Thomas Klingenstein
THE CHOICE IS BETWEEN A MAN WHO BELIEVES AMERICA IS GOOD AND A MAN WHO DOES NOT
Let me ask: are Republican leaders framing the election properly? Are they doing a good job describing what’s at stake in this election? I believe they can do better. In fact, they must do better. Here’s why and how.
This election is a contest between a man, Donald Trump, who believes America is good, and a man, Joe Biden, who is controlled by a movement that believes America is bad. Or to put this another way, between a man who wants to preserve the American way of life and a man who will end up destroying it.
Republican leaders are too focused on policy. This is not a policy election. This is a regime decision; a way of life election.
FOOD CRISIS COMING IN CHINA?
Flooded farmland as far as the eye can see
This has not been a good year for China.
The economy suffered a 6.8 percent economic contraction in Q1, followed by a 3.2 percent rebound (anemic by Chinese standards) in Q2. Relations with the United States remain tense and complicated.
On top of that, heavy rains have caused massive flooding that has wiped away billions of dollars of value in China, washing up factories, homes and agricultural land in a frothy tide of destruction. This last is important.
While China supports over 20 percent of the world’s population, it has a little over 12 percent of its arable land (according to the World Bank). Heavy rains and floods are bad enough; add in an African Swine Fever resurgence in some parts of southern China and the question of food security gains traction as something to watch.
THE DISGRACE OF CHRIS WALLACE
The Chris & Joe Show
Chris Wallace’s overt defense of Joe Biden throughout the debate on Tuesday night was so obvious, so blatant, he should be proscribed from ever “moderating” a debate again.
Wallace’s performance was as Biden’s protector, his advocate, and that is undeniable. He stepped in at every moment Biden seemed lost: court-packing, lack of support of law enforcement, and Hunter’s criminality.
The debate was so poorly managed. The questions were designed to aid Biden, to coddle him. No wonder Trump felt duty-bound to interrupt. Trump was debating both Wallace and Biden and only one of them is sentient.
Wallace’s intent was clear – sabotage Trump. Wallace succeeded only in looking like the stooge he is.
DNI RATCLIFFE EXPOSES RUSSIA HOAX AS COMEY INVENTION
If I were a betting woman, I’d say that, over the next month, we’re going to see a steady drip, followed by an onrushing stream, of information about the corrupt origins and practices behind the Russia hoax.
To start: the big news is that yesterday (9/29), Lindsey Graham released a letter from John Ratcliffe, the Director of National Intelligence (full letter in link). In it, Ratcliffe wrote that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were both involved in originating the Russia hoax and that former CIA director John Brennan pushed the investigation.
Ratcliffe’s letter to Graham contained three specific pieces of new information:
WITHOUT COMMON SENSE IN GOVERNMENT, CIVILIZATION CANNOT CONTINUE
If you call 911 in a large American city, there is no guarantee that anyone will answer promptly and send out police to aid the endangered. So gun sales have soared. Some people who never before owned weapons, or who even opposed the use of firearms, are now terrified to remain unarmed.
Large swaths of the American West are now charred by out-of-control wildfires. Some governors and many federal bureaucrats blame the conflagrations on “climate change.”
But those who actually live within forests, or on mountains and foothills, that are historically vulnerable to wildfires know that the epic droughts of 2013–15 killed or dried out millions of acres of trees and vegetation.
Yet most of these decaying trees were never removed by authorities. They now predictably provide the fuel for the current wildfire Armageddon.
THE ROCK SELLS HIS SOUL TO CHINA
“The Rock” – the man Forbes magazine lists as the world’s highest-paid actor, Dwayne Johnson, has just endorsed Joe Biden for president.
In a seven-minute video pinned to his Facebook profile, “The Rock” explained, “In this critical election, I believe Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are the best to lead our country, and as my first ever (public) presidential endorsement, I proudly endorse them for the presidential office of our United States.”
From reading through what are now over 100,000 comments in response to Johnson’s Facebook post, it’s clear at once that Johnson’s endorsement backfired. There are almost no comments supporting his decision. Roughly 95 percent of the comments are expressions of anger and feelings of betrayal.
Perhaps Johnson has laid an egg. Perhaps he didn’t know his fans at all. Or perhaps he didn’t care about his American fans.
THE TRUTH EMERGES IN LOUISVILLE
[Note: TTP has appended to Andrea’s article the letters of Louisville Police Sergeant Jon Mattingly and his wife]
The truth has finally emerged about Breonna Taylor’s death this past March. It turns out (surprise!) that the Democrat party – in Congress, in the media, and on the streets – has been lying.
Taylor was not a complete innocent whom racist police slaughtered in her bed during a no-knock raid. Instead, she was the victim of her poor choices in men: Her friendship with a local drug kingpin justified the raid and her boyfriend’s decision to open fire on police who had knocked and identified themselves led to her shooting.
That certainly doesn’t mean she deserved to die, but it explains why she did (more – and very interesting explanation below).
SKYE’S LINKS 09/24/20
What will be happening during the next four months: A Textbook Case Of Treason
Original source document - please read!
Using the excuse of the China Virus, the November 3 election has already been irreversibly disrupted and turned into a late September through 8 December fraudulent ballot chase election. It is going to get a lot worse. Be prepared. There will be far more violence in urban areas. This is a coup.
Yes, it really is rigged:
Bokhari: Big Tech Prepares the Public for a Rigged Election
Facebook Says It Will Restrict Posting if Elections Cause 'Unrest'
Russia, Russia, Russia, without end. Isn’t there a clinical name for the neurotic obsession to keep beating a dead horse?
THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF PRESIDENT TRUMP
Mr. & Mrs. America
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” teamed up to get those out to kill them, but they can’t compare to Mr. & Mrs. America gunning for those out to kill our country and everything it stands for.
Because so many people asked for a document with all of this listed in one place, here it is. No links provided to remove bias as Google search is easy. Fact check it all you want. Print this out for family, friends, neighbors, etc. I encourage you to drop this list off to voters before November 3rd too!
Donaldus Magnus, supported by his closest confidant The First Lady, has been in office for 44 months and has accomplished almost infinitely more than Basement Joe has in 44 years (36 as US Senator, 8 as Vice-President).
Here you go. I ask for your patience – it’s a long list… really long.
ACB – THE WORTHIEST REPLACEMENT FOR RBG
Federal Judge Amy Coney Barrett, 7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Picture a female jurist who has consistently defied social expectations imposed on women and whose legal thinking is closely bound up with her faith.
No, I’m not talking about Amy Coney Barrett, affectionately known as “ACB,” and reported to top President Trump’s list of candidates to fill the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat. I’m talking about RBG, Ginsburg herself.
Ginsburg believed fervently that conventional expectations shouldn’t hinder women as they seek their full, fair share of public life. Nor was she shy about how her Jewish faith shaped her judicial mind. In an essay for the American Jewish Committee published in 1993, she wrote:
“Laws as protectors of the oppressed, the poor, the loner, is evident in the work of my Jewish predecessors. . . . The biblical command ‘Justice, justice shalt thou pursue’ is a strand that ties them together.”
By those criteria, Barrett would make a most worthy successor to RBG.
WOKE JOE EMERGES FROM HIBERNATION – TO ANY AVAIL?
“You don’t have to do this, Joe.”
The Democrat presidential nominee had embraced one of the most bizarre but—until recently—effective strategies thus far in a presidential campaign.
Like some fictive vampire, Joe Biden has been ensconced in a basement tomb and, now pale, he is reemerging into the light and finding the glare all but lethal.
As his former boss, Barack Obama, reportedly warned Biden of the looming 2020 ordeal, “You don’t have to do this, Joe, you really don’t.” That’s turning out to be sage advice. Here’s why.
THE GLOBAL ELITE IS USING THE CHINA VIRUS TO CREATE THEIR TOTALITARIAN UTOPIA
If people were living in a dystopia, how many of them would know it?
The current situation certainly raises the question, as we experience unprecedented restrictions on individual freedom adopted in response to the China Virus, coupled with left-wing riots that undermine the legitimacy of America’s core institutions.
It’s becoming clear that these social changes are dystopian, not merely because they are harmful and coercive, but because they seek to replace the American way of life with a new social order rooted in their vision of a totalitarian utopia.
Let’s look at how this is happening – here in America and elsewhere in the world.
SKYE’S LINKS 09/17/20
Anti-Twitter Protest
Stalin would have been green with envy:
How the 'Crats are planning to irreversibly fundamentally change America:
Pollak: Democrats' 'War Room' to Kill the Filibuster Aims to End the Republican Party
The AI overlords of Far Left Big Tech really are out to get us:
Bokhari: Big Tech Can 'Turn Down the Volume' on Entire Movements
Do you wonder what the term "systemic racism" means? These demands are a good example:
Faculty Demands Cornell U. Publish Data on the Race of Professors' Spouses
And there’s so much more!
THE DEMOCRATS’ STORMTROOPERS OF BLM/ANTIFA
The Sturmabteilung or Stormtroopers were Hitler’s Brownshirts, civilian thugs whose job was to beat up anyone who was against the Nazis. That’s what BLM/Antifa has become for the Democrat Party.
And now, when the tactics of Black Lives Matter coincide with the ideology of NPR (taxpayer-funded National Public Radio), Americans should realize that the Democrats have crossed yet another line on the indecency scale.
This is the nadir to which the radicalized Democrat party has brought this nation as the election nears. Can it get worse? Most assuredly.
AWE AND ALARM IN THE KREMLIN OVER BELARUS
Demonstrating for freedom in Minsk, Belarus
On Sunday (9/13), over 100,000 people flooded the streets of Minsk, Belarus’ capital, demanding “Europe’s last dictator” who has ruled them for 26 years resign.
Five weeks of peaceful (actually – not peacefully violent like the US) mass freedom demonstrations in Belarus after the falsified elections on August 9, have profoundly changed this formerly rather stable country. They have impressed its European neighbors, and set a sharp challenge for Russia.
How soon will the unquenchable protests against dictatorship be coming to Putin’s door?
BIDEN THE GREAT AND POWERFUL
Nothing is new to the media’s fusion and collusion with the “progressive party.”
Yet never in American history have mainstream journalists not merely promoted a candidate but actively fused with his political candidacy to the point of warping, fabricating, and Trotskyizing the news and indeed history itself.
The trope of a vast charade to create an illusionary powerful figure out of nothing is an old one in fiction, Hollywood and television. We remember “The Great and Powerful” Wizard of Oz fakery, a formidable screen image created backstage by gears and levers operated by a tiny man “behind the curtain.”
But reality has outdone movie-making with the Biden campaign.
DEMS GO HAYWIRE OVER TRUMP THE PEACEMAKER
Historic peace agreement between Israel, UAE, and Bahrain signed at White House today (9/15)
Democrats are having a shattered-glass crack-up to the continuous good news coming from President Trump on the global peace front. Their famously disciplined lockstep "narrative" has gone haywire.
Over in Sweden, a legislator has nominated President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize over his role in bringing peace to longtime foes Kosovo and Serbia. That's the second one who's done it. It follows a Norwegian legislator's nomination of Trump this same week for the same prize over his role in brokering an Israel-UAE entente.
Instead of saying "nice job" with a pat on the back, hoping the news cycle moves on, Democrats are going nuts. The Swedes have noticed! Now Dem responses are absolutely crazy.
WHAT ISLAMISTS AND WOKEISTS HAVE IN COMMON
Naive observers explain this summer’s protests in terms of African-Americans’ material disadvantages. Yet they aren’t the main driver of the protests, which appear to be led mainly by well-off white people.
Their ideology goes by many names: cancel culture, social justice, critical race theory, intersectionality. For simplicity, I call it all Wokeism.
I am not about to equate Wokeism and Islamism. There are many differences. But consider the resemblances.
THE UGLY PRIVILEGE OF RICH WHITE PROTESTERS
NYPD mug shots of rich kid domestic terrorists
The so-called revolutionaries who were busted for rioting at a New Afrikan Black Panther Party rally took a break from their yacht club lives and modeling careers to be a part of the mayhem.
The seven “comrades” — including wealthy Upper East Sider Clara Kraebber — had their mugshots tweeted out by the NYPD early Wednesday (9/09), days after their arrests for smashing storefront windows in the Flatiron District.
They were cuffed during a protest organized by the Panthers and the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement groups condemning the death of Daniel Prude, who was killed while in custody of the Rochester Police Department in March. Yes, six months ago.
All come from privileged backgrounds — leading one police source to call their actions “the height of hypocrisy.”
SKYE’S LINKS 091020
“He would mess with every single woman or teen, it was horrible”
This is significant because someone may have retained a copy of that file or there may be other records; Biden appears to be eminently blackmailable. Now what happens if two or more different blackmailers have the goods on Biden and issue opposing incompatible demands? If the 'Crat powers that be didn't have the goods on a candidate, I doubt whether they would be allowed to become a finalist, and that includes Harris.
Secret Service Admits To Destroying Records In Alleged Biden Breast-Grabbing Incident
How to construct a propaganda narrative:
"Infiltrated By Nazis..." - The Rise Of The New Normal 'Gleichschaltung'
Do as we say, not as we do:
San Francisco Gym Owners Irate After Learning City Government Gyms Are Open
There’s LOTS more!
ANDY TIFA’S FEET ON FIRE
Andy’s comrades tried ineffectually to extinguish the flames which the police efficiently put out. There are other videos of Antifa people injuring themselves or each other, but this one has legs (burning legs, if you will).
There's a reason for its popularity: that short video encompasses everything wrong with Antifa, and it's okay to laugh because no one was seriously hurt in the making of that video. Don’t know about Andy, though
From the beginning, there's been a duality about Antifa.
DEMOCRATS WALLOWING IN SLIME
In terms of political ethics and tactics, the Democrats have hit rock bottom.
The Atlantic has worked hard to become a third-rate New Yorker in terms both of literary quality and the vitriol of its hatred for President Trump; the magazine has probably confirmed its position with the confection of the uncorroborated and totally implausible allegation that Trump disparaged American World War I veterans who died in France as “suckers” and “losers.”
It is indicative of the fact that the Democrats are much less overconfident than they were four years ago. In this latest incident, many people, including almost everyone who would have been present, have all denied that any such utterance had been made. It is inconceivable that this president would think or say anything of the kind.
But the odium of the incident is magnified by the fact that it was clearly staged in a tight sequence coordinated between the Biden campaign and its most rabid media partisans.
TIME TO LOCKDOWN THE LOCKDOWNS
Take off the masks and remove the “social distancing” circles from the floors. Open the schools, liberate college campuses, fill the restaurants and the gyms and the churches and the salons. Enough.
In mid-March, Americans were asked to suspend their personal freedoms, business pursuits, and schooling for 15 days to “flatten the curve” of rising cases of the novel coronavirus. Americans, fearful of the unknown and willing to do what they imagined was the right thing to protect themselves and their family, acquiesced.
That was 175 days ago. What has happened since will be studied and debated for decades with one likely conclusion: Global lockdowns, particularly in the United States, were one of the costliest man-made disasters of all time.
The decision was rooted in unscientific hocus pocus that resulted in economic, educational, mental, physical, and emotional catastrophes on a scale that can never be fully quantified—not to mention the way stay-at-home orders fueled racial and civil unrest across America months before a national election.
DESPERATE DEMS’ DERAIL DONALD FAIL
The effort to stop President Trump is growing comical.
One always expects the media surprise leak of a purported hidden scandal as a presidential campaign winds down. Remember the October 7, 2016 effort of the Washington Post to publish the hoarded 11-year-old “Access Hollywood” tape, just two days before Donald Trump’s second debate with Hillary Clinton?
We should expect lots of these “bombshells” and “walls are closing in” pseudo-derailments. Except Trump has been the most widely investigated, probed, attacked, and smeared president in history.
And so the scandal-field has pretty well been picked over. In Jussie Smollett fashion, the demand for scandals is outrunning the supply and time grows short.
SKYE’S LINKS 09/03/20
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.”Very true, for that is what the Left is planning for us:
Chicago Teachers Union "Endorses" Guillotine Built By Protesters Outside Jeff Bezos' House
Yes, this is an actual working guillotine
FLORIDA 2000 ON STEROIDS TIMES 50 IN 2020
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.
THE GOOD NEWS ON GUNS
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.
THE MOST TOTALLY CORRUPT CRIMINAL SCAM IN WORLD HISTORY
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?
NEW YORK CITY HAD IT COMING
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.
IS IT OVER FOR JOE ALREADY?
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.
CULTURAL SUICIDE CAN COME QUICKLY
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.
SKYE’S LINKS 08/28/20
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!
VOTE DEMOCRAT OR WE’LL BURN YOUR COUNTRY DOWN
“Biden should not concede under any circumstances” -Hillary Clinton, August 25,2020
In light of last week’s Democrat National Convention and Joe Biden’s speech, we’re left to wonder: Is this an election or a hostage situation?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.
ANGER AND MISERY OR OPTIMISM AND GRATITUDE — AN EASY CHOICE
RNC Opening Ad Monday (8/24)
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.
DEMS GO FROM IRONY TO PARODY
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.
SKYES LINKS 08/20/20
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!
THERE IS ONLY TRUMP STANDING IN THE BREACH
[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.
HOW IS POOR SOMALILAND DEFEATING JIHADI TERRORISTS?
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?
KAMALA AND RELIVING THE AGE OF LINCOLN
"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.
THE ADULTUROUS BIDENS
For 48 years they’ve lied to the world
Ordinarily, most of us wouldn't care too much about a political leader's love life. After all, President Trump is a stellar president but his personal life hasn't been perfect. Big deal. Trump's never brought it up to win votes out on the campaign trail.
Joe Biden's different. He's using the occasion of his previous wife, Neilia Hunter Biden's death in a car crash along with that of his baby daughter to tell us how compassionate he is, in a bid to reap political hay.
Now it looks like he was cheating on Neilia by having an affair with another man’s wife – yes, the now-Jill Biden.