AOC Claims Christian Super Bowl Ad Promoted ‘Fascism’

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AOC Claims Christian Super Bowl Ad Promoted ‘Fascism’

(Headline USA) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., claimed on Tuesday that a Super Bowl ad promoting Christian values actually promoted “fascism.”

The Christian group He Gets Us spent $20 million on two Super Bowl advertisements that featured Jesus as someone with empathy for immigrants and the poor and frustration for polarization in politics. 

“Something tells me Jesus would *not* spend millions of dollars on Super Bowl ads to make fascism look benign,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.

It is not clear which ad she was referring to. But one of the ads appeared to take a shot at leftist activists, portraying a man shouting at a police officer in riot gear. The images of unrest were followed by a line on-screen: “Jesus loved the people we hate.”

The other ad showed images of migrants fleeing their homes to avoid persecution. The ad then revealed the story was actually about Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

Critics blasted Ocasio-Cortez, pointing out that she has no idea what “fascism” is.

“Don’t you advocate for the disarmament of civilians, the criminalization of speech, and political prosecutions?” asked immigration lawyer Matthew Kolken.

Conservative commentator Buzz Patterson pointed out that no one is looking to her for spiritual advice anyway.

Even leftist journalist Eric Owens pointed out that the message of the advertisements were in line with leftist orthodoxy.

“That’s your take from a great Super Bowl ad reminding us of the truth, universal to all religions and all wisdom, that hate is bad? Are you serious? You have jumped the shark. Presumably, an intern is writing your tweets while you wear a fancy dress to a Super Bowl ball,” he wrote.

Conservative attorney Casey Mattox agreed: “I am perplexed by the idea that these ads are ‘right wing.’ But I’m seeing it from AOC and other Dems today,” he said. “Ads that have been subtly anti-racist, pro immigration, etc. Bizarre takes.”

Mich. Gov. Whitmer Shrugs Off TikTok Spying Concerns as Other Rush to Ban

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Mich. Gov. Whitmer Shrugs Off TikTok Spying Concerns as Other Rush to Ban

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Michigan’s Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer came to the defense of the social-media platform TikTok, despite the fact that more than 60% of U.S. states and the federal government have prohibited its use on official devices out of concerns for Chinese espionage.

CNN host Jake Tapper opened the segment by saying he deleted the platform on his personal device, according to the Daily Wire.

He then pressed the governor on why she continues to use Tiktok amid bipartisan consensus based on FBI briefings that youth-friendly app is feeding the Chinese Communist Party information about American citizens.

“We use TikTok on one device that has nothing else on it,” Whitmer responded.

“It is a communication tool,” she continued. “We don’t do it because it’s fun, although some people think what I put out there can be fun on occasion… But the point is, we have it on one device that has no access to anything else, because so many people get their information that way.”

Whitmer continued, arguing that TikTok is a useful way to disseminate information. She insisted that state officials “are protecting data in Michigan,” and that “the way [they] use it is secure.”

After Tapper pressed her by pointing out that the platform has seemingly devastating effects on American youth, Whitmer conceded that young people must realize that TikTok is not a reliable source of information.

“We need to have some congressional measures taken to ensure that there is some integrity in it,” she said. “But, also, we got to teach our kids that this is not a real robust offering of information, for you to distill and make your own decisions.”

Legislators in 32 of the 50 states have moved towards partial or total bans on state-owned devices. Government leaders all cited the app’s invasive data permissions requests—found in the terms and conditions—for the security risks it could pose.

Lightfoot Challenger Declares Public Safety a ‘Human Right,’ Triggers Left

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Lightfoot Challenger Declares Public Safety a ‘Human Right,’ Triggers Left

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Chicago mayoral candidate Paul Vallas is triggering leftists with his new campaign slogan: “Public safety is a human right.”

Vallas, a Democrat, has taken a staunchly anti-crime position in his race against incumbent mayor and intersectional star Lori Lightfoot.

According to Red State, leftists are attacking him as a “fake Democrat” because of his take on the city’s crime problem, personal opposition to abortion and approval of the school choice movement.

Vallas, who is a lawyer by trade, has done a great deal of pro-bono work for the Fraternal order of Police union, and has the endorsement of the Chicago Police Union.

Polls show the race between Vallas and Lightfoot with third candidate Jesus “Chuy” Garcia trailing behind—an unexpected turn of events for Garcia, who responded with a barrage of campaign ads.

“Mr. Vallas’s rise in the polls to around 18% is reflected in the missiles now coming his way,” the polling report read. “Ms. Lightfoot says he isn’t speaking up enough on abortion (he’s pro-choice). Mr. Garcia says he is a conservative ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing.’ But nothing seems to stick.”

“Since Jan. 1, Mr. Vallas has raised $2.4 million, compared with $829,000 for Mr. Garcia, $751,000 for Mr. Johnson and $739,000 for Ms. Lightfoot,” the report added.

While Vallas personally opposes abortion as a member of the Greek Orthodox Church, he publicly supports the pro-choice movement. However, Democrats voters in the 2022 midterm election proved that the issue is a priority.

Despite the concerns of many Democrats over the issue, Vallas seems to be surging ahead. He explained his support of the pro-choice movement in a recent interview.

“Personal religious conviction is unrelated to my public position supporting women’s reproductive rights,” he said. “It’s like asking Joe Biden as a Catholic, ‘Are you for abortion?’ Or Rich Daley. Or John Kennedy.”

He also defended his support for school vouchers, as opposed to solely funding public schools.

“If parents want to send their kids to parochial and private schools because they believe their local school is unsafe and not up to academic standards, parents should have the opportunity to participate in a scholarship program and receive tuition support to go to the schools of their choice,” he said.

WATCH: Man Jailed in Whitmer Conspiracy Has Message for Weaponization Committee

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WATCH: Man Jailed in Whitmer Conspiracy Has Message for Weaponization Committee

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Speaking over phone from prison, one of the men incarcerated for allegedly plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has issued a message for the House Weaponization Subcommittee formed to investigate FBI malfeasance.

“The court sealed the discovery information in our case in order to cover up for the FBI. If you investigate this case, I swear before the almighty God that you’ll find these words to be true,” Barry Croft Jr., who was sentenced to 235 months imprisonment last December for his alleged role in the conspiracy, said in a video published Sunday on YouTube.

Croft’s statement refers to the fact that the judge who presided over his trial did not let him present evidence of how FBI agents directed undercover informants to promote the Whitmer kidnap plot—such as when an FBI agent told his informant in a text that the “mission is to kill the governor specifically.”

The presiding judge also declined to compel the informant who recorded Croft from testifying—even though it turned out that the informant, Stephen Robeson, had gotten Croft drunk and high before recording his incriminating statements. Robeson had also been made an informant and contacted Croft before the FBI officially began its investigation, as Headline USA previously reported.

Additionally, the judge disallowed defense attorneys from presenting evidence of FBI agents’ wrongdoings during the trial—one agent involved in the case savagely beat his wife and had posted anti-Trump comments on his Facebook, another was accused of perjury in an unrelated case, and a third was found to be using the Whitmer case to promote his private security company.

However, the judge did allow prosecutors to present evidence of Croft’s 26-year-old gun and assault charges, even though he received a pardon from Delaware’s governor for those crimes in 2019.

In his statement published Sunday, Croft further alleged that the FBI had targeted him since May 2019 due to his connections with Kevin Lyndel “KC” Massey, a Texas militia leader who was found dead in January 2020 of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Despite investigating Croft for months, the FBI never found any evidence of him committing a crime.

“But the FBI was determined to obtain a prosecution against me,” he said. “Their answer was to send [undercover informants] at me in January of 2020.”

Croft, a former truck driver who had been supporting three children at the time of his arrest, has an appeal pending in his case. But he said he’s not optimistic about his chances for success, given his experience with the U.S. legal system so far.

“I feel you are my only hope for a legitimate finding of fact in this matter,” he said to the members of the Weaponization Subcommittee.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Comer Suggests House GOP Has Evidence of Joe Biden’s Role in Hunter’s Business Deals

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Comer Suggests House GOP Has Evidence of Joe Biden’s Role in Hunter’s Business Deals

(Headline USA) House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., suggested this weekend that the GOP has evidence President Joe Biden knew about his son Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings.

“We know that Joe Biden said during the presidential campaign that he had no knowledge of his son’s business interests. He wasn’t involved. He didn’t benefit from them. We have evidence that would suggest otherwise. And this is very concerning,” Comer told ABC News on Sunday.

Comer has been investigating the president’s involvement in his family’s overseas business dealings, and recently submitted a request for records to Hunter Biden’s legal team. The request was rebuffed by Hunter Biden’s lawyer, who claimed the first son is entitled to certain protections from congressional investigations.

Democrats have also tried to downplay Hunter Biden’s alleged wrongdoings by pointing out that Jared Kushner, former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, conducted business deals with Saudi Arabia.

Comer admitted that “everything’s on the table” and said we need “strict ethics laws” to deal with this issue moving forward. However, he said Kushner has already sat down with investigators voluntarily. The Bidens, on the other hand, have refused to cooperate with Congress.

“We need to know what is allowable and what isn’t allowable. We need to have strict ethics laws, and we need to significantly increase the disclosure laws in America. I think this investigation is going to be very important to fix a problem before it gets out of hand,” Comer said.

Hunter Biden’s business dealings with China are of special interest given China’s increasingly aggressive posture toward the U.S., Comer added.

“Americans are outraged that China flew a balloon over the United States, Americans are outraged that China is trying to buy farmland. I think Americans would be outraged to know how much money the Biden family is taking in from China. And for what, we don’t exactly know,” he said.

Florida Lawmakers Expand DeSantis’s Migrant Flight Program

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Florida Lawmakers Expand DeSantis’s Migrant Flight Program

(Headline USA) Florida lawmakers voted last week to expand Gov. Ron DeSantis’s migrant flight program sending immigrants who have illegally crossed into the state to leftist “sanctuary” cities and states.

The new bill, passed on Friday, permanently establishes the “Unauthorized Alien Transport Program,” allowing the state to send immigrants to any blue state with self-described “sanctuary” policies.

“People are sick of having an open border with no rule of law in this country,” DeSantis said at a news conference last week. “We can just sit here and do nothing about it or we can actually stand up and say, ‘Whatever tools we have at our disposal, we are going to be using.’”

The law takes specific aim at the Biden administration for failing “to secure the nation’s borders” and proving “itself unwilling to address this crisis.” The bill says that “without such action” by Florida, “detrimental effects,” including “increased crime, diminished economic opportunities and wages for American workers, and burdens on the education and health care systems,” could occur.

The program was first established by DeSantis last year and used to send a group of illegal immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, a ritzy East Coast town inhabited by wealthy billionaires that describes itself as a “sanctuary city.”

Leftists blasted DeSantis for “trafficking” migrants, but polls showed a majority of residents in his home state of Florida supported the flight. According to a Spectrum News/Sienna College poll, 49% of likely Florida voters support sending illegal migrants to other states, while 44% do not support the action.

Ninety percent of Republican respondents supported the decision, an impressive 50% of independent voters were also on board. Only 10% of Democrats  supported the relocation.

Other Republican governors, including Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and former Ariz. Gov. Doug Ducey, also shipped migrants to liberal so-called sanctuary cities, such as New York City, Washington, D.C., and Chicago.

Bidenflation So Bad that Medicaid Is Being Used to Buy Food

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Bidenflation So Bad that Medicaid Is Being Used to Buy Food

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) The Biden administration is now letting states use federal Medicaid funds in order to enable people to buy food amid soaring inflation.

The move is intended to augment social and economic welfare programs under the guise of “food as medicine,” highlighting the health benefits of having enough to eat, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Funds can cover the cost of specialized meals for inpatients or allow people to purchase healthier foods instead of junk food.

The new policy through the Department of Health and Human Services mirrors a recent plan by the Department of Agriculture to spend $25 million promoting healthy eating habits among food-stamp recipients by incentivizing the purchase of fruits and vegetables.

However, HHS’s expanded programs are not limited to food. Indeed, Medicaid now pays for air conditioners, six months of rent and air-filtration devices.

The United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services approved such a program for Arkansas in November, earmarking $85 million in Medicaid funds for food. Oregon and Massachusetts received similar funding last year.

Rachel Nuzum, a senior vice president for federal and state health policy at the Commonwealth Fund, addressed Biden’s approval of using health-care funds as de-facto food stamps.

“This is something that is building momentum,” she said.

However, Gary D. Alexander, head of the Medicaid and Health Safety Net Initiative for Paragon Health Institute, expressed concern over the move.

“This is really the first I’ve seen the federal government push food and air conditioners and other things as allowable,” he said.

“We already have the SNAP program,” he continued. “It seems like it’s blurring the lines,”

Still, some say the program has merit.

According to the American Society for Nutrition, “Evidence suggests food as medicine can work,” Breitbart reported.

Meanwhile the state expenditures on Medicaid are ballooning out of control.

Hollywood Producer Sentenced to 5 Years for Running International Pedophile Ring

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Hollywood Producer Sentenced to 5 Years for Running International Pedophile Ring

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Film executive and producer Dillon Jordan was sentenced to a maximum of five years in prison on Thursday for running an international prostitution ring, exploiting young women and offering them up to fellow producers, actors and other Hollywood elites.

Jordan, founder of PaperChase Film productions, earned an estimated $1.4 million from the escapade between 2010-2017 and laundered the money through his production company while making movies titled The Kindergarten Teacher, and The Kid, and a shadow company that purportedly planned events.

According to the Post Millennial other “well-known producers” were clients of Jordan’s, including one unnamed benefactor who invested $250,000 in his companies.

Prosecutors also accused Jordan of offering women to clients for $15,000, organized sex parties across the globe and frequently used aliases to conduct his business.

Jordan faced charges of conspiracy to violate the Mann Act, which criminalizes the transportation of “any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose.”

Travel Act violations and money laundering in connection via his sleazy business operations through the two front companies.

“As alleged, for years, Dillon Jordan operated an extensive and far-reaching prostitution business, using a purported event planning company and a movie production company to conceal the proceeds he made from exploiting women,” said Manhattan’s U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss after Jordan’s arrest. “Now the party is over and the film is a wrap.”

According to victim statements read during the trial, many of the trafficked girls say Jordan pumped them with drugs and alcohol then trafficked into the sex trade.

One woman claimed she met Jordan in Las Vegas when she was 18 years old, where he subsequently got her drunk and high before telling her to have sex with a man, who paid $3,000.

“The defendant made comments about how young Victim-1 was, such as ‘Look, she is barely 18!’ and pointing to her bedazzled Hello Kitty phone case, which she was carrying,” they added.

Prosecutors also found that Jordan pocketed about 40% of the fee for the liaisons.

After taking a plea deal, Jordan received a maximum five-year sentence.

Judge John Cronan, who handed down the sentence, made it clear that he would give him a harsher sentence if that were an option.

“For years, the defendant operated and profited from an extensive prostitution business that catered to wealthy men and was predicated on the exploitation of young women,” US Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement.

Biden Admin May Be Plotting ‘Color Revolution’ in Soros’s Home Country

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Biden Admin May Be Plotting ‘Color Revolution’ in Soros’s Home Country

(Joshua Paladino, Headline USA) USAID Administrator Samantha Power, a Deep State operative who pushed regime change in Libya, made a foreboding visit to Budapest, Hungary, last week to launch US foreign aid groups that could foment a color revolution, the American Conservative reported.

Power went to Budapest to “support independent Hungarian partner organizations working to protect the rule of law, strengthen democratic institutions and civil society, and support independent media.”

All the neo-liberal buzzwords indicate that the American-led international order can no longer tolerate Hungary’s independence from globalist control, especially after Viktor Orban crushed his globalist opponents in the nation’s 2022 elections.

Despite belonging to both NATO and the EU, Hungary remains one among a few nations that have resisted the globalists and their efforts to destroy independent and culturally unified nations through open borders, free trade, queer ideology and green energy.

In addition to these sins against the globalist blob, Orban has not supported Ukraine strongly enough in the Russo-Ukrainian War. He met with Russian President Vladimir Putin but supported Ukraine’s admission into NATO.

During her visit, Power also pushed sexual transformation, suggesting that the Hungarian color revolution could cover the traditional neo-liberal agenda with a woke, leftist veneer.

IRS Accused of Targeting Election-Integrity Group for Lois Lerner-Style Audit

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IRS Accused of Targeting Election-Integrity Group for Lois Lerner-Style Audit

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) President Joe Biden’s militarized Internal Revenue Service  targeted an election integrity group last year under the guise of an audit.

The new investigations, which call to mind the Obama-era IRS audits led by Lois Lerner against members of and organizations adjacent to the Tea Party, subjected the Adams, Baldwin, and Covey Foundation, Inc. nonprofit to a lengthy interrogation regarding its nonprofit status, Just the News reported.

According to ABC Foundation founder Phill Kline, the IRS pestered his organization with numerous accusatory questions.

“Have you held [a] particular position or view on certain issues or topics? If you do, please detail the position or views of your organization,” they asked.

The militarized agency also questioned the ABC Foundation’s commitment to administrative state ideology.

“Do you have any policy/policies or guidance in place to avoid unsupported opinions or conclusions and inflammatory language in the activities? Explain how you ensure that the contents presented in your educational activities are fair and unbiased facts that would permit an individual to form an independent opinion or conclusions based the facts presented.”

In response, Kline noted that the federal government ought to “respect the expression of individuals, particularly those with whom those presently in power disagree,” adding that this task becomes very difficult when “government focuses the exercise of its power on conforming thought and speech to such vague terms as ‘inflammatory language’ as doing so invites the arbitrary and capricious application of governmental power.”

Kline, however, was unwilling to back down to the corrupt agency, noting that he believes the Biden administration to be behind the bureaucracy’s allegedly impartial audit.

According to Kline, the IRS questions are “further evidence that the Biden administration believes it has the authority to license thought and speech, and it doesn’t,” said Kline.

“The thought police have found a home in the Biden administration,” he added.

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