So UK Prime Minister Keir "Two Tier" Starmer has decreed that people saying hateful things will be jailed because their speech is actually violence, and he's making room for them in His Magesty's prisons be releasing violent criminals because their violence is actually speech, you guys.
All this totalitarianism reminds me of a joke from the Soviet Union, back in the day. It was said about Leonid Brezhnev (and likely others). I've somewhat rewritten it for modern times. See if you can tell the difference.
So this guy goes to Red Square Hyde Park Speaker's Corner and yells "Leonid Brezhnev Keir Starmer is a senile fascist old fool!" Of course, the police swarm him and drag him off to Ye Olde Gaol. He is sentenced to ten years and ten days in durance vile - ten days for slander and ten years for revealing State Secrets.
Maybe I gave away my edits right there ...
And so the Leonid Brezhnev Memorial Award for Totalitarianism goes to Brit PM Keir Starmer, for fascism above and beyond the call of duty. Well done you dirty commie bastard.
So some self-important English Plod said he was going to criminally charge and extradite US citizens for exercising their first amendment rights on US soil. Interesting.
Quite frankly, this seems like a golden opportunity for political candidates here to get a "gimmie" issue. Sticking up for the first amendment seems like a layup. And if as I suspect the Democrats are institutionally incapable of sticking up for free speech, then this is a gold plated opportunity to paint them as the party of censorship - not to mention being weak on foreign policy.
Like I said, this issue looks like it's 100% upside.
New Jersey cops must apply for a wiretap order — not just a warrant — for near-continual snooping on suspects' Facebook accounts, according to a unanimous ruling by that US state's Supreme Court.
Thursday's decision overturned alower court's rulingthat said a search warrant was sufficient to compel Meta's social network to turn over access to a user's future posts and messages every 15 minutes for a period of 30 days. That's effectively a real-time tapping system, it was argued.
"The state argues that because of the brief 15-minute delay involved, it is obtaining 'stored communications' rather than intercepting live ones, so fewer safeguards apply. We do not agree," the Garden State's Supremes said [PDF], noting that this would make New Jersey the only state in America to permit this practice.
In my view, the idea of making people rely on electric vehicles (EVs) and then curbing how much power they have, is a design feature, not a bug. Those of a Big Government cast of mind (most politicians) might rather like the idea of fitting “kill switches” into EVs so that a bureaucrat can disable them. By making cars costly and annoying, it also forces people to use public transport.
To dismiss the California ban on internal combustion cars as mere incompetence misses the depth of the fascist evil on display. They want to own everybody in California, and make them submit to their will. They simply hate freedom, and that's what cars mean. It's what California used to mean.
Oh, and the cartoon at that last link? The one with two Gulag prisoners working in the snow and with the caption that said I won the Nobel Prize in Literature. What was your crime? You know, the cartoon that won a Pulitzer Prize?
Yeah, the WaPo would never publish it today. Scratch a journalist, find a commie.
And so, here's a (err) toast to Mikhail Gorbachev, from back in the day when truth could still be spoken.
I like the cut of this fellow's jib. If you do too, then forward this on in whatever social media platform you like - let's make some actual patriotism go viral.
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Today I was asked why I am running for President, and why should people vote for me? Below is my answer.
Thank you for the question.
Why am I running for President? The short answer is because the U.S Constitution says I can and my conscience says I must.
Why should people vote for me? I do not believe the Office of President should be reserved for insiders, professional politicians or power hungry Americans. The President is granted the power and authority to lead by the American People. Therefore, I believe the President must engage in effective and efficient efforts to serve the American people.
The President should not beholden to follow strict party rules. The President must act on conscience and make decisions that are in the best interests of All Americans.
I hurt to see so much division in this nation I so dearly love. I am outraged by the erosion of our Constitutional freedoms and Liberties. I believe too many American Citizens have stopped believing in "The American Dream". There is apathy among Americans to engage in the political process.
The talking heads host "Opinion Editorial Programs" on most of our news channels. The American People fail to recognize the difference between journalism and unbiased facts versus their favorite news talk show. The Free Press must be preserved. This right comes with the responsibility to report truth and facts.
I do not believe in "Alternative Facts". There is only one "Truth". While I understand some Presidents rightfully feel the media is biased against them, the idea of presenting "Alternative Facts" is absurd. In my opinion we could call that propaganda.
I will serve in the best interests of All Americans. I will not cater to any one person, organization, political party, or P.A.C. The only thing the President should be obligated to is the Constitution and the American Citizens.
We have a mass propaganda system in place which has been cleverly designed to divide our nation. If the "Powers that Be" can manipulate the majority of Americans then they are able to do harm unto our Republic. If we are blind and ignorant we fall for these propaganda agendas.
If the politicians can get us to oppose one another then we take our eyes off of them. When we broadly categorize every Democrat as a socialist and every Republican as a fascist who benefits? Not the American People.
When any politician or political party actively engages in efforts to subvert the American Government or the Constitution they are dead wrong. Freedom of Speech must be protected but it should be used in a responsible manner. Elected officials must be held to a higher standard. In my opinion, if anyone or any party takes action to undermine our Democratic Constitutional Republic they must be held accountable.
Today we have a far left and a far right. Do either really serve the best interests of Americans? No. If someone attempts to create a socialist government or a fascist dictatorship both are wrong and should be deemed as an "Enemy of the State".
We must unify and unite our nation. Today our youth spends less time learning about American History, The Constitution, Civics and Social Studies than at any time in our past. In fact some schools make American History and Social Studies an elective class.
If we don't understand the Founding principles of our Republic how can we recognize the erosion of our nation. If we do not engage in Social Studies how can we learn to accept cultural diversity and perspectives. If we allow the population to operate in fear of one another due to ignorance, how do we create an all inclusive nation which promotes "Assimilation"?
We need real change. One person cannot do it alone. The President cannot implement change without the support and confidence of the American People.
I hope this helps answer the questions and again, thank you.
Respectfully, Mickey G. Rose for President Of The United States 2024
So the Canadian Police have sent actual Mounties to break up the trucker's protest. People have been trampled, including a disabled old woman. The Mounties' "heroism" in this has been noted all over the world. We'll see if these horses can drag the truckers away.
Wild Horses (Songwriters: Bill Shore, David Wills)
From a phone booth in Cheyenne I made a promise to Diane No more rodeos I'd gone my last go 'round
The same promise that I made In San Antone and Santa Fe But tonight I saddled up And let her down
Wild horses keep draggin' me away And I'll lose more than I'm gonna win someday Wild horses just stay wild And her heart is all I break Wild horses keep draggin' me away
She'll watch me drive around her block Gettin' courage up to stop To make her one more promise That I can't keep
The way I love the rodeo I guess I should let her go Before I hurt her more Than she loves me
Wild horses keep draggin' me away And I'll lose more than I'm gonna win someday Wild horses just stay wild And her heart is all I break Wild horses keep draggin' me away
Both of these are about the virus, and neither is being reported here on these shores.
Item the first: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is done - stick a fork in him:
Nigel Farage has slammed Boris Johnson over the Prime Minister's attempts to defend a series of parties in Downing Street while the rest of the UK was under Coronavirus lockdown. The former Brexit Party leader has suggested Mr Johnson would have been best owning up to the parties.
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"When you are clearly lying to the nation that I'm afraid is what's done for him," he added.
"I can't tell you whether he's going to last a week, a month or four months.
"But I can tell you, Boris is toast."
Farage is the man most responsible for BREXIT, and is former head of the BREXIT political party in the UK. Rumors have it that Johnson may get dumped by the UK Tory Party as early as Friday, but we will have to see. Whether that happens or not, this story represents the rage of the common voter against an arrogant, out of touch elite that is smothering them with COVID restrictions that they exempt themselves from.
Item the Second: Canadian truckers aim to shut down Parliament on Friday:
The number of truckers involved is huge. As in “that’s gonna leave a mark” huge. Now just figure that to the extent a Truck and Trucker are in this event, they are not delivering the goods on time to somewhere else. This will be felt fairly fast. There is one guy in one video who says he’s not vaccinated, but is delivering “medical supplies”, and appreciates the irony of it ;-) So some of the trucks may just be “slow rolling” their delivery elsewhere along the route.
Just how much support are Canadian citizens giving them? The truckers set up a Gofundme campaign to raise money for fuel (they're driving from the Pacific coast to Ottawa). Right now the campaign has raised $5M (CAD). That's a lot of gas. And just what do those normal Canadian citizens feel about the Canadian.Gov?
“Everyone is Essential”. “It’s time for the Lions to start eating those Hyenas”.
Friday is shaping up to be an interesting day, despite the complete lack of coverage here in the US. The "elites" are trapped in a Twitter bubble, spending their time only talking to themselves - while the 80% of the country that counts is moving on without them. Smartest kids in the class, right there.
Holy crap! This is breaking news from Donald Trump:
For years, the same feeling has swept you along, oppressed you, shamed you: a strange and penetrating feeling of dispossession. You walk down the streets in your towns, and you don’t recognize them. You look at your computer screens and they speak to you in a language that is strange, and in the end foreign. You turn your eyes and ears to advertisements, TV series, football games, films, live performances, songs, and the schoolbooks of your children.
You take the subways and trains. You go to train stations and airports. You wait for your sons and your daughters outside their school. You take your mother to the emergency room. You stand in line at the post office or the employment agency. You wait at a police station or a courthouse.
And you have the impression that you are no longer in a country that you know. You remember the country of your childhood. You remember the country that your parents told you about. You remember the country found in films and books.
This country— at the same time light-hearted and industrious. This country— at the same time literary and scientific. This country— intelligent and one-of-a-kind. The country of the moon landing and nuclear power. The country that created cinema and the automobile.This country— that you search for everywhere with dismay. No, your children are homesick, without even having known this country that you cherish. It is disappearing.
You haven’t left, and yet you have the feeling of no longer being at home. You have not left your country. Your country left you.
You feel like foreigners in your own country. You are internal exiles. For a long time, you believed you were the only one to see, to hear, to think, to doubt. You were afraid to say it. You were ashamed of your feelings. For a long time, you dared not say what you are seeing, and above all you dared not see what you were seeing.
And then you said it to your wife. To your husband. To your children. To your father. To your mother. To your friends. To your coworkers. To your neighbors. And then to strangers. And you understood that your feeling of dispossession was shared by everyone.
France is no longer France, and everyone sees it.
OK, I admit it - this wasn't Donald Trump. This is a speech by Eric Zemmour who is running for President in France. I took out a couple lines and changed a couple more to hide the fact that M. Zemmour is speaking not in french, and not to the French, but to all of us. Here's the rest of his outstanding speech, unedited and in full:
The disappearance of our civilization is not the only question that harasses us, although it towers over everything. Immigration is not the cause of all our problems, although it aggravates everything. The third-worlding of our country and our people impoverishes as much as it disintegrates, ruins as much as it torments.
It’s why you often have a hard time making ends meet. It’s why we must re-industrialize France. It’s why we must equalize the balance of trade. It’s why we must reduce our growing debt, bring back to France our companies that left, give jobs to our unemployed.
It’s why we must protect our technological marvels and stop selling them to foreigners. It’s why we must allow our small businesses to live, and to grow, and to pass from generation to generation.It’s why we must preserve our architectural, cultural, and natural heritage. It’s why we must restore our republican education, its excellence and its belief in merit, and stop surrendering our children to the experiments of egalitarians and pedagogists and the Doctor Strangeloves of gender theory and Islamo-leftism.
It’s why we must take back our sovereignty, abandoned to European technocrats and judges, who rob the French people of the ability to control their destiny in the name of a fantasy – a Europe that will never be a nation. Yes, we must give power to the people, take it back from the minority that unceasingly tyrannizes the majority and from judges who substitute their judicial rulings for government of the people, for the people, by the people.
For decades, our elected officials of the right and the left have led us down this dire path of decline and decadence. Right and left have lied and concealed the gravity of our diminishment. They have hidden from you the reality of our replacement.
You have known me for many years. You know what I say, what I diagnose, what I proclaim. I have long been content with the role of journalist, writer, Cassandra, whistleblower. Back then, I believed that a politician would take up the flame that I had lit. I said to myself, to each his own job, to each his own role, to each his own fight.
I have lost this illusion. Like you, I have lost confidence. Like you, I have decided to take our destiny in hand.
I saw that no politician had the courage to save our country from the tragic fate that awaits it. I saw that all these supposed professionals were, above all, impotent.That President Macron, who had presented himself as an outsider, was in fact the synthesis of his two predecessors, or worse. That all the parties were contenting themselves with reforms, while time passes them by.
There is no more time to reform France – but there is time to save her. That is why I have decided to run for President.
I have decided to ask your votes to become your President of the Republic, so that our children and grandchildren do not know barbarism. So that our daughters are not veiled and our sons are not forced to submit. So that we can bequeath to them the France we have known and that we received from our ancestors. So that we can still preserve our way of life, our traditions, our language, our conversations, our debates about history and fashion, our taste for literature and food.
So that the French remain French, proud of their past and confident in their future. So that the French once again feel at home. So that the newest arrivals assimilate their culture, adapt their history, and are remade as French in France – not foreigners in an unknown land.
We, the French, are a great nation. A great people. Our glorious past pleads for our future. Our soldiers have conquered Europe and the world. Our writers and artists have aroused universal admiration. Our scientific discoveries and industrial production have stamped their epochs. The charm of our art de vivre excites longing and joy in all who taste it.
We have known great victories, and we have overcome cruel defeats. For a thousand years, we have been one of the powers who have written the history of the world. We are worthy of our ancestors. We will not allow ourselves to be mastered, vassalized, conquered, colonized. We will not allow ourselves to be replaced.
In front of us, a cold and determined monster rises up, who seeks to dishonor us. They will say that you are racist. They will say that you are motivated by contemptible passions, when in fact it is the most lovely passion that animates you – passion for France.
They will say the worst about me. But I will keep going amidst the jeers, and I don’t care if they spit on me. I will never bend the head. For we have a mission to accomplish.
The French people have been intimidated, crippled, indoctrinated, blamed— but they lift up their heads, they drop the masks, they clear the air of lies, they hunt down these evil perjuries.
We are going to carry France on. We are going to pursue the beautiful and noble French adventure. We are going to pass the flame to the coming generations. Join with me. Rise up. We, the French, have always triumphed over all.
Long live the Republic, and above all, long live France!
But yannow, La Belle France has come back from worse (as have we). I have proof (with apologies to a Frau Merkel that thought she had ultimately won World War II, and who are no doubt shocked - shocked - to find that they are perhaps being closed down for gambling after they thought they had won it all ...):
Eighty years later, art still has its say. And just to show that the Cool Kids didn't all live in the 1940s, here's another that says the same thing:
Yeah, yeah, I know - don't play in the street. But know that you are not alone.
People have had enough and are starting to fight back with mockery. Here are a bunch of underground posters from England (of all places) that cut the heart out of the virus scare.
I like this one, too:
And this one gets to the very heart of people feeling virtuous about the lockdown:
There are a lot more, every bit as good. Bravo to the UK Underground.
f) long-term, having a large class of unemployed, under-employed, and broke, hungry, shiftlesslumpenproletariatis how revolutions start. Middle classes do not revolt. This year has seen the biggest targeted wipeout of the middle class, worldwide, and shifting them to the lower class, than anything since the Great Depression. And we're still in the early innings of it, as COVID2.0 now appears to be clearing its throat.
g) That's before the blatant disenfranchising of a third of the adults in this country by the most ham-fistedly blatant electoral fraud (outside of every election in Central America, ever) in living memory.
Yup. You should go read the whole thing. And it's been a while since I posted this: New Gingrich on what the Second Amendment is really about. It's long, but really gets rolling at about 5 minutes in. Newt's point is exactly the same one that Aesop makes.
The Continental Congress was an unauthorized, unsanctioned, unlawful, treasonous, and seditious assembly, and every man-jack of them were eventually targeted for arrest and hanging.
Twitter has locked the account ofWhite Housepress secretaryKayleigh McEnanybecause she shared a story about Hunter Biden and Ukraine.
Now in all honesty, I haven't cared for the platforms for quite a while. I don't like Facebook because it has always been rotten about its user's privacy, and all y'all know that I just can't keep myself to the 17 character (or whatever it is) tweet limit. It's the same reason that I pretty much dropped off of Gab.ai.
But this underlines the fact that they own their users. Not cool. I'll stick with our little corner of the Blogosphere, thank you very much.
But probably the biggest objection that we've heard (and heard again, and again) about Donald Trump is that he violates long standing norms of behavior. What's interesting is that his opponents are the ones who are now the biggest violators of norms. Here is a media company censoring the White House Press Secretary. [blink] [blink]
Heck, even a lefty hack like Jake Tapper sums up the situation:
So no thanks. It's so bad that a raving libertarian like me is totally down with the Fed.Gov breaking up the Twitter and Facebook (and Google) monopolies and declaring them to be publishers, not platforms. Let it all fight out in the courts, but just those announcements will tank the stock prices which will make it hard for them to acquire new companies and executive talent. They're the modern Robber Barons and some Trust Busting is well past due.*
Note: blogger Ann Althouse looks at the story's provenance and is skeptical about the emails. It's an interesting read - not calling them "fake" but rather suspicious. But she agrees that Twitter and Facebook haven't covered themselves in glory here.
Simply put, there is not enough staff at Facebook & Twitter, and they are neither smart enough nor subtle enough, to censor ALL the “fake news” while also suppressing the politically sensitive (read “damaging to Democrats”) real stories. As a result, they are Ham Handed and focus on the “stuff that matters” (as all major corporation management does). The necessary consequence of this, much like the Streisand Effect, is that attempts to HIDE stores become advertising of the stories AND become strong evidence for the veracity of the Story. Essentially: Their actions are a negative indicator. The more they holler “Fake” the more we hear “Here Be Truth”.
UPDATE 15 October 2020 11:48: Lawrence has the second drop from the New York Post about Hunter's corruption with China. No doubt the Post is getting a lot more views today because of the Streisand Effect. Oft evil will shall evil mar, and all that.
The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field. Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
- Matthew 13:31-32
This is a little unusual for the regular Saturday country music, because it's not country music. But stick with me - folks who like country music will like today's story which starts with "Happy 100th birthday, Col. Gail Halvorsen".
He was a kid who liked to fly, joining the Civil Air Patrol in 1942 and then the brand new US Air Force when he was old enough to sign up. He missed World War II because of his age but found himself in the left hand seat of a C-54 in Germany, 1948. That's when Stalin cut Berlin off from the Free World and the Berlin Airlift started.
Lt. Halvorsen was at Tempelhof Airport one day when he saw some kids standing on the other side of a chain link fence. They told him not to worry if the weather was bad and he couldn't bring in food. You see, they said, they could live on very little food but if they lost their freedom they thought they would never get it back. Smart kids.
Halvorsen wanted to do something for them and told them that he'd drop some gum from his plane. They'd know it was him because he'd wiggle his wings. He and his co-pilot pooled their candy rations for the next day's flight. Because it was heavy, they made little parachutes out of handkerchiefs. Over the next weeks the number of kids waiting for his flights grew and grew. He tells the story about when his Commanding Officer found out about it:
On his return from Berlin, he was told that Col. James R. Haun, the commanding officer of Rhein-Main Airbase, wanted to see him in his office.
Here, Halvorsen, sitting in his Provo backyard and wearing the same uniform he wore back then, picks up the narrative.
“‘Halvorsen,’ the colonel asked when I came in his office, ‘What in the world have you been doing?’
“‘Flying like mad, sir,’ I told him.
“‘I’m not stupid. What else have you been doing?’”
Here, Halvorsen pauses for effect.
“That’s when I knew they knew. I got chewed out real good,” he says before flashing his trademark smile. “But at the end, the colonel said, ‘That’s a good idea. Keep doing it. But keep me informed.’”
The Berlin Candy Bomber had the clearance he needed to carry on.
They called him the "Candy Bomber" and when the word got to the Press it became a sensation back in the States. School children and candy manufacturers donated candy for the children of Berlin. In just a few months Lt. Halvorsen couldn't keep up with all the candy and handkerchief parachutes that were arriving in the mail. Pretty much everyone in his unit was now a Rosienbomber (as the German kids called them - "Raisin Bomber". Halvorsen himself was known as "Uncle Wiggly Wings" because of his signal that he was about to drop sweets.
Operation "Little Vittles" dropped 23 tons of candy in a quarter million handkerchief parachute loads. Halvorsen was awarded the Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz, Germany's highest award. He also got some marriage proposals via mail from adoring fans back home, but he went home and married his College Sweetheart. They had 5 children and 24 grandchildren.
In a very real sense, he represents what is best with America. Three years before we had been mortal enemies of Germany, now we were trying to take care of their kids because, well, kids. I'm not the only one who thinks this - he retired to his native Utah and in 2002 for the Winter Olympics there the German team asked him to carry their national standard into the stadium in Salt Lake City. Bravo Zulu, Colonel.
Like I said, Col. Halvorsen, happy 100th birthday. You make me proud to be an American. This song is for you because you've earned it 100 times over. Sammy Davis.Jr. didn't like it initially because it was too sweet. It became his signature song, and I think he's approve of it being played for your 100th birthday. Here's Sammy singing this song in Germany, back in the 1980s.
The Candy Man (Songwriters:Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley)
Who can take a sunrise, sprinkle it with dew Cover it with choc'late and a miracle or two The Candy Man, oh the Candy Man can The Candy Man can 'cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good
Who can take a rainbow, wrap it in a sigh Soak it in the sun and make a groovy lemon pie The Candy Man, the Candy Man can The Candy Man can 'cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good
The Candy Man makes everything he bakes satisfying and delicious Now you talk about your childhood wishes, you can even eat the dishes
Oh, who can take tomorrow, dip it in a dream Separate the sorrow and collect up all the cream The Candy Man, oh the Candy Man can The Candy Man can 'cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good
The Candy Man makes everything he bakes satisfying and delicious Talk about your childhood wishes, you can even eat the dishes
Yeah, yeah, yeah Who can take tomorrow, dip it in a dream Separate the sorrow and collect up all the cream The Candy Man, the Candy Man can The Candy Man can 'cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good Yes, the Candy Man can 'cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good a-Candy Man, a-Candy Man, a-Candy Man Candy Man, a-Candy Man, a-Candy Man Candy Man, a-Candy Man, a-Candy Man
Like I said, it's not country music. But I think the community can take a day to salute a veteran who represents the best of this country. Here's what looks to be an early 2000's documentary of Operation Little Vittles. It's long but well worth a view. If you aren't looking for a kleenex between 15:00 and 18:00 then I'm sorry, we just can't be friends. And the last line in the video hits the nail on the head, spoken by a now grown German kid who remembers catching the parachutes and knows that it meant that someone who didn't have to care, cared anyway: The world needs more Halvorsens. Amen, and amen
Like I said, Col. Halvorsen represents the best this country has to give to the world. He is a man who made the world a better place. Happy birthday, Uncle Wiggly Wings.
Donald Trump just closed the deal with the American electorate.
Turn out the lights, the party's over
The only thing that the Democrats had going for them was the lockdown. The breathless hyping of the 'rona was intended to fan the flames of fear which would justify further lockdown and economic devastation. They then blamed Trump for all this, while the media shamelessly covered for them. That's all gone now.
They say that, 'All good things must end'
But stop and think about what they're selling. Fear. Who wants to buy that? Who would choose to live their lives in fear? People will only do that if there isn't a better alternative. Donald Trump just gave the American Public a better alternative. It's this: Sure, you might catch the virus. It's not that bad. I know, because I caught it. Now it's time to get on with things.
Miguel compares it to FDR's first inauguration address: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Miguel points out that Trump is not an orator like FDR was which is true, but actions speak louder than words sometimes, and Trump checking out of the hospital speaks really, really loudly.
What's even funnier is that the media simply can not not cover this. It will be front page news for the whole week. They won't be able to stop themselves, because this is something that people will want to hear about, because they really don't want to live in fear forever. It will drive ratings, which drive profits.
The end of this week is 24 days from the election.
There's been a cynical joke that the 'rona lockdowns will end on November 4. The handwriting is on the wall now for the lockdowns - people will start to look for justifications, because there is finally an alternative to the fear. The justifications are (as I have been posting for months and months) really thin tissues of exaggerations.
And Trump is ready to play his the next card: call out the overreaction by government officials. Name incidents, describe how innocent citizens were arrested. Name the officials responsible. Remember the guy out paddle boarding all by himself? Remember how he got arrested? Do you think that Trump can't shine the light of attention on that? Do you think he doesn't have dozens of other examples, like playgrounds being closed? Do you think that the electorate won't pay attention to him when he talks about that?
The Press will want to defend the Democrats against this attack but there's really nothing they can do. I mean, when you see a video of a Mom arrested because she let her kids play outside, who are you going to believe: CNN or your lying eyes? That's next week gone, too. Then there are only 17 days until the election. Does anyone think that Joe Biden will be able to turn things around in two weeks, especially when he's selling fear and Trump is selling hope?
He doesn't even need to talk about the lives and businesses destroyed by the lockdowns. That's there, and everyone knows all about it. Trump is going to paint the Democratic Party as the party of tyranny and fear and the Republican Party as the party of freedom and normalcy. As the song goes, he'll use the 8x10 color glossies with circles and arrows to make his case. Heck, he'll point out that the (Democratic) Governor is Michigan is ignoring her State's Supreme Court ruling to keep her thump on the public. There's your tyranny, writ large. And a whole bunch more, too.
I've said for a while now that Trump will easily cruise to a win next month. Now it's looking like the down race Democrats are going to get slaughtered, because they'll be selling fear and tyranny against hope. Good luck with that.
Remember last election with all the Republicans celebrating and the Democrats crying? Second verse, same as the first.
What a crazy, crazy party Never seen so many people Laughin', dancin' Look at you, you're havin' fun
But look at me I'm almost cryin' That don't keep her love from dyin' Misery, 'cause for me the party's over
A group of anti-mask demonstrators marched through a Florida Target to Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” encouraging others to liberate their faces by removing their masks.
The group reportedly marched through a Target in Ft. Lauderdale on Tuesday, encouraging shoppers around them to take off their masks as well
There's video, which is awesome. And I love this:
“Breathe. Breathe. You’re Americans. Breathe,” one woman said as she marched through the store.
Sure are. The Authorities should stop and think about that.
