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Dem Rep Compares IRS Whistleblower To Villain From Famous Musical

Dem Rep Compares IRS Whistleblower To Villain From Famous Musical Harold Hutchison on July 19, 2023 A Democrat serving on the House Oversight Committee compared a whistleblower to Inspector Javert, the villain from the Victor Hugo novel and famous musical “Les Miserables” on Wednesday. Democratic California Rep. Ro Khanna made the comparison during a hearing where Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler testified regarding the Hunter Biden investigation, during which Khanna cited Shapley’s push for more serious charges. Javert, a police inspector in the novel and musical, relentlessly pursued Jean Valjean, according to the BBC, and eventually committed suicide after Valjean spared his life. WATCH: “You

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Dem Rep Compares John Kerry To Martin Luther King Jr.

Dem Rep Compares John Kerry To Martin Luther King Jr. Harold Hutchison on July 13, 2023 Democratic Rep. Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania claimed Thursday that U.S. Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry is like Martin Luther King Jr. after mentioning that he was being called a “radical.” “I think at some point, someone called you that you were carrying a far-left, radical agenda,” Dean told Kerry during a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Accountability. “I have to admit to you, if anybody thinks it is radical to care about the protection of this planet

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Realtor Compares Helping LGBT People ‘Flee’ Red States To The Underground Railroad

Realtor Compares Helping LGBT People ‘Flee’ Red States To The Underground Railroad Laurel Duggan on June 16, 2023 A Texas real estate agent who is selling homes for LGBT people who no longer want to live in the GOP-controlled state compared his efforts to those who worked on the Underground Railroad on Tuesday, according to Oklahoma’s News 4. Bob McCranie founded “Flee Texas,” which has since become “Flee Red States,” to help LGBT people list their homes in Texas and other red states and connect them with realtors in other locations, according to News 4. McCranie’s clients have moved across

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Actress Compares Ron DeSantis To KKK ‘Grand Wizard’ During Award Show Speech

Actress Compares Ron DeSantis To KKK ‘Grand Wizard’ During Award Show Speech Nick Pope on June 12, 2023 Actress Denée Benton directly compared Republican Florida Governor and 2024 presidential candidate Ron DeSantis to the “Grand Wizard” of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in a speech delivered Sunday night at the 2023 Tony Awards show. Benton made reference to “the current Grand Wizard — I’m sorry, excuse me — governor of my home state of Florida” at the Tony Awards, an annual ceremony for Broadway plays and musicals. Her equation of the conservative governor to the national leader of the KKK

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Dem Hearing Witness Repeatedly Compares Anti-Abortion Laws To ‘American Slavery’ And ‘Jim Crow’

Dem Hearing Witness Repeatedly Compares Anti-Abortion Laws To ‘American Slavery’ And ‘Jim Crow’ Katelynn Richardson on April 26, 2023 A Democrat witness during a Wednesday Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on abortion repeatedly compared the harm imposed by anti-abortion laws to slavery. University of California, Irvine Chancellor’s Professor of Law Michele Goodwin testified during a hearing on “The Assault on Reproductive Rights in a Post-Dobbs America” Wednesday, continually comparing the harm black women experienced during slavery and Jim Crow laws to modern abortion restrictions, which she notes are spreading through “what was the U.S. confederacy.” Judiciary Democrats announced the hearing shortly

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Reinstated Tennessee Rep Not-So-Subtly Compares Himself To Jesus

Reinstated Tennessee Rep Not-So-Subtly Compares Himself To Jesus Kate Anderson on April 14, 2023 Democratic state Rep. Justin J. Pearson of Tennessee celebrated his reinstatement to office Thursday with a not-so-subtle comparison to the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ, according to a post on his Twitter account. Pearson was removed from office late last week for participating in a massive protest at the state capitol calling for gun control following the shooting at Covenant School by 28-year-old Audrey Hale, who identified as transgender. The Shelby County Commission voted Wednesday to reinstate Pearson, who tweeted a video on Thursday of

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Pope Francis Compares Abortion Doctors To Hitmen In New Disney+ Special

Pope Francis Compares Abortion Doctors To Hitmen In New Disney+ Special Kate Anderson on April 5, 2023 Pope Francis made several bold statements about abortion, including that going to a doctor for an abortion, could be compared to hiring a hitman, during a Disney+ special in Rome with a group of young adults. The series titled “The Pope: Answers” dropped on Disney+ and Hulu Wednesday during Holy Week featuring an intimate conversation with a group of young adults in their 20s who were eager to ask the Catholic Church leader about several controversial topics, according to the trailer. One young

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‘Radical, Corrupted, Governments’: Marjorie Taylor Greene Compares Trump Arrest To Mandela, Jesus

‘Radical, Corrupted, Governments’: Marjorie Taylor Greene Compares Trump Arrest To Mandela, Jesus Harold Hutchison on April 4, 2023 Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia said Tuesday that the indictment of former President Donald Trump was similar to the way Nelson Mandela and Jesus were “persecuted.” “President Trump is joining some of the most incredible people in history being arrested today. Nelson Mandela was arrested, served time in prison. Jesus, Jesus was arrested and murdered by the Roman government,” Greene said on Right Side Broadcasting Network. “There have been many people throughout history that have been arrested and persecuted by

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Pastor Compares Nashville Shooter’s Trans Identity To Jesus’ Crucifixion

Pastor Compares Nashville Shooter’s Trans Identity To Jesus’ Crucifixion Kate Anderson on April 4, 2023 A Lutheran pastor appeared to compare Jesus’ crucifixion with the transgender Nashville school shooter in a sermon delivered just days after the attack. Pastor Micah Louwagie, who leads the St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Fargo, North Dakota, delivered a sermon on Palm Sunday discussing Jesus’ crucifixion and how it was “baffling” that “someone’s existence can be so threatening” that they should be killed. Louwagie then claimed that those who point to 28-year-old Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale’s transgender identity as a potential motive for the

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Bill Maher Compares The ‘Woke’ Mob To Enforcers Of Mao’s Cultural Revolution

Bill Maher Compares The ‘Woke’ Mob To Enforcers Of Mao’s Cultural Revolution Harold Hutchison on February 4, 2023 HBO host Bill Maher compared “woke” mobs on Twitter to the Red Guard of the 1966 Cultural Revolution in China Friday. “I asked ChatGPT, ‘Are there any similarities between today’s woke revolution and Chairman Mao’s cultural revolution of the 1960s?’” Maher said. “And it wrote back, ‘How long do you have?’” “We do have our own Red Guard here, but they do their rampaging on Twitter,” Maher added, while discussing the departure of Winston Marshall from Mumford and Sons over a tweet

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‘Clap Like Seals’: Tucker Carlson Compares Clips Of Dictators Receiving Applause To Congress Clapping For Zelenskyy

‘Clap Like Seals’: Tucker Carlson Compares Clips Of Dictators Receiving Applause To Congress Clapping For Zelenskyy Harold Hutchison on December 22, 2022 Fox News host Tucker Carlson compared congressional members clapping for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to video clips of dictators receiving applause Thursday. “They clap like seals. But here’s the interesting thing, almost every person in the room clapped like a seal. So no matter what that man said, ‘send me more money, I command you, send me more money, we’re taking care of it in the most responsible way,’ they applaud, all of them, almost like they have

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Pope compares Ukrainian suffering to WWII Nazi death operation

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Wednesday compared the war in Ukraine to a Nazi operation that killed some two million people, mostly Jews, in the first years of World War Two. Speaking to Polish pilgrims at his weekly general audience, Francis noted that the Catholic University of Lublin, in Poland, had recently commemorated the anniversary of Operation Reinhard. It was the code name for a secret operation in a part of occupied Poland which the Germans called the “General Government” area, that included territory now in Ukraine. “May the memory of this horrible event arouse

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‘We’ve Seen This Before’: CNN Guest Compares GOP, Ballot Box Watchers To KKK

‘We’ve Seen This Before’: CNN Guest Compares GOP, Ballot Box Watchers To KKK Harold Hutchison on November 3, 2022 A former Washington, D.C., police officer compared the Republican Party and ballot box watchers to the “Ku Klux Klan” during a Thursday CNN appearance. “I mean, going back to the beginning point, what I’ve seen as far as, you know, the Republican Party’s playbook is the – they’ve become the win at all costs party,” Michael Fanone, who was one of the police officers at the Capitol building during the riot on Jan. 6, 2021, told guest host Brianna Keilar. “They’re

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Putin ally compares Nord Stream sabotage to CIA-backed attacks of 1980s

MOSCOW (Reuters) – One of President Vladimir Putin’s top allies said on Wednesday that the sabotage of the Nord Stream offshore gas pipelines resembled the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency-backed attacks on oil infrastructure in Nicaragua in 1983. Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 offshore gas pipelines, which run from Russia to Germany on the bed of the Baltic Sea, were ruptured last month in what Moscow said was an act of “international terrorism”. President Vladimir Putin on Friday blamed the United States and its allies for blowing up the undersea Nord Stream pipelines, allegations rejected by Washington. The European

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Former Obama Official Compares Current SCOTUS To Justices Who Decided Dred Scott

Former Obama Official Compares Current SCOTUS To Justices Who Decided Dred Scott Harold Hutchison on July 1, 2022 Neal Katyal, former acting Solicitor General, compared the Supreme Court’s latest term to the one that produced the infamous Dred Scott ruling during a Thursday night appearance on MSNBC. “I love the court and revere the court but this particular composition of the court is the most conservative extreme court in our lifetimes,” Katyal, who served during the Obama Administration, told guest host Alicia Menendez on “The 11th Hour.” “It’s one of the three most conservative courts ever, only 1857 and 1935

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‘Morning Joe’ Host Compares Passing Gun Control To Abolishing Slavery

‘Morning Joe’ Host Compares Passing Gun Control To Abolishing Slavery Harold Hutchison on June 13, 2022 MSNBC Host Joe Scarborough compared efforts to pass gun control to the abolition of slavery on “Morning Joe” Monday. “It is progress,” Scarborough said. “Slow progress but progress. I’m sure you know … Abraham Lincoln was often criticized for moving too slowly toward ending slavery. Abolitionists like Frederick Douglass noted the view from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull and indifferent.” A bipartisan group of senators announced a framework for gun legislation in the wake of a mass shooting at

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Amid Soaring Crime Rate, NYC Mayor Urges Residents To Eat Plant-Based Diet, Compares Cheese To Heroin

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is on a mission to push a plant-based diet on New Yorkers, he said at a Monday press conference. “Food is like a drug. You take someone on heroin, put them in one room, and someone hooked on cheese, put [them] in another room, and you take it away, I challenge you to tell me the person who’s hooked on heroin and who’s hooked on cheese,” Adams said, according to Newsweek. “I eat a plant based centered life,” Adams said five times in one response during the conference. “Don’t worry about what’s on Mayor

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Pope Francis compares modern-day woke Christmas cancelers to Nazis of Germany

After the EU tried to cancel Christmas, Pope Francis lashed out. The EU document on Christmas is an anachronism” of “watered-down secularism” Pope Francis said while answering questions put to him by journalists on board the flight bringing him to Rome at the end of his Apostolic Journey to Cyprus and Greece. “Think of the Nazi dictatorship, the communist one… it is a fashion of a watered-down secularism, distilled water… But this is something that throughout hasn’t worked,” the pope added, noting that the modern leftist mission to shut down Christmas isn’t the first attempt…and probably won’t be the last.

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