YEAH, BUT THEY’RE GETTING DESPERATE AND THEY’VE GOT NOTHING.
Archive for 2020
August 31, 2020
WELL, MAYBE THEY UNDERSTAND WHAT HE WAS DOING THERE BETTER THAN THE PRESS IS AT LEAST PRETENDING TO: Trump’s approval rating with Black voters soars by 60% during RNC: poll.
SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “The NFL is letting players put Jacob Blake’s name on their helmets, a guy who raped a 15 year old girl. This is the same NFL that refused the Cowboy’s request to honor 5 slain Dallas cops with a patch on their uniforms.”
The NFL has chosen sides. Act accordingly.
UPDATE: Eugene Volokh emails: “Glenn: My understanding is that Jacob Blake was accused of sexually assaulting his adult girlfriend, not a 15-year-old. See https://archive.is/YcYRU and https://nypost.com/2020/08/28/this-is-why-jacob-blake-had-a-warrant-out-for-his-arrest/ . Am I missing something here?”
Research indicates that Eugene is right: Fact check: Jacob Blake does not have an arrest warrant for having sex with a minor. “While Blake, a Black man who was partially paralyzed after being shot by the police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, does have an arrest warrant for third-degree sexual assault, the claim that these charges involved sex with a minor is false.”
Happy to correct the error.
PETTY TYRANNY: L.A. County evicts John MacArthur’s Grace Church from parking lot lease held since 1975. “Since 1975, Grace Community has leased a large portion of its parking lot from the county. For unspecified reasons, the county’s Public Works Department has given the church until October 1st to evacuate the lot. All items that remain in the parking lot at that time will be taken as county property.”
Unspecified, but we can guess.
DISPATCHES FROM THE MEMORY HOLE: As a Young Senator, Biden Supported Keeping ‘Boat People’ Out of the U.S.
As a freshman senator in 1975, Joe Biden joined Sen. Robert Byrd (D., W.Va.) in opposing legislation allowing 130,000 Vietnam War refugees asylum in the United States, including thousands of children.
President Gerald Ford proposed a Vietnam refugee relief program that would settle thousands of Vietnamese and Cambodian families in the United States. The bill was met with resistance from a Democratic majority in Congress. Sen. Byrd cited fear of admitting “undesirables” such as “barmaids, prostitutes, and criminals” to the country.
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Byrd—Biden’s colleague and an early opponent of Ford’s plan—was a member of the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan as a young man.
In addition to Slow Joe’s recent, err, even further slowing down, perhaps fear of Trump discussing Biden’s often sordid backstory on a national stage is yet another reason why Nancy Pelosi recently said, ‘I don’t think there should be any debates’ between Biden and Trump.
DON’T GET COCKY: “How bad do things look for Joe Biden’s campaign right now? Consider this: Democrats are worried about Minnesota, a state no Republican presidential candidate has carried since Richard Nixon’s 1972 landslide. Yet polls show President Trump gaining ground in Minnesota, and Democrats are worried because they haven’t seen any appearances by Biden or his running mate Kamala Harris. ‘Why aren’t they here?’ one Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party official told Minnesota Public Radio last week. ‘We need to hear from them. We need to see their presence on the ground.'”
THERE’S REALLY ONLY ONE QUESTION REMAINING IN 2020: Are we doomed? Not if the ‘Monkey Busters’ can save the world.
WHO? BidenWatch for August 31, 2020. “Biden’s phony-baloney polls are running behind Hillary’s phony-baloney polls of four years ago, more China policy weakness, more anti-police rhetoric, and Slow Joe comes in many days and dollars short denouncing the antifa/#BlackLivesMatter riots.”
MODIFIED LIMITED HANGOUT RECEIVES FURTHER MODIFICATIONS:
Related: What If Trump Wins and the Left Rejects the Result?
(Classical reference in headline.)
JEFF REYNOLDS: Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Blames Trump for Deadly Shooting. “Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler gave a press conference on Sunday regarding the fatal shooting of a Trump supporter Saturday night. Wheeler bordered on insanity in his remarks, simultaneously blaming President Donald Trump for the violence and saying that not enough evidence existed to determine if the shooting was politically motivated. The chilling effect of his remarks was to imply, essentially, that Trump supporters had it coming.”
If you don’t want to get shot then keep your mouth shut, because freedom.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Death Comes to Portland.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: When do we get to drop the “mostly peaceful” fiction?
Answer: Today. Right now. That’s when.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
• An old joke, revisited
• COVID-19 kills the walking dead and almost nobody else
• Introducing the mankini
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
HMM: Russian Navy Submarine Surfaces Off Alaska; Likely Same One That Fired Cruise Missile Earlier In Exercise. “The circumstances of the surfacing are unclear. It is not normal for submarines to come to the surface near another country’s coast. USNORTHCOM’s statements on Twitter raise questions as to whether something is wrong: ‘We have not received any requests for assistance from the Russian Navy or other mariners in the area. We always stand ready to assist those in distress.’ This may imply that there is an emergency aboard which the U.S. Navy is aware of.”
IT’S JUST ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER AT SYRACUSE. WHAT GIVES? Syracuse professor put on leave, under investigation for using term ‘Wuhan Flu.’
Flashback: Conservative Student Leaving Syracuse University Due to Harassment and Threats.
Syracuse U. drama students allege ‘pervasive institutional racism,’ make demands.
Judge says Syracuse may have ignored its own evidence standard to judge student a rapist.
Campus Reform reporter says Syracuse professors are targeting her.
WILL CHINA TRIGGER A WAR?: The latest StrategyTalk podcast.
VERY RELATED: Scaring Chinese spies.
ALSO VERY RELATED: A few selected China War scenarios, including China versus China.
DEFINITELY RELATED: A review of the book Chinese Communist Espionage.
CAN TAX-EXEMPTION BE JERKED FOR FUNDING ANARCHY? How do Antifa and the multiple related left-wing domestic terrorist outfits fund their operations in multiple cities across the country? A significant part of their funding comes from huge foundations like the Ford Foundation, according to The Federalist’s Sloan Rachmuth.
Question: Why isn’t the IRS jerking the exempt status of Ford and any other foundation that funds domestic terrorism?