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XI THE POOH SLAM DUNKS THE NBA

By Ben Garrison

Communist China is run by a tyrannical oligarchy that’s headed by the thin-skinned President Xi. He banned ‘Winnie the Pooh’ from China after dissidents said he resembled the cartoon bear. As a result, the meme bear is now routinely applied to him.

China has a penchant for basketball and the NBA plays exhibition games there. The players aren’t allowed to have free speech when it comes to topics such as Hong Kong. The Chicoms are authoritarian control freaks. They want their social credit score system in America as well and Silicon Valley seems happy to oblige.

The NBA coaches could have set an example for freedom, but 1.4 billion fans in China are hard to ignore. It’s a big market there. The left is all too eager to lambast Trump, but the left in the NBA will not criticize Xi and his brutality. It boils down to money. For the left, money always trumps freedom. President Trump criticized Warrior’s coach Steve Kerr for pandering to China. Or maybe it was panda-er-ing.

The NBA also caves into China to protect Nike. They make billions of dollars in sales to the Chinese and they also pump a lot of money into the NBA through advertising.

To hell with the NBA.

Americans must loudly criticize that organization for caving to tyrants. The Chinese are using companies and economic threats to control American culture. Rather than pandering, we must push back against the control freaks in China.

Kudos to South Park for having the courage to push back at China while the rest of corporate America caves to China’s every demand.

Check out all of Ben’s great cartoons and commentary HERE.

Has the Time Come to Put Down Lawlessness, Insurrection and Rebellion?

Via PJ Media

The attempt to impeach the president on no reasonable or substantial grounds is merely another frantic yet tenacious effort by the coup-obsessed Left to unravel the fabric of a constitutional republic. This is plainly the purpose behind the Democrat’s infamous Green New Deal inspired by the U.N.’s Agendas 21 and 2030 which, under the guise of sustainable development, lay out a plan for the punitive regulation of reliable energy sources, the elimination of private property, redistribution of personal wealth, restriction of due process and, of course, the diminishment of American dynamism and prestige. It is a program that perfectly encapsulates the overarching agenda of the political Left, namely, a protracted war on the free enterprise system and the emasculation of the Constitution of the United States, to be accomplished under the stewardship of a plutocratic elite.

Most conservatives are in agreement about the problem. What should be done about it, however, remains an open question. Clearly something like a classical lustration needs to be undertaken, a “purification of the fields” or, in this case, a cleansing of the noisome bog which is current American politics. It is the Party of impeachment that needs to be impeached, those who advocate or practice insurgent violence or call for the assassination of the president who must be arrested, an activist judiciary that exceeds its mandate and seeks to frustrate executive actions that should be selectively disbenched, and a seditious media that needs to be held accountable for its violation of the SPJ Code of Ethics. The issue, however, is whether the great purge of unsavory and dissident institutions, organizations, and power brokers can succeed via discursive, procedural, and electoral means or whether something far more dramatic is needed to prevent the end of the unique republican experiment that is the United States of America.

Read the entire article HERE.

Trump talks freedom, Democrats push communism

Via The Washington Times

Riot police were called to the scene of President Donald Trump’s rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to stem the surge of violence the left unleashed against MAGA hat wearers — and journalists — and public and private properties. And all while in the background waved flags from communist countries.

That really says all that needs to be said and tells all that needs to be told about the left.

Elijah Schaffer, a journalist for The Blaze who covered the event — and who was maced by antifa-types as he was filming the antifa-types’ violence — put it this way in a couple of tweets: “Trump supporters are literally fleeing the event after it ended. … It is not safe in Minneapolis any longer for Trump supporters. Please stay away … do not come out with branded gear.”

Another: “The situation outside the Trump rally in Minnesota is quickly deteriorating. Left wing protesters are destroying barricades. A protester can be seen waving the Chinese flag in front of riot police. While people in Hong Kong wave American flags for freedom, we wave Chinese flags.”

Yes. Chinese flags of communism.

How tragic.

This is the fault of our public school systems, filled with left-wing talking mouths spouting left-wing globalist crap, all at the command and demand of the teacher first, student second unions.

This is the fault of our Democratic Party leaders who went to great length at the outset of President Donald Trump’s administration to call for summers of resistance, for open rebellion in the streets, for aggressive protests against all-things-Republican, even to the point of bringing the confrontations to GOPers as they ate in restaurants, shopped in stores, relaxed at home.

This is the fault of the previous administration’s exalting of racial matters to the point of creationism — to the point of pretending for a gullible press that catchy phrases like Hands Up, Don’t Shoot were actually grounded in factual cases of white officers targeting black innocents for killing. And for what purpose? To advance a narrative that America is inherently racist and therefore, needs a complete revamp.

Read the entire article HERE.

Left-wing Rioters Attack Trump Supporters Leaving Minneapolis Rally

Via Breitbart News

Left-wing rioters attacked supporters of President Donald Trump leaving a rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Thursday evening — assaulting them in groups, setting fire to pro-Trump hats, and attacking the police.

Riot police stood by as members of Antifa were seen dragging steel fences away from the Target Center. They were filmed by Elijah Schaffer, a correspondent for The Blaze, a conservative news site — who was maced as he filmed.

The scene was reminiscent of the riot outside a convention center in San Jose in June 2016, when anti-Trump rioters attacked Trump supporters leaving the venue in full view of the media — and Mayor Sam Liccardo blamed Trump.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey proclaimed Thursday as “Love Trumps Hate Day” in the city, in solidarity with protests against Trump. Evidently, however, some of those among the “protesters” felt “hate” trumped “love.”

In one instance, a bystander who was not a Trump supporter reported being attacked by the anti-Trump mob:

Read the entire article HERE.

If Woke Corporations Had Police Power, They Would Act Exactly Like Communist China

Via The Federalist

There’s no conflict between the NBA’s extreme wokeness and its craven response to Chinese authoritarianism. For the left, authoritarianism comes naturally.

Arguably, wokeness is itself fundamentally authoritarian. How many of the most politically correct people on the left in America would be happy to use government power to compel speech, silence those with opposing views, or ruin the lives and livelihoods of ordinary people who don’t share their political values?

We all know the answer because it’s been playing out before our eyes. We all know what happened to Jack Phillips, the Christian baker who declined to make custom wedding cake for a gay couple and, having been vindicated before the U.S. Supreme Court, still faces ongoing persecution and legal battles. We know what happens to wedding florists, photographers, even the owners of a small-town pizza shop who refused to toe the left’s line.

So far from being in conflict with progressive values, coercion is native to them. China has reeducation camps for Muslims who don’t embrace communism. It’s not hard to imagine leftists in America supporting reeducation camps for Christians who don’t embrace gay marriage or transgenderism. Coercive force, even government force, is perfectly fine to them if it’s used in service of the left’s agenda.

We see signs of this everywhere. Today it’s commonplace for left-wing college students to shout down or even physically threaten conservative speakers and students on the pretext that “hate speech” can’t be tolerated, and even that it justifies violence. Two years ago at Middlebury College, a student mob physically attacked speaker Charles Murray and a faculty member after forcibly shutting down a planned speech by Murray. Does anyone think these students would balk at having the police forcibly shut down speaking events they opposed on ideological grounds?

This isn’t just a campus phenomenon. Violent extremist groups like Antifa are often seen clashing with police, but does anyone doubt that if masked Antifa demonstrators could wield police powers, they would hesitate to use force to silence dissent?

William F. Buckley once said, “Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.” That might have once been true of old-fashioned liberals, but today’s leftists don’t even pretend to want to give a hearing to other views. Having other views just makes you a target for intimidation and coercion, maybe even violence.

Say the wrong words and we’ll take away your livelihood. No wonder the most politically correct corporations in America are the first to placate Chinese authoritarians. China just demonstrates what happens when woke corporations have the power of the state behind them.

Read the entire article HERE.

‘Make America Great Again’ listed on Calif. college’s ‘white supremacy’ pyramid

Via Campus Reform

San Diego City College hosted a white supremacist seminar in early October, distributing flyers claiming that cultural appropriation, “racist mascots,” and “Make America Great Again” are instances of white supremacy.

The event, “Confronting White Supremacy through the Arts” was hosted by co-directors of the World Cultures program at SDCC, professors Michelle Chan and Maria-Jose Zeledon-Perez.

“Come join us in confronting White Supremacy through students’ performances,” read a promotional flyer for the event, photographed by Campus Reform. “Prior to the performances, guest speakers will set the stage and contextualize what white supremacy is, its areas of activity, and how rampant it is in our society, curriculum, mindsets, and media.”

Event attendees received multiple worksheets, supposedly visualizing white supremacy.

One pyramid ranked white supremacy on a scale of “Overt White Supremacy (Socially Unacceptable)” to “Covert White Supremacy (Socially Acceptable).” Items on the former side of the pyramid included the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and the n-word.

But “covert white supremacy,” according to SDCC, includes “Make America Great Again,” cultural appropriation, Columbus Day celebration, and “racist mascots.”

Read the entire article HERE.

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