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The Little Injun That Couldn’t 

By Ben Garrison

The 2020 Democrat lineup is weak.

Quid Pro Joe Biden is too old, out of touch, and corrupt.

Bernie Sanders is an angry old commie with health problems.

This makes Elizabeth Warren, aka ‘Pocahontas,’ the Democrat’s front-runner.

She claims to be ‘capitalist to the bone’ and more of a centrist. Some call her a Hillary Clinton version 2.0. Like Hillary, she’s oblivious to her own political hypocrisy. She claims she’s for the little person and is not accepting donations from big banks and corporations, who she says she will break up. This is a ruse. Once nominated, she said she would again receive donations from big banks and corporations—as she has in the past.

Warren claims to be the ‘best presidential candidate money can’t buy,’ but she’s thoroughly bought out already. Her campaign treasurer is the veteran money raiser, Paul Egerman who is well connected to PACs and billionaires, including George Soros. In fact, Soros funded Warren’s Senate bid.

Warren lied about getting fired when she got pregnant.

She lied about being a Native American.

She used that status to further her career at Harvard.

Harvard is already a money pit swamp in and of itself and it spews corruption. Warren is part of that corrupt swamp. Warren is a shameless liar who could give Hillary a run for her money in that department.

Warren claims she will help bring about a middle class renaissance in America, but she’s a big ‘climate change’ pusher and New Green Deal advocate. That means the destruction of jobs and our economy. It’s a socialist pipe dream design to wreck America—and the middle class in particular. Most Americans are too busy living paycheck to paycheck to worry about the manufactured fear that is climate change. Warren will force it upon us.

Warren is a tyrannical statist and globalist who thinks more government control is the answer to all problems. Grab the guns. Control medical care and make it all free—even to illegal immigrants. Open borders and free stuff always ends in disaster. She doesn’t seem to realize this, or if she does, she welcomes such a disaster.

She wants to help everyone—except the unborn, of course. She wants babies aborted. She actually compared abortion with getting a tonsillectomy. To her, unborn humans are meaningless and annoying blobs of matter to be cut out. That’s why she calls it ‘women’s health care.’ The child is murdered to make the woman healthy.

Warren is a dangerous, lying monster who is part of the profoundly corrupt swamp. If Hillary doesn’t take over, Pocahontas will get drubbed by Trump.

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

Target raised wages. But some workers say their hours were cut, leaving them struggling

Via CNN

Two years ago, Target (TGT) said it would raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour by the end of 2020. The move won praise from labor advocates and put pressure on other companies to also move to $15.

But some store workers say the wage increases are not helping because their hours are falling, making it difficult to keep their health insurance and in some cases to pay their bills.

CNN Business interviewed 23 current and former Target employees in recent months, including department managers, who say hours have been scaled back even as Target has increased starting wages. Many of these workers say the cuts, which come as Target’s business is in its strongest position in more than a decade, have hurt them financially. CNN Business agreed to withhold the last names of several of the current employees and the city where their store is located so they could speak freely.

“I got that dollar raise but I’m getting $200 less in my paycheck,” said one, Heather, who started in November at a Florida store working around 40 hours a week. She’s now below 20 some weeks, she said. “I have no idea how I’m going to pay rent or buy food.”

Hours for workers in retail are notoriously unpredictable and often depend on the season or how well stores are performing. In the retail industry, the average hourly workweek has dropped for employees this year compared with a year earlier, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Read the entire article HERE.

DC’s Atlantic Council Raked in Funding from Hunter Biden’s Corruption-Stained Ukrainian Employer While Courting His VP Father

Via Consortium News

With its relentless focus on corruption in Russia and Ukraine, the Atlantic Council has distinguished itself from other top-flight think tanks in Washington. Over the past several years, it has held innumerable conferences and panel discussions, issued a string of reports, and published literally hundreds of essays on Russia’s “kleptocracy” and the scourge of Kremlin disinformation.

At the same time, this institution has posed as a faithful partner to Ukraine’s imperiled democracy, organizing countless programs on the urgency of economic reforms to tamp down on corruption in the country.

But behind the curtain, the Atlantic Council has initiated a lucrative relationship with a corruption-tainted Ukrainian gas company, the Burisma Group, that is worth as much as $250,000 a year. The partnership has paid for lavish conferences in Monaco and helped bring Burisma’s oligarchic founder out of the cold.

This alliance has remained stable even as official Washington goes to war over allegations by President Donald Trump and his allies that former Vice President Joseph Biden fired a Ukrainian prosecutor to defend his son’s handsomely compensated position on Burisma’s board.

As Biden parries Trump’s accusations, some of the former vice president’s most ardent defenders are emerging from the halls of the Atlantic Council, which featured Biden as a star speaker at its awards ceremonies over the years. These advocates include Michael Carpenter, Biden’s longtime foreign policy advisor and specialist on Ukraine, who has taken to the national media to support his embattled boss.

Even as Burisma’s trail of influence-buying finds its way into front page headlines, the Atlantic Council’s partnership with the company is scarcely mentioned. Homing in on the partisan theater of “Ukrainegate” and tuning out the wider landscape of corruption, the Beltway press routinely runs quotes from Atlantic Council experts on the scandal without acknowledging their employer’s relationship with Hunter Biden’s former employer.

This case of obvious cronyism has not been overlooked because the Atlantic Council is a bit player, but because of its success in leveraging millions from foreign governments, the arms and energy industries, and Western-friendly oligarchs to bring its influence to bear in the nation’s capital.

Read the entire article HERE.

Report: NBA Players Expressed Frustration over Silver’s Handling of China Controversy

Via Breitbart

In a private meeting with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, players from the Brooklyn Nets and Los Angeles Lakers reportedly criticized the league for their handling of the NBA-China rift.
During the meeting reportedly held last week, the players slammed Silver for saying Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey would receive no punishment for tweeting his support of the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.

According to ESPN, the players were upset that Morey was let off the hook. “Several players said they believed that if a player had cost the NBA millions of dollars because of a tweet, there would be repercussions,” ESPN reported.

Apparently, the players were not worried that their league was cooperating with the world’s biggest human rights abuser, nor were they upset that the pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong were being threatened, jailed, and maybe even killed by a partner of the NBA.

Instead, the players were more upset about what they perceived to be the inconsistent way in which Morey was treated for the tweet, and the fact that some had been asked about the situation surrounding Morey before NBA Commissioner Adam Silver had even spoken about it.

Read the entire article HERE.

75% of Gen Zers Have Quit Work Because of Mental Problems

Via The New American

f you don’t yet have a “mental problem,” just wait for the next updating of psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — because you will. Many will thus conclude with a new survey showing that 50 percent of millennials (ages 23 to 38) and 75 percent of Gen Zers (ages 18 to 22) have quit jobs because of psychological issues. In contrast, only 10 percent of baby boomers said they’d done so.

The study, conducted by Mind Share Partners, Qualtrics and SAP, “looked at mental-health challenges and stigmas in the U.S. workplace, [and] polled 1,500 respondents ages 16 and older working full-time,” reports CNBC. “Another recent study, by the American Psychological Association, found the percentage of young adults experiencing certain types of mental health disorders has increased significantly in the past decade. In particular, the percentage of people dealing with suicidal thoughts increased 47 percent from 2008 to 2017.”

“The Mind Share Partners, SAP, and Qualtrics study also shows that the younger … people dealt with a mental illness at about three times the rate of the general population,” CNBC continued. “The findings are corroborated by another recent study, which shows that while the amount of serious psychological distress increased across most age groups, the largest increase between 2008 and 2017 was among adults ages 18–25, at 71%. For adults ages 20–21, the figure was 78%.”

There were racial differences as well. “Results showed that nearly 50 percent of black and Hispanic participants had left a job for mental health reasons in comparison with 32 percent of white participants,” the Daily Mail added.

Read the entire article HERE.

Police Keep Antifa Away From Columbus Statues By Taping Job Applications Onto Them

Via The Babylon Bee (Satire)

U.S.—Antifa factions nationwide had planned a “deface Columbus day,” on which they intended to deface and destroy statues of Christopher Columbus Monday, but authorities in many cities got the better of the radical far-left groups with a brilliant idea: by adhering legitimate job applications all over their local Columbus statues, they virtually guaranteed that Antifa groups would not approach them.

“It’s working extremely well so far. These Antifa thugs won’t go anywhere near an opportunity for gainful employment,” Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck told reporters. “We urge other American cities: if you want to protect your statues of Columbus, just head to the nearest McDonald’s or Walmart and ask for a stack of job applications. Get some tape and stick them all over the statue, and you can pretty much just go about your day at that point.”

“Job applications are Antifa’s kryptonite,” he added.

At publishing time, Beck confirmed that “Help Wanted” signs, American flags, gendered bathroom signs, and notes from their mothers informing them that it’s time to grow up and get their own place should have a similar paralyzing effect on the ruthless Antifa mobs.

Check out all of the Bee’s hilarious takes on politics and society HERE.

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