davidl on July 23rd, 2020

I don’t believe that any presidential candidate of may lifetime brings less mental horsepower, with more accompanying baggage, to the general election than Slow Joe, b/k/a Joseph Biden(moron – Delaware) Slow Joe is an all-beef patty short of a quarter pounder, from Tyler O’Neil,PJ Media:

It wasn’t enough for Joe Biden to call President Donald Trump racist. On Wednesday, the presumptive Democratic nominee said Trump was the most racist president ever — in fact, he said Trump was the first racist American politician to win the presidency. This is a truly absurd claim to make about any modern politician, given America’s sad history with racism. Whatever you think about Donald Trump, he is nowhere near as racist as Woodrow Wilson[…]
The twentieth century provided some of the worst examples of presidential racism. Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat and a pioneer of the Progressive movement, reintroduced racial segregation into the federal government

I am not going deep into the presidential thicket of racism.  Suffice to say that twelve of our Presidents have owned slaves.  But somehow in Slow Joe’s demented head, owning people is not as bad as being Donald Trump.

davidl on July 20th, 2020

In the wake of public officials using public spaces for partisan political purposes, I pose two questions.  One, do public officials have such a right in the first place. Second once having created a political speech zone, do politicians have the right to censor the views expressed in such a zone.  To which, I say no.

For his part, America’s dumbest mayor, Bill de Bassio, is using New York City streets, resources and scarce police officers wage political war against one time city resident Donald J. Trump.

A few local residents, to include one Beverlyn Beatty, have been reclaiming the First Amendment, video:

According to inside sources, Mayor Bill has deployed twenty-eight NYPD officers to protect the Mayors graffiti.  Beatty’s volunteers can improve the graffiti faster Mayor Bill can degrade the graffiti.

Give Beatty a hand, a donation, or beautify your neighborhood.

Eric Florack on July 18th, 2020

I’m not starting a fight, but it is something to think about. This may open up a ton of outraged comments by some. Many who will argue how “wrong” this post is. My suggestion, save your time and effort! You’re not changing the reality of what we are living by trying to somehow justify this insanity. Nevertheless, I couldn’t resist because we are becoming the Twilight Zone. We have become a nation that has lost its collective mind!

• If a dude pretends to be a woman, you are required to pretend with him.
• Somehow it’s un-American for the census to count how many Americans are in America.
• Russians influencing our elections are bad, but illegals voting in our elections are good.
• It was cool for Joe Biden to “blackmail” the President of Ukraine, but it’s an impeachable offense if Donald Trump inquires about it.
• Twenty is too young to drink a beer, but eighteen is old enough to vote and register for the draft so you can die girl your country that won’t let you drink .
• People who have never owned slaves should pay slavery reparations to people who have never been slaves.
• Inflammatory rhetoric is outrageous, but harassing people in restaurants is virtuous.
• People who have never been to college should pay the debts of college students who took out huge loans for their degrees.
• Immigrants with tuberculosis and polio are welcome, but you’d better be able to prove your dog is vaccinated.
• Irish doctors and German engineers who want to immigrate must go through a rigorous vetting process, but any illiterate gang-bangers who jump the southern fence are welcome.
• $5 billion for border security is too expensive, but $1.5 trillion for “free” health care is not.
• If you cheat to get into college you go to prison, but if you cheat to get into the country you go to college for free.
• People who say there is no such thing as gender are demanding a female President.
• We see other countries going Socialist and collapsing, but it seems like a great plan to us.
• Some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, and other people are not held responsible for what they are doing right now.
• Criminals are catch-and-released to hurt more people, but stopping them is bad because it’s a violation of THEIR rights.
• And pointing out all this hypocrisy somehow makes us “racists”?!

Nothing makes sense anymore, no values, no morals, no civility and people are dying of a Chinese virus in the media, but 99.8% will survive if infected.
We are living in an upside down world for sure.

Not my words but very accurate and disturbing!

Eric Florack on July 17th, 2020

davidl on July 17th, 2020

The Universal Insult cuts both ways. In maybe the most boneheaded move since July 3, 1863, the Smithsonian published whiteness chart, from Washington Examiner:

The topic went viral online, and the museum quickly acted. “Since yesterday, certain content in the ‘Talking About Race’ portal has been the subject of questions that we have taken seriously,” the museum wrote in a statement Thursday. “We have listened to public sentiment and have removed a chart that does not contribute to the productive discussion we had intended.”

The Smithsonian publishes a chart which divides the population in to two parts. Then lists several good habits, but calls one group racist, and implies that the other group is either too stupid or too lazy to adopt these habits. The Smithsonian acts stunned that their racist ploy went over like a fart in church.

Hint for the Smithsonian, outside of the late Bobby Byrd and maybe David Duke, nobody describes themselves as white. Only racist describe people as white.

Does the Smithsonian want people to give up good habits like punctuality to further racial unity? If so, why?

The Universal Insult cuts in the other direction, from Power Line Steve Hayward excerpts John McWhorter’s article in The Atlantic out today attacking the whole “white fragility” narrative:

I have learned that one of America’s favorite advice books of the moment is actually a racist tract. Despite the sincere intentions of its author, the book diminishes Black people in the name of dignifying us. This is unintentional, of course, like the racism DiAngelo sees in all whites. Still, the book is pernicious because of the authority that its author has been granted over the way innocent readers think. . .

DiAngelo’s book is replete with claims that are either plain wrong or bizarrely disconnected from reality. . .

An especially weird passage is where DiAngelo breezily decries the American higher-education system, in which, she says, no one ever talks about racism. “I can get through graduate school without ever discussing racism,” she writes. “I can graduate from law school without ever discussing racism. I can get through a teacher-education program without ever discussing racism.” I am mystified that DiAngelo thinks this laughably antique depiction reflects any period after roughly 1985. . .

A corollary question is why Black people need to be treated the way DiAngelo assumes we do. The very assumption is deeply condescending to all proud Black people. In my life, racism has affected me now and then at the margins, in very occasional social ways, but has had no effect on my access to societal resources; if anything, it has made them more available to me than they would have been otherwise. Nor should anyone dismiss me as a rara avis. Being middle class, upwardly mobile, and Black has been quite common during my existence since the mid-1960s, and to deny this is to assert that affirmative action for Black people did not work.

White Fragility is, in the end, a book about how to make certain educated white readers feel better about themselves. DiAngelo’s outlook rests upon a depiction of Black people as endlessly delicate poster children within this self-gratifying fantasy about how white America needs to think—or, better, stop thinking. Her answer to white fragility, in other words, entails an elaborate and pitilessly dehumanizing condescension toward Black people. The sad truth is that anyone falling under the sway of this blinkered, self-satisfied, punitive stunt of a primer has been taught, by a well-intentioned but tragically misguided pastor, how to be racist in a whole new way.

IF the Smithsonian was willing to argue one culture can be superior/inferior to another, it must admit that the old mantra that all cultures are(somehow) equal, is flat out wrong.

davidl on July 16th, 2020

Dr. Fauci

We are told to get the seasonal flu vaccine every year. Now if you don’t get the seasonal flu vaccine, you might or might not get the seasonal flu. One the other hand, it you do get the vaccine, you will get the flu. We are told a weakened version of last year’s flu, from Natural News:
Moderna coronavirus vaccine causes side effects in over 50% of patients; antibodies disappear in 2-3 months, rendering the vaccine pointless The widely-hyped Moderna coronavirus vaccine caused adverse events (side effects) in over 50% of clinical trial participants, including, “fatigue, chills, headache, myalgia, and pain at the injection site.” While it generates antibodies in the short term, new studies indicate those antibodies fade very quickly, rendering the vaccine pointless in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
Ever recall anybody dying of AIDS.  No rather than dying from AIDS, patients are described as dying from the complications of AIDS.  Likewise it is not the Wuflu that kills, but rather the complications from the Whuflu, and the complications are inflammation, which physician have lots of experience and drugs for treatment.
Eric Florack on July 16th, 2020
The state of California, forever altruistic with money it doesn’t have, is teaching the rest of us a lesson as regards to “helping the disadvantaged.”

Thousands of homeless people have been housed in San Francisco’s empty hotels in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus.

Well, that’s the stated reason. But observe closely what’s happened:

However, City Journal contributor Erica Sandberg told “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Wednesday the policy has been an “absolute disaster,”

“It’s solving exactly nothing and as a matter of fact, it’s making all the problems worse,” said Sandberg, who described the scene inside the hotels as “about as bad as you can imagine, only exponentially worse.”

“You are talking drug-fueled parties, overdoses, deaths, people are being assaulted. You have sexual assaults going on, it is pandemonium,” she said. “It is extremely bad and it needs to stop.”

The thing is, it’s not like this stuff wasn’t totally predictable. You see, one of the things about helping the “disadvantaged”that’s kind of requirement for improving their situation is changing the behavior that got them in these situations in the first place.. not reinforcing their bad behavior.

There’s a secondary behavioral point to be made here as well…it’s not just Democrat Party elected officials that are failing to make the connection between behavior and conditions. We are about to see a massive Exodus from places run by Democrats because of the hellholes they’ve become. The problem is that the people escaping such places will in large part be bringing their voting habits with them, the Springfield Democrat Party policies with them.

By the way, did we mention that this is happening in Nancy Pelosi’s home district?

And wasn’t it just yesterday that we heard somebody mutter that hard work was a sign of whiteness?

Eric Florack on July 15th, 2020
“Don’t worry about Grandma, dying alone in the nursing home. She has dementia and is scared, but she surely understands. It’s for the greater good.”
“Don’t worry about losing your business, the dream business that you opened with a second mortgage on your house… oh, and don’t worry about losing your house. It’s for the greater good.”
“Don’t worry about your child’s depression because she can’t figure out how to navigate the online classes and she misses her best friend. It’s all for the greater good.”
“Don’t worry about your Aunt who can’t get treatment for her cancer. Her sacrifice is saving lives…just not hers. It’s for the greater good.”
“Make sure you call CPS on your neighbor for letting her kids go outside to play! Don’t worry when the stranger takes her kids while they cry out for their momma. It’s all for the greater good.”
“Don’t worry about the looters and people burning down your town. They’re peaceful. It’s all for the greater good.”

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HOW DID THEY CONVINCE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO:

▪️social distance
▪️mask up
▪️have no funerals
▪️forcibly homeschool while still taxing us for public education
▪️stay in our homes
▪️stop going to church
▪️forfeit incomes and personal businesses
▪️turn on our friends and neighbors with a phone number
▪️hug our grandparents through plastic
▪️thoroughly have us on the verge of civil war with each other.

ALL TO TURN AROUND AND TELL US THAT MOST OF IT IS NIXED AND COMPLETELY NEGATED, IF WE WANT TO:

▪️protest
▪️riot
▪️kill even more people
▪️loot businesses (many already on the brink of bankruptcy)
▪️deface national monuments
▪️destroy our cities
▪️defund & disband our police
▪️set everything on fire

…and all the while, we’re allegedly at tremendous risk of an oh-so-deadly virus that can be diagnosed without official testing, or with so-called testing being counted & reported dishonestly, and reported on death certificates even if we die by falling off a cliff…

…and even though it’s super “dangerous”, the things that actually keep us healthy, like:

▪️health food stores
▪️farmers markets
▪️garden nurseries/seeds
▪️gyms
▪️health facilities
▪️chiropractic centers
▪️naturopathic health centers
▪️outdoor activities and parks

are taken away. But:

▪️cigarettes/alcohol
▪️fast food joints
▪️Walmarts

THINK ABOUT IT. THINK HARD. IT’S RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU.
Copied from Open Texas post.

davidl on July 15th, 2020
Fredo, Sr. b/k/a Andrew Cuomo, Governor New York, may still have CNN cub and younger brother, Fredo, Jr. in his corner, but he has lost Jake Tapper, from Breitbart:

Tapper said, “New York’s Democratic governor Andrew Cuomo seems to be on something of a victory tour congratulating the state and himself for defeating the virus. Even selling this poster, which shows his state getting over the mountain by bringing down the curve during the 111 days of hell, as the governor put it.”

He continued, “The poster includes references his daughters, a boyfriend, little inside jokes. There are no illustrations, however, of the more than 32,000 dead New Yorkers, the highest death toll by far of any state. No rendering on that poster of criticism that Governor Cuomo ignored warnings, no depiction of the study that he could have saved thousands of lives had he and Mayor De Blasio acted sooner. No painting there on the poster of his since rescinded order that nursing homes take all infected patients in.”

New York State lead the nation in Chinese virus deaths by a wide margin. New York lapped number two New Jersey. New York City served as the national port of entry for the virus. No mayor was less aware of the threat of the virus than Bill de Blasio. No Fredo, this is not a time for a victory lap.

Eric Florack on July 14th, 2020

From National Review…

Last night, 76-year-old radical Angela Davis was trending on Twitter due to her endorsement of 77-year-old presidential hopeful Joe Biden. Bravely we go into the future, I guess. While no politician can control who supports them, apparently numerous pundits believe that the Davis endorsement is worthy of celebration (though most also carefully avoided noting her blessing was made on Russian propaganda television).

davidl on July 14th, 2020
Mrs. Pelosi and Adam Schiff-less, have their collective panties in a wad because President Trump commuted the sentence of Roger Stone. Mrs. Pelosi has threaten to pass legislation, which would purport of amend the Constitution to limit the President’s power to issue pardons and commutations. How conveniently short their memory,.
President Clinton, in the last two years of his presidency, to bolster his wife’s political aspirations, doled out more pardons and commutations that the Gipper consumed jelly beans, from American Spectator::

In the final two years of Clinton’s presidency, the entire Clinton clan treated executive clemency as if it were their personal property. Clemency was dished out in return for money, gifts, and influence. More than 50 clemency recipients or those lobbying the Clintons for clemency on behalf of others had direct ties to Hillary. Hillary stockpiled financial and political IOUs she cashed in when she ran for political office, including the presidency.

Everyone got into the act. First brother, Roger Clinton, and Hillary’s siblings, Hugh and Tony Rodham, each made hundreds of thousands of dollars hustling executive clemency for felons who were willing to pay. Among the clemency recipients was Carlos Vignali, a cocaine drug kingpin. Hugh was paid more than $200,000 to ensure Vignali received a commutation from Clinton.

It had gotten so wild in the final months of the Clinton presidency that Roger was cold-calling applicants offering to get them clemency in return for cash. One applicant, who wishes to

So question for Mrs. Pelosi and Adam Schiff for Brain, if President Trump commutation of Roger Stone prison sentence is the worst abuse of presidential power to pardon in our nation’s history, who is President Trump’s Roger Clinton.  Put up or shut up.

Eric Florack on July 13th, 2020
So that magnificent moron Pete Buttigieg is trying to make political hay by suggesting that listening to medical experts should not be political.

What he seems to forget is that government runs health care anymore. Therefore, by definition, medicine is always political.

davidl on July 12th, 2020
Published by, but not linked to Useless Toady:

President Donald Trump’s campaign website recently unveiled a T-shirt that has come under fire because of design similarities between its logo and a Nazi symbol.

The similarity was first noticed, according to Forward, by two Twitter accounts, Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, described as a Jewish progressive group, and the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump group formed by Republicans.

“The President of the United States is campaigning for reelection with a Nazi symbol. Again,” Bend the Arc tweeted on July 1.

So sorry to inform the late Mr. Hitler, and the Useless Toady, that the United States has first dibs on the Eagle as our national symbol:

The American bald eagle was adopted as the national bird symbol of the United States of America in 1782. The bald eagle (Haliaeetus Leucocephalus) was chosen for its majestic beauty, great strength, long life, and because it’s native to North America.

And:

The bald eagle first appeared as an American symbol on a Massachusetts copper cent coined in 1776. Since then it has appeared on the reverse side of many U.S. coins, notably the silver dollar, halfdollar and quarter, as well as the gold coins which were christened the eagle, half eagle, quarter eagle, and double eagle.

So the President Donny campaign did not adopt a Nazi symbol. Adolf Bidened a symbol already in use.

Forbes reports:

In updated guidance posted on its website over the weekend, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acknowledged an inability to accurately determine if individuals had been infected with Covid-19 via antibody tests; if the test is used in a population where prevalence is low, it’s possible that “less than half of those testing positive will truly have antibodies.”

So… The error rate on the reported infection rates is staggeringly high. Even if The test shows that you have the virus, you probably don’t.

Eric Florack on July 12th, 2020
What do you suppose the chances are that the reason the Democrats are not planning on doing much for a convention has less to do with covid-19 and a good deal more to do with Chicago, 1968?

After after all, how do you convince rioters and potential voters that somebody who has never held office in his lifetime until four years ago has never had the power of government in his hands is more of a historical impediment to change then somebody who has held office and had the power of government of his hands for the last 40 years?

Do you suppose eventually somebody’s going to figure that one out then start burning the convention center to the ground? I’ll bet that’s what’s driving this decision of theirs.,