Article by Derek Hunter in Townhall

 

Joe Biden Is Not A Good Person

None of us know Joe Biden, but we know enough about him to see, plain as day, that his “aw shucks, I’m just your average middle-class guy” routine is one of the greatest frauds ever attempted in American political history. In reality, he’s a wildly insecure man who covers it with arrogance. In adulthood, he’s never held a private-sector job for more than a few months but somehow managed to amass a fortune and houses larger than some warehouses. He’s not the affable lug he plays on TV; he’s a man with a short temper and a history of lying. He, Joe Biden, is not a good man.

The coverage of Joe Biden throughout his campaign has been liberally peppered with declarations of just how “normal” and “nice” he is, and he is to a media Biden needs and a media that is desperate to get Biden elected. Like the life of any elected official, he’s spent every day in office surrounded by people who never tell him “no.” Why would they? How would they? Their livelihood depends on him. Who tells anyone in that position they’re wrong or they can’t do something?

Biden has been an elected official since 1969, the year after he graduated law school. Elected to his town council at 27, he won his first Senate race at 29. Aside from his one summer as a lifeguard -- the summer he claimed a “bad dude” named “Corn Pop” was going to beat him up and a summer where Biden enjoyed young black children petting his leg hair and bouncing on his lap -- Biden has never had to shower from a day’s work, only in preparation for one. The only work he’s done with his hands is shaking other people's hands, creepily rubbing the shoulders of young women, and collecting money.

When he has been challenged by voters, he’s snapped back quickly and nastily. Calling some voters “fat” and a variety of other names. He’s challenged out of shape voters to push-up contests and foot races. And, in the tradition of someone riddled with insecurities about their intelligence, IQ tests.

In his first run for the White House, way back in 1987, a voter in New Hampshire asked Joe a simple question about his academic record. Angry and insecure even then, and in clear view of news cameras, he famously snapped back, "I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do, I suspect. I went to law school on a full academic scholarship, the only one in my class to have a full academic scholarship. In the first year in law school, I decided I didn’t want to be in law school and ended up in the bottom two-thirds in my class. Then, I decided I wanted to stay, went back to law school and, in fact, ended up in the top half of my class. I won the International Moot Court Competition. I was the ‘Outstanding Student’ in the Political Science department at the end of my year. I graduated with three degrees from undergraduate school and 165 credits, only needed 123 credits, and I’d be delighted to sit down and compare my IQ to yours, if you’d like, frankly."

Everything Joe Biden said there was untrue. For example, his scholarship was based on need, not academics. He did not receive multiple degrees or win awards, and he graduated 76th in his law school class of 85.

If he were recounting stories from someone else’s life, being wrong would be understandable. But he was talking about his own life. He’s claimed to be a college professor, but he’s never taught a class. He’s claimed he was actively involved in the Civil Rights Movement, but Biden never was. For years, Biden said his first wife was killed by a drunk driver. She was not.

There is so much more about Joe Biden’s life that is fiction, a fiction he still talks about today. But his lies are not limited to his own life. He still uses the lie that President Trump called neo-Nazis and white supremacists “very fine people.” His media enablers have proven this claim to be a lie, yet even they still perpetuate it.

None of this has mentioned how Biden managed to live like a king on the salary of a “public servant.” How his loser, drug-addled son managed to rake in millions upon millions of dollars with no experience or knowledge of foreign entities, both companies and governments, have shoveled his way when Joe was in a position to help those entities (and did).

All of this is the tip of an iceberg the left-wing media complex doesn’t want to touch and doesn’t want to admit exists because “Orange Man Bad!” must be defeated.

Since 1972, Joe Biden has been lying about who he is and what he’s done, going so far as to not only plagiarize in law school but plagiarize his own life story as well, which shows a laziness and an insecurity that borders on insanity.

Joe Biden has gotten rich through his power, the same power he was involved in abusing to spy on the Trump campaign. The only way to protect himself, his family, and co-conspiring friends is to win the White House and shut down all inquiries into his lifetime of exploitation. He’s not a good man, not even a decent one. He’s a man who has known nothing but government influence, using his positions to his advantage, and who is now in need of one last grasp at those levers of power to avoid being exposed for who he is at the end of his life. A sad, desperate man hiding behind a rehearsed smile of unnaturally white teeth, hoping to bury his life’s work once and for all by obtaining the only position that can ensure he gets away with it.

 

https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2020/10/18/joe-biden-is-not-a-good-person-n2578301 

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Large 2,000-year-old cat discovered in Peru's Nazca lines

 The figure of a relaxing cat has been discovered in the Nazca desert in Peru.

 

The Nazca lines, a Unesco World Heritage site, is home to designs on the ground - known as geoglyphs - created some 2,000 years ago.

Scientists believe the cat, as with other Nazca animal figures, was created by making depressions in the desert floor, leaving coloured earth exposed.

The cat then went unnoticed until plans were recently drawn up for a new path leading to an observation platform.

The platform would have provided a vantage point for visitors to see many of the other geoglyphs

 

In a statement, Peru's culture ministry said: "The figure was scarcely visible and was about to disappear, because it's situated on quite a steep slope that's prone to the effects of natural erosion."

It added that the geoglyph, which is about 37m (120ft) long, has been cleaned and conserved over the past week.

 

Johny Isla, Peru's chief archaeologist for the Nazca lines, told Efe news agency that the cat pre-dates the Nazca culture - which created most of the figures from 200 to 700 AD.

The cat, he said, was actually from the late Paracas era, which was from 500 BC to 200 AD.

"We know that from comparing iconographies," he said. "Paracas textiles, for example, show birds, cats and people that are easily comparable to these geoglyphs."

 

 

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Article by Stu Cvrk in RedState

Pardon Joe Biden Now!

President Trump has given the Democrats a taste of their own medicine with the October surprise of all October surprises! Courtesy of Hunter Biden’s emails disclosed by the New York Post, we now know that Joe Biden has been effectively running a mafioso-style family feeding on foreign corruption in Ukraine, China, Kazakhstan, and who knows where else for years!

Where Things Stand: The spinners in the legacy media echo chamber are doing their damnedest to try to discredit and bury the Hunter Biden laptop revelations (for example, here and here). The Biden campaign issued a non-denial denial by saying the purported meeting set up by Hunter between the Burisma rep and his VP father in the White House “wasn’t on the official schedule” while also playing out the “Russian disinformation” card (see here). It has been reported that the FBI is investigating whether Rudy Giuliani (a key player in making the Hunter Biden laptop information public) is a victim of “Russian disinformation” (see here and here). The media are working overtime to discredit the store owner and the contents of the laptop – without reporting what the New York Post has uncovered. Social media – Twitter and Facebook most prominently – have blocked the Post’s main account and prevented dissemination of the bombshell stories. Republicans in Congress and at the Republican National Committee are accusing Twitter, et al., of providing in-kind contributions to the Biden campaign and election tampering by hiding the Post’s stories from the American people. Former Clinton White House operative George Stephanopoulos (now masquerading as a “journalist” at ABC) refused to ask Joe Biden a direct question about Hunter’s emails during Thursday night’s townhall snooze-fest. President Trump is doing his best to keep the issue in the public eye while the media are ignoring his public comments on the Biden family corruption exposed by the New York Post. Tucker Carlson stated unequivocally on his Friday night show that the Hunter Biden laptop contents have been confirmed. The disgraced Adam Schiff claims that the Hunter Biden emails “came from the Kremlin.” Meanwhile, the media, Biden campaign, and the Democrat Party are all trying to run out the clock and hoping to keep the main corruption story and the revelations that are daily dripping out in the Post, Fox News, and independent media out of the mainstream media and the public eye. They refuse to report the Hunter Biden email revelations as fact (despite the hard evidence of actual emails, as opposed to “unnamed sources” like the legacy media use all the time for their anti-Trump stories!) – or to even consider the possibility that they are in fact true!

Breaking Through the Media’s Fog: Here is the way President Trump can break through the continuing legacy media fog of obfuscation, spinning, and lies around this earth-shaking story of Biden family corruption: he can simply pardon Joe Biden now for his corrupt actions. The pardon can detail everything associated with the information contained on the Hunter Biden laptop and force the legacy media to cover the story while ensuring that all of the American people learn about the corruption over the years of the Biden family. Here are some related considerations:

• The pardon should be narrowly focused on Biden’s corruption, which leaves the door open for future prosecution for Spygate-related actions and other matters.
• Only Biden should be pardoned, not his family members who are directly involved in that corruption.
• The pardon should be announced by the President publicly with all due magnanimity and graciousness. The press corps would erupt!
• Some would fume that “Biden is getting off the hook” when he should be going straight to jail (after due process). This election is too important to the future of the country. It’s a useful trade to pardon Biden in exchange for forcing the story of his and his family’s decades-long corruption into the consciousness of voters before 3 November. Furthermore, Biden was merely Obama’s sidekick for 8 years, using his office to enrich his family and himself. There are plenty of other more important targets left to prosecute besides him!
• The President’s direction to declassify documents is being slow-walked by the CIA, FBI, and other agencies. He can’t personally declassify documents; he has to rely on others to execute the mechanics of that declassification. The only political action left to the President at this point is to force disclosure of Biden’s corruption via a presidential pardon.
• The Durham investigation may or may not be “the real deal.” In any event, there won’t be an indictment or even concrete disclosures of Obama regime apparatchiks’ illegal actions and sedition before 3 November. While the American people deserve to know what actually transpired in 2016-17 before they vote this year, that won’t happen. To repeat, the only political action left to the President at this point is to force disclosure of Biden’s corruption via a presidential pardon. Let Durham’s secretive legal process play out according to its own timeline after the election.

To Summarize: Joe Biden, the Biden campaign, the Democrats and their allies who dominate the legacy media are all feverishly trying to obfuscate, spin, debunk, and ignore the bombshell revelations of Biden family corruption disclosed in emails on Hunter Biden’s laptop. The most direct way to force the story into the mainstream would be for the President to issue a limited pardon to Joe Biden. A presidential pardon would force the media to cover the pardon and also Joe Biden to publicly respond to the corruption detailed in the pardon – and destroy Biden’s candidacy at just the right time.

The end.

https://www.redstate.com/stu-in-sd/2020/10/18/pardon-joe-biden-now/

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DHS, ICE target at-large illegal immigrants in sanctuary cities across U.S.

 

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UPDATED 7:38 AM PT – Sunday, October 18, 2020

The Department of Homeland Security works with ICE to target sanctuary cities where officials said local law enforcement agencies are protecting illegal immigrants with criminal backgrounds from facing justice. One America’s Kyarra Harris explains.

 

 

 

VP Pence holds campaign rally in Reading, Pa.

 

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UPDATED 7:25 AM PT – Sunday, October 18, 2020

With barely two-weeks before Election Day, Vice President Mike Pence headed to Pennsylvania to share President Trump’s message to “Make America Great Again.” He visited Reading on Saturday, where he delivered remarks at a rally held at the Reading Regional Airport.

 

 

Pence touted the President’s efforts in battling the coronavirus, helping the economy recover and his unwavering support for law enforcement. He also highlighted the Trump administration’s efforts toward acquiring a viable COVID-19 vaccine that would be made available for America’s most vulnerable.

“President announced yesterday a plan with CVS and Walgreens to deliver and administer vaccines to our seniors in nursing homes and across the nation for free as soon as they’re available,” announced the Vice President.

Pence went on to say Joe Biden would be a Trojan horse for the radical left.

“But you’ll deserve to know in Pennsylvania, Joe Biden and the radical left want to crush American energy under a $2 trillion version of the Green New Deal,” he stated. “It will cost jobs across this state and across this country, it would raise the cost of electricity for every family household in this state and across the country.”

 

 

The Vice President reminded the Pennsylvania voters of Biden’s support for defunding police while President Trump stands up for them.

“When asked if he’d support cutting funding for law enforcement, Joe Biden said, yes, absolutely,” he noted. “Let me make you a promise, under President Donald Trump we’re not going to defund the police — not now, not ever.”

Pence also expressed optimism about the open seat on the Supreme Court.

“I will make you a prediction, Judge Amy Coney Barrett is going to be Justice Amy Coney Barrett,” he stated. “We are going to fill that seat!”

The Vice President will hold another rally at the capital city airport in Harrisburg on Monday.

 

https://www.oann.com/vp-pence-holds-campaign-rally-in-reading-pa/ 

 

 

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Why The Left Needs Us All To Believe The United States Is Racist Forever

As leftists believe racism is constant throughout American history, they take the absence of racist sentiments to mean racism is hiding deep in our minds.

David Azzerad for The Federalist

That America is a racist country is the great self-evident truth of the left and of the ruling class whose moral opinions are shaped by it. This truth is self-evident in the sense of being readily apparent to them, as evidenced by the countless disparities in life outcomes between blacks and whites. No explanation for these disparities is ever required. Their mere existence is proof of racism.

The disparities between Asians and whites, between Indians and whites, and between Nigerian immigrants and whites all go studiously ignored since these groups generally outperform whites in income and educational attainment. Also ignored is the role that the pathologies of inner-city black culture — fatherlessness, crime, nihilistic alienation, and the exaltation of thuggery — play in producing and sustaining disparities. 

America’s racist nature is also self-evident in the philosophical sense. It is an axiomatic truth: the predicate (racism) is contained in the subject (America). In the same way that all bachelors are, by definition, single, so is America, by definition, racist.

Formulated as such, the self-evident truth of American racism cannot be refuted. It is impervious to counterarguments, data, and historical developments. Believers in American racism don’t care about your facts. In 1991, Derrick Bell, one of the founders of critical race theory, declared that blacks had made no progress in America since 1865. He made this claim with a straight face at Harvard University, where he had been a tenured professor for two decades. In 1865, Harvard did not admit black students.

In 2020, the claim that America is fundamentally racist is a lie. But it is a lie tenaciously defended by those on the left who most benefit from it: the Democratic Party, its progressive allies in the academy, the intelligentsia and the media, and black political leadership. As the ultimate arbiters of all racial controversies, the left have positioned themselves to occupy the moral high ground in America — the most important strategic position in any political conflict.

Using Racism as a Smokescreen

The accusation of racism is their most powerful political weapon. Playing the race card allows them to detract attention from their own corruption and the radical ideas they espouse. Whatever faults they have, at least they’re not racists like Donald Trump, the Republicans, and their base of deplorables. The right is thus constrained to fight the enemy on the enemy’s own terms. Republican claims that “Democrats are the real racists” inevitably fall flat. 

The national obsession with racism is also obviously beneficial to those who work in the diversity and grievance industries. It is perhaps most useful for corporate and financial elites, who use it to distract Americans and direct their ire away from urban oligarchs like themselves toward the nebulous forces of racism. Corporate America is afraid of socialism, not of Black Lives Matter. The anti-capitalists hate the rich and corporations. The anti-racists do not; they can readily be bought off with performative wokeness and a sprinkling of diversity hires in the C-Suite.

Well-intentioned Americans of all races must understand that these powerful constituencies have a vested interest in keeping America “racist” forever. No set of attainable conditions would ever lead them to admit that America is no longer racist. No sooner would the reparations checks be issued than new demands would arise.

None of this is to deny that America was racist for centuries, that the legacy of racism is still with us, and that some racism endures to this day. But the Constitution of the United States is colorblind, and America’s Declaration of Independence proclaims that “all men are created equal.” There are no racist laws or regulations on the books anywhere in America — not at the federal level, not in any of the 50 states, and not in any of the 19,502 incorporated cities, towns, and villages.

The Actual Reality of ‘Racist’ Police

Since 1964, America has also had a Civil Rights Act that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race in both the public and private sectors. In explicit violation of the legislative history and text of the law, the act has been interpreted by the highest court of the land to countenance so-called “affirmative action,” i.e. racial preferences to benefit blacks (and to a lesser extent, Hispanics). America thus finds itself in the paradoxical position of being a purportedly white supremacist nation that officially sanctions and practices discrimination against whites. 

Well, a critic might say, the laws may not be racist, but don’t police enforce them in a racist way? The overpublicized deaths of George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, James Blake, and others before them supposedly prove that a “legalized genocide of colored people” is taking place.

Yet none of the major studies of lethal shootings by police officers find evidence of racial bias. In fact, controlling for the very high black crime rate — African-Americans make up 13 percent of the population but commit more than 50 percent of homicides and about 60 percent of robberies — and the higher rate at which black suspects resist arrest, the share of blacks killed by cops is lower than one would expect.

Somehow, America remains a racist country even as elected officials in both parties openly pander to racial minorities, blacks in particular, while paying no attention to whites as a group. The Republican Party studiously ignores whites, busy as it is courting the “naturally conservative” Hispanic vote, while the Democratic Party increasingly adopts the anti-white animus of Black Lives Matter and the rest of the woke left. Because the demand for racism so completely outstrips the actual supply, we are left with unfalsifiable accusations of “dog-whistling” — non-racist statements that supposedly send covert racist messages.

Once every few years, it is true, a Republican will put his foot in his mouth and speak indelicately about race. Whenever this happens, the offender is universally condemned, with the loudest denunciations coming from the Republican Party and the conservative establishment, and the offender promptly apologizes. Such is the odd nature of “systemic” American racism, that racists are immediately denounced and eager to repent.

The New Unforgivable Sin 

African-Americans occupy a larger place in the country’s collective imagination than any other group. They exert enormous cultural influence not just in America, but across the globe. At home, no group is more honored for its accomplishments, real or fake (no, a black man did not invent the lightbulb). The closest thing America has to a secular saint is Martin Luther King, Jr. Even the recent allegations that he may have been a serial philanderer who laughed as a woman was raped in front of him did not dent his reputation.

In the public square, at school, and at work, Americans are also increasingly compelled to profess devotion to the creed of Anti-Racism. The thought police are everywhere. No one gets canceled for abandoning their children, betraying the country, or committing any number of immoral, indecent, or criminal acts. There is only one unforgivable sin: to deviate from the accepted script when speaking of African-Americans — and to a lesser extent, any of the other protected identity groups.

Amid widespread sympathy for blacks, affirmative action policies, and the absence of racist laws, we are told that racism is nonetheless institutionalized — though there are no institutions of any significance in America committed to racism, let alone to white supremacy.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, an alarmist fundraising machine for its now disgraced founder Morris Dees, keeps track of about 940 hate groups operating within our borders (more than a quarter of which are black separatists). By focusing on the number of groups, the SPLC can ignore their insignificant size, lack of funds, and complete marginalization in American life.

By the SPLC’s count, there are 47 Ku Klux Klan groups in America — but their total membership is between 5,000 and 8,000 (the Anti-Defamation League puts the total at 3,000). At its peak in the mid-1920s, the Klan had 6 million members (in a country with a third of our current population).

So much for the institutions of hate. Meanwhile, corporate America, the media, Hollywood, professional sports, philanthropic foundations, nonprofits, churches, the academy, the arts, and the military all vociferously denounce racism. All eagerly embrace the diversity agenda. All are obsessed with hiring and promoting people of color.

The Mind is the Last Frontier

And this brings us to perhaps the strangest feature of America’s purportedly racist society: the growing phenomenon of whites passing as nonwhites. Elizabeth Warren claims to be Cherokee, BLM’s Shaun King claims to be biracial, and a Jewish professor of African history at George Washington University is the new Rachel Dolezal. Needless to say, no Afrikaner ever pretended to be “colored” under apartheid.

Where, then, is racism to be found in America, if it is not in its law, its public rhetoric, and its institutions? Polls make it hard to find, too. Eighty-seven percent of Americans approve of black-white marriage, up from 4 percent in 1954. Gallup calls it “one of the largest shifts of public opinion in Gallup history.” When researchers asked teenagers to name the most famous Americans in history (excluding presidents), their top three picks were MLK, Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman.

The last frontier is now the subconscious. Because the quantity of racism is held to be constant throughout American history, the absence of racist sentiments in people can only mean that racism is hiding deep in the recesses of their minds.

With the help of Harvard University’s widely touted Implicit Association Test, everyone’s latent racism can now be brought to the fore. The test, of course, reveals no such thing. A peer-reviewed study found “little evidence to support [its] more provocative claim: that people possess unconscious racist attitudes.” Even Vox had to admit that “it might not work at all.”

In the end, all we are left with as the definitive proof of American racism today is “systemic racism,” the meaning of which boils down to: America is racist because, well, it just is. Racism somehow suffuses the whole even though it is not visible in any of its major parts. Whereas all other racist regimes in history openly proclaimed their racism, America has pulled off the amazing feat of purging its laws, institutions, and culture of racism — all in the interest, of course, of perpetuating racism.

They Are Ready This Time—But So Are We

If Donald Trump wins handily on November 3 but the Democrats refuse to acknowledge defeat, do not expect their opponents to go gently into that good night.

Roger Kimball for American Greatness

At some point in these pages, I have had occasion to quote both Walter Scott’s famous admonitory couplet (from his narrative poem Marmion): 

Oh, what a tangled web we weave

When first we practise to deceive!

And this excellent completion by J. R. Pope (“A Word of Encouragement”):

But when we’ve practiced for a while,

How vastly we improve our style!

Both main chapters of the anti-Trump fraternity—the to-the-manor-born aristocracy of left-wing political operatives who oppose Republicans reflexively and the life-peers, so to speak, of the NeverTrump gaggle, who just hate Donald Trump—have been practicing assiduously since at least 2016. 

Back then, and for some years following, the forces arrayed against Trump were formidable but complaisant. First, everyone knew that Hillary was going to win, so although Trump was thoroughly disreputable, he was also eminently ignorable since he could never win the election. 

When, by some drastic failure of the electorate, Trump did win, the complacency was only partially modified by the ensuing shock, followed soon after by rage. Robert Mueller would get him, good and hard, and as the dawn raids, indictments, and jail sentences piled up, many confident predictions floated up about the imminent demise of the Trump Administration. 

As victory continued to elude the anti-Trump forces, they gradually lost their complacency. The preposterous impeachment trial ginned up by the Democrats to punish Trump for talking on the telephone to the Ukrainian president was probably never intended to destroy Trump so much as hobble him in advance of the 2020 election. But the impeachment trial did reveal the incontinent fanaticism of the Left, their willingness to say anything, to do anything, to get their way. 

The coronavirus lockdowns and tyranny of the health police: that has been one part concern about public safety and 99 parts political weaponization of a crisis. The Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots and the surrounding orgy of racialist intimidation, on one side, and craven public penance, on the other, have been deployed as yet another prop in the campaign against Trump. Do you want the riots to stop? Remove the Bad Orange Man from the public square. “Nice little country you have there. Pity if something were to happen to it.”

And now that we are on the home stretch to the election—only two and a bit weeks to go—we see the full panoply of this fully operational anti-Trump Death Star on view. 

The media, in lockstep behind the anti-Trump narrative. Big Tech, eager to suppress, censor, skew, and dissemble to poison the well of public sentiment against the president. Recent efforts by Twitter and Facebook to “slow the spread” of revelations about Hunter Biden’s excellent Ukrainian adventure in influence peddling and self-dealing have been breathtaking and pointless. 

They are breathtaking because they illustrate the desperate-measures-for-desperate-straits mentality that has gripped the anti-Trump community. It’s not just that Mark Zuckerberg and his Chinese wife have poured $250 million into defeating Trump; he also used Facebook to limit any pro-Trump messaging. Twitter locked the account of the New York Post, America’s oldest newspaper and still the fifth-largest, because the paper had the temerity to publish news damaging to Joe Biden. The company has also intervened against the president’s own Twitter account and that of his press secretary, limiting their reach. 

In brief, the assault against Donald Trump, involving deceit and the dissemination of disinformation on an industrial scale, has shed its reflexive complacency and evolved into a monolithic, caterwauling tsunami of by-any-means-necessary hatred. 

A man who was beneath contempt and who moreover posed an existential threat to their political sinecures and the security of their tribe had been catapulted into the actual seat of power. Adding injury to the insult, he had also determined to wield that power, rolling back the regulatory state that was responsible for so many of their perquisites and sources of patronage. 

Trump also had, mirabile maldictu, used his constitutional powers to intervene in such cherished Petri dishes as academia. Imagine! Trump’s secretary of education actually going after institutions like Princeton and Yale for fostering the woke racialist policies of politically correct discrimination even as his foreign policy ended wars and remade the Middle East, an achievement that stands in such embarrassing contrast to their own legacy of failure. 

It was simply not to be borne. 

Donald Trump is socially and aesthetically impossible. That is reason enough to despise him. But he has also been assiduous about keeping his promises. He said he would move our embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. But presidents have been saying that since at least Bill Clinton. The Senate even passed a resolution demanding it. No one dared because, it was said, it would set the Middle East ablaze. “The Arab Street” would explode. But Trump did it and what happened? It turned out to be the prelude not to war, but to peace. A year or so later, Trump brokered the world-historical deal between the United Arab Emirates and Israel, itself the prelude to burgeoning comity among nations in the Middle East.

Trump’s economic policies crushed unemployment, especially among blacks and Hispanics; in the era B.C.—before coronavirus—both groups saw their unemployment numbers at historic lows while wages at the lower end were rising. The stock market—and the peoples’ retirement plans—also soared to historic heights even as taxes for the vast majority—something like 85 percent—of taxpayers went down because of Trump’s tax cuts. 

Trump promised to nominate judges in the mold of Antonin Scalia—that is to say, judges who would interpret the law, not use the bench to promulgate social policy; he has seen some 300 confirmed, not to mention two, soon to be three, Supreme Court justices. 

He promised to rebuild the military: he has spent a few trillion dollars doing just that, not only upgrading the nation’s arsenal but also investing heavily in increased wages for our military personnel. 

Donald Trump, like George Washington, and like every president until Woodrow Wilson, put America first. That meant trade policies that sought the best deal for American workers—free trade where possible, fair trade as an irreducible demand. 

And of course “America First” is about more than trade policy. At its core it is about saying “yes” to what used to be called the American creed, the conviction, spelled out in the Declaration of Independence, that, as a matter of moral prerogative, all men are created equal and should be treated as individuals. This conviction has an historical as well as an educational component, as was signaled both by Trump’s executive order banning the teaching of “critical race theory” (i.e., Marxist dogma) in federal agencies and his establishment of the 1776 Commission to celebrate America’s founding vision.

The irrefragable truth is that Donald Trump has kept more campaign promises than any president in memory. It is possible, of course, that you do not want what he promised: peace through strength, prosperity, less burdensome government, pride in America, an impartial judiciary. But, I submit, if you approve of those things then the irresistible conclusion is that Donald Trump has presided over the most successful first term in recent history—maybe ever. 

So, given all this, what does the hysterical and monolithic opposition to Donald Trump signify? What does the extensive and unremitting erasure of his achievements, of the public record of his words and deeds, mean? 

Partly, it is a matter of power politics. Trump was elected without the permission and over the strenuous objections of the left-wing commissariat and their adjutants in the rancid levies of the GOP and throughout the world of culture and the media. 

But the challenge to the president involves something in addition to the Hobbesian or Machiavellian calculus of political advantage. It also involves the presumption of an existential election. Indeed, that presumption seems to me to undergird the grubby jockeying for advantage that is always part of the political process. 

Hillary Clinton famously or infamously spoke of a large swath of the American populace as an “irredeemable” “basket of deplorables.” Armed with that conviction, her political heirs think it merely business as usual, simply the working out of public virtue, to do “whatever it takes” to dispose of so tainted an opponent, even if doing so requires their complicity in the destruction of everything that underwrites American strength, freedom, and prosperity. 

The good news is that we deplorables have noticed their machinations and are prepared to challenge their assault not only at the ballot box but also on their preferred theater of operation. I am confident that Donald Trump will win handily on November 3. If I am correct, but the Democrats refuse to acknowledge defeat, do not expect their opponents to go gently into that good night. 

The Biden Emails Prove Impeachment Was A Sham

The New York Post story shows once and for all that Trump's impeachment was all based on a lie.

David Marcus for The Federalist

Remember January? I know it feels like several lifetimes ago, the before times of life as we used to know it. But think back to the biggest story of those chilly days. It wasn’t the Chinese virus slowly spreading to our shores or the Democratic presidential primary. No, it was the impeachment of the president of the United States. This week’s bombshell New York Post story on Hunter Biden now shows what many of us suspected: The impeachment was a ridiculous sham.

The basis for the impeachment, for those whose recollections are understandably shaky, was that President Trump pressured the president of Ukraine to launch investigations into the energy company Burisma for the purely political purpose of hurting Joe Biden. Central to that allegation was the argument that Trump and the United States had no legitimate interest in seeing Burisma investigated. If the trove of emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop are accurate, and they have not been disputed, then this argument falls to pieces. 

Pam Bondi, working for the Trump defense team, said this back during the national ordeal about the Democratic House managers’ constant attempts to call allegations against the Bidens “baseless”:

In their trial memorandum, the House managers describe this as baseless. Now, why did they say that? Why did they invoke Biden or Burisma over 400 times? The reason they needed to do that is because they’re here saying that the president must be impeached and removed from office for raising a concern. And that’s why we have to talk about this today. They say ‘sham.’ They say ‘baseless.’ They say this because if it’s OK for someone to say, ‘Hey, you know what? Maybe there’s something here worth raising,’ then their case crumbles.

And here we are. If these emails are accurate, then it is as clear as is the summer sun that Hunter Biden was absolutely selling access to his father and the Obama administration in exchange for his lavish salary. This was literally at the heart of the Trump defense, and it really is a silver bullet. What reasonable person would even suggest that the president of the United States may not push allies to investigate legitimate corruption involving the executive branch of the federal government?

House Republicans this week sent requests for information to the FBI to see if they were in possession of these emails at the time of impeachment. It is an important question that the American people deserve an answer to. To borrow a phrase from another show-stopping trial of the century, if the email’s legit, you must acquit. As far as I know, there is no way to reverse an impeachment, but if there were one, now would be the time.

Remember, “Impeachment is forever”? It was the big catchphrase right before “Don’t touch your face” shot up to No. 1. When was the last time you even heard a Democrat say the word impeachment? If this black mark on Trump’s presidency is so very damning, then why isn’t the Biden campaign making a big deal about it? Or frankly, talking about it at all? The reason, of course, is that even back in January, Democrats were concerned that should Biden win the nomination, some of these chickens could come home to roost. Now they have, and my goodness, they are laying some heavy eggs.

What Trump must make clear in the final weeks of the election is that not only was his impeachment a giant lie, a despicable ploy by desperate Democrats, but it was also a massive cover-up on behalf of Joe Biden. It is time for what we naively thought would be the biggest story of 2020, namely impeachment, to make its way back into this election — not as Democrats intended as a negative for Trump, but as his ultimate vindication against charges we now know to be baseless, crude, and deeply cynical.

Unbelievable – Facebook’s Lead Executive on Election Policy Was...

Unbelievable – Facebook’s Lead Executive on Election Policy Was Vice-President Joe Biden’s Advisor to Ukraine

posted by sundance at the conservative treehouse

Hat Tip Fool Nelson – Put this in the stunning conflict of interest file that is truly jaw-dropping.  This is just unreal.

Anna Makanju is the Facebook executive in charge of “election integrity on the platform”; and guess what her job was before that position… “Previously, she was the special policy adviser for Europe and Eurasia to former US Vice President Joe Biden”. (citation)

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That’s right folks, the Facebook executive currently blocking all of the negative evidence of Hunter and Joe Biden’s corrupt activity in Ukraine is the same person who was coordinating the corrupt activity between the Biden family payoffs and Ukraine.

You just cannot make this stuff up folks.

That ‘Impassioned’ Speech Biden Gave in Detroit?

‘Sneaked’ Video of ‘Yuuge’ Teleprompter Shows How LOL It Was

Mike Miller reporting for RedState

As a political writer, I sometimes run across political news that I find more humorous than serious. While the current political climate is far from humorous, this political “news” was one of those times.

As I was writing an article, yesterday, Fox News began to air a Joe Biden “rally” in Novi, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.

The first thing that struck me was how faux-impassioned Biden came across as he delivered the speech. The second thing that struck me was how “Sleepy Joe” stared straight ahead as if he were in a trance.

I posted on Facebook as I was watching:

“Oh, THIS is embarrassing. Biden is faux-SCREAMING a speech in Detroit as we speak. Poor dude looks clueless.”

While we’ve seen multiple examples of Biden’s staged events, this one just had a different, creepy, almost Orwellian feel. It was just weird.

As luck would have it, a video clip of the “rally” has emerged, apparently taken by one of the few attendees, which provides “the rest of the story” of Biden’s weird speech.

The blaring car horns were a nice touch, don’t you think?

As this Twitter user said, “the only thing massive about Biden’s rally must have been his teleprompter because no one has yet to show a picture of the crowd size.”

Because there was no “crowd.”

The content of Biden’s speech was little more than his typical stump stuff, so I won’t bore you with that, here.

When he was finished speaking, Joe put his cap back on — and mask, of course — and appeared to click his heels as he turned to his right and saluted the air — although he might have been looking at an American flag. He then walked slowly off the stage.

Again, not big news. Just Joe being Joe. But this Joe “rally” was creepier than most — and that’s pretty high (low) bar.

In related news, President Donald Trump joked during a fired-up rally in Georgia on Friday night that he might “leave the country,” if he loses the White House to Biden, as I covered in my earlier article titled Trump Jokes About Leaving US if He Loses; Democrats Promptly Take Hook, Line, and Sinker.

“I shouldn’t joke, because you know what? I’m running against the worst candidate in the history of presidential politics [which] puts pressure on me. Could you imagine if I lose?

“My whole life, what am I gonna do? I’m gonna say ‘I lost to the worst candidate in the history of politics.’ I’m not gonna feel so good. Maybe I’ll have to leave the country? I don’t know.”

TDS-riddled Democrats jump all over the “news,” as Trump might say, “more than you can imagine.”

Only 17 days to go, folks. Regardless of the outcome, I’m going to miss this campaign. Kinda sorta, anyway.