“On July 13, we failed,” said the DEI appointee for head of the Secret Service.

No, you didn’t fail. You succeeded. We know that you know you succeeded. If you really believed you failed, you’d willingly resign.

Biden is safe. Kamala Harris is safe. Members of their regime are safe. They always were. The Clintons, Obamas and George W. Bush have nothing to worry about. Only Donald Trump has to worry about his safety. He’s the only one it will take you an hour or two to warn, when you’re aware that an armed sniper is pointing a gun at his head.

You know that, and it’s exactly how you and your superiors want it. This Congressional “grilling” is a charade. DEI appointments never assume accountability for anything.

Michael J. Hurd

Right now there is a tremendous amount of debate about what values our society should embrace.  There are some that are promoting the benefits of “conservative values”, there are some that are promoting the benefits of “liberal values”, and there are others that are promoting the benefits of other types of values.  But if we really want to make western society great again, the truth is that we should return to the values that made western society great in the first place.  Those values are the reason why western nations were the most prosperous and most civilized nations on the entire planet for centuries.  And once other nations started adopting those same values, they became more prosperous and more civilized too.

The values that I am talking about are the values that we find in the Bible. All throughout history, civilizations that have chosen to do things God’s way have been blessed. And civilizations that have chosen not to do things God’s way have been cursed.

Just consider the United States.  It was founded by people that loved the Bible, and throughout our history it was primarily made up of people that loved the Bible. Of course that has changed in our day, and as a result our society is now a giant mess. But at one time we were the most blessed nation on the entire planet by a wide margin, and that didn’t happen by accident.

Centuries of experience have taught us that capitalist countries tend to be more prosperous than countries that practice various forms of collectivism.

Primitive communism is a way of describing the gift economies of hunter-gatherers throughout history, where resources and property hunted or gathered are shared with all members of a group in accordance with individual needs. In political sociology and anthropology, it is also a concept (often credited to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels), that describes hunter-gatherer societies as traditionally being based on egalitarian social relations and common ownership.^[1] A primary inspiration for both Marx and Engels were Lewis H. Morgan‘s descriptions of “communism in living” as practised by the Haudenosaunee of North America.^[2] In Marx’s model of socioeconomic structures, societies with primitive communism had no hierarchical social class structures or capital accumulation.^[3]

Needless to say, even those that do not believe in the Bible benefit when they embrace the same economic values.

Just look at what has happened to China.  In the years following the communist revolution, millions died from starvation.  But once the Chinese moved in a more capitalist direction and started promoting private ownership, private enterprise, individual responsibility and hard work, China became a global economic powerhouse.

The Bible also places a very high value on family.  In the Ten Commandments we are told to honor our fathers and our mothers, and throughout the rest of the Torah we are given very specific instructions about how families are to operate.

Today, much of the population has rejected the Bible and the traditional family unit is relentlessly mocked.

As a result, divorce rates have soared, birth rates have fallen to historic lows, suicide rates are at all-time record highs, alcohol and drug abuse is out of control, sex outside of marriage is rampant, and the streets of our major cities are filled with violence.

Study after study has shown that kids that come from broken homes are far more likely to commit violent crimes, they are far more likely to get involved with drugs, and they are far more likely to end up impoverished. And societies that do not value the traditional family unit also tend not to value the lives of those that are the most vulnerable…

In ancient Greece and Rome, individual human life had no particular value in and of itself. The Spartans left weak children to die on the hillside. Infanticide was common, as it is common even today in many parts of the world. Fathers who wanted sons had few qualms about drowning their newborn daughters. Human beings were routinely bludgeoned to death or mauled by wild animals in the Roman gladiatorial arena. Many of the great classical thinkers saw nothing wrong with these practices. Christianity, on the other hand, contributed to their demise by fostering moral outrage at the mistreatment of innocent human life.

In ancient times, child sacrifice was one of the most common ways to get rid of unwanted children. When it was time to make a sacrifice to “the gods”, children that were not wanted were brought and put on the altar.

The same thing is essentially happening today, but we give it a different name. We call it “abortion”, and it is done behind closed doors in pristine clinical settings.

Since 1973, more than 1.5 billion children have been slaughtered worldwide.  So what makes us any better than any of the ancient civilizations that regularly sacrificed their unwanted children?

The Bible very strongly denounces child sacrifice, and it also very strongly denounces the various forms of sexual immorality that are exploding in our society today.

For decades, the left has been pushing us to accept one form of sexual perversion after another. As societal sentiment has shifted, the right has eventually gone along with most of the changes that have been happening.

But God has not changed. He sees everything that is going on, and He has warned us over and over again to change course. If we choose to keep going down this path, we will be cursed and the consequences will be extremely bitter.

Michael Snyder

It’s amazing to watch the news headlines, and then to watch how people ALLOW those headlines to control them.

For 3.5 years, it was “President Biden” this and “President Biden” that. All but a few of us took him seriously. Then, one day, all of a sudden, the media didn’t like “President Biden” any longer. All of a sudden they started to comment on — and shape headlines around the fact — that he was a demented goofball incapable of completing a sentence, in most cases. The media was done with him.

President Trump, not surprisingly, soared in the polls — even polls rigged by the news media itself.

Now, all of a sudden, “President Biden” is OUT and Kamala Harris is “IN.” All of a sudden, almost overnight, she’s beating Trump in the polls (we’re told). And just now, I saw a headline reading, “Donald Trump having problems with his memory.” Based on what? It doesn’t matter. It’s in the media headlines — so it must be true.

I’m not sure which is worse: a manipulative, fraudulent (and low-IQ) bunch of propagandists masquerading as journalists — or a mass portion of the population ready to believe them.

If that mass portion of the population is in the majority, even the fraud won’t matter. We’re toast. And it’s “President Kamala Harris” to escort America into its final twilight.

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Democrats are offended that Republicans are pointing out Vice President Kamala Harris was a diversity hire. What do they have against diversity, equity, and inclusion? Shouldn’t they be celebrating those concepts? It was the left, after all, that conceived and implemented DEI programs around the country.

“Kamala Harris faces racial ‘DEI’ attacks amid campaign for the 2024 presidency,” explains ABC News. “Incredibly insulting,” says Susan Rice. “Right-wing media figures call Kamala Harris a ‘DEI’ candidate as race-based attacks ramp up,” writes the perpetually confused Oliver Darcy. “Is it 1951?” asked “Morning Joe.”

Sort of, yes. In 1951, many white Americans still judged their fellow citizens by immutable characteristics like the color of their skin. Today, a new group of Americans are doing the same thing, including journalists who stopped using “black” as a descriptor of a color and then started capitalizing the word to strongly suggest that skin color defines a person. Scarborough should ask his good buddy Al Sharpton, a big-time defender of DEI, how all of it works.

Let’s face it, the only reason mentioning DEI is considered a “racial attack” by the left is because DEI is a racist policy. The anger over the Kamala accusation is a tacit admission that race- and sex-based hiring practices degrade a person’s accomplishments and career. If that is true of the vice president, it is surely true of the millions of minority women and men toiling to make it out in the real world.  

Democrats are going to spin this by arguing that it is factually incorrect to contend that Harris was picked because of her gender and color. “The argument coming from Republicans is Harris — who had served 13 years as DA + AG before 3.5 years in the Senate — was a DEI hire for Biden, while JD Vance — who wrote a bestseller, worked in venture capital briefly & has been in the Senate 18 months was picked because of his résumé,” argued CNN Senior Reporter Edward-Isaac Dovere.

No, that’s not the argument. The argument is that Biden decided to, or was pressured into, picking a black woman by Democrats in 2020. He promised to do it. He bragged about doing it. All Dovere had to do was search his own website to find the evidence.

“Joe Biden Says He Is Considering Four Black Women To Be His Running Mate,” a 2020 CNN headline explained — not four of the “most qualified” people. “Joe Biden Pressed Again To Name A Black Woman As His Running Mate,” read a headline in The Washington Post.  “Pressure Grows On Joe Biden To Pick A Black Woman As His Running Mate,” said an NPR headline, right under the words “America Reckons With Racial Injustice” — written a little more than three years after Barack Obama finished his eight-year tenure as the most powerful man in the world.

It was clear that Kamala Harris wasn’t the meritocratic choice, not even among the other 2020 Democrat Party presidential contenders. Her campaign didn’t even make it to Iowa. Her senate career was undistinguished. Her polling was atrocious. She was unable to run a campaign or keep her staff.

Of course, I’m not naïve. Harris isn’t the first candidate who’s been picked, fully or in part, because of her background, personal appeal, and physical characteristics. Vance is Trump’s veep pick because he allegedly strongly appeals to the forgotten Rust Belt “working man,” not because he’s the most accomplished person in America. One suspects he would admit as much.

Now, none of this means that many African Americans and Hispanic kids don’t often have to overcome failing schools, poverty, and other obstacles — just as other groups have in the past. (Harris is not one of these people, by the way.) This puts them at a serious disadvantage. So, let’s fix (or better yet, dismantle) the public school system and welfare state that break apart families and undermine opportunity — and stop punishing other Americans who have earned their opportunities.

Should GOP attack Harris over her hiring a good campaign attack. No. But, in the end, if you don’t want your preferred candidate being called a DEI hire, stop bean-counting people by their color and sex.

David Harsanyi, The Federalist

Criminals use and then turn on each other.

Biden got what he deserved. So will the next puppet.

None of them possess values, virtue or principles.

They are all truly scum, with no redeeming merits at all: A pack of rabid parasites devouring each other — poised to devour us all, and our great country.

Kamala didn’t earn it. She didn’t have to struggle through primaries, like Trump did twice and like even Obama did, in 2008. She’s just annointed. She’s a DEI candidate. Like Biden, her newfound status has nothing whatsoever to do with any sort of achievement, even as a socialist hack. She’s there to be NOT Trump. And NOT white. And to be a woman (even though her platform includes the claim there is no such thing as gender.)

Insanity and irrationality are not, ultimately, practical. But especially since 2020, irrationality has made tremendous headway in America. How long can it last, and how far will it go? What will hitting bottom look like, if it ever comes? There seems no end to the institutionalized lunacy.

If China and/or Russia don’t make their military moves on America under President Kamala, they never will.

as Kathy Kelly Carter wrote on Facebook:

“Will ANY Democrat replaceing Biden change policies?????
Will they switch to policies that stimulate business & jobs growth?
Will they restart the energy engine that drives national security, energy security, cost of goods, food, services???
Will they re-secure our border and stop the flow of illegals, crime, human trafficking and cartels, fentanyl????
Will they change their policies of weak appeasement to foreign countries???
Will they stop making us the world’s piggy bank???
Will they stop the insane policies of defunding police and stop the policies of rogue DAs NOT prosecuting criminals???
Will they stop giving illegals free housing, medical, food…while denying our citizens and communities and veterans resources???
A DIFFERENT DEMOCRAT IS NOT GOING TO CHANGE A THING FOR YOU, YOUR FAMILY,YOUR COMMUNITY.”

I guess all the RINOs, libertarians and “Objectivists” who voted for Biden will now vote for Kamala!

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If I wanted to destroy the black community, I would become a democrat.

I would feminize black men. I would promote transgenderism & sterilization.
I would sponsor crime bills – knowing they would disproportionately impact the black community — to take black fathers away from their children.
I would put abortion clinics in the black community & follow in the footsteps of Margaret Sanger.
I would push for complete government dependency & make everyone a slave to the system.
I would raise taxes to turn black homeowners into renters.
I would not clean the streets. I would allow crime to get out of control to push businesses and grocery stores out of black neighborhoods.
I would allow for open borders. I would let illegal aliens flood the country and procreate, while the black community aborts their babies.
I would allow the flow of drugs into the country. I would give out needles, push for drug use, & then punish such abuse.
I would lock up black men for committing crimes, but reward illegal aliens with freedom.
I would use race as a weapon to divide & keep the black community down.
I would disarm the black community and confiscate their ability to protect themselves.

When you see it — and when you realize what the government has done and is doing to the black community — there’s no going back.

If I wanted to destroy the black community, I would vote democrat.

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Kamala Harris’ political history proves that putting her in power is a bad move that hurts Americans..

The powers that be decided this week that despite her disastrous approval numbers and long history of unpopularity among Democrat voters, Vice President Kamala Harris will take President Joe Biden’s place as the blue party’s presumptive 2024 candidate.

Here are 30 reasons why Harris, whether through Biden’s resignation or the upcoming election, would make a terrible president.

1. She Covered Up Biden’s Cognitive Decline..

Harris had a front-row seat to President Joe Biden’s mental and physical deterioration but never said a word. In fact, she routinely issued statements indicating Biden was fit enough to stay president.

2. She’s Sympathetic to Pro-Hamas Demonstrators..

Harris believes the pro-terrorist activists taking over college campuses, occupying highways, and defacing military cemeteries are merely “showing exactly what the human emotion should be.”

3. She Refuses to Oppose Abortion Until Birth..

Harris famously refused to say which abortion limits she supports in a September 2023 sitdown with CBS’s Margaret Brennan.

4. She Shirked Her Duties as Border Czar..

Biden named Harris as border czar in 2021, but it took her months to visit ground zero of the record-breaking invasion her administration incentivized. The Border Patrol chiefs responsible for securing the border also confirmed that Harris never spoke with them.

5. She Also Put Other Countries’ Borders Before Her Own..

Harris traveled thousands of miles away from the U.S. border invasion she was tasked with handling to deliver “peace and security” to the borders of Ukraine, which “is a country.”

6. She Knowingly Spread the Border Patrol Whipping Lie..

Harris claimed she saw “horrible” footage of Border Patrol agents whipping illegal border crossers, but a U.S. Customs and Border Protection investigation found no evidence that the horseback unit used their reins to strike migrants.

7. She’s Wildly Unpopular..

One of Harris’ most notable accomplishments is receiving the worst vice presidential rating in the history of modern polling. Her abysmal job approval ratings have only continued, often ranking worse than Biden’s, and do not suggest that she’s up to the task of taking over the presidency.

8. And Disliked by Her Staff..

A whopping 92 percent of Harris’ staff left in her first three years as vice president.

9. She’s out of Touch..

While arguing against voter ID laws, Harris claimed that it’s “almost impossible” for rural Americans to make a photocopy.

10. She’s a Bad Speaker..

Harris has tried to come off as inspirational, but her speeches and public addresses are often riddled with jumbled, off-script chattering or unintelligible babble that rivals Biden’s incoherence.

11. She Praised the Persecution of Lifesaving Pregnancy Centers..

Harris used the presidential podium to cheer on Democrats for “taking on rightly the crisis pregnancy centers.”

12. She Supported Bailing Out 2020 Rioters.

Accused rapists, repeat offenders, and rioters alike benefitted in June 2020 when Harris encouraged her social media followers to donate to a bail fund dedicated to those arrested for their months-long, $2 billion siege of cities like Minneapolis. The vice president later lied about her involvement in the money-raising scheme.

13. She Dodges Questions About Defunding the Police..

During the peak of Black Lives Matter calls to defund the police in 2020, Harris refused to say whether she supported defunding law enforcement. Instead, she championed meeting the “dire need for mental health resources.”

14. She May Have Plagiarized Her Go-To Childhood Story..

Harris loves to tell a story about asking for “fweedom” from her stroller at a civil rights march. That supposed childhood memory, however, suspiciously resembles one Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. told Playboy in 1965.

15. She Supports Race-Based Wealth Redistribution..

During her short-lived presidential campaign in 2020, Harris debuted plans for a $100 billion home-ownership subsidy for black families she claims should be repaid for “generations of discrimination.”

16. She’s a Gun Grabber..

Harris threatened during the 2020 Democrat primary debate to take “executive action” on guns if Congress did not meet her demands by passing “the most comprehensive background check policy we’ve had.” After taking office, Harris claimed no one is “trying to come after your guns” as the Biden administration and Democrats prepared to do just that.

17. She Wants to Raise Taxes..

During the 2020 vice presidential debate, Harris proudly promised the Biden-Harris White House would repeal a bill that prevented a $4 trillion increase in taxes.

18. She Wants to Ban Fracking..

“There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking,” Harris said during a 2019 CNN town hall.

19. She Voted Against Protections for Born-Alive Babies..

Harris failed infants in 2019 when she voted alongside other Democrats against legislation that would compel doctors to give babies born alive after botched abortions the same level of care other humans receive.

20. She Wants to Strip Americans of Their Health Insurance..

During a CNN town hall forum in 2019, Harris said she wanted to eliminate all private insurance, which would strip millions of Americans of their health coverage.

21. Yet She Wants Taxpayer-Funded Health Care for Illegal Border Crossers..

“I am opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education or public health, period,” Harris told CNN’s Jake Tapper in 2019.

22. She Proudly Enabled the Jussie Smollett Race Hoax..

Harris called the staged hate crime an “attempted modern-day lynching.” She did not apologize even after Smollett was found guilty of felony disorderly conduct and making false police reports.

23. She Socializes With Notorious Antisemites..

Harris claimed Rev. Al Sharpton, who has a history of inciting race riots and anti-Jewish pogroms, has “spent his life fighting for what’s right and working to improve our nation.” She also spoke at a summit with ties to the former Women’s March Chair Tamika Mallory, who stepped down after praising Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

24. She Demanded Twitter Deplatform Trump..

In 2019, Harris called on then-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to suspend Donald Trump’s account because she deemed his tweets incendiary.

25. She Sponsored Legislation That Would Codify Abortion Through All Nine Months..

As a senator, Harris was a proud co-sponsor of the original version of the “Women’s Health Protection Act,” which sought to codify abortion through all nine months of pregnancy.

26. She Compared Border Security to the KKK..

As a senator, Harris asked the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement if he “saw any parallels” between the KKK and his agency.

27. She’s Into AOC’s Socialism..

When pressed about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s proposed 70 percent tax hike in 2019, Harris called the freshman legislator “fantastic” and praised her for “challenging the status quo.”

28. She’s Openly Anti-Catholic..

As a senator in 2018, Harris smeared Brian Buescher, a nominee for the U.S. District Court in Nebraska, for his affiliation with the famous Catholic fraternal organization Knights of Columbus and its historically pro-life views.

29. She Aided the Character Assassination of Brett Kavanaugh..

Harris not only publicly declared her belief in Christine Blasey Ford’s evidenceless allegations against Justice Brett Kavanaugh but used her position as senator to interrupt and smear the Trump nominee numerous times during his 2018 confirmation hearings. Even after Kavanaugh officially joined the high court, Harris claimed his confirmation was a “denial of justice for the women of this country.”

30. She Prosecuted Journalists for Doing Their Jobs..

As California attorney general, Harris prosecuted journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt for exposing Planned Parenthood for trafficking the body parts of aborted babies. Part of her prosecution involved a raid on Daleiden’s house, where investigators allegedly seized footage further implicating the abortion giant and handed it over to Harris’ abortion campaign donors.

Jordan Boyd, The Federalist

Will Democrats take the plunge with Kamala or go for someone else, like a Gavin or even a “drafted” Michelle?

Democrats have a dilemma because they must honor identity politics, but they also must have a candidate credible to people who follow politics superficially, through the establishment media. Biden lost credibility in that context, and he instantly became toast. Kamala is vulnerable to that same thing because she is just so incredibly goofy, inarticulate, and incoherent, despite their now trying to sell her as a “tough prosecutor” — in California, where they don’t prosecute many real criminals. Their main advantage is they can repeat all the cheating from 2020 and 2022 with no accountability (Democratic governors in all the swing states); and they can create national chaos on election “day” via a green or medical emergency, or perhaps a new war, and use the chaos to blur the results in their favor (as during COVID). They are truly capable of anything, with no limits, boundaries or morals of any kind. Not your daddy’s Democrats!

Biden was the most improbable, incompetent president in American history. His election (riddled with unverified, subjectively counted mail-in ballots) was the most questionable, by far.

But the media covered for him; the media made him. Until they were done with him, he was surviving in power, despite a record worse than Jimmy Carter’s. When the media turned on him, Biden was done. But not a moment before.

Most people don’t think through the issues required to maintain a democracy, much less a republic (we ARE the latter, or were.) The media does our thinking for us, at least most of us. “Thinking” is too flattering a word. It’s more production value than anything of substance.

The 99.99 percent leftist media carried Biden, making him President against all odds. They can do it with Kamala too. Don’t be naive, and don’t be complacent. Trump may prevail, or he may prove a quixotic figure. The final judgment lies with the perspective of the future. For now, we are poised for an epic battle between good and evil.

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Elon Musk was spot-on when he slammed Boeing for focusing on woke DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) goals instead of  prioritizing product quality and safety. 

“People will die due to DEI,” he stated, in a post on X. 

Adding, Musk asked a rhetorical question in another tweet: 

“Do you want to fly in an airplane where they prioritized DEI hiring over your safety?”

True enough, in a 2023 report on “Global Equity, Diversity & Inclusion”, Boeing admitted the following: 

“Our goal was to achieve diverse interview slates for at least 90% of manager and executive openings. We exceeded that target with 92% of interview slates being diverse, resulting in 47% diverse hires at the management and executive levels.”

“DEI really means ‘division, exclusion, and indoctrination,’ and it is wrong.” – Gov. Ron DeSantis

The same report added:

“Across Boeing, we continue to make progress on our commitments as we advance representation and inclusion company wide. We know diversity must be at the table for every important decision our company makes – every challenge we face, every innovation we design. Equity, diversity and inclusion are core values because they make Boeing — and each of us individually — better.”

Do DEI metrics make Boeing products safer for air travel passengers? Well, just look at what happened to Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, a Boeing plane. 

A Reuters article on the plane incident reported:

“The incident happened as the jet climbed following takeoff from Portland, Oregon, en route to Ontario, California, on Jan. 5. As Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 reached just over 16,000 feet, the panel tore off from the side of the jet, leaving a neat, refrigerator-sized, rectangular hole in the aircraft. The pilots immediately signaled that the plane would have to land. The aircraft landed safely with all 171 passengers and six crew on board. Several passengers suffered injuries. The plane had been in service for just eight weeks.”

So much for DEI policies at Boeing.

Likewise, sources at UCLA’s medical school told the Washington Free Beacon about the disastrous consequences of DEI “racial preferences” on medical schools. An excerpt from the Washington Free Beacon article reads: 

“So when it came time for the admissions committee to consider one such student in November 2021—a black applicant with grades and test scores far below the UCLA average—some members of the committee felt that this particular candidate, based on the available evidence, was not the best fit for the top-tier medical school, according to two people present for the committee’s meeting. Their reservations were not well-received. When an admissions officer voiced concern about the candidate, the two people said, the dean of admissions, Jennifer Lucero, exploded in anger. ‘Did you not know African-American women are dying at a higher rate than everybody else?’ Lucero asked the admissions officer, these people said. The candidate’s scores shouldn’t matter, she continued, because ‘we need people like this in the medical school.’” 

Unsurprisingly, admissions officers with a bit more common sense were alarmed at Lucero’s angry outburst. 

Faculty members with firsthand knowledge of the admissions process say it has prioritized diversity over merit, resulting in progressively less qualified classes that are now struggling to succeed”. 

“We are not consistent in the way we apply the metrics to these applicants,” one such official penned in an email seen by the Washington Free Beacon. “This is troubling.”

Adding, the official mused: 

“I wondered, if this applicant had been [a] white male, or [an] Asian female for that matter, [whether] we would have had that much discussion.”

Disturbingly, the Washington Free Beacon cited one former member of the admissions staff  as saying: “We want racial diversity so badly, we’re willing to cut corners to get it.”

“I have students on their rotation who don’t know anything,” one member of the admissions committee told the Washington Free Beacon. “People get in and they struggle.”

Elaborating on the situation at UCLA, the Washington Free Beacon article said that “faculty members with firsthand knowledge of the admissions process say it has prioritized diversity over merit, resulting in progressively less qualified classes that are now struggling to succeed”. 

It can be presumed that these “struggling” students are already treating patients, or will eventually do so. “Woke” medical schools are producing many graduates with subpar proficiencies, at the expense of patients. 

Such DEI ludicrosity has been mimicked by the American Secret Service. Kimberly Cheatle, the present head of the Secret Service, seems to be enamored of DEI ideologies. 

“We need to attract diverse candidates, and ensure that we are developing and giving opportunities to everybody in our workforce, and particularly women,” Cheatle said in an interview with CBS News. 

In light of the recent shooting of former president Donald Trump, observers have noted how one female Secret Service agent who was meant to protect Trump at that time was shorter, while others seemed to be struggling to get at their holsters. Notably, Daily Wire commentator Michael Knowles sarcastically pointed out that prioritizing DEI and hiring women “known for their physical strength” in the Secret Service “is a great way to get presidents assassinated”. 

“Secret Service agents are obviously no longer expected to be real life Jason Stathams, who can go any place, any time, under any conditions. No more leatherneck, battle hardened, super fit guys required. Too much ‘toxic masculinity’.”

Based on an article by Brussels Signal, Cheatle has amended the fitness criteria for candidates applying to the Secret Service. The article stated that “one only needs to be able to do fourteen push-ups, twenty sit-ups, and run (or walk, if tired) a mile and a half in under 20 minutes”. 

Furthermore, the same Brussels Signal article noted: 

“Secret Service agents are obviously no longer expected to be real life Jason Stathams, who can go any place, any time, under any conditions. No more leatherneck, battle hardened, super fit guys required. Too much ‘toxic masculinity’.”

In remarks to The Washington Stand, Lt. Col. (Ret.) Bob Maginnis, Family Research Council’s senior fellow for National Security, stated: 

“At the Pentagon, the Biden officials make decisions that were previously based on merit, physical fitness, and a record of outstanding performance. However, Biden officials discard merit-based decisions in favor of diversity, equity, and inclusion and mission success is thrown away. As a result, especially when physical fitness and sheer strength are indicators of mission success, the Biden people have purposely diminished our readiness to perform critical functions.”

During his speech in Milwaukee at the recent l Republican National Convention, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis condemned leftist DEI initiatives in various American institutions: 

“They stand for DEI, which really means ‘division, exclusion, and indoctrination,’ and it is wrong. They mandated that you show proof of a COVID vaccine to go to a restaurant, but they oppose requiring proof of citizenship to cast a vote,” DeSantis went on, highlighting the absurdity of leftist obsessions with skin color and “gender” rather than merit and capabilities. 

Hopefully, leftists won’t kill themselves in the process of implementing their DEI ideologies as well. 

Angelina Tan, Remnant Newspaper

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It has happened. Two conclusions seem inevitable. First, that we are looking at a second Trump presidency, barring an act of God. Second, that between now and November lie four months of relentless identity politics.

Welcome to the American election 2024, Donald Trump vs Kamala Harris edition. With Joe Biden succumbing this evening to the ravages of age and Covid, he used whatever judgment he had left to nominate Harris as his heir and successor.

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History will not view that decision kindly. For one thing, Harris is one of the least popular politicians to have ever occupied a post this senior. As I pointed out three weeks ago, a poll last year granted her the ignominious status of worst vice president this millennium.

In recent weeks, her popularity has bumped along marginally ahead of the Presidents, but still well into double-digit negatives, and about five points behind Donald Trump. Is it any wonder? A quick Google reveals that her stock-in-trade is that most toxic political currency, the gaff. She has quipped bafflingly about coconut trees, clapped along enthusiastically to a song attacking her in Spanish, sung The Wheels On The Bus idiotically to the cameras to a tune that nobody recognised, and repeated her gnomic motto – “what can be unburdened by what has been” – no fewer than 62 times in speeches, providing fodder for an eye-wateringly effective Republican attack ad this month.

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On top of this, her record is yet to be tested. Take, for example, her checkered history as a self-proclaimed “progressive” prosecutor. In her 2019 campaign tract, she wrote: “America has a deep and dark history of people using the power of the prosecutor as an instrument of injustice. I know this history well – of innocent men framed, of charges brought against people of colour without sufficient evidence, of prosecutors hiding information that would exonerate defendants, of the disproportionate application of the law.”

Her words were later used to describe her own failings. Her worst moment probably came in 2010, when 600 drug-related cases were voided after her office failed to disclose key information about the mishandling of evidence to defence attorneys. She made things worse later that year by opposing a San Francisco initiative to legalise marijuana – 1,560 people were jailed for marijuana offences during her tenure as attorney general – then later supporting decriminalisation legislation.

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Similarly, she opposed the softening of minimum mandatory sentences, but rolled out a criminal justice plan while running for president that proposed ending them.

The list goes on. Harris has also been criticised for her handling of wrongful convictions, resisting DNA testing that may have exonerated suspects and failing to disclose crucial evidence that may have tipped the scales against the accused in sexual abuse cases.

Ironically enough, she was also criticised on race grounds, rejecting demands from civil rights activists to investigate cop shootings in Los Angeles and San Francisco in the wake of the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson in 2014, resisting legislation that mandated body cameras for all police officers a year later, and prosecuting parents of truanting pupils, despite complaints that this hit poor black people hardest.

All this was some time ago, it is true. But when you’re running for president as a Democrat candidate, this is the sort of record that will be scrutinised by the Republicans and the press, and subsequently the electorate. They will also pick over her attitude towards Israel, which has been hostile to say the least, when 80 per cent of American voters support the Jewish state.

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How will she explain the fact that she insisted that the Rafah operation was impossible just weeks before it was successfully carried out by the IDF? How will she explain her blatant Jew-baiting when she demanded an immediate ceasefire, then allowed the longest pause to extend before adding caveats about Israel’s security? To put it another way, Donald Trump will eat her for breakfast.

Before that expected fate becomes a reality, however, we have a carnival of identity politics to look forward to. There were several far more popular and competent candidates than Harris for the position, such as Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, or the Governor of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer, who has the significant modern political advantage of XX chromosomes.

There was also Josh Shapiro, the “openly Jewish” Governor of Pennsylvania, a divided swing state, who is one of the most popular politicians in America, winning praise from even from Republicans after his dignified and compassionate response to the attempted shooting of Trump and the death of firefighter Corey Comperatore.

These figures now must content themselves with a possible vice president slot on the ticket. Why? None of them are well-known amongst the electorate, it is true. But also, none of them is black.

For this is 2024 America, and for the Democrats at least, race matters more than at any point since the civil rights movement. And not in a good way. With pressure mounting on Biden to step down, Harris’s team let it be known that it would be “offensive” if he were to name a white successor, even – it was implied – if that person was of far greater competence than her.

Remove race from the equation, and Harris is a terrible pick for VP. Add it to the mix and she is still a terrible pick, but one that is far more difficult to avoid without igniting a row over identity politics. The Democrat party of today is composed of a sensible wing in mortal combat with a radical fringe, led by the lunatic Alexandira Ocasio-Cortez and her fellow members of the “squad”. If Biden would have allowed his successor to be elected at the upcoming party conference, the radicals would unite with the trade unions and may seize the nomination.

Such a disaster is likely avoided by the appointment of Kamala Harris. But who will she choose for her running-mate? Someone from the moderate, Biden tradition or a sacred cow from the radical Left?

Frankly, at this point it doesn’t matter at all. Biden has screwed America. Arise, President Trump, and God help us.

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