She has been fired and has hired Lin Wood

"Debasement and defiling of the nation"

In his Morning Report in the Ace of Spades blog, JJ Sefton writes in part, "So, while we're all sitting at home, watching our government add trillions of dollars of more debt in a comparative nanosecond to the trillions accumulated during both the Dubya and Obama years as businesses large and small collapse and die, switching the channel we are greeted with the sight of American (or all things considered, anti-American) cities in the hands of bona fide, dictionary definition (dictionaries published more than 10 years ago, that is) terrorists/insurrections burning them to the ground while the "journalists" and gigantic fat-bergs of greed and power-lust tell us that what we're seeing is either a "myth" or it's a result of evil police officers arresting innocent, patriotic citizen protesters. ...There is no difference between the black-clad Antifa terrorists who firebomb courthouses, George Soros who is no doubt financing much of this terrorism, "reporters" who lie to our faces, and the likes of LeBron James and Adam Silver, who allow this debasement and defiling of the nation that made their success possible. In fact, they are quite possibly even more reprehensible and contemptible than the brain dead youth with the Molotov cocktails." Read more at the Ace of Spades blog.

Bill Clinton and Alan Dershowitz named in Epstein/Maxwell case

From Ace of Spades: Documents Released in Epstein/Maxwell Case; Alan Derschowitz, Former Democrat Governor Bill Richardson, and Bill Clinton Named; Trump Definitely Not Named —Ace The Blue Ticks have gotten Derschowitz's name trending -- trying to bring Trump into this somehow, just because Derschowitz has defended him -- while showing the silence of a trained SEAL squad about Bill Clinton. Weird that they all decided independently to overlook the most newsworthy name here!

Be sure to watch Congressman Jim Jordan question Dr. Fauci today.

Video available here. http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=389393

"We don't have to live in paralyzing fear!

The Frontline Doctors have a new video up at https://americasfrontlinedoctorsummit.com/

Good! She is lawyering up!

❤️❤️❤️ https://t.co/DviSRxBAy6

— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) July 31, 2020

7-30-20 early tweets of note

John Sexton tweeted, "John Lewis’s funeral was in Georgia. Dozens of Members of Congress were there. Georgia is on Washington DC Mayor Bowser’s list of states that require 2 week mandatory quarantine for 14 days Are these politicians going into quarantine, or are rules just for the little people?" Ryan Fournier tweeted, "The Missouri AG is dropping all charges against the McCloskey family. They should’ve never been charged in the first place." Tom Fitton tweeted, Barack Obama promotes communist terrorist propaganda in a church. Quote Tweet Daily Caller @DailyCaller · 4h President Obama at Rep. John Lewis' funeral: "George Wallace may be gone but we can witness our federal government sending agents to use tear gas and batons against peaceful demonstrators." Dr. Zev Zelenko tweeted, "I accuse the "Dr. Fauchis", fraudulent peer review process, big pharma, and "CNN" types of malicious propaganda that has lead to the manslaughter of 10000's of vulnerable Americans. Also loss of livelihood that belonged to the average working person."

Censoring vital, life-saving information

Why would #BigTech ban this thoughtful discussion of #hydroxychloroquine

A medication that’s been #FDA approved for 65 years?@dbongino @realDonaldTrump @drsimonegold @AlexMarlow @charliekirk11 @richardursomd

pic.twitter.com/x3T33jpSjY

— DrScott (@drscott_atlanta) July 30, 2020

"Always Day One!"

Charles Duhigg wrote in the 10-21-19 issue of the New Yorker, "Amazon is special not because of any asset or technology but because of its culture - its Leadership Principles and internal habits. Bezos refers to the company's management style as Day One Thinking: a willingness to treat every morning as if it were the first day of business, to constantly reexamine even the most closely held beliefs. "Day two is stasis, Bezos wrote, in a 2017 letter to shareholders, "Followed by irrelevance. Followed by excruciating, painful decline. Followed by death. And that is why it is always Day One."

Has our country embraced the central "principle" of social justice warriorism -- endless, ceaseless, pitiless surveillance and snitching?

Ace of Spades has an example. http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=389374

Frontline physicians speak up

Physician from Atlanta says hydroxychloroquine is a safe and effective medicine to treat COVID-19.

He notes the media misinformation, and says “There is a concerted effort to keep the safety and efficacy of hydroxychloroquine away from the American public.” pic.twitter.com/5anjfVfgbN

— Mike Coudrey (@MichaelCoudrey) July 28, 2020

"Wear a mask, shut up, and wait for a vaccine!"

"Because I'm NOT AFRAID of TYRANTS!"

THIS is how Patriots act!

Ian Smith was arrested and his business shut down because he refused to submit to the tyrannical New Jersey Governor.

More Americans need to fight back!

pic.twitter.com/aiZq1ck6we

— Red Nation Rising (@RedNationRising) July 30, 2020

Some important tweets tonight

Dr. Zev Zelenko tweeted,

In real time war setting the leaders on the ground are the first to know the truth. Tx with zinc/Azithromycin/hcq and reduce hospitalizations rates by 84% and death rate to 0.71% IN HIGH RISK PATIENTS. Reopen the economy and
@realDonaldTrump
wins a second term easily.

President Trump tweeted,

Germany pays Russia billions of dollars a year for Energy, and we are supposed to protect Germany from Russia. What’s that all about? Also, Germany is very delinquent in their 2% fee to NATO. We are therefore moving some troops out of Germany!

Bo Snerdley tweeted,

https://apnews.com/8c03277945f2825b8897e83e971cb1f1 Trump on his own yet again as he skips farewell to Lewis>><> If he went- Dems would vilify him. And why should he go? Lewis showed this president ZERO RESPECT.

Tom Fitton tweeted,

FAUCI EMAILS: NIH finds 9,000 potentially responsive records on email systems in response to our lawsuit for Fauci's and his top deputy's communications about #Coronavirus, China, WHO

Alex Berenson tweeted,

The new teacher union position, per
@nytimes
: We don’t wanna work in-person OR remotely!

Hey, at least they came out and said it: just pay us to do nothing.

Dr. Simone Gold tweeted,

BREAKING: President Trump directs the FCC to implement an Executive Order preventing online censorship and to limit Section 230 immunity for social media companies.

Bezos, Zuckerberg, Pichai, and Cook testify in Congressional Hearing

Google still wants to be over there so bad. Zucc knows he doesn't have a chance in hell, so gets to say whatever he wants. https://t.co/0hZhmsqvJX

— Littlefoot (@LTF_01) July 30, 2020

Police agencies withdrawing from bolstering security at the Dem National Convention in Milwaukee

Associated Press reports that

More than 100 police agencies are withdrawing from agreements to send personnel to bolster security at next month's Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee, in part because they're concerned about a recent directive ordering police in the city to stop using tear gas to control crowds.

Read more here.

Kim and Kanye

George Stark has a long article in the Daily Mail, and, of course, it features Kim Kardashian, her breasts, her husband, Kanye West, and a discussion of his mental illness (bi-polar disorder) here.

Oh, I see what their plan is!

Maria Bartiromo asked Obama Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett

...if former FBI Director James Comey knew that former British spy Christopher Steele’s dossier was garbage but he continued to renew warrants to spy on Carter Page, a member of the 2016 Trump campaign, shouldn’t he be prosecuted?

“Well, Maria look I have highly great confidence that our intelligence community, investigators comported themselves responsibly. This was nearly four years ago and I don’t understand why our focus isn’t on what’s happening right now,” Jarrett added.

See the plan? "Gosh, this happened four years ago. We need to focus on what is happening now!"

Dems and Republicans agree that new $1200 stimulus checks are needed

Lorie Konish reports in CNBC about the next round of $1200 stimulus checks here.

Say it slowly and be sure to pronounce the "k"

Well done. Well done. https://t.co/40u2uQeg99

— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) July 29, 2020

Policy

pic.twitter.com/hKTnh7Ptat

— Elizabeth Harrington (@LizRNC) July 28, 2020

Biden gaffes

This video was made 37 days ago. A lot has happened since then. Time for a new countdown!

"The left-wing Maoists -- funded by Soros -- took another scalp."

After a left-wing mob of "journalists" objected to his criticisms of George Soros, the Chicago Tribune canceled John Kass from his position as "Lead Columnist" on page two. Read more here.

Some important tweets this afternoon

Dr. Simone Gold tweeted,

Why are social media company employees with no medical degree or clinical experience censoring the perspectives of practicing physicians?

Why are journalists claiming hydroxychloroquine is ineffective when there are numerous studies showcasing its efficacy against COVID-19?

Dr. Simone Gold tweeted,

Why are state governors restricting physicians from prescribing an FDA approved medication for 65 years and empowering pharmacies to over-rule your doctor?

These actions are unprecedented and have never happened before in medicine.

Erielle Davidson tweeted,

If ever I’m arguing with someone and I know they’re winning, I’m just gonna ask to reclaim my time.

Judicial Watch tweeted,

“Steele just admitted that he knew that #HillaryClinton directly knew about the dossier. Why isn’t Hillary Clinton being questioned by Durham?”

Andy Ngo tweeted,

An editor for a Portland newspaper received intel from my antifa stalkers I was undercover. She then announced where I could be found to tens of thousands. Antifa immediately blinded me w/lasers & began following me. Alex Zielinski tried to get me killed.

Dr. Simone Gold tweeted,

-Facebook removed the livestream of our conference that had 15 million+ views

-Twitter forced us to delete video testimonials from our physicians

-Our web host removed our website and claimed a “violation of their TOS”

-The media smeared us with lies & falsehoods

Tweets I liked today

James Todaro, MD tweeted,

If you are a physician and agree with the censorship and blocking of hydroxychloroquine prescriptions, all you are saying is that Facebook, YouTube and the government should control the way you treat patients.

Lin Wood tweeted,

When I was 16, I did not have dime in my pocket. My parents were gone. My home was gone. But my determination never left me. Many lifted me up. America gave me the opportunity to succeed to help others as a lawyer. I love this country & my God. I will not go quietly in the night.

Donald Trump Jr. tweeted,

OMG they’re escorting Biden like a child to make sure he doesn’t stop and so he remembers where he’s supposed to go. This whole thing is a farce. Wake up America. How the heck could this guy run anything let alone America?

Daily Caller tweeted,

Trump To Pull Nearly 12,000 Troops Out Of Germany And Bring More Than Half Back Home

Jack Posobiec tweeted,

BREAKING: Federal task force takes down leader of Chicago street gang the 'Black Disciples' involved in drug and weapons trafficking

Tom Fitton tweeted,

FDA Deep State suppression of #hydroxycholoroquine is political and anti-science. Lives are on the line.

Brittany Martinez tweeted,

Imagine if child porn was taken off social media as quickly as the hydroxychloroquine video was.

Sefton to Barr: "hand down indictments no later than September."

In his Morning Report in the Ace of Spades blog, JJ Sefton writes in part,

...the plot to take out Trump is beyond question the greatest crime in American political history. AG Barr wants us to believe that it's his personal mission as a 30-year veteran of the federal IC and LE communities to restore whatever reputation they might have enjoyed, warranted or not. The only way to do that, sir, is to hand down indictments no later than September. And they must include individuals at a minimum as high up as Comey, Clapper and Brennan, if not Clinton and Obama.

The lawlessness, mayhem and violence that we are seeing in America's cities, the very flouting of law and disrespect for law enforcement that you, AG Barr, are appalled by and want to end is joined at the hip to the plot to overthrow President Trump. If you really want to restore integrity to the rule of law, then it's high time to start frog-marching the aforementioned and perhaps a dozen or so others and hand down the indictments. Now.

Read more and click on his links here.

God bless you, Louie!

My statement about today's diagnosis: pic.twitter.com/qvf7zIcgdN

— Louie Gohmert (@replouiegohmert) July 29, 2020

Needs to be led around!

This is not how a well man is handled. https://t.co/l3NATjg8nM

— Chris Stigall (@ChrisStigall) July 29, 2020

Here to help American patients and the American nation heal!physicians

“We’re here only to help American patients & the American nation heal.

We are not held down by the virus as much as we’re being held down by the spiderweb of fear; & that spiderweb is constricting us & draining the lifeblood of the American people, society, & American economy.” pic.twitter.com/wnQUYAoQPU

— Dr. Simone Gold (@drsimonegold) July 29, 2020

The ultimatum

If you find a way to watch and listen to this woman speak, I wholeheartedly recommend!

Twitter Removes Video by Frontline Doctor on Success of HCQ on COVID Patients After Trump Retweets Her... Think About That - Twitter Is Removing info that Saves Lives! https://t.co/IpC7rDTIdm via @gatewaypundit @RealDonaldTrump @stella_immanuel @JennaEllisEsq

— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) July 28, 2020

Later tweets of interest tonight

Christina Sommers tweeted,

I just don’t get why it’s suddenly OK for protestors to wreak havoc & destroy property. Trying to burn down a federal court building? That’s insane. Our democracy has long & admirable tradition of NON-VIOLENT civil disobedience. What happened to that?

James Todaro, MD tweeted,

You can watch our America’s Frontline Doctors press conference here now.

https://omnij.org/AmericasFrontlineDoctors

It’s being censored almost everywhere else.

You can also review the HCQ studies on OmniJournal if you want to know the literature.

Chris Stigall tweeted,

The Attorney General is the kind of guy who knows two things and radiates them. He’s smarter than everyone in the room and he doesn’t need the job. That instills terror in Democrats. They won’t let him talk.

Julian's Rum tweeted,

Hydroxychloroquine is cheap and effective.

It’s dangerous to Big Pharma and Dems.

The importance of tattoo placement

ARRESTED: Edward Schinzing faces 20 years in prison & a mandatory minimum of 5 years for federal arson inside Portland Justice Center. Schinzing was identified because he has his last name tattooed across his upper back. https://t.co/IU5Pd7xVYU pic.twitter.com/d8MnCRHMk3

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) July 29, 2020

Our Attorney General

BARR

ACTIVATED

🔥 pic.twitter.com/gLHY6Gyxup

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 29, 2020

Some interesting tweets and quotes tonight

Greg Gutfeld tweeted,

in that hearing you witnessed people whose salaries you pay, accuse a man of murder and treason - then refuse to let him speak or defend himself. you think the unbending mob on the street is worse? no, this is. and it's coming for you.

Jeremy Wayne Tate tweeted,

in that hearing you witnessed people whose salaries you pay, accuse a man of murder and treason - then refuse to let him speak or defend himself. you think the unbending mob on the street is worse? no, this is. and it's coming for you.

In the Instapundit blog, Stephen Green advises,

Keep taunting Biden. When he’s crossed, he gets angry, and when he gets angry he spouts out inanities increasingly divorced from reality.

In the Instapundit blo

g, Glenn Reynolds writes,

The Democrats’ slogan: If your neighborhood is nice, we’ll fix that.

James Todaro, MD tweeted,

Just finished a great meeting with Vice President Mike Pence and his Chief of Staff.

We are doing everything to restore the power of medicine back to doctors.

Doctors everywhere should be able to prescribe Hydroxychloroquine without repercussions or obstruction.

Adam Corolla tweeted,

I'm on Nick Sandman's side but damn. He goes on a field trip and ends up $75 million richer. My high school field trip was to the Lawry's seasoning factory and I walked away with a packet of taco seasoning.

The Soros factor

In the Free Beacon, Joe Schoffstall reports,

Liberal billionaire George Soros has flooded Democratic PACs and campaigns with $50 million this election cycle, shattering his personal record by tens of millions with four months to go before the elections.

Soros ramped up his political spending this cycle through the Democracy PAC, which he created last year to pump large sums into the coffers of other left-wing groups. New filings to the Federal Election Commission show the PAC doled out nearly $17 million last quarter, bringing its total cash disbursements this cycle to $48 million. Soros gave another $4 million directly to Democratic campaigns and committees without first depositing the money into his PAC. The $52 million cash influx is more than double Soros's previous high of $22 million, which came during the last presidential election.

...The liberal billionaire is taking steps to obscure his election spending this cycle. In the past, he made donations to groups directly in his own name. This cycle, he has operated primarily by transferring tens of millions from the Fund for Policy Reform, a $750 million nonprofit in his sprawling Open Society Foundation network, into Democracy PAC. The PAC then disburses it to other Democratic PACs and committees. This arrangement allows Soros to keep his name from the top of donor lists. His $50 million in contributions makes him the largest donor of the 2020 cycle, though only $8 million is coming directly from him.

...The liberal billionaire has also increased his lobbying expenditures. The Open Society Policy Center, his D.C.-based lobbying shop, spent $48 million in 2019—a personal record for Soros. This amount was more than corporate giants such as Amazon, Facebook, Boeing, and Google's parent company, Alphabet spent. The group finished the year as the country's second-largest lobbying spender.

Read more here.

Democrats Warn Hydroxychloroquine May Save Your Life...

In the satirical Babylon Bee,

Democrats Warn Hydroxychloroquine May Save Your Life And Then You'd Have To Keep Living In A Reality Where Trump Is Still President

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Democrat leaders warned Americans today that the dangerous drug touted by Trump, hydroxychloroquine, could save your life and then force you to keep living in a reality where Trump is president.

"This drug has the very real side effect of keeping you alive, and then you'd still be alive in this horrible place where Trump is the president of the country," said Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. "It's impossible to overstate just how deadly and dangerous this president's rhetoric is as he tries to get people to take this drug and make them stay alive under his cruel, totalitarian, tyrannical reign."

"We cannot allow this to happen -- do not take hydroxychloroquine! Then you can die peacefully of COVID-19 and fade into the sweet, sweet bliss of death where you will never remember that Trump was ever president."

At publishing time, Democrat leaders had admitted they also didn't want people to take hydroxychloroquine because then they're more likely to die and vote Democrat.

Nadler falls sound asleep during today's hearing (after being highly agitated earlier)

Wow!!!! He's sleeping!!!!! pic.twitter.com/XWOsZsb9wd

— Dee Dee (@DeeDee2103) July 28, 2020

One plus one

In the Last Refuge today, Sundance has some encouraging words for all of us who are seeking truth.

Read here.

With his mask on his chin and in his mouth, Congressman Nadler tells Republicans to stop not caring about the safety of the committee

How can he say this while his mask is around his chin? 😂🙄 https://t.co/NYwjAvg7db

— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) July 28, 2020

Some good early tweets

Mark R. Levin tweeted,

House Judiciary Committee Democrats ... I’ve never seen a bigger bunch of assholes. There’s no other way to put it more accurately.

Red Nation Rising tweeted,

Hydroxychloroquine, Azithromycin, and Zinc saves lives.

Pass it on.

Eric Carmen tweeted,

Why would politicians prefer a lockdown, masks and untested new drugs to an inexpensive generic drug that's been around for 70 years? Why would they choose to wreck the economy, ruin businesses and put 30 million people out of work, rather than allowing doctors to prescribe HCQ?

Andrew Surabian tweeted,

BREAKING:
@Twitter
&
@jack
have suspended
@DonaldJTrumpJr
for posting a viral video of medical doctors talking about Hydroxychloroquine.

Big Tech is the biggest threat to free expression in America today & they're continuing to engage in open election interference - full stop.

"It's a myth!"

The satirical Babylon Bee comes to us from the Senate Judiciary hearing room today. 'The Violent Riots Are A Myth,' Says Rep. Nadler As Antifa Sets Fire To Congressional Hearing Room
July 28th, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Representative Jerry Nadler continued to insist that the violent riots across the country are "a myth" in a hearing today, even as Antifa rioters stormed the Capitol Building and set fire to the very room where was Nadler testifying.

Nadler continued to insist that the violence of the rioters was totally fabricated as the room was trashed, vandalized, and set on fire by a violent Antifa mob.

"The violent riots are a myth," he said as he ducked to avoid getting hit in the face with a brick. "It's just totally wacko to think that there are violent protesters in this country. They are moms, they are schoolteachers, they are veterans, they are mayors. They are not throwing Molotov cocktails or anything crazy like that."

"Look out, Jerry!" cried another congressperson as a Molotov cocktail flew toward his face. "You're gonna catch fire!"

"Nonsense," Nadler said, waving him off as his clothes and hair ignited. "The Republicans just want you to think that the riots are real so Trump will look good. It's all a conspiracy."

"It's a myth. You are not seeing what you are seeing," he concluded in an epic clapback to Attorney General Barr, though Barr and everyone else had already fled the room and Nadler was the only one left sitting in the flaming ruins of the hearing room. "These Republicans are deluded."

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

Sleep on it!

How playing an instrument benefits your brain

Musical repetition

How practice makes us better

Vivaldi and our four seasons

Reshoring? Not so much!

David Goldman writes in part in the Asia Times,

Intel’s chief executive Bob Swan yesterday told industry analysts that the former industry leader in chip manufacturing might quit the fabrication business altogether, outsourcing its designs to Taiwan or South Korea instead. The company’s shock announcement called into question US efforts to return critical manufacturing capacity to the United States, and came despite semiconductor industry lobbying to secure federal subsidies for chip production in the United States. Semiconductors are the building blocks of the digital economy, and America’s inability to slow the decline of onshore chip fabrication is a strategic liability of the highest order.

Read more here.

Willful blindness

Jonathan Turley writes in part in the Hill,

...the Russia collusion allegations were based in large part on the dossier funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. The Clinton campaign repeatedly denied paying for the dossier until after the election, when it was confronted with irrefutable evidence that the money had been buried among legal expenditures. As New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman wrote, “Folks involved in funding this lied about it and with sanctimony for a year.”

FBI agents had warned that dossier author Christopher Steele may have been used by Russian intelligence to plant false information to disrupt the election. His source for the most serious allegations claims that Steele misrepresented what he had said and that it was little more than rumors that were recast by Steele as reliable intelligence.


...the Obama administration had been told that the basis for the FISA application was dubious and likely false. Yet it continued the investigation, and then someone leaked its existence to the media. Another declassified document shows that, after the New York Times ran a leaked story on the investigation, even Strzok had balked at the account as misleading and inaccurate. His early 2017 memo affirmed that there was no evidence of any individuals in contact with Russians. This information came as the collusion stories were turning into a frenzy that would last years.

...the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller and inspectors general found no evidence of collusion or knowing contact between the Trump campaign and Russian officials. What inspectors general did find were false statements or possible criminal conduct by Comey and others. While unable to say it was the reason for their decisions, they also found statements of animus against Trump and his campaign by the FBI officials who were leading the investigation. Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testified he never would have approved renewal of the FISA surveillance and encouraged further investigation into such bias.

Finally, Obama and Biden were aware of the investigation, as were the administration officials who publicly ridiculed Trump when he said there was spying on his campaign. Others, like House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, declared they had evidence of collusion but never produced it. Countless reporters, columnists, and analysts still continue to deride, as writer Max Boot said it, the spinning of “absurd conspiracy theories” about how the FBI “supposedly spied on the Trump campaign.”

Willful blindness has its advantages. The media covered the original leak and the collusion narrative, despite mounting evidence that it was false. They filled hours of cable news shows and pages of print with a collusion story discredited by the FBI. Virtually none of these journalists or experts have acknowledged that the collusion leaks were proven false, let alone pursue the troubling implications of national security powers being used to target the political opponents of an administration. But in Washington, success often depends not on what you see but what you can unsee.

Read more here.

Justice Roberts and the other four liberals protect gambling, but not churches

In a Nevada case filed by Christians, Alito, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Thomas support First Amendment, while Roberts and the other four justices support gambling. Read more here.

Off-world vehicles

Clarice Feldman writes in part in the American Thinker,

It’s early. Polls are iffy and premature so far in front of November, but this has been a consistent trend -- minorities are not supporting the far-left orientation of the party they once supported in great numbers.

If these crazy times (and the lockdowns) are stressing you out, there’s a glimmer of hope. Tucker Carlson reports, “The Pentagon has been conducting classified hearings on UFOs for more than a decade. We know very little about what they found, but apparently just recovered are off-world vehicles not made on this earth.” I’m trying to book the first flight out of here.

Read more here.

Voting for a Democrat?

via American Digest

Last week's comet over Mount Hood

Via American Digest

"We never sold out. We bought in!"

Gerard Vanderleun writes in part about his time at UC Berkeley.

...Nope, we never sold out. We bought in. But we kept the Che poster pinned up forever in our hearts.

And now, we’ve arrived at our rendezvous with history.

In our aging hearts, we hate what we’ve become and, like any good group of neurotics, transfer that hate to the country that gave us everything including the Long Peace in which to enjoy it.

We’re the first in line to bitch and moan and hate a country that makes our freedom possible. More than that we’re also in love with the always -denied privilege, comfort, money, and safety that makes it possible for us to mouth off without limit. And finally, we’re coming to understand that we are not our parents’ generation, we’re “The Not-So-Great” Generation, and deep down we’re cowards.

We say we’re ‘afraid’ of losing our cherished ‘freedom’ to the jackbooted legions of Trump’s Conservative Brownshirts that seek to stifle our dissent from every street corner. That’s really what a lot of us think. That’s really just how bull-goose looney we’ve become.

...We like the slogans, books, movies, TV shows, politicians and publications that confirm for us the deep liberal dream that if we are just understanding enough, long enough, apologize for living enough, and offer enough in the way of bribes, the oppressed of the world will come to love us… and then just leave us alone.

...We’re so stupid we’ve even started to believe “It can’t happen here” after it already has.

...But my generation, being eternally drenched in a mindless nostalgia for its weird youth, refuses to learn that. It believes that the cool answer to the great crisis which has been brought to us in the last years is to make a sign that says ” I still heart New York more without the twin towers,” parade about in their plague infected ideology to say, “Give up.”

When I look at the spectacle that my Boomer generation has made of itself, a generation that had everything going for it, that had every opportunity, and came up with Caramel Soy Lattes and “Impeach the President,” all I can say is:

“I resign the Revolution. I’m joining the Resistance. The REAL Resistance.”

Read more here.

The violence engulfing various Democrat-controlled cities

Roger Kimball writes in part in American Greatness,

...Please don’t talk to me about the violent career criminal George Floyd. As I have noted repeatedly, the violence engulfing various Democratic-controlled cities has nothing to do with Floyd’s demise. “The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25,” I wrote in early June “is merely the pretext for the violence. The cause is hatred.”

Read more here.

Why?

Chris Farrell writes in part in the Daily Caller,

Ask yourself why AG Barr fights Judicial Watch in virtually every FOIA lawsuit seeking records over the Obamagate coup plot. Why does he permit the FBI to claim in court that their agents’ text messages on their government phones are not government records? That’s insultingly preposterous – but it is the Justice Department’s position. Your tax dollars in action.

One thing is for certain: Should Barr/Durham not bring indictments and go to trial against the officials who organized the coup against President Trump, then the United States will become a “failed state.” The compromised justice system would be held in contempt by the people it was designed to protect.

Read more here.

Punks use lasers to blind cops

These are the types of high powered lasers rioters have used to damage the eyes of law enforcement. #PortlandRiots #antifa pic.twitter.com/Es5bieo2LO

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) July 26, 2020

No more hapless dependents!

Is it time for the U.S. and India to form a security alliance? Doug Bandow says no in the American Spectator. He points to the lack of strength of our NATO allies. He wants the U.S. to encourage and assist India in strengthening their military and economy so they can cope with the threat from the Chinese Communist Party. Read more here.

Quotes and tweets I liked tonight

Sundance in the Last Refuge wrote,

….The problem for Attorney General Bill Barr is not investigating what we don’t know, but rather navigating through what ‘We The People’ are already aware of….

The Last Refuge tweeted,

Comey, Clapper interviewed by Durham.

[Don't know about Brennan]

Rasmussen Reports tweeted,

The Real Russian Swindle

Evidence dribbling out now indicates "Trump Russian Collusion" was a politically designed & media propelled fabrication. Relentlessly pushed & fake, it interfered with voter opinion, likely delivering the House to Democrats in the 2018 midterms. #sick

Catt tweeted,

Goya's CEO stood up for himself & refused to bow down to leftist mobs. It earns him the respect from Americans & Goya Food sales soared.

A&E caved to leftist mobs who don't even watch A&E, and lost half of viewers.

Never submit to intolerant leftists!

Chris Cillizza tweeted,

"Biden can't put two sentences together. They wheel him out. He goes up -- he repeats -- they ask him questions. He reads a teleprompter and then he goes back into his basement."

Brands using forced labor

The UYGHUR HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT announces,

72 Uyghur rights groups are joined by over 100 civil society organisations and labour unions from around the world in calling on apparel brands and retailers to stop using forced labour in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (“Uyghur Region”), known to local people as East Turkistan, and end their complicity in the Chinese government’s human rights abuses. The groups have issued a call to action seeking brand commitments to cut all ties with suppliers implicated in forced labour and end all sourcing from the Uyghur Region, from cotton to finished garments, within twelve months.

What brands use the forced labor camps?

Abercrombie & Fitch
adidas
Amazon
Badger Sport (Founder Sport Group)
C&A (Cofra Holding AG)
Calvin Klein (PVH)
Carter’s
Cerruti 1881 (Trinity Limited)
Costco
Cotton On
Dangerfield (Factory X Pty Ltd)
Esprit (Esprit Holdings Ltd.)
Fila (FILA KOREA Ltd)
Gap
H&M
Hart Schaffner Marx (Authentic Brands Group)
Ikea (Inter IKEA Systems B.V.)
Jack & Jones (Bestseller)
Jeanswest (Harbour Guidance Pty Ltd)
L.L.Bean
Lacoste (Maus Freres)
Li-Ning
Marks & Spencer
Mayor
Muji (Ryohin Keikaku Co., Ltd.)
Nike
Patagonia
Polo Ralph Lauren (Ralph Lauren Corporation)
Puma
Skechers
Summit Resource International (Caterpillar)
Target Australia (Wesfarmers)
Tommy Hilfiger (PVH)
Uniqlo (Fast Retailing)
Victoria’s Secret (L Brands)
Woolworths (Woolworth Corporation, LLC.)
Zara (Inditex)
Zegna

Read more here.

Collusion

In American Greatness, Julie Kelly writes in part,

“We now see direct links between the Brookings [Institution] leadership and the creation, possibly, of the Steele dossier,” Nunes told Fox Business News’ Maria Bartiromo this week. “I think there are real questions that need to be answered here about what on earth was the president of Brookings doing texting back and forth to Steele? They’ve got a lot to answer for.” Nunes explained that for the past four years, Lawfare has “defended the dirty cops.”

But Lawfare—and Brookings—did more than that. The organization helped perpetrate one of the biggest frauds in political history on the American people. They misled the country, attempted to destroy an elected president, manipulated news coverage, and defamed innocent people in the process while covering up the real scandal. Just like every other accomplice in Obamagate, it’s long past time for answers—and accountability.

Read more here.

Not happy!

Joe Biden has pledged to raise taxes on hardworking Americans like this young man. @realDonaldTrump CUT taxes because he wants you to keep more of the money YOU earn. It’s as simple as that. https://t.co/MeOHzUMZye

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 26, 2020

He loved it

Omg lol pic.twitter.com/r6A0jSJeLO

— American Deplorable (@Bubba_Trump_ify) July 25, 2020

Hydroxychloroquine is "the key to defeating COVID-19,"

Daniel Payne reports in Just the News,

An Ivy League epidemiology professor is claiming that hydroxychloroquine — the drug that has been at the center of a politicized medical debate for the last several months — is "the key to defeating COVID-19," and that medical officials should be widely prescribing it to save the lives of thousands of coronavirus patients.

Harvey Risch, a professor of epidemiology at Yale as well as the director of that school's Molecular Cancer Epidemiology Laboratory, argues in a Newsweek op-ed this week that "the data fully support" the wide use of hydroxychloroquine as an effective treatment of COVID-19.

"When this inexpensive oral medication is given very early in the course of illness, before the virus has had time to multiply beyond control, it has shown to be highly effective," Risch argues in the column.

Read more here.

Making the best of it!

Early tweets I liked today

Kambree tweeted,

Why is Gov Newsom releasing up to 18k prisoners in August if masks work?

Ian Miles Cheong tweeted,

So this is huge: there may be evidence that Chinese Communist Party agents were engaged not only in espionage of American businesses and laboratories, but also involved in the Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots across the United States.

Judicial Watch tweeted,

Judicial Watch announced it filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DOJ/FBI/ODNI for all records related to the 1/5/17, meeting at the Obama Oval Office during which the Steele Dossier and the investigation of General Flynn were discussed.

Lori Hendry tweeted,

China wants Biden.

Iran wants Biden.

Muslims want Biden.

Communists want Biden.

Abortionists want Biden.

Felons want Biden.

BLM wants Biden.

Illegals want Biden.

Pedophiles want Biden.

Get it?

"More disgusting unAmerican antics"

More disgusting unAmerican antics https://t.co/riubGyEjZF

— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) July 25, 2020

Attitudes

Either

Which is it?

Preparing to retire comfortably

From the satirical Babylon Bee:

WASHINGTON, D.C.—After Nick Sandmann settled yet another nine-figure lawsuit today, dozens of people went out in MAGA hats, gathering outside The Washington Post's offices in hopes that they too would be defamed by the newspaper.

The clever entrepreneurs stood outside the paper's headquarters wearing the pro-Trump headgear. They just stood there, not chanting or protesting or breaking anything, a protest tactic that immediately confused the liberals working at the Post.

"It's very strange -- they're not burning anything. They must not be peaceful protesters. Nonetheless, we will not be fooled by this tactic," said a WaPo editor. "We will be able to resist the urge to commit libel against these deplora--I mean, these ordinary Americans."

At publishing time, The Washington Post had written defamatory articles about all of them. They are all preparing to retire comfortably.

Trump's excellent record in foreign policy

In National Review, Victor Davis Hanson takes a look at Trump administration's foreign policy.


Read more here.

A lovely Chicago afternoon

Chicago: pic.twitter.com/hQ7OmvV1b0

— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) July 24, 2020

The mayors and governors are showing us we need to pay closer attention to local elections!

Strange how the Virus goes to sleep during protests sorta like the Democratic Mayors and Governors 🤔 https://t.co/pvXmEDmnlL

— Amber Nichole Miller (@AmberNicholeM1) July 24, 2020

Fines for businesses that hang "Open for Business" banners!

In Red State, Kira Davis reports,

Here is a list of things you can currently do in the city of Los Angeles with impunity:

defy pandemic stay-at-home orders to protest in crowded streets by the tens of thousands
throw Molotov cocktails at police
break the windows of both private and public property
burn down neighborhood businesses
tear down monuments on public property
drag innocent commuters from their cars, beat them mercilessly, and destroy their vehicles
poop in public streets
openly use illegal drugs on public streets
steal cars or bicycles
erect tent cities on private property
steal up to $950 of merchandise per day without fear of prosecution…under state law
It’s a great time to be a criminal in the City of Angels, but if you’re a business owner, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti will find you and make sure you are fined and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for…

Are you ready for this?

Hanging a “We are open” sign in front of your business.

NBC4 in Los Angeles is reporting that an increasing number of businesses have received hefty citations and fines from the City of Los Angeles for supposedly violating permit laws by hanging banners on their businesses to help customers see that they are open through the pandemic.

Above the entrance of the Crave Cafe in Studio City–where business is down 70% during the pandemic–the owner last month hung a banner that says “OPEN FOR TAKE-OUT AND DELIVERY.”

“It really was important because it helped us in communicating to the community that we were still open, and many of them don’t know that,” said Rana Shalhoub, Crave Cafe’s owner.

But Shalhoub found a notice in her mail this week from LA’s Department of Building and Safety, ordering her to take down the banner and fining her $356. She promptly removed the banner.

“We’re struggling to survive. I do think the city should have at least given us a warning to take down the sign, prior to fining us,” Rana Shalhoub told NBC4.

Several neighboring businesses on Ventura Boulevard also got $356 fines for hanging banners saying they’re still open, including the Chop Shop salad restaurant, Fantastic Sam’s barbershop, Trader Joe’s and the Hot Chicken and Waffle Bar.

"When you're a Democrat, all it takes is an apology to make your racism go away!"

Matt Margolis writes in PJ Media what Matt believes are the seven worst examples of Joe Biden's racism.

1. His claim that “You ain’t black” if you don’t support him (May 2020)

2. His reason we can’t hold China accountable for COVID-19 (July 2020)

3. His comments about working at 7-Eleven or Dunkin’ Donuts (July 2006)

4. His comments about ‘poor kids’ (August 2019)

5. Using the anti-semitic slur ‘shylock’ (September 2014)

6. His bizarre ‘praise’ of Senator Barack Obama (February 2007)

7. His comments about desegregation and his kids growing up in ‘racial jungle’ (1977)

Read more here.

Some early tweets I liked today

Tom Fitton tweeted,

Leftists suppressing vote by using #coronavirus to try scare people from voting in person -- all to advance their vote-by-mail, no voter id, ballot harvesting schemes.

Jim Jordan tweeted,

The Obama-Biden-Comey Cabal spied on President Trump’s campaign.

They knew Michael Flynn would figure it out. So they destroyed his life.

Thank goodness the cover-up didn’t work. But there must be consequences.

Razor tweeted,

It's a mystery why there's all this violent crime right after we demonized and eliminated the enforcement of laws.

Stonewall Jackson tweeted,

Every player on the Yankees and Nationals took a knee. and they have a BLM logo on the pitching mound. Baseball is dead, just like NFL and Nascar

Abigail Marone tweeted,

Seeing a lot of journos more outraged @kayleighmcenany showed videos of violent riots than they are that riots are happening.

The violence & Dems refusal to address it deserves coverage.

This one is different!

In the Daily Caller, Victor Davis Hanson has another stellar post. He compares the revolution of the 1960s to the one we are experiencing today. Read it here.

Earthquake in Northern Pacific this morning

Few min ago #earthquake 5.2 has hit North Pacific Ocean, 10.0 km#Earthquake pic.twitter.com/wEcgbzpz3Q

— AftabAhmed (@ahmedaftab04) July 22, 2020

Another $1200 coming soon

Joseph Curl reports in the Daily Wire,

Senate Republicans and the White House have agreed in principle on a new stimulus bill to help Americans and shore up the economy in the midst of the coronavirus, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says the package will mirror the one in March, which gave millions of Americans $1,200.

“We’re talking about the same provision as last time, so our proposal is the exact same proposal as last time,” Mnuchin told reporters, according to The Hill. He said direct payments to Americans will be the same as set out in the $2.2 trillion bill signed into law in late March.

Read more here.

Prejudice against three-year-olds!

The woman above is the mayor of Washington D.C. She has just ordered that anyone over the age of two must wear a mask! Hank Berrien reports the story in the Daily Wire.

Now here is some legislation I support!

In the Daily Wire, Ryan Saavedra reports,

UNITED STATES - MARCH 29: Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, speaks at a news conference at the house triangle with other members of the House Natural Resources Committee on energy provisions in the House Republican budget.
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) introduced a bill Thursday on the floor of the House of Representatives that would ban the Democratic Party due to the party’s history of having supported slavery and the Confederacy, saying “that is the standard to which they are holding everyone else, so the name change needs to occur.”

“Whereas on June 18, 2020, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ordered the removal from the capital portraits of four previous speakers of the House who served in the Confederacy, saying that these portraits ‘set back our nation’s work to confront and combat bigotry,'” Gohmert said. “The men depicted in the portraits were Democrat Robert M.T. Hunter, Democrat Howell Cobb, Democrat James L. Orr, and Democrat Charles F. Crisp.”

“Resolved that the speaker of the House of Representatives shall remove any item that named symbolizes or mentions any political organization or party that has ever held a public position that supported slavery or the Confederacy from any area within the House wing of the Capitol or any House office building and shall donate such item or symbol to the Library of Congress, and two, that any political organization or party that has ever held a public position that supported slavery of the Confederacy shall either change its name or be barred from participation in the House of Representatives,” Gohmert concluded. “With that, I would yield back.”

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