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Nolte: What’s Happening to Tucker Carlson (and Others) Is Called ‘Blacklisting’

Sound familiar?

Sure, you can cower behind the word “boycott,” but a blacklist is a blacklist is a blacklist, and this is a goddamned blacklist.

During those dark days of the 1950s, commercial sponsors were bullied and threatened by political operatives into enforcing the blacklist.

In turn, if a television show employed the “wrong” people or expressed the “incorrect” beliefs or ideas, sponsors would either threaten to pull their sponsorship or pull it altogether. This was not only a way to control people, it controlled what was said, which opinions and ideas were discussed and aired to the public.

Look around today and you will see that there is no difference between what happened then and what the establishment media, large corporations, and left-wing activists are doing today to silence the political right.

As I write this, a number of leftists are desperate to blacklist Carlson.

Popular Information’s Judd Legum, a leftist-in-good-standing in Twitter’s blue checkmarked mafia, has made a project out of blacklisting Carlson.

It gets worse…

Rather than condemn the fact this hideous Hollywood history is repeating itself, the far-left Hollywood Reporter is aggressively participating in this Carlson blacklist by using the old trick of pretending to be engaged in journalism as it publicly pressures Carlson’s advertisers to answer if they agree with Carlson’s statement (which is factually true) that the wrong kind of immigration makes our country “poorer, and dirtier, and more divided.”

The un-American act of blacklisting unpopular political beliefs and opinions has become a common a cause for the organized left and just one more example of how is is the left killing liberalism.

President Trump has told House Republicans he will not sign legislation that would avert a partial government shutdown, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) said Thursday.

Trump’s opposition upends a deal that would have kept the government open through Feb. 8 but would not give the president any new money for a border wall or other border security measures.

Trump’s opposition dramatically increases the chances of a government shutdown, which is set to start at the end of Friday unless Congress and Trump reach a deal to extend funding for the Department of Homeland Security and other major federal agencies. This story will be updated.

President Trump will not commit to signing legislation that would avoid a partial government shutdown on Saturday, his press secretary said, further roiling a chaotic debate that is splintering the Republican Party.

“At this moment, the President does not want to go further without border security, which includes steel slats or a wall. The President is continuing to weigh his options,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Thursday in a statement.

The tumultuous turn of events has seen Trump reverse himself numerous times in recent days on the issue, first demanding $5 billion from Congress for a wall along the Mexico border, then declaring the military would pay for it, only to insist that the money come from Democrats next year.

As talks appeared to break down Thursday, senior Republicans in Congress even appeared unsure of what Trump actually wanted before he would sign legislation. The breakdown has prompted a hastily arranged meeting between Trump and House Republicans at noon Thursday.

The Senate unanimously passed a spending bill Wednesday night that would fund many federal agencies through February 8, following days of acrimony after Democrats refused to advance any new funding for a wall along the Mexico border.

House Republican leaders had hoped to advance an identical measure on Thursday morning, but they were met with an insurrection from some of their most conservative members and a blizzard of negative coverage from right-wing media outlets. That led Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) to cancel a press conference and head to the White House for a meeting with Trump over how to proceed.

Last week, Trump told Democrats he would be “proud” to shut down the government if they refused to give him $5 billion for the construction of a wall along the Mexico border. Democrats held firm and prevented such a bill from advancing in Congress, leading GOP leaders to backtrack and instead pursue a short-term spending bill that would avoid a shutdown and delay further debate until February.

Trump appeared to signal he was on board with backing down, writing in a series of Twitter posts Thursday morning that he would continue to press Democrats for wall funding next year and also claiming that he had taken other steps to make the border “tight.”
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They didn't fund the wall the wall...

Wow, that is going to place you guys in quite the quandary!

Do you support Trump or the Republicans in Congress?

You'll have to go one way or another on this one!

Sure glad I am not in your shoes on this one.

The un-American act of blacklisting unpopular political beliefs and opinions has become a common a cause for the organized left and just one more example of how is is the left killing liberalism.

Perhaps BDS supporters should reconsider their unfair stance against Israel.

The "blacklisting" of BDS supporters is a rightist, not leftist,

In Dec. 2008 Al Gore Said Arctic Ice Cap Would Be Gone In 5 Years, It’s Still Here

Scientists in the US have presented one of the most dramatic forecasts yet for the disappearance of Arctic sea ice.

Their latest modelling studies indicate northern polar waters could be ice-free in summers within just 5-6 years.

Professor Wieslaw Maslowski told an American Geophysical Union meeting that previous projections had underestimated the processes now driving ice loss.