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The mainstream media over the weekend misrepresented President Trump’s remarks about George Floyd, falsely claiming he suggested Floyd would be “happy” about an uptick in U.S. employment in May. What the president said: President Trump, during a press conference on Friday, spoke about the recently released job report showing that the U.S. added 2.5 million jobs in May after several months of increased unemployment after coronavirus shutdowns. The president called it “probably . . . the greatest comeback in American history.” He then pivoted to the protests against racial inequality, when he mentioned Floyd, whose death sparked nationwide demonstrations.

Democrats came under fire for staging a political stunt Monday aimed as an apparent act of solidarity with black Americans and demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd. Just before they introduced a sweeping criminal justice legislation Monday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), joined by over a dozen other Democrats, knelt in silence for 8:46 minutes, the same length of time former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin held Floyd’s neck pressed to the ground with his knee during the fateful May 25 arrest. Democrats were also wearing scarfs made from a Ghanaian textile...

So much to say... 2 full essays I have written became virtually obsolete before being proof-read. Also very busy working these days. But though I would just jump in and say that NOW would be a good time to: * To contact your local Worship Leader to see if they are having service this Sunday. * Having a *private* (very private) meeting with your local law enforcement. Perhaps they could use some "support". (perfect window of opportunity, folks) * Or if their plans are just to surrender, a heads up would be nice, as there may be a need to...

Martin Gugino, 75, was shoved while approaching riot police in Buffalo causing him to stumble backwards and hit his head, resulting in a melt-down of intense fury on social media. Far from being an innocent old man as being portrayed by some, it turns out that Gugino is a longtime hard left agitator. At the time of this writing, it appears that Guginos Facebook and Twitter accounts have been deleted. The accounts, which were researched by RAIR Foundation USA, revealed a seasoned leftist activist who had a self-described “obsession” with Cuba. Gugino has ties to radical socialist Catholic Worker Movement,...

Grouchy Looney Tunes character Elmer Fudd will no longer be hunting wabbits using his signature single-barrel hunting rifle. Warner Bros’ reboot of the show dubbed “Looney Tunes Cartoons” that airs on HBO Max will be stripping Fudd of his gun and will instead arm him with a scythe in his pursuit of the slippery Bugs Bunny. “We’re not doing guns,” Peter Browngardt, the executive producer of the new show, told The New York Times. “But, we can do cartoony violence — TNT, the Acme stuff. All that was kind of grandfathered in.”

Besides the the elderly getting assaulted by “peaceful” protesters as CNN would put it, there isn’t much more humiliating or cringe than watching police officers across the country bow down to protesters in the name of equality or justice or white privilege or whatever the hell is going on but today, we have some good news. They don’t want you to take a knee – they demand it. They don’t want to get along with cops, they want to show the cops that they can get them to be submissive. A Lowell (MA) police officer was recently captured on film...

Minneapolis City Council members are expected to vote today on changes they plan on incorporating pertaining to the police department in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death. The plan was still in the works on Thursday, according to Star Tribune. City officials and members of the Minnesota Department of Human Rights discussed the process of Mineappolis’s probe meant to determine if the city’s police department engaged in racial discrimination in the last 10 years. Today, officials are set to vote on a temporary injunction to immediately halt some MPD practices during an emergency meeting called by Mayor Jacob Frey. If...

She can’t control her streets from rioters but she can use taxpayer money to paint a slogan on the street to the White House. This message in yellow paint spans two blocks on 16th Street to the White House. Alex Leary ✔ @learyreports 16th Street leading to White House is painted with giant yellow letters spelling Black Lives Matter. CNN reported: “The painting of 16th St with “BLACK LIVES MATTER” is an effort not only blessed by Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser but initiated by her,” said the mayor’s spokeswoman LaToya Foster to CNN.

A group of girls in Washington D.C. were criticized for their “white privilege” as they scrubbed graffiti from a federal building vandalized during the protests against police violence towards black Americans. A clip posted on social media shows three young women trying to scrape the acronym B.L.M. (Black Lives Matter) from the Lafayette Building, a federal government office building declared a National Historic Landmark in 2005.

Looters and rioters pillaged a car dealership during the recent civil unrest. According to Motorious, more than 50 cars were jacked from a Dodge dealership in San Leandro, California following mass unrest in the aftermath of George Floyd dying. Yes, you read that sentence correctly. More than four dozen vehicles were taken! Not only that, but the criminals were so emboldened that they filmed themselves doing it!

A shocking undercover video by Project Veritas exposes Antifa’s chilling plot to destroy America from the inside-out and to harass and provoke Trump supporters in the process. Project Veritas is an independent media outlet founded by James O’Keefe. In the four-minute exposé, an Antifa operative reveals that he was with the Rose City Park, Oregon branch of the domestic terrorist organization for some time. He has since left the group. The operative said stealth violence and mob bullying is part of Antifa’s modus operandi.

On May 21, CNN’s “Reliable Sources” newsletter mocked the governor of Florida under the headline “Stuck in his safe space: DeSantis hides on Fox.” The governor holds press briefings to take questions from Florida reporters, but he hasn’t said yes to CNN or MSNBC or CBS, who have all requested an interview. To conservatives, this kind of shaming fails to address that the entire rest of the national media are a “safe space” for Democrats like Joe Biden. CNN would never consider the headline “Stuck in his safe space: Biden hides from Fox.”

A group of about half a dozen suspected looters in Los Angeles was caught on live TV on Sunday as they confronted armed citizens helping the owner of a local liquor store protect their business. The incident nearly got out of hand as the looters gathered outside a liquor store in Van Nuys and squared off with the owner and armed community members for not letting them break into the store and a nearby gold store. “There’s a standoff here arguing about why they can’t break into the place,” said Fox 11 TV reporter Christina Gonzalez during a live broadcast...

Chicago authorities have arrested a man suspected of distributing explosive and incendiary devices both in Chicago and in Minneapolis, Minnesota during the recent demonstrations. On Sunday, the Chicago Police Department apprehended 28-year-old Matthew Lee Rupert of Galesburg, Ill., and charged him with civil disorder, rioting, and possession of unregistered destructive devices, CBS News Chicago reported. Rupert was arrested Sunday in Chicago after returning from Minneapolis where he handed out explosive and flammable devices to protesters and encouraging them to use them against the police, according to a video Rupert posted on Facebook.

United States Park Police officials defended themselves Tuesday from charges that they fired tear gas at protesters outside of the White House, and denied that they dispersed a demonstration just so that President Donald Trump could walk from the White House across the street to the historic St. John’s Church. Trump and the Park Police both ran afoul of mainstream media commentators for the incident Monday, with many on social media claiming that the Park Police used extraordinary and violent measures to disperse a peaceful protest simply so the president could take photos outside of the historic church which was...

Rapper Ice Cube has asked if Donald Trump could become the first U.S. president to nuke an American city after he pledged to employ military force if nationwide riots are not brought to an end. In an address made from the Rose Garden on Monday, Trump described the violent protests as “domestic acts of terror” that law enforcement must “dominate the streets” in order to quell. “If a city or state refuses to take the actions necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for...

An Alabama professor obliquely encouraged protesters outraged over the death of George Floyd to pull down monuments that are “celebrating racism and white nationalism” and gave demonstrators detailed instructions on how to “safely” do it. The thread “PSA For ANYONE who might be interested in how to pull down an obelisk* safely from an Egyptologist who never ever in a million years thought this advice might come in handy,” wrote Sarah Parcak, a professor and Egyptologist at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. In the U.S., the most famous obelisk, a tall upright pillar erected as a commemorative monument, is,...

MOSCOW, May 31 (Reuters) - Russia's space agency criticised U.S. President Donald Trump's "hysteria" about the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nine years, but also said on Sunday it was pleased there was now another way to travel into space. SpaceX, the private rocket company of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, on Saturday launched two Americans into orbit from Florida en route to the International Space Station (ISS), a landmark mission that ended Russia's monopoly on flights there. Trump, who observed the launch, said the United States had regained its place as the world's leader in space,...

Liberal filmmaker and frequent Trump-critic Michael Moore encouraged violent protesters in Minneapolis to “revolt” and “demolish” police stations, all while accusing “White Minnesota” of tolerating the “murder” of black people. Moore’s tweets Demonstrators looted stores, clashed with police, and set stores and various buildings, including a police station, on fire in response to the killing of 46-year-old black Minneapolis resident George Floyd, who died while in police custody on Monday. The St. Paul Police Department stated that over 170 businesses were “damaged or looted” and “dozens of fires” were started.

Hillary Clinton on Friday accused President Trump of “calling for violence against American citizens” when he tweeted about cracking down against riots in Minneapolis -- with Trump’s 2016 rival using the controversy to urge people to work to vote him out of office in November. “The president of the United States is calling for violence against American citizens,“ the former secretary of state claimed. “That is so wrong. We need honest reckoning and reconciliation."