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Democrats Plan Tax Giveaway To The Rich, Bailout To Blue States

Democrats want working-class families in red states like Florida and Texas to subsidize residents making $200,000, $400,000, or more in places like New York and New Jersey.

For a party that purportedly wants to “tax the rich,” Democrats sure have a funny way of showing it.

Bloomberg reported on Friday that a potential repeal of the cap for state and local taxes—the SALT cap, to use Washington nomenclature—would erase most of the tax increases included in the House’s version of the $3.5 trillion spending bill being considered by Congress. In some cases, relatively affluent families could actually see a tax cut.

It’s all part of Democrats’ scam to bail out blue states (again), and the union organizations that dominate same. Lawmakers in these blue states—California liberals like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)—want working-class families in red states like Florida and Texas to subsidize residents making $200,000, $400,000, or more in places like New York and New Jersey.

Part of 2017 Tax Bill

The tax relief package that passed under President Trump capped the federal deduction for state and local taxes paid at $10,000, an amount not indexed for inflation in future years. For many residents of red states, which may not have an income tax and keep property taxes relatively low, their state and local taxes paid remain below $10,000, meaning the cap had no effect on their tax situation.

The SALT deduction also only applies to taxpayers who itemize their deduction. Given that the doubling of the standard deduction in the 2017 bill sharply reduced the number of people who itemized, that factor also reduced its impact, particularly for households of modest incomes.

But in states with high property taxes—read: New York, New Jersey, and California—and states with high income taxes—read: New York, New Jersey, and California—capping total SALT deductions at $10,000 per year could lead to a large increase in some households’ federal taxes.

Consider a family in New York City paying $50,000 per year combined in property taxes, city taxes, and state taxes—a not uncommon occurrence, given high salaries in the area and a top marginal tax rate (both state and city) of 14.8 percent. Limiting the family’s SALT deduction to $10,000 meant that household suddenly saw its taxable income rise by $40,000. At a top federal marginal rate of 37 percent, the family saw its federal tax bill increase by $14,800—a tax increase of more than $1,200 per month for the “privilege” of living in New York.

Blue Staters Want a Bailout

Little wonder that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) spent the better part of the last four years complaining about the SALT cap. At various occasions he said the cap represented “an all-out direct attack on New York’s future,” a “gross injustice,” and “a declaration of an economic civil war between Democratic states and Republican states.”

It doesn’t take much to figure out why the governor griped so loudly, and consistently. People are leaving his state, largely due to the crushing burden of taxation. In just a seven-month period from last September through this March, more than 33,500 New Yorkers changed their drivers’ licenses to Florida. There are even moving companies that advertise New York-to-Florida moves, pointing out that the Sunshine State, unlike the Empire State, has no state income tax.

But Cuomo doth protest too much, given that this spring he made New York even less competitive by signing a tax increase. The “temporary” tax increase pushes the combined state and local tax rate in New York City to nearly 15 percent. The Cuomo tax increase, combined with the federal tax increases House Democrats proposed, would mean that government at all levels would take 61.2 percent of each additional dollar “rich” New Yorkers earn.

Break for Top 5 Percent of Families

The analysis Bloomberg published, based on data provided by the conservative Tax Foundation, indicated that repealing the SALT cap would erase more than three-fifths of the tax increase the top 1 percent of taxpayers would face under the House’s tax bill. Instead of seeing their after-tax income reduced by 5 percent, their income would decline by 1.9 percent.

Other taxpayers in the top 5 percent of filers—those with incomes between $165,181 and $401,600—would see their after-tax incomes rise by 0.9 percent with a SALT cap repeal, meaning they would see a net tax cut. Without the repeal included in the House legislation, these taxpayers’ after-tax incomes would fall by 0.3 percent.

Put aside for a moment the fact that households making $200,000 or so per year should not face revenue hikes under the House bill, given President Biden’s pledge that families earning below $400,000 would not see tax increases. Democrats pushing for a SALT repeal are insisting that households earning a quarter-million dollars or so per year—wealthy in just about every area of the country, except greater New York and San Francisco—receive a huge financial windfall, so those wealthy families don’t have to pay more to fund bloated blue state governments.

Budgetary Gimmick to Fund a ‘Temporary’ Bailout

Make no mistake: While it did not get included in the draft bill the House Ways and Means Committee approved last week, many Democrats are pushing for a SALT repeal. Ways and Means Chairman Richie Neal (D-MA) issued a statement last week along with two prominent lawmakers pushing for a SALT deal, in which they all pledged to advocate for “meaningful SALT relief.”

Friday’s Bloomberg story indicated that “House lawmakers are discussing a two-year suspension of the SALT cap” in their bill. In truth, that suspension would likely prove as “temporary” as the tax increases Cuomo signed for New York state earlier this year.

But including a suspension of the SALT cap as a “temporary” measure would hide its full long-term. The Joint Committee on Taxation estimated a full SALT repeal would cost $88.7 billion this year alone—meaning a permanent repeal would cost roughly $1 trillion over a decade.

To sum up: Democrats are considering a budgetary gimmick to conceal the size of a potential trillion-dollar giveaway to rich families and poorly-run states. Think about that the next time any leftists start lecturing others about how “the rich” need to “pay their fair share.”

What If the FBI Threw an Insurrection and Nobody Came?

Saturday, Sept. 18 was the date for the “J6 Rally,” organized by a political advocacy group called Look Ahead America. It was billed as:

A rally in support of those who have been charged with nonviolent offences to protest of their disparate treatment at the hands of the Department of Justice and the Judiciary.

Our event on Saturday, like all of our other events, is a 100% peaceful First Amendment exercise.

We have had dozen successful protest events around the country, including two in the District of Columbia, and we have worked on a daily basis with the Capitol Hill Police to ensure this is a safe, successful event.

Look Ahead America has a website with a mission statement,

Our mission is to register, educate, and enfranchise these disaffected citizens and ensure that their voices are not just heard but heeded and that the American Dream becomes their dream again.

One can donate, volunteer, and become active in this organization. It is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with a leadership board of experienced individuals who worked in the Trump and other campaigns and in political advocacy, similar in experience to those one might find in other political think tanks and advocacy groups.

There is nothing secretive about their events or where they stand on the issues, unlike nebulous groups such as Antifa who organize in the shadows through message boards and behind black masks.

It was to be the essence of free political speech, a peaceful protest and rally for a political cause, no different than the myriad other similar events held in Washington, D.C. This would be similar to the pink-hatted women’s march featuring James Comey, or a George Floyd protest showcasing Mitt Romney.

Yet the media and the Democrats painted a far more sinister picture. CNN warned, “Renewed fears of political violence grip Capitol Hill ahead of right-wing rally.” The Biden administration cautioned, “DHS intelligence bulletin warns of small number of online threats of violence ahead of Justice for J6 rally.” I don’t recall seeing similar warnings ahead of the many BLM protests last summer.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi took the warnings seriously, demanding fences and barriers, not on America’s open southern border but around her domain: “Security fencing, barriers go back up at Capitol.” If only the Democrats were as security-conscious regarding stranded Americans in Afghanistan.

This was to be the next “insurrection,” like January 6, when Trump encouraged his supporters to “Peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” So they wandered from Trump’s speech to the U.S. Capitol, where police officers felt so threatened that: “Officers calmly posed for selfies and appeared to open gates for protesters during the madness of the Capitol building insurrection.”

Despite claims by Democrats, the media, and a handful of useless Republicans, including a former Republican president, that January 6 was on par with 9/11, the only fatality came from a black Capitol Police officer shooting an unarmed white woman. Imagine if the skin colors and genders were reversed, how that would have played out.

Was January 6 a giant set-up, an entrapment scheme by the FBI to blame Trump supporters and other innocents? Tucker Carlson explained how the many “unindicted co-conspirators on legal documents” were likely undercover FBI agents, attempting to entrap then arrest innocent protesters wandering through the Capitol that afternoon.

The FBI wouldn’t do that, would it? Actually, it has a long history of such actions. Here are just a few examples. Richard Jewell was falsely accused by the FBI of bombing the Olympic Park in Atlanta in 1996. The FBI entrapped General Michael Flynn, destroying his life through a multi-year legal battle.

At least 12 of the 18 supposed would-be kidnappers of Michigan Gov. were FBI informants. Then there is Spygate, a fabricated tale woven by the Clinton campaign, FBI, and DOJ to seditiously undermine a presidential election and subsequent administration.

Lastly was the FBI’s botched investigation over sexual abuse of Olympic gymnasts. Abusing young women was an unimportant matter for the FBI, yet they sent 15 special agents lickety-split to investigate a garage door pull handle in NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace’s garage that supposedly looked like a noose.

Back to the J6 rally. Anyone with half a brain could see that this was another FBI entrapment scheme, to justify more arrests and more prisoners in solitary confinement awaiting trial for walking benignly through the U.S. Capitol. Social media was full of warnings to stay away from the trap. Even President Trump warned that it was “a setup.”

And as usual, Trump was right. The Daily Mail reported, “Protesters outnumbered by police…as just a handful of demonstrators turn up.” One of only a few arrests was a comical scene of Feds, dressed like Star Wars storm troopers arresting one of their own, an undercover cop.

The pièce de resistance was this photo making the rounds on social media and the subject of endless memes, featuring a half dozen 30-something men, tall, lean, muscular, with matching watches and sunglasses hiding watchful eyes, along with short haircuts, pistol-shaped bulges in their pockets, trying to look like MAGA protesters when their dress is more suited for a group Sunday brunch in Brooklyn or an Abercrombie & Fitch catalog photoshoot.

Of note, they were all maskless. Will Dr. Fauci be asked for comment on this as he recently warned against large outdoor gatherings and COVID transmission? The only thing missing was AOC in her “tax the rich” costume to complete the staged and contrived event.

Rather than entrapping some poor souls coming out to support the Constitution and republic, the FBI stepped in it again. It won’t be long until some enterprising internet sleuths identify the undercover feds, confirming which agency they actually work for, likely the FBI, based on their track record of infiltration and entrapment.

Should the FBI change their motto from “Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity” to “False, Bogus, Indictments” or something similar? It turns out they threw an insurrection party last weekend, and no one showed up, except their own agents. Hopefully, they were being paid time and a half for their weekend work.

Designer of AOC’s ‘Tax the Rich’ gown owes back taxes on $1.6 million Hollywood Hills home, report

Designer Aurora James bought home in September 2020, but property already listed as “delinquent” by LA County assessor’s office.

The designer of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Tax the Rich” gown for the recent Met Gala reportedly has her own tax issues, including owing thousands on a $1.6 million home she recently purchased in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills.

Designer Aurora James bought the home in September 2020, but the property is already listed as “delinquent” by the Los Angeles County assessor’s office. The office told The New York Post, which this past weekend reported on James’ tax issues, the designer owed $2,504 in property taxes.

The company had yet to return a request for comment Monday morning from Just the News before this story was posted.

Most of the tax issues for the 37-year-old designer are related to Cultural Brokerage Agency, an LLC she formed in 2011 to serve as the parent company of her fashion brand, now known as Brother Vellies.

New York state has issued three open tax warrants on the company for failing to withhold income taxes from employees’ paychecks totaling $14,798, the state Department of Taxation and Finance told The Post. The debts were incurred before the pandemic. The company has been hit with 15 warrants in total since 2015, the newspaper also reported. 

In addition, the Internal Revenue Service from April 2018 to April 2019, placed six liens on Cultural Brokerage Agency totaling $103,220. The liens cite the company’s failure to remit employee payroll taxes, The Post also reports. 

The IRS declined to comment for the newspaper on the matter.

Biden to take Covid-19 booster shot on camera amid criticism of his vaccine mandate

US President Joe Biden is about to get the Covid-19 booster shot and he’ll be doing so on TV, White House press secretary Jen Psaki told the media on Monday. Biden has been determined to get Americans to embrace the jab.

The booster shot has been approved by the FDA, only for high-risk patients and the elderly. Despite the protestations of Biden’s top medical adviser Anthony Fauci, however, who insists Americans will need three shots for “full vaccination,” the agency refused to approve Pfizer shot boosters for everyone. However, the oldest-ever US president falls into a high-risk group.

The third shot has already been rolled out in Israel, where some are approaching their second booster shot already – their flagging immunity and hospitalization with Covid suggesting the shot’s immunity might not last as long as initially hoped. Others have blamed the Delta variant, which supposedly is easier to catch especially among children.

But no matter how many reasons they’re given to accept the jab, a relatively large segment of the US population has declined to go gently to the needle. A September poll found that most Americans believe Biden’s vaccine mandates set a bad precedent that might be abused in the future.

The president’s vaccine evangelism is well-known, as he has previously accused unvaccinated Americans of supposedly keeping everyone else from returning to pre-pandemic ‘normal’ – already an impossibility, at least according to medical superstars like Fauci. Mask mandates remain the law of much of the land even as supposedly herd-immunity-adjacent amounts of people get the shot, leading many to question when they and their children might ever get to remove the now-ubiquitous disposable face covering.

The news that vaccinated and unvaccinated people carried similar viral loads, meaning each was just as likely to infect someone else, has also led some to wonder whether re-upping with the same vaccine formula that failed to prevent the Delta variant from emerging is the best idea.

Psaki Says Biden Regime Won’t Mandate Vaccines For Illegal Migrants Because ‘It’s Not The Same Thing’ As Forcing It On U.S. Citizens

“I don’t think it’s the same thing, it’s not the same thing, these are individuals as we’ve noted and as we’ve been discussed… “

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki admitted on Monday that the Biden regime will not be asking the horde of illegal immigrants crossing the u.S. southern border for proof of vaccination or administering COVID tests because “it’s not the same thing” as requiring vaccines for u.S. citizens or people who fly into the country.

“Is somebody asking the foreign nationals who are walking into Del Rio, Texas and setting up camps on this side of the border for proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test?” Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked Psaki on Monday.

“Well first of all, I can rea- rea- [sic], I can, I can readress for you, or retalk you through what steps we take,” Psaki stammered. When pressed by Doocy, who asked “So if somebody walks into the country right across the river, does somebody ask them to see their vaccination card?” she  claimed illegal immigrants can be “assessed” for if they have “symptoms.”

After Doocy continued to ask yet again if proof of vaccination was required, a visibly uncomfortable Psaki snapped, “They’re not intending to stay here for a lengthy period of time, I don’t think it’s the same thing, it’s not the same thing, these are individuals as we’ve noted and as we’ve been discussed, we are expelling individuals based on Title 42 specifically because of COVID. Because we want to prevent a scenario where large numbers of people are gathering posing a threat to the community and also to the migrants themselves.”

Psaki’s admissions that the regime will apply far more lenient standards to illegal migrants than to foreign tourists and U.S. citizens echoed theories advanced by vaccine skeptics, who claim that the regime is wholly unconcerned with preventing the spread of COVID and the Delta variant among illegal immigrants.

Afghan Suicide Bomber Was Released From CIA Jail When US Forces Abandoned Bagram Air Base

When a suicide bomber blew himself up at a US military control point on the fringes of Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport, killing 11 Marines, one sailor, and one soldier, and he created the third highest single-day casualty total for the entire 20-year war (see Yesterday Was One of the Bloodiest Days in the Afghan War Because of the Choices Joe Biden Made and He Owns the Outcome). He also set in motion a sequence of events that eventually resulted in the United States killing ten civilians, seven of them children, in a drone attack that was to ostensibly destroy another suicide bomb threat and added ignominy to the already disgraceful US exit from Afghanistan.

Now an Indian outlet, Firstpost, is reporting that the bomber was in US custody at Bagram Air Base up until our unmanly and precipitous flight on July 5 when we fled from that critical installation without bothering to tell our Afghan allies that we were leaving:

The U.S. left Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years by shutting off the electricity and slipping away in the night without notifying the base’s new Afghan commander, who discovered the Americans’ departure more than two hours after they left, Afghan military officials said.

Afghanistan’s army showed off the sprawling air base Monday, providing a rare first glimpse of what had been the epicenter of America’s war to unseat the Taliban and hunt down the al-Qaida perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks on America.

The U.S. announced Friday it had completely vacated its biggest airfield in the country in advance of a final withdrawal the Pentagon says will be completed by the end of August.

“We (heard) some rumor that the Americans had left Bagram … and finally by seven o’clock in the morning, we understood that it was confirmed that they had already left Bagram,” Gen. Mir Asadullah Kohistani, Bagram’s new commander said.

The Taliban subsequently seized Bagram on August 15, and thousands of prisoners returned to action. Here is Pentagon goof John Kirby admitting that the US military didn’t know how many prisoners were freed, but they numbered in the “thousands.”

This is the story:

The Islamic State suicide bomber who killed at least 169 Afghan civilians and 13 United States soldiers outside Kabul airport last month was incarcerated in Afghanistan’s notorious Bagram prison for the past four years, thanks to Indian efforts, Firstpost has learnt through credible intelligence sources.

Senior Indian intelligence sources familiar with the case have told Firstpost that he was handed over to the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency by the Research and Analysis Wing in September 2017. However, the jihadist walked free on 15 August along with thousands of other dangerous terrorists held in the high-security prison, taking advantage of the chaos that ensued in the aftermath of the United State’s hurried exit and the Taliban’s swift takeover of the entire country.

Identified as Abdul Rehman, the jihadist was a former student of an engineering college in India and hailed from Afghanistan’s Logar province. He was the son of an Afghan merchant who frequently visited India for business.

His arrest had led to the termination of a plot by the Islamic State of Khurasan Province (IS-K) — the Islamic State’s regional wing in Afghanistan — to stage suicide bombings in New Delhi and other cities across the region, probably on the behest of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI).

“America’s disorganised retreat from Afghanistan has led to hundreds of highly-competent and highly-committed terrorists being set free to rejoin the Islamic State, al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups,” one officer who worked on the Abdul Rehman case said.

“Literally a decade’s work on counter-terrorism has been undone by the US’ failure to secure key prisoners in Bagram,” he said adding that the consequences of this failure will be “very far-reaching.”

There is nothing in this story that is implausible. It is well documented that both the Taliban and ancillary terror groups operating in Afghanistan were supplied and armed by Pakistan’s ISI. Somehow we never had the guts at a national level to call out Pakistan over its role as a sponsor of transnational terrorism, even when Osama bin Laden was found hiding in the same city as the Pakistani national military academy. For all intents and purposes, our real enemy in Afghanistan since 2003 has been Pakistan. We know “thousands” of enemy combatants were returned to the field after Bagram fell to the Taliban. Firstpost’s claim that Abdul Rehman was gifted to the CIA by the Indian R&AW implies that he was in the CIA-run clandestine detention facility at Bagram. Rehman was already committed to being a suicide bomber when the Indians rounded him up and that conviction probably hardened while in prison. In fact, the US flight from Afghanistan could very well have prompted Rehman’s attack out of the fear that the war was ending and he had missed his chance for martyrdom.

“‘Many of my fighters are worried that they missed their chance at martyrdom in the war,’ [Taliban commander] Nifiz said. ‘I tell them they need to relax. They still have a chance to become martyrs. But this adjustment will take time.’” Nifiz commands 250. https://t.co/iJxKbrwmZ0

— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) September 19, 2021

On the other hand, India, particularly Indian intelligence operatives, has a vested interest in attaching more stench to Pakistan than already exists. If they can stick the deaths of 13 Americans on ISI, there is no reason for them not to do so. So, on the whole, my gut feeling is that this story is credible, and it is entirely possible that we had the HKIA suicide bomber in custody and let him go with devastating results.

Like so many other aspects of our shameful conduct during the withdrawal from Afghanistan, this cries out for investigation. If this story is true, someone at the CIA needs to explain how this came to be.

Leaked documents show EcoHealth Alliance requested $14 million from DARPA in 2018 for gain-of-function research with Wuhan Institute of Virology

The federal government in 2018 rejected a proposal from EcoHealth Alliance to fund bat coronavirus research that included gain-of-function experiments with “humanized” and “batified” mice, leaked documents reveal. 

The documents, obtained from a whistleblower and published by DRASTIC, appear to show that EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak proposed to work with researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and others to inject deadly chimeric bat coronaviruses collected in the wild into humanized mice. The proposed project was titled, “Project DEFUSE,” and was submitted to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in 2018 in a request for more than $14 million in federal funding.

EcoHealth Alliance’s project was submitted as part of DARPA’s PREEMPT program, which “seeks to contain viral infectious diseases in animal reservoirs before viruses evolve to threaten people.” DARPA ultimately rejected the project after reviewers determined EcoHealth Alliance proposed to conduct research that violated agency guidelines on gain-of-function research.

Gain-of-function research involves experiments that intentionally make viruses more transmissible among mammals, and particularly among humans. The purpose of such research is to study how viruses in nature might evolve to become deadly to human beings in order to develop vaccines and take other preventative measures against future pandemics. But critics warn that such experiments are dangerous because they engineer new viruses in laboratories that, should they somehow escape, could themselves cause exactly the sort of pandemic researchers want to avoid. 

Since the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic remain wrapped in mystery, some have speculated that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may have been the product of gain-of-function experiments conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which is located just 20 miles away from the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market where the first major outbreak of COVID-19 happened. 

Documents obtained by the Intercept earlier this month confirmed that gain-of-function research was conducted at the WIV and was funded by U.S. taxpayers through National Institutes of Health grants sub-awarded by EcoHealth Alliance. While prominent public health officials such as NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Director Dr. Anthony Fauci have previously denied that NIH funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan, these new revelations raise questions about NIH standards for determining what qualifies as gain of function.

According to DRASTIC, the documents show that DARPA rejected funding for EcoHealth Alliance’s 2018 proposal on the basis that “they propose to synthesize spike glycoproteins which bind to human cell receptors and insert them into SARSr-CoV backbones to assess whether they can cause SARS-like disease.” 

Graphics from the proposal indicate that prominent scientists in the field of gain-of-function coronavirus research were to be involved, including WIV researcher Shi Zhengli, as well as Dr. Ralph S. Baric, a world-renowned virologist at the University of North Carolina. Baric and Shi collaborated on a gain-of-function study that was funded by NIH and published in 2015. 

Dr. Baric did not respond to TheBlaze’s request for comment.

DARPA reviewers flagged the EcoHealth Alliance proposal for failing to assess the potential risks of such experiments and for failing to meet agency standards on gain-of-function research proposals. 

Multiple federal government agencies developed guidelines for funding gain-of-function research after “biosafety incidents at Federal research facilities” led the Obama administration to implement a moratorium on all federal funding for such experiments in 2014. Though the moratorium was lifted by the Trump administration in 2017, guidelines for funding such experiments remained in place.

However, a Washington Post report published in August alleged that the NIH, under Collins and Fauci’s leadership, “helped shape policy changes” that undercut the authority of oversight bodies established to review gain-of-function research proposals. 

The fact that DARPA appears to have rejected this 2018 gain-of-function research proposal from EcoHealth Alliance raises questions about why NIH and its sub-agency NIAID approved similar research requests. 

When asked to confirm that EcoHealth Alliance submitted this proposal, a spokesman for DARPA said the agency was “not at liberty to divulge who may have or may not have not submitted a proposal in response to any of the agency’s solicitations.”

“Further, information contained within bids is considered proprietary and can only be released by the bidder. That being said, DARPA has never funded directly, nor indirectly as a subcontractor, any activity or researcher associated with the EcoHealth Alliance or Wuhan Institute of Virology,” the spokesman added. 

Daszak, EcoHealth Alliance’s president, did not respond to TheBlaze’s request for comment. 

Daszak, a highly influential scientist and one of the most prominent and fiercest critics of the lab-leak theory, in June recused himself from a U.N.-partnered commission investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic after failing to disclose his organization’s extensive ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Yet Another Unseen Photo of Justin Trudeau Wearing Blackface Emerges

Clearest example yet.

Yet another photo of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wearing blackface has emerged – with the latest example being the clearest yet.

Trudeau has appeared in public wearing blackface on at least three separate occasions, one when he was a teacher and one when he was a student, as well as at a 2001 event when he dressed up in an Aladdin costume.

The latest example is from the 2001 event at the West Point Grey Academy, when Trudeau was 29-years-old.

Unlike the original black and white image that emerged from this event, which was first released in 2019, this one is in glorious full color and shows the Canadian leader sticking out his tongue, apparently enjoying the moment.

After the last controversy two years ago, Trudeau responded by saying he “deeply, deeply” regretted wearing blackface and admitted it was racist.

This led many of his critics to note how many of the most woke people in contemporary politics espouse such beliefs partly because they are compromised and guilty about previous behavior.

For the second time in two years, Canadians are heading to the polls to vote in an early general election.

Despite recent polls showing a statistical tie between Trudeau’s Liberals and the Conservatives, the result will likely see Trudeau forming another minority government, rendering whole exercise rather meaningless.

George Soros Funds The Bush-Clinton-Obama Group Pushing For Afghan Migrants

Soros Everywhere

Former presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama and failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton are serving as Honorary Co-Chairs of an organization to support the welcoming of Afghan migrants into the United States of America following the U.S. defeat to the Taliban and failed evacuation from Afghanistan. The organization, Welcome.us, is funded by socialist billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations.

The Honorary Co-Chairs of Welcome.Us include Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Michelle Obama, Laura Bush, Bill Clinton, and Hillary Clinton. The group’s National Welcome Council includes representatives from the New York Times, the Soros-funded Atlantic Council, Obama’s former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, Maria Shriver, establishment pundit David French, and Jeb Bush.

George Soros’ leftist donor organization Open Society Foundations is listed as one of the “Welcome Sponsors,” a “group of funders (that) chose to also enable the launch of Welcome.Us so that, together, we can amplify those efforts and mobilize the American people to support them,” according to Welcome.Us. Other sponsors include Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Walmart.org. The group’s “Welcome Businesses” include Walmart, Facebook, Starbucks, Uber, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Gibson Dunn and Microsoft.

George Soros is clearly determined to flood the United States of America with immigrants and ensure that the immigrants can afford to stay in the country to spark radical demographic change. For example, Los Angeles Democrat mayor Eric Garcetti is on the Leadership Board of a George Soros-funded global organization called the Mayors Migration Council, which pushes for and promotes Garcetti’s program in which he pays illegal immigrants during Coronavirus. Garcetti is partnering on pro-illegal immigration efforts with Patrick Gaspard, the president of George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, and is also working with Soros’ activism network to develop a program to pay reparations to black people. George Soros is a Hungarian-born leftist billionaire with an agenda to radically remake the United States of America and the world. Eric Garcetti is currently Joe Biden’s nominee to serve as Ambassador to India.

Eric Garcetti is a member of the Mayors Migration Council Leadership Board along with seven other current global mayors and one former mayor. The Mayors Migration Council asks its supporters to “Join Mayors in building an inclusive COVID-19 recovery for all.” So what is the Mayors Migration Council pushing for? According to their own materials, the Council states: “We ask that decision makers at the national and international level join us and take the following actions: Ensure safe, equitable access to services regardless of migration status, including healthcare and economic relief…Empower migrants and refugees to be part of the solution to COVID-19, including through the regularization of immigrant essential workers…Combat misinformation, racism, and xenophobia to strengthen community solidarity in all COVID-19 response and recovery efforts…” The Mayors Migration Council spotlighted Garcetti’s city of Los Angeles in its materials, stating, “City of Los Angeles steps in where national government falls short, provides direct cash assistance to all city residents in need, including undocumented immigrants.”


Mayors Migration Council is “financially supported by the Open Society Foundations”

The Mayors Migration Council stated: “In the City of Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti committed to build an equitable and inclusive COVID-19 response and recovery. Stepping in where the US national government purposefully excluded migrants and their families, Los Angeles provided emergency financial assistance to families in need, regardless of their immigration status. Building a new, innovative direct cash assistance program — the Angeleno Card — the city served residents who fall below the poverty line and do not qualify for other federal aid that excludes undocumented immigrants and informal sector workers. Mayor Garcetti’s Office, and the nonprofit the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles, raised $25M from the private sector, philanthropies, and individuals for the program to distribute directly to residents to meet their basic needs…Critically, applicants’ immigrant status was not requested nor factored towards their eligibility…The program received more than 450,000 applications,187,000 of which were pre-qualified. Given this large need from the community, a lottery was used to choose more than 20,000 households ­— helping more than 70,000 Angelenos. This innovative, multi-stakeholder program from Los Angeles served a model state-wide and nationally….” (Mayors Migration Council passage ends)

¡Ay, caramba!

Eric Garcetti and Open Society Foundations president Patrick Gaspard are both quoted in a Mayors Migration Council 2020 press release headlined “Mayors From Around The World Call On Global Leaders to Include Migrants 7 Refugees in Pandemic Response.” The press release states (emphasis added): “Members of the MMC Leadership Board, comprised of the mayors of Amman, Bristol, Freetown, Kampala, Los Angeles, Milan, Montréal, São Paolo, and Zürich, and the former mayor of Athens, met virtually on July 16 for its second annual convening. Hosted by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, the Leadership Board discussed common challenges mayors face in dealing with COVID-19, presented practical solutions to make sure no one is left behind in pandemic relief response, and identified opportunities to build more resilient, equitable, and sustainable cities for all throughout the COVID-19 recovery process….“Migrants and refugees around the world have been on the frontline of the global health crisis — risking their lives to care for patients, deliver food, and do the essential jobs needed to save lives,” said Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. “Building more equitable and inclusive cities will create a fairer, more just world, and the Mayors Migration Council is a critical partner in our work to ensure cities are places where everybody belongs.”…This year the Leadership Board was joined in conversation by the MMC’s institutional funders Ambassador Patrick Gaspard, President of the Open Society Foundations; Ambassador Christian Frutiger, Assistant Director General, Head of Global Cooperation for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation; and Ms. Ottilie Bälz, Senior Vice President, International Understanding and Cooperation at the Robert Bosch Stiftung. Special guests included Mr. António Vitorino, Director General of the International Organization for Migration and Tim Dixon, Co-founder of More in Common….“Mayors and cities on the front lines of the crisis are coming up with innovative solutions and sharing knowledge. We are proud to partner with cities to ensure that all of us – refugees and migrants included – have safe, equitable access to relief during these unprecedented times,” said Ambassador Patrick Gaspard, President of the Open Society Foundations. “The Mayors Migration Council has a key role in supporting these efforts and elevating the voices and actions of mayors around the world.” (press release passage ends)

Previously, Eric Garcetti and Open Society Foundations president Patrick Gaspard both spoke at a December 2018 forum in Morroco co-sponsored by the United Nations called “City Leadership In Implementing the UN Global Compacts,” with Garcetti appearing at the forum via video.

Garcetti is also talking to Open Society Foundations about financing a program to get black reparations off the ground in his city. The Los Angeles Times reported in June 2021: Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Friday announced the formation of an advisory commission that would develop and advocate for a pilot reparations program targeted at a cohort of Black Angelenos…In a Friday interview with The Times, Garcetti said many private entities, including Open Society Foundations, a grant network founded by billionaire George Soros, had expressed interest in being involved in funding. ” (Los Angeles Times passage ends)

Drag queen RuPaul at Emmys tells ‘kids out there watching’ that ‘you have a tribe that is waiting for you … come on to Mama Ru!’

Drag queen RuPaul in his Emmy Award acceptance speech Sunday night thanked “all of our lovely children on our show from all around the world … they are so gracious to tell their stories of courage and how to navigate this difficult life — even more difficult today.”

The host of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” — which took home Outstanding Competition Series — then added, “And for you kids out there watching, you have a tribe that is waiting for you. We are waiting for you, baby. Come on to Mama Ru!”

Huh?

RuPaul reportedly has referred to performers on “Drag Race” as his children — so doing the same during his acceptance speech Sunday wasn’t necessarily out of the ordinary for the host. In addition, “Drag Race” competitors all are at least 19 years of age.

In a 2018 interview, RuPaul used similar language in referring to the “queens” who try out for “Drag Race,” saying that “they are teaching young people how to … find their tribe.” He also referred to “Drag Race” contestants as “kids.”

So, in light of all that, it’s fair to conclude that RuPaul — who is 60 — very well could have meant adults when he said, “And for you kids out there watching, you have a tribe that is waiting for you. We are waiting for you, baby. Come on to Mama Ru!”

But RuPaul didn’t make that clear to Emmys watchers. Indeed, Deadline reported that the host “dedicated his [Emmy] win to the LGBTQ community and queer youth.”

In addition — and this should come as no surprise — minors do watch “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”

“I wasn’t myself at all. Nobody was gay, and I was an easy target for bullies. I felt abnormal,” Brandon Austin told Insider earlier this year in regard to his high school struggles. “Then, at 16, my best friend introduced me to ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race.'”

Insider’s piece — titled “By championing self-expression, ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ has encouraged a generation of young LGBTQ+ fans to come out” — also said that the TV show has been a fixture in the lives of Gen-Z watchers and “has been integral to their being out and proud about their identities.”

Austin added to the outlet that “seeing people being accepted for who they are made me realize that I am normal.”

And RuPaul is no stranger to interacting with underage drag queens — including Desmond Is Amazing, whose rise to fame has been extensively covered by TheBlaze.

Here’s the pair at RuPaul’s Drag Con NYC in 2017, in which the host tells the “gorgeous little queen” that he’s “the future of America”:

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