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Thursday, August 20, 2020

In Dark and Divisive Speech, Obama Seeks to Turn Back Clock on America

To the delight of professional journalists, former President Barack Obama gave a jaw-dropping speech at the Democratic convention on Wednesday. Its dark and divisive tone signaled an attempt to drag America backwards by electing the man who served for eight years as his vice president.

Obama's speech was the rhetorical equivalent of a culture war Hiroshima blast. It offered some token words of praise for Joe Biden, whom he repeatedly urged not to run, but was infused with the desperate rantings of a man who needs to be praised. "He made me a better president," Obama said, effortlessly hogging the spotlight as usual.

Obama assailed the convictions of Donald Trump supporters, suggesting they "don't believe" in American principles. He cast the stakes of the upcoming election in stark terms, inviting Americans to fear their neighbors, described only as a nefarious "they" secretly plotting to destroy the country from within.

"They are counting on your cynicism. They know they can't win you over with their policies. So they're hoping to make it as hard as possible for you to vote, and to convince you that your vote doesn't matter," Obama said while making threatening hand gestures at an oversized U.S. Constitution—an ominous backdrop for a speech teeming with vengeful rage. "That's how they win."

Political journalist Tim Alberta argued that Obama's speech was "without precedent" in that it was "the sharpest criticism a former president has *ever made* of a sitting president."

Obama went on to call for a great redefining of America, urging citizens to "give our democracy new meaning" and "take" the country back to...

‘Only white people worry about this’: Alleged BLM supporters defend sickening torture of frightened raccoon

On the same night that former President Barack Hussein Obama spoke at the Democrat National Convention in defense of so-called “peaceful” Black Lives Matter “protesters,” a number of alleged BLM extremists rushed to defend a group of street hoodlums who’d been recorded beating and torturing a raccoon to death.

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The video appeared to show a motorist deliberately running over a raccoon and then bat-wielding hoodlums beating the raccoon to death.

The video first appeared because of a Twitter user named “Lil Raco” who shared the video to his account and added the caption, “Raccoon VS The Block.”

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After backlash erupted, he deleted the tweet and began claiming that he hadn’t witnessed the raccoon be killed. To hear him tell it, he’d found the original video elsewhere and then “screen recorded” it for...

A senior advisor to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign said Chinese dictator Mao Zedong was one of her “favorite political philosophers” during a speech to graduating high schoolers in 2009.

Anita Dunn, who was temporarily granted effective control of Biden’s campaign in February and now serves as a senior advisor, said Mao and Mother Teresa were “the two people that I turn to most” when she needs to encourage others to break from the mold and blaze their own trail in life.

“In 1947, when Mao Zedong was being challenged within his own party on his plan to basically take China over … the nationalist Chinese held the cities, they had the army, they had the air force, they had everything on their side,” Dunn told the audience. “And people said how could you win? How could you do this?”

“And Mao Zedong said, ‘You fight your war and I’ll fight mine,'” Dunn said. “Think about that for a second. You don’t have to accept the definition of how to do things, and you don’t have to follow other people’s choices and paths. You fight your own war, you lay out your own path.”

Dunn was serving as acting White House Communications Director under former President Barack Obama when she was recorded making the comments about Mao. Dunn announced her resignation from her post in November 2019, less than a month after former Fox News host Glenn Beck first reported her comments.

Mao’s Great Leap Forward policy led to the deaths of an estimated 45 million Chinese people from 1958 to 1962, earning him the dubious distinction of being one of the biggest mass murderers in recorded human history.

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