The Daily Skirmish
- in use by a campaign in Washington state
8/14/20 - The COVID Craziness Continues
The COVID craziness continues. This week, a state agency in Wisconsin required its employees to wear masks when they’re home alone in virtual online meetings, so they can show how virtuous they are. Typical leftist thinking. But I have the antidote to this craziness. It’s called Reason. Let’s use our noodles a bit, shall we, and follow the science:
The CDC published a study showing that standing in line in Wisconsin’s April primary election did not cause a spike in COVID cases, hospitalizations, or deaths.
An international study showed that the COVID mortality rate is 79 percent lower in countries that allow the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat the disease.
A Democratic New York City councilman credited hydroxychloroquine with saving his life.
Malevolent authorities are still cooking the books to overstate the number of COVID deaths:
The CDC admitted that 3 percent of listed COVID deaths involved car accidents, poisonings, and other causes unrelated to the disease.
Colorado listed a man who died of alcohol poisoning as a COVID death. Similar stories were reported in Florida.
Britain stopped counting every death with a positive test as a COVID death and the number of COVID deaths dropped by 12 percent.
In Kansas, “counties with mask mandates have about 77% more daily cases per capita than the counties without mandates.”
COVID-like illnesses account for just 2.1 percent of emergency room visits nationwide.
A large study in the UK showed there is very little evidence coronavirus is transmitted in schools.
When you consider all the costs of the lockdowns - unemployment, domestic abuse, suicides, depression, and the like - and the fact that hospitals are not being overwhelmed as claimed, it’s time to get things back closer to normal. Virtue signaling and the fake religiosity that’s grown up around this subject on the Left should not stand in the way of rational decisionmaking.
8/13/20 - Kamala Harris: Serial Liar
Yesterday, I told you about how Kamala Harris repeated the lie that climate change is causing extreme weather events, when there is no evidence of that. That’s not the only lie she told in her speech after being picked as Joe Biden’s running mate.
She also claimed in her speech that Donald Trump is keeping kids from going back to school. That’s a flat-out lie and she knows it. Trump has nothing to do with local school district decisions about whether to reopen schools. In fact, Trump gave eight recommendations, yesterday, for schools to reopen safely. UPI
She said Trump’s handling of the pandemic has caused the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression. With 1.8 million jobs added in July and 25 percent annualized growth in the current quarter, this is no Great Depression.
She said the virus hit the U.S. worse than any other advanced nation. Another lie. Several advanced countries have had more fatalities per capita than the U.S.
Previously, she claimed she sued Exxon Mobil when she was California Attorney General. She did no such thing, when several other state Attorneys General did.
She also compared ICE agents to the KKK, a wild exaggeration that amounts to a lie. Where are the hoods and the burning crosses and the lynchings, hmm?
She’ll say anything to get into power. But isn’t there something wrong if she has to lie to make her case?
Here’s the problem for people who want to vote for her: She has not just given you inaccurate information. She has not just lied to you. She has betrayed your trust, just like a lover who cheats on you. She has given you no reason to trust her, and every reason not to trust her. Trust is the issue with Kamala Harris and you should think twice about getting into bed with someone who is intentionally abusing and manipulating you for her own gain. Word to the wise.
8/12/20 - Kamala Harris: A Wildfire of Demagoguery
Joe Biden’s VP pick Kamala Harris has already come in for a raft of criticism: hiding evidence as a prosecutor, laughing when asked about her marijuana use while prosecuting others for it, voting for infanticide, etc.
Few noticed, but her acceptance speech yesterday contained this little gem:
In drawing a relationship between human-induced climate change and extreme weather events, Harris was repeating an article of faith among green true believers on the Left. There’s only one problem: it’s not true. There is no established relationship between human-caused climate change and extreme weather:
Her claim that climate change causes wildfires and the rest of her environmental positions are pure demagoguery. Which begs the question: was the rest of her speech this bad? Yo, Harris! Your environmental demagoguery is pure science fiction; leave it in the ground.
8/11/20 - Dems: ‘Trump Has a Secret Plan to End Social Security and Medicare’
The Democrats were in full force yesterday criticizing President Trump’s payroll tax deferral. Pelosi and Schumer said in a joint statement the move will “endanger seniors’ Social Security and Medicare.” Others went further, claiming the deferral is part of Trump’s plan to gut the programs entirely.
REBUTTAL
In the first place, the deferral has absolutely nothing to do with Medicare; it only applies to Social Security. The Democrats are either mistaken or lying, you decide which.
Second, everybody knows Social Security is going broke. According to one expert, the net effect of Trump’s order is that “insolvency could occur a week earlier.” Big whup.
Third, Obama, Pelosi, and Biden all presided over previous payroll tax cuts, praising them as victories for the American people. (here, here, and here). In January 2011, Biden wrote that a "Payroll tax cut will create jobs" and "have no financial impact on Social Security." Moreover, you can watch him on video when he was a senator expounding on his not-so-secret plan to cut Social Security and Medicare.
That makes the Democrats hypocrites, but hypocrisy doesn’t bother them in the least. That was then, this is now, and the ends justify the means when you are effectuating the higher morality of saving the planet from the Deplorables.
‘Trump has a secret plan’? Put up or shut up. Do you have the goods, or are you just conspiracy theorists making careless comments again?
8/10/20 - If Joe Biden is Elected, Who Will Actually Be Running the Country?
I’m still waiting for an answer to my question: If Joe Biden is elected, who will actually be running the country?
Everybody knows he’s senile. Everybody knows he’s not all there. The Democrats know they’re better off running a holographic candidate than letting Joe Biden out of his basement or answer unscripted questions without a teleprompter.
Who will actually be running the country? Mrs. Woodrow Wilson? In October 1919, President Woodrow Wilson had a stroke that left him paralyzed. Historical accounts show that his wife took over his duties and was essentially the President until Wilson’s term ended in March 1921.
What do we really know about Joe Biden’s wife, Jill Biden? She’s starting to give interviews. What is she really about? Who pulls her strings?
Or maybe it will be Joe Biden’s vice-presidential pick. We don’t know who that is yet. And we don’t know if that person would really be allowed to govern, or if other powerbrokers would prevent it, like they tried in the movie Seven Days in May.
Or maybe the real president will be whoever is in control of the Democratic Party. Who runs the show for the Democrats is not clear at this point, with Nancy Pelosi having had to make so many concessions to the Squad and other radicals in her party.
Or maybe it will be dark sinister forces who remain hidden and nameless. Who wants that?
One difference from Woodrow Wilson’s time is that we have the 25th Amendment which makes provisions for succession when the president is disabled. But would the cabinet really invoke it? If it’s invoked, what if Biden sends a letter declaring he’s fit to resume office and Congress has to decide the matter? What a mess that would be.
Have we ever had a senile presidential candidate before? If elected, Biden would be the oldest person to take the office. He can’t even campaign. What makes you think he can govern? Which brings me back to my question: If Joe Biden is elected, who will actually be running the country? Until you can answer that, you shouldn’t even consider voting for Joe Biden.
Here’s an idea: in the Biden presidency, they shouldn’t rent out the Lincoln bedroom like the Clinton’s did. They should rent out the Oval Office to anyone will to pay to be President for a day. That makes as much sense as anything else I’ve heard about who will actually be running the country if Joe Biden is elected
8/7/20 - COVID Alarmism is Fading for a Reason
COVID alarmism is fading for a reason. This is not to minimize the lives of those who are no longer with us because of the disease, but there was just too much dishonesty for the ‘sky is falling’ narrative to be sustained over time.
Let’s go back to the original rationale for the lockdowns. It was to ‘flatten the curve’ and keep the hospital system from being overwhelmed. There was dishonest reporting about a handful of hospitals in a few places being in distress. As previously mentioned on the Daily Skirmish, those stories talked about those hospitals possibly becoming overwhelmed in a few weeks if present trends continued. Overall, the hospital system is not overwhelmed, not even close. According to government figures, only 61 percent of all available ICU beds were occupied as of July 13th.
Second, we were told sending COVID patients into nursing homes had no impact on the residents there. However, deaths per capita in nursing homes were much higher than the national average in the five states that sent COVID patients into nursing homes - New York, New Jersey, Michigan, California, and Pennsylvania.
Third, there is clear evidence authorities have been cooking the books to artificially inflate the number of COVID cases and deaths. To give just three recent examples, health officials in several states included positive results from antibody tests in the new case numbers when they knew the common cold can produce positive antibody results. The military healthcare provider TRICARE overstated their number of cases by 600,000. People dying in motorcycle crashes and killed by lightning strikes have also been included in the COVID death count.
Finally, the truth is also coming out about hydroxychloroquine. When used with zinc, it is an effective treatment for COVID-19 in the early stages of the disease. Remember, there was a survey a couple months ago where 6,000 doctors from around the world said the treatment is effective. More recently, more studies have come to light showing hydroxychloroquine reduces COVID hospitalizations and deaths with no serious heart problems. CNN Gateway Pundit AAPS A chart is going around the Internet showing the COVID mortality rate is much higher in countries where hydroxychloroquine is not used than in countries where it is.
So much dishonesty. Why do you suppose that is?
8/6/20 - A Reckoning Looms for the Treasonous Coup Plotters
Spygate is heating up. Yesterday, former Deputy Attorney General in the Obama administration Sally Yates said in congressional testimony former FBI Director James Comey went “rogue” and sent agents to interview Michael Flynn without her authorization. She also admitted the Hillary Clinton/DNC bought-and-paid for Steele dossier - unverified at best, completely discredited at worst - was at the center of the FBI’s application to the FISA court for a warrant to spy on Carter Page. Yates also said she would not have approved the application for the warrant if she been aware of the “errors and omissions” in the application. She also claimed she does not remember what Joe Biden said in the January 2017 Oval Office meeting about going after Michael Flynn with the Logan Act.
The noose is tightening around the necks of the coup plotters who were out to get candidate, then President Donald Trump. Yates is only one out of dozens of witnesses to be called to testify in Senate hearings. You can add to that what the U.S. Attorneys John Durham and John Bash are investigating about the origins of coup plotters’ Russia probe and the bizarre number of unmasking requests by Obama administration officials.
A picture is emerging that we’re finally going to get to the bottom of all this and the coup plotters, despite their best efforts, are not going escape the judgment of history on their treasonous actions. Not a word about Yates’ testimony from major media outlets. They’ve taken sides and made themselves irrelevant. Remember when they were all crowing about Donald Trump being wiretapped when they thought it was going to be his downfall? When the story broke against them, they denied he was ever wiretapped. But it doesn’t matter what backflips they do. A reckoning looms for the treasonous coup plotters, not matter how much they and their flunkies in the media wish the story would go away. Tick-tock.
8/5/20 - ‘Free Market Policies Caused the Great Depression’
Chuck Schumer repeated a favorite myth of the Left yesterday: free market policies under Herbert Hoover caused the Great Depression.
REBUTTAL
Hoover was an engineer by trade. He had the soul of a central planner. He was not a free marketeer, by any stretch of the imagination. He instituted disastrous Big Government policies that meddled in the economy and it was these policies, not laissez faire economics, that led to the Great Depression. He supported the largest tax increase in history. He signed the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill into law which raised prices, cut consumption, and started a trade war. He launched big public works projects which diverted people into unproductive activity. He prohibited business leaders from cutting wages. Later government policies were also disastrous, like wage and price controls and trying to keep prices artificially high. The Federal Reserve acted in ways that tightened the money supply at exactly the wrong time. The Fed’s actions were disastrous, as a later Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke, would admit. If you’ve never heard these things, it’s not surprising given the Left’s dominance over intellectual space in this country. But it doesn’t mean they’re not true. There are entire books making the case that government interference in the economy caused the Great Depression and more government interference in the New Deal is not what got us out. So, the next time you hear somebody like Chuck Schumer repeat these myths, now at least you know these things are disputed and anybody who makes these claims with complete certitude like Schumer is being dishonest because they know darn well there’s an entire body of scholarship going against what they say.
8/4/20 - ‘Universal Mail-In Balloting is Secure. Pravda Has Spoken.’
‘Universal Mail-In Balloting is Secure.’ CNN tells us so:
REBUTTAL
The long-standing practice of absentee balloting is the same as conducting the entire election by mail? Nice try, not even close.
Universal mail-in voting is secure? That’s preposterous. Anyone making that claim will have to get over mountains of evidence. The evidence is way more than enough to convince anyone who doesn’t have a psychological need to believe in the Left’s fake religion, or belong to the ‘cool’ group, that universal mail-in balloting is a very bad idea:
8/3/20 - Re-Elect Trump on the Strength of His Record
Hugh Hewitt hit a home run. His popular August 1st editorial made the case for President Trump’s reelection simply by listing Trump’s accomplishments:
The COVID craziness continues. This week, a state agency in Wisconsin required its employees to wear masks when they’re home alone in virtual online meetings, so they can show how virtuous they are. Typical leftist thinking. But I have the antidote to this craziness. It’s called Reason. Let’s use our noodles a bit, shall we, and follow the science:
The CDC published a study showing that standing in line in Wisconsin’s April primary election did not cause a spike in COVID cases, hospitalizations, or deaths.
An international study showed that the COVID mortality rate is 79 percent lower in countries that allow the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat the disease.
A Democratic New York City councilman credited hydroxychloroquine with saving his life.
Malevolent authorities are still cooking the books to overstate the number of COVID deaths:
The CDC admitted that 3 percent of listed COVID deaths involved car accidents, poisonings, and other causes unrelated to the disease.
Colorado listed a man who died of alcohol poisoning as a COVID death. Similar stories were reported in Florida.
Britain stopped counting every death with a positive test as a COVID death and the number of COVID deaths dropped by 12 percent.
In Kansas, “counties with mask mandates have about 77% more daily cases per capita than the counties without mandates.”
COVID-like illnesses account for just 2.1 percent of emergency room visits nationwide.
A large study in the UK showed there is very little evidence coronavirus is transmitted in schools.
When you consider all the costs of the lockdowns - unemployment, domestic abuse, suicides, depression, and the like - and the fact that hospitals are not being overwhelmed as claimed, it’s time to get things back closer to normal. Virtue signaling and the fake religiosity that’s grown up around this subject on the Left should not stand in the way of rational decisionmaking.
8/13/20 - Kamala Harris: Serial Liar
Yesterday, I told you about how Kamala Harris repeated the lie that climate change is causing extreme weather events, when there is no evidence of that. That’s not the only lie she told in her speech after being picked as Joe Biden’s running mate.
She also claimed in her speech that Donald Trump is keeping kids from going back to school. That’s a flat-out lie and she knows it. Trump has nothing to do with local school district decisions about whether to reopen schools. In fact, Trump gave eight recommendations, yesterday, for schools to reopen safely. UPI
She said Trump’s handling of the pandemic has caused the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression. With 1.8 million jobs added in July and 25 percent annualized growth in the current quarter, this is no Great Depression.
She said the virus hit the U.S. worse than any other advanced nation. Another lie. Several advanced countries have had more fatalities per capita than the U.S.
Previously, she claimed she sued Exxon Mobil when she was California Attorney General. She did no such thing, when several other state Attorneys General did.
She also compared ICE agents to the KKK, a wild exaggeration that amounts to a lie. Where are the hoods and the burning crosses and the lynchings, hmm?
She’ll say anything to get into power. But isn’t there something wrong if she has to lie to make her case?
Here’s the problem for people who want to vote for her: She has not just given you inaccurate information. She has not just lied to you. She has betrayed your trust, just like a lover who cheats on you. She has given you no reason to trust her, and every reason not to trust her. Trust is the issue with Kamala Harris and you should think twice about getting into bed with someone who is intentionally abusing and manipulating you for her own gain. Word to the wise.
8/12/20 - Kamala Harris: A Wildfire of Demagoguery
Joe Biden’s VP pick Kamala Harris has already come in for a raft of criticism: hiding evidence as a prosecutor, laughing when asked about her marijuana use while prosecuting others for it, voting for infanticide, etc.
Few noticed, but her acceptance speech yesterday contained this little gem:
- “From wildfires in the west to hurricanes in the east, to floods and droughts in the heartland, we’re not gonna buy the lie. We’re gonna act, based on science fact, not science fiction,” Harris proclaimed in Oakland as she kicked off her campaign. GreenTechMedia
In drawing a relationship between human-induced climate change and extreme weather events, Harris was repeating an article of faith among green true believers on the Left. There’s only one problem: it’s not true. There is no established relationship between human-caused climate change and extreme weather:
- Climate change alarmists burned by studies showing destructive wildfires in decline
- “The actual data also contradicts claims that we are already observing increased damage from CO2-induced extreme weather. NOAA and IPCC data show no increasing trends for hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, or floods.” Paul Driessen mailing 2/10/16
- Gregory Wrightstone: And we see that landfalling hurricanes in the United States [have] actually … been in decline. We see that if we look at the number of hurricanes and tropical systems, it’s been pretty flat over the last 30 or so years.
- A new paper shows that predictions of increased flood and drought are wrong
- “Far-left radical Kamala Harris wants to ban all fracking jobs, which would take away paychecks from workers in states like Colorado, Pennsylvania, Texas, New Mexico, and Ohio.” Trump War Room
- Kamala Harris: "There’s no question, I’m in favor of banning fracking". CNN
- .@KamalaHarris wants to destroy over 230,000 jobs in Colorado. Cory Gardner
- Harris wants to reduce the amount of red meat you can eat. Trump War Room
Her claim that climate change causes wildfires and the rest of her environmental positions are pure demagoguery. Which begs the question: was the rest of her speech this bad? Yo, Harris! Your environmental demagoguery is pure science fiction; leave it in the ground.
8/11/20 - Dems: ‘Trump Has a Secret Plan to End Social Security and Medicare’
The Democrats were in full force yesterday criticizing President Trump’s payroll tax deferral. Pelosi and Schumer said in a joint statement the move will “endanger seniors’ Social Security and Medicare.” Others went further, claiming the deferral is part of Trump’s plan to gut the programs entirely.
REBUTTAL
In the first place, the deferral has absolutely nothing to do with Medicare; it only applies to Social Security. The Democrats are either mistaken or lying, you decide which.
Second, everybody knows Social Security is going broke. According to one expert, the net effect of Trump’s order is that “insolvency could occur a week earlier.” Big whup.
Third, Obama, Pelosi, and Biden all presided over previous payroll tax cuts, praising them as victories for the American people. (here, here, and here). In January 2011, Biden wrote that a "Payroll tax cut will create jobs" and "have no financial impact on Social Security." Moreover, you can watch him on video when he was a senator expounding on his not-so-secret plan to cut Social Security and Medicare.
That makes the Democrats hypocrites, but hypocrisy doesn’t bother them in the least. That was then, this is now, and the ends justify the means when you are effectuating the higher morality of saving the planet from the Deplorables.
‘Trump has a secret plan’? Put up or shut up. Do you have the goods, or are you just conspiracy theorists making careless comments again?
8/10/20 - If Joe Biden is Elected, Who Will Actually Be Running the Country?
I’m still waiting for an answer to my question: If Joe Biden is elected, who will actually be running the country?
Everybody knows he’s senile. Everybody knows he’s not all there. The Democrats know they’re better off running a holographic candidate than letting Joe Biden out of his basement or answer unscripted questions without a teleprompter.
Who will actually be running the country? Mrs. Woodrow Wilson? In October 1919, President Woodrow Wilson had a stroke that left him paralyzed. Historical accounts show that his wife took over his duties and was essentially the President until Wilson’s term ended in March 1921.
What do we really know about Joe Biden’s wife, Jill Biden? She’s starting to give interviews. What is she really about? Who pulls her strings?
Or maybe it will be Joe Biden’s vice-presidential pick. We don’t know who that is yet. And we don’t know if that person would really be allowed to govern, or if other powerbrokers would prevent it, like they tried in the movie Seven Days in May.
Or maybe the real president will be whoever is in control of the Democratic Party. Who runs the show for the Democrats is not clear at this point, with Nancy Pelosi having had to make so many concessions to the Squad and other radicals in her party.
Or maybe it will be dark sinister forces who remain hidden and nameless. Who wants that?
One difference from Woodrow Wilson’s time is that we have the 25th Amendment which makes provisions for succession when the president is disabled. But would the cabinet really invoke it? If it’s invoked, what if Biden sends a letter declaring he’s fit to resume office and Congress has to decide the matter? What a mess that would be.
Have we ever had a senile presidential candidate before? If elected, Biden would be the oldest person to take the office. He can’t even campaign. What makes you think he can govern? Which brings me back to my question: If Joe Biden is elected, who will actually be running the country? Until you can answer that, you shouldn’t even consider voting for Joe Biden.
Here’s an idea: in the Biden presidency, they shouldn’t rent out the Lincoln bedroom like the Clinton’s did. They should rent out the Oval Office to anyone will to pay to be President for a day. That makes as much sense as anything else I’ve heard about who will actually be running the country if Joe Biden is elected
8/7/20 - COVID Alarmism is Fading for a Reason
COVID alarmism is fading for a reason. This is not to minimize the lives of those who are no longer with us because of the disease, but there was just too much dishonesty for the ‘sky is falling’ narrative to be sustained over time.
Let’s go back to the original rationale for the lockdowns. It was to ‘flatten the curve’ and keep the hospital system from being overwhelmed. There was dishonest reporting about a handful of hospitals in a few places being in distress. As previously mentioned on the Daily Skirmish, those stories talked about those hospitals possibly becoming overwhelmed in a few weeks if present trends continued. Overall, the hospital system is not overwhelmed, not even close. According to government figures, only 61 percent of all available ICU beds were occupied as of July 13th.
Second, we were told sending COVID patients into nursing homes had no impact on the residents there. However, deaths per capita in nursing homes were much higher than the national average in the five states that sent COVID patients into nursing homes - New York, New Jersey, Michigan, California, and Pennsylvania.
Third, there is clear evidence authorities have been cooking the books to artificially inflate the number of COVID cases and deaths. To give just three recent examples, health officials in several states included positive results from antibody tests in the new case numbers when they knew the common cold can produce positive antibody results. The military healthcare provider TRICARE overstated their number of cases by 600,000. People dying in motorcycle crashes and killed by lightning strikes have also been included in the COVID death count.
Finally, the truth is also coming out about hydroxychloroquine. When used with zinc, it is an effective treatment for COVID-19 in the early stages of the disease. Remember, there was a survey a couple months ago where 6,000 doctors from around the world said the treatment is effective. More recently, more studies have come to light showing hydroxychloroquine reduces COVID hospitalizations and deaths with no serious heart problems. CNN Gateway Pundit AAPS A chart is going around the Internet showing the COVID mortality rate is much higher in countries where hydroxychloroquine is not used than in countries where it is.
So much dishonesty. Why do you suppose that is?
8/6/20 - A Reckoning Looms for the Treasonous Coup Plotters
Spygate is heating up. Yesterday, former Deputy Attorney General in the Obama administration Sally Yates said in congressional testimony former FBI Director James Comey went “rogue” and sent agents to interview Michael Flynn without her authorization. She also admitted the Hillary Clinton/DNC bought-and-paid for Steele dossier - unverified at best, completely discredited at worst - was at the center of the FBI’s application to the FISA court for a warrant to spy on Carter Page. Yates also said she would not have approved the application for the warrant if she been aware of the “errors and omissions” in the application. She also claimed she does not remember what Joe Biden said in the January 2017 Oval Office meeting about going after Michael Flynn with the Logan Act.
The noose is tightening around the necks of the coup plotters who were out to get candidate, then President Donald Trump. Yates is only one out of dozens of witnesses to be called to testify in Senate hearings. You can add to that what the U.S. Attorneys John Durham and John Bash are investigating about the origins of coup plotters’ Russia probe and the bizarre number of unmasking requests by Obama administration officials.
A picture is emerging that we’re finally going to get to the bottom of all this and the coup plotters, despite their best efforts, are not going escape the judgment of history on their treasonous actions. Not a word about Yates’ testimony from major media outlets. They’ve taken sides and made themselves irrelevant. Remember when they were all crowing about Donald Trump being wiretapped when they thought it was going to be his downfall? When the story broke against them, they denied he was ever wiretapped. But it doesn’t matter what backflips they do. A reckoning looms for the treasonous coup plotters, not matter how much they and their flunkies in the media wish the story would go away. Tick-tock.
8/5/20 - ‘Free Market Policies Caused the Great Depression’
Chuck Schumer repeated a favorite myth of the Left yesterday: free market policies under Herbert Hoover caused the Great Depression.
REBUTTAL
Hoover was an engineer by trade. He had the soul of a central planner. He was not a free marketeer, by any stretch of the imagination. He instituted disastrous Big Government policies that meddled in the economy and it was these policies, not laissez faire economics, that led to the Great Depression. He supported the largest tax increase in history. He signed the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill into law which raised prices, cut consumption, and started a trade war. He launched big public works projects which diverted people into unproductive activity. He prohibited business leaders from cutting wages. Later government policies were also disastrous, like wage and price controls and trying to keep prices artificially high. The Federal Reserve acted in ways that tightened the money supply at exactly the wrong time. The Fed’s actions were disastrous, as a later Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke, would admit. If you’ve never heard these things, it’s not surprising given the Left’s dominance over intellectual space in this country. But it doesn’t mean they’re not true. There are entire books making the case that government interference in the economy caused the Great Depression and more government interference in the New Deal is not what got us out. So, the next time you hear somebody like Chuck Schumer repeat these myths, now at least you know these things are disputed and anybody who makes these claims with complete certitude like Schumer is being dishonest because they know darn well there’s an entire body of scholarship going against what they say.
8/4/20 - ‘Universal Mail-In Balloting is Secure. Pravda Has Spoken.’
‘Universal Mail-In Balloting is Secure.’ CNN tells us so:
- Facts First: Trump often defends absentee voting -- a practice he has used himself -- while lambasting mail-in voting. But the voting methods are very similar, and experts have told CNN they are largely "the same thing." And although there can be some differences in the methods used to implement absentee and mail-in voting, experts say that they are both secure ways of voting.
REBUTTAL
The long-standing practice of absentee balloting is the same as conducting the entire election by mail? Nice try, not even close.
Universal mail-in voting is secure? That’s preposterous. Anyone making that claim will have to get over mountains of evidence. The evidence is way more than enough to convince anyone who doesn’t have a psychological need to believe in the Left’s fake religion, or belong to the ‘cool’ group, that universal mail-in balloting is a very bad idea:
- 28 Million Mail-In Ballots Went Missing in Last Four Elections
- President Trump said a New York congressional election that has still not been decided because of mail-in balloting problems is a “total disaster” and should be run over again. Fox News
- States reject tens of thousands of mail ballots in this year's primaries, setting off alarm bells for November
- Pennsylvania’s mail ballot problems kept tens of thousands from voting in a pandemic primary
- California Rejected 100,000 Mail-In Ballots Because of Mistakes
- Republicans suing in California to prevent millions of ballots being sent to inactive voters
- Mail-In Votes Discarded, Never Counted in Baltimore Election Due to Error
- 100K Mail-In Ballot Applications Returned as ‘Undeliverable’ in Rhode Island
- IT HAPPENED AGAIN! New Jersey Republicans Receive Mail-In Ballots With ONLY DEMOCRAT CHOICES
- Heritage Foundation report details four cases studies of election fraud committed through absentee and mail-in voting - “makes voters vulnerable to intimidation and unlawful ‘assistance’”
- An NPR analysis has found that in the primary elections held so far this year, at least 65,000 absentee or mail-in ballots have been rejected because they arrived past the deadline, often through no fault of the voter.
- “Mandatory voting by mail would undermine election security and endanger Americans’ right to have their votes counted, according to a report released Tuesday by the Honest Elections Project, a voter integrity group.” Daily Signal
- ‘Disaster’: CBS mail-in voting experiment reveals massive problems
- GOP wins major 'election integrity' lawsuit in Florida, where Dems sought taxpayer-funded mail-in ballots
- It can take a month just to count absentee ballots. CBSNewYork
- For more on the problems with universal mail-in balloting, see the interview with Clara Belle Wheeler, former Vice Chair of the Virginia State Board of Elections, on Eagle News.
8/3/20 - Re-Elect Trump on the Strength of His Record
Hugh Hewitt hit a home run. His popular August 1st editorial made the case for President Trump’s reelection simply by listing Trump’s accomplishments:
- brought the existential threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party into the sunlight
- put two justices on the Supreme Court, 53 judges on the federal courts of appeals, 144 and counting on the District courts
- Trump’s tax cuts, along with the massive deregulation he orchestrated, led to 3.5 percent unemployment
- took a military operating in President Barack Obama’s last years at about $600 billion and moved that budget by his third year to $738 billion, with more in the budget coming soon. The Navy necessary to meet China on the high seas, all 355 ships of it, is being planned and built.
- tore up the so-called Iran nuclear deal
- Trump moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem
- took the United States out of the unbalanced, absurd, doomed-to-fail Paris Climate Agreement
- ordered Iran’s master terrorist, Gen. Qasem Soleimani, killed, accomplished the complete physical destruction of the Islamic State caliphate and successfully hunted down its terrorist chieftain, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
- pushed through the long-overdue justice reform legislation and the reorganization of Veterans Affairs
- Trump’s border wall, proceeding apace
- got his United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement
- stripped off the veneer of objectivity from the “fake news.”
7/31/20 - Obama: Still Race-Baiter-in-Chief
Former President Obama’s so-called ‘eulogy’ to John Lewis yesterday was pure political screed from start to finish, filled with the most hateful, divisive rhetoric.
Obama referred to “police officers kneeling on the necks of Black Americans”
REBUTTAL: Aside from George Floyd, who, exactly, are you talking about? Your hyperbole is corrosive.
“our federal government sending agents to use tear gas and batons against peaceful demonstrators”
REBUTTAL: The notion these are merely ‘peaceful protesters’ has been thoroughly debunked by the Daily Skirmish and others. Blinding lasers, explosive fireworks, Molotov cocktails - with all due respect, sir, you don’t have a case. Moreover, the way you and other Leftists condone violence is despicable and inexcusable.
“attacking our voting rights with surgical precision”
REBUTTAL: Once again we see the Left’s bogus ‘voter suppression’ narrative. Courts have widely upheld common-sense voter ID laws.
‘in-person voting is too dangerous in November’
REBUTTAL: He said to a packed room full of people who were not socially distancing. Saying obviously deceitful and hypocritical things doesn’t bother the Left because they have a higher morality, you see. Their glorious ends justify any means including hypocrisy, violence, contradicting themselves from minute to minute, and concocting the most bizarre fairy tales. As Senator Lindsey Graham points out, South Carolina held an in-person primary recently. Nobody talks about South Carolina being a COVID hotspot as a result.
Wright’s Law: Everything that comes out of the mouth of the Left is crap and can be deconstructed.
Sources:
Sean Hannity
Tucker Carlson
Gateway Pundit
h/t Mark Levin
7/30/20 - Biden’s War on Energy
Speaking in Texas yesterday, President Trump pounded home one of the many areas where Joe Biden is vulnerable: Biden’s War on Energy - “I want you to look in my eyes. I guarantee you, I guarantee you, we’re going to END fossil fuels,” Biden has proclaimed.
More magical thinking from the radical utopian left, which is controlling Biden on this issue.
Biden’s War on Energy “would eliminate more than 10 million jobs in the U.S."
Trump said: “The United States is now the #1 producer of oil and natural gas ANYWHERE in the world.”
But Joe Biden wants to end all this, destroy jobs, and Make Solyndra Great Again!
Former President Obama’s so-called ‘eulogy’ to John Lewis yesterday was pure political screed from start to finish, filled with the most hateful, divisive rhetoric.
Obama referred to “police officers kneeling on the necks of Black Americans”
REBUTTAL: Aside from George Floyd, who, exactly, are you talking about? Your hyperbole is corrosive.
“our federal government sending agents to use tear gas and batons against peaceful demonstrators”
REBUTTAL: The notion these are merely ‘peaceful protesters’ has been thoroughly debunked by the Daily Skirmish and others. Blinding lasers, explosive fireworks, Molotov cocktails - with all due respect, sir, you don’t have a case. Moreover, the way you and other Leftists condone violence is despicable and inexcusable.
“attacking our voting rights with surgical precision”
REBUTTAL: Once again we see the Left’s bogus ‘voter suppression’ narrative. Courts have widely upheld common-sense voter ID laws.
‘in-person voting is too dangerous in November’
REBUTTAL: He said to a packed room full of people who were not socially distancing. Saying obviously deceitful and hypocritical things doesn’t bother the Left because they have a higher morality, you see. Their glorious ends justify any means including hypocrisy, violence, contradicting themselves from minute to minute, and concocting the most bizarre fairy tales. As Senator Lindsey Graham points out, South Carolina held an in-person primary recently. Nobody talks about South Carolina being a COVID hotspot as a result.
Wright’s Law: Everything that comes out of the mouth of the Left is crap and can be deconstructed.
Sources:
Sean Hannity
Tucker Carlson
Gateway Pundit
h/t Mark Levin
7/30/20 - Biden’s War on Energy
Speaking in Texas yesterday, President Trump pounded home one of the many areas where Joe Biden is vulnerable: Biden’s War on Energy - “I want you to look in my eyes. I guarantee you, I guarantee you, we’re going to END fossil fuels,” Biden has proclaimed.
More magical thinking from the radical utopian left, which is controlling Biden on this issue.
Biden’s War on Energy “would eliminate more than 10 million jobs in the U.S."
Trump said: “The United States is now the #1 producer of oil and natural gas ANYWHERE in the world.”
But Joe Biden wants to end all this, destroy jobs, and Make Solyndra Great Again!
7/29/20 - Barr: “Since When Is It OK to Try and Burn Down a Federal Court?”
Dem Rep. Pramila Jayapal blasted Attorney General William Barr at yesterday’s hearing for sending federal agents to the riots but not to the Michigan statehouse protest where, she heatedly said, right-wing extremists were carrying guns. (h/t Hugh Hewitt)
Let’s make a few distinctions, shall we? In the first place, it’s legal to open carry weapons in public spaces in Michigan, including the Capitol Building. Using rocks and Molotov cocktails to hurt people and break things in the course of a riot is not legal. Second, the Michigan statehouse is not federal property and Michigan law enforcement, not the federal government, is charged with the duty of protecting it. Third, the protests in Michigan did not go on for 50+ days. Fourth, the protests in Michigan did not involve attempted arson, shooting fireworks at law enforcement, or hitting them in the head with a baseball bat. So you see, Rep. Jayapal, the situations are not at all the same and you are way off base. If you want into the Squad, you’re gonna have to do better than that.
More from the hearings:
Dem Rep. Pramila Jayapal blasted Attorney General William Barr at yesterday’s hearing for sending federal agents to the riots but not to the Michigan statehouse protest where, she heatedly said, right-wing extremists were carrying guns. (h/t Hugh Hewitt)
Let’s make a few distinctions, shall we? In the first place, it’s legal to open carry weapons in public spaces in Michigan, including the Capitol Building. Using rocks and Molotov cocktails to hurt people and break things in the course of a riot is not legal. Second, the Michigan statehouse is not federal property and Michigan law enforcement, not the federal government, is charged with the duty of protecting it. Third, the protests in Michigan did not go on for 50+ days. Fourth, the protests in Michigan did not involve attempted arson, shooting fireworks at law enforcement, or hitting them in the head with a baseball bat. So you see, Rep. Jayapal, the situations are not at all the same and you are way off base. If you want into the Squad, you’re gonna have to do better than that.
More from the hearings:
- Attorney General Barr: “Federal courts are under attack. Since when is it ok to try and burn down a federal court? … The U.S. Marshals have a duty to stop that and defend the courthouse—and that’s what we’re doing in Portland.”
- “Why can’t [Democrats] just say violence against federal courts has to stop? Can we hear something like that?” Attorney General Bill Barr asks.
- Jim Jordan’s devastating video debunking the notion these are ‘peaceful protests’
- Isn’t there something wrong with the whole exercise when they won’t let him answer the questions?
7/28/20 - Down the Rabbit Hole with Delusional Riot-Deniers
The Left continues to minimize the riots as just ‘peaceful protests’. The feds are fascists, Trump is rehearsing for when he takes over after he loses the elections, blah, blah. Peculiar insular statements from people who only talk to each other and believe their own propaganda.
Meanwhile, back in Realville (and this is just a sampling!) -
7/27/20 - WaPo Settles with Nick Sandmann
Kentucky teen Nick Sandmann who was accosted at the Lincoln Memorial settled the second of eight libel lawsuits, this one with the Washington Post. Terms were not disclosed. Gateway Pundit
The incident at the Lincoln Memorial was a big story, until it wasn’t.
The ‘smirking’ teen from Kentucky was newsworthy, until the story broke the ‘wrong’ way. Then they dropped it like a hot potato.
I agree with their initial assessment: this is news. It’s still news, and I’m not going to let them forget it.
No wonder they call WaPo and the rest ‘fake news’.
7/24/20 - Louie Goes on Offense - Demands Racist Democratic Party Change Its Name
Congressman Louie Gohmert introduced a resolution on the House floor calling on the Democratic Party to change its name because the Party is "blatantly and offensively tied to slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination, and the Ku Klux Klan."
Gohmert recalled how the Democrats worked against civil rights legislation and cited other well-known facts from the Party of slavery and segregation’s racist record.
This comes a day after Joe Biden called Trump the first racist president.
How so, Joe?
Does President Trump own slaves? Twelve American presidents have.
Did President Trump bring slaves to work on the White House? Nine American presidents did.
Did President Trump re-segregate the federal government? No, the Democrat Woodrow Wilson did that. (No citation needed - it’s not disputed.)
I would say you are out of your mind, Joe, but that would assume you still have one.
The Left continues to minimize the riots as just ‘peaceful protests’. The feds are fascists, Trump is rehearsing for when he takes over after he loses the elections, blah, blah. Peculiar insular statements from people who only talk to each other and believe their own propaganda.
Meanwhile, back in Realville (and this is just a sampling!) -
- “In recent nights, rioters have barricaded the front door of the courthouse, pried plywood off the windows with crowbars, and thrown commercial-grade fireworks into the building in an apparent attempt to burn it down with federal personnel inside. The rioters have started fires outside the building, and then systematically attacked federal law enforcement officers who attempt to put them out—for example, by pelting the officers with rocks, frozen water bottles, cans of food, and balloons filled with fecal matter.” William Barr’s opening statement for Congressional testimony today
- “throwing commercial-grade fireworks at law enforcement” (watch the video)
- Blood, Mortars, Ball Bearings
- Taking over a police station
- Gateway Pundit collected photos of the destruction and rioting from readers (some look like the bombed-out towns in Syria)
- Nadler says Antifa is just a myth (Antifa’s victims beg to differ)
- Seattle police chief: ‘we can’t protect your property because of the violence’
- President Trump: "Anyone who thinks we’re just going to give up the courthouse...that’s not going to happen. We’re going to do what we need to do to protect federal property. When the violence ends, then there won’t be a need for the presence of nightly federal officers...it seems quite simple."
7/27/20 - WaPo Settles with Nick Sandmann
Kentucky teen Nick Sandmann who was accosted at the Lincoln Memorial settled the second of eight libel lawsuits, this one with the Washington Post. Terms were not disclosed. Gateway Pundit
The incident at the Lincoln Memorial was a big story, until it wasn’t.
The ‘smirking’ teen from Kentucky was newsworthy, until the story broke the ‘wrong’ way. Then they dropped it like a hot potato.
I agree with their initial assessment: this is news. It’s still news, and I’m not going to let them forget it.
No wonder they call WaPo and the rest ‘fake news’.
7/24/20 - Louie Goes on Offense - Demands Racist Democratic Party Change Its Name
Congressman Louie Gohmert introduced a resolution on the House floor calling on the Democratic Party to change its name because the Party is "blatantly and offensively tied to slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination, and the Ku Klux Klan."
Gohmert recalled how the Democrats worked against civil rights legislation and cited other well-known facts from the Party of slavery and segregation’s racist record.
This comes a day after Joe Biden called Trump the first racist president.
How so, Joe?
Does President Trump own slaves? Twelve American presidents have.
Did President Trump bring slaves to work on the White House? Nine American presidents did.
Did President Trump re-segregate the federal government? No, the Democrat Woodrow Wilson did that. (No citation needed - it’s not disputed.)
I would say you are out of your mind, Joe, but that would assume you still have one.
7/23/20 - Time to Choose: Rioting or the Rule of Law (Operation LeGend)
President Trump is sending additional federal agents to Chicago and two other cities to deal with the riots in Operation LeGend. BBC Good!
Normally, this would be considered common sense given local politicians are complicit, but not in a year of electioneering and Trump Derangement Syndrome.
The Left minimizes these events as ‘peaceful protests’ when they are anything but:
The recent surge in violence is the result of weak leadership from left wing politicians who condone crime and endorse defunding the police.
7/22/20 - ‘Blacks Get Longer Sentences for the Same Crimes’ - Demolished
This assertion is circulating again.
REBUTTAL
The assertion is true but, by and large, blacks have longer criminal records which is the major factor in sentencing decisions. Anyone who has worked in the criminal justice system knows this is how the system works, and rightfully so. One bite at the apple - probation. After that, the sentences get longer. This is common sense.
As Larry Elder put it: “Once convicted, blacks were likely to receive longer sentences than whites, but this disparity was due to differences in the severity of the crime, their prior criminal records or other legal variables.”
7/21/20 - You Won't Be Safe in Joe Biden's America
Setting the courthouse on fire, hitting the police in the head with a baseball bat, no top Democrat speaking out against the mayhem. You Won't Be Safe in Joe Biden's America.
This is a Trump campaign theme, as well it should be.
Watch campaign ads here and here.
7/20/20 - Police Associations Blast Biden for Splitting Hairs on Defunding the Police
The Biden campaign is trying to pretend Joe Biden never threatened to defund the police and the Left is playing along.
However, Biden said in a recent interview that funding should “absolutely” be redirected from police budgets.
Defunded, redirected - what difference, at this point, does it make?
None at all to police associations. They issued a statement excoriating Biden for casting police officers as the enemy and trying to split hairs over terminology: “Whether you call it defunding or redirecting it means the same thing....”
Memo to the Biden campaign: Are you sure you want to split these hairs? Don’t you realize how stupid you look?
7/17/20 - More COVID Quackery
Consider this alarmist headline from Reuters:
U.S. shatters coronavirus record with over 77,000 cases in a day
Whatever sells. Meanwhile, back in Realville:
The Reuters story itself says daily COVID fatalities in the U.S. are less than half of the peak in April (969 v. ave. 2,000).
The death rate for ICU COVID cases has declined by one-third. Epoch Times
The CDC said COVID mortality is currently below epidemic thresholds. Gateway Pundit
Texas numbers show COVID is less lethal than the last two flu seasons. Gateway Pundit
There are scattered reports of hospitals in some locations being under stress. But capacity is flexible and hospitals are adding it in various ways. Get back to me when the army hospital ships get called out again and the field hospitals go up again (don’t forget: a lot of that extra capacity stayed empty). Saying some hospitals are in a temporary bind is not the same as saying the entire hospital system is overwhelmed.
Dr. Beau Briese, Emergency Room physician at Houston Methodist Hospital said on Dennis Prager 7/13/20:
- We have more capacity than we need. Can add flexible capacity any time. One unit actually shut down.
- ER use is 25 percent lower than 2 weeks ago
- Deaths are at 11 percent of New York’s worst days
- The media has terrified people and they have stayed out of the ER despite having serious conditions
- Most of the COVID deaths are elderly with other health problems
- There will be another peak, but the question is not IF people will get sick, it’s WHEN they will get sick
They’re still cooking the books:
Sweden has a perfectly normal looking epidemic curve. So much for the idea that, absent draconian lockdowns, there would be no end in sight. (see graphic below)
Steve Moore newsletter 7/13/20
President Trump is sending additional federal agents to Chicago and two other cities to deal with the riots in Operation LeGend. BBC Good!
Normally, this would be considered common sense given local politicians are complicit, but not in a year of electioneering and Trump Derangement Syndrome.
The Left minimizes these events as ‘peaceful protests’ when they are anything but:
- Watch video of the 54th consecutive day of mayhem in Portland and decide for yourself
- Law enforcement is being assaulted and even blinded
- “Powerful words from Charron Powell, mother of LeGend Taliferro, in support of #OperationLeGend ‘I want us to continue to fight against violence & also give Justice for my son and others’.”
- "Individuals have thrown bricks, chunks of concrete, glass bottles, feces, balloons filled with paint, pigs feet, slingshots to hurl ball bearings, & batteries at federal agents & the courthouse. Multiple attempts to barricade officers in the Hatfield Courthouse have occurred."
- “The rioters that Joe Biden defended as "peaceful":
Set fire to a federal courthouse.
Lit random fires downtown.
Vandalized city hall.
Assaulted police officers with projectiles” - “The violence and anarchy in Seattle is unacceptable…President @realDonaldTrump will not give the violence a pass"
The recent surge in violence is the result of weak leadership from left wing politicians who condone crime and endorse defunding the police.
- Recently, violent crime has surged to alarming levels in major cities led by local Democrat officials.
- During the last weekend of May, Chicago witnessed it’s most violent weekend in modern history with 25 people dead and another 85 shot.
- As of July 19th, 414 people have been murdered in Chicago this year – a roughly 50% increase from this time last year.
- In New York City, where the city has slashed the police budget, shootings recently surged 277% compared to last year.
- In Minneapolis, where the council voted to dismantle their police department, the number of homicides is expected to surpass the all-time high.
- Instead of condemning the onslaught of violent crime destroying our cities, Democrats choose to ignore, justify, or condone it.
- REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA): “People will do what they do.”
- REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ (D-NY): “Maybe this has to do with the fact that people aren't paying their rent and are scared to pay their rent. And so they go out, and they need to feed their child, and they don't have money.”
- While the radical left wants to defund our police, President Trump wants to give them the support they need to keep our communities safe.
7/22/20 - ‘Blacks Get Longer Sentences for the Same Crimes’ - Demolished
This assertion is circulating again.
REBUTTAL
The assertion is true but, by and large, blacks have longer criminal records which is the major factor in sentencing decisions. Anyone who has worked in the criminal justice system knows this is how the system works, and rightfully so. One bite at the apple - probation. After that, the sentences get longer. This is common sense.
As Larry Elder put it: “Once convicted, blacks were likely to receive longer sentences than whites, but this disparity was due to differences in the severity of the crime, their prior criminal records or other legal variables.”
7/21/20 - You Won't Be Safe in Joe Biden's America
Setting the courthouse on fire, hitting the police in the head with a baseball bat, no top Democrat speaking out against the mayhem. You Won't Be Safe in Joe Biden's America.
This is a Trump campaign theme, as well it should be.
Watch campaign ads here and here.
7/20/20 - Police Associations Blast Biden for Splitting Hairs on Defunding the Police
The Biden campaign is trying to pretend Joe Biden never threatened to defund the police and the Left is playing along.
However, Biden said in a recent interview that funding should “absolutely” be redirected from police budgets.
Defunded, redirected - what difference, at this point, does it make?
None at all to police associations. They issued a statement excoriating Biden for casting police officers as the enemy and trying to split hairs over terminology: “Whether you call it defunding or redirecting it means the same thing....”
Memo to the Biden campaign: Are you sure you want to split these hairs? Don’t you realize how stupid you look?
7/17/20 - More COVID Quackery
Consider this alarmist headline from Reuters:
U.S. shatters coronavirus record with over 77,000 cases in a day
Whatever sells. Meanwhile, back in Realville:
The Reuters story itself says daily COVID fatalities in the U.S. are less than half of the peak in April (969 v. ave. 2,000).
The death rate for ICU COVID cases has declined by one-third. Epoch Times
The CDC said COVID mortality is currently below epidemic thresholds. Gateway Pundit
Texas numbers show COVID is less lethal than the last two flu seasons. Gateway Pundit
There are scattered reports of hospitals in some locations being under stress. But capacity is flexible and hospitals are adding it in various ways. Get back to me when the army hospital ships get called out again and the field hospitals go up again (don’t forget: a lot of that extra capacity stayed empty). Saying some hospitals are in a temporary bind is not the same as saying the entire hospital system is overwhelmed.
Dr. Beau Briese, Emergency Room physician at Houston Methodist Hospital said on Dennis Prager 7/13/20:
- We have more capacity than we need. Can add flexible capacity any time. One unit actually shut down.
- ER use is 25 percent lower than 2 weeks ago
- Deaths are at 11 percent of New York’s worst days
- The media has terrified people and they have stayed out of the ER despite having serious conditions
- Most of the COVID deaths are elderly with other health problems
- There will be another peak, but the question is not IF people will get sick, it’s WHEN they will get sick
They’re still cooking the books:
- Florida labs are not reporting negative results. Fox 35 News
- "The report showed that Orlando Health had a 98 percent positivity rate. However, when FOX 35 News contacted the hospital, they confirmed errors in the report. Orlando Health's positivity rate is only 9.4 percent, not 98 percent as in the report."
- Officials are combining probable with confirmed cases. OAN
- COVID test kits are showing positive results before they’re ever used. AuburnTownship.org
Sweden has a perfectly normal looking epidemic curve. So much for the idea that, absent draconian lockdowns, there would be no end in sight. (see graphic below)
Steve Moore newsletter 7/13/20
|
|
7/16/20 - Cuomo Tells AOC She’s an Idiot
Don’t you love it when the Left fights amongst themselves, in public? It’s a rare sighting, kind of like an albino zebra, but we are hugely entertained by New York Governor Cuomo telling AOC how idiotic her comments are about surging crime in New York.
AOC: "Maybe this has to do with the fact that people aren't paying their rent & are scared to pay their rent," she said. "They need to feed their child and they don't have money so... they feel like they either need to shoplift some bread or go hungry."
Cuomo: “It is factually impossible that somebody committed a crime so they could pay their rent. If you can’t pay your rent, you cannot be evicted right now.”
“Factually impossible” - ouch, that’s gotta hurt. He-he-he.
The Left is not monolithic. Divide and conquer as if your life depended on it, because it does.
7/15/20 - Trump Right Again: More White People Killed by Police
The Left is all atwitter about President Trump’s assertion more white people than black people are killed by police.
The Left sneers that Trump is ‘twisting statistics’ and misleading people because several studies show, proportionally, blacks are more likely to be killed by police.
But that’s a different question. It turns out Trump was right in saying more white people are killed by police overall, as a Harvard study shows.
More muddled thinking from the deranged Left. They can’t even put their underwear on straight. The more you pay attention, the more you realize they can’t think their way out of a paper bag and the easier it gets to demolish everything that comes out of their mouth.
7/14/20 - No, Trump Did Not Tell People to Drink Bleach
Today, we make quick work of another #BidenBlunder -
Joe Biden said in a speech delivered July 9th: “On COVID-19, Donald Trump said that ‘maybe if you drank bleach you may be okay.’”
REBUTTAL: Trump said no such thing. Trump was musing about possible treatments for COVID-19 - using ultraviolet light inside the body or injecting bleach.
But at no time did he suggest drinking bleach.
The rebuttal comes from left-wing sources: Philadelphia Inquirer and Politifact
Here’s the transcript - check it for yourself.
To all who suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, why do you embarrass yourself like this? WHAT ELSE YOU GOT? Bring it on!
7/13/20 - Still Scaring People to Death
It’s Groundhog Day - I go away for a week and come back to find Big Media is still trying to scare people out of their wits about coronavirus. Never let the facts get in the way of a good scare campaign:
It’s Groundhog Day - I go away for a week and come back to find Big Media is still trying to scare people out of their wits about coronavirus. Never let the facts get in the way of a good scare campaign:
- “And after a week of nightmare headlines about Florida, and about 70,000 new cases (aka positive tests), hospitals have a grand total of 130 more patients (~2.5%) in ICU beds statewide than last Sunday. Can’t make it up. 45 deaths today, in a state with 20 million people.” Alex Berenson
- Cooking the Books - “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) acknowledged Thursday that it is combining the results from viral and antibody COVID-19 tests when reporting the country's testing totals, despite marked differences between the tests.” MSN
- Cooking the Books II - “The Texas Department of State Health Services says the state is categorizing every inpatient in the state with a positive COVID-19 test as a coronavirus hospitalization, thus mirroring the CDC and WHO policies of including those who happened to be infected -- but possibly or probably died of other causes -- as COVID-19 deaths.” (Steve Moore mailing, 7/9/20))
- “Hydroxychloroquine Lowers COVID-19 Death Rate, US Study Finds” Epoch Times
- COVID-19 mortality is higher in persons with underlying medical conditions and in those aged ≥85 years. CDC-published study
- “Daily Coronavirus Deaths in U.S. Continue to Plummet as Confirmed Cases Hit Record Levels” Breitbart
7/3/20 - ‘Coronavirus is Raging Out of Control’
Big media is pulling out all the stops to convince you the coronavirus is raging out of control.
REBUTTAL:
1) This is dishonest reporting.
So: Nice try, not even close.
7/2/20 - ‘Don’t vote for Trump - the chaos will continue’
REBUTTAL:
Let’s put the blame squarely where it belongs: on the useful idiot rioters who wreaked havoc, their cynical and self-interested financial backers, and the corrupt Democratic politicians who told the police to stand down and refused to call in the National Guard, thus enabling it all. Attempting to pin all this on Donald Trump is a farce. The Left thrives on chaos and writes openly about using it as a weapon (Cloward-Piven strategy). When you look back, there were riots at Trump’s inauguration followed by the other rolling coups of Trump/Russia collusion, the Ukraine phone call, and the overreaching and scientifically unfounded pandemic orders from Democratic Mayors and Governors trampling on constitutional rights. This has all been brought to you by people who can’t get over the fact that Donald Trump was elected, not Hillary Clinton, and who set about to make the country, in their word, “ungovernable”. For the first time in American history, we did not have a peaceful transition of power and I, for one, resent it very much. Now you want to put the mischief makers in high office? Not only will that not prevent chaos, it’s the very the best way to ensure that chaos will continue.
7/1/20 - Have some fun with this: ‘No one is safe until everyone is safe’
This bit of inanity is making the rounds, especially in UN circles.
It fits on a fortune cookie and makes people feel good, but it’s totally stupid if you think about it for 10 seconds. It’s impossible to make everyone safe from coronavirus or anything else. People are going to die from COVID and other causes, period. What’s special about this virus? Nothing, except how the Left can ride it to their authoritarian and redistributionist policy goals (watch the video linked above). They can’t do that with car wrecks, so let’s do it for them: No one is safe until all cars have rubber bumpers and everyone is safe. No one is safe until the last alligator is exterminated from this earth and we can go to Disney World without fear of being eaten alive again. No one is safe until all wars instantly stop, now and forever, and everyone is safe. Come to think of it, no one is safe until UN troops stop indulging in sex and rape scandals and everyone is safe.
More magical utopian thinking from the preachy moralizing Left. You get the idea. Have some fun with this.
(H/T - R.W.)
6/30/20 - DeFEND the Police, Don’t Defund the Police
This is an 80-20 issue for us. Use it!
New York’s mayor and city council announced an agreement to cut $1 billion from the New York Police Department to fund youth recreation and housing. UPI
The Minneapolis City Council unanimously voted to eliminate the police department and replace it with a “holistic” approach to public safety. NPR
Questions:
(h/t John B.)
6/29/20 - It’s Time to Make an Issue Out of Joe Biden’s Dementia
The claim that COVID has killed 120 million Americans is the latest in a long string of mental misfires from Joe Biden. Of course the claim is preposterous, and anybody in their right mind would know that.
The Trump campaign is not holding back, and neither should we:
Don’t forget the first question the Daily Skirmish has in all of this: If Joe Biden is elected, who will really be running the country?
Big media is pulling out all the stops to convince you the coronavirus is raging out of control.
REBUTTAL:
1) This is dishonest reporting.
- After claiming Los Angeles hospitals are “overwhelmed”, the Guardian admitted it would take “weeks” to run out of ICU beds if present trends continue. It’s the same story at the Washington Post. After claiming hospitals are “rapidly filling” across the South, they’re “overwhelmed” and its “alarming”, WaPo admitted hospitals are adding capacity in various ways and it will be “weeks” before they are “strained”. So, no, the sky is not falling.
- That was easy. They’re not getting any better at lying and abusing your trust.
- “Amid its recent uptick in virus cases, Florida's average death toll was roughly 10 percent of New York's April figures.” The reason appears to be Florida’s new cases are younger, whereas the “vast majority” of hospitalizations and deaths in New York were people age 65 and older. Newsweek
- “According to the new guidance anyone who comes into contact with a person who tests positive is now also considered positive.” Conservative Treehouse
- “We’ve learned that the CDC is making, at best, a debilitating mistake: combining test results that diagnose current coronavirus infections with test results that measure whether someone has ever had the virus.” The Atlantic via Gateway Pundit
- Now even the common cold is counted positive for COVID-19 (the common cold is a coronavirus.) Gateway Pundit
So: Nice try, not even close.
7/2/20 - ‘Don’t vote for Trump - the chaos will continue’
REBUTTAL:
Let’s put the blame squarely where it belongs: on the useful idiot rioters who wreaked havoc, their cynical and self-interested financial backers, and the corrupt Democratic politicians who told the police to stand down and refused to call in the National Guard, thus enabling it all. Attempting to pin all this on Donald Trump is a farce. The Left thrives on chaos and writes openly about using it as a weapon (Cloward-Piven strategy). When you look back, there were riots at Trump’s inauguration followed by the other rolling coups of Trump/Russia collusion, the Ukraine phone call, and the overreaching and scientifically unfounded pandemic orders from Democratic Mayors and Governors trampling on constitutional rights. This has all been brought to you by people who can’t get over the fact that Donald Trump was elected, not Hillary Clinton, and who set about to make the country, in their word, “ungovernable”. For the first time in American history, we did not have a peaceful transition of power and I, for one, resent it very much. Now you want to put the mischief makers in high office? Not only will that not prevent chaos, it’s the very the best way to ensure that chaos will continue.
7/1/20 - Have some fun with this: ‘No one is safe until everyone is safe’
This bit of inanity is making the rounds, especially in UN circles.
It fits on a fortune cookie and makes people feel good, but it’s totally stupid if you think about it for 10 seconds. It’s impossible to make everyone safe from coronavirus or anything else. People are going to die from COVID and other causes, period. What’s special about this virus? Nothing, except how the Left can ride it to their authoritarian and redistributionist policy goals (watch the video linked above). They can’t do that with car wrecks, so let’s do it for them: No one is safe until all cars have rubber bumpers and everyone is safe. No one is safe until the last alligator is exterminated from this earth and we can go to Disney World without fear of being eaten alive again. No one is safe until all wars instantly stop, now and forever, and everyone is safe. Come to think of it, no one is safe until UN troops stop indulging in sex and rape scandals and everyone is safe.
More magical utopian thinking from the preachy moralizing Left. You get the idea. Have some fun with this.
(H/T - R.W.)
6/30/20 - DeFEND the Police, Don’t Defund the Police
This is an 80-20 issue for us. Use it!
New York’s mayor and city council announced an agreement to cut $1 billion from the New York Police Department to fund youth recreation and housing. UPI
The Minneapolis City Council unanimously voted to eliminate the police department and replace it with a “holistic” approach to public safety. NPR
Questions:
- Will NYC end up reversing itself like what happened with New York’s disastrous no-bail law?
- Will Minneapolis politicians pay the city back $63,000 for the private security guards they hired?
- When is this craziness going to end?
(h/t John B.)
6/29/20 - It’s Time to Make an Issue Out of Joe Biden’s Dementia
The claim that COVID has killed 120 million Americans is the latest in a long string of mental misfires from Joe Biden. Of course the claim is preposterous, and anybody in their right mind would know that.
The Trump campaign is not holding back, and neither should we:
- This is after he previously claimed 150 million Americans died from guns. He's not playing with a full deck, folks. #BarelyThereBiden - Trump Campaign
- A new Trump campaign ad reviews a number of Biden’s misfires and concludes Biden has lost his mind (watch below).
Don’t forget the first question the Daily Skirmish has in all of this: If Joe Biden is elected, who will really be running the country?
|
All the kingmakers’ horses and all the kingmakers’ men,
And all their phony polls couldn’t put Joe back together again. |
|
6/26/20 - ALL Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter. Yes, ALL Black Lives Matter, which is why the fact that Planned Parenthood which kills more black than the KKK ever did is such a scandal. And why the deliberate minimization of David Dorn’s death because it didn’t fit the pro-protest narrative was such a disgrace.
(h/t - a black pastor on a national conference call)
6/25/20 - Why Won’t Biden Talk About Setting Up Flynn?
Why isn’t Joe Biden answering questions about Peter Strzok’s notes?
The notes show Biden was in on the Obama administration’s set-up of Flynn and suggested Flynn be prosecuted under the Logan Act. Fox
Biden lied to the American people, saying he knew nothing about moves to investigate Flynn. House Judiciary GOP
Biden’s campaign is not answering questions. Trump Campaign
6/24/20 - Media Blitz: The Virus is Surging, the Sky is Falling!
AP had this headline today, which typifies a slew of similar articles in recent days:
US virus cases surge to highest level in 2 months
Not a word in this article about U.S. deaths. Rising? Falling? This article doesn’t say.
Not a word in this article about hospital capacity. Adequate? Stressed? Overrun? This article doesn’t say.
Let’s go back to basics: The original rationale for the lockdown orders was to ‘flatten the curve’, i.e., to prevent the hospital system from being overwhelmed. (See Daily Skirmish 5/1/20)
Therefore, the number of new infections is meaningless. The only metric that means anything is the current percentage of the hospital system’s capacity to handle COVID cases.
That’s not being reported and you have to ask yourself why. Until proven otherwise, just assume it’s the Trump-hating media playing games and going off on another deranged rant. No, you don’t get to keep moving the goalposts and remain credible at the same time.
Also consider these facts:
Show me the reports of hospitals being overrun. Get back to me when the hospitals can’t handle a surge in near-death cases. Until then, shut your stupid yap.
6/23/20 - Sorry, But You’ve Played the Race Card Too Many Times
The Left wants you to focus on trivia -
Trump called coronavirus the ‘kung flu’ in Tulsa
That’s because they don’t have anything else. Meanwhile, anyone with half a brain focuses on things that are more important, like:
How does it feel to know your hero Jimmy Kimmel uses the N-word?
That Oakland’s mayor cried racism when a black man created the rope swings in the park so people could get some exercise?
That the one-percenter BLM organizers who have gazillions don’t care about the fact two of the victims of the shootings in Seattle’s autonomous zone were black, including the teen that was killed?
You want to focus on trivia? Bring it on.
6/22/20 - Trump Tulsa Rally Hardly a Flop
To hear the media tell it, Trump’s rally in Tulsa was a complete flop with empty seats. Yes, there were empty seats, but :
6/19/20 - Liberal Commentators Shred Bolton’s Book
“utter lack of self-criticism” WaPo
“finds others to blame” NPR
“accomplished something impeachment could not -- condemning John Bolton” CNN
“a flawed narrator and colleague” with a “willingness to blame others for just about anything” New Yorker
“Exceedingly tedious and slightly unhinged” ”Bloated with self-importance” New York Times
6/18/20 - Breaking News! Joe Biden Completed a Sentence Today
"You know, the rapidly rising, uh, um, uh, in with uh, with uh, I don't know, uh" Trump War Room
Via Don_Nocket:
Black Lives Matter. Yes, ALL Black Lives Matter, which is why the fact that Planned Parenthood which kills more black than the KKK ever did is such a scandal. And why the deliberate minimization of David Dorn’s death because it didn’t fit the pro-protest narrative was such a disgrace.
(h/t - a black pastor on a national conference call)
6/25/20 - Why Won’t Biden Talk About Setting Up Flynn?
Why isn’t Joe Biden answering questions about Peter Strzok’s notes?
The notes show Biden was in on the Obama administration’s set-up of Flynn and suggested Flynn be prosecuted under the Logan Act. Fox
Biden lied to the American people, saying he knew nothing about moves to investigate Flynn. House Judiciary GOP
Biden’s campaign is not answering questions. Trump Campaign
6/24/20 - Media Blitz: The Virus is Surging, the Sky is Falling!
AP had this headline today, which typifies a slew of similar articles in recent days:
US virus cases surge to highest level in 2 months
Not a word in this article about U.S. deaths. Rising? Falling? This article doesn’t say.
Not a word in this article about hospital capacity. Adequate? Stressed? Overrun? This article doesn’t say.
Let’s go back to basics: The original rationale for the lockdown orders was to ‘flatten the curve’, i.e., to prevent the hospital system from being overwhelmed. (See Daily Skirmish 5/1/20)
Therefore, the number of new infections is meaningless. The only metric that means anything is the current percentage of the hospital system’s capacity to handle COVID cases.
That’s not being reported and you have to ask yourself why. Until proven otherwise, just assume it’s the Trump-hating media playing games and going off on another deranged rant. No, you don’t get to keep moving the goalposts and remain credible at the same time.
Also consider these facts:
- Testing has increased. Therefore, the number of new ‘cases’ has increased. Duh.
- Testing has now reached younger, healthier people, which presages lower overall serious illness requiring hospitalization ahead.
- On March 24th, the health director of Bexar County in Texas predicted 20,000 hospital beds a day would be needed to handle COVID. San Antonio currently has 446 COVID patients - total. The article goes on to say the sky is still falling. Remember that, the next time you are tempted to put your faith in the so-called ‘experts’.
- Various models predict under 500 to a little over 1,000 new COVID hospitalizations a day in the entire country. Given that many COVID patients also recover and leave the hospital every day, does 10-20 new hospitalizations a day per state sound like the hospital system is getting overwhelmed to you?
Show me the reports of hospitals being overrun. Get back to me when the hospitals can’t handle a surge in near-death cases. Until then, shut your stupid yap.
6/23/20 - Sorry, But You’ve Played the Race Card Too Many Times
The Left wants you to focus on trivia -
Trump called coronavirus the ‘kung flu’ in Tulsa
That’s because they don’t have anything else. Meanwhile, anyone with half a brain focuses on things that are more important, like:
- The anarchy in Seattle. Too bad it took three shootings for the Mayor to realize anarchy really is not a very good idea.
- Obama’s weaponization of the intelligence agencies to spy on an opposition presidential candidate and sabotage an incoming opposition President. Tick-tock.
- The U.S. is being overrun with Chinese propaganda.
- The FCC ordered a ‘border-blaster’ radio station in Mexico to shut down because of its failure to disclose its ties to Chinese propaganda. Separately, the Trump administration designated 4 more media outlets as Chinese ‘foreign missions’, requiring them to disclose their employees and real estate holdings. Washington Free Beacon Politico
- The FCC ordered a ‘border-blaster’ radio station in Mexico to shut down because of its failure to disclose its ties to Chinese propaganda. Separately, the Trump administration designated 4 more media outlets as Chinese ‘foreign missions’, requiring them to disclose their employees and real estate holdings. Washington Free Beacon Politico
How does it feel to know your hero Jimmy Kimmel uses the N-word?
That Oakland’s mayor cried racism when a black man created the rope swings in the park so people could get some exercise?
That the one-percenter BLM organizers who have gazillions don’t care about the fact two of the victims of the shootings in Seattle’s autonomous zone were black, including the teen that was killed?
You want to focus on trivia? Bring it on.
6/22/20 - Trump Tulsa Rally Hardly a Flop
To hear the media tell it, Trump’s rally in Tulsa was a complete flop with empty seats. Yes, there were empty seats, but :
- there were more than a million ticket requests beforehand
- the Mayor had warned of violence which kept families with children away from the event
- protesters kept attendees from entering
- Trump haters ordered lots of tickets ahead of time for the express purpose of producing empty seats
- more than 5.3 million people watched the event online
Straits Times
6/19/20 - Liberal Commentators Shred Bolton’s Book
“utter lack of self-criticism” WaPo
“finds others to blame” NPR
“accomplished something impeachment could not -- condemning John Bolton” CNN
“a flawed narrator and colleague” with a “willingness to blame others for just about anything” New Yorker
“Exceedingly tedious and slightly unhinged” ”Bloated with self-importance” New York Times
6/18/20 - Breaking News! Joe Biden Completed a Sentence Today
"You know, the rapidly rising, uh, um, uh, in with uh, with uh, I don't know, uh" Trump War Room
Via Don_Nocket:
“Question of the Day for Joe Biden Why haven’t you held a press conference in 77 days?” Trump War Room
Here’ our question: If Joe Biden wins, who will actually be running the country? You don’t know and that’s reason enough not to vote for Joe Biden. “Which button do I push, again?”
Can’t wait for the debates!
Here’ our question: If Joe Biden wins, who will actually be running the country? You don’t know and that’s reason enough not to vote for Joe Biden. “Which button do I push, again?”
Can’t wait for the debates!
6/17/20 - Tim Kaine Steps in It on Slavery
Never let the facts get in the way of a good rant.
Senator Tim Kaine said, “The United States didn’t inherit slavery from anybody. We created it.”
Of course, this is completely wrong and stupid.
To the Left: not only has Tim Kaine given you inaccurate information and tried to manipulate your emotions with this outlandish claim, he has betrayed your trust like a lover who cheats on you. How does it feel to have trusted someone who uses you for his own gratification and views you as just a pawn in his power game?
6/16/20 - Fed up with riots and lawlessness? Here’s What You Can Do
Fed up with riots and lawlessness?
SIGN WHITE HOUSE PETITION!
Hold Elected Officials Accountable for Criminal Activity during Riots
Petition here
Details here
Tell your friends!
6/15/20 - Antifaphiles Deliberately Mislead on Seattle Anarchy
FoA (Friends of Antifa) say the lawless ‘autonomous zone’ in Seattle is like a carnival and no big deal. Actually, the breakout of organized, well-funded anarchy in spots around the country is a huge story and deeply disturbing. Stop minimizing it and stop trifling with the rule of law.
6/12/20 - Joe Biden Will Fight Racism and He Really Means It This Time
Joe Biden jumped on the ‘systemic racism’ bandwagon a couple days ago.
Would this be the same Joe Biden who:
6/11/20 - The Camden Flim-Flam
Camden, NJ disbanded its police department and saw crime cut in half
Common sense tells you the impression left by this headline can’t possibly be right, that crime will not go down if you get rid of the police and replace them with social services.
Sure enough, the proposition is not true, as a closer examination of the Camden example shows. Here’s the truth, from CNN no less:
Camden’s police department was hopelessly corrupt and beyond reform: “officers routinely planted evidence on suspects, fabricated reports and committed perjury.” The department was disbanded and REPLACED by a county police department. Things improved after a community policing model was instituted. CNN
Watch AOC fumble, bumble, and stumble when confronted with the irrefutable fact that more police means less crime.
You can go right on believing that getting rid of the police will make crime go down, but don’t come crying to us when you get mugged by reality.
6/10/20 - Seattle’s Antifa Zone: Where All the Militants are Above Average
Antifa militants have taken over 6 city blocks in Seattle, refusing entry to city officials to what the militants call an ‘autonomous zone’. Conservative Treehouse
An undercover sting video showed Antifa training prospective rioters to destroy their enemies and gouge their eyes out. Project Veritas
A second undercover sting video showed an Antifa fight instructor teaching prospective rioters how to break ribs and cripple with liver and kidney punches. Project Veritas
A third undercover sting video shows Antifa militants engaged in weapons training and espousing the complete abolition of the system, including the police. Project Veritas
6/9/20 - Minorities Say: Defund the Police - Are You Crazy?
Black Illinois Sheriff to Work with Trump to Keep Communities Safe
Defunding the Police Will Destroy Hispanic Communities and Families
Bonus:
“Will the same liberals who want to “defund the police” also be willing give up their security details?”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton
6/8/20 - Making Friends with Bears #2: Abolish the Police
Much talk in recent days of defunding the police. The Minneapolis city council pledged to abolish the police department. Reuters Another instance of crazy liberals trying to make friends with bears. How do we know it will end in disaster? Common sense and universal human experience, for openers, but also what happened in New York after it eliminated cash bail:
6/5/20 - Pounce! Lancetgate, ‘Rioters Not Spreading COVID’, Mass AG
They’re vulnerable - Pounce!
The Lancet has egg on its face. The ‘Lancetgate’ authors retracted their flawed HCQ study; they “deeply apologise” for going with unverified data. That’s what happens when all you can think about is ‘Get Trump’.
PA Health Secretary Twists Himself Into a Pretzel Trying to Justify Limitless BLM Protests While Standing by COVID-19 Restrictions For Small Businesses
This is just stupid. Mass AG Maura Healey says, “Yes, America is burning, but that’s how forests grow.” OK, let’s start with your house!
6/4/20 - Stop with the “Systemic Racism”, Already
Heather Mac Donald’s riposte to Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and others crying “systemic racism” in recent days:
The Myth of Systemic Police Racism - Hold officers accountable who use excessive force. But there’s no evidence of widespread racial bias.
6/3/20 - And We’re Supposed to Take the Public Health ‘Experts’ Seriously?
IT'S A MIRACLE! Dozens of 'Public Health Experts' Sign Letter Saying COVID Risk Shouldn't Stop People From Protesting
Surgisphere, the company providing the data, is very sketchy and no doctor or hospital is vouching for the data. More here.
6/2/20 - It’s Not About George Floyd Anymore + Making Friends with Bears
With his death now ruled a homicide, surely there is justice in George Floyd’s cause. But it’s not about George Floyd, anymore:
Among the evidence piling up the riots are a creation of far-left radical groups -
This bus was stopped yesterday at Broad St. & 3rd due for obstruction of traffic. There was a suspicion of supplying riot equipment to rioters. Detectives followed up w/a vehicle search today & found: bats, rocks, meat cleavers, axes, clubs & other projectiles. Columbus Ohio Police (meat cleavers - very imaginative!)
“My brother was about peace… just channel your anger elsewhere. Don’t tear up your town. All of this is not necessary because if his own family and blood is not doing it, then why are you?” Powerful words from Terrence Floyd, George’s younger brother. Tweet from Ronna McDaniel, GOP Chairwoman
Making Friends with Bears - Here we have the essence of liberalism: Remember the documentary about the couple who wanted to make friends with bears and ended up getting eaten? That’s liberalism in a nutshell. Now for today’s news:
'Progressive Newspaper' Reporter Shocked To Learn Liberals Aren't Exempt From Riot Violence
A reporter for a “progressive” newspaper was shocked on Sunday to learn her place of businesses wasn’t exempt from left-wing violence just because they were liberal-leaning themselves.
6/1/20 - ‘No Evidence the Rioters are Anarchists’ + HCQ Study Flawed
Well, this is embarrassing. PBS Newshour correspondent and NBC contributor Yamiche Alcindor claimed there is no evidence any of the rioters are anarchists. However, NBC reported that anarchist groups planned ahead for their next clashes with police by raising bail money, recruiting medics, placing advance scouts, using encryption, and planning resupply routes for rocks, bottles, and gasoline. NBC News
A Lancet study concluded that health benefits of taking hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 could not be confirmed. However, more than a hundred scientists wrote an open letter pointing out errors in the study and the fact that the authors kept their data sources hidden. The Lancet said it stood by the study’s findings despite failing to address nine other points raised in the letter. Epoch Times
Never let the facts get in the way of a good rant.
Senator Tim Kaine said, “The United States didn’t inherit slavery from anybody. We created it.”
Of course, this is completely wrong and stupid.
To the Left: not only has Tim Kaine given you inaccurate information and tried to manipulate your emotions with this outlandish claim, he has betrayed your trust like a lover who cheats on you. How does it feel to have trusted someone who uses you for his own gratification and views you as just a pawn in his power game?
6/16/20 - Fed up with riots and lawlessness? Here’s What You Can Do
Fed up with riots and lawlessness?
SIGN WHITE HOUSE PETITION!
Hold Elected Officials Accountable for Criminal Activity during Riots
Petition here
Details here
Tell your friends!
6/15/20 - Antifaphiles Deliberately Mislead on Seattle Anarchy
FoA (Friends of Antifa) say the lawless ‘autonomous zone’ in Seattle is like a carnival and no big deal. Actually, the breakout of organized, well-funded anarchy in spots around the country is a huge story and deeply disturbing. Stop minimizing it and stop trifling with the rule of law.
- “CNN’s Brian Stelter just defended the radical #DefundThePolice protesters who have taken over several blocks in Seattle by saying it's just ‘a small part of a big city.’" Trump War Room
- AP: “Now there's a carnival-like atmosphere with speakers and drum circles.” Theft, pushing and shoving, racial animus - watch it yourself. Erin Perrine
- 9-1-1 response times have tripled in Seattle since rioters took over the 6-city block ‘autonomous zone’. An autonomous zone has been declared at the University of Chicago and another is seeking form in Nashville. K5 Gateway Pundit Washington Examiner
6/12/20 - Joe Biden Will Fight Racism and He Really Means It This Time
Joe Biden jumped on the ‘systemic racism’ bandwagon a couple days ago.
Would this be the same Joe Biden who:
- Voted in the Senate to restore U.S. citizenship to Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee?
- Praised the Daughters of the Confederacy as "an organization made up of many fine people who continue to display the Confederate flag"?
- Said he appeals to Southerners because Delaware was a slave state?
- Didn’t do anything about so-called ‘systemic racism’ in his 43 years in office? Black Voices for Trump
6/11/20 - The Camden Flim-Flam
Camden, NJ disbanded its police department and saw crime cut in half
Common sense tells you the impression left by this headline can’t possibly be right, that crime will not go down if you get rid of the police and replace them with social services.
Sure enough, the proposition is not true, as a closer examination of the Camden example shows. Here’s the truth, from CNN no less:
Camden’s police department was hopelessly corrupt and beyond reform: “officers routinely planted evidence on suspects, fabricated reports and committed perjury.” The department was disbanded and REPLACED by a county police department. Things improved after a community policing model was instituted. CNN
Watch AOC fumble, bumble, and stumble when confronted with the irrefutable fact that more police means less crime.
You can go right on believing that getting rid of the police will make crime go down, but don’t come crying to us when you get mugged by reality.
6/10/20 - Seattle’s Antifa Zone: Where All the Militants are Above Average
Antifa militants have taken over 6 city blocks in Seattle, refusing entry to city officials to what the militants call an ‘autonomous zone’. Conservative Treehouse
- A previous Antifa zone in Portland became “a biohazard site w/intravenous drug abuse, the local businesses & residents were terrorized. Tax payers had to pay for the extensive cleanup.” https://t.co/0tukZ1cMih
An undercover sting video showed Antifa training prospective rioters to destroy their enemies and gouge their eyes out. Project Veritas
A second undercover sting video showed an Antifa fight instructor teaching prospective rioters how to break ribs and cripple with liver and kidney punches. Project Veritas
A third undercover sting video shows Antifa militants engaged in weapons training and espousing the complete abolition of the system, including the police. Project Veritas
6/9/20 - Minorities Say: Defund the Police - Are You Crazy?
Black Illinois Sheriff to Work with Trump to Keep Communities Safe
Defunding the Police Will Destroy Hispanic Communities and Families
Bonus:
“Will the same liberals who want to “defund the police” also be willing give up their security details?”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton
6/8/20 - Making Friends with Bears #2: Abolish the Police
Much talk in recent days of defunding the police. The Minneapolis city council pledged to abolish the police department. Reuters Another instance of crazy liberals trying to make friends with bears. How do we know it will end in disaster? Common sense and universal human experience, for openers, but also what happened in New York after it eliminated cash bail:
- Mayor Bill de Blasio admitted that a new bail reform law has caused crime rates to go up in New York City since the first of the year. The heavily criticized law prevents judges from setting bail in most misdemeanor and nonviolent felony cases. New York Post
- Defendants let out under New York City’s no-bail law include a hate crime suspect who attacked a fourth woman after being released following an arrest for attacking 3 Jewish women. Another defendant, an alleged bank robber, apparently robbed a fifth bank after being let out for robbing 4 banks. No gun was used, so he was released under the new law. He reportedly said: “I can’t believe they let me out. What were they thinking?” Indeed. BizPac
6/5/20 - Pounce! Lancetgate, ‘Rioters Not Spreading COVID’, Mass AG
They’re vulnerable - Pounce!
The Lancet has egg on its face. The ‘Lancetgate’ authors retracted their flawed HCQ study; they “deeply apologise” for going with unverified data. That’s what happens when all you can think about is ‘Get Trump’.
PA Health Secretary Twists Himself Into a Pretzel Trying to Justify Limitless BLM Protests While Standing by COVID-19 Restrictions For Small Businesses
- Don’t forget [Daily Skirmish, 6/3/20] - IT'S A MIRACLE! Dozens of 'Public Health Experts' Sign Letter Saying COVID Risk Shouldn't Stop People From Protesting
- Confront the lockdown crowd on this point and watch them squirm. ‘Lockdown for thee, but not for me’? What about my rights?
This is just stupid. Mass AG Maura Healey says, “Yes, America is burning, but that’s how forests grow.” OK, let’s start with your house!
6/4/20 - Stop with the “Systemic Racism”, Already
Heather Mac Donald’s riposte to Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and others crying “systemic racism” in recent days:
The Myth of Systemic Police Racism - Hold officers accountable who use excessive force. But there’s no evidence of widespread racial bias.
- A solid body of evidence finds no structural bias in the criminal-justice system with regard to arrests, prosecution or sentencing. Crime and suspect behavior, not race, determine most police actions.
- The latest in a series of studies undercutting the claim of systemic police bias was published in August 2019 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers found that the more frequently officers encounter violent suspects from any given racial group, the greater the chance that a member of that group will be fatally shot by a police officer. There is "no significant evidence of antiblack disparity in the likelihood of being fatally shot by police," they concluded.
- More facts and figures in the article
6/3/20 - And We’re Supposed to Take the Public Health ‘Experts’ Seriously?
IT'S A MIRACLE! Dozens of 'Public Health Experts' Sign Letter Saying COVID Risk Shouldn't Stop People From Protesting
- Dozens of health experts have signed a letter saying they support the massive protests that have drawn tens of thousands of people together in cities and towns all across the country, despite the fact that for the past three months, we’ve all been warned to stay in our homes and not stand close to each other for fear of spreading the coronavirus.
Why? Well because apparently, while COVID is still allegedly a major risk to gym-goers, grocery shoppers and church congregants, it magically disappears when thousands of people take to the streets to burn down their city protest racism.
Surgisphere, the company providing the data, is very sketchy and no doctor or hospital is vouching for the data. More here.
6/2/20 - It’s Not About George Floyd Anymore + Making Friends with Bears
With his death now ruled a homicide, surely there is justice in George Floyd’s cause. But it’s not about George Floyd, anymore:
Among the evidence piling up the riots are a creation of far-left radical groups -
This bus was stopped yesterday at Broad St. & 3rd due for obstruction of traffic. There was a suspicion of supplying riot equipment to rioters. Detectives followed up w/a vehicle search today & found: bats, rocks, meat cleavers, axes, clubs & other projectiles. Columbus Ohio Police (meat cleavers - very imaginative!)
“My brother was about peace… just channel your anger elsewhere. Don’t tear up your town. All of this is not necessary because if his own family and blood is not doing it, then why are you?” Powerful words from Terrence Floyd, George’s younger brother. Tweet from Ronna McDaniel, GOP Chairwoman
Making Friends with Bears - Here we have the essence of liberalism: Remember the documentary about the couple who wanted to make friends with bears and ended up getting eaten? That’s liberalism in a nutshell. Now for today’s news:
'Progressive Newspaper' Reporter Shocked To Learn Liberals Aren't Exempt From Riot Violence
A reporter for a “progressive” newspaper was shocked on Sunday to learn her place of businesses wasn’t exempt from left-wing violence just because they were liberal-leaning themselves.
6/1/20 - ‘No Evidence the Rioters are Anarchists’ + HCQ Study Flawed
Well, this is embarrassing. PBS Newshour correspondent and NBC contributor Yamiche Alcindor claimed there is no evidence any of the rioters are anarchists. However, NBC reported that anarchist groups planned ahead for their next clashes with police by raising bail money, recruiting medics, placing advance scouts, using encryption, and planning resupply routes for rocks, bottles, and gasoline. NBC News
A Lancet study concluded that health benefits of taking hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 could not be confirmed. However, more than a hundred scientists wrote an open letter pointing out errors in the study and the fact that the authors kept their data sources hidden. The Lancet said it stood by the study’s findings despite failing to address nine other points raised in the letter. Epoch Times