In the hours following the Capitol riot, some Republican legislators believed Donald Trump had destroyed his political fortunes, according to an upcoming book.
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Fact-Checkers to Voters: Don’t Believe Your Lyin’ Eyes
It was only a matter of hours after a video circulated by the Washington Free Beacon went viral that the fact–checkers swarmed. The video shows a feeble and apparently disoriented President Joe Biden finishing a speech and trying to shake hands with thin air.
Don’t believe your lyin’ eyes, say the partisans at Snopes. “Maybe there are additional angles or longer clips that can add some more context,” their article states. (Can anybody imagine the same sentence coming from one of these “fact-checkers” if the politician were a Republican?)
Pointing to footage captured from a different angle, Snopes writes, “Here’s what we saw when we watched the video: We saw President Joe Biden standing at a podium. We heard the applause of a crowd. We saw him step away from the podium after finishing his speech. We saw him gesture at the crowd. We saw him turn toward another group of people. We saw him turn to the back of the stage. Then we saw him walk off the stage where he appeared to talk to someone in the crowd.” Nothing to see here!
The International Business Times is even more certain that a dementia-ridden Biden wasn’t shaking hands with a phantom. Instead, he was “gesturing at the people on the right and eventually behind him who were cheering. He even gestures toward the crowd on the left side of the dais, but it is covered by a mic stand. After reviewing the full footage, IBTimes has arrived at the conclusion that claims about Biden shaking hands with thin air and looking confused are entirely misleading.” Thanks for clearing that up!
For the Free Beacon, it’s déjà vu all over again after living through the endless and self-parodic fact-checks of our report on Team Biden’s plan to distribute crack pipes at taxpayer expense, followed by the administration’s ex post facto, ass-covering assurances that these safe smoking kits for crackheads would exclude that key piece of paraphernalia. False, the fact-checkers huffed, citing the Biden flacks, while simultaneously explaining why the distribution of said crack pipes is a wonderful thing according to the harm-reduction approach embraced by the Biden administration.
If there’s one actual fact we’ve learned from the scores of these pompous fools, it’s that if a damaging bit of news about a Democrat gets traction, an idiot army will storm once more into the breach crying “disinformation.”
The post Fact-Checkers to Voters: Don’t Believe Your Lyin’ Eyes appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.
Libs Of TikTok Suspended Again After Getting Reinstated
Twitter suspended the popular account again just hours after it was reinstated.
The account posts videos of radical liberals on TikTok on its Twitter page. Twitter suspended the account again for “abuse and harassment.”
“Shortly after my Twitter account was restored, I received notice of another suspension, this time for ‘targeted harassment.’ I’ve submitted an appeal, but I’m locked out while I wait for a response,” Libs of TikTok said according to Not the Bee. “These back-to-back suspensions are not a coincidence. The Left has been targeting and mass reporting my account. Twitter, of course, keeps caving to the mob. But I’ve done nothing wrong. And I’m not going to give up. I will never be bullied into silence.”
The tweet that got the account suspended criticized the idea that a woman who did not want to change in front of a biological male was “transphobic.”
“Apparently a female not wanting to change in front of a male is transphobic,” the account tweeted.
Newsbusters reported that Libs of TikTok was first given a 12-hour suspension and had over 600,000 followers at the time.
The Twitter policy responsible for the suspension stated that “[y]ou may not promote violence against, threaten, or harass other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.”
The account predicted earlier in the year that it was “a matter of time” before it got suspended.
“It’s a matter of time before I get suspended. Never know which post will be my last,” the account tweeted in March. “If you want to make sure you keep receiving my content, go to the link under my bio and sign up for my email list. I’ll publish some exclusive stuff for email subs, too. Thanks for your support!”
Conservatives are under attack. Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on “hate speech” and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us at the CensorTrack contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.
ABC, PBS Freak Over ‘Major New Setback to Abortion Access’
Hours after Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law a 15-week abortion ban, ABC’s World News Tonight & PBS NewsHour went into meltdown mode, with ABC guest anchor Linsey Davis calling the bill’s passage a “major new setback to abortion access.”
ABC congressional correspondent Rachel Scott, while reporting hyperbolically for Davis, wailed that Florida is “joining a wave of states restricting access to abortion.”
Continuing on her despondent coverage, Scott fretted how the Florida law “goes into effect July 1, and the exceptions are narrow, only made if it’s ‘necessary to save the pregnant woman’s life’ or poses a ‘serious risk.’”
Just as horrifying to her is the fact that “several states have enacted laws blocking access to abortion.” This includes Oklahoma which “enacted a law to make performing an abortion illegal, punishable by up to ten years in prison.”
Moving on from the Florida law and Oklahoma laws, Scott turned her ire toward Kentucky where she bemoaned how “Republican lawmakers overrode the Governor’s veto on a new strict law there, forcing the only two remaining clinics in the state to stop providing the procedure while the law is challenged in court.”
Scott parroted the talking points of abortion activists throughout her report, noting how the “consequences are dire” and how the new laws will “force patients to travel out of state for procedures.” Not once did she quote from, or interview pro-life advocates.
Over on PBS News Hour, it was just as one-sided, with national correspondent John Yang interviewing leftist “journalist” Shefali Luthra from nonprofit news site “The 19th.”
Lawsuits filed in federal court are asking a judge to halt Kentucky’s new abortion law from taking effect while it’s litigated.
Our @JohnYangTV speaks with @shefalil of The 19th about what this means for those seeking access to abortion services. https://t.co/MSJmRDrhEG pic.twitter.com/27rZsiQXcR
— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) April 14, 2022
Yang fretted to Luthra in a snarky tone about how the Kentucky abortion ban took effect after Republican legislators dared to override Democrat Governor Andy Beshear’s veto.
He then strategized with Luthra on how women in Kentucky can get their abortions:
YANG: So the two outpatient abortion providers in Kentucky, you say they have had to stop. And what’s this doing to women in Kentucky who want to terminate their pregnancies?
SHEFALI LUTHRA: There are no clinic-based options for abortions at this point in Kentucky because you’re right, there’s Planned Parenthood and there’s EMW. Hospitals perform some abortions, but it’s a really tiny fraction. Maybe a dozen out of more than 3000 abortions done every year. So if you live in Kentucky at this point and you want an abortion, really your only option is to travel out of state. The next nearest places are Indiana, maybe Ohio, maybe Tennessee, but those can be long, expensive journeys, and an abortion is already a very expensive inherently unplanned expense.
The media has always been in the tank for the radical abortionists, now that the Supreme Court is poised to possibly strike down Roe vs Wade, and pro-life laws are being passed all around the country, the leftist media is being forced to be more open with their lobbying.
ABC & PBS lobbying for abortion “rights” was made possible thanks to Xyzal on ABC, and taxpayers like you on PBS.
To read the relevant transcript of each segment click “expand”:
ABC’s World News Tonight
4/14/2022
6:43:25 p.m. Eastern
LINSEY DAVIS: Next tonight, a major new setback to abortion access. Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis signing into law a 15-week abortion ban with no exceptions for rape, incest, or human trafficking. It’s the latest in a growing number of states enacting strict new measures ahead of a Supreme Court decision that could roll back abortion rights nationwide. Here’s ABC’s Rachel Scott.
RACHEL SCOTT: Tonight, Florida joining a wave of states restricting access to abortion. Governor Ron DeSantis today signing a new law banning most abortions past 15 weeks.
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SCOTT: The law goes into effect July 1st, and the exceptions are narrow, only made if it’s “necessary to save the pregnant woman’s life” or poses a “serious risk.” There are no exceptions for rape or incest. Across the country, several states have enacted laws blocking access to abortion. Just this week alone, Oklahoma enacted a law to make performing an abortion illegal, punishable by up to ten years in prison. Only exception is to save the life of the mother. It’s set to take effect this summer.
TALCOTT CAMP (CHIEF LEGAL & STRATEGY OFFICER, NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION): The implications for people in Oklahoma are devastating.
SCOTT: And 24 hours later in Kentucky, Republican lawmakers overrode the Governor’s veto on a new strict law there, forcing the only two remaining clinics in the state to stop providing the procedure while the law is challenged in court. Opponents say Kentucky is now the first state without legal abortion access since the landmark Roe versus Wade decision nearly 50 years ago.
Abortion rights advocates say the consequences are dire, that these new laws will force patients to travel out of state for procedures. All of this will certainly be challenged in court. And this very issue comes before the Supreme Court this summer.
PBS NewsHour
4/14/2022
7:38:03 p.m. Eastern
JOHN YANG: Kentucky’s law took effect yesterday after the state’s Republican-controlled legislature overrode Democratic Governor Andy Beshear’s veto. Both the ACLU and Planned Parenthood immediately asked a federal judge to block the new law, saying it violates the current Supreme Court limits on what states may do about abortion.
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YANG: So the two outpatient abortion providers in Kentucky, you say they have had to stop. And what’s this doing to women in Kentucky who want to terminate their pregnancies?
SHEFALI LUTHRA: There are no clinic-based options for abortions at this point in Kentucky because you’re right, there’s Planned Parenthood and there’s EMW. Hospitals perform some abortions, but it’s a really tiny fraction. Maybe a dozen out of more than 3000 abortions done every year. So if you live in Kentucky at this point and you want an abortion, really your only option is to travel out of state. The next nearest places are Indiana, maybe Ohio, maybe Tennessee, but those can be long, expensive journeys, and an abortion is already a very expensive inherently unplanned expense.
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California Looks To Reduce Weekly Work Hours To 32
California Looks To Reduce Weekly Work Hours To 32
Authored by Alice Sun via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
California legislators proposed a new bill that would allow employees of bigger companies to work fewer hours in a week without losing any income, which critics said would become a “job killer.”
Assembly Bill 2932, introduced by Assembly Members Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens) and Evan Low (D-San Jose) in February, would require companies with more than 500 employees to reduce their weekly work hours from 40 to 32 hours—from the regular 5 to 4 workdays a week—and those who work more than 32 hours a week would be considered as working overtime and should be compensated at a rate of 1.5 times the regular pay rate for the extra hours.
If signed into law, California will become the first state in the United States to reduce regular weekly workdays to 4 days.
“There have been so many societal advances in the last 100 years,” Garcia said in a statement emailed to The Epoch Times. “It doesn’t make sense that we are still holding onto a work schedule that served the industrial revolution. It’s long overdue that this progress is shared with our workforce which deserves an improved quality of life.”
Garcia said working fewer hours could improve employees’ productivity and wellbeing, and “the pandemic and the Great Resignation have made it crystal clear the time [for this change] is now.”
The bill also requires “the compensation rate of pay at 32 hours to reflect the previous compensation rate of pay at 40 hours” and “prohibits an employer from reducing an employee’s regular rate of pay as a result of this reduced hourly workweek requirement.”
It is unclear whether the “regular rate of pay” in the bill’s original language is referring to an employee’s original hourly wage or the total compensation.
“This language may be interpreted as requiring the employer to pay the employee the same total compensation that they are presently earning at 40 hours for 32 hours of work,” Ashley Hoffman, policy advocate at the California Chamber of Commerce (CalChamber), wrote in an April 6 letter to Low.
If this is the case, Hoffman explained, an employee originally making $20 per hour would be making $400 a week for 32 hours worked, equaling $25 an hour (25 percent increase) and leading to an overtime pay rate of $37.5 an hour (87.5 percent increase).
Calling the bill a “job killer,” CalChamber stated that businesses are still recovering from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and many companies have already been cutting down their current work hours and job openings.
“Instead of imposing new costs on employers, the Legislature should reform California’s unnecessarily rigid wage and hour laws to allow employees flexibility in their weekly schedules that would better align with the modern workplace,” the chamber’s letter read.
June Cutter, an attorney and small business owner who is running for California State Assembly District 76, also opposed the bill, saying the change would have an adverse effect on both employees and employers.
“Legislators who have never operated a business (or perhaps never even held a private sector job) have no idea what the real implications of this bill will be,” Cutter wrote on Twitter. “People will lose wages, people will lose jobs, small businesses will fold.”
The bill is currently under review by the Labor and Employment Committee.
Low did not respond to a request for comment by press deadline.
Tyler Durden
Tue, 04/12/2022 – 20:05