To Denounce The Evil Of Truth And Love! To Extend The ONTs Reach To The Stars Above!
—WeirdDave
Greetings Morons. Today is August 21st On this day in 1878 Surrey wicket-keeper Ted Pooley completes a then-1st class cricket record 8 stumpings in a County match against Kent at The Oval. Why you would care or what that even means is beyond me, but I just thought you should know.
See also all the gear with the numbers of those professional athletes taking a knee.
Are We Living In A Post Constitutional World?
I got in a discussion with a friend over this the other day. He's a Republican, and he is a conservative, but because of that he's a Never Trumper.We can usually have good discussions, although this one ended when he accused Trump of “hedonism, hate and idiocracy”. This is meaningless knee jerk boilerplate, no different than someone on the Left reflexively screaming “Racism! Sexism! Bigotry!” so I just dropped the conversation, but before it ended I argued that we are.
The GOP hasn't been about conservatism for at least a generation. It's been about preserving the wealth and power of GOP politicians. Conservatism (meaning Constitutionalism) is, if not dead, utterly without influence or power in this country.
It's about generations of people who utterly discredited "conservatism" by failing to practice it while loudly proclaiming themselves its champions. Now that their failure has resulted in the death of their movement, they're doing their best Marley impersonation while shaking the chains of their failure. If my name was Adorno, I'd say that Trump is the antithesis portion of the dialectic. The thesis ain't coming back, the question is what form will the synthesis take?
We're in a post constitutional world. The donks subverted it, the GOP let them, and now the only question is what next? Either the full on Marxism of the left, or someone who, even if he's not a constitutionalist, at least embraces the traditional society and culture that it created.
I'm a classical liberal, I'd much prefer a nation guided by the principles enshrined in the Constitution because I know that produces the freeist, happiest, most productive society. But I'm not going to handcuff myself to that if the same rules don't apply to my opponents who are enemies of the Constitution. I, and many like me, begged and pleaded not to play will to power, and we lost. So be it. If that's the game, however, I'm playing to win.
Girl's Got Talent
Morgan Bullock is an African-American Irish dancer from Richmond, Virginia
After a TikTok video of her lightning-footed jigs went viral, she was accused of "cultural appropriation"
The thing that bothers me about this is all of the emphasis on her being black. So what? Her being black isn't an accomplishment, her skill at dancing is. Her skin color is immaterial.
You see it here too:
That's fantastic. She's a tactical jet*. Hardly anyone achieves that. I'm not a tactical jet. Chances are you're not a tactical jet. There just aren't many tactical jets around, becoming one is the achievement, not her color or gender.
*Obviously I'm being tongue in cheek here over the typo omitting the word pilot from the headline, but my point stands. Her name is Lt. j.g. Madeline Swegle, and she is to be congratulated for earning her gold wings. Good job!
Rollin' Rollin' Rollin', Keep those Vee Dubs Rollin', Rawhide!
That looks like a project for AOP. Maybe we could give you Big's old car and you could do that to it?
New Call of Duty Videogame Trailer Features Yuri Bezmenov
—Ace
Yuri Bezmenov is the high-ranking KGB defector whose warning about Soviet subversion -- noting it takes only 15-20 years to demoralize a country, once you capture its media and schools -- is often cited.
The new Call of Duty entry is called "Cold War." It features long clips from Bezmenov, and shows images of 1960s radical protesters as he shifts from talking about the first step of subversion (demoralization) to the second (destabilization).
I'm so suspicious of anyone in the entertainment or tech industries that I take this as an attempt to claim that the last step in Soviet subversion is... Trump.
But leftwingers are freaking out about the use of a KGB defector exposing all their plans, so I guess I'll take it that way too, provisionally.
Just because a former KGB agent warned us that Marxist propaganda and agitation was intended to destabilize us from the inside doesn't mean the avowedly-Marxist grievance terrorists of Black Lives Matter who have besieged our cities and destroyed our economy for 80+ days are just executing the Marxist active measures plan.
h/t Rodrigio Borgia and also a friend who asked me about this. I don't know much about Call of Duty. Sometimes I hear griping that the game has been tired and has lacked innovation for its last several iterations.
With the November presidential election less than 100 days away, what does this mean for Hispanic Americans' views of President Trump?
Even though Hispanic Americans tend to have less favorable views of Trump than Americans in general, surprisingly, their views of Trump have become somewhat more favorable in 2020. Data from the American Values Atlas (AVA) shows that throughout 2019, on average, 28% of Hispanic Americans viewed Trump favorably, compared to 41% of all Americans. In 2020 so far, more than one-third (36%) of Hispanic Americans view Trump favorably, a significant increase from 2019.
Trump's approval rating with Hispanics is, as Trump might say, "Not the best. Really not great."
But his approval rating with Hispanics was worse in 2016, and he won that election, even if the unhinged left and former Republicans-turned-hyperpartisan-liberals won't accept the results of that election.
Democrats need minorities to vote hugely for them. They can't do with split decisions from Hispanics.
Most of Trump's improved ratings come from Protestant Hispanics, which are only 23% of Hispanics. But even among Catholic Hispanics (49% of all Hispanics), his ratings have gone up slightly.
Speaking of polling and voting: a friend floated a very counter-intuitive idea to me.
Many people are abandoning California in droves. The geek vlogger Nerdorotic says there is a 2-3 month wait on renting moving trucks in the San Francisco area; he had to drive 90 minutes outside of town to get a free one.
People are worried -- rightly -- that these people fleeing from blue areas will immediately vote blue and turn their new homes into shitholes indistinguishable from the last shithole they made.
Now, this does seem to have happened in Nevada, where liberal Californians infested the place and turned it first purple and then blue.
And it happened in Virginia.
But my friend thinks in other places, immigration from one state to another may be increasing the conservative vote share in the states immigrated to.
Here's his thoughts:
I think a huge aspect of this election is being completely ignored and no one is attempting to report on it.
I *think* it's a big Trump advantage, but I could be wrong.
We are witnessing one of the largest internal migration events in American history, in an incredibly narrow window of time. To complicate matters, people who move still have their old cellphone numbers associated with their previous area codes, so polling catches very little of this.
There's no way this doesn't have some effect on the election.
If we look at previous migration patterns in recent history, particularly because of political self-sorting, this generally a net benefit to Republicans on the electoral map.
The common belief here is that California -> Texas migration, for example, is "turning Texas blue". It isn't. It's keeping it red. The people that make that move are right-leaning by about a 2-to-1 ratio.
Beto *won* native Texans in his race.
It was the [state-to-state] migration that boosted Republicans. Same thing is happening in Florida, and I think the outmigration from Chicago is going to be a boost to Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan.
I used to really worry about how blue state to red state migration would ruin the political makeup of red states. But it really doesn't. Because the people more motivated to move generally share our politics.
What happens is it leaves reliably blue states even more blue.
Just look at California. You can't even get a Republican on a ballot out there anymore.
...
A really good example of this phenomenon is New Hampshire. The thinking was that all the Massholes were hopping the border and starting to vote blue. That wasn't the case. Mass and CT voters, skewing heavily red, hopped the border and allowed the state to continue to be reasonably competitive. It was the NH natives in the northern counties who started voting more and more Democrat, matching the rest of the region.
Anyway, if this pattern holds for the crazy migration we've seen in the past 6 months, that's probably a big plus for us...
I would bet that an overwhelming majority of those people are ideological allies.
The most common comment I see from [people immigrating to red states] is something along the lines of "I finally have an excuse to escape this stupid state"
I would bet that an overwhelming majority of those people are ideological allies.
With its economic troubles, California has been losing people in droves. The plurality of those migrants have moved to Texas, as many as 70,000 in 2011 and 60,000 in 2012. Given this influx of new residents, we are fortunate to have at times asked our respondents whether they have moved to Texas from California, and though the actual number of these people is but a small subsample of our surveys, we have enough respondents to make two broad conclusions. First, these newcomers, on average, tend to be conservative. Pooling data from the May 2012 and February 2013 UT/Tribune surveys, we found that 57 percent of these California transplants consider themselves to be conservative, while only 27 percent consider themselves to be liberal (a fair guess as to the margin of error is somewhere around +/- 7 percentage points). Second, these new Texans aren’t rushing to find homes in the state's urban centers: 55 percent are heading to the suburbs, the rest evenly dividing themselves between rural and urban locations.
So while some may want to perceive the wave of Californians coming to Texas as part of the broader demographic trends that might eventually turn Texas purple, and then blue, the data collected to date suggest that Perry's pitch appears to be hitting a chord with Californians who wear cowboy boots instead of Birkenstocks.
A CNN exit poll showed that O'Rourke beat Cruz among native Texans, 51 percent to 48 percent. In contrast, 57 percent of people who had moved to Texas said they voted for Cruz, compared to 42 percent who voted for O'Rourke.
Cruz prevailed Tuesday night, beating his opponent by just 2.6 percentage points. It's the closest Senate race in Texas since 1978.
I don't mind the idea of all conservative/productive people fleeing these shitholes and leaving dying blue husks behind.
It'll make the inevitable division of the country that much easier, and that much more inevitable.
Judge Orders New Election In Paterson, NJ, Due to Widespread Mail-In Vote Fraud Of Such an Extent That It Completely Eradicates Any Credibility of the "Vote"
BTW, apparently Paterson has only one T. So I'm spelling it right.
I'm not the asshole here.
You are.
A state superior court judge ruled Wednesday that a new election will be held for a disputed Paterson, New Jersey city council seat after allegations of voter fraud via mail-in-ballots. The ruling comes only weeks after voter fraud charges were brought against the May 12 election winner Alex Mendez, per the Associated Press.
Mendez was charged with voter fraud along with Paterson Council Vice President Michael Jackson, Shelim Khalique and Abu Rayzen -- all of whom have denied the charges, according to The Hill.
A diverse rainbow of Democrats. Wonderful.
An investigation performed by the U.S. Postal Service's law enforcement arm found hundreds of mail-in ballots in a Paterson mailbox, as reported by the AP.
Ultimately, 800 ballots were discounted by the Passaic County Board of Elections and another 2,300 ballots were rendered ineligible after analyzing signatures on file and comparing them to those on the ballots, according to the Hill. A Passaic County report shows that these 3,100 disqualified ballots is equal to more than 22% of the total votes cast in the election.
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The local race has garnered national attention amid the political battle regarding nationwide mail-in voting for the upcoming presidential election. President Donald Trump made reference to the Paterson election in a tweet attacking mail-in voting.
Video report from Fox News -- definitely not from CNN, which I imagine has completely embargoed the story -- here.
The 2020 Election will be totally rigged if Mail-In Voting is allowed to take place, & everyone knows it. So much time is taken talking about foreign influence, but the same people won’t even discuss Mail-In election corruption. Look at Patterson, N.J. 20% of vote was corrupted!
A year and a half ago, while the sports media gushed over the NBA, I pointed out that the league’s ratings were troubling. They've continued to worsen, highlighted by last season’s double-digit Finals decline.
This week, the most troubling stat yet was publicized. The Athletic's Ethan Strauss pointed out, since 2011-12, the NBA on ABC is down 45%. Nearly half.
ABC is the NBA’s premium partner. Nearly every broadcast, it showcases top matchups and players. Yet, viewers are tuning out an alarming rate.
"In that hastily promoted lockout season, [2011-12], ABC games drew 5.42 million viewers on average," Strauss writes. "The final tally on this latest 2019-20 season was 2.95 million average viewers on ABC games. Every ABC game from 2011-2012 received higher viewership than 2.95 million, save for a meaningless late season 1 p.m. Thunder-Bulls game that Derrick Rose sat out."
A decline of this magnitude is astounding. There is no explanation other than the interest in watching the NBA on television is rapidly diminishing.
This article is a classic of the genre, "It's actually true but it's false because Trump says it." This AWFL woman, who probably doesn't watch sports, admits that sports ratings, particularly for the NBA, are way down...
But then she says, without evidence, that a decline in interest in sports does not prove a decline in interest in sports.
Oh? Do tell, low-paid bottom-feeding garbage-tier-media drudge.
The return of live sports was supposed to usher in an explosion of interest. Americans were going to hunker down in front of their TVs and watch in record numbers because, well, there’s not much else to do during a pandemic and everyone has missed their favorite distraction.
But that didn't quite happen. In fact, a cursory glance at TV ratings and headlines about viewership suggests the overall interest in sports may even be down.
The NBA’s ratings were already down a bit from last year, and they dipped again when sports started back up after the COVID-19 suspension. NASCAR started red-hot as one of first major American sports back on network television during the pandemic, but then dropped to below-average ratings. And MLS, which didn't have high expectations to begin with, still managed to underperform.
Are people put off by the awkward lack of crowds? Are they too focused on the pandemic and the upcoming presidential election? Do they not consider bubble tournaments "real" competitions?
All those things may be true. But TV ratings don't actually show that people have suddenly become less interested in sports.
Of course not, Dear. Spinal Tap's appeal has merely grown more selctive.
A closer look shows that viewing habits are changing during the pandemic, but sports are as popular as ever. And as much as conservative pundits and even President Donald Trump have tried to turn the NBA into their latest political wedge, the NBA has little reason to worry.
See that part at the end? Where she tells you "Ignore the facts, I'm about to give you perspective that contradicts them"?
It's entirely an empty promise. She quotes someone saying something vague about viewing habits changing during the lockdown -- indeed, people's viewing habits have changed, in the sense that they've stopped watching the NBA -- but never delivers on why the NBA shouldn't worry about losing 45%!! of its viewers.
It's almost as if she's just a know-nothing blogger armed with some Intersectional Feminist Theory and some Orange Man Bad dogma and she knows that her job is just to provide the laziest, shallowest gainsaying of anything Trump says, and that Yahoo will not demand she actually supply evidence for her claims.
In other words: It's a standard media "fact-check." There are no facts supplied to back up the claim that Orange Man False, but that's okay, the naked assertion of it will do. Everyone knows that's the Right Answer you're supposed to get to, no matter how you get to it.
You really should read this. It's an amazing exercise in wheel-spinning, as if she's an undergraduate freshman struggling to hit that Minimum Word Count.
Here's as close as she gets to proving ratings don't actually measure ratings:
To use ratings to determine if people are watching sports, it’s important to understand what TV ratings actually measure.
Contrary to what people assume, they are not just the number of people who watched something on TV. Instead, TV ratings are a calculated average derived from the number who watched and how long they watched for.
In other words, if an NBA game reached the same number of people, but everyone watched a few minutes less because there is also baseball, hockey and soccer on TV, the NBA's ratings will go down.
In other words... people are not watching the NBA to watch something else.
This, she claims, proves that Trump is wrong when he says that people aren't watching the NBA.
I thought that "felony assault in the second degree" sounded weak. I mean, the guy could be charged with attempted murder.
But in Oregon's code, felony assault in the second degree is a serious charge which specifies an element of extreme indifference to human life as well as an intent to inflict grave physical harm.
First degree felony assault is limited to attacks with a deadly weapon and attacks against children under six and some other categories (like causing physical harm due to driving under the influence).
It's a class B felony. Class B felonies are punishable by fines up to $250,000 and up to 10 years in prison. That's a touch light, maybe, but... whatever.
Maybe slap on a Hate Crime Intensifier and now we're talking.
Just kidding, white people can't be victims of hate crimes.
"Fat Acceptance" Professor Promoted by CBS News: Fat Phobia Is Rooted in Racism Against Blacks
—Ace
The whole point of the political movement and religious cult of "intersectionality" is simply to construct a Coalition of the Aggrieved, and create a religious architecture that binds them completely so that they will not defect from the coalition.
This requires claiming that wealthy white women's travails are similar to those of impoverished black street kids. Muslims' oppression in AmeriKKKa is just the same as a transgender's.
Note that some of the biggest fights in the Coalition of the Aggrieved come when this proposition -- that this group's alleged struggles are just as bad (or worse) than this other group's struggles, or likening one group to another group they don't like -- is tested and pushed.
But again, intersectionality is not meant to be taken as literally true. At least, not by the people running the grift.
It's simply a political claim which absolutely no one believes which is repeated like a mantra to keep the Coalition of the Aggrieved voting and rioting together.
That's a decent context, I think, for evaluating a Fat Acceptance pyrsyn's claim that if you're anti-obesity, that must be because you're also anti-black.
A professor who regularly writes about race and health issues recently argued that the stigma surrounding obesity is linked to racism.
Sabrina Strings, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine told CBS News that the medical community’s approach to weight issues stems from anti-blackness and oppression.
She told CBS News on August 20:
We cannot deny the fact that fat-phobia is rooted in anti-Blackness. That's simply an historical reality. Today, when people talk about it, they often claim that they don't intend to be anti-Black ... they don’t intend all of these negative associations, and yet they exist already, so whenever people start trafficking in fat-phobia, they are inherently picking up on these historical forms of oppression.
Any claim which ties one part of the Coalition of the Aggrieved to another part is a useful claim, and all useful claims must be insisted to be true even though they're plainly false or even plainly bonkers.
As Democrat Joe Biden formally accepts his party’s presidential nomination, a Morning Call/Muhlenberg College poll shows him with a narrow lead over Republican President Donald Trump in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania.
Biden drew support from 49% of likely state voters and 45% backed Trump, when those leaning toward a particular candidate were included. That four-point gap is within the poll's margin of error.
I don't know why this report says Biden is "ahead" when this lead is within the margin of error -- that means they're statistically tied.
Oh that's right, I know why: Because the left is insane and can't admit Trump might win, so they're making themselves another Hugbox Bubble of Fake News where the Bad Orange Man can never win.
Well, I guess the 2020 Democratic National Convention is going pretty well so far:
--The DNC tells America how relevant they are by dragging that old fossilized hippie Steven Stills out of cold storage to play a song that is 54 years old. Groovy, man.
--They had Bill Clinton lecturing Donald Trump on proper decorum for the Oval Office.
--Andrew Cuomo to to brag about his successes in fighting the covid pandemic in the state of New York. The really astounding aspect of this is that his constituents back home believed him.
--John Kerry presented himself as an expert in foreign policy. While pretty much unwatched here in America, word is that his ratings in Tehran were pretty good.
--Previously, Elizabeth Warren spoke on behalf of her fellow Native Americans. She should've shared her crab omelet recipe.
--the Hamas louse Linda Sarsour spoke on the topics of tolerance and acceptance of others.
I think the 2020 Democrat Party convention is just an extended "opposites" day.
Oh, and the unyielding tower of progressive principles Bernie Sanders was caught on open mic asking "how far do you want me to bend over?"
And Now, A Woman With Green Hair And Mental Health Issues Tells Young People Who To Vote For:
Good morning kids. The weekend is here and mercifully, the toxic waste train wreck that was the Democrat National Convention was put out of our misery, only to perhaps reappear in our nightmares as DNC Chairwraith Tom Perez wishes upon Trump and all of us. Understanding full well such Leftist institutions as Birkenau and Kolyma, the prospect of losing this election is what keeps me up at nights, so mission accomplished Tommy old boy. But I digress.
The big news last night is that Joe Biden - the drooling, gibbering bipedal kohlrabi who's nevertheless still sentient enough to grab little girls by the crotch and lucre from corrupt businessmen and politicians worldwide - actually seemed to string enough sentences together to make a coherent speech. That said, what came out of his maw did him no favors and did not move the needle; except in a positive direction for President Trump.
"I will draw on the best of us, not the worst of us," Joe Biden claimed, accepting his nomination after a convention filled with conspiracy theories about mailboxes, smears, and cheap shots.
That promise is coming from a politician who spent his career insulting voters, calling them fat and stupid, whose family is notorious for profiting from his political office, who palled around with segregationists and sexual predators, but whom three nights of celebrities and fellow hacks from across the political swamp spectrum now insist is really a kind, decent, and loveable man.
Biden's transformation after 47 years of nastiness is just as convincing as that of his party...
A weary sounding Joe Biden, who periodically managed to flog himself into a weak and shrill rage, delivered a singularly awful acceptance speech. When it wasn't hackneyed, he plagiarized ideas and policies from President Trump and made boasts that were inconsistent with his 48 years in politics, whether as a Senator or a Vice President. The worst thing about it, though, was that he repeated a vicious, and unforgivable, slander about Trump.
Here's a short list of Biden's platitudes: Trump is darkness. I am light. FDR was a great president. Help young people by ending Trump's darkness. America is racist. More darkness, more light...
Former Vice President Joe Biden formally accepted the Democratic Party's nomination for president Thursday night in a deeply dishonest speech that repeated the Charlottesville lie.
Biden never misses an opportunity to fulminate against the torch-carrying neo-nazis and their bulging veins, but besides lying about President Trump's "very fine people" comment, he also grossly mischaracterized the events of that day to suggest that the violent antifa and BLM counter-protesters were -- well -- very fine people...
Apparently convinced that stoking racial divisions will help Biden's electoral chances, his team has made the Charlottesville lie the centerpiece of his campaign. Indeed, he launched his campaign with the very same recitation of the lie, complete with the vivid description of their bulging neo-nazi veins (and fangs!).
Following Biden's speech, Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, suggested on Twitter that Biden had disqualified himself by telling "the most divisive lie in American history."
He did it. Joe Biden got through the biggest speech of his life cleanly and coherently, without stumbling or mumbling or getting that far-away dazed look in his eyes.
That sounds like an incredibly low bar because it is, but it reflects the honest and serious debate about Biden's fitness. His age, 77, past health problems and the obvious signs that his faculties have been diminished raised the unprecedented possibility that he would not be able to carry out one of the routine performances of a major party nominee -- give an acceptance speech.
Coming into his party's virtual coronation, the test was not whether he would give a good speech or a bad speech. It was whether he could give a speech at all.
So congratulations to Biden for clearing a fundamental hurdle. Now the bar is raised and he should be treated as any other candidate. He can start by releasing his health and medical reports, which he has so far refused to do.
Most importantly, there is no excuse for him to hide any longer in his basement. Hidin' Biden must be a thing of history...
Bingo. If, as the Democrat-Media Complex will undoubtedly trumpet as proof positive that the rumor of Biden's brain turning into his breakfast are wildly exaggerated, then there will be no excuse in the eyes of the electorate for him not to face off against Trump in a series of debates. The Dems were screwed anyway; Biden could not have avoided giving a speech but now, Rasmussen has some rather interesting polling data that show Trump's approval actually going up as a result of this four-night Democrat carnival but more tellingly, that Democrat voter enthusiasm is pinging only slightly more activity than Biden's EEG. Seems they are voting more against Trump than for Biden. All of this does not bode well for them in terms of winning, let alone winning decisively.
Meanwhile, coming on the heels of Team Biden condemning the rioting, yesterday they disavowed the support from Democrat Jew-hater and sharia pimp supreme Linda Sarsour, the Hamas Louse. As I alluded to in a previous column, the up and coming Young Turks want to let their freak flags fly while the old guard are trying to keep the revolution on the down low, and the former ain't digging that at all.
... The mixing of the message here is likely the result of careful consideration on the part of Democrat strategists. The most popular figure in the party today is not Joe Biden, and certainly not Kamala Harris. To the dismay of Democrat leaders who prefer their Marxism a bit more subtly presented, it's still Bernie Sanders.
Bernie is the only presidential candidate on the Left who inspires enthusiasm and passion that remotely approaches Donald Trump levels. Even though he is nearly 80 and suffered a heart attack in the past year, he is the standard-bearer of the youthful and vigorous wing of the party, the young, hate-filled, anti-American, far-left wing, the candidate of Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the candidate of antifa and Black Lives Matter.
Sanders and his followers love Linda Sarsour; she was even a surrogate for his campaign. Thus she had to appear at the DNC as part of ongoing efforts to keep Bernie's base loyal and in line behind Biden.
In a sane political party, which leaves out the Democrats, Sarsour wouldn't be anywhere near any of the presidential contenders...
And if you think that Joe Biden's condemnation of Linda Sarsour signals a retreat from the anti-Semitism, radical leftism, and anti-Americanism she represents, you're in for a rude surprise in the unlikely event that the pollsters are telling us the truth this time, and on January 20, 2021, Biden becomes America's first figurehead president.
Amazing how Sarsour and Rancida Taliban, who absolutely understand the principle of "taqqiya" still can't see that the Democrat Party establishment and their media cohorts have been doing the socialist/atheist version of it for decades are doing it right now with Biden and Sanders. More importantly, the hard left base doesn't seem to grasp this either. Thank goodness.
Somewhat related to this was the exclusion of Tulsi Gabbard from all of the festivities. Well, this is not really surprising since she utterly destroyed Kamala Harris in a debate as well as the mortal sin of ripping Hillary Clinton. Too bad for the Democrats; Gabbard is relatively young, attractive, a good debater and also a military veteran. In essence, despite her being a liberal, it's a safe bet she's not a raging leftist, although when push comes to shove she will vote in lockstep with whatever Democrat madness is put in front of her. She would've been a formidable contender and in essence, a taqqiya candidate to win over the vaunted independents and moderates. But, as we have seen, the Democrats are going all in on going full Marxist and so Gabbard really now has no future in that party, at least not any higher than where she is. That is, until Toothy McBigTits tries to primary her with a true believer, which is likely her fate.
Lots of other lowlights including Obama's fly choosing a fresher pile of low-slung dung to land on.
Finally, I want to touch upon the arrest and charging of Steve Bannon. As CBD stated yesterday, of which I am in full agreement, if the charges against Bannon and the others are backed with evidence to prove his guilt, then he deserves to face the music. BUT - - given that these charges are coming out of the Southern District of New York, and hours before the final night of a disastrous Democrat convention, I question the timing. More importantly, given what has happened to Mike Flynn, Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and George Papadopoulos, I am smelling a giant rat here.
And also given the fact that the Clintons as well as the Bidens who have a record of shady dealings, influence peddling and outright treasonous actions that put our national security at serious risk (Loral Space, Uranium One, for starters), and of course the ongoing coup to sabotage and then overthrow the 2016 election, that they remain unpunished and untouched makes me almost not give a damn about Bannon. We have a two-faced justice system. If you are in favor with the globalists, you are unmolested. If not, you're fucked. And that goes for the animals who are laying waste to our cities and stomping people in the head.
Change that and then maybe change my mind. Have a great weekend.
Julie Kelly: "The only cure for what ails the Democrats is for voters to turn them out of office so they get the nice long rehab they need." The Democrat Party is Unwell
Conrad Black: "The virtual gathering was an unintended profession of the total moral bankruptcy of the Democratic campaign. There were no positive suggestions, nothing but hatred of President Trump." The Stench of Mendacity at the Democrat Convention
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST REIGN OF TERROR, WAR ON POLICE
"As long as the demonstrations remained in the downtown area, both Mayor Bill Peduto and many of the police seemed content to let the situation play out. But Peduto's attitude took a decided turn toward the less tolerant side when the protests moved to a new location." Protesters Disturb Pittsburgh Dem Mayor's Street; He Condemns Them
CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED
"I'm a sexual assault survivor. So, to me, what the speaker lineup showed is kind of a thumb in all our faces... Rape culture in the United States is thriving under the Democratic Party. I feel like they are not only enabling, but they're allowing that behavior to continue, just by virtue of who they lined up as speakers, who have credible sexual assault and harassment allegations against them." Tara Reade: DNC "Complicit" in "Gaslighting of Survivors," They're "Enabling" Perpetrators
Robert Spencer: "...having secured her allegiance, Biden then had to go through the motions of condemning her so as to reassure the Jews and supporters of Israel who, apparently blind to what has been happening over the last ten years, still vote Democrat." The Democrats Are Sending Out Mixed Messages About Hamas Louse Sarsour. Here's Why
"Quadrennial political carnivals have been outdated for at least 60 years." Conventional Wisdom
"Barack Obama's speech at the DNC's misbegotten cyber-convention worked only for those American who paid no serious attention to the eight years of his presidency." Dissecting Obama's Delusional DNC Speech
FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER
On Monday night, the NBA playoffs (without fans in the stands) trounced convention coverage on all three over-the-air networks combined. On Tuesday, America's Got Talent swamped the network's coverage of the Democrats. But far more significantly, viewership compared to 2016 was way off." Not Much Enthusiasm for Biden and Democrats as Convention TV Ratings Tank
"Loomer, now a candidate for a major party in a congressional election, remains banned from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, PayPal, GoFundMe, Venmo, Uber, and Lyft. All of these platforms remain open to her Democrat opponent, Rep. Lois Frankel (D-FL)." Twitter Refuses to Reinstate Laura Loomer's Account After Primary Win
"The reality of it is, this is still a fundamental issue of justice for women in America. Women have been given the responsibility to perpetuate the human species. Our bodies were created to do that. And it does not give any other person the right to tell a woman what to do with that body. It is her body. It is her right. It is her decision." Kamala Harris: "Women Have Been Given the Responsibility to Perpetuate the Human Species"
"Navalny suddenly lost consciousness after groaning in agony on a flight to Moscow, needing to be rushed to a hospital after the plane made an emergency landing. Navalny was put on a ventilator and is reported to have stabilized, but is still in a coma." Russian Opposition Leader Hospitalized After Suspected Poisoning
"Donald Trump wants to re-impose UN sanctions on Iran. It's not going to happen and it only reveals the hollowness, the dishonesty, the cynicism of Barack Obama, who knowingly and deliberately looked the American people in the eye and lied about the nuclear deal with Iran." Trump Wants UN Sanctions "Snapback" on Iran
Victor Davis Hanson: "Does Merkel really believe that if her nation cuts huge deals with NATO's historically greatest threat, polls as the most anti-American country in Europe. and still refuses to honor its promises to increase defense spending, Germany still deserves a large American commitment of 36,000 troops to anchor its defense?" A Sort Of Goodbye To Germany?
"As the world looks in despair at the crisis in Belarus, its re-occurrence may only be around the corner. On the fringes of Europe lies another electoral tinderbox, where voter manipulation is rife and toleration of dissent mild." As Key Elections Loom, Will Montenegro be the Next Belarus?
"...the court's decision allows the two companies to maintain their current business model, which relies on classifying drivers as independent contractors, instead of forcibly adapting to a new requirement that mandates drivers be classified as employees." Uber, Lyft Avoid State-Wide Shutdown Amidst Legal Battle With California
Bob Zimmerman: At the heart of this disaster however sit the people in charge. In
Chicago Democrats have pretty much ruled unopposed for more than a half century." Dying Democrat Cities
"While President Donald Trump admits his announced executive order on pre-existing conditions amounts to 'signaling,' behind the scenes, some conservatives are urging the administration to explore the possibility of going one step further by eliminating a crony Obama-era giveaway to AARP." Could Trump Executive Order Eliminate AARP's Sweetheart Deal?
"It's obvious that our culture is unhealthy, and our gatekeepers perverse, but there's more going on when Netflix promotes a movie turning girls into sex objects." There's a Reason Netflix is Sexualizing Young Girls
"We recognize that we live in an institutionally racist society, and that white people have a particular responsibility to work to change this. We acknowledge that we, both as white individuals and as the Executive Team of a predominantly white collaboration, have fallen short in these endeavors to date." National Security Research Lab Leaked Documents Called US "Institutionally Racist"
NOTE: The opinions expressed in some links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.
ALSO: The Morning Report is cross-posted at CutJibNewsletter.com if you want to continue the conversation all day.
That Night On The Marge Of Lake Lebarge, I Posted An ONT
—WeirdDave
Look at this picture from an abandoned mine. A lifetime of video games tells me that there has to be loot down at the bottom there. Gold, maybe, or epic gear. What do y'all think?
Not going to lie, I like New York. Or rather, I liked the New York that Rudy created. It was safe, vibrant and alive. I wouldn't have wanted to live there, God no, but it was a great weekend destination. Broadway shows, delicious restaurants on every block, museums, street performers, culture, history....all only a couple-three hour drive away. I'll miss it, and even though I will shortly be 2000 miles away, it just seems a shame that what I remembered so fondly isn't going to be there anymore. I would have gone back, occasionally, and counted it a treat. Now I guess I won't.
On last Saturday's ONT Buck Throckmorton mentioned Robert W. Service's The Cremation of Sam McGee, which has long been one of my favorite poems. Here's a pretty good rendition of it:
Note: Redtube is a porn site. This type of misdirection is called, in internet lingo, a “lemon party”. It means...ah, hell, I don't have time to explain. Just Google it.*
*FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT'S HOLY, DO NOT GOOGLE IT!
Final DNC Night: Joe Biden Gives a Pre-Recorded Speech That They'll Pretend is Live
—Ace
You don't really expect Sundown Joe to take a chance that his brain medicine will fail him at a crucial moment, do you?
The media should have guaranteed this was live and therefore news (prerecorded advertisements are not "news") by requiring him to start off with some codeword they give to him minutes before his speech.
But they wouldn't want to do that -- they're in on the con of pretending this obviously senile man isn't demented.
So, enjoy the speech that Joe Biden has actually already recorded, which will be broadcast shortly before the nightly news.
When people say “these people love war,” it’s not exactly accurate—these are broken people who have lost any sense of reality. They’re completely delusional hysterics, and it’s good to be completely rid of every last one of them.
Only conservative messages are "political." Leftwing agitation is just The Truth that All Good People on the Right Side of History believe.
"Some people may wish to express their views on social justice or inequity or equity issues such as black lives matter or LGBTQ pride on their face coverings, shirts or wristbands. That will be deemed approved because it applies with a zero-tolerance stance," the speaker on the recording said during the meeting. "However if any associate wears all, blue, white lives matter shirts or face coverings, that will be not appropriate."
It "applies" with the zero-policy stance, this illiterate says.
He/she/they meant "complies."
English, motherfucker, do you speak it?
Had enough?
Have you had enough of Jim Crow rules, pushed and promoted by leftist-converged corporations, with the aim of making you and your children second-class citizens, or do you want more?
Cash these motherfuckers out.
Boycott them until the entire management team is fired, and the incoming team fires the social justice termites in Human Resources.
It is perhaps because of the leak of this audio -- and because the company already lost 6% of their stock value yesterday -- that Goodyear has now partially retracted its clearly biased (and racially biased, to boot) policy.
And that's it. They're still claiming that support of the avowedly Marxist, grievance terrorism group Black Lives Matter is not "political," nor is pushing "Love is Love" and other messaging of the Sexual Fringe Left, but that supporting Republicanism or Trump is political (and on The Wrong Side of History).
But they can't claim you can agitate against cops but not for cops, so they have made that single allowance.
And I doubt they'll really allow it -- anyone wearing a Blue Lives Matter mask can expect to be harassed for a welter of petty complaints until they get the message and stop wearing that mask that they're now supposedly permitted to wear.
The boycott is on, as far as I'm concerned.
They must be Made to Care -- for our goodwill, and our willingness to do business with then.
The corporate left aren't the only people who can engage in dehumanization and boycotts intended to separate targets from society and any hope of making a living wage.
We can do that too. In fact, we must do that.
Unless we're all now ready to let our children be forever dehumanized.
And you know, the Acela C*ckservative class who's telling us that we should allow our children to be dehumanized, rather than ruffle the feathers of one of their corporate class donors -- you can just fuck yourselves right to hell.
It's time to cash out the Acela Corridor class, too. For every Rick Wilson you see who is openly working with Democrats, there are 100 "conservative activists" and politicians secretly working with Democrats.
In a way, Rick Wilson is the least objectionable sort of "Republican." At least his betrayal of you is out in the open and subject to debate.
Lori Lightfoot Defends Policy of Outlawing "Protests" On Her Block and Her Block Only, Stating That She (Alone) Has the Right to Be Secure In Her Home
—Ace
They're not even hiding it.
It's the duty of all Chicagoans to block the streets to Lori Lightfoot's home. She must not be allowed to use police force to keep protesters away from her palace while inflicting the "protesters" on the rest of the city, for political/ideological reasons.
People cannot allow this sort of open abuse of office and contempt for law and the citizenry to stand. Although, thusfar, they have allowed it, from high-ranking bureaucrats to tech moguls to tyrannical mayors and governors.
This cannot be allowed to stand, or this is the end of America.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot defended the Chicago Police Department's ban on protesters being able to demonstrate on the block where she lives, telling reporters Thursday that she and her family at times require heightened security because of threats she receives daily.
Lightfoot refused to elaborate on the specific threats, but said she receives them daily against herself, her wife and her home. Comparisons to how the Police Department has protected previous mayors' homes, such as Rahm Emanuel's Ravenswood residence, are unfair because "this is a different time like no other," Lightfoot told reporters.
"I think that residents of this city, understanding the nature of the threats that we are receiving on a daily basis, on a daily basis, understand I have a right to make sure that my home is secure," Lightfoot said.
Critics are calling this single block in Chicago where police have been ordered to disallow "protesters" "Fort Lori."
The order -- casually leaked by police, I imagine -- does not say that violent "protesters" will be arrested but "peaceful" protesters will be allowed.
It says that all "protesters," whether "peaceful" or violent, are to be shut down.
The Chicago Police Department has effectively banned protesters from demonstrating on Mayor Lori Lightfoot's block in the Logan Square neighborhood, ordering officers to arrest anyone who refuses to leave, the Tribune has learned.
The directive surfaced in a July email from then-Shakespeare District Commander Melvin Roman to officers under his command. It did not distinguish between the peaceful protesters Lightfoot regularly says she supports and those who might intend to be destructive, but ordered that after a warning is given to demonstrators, "It should be locked down."
Fox News' Left-Liberal Cranky Old Fossil and Conspiracy Theorist Chris Wallace Defends Joe Biden on Guns, Insisting That He Doesn't Want to Erode the Second Amendment, Just Take Away "Weapons of Mass Destruction" Like the AR-15
I ask again: Why are 90% of the positions in "conservative" media filled by left-liberals?
It's almost as if the corporate stooges running these companies intend them to be safe, managed Controlled Opposition operations that will never be too conservative.
That basically describes 90% of "conservative" politicians as well.
...Wallace's analysis of the Democrats' convention went off the rails when he turned to the topic of Joe Biden and gun control.
Earlier in the hour, Wallace praised an address by former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords -- whose husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, is seeking to unseat Sen. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., in November -- as "enormously powerful" and called her "a living embodiment of the concern" most Americans have about gun violence.
...
"I understand that Republicans will say that Joe Biden wants to take away your Second Amendment rights," Wallace added. "The only problem with that is, Biden has made it clear over and over [that] he's not interested in taking away Second Amendment rights, he's interested in taking away weapons of mass destruction like assault weapons."
Wow, Chris Wallace decloaks as a left-liberal hack and partisan shill for the Democrats.
What a surprise. Yet again, my expectations have been so subverted that my whole reality is spinning and my limbs feel like alien meat controlled by invisible puppeteers.
Next thing you'll be telling me is that AllahPundit, who claimed to oppose Obama for eight years, is backing the third Obama term now as represented by Centrist Moderate Joe Biden, just as he backed the third Obama term in 2016 when he backed Hillary Clinton in a very cowardly, womanly, passive-aggressive/plausible-deniability way.
And then I just won't know which way is up!
Fact-Check: Last year, when CNN nepot Anderson Cooper asked about gun owners' fears that Joe Biden's administration would come to "take their guns away," Joe Biden answers: "Bingo!"
But don't listen to Joe Biden's own words; listen to left-liberal media activists' spin.
Apparently, the DNC couldn't even find 30 people who were excited about Kamala Harris, so they had to duplicate someone's livesteram pic.twitter.com/1cLhQRRkzg
The BLM "Security" Punk Who Kicked the Good Samaritan In the Face Begs for Money on Snapchat as Police Hunt for Him
—Ace
He fled -- which was easy for him, because Portland police didn't bother looking for him until 4chan ID'd him and his name was all over social media -- and police are now searching for him.
Allegedly. Who knows if they'll bother to arrest someone caught on videotape committing attempted murder.
So he's on snapchat, whining that all he did was "fight" a "racist," and begging for money.
Portland protester with long rap sheet who is on the run from cops after kicking unconscious a truck driver BEGS people on social media to give him money in case he gets jailed
Police are searching for 25-year-old Marquise Love, known by friends as 'Keese Love', for his apparent involvement in a vicious attack in Portland on Sunday
Love has allegedly been looking for money on Snapchat as he remains on the run
'[all] I did was fight him look it up on twitter,' he claims, calling his victim a 'racist'
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The incident took place shortly before 10:30pm Sunday blocks from a Black Lives Matter demonstration
Since fleeing the scene, Love has been posting messages on Snapchat, according to The Sun.
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'Might go to jail for murder tonight for a racist when all I did was fight him look it up on twitter put money on my books and come see me,' he allegedly sent from his account, alongside a selfie.
'On the books' is a reference to money held for inmates for the prison commissary.
Oh, he already knows the lingo. What a surprise that has totally surprised me.
The Portland Police Bureau say they have left Love, a recently fired security guard, a number of messages, urging him to hand himself in, but have so far received no response. They say they have a probable cause for his arrest.
He has a lengthy criminal record which includes charges for domestic assault, interfering with public transport, driving without a license, domestic harassment and guns charges.
So many surprises. My expectations have been totally subverted. I feel like I just discovered that I'm a robot imposter of myself whose code was written by Rian Johnson.
Netflix recently released the trailer for an upcoming film called Cuties--a French film that hyper-sexualizes 11-year-old girls as they form a twerking dance crew. A petition was kicked off shortly after the trailer was released that has, at the time of this writing, reeled in just shy of 28,000 signatures.
The film seems to concern a black immigrant girl who becomes "fascinated" by a Parisian "twerking crew," who also seem to be 11.
This could possibly be the Elusive Unicorn of a movie that features a Muslim family getting the hypersexualizing degredation that filmmakers like to inflict on Christian families.
But no, I don't think the movie would have gotten funded if this were a Muslim family. I would bet big money that it's a Christian immigrant family.
Either way, of course, it's awful to promote twerking -- a highly sexualized dance which is meant to simulate a woman having sex -- in 11 year olds, or feature any 11 year olds "exploring their femininity."
Netflix is now editing their descriptions of this movie. Here is the current version of the description:
Doesn't sound that objectionable. It reads:
Amy, 11 years old, tries to escape family dysfunction by joining a free-spirited dance clique called "Cuties," as they build self confidence through dance.
But compare the new language with the original language:
The original pitch read:
Amy, 11, becomes fascinated by a twerking dance crew. Hoping to join them, she starts exploring her femininity, defying her family's traditions.
It's hard to read "exploring her femininity" as intending anything but "exploring her sexuality," which is pretty much a synonym.
Obviously, that's where I've gotten the "fascinated by a twerking crew" and "exploring her femininity" language from.
Key quote from the twerking trailer, said by an adult woman to an 11 year old child:
"We're deeply sorry for the inappropriate artwork that we used for 'Cuties.' It was not OK, nor was it representative of this French film, which premiered at Sundance. We've now updated the pictures and description," the service told Deadline in response to the backlash.
The film, directed by first-timer Maïmouna Doucoure', has a TV-MA rating.
The art they're apologizing for features the little girls in tight clothing striking a lot of... um, exaggerated poses that just happen to show off the sorts of things pedos would be looking for.
If that art isn't representative of the film, where did it come from? Is it all just a pure photoshop?
4chan has banned pictures from this movie. I'm avoiding link that "art" myself.
Zombie writes:
But no, I don't think the movie would have gotten funded if this were a Muslim family. I would bet big money that it's a Christian immigrant family.
No, Ace, you're wrong -- it IS about a Muslim family.
Here's my willowed comment form last thread:
A black French woman filmmaker made a movie, in that classic French pedophiliac "Peppermint Soda"-style but even worse, that has elements to piss off everyone:
a. It's about how white culture in France can and should rescue black Muslim immigrants in France from their awful oppressive immigrant culture -- so now immigrants hate the film because it exhibits "white savior complex," and moonbats hate the film because it implies that white culture is superior to black/Muslim culture.
b. The plot involves an 11-year old fundamentalist Senegalese Muslim girl who is tempted away from her culture by a clique of whorish white 11-year-old slutty girtls who form a super-sexy "twerking" dance troupe, and half the screentime is devoted to obvious softcore child porn of nearly naked actual 11-year-old actresses doing grotesque sex-imitating twerks and pole dances -- obviously intended to just titillate the pedo male French audience -- so now old-fashioned cultural conservatives hate the film for being an unapologetic X-rated child-porn mainstream film.
It would have languished in film-festival obscurity, but after winning several awards (of course), it was "picked up" by Netfilx, who are now showing it. Apparently Netfilx originally featured a very porn-y promo poster for the film, which drew many complaints, so Netflix changed the poster and apologized, but now the whole thing is in the news as a result.
The film now has the LOWEST IMDB rating I have ever seen by far: 1.6
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9196192/?ref_=tt_urv
And furthermore, literally 100% of user reviews are 1-star reviews -- something I've also never seen before:
Drawing on data from the Democracy Fund + UCLA Nationscape’s weekly tracking surveys, I found that unfavorable views of the police are trending back down toward their pre-protest levels among white Americans and have dipped among Black Americans. White respondents are also becoming somewhat less likely to say that African Americans face "a lot" or "a great deal" of discrimination, though those numbers remain higher than they were before before George Floyd was killed in May. Black Americans' views on the discrimination they face have remained essentially unchanged.
I would imagine that seeing blacks parading through white neighborhoods with drums and horns at 2am telling whites "No justice, no sleep" and demanding they give their homes to black people is undermining Black Lives Matter's claim that black people are just absolutely terrified of police.
If you're marching through white neighborhoods threatening violence and demanding that whites give you their houses, that tends to suggest you're not the Oppressed hounded by the state, but instead the Oppressor given carte blanche license by the state.
That in turn may contribute to whites' declining estimation of how much racism blacks face.
You can't claim "We're totally repressed" as you march like an invading army through white neighborhoods telling them they are not allowed to sleep and must give their houses to you.
Politics is a filthy business. It is corrupt, and it corrupts most of the people involved. The founders knew that, and tried to limit the size of government so that corruption was kept to a minimum.
We failed them. Hobbes' Leviathan is here; it is terrifyingly huge. And as much as we would like to believe that those who seem to be on the correct side of the debate have pure impulses, unsullied by filthy lucre, that would be tremendously naive, as this indictment seems to indicate.
Unless the Department of Justice has created this out of whole cloth, it does seem to be substantive. This is not based on entrapment and edited 302s, although the recent behavior of the law enforcement apparatus of the United States government does not fill me with confidence that a railroading isn't possible!
Starting in approximately December 2018, BRIAN KOLFAGE, STEPHEN BANNON, ANDREW BADOLATO, and TIMOTHY SHEA, and others, orchestrated a scheme to defraud hundreds of thousands of donors, including donors in the Southern District of New York, in connection with an online crowdfunding campaign ultimately known as “We Build The Wall” that raised more than $25 million to build a wall along the southern border of the United States. In particular, to induce donors to donate to the campaign, KOLFAGE repeatedly and falsely assured the public that he would “not take a penny in salary or compensation” and that “100% of the funds raised . . . will be used in the execution of our mission and purpose” because, as BANNON publicly stated, “we’re a volunteer organization.”
Those representations were false. In truth, KOLFAGE, BANNON, BADOLATO, and SHEA received hundreds of thousands of dollars in donor funds from We Build the Wall, which they each used in a manner inconsistent with the organization’s public representations. In particular, KOLFAGE covertly took for his personal use more than $350,000 in funds that donors had given to We Build the Wall, while BANNON, through a non-profit organization under his control (“Non-Profit-1” ), received over $1 million from We Build the Wall, at least some of which BANNON used to cover hundreds of thousands of dollars in BANNON’s personal expenses. To conceal the payments to KOLFAGE from We Build the Wall, KOLFAGE, BANNON, BADOLATO, and SHEA devised a scheme to route those payments from We Build the Wall to KOLFAGE indirectly through Non-Profit-1 and a shell company under SHEA’s control, among other avenues. They did so by using fake invoices and sham “vendor” arrangements, among other ways, to ensure, as KOLFAGE noted in a text message to BADOLATO, that his pay arrangement remained “confidential” and kept on a “need to know” basis.
It seems damning, however I will reserve judgement until there is more than one side presented. If it is true? Send them to jail. If it isn't true? It is one more nail in the coffin of justice in America. But that indictment sure does sound hyperbolic. Breathless exhortations to the crowd to "Burn the witch!" always make me suspicious.
And if it does pan out, it does suggest that President Trump chose wisely when he separated himself from Bannon three years ago.
I just wish that the same investigatory power was exerted when other organizations like...oh...The Clinton Foundation, or Open Society Foundations play fast and loose with their money.
Good morning kids. Thursday and the penultimate night of the Democrat National Fiasco went over about as well as you'd imagine. That is, if anyone was watching it. The ratings for the first two nights are way off with Tuesday's viewership below that of, ironically enough America's Got Talent. Seems that America's got brains for not tuning in to what can best be described as a snuff video. It must be awfully tiresome to have to read my musings about how horrendous, vapid, toxic and insane the speeches were. Hell, I'm friggin' tired of it, but I'll persist, because it's important to underscore just how malevolent these people are.
They're malevolent because as they wretch up the most revolting bile about how horrible the President is, the self-righteous garbage about how put upon as supposed victims or empathizers of victims that they are, the nation is being torn apart at their behest while they ignore or otherwise obfuscate it. For the Democrat Party and American Left to consign the nation as founded, its history and people to eternal damnation for the sins and crimes against humanity that they are guilty of is just the bitter end for me. The rank hypocrisy and projection is unbearable. One that crystallizes it for me is the absolutely senseless evil that snuffed out the life of a five-year-old boy.
The unhappy truth is that Cannon Hinnant is dead because his killer wasn't in jail. And George Floyd is dead and a nation is on fire because he wasn't safely tucked away in prison.
Criminal justice reform didn't do anyone any favors. Not the criminals or their victims.
Democrats killed Cannon Hinnant, they killed George Floyd, and they're killing American cities.
Instead of dealing with the disaster, the Democrats continue to treat dead criminals like saints while ignoring their victims. They feed racial narratives, filling headlines with 'white' perpetrators and 'black' victims while ignoring stories like Cannon's murder that don't fit their racial narrative...
George Floyd was high on fentanyl. The source of the deadly drug is often China.
If Obama hadn't given China's drug trade a pass while making sure Americans needed an ID to buy cough syrup, the entire Floyd case might never have happened. The more America goes after foreign drug industries, the less it needs to spend time policing Americans.
Just like Islamic terrorism, we can fight it at the source, or we can try controlling it at home.
If China were shipping IEDs to America that were killing 30,000 people a year, we would have a national response. But it's just pushing chemicals that are killing 30,000 Americans a year...
None of this is what the media wants to talk about because it strikes at the heart of the governance failures of their political party. Instead it wants to convince Americans to double down on the same policies that killed Cannon Hinnant, that killed George Floyd, and that are killing tens of thousands of Americans every single year with bullets, knives, and overdoses.
The Democrats embraced criminals, championing their voting rights, their employment rights, and their right not to be locked up for committing crimes. They need to be held accountable...
...[Cannon] Hinnant's senseless murder is not an ordinary crime and we shouldn't shrug it off as a sad, but typical tragedy in modern America. That's the mindset that smothers us into apathy and acceptance of things we should never tolerate.
His death is certainly more relevant to crime trends than George Floyd's death or the "noose" discovered by NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace. Both of those widely covered events were treated as representative of the discrimination all blacks suffer in America. Unarmed blacks, we were expected to believe, are at an incredible risk of being murdered by cops, as Floyd's death allegedly proves. And blacks can suffer horrible discrimination and harassment regardless of their income, as Wallace's phony hate hoax allegedly showed.
Both of those narratives are more important to the Left than the death of an innocent child. The first narrative is based on false assumptions. Only 10 unarmed blacks died at the hands of police in 2019; most of the cases were ruled justifiable homicides. The cases included a black man who attacked and stole a police officer's taser before being shot and another man who drove his car into police.
But those 10 cases, we are assured, amount to a "genocide" and justify rioting, anarchy, looting, the destruction of American heritage, and defunding the police.
In contrast, and in fact, crimes like the Hinnant murder are far more common. There were 514 black-on-white murders committed in 2018. That's more than two times higher than the number of white-on-black murders. That same year saw more than 500,000 black-on-white violent incidents; just under 60,000 white-on-black violent incidents occurred in 2018. Blacks are only 13 percent of the population, yet commit the majority of interracial violence.
Blacks themselves live under much greater threat from black-on-black violence than they do from murder-by-cop. There were 2,600 black-on-black murders in 2018, a much higher figure than the number of unarmed blacks killed by police...
...The real exploiters are those who weaponize George Floyd's death and others to change our society for the worse. They demand we think his death and those like it are the greatest injustices in our society -- while ignoring more horrific crimes that happen on an all-too-regular basis.
To successfully commit moral blackmail against America, the media and liberal elites have to pretend that Hinnant's death is no big deal. The real horrors are what they share on the nightly news and publish columns about. They're declaring that not all lives matter -- only the ones that serve their agenda do.
When people say, and rightly so, that 2020 is going to be the most important election of our lifetimes, this right here is what it's all about. You can Green New Deal, open borders, nationalized health care and all the rest from now until Kingdom Come. Don't get me wrong; they are important.
But when you get right down to it, it all boils down to the question, what is the value of a single human life? Leftist hero Josef Stalin infamously once quipped, "the death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic." When you view those in context of the tragedies of Cannon Hinnant and George Floyd, and how each has been treated by the Democrat-Media Complex... Wow.
"To successfully commit moral blackmail against America, the media and liberal elites have to pretend a 5-year-old's murder is no big deal." Why Cannon Hinnant's Death Is Shrugged Off
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST REIGN OF TERROR, WAR ON POLICE
"OK, so when America goes and steals diamonds and oils, who's calling us terrorists? When the American government goes and pillages different countries, who's calling us terrorists?" BLM Leader Likens US Government to "Terrorists"
"When is it right and proper for citizens to cast off governments that no longer see to their safety and promote their welfare, much less effect their happiness?" When Are Local and State Governments Illegitimate?
CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED
"The study's authors conclude not only that asymptomatic transmitters compose only a tiny slice of the spread, but that the rate of transmission increases with the severity of the illness, further validating the strategy of focusing on the sick, not the healthy." New Study Finds Very Weak Asymptomatic Chinese Coronavirus Transmission
"The bill would include a $300-a-week extended unemployment benefit -- half what the Democrats are demanding, plus $10 billion for the US Postal Service -- a far cry from the $25 billion the Democrats will give the USPS in a bill expected to be passed by Saturday." Senate Republicans Preparing Scaled-Back Stimulus Bill
SHAMPEACHMENT, CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Michael Goodwin: "With the first three nights in the books, the burden now falls where it ultimately belongs -- on the presidential nominee. Everything is riding on Biden's acceptance speech. If he hits it out of the park, little that came before it will be remembered or matter. If he flops, then the convention week, and maybe much more, has been lost." Obama Can Give a Speech, But It's Not Enough to Lift Biden
"Obama praised the protests that rose up during Trump's presidency, including the George Floyd protests over the summer. The protesters, he argued, were the true representation of America's values." Barack Obama Abandons Hope and Change in DNC Speech
"Harris' promise that Biden will end the coronavirus pandemic is not the first disease the Biden campaign has vowed to cure. Former Vice President Biden vowed to cure cancer during a campaign stop in June 2019." Kamala Harris Promises That Joe Biden Will "End This Pandemic"
"The only details of Harris' speech more cringe-worthy than her insincerity was her inability to tell the truth about virtually anything." Kamala Lies
"The lawsuit alleges that the executive order usurps the legislature's authority to decide when and how elections are held. It also alleges that the 'system will violate eligible citizens' right to vote' and that 'fraudulent and invalid votes dilute the votes of honest citizens and deprive them of their right to vote in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.'" Trump Campaign Sues New Jersey Over the State's Mail-In Ballot Proposal
"Even worse than her lack of meaningful action to check the machine's abuses of power, [Eleanor Holmes-Norton] has spearheaded the most scandalous notion of all: transforming this morally bankrupt one-party dynasty into a 51st state." "Jefferson" Krucoff Pushes The Color Purple On DC's Corrupt Elite
"An edited video montage played during the Democratic National Convention Wednesday showed President Donald Trump referring to MS-13 gang members "animals," but spliced it between videos of asylum seekers and children held in detention centers." DNC Airs Debunked Claim Trump Called Asylum Seekers "Animals"
FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER
"Among many others, Facebook removed the Pacific-Northwest Youth Liberation Front, an antifa group that incited violent riots across the country on July 25. Facebook did not just remove antifa groups, but also militia organizations and organizations linked to the QAnon conspiracy." Facebook Removes Antifa Group That Incited Rioting Across the Country
America's Got Talent received more views during its scheduled hour on NBC than any other network individually recorded during the second night of the DNC." DNC Viewership On TV Networks Tumbles 48% From 2016
Our intrepid science reporter: "This is a joke. It is also absurd and disgusting. Finally, it is also par for the course for NASA and all of today's government, at all
levels. They can't do anything competently." Another SLS Screw-Up Related to Europa Clipper
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"These instances are proof that if a woman or girl's suffering does not fit into the left's narrative, it is ignored. They are a small sample of the way the left treats women." When Chivalry Dies, Women Suffer
"It's been 100 years since women got the vote, but how many more women and children will pay the price for left-wing policies that kowtow to ideology instead of common sense?" Does the Left Actually Care About Women?
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The "Cyclops;" it breaks on a beach in Western Australia]
Fix your eyes on the greatness of Athens as you have it before you day by day, fall in love with her, and when you feel her great, remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action
-- Thucydides
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
-- Carl Gustav Jung
We shall defend every village, every town, and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.
-- Sir Winston Spencer Churchill
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Well, this is just neat, in spite of the irritating music.
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It's easy to romanticize Victorian England, because we have been fed a steady diet of rose-colored views through recent movies and the admittedly superb "Downton Abby" [Oops. Northernlurker correctly points out that, a) I am a retard, and 2) it was set in Edwardian Georgian England]. But even for the upper classes it was a miserable life in comparison to working class lives today. In no particular order, and it is a woefully incomplete list, we have air conditioning, antibiotics and many other life-saving medicines, instant communication, air travel, indoor plumbing, incredible automobiles (they may be ugly, but they work!), mechanical refrigeration (imagine having to manage ice deliveries!), elevators, windows that keep the cold and heat out, perfectly clean water (well, except for Flint), busty lesbian pron....
And maybe the best part of all...soap, washing machines, dryers, and showers with copious quantities of hot water (unless the brats are staying over). Imagine a world without them, and then Hygiene in Victorian England will always be on your mind when you watch some frilly Brit production or read about 40 room manors with 25 servants!
["Weird History" Hat Tip: Jay Guevara]
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One is an easy one to guess, the other two are more difficult. The names are in the image info if you are at a loss.
But what intrigued me was that all three men are in uniform, and that simply won't happen today. It is a reflection of the changing landscape of war, and the radical shift in our society away from military service as a common waypoint in our lives.
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Fine...I'll admit it: John Mayer can play guitar. But BB King is just...better.
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If anyone needs a refresher course on the term "lee shore," take a look at this video starting at 4:00. But the whole video is a forceful reminder that the sea wants to kill us. Always.
I've been sailing since I was about six years old, and I have a fair amount of experience with heavy weather. So one second into that segment and I knew something bad was going to happen. In fact the first bad thing that happened to them was the second they cast off. There isn't a chance in hell that I would have gone sailing into weather like that, and if for some stupid reason I was caught out in it, I sure wouldn't have gone anywhere near a lee shore. There is something to be said for getting the hell away from land. The advantage of sea room is that it allows options. This guy didn't have enough speed to come about, and he didn't have enough room to sail downwind to gather that speed. And the sailors around here will confirm that. It's nothing brilliant. In fact, it's basic seamanship!
Last night Bill Clinton lectured Trump about proper Oval Office decorum. "Decorum" comes from the Latin, meaning "the proper manner of decorating an intern's face."
Today, the media -- which is totally against unhinged conspiracy theories, except the many leftwing-promulgated conspiracy theories that they collude in -- pressed Donald Trump on QAnon.
Reporter: "The crux of the theory is this belief that you are secretly saving the world from this satanic cult of pedophiles and cannibals. Does that sound like something that you are behind?"
A human case of plague was confirmed in California this week, marking the first time such an instance has occurred the Golden State in five years.
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Officials said the person -- an "avid walker" -- may have contracted the disease from an infected flea, sustaining a bite while walking their dog “along the Truckee River Corridor north of Highway 50 or the Tahoe Keys area in South Lake Tahoe.”
"Health officials are investigating the situation," officials said in the release.
Psst, probably has something to do with the large number of homeless people permitted to live in filth in close proximity to rats.
But that might just be an Old Wives Tale. I know I don't know Science as well as the geniuses of the left.
California decided to put millions of people out of work -- the state went on a crusade against freelancers and independent contractors, and demanded that companies hire such people as full-time employees or else... they were forbidden to employ them at all.
The companies warned: You're forcing us to make millions of people unemployed.
California said: Fuck you, pay me.
Well, now Uber and Lyft are ending all business in the states.
Naturally, lefties are blaming the companies.
In a cruel and petulant move, Uber just announced they are shutting down service in California on Thursday. Faced with a mandate to treat their workers fairly, they opted instead to leave them unemployed — in the middle of a pandemic and a recession. pic.twitter.com/SuTvCOUDWT
Antifa is now giving some Mostly Peaceful Protests to county government buildings in Portland.
The Mostly Peaceful Protests involve intentional arson and attempting to build down buildings worth tens of millions of dollars.
Antifa smash out windows of the Multnomah Building in Portland tonight and throw lit materials inside to set the ground floor on fire. They did this to multiple other buildings over the course of their 80+ days of terror in the city. #PortlandRiotspic.twitter.com/2Q2zO7GVDU
Another angle showing antifa smash out the windows of the Multnomah Building in Portland tonight. They then torched the ground floor. #PortlandRiotspic.twitter.com/c2He4dRNXH
“Press” in Portland last night explains why they need to destroy property in order to make police & public fear. Many of the press here support the riots. @iwriteok praised the burning of the police union hall. @alex_zee published my location for antifa. pic.twitter.com/8wkKN3wjV0
And yet these conspiracy theorists have the vapors over Q Anon. What's the difference between Q Anon, Russia hoax and the post office hysteria? https://t.co/iQJTdyUquA
One of the Right's Top 10 Dumbest National Pundits strikes again. I don't know what's worse: calling a rapist a nice person, or the idea that nobody specifically accusing him of Epstein stuff (yet) is significant when he IS accused of being on the island with two "young girls." pic.twitter.com/TlkogyzT8z
Below, a Wilding Pack of human-shaped wolves on a hunt and kill mission against transgenders.
Even though violence against transgenders is one of the media's favorite storylines, you will hear absolutely nothing about this in the media. The media is all in on protecting Black Lives Matter until either 1) Biden wins or 2) Trump wins and it's time to use BLM as the tip of a spear in a full revolution.
Meanwhile, the many, many loud trans people in the media, who are always shrieking about society attempting to "erase their existence" and other histrionic drama-queen claims, are themselves remaining absolutely silent about this, proving their shrieks about violence are simply political primal scream therapy and not to be taken as anything more than noise.
[W]hen asked whether his office might have done anything different to prevent the shooting, Israel responded glibly, saying, "Listen, if ifs and buts were candy and nuts, O.J. Simpson would still be in the record books."
As it turns out, quite a lot could have been done differently. For one thing, a Broward County sheriff's deputy and sergeant were fired following the Parkland massacre after they were found to have "neglected their duties" when they refused to confront the gunman as he systematically murdered 17 people. The deputy was charged later with "child neglect, negligence, and perjury." The sergeant, who hid behind his car during the shooting, was reinstated in 2020 with back pay.
Israel, for his part, said of the deputy, former resource officer Scot Peterson, "I gave him a gun. I gave him a badge. I gave him the training. If he didn’t have the heart to go in, that's not my responsibility." So the buck stops...anywhere else.
Especially with the NRA.
The Broward Sheriff's Office also ignored an estimated 18 phone calls that warned of the perpetrator’s intentions, including a caller who told the department in 2016 that the killer "planned to shoot up a school" and another caller who told the Sheriff’s Office two years later that the gunman was gathering weapons and "could be a school shooter in the making."
Israel however was not going quietly. The disgraced officer pledged, and delivered, on his promise of battling DeSantis’ decision both in the Florida legislature and in the courts. In those instances, it was decided that the Governor had acted within his powers by removing Israel.
His final salvo in retaining his career was to run for the office from which he had been extracted.
But he was narrowly defeated in the Democrat primary, so I assume he's finally being forced to work for the private sector.
New York Post: The Guy Who Got Kicked In the Head Shared an Accurate Post About George Floyd Earlier That Day, So I Guess He Kind of Deserved Some Attempted Murder
The driver who was beaten unconscious by a Black Lives Matter mob in Portland shared an anti-George Floyd post on Facebook hours before the assault.
The post appeared on Adam Haner’s Facebook page Sunday evening, referring to the police-involved death of Floyd and the fatal shooting of 5-year-old Cannon Hinnant in North Carolina.
“George Floyd was a 46-year old felon, high on Fentanyl, and he got 4 televised funerals and 70 days of riots,” the post reads. “What does 5-year old Cannon Hinnant get?”
Hours later, video shows Black Lives Matter protesters yanking Haner out of his white Ford 4×4 truck and beating him.
At some point we're going to have to have a discussion with our allegedly "conservative-leaning media" about why they make sure that all key positions are held by either the most liberal-leaning semi-Republicans they can find (Seth Mandel used to be an editor at the Post) or just outright leftwingers.
It's almost as if they're voluntarily Controlled Opposition for the left.
“On Tuesday, fellow former Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour... appeared on the livestream for the DNC’s Muslims and Allies Assembly. Her appearance was immediately seized upon by Republicans and the Trump campaign.” https://t.co/Iqh9xJezAa
Goodyear Tires Permits Black Lives Matter T-Shirts But Has "Zero Tolerance" for MAGA and Blue Lives Matter T-Shirts; Trump Asks for Boycott
—Ace
There is no other way. I'm so tired of squish Republicans refusing to boycott anything just because they didn't like the religious conservatives' boycotts in the eighties.
These corporations are using every ounce of their influence to push leftwing politics and even put targets on conservatives.
Is it not okay to boycott your enemies?
As was said in the aughts: You might not be interested in terrorism, but terrorism is interested in you.
And a lot of conservatives -- who prefer things As They Used to Be -- may not be interested in the culture war, but the culture war is definitely interested in you.
Conservatives may strongly prefer things when corporations were not constantly aligning with the hard left, and may not want to take part in any counteraction (such as a boycott), but the only way to stop the endless recruitment of corporations into the culture war is to teach a few of them that there will be severe economic consequences for doing so.
And a big loss of sales will mean the loss of jobs of executives who allowed/pushed the shift of the company from an economic actor to primarily a political one.
And that will stop the culture war -- not endless whining that we preferred non-political corporations, but we're too dainty to ever use our economic muscle to rough up a culture warrior corporation.
Conservatives will never be free of constant bullying until they understand and accept that bullies will continue bullying until they are met with the sharp shock of resistance, preferably into the soft cartilage of their noses.
Or, alternately, we can continue to just be pussies, sissies, and c*cks who encourage bullies through our weakness.
An absolute absurdity. If businesses are going to deliberately enter the political realm at the behest of the wokest clientele, then everyone else will have to loudly boycott in response to establish mutually assured destruction. https://t.co/mK0DbVdzHU
Don’t buy GOODYEAR TIRES - They announced a BAN ON MAGA HATS. Get better tires for far less! (This is what the Radical Left Democrats do. Two can play the same game, and we have to start playing it now!).
This is outrageous and we conservatives need to get over our aversion to boycotting (which I share). Goodyear shouldn't get another dime of business from us. https://t.co/4Ibw1SjJSG
A friend commented: So Goodyear is aligning itself with urban, and largely poor, guerrilla terrorists who do not own cars, and is taking a position against the suburban and rural voters who own all the cars?
Update: the c*cks at Twitchy are in a tizzy (as usual!) and are attacking Trump for daring to suggest that corporations that want to play in the political arena should be met with political tactics.
So back on August 6th, the attorney general for the state of NY, Letitia James, has announced that she's basically trying to put the NRA out of business. She has accused the NRA leaders of financial malfeasance and her solution is to dissolve the entire organization.
Note that she's not bringing criminal charges against the NRA leaders, she just wants the entire organization gone. No half measures here!
I think she's overplaying her hand. As I said, she's a progressive. Overplaying their hand is what progressives do.
This is obviously a political hit. In fact, it's clear that Letitia James has pretty much politicized the office of the NY State Attorney General, like all progressives do.
But how bad is her timing?
Coming as it does right after many American cities have been set on fire by rioting mobs which have resulted in record firearms sales, many by first-time buyers and even many by liberals. Imagine that: Progressives have figured out a way to get Americans to buy more guns. Because if there's one thing that this summer has taught Americans, it's the necessity of having the means to defend yourself against looting, rioting thugs.
But the message from the Democrats is
1. Your cities will burn
2. The police will be prevented from helping you.
3. And we're going to try to shut down the biggest organization that will support you.
4. Shut up, peasants
And you have to ask, WTF? The intent, ultimate goal, and timing of James' lawsuit is are all mind-bogglingly stupid. Why are the Democrats going out of their way to give reasons to not vote for them?
Look at their convention. There's *not one* Democrat who will emphatically and unequivocally condemn the rioting and looting of our cities. Because all the Democrats have to do to do well in the election is to not be batshit insane. That's it. But they just can't.
When he is 97 years old and long retired, President Trump is going to write a book explaining how he successfully managed to sneak in a number of deep-cover operatives into various levels of the Democrat Party whose sole mission is to come up with really stupid, self-destructive ideas and then trick the Democrats into implementing them. And I'd guess that nothing in this book would surprise me in the least.
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Prayer Requests:
7/18 - IrishMikeComedy thanks the Horde again for the prayers for his son, born in April. He’d like to request prayers now for complete healing for his son from a UTI that seems cleared up, but they are checking for renal scarring.
7/18 - IrishMikeComedy also asks for prayers for employment. He was laid off last Thursday. He is looking for remote work in customer service, with a specialty in insurance.
8/17 Update- The baby is doing well and has a clean bill of health, and IrishMikeComedy has gotten a new job!
7/25 - Pooky’s Girl reports that Pooky is looking for different employment. He dropped off his resume at a local place that would fit his skills better and had a good meeting with the owner, who he already knows. Asking for prayers that he either gets this job or a lead on a similar job.
8/6 - Jordan61 asks for prayers for Mom, who is in remission from multiple myeloma, and she is having a bone biopsy on Wednesday, 8/12, to make sure it isn’t returning. (She’s had some red flags in her routine bloodwork.) Prayers for a negative result and continuing remission.
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8/3 Update: Vicki’s surgery is scheduled for next week.
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Monday's Who Dis: I first saw Colombian hottie Sofía Vergara in the 2012 reboot of The Three Stooges and was immediately impressed by her huge and spectacular... comedic acting chops. She was *really* funny and that movie is criminally underrated, in my opinion. She has been married since 2015 to Joe Manganiello, who, according to imdb.com, skydives with the Army's parachute team "The Golden Knights". He also used to shovel sand and gravel off of a truck and do demolitions for a construction company. So he's not a soy boy. They were in the 2019 film Bottom of the 9th together.
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Good morning kids. Midweek and night two of the Democrat National Convention is up front, in all its glorious nakedness, much like Lucien Freud's "Naked Man, Back View," only infinitely more disturbing and revolting. Mercifully, they didn't wheel in Barry McGuire to perform "Eve of Destruction" with Jessica Yaniv doing an interpretive dance dressed in a cat-suit.
All of the lowlights, of which there are many, are listed below for those needing an emetic or even a good laugh. But as I touched upon yesterday, the key takeaway is still the rift between the Stalinist and Trotskyite factions within the Democrat Party. It's got to be more than just stupidity or cognitive dissonance that makes the in-your-face bust-out commies not realize that the American voting public ain't buying what they're selling, no matter what the tens of thousands of artificially generated Twitter 'bots tell them. Something else has got to be in play, here. If it's some combination of petty jealousy or lust for power and control, it's incredibly shortsighted and will no doubt be an Achilles heel that may very well come back to haunt them.
"I hereby second the nomination for Senator Bernard Sanders of Vermont for President of the United States of America," the New York Democratic socialist said at the end of her 60-second address.
In her socialist rhetoric-heavy address, she spoke about Sanders' movement to "repair the wounds of racial injustice, colonization, misogyny and homophobia" and not once addressed Biden, 77, who will be crowned the party's nominee.
While she later went on to state that this was just some sort of pro-forma procedural maneuver, it was clear that she was not happy about swallowing the "shit sandwich" of Biden as the nominee, as Sanders' campaign co-chair Nina Turner described it. Despite the reassurances from every psycho from Pramila Jayapal up to Bernie himself that in essence, Biden is a cut-out stooge and the party has effectively been transformed into an openly Marxist-Leninist one, Toothy McBigTits just had to get her digs in and expose herself, in a manner of speaking to the American people.
These kids today, I tells ya! They just don't seem to understand that even today, you have to lie about who you are and what you're going to implement if you want to get elected. That's why execrable bi-pedal sub-moron coprolites like John Kasich are given a prime slot to convince stupid rubes in the Nebraska cornfields that Biden is as American as borscht and pisankis! Cross his heart and hope to lie! Then again, the American people fully understand who this rat-fucking cocksucker is along with other scum like Colon Bowel, Susan Molinari and Christine Whitman. And Bob Dole. Bob-fucking-Dole. Really, Bob? You got cut in half by a Nazi machine gun in Italy only to wind up throwing your support to dictionary-definition traitors who want to hand over whatever's left of the country to a movement that's a kissing cousin to Hitler? I want to believe that at his age, he's actually not aware of what he's doing and is just being wheeled around by his disgusting wife Elizabeth who's putting the words in his mouth. Tragic and pathetic in the extreme. Just like a certain Democrat presidential nominee.
Well, I suppose there's a reason why we have all of this sturm und drang in both established political parties: President Donald J. Trump.
After Obama was elected, it was either Axelrod or Skeletor Carville who crowed on election night that the GOP would become a regional party for the next 40 years, and the inane Jon Meacham in Newsweek Magazine, which today is neither news nor a magazine, proclaimed "We Are All Socialists Now." In the wake of that eight-year nightmare, the American people begged to differ. The thing of it is, something was wrong with the way our government functioned and indeed the trajectory of our society since way before 2008. Trump stating that he was going to "drain the swamp" was a shot across the bow at those perpetrating the theft of America if not as significant as the "shot heard 'round the world" in 1775. We know it, and the enemy knows it.
So, in a very small way, I have a grudging respect for Toothy McBigTits and her ilk because at least they're honest about who and what they are and what they want, despite the bullshit about "justice" and "equality" and all that rot. They have no patience for playing games, so they lay it out for everyone to see, much to the horror of long time Democrat establishmentarians, and unbeknownst to them the majority of the American people. Part of the blame lies with the establishmentarians themselves. They have ginned up such insane levels of hatred against Trump, that whatever he is in favor of or does, they are knee-jerk reflexively against. Witness, the pardoning of Susan B. Anthony, or the use of hydroxychloroquine.
More crucially, Trump's unabashed love of America, its history, culture and institutions. Aided and abetted by at least two generations of the brainwashing of American youth in the schools, the Democrat Party today is now forced into supporting both Black Lives Matter and Antifa which are avowed, openly anti-American violent terrorist groups acting to overthrow the nation. An army of Kasich's draped in Betsy Ross flags (which are unacceptable symbols of racism, FYI [sarc]) is not going to fool anyone. The Democrats have sown the wind and are going to reap a whirlwind. They better.
ABOVE THE FOLD, NOTEWORTHY
"How an Ivy League school and its donors are funding Uncle Joe's deep state swamp-in-waiting." Benchwarmers for Biden
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST REIGN OF TERROR, WAR ON POLICE
"Factual evidence, peaceful streets, and open discourse are the hallmarks of democratic governance. Because BLM flouts all of these values, it deserves our condemnation." Against "Black Lives Matter"
"BLM exploits a society that equates symbolism with substance." Marketing Revolution
CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED
"On Monday, Sanders urged his movement to back Biden in November. On Tuesday, we learned why he felt it was necessary to be so emphatic. The reason is voters like Ocasio-Cortez." Joe Biden's AOC Problem
Michael Goodwin: "Watching the long slog of the second night of the Democrat's convention, a famous Winston Churchill line came to mind: 'Take this pudding away -- it has no theme!'" Theyr'e Against Trump -- But What Are Dems For?
"Tuesday afternoon, the USPS Postmaster General Louis DeJoy released a statement saying he'll postpone any substantial operational changes until after the election." Democrats Solve Nonexistent USPS Crisis
"After months of riots assaulting the Founders, America-was-never-great speeches, and national anthem protests, the convention went another direction, kicking off with the Constitution, then the Pledge of Allegiance." Day 1 of the Digital DNC: A Night of GOP, Moderate Outreach Falls Flat
"Trump's comments came after former Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie laid into Kasich in a Monday night appearance on ABC News shortly after Kasich's speech to Democrats. Christie lambasted the Republican as a 'backstabber and untruthful guy.'" (says the fat blivit who tongue kissed Obama - jjs) "Desperate For Relevance": Trump Rips Kasich For DNC Appearance
"[Angel-of-Death] Cuomo's speech at the DNC reflected a consistent effort to project his own failures of leadership onto President Trump." Governor Distortion
Talk about gargantuan projection: "That really sets the stage for a lot of chaos and could set the stage for civil unrest and violence, and it's just shameful that he would be that desperate that he would resort to tactics like this." Rep. Karen Bass: Trump Is Trying to Stay in Power So He Can Stay Out of Jail
Raymond Ibrahim: "As someone who has been daily following and documenting the phenomenon of Muslim persecution of Christians for over a decade, I can say that Trump's description of and apparent abhorrence for the plight of Christians in the Middle East is very accurate." Trump: Christians Treated "Horribly, Beyond Disgracefully" in Middle East
Robert Spencer: "Last Tuesday, a New York-based convert to Islam with the emphatically Christian name of Jesus Encarnacion got 15 years in prison for attempting to aid a jihad terror group." The Jihad Terrorist in New York City You Heard Nothing About
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE
"Why the structure of local elections matters for urban jobs and housing." Ending Member Privilege
"The sheer gigantism of the state makes it impossible for people to know what the relevant laws are, for most spheres of human action; and it is a short step from not knowing the law, to seeing that nobody else knows it, to shrugging and not caring what it is." Is America Even a Nation of Laws?
"As our nation moves to responsibly reopen amidst the [Chinese] COVID-19 pandemic, we are increasingly relying on America's broadband networks to navigate this effort." Small Businesses Need Universal Broadband
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"New York Police have placed the blame on [DeBolshevik] for the uptick in violence in the city, citing his move to slash $1billion from the NYPD's budget, a new law that lets some defendants go free without posting bond and the release of thousands of prisoners and sex offenders from Rikers Island due to [Chinese] coronavirus concerns." Over 50 Shot, 7 Fatally, Since Thursday in New York City
HEALTH AND HEALTHCARE
"The plan on which Biden may stake his legacy appears designed to please none -- a telling predictor of how the candidate who has run as a dealmaker could struggle to govern." Biden, If Elected, Plans to Put Obamacare on Steroids
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. Wayne Dyer
Quote II
“It’s about the issues here in this town,” he said. “It’s about taking our town back. It’s about not having radicals in power. It’s about centering the shift.” Unite Norman co-founder Russell Smith
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That means that the Greenland ice sheet - the world's second-largest ice body - would continue to lose ice even if global temperatures stop rising.
In their study, published Thursday in the journal Nature, the scientists reviewed 40 years of monthly satellite data from more than 200 large glaciers that are draining into the ocean across Greenland.
"What we've found is that the ice that's discharging into the ocean is far surpassing the snow that's accumulating on the surface of the ice sheet," Michalea King, the study's lead author and researcher at Ohio State University's Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, said in a press release.
Complete melting of the Greenland ice sheet could raise sea levels 23 feet (~7 metres) by the year 3000.
If that happens, the ocean would swallow coastal cities across the globe.
Unless your brain is performing Olympic-caliber mental gymnastics, wearing a mask during the pandemic is obviously a good thing and the easiest way to help minimize the spread of the coronavirus. Some have resisted, however, which inspired Allen Pan to invent a gun that quickly shoots a mask on to the face of those not taking this whole thing seriously.
It hasn’t exactly been easy convincing the American people to mask up, so Pan decided to take an approach that leverages one of the things most Americans love above all else: guns. Using parts of a car’s brake line, a pistol grip from a spray paint can, some custom electronics, and a solenoid valve for controlling the flow from a pressurized CO2 canister, Pan created a handheld blaster that looks like something straight out a Mad Max film—but hopefully this weapon will help stop the apocalypse.
North Korean dictator Kim Kong-un has ordered citizens to hand over their pet dogs — so they can be killed for food.
The hermit state says pet dogs are now considered a “decadent” luxury and “a ‘tainted’ trend by bourgeois ideology,” and must be surrendered, according to a report by South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo media outlet.
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The ONT Musical Interlude
Born on this day: 18 Aug 1953
Marvin Isley from American group The Isley Brothers who first came to prominence in 1959 with their fourth single, 'Shout', and then the 1962 hit 'Twist and Shout. The Isley Brothers also scored the hits 'This Old Heart Of Mine', 'Summer Breeze' and 'Harvest for the World'. Sixteen of their albums charted in the Top 40. Marvin Isley died from complications of diabetes on June 6, 2010. via thisdayinmusic.com
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On this day: 18 Aug 1969
Mick Jagger was accidentally shot in the hand during filming of Ned Kelly in Australia. The film was dogged by problems: Jagger's girlfriend of the time, Marianne Faithfull, had gone to Australia to play the lead female role (Ned's sister, Maggie), but the Jagger-Faithfull relationship was breaking up, and she took an overdose of sleeping tablets soon after arrival in Sydney resulting in being hospitalised in a coma, and pulling out of the film. via thisdayinmusic.com
One day in late May, Hiba Momtaz Al-Azhari showed up outside the Temple Terrace Police Department and told a receptionist she wanted to make a report about something that had happened a few days before.
A surveillance camera captured video of an officer coming out to talk with her. They spoke briefly before Al-Azhari reached in a purse and pulled out a large chef’s knife. She swung it at the officer, then charged as he backed away.
The officer several times told her to drop the knife. He and another nearby officer fired four gunshots. Al-Azhari was shot and later died at a hospital.
The Hillsborough State Attorney’s Office recounted those details in a statement released Tuesday, which announced that the officers’ actions were ruled justified.
“This went from a calm conversation to a life-threatening attack in just a split second,” Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren said in the statement. “The officer said he even felt the knife slide across his vest. It reinforces everything we know about how dangerous law enforcement work can be, and we applaud the officer for trying to back away until he had no choice but to use deadly force to stop this attack.”
Warren’s office concluded that Al-Azhari, 21, was distraught after FBI agents arrested her brother, Muhammed Al-Azhari, on terrorism charges a few days before the May 29 shooting. They believe she planned the attack for revenge.
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Confused Joe Biden promises that, if elected, he will give every American "two tickets to the Gun Show" Not really, I'm just being silly. Although I do think that in his demented brain he really is traveling through time, like Scott Bakula, only with a thing for touching children and raping women.
Why is "WAP" by that admitted whore and thief getting such Yas Slay Kween Slut praise, while the similarly-themed "I Want Pie" by Pretty Raheem and Slick Mahoney gets ignored? I mean, "WAP" is nothing but brutish, low-IQ bluntness, while "I Want Pie" deals in sophisticated artistry and subtle metaphor. Also, "I Want Pie" is actually a song with a melody and a hook (and, kidding aside, it's a sick hook) and isn't just a former whore advertising her services to a beat. BTW, when I call Cardi B a "whore" I don't mean she slept around. I mean, I'm sure she did that, but I mean she admits -- or brags -- that when she was a stripper, she would take guys up to a room -- surely with the promise of sex -- and then drug them and rob them. And if she's saying she robbed guys, I'm sure she took money for actual services rendered, too.
Bring this one home to mom, boys!
But whatever, she's a role model to the child-girls who buy her crap because she's "empowering herself" by talking about her soupy swamp-ass and bilgey front-butt. And you're welcome, in advance, for those pungent images.
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click The return of the 60s British Invasion group The Kinks to the top of the charts. No, not Come Dancing. I don't like that one. Their other mid-eighties hit.
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