“We stared down the unholy alliance of lobbyists and donors and special interests who made a living bleeding our country dry,” Trump asserted, once again embracing the image of the anti-establishment Washington outsider. Setting aside his expansion of the ethanol boondoggle, he’s right. He added, “The swamp is fighting back so viciously and violently. For the last two and a half years, we have been under siege.”
Trump heaped criticism on the Democrats, charging that the creation of Robert Mueller’s investigation was their seeking a “do-over” of the 2016 election. He highlighted the extreme Left’s takeover of the Democrat Party, noting, “There’s so many great things we could do right now in a bipartisan way. But they’ve been afflicted with an ideology sickness that protects foreign borders but refuses to protect our borders; that promotes jobs overseas but allows our factories to close; that promotes democracy abroad but shreds our Constitution at home; that declares support for free speech and free thought but relentlessly suppresses them both; and that constantly savages the heroes of American law enforcement. We don’t want that.”
However, his most critical statements against the Democrats were reserved for the border crisis. “On no issue are Democrats more extreme and more depraved than when it comes to border security,” he correctly argued. “The Democrat agenda of open borders is morally reprehensible. It’s the greatest betrayal of the American middle class — and frankly American life — our country has as a whole.”
He then called out the Democrats running for president: “In the ultimate act of moral cowardice, not one Democrat candidate for president — not a single one — has stood up to defend the incredible men and women of ICE and Border Patrol. The job they do is incredible.” Clearly, Trump still sees illegal immigration as a primary election issue.
Trump also warned, “A vote for any Democrat in 2020 is a vote for the rise of radical socialism and the destruction of the American Dream.” He then urged, “Vote, vote, vote. This time, we’re going to finish the job.”
All told, it was a successful opening rally for Trump. The huge crowd will gin up excitement within his base in Florida, a major swing state he will need to hold onto. On a final note, Trump’s campaign raked in $25 million in donations yesterday alone. ~The Patriot Post
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by Byron York
by Jack Crowe
by John Jiang
{ spectator.org } ~ Responsible people recoil when politically pejorative terms are hurled around. The Left, for example, now calls opponents “Racist!” without any basis... The Southern Poverty Law Center, once an address for identifying true prejudice, now has lost all claim to seriousness by defaming even morally decent, mainstream legal-defense groups like Alliance Defending Freedom as bigots — even as their own conduct has been rife with sexual abuse creating a hostile work environment. On campuses across the country, some professors who cannot be fired, because their academic tenure protects them even when they spout irresponsible and even insane notions, hurl the term “Racist!” at any conservative who comes their way. People who believe in the truth of religious scripture are denounced as homophobes — and, sure, may as well call them “Racist!” too. People who believe that public bathrooms should be individuated by gender are called haters and homophobes — and of course “Racist!” People who condemn Islamic terror are tagged as Islamophobes. Oh, yeah — and “Racist!” The word “Racist!” has no meaning anymore. During the Wasted scumbag/liar-nObama Decade, Holy War rampages by Arab Muslims on Jihad were called “workplace violence,” but opponents of scumbag/liar-nObamacare were called “Racist!” When one compares a contemplative reasoned federal judge who is pro-life with David Duke and Adolf Hitler — well, “Racist!” means nothing. Maybe that is the reason that the true racists —scumbag-Al Sharpton, scumbag-Linda Sarsour, Tamika Mallory, etc. — never are called “Racist!” but instead hurl the epithet at others who simply agree with the economic principles of Milton Friedman or the founding principles of the Constitution. There is no end to the outrageous defamation and hyperbolic character assassination. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is tagged as “racist” by Buttigieg, a squirt from South Bend, who quickly has emerged as strangely obsessed with a perception that Israel is one of the world’s greatest problems. President Trump now regularly is tagged as “Racist!” — a term never used against him through the decades upon decades that he was in public life among the New York glitterati, left and right, Democrat and Republican, scumbag/liar-Clinton and Bush, and even hosted a wildly popular weekly television program on Leftist NBC. He was the darling of late-night talk shows. Jesse Jackson associated with him, Don King, Jim Brown. Suddenly, as he entered a Presidential race and emphasized the need to gain control over the national emergency at our southern border, he was coronated “Racist!” When he saw the chaos and violence and murder at Charlottesville, he forcefully condemned neo-Nazis and White Supremacist extremists, but he also observed that Antifa fascists on the Left also were in the mix and also are despicable, and he correctly distinguished that others among the demonstrators that day were decent people who simply wanted to protect historic monuments to great fallen Civil War heroes like Gen. Robert E. Lee. To this day, the Charlottesville “Racist!” hoax that has been leveled against the President is despicably employed whenever the Left and their media wing have an opportunity. Indeed, in the early days of the Trump Presidential campaign, a similar concerted lie was propagated, tagging him as “anti-Semitic.” As insane as the charge was when leveled against a father of an Orthodox Jewish daughter whom he continues to cherish, a grandfather of Orthodox Jewish grandchildren he loves, a defender and supporter of Israel, and a lifelong friend of Jewish colleagues and employees, nothing seemed capable of stopping that defamation. CNN, MSNBC, all the Left media vehicles on air and in print, just kept pouring it on: “Racist!” “Anti-Semite!” “Homophobe!” “Islamophobe!” All lies, big lies. Damned Lies. And yet more Damned Lies. Such Left Media epithet-hurling now is part of the modern diction and practice of chilling speech and stifling honest debate. Irresponsible name-calling and lying... https://spectator.org/basically-bernie-sanders-is-a-communist/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=2c1e0cfa1b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_18_12_28&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-2c1e0cfa1b-104608113
Within this ideology that’s at the core of much of the policies driving Democrats these days exists the companion of aggressive activism. This often consists of posts on social-media platforms that now operate as rhetorical lynch mobs. Anonymous accounts spew vile comments ranging from rumor to complete slander and libel with no foundation. But sometimes, it becomes in-your-face protests of agitators spewing profanity and hate that may even rise to include violence and assault.
But oh what a great day with the verdict of Gibson Bros v. Oberlin. National Review’s David French sums it up: “An Ohio jury … ordered Oberlin College to pay a business called Gibson’s Food Market and Bakery a stunning $11 million in compensatory damages for defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and intentional interference with business relationships.”
So what happened? French writes:
The facts of the case are egregious. On November 9, 2016, a bakery employee suspected an African-American Oberlin student, Jonathan Aladin, of stealing wine. The employee pursued the student and got in a physical altercation with Aladin and two other Oberlin students, Cecilia Whettstone and Endia Lawrence. Police arrested the three students, and almost a year later — on August 11, 2017 — Aladin pled guilty to attempted theft, aggravated trespass, and underage consumption. Whettstone and Lawrence pled guilty to attempted theft and aggravated trespass. They were not racially profiled. They were guilty of crimes.
Yet students immediately organized a protest of the bakery, publishing and distributing flyers that claimed it was “a RACIST establishment with a LONG ACCOUNT of RACIAL PROFILING and DISCRIMINATION,” and that a member of the Oberlin community “was assaulted” by its owner. Evidence indicated that university officials helped publish and distribute the flyer, including by disseminating it to media.
This was but the beginning of the bakery’s ordeal. The student senate issued a resolution stating that Gibson’s had a history of “racial profiling” and “discriminatory treatment,” and the resolution was posted on campus for “a period of at least one year.” The head of Oberlin’s Department of Africana Studies published a Facebook post declaring that Gibson’s had “been bad for decades” and that “their dislike for black people is palpable.” He said, “Their food is rotten and they profile black students.”
Then, from November 14, 2016, through January 30, 2017, the college suspended all business with Gibson’s.
A jury of locals spoke clearly with the law on their side after they watched Oberlin College fuel the flames of social justice hatred beyond a simple case of shoplifting and assault. That incident could’ve been adjudicated but instead was escalated by Oberlin, that Woke Progressive Institution of Higher Learning™, where people alleged racial profiling and a hate crime toward the assailants contrary to the facts.
The jury’s verdict means that, at least this time, social justice warriors aren’t getting away with their prettied-up brand of hate, assault, and criminal speech. Instead, they have been unmasked to be the criminals they truly are and face a big price tag for it. The news now coming from Oberlin should be cheered throughout the public in our need to reverse and right the decline from civil debate and dialogue to today’s ambush, protest, assault, and intimidation that comes after the offense-of-the-day is identified.
Oberlin College will appeal its ground-rattling verdict to pay $11 million in compensatory damages to this small, family-owned establishment in addition to another state-law-capped $22 million for punitive damage, down from the ruling of $33 million. “Cha-ching” is the sound of justice in this case.
So, what does this mean to conservatives everywhere being sued for this and that? For those being ambushed with shrieks of racism, bigotry, homophobia, etc.? Well, it seems that freedom of speech does come with a responsibility and value.
In Gibson Bros v. Oberlin, the justice system worked to demonstrate that those who cultivate an environment that infringes upon the rights, property, and safety of not just the disgruntled self-identified victims of society, but individuals who are law-abiding and attempting to operate within a framework of a civil society, will be held accountable and even financially responsible for their role in organizing, equipping, and mobilizing the actions, aggressions, and illegal assaults of the vigilantes of victimhood they instigate.
Remember, in the minds and world of “progressive” leftists, they get to determine and dictate who lives as the offended, the down-trodden, and those deserving of some measure of social justice dished out by the mobs of mouthy militants. It’s great to see, and hopefully the first of many situations in which Rule of Law protects all.
Let’s not only unmask the perpetrators of this unacceptable behavior destroying our politics and polite society; let’s completely dismantle it. ~The Patriot Post
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