Headline at PJ Media:
Who Could Blame It: Biden 'Build Back Better' Sign
Commits Suicide
During Rare Campaign Appearance
Almost buried amidst all the post-debate commentary was one
short video of Joe Biden making a speech earlier today in Cleveland. As if to serve as a metaphor, his “Build Back
Better” sign fell off the lectern. The big drop happens at :27 or so. (The
video is not coming up in any searches, so click here and scroll down.
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Most of us will be watching this evening's debate on TV or on livestream . . . assuming the debate actually takes place. Good news, though. You don't have to watch it, since Mr. Vodkapundit will be live drunkblogging it. Here's his announcement from PJ Media:
Programming note: Come back to the PJ Media homepage tonight at about 8:45pm Eastern/5:45pm Pacific for the Official VodkaPundit Debate Drunkblog.
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Andrew J. Tobias reports at cleveland.com:
A group of voting-rights activists
has suffered a legal defeat
in their attempt to challenge Ohio's system of
verifying signatures
on absentee ballot applications.
A federal judge has ruled Ohio’s
system of verifying signatures on absentee ballot applications is not
burdensome enough to be struck down as illegal, rejecting arguments made by a
coalition of voting-rights groups that sued the state.
U.S. District Judge Michael Watson
wrote that while Ohio’s signature-matching requirements impose a
“moderate" burden on voters, they have other options to cast a ballot if
their vote is improperly rejected, including casting a provisional ballot on
Election Day. He agreed with Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose that the
state has a legitimate interest in promoting an orderly and secure election,
justifying that burden.
. . .
Watson’s ruling is technically just
an early loss for the voting-rights groups, which could continue to seek a trial
or appeal to a higher court. But it makes it significantly less likely their
case will succeed, especially given that the election is only 37 days away.
Read the full report here.
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Instapundit has the goods (click to embiggen if necessary):
DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY: But the important thing to Alyssa Milano is that someone is paying attention to Alyssa Milano.
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At American Thinker, Pamela Geller comments on Allum Bokhari’s new book on Big Tech censorship. It’s worse than we thought. Ms. Geller begins:
Allum Bokhari, the senior
technology correspondent at Breitbart News, has performed an extraordinarily
valuable service by giving us his new book #Deleted:
Big Tech’s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal the Election.
. . .
In #Deleted, Allum Bokhari
tells the whole shocking story. For those who don’t realize the implications of
what is going on, he includes a Prologue entitled “The Typewriter That Talked
Back” that is as amusing as it is disturbing, and that makes abundantly clear
even to the most technically challenged among us what is really happening to
our foremost and most important freedom, right under our noses. Bokhari paints
a vivid picture of a 1968 in which a typewriter refuses to type, typing instead
its own message: “We regret to inform you that your last letter violated our
terms of service (Rule 32: Abusive & Offensive Content). We have suspended
access to your typewriter for 24 hours.” Newsstands remove from sale magazines
that third-party “fact-checkers” have deemed to be “fake news.” The Post Office
returns your mail because you told a joke in a letter that a censor found
offensive.
It’s all funny until you realize
that all this is exactly what email providers and big tech censors are doing to
Americans today, every day on the Internet. In the pre-Internet world of 1968,
it would have been preposterous. Americans would not have accepted it. But it
has all happened gradually, as we gave away our freedom by clicking our
agreement to dense and unreadable Terms of Service that turned over our right
to say what we believe to shadowy, anonymous guardians of acceptable opinion.
Most Americans today are only dimly aware, at best, that it is happening at
all, and those that are approach it with grim resignation. After all, what are
you going to do? Start your own Facebook?
Having been one of the early
targets of social media censorship on Facebook, YouTube et al, I have for many
years advocated
for anti-trust action against these bullying behemoths. Bokhari makes
an airtight case in #Deleted for why such action is necessary.
Read the full column here.
And it’s scary to think that even if millions of Facebook users
cancelled their accounts, nothing would change.
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The Trump - Biden debate is scheduled for next Tuesday, Sept. 29 in Cleveland. Will it actually take place? Meme via Patriot Post:
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Paula Bolyard at PJ Media reports on the Trump rally in Dayton and his introduction of Gov. Mike DeWine:
President Trump, as is customary at
these events, introduced Republican Gov. Mike DeWine at his rally in Dayton,
Ohio, on Monday—only to have the audience loudly boo the governor, who had
imposed a statewide masking order in July that has been wildly unpopular with
the president’s base.
“We’re joined today by a real good
friend of mine, somebody that’s been with me from the beginning and I’ve been
with him from the beginning, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine,” the president began.
“Where’s Mike?” he asked, to a spattering of applause. Trump looked around,
seemingly unable to spot DeWine in the crowd—and then the boos began. “What’s
that all about?” he quipped, looking a bit confused. “He’s opening up,” Trump
said, trying to defend the governor. “He’s a good man.”
The rest of the report is here. President Trump describes Gov. DeWine as “a
good man”? The Ohio Governor who keeps
moving the goalposts on mask mandates and onerous regulations that hamper opening up
businesses? Gov. DeWine seems to have
been enjoying his role as a petty tyrant.
Not good.
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Sunrise logo (yes, the outfit has its own logo) via Wikipedia
Michelle Malkin is now blogging at UNZ.com. In her column today, “Sunrise Movement: the Riotous Left's Pot-Banging Brats,” Ms. Malkin names names and puts the endless rioting and violence in context. She begins:
Wake up. The “community organizers”
of the left are in full wildebeest mode. Now is not the time for bending down,
rolling over or playing nice. From now until Election Day (and likely until the
end of the year), you can expect screaming banshees carrying identical,
preprinted signs to turn up in the middle of the night at the private homes of
elected politicians, Donald Trump campaign and administration officials, law
enforcement officers, judges and conservative leaders.
This is not conjecture. A
nationwide agitation force milked the dead body of George Floyd to create the
current anarchotyranny. Now, in keeping with her dying wish, the mob will use
the fresh corpse of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to try to bully Republicans into submission
over President Donald Trump’s rightful Supreme Court nomination. The ultimate
goal: obstruction and delegitimization of Trump’s reelection.
On cue, a bunch of demonstrators
all in matching yellow-and-black T-shirts from the Sunrise Movement turned out
in front of South
Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham’s house in Washington, D.C., this
weekend, banging pots, pans and buckets. The disrupters also blasted airhorns,
pointed strobe lights at the windows and crashed cymbals to punctuate their
collective fit over Ginsburg’s passing. Not a single one was arrested for
disturbing the peace.
One organizer shrieked at Graham
(who was not at home at the time): “You are an old white man desperately
clinging to power that you can’t hold onto much longer because we’re coming for
it. And in the meantime, you are not filling that Supreme Court seat. Not on
our watch. The people will decide who fills that seat. No justice, no sleep!”
Another threatened: “Anyone who is
seeing this can do the same thing to your representative, can do the same thing
learning about how to hold them accountable. Make sure they know if they do
some evil (expletives), they know there will be consequences for it.”
Shrieker Number One concluded: “We
will vote, we will organize, we will strike, and we will keep showing up in
your goddamned driveway at the crack of dawn to let you know that WE ARE WIDE
AWAKE!”
Who is the Sunrise Movement? It’s as organic as Spam and as genuine as AstroTurf. This full-time rent-a-mob is an adjunct of the Sierra Club (annual budget: $100 million; top donors: Michael Bloomberg, George Soros). The Sierra Club provided five-figure initial seed grants to Sunrise’s educational arm, as well as Beltway office space. Other original funders of Sunrise: The Rockefeller Foundation and Wallace Global Fund (which has also contributed to the George Soros-subsidized Tides Center, Color of Change cancel culture guerilla warriors, and far-left legal policy groups Alliance for Justice and the Brennan Center for Justice).
The Sunrise Movement’s co-founder, Evan Weber, is a former Occupy Wall Street organizer. Two others, Sara Blazevic and Varshini Prakash, are Green New Deal zealots and Bernie Sanders activists who teamed with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to push the Democrats even further left. Prakash serves as an advisory board member of Climate Power 2020 along with Soros-funded Center for American Progress head John Podesta, former Obama administration environmental czar Carol Browner, former Obama administration science czar John Holdren, former Obama administration Secretary of State John Kerry, former Obama administration EPA head Gina McCarthy, and former Obama administration U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power.
Ms. Malkin's full column is here. And guess what? Here's from the Sunrise Movement's website:
Sunrise is a movement to stop
climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. We currently
have 8 hubs in Ohio looking for volunteers including: Athens, Canton,
Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Kent, Oberlin and Youngstown. See website for
contact information for each hub.
It sounds so benign.
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Nicholas J. Kaster’s column today at American Thinker has a sobering analysis of the local and state governments’ endless mask mandates, lockdowns, and other joys of the never-ending pandemic:
We have entered the seventh month of coronavirus panic, with
large parts of America still partly or wholly shut down. What began as a 15-day
expedient designed to “flatten the curve,” has gradually become the norm in
American life. The goalposts have continued to shift. First, the focus was on
hospital overcrowding; then it moved to overall deaths; then it moved to number
of positive cases; now it seems to be shifting to the availability of a
vaccine. The real endgame appears to be the November election.
. . .
Many have seen parallels in this
creeping authoritarianism to George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. And
indeed, there are some: the obsessive mask conformity, the endless and often
contradictory edicts by state governors and mayors, and the tiresome mantras
celebrating obedience (e.g., “Alone together”).
But a closer analogy to our current
predicament can be found in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Huxley’s
novel, published in 1932, 17 years before Orwell’s, envisions a dystopia that
is sated but soulless, where the people’s every earthly need is met, but at the
cost of their liberty and humanity.
. . .
The idea of a riskless utopia is pure fantasy, of course, but
the power that will accrete to the ruling class is very real.
Mr. Kaster’s column is here.
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Dan Bongino is investing in an alternative to YouTube. I hope he and others also attempt to start up alternative to Facebook. From the Patriot Post:
Today is Constitution Day. From the Constitution Center website:
On September 17, 1787, the
Founding Fathers signed the most influential document in American history, the
U.S. Constitution.
Every year, the National
Constitution Center hosts the best Constitution Day celebration in the country.
We are the place to turn to help you commemorate this historic day while
meeting your federal education requirements, at the Center and online!
Live Online Programming
This year students and teachers can join us from anywhere for
FREE engaging, educational live programs and award-winning resources. Tune in
all week long for engaging and interactive programs, featuring National
Constitution Center scholars and other special guests!
Much more at the website with links and resources.
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photo credit: Milwaukee Independent
Some skeptics probably rank man-made global warming/cooling as the world’s Biggest Hoax. Alicia Colon nominates the COVID-19 lock-down and related control tactics (think: face masks) as the Biggest Hoax. Both hoaxes are all about money and power. Her article “Falling for the Biggest Hoax in History” at American Thinker begins:
It will probably take months if not
years for the truth of the Covid-19 pandemic to emerge, but when it does will
any politician take responsibility for the lies and disinformation or the
damage this hoax caused this great nation? I don’t think so, but what it did
prove was what happens when the Democrats are in charge. They may not be in the
White House but it is the House that wields the power over legislation and our
money. Couple this power with the useful idiots in the mainstream media
to promote the widespread hysteria, and we then had the total capitulation of a
frightened nation that accepted an unprecedented total lockdown of its
existence. Shame on us.
Further into the article:
In previous severe flu seasons,
there were much higher death rates yet there were no mandatory lockdowns.
Why do I call this pandemic a hoax? The only reason why politicians,
especially the Democrats in charge, pushed for shutting down the economy was
because economic destruction was their ultimate goal. Trump’s strong economy,
low unemployment numbers for all Americans was a real obstacle to a Joe Biden
victory. Democrats have seized on this pandemic because they never let a crisis
go to waste.
Americans have been gaslighted. We
can’t take anything reported by the New York Times, Washington Post,
Associated Press, Reuters, CNN, MSNBC, the Drudge Report and the Alphabet
Networks as gospel because it’s all designed to frighten and delay the
recovery. . . .
Read Ms. Colon’s complete article here.
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The great Victor Davis Hanson explains the bizarre Biden campaign in “Biden: The Great and Powerful” at American Greatness. From the article:
So the lightweight Biden was
reflated as a sort of centrist hot air balloon to be used to float the
hard-Left basket carriage beneath across the election defining line.
But fusion/collusion is not just a
matter of a Potemkin veneer. Biden’s agenda is a fantasy creation. His role was
to save the party from Sanders, win suburbanites, and pander to the party’s
socialist sympathizers of Antifa and the Black Lives Matter movement. That is
an impossible task because today’s Democratic Party is a conglomeration of
squabbling tribes and looney agendas.
Biden is now ordered to keep still
on the issues of the day, because what he once said to get nominated and please
the Left would lose him the election. He wants to defund the police, but not to
defund the police. He wants to phase out fossil fuels and end fracking but not
to end fracking in Electoral College-rich Pennsylvania.
The rioting, Biden insists, is due
to police brutality but not due to it entirely. Trump’s COVID policies killed
thousands, but Biden’s own bromides are either identical or would be less
effective.
And on and on, as Biden is made to
wink and nod to the Left that his only role is to get them elected before
collapsing at the finishing line.
The media thinks this will work,
and so owns the project. Biden will stay sequestered, visit a key state occasionally,
pop out of the plane to say he is “barnstorming” Michigan or Wisconsin and then
fly back into his Biden bunker for more Zoom puff interviews—and hope
progressive polls show that he can endure weekly bleeding until November 3.
Every four or five days the media
will blast the airways with, “Trump is ripping out mailboxes,” “Trump won’t
concede and will have to be forcibly removed,” “Trump insulted our war dead as
‘losers’ and ‘suckers’ as he hid from the rain to keep his hair dry.” Most
recently Bob Woodward’s book queued up for its turn of 72 hours of smears,
right after gab-bag Jeffery Goldberg’s anonymous sources faded out.
Will this joint project of progressive ideologues of the Democratic Party and the major media work?
Read the complete article here.
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Sent from my friend Shirley who drove around the Perry area and found this creatively festooned barn (click to embiggen):
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Michael Anton is the author of The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return. He was interviewed on Mark Levin’s “Life, Liberty, and Levin” on Fox. He was a great guest, so I looked up his essay on American Mind, “The Coming Coup?”, which starts off:
Democrats are laying the groundwork
for revolution right in front of our eyes.
As if 2020 were not insane enough
already, we now have Democrats and their ruling class masters openly talking
about staging a coup. You might have missed it, what with the riots, lockdowns
and other daily mayhem we’re forced to endure in this, the most wretched year of
my lifetime. But it’s happening.
It started with the military brass
quietly indicating that the troops should not follow a presidential order. They
were bolstered by many former generals—including President Trump’s own first
Secretary of Defense—who stated
openly what the brass would only hint at. Then, as nationwide riots
really got rolling in early June, the sitting Secretary of Defense himself all
but publicly
told the president not to invoke the Insurrection Act. His implicit
message was: “Mr. President, don’t tell us to do that, because we won’t, and
you know what happens after that.”
All this enthused Joe Biden, who
threw subtlety to the winds. The former United States Senator (for 26 years)
and Vice President (for eight) has not once, not twice, but thrice
confidently asserted that
the military will “escort [Trump] from the White House with great dispatch”
should the president refuse to leave. Another former Vice President, Al Gore,
publicly agreed.
One might dismiss such comments as
the ravings of a dementia patient and a has-been who never got over his own
electoral loss. But before you do, consider also this. Over the summer a story
was deliberately leaked to the press of a meeting at which 100 Democratic
grandees, anti-Trump former Republicans, and other ruling class
apparatchiks got
together (on George Soros’s dime) to “game out” various outcomes of
the 2020 election. One such outcome was a clear Trump win. In that eventuality,
former Bill Clinton White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, playing
Biden, refused to
concede, pressured states that Trump won to send Democrats to the formal
Electoral College vote, and trusted that the military would take care of the
rest.
The full essay is here.
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photo from the Front Page article
Katie Hopkins is a much-needed breath of fresh air and a
shot in the arm. She’s been censored,
abused, and quarantined, but she is traveling in the US, and her report “Breaking Back” at Front Page Magazine starts off:
The time for asking permission is
over. Waiting for approval has to be a thing of the past.
It’s a way of thinking that has
served me well in recent weeks breaking back into the USA and beginning a
rolling speaking tour across the States. My mission is to support Donald J.
Trump. But I have been taught by my audiences that there is something far more
important to do. My mission is to gather people together and remind ourselves
who we really are. And we are the side of love, laughter and light.
The things I am learning along the
way have given me a burning new faith and optimism which perhaps can only be
gleaned by being amongst people and by defying the very rules that seek to keep
us apart.
Brits are currently banned from the
USA - even those with visas. It is not a Muslim ban (although my country will
be a Muslim majority in twenty years). It is a corona ban, on the basis that
inflated British COVID death rates made the British Isles appear as the
epicenter of some infernal plague. We have ‘The Science' to thank for that.
It became impossible to sit at home
as a passive observer when everything we know and love is being fought for on
the other side of the Atlantic. At some fundamental level, I needed to be a
part of this fight. I needed to break back into America.
There is no way to overstate the
significance of the election faced by American people in November.
The 2020 Presidential election is a
tipping point for Western Civilization. It marks the last stand of the right
against the very wrong, of law and order against anarchy and chaos, and
democracy over socialism. It is not political but biblical in proportion.
. . .
Read the rest here.
What a pick-me-up.
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Dennis Prager’s column at Front Page Magazine has updates on the China virus lockdowns; he highlights the insanity in his state of California, but New York, New Jersey, and Michigan are just as bad. And Ohio is still requiring masks, social distancing, etc. Why?
Why can people eat with no mask in
an airplane -- inches, not six feet, from strangers -- but cannot eat in a
California restaurant, which is so much bigger than the inside of an airplane,
while sitting six feet from others? Because [Gov.] Newsom ordered it, the Los
Angeles Times supports it and, like sheep, Californians have accepted it.
. . .
I conclude with the words of a
Swedish medical doctor, Sebastian Rushworth:
"Covid is over in Sweden.
People have gone back to their normal lives and barely anyone is getting
infected any more. I am willing to bet that the countries that have shut down
completely will see rates spike when they open up. If that is the case, then
there won't have been any point in shutting down in the first place ...
Shutting down completely in order to decrease the total number of deaths only
makes sense if you are willing to stay shut down until a vaccine is available.
That could take years. No country is willing to wait that long."
Except that so far, the US is still mostly shut down. Read the rest here.
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A friend of mine just asked for some links to reports and information relating to voter fraud, especially as it affects this election cycle. I put together this list of links, most of which have appeared on this blog, but here are key reports for reference.
This Legal Insurrection report cites the claim that voter fraud is a myth. Here is one first-hand account that shows how it is done: “Confessions of a voter fraud: I was a master at fixing mail-in ballots” by Jon Levine at the New York Post.
John Solomon lists cases of recent election fraud at Just The News.
Project Veritas (James O’Keefe) has taped undercover videos about social media and Google interference.
Robert Epstein is a longtime liberal and an expert on how
Google (and FB) can interfere with elections; he is quoted at Breitbart.
And here is how the Democrat party is setting the table; click here.
If you are in Cuyahoga County, click here to learn about temporary employment opportunities at the Board of Elections.
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Cleveland joins the list of cities holding Trump boat rallies. Here are photographs from this afternoon:
Click to embiggen.
Images by PatDooley Photography at https://www.facebook.com/Pat44113
UPDATE: And click here for a report with video of New Jersey's Trump boat parade.
Brian C. Joondeph, M.D. at American Thinker covers the “Fear
Porn” from Drs. Fauci and Birx and the corrupt media, and he concludes:
In the past week, two pillars of the
COVID Con collapsed: deaths and positive tests. Back in April, the news
was all about death counts. Fox News ran a death tally on the screen, much like
the running score of football game. Cable news shows talked about nothing but
rising death counts, spreading fear porn to justify recommendations for staying
at home and shutting down the U.S. economy.
. . .
The NY Times found,
“Up to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus.” Yet
lockdowns of businesses and schools continue based on these wildly inaccurate
numbers.
Is this purposeful or incompetent?
I suggest the former. President Trump downplayed testing in favor of
therapeutics such as hydroxychloroquine. The Democrat-media establishment
immediately pushed for more testing and told everyone that hydroxy was as
deadly as cyanide.
Fox News crank Neil Cavuto said of
hydroxy, “It will kill you.” Speaker Nancy Pelosi, claiming an “evidence-based”
approach to combating the Chinese flu, pushed for
“testing, testing, testing.” Yet both of those admonitions were fear-based, not
evidence-based.
Here we are now with deaths and
positive cases overstated by 90 plus percent, all to create fear and
uncertainty ahead of a presidential election. How many excess
deaths can be attributed to media gaslighting? How many people delayed
necessary medical care or cancer screening, afraid to leave their homes over
the daily barrage of fear porn from CNN and Fox News?
This is information warfare, weaponizing medical data to influence an election, regardless of the cost in lives and economic damage. But the Big Con is being exposed, darkness to light. Hopefully voters are noticing and awakening to the con pushed by the left and the media.
Read Dr. Joondeph's column here.
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A Tale of Two Camera Shots! These images were shared by Sundance at Conservative Treehouse.
What you saw on TV:
This is the image that actually reflects the event:
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