A presidential candidate's authenticity seems like something voters might like to have confirmed. The same holds true for her competence and basic respect for her audience. Unfortunately, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre disagrees. At a White House press briefing on Tuesday, Jean-Pierre -- commonly known as KJP -- refused...

Legendary beer brand Molson Coors became the latest company to scrap diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. “Last week I messaged executives from @CoorsLight @MolsonCoors to let them know that I planned to expose their woke policies. Today they’re preemptively making changes,” Robby Starbuck announced. Per Robby Starbuck: Here are the changes: • Ending participation in the @HRC’s woke Corporate Equality Index social credit system. • No more DEI based training programs. • No more donations to divisive events. • Ending ERG groups in favor of BRG groups open to all employees, no longer designed to focus on race or sexual orientation. • No more supplier diversity goals. • No more executive/employee compensation tied to DEI hiring goals. This statement went out to employees just now. Our campaigns are so effective that we’re getting multi-billion dollar organizations to change their policies without me even posting just from the fear they have of being the next company that we expose. The landscape of corporate America is quickly shifting to sanity and neutrality. We are now the trend, not the anomaly. Big news: Last week I messaged executives from @CoorsLight @MolsonCoors to let them know that I planned to expose their woke policies. Today they’re preemptively making changes. Here are the changes: • Ending participation in the @HRC’s woke Corporate Equality Index social… pic.twitter.com/RuOVb1IuNU — Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) September 3, 2024 Fox Business reports: In the letter, provided to FOX Business from Coors, the company’s executives said its human resources team began making plans in March to broaden the view of its DEI polices to ensure all “employees know they are welcome.” The company did not comment beyond the contents of the letter. The Coors Light maker said it is doing away with DEI trainings now that every employee has completed them, scrapping its defined supplier diversity goals, and starting next year, executives’ compensation will solely be tied to business performance and will no longer include “aspirational representation goals.” Molson Coors is also ending its participation in the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index, an annual survey and report used to gauge “policies, practices and benefits pertinent to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) employees” by the Human Rights Campaign, which is one of the largest and most progressive nonprofits in the country. “So far you’ve helped me change corporate policy at Tractor Supply, John Deere, Harley Davidson, Polaris, Indian Motorcycle, Lowe’s, Ford and now Coors. We are a force to be reckoned with and we won’t stop until wokeness is extinct,” Starbuck wrote. Molson Coors, the maker of Coors Light and Miller beers, is the latest company to pull some of its diversity policies and initiatives. https://t.co/HVvpLDR8kf — WSJ Business News (@WSJbusiness) September 3, 2024 BARREL OF REGRETS: The American beer giant is doing away with DEI training, scrapping its defined supplier diversity goals and more. https://t.co/vTkqobt6FI pic.twitter.com/hpEXx2bVeL — Fox News (@FoxNews) September 4, 2024 Per National Review: Starbuck shared the internal email in a video on Tuesday, noting that there will be no more DEI-based training programs, no more charitable donations to divisive events, and no more DEI hiring goals dictating compensation for executives and employees at Molson Coors. Instead, the company will prioritize the well-being of all employees and contribute to charities geared toward certain areas such as alcohol responsibility and disaster-relief efforts. Corporate America’s adherence to DEI came to the forefront last year when conservatives began boycotting Anheuser-Busch’s Bud Light in response to the beer brand’s social-media partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, a biological male who identifies as female. The boycott significantly impacted Bud Light’s image and sales, prompting company leaders to win back conservatives through targeted sponsorships and advertisement campaigns with celebrities.

The Democrat-led California State Legislature rejected a bill to eliminate taxes on tipped-income for state income taxes. Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have expressed support for the policy on a federal level. Perhaps California Democrats provided a preview of a Harris administration? “It is deeply disappointing that the legislature chose not to consider a proposal that could have provided much-needed relief to California’s workers,” Republican State Sen. Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh said, according to Fox News. California Dems STRIKE DOWN GOP proposal to exempt tax on tipshttps://t.co/OArCs6ezWZ — The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) September 3, 2024 Per Fox News: Ochoa Bogh introduced the amendment in California’s Senate on Thursday that would have exempted service industry workers with a state tax exemption on tips, but the proposal was voted down on a mostly party line vote without discussion or debate by the Democratic majority. “With Californians facing one of the highest costs of living in the nation, our service and hospitality industry employees are particularly burdened by a tax system that leaves them struggling to make ends meet,” Ochoa Bogh said. “They deserve better, and today’s decision is a missed opportunity to support those who need it most.” The attempt to exempt tips from taxes in the state comes as both Trump and Harris have expressed support for federal tax legislation that would exempt tipped-income on the campaign trail. Trump was the first to champion the proposal during a June rally in Nevada, while Harris, who started her political career in California, echoed a similar sentiment during an August rally in Las Vegas. Kamala: um… yeah no tax on tips! Yeah! Meanwhile her party in California votes it down: https://t.co/9J2irCAwrg — Ethan Nicolle (@AXECOP) September 3, 2024 NO TAX ON TIPS shot down by California Democrats! pic.twitter.com/RnOdfz1ckR — Publius (@OcrazioCornPop) September 1, 2024 Daily Caller reports: Since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris has faced major pushback from Republicans over her policies, as she’s flip-flopped on far-left stances she campaigned on in 2020. As of Monday, her campaign has yet to release a full policy platform on her website. “The negligence involved in a refusal to even debate a policy issue of this magnitude cannot be overstated,” said Senate Minority Leader Brian W. Jones. “Legislative Democrats knew they were on the wrong side of this important issue, so they chose to sweep it under the rug rather than do the right thing for working Californians. The push to eliminate the federal tip tax has made its way to the campaign stage for both major party’s this year, yet California Democrat politicians don’t believe it be even worthy to discuss at the state level for residents here.”

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We may not know enough to say the Secret Service knew President Trump would be shot on July 13th, but we have enough information to say there was willful gross negligence by the Secret Service, and no one has been fired or gone to prison for it. The cover-up has been blatant and extensive, from […] The post The Willful Gross Negligence in the Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

From the beginning of our country until now, we have always fought the enemies of freedom. From beginning to end, the new movie “Reagan” chronicles Ronald Reagan’s fight with communism, the archenemy of freedom. American audiences have given this movie a 98% approval rating and standing ovations. How then is it possible that almost half […] The post Freedom and the Reagan Movie appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

The New York Times has turned victim-blaming and gaslighting into an art form, using Gold Star families who lost loved ones at Abbey Gate as a cudgel to attack former President Donald Trump — all the while pretending that Trump was using them to attack Vice President Kamala Harris. On August 26th, a confrontation allegedly occurred between a member of Trump’s entourage and a staffer at Arlington National Cemetery. Trump was invited to attend a wreath-laying ceremony at the cemetery by the families of servicemen who lost their lives during the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal. The staffer alleged that a member of Trump’s campaign team, upon being told that they could not photograph the ceremony, had verbally abused and physically “pushed the official aside.” Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. Trump’s campaign denies that there was a physical altercation, and says that the families who invited the president approved of the photographer’s presence. Arlington National Cemetery confirmed that there “was an incident, and a report was filed” but did not release video or any further details “to protect the identity of the individual involved.” Still, the media ran with the story, calling it “outrageous” and “offensive” and accusing Trump of using the Gold Star families as props to further his 2024 presidential campaign. The New York Times alone ran half a dozen stories, all attacking Trump: Trump Team Clashed With Official at Arlington National Cemetery: The military cemetery said in a statement that federal law prohibits political campaigning on the grounds, and that “there was an incident, and a report was filed.” Trump Videos at Arlington Stir More Fallout After Gravesite Visit: The family of a Green Beret buried there expressed concern about videos and photos taken by his grave. And a cemetery employee declined to press charges after an altercation with the Trump team, fearing retribution. Trump Aide ‘Abruptly Pushed Aside’ an Arlington Cemetery Official, the Army Says: The statement from the Army is the first detailed description of an altercation that took place on Monday, as Mr. Trump appeared for a wreath-laying ceremony. At Arlington, Trump Returns to the Politics of the ‘Forever Wars’: The 2024 presidential race is the first in 24 years without a major American ground war, but Donald J. Trump continues to stoke division over the post-9/11 conflicts that helped give rise to his movement. Others Have Politicized Arlington, but Trump’s Approach Has No Precedent: Donald J. Trump isn’t the first candidate to run afoul of the ban on partisan activity in Arlington National Cemetery. But no one else has responded as hostilely as his campaign has. After nearly a full week of attacks on Trump — including a lengthy statement from Harris — Gold Star family members themselves posted a series of video statements defending Trump, and arguing that Biden and Harris were the reason they had to visit Arlington in the first place. The Trump campaign shared those videos prompting yet another headline from the Times on Sunday, not acknowledging the Gold Star families’ support for Trump, but accusing the former president of using the families of the fallen to wage political attacks against Harris. “Trump Campaign Uses Statements From Gold Star Families to Attack Harris: It was the latest effort by the Trump campaign to defend itself after the campaign defied a ban on political campaigning at Arlington National Cemetery.” If one were to judge solely by the coverage, The New York Times appears to believe that the controversy began with Trump’s visit to Arlington National Cemetery, the three-year anniversary of the suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport that claimed the lives of 13 American service members. But in reality, the scene was set just over three years prior when President Joe Biden — along with Kamala “Last Person In The Room” Harris — condemned the United States military to certain failure by refusing to allow his generals enough troops to safely maintain Bagram Air Base. Every bit of the chaos that followed could be traced back to that one moment, that one decision for which Harris at the time gleefully took credit. In the years that followed, the families of those lost and injured on that day have received naught but lip service from the Biden-Harris administration. Biden showed up, solo, for the dignified transfer ceremony when the bodies of the 13 killed were returned to American soil. But even then, he was clearly disengaged — checking his watch as the families of the fallen each awaited their own worst nightmare: a flag-draped box in place of their son, daughter, husband, or wife. When Biden did speak to them, he referenced his son Beau Biden — a veteran who died of brain cancer years after returning home from deployment — and claimed a share of their pain. And that was it. There were no memorials. There were no phone calls. And making things exponentially worse, the Biden-Harris administration insisted on casting the entire operation as an unqualified “success.” Meanwhile, Trump hosted the families at his Bedminster Golf Club in New Jersey, spending hours with them and promising to hold accountable the people who planned the operation that left their loved ones dead. It should not come as a shock to the media or the Harris campaign that a number of Gold Star families invited Trump to the wreath-laying ceremony, nor that the president found himself in Section 60 – where casualties from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are buried. Trump did not duck out after a quick photo op, but instead went where the families went to honor their loved ones. While Biden checked his watch on the tarmac and made every subsequent interaction about himself and his son — and Harris could not be bothered to even pick up a phone — Trump met the families where they were. The families recognized that. And The New York Times still saw fit to twist their words into political weapons. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI

A federal judge on Tuesday denied an effort by former President Donald Trump to move his New York criminal case to federal court ahead of sentencing later this month.  In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said that he had no authority to review any errors made during the state trial and that the Supreme Court’s recent decision on presidential immunity did not impact the New York case. Trump was convicted in May of 34 counts of falsifying business records and is scheduled to be sentenced on September 18.  “This court does not have jurisdiction to hear Mr. Trump’s arguments concerning the propriety of the New York trial,” Hellerstein, a Bill Clinton appointee, wrote. “Instead, the proper recourse for parties seeking to remedy alleged errors made during a state trial is to pursue a state appeal or, at the highest level, to seek review from the Supreme Court of the United States.”  The decision comes after lawyers for Trump argued last week the case should be removed from Judge Juan Merchan as Trump seeks dismissal based on the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that presidents have immunity for exercising core constitutional powers.  Hellerstein, who previously rejected an attempt to remove the case, said the Supreme Court’s decision doesn’t change his decision.  “My holding of a hush money reimbursement remains true regardless of who has the burden, whether the People or Mr. Trump,” he said. “Nothing in the Supreme Court’s opinion affects my previous conclusion that the hush money payments were private, unofficial acts, outside the bounds of executive authority.”  Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said he would continue fighting to move the case.  “There should be no sentencing in this Election Interference Witch Hunt. As mandated by the United States Supreme Court, this case, along with all of the other Harris-Biden Hoaxes, should be dismissed,” he said. “President Trump and his legal team will continue to fight to move this Hoax into federal court where it should be put out of its misery once and for all.” Merchan has placed a gag order on Trump restricting what he can say about the case. In a Truth Social post Wednesday morning, Trump called for the order to be removed.  “I am proud to represent our Failing Nation in fighting the GREATEST POLITICAL WITCH HUNT IN HISTORY,” he said. “REMOVE THE GAG ORDER SO THAT I CAN SHOW HOW CORRUPT OUR COURT SYSTEM IS. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES ARE NOT TO BE GAGGED!” Trump could face four years in prison and a $5,000 fine for each of the 34 convictions when sentenced. Merchan is set to rule on another motion to dismiss the conviction on September 16.