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October Surprise Watch 10/22 The Racism is the Point [1]
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Date: 2022-10-22
There is other major news, but too much of it is tied to racism. The main problem Wrong-Wingers have with President Biden is their idea that he is a race traitor. The problem with elections is increasing diversity and wokeness. The moral panic about politicians being Soft on Crime is rooted in racism, going back to Chinese and opium, Mexicans “hopped up” on weed, cocainized Blacks, and so on. Our police, military, school systems, and other parts of government are riddled with explicit racism, authoritarianism, and pseudo-religious Dominionism.
Anti-anti-racism
The Heritage Foundation is complaining bitterly.
The Rise of Wokeness in the Military
Thomas Spoehr @TomSpoehr Director, Center for National Defense Thomas W. Spoehr conducts and supervises research on national defense matters.
Precious time and money are being poured into woke programs and projects that would be better applied towards making the military more capable. The following is adapted from a talk delivered on July 20, 2022, at the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on Hillsdale’s Washington, D.C. campus, as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series. Complaints by veteran soldiers about younger generations who lack discipline and traditional values are as old as war itself. Grizzled veterans in the Greek phalanx, Roman legions, and Napoleon’s elite corps all believed that the failings of the young would be the ruin of their armies. This is not the chief worry of grizzled American veterans today. The largest threat they see by far to our current military is the weakening of its fabric by radical progressive (or “woke”) policies being imposed, not by a rising generation of slackers, but by the very leaders charged with ensuring their readiness. Wokeness in the military is being imposed by elected and appointed leaders in the White House, Congress, and the Pentagon who have little understanding of the purpose, character, traditions, and requirements of the institution they are trying to change. The push for it didn’t begin in the last two years under the Biden administration—nor will it automatically end if a non-woke administration is elected in 2024. Wokeness in the military has become ingrained. And unless the policies that flow from it are illegal or directly jeopardize readiness, senior military leaders have little alternative but to comply.
Heritage is trying to tell you that we want soldiers who want to kill supposed subhumans, such as we saw in Vietnam. This goes back to Truman desegregating the military starting in 1948, and the move among Southern segregationist Democrats to bolt to the Republicans, let by Strom Thurmond. (And good riddance, even with a half century of the Southern Strategy and its extensions that followed.)
Racist-and-Ganef-in-Chief
Subpoena served, published
x NEWS: The Jan. 6 select committee has formally subpoenaed Donald TRUMP, commanding him to appear for testimony on Nov. 14.
The panel wants documents from him by Nov. 4.
https://t.co/kJcQRQ7y2V pic.twitter.com/IZASdfRCtP — Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) October 21, 2022
It’s almost written as an indictment.
Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman
CNN: Washington Post: Some documents seized at Mar-a-Lago contained sensitive secrets about Iran and China
Disclosure of the documents’ contents could expose US intelligence-gathering methods, people familiar with the matter told the Post. At least one of the documents describes Iran’s missile program and others described highly sensitive intelligence involving China. Trump says 15 Mar-a-Lago records, including clemency requests, are his The Post’s sources characterized the documents as among the most sensitive recovered by the FBI since it began its investigation of the former President and his aides into the potential mishandling of classified information.
Racism Wherever
WaPo: ‘Gaffes’ aside, I once assumed GOP goodwill on race. I was wrong. By MichaelGerson [heavily paywalled] It was true until bogus Libertarian Goldwater decided to run on States Rights (to oppress their citizens), and steamrolled the rest of the Party. What does the return of unvarnished racism to the center of our political culture mean? Yeah, a lot of us already knew, and don’t need it explained again. If that isn’t you, go get educated. The information is all public, now that the worst of the worst are saying screaming the quiet parts out loud.
AP: Twitter, Instagram block Kanye West over antisemitic posts
Kanye West once suggested slavery was a choice. He called the COVID-19 vaccine “the mark of the beast.” Earlier this month, he was criticized for wearing a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt to his collection at Paris Fashion Week. Now the rapper who is legally known as Ye is again embroiled in controversy — locked out of Twitter and Instagram over antisemitic posts that the social networks said Sunday violated their policies. In one post on Twitter, Ye said he would soon go “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE,” according to internet archive records, making an apparent reference to the U.S. defense readiness condition scale known as DEFCON.
Nowsweek: Republican Tuberville Accused of 'Open Appeal to Racism' at Trump Rally
Tuberville, an Alabama Republican who was previously Auburn University's head football coach, gave a speech at the rally in support of Trump-backed candidates Adam Laxalt and Joe Lombardo, who are running in the state's highly competitive Senate and gubernatorial races. During his speech, he attacked Democrats as being weak on crime. Crime remains a major issue for millions of voters ahead of the November midterm elections. Democrats have pushed for criminal justice reform policies to fix what they view as a system that perpetuates racial inequality. Republicans, however, say these reforms actually lead to an increase in crime. "They want crime because they want to take over what you've got. They want to control what you have," he said to the cheering crowd. "They want reparations because they think that the people who do the crime are owed that."
x BREAKING: A Miami judge DISMISSED a voter fraud charge filed against one of the 20 people charged by Ron DeSantis’ new Election Crimes Unit, saying the unit overreached its power. — Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) October 21, 2022
x This is the environment in which the former president, Tucker Carlson, and the GOP are actively spreading antisemitism.
Giving them a pass is not an option. pic.twitter.com/nH7FAiVOzu — Elad Nehorai (@EladNehorai) October 20, 2022
x The Oppression of Uyghurs in China: VW Under Fire for Ongoing Operations in Xinjiang - DER SPIEGEL
https://t.co/gZcjD1DPiK — nana (@dbufrvsyv) October 22, 2022
From Covid to Blackface on TV, China’s Racism Problem Runs Deep
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