Facebook Removes 'Patriot Prayer' Pages Days After Member Killed By "100% Antifa" Gunman

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Facebook Removes 'Patriot Prayer' Pages Days After Member Killed By "100% Antifa" Gunman Tyler Durden Fri, 09/04/2020 - 19:05

As Mark Zuckerberg continues to cave to the 'woke mob' driving the corporate advertiser boycott of his business, Facebook has reportedly removed several pages related to the "Patriot Prayer" group, a conservative group that has been routinely identified as "white supremacist" by left-wing reporters with an agenda.

Described by RT as "a mainstay at pro-gun rallies and street protests", the group received attention from the national media last weekend when a rumored member was shot and killed by a man who described himself as "100% Antifa" in an interview. The shooter, Michael Forest Reinoehl, was himself shot and killed by police after confessing to the shooting in an interview with - who else? - Vice News.

A Facebook spokesman told Reuters the company pulled the pages as part of “ongoing efforts to remove Violent Social Militias from our platform." That's presumably a reference to street brawls between members of the group and armed left-wing groups.

Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson tweeted about the victim, addressing him by the name "Jay", and claiming to have known him through the group. Gibson's own personal page was also caught up in the ban.

He raged at Facebook for the timing of the ban: "Antifa groups murdered my friend while he was walking home, and instead of the multibillion dollar company banning Portland antifa pages they ban Patriot Prayer and myself,” Gibson said in a statement on Friday. “People can sign up at PatriotPrayerUSA.com for future events."

Facebook updated its policies last month, promising to ban any groups who "pose significant risks to public safety, including offline anarchist groups that support violent acts amidst protests, US-based militia organizations and QAnon."

While Facebook says it removed over 980 groups, 520 pages and 160 ads from the platform under the new guidelines, including “some who may identify as Antifa,” conservative critics argue the bans skew in one direction and largely target those right-of-center, despite the platform’s claims of impartiality.

The shooting in Portland hasn't gotten nearly as much media attention as a shooting allegedly perpetrated by 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, who had 'blue lives matter' posts on his social media pages - prompting the media to label him a white supremacist as well.

A man wearing a Patriot Prayer hat was murdered in Portland by a criminal who said he was "100% Antifa" and instead of banning Antifa pages, Facebook banned Patriot Prayer. Truly Orwellian insanity from the Trotskyite garbage babies who run Facebook. https://t.co/Wa8DY5vy0e

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) September 4, 2020

Zuckerberg has been doing everything he can to appease the growing crowd of pundits blaming him for single-handedly destroying American democracy by hoodwinking the American people into electing Trump. All of this, of course, was orchestrated by the grand puppetmaster himself, Vladimir Putin. Earlier this week, he announced a ban on "new" political ads during the final week before the election, a completely technical and, as far as we can tell, uunremarkable, change that serves only to stand as evidence that the company "did something" to take on this imaginary threat.

 

 

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My first novel is out -- and the response is visceral

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A funny thing happened this past week: My first novel was released. Not just any novel, mind you. It's a romance novel. A Christian romance novel. An Amish Christian romance novel. Yes really. (Critics may now begin their obligatory mockery.)

The book has done very well so far. At one point my Amazon ranking for all books was 6,451, and as high as No. 6 in its specific genre.

The premise of the novel is when a high-powered career woman (an investigative journalist) is placed in witness protection among the Amish. She stays in the community for many months and comes to appreciate the contrast with her former life. The things that seemed important before – chasing after the next big story, being immersed in constant drama and violence – fades in significance. In the end, she converts and remains in the community.

Then something interesting happened. I started getting emails from readers, and many of those emails had similar themes. They liked the book and that was nice, but it went deeper than that. They longed for a simpler life, they told me. They want to be calmer, they told me. They want to live more sustainably. They want to retreat from the chaos, the unrest, the anarchy of modern society.

Over and over again, in different words, the same message came through. I realized this little book tapped into a visceral longing.

"I have read probably a hundred Amish novels," wrote one woman, "but none have compare to yours. WOW!! … It has made me realize that much of my anxiety is really caused by information overload. How by watching less news and setting my electronics aside, I can feel less stressed and anxious. This book was definitely needed for our current times. Your story was great and I loved your characters."

Another wrote, "Not only was the story brilliantly written, but I learned so many new things about the Amish lifestyle and community. Thank you so much for the lesson of simplicity. While reading the book I had to take a step back and reflect more than once."

Again and again, readers expressed longing for a simpler lifestyle, one not consumed with electronics, pressure, urban mayhem and other modern issues. All you have to do is read any recent headline about insane urban violence to understand why.

For those reeling from the events of 2020, the Amish lifestyle almost seems idyllic by comparison. It's not, of course; but it can seem that way when Antifa or BLM chaos dominates the news; when looting and thuggery aren't just reported, but celebrated by the mainstream press; when outright lies about the president are not only being published as truth, but are awarded points for style.

In a piece called "The Fear of Social Unrest is Everywhere," Adam Taggart writes, "In a year that has experienced a global pandemic, Depression-level job losses, a bevy of large-scale natural disasters from wildfires to Cat 4 hurricanes to derechos, the No. 1 current concern we're now hearing from our readers isn't any of these. Instead, it's the danger of social unrest breaking out in their local community." [Emphasis in original.]

Most people don't want unrest. Most people want tranquility. And that's why these women emailed me.

As I noted in an earlier column ("The mass exodus from cities"), people are pulling up stakes and leaving urban areas in droves. Without searching very hard – just collecting links as I come across them – so far I've accumulated well over 85 news articles about urban flight, and I'm adding more every day. People are saying life is too insane right now. They want calmness. They want balance.

In a column entitled "Cultural Suicide is Painless," Victor Davis Hanson notes that to venture into San Francisco right now to venture into a place that is "lawless, fetid, and safe only for those with private security guards." He adds, "The story of all Dark Ages is that when civilizations finally prefer suicide, they do it easily, and the remnants flock to the countryside to preserve what they can – allowing the cities to go on with their ritual self-destruction. So it has begun to seem this endless summer."

It was that word "countryside" that caught my eye. The remnant is leaving the city and fleeing to safer places where they can live in peace and raise their children without fear of Marxist indoctrination. Having lived in the countryside for 30 years now, we're seeing this firsthand. Critics try to spin this as a racial divide, when in fact it's little more than an interest in a simpler life. The modern simplicity movement, for example, was born in Seattle. Ironically, Seattle is now about the last place anyone can live simply.

One thing is clear. This massive desire for people to escape urban chaos means they're not just running away from the city, but running toward something. It's a tug. It's a yearning. It's a deep-seated wish. It's not just a push; it's a pull.

You see, living away from a city changes people. There is a direct connection between how hard you work your land, and what you gain from it. Weather, not anarchy, becomes a favorite topic of conversation. Four-legged predators take precedence over two-legged ones. Firearms become necessary to scare away coyotes, not scare away rapists. People develop new skills – growing a garden, preserving the harvest, fencing a pasture, raising chickens. Your neighbors are no longer strangers that you distrust; they become friends and allies who share your peaceful new life. That's what I mean by "pull."

So critics may scoff at this new hobby of mine – writing Amish-themed Christian romances – but let me tell you, it's hitting a chord.

If my main character can find peace and serenity away from urban chaos, maybe others can too. And no one has to become Amish to do it.

Patrice Lewis is pleased to announce the availability of the complete collection of 52 Country Living Series ebooklets, representing over 17 years of homesteading experience. Subjects include preparedness, frugality, rural skills, food preservation, and more. Click this link for details.

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US Court Vindicates Snowden Leaks - Rules NSA Mass Surveillance "Illegal" & Officials Lied

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US Court Vindicates Snowden Leaks - Rules NSA Mass Surveillance "Illegal" & Officials Lied  Tyler Durden Thu, 09/03/2020 - 15:30

Though we doubt the broader public needed convincing, this is a significant milestone nonetheless, also after last month Trump shocked reporters by suggesting he could take a look at pardoning Edward Snowden: 

Seven years after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans’ telephone records, an appeals court has found the program was unlawful - and that the U.S. intelligence leaders who publicly defended it were not telling the truth.

From the cover of September 2014 issue of Wired.

From the start supporters of Snowden and the journalists who assisted in breaking the story internationally, such as Glen Greenwald, Laura Poitras and others, said the NSA program was a massive violation of citizens' 4th Amendment protections. 

National security state hawks, however, attempted to focus the story on Snowden himself, saying his 'traitorous' actions compromised American spies and assets abroad, and also that it was a boon to Washington's enemies and rivals like Russia. 

“I never imagined that I would live to see our courts condemn the NSA’s activities as unlawful and in the same ruling credit me for exposing them,” Snowden said on Twitter.

Seven years ago, as the news declared I was being charged as a criminal for speaking the truth, I never imagined that I would live to see our courts condemn the NSA's activities as unlawful and in the same ruling credit me for exposing them.

And yet that day has arrived. https://t.co/FRdG2zUA4U

— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) September 2, 2020

And the ACLU said “Today’s ruling is a victory for our privacy rights,” adding that it “makes plain that the NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone records violated the Constitution.”

Crucially, the three judge panel on the 9th Circuit specifically credited Edward Snowden for exposing it, as Politico notes:

Judge Marsha Berzon's opinion, which contains a half-dozen references to the role of former NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden in disclosing the NSA metadata program, concludes that the "bulk collection" of such data violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

If Trump were to move on pardoning Snowden, who is still a fugitive in Russia facing US espionage charges, this could actually help Trump make the argument politically, despite AG Barr recently saying he'd vehemently oppose such a pardon.

It was only a couple weeks ago that Trump said “I’m going to take a very good look at it” when asked about a possible Snowden pardon.

The president raised eyebrows and anxiety across the D.C. beltway with his unprecedented remarks: “There are a lot of people that think that he is not being treated fairly. I mean, I hear that.”

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Why K-12 education needs viewpoint diversity now

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In the fall of 2016, before the presidential election, a 9th grader came to school wearing a Trump 2016 T-shirt. I walked into the faculty lounge that morning to get a cup of coffee and nearly a dozen teachers were standing in front of the one-way glass window, looking at him with open disgust. They were discussing how the student should best be reprimanded, or at least “re-educated,” for his politically indefensible display. Their comments included:

“Why is he wearing that?”

“Is he racist?”

“This is not ok. This is not normal.”

I interjected: “Why don’t you ask him?” My question was immediately met with head-shaking and looks that told me I clearly didn’t understand. To my colleagues, the shirt was so gross an offense that engagement served no purpose. To me, their unwillingness to talk with him was a missed opportunity to better understand the perspective of someone who saw things differently.

The tenor of the discussion around politics that I saw play out that morning — both the judgments and the refusal to engage — reveals a persistent problem in our schools. It’s a problem that extends far beyond the comments of a few teachers in the faculty lounge.

I have been a teacher for 14 years. For the past seven years, I have been at a private high school in Los Angeles. For seven years before that, I was a public high school teacher, in Los Angeles and in Philadelphia. What I’ve seen alarms me.

The lack of humility on the part of educators, when it comes to teaching students about cultural, religious, political, viewpoint, and ideological diversity, has resulted in a climate that stifles learning. While all of these components are important, in recent years, the need for an understanding of political diversity has become the most salient.

I have seen a pervasive norm that conservative ideas are bad and progressive ideas are good. While this norm may be reversed in other districts around the country, the reality is that most Colleges of Education (the institutions that train and produce teachers) are situated at universities that support this orthodoxy.

In my current position, I run my U.S. History, Gov-Econ, and Civics classes in a way that welcomes all political perspectives. Because of that, I have become one of the few instructors at the school students feel they can come to when their perspective doesn’t perfectly align with what they feel is the “right” view.

Students have come to me reporting things like “If I bash Trump in my essay, I get an A” and “If I promote building the wall, I fail.” While I believe that this is, to some extent, hyperbolic, perception matters and it indicates a broader problem in primary and secondary school education. There are at least three reasons this needs our attention.

First, one of the goals of education should be to prepare students for the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. Fostering the ability to think about complex and controversial issues from a variety of perspectives, with an eye towards problem-solving, is a necessary part of that process.

Second, higher education has, up to this point, received the lion’s share of attention on the problem of ideological conformity. But prioritizing reform only at the level of post-secondary education ignores a significant fraction of young people. The National Center for Educational Statistics showed that, in 2017, “about 44 percent of high school completers enrolled in 4-year institutions and 23 percent enrolled in 2-year institutions,” excluding about one-third of high school completers from any resulting advances.

Third, modeling respectful discourse has to start early if it is to become internalized. K – 12 students need to observe their instructors articulating and defending various positions and exhibiting genuine and thoughtful curiosity about views different from their own. Moreover, students should see that the ability to reason through an argument and the demonstration of curiosity are desirable and valuable traits to have.

We should be training students to be critical thinkers, where critical thinking is the analysis and evaluation of an issue free of ideological and subjective judgments. This skill is rarely taught in secondary school classrooms, even though schools know how to do this, at least in principle.

In fact, this approach is more frequently seen in early childhood and elementary classrooms. It’s present in activities like “How many uses can you think of for a paper clip?” This type of thought exercise lays the groundwork for problem-solving and thinking outside of the box.

However, at some point usually, during middle school, when the topics become decidedly more controversial than paper clips, structured lessons with a specific political agenda and singular viewpoint become the norm.

A few months after that morning in the faculty lounge, I had the opportunity to speak with the student who had worn the Trump t-shirt. He explained that he wore it partly out of pride for his conservative ideals and partly out of frustration for the way he felt those ideals were judged in the school setting. Based on the teachers’ comments I’d overheard, he was right to feel that way.

This problem of a singular ideological position in primary and secondary education is likely to intensify, at the very least in the near term. For instance, in recent weeks, students have demanded that anti-racism readings be adopted into classrooms across the country. While there are certainly merits to the anti-racist perspective, by incorporating it as a teaching tool, we’re reflexively and uncritically accepting this version of the world. But this is not what education should be. After all, we shouldn’t be telling young minds what to think, we should be teaching them how to think.

This article has been republished from Heterodox Academy (HxA) under a Creative Commons licence.

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Pregnant Woman in Pajamas Arrested in Own Home in Front of her Children for Facebook Post Planning Lockdown Protest in Australia

by Editor, Health Impact News A video that at the time of publication of this article has been viewed over 4 million times on Facebook, a 28-year-old pregnant mother still dressed in her pajamas is hand-cuffed and arrested in Australia, because she had allegedly made a Facebook post about a “free

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How to Beat Internet Censorship and Create Your Own Newsfeed

Back in January of this year (2020) we reported about Event 201, a pandemic simulation which was hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Apple And Google Update Contact Tracing Software

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Apple And Google Update Contact Tracing Software Tyler Durden Wed, 09/02/2020 - 22:45

Submitted by Market Crumbs,

At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, Apple and Google announced they would work together to develop a COVID-19 Exposure Notification API. Initially, access to the contact tracing software required users to download an app from their local health authorities and opt-in to receive Exposure Notifications.

The two companies announced yesterday that the COVID-19 Exposure Notification technology will be built directly into iOS and Android. If opted-in, the technology uses Bluetooth signals to determine how closely and for how long two phones were together and warns the other if the user tests positive for the coronavirus.

The move is in large part due to a lack of adoption as health authorities have struggled to roll out their apps. The introduction of Exposure Notifications Express will eliminate the need for health authorities to develop and maintain their own app.

Only about 20 countries and regions have introduced contact tracing apps, while only six of 50 U.S. states have done so. Only half of U.S. states are even considering building their own contact tracing app.

"As the next step in our work with public health authorities on Exposure Notifications, we are making it easier and faster for them to use the Exposure Notifications System without the need for them to build and maintain an app," Apple and Google said.

"Exposure Notifications Express provides another option for public health authorities to supplement their existing contact tracing operations with technology without compromising on the project’s core tenets of user privacy and security."

Public health authorities can now simply submit a configuration file with their contact information and guidance, while users will be notified to opt-in once their state or region is available. Public health authorities will still be able to maintain other apps they've built if they choose to.

"Public health agencies are carrying an extraordinary load in managing the novel coronavirus response," CEO of the Association of Public Health Laboratories Scott J. Becker said.

"Offering a turn-key solution such as EN Express can greatly reduce their burden and eliminate many of the up-front requirements of building an app and setting up servers."

The software will be built into iOS 13.7, which was released yesterday, while the Android version will be available later this month on Android 6.0 or higher.

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The CDC Is America’s New Landlord

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, operating under the US Department of Health and Human Services, has asserted jurisdiction over private residential leases nationwide. It intends to curtail evictions until at least the end of the year, and in fact its new directive threatens federal criminal penalties against landlords who ignore tenant “declarations” made using CDC forms.

It is unclear, to put it mildly, exactly how this jurisdiction over private contracts and state/local courts flows even to Congress, much less an administrative agency acting on its own. One federal official justifies the bizarre and legally dubious action based on the CDC’s broad charter to stop the spread of communicable diseases—a charter at which they’ve failed miserably with covid:

Congress has delegated broad authority to HHS, the Surgeon General and CDC, to take reasonable efforts to combat the spread of communicable diseases, and frankly I think it makes sense for those authorities abroad because we don’t know for any given situation or scenario what steps will be needed to stop the spread. I think, in this particular order, the CDC has made a very compelling case that it is quite problematic at this particular time. It’s focused on this particular pandemic, which is obviously the uniquely powerful grasp in the nation’s entire history in terms of the effect it’s had that for a bunch of reasons in particular, that the home has been sort of the focal point of people social distancing and building, sort of a safe space themselves over the past few months, and also the fact that if people get kicked out, they may end up in overcrowded congregated living facilities or homeless shelters, and that is a potential recipe for a big spread of COVID-19.

Thanks to the oft-criticized but in fact essential Zero Hedge for the nice bit of early and original reporting here—a full day before NPR, Bloomberg, et al.—and for details from a phone conference with CDC officials.

Again, this was announced without congressional input or approval and purely by administrative decree. At least the eviction and mortgage moratoriums in the CARES Act, passed by Congress in March, were enacted by politicians who face voters this fall. And while those earlier moratoriums may well be constitutionally suspect too, at least in times of sanity, they were limited to federally backed rentals and mortgages. The CDC’s new action is much broader, applying conceivably to all private residential leases across the country.

The fallout from suspending rental contracts will be deep and long lasting. Many landlords will find their situations untenable and stop making mortgage and property tax payments. New rental housing stock will be depressed, as owners worry about the next suspension of rent payments now that the precedent has been set. After all, why wouldn’t moratoriums happen again when the next pandemic or financial crisis hits? Rental housing units will drop in price as more landlords abandon the business—setting the stage for commercial and private equity buyers to grab units on the cheap from individuals and small owners. Ultimately, foreclosures, evictions, and tax sales will happen no matter what the federal government does. The likely outcome is bigger players owning more and more of the rental housing stock, consolidating the permanent renter class and adding to the rootlessness many Americans feel. Even the most modest home ownership creates skin in the game and encourages better neighborhoods, while areas dominated by rentals lack the same incentives for improvement. And the new owners of rental units will pass all the uncertainty, risks, and potential losses on to millions of Americans in the form of higher rents.

Even during the most turbulent periods in American history, including the Great Depression, World War II, and an 1880s tuberculosis outbreak which killed one in seven people, virtually no one expected the federal government to suspend rent. This action by the CDC, in response to a very manageable and retreating cold virus, is the kind of quietly unprecedented development we’ve come to expect this year. This is a watershed moment for the US: when you destroy trust in contract enforcement you create terrible ripple effects throughout society. Something this radical should not be rushed into place with such little forethought, especially when it amounts to buying votes in a national election. But of course in a managerial state we should expect just this type of shortsighted political consideration to prevail over good sense and justice.

The CDC wants to effectively vitiate contracts: when you tell one party that it need not perform and the other that it cannot sue for nonperformance, you radically alter the bargaining power of those parties. The contract they signed becomes nothing more than an aspirational document, a legislative (or administrative!) tool to be rewritten at the will of politicians. The effects of this moratorium undoubtedly will spill over in unforeseen ways as Americans get used to the idea that their financial obligations can be erased by state edict. The tremendous costs will be borne by all of us, because when contracts are not enforceable every transaction must account for much higher risks.

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Honeybee venom contains chemical that kills breast-cancer cells in minutes

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(STUDY FINDS) -- NEDLANDS, Australia — A groundbreaking discovery in Australia is giving new meaning to the term natural remedy. Using hundreds of honeybees, a new study reveals the venom in these insects’ stingers quickly kills breast cancer cells.

Dr. Ciara Duffy says honeybee venom destroys multiple types of breast cancer, even the hard to treat triple-negative variety. Her study in the journal npj Precision Oncology finds the venom not only eradicates these cancers, it also breaks up a cancerous cell’s ability to reproduce. It also contains a compound called melittin which researchers say helps this natural remedy stop the disease with remarkable speed.

“The venom was extremely potent,” the researcher from the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research says in a media release. “We found that melittin can completely destroy cancer cell membranes within 60 minutes.”

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"It Was A Setup": Pelosi Blames Salon For Covert Blow-Out, Demands Apology

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"It Was A Setup": Pelosi Blames Salon For Covert Blow-Out, Demands Apology Tyler Durden Wed, 09/02/2020 - 19:25

Despite the desperate efforts of the mainstream media and the left's propaganda artists to suppress the story exposing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's "blow-outs for me, but not for thee" caught-in-the-act hair salon visit, she has been forced to make a public statement and face the media this afternoon to "explain."

Pelosi began in typical politician manner by blaming someone else - the salon owner - for the so-called "set-up" and then "apologized" for being caught in a set-up...

"I take responsibility for trusting the word of a neighborhood salon that I've been to over the years many times," Pelosi told reporters on Wednesday.

"When they said they were able to accommodate people one person at a time, I trusted that. As it turns out, it was a setup." 

And she’s demanding an apology from the salon owner. Does Mrs. Pelosi mean she was lured to get her hair done against her will?

She then slurred out some anti-Trump "but but but Trump killed hundreds of thousands" talking points that were handed her to on a paper note from an assistant before an intrepid reporter pressed the matter to which she angrily snapped:

“I said, I said I’m not gonna answer. That’s all I’m gonna do! Do you have any questions about the fact that people are dying?!”

Pelosi even had the audacity to claim that she had "been inundated by calls from people who work in the hair industry who have 'thanked me for bringing attention to this issue'."

The full, brief presser is below:

Speaker Pelosi, after getting hair done during coronavirus lockdown says it was a “setup” & salon owner owes her an apology.

“I said, I said I’m not gonna answer. That’s all I’m gonna do! Do you have any questions about the fact that people are dying?!”

pic.twitter.com/f64t5YRoan

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) September 2, 2020

Social media lit up as one might imagine with this disingenuous garbage.

follow this - @SpeakerPelosi goes to a closed salon that no one else can go to and doesn't wear a mask ....and she says the salon owes HER an apology...using her logic, next she'll go to a restaurant and demand they pay for the meal https://t.co/NHuXnCuEwD

— Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) September 2, 2020

I can't stop laughing at the phrase "illicit blowout" long enough to construct a take about this

https://t.co/LSkHuIvn6a

— Gallifreyan Jedi (@JediofGallifrey) September 2, 2020

I can’t believe that evil salon owner who revealed that Nancy Pelosi doesn’t believe in this Chinese coronavirus nonsense.

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) September 2, 2020

San Francisco Mayor Breed quickly ran to Pelosi's defense... "Did Nancy Pelosi violate San Francisco’s health order?" the mayor was asked.

"So look, Nancy Pelosi has done so much for this city and even this country and in the midst of this pandemic and all the stuff that’s happening amidst this election, she is in Washington D.C. fighting against a tyrant every single day," Breed said.

"We need to be focused on the issues and the fact that over 180,000 people have died in this country and we have a president that continues to divide us.

"That’s what we should be talking about."

As The WSJ Editorial Board (bravely) proclaimed:

"What is offensive, however, is our liberal glitterati’s let-them-eat-cake indifference to the nation’s shop owners and wage earners. Do they remember what it means to work for a living?"

Finally, and most typically disgusting for the new normal,  Erica Kious, a single mother of two and owner of eSalon the owner of the salon has been forced to shut down and relocate her business and family due to outrage and threats she is receiving.

A GoFundMe page has been created to help.

We hope the 'compassionate' and 'tolerant' Pelosi will disavow this action being taken by her followers.

Rules for thee but not for me. pic.twitter.com/XcwRxf5PsW

— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) September 2, 2020

Dinesh D'Souza gets the last word as he sums the whole farcical situation up rather succinctly:

The true lesson of Nancy Pelosi's salon visit isn’t just hypocrisy. It’s that she and other Democrats want to create a two-tier society with one set of rules for them and another for us second-class citizens pic.twitter.com/FAf71lGov8

— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) September 2, 2020

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