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August 24, 2020
MY LATEST FOR OUR VIP SUPPORTERS: White House Reveals ‘Aggressive’ 2nd Term Trump Agenda.
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DISNEY CORPORATE DARLING, ATLANTIC JOURNO JEMELE HILL SAYS U.S. IS AS BAD AS NAZI GERMANY.
Flashback: Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg fires Kevin Williamson for “callous and violent” language that ran “contrary to the Atlantic’s tradition of respectful, well-reasoned debate,” telling him that a controversialist like the late Christopher Hitchens “was in the family. You are not.”
Apparently, Hill is very much part of the Atlantic (and Disney/ESPN) “family.”
THAT DIDN’T HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT: Parents have lost control of their children’s education. But one piece of coronavirus fallout is that they’re taking it back.
PROFILES IN COURAGE: Team Biden Grovels To Anti-Semite Linda Sarsour (In Private).
COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Portland ‘Back the Blue’ Rally Turns Into Riot When Antifa Shows Up and Starts Assaulting People.
THE PRESS AND THE DEMOCRATS — BUT I REPEAT MYSELF — COVER FOR THIS BEHAVIOR BECAUSE THEY SUPPORT IT: “Peaceful” Riots Continue: Portland burns, while the media and the Democrats fiddle. It’s worth asking why.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: ‘Definitely Not A Cult’: There Is Now A Dating App Exclusively For Tesla Owners In Development.
I blame Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Greg Gutfeld puts on a clinic for how to deal with media trolls who call you racist.
If you work for The Bulwark, you’re just a shill for Democrats anyway. So, you know, a regular member of the media.
WHO? BidenWatch for August 24, 2020. “Biden flogs the Fine People Hoax yet again, wants to lock down the nation yet again, more DNC fallout, and a look at Biden’s foreign policy team in waiting (and how some got paid by China).”
AMELIA HAMILTON: Are we doomed? “750 million mosquitos & 2 hurricanes are coming, but otherwise no.”
SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER! New York University moves to implement racial segregation in student dorms.
Why, it’s as if wokes and racists actually agree on everything:
Speaking of which: He’ll fit right in! Richard Spencer (yes, that guy) says he’s Team Biden and Democrats all the way now (they can have him!).
BLM KNOWS THE WISCONSIN GOVERNOR HAS THEIR BACK, NOT THE POLICE’S: BLM Armed With Rifles Order Wisconsin Sheriff’s Vehicle To Stop.
IN 2020, EVEN THE “COMEDIANS” HAVE NO SENSE OF HUMOR: HBO’s John Oliver Freaks as Town Names Sewage Plant After Him: ‘Go F**k Yourselves.’
IN THE MAIL: From Jana Kandlova and Jim Vicevich (foreword), Stalked by Socialism: An Escapee from Communism Shows How We’Re Sliding into Socialism.
RE-LITIGATING PROPOSITION 209 IN CALIFORNIA: Twenty-four years ago, California voters adopted Proposition 209 by a margin of 55% to 45%. I am proud to have co-chaired that campaign.
Its operative clause, which is now part of the California Constitution, reads as follows:
“The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.”
Proposition 209 thus outlaws race-preferential admissions policies, race- and sex-preferential hiring, and preferences for minority- or women-owned businesses.
The California Legislature has been gunning for it ever since. Proposition 209 supporters have twice beat back repeal efforts. But this year the lockdown made political organizing more difficult. This time our overwhelmingly Democratic legislators managed to place the repeal on the ballot for November. We are fighting back as best as we can. (And twenty-four years later, I am again co-chair of the campaign.)
Loyal Instapundit readers may recall that we had a dress rehearsal for this last year. Washington State voters successfully defeated an effort to repeal I-200 (Washington State’s 209 clone) at the ballot box. It was truly an Election Day miracle and a great tribute to the determination of Asian American grassroots organizations in Washington State (helped out by donations from generous Instapundit readers!).
This time there’s at least as much at stake, so I am asking for help again.
To California Voters: Please vote NO on the repeal effort (Proposition 16). (There are many reasons to vote no, but here some reasons that are less well known.)
To Everyone: Many of you probably have one or more California friends. Please make sure they know about Proposition 16. If you have a California friend who is tempted to vote in favor of the repeal, please hog tie them and throw them in the cellar until Election Day try to persuade them otherwise. And if you have some extra money, please consider sending it our way. Right now our opposition is much better funded than we are. That’s okay. We don’t need as much money; we have much better grassroots support than they have. But we need more money than we have now. If we lose this referendum, the MSM will treat it as gospel that public opinion has permanently shifted on this issue. There will be no going back.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Antifa/BLM Spread Riots to Denver, Kenosha — America Going Full Weimar? “The only reason, as in Weimar Germany, to use violence against a decent-if-imperfect government that has democratic processes in place is when an unpopular political minority seeks to overthrow the decent-if-imperfect government.”
DEM PARTY REGISTRATION LEDE SHRINKING: Dropping from 11 points to six in less than three months and as it became clear Joe Biden would be the nominee is no way to win a presidential election.
BITE YOUR MAO TSE-TUNG: Biden Again Quotes Chinese Dictator Chairman Mao In Campaign Appearance.
COLORADO: ‘This Was A Riot’: Denver City Leaders Vow To Hold Suspects Accountable.
Denver city leaders hosted a news conference on Sunday to discuss arrests and destruction from violent protests on Saturday night. A group of about 50-75 people protested outside the Denver Police Department headquarters.
“They brought weapons to the table. They had guns. They brought explosives, axes, machetes, and had one intent purpose and that was to harm our officers,” said Murphy Robinson, Denver’s Public Safety Director. “I want these anarchists to hear me clearly and loudly that this will not be tolerated in our city. You are not welcome here.”
Robinson went on to say the city plans to do everything in its power to stop these violent acts.
More like this, please.
SUMMER RERUN SEASON CONTINUES ON NORTH KOREAN TV. Rumors Abound: Is Kim Jong-Un In A Coma Or Not?
TEACHING THEM EARLY THAT IT’S BEST TO LIE TO POLLSTERS: Northeastern U. threatens students who said ‘yes’ to poll asking if they would attend parties. “The Wall Street Journal reports the pollster, when asked by Northeastern officials, gave up the names of all who answered in the affirmative. The pollster refused to speak to The HN, indicating he/she did not ‘want this to drag on longer.'”
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Joe Biden’s Campaign Apologizes to Anti-Semite Linda Sarsour In Pathetic Reversal.
Related: “Biden’s convention featured at least six individuals who have praised, promoted, defended, or appeared with the most notorious anti-Semite in America, Louis Farrakhan. Farrakhan has called Hitler ‘a very great man’ and referred to Jews as ‘termites.’ What did Biden say about these individuals appearing at his convention? Nothing. He was totally silent.”
REMEMBER OBAMA’S DNC CLAIM ABOUT THE MEDIA ‘IS NOT THE ENEMY:’ Just for the record, this 2016 piece in the Washingtonian documented the many ways Obama and his minions at the Department of Justice treated the media as enemies.
HT: Steve Krakauer.
WHEN YOU CAN’T TRUST THE NUMBERS (CONT’D): NFL has 77 apparently false positive COVID-19 tests from lab. “Among teams reporting false positives, the Minnesota Vikings said they had 12, the New York Jets 10 and the Chicago Bears nine.”
TO BE FAIR, SHE WASN’T ACTUALLY WRONG: VIDEO: Students hate Kamala Harris quote..when they think it’s Trump’s.
TRUMP NEED MERELY INVITE PEOPLE TO COMPARE HIS FOREIGN POLICY RECORD — NO NEW WARS, PEACE IN THE MIDEAST, PUSHBACK ON CHINA — WITH THE MULTIPLE DISASTERS OF THEIRS: GOP Hawks Are Turning Out for Biden.
TRACING THE DOP, THE DISTINCT OPERATING PATTERN, IN ORDER TO FIND THE FIST:
Hackers, telegraph operators and UAV users all have one important thing in common; a DOP (Distinct Operating Pattern). The latest DOP to be discovered and applied in a practical way uses an app that tracks the movement of a UAV and within a short period (way before the quadcopter battery runs low and forces it to land) deduces the location of the operator. The AI (artificial intelligence) drone-tracking algorithm needs a 3-D map of the area where UAVs will be tracked. The AI is a GRU (Gated-Recurrent Unit) neural network that studies movements in space and time and is able to track the movements of the quadcopter back to its origin (launch point) with over 80 percent accuracy. That accuracy improves the more the algorithm is used, and modifies itself…
Historical sketch:
The technique was discovered in the mid-1800s by accident. In the early days of the telegraph experienced operators found that they could tell who was on the other end of a telegraph line by the rhythm of how the telegraph key was hit. This was called the operators “fist.” When computers came along it was possible to automate that particular intelligence gathering task. For example, each user has a distinct typing pattern and rhythm that produces an identifiable “fist.”
All is not lost. “It is possible to deceive all these DOP methods. Hackers can automate phony “fists” and similar deceptions.” It’s StrategyPage’s latest Murphy’s Law update, and well worth the read.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Joe Biden Never Met a Speech He Couldn’t Plagiarize. “If our political mainstream media had any integrity or intellectual curiosity Biden would be getting raked over the coals for this. As we are all painfully aware, however, the MSM exists solely to carry this rotting carcass of a candidate across the finish line.”
CRIMINAL JUSTICE “REFORMS” that are making everyone less safe.
ELECTRIC VERTICAL TAKEOFF AND LANDING: Your acronym for the day, eVTOL. The Hexa eVTOL maneuvers over Camp Mabry, Texas. Camp Mabry is in the city of Austin, Texas. Photo taken Aug. 20, 2020. Here’s an oldie VTOL from 1964, the XC-142A.
NIKE, THE NBA, AND LEBRON JAMES ARE OKAY WITH THIS: Chinese hospitals aborted late-stage pregnancies and killed newborns as part of a campaign to purge the Uighur culture, report says.
WELCOME TO THE CLUB, LADIES: Detroit Women Flock to Gun Training. “Detroit volunteers train nearly 2,000 women in one weekend.”
PRETTY SURE WE’RE ON THE BACKSIDE OF THE CURVE NOW: U.S. COVID-19 cases under 35K for first time in 2 months.
SALENA ZITO: Joe Biden’s Scranton backyard is slowly growing more Republican. Well, Democrats have become the party of fatcats and government employees, not of the working class.
SEND IN THE DRONES: After Thursday’s Dogfight, It’s Clear: DARPA Gets AI Right.
AI prevailed against a human in DARPA ’s recent AlphaDogfight trials. Given that DeepMind’s AI achieved the level of grandmaster in the StarCraft II video game, AI beating a human in a simulated closed world contest is not impressive. What is impressive is AlphaDogfight’s role in DARPA’s overall plan for the development of AI in the military.
By posing relevant questions, DARPA’s overall AI strategy accurately embraces both the capabilities and limitations of AI. How can AI enhance the performance of the pilot by lessening cognitive load? How can companion unmanned aircraft accompanying the fighter pilot’s fighter jet be effectively used? What are the limitations and dangers of autonomous drones?
Remotely controlled unmanned drones are not always feasible. Their tethering to a remote-control pilot can be severed by enemy jamming. Totally autonomous drones cannot yet be trusted to make complex life-and-death decisions. So oversight by a human pilot is the sober solution in the near future. DARPA is addressing these and other important questions.
Call me paranoid, but I still want a human in the loop for all kill orders.
MICHAEL BARONE: The Normalcy of Trump’s Republican Party: His unusual personality obscures the GOP’s basic continuity and gradual pace of change.
But when you look away from the public figures and toward the voters, you don’t see such a sharp break with the past. Mr. Trump has won over some voters who never supported a Republican before and repelled others who previously never voted Democratic. But not in enormous numbers: You see much greater oscillations in party percentages nationally and in particular states and demographic groups in the 1960s and 1970s than you do when you compare the 2016 numbers with those of 2012 or 2008 or 2004.
As for the question of whether the Republicans will return to normal, it’s based on a mistaken premise. What’s normal for the major American political parties is change—adjusting issue positions and emphases to changed situations and challenges, attracting new demographic constituencies while losing ground among old ones, adapting to the cues and clatter in a competitive political marketplace while maintaining their basic character. . . .
The emergence of Mr. Trump is the latest example of this pattern. It is widely asserted that he executed a hostile takeover of the party, winning less than a majority of primary and caucus votes (45%, compared with John McCain’s 47% in 2008), insulting his opponents and previous Republican presidents. He took sharply different positions from those of Republican nominees (as well as Democratic ones) over the past half-century on trade and immigration—positions popular with blue-collar voters who had reason to believe Chinese competition had closed down American factories and that low-skill immigrants, especially from Mexico, tend to drive down native-born Americans’ wages. He decried the toll of military interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Naturally these stands antagonized some Republican leaders and pundits who supported these policies and some Republican voters who defended them. Even so, the president has enjoyed the near-unanimous support of self-identified Republicans, with percentages rivaling or exceeding those supporting Presidents Reagan and Eisenhower in their times.
Trump Republicans’ downscale strength in 2016 was an amplification of a decadeslong trend. The core constituency of the Republican Party has been moving downscale for decades, first in response to cultural issues like abortion. The state of Pennsylvania provides examples. Metro Pittsburgh, with its steel-and-coal economy, never warmed to Ronald Reagan; George H.W. Bush, running to succeed him, won only 40% there in 1988. But by 2004 the younger George Bush raised the Republican percentage there to 48%, and Donald Trump carried it with 50%. The Republican percentage in Pennsylvania beyond its two big metropolitan areas remained static, at 58% in 1988, 57% in 2004 and 59% in 2016.
As Newton’s third law says that there is in nature for every action an equal and opposite reaction, so in American politics, for every demographic group trending toward one party, there is usually another with opposite views trending toward the other. In Pennsylvania, the four affluent suburban counties around Philadelphia voted 61% for Bush 41 in 1988, 46% for Bush 43 in 2004 and 41% for Donald Trump in 2016.
The increasingly downscale Republican and increasingly upscale Democratic constituencies are increasingly reflected in policy. While Mr. Trump orders a payroll-tax suspension, with dollars benefits flowing mostly to modest earners, Nancy Pelosi’s Democrats demand increased deductions for state and local taxes, which would mainly favor those with income of more than $650,000.
Fatcats.
HOLLYWOOD: WarnerMedia Investigating Joss Whedon Amid ‘Justice League’ Actor’s Abuse Claims. “Joss Wheadon’s on-set treatment of the cast and crew of Justice League was gross, abusive, unprofessional, and completely unacceptable. He was enabled, in many ways, by Geoff Johns and Jon Berg. Accountability>Entertainment.”
I WANT TO POINT OUT THAT BEFORE BIDEN BECAME DEMENTED, HE WAS ALREADY A CORRUPTOCRAT LINING HIS AND HIS FAMILY’S POCKETS: Scott Adam’s Epic Rant Excoriating Biden For His “Fine People” Race Card Hoax.
I’VE BEEN WARNING ABOUT THE DANGERS OF JUST-IN-TIME PRODUCTION FOR DECADES: Why Are There Still No Paper Towels?
The scarcity is rooted in a decadeslong quest by businesses at all levels, handling many different products, to eke out more profit by operating with almost no slack. Make only what you can sell quickly. Order only enough materials to keep production lines going. Have only enough railcars for a day’s worth of output. Stock only enough items on a shelf to last till the next batch arrives.
The concept, known as lean manufacturing or just-in-time inventory, was born in the hyperefficient Japanese automotive industry in the 1970s and became a religion for many American CEOs. It spread first to Detroit, then to other U.S. manufacturers and finally to other industries, from distribution to retailing.
As it did, the risk of shortages in an emergency bothered experts in disaster preparedness. Cautions voiced by the worriers had little effect as investors rewarded corporations that held costs low through lean operations. . . .
The supply chain sputtered for many other things Americans clamored for when the virus struck, including some food products, disinfectant wipes and—especially alarming for health-care workers—face masks.
While each had its specific issues, all involved lean operations by manufacturers or raw-material suppliers, plus disciplined distribution and retailing channels geared to a normal level of demand. The lean system went largely unquestioned, until one day just-in-time meant not-enough.
It’s a bad idea.
POSTMODERN PROBLEMS: Australian public servant condemns censorship after blogpost cost him his job.
In April, Krook published a post on a fledgling blog called the Oxford Political Review, arguing social isolation was good for big tech companies, because it made people increasingly dependent on online platforms for interaction.
Krook also worked as a policy officer with the industry department, working on tech policy.
His post talked only in generalities. It made no reference to any individual company and did not mention, let alone criticise, the Australian government or government policy.
In no way did Krook identify himself as a government employee or policy officer or seek to conflate his writing with his views as a public servant.
Three months after the post, Krook was invited to a meeting with his superior.
In the meeting, Krook says he was given a choice: remove the blog post or face termination.
Australia is along the road to that happy place where everything not forbidden is compulsory.
QUESTION ASKED: Why isn’t Joe Biden being tested for COVID-19?
WE KNOW WHERE YOU ARE: Albion College requires students to use a location tracking app, ostensibly for contact tracing purposes. And that’s the only way the app will be used by administrators, right? Right?
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Choose Sides? You Bet. But Antifa and Fascism Are the Same Side.
PROSPECT OF A MUGGING CONCENTRATES THE MIND WONDERFULLY: Almost 2,000 women in Detroit get firearms/self-defense training. Journalist Stephen Gutowski, by the way, is a byline worth following.
ANOTHER POTENTIAL ELECTION FIASCO: Vanishing volunteers to act as election judges.
NIH’S DR. FRANCIS COLLINS ON HIS JOURNEY FROM ATHEISM TO FAITH: Elite media’s narrative typically bars unbiased mention of highly accomplished scientists who are also men and women of faith.
So it’s not surprising that Collins — a renowned geneticist who understands a thing or three about DNA and its sequencing — is far better known as a scientist than as a Christian who views evolution as God’s creative process. But, as he makes clear in this video, the two are inseparable and he has launched the Biologos Foundation to advance public understanding of why that is so.
MAYBE THIS HELPS EXPLAIN CHINA FAVORING BIDEN: Things are not going well for the Confucius Institutes on American campuses, thanks to President Donald Trump.
NOT SURE WHAT TO MAKE OF THIS: Trump senior counselor Kellyanne Conway announces her departure from the White House
EDITED BY LES JOHNSON AND ROBERT HAMPSON, AND CONTAINING STORIES BY ME AND MY HUSBAND: Stellaris: People of the Stars.
NEW STORIES AND ESSAYS FROM TOP AUTHORS AND EXPERT SCIENTISTS. Explorations of how interstellar travel may affect humanity by best-selling authors and scientists.
The stars will change us.
STELLARIS: PEOPLE OF THE STARS is a collection of original science fiction stories and nonfiction essays speculating about humanity’s far-term expansion into the universe beyond the limits of our solar system—with an emphasis on the changes humans will undergo as a species as we make this happen. Is interstellar travel so far beyond our current imaginings that it will take a fundamental transformation of humanity in order to make it possible? And, if so, will we remain Homo sapiens or become a new and unique species—Homo stellaris (the People of the Stars)?
Herein are original science fiction stories by award-winning authors such as Kevin J. Anderson, William Ledbetter, Todd McCaffrey and Sarah A. Hoyt, supplemented by accessible nonfiction essays describing the science behind the fiction from people who should know—Sir Martin Rees (Astronomer Royal of the United Kingdom), Mark Shelhamer (Chief Scientist for the NASA’s Human Research Program), and more.
This collection of original stories and essays was inspired by a gathering of scientists, science fiction authors, and futurists at a series of annual meetings held by the Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop. Let their speculations, imaginations and boundless sense of what’s possible take your own journey beyond the edge of the solar system in STELLARIS: PEOPLE OF THE STARS!
STUFF LIKE THIS MAKES ME ILL: Jimmy Fallon’s Re-Education Wraps in Time for Election Day.
NOT A BAD BLOG TO KEEP TRACK OF: COVID19 mini-update, August 24, 2020: clinical study on convalescent plasma; UK media push for reopening schools.
DON’T GET EXCITED. IT’S ACTUALLY ABOUT ASSCLOWNS WHO UNDERSTAND HISTORY LESS THAN SOME SPECIES OF MOLD DO COSPLAYING REVOLUTION: Portland Rioters Wheel Guillotine Through Suburbs, Execute American Flag.
The response appropriate to these people’s mental and emotional age is to take them over one’s knee for a good paddling, then sending them to bed without their iphone. And if their boomer parents didn’t that, instead of calling them stunningbrave, this would never have happened.
THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER: A Moment of Opportunity For Education.
THE LAMENTATIONS OF THOSE WHO IDENTIFY AS PEOPLE WHO HAVE CERVIXES, AGAIN? Rose Garden Gets Melania Makeover, Twitter Howls.
TRUMP. IS THERE ANYTHING HE CAN’T DO? Masculinity Is Dead Because Of Trump, Again.
WELL, IF I WERE A LAW-ABIDING RESIDENT OF NYC, I’D BE PRACTICING MY AXE THROWING: Cuomo Bans Dancing And Comedy But Not Axe Throwing.
PART OF ME HOPES THIS IS AN HOAX. BUT I’M AFRAID IT ISN’T: Marxist propaganda that the domestic terrorists left at the home’s surrounding SE Precinct in Portland Oregon.
August 23, 2020
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: China: Three Gorges dam hits highest level, anxiety grows among public.
LIFE IN THE BLUE ZONES: Hungry New Yorkers form quarter-mile line for free food in Queens.
MOCKUPS GOOD, WORKING SPACECRAFT BETTER: Blue Origin team delivers lunar lander mockup to NASA.
DIXIECRATS IN THE STRANGEST PLACES:
Including Howard Fineman of the Huffington Post, formerly of Newsweek:
Flashback:
A political party is dying before our eyes — and I don’t mean the Democrats. I’m talking about the “mainstream media,” which is being destroyed by the opposition (or worse, the casual disdain) of George Bush’s Republican Party; by competition from other news outlets (led by the internet and Fox’s canny Roger Ailes); and by its own fraying journalistic standards. At the height of its power, the AMMP (the American Mainstream Media Party) helped validate the civil rights movement, end a war and oust a power-mad president. But all that is ancient history.
* * * * * * * *
The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans. The problem was that, once the AMMP declared its existence by taking sides, there was no going back. A party was born.
—“The ‘Media Party’ is over,” Howard Fineman, MSNBC, January 13, 2005.
DON’T GET COCKY: Signs of a Coming Trump Victory.
THAT’S AN INSULT TO JERRY LEWIS: Bill Maher: DNC Was Like Watching a Telethon at 2 in the Morning.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: August 2020 And The Democratic State Of Election Interference.
I’M OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHEN THE PROTESTS WERE SUPPOSED TO HONOR GEORGE FLOYD: Rioters Hit Denver, Smash Family-Owned Sandwich Shop.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: How Ellen DeGeneres’s Public Image Collapsed.
LAYERS AND LAYERS OF FACT-CHECKERS AND EDITORS:
The NASCAR reference was removed from the lede, but it’s still in the URL: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/23/us/indy-500-nascar-spt-trnd/index.html
And as of the time of this post, it’s still in the “lite” smartphone-oriented version of the article:
Click to enlarge.
STAY TUNED: Trump to reveal “major therapeutic breakthrough on the China Virus” later today: White House. “President Trump plans to reveal a ‘major therapeutic breakthrough’ on the coronavirus today at 6 p.m. in a news conference, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said on Twitter.”
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Review: Heckler & Koch SP5 Pistol. Looks like an MP5.
ROGER SIMON: Why the Violence Would Increase under Biden.
When it comes to killing and mayhem, leftism wins the day by a giant margin. Nothing remotely compares, not even ISIS that was only able to muster 20,000 murders in Iraq over two years. Somehow, the blood lust inherent in leftism is largely uncontrollable (cf. the French Revolution), ditto the level of suppression as we can see from today’s China where concentration camps still exist—incredible as that may seem after Auschwitz—housing upwards of a million people.
Joe Biden is the last person to do something about this. As noted, he didn’t have the gumption to mention a word about the violence in our cities (or of China for that matter) in his speech. Why would he have the courage do something about either of them, especially imprisoned as he is by his left flank?
Just the other day, “Squad” stalwart congresswoman Aryanna Pressley called for continued “unrest,” not that she really had to. Violence tends to feed on itself and grow when not strongly opposed (cf. The French Revolution again).
For that reason alone a Biden administration is likely to see more of it than a second Trump administration.
Read the whole thing.
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