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Drunk on Power: Michigan Dem Lesbian AG Threatens To Jail Opponent
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Bradley E. Sherman
2023-10-14 07:30:11 UTC
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Gretchen likes being raped.
After the Republican opponent of Michigan attorney general Dana
Nessel criticized the Democrat for refusing to enforce the
state's abortion ban, Nessel threatened to jail the candidate.

Jeff Timmer, a senior adviser for the Nessel campaign, tweeted
on Wednesday that his boss's Republican challenger Matt DePerno
has to "remain unindicted" to qualify for a debate. Timmer
tweeted the threat just after DePerno criticized Nessel's
refusal to enforce the state's 1931 abortion ban following the
Supreme Court's overturn of Roe v. Wade.

"Consider this an official campaign response," Timmer tweeted.
"I can commit that Dana will debate you. All you have to do is
(1) become the official GOP nominee (2) remain unindicted and
(3) allow Dana to Mirandize you at the beginning of the debate.
Easy-peasy, right? Lemme know."

Nessel, who is best known for her drunken exit on a wheelchair
at a college football game, as well as her call for "drag queens
for every school," has a history of threatening political
opponents with jail time. As attorney general, she brought
charges against former Republican Michigan governor Rick Snyder
in relation to the Flint water crisis, but the state's Supreme
Court dropped the charges. Emails obtained in a public
information request also show Nessel attempted to have
restaurant owner Marlena Hackney arrested before she appeared on
Tucker Carlson Tonight to discuss why she defied the state's
pandemic lockdown order.

"Do we know her whereabouts?" Nessel wrote in an email. "We
should just have her picked up before she goes on. This is
outrageous."

Hackney was arrested seven days later.

DePerno rose to national fame after he challenged the 2020
election results in Michigan’s Antrim County. He is not under
investigation but has faced criticism for withholding
information about how he spends funds raised in support of an
election audit.

DePerno said Nessel uses her power in office as a political
weapon.

"It just shows she is getting more and more drunk on power and
reckless with each passing day," DePerno told the Washington
Free Beacon. "She has no shame in her actions and that is now
very clear to the public."

Timmer reportedly joined Nessel’s campaign in October after
years of experience working for the Michigan Republican Party.
He is also a senior adviser to the Lincoln Project, whose
cofounder John Weaver left the organization in disgrace amid
accusations of sexual misconduct toward young men. The group
reached a $375,000 legal settlement in February with an official
who accused the super PAC of ignoring the misconduct allegations.

Gustavo Portela, the deputy chief of staff of the Michigan GOP,
said Nessel should focus on actual crime, which has spiked under
her rule.

"Dana Nessel is more consumed with jailing Michiganders who
oppose her ideology than going after actual criminals making our
streets and neighborhoods less safe," Portela told the Free
Beacon. "It's no wonder crime has gone up under her watch. We're
going to end her drunk-on-power tirades this fall when we defeat
her in November."

Neither Nessel's campaign nor her office responded to requests
for comment.

Published under: Dana Nessel, Michigan

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Bradley E. Sherman
2023-10-14 07:50:23 UTC
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Gretchen likes being raped.
Dem governor says she's created '25,000 auto jobs.' She's
actually killed hundreds.

In her official capacity, Michigan Democratic governor Gretchen
Whitmer has acknowledged that she hasn't actually created 25,000
auto jobs since taking office. Her reelection campaign
apparently didn't get the memo.

Whitmer's campaign site says the Democrat "created nearly 25,000
auto jobs as part of the biggest manufacturing boom in years."
But even Whitmer's official office has conceded that the claim
isn't true. After a Washington Free Beacon report showed that
Michigan has actually lost auto jobs on the Democrat's watch,
Whitmer amended an official state government fact sheet to
remove a section that touted "creating nearly 25,000 good-paying
auto jobs." Whitmer's official Twitter account also deleted a
June 30 tweet that included the false claim, and in an Aug. 1
press release, the governor noted that the 25,000 figure stems
from "projected" jobs that have been "announced" but not
actualized.

Whitmer's willingness to repeat the falsehood—even as her
official office backtracks from it—comes as she faces a
difficult reelection bid against Republican Tudor Dixon. The
self-described "working mom on a mission" hammered Whitmer for
"flat-out lying."

"The fact is: Michigan has LOST auto jobs as a result of
Whitmer's disastrous policies, not gained them as she falsely
claims," Dixon said Monday. "No wonder Whitmer is delaying
public debates. She doesn't want to have to defend her lies and
failed record."

Neither Whitmer's campaign nor her official office returned
requests for comment.

Whitmer inherited 169,500 auto jobs when she took office in
January 2019, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That
number is now down to 167,800, according to the agency's July
2022 preliminary data, marking a decrease of 1,700 jobs. Whitmer
nonetheless said she's "proud of the work we've done to secure
investments in auto manufacturing" in an Aug. 6 tweet.

Beyond the auto industry, Whitmer has also failed to deliver on
her coronavirus claims. In April 2020, the Democrat pledged to
return a portion of her salary for the duration of the pandemic.
She ended the pledge just five months later in September, even
as her indoor gathering restrictions and public face mask
requirements lasted for 15 months.

In June 2020, meanwhile, Whitmer defied her own social
distancing rule at a Detroit civil rights protest, which came
just days after she expressed a "high level of concern" that
large protests could expedite the spread of the virus. Roughly a
year later, in May 2021, Whitmer again broke her own COVID rules
during a dinner party at a Michigan State University bar.

Dixon won Michigan's Aug. 2 Republican gubernatorial primary by
18 points, while Whitmer ran unopposed in her party's nominating
contest. The pair will face off in November.

Published under: Auto Industry, Gretchen Whitmer, Michigan

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campaign-repeats-job-growth-lie-as-official-office-backtracks-
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Putin Owns Biden
2023-10-14 09:00:51 UTC
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Obama and Biden are both idiots. They flunked math.
The Federal Reserve could raise its benchmark interest rate as
high as 5.5% by the end of next year in its effort to bring
inflation down, said Jason Furman, a Harvard economics professor
who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under President
Barack Obama.

It is entirely “plausible” that the Fed raises its benchmark
rate to 4% this year and then undertakes a string of quarter-
percentage-point rate hikes in 2023 to get up to 5.5%, Furman
said, in an interview with MarketWatch on the sidelines of the
Fed’s summer retreat in Jackson Hole, Wyo.

‘The list of presidents who have supported the Fed when they
were hiking rates is not long.’— Jason Furman, adding that
President Joe Biden has done so

The Fed’s benchmark rate is now in a range of 2.25% to 2.5%. The
central bank’s own projections have it stopping its run of rate
hikes just shy of the 4% level.

Furman said the Fed needs to push its benchmark rate above 5% to
get inflation down to less than a 4% annual rate, he said.
Consumer price inflation was running at an 8.5% annual rate in
July.

Inflation has morphed from a straightforward matter of too much
demand and too little supply to become more about rising wages
and prices, he said.

Furman said he likes to refer to the situation as featuring wage
and price “persistence” rather than a “spiral” because inflation
is not spinning out of control but is holding its own and has
staying power. It is likely that inflation “comes down very
slowly,” he added.

Furman observed that the U.S. inflation outlook is not “dire or
insurmountable.”

Unlike in the 1970s and early 1980s, wages are not indexed to
inflation, and the public has not come to expect high inflation.

The Fed also benefits from support from President Joe Biden,
Furman said. “The list of presidents who have supported the Fed
when they were hiking rates is not long,” Furman said.

The likelihood of a recession in the next nine months is
relatively small, Furman said.

Considering we're already in one, that's a laughable statement.

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says-feds-benchmark-rate-could-hit-5-5-next-year-11661615968
Magnus
2023-10-14 13:06:30 UTC
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Democrats are racists. This is what they do.
The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer offers a prestigious fellowship
that bars whites and Asians from applying. Trumpeted on the
company’s website as a "Bold Move" to "create a workplace for
all," civil rights lawyers are characterizing it in a different
way: as a blatant violation of the law.

"This Pfizer program is so flagrantly illegal I seriously wonder
how it passed internal review by its general counsel," said Adam
Mortara, one of the country’s top civil rights attorneys.

Pfizer’s "Breakthrough Fellowship" offers college students
multiple internships, a fully funded master's degree, and
several years of employment at the pharmaceutical giant. It also
restricts applications to "Black/African American,
Latino/Hispanic and Native American" students, the fellowship
requirements state.

In a Frequently Asked Questions brochure about the nine-year
program, Pfizer asserts that it is an "equal opportunity
employer."

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Gail Heriot, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights,
described the fellowship as a "clear case of liability" under
federal law: a violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which
bans racial discrimination in contracting, and Title VII of the
1964 Civil Rights Act, which bans racial discrimination in
employment.

"Major corporations seem to have forgotten that there’s such a
thing as law," said Heriot, who is also a law professor at the
University of San Diego. "They seem to think that as long as
they’re woke, they’re bulletproof."

As a legal matter, that view is questionable. Some companies
have scrapped race-conscious programs in the wake of
discrimination lawsuits, which—when they involve overt racial
quotas—typically succeed. Even the threat of a lawsuit can pay
dividends: Last year, for example, the American Civil Rights
Project sent Coca-Cola a letter demanding that it drop a
requirement that law firms working with the company staff at
least 30 percent of their teams with "diverse lawyers." In a
memo to shareholders in February, Coca-Cola announced it was
backing away from the policy.

Every lawyer contacted by the Washington Free Beacon said the
case against Pfizer was open-and-shut. David Bernstein, an
expert on civil rights law at George Mason University School of
Law, said the Breakthrough Fellowship was "obviously illegal."
Dan Morenoff, the executive director of the American Civil
Rights Project, called it a "very facial violation" of Title
VII. Jonathan Berry, a partner at Boyden Gray & Associates, said
it was "hard to see any way" the program was legal.

Pfizer did not respond to a request for comment.

The pharmaceutical giant is not alone in flouting anti-
discrimination law. From Uber to NASDAQ to JPMorgan Chase, a
kind of casual lawlessness has descended across corporate
America, with C-suites using—and publicizing—illegal racial
quotas to achieve their diversity goals. That trend is
especially acute in Silicon Valley: Google, for example,
restricts the number of white and Asian men that universities
can nominate for a prestigious Ph.D. fellowship, a policy that
effectively encourages schools to violate civil rights statutes.

The Breakthrough Fellowship is part of a larger push within
Pfizer to "embed DEI into our DNA," per the company’s 2021
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) report. Pfizer CEO
Albert Bourla in 2020 made "equity" one of the company’s four
"core values" alongside excellence, courage, and joy. "We don’t
just talk about the importance of equity," Bourla said at the
time. "We put our words into action."

Central to those actions has been the use of diversity
targets—concrete, legible benchmarks the company can measure.
"By having a clear overarching DEI vision," Pfizer’s 2021 annual
review reads, "we’re able to outline distinct DEI roles and
accountabilities, align our therapeutic areas and divisions with
our vision, and assess our progress against measurable outcomes."

While not a formal quota system, this metrics-based approach has
nonetheless produced dramatic—and disproportionate—results. In
2021, the ESG report states, "72% of summer interns surveyed
identified as representing an underrepresented group or
disadvantaged background, far exceeding our goal of 50%." For
comparison, non-whites make up less than 40 percent of the U.S.
population.

The Breakthrough Fellowship appears to be contributing to that
skew. The program’s first cohort was "55 percent female and 45
percent male," according to the annual review, "with a diversity
breakdown of 40 percent Black/African American, 40 percent
Latinx/Hispanic and 20 percent two or more races." Pfizer plans
to have 100 Breakthrough fellows by 2025.

Asked about the company’s claim to be an equal-opportunity
employer, Berry, the Boyden Gray attorney, used the term
"doublespeak."

"If you close off certain employment opportunities to the ‘wrong
race,’ you’re not an equal opportunity anything," Berry said.
"You’re a bigot."

Published under: Civil Rights Act, Diversity, Feature, Pfizer,
Racism, woke

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