TONY KATZ: The Secret Trump Voter is Not A Secret. “The polling out of Pennsylvania backs up why polling right now should not be trusted. In a Monmouth University poll, Biden topped Trump by 13 points in the Keystone State. But, when people were asked who would win the state, they broke almost dead even. Why? Secret Trump Voters, of course.”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
July 21, 2020
VANGUARD OF THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION: Portland Mayor Sets the Stage for Never-Ending Riots. “In Friday interview, Wheeler tipped his hand, revealing that his ‘plan’ to get Portland reopened hinges on the federal law enforcement officers leaving town. That’s right—Wheeler won’t lift a finger to enforce the law and stop the riots until President Trump withdraws the feds.”
July 20, 2020
MATT MARGOLIS: The Associated Press Stylebook Is Now Officially Racist.
COMPLETING THE WORK OBAMA STARTED: Trump’s Warning That Biden Would ‘Abolish the Suburbs’ Isn’t Racist, and It Isn’t Hyperbole, Either.
MY LATEST FOR THE PJMEDIA MOTHERSHIP: Chicago Alderman Says Democrats ‘Too Afraid’ to Ask Trump to Quell Riots.
“The Chicago Way” used to mean bringing a gun to a knife fight: “He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue,” in David Mamet’s famous dialogue from The Untouchables.
What do you call it when elected officials actively work against the best interests of their own constituents, up to and including abetting violence and even murder, just to make sure Orange Man Bad never looks good?
In Chicago these days they call it “business as usual.”
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Well, what do you call it?
HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE: China Take Note: GOP Sen. Hawley to Push Comprehensive Anti-Slave Labor Bill. “We on the Right like to say, ‘Get woke, go broke,’ but in fact there are some very woke companies like Nike that have gotten quite rich using China’s and other overseas labor that would violate the antislavery 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.”
SIGN OF THE TIMES: Paramedic uses voice-to-text app to talk with patients who lipread.
TODAY’S INSANITY WRAP: The Terrifying Portland Apocalypse, and Hitler Was Kind to Black People. “This belief that blacks are the real Israelites wasn’t new to Insanity Wrap. Using it to excuse Hitler, was.”
Plus: Race-traitor sex organs.
Today was crazier than usual, and it’s barely more than half-over.
JOANNE JACOBS: The learning pod people are here.
When I saw the shift away from reopening schools — too many teachers and parents think it’s unsafe — I predicted a rise in homeschooling co-ops and private tutoring for middle-class and wealthy families. I also predicted educational disaster for the students whose “essential worker” parents are short on time, money and living space.
I didn’t guess that “pod” as in learning pod, pandemic pod and homeschooling pod would be the chosen word.
On Thursday and Friday, writes J Li on Facebook, she saw “thousands of parents . . . scrambling through an absolute explosion of facebook groups, matchups, spreadsheets, etc to . . . form homeschooling pods.”
Read the whole thing.
WHO? BidenWatch for July 20, 2020. “Malarkey poll numbers, the basement campaign continues, and more Green New Peal pandering.”
TYLER O’NEIL: This Activist’s Marxist Brainwashing Explains Why Antifa Has Terrorized Portland for 51 Nights.
“My name is Lilith Sinclair, I’m an Afro-Indigenous non-binary local organizer here in Portland, organizing for the abolition of not just the militarized police state but also the United States as we know it,” Sinclair declares in a brief video that went viral on Twitter. She also called Portland “stolen land,” proceeding to give Native Americans a “land acknowledgment.” By the way, she also identifies herself as a “sex worker,” i.e. a prostitute.
By “Afro-Indigenous,” Sinclair likely means she has black and Native American ancestors. By “non-binary,” she insists that she does not fall into the binary understanding of biological sex as male or female. In an interview with the Portland Mercury last month, Sinclair argued that Americans have to deconstruct the “colonized thought” that white oppressors supposedly foisted upon racial minorities.
These really are Heinlein’s Crazy Years — we just live in them.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE. MOVE ALONG. Disgraced Democrat Sprung From Prison Without Explanation. “Those of you who have been following political corruption stories for a while will likely recall the tale of former Pennsylvania Congressman Chaka Fattah. It’s been a while since his name has been in the news. In fact, the last time I wrote about him was back in December of 2016 when he was sentenced to the longest stretch in prison of any member of Congress in the history of the country. Fattah was given a ten-year sentence for stealing millions of dollars in both taxpayer money and funds designated for charitable causes. He was only halfway through his time in the crowbar motel, but this week he was quietly released from the slammer with no explanation being given for this generous maneuver by the federal Bureau of Prisons.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Fewer Lies and More Honesty Would Be Helpful in the COVID-19 Conversation. “I’m so old I remember when it was a good thing to have a healthy and inherent lack of trust for government officials. Now we are supposed to be worshiping at the Altar of Fauci and not asking any questions lest we be accused of wanting to create a wholesale COVID slaughter.”
DECOUPLING: Rare Earth Processing Plant Opens in Colorado.
The pilot plant is a joint venture between USA Rare Earth and Texas Mineral Resources Corp. The two companies previously funded a project on Round Top mountain in Hudspeth County, Texas, which features 16 of the 17 rare earth elements.
“Our objective is to set up a domestic U.S. supply chain without the materials ever leaving the United States,” said Pini Althaus, CEO of USA Rare Earth.
The elements are necessary for the creation of a number of weapons systems including the Lockheed Martin-made F-35 joint strike fighter, Tomahawk cruise missiles and other munitions.
I’m pleasantly surprised that the Democrat-dominated state government allowed this to go forward.
WOW: Historic Moon Landing Footage Has Been Enhanced by AI, And The Results Are Incredible.
This is similar to what Peter Jackson did with old WWI footage for They Shall Not Grow Old.
GLEICHSCHALTUNG: Virginia Mandates Slavery Lessons for Kindergarteners.
CHANGE: Phone carriers that profit from robocalls could have all calls blocked. Under the change, the FCC said carriers can block calls “from bad-actor upstream voice service providers that pass illegal or unwanted calls along to other providers, when those upstream providers have been notified but fail to take action to stop these calls.” Carriers that impose this type of blocking will get a safe harbor from liability ‘for the unintended or inadvertent blocking of wanted calls, thus eliminating a concern that kept some companies from implementing robust robocall blocking efforts’.”
THERE ARE VIRTUALLY NO MODERATE DEMS LEFT RUNNING FOR OFFICE: Senate Dem Running Against Black Republican Thinks It’s a Good Idea to Push the ‘1619 Project.’