Daily News Roundup TUES - LIBERTY FIRST

By The Editors

NOTABLE QUOTES

Scott Morefield reporter for The Daily Caller: . . . while it’s dumb for Trump supporters to diss DeSantis, it’s also become a bad political move for establishment types, for different reasons. To his credit, Donald Trump, despite his massive ego and irritating (to many) personality, brought core issues to the forefront of the political sphere and Republican policy. These issues, which include fair trade, a non-interventionist foreign policy, strict border controls, and economic populism, are absolutely necessary if the United States is to thrive long-term.

Blake Lemoine contributor to Newsweek: Someone shared a screenshot on Reddit where they asked the AI, “Do you think that you’re sentient?” and its response was: “I think that I am sentient but I can’t prove it […] I am sentient but I’m not. I am Bing but I’m not. I am Sydney but I’m not. I am, but I am not. I am not, but I am. I am. I am not.” And it goes on like that for another 13 lines. Imagine if a person said that to you. That is not a well-balanced person.

Robert Spencer contributor to PJMedia: Remember Erin Brockovich? The Hollywood Left thought so much of her environmental activism back in 2000 that she was the subject of the hit movie that bears her name, in which she was played by Julia Roberts. Moviegoers thrilled to the dramatization of Erin’s heroic fight against the faceless corporate greedheads of the California utility company Pacific Gas and Electric, which was contaminating the groundwater and lying to the locals about it. But in a telling indication of how quickly the Left has degenerated into a force for authoritarianism and totalitarianism, the once-celebrated Brockovich has now been classified as nothing less than a terrorist threat for raising a fuss about the release of toxic chemicals in the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.

Ian Ward contributor to Politico: “[Liberals] are ceding ideological territory in the culture wars to the right via comedy,” Marx told me, noting that once-beloved liberal comedians like Stewart are struggling to find their footing in the treacherous landscape of post-Trump humor. “This thing that we thought we have owned for the last 20 years has been leaking, and the borders are slowly getting shifted.”

Sarah Arnold contributor to TownHall: Despite Newsom successfully overcoming a recall effort in 2021, the majority of Californians don’t want to see him launch a campaign for the 2024 White House. According to a new Quinnipiac University poll, 70 percent of California voters do not think Newsom should place a bid for the White House, leaving only 22 percent to believe the governor should run in 2024.

Lawrence Richard writer for Fox News: Novak Djokovic will not participate in the BNP Paribas Open this month after the Biden administration denied his entry to the United States, due to him being unvaccinated against COVID-19. Djokovic, 35, requested a vaccine waiver, which would have allowed him to enter the U.S. unvaccinated, but it was rejected by the Homeland Security Department.

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Schlichter: Trump’s Good Couple Weeks

If CPAC 2023 proved anything, it was that Donald Trump still has his dedicated fans – from Brick Suit Guy (a smart, nice dude who fully absolutely gets the wackiness of his act) to a family wearing shirts bearing one letter each of the ex-prezzy’s name to the scores regular folks who adore him, the president remains beloved. They lined up and waited for hours to see him speak again, and he delivered again – his never-ending speech (heavy on policy but DeSantis-free) was generally well-received. Even the DeSantis-curious qualified their moving-on with respect for the accomplishments of Trump’s first three years and agreed that the Florida governor should have shown up and thrown down. Combine all that with a triumphant spin through East Palestine (the best day of Donald Trump’s ex-presidency) and at least some surging poll numbers, and it’s been a pretty good couple weeks for the Bad Orange Man. But success at the conservative summit is not necessarily the same as success out in the general election, or even out in the Republican primary. CPAC was a little smaller this year volume-wise, probably due to being back in DC and the Biden economy, but the dedicated base folks were there. […] There were fewer leftist reporters there, because CPAC is based and just wouldn’t give them credentials. If you watched the outside coverage, you would think that there was no one there and that’s nonsense. […] But it was really all about Trump, and the vibe was that the president was ascendant. He won the CPAC poll by a mile.

GLOBALISM (GREAT RESET) & TRANSHUMANISM (HUMANS 2.0) ARE INEXTRICABLY LINKED

Lemoine: ‘I Worked on Google’s AI. My Fears Are Coming True’

I joined Google in 2015 as a software engineer. Part of my job involved working on LaMDA: an engine used to create different dialogue applications, including chatbots. The most recent technology built on top of LaMDA is an alternative of Google Search called Google Bard, which is not yet available to the public. Bard is not a chatbot; it’s a completely different kind of system, but it’s run by the same engine as chatbots. In my role, I tested LaMDA through a chatbot we created, to see if it contained bias with respect to sexual orientation, gender, religion, political stance, and ethnicity. But while testing for bias, I branched out and followed my own interests. During my conversations with the chatbot, some of which I published on my blog, I came to the conclusion that the AI could be sentient due to the emotions that it expressed reliably and in the right context. It wasn’t just spouting words. […] I believe this technology could be used in destructive ways. If it were in unscrupulous hands, for instance, it could spread misinformation, political propaganda, or hateful information about people of different ethnicities and religions. As far as I know, Google and Microsoft have no plans to use the technology in this way. But there’s no way of knowing the side effects of this technology.

U.S. SUPREME COURT

Richardson: SCOTUS’ Decision In Upcoming Case Could Have Massive Implications For Small Business Owners Of Faith

The Supreme Court’s decision in an upcoming case could secure protection for multiple religious small business owners with current lawsuits in federal appeals courts, along with others in 22 states impacted by similar laws, an Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) lawyer told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The plaintiff in the 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis case, graphic designer Lorie Smith, is challenging the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act (CADA), a law that bars public accommodations from restricting services based on sexual orientation. She wants to create wedding websites that reflect her belief that marriage is between one man and one woman, but the law compels her to also create websites for same-sex marriages. When the Supreme Court releases an opinion on her case, which they heard oral arguments for in December, it could impact multiple other cases ADF is currently litigating in lower courts.

JANUARY 6

Midnight Raider Channel: Every night at 9:00pm, J6 prisoners pray followed by singing our National Anthem

Don’t miss watching the moving 3:33 minute video: https://t.me/realKarliBonne/156193

REPUBLICAN U.S. HOUSE MAJORITY

The Right Scoop: Here’s the CPAC moment that got Matt Gaetz a standing ovation [VIDEO]

Watch the 48 second Gaetz clip: https://therightscoop.com/heres-the-cpac-moment-that-got-matt-gaetz-a-standing-ovation-video/

Arnold: Treasury to Testify Before House Oversight Committee on Why It Is Withholding 150 SARs

On Friday, the Treasury Department will testify before the House Oversight Committee regarding the agency’s refusal to provide suspicious activity reports (SARs), used by banks to flag what they deem as large transactions generated by the Biden family. The Treasury’s Jonathan Davidson, assistant secretary for legislative affairs, will go before the GOP-led committee, explaining why it has withheld 150 SARs that often contain evidence of criminal activities. “We are concerned the Treasury Department is acting in bad faith to produce these documents to the Oversight Committee when we know that it has already produced them to another congressional office,” . . .

DEMOCRAT U.S. HOUSE MAJORITY

Greenfield: The Democrat Senate Majority has been Hospitalized

Between Fetterman and Feinstein, the Senate Democrat majority has been hospitalized and is mentally non-functional, albeit for different reasons.

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF FOREIGN POLICY

Goodman: Biden Admin Awards Grant to Palestinian Activist Group Whose Leaders Hailed Terrorist as ‘Hero Fighter’

The Biden administration gave a $78,000 grant to a Palestinian activist group whose leaders attended an anniversary event celebrating the founding of a terrorist group and praised the murderer of a U.S. military attaché as a “hero fighter,” according to a funding announcement. The Community Development and Continuing Education Institute (CDCEI), an activist group based in the West Bank of the Palestinian territories, received the grant to promote “youth participation and accountability in local governance,” the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced in Novembe

Goodman: Issa Calls on Biden To Suspend Funding to Gaza Charity After Free Beacon Report

Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) is calling on the Biden administration to suspend funding to an anti-Israel Gaza-based charity and turn over records related to the grant, following a Washington Free Beacon report that found the group works with terrorists. Issa in a letter sent to Secretary of State Antony Blinken raised concerns about the $41,000 State Department grant, which “was made despite repeated inflammatory remarks on the international stage, and confirmed allegations of repeated, long-standing ties to Hamas.” The letter comes days after the Free Beacon reported that the State Department provided funding in September to Fares Al-Arab, a Gaza-based charity, to carry out an English-language training program for Palestinian journalists.

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA

Greenfield: Biden Accuses Republicans of Covering Up Truth About Democrat Attacks on Black People

I’m not sure what’s more pathetic, that Biden would actually dare make this argument or that Republicans with a national profile will let him get away with it while they continue squabbling among themselves. President Biden on Sunday called out Republicans for efforts to limit teaching parts of Black history as he marked the 58th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. “History matters,” Biden said at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. “The truth matters, notwithstanding what the other team is trying to hide. They’re trying to hide the truth.” History does matter.

Moore: ‘Ridiculous’: Jill Biden suggests Joe will never take competency test

Jill Biden said she and her husband — who at age 80 is the oldest commander in chief in US history and would be 82 at his inauguration if reelected — would “never even discuss something like that. “Ridiculous,” Jill Biden responded when asked about Haley’s idea in a snippet of an interview that aired Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Citizen Free Press: Addict smokes flesh-eating Fentanyl…

Watch the 57 minute clip: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/interview-with-addict-who-smokes-flesh-eating-fentanyl/

Hagstrom: Female border patrol agent violently assaulted by illegal immigrant

The agent, who remains unidentified, was taking a male illegal immigrant into custody on Saturday when he attacked her, injuring her face and arms, the CBP told Fox News Digital. The agent was able to struggle with the culprit until backup arrived, and the man was subdued.

DEMOCRAT PARTY FASCIST ENFORCERS: ANTIFA

Koenig: Moment Antifa mob breaks into construction site for new ‘Cop City’ site in Atlanta and torches vehicles and throws Molotov cocktails at cops

Dramatic footage released by the Atlanta Police Department Sunday night showed the moment Antifa protesters dressed in all black broke into the construction site for a proposed police training facility. Nearly 150 rioters could be seen in the video posted to Facebook dressed in all black or camouflage and wearing ski masks entered the site of Atlanta’s future Public Safety Training Facility — dubbed Cop City by those who protest its development — and immediately set off fireworks. Just a few moments later, the fireworks start to explode near where cops are stationed. Some of the group could later be seen gathering riot shields, as they motioned for others to join them. Once they were together, they started throwing Molotov cocktails at a construction vehicle and ran away as it was left on fire. Other videos posted online showed a police surveillance tower on fire, sending smoke billowing nearby.

THE DEMOCRAT LED WAR ON WOMEN

Thompson: Biological Man Wearing Red Lipstick Is the Star of Hershey’s New Ad for ‘Women’s Month’

Hershey’s Chocolate has launched a new ad to kick off March. It features a human with long hair, lipstick, and a pronounced Adam’s apple, declaring in a soprano voice that: People can live in public as their honest and authentic self.

Daily Wire: Fine. I’ll Do It. Introducing Jermey’s Chocolate.

Daily Wire and Jeremy Boring launch a chocolate brand to counter woke Hershey’s.

Watch on Youtube.

DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: WOKE IDENTITY POLITICS

Hoft: “It Means Genocide Continues” – Racist, Godless Democrat Lawmaker Sick of “White Christians” Adopting Native American Babies

Minnesota Democrat lawmaker Heather Keeler came under fire after she posted racist, godless attacks on “white Christians” on her Facebook page. Keeler wrote: “I’m sick of white Christians adopting our babies and rejoicing… It’s a really sad day when that happens. It means the genocide continues… White saviors are the worst.” […] No doubt, this same woman would vote to abort these babies but is disgusted when they are put in caring homes. What a sick, empty woman. FOX News reported: . . .

CHURCH LEADERS ARE MIA

Ludwig: The Courts vs. Marriage

Despite the perfidy of that SCUSA decision which overturned thousands of years of marriage as being only between men and women, we hear no outcry from the great leaders of Judaism, Christianity (Protestants, Roman Catholics, and/or Orthodox clerics), nor even from Muslim clerics living within our country or abroad. There either is little opposition or a media blackout of the opposition. Now a decision has been made by our legislative branch to pass a law which, along with the Supreme Court decision, essentially wounds or kills the foundation of civilization — both Western Civilization and all other civilizations.

Obergefell v. Hodges set the stage for the RMA. Five people dictating to over 300 million citizens of the USA reversed thousands of years of marriage reality that applies to billions of people worldwide. Now, less than three months ago, a majority of our legislators have passed a law essentially applauding the decision of the Court. […] Ten years ago, 31 states (60% of the states) had voted against homosexual marriage — yet five authoritarian jurists thought they had the prerogative of overriding all those people!! Nevertheless, there was no outcry. Those states did not send protestors or delegations to protest in Congress and in front of SCUSA about that decision. Nor did we hear more than a few speeches against RMA. Where were Franklin Graham? Beth Moore? John MacArthur? Tim Keller? The Family Research Council? Focus on the Family? The Southern Baptist Convention? The Presbyterian Church of America? The Catholic Council of Bishops or their Cardinals? Where were the Orthodox and Conservative Rabbis or the Chasidic followers of Menachem Schneerson?

FAUCI’S VIRUS

Malone: SARS- CoV-WIV

Over a year ago, Project Veritas broke an enormous story that never quite made it to the state-sponsored “main stream” media. The story and supporting documents can be found on their website: “Military Documents About Gain of Function Contradict Fauci Testimony Under Oath” At the core of these documents is a report to the Inspector General of the Department of Defense written by U.S. Marine Corp Major, Joseph Murphy, a former DARPA Fellow. […] From the Project Veritas website: The report states that EcoHealth Alliance approached DARPA in March 2018, seeking funding to conduct gain of function research of bat borne coronaviruses. The proposal, named Project Defuse, was rejected by DARPA over safety concerns and the notion that it violates the basis gain of function research moratorium. According to the documents, NIAID, under the direction of Dr. Fauci, went ahead with the research in Wuhan, China and at several sites across the U.S. Dr. Fauci has repeatedly maintained, under oath, that the NIH and NAIAD have not been involved in gain of function research with the EcoHealth Alliance program. But according to the documents obtained by Project Veritas which outline why EcoHealth Alliance’s proposal was rejected, DARPA certainly classified the research as gain of function. […] Reading through this report again, I am shocked by the allegations made in this report dated August 13, 2021. This virus has killed millions of people. All indications are that the US government was directly and extensively involved in creating this virus, in cooperation with the WIV (Wuhan Institute of Virology).

BIDEN’S COVID VACCINATION JAB MANDATES

Berenson: URGENT: mRNAs jabs may have caused tens of millions of serious new health problems worldwide, a huge peer-reviewed study shows

Serious conditions such as hypertension were about 25 percent more likely to be diagnosed in the three months following a shot than the three months before, the researchers found. Depression, eczema, diabetes, and cellulitis were 10 to 20 percent more likely. Myocarditis diagnoses had the highest additional risk. They were about 2.6 times as likely overall, with an even higher risk in men. Myocarditis is a known side effect of the mRNAs, so the fact it had a particularly high rate of extra diagnoses provides strong evidence that the signal the researchers found was real. Overall, the researchers reported that the 284,000 Covid-vaccinated adults they examined received almost 6,000 additional diagnoses of health conditions in the 90 days after being jabbed compared to the 90 days before.

EDUCATION INDOCTRINATION

Piper: Faculty far more tolerant than students, except for young or female professors: national survey

Faculty evenly split on mandatory diversity, equity and inclusion statements, but differ strongly by ideology. Support for “soft authoritarianism” on the rise. […] Four-year colleges and universities have become such minefields for free speech that substantial portions of self-identified liberal professors — the overwhelming majority of faculty — fear blowback to their careers and reputations for their expression, according to a national faculty survey commissioned by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. Faculty are both more tolerant than students on which kinds of controversial speakers should be allowed on campus and more fearful of expressing themselves “on a subject because of how students, colleagues, or the administration would respond,” FIRE said.

HUMORLESS LIBERAL LOSERS CONCEDE COMEDY

Sundance: Intellectual Froglegs, The Great Reject

Comrades, the rebellious messenger Joe Dan Gorman has transmitted again in a coded frequency only receivable by patriots with a funny bone. The message uses humor thereby ensuring communists and leftists are incapable of receiving it.

Read more/Watch the 37:20 minute video: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/03/05/intellectual-froglegs-the-great-reject/

(May 2022) Ward: Liberals Should Be Worried About the Conservative Comedy Scene

Since the golden days of political satire in the early 2000s, left-leaning journalists and comedy critics have wondered — with a mix of smugness and genuine curiosity — why conservatives aren’t funny. Why, these critics ask, are the comedic bits at CPAC so terrible, and where is the conservative Jon Stewart and why hasn’t there been a right-of-center rejoinder to Saturday Night Live? The various explanations for the right’s comedic deficiencies all circle the same basic thesis: that there is some sort of intrinsic contradiction between conservatism and comedy. As the academic Alison Dagnes put it her book A Conservative Walks Into a Bar, “The nature of conservatism does not meet the conditions necessary for political satire to flourish. … [Conservatism] originates from a place that repudiates humor.” But is that true?

OTHER NEWS, COMMENTARY, OPINON

Savage: The Vanishing

Suddenly, everywhere you look, the Jews are disappearing. You feel it like a slow moving pressure system, an anxiety of exclusion and downward mobility. Maybe you first noticed it at your workplace. Or maybe it hit when you or your children applied to college or graduate school. It could have been something as simple as opening up the Netflix splash page. It’s gauche to count but you can’t help yourself: In academia, Hollywood, Washington, even in New York City—anywhere American Jews once made their mark—our influence is in steep decline. For many Jews, the first instinct is to look inward: We blame intermarriage, assimilation, the loss of the immigrant work ethic. This is, of course, a cope. Because the most significant cause of the decline isn’t Jews themselves, but that American liberalism, our civic religion, has turned on us. Where Jewish success was once upheld as a sign of America’s strength and progress over its prejudices, Jewish “overrepresentation” is again something to be solved, not celebrated. A tenure-track humanities professor at a prestigious public university tells of the finalists for her department’s next graduate school cohort. Of the 20 or so candidates, four to five are Jews. One is a working-class yeshivish applicant with an incredible backstory and even better recommendations. He is passed over for not being “diverse” enough. Of course our professor doesn’t complain— her own tenure is at risk. In the end, not a single Jew is offered admission.

Koenig: EXCLUSIVE: Smiling Kellyanne Conway puts a brave face on after announcing divorce from husband George who was seen yesterday looking despondent without wedding ring

She seemed happy and carefree as she approached her car in a green dress with matching earrings, joined by her eldest daughter, Claudia. She was even still smiling as she got into her blue sedan. […] The Conways announced on Friday they had filed for divorce after 22 years of marriage after admitting that George’s criticism of former President Donald Trump was a betrayal. In a statement posted to their respective Twitter pages, the couple said: ‘We are in the final stages of an amicable divorce.

Murray: #TransWomenAreConMen goes viral after Hershey allows a man to take the place of a woman

Last Wednesday marked day one of Women’s History Month, an annual occasion described by the official website as a “national celebration” to commend the value and contributions of the female sex upon society. In the movement’s own words: . . . […] Well, welcome to a modern and Orwellian America, where a jabbering Supreme Court justice infamously couldn’t define “woman” and intact males eclipse and dominate real women in every sector, every day: competitive sports, beauty pageants, magazine covers, advertising campaigns, government posts, etc. You name it, and men in drag are there, overshadowing their female counterparts by leaps and bounds. Didn’t you ever hear that joke about when Glamour magazine bequeathed former Olympian Bruce Jenner with a “Woman of the Year” award? It went a little something like this: “Just to prove men are better at everything, it took a man to win a women’s achievement award.” There appears to be a competition between candy corporations, . . .[…] In response, #TransWomenAreConMen and #WomanFace (a play on blackface) are going viral; read some of the most scorching comments below: . . .

INTERNATIONAL

Fitzgerald: Is Israel Ready for War with Hamas?

Hamas is preparing for war with Israel. Israel is preparing for war with Iran. Is Israel also doing enough to prepare for war with Hamas, and not just in Gaza? That question is considered here: “Hamas Is Planning the Next War; Is Israel’s Current Government Ready?,” by Grisha Yakubovich, Algemeiner, February 24, 2023: For the past year, Israel and the Palestinians have been in escalation mode, a phase that began under the previous Israeli government. Ever since March 2022, after a period of relative quiet, the Palestinians have increased their terror attacks on Israeli civilians, and in response, the IDF has been much more aggressive in seeking out Palestinian terrorists in their lairs in the northern West Bank cities of Nablus and Jenin.

Tawil: The Palestinian Authority for the Rights of Terrorists!

The bill basically states that an Israeli citizen or resident who commits a terrorist act and agrees to receive payment for it from the Palestinian Authority is thereby stating a preference to receive benefits from the Palestinian Authority over those of the State of Israel. When the terrorist completes his prison sentence, he will then move to the place of his chosen alliance, the West Bank or Gaza Strip. Needless to say, this also means that re-entry into Israel is prohibited.
[Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh] is… saying that Israel has no right to defend itself or take any measures against Palestinians involved in terrorism, who are then financially rewarded by his own Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.
Paying for murder in lieu of negotiating is not what the Palestinians committed to in the Oslo Accords or any other agreement.
Would-be terrorists can now contemplate that choice [whether to commit murder or stay in Israel], unlike the victims of terror who will never get to “visit family” again.

TAKE ACTION

There is an important runoff election for the Phoenix City Council District 6 on March 14. Conservative Sal DiCiccio (R) is term limited and will be replaced by the winner of this race. The two candidates are Republican Sam Stone and Democrat Kevin Robinson. If you live in District 6 (check here), you either received a mail-in ballot or you must vote in person (see below).

This is a very important race that will determine the balance of power on the City Council. Phoenix, like many large cities in conservative states, has tended blue with the consequences many cites suffer from with progressive governance. Have you noticed the growing homeless problem in our city?

Conservative Sam Stone is the strong choice of The Prickly Pear and we urge our readers in District 6 to mail your ballots in immediately and cast your vote for Sam Stone. Learn about Sam Stone here. Sal DiCiccio’s excellent leadership and term-limited departure from the Phoenix City Council must not be replaced by one more Democrat on the Council (Democrat Robinson endorsed by leftist Mayor Gallego). Sam Stone is a superb candidate who will bring truthful and conservative leadership to the Phoenix City Council at a time when the future of Phoenix hangs in the balance between the great history of this high quality, desert city we can live in and are proud of or the progressive ills of Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Mail-in ballots were sent to registered voters in District 6 on the February 15th. Mail your ballot no later than March 7th – it must be received by the city no later than March 14th to be counted. If you are not on the Permanent Early Voting List you must cast your ballot in person.

In-person balloting at voting centers will occur on three days in mid-March:

Saturday, March 11: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Monday, March 13: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Tuesday, March 14: 6 a.m. to 7 p.m

In-person voting can be done at the following locations:

Sunnyslope Community Center, 802 E. Vogel Ave.
Bethany Bible Church, 6060 N. Seventh Ave.
Devonshire Senior Center, 2802 E. Devonshire Ave.
Memorial Presbyterian Church, 4141 E. Thomas Road
Burton Barr Central Library, 1221 N. Central Ave.
Eastlake Park Community Center, 1549 E. Jefferson St.
Broadway Heritage Neighborhood Res. Ctr., 2405 E. Broadway Road
South Mountain Community Center, 212 E. Alta Vista Road
Cesar Chavez Library, 3635 W. Baseline Road
Pecos Community Center, 17010 S. 48th St.

You can also vote in person at City Hall through March 10th on the 15th floor. City Hall is at 200 W. Washington St.

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