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Is America led today by anti-Americans?

Pat Buchanan: Biden and Harris push the Chinese line that the U.S. ‘is a nation sick in its soul’

(WND) How can America unite again to do great things if we are led by people who believe America suffers from a great sickness of the soul, an original sin that dates back to her birth as a nation?

Consider.

After his long night of prayer for “the right verdict” to be pronounced – Derek Chauvin was convicted on all three counts – Joe Biden stepped before the White House cameras to tell us what it all meant.

George Floyd’s death, said Biden, “was a murder in the full light of day, and it ripped the blinders off for the whole world to see the systemic racism … that is a stain on our nation’s soul – the knee on the neck of justice for black Americans.”

Astonishing. Biden is saying that when Chauvin knelt on the neck of George Floyd for nine minutes as the life drained out of him, the world, for once, was getting a good, close look at the diseased soul of America.

What Chauvin was doing to Floyd, said the president of the United States, is a reflection of the kind of justice America delivers to black Americans.

This is no aberration, Biden was saying. This is the routine reality.

Biden was introduced by Kamala Harris, who said much the same:

“America has a long history of systemic racism. Black Americans and black men in particular have been treated throughout the course of our history as less than human.”

At Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield delivered what The Wall Street Journal called, “a recitation of America’s sins (that) could have come from China’s Global Times.”

Said Thomas-Greenfield:

“I have … seen for myself how the original sin of slavery weaved white supremacy into our founding documents and principles. … Racism is the problem of the racist. And it is the problem of the society that produces the racist.”

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“Bitcoin Fixes This”: Silicon Valley Icon Slams “Job-Crushing” Biden Tax Plan, “Oppressive Government”

With stocks tumbling following the report that Joe Biden is considering a proposal that would double the capital gains tax, as investors dump in hopes of locking in existing cap gains rates – an exercise in futility if Biden and the socialists in Congress decide to make such a tax change retroactive to all of 2021 – Bloomberg quickly polled several Wall Street traders who focused on the policy’s implications for investing, and concluded that while it was too soon to panic, prospects of a higher levy on stock profits could spark near-term selling as investors look to skirt a higher rate.

Here are some hot takes, courtesy of Bloomberg:

Chris O’Keefe, managing director at Logan Capital Management:

The first impact would be people deciding they are either going to take their gains now to try to get ahead of it. You could see people pull forward their gains to this year. It would potentially reduce the flow of capital because people would be less willing to take gains and move onto something else. People would be less willing to trade if they had to pay a tax that high.

Chris Zaccarelli, chief investment officer for Independent Advisor Alliance:

It will incentivize selling this year before it does anything else. In the years to come, it will probably discourage selling, to some extent, but may also discourage buying as well as people look at other things to do with their money. The higher the taxes, the less people are likely to participate in activities that cost them tax.

Dan Suzuki, Richard Bernstein Advisors LLC’s deputy chief investment office:

It’s more aggressive than what people were expecting. I would personally fade the reaction though. Seems very unlikely that it will pass in its current state, so it would be heavily diluted.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Suggests AOC Has Accepted Her Debate Challenge

Marjorie Taylor Greene posted a tweet hinting that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) may have accepted her Green New deal debate challenge.

“I’m glad I ran into you today [AOC] to plan our debate about the Green New Deal,” Greene tweeted along with an image of the two talking. 

The Georgia Republican added, “After I finish reading all 14 pages, like we agreed, I’ll schedule time for our debate.”

Newsweek is reporting that the debate is a done deal, though Greene’s tweet seems like it could be an effort to pressure AOC into accepting the challenge by insinuating that they have discussed the matter.

AOC has yet to publicly comment on the debate challenge.

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BLM activist says police shouldn’t use a weapon to stop someone from getting stabbed

Bree Newsome said that “Teenagers have been having fights including fights involving knives for eons. We do not need police to address these situations.”

Black Lives Matter activist Bree Newsome had a new take on the police shooting of Makhia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio on Tuesday. Bryant, who was in possession of a knife, and according to police body cam footage was lunging at another woman with that knife, was fatally shot by police after they were called to the scene.

Journalists and activists were quick to rush to judgement and assume that Bryant was unarmed and innocent, but for Newsome, the incident was a moment to say that casual knife fights are just the norm and not a cause for police interference at all.

Newsome said that “Teenagers have been having fights including fights involving knives for eons. We do not need police to address these situations.”

Her take was that anyone who calls police to the scene of a knife fight is the one that needs help, and she means that “sincerely.” For Newsome, police being called to a knife fight is nothing but white supremacy.

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House To Vote On D.C. Statehood Bill

A bill seeking to make Washington, D.C. the 51st state is slated for a House vote. The Democrat-led proposal will head to the floor on Thursday in a move House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has claimed will “reaffirm the truth that all deserve a voice in our democracy.”

Conservatives have long pushed against the granting of statehood to D.C. with many agreeing it’s nothing more than an attempt by the other side to get two more Democrat senators. A nearly identical bill passed the Democrat-controlled House last year, but ultimately failed in the then Republican-controlled Senate.

In a press conference last year regarding the identical bill, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) expressed his outrage of the Democrat’s attempt to shift the balance in the Senate by adding two more seats for Democrats.

“It would empower the most radical agenda in modern American politics,” he stated.”This is not about enfranchising people, this is about expanding the Senate map to accommodate the most radical agenda that I’ve ever seen since I’ve been up here.”

Democrats claim D.C. statehood is a “fight for racial justice” with D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser testifying in last months hearing on the legislation

“The simple fact is denying American citizens a vote in the body that taxes them goes against the founding principles of this great nation,” said the mayor. “The disenfranchisement of Washingtonians is one of the remaining glaring civil rights and voting rights issues of our time.”

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Rep. McClain Says Government Aiding Cartels by Resettling Migrant Children

Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., accused the government of assisting cartels’ human trafficking efforts by resettling migrant children after touring a holding facility in her home state on Monday.

“What I saw, quite honestly, was sophisticated, organized illegal immigration,” McClain said according to the Washington Examiner on Thursday. “I choose those words very, very carefully because the system and the process that I observed was unbelievable.”

McClain, who represents a district north of Detroit, visited the Department of Health and Human Services contractor-run facility in Albion, Michigan, where 191 boys between the ages of 5 and 17 were being held after being transported from the border.

Unlike the southern border, McClain said the facility was guarded securely — by 20 law enforcement officers who work in shifts.

And unlike other lawmakers who visited overcrowded Department of Health and Human Services facilities at the border, McClain was impressed with what she saw.

“The facility is remarkable,” McClain said of the location that opened April 11. “It’s 350 acres of beauty. I mean, it’s manicured precisely. There are 17 homes that are in phenomenal condition. There’s a beautiful lake there. There’s an auditorium, a gymnasium, soccer fields.

“The medical treatment that they’re receiving is top-notch. They have 2 doctors from the [National Institutes of Health], there around the clock. They have a 1-to-8 supervision-to-child ratio, which, I mean, I gotta be honest, I didn’t, I didn’t expect to see. So from that perspective. I think we’re doing a really good job of treating these unaccompanied alien minor children with dignity and respect.”

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Exports from China’s Xinjiang province to US more than doubled this year despite sanctions

Direct exports from China’s northwestern Xinjiang region to the US surged 113% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2021 despite Washington’s import ban on cotton and other products.

Xinjiang’s American-bound exports amounted to $64.4 million in the first three months of 2021, the South China Morning Post reported, citing data from China’s customs agency. While year-on-year data is not representative as it comes from the pandemic year’s low base, exports also rose compared to pre-crisis levels. They gained 46.5% compared with the first quarter of 2019.

Overall exports from the Chinese region in the first quarter increased by more than a third year-on-year, but were down 6% against the same period of 2019.

While Xinjiang’s exports are just a fraction of the growing Chinese exports, the news comes as Beijing and Washington have been locking horns over claims of human rights violations and abuses, including forced labor, in the region. This has resulted in a US ban on all imports of Xinjiang-grown cotton and tomatoes, including sauces, seeds, and other products. China has repeatedly denied the accusations and said it would welcome a UN visit to the region.

However, banned cotton products, except for some garments, are not among the increased exports from the region, according to the report. Xinjiang mostly shipped heterocyclic compounds to the US, which are used in cancer drugs, and amino acids.

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No, Mr. President, the ‘soul of America’ isn’t racist

President Joe Biden is already starting to push people too far with his constant refrains about how racist this country is.

He is overstating a very weak case, and he risks becoming like former President Jimmy Carter when Carter’s so-called “malaise speech” had the annoying effect, in the insightful words of Vice President Walter Mondale, of “urging the people to be as good as the government.” The public and American culture are better than Biden says we are. He may soon see a backlash against him not just for hectoring us but for enlisting big government’s might to promote and enforce his racialist agenda.

Biden did it again Tuesday evening in his remarks responding to the three-count conviction of former Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin. He indicted the entire American judicial system, without proof, by saying that accurate and just verdicts are “much too rare” and that Chauvin’s just conviction was possible only because of a “unique and extraordinary convergence of factors.” He said that “systemic racism is a stain on our nation’s soul” while asserting, without evidence, that Chauvin’s murder of George Floyd was the result of such systemic racism. He cited the “racism and racial disparities” supposedly endemic to policing and criminal justice. And he described a Manichean “battle for the would of this nation” and “the harsh reality that racism has long torn us apart.”

His message seriously exaggerates the relevant grains of truth therein. To start with, numerous careful (non-right-wing) studies actually show only the mildest of racial “disparities” in the system. Yes, more black people are arrested, but that stands to reason because black people commit more crimes on average.

Now, all decent people wholeheartedly reject the notion that criminality is somehow a racial trait. But poverty, family breakups, subpar education, and numerous other factors, many of them, of course, the lingering, evil generational effects of slavery and Jim Crow, surely play a role. The point here is not the “why.” The point is that the numbers do not lie about the “what” of criminal incidences, despite the narrative pushed by Biden and so many in the media. The statistics just do not show major racial bias in policing and convictions — although there is indeed disturbing evidence that sentencing is, on average, harsher for black convicts.

The bigger problem with the Biden/media-driven “systemic” racism narrative is not with the statistics but with the labels that misstate the nature of the problem.

Let us posit that “racism” means what, for decades, everyone agreed it means, namely the assumption that people of a certain ethnicity will possess inherent traits (such as character or intelligence) by virtue (or vice) of that ethnicity. Particularly egregious racism occurs when the stereotypes involved are negative ones. Racial “discrimination” is what happens when people (or systems) act in deliberate or obviously implicit furtherance of those racist assumptions. By these simple definitions, anybody can be racist, and anybody can act racially discriminatorily — but the obvious and horrific reality is that white racism and discrimination historically has been far more deleterious to black people in this country than vice versa.

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WA Dept of Health lets providers deny vaccines to white people for equity

(MyNorthWest) The Washington State Department of Health lets providers deny vaccines to white people in a race-exclusionary system they claim creates equity and removes barriers. It does neither.

The African American Reach and Teach Health Ministry (AARTH) is a vaccine provider in Washington state. Eligible recipients can sign up for vaccines using their online scheduler. But if you’re white, you’re not able to access any open vaccine appointments.

By default, white people are put on a standby list — one of two lists segregated by race — for vaccine access. They will only provide their online appointments to people of color.

Given repeated opportunities over the course of several days, the state DOH would not directly answer whether or not this practice violates the law. Instead, the DOH repeatedly deflected, arguing that they’re taking necessary steps to provide equitable access to the vaccine. But it’s only equitable access if you have the right skin color.

Vaccines kept from white people

If you try to sign up for a May 1 pop-up at Fred Hutch in Seattle, via the AARTH website, you must identify as either a person of color or as white.

“Part of the reason we ask that is because of the funding that we receive,” AARTH consultant Twanda Hill told the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH. “They want to know. … We have funding because we are able to reach people of color. Federal funding, state funding, county funding. They want to know who are we serving.”

If you’re a person of color, you can move forward and schedule a vaccine appointment if there is an opening. But if you’re white, you are automatically placed on a standby list. This bars you from continuing the process. AARTH says they will contact the white person if there is an opening.

But this isn’t the only list.

The first list, according to Hill, is a waitlist for people of color, should a vaccine appointment open up. If the waitlist is emptied and vaccine availabilities eventually open up, only then will a white person on the standby list be contacted.

This policy effectively bars white people from accessing taxpayer funded vaccines set up through the state. Hill argues their system isn’t truly exclusionary. A small percentage of white people on the standby list make it through. She also notes that people who lie about their race won’t be turned away.

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South Dakota’s Noem Bans Vaccine Passports

South Dakota’s governor said on April 21 that she has taken executive action to ban the use of digital or paper documentation that enables people to show proof that they’ve been vaccinated against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes COVID-19.

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Vials of COVID-19 vaccine are seen in Bridgeport, Conn., on April 20, 2021. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images)

Gov. Kristi Noem, a Republican, said the executive order she signed concerning so-called vaccine passports aligns with making sure South Dakotans are able to exercise their freedoms.

“Since the start of the COVID pandemic, we have provided the people of South Dakota with up-to-date science, facts, and data and then trusted them to exercise their personal responsibility to make the best decisions for themselves and their loved ones. We’ve resisted government mandates, and our state is stronger for it,” she said in a statement.

“I encourage all South Dakotans to get vaccinated against COVID-19, but we are not going to mandate any such activity. And we are not going to restrict South Dakotans’ exercise of their freedoms with un-American policies like vaccine passports. In our state, ‘Under God, the people rule.’ And that is how we will operate for as long as I am governor.”

Discussions are taking place on requiring such proof at various venues, which would be “discriminatory treatment” against people who haven’t gotten COVID-19 vaccines, Noem’s three-page order states.

“Any rationale for imposing public health restrictions that limit freedoms should be tailored to mitigate a verifiable, scientific risk,” it said. “Implementing a vaccine passport program could lead to unjustified, non-science-based restrictions on travel, speech, association, and other civil rights.”

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