Eric Florack on September 1st, 2020

Anyone who knows me well knows that I’ve been a lifelong fan of John Wayne.

The morons at The Atlantic disagree with everything he says here.

But, that’s okay, because The Atlantic has been quite successful at discrediting itself over the years and is devoutly to be chastised, made fun of, and otherwise ignored.

Slow Joe, b/k/a Joseph Biden, has been hiding in his basement three months. Since that time American cities such as Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle and Kenosha have gone up in flames as result George Soros paid mobs. The Lame Stream Media response was call these mostly peaceful protests. The democrat’s response to has chide President Trump for attacking the mostly peaceful protests. Slow Joe’s response was to keep napping.

Then something happened The narrative changed. Somebody at CNN appears have noticed that the Soros fueled rioted were polling negative. The Biden campaign issued a statement to conform to the new media narrative.

From Breitbart:

“All of us are less safe because Donald Trump can’t do the job of the American president.”

If Slow Joe is now against senseless violence, when can we expect him to repudiate abortion? About the same time the Pope does.
For three months, while Slow Joe slept, the riots were described as mostly peaceful protest, and was said to be too mean to the protesters. Then Slow Joes is awaken and he starts screaming that has provoked the mostly peaceful protests, err riots.

Slow Joe has a pattern of being late to the party. He never acknowledged the Chinese virus until March. Joe, crawl back to your basement and go back to sleep.

Eric Florack on August 31st, 2020

The always worthwhile Victor Davis Hanson.

This one runs about an hour but it’ll be worth your time, trust me.

Amazing what happens, isn’t it?

And so once again, the facts don’t match the rhetoric. That’s the thing about all these police shootings that are supposedly the cause of all the riots… We never do learn the truth until billions of dollars of damage and hundreds if not thousands of lives have been ruined.

Eric Florack on August 30th, 2020

I happened to stumble across Glenn Beck’s radio program just as he was getting to this part:

“I am feeling so humbled this week. I feel truly horrible for the things I said and believed in 2016 about @realDonaldTrump.

I believed the worst politically, which he proved me wrong at almost every turn. In the most dramatic cases (life/Israel/China/authoritarian).”

It’s true. And the thing is, I’m there, as well.

Trump was never my guy. As of 4 years ago I greatly preferred that Ted Cruz would be the nominee and the eventual winner of the general election. I am still convinced Cruz would have been a good choice.

That said however, I must admit to being pleasantly surprised at how well Trump has done since taking office. The man has succeeded in moving the conservative football farther forward than anybody since Reagan… who, it should be noted, wasn’t supported by the establishment GOP, either.

I have observed, but not said much about, the mind changing process that Glenn describes occurring in a lot of people. and I can’t imagine that that’s not going to be reflected in November.

davidl on August 30th, 2020

National Public Radio(NPR) lives off the public dole. I say Congress should loot, read eliminate all, federal taxpayer funding. NPR has given platform to one Willie Osterweil, from NPR:

Writer Vicky[sic Willie] Osterweil’s book, In Defense of Looting, came out on Tuesday. When she finished it, back in April, she wrote (rather presciently) that “a new energy of resistance is building across the country.” Now, as protests and riots continue to grip cities, she argues that looting is a powerful tool to bring about real, lasting change in society. The rioters who smash windows and take items from stores, she says, are engaging in a powerful tactic that questions the justice of “law and order,” and the distribution of property and wealth in an unequal society.

I spoke with Osterweil about this summer’s riots, the common narratives surrounding looting, and why “nonviolence” can be a misleading term. Our conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.

Mr. is either a male or a plagiarist, from Film for Action:

In Defense Of Looting
For most of America’s history, one of the most righteous anti-white supremacist tactics available was looting.
By Willie Osterweil / thenewinquiry.com / Nov 26, 2014

As Mr. Osterweil is the belief that he is entitled to all, and yours, property he may desire, I am sure, or simply don’t care, that taken his deadname, simply because I care to use it.
In closing, if you happen to run across a copy of Mr. Osterweil’s book, feel free to take it. I am sure he will understand.

Eric Florack on August 30th, 2020

I am not required to protect your fantasies from reality.

davidl on August 29th, 2020

The George Soros mobile rent a mob seems intent on burning down Kenosha, Wisconsin. From the actions of the local officials, I say let Kenosha burn, from American Greatness:

[T]he riots in Kenosha happened in part because Tony Evers, the Democratic governor of Wisconsin, took the side of the rioters against the police in the shooting of Jacob Blake, a convicted criminal shot seven times in the back by police while fleeing arrest and possibly armed. Evers at first refused federal assistance in restoring law and order to Kenosha, but has now backtracked and agreed to welcome the help he should never have refused.

But Evers did not call for assistance from Rittenhouse, and the sheriff in Kenosha refused the offer of the armed counterprotesters to serve as his deputies.

Fox News:

Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth said during a Wednesday press conference he believed the suspect — whom authorities identified as 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse — might have been part of a group of armed individuals who asked to be deputized and allowed to patrol the streets of the Wisconsin city ahead of Tuesday night’s protests.

“Yesterday, I had a person call me and say, ‘Why don’t you deputize citizens who have guns to come out and patrol the city of Kenosha?’” he told reporters on Wednesday. “And I’m like, ‘Oh hell no.’”

I wonder who signs Sheriff Beth’s paycheck? The streets of Kenosha are awash with armed Soros felons, and Beth seems content to let the Soro’s mob roam at will. Back ground Legal Insurrection.  Do the math. Kyle Rittenhouse shot and hit three rioters.  All three were felons.  That indicates that circa eighty percent of Soro’s shock troops are felons. illegally armed at that.

Wisconsin seems intent on putting the wrong people in jail.  Travelers take heed.

Eric Florack on August 29th, 2020

Fairness is usually a word that people use when they find that what they’ve been doing isn’t sufficient to win the game they’ve been playing.

So now all of a sudden, the Democrats are speaking out against all the violence they’re been encouraging.. the rioting, the burning, the looting that they themselves have created.

Why?

Well, it’s not because people are hurting. Not because people’s lives are being ruined by this temper tantrum over the 2016 election.

Rather, they wanted to stop because it’s hurting their polling numbers. …Their chances of obtaining and maintaining power.

The Democrats are figuring out that all this rioting and mayhem (along with all the Trump hatred of course) isn’t playing well with the general public, and neither are any of the rest of the issues that Democrats have been proudly campaigning on for years and years and years… and of course the Russia hoax has come back to haunt them, as well.

They now see that they’ve grossly miscalculated and are now backtracking in a blind panic, like a dog from a skunk.

Welcome to the world you have made, Democrats. Enjoy it.

And here’s a thought: if the Democrats are willing to sell out what they claimed was the values of black people because Democrat access to governmental power is being damaged, what do you suppose the chances are that they were supporting all this rioting and looting etc because they believed it aided that access?

Black people in this country have been played by the Democrats for generations, now. On what basis do we make the assumption that anything has changed?

Does nobody remember 1968?

Eric Florack on August 28th, 2020

Fatima says in part:

On October 28, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences partnered with U.N. pro-abortion advocates to pledge fidelity to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) championed by socialist rebels like George Soros and Jeffrey Sachs. Diane Montagna of LifeSiteNews reports on November 6.

“The Pontifical Academy of Sciences, members of a United Nations network directed by a pro-abortion globalist [Jeffrey Sachs], and governors of the Pan-Amazonian region have signed a common declaration committing themselves to implementing the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs) in the Amazon.

“The Oct. 28 declaration, addressed to Pope Francis and signed at the pontifical academy’s Vatican headquarters one day after the close of the Amazon Synod, consists in 14 pledges to ‘build together effective solutions for sustainable development of Amazonia.’”

While the sustainable development goals include the lowering of greenhouse emissions and call for “universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services,” their primary focus is making provisions for abortion.

Abortion indeed is central to their sustainable development goals (SDGs). They propose that we make the planet a safer place through population control, esp. abortion, but this is done under the guise of caring for the poor. The globalist ploy is to say that ‘we shouldn’t bring people into the world to suffer but should first take care of the poor that are among us.’

You know, since Pope Francis was installed a few years ago (as quickly and quietly as possible so as to raise as few questions as possible) …I have been joking on and off that I’m waiting for him to suggest that abortion is a sacrament from God.

I can think of no better indication that the Catholic Church has lost its way than that my joke has come so tragically close to being a reality.

And I believe we now have ample reason to suspect Pope Benedict was replaced because he wouldn’t back down on the issue of abortion.

Killing children so that the church can have its 40 pieces of silver? And doing it in the name of Christ.

I can’t help but wonder if money isn’t the root of the transition of the Catholic Church into what we see today. money from people like the aforementioned George Soros.

davidl on August 28th, 2020

I realize that thirty years plus does irreparable damage to a person’s intellect, and Slow Joe, b/k/a Joseph Biden(Delaware), never had much with which to begin. However, one would hope that in his near half century of collecting a public paycheck, Slow Joe might actually know what the militia is. Contrary, the militia not any white man slinging a modern rifle.

Slow Joe deigned to bless Anderson Cooper, CNN, with few nuggets of h his wisdom:

On a live segment with CNN, Anderson Cooper asked Biden for his thoughts on why President Donald Trump has not yet mentioned the shooting of Jacob Blake, to which Biden responded: “I don’t know enough to know whether that 17-year-old kid, exactly what he did, but allegedly he’s part of a militia coming out of Illinois.”

Note that the former Vice President, and would be Commander-in-Chief, alleged that Kyle Rittenhouse, a resident of Illinois, was a member of some militia. In any case, into what militia unit was Rittenhouse mustered? Where is the muster roll? If a Wisconsin unit, why and what authority did they muster an Illinois resident? If an Illinois unit, why did the Illinois governor deploy his militia to the state of Wisconsin?
was performing militia duty in Wisconsin.

Observe this closely, children, from Powerline

“But now there is a new bombshell: on Tuesday, prosecutors who have charged Derek Chauvin with murder released a document that suggests that he had nothing to do with Floyd’s death, which in all likelihood resulted from a drug overdose. Not only that, prosecutors have known that fact for months. Former state and federal prosecutor George Parry has the story. It was linked earlier as a Pick, but I think deserves more attention:

At 7:30 p.m. on May 31, 2020, prosecutors “met” online with Dr. Andrew Baker, Chief Medical Examiner of Hennepin County, to discuss Floyd’s toxicology report.

The memo of that meeting is embedded at the link.

So there they were, staring at the just-received and damning toxicology report that blew to smithereens the whole prosecution theory that the police had killed Floyd. To their undoubted dismay, Dr. Baker, the chief medical examiner, had to concede that at 11 ng/mL, Floyd had “a fatal level of fentanyl under normal circumstances.” He also conceded that the fentanyl overdose “can cause pulmonary edema,” a frothy fluid build-up in the lungs that was evidenced by the finding at autopsy that Floyd’s lungs weighed two to three times normal weight.

This is consistent with Officer Kueng’s observation at the scene that Floyd was foaming at the mouth and, as found at autopsy, that his lungs were “diffusely congested and edematous.”

In other words, like a drowned man, Floyd’s lungs were filled with fluid. And that was the obvious and inescapable reason why Floyd kept shouting over and over again that he couldn’t breathe even when he was upright and mobile.

The memorandum ends with Dr. Baker’s devastating conclusion that “if Floyd had been found dead in his home (or anywhere else) and there were no other contributing factors he [Dr. Baker] would conclude that it was an overdose death.”

And yet the homicide prosecution against four Minneapolis Police Department officers continues.”

The fact is, that this prosecution was brought forward for one reason and one reason only… in an attempt to placate and silence the rioting.

Predictably, however, all that succeeded in doing was emboldening the criminals.

And it was all a lie from the beginning as I have always said.

And I suggest it’s time for both criminal and civil liability to be levied against those prosecutors that withheld that evidence. All of the businesses that got burned out, the people who have died as a result of the rioting? All of that would have been stopped.

But they sat on this evidence.

The likely reason? Well, we do have an election coming up pretty quick.

Eric Florack on August 28th, 2020

Don Surber nails this one:

Good news, America. Politico reported, “More than 100 Bush-McCain-Romney alums go for Biden.”

The saboteurs are gone, taking their back copies of The Weekly Standard with them. They are so highly principled that they prefer a man who sold our country so his son could take a billion-dollar bribe over a man who has delivered on every single Republican promise made in this century.

Their departure makes Kristol clear who is to blame for the party’s past failures.

Politico linked several stories about their self-deportation from a party they ran into the ground.

This…. this is exactly the crowd that I was talking about 4 years ago, and none of this should have been a surprise to anyone has been reading this site for any length of time.

As a specific example:

The Weekly Standard fell over because it deserved to fall over. Based on what I’m seeing so far Kristol’s new publication is even worse. And it dares to call itself conservative?

What’s going to happen is that Kristol is going to find himself rejected by the very people that he is supporting now. He and his cohorts will be persona non grata on both sides of the aisle. And frankly, I can’t think of a better fate for those idiots…. Spending the rest of their lives not being taken seriously by anybody.

davidl on August 27th, 2020

I’d call Slow Joe, b/k/a Joseph Biden, Delaware, a slow learner, but that would be overstating Slow Joe meager mental capacities. Slow Joe first ran for President in 1988. He burst on to the national political stage by stealing both British politician Neil Kinnock’s words and life story. Slow Joe retired from that race.

Now thirty-eight years latter, Slow Joe is still running for President. He may be older, but is no wiser. New election, same Slow Joe. He still stealing speech content from foreign politicians, this time the late Canadian Jack Layton. Yet there is more.

Slow Joe even stole his campaign slogan “Build Back Better” from Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman. To add insult to injury, it appears that Pittman has dropped using his slogan rather than appear to support Slow Joe.(source)

In thirty-eight years, Slow Joe has not learned hire a competent speech writer.  How will he be ever able to find a Secretary of State smarter then John Forbes Kerry?