A Strange Anniversary

Charlie Kirk said it back in November of 2016:

You can tell a lot about a person by how they react when someone dies.

There’s a number of unanswered questions about the assassination… the murder of Charlie Kirk…  But one thing is very clear… the man was killed because he was exercising his rights of free speech.  He was someone the left couldn’t control. So, let’s examine the reactions, on a purely random basis.

We’ll start with J.D. Pritzker:

And I think that think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the President’s rhetoric often foments it. We’ve seen the January 6 rioters who clearly, you know, have tripped a new era of political violence.

Matt Dowd, MSNBC:

And I always go back to hateful thoughts, lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions. And I think that’s the environment we’re in that people just you can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have, and then saying these awkward words and not expect awful actions to take place. And that’s the unfortunate environment we’re in.

Those are the less despicable comments. Bluesky is a Mosh pit of hate right now… of celebration a good man is dead, and I won’t repeat any of it here.

GLAAD:

Kirk cultivated national influence by attacking queer rights, targeting transgender people, and framing equality as a threat to American values.

Equality? No. That was never the issue because equality was NEVER what GLAAD has been about. What we’re seeing here is GLAAD piling on, at what is, apparently, in their view, is an opportune moment.

There are so very many vile comments I can’t even think about fitting them all in here… and a lot of them I’m reluctant to give voice to in these spaces… all celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk… someone they lost the debate to years ago. Else, blaming Kirk himself. Essentially, saying “Hey, stop making us assassinate you.” They couldn’t control Charlie Kirk, and they killed him for it.

Jeff Carter says it very well, this morning:

The left in the US is violent and always has been. It is their way. It is their culture. John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln. McKinley was shot. In the last decade, Republicans have been shot, beaten, and threatened with assassination. Unions have used violence to get their way. The George Floyd riots are another example. Senate Leader Chuck Schumer threatened two sitting Supreme Court Justices. When people showed up at their homes, he didn’t do a thing. Van Jones called Kirk a racist last night on CNN. The violence and calls for violence are on the left for the most part.

Yes, a few Republicans have done stupid stuff. But it’s not close to equivalent.

A DOGE employee was brutally beaten in DC. Big Balls was trying to help someone who was being mugged. Democrats defended the attackers. A Ukrainian refugee was brutally murdered on public transportation in Charlotte, and the Democrats defended the murderer. In Pacific Palisades, Democrats are twisting the law and regulations to take the property away from the prior owners before it burned. They want to social engineer.

Here is the progression of how it all happens. As an out-of-the-closet Republican in far-left Chicago, I know. I experienced it.

First, they laugh at you. “You’re crazy.” They try to pass it off when you throw data at them. The other day, a person tried to tell me that it was Republicans who discriminated against Blacks after the Civil War, all the way through Jim Crow. It was Democrats.
“No way. Oh, that’s above my pay grade.” That’s the next thing they say. They don’t want to confront the facts. They have no argument against them, but they want to live in their bubble and just believe whatever they have been told.

They will tell a few political jokes that make fun of conservatives to see if you laugh. You laugh because you have a sense of humor. Conservatives have a great sense of humor. Leftists do not. It’s a mean sense of humor.

Then, they might try to debate. “You’re a rational Republican, not one of those crazies.”. When they lose, they escalate.

The next level of escalation is to call you names. Maybe it’s behind your back. Maybe it’s to your face. “You are a racist, Nazi, fascist,” fill in the blank. They try to destroy your reputation. They don’t invite you to things. You are deliberately excluded. Shunned. You become a non-person.

When you become a non-person, they can do anything to you. Any despot knows that. Any terrorist group knows that.

Then, they don’t do business with you. No email. No phone calls. No passing or including in deals. The best thing for them is if you go away.

This happens in friendships, too. You have experienced it, I am sure. I have. In the biography on US Grant written by Ron Chernow, Grant’s father-in-law was pro-slavery, and Grant got along with him. Not famously, but they got along. Left-wingers cannot do that. They can’t get beyond it.

Thing is, the folks working against America have gotten bolder. As an example and as an extension of my thought about 9/11… here’s a photo of NYC Mayor candidate Zohran Mamdani with Hasan Piker, who is known to have suggested publicly that “Americans deserved 9/11” .

Luigi Mangione has become a cult figure for having taken out one of them… and Luigi Mangione Merch is a hot seller today. Then, there’s James Harr… who created a set of playing cards with 52 CEO’s for his followers on social media to, as the phrase goes, “unalive” next. Now of course the police showed up shortly afterward, which caused him to post that “I guess I got someone’s attention”, or words to that effect.

It has become more important than ever that all of us become involved in fighting against this violent overthrow of America… and make no mistake, what I’m describing here… and what we were all witness to yesterday… is nothing short of that.

But who set this up? There’s the rub.

As I said yesterday: This was, it seems to me, a professional level hit job…. This guy was no amateur. That comment is not nearly as bold as it sounds. The shooter was up on the roof of that building well in advance of the event, and managed to hit his target, shooting downhill, and under a canopy… in one shot.

As to who did the killing, or perhaps more correctly who financed it… Cui Bono, seems to me should be the guide, here. And perhaps a look at a post removed from Tiktok late yesterday, but captured and reposted elsewhere might give us a clue: (Sorry, the vid is on X and doesn’t embed well.

“Charles James Kirk. Mr. College Drop out does not know whats coming tomorrow. Be ready. This isn’t a threat. It’s a promise” https://x.com/i/status/1965915962794012677

Glenn Reynolds… well, a correspondent of his, echoes my own thought:

“I hold open the possibility that Kirk’s murder was performed by foreign intelligence in an attempt to sow internal discord. So I’m not yet ready to blame the Left for the murder itself. However the celebrations on the Left are not a product of foreign intelligence. And everyone engaging in them, or excusing them, deserves far more than just blame. How the f___ can killing a young father in front of his children just for saying WORDS ever be considered something worth celebrating? The Left is mentally sick. Diseased. Ungrounded. Truly delusional. The evidence for this is overwhelming.”

One small disagreement I have with this… I suggest that the reactions to this killing among the left… particularly the ones I’ve pointed out… are the direct result of decades of influence of outside sources. I certainly would not exclude the Chinese from the list of suspects there. As for the shooter himself, he or she seems too much the professional for it to be a random crazy we’re dealing with. And that is well within the realm of the possible for China, as well. Granted, speculation at this point, but it’s the most logical conclusion based on currently available facts.

I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that today is 9/11. And that’s where we are now. We are now at war because the left can’t argue their positions logically, much the same as the Islamic nutjobs back in the day. Like any war, it’s not one I personally wanted, but again like any war, it’s been thrust upon us.

I decided on 9/11… (My God… 24 years ago, to the day!) …that I could no longer be a bystander. I had to speak out, against the people who were attempting to bring America down by means of massive violence.. That was the day Bitsblog was founded. Here is the first post to this blog. It addresses those issues and that need. .. a need which has not diminished in the 24 years since that day. As it was written, we were still in shock and watching the rescue efforts and the early stage investigations…. and the feeling, frankly, is exactly the same.

Odder still… my most recent post about all he implications of Kirk’s death, should be posted at the same time of day we were just learning of the events in NY, DC and Pennsylvania. It’s unclear to me, the implications of that observation. But I can’t help feeling uneasy about it.

Ilya Shapiro said last night,

Charlie challenged the Left in good faith to honest debates about the soul and future of America. They shot him for it.

Indeed, and I say this: If there was ever any doubt that the left doesn’t desire honest debate, yesterday should have melted that hope faster than a snowball dropped into Kilauea. If you’re hoping for an honest friendly, intellectual free exchange of ideas with open minded people, I’m afraid I have some bad news for you.

A couple passing thoughts:

This was, it seems to me, a professional level hit job…. This guy was no amateur. That comment is not nearly as bold as it sounds. The shooter was up on the roof of that building well in advance of the event, and managed to hit his target, shooting downhill, and under a canopy… in one shot.

As to who did the killing, or perhaps more correctly who financed it… Cui Bono, seems to me should be the guide, here. And perhaps a look at a post removed from Tiktok late yesterday, but captured and reposted elsewhere might give us a clue: (Sorry, the vid is on X and doesn’t embed well.)

“Charles James Kirk. Mr. College Drop out does not know whats coming tomorrow. Be ready. This isn’t a threat. It’s a promise” https://x.com/i/status/1965915962794012677

By now, you will have heard the news about Charlie Kirk.

I’ll hold off on commenting for the moment, until I learn more about his attacker. I will hold off on commenting further, but it is worthwhile to mention he understood the situation. Here is his own words:

Assassination culture is spreading on the left. Forty-eight percent of liberals say it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk. Fifty-five percent said the same about Donald Trump. In California, activists are naming ballot measures after Luigi Mangione. The left is being whipped into a violent frenzy. Any setback, whether losing an election or losing a court case, justifies a maximally violent response. This is the natural outgrowth of left-wing protest culture tolerating violence and mayhem for years on end. The cowardice of local prosecutors and school officials have turned the left into a ticking time bomb.

I’m quite sure I’ll have more to say on this soon.

From Kruiser, this morning:

It’s staggering to ponder the totality of the President Joe Biden Lie, even for those of us who chronicled the entire thing. It began during the primaries, when the Dems’ flying monkeys in the mainstream media created a Joseph Robinette Biden who never existed. He’d always been one of the most divisive people in American politics, a real nasty piece of work. The MSM hacks turned him into a kindly grandpa who was going to read the electorate bedtime stories after he got Orange Man Bad out of the White House.

Oh, they told everyone that he was a centrist too, despite his previous eight-year stint as the vice president under the exceedingly radical Barack Obama. Biden may actually have been a moderate Democrat when he began his stint as The Lightbringer’s Veep, but moderate Democrats ceased to exist after eight years of that. 

He goes on to quote Matt Margolis:

For four years, Joe Biden bragged about presiding over the “strongest economy in history.” He propped up his narrative with the return of jobs after the COVID shutdowns and falsely claimed his policies created them. Even liberal outlets admitted he was padding the numbers, but Biden never stopped repeating the lie.

Now the lie has officially collapsed. The Bureau of Labor Statistics just confirmed what President Trump has been saying all along: Biden’s “strong economy” was nothing but smoke and mirrors. On Monday, the BLS issued the largest downward revision in its history, wiping out nearly a million jobs — 911,000 to be exact. That’s not a minor correction; that’s proof Biden’s economic record wasn’t just exaggerated, but was a fraud from the start.

And as Steve points out, the leftist media is now trying to convince us the financial world is ending.  For the most recent indication of this, we need look no further than the gloom and doom being spoon-fed us over the most recent jobs report.  As usual, the left’s chant is based on half truths. Apparently, they’re hitting their prayer mats every night, praying that we don’t remember the number of GOVERNMENT jobs that were axed…. which is something 77 million of us voted for. You might think that given fair-minded reporting, (yeah, right!) someone might have figured on those jobs being cut, would have affected the jobs report. Were this the stock market, this would be called a “correction”… this this report undoubtly shows.

It seems fair to ask if, once the correction is over and the indicators are on their way back up, will they withdraw their gloom and doom?  If we can take the lack of withdrawal of the “butt Sunshine” fed to us for four years under Biden, the answer is “No”.

So, this morning comes the Washington Free Beacon:

When Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter prompted political backlash, the White House “began pushing to find more people to grant clemency to” in an attempt to flood the zone, Alex Thompson of Axios scooped.

According to the Beacon, Otto Penn’s DOJ didn’t vet the hundreds of pardons issued.  Given the sheer number, this is not a shock by any means. Look closely….

So, why the emphasis on “YOUR”?  Clearly, it wasn’t HIS action…. though they’re trying, for the record to act like it was.  That repeated emphasis on “YOUR” conveys a tone of “This is the impression you’re supposed to be passing along to the willing press.  Don’t give the game away, Brandon.

And what positive press coverage? MSNBC, perhaps? Stephen Green suggests this is evidence Biden han’t a clue what was going on…. which in turn suggests Biden was NOT the one using the machine.

The purpose obviously was to take the heat off Biden for pardoning his worthless spawn, which he had sworn he wouldn’t do. So they decided to do something even worse to divert attention.

Dan McCarthy over at the New York Post:

Just months ago a travesty was taking place in the nation’s capital as the Biden administration drew to a close.

On his way out the door, President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of more than 4,000 federally incarcerated offenders.

Only it wasn’t Biden issuing the record-shattering number of commutations — it was his autopen.
“​​There was a mad dash to find groups of people that he could then pardon — and then they largely didn’t run it by the Justice Department to vet them,” a source told the DC insider publication Axios.

While Biden claimed the last-minute blizzard of pardons and commutations was for “nonviolent” drug offenders, a trove of administration emails obtained by The Oversight Project and first reported on by the New York Post’s Josh Christenson tell a different story.

“I think you should stop saying that because it is untrue or at least misleading,” Associate Deputy Attorney General Brad Weinsheimer warned in a Jan. 18 email.

McCarthy brings up a historical perspective…. the last time this kind of thing went down was with fellow Democrat Woodrow Wilson (a truly terrible person) Students of history will recall the clearly unconstitutional response to the problem, where his wife took over running things because Wilson himself, was in the land of La-La.

We can speculate, I suppose, on who was actually running things, (Was Jill trying to take over? Was it a collective of staffers? Was this solution put into play because of the obvious lack of qualifications in Kamala Harris?) ….but regardless what answer you come up with, the answer exposes unconstitutional acts… which is likely why no answers to that question are publicly forthcoming.

It’s interesting to note that the Democrats and the Never Trumpers in the GOP who were so keen to invoke the 25th amendment as a response to their angst over Donald Trump… who showed none of the incapacity Biden did, failed to even mention that solution to Biden’s incapacity.  Clearly they didn’t want to either turn the reins over to Cackles McKneepads, or some to any solution that would jeopardize the Democrat hold on political power.

The thing is, whoever it was who was actually running things, is still out there, unpunished. The question for the voters is, who can they hold accountable for this clearly unconstitutional action?  McCarthy correctly points out in his piece:

What happened under Biden was a coup, and it’s not mitigated by the fact that Democrats committed a coup against an incapable president of their own party.

The autopen is meant to represent the president, not take his place.

Tim Kane broke the internet with this one…. but I doubt it was the way he intended.

Kane is arguing against one of the most basic points as defined by our founders….

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Preamble to the Declaration of Independence

(The emphasis on the passage is my own, being the central part of the argument of both Cruz and myself.)

Now, notice please that it does NOT say that “they are endowed by this government”. That Kane dismisses that point so easily, is disturbing.

I quoted this older post just the other day, in an exchange with Mark Tapscott of HillFaith and of Instapundit,

Here it is; Rights are a cultural construct, and meaningless outside that construct. As I said in the article linked above: Rights are not universal.

When Jefferson wrote that “WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT” he was not speaking a universal truth at all. The operative word in that phrase is “WE”.

Rather than talking about a universal point of view, a universal truth, if you will, he was instead talking about the point of view of WE the new American culture. With this angle, many of the long-held myths about rights tend to disappear.

Consider; if it was in fact a universal truth that all men were created equal, it wouldn’t have been such a radical idea, for the time, much less then to now. Last I checked, it is quite true that a vast majority still do not consider these as any kind of truth, universal or otherwise; they consider them to be anything BUT self-evident. Royalty still exists, as do class structures, and slavery, as well.

Again, I say…Jefferson was speaking of the point of view of OUR culture, not that of others.

The fact of the matter is that RIGHTS ARE A CULTURAL CONCEPT, and are nigh on meaningless outside that construct.

The argument Kane is making, is nothing short of an attack on our individual rights. . He’s claiming, in effect, that there is no higher power than Government… that there are no rights the government cannot infringe upon. This flies in the face of the very basis of the Constitution Kane swore to uphold.

If the judeo-christian ethic is the foundation of our ideas about individual rights what happens to those rights foundations of that philosophy is ripped away, and finally outlawed? As One reviewer to …(Russel Kirk’s 1972 book)… “American Order” puts it…

Order is organic; that which was inherited by the new American republic was the product of care, cultivation, and time. It is recklessness to quickly and radically reshape it, and still expect a just and free society. To engage the immense privilege of reconciling liberty with law we must recognize the roots of American order that have even made that task possible.

Is this dismissal a conscious effort on Kane’s part? I’m not sure I’d go quite so far. But Sarah Arnold over at TownHall does note a bias that is being uncovered….

A federal task force established by President Donald Trump has released its first findings, revealing what it describes as systemic government hostility toward Christians during former President Joe Biden’s presidency.The Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias, chaired by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, outlined in its preliminary report a pattern of federal agencies targeting people of faith, especially Christians, through regulatory overreach, selective enforcement, and outright discrimination. The report is based on investigations and case studies collected over the past several months.

Among the most glaring examples are the Department of Defense and other agencies’ routine denials of religious exemptions to Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, despite constitutional protections and federal law allowing such requests. These denials continued until the U.S. Supreme Court halted the mandate following a legal challenge from The Daily Wire.

So as regards Kane, at the very least what we are looking at here is a bias toward, not the supremacy of individual rights, as laid out within the Judeo- Christian ethic, which is turn is the basis of Western culture, (and dare I say it, but also our constitution…) but the Supremacy of GOVERNMENT, over the individual, and the constitutional limits on government be damned.

Think about this… every great culture in world history has had one religion or another as it’s philosophical center.  Now, think on THIS:

1: Who invented the concept of government?

2: What purpose would that entity have had in such creation?

One way we can answer those two questions at once, would be to look at what existed as the most powerful force before government was invented, and therefore what was the most likely inventor of government: CULTURE.

If we make the logical assumption that governments were originally created by the individual cultures, then it follows that each culture constructed their respective governments in their own image… governments that best reflected and advanced each culture’s interests.

The original purpose of government, therefore, is to protect, nurture and defend, and if possible expand the influence of, the culture that gave it life. As such, to the greatest of degrees possible, each government’s laws, on the whole, were the culture, codified. It follows, then, that any government holding to the original purpose of government will perform this task.

If we Americans turn our back on the cultural value on which our government is founded, what happens to the individual rights which are rooted in that cultural value? I’ve said it often enough…  nature abhors a vacuum. Continuing to deny and reject the culture and the values that this nation was founded upon… the continuing moving toward a completely secular society… Our nation… Our culture… not going to be strong enough to defend itself when the time comes, and I am sure you have seen yourself the evidence that that time if not already upon us is it least very near and the threat very grave.

Absent the effort to allow the culture back into the role and value set… The perceptions of morality, of right and of wrong, that it had at the founding of this country, we are not going to save it.

Just some thing’s I noticed today:

• That ICE raid at the Hyundai plant…. I notice none of the people arrested were picking fruit.
• Texas has banned China from owning any land in the state. 49 more to go.
• Time doesn’t heal anything. It just gives you time to lick your wounds.
• Maybe nobody else remembers when LBJ sent 8000 National Guard troops with orders to “shoot anyone looting”.  Then again, he was a Democrat.
• The British gave up heir guns… which allowed the government to arrest them for their Facebook posts.
• The same people who called the cops if you didn’t wear a mask, are now the ones claiming we live in a police state.
• Swimming with dolphins is expensive, sure…. but swimming with sharks will cost you an arm and a leg.
• Only 1 in 3 NYC 4th graders are proficient in math. Explain to me why we continue to turn out kids over to the government to be “Educated”.  At least they know all about how evil capitalism is, it’s all the white man’s fault, and that you can choose your gender during recess.
• If Trump really was a dictator, there wouldn’t be any opposition.
• The folks complaining about RFK,Jr., should perhaps explain their support for the man he replaced.
  
  

From WCNC:

GREENSBORO, N.C. — A man from Canada is facing federal charges for allegedly voting in North Carolina for two decades — including in the 2024 presidential election.

Investigators say 69-year-old Denis Bouchard moved to the state in the 1960s but never became a U.S. citizen. According to state records, Bouchard registered as an unaffiliated voter in New Hanover and Pender Counties and cast ballots as far back as 2004. He was recently removed from the voter system.

The arrest happened earlier this week, apparently. What bothers me is, I was reliably informed this kind of thing never happens….. Huh.

I do have to wonder how he voted… and I note that none of the stories about this….( there are quite a few…)… even mention that point.

A note from Mark Tapscott this morning:

THE SEISMIC SHIFT YOU HAVEN’T HEARD ABOUT: No, it’s not the move of young male voters to the Trump/Republican column, important as that certainly is in the political calculations of the days ahead.

But politics is downstream from culture and culture is downstream from you know what, and that’s where the most important — and totally unexpected — shift in the tectonic plate underlying the American experience is happening. Read all about it in my latest PJMedia column.

I’ve been saying this for Decades… that culture is stronger than government.
And most importantly to Mark’s point is something I posted here about 5 years ago.

In the former home of Mahatma Gandhi, we find the following quote, prominently posted:

“It is doubtful that the efforts of the Mahatma would have succeeded except that he was appealing to the conscience of a Christianized people”

— Bertrand Russell

So here we have, posted in the home of a Buddhist, the words of a militant atheist, extolling the virtues of Christianity.

So much for the argument that the judeo-christian ethic is not Central to Western culture. The constant claim that the judeo-christian ethic is an evil to be overcome is similarly bombed out of existence.

At the bottom line culture exists, and it matters.

I have repeatedly said over the years and hold today that America could not have been created as such with Islam as its cultural philosophy. Nor any of the pantheistic religions, nor atheism.

When the Democrats tell you that they want to make America over, fundamentally change america, remember that it’s no accident that they consistently try to overcome Christianity and its part in the foundation of our unique American culture.

The good news of course as Mark points up is that we are moving back toward the traditional American culture.

The legacy media which is forever cheer-leading for the far left, will never tell you this, but President Trump’s popularity is not on the wane…. but is increasing.  Just over my desk this morning from NewsMax, is a report indicating:

President Donald Trump’s approval rating reached a new high in the latest poll released Thursday, per J.L. Partners and the Daily Mail.

The poll, conducted at the end of August, showed that 55% of respondents approve of Trump’s current job performance and 45% disapprove. This is up from 49% approval in the same poll from July.

“It might seem surprising, but the news cycle has been ace for the president in recent days: his crime surge in [Washington] D.C. is backed by the public, and economic news has been positive,” said James Johnson, co-founder of J.L. Partners, who noted that “this is the highest approval figure we have ever shown for Donald Trump.

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In re-watching the RFK Jr hearing, and the way the Democrats questioned Kennedy, it occurs to me that we might do well to ask what would they’d do differently if they were totally bought out by big pharma? Far as I can see, the answer is there’;d be no change at all, which is pretty much all you need to know about what motivates them.

Here it is, folks….  The anger we saw from Democrats in that hearing was decidedly not anger for the way the America people were put at risk, but fear that they’d rightly get blamed for it.

Oh, By the way, Bernie is going to figure out that the holier than thou act is only going to get him so far before the democrats retaliate. He’s always been a problem for the Democrats but when one of their own becomes too much of an embarrassment, they have a tendency to disappear. That way, lies Jim Trafficant and Gary Hart as two prominent examples. Or if you prefer something more recent, Al Green and Jasmine Crockett.

A bit busy today, and some of these points deserve some further exploration…. but I want to capture these as general concepts before I forget to post them.

• * Never make the assumption that any Democrat has the best interests of the country at heart. That type of Democrat died when JFK did… in fact before JFK did, if you consider that he was already in trouble with his own party, which is why he was in Dallas trying to shore up his support, in the first place. If JFK were still in the game today, he’d be considered a conservative, and likely align himself with DJT. No wonder the Democrats don’t use him as a party icon much, anymore.
• Watching the bit with Trump supposedly dying over the weekend is comical. First, how many days did Biden spend hidden on Rehoboth Beach, mumbling to himself with Democrats not saying anything at all? And don’t tell me they were “concerned about Trump’s health… they were celebrating.  Watching those idiots on X was a laugh riot. So, now that he’s come back, I’ve seen folks laughingly depict his supposedly dying and being resurrected as “Christ-Like”. Oh, and let’s not forget that now that he’s died and come back, he’s eligible to run for two more presidential terms. Right?
• I note that over time the definition of “Outlaw” has changed. Originall the work didn’t describe a criminal, but rather someone who lived where no law was established…such as in the early American West…It just meant outside the law. So, human nature hasn’t changed, it’s just we have more laws to complicate matters. By that same token then, it’s logical to ask if all these additional laws and “regulations” have improved our lot any.
• I hear CBS/Paramount (David Ellison) is seriously considering buying Bari Weiss’ “Free Press” for upwards of $200MUSD. The deal, I hear would also put her in a leading role at CBS News, TV and Radio. I hear the current staff is to put it mildly, very unhappy. Yeah, I know, Rumors don’t always pan out, but it seems to me remarkable that the rumor is even believable… it most certainly wouldn’t have been, say, 4 years ago, and shows just how dire the financial situation at CBS has become, and how much the lay of the land out here in the real world has changed. Weiss would certainly move CBS away from it’s transitional left-wing bias… which seems the biggest objection coming from the current staff. My heart bleeds. By the way, it’s fairly easy to draw a line between this and CBS taking an Axe to Colbert.  Biggest Giggle on this so far… the usual suspects calling Weiss, a Jewish woman, a “Modern day Goebbells”.  Still very predictable. Jenin Younes, I’m looking at YOU.
• Alice Smith suggests: “The UK government is arresting comedians and pepper spraying children but what makes the left furious is that Nigel Farage is reporting these facts in the US.” BTW, Farage’s appearance in Congress is on at YouTube.  Pay particular attention to his exchange with that asshat of a Rep Johnson…

The Chicago Trib this morning reports that in 63 years of Chicago being a one party town…(Democrats of course) there have been 40,000 murders. As a comparison, 33,700 died in he Korean war.

Another stat they say little if anything about…. Black and Hispanic people make up around 94% of the people being shot up in Chicago. Do Black Lives matter, or not?

The white hippies banging their pots and pans are really campaigning for this atrocity to continue. Obviously, black lives don’t matter to these. And just as obviously, Pritzker does give a damn about the people in the line of fire, either.

I dunno about you, but I suspect we should be treating 60 people getting shot over Labor day weekend, as an emergency.

Let’s tell the truth, here. Black lives manifestly don’t matter to Democrats. They’d rather use those dead and injured as pawns in their quest for political power.  Instead of gearing up police actions against the criminals doing the killing, they’d rather use the problem as a levvel to ban guns.

Thing is, Chicago has the most draconian gun laws in the country and is therefore living proof (well, dying proof, actually) proof that gun control simply doesn’t work, and by extension, that Democrats really don’t care about the black lives being lost every day in Chicago.