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Democrats, Media

NYT Writer Spins False Sob Story About Woman Who Induced Own Miscarriage

Let me tell you a tragic story about a woman who lost her baby due to a miscarriage. It’s every mother’s worst nightmare, the thought of losing her precious baby before it’s even born. Making it so much worse, the grieving mother was set upon by vicious right wing police who arrested her on manslaughter charges. The final insult was a prison sentence. 

Thank God for the kind heart of one lawyer who offered to help this woman for free. Her conviction was overturned, and she was released to go back to mothering her living children. 

At least – this is the kind of nightmare that Democrat voters want to prevent.

Except it didn’t happen that way. But New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof, from whom I cribbed this story, thinks that it did. 

So does the Washington Post.

And so does Esquire Magazine, which used the Washington Post story about Patience Frazier, the woman in question.

If those were the only articles you read, you would think that’s what happened, too. And millions of Americans will see only these headlines and conclude that, yes, evil Republicans really do want to punish women for innocent miscarriages. How could they not think this, when the most popular news aggregator serves them this? 

But X (Twitter) has something different: community notes. Community notes is a feature added to X after Elon Musk bought the company. It allows X users to challenge the premises of a post and actually correct incorrect information with facts. Let’s take another look at Nicholas Kristof’s post with the community note included. 

That’s a horse of a different color. Not only did this “miscarriage” occur six years ago, well before the overturning of Roe v. Wade, but Miss Frazier deliberately induced a miscarriage by taking illicit drugs, among other activities. When she got the stillbirth she wanted, she buried the baby in her backyard quietly. 

Reasonable people can still disagree over whether what Frazier did rises to the level of manslaughter, and over whether it’s a good idea to allow the state this much leeway to investigate circumstances like this. But facts are facts: Frazier was not “oppressed” by Republicans, or by anyone. Roe v. Wade had nothing to do with the death of her baby; Miss Frazier did it. 

Let’s sample the social media reaction. 

Nathaniel asks a question that clearly could never occur to a liberal. 

Democrats

Democrat Mayor Defends Viral Argument With Trump Supporter

A Democrat mayor in Pennsylvania defended his actions after footage emerged of him getting schooled by a Donald Trump supporter at a protest on Tuesday, Oct. 29.

Allentown Mayor Matt Tuerk claimed to be “concerned” that the protest would interfere with “EVERYONE’S access to the ballot request and drop off” in a statement on X after a video clip went viral.

In the video, Tuerk could be heard arguing with a Trump campaign employee. His concerns surrounded access to voting facilities near an intersection.

“What we’re trying to do right now is make sure that people can access the election office,” Tuerk said to another employee. In response to a question on what could be done to address the situation, the Democrat replied, “Well, this is the question. So, how do we get to a solution where people can – where people who ..cannot easily walk to a poll and get here to drop off ballots.”

Campaign officials replied that it had been widely advertised that the street would be closed, including on a social media post released by the city. “You put out a press statement yesterday – the city did – saying that this entire block was closed,” he told Tuerk. “On Apple Maps, you know what it shows? It shows this entire intersection closed. Look it up.”

Many had praise for the campaign employee.

Others called it a desperate attempt by Tuerk to disrupt the protest.

Big Government, Democrats

Gun-Grabbin’ Kam Kam Claims It Is Trump Who’s Going to Take Your Guns

If you’re a black American, especially a black American male, you’re probably used to being lectured by your “betters” about who you vote for. Prominent Democrats have a history of believing they own the black vote. President Joe Biden famously said that if you didn’t vote for him, you “ain’t black.”

Earlier this month, Barack Obama was caught on tape lecturing young black men and implying that they were sexists for being reluctant to vote for Kamala Harris. (Check out this report where black men push back against Obama’s paternal patronization). 

It doesn’t look like the pushback is making much difference for the Dems. Down to the electoral wire, Democrat nominee Kamala Harris—she’s actually talking to the media!—is saying she just can’t understand why any black person wouldn’t vote for her. As the current headmistress of what’s informally known among conservative blacks as the “Democrat Plantation,” Harris wants to convince black voters that a vote for Trump is a vote to have their constitutional freedoms taken away. 

Podcast host Shannon Sharpe put the question to Harris: why do some blacks “revere” Donald Trump? Harris affected to be perplexed (or maybe it was not an act) at how any African American could cast their ballot for a man she says, without evidence, will “terminate your constitutional rights.”

She really does say that Trump has claimed, in his own words, that he will “terminate the constitution.” That is a lie. Trump has never said any such thing. It’s also a good example of the phenomenon of projection and reversal, where the evil-doer accuses her targets of the very things she herself is doing. 

And she said, without a hint of irony, “But the First Amendment [will be gone]. The Second Amendment. I’m in favor of the Second Amendment. I don’t believe we should be taking anybody’s guns away.

It’s hard to explain or understand. Shannon Sharpe vigorously agrees with Harris’ claims, jumping in to say he’s worried that a Trump victory would take away the first amendment’s freedom of speech protections. How is it possible for any conscious adult to fail to see that it’s the Democrats who are cracking down on political expression and freedom? 

The irony of Harris portraying herself as a second-amendment hero couldn’t be funnier. As the NRA documented:

At a September 2019 campaign event, Harris told reporters that confiscating commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms was “a good idea.” Elaborating on her support for a compulsory “buyback” program, Harris added, “We have to work out the details — there are a lot of details — but I do…We have to take those guns off the streets.”

She also supports gun confiscation via buybacks;

On the September 16, 2019 episode of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” Harris reiterated her support for gun confiscation. During a question-and-answer session, an audience member asked Harris “Do you believe in the mandatory buyback of quote-unquote assault weapons and whether or not you do, how does that idea not go against fundamentally the Second Amendment?” She responded, “I do believe that we need to do buybacks.” Making clear that she believes Americans’ Second Amendment rights are for sale, Harris added “A buyback program is a good idea. Now we need to do it the right way. And part of that has to be, you know, buy back and give people their value, the financial value.”

On October 2, 2019, Harris called for gun confiscation during an MSNBC “gun safety forum.” During the event, Harris had the following exchange with MSNBC anchor Craig Melvin. She told him; We have to have a buyback program and I support a mandatory buyback program. It’s got to be smart, we got to do it the right way, but there are 5 million at least some estimate as many as 10 million and we’re going to have to have smart public policy that’s about taking those off the streets.

On October 31, 2019, Harris called for gun confiscation at a public television candidates forum in Ankeny, Iowa. Responding to a question about gun control, Harris answered, “I support buybacks.” 

Lots of people on Twitter are asking the same question. 

Adam Coleman asks another very obvious question. 

Some people remember Kamala’s past gun-grabbing rhetoric:

Ouch:

Democrats

Democrat Strategist Thinks Kamala Harris Talks Like a “Nuanced Intellectual”

What would you do if we were having lunch and talking about immigration policy, and I said to you, “Let me be very clear. I’m aware of what we need to do in order to do the things we need to do around the important issue of immigration, in America, which is to listen to the American people about their hopes, and dreams, and aspirations, and ambitions, around what we need to do to fix the broken border”?

Or, try this. Say we were riding on a commuter train together talking about mortgage rates, and you asked me what interest rate I paid on my first mortgage. In response, pretend I said, “Look. I grew up in a middle class family. I know small businesses and their hopes and dreams. My mother worked very hard–we knew all the small businesses and how much they meant.”

You might pick up your phone and search out the signs of a stroke and ask me to tell you what day and year it was. Or, you might wonder if I’d been spiking my Diet Coke from a flask of Smirnoff. 

But no! I wouldn’t be having a stroke, and I wouldn’t have been nipping vodka on the train. Instead, I was speaking to you in a new language called “Kamalese.” It’s the native tongue of the current vice president and the Democrat party’s nominee for the White House. Kamalese is a modern creole language that one woman has fashioned from the PowerPoint decks in San Francisco office towers (and, some say, with a little chemical help). 

It’s a variation on corporate and academic-speak. Full of sound and fury but signifying nothing, Kamalese is composed mainly of filler words that do not refer to specific subjects. Instead, the speaker aims to leave the listener somewhere between confused and uncomfortable so they won’t ask any too-specific questions. 

For a gourmand’s sampling of Kamalese, check out this collection from The Conservateur. 

We all know academic and policy-wonk-speak. You don’t say, “Children are going hungry,” you say, “Youth in the United States of America don’t have access to nutritional resources.” You don’t talk about homeless people who die of exposure from sleeping on the streets in winter, you speak of “Unfortunate outcomes of those experiencing homelessness and lack of weather-abatement resources.”

The thing about corporate-speak and Kamalese is that everyone knows it’s a bunch of bullshit. Except Ally Sammarco.

Sammarco is a Democrat strategist and political consultant at ARS Media. And according to her, Miss Kam-Kam actually sounds like a super-smart lady, and we’re all just stupid for hearing word salad.

No. Really:

Oh, dear. Let’s see what other X users had to say. Here’s Mollie Hemmingway:

Aaaaaand here comes Miss Sammarco face-planting even harder:

Carmelita here is just straight-trolling. 

Ha!

Big Government, Democrats

Politico Very Concerned JD Vance Expected to Get Paid for Book Tour

Uh-oh! That greedy fat cat rich boy JD Vance, Republican Senator from Ohio, is asking for speaker’s fees. Speakers’ fees. Can you imagine? What in tarnation does that boy think he’s doing? More on the speaker’s fees below. 

Vance is not, of course, a fat cat, although he’s certainly wealthier today than he was growing up. Vance’s book Hillbilly Elegy, published in 2016, tells Vance’s story of growing up in dirt-poor Appalachia among a family of drug addicts and abusers. It’s a story of one form of the American dream: small-town hick boy goes to university and makes good. After serving in the Marines, Vance went to college and finished with a law degree from Yale. 

Of course, the Democrats don’t like to see people pull themselves up by their bootstraps because their narrative depends on their constituents believing that it’s not possible. Numerous lefties bashed Vance in recent months, laughably, calling him an elitist because he managed to go to Yale. 

To the extent that the party even nods to working class people any longer, it concentrates on positioning itself as the big government savior for black people. The Dems encourage blacks and other minorities to see themselves as victims who can’t get ahead and must rely on the government to give them special (and sometimes illegal) handouts. The press goes right along with, as seen in this Associated Press headline about a wacky unconstitutional Harris proposal: “Harris announces a new plan to empower Black men.”

Back to those speaker’s fees. Politico believes it has uncovered a major scandal after it “discovered” that Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy publisher drove a hard bargain when negotiating author fees for an in-person program. They wanted $40,000 for Vance, but the University of Wisconsin-Madison backed out, saying the price tag was too high for them. 

Politico seems to think this is out of the ordinary in business negotiations. Without coming right out and saying it, the publication wants the reader to think “that rich snooty JD Vance is just takin’ advantage!” How else do you explain sentences like this?

“Asked for comment, a spokesperson for Vance defended Vance’s speaking fees.”

“Defended?” What law or rule was broken by insisting on a fee commensurate with a best-selling author’s drawing power? 

X/Twitter user John Hasson also found Politico’s concern amusing, which means other people online did too. After all, take a look at what Politico’s “Bureau Chief and Senior Political Columnist” is charging.

Isn’t that interesting? One of Politico’s own charges up to $35,000 to speak himself.

Bizarrely, this didn’t manage to cause an internal scandal.

Social media users are not sympathetic to Politico’s view. 

So does Barack Obama. Guess how much? 

And then there are the Clintons, but that’s somehow different. 

User “some infidel” brings us all back to reality. 

Democrats

Kamala Harris’ Campaign Backtracks On “Opportunity Agenda For Black Men”

Kamala Harris’ campaign has been forced to make an embarrassing clarification over a policy which conservatives pointed out is racist and unconstitutional.

The Democrats have resorted to desperate measures as polling among Black Americans suggests a notable shift towards Donald Trump. While the Vice President still leads the Republican among this traditionally Democrat-leaning demographic, Trump’s increasing support among Black voters has rang alarm bells for the Harris campaign in a neck-and-neck election.

The situation is so bleak that Barack Obama is offering patronizing lectures towards Black voters, while Harris herself unveiled a policy manifesto targeting African American males. Featuring policies such as $20,000 forgivable loans and the federal legalization of marijuana, critics argued that the policies were racist (the former specifically) and unlikely to be upheld in the Supreme Court.

Rather embarrassingly, Harris’ campaign has now been forced to backtrack on the manifesto, and now claims their racially-specific pandering was actually for everyone, regardless of race!

That’s despite her manifesto being titled “Agenda for Black Men”…. though I guess we do live in a day and age where you can identify as pretty much anything.

Harris and her campaign were quickly ridiculed when the story broke on social media.

Others noted that Harris’ poor performance among Black voters may have been down to the blatant use of ethnicity to win votes.

And at least one reparations advocate wasn’t pleased.

Democrats

Kamala Harris, Who Convicted Thousands Of Americans For Smoking Weed, Now Wants To Legalize It

Kamala Harris has announced she wants to legalize recreational marijuana across the country in her latest pandering attempt, with mere weeks until election day.

Pot is legal in 24 states for recreational use, while another seven have decriminalized use of the drug in recent years. The national trends suggests federal legalization is a matter of “when” rather than “if” – and Harris wants credit for it.

Harris said she wanted to legalize weed as part of her policy pledges towards Black Americans. However, as with much of her campaign, it contradicts her previous stances on the issue.

Actions speak louder than words, and as San Francisco District Attorney, the former prosecutor oversaw more than 1,900 marijuana convictions within the city alone. She also aggressively prosecuted weed-related crimes during her tenure as Attorney General for California.

But fast forward to October 15, 2024, and Harris is tweeting about how “No one should go to jail for smoking weed” – despite already having had the opportunity to prevent just that.

It must be noted that the oft-cited cases of “people in jail for marijuana” are wildly overestimated and exaggerated (especially by liberals), and most people “in jail for marijuana” are only there because the drug charge was in conjunction with another offense. And yet, despite as rare as it is for people to be jailed over marijuana, Harris made sure it did happen.

It’s safe to say that many responses saw hypocrisy within her latest policy pledge.

There were also concerns that her focus towards Black Americans was somewhat racist.

Democrats

Tampon Timmy Attacks Trump for Helping a Mom Pay for Her Groceries

Ah, Tim Walz. Timmy, Timmy, Timmy. Tampon Timmy. Whatever will you do next, you lovable “knucklehead?” 

First, let’s compare Walz to his counterpart on the right. Do you remember a few weeks to a month ago when the thing to say about Republican JD Vance was that he’s “weird?” Vance, Donald Trump’s vice-presidential running mate, is, if anything, assertively normal. He speaks calmly and authoritatively on common sense economic and policy issues that matter to regular people. He schooled ABC New schoolmarm in chief Martha Raddatz when she poo-pooed the danger to Americans when “just a handful” of apartment complexes in Colorado were. . .taken over by Venezuelan street gangs. 

That’s right. She actually said it was “only a handful.” With obvious incredulity, Vance shot back, “Martha, do you hear yourself?” Watch it for yourself. 

What about Minnesota Governor Tim Walz? Is he normal, or might it be that he is the weird one? He regularly flounces across the stage like the character Jack Tripper from Three’s Company and seems to go spastic with waving and jumping around whenever there’s a crowd and a camera. One of his students characterized his teaching style as “perspiring and hand gestures.”

Walz has a drunk driving conviction from 1996 that he falsely blamed on his non-existent deafness, and he lied about it. He also lied about being in Tiananmen Square in China in 1989, apparently to make himself look more important and well-traveled than he is. 

In the final run-up to the November 5 elections, Walz has been marketing himself as a folksy, down-home, hunting dad. When he’s not wearing a cap that falsely proclaims him to be a retired Command Sergeant Major, he’s wearing a duck hunting cap and a plaid flannel jacket. 

Here he is in said ensemble ridiculing Donald Trump for paying for a woman’s groceries during a campaign stop at a supermarket. Why did he get out that $100 bill and give it to the woman, Walz asked? Why, because “Any woman he sees he just pays off cuz he did something on there (sic).” 

Let’s take Twitter’s temperature:

Democrats

Kamala Harris Proposes $20,000 Forgivable Loans for Black Entrepreneurs

Kamala Harris wants to create an “opportunity agenda” for Black men, which critics argue is racist and unconstitutional.

The Vice President’s poor showing among male voters has prompted a recent push with just three weeks to go until the presidential election. Former president Barack Obama raised eyebrows for his efforts to rally Black male voters behind Harris, while a questionable new campaign ad is also seeking to boost support.

Even though she could ask President Joe Biden to begin the work on her behalf, Harris has promised to implement a number of new policies for Black men if she gets elected. She wants to issue one million “fully forgivable” loans to Black entrepreneurs, while supporting education training to allow Black men to become teachers.

The latter three policies are particularly outstanding; Harris will “protect cryptocurrency investments for Black men so they can “know their money is safe,” will launch a national health initiative to focus specifically on illnesses which may “disproportionately impact” them, and will legalize recreational marijuana and “create opportunities for Black Americans to succeed” in the pot industry.

It’s safe to say that the announcement was far from popular when it was shared on social media, with many calling it racist.

Many also questioned what the reaction would be if Donald Trump sought to implement a similar policy for White men.

Democrats

Kamala Harris Accused Of Plagiarizing Articles And Wikipedia For 2009 Book

Kamala Harris plagiarized more than a dozen sections of her book, Smart on Crime, including material from Wikipedia, according to an investigation.

The findings by Dr. Stefan Weber, a professional “plagiarism hunter” confirmed multiple instances of unauthorized copying within the Vice President’s 2009 book.

Dr. Weber found Harris had “copied virtually an entire Wikipedia article” into her book without providing attribution. She also fabricated a source reference to a non-existent page number, while correctly cited sections appeared to have been copied and pasted without using quotation marks.

A section on high school graduation rates was copied verbatim from an Associated Press news report, with some statistics merely rounded down to the nearest whole number in order to differentiate her book from the article.

Harris also reproduced a press release from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. State names were written in full rather than abbreviated, while “%” was written as “percent” in an attempt to circumvent plagiarism detectors.

The Democratic presidential nominee may have hoped the changing nature of Wikipedia would prevent detectors from noticing her copy and pasting skills. Unfortunately for Harris, Dr. Weber was able to discover the unattributed article in question through its edit history.

Through references on Wikipedia itself, Harris duplicated material from other sources…

… And she would rarely cite the few she used.

The thread was shared on X by investigative journalist Christopher Rufo, who wrote comprehensively about the findings in his newsletter. When he tried to contact Harris’ publisher, Chronicle Books, he was accidentally sent an internal memo about the ongoing allegations.

Meanwhile in liberal land, the New York Times has framed this in “Republicans pounce!” terms.


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