If you haven’t failed, you’ve never done anything

It has long been an belief of mine that if you’ve never failed, you haven’t done much in life.

Anyone who is successful will have had at least one, if not more, spectacular failures. Donald Trump’s big professional failure was his casino closures in the early 1990s. We had to read and hear all about them again in 2016 presidential campaign. On a personal level, his first two marriages failed, causing a lot of hurt at the time.

Did the casino failures stop Donald Trump in the 1990s? Certainly not!

Therefore, my belief is that we need to take calculated risks such that, even if we fail, we have the mettle to dust ourselves off and keep going. In retrospect, failure looks stupid, but if the moves made sense at the time, we have to look for the next big success.

A friend of mine has a real problem with that concept, but, so be it.

On that subject, a month ago, I read an excellent post about learning how to deal with failure. One of my readers, Daughn, wrote ‘Why Are The Dems So Angry? Version 2.0’, which starts with the appalling reactions the Democrats have towards now-President Donald Trump, then explores how average citizens go into overdrive against others when they themselves fail (emphases mine below):

Worried about Trump becoming too popular because of his successes, attack him and his family personally
Worried about the country rejecting socialism/communism, re electing Trump, impeach him.
Don’t have enough votes for impeachment, then change the rules for a “hybrid Impeachment Inquiry”
Rather impeach Trump than resolve immigration.
Rather hire outside counsel, change the rules of the House, establish a mini-DOJ within the Congress, to defend Obamacare wherever it is challenged — than put together a good healthcare plan for the country …

And then it drifts down into culture,
Don’t get promoted? Sue the company for discrimination.
Don’t like your male boss, accuse him of sexual advances.
Don’t check out fast enough in line, can’t afford an item in a dept store = steal it.
Don’t want to take the time to work out problems with your spouse —>>> divorce.

To our kids:
Don’t get a cookie, scream until you do.
Don’t make the cheerleading squad, sue the school or spread false rumors about those who do
Not popular in school —->>>> kill your classmates.

It’s about never learning how to accept failure (Hillary Clinton is a perfect example).
If we cannot accept a failure, we’re stuck. Time stops. We cannot move forward to LEARN from the mistake, and grow, develop into a wise old man, change our tactics, and be a productive member of society.
Again, Hillary is a perfect example of someone who is “stuck”.

If we blame our failures on others, that’s a dangerous place to be.

We need to own our failures, learn from them AND MOVE ON.

The lady who wrote the post about Democrat and everyday anger related a personal anecdote about herself. She learned to deal with failure, thanks to her father, a Marine. He told her that if she never failed, she hadn’t done much in life (emphasis in the original):

When I was young, I worked on a case that I knew would make me successful and wealthy. I was so sure I was going to make a name for myself. Ahhhh, we’re all blind when we’re young. I worked on it for two years, and I did everything right. Every detail of the case was covered. I was so sure I would put the plan in motion, I even shopped for new homes. I knew the house I was going to buy. Suddenly, from left field, a competitor appeared. His plan was not as good, he was not offering nearly what my firm could, but he was older and the law firm was more comfortable with him than me. As I headed into a final meeting, where I feared I would learn the bad news, I called……….. Dad. I needed advice.

My Dad loved me. Surely, he would be empathetic or give me something magical to say or do to save the client. Instead, I got a swift kick in the a$$…. from my own Dad.

Dad was familiar with the case, of course, I talked about it endlessly for two years. Instead, Dad said, paraphrasing, “You’ve lost this one. Accept the beating and move on. You put all your eggs into one basket, and it’s a classic mistake. If you had 10 law firms- medium size, instead of going after the biggest one in the southeast, you wouldn’t be in this position. Yes, all the other guys in the office will make fun of you. This is your comeuppance. It’s going to happen. You failed to bring it home…… “

I was feeling like an old crusty barnacle on the bottom of a boat, whining a little bit (Gosh, I really thought Dad would have something magical. Dad hated it when I whined and he was getting impatient with me) when Dad continued, “…… but here’s the thing….. If you’re not failing, you’re not fu$king doing anything. If you never fail, that means you never tried. You want to be on the field of play, then expect to get fu$king hit. You’ll figure out how to win….. next time. You’re way too stubborn to stay down on the mat for too long…..”

My Dad was a Marine until the day he died and a very successful exec. I was 24 when that conversation happened and in 24yrs, I never heard him curse. Never. Not once. For Dad to drop the F bomb was a big deal. It meant two things. He was serious, and he was treating me like an adult, not a daughter. Mixed blessing. Lose a huge client, but in Daddy’s eyes, I was all grown up. Yeah, grown up enough to fail, …..miserably. And like all daughters seeking their father’s respect, Dad was much more important to me than any client. I was working on that “respect” thing…..but I was getting there.

I took my medicine from the client, and they were kind of surprised by how quickly I walked away. My competitor got a slot on Good Morning America…. and the sight of his face made me irritated for years. Salt in the wound. Yet strangely, I was walking a little taller. Yeah, I could figure it out. There would be many more failures to come. I embraced them and each time, the sting hurt a little less. Each failure taught me more, make me stronger. And no, staying “down on the mat” would have been easier, but was never a comfortable place to be.

Lying about it, selling out, compromising ethics was never an option. Can’t get respect that way….. at least not from my Dad.

I hope that makes us feel a bit better about personal failures, those big enough to attract ridicule or criticism.

Look at the people who focus on others’ failures. How much have they themselves done in life? Not much. They took the safe, secure way. They lived without taking the ‘What if?’ risk.

Better to have lived it large, taking that calculated risk and failing, rather than never have tried at all.

Failure is no bad thing. Failure teaches us lessons.

Above all, failure should teach us to keep reaching for the stars.

New reflections on the American coup and what lies behind it

Yesterday, I ran across four articles of interest.

The coup

The starting point is James Howard Kunstler’s October 15 essay, ‘Wait For It’, which is about the ongoing American coup, the latest development being President Trump’s conversation with the president of Ukraine and the Democrats’ ‘whistleblower’ (emphases mine):

For one thing, he-she-it is not a “whistleblower” at all; was only labeled that via legalistic legerdemain to avoid revealing the origin of this affair as a CIA cover-your-ass operation. Did Mr. Schiff actually think he could conceal this figure’s identity in a senate impeachment trial, when it came to that — for what else is impeachment aimed at? Anonymous sources are not admissible under American due process of law. Mr. Schiff must have missed that class in law school.

All of this hocus-pocus suggests to me that there is no “whistleblower,” that it is a phantom confabulation of gossip threads that unraveled the moment Mr. Trump released the transcript of his phone call to Ukraine’s president Zelensky, aborting Mr. Schiff’s game plan. The ensuing weeks of congressional Keystone Kops buffoonery since then appears to conceal a futile effort by Mr. Schiff and his confederates to find some fall guy willing to pretend that he-she-it is the “whistleblower” …

One marvels at Rep. Schiff’s tactical idiocy. But just imagine the panicked consternation it must be triggering among his Democratic colleagues. Notice that Mrs. Pelosi has been hiding out during this latest phase of the action. She may sense that there is nothing left to do but allow Mr. Schiff to twist slowly slowly in the wind, as he has hung himself out to dry. She should have known better since every previous declaration of conclusive evidence by Mr. Schiff over the past three years has proved to be false, knowingly and mendaciously so.

One also clearly senses that all the smoke-and-mirrors are a desperate attempt to divert attention from a soon-to-drop DOJ Inspector General’s report which, by the way, will only be an overture to much more damaging action likely to come from Mr. Barr’s proceeding. After all, IG Horowitz was not allowed under the rules to compel the testimony of persons outside the Department of Justice, which would now include Andrew McCabe, James Comey, and many others at the center of the RussiaGate prank …

That lame admission will not avail to protect him or the CIA, an agency that is behind the administrative civil war. It has been a rogue agency for a long long time, but may have finally overplayed its hand, along with the newer adjunct agencies that have been stitched onto it since 9/11/01 — the dark network that goes by the name Intelligence Community. So many shoes are ready to drop on them that the din might drown out all the John Philip Sousa marches ever played in the lobby at Langley, let alone the thin trilling of a fake whistleblower.

Apart from these fateful developments the prize for the week’s most transparently disingenuous bit of media agitprop goes to Saturday’s New York Times puff piece on former FBI Director Jim Comey, which actually sets him up for federal indictment on something like sedition or treason.

Did you notice that the photo-caption states: James Comey plans to spend the next 13 months working to drive President Trump from power. Oh, really? By what means, exactly? Single-handedly or with whom? And how did the strategy he kicked off in 2016 work out? In case Mr. Barr is looking for some way to attribute motive to the actions that he’s investigating, he may need to seek no further. Also, consider that The New York Times and its editor-in-chief Dean Baquet, and publisher A.G. Sulzberger may be named as unindicted co-conspirators in the three-year campaign of sedition (freedom of the press, of course). Alert the shareholders.

I should emphasise that Jim Kunstler is not a Trump supporter, but even the Democrats’ continuing attempts at getting a legitimately elected president out of office have been making him think a bit more about the coup.

The ‘revolution in reverse’

The comments to Kunstler’s article were as wide-ranging and fascinating as ever.

Someone linked to an October 10 essay on Tzarism.com called ‘The Hi-Tech Traditionalist: A Revolution In Reverse: The Uprising Of The American Elites Against The American People’. The author, Dr Baruch Pletner, is a polyglot:

The Hi-Tech Traditionalist – Baruch Pletner is an entrepreneur, a scientist, an inventor, and a private pilot. He is passionate about education, the outdoors, and the war on globalism. Baruch holds a PhD degree from the Technion in Haifa, Israel and an MBA from Northeastern University in Boston.

He points out that the leftist revolution taking place in the United States is the inverse of what usually happens in an uprising:

The great Bolshevik revolutions of the last century in Russia, in China, and in Cuba all followed a familiar pattern: a group of young, energetic, endlessly corruptible, but not yet corrupt outsiders take on, in the name of the people, a tired corrupt establishment. A civil war ensues in which the people side with the revolutionaries because they (mistakenly) think that things can never be worse. Revolutionaries win, slaughter the establishment elites, and proceed to rob and enslave the people in even more outrageous fashion. Soon enough the old guard revolutionaries become every bit as corrupt as the ones they have replaced if not more so and the cycle repeats itself.

In America, the situation is rather farcically backwards. In America, the corrupt establishment elites have decided to stage a Bolshevik coup against the American people rather than the other way around. A Tsar fully in command of his own kingdom staging a coup against his own people is a bizarre development to say the least, and yet, here we are in 2019 America. Like always, there are reasons. First and foremost among them is the sheer scope of the nepotism and corruption of the American elites in business, government, technology, and the intelligence services. This scope has very likely far exceeded anything previously known in human history. Had the dimensions of the robbery perpetrated by the American ruling classes against the American people become widely known earlier, America could well have experienced a more typical revolution, one by the people against the elites.

There are other reasons, he says, which date from the late 1980s. Continuing on from the previous paragraph, he tells us:

Well aware of the possibility if not probability of such an outcome, the people who run America put in place a plan to make it all but impossible. The plan involved the gradually escalating erosion of the limits on government powers put in place by the Constitution with a parallel erosion in the God-given rights guaranteed every American by the same document. This was a fully bipartisan effort, put in place immediately after president Reagan departed office. It is sufficient to observe the exponential increase in government versus private sector employment in America from 1988 to 2019 to fully grasp this point. Stopping immigration from countries that have (or at least used to have) a tradition of personal freedom and limited government while throwing open the spigots for immigration from countries that have neither was the second part of the same plan. The destruction of family values and Christianity in America was the third.

Then there were the social, guilt-inducing conditioning of the majority of the American populace, who have no control over their skin colour. As such:

Americans allowed themselves to become squeezed out of well-paying jobs by the elites-induced trifecta of low and high-skilled immigration and automation, with nary a whisper in protest.

Then, he says, along came Donald Trump. In the eyes of the elite, President Trump must be stopped:

Trying to pin on Trump their own sins of sexual corruption, nepotism, embezzlement, etc. has not been a well-thought out strategy on the part of the American power elites simply because it enabled him to begin educating the American public as to the breathtaking scope of their own criminality. Now, on the verge of Trump’s inevitable reelection, they are left with only one option: a coup d’etat against the American people, the American Constitution, and the American Republic itself.

Since the elites still very much permeate every hall of power in America, this is a one-off deal in which the rulers of a country set out to violently overthrow the very political structure of the country they are ruling, but, as they say, it is what it is. The cover may be different, but the playbook is the same, so we are already being exposed to the oldies but goodies of escalating agitprop (weaponized lies and propaganda), suppression of unwanted elements (cancel culture), and paid snitching (whistleblowing). Now we are entering into a new phase, that of secret trials with a predetermined outcome.

He means impeachment hearings, which he goes on to discuss, adding:

… what follows next will not be pretty. Having obtained an illegal impeachment that has no chance in the Senate, the powers that be in America will use this “impeachment” to force Trump off the 2020 ballot by any means possible, including things that now sound crazy like setting up a parallel Supreme Court having declared the Constitution illegitimate because it was written by white males some of whom supported slavery and ratified without African American and other minority votes.

Needless to say, such actions may well precipitate an armed conflict we know of as civil war, but that would not be an unexpected outcome for the elites. We know now that the American intelligence services all work for the elites and not for the people. They will fight on their side in the coming war. What we don’t know is to what degree the armed forces have been infiltrated, especially the mid-level officer corps.

That is my concern, too.

The New York Times and Carlos Slim’s fortune

Someone else responding to Kunstler’s piece posted a 2015 Ann Coulter article for Townhall, ‘Carlos Slim: The New York Times’ Sugar Daddy’.

Ann Coulter observed the editorial shift in the New York Times since Carlos Slim rescued the failing newspaper in 2008.

Back in 2004—before the Times became Slim’s pimp—a Times article stated: “Clearly . . . the nation’s southern border is under siege.”² But that was before Carlos Slim saved the Times from bankruptcy. Ten years later, with a border crisis even worse than in 2004, and Latin Americans pouring across the border, the Times indignantly demanded that Obama “go big” on immigration and give “millions of immigrants permission to stay.”

And, going back further to the Clinton administration, the NYT used to point out porous border problems:

In 1997—the pre-Slim days—the Times had editorialized: “Fighting illegal immigration is a difficult and important job. But Congress should do it in a way that will deter illegal entry at the border.”³⁹ Another editorial that year complained that the Immigration and Naturalization Service had “done a poor job of keeping out illegal aliens, deporting criminals [and] processing requests for asylum.” This wasn’t even Bush-bashing—Clinton was president!

Coulter explains how Slim makes his money off the American taxpayer, which involves much more than enlightened citizens buying copies of the New York Times:

One of the ways Slim makes money off of illegal immigration in the United States is by overcharging Mexicans to call home, especially during World Cup soccer season. Slim takes a percentage of all cell phone calls into Mexico—and Telmex’s “interconnection rates” are astronomical. International roaming rates are 37 percent higher in Mexico than the average of all OECD countries.

But the main way illegal immigrants benefit Slim is through their remissions. Monopolistic pricing is of little value in a poor country. A monopoly on air in Burundi would not produce the world’s richest man. Luckily for Slim, Mexico is located right next to one of the wealthiest nations in the world. The OECD estimates that Slim’s suffocating telecommunications monopoly costs Mexican consumers $26 billion a year, with more than half of that coming from Slim gouging his customers. They would have $20 billion less to spend without 40 million Mexicans living in the United States.

According to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, Mexican immigrants or those of Mexican descent send at least $20 billion out of America back to their relatives in Mexico each year.²⁹ No wonder immigrants are so reliant on welfare—they’re sending so much of it out of the country! Twenty billion dollars is significantly more—about a quarter more—than the amount of money the United States sends to Mexico in direct foreign aid. The $20 billion being sent to immigrants’ grandmothers in Chiapas is forever eliminated from the American economy—unavailable for investment in American companies, the purchase of American products, or hiring American workers. That’s a cost of immigration that Americans are never told about.

These billions of dollars being drained out of the U.S. economy every year would be bad enough if the money were coming exclusively from cheap-labor employers like Sheldon Adelson. But it’s worse than that. It comes from American taxpayers. Not only do taxpayers have to support Americans who lose their jobs to low-wage immigrant laborers, taxpayers support the immigrants, too. Seventy-five percent of immigrant families from Mexico are on government assistance.

Putting two and two together, we can more easily understand the New York Times‘s editorial line under Slim and the billionaire’s desire to see more Mexicans enter the United States illegally:

That’s why, in 2014, Slim was exhorting Mexican youth to cross illegally into the United States for jobs. The stated purpose of Obama’s open defiance of American immigration laws was to avoid punishing “children” who were brought to the United States by their parents. Slim didn’t care about that. (Then again, neither did Obama.) He just wanted more Mexicans working in America and sending dollars back to him. As the CEO of the “Carlos Slim Foundation” explained, “[O]ur goal is to reduce the access barriers for them to reach this potential . . . to build not just them but their families, so they’re able to contribute to the economy”—i.e., the Mexican economy owned by Carlos Slim.

The ‘invisible government’

Truthdig has an article by the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges, ‘Our Invisible Government’, which is, in part, a book review of Stephen Kinzer’s new book, Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control.

I will not be excerpting Hedges’s article except for this:

Kinzer builds his book around Sidney Gottlieb, an elusive, quirky and powerful operative in the CIA who in his quest for mind control—something he and others in the CIA had convinced themselves the Soviets had mastered—oversaw medical experiments that had been originated by his German and Japanese collaborators. These experiments were coded-named Bluebird and later Artichoke, which Kinzer calls “one of the most violently abusive projects ever sponsored by an agency of the United States government.” The torture sessions often permanently shattered the minds of his subjects. Victims were kidnapped (later this would be called “extraordinary rendition”) and sent to clandestine centers around the globe—now known as “black sites”—or were picked from the prison population abroad and at home. Those forced into taking part in these experiments included impoverished African Americans at the Addiction Research Center in Lexington, Ky. Many of the victims were labeled “expendables,” meaning they could be murdered after the experiments and disappeared. The corpses were usually burned. Anyone who was powerless, or could be made powerless, was a potential target. Mentally handicapped children at the Walter E. Fernald State School in Massachusetts, for example, were fed cereal laced with uranium and radioactive calcium and their induced sicknesses were monitored. Gottlieb oversaw the administering of LSD and other drugs to induce psychotic states at the federal prison in Atlanta and a youth correctional facility in Bordentown, N.J. None of his subjects consented to being a human guinea pig, and many ended up psychologically impaired for life. The Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger, being held in the Atlanta penitentiary, was told he would be part of an experiment on curing schizophrenia but then was surreptitiously given LSD nearly every day for 15 months. CIA scientists also conducted experiments on terminally ill patients at an annex of Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C.

Gottlieb searched for years for a cocktail of drugs that, in Kinzer’s words, would draw “prisoners away from their identities, induce them to reveal secrets, and perhaps even program them to commit acts against their will.” It was a vain quest. But with each failure he and the CIA became ever more zealous, working closely with former German Gen. Walter Schreiber, the onetime surgeon general of the Nazi army who had “approved experiments at the Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, and Dachau concentration camps in which inmates were frozen, injected with mescaline and other drugs, and cut open so the progress of gangrene on their bones could be monitored.” Kinzer adds that according to one American researcher, the experiments “usually resulted in a slow and agonizing death.”

Gottlieb had a habit of secretly lacing the drinks of colleagues with LSD to see their reaction. Some never recovered. One of his victims was Frank Olson, a CIA scientist who was appalled by the brutal interrogations he witnessed and planned to resign from the CIA. Gottlieb and his secretive group of torturers and assassins were terrified Olson would go public. Olson was found dead in 1953 on a sidewalk in Manhattan after allegedly diving through a hotel window. His son Eric had his father’s body exhumed in 1994 and turned over to James Starrs, a forensic pathologist at George Washington University in the District of Columbia. “Starrs had found no glass shards on the victim’s head or neck, as might be expected if he had dived through a window,” Kinzer writes. “Most intriguingly, although Olson had reportedly landed on his back, the skull above his left eye was disfigured.”

“I would venture to say that this hematoma is singular evidence of the possibility that Dr. Olson was struck a stunning blow to the head by some person or instrument prior to his exiting through the window of room 1018A,” Starrs concluded.

Starrs was later more emphatic: “I think Frank Olson was intentionally, deliberately, with malice aforethought, thrown out of that window.”

As awful as that is, the rest of the article has details of even more gruesome and demonic ‘experiments’, which those interested may read at their leisure.

Conclusion

We have much to pray for in the coming months: the safety of Donald Trump and his family, the thwarting of evil deeds from our notional betters and the return of a moral society, which is the only way to conserve the freedoms we know in the West. Those, too, must be restored, with Big Government — the malicious Nanny State — being thrown out.

Also, please spare a prayer for Brexit. What has been going on in Parliament and the upper courts of law since Boris Johnson became Prime Minister has been chilling, to say the least.

Why Dems are hounding Brett Kavanaugh — again

Most of us thought that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was safe from allegations once he was confirmed and sworn in to office nearly a year ago.

We were wrong.

On Saturday, September 14, 2019, a New York Times article raised the allegations from 2018 once more, calling for Justice Kavanaugh’s impeachment.

The paper invited the two authors of a book about the Kavanaugh accusations, The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation, to write a column about them. Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly wrote the book and the article. Part of the article (paywall) has to do with one of last year’s accusers Deborah Ramirez and a classmate, Max Stier, who are said to have witnessed Kavanaugh, a university freshman, at a dorm party. Breitbart has the excerpt of the supposed episode.

Those familiar with Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly’s book have said one must read it until the end to find this gem:

… critics pointed out: “Not only does the alleged victim not confirm the story, she is reported to be denying it.”

Nevertheless, Democrats have been on the attack, including presidential candidate and US Senator, Kamala Harris, from California:

I sat through those hearings. Brett Kavanaugh lied to the U.S. Senate and most importantly to the American people. He was put on the Court through a sham process and his place on the Court is an insult to the pursuit of truth and justice.

He must be impeached.

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) September 15, 2019

Breitbart‘s article states:

Harris did not mention, or did not know, that the authors’ own book refutes the allegation, which the alleged victim reportedly does not recall. The accuser [Max Stier] — not the victim — also represented Bill Clinton during his impeachment …

During Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings, Harris — who is on the Senate Judiciary Committee — was criticized for tweeting a deceptively edited video that made it appear as though he argued against women’s access to birth control.

Some Twitter users, including a co-author of a book on the subject, remember this story from an article in the New Yorker at the time and how it collapsed under scrutiny:

Flashback: here are some reasons why it fell apart.

It took 6 days of coaching with a Democratic lawyer for Ramirez to come up with the story the New Yorker ran. Imagine what they can come up with for a book they’ve worked on for a year. https://t.co/TSMdByGgcE

— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) September 15, 2019

I agree there is serious pressure on those who speak out. As @MZHemingway and I document in our bestseller Justice on Trial, those who supported BK publicly were subjected to bullying, intimidation, and threats. Leland Keyser, Lisa Blatt, Joel, Kaplan, the list goes on and on…

— Carrie Severino (@JCNSeverino) September 15, 2019

The story of Christine Blasey Ford, the most memorable of Kavanaugh’s accusers, was also resurrected — but earlier, around September 8, before the NYT article appeared.

Here’s the short version:

Yes https://t.co/lWVzdXvCFd

— RidnDrty (@nypizzarules) September 15, 2019

On September 8, Newsweek reported, in part:

A video circulating on social media shows Christine Blasey Ford’s attorney telling attendees at a feminist conference that her client’s testimony against now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was a politically motivated move to protect Roe v. Wade.

Conservatives are railing against comments attorney Debra Katz made in April in her keynote address at the University of Baltimore’s Feminist Legal Theory Conference regarding Kavanaugh’s controversial Supreme Court confirmation process. Katz represented Ford, who testified at a public hearing and accused Trump’s nominee, at the time a U.S. Court of Appeals judge, of sexually assaulting her 36 years prior while the two were in high school. Katz’s comments at the conference appeared to confirm many conservatives’ accusations that Ford’s testimony was intended in part to protect the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that established abortion access as a constitutional right.

Speaking on the theme of “Applied Feminism and #MeToo” earlier this year, Katz told attendees: “In the aftermath of these hearings, I believe that Christine’s testimony brought about more good than the harm misogynist Republicans caused by allowing Kavanaugh on the court.”

The self-proclaimed “women’s rights and social justice activist” continued: “We were going to have a conservative [justice] … Elections have consequences, but he will always have an asterisk next to his name. When he takes a scalpel to Roe v. Wade, we will know who he is, we know his character, and we know what motivates him, and that is important; it is important that we know, and that is part of what motivated Christine.”

… American Lawyer Magazine reporter Ryan Lovelace authored a book released last week entitled, Search and Destroy: Inside the Campaign against Brett Kavanaugh, portraying Katz as a partisan, politically-motivated feminist who encouraged Ford to smear Kavanaugh.

Another Democrat candidate for president, Amy Klobuchar, US Senator for Minnesota, tweeted her support for Blasey Ford:

Let us never forget what courage looks like. pic.twitter.com/2bRD8s8sda

— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) September 15, 2019

Yet, one of Blasey Ford’s oldest friends doubted the veracity of the accusation against Kavanaugh.

This is also in Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly’s book. They were the ones who wrote the recent NYT article.

On Sunday, September 15, The Federalist‘s Mollie Hemingway tweeted:

New Book: Christine Blasey Ford's Friend Leland Keyser Doesn't Believe Her – The Federalist https://t.co/we1X5XjU6p

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) September 16, 2019

Interestingly, that same day, the NYT issued a correction to their article. One wonders how many people saw the correction and how many millions more spent time at the weekend listening or reading extensive coverage of the efforts to impeach Kavanaugh:

Modus operandi for partisan journalism these days. Release a story that is missing key info. Wait till the public has digested the news. Release the additional info after the damage has been done in a faux attempt to remain credible while knowing 99% of people won't see it.

— P. R. Williamson (@PR_Williamson) September 16, 2019

The correction states:

Mr. Stier, who runs a nonprofit organization in Washington, notified senators and the F.B.I. about this account, but the F.B.I. did not investigate and Mr. Stier has declined to discuss it publicly. (We corroborated the story with two officials who have communicated with Mr. Stier.)

Something must be done about the media in general:

This smear was disgusting the first time around. This attempt to revive it is beyond disgusting and speaks to the dishonesty of leading organs of the mainstream media. They are corrupt. https://t.co/m3sr18sft9

— Brit Hume (@brithume) September 16, 2019

This scurrilous tactic of smearing Kavanaugh again and again, now with the goal of impeaching him, could backfire on Dems in 2020.

This is what a sampling of Americans said on Twitter:

The craziest thing about this is, in the age of Trump, there have been few more unifying events on the Right than the treatment of Kavanaugh. Yet, the Left is too dumb to see what they're doing, again.

— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) September 15, 2019

Exactly!

— ElisabethThunderber (@thunderber) September 6, 2019

And I didn't vote for him in 2016. I voted for Gary Johnson. So I can hardly be called a supporter.

— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) September 16, 2019

Truth.

— heather courtney (@hc4cactus) September 16, 2019

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

— Ron Workman (@rbworkman) September 16, 2019

My mom was a devout Hillary supporter. She HATED Trump, but after everything they have thrown, done, said, about him, she is now a Trump supporter. Gotta love it.

— Salas Investigations (@SalasInvestiga1) September 16, 2019

Following

— Welp! (@kkvolt) September 16, 2019

One had a message for Kamala Harris:

I had forgotten how angry the entire incident made me.Reminding me does the Democrats no good

— Jean Tuttle (@waffle721) September 15, 2019

So why are these accusations and calls for impeachment being raised now?

A 400 page report was released by the Senate Judiciary Committee

It detailed every accusation against Brett Kavanaugh

Every accusation was dismissed because it was completely unfounded.

Why are Democrats dredging this back up?

Because we’re just over a year til Election Day.

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) September 15, 2019

Here is another reason why. The Senate is appointing dozens of Trump nominees to US federal courts:

I am fighting the Fake (Corrupt) News, the Deep State, the Democrats, and the few remaining Republicans In Name Only (RINOS, who are on mouth to mouth resuscitation), with the help of some truly great Republicans, and others. We are Winning big (150th Federal Judge this week)!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 15, 2019

Citizen journalist Tracy Beanz, gives us the perspective of another citizen journalist, Harold Finch. The following thread explains that the Democrats are afraid of losing more of their cases in the higher courts. In retaliation, the Dems could try to discredit decisions from those courts — including the Supreme Court — and ignore them. Dangerous:

THREAD: Our friend Harold Finch is in The Library on Telegram, but I felt this thread about Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court was super important. Here goes!

— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) September 15, 2019

7. Late last week, the 9th circuit court overruled a federal judge who had granted opponents of the trump admin's denial of asylum seekers a NATIONWIDE injunction. They told the judge he could only enjoin for the area his circuit oversaw.

— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) September 15, 2019

10. This presents an enormous problem for the left, who are relying on Lawfare, use of activist judges & never ending frivolous lawsuits to bog down, slow and block this administrations policy.

— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) September 15, 2019

12. With the court now 5-4 solidly conservative, and with Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the midst of another fight with Pancreatic cancer that saw her receive a liver stint to releive blockages of bile and liver jaundice.

— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) September 15, 2019

14. This is DEEPLY alarming for the Left, they've lost the court and they understand its going to be 6-3 before Trump leaves office. But before that happens, they still have very real, and serious, problems in the immediate short term.

— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) September 15, 2019

16. One of the cases the USSC has agreed to hear is the case of New York Pistol and Rifle Association against NYC, to determine if guns can be carried or transported outside the home. This goes to the heart of concealed carry, and right to self defense. https://t.co/l0AHRitxFX

— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) September 15, 2019

19. This lawsuit has the Left so scared, they have actually threatened the US SC. See remarks by Sheldon Whitehouse and others in the link below:https://t.co/Vs9G0SiWhs

— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) September 15, 2019

21. The Left expects to lose all three of these cases- And that is what this is ALL about.https://t.co/I0PU1FeyPu

— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) September 15, 2019

23. This is meant to pave the way for states like CA, NY, MD, CT, Wash DC, and others to IGNORE Surpreme Court rulings and to claim they are not legitimate; This will create a constitutional crisis, but the Left has no other option.

— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) September 15, 2019

25. So right on queue, immediately in advance of the beginning of the next US SC session, the Left launches a coordinated effort to de-legitimize a Key USSC justice and by extension the court, and its rulings. This is a desperation tactic.

— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) September 15, 2019

29. On social media, in discussions in person, we need to make absolutely clear what they are doing; highlight it & call it out. Expose it. Expose their strategy to ignore the Rule of Law.

— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) September 15, 2019

🚨🚨FINCH WAS RIGHT: https://t.co/9fIXuntGpj

— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) September 16, 2019

There it is — plain as day.

This is just one more reason NOT to vote for Democrats in 2020.

In celebration of the cheeseburger

September 18 is National Cheeseburger Day in the United States.

Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris would like to see this great American food innovation banned:

September 18th is National Cheeseburger Day. Lots of burger places running cheeseburger specials. Let's all join in the celebration!
🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔🍔

— Pamela Version 2.019 ♜☄️ (@Timpanist) September 13, 2019

Absolutely!

Before we celebrate, however, Kamala Harris is embarrassed to say she enjoys a cheeseburger. However, she is NOT embarrassed to say she smoked dope!

Compare and contrast:

Here's video of her recalling smoking marijuana. pic.twitter.com/xQ3kcFcBwJ

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) September 5, 2019

And lied about Justice Kavanaugh with Blasey-Ford, Feinstein and a slew of other greedy officials. None of them are worthy of their positions in office. Jail them all!

— TRUMP2020 (@1nsp1reALL) September 15, 2019

Okay, that’s enough Kamala Harris for one day.

Let’s return now to the glorious cheeseburger.

When I was in school, the nuns teaching science class told us that, once we leave home, we might not always have the time or money for a nutritious meal. How right they were. They advised us to choose pizza first, if possible. It has a better combination of the four food groups, because there are vegetables. In second place was the cheeseburger, for the meat and dairy combination.

What sensible person can resist this?

Oh my LAWD, I need that in my belly!

— Patti Papayas (@PattiPa07715990) September 14, 2019

Don’t forget the straw:

You wait all your life to cut the apron strings, then discover your mother is now directing national health policy, while your aunts have taken over the legislatures & judgeships.

— Loelle Forrester (@LoelleF) September 14, 2019

#MolonLabe pic.twitter.com/YOoCSghJwQ

— 🇬🇧Renton🇺🇸⌛️🐸⭐⭐⭐BackBoris✝️🇧🇷🇮🇹🔫🥓🤣 (@rentonMagaUK) September 14, 2019

Sadly, Theresa May’s government banned the plastic straw. They will no longer be on sale come March 2020. That’s from Conservative Party MPs! But I digress.

Let us further celebrate the cheeseburger:

Ive only been up for about an hour this morning, but I could go for a nice big double bacon cheeseburger for breakfast. #IStandWithCheeseBurgers pic.twitter.com/KwGoybirMt

— Jeremiah Hardin (@formermusician9) September 13, 2019

@KamalaHarris
They'll get my cheeseburgers when they pry them from my cold, dead hands!#IStandWithCheeseBurgers pic.twitter.com/Zk0pw835JB

— Big Bore Batallion [Clan BG1TV] (@BatallionBig) September 13, 2019

I triggered the left last night when I ate a cheeseburger for dinner HA! #IStandWithCheeseburgers pic.twitter.com/MmCosAPDuV

— 🍃Arin🍂 (@missamericana93) September 13, 2019

The main reason for me to watch tonight's #DemocraticDebate is, I must see who comes up with something more ridiculous than @SenKamalaHarris🍔 #BanOnCheeeseburgers🍔 🤣 #IStandWithCheeseBurgers 🍔 @w_terrence ❤️ my cheesy fries🍟 double🥓bacon🍔 #HoldMyBeer I gotta see this📺👀😂 pic.twitter.com/USH6eYaPGl

— 𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕃𝕒𝕕𝕪𝕊𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕖𝕣77 (@LadyStranger77) September 12, 2019

Mark your diary for September 18 …

Tomorrow I will get this. #IStandWithCheeseBurgers pic.twitter.com/qmsXrJAqV9

— daniel sayers (@flash48611) September 13, 2019

… and enjoy!

Guest post: a reader writes about today’s Democrats

On September 5, I posted ‘Today’s Democrats aren’t those your grandparents admired’.

One of my readers, H E, has given me permission to repost his comment, which is worthy of its own entry:

Very good writeup about the current ideology and tactics of the Democrat party. The Democrat party has been taken over completely by Marxist radicals, now calling themselves “Progressives” . The party is a monolith, there are no “Conservative Democrats” or “Centrist Democrats” represented in it. As you said, the current Democrat Party is not the party of Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy.

As a 62 year old American, I can look back and see that many of the actions of the today’s “Progressives” are not new, they go back 50 years to the late 1960s. At that time, radical groups such as the Students for a Democratic Society and the Black Panthers murdered policemen and blew up government buildings. But back then, there were countervailing forces in society that pushed back against the radicals and stopped them. In response, the radicals changed tactics. They infiltrated society in order to gain control of the levers of power and to neutralize any entities that might oppose them. Today we can see that they have mostly succeeded in this regard: the administrative and judicial branches of government are dominated by radicals, and the mass media, academia, mainstream religious organizations, and labor unions now serve the Progressive agenda.

In response to the Trump presidency, Progressives have dropped their façade and come into the open about their policies and goals.

One can no longer deny the following facts about American society:

-There is an entity which can be referred to as the Deep State comprised of unelected government officials, businessmen, and military officials who secretly manipulate and direct national policy in accords with the Progressive agenda.

-The Democrat Party is the political arm of the Deep State.

-There is little effective difference in the agendas of the establishment Democrat and Republican parties. Both parties serve the interests of the Deep State.

-The mass media is the propaganda arm of the Deep State. Its purpose is to broadcast the Deep State’s narrative of events and to shut down public discussions that go against the narrative.

-Academia and the education bureaucracy indoctrinate the youth into the values of the Deep State.

I could not agree more.

I am close to H E’s age and clearly remember the notional Progressives’ antics from 50 years ago. Who could have imagined that they would be at the forefront of American politics today with even more madness?

The one element I would add to this list is the infiltration of the Church by these people. That started over a century ago in the US with Walter Rauschenbusch’s social gospel and continued in the 20th century with the Communist Party’s ‘honeyed words to the church people’.

Decades earlier, in 1840, an Italian Jesuit coined the term ‘social justice’. In the 20th century and today, using Antonio Gramsci’s passive revolution tactics, a number of theologians and professors, such as the late Joseph Buttigieg — Democrat candidate Pete Buttigieg’s father — pushed for ‘social justice’ and ‘change’ in the Catholic Church.

There were secret agents in the clergy, too, in the decades preceding Vatican II.

Today, many Democrats — Catholic and Protestant — are working to help illegals via church agencies. Even the Salvation Army is at it, intimidating an Epoch Times reporter who was at the border earlier this year.

The Democrats are bad news.

Today’s Democrats aren’t those your grandparents admired

A lot of Americans vote Democrat because their families have done so for generations.

A lot of Christians also vote Democrat because a) for Catholics, it was known as ‘the party of the Church’ and b) others, today, view Dems as kind people concerned about the downtrodden.

Below are three reasons why American voters should think again about voting for Democrat candidates.

New DNC resolution

At the end of August 2019, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) adopted a party resolution: ‘Resolution Regarding the Religiously Unaffiliated Demographic’.

An excerpt follows, emphases mine:

WHEREAS, the nonreligious have often been subjected to unfair bias and exclusion in American society, particularly in the areas of politics and policymaking where assumptions of religiosity have long predominated; and

WHEREAS, those most loudly claiming that morals, values, and patriotism must be defined by their particular religious views have used those religious views, with misplaced claims of “religious liberty,” to justify public policy that has threatened the civil rights and liberties of many Americans, including but not limited to the LGBT community, women, and ethnic and religious/nonreligious minorities; and

WHEREAS, the Democratic Party is an inclusive organization that recognizes that morals, values, and patriotism are not unique to any particular religion, and are not necessarily reliant on having a religious worldview at all; and

WHEREAS, nonreligious Americans made up 17% of the electorate in 2018 and have the potential to deliver millions more votes for Democrats in 2020 with targeted outreach to further increase turnout of nonreligious voters …

What nonsense.

Americans, whether religious or not, are more pluralistic at any time since the US was founded. I personally know average families who have embraced gay sons and daughters. Others have welcomed marriages of their children with those of another faith or race.

Therefore, there seems no good reason to adopt this sort of resolution.

The Stream has an article about it: ‘Democratic Party Passes Resolution Against Christianity’.

The author, Tom Gilson, a senior editor of The Stream and author of books on Christianity and modern day living, raises important points about this move. Excerpts follow:

The key paragraph:

Those most loudly claiming that morals, values, and patriotism must be defined by their particular religious views have used those religious views, with misplaced claims of “religious liberty,” to justify public policy that has threatened the civil rights and liberties of many Americans, including but not limited to the LGBT community, women, and ethnic and religious/nonreligious minorities …

The party’s hostility toward Christian beliefs and values was clear enough before. Putting it on paper this way, however, raises the message to another level.

The Democrats want to see Christians on the defense. And they’re good at putting us there. They have special skill with scare words. Even the simple word “particular” makes us look small, small-minded, and off in an intellectual corner somewhere. Of course none of that is true.

They put “religious liberty” in scare quotes, as if the concept of it weren’t in all America’s founding conversations, and in the first paragraph of the Bill of Rights. They speak, too, of “civil rights,” “liberties,” and “minorities.” America has sacralized these words, hardly ever stopping to ask when they apply, and when they’re nice-sounding words that don’t belong where they’re being used.

And there’s no simple response to this. That’s not because the answer is unclear, but because so much needs explaining to get it across. We live in different worlds, as it were. When a party takes aim at the Western world’s moral foundation, it’s no longer making mere political statements. This is a worldview statement.

In the Democrats’ world, “civil rights” are no longer endowed by our creator. They’re human products, human inventions. Gay marriage is example number one: It became a right when five Supreme Court justices said it was …

Christianity gets criticized for aligning with the Republican Party. I’m not comfortable with that myself. There’s great danger in tying ourselves to any political group. But what choice do Democrats leave us now? There are only two major parties. One of them has made its stand. It’s against us. We can’t vote Democrat and hold to our Christian values and beliefs.

Let me repeat that: We can’t vote Democrat and hold to our Christian values and beliefs. That doesn’t mean we have to agree with everything our president does. It doesn’t even mean we have to be Republicans. But for all the options seemingly open to Christians, one of them is shut tight, at least for now — by Democrats’ own decision.

Abuse of Trump donors and supporters

On August 5, Congressman Joaquin Castro (D-Texas), released a list of prominent Trump donors in the San Antonio area.

On August 10, Ronna Romney McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican Party, responded:

Joaquin Castro STILL has not apologized for doxing @realDonaldTrump donors.

In the meantime, people have been harassed and demonized just for exercising their First Amendment rights.

2020 Democrats should be forced to condemn it.

— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) August 10, 2019

One month later, the tweet is still up.

No, Ronna, Democrats will never be forced to condemn such a heinous move. However, if Republicans did such an unthinkable thing, it would be all over the news 24/7 for months.

On August 10, MSNBC featured a discussion between host and guest about physically harming Trump supporters:

MSNBC: Target Trump Donors With PITCHFORKS and Torches…

RAISE YOU HAND OF YOU BELIEVE THE MEDIA IS TRYING TO SWING THE ELECTION…👈🏻https://t.co/4Zb7sZavlS

— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) August 10, 2019

Trending Politics covered the discussion, which concerned a Trump donor’s fundraiser as well as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s harassment outside of his home while he was recovering from a recent injury. Language alert below:

On Thursday, MSNBC host Chris Hayes agreed with a guest on his show, Elie Mystal who said that Trump donors should be met with pitchforks and torches.

“People of color are already targets under this administration,” Elie Mystal said to Hayes. “I have no problem with shining the light back on the donors who fund this kind of racialized hate. I go farther, I want pitchforks and torches outside this man’s house in the Hamptons.”

“I’ve been to the Hamptons, it’s very nice, but there’s no reason why it has to be,” he added. “There’s no reason why he should be having his nice, little party. There’s no reason why people shouldn’t be able to be outside of his house and making their voices peacefully understood that they reject this stuff.”

Mystal’s comments were directed towards billionaire Stephen Ross who recently held a fundraiser for President Trump’s re-election campaign.

“Totally,” Hayes agreed. “There have been peaceful protests outside [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell’s house and I imagine there will be peaceful protests outside [Ross’s house]. Again, it’s all speech.”

The protests outside of McConnell’s house were anything but peaceful. The demonstrations were caught on camera shouting death threats. One liberal even screamed “just stab the motherfucker in the heart.”

“Trump is a bigoted demagogue and we all kind of know that. These people should be ashamed of supporting him. Right? Like, at this point you should basically only be able to contribute to the Trump campaign with bitcoin,” Mystal stated. “But Equinox man is holding an ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ party and he’s surprised the people are getting up in his grill.”

Here’s the video in full:

MSNBC Contributor Calls For ‘Pitchforks And Torches’ Outside of Trump Supporting Billionaire’s Househttps://t.co/M7sc4CFc9a pic.twitter.com/gTjcd7CTB0

— Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) August 9, 2019

Can you imagine if Republicans had a conversation like that on Fox News? MSNBC would be dissecting it until Election Day next year.

Do Democrats honestly think that such extremist talk will make Trump supporters falter? Why on earth would Trump supporters want to even vote Democrat after such views were aired?

This is but one example of the hate Democrats have for Trump supporters. Here’s another, from the New York Post on September 1:

Witness Hollywood’s new ­McCarthyism. “Will & Grace” stars Debra Messing and Eric McCormack could just have boycotted a fundraiser for President Trump next month if they don’t like Republicans.

But that’s not enough for the Tolerance Taliban. They want the names of anyone who does show up at the fundraiser so they can be blacklisted.

“Please print a list of all attendees please. The public has a right to know,” Messing tweeted Friday in response to a Hollywood Reporter story about the Emmy-week function.

McCormack piled on, “Kindly report on everyone attending this event, so the rest of us can be clear about who we don’t wanna work with.”

It’s sinister that high-profile entertainers could harbor such illiberal instincts and have no shame about displaying them for all to see. But the most damage they do is to their own credibility.

I hope the reporter is correct about the credibility angle. Personally, I am less optimistic.

Number of illegals higher than estimated

Recently, Tucker Carlson discussed a Yale University study that says the number of illegals in the United States is likely to be closer to 22 million than the oft repeated 11 million figure.

Please take one minute out of your day to watch this. It has subtitles, so there’s no need for sound:

Disturbing facts

pic.twitter.com/EXIwvKdI82

— ⭐️⭐️⭐️🇺🇸IN THE END WE WIN! =COVFEFE (@QsentMeToo) September 2, 2019

Carlson says that the Dems are soft on illegals, because they want all of them to be able to vote in 2020.

He is not wrong. The Motor Voter programmes run in various states practically guarantee that illegals are registered when they apply for driving licences.

Democrats want to go further now and are pressing for all age-appropriate illegals to be able to vote … in a country they, by law, should not even be in.

Such an act would result in millions more added to the voter rolls in overwhelmingly Democrat states as well as in marginal Republican ones.

The higher the population, the more Electoral College votes — and the more Congressional representation — those states receive. Think of California and New York.

Carlson is correct in saying that the Democrats are using this tactic not because they have any particular feeling for illegals but rather to get the votes they need to stay in power for years to come.

Imagine if there were never another Republican president. Some might cheer at that, but once one party is in power for years and years, corruption is sure to follow, not to mention the strong possibility of totalitarianism.

Conclusion

This man, who is not American, has a warning about the Democrats:

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— Anne E. Patriot⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@MissILmom) September 2, 2019

Just in case the lady’s tweet gets deleted, here is his message in full:

I could not agree more with his sense of passion and urgency.

I, too, have come to believe that the United States is in a state of spiritual war.

I pray that America recovers. I also pray that this spiritual war does not spread to other nations. No one can afford its costly consequences.

Actor Isaiah Washington chides Hollywood’s conservative cowards

Actor, producer and author Isaiah Washington recently had a word for Hollywood’s conservative cowards who refuse to come out of the closet politically:

I have a message for the Hollywood Actors DM’ing me and revealing that you’re Conservatives. Don’t DM me again, because you all are lame and I don’t respond well to hypocrites or cowards. You’re no different than the bystander that is waiting on the blood to spill from a martyr. pic.twitter.com/WAnLUnCz9l

— Isaiah Washington (@IWashington) August 26, 2019

The Epoch Times interviewed Washington recently (video at link), describing his career to date as follows:

an actor and producer who started his career in Hollywood in a number of Spike Lee films. He is perhaps best known for his role as Dr. Preston Burke in television show Grey’s Anatomy. More recently, he starred in the science fiction TV series The 100.

However, although the actor supports Donald Trump, he is at odds with the way black Americans have been urged to leave the Democrats:

Okay, I’m getting a lot of pushback regarding Conservatives, #WalkAway #KAG and #MAGA supporters constantly telling black folk to leave the Democratic Plantation. It’s NOT the proper messaging to attract black voters in this very racially charged environment, so it needs to STOP. pic.twitter.com/YGYf9GRlmv

— Isaiah Washington (@IWashington) August 17, 2019

The biggest motivation for many black voters will be ‘seeing’ 45 get re-elected in 2020 and continue to address even more issues regarding African American issues like Criminal Justice, Prison Reform, Public Education, Mental Illness and Job Creation just to name a few.

— Isaiah Washington (@IWashington) August 17, 2019

It seems to work for some blacks but not for others. Pro-Trump people need another angle or two. One size does not necessarily fit all.

The Republican Party in California should be encouraging other minorities, too, who disagree with the physical filth and disease permeating cities and suburbs in that state:

Could be. I always wonder why the GOP doesn’t do more to engage the Asian and middle Eastern populations that are very large in both north and southern cal. Those 2 large populations could be a game changer in major elections.

— S Walker (@gopcalmom) August 20, 2019

Washington delves into American history in order to better analyse the Democrats:

American History tells me that political corruption and poor policies were so bad under Andrew Jackson and the Democratic Party leadership, that The Whigs were formed in 1830, only to become absorbed by The Republican Party that attracted many anti-slavery Democrats. pic.twitter.com/fWj7LD6HS8

— Isaiah Washington (@IWashington) August 15, 2019

#MySleeptweet I never thought that I’d live to ‘see’ a political ideology hate certain Americans Freedoms. Our Freedom of Religion, Our Freedom of Speech, Our Freedom to Vote and Assemble and disagree with each other. Twitter will most likely ‘silence’ me and I’m cool with it pic.twitter.com/r5RRZouCx6

— Isaiah Washington (@IWashington) August 27, 2019

#MySleeptweet I will leave this right here…#WalkAway🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/joBBOfkPNm

— Isaiah Washington (@IWashington) August 27, 2019

#MySleeptweet “For the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children’s futures, and we are all mortal.” – John F. Kennedy pic.twitter.com/5hpKi7UJIY

— Isaiah Washington (@IWashington) August 27, 2019

He is also critical of Hollywood:

#WalkAway🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/vfnxuXhbK3

— Isaiah Washington (@IWashington) August 22, 2019

Incidentally, an executive with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) was arrested on August 23:

An executive at the Motion Picture Association of America (a trade association that represents A list celebs in Washington DC) has been arrested on charges of rape and blackmail. https://t.co/CbDRIj7qLN

— Praying Medic (@prayingmedic) August 27, 2019

I’m delighted that Isaiah Washington and many other blacks have decided the Democrats are no longer for them.

I hope he can persuade more Hollywood conservatives to out themselves politically.

Epstein death: nothing to see here, move along

Within a few weeks’ time, I reckon the media and others on the Left will be telling citizens who want answers about Jeffrey Epstein’s death on August 10, 2019, that there’s nothing to see, move along.

Epstein’s death came one day after 2,000 pages of court documents about his involvement in underage sex were released to the public:

BREAKING: Epstein Accuser Names Multiple POWERFUL DEMOCRATS In Alleged Sex Ring…

RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU CAN'T WAIT FOR THE CLINTON DROP…👈🏻https://t.co/4keQmHCx8P

— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) August 9, 2019

Epstein’s death has attracted Americans on both sides of the political aisle who want answers. The Left think that President Trump is covering up his involvement in nefarious activities, even though testimony from Virginia Roberts Giuffre says that Trump is not implicated. Those on the Right say that they want to find out more about Bill Clinton’s association with Epstein.

By Sunday, August 11, Twitter was already at work manipulating the narrative:

What Censorship? Twitter Removes #ClintonBodyCount with 84,000 Mentions from Trending List After Epstein Death – Replaces with Trump, Barr Hashtags https://t.co/u3DzCG057U via @gatewaypundit

— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) August 10, 2019

Died of SUICIDE on 24/7 SUICIDE WATCH ? Yeah right! How does that happen#JefferyEpstein had information on Bill Clinton & now he’s dead

I see #TrumpBodyCount trending but we know who did this!

RT if you’re not Surprised#EpsteinSuicide #ClintonBodyCount #ClintonCrimeFamily pic.twitter.com/Y9tGAWaAxX

— Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) August 10, 2019

Unanswered questions

Yes, it’s early days, but, as I write on Sunday, even the initial news releases cannot give the facts.

At least one news outlet reported that Epstein hanged himself in his cell.

Another said that he died of cardiac arrest connected to suicide.

Of course, he is not the first to die mysteriously before giving testimony to a court of law in the United States. Others, interestingly, also associated with the Clintons have, too.

However, Epstein was in a place where high profile prisoners were detained without incident, some for long periods of time:

Ponder this: the same jail that Jeffrey Epstein “killed” himself in has housed the Blind Sheikh, El Chapo, Gotti, Bernie Madoff, and Ramzi Rousef.

But, a dude on suicide watch is dead.

— Buzz Patterson (@BuzzPatterson) August 10, 2019

But was Epstein actually on suicide watch at the time of his death?

Breaking News: Jeffrey Epstein was not under suicide watch when he took his own life. Attorney General William Barr said the death “raises serious questions.” https://t.co/CcNFlGjf1A

— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 10, 2019

Incidentally, I checked the NYT‘s Twitter feed on Sunday. Most were tweets about lifestyle: food, fitted sheets and entertainment. The others covered foreign news. Jeffrey Epstein? Nothing to see here, move along.

After the question about a suicide watch, there is the question of the security camera, allegedly malfunctioning. How convenient:

Report: ‘Camera Malfunction’ in Epstein’s Prison Cell Prevented Recording of His Alleged Suicide | If true, the "suicide" narrative dies. https://t.co/AEqhPwqFqQ

— POTUSPress Corp✩ (@POTUSPress) August 10, 2019

Then there is the question of the guards for such an important prisoner:

Having handled high-profile inmate suicide/self-harm cases, it almost always requires intentional conduct by the guards/supervisors for an incarcerated inmate (especially a high-profile inmate detained pre-trial) to end up dead. Guards "missing" their rounds, etc. #EpsteinSuicide

— Robert Barnes (@Barnes_Law) August 10, 2019

Hmm:

“At the MCC, two jail guards are required to make separate checks on all prisoners every 30 minutes, but that procedure was not followed overnight.” #EpsteinSuicide https://t.co/12tWgdY2Dh

— Robert Barnes (@Barnes_Law) August 10, 2019

If true, this is very interesting:

BREAKING: Two guards at the MCC who normally have overnight shift that watches over suicide risk inmates, were both told to leave area 3 hours earlier for scheduled "Maintenance" to jail cells and hallways. This morning Epstein was found dead

— BNL NEWS (@BreakingNLive) August 10, 2019

Epstein appears to have died in the early hours of the morning:

NEW: FDNY EMS radio recording reveals Epstein’s body was cold to touch: which means he had been dead for at least 4 hours. EMS arrived at 6:33am so Epstein likely died sometime midnight-2:30AM. They claimed he looked like he was sleeping. https://t.co/RrvYE0Tj9w

— Land of the Free (@trustrestored) August 10, 2019

He was then taken to a Manhattan hospital, where some strange photos emerged. Note that Epstein appears to have no legs in this photo. A blanket is rolled under instead:

pic.twitter.com/FZHoWK5ivR

— Snappening🌶 (@panicearly) August 10, 2019

A Rod Rosenstein fan — not the man himself — tweeted:

Epstein’s head is disproportionately large to the medics standing much closer to the camera, and where the hell is Epstein’s body?

This photo is fake as hell.

Idk what’s happening, but it isn’t what We are being told. https://t.co/PPgDAmOW4b

— Clandestine (@RodSneaky) August 10, 2019

Perhaps this is true:

BREAKING REPORT: Epstein Told Prison Guards That Someone Tried Killing Him in July…

I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S WORSE? FACING LIFE BEHIND BARS OR WONDERING HOW SOON YOU ARE GOING TO GET CLIPPED… 🤔https://t.co/w6dYvWAIS5

— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) August 11, 2019

Whatever the case, Epstein’s lawyer is furious. On August 10, The Gateway Pundit disclosed Marc Fernich’s full statement on his client’s death. A summary follows:

Marc Fernich, an attorney for Jeffrey Epstein, issued a blistering statement on the death of his client by an apparent suicide while in federal custody at the Manhattan Correctional Center in New York City early Saturday morning. Fernich blamed prosecutors, judges, jailers, the media, politicians and “greedy plaintiff’s lawyers” for Epstein’s death, saying they have “blood on their hands.”

Here is the tweet with Fernich’s statement:

Marc Fernich, an attorney for Jeffrey Epstein, sends out this statement "as an outraged citizen and defense lawyer, not as a representative of Jeffrey Epstein's defense team." He is calling for a full investigation into the circumstances around Epstein's death. pic.twitter.com/rbtMQL6KHg

— Sonia Moghe (@soniamoghe) August 10, 2019

Attorney General Bill Barr said he was ‘appalled’ by Epstein’s death and said he would launch an investigation:

Barr announces DOJ inspector general investigation into Epstein death. https://t.co/ZMtYMXUyhl

— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) August 10, 2019

Will Bill Barr do the right thing and give us all the facts? I do not know. However, some remain optimistic:

I really hope AG Barr is that true gangsta those Dems fear him to be. Its time for him to put in some work.

— lildog73 (@lildog73) August 10, 2019

Trump supporters understand that Barr was given permission to declassify documents relating to the notional Russian collusion plot and activities from the previous administration 80+ days ago. To date, we have seen nothing. What is he waiting for? Christmas?

In any event, Judicial Watch, which seems to do all the heavy lifting, says it will also investigate. Judicial Watch obtains documents via the FOIA (Freedom of Information Act):

And, yes, @JudicialWatch will investigate Epstein death. https://t.co/R2lVurjNkc

— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) August 10, 2019

Those interested in Epstein’s death have come up with two prevaling theories at this time:

1/ Epstein is dead.

2/ Epstein is in Israel or some other safe country, helped, perhaps indirectly, by Mossad.

We can laugh at that second possibility or we can consider that tin foil hattery isn’t as far-fetched now as it was only a few years ago:

They said that human trafficking was a conspiracy theory.

They said the deep state was a conspiracy theory.

They said media bias was a conspiracy theory.

They said widespread elite pedophilia was a conspiracy theory.

They have been wrong about everything.

Not an accident. https://t.co/sDFOpv851q

— Clandestine (@RodSneaky) July 27, 2019

Although investigative journalist Sara Carter wrote ‘Two Tiered System Of Justice’ about AG Barr’s investigation of the FBI, her sentiments could be applied equally to his new Jeffrey Epstein investigation (emphases mine):

… so many people were stunned when DOJ attorney General William Barr declined prosecution of Comey for leaking. Sources have told this reporter that the prosecution would be difficult because Comey’s attorney’s could argue he was not grossly negligent – hmmm, I’m not so sure about that and I wonder why the DOJ said anything at all. I have been told that the information being collected by Barr appointed Connecticut Attorney John Durham, will be chilling, stunning and justice will be served. I won’t believe it until I see it. I, like so many others, have become a little jaded over the developments.

I say,” a little” because I haven’t given up all hope. I know America cannot afford to have a two-tiered system of justice and I believe in Barr, for now.

Liberty does not exist in a banana republic, where there is one set of rules for the political elite and another for its citizens. It would be the beginning of the destruction of the foundation our nation was built on: The Constitution.

If we no longer believe in what it says, what will it mean? It will mean nothing and our nation will no longer be that beacon of light for so many around the world that live in unjust societies …

As an American, I’m more than disturbed -I’m sickened – by their uncanny ability to skirt the law and how their friends in high ranking positions are working diligently still to protect them.

I could not agree more.

Democrats’ five-star accommodation in Venice

We all know that Democrats are the voice of the people, right?

I’m being sarcastic, but that is the image they project:

.@HouseDemocrats spent our first #200DaysOfProgress fighting #ForThePeople! https://t.co/OzZPlMx0BT

— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) July 25, 2019

Meanwhile, the once beautiful city of Baltimore, Maryland has been in the news over the past few days. The district’s congressman, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland), has been roundly criticised by residents, Republicans and President Trump for allowing it to deteriorate. He cannot take full blame, but he would do well to focus on his constituents rather than trying to impeach Trump.

This lady is a member of the Baltimore County Republican Central Committee:

Start by #WalkAwayFromDemocrats pic.twitter.com/Hq8zwXaz9D

— Love it Or Leave it (@ScottRickhoff) July 28, 2019

It's nothing new. In 1990 I was paving beltway 695 and the killing average in the city was 4 a night

— WVwalker (@Wvwalker1) July 27, 2019

It's even worse now.
My family & friends tell me they are basically stuck in there homes for fear of how bad the gang wars are now.
When I lived there 20 years ago we could still go to the Inner Harbor & Fells Point but no longer!

— Hillbilly🦋Heaven⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@WvTrump) July 27, 2019

While the controversy over Baltimore rages …

Baltimore resident Michelle on CNN’s Victor Blackwell suggesting Trump was racist for his tweet:

“Trump is not racist … I’m glad he put [Cummings] on blast. The rats just didn’t come. These houses just didn’t get torn down, they’ve been like this”

(2/2) pic.twitter.com/yfW7Cd0vhg

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) July 27, 2019

Trump is being called a Liar & Racist for saying West Baltimore is poorly ran by Democrats.

Well here is a video of West Baltimore and according to Democrats this is beautiful site. They like to see black people living in filth.
pic.twitter.com/rzkbbPQj8R

— Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) July 27, 2019

… Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and selected Democrat congresscritters stayed in Venice — yes, Italy — over the weekend in five-star accommodation at the Hotel Danieli (be sure to click on that link)!

Yes, Pelosi and the Democrats truly are of the people (not):

Nancy Pelosi gave a press conference about impeachment before hoping on her private jet and flying to Venice, Italy where she was spotted at the Luxurious 5-Star Hotel Danieli. What a woman of the people. (By unfiltered.politcs on Instagram) pic.twitter.com/IaupfRQUnc

— CJTRUTH (@cjtruth) July 29, 2019

More than likely the room that they're writing the tweets in… pic.twitter.com/WazI4AkoeB

— Brenden Dilley (@realhublife) July 28, 2019

Baltimore-Bred Mobby Pelosi Lectures Trump on Criticizing Baltimore Corruption From Five Star Hotel in Italy!

CANNOT MAKE THIS UP!

And HEY TWITLER – why did you chase InfoWars off this platform? YEAH, WE KNOW!!!https://t.co/uPShR5Y7dA

— Wolf Moon, Magaluminum Miner (@WOLFM00N) July 28, 2019

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh: 'You can smell the rats' – Baltimore Sun (September 2018)

Trump knows…he always knows… https://t.co/p3Oz0o1bc2

— CJTRUTH (@cjtruth) July 28, 2019

Residents of Baltimore’s poorest boroughs have lifespans shorter than people living under dictatorship in North Korea. That is a disgrace.

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) May 5, 2016

Bernie Sanders said West Baltimore was like a "third world country." I guess he's a huge racist too, right #WeAreBaltimore hashtagers? https://t.co/697JMCk3Bt

— Mark Dice (@MarkDice) July 27, 2019

Over the weekend, various people, including Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida), thought that Rep. Elijah Cummings was among Pelosi’s delegation, but he was not:

.@RepCummings is not on the Pelosi CODEL marking the 400th Anniversary of the First Enslaved Africans Landing in America. US Army Africa HQ is in Italy. https://t.co/6O2GMiy1y7 https://t.co/pNqR0g3xYM

— Drew Hammill (@Drew_Hammill) July 27, 2019

The Washington Examiner reported (emphasis mine):

Pelosi was joined on the trip to by several other black Democrats, including Majority Whip James Clyburn, Congressional Black Caucus Chairwoman Karen Bass, Rep. Barbara Lee, Rep. Ilhan Omar, and Rep. John Lewis.

The Democratic delegation is visiting the U.S. Army Africa headquarters in Italy. They will also visit Ghana, a trip that coincides with the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans landing in America. Pelosi will be the first speaker of House to address the Ghanaian Parliament.

One wonders how much this junket cost and how many family members accompanied them. The mind boggles.

Meanwhile, Baltimore and other Democrat-controlled US cities are in chaos.

More censorship: The_Donald

Early last week, James O’Keefe and his Project Veritas team were victims of censorship with their exposés of Instagram and Google algorithms designed to throttle pro-Trump media:

1. @YouTube bans @Pinterest investigation
2. @Twitter suspends Veritas for Pinterest story
3. @reddit bans Project Veritas
4. @YouTube bans @Google investigation
5. @Vimeo removes Project Veritas account

DO THINK BIG TECH IS WORKING TOGETHER?

— Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) June 26, 2019

Around the same time, Reddit’s popular The_Donald was ‘quarantined’, just as the 2020 presidential campaign got underway with the Democrat debates:

The_Donald quarantined on the eve of the Democrat Debates 🧐 pic.twitter.com/JnCXDXu2bO

— /r/The_Donald (@thedonaldreddit) June 26, 2019

My home The_Donald on @reddit has been quarentined on the day of the first Democratic Debate… Coincidence?

Absolutely not.

A community of over 700,000 Patriots.. suddenly silenced…

— Carpe Donktum🔹 (@CarpeDonktum) June 26, 2019

Within just the last 48 hours.

– YouTube removes video exposing Google election meddling.
– Vimeo bans journalism exposing anti-Trump election meddling.
– Reddit censors biggest pro-Trump forum on the Internet.

But there's no political bias, honest!

— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) June 26, 2019

Speaking of the Democrat debate, watch the blackout during the broadcast:

What really happened during the #DemDebate technical difficulties. pic.twitter.com/5QLqxkyVvl

— Carpe Donktum🔹 (@CarpeDonktum) June 27, 2019

President Trump tweeted:

.@NBCNews and @MSNBC should be ashamed of themselves for having such a horrible technical breakdown in the middle of the debate. Truly unprofessional and only worthy of a FAKE NEWS Organization, which they are!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2019

But I digress.

Back now to the main story.

The_Donald has been under attack by the Left since 2016. The subreddit (forum) has been enormously popular in red pilling — providing political wake up calls to — wavering Democrats, especially Bernie Sanders supporters.

Naturally, the Left wants to stop The_Donald.

On June 24, Media Matters got involved, claiming posts advocating violence against police on one of The_Donald’s threads.

Oddly, The_Donald’s true posters — and moderators — are very pro-law enforcement. Could there have been an infiltrator?

In any event, Reddit is loaded with questionable ‘subs’ (subreddits) that actually do advocate violence and, in other areas, aberrancy (to be polite):

Well, why isn't fullcommunism banned? There are tons of radical violent and revolutionary leftist subs.

— 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 ✍ 🇭🇰 (@CappyChomsky) June 24, 2019

Hmm. From the same Twitter account holder only a few weeks ago:

Milkshake them all. Humiliate them at every turn. Make them dread public organizing. https://t.co/myrCSv07Dx pic.twitter.com/7dozYzJoAl

— Carlos Maza (@gaywonk) May 21, 2019

Anyway, the end result was a quarantine for The_Donald:

Within 2 days of Carlos Maza calling for The_Donald Subreddit to be censored Reddit has taken action and quarantined one of the largest Pro-Trump forums.https://t.co/FncUe60aj4 pic.twitter.com/IMCprAp38A

— Tim Pool (@Timcast) June 26, 2019

2020 draws near

Reddit has officially quarantined 'The_Donald' subreddit, one of the most prominent hubs for Trump supporters to share content and memes.https://t.co/y5HaE7TJiD

— Tim Pool (@Timcast) June 26, 2019

Among other outlets, Gateway Pundit covered the story in brief.

Not surprisingly, The_Donald’s quarantine has attracted more readers as well as active pushback against Reddit (emphasis in the original):

Hi r/the_donald. Since reddit has banned this subreddit, I have gotten 38 people to create accounts just to subscribe.

I just wanted to say that I don’t agree with what’s happening. No matter your belief, you should have a platform without being silenced. Keep fighting.

Someone replied (emphasis mine):

We’ve added 6500 new subs since this morning by the looks of it. 754k to 760.5k

Splendid!

Some will ask why The_Donald doesn’t go elsewhere. They did set up a site with the same name on Voat, but the Left infiltrated it. Blueshare is affiliated with the aforementioned Media Matters:

We need another platform but thedonald sub at voat never took off and was taken over by antisemitic shills from blueshare.

Another issue is that newer platforms lack the capacity to handle large volumes of traffic. Public awareness of alternative platforms is also not very good. People visit platforms with which they are familiar.

One of Reddit’s moderators contacted The_Donald saying that Reddit wants the forum gone, therefore, readers should not give in or go elsewhere. Click on the image to enlarge:

Interesting modmail we just received. pic.twitter.com/BmLTeItpZR

— /r/The_Donald (@thedonaldreddit) June 26, 2019

The key points of the moderator’s message are as follows, taken verbatim:

Here is the thing you need to understand, it’s not enough for them to have a community like this put on the backburner. They want it to not exist. To exist means your ideas permeate, which is too much for them to bear. They don’t want alternatives, even if those alternatives are minority viewpoints. They want only one viewpoint to permeate. Their own.

This is where the_donald comes in. Please do not have this community sperg out and go to voat or gab.ai or whatever else. That’s what the wider reddit community wants to see happen. They want you deplatformed and irrelevant. You need to cherish what you have. This community is likely the largest trump community on the internet. It has to be protected, not segmented.

And for every subscriber this subreddit has, there are probably 10x lurkers that just browse without accounts. This subreddit has an important role to play in 2020. Don’t give the admins an excuse to shut you guys down. Don’t play into their hand.

You need to push back. You need to fight for your place in discourse, and you need to legitimize yourselves by existing and refusing to die. That will be your best revenge.

There are members of the reddit do-it-for-free crowd that are sympathetic to the_donald, but we always have to be quiet or we’ll be kicked off our teams. We are out there though. good luck to you.

I stopped reading The_Donald a few months ago. I’ll be reading it a bit more often now. I hope others will do likewise.