Human Trafficking Targeted - and Defended - as Super Bowl Approaches [TDT: 02.06]
Also: Remembering who Putin is, Haley's folly (or not), the EU destroying itself, plus much more!
It is that time of year again, folks - Super Bowl weekend, when gatherings are held, alcohol is consumed… and human trafficking spikes exponentially...
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Headline bullets from the week that was…
As Super Bowl approaches, nonprofit and Metro unite against human trafficking
Las Vegas Sun
It is that time of year again, folks - Super Bowl weekend, when gatherings are held, alcohol is consumed… and human trafficking spikes exponentially in the game's host city. Of course, since Las Vegas is already a haven for all manner of vile activities, the focus on fighting it is even sharper this year.
Except - inexplicably - the (apparently) pro-human trafficking forces are also out in force, and ramping up the “But it is all a myth,” propaganda. Such as this. And this. Also this. Oh, let us not forget Reason Magazine, a once-intelligent publication which has now become a bastion of ignorance and absurdity.
The excuse they use for the attacks on groups fighting trafficking is ‘protecting consensual sex-workers’ from legal ‘hysteria,’ but that is a smoke-screen; the focus of the valiant efforts to curtail these activities has always been about rescuing involuntary sex workers (a.k.a. ‘slaves’) and children.
You know, sex-trafficked children!
That is all that matters to me; the rest is just noise, to justify the unjustifiable - to defend the indefensible…
The Supreme Court seems poised to reject efforts to kick Trump off the ballot over the Capitol riot
AP News
On Thursday the Supreme Court justices really laid into the attorneys representing those trying to remove President Donald Trump from the ballot; even most of the ‘liberal’ members, especially Justice Elana Kagen, dug in their heels and asked sharp questions.
While it is nearly impossible to get a read on the current court ahead of arguments, I think most of us suspected this would be a slam-dunk in favor of Trump. The court is expected to expedite their decision, and this will probably go 8-1 (with Justice Sonia Sotomayor being the only dissenter), though some are predicting it could possibly go 9-0.
Every effort they make to destroy Trump… collapses. And the more shady machinations they deploy, the stronger he gets; they are so blinded by their hatred they see not what they are doing… to themselves.
Speaking of ‘shady machinations’…
Nikki Haley loses to ‘none of these candidates’ option in Nevada primary
Washington Examiner [via MSM]
She was basically defeated by ‘None Of The Above’… yet she stays in the race. Why?
Look, this is not a stupid woman; she knows there is no shot of Republican voters turning her way. Furthermore, she is - like most politicians - not a humble individual; she has her pride, and staying in after losing to literally no one would normally subdue even the most egregious of egotists. Yet, she carries on.
Again… why?
Allow me to don my stylish-yet-functional ‘speculative’ hat, fashioned from the finest tin-foil available. From where I stand, the only ‘why’ that makes sense is because the Elites are telling her to stay in, that she needs to because they already know that something is coming where she will be required to assume the candidacy.
What that is, I cannot (or, WILL not) predict… but I have a very bad feeling about this. I hope to hell I am wrong, folks, but if there are games afoot in D.C.? It never works out well for us simple commoners - nor for those who support us…
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