Whoopi Goldberg: Tim Scott Used ‘Dog Whistle,’ Has ‘Clarence Thomas Syndrome’

Whoopi Goldberg told her co-hosts Monday on ABC’s “The View” that Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) has “Clarence Thomas Syndrome” and used a racist dog whistle during his 2024 Republican presidential bid announcement.”

Goldberg said, “If you are going to have talk about personal responsibility. I mean, you know, all they do is talk about a victim. ‘I won the election, I won, I won, I won.’ Come on now, this may have been a bit much, this year, you know?”

She added, “I think it’s really important, if he had come out and said, you know what? Here’s what has been happening. And here’s how I am going to change it. Instead, for me, he came out and did that dog whistle, victimhood. As soon as you say that, you know what he’s talking about. I didn’t like that.”

Co-host Sunny Hostin said, “I think one of the issues that Tim Scott has, is that he seems to think, ‘because I made it, everyone can make it.’ Ignoring again, the fact that he is the exception and not the rule. And until he is the rule then he can stop talking about systemic racism.”

Referencing to the Supreme Court justice, Goldberg added, “He has Clarence Thomas syndrome.”

Goldberg said, “Look he’s done some good stuff. Okay. But if you are running for president, you gotta do more than that. You have to represent us as a nation and then say, and as a black man, this is also how I feel. But you can’t pretend that it’s not there and that it’s not an issue for the people you are running for — the party you are running for. They are, in part, the problem. This cat down in Florida, I mean black people know there is a problem in Florida.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/05/22/whoopi-goldberg-tim-scott-used-dog-whistle-has-clarence-thomas-syndrome/

The World Economic Forum Calls For AI And “Deepfake” Regulation, Has Already Partnered With UK Government

The WEF says it wants to reduce "harm."

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is unsurprisingly a part of the “deepfakes panic” that has been spread and promoted for some years now by a number of politicians and media outlets around the world.

The notion of deepfake tech is used here as a stand-in for (future) AI in general – and least as far as WEF’s “fears” go, behind them is an attempt to make sure that governments and regulators around the world get working to prevent “harm” from AI.

According to WEF, cyber-criminals are using deepfakes so much these days that the problem has become “worrying” – while when it comes to the news industry, this is “a growing global concern.”

The truth is that when speaking about technology, we have seen a huge increase in “everything” over the past years: of profits, the number of users of social platforms, the censorship, the surveillance. However, the WEF chooses to look at deepfakes in isolation, mentioning a rapid increase in the amount of this content, and forecasts that say this trend will continue.

And while deepfakes have been around for a long time in order to help businesses – particularly the entertainment industry, now, WEF, an informal group representing global elites speaks about them as “a threat to businesses” – and if trust in digital technology needed any more eroding, WEF seems certain it will happen thanks to deepfakes.

Then there’s inevitably the conjecture that they could easily pose a threat to society at an alarming level – compromising everything from elections to national security.

WEF’s solution? Let’s have WEF lead the way in defining the foundations of regulating AI in an “ethical” way. To this end – and also making sure the development of AI is “inclusive, transparent, and used safely and responsibly” – the Switzerland-based group has come up with a “toolkit for human resources.”

“By developing AI standards for children, the Forum is creating actionable guidelines to educate, empower and protect children and youth,” a post on WEF’s site says.

Next, they also want to be at the center of how companies and the healthcare sector handle AI use and development.

“In partnership with the UK government, the Forum created a set of procurement recommendations designed to unlock public-sector adoption of responsible AI,” the blog post continues.

So far, more than 100 companies, governments, civil society and academic organizations have joined WEF’s Global AI Action Alliance. “Joy to the world” – critics might scoff sarcastically.

But WEF promises to “accelerate the adoption of responsible AI in the global public interest.”

https://reclaimthenet.org/wef-calls-for-ai-and-deepfake-regulation

NBC's Chuck Todd says FBI can't be trusted, calls for major investigation after Durham report

"It seems like we have to do something to restore trust."

The recent findings from FBI special counsel John Durham's report which revealed zero collusion between former President Trump and Russia during the 2016 presidential election has taken over American newsrooms and during the latest episode of NBC's Meet the Press, host Chuck Todd called out the FBI and said that the federal agency has "lost trust in the American people," according to Real Clear Politics.

"This is a moment like when the J. Edgar Hoover FBI clearly was no longer helping the American people," Todd said during the roundtable discussion. "It seems like we have to do something to restore trust."

While Todd slammed conservative-leaning publications for calling the 306-page Durham report a "soft coup" between the FBI and Democratic leaders to prevent Donald Trump from winning the presidency, the NBC host said "John Durham's actual sharpest conclusions were that the FBI suffered from confirmation bias and…willfully ignored material information that countered the narrative of collusion between Donald Trump and Russia."

"The report recommended no 'wholesale changes' to FBI rules for regulations or wiretaps, and Durham did not send a single person to jail, even though former President Trump once predicted that Durham would uncover the crime of the century," Todd told the panel.

Washington Post journalist Dan Balz, who was also sitting on the panel, said that the FBI has been weaponized to go after political opponents in recent years.

"The FBI has become a politicized institution and a political target, and this is going to make it much more difficult for Merrick Garland as he goes forward with these investigations, and I don't see any way out of that in the – anywhere in the near future," Balz said to Todd.

Todd fired back, referencing recent reports that the FBI misused surveillance technology on all sides of the political spectrum, and added the federal agency has lost trust in all Americans, not just those belonging to one side of the political spectrum.

"Trust in the FBI is eroding left and right. Feels like we're in a moment that we need a real Church Committee, that this is a moment like when the J. Edgar Hoover FBI clearly was no longer helping the American people, there was a moment," Todd said. "This feels like we might be in one of those moments."

The over 300-page report which was released last week exonerated former President Trump and his alleged collusion with Russia and found that the DOJ and FBI "failed to uphold their mission of strict fidelity to the law" in their launching of the investigation, according to Fox News.

The report revealed that in July of 2016, US intelligence agencies "obtained insight into Russian intelligence analysis alleging that US Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal against US Presidential candidate Donald Trump by tying him to Putin and the Russians’ hacking of the Democratic National Committee."

CIA Director John Brennan briefed then-President Obama and other senior national security officials on the intelligence, including the "alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on January 26, 2016 of the proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services," the report stated, citing handwritten notes from Brennan.

The meeting included Obama, then-Vice President Biden, and two other senior Administration officials, "including but not limited to the Attorney General (who participated remotely) and the FBI Director."

https://thepostmillennial.com/NBC's-Chuck-Todd-says-FBI-can't-be-trusted-calls-for-major-investigation-after-Durham-report

Mike Tyson Slips Up, Says Jamie Foxx Had Stroke

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