Monthly Archive: August 2020
ELITE SUPER SHOCK: Dems Worry Violent Demonstrations Will Hurt Them in November
Axios clues in like this is some great insight.
Ohio county tells story of the seismic shift of working-class voters toward GOP
From The Washington Enquirer.
Betting Odds Lead for Biden Craters 19 Points — from +24 Pts to +5 Pts
See the interactive graph from RealClearPolitics, here.
Robinson: With Donald Trump and this election, it feels ominously like 2016 all over again
Robinson in The Guardian: Donald Trump is not a competent president but he is a terrifyingly effective one, as the 2020 RNC proved once again. The central lesson of 2016 for Democrats should have...
Rocks and Bottles Used Against National Guard by BLM Protesters in Wisconsin
Battle rages on between the National Guard and Black Lives Matter rioters in front of the courthouse in Kenosha. pic.twitter.com/eawsng2irl — Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 25, 2020
Mortgage Delinquencies Soar To Decade High
The high cost of ‘slow-the-spread,’ part infinite, from Zero Hedge: Readers may recall last week we outlined the dam of pent up mortgage delinquencies continued to crack, with the share of delinquent Federal Housing Administration’s loans hitting a record...
Scalise: Pelosi’s Rhetoric that Republicans are “domestic enemies” is Why I was Shot
https://twitter.com/SteveScalise/status/1298022930887081984?s=20
Portland police move in quickly, declare riot as fires set outside union headquarters: Key takeaways
From Oregon Live: A march on the Portland police union headquarters drew a rapid police response Monday night after someone set a fire next to the building. Officers arrived at the Portland Police Association...
GOP makes compelling pitch to black voters during first night of RNC 2020
Michael Goodwin in The New York Post.
Van Morrison blasts Covid gig limits as ‘pseudoscience
The Guardian: Van Morrison has denounced the supposed “pseudoscience” around coronavirus and is attempting to rally musicians in a campaign to restore live music concerts with full capacity audiences. The 74-year-old Northern Irish singer launched...
The convention shows Democrats have ceded the working class to the GOP
Marc Thiessen in the Washington Post.
AOC to DNC: We Need “guaranteed health care, higher education, living wages, and labor rights” but also “recognize and repair the wounds of racial injustice, colonization, misogyny, and homophobia.”
From Vox: …for many progressives, the week was also laced with angst. A number of Republicans received invitations to speak, while progressive star Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was only given a minute to speak. A story reported...
Nearly 30% of House Democrats skip emergency session to bail out Postal Service
From The Washington Enquirer.
People of Color More Likely to Die from COVID-19 than Whites by a Large Margin
See the article here.
Trucking freight demand came “roaring back” in June after pandemic shutdown
Trucks are America’s warehouses.
Daily Memo: The Democrats’ elephant in the room
Byron York in the Washington Enquirer: The Democratic convention took place on Nights 82, 83, 84, and 85 of rioting in Portland. On Thursday night, as Biden spoke, a crowd returned to the U.S. Immigration...
Documents show six methods Obama admin spied on the Trump campaign
From The Washington Times: Based on government documents, here are six instances of Obama administration spying on the Trump campaign or team, during and after the Nov. 8 election. ⦁ The FBI hired confidential human source Stefan Halper...
NY Post: AOC Freed from Primary Constraints by Pelosi’s Primary Endorsement
AOC Freed to Primary All the Dems She Wants: “No one gets to complain about primary challenges again,” AOC wrote on Twitter after Pelosi (D-Calif.) cut a video ad for Kennedy. Democratic Party bosses in the...
Portland rioters target ICE facility and reignite feud with federal police
From The Washington Examiner.
DNC Meetings Drop the Words “Under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance
From The Washington Times: At least two caucus meetings at this week’s Democratic National Convention began with recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance that omitted the phrase “under God.” Two videos posted online —...
‘Winning Has Come Through Revolts’: A Black Lives Matter Activist On Why She Supports Looting
The enablers of rioting, looting and burning.
GOP-aligned group to spend $4.5 million in Michigan Senate race
Roll Call reports: One Nation, an outside group that boosts GOP candidates, is placing its first advertising buy this cycle in Michigan’s Senate race, which pits incumbent Democrat Gary Peters against Republican challenger John...
Florida Mail-In Ballots Label Political Affiliations With “R” And “D” — What Could Go Wrong?
See video of the Florida mail-in ballots here.
The Atlantic: Remote Learning Is a Bad Joke
Emily Gould in The Atlantic: I can plan ahead and deal with the sucked-dry, brain-dead exhaustion that follows a Zoom-heavy day. My hatred comes, rather, from having coached my 5-year-old son Raffi through virtual...
NYC Mayor’s Response to People and Businesses Leaving NYC: “Kick rocks, billionaires.” (Really)
From NY Daily News: Last week, an article referenced the stakes of this leadership vacuum — namely that New York’s declining tax base, heavily reliant on its wealthiest residents, underwrites infrastructure and social services on...
The Press Cries Wolf: The post office is at the center of the latest moral panic, but how can readers tell what’s worth a real freakout anymore?
Matt Taibbi, the best independent journalist on the web.
Dem Cities Cut Police Budgets Amid Surge in Violent Crime
Milwaukee, Minneapolis, other big cities have seen surges in numbers of murders so far in 2020.
Portland police identify suspect in BRUTAL assault by BLM mob (DISTURBING VIDEO)
When the video of this attack is available from TravelWire, you know the mainstream media is simply refusing to cover it.
Portland man beaten unconscious by BLM mob tried to stop mugging of a Transgender Woman, witness claims
BLM “demonstrators” who are muggers.
Democrats nominate Biden for epic challenge to oust Trump
From AP Via the Albuquerque Journal: WILMINGTON, Del. — Democrats formally nominated Joe Biden as their presidential candidate, with party elders, a new generation of politicians and voters in every state joining in an...
Treasury Secretary Mnuchin says Democrats are unwilling to strike a ‘reasonable’ relief deal
From MSN: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Tuesday criticized top Democrats for what he categorized as stubborn tactics and refusal to discuss any “reasonable deal.” “The good news is despite Congress not acting, because Pelosi...
Hillary Clinton gets her I-told-you-so moment
From The Hill: Call it Hillary Clinton’s I-told-you-so moment. The 2016 Democratic nominee will have an opportunity to address the nation Wednesday in a primetime speech for the first time since she lost her bid...
The decoupling of the US and China has only just begun
From The Financial Times: The reality is that decoupling has much further to go. It is already spreading beyond technology and into finance. In time, it will affect every large industry, from manufacturing to...
Prescient Business Prof. Had College Take Out Insurance Against Chinese Students Not Returning — He Worried about a Pandemic or Flu
From Axios: Back in 2017, Jeffrey Brown, dean of the business school and the main proponent of the insurance policy, was worried about the potential for “a big flu scare that caused none of the students...
The Rewritten Limits of Presidential Powers Over the Last Sixty Years
Turns out those Presidential powers do exist.
New York City is dead forever, and it is not coming back because the work and the people are leaving
Cities die when the people in it leave, and families are the canary in the mineshaft, when they begin to leave, many follow. It is not just that families are leaving. Work is leaving....
Chicago cops are retiring at ‘unheard of’ twice the usual rate
The wages of Kim Foxx dropping 25,000 felony charges against criminals and the Mayor’s excuses for violent demonstrators. It is clear the Mayor and the Democrats do not have the police’s back. The only...
Seattle police release bodycam showing six officers being injured by explosives during riots
Violent criminals with explosives are just demonstrators to the smash and burn enablers.
No Consequences for Cook County State Attorney Kim Foxx’s “substantial abuses of discretion and operational failures”
Special Prosecutor Dan Webb reported “substantial abuses of discretion and operational failures” in Cook County State Attorney Kim Foxx’s handling of Jussie Smollet’s case. Webb, who was assigned to probe the investigation, released his findings on Smollet’s case...
Chicago Tribune Editorial Board: Kim Foxx’s manipulations in Jussie Smollett case. Why? We still don’t know.
The Trib’s Editorial can be found here: We don’t know why Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx went to bat for TV actor Jussie Smollett. But now, with Monday’s release of a damning statement from...
Antifa protesters go on rampage across Brooklyn smashing windows of an Apple store and spray painting ‘Murder Bezos’ over shop front of Whole Foods
Now it’s not about George Floyd, its about capitalism.
iamthewhitecat Gleefull about Torn Down Statue of George Washington
George Washington statue is down! Grand Park Downtown LA.#GeorgeWashington#SouthDakota #BlackLiesMatter#Columbia pic.twitter.com/6jyVAbz2p2 — Follow the white cat (@iamthewhitecat) August 14, 2020
Democrats don’t acknowledge what’s happening in our cities
Dems won’t acknowledge the chaos they have enabled.
HuffPo: Florida Teacher Writes Her Own Obituary To Protest Reopening Schools Amid COVID-19
HuffPo reports on a teacher who is resisting school re-opening with a mock obituary. She has no idea the whirl-wind of parent anger she is focusing on herself.
The Official 2020 Democratic National Convention Drinking Game
As usual, Matt Taibbi, does not disappoint: Imagine a four-day Zoom meeting in which the likes of John Kasich, Michael Bloomberg, and Nancy Pelosi warn you for the fifty through sixty millionth times about...
Trende: Why Has Minnesota Been Slow to Realign?
A fascinating look at the mid-west data, by Trende in RCP:
Watch Rioters Tear Down George Washington Statue at L.A. City Hall
Their belief in the “systemic racism” of the United States justifies tearing down George Washington’s statute — except it doesn’t, and it’s hardening the resolve of those who are pissed off beyond belief by...
17 Chicago Police Injured by Violent “Demonstrators”
Losing control of a city is an ugly thing to watch. It has nothing to do with Kim Foxx not prosecuting 25,000 felony charges.
Kim Foxx, Chicago’s Cook County Prosecutor, Dropped 25,000 Felony Cases Against Violent Demonstrators
The prosecutions collaboration with violent demonstrators means no consequences for felonies in Chicago-land, courtesy of Kim Foxx: “Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx fielded tough questions about the mayor’s comments, her response to arrests...
ELITE SUPER SHOCK: Pentagon launches task force to investigate ‘unidentified aerial phenomena’
From FOX NEWS: The Pentagon has created a task force to investigate UFOs following several unexplained incidents that have been observed by the U.S. military. The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force was launched earlier this month by Deputy Defense Secretary David Norquist,...
The Extremely High Cost of ‘Slow the Spread,’ Thousands of Small Businesses Are Dying
From Bloomberg: Big companies are going bankrupt at a record pace, but that’s only part of the carnage. By some accounts, small businesses are disappearing by the thousands amid the Covid-19 pandemic, and the drag...
Turley: Despite the guilty plea, Democrats still denounce this ‘investigation of investigators’
From The Hill: Gosh almighty.” Those words from former Vice President Joe Biden sum up plenty about the announced criminal plea by former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith. Of course, Biden was not referring to...
Alek Skarlatos: This GOP candidate tackled a terrorist on a train in France
From The Washington Times.
When Authority Vanishes: Chicago’s leaders have surrendered to vandals
The latest results of the Democratic Party’s purposeful disregard for enforcing the law against violent demonstrators.
National Interest: Kushner is an International Millennial Deal Maker — What Seemed Impossible is Now Possible
From The National Interest: First, no one believed that Jared Kushner’s innovative peace plans would bear any fruit. Now, Kushner’s peace plan seems to be working. What was once unthinkable is now a reality....
Hezbollah Chief Predicts Other Arab States to Follow UAE in Recognizing Israel
From India Today: The leader of Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah movement on Friday condemned the deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to normalise ties as a betrayal of Islam and Arabs, saying it...
Friedman in the NYT: A Geopolitical Earthquake Just Hit the Mideast
Friedman: For once, I am going to agree with President Trump in his use of his favorite adjective: “huge.” The agreement brokered by the Trump administration for the United Arab Emirates to establish full...
Foreign Policy: President Donald Trump “should in fact be credited for this historic breakthrough”
From Foreign Policy: To be sure, the UAE gets plenty in return. In striking the bargain, it solidifies both a leadership status in the Arab world and its outsized role in geopolitics. Enhanced and...
BBC: Israel and UAE strike historic deal to normalise relations
From the BBC: Israel and the United Arab Emirates have reached a deal to normalise relations, with Israel agreeing to suspend its controversial plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank. In a...
U.S. envoy to Israel hints UAE deal may be first of several: ‘Other dominoes are likely to fall’
From Just the News: “The author of ‘The Art of the Deal’ has made a very artful deal,” David Friedman, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, tells Just The News. “He created sort of the...
Dems Complain about Meadows in Negotiations, wish for Days of Just Mnuchin
WaPo reports Dems bitter over Meadows support for executive orders strategy and negotiating tactics: Unlike in previous rounds, when Pelosi held out for a better deal for Democrats and ultimately forced major concessions from...
Dems Second Guess Negotiating Tactics with Meadows in the Room
From the Associated Press: On a private call, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York told senators this week it was Meadows, not the other key White House negotiator, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin,...
Kamala Harris is the choice Joe Biden needed to win over Silicon Valley
Vox on Senator Harris’s long and on-going relationship with tech elites from Silicon Valley: Cooper Teboe, a top Democratic fundraiser in Silicon Valley, said about one-third of major West Coast donors that he’s spoken...
Chicago looting leaves residents feeling unsafe, ready to leave city
Another example of the failed leadership and failed policy of go ahead, break our windows.
ELITE SUPER SHOCK: Empty apartments in Manhattan reach record high, topping 13,000
A prominent example of the high cost of the strategy to slow-the-spread of a virus you cannot stop spreading.
Death spiral for consumers
Good thing that during a pandemic, the White House is working hard to make sure there is health care policy on the pandemic bill. Axios on the health care death spiral for consumers.
NRO: Homicide Rate Spikes 37 Percent in America’s 20 Largest Cities in Just One Month
Talk of Defunding the Police encourages crime in major U.S. cities, riots and demonstrations and the pandemic are also to blame.
High Deductible Health Plans Financially Pound Patients
Plain and simple, this is wrong and should not happen, from The LA Times: Reporting from Bristol, Tenn. — Wendy Matney hesitated to tell her family not to call 911. “It seemed almost selfish to say,...
Moderna Wants to Transform the Body Into a Vaccine-Making Machine
Bloomberg: Almost every antiviral vaccine ever sold works in a similar way: A dead or weakened virus, or a piece of one, is introduced into a healthy person. The weakened virus stimulates the immune...
McConnell Fight for Liability Shield a Key Hitch as Talks Stall
From Bloomberg: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s insistence that legal liability protections for businesses, schools and colleges be included in any new coronavirus relief bill is approaching a moment of reckoning. Warning that an...
Democrats shy from leading court fight over Trump orders
The “optics” of Dems suing the President to stop Unemployment Insurance and a moratorium on evictions convince Dems to find someone else to sue, re: The Hill.