Dr. Jordan Peterson joined Dennis Prager for a fascinating discussion at the 2019 PragerU Summit.
Left Eats Left: BLM Takes Some Potshots at Joe Biden
There’s no question that Joe Biden and the Democrats fully embraced Black Lives Matter, both the group and the radical movement.
Kamala Harris and thirteen Biden campaign staffers donated to a bail fund that was helping bail out people arrested during the riots in Minneapolis last year.
The Democrats even had a strange BLM-inspired musical number at their national convention last summer.
For a long time, Biden refused to concede the “protests” were violent until polls showed that Americans were troubled by the Democrats’ failure to recognize the violence or do anything about it. It was only after the polls came out that Biden began acknowledging the violence. But even then, he condemned “violence” or “extremism,” he has never condemned BLM or Antifa by name. Indeed he’s not even acknowledged that Antifa is even real, calling it “just an idea.”
Most of the violence has occurred in Democratic cities, with Democratic politicians who have often not adequately addressed it, like Portland, where the violent actors have not been held to account and have gotten away with so much. They have a progressive district attorney who hasn’t moved to prosecute a lot of the offenses.
So now it’s rather fascinating that BLM just took some potshots at Joe Biden in a Twitter thread that was urging “demilitarization” of the police.
Rand Paul: If feds want more folks vaccinated, Biden should take his mask off and burn it on TV
‘Light a torch to it’
GOP Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) said Wednesday that the federal government’s messaging on vaccines has been full of “fearmongering” and suggested the best way to get more people on board with taking COVID-19 shots is for President Joe Biden to take off his mask and burn it on national television.
During an interview with Fox News, the Kentucky Republican and ophthalmologist continued his criticism of Dr. Anthony Fauci, whom he has sparred with several times over the course of the pandemic.
“Science is about proving things are happening,” Paul told host Martha MacCallum. “If Dr. Fauci can prove that people who are vaccinated are spreading the disease, I will listen to him. If he can prove that people like me who have already had it are spreading the disease, I’ll listen to him. But there is no evidence of that.”
Then, the senator offered some advice, saying, “If you want more people to get vaccinated, Joe Biden should go on national TV, take his mask off, and burn it. Light a torch to it, and burn his mask and say, ‘I’ve had the vaccine, I am now safe from this plague. If you get the vaccine, you can be safe too.'”
Columbus cop who fatally shot Ma’Khia Bryant, 16, is an expert Air National Guard marksman
- Nicholas Reardon shot Bryant at around 4.45pm on Tuesday on the 3100 block of Legion Lane while responding to a 911 call about an attempted stabbing
- Reardon, a graduate of Bishop Watterson Catholic school in Columbus, was a member of the school’s wrestling team
- While he attended Air Force basic combat training, the school posted updates on his progress
- Reardon graduated from basic combat training in August 2017 before attending the military’s Security Forces Tech School at Lackland Air Force Base
- The Security Forces Academy teaches a 65-day course where students learn the basic functions of serving as military police
- His alma mater’s Twitter account said he earned the expert marksman badge for the M4A1 Carbine fully automatic assault rifle used by the military
The Columbus cop who fatally shot Ma’Khia Bryant, a 16-year-old black girl, is in the Air National Guard where he earned ‘expert marksman’ badge, it has been revealed.
Nicholas Reardon shot Bryant at around 4.45pm on Tuesday on the 3100 block of Legion Lane while responding to a 911 call about an attempted stabbing. Bryant was allegedly seen charging at another girl with the knife before she was shot.
The shooting came after a court in Minneapolis, Minnesota found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on three charges including murder for the death of George Floyd. Bryant’s death sparked protests while others around the country celebrated the Chauvin verdict.
Hawley: ‘Absolutely Vital’ GOP Moves Away from Dependence on Mega-Corporations
Tuesday, during an appearance on FNC’s “Fox News Primetime, ” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) lobbied for his party to end its dependence on so-called mega-corporations with interests that do not align with the party’s voters.
“It’s absolutely vital that the Republican Party as a party move away from its dependence on these mega-corporations, especially the multinational globalist ones, and listen actually to voters,” he said. “I mean, this is, this should be a no-brainer, but it is absolutely vital, Ben. Our voters have been telling us for years that they don’t like our jobs being shipped overseas. They don’t like the way that these corporations kowtow to China on one hand and then turned around and lecture Americans about what social justice at home when they are some of the worst offenders.”
White lecturer tells students she’s ‘sick’ of talking about Black Lives Matter
A white lecturer at a college in upstate New York is under probe by the school — because she told students she was “sick” of talking about the Black Lives Matter movement.
A video posted to Instagram on Monday was recorded in the fall during a video conference call for a writing course at SUNY Buffalo State College, the Buffalo News reported Tuesday.
“This is me, but speaking honestly, and you guys have to respond honestly with what you think, with what you feel about this,” said the part-time lecturer, identified by a student as Erica Cope. “So am I sick about talking about Black Lives Matter. All right? I said it.”
Student Jahnay Morehead told the newspaper she recorded Cope’s comments during a writing course in the fourth week of the fall semester. She said she contacted the college’s diversity committee weeks later, but didn’t take part in a subsequent Zoom call to address the matter, according to the report.
The remark to a class of predominantly black students was “insensitive” and came as an example of an opinion that would lead Cope to get “canceled,” Morehead said.
“She asked us to share an opinion that might be considered controversial and I guess that was her example,” Morehead told WGRZ. “After she said that, she was kind of trying to change the topic very swiftly. A lot of students was like, ‘Why? Why do you feel this way?’ And she really didn’t want to go into it.”
Bodycam video shows Columbus teen was attempting to stab someone when police shot her
If cops aren’t supposed to use lethal force in this situation, when are they?
Tuesday night, the family of a Columbus, Ohio teenager claimed that police shot her without provocation or justification. In order to forestall any potential civil unrest, Columbus police promptly released bodycam footage showing that, in fact, the girl was attempting to stab two different people at the time she was shot, and that officers repeatedly gave her verbal warnings to get down before firing shots.
The still frame video from just seconds before the shooting demonstrates that she was literally in the process of attempting to stab someone when police shot her.
You might have thought that this would have ended the ruckus over this particular incident, and that everyone would have acknowledged that it is of course appropriate for officers to use lethal force to prevent someone from being stabbed to death right in front of them.
Unfortunately, you would have been wrong.
A number of prominent liberals took to social media on Wednesday, even after the body camera footage was released, and claimed that either the officer was at fault, or that his actions were evidence of a broken policing system. For instance, the official Twitter account for the national American Civil Liberties Union tweeted, “We’ll say it again — a system that kills children with impunity cannot be reformed.” The ACLU’s tweet did not have any thoughts for the child who could have been killed if the cop had not intervened.
