THE SPACE COAST TUSK

A Newsletter for Conservative Republicans

FLYING HIGH…AND DIGGING AND BORING TO KEEP BREVARD COUNTY RED AND GET CONSERVATIVES ELECTED

Editor and Publisher: Stuart Gorin Designer and Assistant Publisher: Frank Montelione

Number 102 May 2018

BREVARD SCHOOL BOARD IMPLEMENTS SAFETY MEASURES FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK: By Tina Descovich MY TWO CENTS Brevard School Board District 3 Member By Stuart Gorin The February 14 Parkland, Florida Blowhard documentary film maker multi-fatality shooting tragedy has Michael Moore took time out this month sparked an ongoing national discussion to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the regarding school safety. birth of Communism creator Karl Marx. In one unfunny tweet, Moore praised Marx for the “influence” he As a member of our Brevard County had on such “visionaries” as Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. school board and parent to two children Communism, Socialism, what’s the difference? in county Public Schools, my primary -0- concern is what is being done to ensure that the horrific Marjory Stoneman Douglas incident never happens here. The The funeral for former First Lady Barbara school board has been entrusted to help protect the 73,000 Bush on April 21 was both sad and a joyous children in our schools and our 9,000 employees every day. celebration of life. One cool aspect was how her husband, former President George H.W. To increase security, we took three votes at our May 8 school Bush, was dressed. Always known for board meeting. wearing bright colored and designed socks, on this occasion he was decked out in socks The first vote – passed 5-0 – was to approve a memorandum adorned with books – a tribute to her love of reading, libraries and of understanding between Brevard Public Schools and the literacy. County Sheriff’s office. This included the negotiated contract -0- for School Resource Officers (SROs) and expanded other security measures, such as education and security training for Trump critic Eric Schneiderman resigned as New York Attorney staff and students, and the Success Through Awareness and General on May 7, hours after “New Yorker” magazine published Restoration (STAR) program. an article in which four women alleged he physically abused them, which he still denied. So it’s not just Republicans…. (Continued on Page 2) -0-

Stormy Daniels’ attorney Michael Avenatti is claiming that INSIDE: President Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen is receiving all sorts of “suspicious payments,” but the problem is that several different Remembering Ron Morgan ...... page 2

Michael Cohens are coming forth saying the payments are theirs, No one ever left behind...... page 3 and they are NOT Trump’s attorney. So the question is, is Trump’s Michael Cohen’s real name John Smith? This and That ...... page 4 -0- More Two Cents next month. Political Cartoon and Photos ...... pages 13 Thru 16

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The board committed to working toward having an SRO at REMEMBERING RON MORGAN each of our 88 schools. However, there are challenges in full implementation due to funding needs and the availability of Sadly, passing away following a lengthy officers for hire. We currently have a commitment from our heart-related illness on May 1, Ron law enforcement communities of 60 SROs in our schools by Morgan was the longtime former the start of school this fall. That leaves 28 schools that parliamentarian of the Brevard would lack this layer of security. Republican Executive Committee (BREC). But he was so much more than The second security vote taken – also passed 5-0 – was to fill that. that gap by hiring the additional 28 full-time security and safety specialists. This vote created a new position to meet Packed into his 82 years of living, Ron also was an aerospace the statutory requirement recently passed in the Marjory engineer, the recipient of several awards and honors, an Stoneman Douglas Act, which included a mandate to have at inventor, a volunteer advocate for seniors, operator of a least one-armed officer or guardian at each public school. website for future scientists, and an author.

This position will include general school security Born in Jamaica, New York, he graduated from Manhattan responsibilities and these individuals will be trained by College and worked as a design engineer with Douglas Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey’s S.T.O.M.P (Sheriff’s Aircraft Company in Santa Monica, California; and as the lead On-site Marshall Program). These security specialists will be engineer and group leader with McDonnell Douglas subject to thorough background screenings and mental health Corporation at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. assessments and will have 176 hours of emergency situation Among the honors he received were for assisting on NASA’s and firearms training. Apollo Program, the Space Shuttle Return to Flight Group According to the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office, the training Achievement Award, and the STEM Mentor of the Year required would include more rounds of fire, higher award. qualification requirements and “shoot-don’t shoot” scenarios Ron designed the first aircraft emergency lighting system focusing on active shooter situations which amount to used on commercial aircraft, the first series of hand-held extensively higher requirements than today’s law electrical/electronic test equipment for commercial aircraft, enforcement officers receive. the first integrated logistics system for all NASA Kennedy The last security vote taken that evening was on the voluntary Space Center facilities, the integrated logistics system for the guardian program for current Brevard Public Schools staff to mirror fusion project at the Lawrence Livermore Labs, and the be trained in the S.T.O.M.P program (teachers would not first integrated data system used for configuration qualify due to the contract with the teachers’ union prohibiting management of Spacelab payloads flown on the Space them). This issue was tabled indefinitely by a 3-2 vote to Shuttle. defer the issue. District 4 School Board Member Matt He also served as a volunteer on the Brevard Commission on Susin and I were in the minority on this vote, as we have been Aging Advisory Board; the Senior Resource Alliance vocal and public supporters of this last layer of security for Advocacy Council; the Board of Directors of Brevard County our students and staff. TRIAD (which is a partnership of the Sheriff’s Office, local I supported all 3 of these safety measures because they center law enforcement and the State’s Attorney Office to address around one goal: my unwavering commitment to the senior issues); and the Advisory Council to Florida’s protection of all our students, teachers and staff in all Department of Elder Affairs. circumstances. Through his International Science Center website, Ron It is my hope – alongside all other parents – that none of our worked to develop future space and defense professionals by schools will ever face the situation of an active shooter. We making science, technology, engineering and math exciting to have taken these steps by adding layers of security in hopes of students, by connecting them to everything they could want to deterring and ultimately stopping this from happening in any learn about all known discoveries of space, earth and sea. of our schools, and we will continue to look for ways to A history buff, Ron wrote “The American Spirit in the New increase security. Millennium – The Flag of the United States – The Challenge On April 23, as the guest speaker at the Ronald Reagan Club of the Fourth Estate” in 2001. This book describes the history meeting, I explained to the members that prior to the May 8 and design of the American flag; discusses the flag's meaning School Board votes, several town hall meetings were being and importance in American culture and society; speaks to the scheduled throughout the county to allow residents to express concepts of law, freedom and free speech and their their views on what action they believed should be taken. relationship to the American flag; explores the fourth estate

[2] history and flag paranoia; and presents the pros & cons for the Identification Laboratory in Hawaii, using a blood sample Flag Amendment.” from Apodaca's uncle, his father's younger brother.

When it came to his support for BREC, Ron – a stickler – was Later that year, Apodaca flew to Hawaii to escort the casket never at a loss for words to correct anyone not following with his father’s remains to his Air Force Academy alma “Robert’s Rules Of Order” – the gold standard for mater in Colorado Springs for burial. The trip was anything parliamentary procedure. but easy, he explained, because his commercial flight landed first in Minneapolis. The date was 9/11, and all flights were Ron is survived by five children and five grandchildren. cancelled because of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. Funeral services will be held at the Church Of Our Saviour, 5301 N. Atlantic Avenue in Cocoa Beach, at 11 am on June Desperate to make the family service at the Air Force 2. Academy, Apodaca said he turned to the Minneapolis Air National Guard, and he called back to the Air Force Academy The Editor enjoyed numerous interesting and enjoyable to let them know that the National Guard might be an option. conversations with Ron over the past decade. He will be missed. RIP Ron. After waiting for more than a day without any word, he said, his phone rang at 3 a.m. on September 13, and he was told “Be

on the flight line at 0700. Your dad is going home. " It took NO ONE EVER LEFT BEHIND, approval all the way up the Chain of Command to the SO NEVER GIVE UP HOPE Commander-in-Chief to arrange this flight, Apodaca said. Robert Apodaca, a Lockheed Martin "It was exciting," Apodaca recalled. "We were flying in a C- senior staff flight test engineer and the son 130 and I could hear the pilots make their radio calls to other of a U.S. Air Force pilot who was shot military air patrols. As soon as the other pilots heard on the down over Vietnam on June 8, 1967 and radio that this mission was to finally bring Dad home, the whose remains were not recovered until fighter jets all wanted to stop by and escort. They wanted to 2001, gave a stirring presentation to the honor him. I would look out the window of the C-130 and see Republican Club of Brevard on April 19, an F-16 ten feet from the wingtip. The F-16 would rock his stressing that American servicemen and wings, fly away, and another jet would slip right into servicewomen are not left behind. formation." Apodaca said he was just three years old The C-130 pilot stressed to him that at that moment in time, when the F4 Phantom fighter jet being he was the only civilian passenger flying anywhere in the flown by his father – Major Victor Joe United States. Apodaca, Jr. – crashed. The 30-year-old Major was the first The plane landed at Peterson Air Force Base that day with a Spanish/American/Navajo Indian to welcome from an honor guard, and two days later – following attend and graduate from the U.S. Air what Apodaca called “a long roller coaster of emotions” – Force Academy in Colorado Springs. He Major Victor Apodaca Jr. was finally laid to rest in the Air was one of nearly 2,500 Americans Force Academy Cemetery among friends, family members declared missing in action. and those who didn't even know him.

The younger Apodaca said it was because of his father that he joined the Air Force himself for a while, adding that he “learned about my dad from his classmates” he met while serving in the military. “What a great family the military is,” Apodaca said.

He said his family never gave up hope that his father’s remains eventually would be found, and the military never gave up looking for them. “Not knowing is a burden on family and friends,” he stressed. The 10th Cadet Squadron – the one the Major was in when he graduated – came in dress blues and white gloves. An honor In 1989, bone fragments were found in Vietnam and turned guard fired a salute. A bugler played taps. But the emotional over to the United States, but technology wasn’t available then point for his son was when F-4 Phantom aircraft, the same to test them. A little more than a decade later, the U.S. kind the Major flew, did a flyby over the people gathered at government asked for a blood sample to help in a possible the ceremony. DNA match. In 2001, Apodaca's remains were identified through DNA testing by the scientists at the Army's Central

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After 34 long years, the ceremony brought closure to Robert parents are free to advise their children that they disagree with Apodaca. "While traveling with the remains of my father, I some or all of the information presented in the instructional had a lot of time to think about him, and a lot to reflect on,” program and express their views on these subjects to their he said. “Talking to his friends and understanding how much children.” The however was really generous of him. my father loved to fly and how much he loved life made the whole weekend a celebration of life.” --Duane Fox, an inmate at Lanesboro Correctional Institution in North Carolina and who goes by the name Jennifer Jasmine,

is now suing the prison for not accommodating his practice of AUDACITY AND INHUMANITY witchcraft, and for denying his request for vegan meals. Fox was sentenced to 16 years behind bars in 2014 for a second- It never ends. Here are this month’s examples: degree sexual offense and has been accused of committing dozens of infractions while incarcerated. --CNN said it was “disturbed” that the May 13 ceremony in Jerusalem marking the move of the U.S. Embassy from Tel --Billionaire liberal donor Tom Steyer, who marked Mothers’ Aviv was “non-bi-partisan,” while ignoring that not one single Day with a televised political ad in which an actress claimed Democrat, although invited, chose to make the trip to Israel. her Trump-supporting son had “issues,” photos included marching white supremacists alleging that Republicans are --Broward County, Florida Judge Merrilee Ehrlich, who racist bigots, and the closing phrase was “Talk to your berated and refused medical treatment to a coughing, children about the Republican Party,” followed by “Vote them wheelchair-bound woman with asthma and COPD in court on out.” a misdemeanor charge, who died later that night. After viewing a video tape of what the public defender called --Several hundred students at George Washington University Ehrlich’s “aggressive and tyrannical behavior,” the chief in Washington, DC, for signing a petition to eliminate the th judge of the 17 Circuit Court removed her from the bench, school’s “Colonials” mascot, which has been in effect since saying “her behavior cannot be condoned.” 1926 as a tribute to colonial America and the Continental Army. The petitioners say the mascot is “extremely --A commission of faculty members and students at the offensive,” linking the name to terrorists and murders. If the University of California at Berkeley, formed last year to issue students get their way, perhaps GW’s new mascot should be a report on speech protections at the school, released its a Dancing Snowflake. findings on May 4, blaming “hard to defend” conservative speakers for inciting left-wing students to violence, and THIS AND THAT reaching the conclusion that “Berkeley remains a tolerant campus.” This despite that when three months ago, in the RECENT WHITE HOUSE, SENATE ACTIONS. On May wake of campus protests against a conservative speaker that 18, the president tapped Robert Wilkie, the acting secretary turned violent with property destruction, fires and beatings, of Veterans Affairs, to lead the organization on a permanent “Dilbert” cartoon creator Scott Adams, who years ago basis. Prior to moving to the VA, Wilkie was the Defense received his MBA at Berkeley, announced he is ending all Department’s undersecretary for personnel and readiness. financial support for UC Berkeley. Earlier, White House physician Dr. Ronny Jackson, the Navy rear admiral nominated to head Veterans Affairs, --Grand Rapids, Michigan city officials, for accusing withdrew from consideration following unsubstantiated restaurant owner Johnny Brann of violating zoning ordinances allegations of prescription-drug practices, alcohol use, and by hanging flags outside his establishment in honor of police wrecking a government vehicle. Jackson denied all of the officers and military personnel killed in the line of duty. allegations…. The Senate, by a 54-45 vote on May 17, “These people gave their lives for us, and they deserve to be confirmed Gina Haspel to be the next director of the Central honored and remembered,” Brann said. “I’m going to Intelligence Agency, making her the first woman to lead the continue to make sure they are.” The city’s website says an nation’s premier spy organization. After spending almost an applicant for a zoning variance first must pay a $1,349 fee. entire career undercover, she rose through CIA ranks from

junior case officer to hold senior jobs in counterterrorism and --Manhattan Supreme Court Justice David Cohen, for ruling covert operations. Haspel was sworn into office in her new that The Happiest Hour bar in New York could legally kick position on May 21…. On April 26, by a 57-42 vote, the out a patron who was “not welcome here,” just because the Senate confirmed CIA Director Mike Pompeo to be the next man was a Trump supporter wearing a “Make America Great Secretary of State, succeeding Rex Tillerson, who was Again” cap. Wonder if the ruling and the bar’s action would relieved from the position by the President. Pompeo was have made a difference if the patron had been an Obama or sworn-in to office on May 2….Also on April 26, the Senate Hillary supporter? confirmed by a 56-42 vote, Richard Grenell, a one-time U.S.

Spokesman at the United Nations, to be U.S. Ambassador to --The general counsel to the Orange County, California Board Germany….Three-term Oklahoma Congressman James of Education, Ronald Wenkart, who said in a memo to the Bridenstine was confirmed by a 50-49 vote on April 19 to be board that parents may not opt their children out of lessons the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space related to gender identity or sexual orientation, “however, Administration….Former Florida State Representative [4]

Carlos Trujillo was sworn in by Vice President Mike Pence important provisions, international inspections were on May 2 to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to the Organization prevented at Iran’s military bases, and the deal did not cover of American States….Career Foreign Service Officer Iran's ballistic missile program or the regime's aggression Thomas Hushek was confirmed on April 26 to be U.S. around the region. In his closing remarks, the president said, Ambassador to South Sudan. "We will not allow American cities to be threatened with destruction. We will not allow a regime that chants 'Death to America' to gain access to the most deadly weapons on earth. Today's action sends a critical message: The United States no longer makes empty threats. When I make promises I keep them."

NRA CONVENTION. A record number of more than 87,000 enthusiasts attended the National THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION. Secretary of State Rifle Association convention May Mike Pompeo, in his first major policy speech since taking 4-6 in Dallas, where they heard over as the U.S. top diplomat, said at The Heritage Foundation from numerous speakers and saw on May 21 that the United States would impose the “strongest numerous exhibits…. Addressing sanctions in history” on Iran if that regime does not comply the convention on opening day, with a list of U.S. nuclear non-proliferation demands and President Donald Trump said of the pressure being brought reign in the rogue state’s support for terror groups. He listed by Democrats and youth groups to enact new gun control 12 demands, among them that Iran stop enrichment of legislation, that since terrorist assaults increasingly have uranium, allow unqualified access to all involved the use of trucks and vans, perhaps they ought to be sites throughout the country, end banned instead of guns. He also reiterated his support for support for rebels in Yemen, withdraw allowing highly trained teachers to carry concealed weapons. all forces from Syria, stop threatening “Your Second Amendment rights are under siege, but they Israel, and release all U.S. citizens will never, ever be under siege as long as I’m your president,” missing in Iran or being held on he said. Regarding securing the border, the president said “spurious charges.” Pompeo added, Democrats and liberals in Congress “want to disarm however, that Iran would be offered a Americans. At the same time, they are releasing dangerous series of dramatic concessions if it agrees to make “major criminal aliens and savage gang members onto our changes.” streets…My administration believes cities should be safe havens for Americans, not sanctuaries for criminals.” Touting SUPREME COURT RULINGS. By a 6-3 vote on May 14, the more than 3 million new jobs created since his election, the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated a federal law prohibiting along with the falling unemployment rate, Trump stressed that states to allow betting on sporting events. When Chris African-American unemployment had reached an all-time Christie was governor of New Jersey, he began a six-year low during his administration. Regarding the courts and the court battle challenging the prohibition law…. On May 21, Constitution, the president said, “We need judges who will the High Court ruled 5-4 that employers can include contract enforce our laws, protect our sovereignty, and uphold our clauses that force employees to settle wage and working American way of life. The Constitution can’t be changed by condition disputes individually with a third-party arbitrator, judges, bureaucrats, or the United Nations. That is why we are and arbitration agreements that bar employees from joining appointing federal judges who will interpret the law as together in a class-action lawsuit are enforceable under the written” …. On May 7, following the convention, the NRA Federal Arbitration Act. board announced that one of its members – retired Marine Lieutenant Oliver North – will become the organization’s IRANIAN NUCLEAR DEAL. Keeping another of his major new president, taking over from Pete Brownell, who did not campaign promises on May 8, President Donald Trump seek a second term. North, a central figure of the Iran-Contra canceled U.S. participation in the Joint Comprehensive Plan affair in the 1980s and a current political commentator, plans of Action for Iran’s nuclear program that former President to retire from that position with Fox News. NRA’s longtime Barack Obama made in 2015. “My number one priority is to executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre, called North “a dismantle the disastrous deal with Iran. I know deal-making. legendary warrior for American freedom, a gifted And let me tell you, this deal is catastrophic for America, for communicator and skilled leader.” North, in one of his first Israel and for the whole of the Middle East," the President said interviews as the new NRA leader, said gun control activists in a nationally-televised statement. He blasted the Iran deal as are committing “civil terrorism” akin to practices in the “days "horrible," "one-sided," "rotten" and "a giant fiction.” And he of Jim Crow.” He said the activists “can do all the cyberwar added that his administration is "instituting the highest level against us – they’re doing it. They can use the media against of economic sanctions." In his remarks, Trump stressed that us – they are. They’ve gone after our bank accounts, our Iran is the world’s leading state-sponsor of terrorism, the deal finances, our donors, and obviously individual members.” was fatally flawed by including “sunsets” on the most

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WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS ASSOCIATION filed in that state’s Republican primary to challenge Democrat DINNER. Once again, President Trump declined to attend Senator Dianne Feinstein. the annual White House Correspondents Association Dinner in Washington, DC. He chose instead to be in Washington, BOB WHITE. Saying it is “time to pass Michigan, where he spoke to thousands of cheering fans. liberty’s fight to a new generation of Journalists who were at the April 28 dinner had nothing to be leaders and fighters,” former ten-term proud about, as “not so funny” comedian Michelle Wolf, the Texas Congressman and three-time main speaker, delivered vile and vulgar comments about presidential candidate Ron Paul has Republicans in general, and White House Spokesman Sarah announced his “full support and Huckabee Sanders (who was there) in particular. Many endorsement” of Florida gubernatorial Republicans quickly expressed outrage about Wolf, and about candidate Bob White. Paul said that attending such future events as well, but the best remarks White, chairman of the Republican came from Sanders’ father, former Arkansas Governor and Liberty Caucus of both Florida and Central East Florida, “has television show host Mike Huckabee. His gem was: proven his resolve to fight for and defend the Constitutions of “Colonoscopy exams and water boarding have now become the United States and Florida.” White is one of 12 active more desirable than a press dinner.” Republicans seeking to succeed term-limited Republican Governor Rick Scott, who is running himself for the U.S. MAY 8 REPUBLICAN PRIMARY RACES. In West Senate. On May 12, two dozen supporters of White showed Virginia, Attorney General Pat Morrisey won a three-way up at a Breakfast With Bob at a restaurant in Merritt Island, to Senate race and will face Democrat Joe Manchin in hear the candidate discuss his travels throughout the state and November…. In Indiana, businessman Mike Braun defeated the support he is picking up. His connections made through two sitting U.S. Congressmen for the chance to face Democrat the Republican Liberty Caucus, he said, have been “huge.” Senator Joe Donnelly. Also, in Indiana’s 8th Congressional The people’s voice, he added, has been drowned out in District, Vice President Mike Pence’s older brother, Tallahassee by special interests, and that is what he wants to businessman Greg Pence, won a five-candidate primary race stop. For more information on his campaign, visit his website: to face a Democrat challenger. The vice president held that www.bobforflorida.com. seat earlier for a dozen years…. In Ohio, State Attorney General Mike DeWine defeated Lieutenant Governor CANDIDATE FORUM AT AMERICAN POLICE HALL Mary Taylor for the right to face a Democrat challenger for OF FAME. The North Brevard Republican Club is hosting a the open gubernatorial seat. In the state’s Senate race, forum for all Republican candidates for office in Brevard Congressman Jim Renacci defeated five other Republicans, County at the American Police Hall of Fame in Titusville, and will face the Democrat incumbent, Sherrod Brown in Florida, on June 9 from noon to 5 pm. Each candidate will be November. provided 15 minutes to speak from the stage, and the event is free and open to the public. The event also will include free BETSY DEVOS. Delivering a admission to the Hall of Fame museum, which is located at commencement speech to graduates 6350 Horizon Drive. A straw poll will be held from 1-3 pm, of Ave Maria University in the and food and drinks will be available. Southwest Florida town of Ave Maria, U.S. Secretary of Education GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE FORUM. Focusing Betsy DeVos focused on the only on two of the 12 Republican gubernatorial candidates, teachings of religious figures, the Conservative Christian group Florida Family Policy including Jesus Christ, former Pope Council held a forum in Orlando on May 5, moderated by John Paul II and Mother Teresa, and political analyst Frank Luntz. Florida Commissioner of emphasized the importance of Agriculture Adam Putnam and U.S. Congressman Ron service to God, country and DeSantis both stressed their conservative bona fides. Putnam neighbor. Quoting Pope Benedict XVI, she urged the spoke about his Christian faith and growing up with guns, his graduates to harness their faith and push past life's roadblocks. support for restrictive abortion policies and his hard line The speech earned DeVos a standing ovation, which was in against allowing men to enter women’s rest rooms in public stark contrast to the disapproving crowds she encountered last areas. DeSantis insisted that people on government assistance year while speaking at the commencement ceremonies of work, and said he favored the nomination of strict Daytona Beach's Bethune-Cookman University, where she constructionist judges. Outside the forum, a scuffle erupted was booed, and the University of Baltimore, where students between supporters and opponents of DeSantis. turned their backs. BREVARD FEDERATION OF TEACHERS SCHOOL FLORIDA GUBERNATORIAL RACE. Governor Rick BOARD FORUM. During a straw poll taken of attendees at Scott, who is running in the Florida Senate race, has drawn a a school board non-partisan forum sponsored by the Brevard Republican primary opponent – businessman Rocky De La Federation of Teachers on May 1, David Meader, a candidate Fuente. Two years ago, De La Fuente was an unsuccessful this fall for the District 1 seat, defeated incumbent Misty Democrat candidate for a Senate seat. He now lists his home Belford 60-4. 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Charles Parker received 39 votes to 21 for Cheryl McDougall District 51 candidate, Cocoa Mayor Henry Parrish, said the and 2 for Michelle Treffinger. For the District 5 seat, Kelly Indian River Lagoon continues to be an important issue for Damerow received 44 votes, Katye Campbell received 13, the legislature, and he wants to push for accelerating muck incumbent Andy Ziegler received 10, and Dean Paterakis, removal there. District 52 candidate Matt Nye, the national who attended but was not allowed to join the forum, received chair of the Republican Liberty Caucus, said that as a citizen at least 1 vote that was not counted. During the forum, watchdog, he is campaigning on financial reform, and added Meader, Parker, Ziegler and Campbell called for the hiring of that he is tired of candidates running as fiscal conservatives school resource officers to protect the schools in the county. but then not serving that way. District 53 legislator Randy Fine, who is running for re-election, said that regarding BREC. Addressing the lobbying, Tallahassee should stop serving special interests, Brevard Republican Executive and he pointed out that volunteers are needed for every Committee meeting on May 9, Republican candidate in the county because the Democrats Brevard County Sheriff have made unprecedented moves to qualify their own Wayne Ivey said that aided by candidates in every race this year. the department’s partnership with citizens, during the past REPUBLICAN CLUB OF BREVARD. At its May 16 five years, the crime rate in the meeting, the Republican Club of Brevard invited all six county has dropped 20 percent. members of the Florida Legislature who represent the county He added that the homicide to discuss this year’s session. District 14 State Senator rate is connected to drugs and Dorothy Hukill, who is seeking re-election this year, said she domestic violence, and to reduce voted against the school safety act which passed by a close theft, he urged residents to lock their margin because she opposed portions of it, but added that “we car doors, especially when parked in can have disagreements, but can still come together” on their own driveways. School matters. District 17 State Senator Debbie Mayfield said that security is something “we have to while most Republicans in the legislature voted in favor of worry about,” Ivey said, noting that providing illegal immigrants with instate tuition and allowing his four-part plan consists of 1) them to practice law in Florida, she voted no, and she pointed education awareness, 2) evaluating out that while 3,192 bills were filed during the 60-day session, school needs and fortifying them, 3) and 2,700 amendments were offered, less than 200 actually having a school resource officer or a deputy at every school in passed both houses of the legislature, and only two were the county, and 4) an on-site marshal program….Several high vetoed by the governor. District 51 State Legislator Tom school students representing Generation Joshua were invited Goodson, who was term-limited this year, said that while to the BREC meeting, and Zachary Brandon told the each member was allowed to file six bills during the session, membership that the organization encourages youth to take a he elected to file none, but he preferred instead to pay stand on politics even though they are currently too young to attention to what others did, and to listen to his constituents. vote. They can still volunteer on political campaigns at local District 52 State Legislator Thad Altman said he voted in up to national levels, he said, and in this way, we can raise up favor of the school safety act, noting that the package future leaders. Brandon added that Generation Joshua consisted of “good legislation,” and he also voted in favor of members also can give back by volunteering for Honor Flight outlawing sanctuary cities in Florida. District 53 State and other non-profit organizations…. BREC Chairman Rick Legislator Randy Fine said two bills that passed which he Lacey and Sheriff Ivey presented the BREC Committeeman found important were that teachers will no longer be able to and Committeewoman of the month awards to Mark retire in the middle of a school year, and that home owners Hutchins and Trish Fowler for their volunteer will be given greater clarification when obtaining insurance contributions…. Lacey announced that Fowler and Monique that flooding will not be covered under hurricanes, and Miller will be co-chairs of the July 8 Picnic and Candidate separate flood insurance is necessary. That measure also Straw Poll to be held at the Melbourne Auditorium. He also spells out that anyone forced to leave home for 30 days or said the 2nd annual BREC Golf Tournament will be held on more due to damage will be eligible for a tax refund, he added. September 22 at the Duran Golf Club…. BREC Vice Chair Asked what their number 1 priority would be for the next Nick Tomboulides swore in six new members. legislative session, Mayfield, Altman, Fine and Hukill all said the Indian River Lagoon, while Hukill added additionally that BREVARD FEDERATED REPUBLICAN WOMEN. she wants legislation to require high school students to receive Four Republican candidates for the Florida State Legislature a class in financial literacy to prepare them for the future. from Brevard County took part in a forum at the BFRW District 50 State Legislator Rene Plasencia was to meeting on May 15. District 51 candidate Thomas “Pat” participate in the program but was unable to attend. O’Neill, a retired state highway patrolman, said the most pressing issue for him would be home rule, because voices NEW MILLENNIUM CONSERVATIVE CLUB. Suntree, need to be heard, and he believed vocational technical high Florida author Don Gilleland discussed his just-released fifth school courses are important for students who do not attend non-fiction book – “Stars, Stripes and Corporate Logos” – college but can still make good money at a trade. Another

[7] with members of the New Millennium Conservative Club on the facts that Scott had been briefed by the Florida Division May 21. The memoir covers his life growing of Emergency Management, which he directed to be in up in Southern Illinois, acting experience in constant communication with counties regarding the weather college, a military career as both an enlisted system. “We know how to prepare for storms,” said Scott, man in the Navy and an officer in the Air who won accolades for his handling of last year’s hurricanes Force, travels to 35 countries on five even from Democrats and a skeptical Florida political press. continents, and working in the corporate Guess Nelson failed to read about those reports. world as a public affairs executive. After retirement, when Gilleland moved to Central CONDOM-NATION. Leadership of the Boy Scouts has Florida, he began writing hundreds of mandated that condoms be “readily and easily accessible” for articles and letters to the editor of local the 24th World Scout Jamboree in West Virginia July 21- newspapers, and then was encouraged to begin writing books. August 1, 2019 – which will be co-hosted by Scouts Canada, His first book – “America: A Cultural Enigma” – highlights Asociación de Scouts de México, and Scouts BSA (the new the differences between the customs and traditions of seniors name for the Boy Scouts of America, which now permits vs. younger generations. The second book – “America: Where openly gay scout leaders and girls to join the previously all- Great Things Happen” – details examples of exciting things male organization). After more than a century of affiliation, people do that you don’t hear about in the media. Book the Mormon Church recently severed ties with the Scouts. The number three – “America: An reaction to the latest Scout pronouncement came from Exceptional Nation” – describes a Florida Family Policy Council President John United States blessed by our Stemberger: “In light of the mandatory condom policy, it is Creator, with attributes that sets it not clear how far down the rabbit hole the Boy Scouts will apart from much of the world. continue to fall.... The World Jamboree is starting to sound Gilleland’s fourth book – more like a 1960s Woodstock festival rather than a campout “America: A Conflicted Nation” – that parents would want to send their children to…. These discusses issues about which policies present a clear youth protection problem.” He added Americans feel both positive and that the Scouts are “both anticipating and facilitating sexual negative at the same time and being conduct between minors at this event. These policies are both unable to shake off the outrageous and completely irresponsible.” uncomfortable feeling it produces. For more information, visit his website: www.donaldgilleland.com. EXPERTS’ EXCERPTS

GOING APE. As reported in “The Limbaugh Letter,” Heritage Foundation senior fellow citizens of Corsicana, Texas enjoyed “Dobby” the Gorilla for Robert Moffit, writing on the British 19 years. He was a black ape statue inside a climbing cage in Alfie Evans case on a park playground. But when a grand total of 45 people www.dailysignal.com: demanded the statue’s removal for being “racially “The next time Senator Bernie Sanders insensitive,” Mayor Don Denbow acquiesced. Until, that is, or his progressive Senate allies tout when more than a thousand other residents demanded their proposal for total federal control of Dobby’s return. What to do? The mayor’s compromise was to health care, just remember the case of bring Dobby back, but without the cage, and he was re-painted Alfie Evans. Consider the basic facts. a non-offensive light gray. No word on how the loonies The National Health Service, Britain’s ‘single payer’ health reacted to that. care system, provides universal government coverage for “STORMY” BILL NELSON. Florida’s Senior Senator, British citizens. Alfie, a seriously ill 23-month-old toddler, is Democrat Bill Nelson – whose re-election effort is being a beneficiary of the National Health Service, and, as of this challenged by Republican Governor Rick Scott – issued a writing, a ‘patient’ of Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in ridiculous charge against his opponent while the governor was Liverpool, England. Hospital physicians have determined that in Israel for ceremonies marking the move of the U.S. Alfie is in a ‘semi-vegetative state.’ Remarkably, however, Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Noting that a potential hospital personnel have been unable to give Tom Evans and tropical storm was developing in the Gulf of Mexico, Nelson Kate James, Alfie’s parents, a diagnosis of exactly what’s said in a campaign email that “With a threat swirling in the wrong with their child. The parents wanted to move little Alfie Gulf, Rick Scott is using taxpayer dollars to promote his to other hospitals, in hopes that he would have a chance of campaign, proving once again, he has abandoned his job as getting better care. British officials denied the parents’ governor. Per usual, Rick Scott is putting himself and his requests. Hospital officials determined that Alfie’s case was political career over the interests and safety of Floridians.” hopeless and decided to remove his ventilator and let the child But according to the National Hurricane Center, this particular die. Alfie’s parents, hopelessly guilty of hope, wanted to system had only a 30 percent chance of developing into a provide oxygen for their son on their own if the hospital would tropical depression in the next five days, and Scott would be not do so. Hospital officials denied the parents the right to back home in Florida well before then. Nelson also ignored provide their own oxygen for their child. British authorities determined that Alfie must remain in the hospital, and hospital [8] officials determined to end medical treatment, remove the that the judiciary is best when it is restrained, and it should ventilator, and let the child die. In the meantime, Alfie’s refuse invitations to ‘update’ laws rather than interpret parents went to the British courts for relief, as well as the them…. Gorsuch has also expressed concerns about the European Court of Human Rights. These panels denied the federal government’s expansion of power and infringement of parents’ petitions. Alfie’s parents wanted to fly their son to states’ authority. He dissented in a case dealing with federal Rome, Italy, where they could get a second medical opinion courts exercising authority over state law claims, writing that, and try alternative treatments from Italian doctors that Alder ‘The Court today clears away a fence that once marked a basic Hey Children’s Hospital either would not or could not boundary between federal and state power’…. Gorsuch is provide. A British court blocked that parental option, equally concerned about states infringing the rights of declaring that such a trip to Rome would be ‘wrong and individuals, an issue that has been prevalent in several free pointless’…. The Italian government granted Italian speech cases this term. During the oral argument in Minnesota citizenship to Alfie and agreed to fly the child to Rome for Voters Alliance v. Mansky, Gorsuch was skeptical of treatment at Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital. There would Minnesota’s position that it could ban voters from wearing T- be no cost to the National Health Service or the British shirts with ‘some of the Bill of Rights and not others’ when taxpayer. As of this writing, British authorities have refused they enter polling places….In the oral argument in these charitable overtures…. This is a dark hour for British Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, justice. Parliament and the British judiciary stand indicted by the case of a Christian baker who declined to make custom their own actions and inactions of cruelty, intellectual wedding cakes for same-sex weddings, Gorsuch expressed dishonesty, and the high crime of hostility to life and frustration with the state’s mandate that the baker provide liberty…. The sordid Alfie Evans saga holds larger lessons for sensitivity training for his staff. Gorsuch asked, ‘Why isn’t all of us. If you give government officials control over your that compelled speech and possibly in violation of his free- health care, you give them control over your life. If you reduce exercise rights? Because presumably he has to tell his staff medical judgments to political or bureaucratic decisions, you that his Christian beliefs are discriminatory’…. Gorsuch’s can expect arrogant and cruel, often heartless and fidelity to the Constitution has made liberal court watchers incompetent, decisions…. Welcome to tyranny. And yes, it apoplectic. He has been under a microscope since his name can happen here.” first topped the list of Trump’s potential Supreme Court nominees…. When Gorsuch spoke last fall at the Federalist UPDATE NOTE: On April 28, FIVE DAYS after authorities Society’s National Lawyers Convention, he said to great in England’s socialist medicine system deliberately turned off applause, ‘Tonight, I can report that a person can be both a Alfie’s life support systems and stopped feeding him, he died. publicly committed originalist and textualist and be confirmed Why would his parents still want to live in such a “free” to the Supreme Court of the United States. Originalism has country? regained its place at the table of constitutional interpretation, and textualism in the reading of statutes has triumphed. And Heritage Foundation legal fellow Elizabeth Slattery and neither one is going anywhere on my watch.’ That is legal policy analyst Tiffany Bates, writing about Supreme something to celebrate.” Court Justice Neil Gorsuch on www.dailysignal.com: Freedom Center Journalism Fellow Daniel Greenfield, writing on the Left’s Civil War on www.frontpagemag.com:

“A civil war has begun. This civil war is very different than the last one. There are no cannons or cavalry charges. The left doesn’t want to secede. It wants to rule. Political conflicts become civil wars when one side refuses to accept

“Tuesday (April 10) marked the one- year anniversary of Neil the existing authority. The left has rejected all forms of Gorsuch taking his seat on the Supreme Court. In his first authority that it doesn’t control. The left has rejected the year, he has proven to be – as Donald Trump promised during outcome of the last two presidential elections won by his campaign – ‘very much in the mold’ of Justice Antonin Republicans. It has rejected the judicial authority of the Scalia, whom he succeeded on the court. Gorsuch quickly Supreme Court when it decisions don’t accord with its agenda. planted himself squarely in the textualist camp, aligning most It rejects the legislative authority of Congress when it is not closely with fellow conservative Justice Clarence Thomas. dominated by the left. It rejected the Constitution so long ago Gorsuch’s written opinions (including a handful from the last that it hardly bears mentioning…. There is no form of legal term and the current term) show a commitment to legal text authority that the left accepts as a permanent institution. It and careful analysis. He has shown a keen ability to write only utilizes forms of authority selectively when it controls accessibly, allowing even the most casual observer to them. But when government officials refuse the orders of the understand the law. His writings also demonstrate his belief duly elected government because their allegiance is to an [9] ideology whose agenda is in conflict with the President and New Deal and Great Society would win them votes. Their Congress, that’s not activism, protest, politics or civil successors continued to profit by making dependence on disobedience; it’s treason. After losing Congress, the left government socially acceptable, and today anyone who consolidated its authority in the White House. After losing the suggests otherwise is cast as a racist Scrooge….The Welfare White House, the left shifted its center of authority to Federal Swamp is nurtured by the income redistributionists who rely judges and unelected government officials. Each defeat led on our complex tax code and myriad income transfer the radicalized Democrats to relocate from more democratic programs to hook as many Americans as possible on to less democratic institutions. This isn’t just hypocrisy. government goodies. Whether the munificence comes as That’s a common political sin…. The left responded to corporate or social welfare, those who write the checks come democratic defeats by retreating deeper into undemocratic from both parties…. The straight forward title of the institutions, whether it was the bureaucracy or the corporate president’s executive order, ‘Reducing Poverty in America by media, while doubling down on its political radicalism. It is Promoting Opportunity and Economic Mobility’ signals that now openly defying the outcome of a national election using he understands the challenge and the solution. He is for a coalition of bureaucrats, corporations, unelected officials, independence, not dependence….The executive order celebrities and reporters that are based out of its cultural and instructs actions be taken to: strengthen and increase work political enclaves. It has responded to a lost election by requirements for benefits, assist vulnerable populations in constructing sanctuary cities and states thereby turning a finding employment, increase flexibility and accountability cultural and ideological secession into a legal secession…. for state, local, and tribal governments, streamline The left doesn’t believe in secession. It’s an authoritarian government bureaucracy, target benefits to those in greatest political movement that has lost democratic authority. There need, consolidate wasteful and duplicative programs, spread is now a political power struggle underway between the information on successes and failures, and encourage private democratically elected officials and the undemocratic and community solutions….A well-functioning society needs machinery of government aided by a handful of judges and for every able-bodied individual to earn their way and for local elected officials. What this really means is that there are limited resources go to the most vulnerable among us. So, we two competing governments; the legal government and a must restructure our welfare system to protect the truly needy treasonous anti-government of the left…. The left is a and taxpayers alike. While the Swamp players – the treasonous movement. The Democrats became a treasonous bureaucrats, the poverty activists, the tax-and-spend organization when they fell under the sway of a movement politicians, and those who think the rest of us owe them a that rejects our system of government, its laws and its living – will put up a ferocious resistance, I have no doubt that elections. Now their treason is coming to a head. They are President Trump is up to the challenge. He understands what’s engaged in a struggle for power against the government. wrong and how to fix it.” That’s not protest. It’s not activism. The old treason of the sixties has come of age. A civil war has begun. This is a primal Manhattan Institute fellow Heather conflict between a totalitarian system and a democratic Mac Donald, writing on the #Me Too system. Its outcome will determine whether we will be a free Movement in Hillsdale College’s nation or a nation of slaves.” “Imprimis” publication, based on a speech delivered at the college: American Civil Rights Union Chairman and CEO Susan “Our nation is about to be Carleson, writing on dredging the transformed, thanks to the #MeToo welfare swamp at www.theacru.org: movement. I am not speaking about a cessation of sexual predation in the “Donald Trump’s presidency has workplace. If that were the only consequence of #MeToo, the been marked by action. He focused on movement would clearly be a force for good. Unfortunately, the nation’s problems immediately its effects are going to be more sweeping and destructive. upon taking office and his economic #MeToo is going to unleash a new torrent of gender and race deregulation and tax reform measures quotas throughout the economy and culture, on the theory that have set America back on track to prosperity and job creation. all disparities in employment and institutional representation Now he is addressing the important task of advancing work are due to harassment and bias. The resulting distortions of over welfare and opportunity over poverty. On April 10, the decision-making will be largely invisible; we will usually not president issued an executive order to reverse the Obama-era know of the superior candidates for a job who were passed promotion of dependence as a way of life and instead directed over in the drive for gender parity. But the net consequence government aid to those most in need. America is a generous will be a loss of American competitiveness and scientific country full of charitable people. Helping those in need is one achievement. Pressures for so-called diversity, defined of the most obvious outworking of the Christian faith and reductively by gonads and melanin, are of course nothing those who practice genuine compassion know it transforms new. Since the 1990s, every mainstream institution has lived the giver as well as the receiver. But over the past half century, in terror of three lethal words: “all white male,” an epithet government has taken over as the dominate provider for capable of producing paroxysms of self-abasement…. America’s poor. Clever politicians knew the promises of the Hollywood and the media are already showing the #MeToo [10] effect. At this year’s Oscar awards lunch, the president of the we now know, folks, that their report was nothing but Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, John Bailey, dictation from James Clapper, at the time director of national prefaced his remarks by noting that he was a ‘75-year-old intelligence for Obama….it was all part of a calculated setup white man.’ Bailey was trying to get out ahead of the curve, to give CNN a news hook so that they could start reporting on since if he hadn’t pointed out this shameful status, feminist the Steele dossier and make it public. The Steele dossier had crusaders in the press and the industry would have done so for been known for months. It was floating around Washington, him…. Corporate boardrooms, executive suites, and and everybody knew what it was…. None of it could be management structures are going to be scoured for gender and proved, none of it could be verified. But the media wanted it race imbalances. Diversity trainers are already sensing a in the public domain…. What makes it the ‘real scandal’ is windfall from #MeToo. Gender, diversity, and inclusion were that there is ‘no scandalous information’ about President the dominant themes at this January’s World Economic Trump! To this day the dossier remains unverified and Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The conference was chaired uncorroborated. There’s not a word of truth in it.” exclusively by women…. Silicon Valley is a #MeToo --Radio Talk Show Host Rush Limbaugh diversity bonanza waiting to happen. It’s not for nothing that -0- the Mountain View headquarters of Google is referred to as the ‘Google campus’; the culture of the Silicon Valley “The United Kingdom’s version of former President Barack behemoth is an echo chamber of shrill academic victimology. Obama’s grand vision flat-out whacked a kid last week. Managers and employees reflexively label dissenters from Twenty-three-month-old Alfie Evans, already facing long left-wing orthodoxy as misogynists and racists. It is assumed odds on surviving infancy, couldn’t survive that the lack of proportional representation of female, black, bureaucracy….You do to a prisoner of war what a government and Hispanic engineers at the company is due to bias on the bureaucracy just did to Alfie, you get to book a one-way trip part of every other type of engineer…. As the #MeToo to The Hague, not praise for the ‘courage of your movement swells the demand for ever more draconian convictions’….Socialized medicine killed Alfie as surely as if diversity mandates, a finding in a Pew Research Center poll they'd hired a hit man to put a bullet behind his ear….As Alfie on workplace equity is worth noting: the perception of bias is and his parents learned in the worst way possible, if you won't directly proportional to the number of years the perceiver has die, they kill you.” spent in an American university. The persistent claim of --“Personal Liberty” writer Ben Crystal gender bias, in other words, is ideological, not empirical. But -0- after #MeToo, it will have an even more disruptive effect.” “Mr. Trump didn’t create $1 trillion deficits, he inherited them from the grand maestro of debt spending, Barack Obama…. THOUGHTS TO PONDER Is there anything more hypocritical than liberals, who “I wish my Dad was around today, I know he would have supported Mr. Obama’s policies that ran the debt from about loved to see the National Memorial Day Parade roll down $11 trillion to almost $20 trillion, now fainting over runaway Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C. and go right by deficit spending? Yes, Chuck Schumer, there is gambling the White House. He would have been so honored to watch going on there at this casino.” these service men and women walk by his home marching in --“Washington Times” columnist Stephen Moore remembrance of their fallen friends, and witness the families -0- of the fallen participating to remember their loved ones they “When former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke lost a world away.” at Rutgers University’s commencement, the campus left lost --Michael Reagan, son of former President Ronald their minds. Students protested her support of the Iraq War Reagan and involvement in a presidential administration that ‘utilized -0- torture.’ Some went so far as to call Condoleezza a war “The White House Correspondents Dinner is an event I have criminal…. Last month, Hillary Clinton spoke on Rutgers’ gladly never been to despite a number of invites. I would not campus about ‘American democracy and its institutions, her fit in, nor would I be comfortable…. The people you've never political career, and her role in the women’s political heard of with familiar faces from TV gather with a comedian movement’. This is the same Hillary Clinton who showed her you've probably never heard of to pat themselves on the back complete lack of respect for ‘American democracy’ by rigging as champions of free speech while making sure everyone in the 2016 Democratic nomination contest in her favor…. And, the room knows they lean left. The humor is tribal, the politics not a single protest ensued. The left’s double standard shines are of the left, and anyone who dissents is shunned or through so clearly.” ignored…. The media would help themselves if they canceled --Leadership Institute President Morton Blackwell the event.” -0- --“The Resurgent” blogger Erick Erickson “The First Amendment does not guarantee measured, polite -0- or thoughtful speech, but free speech, with all its sometime “The White House Correspondents’ Dinner Association gave abuse, bad taste and bad manners. It’s a precious but often Jake Tapper, Jim Sciutto, Evan Perez and Carl Bernstein an unpopular path to truth. High school debating classes and award for their January 10th report on the dossier, 2017. Now, societies once required students to argue different sides of a [11] question, often to take a side which they abhorred so they UPCOMING BREVARD COUNTY EVENTS could understand the merits and vulnerabilities of every argument. We could all profit from something like that. We June 4 ...... 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Convention of States Duran Golf Club, Viera, 11 am. is the movement that I believe will change the course of American history." June 11 ...... The Space Coast Patriots meeting, Merritt Island --Conservative commentator Candace Owens Library, 6 pm. -0- June 13 ..... Brevard Republican Executive Committee “When Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards walked out of meeting, Government Complex Building C, her office for the last time Monday, fans gushed that her Viera, 7 pm. legacy wouldn’t be forgotten. They’re right – because Richards’s legacy is the brutal slaughter of 3.5 million unborn June 18 ...... New Millennium Conservative Club meeting, lives. In her 12 years at the top, Planned Parenthood destroyed Suntree-Viera Library, 6:30 pm. a population bigger than Chicago’s – and somehow managed to convince Congress to help.” June 19 ..... 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MORE ON TRUMP. According to unnamed sources, Special Counsel Robert Mueller is now looking into allegations that Donald Trump, in his pre-presidential days, purchased a new mattress and illegally cut the tag off its end. This occurred, the multiple sources confirmed, in the very same week that Trump ordered a salad in the dining room of one of his hotels and drenched the greens with Russian dressing. The only thing that possibly could be worse for Trump would be if the public library could prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he was responsible for the dog-eared page in the book that he borrowed. -0-

A MAN GOES INTO A BAR. The bartender is a robot and orders a drink. After serving him, the robot asks, “What is your IQ?” and is told it is 170. So, the robot talks to him about physics, space exploration and medical technology. After the man leaves the bar, he pauses and decides to go back in and change his answer. Getting another drink, he says his IQ is 100, and the robot then discusses NASCAR, baseball and wrestling with him. Interested in these differences, the man then returns yet again, ordering a third drink and tells the robot this time that his IQ is just 50. So, the robot then leans in close and slowly asks, “Well, are you people still unhappy that Hillary lost?”

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