July 21-24, 2020
Jul 21 09:23 This election's binary choice Jul 21 11:36 Kim Gardner vs. Eric Schmitt, Antonin Scalia, the McCloskeys Jul 22 04:54 Lori Lightfoot's Chicago Jul 23 04:09 DFL: racism is a health crisis Jul 23 10:13 Donald Trump courts Florida's Hispanic voters with 'Goya ad' Jul 24 05:02 Charlamagne Tha God to Biden: "Shut the eff up" Jul 24 11:39 Louie Gohmert turns the tables on Nancy Pelosi's racist Democrats
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This election's binary choice
This election isn't like most elections in that it's a binary choice. This isn't about whose policies are better. This election isn't a question about who's more competent. The cards have been put on the table. A player has gone all-in. Joe Biden thinks that the MSM will cover for him if he says he'll redirect money away from police instead of saying he'll defund the police. He's probably right. Unfortunately for him, the people living in fear of the rioters won't give him a pass.
They've seen he's feeble. Democrats have essentially admitted that they can't afford to let him do a hard-hitting interview with a hard-hitting journalist with integrity. Biden would be a puddle within 10 minutes if questioned by journalists like Bret Baier or Harris Faulkner.
This election is simply about which candidate is serious about protecting Americans and which candidate is a wimpy, do-nothing Democrat. Democrats have shown that they aren't serious about protecting their citizens. This election on down-ticket races is simple, too. Senate Democrats don't care about their constituents. They've voted against even starting debate on Sen. Tim Scott's JUSTICE Act. After that vote failed, all hell broke loose in NYC, Portland and Seattle.
Monday marked the 53rd straight day of rioting in Portland. Still, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler insists that the riots are President Trump's fault. His explanation is rooted in the thought that the violence was subsiding after 30-something days. Perhaps they were just running out of targets left to attack?
When Bill de Blasio and the NYC City Council cut $1,000,000,000 from the NYPD budget, Black Lives Matter said that wasn't good enough. Originally, BLM said that they'd stop protesting in front of City Hall if that $1,000,000,000 was made. Nobody with a functioning brain (Joe Biden and de Blasio aren't included) thought that BLM would keep their promise. Here's why Biden isn't included:
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Democrats think that individual security isn't a priority. They've fought for Black Lives Matter. They haven't been visionaries, though. If they legitimately cared about African-Americans, they would've started an organization called All Black Lives Matter in honor of Secoriea Turner and Horace Lorenzo Anderson, Jr. Those children were killed without hurting anyone. Their deaths were senseless.
Elected Democrats and Democrats in the media reported the story, then moved onto the next story. These Democrats invested more emotion into raising taxes than they invested in the death of these African-American children. That's the portrait of heartlessness.
In Minneapolis, the City Council voted to dismantle the police without talking to the people who'd suffer the most. The charter amendment appears to already be in trouble because "the most vulnerable communities" in Minneapolis "are very, very divided."
Byron York's article highlights Biden's flip-flopping:
Just as he did with Barkan, Biden suggested he agreed with the liberal move to defund the police and then quickly moved on to a set of generic points. The next day, June 10, Biden published an op-ed in USA Today. "While I do not believe federal dollars should go to police departments violating people's rights or turning to violence as the first resort, I do not support defunding police," he wrote.
With President Trump, we know what he stands for. He's stood for criminal justice reform and police reform. He's stood for sentencing reform and for community policing. Most importantly, he's consistently stood with the police.
You can't say that about Biden. On his best days, Biden might not know what he's thinking.
Posted Tuesday, July 21, 2020 9:23 AM
Comment 1 by eric z at 23-Jul-20 11:12 AM
Binary choice? Biden or Trump? How's polling? It is early, and debates will count. Covid 19 finger pointing too.
Response 1.1 by Gary Gross at 24-Jul-20 05:19 AM
I'm thinking that Trump will win because a) voters are afraid to tell pollsters who they're voting for thanks to cancel culture & b) the rioting in the streets of Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis, NYC, Portland & Seattle is scaring people away from Democrats.
The first responsibility of government is to protect its people. In those cities, the Democrat mayors didn't just fail them. Those Democrat mayors have essentially said that the rioting wasn't that bad.
Kim Gardner vs. Eric Schmitt, Antonin Scalia, the McCloskeys
If Kim Gardner wanted to pick a fight, she's picked the wrong fight. She isn't just fighting the McCloskeys, who are both attorneys. She's also picked a fight with Antonin Scali, who wrote the majority opinion in the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller. That's a fight that she's already lost. Further, she's picked a fight against Eric Schmitt, the Missouri Attorney General and Josh Hawley, Schmitt's predecessor. These are fights she's destined to lose.
This Redstate.com article highlights the extent that AG Schmitt is prepared. This won't be a pretty ending for Ms. Gardner. AG Schmitt's tweet storm is both blistering and extensive. I won't post all of AG Schmitt's tweets. I'll just post 3 tweets to illustrate the foolishness of Ms. Gardner's case.
The prosecution sends a powerful message to all Missourians that they exercise their fundamental right to self defense at their peril. Missourians should not fear exposure to criminal prosecution, even prison time, when they use firearms to defend themselves and their homes.
- Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) July 21, 2020
I have entered the case and filed a brief seeking a dismissal of the case to ensure ALL Missourians who wish to exercise their fundamental right to defend themselves, their families & their homes without fear of criminal prosecution. #2A
- Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) July 21, 2020
The Right to Keep & Bear Arms in Self-Defense of One's Person & Home Receives the MO Constitution's Highest Level of Protection. Self-defense is the 'core lawful purpose' & the 'central component' of the right to keep & bear arms in both the #2A & MO Const. See Heller decision.
- Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) July 21, 2020
If Ms. Gardner wants to fight that fight, that's her option. It's a foolish option, though, because her prosecution might prevent the McCloskeys from assisting their clients. If the McCloskeys prove that they've been harmed financially because of Ms. Gardner's prosecution, that might expose her office to a lawsuit.
If that happened, Eric Schmitt would make a powerful opening witness. Video of the broken down gate to the community would strengthen such a lawsuit. Testimony by the McCloskeys themselves would seal the deal. They've told law enforcement that the troublemakers pointed to specific rooms, then told the McCloskeys how they planned on using each room after they'd conquered the property.
Discretion is the better part of valor. If Gardner was smart, she'd drop this before this gets to trial. Otherwise, the outcome might be quite painful.
Posted Tuesday, July 21, 2020 11:36 AM
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Lori Lightfoot's Chicago
Lori Lightfoot's war-torn Chicago sustained more bullet holes Tuesday night. Clearly, she isn't capable of keeping her city safe. That's her primary affirmative responsibility as Chicago's mayor. Just before 6:30 pm CDT, shots were reported at "a funeral in the Auburn Gresham community."
What's bitterly ironic is the fact that it "began as a solemn ceremony for a victim of gun violence, and ended up becoming a gruesome scene of gun violence unto itself. Chicago Police First Deputy Supt. Eric Carter said a black vehicle was heading west on 79th Street at 6:30 p.m., when people inside began firing at attendees of a funeral. The funeral was taking place at the Rhodes Funeral Services funeral home at 1018 W. 79th St. The attendees of the funeral began firing back at the vehicle, which turned north on Carpenter Street and kept firing at people from the funeral before crashing into a parked car midway down the block."
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Carter said 14 victims were taken to five hospitals in unknown conditions. At least 60 shell casings were located. The Fire Department said at least nine people were transported by ambulances from the scene. The Fire Department said Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn and the University of Chicago Medical Center received most of the victims. Victims were also taken, or found their way to, St. Bernard Hospital, OSF Little Company of Mary Medical Center in Evergreen Park, and Stroger Hospital of Cook County.
The good news from Tuesday night is that Lightfoot has agreed to accept President Trump's help :
President Donald Trump is sending help in the form of federal agents to Mayor Lori Lightfoot to help on the crime front in Chicago. The mayor's response was somewhat of a forced agreement, as long as it's not a situation like Portland. The mayor at first pushed back against Trump's threats to send federal agents to the city. The president said he wanted to send them to fix the city's gun violence problem.
This weekend, 150 federal agents will be deployed to Chicago. Originally, fearing it would be like Portland, where agents clad in military style uniforms without names or insignia were in the area, the mayor resisted. But her understanding Tuesday is that's not going to be the case. Instead, Lightfoot said the federal agents will work alongside Chicago Police Department officers which is not unprecedented, and unlike in Portland, the U.S. attorney for the northern district of Illinois, John Lausch, will help.
Apparently, Lightfoot has seen the foolishness of her ways, though I'm betting she won't act contrite anytime soon. Most important is the fact that President Trump, not the black mayor of Chicago, is trying to fix black-on-black violence. Shouldn't the MSM admit that if shootings and murders drop in Chicago? I'm not holding my breath on that.
Posted Wednesday, July 22, 2020 4:54 AM
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DFL: racism is a health crisis
According to this resolution , racism is a health crisis. That isn't my implication. That's from HR1 from the House Second Special Session. The resolution starts by saying "A House resolution declaring racism a public health crisis. WHEREAS, race is a social construct with no biological basis; and WHEREAS, racism is embedded in the foundation of America, beginning with chattel slavery in 1619; and WHEREAS, much of the Black experience in America has been endured under slavery and Jim Crow, which created preferential opportunities for white people while subjecting people of color to hardships and disadvantages in every area of life;"
First, let's dispose of the myth that the United States started in 1619. In 1619, the colonies were still under British rule. The Boston Tea Party , which was one of the first rebellious acts by the colonies against British governance, didn't happen until Dec. 16, 1773. This is proof that timelines matter. The British indeed loved a two-tiered system of government. Royalty and commoners weren't supposed to mix. The US didn't want that system so they did something revolutionary.
The US said that our rights came from "Nature's God" and that "all men are created equal." The 56 men who signed the Declaration believed that each person was created in the image of Nature's God. That's why the US fought a civil war to end slavery. The US is the only nation that's fought a war to abolish slavery. That isn't something that a nation committed to systematic slavery would do.
Even after the Civil War, the Confederacy, the home of the Democrat Party, still insisted on building impediments to full-fledged liberty. That's what Jim Crow was about. It's a biological fact. Next, most of the embedded pockets of racism, especially slavery and Jim Crow, were mostly found in the South when Democrats reigned supreme:
Black codes were strict local and state laws that detailed when, where and how formerly enslaved people could work, and for how much compensation. The codes appeared throughout the South as a legal way to put Black citizens into indentured servitude, to take voting rights away, to control where they lived and how they traveled and to seize children for labor purposes.
If the DFL wants to admit that the GOP was created to end slavery and that Democrats were the party of the KKK, Jim Crow and the Confederacy, that's fine. The things that Democrats have stood for have been evil. Recently, Democrats haven't protected minorities, letting Antifa and BLM rioters destroy minority-owned businesses and minority-owned neighborhoods. Democrats called for the dismantling of the police departments that protect minority neighborhoods.
WHEREAS, public health disparities have persisted for over 400 years and there are long-standing, unaddressed disparities as well as systemic racism and other socioeconomic inequities;
That's a lie. The problems within the black community first appeared after LBJ's signing of the Great Society legislation. Since then, poverty in minority neighborhoods has tripled.
WHEREAS , more than 100 studies have linked racism to worse health outcomes; and WHEREAS , in Minnesota the highest excess death rates exist for Black and Indigenous communities, at every age demographic; and WHEREAS , Minnesota must address persistent disparities in health outcomes and the social, economic, educational, and environmental inequities that contribute to them;
Linking worse health outcomes to racism is BS. How many of these 'studies' are peer-reviewed and questioned? Might outcomes improve if schools taught the value of proper nutrition?
We've advanced a resolution declaring racism a public health crisis in MN. Floor vote next. Thank you Rep. Ruth Richardson for your leadership. Our nation is facing a historic moment and the #MNHouse plans to be on the side of justice and human rights. https://t.co/wSeYmK2cAb
- Ryan Winkler (@_RyanWinkler) July 14, 2020
Posted Thursday, July 23, 2020 4:09 AM
Comment 1 by Chad at 25-Jul-20 10:12 PM
Winkler would know all about racism since he's the one who called Justice Thomas an Uncle Tom. How this clown hasn't been forced to resign is proof the DFL is only giving lip service to the blacks.
Donald Trump courts Florida's Hispanic voters with 'Goya ad'
I've long thought that Joe Biden's lead isn't as solid as polling suggests. This article suggests that President Trump is making a spirited pitch to Hispanics. When Democrats attacked and boycotted Goya Foods, it gave the Trump campaign the opening it needed to attack Democrats and Joe Biden.
In a TV ad set to start airing in south Florida, Cuban actress Susana Perez says "We sacrificed so much to be free and respected. Now the left has launched a smear campaign against Goya, the brand we love, just because Goya is working with President Trump, just like it did with Obama. Joe Biden and the Democrats are too extreme, socialism, cut police funding, take away charter schools and Joe Biden is too weak to defend us."
The message is clear and powerful. Mixed throughout the ad are images of Che Guevara, the Cuban Refugee Airlift, AOC and a picture of Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders smiling on a debate stage while the Chiron says "Extremists."
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That's just part of the bad news. Here's more bad news for Biden:
The same survey found 60 percent of Latinos said they'd vote for Biden over Trump. An NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist poll from late June found that 59 percent of Latino voters back Biden over Trump. Those figures, if translated into November vote totals, would be less than the 66 percent Hillary Clinton achieved in 2016 and the 71 percent Barack Obama won in 2012.
If President Trump gets 30%-35% of the Hispanic vote, he'll put lots of states in play. Think of it this way. If President Trump loses Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin but holds all of the other states he won in 2016, he'd be at 260 electoral votes. If President Trump then wins New Hampshire and New Mexico, that puts him at 269 electoral votes, which throws the race to the House of Representatives.
That's before considering possibilities like Colorado and Minnesota. Thanks to Jacob Frey's mishandling of the George Floyd riots, Minnesota is definitely in play, though it's still an uphill fight for Trump.
That's academic if President Trump wins any of the Hillary Blue Wall states this time.
Posted Thursday, July 23, 2020 10:13 AM
Comment 1 by eric z at 23-Jul-20 11:19 AM
Do you know whether Florida is considering voting by mail? Will all the retirees have to go to polling places at risk of Covid-19? Do you see that as a factor or non-factor?
Response 1.1 by Gary Gross at 24-Jul-20 05:14 AM
Eric, I don't know what the laws are in Florida. What I'm certain of is that Gov. DeSantis made protecting seniors in LTC facilities from COVID a priority. I'm not opposed to protecting seniors. I'm just opposed to automatic mail-out of ballots to all registered voters. Most states' SVRS are filled with dead voters. Further, in Paterson, NJ, officials are saying that 20% of all ballots are either disqualified or don't match the handwriting on file for voters.
Comment 2 by Gretchen L Leisen at 23-Jul-20 11:26 AM
Two thoughts:
As a senior citizen, I plan to go to the polls early in the morning to vote. I will be wearing a mask if the Covid-19 pandemic is still at high levels. I will not be intimidated. This election is one of evil racial pandering by leftists vs the Constitution and the concept of "all men are created equal."
Second Gary, I want to thank you for all the hard work you do keeping us up to date on local, Minnesota and national issues.
Charlamagne Tha God to Biden: "Shut the eff up"
Charlamagne Tha God has heard enough from Joe Biden . In the article, it says "On Wednesday, Biden took aim at the president's alleged racism, suggesting it's historic compared to his predecessors. 'No sitting president has ever done this... No Republican president has done this. No Democratic president. We've had racists and they've existed and they've tried to get elected president. He's the first one that has,' Biden said."
Charlamagne replied "I really wish Joe Biden would shut the eff up forever and continue to act like he's starring in the movie 'A Quiet Place' because as soon as he opens his mouth and makes noise, he gets us all killed, OK? There's already so many people who are reluctantly only voting for Joe Biden because he's the only option and because Donald J. Trump is that trash."
Here's the audio from Thursday's 'Donkey of the Day' segment from the Breakfast Club:
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Let's be clear about something. Joe Biden is a racist. Biden worked on legislation with segregationist senators. This article exposes Biden as a racist:
In a 1975 Senate hearing, the legendary civil rights lawyer Jack Greenberg had something to say to freshman Sen. Joe Biden. Greenberg, longtime director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, took Biden to task for sponsoring a bill that would limit the power of courts to order school desegregation with busing. It was a move that followed the wishes of many of Biden's white constituents in Delaware.
The bill 'heaves a brick through the window of school integration,' said Greenberg, one of the lawyers who had won the Brown v. Board of Education case that ended legal school segregation 21 years earlier. And according to Greenberg, Biden was the man with his hand on the brick.
Joe Biden worked hard to pass the 1994 Crime Bill, which 'featured' mass incarceration of black people. If that's Biden's definition of racial enlightenment, then Democrats need to abandon him as their nominee.
"Joe, you got to hurry up and announce your Black woman VP [vice president] so I can be enthused about voting for her because I will never be enthused about voting for you, and you know America is a terrible place when Kanye West seems like a viable option," Charlamagne added.
It's obvious that Joe Biden is in trouble with African-American voters. It's apparent that a significant portion of them see him as the lesser of 2 evils.
Posted Friday, July 24, 2020 5:02 AM
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Louie Gohmert turns the tables on Nancy Pelosi's racist Democrats
Since Nancy Pelosi insists on getting rid of statues of former members of the Confederacy, Louie Gohmert is insisting on taking it a step further . Gohmert, along with fellow House Republicans, "introduced a resolution Thursday" that would force Democrats to change their Party's name.
Specifically, the resolution would "remove any items that names, symbolizes or mentions any political organization or party that has ever held a public position that supported slavery or the Confederacy." To stick it to the Democrats further, Gohmert issued a statement. Here's what it said (in part):
As outlined in the resolution, a great portion of the history of the Democratic Party is filled with racism and hatred. Since people are demanding we rid ourselves of the entities, symbols, and reminders of the repugnant aspects of our past, then the time has come for Democrats to acknowledge their party's loathsome and bigoted past, and consider changing their party name to something that isn't so blatantly and offensively tied to slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination, and the Ku Klux Klan.
To avoid triggering innocent bystanders by the racist past of the Democratic Party, I would suggest they change their name. That is the standard to which they are holding everyone else, so the name change needs to occur.
Rep. Gohmert was just getting started. He delivered this speech on the House floor:
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Rep. Gohmert read this into the record, too:
Whereas, The 14th Amendment, giving full citizenship to freed slaves, passed in 1868 with 94% Republican support and 0% Democrat support in Congress; the 15th Amendment, giving freed slaves the right to vote, passed in 1870 with 100% Republican support and 0% Democrat support in Congress .
Just for good measure, Rep. Gohmert included this information:
Whereas, The 1924 Democratic National Convention convened in New York City at Madison Square Garden; the convention is commonly known as the 'Klan Bake' due to the overwhelming influence of the Ku Klux Klan in the Democratic Party.
Whereas, In 1964 the Democratic Party led a 75-calendar-day filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Just like Joe Biden, the Democrat Party is racist to its roots. Here are some of Biden's greatest hits:
- You can't walk into a 7/11 or Dunkin' Donuts without hearing a slight Indian accent.
- I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American (Obama) who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.
- Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle .
- That people would come to him and talk about what was happening to them at home in terms of foreclosures, in terms of bad loans that were being ... I mean these Shylocks who took advantage of, um, these women and men while overseas.
Then there's this:
Biden has also had many friendships with infamous bigots and racists, including:
- George Wallace, a Democrat politician who served as Alabama's governor and is remembered for declaring, "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!' Biden said the Democrats needed another candidate just like George Wallace.
- Biden also effusively praised Sen. John Stennis of Mississippi, another Democrat segregationist, calling him "a man of character."
- Biden also cultivated a fawning friendship with James Eastland, yet another racist, segregationist Democrat senator. Eastland called segregation "God's Law" and repeatedly referred to blacks as an "inferior race."
There's more than ample proof that Democrats are the Party of Bigots and Racists. Finally, what have Democrats done in the last 25 years to improve the lives of African-Americans? Did they push for the passage of the First Step Act? Nope. That was the GOP. Did Democrats push for permanent funding of HBCUs ? Nope. That was President Trump.
Posted Friday, July 24, 2020 11:39 AM
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