If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. America’s attempt to set up what critics called the “Ministry of Truth” failed miserably last year when the Disinformation Governance Board was quickly set up as an advisory to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – and then quickly dissolved, under massive public pushback. The Board’s head was Nina Jankowicz, whose role some of those same critics, among politicians and media among them, summed up as “misinformation czar.” Let’s say that this is a kind way of saying, “censorship czar.” But, reporting to this effect still personally offended Jankowicz enough to file a defamation lawsuit against Fox News. And now, a federal judge has dismissed that suit. We obtained a copy of the order for you here. Jankowicz stated in the filing that Fox was making false claims about her intent to censor Americans, denying also that she “wanted to give verified Twitter users, including herself, the power to edit others tweets,” or that she was actually fired (rather than resigning). The reason she had to leave the Board, Jankowicz asserted, was the “harassment” she endured because Fox published reports that contained those claims. US District Court for the District of Delaware Judge Colm Connolly, however, dismissed these three arguments. Jankowicz cited 37 statements heard on Fox, but the judge said 36 of them were about the Board in general, not her in particular. And the one instance that could be construed to refer to Jankowicz (her picture was used to illustrate a report about the Board) doesn’t count, either. The Fox report said the Board was “dedicated to working with the special media giants for the purpose of policing information.” The judge decided to express himself plainly: “The statement is not defamatory because it is not false.” And he didn’t stop there: “The Board was formed precisely to police information and to work with non governmental actors,” Connolly wrote. The fact that the Board was to “coordinate” with private companies to tackle what they identified as “misinformation”, is an objective that Connolly said is “fairly characterized as a form of censorship.” As for the claim that Fox lied regarding the Twitter controversy, the ruling reads: “The complaint itself quotes Jankowicz confirming in a Zoom session that she endorsed the notion of having ‘verified’ individuals edit the content of others’ tweets.” Fox commented on this outcome by saying they were satisfied that the court supported the First Amendment, while Jankowicz told her GoFundMe supporters, who are raising funds for her legal fees, that she would appeal. The case is just one episode in the legal battles raging in the US, that fall into the broader category of “supercontroversy” that is the the Big Government-Big Tech collusion. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Disinformation Board Chief Sued Fox News For Alleging She Was Pro-Censorship. A Judge Agreed With Fox News. appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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With every election year comes more and more book tours. Whether it’s First Lady Jill Biden and the children's books glorifying her husband, or a random relative reporting on the life of another candidate, there always seems to be opinions coming out of the woodwork in time for an election. The View from Tuesday morning did not disappoint as Fred Trump, nephew of Donald trump, came forward with his new book along with accusations against his uncle of racism and cruelty, something which was not questioned but applauded by the hosts. From the moment of Trump’s announcement of his running for president, these attacks of his character began, many of them unchecked. It’s one thing to acknowledge a story as possibly legitimate, question both sides, and conclude in a non-partisan way. Yet, non-partisan behavior was never the agenda of ABC or The View, so it was no surprise when Fred Trump was glorified by all of the hosts, not one of them questioning the legitimacy of his arguments, instead joining Fred in bashing the former President: TRUMP: I was very close, yeah. He was my trustee when my father passed away. That didn't work out so well.  [ Laughter ] But -- BEHAR: You can't trust him. That's why. SUNNY HOSTIN: He took your inheritance.     Trump continued explaining his book, highlighting a major accusation against his uncle, claiming the former President told Fred to let his disabled son die (click expand): HAINES: Yes, in 1999, your son William was born with a rare genetic disorder causing severe developmental and intellectual disabilities and you spent years advocating for his care, eventually lobbying Donald to establish a medical fund for William, which he constantly replenished. But just a caveat, he had also taken your inheritance so he and his siblings. So that's why you were in this situation to start with, but later when you called to let him know this fund was running low, you say he made a shocking suggestion to you, so what did he say? TRUMP: You know, it doesn't get any easier to recall this moment, but, yes, the fund, which was only necessary because my inheritance was taken away from me and Mary. BEHAR: Because of him. TRUMP: Because Donald hatched a plan. And he was my trustee, again. I called him to say, Donald, the fund is running low. And without skipping a beat, he said, “Your son doesn't recognize you, let him die, and move down to Florida.” [ Audience reacts ] Now I can't explain how anybody could say that about another human being, least of all your grandnephew. A story which has yet to be confirmed by any other source is sad regardless of its validity, unfortunately, the culture in which we live sees no importance in disabled persons. Fred Trump’s love for his son and outlook for disabled persons as a whole is intrinsically Pro-Life. The empathy which was shown by the hosts of The View was natural yet inconsistent as nearly all of the hosts promote abortion, and in the case of Ana Navarro promote the abortion of disabled children as well. Regardless of the hypocrisy of this one facet of the segment, the interview as a whole, was one of glaring partisan slant, with all questions being softball promotion of an anti-Trump campaign. Fred’s claims were extremely serious and call for equally serious questioning, something which The View was not capable of.   The transcript is below, click “expand” to read: ABC’s The View 07/30/2024 11:27:15 AM EST (...) WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Listen we’re just 98 days until the Presidential election. The nephew of the Republican candidate is breaking his long silence in a new memoir, All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way. Please welcome Fred Trump. [ Cheers and applause ] JOY BEHAR: So, welcome to the show.  FRED TRUMP: Thank you. BEHAR: Nice to have you here. TRUMP: Thank you. BEHAR: There have been countless books about your uncle, all over the place. I mean even your sister Mary, who’s your younger sister, she came here to talk about her tell-all book back in 2020. Now, you have stated -- you have stayed quiet. You have not opened up about this at all until this book came out. TRUMP: Right. BEHAR: So, what made you decide to come out about it now? TRUMP: Well, first of all, it's my story. BEHAR: Right. TRUMP: Told in a way -- I'm really the only one that was with Donald during his formative years through his business career, and through his time in the White House. BEHAR: Oh, Mary was not? TRUMP: No, I was close with Donald. He was the first guy that put a golf club in my hand. BEHAR: I see. TRUMP: But All in the Family was to honor my older father, Freddy Donald’s older brother, who was a caring, charismatic guy, and my son William, a child with complex disabilities, who is the most courageous and inspirational person I have ever met. And he opened the door for me to advocate on behalf of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. To tell their story, I needed to tell the story of the Trump family. Complex, sometimes cruel, you know, every family is complicated. Every family has their crazy uncle at the Thanksgiving table. [ Laughter ]  Donald is atomic crazy. And I've seen it firsthand how he's evolved from crazy to atomic crazy. And I was thinking recently, I wish I had come out earlier with this book because the outpouring of people saying what we are doing to help the disabled has been overwhelming. So, I wish I had done that instead of -- what we did was important, but -- BEHAR:  Well, you did it. SARA HAINES: When it was the right time you got there. But your late father, Fred Trump Jr. Was the eldest of Donald Trump's siblings. He passed away in his early 40s due to complications from alcoholism. Since this is the first time Americans are really hearing from you, you know, you mentioned that your uncle was the first one to put a golf club in your hand. How close were you? TRUMP: I was very close, yeah. He was my trustee when my father passed away. That didn't work out so well.  [ Laughter ] But -- BEHAR: Well, you can't trust him. That's why. SUNNY HOSTIN: He took your inheritance away. TRUMP: See what I did, I let you in on it. BEHAR: You did. TRUMP: But, no we were close. Whenever I would call him, even when he was in the Oval Office, he would answer. He'd leave me messages for my -- me and my family on New Year's Eve. “Hi, this is your favorite President calling, wishing --” So we were close. HAINES: But you call yourself a different kind of Trump, which sounds a little bit more like maybe your dad. TRUMP: Oh I'm definitely like my father. There's no doubt. The good and the bad. Dad, again, was a very caring guy, who unfortunately wanted to live a dream and was crushed by his father, my grandfather, with Donald piling on. And that was tragic because dad - - if dad saw what I was trying to do now, he would have been the biggest fan of it and he would have been out there. BEHAR: But gramps wouldn't have been. TRUMP: No. ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Well and I kind of want to ask about that. You spent a lot of time analyzing your uncle in the book and you say that, you know, this bombastic political force he became on you attribute that to a lot of your family dysfunction. You say your family puts the fun in dysfunction. Is the Donald Trump you grew up the same man you see now and how did his family influence this figure that we now know him as? TRUMP: He was always driven, always driven. In fact, people have said, you know, this story is kind of like a Succession story, the television show. And I said no in that all three of the siblings wanted to take over from the father. My dad didn't want that. My Dad’s dream was to become an airline pilot, which he did. Donald and my grandfather disparaged him for that, in fact, Donald called him a, “Glorified bus driver.” HOSTIN: Wow. BEHAR: Jealous. TRUMP: Well, I'd like to see Donald or maybe I wouldn't like to see Donald fly a plane. FARAH GRIFFIN: No. TRUMP: But Donald was always a driven guy. Hated to lose so when he's called a loser, that drives him nuts. HOSTIN: Oh, that's good information, thank you. [ Laughter] BEHAR: Its going to be rough in September for him. TRUMP: It's going to be tough for him in November. BEHAR: In November, I mean. HOSTIN: Let me ask you this. Back in the 70s when you were a preteen you wrote about hearing your uncle Donald Trump use the worst racial slur, twice. While ranting to you about his car being damaged and you're not the first person to claim that Donald Trump trafficked in this kind of language, right? TRUMP: Right. HOSTIN: Though he continues to deny it, do you have any doubt that you heard that slur? TRUMP: I was there. I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever. Twice he used the "N" word. Now, to put it into context, and what troubles me even more than that is that he did not know who slashed the roof of his Eldorado. GOLDBERG: He assumed. TRUMP: He assumed. HOSTIN: It was a black -- HAINES: The more revealing part. TRUMP: And interesting, Sunny, about the same time I had a bike stolen. I grew up in Jamaica - - we all grew up in Jamaica, Queens. I - - me and my grandparents and Donald and my father in Jamaica Estates, regardless, I had a bike stolen by three black kids. And unfortunately my dad wasn't around at the time, so the police called and said we found your bike. My mom asked Donald if he could go to the police station with me. And they had this kid and I remember he was my age, and Donald was -- he absolutely wanted to see this kid put in jail. And as wise as I possibly could be at 10 years old, I said I don't want to ruin this kid's life. Just think of what that is going to do to this kid, you know? BEHAR: He didn’t care. TRUMP: I got the bike back. I'm fine with it. Flash forward 17 years later, Central Park Five, five kids who were found, were exonerated, he screamed out for the death penalty in a full page ad. (...)   11:38:23 AM EST GOLDBERG: Welcome back. We're here with Fred Trump, Sara has the first question. HAINES: Yes. In 1999, your son William was born with a rare genetic disorder causing severe developmental and intellectual disabilities and you spent years advocating for his care, eventually lobbying Donald to establish a medical fund for William, which he constantly replenished. But just a caveat, he had also taken your inheritance so he and his siblings. So that's why you were in this situation to start with. But later when you called to let him know this fund was running low, you say he made a shocking suggestion to you, so what did he say? TRUMP: You know, it doesn't get any easier to recall this moment, but, yes, the fund, which was only necessary because my inheritance was taken away from me and Mary. BEHAR: Because of him. TRUMP: Because of Donald hatched a plan. HAINES: And you were siblings. TRUMP: And he was my trustee, again. I called him to say, Donald, the fund is running low. And without skipping a beat, he said, “Your son doesn't recognize you, let him die, and move down to Florida.” [ Audience reacts ] Now I can't explain how anybody could say that about another human being, least of all your grandnephew. BEHAR: A blood relative. TRUMP: A blood relative and Donald had never met William. He didn't understand -- BEHAR: Let him die? TRUMP: The inspiration William is to people. Anyone who William meets and if you look at the smiles that he has, he is quite something. BEHAR: That tells you a lot about the man, doesn't it? TRUMP: Yeah, it's -- BEHAR: And his policies will let people die also. TRUMP: Yeah. Yeah, they're -- as I call them, the “Merry and of Miscreants" that he surrounds himself with in Washington. BEHAR: That’s right. Well hopefully we're going to get him out of office. So in the book, you reveal that you did not vote for your Uncle in 2016 or 2020. I think Mary also did not, right? TRUMP: Right. BEHAR: She said - -she has said famously that, “There is not one redeeming quality about this man.” And both times you voted for the Democrat. So is it too much of an imposition to ask you who you're going to vote for in 2024? TRUMP: I believe in policy over politics. BEHAR: Yeah. TRUMP: And without question, Kamala Harris' policies are what I get behind, so I will be voting for Kamala Harris.  [ Cheers and applause ]  And if I'm asked, I will campaign for her without hesitation. BEHAR: Good. FARAH GRIFFIN: And if I could ask quickly, if Donald Trump loses -- you noted in 2021 he lost. He hates losing. We saw what happened on January 6th. If he loses again should we be fearful of what the consequences will be and what he might incite his followers to do. TRUMP: I don't know what the consequences is, but he ain't going anywhere. So, just – he's not going any -- he will not take it. FARAH GRIFFIN: You think he'll run again? TRUMP: Yes. BEHAR: If Kamala wins we're in charge of the National Guard. FARAH GRIFFIN: But state capitals, there's a lot to consider. HOSTIN: I have a legal note. In a statement to ABC News the Trump campaign wrote, quote, “This is completely fabricated and total fake news of the highest order. It is appalling, a lie so blatantly disgusting can be printed in the media. Anyone who knows President Trump knows he would never use such language and false stories like this have been thoroughly debunked.”  TRUMP: Thanks for the publicity, I appreciate it. GOLDBERG: You know what, I want to add something because I'm just -- I'm listening to the book but I don't think we have to fear anything. I don't think anybody needs to live in fear of anyone in this country. We have -- we can do what we need to do but we don't need to be afraid. I don't want anybody feeling like they can't or they're -- what is he going to do – because there are more of us than there are of him.  [ Applause ]  So, our thanks to Fred Trump. The book, his memoir, All in the family: The Trumps and how we got this way is available now. You can get it also on audible, cause Fred is reading it. (...)    

The New York Times had the temerity to actually blame free markets for Venezuela’s descent down the economic cesspool under socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro. Who in their right mind would actually consider Venezuela a beacon of capitalism in South America? Apparently The Times. The newspaper claimed in a July 28 news item that “in recent years, the socialist model has given way to brutal capitalism, economists say, with a small state-connected minority controlling much of the nation’s wealth.” The newspaper, whose report was addressing the dubious presidential election results in the socialist country, cited no specific cohort of "economists" who made the asinine claim that capitalism, as opposed to socialism, was at fault for Venezuela’s economic upheaval.  The leftist rag apparently also didn’t realize the contradiction in railing against a “state-connected minority controlling much of the wealth,” like that has anything to do with capitalism in the first place.  Perhaps The Times should have read its own columnist Bret Stephens’s 2019 piece headlined, “Yes, Venezuela Is a Socialist Catastrophe.” Oof.  Independent Institute Senior Fellow Phillip Magness blasted The Times’s “bizarre interpretation of these events” in a Tuesday op-ed for the Catalyst. He noted that the newspaper's Orwellian revisionism “continues a long line of left-wing apologia around the repressive Chavez and Maduro regimes that have ruled Venezuela for a quarter century.” Magness concluded that “the newspaper ignores the obvious. Nicolas Maduro is an avowed Marxist,” not exactly indicative of capitalist bona fides. A 2021 video cited by Magness shows Maduro extolling Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s infamous Communist Manifesto as “the most important political declaration in 200 years.” The Times didn’t bother mentioning that inconvenient little factoid.  The Times even went so far as to praise Maduro and his oppressive dictatorial predecessor Hugo Chavez’s socialist Chavismo movement, claiming that “initially promised to lift millions out of poverty. For a time it did.”  What the newspaper left out, of course, was the Marxist policies that Chavez implemented that plunged the Venezuelan economy into a death spiral in the first place. Wall Street Journal Chief Economics Commentator Greg Ip wrote in 2019, “Soaring oil revenue in the 2000s enabled Mr. Chávez to embark on a sweeping nationalization of the economy.” He continued, “When oil revenue fell because of mismanagement and falling prices, the government forced the central bank to print money to finance its spending, resulting in hyperinflation and the current economic collapse.” Quaint concepts such as facts and accuracy “have long ceased to concern the editors at New York’s self-designated ‘paper of record,’” Magness rebuked. He’s right on target. In 2020, MRC Business analyzed that in a 1,583-word essay on the Venezuelan oil crash that left behind a “destroyed economy,” it didn’t even bother mentioning the word “socialism” once.   Conservatives are under attack. Contact The New York Times at 800-698-4637 and demand it stop falsely blaming capitalism for Venezuela’s socialist catastrophe.     

Americans fed up with the federal government’s censorship scheme may soon be able to file civil lawsuits against the bureaucrats stifling their free speech online, a newly introduced bill stipulates. The bill, named the Standing to Challenge Government Censorship Act, would prohibit federal workers and contractors from using their positions to instruct Big Tech platforms to censor constitutionally protected speech online. Bureaucrats who break the law would face civil lawsuits from affected Americans. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Reps. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) and Dan Bishop (R-NC) introduced the bill on Wednesday in response to the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in Murthy v. Missouri. The Court ruled that the pro-free speech plaintiffs did not have standing to sue the federal government over its censorship collusion with Big Tech.  The court ruled that the states of Missouri and Louisiana and other plaintiffs did not sufficiently prove that government-Big Tech collusion posed ongoing harm that the court should halt. However, it did not exclude opportunities for Americans to sue the government for damages caused by Big Tech censorship. This legislation would provide a pathway for victims of Big Tech censorship to do that. Media Research Center President Brent Bozell hailed the proposed fix as a “no-brainer” in a joint statement with Republican lawmakers. “Let the people sue government officials who are working on the taxpayer dime to censor everyday Americans. Senator Paul is valiantly defending our Constitutional free speech rights,” Bozell said. Echoing Bozell’s remarks, Paul highlighted the Framer’s recognition of the First Amendment’s importance.  “Our Founding Fathers enshrined the First Amendment to protect our God-given right to free expression, recognizing its fundamental importance to a free society,” Paul said.  The senator stated that the bill would “strip away the barriers preventing judicial review of coercive government tactics that silence dissenting voices.” Hageman, a staunch free speech defender, said that the government “cannot do by proxy what it is prohibited from doing directly,” adding, “This is exactly what happened with the Biden Administration pressuring social media companies to suppress the free speech of American citizens.”  Concluding, Bishop stated, “Malicious actors within government should never be allowed to silence and censor Americans, and Americans targeted by the Censorship Industrial Complex deserve their day in court. This legislation will ensure just that by removing barriers for judicial review and cracking down on those who aim to trample on the First Amendment.” Other organizations endorsing the legislation include the Institute for Free Speech, Heritage Action, Frontiers of Freedom Institute, Americans for Limited Government, Ginn Economic Consulting, Consumer Choice Center, American Commitment, NetChoice and America Matters. Conservatives are under attack. Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on so-called hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

Donald Trump stopped by the National Association of Black Journalists’ convention in Chicago on Thursday for a lively on-stage interview that saw him label ABC “fake news” and get into arguments with moderators over Kamala Harris, JD Vance, and abortion. ABC’s Rachel Scott did most of the questioning, and she led off by recalling, “You have told four congresswoman of color who, are American citizens, to go back to where they came from. You have used words like 'animal' and 'rabbid' to describe black attorneys. You attack black journalists, calling them 'a loser' saying the questions that they asked are, quote, “stupid and racist.” You've had dinner with a white supremacist at your Mar-a-Lago resort. So, my question, sir, now that you were asking black supporters to vote for you, why should black voters trust you after you have used language like that?” Trump replied, “Well, of all, I don't think I've ever been asked a question so—in such a horrible manner. First question, you don't even say, ‘Hello, how are you?’ Are you with ABC? Because I think they're a fake news network, a terrible network." He would go on to hype his record on things such as opportunity zones and education.   Scott: "is that acceptable language (DEI Hire) to you and will you tell those Republicans and those supporters to stop it? Trump: How do you define DEI? Go ahead. How do you define it? Scott: Diversity, equity, and inclusion. pic.twitter.com/GlZlxgvoa4 — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) July 31, 2024   It is also true that Trump calls just about everybody “stupid” or "loser.” Later, Scott tried to get Trump to denounce other Republicans as racist, “Some of your own supporters, including Republicans on Capitol Hill, have labeled Vice President Kamala Harris, who was the first black and Asian American woman to serve as vice president, be on a major party ticket as a DEI hire. Is that acceptable to you? And will you tell those Republicans and those supporters to stop it?” Trump turned the tables on Scott, “How do you define DEI?” Scott could only get tautological, “Diversity, equity, and inclusion.” That’s like trying to determine whether or not a hot dog is a sandwich by claiming the definition of a sandwich is a sandwich. Scott, however, was just getting started. She also wondered about Vance’s childless cat lady comments, “Did you know that he had these views about people who do not have children before you picked to be your running mate and do you agree with him?” Trump, naturally, defended Vance, “He is very family oriented and he thinks families are a great thing. That doesn't mean he thinks that if you don't have a family, it’s not—I know people with families. I know people with great families. I know people with very troubled families, and I also know people with no families. They didn't meet the right person. Things happen. You go through life. You don't meet the right person—” Later still, Semafour’s Kadia Goba turned to abortion, “Do you think the party, the Republican Party's getting a little bit too judgy about people's lives when you think about abortion or when you think about what J.D. Vance is saying?”   Semafour's Kadia Goba: Do you think the party, the Republican party's getting a little bit too judgy about people's lives when you think about abortion...? Trump: I don't think, look, I think that the Democrat Party is really the one that has the problem. pic.twitter.com/3Ym0pPFOnB — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) July 31, 2024   Trump, again, turned the tables, “I think that the Democrat Party is really the one that has the problem. I think they're radical on abortion, because they are allowing abortion in the ninth month—” Goba interrupted, “But, I think it’s about freedom, right?” More crosstalk followed with Trump accusing Democrats of believing that abortion should be legal in the eighth and ninth months, as well as after birth, citing former Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam as evidence with Scott and Goba claiming that wasn’t true. Putting the “after birth” part aside, Goba tried to defend Democrats on late-term abortions, “Well, Democrats have denied—” In reality, several states allow late-term abortions, but Scott and Goba did not set out to interview Trump so much as they tried to get applause from their colleagues, and on the front, they succeeded.   This. https://t.co/Phfsyl8lpa — Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) July 31, 2024  

Nearly 100 years ago, the Ku Klux Klan stormed my great-grandfather’s home in Kentucky, dragged him out of his house, beat him, and carried him to a lynching tree. My grandmother, Lovie Kennedy, witnessed the assault. A small child, she screamed and wept uncontrollably. Her daddy was being executed right before her eyes. Sheryl Swoopes can’t forgive Caitlin Clark for being a white star in a league and sport dominated by black lesbians. Unbeknownst to her and the executioners, her father was a freemason. Standing at the tree, with a noose being prepared for his neck, my great-grandfather made some sort of hand or posture gesture that could only be understood by a fellow mason. Luckily for him, one of the Klansmen was a mason and objected to his killing. His life spared, my great-grandfather and his family fled Kentucky for Indianapolis. For years, my grandmother had an intense fear and hatred of white people. According to her frequent retelling of the story, the fear and hatred fled her mind and soul the moment she accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior.Everyone called her Mama Lovie. The last five decades of her life, she emoted love and positive energy. She dedicated her life to spreading the good news in the gospels, serving the 25th Street Baptist Church, and making sure her grandkids had a relationship with Jesus Christ. I think about Mama Lovie frequently. She passed away 25 years ago. In her final years, she suffered Alzheimer’s disease. Eventually, the only words she could speak coherently were Scripture. She could recite her favorite verses — and she had hundreds — verbatim and where they appeared in the Bible. No one has had more influence on my life than Mama Lovie. Her memory is a blessing and a curse for me. It’s a reminder of the way things were, the way black women used to represent themselves and define their identity by their faith rather than their politics. I thought about Mama Lovie this morning when I reflected on basketball legend Sheryl Swoopes’ intense animus toward WNBA star Caitlin Clark. Earlier this year, when Clark was shattering college basketball records at the University of Iowa, Swoopes trashed Clark as an overhyped gimmick. She claimed Clark was 25, played five or six seasons at Iowa, and shot the ball 40 times per game. It was all bad information.When questioned whether her comments were motivated by bigotry, Swoopes claimed, “Black people can’t be racist,” and that she has white friends. And now, this week, with the WNBA on a month-long Olympics hiatus, Swoopes has returned to her Caitlin Clark bashing. Clark is the overwhelming favorite to win WNBA Rookie of the Year. She remains the biggest star in all of American sports. On her “Queens of the Court” podcast, Swoopes championed Angel Reese as WNBA Rookie of the Year, stated that Clark’s Indiana Fever would make the playoffs without her, and insinuated that a Fever role player was actually more valuable than Clark. Sheryl Swoopes hates Caitlin Clark. Swoopes is using her racial jealousy and Clark’s clout to elevate herself. It’s textbook bigot behavior. She is masking feelings of inferiority with bigotry. The widely repeated trope that “black people can’t be racist because black people lack power” is laughable. The truth is many black people believe their bigotry is justified and acceptable given America’s history. They don’t believe in forgiveness, a tenet of Christianity. Jesus forgave the very people who crucified him. My grandmother, a follower of Christ, forgave the people who attempted to lynch her father. Sheryl Swoopes can’t forgive Caitlin Clark for being a white star in a league and sport dominated by black lesbians. Black women have abandoned traditional Christianity, and black men have followed them. Too many Americans, black and white, have replaced Christianity with the “Black Girl Tragic” religion. They worship delusional, angry black women. You can see it in all walks of life. Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris converted to the faith 40 years ago when she enrolled at Howard University, a historically black college, and joined the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. She eschewed her Indian and Jamaican heritage to adopt a black identity.It’s all lunacy destroying the foundation of American ideals. The Black Girl Tragic religion avoids common sense, fairness, and facts. It rationalizes illogic and rewards emotion. It twerks, gyrates, and ignores negative outcomes. It baits men into thinking and acting like women. It believes words are as damaging as sticks and stones. Sixty years ago, politician Daniel Patrick Moynihan urged President Lyndon Johnson and America to invest in empowering the black man and supporting the black nuclear family. Mainstream media and black elites framed the “Moynihan Report” as racist. Johnson pivoted to the Great Society and empowered the single black woman. These decisions undermined traditional Christian male leaders and produced this new religion — Black Girl Tragic. It’s a cult that rejects Jesus and will choose death over deprogramming.

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk accepted a challenge to a fight from Nicolás Maduro after the Venezuelan socialist president accused him of trying to invade his country with rockets. 'Let's do it. Elon Musk, I'm ready. I’m not afraid of you.' Maduro appeared to be incensed that Musk had been calling on him to accept that he lost the recent presidential election after the socialist declared victory. "Social media creates a virtual reality, and who controls the virtual reality? Our new archenemy, the famous Elon Musk," Maduro said to supporters. "Do you want to fight? Let's do it. Elon Musk, I'm ready. I’m not afraid of you, Elon Musk. Let's fight, wherever you want."Musk has been demanding that Maduro accept the results of the election in Venezuela after media reports and independent vote tallies say the opposition candidate received massive support and had likely beaten the socialist president. Maduro claimed victory without releasing the precinct-by-precinct counts that would have confirmed the results. Musk responded in Spanish, saying, "El burro sabe mas que Maduro," which means "the donkey knows more than Maduro."He followed up by saying, "The people of Venezuela have had enough of this clown." Musk also accepted the challenge to a fight but added, "He will chicken out." Others have derided Maduro for declaring victory in the heavily contested election. U.S. State Department Secretary Antony Blinken issued a statement suggesting the election outcome was not correct."We have serious concerns that the result announced does not reflect the will or the votes of the Venezuelan people," he said. Argentinian President Javier Milei reacted to the election by calling Maduro a "sociopath" and a "dictator." Other world leaders lambasted the socialist and cast doubt on his victory. In Aurora, Colorado, a mob of thousands of immigrants from Venezuela took over a parking lot at a mall on account of the election and fired gunshots in the air while leaving garbage in their wake. The city's mayor demanded an apology from the leaders of the Venezuelan community and received one from SOS Venezuela Denver, a local activist group. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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