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September 5, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
Election 2024
NatSec
Politics

Secret Service Offers LGBT Disney Trip as Part of DEI Scheme.

The diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) office of the United States Secret Service (USSS) has called for nominees to attend an all-expenses-paid trip to Disney World next month amid concerns the agency is already stretched thin during election season.

The event, entitled the “Out and Equal” Workplace Summit, is scheduled to take place at Disney World in Orlando, Florida, from October 7 to 10. It includes a “gala event” on the final evening and a night out at Disney Studios.

However, according to journalist Susan Crabtree, who made the DEI office’s request for USSS members to attend the event known on X on Wednesday, September 4, many within the USSS are unhappy with the idea as they are already low on manpower.

One source allegedly questioned if sending members of the USSS to the Orlando LGBT event was an appropriate use of manpower.

A lack of available agents was cited as a factor that led to the shooting of former President Donald J. Trump and the killing of firefighter Corey Comperatore in July during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, as USSS agents were supplemented with Homeland Security (DHS) agents who were far less experienced.

Additionally, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) stated that a whistleblower had indicated that the USSS itself had told agents not to request additional manpower for the Butler rally and that any requests that were made would be denied.

The email requesting agents attend the LGBT event also comes as the Pentagon is giving members of the U.S. Military the green light to support the USSS during election campaigns.

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The diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) office of the United States Secret Service (USSS) has called for nominees to attend an all-expenses-paid trip to Disney World next month amid concerns the agency is already stretched thin during election season. show more
September 3, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
Election 2024
Politics

Kamala’s Wiki Page Increased ‘Black’ Mentions by 1000%.

The Wikipedia page for Kamala Harris has undergone many changes in the last decade, including mentions of her background, which has slowly become more black over the years.

In 2012, Wikipedia listed Harris, then the San Francisco District Attorney, as African-American, Tamil-American, and Asian-American—though neither of her parents is African-American; her mother is Indian and her father is a Jamaican of African and European heritage. One of Harris’s ancestors, Hamilton Brown, was an infamous slave owner.

Harris’s 2012 Wikipedia page, saved on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine website, only mentions the word “black” three times. In 2019, however, when Harris served as a Senator, mentions of “black” on her Wikipedia page increased to ten. References to her attending a black Baptist church alongside a Hindu temple growing up also appear.

This year, the number of mentions of “black” significantly increased to 34 overall, with long screeds discussing the “African-American intellectuals and rights advocates” Harris was allegedly surrounded by in her youth.

While mentions of her Indian background on her mother’s side remain on the page, much of the description of Harris’s life is focused on her black background and issues related to African-Americans.

Harris’s background and identity have become a focal point of her campaign, as she has been less than forthcoming on real policy proposals. Even the New York Times says Harris’s “Blackness” will do no more to improve the country than former President Barack Obama‘s did during his presidency.

Harris, despite being a descendant of slave owners, has compared police officers to slavers, resulting in demands she apologize. Donald Trump is the only living president, including Obama, whose ancestors never owned slaves.

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The Wikipedia page for Kamala Harris has undergone many changes in the last decade, including mentions of her background, which has slowly become more black over the years. show more
August 30, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
Culture
Election 2024

NYT: Obama Being Black Didn’t Make Anything Better, Nor Will Kamala’s Color Improve America.

The New York Times has strongly criticized Democrat Presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ “Joy” sloganeering, calling it fake and only being used because Harris is part black, adding that the color of her skin is unlikely to lead to any major social change.

In an opinion column published Thursday, August 29, NYT opinion writer John McWhorter–an associate professor of linguistics at Columbia University–compared Harris’s “joy” slogans with former president Barack Obama’s campaign, saying people at the time thought Obama’s “blackness” would cause some sort of major change.

“Obama was a Black president; it’s hard to see how it ended up making anything better.” McWhorter writes and adds, “There is no reason to suppose that Harris’s color will be any more significant than Obama’s was if she becomes president.”

The column states that people should focus on Harris‘ character rather than her ethnicity or race.

“But just as it diminishes Harris to cherish her primarily because she is not Trump, it diminishes her to cherish her primarily because of her skin color and a vague sense of what it ‘signifies.'” McWhorter writes.

Many have highlighted Harris’ black ancestry during the campaign, with CNN saying her “joy” slogan is linked to “black joy.”

Harris, however, is not African-American as her parents are ethnically Indian and Jamaican and previously highlighted her Indian background far more I’m prior years.

A British historian has even traced Harris’s ancestors to the slave trade, claiming that she descends from Hamilton Brown, a notorious slaver and plantation manager in Jamaica.

Most of the recent presidents of the United States and other top American politicians have been linked to the slave trade in some form or another through their ancestors. A major exception is Harris’ opponent, former Donald J. Trump, who has no links to slave trading.

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The New York Times has strongly criticized Democrat Presidential candidate Kamala Harris' "Joy" sloganeering, calling it fake and only being used because Harris is part black, adding that the color of her skin is unlikely to lead to any major social change. show more
August 29, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
Economy
Election 2024
UK

City of London Balks at Kamala Presidency, With Many Preferring Trump.

Top bankers in Britain’s City of London are quietly hopeful that former president Donald J. Trump will be re-elected in November. They believe his economic policies will be far more beneficial to capital markets than a Kamala Harris presidency.

Despite some concerns over Trump’s protectionist stance on some industries and views on the Ukraine war, some in the City see advantages in his laissez-faire finance approach.

Speaking anonymously, a senior U.K. financial lobbyist noted that a Trump presidency might lead to a less restrictive regulatory environment, potentially boosting financial flows across the Atlantic.

The genuine concern in the City is a potential Kamala Harris presidency. Her economic plan includes targeting big businesses, which could be less favorable for the financial sector than Trump’s pro-business stance.

Under Trump, the City also benefited from appointments of industry veterans to key regulatory positions, like Steven Mnuchin at the Treasury and Christopher Giancarlo at the CFTC. This trend could continue, benefiting the financial sector.

A key opportunity for the City would be the inclusion of financial services in a U.S.-U.K. free-trade agreement, a possibility under Trump but unlikely under President Joe Biden or a Harris administration.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has already signaled a willingness to strengthen U.K.-U.S. financial ties, regardless of who leads the U.S. And with Trump’s recent support for cryptocurrencies, the crypto industry in London sees potential benefits, despite his previous skepticism.

Trump has promised to create a strategic Bitcoin reserve and has earned millions of dollars of cryptocurrency donations throughout the 2024 presidential campaign.

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Top bankers in Britain's City of London are quietly hopeful that former president Donald J. Trump will be re-elected in November. They believe his economic policies will be far more beneficial to capital markets than a Kamala Harris presidency. show more
August 27, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
Election 2024
Politics

Trump: Agreement Reached For ‘Fair’ ABC Debate With Kamala.

Former President Donald J. Trump has announced that he and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris have agreed to participate in a debate on ABC on September 10. Trump indicates that the rules will be the same as those for the CNN debate he had with President Joe Biden.

Trump announced the move on his social media platform, Truth Social, on Tuesday afternoon. He referred to ABC as  “by far the nastiest and most unfair newscaster in the business.” In late July, the former President got into a heated exchange with the broadcast network’s Rachel Scott at the 2024 National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention—with Trump referring to ABC as a “fake news” network.

According to Trump, both he and Harris will stand for the debate, and neither candidate will be allowed to bring notes or have access to questions before the debate. Harris and her campaign team had previously demanded a sit-down debate and wanted access to notes.

Trump added that Harris has yet to agree to the proposed September 4 debate on Fox News nor a possible third debate with NBC.

The debate will be Trump’s first with Harris and a major test for the Democratic Party nominee, who has been avoiding media interviews for weeks. Harris is still looking to build an edge against Trump in the polls following a lackluster performance at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago earlier this month. Voter surveys following the DNC suggest that Harris may be in trouble as she received little to no bump from the convention and that Trump has taken the lead in the polls.

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Former President Donald J. Trump has announced that he and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris have agreed to participate in a debate on ABC on September 10. Trump indicates that the rules will be the same as those for the CNN debate he had with President Joe Biden. show more
August 1, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
Election 2024
Election Integrity
Immigration

WATCH: Non-Citizens Admit, on Camera, That They Are Registered to Vote.

As many as 14 percent of non-citizens spoken to by a journalist in Georgia admitted to being registered to vote in American elections, which could mean tens of thousands of non-citizens have been registered.

A video showing non-citizens admitting to being registered to vote was published on July 31 by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project and shows 14 percent of the non-citizens questioned admitting to being registered to vote. Some non-citizens questioned even admitted they had voted previously.

According to the Oversight Project, an estimated 339,000 non-citizens currently live in Georgia. If the 14 percent number held true for the rest of the state, then Georgia could have as many as 47,000 non-citizens registered to vote.

The number is significant as Joe Biden only won the state by less than 12,000 votes during the 2020 presidential election. Georgia has faced major scrutiny over its election practices, particularly in Fulton County, where election documents published in 2021 revealed election discrepancies, including incorrect ballots being delivered and scanning machines failing.

Earlier this year, 300 election officials in key swing states, including Georgia, raised alarms over election integrity concerns in their localities. The Oversight Project has contacted Georgia officials regarding the non-citizens being registered to vote and wishes to cooperate with any investigation.

Georgia is not the only state that faces issues with non-citizens voting, as prosecutors brought charges against 37 non-citizens who voted in North Carolina’s 2016 election. Prosecutors who handled the cases also noted that most non-citizens were far more likely to vote for the Democrats than the Republicans.

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As many as 14 percent of non-citizens spoken to by a journalist in Georgia admitted to being registered to vote in American elections, which could mean tens of thousands of non-citizens have been registered. show more
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August 1, 2024
Election 2024
TECH

Big Tech Bias: Meta’s AI Claims Trump Was Not Shot.

An artificial intelligence (AI) assistant developed by Meta, the parent company of Facebook, inaccurately claimed that former President Donald J. Trump was not shot earlier this month, fueling leftist conspiracy theories over Trump’s attempted assassination. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called Trump‘s immediate reaction to being shot “badass” and inspiring, a statement which contradicts the company’s AI assistant.

In a blog post on Tuesday, Meta’s global head of policy, Joel Kaplan, attributed the AI’s error to its tendency to “hallucinate,” a term used within the industry to describe the generation of false information. “Like all generative AI systems, models can return inaccurate or inappropriate outputs, and we’ll continue to address these issues and improve these features as they evolve and more people share their feedback,” Kaplan claimed.

Meta decided to suppress its AI assistant’s ability to provide information on the incident involving Trump in reaction to massive criticism. Facebook previously censored the iconic photo of Trump raising his fist after being shot in Butler, Pennsylvania, falsely labeling it an altered image.

Meta is not alone in grappling with AI inaccuracies. Google also faced backlash for its AI’s failure to properly handle news about the assassination attempt, leading to claims of censorship. Users noted earlier this week that Google searches for information on the attempted assassination of former President Trump refused to autofill.

Tech billionaire and X owner Elon Musk suggested, sarcastically, that it may just be a coincidence that executives at Google’s parent company, Alphabet, are top donors to Democrats.

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An artificial intelligence (AI) assistant developed by Meta, the parent company of Facebook, inaccurately claimed that former President Donald J. Trump was not shot earlier this month, fueling leftist conspiracy theories over Trump's attempted assassination. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called Trump's immediate reaction to being shot "badass" and inspiring, a statement which contradicts the company's AI assistant. show more
August 1, 2024
Election 2024
News

Kamala Harris Descends from Notorious Slave Owner, Historian Reveals.

A British historian has traced Vice President Kamala Harris’s lineage to Hamilton Brown, a notorious 19th-century slave owner and plantation manager in Jamaica. Harris, of Indian and Afro-Jamaican descent, has not publicly addressed these historical ties. Her father, Donald Harris, an academic at Stanford University, has written about the family’s connections, noting that Brown is his ancestor.

Stephen McCracken, a historian from Northern Ireland, has asserted that Hamilton Brown—himself an Ulster Scot—was not only a slave owner but also campaigned against the abolition of slavery. Born in Antrim, Brown relocated to Jamaica where he established a plantation and protested anti-slavery efforts in London.

Joe Biden has endorsed Harris as the 2024 Democratic Party presidential nominee after Biden decided not to seek re-election last month. While Harris has enjoyed a honeymoon phase in election polling,  critics have pointed to Harris‘s penchant for gaffes and policy decisions as potential liabilities. Her political ascent has been accompanied by controversies, such as her handling of cases as San Francisco’s District Attorney and Attorney General of California.

Harris is not the only Democratic presidential hopeful who can trace her ancestors back to slave owners. When he was still just a U.S. Senator, Barack Obama was presented with evidence in 2007 that his ancestors were also slave owners on his mother’s side.

Numerous currently living members of the American political elites have ancestors tied to the slave trade, including five living presidents and senators like Elizabeth Warren and Lindsay Graham, among at least a hundred others. However, one major political figure who appears not to have any ancestors involved in the slave trade is former president Donald J. Trump.

The legacy of the slave trade remains an issue for some, including Caribbean nations, who have demanded as much as $33 trillion in reparations.

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A British historian has traced Vice President Kamala Harris’s lineage to Hamilton Brown, a notorious 19th-century slave owner and plantation manager in Jamaica. Harris, of Indian and Afro-Jamaican descent, has not publicly addressed these historical ties. Her father, Donald Harris, an academic at Stanford University, has written about the family’s connections, noting that Brown is his ancestor. show more
July 31, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
Election 2024

The New York Times’ Venezuela Election Critiques Sound ‘Familiar!’

The National Pulse’s Editor-in-Chief, Raheem Kassam, notes that a New York Times article criticizing the recent Venezuelan elections parallels critiques made by conservatives during the 2020 presidential elections in the United States and subsequent elections afterward. Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro claims to have won the largely fraudulent presidential vote, drawing international condemnation. 

“The New York Times says Venezuela’s election was dodgy. They cite: Blocked access to polling stations Changes in how/where people vote. Arbitrary polling station timings/management. The withholding of paper ballots,” Kassam wrote on X, adding: “Sounds familiar!”

The New York Times article, published on July 31, notes that the Maduro regime intimidated voters, changed polling station locations at the last minute, kept polls open in some areas beyond the scheduled end of the voting, and only gave out digital tallies of votes. Several of these issues were raised during the 2020 presidential election won by current U.S. President Joe Biden, including criticisms of digital voting machines.

Dominion Voting Systems has been one of the firms highlighted and has continued to see problems with their machines, including multiple discrepancies found during a primary vote in Puerto Rico earlier this year. Other voting machines have also experienced similar problems, such as those made by Election Systems & Software, which flipped votes in Pennsylvania last year due to an alleged “coding error.”

The Maduro regime has also refused to show the paper tallies of ballots counted by voting machines. In the U.S., a majority of Americans want to see paper ballot backups rather than only voting machines used at the polls, and the majority also support requiring ID to vote as well.

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The National Pulse's Editor-in-Chief, Raheem Kassam, notes that a New York Times article criticizing the recent Venezuelan elections parallels critiques made by conservatives during the 2020 presidential elections in the United States and subsequent elections afterward. Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro claims to have won the largely fraudulent presidential vote, drawing international condemnation.  show more

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July 30, 2024
Election 2024
Immigration

FLASHBACK: Kamala Compared ICE to KKK, Called Trump’s Southern Border Wall ‘A Vanity Project.’

Kamala Harris previously compared U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and called former President Donald J. Trump‘s wall on the southern border a “vanity project.” The re-emergence of Harris’s remarks comes as she faces increasing scrutiny as the Democratic Party’s presumptive 2024 presidential nominee following 81-year-old Joe Biden’s exit from the race on July 21.

ICE AND THE KLAN.

In a 2018 Senate hearing, then-Senator Harris likened ICE to the KKK. Harris pressed Ronald Vitiello—the then-acting director of ICE—regarding the history of the KKK and its targeting of individuals based on their race. “Are you aware of the perception of many about how the power and the discretion at ICE is being used to enforce the laws? And do you see any parallels?” Harris asked Vitiello, suggesting the governmental agency was engaged in activities similar to that of the KKK.

Outraged, Vitiello pushed back, asking Harris if she was putting ICE in the same category as the KKK. The then-California Senator doubled down, asking the acting ICE director again if he was aware that some saw the agency as behaving the same way as the KKK, suggesting “there might need to be some work done to correct [that] perception.”

TRUMP’S BORDER WALL.

Several years later, during the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential primary, Harris criticized Trump’s border wall, describing it as a “vanity project” and claiming that illegal immigration did not constitute an emergency. Furthermore, during her presidential campaign, she argued against treating illegal immigrants as criminals.

She stated, regarding Trump‘s border policies, “We don’t need to build a wall. This is a crisis of [Trump’s] own making,” and vowed not to support funding for the wall.

BIDEN’S BORDER CZAR.

Despite such stances, Biden assigned Harris the task of addressing the border crisis and its “root causes” shortly after his inauguration in 2021, becoming the government’s border czar, despite corporate media attempts to claim she did not.

During her tenure as border czar, Harris refused to meet with Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens during his two years in office.

Former Border Patrol leader Chris Clem slammed Harris’s disastrous handling of the border last week, saying, “You own this. You can’t say, ‘It’s not my responsibility.'” Clem referred to the border situation as “disastrous.”

Brandon Judd, President of the National Border Patrol Council, also heavily criticized Harris, saying she refused to implement any policies needed to end the border crisis.

Image by Gage Skidmore. 

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Kamala Harris previously compared U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and called former President Donald J. Trump's wall on the southern border a "vanity project." The re-emergence of Harris's remarks comes as she faces increasing scrutiny as the Democratic Party's presumptive 2024 presidential nominee following 81-year-old Joe Biden's exit from the race on July 21. show more