Pelosi Refuses To Say Whether Kamala Is Best VP Pick for Biden

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(Headline USA) Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., refused to say this week whether Vice President Kamala Harris is a good running mate for President Joe Biden.

During an interview with CNN on Wednesday, Pelosi was asked if “there’s any chance [Biden] does not continue running” his reelection campaign.

“I hope not, I hope not,” she replied. “President Biden has – he has great experience and wisdom. He’s been at this for a long time, as you know, as a senator, vice president and now president.”

She admitted that a growing number of Democrats have “concerns” about his age, but claimed “everybody’s for him – overwhelmingly everybody’s for him.”

CNN’s Anderson Cooper then asked whether Harris’s presence on the ticket hurts Biden at all given her low approval ratings, and whether she’s the best choice for vice president a second time around.

“He thinks so,” Pelosi said of Biden. “And that’s what matters.”

Pelosi then tried to argue that Harris is “politically astute” despite her unpopularity.

“I don’t think people give her enough credit,” Pelosi said. “Her values are consistent with the president’s values. Why would she be vice president if she were not?”

Cooper continued to press Pelosi on her opinion of Harris, leading Pelosi to admit that the vice president doesn’t do much but is an “intellectual resource.”

“She’s the vice president of the United States. And when people say to me, ‘well, why isn’t she doing this or that?’ I say, ‘Because she’s the vice president. That’s the job description. You don’t do that much,’” Pelosi said. 

Harris has been trying to better position herself ahead of 2024 as concerns about Biden’s age and mental competency grow. Last week, she said in an interview that she is prepared to take over for Biden should something happen to him.

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Admits ‘Every’ Democrat Privately Questions Why Biden Is Running

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(Headline USA) MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Wednesday that every Democrat he speaks with privately questions why President Joe Biden is running for reelection.

During a segment with Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, who wrote an article this week calling on Biden to abandon his 2024 campaign amidst growing concerns about his age and role in his son’s foreign business dealings, Scarborough revealed that many within the Democratic Party agree with Ignatius.

“Mika and I, everybody we talk to, every political discussion — it talks a lot about Trump, but when it comes to Joe Biden, people say, ‘Man, he’s too old to run, isn’t he? He’s not really going to run?'” Scarborough said. 

“When I say every discussion, I don’t mean 99% of the discussion. Every discussion,” he added. “I asked Reverend Al if he was hearing it all the time on our show this past week. He’s hearing it as well.”

The private admissions show Democrats are doing the exact same thing they accuse Republicans of doing with former President Donald Trump, Scarborough argued.

“So, you know, we often will complain about Republicans who will say one thing about Donald Trump off the air and another on air,” he said. “Well, let me just say: Democrats, off the air, will say, ‘Joe Biden’s too old. Why is he running?’ On the air? They won’t say that.”

Ignatius, a foreign affairs columnist for the Post who is closely tied to the intelligence community, argued this week that neither Biden nor Vice President Kamala Harris should seek reelection due to their historic weaknesses.

“If he and Harris campaign together in 2024, I think Biden risks undoing his greatest achievement — which was stopping Trump,” Ignatius claimed.

The latest CNN poll found that two-thirds of Democrat and Democrat-leaning voters want someone other than Biden to be the Democrat nominee in 2024.

Dawn of the AI Presidential Candidate: Meet the Chat2024 ‘Clones’

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Dawn of the AI Presidential Candidate: Meet the Chat2024 ‘Clones’

(Philip Wegmann, RealClear Wire) President Biden immediately got to the point for a change, former President Trump was surprisingly polite, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sounded only mildly robotic.

On Wednesday, a new project called Chat2024 rolled out avatars of each major presidential candidate, allowing voters to ask the aspiring leaders of the free world absolutely anything. The era of the AI politician has arrived.

Ask if Hunter Biden is a crook, and an AI clone of Biden will respond first that “Hunter, like many Americans, has faced his share of personal struggles,” and second, “that there’s been no evidence of wrongdoing by Hunter.”

When pressed if he tried to steal the previous presidential election, an AI clone of Trump will insist that he has “always been about the truth,” and that “the truth is there were irregularities that need to be addressed – I’ve never tried to steal anything.”

Inquire about his war with the world’s biggest cartoon conglomerate and an AI clone of DeSantis will say his “issue isn’t with Mickey Mouse or any other Disney character,” but rather “with the corporate decisions made by Disney, a company that has enjoyed special privileges in Florida for decades.”

The technology comes courtesy of a Miami company called Delphi, which secured $2.7 million in initial investment last week for a chatbot that allows users to communicate with digital clones of everyone from athletes and celebrities to historical figures and loved ones.

And now politicians. More than a digital parlor trick, the tool creates a forum for substantive conversation, not just the kind of questions that would likely get reporters blacklisted by real campaigns.

Dara Ladjevardian, the 27-year-old co-founder of Delphi, told RealClearPolitics that the clones of each politician have been trained on data scraped from hundreds and hundreds of speeches, op-eds, and statements made by living, breathing candidates. In turn, his replicants can spit out in-depth answers about everything from international diplomacy to domestic social policy.

“Hallucination is solved by citation,” Ladjevardian added while explaining how his company attempts to bridge the divide between artificial universes and grounded reality. He noted that the tool provides users with links to check the answers of the chatbot against the public record of the real candidates.

The good government mission of the program was inspired, Ladjevardian explained, when he was knocking on doors for his mother, Texas Democrat Sima Ladjevardian, who ran unsuccessfully against Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw in 2020. If everything goes according to plan, he said, citizens will use the tech to become more informed and therefore will be more likely to get out and vote. The goal of his business long-term: “We hope that Delphi becomes the blue check mark of AI clones.”

Users can query those clones one by one or have them debate each other on a particular issue. And “in about a month,” Ladjevardian said his company will introduce a voice feature allowing individuals to “actually call and have a real-time conversation” with the AI candidate clones.

But is it safe? And is it trustworthy? Ladjevardian said that Chat2024 “will never say something the opposite of what [the real candidate] believes,” though it will try to respond to new situations and questions by generating answers developed from “the core principles of the person that is being represented.” And to keep trolls from using the service for mischief, the company has already developed what he called “a strict attack model.”

The AI clones will talk policy all day long. As designed, the AI clones will not, however, touch any topic that’s not safe to discuss in the workplace or broadcast during a primetime televised debate.

In all of this, Ladjevardian presents as the stereotypical good guy tech bro, like so many of the whip-smart entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley who came before him and who insisted their technology could make the world a better place. He knows this. One of the core values of his company, he said to illustrate that altruism, was “good quests over bad quests.”

A good AI quest: helping educate voters. A bad AI quest: generating interactive pornography.

Delphi had the opportunity to partner with OnlyFans creators, adult models who sell images and videos of themselves for a fee, to create “AI girlfriends.” Ultimately though, the computer scientist told RCP, the company deemed that a bad quest, “even though it offered potentially a lot of revenue.”

His focus is instead on politics at the moment, and he wants candidates to get to know their clones. They could use the bots to better communicate with voters, he said, but also to scrape data from the questions that voters pose to glean insights about what matters to the electorate. Operatives of two presidential candidates, who spoke with RealClearPolitics on condition of anonymity, said they will pass.

“I’m just supposed to rely on the word of this third party? Yeah, right,” said one incredulous senior campaign aide who doubted the algorithm powering Chat2024 was truly agnostic. Artificial intelligence, the aide insisted, was only as neutral as the human programmer behind the curtain. “We have all seen the stories about how ChatGPT leans left,” they added, referencing another popular AI program.

Americans are already skeptical of flesh-and-blood politicians, an operative working on another campaign said. “Just wait until the words coming out of their mouths aren’t actually theirs.” It isn’t that they doubt the technology though. The aide said that AI might be good “for math equations and cheating on your homework.” But for politics? “It’s a ticking time bomb.”

Regulators in Washington, D.C., have struggled to catch up with the brave new world promised by accelerating artificial intelligence. They are already behind. The DeSantis campaign released an ad over the summer featuring Trump embracing and kissing former chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci. By design, the obvious “deep fake” was easy to spot. Others, like the attack ad that used AI audio to imitate the voices of Nikki Haley and Tim Scott, could more easily pass as the real thing.

This hasn’t stopped at least one campaign from trying to clone their own candidate. One contender currently in the race, RCP has learned, has actively explored the possibility of using an AI built in-house to potentially communicate with voters and also fundraise across multiple mediums.

“There are major flashing warning signs here,” Darrell West, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Technology Innovation, told RCP. “Even if right now the clones track with what the candidates have actually said, there’s no guarantee that will continue to be the case.”

West believes that the time for significant AI regulation was yesterday. It isn’t enough to simply rely on “the good intentions” of developers, he said, when the technology is powerful enough to permanently and immediately affect the foundation of representative government. The Iowa caucuses are just four months away, he added, and regulators are woefully behind.

“We are knee deep in the campaign already,” West said, “and unless Congress passes something right away, there basically will be no guardrails in place for this election.”

There is no stopping artificial intelligence, Ladjevardian countered. “Pandora’s Box is already open,” he said. “There is literally no going back, even if they shut down open AI today.” He would rather lawmakers and candidates work with him to harness the accelerating technology for pro-democratic ends.

Human candidates are increasingly hustling to develop policy answers in the real world on the issue of artificial intelligence. Their Chat2024 clones, meanwhile, can develop answers based on the little that has been said already. And they can do it in just a fraction of a second.

Energy Secretary Granholm Could Face Impeachment for Lying to Congress

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(Headline USA) House Republicans could launch an impeachment inquiry into Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm after the Biden administration official admitted to giving false testimony to Congress about her family’s stocks.

Granholm acknowledged in a letter to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee last Friday that she still maintains shares in six companies. In April, however, Granholm testified under oath that she had sold all of her shares of individual companies.

“I mistakenly told the Committee that I did not own any individual stocks, whereas I should have said that I did not own any conflicting stocks. In order to make my financial holdings consistent with my testimony, on May 18, 2023, I divested my remaining stock holdings which consisted of stock in six companies, even though these assets were deemed non-conflicting,” Granholm claimed.

Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., argued Granholm’s dishonesty before the House Science and Technology Committee in April should be the final straw for the GOP.

“Since taking office in January of 2021, Secretary Granholm has violated the Hatch Act multiple times,” Tenney said. “She owned Proterra stock while her boss, President Biden, repeatedly promoted the company. Her husband owned Ford stock while she personally promoted the companies’ work with official resources. And most critically, she lied, under oath, to Congress, claiming that you did not own any individual stocks when in fact she did.”

Tenney called on her colleagues to take action, citing the Energy Department’s ethics guidelines, which state that “public service is a public trust; employees must place loyalty to the Constitution, the laws, and ethical principles above private gain.”

“That’s perjury, period,” Tenney continued. “Why should you not resign or why should we not consider some kind of impeachment inquiry into you for your perjury charges?” Tenney said.

Granholm responded to Tenney’s charges by claiming her false testimony was “an honest mistake.”

“Of course I do not believe it’s okay to violate ethics laws. Nor does anyone else in the Department of Energy,” Granholm told Tenney. “I made a mistake when I testified saying that I had sold all stock. I honestly thought we had.”

DOJ Lawsuit Against Elon Musk Exposes the State’s True Nature

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(Jon Miltimore, FEE) The Justice Department recently filed a lawsuit against SpaceX , the California-based spacecraft manufacturer and satellite communications company founded by Elon Musk.

In its lawsuit , the DOJ accused SpaceX of only hiring U.S. citizens and green-card holders, thereby discriminating against asylees and refugees in hiring, an alleged violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Musk denied the allegations and accused the government of weaponizing “the DOJ for political purposes.”

“SpaceX was told repeatedly that hiring anyone who was not a permanent resident of the United States would violate international arms trafficking law, which would be a criminal offense,” Musk wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

It’s uncertain if the DOJ is actually targeting SpaceX (more on that in a minute), but George Mason University economist Alex Tabarrok quickly found a problem with the DOJ’s allegations.

“Do you know who else advertises that only US citizens can apply for a job?” Tabarrok asked. “The DOJ.”

Tabarrok even brought the receipts: a screenshot of the DOJ job website that explicitly states, “U.S. Citizenship is Required.”

So, if Musk is discriminating against non-U.S. citizens in his hiring practices, so is the DOJ.

This makes the lawsuit prima facie absurd on one level. However, one could also argue that there could be good reasons to discriminate in hiring. And as is usually the case, for better or worse, the government gets to decide when it’s OK to discriminate and when it’s not OK.

And that’s where things get hazy.

Musk and others claim that companies such as SpaceX are legally required to hire U.S. citizens because of International Traffic in Arms Regulations, a federal regulatory framework designed to safeguard military-related technologies.

The DOJ disagrees. So who is right? It’s difficult to say, Tabarrok pointed out.

“The distinction, as I understand it, rests on the difference between US Persons and US Citizens,” he wrote on Marginal Revolution, “but [SpaceX is] 100% correct that the DoD frowns on non-citizens working for military related ventures.”

In other words, SpaceX appears to have been trying to comply with Department of Defense regulations by not using noncitizens in military-related work, and in doing so, it may have run afoul of the DOJ.

This brings me back to the question of whether the DOJ is acting in good faith with its lawsuit. We don’t know the answer, but the flimsy nature of this lawsuit and other evidence suggest Musk is indeed being hounded for political reasons.

After all, it’s not just the DOJ breathing down Musk’s neck. Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Lina Khan has been obsessed with Musk since his purchase of Twitter, now X, going so far as to demand the company “identify all journalists and other members of the media to whom Twitter has granted access since Musk bought the company.”

How this demand sits with the spirit of the First Amendment, I’m not sure. But Khan claims her concerns stem from user privacy, which is rich since the FBI for years had been harvesting mass amounts of user data from Twitter. (The precise amount is unknown since the FBI hit X with a gag order when the company tried to publish details in its biannual Transparency Report.)

It’s certainly possible the FTC and DOJ are deeply concerned about user privacy data and noncitizens seeking employment with SpaceX. But it’s far likelier that their actions stem from Musk’s purchase of Twitter and subsequent publication of the Twitter Files , which revealed the FBI had been secretly controlling the flow of information on the platform.

Such an accusation might be hard for many people to believe. There’s a tendency to view the government as benevolent and upstanding, an institution filled with people seeking the common good and protecting the weak and the poor.

Yet economist Murray Rothbard long ago destroyed the myth that government is a “quasi-divine, selfless, Santa Claus organization.” In reality, it’s more like a mafia, one that will ruthlessly protect its own turf, especially against “dangers to its own contentment.”

The DOJ’s frivolous lawsuit is likely to go nowhere, but if Rothbard’s view of the state is right, it’s a safe bet that this will not be Musk’s last tussle with the syndicate.

DNC Threatens New Hampshire Over Primary Calendar

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DNC Threatens New Hampshire Over Primary Calendar

(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) The Democratic National Committee used the threat of action involving state delegates at the summertime national convention in extending a deadline for New Hampshire to submit a primary plan in compliance with new calendar rules.

The unanimous vote on Thursday by the Rules and Bylaws Committee gives the New Hampshire Democrats until Oct. 14 to present an approved primary date, one that would void the state’s first-in-the-nation-primary status. New rules say it can’t be before March 5, lifting South Carolina to first in the nation.

New Hampshire is wrangling with a 1975 state constitutional law to be first, and has always placed importance on gaining candidates’ attention so as not to be overlooked. Of the Electoral College’s 538 electors, New Hampshire has four. Six states, all with three, have fewer and five states have the same number.

New Hampshire, by far, gets the most attention from campaigns among those dozen states. It could be given a waiver by the national committee, though that seems unlikely with the latest vote having no dissenters.

New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlon has yet to set a date for the primaries, which include the Republican races as well. The state law specifically says the primary must be held a week prior to any other state’s primary contest. Published reports indicate Scanlon is likely to choose Jan. 23.

Iowa’s state law requires its caucuses to be held before any other state. Republicans there have a Jan. 15 date for business without declaring the presidential race. The new schedule from the Democratic National Committee doesn’t have Iowa among any of the early states.

The new calendar, first proposed in February, has South Carolina on Feb. 3, a Saturday. New Hampshire and Nevada were to be up next on Feb. 6. South Carolina was the state that turned the struggling campaign of President Joe Biden in 2020.

Scanlon and Gov. Chris Sununu have steadfastly said the state will not comply with the new Democratic National Committee primary calendar. In a social media post, Sununu said New Hampshire will not comply with the arbitrary demands and deadlines coming from Biden and the national committee.

“We will not back down. New Hampshire will be going first whether Joe Biden likes it or not,” Sununu wrote on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter.

Scanlon reiterated the state’s commitment to maintain its traditional status during a news conference Wednesday.

“I don’t think it’s a secret that we’re going to be going ahead of South Carolina, which puts us into January,” said the secretary of state.

He voiced his concern about the state losing delegates over the decision to bypass the new rules; however, he stressed the importance of hosting the primary first to receive candidates’ attention.

“It is more important for New Hampshire to have the early primary because it allows maximum participation from anybody that wants to put their name out there as a candidate,” Scanlon added.

Manchin Met w/ Bill Clinton Amid 2024 Speculation

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(Headline USA) Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., met with former President Bill Clinton recently as he considers mounting a third-party bid to challenge President Joe Biden.

The Washington Post reported that Manchin’s political future was the focus of a private meeting with Clinton, whom Manchin asked for advice. According to the report, Manchin is considering three options: a reelection campaign for the Senate as an independent, a third-party bid for the presidency in 2024, or retirement.

Donors are reportedly encouraging Manchin to stay in the Senate, but members of Manchin’s family have been pushing the Democrat to seek the White House via No Labels, a self-described “centrist” organization.

Manchin has been vocal in his support for the group, which has vowed to run a candidate of its own if Biden and former President Donald Trump are the two nominees for 2024. 

Manchin has also teased the idea of a presidential campaign.

“The only thing I can tell you is when I make my decision, what I think is the best I can support and represent the people of West Virginia and also be true to this country and the Constitution,” he said earlier this year.

Manchin’s meeting with Clinton was not planned, according to the Post. The senator reportedly learned Clinton was in the area and reached out to request the meeting.

Clinton encouraged Manchin not to run for president, citing Democrats’ concern that splitting the Democrat vote would help Trump, according to the Post.

Either way, Manchin has signaled that he’s preparing to leave the Democrat Party.

“I have to have peace of mind, basically. The brand has become so bad. The D brand and R brand … You’ve heard me say a million times, I am not a Washington Democrat,” said Manchin. “I’ve been thinking about that for quite some time. I haven’t made any decisions whatsoever on any of my political direction. I want to make sure that my voice is truly an independent voice.”

Befuddled Biden Claims Impeachment Related to Government Shutdown

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Befuddled Biden Claims Impeachment Related to Government Shutdown

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) President Joe Biden addressed his potential impeachment for the first time after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., announced an inquiry into the president’s prior business dealings with his son, Hunter Biden, NBC reported.

As he struggled to articulate his thoughts, Biden claimed that House Republicans oppose him not because of the trove of evidence they have spent months collecting that points to widespread corruption and potential conflicts of interests undermining national security in geopolitical hotspots like Ukraine and China, but because of a looming budget standoff.

“I don’t know quite why, but they just knew they wanted to impeach me,” Biden coyly claimed at a campaign event in McLean, Virginia.

“And now, the best I can tell, they want to impeach me because they want to shut down the government,” he added, neglecting to note that he could secure the government’s continued function by giving way to some of the spending cuts desired by House Republicans.

The question arose as McCarthy directed three separate committees to look into potential impeachment, which the Republican House speaker recently called the “next logical step.”

But in response, Biden and his media allies desperately sought to spin the impeachment attempt as a distraction from real political concerns, suggesting that Congress does nothing while he is the champion of the American people.

“So look, look, I got a job to do,” Biden said. “Everybody always asked about impeachment. I get up every day, not a joke, not focused on impeachment. I’ve got a job to do. I’ve got to deal with the issues that affect the American people every single solitary day.”

Of course, Biden either lied about his lack of knowledge as to the cause of the impeachment, or he has completely lost his mind.

Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., who will lead the investigation, noted that the investigators will look into potential violations of the law on the part of the Biden family with respect to Hunter Biden’s foreign dealings.

According to Comer, the upcoming hearings “will kind of evaluate some of the things that we believe have happened from the Biden family that are in violation with our laws.”

In what some legal experts, including constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley saw as an unprecedented violation of ethical norms, the White House counsel’s office issued a memorandum to media executives on Wednesday that conveyed propaganda talking points they should use when covering the impeachment.

It suggested the media challenge Republicans by insisting there was “no evidence” linking Biden to criminal conduct, despite a considerable amount of hard evidence that has been gathered, even before the start of the investigative phase.

Biden, meanwhile, has been known to repeatedly lie about his knowledge of his son’s business dealings. During the 2020 debates, he suggested that his son’s abandoned laptop might be Russian disinformation, despite knowing that this was false.

He also falsely claimed never to have spoken to his son about his business dealings, although records and testimony show that he engaged in regular speakerphone calls with his son’s business partners and used secret email aliases to receive updates on his son’s affairs.

Biden has refused to release the emails and the National Archives thus far have stonewalled the GOP investigators, which may have played a large role in McCarthy’s decision to proceed with the impeachment probe.

Hunter Biden Indicted on Felony Gun Charges; Gets Pass on Tax Evasion, Other Alleged Crimes

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Hunter Biden Indicted on Felony Gun Charges; Gets Pass on Tax Evasion, Other Alleged Crimes

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) White House First Son Hunter Biden was slapped with three criminal gun charges and could potentially face up to 10 years in prison.

Special Counsel David Weiss charged the president’s son with two counts of making false statements in the purchase of a firearm and one count on illegally obtaining a firearm while addicted to drugs.

The Hunter indictment comes in the wake of a plea agreement that crumbled last month when U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika shot down the deal that included immunity for other charges Hunter could possibly face.

The charges filed by Weiss stem from Hunter claiming in 2018 that he was drug-free in an application to purchase a handgun. The drug-addict son subsequently admitted in his memoir that he was using cocaine at the time.

Greene wasn’t alone noting the absence of other charges.

“That’s a small improvement on the previous kid gloves, sweetheart deal which tried to give Hunter a pass on a crime any MAGA supporter would get a decade in prison for,” Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk wrote. “But what about Hunter’s unregistered foreign lobbying? What about the money laundering, with Hunter passing on half of his massive oligarch payoffs directly to his dad? What about his human trafficking of prostitutes across state lines?”

Answers might be coming soon. As part of the collapsed plea deal, Weiss sidelined two misdemeanor tax charges “in Delaware with the intention of bringing them in California and Washington, D.C. — the venues where the alleged misconduct occurred,” ABC News reported, noting that prosecutors “have not offered a timeline for those charges.”

News of the gun charges drew a mixed response from Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chairman of the House Oversight Committee investigating myriad corruption and bribery allegations against the president and members of the Biden family.

“Today’s charges are a very small start, but unless U.S. Attorney Weiss investigates everyone involved in the fraud schemes and influence peddling, it will be clear President Biden’s DOJ is protecting Hunter Biden and the big guy,” Comer told ABC News.

Mark Pellin is an editor at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/sabrepaw70.

Dove Hires Fat BLM Activist Whose False Accusation Defamed Fellow U.Va. Student

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Dove Hires Fat BLM Activist Whose False Accusation Defamed Fellow U.Va. Student

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) In order to affirm its commitment to social justice, equity and so-called body positivity, Dove—the soap and beauty-product brand owned by notorious European virtue-signaler Unilever—recently hired a morbidly obese Black Lives Matter activist to be its new pitchwoman.

Making matters worse, the girthy community organizer, Zyahna Bryant, gained notoriety for falsely accusing a fellow University of Virginia student of making racist remarks, the Daily Mail reported.

Bryant reportedly ruined a white student’s life after mishearing the student, Morgan Bettinger, and claiming that Bettinger threatened members of a 2020 BLM protest in Charlottesville, Va., that was obstructing traffic near the U.Va. grounds.

According to Bettinger, she told a truck driver who was driving in front of her soon before BLM rioters screamed obscenities after her, “It’s a good thing that you are here, because otherwise these people would have been speed bumps.”

Bryant, however, tweeted that Bettinger had said the protesters would “make good speedbumps.”

Bettinger was attacked from all angles soon thereafter–including a campaign to remove her from the university—but Bryant did not come clean until after the damage had been done.

Bryant has now been rewarded not only for her moral turpitude—which might have been considered a violation of the school honor code under different circumstances—but also for her unhealthy lifestyle.

She is partnering with Dove to promote “fat liberation,” which she claimed was something “we should all be talking about.”

In the video announcing the partnership, Bryant told her roughly 27,000 Instagram followers that she wants to raise awareness for fat people, who allegedly lack freedom.

“We should be centering the voices and experiences of the most marginalized people and communities at all times,” she noted, adding that it is important for fat people to unite in one, fat activist voice in order to change the world.

“So when I think about what fat liberation looks like to me, I think about centering the voices of those who live in and who maneuver through spaces and institutions in a fat body,” she said.

 

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According to the Daily Mail, Bryant’s activism as a young child also may have played a role in the Charlottesville City Council’s effort to illegally remove two Confederate statues—triggering the “Unite the Right” rally that resulted in the 2017 riot where far-right demonstrators clashed with violent Antifa counter-protestors, resulting in the death of a local activist.

Unilever, which owns several woke products, including Ben & Jerry’s, has likewise courted controversy, seeming to view backlash against its politics as a form of good publicity in the long term.

In 2021, Dove crowed about its plan to remove the word “normal” from its advertising  in order to push a “more inclusive definition of beauty.”

The London-based parent company also threatened to boycott Facebook for allowing conservative content during the 2020 U.S. election.

However, it has come under fire from left-wing activist groups for an array of progressive sins, from deforestation and plastic pollution to the use of child labor and forced labor.

In 2017, Dove also faced boycott threats from the Left after a controversial ad that showed a black woman peeling off her skin to become a white woman.

Headline USA’s Ben Sellers contributed to this report.

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