SILENCE IS CONSENT: Not One Democrat Condemns Vicious Attacks on RNC Attendees Including Assaults on Lawmakers, a Sitting Senator and a Wounded Warrior

President Trump spoke out against violence, looting and anarchy by the violent left during his RNC speech tonight.

Then immediately following his speech the left swarmed, harassed and attacked Trump supporters leaving the speech to their get to their cars.

Thousands of violent leftists filled the streets and attacked RNC attendees.

Once again Washington DC Mayor Bowser did not condemn the violence in her city on Friday.

She did lash out at Mitch McConnell.

Not one Democrat condemned the attacks on Senator Rand Paul and HIS WIFE, Republican women, gay Republicans, State Rep. Vernon Jones and disabled veteran and Rep. Brian Mast.

Not one Democrat condemned this.

Their silence gives consent.

In fact, according to Lou Dobbs, NOT ONE Democrat spoke out against the mass violence and attacks on Republicans following the president’s speech in Washington DC.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/pure-evil-not-one-democrat-condemns-vicious-attacks-rnc-attendees-including-assaults-lawmakers-sitting-senator-wounded-warrior/

After Buying DirecTV For $50 Billion In 2015, AT&T Now Seeks To Sell It For Under $20 Billion

How do you destroy $30 billion in value in just five years? If you are AT&T, you buy DirecTV in 2015 for $50 billion and five years later you try to sell it - now renamed to AT&TTV - for less than $20 billion, a loss of 60% on the deal.

That, according to the Wall Street Journal is what AT&T hopes to do as it takes "a fresh look its DirecTV business" exploring a deal for a service wounded by cord-cutting. And by fresh look, the journal means sell.

When AT&T announced plans to acquire DirecTV in May 2014, the vision was to control some 26 million TV subscribers. However, the resulting slump in cable and satellite viewership due to the relentless encroachment of streaming services, the value of DirecTV has seen a sharp drop in recent years and the result is yet another catastrophic media deal. And since the pay-TV unit has shed 7 million U.S. video connections over the past two years, a deal could value the business below $20 billion, the WSJ sources said.

The purchase of DirecTV briefly made AT&T the biggest U.S. pay-TV provider, but as satellite customers canceled, that title was later ceded to Comcast. In 2018, a roughly $80 billion takeover of Time Warner added HBO, the Warner Bros. film studio and cable channels like CNN to AT&T's portfolio.

AT&T hired Goldman Sachs which has been in talks with private-equity suitors about the satellite TV unit, with potential bidders including Apollo which had expressed interest last year (and whose boss Leon Black is being subpoenaed for his links to Jeffrey Epstein), and Platinum Equity.

As WSJ notes, "if a deal is reached, it would start to streamline a company that used a series of acquisitions in the last decade to shift from a phone service provider into a media conglomerate. It also left the enlarged AT&T with roughly $180 billion of net debt."

DirecTV has also been a disappointment from a profit standpoint, as cellphone service and wired broadband remain AT&T's biggest profit engines and account for more than half of the company's over $180 billion of annual revenue. Those telecom units have played a key role stabilizing overall earnings this year as the coronavirus pandemic drained revenue in its satellite arm and in its WarnerMedia division. AT&T doesn't break out revenue or profits for DirecTV.

AT&T shares are down 20% YTD, missing out on a historic rally. AT&T stock traded at around $33 when it announced the DirecTV acquisition in May 2014. It is now $30.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/after-buying-directv-50-billion-2015-att-now-seeks-sell-it-under-20-billion

Glenn Beck Makes Stunning Recovery from Trump Derangement Syndrome

Glenn Beck has been one of the most vocal Never Trumpers in America. Beck declared in 2016 that Donald Trump is an “immoral man who is absent decency or dignity.” He voted for Evan McMullin for president rather than vote for Trump. At one point, Beck compared himself to the prophet Jeremiah. Really.

Later in the show, a questioner suggested that Americans were turning away from God. Beck said he’d been thinking a lot about the prophet Jeremiah, who vainly warned the Israelite kings that catastrophe was near. Finally, when the Babylonians were about to sack Jerusalem, Jeremiah urged the Israelites to accept national enslavement, because it was God’s will. Beck saw a contemporary lesson: “Sometimes you have to pay the price for what you’ve done.” Then he started talking about Donald Trump’s assault on the Bill of Rights.

He was seriously infected with Trump Derangement syndrome every bit as cancerous as whatever is eating Rachel Maddow. No one ever expected him to recover. His case seemed terminal. But the Republican National Convention seems to have infused him with some kind of disinfectant that opened his eyes to his uncharitable behavior and he issued a multi-part apology that is quite stunning.

It’s a rare thing that a person recognizes the darkness in themselves rather than projecting it onto others, but Beck has done just that. In terms of an apology, his is how it should be done. Today, too many people think an apology sounds like this: “I’m sorry you were offended.” That’s not an apology.

Beck’s apology focused on what he did wrong. He confessed his bad behavior and then he offered a sincere apology for it. The best part, that all the president’s rabid critics who dehumanize him need to hear, was when Beck wrote, “What haunts me this week is how my words must have hit his children. How did I miss the sharpness of my judgment without consideration of family?” The entire statement is below. If you ever need an example of a great apology for teaching purposes, this one is pretty perfect.

2. I expected @realDonaldTrump to take control federally at the first opportunity. Here we are in a massive crisis. Bush ‘violated the free market to save the free market.’ Trump could have violated federalism to ‘save federalism’ yet he has stood firm through COVID. Con’t

— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) August 28, 2020

4. Did I miss, the sharpness of my ‘judgement’ without consideration of family. Me? A guy who has lived it from his side. I wanted to end my interview with @realDonaldTrump son this week w/ a personal apology, who had spent 20 minutes with me as if we were old friends. Con’t

— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) August 28, 2020

6. Will be the first to admit it.’I did. On air and personally to the president himself.But it was all about politics. I knew he loved his children and they him. What I failed to see, is the reason I think they love him. @realDonaldTrump is a loud New Yorker with a private heart

— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) August 28, 2020

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2020/08/28/glenn-beck-makes-stunning-recovery-from-trump-derangement-syndrome-and-publicly-apologizes-n860951