BECAUSE OF COURSE THEY DID: DNC Meetings Cut ‘Under God’ Out of the Pledge of Allegiance.
Author Archive: Stephen Green
August 20, 2020
BATTLESWARM BLOG: Austin Police Defunding/Homeless Update.
Unlike Abbott’s various Wuhan Coronavirus mandates, this will require the Texas legislature to enact, which won’t happen until next year. And Socialist Austin city councilman Greg Casar says it won’t deter his anti-police agenda.
Meanwhile, Williamson County Judge Bill Gravell blasted Austin’s defunding vote and asked Gov. Abbott to send more law enforcement. “In the correspondence, Gravell blasts Austin City Council members for cuts to the Austin Police Department valued at $150 million — including some $20 million in immediate budget cuts and a transfer of several departments away from police oversight to civilian functions, such as interacting with the homeless and dealing with mental health-related cuts.”
It always seems to go back to the decision to make Austin bumsville, doesn’t it?
I’ve never understood the Progressive compulsion to make their own cities unlivable.
HMM: Could Trump Executive Order Eliminate AARP’s Sweetheart Deal? “These carveouts protect its crony regime at the expense of its dwindling member base. So if seniors are canceling AARP over its actions, why should it continue to receive a special carveout from ObamaCare?”
Read the whole thing.
YES: Joe Biden’s Flip-Flops Prove He’s Not Running His Own Campaign.
After watching Biden over his career, and more closely this year, I’m left feeling like a panelist on the old “To Tell the Truth” television show. Somebody please say it: “Will the real Joe Biden please stand up?”
Biden has been known for a few things over the years: a moderate-Democrat voting record, an outstanding ability to plagiarize (it takes quite a lot of chutzpah to steal another man’s life story), a penchant for telling entertaining and sometimes untrue stories, and an almost unparalleled tendency to say the wrong thing at the wrong time (“Chuck, stand up. … Let them see ya!”).
But after comparing his long voting record to the proposals of his presidential campaign, I’m left wondering if this is even the same Joe Biden.
It’s as though the party’s hard-left watched Simon one too many times and launched their own version of the Nixon Substitution Scenario.
But really, Biden will do or say anything to get elected, and stipulating for the moment that he’s still aware of what he’s doing and saying, he knows the hardcore progressive left is in full control of the party now.
BIOLOGICAL WARFARE: Wuhan Officials Hid Coronavirus Info From World As Virus Rapidly Spread.
IT WAS POORLY PLANNED, POORLY EXECUTED, AND AN ENDURANCE TEST FOR AMERICA’S PUNDIT CLASS: 5 Things to Know About Night 3 of the Democratic National Convention.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Liz Warren Spells Out the Marxism for You, Plus Billy Joel as Nostradamus.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: When is a hate crime actually a hoax?
Answer: Pretty much every time.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
• Liz Warren’s subliminal BLM endorsement
• Feel the peaceful protest hit you in the skull
• A video flashback to Barack Obama’s greatest self-own
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
GOOD NAME: ‘Mayhem’ Will Be Larger, Multi-Role Air-Breathing Hypersonic System for USAF. “The new missile would be an air-breathing system—unlike the boost-glide ARRW—but would still use a solid rocket booster to accelerate to hypersonic speed. The Air Force wants to get to preliminary design review within 15 months, suggesting it already knows the capabilities offered by the three companies and believes the technology is already largely mature.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Trump’s Twitter Feed Was My Favorite Speech of the Night. “Hillary Clinton may be a bitter, pathetic woman but none of us will ever truly understand the hell she went through to sober up long enough to record that video for the DNC. Our thoughts are with her and whichever members of her household staff she verbally abused while going through her DTs. I sincerely hope there were no puppies around to kick.”
SATIRE… OR IS IT? In Dark and Divisive Speech, Obama Seeks to Turn Back Clock on America.
August 19, 2020
VLADIMIR LENIN PROMISED ELECTRICITY — AND DELIVERED:
But at least it’s a politically correct lack of power.
FREEDOM OF THE SEAS: US warship sails through Taiwan Strait under scrutiny from Beijing.
WITH CALLOUS EASE: How Democrats Abandoned the Working Class To Embrace The Technocratic Elite.
BRYAN PRESTON: Austin Defunded Its Police. Texas Steps Up to Defend Them. “Acevedo is merely previewing for Austin what’s already happening in Seattle, which has also defunded police and abandoned its first duty, public safety. The rioters didn’t go away there, but businesses are starting to. Austin has put itself on track to become Portland, where unchecked rioters beat up random citizens and attack police with impunity.”
THINK OF PORTLAND AS AN ONGOING DRESS REHEARSAL FOR THE NORMAL:
What the Left can’t rule or subvert it destroys.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: DNC Night 2—Lots of Trump Hate But No Solutions. “Tuesday night’s DNC affair offered another mixed bag of video guests, as the Democrats are determined to trot out every member of the backstabbing squish Republican contingent who we’ve known for four years wouldn’t be voting for President Trump. The media is presenting each one as if it’s breaking news that they don’t like the president. It’s tedious political kabuki theater and we should all thank God that the nightly coverage is COVID-shortened.”
UPDATE: Link was bad before. Fixed now, and bumped.