|
nChrist
|
 |
« on: April 12, 2019, 03:45:37 PM » |
|
________________________________
The Patriot Post Digest 4-10-2019
From The Federalist Patriot
Free Email Subscription
_______________________________
The Patriot Post® · Mid-Day Digest
Apr. 10, 2019
https://patriotpost.us/digests/62310-mid-day-digest
THE FOUNDATION
“In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.” —George Washington (1796)
https://patriotpost.us/fqd/62308-founders-quote-daily
IN TODAY’S EDITION
Most Americans believe they didn’t get a tax cut. Blame the Leftmedia.1
Millionaire capitalist touts socialism.2
White supremacism isn’t nearly the problem Islamofascism is.3
Daily Features: More Analysis4, Columnists5, Headlines6, Opinion in Brief7, Short Cuts8, Memes9, and Cartoons10.
IN BRIEF
Pollaganda: Why Americans Don’t Think They Got a Tax Cut11
Just yesterday, we rebutted12 the continuing Leftmedia narrative about tax refunds. Yes, refunds may be a bit smaller so far in 2019, but that’s because the vast majority of taxpayers paid lower taxes throughout 2018.
But some propaganda is really tough to combat. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll revealed that just 17% of Americans think their taxes will go down as a result of the 2017 Republican tax cut. Some 28% don’t know, while 27% say their taxes will stay the same, and a mind-numbing 28% think their taxes will go up.
NBC News says nothing at all13 to correct the record for an obviously misinformed public. At least The Wall Street Journal does tell readers14 “the reality”: “For 2019, 48% of households are getting a tax cut greater than $500. … Just 5.5% of households face tax increases greater than $100” [emphasis added].
The Daily Signal adds15, “As a result of tax reform, 9 out of 10 taxpayers got a tax cut.” In fact, “The average American household paid about $1,400 less in taxes as a result in 2018,” and even better, “Over the next 10 years, thanks to a larger economy, the typical American will benefit from over $26,000 more in take-home pay, or $44,697 for a family of four.”
And yet most Americans don’t think they got a tax cut. Why? Democrat propaganda16 churned by the Leftmedia. This latest entry is pollaganda17, reflecting that Americans can accurately repeat what they were told for the last year.
Leftist Vox editor Matt Yglesias claimed a big win: “Nobody likes to give themselves credit for this kind of messaging success, but progressive groups did a really good job of convincing people that Trump raised their taxes when the facts say a clear majority got a tax cut.” That’s what we call dezinformatsiya in a nutshell.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/62306-pollaganda-why-americans-dont-think-they-got-a-tax-cut
Socialist Sanders: Capitalism Made Me a Millionaire!18
“I wrote a best-selling book,” Sen. Bernie Sanders boasted in a recent interview with The New York Times. Then in an ironic twist, the die-hard socialist gave a plug for capitalism19 when he added, “If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too.” Either Sanders is going senile or, as is the case with most hypocritical leftists, he sees no problem embracing the wealth and status he garnered for himself via capitalism, while at the same time condemning others for applying the same free-market system to earn their own wealth.
Back in the 1980s, Sanders infamously said that breadlines were “a good thing20.” Asked about his support for the Marxist Sandinistas of Nicaragua, Sanders opined, “It’s funny — sometimes American journalists talk about how bad a country is, that people are lining up for food. That is a good thing! In other countries, people don’t line up for food. The rich get the food and the poor starve to death.” His policies would yield the equivalent of breadlines.
Meanwhile, Sanders declared that he will be releasing 10 years of his tax returns21, giving away the game by declaring, “I hope that Donald Trump will do exactly the same.” Presumably, this is so socialist Sanders can attack capitalism for allowing a guy like Trump to become a wealthy man. It’s the pot — Sanders, with his millions of dollars and three homes — smugly calling the kettle black.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/62305-socialist-sanders-capitalism-made-me-a-millionaire
No, White-Supremacist Violence Is Not a Major Problem22
On Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing23 that Democrats billed as an examination of “hate crimes, the impact white nationalist groups have on American communities, and the spread of white identity ideology.” It quickly became quite evident that the Democrats’ true intention for the hearing was to promote the mendacious narrative that “white extremism” is a major and growing problem — and President Donald Trump is supposedly the driving force behind it.
In a seemingly coordinated effort to advance this narrative, The New York Times last week ran an article24 claiming that “Attacks by White Extremists Are Growing.” The story highlighted the attack in Christchurch, New Zealand25, where a self-proclaimed white supremacist murdered 50 people in an act of terror aimed at Muslims. The article then claimed that the Christchurch murderer “drew inspiration” from “an informal global network of white extremists whose violent attacks are occurring with greater frequency in the West.”
Once again we have a case of the narrative leading the story. It’s clear that the narrative the Times is pushing is that violence perpetrated by white supremacists is a serious and growing threat that is worse than people may believe. But do the facts support such a conclusion? Well, as is often the case with Leftmedia outlets like the Times, not so much.
The Times excluded several important contextualizing details, which immediately calls into question the reliability of the entire narrative. For example, no numbers were provided so as to establish the total number of extremist-related violent incidents globally. In 2017 alone, nearly 20,000 people were murdered by groups associated with radical Islamic extremists — a number not provided by the Times.
Meanwhile, the Times offers a nine-year timeline that notes 15 incidents of “white extremist” violence resulting in 194 people killed that were purportedly committed by individuals motivated by white racism. However, after a closer look into these attacks, one quickly finds that the motive of “white extremism” is not entirely clear … or even there at all.
As Seth Barron, writing for City Journal, observes26, “Some of the most prominent killings … resist categorization as acts of white racial terror. Ali Sonboly, the son of Iranian Shi'ite Muslim immigrants and visibly a racial minority, carried out the 2016 Munich mall shooting. The 2016 Umpqua Community College shooting was carried out by a self-identified ‘mixed-race’ man, as was the 2014 Isla Vista massacre, whose perpetrator believed that being half-Chinese made him unattractive to women. The 2018 Toronto van massacre was perpetrated by a white man who declared that he was part of an ‘Incel Rebellion’ against the ‘Chads and Stacys’ of the world — in other words, he was angry that he could not get a girlfriend and was committed to overthrowing the ‘beautiful people.’ The killer mowed down pedestrians in Toronto’s business district at random. The Times’ inclusion of these four incidents calls into question the value of its diagnosis of ‘white extremist killers.’”
Finally, as The Wall Street Journal reports27, “Since 1990, far-right extremists have killed 477 people in 214 attacks in the U.S., according to the crime data. A majority of the assaults targeted minorities, with 241 people dying in 170 attacks. (In the same period, the Global Terrorism Database records 31 far-right attacks with one or more deaths.)” In other words, violent attacks committed by “white extremists” are not on the rise — rather, the frequency of these violent hate crimes has remained relatively steady for the past 50 years. In any case, the crimes are dwarfed by attacks perpetrated by Islamofascists.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/62284-no-white-supremacist-violence-is-not-a-major-problem
ON OUR WEBSITE TODAY
Featured Analysis: In California, the Inmates Run the Asylum28 — Taxes, regulations, gun laws, sanctuary status — all of it is getting progressively worse.
Facing Down Russia and China on the African Front29 — Africa is becoming a key geopolitical battleground, and it’s time for America to get on the field.
Grassroots Perspective: ‘White’ AmERICA — Your Worst Nightmare30 — Wherever there are no fathers to protect their children, the pop culture becomes the main influence.
Jordan Peterson on Why Socialism Is Attractive31 — “The problem with the radical left is that it assumes that all hierarchies are tyrannical.”
Video: Enough Crony Capitalism!32 — Established businesses, like Facebook, use government to limit competition. |
