Sunday, August 30, 2020

Stories of 2020: Five Lives Caught in a Year of Upheaval and Pain

In a year that has filled morgues, emptied schools, shuttered workplaces, swelled unemployment lines and polarized the electorate, these are a few of the Americans struggling to respond.

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‘Biden Can Just Stay Away’ – Wisconsin Voters Reject Joe Biden, Welcome Trump’s Planned Visit to Kenosha, Praise His ‘Strong Leadership’ (VIDEO)

Wisconsin voters rejected Joe Biden and welcomed President Trump amid his plans to visit Kenosha on Tuesday.

President Trump will travel to Kenosha on Tuesday after violent BLM-Biden voters rioted and destroyed businesses following an officer-involved shooting last Sunday.

Biden decided not to visit Kenosha this week because he is a feeble coward who thinks Trump’s visit will ‘backfire.’

President Trump is a true leader who is going straight into the epicenter of where violent riots took place to confront the problem.

Wisconsin voters don’t want Biden in Kenosha anyway.

One Wisconsin voter blasted Joe Biden for being an inept career politician.

“Vice President Biden coming in, as far as I’m concerned, he can just stay away because he did nothing beforehand and what is he doing now?” one Wisconsin voter said.

WATCH:

Another Kenosha voter told MSNBC he supports President Trump’s law and order push.

“I think Kenosha’s gonna vote for President Trump in the upcoming election. I think we need him here. We need strong leadership. People that are born and raised here are disgusted and angry with what’s happened.”

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A Trump supporter mistakenly called him ‘foolish’ when attempting to call him ‘wise’ in Hindi

You should probably familiarize yourself with a language before publicly using its terminology. But this thought apparently didn’t occur to political commentator and Fox News “Nation” contributor Tomi Lahren, a popular Donald Trump supporter. A video of Lahren using the Hindi word for owl went viral on social media Tuesday after Lahren used the literal translation of the word as opposed to understanding the cultural significance of it.

"Trump 2020 is all about Keeping America Great because President Trump is wise like an owl, or as you guys would say in Hindi - President Trump is wise like an Ulloo. I hope I said that right," Lahren said in the video. While her pronunciation wasn’t too bad, what she failed to understand is that in both Hindi and Urdu, as well as other widely spoken South Asian languages, the term “ullu” or “ulloo” is used as an insult. So while “ulloo” translates to owl its cultural significance is not the same, an “ulloo” isn’t someone wise in India—it’s someone foolish.

South Asian Twitter users were quick to notice the mistake. Many took to reposting the video agreeing that they also believed Trump is an “ulloo.” Lahren’s attempt to relate to Indian Trump supporters was a great fail; instead of being praised for her attempt to speak Hindi she became a hilarious and viral “ulloo.” Her video garnered views not only on social media but messaging platforms, finding its way to the infamous Whatsapp news base as an American failing to understand cultural nuances. While the original clip recorded and shared by Lahren has since then been deleted from her social media, it exists in reposts worldwide.

I can't 😂 "President trump is wise like an ullu" In hindi ullu means owl but used as an insult to consider someone a fool We all can agree with tomi that Trump is an Ullu 😂🦉 pic.twitter.com/4IzdTBXQYr

— StanceGrounded (@_SJPeace_) August 25, 2020

According to The Independent, Lahren first gained national attention as a conservative host on TheBlaze. She was frequently praised by the right for segments in which she criticized liberal politics, but in 2017, she was suspended from TheBlaze after expressing her support for abortion an interview on The View. Following that incident, she began working for the Great America Alliance, a group dedicated to supporting Trump, The Independent reported.

While Lahren is being credited as the “ulloo” who failed to realize she called Trump an idiot or “jackass” in some translational slang, South Asian comedian Ali-Asghar Abedi claimed on Twitter that it was actually his idea.

“In case it wasn’t clear, I’m the person who pranked Tomi Lahren, and I did it via @BookCameo. Best $85 I’ve ever spent,” Abedi wrote on Twitter.

In case it wasn’t clear, I’m the person who pranked Tomi Lahren, and I did it via @BookCameo. Best $85 I’ve ever spent. https://t.co/AgIamUheLO

— Ali-Asghar Abedi (@AbediAA) August 25, 2020

In an article written for The Independent, Abedi alleged he pranked Lahren to think she was calling Trump wise. “Lahren thought she was calling Trump wise but ended up insulting the man whose presidency her entire career is based on,” he wrote. “Maybe her brain was fried from taking the President's advice about ingesting bleach. Or maybe she was easily duped because she's lacking in intellectual curiosity and only offers arguments that a toddler would call reductive. Either way, waging $85 that she wouldn’t bother to research the meaning of “ulloo” felt like a safe bet.”

It’s true even if someone paid Lahren to say the word “ulloo” a quick Google search of what it means would find variations of the word in phrases all yielding to negative results. An incident like this reminds one of the times as a child people would give you the wrong meaning of a word in a different language or the viral tattoos of people who think they have one inspirational phrase written when in reality their tattoo says “pizza” in Arabic.

Abedi cited other political commentators who allegedly fell victim to the same pranks including Ben Shapiro, Jesse Watters, Mark Levin, Sarah Palin, and Kimberly Guifoyle. It goes to show that research is always key and blind trust, which many Trump supporters have, isn’t always the answer— when in doubt, fact check.  

In the end, I’d say Lahren’s $85 investment was a great one. It may not have looked well for her but it provided South Asians some well-deserved comedy. Besides not many will disagree that Trump is indeed an “ulloo.”



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Trump offered FBI director job to John Kelly, asked for loyalty

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Inciter-In-Chief: Portland, Oregon, Mayor Ted Wheeler Calls Out Trump For Stoking Violence

"What America needs is for you to be stopped," says the angry Democratic mayor following the fatal shooting of a man during a protest.

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Deranged MSNBC Pundit Goes on Hateful Rant Against Trump Voters

On Saturday’s AM Joy, MSNBC fill-in host Zerlina Maxwell conspired with radical leftist authors Jon Meacham and Brittney Cooper to spew hatred towards President Trump and his supporters. Maxwell set up Cooper to go on an insane rant by accusing Trump of “brutally treating black and brown people.” Cooper responded with vile, woke rhetoric that claiming Trump supporters are “rooted in racism” and “a desire for power at the expense of everyone who is black and brown.” Maxwell began the Democratic propaganda by encouraging Meacham to go on a partisan rant against Trump:     MAXWELL: So John, I – I want to go to you first and just ask about as a historian what your gut reaction was to this week seeing the President after four days of pomp and circumstance, you know, violating the Hatch Act all over the place, staging his acceptance speech at the White House. What is the significance of that historically?  MEACHAM: It's -- I hope it's our bottom. I hope we don't go any farther below that. It's a remarkable moment of blending the emblems and sanctity of governance with the business -- necessary business of partisan politics. And that has -- those two things have been kept porously separate, but separate, for centuries. And basically, President Trump, predictably alas, has confused his own personality. He has taken his own narcissism and forced it to the center of the life of the nation and when you stand on the South Lawn of the White House which is in many ways sacred ground in American life, and you make a partisan speech, you turn it – you genuinely turn it into a Republican event.  Meacham also accused Trump of “weaponizing his own narcissism,” which Maxwell enthused over: “Weaponizing his own narcissism is such an interesting way to put that.” The very woke Maxwell then inspired Cooper to go on her deranged rant: MAXWELL: When you -- when you have on the one hand the President who's caging people he's claiming are violating federal laws, even though they're seeking asylum, who's encouraging brutal treatment of black people by police officers, even if they're not committing crimes. What -- what's your reaction to the fact that you have the President violating the law and then brutally treating black and brown people who he deems law -- lawbreakers?  COOPER: Look, President Trump is a lawless person. We knew he was lawless before he got into office. We had very good indicators that he had sexually assaulted women. So many people around him have been – taken hits and gone to jail because they committed crimes on his behalf. The President is a criminal. He has no respect for the rule of law. He understands this job as basically a money grab to support the Trump organization and his own individual pockets. And part of the challenge we have as a nation is that a significant swath of Americans still support Donald Trump. They support his vision of America. And that is rooted in racism. It is rooted in a desire for power at the expense of everyone who is black and brown. And so what we have in this problem is – is a – is a spiritual kind of tyranny of the worst impulses -- you know Dr. Meacham said you know narcissism – you know sort of weaponizing narcissism. That's a spiritual problem. It's a – it’s a problem of our own kind of -- sort of moral crumbling that’s happening in our faces. Tara Reade may have something to say about Joe Biden’s regard for the law when it comes to sexual assault. Since nothing is sacred to Democratic shills, Maxwell and Cooper enveloped the hatred of Trump supporters into the death of beloved actor Chadwick Boseman with Maxwell saying being black in 2020 America is defined by "grief and pain and loss." Cooper replied that black Americans are "deeply grieving" since Black Panther served to push back against "a cultural project that denies the black humanity every step of the way, when black people are being shot down in the streets, when we’re being told that we are criminals and that our lives are unworthy of protection or care." In tears, Cooper added: "We fight for this democracy more than most people fight for it every day. We believe in the American project so much more than the citizens that we see on the right and frankly I think many black Americans are overwhelmed and devastated today." MSNBC is not a news network but a forum for crazed pundits to spout nonsensical, woke Democratic propaganda.   This venomous garbage was brought to viewers by Procter & Gamble and IcyHot. Let them know here if you think they should be sponsoring this content. Read the full August 29th transcript here: MSNBC AM Joy 08/29/20 10:09:16 AM ZERLINA MAXWELL: Joining me now is Jon Meacham author of His Truth is Marching On and Brittney Cooper, author of Eloquent Rage. Thank you so much for being here this morning.  BRITTNEY COOPER (AUTHOR AND PROFESSOR OF WOMEN’S, GENDER, & AFRICANA STUDIES): My pleasure.  JON MEACHAM (AUTHOR OF HIS TRUTH IS MARCHING ON): Thank you.  MAXWELL: So Jon, I – I want to go to you first and just ask about, as a historian, what your gut reaction was to this week seeing the President after four days of pomp and circumstance, you know, violating the Hatch Act all over the place, staging his acceptance speech at the White House. What is the significance of that historically?  MEACHAM: It's -- I hope it's our bottom. I hope we don't go any farther below that. It's a remarkable moment of blending the emblems and sanctity of governance with the business -- necessary business of partisan politics. And that has -- those two things have been kept porously separate, but separate, for centuries. And basically, President Trump, predictably alas, has confused his own personality. He has taken his own narcissism and forced it to the center of the life of the nation and when you stand on the South Lawn of the White House, which is in many ways sacred ground in American life, and you make a partisan speech, you turn it – you genuinely turn it into a Republican event. You're mixing things that in a democracy that is tenuous. We’re – we’re a complicated and provisional experiment as you were just talking about in another context with -- with Congressmen -- Congresswoman Demings. You -- we have to be eternally vigilant about making sure that the whole is important than the individual. That is the nation is more important than the temporary occupant of the White House. And what you saw this week was President Trump once again weaponizing his own narcissism.  MAXWELL: Weaponizing his own narcissism is such an interesting way to put that. Brittany, in terms of the Hatch Act, that is a law. And so it -- it's not, you know, to John’s point, simply violating norms historically but also literally violating federal statute. Or at least not in the President’s case -- encouraging staffers to do so. When you -- when you have on the one hand the President who's caging people he's claiming are violating federal laws, even though they're seeking asylum, who's encouraging brutal treatment of black people by police officers, even if they're not committing crimes. What -- what's your reaction to the fact that you have the President violating the law and then brutally treating black and brown people who he deems law -- lawbreakers?  COOPER: Look, President Trump is a lawless person. We knew he was lawless before he got into office. We had very good indicators that he had sexually assaulted women. So many people around him have been – taken hits and gone to jail because they committed crimes on his behalf. The President is a criminal. He has no respect for the rule of law. He understands this job as basically a money grab to support the Trump organization and his own individual pockets. And part of the challenge we have as a nation is that a significant swath of Americans still support Donald Trump. They support his vision of America. And that is rooted in racism. It is rooted in a desire for power at the expense of everyone who is black and brown. And so what we have in this problem is – is a – is a spiritual kind of tyranny of the worst impulses -- you know Dr. Meacham said you know narcissism – you know sort of weaponizing narcissism. That's a spiritual problem. It's a – it’s a problem of our own kind of -- sort of moral crumbling that’s happening in our faces. And it's a question for us about whether we will continue to stand by and watch this happen or whether we will fight back. The thing that irritates me about Republicans is that they scream and yell at black protesters about how we must respect the rule of law when the entire governance of the last four years has been all about a cruel mocking of the notion of the rule of law.  MAXWELL: I think that's such an important point. I want to pivot a bit towards really what I think as black Americans we're experiencing in the year 2020 which is grief and pain and loss. Not just because of the COVID-19 pandemic, not just because like every other year the police are shooting and killing black people in the street, but also because we just lost Chadwick Boseman, who played so many memorable characters including Black Panther. Brittany, I just want to ask you for -- for -- your reflection on really the pain and grief that black America is in as this country and its Democratic -- the pillars of it’s -- our democracy are seemingly crumbling.  COOPER: Yeah. Chadwick Boseman was our shining star and, you know, he was a superhero. Not just in the movies, but in his life. In his fight against cancer. The ability to -- to have a black superhero character at the movies in 2018 gave black folks so much joy. It was a -- Black Panther was a movie that really brought together this longstanding conversation about our relationship to the African diaspora and to -- our -- our roots and the places we were rich from and brought here and it staged an important cultural conversation and did it with a beautiful representation of black life. Chad – Chadwick Boseman was an amazing actor. He was a – my -- my fellow alum of Howard University. I'm super proud of that. And we are deeply, deeply grieving today because these representations they don’t just -- they're not just movies for us when – when there's a cultural project that denies the black humanity every step of the way. When black people are being shot down in the streets. When we’re being told that we are criminals and that our lives are unworthy of protection or care to see ourselves -- it becomes heightened – it becomes an experience of heightened importance. And so Black Panther was not just a movie. All of the roles that he played were not just movies. They were cultural experiences that affirmed the depths and possibility of our humanity. And – and part of what it feels like in 2020 is that we are losing the people that help us to get up every day and fight again because they show the best of us. And, you know, black people need a break. [CRYING] We need a break. We deserve a break. We fight for this democracy more than most people fight for it every day. We believe in the American project so much more than the citizens that we see on the right and frankly I think many black Americans are overwhelmed and devastated today. And, you know, I hope that -- I hope that our country learns as Doc Rivers said to love us with half of the love that we for it and I hope that we can fight to achieve a world where black life is not cut short because of so many health challenges that beset us. And so I send my love to Chadwick Boseman’s family and his loved ones and all of us in black America who mourn today.  MAXWELL: Thank you so much, Brittney Cooper. I think so many of us out there relate to everything you just said in terms of the pain that we feel as American citizens.

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Shots Reported Fired at Trump Caravan in Los Angeles; No Injuries

Gun shots were fired at a pro-Trump caravan driving on Ventura Boulevard in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles Sunday afternoon. Police report a tire was possible blown out by the alleged gunfire but that no one was injured. Police also report three suspects are holed up in an nearby apartment building. An estimated 700 vehicles participated in the caravan.

Emily Valdez, KNX-AM, “Breaking: SWAT Called out in Woodland Hills after someone from an apartment on #VenturaBoulevard shoots at pro-Trump caravan of cars. Tire on vehicle was shot out. No injuries. Suspect barricaded in apartment, per LAPD.”

Other reports stated three suspects were barricaded:

KTLA-TV:

“Officers responding to reports of a person with a gun in Woodland Hills Sunday have evacuated some buildings in the area, the Los Angeles Police Department said. Three suspects are barricaded at a location in the 20500 block of Ventura Boulevard, LAPD said.”

LAist:

“A witness driving east on Ventura Blvd. at around 11:30 a.m. called police after she heard what she believed were shots fired, then noticed her tire went flat. A second witness called police separately, saying that they believed the shooter was inside The Avalon apartment building at 20544 Ventura Blvd. The building was evacuated, and police said three suspects are barricaded inside the building.”

KNBC-TV:

“A large caravan of cars in a pro-Trump rally was lined up on Ventura Boulevard when a woman who was not participating in the rally, driving past the rally, heard what sounded like gunshots and immediately noticed her tire was flat, the LAPD said.”

The Los Angeles Times reported they were given a photo of a man on a balcony holding a rifle and that the woman’s flat tire had been damaged by a “projectile”:

…Officer Will Cooper of the Los Angeles Police Department said officials received a report that a man was firing at a caravan as it traveled along Ventura Boulevard near Chalk Hill shortly before 11:30 a.m. The incident was initially described as someone brandishing a firearm and throwing bottles at the vehicles but was later updated to include a report of shots fired, he said.

…A woman who was driving east on Ventura past the procession heard what sounded like gunshots and noticed her tire went flat, Los Angeles police said in a news release. When she inspected it, she found it had been damaged by a projectile, possibly a bullet or a bullet fragment, police said.

…Jorge Rodriguez, deputy chief of the LAPD Valley bureau, said the department obtained a photo of man with a rifle on the balcony of an apartment unit. It’s unclear what kind of rifle he was holding.

The alleged shooter and two others barricaded themselves inside the property in the 20500 block of Ventura Boulevard, Cooper said. It wasn’t immediately clear whether all three men were believed to be armed…

Not everyone was thrilled:

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