A.F. Branco cartoon at Legal Insurrection:
Friday, January 22, 2021
Thursday, January 21, 2021
President Biden’s Words of Division
Heather Mac Donald watched President Biden’s inaugural
speech so you didn’t have to. Her commentary at City Journal begins:
It’s an odd way to seek national
unity: call a significant portion of the American public white supremacists,
racists, and nativists. Welcome to the Biden presidency.
Joe Biden’s inaugural speech as
46th president is predictably being hailed for its “unifying” message. And just
as predictably, his invocations of the divisive bromides of the identitarian
Left are being swept under the rug.
According to Biden, we are a “great
nation” and a “good people.” But we also oppress minorities with an ever-rising
fervor. “Growing inequity” is among the greatest challenges facing the country,
according to Biden, along with the “sting of systemic racism” and encroaching
“white supremacy.” Only now are we confronting “a cry for racial justice, some
four hundred years in the making.”
One might have thought that more
than 50 years of civil rights legislation; the banishing of Jim Crow
segregation; the ubiquity of racial preferences throughout corporate America,
higher education, and government; trillions of dollars of tax dollars
attempting to close the academic achievement gap; and the election of black
politicians by white voting districts would have reduced inequity, not
increased it. But to Biden’s speechwriters, steeped in academic victimology,
racial inequity is always with us, requiring constant remediation from
government.
Ms. Mac Donald’s full commentary is here.
Note: When this blog
makes reference to President Biden’s speech, or decision, or agenda, or whatever, I assume
he is delivering whatever his masters require.
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Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Thoughts for January 20
For conservative Americans, the past couple of months have
been devastating. George Parry blogs at Knowledgeisgood, and his posting from
January 1 struck a chord. He begins:
Beware of the Thing That Is Coming
A number of you have kindly
inquired as to why I have recently been absent from these pages. The reason is
that, since early November, the only matter worth discussing has been the
outright theft of the 2020 presidential election, and, as will be explained
below, I have been emotionally and intellectually unable to rationally
address the topic.
President Trump won re-election by
an historic landslide. He has been denied his rightful victory by means of
corrupted voting machines and the massive use of unverified and unverifiable
mail in ballots. I won’t go into the details since I would just be repeating
all the depressing and alarming facts with which I am sure you are already
familiar. But, watching events unfold, it has become apparent that there was
nothing subtle about the theft. It has been the electoral equivalent of an
in-your-face smash and grab robbery – as in, yeah, we stole the election and
there’s nothing you can do about it.
On the emotional side, I have been
too angry to write coherently about the theft and what it will mean for the
future of this country. The consequences of the theft extend far beyond the
fate of President Trump. Those who conspired to steal the election now have in
place the tools to oppress the majority. Think of the massive demonstrations in
Venezuela by the majority who oppose the Maduro dictatorship. The masses may
demonstrate and protest, but so what? Maduro and his thugs remain in
control and will continue to “win” elections into perpetuity using the same
voting machines and software now being used (in conjunction with fake mail in
ballots) to deprive Trump of victory.
Will the majority in America suffer
the same fate as its counterpart in Venezuela? If Trump, who won a huge
landslide, can be cheated out of victory, what chance will lesser candidates
have in the future?
Read the rest here.
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Tuesday, January 19, 2021
The Cruelest Hoax Of All: COVID-19
Mark Wauck at MeaningInHistory nominates COVID-19 as:
The Cruelest Hoax Of All
Which hoax? We live in an age of hoaxes, so there's a lot of
competition for the honor of being the cruelest hoax of all. My vote still goes
to the Covid hoax. I base that on the sheer unprecedented amount of damage done
by this hoax: business failures, unemployment, lockdowns, depression and its
attendant ills, education stoppages that hurt the poorest students most, mass
fear bordering on--and not infrequently exceeding--hysteria, widespread
paranoia and the breakdown of social solidarity. And last but not
least--perversely mistaken withholding of effective treatments (the HCQ regime
and Ivermectin) in favor of dangerous and often fatal "treatments",
such as mechanical ventilation, leading to far too many unnecessary deaths.
Most of this damage was inflicted in knowing violation of all scientific and
medical norms regarding viruses in general and coronaviruses in particular. Now
we're witnessing the rush to lift many of the absurd measures that were
taken--simply because Trump has been ousted by our ruling oligarchy. Which
leads to the very reasonable supposition that this was an essentially political
hoax that took advantage of unscientific hysteria that was propagated with a
purpose.
. . .
there has been an appalling lack of
transparency throughout this whole hoax, which has facilitated its political
weaponization.
Read the rest here (includes links to reports and videos).
RELATED: Steven W.
Mosher: The doctor who denied COVID-19 was leaked from a lab had this major
bias at the NY Post here.
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Monday, January 18, 2021
Accomplishments of President Trump
This past weekend was filled with relentlessly discouraging headlines. But Toni Williams at VictoryGirlsblog had an upbeat column about “The Greatest Accomplishment of Donald Trump.” She begins:
President Donald J. Trump will
leave the White House early on the morning of January 20, 2021. He is not
sticking around to watch the Cheater-in-Chief be inaugurated. Quite frankly, I
am glad. If Trump attended the Inauguration, it would give a legitimacy to Joe
Biden that was never afforded to Trump. As we say goodbye to his Presidency, it
is right that we should look at his accomplishments and ask which one was the
greatest?
. . .
Trump was unabashed in his love of
this Country. “Make America Great Again”, “Keep America Great” and “America
First” all have one thing in common: America. Every Trump rally, every truck
rally, every boat rally and every motorcycle rally was filled with happy
patriots waving the American flag. Admit it, it felt so good to be proud of
your country in public again.
Those are just the morale
accomplishments. The actual accomplishments listed by the White House are
breathtaking. Read them here.
Other columnists have suggested that President Trump’s greatest
accomplishment was pulling the masks off the corrupt Deep State and swamp-dwellers. Anyway, the rest of Ms. Williams’s column is
here.
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