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A vote on language condemning the "horrors of socialism" split House Democrats on Thursday, which one Republican said reveals a soft spot some Democrats have for a political philosophy that has resulted in impoverishment and death for hundreds of millions of people.

Republicans called up the resolution as a way to remind the public that socialist policies – which they fear have been creeping into American life after two years of Democrat control in Washington – go against the values on which America was founded. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., said Thursday that socialism is "one of the most destructive ideologies in world history."

As expected, the resolution split Democrats, as some have openly described themselves as adherents of "democratic socialism." As a group, Democrats narrowly voted in favor of the resolution by a 109-86 tally, even though every Democrat who debated the bill spoke against the resolution.

In another sign of how the bill split the party, 14 Democrats voted "present." The resolution passed 328-86 thanks to unanimous Republican support.

WHERE DO THE SQUAD, DEMOCRATS STAND ON SOCIALISM? GOP WILL PUT THEM TO THE TEST THIS WEEK

Democrats justified their vote by saying while they oppose socialism, the decision to call up the measure is a warning shot that Republicans are looking to cut Social Security, Medicare and other social welfare programs, an assertion Republicans have rejected for weeks.

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., went further by accusing Republicans of calling up a resolution that is an indictment of major elements of the federal government that helped millions of people during the pandemic.

"Americans know better than the fearmongering we see here today," Waters said. "They know, for example, that when the pandemic hit and people were dying all across this country, it was the federal government that stepped in to provide trillions of dollars of support to small businesses, workers, ranchers, students, seniors, and would you believe it, even Republican members of Congress."

"Historically, Republicans have tried to label as socialist any Democratic actions that improve the lives of Americans," added Rep. Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y. "This is what Republicans call socialism. From climate action and public education to affordable care and Social Security, Republicans classify popular government programs to help working families as socialism."

Republicans said Democrats were over-complicating the issue.

"Despite my Democratic colleagues’ claims, there’s nothing in this resolution about entitlement programs or banning social services or anything of the like," said Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C.

After Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., pointed out several historical political leaders who were socialists and argued that not all forms of socialism deserve condemnation, McHenry thanked him for acknowledging that Democrats so have a soft spot for this system of government.

"If this resolution would just simply draw out my Democrat colleagues to just say, yes, they are in favor of socialism, maybe this is a worthwhile endeavor," McHenry said.

Socialism is broadly understood to be an economic and political theory that calls for putting the means of production into the hands of a public collective, and "democratic socialism" is seen as a philosophy that calls for a heavier government hand that might approach the governing styles of some European nations.

The resolution approved by the House says history shows that any move toward socialism "necessitates a concentration of power that has time and time again collapsed into Communist regimes, totalitarian rule, and brutal dictatorships."

It says socialist policies have led to "famine and mass murders, and the killing of over 100,000,000 people worldwide," along with some of the "greatest crimes in history" committed by Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot and others.

"[B]etween 15,000,000 and 55,000,000 people starved to death in the wake of famine and devastation caused by the Great Leap Forward in China," the resolution notes. "[T]he socialist experiment in Cambodia led to the killing fields in which over a million people were gruesomely murdered."

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Vice President Kamala Harris

President Joe Biden

President Jimmy Carter

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Rep. Jerry Nadler

Former Rep. John Lewis

Sen. Dianne Feinstein

Biden HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge

Rep. Jamie Raskin

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee

Rep. Barbara Lee

Former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Rep. Ted Lieu

Rep. Raul Grijalva

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

Former DNC Chair Terry McAuliffe

Former Vice President Al Gore

Rep. Corrine Brown

Rep. Maxine Waters

Former Rep. Alcee Hastings

President Bill Clinton

Former Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson

President Barack Obama

Former Presidential candidate Jesse Jackson

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Sen. Sherrod Brown

Sen. Debbie Stabenow

Rep. Danny Davis

Former Sen. Ted Kennedy

Biden Climate Czar John Kerry

Teresa Heinz (John Kerry’s wife)

Former Rep. Stephanie Tubbs

Sen. Bernie Sanders

Rep. Lacy Clay

Former DNC Chair Howard Dean

Sen. Dick Durbin

Former Sen. Harry Reid

Georgia Gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams

Sen. Corey Booker

These are all the democrats who openly and repeatedly denied election results between 2000 and 2018. I've yet to see any of them indicted for "conspiracy" or "obstruction."

#election integrity #election deniers #trump #president trump #donald trump #president donald trump #trump indictment #2020 election #2024 election #election interference #two tiered justice system

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HEATHEN DISCO show no. 337 (aka 1337) online now

Extremely stoked about this week's show -- getting my reps up for a public gig here in Chicago end of June and more to follow after.

Listen onnnnnnnnnn

HOUR 1

Milford Graves with Hugh Glover – March 2, 1976 III

Deadbeat & Om Unit – Stalk

imPLOG – Holland Tunnel Dive

Maxine Funke – Long Beach

Quando Quango – Love Tempo (mix)

Edward Crosby & Singing DJ – Party Time Remix (Party Beat)

Ron Morelli – Subway Shootout

He Said – Not a Soul

Ky – The Dancer

Anne Clark – Sleeper in Metropolis

KVL – Microvibe

Avalon Emerson – Dreamliner

HOUR 2

Jane Inc. – 2120

2 Body’s – Astoria

O.R.S. – Moon-Boots

My Dad Is Dead – The Water’s Edge

Big Black – Kerosene

Lana Del Rabies – Mother

Royal Trux – Second Skin

The Cure – The Walk

International Music System – An English ‘93

Colourbox – Looks Like We’re Shy One Horse

Bailter Space – Your Invisible Life

FACS – Boy

Glittering Insects – Glittering Insects

The Only Ones – Miles from Nowhere

HOUR 3

Crystalized Movements – In the Open World

Rotomagus – Fightin’ Cock

Joshua Abrams – A Lucky Stone

Calvin Keys – B.E.

The God in Hackney – Bardo!

Mute Duo – The Ocean Door

Royal Headache – Stand and Stare

Lobby Loyde & the Coloured Balls – Mr. Mean Mouth

Circus – Stop, Wait and Listen

Strawberry Switchblade – Spanish Song

Primal Scream – Crystal Crescent

Boys from Nowhere – Jungle Boy

Blutt – Bing Bang Boum (Bam)

Swell Maps – Let’s Build a Car

The Colors Out of Time – Rock Section

LL Cool J – Jingling Baby

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Democrat Rep. Jackie Speier (CA) incited violence on Friday after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade. Abortion laws will now be decided by the states. “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives,” Justice Alito wrote. Democrat lawmakers such as Maxine Waters and AOC…

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With some Democrats deciding to re-commit funds from FTX donations towards charity or other party campaigns after the crypto exchange’s bankruptcy, Rep. Maxine Water, D-Calif., told FOX Business she doesn’t "want to get into that" topic.

Waters avoided reporter Hillary Vaughn’s question when asked if Democrats who received campaign cash from FTX should give it back, saying, "Well, I don't want to get into that. As a matter of fact, both sides, Democrats and Republicans, have received donations. So thank you."

The Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, however, did claim that lawmakers will be putting together a hearing to "explore exactly what has taken place" with FTX.

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, was a major contributor to Democratic candidates during the midterm election cycle, funneling most of his donations through a little-known political action committee (PAC).

FTX FOUNDER SAM BANKMAN-FRIED HIT WITH CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT THAT ALSO NAMES BRADY, BUNDCHEN, SHAQ, CURRY

Overall, in 2021 and 2022, Bankman-Fried donated nearly $38 million to various candidates and PACs, mainly giving his cash to Democratic candidates and left-wing groups, according to Federal Election Commission filings (FEC). The majority of his political givings, though, went to the Protect Our Future PAC, a group founded in January that is dedicated to boosting candidates committed to preventing future pandemics.

Bankman-Fried wired an initial $9 million in February to the PAC shortly after it was created, FEC records showed. He then made three additional donations worth $18 million between March and June, increasing his total contribution to Protect Our Future PAC to $27 million.

The Daily Beast reached out to more than 25 lawmakers that received money and reported that some said they'll give the money to charity. Other congressmen said they spent it to boost other Democratic candidates, and some didn’t reply at all.

Names of Democratic candidates that have received political contributions from FTX include Rep. Jesus Garcia, D-Ill., and Reps.-elect Morgan McGarvey of Kentucky, Maxwell Frost of Florida, Sydney Kamlager of California, Jonathan Jackson of Illinois, Nikki Budzinski of Illinois, Jared Moskowitz of Florida and Rob Menendez Jr. of New Jersey.

On Wednesday, Bankman-Fried was hit with a class-action lawsuit filed by investors alleging he and other high-profile celebrities – such as legendary NFL quarterback Tom Brady and NBA star Stephen Curry – violated Florida law and made consumers suffer more than $11 billion in damages.

The lawsuit, which names "Sam Bankman-Fried, Tom Brady, Gisele Bundchen, Stephen Curry, Golden State Warriors, Shaquille O’Neal, Udonis Haslem, David Ortiz, William Trevor Lawrence, Shohei Ohtani, Naomi Osaka, Lawrence Gene David, and Kevin O’Leary," seeks to make them "responsible for the many billions of dollars in damages they caused Plaintiff and the Classes and to force Defendants to make them whole."

The suit describes the well-known celebrities as "all parties who either controlled, promoted, assisted in, and actively participated in FTX Trading and FTX US (collectively, the ‘FTX Entities’), offer and sale of unregistered securities in the form of yield-bearing accounts (YBAs) to residents of the United States."

The lawsuit was filed in Florida because the defendants, it says, "conduct business in Florida, and/or have otherwise intentionally availed themselves of the Florida consumer market through the promotion, marketing, and sale of FTX’s YBAs in Florida, which constitutes committing a tortious act within the state of Florida."

Last week, Bankman-Fried admitted his fault in a tweet: "I'm sorry. That's the biggest thing," the founder wrote. "I f---ed up, and should have done better."

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Dem Rep. Maxine Waters In Hot Water for Funneling Over $1 Million To Her Daughter For...

Republicans are ready to pounce.

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Nearly 40 House Democrats voted against a measure to send around $26 billion more to Israel as it continues its war on Gaza that human rights experts have deemed a genocide.

While the Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act passed the Republican-led House by a vote of 366-58, party insiders said it was significant that such a large number of Democrats had opposed it, with more centrist lawmakers joining progressives who have called for a cease-fire since October.

"Despite the weapons aid package passing, this is the largest number of Democratic lawmakers to vote against unrestricted weapons aid for Israel in recent memory," senior Democratic strategist Waleed Shahid observed on social media.

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Senior Democrats who opposed the funding included Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), and Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.)

The bill earmarks around $4 billion for Israel's missile defense systems and more than $9 billion for humanitarian aid to Gaza, according toThe Associated Press. However, while lawmakers approved of individual expenditures, they balked at giving more unconditional military aid to the far-right government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"U.S. law demands that we withhold weapons to anyone who frustrates the delivery of U.S. humanitarian aid, and President Biden's own recent National Security Memorandum requires countries that use U.S.-provided weapons to adhere to U.S. and international law regarding the protection of civilians," McGovern said in a statement explaining his vote. "To date, Netanyahu has failed to comply. It's time for President Biden to use our leverage to demand change."

Nearly 20 Democratic representatives released a joint statement explaining their vote. They were McGovern, Doggett, Watson Coleman, Joaquin Castro (D-Texas), Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.), Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Becca Balint (D-Vt.), Greg Casar (D-Texas), Mark Takano (D-Calif.), Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), Judy Chu (D-Calif.), Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), André Carson (D-Ind.), Jesús "Chuy" García (D-Ill.), Jonathan Jackson (D-Ill.), and Jill Tokuda (D-Hawaii).

"This is a moment of great consequence—the world is watching," the lawmakers wrote. "Today is, in many ways, Congress' first official vote where we can weigh in on the direction of this war. If Congress votes to continue to supply offensive military aid, we make ourselves complicit in this tragedy."

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Maxine Waters urged radicals to harass lawmakers in public. Turns out, she's not keen when they come for her. | Blaze Media

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You Won't Believe What a Federal DEI Office Sent Agency-Wide

Last year, button-pushers within the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)'s DEI office tediously constructed and widely circulated a "Black Resistance" flyer that exalts anti-police political figures and promotes black nationalist ideas, according to the federal law enforcement agency's internal communications obtained by Townhall via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

Back in early December 2022, CBP's Privacy and Diversity Office (PDO) leadership placed a work order of "High" importance, instructing the federal agency's Printing, Graphics, and Distribution Branch to design an 8.5 x 11" flyer for Black History Month.

Though the flyer aptly features a photograph of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights leader is showcased alongside the likes of race hustler Colin Kaepernick. Near them is a picture of Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), once accused of attempting to incite a Black Lives Matter mob to commit political violence. In the center is a word cloud that looks like it was slapped together with woke buzzwords taken off of TikTok, such as "Allies", "Social Justice", "#BlackLivesMatters" [sic], and "#ICan'tBreathe".

Also featured prominently are political slogans, such as "#BlackPower," a phrase which MLK "resolutely" opposed, worrying that it carried "connotations of violence and separatism", as well as "My Black is Beautiful," a saying that's supposed to instill a sense of pride in being black, as inspired by the politics of black nationalist Marcus Garvey.

To celebrate Black History Month, CBP distributed the flyer "along with information about the process for establishing the theme to advance the educational intent of Black History Month," a CBP spokesperson told Townhall. The poster spotlights names and historical references "representative of Black Resistance," the agency spokesperson added.

Each year, CBP follows thematic guidelines laid out by Black History Month's founders, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). 2023's theme, as ASALH declared, was "Black Resistance in the Past, Present, and Future."

"African Americans have resisted historic and ongoing oppression, in all forms, especially the racial terrorism of lynching, racial pogroms, and police killings since our arrival upon these shores," reads ASALH's explanatory summary of last year's theme.

ASALH named Colin Kaepernick, Simone Biles, Jesse Owens, and Jackie Robinson in the same sentence as examples of industry trailblazers who "resisted the idea that they cannot or should not speak about political, cultural, or social issues."

For CBP's Black History Month initiative, the DEI officer assigned to oversee the project opted not to include Jesse Owens, who triumphed over racial discrimination at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin during the Nazi regime's reign and at home in a segregated America, or Jackie Robinson, who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and endured relentless abuse as a result.

Instead, the DEI officer chose to extol Kaepernick, who uses his platform to sow racial division, and Simone Biles, who quit the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to "focus on [her] mental health," later saying she was under pressure to overachieve as "a black woman."

"Black activist athletes have often suffered personal and economic consequences due to their stances, speech, and actions, but to them, it has been worth it to see changes," ASALH wrote, although Kaepernick had little to lose and everything to gain from seeking attention on the sidelines. (No one even noticed Kaepernick's first few "protests" against the national anthem, because the then-regressing San Francisco 49ers quarterback was benched and out of uniform at the time of his waning NFL career.)

"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick proclaimed. For his bravado, he was rewarded handsomely, securing an endorsement deal with Nike that made him the face of its "Believe in something, Even if it means sacrificing everything" campaign despite him not really "sacrificing" anything at all.

Kaepernick, having made millions off his time in the NFL, would go on to produce his own Netflix special, where he compared the NFL draft process to a slave auction. Actors acted out the analogy in the multi-millionaire's production. The slavery scene depicted white NFL team owners bidding on black NFL prospects, shackled in the football field-turned-plantation.

Another anachronism can be found in the DEI officer's decision to sequentially list Biles before Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy who was abducted, brutally beaten, and lynched in the Jim Crow-era South. Notably, ASALH, which the federal worker used as a reference, made no mention of Emmett Till in its paragraph on "lynchings and ongoing police violence against African Americans." Rather, the organization focused on "the murders of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Sandra Bland, Breonna Taylor, and thousands of other Black women, men, and trans people..." as present-day calls for "resistance."

Furthermore, ASALH claimed that "societal and political forces" are escalating to "limit access to and exercise of the ballot, eliminate the teaching of Black history, and work to push us back into the 1890s," a thinly veiled jab at GOP-led election integrity efforts and Florida's legislation prohibiting the instruction of critical race theory in the state's schools.

(Per the Florida Department of Education's social studies requirements and standards, the African people's passage to America, slavery, and abolition are all mandated topics under the required instructional Florida statute as is the civil rights movement.)

"[W]e can only rely on our capacity to resist," ASALH proclaimed.

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As Townhall previously reported, the flyer was disbursed agency-wide and accompanied by CBP Commissioner Troy Miller's message commemorating Black History Month. An email sent from the agency prodded personnel to "participate in local Diversity and Inclusion Program Committee activities at headquarters and various field offices in honor of National Black History Month."

The work order also indicated that the "Black Resistance"-themed graphic would be used for a "promo pic" on CBPnet, the private network accessed exclusively by CBP employees and administered by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

A source at CBP's Baltimore Field Office told Townhall that the flyer was printed out and posted to a bulletin board inside the building, causing quite a stir among the employees there due to its "divisive" nature and rhetorical tone. "BLM hates us, so does Maxine Waters. Kaepernick hates us. They're anti-police advocates against the nation's largest police agency," the source said.

In 2021, the global Black Lives Matter organization said that CBP, "like other law enforcement agencies," is "rooted in white supremacy and a history of slave-catching." BLM's declaration was issued in the aftermath of the left-wing media disinformation campaign falsely accusing mounted U.S. Border Patrol agents of whipping Haitians who were illegally crossing into Del Rio, Texas. BLM peddled that false narrative, later known as the WhipGate hoax, in a statement claiming Border Patrol perpetrated "anti-black violence" against the illegal aliens.

"When we say #DefundThePolice, we mean all the police, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), who are demonstrating their slave-catching roots, riding horseback, and beating Haitian asylum-seekers with whips," BLM wrote.

As for Maxine Waters, ahead of the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial, the Democrat lawmaker directed BLM activists to "stay in the streets" and "get more confrontational" if the ex-Minneapolis police officer was found not guilty of murdering George Floyd.

"This is just another attempt by a federal agency to show how woke it is," one Border Patrol agent, referring to the Black Lives Matter-inspired flyer, told Townhall. "The office that made this is also responsible for responding to FOIA requests, so I would rather they not spend time making flyers like this and instead work on not taking six months to respond to a FOIA request."

Indeed, the FOIA Division is nested within CBP's Privacy and Diversity Office (PDO); the PDO has dual functionality split between handling FOIA requests and enforcing DEI practices in its federal workforce. In February 2023, Townhall submitted a public records request seeking access to CBP documents discussing the design and dissemination of its "Black Resistance" flyer. It, then, took the agency's FOIA-processing department a year to locate these records created by its own DEI-fused counterpart.

The "releasable" records were heavily redacted, pursuant to subsections of Title 5 U.S.C. § 552 that pertain to the disclosure of personnel files, which "would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy," production of law enforcement records, and revealing investigative/prosecutorial procedures. Two pages were withheld altogether because of inter- or intra-agency memorandums "that would not be available by law to a party other than an agency in litigation with the agency."

"CBP has considered the foreseeable harm standard when reviewing the record set and has applied the FOIA exemptions as required by the statute and the Attorney General's guidance," the agency's FOIA Divison told Townhall via a final response letter.

The redactions include censoring the names of those DEI officers involved in the flyer's creation.

CBP's PDO, whose tagline is "Diversity Makes Us Stronger," has what are called "local Special Emphasis Program Committees (SEPCs)," formerly known as "Diversity and Inclusion Program Committees (DIPCs)," but the overt DEI branding was dropped in the past year. PDO staff helps these DEI committees, comprised of CBP employee volunteers, execute the agency's Diversity and Inclusion Management Plan, as well as fulfill its "affirmative employment obligations" through DEI programming, such as "cultural education," and by attracting "underrepresented minority communities" to apply for employment positions within CBP.

According to the agency's five-year strategic plan for expanding DEI efforts through FY 2026, "Diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility are essential elements in achieving CBP's mission, living its values, and realizing its vision as an agency. Increasing workforce diversity will improve the quality of decisions made by CBP employees..." The agency's DEIA mission statement says, "CBP protects our borders, the American people, and economic prosperity by [...] making DEI a cornerstone of all that we do."

In preparation for its strategic planning, CBP completed an "equity assessment" of its workforce demographics and touted seeing "improvements in the demographic representation" of female and black employees in high-paying senior management positions.

For National Women's History Month this March, the theme is celebrating "Women Who Advocate for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion," and for Women's Equality Day on August 26, the agency's DEI office will urge CBP employees to "Embrace Equity."

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