Posts on Monday, June 22, 2020
Should Trump worry?
replies
The low turnout at the Trump campaign rally in Tulsa is an ominous sign for the upcoming election. Brad Parscale, Trump 2020 campaign manager, blamed the media, saying it spooked people with its constant hyping of the damages of the Wuhan virus.
That is undoubtedly true, and accordingly, that disappointing turnout is not a true indication of the support the president has. However, it does show the power the liberal media still has in framing the narrative. Remember, the low turnout was at the rally in Tulsa, which is hardcore Trump country.
We conservatives have to be careful of myopic thinking.
D.C. police said that it appeared that protesters Monday were trying to take down a statue of Andrew Jackson in a park near the White House. D.C. police and U.S. Park Police moved demonstrators back from Lafayette Square Park, as protesters tell NBC Washington that they wanted to tear down the statue of Andrew Jackson located near the White House. A line of law enforcement was formed to try to stop the protesters from gaining access to the statue, NBC Washington’s Shomari Stone told WTOP. Earlier, he said some protesters put ropes around the statue in an attempt to pull it down.
Demonstrators outside the White House have declared a “Black House Autonomous Zone,” in apparent imitation of the secessionist enclave in Seattle. According to video from on-scene reporters at Lafayette Park, the demonstrators are marking the Zone by, among other things, desecrating St. John’s Episcopal Church. One video from the Daily Caller showed the letters “BHAZ” spray painted on the columns holding up the traditional “church of presidents.” The church was vandalized despite having been very receptive for weeks toward the protesters, even criticizing President Trump for posing in front of the church after police had cleared out an earlier round of demonstrators from Lafayette Park.
In a rush for Fulton County district attorney Paul Howard to distract from the investigation of his own wrongdoings regarding a missing $140,000, Howard quickly charged former police officer Garrett Rolfe with eleven felonies before an investigation could be properly done into a police shooting. Not only is Howard under investigation, but he is in a hotly contested primary in August. Howard did not take the case to the Grand Jury and, in an apparent political move, immediately charged Rolfe.
On June 12, 2020, Rayshard Brooks, 27, fought with two police officers and grabbed one of their taser guns.
Race activist Shaun King on Monday called for the taking down of all statues, murals and stained glass windows of “white Jesus and his European mother”. King issued his statement on Twitter to his 1.1 million followers. (Photos) The Pieta by Michelangelo, via Italian Renaissance.“Yes, I think the statues of the white European they claim is Jesus should also come down. They are a form of white supremacy. Always have been. In the Bible, when the family of Jesus wanted to hide, and blend in, guess where they went? EGYPT! Not Denmark. Tear them down.”
MINNEAPOLIS — The Minneapolis Police Department says officers are routinely walking into hostile situations and crime scenes where they are not welcome. It happened at least twice last night alone. Now, police officers are pleading for cooperation, as others double down asking for systematic change. (Snip) “We had somebody actually grab ahold of an officer’s gun, and thats a felony, and at that point additional officers were called in,” Elder said. Around the same time Friday, more officer resistance was reported at a different shooting scene. “As officers arrived there were two people shot, and people were coming out and
The Trump administration on Monday extended a ban on green cards issued outside the United States until the end of the year and added many temporary work visas to the freeze, including those used heavily by technology companies and multinational corporations. The administration cast the effort as a way to free up jobs in an economy reeling from the coronavirus. A senior official who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity predicted it will open up to 525,000 jobs for Americans. The ban, while temporary, would amount to major restructuring of legal immigration if made permanent, (snip). Long-term changes that would prevent many asylum seekers from getting work permits
Two large sculptures celebrating mass migration will be unveiled in London next year, the Guardian has revealed.
It was announced Monday, on the UK’s second ever ‘Windrush Day’ that works by artists Thomas J Price and Veronica Ryan will be erected in London’s Hackney borough in 2021. Windrush Day commemorates the beginning of the modern mass migration era in Britain in 1948, and was instituted in 2018 after members of that original generation of post-war migrant arrivals detained deported because of government error, causing a significant scandal.
The pieces, which include a sculpture of fruit and a nine-foot statue of a Hackney local are “a statement of pride” for members of the
President Trump is expected to expand an existing executive order to further halt the inflow of foreign visa workers while more than 30 million Americans remain unemployed.
Multiple sources who spoke to NPR said Trump is likely to sign an expansion of his April immigration executive order that halted new employment-based green cards, a small category of the more than two million legal immigrants and foreign workers who are admitted to the United States every year.
The expansion, which Trump may sign this weekend, is expected to halt the inflow of foreign workers arriving on H-1B visas, L-1 visas, J-1 visas, and H-2B visas.
Fired US Attorney Berman Mistakenly
Believed SDNY Stood for “Sovereign
District of New York” replies
Believed SDNY Stood for “Sovereign
District of New York” replies
The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that a disagreement between the Justice Department and fired Southern District of New York US Attorney Geoffrey Berman, concerning a letter that would have been critical of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio with regard to NYC’s enforcement of “social distancing” rules on religious practices, likely played a role in Attorney General William Barr’s decision on Friday evening to announce that Berman would be “stepping down” and Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton would be nominated to be the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York. (Snip)Barr was in New York during the day on Friday
The Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers to avoid nine brands of potentially toxic hand sanitizers.According to the report, the antibacterial gels and lotions in question may contain methanol, which can be lethal if absorbed through the skin.At the start of the coronavirus outbreak, stores could hardly keep hand sanitizer stocked on shelves. Now, having access to the ubiquitous product could be a matter of life and death.The agency’s alert specifically calls out products by Mexico-based manufacturer Eskbiochem SA de CV, asking them to pull these “potentially dangerous products” from the US market.
Shaun King says Jesus images 'a form
of white supremacy' that must go:
'They should all come down' replies
of white supremacy' that must go:
'They should all come down' replies
Shaun King said Monday it’s time for anything resembling “white Jesus” to be expunged from the public square. The staunch Black Lives Matter activist made the comments as online activists continued to debate which statues and monuments were culturally unacceptable in 2020.(Snip)“Yes,” Mr. King said regarding his support for tearing down images of Christ. “All murals and stained glass windows of white Jesus, and his European mother, and their white friends should also come down. They are a gross form [of] white supremacy. Created as tools of oppression. Racist propaganda. They should all come down.” The activist doubled down on the matter
With entitled members of pampered Gen-Z actively engaged in the cultural cleansing of the United States, looking back on history through today’s hard left lens, leave it to someone who has experienced this before to put things into perspective. A woman who said she is from Venezuela posted a video amid the insanity gripping American streets, where even statutes of Union generals who led the fight to free the slaves isn’t safe.“Why do I even worry about some silly little statue coming down? Or some silly little street names changing? Why do I even care?” she asked.“It’s because the last time I didn’t care,” the woman then said,
The New York Police Department has reported a staggering increase in shooting numbers, and injuries, as officials warn there’s “a storm on the horizon” – and say changes must be made.
An estimated 72 people were wounded in 53 shootings citywide from June 15 through Sunday night, an NYPD spokesperson said Monday morning. The department saw 14 shooting victims in 12 shootings for the same time period last year, data shows.Those numbers include a 24-hour period on Saturday that recorded about two dozen shootings in that time frame, the spokesperson confirmed. Those numbers include a 24-hour period on Saturday that recorded about two dozen shootings in that time frame
A World War II memorial in North Carolina’s largest city was reportedly defaced over the weekend with a hammer and sickle. The 20-foot-tall memorial, located at Evergreen Cemetery in Charlotte, contains the names of more than 500 county residents who died fighting in WWII, WBTV reported. (Snip) A portion of the WWII monument that read, “Dedicated to the memory of the Mecklenburg heroes of World War II who made the supreme sacrifice that you might live in liberty, freedom and peace,” was also covered in yellow paint.
The Elites Are Revolting
replies
Our Establishment is revolting – in fact, it stinks on ice. What you see out there is our alleged betters struggling mightily to hold onto the power that we Normal people dared to wrest away from them in 2016. One component of their campaign is the burning and looting information operation conducted by black-clad pawns. The other component is the soft power corporate/media/cultural conspiracy to silence dissent and enforce fearful conformity to their narrative. Usually, a revolution is conducted by the peasants to throw off a tyrannical ruling class. Here, the ruling class is waging a political and cultural war to retake and then tighten its grip on the masses.
Political and public health leaders appear to have contracted another case of lockdown fever. The governors of Oregon and Utah recently hit pause on their states' reopening efforts. Gov. Andrew Cuomo threatened to do the same in New York City on June 14, even as the city prepares for a new stage of re-opening on June 22.
Meanwhile, public health experts maintain it's unsafe for people to congregate – unless, of course, they're attending a protest that lines up with the progressive consensus.
This is all absurd. After months of lockdown, the most reasonable interpretations of the data indicate that the COVID-19 outbreak is largely contained to a few geographic hotspots
Former White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders slams former National Security Adviser John Bolton as a man “drunk on power” in her forthcoming book expected to be released later this year.
Sanders, a Fox News contributor, shared a scathing passage pertaining to Bolton -- who has made waves with his own memoir skewering President Trump -- in a lengthy Twitter thread Monday morning.
“Full excerpt from my forthcoming book 'Speaking for Myself,' about John Bolton, a man drunk on power who ultimately betrayed America when he didn’t get his way,” Sanders tweeted.
Talladega, Ala.—In an extraordinary act of solidarity with NASCAR’s only Black driver, dozens of drivers pushed the car belonging to Bubba Wallace to the front of the field before Monday’s race as FBI agents nearby tried to find out who left a noose in his garage stall over the weekend.(Snip) The 26-year-old Wallace was surrounded by all 39 other drivers in the moments before the race and they were joined by their crews in a march down pit road as they pushed his No. 43 to the front of the line. Wallace climbed out of his car and wept. It was a stirring move
Two years ago, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was a 28-year-old former Bernie Sanders organizer and member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Then she won a shocking primary win over Joe Crowley, the No. 4 ranking House Democrat, in a New York City district that had turned Hispanic but been ignored by Crowley.
Now, in Tuesday’s primary, AOC faces a moderate challenger who says it’s AOC who has become a distant figure to her poor Bronx and Queens constituents, one more interested in superstardom and her 7.3 million Twitter followers than in bringing jobs to the district.
Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, a former business-news anchor on CNBC
Trump Fights the Last War
replies
It’s an old story: fighting the next war with the last war’s battle plan, as if prior success guarantees future victory. So here was President Trump after the Supreme Court gave him another thumping on Thursday, vowing to release “a new list of Conservative Supreme Court Justice nominees” in September — i.e., around the back stretch galloping toward the Election Day finish line.
The president reasons: “Based on decisions being rendered now, this list is more important than ever before (Second Amendment, Right to Life, Religious Liberty, etc.).” (Snip)
If you needed a laugh to get you through just-another-day-at-the-Apocalypse, our “Conservative” president then proceeded to post no fewer
School axes George Washington event,
says it ignores 'significant role'
of women, people of color replies
says it ignores 'significant role'
of women, people of color replies
A Nashville prep school for girls has ended its annual George Washington event after determining it wasn’t inclusive enough in the wake of the George Floyd protests. Harpeth Hall School announced last week that after “years” of discussion it was ending the annual “George Washington Celebration”—a tradition that began in 1913 and “experienced many evolutions over the decades,” the school said in a statement to The Tennessee Star, The Daily Wire reported. Ms. Hill said school officials determined the celebration “is not consistent with or relevant to the way that we teach history today,” and that “it does not demonstrate the significant
Never Trumper George Conway appears to be attempting to sabotage President Trump’s next event just one day after the president’s critics took credit for a TikTok prank, which they claim flooded the campaign with fake RSVPs, thereby heightening expectations for Saturday’s rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, attended by 6,200.
The president is scheduled to speak at a Students for Trump event in Phoenix on Tuesday. However, Trump critics are seemingly hoping to bombard his upcoming campaign events by artificially inflating the numbers with fake RSVPs, much like what Trump critics say occurred on Saturday.
Conway, husband to President Donald Trump’s adviser, Kellyanne Conway,
An illegal alien, deported after killing four American children in a 2008 school bus crash, has been sentenced to two years in prison for returning illegally to the United States.
Olga Marina Franco del Cid, a 35-year-old illegal alien from Guatemala, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota, to two years in prison after illegally re-entering the country.
On February 18, 2008, Franco del Cid ran a stop sign and hit a school bus of 28 schoolchildren. Franco del Cid killed 13-year-old Jesse Javens, 12-year-old Reed Stevens, nine-year-old Emilee Olson, and nine-year-old Hunter Javens, and injured another 14.
China is a ruthless meritocracy. 10 million high-school students take the gaokao (college entrance exam) each year, with math questions a lot tougher than our Graduate Record Examination. (Snip) Meanwhile the University of California is “phasing out” standardized exam (SAT and ACT) scores as a criteria for admission, in order to build a Potemkin village of equality. China is building up its universities and we are destroying ours. Who do you think will run the world a couple of decades from now?
China is the most racist country in the world. It put between 1 and 2 million members of the Turkic Muslim Uyghur minority through “re-education camps”
It’s an interesting comparison to note. The ideological interests behind the 2010 “Arab Spring” uprising are the exact same ideological interests behind the 2020 “Black Lives Matter” protests/uprising. Not merely similar people, but the exact same people. The exact same group of U.S. people who were promoting the mid-east Arab Spring in 2010 are the same people now promoting the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. The same politicians; the same media voices; the same newspapers; the same social media activists. Almost every participant, and their support for the uprising ’10 -vs- ’20 is identical. Correction*
Activists sue to block a Trump rally, the New York Times fires a non-compliant editor, Twitter “fact-checks” conservative voices. Ivanka Trump, Sid Rosenberg, Erik Prince, Raymond Ibrahim, Jeh Johnson, Kevin McAleenan and countless others “disinvited” to speak on college campuses. Wonder where today’s “cancel culture” comes from? It comes from college campuses, fueled by young people and abetted by an older generation that has not had the courage to say no. This is how the slide toward totalitarianism begins. Silencing the opposition is essential to creating “legitimacy” for despots like Vladimir Putin or Kim Jong Un;
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in the Texas Rio Grande Valley seized more than 137 pounds of methamphetamine at the Brownsville/Matamoros International Bridge last week. Officials valued the seizure at more than $2.7 million.
Rio Grande Valley Sector CBP officers assigned to the Brownsville/Matamoros International Bridge on June 17 observed a tan 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe approaching from Mexico for inspection. Officers identified the driver as a 72-year-old Mexican man. The officers referred the driver to a secondary inspection station, according to information obtained from CBP officials.
In the secondary inspection area, officers scanned the truck with a non-intrusive imaging system. A K-9 also conducted a preliminary walk around.
Nearly 300 people gathered to show support for law enforcement officers and their families in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, Saturday.
“We came out to the support police because we think what’s going on right now and that they’re getting a raw shake,” said attendee Amy Rhodes, according to Deseret News.
“We feel they just need all the support they can get,” she continued.
Former Salt Lake City police officer Eric Moutsos organized the “Blue Rally” event that lasted about 90 minutes and said he believed most Americans still supported the police even after the death of George Floyd.
“But they’re just afraid, and we don’t have to divide on this issue.
Brett Favre says that Colin Kaepernick’s decision to forego his NFL career in order to continue his anthem protests and social justice movement, is a sacrifice in league with former NFL player and Army Ranger Pat Tillman.
Further, Favre believes that eventually Kaepernick, like Tillman, will be thought of as a “hero.”
In a recent interview with TMZ, the former Packer legend went in-depth on his reasoning for believing that Kaepernick deserves heroic status for his protests and movement.
“It’s not easy for a guy his age — black or white, Hispanic, whatever — to stop something that you’ve always dreamed of doing, and put it on hold,
Paris Dennard told Breitbart News Saturday on SiriusXM that he expects the 2020 election to be a clear contrast between President Trump and Joe Biden, especially as it relates to delivering for black Americans.
Host Matt Boyle noted that, in Biden’s time in the U.S. Senate, there were six resolutions that would have declared Juneteenth a national holiday, and Biden didn’t so-sponsor a single one. [Audio clip]
Dennard added that Trump is asking Americans to look at his record and “Ask, ‘what have I done for you lately?’ Ask, ‘What have I done for you for the past 2 1/2 years?’
The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville is investigating how it came to print a full-page advertisement Sunday by a fringe biblical prophecy group that claimed 'Islam' is set to detonate a nuclear bomb in the city.The ad, which featured pictures of Donald Trump, Pope Francis, and burning US flags, was credited to the Ministry of Future of America - a group that claims its mission is to 'proclaim the final warning message' from the Bible. Titled 'Dear Citizen of Nashville', the lengthy 'prophecy' features several paragraphs of anti-Muslim rhetoric claiming that the Bible predicts Islam’s role is to bring 'all men on planet earth together to combat them.'
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) discussed the allegations in the new book by former national security adviser John Bolton and the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.
According to the California Democrat, Trump has already been proven “guilty” by the U.S. House of Representatives.
Schiff said, “I would put frankly, at the top of the list the willingness to change tariffs if only China would help him get re-elected and this is a perfect echo of his misconduct with Ukraine, but more than that, we warned during the trial that you could only count on Donald Trump to do what’s right for him
In the good old days of the internet blogosphere, there was a running bit at Jeff Goldstein’s blog Protein Wisdom which provided a name for John Bolton’s prominent mustache – “Regis”, a globe-trotting nuke-loving Hamas-bashing sexually aggressive bon-vivant with lush whiskey-tinged follicles. The image is ridiculous of course, but it is not far from the image the real John Bolton paints of himself in the absurdly entertaining pages of his book, (Snip)
It is true unadulterated fan-fic for Bolton lovers everywhere. He is always right. He is always noble. His purposes are always true. Anyone who disagrees with him is an idiot, or possibly worse.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler appears with for an interview by furrowed brow to discuss his upcoming use of former DOJ lawyers John W. Elias and Aaron S.J. Zelinsky as designated “whistleblowers” to give testimony against AG Bill Barr this week.
Zelinsky and Elias are being brought in to testify about their recommendation(s) for a nine-year prison sentence for Roger Stone & AG Bill Barr reducing that recommendation. The purpose of the Zelinsky/Elias move was specifically to get the AG to intervene. It was all a set up from the start; purposeful Lawfare. A resistance strategy, executed.
When something cannot go on, it certainly will not go on. But what are the symptoms of what cannot go on and when? There are two historic red lines and our revolution is getting close to both. When Normal People Grow Weary --One is when “average” people, both white and nonwhite, who identify neither with Left nor Right, woke nor unwoke, become frightened or appalled by the violence and the anarchy—and thus finally move to dismantle the guillotine as the razor increasingly starts haircutting friends, idols, and compatriots. Their verdict can be known either by demonstrating themselves, boycotting, voting, or massive civil disobedience.
Authorities identified a Newark man who was killed and an Englewood man who was wounded when gunfire broke out during at a house party in Englewood.
Douglas Perry, 43, was taken to Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, shortly after 1 a.m. Saturday. It was the third homicide this past week in Bergen County, which had nine all of last year.(Snip) Shell casings were recovered both at the scene and a block away, responders said. Investigators were trying to sort out exactly what happened. Despite a large number of people who remained at the scene, witnesses weren't cooperating, they told Daily Voice.
President Trump is speaking out against the removal of a statue of former President Theodore Roosevelt from outside the American Museum of Natural History.
“Ridiculous, don’t do it!” the commander-in-chief tweeted in response to the news early Monday morning, citing a Washington Times article on the subject. On Sunday, the museum and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio jointly announced that the bronze statue would be coming down, citing the statue’s composition itself over the legacy of the former US president.The statue which depicts the former president on horseback
President Donald Trump told the Daily Caller about a series of conversations he had with former National Security Adviser John Bolton that made him realize Bolton was a “dumb maniac who wants to go to war with any anybody that can breathe.”
Trump, during an hour-long exclusive interview in the Oval Office, said that, despite knowing of Bolton’s hawkish foreign policy, he hired him “to hear both sides.” (Photo) “This guy’s a dumb maniac that wants to go to war with any anybody that can breathe,” he continued. “And I like to hear all sides, and I like to hear his side.”
At least 100 people were shot, 14 fatally, in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago over Father’s Day Weekend 2020. The Chicago Sun-Times reports the first non-fatal shooting of the weekend occurred around 6:30 p.m. Friday, when a vehicle pulled up near a 35-year-old woman and the occupants opened fire. The woman was transported to hospital with gunshot wounds to her arm. NBC Chicago reports the last non-fatal shooting of the weekend took place around 12:30 a.m. Monday, when an 18-year-old woman was shot while “driving in the 5100 block of South Calumet.”The first fatal shooting of the weekend occurred at 9:52 p.m. Friday, when
Two people were killed and at least 12 hurt early Monday after a Juneteenth street party erupted in gunfire in the 1800 block of Beatties Ford Road in northwest Charlotte, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police. Five of the 12 injured people were struck by cars as they began scrambling across streets away from the gunfire, police said. As many as six of the people had life-threatening injuries, Medic told the Observer’s news partner, WBTV.(Snip) Investigators say there is evidence “several shooters discharged dozens of shots into the crowd.” It was not clear who the suspects were targeting. In addition to those who were shot,
An Italian infectious disease doctor believes the coronavirus has become less dangerous — and could disappear on its own without a vaccine.
Dr. Matteo Bassetti, the head of the infectious diseases clinic at the San Martino hospital, said the virus appears to have become less potent, possibly due to genetic mutations, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
“The clinical impression I have is that the virus is changing in severity,” Bassetti told the outlet.
Enlarge ImageHand sanitizer and face mask
Shutterstock
“In March and early April the patterns were completely different.
A noose was found in the garage stall of Darrell "Bubba" Wallace Jr. and the No. 43 Richard Petty Motorsports team Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway, NASCAR said in a statement released Sunday night.
The statement read in full:
"Late this afternoon, NASCAR was made aware that a noose was found in the garage stall of the 43 team. We are angry and outraged, and cannot state strongly enough how seriously we take this heinous act.
John Oliver embodies the mentality of the elitists who look down on President Trump and his supporters as ignorant buffoons even better than his HBO colleague, Bill Maher. The very people whose self-regard is dependent on their academic credentials, social standing and career prestige adore Oliver (snip) With all this standing as an Important Voice, Oliver should face a reckoning for mocking President Trump when he warned us in 2017 that after the mob was done with Confederate monuments, the Founding Fathers would be next, a prophecy that played out just last week.
So much for Seattle's 'summer of love.' That's some 'block party atmosphere' they've got in the CHOP.
Less than two weeks after Seattle's mayor allowed warlords to declare an autonomous zone over six blocks of Seattle in the name of 'abolishing' the police, the place is already starting to look like Liberia. (snip) Apparently, the cops couldn't get in in order to clear a path to allow the first responding medics in.
And for that, the warlords running that hole are blaming cops for their own barbaric rule.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo trolled John Bolton after the fired National Security Advisor told the Daily Telegraph he would likely vote for Joe Biden.Earlier Sunday afternoon, The Daily Telegraph reported that John Bolton told the paper in an exclusive interview that he would be voting for Joe Biden.Bolton’s spokesperson released a statement Sunday night denying the fired NatSec Advisor had plans to vote for Biden.It turns out Bolton won’t vote for Trump or Biden (who really cares?)
Despite 2020’s tough start, Trump’s base remains solid, which bodes well for his November. National polls have recently shown a widening Biden lead; considering the current political environment, this is not surprising. What is surprising is how well Trump has held up, and how well it positions him as political tides turn.
The current Real Clear Politics average of national presidential polling gives Biden a 50.1% to 41.3% lead less than five months from November’s election. This fits conventional expectations that 2020’s rough first half is damaging the president’s re-election chances. However, looking inside these national polls reveals a crucial
President Donald Trump noted during his rally in Tulsa, Okla., Saturday night that a number of Democrat-run cities including Seattle continue to suffer mass protests and remain under siege by Left-wing activists, but that he won’t interfere with federal law enforcement or the military. “How about Seattle, isn’t that great?” Trump began to howls and boos from the crowd. “So they take over a big chunk of a city called Seattle. I mean, we’re not talking about some little place, we’re talking about Seattle. (Tweet/Video)
In a Sunday interview which aired on ABC News, former National Security Advisor John Bolton said his “hope” is that history remembers President Donald Trump as a “one-term president who didn’t plunge the country irretrievably into a downward spiral” from which it cannot recover.As he discussed his forthcoming tell-all book, “The Room Where It Happened,” Bolton emphasized he does not believe Trump to be a conservative Republican nor “competent to serve” as commander in chief. “I’ve made my case about the president’s not being a conservative and not being competent to serve in the book,” Bolton told ABC News
As a young journalist starting out many years ago, I was proud to join a profession where so many men and women had distinguished themselves through honest, thorough investigations, entertaining features, and excellence in writing. But for a long while, I’ve been depressed to see much of the press openly working as political operatives. Objectivity in reporting was always impossible, but at least it used to be discussed as a goal. Now journalists boast of their advocacy journalism for an increasingly leftist agenda. Former CBS reporter Bernard Goldberg chronicled the media’s slanting of the news in the first of his bestselling books, Bias.
Late Thursday, Nancy Pelosi had four of her predecessors removed from a Portrait Collection that adorns the Speaker’s Lobby in Congress. These Democratic Speakers were ostensibly banished from the halls of Congress pursuant to their Confederate ties. Madam Speaker insisted in a news conference that she was unaware of the portraits or their unsavory provenance until recently, despite their conspicuous location just outside the House chamber where she has worked for the last 33 years. Having finally learned of the offensive paintings, Pelosi ordered them taken down. Oddly, she neglects to note in her letter ordering the removal that all had been Democrats:
As President Trump plans a no-expense-spared, blow-out convention in Jacksonville, Fla., some Democrats are increasingly nervous their party’s pandemic-conscious gathering won’t be able to offer up a compelling alternative.
“The nightmare scenario is [Trump] comes out and rallies his base and gives a speech to an insane crowd and it is covered on every channel and he catapults himself into the fall with an energized base,” one Democratic insider familiar with convention planning told The Post. He said he fears Democrats might counter with “delegates in social-distance folding chairs listening to Joe Biden to an audience tuning in on Zoom.”
“The optics of that are just awful,” the insider continued.
One of the four former Minneapolis cops charged in the murder of George Floyd was accosted by a fellow shopper during a recent supermarket trip, viral video of the run-in shows.
J. Alexander Keung, freed Friday evening on $750,000 bail, was stocking up at a Cub Foods in the Minneapolis suburb of Plymouth when another shopper started recording on her phone and moved in.
“What’s your name?” asked the woman as she approached Keung, 26, in the tense video posted by a user who identified the shopper as their sister.
“Oh, yeah, that’s me,” replied the bearded Keung, appearing bewildered by the encounter, but calm.
Tough-talking, alleged shoplifter-shooting, 88-year-old Nashville liquor store owner May Boyce wants criminals to know “I’m fed up and I’m not taking it anymore.”
The octogenarian was back at work Saturday after being charged with aggravated assault for shooting a man she said was trying to steal whiskey.
“I did what I had to do, and I hope word gets out on the street that I’m fed up and I’m not taking it anymore,” she told The Post Saturday from her store, where supportive customers lined up. “You’ve got to stick up for yourself sometimes.”
Boyce said she’s been robbed a number of times in the past, especially over the past four years,
When Trump’s Tulsa rally had lower attendance than expected, Democrats declared victory. They were wrong to do so. This was a win for Trump, no matter how you look at it. (snip) First, Democrats openly used a Chinese communist media platform to interfere with an American election. That’s not a good look. Second, although this was a digital scam, the game-playing the Democrats are boasting about matches perfectly what Attorney General Bill Barr warns will happen if Democrat states insist on mail-in voting (snip) Third, Byron York points out that punking campaign events will become the new standard for Biden rallies too.
The Elites Are Revolting
replies
Our Establishment is revolting – in fact, it stinks on ice. What you see out there is our alleged betters struggling mightily to hold onto the power that we Normal people dared to wrest away from them in 2016. One component of their campaign is the burning and looting information operation conducted by black-clad pawns. The other component is the soft power corporate/media/cultural conspiracy to silence dissent and enforce fearful conformity to their narrative. Usually, a revolution is conducted by the peasants to throw off a tyrannical ruling class. Here, the ruling class is waging a political and cultural war to retake and then tighten its grip on the masses.
No wonder Joe Biden is hiding in his basement.
He is going to need more than just a face mask to survive this campaign. Somebody needs to get the guy a body cast after President Trump’s rally in Tulsa on Saturday night.
It is not even elder abuse. I mean, yeah, the guy is near 80 years old and he seems all talked out. Vacant. Lost. And lonely. But the problem isn’t how long Mr. Biden has been alive. The problem is how long he has been in Washington. Or, as Mr. Trump described it, “four decades of betrayal, calamity and failure.”
The cesspool that is the United Nations Human Rights Council has decided that its top official, a Chilean socialist called Michelle Bachelet, shall “prepare a report on systemic racism, violations of international human rights law against Africans and people of African descent by law enforcement agencies, especially those incidents that resulted in the death of George Floyd and other Africans and of people of African descent.” The “systemic racism” and human rights violations are assumed. Apparently, Bachelet’s task is to write these conclusions up.
But Bachelet won’t be without a subject to investigate. Assisted by UN appointed independent rights experts and committees
John Bolton’s Limp Revenge
replies
Reporters and columnists around the world are falling all over themselves to scour former national security adviser John Bolton’s White House memoir, The Room Where It Happened, for tidbits of criticism of President Trump. They don’t have to look hard to find them.
Bolton’s memoir is not the usual “tell all” book by a former White House staffer. It’s a “get even” book that White House trade adviser Peter Navarro called “revenge porn,” which is not far off the mark.
I have a slight advantage over most of the people commenting on Bolton’s book because I read it before writing about it.
You'll be forgiven for stifling a yawn as we delve into the details of yet another Cannonball record. And although the overall New York City-to-Redondo Beach, California record has allegedly been broken again by some folks who have not yet emerged from the shadowy world of hearsay and conjecture, that's not the one we're going to tell you about today. What we're here to talk about is a record that's so stupid it's brilliant, and so crazy it's just about what we've come to expect as the elapsed times on these ill-advised adventures have crept ever closer to the 24-hour mark.
We're talking about a solo run.
Look No Further Than Andrew Cuomo
and Gretchen Whitmer to Understand
Why Conservatives Hate the Media replies
and Gretchen Whitmer to Understand
Why Conservatives Hate the Media replies
This has been kicking around in my head for a couple of days now. I was interviewing my comedian friend Kevin Downey Jr. for my latest Kruiser Kabana podcast and — as conservatives are wont to do — we got around to discussing the thorough awfulness of the mainstream media. We are all aware that examples of said awfulness abound but the two that were freshest in my mind were the MSM treatment of the two worst governors in America: Andrew Cuomo and Gretchen Whitmer.
Throughout almost all of March, April, and May we bombarded with stories about Cuomo’s brilliant handling of the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in New York.
At least one person was shot on Sunday night inside Seattle’s autonomous protest zone, where demonstrators have settled during the civil unrest sparked by the death of George Floyd at the hands of police officers.
The Seattle Police Department said in a tweet at 11:26 p.m. that one person had suffered a gunshot wound while inside the area and that a second shooting may have taken place. “Police investigating reported shooting inside CHOP zone,” the department wrote. “One person at HMC with gun shot wound.”
The “CHOP zone” refers to the so-called Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone, which was originally created as a space for nonviolent demonstration
A Tennessee newspaper said Sunday it is investigating what its editor called a “horrific” full-page advertisement from a religious group that predicts a terrorist attack in Nashville next month.
The paid advertisement that appeared in Sunday's editions of The Tennessean from the group Future For America claims Donald Trump “is the final president of the USA” and features a photo of Trump and Pope Francis. It begins by claiming that a nuclear device would be detonated in Nashville and that the attack would be carried out by unspecific interests of “Islam.”
A Joe Biden victory in November would be a "tragic setback" for the country, "The Next Revolution" host Steve Hilton argued Sunday night.
Pointing to President Trump's campaign rally Saturday in Tulsa, Hilton asserted during his opening monologue that only Trump is capable of facilitating "long-term change to right the wrongs of the establishment's 50 years of failure."
"Here's why a second Trump term is so important. 2016 was a populace revolution and ever since, the establishment have been desperate to get their power back," Hilton said.
A moral panic is sweeping the nation. How we react to the pitchfork hordes will determine the fate of our country for a generation or longer.
We call what the hordes do to our fellow citizens “cancel culture,” but the term is far too cute to capture the cruel, mindless and life-destroying process taking place all around us in the name of “fighting racism.”
The tendency has been with us for some time, but the current, extra-crazed moment has accelerated its malignant energies: Locked in for months due to COVID-19, we re-emerged into a society more enraged and at war with itself than ever before.
Make the Inner City Great Again
replies
Watching the Trump Administration’s reaction to the re-emergence of Black Lives Matter (it is amazing how these kinds of protests seem to wax, on schedule, every four years, isn’t it?), one gets the impression that it has been wrongfooted. The administration seems, at times, defensive, even paranoid, about charges of “racism.”
What is needed is a way to go back on offense. And President Trump, as we all know, is nothing if not good at taking the offense. What is needed, in other words, is a Greatness Agenda for America’s race problem. I suggest that such an agenda begin in the inner city. A “Make the Inner City Great Again” campaign.
How Ex-Slaves Freed America
replies
It is one of the supreme ironies of American history that our nation and our freedoms were saved by men who had been enslaved.
I think this story is not as widely told as it should be. Perhaps it does not fit today’s ideological narrative that black Americans are eternal victims of white privilege, and that blacks and whites must remain enemies.
But the heroism of the 180,000 black Americans who served for the United States during the Civil War ought to be recognized, remembered, and honored. They filled the Union ranks, fought, and died, and ultimately made it impossible for the Confederacy to fight on.
“Hey, remember when that giant whale exploded into a million disgusting pieces all over us? Why hasn’t that vomitous occasion ever been enshrined by a public park?”
For those of you who’ve ever asked that question, I have exceedingly wonderful news.
Nearly a half-century after Oregon blew up an 8-ton beached whale, check out the newest addition to the state’s coastal parks - You’ll be pleased as punch to know you can now visit Florence, Oregon’s Exploding Whale Memorial Park.
For the uninitiated:
Nearly 50 years ago, a gigantic, dead whale washed up onto a Pacific Northwest shore
In his “I Have a Dream” address of August 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called for an end to the scourge of racism in the United States. Although our nation has made significant progress in the 57 years since Rev. King’s speech, the unjust murder of George Floyd proves there is still much work and healing to be done.
We must never forget Dr. King’s less cited but extraordinarily meaningful words from that same historic speech: “We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.”
As President Trump works toward building a more perfect union, America can dream again.
The Trump administration recently announced a new deregulation proposal to allow individuals to use their 401(k)s and IRAs to invest in private equity funds. This proposal, released by the Department of Labor, is a huge win for millions of American middle-class families and will provide them with another option to invest and grow their retirement savings.
Private equity is a type of investment fund structured as a partnership agreement between an expert investor and individuals with capital. It seeks to invest in companies with growth potential and, as a result, has the potential to deliver strong returns. According to a recent study, private equity returned 15% gains over 10 years.
In a series of shocking and stunning turn of events, the cop-banning, anarchy-baiting Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone of Seattle has devolved into death and violence. The illegal settlement known as "CHAZ" suffered a shooting resulting in one person killed and at least one other injured, and that's after a slew of rapes and robberies the Seattle police chief claimed that the police couldn't respond to in the region.
Raz Simone, the supposed "warlord" of the CHAZ, claimed that paramedics, terrified of entering the region, let the slain person bleed out, though the claim hasn't been independently corroborated.
Regardless, that is what you get for illegally declaring an "autonomous" zone.
When Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar dropped out of contention to be Joe Biden’s running mate, it removed the last relative centrist from the pool of likely choices.
Though an unabashed liberal, during her presidential campaign, Klobuchar resisted the more extreme demands of the Left. Her experience and the boost she gave Biden in Minnesota by endorsing him, made her a strong candidate to be his running mate, particularly as she’d fulfill the Democratic nominee’s pledge to pick a female.
But Klobuchar’s candidacy to be vice president was fatally wounded by George Floyd’s death in her state of Minnesota.
Veteran investigative journalist Carl Bernstein said friends of President Trump believe he is "out of control."
The Watergate sleuth told CNN's chief media correspondent Brian Stelter on Sunday a "big underlying story" about Trump is his mental and physical health. This was part of a report on how White House sources "whisper" about the president's "mood swings."
"Looking at the president’s mental state, especially what his friends are seeing now, and they’re very concerned about his conduct," Bernstein said on Reliable Sources. "They say he’s out of control. Some of those I've talked to, that’s their words: 'Out of control.'"
National security is at risk, Bernstein warned, "if, indeed, the president is unstable."
Fundraising records continue to be challenged by Republicans, a firm sign that the GOP base is rallying behind President Trump as he steps back into campaign mode.
The latest example is from the Republican National Committee, which revealed to Secrets today that it took in the second-biggest haul ever for a May, $27.2 million.
Combined with the fundraising by the Trump campaign and its committees, the GOP operation raised $73.8 million in May and has a whopping $264.7 million in hand and no debt.
More impressive, said officials, is that for the 2019-2020 campaign cycle, Team GOP has raised $816.7 million for the 2020 campaign, which is expected to cost several billion dollars.