Trump supporter loses her job on hit Star Wars TV show
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Interesting to note that Lucasfilm does not fire her co-star for doing the exact same thing.... except his Tweets targeted Trump and conservatives. The liberal bias in Hollywood is still very much alive.
'Mandalorian' fans baffled after Gina Carano was fired but Pedro Pascal wasn't: 'Clear hypocrisy at Lucasfilm'
'Pedro Pascal can hyperbolically compare Trump's politics to Nazi Germany, but Gina Carano can't,' Tim Young said
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/mandalorian-gina-carano-fired-pedro-pascal-lucasfilm
'Mandalorian' fans baffled after Gina Carano was fired but Pedro Pascal wasn't: 'Clear hypocrisy at Lucasfilm'
'Pedro Pascal can hyperbolically compare Trump's politics to Nazi Germany, but Gina Carano can't,' Tim Young said
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/mandalorian-gina-carano-fired-pedro-pascal-lucasfilm
one's an accurate comparison (as seen by Trump's toddler concentration camps), while the other is a fantasy. Also, liberals having a bias? Whaaa?
Next thing you'll tell me Hollywood doesn't have a #NoFatChicks policy.
“Hypocrisy” is universally spelled wrong, according to some. Instead, it should be spelled “Democrats”.
The following article is from Newsweek, no less. It seems the actions of Democrats and big tech over the years are finally being considered dangerous to our freedoms and are being taken seriously. Further, a formidable group of 74,000,000 million voters/consumers are seemingly feeling disenfranchised, even if recent elections were completely legitimate in every form and manner.
It comes down to representation. The key for effective governance is relative balance. Sure, the winning political party is right to take care of there supporters, within reason. However, when the Democrats unfairly persecute the other side’s leadership and their beliefs, a line has been crossed. Sure Trump has his issues, but the fact is, he is beloved by many for his “Put America first” doctrine after many years of Americans being shamed by their own media. The Democrats now control all three branches of Federal Government, although Interesting they are still not satisfied. As time continues on, the state of our union will become increasingly associated with Democrats governance.
In other words, for better or worse, the Democrats will reap what they sow, and in fairly short order. Hopefully, Democrats finally look at the big picture and take a more inclusive approach, for the feeling of entrenchment is one thing, and being widely respected and actually secure is something else all together.
Overwrought Nazi Analogies for Me, but Not for Thee?
Earlier this week, Lucasfilm severed ties with "The Mandalorian" actress Gina Carano after a hyperbolic social media post in which she compared current political imperiousness and cancel culture in the United States—and the treatment of "wrong-thinking" Americans who hold views at odds with those of ruling class elites—to the 1930s-era treatment of German Jewry by the then-ascendant Nazi regime. "Most people today don't realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews," Carano wrote in her now-deleted post.
Let's first stipulate that Carano's post (which, it must be reiterated, is now deleted) was over-the-top. As bad as cancel culture is in the United States in the year 2021—and it is very, very bad, and will only get worse—it is both rhetorically inflammatory and dishonorable to the memories of exterminated European Jews to compare the present plight of us American conservatives with the nightmarish regime of Kristallnacht (to say nothing, of course, of the Shoah itself). The mere fact that blue-checked conservatives on Twitter often openly joke about being forcibly deported to "the camps" reveals how unlikely such a scenario, in reality, actually is.
But Carano deleted the post. And more broadly: Let those among us who have not ever made a gratuitous and regrettable social media post cast the first stone.
Carano's tale, in isolation, would be bemusing but hardly newsworthy. What makes this story affirmatively galling is how it yet again evinces an ever-widening chasm between ruling class elites and the dissident "deplorables" over whom they deign to rule.
As radio host and blogger Erick Erickson pointed out Thursday morning, "The Mandalorian" star Pedro Pascal has a still-active tweet from 2018, captioned with "#ThisIsAmerica" and juxtaposing photos of concentration camp-bound Jews in prisoner clothing with what appear to be illegal alien children detained behind bars at the U.S. southern border (a practice largely begun by then-President Barack Obama, actually). Naturally, Carano was fired for her deleted post, but Pascal will keep his perch.
Actress Gina CaranoRODIN ECKENROTH/WIREIMAGE/GETTY IMAGES
More generally, the American Left has spent large swaths of the past four years hysterically comparing then-President Donald Trump, whose daughter is an Orthodox Jew and who is likely the most aggressively pro-Jewish president in American history, to Adolf Hitler. It would be trite, not to mention impossible, to enumerate all the examples. The armchair sloganeering and rote analogizing were truly ubiquitous across CNN, MSNBC and the other myriad bastions of progressive media or cultural clout. It became old hat to compare Antifa, properly understood as a domestic terror organization, to the valiant American patriots who stormed the beach of Normandy on D-Day—thus equating the Trump administration with the Third Reich.
But even more egregious was then-President-elect Joe Biden's post-Capitol riot comparison of Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)—brilliant constitutional attorneys in their previous careers who, in challenging part of the 2020 Electoral College results, did something Democrats have done each time a Republican has won the presidency this century—to infamous Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, a man who arguably has more Jewish blood on his hands than anyone besides Hitler and Heinrich Himmler themselves. Speaking two days after the Capitol riot, Biden expressly invoked Goebbels' name and accused Cruz and Hawley of helping to spread the "big lie." (Cruz, it should be noted, is by word and deed likely the single most philo-Semitic and pro-Israel member of either house of Congress.) The smear was quickly parroted by other national Democratic leaders.
Biden's slur was, in a nutshell, revolting. It is, or at least ought to be, far beneath the dignity of the leader of the free world to casually besmirch high-ranking political foes as active, literal Nazis. But Biden's remarkable Freudian slip did not occur in a vacuum; rather, it was the natural culmination of a years-long leftist campaign, which commenced in the pre-Trump era but rapidly accelerated during the 45th president's tumultuous tenure, to equate conservatism with Nazism. Perhaps some on the Left earnestly believe this, and some believe it to merely be tactically helpful. It is unclear.
What is clear is how deeply shameful the whole spectacle is. And not just shameful, but deeply hypocritical, to boot. Just ask Gina Carano, who was canceled for a post that was relatively subdued compared with Biden's abhorrent slander. Conservatives might be forgiven for wondering if Biden himself should be canceled next.
Josh Hammer is Newsweek opinion editor, a syndicated columnist and a research fellow with the Edmund Burke Foundation. Twitter: @josh_hammer.
The views expressed in this article are the writer's own.
https://www.newsweek.com/overwrought-nazi-analogies-me-not-thee-opinion-1568759
The following article is from Newsweek, no less. It seems the actions of Democrats and big tech over the years are finally being considered dangerous to our freedoms and are being taken seriously. Further, a formidable group of 74,000,000 million voters/consumers are seemingly feeling disenfranchised, even if recent elections were completely legitimate in every form and manner.
It comes down to representation. The key for effective governance is relative balance. Sure, the winning political party is right to take care of there supporters, within reason. However, when the Democrats unfairly persecute the other side’s leadership and their beliefs, a line has been crossed. Sure Trump has his issues, but the fact is, he is beloved by many for his “Put America first” doctrine after many years of Americans being shamed by their own media. The Democrats now control all three branches of Federal Government, although Interesting they are still not satisfied. As time continues on, the state of our union will become increasingly associated with Democrats governance.
In other words, for better or worse, the Democrats will reap what they sow, and in fairly short order. Hopefully, Democrats finally look at the big picture and take a more inclusive approach, for the feeling of entrenchment is one thing, and being widely respected and actually secure is something else all together.
Overwrought Nazi Analogies for Me, but Not for Thee?
Earlier this week, Lucasfilm severed ties with "The Mandalorian" actress Gina Carano after a hyperbolic social media post in which she compared current political imperiousness and cancel culture in the United States—and the treatment of "wrong-thinking" Americans who hold views at odds with those of ruling class elites—to the 1930s-era treatment of German Jewry by the then-ascendant Nazi regime. "Most people today don't realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews," Carano wrote in her now-deleted post.
Let's first stipulate that Carano's post (which, it must be reiterated, is now deleted) was over-the-top. As bad as cancel culture is in the United States in the year 2021—and it is very, very bad, and will only get worse—it is both rhetorically inflammatory and dishonorable to the memories of exterminated European Jews to compare the present plight of us American conservatives with the nightmarish regime of Kristallnacht (to say nothing, of course, of the Shoah itself). The mere fact that blue-checked conservatives on Twitter often openly joke about being forcibly deported to "the camps" reveals how unlikely such a scenario, in reality, actually is.
But Carano deleted the post. And more broadly: Let those among us who have not ever made a gratuitous and regrettable social media post cast the first stone.
Carano's tale, in isolation, would be bemusing but hardly newsworthy. What makes this story affirmatively galling is how it yet again evinces an ever-widening chasm between ruling class elites and the dissident "deplorables" over whom they deign to rule.
As radio host and blogger Erick Erickson pointed out Thursday morning, "The Mandalorian" star Pedro Pascal has a still-active tweet from 2018, captioned with "#ThisIsAmerica" and juxtaposing photos of concentration camp-bound Jews in prisoner clothing with what appear to be illegal alien children detained behind bars at the U.S. southern border (a practice largely begun by then-President Barack Obama, actually). Naturally, Carano was fired for her deleted post, but Pascal will keep his perch.
Actress Gina CaranoRODIN ECKENROTH/WIREIMAGE/GETTY IMAGES
More generally, the American Left has spent large swaths of the past four years hysterically comparing then-President Donald Trump, whose daughter is an Orthodox Jew and who is likely the most aggressively pro-Jewish president in American history, to Adolf Hitler. It would be trite, not to mention impossible, to enumerate all the examples. The armchair sloganeering and rote analogizing were truly ubiquitous across CNN, MSNBC and the other myriad bastions of progressive media or cultural clout. It became old hat to compare Antifa, properly understood as a domestic terror organization, to the valiant American patriots who stormed the beach of Normandy on D-Day—thus equating the Trump administration with the Third Reich.
But even more egregious was then-President-elect Joe Biden's post-Capitol riot comparison of Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)—brilliant constitutional attorneys in their previous careers who, in challenging part of the 2020 Electoral College results, did something Democrats have done each time a Republican has won the presidency this century—to infamous Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, a man who arguably has more Jewish blood on his hands than anyone besides Hitler and Heinrich Himmler themselves. Speaking two days after the Capitol riot, Biden expressly invoked Goebbels' name and accused Cruz and Hawley of helping to spread the "big lie." (Cruz, it should be noted, is by word and deed likely the single most philo-Semitic and pro-Israel member of either house of Congress.) The smear was quickly parroted by other national Democratic leaders.
Biden's slur was, in a nutshell, revolting. It is, or at least ought to be, far beneath the dignity of the leader of the free world to casually besmirch high-ranking political foes as active, literal Nazis. But Biden's remarkable Freudian slip did not occur in a vacuum; rather, it was the natural culmination of a years-long leftist campaign, which commenced in the pre-Trump era but rapidly accelerated during the 45th president's tumultuous tenure, to equate conservatism with Nazism. Perhaps some on the Left earnestly believe this, and some believe it to merely be tactically helpful. It is unclear.
What is clear is how deeply shameful the whole spectacle is. And not just shameful, but deeply hypocritical, to boot. Just ask Gina Carano, who was canceled for a post that was relatively subdued compared with Biden's abhorrent slander. Conservatives might be forgiven for wondering if Biden himself should be canceled next.
Josh Hammer is Newsweek opinion editor, a syndicated columnist and a research fellow with the Edmund Burke Foundation. Twitter: @josh_hammer.
The views expressed in this article are the writer's own.
https://www.newsweek.com/overwrought-nazi-analogies-me-not-thee-opinion-1568759
Let’s be clear here, advocating for lower taxes, less regulations etc is conservative ideas.
Blindly accusing black Americans in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Detroit, Milwaukee of voter fraud with no evidence is racist.
This woman lost her job not for conservative principles but for spreading racist lies.
Blindly accusing black Americans in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Detroit, Milwaukee of voter fraud with no evidence is racist.
This woman lost her job not for conservative principles but for spreading racist lies.
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Well... just to make things clear -- Philadelphia has a long history of election fraud dating back into the 1800s. There are entire sketch books dedicated to election fraud in Philadelphia and artists who made a living off of making drawings of it in action.
Even in recent years the election fraud in Philadelphia has been corrupt from the top election officials on down. There are regular calls from local new media in the city for investigations into the election fraud.
Philly's long history of corruption includes judge convicted of bribery to cast fraudulent ballots
Just six months ago, a former Philadelphia Judge of Elections was convicted for his role in accepting bribes to cast fraudulent ballots and certifying false voting results during the 2014, 2015, and 2016 primary elections.
November 6, 2020
https://justthenews.com/politics-po...ruption-includes-judge-convicted-bribery-cast
Did Dead People Vote in Philadelphia?
It's time for a real investigation into how we run elections in this city.
https://www.phillymag.com/news/2012/11/16/election-dead-people-vote-philadelphia/
11/16/2012
Once again, the voting process in Philadelphia is a joke told over and over again on national newscasts. Every four years, the fairness of voting in the city is questioned, and every four years, the suspicions and allegations swirl without investigation.
Such was the case in 2008, when Acorn was caught red-handed filling voter rolls with names out of the phone book and false signatures, while Black Panther members intimidated voters with billy clubs. It is the case again this year with questionable turnout, vote returns, voter rolls, poll-place shenanigans and the Black Panthers‘ encore.
There can be little doubt that these same antics occur every year, but only get scrutiny with the spotlight of a presidential election. Every time it is exposed, there are outcries, followed by a call for hearings and investigations, and nothing happens.
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Of course Philadelphia already has a reputation as the most corrupt city in America. Nobody is surprised when the corruption carries over to the elections.
Is Philadelphia the Most Corrupt City in America?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/jp3vak/is-philadelphia-the-most-corrupt-city-in-america
This all being said there does not seem to be any proof found of election fraud in the November 2020 general election in Philly -- this may be due to the significant visibility being placed on the election... or others would say that it is once again a lack of investigation. At this point any of the "proof" submitted does not appear to show voting fraud by the voters showing up at the polls in Philly. However the problem in Philly in recent years has usually been more wholesale election fraud by officials.
However the point remains -- stating large Democratic cities have a long history of election fraud is not a racist comment ---- it is a fact proven by a lengthy history -- that extends all the way back into time when whites were significant majorities in these cities and the elections (and the fraud) were more impacted by pro-union versus anti-union and immigration (Irish, Italian, etc.) than black/white race.
Im sorry, and what was the basis to accuse voters in Philadelphia of voter fraud in 2020?
just GWB reaching for his red hat
Once again... accusing cities of election fraud that have a long history of election fraud is not a racist accusation.
You better have evidence to back it up in the courts however if you want to change the vote count for a particular election.