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TEN ‘politically correct’ words you must STOP USING NOW!
The far-left wants to change our language with one politically correct phrase at a time. But there are some words we must not allow for them to eliminate from our dictionary due to the FACTUAL truths they represent. Glenn reads an article from The Federalist that describes ten words we must continue to use, despite the left pushing alternative ones into our language. Words matter, Glenn says, and while our country continues to transform, using the correct ones matters even more…
Fauci Suggests Locked Down States Are Doing Worse than Texas Because People Are Ignoring Lockdowns
Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) pointed out to Dr. Fauci on Thursday that the states with the highest coronavirus rates are states that are still currently implementing lockdowns.
AOC Spotted At Park Without Mask – Digging Through Trash
- Another Dem embodying the “Rules for thee, not for me” mantra
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was spotted at a DC park not wearing a mask, a hypocritical move considering her past promotion of facial coverings.
In footage originating on social media, Ocasio-Cortez is seen sitting at a picnic table at Garfield Park enjoying a sporting event without a mask, despite her previously criticizing Texas for lifting the mask mandate last month.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, Ocasio-Cortez is later filmed rummaging through a bag on a trash bin.
In a photo taken at the park, a maskless Ocasio-Cortez smiles at the camera as two masked park-goers are seen standing behind her with their hands on their hips.
True National Debt Exceeds $123 Trillion, or Nearly $800,000 per Taxpayer
America’s national debt now exceeds $123 trillion, according to a new report, or more than four times the official figure of $28 trillion, as calculated by the U.S. Treasury Department at the end of March.
Federal spending related to the CCP virus pandemic and economic lockdown added nearly $10 trillion to the total in 2020, according to the latest edition of the “Financial State of the Union 2021” report, compiled and published annually by Chicago-based nonprofit Truth in Accounting (TIA).
But spending amid the pandemic represents only a small portion of the total difference between the official government figure and TIA’s calculation.
“Our measure of the government’s financial condition includes reported federal assets and liabilities, as well as promised, but not funded, Social Security and Medicare benefits,” the report stated.
“Elected and non-elected officials have made repeated financial decisions that have left the federal government with a debt burden of $123.11 trillion, including unfunded Social Security and Medicare promises.”
The TIA report includes in its total debt calculation $55.12 trillion in unfunded Medicare benefits and $41.20 trillion in unfunded Social Security benefits.
Treasury officials don’t include unfunded benefits because they claim recipients have no right to future payments, only to those under current entitlement laws.
The total debt, according to the report, “equates to a $796,000 burden for every federal taxpayer. Because the federal government would need such a vast amount of money from taxpayers to cover this debt, it received an ‘F’ grade for its financial condition.”
Unlike many state governments, the federal government doesn’t maintain a cash reserve to deal with spending necessitated by unexpected crises such as a virus pandemic.
“The coronavirus pandemic and related stimulus packages have caused some of the deterioration because the government had to borrow money to weather the pandemic. If the federal government was properly prepared for a crisis with a true rainy-day fund, it would not have had to borrow money,” TIA stated.
Defense and veterans’ benefits accounted for the largest share of federal spending in 2020 at 23 percent, followed by health and human services with 19 percent, Social Security with 16 percent, interest on the debt at 5 percent, and 2 percent on education. Fully a third (35 percent) of the spending went to what TIA described as “Other.”
Responses
Spokesmen for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), respectively the chairman and ranking minority member of the Senate Budget Committee, didn’t respond to The Epoch Times request for comment.
Similarly, a spokesman for House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.), didn’t respond.
Mondays are typically “travel days” for senators returning from their states and representatives from the districts.
Facebook Removes Post By Breonna Taylor’s Mother Criticizing Black Lives Matter
- Tells you everything you need to know about the left’s priorities — it’s not about black lives, it’s about controlling the narrative.
- “I’ve watched [BLM] raise money on behalf of Breonna’s family who has never done a damn thing for us…talk about fraud,” Tamika Palmer had posted
Facebook appears to have removed a post by Breonna Taylor’s mother over the weekend criticizing the radical Black Lives Matter organization.
Tamika Palmer, the mother of Breonna Taylor, who was killed in a botched no-knock police raid last year and used to further galvanize BLM, slammed the organization for exploiting her daughter’s death to raise money.
“’I have never personally dealt with BLM Louisville and personally have found them to be fraud, (state Rep.) Attica Scott another fraud,” Palmer wrote on Facebook last Wednesday.
“I’ve watched ya’ll raise money on behalf of Breonna’s family who has never done a damn thing for us…talk about fraud,” Palmer wrote. “I could walk into a room full of people who claim to be here for Breonna’s family who don’t even know who I am…I’m so sick of some of y’all…I’m done with this s##t enough is enough.”
But as of this writing, that searing post is no longer available on Palmer’s Facebook page.
Black lives are so important to Facebook that it decided to suppress the speech of a black mother voicing her opinion about an openly radical far-left group.
This comes just days after Facebook censored the New York Post’s story about BLM founder and “trained Marxist” Patrisse Khan-Cullors purchasing several large homes in majority-white neighborhoods with BLM donation money.
For Big Tech, it’s not about justice, it’s about controlling the narrative.
MRC STUDY: Once Top Trump-Bashers, TV News Now Loves Joe Biden
(SaraCarter) For four years, the liberal media led the Left’s fierce resistance to the Trump administration, slamming the President night after night after night. Now, a new study by the Media Research Center finds the broadcast evening newscasts have executed a full flip-flop, as they aid and abet liberal President Joe Biden’s administration with mostly positive coverage.
During his first three months in office, the broadcast evening newscasts have showered Biden with 59% positive press. Four years ago, those same programs were hammering Trump with 89% negative press — a stunning contrast.
For this study, MRC analysts reviewed all ABC, CBS and NBC evening news coverage of Biden and his new administration from January 20 through April 9. Total coverage amounted to a hefty 726 minutes — 18 percent of all evening news airtime — but that’s still just a small fraction of the 1,900 minutes those broadcasts spent deploring Trump and his team when we studied the same newscasts during the same time period in 2017.
The shift in tone is even more dramatic. Four years ago, Trump faced hellishly negative coverage right from the beginning. Our study at the time showed 89% negative coverage of the new President on the three evening newscasts, an unprecedented hostility that would characterize the media’s approach for the next four years.
Today, President Biden faces a far friendlier media landscape. Overall, we found 59% positive coverage of his administration during those first weeks, a continuation of the positive coverage that the networks treated him to during last year’s presidential campaign. (There’s a fuller description of our methodology at the end of this article.)
