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Breaking: Cully Stimson and Hans von Spakovsky Resign From Heritage
The Meese Center is basically empty now.
Last night, Kevin Roberts told the Heritage staff that two people would be directing the Meese Center. National Review reported:
The organization's president, Kevin Roberts, sent an email to staff Sunday evening informing them of the departures. "We wish them well, though the manner of their departures speaks volumes," he wrote. Roberts also told staff in the email that the organization's chief economist, EJ Antoni, will now serve as acting director of the organization's Center for Data Analysis and Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, and that policy expert Cully Stimson will now lead the organization's Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies on an "interim basis, with assistance from Hans von Spakovsky."
I just spoke with Cully, who told me that both he and Hans resigned from the Heritage Foundation. At this point, there are only a few people left at the Meese Center. It exists in name only.
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"At this point, there are only a few people left at the Meese Center. It exists in name only."
Ah, maybe you meant Heritage, not Meese?
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I see. The Heritage foundation has a Meese center which I, not Blackman, had confused with the Meese Institute.
OK, no mistake there.
I didn't see it that way. I was just guessing the center exists in both places while personnel shift. Maybe they ought to call it the Heisenberg center until they're ready to be observed again.
Bandwagon is getting crowded.
Heritage should be glad to get rid of these creeps.
Recapitulating, Nick Fuentes expressed an option that Jews have too much influence in the USA. Tucker Carlson interviewed Fuentes, and they pointedly disagreed on many issues. Heritage refused to disavow Carlson, and then apologized for refusing. Now the Jews have organized a campaign against Heritage.
Let me rephrase that:
Nick Fuentes bragged about hating Jews and liking Hitler. Tucker Carlson wasted time lobbing softball questions which resulted in more anti-semitism. Heritage's president praised Tucker Carlson and said there's nothing wrong with giving an anti-Semite Hitler fanboi a platform to proclaim his hatred of Jews and fondness for Hitler.
People objected.
You objected to people objecting and blamed it on the Jews.
Both accurate and devastating.
In my childishness I would instead tell Mr. Roger S to 'get bent, creep'.
Well summarized.