JD Vance: ‘Weird’ that Democrats Want ‘Sexually Explicit Books in Toddlers’ Libraries’
(LifeSiteNews) — Senator JD Vance called Democrats “weird” for fighting to keep pornographic books available to kids in libraries.
President Trump’s running mate made the comments Saturday during a rally in Atlanta.
“We think it’s weird that Democrats want to put sexually explicit books in toddlers’ libraries,” Vance said. “We think it’s weird that the far-left wants to allow biological males to beat the living [expletive] out of women in boxing.”
This is likely in reference to an Algerian Olympic boxer who competes as a female, is listed as a female on a passport, but might have XY chromosomes.
“We think it’s weird for a presidential candidate to bail convicted murderers and rapists out of prison, and that’s what Kamala did,” Vance said.
While running for president in 2020, Harris promoted the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which aimed “to help bail Black Lives Matter rioters out of jail,” according to Fox News. The riots followed the May 2020 killing of a black man named George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.
As noted by Fox News, a Minnesota affiliate reported in August 2020 that the fund “bailed out defendants from Twin Cities jails charged with murder, violent felonies, and sex crimes.”
— Matt Lamb (@MattLamb22) August 6, 2024
Soon after Trump selected the Ohio Republican to be his running mate, Democrats and their allies in the media quickly began parroting a talking point that Vance is “weird.”
Liberal groups and politicians have generally opposed limits on making pornographic books available to kids through schools and public libraries, accusing parental rights activists of supporting “book bans.”
Soon after Trump selected the Ohio Republican to be his running mate, Democrats and their allies in the media quickly began parroting a talking point that Vance is “weird.”
Liberal groups and politicians have generally opposed limits on making pornographic books available to kids through schools and public libraries, accusing parental rights activists of supporting “book bans.”
SUPERCUT!
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 29, 2024
Proof the entire Democrat-Media Complex outsources their brains to DNC talking-point writers #JDVanceIsWeird pic.twitter.com/ceN2qvIPTM
In many cases, states and local communities have moved to ensure children are not exposed to sexually explicit content by ensuring parents and other citizens can raise objections.
Legislation in Indiana, for example, allows citizens to file objections to books in school libraries that they find “obscene” or “harmful to minors,” as previously reported by LifeSiteNews. “The local school board would then have to review the request and discuss it at the next public school board meeting and establish an appeals process if it disagrees with the request,” LifeSiteNews reported.
School boards have even cut off speakers who were reading from the books in order to make a point – thus validating their concerns about the appropriateness of the materials.
However, a communications scholar who studies the news media has criticized the claims of widespread “book bans.”
“The major flaw in the argument warning about book bans is that the people who are questioning the content of a school curriculum or the children’s section of a public library aren’t really seeking to ‘ban’ books,” DePauw University Professor Jeffrey McCall wrote in The Hill last October. The issue is simply what is suitable for the intended audience of kids. Children are vulnerable in a broad sense. That’s why kids are already protected from many societal influences, let alone being prohibited from buying cigarettes, alcohol and so on.”
Professor McCall pointed out that “[p]arents who want their kids exposed to certain kinds of sexualized or cultural messages can still acquire those books and read them to their kids as bedtime stories.”
However, there is no “‘right’ to have the taxpayer money of schools and public libraries used to put that content in front of other people’s kids and attempt to shut up opposing voices.”
He also pointed out there is always “discretion” in book choices made by “professional educators and librarians.”
In 2021 Vance told Crisis Magazine that he thinks pornography should be banned.
“I think the combination of porn, abortion have basically created a really lonely, isolated generation that isn’t getting married, they’re not having families, and they’re actually not even totally sure how to interact with each other,” he said.
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US Arms Makers Refusing to Invest in Ukraine
American arms manufacturers are reluctant to open workshops in Ukraine despite the Pentagon coaxing them to do so, the military news outlet Defense One reported on Tuesday, citing a US State Department official.
The Ukrainian government has touted the build-up of domestic arms manufacturing by foreign firms as an alternative to the long-term supply of military aid by Western sponsors. Germany’s Rheinmetall has so far voiced the most ambitious plans to operate on Ukrainian soil, promising to make not just munitions, but also armored vehicles and tanks in the country.
However, other large players, particularly those from the US, have been cautious about making such pledges. Northrop Grumman is an exception, having announced last month that it had finalized an agreement to produce medium-caliber ammunition in Ukraine. The company will provide equipment and training, but has refused to put its own employees on the ground.
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Making investments into a manufacturing facility that could be obliterated by Russia and may not have sustained demand in the future “has to make sense from a business case,” a US State Department official told Defense One on the sidelines of the Farnborough air show in the UK. The US industry “is really eager” to profit, but needs the government to hedge their investments for risks, according to the source.
”It has to be a business case for what they’re trying to do, and so looking at maybe starting off with a maintenance, repair, and overhaul type stuff, spare parts production, so kind of starting a crawl-walk-run-type philosophy, before you actually get to the more advanced stuff,”the official said.
In addition to the war-related risks, Western firms are also concerned about corruption, the source acknowledged. The US diplomat claimed that Ukraine was making progress in that regard, but was far from where it needed to be to allay the concerns.
Graft has been an endemic problem in the country since it gained independence in the early 1990s. Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has reportedly complained about the attention paid to the problem by his Western backers, claiming that it is largely irrelevant at a time when his nation is fighting Russia.
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Russia has described the Ukraine conflict as a US-triggered proxy war against it, waged for the sake of Washington’s geopolitical interests. The American economy has benefited from it by boosting demand for weapons and tanking the competitiveness of Western European manufacturers, Russian officials have said. European firms have lost access to cheap Russian energy and raw materials due to the breakdown of trade with the country, with some relocating plants to the US as a result.
‘Transgender’ Male Powerlifter Suspended After Death Threats Against Female Competitors
(LifeSiteNews) — An Albertan male powerlifter who believes he is a woman has finally been suspended for threatening women who opposed his participation in female sports.
On July 8th, Canadian Powerlifting Union (CPU) suspended gender-confused male powerlifter “Anne” Andres for six months after a slew of death threats and harassments against his female competitors.
“Respondent (Andres) allegedly harassed female athletes who did not want to compete against biological males,” the ruling explained. “Respondent subjected female athletes to harassment when she (sic) posted videos on social media and listed the names of athletes in social media posts in response to proposed legislation against biological males competing against female athletes.”
In one instance, Andres told a black competitor that he compared himself with black competitors who were segregated from white players and forced to use different spaces.
In the black competitor’s complaint, she said that “she remained anonymous for fear of being ‘cancelled’ or disciplined because CPU and APU (Alberta Powerlifting Union) ‘keep supporting’ the Respondent and ignoring the safety of other athletes.”
Indeed, Andres has openly wished for the death of those who oppose him competing against women.
In February, Andres ranted about why men should be able to compete in women’s competitions, calling for “the Ontario lifter” who opposes this, apparently referring to powerlifter April Hutchinson, to “die painfully.”
“Anyone who supports the Ontario lifter and is just as f—- up as she is,” he wrote in the video caption that accompanied eight videos of Andres screaming against anyone who opposes him competing against women.
“May your generation die painfully and leave the youth to inherit a better world,” Andres declared.
Andres’ post included screaming against Hutchinson, whom he calls an unnamed Ontario lifter, in addition to comparing men being allowed to compete against women to black people being allowed to compete in sports.
He also ranted against Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who recently promised to introduce legislation to keep men from competing against women.
“There is no hell, but times like this I wish there was so you (Hutchinson) and Smith can spend eternity suffering,” he wrote.
Interestingly, while Andres was suspended for six months for issuing death threats, Hutchinson was suspended for two years after publicly condemning him for stealing victories from women and then mocking his female competitors on social media. Her suspension was later reduced to a year.
However, even Andres himself has admitted that biological males have an advantage over females in powerlifting, saying, “While the science does appear pretty clear that transgender women (sic) athletes do appear to have a sustained advantage having gone through male puberty, even after having testosterone-blocking surgery, that’s not the conversation we’re having here.”
Indeed, scientific research continues to reaffirm that males have an edge over females in sports due to their physical capabilities, which are not eliminated by cross-sex hormones.
Competing in the women’s category, Andres set the national record at a championship in Brandon, Manitoba, at the Canadian Powerlifting Union’s 2023 Western Canadian Championship after outlifting the females in the category by over 200 kilograms. He won first place in the Female Masters Unequipped category, as recently reported by LifeSiteNews.
However, shortly after his win, the International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) warned the CPU that Andres, a man, would be suspended if he continues to compete against women for violating the IPF policy that “transgender”-identifying athletes must present identification proving they have identified as the opposite sex for at least four years prior to competing against women. The gender-confused male must also prove he has a lowered testosterone level.
Musk Declares ‘War’ on Advertiser Cartel
Elon Musk has filed an antitrust lawsuit against the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), alleging that it organized an illegal boycott of X (formerly Twitter). Video hosting platform Rumble has joined the complaint.
The suit, filed in Texas on Tuesday, follows last month’s publication of a report by the US House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee, which found evidence that GARM conspired to demonetize and otherwise harm “disfavored platforms.”
“We tried being nice for 2 years and got nothing but empty words. Now, it is war,”Musk said on X, above a post from Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski announcing he would join the case.
“This is not a decision we took lightly, but it is a direct consequence of their actions,” X CEO Linda Yaccarino said in an open letter to all users, calling the behavior by GARM and others “a stain on a great industry, and cannot be allowed to continue.”
A Message to X Users pic.twitter.com/6bZOYPhWVa
— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) August 6, 2024
According to Yaccarino, X has “met and surpassed” the requests made by GARM and other advertiser groups to improve controls and increase the effectiveness of their ads, working in good faith to allay their concerns.
“The unfortunate reality is that despite all our efforts, hundreds of meetings and research to the contrary, many companies chose to dismiss the facts. To those who broke the law, we say enough is enough,” Yaccarino said.
The lawsuit names GARM, the World Federation of Advertisers, and GARM members CVS Health, Mars, Orsted and Unilever as the defendants, with a note that the list could be expanded later pending discovery. X is seeking treble the damages as compensation.
Last month, the New York Post called GARM head Robert Rakowitz a “fascist creep” and self-styled “mega-censor of everything people can read.” The outlet was censored on multiple platforms in 2020, after publishing an entirely truthful story about Hunter Biden’s laptop that the Democrats denounced as “disinformation.”
According to the House report, GARM is an initiative of the WFA, which represents the world’s biggest ad buyers. Its members control 90% of global marketing spending, to the tune of almost $1 trillion a year. Documents obtained by the lawmakers showed Rakowitz bragging that X was “80% below revenue forecasts” since GARM began targeting it. His defense was that the email was meant as a “self-effacing joke.”
Outside observers have pointed out that GARM received money from the US government and may have been part of the notorious “censorship-industrial complex” exposed by the ‘Twitter Files.’
USAID “explicitly said it was reaching out to advertisers, doing ‘advertiser outreach’ to organize advertiser boycotts to cut financial support to disfavored websites,” noted Mike Benz, a former Trump administration official who now runs the Foundation for Freedom Online.
Steven Crowder Promotes Rumble Following YouTube Censorship
Popular political commentator Steven Crowder has announced that his YouTube channel has been “effectively” banned until the November election, and is urging his audience to watch his shows on Rumble instead.
Last Friday, the channel received strikes on eight videos, including one from 2023. A screenshot of Google’s notices shows that eight of the videos received strikes for “harassment and cyberbullying” and one for “hate speech.”
Judging by the titles and descriptions, the videos deal with the upcoming election and are critical of the Biden-Harris administration – particularly of the latter’s past and present policies and conduct – as well as of mainstream media, and Google itself.
The strikes were issued on August 2 and will expire on October 31 – 5 days before election day.
According to Crowder, all but one of the videos were livestreams published since Biden had to withdraw from the presidential race, making Kamala Harris the Democrats’ candidate.
Crowder sees this as the beginning of the giant’s “election policy” where it is clearly taking sides, and not only that, but suppressing “any and all opposition to their narrative.”
He also revealed that his channel has reached out to YouTube in the hope of getting some answers. In the meanwhile, he accused Google of interfering in the election through censorship and withholding information that it doesn’t want to be easily available to users.
This is tantamount to Big Tech, possibly except for X, “doing their part” to sway, or as Crowder put it, “rig” the election.
He announced that on election night, his show will be covering the ballot by using the same news agency sources as legacy media, but also their own analysts in order to provide an alternative to the way elections are covered by those outlets often accused of open bias.
According to Crowder, this project has been in the works for months, and YouTube is aware of it – and not happy about it. So much so, that he believes the giant video platform will make sure it isn’t discoverable.
For that reason, Crowder called on his viewers to follow the show on Rumble.