Breitbart News exclusively obtained a photo of Democrat Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer violating her own Covid orders at a Lansing dive bar this weekend.
Whitmer was hanging out at the Landshark in Lansing with a large group of friends, including her chief operations officer, Tricia Foster.
Whitmer’s own Covid guidelines issued on May 15 prohibit gatherings of that size:
Consumption of food or beverages is permitted only in a designated dining area where patrons are seated, groups of patrons are separated by at least 6 feet, no more than 6 patrons are seated together (at a table, booth, or group of fixed seats), and groups of patrons do not intermingle
MSNBC host Tiffany Cross proclaimed Saturday that she is willing to undertake the “the most radical” of solutions to fix what she believes is a problem with police brutality and racist law enforcement.
Cross was reacting to the recently released video of Ronald Greene, a Louisiana man who died in 2019 while in police custody.
The death of Ronald Greene after a police chase in Louisiana in 2019 is attracting new scrutiny after the publication of police body camera footage that appears to show a starkly different version of events than the one given by the Louisiana State Police.
What did Cross say?
Speaking on her MSNBC show, Cross declared that it’s “time to burn it down,” referring to what she and many activists believe is a problematic criminal justice system.
“I am outraged, and exhausted, and angry. That video is practically unwatchable. And I think about that man’s family, and his mother, and what they must be going through,” Cross said.
A school district in Georgia this week voted to approve a resolution that would prevent certain divisive concepts of race from being taught in the classroom.
A divided Cherokee County School Board on Thursday voted to not adoptcritical race theory as part of its curriculum following a heated debate. The board voted four in favor and one in opposition to the resolution. Two members abstained from voting.
The public hearing was attended by about 400 parents and other county residents who were concerned about the teaching of the quasi-Marxist doctrine that has risen to new prominence following the rise of far-left groups such as Antifa and Black Lives Matter.
The theory has been heavily promulgated throughout academia, entertainment, government, schools, and the workplace in recent years. It promotes a perspective that claims America’s history should be defined through a sole focus on the struggle and suffering caused by “oppressors” (white people) to the “oppressed” (everybody else), without room to discuss other factors shaping society at the time.
The movement to push back on the expansion of CRT in schools and workplace training has fueled a heated debate over how cultural and racial sensitivity education should be conducted. Conservatives and Republicans have warned that the CRT movement is not about eliminating racism and is simply pushing divisive concepts. On the other side of the issue, progressives and Democrats argue that the CRT approach would advance equity for all.
Shortly after Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., grilled a squirming Dr. Anthony Fauci during a Senate hearing on gain of function research, Wuhan Institute of Virology funding, and a potential for a lab accident, Fauci quietly offered some stunning admissions to Politifact.
First, he now admits he is “not convinced” COVID-19 developed naturally; second, perhaps equally alarmingly, he admits the U.S. engaged with and helped fund Chinese scientists on studying coronaviruses.
“No, I am not convinced about that [COVID-19 having a natural origin],” Fauci told Politifact’s Katie Sanders at a virtual event called “United Facts of America: A Festival of Fact-Checking” (around 11 minutes in).
“I think we should continue to investigate what went on in China until we continue to find out to the best of our ability what happened.
“Certainly, the people who investigated it say it likely was the emergence from an animal reservoir that then infected individuals, but it could have been something else, and we need to find that out. So, you know, that’s the reason why I said I’m perfectly in favor of any investigation that looks into the origin of the virus.”
That latter point did echo Fauci’s comments to Paul during Senate testimony, but coincidentally, a Politifact forum actually did not fact check Fauci on some other admissions that did not jibe with his Senate testimony in the exchange with Paul.
Paul grilled Fauci on whether the U.S. helped fund and research coronaviruses with China, and Fauci admitted to precisely that, suggesting it would be “irresponsible” to not have done it.
“No actually, that’s the point that I said,” Fauci said of the need to investigate the origins of COVID-19, “and I think the real unfortunate aspect of what Sen. Paul did is he conflating research in a collaborative way with Chinese scientists, which is you almost have to say, if we did not do that, we would almost be irresponsible, because SARS-CoV-1 clearly originated in China and we were fortunate to escape a major pandemic.
It wasn’t too long ago that most Americans had no idea what critical race theory was. At least I didn’t.
Now, the term is everywhere. It is the idea that American racism has shaped every institution and norm in our lives. White people are the oppressors and have led lives of privilege and people of color are the oppressed who have always operated from a point of disadvantage in America. Suddenly this ideology is finding its way into every aspect of our lives.
It is divisive and destructive, but nowhere is it more dangerous than in the military.
Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas joined Breitbart News’ Alex Marlow on Marlow’s Friday radio show to discuss the impact of critical race theory on our military, our government and our foreign policy.
Cotton served as a U.S. Army officer for four years and afterward, in the Army Reserves. He also completed several overseas deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Marlow asked the senator to address the new woke direction the military has taken.
A meme was shared as a joke, saying that white people who believe in social justice should “resign for diversity.” But while it seems insane right off the bat, it is not a new concept.
A meme was shared as a joke, saying that white people who believe in social justice should “resign for diversity.” It was taken up by conservative thinkers and free speech absolutists who undoubtedly believe the opposite. But while it seems insane right off the bat, something that would likely give the lie to a social justice movement advocated for by white people who are unwilling to give up their own power, influence, or even careers, it is not a new concept.
Yes. Starting now. Put your undeserved/privileged jobs back on the market instead of punishing current job-seekers for the purported misdoings of their ancestors. https://t.co/vdBYNfZKiy
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) May 21, 2021
— James Lindsay, called him Joe Malarkey on TV (@ConceptualJames) May 21, 2021
Social justice activists and pundits have been suggesting for some time that white people should not just step back from the public conversation to give space to diverse voices, etc., but should leave it entirely.
It’s not new, but it’s certainly kicked into high gear—this idea that white people, by virtue of the ancestral sins of their race and the contemporary crime of blindly accepting and acting on their societal privilege, should step back from their positions of leadership.
A column by Sohum Pal in a 2017 issue of Yale Newsinstructed: “White students: Take a few steps back. You already know: when we enter white-dominated spaces, we take on the implicit roles of leadership, expending invaluable emotional and intellectual labor. It is time we were given the titles and power we deserve.”
An AMS blog in the same year told white people, specifically “white cis het” men: “Not to alarm you, but I probably want you to quit your job, or at least take a demotion. Statistically speaking, you are probably taking up room that should go to someone else. If you are a white cis man […] you almost certainly should resign from your position of power. That’s right, please quit. Too difficult? Well, as a first step, at least get off your hiring committee, your curriculum committee, and make sure you’re replaced by a woman of color or trans person.”
Americans’ confidence in Dr. Anthony Fauci has plunged in the last year, according to a new poll from The Convention of States Action and The Trafalgar Group.
The survey of 1,093 likely general election voters conducted between May 16 and May 18 found that people aren’t as enamored with Fauci’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic as they used to be.
The survey asked participants: “Has your confidence in Dr. Fauci gone up or down in the past year?” There were 42.2% of respondents who said their confidence in Fauci has “decreased significantly” or “decreased” in the last year. There were 26.1% who said their opinion of the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was “unchanged” over the last 12 months.
There were 9.1% of those polled who said their opinion of the member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force “increased,” and 13% said their faith in Fauci “increased significantly.”
As expected, there was a major difference of opinion of Fauci along party lines. There were 61.1% of Republicans who had their confidence in Fauci “decrease” or “decrease significantly” in the past year. Meanwhile, only 20% of Democrats had their opinion of Fauci “decrease” or “decrease significantly” since last year.
“Since the beginning, Dr. Anthony Fauci has served as the face of, and has set the tone for, Washington’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Voters are wisely deciding for themselves and ignoring D.C.,” Mark Meckler, President of Convention of States Action, a nonprofit that aims to “bring power back to the states and the people,” said.
In February, Americans had a very favorable view of Dr. Fauci. A Morning Consult/Politico poll from February found that 60% of respondents said Fauci had handled the coronavirus pandemic “excellent” or “good,” while only 17% said he had done a “poor” job at the time.
Titled “New Species of Man-Made Viruses as Genetic Bioweapons,” the documents outlined the perfect conditions to release a bioweapon and documented the impact it would have on the enemy’s medical system.
Analysts determined that the set of documents has 18 authors working at “high-risk” labs.
Instead, it should be released at night, dusk, dawn or under cloudy weather with “a stable wind direction so that the aerosol can float into the target area.”
The authors also noted that such an attack would result in a surge of patients requiring hospital treatment, which “could cause the enemy’s medical system to collapse.”
Next world war “will be biological”
The documents’ authors insisted that the next world war “will be biological,” unlike the first two wars which were described as chemical and nuclear respectively. “Following developments in other scientific fields, there have been major advances in the delivery of biological agents,” the authors wrote.
“For example, the new-found ability to freeze-dry microorganisms has made it possible to store biological agents and aerosolize them during attacks.”
The reports made by People’s Liberation Army (PLA) scientists and health officials examined the manipulation of diseases to make weapons “in a way never seen before.”
This brings up China’s alleged gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). Gain-of-function research refers to the serial passaging of microorganisms to increase their transmissibility, virulence, immunogenicity and host tropism by applying selective pressure to a culture.
The WIV has been collecting numerous coronaviruses from bats ever since the SARS outbreak in 2002. The lab is just eight miles from the Huanan wet market, which is where the first cluster of infections erupted in Wuhan.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Friday vowed to take action against left-wing efforts to advance critical race theory — a divisive method of teaching focusing on race — explaining it is actually “offensive” to ask taxpayers to fund “teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other.”
Speaking to reporters in Pensacola on Friday, where he signed “tax holidays” into law, DeSantis expressed his vehement opposition to critical race theory and vowed that it will not be embraced in the Sunshine State.
“The Florida Board of Education is meeting and they are addressing this. And I told them they need to address this, and we’ve got to do it,” DeSantis said.
“I mean, first of all, it’s offensive — here we are celebrating tax savings — it’s offensive to the taxpayer that they would be asked to fund critical race theory,” DeSantis said, “that they would be asked to fund teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other,” he continued, prompting applause.
The Republican governor also highlighted the fundamental flaws in critical race theory, explaining it is based on “false history.”
“It’s also based on false history when they try to look back and denigrate the Founding Fathers, denigrate the American Revolution, doing all these different things that even very liberal historians say is not supported by the facts,” he explained, stating the Constitution needs to be brought back into classrooms.
“We need to make sure civics is a priority, but it needs to be taught accurately. It needs to be taught in a fact-based way. Not an ideological-based way, and if we have to play whack-a-mole all over this state, stopping this critical race theory, we will do it,” he said, triggering another round of applause.
“We’ll be taking action,” he promised. “Don’t you worry.”
