By Olivia Pierson
First published on Insight@theBFD 10/09/2020

It is cringeworthy to watch the world media slobber every time Jacinda Ardern lifts her little finger. But they did exactly the same thing when former-President Obama was in office. The world’s Main Stream Media gave both leaders sainted status, which ought to be no surprise considering that both Obama and Ardern hold an almost identical ideology, which most of the MSM also hold.
 
That ideology is communism – and like all serious communist activists, they cloak themselves in the disguise of being mild and non-threatening socialists.  Effectively what you have then is nothing less than wolves who govern in the clothing of sheep; they’re cunning, disingenuous and profoundly impression-management conscious, taking great care to flash phoney smiles when they talk, smiles which are often incongruent with the seriousness of the topics under discussion. They’re trained to master keeping their tone “nice” and “upbeat,” all the while decidedly reshaping the world after their horribly anti-Western agendas.

It was the philosopher-novelist Ayn Rand who made the point that socialism is the close cousin of communism. She wrote:
 
“There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism—by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.”

Obama’s speciality was to stoke the fires of racial disharmony in his own country. It could have been so great if he, as the first Black American President, could’ve exhibited the character development not to have done this. 

But alas, he never missed an opportunity to make highly public statements on black boys or black men who had been killed by a cop or a white man – even if the cop or white man happened to be acting in self defense. 

Knowing that America leans toward extreme sensitivity over the issue of race, a wiser president would’ve made the point over and over that skin colour has no bearing on anything and as an issue, is nothing if not bloody passé.  While indulging gratuitously in his brand of racial hyperbole, it cannot be ignored that Obama accomplished next to nothing when it came to actually improving the lives of African Americans during his 8-year presidency. 

In the wake of Black Lives Matter activism reaching an emboldened fever-pitch, this fact has come back to haunt Obama’s legacy in spades, as untold black people now cross camps into the Republican party and proudly plan on voting Trump in record numbers this November.

This is because Trump didn’t rely on talking-up his desire to help the black community, he went and acted for them by introducing comprehensive prison reform – the First Step Act (leniency for minor, first-time offences) and official pardons for gross injustices such as in the case of Alice Johnson. He also eliminated the practice of women giving birth inside prisons while chained to a hospital bed – many of whom were black women – unbelievably, Obama decided to look the other way on this one.

The best thing Trump has done for the black community, so far, was to champion school choice for low-income families, giving them access to scholarships and generous tax credits to be able to send their kids to a private school of their own choosing instead of having to suffer their kids attending the crap government school around the corner. 

Also in education, Trump restored funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs); traditional and respected institutes of higher learning for the black community since the end of slavery in the 19th Century.  Obama allowed for their funding to expire.
 
The second best thing Trump did for the national black community was overhauling the tax system and providing Opportunity Zones in underprivileged neighbourhoods resulting in $75 billion worth of investments and mentorship programmes.

Black conservative activist Candace Owens has been mega-phone vocal in her support of Trump and made the point often that the Democrat Party, as it did during the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, still fights to keep American blacks controlled “on the plantation.”

But the most amusing and surprising person to have watched be red-pilled regarding the black community is Leo Terrell.  A civil rights attorney and a staunch Democrat whose hatred for Trump was palpable, suddenly did an about turn this year and has become the most passionate Trump supporter.  The reason for this is simple – he was paying attention after the high profile death of George Floyd when the protesting turned into rioting, looting and violence spreading all over American cities while the Democrats took great pains to not condemn the violence which overwhelmingly harmed black Americans, especially with their ludicrous call to defund the police.

In a heated exchange back in June on Fox News show Hannity, Terrell calls far-Left black activist Cornell West, “a dinosaur,” and West appallingly calls Terrell, “negro.”
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In this coming election, Trump is hoping to win a significant percentage of the black voting electorate, in comparison to the modest 8 per cent he won back in 2016.

To this very day, Obama, who has gracelessly not observed the gentlemanly presidential tradition of not making public criticisms of the incumbent president,  continues his well-rehearsed, racist rhetoric, but can never compete in reality with Trump’s tangible, active achievements in support of black America.
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By Olivia Pierson

A staggeringly ill-informed, yet rather telling op-ed was published on Stuff this week by Virginia Fallon titled “Sometimes Politics Should Trump Friendships.”

Fallon admits to not knowing any President Trump supporters in this country bar one, a friend of hers whom she describes as “funny and intelligent” rather than a “MAGA-hat wearing, mouth breathing simpleton.” 

Since finding out that her friend supports what Fallon touts as Trump’s “disregard for black lives,” their 30-year friendship is now over.  

So much for the intellectual tolerance of the Left, but we’ve come to not expect this from them anymore.  

As someone who closely follows American politics every day, I am constantly floored by how woefully ignorant Kiwis remain about the topic.  If the folks of NZ digest news from America via our MSM: print, TV and online outlets such as the NZ Herald, Newshub, the Dom Post and Stuff(ed), their ignorance is understandable, though not forgivable. Though we live in an information age, the sad fact remains that Kiwis have become so politically brain-dead from a diet of spoon-fed “news” borrowed from very selective sources, they have absolutely no idea what is going on in the land of the brave and the home of the free. 

Take this black lives mattering business for instance: it is a fact that President Trump has done more in just four years of his first term in office to help and assist black lives than former-President Obama did in the entire eight years of his presidency.
 
This is why Black Americans are crossing from the Democrat Party into the GOP in droves - and that’s not just hyperbole.

The prison reform of the First Step Act which President Trump saw enacted was a second chance for first time offenders, who were caught doing a crime not because they were violent, hardened criminals, but because they were utterly desperate and opted for actions outside of the law.  Alice Johnson has become the poster-great-grandma for First Step after her sentence was commuted by President Trump and she recently received a full pardon. 

Johnson, a mother of five children, worked for FedEx for ten years, suffered from a gambling addiction and lost her job.  Divorce followed and then the loss of her son in a motorcycle accident.  She went bankrupt and lost her family home. 

Johnson then became involved in a drug-trafficking ring based in Memphis, was arrested as a first-time, non-violent felon and received a lifetime sentence without parole in 1997.  She served 21 years of her sentence as a model prisoner in correctional facilities hundreds of miles away from her large family. 

Her case was put before Obama as part of his 2014 clemency project but was denied. It was Kim Kardashian who picked up Alice’s case to try to get her a pardon in 2018 and was successful.
 
Johnson is now a free-woman - and a formidable one at that. 

The disgusting practice of pregnant women giving birth in prisons while chained to their beds continued in 40 states throughout Obama’s presidency.  It was President Trump who banned this astonishingly medieval form of restraint in all federal prisons as part of the First Step prison reform. 

Black Americans are fleeing into the Republican camp - and the only reason for that is Trump. Many voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012, and then also for Hillary Clinton in 2016.  But their lives never improved, until Trump’s presidency.  

Their reasons are diverse: from the record low black unemployment rate that Trump achieved for them with the aid of tax-cuts, new manufacturing and Opportunity Zones, to lower medication prescription costs for their family members.  There’s also the school choice education reform which gives generous tax-credits to low-income families so they can afford private schooling for their kids. 

But the most recent issue causing Black Americans to cross party lines is the overwhelming Black Lives Matter violence.  

The more that Democrats embrace and submit to this Marxist hate group, who loudly rant about defunding the police, the more terrified black people now feel in their own neighbourhoods.  If the police really were to be defunded across the country, they know black-on-black violence would escalate through the roof - and that’s something Democrat leadership never openly addresses, and neither does the NZ media.  

So perhaps Virginia Fallon’s recently ditched old friend, whom Fallon wrote was “a woman who spent her younger years railing against injustice; a woman who marched for human rights issues,”  still does care deeply about those causes and has the wherewithal to recognise they will be monumentally abused if the Democrats win the election.

Many Trump supporters are a far-cry away from being the “mouth breathing simpletons” that Fallon wishes they were.  Most of them are just better informed than Fallon about what has happened to America under decades and decades of swampy Democrat and Rino leadership.  

Judging by her uncultivated, bogan-esque personal image littered with in-your-face tattoos, perhaps with her great knack for coming down on the ignoramus’ side of history Fallon could write some gripping anti-Trump articles as an activist-at-large for BLM with special emphasis on the next chapter of a Seattleite, police-free CHOP zone.  I mean, there were only 65 reported offences inside CHOP between June 8th and June 30th, including aggravated assault, larceny-theft, rape, and two homicides of black men committed by other black men.  I wonder why NZ journalists don’t cover the reality of BLM with any veracity?  

Personally, I think Fallon may have just ditched a longstanding friend whom she could actually learn a lot from - and help make her a better writer by filling in some of her conspicuous knowledge-gaps.