The Craigslist ads read: “STOP TRUMP – up to $1500/week. Hiring immediately! Call Today Start tomorrow! $15-$18 hourly rate + bonus + overtime up to 77 hours per week!”
They were placed by a Planned Parenthood affiliate in major cities like Boston, Denver, Columbus, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh right before the election to defeat the candidacy of Donald Trump. However, most of them are still active on Craigslist, fueling questions about whether the group is now among those feeding the post-election anti-Trump protests across the country.
Many of the ads have Planned Parenthood Action, a PAC, emblazoned across the top and all of them list phone numbers belonging to the Community Outreach Group, a for-profit organization formed by Planned Parenthood as “a vendor of large-scale advocacy.” Protesting is among the tasks listed on its website.
MoveOn.org and others already have been linked to the demonstrations. Protesters have been out on the streets since Wednesday and have been mostly peaceful. However, in some instances – like in the city of Portland – police used flash bombs last week to quell an angry mob that lit fires and smashed cars and store windows with bats. One protester was shot by a civilian.
Planned Parenthood and Community Outreach Group have not returned phone calls seeking comment. Planned Parenthood, which received $553.7 million in tax dollars last year, had pledged to spend $30 million to defeat Trump, according to Rolling Stone. The money allegedly came from its super PAC, which “jointly” worked on the ground war, the magazine said.
Former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., told FoxNews.com that he wasn’t surprised to hear a possible protest connection to the non-profit women’s health organization.
“I wouldn’t be shocked that this group is going the extra mile to undermine the legitimate transfer of power,” he said. “It comes into question whether they are using taxpayer money appropriately or even legally. This goes above and beyond their duty and ability to provide services for women.”
Other liberal groups have also apparently used the online classified ad site as a means to fuel protests.
MoveOn.org identified themselves in a New York ad, offering $18 an hour and specifying: “We only want protesters under the age of 30 … We prefer minorities.”
We Prefer Minorities
Posted November 19, 2016 By John C Wright
Trump and the Black Vote
Posted November 19, 2016 By John C WrightI was fascinated by this interview by Stephan Molyneux (who, and I am sure he will be perturbed by the comparison, sort of reminds me of me) with Donald Trump’s harbingers, Diamond and Silk.
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If You Can Keep It
Posted November 17, 2016 By John C WrightAt the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, when queried as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation, Ben Franklin was asked by a lady, “Well, doctor, which is it to be? A monarchy or a republic?” to which he replied, “A republic, madam, if you can keep it.”
The enemies of the republican form of government, and the foes of the human spirit, know very well how to make a society throw its legacy away: merely by teaching the young that being safe, especially being safe from dangerous ideas, is a treasure more precious than freedom.
Raise a generation of fatherless and weak boys to be cowardly men, and vain girls to be selfish and immodest women, and the enemy has done his work. He has vanquished the Union without ever raising a flag, winding a trumpet, or drawing a saber.
The students educated in an Orwellian environment of being protected against all discourse and discord will emerge thinking such things are normal and right, and they will love Big Brother. They will kiss the gyves and manacles being bolted to their limbs.
The artistic genius behind the highly acclaimed conservative satirical site The People’s Cube has been arrested and released on $8,000 bail for putting up pro-Israel posters to combat a pro-Islamist conference at George Mason University. He now faces the prospect of five years in prison for allegedly committing a “class 6 felony.”
Beloved satirist Oleg Atbashian (who has contributed to PJ Media) has gotten in trouble for defying authorities before: “Back in my Soviet dissident days, when I was collecting signatures in defense of Andrei Sakharov, I was screamed at, threatened, and lectured by the KGB and Communist functionaries,” Oleg says. “What I never imagined was that in the United States, the land of the free, I would not only be subjected to similar treatment, but go to jail.”
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A Correction
Posted November 16, 2016 By John C WrightI don’t like to admit I am wrong at the bottom of a long comment thread, when I can do it in public and take my humiliation like a man, but I am wrong when I said this:
Without identity politics, the Alt-Right are no different from Tea Party or from Goldwater conservatives. They are just honest men annoyed at Political Correctness, as all honest men should be.
A read with the erudite yet warlike name of Scholar at Arms writes:
I respectfully disagree. They are “alt” to mainstream conservatism, which has been dragged leftwards, chiefly by National Review. More mainstream conservatives like Bill Whittle refusing to burn incense to the Left’s PC gods and confronting the Pajama Boys like Goldberg & Beck who do would do great things for building relations between Conservatism & the alt-Right.
I confess you have the better of me here. I respectfully accept the correction.
“Conservative” used to mean the people who are not RINO uni-party left-leaning Rockefeller Republicans, and referred to Goldwater Republicans. In fact “conservative” was the term we used to distinguish ourselves from the RINOs.
After Trump was nominated, the parties changed. Or, rather, a change that had been long in the making became visible to the general public. Instead of Democrats versus Republicans, we now had the uniparty of the Globalists, consisting of the Dems and the treasonous Republican establishment on the one had versus on the other hand the Americans, the Trump Republicans, Libertarians, and Alt-Right.
However, for so long as Milo Yiannopoulos and Donald Trump use the word “conservative” to refer to themselves, I shall also, despite the obvious ambiguity and limitations of that term.
I also would like to see good relations between the Conservatives and Alt-Right, and so will try to keep my criticisms of them, in any, confined to private circles, for the same reason that I think arguments about denominational differences between Christians should be held outside of the range of heathen ears.
(In fact, I think I will edit the column and remove remarks best kept private.)
Live Right Now — Ask My Lovely And Talented Wife…Anything.
Posted November 16, 2016 By John C WrightSuperluminary, Episode 27 The Overlord of Unlife
Posted November 16, 2016 By John C WrightSuperluminary, Episode 27 THE OVERLORD OF UNLIFE, is posted on Patreon:
Episode 27 The Overlord of Unlife
In this exciting episode, the dark Overlord of the Vampire Empire, brooding within the megascale Dyson Sphere englobing the supermassive black hole at the galactic core, consults with his Warlord and commands the entrapment and obliteration of all organic life.
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From Stefan Molyneux
Posted November 15, 2016 By John C WrightA particularly insightful video article from Mr. Molyneux on the topic of the appalling self-immolation of the news media right before our eyes.
Needless to say, as the foremost advocate of the theory that the press is the number one enemy of freedom and sanity in the modern world, akin to a Lovecraftian monster in its salubrious rationality and honesty, I whole-heartedly applaud all he says here:
The Beautiful and Talented Mrs. Wright on REDDIT: Ask Her Anything
Posted November 14, 2016 By John C WrightMy wife will be answering questions on REDDIT on Wednesday, November 16th at 1:30 EST
Drop by and ask her about her books and what it is like to be married to a cold-hearted Vulcan like me.
https://www.reddit.com/r/books/
Twins with Your Enemy
Posted November 14, 2016 By John C WrightMore from Sargon of Akkad. Swearing every other word, so not safe for work. But still amusing:
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An Article from the Church Militant
Posted November 14, 2016 By John C Wrighthttp://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/diocletian-defeated-constantine-rising.
When British and Allied forces defeated the Nazis under the command of General Erwin Rommel in Egypt and North Africa in November 1942, Winston Churchill declared, “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
The war would drag on for more than two long years with many more millions of casualties. But a bridge had been crossed, and all sides knew it. It was only a matter of time.
The same could be said of what happened this Election Day in America. President-Elect Donald Trump’s destruction of the Party of Death sent out a clarion call: Things have changed. The war has taken a definitive turn. What must clearly be understood, however, is that there is only one war being played out, but in two theaters: temporal and spiritual.
On a temporal level, the names and faces and philosophies are all familiar — Democrats vs. Republicans, Hillary vs. Trump, conservatives vs. liberals, capitalism vs. socialism, nationalism vs. globalism, limited government vs. the Nanny State and so forth. And the various sides are rather well defined, even if there are some points of murkiness when one digs into the details.
Where there are no points of murkiness, however, is in the larger war: the spiritual one. In this war the boundaries are extremely clear and the lines very bright. Good vs. Evil is the only demarcation.
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