 50 percent of their electricity from renewable sources,
such as solar and wind, by 2030. Such a sweeping mandate requires an amendment to the Arizona Constitution,
meaning supporters have to collect 225,963 valid voters' signatures by July to make the 2018 ballot.
The
face of the Democrats in 2018: A bitter, petty, vindictive Hillary Clinton. The Democratic Party has no leader
right now. No one. Former President Barack Obama is palling around with his billionaire, island-owning
buddies. Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders is kicking back in one of his three houses (we're guessing the big one on
Lake Champlain). And the 20-some 2020 presidential wannabes are all jockeying for media attention (and cash, lots of cash).
In such a void, that leaves just one person with the spotlight: the bitter, ever-angry, petty, vindictive Hillary Clinton.
We'll
Never Be Rid of Them: Obamas Sign a Deal With Netflix. [Scroll down] My biggest pet peeve is when
highly paid politicians refer to their "public service." Four hundred thousand dollars a year with a domestic staff
that's on call 24/7 in your mansion, followed by over $200K a year for life and all funded by taxpayers is not service.
It's a sweet gig. Building a house with Habitat for Humanity is service. I am not quite sure how the Obamas were
meeting these people from "all walks of life," as it seemed as if they were spending most of their free time with the
extremely wealthy people in Bel Air.
Confirmed:
Former Feinstein Staffer Raised $50 Million, Hired Fusion GPS And Christopher Steele After 2016 Election. A
declassified congressional report confirms prior reporting by The Federalist that Daniel Jones, a former staffer for
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), hired Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele after the 2016 election to push the anti-Trump
Russian collusion narrative. [...] The report also revealed that Jones told federal investigators that he had raised $50 million
from "7 to 10 wealthy donors located primarily in New York and California."
Billionaire
George Soros invests millions in Democrat candidates in attorney races. George Soros has joined forces with
progressive groups and political action committees in an attempt to elect reformist prosecutors around the United
States. The billionaire has invested millions toward their initiative and will continue to fund other district attorney
races across the nation during this cycle. Soros donated $1.45 million to newly elected District Attorney Larry
Krasner, of Philadelphia, last year.
Soros
Buying San Diego DA Race. Leftist billionaire George Soros is injecting big money into a San Diego district
attorney race as part of his larger effort to install extremist prosecutors across America who will refuse to enforce
inconvenient laws that liberals and progressives don't like. Soros, who turns 88 in August, has been underwriting
district attorney races across America in an effort to dismantle the criminal justice system, empty the prisons, and sabotage
the enforcement of immigration laws.
Here are 1,366 well
sourced examples of Barack Obama's lies, lawbreaking, corruption, cronyism, hypocrisy, waste, etc. [#4]
Although Obama claimed to support the Occupy Wall St. movement, the truth is that as of 2011, he had raised more
money from Wall St. than any other candidate during the previous 20 years. In early 2012, Obama held a
fundraiser where Wall St. investment bankers and hedge fund managers each paid $35,800 to attend. In October
2011, Obama hired Broderick Johnson, a longtime Wall Street lobbyist, to be his new senior campaign adviser. Johnson
had worked as a lobbyist for JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Fannie Mae, Comcast, Microsoft, and the oil industry
Soros-Funded
Group Launches App to Help Illegal Aliens Avoid Feds. An open borders group that has benefitted from U.S.
taxpayer dollars and is funded by leftwing billionaire George Soros launched a smartphone application to help illegal
immigrants avoid federal authorities. [...] The group behind the app is called United We Dream, which describes itself as the
country's largest immigrant youth-led community. The nonprofit has more than 400,000 members nationwide and claims to
"embrace the common struggle of all people of color and stand up against racism, colonialism, colorism, and
xenophobia." Among its key projects is winning protections and rights for illegal immigrants, defending against
deportation, obtaining education for illegal immigrants and acquiring "justice and liberation" for undocumented LGBT
"immigrants and allies."
Obamas
'building new swimming pool' at their $8.1 million mansion in exclusive Kalorama neighborhood of Washington DC.
Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama are building a swimming pool at their home in an exclusive
neighborhood of Washington DC. The 44th president and his family purchased the the 8,200 sq ft mansion in the
Kalorama area of the capital in 2017 for $8.1 million having initially rented the property. Plans are now afoot for
a new swimming pool in the grounds, according to TMZ, which says it has seen building permits.
Soros
Is Targeting District Attorney Races to Create Havoc Against Conservatives. Far left billionaire George Soros
has been systematically targeting district attorney races throughout the United States. Some of the candidates he has
backed have already won. Now he is focusing on Oregon.
Judicial
Watch Sues for More George Soros Documents. Hungarian-American George Soros became a billionaire from hedge funds he
started, and also from short-selling pounds sterling during England's currency crisis in 1992. That maneuver earned him
$1 billion and the appellation, "The Man Who Broke the Bank of England." By 2018, he had $8 billion in the
bank — even after having given $18 billion to his Open Society Foundations, which support leftist causes in the
United States and around the world. With all of that money, you'd think he wouldn't need your help, wouldn't you?
Well, your government disagrees. And, in fact, the taxes you pay have been supporting this guy. That's not totally
surprising, as the Obama administration was certainly fond of using American tax dollars to fund left-wing organizations.
Democrats:
The Party of the Super-Duper (Mostly White) Gazillionaires. Make no mistake: in addition to campaign contributions, which
can be viewed at OpenSecrets.org, the Democrat billionaires do believe in wealth redistribution, which is why they've invested their monies
across every Democrat-friendly industry — from media to technology to anti-Second Amendment groups. It's the Democrats' (legal)
version of a Madoff scheme.
Judge, Lest Ye Be Judged.
Turns out, the fervent supporter doesn't really mind Bernie being very wealthy, not in any visceral way. His discovery
of Bernie's wealth doesn't shock him senseless, either. He expects a politician to be wealthy, especially after a long
career; he might not approve ("Property is theft!") but despite Bernie's personal choices, at least he'd prevent you
from being wealthy, and that's what really matters.
Hollywood's
Oscars Night Tanks as NRA Membership Skyrockets. Hollywood's biggest night of the year turned into one of the
smallest as viewers refused to watch a conga line of virtue-signaling celebrities preen about politics. [...] So, we have
people flocking to gun rights organizations and running from Hollywood. Why do you think that is? Hollywood
doesn't want to face the reality that it's because people are fed up with condescension from celebrities who don't value
Americans' civil rights.
The Shape of Virtue.
If there's anything America likes less than being lectured to by a gilded aristocracy, it's sitting through close to four
hours of those lectures while that same self-appointed nobility simultaneously sheds crocodile tears, pats itself on the
back, and pretends to motivate itself to action.
The Benedict Predicament.
America's Left already has the bulk of the nation's wealth. Residents of places such as Weston, Massachusetts, the suburbs of D.C.
and of Silicon Valley, vote for the nation's farthest-Left candidates with higher percentages than do those of zip-codes along the
country's Martin Luther King avenues.
Becoming
Michelle Obama. [Scroll down] Forgetting that America has heard all that bootstrap-racial oppression
malarkey before, of late, Michelle has given glimpses into the biographical vistas Becoming will explore. Last
year, for instance, for the 50,000th time, Michelle reiterated to the Hartford Courant that her "[p]arents weren't wealthy."
That was true until Mama Marian Robinson moved into the White House and received reparations in the form of four or more
$4-million vacations a year — compliments of the U.S. taxpayer. Comparing her former home to the $8.1-million
mansion she currently occupies in the posh Kalorama section of Washington, D.C., Michelle poured it on when she told the
Connecticut news site, "They weren't fancy folks. But we had a good childhood, living in a little, bitty apartment."
Nancy
Pelosi's net worth more than tripled during financial crisis 2008-2010. I am sure there is nothing at all
suspicious when the then-speaker of the House managed to triple her (and her husband Paul's) estimated net worth in the
period of a global financial crisis, when the federal government was deciding whom to bail out and whom to let go bankrupt,
and where to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on "stimulus." Doug Ross of Director Blue noticed the stunning
investment success of the San Francisco couple, drawing on information from Open Secrets, run by the Center for Responsive
Politics.
During
the financial crisis, Nancy Pelosi somehow tripled her net worth to $100 million. If only our society had some
people we used to call "investigative journalists". They might be able to figure out how then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi
mysteriously tripled her net worth during the height of the financial crisis.
'How Much Are You Worth, Nancy?': Pelosi Heckled at
Town Hall While Slamming Trump Tax Law. Rep. Nancy Pelosi was heckled by a woman at a town hall event Tuesday
[2/20/2018] after she continued blasting President Trump and Republicans' tax cuts. "God never intended one group of people
to live in superfluous inordinate wealth while others live in abject deadening poverty," the House minority leader said, adding
that the quote was from Dr. Martin Luther King. As she finished her sentence, Pelosi was interrupted by a woman in the
Phoenix, Arizona, audience who asked "how much are you worth, Nancy?"
Pelosi
Tries to Extend $137,000 Tax Break for Two of Her Multi-Million-Dollar Homes. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.),
who often rails against income inequality and calls on the wealthy to pay its "fair share" in taxes, took pains in late December to try to
preserve tax breaks for two of her multi-million-dollar homes one last time before the new tax law kicked in. Largely thanks to her
husband Paul, a real-estate and venture-capital investor, Pelosi is the wealthiest woman in Congress with a net worth of more than
$100 million and the seventh wealthiest member overall, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. In fact, assets and
cash disclosed in her 2016 financial-disclosure statement places Pelosi in the top one-tenth of the 1 percent of Americans.
Pelosi's annual property tax bill alone on three luxury homes last year — $137,000 — is more than twice the 2016
U.S. median household income of $59,039, which the U.S. Census reported last fall.
Hypocrisy, Inc.
American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten recently pilloried President Trump's health plan in the Huffington
Post: "GOP Rewards The Rich, Rips Off The Rest Of Us," she declared. Is Weingarten among "the rest of us?" The
union leader hauled in $472,197 last year. Weingarten is hardly the only fat-cat teachers' union leader.
According to the Department of Labor, National Education Association executive director John Stocks bagged $355,721 last year,
while NEA president Lily Eskelsen Garc'a scraped by on $317,826. At the 2017 California Democratic Party Convention,
California Teachers Association president Eric Heins ranted about billionaires without acknowledging his own $317,000 total
compensation package. CTA executive director Joe Nunez's compensation is $460,000; associate ED Emma Leheny makes
$480,000, and deputy ED Karen Kyhn gets by on $427,000 yearly. New York City's United Federation of Teachers boss
Michael Mulgrew is practically working class by comparison, making $288,000.
Wealthy
New Yorkers Fight To Keep Homeless Out Of Their Liberal Neighborhood. Wealthy New Yorkers are furious that
Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to open a homeless shelter in their ritzy Manhattan neighborhood. Dozens of wealthy
residents packed into a community meeting to voice their anger over the decision to move 150 homeless men into the former
Park Savoy Hotel, NY1 reports. The residents are concerned that the move will increase crime and decrease property
values in their neighborhood on "billionaires row."
Things
Your Professor Didn't Tell You About Climate Change. This year's World Economic Forum provided yet another opportunity for those
who believe in apocalyptic climate change to harangue us about the evils of greenhouse gases amid warnings the world will end in 2050 or 2100
or one of these days when it gets warm enough. Most striking is the annual spectacle of the world's wealthy and privileged disembarking
from their fuel-gulping private jets and limousines or emerging from luxury hotel suites, to proclaim the world must cut back on the use of
fossil fuels, or to question why the world's common people do not feel as deeply or passionately about climate change as they do.
No, Joe, we are not all
worthy. Young Joe Kennedy III, grandson of "Bobby," says "we are all worthy," meaning, as I take it, that there
are no differences between people — no matter what. Everybody is the same, according to Liberal-Think.
For example, since I was born with the same rights as Sandy Koufax, I should be able to pitch for the Dodgers, too.
Only they won't let me. That doesn't seem fair, but that's how it is in baseball, or in life. In politics, well,
if your name is Kennedy, Massachusetts automatically gives you a seat in the House or Senate. So maybe that is why Joe
assumes that we ALL get the same breaks and privileges.
Left
Blasts 'Tone Deaf,' 'Inexcusable' Joe Kennedy Pick — Privileged White Man Who's Not Progressive Enough. Some
left-wing activists are not thrilled that Democrats selected Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-MA) — a privileged "white man" —
to give the response to President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech on Tuesday evening [1/30/2018], arguing that it will be tougher
for Democrats to attack Trump as a white guy who inherited his wealth with another white liberal who inherited his fortune. They are
also slamming Democrats for selecting someone who is not progressive enough.
"I love
Trump for being frank with Africans". Conan O'Brien went to a resort in Haiti to prove it is not a [bad]
country. The people who live there know better than the tourists. Conan's trip was too clever by half.
Inadvertently, he showed himself as a white guy millionaire with a Harvard degree sipping an adult beverage from some sort of
coconut shell — while nearby, one million native people are still without sewers eight years after the
earthquake. How is this different from the colonialism Haitians overthrew 227 years ago?
A thousand dollars is mere chicken feed to a limousine liberal.
Wasserman
Schultz joins Pelosi in mocking size of $1K cash bonuses linked to tax cuts. Florida congresswoman and former
DNC chief Debbie Wasserman Schultz joined House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday to ridicule the economic
repercussions of recent tax reform legislation. An audience at Florida Atlantic University witnessed Ms. Pelosi
double down this morning on her recent "crumb" criticism of cash bonuses given out by companies like Apple, AT&T, Boeing,
Comcast, Disney, Home Depot, Fiat Chrysler, Southwest Airlines, Verizon, Wal-Mart and Well Fargo. The event, which was
sponsored by the group Not One Penny, included Ms. Wasserman Schultz's assertion that $1,000 doesn't go "very far for
almost anyone."
Nancy
Pelosi whoops it up with Democrats over government shutdown at a tony DC restaurant. Maybe they were whooping
it up. Or maybe they were crying in their beer. One thing that's certain is that Democrats, led by House Minority
Leader Nancy Pelosi, were doing it in luxury at one of Washington's toniest restaurants, as the measure to fund the
government failed. According to Scott Wong at The Hill, the wake of the late-night government shutdown sent
congressional members skittering all over town for their dinners: [...]
Nancy
Pelosi Ripped After Taking House Democrats out for Exclusive Dinner Party as Troops Pay Price for #SchumerShutdown.
According to media reports, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) invited the 192 Democrat Members of the House of Representatives
out to dinner at a fancy Italian restaurant in Washington, D.C. Saturday [1/20/2018] during the first day of the government shutdown.
Politico's Jake Sherman was first to report on Pelosi's dinner.
You
Can Get A "Poverty Is Sexist" Shirt For Only $380. The Golden Globes were a virtue signaling trainwreck by radical leftists with
no virtue or common sense. That's how you end up with a viral story about an overpaid actress wearing a "Poverty is Sexist" shirt.
And then you find out that the shirt/sweater runs to $380. Because this is what Hollywood is. If it were any more fake, it would
consist entirely of award shows.
Soros
and the Exploitation of Women. To date, [George] Soros has given away close to $14 billion to various leftist
"progressive" causes. He works for the decriminalization of both prostitution and drugs and helped kick-start America's medical
marijuana movement, was an early proponent and major funder of the initiative to redefine marriage, underwrites numerous leftist
think-tanks, and works assiduously for left-wing policy changes. OSF has nearly fifty offices around the world and more than
1,600 full-time staff members who are activists in numerous arenas, with particular attention to judicial decisions and supporting
far-left judicial candidates. Soros recently gave $18 billion to OSF, establishing one of the richest foundation endowments
ever and guaranteeing that his work will continue after he is gone. One of his less publicized causes is "helping sex workers."
Plans
revised for 'Obama Presidential Center': taller, uglier and a little bit less white. A faint odor of desperation accompanies
the latest revised plans for the monument to the greatness of Barack Hussein Obama planned for Chicago. You see, the City of Chicago
and its mayor, Rahm Emanuel, have to approve the plans and the appropriation of park land designed by Frederick Law Olmstead — America's
greatest landscape architect — to memorialize America's First Black President (unless you count Bill Clinton). The effort to combine
grandiosity with the appearance of community responsiveness is a tough challenge for anyone, it must be conceded.
Foreign
leaders showered Obama with gifts in his final years. Foreign leaders showered former President Barack Obama
with more than $100,000 in gifts during his final two years in office, according to federal documents posted online Wednesday
[1/10/2018]. The massive haul included cigars and rum from Cuban President Raul Castro, bottles of wine from Italian
President Sergio Mattarella, an Australian billiards cue, a Jordanian chessboard — and a cured ham leg from Spain.
Guess
Where The Money Behind Al Gore's Promotion Of Climate Hysterics Came From. If you think former Vice-President
Al Gore, and current head of the Church of Climate Change was helping to save the world out of the goodness of his heart with
his own money, you are sadly mistaken. As leaked documents reveal, Gore was having his pockets filled by an outside
source that had a specific interest in the climate hysterics being spread far and wide. And that source was none other
than leftist sugar daddy George Soros. According to Daily Caller, documents published by DC Leaks show that Soros's
group Open Society Institute (OSI) threw $10 million at Al Gore in 2008 to push climate panic in order to help
push policies surrounding the bad science.
Leftist
Millionaire NYC Mayor Gives himself $33,000 Raise. Leftists claim to hate tax cuts, but they use every tax
advantage they can take. And then these disingenuous fight for their raises, while claiming to give back. Case
in point, Mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio.
De
Blasio will get a pay raise when second term begins. Mayor de Blasio will get a fat 15 percent raise when
his second term begins Monday — bumping his salary from $225,000 to $258,750 a year. The $33,750 boost is
more than the annual salary of a full-time worker making the city's roughly $13 minimum wage.
Man
Of The People: Bernie Sanders Wears $700 Coat To Swear In New York Mayor. New York mayor Bill de Blasio
chose Vermont senator-turned-progressive-presidential-candidate Bernie Sanders to swear him in to his second term this
weekend, solidifying a "bromance" de Blasio hopes will translate into Sanders naming him his socialist successor in national
politics. But the ceremony was so cold, Bernie Sanders was forced to upgrade his traditionally unkempt look, and he did
it with a decidedly un-99%-er coat by the decidedly upmarket Burton outfitters.
The Prince and the Community
Organizer. For a self-described community organizer, full of the anti-colonial dreams of his father, Obama
seems to enjoy inordinately rubbing shoulders with monarchs and princes. The BBC this week hailed his embarrassingly
empty chat with Prince Harry as his first post-presidential interview (it was actually conducted last September but released
only on Tuesday [12/26/2017]). The interview allowed two vapid liberals to wallow in their privilege while babbling
about a world without privilege. Nothing phrases like "platforms of change" tumbled forth as they both longed for
greater egalitarianism. The prince and the community organizer agreed that they are both "passionate" about helping
paupers. Obama, who is earning millions of dollars for twenty-minute speeches these days, says that he is concerned
about unfair pay, while Prince Harry worried about the lack of seriousness accorded young people before asking Obama to
choose his favorite Kardashian. [...] The interview overflows with such prattle, with Obama alternating between praising
and condemning the superficial politics he helped create.
The
incredible $2.8 million mansion Geraldo Rivera has moved into in Ohio after ditching life in his native New York City. Fox
News correspondent Geraldo Rivera and his wife have moved into their new $2.8 million mansion in Ohio. The host has officially
ditched his native New York City and is now settling down in his wife Erica Levy's hometown in Cleveland. According to the listing
on Zillow, the stately mansion sits on 'one of the truly iconic estates in Shaker Heights'.
Sheila
Jackson Lee, Limousine Liberal. It's about 200 paces from the awning of Jackson Lee's Capitol Hill apartment to
the marbled steps of the Cannon House Office Building, where her office is. Most people think the walk is a pleasant
one. Red-brick townhouses give onto tree-lined streets; crossing guards ensure no one is run over. It's the kind
of neighborhood where you might expect to find the Republican party's headquarters — and do. They're right next door
to Jackson Lee's building. In a city that consistently ranks among the nation's worst for commuting, Jackson Lee would
seem to have it made. But apparently it's not convenient enough. Jackson Lee is routinely chauffeured the one
short block to work — in a government car, by a member of her staff, at the taxpayers' expense. And apparently
in violation of House rules.
Study
finds top 1% thrived under Obama. The rest of us not so much. Economist Edward N. Woolf published a paper
that shows that under Barack Obama, the wealthiest 1% increased their share of America's wealth to 40%. The Washington Post
blamed President Trump for what Obama did.
Census
Bureau: 5 Richest Counties Are D.C. Suburbs. The five richest counties in the United States when measured by
median household income are all suburbs of Washington, D.C., according to the American Community Survey data released today
by the Census Bureau. According to the American Community Survey's new five-year estimates (2012-2016), the five
richest counties in the country are: Loudoun County, Va., where the median household income was $125,672; Falls Church
City, Va., where it was $115,244; Fairfax County, Va., where it was $114,329; Howard County, Md., where it was $113,800; and
Arlington County, Va., where it was $108,706.
Is Sen. Warren an 'Honest
Injun'? [Scroll down] Sen. Elizabeth Warren is one of those who jumped onboard the Native American
bandwagon, claiming a 1/32nd Cherokee heritage — a claim strongly disputed by a Cherokee genealogist.
Refusing a DNA test to remove any doubt, Warren relies on two dubious sources — family lore and her "high
cheekbones." She has asserted she "never asked for and never got any benefit" from her claim. The following suggests
otherwise. Proclaiming her ancestry in 1984, Warren later used it professionally to claim minority status when her name
was entered into the University of Texas Law School faculty directory. That may very well have influenced Harvard Law
School to offer her a job to join their faculty, where she was described as its "first woman of color." Harvard became her
launching pad for a political career. While Warren had no qualms about claiming Indian heritage, she certainly stood
out as such. Unlike so many impoverished Native Americans, she is worth millions of dollars.
Gates
Pushes InBloom's Massive Data Tracking System for Everyone in America. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
gave $100 million to fund a mega database to collect private information on every American school child from early education
through high school. He is also funding studies to prove the need for tracking students through college and into their
adult life. His thinking falls in line with The Life of Julia, one of Mr. Obama's campaign's socialist selling
points. The Life of Julia imposes the government into the life of every person from birth until death. The
"benevolent" government will be in a surrogate parental role under this type of system. Julia's life is completely
governed by the State and noticeably absent are parents, family, friends, and self-sufficiency.
Steyer: We Can't
Wait To Impeach Trump. Tom Steyer, a billionaire hedge fund manager and liberal mega-donor, told CNN's Dana
Bash on Sunday [11/26/2017] that President Donald Trump should be impeached as soon as possible. The San Francisco-based
mega donor financed a nationwide ad campaign urging Trump's removal from office by Congress for a variety of alleged offenses,
including collusion with Russia during the 2016 presidential election and heightened tensions with North Korea. He put
$20 million behind a national ad campaign urging impeachment, which includes both television and digital ads.
Pelosi,
Soros Headline Left's Biggest Dark Money Conference. A secretive three-day conference where big money liberal
donors are plotting the next steps of the "resistance" will be headlined by Friday [11/17/2017] speeches by billionaire
George Soros and Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, according to internal documents obtained by the Washington
Free Beacon. The Democracy Alliance, a donor club of deep-pocketed liberal donors that each pledge to direct hundreds
of thousands of dollars in funding to approved left-wing groups, descended on California's posh La Costa Resort on Wednesday
morning for its fall donor summit. The group continued its tradition of secrecy, promising all members and guests of
the summit their participation would "remain confidential."
Party
Of The Rich: Democrats Are 7 Of 10 Wealthiest Members Of Congress. Republicans have long been smeared by
Democrats as the party of the rich, even though all of Hollywood, all of Silicon Valley and all of Wall Street are in their
pockets. It's a cheap and long-debunked tactic, and now we have another piece of evidence to corroborate the obvious
fact that Democrats are the party of rich white men. According to a study conducted by the Center for Responsive
Politics, financial disclosure forms reveal that out of the ten richest members of Congress, a whopping total of seven are
Democrats. Collectively, the total wealth of the seven richest Democrats in Congress amounts to $1.1 billion.
Barack
Obama arrives in a four-SUV motorcade to a private Democratic fundraiser at $35m Manhattan mansion. President
Barack Obama mingled with Democratic leadership and high-powered donors at a New York City mansion on Tuesday, while raising
money for the cash-strapped political party. [...] The fundraiser was held at the palatial Upper East Side duplex owned by
Dennis Mehiel, a former candidate for New York lieutenant governor and major Democratic donor.
Michelle
Obama and birthday girl Valerie Jarrett jet off to Las Vegas after Chicago summit. Michelle Obama capped off a
successful two-day summit in Chicago last week by hopping on a jet and flying off to Sin City. The former first lady
headed to Las Vegas alongside her husband Barack's former advisor and current Lyft board director Valerie Jarrett, who was
getting a early start on her upcoming birthday. Jarrett will turn 61 next Wednesday, and to celebrate she enjoyed a
jam-packed weekend surrounded by friends and family that kicked off on Friday with dinner in a private room at TAO Asian
Bistro in The Venetian.
Did
Russian money make Hillary's takeover of the DNC possible? As one reads the wretched news of how Hillary
Clinton came to take over the Democratic Party and snatch the nomination from rival Bernie Sanders, in the memoirs of former
DNC acting chair Donna Brazile, it's striking how the central persuading dynamic of it is money. [...] Basically, Clinton
bought her way to access to power because she had more money than Bernie Sanders did. Bernie's smalltime donor-based
money pile proved to be no match for Hillary's kookabucks. The millions and millions she had from her pay to play
operations that moved through her foundation and were so irregular of bookkeeping control that no philanthropy rating agency
would rate them. Most of the foundation's work went to personal expenses, which could mean anything. Including,
quite possibly, campaign finance and bailing out the DNC. Which is why, as [Fox News' Greg] Jarrett points out, a Special
Counsel ought to be named, targeting her activities.
Mark
Zuckerberg and liberals seek to weaken bail system that keeps us safe. For any liberal to entertain winning the
Democratic nomination for president these days, there are some important boxes to be checked, including taking on America's
system of law and order. Now Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has begun checking the boxes. Zuckerberg has hired
Hillary Clinton's pollster. He's hired Barack Obama's campaign manager. He's even visited the first presidential
caucus state of Iowa. And he's pandering to the left's machine by funding a campaign that aims to get rid of our
nation's bail system.
Democrats
Fight To Protect A $1.8 Trillion Tax Break That Benefits The Top 1%. So what is it that Democrats are valiantly
trying to protect? This SALT deduction, as it's sometimes called, will cost the federal government $1.8 trillion over
the next decade, according to the Tax Foundation. And the benefits go almost entirely to upper-income families.
Fewer than 22% of tax filers even claim the state and local tax deduction, and the vast majority of these are higher-income
families. While 78% of those with incomes above $200,000 claim the deduction, just 7% of those making between $30,000
and $40,000 do. For most taxpayers, the standard deduction is more valuable.
Soros Prepares To
Buy Back Congress From Republicans. [George] Soros and his deep-pocket globalist cohorts are set to push
hundreds of millions of dollars into the 2018 Midterms while millions of Trump supporters have grown disenchanted with a
Republican-controlled Congress that has repeatedly blocked the Trump agenda. It is a condition that has led to the rise
of the term "Trumplicans" — voters who remain firmly on the side of the President while casting an increasingly
wary eye toward both political parties.
What
Harvey Weinstein tells us about the liberal world. [Scroll down] To call this man a hypocrite is to state
the obvious. This champion of women is now accused of sexual harassment on an epic scale. This defender of the
press was excellent at manipulating it and on one memorable occasion is said to have physically roughed up a reporter asking
tough questions. [...] In Weinstein's world, politics often correlated with conspicuous displays of luxury goods —
it was something you did on Martha's Vineyard, or on the Riviera, or in the Hamptons, toasting the candidate or raising money
for the good cause.
Bring
Down Leftist Foundations Like The Mafia. The Department of Justice has been investigating DisruptJ20, a "resistance" group
that plotted to shut down President Trump's inauguration. The DOJ has demanded the IP addresses of visitors, along with any emails,
photos and names it can get. But the pipeline of Dj20 funding goes back to George Soros. And not just Soros. Money from
the Global Justice Alliance went to Refuse Fascism, a group founded by members of the Revolutionary Communist Party, which staged violent
protests. "Respectable" big money leftist groups like the Hill Snowdon Foundation and Ben and Jerry's Foundation fund middlemen like
the Alliance. And then the Alliance funds "direct action" groups that are willing to get their hands violently dirty.
American
Coup: Big Money Donors Trying To Overthrow Trump Revealed. The Kellogg Foundation. The Ford
Foundation. The Open Society Foundation. (G. Soros) The California Endowment. The Marquerite Casey
Foundation. Fidelity Charitable Gift. The open borders-promoting National Immigration Law Center. These are
some of the very deep pocket groups that have donated MILLIONS to the far-left, militant Center for Community Change [...]
Donors
to anti-Trump 'resistance' group revealed. The Center for Community Change, a Washington, D.C.-based 501 (c)(3)
progressive community organizing group that does not reveal its donors, has been involved in direct action against President
Donald Trump and Republicans before and after the November elections. The organization's members sit on the boards of
other prominent liberal activist groups. The [Washington] Free Beacon has obtained the group's unredacted 2015
tax forms that shed light on its funders, who provide millions of dollars in assistance. The group appears to rely
heavily on a few major liberal foundations, organizations, and unions.
Why
Are Mainstream Charities Funding The Anti-Trump 'Resistance'? An investigation by the Washington Free Beacon looked into the progressive
community organizing group called the Center for Community Change Action (CCCA), which has spearheaded the anti-Trump "resistance." What the
Beacon found by looking at the group's unredacted tax returns was surprising: Far from being funded by like-minded activists and grass-roots
contributions, the anti-Trump CCCA is secretly funded by major charities with respectably wholesome, centrist images. In some cases, the charities
fund other extreme left-wing activist groups, too. Among those giving money to the CCCA — which, the Beacon notes, "has been involved
in direct action against President Donald Trump and Republicans before and after the November elections" — include the W.K. Kellogg
Foundation, the Ford Foundation and billionaire George Soros' Open Society Foundation, which have together funneled millions of dollars to the
anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-Republican activist group. Kellogg alone gave $3 million, while the Ford Foundation ponied up
$2.3 million. Soros delivered a cool $1.75 million to the anti-Trumpistas.
Democrat
Warren confronted over her 'One Percent' status. A Boston radio host called out U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren
this week for criticizing America's "One Percent," noting that her net worth ranks her among the class she consistently
attacks. "How can you rail against the One Percent, when in a sense you are and live like the One Percent?," Jeff Kuhner
asked Warren on Monday [9/25/2017] in the hallway of the WRKO's studio, referring to the class of America's wealthiest people.
Well we're movin' on UP ...
Obamas eyeing
Upper East Side apartment. Former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle are eyeing an apartment in a
historic building in Manhattan, multiple sources exclusively tell Page Six. The Obamas have been looking at 10 Gracie
Square on the Upper East Side, situated between East End Avenue and East River Drive and near the mayor's residence, Gracie
Mansion, according to sources who have seen the couple arriving at the building for viewings.
Steelers'
Head Coach Held Fundraiser For Hillary, Donated Heavily To Obama. Steelers' Head Coach Mike Tomlin held a
high-end fundraiser in 2016 for then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at his home with ticket prices reportedly costing
over $30,000. Tomlin hosted the event with his wife on June 14 with supporters required to pay $33,400 to meet
Clinton — those who couldn't afford to pay that amount to meet a woman claiming to represent the middle class were
given the option of simply paying $10,000 to attend.
Obama
hauls in millions from Wall Street, media don't say a word. Former President Barack Obama is hauling in millions from Wall
Street banks — the very institutions he harangued throughout both of his presidential campaigns. Throughout their political
careers, both Hillary Clinton and Mr. Obama berated banks and the "fat cats" who run them as heartless corporations (while filling
their own pockets with their cash). Mrs. Clinton made millions giving speeches to the huge financial institutions, swatting
away charges of hypocrisy. This apparently didn't really sell with Mr. and Mrs. America, who didn't elect her
president. Now it's Mr. Obama's turn to make bank.
How Obama
is funding the anti-Trump resistance. An estimated $640 million has been diverted into what critics say is an
improper, if not unconstitutional, "slush fund" fed from government settlements with JPMorgan Chase and Co., Citigroup Inc.
and Bank of America Corp., according to congressional sources. The payola is potentially earmarked for third-party
interest groups approved by the Justice Department and HUD without requiring any proof of how the funds will be spent.
Many of the recipients so far are radical leftist organizations who solicited the settlement cash from the administration
even though they were not parties to the lawsuits, records show. "During the Obama administration, groups committed to
'revolutionary social change' sent proposals and met with high-level HUD and Justice Department officials to try to get their
pieces of the settlement pie," Cause of Action Institute vice president Julie Smith told The [New York] Post.
Obama
Goes From White House to Wall Street in Less Than One Year. [Scroll down] While he can't run for
president, he continues to be an influential voice in a party torn between celebrating and vilifying corporate power.
His new work with banks might suggest which side of the debate he'll be on and disappoint anyone expecting him to avoid a
trap that snared Clinton. Or, as some of his executive friends see it, he's just a private citizen giving a few paid
speeches to other successful people while writing his next book.
Hillary's
Anti-Presidential Campaign. Hillary Clinton spent a third of her miserable adult life trying to get into the
White House. Now the nation's failed Harridan-in-Chief is determined to spend her remaining years blaming everyone,
from Matt Lauer to the Electoral College, for having to live out the rest of her life in flat broke poverty in the eleven
rooms of her Georgian Colonial mansion (and the neighboring mansion in their cul-de-sac too).
The
Mistake of Pandering to Antifa and Black Lives Matter. The loudest black voices trashing America are super
wealthy Leftist blacks who could not have achieved their mega success without the enthusiastic support of white America.
And yet, they are dissing our flag and national anthem. They are cheerleaders for the destruction of historical monuments
and clamoring for us to throw out the U.S. Constitution. Shamefully, rich leftist blacks are using urban blacks as pawns
to further the leftist socialist/progressive agenda.
New
York council candidate who lives in low-income housing wins primary election after deleting pictures of her wealthy husband
frolicking on a yacht. A New York City Council candidate who lives in lower income housing has been elected as
the Democratic nominee for her district after controversy surrounded now-deleted online photos showing her husband sailing on
his wealthy father's yacht. Carlina Rivera will now be the nominee for the District 2 City Council seat to represent
neighborhoods including parts of the East Village, Gramercy and the Lower East Side. The race was called for Rivera
shortly after the polls closed on Tuesday [9/12/2017] since she secured the nomination with 64 percent of the vote.
The
Southern Poverty Law Center Has $69 Million Parked Overseas. The Southern Poverty Law Center invests almost 20 percent of
its nearly $320 million endowment fund in offshore equities and other investments. The 2016 annual report of the Alabama-based civil
rights organization reports $69,093,576 of "non-U.S. equity funds" among the assets comprising the total endowment fund of $319,283,961, a
fund the SPLC describes as a "plan for the day when nonprofits like the SPLC can no longer afford to solicit support through the mail
because of rising postage and printing costs." (Given that 2016 contributions topped $45 million, that day has not yet arrived.)
Obama
eyeing exquisite waterfront Vineyard properties. The Obamas No. 1 vacation spot during their White House years
is still drawing the former first family to its shores and may do so more permanently. The Boston Globe is reporting
that the ex-president and former first lady are eyeing two parcels of land that are for sale on Martha's Vineyard, part of a
larger estate owned by President Obama's Ambassador to Japan, Caroline Kennedy, which she inherited from her mother, Jacqueline
Kennedy Onassis. The waterfront properties, part of the Red Gate Farm estate, were put on the market several months ago
and are going for $12 million and $15 million a pop.
'At a certain
point you've made enough money' — Obamas looking to buy a $15 million vacant lot on Martha's Vineyard. We've
done a thousand pieces on how leftist-statism is built on a do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do foundation, but fatcat Dems keep offering
new examples. It's just so easy to point out their hypocrisy, that we'd be fools to stop doing it. Enter
former President Barack Obama: a man who wants to "spread the wealth around" and who once famously said "at a certain point
you've made enough money." According to Realtor.com, he's looking to purchase one of two vacant lots on his favorite
vacation Island, Martha's Vineyard. Of course, he doesn't want to live inland like some commoner, so both properties
are ocean front. They're also not cheap. The man who wonders when 'enough is enough' is looking at plots that
start at $12 million and, remember, that's without a house.
Southern
Poverty Law Center Transfers Millions in Cash to Offshore Entities. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a
liberal, Alabama-based 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organization that has gained prominence on the left for its "hate
group" designations, pushes millions of dollars to offshore entities as part of its business dealings, records show.
Additionally, the nonprofit pays lucrative six-figure salaries to its top directors and key employees while spending little
on legal services despite its stated intent of "fighting hate and bigotry" using litigation, education, and other forms of advocacy.
George
Soros Floods Local DA Races With $1.7M in Philadelphia. Liberal billionaire George Soros gave nearly $1.7 million
to a political action committee run by his longtime treasurer to aid a Democrat who is running for the district attorney position
in Philadelphia, Pa., the latest in a series of such expenditures. Soros has generously funded a number of district attorney
races throughout the United States in recent years via political action committees that tend to shut down after each election.
Elizabeth
Warren Uses Legal Loophole to Raise Big Cash. As she was gearing up for her re-election campaign —
and a potential presidential bid — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in January quietly set up a joint
fundraising committee that allows wealthy donors to write five- and six-figure checks. As a candidate, Warren can raise
a maximum of $5,400 from any individual contributor — $2.700 [sic] in the primary and $2,700 for the general
election. By combining her campaign fund with the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee and her political action
committee, PAC for a Level Playing Field, the Elizabeth Warren Action Fund can raise cash in much larger increments.
Barack
Obama Pushes Communism in Italy to a Receptive EU Crowd. The Sentinel posted two articles about former
president Obama's speech in Italy last week during which he exposed his statist goals for the world. Obama openly
espoused, what the Sentinel originally characterized as socialism but what Conservative Treehouse describes as
communism. In any case, people should be very concerned about this speech because the forces behind Barack Obama are
powerful and some of these leftists are embedded in our government. The speech in question took place in Milan at the
food security conference organized by "Seeds and Chips". Obama received a reported $2.7 million for his attendance.
Can New York City Be Saved?
Fortunately, the city made a huge comeback with Republican Rudy Giuliani's administration and New York City became one of the safest
large cities in the country. Mayor DeBlasio has whittled away at his quality-of-life law enforcement programs by now allowing
public urination and other previous offenses to be reduced to meaningless incidents. The squeegee wipers are back, the homeless
and illegal immigrants are attacking innocent citizens; subway crime is at an all time high and our Marxist Mayor trots off to Germany
to join anti-US protesters the day after an NYPD cop is assassinated sitting in her patrol car. When a reporter confronted him
about news that the homeless were cleared off the subway for a photo op with the mayor, he had the audacity to say, "Read my
lips. I don't care."
The 'Anti-Fascist' Fascist.
The so-called "antifascist" movement in America today bears a strange resemblance to the very fascism it purports to combat. When
we see masked Antifa protesters in black, carrying weapons, disrupting public events and blocking speakers from campus, this looks more
like fascism than its opposite. The close relationship between self-styled antifascism and fascism itself can be seen in some
little-known aspects of one of Antifa's main financial sponsors, George Soros. The Hungarian-born Soros became a billionaire
through shrewd global investments and currency manipulation; his Quantum Fund is one of the world's first private hedge funds.
Soros is the main funder of some 200 leftist groups, including Planned Parenthood, MoveOn.org, and Black Lives Matter. Soros also
backs self-proclaimed antifascist groups — this year the Soros-backed group Alliance for Global Justice gave $50,000 to the
militant thugs associated with the group Refuse Fascism. Soros doesn't merely fund activism; he also funds disruptive violence.
Homeless
booted from subways so de Blasio could have 'clean' ride. Mayor Bill de Blasio ventured into the city's
decrepit subway system Sunday — but didn't have to face the foul-smelling and often crazy vagrants whom ordinary
New Yorkers are forced to contend with every day. That's because police were ordered to roust all the homeless people
from two stations ahead of the mayor's four-stop press event as he rode from his Park Slope gym to his new re-election
headquarters in downtown Brooklyn, law enforcement sources told The [New York] Post.
Kamala
Harris meets with Democratic elite in Hamptons. The Democrats' "Great Freshman Hope," Sen. Kamala Harris,
is heading to the Hamptons to meet with Hillary Clinton's biggest backers. The California senator is being fêted
in Bridgehampton on Saturday [7/15/2017] at the home of MWWPR guru Michael Kempner, a staunch Clinton supporter who was one
of her national-finance co-chairs and a led fund-raiser for her 2008 bid for the presidency. He was also listed as one
of the top "bundlers" for Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign, having raised $3 million.
Chelsea
Clinton and unemployed husband Marc Mezvinsky enjoy a sunny stroll in the Hamptons on weekend vacation.
Chelsea, 37, was taking a break after promoting her bestselling book 'She Persisted' for the past month. Her husband,
39, does not currently have a job, so was taking a break from his days of taking a break in New York City.
Imposter Mayor.
Mayor de Blasio made a surprise departure from New York City yesterday — just one day after the assassination of
NYPD officer Miosotis Familia while she guarded a violence-plagued Bronx corner — in order to attend anti-capitalist
protests in Hamburg, site of the G-20 summit. [...] The mayor has indulged his inflated sense of his own importance before:
he loves to attend summits, conferences, rallies, and protests where he can pontificate about inequality. He particularly
enjoys hobnobbing with international mayors.
Maxine
Waters as Resistance Leader? What a Joke. Thirteen-term Democratic congresswoman Maxine Waters, Beltway barnacle permanently affixed to
USS Government, is now the fresh-faced "rock star" of the Democratic party. [...] Waters has spent 37 years in office — many of those years
as head of the Congressional Black Caucus — promising to make life better for constituents in economically ravaged South Central Los Angeles. What
do the denizens of her district have to show for it?
Here's
why the feds are investigating Bernie Sanders' wife Jane. Because [Bernie] Sanders hasn't ruled out a presidential
run in 2020, any federal investigation has the potential to become disastrous or, at the very least, politically embarrassing.
And because the scandal touches on the themes of education costs and six-figure severance packages — two issues that were
central to Sanders' populist message — discussing the investigations at all could tarnish his brand as a champion of the
little guy.
The
Obamas take a private jet from Bali to Java. Former President Barack Obama and his family wrapped up their
five-day vacation on Indonesia's resort island of Bali and headed to the historic city of Yogyakarta on Wednesday [6/28/2017]
during a nostalgic trip to the country where Obama lived for several years as a child.
Obamas
under fire from the left for never ending, sizzling ultra-luxury vacations. Ex-presidents, understandably and
un-controversially, go on vacations immediately after leaving office. But the level of luxury the Obamas enjoy on their
vacations is unprecedented for a modern-day president, say travel experts. Since leaving office in late January, Obama
has visited late actor Marlon Brando's private island; the Four Seasons in Bali — where rooms cost upward of
$2,000 per night; a Palm Springs estate; Sir Richard Branson's Necker Island; the exclusive Mid Pacific Country Club in Oahu;
the 13th-century Borgo Finocchieto in Tuscany; and the Rising Sun, Hollywood studio mogul David Geffen's private yacht.
What
Is the Alternative to Trump Derangement? Barack Obama [...] recently remonstrated about the evils of inequality
and the need for more diversity — at $10,000 a minute to largely white, Wall Street audiences, while whining about
the ongoing recalibration of his failed Obamacare project.
Teachers
Union Boss Randi Weingarten: My Salary's Only $360K. American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President
Randi Weingarten, who was paid $543,150 last year, defended her compensation by claiming her pay is $360,000 and other
reported expenses simply prove the union's "transparency." As part of a series of April 28 Twitter posts demanding
Congress hike the federal minimum wage to $10.10, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) District 1199 quoted from
a January column Weingarten wrote for The Huffington Post. "Justice means that hardworking people must have access to a
living wage," Weingarten wrote. AFT paid Weingarten $556,981 in 2012 and $543,150 in 2013.
How
The Dems Burned $40 Mil To Lose 4 Elections And Scam Supporters. "It's a bellwether for what the Democratic Party is
going to be about," Democratic National Committee boss Tom Perez boasted. That was back in March and the Dems had just begun
their frantic spending spree in Georgia's Sixth. By the time it was over, Jon Ossoff, an awkward immature hipster who didn't
even live in the district, had raised $23.6 million and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had burned through
another $5 million. Other groups threw in around $2.6 million to achieve absolutely nothing.
The
DNC Scams the Suckers and Contradicts the Feds on 'Hacking'. There was a great deal of press this week about
the District 6 Georgia Congressional race in which once again — for the fourth time — the hyped
"referendum on Trump" produced a Republican victory over a Democratic challenger in a special election. [...] It was never
likely that Jon Ossoff, a pajama boy who didn't even live in District 6, was going to beat Karen Handel, a well-known
and respected District 6 resident, no matter how much money the Democrats spent there. So why did the Democrats
pour $31 million down the drain to advance his doomed candidacy?
The
Obamas fly into Indonesia for a $2,500-a-night stay at the Four Seasons. Barack and Michelle Obama, along with
their two daughters, are taking a luxury vacation to Indonesia — where the former president lived in the
1960s. Soldiers fell into formation in the popular tourist destination of Bali on Friday [6/23/2017] in preparation for
the Obamas' five-day vacation at the Four Seasons Resort Bali at Sayan, Ubud, where villas cost upwards of $2,500 a
night. The former president is then scheduled to travel to the island of Java to speak at the 4th Indonesian Diaspora
Congress in Jakarta, where he spent his childhood after his mother Ann Dunham married second husband Lolo Soetoro, an
Indonesian man.
Democrats
Lose Again: Suffer Crushing $26 Million Georgia Defeat. The Democrats lost two more special elections
Tuesday, making The Resistance 0 for 4 in attempts to flip Republican-held House of Representatives districts. [...] The
massive amount of money spent by the candidates and outside groups — $50 million or more — succeeded in
motivating voters on both sides.
Wealthy
California Liberals Fail To Buy An Election In Georgia. Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff lost the Georgia
special election Tuesday despite the fact that his campaign received unprecedented funding from the deeply liberal state of
California. The young Democrat received 8.9 times as many many donors from California than from any other state in the
union, including all of the totals from Georgia itself. The failed Democrat received 7,218 private donations from California
residents. He benefitted from only 808 donations from inside of Georgia's sixth congressional district.
6th
District Defends the Wall, Jon Ossoff Invasion Fails. Georgia's sixth district was flooded with record levels
of spending for the special election to fill Republican Tom Price's congressional seat. The spending was not enough to
overcome Republican criticism of Ossoff, who was branded by Handel as the Democratic establishment's hand-picked candidate
and criticized frequently for not living in the district they were competing to represent. Ossoff was also criticized
for collecting nearly 97 percent of his fundraising haul from out-of-state donors.
Out-of-state
money is buoying Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff's bid. Bipartisan love may be on display in Washington, but
farther down the coast, a vicious political battle is underway for Georgia's 6th District. Groups hoping to influence
the election have spent nine times more money attacking the candidates than they have running positive ads since the jungle
primary in April, a Roll Call review on Friday of Federal Election Commission filings found.
Don't Let the Door Hit You, Elon.
While [Elon] Musk portrays himself as a visionary figure à la Nikola Tesla (even going so far as to name his famous company for the
father of alternating current himself), arguably the only thing that the company Tesla has in common with the famous inventor is that it
works anyone who bears its name to death. Just last month, a report by the Guardian revealed that one Tesla factory was visited by
ambulances 100 times in the past three years just to deal with stress-related medical incidents, with hundreds more visits occurring
because of injuries and other medical issues.
Obama
Complains About Income Inequality — While Making $13,000 A Minute!. Bill Clinton has banked more
than $100 million since he left office in 2001, and he still commands up to $500,000 per speech (wife Hillary is on her way
to banking $100 million, too). George W. Bush cashed in with some huge paydays for a couple of books. And Barack
Obama has already signed a book deal for $25 million. He's only 55, which means he'll no doubt soar past the $100 million
mark in no time. So it's always a little weird when former presidents are talking about us regular people, and especially —
as Democrats and Socialists like Sen. Bernie Sanders like to do — when they go on a rant about "income inequality."
George
Soros Gives Additional $250k to Tom Perriello for Virginia Primary Bid. Liberal billionaire George Soros gave
an additional $250,000 to Virginia Democrat Tom Perriello in May, bringing his total contributions to the former one-term
congressman's primary to $500,000, according to a campaign finance report filed on Monday [6/5/2017]. Together with
$50,000 that was given to Perriello from Soros's son Gregory, money from the Soros family accounted for 16 percent of
the money the campaign brought in between April 1 and June 1 of this year.
Amazon
Fights Wal-Mart for Low-Income Shoppers. Amazon.com Inc [...] said Tuesday [6/6/2017] that it will offer a
nearly 20% segment of the U.S. population — people who obtain government assistance with cards typically used for
food stamps — a $5.99 monthly Prime membership, less than the $10.99 a month or $99 annual plan for other consumers.
The membership buys access to unlimited two-day shipping, video and music content, photo storage and other perks.
Jeff Bezos wants
food stamps. Jeff Bezos, the second-richest man in the history of the world, wants food stamps. The
mega-millionaire who owns the Washington Post and founded Amazon is now marketing directly to food stamp recipients to make
him richer. Well, a limo lib does what a limo lib does to capitalize on socialism.
Amazon
Is Now Offering Half-Price Prime Membership to People With Valid EBT Cards. People who receive government
assistance are now eligible for a discount on Amazon Prime, the online retailer announced Tuesday [6/6/2017]. Customers
who have a valid Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card qualify for the discounted $5.99 monthly membership, half the
regular price, for one year. It includes free two-day shipping on more than 50 million eligible Amazon items and
same-day delivery options as well as unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows with Prime Video, photo storage and
subscription savings features. EBTs, a card commonly used to disburse funds for government programs including Temporary
Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and Women, Infants, and Children
Nutrition Program (WIC), can't be used to pay for membership. Amazon says it plans to expands its discount offering in
the future to benefit people on government assistance programs that do not use EBT cards.
Sanders
takes in $1,042,000 in 2016 — and buys his THIRD house in a trust just like the super-rich. Sen. Bernie
Sanders loves to rail against the billionaires, but he made it into the millionaire class in 2016. His new Senate
financial disclosures, first reported on by Vermont alt-weekly Seven Days, show that in 2016 Sanders brought in about
$1,042,000, mostly thanks to a hefty book advance for his newest tome, 'Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In.'
Following in the footsteps of wealthy Republicans, the 2016 purchase of Sanders' third home — a lake front
four-bedroom located in the Champlain Islands, that cost the senator $575,000 in August 2016 — is hidden behind a
family trust.
Seven Jaw-Dropping Revelations from
Hearings on the Motion to Dismiss the DNC Fraud Lawsuit. [#2] The Democratic Party views itself as having authority to favor a candidate
without any legal repercussions. Without any pretense the Democratic primary nominating process should be expected to be conducted fairly, lawyers
for the Democratic Party tell Judge Zloch the lawsuit should be thrown out because the Party has the freedom to determine its nominees by "internal rule",
not voter interests, and thus the party "could have favored a candidate". Lawyers for the Democratic Party suggest the lawsuit "can't be resolved"
by the Court because it is based on an internal rule that "cannot be enforced". This statement by lawyers for the Democrats to a Federal judge is
a damning indictment the Party may never recover from: the party views itself in no way beholden to voters' interest whatsoever.
Greatest
Hillary / Huma Email Exchange Ever. This email exchange between Hillary Clinton and her best friend Huma Abedin
is entertaining on several levels. [...] The Democrats can't figure out why working class voters no longer identify with
them. Maybe the sense of entitlement to separate airplanes expressed by Mrs. Clinton provides a clue. Of
course, neither Hillary nor Michelle Obama paid for her own trip; both airplanes (assuming two were taken) were at taxpayer
expense. But worrying about that sort of thing is for the little people.
Obamas
buy $8.1 million fat cat home — their second. Barack Obama, his wife Michelle and their two kids
have a new home — an $8.1 million dwelling, the same one they've been renting in Washington, D.C., these past few
months. The fat cat's come home to roost. After years and years of paying lip service to the utter detestability
of Wall Street types, big bankers, financial wheelers and dealers and yes, the rich and wealthy of the nation who just don't
ever seem to pay their fair shares — Obama's embraced his own inner capitalistic greed.
Report:
Obamas purchase DC house for $8.1M. Former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have purchased the home
they've been renting in Washington, D.C. for $8.1 million, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The Obamas reportedly
closed on the home Wednesday [5/31/2017]. "Given that President and Mrs. Obama will be in Washington for at least
another two and a half years, it made sense for them to buy a home rather than continuing to rent property," Obama spokesman
Kevin Lewis told the Sun-Times.
Obamas
buys [sic] D.C. home for $8.1 million; keeping house in Chicago. Former President Barack Obama and former first
lady Michelle purchased the home here they have been renting, the Sun-Times has learned, closing on the $8.1 million
purchase on Wednesday [5/31/2017].
John
Podesta in a frenzy converting $40B Clinton Foundation assets into gold, diamonds & artwork. Independent journalist George Webb says that after President Trump
fired FBI director James Comey, longtime Democrat operative and Clinton loyalist John Podesta is in a frenzy to unload $40 billion from the Clinton Foundation —
by buying up art, gold and diamonds, and spreading them out all over the world — before those assets are seized by a new FBI director.
George
Soros Still Quietly Buying District Attorneys' Seats. George Soros has all but bought another district attorney's seat.
The left-wing billionaire turned the Philadelphia district attorney's race on its head by giving $1.45 million to fund a super PAC
in support of his preferred candidate, Larry Krasner. Krasner, a progressive lawyer who has never worked as a prosecutor, sailed
to an easy victory in the Democratic primary on Tuesday. Because Philadelphia is a Democratic stronghold, Krasner's primary victory
all but guarantees him to win the general election in November. The influx of money from Soros gave Krasner a significant leg up
over his opposition.
Maxine Waters Gets Brutal Karma
In Front Of Her $4.5 Million House. Maxine Waters makes $174,000 per year, but she has a $4.5 million mansion
in Los Angeles in addition to two other homes worth around $1 million.
Obama
speeches revive GOP bid to target his pension. As former President Barack Obama hits the speaking circuit,
Republican lawmakers say they plan to reintroduce a bill that would directly target pensions for ex-presidents raking in more
than $400,000 after leaving the Oval Office. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz,
R-Utah, and Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, plan to dust off the Presidential Allowance Modernization Act later this month,
according to USA Today. The push comes after Obama decided to accept a $400,000 speaking fee — the same
amount as his White House salary — for a speech at a health care conference run by Wall Street investment firm
Cantor Fitzgerald in September.
Congress
plans to cancel Obama's $200,000-a-year government pension following news of $400,000 speaking fees and a $65 million book
deal. Congress could soon throw a monkey-wrench into Barack Obama's retirement finances, yanking his presidential
pension since he is reportedly cashing in with six-figure speaking fees. Former presidents currently receive $207,800 per
year, the same amount cabinet secretaries are paid. But lawmakers are considering a move to shrink that payment —
dollar for dollar — for Oval Office retirees who collect more than $400,000 in income. Last year Obama vetoed a
bill that did just that.
George
Soros battles $10B lawsuit, familiar charges of wielding political influence. A $10 billion suit against George
Soros accuses the self-styled humanitarian of meddling in the politics of a poor African country in order to settle his own
scores, a charge the billionaire's critics say reflects his longtime modus operandi. The 86-year-old investor, who
controls a web of international nonprofits in addition to his vast financial empire, used his sway with the government of
Guinea to freeze Israeli company BSG Resources out of the West African nation's lucrative iron ore mining contracts,
according to the suit filed last month in New York Federal Court by BSG Resources.
The
Real Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Lost In 2016. [Scroll down] For Democrats, it should be disquieting that
the findings completely contradict their own carefully-managed self-image as champions of the underdog: Some 50% of
those who voted for Obama and then defected to Trump said their incomes are lagging behind the cost of living, while another
31% said they were just treading water, the Washington Post's The Plum Line blog noted. Most devastating of all, 42% of
these former Obama voters who moved over to vote GOP said congressional Democrats' economic policies favor the rich.
That compares with 21% who said the same thing about Trump.
Obama's
questionable $400,000 speech. Obama once said that at some point, rich people have "made enough money." But
that didn't stop him from charging $400,000 for a speech on Wall Street that riled up some Democrats, who said it looked bad
at a time the party is trying to rebuild from the disastrous 2016 election. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., admitted
that Obama's speech "just does not look good."
Barack
Obama seemed different, but he's just another money-grubbing politician. Et tu, Barack? That was my
reaction when I heard the news that former US President Barack Obama has agreed to a speaking gig on Wall Street for which he
will be paid $400,000. Not bad coin in anyone's language. It's twice what Bill Clinton commanded when he went on
the post-presidential speaking circuit.
The
people's billionaire: George Soros gave $36M to groups behind People's Climate March. The People's Climate March
scheduled for Saturday [4/29/2017] has a powerful billionaire behind it: Democratic Party donor George Soros. Mr. Soros,
who heads the Open Society Foundations, contributed over $36 million between 2000 and 2014 to 18 of the 55 organizations on the
march's steering committee, according to an analysis released Friday by the conservative Media Research Center. Six of the groups
received during that time more than $1 million each: the Center for Community Change, the NAACP, the Natural Resources Defense
Council, People's Action, Public Citizen and the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Greedy
Grifters Barack & Michelle Obama Robbing Blind the Party That Made Them. Wake Up Call for all the OWS (Occupy
Wall Street) activists: You can't Occupy Wall Street, because greedy grifters Barack and Michelle Obama are already
squatting on it. [...] In other words, remaining true to "progressive values" means taking money from Wall Street is not the same as
being bought by Wall Street. How about being owned by Wall Street while being the de facto leader of the OWS activists?
Obama
[was] Paid $800,000 From Wall Street In One Week For A Job Well Done. Seems there is a great deal of money to
be made giving speeches about caring for the poor. Ironic. The first speech the president signed up for is a
banking summit where he will earn a quick $400,000 speaking and schmoozing with the very people he convinced voters he was
against: [Video clip] The second speech was a 90-minute giggle and nod affair given in front of a roomful of
Wall Street media advertisers. These paid speeches are but the first of many likely to come from the Obama Machine.
Obama
scores another $400K speaking fee amid criticism. Even as President Obama faced criticism for getting $400,000
for a speech to a Wall Street bank, he pocketed the same amount of money for a second speech, The [New York] Post has
learned. Obama made another $400,000 on Thursday when he appeared at the A&E Networks advertising upfront at The Pierre
Hotel. He was interviewed over 90 minutes at the Midtown Manhattan event by presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin
in front of the cable network's advertisers. Out of office just 98 days, Obama caught some flack earlier this week when
it was learned that he had agreed to speak in September at a health care event sponsored by Wall Street bank Cantor Fitzgerald.
Obama Turns Out to
be a Greedy One-Percenter. President Obama's devotees no doubt had hoped he would come out swinging against President Trump.
Instead, the only thing he's done so far is cash in on his presidency with a massive book deal and a six-figure speech gig.
Slate
Jabbed Romney For 2012 Speaking Fees; Defends Obama's in 2017. Slate took then-presidential candidate Mitt
Romney to task in early 2012 over his claim that $360,000 in speaking fees in one year was "not very much." Five-plus years
later, the liberal website is now brushing off the one-time, $400,000 speaking fee former President Barack Obama is receiving
from investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald. Matt Yglesias (who is now at Vox) zeroed in on Romney's hesitance to releases
his tax returns in a short January 2012 item for Slate's Moneybox blog, but soon underlined that the Republican candidate
"lacks perspective on what constitutes 'not very much' income." Romney emphasized at the time that "my income comes
overwhelmingly from some investments made in the past, whether ordinary income or earned annually. I got a little bit
of income from my book, but I gave that all away. And then I get speaker's fees from time to time, but not very much."
Obama's
$400G Wall Street speech leaves liberal base stunned. Former President Obama's upcoming speech to Wall
Streeters is putting $400,000 in his pocket — and putting longtime supporters in a difficult situation. Democratic
Party leaders and grass roots activists alike are at a loss to explain how the onetime champion of the 99 percent could cash
in with a September address at a health care conference run by investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald. "Spiritual leader of
the people's #Resistance cashes in with $400k speech to Wall Street bankers," read one tweet.
Obama
spokesman defends reported $400,000 Wall Street-backed speech. A spokesman for Barack Obama spoke out Wednesday [4/26/2017]
against critics who called out the former president for reportedly accepting a $400,000 speaking fee, backed by a Wall Street bank.
Eric Schultz, the spokesman, said that in 2008, then-candidate Obama pulled in more money than any candidate in history, and went on to
"implement the toughest reforms on Wall Street since FDR." Fox Business reported that Obama has agreed to speak at a Wall Street
conference run by Cantor Fitzgerald LP. The speaking fee will be $400,000, which is nearly twice as much as Hillary Clinton, his
secretary of state, and the 2016 Democratic Party candidate, charged private businesses for such events.
4
reasons Obama's $400,000 Wall Street speech is a bad idea. Former president Barack Obama reemerged this week
for his first formal public event since leaving office, but all people can talk about is a future event — specifically,
one for which he will be paid his old annual salary for one speech. News broke Monday [4/24/2017] that Obama would be paid
one of those exorbitant speaker's fees that Hillary Clinton received: $400,000 for speaking at a Wall Street conference
put on by the investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald.
The Editor says...
Barack H. Obama can't run for president again, it's true. Unless his wife runs as a placeholder. (Much like
Lurleen Wallace of Georgia, Debbie Dingell of Michigan, and Ma Ferguson of Texas.) And as president, Michelle Obama would
probably report directly to Valerie Jarrett, just like Barack did. So (follow the money!) there is reason to believe that
Mr. Obama is getting $400,000 per speech because the buyers hope to acquire much more than a mediocre speech.
Obama
Cashes In: Set to Take $400,000 for Speech to Wall Street Firm. Barack Obama has agreed to a $400,000 fee
for speaking to a prominent Wall Street firm, according to Charlie Gasparino of the Fox Business Network. Former
president Obama will speak to a health care conference sponsored by Cantor Fitzgerald in September, Gasparino reports.
After
his billionaire vacay, Obama cashes in at the speech trough. For ordinary Americans, the one way you draw a
$400,000 paycheck is to do something to create value. This is the story of very hardworking small businesses
everywhere. As one wag put it several years ago in a book title, the first $20 million is the hardest. Then
there's Obama, fresh off his billionaire vacation over in Tahiti at Marlon Brando's exclusive hideaway estate, now drawing
his first $400,000 paycheck for a speech, from Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald. [...] The bigger question to ask may be
what Cantor Fitzgerald got in return for its $400,000. Was it an expectation that Obama's minions would be returned to
power, and an expectation of being remembered for their emoluments, or was it a payoff for some favor the Obama administration
did during his presidency? A good investigative reporter should probably check into this.
The Editor says...
One could easily suspect that the payoff is part of a long-term influence-peddling plan connected to Michelle
Obama's upcoming presidential campaign. Obama's speech couldn't have been that good.
After four months of vacationing...
Obama
cashes in with $400,000 payday for a speech to Wall Street bankers. Obama is being rewarded for his eight years
of faithful service to the bankers on Wall Street and the warmongers in the Military Industrial Complex.
George
Soros Funds Over 200 US Organizations - Here's the List. Self-professed Nazi war criminal George Soros
continues to go free and influence American politics and society. However, part of the weapon in the war against him is
to openly identify those he funds. Both Soros and his Open Society Foundations provide funding directly or indirectly
to over 200 US organizations.
Barack
and Michelle Obama pose on billionaire David Geffen's superyacht with Oprah, Bruce Springsteen and Tom Hanks in French
Polynesia. They've spent the last month quietly recuperating in French Polynesia since leaving the White House
earlier this year. But Barack and Michelle Obama interrupted the quiet island life they've become accustomed to this
weekend with a star-studded jaunt out to sea. The former First Couple joined Bruce Springsteen Tom Hanks and their
wives on music mogul David Geffen's superyacht Rising Sun on Friday [4/14/2017], making quite the splash as they arrived at
the vessel off the island of Mo'orea in a spruced up speedboat.
Susan Rice Worth
Almost 50 Million. Actually, the truth should shock Obama lovers. Remember the official energy policy of
the Obama administration? Creating new "clean energy" jobs and technologies, making America more energy independent,
and reducing carbon emissions. Susan Rice didn't get the memo. [...] While Rice was busy unmasking officials and trying
to sabotage the current administration, she made more money in oil than the Beverly Hillbillies.
The
Soros-Obama Axis of Chaos. Following the massive destruction inflicted on Baltimore by Black Lives Matter in
2015 associated with the death of Freddy Gray, Soros's organization, Open Society Institute, donated $650,000 to BLM.
And Soros's organizing mass demonstrations to oppose a conservative government is also something we've seen close to home.
According to no less an authority than the New York Times, Soros funded 50 "partner" organizations to protest the election
of Donald Trump in the "Women's March on Washington."
Chelsea
Clinton Doles Out Advice on Success, Despite Never Having Had Any. Chelsea Clinton says if you want a raise,
you should ask for one. And if you need time to yourself, take it. In fact, she's gotten very far in her life
without ever having to worry about being turned down or told no, so why should you worry about getting fired from your job
for being greedy? Chelsea sat down with Levo, a female-oriented online leadership training and mentoring program that
connects women in business with other, more famous women in business. Naturally, Chelsea, who has achieved most of her
success on the cache associated with her last name, was the perfect fit to give advice to young, up and coming female leaders.
We
Don't Have to Choose Between Putin and George Soros. [Scroll down] Soros does throw his money around,
which he can afford to do. Forbes puts his fortune at $25 billion, making him the world's 22nd richest man. [...] But
here's another way to describe the world's richest hedge funder: He spends his billions to legalize abortion in Ireland
and Mexico, to decriminalize drugs in Indonesia, to promote a peace accord with narco-Marxist rebels in Colombia that the
citizens of that country rejected in a referendum, to push for transgender rights in Guatemala, to portray Israel as a
violator of human rights, and to legalize prostitution all over the world.
Don't
cry for Chelsea. Last week, in the Los Angeles Times, someone named Ann Friedman laid out the former First
Spawn's credentials as a modern Democrat in good standing. Chelsea is oppressed, as opposed to, say, another first
daughter with blond hair. "Chelsea," Friedman wrote, "like her mother, never gets a break — unlike Ivanka
and her father." You don't say. Now that I think about it, it really must be arduous being Chelsea Clinton.
This L.A. Times op-ed appeared a day after it was reported that after a nationwide search, she'd been added to the board of
Expedia, a travel company owned by Clinton-connected billionaire Barry Diller. The pay: $250,000 a year in stock
options, plus $45,000 cash. It's her second no-heavy-lifting director's gig at a Diller company — she also
grabs $299,936 a year for sitting on the board of something called IAC Interactive. Nice work if you can get it.
George
Soros-aligned group weighs funding anti-Trump activists. A network of some of the nation's wealthiest
Democratic donors is weighing providing money and support to several of the new activist groups that have cropped up since
Election Day to challenge President Trump and his agenda. [...] The alliance, aligned with billionaire financier George Soros,
also is weighing building a pool of money that can be deployed for "rapid response" work by other liberal groups on an array
of issues, such as challenging the Trump administration on the deportation of undocumented immigrants.
Barack Obama
is probably lying on a beach in a deserted paradise right now. He's been to sunny California for some golf, a
private island in the Caribbean, where he kite-surfed with billionaire Richard Branson; he went to New York to take in a
Broadway play, and then again, to dine with U2's Bono. He lunched in Omaha last week with Warren Buffett and then
hopped a flight to California, and then on to Hawaii (more golf). And today, Obama may be sitting pretty, in the middle of
the Pacific Ocean, on a tiny French Polynesian island called Tetiaroa. There are reports, unconfirmed by CNN, that
Obama is going to spend a month on the island, which is north of Tahiti and features only one luxury hotel, aptly named
"The Brando" because the Island was once owned by Marlon Brando.
Obama
jets off to paradise: Ex-President travels to Marlon Brando's private Polynesian island to unwind. Former
President Barack Obama has arrived in French Polynesia where he will spend a month at a luxury resort frequented by Hollywood
stars. He landed on the tourist island of Tahiti this week without his family before going to Marlon Brando's privately
owned retreat Tetiaroa atoll, which the Oscar-winning actor bought in the 1960s. Obama then checked into the eco-friendly
Brando resort, whose villas boast their own plunge pools and cost between 2,000 euros ($2,150) and 12,300 euros per
night. It is unclear if Obama's family will join him for the tropical holiday.
Obama
checks into a luxury eco-friendly resort near Tahiti. Former President Barack Obama is spending a month at a
luxury resort near the tourist island of Tahiti. He checked into the Brando, a luxury resort on French Polynesia's
atoll of Tetiaroa according to local TV channel Tahiti Nui TV, AFP reported. Not much is known about the nature of
Obama's visit. He arrived without his family and has no political meetings planned. Rates at the villas on the atoll,
purchased by Hollywood star Marlon Brando in the 1960s, run anywhere between 2,000 euros (about $2,150) to 12,300 euros ($13,241).
Another
American City Destroyed by the Democrats. [As Peter Collier] points out, the vast majority of America's voiceless, powerless,
and impoverished people are concentrated in cities that have been run exclusively by Democrats for decades — even generations —
without interruption. These are cities where stratospheric rates of crime, poverty, unemployment, out-of-wedlock births, homes without fathers
and failed school systems have become a way of life — along with oppressive and confiscatory taxes whose only discernible achievement is to
keep the leaky ship of city government afloat for as long as possible before it is inevitably capsized by economic and social calamity.
Minneapolis, Minnesota is perhaps the least likely case in point. Camouflaged by the state as a whole, a synonym for plainspoken stability,
it is just one of the many American cities that were once thriving centers of industry, prosperity and optimism — until Democrats
took them over.
New
York Public Schools Prefer Illiterate Teachers. Today, one of parents' greatest fears is making certain their
kids receive a good education. It's gotten so ridiculous in some sectors of society that expecting parents are
interviewing and reserving space in the finest kindergarten long before the child is born. Liberal elitists are
especially susceptible to this inter-parent peer pressure — to get their children into the finest schools.
And of course the elites, in places like Washington D.C, San Francisco, L.A. or New York, would never stoop so low as to
allow little Penelope or Reginald to attend a public school, where they might have to interact with the serfdom class.
The country club class insists on the finest education for their offspring, and despite their rhetoric, don't believe this
can be achieved in a public school.
Chelsea
Clinton Is Not the Great Democratic Hope. Why is Chelsea Clinton news? She's the scion of America's most famous Democratic
dynasty, sure, but her own accomplishments in public life are meager. When can we stop pretending that hers is a voice worth listening
to? In fact, she's pretty much the worst possible person to be speaking on behalf of Democrats right now. At a time when one of
the preeminent problems in American life is a sense of declining economic opportunity and social mobility, she's the living embodiment of
inherited privilege.
Soros
Funded 100 Groups Behind 'Day Without a Woman' Protest. Left-wing billionaire George Soros has given nearly a
quarter of a billion dollars over the past fourteen years to groups that sponsored Wednesday's "Day Without a Woman" protest,
according to the Media Research Council. Soros gave $246 million to 100 prominent left-wing groups that partnered with
the Women's March, including Planned Parenthood, the Center for American Progress, and People for the American Way (PFAW).
The
Women's Strike Is A Self-Indulgent Day For Privileged Females. This event, "A Day Without A Woman," is the latest
in a string of public events and personal efforts organized by the Women's March folks to ostensibly raise awareness of the value
of women. [...] This is a self-indulgent day for academics and professional women who are fortunate enough to hold positions
requiring a relatively specific skill set and bear no real risk of harm from taking a day off. It assumes the privilege of
being able to pause one's work at will, and the privilege of being able to shuffle duties like child or elder care to someone
else. It categorically demands more risk of women in lower-income brackets, in jobs requiring low-specificity skill sets,
and without a support system.
Barack
and Michelle close to signing record-breaking deal worth over $60 Million for the rights to their new memoirs.
Barack and Michelle Obama whipped the literary world into a frenzy with the news that the former president and first lady
were getting to work on new books, and now they have found a publisher. Just a few hours after multiple people with
knowledge of the joint publishing deal told the Financial Times that bidding had surpassed $60million, The New York Times
reveals that the couple has inked a deal with Penguin Random House.
Publishers
in a $60 million bidding war over Barack and Michelle Obama's book rights. A bidding war for the rights to
books by former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama ended Tuesday [2/28/2017] with Penguin Random House
winning the fight, according to reports. Bidding surpassed $60 million, more than four times what the second-highest
president's book rights were auctioned off at, though they only included the former leader, not his wife.
"I do
think at some point you've made enough money": Obama Book Deals to Net $60 Million. Publishing rights to two
books written by former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama could go for $60 million in an ongoing
global auction. The former president and first lady wrote the books separately, but are auctioning off the publishing
rights simultaneously, The Financial Times reports. If the books secure the projected $60 million price-tag, it would
greatly surpass original expectations. Researchers originally estimated the two memoirs would net the couple $40 million,
according to business analytics data from American University.
Billionaire
Pritzker Tells Men to Use Women's Bathrooms to Protest Trump. A billionaire Democratic megadonor, who is
exploring a run for governor, encouraged men to use women's bathrooms on Wednesday sparking criticism from transgender
advocates and politicians. J.B. Pritzker, the billionaire heir whose father co-founded Hyatt hotels, floated the idea
of switching bathrooms in the wake of President Donald Trump's executive order reversing an Obama policy that could have stripped
federal funds from schools that maintain separate bathroom facilities based on sex.
Michelle
Obama in Washington DC after family returns home via private jet from long weekend ski trip to Aspen. [Scroll
down] All good things must come to an end however, and following a four-week span in which members of the Obama family
were seen soaking up the sun in Palm Springs, kitesurfing in the Caribbean, protesting at Sundance and partying with the
girls of Girls in NYC, everyone is finally back home. Sasha and her parents are together in DC after returning from Aspen
on a private plane Wednesday [2/22/2017], while Malia is busy working in New York as an intern for film producer Harvey Weinstein.
It's
Official: Liberals Only Care About Illegals and Muslims. A couple of weeks ago I penned a comprehensive
and mandatory piece that I modestly titled "A General Theory of Leftist Politics." I argued that leftist politics has always
been about representing the unrepresented, the people outside the system. Think workers in 1850, African-Americans in
1950. [...] Liberals now demand the right to represent the only people left in the world that are not properly represented by
the system: illegal Hispanic aliens and violent Muslim jihadis. And they are signaling their virtue with mass-produced
signs outside their wealthy homes in their wealthy fashionable neighborhoods.
A George Soros-Led
Mutiny. For the last few decades George Soros and his Open Society Institute have organized and financed a seditious movement
to destroy our Constitutional Republic and monetary system. Their mission appears to be to replace it with a One World borderless
government under the jurisdiction of the United Nations. Soros, a native of Hungary, made his multibillion-dollar fortune by
manipulating currencies. [...] He has openly stated that he sees himself as a messianic figure that fancies himself as some kind of
god while making his fortune betting on the collapse of national economies and currencies.
Barack
and Michelle Obama Are About to Get Even Richer. The White House doors may have closed on former President
Barack Obama's presidency, but for him and his wife Michelle, the path to lucrative new book deals and paid speeches is wide
open. The Obamas recently hired top-dollar attorneys Robert Barnett and Deneen Howell to handle their book contracts,
and a high-profile public relations agency — known for repping the Clintons and Mia Farrow — to
coordinate speaking appearances. The Obamas haven't yet set book-release dates or announced any scheduled speeches.
Clinton
Foundation Partner Hiked Opioid Overdose Reversal Drug Price By 680 Percent. The head of a pharmaceutical
company, who partnered with the Clinton Foundation, has increased the price of an auto-injector used to treat opioid
overdoses by 680 percent over the course of three years. Spencer Williamson, the president and chief executive officer
of the Richmond, Virginia-based Kaleo Pharmaceuticals, is under fire after the price of a two-pack of Evzio, a device that
treats life-threatening opioid overdoses, skyrocketed from $690 in 2014 to $4,500 today. Thirty-one Democratic senators
are now demanding answers on the price hike.
'Indivisible,'
With Ties to George Soros, Sows Division Against Trump, GOP Lawmakers. Democrats who used to work on Capitol
Hill are helping to disrupt Republican lawmakers' town hall meetings across the country through a nationwide effort to oppose
and "resist" President Donald Trump's agenda. They call their group Indivisible Guide, a name that came from an actual
guide posted online telling activists how to pressure members of Congress. Among topics: what to say when going to
town halls and calling or visiting a member's office. Leaders of the organization have loose ties to George Soros, the
billionaire hedge fund manager who bankrolls liberal causes, according to the Capital Research Center, a conservative think
tank that investigates nonprofits.
What to Do About
George Soros. [George] Soros is a man of the deep Left whose campaign to destabilize the U.S. is powerful and
pervasive. Should he be allowed to operate freely, he will continue to wreak enormous damage, aided by a large
constituency composed in part and at various removes of the individuals and groups he has subsidized. There is no doubt
about the extent of his interference in domestic affairs. And there is no doubt that something needs to be done about
it, certainly before his likeminded son Alex inherits his empire and persists in advancing the father's regime-change and
conflict-creation agenda.
Four
reasons why Betsy DeVos will be a welcome remedy for our nation's education woes. As opinion pieces in the New
York Times and Wall Street Journal have argued, the overheated Democratic opposition is motivated by: [#1] Some of their
party's most deep-pocketed and powerful interest groups — teachers' unions — who realize that they will
no longer have a near-monopoly on education. [and #2] Their party's upper-middle-class suburbanite constituency,
who understand that DeVos' charters and vouchers will be attractive to families with financial disadvantages, ethnic minority
heritage, or ideological and religious convictions that differ from the mainstream. In other words, private schooling
will be accessible to children who are very different than the Democratic Party's upper-middle-class suburbanites.
Ordinary
people are sick of hearing men like Branson and Obama lecturing us from sunloungers on a private island.
They're the sort of holiday snaps that could make you choke on your Coco Pops. I mean the ghastly photos of Richard
Branson and Barack Obama having their kite-surfing holiday together on Beardie's secret hideaway island of Necker in the
Caribbean. In one of the photos it really does look like the ex-President and the Virgin boss are — how can
we put this delicately? — in a relationship. Like a honeymoon couple frolicking with each other in the balmy
Caribbean wavelets, or play-fighting like puppies on board Branson's high-powered speedboat. At least when Tony Blair
holidayed at Cliff Richard's place in Barbados they had the dignity not to be photographed horsing around in the swimming pool.
Obama
accepted $30K in gifts during his last year in office. President Obama accepted personal gifts worth $30,000
during his final year office, newly released disclosure forms reveal. Obama took in eleven gifts, including including a
five-volume set of his family genealogy from the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — at
a value of $8,300, the most expensive present of the bunch, the forms reveal.
DeVos
Critics' Hypocrisy on Public Schools. "The basic reason I'll oppose her nomination is that I don't think she is
committed to public education," Senator Robert Casey (D., Pa.) declared about DeVos. This could be easier to take from
Casey, if he were the product of public education. "Casey and his father are regarded as the most famous alumni of
Scranton Preparatory School, a Catholic Jesuit preparatory day school in Pennsylvania," the Daily Signal reported last
month. "Casey's daughters, Caroline Casey and Julia Madeline, also attended Scranton Prep." Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
(D., R.I.) announced that "I have received thousands of letters, calls, and emails in opposition to her nomination, many of
them citing the school voucher and privatization agenda Mrs. DeVos and her allies imposed in Michigan." He also
addressed government-education advocates in Providence in December. As WPRI reported, "The senator also questioned
whether DeVos had ever entered a public school, drawing laughs from the supportive roundtable." While Whitehouse surely has
entered a public school, he never studied in one until he had graduated from Yale and entered the University of Virginia Law
School. Whitehouse is an alumnus of St. Paul's School, a private boarding institution set on 2,000 bucolic acres
in New Hampshire. Whitehouse's daughter, Molly, studied at Providence's Wheeler School. His son, Alexander, also
attended a private boarding school, as the Daily Caller discovered.
Eric
Holder Is Getting Paid a Boat Load of Money by California Taxpayers to Oppose President Trump. According to
documents obtained by Judicial Watch, former Attorney General Eric Holder is being paid a boat load of taxpayer money to
fight and oppose President Donald Trump's agenda in California. "We will render our statements to you monthly.
For the initial three-month phase of our engagement, we have agreed to charge the Legislature a fixed fee of $25,000 per
month," the agreement between Covington & Burling Law Firm, where Holder now works, and the California Legislature
states. "This fee will include a maximum of 40 attorney or advisor hours per month."
Exclusive:
George Soros Invested In 11 Fossil Fuel Firms in 2016. Billionaire George Soros in 2016 invested $238 million
in 11 oil and gas companies, according to his federal financial filings, The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group
has learned. The total value of his family-owned Soros Fund Management is estimated at $2.7 billion. He has
207 stocks in this fund with a high 33 percent turnover.
Soros
Bankrolling Effort to Stop Trump's Temporary Refugee Halt Order. The flurry of anguished news stories and
protests surrounding President Trump's executive action temporarily suspending "immigrants and non-immigrants" from
"countries of particular concern" appears to be part of a coordinated PR effort financed by left-wing billionaire George
Soros. Rather than a complete "Muslim ban" as promised during the campaign, Trump's executive order contains moderate
refugee restrictions, similar to those that have been implemented by President Obama. If reports are true that restrictions
are being applied even to green-card holders, that is an unfortunate misapplication of the law that will likely soon be corrected.
Soros's bad bet against Trump
cost his clients $1bn. George Soros's hedge fund was one of the biggest losers of 2016, as the Hungarian-born
billionaire's misplaced investments turned into a $1 billion loss for his clients, according to a report by hedge fund
investor LCH Investments, cited by Bloomberg.
"What kind of genius loses a
billion dollars in a single year?"
— Hillary
Clinton,
Toledo, Ohio, October 3, 2016.
Obama
is set to cash in on presidency with a reported $20Milllion advance for his memoirs. Former President Barack
Obama could rake in more than $20 million in advance for a memoir. Esther Newberg, co-head of ICM Partners' publishing
unit, claims that an Obama memoir would 'go for more than any president's memoir has ever gone'. Obama, 55, went into the White
House as a bestselling author for his book Dreams of My Father, which was published in 1995. The only other presidents to enter
office as bestselling authors are Dwight D Eisenhower, for his 1948 book, Crusade Of Europe, and Donald Trump for his 1987 book,
The Art of The Deal.
Former
first family end Palm Springs vacation - with Michelle boarding billionaire Richard Branson's private jet. An
eight-vehicle motorcade left the home of Spanish Ambassador James Costos and his partner Michael Smith, where the Obamas had
been staying, around 10am and headed to a private terminal next to Palm Springs International Airport. A
Riverside County Sheriff's Department vehicle blocked traffic in both directions on Highway 111 as the motorcade sped to the
airport. Once there former First Lady Michelle was seen boarding a private jet owned by Sir Richard Branson.
Soros' Son
Quietly Steps Up as Major Liberal Donor. Alexander Soros, the son of liberal billionaire George Soros who acts
as the managing partner for Soros Brothers Investments, has quietly emerged as a major donor to Democratic campaigns and
causes. Alexander has remained relatively unknown in the world of political giving thanks to his father garnering a
bulk of the family's attention. However, Alexander has stepped up his political contributions even as his father
continued to pour tens of millions into the coffers of Democratic campaigns and political action committees.
The
Democrat money machine. Building a titanic campaign war chest was the paramount concern of the Democrats in
2016, because they thought it — and their media allies — would give them an unbreakable headlock over
the public debate. So Joe Biden was told he could not afford to get into the race. Same for Maryland
Gov. Martin O'Malley, who barely raised enough cash to pay for a Philly cheese sandwich. Their financial
kneecapping allowed Clinton to suck up hundreds of millions in campaign cash, sometimes in legally questionable ways,
even as she railed against the influence of money in politics.
Chaffetz
Wants To Relocate Federal Agencies Away From Washington, D.C. Four of the five richest counties in the U.S.
are Washington, D.C. suburbs — Loudoun, Fairfax and Arlington in Virginia and Howard in Maryland — so
it is unsurprising that many Americans question the federal government taking money to prop up far-off elites? One
solution to the federal government being too expensive and out-of-touch is moving parts of it away from Washington, D.C.,
according to House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz.
It's
Still a Mad, Mad California. Hypocrisy, when coupled with sanctimoniousness, grates people like few other human transgressions:
Barack Obama opposing charter schools for the inner city as he puts his own children in Washington's toniest prep schools, or Bay Area greens suing
to stop contracted irrigation water from Sierra reservoirs, even as they count on the Yosemite's Hetch Hetchy project to deliver crystal-clear
mountain water to their San Francisco taps. The American progressive elite relies on its influence, education, money, and cultural privilege
to exempt itself from the bad schools, unassimilated immigrant communities, dangerous neighborhoods, crime waves, and general impoverishment that
are so often the logical consequences of its own policies — consequences for others, that is. Abstract idealism on behalf of the distant is
a powerful psychological narcotic that allows caring progressives to dull the guilt they feel about their own privilege and riches.
The
Obamas set for a $40 million payday. President Obama has made more than a tidy $15 million from his books since
he published his first — Dreams from My Father — in 1995, and now he's set to earn another $15 to $20 million — or even
more — from his forthcoming presidential memoir, top publishing insiders tell DailyMail.com. And high-ranking publishing insiders
are talking at least another '$20 million' in an advance paycheck for First Lady Michelle Obama's long-awaited — and highly
anticipated — memoir about her eight White House years. A source claims she's been quietly working on her book already.
How
George Soros Destroyed the Democratic Party. In 2016, Republicans control both legislative chambers in 32 states.
That's up from 16 in 2000. What happened to the big donkey? Among other things, the Democrats decided to sell their base and
their soul to a very bad billionaire and they got a very bad deal for both.
Top
Clinton Fundraiser Selected For Key Democratic Post. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced
a new finance director for the 2018 election season, according to a Wednesday report in Politico's Playbook. Mike Smith
previously served as finance chair of the campaign to elect Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, where he reportedly managed a
5,000-person high-profile donor list. Smith served in the DCCC previously, first as deputy DC finance director, then as
DC finance director before coming to the Clinton campaign.
Obama's
Hawaii Christmas vacations cost taxpayers $35 million over 8 years. For the last time, taxpayers are paying for
a Hawaiian Christmas vacation for President Obama and his family, an annual luxury getaway that has cost the Treasury easily
more than $35 million over eight years. Golfing on oceanside courses, dining at high-end restaurants and frolicking on
stunning white-sand beaches where security guards keep other tourists at bay, the president and his family are in the midst
of a 17-day holiday that requires dozens of Secret Service agents, military personnel and other government employees to
guarantee their safety and ease of travel around Oahu. The Obamas are once again renting a multimillion-dollar oceanfront
home in Kailua, a town on the northeast side of the island where houses in the neighborhood fetch around $10 million.
It's near golf courses and a Marine Corps base where the president goes for morning workouts at the gym.
Running
For That Okidoke, and Shave Ice. [L]et the record reflect that BHO is one of very few Presidents whose golf
game has actually improved during his time in office. And in case you're interested, we had dinner last night at the
exclusive Vintage Cave Club, which is not just a restaurant it's a concept.
The
'Staggering' Campaign of Liberal Billionaire George Soros to Swing Local Prosecutor Elections. As part of his
quest to overhaul the American justice system, liberal billionaire George Soros is targeting local prosecutor races like the
one in Harris County, a large jurisdiction that includes the city of Houston. [...] Soros, 86, an American hedge fund manager
and philanthropist, is No. 22 on the Forbes list of the world's billionaires, with a net worth estimated at $20 billion.
He finances a variety of liberal political causes, including ones related to education, immigration, climate change, and the environment.
Hope
and humility. [Scroll down] Humility is the polar opposite of what Michelle Obama displayed to Oprah and
what the president has mirrored during his eight years in office. Throughout his presidency, you might have thought the
pronoun "I" was his first initial for all the times he referred to himself. The Obamas could have offered real hope,
especially in the hearts of African-American children, by leading the poor among them out of failing inner-city schools and
giving their parents a choice of where to send them for a better education, which would have led to a better life. They
rightly sent their daughters to elite private schools, rather than bad D.C. Public Schools, but denied that choice to those
less affluent, thus perpetuating a spirit of hopelessness in those voters who had hoped for something beyond a "let's move"
exercise program and a vegetable garden on the White House lawn.
Census
Bureau: 4 Richest Counties in U.S. Are Suburbs of D.C. The four richest counties in the United States, when
measured by median household income, are all suburbs of Washington, D.C., according to newly released data from the Census
Bureau. They are Loudoun County, Va., where the median household income was $125,900 in 2015; Falls Church City, Va.,
where it was $122,092; Fairfax County, Va., where it was $112,844; and Howard County, Md., where it was $110,224. The
Census Bureau treats independent cities such as Falls Church, Va., as the equivalent of a county when calculating its median
household income statistics.
Hillary
to celebrate dismal failure with ritzy party for rich donors — paid for by campaign funds. An
essential companion piece to the other big Hillary story this morning, detailing just how inept her mega-bucks campaign was
when it counted. The fact that she's throwing a party for her biggest contributors tomorrow to toast to her squandering
their money was already public knowledge. What wasn't known until now, I believe, was that that party will itself be
paid for with, um, their squandered money. For all the heat Jill Stein has taken for fleecing dumb liberals to pay for
a doomed recount, Hillary was and apparently will remain the master at getting Democrats to chip in for hapless political
vanity projects.
Hillary
Clinton Donors Who Gave Less Than a Million Booted from Party Invite List. Hillary Clinton campaign donors who
gave less than a million were left off the guest list for the Democratic nominee's glitzy "thank you" party — and
they're not happy. Clinton will fill the iconic "grand ballroom" at New York's posh Plaza Hotel — one of the
ritziest event spaces in the city — but with just a few hundred of her top bundlers (those donors who maxed out on
individual contributions and then began soliciting million dollar checks from their friends and family). Invitations to
the party went out last week, and the "Clinton campaign has been fielding complaints ever since." Because if you made less
than a million for her campaign, or aren't one of Clinton's favored few mega-donors, you were bumped from the party.
Hillary
Clinton throwing party to thank millionaire donors. Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine are throwing a party at the
Plaza hotel on Dec. 15 to thank those who donated millions to the campaign. The party will be held in the Grand
Ballroom on the third floor, to honor the Hillary for America finance leadership council.
Obama's
last White House Thanksgiving: Turkey, prime rib, six kinds of pie. The White House on Thursday
[11/24/2016] released the menu for President Obama's last Thanksgiving as president, which includes a half dozen hors
d'oeuvres, turkey, prime rib, lots of side dishes and six kinds of pie.
The
Obamas 'have bought a mansion at a California golf mecca as well as leasing a $4.3 million DC home' for life after the White
House. When President Obama leaves the White House this January, his family is expected to become bi-coastal,
with homes in both DC and California. Sources told the New York Post that the Obamas have purchased a home in Rancho
Mirage, California. The Obamas are also leasing a $4.3 million home in the Kalorama neighborhood of DC, which
will be their main home — at least for the next two years.
Obama's
transition from 'man of the people' to 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous'. Barack Obama grew up among much
richer people than his family, in Jakarta and at the Punahou School in Honolulu. Whatever resentment he may have
developed was directed at getting a heaping helping for himself at least as much as redistribution.
Hillary and friends are shocked
to learn radical fringe politics is NOT the new normal. It used to be that Democrats abhorred the role of big
money in politics. But Clinton outspent Trump 3-1 and raised more than a billion dollars. The
plutocracy — Wall Street, Silicon Valley and the great American gilded fortunes of Goldman Sachs, Amazon,
Berkshire Hathaway, Facebook and Google — were not just Clinton supporters but often strident ones. The old
idea of a liberal populist underdog had morphed into a haughty moneybag, with a huge staff, lots of opposition researchers
and internal pollsters, surfeits of questionable cash donations, and politically correct endorsements that the left used to
find plastic and inauthentic.
Democrats:
The party of the little guy no more. The Democratic Party has historically stood for the little
guy — defending low-wage workers from inhumane conditions, and later protecting women and minorities from
institutional discrimination. But times have changed. [...] Wherever you look, you find Democrats abandoning their
traditional role as defenders of the little guy and embracing the big guy. The biggest PACs, unions and Wall Street
bankers support Democrats, including their presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. The Democrats often pursue polices
that are at odds with small business, law enforcement, the church — institutions that were once revered and
powerful but that now have considerably less influence and stature.
NYT:
'Vibrant Washington Fears Trump Will Drain Its Culture'. Jason Horowitz writes in The New York Times that the
Beltway elite fear that President-elect Donald Trump's "drain the swamp" mentality will greatly reduce the posh culture of
Washington, D.C., which expanded under Barack Obama's presidency.
About those rioters.
[Scroll down] This is why Trump won. Those millions of people across the nation are sick to death of being
ignored, mocked, and dismissed as annoyances by the people they elected to serve their interests. Our elected officials
get to send their kids to the best schools in the nation but deny their constituents school choice because they are beholden
to the teacher unions. They eat in the finest restaurants while millions of their constituents do not eat out at
all. The men and women in Congress have great health insurance while Obamacare is imposed on the folks back home and
they cannot afford it. Their doctors cannot afford it. Obama still talks as though he did American citizens a
favor! He did not. He has been increasingly despotic, going around Congress to regulate more and more aspects of
all our lives.
RT visits Obama's post-presidential
$5.3 mn Washington mansion. RT traveled to Kalorama, Washington DC — the opulent embassy district which, like
five US presidents before him, Barack Obama has chosen as his new home. We spoke to his future neighbors, were stared
down by his security detail, and even tried to rent a house next door. Like other former leaders dealing with the
chaotic and often testing transition out of office, Obama did not buy his new residence — a 8,200-sq ft,
nine-bedroom, eight-bathroom 1928 Tudor-style brick house — renting it instead from Joe Lockhart, Bill Clinton's
former press secretary, and his wife Giovanna Gray, a Glamour journalist, who previously profiled Michelle Obama.
Wikileaks:
Here's How The Clinton's Free Private Jet Scam Works. Ira Magaziner, the CEO of the Clinton Health Access Initiative, asked
former President Bill Clinton to thank Morocco's King Mohammed VI for "offering his plane to the conference in Ethiopia." "CHAI would
like to request that President Clinton call Sheik Mohammed to thank him for offering his plane to the conference in Ethiopia," Magaziner
gushed in a November 22, 2011 email released by WikiLeaks. Clinton frequently has expected free, luxurious private jet travel
during his post-presidential life. Clinton, his wife and daughter have artfully secured free air travel and luxurious accommodations
since they left the White House. It's an effective way to accept gifts of great value without declaring them for the Clinton Foundation.
Forget
the FBI cache; the Podesta emails show how America is run. They are the comfortable and well-educated mainstay
of our modern Democratic party. They are also the grandees of our national media; the architects of our software; the
designers of our streets; the high officials of our banking system; the authors of just about every plan to fix social
security or fine-tune the Middle East with precision droning. They are, they think, not a class at all but rather
the enlightened ones, the people who must be answered to but who need never explain themselves.
Ukraine
stunned as vast cash reserves of political elite are made public. Two years after angry Ukrainians deposed
Viktor Yanukovych and broke into his vast, opulent residential compound outside Kiev, revelations thrown up by a new system
that requires government officials to declare their wealth and property online have led many to suspect the new elite are no
better. The declarations, which all officials were required to file by Sunday evening, have made public many curiosities,
including politicians who own multiple luxury watches, Fabergé eggs and large collections of weapons. One
politician declared that he owned a personal church. By far the biggest shock, however, has been just how much money
Ukraine's politicians seem to stash away in hard cash. The prime minister, Volodymyr Groysman, declared $1.2m
(£980,000) and €460,000 (£410,000) in cash, as well as a collection of luxury watches.
Hillary
Clinton: 'I Love Having the Support of Real Billionaires'. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton says
she loves having rich people support her. "You know I love having the support of real billionaires," Clinton said,
during a speech in Florida.
University
of California is Hillary Clinton's top source of campaign cash. Individuals working for the University of
California were the biggest source of cash for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, according to the nonpartisan Center
for Responsive Politics. Individuals affiliated with the University of California system gave nearly $1.2 million to
Clinton's campaign committee, the largest bloc of contributions she received for her presidential run. The second
biggest giver to Clinton was another California entity, Alphabet Inc., the Mountain View-based parent company of
Google. Donors associated with Alphabet gave Clinton $1.1 million
Exclusive:
An Inside Look At An Opulent Clinton Foundation 'Site Visit'. Former President Bill Clinton and 11 wealthy
Clinton Foundation donors generously served meals to 250 underprivileged children July 16, 2014, at the Akshaya Patra kitchen
in Jaipur, India, as TV cameras recorded the moment. Clinton's group then quietly retired to Oberoi Rajvilas, a five-star
"royal resort" where the former chief executive booked into Kohinoor Villa, an 11,377-square foot luxurious villa with a 60-foot
swimming pool, according to the hotel's management. The same villa today goes for $13,900 per night, not including the
21 percent government tax. Clinton's villa was five times as big as the average American home, according to U.S.
Census Bureau data.
Soros
Gives $61 Million to Media Groups Promoting Clinton's Liberal Agenda. As U.S. citizens prepare to select the
next president, one liberal donor spent more than $103 million on media over the last 14 years to promote his own progressive
agenda. Liberal billionaire George Soros pledged to give at least $25 million to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and
other Democratic candidates and causes, according to Politico. And emails exposed by WikiLeaks showed Clinton staffers
going out of their way to "make Soros happy" before the 2016 campaign even started. But that's just a small slice of
the pie. Media groups in the U.S. promoting the same liberal platform as Clinton got more than twice as much Soros money.
High-rollers
have given at least $113M to Clinton and the Dems. Hillary Clinton has built the largest big-donor operation in history, with
1,133 high-rollers pledged to raise at least $100,000 each for her campaign. That's almost twice the number of "bundlers" that President
Obama had four years ago, Politico reported. It means that at least $113 million — and maybe much more — of
the money raised for Clinton and the Democratic Party has come from big-money hedge funders, tech investors and celebrities like George Lucas,
Anna Wintour and Will Smith. Clinton raked in $526 million in campaign and super-PAC donations through mid-September,
according to federal campaign records.
Chelsea
and Bill join dozens of Hollywood A-listers led by Julia Roberts for $10,000-a-head New York fundraising show.
Dozens of Hollywood and Broadway stars performed and urged Americans to vote for Hillary Clinton at a fundraising concert
where tickets went for up to $10,000-a-head. The 'Broadway for Hillary' concert was held at the St James Theatre in New
York City and hosted by Billy Crystal on Monday night, with proceeds going to the Hillary Victory Fund. Ticket options
ranged from $45 for balcony seats to a staggering $100,000 for ten premium orchestra seats as well as two tickets to the wrap party.
Leaked
emails reveal Hillary Clinton's life of deceit. It's all in a day's work for a woman who claims to be for the
Little Guy but spends most of her time frolicking with the political and financial elites.
Obamas'
Next Home: 9 Bedrooms in a Wealthy Washington Neighborhood. President Obama and his family plan to move to a
mansion in the upscale Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, a mere two miles from the White House, when he leaves office in
January, according to people familiar with his plans. Mr. Obama, who has said his family will remain in the
capital until his daughter Sasha completes high school in 2018, will rent the 8,200-square-foot, nine-bedroom home, the
people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to reveal his plans.
State
Department-Funded Nonprofit That John Kerry Had 'No Role' In Was Founded In His Home. News reports show that's
Kerry's home address, which Zillow estimates is worth nearly $18 million. Kerry's wife, Teresa, is an heir to the Heinz
family fortune. Beacon Hill is the most expensive block in Boston, with median home values estimated at $6.7 million in
2015, a Boston Globe affiliate reported. The Boston Business Journal ranked Kerry's house the third most valuable home
in the city in 2013.
America's Versailles Set.
Chelsea Clinton, for example, is married to hedge-fund operator Marc Mezvinsky (whose suspect Greek fund just went broke),
and she once made over $600,000 for her part-time job as an NBC correspondent. She serves in a prominent role and is on the
board of the non-profit billion-dollar Clinton Foundation, which has been cited for donating an inordinately small amount of
its annual budget (often less than 15 percent) to charity work, while providing free jet travel for the Clinton family and
offering sinecures for Clinton political operatives in between various Clinton campaigns. Explaining why she works at the
Clinton Foundation and for other non-profits, Chelsea confessed, in Marie Antoinette style, that "I was curious if I could care
about [money] on some fundamental level, and I couldn't." She cared enough, though, to purchase a $10.5 million
Manhattan apartment not long ago rather than, say, rent a flat in the Bronx.
America's Versailles Set.
Take the case of Colin Kaepernick, the back-up quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers who makes $19 million a year (or about
$20,000 per minute of regular season play). He has been cited by National Football League officials in the past for his use
of the N-word, yet he refuses to stand for the pregame singing of the national anthem because he believes that his country is
racist and does not warrant his respect. His stunt gained a lot of publicity and he now sees himself as a man of the
revolutionary barricades. A number of other NFL athletes, as well as those in other sports, have likewise refused to
stand for the national anthem to express solidarity with what they see as modern versions of the oppressed peasantry.
But Kaepernick and his peers make more in one month than many Americans make in an entire lifetime.
Finally!
The Clinton Family has a compound. As every Godfather fan knows, you've got to have a compound when your famiglia
hits the big time. I am sure we are supposed to associate "family compound" with the words "Hyannis" and "Kennedy," but for me,
"Corleone" comes to mind.
Bill
and Hillary Clinton buy the house next door — their third $1 million manse. Democratic presidential
nominee Hillary Clinton is seeking a job that comes with a house, but she and her husband, former president Bill Clinton,
have many options if the White House thing doesn't work out. The couple have purchased a home next door to their primary
residence in Chappaqua, N.Y., according to real estate records. That makes three homes worth north of $1 million
owned by the Clintons, including a stately mansion near the British Embassy in Washington that Clinton used when she was a senator.
Mrs
Clooney's worn £34,000 of clothes in 14 days while grandstanding as a champion of the downtrodden. With
silk dresses, £1,000 designer bags and skyscraper heels, Amal Clooney's outfits are glamorous enough to grace a red
carpet. Yet the glossy-haired human rights barrister, 38, has spent the past fortnight parading her wardrobe at events
linked to issues ranging from sex slavery to the refugee crisis. Amal wore a different designer label —
often several designer labels — each day. But given her worthy role, some of her haute couture fashion seems
out of place. Even saving the world, it seems, is better done in designer clothes, be they bought or borrowed.
Hillary
Absent Again: We Don't Need Another Part-Time President. Hillary Clinton postponed a lunch fundraiser in
Chapel Hill with some of the state's wealthiest and most prominent Democrats. No reason was given for postponement of
the Clinton event, according to CBS North Carolina. It was expected to take place at the home of Betty Craven and
Michael Warner. The event was billed as "lunch with Hillary Rodham Clinton" and costs ranged from $2,700 to $100,000.
Bill
Clinton's swanky birthday bash proves the Clintons just can't stop influence-peddling. For a giant, flashing
sign that the Clintons' influence-peddling will never end, look no further than Bill's 70th birthday party Friday night at
the Rainbow Room — which of course is a Clinton Foundation fund-raising bash. Yup, that's right; show 'em
the money, money, money: Donors must give $250,000 to be a "chair" of the party, six figures to be a co-chair, 50 grand
to be a vice-chair. True, buying a ticket will get you some glam — Barbara Streisand, Jon Bon Jovi and
Wynton Marsalis are all to perform. But how many others hope their gift will at least get them onto some future White
House guest list, and possibly buy even larger favors?
Where
is Hillary Clinton? Campaign 'Postpones' North Carolina Fundraiser. Hillary Clinton postponed a lunch fundraiser in
Chapel Hill with some of the state's wealthiest and most prominent Democrats. No reason was given for postponement of the Clinton
event, according to CBS North Carolina. It was expected to take place at the home of Betty Craven and Michael Warner. The
event was billed as "lunch with Hillary Rodham Clinton" and costs ranged from $2,700 to $100,000.
Hillary
Clinton Campaign Systematically Overcharging Poorest Donors. Hillary Clinton's campaign is stealing from her
poorest supporters by purposefully and repeatedly overcharging them after they make what's supposed to be a one-time small
donation through her official campaign website, multiple sources tell the Observer. The overcharges are occurring so
often that the fraud department at one of the nation's biggest banks receives up to 100 phone calls a day from Clinton's
small donors asking for refunds for unauthorized charges to their bankcards made by Clinton's campaign. One elderly
Clinton donor, who has been a victim of this fraud scheme, has filed a complaint with her state's attorney general and a
representative from the office told her that they had forwarded her case to the Federal Election Commission.
Michelle
Obama, 'Woman of The People,' Wears $4,200 Gucci Dress to Co-Host 'Ellen'. US Magazine says Michelle looked
"out of this world" in her Gucci number. Agreed: She looked like a visitor from the planet Krypton.
Last Chance
for the 'Deplorables'. Speaking to 1,000 of the overprivileged at an LGBT fundraiser, where the chairs ponied
up $250,000 each and Barbra Streisand sang, Hillary Clinton gave New York's social liberals what they came to hear.
"You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?" smirked Clinton to cheers
and laughter. "The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it." They are "irredeemable," but
they are "not America." This was no verbal slip. Clinton had invited the press in to cover the LGBT gala at Cipriani
Wall Street where the cheap seats went for $1,200.
Deplorable
me and disgusting Hillary. [Scroll down] Now I won't call people names but wannabe president Hillary
Clinton's remarks, made at a fundraiser, certainly found an appreciative audience, laughing and applauding her. So yes,
they got their $50,000 worth; [...] Clinton made the comments before introducing Barbra Streisand at an LGBT fundraiser in
downtown New York. According to average ticket prices and attendance figures provided by the campaign, Clinton raised
around $6 million at the fundraiser, at which some attendees paid $50,000.
Obama
will likely become the first ex-president billionaire. Ah, the riches of public service. We are now
assured the Obamas will be able to finance their post-White House lives with record-breaking book deals. [...] According to
various book agents, it appears private citizen Barack Obama should expect to be handed a book deal in the range of $45 million.
His wife, the woman whose mission as first lady was to make sure your kids never got enough to eat at school, is also said to be worth a
book contract of at least $10 million. Public service now gets you filthy, fabulously rich. And as we've seen with the
Clintons, is now a game for grifters, selling access and influence, with the highest bidder rewarded with the most influence.
Where
Has Hillary Clinton Been? Ask the Ultrarich. Mr. Trump has pointed to Mrs. Clinton's noticeably
scant schedule of campaign events this summer to suggest she has been hiding from the public. But Mrs. Clinton has
been more than accessible to those who reside in some of the country's most moneyed enclaves and are willing to spend
hundreds of thousands of dollars to see her. In the last two weeks of August, Mrs. Clinton raked in roughly
$50 million at 22 fund-raising events, averaging around $150,000 an hour, according to a New York Times tally.
Hillary
Takes Questions From Children — For *Only* $2,700 Each!. Who says Hillary has not been busy this month?
She's been raking in millions of dollars from the ultra-rich. And the NYT reports that Hillary attended a $100,000-per-couple
lamb dinner at the Martha Vineyard's mansion of Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild. Mrs. Rothschild told the guests:
"Let's make it a nice night for her and show her our love."
Lucrative
book deals might finance the Obamas' post-White House life. After he is out of the White House, President
Barack Obama has said that he wants to become a venture capitalist, own part of an NBA franchise and avoid taking off his
shoes during security screenings at commercial airports. All of those goals, serious or not, might soon be achievable
if Obama and his wife, Michelle, sign post-presidency book contracts for what literary agents and major publishers say could
amount to $20 million to $45 million — more than enough to pay the estimated $22,000 monthly rent for the
nine-bedroom home they will occupy in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington and foot the bill for flights on private jets.
(Obama has said he would like to avoid commercial flights once he surrenders Air Force One.)
Soros
Spends Millions in DA Races, Supported Potentially Criminal Candidate. George Soros has been busy pumping money
into district attorney (DA) races across the country, according to reports. Soros-funded shell groups called "Safety &
Justice" PACs dominate DA races in Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and Texas, Politico reports.
Soros spent much of 2014 and 2015 giving substantial sums of money to Black Lives Matter (BLM) and affiliated groups, and is
now pushing candidates at the local level as part of his "criminal justice reform" agenda. One beneficiary of Soros
money is Kim Foxx, who won the Democratic March primary for Cook County, marking a major victory for BLM.
Clinton wraps
up Hamptons fundraising swing. The Democratic presidential nominee hopped from mansion to mansion in the tony
New York oceanfront vacation destination, appearing at parties and dinners where the contributions ranged from $1,000 to
$100,000 for guests and hosts.
Hillary
collected $270,000 per HOUR in secretive three-day California celebrity fundraising blitz. Hillary Clinton
mingled with Hall of Fame basketball player Magic Johnson and Apple CEO Tim Cook, vamped in a photo booth with actor Justin
Timberlake and dined with some of California's richest families on what was likely the most lucrative fundraising swing of
her presidential campaign. The Democratic presidential nominee raised $18 million on a three-day trip through
California, or roughly $270,000 an hour.
Hillary
Raises Over $1 Million At Martha's Vineyard Home of Economist Magazine Owner. Hillary Clinton raised more than
one million dollars over the weekend at a Martha's Vineyard house party given by top supporter Lynn Forester de
Rothschild. Unmentioned in major media coverage of the fundraising event is that de Rothschild is a member of the
Economist Group and also owns a major stake in the group, which has controlling ownership of the Economist magazine.
Cash
Scramble: Hillary Closes August With 21 Fundraisers, One Campaign Event. Democratic presidential nominee
Hillary Clinton is spending that last days of August raising cash before heading into the busy post-Labor Day weekend
campaign season. According to ABC News, Clinton attended five fundraisers in Martha's Vineyard last weekend and is
leaving today for California where she will host seven more fundraisers in just three days. Later this week, according
to Politico, she will head to the wealthy East Coast Hamptons area where she will hit nine additional fundraisers. In
California, Clinton will attract the wealthy and powerful members of the Hollywood and Silicon Valley communities.
Hillary
Clinton Flies 20 Miles In Private Jet To Attend Rothschild Nantucket Fundraiser. As we reported a few days ago,
Bill and Hillary Clinton spent Friday night [8/19/2016] in Martha's Vineyard celebrating Bill's 70th birthday. We're
sure it was a grand affair, well worth the heat Obama had to take from Louisiana flood victims to attend. Turns out the
following morning, Hillary, not one to be bothered with traditional peasant forms of travel, awoke and took her private jet
just 20 miles over to Nantucket where the Rothschilds will be hosting a fundraiser. The event is open to all...
well anyone who can afford the $100,000 per person price tag.
'Rigged
system' crusader Bernie Sanders conveniently never got around to releasing his personal financial disclosure
form. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders almost giddily hit Hillary Clinton for giving paid speeches to Wall
Street during the Democratic primary, but yet he never filed a personal financial disclosure form of his own. The
non-profit Center for Public Integrity discovered that Sanders, amid a tough primary campaign, asked for an extension twice
and then never provided the documents to the Federal Election Commission as his presidential campaign wound down.
Meanwhile both Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump filed their forms by the mid-May deadline.
What
happened to those $ millions from the Bernie Sanders campaign? For those who want to get rich off of politics,
the surest racket is to become the media buyer for a major campaign. For the underwhelming task of actually buying
television airtime and print space, one receives a huge commission of 15%. If a campaign spends ten million bucks
on television advertising, the buyer gets a million and a half. For the Bernie Sanders campaign, which raised over
$90 million, who received this generous bounty?
Obama
golfs 'organic' on Martha's Vineyard, $350,000 initiation fee. President Obama is golfing organic Wednesday,
taking his clubs to one of the most exclusive venues in New England, and one famously known as the nation's first "organic"
course. Obama, who has golfed several times during his annual summer vacation on Martha's Vineyard, steered his
motorcade to Vineyard Golf Club, where the initiation fee is $350,000 and annual dues $12,000 for the 305 members.
It must be nice to have so little to worry about.
Obama
from Martha's Vineyard: 'Climate Change... Is a Genuine Existential Threat That We All Face'. Speaking at a
Democratic National Committee fundraiser at a private home on Martha's Vineyard on Monday night [8/15/2016], President Barack
Obama said that climate change "is a genuine existential threat that we all face." "Despite the extraordinary work that
we've done in mobilizing 200 nations to, for the first time, tackle climate change in a comprehensive, aggressive way, we've
still got a long way to go before we're out of the woods on that one," Obama said, according to a White House transcript.
"And that is a genuine existential threat that we all face and, more importantly, our children and our grandchildren face."
The Associated Press reported that people attending the fundraiser paid between $10,000 and $33,400.
Obama
urges Democrats to campaign aggressively for Clinton. About 60 Obama and Clinton supporters paid between
$10,000 and $33,400 to attend the event that was held in a tent on the sprawling property.
Soros
Paid Al Gore Millions To Push 'Aggressive US Action' On Global Warming. Liberal billionaire George Soros gave
former Vice President Al Gore's environmental group millions of dollars over three years to create a "political space for
aggressive U.S. action" on global warming, according to leaked documents. A document published by DC Leaks shows Soros,
a Hungarian-born liberal financier, wanted his nonprofit Open Society Institute (OSI) to do more to support global warming
policies in the U.S. That included budgeting $10 million in annual support to Gore's climate group over three years.
Video: Hillary Clinton's cribs shock young people.
Hillary Clinton has vowed to be a champion for "everyday Americans." The former Secretary of State — who once
described herself and husband Bill Clinton as "dead broke" — kicked off her campaign on June 13 and in her
45-minute speech on New York City's Roosevelt Island, Clinton delivered a message similar to her initial presidential
announcement. "Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times," Clinton said in the video announcement
on April 12. "But the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top." So what do Millennials think of a
candidate who criticizes the "1 percent," but simultaneously owns multi-million dollar properties in Washington, D.C. and
New York and spends her summers in the Hamptons? [Video clip]
Black
Lives Matter cashes in with $100 million from liberal foundations. For all its talk of being a street uprising,
Black Lives Matter is increasingly awash in cash, raking in pledges of more than $100 million from liberal foundations and
others eager to contribute to what has become the grant-making cause du jour. The Ford Foundation and Borealis
Philanthropy recently announced the formation of the Black-Led Movement Fund [BLMF], a six-year pooled donor campaign aimed
at raising $100 million for the Movement for Black Lives coalition. That funding comes in addition to more than
$33 million in grants to the Black Lives Matter movement from top Democratic Party donor George Soros through his Open
Society Foundations, as well as grant-making from the Center for American Progress.
Bill
Clinton netted $1.6 million from for-profit colleges. Bill Clinton netted $1.6 million last year from a pair of
for-profit education companies that caused controversy for the future president during Hillary Clinton's time as secretary of
state. Laureate Education paid Bill Clinton nearly $1.1 million in 2015, according to tax returns released by his
wife's campaign Friday. GEMS Education, a Dubai-based firm, paid him more than $560,000. Both companies are major
donors to the Clinton Foundation. Bill Clinton's lucrative consulting contracts with the corporations have raised
questions about how closely his personal fortune is linked to his philanthropic activities.
Clintons Made
$6,725,000 in Speaking Fees in 2015. Hillary Clinton's 2015 tax returns show that Hillary and Bill Clinton
combined to make $6,725,000 from speaking engagements last year. According to the returns, which were released at noon
on Friday [8/12/2016], Hillary Clinton was paid $1,475,000 for speaking last year while Bill Clinton pulled in $5,250,000.
Clinton
releases tax returns; earned nearly $240M since leaving White House. Hillary Clinton's income took a huge hit
as she ran for president last year, dropping to less than half of what she made the year before, according to tax returns her
presidential campaign released Friday [8/12/2016]. Mrs. Clinton hoped the release would embarrass GOP presidential
nominee Donald Trump, who has refused to release any of his, while also shining a light on the high rate she and her husband
paid in their own taxes. The power couple reported earning $10.7 million in income in 2015, and claimed a tax liability
of $3.6 million.
Bernie
Sanders Pays $600,000 For New Summer Vacation Home. Bernie Sanders proved capitalism is alive and well when he
paid a whopping $600,000 for a lakefront home in Vermont this week.
One
in 10 DNC superdelegates were registered lobbyists. Nearly one in 10 superdelegates who voted in the Democratic
presidential primaries were registered lobbyists, according to a new report, adding some support to Bernie Sanders's claim
that "the system is rigged." At least 63 of 712 superdelegates were registered at some point as lobbyists on the state or
federal level, according to an analysis conducted this year by the nonpartisan, nonprofit Sunlight Foundation. These individuals
represented interests that span across big banks, healthcare insurers, the telecommunications industry and unions, including Goldman Sachs
and Planned Parenthood.
Americans'
sense of 'alienation' at an all-time high: poll. While a contentious presidential election dominates the media,
a new survey finds that a sense of "alienation" among average Americans is at an all-time high. For decades, the Harris
Poll has gauged how much, or how little, people feel their interests are heard and addressed by those with power and
influence. The latest survey found that 82 percent of Americans believe that the people running the country don't
really care what happens to them. Another 78 percent say the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer
while 70 percent believe that most people in power try to take advantage of people like them.
The
Everyday Woman: Ivanka's $138 Dress versus Hillary's $12,495 Jacket. Ivanka Trump reportedly wore a $138,
blush-colored dress from her own fashion line — sold at Macy's and Nordstrom — when she introduced her
father Donald Trump on Thursday night at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, where he accepted the
Republican Party's nomination for President of the United States. The 34-year-old fashionista also wore her own dress
on Wednesday night [7/20/2016]. [...] Trump's decision to adorn her reasonably priced clothing line makes her relatable to
every woman and it's in stark contrast to presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's decision to wear a $12,485 Giorgio
Armani jacket during her New York primary win in April.
Dead
Broke: Forbes Says the Clintons Pulled in $229 Million Between 2001 and 2014. Remember when Hillary Clinton
claimed she and Bill were "dead broke" when they left the White House? Hey, I know this will startle you, but it turns out
that's [not true]. Because even before they left the White House, the Clinton had purchased both a "...a five-bedroom home
in Chappaqua, N.Y., for $1.7 million [and] a seven-bedroom house near Embassy Row in Washington, D.C. [for] $2.85 million."
Michelle
Obama Lectures the World on Girl Power. First lady Michelle Obama has wrapped up her six-day "Let Girls Learn"
tour of Liberia, Morocco and Spain. Together with her mother Marian and two daughters Sasha and Malia, the FLOTUS,
under the guise of promoting access to education for 62 million girls worldwide, embarked on a multimillion-dollar excursion
where she ate great food, wore great clothes, hung out with celebrities, and spent $600,000 for one night in Marrakesh.
The Worst
Smear Site In America. The far-left Southern Poverty Law Center relentlessly promotes the Big Lie, wildly
popular in the media, that conservative Americans are racists and the real threat to the nation rather than Islamic
terrorists. The group claims the principal enemies of the American people are presumptive Republican presidential
nominee Donald Trump, conservatives like David Horowitz, and the Tea Party movement. The SPLC is a shamelessly
hypocritical leftist attack machine funded by radical speculator George Soros and a rogue's gallery of rich people and
established philanthropies that want to fundamentally transform America. The fabulously wealthy 501(c)(3) nonprofit has
an astounding one third of a billion dollars ($338 million) in assets, as well as investments in Bermuda and the Cayman
Islands, two offshore tax havens the Left loves to attack (but only when non-leftists stash cash there).
Here
Are The Two Multi-Million Dollar Mansions Hillary Says She "Struggled" To Pay Mortgage On. In an interview with
Diane Sawyer, Hillary Clinton claimed that after the White House their family "struggled... to piece together the resources for
mortgages, for houses." The "we struggled to get by" defense from a multi-millionaire might be tough to swallow for Americans
actually struggling to pay their mortgage. Hillary, after-all, left the White House having spent 20 years living in gratis
government mansions in Little Rock and Washington D.C. Additionally, lets not forget that Bill Clinton's annual salary was $200,000/year
as President and he was able to cash-in on a $50,000 expense account. The Clintons made roughly FOUR times what the average American
made and "struggled to get by." After leaving the White House, the Clintons bought two multi-million dollar mansions.
Obama
girls land in windy Madrid after jaunt to Liberia and Morocco. It was a windy day in Madrid as they landed at
Torrejon air base, forcing Malia to have a Marilyn Monroe moment with her stunning $78 wrap dress. Flying in from a
jaunt in Morocco and Liberia, Sasha was sporting a henna tattoo that spiraled up her arm. And Michelle wore Spanish-style
espadrilles with her $1,800 Proenza Schouler summer dress to greet officials and members of the public waiting on the tarmac.
Michelle
Obama Pledges $100M of U.S. Tax Dollars to Educate Girls — in Morocco. FLOTUS must be unaware of all
the black kids in DC and Chicago that could really use $100M for their failing public schools, since her daughters attend the
super-fancy Sidwell Friends private school, where tuition is $34,268 a year. But that includes hot lunch! Truly, a bargain.
Common
Core Fails Students. What if someone who was really rich got together with some people who were really smart
and discovered what was best for everyone? What would happen if they all used the power of government to nudge (that
is, to coerce) people to adopt their program... because it was for the best, even if no one knew it? You would get
Common Core educational standards, a one-size-fits-all curriculum reform program that has been forced down school districts
around the nation. The reigning genie behind all this is Bill Gates. After all, he is richer than everyone else,
so therefore he must be smarter than everyone else. Better yet, he suffers from a malady that seems to inflict nearly
all tech oligarchs — they believe that they constitute a class of Platonic philosopher kings or guardians who know
what is best for everyone because they have a clearer vision of the Ideas.
Hillary Claims To Be Everyday American,
But Look What She Was Carrying In NY. Although Hillary Clinton likes to pretend that she's "just like every
other American," there's some strong evidence to the contrary. Take, for example, what she had in her hands during a
recent stop in New York, and you'll see the serious issue with such a sentiment. [...] According to Mail Online, she had a
sold out, Alexander McQueen handbag, which is valued at a whopping $1,500 — $1,645 depending on the source.
Hillary
Clinton shows off her $1,600 Alexander McQueen handbag. Hillary Clinton arrived for her interview on The View
carrying a stylish — and sold out — Alexander McQueen handbag that costs $1,645. As voters headed to the polls in
Wisconsin on Tuesday, the presidential hopeful returned to her native New York, where she was twice elected by the state's
voters to represent them in the Senate.
The
surprising strategy behind Hillary Clinton's designer wardrobe. Hillary Clinton's New York primary victory
speech in April focused on topics including income inequality, job creation and helping people secure their retirement.
It was a clear attempt to position herself as an everywoman. But an everywoman she is not — she gave the
speech in a $12,495 Giorgio Armani tweed jacket. The polished outfit was a stark contrast to the fashion choices
Clinton has made in the past. As first lady, Clinton wore frumpy pastel skirtsuits. As New York senator and
secretary of state, she attempted a more serious look, wearing pantsuits in a rainbow of colors — so mocked that
they sparked memes. In comparison to Michelle Obama, who's become known as a style icon during her time in the White House
and appeared on the cover of Vogue twice, Clinton has never been able to nail down a personal aesthetic that works for her.
Hillary
Clinton wore $12,495 Armani jacket during speech on inequality. You just can't make this stuff up
anymore. Hillary Clinton, dead broke as she claimed after leaving the White House with rapist Bill Clinton wore a
$12,495 priced Armani jacket while giving a speech about inequality back in April. Some people struggling today don't
even make that in a year. Others are lucky if this is 1/3rd of what they make in a year. No matter to 'dead
broke' Hillary.
Hillary
Clinton wore a $12,495 Armani jacket during a speech about inequality. Hillary Clinton took a lot of flak on
Monday after a report surfaced that the presidential candidate wore a Giorgio Armani jacket worth more than $12,000 during a
speech in April about inequality. Clinton, who was well-known for her vast pantsuit collection, has upgraded her
wardrobe during her most recent bid for president to appear more relatable, according to the New York Post.
Obamas'
Next Home: 9 Bedrooms in a Wealthy Washington Neighborhood. President Obama and his family plan to move to a
mansion in the upscale Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, a mere two miles from the White House, when he leaves office in
January, according to people familiar with his plans. Mr. Obama, who has said his family will remain in the
capital until his daughter Sasha completes high school in 2018, will rent the 8,200-square-foot, nine-bedroom home, the
people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to reveal his plans. The
house — valued around $6 million, according to several real estate websites, with an estimated monthly rent of
$22,000 on Zillow — is owned by Joe Lockhart, a former press secretary and senior adviser to Bill Clinton.
Mr. Lockhart was until this year the managing director of a communications and political consulting practice he founded,
the Glover Park Group, but has moved to Manhattan to become executive vice president for communications for the National
Football League.
The
$5 Million D.C. Mansion Where The Obamas Will Live After Leaving The White House. After President Obama leaves
the White House, his family has plans to move to a $5 million mansion in Washington D.C. According to Politico's Mike
Allen, Obama will lease the mansion from former Bill Clinton press secretary Joe Lockhart and Giovanna Gray.
Here's
the mansion the Obamas will live in starting in 2017. President Obama and his family will reportedly lease an
8,200-square foot mansion in Washington, D.C.'s Kalorama neighborhood after they leave the White House. Sources
confirmed Wednesday to Politico that the Obamas will rent the mansion owned by Joe Lockhart and Giovanna Gray a day
after it was reported by National Journal that they had settled on the Kalorma neighborhood.
The Editor says...
With what money will the Obamas pay the lease on this house?
Obamas
'choose upmarket suburb of Karolama, DC, as their post- White House home. The Obamas are choosing the manicured
gardens and marble fountains of Kalorama, Washington DC, as their new home, according to reports. The soon to be former
leader of the free world has eschewed Embassy Row, which he had apparently been toying with, and decided upon the salubrious
Karolama, according to the National Journal. Its streets are lined with distinguished colonial homes, and its residents
range from ambassadors to statesmen.
The Editor says...
This maneuver probably indicates one of several scenarios, for example: [#1] The Obamas will embark on fresh new careers
as lobbyists, or [#2] The Obamas are staying close to Washington in case Michelle runs for the White House.
Report: Obamas choose DC neighborhood
to live at after presidency ends. Back in March, President Barack Obama said he and his family will be sticking
around the nation's capital after he leaves office in January. It appears they have chosen which neighborhood they plan
on living in after his second presidential term is over. According to the National Journal, the Obamas plan to rent a
home in the Kalorama neighborhood of Northwest D.C., just east of Massachusetts Avenue.
You
Too Can Live Like Chelsea Clinton For A Mere $6 Million. The former first daughter and Marc Mezvinsky's starter
home is on the market again after the couple sold it in 2013 for $5.9 million.
Obama
foundation donors at the White House. A new study details how President Barack Obama has been inviting his
Obama Foundation donors to events at the White House, a venue that obviously won't be available to him to entertain mega
contributors in a few months. The Obama Foundation, created on Jan. 31, 2014, has to date only 39 contributors,
with the money coming either from individuals or foundations controlled by Obama supporters.
Hillary
reveals she earned $1.5 million from just six speeches last year and $5 million in book royalties. Hillary
Clinton filed financial documents Tuesday [5/17/2016] showing that in 2015 she earned more than $5 million in royalties from
her book 'Hard Choices' and about $1.5 million in speaking fees before she launched her presidential campaign. Her
husband, former President Bill Clinton, continued his lucrative speaking tour through last November, more than six months
after his wife entered the race, reaping more than $5 million from banking, tech and other corporate interests.
The Progressive
Lust For Power. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have been talking a lot about "fairness" and "equality"
during their primary campaigns. Like most progressives, they pass themselves off as the champions of the ordinary
people who are suffering beneath the boot of rapacious capitalists and the plutocratic "one percent." Give us power, they
say, and we will create "social justice" for all the victims of "white privilege" and capitalist greed, not to mention redistributing
even more money from the selfish "rich" in order to finance such utopian goals. Promiscuously displaying their hearts
bleeding for the oppressed has long been the progressive camouflage that hides their real motive: the lust for power.
Hillary
and Bill Clinton Made $6.7 Million from Speeches in 2015. Hillary and Bill Clinton raked in a combined $6.725 million
in paid speeches in 2015, a decrease from the year before, according to a personal financial disclosure form released late Tuesday night
[5/17/2016]. As a presidential candidate, Clinton has come under fire for paid speeches she gave, particularly to big banks and Wall
Street, after leaving the State Department. Her Democratic opponent, Bernie Sanders, and his supporters have called on her to
release the transcripts of these speeches, which she has thus far refused to do.
Rift Between Labor
and Environmentalists Threatens Democratic Turnout Plan. Two of the Democratic Party's most loyal
constituencies, labor and environmentalists, are clashing over an effort to raise tens of millions of dollars for an
ambitious voter turnout operation aimed at defeating Donald J. Trump in the November election. The rift developed after
some in the labor movement, whose cash flow has dwindled and whose political clout has been increasingly imperiled, announced
a partnership last week with a wealthy environmentalist, Tom Steyer, to help bankroll a new fund dedicated to electing Democrats.
The Greens' Daddy Warbucks
Helps Himself. Any comprehensive review of green energy and its politics and policies has to include the name
of wealthy liberal Tom Steyer — who has been called the environmental movement's new "Daddy Warbucks." Having made
his billions from his tenure atop Farallon Capital Management — much of it from coal projects around the world —
Steyer apparently had an environmental epiphany and now wants to atone for his past sins by trying to save the planet from manmade
climate change. He is using his wallet to try to elect candidates who will promote policies and energy plans that agree with
him. And that plan is "green."
NY
Democrats selling national convention access to big donors. Despite federal and state probes into government
pay-to-play schemes, New York's Democrats are offering fat-cat donors access to bigwigs at the party's national convention in
exchange for contributions, The [New York] Post has learned. In their pitch for cash, state Dems promise to grant a
dizzying array of perks to top donors at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in July.
The Great Culture War. [Scroll down]
Normal Americans are the ones paying the price for gesture politics. John McCain can be generous on immigration because
he never experiences it. He lives in one of his wife's 23 mansions, rides in government limousines and works in
fortified government facilities. Men like John McCain live as strangers in this country. What they see of it is
from a safe distance. Similarly, the chattering skulls on television pull down six figure salaries and live in bunkered,
whites-only communities. It is not an accident that they are crowded into the richest counties on earth, all of them
around Washington DC. They are the petty royalty of the ruling class. To these people, normal Americans are
aliens, indistinguishable from the people sneaking over the border.
John
Kerry, Teresa Heinz Family Trusts Invest Heavily In Fossil Fuels. Despite Secretary of State John Kerry's
outspoken demand that America drastically reduce its reliance on fossil fuels, his family investments heavily favor oil, coal
and natural gas companies while giving scant attention to renewable energy firms, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation
analysis. In his latest 2015 financial disclosure report obtained by TheDCNF, Kerry listed family trust investments in
94 companies involved in the exploration, extraction, storage and transportation of oil, natural gas, coal and liquefied
natural gas. Several of the investments are in companies that use hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, which is
passionately opposed by environmentalists.
Kerry,
Heinz Family Have Millions Invested In Offshore Tax Havens. Secretary of State John Kerry and his wife Teresa
Heinz have invested millions of U.S. dollars through family trusts in at least 11 offshore tax havens, according to The Daily
Caller News Foundation's Investigative Group. The revelation comes on the heels of the release of the Panama Papers, a
treasure trove of 11.5 million legal and financial records documenting how some of the world's richest and most powerful
people have used offshore bank accounts to conceal their wealth and avoid taxes.
One
Law for the Rich, Another for the Average. Somewhere, Big Tim Sullivan might be laughing. Over 100 years
after the enactment of New York City's handgun licensing law (commonly referred to as the Sullivan Act), the measure is still
working as the political boss intended. That is to say, it is ensuring that New Yorkers who are well-connected, either
by status or more nefarious channels, are able to arm themselves with handguns, while average residents remain at the mercy
of the criminal element.
Hillary's
State Department Stopped Haiti From Increasing Its Minimum Wage to 61 Cents. The #FightFor15 movement is
continuing to make gains. After steamrolling through large urban centers such as Seattle, San Francisco, and New York,
now it may be coming to entire states near you. New York and California recently adopted a $15 statewide minimum wage,
and both Democratic presidential candidates have advocated extending the policy nationwide. While Bernie Sanders has
made political hay out of Hillary Clinton's seeming reluctance to fully embrace his rush to $15, she has been coming around
to the same talking points of late. Of course, when the rubber meets the road, Hillary seems to have a different take
on drastic wage hikes. When she was running the show, the State Department helped block Haiti's efforts to increase its
minimum wage from 27 cents to 61 cents per hour.
Surprise!
Socialist Bernie Sanders' Free-College Plan Would Help Rich People Most, Study Says. The proposal by
self-proclaimed socialist Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to make tuition free at America's public colleges
and universities would provide almost $17 billion in free handouts to already-comfortable American families in the upper half
of income distribution. Meanwhile, Bernie's plan would cause just $13.5 billion to trickle down to families in
America's poor half — the ones who would have considerably more trouble covering room, board, textbooks, travel
and other non-tuition costs.
Billionaire-Bashing
Bernie Sanders Is a Millionaire With Three Homes. Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders rails against
the "billionaire class" and has called income inequality "the greatest moral issue of our time," but the senator from Vermont
is "not exactly a man of modest means," according to an article written by Kerri Anne Renzulli for the TIME magazine
website. However, "nothing about Bernie's net worth devalues his progressive beliefs," stated Peter Daou, a former
adviser to Hillary Clinton who responded on the Blue Nation Review website to reports that Sanders and his wife, Jane, could
retire with an "effective retirement nest egg" valued at "nearly $2 million."
Hillary's
Haircut Inequity. The Clintons claim that in 2001 when they left the White House in a moving van stuffed to the
rafters with $190K worth of stolen items, they were poverty stricken. Then, between 2001 and 2012, on speaking fees
alone, the destitute couple managed to stockpile approximately $160 million dollars. With that kind of haul, who needs
commemorative china and cutlery? Anyway, now it's 2016 and, thus far, Hillary watchers haven't seen the former
penniless first lady/current prosperous presidential hopeful wear the same outfit twice. In fact, every time Hillary
Clinton's bulging eyes approach the podium, if you listen closely, besides the signature squawking and screeching, you'll
hear a cash register ring up $1,400 for each and every Nina McLemore power pantsuit she shows up in.
Hillary
Clinton's entourage blocks up traffic in New York as she gets $600 haircut. She has been out and about in New York trying
to woo voters in Harlem. But before hitting the campaign trail [3/31/2016], Hillary Clinton's entourage reportedly blocked up
traffic on Fifth Avenue as she enjoyed an early morning hair appointment at luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman.
Gridlock
In NYC So Hillary Can Get a $1,200 Haircut. Hillary Clinton's oversized motorcade gridlocked Manhattan traffic this
week so she could, eh, get a coiffe. Looks like the cut and color cost a mere $1,200. But she's for the little people!
The $50 Billion
Hypocrite. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a net worth that exceeds $50 billion, but he really
wants you to know that he's a Champion of the proverbial "little guy." How does he prove this? By promoting the notion
that America would benefit greatly from the swift legalization of countless millions of illegal aliens — you know,
"little guys" — who are highly likely to become permanent wards of the welfare state and, most importantly, permanent
Democratic voters. In 2013 Zuckerberg visited Capitol Hill, where he pressed members of Congress to support an amnesty
bill designed to confer citizenship to millions of people residing unlawfully in the United States.
The Apology Tour of Our
Next President. In Havana recently, President Obama talked of the similarities between Cuba and the United
States, as if a constitutional republic of some 240 years and a thuggish and murderous communist dictatorship were kindred
souls. In Argentina, Obama both tangoed and then apologized for the nth time for his country while abroad, this time
supposedly for not opposing the brutal Argentine military dictatorship at the height of the Cold War. He also advised
young people that there was not that much difference between communism and capitalism — without giving them a
glimpse of his own retirement plans that will make the Obamas fabulously rich by following the hyper-capitalist post-presidential
get-rich program of the Clintons.
Bernie
Sanders calls George Clooney's $33,400-a-ticket Hillary Clinton fundraiser 'obscene'. Bernie Sanders took a
shot at Hollywood on Sunday [3/27/2016], calling two upcoming Hillary Clinton fundraisers organized by George Clooney
'obscene'. The actor is hosting a fundraising dinner for the Democratic candidate in San Francisco on April 15, where
two seats at the head table with Clinton, Clooney and his wife Amal cost $353,400. The following night, Clooney is hosting
yet another event at his home in Los Angeles where tickets are $33,400 each.
Michelle
Obama's Floral Outfits Cost 23 Times Average Annual Salary in Cuba. The two floral dresses that first lady Michelle Obama sported in
Cuba this week would not be affordable for the wide majority of individuals living in the repressive country. US Weekly recently
spotlighted two outfits that Obama wore during appearances in Havana on Sunday and Monday that, according to a [Washington] Free Beacon
analysis, together cost more than 23 times the average annual state salary in Cuba recorded in 2014.
Hillary
Clinton to Miners: Let Them Eat Coal. By now, most people probably know about one of Secretary Hillary
Clinton's biggest campaign gaffes to date: "we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business."
As soon as I heard it, I tweeted: "Imagine a presidential candidate running for office based on putting people out of work?"
I wasn't the only one shocked by the uncharacteristic clarity of her statement.
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Reasons Not To Vote For Donald Trump. [#22] Eminent domain: Not only is Donald Trump in favor of having the government use the power
of eminent domain to take property from private owners so it can be given to fatcats like him, he tried to use eminent domain to take a widow's home
away from her so it could be used as a limo parking lot. If you think Donald Trump is for the little guy, you're a sucker.
Wage
gap: One Hillary Clinton speech more than average CEO salary. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton's charge that
corporate CEOs earn 300 times more than their workers isn't just wrong. It hides another very real wage gap: She earns more in
just one speech than the average American CEO in a year.
White
Lady with $650K Speaking Fee Wants Black Americans to Know She's Down with Their Struggle. [Scroll down]
I'm glad we are finally getting around to airing out a subject that's been put on the back burner for so long. After the
Democrats got a free pass on making the African-American citizens of Detroit significantly poorer for almost half of a century,
Hillary probably rightfully feels that there is no level of Demspeak feel-good pandering that she can't get away with now.
Obama dines privately with DreamWorks CEO
Jeffrey Katzenberg, actor Will Smith. As he is wont to do when he visits Los Angeles, President Obama dined secretly with moguls and stars. Mr.
Obama had dinner at a hotel Thursday night [2/11/2016] with Jeffrey Katzenberg, DreamWorks CEO and a major campaign donor; Alan Horn, chairman of Walt Disney Studios;
and actor Will Smith, most recently in "Concussion." The White House didn't disclose the dinner, nor was it on Mr. Obama's public schedule. It was first
reported by Deadline.com.
Obama hits golf course in
California. While Washington was facing a deep freeze Friday [2/12/2016], President Obama was eager to hit the links on the West Coast.
Fresh off a Thursday fundraising swing through San Jose and Los Angeles, Obama flew to Palm Springs, Calif., for a weekend golf getaway. Obama's
motorcade arrived at Porcupine Creek golf course, owned by Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, in nearby Rancho Mirage just over 20 minutes after
Air Force One landed on Friday [2/12/2016].
Financial
Scandals Follow Socialist Millionaire Sanders. Responding to one of Anderson Cooper's softball questions,
socialist Bernie Sanders (I-VT) told the CNN Town Hall on Wednesday night [2/3/2016] that he lives a frugal life and indicated that
he doesn't care about money or status. "I have a small Chevrolet," he said. "It is one of the smallest Chevys that they
make." He said it was about five years old. But James O'Brien, a political consultant and former publisher of Campaigns
& Elections magazine, says the career politician, who has been a mayor, member of Congress and U.S. senator, has achieved the
financial status of a millionaire. O'Brien has analyzed the financial status of Sanders and his wife, including their financial
disclosure report, and has concluded they have a net worth in the range of $1.2 to $1.5 million, not the $700,000 or less
that is usually reported by the media.
The many contradictions of Hillary
Clinton. [Scroll down] Clinton has also vowed to raise taxes on hedge fund managers. Is that a way of expressing
displeasure with her son-in-law, Marc Mezvinsky, who operates a $400 million hedge fund? For that matter, how did Clinton's daughter,
Chelsea, who worked for a consulting firm and a hedge fund despite having no background in finance — reportedly become worth an
estimated $15 million? Hillary Clinton recently proposed a new $350 billion government plan to make college more affordable.
Certainly, universities spike tuition costs, and student-loan debt has surpassed $1 trillion. Colleges spend money indiscriminately,
mostly because they know that the federal government will always back student loans. Yet, since she left office, Clinton routinely has
charged universities $200,000 or more for her brief 30-minute chats. Her half-hour fee is roughly equal to the annual public-university
tuition cost for eight students.
The
Tet Offensive: European Union Edition. [Scroll down] Over on the Fourth Estate, the global mass media
have been almost entirely subverted, scripted and stage-managed for decades by these über-wealthy elites through a
thousand channels greased with kickbacks, no-show jobs, and secret payoffs that are disguised as special stock offerings and
private land deals. Media figures morph seamlessly into senior political advisors and corporate board members, adding
millions to their portfolios with each well-timed transition. Even many retired generals and admirals eagerly wallow in
this swamp of sell-out and sleaze. It should not be a surprise to anyone that so many politicians leave Washington or
Brussels as millionaires. Just as it should not be a surprise that long-time CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite, "the most
trusted man in America," was for his entire adult life secretly a leading member of the World Federalist Association, a fact
he proudly revealed only after his retirement from in front of the camera.
Clinton
donors use Maine Democrats to skirt campaign cash limits. A Cuban-born sugar tycoon. A California-based
registered foreign agent for the government of Sri Lanka. A Chicago billionaire. All of them are recent large donors to
the Maine Democratic Party via a complex fundraising scheme called the Hillary Victory Fund. The fund exploits recent court
decisions and weakened campaign finance laws to maximize political contributions and funnel them to the Democratic National Committee.
Hillary
Clinton pocketed $37 million in campaign cash in 4th quarter; $112 million in 2015. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign
said Friday [1/1/2016] it raised $37 million in the past three months and more than $112 million in all of 2015 to support her
bid for the Democratic nomination.
Elitist
President Obama Back To Familiar "Bitter Clinger" Remarks Ridiculing The "Blue Collar" Middle Class. You could
not time a more damaging contrast than presidential candidate Donald Trump rallying with thousands of middle-class patriotic
Americans, while the Democrat President of the country pokes them in the eye and heads off to Hawaii for a golf-filled
Christmas vacation.
President
Barack Obama and his family to spend Christmas in Hawaii for eighth consecutive year. President Barack Obama
and the first family will return to Hawaii for their Christmas vacation next week for the eighth year running. The White
House confirmed Friday [12/11/2015] that the Obamas are due to leave Washington for the island on December 18, the Huffington
Post reports. It is not yet known where they will stay this year, though they have traditionally rented out a property in
the upscale Kailua area on Oahu island.
In
Paris for Climate Summit, Obama, Susan Rice, John Kerry Dine at Fancy French Restaurant. While in Paris for the
Cops21 climate change summit, President Obama took some time off to enjoy a fancy meal at L'Ambroisie with French President
Hollande. [...] According to an estimation from Zagat, a meal at L'Ambroisie costs about $200 and is described as "a jewel of
French gastronomy" on the restaurant's website.
Ex-NYC
mayor with multiple mansions, jets: 'Crazies' like Ted Cruz don't accept climate change reality. According to
the New York Times in 2012, [Michael] Bloomberg has eleven homes. Eleven. ELEVEN! He also has a fleet of
private planes that he uses to get to and from those homes, as well as to arrive at "climate change" summit meetings in style.
That's the guy accusing others of not believing what they're saying. Here's just one of Bloomberg's places: A
22,000-square-foot mansion with 11 bedrooms, 8 bathrooms with hot and cold running hypocrisy.
Green
Tech and the climate crisis syndicate. Renewable Portfolio Standard advocates recently held their 2015 National
Summit. The draft RPS agenda suggests it was quite an event — populated by bureaucrats, scientists and consultants
who have jumped on the climate and "green energy" bandwagon, to follow the money. Indeed, they are no longer content with
10% corn ethanol in gasoline, or some wind and solar power in the electricity mix. Now they want to convert the entire
electrical grid from fossil-fuels to renewable sources and, if Catholic bishops get their way, totally eliminate hydrocarbons
by 2050, despite the horrendous impacts that would have on workers, families and the world's poorest people. There's
certainly a lot of money to be made. The green revolution is estimated at $1.5 trillion per year, which means
potentially huge profits for those with political connections.
Top
10 reasons George Soros is the most dangerous man in America. [#1] Gives billions to left-wing causes:
Soros started the Open Society Institute in 1993 as a way to spread his wealth to progressive causes. Using Open Society
as a conduit, Soros has given more than $7 billion to a who's who of left-wing groups. This partial list of recipients
of Soros' money says it all: ACORN, Apollo Alliance, National Council of La Raza, Tides Foundation, Huffington Post, Southern
Poverty Law Center, Soujourners, People for the American Way, Planned Parenthood, and the National Organization for Women.
Resettlement
Contractors Lie to Protect Their Franchise. In the wake of the horrific terrorist attacks in Paris, and the
revelation that at least two of the terrorists were Syrian refugees, the governors of Texas, Alabama, Illinois, Iowa,
Michigan, Arkansas, Louisiana, Indiana, and even Massachusetts, have announced they will seek to bar Syrian refugee
resettlement in their states. More are likely to join them. Good for them! But the resettlement
contractors have fired back.
Politico:
Big-money leftists considering major funding for #BlackLivesMatter. Oddly enough, the MSM denouncers of "big
money" in politics are never concerned with the cabal of left-wing billionaires who manipulate public opinion from behind the
scenes by funding the Astroturf-ish movements like #OccupyWallStreet in the last presidential election cycle and now
#BlackLivesMatter. Operating under the ironic name of "Democracy Alliance," a cabal of billionaire and mere centi-millionaire
leftists meets in secret to decide where to spend their money to keep the left powerful. George Soros, the financier whose
billions mostly reside overseas in banking secrecy havens, already is known to have spent tens of millions of dollars funding
Ferguson protests and spin-offs like BLM, according to the Washington Times. Now his colleagues in the Democracy Alliance
are reportedly ready to up the ante with many millions more to fan racial resentment.
Democrats
Decry Income Inequality That Their Own Policies Make Worse. [Scroll down] Under Obama, the poor have gotten poorer
and the rich richer. Incomes for the bottom 20% have fallen in each of the past four years and are now 8% below where they stood
when Obama took office. Meanwhile, incomes of the wealthiest 5% have climbed under Obama, after adjusting for inflation. Then
there's the report published in September by the European Central Bank, which examined the correlation between welfare spending and income
inequality in European countries. It found that the higher the welfare spending, the higher the income inequality.
Bloomberg
targets states suing over climate rules. Billionaire media mogul Michael Bloomberg will begin shelling out millions of
dollars to counter the 26 states suing the Obama administration over its climate rules, and Democrats aren't immune. Bloomberg
advisers said Friday that the $10 million campaign will target state attorneys general who are part of a multi-state suit comprising
more than half the nation, including the Missouri attorney general who is running for governor.
Hillary's
'everyday Americans' base is questioned as ZIP codes at the top of her donor list are among America's richest. Hillary Clinton's
donors have something else in common other than their support for the Democratic candidate. Turns out, they're neighbors. The top 10
zip codes of her donor list represent some of the richest neighborhoods in the country, and they're all clustered in Manhattan or near Northwest
Washington, D.C.
How
The Clintons Have Made $230 Million Since Leaving The White House. Less than a week before the Clintons left
the White House in 2001, they bought a replacement house 15 minutes down the road for $2.85 million. It was a pricy purchase
for a couple who had more than $1 million in legal debt and a net worth of nearly nothing at the time. But the Clintons had
little reason to worry — they were poised to make a fortune. Over the next 15 years, they earned more than $230 million
before taxes.
Lobbyists
for Clinton's 'Enemies' Are Bankrolling Her Campaign. Asked to name the enemies that she is most proud of
during Tuesday's Democratic presidential debate, Hillary Clinton cited industries represented by lobbyists who are among her
top campaign fundraisers. In addition to Iran and the Republican Party, Clinton said she was proud to count "the health
insurance companies" and "the drug companies" as her enemies. Those industries' lobbyists do not appear to share that
enmity. By mid-July, seven of them had raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for her presidential campaign, according
to campaign finance records.
Clinton
Promises to 'Make the Wealthy Pay' and Make 'Companies Share Profits'. At the very beginning of the debate, Clinton introduced herself as
"the granddaughter of a factory worker" to establish her credibility with the middle class. Later, debate moderator Anderson Cooper challenged her
on that point, noting that Hillary and her husband Bill "are part of the one percent." "Well, you know, both Bill and I have been very blessed,"
Clinton responded.
The Editor says...
I suppose "blessed" is a code word for greedy.
Hillary
Clinton's Hidden Big Business Agenda Exposed. Despite all this anti-corporate rhetoric, the fact is that [Bernie] Sanders and [Hillary]
Clinton will be the best friends big business could ever hope for, since their regulatory agenda will invariably help big, established businesses at
the expense of small, entrepreneurial competitors. That, after all, is their legacy in the banking and health care industries. Both Sanders
and Clinton are big boosters of the Dodd-Frank financial reform. But a recent Harvard study found that the massive regulatory scheme that it
imposed has hurt small community banks the most.
President Obama's mysterious
trip to San Diego. Those attending the Democratic National Committee fundraiser paid between $250 and $10,000.
Obama
to party with Jamie Foxx at $10K a ticket fundraiser hosted by the DNC in Southern California. President Barack
Obama is reportedly hosting yet another big ticketed star-studded event in Southern California on Saturday, that will include
entertainment from singer Jamie Foxx. According to TMZ, the Democratic National Committee is throwing the ritzy $10,000 a
ticket fundraiser in Pacific Palisades at a private home. The original invitation to what is expected to be an all night
affair, said that the musical guest had not yet been determined.
Planned
Parenthood Got $528M In Tax Dollars, Paid Cecile Richards $523,000. Planned Parenthood received $528 million in
government health services grants and reimbursements or 41 percent of its total revenue for the fiscal year ending on June 30,
2014 and gave its president, Cecile Richards, $523,000 in annual compensation. "My annual compensation is $523,000 a year,"
Richards told House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah).
Because they both care so much about the poor and unfortunate...
Michelle
Obama Wears $2300 Dress To Greet Pope. Politico reports that First Lady Michelle Obama, looking lovely and
classy, greeted Pope Francis Tuesday while wearing a $2,290 dress. While the Obamas are not Catholics, this is still a
finger-in-the-eye to a White House guest who frequently speaks out — to wild Democrat applause — about
the evils of excessive capitalism. [...] According to WorldVision, you can feed a child for just $35 a month. Michelle
Obama's dress would feed over 80 children for that month. This choice obviously is contrary to the values of Pope Francis.
But the Obamas' religious values come from elsewhere, a divisive and disturbing place, not a charitable or unifying one.
Michelle
Obama Wears $2300 Dress To Greet Pope. Both President and Mrs. Obama are disciples of Jeremiah Wright, a racist
Jew-hating Chicago-based preacher. Not long after Obama ascended to the presidency, Wright, Obama's religious mentor
for 20 years, retired to a $1 million, 10,400 square foot mansion located next to a country club and golf course.
Obama
rubs elbows with Harry Reid's corporate welfare lobbyists. The crowd cheered the President's toast to their
taxpayer-provided profits, and soon Obama headed off to a $33,000-a-head fundraiser at the mansion of the billionaire owner
of the local newspaper. You, the taxpayer, paid for Obama's flight to Vegas. This is what Hope and Change looks like
seven years after Obama accepted the Democratic nomination. Obama was the keynote speaker at the National Clean Energy
Summit, an annual confab organized by outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid — which tells you a lot about the
nature of the event.
Hillary
Clinton plans to spend break from campaigning among 'ordinary Americans' in $50,000-a-week Hamptons home. Her
campaign has centered on her claim that she will be the champion of the middle class if she is elected to the White House.
So the average person will no doubt find it easy to relate to the beachfront mansion that Hillary Clinton is renting for her summer
vacation in The Hamptons. Exclusive pictures obtained by Daily Mail Online show what exactly the Democratic Presidential
candidate is getting for her $100,000 — which covers just a two week rental.
Bill and Hillary Clinton
spending $100K on Hamptons rental. Following Hillary Clinton's recently announced plan to help the middle class, she
and Bill are again renting a house in the Hamptons for the last two weeks in August for a rumored $100,000. The Clintons are
renting a four-bedroom home from Republican art collector Andre Nasser and his real estate guru wife, Lois, at 44 Broadview
Road — a hidden cul-de-sac in Amagansett that boasts wealthy neighbors, including Harvey Weinstein.
Obama
Leaving For Vacation But Troubles May Follow. [Scroll down] Reportedly staying at the same
location they rented last year, the secluded 8,100 square foot estate boasts seven bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a
pool, a hot tub and dual tennis/basketball court. Zillow estimates the property at more than $13 million.
Obama's
Martha's Vineyard Sojourn Four Times Longer Than Average American Vacation. The Associated Press reported that the
Obama family moved up the date of departure, extending their summer vacation to 17 days, more than four times the length of
the average American vacation. In fact, Obama's summer break is one day longer than the total amount of vacation time the
average American worker is allotted for an entire year. The first family will reside in the same $12 million mansion in
Chilmark that they rented last year. Positioned on 10 acres of land, the 8,100-square-foot home houses seven bedrooms and
nine bathrooms. The estate is enhanced by a dual basketball/tennis court and an infinity pool.
Progressive
liberals reveal their true character. Liberal Democrats love to run for office wearing
missionary robes. They proclaim that they will help the poor, that they want the minimum wage
raised, and that they want the sick, helpless, and elderly to receive money that they will take from
the rich. Republicans are not qualified to run government, Democrats say, since they are mean,
selfish corporate types who want to do nothing but grab money from the working class and keep it to
themselves. Oh, really? Look what Democrats do in Chicago, a crucible of Democratic rule.
Obama's
big $1 million take in the Big Apple. President Obama raised nearly $1 million for
Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and other Democrats' re-election efforts in Manhattan Friday
night [7/17/2015] at the uptown home of a British shipping magnate. The president headlined a Democratic
National Committee "roundtable" with some 30 donors who paid $33,400 each to attend the event held at the
east side four-story brownstone of George Logothetis and his wife Nitzia. The event was closed to the press
and the White House provided only a read-out of the name of the hosts and the amount each person paid to attend.
Hillary's
coming out speech. [Scroll down] Lest anyone think Hillary has changed her mind
since 1993, it's now clear that she is competing with Bernie Sanders for the office of socialist-in-chief.
Her speech at the New School for Social Research focused on the failings of capitalism. [...] Hillary hit all
the right notes in her coming out speech on Monday, with appeals to working women, unions, illegal immigrants,
the LGBT community, environmentalists, and other Democratic constituencies. But underneath it all
was a tired old vision of Big Government coming to the rescue of helpless citizens victimized by the rich.
That has been the orthodox progressive line in this country and elsewhere for over a century, and everywhere it
has been tried it has failed.
Obama and daughters set to attend $33K a head private soirée
on Manhattan's upper east side. President Barack Obama's motorcade will bring Manhattan to a
standstill tonight as he heads to the uptown home of a British shipping magnate for a $33,400-a-head fundraiser.
Obama and some 30 Democratic faithful will head to the luxury east side brownstone of 40-year-old George Logothetis
and his wife Nitzia for the meet-and-greet that will boost Democratic Party funds by a cool million dollars Daily Mail
Online has learned. Logothetis, who comes from a wealthy Greek family, is a strong supporter of Obama's attempts
to reform the nation's immigration rules to allow a path to citizenship for those who entered the country illegally.
Michelle Obama
Arrives in London Wearing a $1,795 Designer Dress. It's First Lady Michelle, the one
that wears J. Crew and shops at Target just like all of us...
Obama's
secret dinner with Hollywood moguls. Tinseltown is emerging as a transparency-free
zone for President Barack Obama, where for the second time he appears to have given his pool the
slip to have a private, off-the-schedule dinner with movie moguls. Deadline Hollywood reported
that Obama dined at his Beverly Hills hotel Thursday night with Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg
and director Steven Spielberg. White House spokesman Eric Schultz would only confirm that "the
president did have dinner with two of his friends last night in Los Angeles," adding, "I believe
they've been supporters of the president in the past."
Hillary
Clinton's Hamptons Quandary. For the past several summers, Bill and Hillary Clinton
have done what New York City's moneyed residents have done for decades: They spent their vacation
amid the prime beachside real estate of Long Island. In 2011 and 2012, there was the
eight-bedroom, 12,000-square-foot East Hampton rental with a heated pool that the couple took for
part of August, the kind of house that typically goes for $200,000 per month, according to local
real estate listings. Then, in 2013, they opted for an equally pricey six-bedroom mansion in
Sagaponack with a private pathway to the beach. (Mrs. Clinton worked on her memoir, "Hard
Choices," from a sunny office with an ocean view.)
Someone
Tell the Pope: Environmentalism Crushes the Poor. Yesterday [6/16/2015] the American Coalition for Clean Coal
Electricity released a report that documents how the Obama administration's war on coal (and on cheap energy generally) has
hurt poor and middle-class Americans. While I can't vouch for the calculations, the report is an impressive piece of
work, based on energy consumption and price data from the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration,
along with data from the Census Bureau and the Congressional Budget Office. Energy costs consume a substantial portion
of the budgets of lower-income Americans. This simple chart tells the story: while energy costs account for only
7% of expenditures by those who earn over $50,000 per year, those making less than $30,000 pay an astonishing 23% of their
after-tax income for energy.
Bankroller
of Democratic Voting Rights Cases? George Soros. A Democratic legal fight against restrictive voting laws enacted in
recent years by Republican-controlled state governments is being largely paid for by a single liberal benefactor: the
billionaire philanthropist George Soros. Mr. Soros, the Hungarian-born investor whose first major involvement in American
politics was a voter-mobilization drive in the 2004 presidential race, has yet to commit the many millions of dollars that Hillary
Rodham Clinton's allies hope he and other like-minded billionaires will pour into the "super PAC" directly aiding her campaign.
40
Years of Democrats Saying How Much They Want to Get Money Out of Politics. Democratic
Party platform, 1992: It's time to reform the campaign finance system, to get big money out of
our politics and let the people back in. We must limit overall campaign spending and limit the
disproportionate and excessive role of PACs. Jimmy Carter, accepting the Democratic nomination,
July 1976: Too often unholy, self-perpetuating alliances have been formed between money and
politics, and the average citizen has been held at arm's length.
The
Democrats: America's Poor Little Rich Party. Something deep in the psyche of the
Democratic Party prevents it from acknowledging that it, and its candidates, are awash in cash.
What
is wrong with Democrats? I see unions corrupt politics and teachers' unions protect
their interests and the future of their pensions over protecting the future of our children we
place in their care. The work ethic is being eviscerated. People who build things are
derided by President Obama as having not built things or dismissed as "lottery winners."
Doctors do not heal, they are greedy people who yank out tonsils and lop off legs solely for
profit — or so says the Democrats' leader, Barack Obama, and the Democrats who cheer
him. People who work in finance are "fat cats" and "one-percenters" who must be
"toppled" — or so sayeth the one percent of one percenter, Hillary Clinton, probably
the most hypocritical person in America. Why do Democrats worship her?
Inside the war
on coal. Beyond Coal is the most extensive, expensive and effective campaign in the
[Sierra] Club's 123-year history, and maybe the history of the environmental movement. It's gone
largely unnoticed amid the furor over the Keystone pipeline and President Barack Obama's efforts to
regulate carbon, but it's helped retire more than one third of America's coal plants since its
launch in 2010, one dull hearing at a time. With a vast war chest donated by Michael Bloomberg,
unlikely allies from the business world, and a strategy that relies more on economics than ecology,
its team of nearly 200 litigators and organizers has won battles in the Midwestern and Appalachian
coal belts, in the reddest of red states, in almost every state that burns coal.
The Green Behind
California's Greens. [Scroll down] Since the deaths of HP's cofounders, their heirs
have pushed the two foundations' philanthropy ever-leftward, and activist environmentalism is a prime
beneficiary. Under the direction of Packard's three daughters, the conservative Republican's
philanthropic wealth has gone to the National Abortion Rights Action League Foundation, the Feminist
Majority Foundation, and the very green Earth Action Network. This liberal giving has prompted
Packard's son, David, whose political views are closer to his father's, to withdraw his money from
the foundation and form his own nonprofit, which gives to more traditional and nonpolitical causes.
In a signature moment in green giving, the Packard and Hewlett Foundations decided in 2007 to boost their
spending on climate-change issues, funneling the money into a new, San Francisco-based nonprofit,
ClimateWorks, led initially by the former head of environmental programs at Hewlett. The Hewlett
Foundation, according to the Columbia Journalism School report, agreed to put $500 million into
ClimateWorks, with the Packard Foundation adding approximately $390 million since 2008.
New
Clinton speech disclosures reveal foundation's take. Hillary Clinton, former President
Bill Clinton and daughter Chelsea Clinton brought in more than $12 million in speaking fees since
2002 that was donated directly to their family foundation, covering a a total of 97 speeches across
the U.S. and around the world, according to data made public for the first time Thursday night [5/21/2015].
The new list of paid speeches gives a more complete financial picture of the Clintons' high-dollar public
appearances. A personal financial disclosure filed last week by Hillary Clinton shows that the couple
made over $25 million in personal income on public speeches since the beginning of 2014.
By
the Way, Bill and Hillary Have Banked More than $30 Million Since Last January. She's
running for president as a "topple the rich" champion of "everyday Americans," and he's just tryin'
to pay the bills, y'all: [...] "The former President was even paid $175,000 for a speech in Miami
where he appeared via satellite." Hillary also made six figures for addressing a gathering she
didn't physically attend.
Clintons
report making $25M for speeches since Jan. '14. Hillary Clinton and former President
Bill Clinton earned more than $25 million combined in speaking fees since January 2014, Fox News
confirmed Friday [5/15/2015]. [...] Clinton has started her campaign for president by painting
herself as a champion for the middle class. However, Republicans have scrutinized her about the
wealth she and Bill Clinton have amassed since she left the White House. That includes their ability
to command six-figure fees for delivering speeches and the finances behind the Clinton Foundation
because of its acceptance of donations from foreign governments.
$1.3M
loophole for Elizabeth Warren. Federal law requires members of Congress and other federal
officials to annually disclose their financial assets and liabilities, including mortgages. In a
form filed last week, Warren stated she and her husband, Bruce Mann, had no debt liabilities in 2014.
But according to a Middlesex South Registry of Deeds record, Bank of America holds a $1.3 million
mortgage on the Cambridge home owned by Warren and Mann. An aide for Warren said the amount represents
a home equity line of credit, not a mortgage.
Dem.
Congressman With Millions in Legal Bills Demands Pay Raise. A Democratic congressman
who still owes millions of dollars in legal bills racked up while fighting corruption allegations
said on Monday [5/18/2015] that members of Congress need a raise in order to cope with the District
of Columbia's rising cost of living. Rep. Alcee Hastings (D., Fla.) said at a Monday Rules
Committee hearing that members of Congress, who make an average of $174,000 per year, "aren't being
paid properly." "Members deserve to be paid, staff deserves to be paid and the cost of living
here is causing serious problems for people who are not wealthy to serve in this institution," he
said. Observers scoffed at the comments, saying congressional pay and benefits are quite generous.
George
Stephanopoulos' future — and $105M contract — in danger. The
"Good Morning America" and "This Week" anchor renewed his contract last year for $105 million, TV
industry sources told The [New York] Post Monday [5/18/2015]. The seven-year deal —
which dwarfs the five-year, $50 million contract scored by since-suspended NBC rival Brian
Williams — was supposed to keep Stephanopoulos in front of ABC's cameras through 2021.
But now his credibility, and future, have been called into question since he admitted Friday that he
had donated $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation since 2011, just as the presidential race gears up
with Hillary Rodham Clinton the leading Democrat.
Obamas worth
millions, disclosure forms reveal. President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama's
assets total somewhere between $1.9 million and $6.9 million, according to financial disclosure
forms released Friday [5/15/2015] by the White House. The bulk of the Obamas' wealth is invested
in U.S. Treasury bills and notes, the total being estimated between $1.25 million and $5.25 million.
Obama
Disapproves: 'Kids Start Going to Private Schools... Private Clubs'. President Barack
Obama told a gathering at Georgetown University on Tuesday that the problem isn't racial segregation,
it's wealth segregation, manifested by "elites" who "are able to live together, away from folks who are
not as wealthy." "Kids start going to private schools," he said. (Just as he did and his own
kids do.) [...] Even before he was elected president, Obama campaigned on the promise of wealth
redistribution. Throughout his presidency Obama has been a champion of the middle class and an
adversary of the wealthy. When he called for tax hikes on the wealthy in September 2011, he
insisted it was "not class warfare," but "fairness."
Barack and Michelle the Poverty Pimps.
Obama was never poor. He lived a charmed and privileged life, including the photographed chapter
where he was the spoiled and spiffy little darling of his well-heeled maternal grandparents.
Ditto for the woman he was later to make his wife. Crying poor mouth by the Obamas has about
as much validity as the rich-by-billions Clintons trying to get away with crying poor mouth.
Michelle
Obama Needs To Get Over Herself. [Scroll down] I don't know who was far-fetched enough to
say Mrs. Obama was "uppity." I think it's perfectly normal to travel the world on the super-generous
taxpayer's dime to places like Ireland and Africa, to the tune of approximately $10 million.
A date night in New York for $11,000? Chump change and so truistic. They probably ate at dumb,
cheap places like Per Se or Le Bernardin and just drank water and nibbled on a bread basket, you
know? And it's totally not cronyism to hang out with Gwyneth Paltrow, Jamie Foxx, or George Clooney.
Those people are so pedestrian and dreary. You know what baby mamas cannot do? They cannot afford
to purchase and wear designers like Isabel Toledo and Jason Wu.
Earth
to Chuck Todd: George Soros Backs New 'Progressive Agenda' with $159 Million. According to Rolling Stone,
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio held a closed-door meeting at his mayoral residence on April 2, 2015, to create the
Progressive version of the 1994 Republican "Contract with America." De Blasio called his update the "Progressive Agenda"
and its stated purpose was to address "income inequality" in the U.S. A dozen far-left leaders attended the closed-door
meeting, including George Soros' son Jonathan Soros. Jonathan claims to support removing money from politics, yet
hypocritically serves on several boards at the Open Society Foundations (OSF). OSF has given more than $550 million
to liberal organizations.
Fidel's Millions
and Streisand's Lawn. The routine is as simple as it is ageless. Divide people by
class and race, convince the don't-haves that somehow they have been robbed by the haves —
and when the don't-haves aren't looking, take every last dime you can get out of manipulating the system
for yourself and your friends. Then buy yourself an island off of Cuba, light up a good Cuban
cigar, pour a glass of fine whiskey, and sit on the fan tail of your yacht and laugh. Or if you're
a rich liberal celebrity in Southern California? Just turn on the sprinkler and let it rain.
Hillary
Clinton the Populist Begins Courting the Plutocrats. One of Hillary Clinton's biggest
applause lines in her early days on the campaign trail has come when she talks about getting big
money out of politics — even when she's talking to the big-money donors. It's one of
the paradoxes of a campaign that regularly employs populist rhetoric while courting plutocrats.
Clinton can't change the system unless she wins the election, a campaign official argued, and the
only way to win the election is with the help of deep-pocketed allies.
Grifter
Granny Clinton Favorite in Poll of Millionaires. The party of old, rich white people.
Can you imagine the media reaction if a Republican candidate was the darling of millionaires? We'd
never hear the end of it.
Is
Mr. Sanders going to speak about the wealthy Clintons? The Clinton Foundation controversy is getting more
controversial by the minute. [...] Yesterday [5/1/2015], Senator Bernie Sanders announced that he is running for president.
He spoke about millionaires and billionaires. He attacked the Koch Brothers but did not mention the Soros group.
I hope that Mr. Sanders, and Mr. O'Malley, start talking about how the Clintons got rich over the last decade. Otherwise,
their attacks on the rich will be just pathetic class warfare!
Granny
Clinton Ditches 'Common American' Ruse, Flies 1st-Class Back to DC. She must have been seething to have
to drag her baggage (and boy howdy, does this woman have baggage) through Logan Airport under the glare of television
cameras and gazes of the average schlubs. This woman has spent the better past of the past quarter century flying
on Air Force One or private jets and now she has to lower herself to fly commercial.
Hillary
Clinton Flies First Class Back to Washington. With her first campaign trip drawing to a close, Hillary
Clinton traded the Scooby road-trip van for a first-class airplane seat to make the trip back to Washington. The
Democratic presidential candidate flew from Boston's Logan Airport to Ronald Reagan National Airport on Tuesday night
[4/21/2015], sitting in row one of the U.S. Airways' first-class section.
Hillary
at meeting with economists: We need to "topple" the wealthiest one percent. It takes a net worth of around $8 million to
join "the one percent." The Clintons' net worth is estimated at $55 million; Hillary alone got a cool $14 mil as an advance
for her dismal memoir "Hard Choices." The electorate's usually willing to let populists slide on their personal wealth — FDR
is the ultimate example but John Edwards was a lefty heartthrob for a time as recently as 2008 — but I wonder if they'll be so
forgiving for Hillary.
Demagoguery:
Wealthy
Hillary Clinton Lambasting CEOs For High Pay is, Well, Rich. Hillary Clinton apparently plans to
base her presidential campaign on the noble goals of greater fairness and shared sacrifice. She has
already lambasted vast differences in compensation. "The average CEO makes about 300 times what
the average worker makes," Clinton warned. She is right — but can best appreciate that fact
from her own career and family. Recently, Clinton has demanded up to $300,000 for brief 30-minute
speeches. She apparently believes in the free-market theory that on the lecture circuit, speakers —
like CEOs — should be paid as much as the market can bear. At UCLA recently, Clinton's fee
worked out to about $165 per second. In three minutes of autobiographical chitchat, Clinton pulled in
more than the average full-time fast-food worker makes in a year.
Why
are Democrats Talking about Income Inequality in the 7th Year of Obama? Did you catch
Senator Bernie Sanders on the Fox Sunday Show? Or Governor Martin O'Malley on NPR? It's
a bit strange, but they are talking about the state of the middle class and the nation's inability to
create good-paying jobs. They say that the jobs are going overseas and that wages are under siege.
They say all of these things in the seventh year of "hope and change" and after six years of a U.S. Senate
Democrat majority (2009-15). Am I the only one who finds all of this a bit surprising?
No
one is buying that Hillary is anything other than the candidate of Wall Street. It was
only a few short years ago that Democrats in high office were openly embracing the anarcho-communist,
semi-criminal Occupy Wall Street movement. There is no small amount of irony in the realization
that the Democratic Party is today prepared to nominate a presidential candidate with a history of
defending the interests of the financial classes.
Greens
against the poor. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren and the whole gang
of Democratic leaders claim that one of their highest priorities is to lift up the middle class and
reduce the income gap between rich and poor. That goal collides with what they admit is their
very highest priority: stopping climate change. Their agenda is driven by the millionaire and
billionaire Democratic donors who make the party possible. But the agenda also involves making
energy, home heating, transportation and just about everything else less efficient and more expensive
to the middle class and poor. The people who lose their jobs when the climate-change Stalinists
prevail are the people at the bottom and the middle of the income ladder. The billionaire club
members don't seem to mind this collateral damage.
By one measure, Hillary earned more
than America's top 10 CEOs. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is
drawing a populist bead on lavish Wall Street pay packages as she revs up her march to the 2016
Democratic presidential nomination, but in some respects the fat-per-speech fee she can charge puts
her far ahead of the top 10 highest-paid American CEOs.
Chipotle
Manager: Hillary Clinton Didn't Leave Anything in Tip Jar. "Her bill was $20 and some
change, and they paid with $21 and left" without putting anything in a tip jar on the counter
[4/12/2015], Charles Wright, the manager at the Maumee, Ohio, Chipotle restaurant told Bloomberg.
Hillary
Has A History of Stiffing Waitresses, Hair Stylists. While the revelation that Hillary
Clinton failed to leave a tip during her stop at a Chipotle earlier this week fell flat —
few customers tip at the fast-casual Mexican restaurant — a deeper look at the former
First Lady's tipping habits shows she does have a history of stiffing people who depend on tips to
make ends meet. [...] Clinton's tipping habits were put front-and-center on Wednesday [4/15/2015] when
Bloomberg News reported that Clinton and her aide, Huma Abedin, did not leave money in a tip jar after
ordering at a Chipotle in Maumee, Ohio.
MSNBC's
Melissa Harris-Perry and Husband Owe IRS $70K in Delinquent Taxes. According to The
Winston-Salem Journal, Wake Forest University professor and MSNBC weekend host Melissa Harris-Perry
and her husband James Perry owe the Internal Revenue Service $70,000 in delinquent taxes. A notice
filed this month in the Forsyth County Hall of Justice indicates the IRS has placed a lien on the Perrys.
'Middle
Class Champion' Hillary Plans To Raise $2.5B. You could feed a lot of 'hongry' childrens for
$2.5 billion dollars. (And who knows how much of this money will have ultimately come from her
slush fund 'foundation'? So it could be taking the food right out
of the mouths of the poor.) And don't worry, in any case she will spend far more than she raises.
(As her last campaign did.)
A
breakdown of every scandal swirling around Hillary. [Scroll down] Clinton will likely position
herself as the champion of the middle class. Yet in 2014, it was revealed that Clinton, who charges
a minimum of $300,000 per speech, also had an extensive list of demands. Most anyone who hires Hillary
to speak must also provide a private jet — a $39 million Gulfstream G450 or better —
and put her up in presidential suites. Her standard agreement requires her presence for only 90 minutes,
and 50 photos with 100 attendees — no more. Hillary has defended her enormous
speaking fees by saying she and Bill were "not only dead broke, but in debt" when they left the White House.
In 1999, Bill and Hillary bought their house in Chappaqua for $1.7 million, and in 2000 purchased a
seven-bedroom in Washington, DC, for $2.85 million.
Woman
with $14 million book advance attacks CEO pay. [Scroll down] First, she takes in
six times the annual average household income per hour for her speeches, at $300,000 a pop. It
would only take her 50 speeches to get to the same 300x metric she decries here. Furthermore,
Hillary signed a deal in 2013 for a $14 million book advance for the memoir she released last year,
which sold unimpressively for such a marquee advance. On top of that, she'd already received an
$8 million advance for her first memoir, "Living History." That totals $22 million in
advance of any work at all, or roughly 440 times what average American households gross
in a year. In the years since the Clintons left the White House, they've earned well over
$100 million. And unlike CEOs at that level, they don't employ many people, and don't
produce anything except income for their own benefit.
Hillary
Clinton's road from riches. The economic gap between Hillary Rodham Clinton and an
average, "everyday American" is wide enough to drive a Scooby van through. On Monday [4/13/2015],
the newly minted Democratic presidential front-runner had nearly completed her 1,000-mile journey
from her mansion in Chappaqua, N.Y., to a first campaign event in Iowa, in the van her staff has
likened to the rattletrap "Mystery Machine" from the 1960s cartoon "Scooby-Doo." The trip was
intended, in part, to rebrand the former secretary of state, a 67-year-old multimillionaire accustomed
to private jets and presidential suites, as a warrior for the middle- and working classes.
Obama
golfs with big money, oil moguls in Florida. Obama was joined for his round of golf
Sunday [3/29/2015] by Jim Crane, who owns the Floridian [National Golf Club].
Rain Dances in California.
On February 14, 2014, President Barack Obama arrived on Air Force One in Fresno, California, with
Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein aboard. [...] Air Force One took off again from Fresno
Airport, mission accomplished, heading toward a Palm Springs golf holiday in the super-irrigated
Coachella Valley. Obama met that evening with King Abdullah II of Jordan at Sunnylands, the
legendary Annenberg estate in Rancho Mirage, to discuss the Syrian crisis and then emerging ISIS threat.
Hillary,
Obama, and the Democrats' Vices. Since 1992, the Clintons have had exceptional, almost
unparalleled political power. From the point of view of most Americans, they've been wealthy. But
not super-wealthy. In 1992, they listed their net worth at nearly $700,000. Yes, they had
to spend quite a bit of money on lawyers during their time at the White House. But even before President
Clinton gave his first post-presidential speech or signed his first book deal, he was going to get a pension
of about $199,000 per year, plus a taxpayer-funded office, etc. She was elected to the Senate, with a
salary of $141,300. Hillary Clinton famously declared she and her husband were "dead broke" when they
left the White House; of course, around that time they bought a $2.35 million home in Chappaqua.
Between leaving the White House and beginning her Senate term she signed the $8 million book deal for
"Living History"; years later, she got a $14 million advance for "Hard Choices."
On
Ex-Im Bank, the Democrats Are the Real Corporate Shills. The [Export-Import] Bank has
been around for decades. Its primary activity is to extend cheap loan guarantees and direct loans
to foreign companies to buy U.S goods under the pretense of boosting exports and creating jobs.
Don't buy it. Economists have shown that these kinds of export credit subsidies will never
raise the overall level of trade. The subsidies are also hurtful (PDF) since they simply redistribute
wealth away from unsubsidized American firms, employees, and consumers and direct it toward a tiny number
of beneficiaries. And that is where Democrats have some explaining to do: The bank's data show
that it overwhelmingly benefits some of the biggest, most politically connected firms in America.
The
First-Class, Five-Star Rev. When he speaks at public colleges and universities, Al Sharpton flies
first-class, stays in upscale hotels, travels to events in a chauffeured vehicle, and often brings a bodyguard
or aide with him. He makes these demands on taxpayer-funded institutions, despite owing as much as
$4.5 million in unpaid taxes and penalties. "In terms of travel, Rev. Sharpton travels first class
on flights and will require a large black SUV for transportation and, if the trip requires lodging, he will
require a suite in a four/five star hotel," wrote Sharpton's assistant, Abyssinia Tirfe, in an
August 14, 2014, e-mail to Michigan State University (MSU) obtained by National Review.
Clinton
has received $16 million in post-presidency benefits. Former President Bill Clinton
has received nearly $16 million in taxpayer funds since leaving the White House, covering everything
from his pension to personnel to benefits — and renewing questions over how much
taxpayers really should spend on ex-presidents who make millions after leaving office. A new
Politico report and analysis examined the payments since he left office in 2001, and claimed it
amounts to more than any other ex-president has received. Meanwhile, Politico points out,
Clinton has a personal annual income that beats all the other living former presidents.
Won't
you please not donate $1 million to Jeb Bush's campaign. [T]his month the fundraisers
for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush have a real problem: Too much money coming in. So much money coming
in that they're worried people may get the idea that these presidential candidates are somehow
beholden to mega-donors. You know, like Bill Clinton renting out the Lincoln Bedroom or Barack
Obama making his finance chair a Cabinet secretary. Money = access. Big money = Big Access.
Awash
in cash, Bush asks donors not to give more than $1 million — for now. An
unusual request has gone out to wealthy donors writing large checks to support former Florida
governor Jeb Bush: Please don't give more than $1 million right away. The requested limit,
confirmed by multiple people familiar with the amount, may mark the first time that a presidential
hopeful has sought to hold off supporters from contributing too much money. The move reflects
concerns among Bush advisers that accepting massive sums from a handful of uber-rich supporters
could fuel a perception that the former governor is in their debt.
The Editor says...
Almost everything else on this page refers to wealthy liberal Democrats, but for the article above an exception
was made, since Jeb Bush (in my estimation) is about as liberal as a Republican presidential candidate could ever be.
Hillary
Clinton's soapbox. It's one thing when Hollywood stars dripping in couture get up on
their soapboxes and make political statements at awards ceremonies, but quite another when an all
but announced presidential candidate earning more for a speech than most Americans will in several
years trumpets wage equality, when it already exists and she knows it.
The
real Hillary Clinton. If you want to know why Hillary Clinton thought she could get away with violating
federal regulations in order to conceal her emails when she was secretary of state, take a look behind the facade.
Mrs. Clinton pretends to be a compassionate woman who cares about the little people and will champion the middle class
if elected president. The reality is that behind the scenes, she is abusive to those same people.
Democrats
don't know how to tell environmentalist billionaire Tom Steyer to stop helping. We all
have one: The well-meaning relative or friend who is perhaps so zealous in the pursuit of your best
interests that they end up doing more harm than good in the process. Despite their best intentions,
they end up making a bad situation worse. More often than not, you wish that they would just stop
helping and, instead, maybe just write you a check. For the Democrats, that's Tom Steyer.
Meet Hillary's Welfare
Queens. Sixty companies that lobbied the State Department between 2009 and 2013, while
Hillary was secretary of state, donated more than $26 million to the Clinton Foundation over that
time period. At least 44 of the 60 participated in $3.2 billion worth of philanthropy projects by
the Clinton Global Initiative, while at least 15 were part of Clinton-created public-private partnerships.
It's not clear that any of this was illegal and it's possible that some of this supported worthwhile projects.
But it illustrates the nexus between crony capitalism and modern American liberalism as we know it.
President
Barack Obama Raises Money, Dines With Elon Musk In San Francisco. During his visit to
the Bay Area, President Barack Obama spent a night on the town Friday [2/13/2015], raising money and
enjoying dinner in Presidio Heights with Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
Hillary's
Million-Dollar Air Travel. Hillary Clinton is, maybe not best know[n] for her
utter destitution upon her husband leaving office in the early 2000s, but may be most recently
known for her claim that she and Bill struggled desperately to make ends meet once they were relegated
to only two homes and lucrative speaking tours that paid in the six figures per appearance.
It now seems that those hard times were even shorter than previously imagined.
Hillary
Clinton Spent a [Lot] on Private Plane Fare for 2008 Campaign. How much plane did
Hillary Clinton do during the 2008 campaign? According to documents from her campaign, she spent
roughly $19.2 million on private, chartered flights around the country — more than nine
times the amount her next competitor, noted rich person Mitt Romney, spent on private flights.
The National Review, which unearthed the documents, pointed out that the wild discrepancy between
the two numbers was partially due to the length of their respective primary campaigns — Romney
dropped out four months before Clinton did — but even then, Hillary still managed to spend
$6.7 million on flights during that time, while Romney spent $2.2 million.
Why
Obama's Tuition Proposal Got Torched. To understand the backlash President Obama received after
proposing to remove the tax exemption for college savings accounts, it's essential to recognize how closely it
struck at the political heart of his own party. Contrary to popular stereotypes, Democrats depend nearly
as much on upper-class voters as Republicans do. Democrats represent seven of the 10 wealthiest
congressional districts in the country, and Obama also won those districts twice.
'Fruit
Loop' Obama's Peculiar Priorities. Barack Obama is a man who painstakingly sets his
priorities. Take, for instance, the recent funerals of two NYPD officers who were shot in the head
by a radical Islamist thug as they sat in their parked police cruiser. Sadly, the president was not
able to attend either Officer Ramos's or Liu's funeral. However, while the Big Apple was steeped in
unbearable heartache, with a heavy heart about being otherwise committed and under much emotional duress,
a greatly shaken Obama and the first lady did manage to soothe their grief with a $1,000-a-couple dinner
at the swanky Hawaiian Vintage Cave.
Center
for American Progress Donors Buy Clinton Access, Experts Say. Supporters of an independent pro-Hillary
Clinton Super PAC are pouring money into the Center for American Progress (CAP), a liberal think tank expected to be
the ideological nerve center of a Clinton presidential campaign and, possibly, White House. High-dollar
Democratic donors that have publicly backed Clinton's long-expected presidential bid and donated funds to the
effort featured prominently on donor lists released by CAP on Wednesday [1/21/2015]. Even before Hillary
Clinton declares a presidential run, experts say, donations to CAP can serve as a means to influence its eventual
policy platform and to gain access to Clinton's secretive and powerful inner circle.
Brian
Williams Earns 350 Times More Than The Average TV News Anchor. The perceived disparity
between a company's CEO and its average worker has been a trope of the left and an obsession of the
news media for decades. The argument goes that a CEO's pay comes at the expense of rank-and-file
workers, and fuels a level of animosity that necessitates a government response. It is a canard that
would be rightly ridiculed in any other sector of our society. Television's top news anchor,
NBC's Brian Williams, earns a reported $13 million a year to read the news. His pay packet is
350 times the earnings of the average TV news anchor, reporter or correspondent, who pull in around $37,000 a
year. This disparity far surpasses the 150-1 ratio earned by the average CEO, according to Bloomberg.
U.S.
Ambassador to France Jane Hartley is big fundraiser for President Obama. Our woman in
France got her job the old-fashioned way — raising boatloads of money for the president.
Ambassador to France Jane Hartley — the US's highest ranking representative at a rally in Paris on
Sunday that brought out 40 world leaders — doesn't have much diplomatic experience, but put in
plenty of time raising and bundling money for President Obama's campaigns. Between 2007 and 2012,
Hartley raised $2.2 million for Obama, the New York Times has reported. She's also doled out
plenty of cash from her own pockets to Democrats — including $54,000 in the 2014 campaign cycle,
The Hill reported.
Liz
Warren: Class Warrior With Heap Big Wampum. Liberals hope that the populist-sounding
Elizabeth Warren will run to the left of Hillary Clinton, whom they fear is now too rich and out of
touch. But Sen. Warren's financial records may dash their hopes.
Blue billionaires
on top. Democrats spent much of the 2014 campaign castigating Republican big money,
but, it turns out, their side actually finished ahead among the biggest donors of 2014 —
at least among those whose contributions were disclosed. The 100 biggest donors of 2014 gave
nearly $174 million to Democrats, compared to more than $140 million to Republicans, according
to a POLITICO analysis of reports filed with the Federal Election Commission and Internal Revenue Service.
HHS
execs living large, flying first class around the world. Helping America's poor, aged
and sick is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' reason for being, but hundreds of its
top officials are traveling in style and luxury at taxpayer expense. Records obtained by the
Washington Examiner under the Freedom of Information Act show that HHS executives spent $31 million
taking 7,000 first class and business class flights between 2009 and 2013, including 253 trips for
which a one-way ticket cost more than $15,000. Half the records listed the price of a coach ticket
for comparison. For that portion alone, the upgrade boosted the cost by almost $14 million,
from $4.9 million to $18.5 million.
The
Party of Snobbish Elites. Snobbery's twin is hypocrisy. For a liberal, when the poor
waste money on $300 Air Jordans, such spending should not be criticized. But for the middle class to
supposedly squander cash on a shotgun or Jet Ski is gauche. If an undocumented immigrant has seven
children, it is not declared to be unwise family planning with the same disdain shown a Mormon blue-collar
roofer with a comparably large family.
The
Rich Liberals of Academe. Beyond just being intellectual hypocrites wholly intolerant
of thoughts or voices other than their own, there's something else college campus elites are: rich.
Average total compensation for professors at elite schools is around a quarter million dollars a year, but
that is just the starting point. Books (it helps to assign your own textbook to students), outside
lectures, and consulting fees not uncommonly double professorial salaries. Consider MIT Professor
Jonathan Gruber, whose consulting fees on Obamacare totaled into millions of dollars. A drive
through faculty parking lots at any major university in America is like taking a tour of luxury
automotive dealerships.
Another
night, another top restaurant: Obamas head to luxury Japanese eatery Nobu. Just 24 hours
after President Obama sat down for five-star dinner with the first lady, he was back in another renowned
Hawaii restaurant for a luxury meal. He took his family to Nobu, a Japanese restaurant inside the hip
Waikiki Parc Hotel where meals cost around $180 per person.
Pearl Jam and lots of
golf: Obama ends Hawaiian vacation. It was Obama's sixth visit to Hawaii as President,
and his routines on the island have become familiar to residents and his traveling entourage. He
prefers the beach at Bellows Air Force Station — which can easily be cordoned off to prevent
any photographs of a body surfing President. He's made annual visits to the collection of four-star
kitchens near Waikiki: Alan Wong's Morimoto and Nobu. This year he added another restaurant
to his repertoire: Vintage Cave, a wine-and-dine club that charges $500,000 for a charter membership
(one doesn't need to be a member to eat there).
Obamas
drop $1K for meal at Hawaii restaurant that charges $500K for membership. President
Obama and first lady Michelle Obama spent a leisurely couple hours at Vintage Cave Honolulu,
dropping an estimated $1,000 on a meal with wine at an upscale restaurant that actually charges
$500,000 for those who want to buy a membership. Mr. Obama passed on the membership at the Vintage
Cave Honolulu, but he did order the price-fix menu at $295 per plate, Mediate reported. And,
according to Honolulu Magazine, "the total bill for two, with wine, will approach $1,000."
Obamas
welcome 2015 with $295-a-head dinner at Hawaii's most acclaimed restaurant. The
president and first lady treated themselves to a five star dinner on New Year's Day at renowned
Honolulu, Hawaii, restaurant Vintage Cave, where a 15 course, prix fixe meal costs a cool $295 a
person, wine pairings add another $130 a head and the total tab often nears $1,000 after taxes and
tip. Formally an Asian cuisine restaurant, Vintage Cave recently began serving contemporary
French-American food after Jonathan Mizukami, of Napa Valley's The French Laundry fame, replaced the
restaurant's founding executive chef, the Pacific Business News reports. An example menu posted to
YELP lists courses that include caviar, cabbage from Hirabara Farm, Jidori egg yolk, foie gras, King
Crab, caramelized white chocolate and Candy Cap Cheesecake.
Hillary
Clinton veers left in search of the Democratic base. Hillary Clinton angrily condemned
the bleakest results of Barack Obama's economy in a recent speech, but didn't dare say who was
responsible for them. "What would Robert Kennedy say about the fact that still, today, more than
16 million children live in poverty in the richest nation on earth," she said in an address to an elite,
well-fed crowd in a Manhattan ballroom at an awards gala to honor the slain Democratic presidential candidate.
Obama
Didn't Spread the Wealth, He Concentrated It, Pew Study Finds. A Pew Research Center
report released on Wednesday [12/17/2014] found that the gap in net worth between the country's wealthy and the
middle class reached record highs in 2013 — the last year for which it has data. According to
Pew, which used data from the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances, upper-income median net worth in
2013 was 6.6 times greater than the median net worth of middle-income families ($639,400 vs. $96,500).
That's up from 4.5 in 2007, the last year before the recession hit, and higher than it was in 2010, when the
Obama recovery was just getting started.
US
Commerce Secretary: Obama's Amnesty Will 'Help' Economy. Commerce Secretary, Chicago native Penny
Pritzker, penned an editorial in support of Obama's amnesty policy, claiming that the president's move would be
a "source of economic opportunity" for the nation. Pritzker, a Chicago socialite and heir to the Pritzker
family fortune, began her piece equating the millions of legal immigrants in past decades to today's illegals
and said that without past immigrants America would not have experienced the progress and prosperity it has realized.
Income
Inequality Is Greatest In the Most Liberal States. The list of worst-run states — compiled by
the news site 24/7 Wall St. using things like pension funding, credit ratings, unemployment, poverty, crime and high
school graduation rates — shows that three of the bottom five are liberal. Illinois ranks dead last,
followed by New Mexico, with Rhode Island coming in at No. 5. At the other end of the spectrum, only one
of the top 5 best-run states — Minnesota — is liberal. North Dakota comes in first,
followed by Wyoming, Nebraska and Iowa. Liberal states also show up, amazingly enough, as having the greatest
levels of income inequality.
The
secret list of requirements to get a Hillary speech (Not counting the $300K). Hillary
Clinton is going to have a real problem running for president as a woman of the people. And the
evidence mounts by the day. First, you'll recall her hilarious claim of being "dead broke" upon
leaving the rent-free White House in 2001 and confronting mortgages on two mansions. We've all heard
about her scores of strictly-controlled, quarter-million dollar speeches to every convention of scrap metal
dealers and the like since jumping off the sinking S.S. Obama last year. Now comes a most amazing
compilation of regal needs and demands before the ex-first lady, ex-senator, ex-secretary of State will
condescend to accept up to $10,000 per minute to address her countrymen.
Meet
The Rich White Guy Who Is Running the Black Boycott of Capitalism. There's a white,
rich dude running the black boycott capitalism movement known as United Blackout. His name is
Michael Latt and he is the marketing director of United Blackout. "Control how Black money is spent
and you win the game," says United Blackout's campaign video. And Latt seeks to deliver.
White
House Thanksgiving; turkey, ham, 6 pies and more. President Obama is spending a quiet
Thanksgiving at the White House where the belly-stuffing menu featured all the holiday's basics.
Six pies on the Obamas'
Thanksgiving menu. Michelle Obama's campaign for healthier eating apparently has taken
a holiday. While schools across the country are offering skimpy lunches to comply with the first
lady's initiative, the Obamas will be celebrating Thanksgiving with six pies.
Hillary's hummus. When The
Washington Post exposed Hillary Clinton's contract for a March speech at UCLA, the terms looked more
like something a rock star might demand than something from a former senator and first lady.
Among the details Clinton negotiated were the color and style of the armchairs she would be sitting
on, the plates of hummus and crudités she demanded and the number of photos she would be
willing to pose for. Oh, yes, she also told the school it would have to cough up a $300,000
speaking fee on top of all this to get her. When a college representative asked if Mrs. Clinton
would consider a discounted rate because it was a public university, her people quickly responded:
This was the discounted university rate.
Hillary
Clinton charged $300k for UCLA speech, demanded crudité and diet ginger ale.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton charged $300,000 to speak to students and faculty
at University of California Los Angeles in March, even after school officials tried to negotiate the
deal. According to new documents obtained by the Washington Post under the Freedom of Information
Act, the school asked for a reduced rate for public universities, but Mrs. Clinton's representatives
said that $300,000 was the "special university rate."
America's
Richest Counties 2014. Want to live the good life? Move to Washington, D.C. Or,
specifically, to its suburbs. Six of America's 10 wealthiest counties lie within a stone's throw
of the Beltway. Plenty of lucrative jobs are available in tech contracting and other professional
services, while other big sources of employment are local school systems and major federal agencies
like the Department of Defense.
Obama's
condescending stereotype of Mexicans. It is unbelievable that the president of the
United States would say something this elitist regarding the nation's largest minority group —
and perhaps just as worse that it's gone virtually unreported. [...] Not all Mexicans do the type of work
that Obama described, especially the ones who have been in the country for several generations and have
gone to college. This is just more of the same, sadly, to be expected from this arrogant president
who jaunts around the world on luxury vacations, and whose favorite past time is golf, not charity and
actually helping those less fortunate.
Wealth
of Congress Jumps $150 Million. Roll Call has for decades calculated the "50 Richest" members of Congress
by poring through financial disclosure forms, and this year, we've taken the added step of tallying the minimum net worth
of every member of Congress. The combined minimum net worth of Cong