Saturday, July 2, 2022

ELON MUSK FINDS JESUS AND GOES TO TELL THE POPE - OR WAS HE LOOKING FOR THE GREAT CATHOLIC ABORTIONIST NANCY PELOSI, BARONESS OF MEXIFORNIA

 

Conservatives, don't make a savior out of Elon Musk

Will he or won't he?

More than two months after he agreed to purchase the social media semi-giant for $44 billion, Elon Musk still hasn't closed his Twitter deal.  While a myriad of excuses are made as to why it doesn't appear to be moving forward, there's a much larger issue in the background: the wheels are finally coming off Elon Musk's bus.

So many headlines now emerge daily from the impossibly overcomplicated life Musk leads that there is a large subsection of the media entirely devoted to following his every move.  Yet while the World of Elon begins to truly unravel, conservative "leaders" continue to tout him as the answer to all of the right's strategic shortcomings.  Why focus on actual issues when a magic savior is coming to the rescue?

Musk-worship was foolish enough in April, but it's now absolutely ridiculous in the summertime.

The closing days of June brought revelations wild enough to stun even the most seasoned observers.  In a newly released interview with a company-sanctioned fan club, Musk said Tesla's car factories were "losing billions of dollars."

"Both Berlin and Austin factories are gigantic money furnaces right now.  Okay?  It's really like a giant roaring sound, which is the sound of money on fire," Musk told interviewers.

Meanwhile, newly fired Tesla employees have filed suit, claiming that the lack of notice before a mass staff redundancy (at least 10%) violated federal law.  In another new court filing, he's accused of conducting a pump-and-dump scheme involving cryptocurrency Dogecoin, which he has often touted on social media.

On Twitter, he claims to be a "free speech absolutist" determined to open the public square.  However, recent actions tell a different story and signal looming problems for supportive conservatives he frequently disagrees with on top policy issues.

On June 16, the New York Times reported that workers at SpaceX — Elon Musk's rocket company — wrote a letter to company executives stating that the CEO's "behavior in the public sphere is a frequent source of distraction and embarrassment for us."  SpaceX fired the letter's organizers almost instantaneously because their actions supposedly made other employees "feel uncomfortable, intimidated and bullied."

Did this letter really affect workplace morale, or did an adverse reaction from a notoriously erratic boss prompt their firing?

According to the Daily Caller, this wouldn't be the first time Musk has punished critics for exercising free speech rights.  Musk has, according to the Caller, reportedly "fired [Tesla] employees who disagree with him"; "told hostile questioners on earnings calls that he won't tolerate 'boring, boneheaded questions'"; and "interrupted the NASA administrator at a press conference to tell the reporter asking questions to 'move on.'"

So much for "free speech"!  Musk's definition clearly differs from that of the world.  He has remarked that if there's "a lot of controversy," Twitter-minders may intercede to block it.  He has also made clear that "by 'free speech,' [he] simply mean[s] that which matches the law" and that censorship is okay.

For conservatives who believe that this billionaire is about to bring digital salvation, this presents a significant problem.  Musk appears to believe that many alternate viewpoints are dangerous, meaning they may fit under his "acceptable censorship" classification.

Musk is a staunch proponent of gun control, for example.  In May, he wrote, "[A]ssault rifles should at minimum require a special permit, where the recipient is extremely well-vetted."  Will he quash opposing Second Amendment views?  Many of his fellow gun control advocates will push to make sure the answer is yes.

He has also said that "Climate Change is the biggest threat that humanity faces this century, except for AI" and runs a business that caters to this "single biggest threat."  Does that mean skeptics could be yanked from Twitter?

Or how about abortion?  Musk's Tesla is now covering travel expenses for those seeking out-of-state abortions, helping them skirt Texas law outlawing abortion after approximately six weeks of pregnancy.  Whether Elon perceives disagreement over this issue as "controversial" enough to curtail user speech is unclear, but conservatives are clearly overconfident that he will protect varying viewpoints.

Whatever the true intentions behind his bid for Twitter may be, complacency on the right in the face of a history of suppression and retaliation against critics is dangerous.  That's what makes the current love affair with this eccentric madman truly twisted.

For conservatives in 2022, a focused, Musk-free strategy should be so simple.  With Joe Biden polling miserably and Democrats inexplicably clinging to a wildly unpopular agenda, Republicans need only focus on taming epic inflationary pressures plus shortages of food, energy, and basic goods to win in November.

Voters are also screaming for real leadership to tackle shocking increases in crime, extremist agendas in public schools, and intentionally lax border security.  It's bad out there and getting worse, creating a target-rich environment for opposition candidates.

Sadly, however, conservatives have a long, bizarre history of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.  It sometimes takes the form of peculiar distractions that de-emphasize campaigning in favor of magic saviors who will lead us toward future glory.  How this destructive habit will be broken remains unknown.

Brian Maloney is the co-founder of the Media Equality Project, a conservative watchdog group.  Follow him on Twitter at @SScalpings.

Image: JD Lasica via Wikimedia CommonsCC BY 2.0 (cropped).

Elon Musk Meets Pope Francis, Uses Twitter to Announce the Audience

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ROME (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk, whose $44 billion bid to buy Twitter remains in limbo, used the social media platform to announce he had met with Pope Francis.

“Honored to meet @Pontifex yesterday,” Musk tweeted of the Friday afternoon audience, alongside a photo showing Musk, Francis and four of Musk’s teenage children.

The Vatican didn’t announce the audience or provide any information about what was discussed. Musk’s tweet followed one of a street scene in Venice, suggesting he might have had other stops on his tour.

Francis frequently meets with high-profile figures in strictly private audiences that are held in a reception room of the Vatican hotel where he lives. A common talking point he uses when meeting with corporate CEOs is to appeal for them to use wealth and technology to help the poorest while caring for God’s creation.

On June 21, Twitter’s board recommended shareholders approve Musk’s proposed purchase, though shares of Twitter remain far below his offering price, signaling considerable doubt that the sale will actually happen.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.


When it comes to abortion, is there handwriting on that wall?

Most human carnivores, myself included, do not want to pay visits to slaughterhouses to see the processes involved in how we get our chicken parts or ground beef for our upcoming Fourth of July cookouts. My father, for example, lost his appetite for poultry when he was a boy after watching his mother collect a live chicken from the chicken coop. The preparation, aka butchering, necessary for my grandmother to put a chicken dinner on the table was more than he could stomach. Consequently, I did not eat a lot of chicken when I was young, and I love chicken.

Many on the Democrat side of our country want abortion on demand. They want birthing people, historically known as “women,” to have the right to terminate their pregnancies at any point in those nine months.

Pregnancy as a process is natural, while abortion is unnatural. Many believe God created the human womb, while others give evolution the credit. Either way, the womb is custom-made to promote the life of a preborn child. The womb was not meant to be a tomb or a death chamber.

The purpose of abortion is to terminate the life in the womb without harming the life of the birthing person until very recently known as a “woman.” Abortion involves invasive and extraordinary medical procedures that violate the medical principle do no harm. A pre-born child is destroyed in this bloody process.

Many of us prefer our comfortable ignorance where we do not have to see animals butchered in slaughterhouses or babies dismembered in abortion businesses. The “snowflake syndrome” that began on liberal college campuses has fully metastasized across America and many of us choose to change the channel when unwelcome thoughts challenge our comfortable ignorance.

General George Patton was a controversial leader of our military in World War II. Toward the end of the war, his army liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany. When he and his soldiers began to comprehend the murderous mission of the Nazis in Buchenwald, they seized on that teachable moment. They gave the people of Weimar a “you are invited, and you will attend” tour of the death camp. Judging from the pictures of this wrenching encounter, the citizens of Weimar got an eyeful of horror.

Image: Rembrandt’s Belshazzar’s feast (edited).

Imagine, if you will, that an unknown entity takes a page from Patton and rigs our phones and TVs so that all we could see 365/24/7 would be abortionists destroying pre-born children. No movies, no game shows, no sports, just never-ending abortions in UHD. Imagine also, that despite all efforts to stop this abortion telethon, the bloody show just keeps rolling. Some might nickname the ghastly programming Hell.

Ironically, in 1973, the same year that SCOTUS concocted a woman’s constitutional right to abortion in Roe v. Wade, Charlie Rich released a song called “Behind Closed Doors.” This love song was written by Kenny O’Dell and was introduced by Charlie Rich. As it gained popularity, it crossed from the country music charts over to the pop music listings. Even though the lyrics describe a man’s love for his woman, many twisted these words into a song about privacy. The love song became for many a force field protecting activities behind closed doors.

All kinds of things happen behind closed doors. Many are good and proper, but many are wicked and destructive. Many today do not believe in God. Many do and believe that He sees all. Many are agnostics and are not sure what to believe. Here are some things to consider:

  • What if God creates babies? (Psalm 139:13)
  • What if He thinks they are precious little human lives? (John 3:16)
  • What if He has to witness the abortion of millions? (Psalm 139:7)
  • What if He will judge the abortionists and all involved in this destructive process? (Matthew 25)
  • What if He will judge us all someday? (Matthew 25)
  • What if a time will come when we each will have to stand before Him and account to Him for our lives and our attitudes concerning abortion? (Matthew 25)
  • What if sonograms are modern examples of God’s writing on the wall? (Daniel 5)
  • Will we be found wanting as Belshazzar was? (Daniel 5)

Even if you take God out of this picture, abortion is still ending human life and that should bother any human’s ethics. If this controversy, which is greater than slavery, does not challenge you, are you sure you are human?

Some have found a way to dissolve the grisly abortion telethon. Bernard Nathanson and Patti Giebink are former abortionists who, by God’s grace, did a U-turn. In Christian circles, a U-turn is called repentance. They sensed the love of God calling them to stop, as God once called Saul of Tarsus to stop persecuting others.

Ned Cosby’s new novel is OUTCRY, exposing the refusal of Christian leaders to discipline clergy who sexually abuse our young people. This work of fiction addresses crimes that are all too real. He has also written RECOLLECTIONS FROM MY FATHER’S HOUSE, tracing his own odyssey from 1954 to the present. For more info, visit www.nedcosby.com.


Pelosi: ‘We Had the Pleasure of Attending Mass This Morning With His Holiness and Many, Many, Many Leaders of the Church’

By CNSNews.com Staff | July 1, 2022 | 12:58pm EDT

  

Paul and Nancy Pelosi at Mass at the Vatican, June 29, 2022. (Screen Capture)
Paul and Nancy Pelosi at Mass at the Vatican, June 29, 2022. (Screen Capture)

(CNSNews.com) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday visited the “Christian community” of Sant’Egidio in Rome after visiting the Vatican and told the people there that she had “had the pleasure of attending Mass this morning with His Holiness.”

“We had the pleasure of attending Mass this morning with His Holiness and many, many, many leaders of the Church,” said Pelosi.

“And [Pope] Francis’ name always reminds me of St. Francis saying: ‘We preach the Gospel; sometimes, use words.’  We also pray that—ask God in his anthem, in his song of St. Francis, to make us all instruments of God’s peace,” she said.

“So in the spirit of St. Francis, which is the name of His Holiness and my city of San Francisco, I thank you for preaching the Gospel, sometimes using words,” she said.

At Sant’Egidio, Pelosi met four refugee families from Afghanistan and Ukraine.

“See, I am so honored to be here because I’d always heard about Sant’Egidio, and now I'm seeing it,” Pelosi said. “And it’s full-blown, in an operational way: meeting the needs of refugees.”

Here is the full text of Pelosi’s statement at Sant’Egidio:

“Rome – Speaker Nancy Pelosi toured the Community of Sant’Egido and met with refugee families prior to presenting a new grant from the Julia Taft Refugee Fund to the Community of Sant’Egidio.  Below are the Speaker’s remarks: 

Speaker Pelosi: “The ‘Gospel of Matthew tour.’  I – we had the pleasure of attending Mass this morning with His Holiness and many, many, many leaders of the Church.  And [Pope] Francis’ name always reminds me of St. Francis saying: ‘We preach the Gospel; sometimes, use words.’  We also pray that — ask God in his anthem, in his song of St. Francis, to make us all instruments of God’s peace.
 
“So in the spirit of St. Francis, which is the name of His Holiness and my city of San Francisco, I thank you for preaching the Gospel, sometimes using words.  You gave us the opportunity this morning – yeah, this morning –  to meet with four families to – from Afghanistan to Ukraine, and to hear them personally tell their story.  It is a miracle that Sant’Egidio is in their lives and bringing them here and making them part of the community in such a strong way.  
 
“Our Ambassador is a living example of that.  He is the Ambassador, as you know, to the Holy See.  He is college – Catholic-college educated.  He and his wife represent our country admirably here.  I say that in terms of, also, their friendship with him being a Catholic.  They share their faith, they share their commitment to helping people, they share a commitment to a strong relationship in the work that they do.  And I hope that Sant’Egidio is one of those examples, brought here from the Ambassador in that regard.  
 
“But it is, I said to Marco when we came in – and Marco thank you for your leadership – he must know of those kids that started a few years ago.  See, I am so honored to be here because I’d always heard about Sant’Egidio, and now I'm seeing it.  And it’s full-blown, in an operational way: meeting the needs of refugees.  
 
“When we came in, we saw a painting of Sant’Egidio, and said that he was the protector of wheat.  And I mentioned to Marco that, how appropriate right now, when wheat is so in jeopardy because of the war Ukraine and the exporting with Ukraine.  The breadbasket of the world is in Ukraine.  So maybe, again, Sant’Egidio will be an inspiration for how we can solve that problem. 
 
“But it’s presumptuous of me to be making this award because it is an award from the State Department.  And in some moment – are we going to do that now?  Mr. Ambassador, you are going to speak, but we’ll do the award and then close.
 
“On behalf of the State Department and our Ambassador, that – we're very proud that the Julia Taft Refugee Fund is gifting $25,000 to Sant’Egidio with the idea that that would help welcome 50 new refugees into the fold.  I call that a good start.

“A good start.  More to come.  But in any event, a recognition of the example that you are.  Marco, you have vision.  You all have a vision.  You have a plan to get it done.  That is an inspiration to us all.  You give us hope.  Thank you.”


Jim Crow was oppressive, which is a form of antilife.  Abortion is cruel and genocidal.  An estimated 63 million babies have been extinguished since the now defunct Roe v. Wade occurred in 1973.  A disproportionate number of those babies are black.  Democrats seem blind to the irony.   

Biden, Democrats seek to channel outrage over abortion bans into midterm election campaigns

Having done nothing for decades to codify the now-overturned constitutional right to abortion or stop the packing of the Supreme Court with far-right Republicans, the Democrats are seeking to exploit the court’s devastating attack on democratic rights and women’s health to hustle votes for the November congressional elections.

Abortion rights demonstrators protest outside of the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday, May 3, 2022 in Washington. [AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana]

As of Friday, one week after the Supreme Court for the first time ever took away a previously established constitutional right in its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, at least seven states have enacted bans on abortions, according to a New York Times tracker.

These states—South Dakota, Wisconsin, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Alabama and West Virginia—have a combined population of more than 40 million.

Three more states—Utah, Louisiana and Kentucky—attempted to enact anti-abortion laws but were temporarily blocked by court orders.

There are a total of 13 states—for the most part in the South and the upper Midwest—that have laws banning abortion at six weeks or earlier, most of which will take effect in the coming weeks. An additional 11 states have laws restricting abortions from six weeks to viability (24 weeks), including Wisconsin and Indiana.

There are 20 states that protect abortion at least up to 24 weeks, for the most part the West and East Coast, New England and most mid-Atlantic states, plus Washington D.C.

There are six states with neither an active ban nor legal protection: Michigan, Utah, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and New Hampshire.

The total number of people living in states where abortion is banned or under immediate threat is over 170 million, just over half of the US population.

At his press conference Thursday following the NATO summit meeting in Spain, President Joe Biden indicated that his primary concern following the Dobbs decision is its impact on the ability of Washington to maintain NATO’s unity in conducting the widening war against Russia in Ukraine and preparing for war against China.

A reporter cited the anti-abortion ruling, which provoked denunciations from key NATO allies, as well as the mass shootings in New York and Texas, record inflation and polls showing widespread popular discontent, and questioned Biden’s claim that “America is back” as the undisputed world leader.

Biden responded by denying any weakening of US prestige, but added, “The one thing that has been destabilizing is the outrageous behavior of the Supreme Court on overruling not only Roe v. Wade, but essentially challenging the right to privacy.

“We’ve been a leader in the world in terms of personal rights and privacy rights, and it is a mistake, in my view, for the Supreme Court to do what it did.”

In other words, the court’s ruling is a blow to American imperialism’s “soft power” as it carries out the opening phase of a war to redivide the world, beginning with the dismemberment and effective colonization of Russia.

Pressed by other reporters on his response to the court ruling, Biden said he would push for legislation to codify a federal right to abortion and, for the first time, said he would support exempting the issue from the Senate filibuster rule, which effectively requires 60 votes to get bills passed.

Before ending the press conference, he said the answer to the Supreme Court’s “significant mistake” on abortion rights was to “show up and vote. Vote in the off-year and vote, vote, vote. That’s how we’ll change it.”

Biden’s shift on the filibuster will have no practical effect, as he well knows, since at least two Senate Democrats—Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema—have made clear they oppose any change in the anti-democratic procedure, depriving the Democrats of the 50 votes they need in the evenly divided chamber to change the rule.

Soon after Biden’s press conference, Sinema’s office released a statement reiterating that the senator “is still opposed to gutting the filibuster on any topic, including reproductive rights.”

This did not prevent Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from hailing Biden. “Now we’re talking!” she tweeted. Nina Turner, the national co-chair of the Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential election campaign, wrote, “This is good news.”

On Friday, Biden hosted an on-line meeting with nine Democratic governors, including those in states such as New York, Illinois, Colorado, New Mexico and North Carolina that are already experiencing an influx of desperate women from states with abortion bans.

There have been calls from some Democrats for Biden to declare a national health emergency and issue an executive order permitting federal properties such as military bases and Veterans Administration hospitals in states with anti-abortion laws to perform the procedure. Biden has rejected any such measures, fearful of losing Republican support for his war policy.

To date, the only action taken by the administration, beyond pledging to oppose Republican state laws criminalizing travel to other states for abortion services and defending access to abortion medications via the mail, is the announcement of a paltry $3 million in Health and Human Services funding to increase training and technical assistance for family planning providers.

Biden admitted that he did not have 50 Democratic votes in the Senate to alter the filibuster rule and warned that the Republicans would pass a nationwide ban on abortion if they gained control of Congress in the November 8 elections.

But aside from tweaking his rhetoric, calling the Supreme Court “extremist,” he proposed nothing new.

Some Democrats, such as Senator Elizabeth Warren, are pushing the notion that abortion rights can be saved by electing two additional Democrats to the Senate in the fall. This is farcical.

The Democratic Party—a party of the American capitalist corporate/financial oligarchy and the US war machine—is incapable of defending democratic rights under conditions of expanding imperialist war, mass death as a result of the “herd immunity” pandemic policies of both parties, staggering levels of social inequality and cuts in real wages and social services.

Since the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling in 1973, the Democratic Party has controlled both houses of Congress for a combined total of 22 years, including the current Congress.

It has controlled both houses of Congress plus the White House for 10 years: All four years of the Carter administration, the first two years of the Clinton presidency, the first two years of the Obama White House (including a filibuster-proof super-majority of 60 to 40) and the first two years of Biden.

It has never seriously attempted to pass legislation codifying Roe v. Wade. Instead, it has allowed the Republican right to steadily erode abortion rights, including the 1976 Hyde Amendment, which prohibits spending federal dollars on abortion services. Biden supported the reactionary anti-working class measure until June 2019, when he reversed his position in order to secure the Democratic presidential nomination.

The same can be said in regard to the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Since the Supreme Court struck down the key enforcement provisions of the act in 2013 during the Obama administration, the Democrats have never seriously sought to enact legislation reversing the court’s action.

The Democrats will do nothing to defend abortion rights, just as they refuse to expose the massive conspiracy that led to the January 6 coup or hold accountable all those responsible for plotting to install a fascist dictatorship headed by Trump.

The fight for the right to abortion, as with all other democratic rights, must be conducted as a fight for the political independence and mass mobilization of the working class on the basis of a socialist program.

DEMOCRATS ARE AN ETHICALLY AND MORALLY DEPRAVED PARTY AND MAY CONSTITIUTE AMERICA'S GREATEST THREAT!

GOP Congressman: Pelosi Prioritizes Abortion Over Tackling Inflation, Crime, Border Crisis


Watters: The Five (CRIME) Families of the Democrat Party

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBpvvHethg0


The Antilife Party


Slavery was antilife, in that it was exploitive and cruel.  Jim Crow was oppressive, which is a form of antilife.  Abortion is cruel and genocidal.  An estimated 63 million babies have been extinguished since the now defunct Roe v. Wade occurred in 1973.  A disproportionate number of those babies are black.  Democrats seem blind to the irony.   

The Abortion Midterms May Abort the Democrats

Taking money from rich white people to kill poor black babies isn’t a winning issue.

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After the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, Democrats lost no time in insisting, all evidence to the contrary, that abortion would swing the midterm elections for them.

Georgia shows why abortion might abort their party instead.

Stacey Abrams, after months of dodging and refusing to be pinned down on her abortion views, finally came out and said that, “my intention is going to be to pass legislation that says a woman has the right to an abortion. And that right continues until a physician determines the fetus is viable outside of the body, except in the case of protecting the woman’s life or health.”

After all the ducking and weaving, Abrams effectively supports full abortion until the third trimester. That’s a radical position, but still more moderate than the current Dem one.

As recently as 2006, Biden had said, "I do not view abortion as a choice and a right. I think it's always a tragedy." Now, Biden called the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling a “tragic error”.

Support for abortion until the moment of birth has become routine among party leaders, but Abrams herself apparently did not support abortion until she first ran for office in 2006.

"I was very much on the side of anti-abortion, through much of my upbringing. I grew up in Mississippi, in a very religious family, in a religious community," Stacey Abrams told CNN.

In 2014, historically black protestants in Georgia were split on the question of abortion. That split, like Abrams’ religious background, has all but disappeared.

"With the protections of Roe gone, the midterm elections in Georgia have become a referendum on reproductive freedom," Nikema Williams, the Georgia Democratic Party chair, declared.

But there's little evidence that the public cares. Georgia voters were split on abortion in 2019.

Rep. Henry Cuellar, the last pro-life Democrat, survived a challenge from the abortion lobby in Texas even though Jessica Cisneros, the leftist running against him, outraised him by a million dollars and was backed by Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Elizabeth Warren, along with NARAL, Planned Parenthood's PAC, and EMILY's List. Making abortion into a litmus test backfired.

A recent Axios poll found that first-generation Latino immigrants are the most skeptical on abortion with only 41% supporting legal abortion. And only 29% of Latinos who speak Spanish at home agreed. These numbers are a warning that what plays well at D.C. marches doesn’t necessarily work with sizable chunks of the increasingly fragmented Democrat-Left coalition.

2006, when Biden still played at being pro-life and Stacey Abrams decided to let her abortion flag fly. was a key year in the fatal Democratic pivot away from even the pretense of moderation on abortion. Senator Bob Casey Jr, who ran as a pro-life candidate in 2006, and insisted that he was "pro-life" and claimed to oppose Roe despite voting with Planned Parenthood most of the time, now announced that he would vote to turn Roe v. Wade into law.

Some called this "the end of the pro-life Democrat", but Casey just redefined pro-life to mean pro-abortion. “I think it’s clear to most people that the description of pro-life Democrat is accurate," the Senate Democrat from Pennsylvania put it, by which he now meant trying "to reduce both the number of abortions and the number of unwanted pregnancies".

Bill Clinton’s call that abortion should be “safe, legal, and rare” had been displaced by a 2020 presidential field of radical candidates who almost universally supported government funding of abortion by repealing the Hyde Amendment and having Medicaid cover abortions. Nine of the presidential candidates, including Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, wanted to force states to get federal preclearance for abortion laws.

After a generation of playing it safe, Democrats are all in on abortion radicalism.

Warren and AOC proposed abortion clinics in national parks. There have been suggestions to set up more abortion clinics on Indian tribal lands and by declaring a public health emergency.

Schumer’s Senate abortion bill would have legalized late term abortion until birth, but the show vote couldn't even get to 50 votes.

"Republicans in Congress — not one of whom voted for this bill — have chosen to stand in the way of Americans’ rights," Biden insisted afterward. "To protect the right to choose, voters need to elect more pro-choice senators this November, and return a pro-choice majority to the House."

There’s no sign of that happening.

Only 15% of likely voters see abortion as a top priority. And few think of it as something to be proud of. Democrats have embraced abortion as an assertion of feminism. Pro-abortion protesters kick around bibles, taunt pro-life protesters by praising the devil, and smear blood on themselves. That may play well on campus, but it just further alienates elements of the Democrat coalition.

Democrats want to make 2022 into an abortion referendum, but they may not like the results.

Kamala Harris has added to her extensive portfolio by becoming the point woman for the White House abortion response. "The rights of all Americans are at risk. This is the time to fight for women and our country with everything we have,” she declared.

The mingled stench of radicalism and electoral desperation isn’t hard to smell here.

With a bad economy and uncontrollable inflation, Democrats want 2022 to be about anything else, especially social and cultural issues intended to rally their base in the midterms. But abortion isn’t and has never been a winning strategy. And that’s even when people can afford to drive.

Or buy food to feed their families.

The dirty little political secret about abortion is that support for it rises sharply by income and also falls by income. Support for abortion is highest among those earning over $100,000 a year and lowest among those who make only $30,000. And yet, abortion rates are also highest among poor women. That’s not a paradox, it’s political eugenics. And that’s what it always was.

Planned Parenthood’s tarnished saint, Margaret Sanger, explicitly focused her murderous efforts on poor women from immigrant groups that were in disavor at the time, Italians and Jews. Her alliance with eugenicists has been the abortion industry’s most awkward and worst kept secret.

Sanger’s radical sainthood has been revoked and the abortion lobby is eager to dress up its movemement with black women, like Stacey Abrams, who recanted their pro-life upbringing.

Abortion is big business, economically and politically, fueling a surge of donations from wealthy blue state women who support abortion and want poor women to be the ones to kill their children. Democrats have turned abortion into a culture war issue partly to profit from that cash.

But abortion also alienates many of the minorities who are its natural eugenic targets.

The Democrats want the midterms to be about the vital importance of taking money from rich white people to kill poor black babies. That may not be the winning strategy they think it is.

Especially in Georgia.


ABORTION KILLS…. the innocent!

PLANNED PARENTHOOD:

America’s baby murdering factories…. Your tax dollars at work

 

“I Cut the Vocal Cord So The Baby

 Can't Scream.”

 

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/03/baby-butcher-dr-leah-torres-in-salt.html

 

Dr. Leah Torres, an OB/GYN in Salt Lake City, Utah, said that when she performs certain abortions she cuts the vocal cord of the baby so "there's really no opportunity" for the child to scream. She also described herself as a "uterus ripper outer" because she performs hysterectomies.

Biden Says He’s ‘Going to Do Everything in My Power’ to Keep It Legal to Kill Unborn Babies

 By CNSNews.com Staff | June 30, 2022 | 11:13am EDT

  
(Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
(Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

(CNSNews.com) - President Joe Biden said at a press conference in Madrid, Spain, today that he was “going to do everything in my power” to keep abortion—the killing of unborn babies-- legal in the United States.

“I’m going to do everything in my power I legally can do in terms of protecting abortion, as well as pushing Congress and the public,” Biden said, as reported by CNBC.

Biden also indicated he would support suspending the Senate filibuster (which requires 60 votes to end debate on legislation and bring it up for a vote) so that the Senate can codify Roe with a simple majority vote.

“I believe we have to codify Roe v. Wade into law,” Biden said. “And the way to do that is to make sure Congress votes to do that.”

“If the filibuster gets in the way, it’s like voting rights, we provide an exception for this…We require an exception of the filibuster for this action,” said Biden.

In a 2012 debate with Rep. Paul Ryan (R.-Wisc.), who was the Republican candidate for vice president, Biden said that he believed life begins at conception. But he presented his belief as one rooted in religion not biological science.

“My religion defines who I am and I’ve been a practicing Catholic my whole life,” Biden said.

“And it has informed my social doctrine,” he said. “Catholic social doctrine talks about taking care of those who can’t take care of themselves, people who need help. With regard to abortion, I accept my church’s position on abortion as a—what we call—de fide doctrine. Life begins at conception in the church’s judgment. I accept it in my personal life.”

In his public life, he believes in the legalized killing of unborn babies.


Pelosi's Communion Stunt at the Vatican

 By Bill Donohue | June 29, 2022 | 11:18am EDT

  
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attends a mass for the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul on June 29, 2022 at Saint-Peter Basilica in the Vatican. (Photo credit: TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attends a mass for the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul on June 29, 2022 at Saint-Peter Basilica in the Vatican. (Photo credit: TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who rejects the Catholic Church's teachings on abortion, marriage, and sexuality, received Holy Communion on June 29 at a papal Mass in St. Peter's Basilica. The pope was in attendance, but did not give out Communion.

Pelosi's stunt was done to undercut her bishop, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone: he has told her not to present herself for Communion, citing her lust for abortion rights. 

Some will blame the Vatican for what happened; others will blame Pelosi; still others will blame Cordileone. There is only one person to blame — Pelosi.

Archbishop Cordileone invoked canon law to deny Pelosi Communion, so there is no issue there: He is in total compliance with Catholic teachings. But given the autonomy that bishops have, those who oversee other dioceses are not bound by what Cordileone decreed. 

Pelosi received Communion from one of the many priests who were distributing it; he obviously did not know anymore about her than he does the man on the moon. And unlike Cordileone, he never reached out to her, seeking to counsel her on this subject. So the two are not comparable. 

The priest did what was expected of him — he gave Communion to everyone waiting in line to receive it. For all we know, non-Catholics may have received Communion at the same Mass. That doesn't excuse those who willfully exploited the sacrament.

So where does this leave us? 

Pelosi waiting in line to receive Communion is akin to a murderer waiting in line to pay his respects to his victim at a Catholic wake. The analogy is poignant in more ways than one. 

Bill Donohue is president and CEO of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, the nation's largest Catholic civil rights organization. He was awarded his Ph.D. in sociology from New York University and is the author of nine books and many articles.


Pope Francis: Abortion ‘is Truly Murder’

By CNSNews.com Staff | June 30, 2022 | 11:42am EDT
  

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(CNSNews.com) - Pope Francis delivered an address to the Pontifical Academy for Life on Sept. 27, 2021, and told them that abortion “is truly murder.”

In his address, Pope Francis referred to remarks that had been made earlier by Msgr. Vincenzo Paglia, the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life.

“Here too, I would like to mention that we are victims of the throwaway culture,” Pope Francis said.

“In his presentation, Msgr. Paglia referred to something: but there is the throwing away of children that we do not want to welcome, with that abortion law that sends them back to their sender and kills them,” said Pope Francis.

“Today this has become a ‘normal’ thing, a habit that is very bad; it is truly murder,” Pope Francis said.

Pope Francis then went on to liken abortion to hiring a hit man.

“In order to truly grasp this, perhaps asking ourselves two questions may help: is it right to eliminate, to end a human life to solve a problem?” he said. “Is it right to hire a hitman to solve a problem? Abortion is this.”

Here is the full English translation of the pope’s address to the Pontifical Academy for Life as published by the Vatican:

“Dear sisters and brothers,

“I am happy to be able to meet you on the occasion of your General Assembly and I thank Msgr Paglia for his words. I extend a greeting also to the many Academics who are connected.

“The theme you have chosen for these three days of workshops is particularly timely: that of public health in the horizon of globalization. Indeed, the crisis of the pandemic has made ‘both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor’ reverberate even more strongly (Enc. Laudato Si’, 49). We cannot remain deaf before this dual cry. We have to listen to it well! And it is what you are setting out to do.

“Examination of the numerous and grave issues that have emerged in the last two years is not an easy task. On the one hand we are worn out by the Covid-19 pandemic and by the inflation of issues that have been raised: we almost do not want to hear about it any more and we hurry on to other topics. However, on the other hand, it is essential to reflect calmly in order to examine in depth what has happened and to glimpse the path towards a better future for all. Truly, “even worse than this crisis is the tragedy of squandering it” (Pentecost homily, 31 May 2020). And we know that we do not emerge from a crisis the same: we will either emerge better or we will emerge worse. But not the same. The choice is in our hands. And I repeat, even worse than this crisis is the tragedy of squandering it. I encourage you in this effort. And I think the dynamic of discernment in which your meeting is taking place is wise and timely: first and foremost, listening attentively to the situation in order to foster a true and proper conversion and identify concrete decisions to emerge from the crisis, better.

“The reflection that you have undertaken in recent years on global bioethics is revealing itself to be precious. I had encouraged you in this perspective with the letter Humana communitas on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of your Academy. The horizon of public health in fact offers the possibility to focus on important aspects for the coexistence of the human family and to strengthen the fabric of social friendship. These are central themes in the Encyclical Fratelli Tutti (cf. Chapter 6).

“The crisis of the pandemic has highlighted the depth of the interdependence both among ourselves and between the human family and our common home (cf. Laudato Si’, 86164). Our societies, especially in the West, have had the tendency to forget this interconnection. And the bitter consequences are before our eyes. In this epochal change it is thus urgent to invert this noxious tendency and it is possible to do so through the synergy among different disciplines. Knowledge of biology and hygiene is needed, as well as of medicine and epidemiology, but also of economy and sociology, anthropology and ecology. In addition to understanding the phenomena, it is a matter of identifying technological, political and ethical criteria of action with regards to health systems, the family, employment and the environment.

“This outlook is particularly important in the health field because health and sickness are determined not only by processes of nature but also by social life. Moreover, it is not enough for a problem to be serious for it to come to people’s attention and thus be addressed. Many very serious problems are ignored due to lack of an adequate commitment. Let us think of the devastating impact of certain diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis: the precariousness of health and hygiene conditions cause millions of avoidable deaths in the world every year. If we compare this reality with the concern caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, we can see how the perception of the seriousness of the problem and the corresponding mobilization of energies and resources are very different.

“Of course, taking all measures to stem and defeat Covid-19 on a global level is the right thing to do, but this moment in history in which our health is being threatened directly should make us aware of what it means to be vulnerable and to live daily in insecurity. We could thus assume the responsibility also for the grave conditions in which others live and of which we have so far been little or not interested at all. We could thus learn not to project our priorities onto populations who live on other continents, where other needs are more urgent; where, for example, not only vaccines but also drinking water and daily bread are in short supply. I don’t know if one should laugh or cry, cry sometimes, when we hear government leaders or community leaders advise slum dwellers to sanitize themselves several times a day with soap and water. But, my dear, you have never been to a slum: there is no water there, they know nothing about soap. ‘No, do not leave your home!’: but there the whole neighbourhood is home, because they live... Please, let us take care of this reality, even when we reflect on health. Let us welcome then, any commitment to a fair and universal distribution of vaccines — this is important —, but taking into account the broader field which demands the same criteria of justice for health needs and for the promotion of life.

“Looking at health in its multiple dimensions at a global level helps to understand and take on with responsibility the interconnection between the phenomena. In this way, we can better observe how even the conditions of life that are the result of political, social and environmental choices have an impact on the health of human beings. If we examine in different countries and in different social groups the hope of life — and of a healthy life — we discover great inequalities. They depend on variables such as the amount of wages, the educational level, the neighbourhood in which one resides even though it is in the same city. We state that life and health are values that are equally fundamental for all, based on the inalienable dignity of the human person. But, if this statement is not followed by an adequate commitment to overcome inequality, we are de facto accepting the painful reality that not all lives are equal and health is not protected for everyone in the same way. And here, I would like to repeat my concern: that there always be a free healthcare system. May the countries which have them, not lose them, for example Italy and others, which have a good free healthcare system: do not lose it because otherwise we would end up with only members of the population who can afford it, having the right to healthcare and the others not. And this is a very big challenge. This helps overcome inequality.

“Therefore, international initiatives are to be supported — I am thinking for example of those recently promoted by the G20 aimed at creating a global governance for the health of all the inhabitants of the planet, that is, a set of clear rules agreed at the international level that respect human dignity. In fact, the risk of new pandemics will continue to be a threat also for the future.

“The Pontifical Academy for Life can also offer a precious contribution in this sense, seeing itself as a travelling companion of other international organizations committed to this same aim. With regards to this, it is important to participate in shared initiatives and in the appropriate manner, to the public debate. Naturally, this requires that, without “watering down” contents, attempts be made to communicate them in a language that is suitable and topics that can be understood in the current social context, so that the Christian anthropological proposition, inspired by Revelation, can also help today’s men and women to rediscover ‘the primacy of the right to life from conception to its natural end’ (Discourse to participants in the Meeting sponsored by the Science and Life Association, 30 May 2015).

“Here too, I would like to mention that we are victims of the throwaway culture. In his presentation, Msgr Paglia referred to something: but there is the throwing away of children that we do not want to welcome, with that abortion law that sends them back to their sender and kills them. Today this has become a ‘normal’ thing, a habit that is very bad; it is truly murder. In order to truly grasp this, perhaps asking ourselves two questions may help: is it right to eliminate, to end a human life to solve a problem? Is it right to hire a hitman to solve a problem? Abortion is this. And then on the other side, are the elderly: the elderly who are also a bit of “throwaway material” because they are not needed.... But they are the wisdom, they are the roots of the wisdom of our civilization, and this civilization discards them! Yes, in many places there is a ‘hidden’ law on euthanasia, as I call it. It is the one that makes us say: “medicines are expensive, only half should be given”. This means shortening the lives of the elderly. In so doing, we deny hope, the hope of the children who bring us the life that makes us go forward, and the hope that is in the roots that the elderly give us. Instead, we discard both. And then the everyday throwing away, that life is thrown away. Let us be careful about this throwaway culture. It is not a problem of one law or another. It is a problem of throwing away. And on this point, you academics, the Catholic universities and also Catholic hospitals cannot allow themselves to go this way. This is a path which we cannot take: the throw away path.

“Therefore, the work that your Academy has undertaken in recent years on the impact of new technologies on human life and more specifically on ‘algorethics’ should be looked upon favourably in such a way ‘that science may truly be at the service of mankind, and not mankind at the service of science’ (ibid ). I encourage in this regard, the work of the fledgling foundation, renAIssance, for the spreading and deepening of the Rome Call for AI Ethics which I strongly hope many will join.

“Lastly, I wish to thank you for the commitment and contribution that the Academy has provided by actively participating in the Vatican Covid Commission. Thank you for this. It is beautiful to see cooperation within the Roman Curia in the fulfilment of a shared project. We have to increasingly develop these processes brought forth together, in which I know many of you have participated, urging greater attention to vulnerable people such as the elderly, the disabled and the younger ones.

“With these feelings of gratitude, I entrust the work of this Assembly and also your activity as an Academy on the whole in favour of the defence and promotion of life, to the Virgin Mary. I offer my heartfelt blessing to each of you and your loved ones. And I ask you please to pray for me because I need it. Thank you.”

Biden Admin Weighs Setting Up Abortion Clinics on Federal Lands in Red States: ‘Every Option Is on the Table’
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 28: U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra speaks during a news conference at the headquarters of HHS June 28, 2022 in Washington, DC. Secretary Becerra held a news conference "to unveil an action plan at President Biden's direction" in response to the Supreme …
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President Joe Biden’s administration is weighing setting up abortion providers on federal land in Republican-controlled states, according to Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Xavier Becerra.

Becerra said that “every option is on the table” during Tuesday remarks about the fate of abortion in the United States following the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade.

Becerra said HHS is “aware of a number of ideas and proposals” when asked about the possibility of setting up abortion clinics on federal lands.

Becerra said:

What I can tell you is that we are aware of a number of ideas and proposals, many of which we have been considering internally ourselves. We have made no decisions yet. We certainly would have a conversation with the president to make sure we implement his directives to us in trying to protect women’s reproductive healthcare services.

Becerra’s remarks come after prominent Congressional Democrats have called on Biden to install abortion clinics on federal lands.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is among those who have made such calls. Warren said Biden should “explore just how much we can start using federal lands as a way to protect people who need access to abortions in all the states that either have banned abortions or are clearly on the threshold of doing so.”

“There is much we can do at the federal level administratively under current law. We need to do it,” Warren added.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also urged Biden to do the same, calling the move “the babiest of baby steps.”

“I’ll start with the babiest of the babiest of baby steps: Open abortion clinics on federal lands in red states right now,” Ocasio-Cortez said outside of the Supreme Court on Friday.

Becerra also confirmed that Biden’s administration is looking to preserve access to abortion-inducing medication, calling it “a national imperative and in the public interest.”

Becerra’s remarks seemingly contradict other members of Biden’s White House. On Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris claimed the administration is not considering installing abortion clinics on federal land.

“It’s not right now what we are discussing,” Harris told CNN.

Interestingly, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre rejected the idea on the same day Becerra said it was an option “on the table.”

Jean-Pierre described the progressive proposal as “well-intentioned” but cautioned that there are “dangerous ramifications to doing this.”

The Antilife Party

The longstanding idea that the two major American political parties are just means to ends needs revision.  The Democrat Party, dating back to Andrew Jackson, with roots in the older Jeffersonian antifederalist coalition, really hasn’t changed much in a critical aspect: it’s the party of antilife.  The party of slavery and, post-Civil War, Jim Crow moved seamlessly into the party of abortion.  Even today’s open southern border fits the bill.    

Slavery was antilife, in that it was exploitive and cruel.  Jim Crow was oppressive, which is a form of antilife.  Abortion is cruel and genocidal.  An estimated 63 million babies have been extinguished since the now defunct Roe v. Wade occurred in 1973.  A disproportionate number of those babies are black.  Democrats seem blind to the irony.   

Abortion is also exploitive, in that it's fundamentally hostile to what is so intrinsic to women -- motherhood.  Men, aside from the current lunacy, can’t menstruate, gestate a baby, or breastfeed.  DNA rules.  Nature can’t be denied, regardless fashionable conceits. 

Try to deny nature and nature will eventually brutally assert its dominance.  Democrats should study communist China to learn why.   

Mainland China is collapsing demographically, having forced a “One-child Policy” on its people.  That translated into mandatory sterilizations and abortion to achieve the goal.  338 million abortions occurred, per Chinese propaganda.  The results?  Too many nonworking old people and not enough productive younger Chinese means big woes ahead.  Too many males -- Chinese parents had a bias: their one child needed to be a boy -- and too few females plague younger generations.  Feminism never caught on with China’s communist rulers.    

China’s overlords grasped their folly too late.  They’ve scrambled to try to incentivize couples to have not just two kids, but now three.  It’s not working, for many reasons.  Chinese communists instigated a type of national suicide. 

In the U.S., Democrats haven’t achieved anything like the control necessary to impose such a destructive policy, but, over the years, as the party of “progressivism,” they’ve increasingly displayed a hostility to large families -- say, a woman having more than one child.  In fact, per progressive ethos, children are generally deemed obstacles to a woman’s self-fulfillment.  More recently, Democrats have become brazenly pro-abortion. 

The Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision has outed Democrats’ abortion extremism, up to and including abortion just before birth.  Any limits on abortion?  Not according to John Fetterman, the Democrats’ Pennsylvania U.S. Senate nominee.  Or New York City mayor Eric Adams.  Former Virginia governor Ralph Northam infamously spoke out for infanticide

Democrats used to go to great pains to refute the pro-abortion tag, claiming, instead, that they were pro-choice.  Few hardly wince now when described as pro-abortion.       

The days ahead are fraught with peril.  The pro-abortion extremism that Democrats have embraced, and their desperation over losing control of abortion’s fate nationally, for the most part, may well drive greater violence and more radicalized thinking and actions. 

The outbreak of violence that has ensued upon the leak of SCOTUS’ draft Dobbs’ opinion will, according to The Federalist’s John Daniel Davidson:

…likely be accompanied by rhetoric that more explicitly posits abortion not just as a positive good -- “shout your abortion” -- but a necessary one for women to enjoy their full rights as citizens under the Constitution. The argument, already gaining steam in public discourse, is that without a constitutional right to kill the unborn, women are relegated to a kind of second-class status, stripped of their full humanity. This rhetoric will be used in part as a justification for violence, but it also reflects the actual views of Democrats and the left on abortion.

As Davidson further stated in his excellent analysis:

It is not the first time Democrats have asserted absolute constitutional rights that for their vindication require the total abnegation of rights or even personhood of entire classes of people. The modern Democratic Party’s stance on abortion rights is almost indistinguishable from its antebellum stance on the constitutionality of slaveowner rights.  

In the volatile 1850s, when Democrats hit headwinds in their advocacy for extending slavery into the territories -- an aim driven largely by dreading the loss of political power and by the fear that the ascendent Republican Party would end southern slavery.  Candidate Lincoln made declarations that a president didn’t have the constitutional authority to repeal slavery.  (Emancipation was premised as war policy by President Lincoln.)  Southern Democrats recourse was to secession and civil war.    

The Civil War was not only initiated by Southern Democrats, but aided and abetted by northern Peace Democrats -- “Copperheads,” who comprised a fifth column for the Confederacy during the war.  The war cost more American lives than any other U.S. conflict before or since.     

When Democrats lost the Civil War, they devised southern apartheid (Jim Crow) and loosed the nightriding KKK to terrorize mostly sharecropping blacks.  Lynching of blacks was a terror weapon. 

It took America a century to fully heal the Civil War’s wounds and end southern apartheid.     

As mentioned, oppression is a form of antilife.  In modern times, Democrats, as Candance Owens has bitingly remarked, “represent black America ‘like plantation owners represented slaves.’”  In future times, Owens’ comment won’t be regarded as an outlier among black Americans, but pure gospel.    

Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” succeeded in "plantationizing" underclass blacks.  LBJ, a skilled partisan operator, intended to lock up the black vote, and did.

When Democrats lost to the Civil Rights movement by the mid-1960s, cagey LBJ switched gears.  As he was purported to say, “I’ll have them [N-Word] voting Democratic for the next 200 years.”  [Said to two governors regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1964, according to then-Air Force One steward Robert MacMillan.]     

In the decades since Johnson repositioned the Democrat Party, the black underclass has suffered acutely, in rural and, particularly, urban America… anywhere Democrats govern, whether that rule is under black or white elites, wherever the welfare state is regnant.  Their poverty is generational.  George Gilder’s classic work, Wealth and Poverty, speaks powerful to this fact.  The book was first published in 1981.

Finally, what about Joe Biden’s wide-open border, which is a matter of policy and not blundering?  How does that demonstrate that Democrats are antilife?

The number of toxic drugs entering the U.S. -- meth and fentanyl lead the way -- is incalculable.  The ruined lives and death toll from these poisons mount daily.  Cartels and gangbangers have easier access to the U.S., bringing with them increases in crime, violence, and death.  The entrance of millions of illegals will place enormous stresses and costs on communities over time.    

Even the so-called migrants, whom Democrats profess compassion, are prey to crime in their treks into the U.S.  On Monday, we learned that 50 illegals died at the hands of coyotes.  They were left to die from heat exposure in a semi trailer on the outskirts of San Antonio.

The scale of the mayhem, violence, and death along the U.S.-Mexican border is occurring because Democrats want new constituents -- new welfare dependents -- to add to voter rolls.  That their aim destroys so many people and so much else fits within the history of America’s antilife party. 

J. Robert Smith can be found regularly at Gab @JRobertSmith.  He also blogs at Flyover.  




Pope Francis greeting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the Vatican on June 29, 2022. Photo: VATICAN MEDIA HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

In the past year, as it became clear that the Supreme Court was poised to strike down the right to an abortion, a group of conservative Catholic bishops sought to exclude pro-choice American politicians from the central sacrament of the Church, the Holy Eucharist (i.e., Communion). House Speaker Nancy Pelosi became the chief object lesson after efforts to deny the president of the United States access to the Sacrament failed. On May 20, the archbishop of Pelosi’s hometown of San Francisco, Salvatore Cordileone, publicly banned her from receiving Communion in any of the churches he supervises. Subsequently, three other bishops — in Santa Rosa, California, Arlington, Virginia, and Tyler, Texas — joined the ban, in case Pelosi thought going to Mass outside San Francisco would produce a different result.


GOP Congressman: Pelosi Prioritizes Abortion Over Tackling Inflation, Crime, Border Crisis

By Melanie Arter | June 29, 2022 | 1:46pm EDT

  

Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, speaks during her weekly press briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on May 19, 2022. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)
Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, speaks during her weekly press briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on May 19, 2022. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

(CNSNews.com) - Rep. David Kustoff (R-Tenn.) said Wednesday that the three things that the American people care about right now are inflation, crime, and the border, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is only focused on codifying Roe v. Wade through congressional statute.

Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo pointed out that the Biden administration won’t allow drilling on federal lands, but the Democrats want abortion on federal lands.

“Yeah, that's a great point, and the Democrats are really scrambling, because they are getting pushed so hard and so far from their left side,” Kustoff told Fox Business’s “Mornings with Maria Bartiromo,”

“They knew that this decision was likely coming because of the leak that came out unfortunately from one of the law clerks or the court clerk personnel, but they're going to try to either from an administrative standpoint dictate that these abortions be performed on federal lands within states,” the congressman said.

“Pelosi has already said that legislatively they're going to push as hard as they can to try to -- you will legalize abortion, ratify Roe V. Wade through statute, through codification and the fact of the matter is, listen, people are talking about it in my district, but the 3 things that people care about are inflation, crime and the border,” he said.

“And I bring all of that up, Maria, because if Pelosi really is searching for an answer, the fact of the matter is that in Pelosi's Washington the Democrats – none of us walk and chew gum very well at the same time together,” Kustoff said.

“Between now and the November election, we are in the House of Representatives legislating 23 days, 23 days between now and the election. So every day that she takes up trying to address how to try to, in her mind overturn what the Supreme Court has ruled in this Dobbs case, is a day we’re not addressing these other issues,” the congressman said.

As CNSNews.com reported, according to a new Gallup poll, 67 percent of Americans say they’re experiencing financial hardship due to high gas prices.

When asked what he can do about it, the congressman said, “So from an administrative standpoint when we look at what Biden says, when he talks about this gas tax relief the 18 cents, which doesn't do anything in real terms to help people, he looks -- when he addresses the nation on energy issues or likely any energy issues, he looks weak and feckless, and so there are no solutions. 

“The easy thing to do is to reverse his policies that he put in place at the beginning of his administration, restarting the Keystone Pipeline, encouraging American producers to in fact want to produce.  Instead of Biden going to the Saudis and begging them and Venezuelans to produce more oil, he ought to go to the Texans and the Alaskans in the north and all of the domestic producers and say, ‘I was wrong. Let's do what we did during the Trump years when we were energy independent. We want you to produce domestically,’” he said.

On the question of whether the United States is in a recession right now and whether inflation gets worse because hundreds of billions of dollars in COVID relief funds have yet to be appropriated in certain states, Kustoff said, “So to your point the more money that the federal government prints and flushes into the economy it has a detrimental effect in a recession. It feels like we are in a recession. It feels like we’re slowing down, and to your point, the attitude of people certainly in my district and across the country, they don't feel good about the economy. 

“They don't feel good about the economy for what you said, for what they are paying for gases -- for gas and for groceries, and they open up their 401k statement, and it's really depressing. They tell me they looked at retiring. They’ll have to continue working, because they lost their savings. They’ve lost their investments,” he said.


Exclusive: Blake Masters Urges ‘Pro-Life, Pro-Family Culture’ in Post-Roe America

Blake Masters speaking with attendees at a "Save America" rally at Country Thunder Arizona in Florence, Arizona.
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Arizona Republican Blake Masters is pushing for policies that encourage young Americans to get married and have children, he said during an interview on Breitbart News Sunday.

Masters, who is running for U.S. Senate in Arizona, expressed that in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, state lawmakers should shift their focus to creating what he views as a “pro-life, pro-family culture.”

“It’s a tremendous victory, you know, millions of Americans’ prayers have been answered, and a tremendous victory for life. … Now the fight goes to the state legislatures and governors across the country,” Masters said. “We just have to continue to create a pro-life, pro-family culture in this country again.”

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Masters, who served as president of billionaire entrepreneur Peter Thiel’s eponymous foundation before pursuing political office, has made encouraging the making and maintaining of families a critical element of his Senate campaign.

“The family is the bedrock institution,” Masters said. “The family is so important, and, of course, strong families in the aggregate make a strong nation. You cannot have a strong nation if the family isn’t doing well, if families are unable to form or struggling, and I think too few policymakers, both Republicans and Democrats, frankly, they fail to even talk about this, to acknowledge that the health of the American family, the middle class — Are young people economically prosperous enough to get married and have children? Too few people even worry about this, right? It’s all about GDP or it’s all about wage growth. You know, those things are important, absolutely, but let’s not be so abstract and economic about it. How are families doing?”

Masters is in a tight primary race, taking place August 2, but has built momentum in his campaign through a recent endorsement from former President Donald Trump and polls showing him with an edge over the other Republican contenders.

Should Masters win, he will face Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), one of the most vulnerable Democrat incumbents in this year’s midterms. Masters has zeroed in on Kelly’s vote to preserve abortion access “up until the moment of birth” of a child and the broader Democrat Party push to “dissolve the bonds between parents and children,” particularly in grade schools.

“Unfortunately, the American family is under assault,” Masters said. “I think the left, you know, look at what they’re doing in the schools. They’re trying to dissolve the bonds between parents and children. They’re trying to confuse children about their sexuality and all of this kind of really horrible stuff, but we’ve got to return to this basic question, like, how is the family doing? And we need to support America First economic policy that actually strengthens families, not weakens them. And I think this great Supreme Court decision in Dobbs is of a piece with that, and that’s just really, really exciting.”

Masters, a venture capitalist and author, has a slate of ideas to support his pro-family stance and his vision that Americans could one day “raise a family on a single income.”

The Arizona Republican is, for example, disapproving of America’s generous visa system, which he believes needs to be scaled back. Masters condemns the Biden administration’s lack of border control — resulting in continuous surges of illegal migrants crossing into the U.S. — because of its harmful impact on Americans’ wages. America must also “reindustrialize,” Masters says, to become less dependent on foreign countries for goods such as antibiotics or computer chips.

“Decades of globalization, decades of inflation, kind of made [the single-income family] impossible,” Masters observed.

Continuing on to his policy ideas, Masters said, “One is restrict immigration, especially illegal immigration. Open borders and just a flood of migrants coming here, it really does depress the wages for working-class Americans. It makes it harder for working-class people to work hard and save and get ahead and get into the middle class, and that’s a problem. We need to overhaul our visa systems to make sure that we’re not just kind of importing people en masse from foreign countries to come and do the jobs that Americans are fully capable of doing. … It’s a problem in this country if we can’t make basic things that we need, right, if we can’t make antibiotics, if we can’t make computer chips, right? We need to reindustrialize and make this stuff here in America. Again, that’s both a economic imperative. It’s a national security imperative. But, man, it’s also just, again, good for those families that would now have high-skill, high-wage jobs. … There really is a path back to America being a strong, healthy middle-class country again.”

Write to Ashley Oliver at aoliver@breitbart.com. Follow her on Twitter at @asholiver.

Pelosi got so MAD when he asked that question

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JoVbiIx72Y

  

WHAT DID NANCY PELOSI DO FOR HER CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF MELTDOWN SAN FRANCISCO?   -   NADA!   -  BUT SHE SURE RAKED IN THE MONEY BEING A FAILURE

 https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/03/what-did-nancy-pelosi-do-for-her.html

 

San Fran patrol special officer rips Pelosi's inaction over BLACK crime surge: She doesn't care

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SewBXWKj2g

 

Americans are exhausted of this Nancy Pelosi saga: GOP lawmaker

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E5TrgN-0Yk

 

Watters: The Five (CRIME) Families of the Democrat Party

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBpvvHethg0

 

“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes.  This is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan 


Nancy Pelosi Receives Holy Communion at Papal Mass in Vatican

US' House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attends a mass for the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul on June 29, 2022 at Saint-Peter Basilica in the Vatican. (Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP) (Photo by TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images)
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ROME — Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi attended Mass in the Vatican presided over by Pope Francis Wednesday, and received Holy Communion not from the pope himself but from another priest assisting at the Mass.

It was unclear whether the priest knew who Mrs. Pelosi was or that she has been banned from receiving Communion in her home archdiocese of San Francisco for her aggressive promotion of abortion, which the Catholic Church considers to be murder.

At a reception Tuesday evening at the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See, Pelosi said she was visiting Rome in a private capacity as part of a family vacation.

In 2021, Pelosi praised Pope Francis’ “immense moral clarity,” but carefully avoided any mention of abortion, which Francis has described as “murder” and a “scourge,” likening it to hiring a paid assassin to take out a child. A “just society recognizes the primacy of the right to life from conception to natural death,” he has asserted.

In January 2015, Pelosi said that she knew “more about having babies than the pope,” insisting that a woman has “the right” to an abortion.

In her acceptance speech for abortion giant Planned Parenthood’s highest honor — the Margaret Sanger Award — Pelosi, who identifies as a Catholic, went still further, calling pro-lifers (like the pope) “dumb,” “closed-minded,” and “oblivious.”

U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (R) attends a mass for the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul led by the pope on June 29, 2022 at St Peter’s basilica (TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images)

In a 2015 interview, Pope Francis underscored the paradox of modern secular societies that go to great lengths to protect children from harm, and yet defend a so-called “right” to abortion.

“Curiously,” he said, these countries with very strict laws regarding the protection of minors, who even punish fathers or mothers who spank their children, “have laws allowing them to kill their children before they are born.”

“Those are the contradictions we live with now,” he said.

Following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last Friday, returning the issue of abortion to the states, Mrs. Pelosi called the court’s ruling the cumulation of a “dark, extreme” effort led by the Republican party.

“Because of Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell and the Republican Party, their super majority and Supreme Court, American women today have less freedom than their mothers,” Pelosi said. “With Roe and their attempt to destroy it, radical Republicans are charging ahead with their radical crusade to criminalize health freedom.”

The U.S. Catholic bishops, on the other hand, registered their “joy” over the court’s decision, praising the ruling for overturning an “unjust law” that had resulted in “the deaths of tens of millions of preborn children, generations that were denied the right to even be born.”

For his part, Catholic League president Bill Donohue also lauded the decision as a victory for democracy and a victory for life.

“It is a credit to the Catholic Church that it led the discussion on the morality of abortion for all these years,” Dr. Donohue noted in his June 24 essay. “This ruling makes us proud to be Catholic.”


Polling Shows Dobbs Decision Won’t Help Democrats in November

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A new memo from the Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) showed the Supreme Court’s recent opinion overturning Roe v. Wade after ruling on the Dobbs case would not help the Democrats win over the support of voters in the November election, as they hoped.

Instead, the memo indicated November would be a “referendum on how Biden and his Democrat allies in the states have destroyed our economy” as the percentage of battleground general election voters worry more economy than abortion as a top issue.

As the poll was taken on Saturday morning, in the peak time after the Dobbs ruling, the RSLC feels confident there has been no change from their January survey. “The results affirm that state Republicans remain on offense this year, as they will continue to run campaigns focused on serving as the counterweight to President Biden’s failing economic policies,” the memo stated.

The polling found Biden’s job approval is also underwater, with 41 percent favorable and 57 percent unfavorable. And only 23 percent of likely voters think the country is on the right track, compared to 74 percent who believe it is on the wrong track.

It is just the latest in a long series of public rejections for the president.


Additionally, on the generic ballot, Republican state legislative candidates slightly lead Democrats, 47 percent to 45 percent. In fact, among those surveyed, 48 percent said they would prefer a Republican candidate who would act as a check and balance Biden and his policies versus 44 percent who would prefer having a Democrat who supports the president and his policies.

While abortion is an issue the respondents seemed to care about, it was nowhere close to being a topline issue for voters. Not even close, even after the Dobbs ruling. Instead, over half of the respondents cared about the economy as an issue.

When the respondents were asked which issues were most important, 56 percent said either the high cost of living/inflation, the economy in general, or unemployment/jobs in comparison. In comparison, only eight percent said abortion. Even crime polled one percent higher than abortion:

  • High cost of living/inflation: 37%
  • Economy in general: 16%
  • Crime/Violence: 9%
  • Abortion: 8%
  • Environment/Climate Change: 7%
  • Guns: 7%
  • Immigration: 6%
  • Voting Rights: 5%
  • Unemployment/jobs: 3%
  • Education: 3%

For independent voters, 60 percent said they care about inflation, the economy in general, and jobs as their top concerns. Additionally, only 21 percent said abortion is the absolute most crucial issue to them.

Overall, only 30 percent of the respondents said a candidate’s position on abortion is the absolute most crucial issue to them, compared to 65 percent who said there are other issues that they consider to be a higher priority when choosing who to support in November’s election.

Additionally, less than 40 percent of the respondents said they wanted to prioritize abortion to the extent that they would be unwilling to vote for a candidate whose views do not align with theirs on the issue.

Forty-nine percent of likely voters said they would be willing to vote for a candidate who has a different view from them on abortion so long as they agree with them on most other issues, compared to 37 percent who said they were unwilling to compromise on abortion.

The RSLC’s memo explained that one reason the economy is the most pressing issue for voters ahead of the fall, even in light of the Dobbs ruling, is due to personal finances worsening since January.

Fifty-one percent of the respondents said their personal finances are worse off than they were a year ago, compared to only 13 percent who said they are better off. The majority saying their personal finances are worse off is a 16 percent increase from the RSLC’s January memo. A slightly higher amount of independent respondents (56 percent) said they are also worse off.

Moving into the November election, the likely voters appear to trust state Republicans more than state Democrats when it comes to the economy:

  • State Republicans lead 53 percent to 38 percent on trust to handle the economy in general – up from 50 percent to 38 percent in January.
  • State Republicans lead 51 percent to 39 percent on trust to handle the high cost of living/inflation – up from 49 percent to 39 percent in January.
  • State Republicans lead 50 percent to 39 percent on trust to handle unemployment/jobs – up from 49 percent to 40 percent in January.

As the country is going through skyrocketing inflation, which just saw a 41-year high, 58 percent of the respondents said they supported the Republican position on cutting government spending, reducing taxes, and encouraging small businesses.

This is compared to the 31 percent who supported the Democrat positions of increasing government spending, taxing the wealthy, and imposing more regulations on corporations.

With this, 62 percent of independent respondents had sided with the Republicans’ positions while only 31 percent sided with the Democrats’ position.

The RSLC memo noted:

This data is another reminder that what you see on Twitter and in the press doesn’t necessarily capture reality when it comes to voter behavior. A little more than four months from Election Day, the political environment is still a disaster for state Democrats, state Republicans have a commanding lead on what is far and away the most important issue to voters, and the issues state Democrats are trying to exploit to distract from Biden’s failing economy are not going to be salient enough to save them come November [Emphasis added].

Even with empirical evidence displaying the contrary, we shouldn’t expect to see an end to the Democrat- corporate media joint campaign to make abortion the “game changer” of the 2022 midterms. The media didn’t learn their lesson when they said abortion would hurt Republicans in 2020 after the Amy Coney Barrett nomination and we net-gained two state legislative chambers, or when Democrats made abortion the centerpiece of their campaigns in Virginia in 2021 only to suffer a string of embarrassing defeats and lose the House of Delegates — we shouldn’t expect them to agree with us this time around either [Emphasis added].

[…]

The polling makes clear that we will have a big November if we continue to stay laser-focused on making this election a referendum on the disastrous economic policies of Joe Biden and his state Democrat allies. While Democrats have given us the worst inflation since the Carter years and record-high gas prices, voters across the country support our policies to get the economy back on track [Emphasis added].

Cygnal conducted the RSLC’s poll between June 25 and 26, the two days following the Dobbs decision.

The questions were asked to 2007 likely general election voters in battleground states such as  Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, Maine, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin.

There was also a margin of error of plus or minus 2.19 percent.

Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. Write to him at jbliss@breitbart.com or follow him on Twitter @JacobMBliss.

Christian Pregnancy Clinic Torched in Colorado

Is this what AOC and Pelosi wanted?

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At 3:17 on Saturday morning, a fire broke out at Life Choices, a Christian pregnancy clinic in Longmont, Colorado that offers “’Christ-centered ministry providing education, support, healing, and limited medical services for sexual life choices.” Police regard the fire as an arson attack. The building was also daubed with graffiti reading “Bans off our bodies” and “If abortions aren’t safe neither are you,” along with the anarchist symbol. With all the incendiary language coming from Democrat leaders, the only surprise here is that more such clinics haven’t been torched thus far.

There certainly has been plenty of incitement. One of the rising stars of the Democrat Party, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Swizzle Stick) demanded that pro-abortionists go “into the streets,” and party elder stateswoman Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Eye-Popping Fury) declared, “The hell with the Supreme Court. We will defy them!” The eminent and universally respected speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi (D-Ice Cream Freezer), sent out a fundraising email calling on her supporters to “RISE UP” and “make every last anti-choice Republican REGRET what they’ve done.”

Barack Obama’s call was more muted: “Join with the activists who’ve been sounding the alarm on abortion access for years – and act. Stand with them at a local protest.” At a time when Leftist protests so easily become violent, it was noteworthy that Obama didn’t say anything about protesting peacefully (unlike, say, Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021). Jill Biden tweeted: “For nearly 50 years, women have had the right to make our own decisions about our bodies. Today, that right was stolen from us. And while we may be devastated by this injustice, we will not be silent. We will not sit back as the progress we have already won slips away.” And: “Tomorrow, we will continue to fight — for our daughters and granddaughters, and for ourselves — until all women can decide our own futures once again.”

Well, they didn’t sit back in Longmont, Colo. They fought. Is the torched pro-life clinic, which suffered extensive fire and smoke damage, what all these Leftist leaders wanted? Will they condemn this arson? It’s much more likely that they will ignore it altogether, just as they ignored the Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots of the summer of 2020.

Democrat leaders are also likely to ignore the Saturday morning attack on the Vermont State House, where the attackers also painted “If abortions aren’t safe you’re not either” and caused over $25,000 in damage. Here once again the basic intelligence of Leftist rioters is in serious question. Are they not aware that there probably isn’t a single person in the Vermont State House who is happy that Roe v. Wade was overturned? Do they seriously not know that Vermont is one of the least likely states to outlaw abortion now that states are able to do so? Don’t they realize that Vermont has given us Howard Dean and Bernie Sanders? If this attack had taken place at the state house in Texas or Alabama, it would at the very least make some sense, but Vermont? If anything proved that these thugs are indoctrinated bots bereft of the most elementary critical thinking skills, it was this attack.

Much more important, however, is the Left’s increasing taste for political violence. Remember that the Biden administration refused to condemn the illegal protests at the homes of the Justices who were seen as likely to vote to overturn Roe (and did so). Remember that back in 2018, speaking about the separation of migrant children from their putative parents at the Southern border, Pelosi said, “I just don’t even know why there aren’t uprisings all over the country. And maybe there will be, when people realize that this is a policy that they defend.” At that time, Waters called on her followers to confront and menace Trump administration officials: “If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.” And in 2020, Kamala Harris said of the Left’s riots, “They’re not going to stop. This is a movement, I’m telling you. They’re not going to stop and everyone beware, because they’re not going to stop. They’re not going to stop before Election Day in November and they’re not going to stop after Election Day. Everyone should take note of that on both levels. They’re not going to let up and they should not and we should not.”

As the incidents in Colorado and Vermont have shown anew, they haven’t stopped. And they won’t stop, because the incitement is coming from the top.

Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 23 books including many bestsellers, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)The Truth About Muhammad and The History of Jihad. His latest book is The Critical Qur’an. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.

You Can’t Kill Me Anymore

Thank you, Supreme Court, for doing your job as prescribed by the U.S. Constitution.

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I am extremely happy to be alive.  My wife and I have four beautiful children and four grandchildren. God has blessed me with a life that has been exceptional in many ways. From twenty years in commercial broadcasting, twelve years as a US Congressman, and thirteen years as VP of a firearms ballistic company helping build their technology into the leading ballistics identification methodology in the World, it has been a fantastic ride.

My birth mother decided not to use abortion as birth control. Instead, she walked into the Florence Crittenden Home for Unwed Mothers and gave me my life. Thanking God that she did is the first thing I do every morning as I ride this old rock we call Earth around the sun for nearly the eighty-fourth time.

The narrative built over the years that abortion was a “woman’s right” is invalid.The Supreme Court just invalidated that mode of thought.

A more accurate definition of the “woman’s right to choose”  narrative would be to view abortion as a way of birth control, no different than a condom or birth control pill.  However, wrapping abortion in the emotional blanket of a woman’s right to choose has helped make the issue incendiary on both sides.  Common sense and calm, reasoned debate have not been in place since Roe v Wade was first signed into law. 

One issue both sides agree on is what action to take when a mother’s life is endangered.  Based upon the Hippocratic Oath, an oath of ethics taken by doctors for centuries “to do no harm,” a doctor who makes a well-informed decision that aborting a child is the only way to save a mother’s life, an abortion must be performed.

There will be much cheering on one side and gnashing of teeth on the other.  I pray the demonstration of these feelings is kept civil and does not run rampant out of control.

Regardless of the Supreme Court ruling, I am grateful my mother chose birth over abortion for me.  My life has had its ups and downs, but it was my privilege to have experienced those actions.  The Supreme Court took the correct direction.  Too many people have forgotten that our country’s Constitution is built on Biblical principles.  George Washington is known as the “Praying President.”

I’ll close with a political statement.  Sadly, politicians on both sides of the issue will continue to use abortion for their own personal gain.  Some will be engaged due to strong personal feelings, as they should be.  Bottom line, very sadly, it will get messy with even less honest debate than in the past.

Supreme Court, thank you for doing your job as prescribed by the US Constitution.

Thank you, mom, for letting me live.

Thank you, God, for each new day in this country of laws, not men.

The question of the day is, why have any Republicans voted to confirm any of Biden's Cabinet appointees?  Every one of them has been chosen not for his expertise in any sphere of influence, but for his radicalism; the farther left these people are, the better in Biden's (?) view.  Xavier Beccara probably belongs in prison. PATRICIA McCARTHY

As in 2016, Democrats advance a corrupt ruling-class candidate. Like the dead man Gary Ernst, Democrats want people to vote for Joe Biden so they can swap him out for Kamala Harris, already a beneficiary of voter fraud and with the exception of Xavier Becerra possibly the worst attorney general in California history.

 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.

Biden Admin Weighs Setting Up Abortion Clinics on Federal Lands in Red States: ‘Every Option Is on the Table’

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 28: U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra speaks during a news conference at the headquarters of HHS June 28, 2022 in Washington, DC. Secretary Becerra held a news conference "to unveil an action plan at President Biden's direction" in response to the Supreme …
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President Joe Biden’s administration is weighing setting up abortion providers on federal land in Republican-controlled states, according to Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Xavier Becerra.

Becerra said that “every option is on the table” during Tuesday remarks about the fate of abortion in the United States following the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade.

Becerra said HHS is “aware of a number of ideas and proposals” when asked about the possibility of setting up abortion clinics on federal lands.

Becerra said:

What I can tell you is that we are aware of a number of ideas and proposals, many of which we have been considering internally ourselves. We have made no decisions yet. We certainly would have a conversation with the president to make sure we implement his directives to us in trying to protect women’s reproductive healthcare services.

Becerra’s remarks come after prominent Congressional Democrats have called on Biden to install abortion clinics on federal lands.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is among those who have made such calls. Warren said Biden should “explore just how much we can start using federal lands as a way to protect people who need access to abortions in all the states that either have banned abortions or are clearly on the threshold of doing so.”

“There is much we can do at the federal level administratively under current law. We need to do it,” Warren added.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also urged Biden to do the same, calling the move “the babiest of baby steps.”

“I’ll start with the babiest of the babiest of baby steps: Open abortion clinics on federal lands in red states right now,” Ocasio-Cortez said outside of the Supreme Court on Friday.

Becerra also confirmed that Biden’s administration is looking to preserve access to abortion-inducing medication, calling it “a national imperative and in the public interest.”

Becerra’s remarks seemingly contradict other members of Biden’s White House. On Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris claimed the administration is not considering installing abortion clinics on federal land.

“It’s not right now what we are discussing,” Harris told CNN.

Interestingly, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre rejected the idea on the same day Becerra said it was an option “on the table.”

Jean-Pierre described the progressive proposal as “well-intentioned” but cautioned that there are “dangerous ramifications to doing this.”

 

https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/02/danger-to-american-democracy-three.html

 

Xavier Becerra, currently a 12-year member of Congress, is an admitted member of MEChA, or “Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan,” often likened to a Latino KKK.

Becerra has publicly defended MEChA, even though the Chicano supremacist group evangelizes discrimination against non-Hispanics and calls for the killing of Border Patrol “pigs.” MEChA’s rallying cry is: “For the race, everything; For those outside the race, nothing.

 

CALIFORNIA COMRADES CHOOSE COMRADE HOLDER

https://sacramentocitizen.wordpress.com/2017/01/11/california-comrades-choose-comrade-holder/

 

JANUARY 11, 2017 / KATYGRIMES

Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job. 

Eric Holder

In Part One of this series, we exposed the Chicano Marxist take over of the California legislature and their plans to defy federal immigration laws and expected actions of the incoming Trump administration. Gov. Jerry Brown’s nomination of  Xavier Becerra to be California’s next Attorney General was the first of many steps to protect the pervasive lawlessness of the radical left. Becerra has already taken an aggressive and combative stance against President-elect Donald Trump, vowing to fight Trump’s efforts to enforce immigration laws, and even block attempts to deport criminal illegal aliens. Trump’s campaign centered on building a wall along the United States border with Mexico to keep out illegal immigrants, violent gangs, and terrorists posing as immigrants.

 

Xavier Becerra, currently a 12-year member of Congress, is an admitted member of MEChA, or “Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan,” often likened to a Latino KKK.

Becerra has publicly defended MEChA, even though the Chicano supremacist group evangelizes discrimination against non-Hispanics and calls for the killing of Border Patrol “pigs.” MEChA’s rallying cry is: “For the race, everything; For those outside the race, nothing.

Becerra’s Radical Plans

Recently, the State Assembly Committee on the Office of the Attorney General asked nominee Becerra to detail his plans on the issues of immigration, civil rights, the environment, policing and consumer protection – apparently the only issues the California Legislature is interested in Becerra defending.

In a letter released Saturday, Becerra praised California’s policies helping illegal aliens get driver’s licenses, free college tuition, and free lawyers to represent them in deportation cases, calling it “national leadership.”

“All of these policies and programs are representative of California’s values as a welcoming state,” Becerra wrote to the Assembly committee.

Becerra also took a shot at Trump for proposing to create a registry of Muslim immigrants during the campaign.”Disturbing statements uttered during the recent Presidential campaign have given rise to legitimate fears that the new federal administration might seek to adopt policies that would discriminate against people based on factors such as their religious belief,” Becerra wrote. “Any such policies would be antithetical to the deepest constitutional values and traditions of this nation — a nation founded in part by men and women fleeing religious persecution.”

“I have no intention of allowing this policy through the doors of California,” he wrote.

Like a good progressive foot soldier, Becerra also vowed to fight for abortion, calling it “reproductive freedom.”

Becerra said he will support California’s recent legislation expanding voter registration and participation in elections. He might want to look into the 650,000 newly registered California voters, registered online only weeks before the election. According to the Los Angeles Times, “98% of all the growth in California’s voter ranks in 2016 happened in just the last 45 days of the registration season.”

As Attorney General, Becerra has vowed to continue enforcing policies to combat climate change and work to “transition Californians to a low-carbon way of life.” Becerra added that a part of environmental protections is safe drinking water and vowed to “pursue the goal of providing safe drinking water to all Californians.” Perhaps Becerra can begin by supporting the safe drinking water bills that Assemblyman Devon Mathis has tried to get passed over the last two years?  In Mathis’ district, wells began going dry in East Porterville more than three years ago, with more continuing to dry up every day.

Assemblyman Devon Mathis, R-Porterville, authored the bills to provide $10 million to homeowners (not farmers) to dig deeper wells and clean contaminated ones.

Both bills passed through the Assembly and a state Senate committee without opposition, only to have Senate Appropriations Chairman Ricardo Lara, D-Los Angeles and Mecha activist, put both bills on suspense– one after the other, killing them and depriving 10,000+ low-income individuals access to running water. Sen. Lara was playing politics with this Republican bill, despite the 10,000 poor people who need the clean water.

Sanctuary Cities

California, through its 35 Sanctuary Cities, is clearly violating U.S. Federal Immigration law. Recently, Democrat members of the State Legislature proposed two bills: SB 6 by Sen. Ben Hueso, to create a state program to fund legal representation for illegal aliens facing deportation, and AB 3 by Assemblyman Rob Bonta to create taxpayer-funded training for defense attorneys and public defenders on immigration law for illegal aliens.

And now California is going to try to prevent the new Presidential administration from enforcing federal immigration law despite the fact that the Constitution clearly imposes a duty on the president and the executive branch, to enforce the law.

 

Hiring Eric Holder… for what?

Democrats in the California State Legislature apparently decided Becerra isn’t enough legal muscle, and recently hired former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder to fight a “clear and present danger” from President-elect Trump… the same former Attorney General Eric Holder who was once blasted for helping to trigger a “war” on police and called America  “a nation of cowards” on the issue of race. However, he now says he sees his “younger” self in Black Lives Matter activists… this is who California hired to assist California’s top law enforcement officer?

Since Trump — who is not referring to himself as “The Office of President-Elect,” as his predecessor did — has not yet taken office, nor any official actions, it is hard to see specifically for what purpose Holder has been hired.

There certainly is poetic justice in hiring the failed Attorney General of the failed Obama Administration to defend the failed and deteriorating policies of the Jerry Brown administration and radical Democrats running the state.

Described as a “devious, power-hungry, racial zealot,” Eric Holder is also a dubious choice since he is the only U.S. Attorney General in history to be held in contempt of Congress, when he refused to turn over Operation Fast and Furious documents to Congress. One of the most reckless law enforcement operations ever conducted by the Justice Department, it involved selling guns to Mexican drug cartels, and resulted in the death of a U.S. border patrol agent, Brian Terry, as well as hundreds of Mexican citizens.

Under Holder’s watch at the DOJ Civil Rights Division, more than half of all the lawyers hired were chosen from four radical, anti-American organizations: the ACLU, National Council of La Raza, NAACP, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, and the Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights, John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky outlined in their 2014 book, “Obama’s Enforcer: Eric Holder’s Justice Department.”

Additionally, the Justice Department under Holder, and now Loretta Lynch, has one of the worst records before the U.S. Supreme Court, losing significantly more cases than either of the Bush or Clinton Departments of Justice. “In most administrations, the department wins about 70 percent of the cases before the Supreme Court; Mr. Holder’s department has a losing record and has lost at least nine cases 9-0–even with Obama appointees Elena Kagen and Sonia Sotomayor on the court,” wrote Jared Taylor of American Renaissance, in a review of “Obama’s Enforcer: Eric Holder’s Justice Department.”

Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a records request with the California Legislature Joint Rules Committee seeking to examine legislative records regarding the state’s employment of former Obama U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr.  The record request includes:

All contracts between the California Legislature and former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. or Covington and Burling.

All communications between the California Legislature and former U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. or Covington and Burling about the Legislature’s retention of Holder and/or Covington and Burling.

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.

The hiring of Eric Holder by the California Legislature confirms a lack of confidence in Xavier Becerra by Gov. Brown and Democrats in the Legislature–which must be quite humiliating for Becerra, especially after his promise to uphold California’s “progressive” policies on immigration, Obamacare, energy, and criminal justice. “If you want to take on a forward-leaning state that is prepared to defend its rights and interests, then come at us,” Becerra said, directing his comment to Trump.  Choosing Holder also reiterates the anti-American, anti-Constitution, anti-religion movement of Marxists in America, but particularly in California. The biggest obstacle standing between Marxism and Marxist domination of the world is America, and the U.S. Constitution. And standing between a Marxist takeover of America is California – only when California is destroyed can Marxists proceed.


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