Category: Democrats

Astroturfing Revealed in NYC Protests

Many have long suspected that something sketchy occurs with many Leftist protests. Nate Friedman investigates:

Stupid or Liar?

Sorry for the lack of content today, but I was driving to Washington, DC and showing a friend numerous places along the way. Something very bizarre happened in beautiful Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, which still has my brain frazzled. Here’s hoping some of you can explain to me what happened.

A middle-aged couple was walking towards me with their dog. The man had a Baltimore t-shirt on, so I asked him if he was from there. He explained they lived nearby there. I then explained that I spent a month this past summer staying in rural Maryland and added that, while it was very pretty, it was too hot for my Canadian body. The woman suddenly burst out with, “You’re Canadian? I’m so sorry for you.” Given that this was an ambiguous statement, I asked her to explain. A few seconds later, I regretted asking her. She quickly demonstrated that she had full blown TDS and went on an anti-Trump rant. I then politely responded, “Well, I’m not too happy with my government either.” I added that Mark Carney had recently told the New York Times that he feared an invasion from America. She nodded in agreement with Carney’s sentiments. So I asked her, “Do you seriously believe that Canada is at risk of invasion from America?” She nodded in the affirmative. So then I asked, “Do you really fear Donald Trump more than you fear Communist China?!” She once again nodded in the affirmative.

I was about to ask her what her thoughts about Lindsay Clancy were, but strongly suspected I already knew.

She was lying to my face, right? Or is she really as stupid as the Elbows Up Lieberals in Canada?

Y2Kyoto: Climate Justice

Busted.

A group housed at the New York University School of Law and backed by billionaire climate activist Michael Bloomberg quietly closed its doors in late August amid congressional scrutiny into its funding and operations. The so-called State Energy and Environmental Impact Center’s signature initiative involved placing paid, climate-focused “fellows” in Democrat-controlled state attorney general offices nationwide as those offices sued the oil industry and other energy providers.

The center’s sudden closure comes as a surprise: It continued to update its public database tracking state attorney general actions relevant to its climate priorities until Aug. 31, the date of its apparent closure. […]

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee opened an investigation into the center last year, stating that its activities “raise questions as to whether participating state attorneys general are acting on independent judgement to best serve the interests of their states’ citizens.”

“The Bloomberg-NYU program effectively offers states partisan money from a billionaire to carry out official functions of their offices,” the panel wrote at the time. Bloomberg, it continued, “disguises his donations as ‘philanthropy'” and uses the impact center as a mechanism “to skirt legislative bodies and effect partisan policy.”

Margin Of Fraud

A thread at @townhallcom;

NEW: A House Judiciary report just dropped screenshots of ActBlue’s internal Slack messages.

They show staff knowingly waved through foreign donations—using “verification” methods you won’t believe.ActBlue told Congress its “passport verification” stops foreign donors.

Their own policy says otherwise: it only checks that the number has the right number of characters. No database check. No real verification. Ever.

Full report here

The Radical Left is Being Exposed

Browse the map yourself and see the Canadian connections.

Andy Ngo chimes in.

Mann Overboard

Jonathan Turley;

University of Pennsylvania Professor Michael Mann is the Vice Provost for Climate Science, Policy, and Action and has pushed candidates to commit to major environmental reforms. Notably, he seemed to pivot in an interview with Peter Dominick on a podcast last week, calling for all Democratic candidates to face a litmus test on committing to pack the Supreme Court: promise to pack or get the sack. It is only the latest example of how the hostile takeover of the Court is now the priority for many Democrats in removing a barrier to a radical agenda. […]

Mann has had his own conflicts with the courts. He was sanctioned last year after winning a defamation case against bloggers Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn for attacking his climate control research.

At the time, some of us questioned the award, which awarded just $1 in actual damages but $1 million in punitive damages. In 1996, the U.S. Supreme Court decided a case, BMW of North America v. Gore, striking down a punitive damages award. The case involved the company’s practice of repairing and repainting cars damaged in transit without telling the customers. The jury in the original trial awarded $4,000 in compensatory damages for the car’s lost value due to the lack of a factory paint job and other damage; it then imposed $4 million in punitive damages for the company’s dishonesty.

D.C. Superior Court Judge Alfred S. Irving Jr. reduced the award against Steyn to just $5000 after finding the original award to be “grossly excessive.”

The court later learned that Mann’s defense team had allegedly presented false accounts of his losses after the criticism. Mann’s legal team was accused of presenting a chart that listed a grant that Mann allegedly lost due to the defamatory remarks as $9.7 million when it was later found to be worth $112,000. Irving also found a disparity in the grant income figures given to the jury.

The court found the alleged misrepresentations to be “an affront to the Court’s authority” and sanctioned Mann and his legal team “for bad-faith trial misconduct.” After reversing the jury verdict, the court ordered Mann to pay $1.1 million of his critics’ legal expenses.

Now, Mann is calling for all Democratic candidates to pledge to pack the Supreme Court as a condition for running. So any Democrat who believes in our institutions and resists this mob will be a persona non grata in the party as an “institutionalist” captured by “nostalgia.”

It’s the birth of new cultural pejorative, keep your eye on that.

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