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Today, the United Kingdom Decides Its Future – National Review

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks at the Conservative partys manifesto launch in Telford, England, November 24, 2019. (Phil Noble/Reuters)

Making the click-through worthwhile: The United Kingdom votes today, and makes a key decision about its future; Eric Holder warns us about the dangers of an attorney general who sees himself as a presidents wingman; a blunt, direct assessment about anti-Semitism in American life and why so many people only want to see part of the problem; and a question about an odd and grim fact of life in the National Football League.

How Will Brexit End?

Earlier this week, when we taped The Editors podcast*, I was the relative optimist of the group. While I havent followed todays British election obsessively, the people of the United Kingdom appear exhausted by the endless delays and haggling over Brexit, and I think a sufficient majority wants it to get resolved so that the country can move on to other issues.

The polling looks good for the Conservative party:

The Ipsos MORI survey for the Evening Standard puts Boris Johnson on course to make history with the biggest Conservative vote share since Maggie Thatchers first victory in 1979. The headline estimates of voting are Conservative 44 percent (unchanged from a week ago), Labour 33 percent (up one point) and the Liberal Democrats 12 percent (down one point). If voters do as they say, it would imply a solid Tory majority and vindicate Mr Johnsons decision to gamble all on a Brexit election.

Keep in mind, polling in British elections usually is off enough to provide at least one big surprise. And this years final poll comes with a glaring caveat: However, Ipsos MORIs researchers found that nearly one in four people who have picked a party they intend to support admitted they may still change their mind, adding an unusually high element of uncertainty.

But heres the good news for Conservatives: The Conservative vote share looked firmest, with 83 percent of supporters saying they had definitely decided. For Labour, 74 percent said they were definite.

John OSullivan declares, Those who want Brexit should vote Tory. A majority Tory government is alone capable of delivering it. Will it be an imperfect Brexit? Maybe but its an essential first step to a full one.

Daniel Hannan sees the choice as stark: Boris and Brexit or Corbyn and Communism?

The stakes for the Conservatives and pro-Brexit forces may be win big or go home. There are 650 seats in the U.K. Parliament, meaning to win a majority and control of the government, a party needs 326. The YouGov poll estimates that Conservatives could win anywhere from 367 seats to 311. Ordinarily, in parliamentary systems, the party that gets the largest share of the vote but falls short of a majority starts assembling a coalition with other parties where there are at least some areas of policy agreement. But under this scenario, Boris Johnson may not have many willing partners.

Daniel Johnson, who founded Standpoint and whos now created the website The Article, warns that falling even a little bit short could set up the dominoes for a disastrous scenario:

Even if he still leads the largest party, as seems almost certain, Boris Johnson will be caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. Either he sticks to his pledge to get Brexit done, in which case the combined Opposition parties would probably defeat him in a vote of confidence, or he agrees to put his deal to a second referendum, thereby disappointing all those Leave voters who had just backed him in the election. Such an unpalatable choice risks reopening divisions within the Tories. The spectacle of Boris Johnson clinging to office while ditching his main policy would surely alienate the public.

It is much more likely that a hung Parliament would result in a minority Labour or a caretaker government. Either way, it is hard to see how Jeremy Corbyn would not be Prime Minister.

I dont think the allies of Great Britain are really psychologically prepared for life with Prime Minister Jeremy Corbyn. He makes Bernie Sanders look like a sensible moderate, and hes essentially on the other side of the traditional Western alliance. The Washington Post editorial board summarized:

Mr. Corbyn espouses a foreign policy whose guiding principle is to oppose the United States and Israel by all means. It has led him to label asfriendssuch disparate political forces as Hamas, Hezbollah and the populist government of Venezuela and toaccept fundingfrom organizations designated by the U.S. government as terrorist groups. Mr.Corbynendorsed the Iraqi insurgents who fought U.S. troopsandequatedthe Islamic States overrunning of Iraqi cities with the 2004 U.S. offensive in Fallujah. He said thatWashington, rather than Moscow, is to blame for the civil war in Ukraine. In an interview with Irans state television channel, he called the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Ladena tragedy.

After the recent London Bridge terror attack, Corbyn blamed the war in Iraq and British military interventions. He is the embodiment of Jeanne Kirkpatricks they always blame America first, distilled essence of everything I detest in foreign policy, a reflexive scapegoating of Western countries as the root of all evil that excuses the worlds most bloodthirsty terrorists. Corbyn is the arrogant, empathetically-defective contrarian who insists the civilian victims of the worlds worst violence really had it coming because of some foreign policy decision from decades ago. You wouldnt trust this man to operate heavy machinery, nevermind the government of our closest ally.

*The other guys are up in New York and Im here at National Review Northern Virginia Bureau in Authenticity Woods. Everyone in our house traipses through my home office, and about five minutes in, my wifes boots make an auditory cameo that turns our podcast into an old-style radio drama. I dont understand how my voice can sound like Im on a phone inside a tin can but her footsteps come through crystal-clear.

Eric Holder: I Cant Stand a Political Attorney General Whos Loyal to the President

Eric Holder, the former attorney general who was found in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over documents related to the Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal and who declared in an interview, Im still the Presidents wing-man, so Im there with my boy, declares in todays Washington Post that Attorney General William Barr is too partisan and blindly loyal to the president to continue serving in his position: The American people deserve an attorney general who serves their interests, leads the Justice Department with integrity and can be entrusted to pursue the facts and the law, even and especially when they are politically inconvenient and inconsistent with the personal interests of the president who appointed him.

Holder began his tenure by calling America a nation of cowards when it came to race, shortly after the country had elected the first African-American president. Under Holder, the Justice Department seized of Associated Press phone records resulting from an AP article in May 2012, characterized Fox News reporter James Rosen as a co-conspirator in an investigation of a leak of classified information.

We Love to Denounce Hate When It Is Politically Convenient

Earlier this week, President Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to withhold federal money from schools that fail to counter discrimination against Jews.Somehow the New York Times initially reported it as the administration changing Judaism from a religious category to a national identity, and somehow suggesting that Jews werent really American.

In Tablet, Liel Liebowitz offers a bracing, blunt, forceful rebuke to everyone who saw the executivev order as a menace to Americas Jews, but found nothing worth discussing in Jersey City this week:

Jews make up about 2 percent of the American population, yet were the victims of a whopping 57.8 percent of all religious bias crimes last year,according to the FBI. Rather than vocally and unequivocally demanding that their Jewish constituents be protected, the politicians representing those targetedfrom de Blasio to New York Sen. Chuck Schumerhave been largely silent on this issue, while at the same time loudly and vigorously accusing the right of racism. Videos likethis one, shot at the scene shortly after the Jersey City attack and featuring local neighbors blaming the Jews for Jews being murdered, are not likely to make any politician on the left take action, especially not someone like de Blasio, who has for years beenkissing the ringof Al Sharpton, an anti-Semite best remembered for inciting an actual pogrom against the Jews of Brooklyn.

Enough.

What American Jews need right now is clear and concrete action that protects them from anyone who wishes them harm. Whether you like it or not, the fact is that yesterday New Yorks senator and mayor took no such steps. The president did.

In related news, I notice Louis Farrakhan hasnt tweeted since July. But his account and tweets are still up there, with statements like, Jews want to silence my voice, and The FBI has been the worst enemy of Black advancement. The Jews have control over those agencies of government, and The Satanic Jews that control everything and mostly everybody: If they are your enemy, then you must be somebody. I guess Twitter just doesnt have much of a problem with comments like that.

To hell with the hateful and anti-Semitic on the Left, and to hell with the hateful and anti-Semitic on the Right. Really, hell is big enough for all of them.

ADDENDUM: You hear it from a lot of losing coaches with disappointing seasons: Injuries really hurt our chances this year, we just had really bad luck.

What are the odds that one head coach in the National Football League would have either the team with the most injuries or one of the teams with the most injuries . . . four years in a row? What are the odds that he could achieve this ignoble status after changing franchises? Can it be merely astonishingly bad luck for four consecutive years, or does it point to some sort of systemic problem in how the coach is doing his job? If youre a Jet fan, these are the sorts of things you look at instead of playoff scenarios.

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Some of the thinking out there is troubling – Ceres Courier

If you want to know why California has landed in the hands of far left liberals, look no farther than the thinking represented in a comment made on the Stanislaus County Districts Facebook page. The DA staff announced that Lester Portillo pled guilty in murdering a south Modesto store clerk for not selling him loosies, or single cigarettes.

A Facebook user named Leslie Silva went on a rant of lunacy on Friday when she posted this: Stanislaus County District Attorney & Local Government Representatives you hand out life sentences to youth of color, and the percentage of the prison population is exponentially more than any other race, you hand out those life sentences from the day they are born and have done so generation after generation. The history of Hispanic oppression is prominent to Central Valley but more prominent is the power of the people when we come together as one and when our rights come under attack, we stand up fight back. All children deserve better education, shelter, food, and environment they can thrive in but that is not the case in Stanislaus County.

Wait. Lester Portillo KILLED SOMEBODY! This is not about Hispanics rights coming under attack. This is about somebody who took away all rights of a 31-year-old victim in Jagjeet Singh, and who deserves far more than 25 years in prison.

I fully appreciated the response of Carlo Alfaro, who replied to Silva: Im a youth of color(Mexican nationality). I have yet to receive my life sentence and I was born 23 years ago. Military five years now as well. Youre delusional, choosing victimization and playing the race card. Dont tell me its any different from up here in Alameda County. You look past the fact that this guy killed somebody simply because hes hispanic? And that he had no prior record? HELLO! He still killed somebody. Dont forget to pray for yourself. Please dont have kids.

Dont think for a moment that folks with Leslie Silvas line of thinking voted for anybody but Gavin Newsom for governor. This is why California has no chance of curing what ails it liberalism.

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Theirs is a confusing message. I agree with Renee Leveque who suggested last week that it seems silly that the City Council wants to outlaw parking on grass when they seem to be drifting to allowing people to keep their trash cans in public view.

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Willie Nelson, who appeared in concert at The Fruit Yard northeast of Hughson earlier this year, made news last week when he announced he has given up marijuana smoking 65 years later.

He cited health reasons. He told a reporter: Ive mistreated myself since I was this big, as he motioned toward the ground.

I could never figure out why people extol the virtues of smoking pot when its not good for anyone to put any kind of smoke in the lungs. Its just common sense.

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Its astounding how, in this age of information overload, ill-informed the public can be.

Last week our Facebook post promoting the article, Council mulls controls on noise, junk vehicles, drew a comment that couldnt have been farther from the truth. One couple (Steve and Susan Gordo) wrote: Wow. Because government knows best. Meanwhile, how is being a Sanctuary City helping Ceres? This kind of invasion of property rights bothers me.

Besides a non-running car, up on blocks, in the front yard, is a icon of country-western heritage.

My point here is not that some people think it idyllic that a car on blocks is symbolic of country western heritage but to not how wrong they are about sanctuary city status of Ceres. Ceres is not nor ever has been a sanctuary city, I informed them. The reply was: Admittedly it was hearsay, but when I worked there in the late 2000s, I was given the impression it was. I am glad if it is not a Sanctuary City.

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The coast lines of the world have been eroding for time immoral. There have been floods galore, including the great flood of the Mississippi in 1927 and the Los Angeles flood of 1938 and every flood to hit North America before recorded time. Thereve been mudslides, earthquakes and fires since the dawn of the earth. Galveston, Texas was wiped away in the hurricane of 1900. A tornado destroyed Natchez, Mississippi on May 7, 1840, killing 317 and injuring 109.

And now state agencies like Caltrans expect us to swallow the swill of climate change. You do understand its because the Democrats control the state government and love all the controls and taxes that come with the climate change hoax, dont you?

I chuckled at a press release sent to us by Caltrans last week announcing As part of an effort to identify how climate change will have on Californias complex transportation system that millions rely on, Caltrans is conducting region-specific climate change vulnerability assessments for each of Caltrans 12 districts.

In the release, climate change Kool-Aid drinker and director Toks Omishakin said this: Too many Californians have already experienced the effects of climate change including fires, flooding and mudslides impacting all modes of travel, the erosion of coastal highways, and dead and dying trees falling near roadways.

So this state official appointed by Gov. Newsom thinks climate change is responsible for fires, floods and mudslides, the erosion of the coast line? In his mind it couldnt have been the discourse of the planet since God created it! Problems like fires and mudslides and eroding coast lines tend to be magnified the more human population encroaches into areas not previously populated. I mean, a coastal collapse in Santa Barbara in 1455 wouldnt have affected anyone for Highway 1 wasnt there at the time. Everyone knows the coast line erodes and to put a house right at itss edge is asking for trouble.

I think people are wising up to this constant drumbeat of climate change nonsense.

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If youve paid attention to the supreme arrogance of our governor, youve probably noticed how incredibly dismissive he is of questions from people who point out his hypocrisy.

Newsom suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome. He loathes the president. At his speech in Fresno last month, Newsom took swipes at Trump to antagonize the president by saying he wasnt hugged enough by his father enough. When asked if trading insults with Trump and his supporters I am among them is good for political discourse, Newsom waived them off with his typical hubris. You should ask him, Newsom said. I am just responding to these assaults.

Doesnt that sound like something your kid said when they continued a verbal fight?

When Trump called Newsom on his radically environmental-motivated lack of forest maintenance, Newsom was equally dismissive, saying, You dont believe in climate change. You are excused from this conversation.

So with a sweep of his hand, Newsom ignores that his environmental worship has led to failure to clean up forest floors to avoid future fire. He doesnt care.

Newsom said Trumps childishness is legendary.

I say look in the mirror.

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I wish I had something to Jerry Nadler when I came face to face with him in Memphis in September. He happened to stroll by me and I recognized the congressman who is trying to conduct a coup against Trump.

I read last week that the Democrat congressman privately told others that Im not going to take any s---. I wish now that I would have told Nadler he is full of s--- for making up charges for impeachment.

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We can finally take a collective sigh of relief now that Kamala Harris is no longer a candidate for president. It was a disastrous candidacy, one in which she suggested all private health insurance needs to go the way of the dinosaur.

Unfortunately we have to endure as she takes her progressive brand of political ideology to represent us in the U.S. Senate.

Its shameful that the Al Sharpton types bemoaned the fact that all white candidates were to be in the next debate.

She engaged in divisive rhetoric, claiming to side with the poor blacks in her native Oakland all while living in the celebrity enclave of Brentwood. Talk about a hypocritical situation.

Harris indeed none of the Democrats had a compelling message. Its the same old class and race warfare bit. In January when actor Jussie Smollett said he was assaulted in Chicago by MAGA wearing Trump supporters, Harris (in Obama style) rushed without fact to condemn the attack an attempted modern-day lynching. When Smollett was caught staging the attack to get sympathy and publicity, a clueless Harris fumbled for 20 seconds on camera, looking to staffers, before faking this: the facts are still unfolding and, um, Im very, uh, concerned.

The truth is, Trump is more popular today with blacks than other presidents probably because blacks are faring much better under Trump than Obama.

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Is the Speaker of the House totally bonkers? Nancy lost it big time last week when a reporter asked if the impeachment effort against Trump was driven by hate. Its a fair question given the Democrats have yet to produce any evidence whatsoever that our president broke any laws and were talking impeachment before he even took the oath of office on Jan. 20, 2017. Flustered, she took on the demeanor of a senile old schoolmarm lecturing a student about how her House members dont hate anybody in the world. She does a darn good imitation of it though and went on to call Trump a coward when it comes to helping our kids who are afraid of gun violence. I think he is cruel when he doesnt deal with helping our Dreamers of which we are very proud. I think he is in denial about the climate crisis. As she unraveled, realizing those were political issues having nothing to do with impeachment, Crazy Nancy said the impeachment was about the Constitution.

Ill say there is a constitutional crisis but not in the way she seems to think. She is thwarting the Constitution. The real assault to our democracy is lawmakers like Pelosi who brush aside facts to stay laser-focused on a partisan removal of a president because they dont like his politics or his tweets. If anybody needs to be impeached it is the corrupt Democrat Party leadership in the House of Representatives.

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In April Speaker Pelosi said that a glass of water with a letter D next to it would win an election in a safe congressional district like the one represented by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She is being opposed by a number of Republicans. Safe bet is she gets re-elected in New Yorks 14th Congressional District since there are 214,750 registered Democratic voters in the district and only 110,000 registered Republicans.

So when actor Rob Schneider read a Tweet made by Ayaan Hirsi Ali about the Lefts ignorance of Stalins tyranny, he responded with: Unfortunately, people in California would vote for a bowl of s*** if it had D next to it.

Sad but true.

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The Uber safety report is out. While most rides go off safely, the report should give pause for anyone climbing in a private car driven by an Uber, or Lyft driver.

During the years 2017 and 2018, Uber rides experienced 5,981 reports of sexual assault lodged against them, and of those, 464 were rape allegations.

The report showed that about 92 percent of the victims of rape were riders and about seven percent of the victims were drivers. Women and female-identifying individuals made up 89 percent of the victims with men and male-identifying individuals comprising about 8 percent of victims.

Just be careful out there.

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If youre curious about what were getting for the money we spend on education, look no further than recently interviewed university students who thought President Trump was worse than Adolf Hitler, didnt recognize Joseph Stalin, and ranked Mark Zuckerberg as better than Jesus.

The college in question of course is one in California Cal State Northridge. Without providing names, Will Witt showed students pictures of Barack Obama, Jesus, Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Hillary Clinton, Ronald Reagan, and Mark Zuckerberg, and asked the undergrads to rank them from worst to best.

A number of students presented didnt recognize Joseph Stalin, the major 20th-century figure and Soviet leader who murdered approximately 20 million people.

One black student freely admitted that he ranked Obama highly because he was a black president and then said, black power. When asked What was your favorite thing about Obama? the student replied, Being black.

The same black student and the female student at5 his side agreed that Trump was worse than Hitler and when asked why the young man said that Trump was childish while the young lady stated that the president wanted to eliminate food stamps. When questioned about whether that trimming government expenses were worse than killing six million Jews, the young lady said, he (Hitler) did that?

And you wonder why we get the elected officials we get in California?

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The CBS headline left me scratching my head: California becomes first state to ban discrimination against natural hair.

What was this about? There he was, Gov. Newsom signing another piece of earth-shakering legislation with that silly grin on his face.

The first paragraph: A new law signed Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom makes California the first state to ban discrimination against black students and employees over their natural hairstyles. The authors of this new law say women with kinky and curly hair are sometimes subject to unequal treatment, and can even be viewed as inferior.

Specifically the legislation was based on Chastity Jones who fought a lawsuit for 10 years when her employer took back a job offer at an Alabama call center because Jones refused to cut her hair. She had dreadlocks and wouldnt cut them off.

Its news to me that dreadlocks are natural. Dreadlocks take a lot of work.Dreadlocks also dont look professional, thats why some companies ban them.

By the way, author of the bill state Sen. Holly Mitchell wears tiny strands of dreadlocks in her hair and my first reaction seeing them was they look like earthworms dangling about her head. Not cute.

My own daughter-in-law years before she married my son was hired from McDonalds because she dyed her hair pink. She didnt sue.

Newsom signed the bill, saying: Theres a human element to this. We dont want to diminish people, we dont want to demean people We have to own up to the sins of the past.

What sins of the past is he referring to? Slavery? This issue of dreadlocks has nothing to do with race. I bet all the sloven employees who come to work wearing Phyllis Diller style just-got-up-in-the-morning hair are beaming that they are now protected from being fired.

So now that California and New York bastions of liberalism have passed the CROWN (Creating a Respectful and Open Workplace) Act, maybe Newsom will pass a law saying people can show up to professional offices in pajamas and torn jeans.

Maybe Newsom can do something worthwhile like a statewide ban on homeless people crapping or urinating on the sidewalks and in our parks. Or maybe lowering taxes since hes sitting on a huge surplus. Or maybe get to the business of lowering construction costs.

This column is the opinion of Jeff Benziger, and does not necessarily represent the opinion of The Ceres Courier or Morris Newspaper Corp. of CA. How do you feel about this? Let Jeff know at jeffb@cerescourier.com

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Al Sharpton: The Left’s Street Boss is Back in the News – Capital Research Center

Al Sharpton and his troubled relationship with money was recently in the news again. Last month, the New York Post reported on the reluctance of New York authorities to investigate suspicious financial behavior at his nonprofitthe National Action Networkthat pays him $1 million annually.

According to the Post:

There are certain things that are universally true in New York: the sun rises in the east, it sets in the west, the subway is late and no one wants to pick a fight with Al Sharpton, said one top Democratic insider. Wheres the political benefit to doing it?

Similarly, BizPac Review poked around and revealed that a $1 million salary is roughly triple the going rate for somebody running a nonprofit the size of the National Action Network.

These issues and more are covered in the extensive Influence Watch profile of Al Sharpton.

For example, there is the little-reported matter of him being an informant for the FBI against New York mafia crime family members. The potentially less than honorable reasons for that were covered in a recent CRC magazine profile of Sharpton: The Lefts Street Boss.

Learn more about Al Sharpton and other influencers at Influence Watch.

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Al Sharpton: Kamala Treated Badly Held to Higher Standard Because She Is a Black Woman – Breitbart

On Tuesdays broadcast of MSNBCs Deadline, network host Al Sharptonargued Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) had to drop out of the 2020 presidential campaign in part because of racism and sexism.

Sharptonsaid, First of all, I think that she ran a great race. I think that she is a great candidate.

He continued, But she is dealing with an environment where you have for the first time, that you have these kind of rules that are different.

Host Nicolle Wallace asked, What rules?

Sharpton said, Certain amount of money, certain amount of polling to be in the debates. And when you have a Tom Steyer who is fine, raised great issues, but this woman is a U.S. senator, was attorney general of the state and was a district attorney. Steyer could come in and buy commercials and up his polling. And I think that the real problem the Democrats are going to have is the next debate, you have no black on that stage. The Democratic Party cannot have a stage where black voters do not see themselves reflected.

He continued, Where they dont see themselves reflected and expect that well come out and vote in big numbers. You must have had black turnout, but we dont turn up in the debate? There is something that is wrong with that, and some of us are not going yo be quiet about it.

Wallace asked if Sharpton believed Harris was treated badly by the press?

Sharpton said, I think she was definitely treated badly by the press. Ive never seen a candidate taken apart the way she was in the last several days. Yes, there are organizational problems. Yes, there were financial problems. You have people on that debate stage with no organization at all, and the press is not writing about it.

He continued, I think again a lot of assessment has to be made how the media dealt with it, we have to look at the rules.

He added, What are you going to say to black voters when they look at that stage, and nobody like them is there? The Democratic Party will have to look at that and deal with that because that is a problem.

Wallace asked, I worked for Sarah Palin. I carefully watched and covered the campaign of Hillary Clinton. I do think that women are still held to different standards as candidates. They have to have a well-run campaign, never mind that Donald Trump didnt have a campaign. He literally flew around with Hope ironing his pants. They have to be perfect on the stump, which I never saw her stumble. Joe Biden is beloved, and he is never perfect on the stump. I think there is a gender piece here that we still suck at talking about.

Sharpton said, Youre right.

He added, Women are held to a different standard, and black women especially are held to a different standard.

Wallace said, And black women though, by the way, voted for Trump in the lowest numbers. So they can say that they told us so.

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Sharpton: House Democrats Proceeding with Impeachment ‘Not Partisan, It’s Patriotic’ | News and Politics – PJ Media

WASHINGTON Civil Rights Activist Rev. Al Sharpton said that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats proceeding with impeachment is "not partisan, it's patriotic."

"I think that they've done the right thing moving forward. I think the evidence is there and I think that they've made a clear case," Sharpton said before the Urban One Honors, hosted by Radio One, where he received a leadership award on Thursday evening.

When it comes to a trial taking place in the Senate, Sharpton said that "the question is are they party first or are they patriots first? Are they going to stand up for what's right for the country? Can you set a precedent where a sitting president will use congressionally approved funds to ask a foreign government to interfere in our election by smearing his potential opponent? That's what's on trial here."

Sharpton, host of PoliticsNation on MSNBC, was also asked for his opinion of "cancel culture."

"I believe that we need to not cancel anybody. I think everybody has a place. Everybody ought to celebrate who they are -- that's what we're here about tonight. We shouldn't have to conform to anything and anybody and feel that we're going to be canceled out," he said. "We need to move the boundaries no matter who and what we are -- that's what God made us to be, we ought to celebrate that."

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