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The Biden administration’s $7.5 billion investment in electric vehicle (EV) charging stations is progressing a tad slowly. Only seven or eight stations have been built since 2021. They promised 50,000 a year, but we got four instead. The administration’s 100% failure rate continues. Secretary Buttigieg was known as Pothole Peter when he was a mayor […] The post Buttigieg Built 4 Charging Stations a Year Instead of 50,000 appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Democratic political strategist James Carville said late last week that his party’s messaging is atrocious and that it’s one of the primary reason that young and black voters are abandoning the party. Carville made the remarks during a video posted online for Politicon where he argued that Democrats are focused on the wrong things. “We keep wondering why these young people are not coming home to the Democrats,” Carville said. “Why are Blacks not coming home to the Democrats? Because Democrat messaging is full of s**t, that’s why.” He said that the party should “talk about cost of living, and ‘we’re going to help deal with this.’ Don’t talk about f***ing Gaza and student loans.” He noted that polling has shown that the issues Americans care about the most are all related to the economy — not Gaza and not student loans. “Why are we forgiving student loans for people that go to Harvard?” Carville asked. “Which — according to Scott Galloway, quite accurately, is nothing but a hedge fund that has classrooms — well, they got a $52 billion f***ing surplus. Why are taxpayers gonna bail these people out?” WATCH: James Carville: “We keep wondering why these young people are not coming home to the Democrats. Why are blacks not coming home to the Democrats? Because Democrat messaging is full of shit, that’s why.” Democrats went from “It’s the economy, stupid!” to “You’re stupid if you… pic.twitter.com/9q2Rpipu7f — Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) May 25, 2024

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) slammed the International Criminal Court during an interview over the weekend over the arrest warrant applications that they filed for Israeli leaders last week. The ICC filed for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for what they claimed were war crimes in Israel’s war against the Hamas terrorist organization. Moskowitz made the remarks during a Sunday interview on “Fox News Sunday” with host Shannon Bream when asked about the development from last week. “When [Syrian dictator] Assad killed 300,000 civilians using chemical weapons if you recall, which was a red line for this country, did the ICC go after Assad? No, they didn’t because they said Syria was not a party to the ICC,” he said. “People have asked them to look at the human rights violations in China, have they gone after China? No, the ICC has specifically said China is not a party to the ICC.” “But is Israel a party to the ICC? They are not, and yet they are now going after Israel,” he continued. “This is totally political. The ICC is irrelevant. They have no jurisdiction. We might as well call them the Harry Potter Ministry of Magic. They’re irrelevant because Israel is not a party to their treaty.” WATCH: WATCH: @JaredEMoskowitz to discuss the ICC’s warrants for Israeli officials and why he rebukes President Biden’s pause on weapons shipments to Israel. pic.twitter.com/t1Mtxvk8wT — Fox News Sunday (@FoxNewsSunday) May 26, 2024 Related: Biden Rejects ICC’s Arrest Warrants Against Israeli Leaders: ‘What’s Happening Is Not Genocide’

A candle lit from France’s Flame of Liberty arrived at Arlington National Cemetery on May 24, just ahead of the Memorial Day holiday, and will burn there until June 6th — the 80th anniversary of Operation Overlord: D-Day. French President Emmanuel Macron lit the candle 0n May 8 — from the Flamme de la Liberté at the Arc de Triomphe. Le 8 mai 1945 marquait la fin d’une période de terreur indélébile. Il ouvrait au même moment une ère de paix que nous devons à tout prix préserver. Que la flamme du Soldat inconnu ne cesse de raviver cette mémoire. pic.twitter.com/a4vO8woSkM — Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) May 8, 2024 The candle was then carried by a special delegation from Paris to the U.K.; then across the Atlantic to New York Harbor aboard the Queen Mary 2; and finally to Arlington. France’s flame has been burning since 1923, when it was established as part of a memorial at their tomb of the unknown soldier shortly after the end of World War I. On the eve of #MemorialDayWeekend, the Flame of Liberty arrived in Arlington. It traveled (and was kept burning?) from Paris, via the UK, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of #DDay & to thank the British and American forces who helped liberate our country. #LestWeForget ?????? pic.twitter.com/VSzuPBuBim — Aurélie Bonal (@AurelieBonal) May 25, 2024 The “Flame of Liberty” effort is honoring the 80th anniversary of D-Day by carrying a light lit in the eternal flame that burns for France’s Unknown Soldier. The lantern has passed through the UK and NY and will arrive at the US Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington today. pic.twitter.com/Vi8xlW43AY — Laurent Bili (@FrenchAmbUS) May 24, 2024 Today at @ArlingtonNatl the Flame of Liberty – which has traveled from France – was transferred to the Tomb Guards to safeguard until June 6th – the 80th Anniversary of D-Day! @franceintheus Ambassador Bili and Defense Attache Jardin attended. #NeverForget @RobertIrvine pic.twitter.com/VJoF7vY1bR — Phyllis Wilson (@wilson_phyllis) May 25, 2024 Helen Ayer Patton, granddaughter of General George S. Patton, was part of the delegation — and she told The Daily Wire that the journey itself was not without surprises. The week at sea passed pleasantly enough, she said, and the views of the Statue of Liberty and Freedom Tower as they approached were stunning. When the Queen Mary docked, even the ship’s staff commented on how smooth the trip had been — one of the smoothest journeys ever. But just as they began to disembark, the skies opened up and a deluge swept through the city. They were forced to return to the ship to weather the storm — a move that Patton said may have literally saved lives. They were scheduled to hold a ceremony on shore immediately after they docked, but the tents that were set up to accommodate the ceremony collapsed in the storm. If the delegation had already been under the tents — a delegation that included several D-Day veterans, one of whom is over 100 years old — someone could have been seriously injured or worse. Patton shared the same story on her Facebook page a short time later, concluding, “Thank you to the powers that be for restoring good weather just in time when we needed it … God winks!”  

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) said over the weekend that if Republicans control the entire federal government in 2024 that there will be major changes coming to border security and the number of illegal aliens in the U.S. Donalds made the remarks during a Sunday interview on “Fox News Sunday” with Shannon Bream when asked about what promises he could make to the American people about what will change if Republicans run the tables in November. “A couple of things,” Donalds responded. “Trump had the border secured when he was President of the United States. When Joe Biden came in, the first thing he did was rip up the border policy simply because they were put in place by Donald Trump. It was a very stupid decision by Joe Biden. The country has suffered as a result.” “So now what we are going to do is go back to ending ‘catch-and-release’ and go back to ‘Remain in Mexico.’ We will have to deport millions of people who should not be here because our cities and states simply cannot handle the flow of all these illegal migrants,” he continued. “You have Jordanian people going in trying to breach Quantico under Joe Biden. You saw what happened on the southern border in California, where they were trying to scale the wall in California and get over that wall there.” “What President Trump is going to do is put back the policies that kept our country secure, and we will deport millions of people,” he concluded. “It needs to be done. Then in Congress, with a policy like H.R. 2, if you have the votes in the House and the Senate, we are going to move large parts of this to become federal law, which gives the president more authority to secure the nation.” WATCH: WATCH: @RepDonaldsPress on Trump’s pitch to Black and Latino voters. pic.twitter.com/SBsVj4eHV3 — Fox News Sunday (@FoxNewsSunday) May 26, 2024 Related: Rubio Supports Mass Deportation Of Illegal Aliens Following ‘Invasion Of The Country’

Much of the media analysis of former President Donald Trump’s visit to the South Bronx centers around whether it was electorally savvy or good campaign strategy. Little has been said about the outbreak of bigotry vomited over the airwaves subsequent to the rally. Most representative of this is The View host Ana Navarro’s bilious exchange with CNN’s Jim Acosta, which at the time was covered by our very own Alex Christy (click “expand” to view transcript): JIM ACOSTA: I mean, you and I've talked about this many times about his rhetoric, the rhetoric he uses to talk about migrants and so on and I just have to ask you, Ana, I mean, when you look at the poll numbers and you see, if you break out the demographics, Trump is doing better among Latinos. He is doing better among African American voters and it's certainly is a threat to the president's reelection campaign. Is there a disc— I mean what do you make of this disconnect.” ANA NAVARRO: Well, a few things. One is I think America has a little bit of amnesia when it comes to Donald Trump and frankly being in a courtroom for the last 20 days, I think, has helped him because he's not been out in rallies saying the stupid stuff he says and the incendiary, outrageous things he says on a daily basis. We've been focusing on Michael Cohen, we’ve been focusing on Stormy Daniels. We haven't been focusing on the things that Donald Trump says. Another thing is, I think at this point in 2024, this is kinda baked in, people already know the guy’s a misogynist, they already know he's a racist, they already know he says divisive things and they seem not to take him literally or seriously. They think it’s, kind of, part of a clown act, entertainment and then the third thing, Jim, and this is the truth and you and I know this as Latinos, there are some Latino immigrants who forget they came here as immigrants and who want to shut the door behind them and, who think being anti-immigrant somehow is going to make them pass as more American, pass as whatever. And that's a very stupid attitude to have because what folks don’t realize is that when the guy drives thousands of miles to go hunt down Latinos in a Walmart in Texas. He doesn't care when you came here he doesn't care— ACOSTA: Right. NAVARRO: -- what your accent is, what he's looking for is “Does it look like me, does it sound like me?” That's what he's looking for. ACOSTA: Yeah. NAVARRO: So, you know, when people are anti-something, they're not asking for your papers, they're just anti-that group. I find that the most telling part of this exchange is Acosta setting Navarro up by saying that they discussed “the disconnect” on other occasions. To be clear, “the disconnect” Acosta refers to is ongoing, and it is between Hispanics and the Democratic Party. Once Acosta sets the segment up, Navarro goes into a word salad about alleged Trump amnesia, the ongoing trial, and eventually works her way to her toxic race reductionism which, quite frankly, sounds like a knockoff of the bile that fellow co-host Asunción Cummings Hostin regularly spits on The View.  We recently heard similar nonsense from race grievance merchant John Leguizamo, also while on The View. I will note for the record that Navarro performs this service while under the approving gaze of the white former Biden campaign and White House communications flack who revolving-doored her way over to CNN (Kate Bedingfield), which leads to further questions about who is really trying hard to “pass” here.  We’ve heard all of this before- the repulsive idea that central to Hispanic (or Latino) identity is this attachment to the left and to the entire leftwing policy pupu platter, starting with immigration. And that one is somehow a race-traitor for embracing different ideas or choosing to vote for a different party. Univision anchor Jorge Ramos said as much the morning after Election Night, 2016: JORGE RAMOS: The only way to explain it is (that) immigrants or the children of immigrants that forgot their origins… When you hear media types whining about Trump’s rally in the Bronx, or poo-pooing it, or deriding those who attended, what you are really hearing are the lamentations of scorned gatekeepers- those chosen not to represent the Hispanic community within media and elsewhere, but to represent the left to the Hispanic community. As you see more of this pattern becoming evident, and more polling showing Trump gaining significant support within the Hispanic community, expect more of those angry denunciations from self-appointed gatekeepers who find they don’t have the clout they thought they had.  Ana Navarro’s toxic word vomit was only the beginning.