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10/23/20 - Joe Biden’s Debate Performance (Part 1)
The final presidential debate probably didn’t move the needle for anyone, but Joe Biden’s lies, unrealistic beliefs, and cognitive decline should.
Biden claimed he never said he would ban fracking. He dared Trump to show him the tape. The tape is making the rounds again today. You’re on tape, Joe - you’re busted!
Biden lied about nobody losing their healthcare plans under Obamacare. It was the Politifact Lie of the Year when Obama said it in 2013, and Biden repeated the lie last night.
Joe Biden claimed illegal aliens under catch and release show up for their court dates two years later. If you look into it, you will find staggering numbers do not. They just disappear into the interior of the country, forever.
Joe Biden said Hunter Biden’s Laptop from Hell is just Russian disinformation. That’s a farce, given that Hunter Biden’s attorney asked for it back and whistleblowers with first-hand knowledge are stepping forward to say the emails are genuine.
Joe Biden gave a lawyer’s answer when he said he has not taken any money from foreign countries. That’s not the allegation - that he personally put his mitts on money from foreign countries directly. The allegation is he sold his vice-presidential office and ended up with money INDIRECTLY through family members who were paid by foreign companies. The Big Guy’s answer is right up there with Bill Clinton’s statement, ‘I did not have sexual relations with that woman’. It may be technically true, but it sure sounds like a lie to me.
Biden also said didn’t undo his disastrous crime bill of 1994 while he was vice-president because the Republicans controlled the House. Not true. The Democrats had the House, the Senate, AND the White House for the first two years of Obama’s presidency when Joe Biden was vice-president.
Then there’s Joe’s pure demagoguery last night. He blamed Trump for every single COVID death in America and for pouring fire on every racial issue in the country. That’s a politician talking. It’s one thing to make reckless accusations. It’s quite another to prove them. Every single COVID death? Good luck with that one, Joe. I assume the proof is forthcoming.
More next time on Joe’s unrealistic beliefs and cognitive decline.
10/22/20 - The Debate Commission Has Stacked the Deck for Tonight, But It Won’t Work
The Commission on Presidential Debates has stacked the deck against President Trump in tonight’s debate by cutting off his mic and other maneuverings, but it won’t work.
The majority of the commission’s board and chairmen are either Trump critics or former Democrat donors. Democrats have more seats on the board of directors than Republicans. None of the so-called Republicans on the commission supports Trump.
One of the commission’s three co-chairs headed the left-wing League of Women Voters and has been a trustee of the leftist Ford Foundation. Another co-chair was president of a Democrat institute which is an ‘associated organization’ of Socialist International.
C-SPAN’s Steve Scully, whom the commission chose to moderate the cancelled second debate, was a Joe Biden intern.
Kristen Welker, the moderator for the final debate, is a registered Democrat, celebrated Christmas with the Obamas in the White House in 2012, and is widely viewed as pursuing a political agenda. She is on record calling Trump a cheat and a liar, and pushing the fake Trump/Russia collusion narrative which was so weak, it didn’t even make it into the Democrats’ impeachment case. This is the same Kristen Welker who claimed AOC and the Squad are not socialists, when all of them are self-proclaimed socialists or have socialist ties. Welker has also called Kamala Harris a ‘moderate’ when Harris has the most fringe-left voting record in the Senate, farther left than even Bernie Sanders. Yet, the commission is passing off Welker as an objective and unbiased moderator. What a joke!
The debate commission removed foreign policy from the third debate. It sure looks like they want to protect Joe Biden from questions about payoffs to Hunter and other Biden family members from China and Ukraine. Instead, climate change will be asked - AGAIN - despite the fact the subject was already covered in the first debate. No questions tonight about immigration or the rioting. Gee, I wonder why. Remember, Joe Biden doesn’t have a single endorsement from law enforcement. All those endorsements went to Trump.
But no amount of deck-stacking and machinations by a biased moderator is going to stop Trump from making his case to the American people tonight. They can cut off his mic and do backflips and cartwheels, it’s not going to matter. Trump will find a way to put his points across, and people will see through the shenanigans. They will know just how unfair the swamp creatures at the debate commission have been to the President.
10/21/20 - Joe Biden Leads the Party of Death
Earlier this month, a Catholic priest in Maryland said from the pulpit, "The Democratic Party has become the Party of Death and Catholic Joe Biden is their standard-bearer." The truth of this statement is undeniable. Let’s look at some of the evidence, shall we?
A hormone blocker prescribed to transgender youth has been linked to over six thousand deaths. Nothing against transgender people, but the Democrat Party is out deliberately trying to create more of them by, among other things, pushing the teaching of gender spectrum and gender fluidity in public schools.
Legalization of marijuana in some states, a policy favored by Democrats, has produced a wave of lung injuries and deaths due to the vaping of tainted marijuana concentrates. Wall Street Journal
Studies have found abortion drugs cause excessive bleeding, severe abdominal pain, infection, hemorrhaging, and death - including 22 fatalities in the U.S. alone. LifeNews.com
Abortion, which the Democrats promote, has killed over 60 million babies in the womb in the U.S. since Roe v. Wade in 1973. The number of women killed in botched abortions is mounting. Not content with forcing abortion on every state in the land through Roe, the Democrats now want to expand abortion rights to the moment of birth and beyond - and they want to make you pay for it. The Democrat Governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, is on record advocating infanticide.
The same pattern can be seen in the assisted suicide issue. Democrats are not content with winning assisted suicide laws in several states in terminal cases of supposed ‘intractable pain’. Now they are pushing for assisted suicide and euthanasia for supposed ‘unbearable mental suffering’, children, seniors with dementia, the mentally ill, non-terminal cases, so-called ‘completed lives’, and on and on and on. Just follow the news on this subject and you’ll see what I’m talking about. The Democrats never quit. They are creating a death culture and it’s up to us to stop them.
Joe Biden says he leads the Democrat Party. More needless death lies ahead because of what the Democrat Party has become, and Joe Biden will bear responsibility for all of it if he wins.
10/20/20 - Give Up, Beijing Joe!
‘Give up, G.I. Joe.’ That’s what Tokyo Rose told U.S. troops in World War II to dispirit them. And it’s exactly what Big Media is serving up today to dispirit Trump supporters and make them believe Biden has already won the election.
According to Yahoo News, “The tide turns against Trump as Biden surges to his largest-ever lead among likely voters.”
An AP headline blared, “How Trump plowed through $1 billion, losing cash advantage.”
The New York Times claimed, “Voters Prefer Biden Over Trump on Almost All Major Issues.”
The New York Times also declared, “Trump Is Giving Up.”
And Trump supporters should give up, too - it’s all over, right? Trump supporters should just stay home, stick their head under a pillow, and not come out again until after election day. Oh, I’m SO depressed.
Nice try, journos, but your bias is showing.
A constellation of evidence shows Big Media journalists are biased in favor of the Left and Democrats. Studies show most of them ARE Democrats, most vote Democrat, most of their political contributions are to Democrats, and most self-identify as liberals. If that’s not enough for you, I’m sitting here with four dozen admissions by Big Media journalists themselves they are biased in favor of the Left. Big Media journalists are biased, plain and simple, and that’s beyond dispute.
Moreover, they coordinate. There was something called the Journolist, 400 left-leaning journalists and others who coordinated talking points to help get Barack Obama elected as president. It was shut down after it was discovered, but coordination continued in other ways. This explains why Big Media outlets run the same story at the same time and use the same words to describe what they’re talking about.
That brings us to today, when Big Media outlets are channeling Tokyo Rose to demoralize Trump voters and trick them into believing all is lost. Sorry, but I choose to believe my own lyin’ eyes, instead. There are too many Trump boat flotillas and miles-long Trump car parades to believe Biden will win in a walk. Too many people at Trump rallies, and thousands more who couldn’t get in, to think it’s all over. In contrast, Biden can’t get anybody to show up at his rallies, so he just stays in his basement most of the time. And Trump has a million volunteers making phone calls and knocking on doors to get him re-elected. Biden had no ground game whatsoever for the longest time, and we’ve heard next to nothing about his 11th-hour attempts to build one.
The enthusiasm gap is obviously wide and in favor of Trump. Give up, Beijing Joe, it’s all over.
10/19/20 - Kamala Harris: Serial Liar
Kamala Harris says the darndest things. During the vice-presidential debate, she falsely claimed Abraham Lincoln declined to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court because it was an election year and the nomination should await the outcome of the election. In fact, Lincoln didn’t nominate anyone because the Senate was out of session and he wanted to get all the potential nominees to campaign for his reelection.
Harris told other whoppers during the debate - that President Trump has refused to denounce white supremacy when he has done so repeatedly; that he has made the Middle East less safe when he has just been nominated for four Nobel peace prizes for brokering peace agreements in the Middle East; and that President Trump disbanded Obama’s White House pandemic office when what he did was to slim it down from the 400-person monstrosity it had become.
Harris also trotted out the tired old claims Trump called the coronavirus a hoax and said there were fine people in the fringe groups on both sides at Charlottesville. I’ve debunked these elsewhere, so let move on to other lies she told in the debate that might have escaped your notice:
She claimed Trump’s so-called trade war with China cost America 300,000 manufacturing jobs. That was only a prediction from an investment data firm, but she presented it as fact. She lied about late term abortion which she has every intention of forcing taxpayers to fund. She called the protests peaceful, when there are plenty of stories about the riots, destroyed businesses, and attempts to blind police officers with lasers for anyone who cares to look. But all the big media outlets care about is whether you pronounce her name correctly. Typical maneuver - focus on trivia to distract your attention from more important things.
There’s more, but we’ll stop there. It’s easy to win an argument if you just make stuff up and ignore anyone who points out none of it is true. But now that you know the truth, the prospect of pulling the lever for the Harris-Biden administration should have gotten just a little bit harder for you.
10/16/20 - Time to Hold Twitter and Facebook Accountable for Their Editorial Decisions
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act immunizes the big tech platforms from lawsuits based on third-party content. They can’t be held liable for defamation or other editorial transgressions simply because someone else puts offending content on their platforms. The tech giants are just pipes, just conduits for other people’s information, or so the thinking went when the Communications Decency Act was passed in 1996.
That was then, this is now. Yesterday, Twitter and Facebook made the editorial decision to block new revelations about Hunter Biden’s business dealing and Joe Biden’s role in them. Twitter and Facebook are no longer just pipes. They are acting as editors, deciding who gets to see what, and putting their thumb on the scale in the election. It’s time to hold them accountable for their actions as the editors they have become, just like other editors who must meet legal standards for their own decisions every day.
There might finally be enough support to repeal Section 230. Senator Josh Hawley has asked the heads of Twitter and Facebook to appear at a hearing on the tech platform’s election interference. The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on a subpoena for Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey next Tuesday. The Trump campaign accused Twitter and Facebook of colluding with the Biden campaign.
Twitter and Facebook are clearly biased. Facebook’s employee who made the decision to hide the Hunter Biden story is a former Democrat staffer. Twitter’s public policy director left last month to join Joe Biden’s transition team. Facebook made their decision before the facts were even in. Twitter blocked not only the story, but the entire Trump campaign and the White House press secretary. It will surprise no one to learn that 95 percent of political contributions from the employees of big tech companies have gone to Joe Biden.
Twitter gave the specious explanation it was squelching the story because Hunter Biden’s emails were hacked, which everybody knows is not the case. They came from a hard drive that Hunter Biden left at a computer repair store that was turned over to the FBI. The explanation was also given that the emails were illicitly obtained. Nobody worried about that when they were running stories about Trump’s tax returns, did they? The tax returns were leaked, illicitly.
The truth is yesterday’s backflips were a blatant attempt to censor the news. Nobody’s saying these companies don’t have free speech rights, but they are now editors and should be held accountable as such, just like President Trump said yesterday.
At the same time, the political Right must scale up its own media and do more to attract people to our ideas. We are to blame for getting into a position where we can be frozen out of the public square. Your suggestions on how we can make bigger megaphones for ourselves are welcome. Send them to tips@liberato.us.
10/15/20 - What Did Joe Biden Know and When Did He Know It?
The Left is pulling out all the stops to kill the Hunter Biden story, but it’s not gonna work.
Recovered emails show Hunter Biden introduced Joe Biden to a Burisma executive and the two met, contradicting Joe’s previous claim he never spoke to his son about his son’s business dealings.
After the story broke yesterday, Twitter and Facebook quickly moved to block it and keep people from knowing about it. In fact, Facebook restricted its distribution of the story before it even knew what the facts were. Twitter prevented the New York Post, which broke the story, from tweeting it. Twitter also blocked White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany completely for tweeting the story.
Meanwhile, back in dinosaur TV Land, ABC, CBS, and NBC all censored the story. The swamp creatures at the FBI did their part. They had the information a year ago and sat on it.
The Biden campaign denied yesterday the meeting with the Burisma executive ever took place, offering the really lame excuse it doesn’t appear on Joe Biden’s official calendar. Funny thing is, other meetings we know took place don’t appear on his official calendar, either - Joe Biden’s meeting in the Oval Office with his son-in-law’s business partners in 2011 when Joe Biden was Vice-President; a meeting with Hunter Biden’s Chinese investment firm partner in 2013; and the notorious January 5, 2017 meeting with Obama and others in the Oval Office to discuss how to jack up Michael Flynn.
Under pressure, the Biden campaign now admits some kind of meeting with the Burisma executive might have taken place, but it was cursory, you see.
All of this stinks to high heaven - selling the office of the vice-president for personal gain, then lying about it. What are you hidin’, Biden? You got some explaining to do.
10/14/20 - Minnows Try to Derail the Trump Train
The stupid stories are back. Anything to derail the Trump Train.
The New York Times and Washington Post alleged, in a matter of pressing national urgency, that President Trump was using a digital background in a video showing him speaking from the South Lawn of the White House. So many conspiracies, so little time. I hope somebody gets to the bottom of this one. The stakes couldn’t be higher. The people have a right to know.
An MSNBC commentator said the way Florida Governor Ron DeSantis moved through a crowd at a Trump rally reminded him of old films of leaders from ‘troubling regimes’ in decades past, apparently referring to Hitler and Nazi Germany. So Ron DeSantis is a secret Nazi and we should all be very afraid. I, for one, am glad it’s all out in the open now. We don’t have to wonder any longer.
On a more serious note, former acting CIA director Michael Morrell co-authored an article in the Washington Post declaring President Trump’s debts make Trump a national security risk. Here you need to consider the source. Morrell served in the Obama administration and publicly endorsed Hillary Clinton for president in the New York Times in 2016. The current article is full of what if’s and maybe’s and fails to present a single shred of evidence showing Trump is compromised by his debts to foreigners. It completely ignores the fact Trump files annual financial disclosure forms, that’s not even mentioned. As for Trump’s debts, stories like this have a bad habit of pointing to ordinary mortgage debt on Trump properties and trying to pass them off as personal debts of the President and something extraordinary to be worried about. Everybody knew about Trump’s business activities and associated debt when he was elected President in 2016. So why is this story, like the crazy stories I mentioned earlier, appearing now in the run-up to the election?
They’re all part of a steady drumbeat of stories and stratagems to damage Trump’s reelection prospects that have been rolling out recently, and will keep on rolling out right through November 3rd. So take each one of them with a grain of salt, realize they are politically motivated, and don’t forget to laugh.
But if these stories are the best Trump’s enemies can do, they’re in real trouble and they know it.
10/13/20 - Dems Shoot Themselves in the Foot on Court Packing (Twice)
The Democrats’ narrative on court packing has just morphed from stupid to stupider. It’s only been three days since Joe Biden refused to answer questions about whether he would pack the Supreme Court if elected, saying the voters do not deserve to know his position in advance. That’s right, we have to elect this ticket to see what’s in it, just like Nancy Pelosi said about Obamacare. Later, Biden blamed the media for making an issue out of it. That’s right, you don’t deserve to know and you should be ashamed of yourself for even asking. Pretty darn arrogant, don’t you think? Not a good look, Joe.
But the Democrats made things even worse for themselves when they started morphing the definition of ‘court packing’ from adding seats to the Supreme Court so liberals can outvote conservatives every time to confirming nominated judges for existing vacancies. You heard that right: the ordinary constitutionally-mandated business of confirming judges is now ‘court packing’ according to the Democrats.
Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder said confirming nominated judges is court packing. Republican Senator Ben Sasse said at the Amy Coney Barrett hearing yesterday that Democrats trying to tell people court packing now means filling existing judicial vacancies are trying to play the American people for fools.
The Democrats must have found their new definition of court packing in an alternate universe. If they were trying to deflect attention from Joe Biden’s refusal to answer the question about court packing, they couldn’t have chosen a stupider way to do it.
All of this illustrates Wright’s Law: Everything that comes out of the mouth of the Left can be deconstructed because everything that comes out of the mouth of the Left is garbage.
You might think the Democrats and the Left are the cool group, but why would you want to hang out with people who make such stupid arguments that are so easily destroyed? The answer is: you shouldn’t. So guard your emotional independence, think for yourself, and stop acting like you belong to a cult. People who just nod their heads and say ‘uh-huh’ when their cult leader says the cult members don’t deserve to know what the cult is really up to are cultists clinging to a fake religion, whether they realize it or not.
10/12/20 - “China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man.”
In late September, Senate Republicans issued a report showing potentially criminal activity by Hunter Biden in Ukrainian and other foreign business deals occurring when Joe Biden was vice president. Subsequently, House Republicans joined Senate Republicans in calling on the FBI to investigate the suspicious financial activities of Joe Biden and his son Hunter, flagged by the Treasury Department.
If you think that’s bad, wait until you see the documentary ‘Riding the Dragon’ laying out Hunter Biden’s business deals with China, benefitting the Biden family. The documentary is based on court papers and other official records, and has gotten over a million views on YouTube. It features Peter Schweizer, the well-known investigator who wrote ‘Clinton Cash’ exposing corruption at the Clinton Foundation.
‘Riding the Dragon’ describes how Hunter set up an investment company called Bohai Harvest which received a billion dollars in funding from the Chinese government. The deal came shortly after Joe Biden made an official visit to China while vice president. His son Hunter went with him. The film goes on to detail several other such dealings.
If all this were just ordinary political nepotism and corruption, that would be one thing. But the film makes the point some of these deals were with companies associated with the Chinese military. So these deals, struck by the son of a sitting vice president, were actually contrary to U.S. interests. One deal involved dual use technology that could be used by the Chinese military. Another deal involved surveillance equipment China uses to repress the Uighurs in Xinjiang province. A third example involved helping the Chinese lock up world supplies of strategic minerals used in weaponry at a time when the Obama administration was opposing China’s actions on strategic minerals.
In the film, Hunter admits he would not have gotten many opportunities if his last name hadn’t been Biden. A year ago, Kamala Harris said she would “probably not” allow her child to serve on the board of a foreign company like Joe Biden allowed Hunter Biden to do. If you’re voting for Joe Biden, fine, but realize you are voting for corruption and a family quite willing to sell out its own country to make a buck. Are you sure that’s the vote you want to cast? C’mon, man.
10/9/20 - Ease the Lockdowns
The news about COVID is not as good as when I last commented on this subject two weeks ago, but continues to point in the direction of easing the lockdowns.
COVID cases are back above two percent of all emergency room visits, according to CDC numbers. That compares to almost three percent in early August. The number has been hovering around two percent since late August.
There are reports of hospitals under strain in Wisconsin, but they are adjusting by adding a field hospital, transferring patients to other facilities, and putting non-essential cases on waitlists. That’s just one state out of 50 reporting any kind of problem, at all. You may recall the Army was able to put up field hospitals quickly early in the pandemic. Any claim total capacity in Wisconsin will be overwhelmed is pure demagoguery.
The media wrongfully continues to focus on the number of new ‘cases’, by which they really mean the number of positive tests. However, more tests are being done so, of course, the raw number of positive results is going up. But that’s meaningless. What we have, generally speaking, is a spike in testing, not a spike in serious illness. If you adjust the number of positive test results by the increased testing volume, the picture that emerges shows the positivity rate is essentially flat:
The final presidential debate probably didn’t move the needle for anyone, but Joe Biden’s lies, unrealistic beliefs, and cognitive decline should.
Biden claimed he never said he would ban fracking. He dared Trump to show him the tape. The tape is making the rounds again today. You’re on tape, Joe - you’re busted!
Biden lied about nobody losing their healthcare plans under Obamacare. It was the Politifact Lie of the Year when Obama said it in 2013, and Biden repeated the lie last night.
Joe Biden claimed illegal aliens under catch and release show up for their court dates two years later. If you look into it, you will find staggering numbers do not. They just disappear into the interior of the country, forever.
Joe Biden said Hunter Biden’s Laptop from Hell is just Russian disinformation. That’s a farce, given that Hunter Biden’s attorney asked for it back and whistleblowers with first-hand knowledge are stepping forward to say the emails are genuine.
Joe Biden gave a lawyer’s answer when he said he has not taken any money from foreign countries. That’s not the allegation - that he personally put his mitts on money from foreign countries directly. The allegation is he sold his vice-presidential office and ended up with money INDIRECTLY through family members who were paid by foreign companies. The Big Guy’s answer is right up there with Bill Clinton’s statement, ‘I did not have sexual relations with that woman’. It may be technically true, but it sure sounds like a lie to me.
Biden also said didn’t undo his disastrous crime bill of 1994 while he was vice-president because the Republicans controlled the House. Not true. The Democrats had the House, the Senate, AND the White House for the first two years of Obama’s presidency when Joe Biden was vice-president.
Then there’s Joe’s pure demagoguery last night. He blamed Trump for every single COVID death in America and for pouring fire on every racial issue in the country. That’s a politician talking. It’s one thing to make reckless accusations. It’s quite another to prove them. Every single COVID death? Good luck with that one, Joe. I assume the proof is forthcoming.
More next time on Joe’s unrealistic beliefs and cognitive decline.
10/22/20 - The Debate Commission Has Stacked the Deck for Tonight, But It Won’t Work
The Commission on Presidential Debates has stacked the deck against President Trump in tonight’s debate by cutting off his mic and other maneuverings, but it won’t work.
The majority of the commission’s board and chairmen are either Trump critics or former Democrat donors. Democrats have more seats on the board of directors than Republicans. None of the so-called Republicans on the commission supports Trump.
One of the commission’s three co-chairs headed the left-wing League of Women Voters and has been a trustee of the leftist Ford Foundation. Another co-chair was president of a Democrat institute which is an ‘associated organization’ of Socialist International.
C-SPAN’s Steve Scully, whom the commission chose to moderate the cancelled second debate, was a Joe Biden intern.
Kristen Welker, the moderator for the final debate, is a registered Democrat, celebrated Christmas with the Obamas in the White House in 2012, and is widely viewed as pursuing a political agenda. She is on record calling Trump a cheat and a liar, and pushing the fake Trump/Russia collusion narrative which was so weak, it didn’t even make it into the Democrats’ impeachment case. This is the same Kristen Welker who claimed AOC and the Squad are not socialists, when all of them are self-proclaimed socialists or have socialist ties. Welker has also called Kamala Harris a ‘moderate’ when Harris has the most fringe-left voting record in the Senate, farther left than even Bernie Sanders. Yet, the commission is passing off Welker as an objective and unbiased moderator. What a joke!
The debate commission removed foreign policy from the third debate. It sure looks like they want to protect Joe Biden from questions about payoffs to Hunter and other Biden family members from China and Ukraine. Instead, climate change will be asked - AGAIN - despite the fact the subject was already covered in the first debate. No questions tonight about immigration or the rioting. Gee, I wonder why. Remember, Joe Biden doesn’t have a single endorsement from law enforcement. All those endorsements went to Trump.
But no amount of deck-stacking and machinations by a biased moderator is going to stop Trump from making his case to the American people tonight. They can cut off his mic and do backflips and cartwheels, it’s not going to matter. Trump will find a way to put his points across, and people will see through the shenanigans. They will know just how unfair the swamp creatures at the debate commission have been to the President.
10/21/20 - Joe Biden Leads the Party of Death
Earlier this month, a Catholic priest in Maryland said from the pulpit, "The Democratic Party has become the Party of Death and Catholic Joe Biden is their standard-bearer." The truth of this statement is undeniable. Let’s look at some of the evidence, shall we?
A hormone blocker prescribed to transgender youth has been linked to over six thousand deaths. Nothing against transgender people, but the Democrat Party is out deliberately trying to create more of them by, among other things, pushing the teaching of gender spectrum and gender fluidity in public schools.
Legalization of marijuana in some states, a policy favored by Democrats, has produced a wave of lung injuries and deaths due to the vaping of tainted marijuana concentrates. Wall Street Journal
Studies have found abortion drugs cause excessive bleeding, severe abdominal pain, infection, hemorrhaging, and death - including 22 fatalities in the U.S. alone. LifeNews.com
Abortion, which the Democrats promote, has killed over 60 million babies in the womb in the U.S. since Roe v. Wade in 1973. The number of women killed in botched abortions is mounting. Not content with forcing abortion on every state in the land through Roe, the Democrats now want to expand abortion rights to the moment of birth and beyond - and they want to make you pay for it. The Democrat Governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, is on record advocating infanticide.
The same pattern can be seen in the assisted suicide issue. Democrats are not content with winning assisted suicide laws in several states in terminal cases of supposed ‘intractable pain’. Now they are pushing for assisted suicide and euthanasia for supposed ‘unbearable mental suffering’, children, seniors with dementia, the mentally ill, non-terminal cases, so-called ‘completed lives’, and on and on and on. Just follow the news on this subject and you’ll see what I’m talking about. The Democrats never quit. They are creating a death culture and it’s up to us to stop them.
Joe Biden says he leads the Democrat Party. More needless death lies ahead because of what the Democrat Party has become, and Joe Biden will bear responsibility for all of it if he wins.
10/20/20 - Give Up, Beijing Joe!
‘Give up, G.I. Joe.’ That’s what Tokyo Rose told U.S. troops in World War II to dispirit them. And it’s exactly what Big Media is serving up today to dispirit Trump supporters and make them believe Biden has already won the election.
According to Yahoo News, “The tide turns against Trump as Biden surges to his largest-ever lead among likely voters.”
An AP headline blared, “How Trump plowed through $1 billion, losing cash advantage.”
The New York Times claimed, “Voters Prefer Biden Over Trump on Almost All Major Issues.”
The New York Times also declared, “Trump Is Giving Up.”
And Trump supporters should give up, too - it’s all over, right? Trump supporters should just stay home, stick their head under a pillow, and not come out again until after election day. Oh, I’m SO depressed.
Nice try, journos, but your bias is showing.
A constellation of evidence shows Big Media journalists are biased in favor of the Left and Democrats. Studies show most of them ARE Democrats, most vote Democrat, most of their political contributions are to Democrats, and most self-identify as liberals. If that’s not enough for you, I’m sitting here with four dozen admissions by Big Media journalists themselves they are biased in favor of the Left. Big Media journalists are biased, plain and simple, and that’s beyond dispute.
Moreover, they coordinate. There was something called the Journolist, 400 left-leaning journalists and others who coordinated talking points to help get Barack Obama elected as president. It was shut down after it was discovered, but coordination continued in other ways. This explains why Big Media outlets run the same story at the same time and use the same words to describe what they’re talking about.
That brings us to today, when Big Media outlets are channeling Tokyo Rose to demoralize Trump voters and trick them into believing all is lost. Sorry, but I choose to believe my own lyin’ eyes, instead. There are too many Trump boat flotillas and miles-long Trump car parades to believe Biden will win in a walk. Too many people at Trump rallies, and thousands more who couldn’t get in, to think it’s all over. In contrast, Biden can’t get anybody to show up at his rallies, so he just stays in his basement most of the time. And Trump has a million volunteers making phone calls and knocking on doors to get him re-elected. Biden had no ground game whatsoever for the longest time, and we’ve heard next to nothing about his 11th-hour attempts to build one.
The enthusiasm gap is obviously wide and in favor of Trump. Give up, Beijing Joe, it’s all over.
10/19/20 - Kamala Harris: Serial Liar
Kamala Harris says the darndest things. During the vice-presidential debate, she falsely claimed Abraham Lincoln declined to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court because it was an election year and the nomination should await the outcome of the election. In fact, Lincoln didn’t nominate anyone because the Senate was out of session and he wanted to get all the potential nominees to campaign for his reelection.
Harris told other whoppers during the debate - that President Trump has refused to denounce white supremacy when he has done so repeatedly; that he has made the Middle East less safe when he has just been nominated for four Nobel peace prizes for brokering peace agreements in the Middle East; and that President Trump disbanded Obama’s White House pandemic office when what he did was to slim it down from the 400-person monstrosity it had become.
Harris also trotted out the tired old claims Trump called the coronavirus a hoax and said there were fine people in the fringe groups on both sides at Charlottesville. I’ve debunked these elsewhere, so let move on to other lies she told in the debate that might have escaped your notice:
She claimed Trump’s so-called trade war with China cost America 300,000 manufacturing jobs. That was only a prediction from an investment data firm, but she presented it as fact. She lied about late term abortion which she has every intention of forcing taxpayers to fund. She called the protests peaceful, when there are plenty of stories about the riots, destroyed businesses, and attempts to blind police officers with lasers for anyone who cares to look. But all the big media outlets care about is whether you pronounce her name correctly. Typical maneuver - focus on trivia to distract your attention from more important things.
There’s more, but we’ll stop there. It’s easy to win an argument if you just make stuff up and ignore anyone who points out none of it is true. But now that you know the truth, the prospect of pulling the lever for the Harris-Biden administration should have gotten just a little bit harder for you.
10/16/20 - Time to Hold Twitter and Facebook Accountable for Their Editorial Decisions
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act immunizes the big tech platforms from lawsuits based on third-party content. They can’t be held liable for defamation or other editorial transgressions simply because someone else puts offending content on their platforms. The tech giants are just pipes, just conduits for other people’s information, or so the thinking went when the Communications Decency Act was passed in 1996.
That was then, this is now. Yesterday, Twitter and Facebook made the editorial decision to block new revelations about Hunter Biden’s business dealing and Joe Biden’s role in them. Twitter and Facebook are no longer just pipes. They are acting as editors, deciding who gets to see what, and putting their thumb on the scale in the election. It’s time to hold them accountable for their actions as the editors they have become, just like other editors who must meet legal standards for their own decisions every day.
There might finally be enough support to repeal Section 230. Senator Josh Hawley has asked the heads of Twitter and Facebook to appear at a hearing on the tech platform’s election interference. The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on a subpoena for Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey next Tuesday. The Trump campaign accused Twitter and Facebook of colluding with the Biden campaign.
Twitter and Facebook are clearly biased. Facebook’s employee who made the decision to hide the Hunter Biden story is a former Democrat staffer. Twitter’s public policy director left last month to join Joe Biden’s transition team. Facebook made their decision before the facts were even in. Twitter blocked not only the story, but the entire Trump campaign and the White House press secretary. It will surprise no one to learn that 95 percent of political contributions from the employees of big tech companies have gone to Joe Biden.
Twitter gave the specious explanation it was squelching the story because Hunter Biden’s emails were hacked, which everybody knows is not the case. They came from a hard drive that Hunter Biden left at a computer repair store that was turned over to the FBI. The explanation was also given that the emails were illicitly obtained. Nobody worried about that when they were running stories about Trump’s tax returns, did they? The tax returns were leaked, illicitly.
The truth is yesterday’s backflips were a blatant attempt to censor the news. Nobody’s saying these companies don’t have free speech rights, but they are now editors and should be held accountable as such, just like President Trump said yesterday.
At the same time, the political Right must scale up its own media and do more to attract people to our ideas. We are to blame for getting into a position where we can be frozen out of the public square. Your suggestions on how we can make bigger megaphones for ourselves are welcome. Send them to tips@liberato.us.
10/15/20 - What Did Joe Biden Know and When Did He Know It?
The Left is pulling out all the stops to kill the Hunter Biden story, but it’s not gonna work.
Recovered emails show Hunter Biden introduced Joe Biden to a Burisma executive and the two met, contradicting Joe’s previous claim he never spoke to his son about his son’s business dealings.
After the story broke yesterday, Twitter and Facebook quickly moved to block it and keep people from knowing about it. In fact, Facebook restricted its distribution of the story before it even knew what the facts were. Twitter prevented the New York Post, which broke the story, from tweeting it. Twitter also blocked White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany completely for tweeting the story.
Meanwhile, back in dinosaur TV Land, ABC, CBS, and NBC all censored the story. The swamp creatures at the FBI did their part. They had the information a year ago and sat on it.
The Biden campaign denied yesterday the meeting with the Burisma executive ever took place, offering the really lame excuse it doesn’t appear on Joe Biden’s official calendar. Funny thing is, other meetings we know took place don’t appear on his official calendar, either - Joe Biden’s meeting in the Oval Office with his son-in-law’s business partners in 2011 when Joe Biden was Vice-President; a meeting with Hunter Biden’s Chinese investment firm partner in 2013; and the notorious January 5, 2017 meeting with Obama and others in the Oval Office to discuss how to jack up Michael Flynn.
Under pressure, the Biden campaign now admits some kind of meeting with the Burisma executive might have taken place, but it was cursory, you see.
All of this stinks to high heaven - selling the office of the vice-president for personal gain, then lying about it. What are you hidin’, Biden? You got some explaining to do.
10/14/20 - Minnows Try to Derail the Trump Train
The stupid stories are back. Anything to derail the Trump Train.
The New York Times and Washington Post alleged, in a matter of pressing national urgency, that President Trump was using a digital background in a video showing him speaking from the South Lawn of the White House. So many conspiracies, so little time. I hope somebody gets to the bottom of this one. The stakes couldn’t be higher. The people have a right to know.
An MSNBC commentator said the way Florida Governor Ron DeSantis moved through a crowd at a Trump rally reminded him of old films of leaders from ‘troubling regimes’ in decades past, apparently referring to Hitler and Nazi Germany. So Ron DeSantis is a secret Nazi and we should all be very afraid. I, for one, am glad it’s all out in the open now. We don’t have to wonder any longer.
On a more serious note, former acting CIA director Michael Morrell co-authored an article in the Washington Post declaring President Trump’s debts make Trump a national security risk. Here you need to consider the source. Morrell served in the Obama administration and publicly endorsed Hillary Clinton for president in the New York Times in 2016. The current article is full of what if’s and maybe’s and fails to present a single shred of evidence showing Trump is compromised by his debts to foreigners. It completely ignores the fact Trump files annual financial disclosure forms, that’s not even mentioned. As for Trump’s debts, stories like this have a bad habit of pointing to ordinary mortgage debt on Trump properties and trying to pass them off as personal debts of the President and something extraordinary to be worried about. Everybody knew about Trump’s business activities and associated debt when he was elected President in 2016. So why is this story, like the crazy stories I mentioned earlier, appearing now in the run-up to the election?
They’re all part of a steady drumbeat of stories and stratagems to damage Trump’s reelection prospects that have been rolling out recently, and will keep on rolling out right through November 3rd. So take each one of them with a grain of salt, realize they are politically motivated, and don’t forget to laugh.
But if these stories are the best Trump’s enemies can do, they’re in real trouble and they know it.
10/13/20 - Dems Shoot Themselves in the Foot on Court Packing (Twice)
The Democrats’ narrative on court packing has just morphed from stupid to stupider. It’s only been three days since Joe Biden refused to answer questions about whether he would pack the Supreme Court if elected, saying the voters do not deserve to know his position in advance. That’s right, we have to elect this ticket to see what’s in it, just like Nancy Pelosi said about Obamacare. Later, Biden blamed the media for making an issue out of it. That’s right, you don’t deserve to know and you should be ashamed of yourself for even asking. Pretty darn arrogant, don’t you think? Not a good look, Joe.
But the Democrats made things even worse for themselves when they started morphing the definition of ‘court packing’ from adding seats to the Supreme Court so liberals can outvote conservatives every time to confirming nominated judges for existing vacancies. You heard that right: the ordinary constitutionally-mandated business of confirming judges is now ‘court packing’ according to the Democrats.
Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder said confirming nominated judges is court packing. Republican Senator Ben Sasse said at the Amy Coney Barrett hearing yesterday that Democrats trying to tell people court packing now means filling existing judicial vacancies are trying to play the American people for fools.
The Democrats must have found their new definition of court packing in an alternate universe. If they were trying to deflect attention from Joe Biden’s refusal to answer the question about court packing, they couldn’t have chosen a stupider way to do it.
All of this illustrates Wright’s Law: Everything that comes out of the mouth of the Left can be deconstructed because everything that comes out of the mouth of the Left is garbage.
You might think the Democrats and the Left are the cool group, but why would you want to hang out with people who make such stupid arguments that are so easily destroyed? The answer is: you shouldn’t. So guard your emotional independence, think for yourself, and stop acting like you belong to a cult. People who just nod their heads and say ‘uh-huh’ when their cult leader says the cult members don’t deserve to know what the cult is really up to are cultists clinging to a fake religion, whether they realize it or not.
10/12/20 - “China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man.”
In late September, Senate Republicans issued a report showing potentially criminal activity by Hunter Biden in Ukrainian and other foreign business deals occurring when Joe Biden was vice president. Subsequently, House Republicans joined Senate Republicans in calling on the FBI to investigate the suspicious financial activities of Joe Biden and his son Hunter, flagged by the Treasury Department.
If you think that’s bad, wait until you see the documentary ‘Riding the Dragon’ laying out Hunter Biden’s business deals with China, benefitting the Biden family. The documentary is based on court papers and other official records, and has gotten over a million views on YouTube. It features Peter Schweizer, the well-known investigator who wrote ‘Clinton Cash’ exposing corruption at the Clinton Foundation.
‘Riding the Dragon’ describes how Hunter set up an investment company called Bohai Harvest which received a billion dollars in funding from the Chinese government. The deal came shortly after Joe Biden made an official visit to China while vice president. His son Hunter went with him. The film goes on to detail several other such dealings.
If all this were just ordinary political nepotism and corruption, that would be one thing. But the film makes the point some of these deals were with companies associated with the Chinese military. So these deals, struck by the son of a sitting vice president, were actually contrary to U.S. interests. One deal involved dual use technology that could be used by the Chinese military. Another deal involved surveillance equipment China uses to repress the Uighurs in Xinjiang province. A third example involved helping the Chinese lock up world supplies of strategic minerals used in weaponry at a time when the Obama administration was opposing China’s actions on strategic minerals.
In the film, Hunter admits he would not have gotten many opportunities if his last name hadn’t been Biden. A year ago, Kamala Harris said she would “probably not” allow her child to serve on the board of a foreign company like Joe Biden allowed Hunter Biden to do. If you’re voting for Joe Biden, fine, but realize you are voting for corruption and a family quite willing to sell out its own country to make a buck. Are you sure that’s the vote you want to cast? C’mon, man.
10/9/20 - Ease the Lockdowns
The news about COVID is not as good as when I last commented on this subject two weeks ago, but continues to point in the direction of easing the lockdowns.
COVID cases are back above two percent of all emergency room visits, according to CDC numbers. That compares to almost three percent in early August. The number has been hovering around two percent since late August.
There are reports of hospitals under strain in Wisconsin, but they are adjusting by adding a field hospital, transferring patients to other facilities, and putting non-essential cases on waitlists. That’s just one state out of 50 reporting any kind of problem, at all. You may recall the Army was able to put up field hospitals quickly early in the pandemic. Any claim total capacity in Wisconsin will be overwhelmed is pure demagoguery.
The media wrongfully continues to focus on the number of new ‘cases’, by which they really mean the number of positive tests. However, more tests are being done so, of course, the raw number of positive results is going up. But that’s meaningless. What we have, generally speaking, is a spike in testing, not a spike in serious illness. If you adjust the number of positive test results by the increased testing volume, the picture that emerges shows the positivity rate is essentially flat:
As for serious illness, severe illness among children is rare, and daily hospitalizations and deaths are well down from their peak:
In addition, we have more indications politicians are hyping the situation for their own purposes. A Pennsylvania Democratic State Representative got caught saying she wears a mask on camera for “political theater”. We learned recently the CDC has been inflating their COVID death numbers by more than 5,000 by including poisonings and injuries and by counting all cases with co-morbidities as COVID deaths. ‘Following the science’ has become ‘follow the politics’.
It is no wonder, then, that 17,000 medical and public health practitioners and scientists have signed the Great Barrington Declaration calling for protecting the vulnerable and allowing everyone else to get back to normal, including opening schools and businesses. These professionals advocate minimizing social harm while we go through this pandemic, and that’s the side of the equation too many self-interested politicians have been ignoring up to this point.
It is no wonder, then, that 17,000 medical and public health practitioners and scientists have signed the Great Barrington Declaration calling for protecting the vulnerable and allowing everyone else to get back to normal, including opening schools and businesses. These professionals advocate minimizing social harm while we go through this pandemic, and that’s the side of the equation too many self-interested politicians have been ignoring up to this point.
10/8/20 - Kamala Harris Thinks You’re Stupid
One thing worse than telling lies is repeating old lies that have already debunked. Kamala Harris told several of those in last night’s debate.
First, she said Trump called the coronavirus a hoax. This whopper has been debunked by six independent fact checkers and got Joe Biden ‘4 Pinnochios’ from the Washington Post. Trump never said the virus was a hoax. He said the Democrats’ response to it was a hoax.
Number two, she said Trump only paid $750 in income taxes. But the article making that claim itself said Trump paid millions.
Number three, she said Trump called the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville fine people. In fact, he wasn’t referring to the fringe groups at all. He was referring to the ordinary people who were there that day to protest about the statues. He said there were fine people on both sides of that debate. Even left-wing Politifact had to admit the truth about this one.
Lastly, she said Trump called American soldiers suckers and losers. This is based on a story in the Atlantic which only cited four anonymous sources. After that story, lots of administration officials who were there that day identified themselves and went on the public record to say it never happened.
The best way to handle old lies is to rebut quickly then pivot and counterattack. Mike Pence did a good job of cornering her last night on several points.
She wouldn’t say whether a Biden administration would pack the Supreme Court.
She tried to deny she and Biden support the outlandish Green New Deal and would ban fracking, but they’re on record in favor of both.
She said she and Biden would only raise taxes on the rich, but couldn’t counter when Pence described how their plan to repeal the Trump tax cuts would raise everyone’s taxes.
She had no comeback when Pence pointed out the Biden coronavirus plan merely plagiarizes what Trump has already been doing.
She was silent when Pence accused Biden and the Democrats of refusing to accept a peaceful transition of power after the 2016 election.
But the biggest takeaway from last night’s debate? Kamala Harris thinks you’re stupid. Remember that when you’re voting. And Kamala? It’s pretty stupid to keep telling lies that have already been debunked. You need some new shtick.
10/7/20 - Media Pipsqueaks Trying to Make Himalayas Out of Molehills
Big media outlets have come out with the stupidest stories about Trump in the last couple of days. They really are scraping the bottom of the barrel in their efforts to maintain relentless 24/7 negative coverage of Trump so as to damage his re-election prospects any way they can.
Let’s start with the story of Trump appearing on the White House balcony. This supposedly makes Trump an authoritarian, like Eva Peron or something. Never mind the rebuttal photos we’ve seen since showing Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, and lots of others standing on that same balcony. How lame can you get?
Well, lamer, as it turns out. Next came the conspiracy theory, reported as news, that Trump is sicker than his doctors said and he might well die of coronavirus. There’s a giant cover-up concerning the President’s health, you see. You saw Trump’s drive-by outside the hospital and his video message when he got back to the White House. Who you gonna believe - the lunatic media or your own lying eyes? How idiotic can the media get?
Wait, there’s more. Then came the complaints that Trump got special COVID medical treatments not available to ordinary folks. They put special medical equipment in the White House for the leader of the free world - oh, the horror! They gave him remdesivir. So what? Lots of COVID patients get remdesivir. I challenge them to explain to me exactly what the big deal about remdesivir is. The fact they felt the need to cite remdesivir means they know they don’t have anything worth talking about.
Or how about the story suggesting that Trump is mentally impaired from all his medications, yet remains near the nuclear codes. That one’s not worth a response other than to say it’s from the same wolf-pack media that tried to pass off Biden supporters as undecided voters at a Biden town hall recently, but got caught.
Instead of behaving like good Americans and celebrating the fact that their President is getting better, the press went out of its way to nip at his heels any way they could. If you hate Trump and don’t think you want to vote for him, fine, but you’re going to have to have a better reason than the garbage the lying-through-their-teeth media is feeding you. Otherwise, you’re wasting your vote.
10/6/20 - Undercover Sting Videos Put the Lie to ‘There Is No Voter Fraud’
The Democrats and the Left keep saying ‘there is no voter fraud’. They need to watch two new undercover sting videos that show admitted voter fraud of breathtaking proportions in Minnesota connected to Congressional Representative Ilhan Omar. These videos irrefutably document a ballot harvesting scheme involving Omar’s associates. Minnesota police are looking into the matter.
Both videos are based on information brought to light by a courageous Somali political activist who came forward and believes voter fraud threatens America’s entire system of representative government.
In the first video, a ballot harvester in Minneapolis brags about his car being full of absentee ballots. The video shows a voter admitting he got paid for his vote. The video goes on to describe how the various schemes are carried out. Ballots are harvested from entire buildings full of seniors. Omar’s operatives fill out ballots for voters. The operatives take the ballots and tell the voters to stay home on election day. Omar’s campaign manager oversees a voting site where ballots get marked and identification rules are waived for allies voting in person. It’s an open secret - everybody knows this is going on, a source in video says. Of course, all of this violates state and federal election laws.
In the second video, a ballot harvester is caught on camera exchanging cash for a vote. One person admits receiving $800 for their vote. Another source says Ilhan Omar is behind it all. Omar operatives actually go into the voting booth under the guise of helping people and vote their ballots for them.
One person involved says he doesn’t care if the whole thing is illegal.
Separately, there’s a major new database that’s just been created showing 140,000 instances of possible voter fraud in the 2016 and 2018 elections. Problems range from dead voters still on the rolls to people voting more than once in the same state or different states. This is on top of a previous database compiling 1,300 proven cases of fraud.
‘There is no voter fraud’. Sure, and I’m the tooth fairy.
10/5/20 - How the Green New Deal Would Turn Your Life Upside Down
Joe Biden’s website expresses support for the Green New Deal. Let’s take a look at what the Green New Deal would do to your life.
Biden says he will ban fracking and the Green New Deal proposes to completely replace fossil fuels with clean energy by 2035. Right now, oil, coal, and natural gas provide 80 percent of America’s energy needs. Replacing dependable coal and natural gas power plants with wind and solar would make electricity dependent on the weather. Solar doesn’t generate much electricity when it’s cloudy and wind turbines don’t either on the hottest and coldest days. California already has blackouts from its green energy policies and you could expect things to get much worse under the Green New Deal. The Green New Deal would also destroy up to 10 million high-paying energy-related jobs and replace them with low-paying temporary jobs installing and dismantling wind turbines, solar panels and batteries.
This brave new energy future would require millions of wind turbines eating up vast tracts of land, plus, thousands of miles of new power lines, and billions of tons of concrete. This would destroy millions of acres of farmland and wildlife habitat. Lots of scenic vistas would be ruined. The effect on wildlife would be incalculable.
You could also expect to pay a lot more for electricity, not the 7 to 11 cents per kilowatt hour you pay today. Already, consumers in U.S. states with green energy mandates pay 14 to 22 cents and Germany - which went all in on green energy and is now backing away - pays 35 cents. Bottom line: you can expect to pay more than double and not have electricity every time you want it. Make no mistake: your standard of living will go DOWN under the Green New Deal.
I’m not against progress, but I am against people who won’t talk about the bad stuff with their pie-in-the-sky proposals. Green New Deal supporters won’t talk about the land all this will consume, how it will raise everybody’s taxes, and costs, what they will do with all the toxic waste the Green New Deal will generate or the fact that everything from cosmetics to paint will become much more difficult if you leave fossil fuels in the ground. When they do admit the problems the Green New Deal will cause and start talking about the bad stuff, instead of just telling us how great everything’s going to be, maybe I’ll start to listen.
One thing worse than telling lies is repeating old lies that have already debunked. Kamala Harris told several of those in last night’s debate.
First, she said Trump called the coronavirus a hoax. This whopper has been debunked by six independent fact checkers and got Joe Biden ‘4 Pinnochios’ from the Washington Post. Trump never said the virus was a hoax. He said the Democrats’ response to it was a hoax.
Number two, she said Trump only paid $750 in income taxes. But the article making that claim itself said Trump paid millions.
Number three, she said Trump called the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville fine people. In fact, he wasn’t referring to the fringe groups at all. He was referring to the ordinary people who were there that day to protest about the statues. He said there were fine people on both sides of that debate. Even left-wing Politifact had to admit the truth about this one.
Lastly, she said Trump called American soldiers suckers and losers. This is based on a story in the Atlantic which only cited four anonymous sources. After that story, lots of administration officials who were there that day identified themselves and went on the public record to say it never happened.
The best way to handle old lies is to rebut quickly then pivot and counterattack. Mike Pence did a good job of cornering her last night on several points.
She wouldn’t say whether a Biden administration would pack the Supreme Court.
She tried to deny she and Biden support the outlandish Green New Deal and would ban fracking, but they’re on record in favor of both.
She said she and Biden would only raise taxes on the rich, but couldn’t counter when Pence described how their plan to repeal the Trump tax cuts would raise everyone’s taxes.
She had no comeback when Pence pointed out the Biden coronavirus plan merely plagiarizes what Trump has already been doing.
She was silent when Pence accused Biden and the Democrats of refusing to accept a peaceful transition of power after the 2016 election.
But the biggest takeaway from last night’s debate? Kamala Harris thinks you’re stupid. Remember that when you’re voting. And Kamala? It’s pretty stupid to keep telling lies that have already been debunked. You need some new shtick.
10/7/20 - Media Pipsqueaks Trying to Make Himalayas Out of Molehills
Big media outlets have come out with the stupidest stories about Trump in the last couple of days. They really are scraping the bottom of the barrel in their efforts to maintain relentless 24/7 negative coverage of Trump so as to damage his re-election prospects any way they can.
Let’s start with the story of Trump appearing on the White House balcony. This supposedly makes Trump an authoritarian, like Eva Peron or something. Never mind the rebuttal photos we’ve seen since showing Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, and lots of others standing on that same balcony. How lame can you get?
Well, lamer, as it turns out. Next came the conspiracy theory, reported as news, that Trump is sicker than his doctors said and he might well die of coronavirus. There’s a giant cover-up concerning the President’s health, you see. You saw Trump’s drive-by outside the hospital and his video message when he got back to the White House. Who you gonna believe - the lunatic media or your own lying eyes? How idiotic can the media get?
Wait, there’s more. Then came the complaints that Trump got special COVID medical treatments not available to ordinary folks. They put special medical equipment in the White House for the leader of the free world - oh, the horror! They gave him remdesivir. So what? Lots of COVID patients get remdesivir. I challenge them to explain to me exactly what the big deal about remdesivir is. The fact they felt the need to cite remdesivir means they know they don’t have anything worth talking about.
Or how about the story suggesting that Trump is mentally impaired from all his medications, yet remains near the nuclear codes. That one’s not worth a response other than to say it’s from the same wolf-pack media that tried to pass off Biden supporters as undecided voters at a Biden town hall recently, but got caught.
Instead of behaving like good Americans and celebrating the fact that their President is getting better, the press went out of its way to nip at his heels any way they could. If you hate Trump and don’t think you want to vote for him, fine, but you’re going to have to have a better reason than the garbage the lying-through-their-teeth media is feeding you. Otherwise, you’re wasting your vote.
10/6/20 - Undercover Sting Videos Put the Lie to ‘There Is No Voter Fraud’
The Democrats and the Left keep saying ‘there is no voter fraud’. They need to watch two new undercover sting videos that show admitted voter fraud of breathtaking proportions in Minnesota connected to Congressional Representative Ilhan Omar. These videos irrefutably document a ballot harvesting scheme involving Omar’s associates. Minnesota police are looking into the matter.
Both videos are based on information brought to light by a courageous Somali political activist who came forward and believes voter fraud threatens America’s entire system of representative government.
In the first video, a ballot harvester in Minneapolis brags about his car being full of absentee ballots. The video shows a voter admitting he got paid for his vote. The video goes on to describe how the various schemes are carried out. Ballots are harvested from entire buildings full of seniors. Omar’s operatives fill out ballots for voters. The operatives take the ballots and tell the voters to stay home on election day. Omar’s campaign manager oversees a voting site where ballots get marked and identification rules are waived for allies voting in person. It’s an open secret - everybody knows this is going on, a source in video says. Of course, all of this violates state and federal election laws.
In the second video, a ballot harvester is caught on camera exchanging cash for a vote. One person admits receiving $800 for their vote. Another source says Ilhan Omar is behind it all. Omar operatives actually go into the voting booth under the guise of helping people and vote their ballots for them.
One person involved says he doesn’t care if the whole thing is illegal.
Separately, there’s a major new database that’s just been created showing 140,000 instances of possible voter fraud in the 2016 and 2018 elections. Problems range from dead voters still on the rolls to people voting more than once in the same state or different states. This is on top of a previous database compiling 1,300 proven cases of fraud.
‘There is no voter fraud’. Sure, and I’m the tooth fairy.
10/5/20 - How the Green New Deal Would Turn Your Life Upside Down
Joe Biden’s website expresses support for the Green New Deal. Let’s take a look at what the Green New Deal would do to your life.
Biden says he will ban fracking and the Green New Deal proposes to completely replace fossil fuels with clean energy by 2035. Right now, oil, coal, and natural gas provide 80 percent of America’s energy needs. Replacing dependable coal and natural gas power plants with wind and solar would make electricity dependent on the weather. Solar doesn’t generate much electricity when it’s cloudy and wind turbines don’t either on the hottest and coldest days. California already has blackouts from its green energy policies and you could expect things to get much worse under the Green New Deal. The Green New Deal would also destroy up to 10 million high-paying energy-related jobs and replace them with low-paying temporary jobs installing and dismantling wind turbines, solar panels and batteries.
This brave new energy future would require millions of wind turbines eating up vast tracts of land, plus, thousands of miles of new power lines, and billions of tons of concrete. This would destroy millions of acres of farmland and wildlife habitat. Lots of scenic vistas would be ruined. The effect on wildlife would be incalculable.
You could also expect to pay a lot more for electricity, not the 7 to 11 cents per kilowatt hour you pay today. Already, consumers in U.S. states with green energy mandates pay 14 to 22 cents and Germany - which went all in on green energy and is now backing away - pays 35 cents. Bottom line: you can expect to pay more than double and not have electricity every time you want it. Make no mistake: your standard of living will go DOWN under the Green New Deal.
I’m not against progress, but I am against people who won’t talk about the bad stuff with their pie-in-the-sky proposals. Green New Deal supporters won’t talk about the land all this will consume, how it will raise everybody’s taxes, and costs, what they will do with all the toxic waste the Green New Deal will generate or the fact that everything from cosmetics to paint will become much more difficult if you leave fossil fuels in the ground. When they do admit the problems the Green New Deal will cause and start talking about the bad stuff, instead of just telling us how great everything’s going to be, maybe I’ll start to listen.
10/2/20 - Joe Biden Wants to Make Solyndra Great Again
Joe Biden said during the debate the Green New Deal is not his plan, but here’s what it says on his own website:
“Biden believes the Green New Deal is a crucial framework for meeting the climate challenges we face.”
Can’t get much clearer than that. Joe Biden endorses the Green New Deal and he tried to cover up that fact by lying to you during the debate, one of 33 lies he told you that night.
Let’s take a closer look at Biden’s energy plan, as described at JoeBiden.com. It starts with the false premise that human-made climate change is real. Sure, and I’m the tooth fairy. The Left always trots out the slogan ’97 percent of scientists agree human-made climate change is real’, but that claim has been thoroughly debunked. Over 31,000 American scientists have signed a public statement saying:
“There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the earth’s climate.” So much for the supposed scientific consensus underlying Biden’s plan, as if consensus could decide scientific questions, in the first place. There once was a consensus the earth was flat, but that didn’t make the earth flat or the flat-earthers right, did it. If you believe human-induced climate change is destroying the earth, you believe it because you have a fake religion, not because you’re following the science.
So the whole premise of Biden’s plan is bogus. Now let’s take a look at just one of the ruinous effects and human suffering Biden’s misguided plan would cause. Biden wants to spend $1.7 trillion of federal money, plus trillions more from other sources, to create green energy jobs. Biden had a lot to do with President Obama’s clean energy plan, Including overseeing the disastrous $535 million loan guarantee to Solyndra which went bankrupt. Now, he’s telling you he wants trillions more of your money for more subsidies to Make Solyndra Great Again. It didn’t work the first time. What makes you think it will work this time? Those green energy subsidies cost the country a lot of money and we got NOTHING for it. The subsidy program was a complete failure and Joe Biden wants to repeat it. I can think of better things to do with trillions of dollars than watch Joe Biden pour it all down the drain.
Joe Biden said during the debate the Green New Deal is not his plan, but here’s what it says on his own website:
“Biden believes the Green New Deal is a crucial framework for meeting the climate challenges we face.”
Can’t get much clearer than that. Joe Biden endorses the Green New Deal and he tried to cover up that fact by lying to you during the debate, one of 33 lies he told you that night.
Let’s take a closer look at Biden’s energy plan, as described at JoeBiden.com. It starts with the false premise that human-made climate change is real. Sure, and I’m the tooth fairy. The Left always trots out the slogan ’97 percent of scientists agree human-made climate change is real’, but that claim has been thoroughly debunked. Over 31,000 American scientists have signed a public statement saying:
“There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the earth’s climate.” So much for the supposed scientific consensus underlying Biden’s plan, as if consensus could decide scientific questions, in the first place. There once was a consensus the earth was flat, but that didn’t make the earth flat or the flat-earthers right, did it. If you believe human-induced climate change is destroying the earth, you believe it because you have a fake religion, not because you’re following the science.
So the whole premise of Biden’s plan is bogus. Now let’s take a look at just one of the ruinous effects and human suffering Biden’s misguided plan would cause. Biden wants to spend $1.7 trillion of federal money, plus trillions more from other sources, to create green energy jobs. Biden had a lot to do with President Obama’s clean energy plan, Including overseeing the disastrous $535 million loan guarantee to Solyndra which went bankrupt. Now, he’s telling you he wants trillions more of your money for more subsidies to Make Solyndra Great Again. It didn’t work the first time. What makes you think it will work this time? Those green energy subsidies cost the country a lot of money and we got NOTHING for it. The subsidy program was a complete failure and Joe Biden wants to repeat it. I can think of better things to do with trillions of dollars than watch Joe Biden pour it all down the drain.
10/1/20 - Joe Biden: ‘Antifa is Just an Idea’
Joe Biden claimed in the debate that Antifa is just an ‘idea’, but how many ideas do you know that have their own flag?
The head of the FBI testified Antifa is not fiction and the Bureau is investigating its connections to the violence in our cities. Moreover, DHS email shows there is overwhelming evidence Antifa organized the violence in Portland. As President Trump said yesterday, ideas don’t assault cops or burn down buildings.
Antifa has a long history. Trotsky had an idea for a communist street army and that vision crystallized into an organized group with communist ties in Germany in the 1930s. Antifa is still around today in Germany, with authorities there calling it violent and part of the extreme left.
Liberal-Left Wikipedia describes Antifa in America today as a decentralized array of autonomous groups, of which there were approximately 200 in 2017. They are communist or otherwise far-left in orientation and use digital encryption techniques to escape the reach of law enforcement. The oldest Antifa group in the U.S. is Rose City Antifa in Portland which has clashed with counterprotesters and police. Rose City Antifa proclaims it is unapologetic over the use of violence.
Undercover sting videos show Antifa militants engaged in weapons training and espousing revolution, showing rioters how to break ribs and cripple their opponents with kidney punches, and gouge people’s eyes out. A Bernie Sanders campaign worker was caught on tape saying he attends Antifa events and the Rule of Law should be upended.
For Trotsky, Antifa was just an idea. Joe Biden, however, cannot make this claim, there’s just too much evidence, including evidence from left-wing Wikipedia. So is Joe Biden just ignorant, or playing dumb in the service of a left-wing agenda? I’ve given you the facts, so those are the only two choices. You decide. No matter which you decide, you can no longer claim ‘Antifa is just an idea’ with a straight face.
Joe Biden claimed in the debate that Antifa is just an ‘idea’, but how many ideas do you know that have their own flag?
The head of the FBI testified Antifa is not fiction and the Bureau is investigating its connections to the violence in our cities. Moreover, DHS email shows there is overwhelming evidence Antifa organized the violence in Portland. As President Trump said yesterday, ideas don’t assault cops or burn down buildings.
Antifa has a long history. Trotsky had an idea for a communist street army and that vision crystallized into an organized group with communist ties in Germany in the 1930s. Antifa is still around today in Germany, with authorities there calling it violent and part of the extreme left.
Liberal-Left Wikipedia describes Antifa in America today as a decentralized array of autonomous groups, of which there were approximately 200 in 2017. They are communist or otherwise far-left in orientation and use digital encryption techniques to escape the reach of law enforcement. The oldest Antifa group in the U.S. is Rose City Antifa in Portland which has clashed with counterprotesters and police. Rose City Antifa proclaims it is unapologetic over the use of violence.
Undercover sting videos show Antifa militants engaged in weapons training and espousing revolution, showing rioters how to break ribs and cripple their opponents with kidney punches, and gouge people’s eyes out. A Bernie Sanders campaign worker was caught on tape saying he attends Antifa events and the Rule of Law should be upended.
For Trotsky, Antifa was just an idea. Joe Biden, however, cannot make this claim, there’s just too much evidence, including evidence from left-wing Wikipedia. So is Joe Biden just ignorant, or playing dumb in the service of a left-wing agenda? I’ve given you the facts, so those are the only two choices. You decide. No matter which you decide, you can no longer claim ‘Antifa is just an idea’ with a straight face.
9/30/20 - Joe Biden’s Litany of Lies in the Debate
Joe Biden told so many lies in the debate last night, it’s a wonder his nose didn’t come poking through my television screen.
He repeated the old canard Trump called the white supremacists in Charlottesville ‘fine people’. That’s been debunked by so many factcheckers - including the avowedly Left-wing Politifact - I’ve lost count. Trump was referring to the crowd of protesters in general when he said there were fine people on both sides.
Biden claimed he never said he would get rid of fracking, but he’s on video promising he would.
He said the Green New Deal is not his plan, but it’s right there on his website.
He said the allegations about his son Hunter have been discredited, but they are contained in government documents and recently affirmed in a Senate report. No one has ever refuted them.
He claimed Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway expressed hope for more violence in America’s cities. Conway went on Twitter to call him a liar.
He said Antifa is just an ‘idea’, but the head of the FBI testified Antifa is not fiction and the Bureau is investigating its connections to the violence. Moreover, DHS email shows there is overwhelming evidence Antifa organized the violence in Portland.
I could go on. The Trump campaign counted 33 false or misleading claims in all from Biden in the debate. But here’s the point: Joe Biden has abused your trust just like a lover who cheats on you. It’s not just that he’s given you inaccurate information. It’s not even just that he’s lied to you. It’s that he’s done so repeatedly, without shame, 33 times in one night, right to your face. So here’s my question: Isn’t there something wrong if he has to lie to make his case? Why would you trust anyone who thinks you’ll go right on believing him after he’s been caught so many times lying to your face? Untrustworthy Joe, time for you to go.
9/29/20 - The ‘Trump Paid No Taxes’ Story is Full of Holes
Big media outlets are trying to keep the ‘Trump paid no taxes’ story alive any way they can, so let’s give them a little help, shall we?
The New York Times reported on Sunday President Trump has “paid no income tax in 10 of the past 15 years.” Right off the bat, we see problems with the New York Times story. First, the story itself says the reason is “largely because he reported losing much more money than he made.” No business pays income taxes if it loses more money than it makes, nothing strange about that. Second, the Times cherry-picked the years it wanted to talk about so it could leave the impression Trump is a tax cheat. If you look at the years the Times didn’t want to discuss, you find, according to the Times’ own story: Trump paid “$1 million for 2016 and $4.2 million for 2017.” Moreover, “Mr. Trump paid alternative minimum tax in seven years between 2000 and 2017 — a total of $24.3 million....” The story also says Trump asked for a $72.9 million refund one year. You don’t get a refund if you haven’t paid taxes. So the impression the Times wanted to leave, that Trump doesn’t pay income taxes, is completely destroyed by its own reporting, right there in the story itself.
Now let’s focus on the business losses the Times says is the reason for Trump not paying taxes in selected years. Depreciation, business losses, acquisition costs - these are all garden variety tax deductions millions of people take every day. All of them are written into the tax code and are perfectly legal. The Times is trying to make a mountain out of something that isn’t even a molehill. Besides, Joe Biden knows all about lawful tax avoidance. He and his wife Jill set up a Subchapter S corporation to shelter $13 million in profits from speaking and writing engagements and avoid paying $500,000 in payroll taxes. But you don’t find the New York Times writing about that in the run-up to the election, do you?
Now let’s look at the direction the story did not take. There has been no smoking gun and no revelations by big media outlets Trump did something illegal on his taxes. Instead, they’re keeping the story alive with insinuations Trump is a national security risk because people like his hairdresser must have information Trump wants kept secret along with his tax returns and, thus, Trump is supposedly compromised. Lions, tigers and bears, oh my! Only his hairdresser knows for sure, as the old commercial goes. So the story is being kept alive with the rankest of speculation, not anything real or substantive. If you look at the direction the story has turned, you realize it leads nowhere, except to media critics pointing out that the New York Times itself didn’t pay any federal income taxes despite earning $111 million dollars in 2017. The New York Times got hoisted by its own petard by running with this stupid story; it deserved it.
9/28/20 - Left Tone-Deaf on ACB’s Adoptions
Leftists are attacking Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett for adopting two black children from Haiti, one of them with physical challenges who is now a track star. You heard that right - attacking Barrett for sacrificing mightily to help the disadvantaged. Here’s one such attack, insinuating that a conniving Barrett was merely adopting the children to fend off future accusations of racism:
Barrett’s supporters fired back, rightfully calling the attacks a smear, bigoted, hateful, disgusting, and cruel. They also criticized the Left for once again dragging the children of public figures into politics, just like they did with Barron Trump.
Actually, I’m encouraged to see the Left take this line of attack against Barrett. It means they’ve got nothing. They have no legitimate argument to keep her off the Supreme Court, so they’re resorting to mean-spirited attacks on her generous nature. You just keep it up.
You are completely tone deaf and have no idea how attacks like this strike the average person. Every attack you make like this bolsters her case for confirmation and leaves her stronger, not weaker. And you Lefties are supposed to be master tacticians. Not this time. You have miscalculated. You’re pathetic. You’re so immersed in identity politics you don’t have a shred of humanity left.
9/25/20 - Ease the Lockdowns Now
The news on COVID continues to point in the direction of easing the lockdowns and getting back to normal. Since I lasted reported to you on this subject two weeks ago, there have been NO reports of the hospital system being overwhelmed I have seen. In fact, the percentage of ER visits for COVID-like illnesses has fallen dramatically since July and has stabilized at a low 1.7 percent. As you will recall, the original justification for the lockdowns was to keep the hospital system from being overwhelmed - we had to ‘flatten the curve’, right? Well, we’ve done that. In fact, we’ve even bent the curve downwards. As I find myself saying more and more these days: No emergency, no emergency orders.
Doctors are getting better at treating COVID. Outcomes are improving with more informed use of steroids, blood thinners, and remdesivir and less reliance on ventilators.
Early data shows schools are not as risky as feared. Infection rates are not exceeding what is found in surrounding communities and there is little to suggest the virus is spreading inside school buildings.
All those breathless reports about outbreaks at colleges and classes being shut down again can’t cover up the fact there have only been two college students hospitalized and ZERO deaths.
CDC data shows that 3 out of 4 youths who have died from COVID had underlying conditions.
As for older people, your chances of dying from COVID are one in 19.4 million if you are 50-64. Your risk is cut in half if you avoid vitamin D deficiency. It is now believed the COVID tests are too sensitive and many people who test positive have very low viral loads and are not likely contagious.
Public officials continue to play games to justify continuing the lockdowns. The mayor’s office in Nashville was caught in verified emails saying the public was never to know the number of cases generated in bars and restaurants was very low. Oh, by the way, the mayor is a Democrat. Funny how this works.
So, where’s the fire? Where’s the emergency that justifies never-ending emergency orders? Yes, more people will die as things open up further and that’s unfortunate. But people are dying now from depression suicides, failure to receive routine medical tests and treatments, and staying home instead of going to the ER when they have a real problem like a heart attack. How about a little love for them?
9/24/20 - It’s Time for Joe Biden to Come Clean About his Son Hunter
Senate Republicans issued a report showing potentially criminal activity by Hunter Biden in Ukrainian and other foreign business deals occurring when Joe Biden was vice president.
Kimberly Strassel of the Wall Street Journal flagged several issues raised in the Senate report:
Joe Biden [said] last year: "I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings." That's pretty definitive, right? Yet according to testimony from former Obama official Amos Hochstein, he briefed Joe on his concerns about Hunter/Burisma in October 2015... AND
"Shortly after his conversation with Vice President Biden, Hunter Biden contacted Hochstein and asked to meet. According to Hochstein, Hunter became aware of Hochstein’s West Wing conversation with the Vice President, who had mentioned it to Hunter." (Page 17 of report)
Strassel continues: So, Joe Biden was specifically briefed on the U.S. govs concerns about Hunter/Burisma, and he specifically brought up those concerns to his son. How does that comport with "I have never spoken"??
The Trump campaign said Joe Biden was made aware of governmental concerns about his son Hunter’s “corrupt foreign business deals and potential criminal activity with foreign nationals,” but did nothing.
Strassel is not the only one with questions. Others are asking about a $3.5 million wire transfer from a Russian woman to Hunter Biden when Joe Biden was vice president. The Trump campaign is asking why Hunter Biden was handed millions of dollars from foreign sources in Russia and China when Joe Biden was vice president. The Senate report itself said Hunter Biden’s business dealings raised counterintelligence concerns, and went on to link Hunter to a ‘prostitution or human trafficking ring’.
So what, you ask? The big media and the Democrats admitted last year that what Joe and Hunter Biden did was corrupt, but now they don’t care and won’t talk about it.
Moreover, as Kimberly Strassel concludes: This is all relevant given Biden's claim he is the more ethical choice in this election. Voters might legitimately ask if the wink-nod approach to Hunter's wheeling-dealing will be business as usual in a Biden administration.
9/23/20 - ‘The Racist Donald Trump Was Elected by Racists’
A leading UC Berkeley scholar of “right-wing” politics claims President Trump won election in 2016 by uniting right-wing populists, neoliberals, white nationalists, Christian fundamentalists, people driven by their emotions, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and, last but not least, alienated young gamers. In the account I read, Lawrence Rosenthal goes on to claim that Trump cheered on racists and anti-immigrants and the Tea Party switched from free markets to identity politics for its core message.
I’ve lived the Tea Party, and that doesn’t sound like any Tea Party I’ve belonged to for the last 10+ years. It sounds more like a smear from a tendentious left-wing hack who hasn’t stepped outside his ivory tower for a decade.
In the first place, Trump won in 2016 because he turned out the Reagan Democrats - rank-and-file union members who are more socially conservative than their left-wing union bosses. And it looks like the rank and file is poised to turn out for Trump again this time around.
Second, the 2016 election is best understood as a reaction to President Obama pushing so far Left so fast. The reaction is completely understandable in non-conspiratorial terms. People just don’t like that much change all at once.
Third, the Tea Party has never changed its message. It declared its core values more than 10 years ago - limited government under the Constitution, free markets, and fiscal responsibility - and has never wavered from those principles. Most of the national Tea Party Patriots group was originally for Ted Cruz in 2016, but rallied around candidate Trump as the best available alternative to block Hillary Clinton from continuing to march the country leftward. The Tea Party formed in 2009 in large part due to the feeling Washington was out of control.
Fourth, nobody can rightfully claim the Tea Party is anti-immigrant. In more than 10 years as a Tea Partier, I’ve never heard any Tea Partier speak against lawful immigrants. Quite the contrary. My compatriots like immigration and praise lawful immigrants for waiting in line and doing it the right way. Our displeasure has always been focused on people who broke our laws and are here illegally. To twist that into some kind of white supremacy is pure demagoguery.
Fifth, as for the claim fundamentalist Christians elected Trump in 2016, the evangelicals largely stayed home, as they always do and are expected to do again in 2020. That’s millions of votes Trump didn’t get in 2016 and won’t get this year.
Finally, the scholar claims Trump merely absorbed enough “Tea Party speak” to fool Tea Partiers he shares their supposed racial resentments. That claim is completely demolished by the record. Trump has governed as a conservative and substantially in line with Tea Party values for four years. He has cut taxes, eliminated regulations, and put hundreds of conservative judges on the federal bench and Supreme Court. He has also been the most pro-life president ever, not a Tea Party issue but appealing to conservatives generally. If he wins reelection in 2020, it won’t be because he supposedly unites conspiracy nuts and white triumphalists. It will be because his solid record of achievement appeals to Americans of every hue who support conservative values and don’t want the country marched ever leftward right off a cliff.
9/22 - We Won’t Forget and We Won’t Forgive the Riots
The Democrats decided when the riots began it was in their interest to let things spin out of control and sow chaos in major cities under their control. Why they thought that is beyond me. It took CNN’s Don Lemon, of all people, to point out the strategy was backfiring and costing the Democrats in the polls. As well it should.
Yesterday, the Justice Department named New York, Portland, and Seattle as cities allowing anarchy and destruction. The move came as part of the Trump administration’s review of federal funding to states and localities permitting mayhem and violence. The Justice Department laid out the case against the cities in its press release:
Were the Democrats pandering to their radical left-wing base? Hoping to pin everything on President Trump? Creating chaos under the Cloward-Piven strategy? Whatever the calculus was, it was disgraceful, and cost human lives and billions of dollars in economic damage. These Democratic politicians shouldn’t think for a minute they will completely escape accountability for all this mayhem. Business owners and residents in Seattle’s CHOP zone have sued city officials. The Trump administration is contemplating cutting the flow of federal money to cities that gave the rioters a free hand. House Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill to cut federal grants to cities that refuse to prosecute crimes arising from the riots. Then we have the polls saying the riots have hurt, not helped, Democratic election chances. This story might be dropping out of the news, but it isn’t over, not by a long shot.
9/21/20 - Replace Justice Ginsburg Now
President Trump tweeted he would proceed to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by Justice Ginsburg’s death without delay. Mitch McConnell said the nominee will receive a floor vote.
Joe Biden has demanded Ginsburg not be replaced until after the election. But he wrote in 2016 President Obama had a “constitutional duty” and should move quickly in that election year to fill the vacancy caused by Justice Scalia’s death.
All the flip-flops and political expediency aside, here’s what decides the case for me: The Democrats and their allies have spent the last four-plus years trying to run President Trump out of office. They spied on his 2016 presidential campaign and have yet to be brought to justice. They declared they would not accept the results of the 2016 election and resolved to become ‘ungovernable’ - their word, not mine. They rioted, smashed windows, and torched limousines at his 2017 inauguration. They consumed the next two years lying to us about Trump-Russia collusion. They gave up on that, but then lied about the Ukraine phone call and brought what has to be the lamest impeachment case, ever, against a sitting President, in all of American history. They failed miserably. Now they’re back out on the streets rioting for months on end trying to burn down federal buildings and blind police officers with lasers. The rioting stopped being about George Floyd a long time ago. They’ve already threatened to burn everything down and shut down the country if the Supreme Court nomination proceeds now. Hillary Clinton and others have told Biden not to accept the results of the current election, no matter what, and the Biden campaign has lined up 600 lawyers to contest election results in every corner of the land. And who can forget or forgive what happened to Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing - all those bogus last-minute accusations and the pictures of wild-eyed ignoramuses pounding on the doors of the Supreme Court.
After all this, Donald Trump is supposed to stay his hand? Why should the Left’s refusal to accept a peaceful transition of power in the last election and their atrocious behavior ever since be rewarded with a delay now? If the shoe were on the other foot, you know darn well the Democrats would proceed. Elections have consequences. Refusing to accept election results should have consequences, too.
9/18/20 - It’s Not True Kamala Harris is Soft on Crime
Kamala Harris encouraged her followers to contribute to the Minnesota Freedom Fund in a June 1st tweet. The Fund helps post bail for people accused of criminal offenses. The Fund helped a man accused of sexual assault on an 8-year-old girl get out of jail in July. It helped post bail for a man accused of assaulting an elderly woman while he burglarized her home. Apparently, this was the assailant’s own mother. When she asked why he was at her house, he grabbed her shoulders, pulled her down the stairs, and began “punching and kicking her in the ribs, back, and right eye,” according to the probable cause statement in the case. This man skipped bail after he was sprung, and remains at large.
The Fund helped other defendants get out of jail, including a man who murdered a police officer, and a man accused of robbing someone and stomping on their head in Minneapolis.
Despite knowing all of this, Kamala Harris’ donation page continues to accept contributions to this Fund.
This is not normal. Don’t tell me it doesn’t mean anything. This isn’t just being ‘soft on crime’. This is part of an ideological agenda, the same agenda that wants to abolish prisons, defund the police, eliminate bail altogether, and elect prosecutors around the country who will turn around and refuse to prosecute every time they can get away with it, like the prosecutors in St. Louis and Portland.
The Harris-Biden campaign is promoting this agenda. According to President Trump, 13 members of Joe Biden’s staff also contributed to the Minnesota fund. Joe Biden has called the police the enemy and said he wants money currently spent on them to be redirected elsewhere. The Biden-Sanders unity platform wants to dramatically reduce the number of Americans in prison, go back to not disciplining minority students in school, investigate police departments until the cows come home, and end enforcement of the drug laws altogether.
So if you want more crime and chaos in the streets, vote for the Harris-Biden ticket that has a far-Left agenda on crime and can’t wait to implement it. Hope you have private body-guards; you’re going to need them.
9/17/20 - Constitution Day: Back to Basics
Today is Constitution Day. If you’re asking ‘so what’, you’re taking an awful lot for granted.
Let’s start with the rule of law. We have a nation of laws, not a nation of individual whims.
Attorney General William Barr asked federal prosecutors to look into whether the mayor of Seattle can be criminally charged for allowing a lawless autonomous zone to be set up in her city. Previously, Seattle business owners and residents in the autonomous zone sued the city for violating their constitutional rights for allowing the zone to be established. Also, one of my fellow activists put up a White House petition, now closed, calling for elected officials to be held accountable for criminal activity during the riots. Most Americans still want the rule of law the Constitution gave us.
Where does this mayor, and other Democrat politicians like her, get off saying the rule of law doesn’t matter anymore, and lawless autonomous zones are perfectly fine? Of all the unmitigated gall. This won’t go unanswered. I have every faith Seattle’s mayor and other culpable politicians will eventually pay the price for ignoring constitutional basics.
Two other constitutional basics are limited government and individual rights.
These constitutional guarantees were shredded in the autonomous zones. There, power grew out of the barrel of a gun, just like Chairman Mao said. There was no Rule of Law, no consent of the governed. There were no elections, no guaranteed rights, and the individual had no protection from mob rule. Self-appointed warlords carrying assault rifles told everybody what to do. This concentration of power in the hands of a few is exactly what our Founders warned us about, and exactly what they tried to prevent when they wrote the Constitution.
With the COVID numbers in free fall, Attorney General William Barr called the lockdown orders the greatest intrusion on civil liberties since slavery. A judge in Pennsylvania recently knocked down the orders in that state, saying, “The Constitution cannot accept the concept of a 'new normal' where the basic liberties of the people can be subordinated to open-ended emergency mitigation measures.”
So, if you like lawless autonomous zones, rioting and looting, and never-ending emergency orders when there is no longer any emergency, vote Democrat. But if you like the rule of law, limited government, and individual rights, take a moment today to thank the Constitution and the Founders of our country.
9/16/20 - California Law School Deans Wrong on Critical Race Theory
The University of California law school deans recently issued a statement defending critical race theory, after President Trump prohibited federal agencies from teaching the theory to employees, calling it anti-American propaganda.
The law school deans assert it’s not accurate to say critical race theory holds the United States is “an inherently racist or evil country” or that white people are “inherently racist or evil.” Let’s test these assertions.
Critical race theory holds that racism is ingrained in the fabric of American society and that institutional racism is pervasive in the dominant culture. These power structures are based on white privilege and white supremacy, which perpetuate the marginalization of people of color.
Well, it sure sounds like critical race theory condemns the U.S. and all white people as “inherently racist” and “evil” to me.
The deans admit critical race theory is all about structural racism. Structural racism theory holds that any disparity of outcome between groups - in health, income, education, etc. - is due to racism, not personal choices or any other factor. The deans admit structural racism theory is all about erasing disparities.
The deans go on to say their institutions must become anti-racist. Anti-racism theory holds that one is still racist unless one is an activist constantly engaged in fighting racism. It’s not enough to be a person of goodwill quietly living your own life without offending others; you must be an in-your-face social justice warrior or you are a racist.
Critical race theory is an outgrowth of critical legal studies which has Marxist roots. Critical race theory ultimately derives from critical theory which came from the Frankfurt School, a group of theorists pushing the cultural Marxism of Antonio Gramsci. Why do you suppose the law school deans neglected to mention that?
Critical race theory has foundations in postmodernism - which holds there is no truth - and moral relativism - which holds that there is no objective morality.
‘Critical’ in this context doesn’t mean analytical thinking. It means criticizing everything and tearing everything down until nothing’s left. This is what cultural Marxists seek to do, to destroy everything that currently exists to soften you up to accept their authoritarian, collectivist program - run by them.
By their policy prescriptions, ye shall know them. The structural racism crowd advocates wiping out all disparities by authoritarian, collectivist means. This would mean, among other things, society-levelling tax rates 60 to 80 percent.
If you want to tear everything down and kill the goose the lays the golden eggs, then critical race theory is the theory for you. We are a long way from the civil rights movement of the 1960s where the focus was on simple justice and punishing discrimination if actually proven in individual cases. Every departure from simple justice since the 1960s - affirmative action, structural racism, white privilege, critical race theory, and anti-racism - has become more and more poisonous. Race relations in this country are worse, not better, because of the escalating insatiable demands these departures have produced. The theorists have led minorities to expect the earth, the moon, and the sky and some in those groups have become more and more angry when their impossible demands are not met. But that’s the whole point of the exercise - to produce a perpetually angry voting bloc that will stick with you and give you money no matter what. To those people I say, wake up, your so-called leaders need you angry for their own personal purposes - wealth and power for themselves. You’ve been played. Not everything in life is about race. Stop racializing everything; you’ll be much happier.
9/15/20 - Deconstructing ‘Systemic Racism’
The Left didn’t issue any serious intellectual challenges in the last 24 hours, so let’s take a closer look at a narrative that’s been in the news a lot lately - systemic racism.
What is Structural Racism? - Despite the passage of civil rights laws and wholesale changes in social attitudes in the last 50 years, racism remains as big a problem as ever in the United States today, structural racism theory holds. The white population still controls most of the country's institutions. Racial disparities continue to exist. Minorities still do not fare as well as whites with respect to outcomes in employment, healthcare, incarceration rates, HIV/AIDS, academic achievement, etc. Because these inferior outcomes have proven intractable, it is time to look beyond the facts of individual cases of discrimination and instead indict society as a whole, dispensing with the need for any proof that racism is the cause of these disparities. That there are many more whites of goodwill today who are not racially prejudiced is irrelevant. The disparities exist; that's proof enough. Public policy must be changed to coerce total equality of outcomes with respect to income, education, healthcare, and all social indicators.
When you take the wrapper off of structural racism, the same old red malarkey is found inside as in all Left-wing causes -- total redistribution of income and wealth -- collectivist prescriptions heavy on state coercion and short on any real understanding of human nature. Structural racism, like social justice, global warming, and Obamacare before it, provides academic cover for the enactment of the Left's over-arching agenda of coerced economic equality. As with these other political stratagems, structural racism is just another excuse for liberal fascists to bend others to their will and grow the government.
I wrote these remarks in 2011. You can read them in their entirety at PotomacTeaParty.com. The University of California law school deans just issued a statement defending critical race theory. I plan to respond tomorrow, if nothing intervenes.
9/14/20 - ‘Climate Change Caused the Wildfires’
It’s nice to know some things never change. The Left wasted no time in blaming the wildfires in the West on climate change. They’ve done it before.
The Associated Press reported that wildfires are burning farther and faster than ever before and several studies link this to global warming from carbon emissions. UPI reported Western governors and mayors are blaming climate change for the fires.
The same thing happened last year. There were wildfires - as there are every year - and the Left blamed climate change then, too. The Left also blamed climate change for wildfires in Australia earlier this year.
But facts are stubborn things. Several current wildfires in the West are now considered arson and a number of people have been arrested. The same thing happened last year. Some of the fires in 2019 were deliberately set by arsonists. Almost 200 people were arrested in Australia for accidentally or deliberately starting fires there. And don’t forget, PG&E filed for bankruptcy because its actions were said to have caused wildfires the previous two years.
Moreover, President Trump and others - including the Democratic Governor of Oregon point out that "decades of mismanagement" of the country's forests are a factor in all of this.
As for the science, a 2017 study - when claims of climate change abounded - showed that the global acreage lost to wildfires had gone down 25 percent over the previous 18 years, confirming the results of another study. Before the current fire season, the number of fires in California had gone down nearly 50 percent in the last 30 years.
So, anyone who wants to spout off about how the wildfires are due to climate change will have to know this is disputed and you will be challenged. You will also have to consider you have been manipulated. Using extreme weather events to frighten people is a cult technique. ‘Do what we say or you will perish from hurricanes, floods, etc. Follow our rules, and the world will heal.’ Cults depend on getting you to shut off all critical thinking and not listen to other viewpoints. If you want to end up like Patty Hearst, just keep telling yourself the science of climate change is settled and anybody who says different is deplorable.
9/11/20 - "Tell your governor to open up your state!"
President Trump said in Michigan yesterday that Democratic governors are deliberately keeping their states locked down for political reasons. The news about COVID the last two weeks backs him up.
First and foremost, there’s the dog that didn’t bark. There are NO reports of U.S. hospitals being overwhelmed with COVID patients. People forget, but that was the original justification for the lockdowns. Until the hospital system is under significant stress, all the lockdown restrictions that curtail people’s rights and freedoms are unconstitutional. No emergency, no emergency orders. It’s that simple.
Then there’s the story out of Georgia, where lockdownistas said reopening the schools would be ‘super-spreader’ events. Cherokee County schools reopened six weeks ago with desks three feet apart and masks optional. Disaster? Not exactly. Out of 42,000 students, only 42 tested positive and only 20 cases among 4,800 staff. That can’t be much different from what would have happened if schools didn’t reopen. No alarm bells here.
Oh, but what about all those campus hotspots and colleges shutting down classes again? 26,000 students at 29 schools have tested positive, but so what? There have been NO hospitalizations and NO deaths. Hey, but if you’re looking for a way to keep the story alive, focusing simply on the number of positive tests is the way to go.
Here’s the best the control freaks can do: they said the Sturgis motorcycle rally in South Dakota would be a super-spreader event. A German think tank claimed Sturgis would produce 250,000 cases and $12 billion in public health costs. But it was all a theoretical model that didn’t bother to ask what actually happened. The state has only found 124 cases. A theoretical worst-case scenario? - is that all you’ve got? You’re pathetic. How much longer are you going to be able to keep this ball up in the air with this kind of nonsense?
The number of new positive tests on a daily basis is the lowest since June. The percentage of ER visits for COVID-like illnesses continues to fall and is now down to 1.6 percent. Meanwhile, the CDC finally let the cat out of the bag: Fewer than 10,000 Americans have died of COVID alone. All the rest of the COVID deaths were people who were already seriously ill. This virus has turned out to be a lot less deadly than the so-called experts originally predicted.
Sorry, but I’m with Trump on this one: "Tell your governor to open up your state!"
9/10/20 - ‘Trump Downplayed the Virus’
Here we go again, another nothing-burger served up by the major media companies. Bob Woodward’s book ‘Rage’ is all over the news because it alleges President Trump deliberately downplayed the threat of the coronavirus in February. Trump knew the virus could be transmitted through the air and was five times more deadly than the flu, but told the public something different. Media outlets are calling this ‘explosive’ ‘blockbuster’ news. Yawn. They say this story is threatening to upend President Trump’s election campaign. Sure.
President Trump said in his own defense he did not want to start a panic. He wanted to show confidence and not drive the country into a frenzy. This is certainly a prudent course of action if you’re the one who actually has to make the decisions and not just carp from the sidelines.
Also, you may recall the media initially said Trump was hyping the threat from COVID by shutting down travel. They called the travel ban an “emotional reaction”. The also said the ordinary flu was far worse and thousands die from it every year. So journalists just can’t get their stories straight, which is why you can’t take them too seriously. Flip - flop - flip -flop. It’s called ‘political narrative engineering’, but we see once again the media isn’t any good at it.
Another thing wrong with the media’s whole approach is that they focus on trivia. The broadcast networks gave Woodward and his book a lot of air time, but completely ignored President Trump’s nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize for his historic achievements in the Middle East.
And they completely ignored the fact that Joe Biden said on February 28th, “It’s not a time to panic about coronavirus.”
Finally, it turns out Trump was right. COVID hasn’t come close to killing 2.2 million Americans as initially predicted. Suppose he had started a panic over what has turned out to be a far smaller public health threat than the so-called experts originally said. The media would be blaming Trump for starting a panic.
So here we have a financially self-interested author trying to sell books, and a media that’s out to get Trump and will beat him up no matter what he says. It’s all about the election, but this is a very weak effort at creating a narrative and I’d be surprised if the media can make it last beyond today. If they want to interfere with the election, they’re going to have to do a lot better than this. What a nothing-burger.
9/9/20 - The Delusional Thinking of the Left on Campus Carry
It must be painful to belong to a fake religion with false gods that are continually shown to have feet of clay.
Of course I’m talking about the contemporary American Left, and what brings this theme to mind today is a report about campus carry at Kansas State University. The Board of Regents allowed concealed carry of handguns by students and faculty at Kansas State starting three years ago.
At the time, gun control true believers predicted all kinds of mayhem would result from campus carry. Liberal professors feared for their lives. Some took a leave of absence to look for new jobs. Some would only teach online. Some cancelled all their office hours. Some took early retirement. Never to set foot on campus again.
The true believers predicted tipsy frat boys would engage in gun battles. Students upset about their grades would pull guns on their professors. And accidental shootings would happen all the time in the student union. Yada, yada, yada.
But instead of yada, yada, yada, all that happened was nada, nada, nada.
Since campus carry began in 2017, there have been “NO direct incidents on campus involving a concealed carrier.” (emphasis added) University police report no open carry incidents, no policy violations, no problems at parties, no shoot-outs at the O.K. Corral, nothing. Zip. Zero. Nada.
So, sorry to be the bearer of good news and to bring gun control advocates face-to-face with the bunkum of their political mythology. It must be painful to get reality so wrong time after time. As Ronald Reagan said, "the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.” Why would anyone want to belong to a group that thinks it can create heaven on earth when it can’t even accurately perceive reality on the ground? That wants to boss everybody around even though all it has to offer is delusional thinking? Mighty fine religion you got there. Count me out.
9/8/20 - ‘The Police are Making War on Black People’
It’s that old story - tell a lie often enough and people will believe it. And the bigger the lie, the easier it is to believe. So it is with the lie that police officers are killing black people in large numbers and in systemic fashion.
Here are the facts: There are approximately 50 million police-civilian interactions every year. Those 50 million interactions result in roughly 60,000 police officers being assaulted and about a thousand people being killed by the police every year. Of those thousand, 250 have been black and 500 have been white in recent years. It would make twice as much sense to say the police are making war on white people.
Only 4 percent of police shootings involve a white police officer and an unarmed black suspect. None of this adds up to a credible case that there is a police war against black people. As one researcher put it, “A police officer is 18 1/2 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer.” So you would be more justified in saying there is a war on police officers by black males.
Those are the facts. They should make a difference in the way you think and in the conclusions you draw, if you are the kind of person who deals in facts and wants to know the truth. If you just want to go right on believing what you believe because you want to belong to the ‘cool’ group, regardless of the facts, I didn’t reach you today, but ask yourself some questions: Isn’t there something wrong if people have to lie to make their case? Why would you want to belong to a group that lies to you all the time and can’t make an argument without making stuff up? Wouldn’t you rather think for yourself and work for constructive change instead of just accepting without question everything your heroes and leaders put in front of you? Why would you want to alienate people of good will who would like to see progress in race relations in this country just as much as you would? Finally, why do you suppose your sports heroes and leftists leaders keep pushing these lies? Do the sports figures feel guilty for making so much money and not giving it away? Are the political leaders advancing their careers by pushing these lies? Their interests are not the same as yours, and its time you took that into account.
9/4/20 - Claim: President Trump Called Fallen Soldiers ‘Losers’
The Atlantic Magazine ran a story based totally on anonymous sources claiming that President Trump cancelled a visit to an American war cemetery near Paris in 2018 because his hair would be mussed up in the rain and the cemetery was filled with “losers” who were killed in battle.
President Trump denied he ever said this, calling it “fake news” in a tweet.
This would be the same Atlantic Magazine that didn’t check its facts and ran a fake story in July about a police shooting in St. Louis.
As for the latest hit piece, six administration officials who were with Trump that day have gone on record to say it never happened - former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, among them. One said of the magazine’s anonymous sources:
An image of an email from the time backing up the bad weather explanation is on Twitter for anyone who cares to look.
I don’t see any response from the magazine to this rebuttal, either on the home page or the story page. The author did not explain why anonymity was granted, as the author was required to do under the journalistic Code of Ethics. You are left to wonder who they are and what their motives might be. Do they hate Trump and want him defeated in the next election? Were they paid to say what they said? Here we have an unethical story by a discredited magazine in mainstream media which has already told you more than 40 times it is biased against the political Right - I’ve been collecting their admissions. Sure, I’ll buy anything they say without asking any questions. How about you?
9/3/20 - ‘Antifa is Not Involved in the Rioting’
The mainstream media has gone out of its way to deny that Antifa or other organized groups are involved in the rioting. The Associated Press said it’s a “hollow claim” that Antifa is involved. The AP based this on a study they did of court records, employment histories, and social media posts of 217 people arrested in Minneapolis and D.C.
You can see several things wrong with the AP study right off the bat. First, they only studied 217 people. 74 people had been arrested on federal charges in Portland alone, as of a week ago. The AP didn’t study nearly enough people to justify its grandiose conclusions. Second, they only studied Minneapolis and D.C., and avoided Portland and Seattle where a lot of Antifa activity is suspected to be going on. Third, they cited the notion that police departments around the country were having to knock down rumors of Antifa involvement. But, again, not a word about Portland or Seattle. That part of their case was only about small towns.
Meanwhile, more evidence has come in that Antifa IS involved. First we have the story of an Antifa leader, Commander Red, who dropped into the fetal position when he was stopped by police for carrying a flamethrower to a Wisconsin Black Lives Matter rally. He was also carrying an Antifa flag and Antifa stickers at the time. Second, 102 out of 175 people arrested in Kenosha were outside agitators. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser also complained about outside agitators coming into D.C. to riot. Attorney General William Barr said the mob violence is being carried on by “highly organized violent operators”.
Ask yourself this question - how could the rioting be sustained in Portland for 100 days without organization and money behind it? It doesn’t make any sense that Antifa would not be involved. Here’s what makes more sense: Antifa has communist roots that go back to Trotsky’s idea for a street army and to Nazi Germany. None of that is disputed. Black Lives Matter also has communist roots and has recently admitted they are trained Marxists. Black Lives Matter, we know, has millions of dollars - $33 million collected after Ferguson and reportedly hundreds of millions more collected in recent months. Previously, it was reported that the Justice Department is investigating the structure and financing of organized groups involved in the rioting. The AP is trying to tell you Antifa is not involved. Before this is all over, odds are we will have overwhelming and irrefutable evidence that it is.
9/2/20 - The Left’s Hypocrisy about Universal Mail-In Balloting Explained
Nancy Pelosi made news yesterday by not wearing a mask when she went to get her hair done. Hmm, I guess that means it’s safe to vote in person in the upcoming election, just like Dr. Fauci said.
The news stories that have come in recently on the subject of universal mail-in balloting continue to point in the direction that an all-mail-in election would be a colossal disaster.
A Democrat operative admitted to rigging elections in New Jersey with fake mail-in ballots and leading teams to commit voter fraud for years. Some of the fraud took place in nursing homes, adding to the research I’ve already collected on Democrat voter fraud in nursing homes around the country.
A New Jersey judge invalidated an entire election and ordered a new election for Paterson City Council due to pervasive mail-in voter fraud.
Nevada’s largest county sent more than 200,000 mail-in ballots to outdated addresses in the 2020 primary election, which were returned ‘undeliverable’. This confirms what I said before about how you could get the post office to function perfectly and there would still be massive problems with universal mail-in balloting because of problems with the voter rolls.
News stories like this are having an effect. A new poll shows 43 percent of Americans don’t trust universal mail-in balloting.
Nancy Pelosi may be a hypocrite for not wearing a mask to get her hair done, but hypocrisy is standard operating procedure on the Left, including when it comes to mail-in balloting. A 2012 New York Times story worried about all the errors, possibilities for fraud, and contested ballots that come along with expanded mail-in balloting. What bothered the New York Times in 2012 is brushed aside by the Left in 2020. But you have to understand the mentality of the Left, as disclosed to me by a former Lefitst. That was then, this is now. It doesn’t matter if you contradict yourself, the ends justify the means, and whatever you need to say or do at any given moment to save the planet, just do it. It must be great to serve a higher morality that lets you dispense with the ordinary rules of right and wrong, something us mere mortals and dolts on the Right could never get away with, even if we wanted to.
9/1/20 - Joe Biden Is Lying to You, and You Love It
Joe Biden said yesterday he would not ban fracking if elected President. Liar, liar pants on fire. Biden has said repeatedly he would ban fracking. Let’s look at the record, shall we?
Biden said repeatedly during the Democrat debates he would eliminate fracking - “no new fracking,” he said. He also said he didn’t want the oil industry to have any ability to continue to drill. After one of the debates, the Washington Post ran a headline, "Biden indicates from the debate stage that he would ban all fracking."
He’s on video telling a voter on the campaign trail he guarantees he will end fossil fuel.
When asked if would there be any place for fracking in a Biden administration, he said “we would make sure it’s eliminated.”
Now for some icing on the cake:
Biden’s running mate Kamala Harris endorsed banning fracking during her unsuccessful presidential run. Biden himself has called for net-zero emissions by 2050; a 100 percent carbon-free electrical grid by 2035, and no new oil-and-gas permits on public lands. Sure sounds like ‘no fracking’ to me.
The issue is not whether you like or don’t like fracking. The issue is whether you like being lied to. Some people do. Some people end up loving their abuser and staying emotionally dependent on them, no matter how many times their abuser beats them up physically or psychologically. So, if you’re one of those people, vote for Joe. You will get your jollies because Plagiarism Joe will surely lie to you again.
Joe Biden told so many lies in the debate last night, it’s a wonder his nose didn’t come poking through my television screen.
He repeated the old canard Trump called the white supremacists in Charlottesville ‘fine people’. That’s been debunked by so many factcheckers - including the avowedly Left-wing Politifact - I’ve lost count. Trump was referring to the crowd of protesters in general when he said there were fine people on both sides.
Biden claimed he never said he would get rid of fracking, but he’s on video promising he would.
He said the Green New Deal is not his plan, but it’s right there on his website.
He said the allegations about his son Hunter have been discredited, but they are contained in government documents and recently affirmed in a Senate report. No one has ever refuted them.
He claimed Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway expressed hope for more violence in America’s cities. Conway went on Twitter to call him a liar.
He said Antifa is just an ‘idea’, but the head of the FBI testified Antifa is not fiction and the Bureau is investigating its connections to the violence. Moreover, DHS email shows there is overwhelming evidence Antifa organized the violence in Portland.
I could go on. The Trump campaign counted 33 false or misleading claims in all from Biden in the debate. But here’s the point: Joe Biden has abused your trust just like a lover who cheats on you. It’s not just that he’s given you inaccurate information. It’s not even just that he’s lied to you. It’s that he’s done so repeatedly, without shame, 33 times in one night, right to your face. So here’s my question: Isn’t there something wrong if he has to lie to make his case? Why would you trust anyone who thinks you’ll go right on believing him after he’s been caught so many times lying to your face? Untrustworthy Joe, time for you to go.
9/29/20 - The ‘Trump Paid No Taxes’ Story is Full of Holes
Big media outlets are trying to keep the ‘Trump paid no taxes’ story alive any way they can, so let’s give them a little help, shall we?
The New York Times reported on Sunday President Trump has “paid no income tax in 10 of the past 15 years.” Right off the bat, we see problems with the New York Times story. First, the story itself says the reason is “largely because he reported losing much more money than he made.” No business pays income taxes if it loses more money than it makes, nothing strange about that. Second, the Times cherry-picked the years it wanted to talk about so it could leave the impression Trump is a tax cheat. If you look at the years the Times didn’t want to discuss, you find, according to the Times’ own story: Trump paid “$1 million for 2016 and $4.2 million for 2017.” Moreover, “Mr. Trump paid alternative minimum tax in seven years between 2000 and 2017 — a total of $24.3 million....” The story also says Trump asked for a $72.9 million refund one year. You don’t get a refund if you haven’t paid taxes. So the impression the Times wanted to leave, that Trump doesn’t pay income taxes, is completely destroyed by its own reporting, right there in the story itself.
Now let’s focus on the business losses the Times says is the reason for Trump not paying taxes in selected years. Depreciation, business losses, acquisition costs - these are all garden variety tax deductions millions of people take every day. All of them are written into the tax code and are perfectly legal. The Times is trying to make a mountain out of something that isn’t even a molehill. Besides, Joe Biden knows all about lawful tax avoidance. He and his wife Jill set up a Subchapter S corporation to shelter $13 million in profits from speaking and writing engagements and avoid paying $500,000 in payroll taxes. But you don’t find the New York Times writing about that in the run-up to the election, do you?
Now let’s look at the direction the story did not take. There has been no smoking gun and no revelations by big media outlets Trump did something illegal on his taxes. Instead, they’re keeping the story alive with insinuations Trump is a national security risk because people like his hairdresser must have information Trump wants kept secret along with his tax returns and, thus, Trump is supposedly compromised. Lions, tigers and bears, oh my! Only his hairdresser knows for sure, as the old commercial goes. So the story is being kept alive with the rankest of speculation, not anything real or substantive. If you look at the direction the story has turned, you realize it leads nowhere, except to media critics pointing out that the New York Times itself didn’t pay any federal income taxes despite earning $111 million dollars in 2017. The New York Times got hoisted by its own petard by running with this stupid story; it deserved it.
9/28/20 - Left Tone-Deaf on ACB’s Adoptions
Leftists are attacking Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett for adopting two black children from Haiti, one of them with physical challenges who is now a track star. You heard that right - attacking Barrett for sacrificing mightily to help the disadvantaged. Here’s one such attack, insinuating that a conniving Barrett was merely adopting the children to fend off future accusations of racism:
- "Some White colonizers 'adopted' Black children. They 'civilized' these 'savage' children in the 'superior' ways of White people, while using them as props in their lifelong pictures of denial, while cutting the biological parents of these children out of the picture of humanity."
Barrett’s supporters fired back, rightfully calling the attacks a smear, bigoted, hateful, disgusting, and cruel. They also criticized the Left for once again dragging the children of public figures into politics, just like they did with Barron Trump.
Actually, I’m encouraged to see the Left take this line of attack against Barrett. It means they’ve got nothing. They have no legitimate argument to keep her off the Supreme Court, so they’re resorting to mean-spirited attacks on her generous nature. You just keep it up.
You are completely tone deaf and have no idea how attacks like this strike the average person. Every attack you make like this bolsters her case for confirmation and leaves her stronger, not weaker. And you Lefties are supposed to be master tacticians. Not this time. You have miscalculated. You’re pathetic. You’re so immersed in identity politics you don’t have a shred of humanity left.
9/25/20 - Ease the Lockdowns Now
The news on COVID continues to point in the direction of easing the lockdowns and getting back to normal. Since I lasted reported to you on this subject two weeks ago, there have been NO reports of the hospital system being overwhelmed I have seen. In fact, the percentage of ER visits for COVID-like illnesses has fallen dramatically since July and has stabilized at a low 1.7 percent. As you will recall, the original justification for the lockdowns was to keep the hospital system from being overwhelmed - we had to ‘flatten the curve’, right? Well, we’ve done that. In fact, we’ve even bent the curve downwards. As I find myself saying more and more these days: No emergency, no emergency orders.
Doctors are getting better at treating COVID. Outcomes are improving with more informed use of steroids, blood thinners, and remdesivir and less reliance on ventilators.
Early data shows schools are not as risky as feared. Infection rates are not exceeding what is found in surrounding communities and there is little to suggest the virus is spreading inside school buildings.
All those breathless reports about outbreaks at colleges and classes being shut down again can’t cover up the fact there have only been two college students hospitalized and ZERO deaths.
CDC data shows that 3 out of 4 youths who have died from COVID had underlying conditions.
As for older people, your chances of dying from COVID are one in 19.4 million if you are 50-64. Your risk is cut in half if you avoid vitamin D deficiency. It is now believed the COVID tests are too sensitive and many people who test positive have very low viral loads and are not likely contagious.
Public officials continue to play games to justify continuing the lockdowns. The mayor’s office in Nashville was caught in verified emails saying the public was never to know the number of cases generated in bars and restaurants was very low. Oh, by the way, the mayor is a Democrat. Funny how this works.
So, where’s the fire? Where’s the emergency that justifies never-ending emergency orders? Yes, more people will die as things open up further and that’s unfortunate. But people are dying now from depression suicides, failure to receive routine medical tests and treatments, and staying home instead of going to the ER when they have a real problem like a heart attack. How about a little love for them?
9/24/20 - It’s Time for Joe Biden to Come Clean About his Son Hunter
Senate Republicans issued a report showing potentially criminal activity by Hunter Biden in Ukrainian and other foreign business deals occurring when Joe Biden was vice president.
Kimberly Strassel of the Wall Street Journal flagged several issues raised in the Senate report:
Joe Biden [said] last year: "I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings." That's pretty definitive, right? Yet according to testimony from former Obama official Amos Hochstein, he briefed Joe on his concerns about Hunter/Burisma in October 2015... AND
"Shortly after his conversation with Vice President Biden, Hunter Biden contacted Hochstein and asked to meet. According to Hochstein, Hunter became aware of Hochstein’s West Wing conversation with the Vice President, who had mentioned it to Hunter." (Page 17 of report)
Strassel continues: So, Joe Biden was specifically briefed on the U.S. govs concerns about Hunter/Burisma, and he specifically brought up those concerns to his son. How does that comport with "I have never spoken"??
The Trump campaign said Joe Biden was made aware of governmental concerns about his son Hunter’s “corrupt foreign business deals and potential criminal activity with foreign nationals,” but did nothing.
Strassel is not the only one with questions. Others are asking about a $3.5 million wire transfer from a Russian woman to Hunter Biden when Joe Biden was vice president. The Trump campaign is asking why Hunter Biden was handed millions of dollars from foreign sources in Russia and China when Joe Biden was vice president. The Senate report itself said Hunter Biden’s business dealings raised counterintelligence concerns, and went on to link Hunter to a ‘prostitution or human trafficking ring’.
So what, you ask? The big media and the Democrats admitted last year that what Joe and Hunter Biden did was corrupt, but now they don’t care and won’t talk about it.
Moreover, as Kimberly Strassel concludes: This is all relevant given Biden's claim he is the more ethical choice in this election. Voters might legitimately ask if the wink-nod approach to Hunter's wheeling-dealing will be business as usual in a Biden administration.
9/23/20 - ‘The Racist Donald Trump Was Elected by Racists’
A leading UC Berkeley scholar of “right-wing” politics claims President Trump won election in 2016 by uniting right-wing populists, neoliberals, white nationalists, Christian fundamentalists, people driven by their emotions, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and, last but not least, alienated young gamers. In the account I read, Lawrence Rosenthal goes on to claim that Trump cheered on racists and anti-immigrants and the Tea Party switched from free markets to identity politics for its core message.
I’ve lived the Tea Party, and that doesn’t sound like any Tea Party I’ve belonged to for the last 10+ years. It sounds more like a smear from a tendentious left-wing hack who hasn’t stepped outside his ivory tower for a decade.
In the first place, Trump won in 2016 because he turned out the Reagan Democrats - rank-and-file union members who are more socially conservative than their left-wing union bosses. And it looks like the rank and file is poised to turn out for Trump again this time around.
Second, the 2016 election is best understood as a reaction to President Obama pushing so far Left so fast. The reaction is completely understandable in non-conspiratorial terms. People just don’t like that much change all at once.
Third, the Tea Party has never changed its message. It declared its core values more than 10 years ago - limited government under the Constitution, free markets, and fiscal responsibility - and has never wavered from those principles. Most of the national Tea Party Patriots group was originally for Ted Cruz in 2016, but rallied around candidate Trump as the best available alternative to block Hillary Clinton from continuing to march the country leftward. The Tea Party formed in 2009 in large part due to the feeling Washington was out of control.
Fourth, nobody can rightfully claim the Tea Party is anti-immigrant. In more than 10 years as a Tea Partier, I’ve never heard any Tea Partier speak against lawful immigrants. Quite the contrary. My compatriots like immigration and praise lawful immigrants for waiting in line and doing it the right way. Our displeasure has always been focused on people who broke our laws and are here illegally. To twist that into some kind of white supremacy is pure demagoguery.
Fifth, as for the claim fundamentalist Christians elected Trump in 2016, the evangelicals largely stayed home, as they always do and are expected to do again in 2020. That’s millions of votes Trump didn’t get in 2016 and won’t get this year.
Finally, the scholar claims Trump merely absorbed enough “Tea Party speak” to fool Tea Partiers he shares their supposed racial resentments. That claim is completely demolished by the record. Trump has governed as a conservative and substantially in line with Tea Party values for four years. He has cut taxes, eliminated regulations, and put hundreds of conservative judges on the federal bench and Supreme Court. He has also been the most pro-life president ever, not a Tea Party issue but appealing to conservatives generally. If he wins reelection in 2020, it won’t be because he supposedly unites conspiracy nuts and white triumphalists. It will be because his solid record of achievement appeals to Americans of every hue who support conservative values and don’t want the country marched ever leftward right off a cliff.
9/22 - We Won’t Forget and We Won’t Forgive the Riots
The Democrats decided when the riots began it was in their interest to let things spin out of control and sow chaos in major cities under their control. Why they thought that is beyond me. It took CNN’s Don Lemon, of all people, to point out the strategy was backfiring and costing the Democrats in the polls. As well it should.
Yesterday, the Justice Department named New York, Portland, and Seattle as cities allowing anarchy and destruction. The move came as part of the Trump administration’s review of federal funding to states and localities permitting mayhem and violence. The Justice Department laid out the case against the cities in its press release:
- Shootings in New York City have been on the rise since looting and protests began ... May 28(th). For July 2020, shootings increased ... 177% over July 2019.
- While the city faced increased unrest, gun violence, and property damage, the New York City Council cut $1 billion from NYPD’s FY21 budget.
- Meanwhile, the Manhattan and Brooklyn District Attorneys have declined to prosecute charges of disorderly conduct and unlawful assembly arising from the protests....
- Both Mayor de Blasio and Governor Cuomo have forcefully rejected federal law enforcement support.
Were the Democrats pandering to their radical left-wing base? Hoping to pin everything on President Trump? Creating chaos under the Cloward-Piven strategy? Whatever the calculus was, it was disgraceful, and cost human lives and billions of dollars in economic damage. These Democratic politicians shouldn’t think for a minute they will completely escape accountability for all this mayhem. Business owners and residents in Seattle’s CHOP zone have sued city officials. The Trump administration is contemplating cutting the flow of federal money to cities that gave the rioters a free hand. House Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill to cut federal grants to cities that refuse to prosecute crimes arising from the riots. Then we have the polls saying the riots have hurt, not helped, Democratic election chances. This story might be dropping out of the news, but it isn’t over, not by a long shot.
9/21/20 - Replace Justice Ginsburg Now
President Trump tweeted he would proceed to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by Justice Ginsburg’s death without delay. Mitch McConnell said the nominee will receive a floor vote.
Joe Biden has demanded Ginsburg not be replaced until after the election. But he wrote in 2016 President Obama had a “constitutional duty” and should move quickly in that election year to fill the vacancy caused by Justice Scalia’s death.
All the flip-flops and political expediency aside, here’s what decides the case for me: The Democrats and their allies have spent the last four-plus years trying to run President Trump out of office. They spied on his 2016 presidential campaign and have yet to be brought to justice. They declared they would not accept the results of the 2016 election and resolved to become ‘ungovernable’ - their word, not mine. They rioted, smashed windows, and torched limousines at his 2017 inauguration. They consumed the next two years lying to us about Trump-Russia collusion. They gave up on that, but then lied about the Ukraine phone call and brought what has to be the lamest impeachment case, ever, against a sitting President, in all of American history. They failed miserably. Now they’re back out on the streets rioting for months on end trying to burn down federal buildings and blind police officers with lasers. The rioting stopped being about George Floyd a long time ago. They’ve already threatened to burn everything down and shut down the country if the Supreme Court nomination proceeds now. Hillary Clinton and others have told Biden not to accept the results of the current election, no matter what, and the Biden campaign has lined up 600 lawyers to contest election results in every corner of the land. And who can forget or forgive what happened to Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing - all those bogus last-minute accusations and the pictures of wild-eyed ignoramuses pounding on the doors of the Supreme Court.
After all this, Donald Trump is supposed to stay his hand? Why should the Left’s refusal to accept a peaceful transition of power in the last election and their atrocious behavior ever since be rewarded with a delay now? If the shoe were on the other foot, you know darn well the Democrats would proceed. Elections have consequences. Refusing to accept election results should have consequences, too.
9/18/20 - It’s Not True Kamala Harris is Soft on Crime
Kamala Harris encouraged her followers to contribute to the Minnesota Freedom Fund in a June 1st tweet. The Fund helps post bail for people accused of criminal offenses. The Fund helped a man accused of sexual assault on an 8-year-old girl get out of jail in July. It helped post bail for a man accused of assaulting an elderly woman while he burglarized her home. Apparently, this was the assailant’s own mother. When she asked why he was at her house, he grabbed her shoulders, pulled her down the stairs, and began “punching and kicking her in the ribs, back, and right eye,” according to the probable cause statement in the case. This man skipped bail after he was sprung, and remains at large.
The Fund helped other defendants get out of jail, including a man who murdered a police officer, and a man accused of robbing someone and stomping on their head in Minneapolis.
Despite knowing all of this, Kamala Harris’ donation page continues to accept contributions to this Fund.
This is not normal. Don’t tell me it doesn’t mean anything. This isn’t just being ‘soft on crime’. This is part of an ideological agenda, the same agenda that wants to abolish prisons, defund the police, eliminate bail altogether, and elect prosecutors around the country who will turn around and refuse to prosecute every time they can get away with it, like the prosecutors in St. Louis and Portland.
The Harris-Biden campaign is promoting this agenda. According to President Trump, 13 members of Joe Biden’s staff also contributed to the Minnesota fund. Joe Biden has called the police the enemy and said he wants money currently spent on them to be redirected elsewhere. The Biden-Sanders unity platform wants to dramatically reduce the number of Americans in prison, go back to not disciplining minority students in school, investigate police departments until the cows come home, and end enforcement of the drug laws altogether.
So if you want more crime and chaos in the streets, vote for the Harris-Biden ticket that has a far-Left agenda on crime and can’t wait to implement it. Hope you have private body-guards; you’re going to need them.
9/17/20 - Constitution Day: Back to Basics
Today is Constitution Day. If you’re asking ‘so what’, you’re taking an awful lot for granted.
Let’s start with the rule of law. We have a nation of laws, not a nation of individual whims.
Attorney General William Barr asked federal prosecutors to look into whether the mayor of Seattle can be criminally charged for allowing a lawless autonomous zone to be set up in her city. Previously, Seattle business owners and residents in the autonomous zone sued the city for violating their constitutional rights for allowing the zone to be established. Also, one of my fellow activists put up a White House petition, now closed, calling for elected officials to be held accountable for criminal activity during the riots. Most Americans still want the rule of law the Constitution gave us.
Where does this mayor, and other Democrat politicians like her, get off saying the rule of law doesn’t matter anymore, and lawless autonomous zones are perfectly fine? Of all the unmitigated gall. This won’t go unanswered. I have every faith Seattle’s mayor and other culpable politicians will eventually pay the price for ignoring constitutional basics.
Two other constitutional basics are limited government and individual rights.
These constitutional guarantees were shredded in the autonomous zones. There, power grew out of the barrel of a gun, just like Chairman Mao said. There was no Rule of Law, no consent of the governed. There were no elections, no guaranteed rights, and the individual had no protection from mob rule. Self-appointed warlords carrying assault rifles told everybody what to do. This concentration of power in the hands of a few is exactly what our Founders warned us about, and exactly what they tried to prevent when they wrote the Constitution.
With the COVID numbers in free fall, Attorney General William Barr called the lockdown orders the greatest intrusion on civil liberties since slavery. A judge in Pennsylvania recently knocked down the orders in that state, saying, “The Constitution cannot accept the concept of a 'new normal' where the basic liberties of the people can be subordinated to open-ended emergency mitigation measures.”
So, if you like lawless autonomous zones, rioting and looting, and never-ending emergency orders when there is no longer any emergency, vote Democrat. But if you like the rule of law, limited government, and individual rights, take a moment today to thank the Constitution and the Founders of our country.
9/16/20 - California Law School Deans Wrong on Critical Race Theory
The University of California law school deans recently issued a statement defending critical race theory, after President Trump prohibited federal agencies from teaching the theory to employees, calling it anti-American propaganda.
The law school deans assert it’s not accurate to say critical race theory holds the United States is “an inherently racist or evil country” or that white people are “inherently racist or evil.” Let’s test these assertions.
Critical race theory holds that racism is ingrained in the fabric of American society and that institutional racism is pervasive in the dominant culture. These power structures are based on white privilege and white supremacy, which perpetuate the marginalization of people of color.
Well, it sure sounds like critical race theory condemns the U.S. and all white people as “inherently racist” and “evil” to me.
The deans admit critical race theory is all about structural racism. Structural racism theory holds that any disparity of outcome between groups - in health, income, education, etc. - is due to racism, not personal choices or any other factor. The deans admit structural racism theory is all about erasing disparities.
The deans go on to say their institutions must become anti-racist. Anti-racism theory holds that one is still racist unless one is an activist constantly engaged in fighting racism. It’s not enough to be a person of goodwill quietly living your own life without offending others; you must be an in-your-face social justice warrior or you are a racist.
Critical race theory is an outgrowth of critical legal studies which has Marxist roots. Critical race theory ultimately derives from critical theory which came from the Frankfurt School, a group of theorists pushing the cultural Marxism of Antonio Gramsci. Why do you suppose the law school deans neglected to mention that?
Critical race theory has foundations in postmodernism - which holds there is no truth - and moral relativism - which holds that there is no objective morality.
‘Critical’ in this context doesn’t mean analytical thinking. It means criticizing everything and tearing everything down until nothing’s left. This is what cultural Marxists seek to do, to destroy everything that currently exists to soften you up to accept their authoritarian, collectivist program - run by them.
By their policy prescriptions, ye shall know them. The structural racism crowd advocates wiping out all disparities by authoritarian, collectivist means. This would mean, among other things, society-levelling tax rates 60 to 80 percent.
If you want to tear everything down and kill the goose the lays the golden eggs, then critical race theory is the theory for you. We are a long way from the civil rights movement of the 1960s where the focus was on simple justice and punishing discrimination if actually proven in individual cases. Every departure from simple justice since the 1960s - affirmative action, structural racism, white privilege, critical race theory, and anti-racism - has become more and more poisonous. Race relations in this country are worse, not better, because of the escalating insatiable demands these departures have produced. The theorists have led minorities to expect the earth, the moon, and the sky and some in those groups have become more and more angry when their impossible demands are not met. But that’s the whole point of the exercise - to produce a perpetually angry voting bloc that will stick with you and give you money no matter what. To those people I say, wake up, your so-called leaders need you angry for their own personal purposes - wealth and power for themselves. You’ve been played. Not everything in life is about race. Stop racializing everything; you’ll be much happier.
9/15/20 - Deconstructing ‘Systemic Racism’
The Left didn’t issue any serious intellectual challenges in the last 24 hours, so let’s take a closer look at a narrative that’s been in the news a lot lately - systemic racism.
What is Structural Racism? - Despite the passage of civil rights laws and wholesale changes in social attitudes in the last 50 years, racism remains as big a problem as ever in the United States today, structural racism theory holds. The white population still controls most of the country's institutions. Racial disparities continue to exist. Minorities still do not fare as well as whites with respect to outcomes in employment, healthcare, incarceration rates, HIV/AIDS, academic achievement, etc. Because these inferior outcomes have proven intractable, it is time to look beyond the facts of individual cases of discrimination and instead indict society as a whole, dispensing with the need for any proof that racism is the cause of these disparities. That there are many more whites of goodwill today who are not racially prejudiced is irrelevant. The disparities exist; that's proof enough. Public policy must be changed to coerce total equality of outcomes with respect to income, education, healthcare, and all social indicators.
When you take the wrapper off of structural racism, the same old red malarkey is found inside as in all Left-wing causes -- total redistribution of income and wealth -- collectivist prescriptions heavy on state coercion and short on any real understanding of human nature. Structural racism, like social justice, global warming, and Obamacare before it, provides academic cover for the enactment of the Left's over-arching agenda of coerced economic equality. As with these other political stratagems, structural racism is just another excuse for liberal fascists to bend others to their will and grow the government.
I wrote these remarks in 2011. You can read them in their entirety at PotomacTeaParty.com. The University of California law school deans just issued a statement defending critical race theory. I plan to respond tomorrow, if nothing intervenes.
9/14/20 - ‘Climate Change Caused the Wildfires’
It’s nice to know some things never change. The Left wasted no time in blaming the wildfires in the West on climate change. They’ve done it before.
The Associated Press reported that wildfires are burning farther and faster than ever before and several studies link this to global warming from carbon emissions. UPI reported Western governors and mayors are blaming climate change for the fires.
The same thing happened last year. There were wildfires - as there are every year - and the Left blamed climate change then, too. The Left also blamed climate change for wildfires in Australia earlier this year.
But facts are stubborn things. Several current wildfires in the West are now considered arson and a number of people have been arrested. The same thing happened last year. Some of the fires in 2019 were deliberately set by arsonists. Almost 200 people were arrested in Australia for accidentally or deliberately starting fires there. And don’t forget, PG&E filed for bankruptcy because its actions were said to have caused wildfires the previous two years.
Moreover, President Trump and others - including the Democratic Governor of Oregon point out that "decades of mismanagement" of the country's forests are a factor in all of this.
As for the science, a 2017 study - when claims of climate change abounded - showed that the global acreage lost to wildfires had gone down 25 percent over the previous 18 years, confirming the results of another study. Before the current fire season, the number of fires in California had gone down nearly 50 percent in the last 30 years.
So, anyone who wants to spout off about how the wildfires are due to climate change will have to know this is disputed and you will be challenged. You will also have to consider you have been manipulated. Using extreme weather events to frighten people is a cult technique. ‘Do what we say or you will perish from hurricanes, floods, etc. Follow our rules, and the world will heal.’ Cults depend on getting you to shut off all critical thinking and not listen to other viewpoints. If you want to end up like Patty Hearst, just keep telling yourself the science of climate change is settled and anybody who says different is deplorable.
9/11/20 - "Tell your governor to open up your state!"
President Trump said in Michigan yesterday that Democratic governors are deliberately keeping their states locked down for political reasons. The news about COVID the last two weeks backs him up.
First and foremost, there’s the dog that didn’t bark. There are NO reports of U.S. hospitals being overwhelmed with COVID patients. People forget, but that was the original justification for the lockdowns. Until the hospital system is under significant stress, all the lockdown restrictions that curtail people’s rights and freedoms are unconstitutional. No emergency, no emergency orders. It’s that simple.
Then there’s the story out of Georgia, where lockdownistas said reopening the schools would be ‘super-spreader’ events. Cherokee County schools reopened six weeks ago with desks three feet apart and masks optional. Disaster? Not exactly. Out of 42,000 students, only 42 tested positive and only 20 cases among 4,800 staff. That can’t be much different from what would have happened if schools didn’t reopen. No alarm bells here.
Oh, but what about all those campus hotspots and colleges shutting down classes again? 26,000 students at 29 schools have tested positive, but so what? There have been NO hospitalizations and NO deaths. Hey, but if you’re looking for a way to keep the story alive, focusing simply on the number of positive tests is the way to go.
Here’s the best the control freaks can do: they said the Sturgis motorcycle rally in South Dakota would be a super-spreader event. A German think tank claimed Sturgis would produce 250,000 cases and $12 billion in public health costs. But it was all a theoretical model that didn’t bother to ask what actually happened. The state has only found 124 cases. A theoretical worst-case scenario? - is that all you’ve got? You’re pathetic. How much longer are you going to be able to keep this ball up in the air with this kind of nonsense?
The number of new positive tests on a daily basis is the lowest since June. The percentage of ER visits for COVID-like illnesses continues to fall and is now down to 1.6 percent. Meanwhile, the CDC finally let the cat out of the bag: Fewer than 10,000 Americans have died of COVID alone. All the rest of the COVID deaths were people who were already seriously ill. This virus has turned out to be a lot less deadly than the so-called experts originally predicted.
Sorry, but I’m with Trump on this one: "Tell your governor to open up your state!"
9/10/20 - ‘Trump Downplayed the Virus’
Here we go again, another nothing-burger served up by the major media companies. Bob Woodward’s book ‘Rage’ is all over the news because it alleges President Trump deliberately downplayed the threat of the coronavirus in February. Trump knew the virus could be transmitted through the air and was five times more deadly than the flu, but told the public something different. Media outlets are calling this ‘explosive’ ‘blockbuster’ news. Yawn. They say this story is threatening to upend President Trump’s election campaign. Sure.
President Trump said in his own defense he did not want to start a panic. He wanted to show confidence and not drive the country into a frenzy. This is certainly a prudent course of action if you’re the one who actually has to make the decisions and not just carp from the sidelines.
Also, you may recall the media initially said Trump was hyping the threat from COVID by shutting down travel. They called the travel ban an “emotional reaction”. The also said the ordinary flu was far worse and thousands die from it every year. So journalists just can’t get their stories straight, which is why you can’t take them too seriously. Flip - flop - flip -flop. It’s called ‘political narrative engineering’, but we see once again the media isn’t any good at it.
Another thing wrong with the media’s whole approach is that they focus on trivia. The broadcast networks gave Woodward and his book a lot of air time, but completely ignored President Trump’s nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize for his historic achievements in the Middle East.
And they completely ignored the fact that Joe Biden said on February 28th, “It’s not a time to panic about coronavirus.”
Finally, it turns out Trump was right. COVID hasn’t come close to killing 2.2 million Americans as initially predicted. Suppose he had started a panic over what has turned out to be a far smaller public health threat than the so-called experts originally said. The media would be blaming Trump for starting a panic.
So here we have a financially self-interested author trying to sell books, and a media that’s out to get Trump and will beat him up no matter what he says. It’s all about the election, but this is a very weak effort at creating a narrative and I’d be surprised if the media can make it last beyond today. If they want to interfere with the election, they’re going to have to do a lot better than this. What a nothing-burger.
9/9/20 - The Delusional Thinking of the Left on Campus Carry
It must be painful to belong to a fake religion with false gods that are continually shown to have feet of clay.
Of course I’m talking about the contemporary American Left, and what brings this theme to mind today is a report about campus carry at Kansas State University. The Board of Regents allowed concealed carry of handguns by students and faculty at Kansas State starting three years ago.
At the time, gun control true believers predicted all kinds of mayhem would result from campus carry. Liberal professors feared for their lives. Some took a leave of absence to look for new jobs. Some would only teach online. Some cancelled all their office hours. Some took early retirement. Never to set foot on campus again.
The true believers predicted tipsy frat boys would engage in gun battles. Students upset about their grades would pull guns on their professors. And accidental shootings would happen all the time in the student union. Yada, yada, yada.
But instead of yada, yada, yada, all that happened was nada, nada, nada.
Since campus carry began in 2017, there have been “NO direct incidents on campus involving a concealed carrier.” (emphasis added) University police report no open carry incidents, no policy violations, no problems at parties, no shoot-outs at the O.K. Corral, nothing. Zip. Zero. Nada.
So, sorry to be the bearer of good news and to bring gun control advocates face-to-face with the bunkum of their political mythology. It must be painful to get reality so wrong time after time. As Ronald Reagan said, "the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.” Why would anyone want to belong to a group that thinks it can create heaven on earth when it can’t even accurately perceive reality on the ground? That wants to boss everybody around even though all it has to offer is delusional thinking? Mighty fine religion you got there. Count me out.
9/8/20 - ‘The Police are Making War on Black People’
It’s that old story - tell a lie often enough and people will believe it. And the bigger the lie, the easier it is to believe. So it is with the lie that police officers are killing black people in large numbers and in systemic fashion.
Here are the facts: There are approximately 50 million police-civilian interactions every year. Those 50 million interactions result in roughly 60,000 police officers being assaulted and about a thousand people being killed by the police every year. Of those thousand, 250 have been black and 500 have been white in recent years. It would make twice as much sense to say the police are making war on white people.
Only 4 percent of police shootings involve a white police officer and an unarmed black suspect. None of this adds up to a credible case that there is a police war against black people. As one researcher put it, “A police officer is 18 1/2 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer.” So you would be more justified in saying there is a war on police officers by black males.
Those are the facts. They should make a difference in the way you think and in the conclusions you draw, if you are the kind of person who deals in facts and wants to know the truth. If you just want to go right on believing what you believe because you want to belong to the ‘cool’ group, regardless of the facts, I didn’t reach you today, but ask yourself some questions: Isn’t there something wrong if people have to lie to make their case? Why would you want to belong to a group that lies to you all the time and can’t make an argument without making stuff up? Wouldn’t you rather think for yourself and work for constructive change instead of just accepting without question everything your heroes and leaders put in front of you? Why would you want to alienate people of good will who would like to see progress in race relations in this country just as much as you would? Finally, why do you suppose your sports heroes and leftists leaders keep pushing these lies? Do the sports figures feel guilty for making so much money and not giving it away? Are the political leaders advancing their careers by pushing these lies? Their interests are not the same as yours, and its time you took that into account.
9/4/20 - Claim: President Trump Called Fallen Soldiers ‘Losers’
The Atlantic Magazine ran a story based totally on anonymous sources claiming that President Trump cancelled a visit to an American war cemetery near Paris in 2018 because his hair would be mussed up in the rain and the cemetery was filled with “losers” who were killed in battle.
President Trump denied he ever said this, calling it “fake news” in a tweet.
This would be the same Atlantic Magazine that didn’t check its facts and ran a fake story in July about a police shooting in St. Louis.
As for the latest hit piece, six administration officials who were with Trump that day have gone on record to say it never happened - former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, among them. One said of the magazine’s anonymous sources:
- These weak, pathetic, cowardly background ‘sources’ do not have the courage or decency to put their names to these false accusations because they know how completely ludicrous they are. It’s sickening that they would hide in the shadows.....
An image of an email from the time backing up the bad weather explanation is on Twitter for anyone who cares to look.
I don’t see any response from the magazine to this rebuttal, either on the home page or the story page. The author did not explain why anonymity was granted, as the author was required to do under the journalistic Code of Ethics. You are left to wonder who they are and what their motives might be. Do they hate Trump and want him defeated in the next election? Were they paid to say what they said? Here we have an unethical story by a discredited magazine in mainstream media which has already told you more than 40 times it is biased against the political Right - I’ve been collecting their admissions. Sure, I’ll buy anything they say without asking any questions. How about you?
9/3/20 - ‘Antifa is Not Involved in the Rioting’
The mainstream media has gone out of its way to deny that Antifa or other organized groups are involved in the rioting. The Associated Press said it’s a “hollow claim” that Antifa is involved. The AP based this on a study they did of court records, employment histories, and social media posts of 217 people arrested in Minneapolis and D.C.
You can see several things wrong with the AP study right off the bat. First, they only studied 217 people. 74 people had been arrested on federal charges in Portland alone, as of a week ago. The AP didn’t study nearly enough people to justify its grandiose conclusions. Second, they only studied Minneapolis and D.C., and avoided Portland and Seattle where a lot of Antifa activity is suspected to be going on. Third, they cited the notion that police departments around the country were having to knock down rumors of Antifa involvement. But, again, not a word about Portland or Seattle. That part of their case was only about small towns.
Meanwhile, more evidence has come in that Antifa IS involved. First we have the story of an Antifa leader, Commander Red, who dropped into the fetal position when he was stopped by police for carrying a flamethrower to a Wisconsin Black Lives Matter rally. He was also carrying an Antifa flag and Antifa stickers at the time. Second, 102 out of 175 people arrested in Kenosha were outside agitators. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser also complained about outside agitators coming into D.C. to riot. Attorney General William Barr said the mob violence is being carried on by “highly organized violent operators”.
Ask yourself this question - how could the rioting be sustained in Portland for 100 days without organization and money behind it? It doesn’t make any sense that Antifa would not be involved. Here’s what makes more sense: Antifa has communist roots that go back to Trotsky’s idea for a street army and to Nazi Germany. None of that is disputed. Black Lives Matter also has communist roots and has recently admitted they are trained Marxists. Black Lives Matter, we know, has millions of dollars - $33 million collected after Ferguson and reportedly hundreds of millions more collected in recent months. Previously, it was reported that the Justice Department is investigating the structure and financing of organized groups involved in the rioting. The AP is trying to tell you Antifa is not involved. Before this is all over, odds are we will have overwhelming and irrefutable evidence that it is.
9/2/20 - The Left’s Hypocrisy about Universal Mail-In Balloting Explained
Nancy Pelosi made news yesterday by not wearing a mask when she went to get her hair done. Hmm, I guess that means it’s safe to vote in person in the upcoming election, just like Dr. Fauci said.
The news stories that have come in recently on the subject of universal mail-in balloting continue to point in the direction that an all-mail-in election would be a colossal disaster.
A Democrat operative admitted to rigging elections in New Jersey with fake mail-in ballots and leading teams to commit voter fraud for years. Some of the fraud took place in nursing homes, adding to the research I’ve already collected on Democrat voter fraud in nursing homes around the country.
A New Jersey judge invalidated an entire election and ordered a new election for Paterson City Council due to pervasive mail-in voter fraud.
Nevada’s largest county sent more than 200,000 mail-in ballots to outdated addresses in the 2020 primary election, which were returned ‘undeliverable’. This confirms what I said before about how you could get the post office to function perfectly and there would still be massive problems with universal mail-in balloting because of problems with the voter rolls.
News stories like this are having an effect. A new poll shows 43 percent of Americans don’t trust universal mail-in balloting.
Nancy Pelosi may be a hypocrite for not wearing a mask to get her hair done, but hypocrisy is standard operating procedure on the Left, including when it comes to mail-in balloting. A 2012 New York Times story worried about all the errors, possibilities for fraud, and contested ballots that come along with expanded mail-in balloting. What bothered the New York Times in 2012 is brushed aside by the Left in 2020. But you have to understand the mentality of the Left, as disclosed to me by a former Lefitst. That was then, this is now. It doesn’t matter if you contradict yourself, the ends justify the means, and whatever you need to say or do at any given moment to save the planet, just do it. It must be great to serve a higher morality that lets you dispense with the ordinary rules of right and wrong, something us mere mortals and dolts on the Right could never get away with, even if we wanted to.
9/1/20 - Joe Biden Is Lying to You, and You Love It
Joe Biden said yesterday he would not ban fracking if elected President. Liar, liar pants on fire. Biden has said repeatedly he would ban fracking. Let’s look at the record, shall we?
Biden said repeatedly during the Democrat debates he would eliminate fracking - “no new fracking,” he said. He also said he didn’t want the oil industry to have any ability to continue to drill. After one of the debates, the Washington Post ran a headline, "Biden indicates from the debate stage that he would ban all fracking."
He’s on video telling a voter on the campaign trail he guarantees he will end fossil fuel.
When asked if would there be any place for fracking in a Biden administration, he said “we would make sure it’s eliminated.”
Now for some icing on the cake:
Biden’s running mate Kamala Harris endorsed banning fracking during her unsuccessful presidential run. Biden himself has called for net-zero emissions by 2050; a 100 percent carbon-free electrical grid by 2035, and no new oil-and-gas permits on public lands. Sure sounds like ‘no fracking’ to me.
The issue is not whether you like or don’t like fracking. The issue is whether you like being lied to. Some people do. Some people end up loving their abuser and staying emotionally dependent on them, no matter how many times their abuser beats them up physically or psychologically. So, if you’re one of those people, vote for Joe. You will get your jollies because Plagiarism Joe will surely lie to you again.