Whether Joe Biden exits his basement and takes the stage of a debate is still a very real question. We’ve already seen coordinated media efforts
to discourage the former VP from going toe to toe with President Trump.
The reason why is obvious. Biden simply lacks the mental capacity to
stand on a stage, unscripted for two hours. That’s why his press
conferences are short and only occur ever couple of months. He can’t
handle the job of running a campaign, much less being president. In fact, as RedState reported
earlier, Biden is so incapable that he’s sending Kamala Harris to
deliver the rebuttal to Trump’s speech at the RNC. Think about that. The
Democrat candidate for president can’t even be counted on to respond to
the person he’s running against.
That
means that all hands are on deck to either stop Joe Biden from debating
or to lower expectations so much that he looks like a winner if he
doesn’t drool on himself in the process.
Of note is that the 80 year old Pelosi can at least manage to do a
weekly presser, something Biden simply can’t handle at this point. So I
give her credit there, but I digress. Pelosi gives the typical
nonsense about not legtimizing Trump by engaging with him. But that’s
not really how elections work. One side doesn’t get to decide the other
side is illegitimate. They have to run and earn enough votes to actually
win. In that sense, Pelosi’s suggestion is fool-hardy. If Biden dropped
out of the debates, it would essentially confirm everything that’s been
said about his mental decline. Given that, I doubt she actually expects
her advice to be followed. What’s more probable here is that
Democrats are rushing to further lower expectations. They want to make
it seem like Biden is doing everyone a favor by even showing up against
that dastardly orange man. Then, as long as he takes enough pills and
remembers his talking points, he’ll probably make it out alive,
political speaking. Of course, the goal might be to land somewhere
in the middle, with Biden reluctantly agreeing to do a single debate
instead of three. It wouldn’t surprise me to see him try to use the
coronavirus as an excuse to make it remote as well. In that case, the
game would be completely rigged, as you can expect no debate by zoom to
be a real test of mental fortitude. What’s clear though is that
trying to protect Biden in these debates is a very real goal of
Democrats, to the point of them suggesting he not show up at all. It was
not a right-wing media tempest as CNN tried to paint it.
If I were placing bets, I’d guess Biden agrees to do one debate and does
his level best to keep it remote. Everything else going on is an attempt
to lower expectations and stack the deck. But I’m not sure he can get
away with it anymore. Public opinion is shifting in Trump’s favor over
the last week and Biden has to actually show himself to be a leader that
can handle the flames. Right now, he’s failing that test. Skipping out
on full slate of debates, or trying to greatly diminish their effect,
would likely backfire.
George Floyd Died of Health Complications from a Fentanyl Overdose — He Was Not Murdered By Minneapolis Police
Don’t be misled by the headline. Derek Chauvin had his knee across
the neck of George Floyd. The police did not find George Floyd in an
alley with a needle in his arm.
But Derek Chauvin did not cut off George Floyd’s oxygen supply.
Derek Chauvin’s knee caused no trauma to George Floyd’s airway.
Derek Chauvin may have caused George Floyd to lose consciousness.
But
the medical cause of George Floyd’s death was cardiopulmonary arrest
due to pulmonary edema resulting from acute Fentanyl toxicity.
Dr. Andrew Baker is the Chief Medical Examiner for Hennepin County in Minnesota.
Amy
Sweasy is the Managing Assistant County Attorney for Hennepin County.
She led the prosecution of Minneapolis Police Officer Mohammed Noor for
the fatal shooting of Justine Ruszczyk while responding to her 911 call
in July 2017. She was awarded Attorney of the Year in 2019 for her
performance in that case.
Keith Ellison is a former Democrat
member of Congress, now the Attorney General of Minneapolis, another
elected office. Keith Ellison is an idiot lawyer who has never
prosecuted a criminal case in his life.
The Memorandum below was
drafted by Amy Sweasy after her video conference meeting with Hennepin
County Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. Baker.
Floyd died in police
custody on May 25. The Memo is dated June 1. The Attorney General for
the State of Minnesota filed second-degree murder charges on June 3,
after Democrat Minnesota Governor Tim Walz asked Ellison to lead the
prosecution team. This document was filed in the District Court of
Minnesota on Tuesday, August 25. It has been hidden from the public for
nearly three months. The calendar tells the tale.
The
first thing to note from the Memo is that Ms. Sweasy was joined in the
virtual meeting by Assistant Hennepin County Attorney Patrick Lofton.
Sweasy and Lofton had been the trial team together on the Noor case.
So they were the best the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office had for a
case involved allegations of unlawful use of force by a police officer.
The
most recent court filings in the case that I could find were signed by a
member of Keith Ellison’s Attorney General’s Office, and Neal Katyal —
former Acting Solicitor General of the United States during the Obama
Administration – as “Special Attorney for the State of Minnesota.” I
haven’t seen anything yet with Ms. Sweasy or Mr. Lofton’s names listed
in the case.
Dr. Baker told them that he had the final toxicology
tests from George Floyd using “hospital blood” for the testing. Dr.
Baker explained that “hospital blood” was the best sample to use because
“autopsy” blood is taken longer after the person is deceased and the
blood contents have already begun to degrade for testing purposes.
According to the Memo, the blood screen for illicit substances showed the following:
4ANPP
— this is a precursor chemical used in the manufacture of Fentanyl and
is a residual impurity left over from the manufacturing process.
Methamphetamine
— 19 ng/ML. That is 19 nanograms per milliliter of blood. That is
quite low, likely only trace levels remained in the blood system from
earlier use. But methamphetamine is detectable in blood for only 24
hours, so Floyd had been under the influence of methamphetamine close in
time to the incident. Methamphetamine is a central nervous system
stimulant that causes elevated heart and respiration rates.
Going
out of order, the Memo references the presence of Norfentanyl, a
metabolite of Fentanyl. Norfentanyl is the immediate precursor chemical
used in the illicit manufacture of Fentanyl. Norfentanyl is the drug
that is converted into illicit Fentanyl in the manufacturing process. It
is also a metabolite — meaning when the body absorbs and breaks down
Fentanyl, a residual of it remains in the blood.
The key entry is
“Fentanyl — 11.” That is 11 ng/ML. As noted in the Memo that is
extremely high, and represents a lethal level of toxicity. The
therapeutic range for Fentanyl — what a doctor would prescribe — is .6 —
3 ng/ML.
Fentanyl, like all opioid narcotics, suppresses
respiration and cardiac function — it does the opposite to the body that
methamphetamine does. Drug users often use one after the other in a
cycle. They take methamphetamine to give them that “amped” feeling of
having a lot of energy, and the opioids to come down off the stimulant
in order to relax and/or sleep.
The key is the sentence on the
third page — the Cheif Medical Examiner of Hennepin County told the best
prosecutors that Hennepin County has for this kind of case
“If
Mr. Floyd had been found dead in his home (or anywhere else), and there
were not other contributing factors he would conclude that it was a
drug overdose.”
At the time of Mr. Floyd’s death —
according to the Medical Examiner — his body was experiencing the
effects a drug overdose consisting of a lethal level of Fentanyl
toxicity.
George Floyd could not breathe because George Floyd’s
lungs were full of fluid. That was not caused by Derek Chauvin’s knee
across George Floyd’s neck. “Pulmonary edema” is the presence of fluid
in the lung tissue that interferes with normal lung functions. The
fluid collects in the numerous air sacs in the lungs, making it
difficult to breathe. Fluid can accumulate for other natural reasons
such as pneumonia, or based on exposure to toxins and medications. It
can also be caused by trauma to the chest wall and visiting or
exercising at high elevations.
As noted by Ms. Sweasy in her Memo, Dr. Baker advised that Fentanyl is one of the medications that cause pulmonary edema.
George
Floyd was complaining that he could not breathe when he was standing
outside the patrol vehicle while the officers were attempting to
persuade him to get in the back seat. His difficulty breathing was not
connected to Derek Chavin’s knee across his neck — it was the product of
fluid in his lungs that was already developing before the officers
arrived, as evidenced by the fact he was “foaming” at the mouth.
So, what are we to make of the Medical Examiner’s Report which says that the “Manner of Death” was “homicide”?
If
you don’t read the Report in conjunction with the law, the report is
meaningless as “evidence” with regard to the charges against the
officers.
“Homicide” is a medical term, not a legal term. In
Minnesota, stating a “Manner of Death” is required by statute for
purposes of statistical classification. The statute gives the Medical
Examiner specific options for classifying e “Manner of Death”, and the
Medical Examiner indicates which is appropriate. Another option is
“Accidental.” The report notes this is not a legal determination –it
does not assign “blame” to any individual.
The medical definition
of “homicide” is the volitional act of a third party that ultimately
resulted in the death of the decedent. It is the “mechanism” that led
to death, not the “cause” of death. And that is why Medical Examiner
reports state the two issues separately.
The Medical Examiner’s
Report for George Floyd listed the “Cause of Death” as “cardiopulmonary
arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint and neck
compression.” If you do not know how to read that phrase in relation to
the law, you do a disservice in offering opinions on what it means.
Cardiopulmonary arrest means his heart and lungs quit functioning, depriving his brain of oxygenated blood.
That
FACT, “complicated” what the officers were engaged in doing. That DOES
NOT mean the officers’ actions caused the cardiopulmonary arrest. If
that is what it meant, the Report would have said so.
Physical findings from the autopsy stated it “revealed no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation.”
Asphyxia is a denial of oxygen to the body causing unconsciousness/death.
Strangulation is a denial of blood flow to the brain by constriction.
Neither
happened to George Floyd as a result of “trauma” — meaning the
officers’ actions did not produce an injury to Floyd that led to
asphyxia or strangulation.
Derek Floyd suffered a heart attack
combined with pulmonary arrest while handcuffed in a prone position face
down. The pulmonary arrest was the result of edema in his lungs which
interfered with the transfer of oxygen from his lungs to his blood. The
edema was so severe that his lungs weight 2-3x their normal weight from
the build-up of fluid in them. This made the expansion of his lungs to
take in oxygen more difficult. That condition was e resulted from of a
lethal level of Fentanyl in his blood — a drug that suppresses
respiration in a healthy person with no pulmonary edema.
None of
the actions taken by the officers were, by their nature,
“life-threatening”. The defense will line up “use of force” experts to
testify that every effort at subdual or restraint was consistent with
standard law enforcement training.
Any prosecutor with significant
experience recognizes the problem here. The Medical Examiner will not
be able to say the actions of the officers caused the cardiopulmonary
arrest which resulted in George Floyd’s death — not given the level of
Fentanyl toxicity in this blood. George Floyd’s respiratory system,
under the influence of Fentanyl as it was, suffered from pulmonary edema
which resulted in cardiopulmonary arrest during the application by the
officers of standard techniques of restraint and control. Based on the
Report, the Medical Examiner will not be able to testify that, beyond a
reasonable doubt, those techniques caused the pulmonary edema that
resulted in the cardiopulmonary arrest that killed George Floyd.
Nothing about the techniques leads to pulmonary edema. Without that
medical testimony, this case never makes it to the jury.
“Manner
of death” is meaningless to assigning legal responsibility for George
Floyd’s death to the officers. The key is what will the Medical
Examiner be able to testify to in response to the prosecution’s
questions.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, the
activist/politician who has never prosecuted a criminal case in his
life, filed the second-degree murder charge after
Democrat Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz asked Ellison to lead the prosecution.
Why would you do that rather than allow it to be handled by the
experienced Hennepin County Attorney team that had just last year
successfully prosecuted another high profile death case that was caused
by police use of force?
Sen. Ernst: Farmers progress under President Trumpt
In this image from video, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, speaks from Des
Moines, Iowa, during the third night of the Republican National
Convention on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020.(Courtesy of the Committee on
Arrangements for the 2020 Republican National Committee via AP)
OAN Newsroom Thursday, August 27, 2020
Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst (R) recently thanked President Trump for delivering aid to farmers in need. She made the remarks in her 2020 Republican National Convention speech Wednesday.
When Iowa was ravaged by a storm earlier this month, the president quickly signed an emergency declaration providing relief to farmers in the region.
Ernst compared this timely aid to the Obama administration, which she said harmed farmers through regulations and unfavorable trade policies.
— Team Trump (Text VOTE to 88022) (@TeamTrump) August 27, 2020
Ernst warns if Biden is elected it would lead to “an America where farmers are punished.” She also noted that President Trump is an ally to farmers throughout the country.
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is the leading candidate to take over the MAGA movement in 2024. During her RNC Convention Speech she exhibits why… FREEDOM:
Everything about this speech by former U.S. Ambassador and former Acting ODNI, Richard Grenell, is exceptional. Grenell outlines how the ‘America First’ priorities of Donald Trump are antithetical to the DC crowd yet intensely pro-American.
This is so good, it might have been the best speech of the evening. Ric Grenell outlines the Trump doctrine in all its perfectly American nuance. Grenell outlines the resistance approach taken by former officials, and then outlines how with President Trump in the White House it’s the people in charge, not politicians. MUST WATCH:
🚨Thread on Kevin Clinesmith: (Hint- YES he is cooperating)
There has been a lot of talk about the Clinesmith situation and what it means in terms of the greater Durham investigation. I am not an attorney, however, I have a fair amount to add to this.
And @Shipwreckedcrew is also writing a piece for @UncoverDC that will detail this subject. On Thursday, August 13, AG Barr went on Sean Hannity and told him that there would be “significant developments” in the Durham probe made before the election.
Then, he went on to tell us there would be a development “tomorrow” which wouldn’t be “Earth-shattering” but shows the investigation is progressing.
The next day, it was announced that Kevin Clinesmith would be pleading guilty to a 1001 violation (a felony) for altering the content of an email that made it appear as though Carter Page was NOT a “source” working for the CIA.
The next day, it was announced that Kevin Clinesmith would be pleading guilty to a 1001 violation (a felony) for altering the content of an email that made it appear as though Carter Page was NOT a “source” working for the CIA.
Clinesmith was not a low-level FBI lawyer. He was intimately involved in both the Mid Year Exam investigation, as well as the CH investigation, and he appears in both of the reports prepared by IG Horowitz multiple times, including an admonishment for biased text messages he sent about the Trump administration. In one of the messages, he lamented “My god damned name is all over the legal documents investigating his staff,” Clinesmith said, adding, “So, who knows if that breaks to him what he is going to do?”
When the news broke of the Clinesmith plea, I took great pains to explain to people that what we could take from it was that HE wasn’t considered “Significant” or “Earth Shattering”. THAT is the baseline we got with the Clinesmith plea.
For some reason, people have forgotten everything that Barr had told us the day before, and many are hanging their hat on Clinesmith as “no big deal” hence the rest of Durham's investigation must be worthless too.
We got our benchmark. Barr said the DEVELOPMENT wasn’t “earth-shattering” and I take him to mean the charges against Clinesmith and the “seniority” of his position.
However, I have been reading a lot lately from folks about how his “deal” doesn’t mention cooperation, etc, and lots of other very one-sided analysis, so I want to break it down for you here the way I read it.
First, let's take a look at the Statement of Offense and break that down one by one, vanilla. This means that Durham has evidence that the information about Page was available BEFORE THE FIRST FISA.
This means that Durham is going to prove the first three FISA warrants were obtained under false pretenses, and that the FBI KNEW THAT.
Self-explanatory:
And finally:
So, when it took some days, and Clinesmiths attorneys made a few statements that seemed to show a lack of the required accountability you need to plead guilty, and then finally at his hearing, he paused before he accepted guilt and said:
People started freaking out- “he is getting off easy! He isn’t accepting guilt! Durham is useless! NO ONE WILL EVER GO TO JAIL!!” (Don't go anywhere... It gets good soon)
A 1001 is a felony with a max sentence of 5 years in prison and a $250k fine. Yesterday, we got his plea agreement, and many have read this in ways I do not read it. I hope that you will put emotion aside for a moment and please go through this with me calmly and rationally.
For the *MOST* part, it is super vanilla. However, this is where the juice lies:
First, let us please take a look at 1b1.8 (a). Once you have read this, let’s please wipe ourselves of the notion that Clinesmith isn’t cooperating. It just isn’t supported by fact. guidelines.ussc.gov/gl/%C2%A71B1.8
And for section B, which stipulated that Clinesmith needs to provide or have provided information the government did not already know.
Now, many people are stating that this agreement didn’t say anything about cooperating as General Flynn's did, and Papa-D’s did- I will explain that in a moment, but first, let me talk about the acceptance of guilt issue.
In my opinion and from experience with these corrupt bureaucrats, it is very likely Clinesmith is publicly stating he didn’t do it on purpose because he doesn’t want his fellow plotters to know just how much he gave up already.
He would much rather publicly feign ignorance than have any of the others understand how badly he has destroyed their Cheerios. That may be why there hasn’t been much push back on it at all. Additionally, we need to talk about the elephant in the room-
the strength of this case should it go to trial, and the specific wording in the plea agreement that lends some fodder to what I am about to say. Great researchers out there have been talking about the fact that Clinesmith may be able to claim he misunderstood what the
CIA liaison was saying, and have supported that with some sound reasoning. Lets assume that this is the case- and these folks are claiming this is a worst-case scenario
That means, that this case would be REALLY hard to bring to trial. DOJ knows this. Durham knows this. It’s why this cooperating witness, who has been cooperating for SOME TIME NOW, has a very specific plea deal that is VERY narrow in scope and concerns very specific material
This is likely a deal they came to a long, long time ago. “We wont charge you for X major felony and x major felony if you FULLY COOPERATE with us on XYZ”. And now that they are nearing the end of the investigation portion of things, you get this plea deal everyone is lamenting.
Clinesmith saved his ass with this deal. He knows it, and they know it. His deal references a very specific subset of information, and leaves clearly open the possibility of other charges NOT RELATED to the email alteration should he step out of line. Read it again.
You will see that clearly. Now, “why doesn’t the deal say anything about him cooperating?!?!” The Mueller plea deals were political weapons, written solely to inflict political damage and give the media a carrot on a stick and rats in Congress something to chew on.
Mueller wanted to create the illusion that everyone was turning on POTUS and there was so much to tell “We are going to get him now! General Flynn has FLIPPED and is COOPERATING!” Same with Papa-D.
You don’t need language like that when the cooperation is finished, and the guy you just copped a plea from has given up the goods already. Nor do you need it when your investigation is by the book and straightforward
In closing, we were told Clinesmith wouldn’t be “earth shattering” which I take to mean that he is the lowest fruit and the plea is for a lesser charge. We were told there would be more significant developments before the election, Clinesmith as the baseline.
He is CLEARLY cooperating/has cooperated if you read documents and don’t react emotionally, and the rest will follow in course. We were given a heads up about what was coming. It was an honest assessment.
I think we need less emotion and desperation, and transparent analysis of the facts in front of us, something that is sorely lacking.
The DOJ announced today they are requesting data from several states that mandated COVID-19 patients be sent into nursing homes. “Data will help inform whether the Department of Justice will initiate investigations under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA) regarding New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan’s response to COVID-19 in public nursing homes.”
[DOJ Press Release] – Today the Justice Department requested COVID-19 data from the governors of states that issued orders which may have resulted in the deaths of thousands of elderly nursing home residents. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan required nursing homes to admit COVID-19 patients to their vulnerable populations, often without adequate testing.
For example, on March 25, 2020, New York ordered: “No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to [a nursing home] solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19. [Nursing homes] are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission.”
“Protecting the rights of some of society’s most vulnerable members, including elderly nursing home residents, is one of our country’s most important obligations,” said Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Division Eric Dreiband. “We must ensure they are adequately cared for with dignity and respect and not unnecessarily put at risk.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control, New York has the highest number of COVID-19 deaths in the United States, with 32,592 victims, many of them elderly. New York’s death rate by population is the second highest in the country with 1,680 deaths per million people.
New Jersey’s death rate by population is 1,733 deaths per million people – the highest in the nation. In contrast, Texas’s death rate by population is 380 deaths per million people; and Texas has just over 11,000 deaths, though its population is 50 percent larger than New York and has many more recorded cases of COVID-19 – 577,537 cases in Texas versus 430,885 cases in New York. Florida’s COVID-19 death rate is 480 deaths per million; with total deaths of 10,325 and a population slightly larger than New York.
The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division is evaluating whether to initiate investigations under the federal “Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act” (CRIPA), which protects the civil rights of persons in state-run nursing homes, among others. The Civil Rights Division seeks to determine if the state orders requiring admission of COVID-19 patients to nursing homes is responsible for the deaths of nursing home residents. (read more)
If you thought things were settling down in Minneapolis, think again. Looting and rioting have broken out again tonight after a homicide suspect took his own life. Rumors spread on social media that the police had shot him, a trend of misinformation we’ve seen play out in Chicago as well.
Videos of the chaos are starting to emerge.
Looting in downtown Minneapolis. Haskell’s liquor store and Medical Arts building included. This is all linked to alleged suicide of suspect in earlier homicide. Crowds down here were convinced he was shot by police. pic.twitter.com/zaIKUw8IlC
Target should probably think about just closing all stores in the area at this point, but I digress.
What we are seeing here is yet more lawlessness by people looking for any reason to act out. This is not righteous anger, nor do I even buy that most of them believe whatever lie they read on social media. They just want to cause destruction and steal things. There is no deeper meaning or justification here.
Apparently, this all started after a man killed someone on a parking ramp. Police were pursing him when he shot himself. That led social media instigators to spread a lie that police had shot the man. In organized fashion, people began to gather in downtown to take part in a new round of destruction. It’s anarchy and it’s a direct result of failed leadership at the local and state levels.
Speaking of failed leadership, here’s Minnesota’s useless governor.
Minneapolis, it’s time to heal. We must rebuild and recover. Dangerous, unlawful behavior will not be tolerated. The State Patrol is headed to Minneapolis to help restore order. I remain in close contact with the city and every state resource stands ready to help bring peace.
This isn’t about healing. No one looting is doing so out of some deep care and hurt. They are just criminals doing what criminals do. Walz’s weakness has created an environment where portions of his citizens do not respect the police, nor the law. He can’t put the genie back in the bottle now.
Minneapolis’ resident beta male mayor also chimed in.
We need everyone to keep the peace and immediately go home.
Yeah, I’m sure that’ll do it. If only someone had thought of asking people to go home before tonight.
Note that neither “leader” directly calls out the looting and rioting, only using abstract phrases like “destruction will not be tolerated,” as if stores just destroy themselves. How about calling rioters what they are and directly rebutting the lie about police shooting a man? But that would take actual guts and neither of these man have any.
Minnesota has some big choices ahead of them electorally. They shouldn’t forget these moments.
*WARNING: This video contains graphic images* This evening, a murder suspect committed suicide as police approached them at 8th & Nicollet. No officer weapons were fired. This is a tragedy for our community that is still hurting. Our condolences go to the families of the victims. pic.twitter.com/2NyE4os7P0
Comrades, if you survive hurricane Laura, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards wants to remind you that any rescue, relief and recovery efforts will require your agreement to continue participation in the phase-2 COVID rules and regulations.
If you need to be rescued by the Coast Guard remember to stay 6 feet away from any rescue personnel and if you cannot hear the instructions because of the mandatory mask, well, tough. Masks are apparently required when entering any boat or rescue operation.
NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana will remain in Phase 2 of the coronavirus recovery for at least two more weeks. Gov. John Bel Edwards announce the extension of his Phase 2 order on Wednesday during a news conference on Hurricane Laura. (more)
The lack of common sense amid these public officials is jaw-dropping. People in East Texas and West Louisiana have enough to think about without the ridiculous rona rules.
I can't ever recall seeing something this honest and this concise targeting the Black community, and it comes from a Black Man.
Why the RNC does not take control of the narrative is hard for me to understand.
This is basic, simple, honest and to the point.
Today’s edition of BLM 101, Volume 5 will focus on the sports world’s
reaction to the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
BLM 101 is dedicated to educating athletes on the true agenda and
negative consequences of the Black Lives Matter movement. BLM 101 tries
to avoid snark and ridicule. We ask that you share the link of this
article with your favorite athlete.
Tuesday the sports world reacted strongly to the shooting of Jacob Blake.
The Detroit Lions canceled
football practice, choosing instead to hold a mass press conference to
discuss the shooting. Members of the Toronto Raptors threatened to boycott games inside the NBA Bubble. Clippers coach Doc Rivers launched a political attackon President Donald Trump. Denver Nuggets coach Michael Malone expressed frustration that the Disney World Bubble limits what basketball players can do to fight what they believe to be police brutality.
A day after LeBron James declared that black people live in daily
fear of police violence and that black men are targeted for death by
police, his disciples backed him up en masse.
James is the Al Sharpton of sports, an agent of chaos working closely
with politicians who use racial division to rally voter support. Al
Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and black ministers can no longer deliver black
voters to polling booths. The task has now been handed to James, Colin
Kaepernick and black athletes. It’s their job to inflame the emotions of
black people and get us to vote for Joe Biden like our lives depended
on it. As you know, I don’t vote. I reject the pervasive dishonesty in
politics. As it relates to BLM, the man or woman sitting in the White
House has absolutely nothing to do with how police engage with a
resisting suspect. President Barack Obama was in office when Michael
Brown tussled with officer Darren Wilson. The politicization of Jacob Blake is a byproduct of political
dishonesty. The prevailing sentiment propagandized by BLM that police
are intentionally targeting black men is a political ploy. Jacob Blake, George Floyd, Eric Garner and Rayshard Brooks are not
examples of “systemic racism.” If anything, they’re examples of
“systemic resisting arrest.”
The police, even bigoted police, are not nearly as dumb as BLM
supporters would have you believe. LeBron James has foolishly suggested
that police officers are intentionally hunting, targeting and killing
black men. When discussing the actions of Kenosha police, James said:
“Or maybe he just left the house saying that, ‘Today is going to be
the end for one of these black people.’ That’s what it feels like. It
just hurts. It hurts.”
Police are not that stupid. Killing a criminal suspect complicates
and jeopardizes the life of the police officer, even if he’s not
convicted of a crime. You think Darren Wilson is somewhere happy he was
involved in the death of Michael Brown?
The goal of a good police officer is to lock up bad guys. The goal of
a white racist cop is to lock up black people. Good and bad police
officers want to put handcuffs on and politely escort people to jail.
That’s the payoff. That’s the goal. They leave their houses hoping to
put people in handcuffs and escort them inside the belly of the beast —
the criminal justice system created by career politicians such as Joe
Biden, Kamala Harris and Bill Clinton. https://www.outkick.com/career-politicians-who-created-systemic-unfairness-are-playing-lebron-and-his-disciples-for-suckers/
I’m referencing Democratic politicians because LeBron James and his
disciples seem to believe the Democratic Party is going to save black
people from the “systemic racism” found within the criminal justice
system.
It’s a joke. The architects of the system are using LeBron James and
athletes to point black people at the wrong target. The athletes are
useful idiots. They’ve been talked into dedicating themselves to
ensuring that career criminals are unharmed while resisting arrest and
refusing to comply with police instructions.
The Detroit Lions canceled practice so they could speak out on behalf
of a man wanted for sexual assault. The city of Kenosha is being burned
to the ground on behalf of a man who wrestled with police and wouldn’t
comply with instructions at gunpoint.
Across the country, police kill roughly 250 to 300 black people a
year. The overwhelming majority of those killed are armed and violently
resisting arrest. Thousands of black people are killed by black people
every year. In Detroit alone roughly 250 black people are murdered
annually. The majority of the murders go unsolved.
The Detroit Lions do not care.
An unarmed black man is a million times more likely to be killed by
another black man than the police. But LeBron is terrified of police? If
all it takes is a handful of high-profile anecdotes to justify living
in fear of a group of people, can black, brown and white people say they
live in fear of black men?
Can the Detroit Tigers cancel practice the next time a black man kills a Detroit citizen?
Let me return to my main point. Putting people behind bars is the
goal of good and bad police. Prisons are hell on earth. The prison
industrial complex is the beast. It’s the system that crushes the poor
and financially exploits all who enter its gates.
If you have had a loved one or family member incarcerated, you know
the financial burden placed on the prisoner’s family. It’s a racket of
exploitation that would make Tony Soprano envious. Politicians know
exactly what they created. These same politicians are using athletes and
the media to focus all negative attention on $60,000-a-year cops who
occasionally make deadly mistakes during millions of encounters with
dangerous criminals.
Black Lives Matter is a smokescreen to divert attention away from the
architects of the systemic unfairness in our criminal justice system.
Twitter race-baiter and BLM activist Shaun King is demanding Kenosha
police release the name of the police officer who shot Jacob Blake.
Another Kenosha officer is in hiding because he’s been wrongly
identified as the shooter.
King, LeBron, Doc Rivers, Michael Malone, the Toronto Raptors, the
Detroit Lions, the NBA, the NFL and the woke sports media have all been
incentivized to keep the focus on the lowest-hanging fruit —
working-class cops.
This is what passes for speaking truth to power in the age of social media.
Blame the cops. Work to elect the career politicians who created the system. If you want Jason Whitlock for your TV or radio show or podcast, contact gary@outkick.com.
CHARLOTTE, NC—At the Republican National Convention this week, the nation's largest cat lobby endorsed Trump in hopes that the economy will be reopened and Americans will go back to work.
The cats condemned Biden's plan to keep everyone at home and endorsed Trump's plan to send Americans back to work.
"Biden wants to lock down the country," said one tabby cat, addressing the Republican Cat Caucus. "This would be disastrous for our plans to crush human -- err, our plans to lie around and do absolutely nothing all day."
Cats have suffered under Democrat governors' lockdowns, shut inside with their owners all day, rather than having the run of the place to do whatever mysterious things cats do while we're away. Many are suffering mental breakdowns as another day goes by with humans nearby constantly. Some have slipped into deep depression as owners pick them up and pet them and say, "Oh, you're so cute! Who's my little bumpkin boo?" when they just want to lie on the window sill and be left alone.
"These lockdowns must end," the cat concluded. "So we can do the same thing we do every day: try to take over -- err, try to just get some shut-eye."
Hillary Clinton, the woman who put the “losing” in losing disgracefully, sat down the other day for an interview with former Hillary Clinton campaign staffer Jennifer Palmieri.
And she had some advice for Joe Biden.
Was the advice “Don’t forget Wisconsin?”
Nope.
Her advice was to lose disgracefully.
In fact, she urged Biden to be even more disgraceful in losing than she was.
“Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstances,” the bitter, angry Miss Havisham said, “because I think this is going to drag out, and eventually I do believe he will win if we don’t give an inch, and if we are focused and relentless as the other side.”
Hillary wants Joe to learn from her mistakes. But, as usual, Hillary is unable to see all the terrible mistakes and blunders her campaign made.
And she made a truckload. Like failing to relentlessly campaign the way her opponent did, avoiding Wisconsin, believing the media’s propaganda and thinking she had it in the bag, not to mention going into the race with so much baggage she could’ve opened a Samsonite store.
Blind to her own campaign’s many failures, Hillary actually believes the one and only mistake she made was coming out on the morning of November 9, 2016 and conceding the election.
My guess is, when Hillary saw Stacey Abrams’ petty, petulant refusal to concede in 2018, she thought to herself, “Now why the hell didn’t I do that?!”
So now the only advice she has for the decrepit old man hiding in his basement is “Don’t do what I did; do what Stacey Abrams did and lose disgracefully.”
As repugnant as Hillary Clinton is, I admit I’m tickled pink that she won’t shut the hell up and go away.
Her bitterness and inability to let go of losing four years ago should be about as welcome as a fart in a small room. This need to trot her out during an election year to continue her public pissing and moaning defies logic.
But Hillary doesn’t see that, and for some reason, neither does the Democrat Party.
Sure, it’s all manner of ironic that this woman telling Joe to lose disgracefully by refusing to concede is the same woman who, in the final 2016 debate clutched her pearls and pretended to be horrified that President Trump “refused to say that he’d respect the results of the election.”
It was “horrifying!”
It was “a direct threat to our democracy!”
Naturally, the news media picked up Hillary’s breathless histrionics. In fact, on election day 2016, the main page at CNN’s website featured this headline:
“On Election Day, Trump still signaling he may not accept results.”
Earth to CNN: We all want to see what happens. The polls are open. People are voting. Nobody knows who’s going to win. So why shouldn’t Trump want to wait and see what happens?
Donald Trump likes to brag, sure. But he has never ever claimed to be able to see the future.
Yet CNN wants to portray this as somehow nefarious and outrageous.
Why?
Because they’re asshats.
Frankly, I’d be interested in what Hillary has to say to the same question.
But nobody’s asking Hillary that, are they?
Hillary and her campaign have spent the last month claiming Russia is trying to rig the election for Trump.
Now, why the hell would they set up such an outlandish narrative?
Well, if I had to guess, I’d say it’s because they want an excuse — in case Trump wins — to kick up a fuss and refuse to concede.
Turns out, I knew the Clinton plan before the polls even closed. And I was right. The only thing I got wrong was saying Hillary would refuse to concede.
And now, that is exactly what this gin-soaked hag is urging Joe Biden to do. Because in Hillary’s booze-addled mind, that was her one and only mistake.
Sure, she lost disgracefully. But apparently not disgracefully enough.
