Former President Barack Obama is reportedly preparing to throw a large, lavish, celebrity-filled affair at his $11.75 million mansion in Martha’s Vineyard for his 60th birthday, sources told The Hill.
Dozens of guests will reportedly gather at the Obamas’ mansion, which they purchased in 2019. According to The Hill, Oprah Winfrey and George Clooney are among the gilded guests — both of whom happened to campaign for Obama before or during his presidency.
“It’s going to be big,” said one source told The Hill.
US television personality Oprah Winfrey addresses a rally for Illinois Senator and US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama 03 February 2008 at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. (VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)
Other A-listers and friends of the Obamas have reportedly been invited to celebrate his birthday on August 4, though the source did not name them.
Obama has a history of hosting lavish birthday bashes surrounded by adoring friends — no matter what circumstances are plaguing the outside world. On his 50th birthday in 2011, he attended a gala celebration in Chicago — it was the Dow’s worst day since the 2008 financial crisis.
US President Barack Obama smiles before presenting actor Tom Hanks with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, during a ceremony honoring 21 recipients, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, November 22, 2016. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
“Attendees paid $35,800 a ticket to bask in the light of their Messiah, and to mingle with musical stars Herbie Hancock and OK Go,” Breitbart News previously reported.
Celebrities like “Jay-Z and Stevie Wonder, actor Tom Hanks, comedian Chris Rock and basketball legends Charles Barkley and Grant Hill” were guests at the party.
This year, guests are being asked to have a Chinese coronavirus test before attending the soiree.
The party is planned despite warnings from fretting health officials and politicians who say coronavirus cases have nearly doubled in New York State this past week.
Pad fit for a president! Barack and Michelle Obama buy the $11.75 million seven-bedroom Martha's Vineyard home they fell in love with after renting it last summer The 29-acre estate includes a 6,900sq ft house with seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms Built in 2001, it also has a pool, chef's kitchen, outdoor fireplace, two guest wings, and a large sundeck Last year, the Obamas sold their summer home on the island for $15 million, having spent seven out of eight summers there while Barack was President By JAMES GORDON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 02:09 EDT, 5 December 2019 UPDATED: 06:54 EDT, 5 December 2019
The Obamas are likely celebrating as they have closed the deal on a massive seven-bedroom mansion on Martha's Vineyard.
The former President and First Lady received the keys to their new mega-home which occupies 29 acres of beachfront property.
The couple have been eyeing up the property since staying there last summer after it was put on the market by Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck.
Barack and Michelle Obama have reportedly bought a sprawling estate in Martha's Vineyard from Boston Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck
Outside the main house, there's 29 beachfront acres, a pool (pictured), chef's kitchen, outdoor fireplace, and two guest wings. Grousbeck had the property on the market for four years, first listing it in 2015 for $22.5 million
There are stunning views of the ocean from this rotunda in the home which plenty of light allowed to stream in
The home was on the market for $14.85 million, and features seven-bedrooms and nine bathrooms inside the 7,000sq ft main residence
A map showing the location of the Martha's Vineyard estate in the state of Massachusetts
The house was originally listed for $14,850,000 but TMZ reports the Obamas managed to obtain a huge discount and secured the 6,900sq ft home for $11.75 million.
The enormous property has a swimming pool, outdoor fire pit and vaulted ceilings.
The are also two wings which run from the main house which is perfect to host guests.
Outdoors, the land comes with its own private beach, a boathouse and has plenty of land if the Obama's were hoping to expand.
'It's a remarkable home on an absolutely gorgeous setting,' listing agent Tom Wallace previously said 'privacy is a key feature of the property.
The Obamas won't be the first Presidential family to buy up on the Massachusetts Island. Jackie Kennedy-Onassis kept a home there until her death in 1994, and the summer resort was popular with the whole Kennedy dynasty
Grousbeck's former home, (pictured) which was built in 2001, has huge amounts of land if the Obamas were hoping to expand
The outdoor deck has a decent sized lap-pool and plenty of space for sunning, swimming and hosting
The sprawling lawn and incredible water views make for the perfect family compound setting for generations to come
The home features two fire places, and is white throughout and is surrounded by emerald-green lawns
As well as the modern family kitchen (pictured) the homes also features a chef's kitchen
The spacious and dramatic living room space boasts vaulted ceilings with exposed steel beams and a focal point stone fireplace
The couple have been eyeing up the property since staying there last summer after it was put on the market
You would feel clean just walking into this all-white bathroom... just one of nine to choose from in the mega-mansion
'It certainly has the capacity to expand to more of a compound. One could build two additional full-size properties if one wanted to create a generational meeting place' he added.
Their new home is on the edge of Edgartown Great Pond, with views of the Atlantic Ocean.
It features predominantly white interiors but is surrounded by emerald-green lawns.
Michelle and Barack will have a lot of space to relax, as the master bedroom opens up to a sundeck, while their daughters will have plenty of room to enjoy long summer breaks there.
Michelle and Barack will have a lot of space to relax, as the master bedroom (pictured) opens up to a sundeck
The impressive master suite leads out to a private sundeck with views of the gardens and ocean beyond
One of the seven bedrooms can sleep four with bunkbeds perfect for sleepovers when Sasha and Malia are back home
A games room comes with a white billiards table and beautifully varnished wooden floors than run throughout the home
There are 2 wings and an impressive master suite with fireplace and private sundeck
The home oozes relaxation with everything decorated in soft shades of white and gray
Malia, 21, is currently studying at Harvard University, while Sasha, 18, has just Sidwell Friends School in Washington D.C.
The couple appeared to fall in love with the mansion last summer when they were renting it for their summer vacation.
Now, life can truly feel like a permanent holiday as the Presidential couple have now bought the home for themselves.
Last year, the Obamas sold their summer home on the island for $15 million. They are no strangers to the island having spent seven summers there while Barack was President.
The Obamas won't be the first Presidential family to buy up on the Massachusetts Island.
Jackie Kennedy-Onassis kept a home there until her death in 1994, and the summer resort was popular with the whole Kennedy dynasty.
A spiral staircase links the floors of the home with a beautifully stone flagged floor
On of the nine bathrooms is pictures here which appears to be gleaming in pristine white tiles and marble tops
BAN LAWYERS, LIKE FELONS, FROM ELECTIVE OFFICE. THERE IS NO CRIMINAL CLASS MORE CONTEMPTUOUS OF LAWS THAN THESE PARASITIC LAWYERS WHO GAME IT TO PUT IT INTO THEIR BOTTOMLESS POCKETS!
There is much more in the Daily Mail article about Obama's destructive arrogance, sense of entitlement, greed, and ego, as well as his obscene rants about Trump.
JUDICIAL WATCH’S TEN MOST CORRUPT LIST
President Barack Obama: During his presidential campaign, President Obama promised to run an ethical and transparent administration. However, in his first year in office, the President has delivered corruption and secrecy, bringing Chicago-style political corruption to the White House. JUDICIAL WATCH
“Attorney General Eric Holder's tenure was a low point even within the disgraceful scandal-ridden Obama years.” DANIEL GREENFIELD / FRONTPAGE MAG
During his presidency, Obama bragged that his
administration was “the only thing between
[Wall Street] and the pitchforks.”
In fact, Obama handed the robber barons and outright criminals responsible for the 2008–09 financial crisis a multi-trillion-dollar bailout. His administration oversaw the largest redistribution of wealth in history from the bottom to the top one percent, spearheading the attack on the living standards of teachers and autoworkers.
The Republican staff of the US House Committee on Financial Services released a report Monday presenting its findings on why the Obama Justice Department and then-Attorney General Eric Holder chose not to prosecute the British-based HSBC bank for laundering billions of dollars for Mexican and Colombian drug cartels.
“This was not because of difficulties in securing indictments or convictions. On the contrary, Attorney General Eric Holder told a Senate committee in March of 2013 that the Obama administration chose not to prosecute the big banks or their CEOs because to do so might “have a negative impact on the national economy.”
“ Judicial Watch’s records request is designed to expose how California state legislators are wasting tax dollars to take care of another corrupt politician – Eric Holder – under the guise of resisting the rule of law on immigration and other matters, ” stated Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton. “ His record at the Clinton and Obama Justice Departments demonstrates a willingness to bend the law in order to protect his political patrons. ”
Elizabeth Warren says she wants to get rid of
corruption, but not once have I heard her
complain about the massive corruption during
the Obama years or at her precious CFPB, so
she really doesn't care. JACK HELLNER
And it all got much, much worse after 2008, when the schemes collapsed and, as Lemann points out, Barack Obama did not aggressively rein in Wall Street as Roosevelt had done, instead restoring the status quo ante even when it meant ignoring a staggering white-collar crime spree. RYAN COOPER
A new book savagely attacks Obama from the left
By Andrea Widburg
Something has changed lately on the left. Democrats should be riding high now because they control the federal government: they've got the White House; the House; the Senate (sort of, with the filibuster the fragile thread keeping them from total control); and a Supreme Court that, while ostensibly conservative, has a closet leftist chief justice and two remarkably cowed new "conservative" justices. Nevertheless, they are an angry, fractious party. Last week, the knives came out for Kamala Harris. This coming week, a new book launches a scathing attack on that former secular saint, Barack Obama.
Since 2008, Barack Obama has been the Democrat party. He was the president who could do no wrong. Every political attack against him was discounted as "racism." He was more charming, more intelligent, more emotionally attuned, more effective, and more just everything good than any man who had ever occupied the White House, including Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln combined. (All of them were racists.)
When Trump came along, the Democrats and their media shills weren't merely offended by his politics. In many ways, the gravest offense was that this loud, combative, conservative-governing orange man dared to step into a White House made hallowed by the presence of a man once hailed as a " magic negro " or another crucified Jesus .
Both Biden and Kamala got reverential treatment, but it was nothing like Obama. Biden was grandfatherly, experienced, kind, and stable, and he'd learned his White House politics under Obama's aegis. Kamala was brilliant, multi-racial and multi-cultural, female, and compassionate. Kamala was sold especially hard because everyone understood that Biden, no matter what he said, wasn't in it for the long haul. She was obviously going to be the real president, even before Biden inevitably withdrew and she got sworn in.
But as noted, something's been happening with the Democrats. They should be a jubilant party joyously imposing Marxism on the land, but, instead, they're angry, and they're starting to turn on each other. Just last week, Edward-Isaac Dovere, a longstanding author at The Atlantic, published a nasty attack on Kamala, although one phrased in polite terms.
Through anecdotes and quotes, Dovere reveals that Kamala is anti-social, socially awkward, bland, ineffective, unfocused, platitudinous, uninteresting, hostile to reporters, paranoid (she has an enemies list), and unable to hold onto her employees. None of this surprises me. My decades living and working in the Bay Area meant I'd heard rumors for years saying everything that Kamala offered politically came through her relationship with Willie Brown, a brilliant California politician. Without Brown, she's nothing.
For The Atlantic, one of the most politically loyal outlets in America, to publish such this attack on someone who should be a Democrat darling was surprising. More surprises arrived on Friday when the Daily Mail revealed that Edward-Isaac Dovere is back, this time with a new book describing Obama as a "parasite" sucking the Democrat party dry and leaving it with nothing. Although the book is ostensibly about the 2020 campaign, it's Obama who springs into focus:
Barack Obama was a 'parasite' on the Democrat party who sucked it dry for his reelection and left it saddled with debt, a new book claims.
The former President used the party structure as a 'host' for his 2012 campaign for a second term then treated it like a 'husk' to be discarded with $2.4million in debt.
Obama's aloof demeanor and professorial detachment masked the reality that he was full of 'self-assured self-regard.'
He oversaw the 'pilfering of talent, money, resources, and purpose' away from the Democratic National Committee to his own reelection team.
[snip]
In a scathing portrait, Dovere, a journalist with The Atlantic, claims that Obama was so arrogant he believed that if he could have run in 2016 for a third term he could have beaten Trump.
Obama's ego was on full display on the golf course and he bragged that his Tweet sent after the Charlottesville far right rally in 2017 was liked more than anything Tweeted by Donald Trump.
[snip]
He writes that Obama's hubris peaked in 2015 when the Supreme Court upheld Obamacare, his signature healthcare law, and ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment requires all states to grant same-sex marriages.
[snip]
In actual fact, despite his 'beatification among Democrats', Obama 'inadvertently helped usher in what followed him', meaning Trump.
There is much more in the Daily Mail article about Obama's destructive arrogance, sense of entitlement, greed, and ego, as well as his obscene rants about Trump. As far as I'm concerned, the damage he did to the Democrat brand is yet more evidence that America supported Trump, not Biden, in 2020.
The book is Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump , and it may end forever the Democrats' Obama worship.
Image: Arrogant Obama . YouTube screen grab.
The moral decay of the US comes in part from the media
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/09/the_moral_decay_of_the_us_comes_in_part_from_the_media.html
By Jack Hellner
When President Obama was elected, he pledged
to remake America. It is a shame he did so
much damage to the fabric of America in eight
short years.
The Obama/Biden was the most corrupt, criminal
administration any of us has ever seen, yet the
media cheered or covered up all the abuse of
power, obstruction of Justice and other crimes.
Pollak: Barack Obama Himself Was the Threat to the Rule of Law AP Photo/Hassan Ammar
JOEL B. POLLAK
10 May 2020 3860
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Former President Barack Obama warned Friday that the “rule of law is at risk” because former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn will no longer be prosecuted.
Obama’s remarks, leaked from a private conference call with members of something called the “Obama Alumni Association,” show a breathtaking lack of self-awareness.
Obama himself was the threat to the rule of law, both during his presidency and as it ended.
As Breitbart News has previously noted , Obama routinely violated the Constitution’s separation of powers, challenging America’s constitutional foundation in a way no president before him had done in peacetime.
“I’ve got a pen, and I’ve got a phone,” Obama said , threatening to use — and abuse — his executive power — rather than allow the constitutional process of legislation to proceed.
Here are just a few of Obama’s more egregious violations:
· Refusing to submit the Iran deal to the Senate for ratification
· Declaring the Senate in recess when it was not ( struck down , later, in a 9-0 Supreme Court decision)
· Defying the courts when told to renew oil and gas activity in the Gulf of Mexico, or to stop giving amnesty to illegal aliens
· Threatening the Supreme Court after Citizens United , and before the Obamacare decision
· Altering Obamacare’s statutory deadline unilaterally
· Creating the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) programs after admitting it was unconstitutional
· Trying to wipe out the coal industry
Moreover, the Flynn investigation itself undermined the rule of law by targeting a man the government knew was innocent of any crime. Similarly, Obama’s own effort to protect Hillary Clinton, and his administration’s attempt to undermine Trump through false allegations of “Russia collusion,” also violated the rule of law.
Last week it emerged that it was Obama himself who told then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates about Flynn’s lawful conversation with the Russian ambassador, which set the investigative wheels in motion.
Obama’s phony protest suggests he is feeling desperate as attention turns, finally, to his own role in the affair.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). His new book, RED NOVEMBER , is available for pre-order. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak .
ONE THING IS CLEAR ABOUT OBAMA, FOR EIGHT YEARS HE WORKED TO SABOTAGE AMERICA'S BORDERS FOR MORE DEM VOTING ILLEGALS AND DID FUCKING NOTHING FOR BLACK AMERICA!
Dreams from His Stalinist A Marxist regime and separate black nation within America.
Mon Jul 26, 2021 “Frank Marshall Davis, 81, of Honolulu , died Sunday in Honolulu,” read the obituary in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin . Davis, who passed away on July 26, 1987, “was a renowned black poet and former newspaperman.”
The Kansas State graduate, recipient of a Julius Rosenwald Fellowship in poetry, authored “Black Man’s Verse,” and two other widely anthologized volumes of poetry “reprinted in public schools and college textbooks for general use throughout the United States.” Frank Marshall Davis was managing editor of the Atlanta Daily World , executive editor of the Associated Negro Press, and “taught the history of jazz music at the Abraham Lincoln School” in Chicago. An impressive profile, but there was more to the man.
In Livin’ the Blues: Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet , released by the University of Wisconsin Press in 1992, Davis proudly notes his inclusion in Who’s Who in the Midwest and Who’s Who in America . Davis is also candid about joining the Communist Party USA, a white-led party whose members took a loyalty oath to defend the all-white Communist dictatorship of the Soviet Union. Davis joined the Party after the Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939, a time when many others left, never to return.
In 1948, the Party shipped Davis from Chicago to Hawaii, not yet a state and a target of Stalin’s post-war expansionism. Frank wrote for Honolulu Record , a publication backed by the CPUSA and the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union, headed by Harry Bridges, another Communist and Soviet agent. The CPUSA organization in the islands was formidable but lost the battle when Hawaii became the 50th state on August 21, 1959. The Party kept Frank on location, a decision of great significance.
In 1995, eight years after his death and three years after the publication of his memoirs, Frank showed up in Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance , by Barack Obama, formerly known as Barry Soetoro after the Indonesian student, Lolo Soetoro , his mother Ann Dunham married in 1965. As the Dreams author explains, Frank “would read us his poetry whenever we stopped by his house, sharing whiskey with Gramps out of an emptied jelly jar,” and he warns young Barry about women. “They’ll drive you to drink, boy,” Frank would say, “and if you let ‘em, they’ll drive you into your grave.” When Barry heads off to college, Frank gets more serious.
“They’ll train you to manipulate words so they don’t mean anything anymore. They’ll train you to forget what it is that you already know. They’ll train you so good, you’ll start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that shit.” And so on.
In a September 20, 1995 show on Cambridge Municipal Television, the Dreams author talked up the poet Frank Marshall Davis. The audience was not curious about Frank’s prediction that racist America would never let him run anything. As it turned out, Barry got good jobs and gained election to the Illinois state senate and U.S. Senate.
For his part, Frank disappeared from the audio version of Dreams from My Father and did not appear in the author’s The Audacity of Hope , published in 2006. By then, the dreamer had his eyes on the prize. In November, 2008, he proclaimed, “we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America .” Five days later, the Hawaiian-born African American became the 44th president of the United States.
Four years later, Frank surfaced again in The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis, the Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor by Paul Kengor, professor of political science at Grove City College. As Kengor discovered, Frank earned a place on the FBI’s security index and his political views bore startling similarities to those of the 44th president.
“Davis constantly bashed Wall Street, big oil, profits, GOP tax cuts, the wealthy and ‘millionaires,’” Kengor told Frontpage . “He called for taxpayer funding of ‘universal healthcare’ and ‘public works projects.’ He targeted General Motors. He championed Russian foreign policy, especially at the expense of countries like Poland. I could go on and on. The similarities are chilling.” In a 1946 column, Davis bashed “sacred institutions” and “the American way of life,” which Kengor found similar to Frank’s warning in Dreams from My Father about “equal opportunity and the American way and all that shit.”
Despite the revelations, the president gained a second term and the fundamental transformation he promised would soon be apparent. Americans would not get the health care they wanted, only the care the government wanted them to have. The FBI and Department of Homeland Security would ignore Islamic terrorism and target Americans who retained loyalty to the Constitution, limited government, and their religion.
The president would choose his successor and deploy the FBI and DOJ to keep her in the race (Operation Midyear Exam) and monitor her opponent. When the people voted in Donald Trump, the president deployed the upper reaches of the FBI, DOJ and intelligence community to attack Trump, the Crossfire Hurricane operation. After Trump’s inauguration, Frank Marshall Davis showed up again in Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama , released in May of 2017.
According to author David Garrow, Dreams from My Father , though it mentioned actual people and events, was an historical fiction, not an autobiography or memoir, and the author was a “composite character.” One of the actual characters was Frank Marshall Davis, whose “Communist background plus his kinky exploits made him politically radioactive.” That explained why the Stalinist disappeared from Dreams and failed to show up in The Audacity of Hope .
Frank Marshall Davis makes no appearance in Michelle Obama’s Becoming and is missing from Believer , by “Obama’s Narrator ” David Axelrod, and The World As It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House, by Iran deal promoter Ben Rhodes. Davis is also absent from the composite character’s A Promised Land
The Communist Party USA believed that blacks were not real Americans and as Paul D’Amato noted in the International Socialist Review , “In 1928, the Comintern declared that Blacks in the U.S. constituted a nation, and they called for ‘self-determination in the Black Belt.’ The Black Belt was a swath of territory cutting through the South known for its rich, dark soil, in which rural Blacks at that time were concentrated in large numbers.”
Likewise, in “Communism’s African-American Soviet Republic,” Paul Kengor charted how in 1930 the Communist International (Comintern) called for creation of a Soviet-directed and controlled “Negro Republic” among America’s Southern states. In recent years, the concept of a separate black nation has been making a comeback.
“Actually, I think that it is fairly easily for African-Americans to form a Black nation within the United States,” professor Christian Davenport of the University of Michigan told the Atlanta Black Star in 2016. “There are cults and militias as well as private corporations that do whatever they want behind their closed doors.” The most high-profile militia on the current scene is Black Lives Matter, championed by the composite character president.
For the Marxist BLM, as for the CPUSA, the United States is a racist, imperialist entity that does nothing but oppress blacks. According to BLM, American police officers do nothing but hunt and kill black people. After the death of George Floyd, the composite character said that “to bring about real change , we both have to highlight a problem and make people in power uncomfortable,” code for the violence that BLM inflicted across the nation.
Black Lives Matter supports “Lift Every Voice and Sing” as the “black national anthem.” The National Football League proclaims “we believe Black Lives Matter ” and will play the black anthem before NFL games. Joe Biden allows U.S. embassies around the world to fly Black Lives Matter flags and banners. So it’s now official policy.
Under critical race indoctrination now taking place in the schools and the military, Americans are taught that they are racists because of the way they were born, regardless of anything they ever said, did, or believed. All problems of black people are due to the moral lapses of those oppressive people of no color. So if the BLM squads should make any of the pale people uncomfortable by looting their stores, torching their synagogue or church, or attacking them in the street or at home, that’s only what’s necessary “to bring about real change,” the fundamental transformation promised in 2008.
What is going on in 2021 is the dream of Frank Marshall Davis, the black Stalinist who supported a Soviet-ruled “Negro republic” in America. This is what happens when a composite character whose founding narrative is an historical fiction becomes the most powerful man in the world
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2021/06/anarchy-in-america-racist-divisionist.html
That is why the two paramilitary wings of the Democrat party -- the “white” Antifa and the “black” BLM -- perfectly understand each other. After all, the race is not a problem. The main goal is the revolution (THAT WILL PUT BARACK OBAMA INTO THE WHITE HOUSE FOR LIFE).
Another Kengor article describes the Chicago communists whose younger generation include David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and Barack Hussein Obama. Add the openly Marxist, pro-communist Ayers , and you have many of the key players who put Obama into power." Karin McQuillan
We are not far from the time when the U.S. will have a Latino majority and will, regrettably, be a one-party state. Apparently, that is what Democrats want. JAMES DELMONT
Critical Race Theory’s Marxist Roots And its existential danger to our political freedom and unalienable rights.
Thu Jun 10, 2021
Bruce Thornton
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Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
The expanding influence of Critical Race Theory and its Black Live Matter “praxis,” as Marxists call applied theory, has raised concerns about its incoherent pronouncements and illiberal aims. The origins of this ideology is an important question, for CRT has nothing to do with civil rights, or improving black lives or making them “matter.” It’s about increasing its practitioners’ power in our institutions in order to “fundamentally transform” the United States from a country of ordered liberty and limited government, to a “soft” despotic, intrusively regulated technocracy at best, or an illiberal socialist tyranny at worst.
CRT has its roots in Marxism, as one of the founders of BLM has bragged. And, like the Soviet version of Marxism, BLM’s growing influence over our social, educational, political, and corporate institutions––already compromised by a century of progressive ideology, itself a kissing-cousin of Marxism––is an existential danger to the Constitutional safeguards of our political freedom and unalienable rights.
The first Marxist feature is the dubious habit of thought often called the “hermeneutics of suspicion.” This intellectual grift also defines postmodernism in general, and ideological movements like poststructuralism, radical feminism, and postcolonialism, all of which are fellow travelers of Marxism.
This method of analysis assumes that the reality of all social, political, artistic, and other cultural phenomena cannot be known from the public words and actions of social and political institutions, but rather must be found in the deeper, subterranean ideologies of the power elite that runs them. This “ruling class” shapes political and institutional “discourses” and “knowledge regimes”––the “epiphenomena,” as Marxists call them–– in order to benefit their tyrannical, selfish interests by oppressing others, whom they keep imprisoned in a “false consciousness” that hides from them the true agents and causes of their oppression.
Hence for CRT, all the progress in race relations––the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Brown vs. Board of Education, the growth of the black middle class, the elimination of legal segregation, and the increase in black office-holders including the presidency––are mere “epiphenomena” that have not eliminated the underlying “systemic racism.” According to CRT, this occult “racism” keeps racism alive and accounts for all the “disparate impacts” that deny “equity” (i.e. the equality of result) to blacks and other minorities, but benefit and reward “white privilege” and “white supremacy” at the expense of black well-being.
Correcting that “false consciousness,” especially “white fragility,” the denial of white “privilege” and “racism,” explains the efforts to include CRT in school curricula from pre-school to university, and in training programs for employees of corporations and the federal and state government agencies so that they interpret their functions from the CRT perspective. The goal is to expose and reform these institutions’ true oppressive nature that is obscured by their duplicitous, self-serving public claims and motives. Hence the “1619 Project,” which has revolutionized and deformed the discipline of American history from grade school to university.
This retooled Marxism is clearly preposterous, an abstract, jargon-ridden verbal concoction for which there is no empirical or historical evidence or truth. But “truth,” “objectivity,” “reason” and “evidence” for a Marxist are meaningful and true only in terms sanctioned by Marxist ideology, and the sophisticated “woke” whose “consciousness” has been “raised” above the doltish, bourgeois hoi polloi who think, like the chained captives in Plato’s cave, that the shadows dancing on the walls of their politico-social prison are reality.
“Racism” today, then, is not about what it originally meant to the progressive “scientific” racists in the early 20 th century––that every member of a lower race is by nature inferior to every member of the superior one. Now “racism” is a function of “white power” and “white privilege,” and its purpose is to shape our culture and political discourse––words like “equality” and “freedom” and “tolerance”–– so that they both camouflage and perpetuate that power. So no oppressed person, meaning any “person of color” defined by superficial physical characteristics, can be “racist.” Only “whites,” who because of those historically oppressive institutions enjoy “white privilege” no matter their social class, are “racists.”
The next offshoot of Marxism informing CRT is Critical Theory, a creation of the Frankfurt School and Cultural Marxism that transferred the Marxist struggle from the proletarians on the factory floor, to the broader cultural institutions whose false narratives of truth, beauty, and freedom had to be destroyed. Hence the “critical” in CRT. It does not mean a method of reasoning and analysis that brings us closer to the truth, but rather an undermining of America political, social, cultural, and economic norms, structures, and “discourses” in order to expose the supposedly ugly truth of economic and legal oppression fomented by conservatives, traditionalists, and patriots. Or as Marx himself put it, “a weapon” to use against an “ enemy , which it wants not to refute but to exterminate .”
Thus the “long march through the institutions” by devotees of Cultural Marxism, most notably in the universities, for higher education teaches not just the next generation of academics, lawyers, and other professionals who form the country’s cognitive elite; but also those who end up in state colleges where they instruct and certify the future teachers in K-12 schools, thus capturing minds when they are young and impressionable. Again, that’s why revising traditional curricula, even more so than controlling opinion magazines, websites, pop culture, or books, is the most important BLM tool for dismantling the bourgeois, capitalist, Judeo-Christian culture that defines Marxism’s most powerful and hated enemy: the American political order comprising liberal democracy, a free-market economy, and individual rights that transcend political power.
Cultural Marxism, then, attacks “false consciousness” as expressed in our political institutions and discourse, especially the Constitution and its unalienable rights like the freedom of speech. The First Amendment is founded on the idea that a “free marketplace of ideas” expressed by many diverse minds, will respect the citizens’ diversity of viewpoints and opinions, as well as provide a greater public stock of ideas for citizens and lawmakers. But an illiberal, totalitarian mentality despises all true diversity, especially that of speech. Possessing the revealed Leftist truth hidden from the “unwoke,” outfits like BLM have declared open war on the First Amendment.
In doing so they are again refurbishing a Marxist idea. Consider Cultural Marxist Herbert Marcuse’s 1965 essay “Repressive Tolerance,” which argued that the protection of free speech thwarts the cause of “social justice.” Hence his conclusion “that the realization of the objective of tolerance would call for intolerance toward prevailing policies, attitudes, opinions, and the extension of tolerance to policies, attitudes, and opinions which are outlawed or suppressed.”
This means an Orwellian redefining of “tolerance” itself, the sine qua non for free speech, in order to liberate its “true” meaning, which of course comes from Marxism: “In other words, today tolerance appears again as what it was in its origins, at the beginning of the modern period––a partisan goal, a subversive liberating notion and practice. Conversely, what is proclaimed and practiced as tolerance today, is in many of its most effective manifestations serving the cause of oppression.” Any speech that does not advance the Leftist revolution is false and wicked, and should not be tolerated or protected.
From this idea comes the rationalization for the attacks on First Amendment rights that have been going on in universities for decades, but now permeate institutions such as journalism, corporations, publishing, K-12 schools, and even the military. Indeed, some of the top brass in the Pentagon are practicing the “cancel culture” that assaults our unalienable right to speak our minds in the town square, one of those freedoms the military exists to defend.
Critical Race Theory, then, is not some new “higher nonsense” of the sort our universities cook up. It’s the spawn of Marxism and its offshoot Cultural Marxism. It has used ideas like “hermeneutics of suspicion,” “false consciousness,” and “repressive tolerance” to foment racialist division and conflict that they can leverage for more political, social, and cultural power. This has been the modus operandi of Marxism from its beginning, especially in Marxism’s “late phase” when the revolution will not be waged by the industrial proletariat, but by the privileged, affluent tech-oligarchs, corporate boards, media pundits, university faculty and administrators, politicians, think-tank habitues, and federal agencies, all of whom have lost their nerve in the face of a historically, intellectually, and morally incoherent and destructive movement that has littered history with mountains of corpses.
And the old enemy of freedom will win, unless, as Winston Churchill said to Parliament after the Munich debacle, “By a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we rise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.”
Is Mass Immigration Killing Two-Party Democracy in the U.S.?.... ISN'T THAT BARACK OBAMA'S AGENDA?
https://spectator.org/is-mass-immigration-killing-two-party-democracy-in-the-u-s/?utm_source=E-mail%20Updates&utm_campaign=780be61435-
It used to be that legal immigrants would divide their votes once they became citizens. But that was then.
by JAMES DELMONT
Few seem willing to admit it, but mass immigration appears to be killing democracy in the United States . Two-party democracy withstood the unprecedented mass immigration of the 1870-to-1914 period because the European immigrants tended, for one reason or another, to vote for both parties. That is not true today. In the 19th century, newcomers voted along religious lines to a remarkable degree: Irish Catholics 80 percent Democrat and all Catholics 70 percent Democrat. But after the Civil War, Germans and Scandinavians, heavily Lutheran, voted Republican, as English Canadian and British immigrants did. In the famous turning-point presidential election of 1896, urban working-class immigrants tended to vote Republican, organized by the active and powerful political machines in big cities like New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago. Very few in the mass migration of that day moved to the American South, which remained solidly Democrat. The two-party system survived throughout most of the country as both parties had urban political machines that provided social services to immigrants.
The present massive wave of immigration that began in the 1970s, largely as a result of the extended family clause in the 1965 Kennedy immigration reform bill, has had remarkably different results. The new immigrants are voting overwhelmingly Democrat: Hispanics 2 to 1, Asians about 70 percent (all election figures from the Pew Research Center ). The children of Asian immigrants voted 82 percent for Barack Obama in 2008. In addition, black Americans who used to vote Republican now vote 90 percent or more Democrat, as do black immigrants.
California not long ago was a state Republicans could win. Two presidents, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, came from California and major offices such as governor were regularly won by Republicans. Today California is a permanently blue state, with its wealth of electoral votes. Its U.S. senators, governor, and most of its members of Congress are Democrats. Democrats have a supermajority in both houses of the Legislature and have changed the constitution so that party primaries have been banned in favor of “open” primaries in which Republicans are likely not to finish higher than third, thus not making the November ballot. In the last two U.S. Senate races, 2016 and 2018, voters were offered Democrat No. 1 and Democrat No. 2 as choices. Unsurprisingly, Democrats won both elections, and one of the winners, Kamala Harris , is now running for president.
The demographic tidal wave of mostly
Third World immigrants who vote heavily
Democrat is now running legally at a
million a year, an all-time record, and is
turning red states purple and then
blue.
Arizona is going, Colorado and Georgia are going, Virginia is gone , North Carolina is tipping, and Florida is a dead heat but the immigration trends (south-of-the-border Latinos and Puerto Ricans) are against the GOP. Even Texas is drifting leftward as Latinos bid to become a solid majority there. There is the myth, of course — offered by members of the Bush family — that Hispanics will see the light and begin voting like Indiana Republicans. In fact, Hispanics have voted Democrat since 1960, and they went for Obama in 2008 by 67-31 percent and for Hillary Clinton in 2016 by 66-28 percent. So much for the Bush theory. Asians voted 77 percent for Obama in 2012 and 79 percent for Clinton in 2016. So much for the two-party system.
Furthermore, the much-quoted estimate of 11 million undocumented aliens in the U.S. may be woefully short of the truth. A new study by Yale University suggests the true number of illegals is probably in the 20-to-30 million range, more than enough to kill the two-party system at one stroke, if they eventually receive the citizenship amnesty promised by Democrats.
The two-party system in the U.S. has been healthy since 1796, when Thomas Jefferson took on John Adams in the presidential contest. They met again in 1800 in a more famous showdown, by which time the earliest political parties had formed and taken on ideological hues that still exist today. The ideal situation for a healthy democracy and a workable two-party system is a stable population. If the population is stable (and growing slowly), each party has an opportunity to persuade the public of its merits. That opportunity is disappearing quickly because the population is not stable.
We are not far from the time when the U.S. will have a Latino majority and will, regrettably, be a one-party state. Apparently, that is what Democrats want.
James Delmont, author of The Great Liberal Death Wish , has been published in Financial Times, USA Today, the Baltimore Sun, the Weekly Standard, the Saturday Evening Post, the Daily Caller, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the Omaha World-Herald, and other publications. He has taught at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, the University of Minnesota, and other institutions.
According to Attorney General Xavier Becerra, once on Hillary Clinton’s short list as a running mate, more than 10 million illegals reside in California. When the illegals get driver’s licenses, the DMV automatically registers them to vote. More than one million “new” voters were registered by 2018, but Padilla won’t say how many actually voted and refuses to comply with federal probes of voter fraud. The Democrats give illegals welfare, taxpayer-funded health care, in-state tuition and protect them from deportation through sanctuary laws. In return, the illegals vote for Democrats and the ballot measures the want. The illegals function as the Democrats imported electoral college, canceling the vote of legitimate citizens and legal immigrants, blocking reform and keeping Democrats in power. Maybe that is what Michael Bloomberg had in mind when he called California “ a great example for the rest of this country .”
Meanwhile, in 2020, Democrats don’t want the people to select the president. They want their party to remove the president from office, and some never-Trump Republicans will doubtless go along. As President Trump says, we’ll have to see what happens but one thing remains clear.
Under any Democrat running for office, particularly Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, you wouldn’t get what you want. You would get only what the government wants you to have. That was the plan of POTUS 44’s chosen successor, and that’s why Democrats have never accepted the voice of the people in 2016.
Valerie Jarrett: ‘We Should Make It as Easy as Possible to Vote,’ Including Expanded Absentee Ballots
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Appearing Wednesday on MSNBC, former President Barack Obama senior advisor Valerie Jarrett said the federal government should make it “as easy as possible” for people to vote as Democrats continue to push a vote-by-mail option ahead of the 2020 election.
A partial transcript is as follows:
SUSAN DEL PERCIO: When we last spoke, you were talking about increasing voter enrollment, getting people registered to vote, participation. Now we see that there’s a big drive for registering and voting by mail. How concerned are you that the president is looking to privatize the post office, limit the amount of service that is possible for the post office with all of this effort on mail-in voting?
VALERIE JARRETT: Very concerned, in a word. And I think as, you know, earlier this week, Michelle Obama announced “When We All Vote,” an organization she formed, non-partisan organization, I might add, a call on Congress to ensure that we have the ability to have absentee ballots. We shouldn’t have to choose between our health and exercising our most fundamental right to vote.
I think we should make it as easy as possible for people to vote, and unfortunately, we have seen in history now in our country where states have passed laws, practices have been put in place to suppress the vote. We should be doing just the opposite. Technology is our friend. The ability to do absentee balloting is something we could fund and have in place if we get ready right now.
THE OBAMA MARXIST-MUSLIM BANKSTER-FUNDED THIRD TERM for life: "Cold War historian Paul Kengor goes deeply into Obama's communist background in an article in American Spectator, "Our First Red Diaper Baby President," and in an excellent Mark Levin interview . Another Kengor article describes the Chicago communists whose younger generation include David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and Barack Hussein Obama. Add the openly Marxist, pro-communist Ayers , and you have many of the key players who put Obama into power." Karin McQuillan
"We know that Obama and his inner circle have set up a war room in his D.C.
home to plan and execute resistance to the Trump administration and his legislative agenda. None of these people care about the American people, or the fact that Trump won the election because millions of people voted for him."
Patricia McCarthy / AMERICAN THINKER.com
Democrats Allow Communists to Infiltrate Their Party Across the Nation
https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2019/06/obamas-lackey-judge-blakey-hands-obomb.html
“Obama’s new home in Washington has
been described as the “nerve center” of the
anti-Trump opposition. Former attorney
general Eric Holder has said that Obama is
“ready to roll” and has aligned himself with
the “resistance.” Former high-level Obama
campaign staffers now work with a
variety of groups organizing direct action
against Trump’s initiatives. “Resistance
School,” for example, features lectures by
former campaign executive Sara El-Amine,
author of the Obama Organizing.”
“Professor Paul Kengor has extensively researched the Chicago communists whose progeny include David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett , and Barack Hussein Obama. Add the openly Marxist, pro-communist Ayers, and you have many of the key players who put Obama into power.”
We are all victims of the Obama cabal’s collusion with Russia – President Trump’s voters and all Americans who believe in our free and fair election process.
BARACK OBAMA: Was he America’s first closet Communist president?
https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2019/05/karin-mcquilan-barack-obama-and-his.html
Obama choose Communists and Marxists for the highest, most powerful positions in our land, including his closest political advisors, and his head of the CIA. These facts are not in dispute. Most are openly admitted by the people in question, as necessary damage control. Our press chooses not to report them.
Professor Paul Kengor has extensively researched the Chicago communists whose progeny include David Axelrod , Valerie Jarrett , and Barack Hussein Obama. Add the openly Marxist, pro-communist Ayers, and you have many of the key players who put Obama into power.
President Obama agrees: Abysmal failure should be rewarded with promotion. He's leaving no shady banking buddy behind. MICHELLE MALKIN
Democrats Allow Communists to Infiltrate Their Party Across the Nation
https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2019/06/obamas-lackey-judge-blakey-hands-obomb.html
OPERATION OBOMB:
DESTABILIZE AMERICA TO LAY GROUNDS FOR A MUSLIM-STYLE DICTATORSHIP 
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