Can you believe it?

Our video was taken down by Facebook & YouTube last night.

Surprise surprise.

You know what YouTube video is still up from 2 months ago though?

The video with Surgisphere founder Sapan Desai on the results of the fake Lancet study that the WHO mistakenly endorsed immediately. https://t.co/TcA1en4X8o

— James Todaro, MD (@JamesTodaroMD) July 28, 2020

"Did they do that before or after the fire was put out?"

"Did they do that before or after the fire was put out?" pic.twitter.com/qz1aUPjzJW

— Elizabeth Harrington (@LizRNC) July 28, 2020

Sara Gonzales has trouble following Joe Biden's train of thought.

Later quotes and tweets I liked today

Misanthropic Humanitarian quoted Ann Coulter:

I don’t care if you haven’t heard about what’s happening in these cities. I don’t care that their governors and mayors don’t think it’s a problem. Unless you’re Orval Faubus, it’s the federal government’s responsibility to quash insurrections and protect the rights of American citizens.

Misanthropic Humanitarian quotes Senator Lindsey Graham,

Sen. Lindsey Graham on Sunday teased the release of evidence showing that the FBI “lied their ass off” to Congress regarding the reliability of the Steele dossier, which the bureau used as part of its investigation of the Trump campaign.
“I will tell you next week what I found,” the South Carolina Republican said in an interview on “Fox Sunday Futures” with Maria Bartiromo.

“Here is what I think I’m going to be able to show to the public. Not only did the FBI lie to the court about the reliability about the Steele dossier, they also lied to the Congress. That’s a separate crime.”

Misanthropic Humanitarian quotes Alan Dershowitz:

It is very hard to be a dissenter today. If you are a dissenter today, you risk being canceled. If you are an editor who is willing to publish dissenting material, you risk being fired. If you are a dissenter today in a crowd, you risk being beaten up.

If there were no police, if the police were defunded, wealthy people would hire private security guards, but the people who cannot afford private guards need to have a well‑funded police force. I am in favor of extra funding for the police. Give them better training. Teach them how to subdue people without using lethal force.

Lin Wood tweeted,

In this interview, @BillGates unequivocally says, “I am a big believer in getting the truth out.” Hey, Bill, if that is not a lie, tell the public full truth about your relationship with Jeffrey Epstein & what happened on all your flights on his private jet.

Get the truth out.

Essential Fleccas tweeted,

I ran into Jerry Nadler in DC and asked him to disavow the Antifa violence/rioting in Portland.

His response?

“THATS A MYTH”

What is happening in your part of the earth tonight?

via Misanthropic Humanitarian

Some early tweets I liked tonight

A quote from Buck Throckmorton:

A “hate crime” can be defined as that rare crime in which leftists sympathize with the crime victim instead of sympathizing with the criminal.

A quote from the December 23, 2019 New Yorker from an article entitled "Tyrant Chic" by Adam Gopnik:

The capacity for self-delusion on the part of cosseted utopians about the actuality of utopia remains the most incomprehensible element of the story of the twentieth century, and its least welcome gift to the twenty-first,"

Rep. Matt Gaetz tweeted,

I've filed a criminal referral against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for making materially false statements to Congress while under oath.

John Bellanger tweeted,

It’s been 7 years since BLM was formed. They have raised over a billion dollars. They haven’t had 1 neighborhood cleanup, sent 1 poor black child to college, bought school supplies, fed the hungry, donated to a food bank or provided housing to 1 poor black family..

Erin Perrine tweeted,

President Trump is taking open questions from reporters live on national TV.

Joe Biden is on Day 27 of hiding from reporters and refusing to take open questions.

Steve Deace tweeted,

y'all remember when we had 60 million H1N1 cases under Obama -- that's right 60 million! -- and we never shut anything down or peddled panic porn?

Sidney Powell tweeted,

Make #hydroxychloroquine available over the counter! It will prevent and stop it for next to nothing!
This is all outrageous and needlessly destructive. All of #America should be open now 🇺🇲

Michelle Malkin faces down the self-declared socialist revolutionaries in Denver

Joseph Klein writes in FrontPage Magazine,

...Michelle Malkin has been one of the leading conservative voices warning us what militant left-wing groups like the PSL have been up to for years. She has put her personal safety at risk to uphold the fundamental rights of free speech and peaceable assembly. Malkin did it again on July 19th in Denver where she was physically confronted by the shutdown mob organized by the Party for Socialism and Liberation and its comrades. For courageously facing down the self-declared socialist revolutionaries, Michelle Malkin deserves our thanks.

Read more here.

How great thou art!

He saw President Lincoln get shot by John Wilkes Booth!

Some of today's most interesting tweets and quotes

Byron York tweeted,

Voices on left concerned about rioters in Portland. No longer arguing it's 'peaceful,' worried about backfiring.

Melissa Tate tweeted,

I really think the Democrats & their far-left goons on the streets are overplaying their hand. I think they are awakening a sleeping giant we will only see on Nov. 3

Chicago Italians declare war on Chicago Democrats after @chicagosmayor tears down Columbus statue

Elon Musk tweeted,

The left is losing the middle

Ace of Spades wrote,

Has The Establishment Left Settled on a New Storyline? Suddenly Establishment Lefties Are Fretting About Antifa Terrorism
—Ace
I don't for one second believe these people care about the country or even human lives, so I have to think they've gotten some poll rumblings that America is turning hard against their antifa terrorists and BLM paramilitaries.

Andy Ngo tweeted,

Rioters have destroyed the parks in downtown Portland. The grass has turned to dirt mounds and the statues in the area have been removed following dozens of attempts to destroy them. There is trash everywhere.

Matt Gaetz tweeted,

I've filed a criminal referral against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for making materially false statements to Congress while under oath.

Joke of the day so far

A joke from Misanthropic Humanitarian:

My wife, Julie, had been after me for several weeks to varnish the wooden seat on our toilet.
Finally, I got around to doing it while Julie was out shopping.
After finishing I left to take care of another matter before she returned.
She came home and prepared to take a shower.
Before getting in the shower she got undressed and then sat on the toilet.
As she tried to stand up she realized that the not-quite-dry epoxy paint had glued her to the toilet seat.

About that time I got home and realized her predicament.
We both pushed and pulled without any success whatsoever.
Finally, in desperation I undid the toilet seat bolts.
Julie wrapped a sheet around herself and I drove her to the hospital emergency room.

The ER Doctor got her into a position where he could study how to free her (Try to get a mental picture of this.).
Julie tried to lighten the embarrassment of it all by saying, "Well, Doctor, I'll bet you've never seen anything like this before."

The Doctor replied, "Actually I've seen lots of them... I just never saw one mounted and framed."

"Hit and myth"

JJ Sefton uses the above meme with his Morning Report column today in the Ace of Spades blog. Read it and click on his links here.

That'll do it!

"A lose-lose situation"

In the Center for Immigration Studies, Todd Bensmanm reports in part,

DHS so far has not allowed reporters to embed with the agents on their side of the Portland siege line to sample what the battle might be like for them. But one DHS employee who is there agreed to share impressions and experiences with CIS anonymously from the federal agent point of view. Following are excerpts, in no particular order (language warning):

Transposing hatred for the president
A totally surreal experience. You get large, nonviolent demonstrations where people march, they chant, they give speeches, then shortly after are replaced with a smaller crowd, though still large, who immediately start trying to break into and destroy the federal courthouse. They have transposed their hatred for the president and for law enforcement onto the physical structure of the federal courthouse, and the uniformed personnel whose job is to protect that courthouse. They throw homemade Molotov cocktails, try to set the walls on fire, try to cut and pry through the plywood covering the glass walls, all the while screaming vitriol until their voices are cracked and hoarse. When DHS personnel are visible, they throw frozen water bottles at them, canned goods, paint and gasoline. They try to shine high powered lasers into our eyes, which can cause permanent damage. They chant and spray paint "feds go home" as one of their slogans, and that could be easily achieved. If they could prove they wouldn't destroy the courthouse, DHS personnel would go home. It is that simple.

Catatonic with hate
The law enforcement officers involved are some of the nicest, friendliest people I have ever worked with. From several different agencies, they have come from around the country. Everyone is kind, generous, sharing food, giving each other rides home, and offering to host or show around each other in their home towns in the future. West Virginia, Idaho, Georgia, everyone is supportive, walks around with a smile and a pat on the back. Once they step out the doors of the courthouse, though, they are met with a hostile hatred from fellow citizens I consider unmatched in my life. I have seen mentally ill, frothing-at-the-mouth individuals screaming at people in front of liquor stores or Walmart parking lots, but that is one single, unhinged individual. Multiply that by 1,000 people, standing 10-20 yards in front of you, who also have rocks and other hidden weapons.

As the night goes on, the rioters become so hateful it is surreal. Their voices hoarse, their sentences jumbled, they seem almost catatonic with hate. The unrest seems to draw the mentally ill and drug abusers. Some seem to be both. The officers stand calmly, listening to it, taking it, only making a move if the rioters try to destroy the property or enter the area they have been told repeatedly not to enter. They [the agents] don't even respond to thrown projectiles, merely calmly dodging them. Some of the things screamed at us, ad nauseum:

"Go home! You're Nazis, racists, the Gestapo! Fuck you, fuck your mom, you suck! Quit your job and go fuck yourself! I'm going to get all your fucking names!"

I'm seeing African American Federal Protective Service inspectors, twenty year's law enforcement officer, being called the N-word to their face for the first time in their careers, by a scrawny, pasty white booger-eating communist shithead.

We get more surreal things yelled at us. One guy kept repeating, "You shot my fucking dog!" over and over, but we have seen zero dogs anywhere at any point. One guy wanders down the skirmish line when things are more in control and says, "Why are you shooting at them? You don't need to. Their shields are made of cardboard. There's no threat. No one is armed..." And he repeats that night after night with a backpack full of wildflowers, which he places everywhere.

Much of it is contradictory. One rioter begged to be shot, begged, but then screamed that we were guilty of shooting people. He told us to lay down our weapons and join them, and then said he would kick all our asses.

Unexploded aerosol cans taped to commercial-grade fireworks
The rioters would be overjoyed to get a non-lethal gunshot wound from DHS personnel. They would get to be the person who was shot by DHS during the Portland protests. They would be famous, and be the one who irreversibly turned the tide against DHS and the administration.

Regarding injuries to agents, I personally saw an agent get hit in the leg with a bottle and limp back from the skirmish line. I saw video of another agent hit similarly and limp back. One DHS law enforcement officer had irritant thrown on his arms, which turned them red and caused a burn. Another guy had a firework explode directly on his chest. The use of fireworks has increased every night.

There's no intel of actual firearms. We picked up unexploded aerosol cans taped to commercial-grade fireworks, so rudimentary IEDs [Improvised Explosive Devices] are a thing too.

A lose-lose situation
It is a lose-lose situation. If federal law enforcement leaves, we lose face, but we walk away with stacks of overtime pay, and we get to go home.

Portland wins. They get to say they defeated Trump, and they will have caused tens of millions of monetary loss to their downtown local businesses, and will have ransacked and torched a courthouse in the heart of their city.

Read more here.

"This spider web of fear"

We need to act out of science, not fear! The barriers to kids returning to school are coming from the teachers' unions.

You must watch the African doctor who now practices in Houston, has treated over 350 COVID-19 patients, and they all have lived! As early as possible she gives them three medications. She is the third speaker, but all of the speakers are good.

Go to Breitbart to watch video Frontline Physicians Aim to Dispel ‘Massive’ COVID-19 ‘Disinformation Campaign’.

Coincidence?

Christ, not Caesar?

Oregon Muse writes in his Morning Rant in the Ace of Spades blog,

John MacArthur is the head pastor of the large and influential Grace Community Church in Southern California. On Friday, July 24th, he posted a statement on his blog announcing GCC's intention to resume meeting for worship despite California's imposition of tighter lockdown rules announced by chief petty tyrant Gavin Newsom. He gives theological and biblical reasons why this is permitted...

The state is not the be-all and end-all of human existence. There are rights (and responsibilities) that exist prior to the formation of any state. If you truly understand and believe this, there is no way you can ever be a socialist. Not consistently, anyway. Once you start yammering, like Bernie Sanders, about health care being a "human right" or housing being a "human right", you're just announcing that you have no idea what human rights are.

I'm not sure what they're going to do if Newsom (or the local constabulary) decide that they need to be taught a lesson. Presumably they've got legal help lined up and ready to go.

So what we have here is a protest movement. We already have one that's been going on for a couple of months, but this one is new.

But unlike the BLM/Antifa protests, here are some of the things the GCC elders and congregation are not doing:

a. Stomping around
b. Yelling
c. Throwing stuff
d. Breaking windows
e. Defacing public buildings with graffiti
f. Vandalizing and looting private businesses
f. Pulling down statues
g. Turning urban neighborhoods into filthy, crime-ridden shitholes.
h. Assaulting and even murdering police officers
i. Leaving behind giant piles of trash for somebody else to clean up.

Pastor MacArthur's blog post is uncompromising, yet respectful. So I would say that GCC has the moral high ground here. What they don't have, unfortunately, is any elected officials who have their back. Unlike BLM/Antifa, who have their BFFs Ted Wheeler, Jenny Durkan, Andrew Cuomo, and Gavin Newsom running interference for them. The GCC elders and their congregation are out there by themselves. May God protect them.

Another aspect of the GCC protest (can we call it that?) is that it has a definite demand that can be met, i.e. leave us alone and let us worship, as is our natural life. This is not true of the rioters and looters who simply want to riot and loot and throw stuff. I'm guessing most of them are rootless millennials, with no families or children and therefore no stake in the future, who really don't have anything better to do with their empty lives.

What it boils down to is that the Democrats have refused to accept the legitimacy of the 2016 presidential election and this is just them turning the knob up to 11. So their response, interestingly enough, is to set blue cities on fire.

By the way, has any elected Democrat office-holder of national prominence publicly condemned the rioting and looting? I haven't heard any.

But I digress:

After publishing the original statement, Pastor MacArthur added an explanation of why he came out with it now:

"But we are now more than twenty weeks into the unrelieved restrictions. It is apparent that those original projections of death were wrong and the virus is nowhere near as dangerous as originally feared. Still, roughly forty percent of the year has passed with our church essentially unable to gather in a normal way...Major public events that were planned for 2021 are already being canceled, signaling that officials are preparing to keep restrictions in place into next year and beyond. That forces churches to choose between the clear command of our Lord and the government officials. Therefore, following the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, we gladly choose to obey Him."

Shorter GCC: Gavin Newsome is asshoe and we're no longer going to put up with him jerking us around.

Well, perhaps Pastor MacArthur's didn't say exactly that, but, I'd say my, shall we say, dynamic interpretation caught the spirit of it.

Anyway, read the whole thing. I think it's quite good. MacArthur is a well-known, respected pastor and I hope other churches will be inspired by his example.

Some tweets and quotes of note

Ben Shapiro tweeted,

The media have claimed over the past three months:
1. Cuomo was great;
2. Seattle's CHOP and Portland were paradisical;
3. Mass riots were no biggie;
4. Enormous BLM protests provided no health risk in the midst of a pandemic.
I can't imagine why they have a credibility gap.

In the Motus blog, Math Mom wrote,

I've always believed that God made all of this to entice us to learn, to experiment, and to marvel at his creation. And I think that he had a bit of paint left over and paints the sky with aurora in the winter just to remind us that he is here for us and loves us.

I believe that everything we do is significant, and believing that keeps me from laying on my horn in frustration at a driver who sits at a green light too long, or getting huffy at someone in the store who is standing in front of the refrigerator door in the milk section, not moving. I think it's important to think kindly, speak politely, and show in my daily transactions that I know God loves us.

MOTUS wrote in her blog,

The funny thing is the paramilitary show up more in the bigger city "protests" whereas small college town protests seem less "organized" - which is to say not funded by Soros-like groups. It's as if they can depend on college towns to provide enough useful idiots of their own (professors, erstwhile indoctrinated stew-dents and hangers-on) so they save their ammo ($$) for other hotbeds.

Are you a nose-breather?

teachers in the protests