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WATCH: Suspect Allegedly Throws Molotov Cocktail into Brooklyn Deli, Alleged Suspect Arrested
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New York City fire marshals have arrested a suspect in connection to an alleged arson involving a Molotov cocktail in Brooklyn on October 30.
The incident occurred at NR Rock Deli in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area in Brooklyn, according to the New York Post.
The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) responded to a 7:53 a.m. call regarding the fire and once on scene, the firefighters quickly brought the situation under control, the FDNY stated in a Facebook post.
Fire marshals arrested alleged suspect Joel Mangal, 38, in connection with the alleged arson, according to the department.
Joel Mangal allegedly threw the Molotov cocktail after getting into a dispute with a staff member at the deli. (FDNY)
FDNY and law enforcement sources say the alleged suspect had an argument with staff, according to the Post.
Surveillance footage from inside the building allegedly shows the incendiary device flying through the door before landing in the corner of the deli area. The alleged Molotov cocktail burst on impact, sending flames over the deli counter’s glass and some surrounding shelves.
Footage from outside of the deli, which the FDNY obtained, allegedly shows the arsonist lighting the first Molotov cocktail and hurling it into the building as two on-lookers jump back in shock. The video allegedly shows the suspect going for a second cocktail and setting it ablaze. As the suspect allegedly prepares to throw the device, a good Samaritan whacks it out of the suspect’s hand. The incendiary device then hit the sidewalk, bursting into flames, the video allegedly shows.
Two deli workers ran out of the store following the alleged attack, and one was treated for injuries that were non-life-threatening, authorities said, according to the New York Post.
The FDNY provided comments on the incident from the city’s Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro in the department’s Facebook post:
Fortunately, there was no loss of life here. The investigative work from the Explosives and Arson Task Force comprised of our Fire Marshals, the NYPD, and ATF, led to the timely arrest of this suspect who threatened the safety of our communities by using such a cruel and destructive device. FDNY will continue to work alongside local, state and federal partners to bring to justice those who use fire as a weapon against New Yorkers.
Mangal was “charged with Arson, Assault, Reckless Endangerment, Criminal Possession of a Weapon, and Criminal Mischief,” according to the FDNY. Brooklyn’s District Attorney’s Office will prosecute the case.
STAGGERING CORRUPTION AND HOMELESSNESS IN MEXICO'S SECOND LARGEST CITY OF LOS ANGELES
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Corruption? In Los Angeles?
A city councilman faces federal charges for behavior that’s become all too common.November 2, 2021California
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Federal prosecutors recently filed a 20-count indictment against Los Angeles city councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas, a career politician who has held various local and state offices for 30 years. The indictment comes three years after the Los Angeles Times reported that the University of Southern California had awarded a scholarship to Ridley-Thomas’s son, Sebastian, and appointed him professor at its school of social work while Ridley-Thomas was completing his term on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. According to filed documents, the FBI alleges that Ridley-Thomas channeled campaign money through the university into a nonprofit run by his son. He is charged with conspiracy, bribery, and mail fraud.
The case is a reminder of just how pervasive corruption is in Los Angeles. That the alleged crimes took place while Ridley-Thomas was on the Board of Supervisors is especially troublesome, given that the role of a supervisor is to oversee the county purse. Ridley-Thomas is the third Los Angeles city councilman to face federal corruption charges in the past two years. Former councilman Mitchell Englander was arrested in March 2020 on charges of obstructing an investigation into gifts he received at casinos and sentenced to 14 months in prison. Three months later, prosecutors alleged that councilman Jose Huizar led a criminal business that included bribery and money laundering and involved several property developers. He has since resigned and is awaiting trial.
The councilman can’t claim that he is a mere public servant seeking to earn a living. In Los Angeles, councilmembers earn nearly $300,000 annually in salary and benefits—more than any member of Congress. Each of the 15 councilmembers has a staff of about 24, also handsomely paid and perked.
Maybe the corruption happens because political power is concentrated in too few hands. Only 15 councilmembers represent a population of 4 million. City attorney Mike Feuer, a declared candidate for mayor in 2022, said that if elected, he would pursue a ballot measure to double the number of city council districts, slash the salaries of each councilmember in half to about $112,000, and cut office budgets in half. His proposal also would reduce from three to two the number of four-year terms a councilmember can serve. Tinkering around the edges, though, probably won’t change the behavior of those who spend their careers for the government. Ridley-Thomas has spent 30 years on the public dime.
Los Angeles political and community leaders have expressed amazement at the corruption allegations against Ridley-Thomas, one of the city’s best-known and longest-serving officials. Councilman Joe Buscaino, another mayoral candidate, tweeted that he was “shocked, upset and disgusted” by the indictment: “These accusations are ruining the entire reputation of the LA City Council, and therefore Ridley-Thomas should resign immediately from his position.” Congresswoman Karen Bass, also planning to run for mayor, says that everyone deserves a fair trial but has removed all pictures of Ridley-Thomas on her website. Some speculate that Bass and Ridley-Thomas had discussed a seat-swapping, in which she would run for mayor and he would run for her vacated congressional seat. As for Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti, he has yet to mention the case; no doubt he, too, is shocked.
What about the Los Angeles Times, which broke this story three years ago? Last year, attorney and community leader Grace Yoo, a first generation Korean-American who had spent the better part of 20 years advocating for under-represented groups and individuals, challenged Ridley-Thomas for city council to represent the tenth district. Yoo ran on a reform platform, directly challenging Ridley-Thomas’s conduct in office. Yet the Times editorial board endorsed Ridley-Thomas, praising his leadership: “For this open seat, no other candidate in the race can beat Ridley-Thomas’ experience, knowledge and long list of accomplishments.”
All this means that corruption in L.A. is unlikely to stop. A lawyer representing the councilman said that Ridley-Thomas “was shocked by the federal allegations leveled against him, and with good reason. They are wrong, and we look forward to disproving them.” But most Angelenos are used to this kind of denial in the face of rising crime, homelessness, and a soaring cost of living.
Ridley-Thomas was arraigned on October 25. A federal prosecutor noted that the case was part of an “ongoing” investigation. Until sweeping reform is enacted, L.A. will continue to round up the usual suspects every time the FBI raids city hall.
IS JOE BIDEN'S MINISTER OF PROPAGANDA AND OPEN BORDERS MARK ZUCKERBERG A GREATER THREAT TO DEMOCRACY THAN JOE BIDEN?
Slate: Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Metaverse’ Is Just a More Efficient Way to Spy on People
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In a recent article, left-wing Slate notes that Facebook’s attempt to rebrand itself as “Meta” and focus on a digital “metaverse” does not change the fact that the company’s primary goal is to collect as much personal information about users as possible. The company promises freedom with its new technology, but according to Slate, it amounts to a “high-tech medical exam.”
In an article titled “What Mark Zuckerberg Really Means When He Talks About the Metaverse,” Slate examines recent comments made by Meta (formerly Facebook) CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the company’s plans for its metaverse project, which Zuckerberg describes as an “embodied internet.”
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Slate writes:
The metaverse, as it is being marketed, is a broad concept that incorporates a lot of the virtual- and augmented-reality schtick of The Matrix and Minority Report. It’s a new world to explore and a new dimension overlaying the old one. Zuckerberg describes it as “a persistent, synchronous environment” that is “going to be accessible across all of our different computing platforms; VR and AR, but also PC, and also mobile devices and game consoles.” It’s clear that Zuckerberg the geek is excited. He sees the metaverse as the next great leap for the internet, analogous to the movement to smartphones and the mobile web. But what’s new here? Don’t we already have Gmail, Fitbit, and Second Life?
One key difference is that this embodied internet entails new sensors monitoring us while we browse, interact, and move about the world—lots of new sensors. Each new generation of Facebook hardware has added more. The heart of all recent versions of the Oculus VR headset is “Oculus Insight,” an A.I. tracking system that uses three types of sensors: sensors tracking the orientation and movements of the headset and controllers, four built-in headset cameras mapping out your room, and LEDs in the controllers tracked by the headset, all of which feed Insight to help it “track your position and environment in real-time with sub-millimeter precision.” Oculus controllers now contain capacitive sensors which finely detect the movements of your fingers. Oculus also integrates with your phone and other devices for heart-rate and fitness tracking. Zuckerberg has hinted at and demoed face- and eye-tracking for future Quest/Cambria models, and recent leaks of the Quest Pro have suggested fingerprint sensors. In the parallel world of augmented reality, Facebook’s new Ray-Ban smart glasses contain cameras for taking photos/videos and a microphone for taking calls. The addition of more sensors and cameras increases the amount of egocentric data that Facebook can collect.
Slate further notes that the idea of the metaverse links the user’s individual body, ideas, and actions to the digital realm in a way that removes any current online anonymity. Slate notes that while Facebook is in control of the metaverse and more VR headsets and camera-fitted Ray-Bans are connected to the company, people are continuing to give up even more of their privacy.
The metaverse, it turns out, is less cryptographic origami and more high-tech medical exam. The metaverse inextricably links the user’s individual, corporeal body and the ideas and actions that person takes. It’s about ever more granularly tracking and defining the individual consumer, down to our subconscious and involuntary reactions. The shocking thing about this is how easily the wow-factor of VR helmets and tricked out Ray-Bans have distracted us from the core, inevitable problem. The more deeply these devices are connected to Facebook’s ecosystem of apps and identity, the more the same old Facebook problems will come straight back to the fore: systematic mass surveillance, development of biased and opaque algorithms, and a general disdain for transparency or accountability. If there were any doubt, Facebook has already begun integrating its core social media services with its VR hardware: It has thoroughly integrated Facebook sign-in for some time and rolled out Facebook Messenger integration into Oculus earlier this year.
Read more at Slate here.
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan or contact via secure email at the address lucasnolan@protonmail.com
PRAY! IS THIS THE LAST DAYS OF THE CORRUPT DEMOCRAT PARTY OF BRIBS SUCKING LAWYERS? - Charles Hurt: Desperation Sets In for Democrats as Terry McAuliffe Train Wreck Campaign Ends
Charles Hurt: Desperation Sets In for Democrats as Terry McAuliffe Train Wreck Campaign Ends
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There is desperation in the waning days of a doomed political campaign. And then there is this Terry McAuliffe train wreck.
From the very start of his quest to return to the Virginia governor’s mansion, Mr. McAuliffe has run a tiresome, entitled and uninspiring campaign. Even his supporters cannot help but notice that he seems old, frumpy and unwell. He gets snippy when challenged — as if the whole effort is beneath him.
But nothing prepared Virginia voters for the sordid spectacle they endured during the final weekend of the campaign.
It was another sad example of Mr. Biden appearing to have no idea where he was or what he was talking about.
As the effort to paint Mr. Youngkin orange proved futile, Mr. McAuliffe got desperate. And when Democrats get desperate, they always play the race card.
They claimed that Mr. Youngkin is some kind of racist extremist, offering not a shred of evidence to support the crackpot theory.
“Extremism can come in many forms,” Mr. Biden bellowed on behalf of Mr. McAuliffe. “It can come in the rage of a mob driven to assault the Capitol. It can come in a smile and a fleece vest.” It was a bitter slap at Mr. Youngkin, who often wears a vest and is always smiling.
These are the most treacherous people, and they play the most rotten politics — especially when it comes to peddling racial hatred.
Remember, it was Mr. Biden who told Black voters in Virginia back in 2012 that Republicans would “put y’all back in chains” if they did not vote for him. Think about the degree of creepy, racist demagoguery required to make such an unhinged charge.
More recently, Mr. McAuliffe’s current running mate admitted to wearing blackface just days after calling on the state’s Democrat governor to resign over wearing blackface. Mr. McAuliffe called on both men to resign for wearing blackface — until he needed them to help him win his next election. These people are sickos.
Now come Virginia Democrats, the desperate McAuliffe campaign — and supposedly the exiled Republicans over at the Lincoln Project — cooking up this sleazy “false flag” scheme to dress people up as racists in white shirts and khakis carrying tiki torches to a Glenn Youngkin event. It all backfired, of course, when the political race actors were exposed as Virginia Democrat operatives working on behalf of the McAuliffe campaign.
The media, meanwhile, are desperately trying to pin the whole thing on Republicans after the Lincoln Project took credit for working with the McAuliffe campaign on the sicko operation. It is worth noting that the longtime political hacks inside the Lincoln Project were driven out of the party by Mr. Trump, which says so much about Mr. Trump’s good judgment and the deranged nature of the former Republicans in the Lincoln Project.
But all of it does raise some serious questions. Now that we know how much Virginia Democrats, Terry McAuliffe and the Lincoln Project love “false flag” operations, where were they the last time race mayhem struck Charlottesville back in 2017 when Mr. McAuliffe was last governor?
Where were they, for that matter, on Jan. 6th?
• Charles Hurt is the opinion editor at the Washington Times.
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Watchdog Hits McAuliffe With Campaign Finance Complaint Over Foreign Money
McAuliffe took $350,000 donation from a foreign-owned company linked to an overseas money laundering probe
A government watchdog group hit Terry McAuliffe with a campaign finance complaint on Friday over a $350,000 donation he received from a foreign-owned company linked to an overseas money laundering probe, according to a copy of the filing obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
The National Legal and Policy Center is asking the FEC to "promptly investigate" whether the contribution to the Virginia gubernatorial candidate violated federal laws prohibiting campaigns from accepting political donations from foreign nationals.
"Terry McAuliffe has a history of accepting foreign contributions. The FEC must fully investigate these serious charges that he accepted $350,000 in illegal foreign contributions for his current campaign," said Washington, D.C. attorney, Paul Kamenar, counsel to NLPC, who drafted and filed the complaint with the FEC.
LycaTel LLC, owned by Sri Lankan-British national Allirajah Subaskaran, gave McAuliffe $350,000 in July, the Free Beacon first reported in early October. The company is a New Jersey subsidiary of Subaskaran’s U.K.-based telecom conglomerate, which boasts a complicated web of offshore businesses and has been the subject of tax-fraud and money-laundering charges in France.
Federal law prohibits campaigns from accepting money from foreign nationals and entities, directly or indirectly, in local, state, and federal elections. While U.S.-based subsidiaries of foreign corporations can contribute, the donation can't be made under the direction of the company's foreign leadership—which legal experts said can be a murky legal distinction.
"This is effectively a really easy way to launder foreign money into the U.S. political process and to avoid the FEC prohibition on foreign nationals making contributions in U.S. elections," Ben Freeman, director of the Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative at the Center for International Policy, told the Free Beacon earlier this month.
LycaTel does not appear to have contributed to previous Virginia campaigns or federal races. In July, the company retained D.C.-based lobbyist Robert Thompson to lobby on "Telecom" issues, according to disclosure records. Prior to that, Thompson had registered as a foreign agent representing Subaskaran as part of a "business expansion within the U.S.A.," according to records filed with the Department of Justice.
Thompson was a lobbyist for the Sri Lankan government from 2013 to 2014, according to disclosure records. Thompson did not respond to a request for comment about his lobbying work.
Subaskaran, through his WWW Holding Company and other entities, owns a globe-spanning web of companies in the technology, media, and gaming sectors, many of them with the word "Lyca" in the names. The Lyca group has clashed with British authorities over allegations of unpaid taxes. French authorities in 2016 raided LycaMobile's Paris headquarters and arrested "19 people suspected of being involved in a money-laundering system implicating Lycamobile and Lycamobile Services," according to a statement from French prosecutors.
LycaMobile couriers in 2015 were photographed transporting tote bags of cash—reportedly as much as $1 million per week—to various post offices around the United Kingdom, according to a series of articles by BuzzFeed. LycaMobile denied any wrongdoing related to the deposits and noted that it operates a cash-heavy business.
LycaTel's operations in the United States have come under scrutiny as well. The Federal Communications Commission in 2011 fined the company $5 million for "deceptively marketing prepaid calling cards" to largely immigrant buyers. The company reportedly claimed the low-cost cards could be used to make "hundreds of minutes of calls" overseas, but buyers were only able to use "a fraction of those minutes for calls, because LycaTel applies a variety of fees and surcharges that quickly deplete the card," said the FCC.
LycaTel did not respond to emailed questions. When reached by phone earlier this month, LycaTel's general counsel said the company had no comment on the donation and was "waiting to hear back from management as to what they want to disclose and what they don't." McAuliffe's campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
McAuliffe and Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin will face off at the polls on Nov. 2.
You can almost smell the flop sweat in the McAuliffe campaign
Former Governor Terry McAuliffe of Virginia has only himself to blame for the loss of his polling lead over Glenn Youngkin in his race to return to the governor’s mansion. In a state that has turned solidly blue and gave a 10-point margin to Biden, running against a political novice like Youngkin should have been a cakewalk. And the polls showed McAuliffe in the lead until he stupidly implied that parents should have no say in their children’s education in the final campaign debate.
Instead of clarifying and walking back his statement, he foolishly claimed that he was taken out of context. Even CNN could see that he had stepped in it:
Since then, as if in a panic, the campaign has done little but demonize Youngkin as a Trump-embracing near Nazi, which is a stretch for the mild-mannered executive who has kept Trump away from his own campaign events.
The attempt at a false flag neo-Nazi tiki torch-carriers embrace of Youngkin late last week was quickly exposed as a put-up job, with many if not all of the actors involved being Democrat activists. The scandal-ridden Lincoln Project alleged a Republican outfit that now works to elect Democrats, claimed responsibility, perhaps to shield McAuliffe and self-identified Democrats from responsibility.
Similarly, non-official entities have been putting out increasingly desperate ads that keep repeating the theme that voters should be scared of Youngkin because he’s a Nazi or something.
When McAuliffe appeared on Meet the Press with Chuck Todd yesterday, you could see the fear in his eyes:
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Todd never raised the tiki torch hoax, following the rest of the propaganda media in pretending it didn’t happen, a sure sign that they knew the dirty trick was a disaster. But toward the end to the 7+ minute interview, McAuliffe reverted to form, blaming parents who show up at school board meetings for the problems in education: “Our school boards were fine…these people started showing up creating such a ruckus”
The entire MTP interview is embedded below, and the Youngkin campaign found no fewer than 15 lies in it:
From the Youngkin campaign:
1. MCAULIFFE’S LIE: "A bill I vetoed … that literally, parents could take books out of the curriculum."
THE TRUTH: According to The Washington Post Fact Checker, McAuliffe “mischaracterized the bills he vetoed. Neither bill would have allowed parents to ‘veto books’ or ‘take them off the shelves,’ according to the bills and the veto statements issued by McAuliffe at the time.”
2. MCAULIFFE’S LIE: "He is closing his campaign on banning books."
THE TRUTH: This is nonsense. Glenn Youngkin is campaigning on the principle that parents matter, and that parents have a right to have a say in their own child’s education. McAuliffe vetoed bills that would have notified parents when their child was assigned sexually explicit material. Why is McAuliffe so dead set against parents simply being notified of what their child is being assigned?
3. MCAULIFFE’S LIE: The bill was an "extreme Republican bill that would allow parents take books off of shelves."
THE TRUTH: According to The Washington Post Fact Checker, “The bills passed by wide margins. Fourteen House Democrats and one Senate Democrat supported the 2016 bill and eight House Democrats and one Senate Democrat supported the 2017 bill. Many of the Democrats were members of the Black caucus.” Again, according to The Washington Post Fact Checker, “Neither bill would have allowed parents to ‘veto books’ or ‘take them off the shelves.”
4. MCAULIFFE’S LIE: "He wants to ban Toni Morrison’s book Beloved. … Now, of all the hundreds of books you could look at, why did you take the one Black female author, why did you do it?"
THE TRUTH: This is part of McAuliffe’s disgusting strategy to use racism as a political ploy. The two bipartisan bills that Terry McAuliffe vetoed do not mention any specific books, and neither has Youngkin. The legislation would not have stopped a single student from having the opportunity to read any book. The bills were supported by many members of the Black Caucus. McAuliffe is essentially calling those Black Democrats racists.
5. MCAULIFFE’S LIE: "If you look at what the bill would be … ultimately it would have led to books being removed from our classrooms."
THE TRUTH: The bipartisan legislation would not have allowed a parent to influence what the rest of the class read or did. According to The Washington Post Fact Checker, “The two bills, passed in 2016 and 2017, were not entirely the same but both would have required notification if a teacher planned to provide instructional material with sexually explicit content. … Under the bills, parents would have been given an opportunity to review the materials upon request. If a parent objected, a student would be given ‘nonexplicit instructional material and related academic activities.’ … At the time of the vetoes, some critics said the law could have led to book banning, but McAuliffe did not raise that objection in his veto messages.”
6. MCAULIFFE’S LIE: "I’m going to raise teacher pay."
THE TRUTH: McAuliffe has been saying this for 12 years. It’s the same promise he made during his first two runs for governor in 2009 and 2013. Isn’t it time for a governor who knows how to get the job done?
7. MCAULIFFE’S LIE: "I’m going to get everybody access to broadband."
THE TRUTH: McAuliffe has been saying this for 12 years. It’s the same promise he made during his first two runs for governor in 2009 and 2013. Isn’t it time for a governor who knows how to get the job done?
8. MCAULIFFE’S LIE: "Critical Race Theory … [has] never been taught in Virginia."
THE TRUTH: “According to a 2015 training program issued by the Virginia Department of Education, state public schools were encouraged to ‘embrace critical race theory’ and ‘engage in race-conscious teaching and learning’ as part of the program’s ‘Culturally-Responsive Teaching and Learning Principles,’”reported The Federalist.
9. MCAULIFFE’S LIE: If Youngkin is elected, on "day one all masks come off and no teachers get vaccinated."
THE TRUTH: Youngkin supports the COVID vaccine and encourages people to get vaccinated, but he would not require teachers be fired with a mandate. Youngkin believes parents and local school districts should make decisions regarding masks. On May 31, McAuliffe told WJLA, “I think it’s up to every school district to make their own decisions on what they want to do.” Youngkin agrees.
10. MCAULIFFE’S LIE: "We have 1,142 children who have been in a hospital here in Virginia" due to COVID.
THE TRUTH: The Washington Post Fact Checker gave McAuliffe 4 Pinocchios for “inflating coronavirus numbers,” saying, “He offers wildly inflated figures for child hospitalizations.”
11. MCAULIFFE’S LIE: "I’m running against an anti-vaxxer."
THE TRUTH: Glenn Youngkin is the only candidate in the race who released a PSA highlighting the fact that the COVID vaccine saves lives, he chose to get the COVID vaccine, and encouraging Virginians to join him in getting vaccinated. Terry McAuliffe appointed the biggest anti-vaxxers in the country to state boards when he was governor.
12. MCAULIFFE’S LIE: "He doesn’t have an education plan."
THE TRUTH: Youngkin unveiled an education plan in July and his Day One Game Plan includes a plan to restore excellence in education and raise teacher pay, rebuild crumbling schools, and invest in special education programs.
13. MCAULIFFE’S LIE: Youngkin will "take money out of public schools, put them into private schools."
THE TRUTH: Youngkin’s Day One Game Plan includes the largest education budget in Virginia history, and his proposal to create at least 20 new public innovation charter schools will provide more choice to families.
14. MCAULIFFE’S LIE: "I put a record investment [into education] last time."
THE TRUTH: This claim was rated “mostly false” by PolitiFact.
15. MCAULIFFE’S LIE: "He’s created hatred and division."
THE TRUTH: The data show Youngkin is bringing people together. Youngkin is winning Independent voters by double digits and Democrats are voicing their support for Youngkin in droves. Meanwhile, McAuliffe is calling members of the Black Caucus racistand his campaign orchestrated a disgusting stunt in Charlottesvillethat disrespected the city and disrespected Virginia.
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What to Make of Terry McAuliffe’s Disgraceful Display in Virginia
The Virginia gubernatorial race was a contest that Democrat candidate Terry McAuliffe was expected to cruise to victory in, and with considerable ease. His rival Republican Glenn Youngkin wasn’t even supposed to be a factor.
But as an ancient Hindu text states ‘“When doom is inevitable, the person’s intellect works against his or her best interest.”
After a series of major gaffes, McAuliffe is now trailing behind Youngkin in a recent Fox News Poll among likely voters in Virginia. Youngkin’s lead is now eight points which is outside the poll’s margin of sampling error.
Among the reasons for this fall is McAuliffe’s preposterous statement “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”
Also, a Youngkin advertisement that featured a mother who successfully waged a legal battle to remove a violent and sexually explicit novel from the school curriculum was branded as a "racist dog whistle." by McAuliffe. That didn't go over too well with voters, either.
Overall, McAuliffe is beginning to look desperate and consequently lackluster.
Things took a turn for the worse yesterday when the disgraced anti-Trump group the Lincoln Project attempted to orchestrate a hoax that involved five individuals dressed up as white supremacists expressing support for Youngkin in a bid to repel Virginia's voters. Among these ‘white supremacists reluctantly standing before Youngkin’s campaign bus was a black man and what appeared to be a woman.
The motives behind this disgraceful and amateur stunt were instantly discovered and ridiculed on social media.
But that didn't stop members of McAuliffe’s campaign team and their allies in the media, amplifying the hoax.
McAuliffe’s ‘outraged’ communications staffer Jen Goodman tweeted that the gathering was “disgusting and disqualifying.”
“This is who Glenn Youngkin’s supporters are,” said Christina Freundlich, who is part of McAuliffe’s campaign team.
This is the same Lincoln Project whose co-founder was accused of sexually harassing more than 20 young men while the senior management was accused of looking the other way, despite being aware of it. Also, of the $90 million that the Lincoln Project has raised, more than $50 million has gone to firms controlled by the group’s leaders.
It is ironic that the Lincoln Project’s stated objective is to purge President Trump and the MAGA movement from the GOP for moral reasons. Obviously, the leaders of the Lincoln Project have no self-awareness.
Its very name is a vile affront to the legacy of the great Abraham Lincoln.
The sole reason the Lincoln Project owned up to their failed false flag operation and tried to claim it was a 'reminder' is that it was so poorly executed that even casual observers were not fooled.
Another possible reason is that the McAuliffe people probably ordered the Lincoln Project to own it because it was making McAuliffe's team look bad and they desperately needed a way to wash their hands of this stunt.
It is highly unlikely that the McAuliffe people were unaware of this caper, they are probably having angry calls with the Lincoln project people about its poor execution as you read this.
But as always, the lie traveled around the world and back again while the truth was lacing up its boots. The goal of such political dirty tricks is to turn off just enough voters to affect the direction of the election, which can be important when polls are tight and the vote is days away.
The tweets of condemnation from McAuliffe's people, falsely accusing Youngkin, still haven't been deleted.
If this stunt manages to convince just a small percentage of ignorant voters that Youngkin is a white supremacist, it could be the difference between victory and defeat.
But there are other questions to ponder.
What if this hoax was "properly executed the way the perpetrators had expected to execute it? What if the truth had never come out?
What if the actors had looked at their parts with their actions and their slogans appeared authentic?
What if they had indulged in some measure of violence?
The mainstream media would have caused a frenzy calling it the new Charlottesville march or a sequel to the Jan. 6 ‘insurrection.’
The incident would have doubtlessly received international prominence and not just Youngkin but President Trump would have been blamed.
No amount of denial or repudiation from any Republican would have been accepted. Finally, 'Republicans' such as Mitt Romney would have condemned it in a bid to be regarded as "one of the good ones."
The frenzy would probably have dissuaded a considerable number of voters from supporting Youngkin because people generally believe what they see before their eyes.
Another question to ponder is how many such false flag operations have been successfully executed in the past such that news organizations and history books cover them as the real thing?
The stunt may have looked amateur and pathetic, but the intentions were nothing short of sinister.
What is equally stunning is neither McAuliffe nor his endorsers that include the likes of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are talking about McAuliffe's previous record as governor.
They are also not talking about his future plans to fix the economy, support small businesses, create jobs, improve the health care system, helping law enforcement, help war veterans and senior citizens.
The reason is McAuliffe has nothing significant to boast about during his tenure as governor. He also has no intentions of serving the people of Virginia. The only goal is to gain power and use it to implement stringent and undemocratic controls on regular citizens and children.
To achieve this, they indulge in petty, bitter, negative, cynical, vicious, and spurious attacks and amateurish stunts.
None of these issues that are being raised represent anything measurable, tangible, or concrete. The Lincoln Project stunt in the name of supporting McAuliffe was symbolic -- it is supposed to appeal to the voters' darkest emotions of fear.
This is a disgraceful fall in the quality of discourse and McAuliffe is solely to blame for it.
Hopefully, Virginia Republicans will be vigilant during the voting and counting to prevent any fraud from occurring.
Hopefully, Virginians will not be fooled by hoaxes and will choose wisely.
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