Secret Police

The Democrats ... along with their media collaboTRAITORS ... are really good at using pejorative language to accomplish their mischief. They have just dubbed the federal DHS agents who have been dispatched to Portland, Oregon to protect federal property there as the “secret police.” (They also have been called “storm troopers.”) This is after almost 40 days of continuous destructive rioting there which has been unchecked by the local police and where federal buildings have been continuously targeted ... see: NY PoSt Story.

This semantic attack, by design, augments the mob violence ... and puts these agents on the defensive ... constantly having to explain every action they undergo as not being like the East German Stasi. It is almost like the media are these thugs collaborators ...

See: DHS Pushback.

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Headlines

Kanye West holds his first event as candidate

NY Gov. Cuomo says young people at bars are ‘a threat’ to the state’s reopening

Allen West named new chairman of the Texas GOP

Bernie Sanders delegates from California reject Kamala Harris as VP

Trump says his relationship with ‘alarmist’ Fauci is ‘very good’

Oxford University’s coronavirus vaccine  shows positive immune response in trial

Chinese state media fawns over anti-Trump Lincoln Project

Son of federal judge Ester Salas shot dead, husband wounded

Battle over Covid aid consumes Congress’ final sprint to recess

‘We need to close down’ — Florida reports more than 10,000 new virus cases for fifth day

Ghislaine Maxwell reportedly believes Epstein was murdered

Everything is fine: Boris govt REJECTS  petition to protect statues

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Bombshell?

Here is a possible bombshell you won’t see on CNN, MSNBC ... or any alphabet network for that matter.


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Kathy

Obviously not social distancing

A woke young protester named Kathy

Was consumed with partisan wrathy.

Like many her age,

She vented her rage,

But too often didn’t take a bathy.


Afterward: Kathy was a Karen.

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Quotable Quote

It’s sad, when you are so anti-Trump, you are pro-crime. — Degan McDowell of FoxNews


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Today’s Poser

Has anyone noticed that there is almost a perfect correlation between the stock market’s performance and the ups and downs of how Trump is doing in the polls?


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Fractured Definition

Mastermind — a slave owner’s gray matter

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Headlines

America’s hidden economic crisis: salaries are being sliced

White House seeks to block funds for testing and tracing in coronavirus relief bill

Missouri Governor Mike Parson says pardon likely if St. Louis couple is charged

Hillary, Biden fan [of] Mary Trump: Getting uncle out life and death matter

Trump doubles down on threats to defense, coronavirus relief bills

Ohio heading in the ‘wrong way’ and ‘could become Florida’ as coronavirus surges

Coronavirus death rate in U.S. drops for twelfth straight week

Bette Midler declares ‘Donald J. Trump is a murderer’

Rep. Donna Shalala calls for Florida to shut down again

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross hospitalized

Biden would be much less critical of Communist China says his own pick for Chinese ambassador

Lightfoot’s Chicago: 50 shot, at least 6 killed, since Friday evening

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Scaredy Cats

President Trump recently “joked” about the best way to reduce the number of new coronavirus cases would be to reduce virus testing. There is no doubt that our testing has expanded almost ten-fold since our last pandemic peak in April. However, the number of new cases are only roughly twice what they were in April. This comparison has a wrinkle ... tests for antibodies done back then ... in two places in California and one in New York State suggested the real (asymptomatic) cases were 10 to even 40 times higher (pick 10) ... which, given our testing capability back then, our April peak could have been, in reality, as much as five times higher (10/2) than our current peak. In other words, our current “Covid spike” is a convenient fiction ... being used for political advantage.

This possible conclusion is borne out by also looking at coronavirus deaths during the same period (see:Washington Post Numbers) which are down to a third of what they were back then. Thus, new deaths are better relative to new case by a factor of 6 (down by 3 x up by 2). Now we have better virus treatments that should account for some of this difference ... but, there seems no doubt that most of the increase in new cases today can be attributed to better and more extensive testing  ... now totaling over 48 million ... the best in the world (other than China’s questionable numbers). And it should thus be the number of new deaths ... not the number of new cases ... that should be the better metric when measuring progress in combating this pandemic.

But why might Trump suggest, even in jest, that testing should be reduced? Because the Democrats and their media pals are focusing on the current fallacious “spike” in new cases to panic states into re-closing their economies and not opening their schools ... both of which would dampen Trump’s re-election chances in November.

Human nature being what it is ... if enough scaredy cats believe that President Trump’s policies are putting them at greater risk, they will be less inclined to keep him in office ... even though he might be doing what is right for our country. What is that old saw? “Perception is reality.”

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Fractured Definition

Mischief — when Elizabeth Warren lost out being the leader of her Cherokee tribe because she was a squaw. (Native Americans were misogynists/sexists, you see.)

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Headlines

Trump keeps fighting the Confederate flag battle many supporters have conceded

Sweden kept its country relatively open during the coronavirus pandemic, but its elderly paid a price

State Dept. cables warned of China’s Wuhan lab two years ago

Motorcycle crash victim listed as coronavirus death in Florida

Newsom orders virtual instruction in most California counties

Goldman Sachs says a coronavirus vaccine could be approved later in 2020

Oregon AG sues to prevent DHS from arresting rioters

Biden fights science: ‘Just plain dangerous to reopen schools’

The post-pandemic economic recovery will lean on private equity

Trump properties have made over $17 million from the campaign and the RNC since 2016

Democrat National Convention may have as few as 300 attendees

Fire rips through cathedral dating to 1434 in Nantes, France


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Horns

From reddit Pics

Obama had a halo, Trump has horns ... a very self-satisfied put down!

Ghostbuster

From daily timewaster

Trump’s next challenge ...

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Kerfuffle

President Trump was interviewed by Chris Wallace, one of his sniping critics, this Sunday on FoxNews for almost the entire hour. One of the high points was a kerfuffle between the two about whether Joe Biden wants to defund the police ... Trump saying he did and Wallace vehemently denying same. OK, Biden has not used the term “defund” but he did suggest that the police had become the enemy and its funds should be “redirected.” See: Townhall Article. This disagreement then was a distinction without a difference.

If FoxNews were truly “fair and balanced,” one would think that Wallace would have pointed this out.

But, to me, the real highlight of this whole back and forth was when Trump claimed that Biden could not hold his own in such an open-ended long interview. Trump said that Biden would be huddled on the floor whimpering “Mommy!”

Truer words ...

Afterward: To see the full interview go to Common Cents.

Today’s Poser

Perhaps, just perhaps it is because Donald Trump is so reviled by so many Americans that this becomes his motivation to fix so many of our nation’s problems ... such as calling out China ... and draining the swamp that is Washington, DC?

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Election Politics

There are a number of complex moving parts that may impact the November presidential and Congressional elections. Here are a few that I see:

- If many colleges move to virtual teaching and do not repopulate their campuses, then this typically liberal student block will be only voting from home ... and not from home or/and from where they go to school. This might help the Republican candidates in New Hampshire and Maine.

- Trump’s polling on his handling the coronavirus pandemic is currently unfavorable. If cases continue to spike ... with deaths to follow, this can’t be good for his re-election chances. However, a vaccine and effective therapeutics might be a game changer if they come soon enough.

- And the coronavirus has also been beneficial to Biden because this is the excuse for his interactions with the media being carefully managed. It might also be the rationale for his ducking some or all the debates with Trump. This would be of great benefit to his chances. Even worse, the pandemic also now eliminates Trump rallies which have provided much of the data for his get-out-the-vote efforts.

- The Durham/Barr investigation may (or may not) culminate with indictments and lots of captured news cycles ... hopefully before the voters go to the polls.

- If mail-in voting becomes pervasive for this coming election, then voter fraud could be a game changer ... and is something that worries Trump quite a lot.

- If it becomes obvious that new cases and/or new death numbers for COVID-19 have been cooked and were used as a Democrat political weapon, this might change things somewhat for those voters who follow such stuff.

-If certain Blue states, like California and New York resist sending their children back to school in September, then their economies will suffer ... possibly dramatically when compared to those states that choose schooling. Generally these are Blue states and I don’t expect that they will flip to red ... but you never know.

- If Biden wins, it will not be because voters adore him ... it will be because they are voting against that onerous orange ogre Trump.

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Nostalgia

From reddit Pics

Once common ... a steam engine in Colorado ...

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Headlines

Trump stares down a ticking economic time bomb

Twitter says 130 people were targeted in hack that hijacked accounts of Elon Musk, Joe Biden

SCOTUS declines to reinstate votes of nearly 1 million Florida felons

All-time low coronavirus approval rating hurting Trump in swing states

Georgia governor sues to stop Atlanta mask mandate

Wall Street banks are in no rush to bring employees back to the office

White House divided over next phase of stimulus

Poll: Joe Biden leading President Trump in Texas

Democrats use Inspector General’s report to renew calls for Medicare chief’s ouster

European leaders gather for crunch talks on massive coronavirus fund

Report: Lincoln Project paid $2 million to firms owned by founders

Feinstein proposes halting Covid aid for states without masks mandates

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Moral Purity

It is wonderful to die for a cause ... any cause! — Voltaire’s tutor

In a perverse sort of way, one has to admire our younger generations who are violently agitating for our moral purity: no more bad cops, no venerating of statues to those who owned slaves or tolerated slavery, compassionate remediation for the income disparities that exist is our country today, hatred for those living a life of white privilege, denying anyone in the world immigration entry into our despicable country, keeping otherwise peaceful minorities incarcerated far beyond what their offenses dictate, dictatorial oppression of peaceful protest. ... even if they involve looting or arson.

All these national injustices need to be remedied ... immediately, no backtracking! “Else we will burn the system down!” All the while conveniently ignoring hundreds of other injustices of equal or greater consequence.

Yes, this naive idealism is kinda admirable ... if misdirected and dangerous ... as a result of indoctrination by ivory-tower pedagogues who have never lived a life that would belie their own fuzzy-headed [im]moral sophistry.

Confederate Flag

From Powerline Blog

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