Saturday, August 22, 2020

In Spite Of The DNC’s Play-Acting, The Democratic Party Isn’t ‘Moderate’


Democrats may succeed in using the DNC to push a moderate message, but even with a complicit press, it will be difficult to hide the truth much longer.


For four days, those tuned into the Democratic National Committee’s virtual convention witnessed a party attempting desperately to masquerade behind a veil of moderation. Standing beneath a figurative banner of “unity,” the DNC paraded across the screen its foremost legacy politicians: former Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter, as well as presidential wannabes John Kerry and Hillary Clinton.

The party presented these and their modern equivalents — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Sens. Tammy Baldwin and Amy Klobuchar, and former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg — in tempered tones designed to appeal to mainstream America. With impassioned but subdued tones, former first lady Michelle Obama and former Second Lady Dr. Jill Biden added their pleas to the country to elect Joe Biden.

Democrats hid behind more than their words: They showcased speeches by former Republican governors John Kasich and Christine Whitman, former Republican New York Rep. Susan Molinari, and former Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman, casting these endorsements by left-of-center Republicans as proof of the Democratic Party’s moderation. Colin Powell was also featured, although as after endorsing Democratic presidential candidates for the last several elections, he shouldn’t really be counted as a Republican anymore.

While the DNC showered attention on the Republican crossovers, the party only granted self-described socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 60 seconds to share her thoughts, prompting a not-so-subtle rejoinder on Twitter by the young leftist.

As my colleague Melissa Braunstein noted, also on Twitter:

On this very rare occasion, I agree with AOC. She and the Squad should have more speaking time at the Dem convention. They represent a rising force within their party, where the real energy is. Voters should know and understand that. Biden can feature as many moderate Republicans as he likes this week, but those people won’t have any say over what a Biden administration looks like, personnel, or policy-wise.
If Indy or alienated GOP (who don’t obsessively follow politics) want to understand what government would look like if Dems sweep the White House and both houses of Congress, AOC, the force behind the Green New Deal, is a better clue. AOC + friends have helped shift the Overton Window leftward. Forget the Clinton era. The Biden era Dems would be to the left of Obama.

The DNC knows this reality. It’s why Ocasio-Cortez received crumbs, while Kasich received opening night accolades. It’s why the antisemitic Bernie Sanders surrogate Linda Sarsour was sidelined, while Russiagate star Sally Yates was showcased.
The left-leaning media also knows the modern Democratic Party doesn’t play in Peoria, and that for their preferred candidate to win the neighboring states of Wisconsin, Indiana, and Michigan that went for Trump in 2016, the Biden-Harris ticket must be perceived as reasonable and centrist.

That is why, shortly after Biden announced Kamala Harris as his running mate, the New York Times ran a glowing piece about the California Senator, calling her a “pragmatic moderate.” Harris, of course, is nothing of the sort, having been “rated the 4th most liberal Senator by the non-partisan GovTrack.us website, based on her support for left-wing legislation.”

It isn’t merely Harris’s voting record that unmasks the leftist ticket’s ideological extremism, it is also the Democratic platform on which Biden and Harris are running. Mara Gay, a member of The New York Times editorial board, made that point during an MSNBC segment, telling host Nicolle Wallace, “You know, I think what’s funny is that actually, Biden’s platform is far more liberal than Barack Obama’s was years ago.”

“And so, when we looked at that as an editorial board,” Gay continued, “we were kind of blown away at how much more similar it is to Bernie Sanders’s platform in some ways than Barack Obama in 2008.”

You wouldn’t know it, however, from the week-long performances at the DNC. While the speakers all roundly condemned Donald Trump, including some, such as failed presidential contender Hillary Clinton, with an unhidden vitriol, the policies championed during the convention sounded moderate.

Americans need to realize, however, that for all the play-acting of the past week, the Biden-Harris ticket, both in policy and in person, represents an extreme leftist lurch for the country. That fact does not even account for the reality that Joe Biden would be to the executive what Robert Mueller was to the special counsel’s office: a shell figurehead, controlled by partisan underlings.

Democrats may have succeeded in using the convention to push their message of moderation, but it will be more difficult to hide their true ideology from the masses for much longer — even with a complicit press.

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The convention shows Democrats have ceded the working class to the GOP





While President Trump’s base is already fired up to vote in November, Democrats spent this week’s Democratic National Convention just trying to get a fire started.
Much of the Biden convention was an exercise in base mobilization. There’s a reason for that. A Post-ABC News poll just before the convention showed that while 65 percent of Trump supporters say they are “very enthusiastic” about supporting the president, only 48 percent of Biden supporters say the same about the former vice president.


Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has an enthusiasm problem with two key constituencies he needs to win: younger voters and African Americans. Only 25 percent of voters aged 18-39 are “very enthusiastic” about voting for him. And CNN reports that Biden’s support among Black voters is smaller than Clinton’s was in 2016. Worse, only 68 percent of African Americans aged 18 to 29 say they intend to vote for Biden — 17 points fewer than supported Clinton four years ago.

If you think Democrats are confident these voters will turn out, count how many times they urged viewers to “make a plan” to vote. An energized base doesn’t need that kind of encouragement.
Those efforts at base mobilization came at a cost. There was virtually no effort to win back the working-class voters who voted twice for Barack Obama but defected to Trump in 2016. The reason Trump is president today is because about one-third of the nearly 700 counties that twice voted for Obama went for Trump in 2016. According to Nate Cohn of the New York Times, Trump won because he “flipped millions of white working-class Obama supporters to his side.” If you were a working-class Obama-Trump voter watching this week’s convention, you heard a lot about gun violence, racial justice and climate change, but not much directed at you. The message you heard was: Democrats are not interested in your support.
That showed in Biden’s acceptance speech. It was in many ways an impassioned and effective address. But not a word about the opioid epidemic and deaths of despair that are destroying families. Not a word about the outsourcing of jobs that has decimated their communities. Not a word about confronting China, the country that unleashed covid-19 on our country and has decimated many economic sectors with unfair trade practices. Biden blamed Trump for the job losses from the pandemic. But these voters remember that before the pandemic hit, America had recovered a half-million manufacturing jobs under Trump after losing almost 200,000 factory jobs in the Obama-Biden years.

Trump understands this, which is partly why just hours before Biden’s address, he held a rally in the former vice president’s birthplace, Scranton, Pa. “Joe Biden is no friend of Pennsylvania,” Trump said. “He’s actually … your worst nightmare. Biden supported every single globalist attack on Pennsylvania workers, NAFTA, China’s entry into the World Trade Organization, which built China into a power, [the Trans-Pacific Partnership], Korea, the horrible, ridiculous Paris climate accord, which stripped our nation of its energy, and the so-called Clean Power Plan.”
Trump is behind in most battleground states polls, but the race in pivotal Pennsylvania may be tightening. In July, Biden had an 11-point lead in the Fox News poll; a new poll this week shows Trump within the margin of error.
Trump now has the opportunity to do what Biden did not: use his convention next week to reach beyond his base and make a pitch to the 10 to 15 percent of voters who have said they approve of his economic policies but don’t approve of him. It is in their economic self-interest to give him a second term.
Trump needs to give them permission to vote in their self-interest. To do that, he needs to acknowledge his flaws, and the fact that his brash New York approach sometimes rubs people the wrong way. His message should be: Despite my imperfections, I’m fighting for you. With that approach, he can keep his base energized and expand it at the same time. His convention is the place to start.

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The postmaster general just robbed Democrats of their dumb Postal Service mystery


Congressional Republicans can always be counted on to screw something up — they're easily intimidated by what the national media will say about them — but credit to the GOP-led Senate Homeland Security Committee for finally bringing in Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to suck the air out of the Democrats' hysterical obsession with the United States Postal Service.

DeJoy has become a Scooby-Doo villain in the minds of Democrats who insist he's doing President Trump's bidding to (wait for it) slow down the mail!

To the Mystery Machine!

Except there is no mask to pull off. Republicans called DeJoy forward because he's not doing anything interesting, let alone nefarious. He's nothing that would be even kind of fun to hear about.

No, like everything else with the Postal Service, the changes he's making (or at least trying to make) are absolutely sexless. DeJoy is coping with long-existing problems with the service, such as outdated systems, obsolete equipment, and, most pressing, a bleeding budget.


None of these problems are new. They've been affecting the Postal Service for years, intensified by the internet.

Democrats casually tell people who lose their jobs in coal mining and manufacturing to "learn to code" and "locate your nearest job retraining facility." But they pretend that not a single change can be made to an agency that has failed in every way to keep up with technological changes.

DeJoy did say that he had removed scores of unneeded sorting machines due to a significant drop in letter mail over the years and that there has been a slowdown in recent weeks for delivering packages.

Hmm, what might have happened in recent weeks to cause a slowdown in mail deliveries? I know that there's a pandemic that stopped the clock on every industry in the world, but surely, that can't be a reasonable explanation. It has to be DeJoy! And he would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling Democrats!

Democrats tried to find a reason to get angry, but DeJoy said it plainly that the Postal Service is perfectly suited to deliver mail-in votes on time, though he encouraged everyone to send theirs in sooner rather than later. It remains true that so long as a vote is postmarked by the required deadline, it will be counted no matter how long it takes to arrive.

Any claims from Democrats that Trump or Republicans are refusing to fund the Postal Service are laughable. Democratic leadership has for weeks refused to negotiate a standalone bill to put new money into the agency, opting instead to attach it to a completely unrelated pandemic relief package. That's on them.

Pull the mask over this Postal Service conspiracy away, and there's simply nothing there. So much for the great reveal Democrats were looking for.

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Fredie Blom: 'World's oldest man' dies aged 116 in South Africa

A South African who was thought to be the oldest man in the world has died at the age of 116.
Fredie Blom's identity documents showed he was born in Eastern Cape province in May 1904, although that was never verified by Guinness World Records.
When he was teenager, his entire family was wiped out by the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. He went on to survive two world wars and apartheid.
Mr Blom told the BBC in 2018 that there was no special secret to his longevity.
"There's only one thing - it's the man above [God]. He's got all the power. I have nothing. I can drop over any time but He holds me," he said.
Mr Blom spent most of his life as a labourer - first on a farm and then in the construction industry - and only retired when he was in his 80s.



Although he gave up drinking many years ago, he was a regular smoker.
However, a coronavirus-related lockdown imposed by the South African government reportedly meant he was unable to buy tobacco to roll his own cigarettes on his 116th birthday.
Mr Blom's family said he died of natural causes in Cape Town on Saturday.
"Two weeks ago oupa [grandfather] was still chopping wood," family spokesman Andre Naidoo told AFP news agency. "He was a strong man, full of pride."
But within days Mr Blom shrank "from a big man to a small person", he added.
Mr Naidoo said the family did not believe his death was related to Covid-19.








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The US National Debt Has Exceeded The Total Value Of The GDP


 

One trillion dollars in double stacked pallets of $100 bill

 One trillion dollars in double stacked pallets of $100 bills.

 Article by Jake Dima for The Daily Caller

The US National Debt Has Exceeded The Total Value Of The GDP

The U.S. national debt now exceeds the size of America’s total gross domestic product and the milestone may have been met as early as June, according to a Friday New York Times report.

America’s federal debt stands at around $26.6 trillion — an approximate $7 trillion increase since 2016, according to fiscal data from the Treasury Department. Total U.S. GDP was just over $19.4 trillion at the end of June, according to a July 30 release from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Financial pitfalls in the last few months can be blamed on the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Economic Policy Institute. COVID-19 is largely responsible for the GDP to deficit ratio, joblessness and reduction of income, EPI reported.

GDP decreased 3.4% in the first quarter of 2020 and is projected to fall another 3.4% in the second quarter, according to BEA.

The U.S. government under the direction of President Donald Trump spent roughly $2.4 trillion on the first stimulus package in April, which granted over 90 million Americans a check for $1,200, according to USA Today. The Federal Reserve contributed another $4 trillion in efforts to combat the economic effects of the virus, the Washington Post reported.

The rising government spending doesn’t seem to concern some experts and the public.

“At this stage, I think, nobody is very worried about debt,” a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics Olivier Blanchard told the New York Times. “It’s clear that we can probably go where we are going, which is debt ratios above 100 percent in many countries. And that’s not the end of the world.”

Around 47% of adults think the rising deficit is highly problematic, which is a substantial reduction from 55% who were wary of the spending in 2018, according to Pew Research Center. Approximately 58% of Americans call the pandemic a “very big problem,” Pew reported.

Some experts, despite the rising debt, insist the U.S. government has enough “room” for yet another stimulus package, according to the Times. 

“What’s very clear is that the U.S. economy has some room,” global chief investment officer of fixed income at BlackRock, an investment firm, Rick Rieder said. “I would argue that we still have room now for another fiscal package.”

 

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The Pit of Misery! Dilly Dilly!



We’re all in the Pit of Misery now. I know this because I watched the DNC the last two nights, and I heard all about it. America is a smoking ruin. No one has a job. In fact no one will ever have a job again unless we get rid of that awful Trump. Those few Americans who have not yet died from the virus have no health care. Poor immigrant mothers who were separated from their families by being deported during the Clinton Administration, and then deported again under Obama after they snuck back in, have been deported yet again by Trump. He is so cruel. He doesn’t care.

Our crops are destroyed, the fields barren. The climate is so disrupted that cyclonic windstorms cross the Atlantic, bringing thunder and rain to Florida and Mississippi at the height of Summer. Even our Post Office, once the envy of the world, delivers only half as much mail now as it did when Bill Clinton was President.

I call this “the Clinton campaign.” Remember her? Same act: a laundry list of things that aren’t the way humans wish they were. We voters were supposed to connect the dots and realize that if we voted for Hillary, the clouds would vanish, the birds would sing, and everyone would be a millionaire. For some reason not enough people believed that, and she didn’t win.

Now here they come, trying it again. You’re supposed to be afraid of this. Be afraid of that. Disease will get you. The Sun will burn you up. The wolf is coming, you can hear him breathing. The only thing that can save you is new politicians, our politicians. Elect this guy, and the virus will be gone. Jobs glorious jobs will droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. I guess people used to fall for stuff like this, but I don’t think enough of them do anymore that you can win an election with it. If that stuff worked, Hillary would have been running against Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio. Didn’t the

Democrats learn anything from the 2016 election?
Joe Biden tells us that he will not only get rid of the virus and send the children back to school, he and Barack gifted the incoming Trump Administration with a plan to do just that. I checked, and the Washington Postdid give him an award for this:

Biden leaves the impression he had offered more specific plans to combat the virus. He did not say back in January that it was a pandemic, only that it was a possibility. Moreover, he did not specifically call for social-distancing measures as early as March 1 or even March 8, though he implies that he did. Biden earns Two Pinocchios.

Everyone who watched the Democratic convention has commented that it was almost totally devoid of policy proposals or suggested measures to tackle any issue. It was an unmoored word salad of trials and tribulations… quite literally a Pit of Misery. And when it wasn’t your misery… or his… or hers… it was Joe’s. Joe has suffered much. Oh, has Joe suffered. They even showed us a slickly-made video of Joe suffering. Hey, I get the ‘tragic loss’ thing. I lost my mother to cancer when I was 15. But I’ve never thought that qualified me for high office. Joe is a victim, to be sure, and I guess that’s important in the Democratic Party. But I don’t think it’s important in the White House.

The few ideas that were offered to assuage our misery have either already been done by Trump, or are — like Biden himself — almost eighty years old. Every election, including this one, the Democrats trot out FDR’s New Deal construction programs as the pinnacle of job creation. I’ve seen pictures of those programs at work. Here are a thousand guys with wheelbarrows hauling dirt. What might have been a jobs program for a nation of manual laborers in 1939 is today done by one guy with a dump truck and another guy driving a front loader. And a good thing, too, because during Joe’s lifetime this has become a nation of paper pushers knowledge workers who would die before digging a ditch. Yet here comes Biden in 2020, selling government-funded construction projects as the cure for what ails us.

Biden will also put an end to the virus by “deploying millions of instant tests on Day One.” Psst: there are already millions of instant tests out there. Most doctors don’t think much of them. Of course they don’t. No one on this Earth had ever seen this virus before late last year. The people who design these tests and figure out how to make them in volume are scientists and engineers, not magicians. Maybe a year from now the instant tests will be as accurate as the 45-minute tests. But not now.

The Democrats even had the nerve to send a Tammy to the podium to tell us her tale of woe from being a child with a pre-existing condition. As full of misery as that is, you’d think the Democrats would crow about having addressed that issue ten years ago. In theory, they should be proud of it. Instead they’d rather soak you in another bucket of misery. The whole time she talked, I was hearing the voice of Higgins. “There we were, surrounded on all sides by greedy insurance companies. And I had a pre-existing condition. We were doomed.”

Is this form of campaigning effective? Can you win an election in the 21st Century by telling people that the nation is miserable? And if you personally are not miserable, it’s only because you don’t understand how bad everything is? I don’t think that approach works anymore. Hillary tried exactly that… and it flopped. She had a 93% chance of winning the election, and she lost.

Can the Democrats even change this style? It has become part of who they are. They were all doing it, all through the convention. They are all about misery, and victimhood, and fearsome threats behind every tree. Who wants to live in a place like that? Nobody volunteers for the Pit of Misery.

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‘We, the People’ Have a Duty to Stop the Violence



 Article by Shmuel Katzkin in The American Spectator

 ‘We, the People’ Have a Duty to Stop the Violence

The first words of our Constitution state the first principle of our state — the people are the sovereigns. The source of our government’s power is the people themselves.

People create governments; governments do not create people.

We are not a state called into being by a king or a prophet. Those who will exercise rule do so in our name. We are the sovereigns, and only by our consent do our rulers rule.

The power given us in our unalienable rights is a power to take up responsibility. Rights and responsibilities are two sides of the same coin.

It is not by our conformance to some ruling philosophy or creed that we the people are sovereign. No divine law or prophesy compelled the Framers to write the Constitution as they did or us the people to ratify it. If a religion, whether traditional or untraditional, compelled any individual, that has no bearing within the Constitution. While in our various ways, we believe that the Supreme Reality will have the last word, no one standing on such ultimate authority has constitutional power any different than any other citizen.

Before that Supreme Reality, we are all on equal ground.

For better or for worse, this is a nation for which we are responsible. Because our Constitution and our government results from our own choices, we have no excuse to slough off the responsibility for how it turns out.

Therefore, with no compulsion from without, we join together on the basis of equality and choose to yield certain of our powers to those we choose. Though elections give us the power to review and change our government, we truly entrust the exercise of some of our own sovereign power to those we together with our fellow citizens choose.

For better or for worse, we are connected to our fellow citizen-sovereigns. Whether that citizen is a fool or a genius, kind or insensitive, intelligent or boorish, that citizen has exactly the same status as every other – one vote, one share of the national sovereignty.

Therefore, to have a coherent country, we must communicate with our fellows, persuade them where the common good lies through our words and our actions and, most of all, our example.

To try to evade the need to communicate by requiring others to think, speak, and act only in a way they define is a stark betrayal of this most basic building block of our republic — we, the people.

To fight racial bias by being biased doesn’t work. To protest unthinking and illegal brutality and violence by using unthinking and illegal brutality and violence doesn’t work either.

To persuade people that they are incapable of accepting responsibility for their own communities, their own families, and their own lives betrays democracy and is bigotry and racism in fancy disguise.

“We, the people” includes every citizen. Slavery and Jim Crow show us that our ideals can be perverted and we must be always mindful, always sensitive to encroachment. We don’t need to conform to any favored philosophy or curry favor with any power to be equal under the law and the Constitution.

The power given us in our unalienable rights is a power to take up responsibility. Rights and responsibilities are two sides of the same coin.

It has become strangely popular to think that the job of the state is to relieve citizens of their responsibility. One should be responsible only to the state. The state in turn will fight your battles for you. It will make it so that you need not take any responsibility up at all — they will take complete care of your health, your safety, your money. They will take care of your responsibility to think. They will do all these things for you, they say, things that only they are competent to do. Accept your incompetence, release your responsibilities, and let everything be done for you.

We, the people, know that to release our responsibilities is to release our liberties. We, the people, know that everyone in the state is no more and no less than just another one of the people, and that any power they have beyond that has been given by us. We are competent as the people to remove such people from special power. We must do so whenever they use their power to decrease ours. We must do so whenever they preach the incompetence of the people.

Incompetent people make incompetent government.

Powerless people make a government powerless to do anything of worth.

As conservatives, we know we have been given the power to be competent, involved, and responsible citizens. We know that we have been given all we need to have a republic if only we choose to keep it. We know that our prime responsibility as citizens is to help each other citizen realize their own competence and power. We know that our responsibility is not primarily towards the abstraction of a government but towards each and every individual, for in their prosperity and success, all will succeed.

We give our political loyalty to those who understand that it is the people who rule. Our program is not to increase the power of government over people, but to increase the power of the people themselves.

We already have the power in our hands to throw out governments that have not cared enough about the people to act effectively against violence. We already know enough not to accept as normal this unending violence. We will say the names of those whose lives were ended and whose dreams were destroyed by those who accept no responsibility for their actions. And we will use our power to remove governments that accept no responsibility for delivering positive results, who demand loyalty on the basis of identity alone, and who never deliver even the most elementary responsibility of those who are empowered only to serve the public — protecting the lives and property of the citizens.

Public servants who are loyal to the government at the people’s expense have proven their incompetence and disloyalty. It is our sacred duty to remove power from their hands by the means we the people have put at our own disposal.

November approaches, and duty calls.

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Do You Have What It Takes to be Woke?


There are some very strict rules you must follow.




Are you racist? Are you sure? White progressives say you are. If you’ve never had a racist thought in your life or maybe you are 4-years-old and don’t know what that word means. But you happen to be white, so you’d better check yourself. The only acceptable white person is one who is calling out the racism of the entire white race, even the racism in themselves and routinely apologizing for the way God made them. If you are not calling it out, you are part of the problem. 

 Want to be a woke progressive leftist? There are some very strict rules you must follow. Here are some of them.

 You must be a feminist, but you must also believe in the right of biological men who think they are women to compete against biological women andshower with them. You must believe men can get pregnant. You must believe in abortion up until moments after birth, but you must also be for black lives (unless they are babies). You must #believeallwomen unless the woman isaccusing a Democrat.

 You must be appalled at a private conversation between two men, one a famous billionaire, talking about women throwing themselves at him, yet you must approve of a former president having an affair in the Oval Office with a young intern because he kept abortion legal.

 You must ignore your presidential candidate’s obvious mental decline but insist the current president is “stupid, crazy, and dangerous.” You must talk down the best economy in our nation in decades, and you must cheer a Coronavirus that has brought our economy to its knees.

 You must believe wholeheartedly, unquestioningly, in global warming . . . er . . . climate change, since you must use arctic ice as a talking point, but that ice has actually been growing steadily. You must refer to the diminishing polar bear population in one area of the great white north, but you must also ignore that polar bears have increased in population overall.

 You must ignore the hundreds of thousands of birds killed every year by the enormous, problematic windmills, and you must also pretend electric cars don’t use petroleum and produce a serious toxic waste problem.

 You must side with governors who dictate mask mandates and not question their authority to do so, even when they keep you on mandatory lockdown without explanation for months. 

 You must buy that the sitting president is an irredeemable bigot, but you must close your ears when you hear his opponent say, “you ain’t black” if you don’t vote for him. You must ignore violent ongoing riots that are destroying black businesses and refer to them as “peaceful protests” even while fires are raging behind you.

 You must believe gun control would disarm criminals, and you must also insist on defunding the police. Make sure that you make fun of the Missouri couple who used their Second Amendment rights to protect their lives and their home when protestors broke down a gate and unlawfully entered their neighborhood for extra leftist points.

 You are required to hate police and demand they be defunded. You must loot and riot when protesting the George Floyd death because reparations tie into this somehow, but make sure to ignore black-on-black crime, which has skyrocketed this year.

 You must ignore anti-semitic remarks from members of “the squad,” and you must embrace the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement against Israel.

 You must look down upon America’s elegant First Lady, who is native to Slovenia and earned U.S. citizenship in 2006, speaks five languages fluently, and gets ignored by all the top magazines, and you must adore Michelle Obama for her crappy lunch program and buy all the dozens of magazines which featured her prominently for eight years and continue to sing her praises.

 You must trash the Electoral College and pretend that New York City and Los Angeles voters know what is best for Yukon, Oklahoma, or Massillon, Ohio.

 You are required to ignore President Trump’s First Step Act for prison reform, as well as the fact that Biden actually wrote the much-maligned 1994 crime bill.

 You must ignore the fact that major cities with the most crime and the most hardship for minorities have been run by Democrats for decades and in some cases a century.

 You must not read about or give any kudos to President Trump’s accomplishments in office, including establishing the Space Force, signing a federal animal cruelty bill, giving Flint, Michigan $100 million to fix their water issues, issuing executive orders to permit buying drugs from Canada to make drug prices go down, ensuring that veterans have adequate mental health care when transitioning to civilian life, increasing funding for historically black colleges, spearheading a pre-pandemic historic employment rate, providing grants to organizers supporting human trafficking victims, withdrawing the U.S. from the job-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership, designating opportunity zones in distressed communities, stopping hospitals from overcharging medicare patients, and signing Right to Try—just to name a few of the 125 listed accomplishments of the Trump Administration in less than four years.

 Above all, you must vote for the party of hypocrisy and continue to ignore their many faults.

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Will Catholic Bishops Call Out Biden or Remain Silent?



 Article by Patrick Buchanan in Newsmax

Will Catholic Bishops Call Out Biden or Remain Silent?

As a cradle Catholic and recipient of Notre Dame's Laetare Medal, Joe Biden is outspoken in declaring that the principles and beliefs of his Catholic faith guide his public life.

"Joe is a man of faith," was a recurring theme at the Democratic convention that nominated him to become our second Catholic president.

Biden has often affirmed the centrality of his faith to his decisions in public life.

In a video released on the eve of the convention, he credited Pope Francis and the nuns who educated him with making him the man he is today.

Yet, when the Supreme Court ruled in July that the Little Sisters of the Poor could not be forced, by an Obamacare mandate, to provide contraceptives to employees, Biden called the decision "disappointing."

For Joe has evolved over a half-century. He is now an all-in Roe v. Wade Catholic who supports a woman's right to abortion and believes the tax dollars of his fellow Catholics should pay for the abortions of women who cannot afford them.

This year, he changed his position and came out against the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits the use of tax dollars to pay for abortions.

What triggered Joe's renunciation of his past support for the Hyde Amendment?

Primary opponents Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris had battered him for it and Bernie Sanders had given Biden some tutoring in the new moral law of the Democratic Party.
Said the Vermont socialist, "There is no middle ground on women's rights.

With that cuffing, Biden scurried off the middle ground and was all in.

"Circumstances have changed," is how Biden explained his flip-flop.

Biden's moral journey from right-to-life to pro-abortion Democrat has not gone unnoticed within the Church. A dozen years ago, when Biden was still a senator, a bishop in

Scranton, with Joe in mind, declared:
"I will not tolerate any politician who claims to be a faithful Catholic who is not genuinely pro-life. ... No Catholic politician who supports the culture of death should approach Holy Communion."

During the South Carolina primary, Fr. Robert Morey of Florence denied Biden communion on the grounds he had excommunicated himself by taking the stand he has taken on the killing of the unborn.

"Holy Communion signifies we are one with God, each other, and the Church," said Morey. "Any public figure who advocates for abortion places himself or herself out of Church teaching."
Biden also supports the restoration of federal funds for Planned Parenthood, a provider of abortions. Nor is life the only issue on which Biden has taken his leave of the teachings of the Church in which he was raised.

In 1994, Biden voted to cut off federal funds to schools that teach an acceptance of homosexuality.

In 1996, he voted for the Defense of Marriage Act.

Once he had become vice president in 2012, however, Biden even got out ahead of Barack Obama in urging that homosexual unions be granted the legal and social standing of traditional marriage.

Had moral truth changed?

Did Catholic teaching change?

No, Biden changed. The Catechism of the Catholic Church still declares "homosexual acts" to be "intrinsically immoral and contrary to the natural law" and describes "homosexual tendencies" as "objectively disordered."

Biden once believed this, or said he did for most of his life, for that is the way he campaigned in Delaware and voted in D.C.

What has changed is the Democratic Party Biden now heads. The precepts of LGBT now dictate "moral truth" in the party and platform of Joe Biden who now calls transgender rights "the civil rights issue of our time."

As Biden has turned his back on the teachings of the Church in which he was raised, the Church itself is coming under physical attack by the same radicals besetting civil society.

In Miami, a statue of Christ the Good Shepherd was lately beheaded.

A statue of the Blessed Virgin inside a Boston church was set on fire, and another was desecrated in Tennessee. In Denver, the same headless fate befell a statue of St. Jude.

Statues of Fr. Junipero Serra, the priest who founded 17 missions from San Diego north to San Francisco, when California was under Spanish rule, have been under constant attack.

In St. Louis, a mounted statue in the city's Forest Park of the 13th century Saint and King Louis IX, the French monarch for whom the city was named, who led the Sixth and Seventh Crusades, is under siege.

Radicals are even demanding that the city's name be changed.

On right-to-life, the declared position of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is clear: "Taxpayer dollars should never fund abortion."

This unequivocal moral stance is being publicly repudiated and will be rejected, should he win the presidency on Nov. 3, by the professed believing and practicing Catholic, Joe Biden.

What, if anything, are the U.S. Catholic bishops going to say about this grave moral issue in the fall election? Or will they remain silent?

 

https://www.newsmax.com/patrickbuchanan/catechism-roe-wade-warren/2020/08/21/id/983211/ 

 


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Postmaster General testifies — TDS moves on to next conspiracy theory


Postmaster General Testifies, Blows Apart the Dem Conspiracy Theory About the USPS


For the past couple of weeks, Democrats have been spreading a ridiculous conspiracy theory that President Donald Trump is trying to defund the USPS in order to steal the election by interfere in the election. They’ve spread stories about disappearing or locked mailboxes and mail sorters as “proof” of their theory. 

But Trump hasn’t done anything to defund the USPS and they have sufficient funding through 2021, far past the election. 

On Friday, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy blew apart the conspiracy theory during his testimony before the Senate. It’s disgusting that he should even have to do that because of Democrats pushing the crazy.

There was the false claim that they were cutting overtime, therefore making the mails take longer. How that would somehow help only Trump is of course silly, but DeJoy shot that down anyway. 



There would be no changes until after the election so there isn’t even anything they can argue. 



As to removal of some mail boxes, it’s a normal process that has been ongoing for decades long before both him and Trump and based on operational usage. But because of the crazy, they’re going to suspend the routine until after the election. 



In a real blow to the conspiracy trying to connect Trump, De Joy testified under oath he had never had any conversation with Trump beyond Trump congratulating him on his appointment. 

De Joy came across as honest and while he was polite, it was clear he just thought all of this was so silly. 

Democrats came off looking bad. Sen. Ron Johnson called out the Democrats for their games during the hearing. 



What’s incredible here is that it’s the Democrats who are actually harassing the USPS with all this and trying to influence the election. Because of the conspiracy, demonstrators have gone to the home of Louis De Joy, protesting against him, suggesting that he had somehow broken the law. These same people have been undermining confidence in the mail service and one even chained himself to a post office box to “save the USPS” (thus likely preventing people from using the box).

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After the USPS Hoax Face Plants, Media Move to a New Conspiracy Theory


The head of the USPS testified today and dismantled essentially every ridiculous conspiracy theory being pushed by the media and Democrats the last few weeks. No, Trump is not stealing mailboxes, nor is there any effort to “suppress” the mail in vote. Any changes that have occurred where part of long-standing planes that go back to the Obama administration. That didn’t stop everyone from CNN to Nancy Pelosi from putting on their tinfoil hats and making wild assertions.

Of course, because that their latest conspiratorial narrative has face planted, that means they need a new conspiracy theory to latch onto. Enter QAnon, which is apparently the most preminent threat in America now.



If you’ve paid attention to the media the last few days, this has been a constant drumbeat. They’ve been prodding Trump, Pence, and Republican Congressional members about it, trying to claim they support the movement. Of course, the same “reporters” never ask Democrats to denounce Antifa. That’s not to say QAnon isn’t stupid. It’s nonsense pushed by either trolls trying to get a rise out of people or those who are too dumb to realize how ridiculous they sound. But the idea that there’s some grave danger from the QAnon nuts compared to Antifa is backed up by no evidence what so ever. In fact, it’s countered by all the evidence we have.

In other words, if the media are going to fear monger about mobs causing havoc, perhaps they should focus on what we can all see with our own eyes?



People are beating beaten in the streets by Antifa and BLM protesters as they storm neighborhoods to terrorize residents,  yet we are supposed to be focused on some 4chan garbage that has had no discernible impact on anyone?
We know what this is really about.



Since Trump’s election, the left have jumped from conspiracy theory to conspiracy theory. First it was Russia, then it was MAGA related hoaxes, then it was Ukraine, then it was false hysteria about the coronavirus, then the USPS, and now with no other strings to pull at right now, they are on QAnon and trying to blow it up into a major thing when it’s not.

Worse, many on the right take the bait, spending precious time countering a premise none of us should be accepting in the first place. QAnon is a marginal group of crazies, nothing more. They aren’t in the streets burning down courthouses, nor are they shooting people in their cars who don’t follow their commands. Antifa and BLM have shown themselves to be far, far more dangerous and should be treated as such. Don’t fall this bogus narrative pushed by the media.

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