What bores me? Neo-fascists who pretend to be defending “democracy.” Democrat nazism.
COVID-19 and The Great Barrington Declaration?
“The Great Barrington Declaration?”
What the heck is “The Great Barrington Declaration?”
First of all, I have to give my wife credit for bring it to my attention.
That being said, if you’re not already aware of what “The Declaration” is, and I’m guessing most people aren’t familiar with it, once you do learn what it is, you’ll see why the fake news, liberal propaganda media has not been eager to say much about it.
Propaganda by omission.
According to Joe Allen for TheFederalist.com, “The Great Barrington Declaration is a spark of sanity in a mad world.”
I would agree.
“The Great Barrington Declaration offers a way forward, but do most Americans have the courage to risk their sense of security to maintain enduring liberty?”
And that’s the $64,000 question.
Oh boy…, that really dated myself!
Irregardless, I believe the answer to this question has been “yes” way more often than not.
“In an era in which every dubious decision is ‘due to COVID-19,’ we hear policymakers repeating the same mantra: ‘If just one life is saved,’ it’s worth relinquishing our freedoms, our sanity, and possibly our future. More often than not, this ethical dilemma is presented without mentioning the obvious trade-offs or long-term consequences.”
“Imagine you’re an administrative dictator. If you could ‘save just one life’ — or even thousands — by crippling the youth, vaporizing a million careers, wiping out small businesses, crushing your nation’s civic culture, severing the ancient continuity of religious rites, forcing healthy people into paranoid isolation, traumatizing an entire generation with viral terror, ending hugs and handshakes, depriving the elderly of intimate care in their final days, wrecking the national economy, unleashing a dystopian surveillance state, and turning your neighbors into neurotic germaphobes, would it be worth it?”
Not to mention the biggest benefit to liberals…, the ability to attack President Trump on his record. This single benefit makes all of that collateral damage overwhelmingly acceptable.
Anyway, “It’s a serious question. What if that ‘one life’ was your grandpa?”
“If my own grandfather had lived to see the destructive madness surrounding the Wuhan virus crisis, he’d no doubt light-up a Doral 100 and say, ‘Good Lord, just let me die!’”
In my Grandpa’s case, it would have been a Lucky Strike!
Joe Allen continues, “As it happens, I was in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, when this germ hysteria got started. As things progressed, the sleepy ski town was suddenly overrun by panicked New Yorkers who escaped to their summer cottages and never went back. Being typical urban scolds, they’d show up at the local shops and shriek about other customers not wearing masks or small children standing too close to them. The locals accused these uptight yuppies of carrying the city’s plague to the countryside.”
“In this idyllic setting of cultural neurosis and mutual disdain, the now-infamous Great Barrington Declaration was drafted by three leading experts in the fields of biostatistics, immunology, and public health policy. These doctors advocate for a return to traditional wisdom: Quarantine the sick, isolate the vulnerable, and allow the young and healthy to proceed with caution. Alongside Sweden’s courageous example, the document will go down in history as a bold assertion of vitality in a withering world.”
“The declaration was authored and signed on Oct. 4 by Dr. Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard; Dr. Sunetra Gupta, a distinguished Oxford epidemiologist; and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University Medical School. To date, more than 13,000 medical professionals have added their signatures, along with more than 176,000 members of the public, with thousands more every hour. This concise manifesto is strong medicine for a sick society.”
Even The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently issued a statement that basically echoes the feelings of the Barrington Declaration.
And as I stated, it’s obvious why the fake news, liberal propaganda media has chosen to ignore The Declaration.
The Great Barrington Declaration states, “As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection.”
“Fortunately, our understanding of the virus is growing. We know that vulnerability to death from COVID-19 is more than a thousand-fold higher in the old and infirm than the young. Indeed, for children, COVID-19 is less dangerous than many other harms, including influenza.”
“The authors call for an end to blanket, one-size-fits-all restrictions.”
The Declaration goes on to say, “Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health … leading to greater excess mortality in years to come, with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden. Keeping students out of school is a grave injustice.”
“Keeping these measures in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage, with the underprivileged disproportionately harmed.”
Like I said…, “collateral damage.”
“Let’s pause to consider all the white-collar office jockeys, tenured college professors, and coddled trust fund babies who snuggled up on cushy sofas, glued themselves to laptops, and dismissed the protests of those who were laid off, locked down, and muzzled against their will. ‘What’s so hard about wearing a mask?’ they’d scoff, despite the evidence that, all factors considered, healthy people have little reason to do so. ‘Stay home and stay safe!’ they yelped, before moving on to the next Amazon 1-Click order.”
“The most compassionate approach that balances the risks and benefits of reaching herd immunity, is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at highest risk. We call this Focused Protection.”
“Those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal. … Schools and universities should be open for in-person teaching. … Young low-risk adults should work normally, rather than from home. … People who are more at risk may participate if they wish, while society as a whole enjoys the protection conferred upon the vulnerable by those who have built up herd immunity.”
“That sounds far more reasonable than California Gov. Gavin Newsom urging diners to pull down their masks to take bites and pull them back up to chew, but of course, no plan is foolproof.”
“Microbiologist Simon Clarke voiced one of the stronger arguments against the declaration, warning that the quest for herd immunity is plagued with uncertainty. He rightly noted that we don’t know how long immunity to the coronavirus actually lasts. We also don’t know what the long-term damage might be, even to healthy people, and it’s questionable whether it’s ethical to segregate those deemed ‘vulnerable’ from germ-ridden public spaces.”
“Fair enough, but how is it more ethical to straitjacket the entire culture, indefinitely, for the sake of a vulnerable minority’s already-limited freedom?”
“If fear of the unknown drives the skepticism toward herd immunity, explain to me how it’s acceptable for our leaders to implement six months of bizarre social experimentation fraught with unintended consequences. So far, they’ve employed forced isolation, mask mandates, vicious social shaming, and media-induced germaphobia. This approach has no Western precedent, except perhaps medieval superstition, and its proponents offer no feasible projections of holistic outcomes beyond hypothetical ‘saved lives.’”
“If one principle has remained constant during this crisis, it’s that the numbers frequently follow the politics, rather than the reverse. For instance, back in August, Biden began pushing for a nationwide mask mandate, insisting it would save 40,000 lives. Come September, Biden’s scientific sources had upped that number to a whopping 100,000 lives.”
“At this rate, by Election Day, a draconian mask mandate will save more than a million lives. Who knows? Maybe if we cover with burkas made out of personal protective equipment until the inauguration, God will withhold his eternal wrath, and no one will ever die again.”
“Our newly minted social engineers are absolutely obsessed with ‘the numbers.’ These insidious numbers are always rising, or about to rise, or once rising and sure to rise again, but how do our esteemed experts quantify a loss of dignity? How do they calculate the degradation of social health? How do they weigh hypothetical saved lives against the observable lost souls?”
Ah yes…, “the numbers.”
When we look at “the numbers,” we see that over 210,000 people have died from the virus in the US.
But this is a bit misleading. In fact, more than a bit misleading.
It has been estimated that the actual number of deaths that can be solely attributed to the China virus is more like 10,000-20,000…, not the over 200,000 number which is continually thrown at us.
In fact, many of these “COVID deaths” are not even validated by actual testing, but are included based on assumptions. Not very scientific, for people who are constantly demanding we “should follow the science.”
Allen finishes by saying, “Perhaps these people have nothing to lose. For those of us who do, a cautious but deliberate path toward herd immunity offers a sane alternative to perpetual neurotic terror. The question is whether most Americans have the will and the courage to risk their sense of security to maintain enduring liberty.”
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Tell me again how “climate change” is the world’s greatest concern?
If “global climate change” is such a global concern, (the world is going to end in 10 years we’re told) then why are the vast majority of countries doing nothing about it currently, except demanding that The United States address this perceived threat by reducing their omissions, their use of fossil fuels, sacrificing their economy and paying for any and all perceived corrective actions?
Why?
Because it’s not really about “climate change,” it’s about using and abusing The United States, as usual, and governmental control.
It’s real easy to get on-board with a cause when nothing is required from you, and someone else is going to do all the work while you reap the rewards.
Yes, the members of the Paris Climate Accord are sooooo noble and soooooo “woke.”
All they contribute is their hot air, while paying lip service to each other and the media.
If you are really “all in” with this “man-made climate change” theory, then put YOUR money where YOUR mouth is!
The bottom line is humans are incapable of affecting the global climate, unless we’re talking about all-out global nuclear war…, and that goes both ways, positively and negatively.
There, I said it.
I’m not a “climate change” denier, however…, I’m a “man-made climate change” denier.
There’s a difference.
A big difference.
The Earth’s climate has been changing since its existence…, and without any help from humans.
No one denies an ice age occurred on Earth roughly 10,000 years ago, scientists say…, and humans had nothing to do with that, so how could it have happened?
The truth is the Earth’s climate changes from time to time, and not just since the relative speck of time that humans have been around and burning fossil fuel.
There are many natural factors and natural events that affect the Earth’s climate thousands of times as much as people ever could.
Now I’m not a “scientist,” but I have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express!
But seriously, I’m not a “scientist,” but I can recognize obvious truths and obvious facts and make intelligent determinations, and I’ve heard the “scientists” cry wolf before.
Here endeth the lesson.
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It’s ALL about the money (and power), honey.
Yes…, it’s all about the money (and power), honey…, and a rich man’s jokes are always funny.
And it’s all about the priviledged leftist elites gaining more control over our lives, while they live above the law. Exhibit A would be democrat speaker of the house, Nancy Pelosi.
In this case, the China virus is the vehicle being used by various global, corporate, and government entities to either gain more money, more power, or both.
It all seems quite clear.
And let’s be very clear…, the safety of the American people is not the real concern here.
Let’s examine the circumstances surrounding a drug called hydroxychloroquine.
Hollie McKay of Fox News reports, “It has become one of the most controversial words [one of the most controversial names actually] in the world: hydroxychloroquine.”
“For several weeks, the primarily anti-malaria drug has been touted by President Trump and others as a vital aid in treating those suffering from coronavirus, [although] there is not yet a Food and Drug Administration-approved treatment.”
Ah, yes…, the good old FDA.
No political or monetary undercurrents swaying that arm of “the swamp!”
“So, is there any possible correlation between countries where the drug is routinely administered due to high malaria rates and lower cases of COVID-19? It’s too early to tell, medical professionals say, but it’s part of the investigation process.”
I guess some doctors and scientists are just better at putting two and two together than others.
‘“If you look [at the] countries where malaria is more prevalent and countries where COVID-19 infections are prevalent, you will find a striking difference. This correlation needs to be explored further as this is not just a mere coincidence,’ Dr. David Nazarian, a Beverly Hills-based physician, diplomate at the American Board of Internal Medicine and founder of My Concierge MD, told Fox News.”
I’m sure an effort to discredit Dr. Nazarian has already been launched.
And, fine…, go ahead and explore it all you want, but in the meantime why not utilize this safe drug that seems to have produced positive results?
“The drug initially burgeoned on the scene with an FDA thumbs-up in 1955 [that’s 65 years ago] and has been used as a proven remedy in the treatment of malaria, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.”
People have been using this drug safely for 65 years!
But now, all of a sudden, the left, and their cadre of doctors and “experts,” and the liberal propaganda, fake news media are calling the drug “dangerous,” and even saying it should be banned from use.
Why would that be?
You have to ask yourself, why would they be torpedoing this drug that has been used safely for 65 years?
65 years!!!
“After a very small preliminary study conducted in France in the early weeks of COVID-19, Trump and other physicians pinned it as an aid in preventing the virus’ cells from entering the body’s cells, thus possibly helping clear the infection sooner.”
“Under Trump’s urging, the federal agency passed an emergency order last month, enabling doctors to administer hydroxychloroquine, which goes under the brand name Plaquenil, to coronavirus patients where they deemed appropriate, in practice referred to as ‘off-label prescribing.’”
“While much data is missing from the global coronavirus pie, given the lack of testing and in many cases government accountability to present accurate facts and figures, some science professionals have drawn elemental summations that while countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom and swaths of Europe have been battered by the virus, places with high malaria incidences have not — at least not yet.”
“Malaria, an infectious disease that impacts both animals and humans, takes root mostly in the tropical and sub-Saharan pockets of the planet. The continent of Africa is by far the most impacted.”
“In its most recent malaria assessment, released in December, the World Health Organization points to Africa as having endured some 93 percent, or 213 million of all the 228 million cases documented in 2018.”
“Specifically, 19 countries ferry 98 percent of the world’s malaria onus — all located in Sub-Sahara Africa and India. Six countries accounted for over half of all malaria infections globally: Nigeria at 25 percent, the Democratic Republic of Congo at 12 percent, Uganda at 3 percent, and Mozambique, Niger and Cote de’ Ivoire all at 4 percent. According to the World Atlas, the other plagued places include Pakistan, Ethiopia, Malawi and Niger.”
“So, where do these nations lie when it comes to coronavirus rates? Here are the numbers of coronavirus cases recorded in these countries so far:
Nigeria: 254 cases, 0 deaths (population 191 million)
Democratic Republic of Congo: 0 cases (population 81.3 million)
Uganda: 52 cases, 0 deaths (population 43 million)
Mozambique: 17 cases, 0 deaths (population 29.7 million)
Cote de’ Ivoire: 0 cases (population 24.3 million)
Ethiopia: 55 cases, 2 deaths (population 105 million)
Malawi: 8 cases, 1 death (population 18.6 million)
Niger: 278 cases, 11 deaths (population 21.5 million)
Pakistan: 4,194 cases, 60 deaths (population 197 million)
India: 5,480 cases, 164 deaths (population 1.3 billion)”
“Nazarian pointed out that the confirmed infection of coronavirus in these countries is around 0.1 percent.”
These numbers were as of April 8, 2020.
“Critics have been quick to opine, however, that Trump is hawking a medicine for coronavirus victims without science-stamped ‘conclusions’ pertaining to its effectiveness or safety as a treatment for the novel pathogen.”
‘“If someone thought the drug was protective against transmission, they might take fewer precautions, and the risks to others might then paradoxically increase,’ cautioned Dr. Stanley Weiss, a professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. ‘This is a well-known concern in vaccine trials, where behavior change and potential risks need to be carefully weighed against efficacy.’”
Wow…, that’s pretty weak, Dr. Weiss. Can’t you do better than that?
“Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has cautioned that hydroxychloroquine is far from being a ‘knockout drug’ and the American Medical Association, the American Pharmacy Association and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacy have also remained wary — even issuing a joint letter warning doctors about prescribing it for the purpose of fending off the coronavirus.”
I don’t think anyone has claimed it was a “knockout drug,” Fauci.
I don’t think there ever will be a “knockout drug” for the China virus, nor does anyone else…, so, why even go there?
“Moreover, Dr. Attila Hertelendy, a professor in emergency and disaster management at Georgetown University, underscored that while there is some preliminary evidence from in-vitro studies that suggest the combo could inhibit coronavirus activity, ‘there is scant empirical evidence to support using antimalarials as an effective and safe treatment for the masses.’”
Yes, we know Doc…, there is “there is scant empirical evidence” to support most of the things all of you “experts” have been recommending.
“When pressed about the dangers, Trump has bluntly responded, ‘I’m not a doctor, but I have common sense.’”
Like I said earlier, “I guess some doctors and scientists [and presidents] are just better at putting two and two together than others.
‘“Hydroxychloroquine is a relatively well-tolerated medicine that has been around for many years, and most people tolerate it without any side effects,’ Nazarian said.”
And that is the truth…, but the truth can be suppressed and misrepresented and ignored to the point that it is not perceived as the truth, at least by by some, any longer.
Linda Nordling for the Sciencemag.org website, points out that, “Although Africa reported its millionth official COVID-19 case last week, it seems to have weathered the pandemic relatively well so far, with fewer than one confirmed case for every thousand people and just 23,000 deaths so far. Yet several antibody surveys suggest far more Africans have been infected with the coronavirus—a discrepancy that is puzzling scientists around the continent. ‘We do not have an answer,’ says immunologist Sophie Uyoga at the Kenya Medical Research Institute–Wellcome Trust Research Programme.”
They say they don’t have an answer, but they attempt to account for this situation with every other explanation possible, other than the possible benefits of hydroxychloroquine.
“So, what explains the huge gap between antibody data on the one hand and the official case and death counts on the other?”
“Part of the reason may be that Africa misses many more cases than other parts of the world because it has far less testing capacity.”
“Marina Pollán of the Carlos III Health Institute in Madrid, who led Spain’s antibody survey, says Africa’s youthfulness may protect it.”
Mahmoud Elkazzaz, of Damietta University, on researchgate.net, adds that, “[Africa’s] sunshine could protect against coronavirus by boosting vitamin D levels, study finds.”
“They believe vitamin D may help modulate the response of white blood cells to the virus, preventing them from releasing too many inflammatory cytokines – a problem known to afflict patients with severe forms of the disease.”
“We cannot neglect the role of alcoholic beverages, of which its usage is high in European countries [as opposed to Africa], inhibiting the conversion of retinol to retinoic acid [which aids in fighting the disease].”
The FDA’s own website now states, “FDA cautions against use of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine for COVID-19 outside of the hospital setting or a clinical trial due to risk of heart rhythm problems.”
BUT this, “Does not affect FDA-approved uses for malaria, lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis.”
So, it’s perfectly okay for some people to take the drug, but others are at risk, depending on why you’re taking the drug?
The FDA then went further in a June 15, 2020 update, “Based on ongoing analysis and emerging scientific data, FDA has revoked the emergency use authorization (EUA) to use hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to treat COVID-19 in certain hospitalized patients when a clinical trial is unavailable or participation is not feasible. We made this determination based on recent results from a large, randomized clinical trial in hospitalized patients that found these medicines showed no benefit for decreasing the likelihood of death or speeding recovery.”
Then, Sharyl Attkisson, reported that, “Medical journals retract study that claimed hydroxychloroquine is dangerous.”
“The key study claiming hydroxycholoroquine is dangerous has been retracted by the New England Journal of Medicine and Lancet.”
“The journals say after the study was published, more than 100 scientists took issue with it, and it turns out the data cannot be confirmed.”
“Among other things, the scientists criticized the methodology of the study. They also questioned why the authors refused to identify any of the hospitals that contributed patient data, or even to name the countries where the hospitals are located.”
“The study’s lead author was Dr. Mandeep R. Mehra, a Harvard professor.”
So, is this the kind of credible research that all of these “experts” were calling for?
I guess “credible research” just means research that backs-up your desired narrative, in this case.
It would also not surprise me one bit to find out that Pelosi, Fauci, and all the rest of them were taking hydroxychloroquine as a preventative measure, while at the same time beating The President up over it, and denying it to the rest of us just out of spite to President Trump.
Remember the credo of the liberal elite…, “Do as I say, not as I do.”
In the end, it all comes back to money, which just happens to correlate with the democrats desire to keep the virus scam going.
No “cure” can be allowed before the vast amounts of money to be made from a vaccine are realized, and no “cure” can be allowed while we still have a President Donald Trump.
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Looting…, it’s not just for criminals anymore…, radical liberals, Marxists, and opportunists in general like it too!
Natalie Escobar for National Public Radio (NPR), reports on “One author’s argument in defense of looting.”
Hmmm…, someone who feels they can defend looting?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKYpS_Ro13U
I’m not sure why anyone would want to defend that, but be that as it may…
“In the past months of demonstrations for Black lives, there has been a lot of hand-wringing about looting. And just this week, rioters have burned buildings and looted stores in Kenosha, Wis., following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, to which Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson has said: ‘Peaceful protesting is a constitutionally protected form of free speech. Rioting is not.’”
I would say the rioting and the looting have been downplayed and, even ignored, to a great extent by the complicit, liberal propaganda, news media, who have followed the lead of their democrat friends and democrat co-conspirators.
I you recall, the democrats made no mention of the civil unrest happening across our country at their convention.
Propaganda by omission.
If we (the democrats) don’t acknowledge it, or talk about it, it didn’t happen.
“Writer Vicky Osterweil’s book, ‘In Defense of Looting,’ came out on Tuesday. When she finished it, back in April, she wrote (rather presciently [with foresight]) that ‘a new energy of resistance is building across the country.’”
Please note that Vicky Osterweil used to be Willie Osterweil, just in case Vicky looked familiar.
“Now, as protests and riots continue to grip cities, she argues that looting is a powerful tool to bring about real, lasting change in society.”
Oh…, it’s going to bring about change alright…, but not the kind of change that any of the looters are going to like.
They are not doing themselves or any associated “movement” they may have any favors.
“The rioters who smash windows and take items from stores, she says, are engaging in a powerful tactic that questions the justice of ‘law and order,’ and the distribution of property and wealth in an unequal society.”
Otherwise known as “stealing.”
Vicky apparently doesn’t know it, or doesn’t care, but these are the same principles that were promoted by the Nazi’s prior to World War II.
Natalie Escobar continues, “I spoke with Osterweil about this summer’s riots, the common narratives surrounding looting, and why ‘nonviolence’ can be a misleading term.”
No…, I would say that “nonviolence” is a pretty understandable word that means something not involving violence.
“For people who haven’t read your book [and that would be 99.999999% of America], how do you define looting?”
“’When I use the word looting, I mean the mass expropriation of property, mass shoplifting during a moment of upheaval or riot.’”
Ha!
“Mass shoplifting!”
That would be “stealing,” in other words.
‘“That’s the thing I’m defending. I’m not defending any situation in which property is stolen by force. It’s not a home invasion, either. It’s about a certain kind of action that’s taken during protests and riots.”
So, breaking windows and breaking down doors isn’t considered “stolen by force” in Osterweil’s opinion?
Escobar continued by asking, “Is Looting a Loaded Word?”
Vicky Osterweil responded, ‘“Looting is a highly racialized word from its very inception in the English language. It’s taken from Hindi, lút, which means ‘goods’ or ‘spoils,’ and it appears in an English colonial officer’s handbook [on ‘Indian Vocabulary’] in the 19th century.”
Excuse me, Vicky…, but, so what?
What does the word being taken from a Hindi word have to do with your claim that the word is highly racialized?
I don’t view the word “looting,” or “looter” to be racial at all, and I don’t think most people do either.
I view the word “looter” negatively…, but that’s about it.
“Can you talk about rioting as a tactic? What are the reasons people deploy it as a strategy?”
‘“It does a number of important things. It gets people what they need for free immediately, which means that they are capable of living and reproducing their lives without having to rely on jobs or a wage—which, during COVID times, is widely unreliable or, particularly in these communities is often not available, or it comes at great risk. That’s looting’s most basic tactical power as a political mode of action.’”
Ha, ya!
How are these people supposed to live without 15 pairs of Air Jordan’s?
How are these people supposed to live without 25 Rolexes?
How are these people supposed to survive without a couple big screen TVs?
I mean, c’mon…, let’s be reasonable!
‘“It also attacks the very way in which food and things are distributed. It attacks the idea of property, and it attacks the idea that in order for someone to have a roof over their head or have a meal ticket, they have to work for a boss, in order to buy things that people just like them somewhere else in the world had to make under the same conditions. It points to the way in which that’s unjust.’”
Excuse me, Vicky…, but it’s called MAKING A LIVING!
It’s what most people have to do, unless you spend all of your time “protesting,” rioting, looting, or playing video games during your downtime, while living with mommy, mommy and daddy, grandma, grandpa, or grandma and grandpa.
‘“And the reason that the world is organized that way, obviously, is for the profit of the people who own the stores and the factories. So, you get to the heart of that property relation, and demonstrate that without police and without state oppression, we can have things for free.’”
Huh! Ya…, we could all have these things for free. If it wasn’t for the evil people who own the stores and factories, we could all just pick the big screen TVs off of the big screen TV trees!
‘“Importantly, I think especially when it’s in the context of a Black uprising like the one we’re living through now, it also attacks the history of whiteness and white supremacy. The very basis of property in the U.S. is derived through whiteness and through Black oppression, through the history of slavery and settler domination of the country.”’
Ya…, I don’t know of ANY black people who actually own anything, or ANY black people who aren’t oppressed!
Please, give us all a break from your idiotic, racial, stupidness.
‘“Looting strikes at the heart of property, of whiteness and of the police. It gets to the very root of the way those three things are interconnected. And, also it provides people with an imaginative sense of freedom and pleasure and helps them imagine a world that could be. And I think that’s a part of it that doesn’t really get talked about—that riots and looting are experienced as sort of joyous and liberatory.’”
Wow…, where do I begin here?
First, YOU, Vicky, racialize the situation by negatively stereotyping both Blacks and Whites.
Secondly, when you say, “And, also it [looting] provides people with an imaginative sense of freedom and pleasure,” I honestly want to throw-up.
And then you go on to say, “And I think that’s a part of it that doesn’t really get talked about—that riots and looting are experienced as sort of joyous and liberatory.’”
I can tell you, Vicky, that riots and looting are not a “joyous” occasion for those who get assaulted, or even killed, while attempting to protect their livelihood and their property.
I can tell you, Vicky, that riots and looting are not a “joyous” occasion for people to see their community burn to the ground, taking jobs and places to shop and do business with it.
“What are some of the most common myths and tropes that you hear about looting?”
‘“One of the ones that’s been very powerful, that’s both been used by Donald Trump and Democrats, has been the outside agitator myth, that the people doing the riots are coming from the outside.’”
This is not a myth, and it has been demonstrated and documented to be absolutely true on numerous occasions during many of these riots.
‘“Another one is that looters are just acting as consumers. Why are they taking flat screen TVs instead of rice and beans? Like, if they were just surviving, it’d be one thing, but they’re taking liquor. All these tropes [a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression] come down to claiming that the rioters and the looters don’t know what they’re doing. They’re acting, you know, in a disorganized way, maybe an ‘animalistic’ way [definitely in an “animalistic” way]. But the history of the movement for liberation in America is full of looters and rioters. They’ve always been a part of our movement.’”
And “The history of the movement for liberation in America” IS NOT “full of looters and rioters, and they [rioting and looting] have NOT “always been a part of our movement.”
I would challenge you, Vicky, to actually document these fraudulent and libelous claims against our American heritage.
‘“There’s also another factor, which is anti-Blackness and contempt for poor people who want to live a better life…’”
What in thee hell are you talking about?!
I don’t know anyone who has “contempt for poor people who want to live a better life.”
In fact, most people admire people who want to make a better life for themselves, as long as it’s legal and through being resourceful and/or through hard work.
‘“One thing about looting is it freaks people out.’”
Uh…, ya…, and pisses them off in most cases as well.
‘“But in terms of potential crimes that people can commit against the state, it’s basically nonviolent. You’re mass shoplifting. Most stores are insured; it’s just hurting insurance companies on some level. It’s just money. It’s just property. It’s not actually hurting any people.’”
Well, Miss Vicky, I must say your level of confusion is quite impressive!
I guess if you have never created something through hard work and sacrifice, you can’t appreciate its value.
And, “It’s not actually hurting any people,” except the owners, like I just mentioned, the people who worked at these places who are now out of jobs, and the people who may have liked patronizing these businesses, which may or may not ever reopen.
No…, it’s not actually “hurting” any people.
Idiot.
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Chicken Joe?
C’mon, Sleepy, Creepy Joe!
C’mon, chicken “dum-o-crats!”
C’mon, Crazy Nancy!
Nobody wants a president who’s a yellow-bellied chicken.
Except democrats, apparently.
Nobody wants a president who can’t stand toe-to-toe with an opponent.
Except democrats, apparently.
Nobody wants a president who can’t think on their feet without the aid of a teleprompter.
Except democrats, apparently.
It would seem they’re less afraid of being called chickens than of being called inept or incapacitated!
I don’t actually believe that Joe Biden is afraid to debate Presiddent Trump…, but he should be.
I believe Joe Biden believes he’s just fine, and capable…, but he isn’t.
I’m sorry, Joe…, but you’re just not “with it” anymore…, if you ever were.
According to Benjamin Fearnow, for Newsweek. “Democratic strategists and supporters of Vice President Joe Biden are urging him not to debate President Donald Trump in the lead-up to Election Day, citing Trump’s publicity stunts and disregard for the rules in 2016.”
Oh, you mean like how Hillary, her people, the DNC, and the fake news media conspired to get her the debate questions before one of the debates in 2016?
Is that the kind of “disregard for the rules” you’re referring to?
And we are completely aware of why “Democratic strategists and supporters of Vice President Joe Biden are urging him not to debate President Donald Trump.”
Because they know Biden is going to look like an incomprehensible old fool and an indefensible old fool, up against President Trump.
President Trump mopped the floor with the other 15 republican candidates in 2016, and then Hillary Clinton as well.
“Former White House Press Secretary, Joe Lockhart, joined several Democratic Party strategists in bluntly advising Biden, ‘whatever you do, don’t debate Trump.’ Speaking on CNN Saturday, Lockhart said Trump shouldn’t be given another platform which will enable him to ‘repeat lies,’ which he said occurred in the 2016 debates against Hillary Clinton.”
It’s hilarious!
These people are on their knees begging Sleepy Joe to bail out of the presidential debates.
They have obviously calculated that it’s better to appear weak and afraid, as opposed to exposing yourself as an incomprehensible old fool and an indefensible old fool.
‘“We saw in the debates in 2016 Hillary Clinton showed a mastery of the issues, every point she made was more honest and bested Trump,’ Lockhart told CNN.”
What debates were you watching, Lockhart?
‘“But Trump came out of the debates doing better I think because he just kept repeating the same old lies: “we’re going to build a wall and Mexico is going to pay for it,” “we’re going to keep all those Mexican rapists out of the country,” and “we’re going to make great trade deals” — none of these things have come to pass.’”
‘“Giving him that national forum to continue to spout — get him to 21,000 or 22,000 lies — I think just isn’t worth it for the Democrats or for Biden,’ Lockhart continued.”
“Several opinion columns published in recent months have called for an outright cancellation of the debates, describing them — alongside the party conventions — as outdated political rituals designed purely for TV ratings.”
“Longtime Democratic strategist and former Hillary Clinton senior adviser Zac Petkanas agreed with calls for Biden to back out of any and all debates with Trump in the coming months.”
“As it stands currently, there are three presidential debates and one vice presidential debate scheduled between September 29 and October 22.”
‘“Biden shouldn’t feel obligated to throw Trump a lifeline by granting him any debates at all. This is not a normal presidential election and Trump is not a legitimate candidate,’ Petkanas tweeted last week.”
“Speculation over the cancellation of the Biden versus Trump 2020 presidential debates increased last week after the University of Notre Dame withdrew its campus as host of the September 29 event over coronavirus concerns. The University of Michigan withdrew from hosting a presidential debate on its campus in June, which has since been rescheduled at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami.”
“Political commentator Bill Kristol, a so-called ‘Never Trump’ conservative, praised Notre Dame for withdrawing as host of the first presidential debate over coronavirus concerns.”
‘“Good. No need to go to any trouble to replace this debate. Indeed, I gather Biden’s already all booked up with zoom calls in those weeks. Also, the Jewish holidays. And the new Perry Mason series. Too bad!’ Kristol quipped on Twitter.”
What a pathetic “never Trumper.”
Kristol is just another tool of the old estabilishment politicians who really don’t want to accomplish anything. All they want to do is blow hot air and kick the country’s problems down the road.
“The first presidential debate is now set to take place at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland on September 29; the first vice presidential debate is currently set to take place at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City on October 7. The second presidential debate is scheduled for the Arsht Center on October 15, and the third and final debate is set to take place on October 22 on the campus of Belmont University in Nashville.”
But wait…, there’s more!
Crazy Nancy is now joining in with the chorus!
Marisa Schultz of Fox News reports, “Pelosi says Biden shouldn’t debate Trump: ‘I wouldn’t legitimize a conversation with him.’”
“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Thursday that former Vice President Joe Biden cancel his three scheduled debates with President Trump because the commander-in-chief would ‘belittle’ the forum and engage in ‘skullduggery.’”
“Skullduggery?!”
‘“I don’t think that there should be any debates,’ Pelosi said out of the blue at a news conference at the Capitol, saying she doesn’t want the debates to be ‘an exercise in skullduggery.’”
“Biden told MSNBC Thursday he’s still planning on showing up to the high-profile faceoffs with the president.”
‘“As long as the [debate] commission continues down the straight and narrow as they have, I’m going to debate him,’ Biden said.”
What does that mean?
That sounds like you’re building-in a little wiggle room there, Joe.
‘“I’m going to be a fact-checker on the floor as I’m debating him,’ he added.”
Yes, please, feel free Sleepy Joe.
Will that “fact checking” apply to yourself as well?
Just keeping it real.
“Pelosi is just the latest high-profile Democrat to offer a major piece of advice to the former vice president.”
“Republicans pointed to Pelosi’s remarks as another sign that Democrats are trying to hide Biden.”
“Hide Biden?”
Really?
I think we all understand that Sleepy Joe has been relegated exclusively to his basement by now.
“Debates have been an issue of contention for weeks as the Trump campaign has pushed for an additional early debate to coincide with early voting that will be underway in states.”
It does make sense to have at least one debate before people can vote…, that is, if not afraid to debate in the first place.
“And the idea of abandoning debates all together made headlines after a New York Times op-ed earlier this August argued that presidential debates should be ‘scrapped,’ with critics suggesting that it’s the latest effort by the media to prevent Biden from debating Trump.”
“Pelosi made the comment at her weekly news conference, unprompted, and her advice was not in response to a question about debates. She cited Trump’s ‘disgraceful’ performance at the 2016 debate when he was ‘stalking’ Clinton as one reason Biden should break tradition and sit out the debates.”
If you watch that debate, the claim that President Trump was “stalking” Hillary, was completely and only imagined by Mrs. Clinton…, then regurgitated by ignorant democrats and their fake news media friends.
“So, I think that he’ll probably act in a way that is beneath the dignity of the presidency; he does that every day,’ Pelosi said of Trump. ‘But I think it will also belittle what the debates are supposed to be about. And they’re not to be about skullduggery on the part of somebody who has no respect for the office he holds, much less the democratic process.’”
‘“Why else would he try to undermine the elections in the manner in which he is doing?’ Pelosi continued. ‘So, if Joe Biden asked me what I thought about it, [I’d say] I don’t think that he should dignify that conversation with Donald Trump.’”
The only problem is, Sleepy Joe’s wife, Jill Biden, already declared her man “would be there for the debates.”
And Sleepy Joe, himself, has said, “I can hardly wait to debate Trump.”
“Shortly after Pelosi’s comments, the Biden campaign responded that while they agree with the speaker’s characterization of Trump, Biden will go through with the debates as planned.
“The Biden campaign already agreed in June to three debates in September and October in a letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates, in addition to a vice-presidential debate.”
‘“We certainly agree with Speaker Pelosi on her views of the President’s behavior,’ Biden campaign spokesperson Andrew Bates said. ‘But just as she has powerfully confronted that behavior in the Oval Office and the Cabinet Room, Joe Biden looks forward to doing the same on the debate stage.’”
That’s good to hear, and that’s tough talk…, but talk is talk, and talk is cheap.
We’ll see.
“The first debate is scheduled for [Tuesday] Sept. 29.”
I’ll definitely be watching…, if Sleepy Joe actually shows up.
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My favorite political memes!
Here is my first collection of my favorite political memes!
“Meme” is pronounced [MEEM], and rhymes with “seem,” if you’re not familiar with the term.
A “meme” is a humorous image that is copied and enhanced (often with the addition of a message, joke, or saying) and spread rapidly by Internet users.
So, without any further adieu…, bring on the memes!
Enjoy.
I hope you enjoyed my inaugural collection of political memes!
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“A day without laughter is a day wasted.” – Charlie Chaplin
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ANTIFA and BLM are sooo brave!
Yes, my friends, these two domestic terrorist groups, and anyone else who hides their ugly behavior behind their “right to protest” and “social injustice,” seem to display their true colors on a daily basis…, and their true color is yellow!
For the sake of this article, I’ll just refer to these lowlifes as “anti-American neo-fascists and cowardly opportunists.”
If you’ve been following the news, you can see a definite pattern to the attacks by these “anti-American neo-fascists and cowardly opportunists.”
What you’ll notice is they typically never attack anyone who could pose them any threat at all.
They either attack inanimate objects, like buildings, stores, businesses and statues, or they attack old men, old women, young girls, boys, or anyone when they outnumber the person by at least five to one.
Like I said, these “anti-American neo-fascists and cowardly opportunists” are sooo brave.
Below are some actual recent headlines from the news that demonstrate what I’m talking about:
“GRAPHIC VIDEO: 71-year-old man reportedly suffers broken jaw, blow to head as he defends Kenosha business.”
“Girlfriend of Portland man attacked: ‘They were trying to fight people.’”
“Woman Attacked at Philadelphia Church During Live-Streamed Mass.”
“92-year-old woman randomly attacked in Gramercy Park, Manhattan.”
“Elderly woman attacked, set on fire in Brooklyn.”
“Retired NYPD sergeant attacked in Garment District beatdown caught on video.”
“Chicago violence: Chilling video shows woman, 85, slammed during robbery.”
“Man attacked by group of 5 people near State Street, left with facial fractures, police say.”
“Aggressive mob of white BLM protesters threaten and film white diners at DC restaurants and DEMAND they raise their fist and show solidarity with them…. or else.”
“Oakland rioters torch courthouse, smash windows as unrest continues.”
“Crowds tear down statues outside Wisconsin State Capitol, attack state senator.”
“Minneapolis stores looted as mayhem erupts after gunman’s suicide.”
See what I mean?
How long do you think this type of behavior will be allowed to go on, unchecked, as the police choose to sit on their hands, and the city prosecutor’s office is just a revolving door for these criminals when they do happen to be apprehended?
I guess we’ll see, won’t we?
Oh, here’s another headline I wanted to share:
“Kenosha: teen charged with murder after two Black Lives Matter protesters killed.”
And so it begins.
Before this chaos across our country is resolved, you’ll be seeing some good people doing some bad things to bad people.
When a vacuum is created in our society regarding law and order, that vacuum will be filled, one way or the other.
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The Portland Police are giving up on policing the “far-right???”
Policing the “far-right?”
How about policing the “far-left?!!!”
The last time I checked, Portland was into their 70th or 80th or whatever ridiculous number of straight nights of violence, burning, and looting, courtesy of the neo-fascist, radical, left-wing, rioters.
But, they’re giving up on policing the far-right?
How about even beginning to police the far-left?!
According to Andy Campbell for HuffPost [HuffPost is a liberal American news website], “The Portland Police Bureau [PPB] appears to have all but given up on policing the far-right factions brawling in the Oregon city’s streets, despite a recent escalation in violence that has seen those extremists throw explosives, brandish guns and in one case fire them at other protesters.”
“It’s common to see far-right extremist groups like the ‘Proud Boys’ exchanging blows with counter-protesters in Portland. They’ve been doing that for years, often as PPB officers watched until a riot was officially declared and then police cleared the streets using tear gas and other munitions.”
I must admit, I was not aware of these confrontations between the left and the right groups amid the rioting in Portland.
For some reason, it was a well-kept secret by the media.
And this is the first I’ve heard of “the proud boys” as well.
“But over the weekend, police took an entirely hands-off approach to the fighting, even as the demonstrations grew more violent than ever.”
Excuse me, but, you’re saying the Portland police taking a “hands-off approach” with the violence is news?
Just sayin’.
“As officers stood by on Saturday, the ‘Proud Boys’ and their far-right friends attacked and intimidated anti-fascist protesters using paintball guns, mace, fireworks, aluminum bats and various firearms, according to The Washington Post.”
The term “anti-fascist protesters,” which is used here, is a complete misnomer.
These radical, left-wing, agitators, are neither “anti-fascists” nor
protesters.”
They are neo-fascist terrorists.
And, oh, the poor, poor protesters!
They were being intimidated!!!
Can you imagine?!
The nerve of those ruthless “proud boys!”
Now, getting back to the “far-right” groups, as the HuffPost describes them, “One of them — notorious ‘Proud Boys’ organizer Alan Swinney — was seen pointing a gun at protesters, his finger on the trigger. Another ‘Proud Boy,’ Tusitala “Tiny” Toese, was present, per the Post, in apparent violation of his parole over an attack at a similar demonstration in 2017 (he wasn’t apprehended on Saturday, but a judge on Monday issued a warrant for his arrest).”
Now, this is a new wrinkle to the riot reporting.
They name the members of this “proud boy” group.
I don’t recall the media naming any members of the rioting group, much less attaching a name to the rioting group in general.
It’s obviously a preconceived propaganda strategy of the fake news.
“Meanwhile, over a loudspeaker, police encouraged those present to ‘self-monitor for criminal activity.’ In essence, the PPB had thrown up its hands.”
“Self-monitor?!
Ha!!!
That’s a good one I haven’t heard before!
“In a statement to The Washington Post, the bureau said that officers were tired from responding to ongoing demonstrations against racism and police brutality, which have kept Portland in the national spotlight for weeks. Officers wouldn’t intervene in small skirmishes between ‘willing participants,’ even if the clashes fit the city’s definition of a riot.”
Can you blame them?
Can you blame them one little bit?
The correct answer to these questions is “no,” just in case you were wondering.
‘“Each skirmish appeared to involve willing participants and the events were not enduring in time, so officers were not deployed to intervene,’ the bureau said of Saturday’s events. PPB members have been the focus of over 80 days of violent actions directed at the police, which is a major consideration for determining if police resources are necessary to interject between two groups with individuals who appear to be willingly engaging in physical confrontations for short durations.”
This is an interesting development.
Sooo, what we have here is a type of government sanctioned lawlessness.
Huh.
“Allowing local far-right groups to wreak havoc on the city isn’t a big departure for the PPB. As the ‘Proud Boys’ cheered, officers launched tear gas and other munitions at anti-fascist counter-protesters [Isn’t this a double negative? Who are we exactly talking about here?] during a rally in 2017, which left one antifa protester with a gas canister lodged in his head.”
Ouch!
No pictures of this, of course.
And what’s this “allowing local far-right groups to wreak havoc on the city” stuff?
It would appear that the “far-right groups” are wreaking havoc on the neo-fascist terrorists, not the city.
“Police gave the ‘Proud Boys’ an escort out of the city following a rally in 2018 that saw the far-right demonstrators outnumbered by anti-fascists. A key officer had a friendly and ongoing relationship with the leader of ‘Proud Boys’ affiliate group ‘Patriot Prayer,’ judging from texts obtained by Willamette Week.”
Willamette who?
Is naming this person supposed to lend some kind of credence to the information?
Just sayin’.
Anyway, “But relinquishing the act of policing to the brawlers themselves is both new and concerning, especially given the context: Local extremists have escalated their violent tactics in recent weeks, brazenly introducing guns and a lot more weaponry to the melee.”
“Local right-wing protester Skylor Jernigan [Here they go naming names again.], who attended a conservative ‘flag wave’ demonstration in Portland earlier this month alongside Swinney, allegedly shot at Black Lives Matter protesters from inside a car. Nobody was hit.”
“He was later arrested and charged with two felony counts of unlawful use of a weapon.”
This definitely seems like a case of “selective enforcement” of the law here.
“During the same event, Swinney was seen spraying protesters with chemical irritants and shooting them with rounds from a paintball gun. He faced no immediate consequence for those displays or for pointing a pistol at protesters this past Saturday.”
Nor should he, based on the prior treatment of “the protesters.”
I feel like it’s time to interject a couple applicable sayings here:
“What’s good for the goose is good for the gander,” for example.
And, “What goes around comes around.”
Or, how about, “You’ve made your bed, now you have to lie in it.”
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Hershel Walker and Kim Klacic at the RNC: The whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Caleb Parke of Fox News reports, “Raised a Democrat and a longtime friend of President Trump, former Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker told ‘The Ingraham Angle’ [a nightly news and opinion-based talk show on the Fox News channel] Monday night he wanted to give people a picture of who the president really is on the first night of the 2020 Republican National Convention.”
‘“What this president has done for America needs to be known, and I think it’s not being known,’ the former Heisman Trophy winner told Laura Ingraham.”
“Host Laura Ingraham praised Walker for one of the ‘most powerful and memorable speeches of the night’ in which the former NFL player shared advice Trump gave him many years ago and why he is such a strong supporter now.”
‘“I don’t think people really know Donald Trump. I think they look at Donald Trump from a tweet or look at from what he says, and they’re not looking at what he does,’ Walker told Ingraham.”
On top of that, many Americans get a distorted impression of President Trump from the fake news, liberal propaganda media. The media declines to give this president credit for doing anything positive, while at the same time focusing on negative witch hunts, hoaxes, and personal attacks.
‘“Donald Trump has done more in three years than most presidents have done in eight, and what’s so special about him is he cares about people and that’s what I wanted people to know.’”
“The Trump-supporting football legend spoke about his friendship and how he prays the president gets more time in office.”
‘“I’ve had a personal friendship with Donald Trump for 37 years, and during all this time he has never, never, never asked Herschel Walker to speak for him, and after they’ve called him all types of names, and I know Donald Trump,’ Walker said. ‘I’ve been with him in very, very special moments and I’ve never seen that in him and that’s why I wanted to speak for him.’”
Walker noted that he “grew up in the deep south” and that he “knows what racism looks like,” and that “Donald Trump is no racist.”
So, here’s a respected, genuine, and sincere Black man, who has had a “personal friendship with Donald Trump” for 37 years, but the racist and disingenuous commentators and talking heads at CNN and MSNBC continue to attack The President without and basis for their attacks, and claim to know him better.
“He [Walker] added, ‘What this president has done for America needs to be known, and I think it’s not being known. People do not want to mention even the things he’s done in three years … normally when you run for a political party, you don’t know what you say. This president here has done almost everything he said that he was going to do and that counts.’”
“Responding to Democratic Georgia state Rep. Vernon Jones’ comments about being attacked by his own party and given Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s controversial comments about Black Americans voting for him, Walker said, ‘I’m not going to call him what even his vice president called him during the debate, he had some racist tendencies.’”
“Walker, 58, said he’s not calling Biden a racist but questions how Democratic vice-presidential nominee, Kamala Harris, can support him now after what she said about him in the primaries [regarding race and sexual assault claims].”
Good question!
But remember, we’re talking about politicians here, and more specifically, democrat politicians. They have NO shame and NO moral standards.
‘“We have a Democratic Party, today, not telling anyone where they stand on anything,’ he said. ‘That is the honest truth, but they want you to go to a voting booth and make an emotional decision.’”
The democrats don’t want to advertise where they stand on issues because they stand with Communist China, and socialist/communist/fascist regimes all around the world, and they know they can’t get elected if this ugly truth is let out of the bag.
“Walker said he wants young African Americans to be free thinkers and educate themselves on the issues.”
‘“I was raised Democrat, and I didn’t know any better, and what’s strange is I’m not saying the Democrat Party is bad, I’m saying it doesn’t fit what I believe,’ he said.”
That’s okay Hershel, but I’ll say it…, I’ll say the democrat party is bad without any reservation.
‘“First of all, I believe in God, I believe in family, I believe in the American flag, I believe in the national anthem. I believe in law and order. While the Democrat Party has not said that they believe in any of those things. That’s what made America beautiful.’”
Walker also believes we can be patriotic and supportive of social justice at the same time. It doesn’t have to be one or the other.
“The former running back for the [University of Georgia], Dallas Cowboys, Minnesota Vikings, Philadelphia Eagles and New York Giants says sports and politics should be separate.”
“It seems like we have a political civil war right now where people are afraid to speak their mind and that’s sad.’”
And in many cases, people aren’t “afraid to speak their mind,” but they’re being attacked, shunned, boycotted, censored and cancelled.
It is an all-out attack on the first amendment rights of all Americans who won’t bow down to the prescribed liberal narrative.
You can watch Hershel Walker’s speech via the link below.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/6184232613001
Megan Henney of Fox News reports, “Baltimore [congressional] candidate Kim Klacik puts Dems on notice over Black support: ‘You’ve Ignored us for too long.’”
“Kim Klacik says, “The days of Black voters blindly supporting Democrats are coming to an end!”
“Kim Klacik, a GOP congressional candidate who suggested that Democrats don’t care about Black voters in a viral campaign ad, took aim at Joe Biden in a speech during the first night of the Republican National Convention, accusing the Democratic nominee of believing that Black Americans ‘can’t think for ourselves.’”
You can check out her campaign ad below.
“Klacik, who is Black, is the Republican nominee running to represent Maryland’s 7th Congressional district, a Democratic stronghold that was represented for years by the late Rep. Elijah Cummings.”
You know…, Elijah Cummings the saint, Elijah Cummings the fearless fighter for civil rights and justice, Elijah Cummings the African American icon.
Now ponder his perception with the reality of the condition of his congressional district.
What we’re really talking about here is Elijah Cummings the fraud.
I’ll give Elijah Cummings one thing though…, he sure was good at pulling the wool over the eyes of all of his constituents’ and keeping his flock of democrat sheep on the plantation!
‘“Joe Biden believes we can’t think for ourselves — that the color of someone’s skin dictates their political views,’ she said in her remarks. ‘We’re not buying the lies anymore — you and your party have ignored us for too long.’”
“Black voters as a whole helped Biden clinch the Democratic nomination after a decisive victory during the South Carolina primary. But that success hinges on his support among older Black voters.”
“Klacik rose to national prominence last week when President Trump shared one of her campaign ads, which shows her marching by abandoned rowhouses in a red dress and matching stilettos, lambasting Democratic politicians for abandoning Black Americans.”
‘“Black people don’t have to vote Democrat,’ she says at the end of the 2.5-minute video. Baltimore’s population is about 60% Black, according to the Census Bureau.”
“The ad, titled “Black Lives Don’t Matter to Democrats,” has been viewed more than 11.4 million times.”
“Klacik hit that same theme again on Monday during her address, accusing Democrats of running Baltimore — and other major cities across the country – ‘into the ground,’ despite high taxes.”
And who can dispute that claim?
‘“And yet, the Democrats still assume that Black people will vote for them, no matter how much they let us down and take us for granted,’ she continued. ‘Nope. We’re sick of it and we’re not going to take it anymore. The days of blindly supporting the Democrats are coming to an end!’”
Amen, Kim…, and let’s hope you’re right!
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