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   From: weberm@polaris.net   
      
   1) Who’s Funding ‘March for Our Lives’ Rallies?   
      
   Abraham Lincoln said, “I am a firm believer in the people. If given   
   the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis.   
   The great point is to bring them the real facts.”   
      
   So, here are the real facts about the #NeverAgain movement and the   
   upcoming “March for Our Lives” rally, planned for March 24th in   
   Washington DC. For over a week now, CNN and the rest of the media   
   have portrayed this movement as “grassroots” and totally teen-   
   driven. Maybe it was in the very beginning. But it’s not anymore.   
      
   Just a few days after the horrible tragedy at Stoneman Douglas High   
   School, junior Cameron Kasky set up a GoFundMe account to raise   
   money for the “March for Our Lives.” Kasky is the teenager who   
   confronted Senator Marco Rubio onstage at CNN’s Monster Truck Rally   
   event last Wednesday night. So far, over 32,000 people have donated   
   $2.5 million to Kasky’s GoFundMe account.   
      
   What is the money actually for? On the GoFundMe page, Kasky says,   
   “the funds will be spent on the incredibly difficult and expensive   
   process that is organizing a march like this. We have people making   
   more specific plans, but for now, know that this is for the march   
   and everything left over will be going to the victims’ funds.”   
      
   The “March for Our Lives” has received an additional $3.5 million in   
   pledges from George Clooney, Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg,   
   Jeffrey Katzenberg, Gucci, and businessman Eli Broad.   
      
   Cameron Kasky’s father said that Cameron and his friends are “being   
   directed by people with knowledge of how to responsibly spend this   
   money and it’s going to be very transparent.”   
      
   Hope it goes a lot better than George Clooney’s September 11th fund.   
      
   Kasky’s dad also said that “with Clooney’s help” the teens have   
   brought in some attorneys, some administrative help, and a public   
   relations firm whose clients include Meryl Streep, Will Smith,   
   Charlize Theron, and Woody Allen, among many other celebrities. Why   
   do you need all that if this is such a grassroots thing, driven by   
   teenagers? Because these are now 16-year-olds with over $6 million   
   at their disposal.   
      
   Already, the “March for Our Lives” rally has a slick website selling   
   merchandise. Make no mistake, this is a campaign.   
      
   The new spokesman for the rally (yes, it already has a “spokesman”)   
   says, “Any leftover funds will go towards supporting a continuing,   
   long-term effort by and for young people to end the epidemic of mass   
   shootings that has turned our classrooms into crime scenes.” In   
   other words, “March for Our Lives” is essentially a new gun-control   
   lobbying firm.   
      
   Now the teens have brought in Deena Katz to help organize the rally.   
   Katz is the co-executive producer of Dancing With the Stars. Oh, and   
   she was also co-executive director of the Los Angeles Women’s March.   
      
   The rally is also being organized in collaboration with a nonprofit   
   group called “Everytown for Gun Safety.” The advisory board of this   
   group includes one former governor and six former mayors – all   
   Democrats. It also includes Michael Bloomberg, Warren Buffett, and   
   Kenneth Lerer [Leer] who helped start The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed,   
   and a website called StoptheNRA.com.   
      
   Kasky said the march in DC will include a protest outside the White   
   House where they will destroy AR-15 rifles. Kasky told CBS, “At the   
   end of the day, this isn’t a red and blue thing. This isn’t   
   Democrats or Republicans. This is about everybody and how we are   
   begging for our lives.”   
      
   Perhaps Kasky truly feels that way, but he’s getting a crash course   
   in how American politics and media work. This may have started as a   
   teen cause, but it has been hijacked by powerful forces on the Left   
   with a very specific agenda.   
      
   2) Dems Bail on Feinstein   
      
   The modern era progressive insurrection is coming. It’s a political   
   civil war fought within the Democratic parties own house. On one   
   side there is the new blood Democratic Socialists – which is   
   basically just a PC and less scary way of saying Socialist or   
   Marxist – and on the other side are the establishment Democrats. The   
   new blood is angry, and they’re about to make their move.   
      
   California might be the first battleground. In a surprise and   
   completely unexpected move, the California state Democratic Party   
   decided not to endorse Senator Dianne Feinstein as she gears up   
   campaigning for the 2018 midterms. Calling Feinstein a senior   
   senator is a little misleading. She’s been entrenched as the   
   California Senator for about… oh, 150 to 200 years or so.   
      
   Feinstein represents everything that the new blood is angry about.   
   In their eyes she’s a centrist, a Washington stooge, and a corporate   
   sell out. They’re tired of the status quo, the capitulation, and   
   lack of direction. I mean, what exactly IS the Democratic platform   
   right now? Resistance? Opposition to Trump? That’s not a direction,   
   that’s a spinning compass.   
      
   It’s really the same position the GOP found itself in after seven   
   years of Obama. The establishment had no clue how to reach out to   
   their base. The only thing they agreed on was 1. Obamacare had to be   
   stopped and 2. Anyone but Hillary. Resistance to one thing and one   
   person isn’t a platform, and voters were tired of being ignored.   
   Trump came along and actually listened to them. The result was   
   probably the most stunning upset in American political history.   
      
   The radical progressives are the only voices on the left that are   
   actually outlining any kind of action or agenda. To quote   
   Feinstein’s newly endorsed opponent within her own party, “It’s not   
   just about resistance. It’s also about real laws.”   
      
   They want open borders and single payer healthcare. They want a   
   massive welfare state, and they’re tired of waiting for it. To them,   
   just like the book The Coming Insurrection, the slow creep and   
   eventual Socialist takeover isn’t working. It’s taking too long.   
   They’re prepared to rise up and TAKE it. Progressives… Democratic   
   Socialists… whatever they’re calling themselves these days. They’re   
   coming, and they’re the only ones on the left with an actual plan.   
   They’re the only ones with an actual voice and message.   
      
   Democrats are about to make a hard turn to the extreme left. What’s   
   going down in California is just the beginning.   
      
   3) #BoycottTheNRA   
      
   Over the weekend, a deluge of companies cut ties with the NRA.   
      
   The First National Bank of Omaha said it will stop issuing an NRA-   
   branded Visa card.   
      
   Hertz tweeted that “We have notified the NRA that we are ending the   
   NRA’s rental car discount program.”   
      
   Delta Air Lines also tweeted that it will discontinue its NRA   
   discount and “will be requesting that the NRA remove our information   
      
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