The Shining City Upon a Hill

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U.S. announces diplomatic boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics over human rights abuses


The U.S. announced a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, a move that had garnered bipartisan support from critics of China’s human rights record.

U.S. athletes will still participate in the games, but the Biden administration will not send any official representation to Beijing.

President Joe Biden made the decision given China’s “ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and other human rights abuses,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said.

... it will be hard for China to hide this rebuke of it's internal policies from it's general population. China tightly controls and sensors what media it's citizens can read. Expect a full on Chinese propaganda counter-attack denouncing President Biden's decision.

... the WTA, the Women's Tennis Association also recently moved to cancel all business ties with China over it's suppressing a rape allegation against a female Chinese Gold medal winning tennis star by a Chinese high ranking state official. It is estimated this move will cost the WTA and it's players many $100M.

[BillyCarpenter]

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U.S. announces diplomatic boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics over human rights abuses


The U.S. announced a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, a move that had garnered bipartisan support from critics of China’s human rights record.

U.S. athletes will still participate in the games, but the Biden administration will not send any official representation to Beijing.

President Joe Biden made the decision given China’s “ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and other human rights abuses,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said.

... it will be hard for China to hide this rebuke of it's internal policies from it's general population. China tightly controls and sensors what media it's citizens can read. Expect a full on Chinese propaganda counter-attack denouncing President Biden's decision.

... the WTA, the Women's Tennis Association also recently moved to cancel all business ties with China over it's suppressing a rape allegation against a female Chinese Gold medal winning tennis star by a Chinese high ranking state official. It is estimated this move will cost the WTA and it's players many $100M.

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White House Confirms U.S. Will Play China’s Genocide Olympics



The White House confirmed Monday the United States would play in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, despite the Chinese Communist Party’s long history of human rights violations and ongoing genocide against Muslims in the country.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced during the press briefing that the United States would send athletes and participate in the games.


We believe U.S. athletes, people who have been training, giving up a lot of blood, sweat, and tears preparing for these Olympics should be able to go and compete, and we look forward to cheering for them from home,” she said.
Psaki said the United States had decided to level a “diplomatic boycott” of the Olympics

China has not publicly invited Biden or any officials to Beijing for the Games. The Global Times, a Chinese government newspaper, has repeatedly mocked the idea of a “diplomatic boycott,” most recently noting that such a boycott is impossible if China does not invite American diplomats.

[slimslob]

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... the WTA, the Women's Tennis Association also recently moved to cancel all business ties with China over it's suppressing a rape allegation against a female Chinese Gold medal winning tennis star by a Chinese high ranking state official. It is estimated this move will cost the WTA and it's players many $100M.

The rape allegations are not against Gold medal winning tennis star Peng Shuai. They were made by Peng against former Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli and it was an affair that took place about a decade ago. In addition to that, Peng has not been seen or heard from since making the accusation.

Since you lied about the facts concerning Peng, how are we to know if you are ever telling the truth.


WTA Threatens to Leave China After Tennis Star Accusing Regime Official of Rape Vanishes

[SalesServiceGuy]

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The rape allegations are not against Gold medal winning tennis star Peng Shuai. They were made by Peng against former Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli and it was an affair that took place about a decade ago. In addition to that, Peng has not been seen or heard from since making the accusation.

Since you lied about the facts concerning Peng, how are we to know if you are ever telling the truth.


WTA Threatens to Leave China After Tennis Star Accusing Regime Official of Rape Vanishes

... if you are going to post an out of date link on a topic that you know nothing about at least try and pick an accurate unbiased link.

Steve Simon announces WTA’s decision to suspend tournaments in China (wtatennis.com)

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DOJ sues Texas, saying GOP-approved redistricting maps discriminate against Latinos and Blacks


The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Monday challenging legislative maps adopted by Texas Republicans in recent weeks that it says fail to recognize growth in the Latino population and discriminate against Black voters.

The lawsuit alleges that the redistricting plan drawn by Texas lawmakers violates the Voting Rights Act.

"The complaint we filed today alleges that Texas has violated Section Two by creating redistricting plans that deny or bridge the rights of Latino and Black voters to vote on account of their race, color or membership in a language-minority group," Attorney General Merrick Garland said at a news conference.

The lawsuit targets both the US congressional map drawn for the next decade of elections and the plan for the state House.

"The Legislature refused to recognize the State's growing minority electorate," the lawsuit states. "Although the Texas Congressional delegation expanded from 36 to 38 seats, Texas designed the two new seats to have Anglo voting majorities."

After the 2020 census, Texas was awarded two additional seats in the US House of Representatives. The population growth that created the new seats was propelled by minority communities, with people of color making up 95% of the growth, according to census data.

"However, Texas has designed both of those new seats to have White voting majorities," said Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta. "Instead, our investigation determined that Texas' redistricting plans will dilute the increased minority voting strength that should have developed from these significant demographic shifts."

It is the second voting rights-related lawsuit the Biden administration has filed against the state this year. The Justice Department has also challenged restrictive voting measures passed by the legislature earlier this year.

The new lawsuit alleges that in drawing the US congressional map, Texas "intentionally eliminated a Latino electoral opportunity in Congressional District 23, a West Texas district where courts had identified Voting Rights Act violations during the previous two redistricting cycles."

According to the lawsuit, Texas "failed to draw a seat encompassing the growing Latino electorate in Harris County" and "excised minority communities from the core of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex."

"Texas also eliminated Latino electoral opportunities in the State House plan through manipulation or outright elimination of districts where Latino communities previously had elected their preferred candidates," says the lawsuit, filed in the Western District of Texas.

Texas is already facing several private lawsuits challenging its new maps, which were signed into law in October by Gov. Greg Abbott after the GOP-controlled Legislature approved them.
A spokesperson for Texas Secretary of State John Scott, who is a defendant in the lawsuit, declined to comment. In a tweet, the office of Attorney General Ken Paxton called the lawsuit "absurd" and said it was the "Biden Administration's latest ploy to control Texas voters."
"I am confident that our legislature's redistricting decisions will be proven lawful, and this preposterous attempt to sway democracy will fail," the attorney general's office said.

Absence of 'preclearance'

In decades past, Texas would have been required, under the Voting Rights Act, to obtain federal approval -- either from the Justice Department or a federal court -- before implementing new legislative maps.

That requirement, known as preclearance, was gutted in the 2013 Supreme Court decision Shelby County v. Holder. Without it, the Justice Department is challenging the new maps under a separate provision of the law that will put the burden on the department to prove that the maps are discriminatory.

Texas is no stranger to litigation about its line-drawing. It sought the approval of a federal court for the maps it drew in 2010, in what became a legal fight that stretched throughout most of the decade.

Garland on Monday noted the absence of the preclearance requirement and the impact its absence had on the department's voting rights enforcement efforts, by depriving it of an opportunity to review new maps before they go into effect.

"I want to, again, urge Congress to restore the Justice Department's preclearance authority where that preclearance tool is still in place. We would likely not be here today announcing this complaint," Garland said.

[Phil B.]

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... if you are going to post an out of date link on a topic that you know nothing about at least try and pick an accurate unbiased link.

At least he posts the LINK to his source. Unlike you and the rest of the liberal rats.

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[SalesServiceGuy]

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At least he posts the LINK to his source. Unlike you and the rest of the liberal rats.

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... confirming Slimslob's confusion that Breitbart is a news source.

Breitbart News aligned with the alt-right under the management of former executive chairman Steve Bannon who declared the website "the platform for the alt-right" in 2016

[BillyCarpenter]

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... confirming Slimslob's confusion that Breitbart is a news source.

Do y'all ever wonder why we keep responding to the Canadians? I mean, just compare our 2 countries. They're a speck of dust. What can Canada teach us? Not much. What have they ever done? Not much.


How did America become the greatest country? Newsflash: It wasn't because we followed a liberal agenda but that may be our downfall.

[slimslob]

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... if you are going to post an out of date link on a topic that you know nothing about at least try and pick an accurate unbiased link.

It doesn't change the fact that you originally said that Peng was the accused when in truth she was the accuser. So you are still exposed as a liar.

[slimslob]

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... confirming Slimslob's confusion that Breitbart is a news source.

Breitbart News aligned with the alt-right under the management of former executive chairman Steve Bannon who declared the website "the platform for the alt-right" in 2016

In spite of what you extreme leftists think, Brietbart is still a valid news source. Maybe I should start posting from them as often as I email form them or posting or posting everything that I get from the Blaze. I have decided to go back to posting more frequently from Dan Bongino. Brietbart, The Blaze and Bongino are still more accurate a better researched than anything you have ever posted. I know you liberals hate the truth especially when it exposes you in a lie as it often does.

[BillyCarpenter]

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In spite of what you extreme leftists think, Brietbart is still a valid news source. Maybe I should start posting from them as often as I email form them or posting or posting everything that I get from the Blaze. I have decided to go back to posting more frequently from Dan Bongino. Brietbart, The Blaze and Bongino are still more accurate a better researched than anything you have ever posted. I know you liberals hate the truth especially when it exposes you in a lie as it often does.

I've found Breitbart to be one of the most trusted sites on the internet....bar none. Much better than CNN.

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I've found Breitbart to be one of the most trusted sites on the internet....bar none. Much better than CNN.

Know wonder Your So F Up

Do y'all ever wonder why we keep responding to the Amigos? They're a speck of dust. What can Amigos teach us? Not much. What have they ever done? Not much.


How did America become the greatest country? Newsflash: It wasn't because we followed a conservative agenda.

Notice the Kapital letters

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[SalesServiceGuy]

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Last night on Fox News the ex President was interviewed and confessed on national TV that he fired former FBI Director James Comey because he thought Comey was preparing to indite him on criminal charges.

Trump’s Batcrap Crazy Rant About Firing Comey Stuns Fox’s Mark Levin - YouTube

... from the 1:10 to the 2:00 mark.