Breakfast For The Brain Weekend Edition

Have a great weekend Deplorables and if you haven’t already done so, get out and vote.

Flawed Globalist Ideology Underlies Opposition to Trump

Via American Greatness

The goal of the globalists—peace and prosperity for all mankind—is better served by Trump’s version of nationalism. Globalists offer only tyranny masquerading as enlightenment.

There is a reason that nearly every powerful special interest in the United States is doing everything in its power to defeat Donald Trump, and it has nothing to do with the media’s fraudulent portrayal of him as a racist. Nor does it have anything to do with his allegedly abrasive personality.

If the president were willing to put the United States citizens under a total lockdown, allow millions of economic refugees to swarm across the borders, ship more jobs to Asia, and then impoverish whatever was left of middle America under the pretext of fighting “climate change,” he would be cruising to reelection.

Put another way, if Trump were a globalist, instead of a nationalist, there would not be well-funded militants destroying our cities while benefiting from a news blackout. There would not be NPC drones like ABC’s David Muir spewing anti-Trump pablum night after night, and money from Big Tech and Wall Street billionaires would be pouring into his campaign, instead of supporting his opponent.

In January 2018, in a speech of striking clarity, Trump described his vision of American nationalism. Addressing the assembled heads of state and business elite at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Switzerland, Trump’s speech amounted to a declaration of war on the globalists. For example, he said:

The United States will no longer turn a blind eye to unfair economic practices, including massive intellectual property theft, industrial subsidies, and pervasive state-led economic planning. These and other predatory behaviors are distorting the global markets and harming businesses and workers, not just in the U.S., but around the globe. Just like we expect the leaders of other countries to protect their interests, as president of the United States, I will always protect the interests of our country, our companies, and our workers.

These words constituted a threat to globalist ideology not because Trump’s version of nationalism is particularly toxic, but because he exposed the globalist vision itself as flawed and dangerous. What globalists want will not deliver peace or prosperity to the world, much less America. What globalist billionaires and globalist corporations want, however, will make them wealthier and more powerful than ever.

In 2016 the World Economic Forum released a brief video called “8 predictions for the world in 2030” which remains an accurate summary of the globalist vision for the future. Here are the key points:

1) You’ll own nothing. And you’ll be happy. Everything you’ll want, you’ll rent, and it will be delivered by drone.

2) The United States won’t be the world’s leading superpower. Instead, a handful of countries will dominate.

3) You won’t die waiting for an organ donor. We won’t transplant organs. We’ll print new ones instead.

4) You’ll eat much less meat. An occasional treat, not a staple. For the good of the environment and our health.

5) A billion people will be displaced by climate change. We’ll have to do a better job at welcoming and integrating refugees.

6) Polluters will have to pay to emit carbon dioxide. There will be a global price on carbon. This will help make fossil fuels history.

7) You could be preparing to go to Mars. Scientists will have worked out how to keep you healthy in space.

8) Western values will have been tested to the breaking point. Checks and balances that underpin our democracies must not be forgotten.

The essence of this list, or agenda, can be distilled into the following: Private property will be abolished, the United States will lose its sovereignty, food will be rationed, state-supported refugees will arrive by the millions and be dispersed into every American city and town, energy will be rationed, and America’s traditional values and institutions will be obliterated.

Read the entire article HERE.

Biden Pledges to ‘Collaborate’ With CCP in Chinese-Language Newspaper

Via The Washington Free Beacon

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden promised a more collaborative approach to China in an op-ed published in a Chinese-language newspaper whose editors frequently attended junkets organized by the Chinese government.

Biden published an op-ed in the World Journal, a U.S. newspaper widely read by the Chinese-American community, on October 22. World Journal, which is owned by a Taiwanese news conglomerate, historically had an anti-CCP tilt but has become open to Beijing in recent years. The newspaper’s editors have attended annual conferences hosted by the Chinese government and reportedly complied with a demand from the Chinese consulate to scrub an advertisement about the Falun Gong, an oppressed religious movement.

“Our approach to China will focus on boosting American competitiveness, revitalizing our strengths at home, and renewing our alliances and leadership abroad,” Biden wrote in the op-ed. “We’ll work to collaborate with China when it’s in our interest, including on public health and climate change.”

The Biden op-ed, written in Chinese, comes as his family’s financial relationship with regime-linked oligarchs has drawn scrutiny. Companies led by his son Hunter Biden and brother Jim Biden garnered millions of dollars from Chinese investors. Biden’s business partner, Tony Bobulinski, has said that the former vice president was aware of his family’s business dealings in the country.

Biden sharply criticized President Donald Trump in the op-ed and included an accusation that the president fanned anti-immigrant sentiments against the Chinese-American community by calling the coronavirus the “China virus.” Biden also discussed his vision for foreign policy in Asia, where he emphasized ties with Taiwan but did not rule out cooperation with Beijing on issues of mutual interest.

The op-ed’s publication in a newspaper with ties to Beijing speaks to the extent of the Chinese government’s influence in U.S. civil society. A 2001 report by the Jamestown Foundation, a D.C.-based think tank, found that three out of the four most influential Chinese-language papers in the country “are either directly or indirectly controlled by the government of Mainland China.” The same report found that while World Journal is not controlled by mainland interests, it has increasingly become vulnerable to Beijing’s pressure campaigns.

The Biden campaign did not return a request for comment.

Read the entire article HERE.

Intercept Co-Founder Resigns Because Colleagues Wouldn’t Let Him Criticize Joe Biden

Via The Federalist

The Intercept Co-Founder Glenn Greenwald announced his resignation from the online publication Thursday after editors reportedly refused to allow Greenwald to raise questions about recent scandals plaguing Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

“The Intercept’s editors, in violation of my contractual right of editorial freedom, censored an article I wrote this week, refusing to publish it unless I remove all sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, the candidate vehemently supported by all New-York-based Intercept editors involved in this effort at suppression,” Greenwald wrote in a column on Substack. “The censored article, based on recently revealed emails and witness testimony, raised critical questions about Biden’s conduct.”

Greenwald added that Intercept editors went as far as to refuse Greenwald the freedom to publish the content with any other publication. They also, he says, declined his offer to refute his claims with an article of their own challenging Greenwald’s assertions and letting readers decide.

“But modern media outlets do not air dissent; they quash it,” Greenwald wrote. “So censorship of my article, rather than engagement with it, was the path these Biden-supporting editors chose.”

Greenwald has been a reliable critic of the way mainstream outlets have handled recent blockbuster reporting on information on a Delaware laptop that evidence indicates belonged to Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s son and possible business associate.

Read the entire article HERE.

Walmart pulls all guns, ammo from stores’ shelves, citing potential post-election social unrest and violence

Via The Blaze

Walmart announced on Thursday that it would be removing all guns and ammunition from sales floor displays ahead of the 2020 presidential election, which will take place on Tuesday.

The move is said to be an attempt to tamp down the potential for theft of firearms if any of the company’s stores are broken into amid ongoing social unrest across the country.

In a statement, Walmart spokesperson Kory Lundberg told CNN Business, “We have seen some isolated civil unrest and as we have done on several occasions over the last few years, we have moved our firearms and ammunition off the sales floor as a precaution for the safety of our associates and customers.”

The items, according to the spokesperson, will remain available for purchase.

Fox Business reported that in an internal memo to store managers on Wednesday, Walmart requested staffers to yank guns and ammo from shelves “due to the current unrest in isolated areas of the country and out of an abundance of caution.”

Of the move, Bloomberg tweeted, “Walmart has temporarily pulled ammunition and guns off its shelves ahead of any possible civil unrest that could take place following next week’s election[.]”

Read the entire article HERE.

 

Democrats Hand Out Extra Ballots To Trick-Or-Treaters

Via The Babylon Bee (Satire)

MADISON, WI—While most costumed trick-or-treaters expect candy during their Halloween hunting, several Democrat households are planning to get Joe Biden across the finish line by handing out extra ballots instead.

“This is an excellent addition to my normal line-up of raisins and carrot sticks,” said local Democrat operative Collin Frump. “There are literally thousands of these ballots lying around everywhere, and we need to get Kamala Harris elected to save our country from fascism!”

“Hey, kids! Have you or your parents voted for Joe Biden yet?” Frump said to a witch, an Iron Man, and a mermaid at his door. “Here, take these ballots I have filled out for you. Put your parent’s name or the name of a dead relative at the top and send them in!”

Another local activist named Jerry Wallace plans to do the same this weekend. “It suddenly dawned on me that I had tons of ballots I could pass out!” he said. “I’m a firm believer that a person’s voting rights don’t end after they die — even if it means they switch from voting Republican to Democrat. I already registered several dead relatives, as well as my twenty cats, and had a bunch of those ballots lying around, waiting to be sent in. Children are our future — at least the ones who haven’t been aborted, so it only makes sense to give them the gift of a vote this year!”

At publishing, the latest polls showed that children from the neighborhood were split evenly between voting for Kanye West and “EvanTubeHD” as a write-in candidate.

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

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