If you haven't read de Tocqueville's history of the French Revolution, this would be a good time to do so.  If you think that it was a revolt of the peasants against the aristocrats and royalty, you are in for a surprise.  That was the public relations; the real result was massive centralization of government powers.  As one Amazon reviewer comments:

“If you are wondering what is happening in the year 2020 with all of its chaos this book, written in the 1800s about the French Revolution and all of the tyranny and terror that it produced, is like reading a present day news cast.”

Chicago Teachers Union "Endorses" Guillotine Built By Protesters Outside Jeff Bezos' House

Yes, this is an actual working guillotine

And every illegal alien too

“Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstances because I think this is going to drag out and, eventually, I do believe he will win, if we don’t give an inch and if we are as focused and relentless as the other side is.”

Everyone who heard Hillary say this understood it was the opening salvo in a plan to attack the integrity of the 2020 election.

On Wednesday (9/01), Axios reported on the next phase in destabilizing the American elections.

We’ve just been given a preview of coming attractions.

You know the sardonic reassurance:  “When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.”  Well now, that’s if they ever show up at all.

It’s increasingly clear to the average American that if riots come to your neighborhood, you’re on your own.

Consequently, as violence appears to surge in America's cities, millions of Americans have become first-time gun owners.  Call it the riots’ silver lining.

I call it the COVID Con.  Last Wednesday (8/26), CDC issued its latest Coronavirus Disease Update.  What you see above is Table 3 on Comorbidities.  Don’t lose your mind or temper when you read: ”For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned.”

It lists the total number of deaths “involving” Covid-19 as 161,392.  6% of that is 9,684 – since February.  Add up all the deaths under 55 – 13,300 – 6% is 798 in the last six-plus months.  To compound the farce: “For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death.”

Most of those dying with the Chinese Flu didn’t have just one serious underlying medical condition, like diabetes or obesity – they had two or more, diabetes and a respiratory disease, obesity and kidney failure, hypertension and heart disease or some other life-threatening combo.  These were very sick people to begin with.

And we’re learning this now?

What do you expect when New Yorkers elect a Communist for their mayor – twice?

I used to love New York City. There was so much to do and see, but if one were from the heartland like me, one could be perfectly content to just walk the streets and look at architecture and people.

One might seek out venues one had seen in the movies, such as in Woody Allen’s Manhattan; perhaps Elaine’s. And when one got weary from walking, one could sit down at one of two major opera houses. And after a performance one might grab a beer at P.J. Clark’s across the street from the Met and muse about what a wonderful city one was visiting, where the Bronx is up and the Battery’s down.

It really was a helluva town.  Tragically, I used to love New York City, but there’s not much left to love. In fact, many are saying the city is dead and isn’t coming back.

Yes, he actually asked this question to his audience yesterday (8/31) in Pittsburgh on his first “campaign stop” rally since emerging from his basement.

The words “audience” for his “rally” need to be in sarcasm quotes, as only a few dozen people showed up along with seven reporters.  How pathetic can you get?

Joe Biden is in the Catch-22 of his political career. If he stays in his basement, he faces the legitimate question of whether he’s fit — both physically and mentally — to assume the duties of the presidency. If he hits the campaign trail, he runs the risk of… Pittsburgh.

The latter wasn’t a pretty sight. At all. Put another way, Joe had a very bad day in Pittsburgh. A really bad day. And social media on both sides knows it.

Ephesus in 200 BC

Ruins of Ephesus today

In February, New York was the world’s most dynamic metropolis. By August, the city was more like the ruins of Ephesus. It is not all that hard to blow up a culture. You can do it in a summer if you haven’t much worry about others.

When you loot and burn a Target in an hour, it takes months to realize there are no more neighborhood Target-stocked groceries, toilet paper, and Advil to buy this winter.

You can in a night assault the police, spit at them, hope to infect them with the coronavirus, and even burn them alive. But when you call 911 in a few weeks after your car is vandalized, your wallet is stolen, and your spouse is violent, and no one comes, only then do you sense that you earlier were voting for a pre-civilized wilderness.

And that wilderness can come in a blink of history’s eye.

How lovely! On Durham's 8 hour Brennan interview: Was John Brennan Just Put In A Completely Legitimate Perjury Trap?

Attention Mike Ryan!

Psychopathic racist PR: EXCLUSIVE: Insider at PR Giant Publicis Groupe Reveals Far-left Racism Spreading Through Woke Capitalism

Real election interference: Twitter Censors Trump Tweet About 'Voter Security Disaster'

Big Brother Zuck is watching you to make sure that nothing that you say goes viral without His Royal Majesty’s  approval: Report: Facebook Introducing a 'Virality Circuit Breaker' to Prevent Spread of Viral Content

Tell a big enough lie long enough - and maybe the BBC(!) will fact check it. (I wonder if that fact-checker still has his job) BBC Fact-checks Joe Biden for Charlottesville 'Very Fine People' Hoax

There’s lots more!

“Biden should not concede under any circumstances” -Hillary Clinton, August 25,2020

In his speech, Biden actually endorses the “Trump provocateur” justification for the “darkness” in which we find ourselves.  “The current president has cloaked America in darkness for much too long,” Biden said. “Too much anger. Too much fear. Too much division.”

Whose anger? Who caused the fear? Who caused the division? Trump did—the same way he created the riots. He failed to bend the knee to the church of wokeness. The solution, Biden reminded us, is ending dissent and uniting to unite, Communist Chinese-style, under a monopoly of Democrat power.

The four days of the Democrat infomercial were characterized by misery and anger.  Not one of the Democrat speakers even smiled.  They made it clear, each and every one of them, that they hate this country.

The speakers on the first night of the Republican convention were from an altogether different planet.  They represented those of us who love this country, who know that it is not a racist nation.  Every speaker had a story to tell, and all of the stories were a powerful expression of why those who told them love America and are grateful for what this country means to them.

If nothing else, the architects of the 2020 Democrat Convention appeared to be ignorant of irony.

Either that, or they know irony so well and cared so little that they wished to ram it down the throats of the few who watched the nightly taped speeches—as if to say, “We’re hypocrites and proud of it—and what are you going to do about it?”

Well, we could start by pointing out and laughing at the ludicrous irony of Dem luminaries such as Bill Clinton, Michelle Obama, and Andrew Cuomo parodying themselves without knowing it.

Don't let anyone guilt you over the bad consequences of their own behavior; unwise shortsighted  behavior that results in deadly consequences rather than systemic racism  is causing more minority deaths from the Wuhan virus:

Social distancing responses to COVID-19 emergency declarations strongly differentiated by income

November 3, 2020; the shape of things to come:

Election Roulette: How To Rig An Outcome

Something about China; interesting correlation between crops, culture, and humans regulating human  behavior:

Historically rice-farming societies have tighter social norms in China and worldwide

Good comments on inflation:

The Road To Inflation In Post-COVID Times

If you thought that the 737-MAX was as bad as it could get, just wait for airplanes designed by this generation of STEM graduates:

Students Claim 'Merit'-Criteria "Possess Inherent Bias"

This will fix it:

"That's Ridiculous": Jill Biden - Not Joe, Appears On Live TV To Defend VP's Cognitive Ability

There’s lots more!

[This is long yet one of Victor’s best.  There is an abundance of ammo here to clear the field of any woketards you may meet –JW]

What created the hatred of Trump and his supporters was not a rather heterodox political agenda (see below), but a style that took on the Left on its own terms, and shocked a Republican establishment — by shrugging as irrelevant his ostracism by the traditional conservative beltway insider.

I would prefer a supposed braggart cracking down on China, or a purported narcissist closing the border, or an alleged demagogue promising change in the Rust Belt than any more sermons from privileged gentlemen conservatives.

Such as Jeb Bush tolerating illegal immigration as “an act of love,” or silent agreement that those manufacturing “jobs are not coming back” as Obama put it, or wonkishly boy wonder Paul Ryan being drilled in a debate by the vacuous smiling Joker Joe Biden or Mitt Romney oblivious that Candy Crowley had just hijacked his debate momentum—and with it the election.

Crassness is not a requisite for needed change, but so often in a flawed world the two are shared, in the reverse fashion that gaseous pieties are frequently voiced by the sober and judicious.

But all this is irrelevant when we consider what Trump did rather than what he said.  Here is a compendium.

photo ©Jack Wheeler

[Having been to Somaliland three times, and writing about it in TTP for years – e.g., The Country That Does Exist (Feb. 2011) – I am so pleased to see Michael Horton explain how Islamic terrorists, while winning in Somalia, are being defeated in Somaliland – JW]

The tempo of Jihadist Al-Shabaab’s operations in Somalia has steadily increased, despite a dramatic escalation in U.S.-led drone strikes in Somalia.  In fact, indications have emerged that al-Shabaab is gaining new capabilities and tactics, such as the use of hand-launched drones.

However, Al-Shabaab has failed to establish an enduring presence in the autonomous but unrecognized Republic of Somaliland. The government of Somaliland’s military budget is the equivalent of an accounting error when compared with what has been—and continues to be—spent in Somalia by its international backers.

Yet, with its limited resources, Somaliland has achieved what the military forces of Kenya, Turkey, Ethiopia, and the United States have failed to achieve in Somalia: it has denied al-Shabaab a foothold.

How has Somaliland achieved this?

"From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step." —Denis Diderot (1713-1784) – leader of the French Enlightenment

Tonight (8/19) at the Virtual Democrat Convention in Milwaukee, Kamala Harris will virtually accept her party’s nomination for Vice-President (she will be in Chevy Chase, Maryland at the time).

Joe Biden's handlers opting for Kamala Harris as his running mate is downright entertaining. It's as though they let Trump choose Biden's V.P. candidate.  Harris polled near the very bottom of all the Democrats who threw their hat in the ring as presidential wannabes.

Of all the women among consideration, Harris has the greatest dearth of character – which, when you think of it, is in character for the Democrats.