Who really won?

Trump didn’t win this time around. Maybe he actually did, but it doesn’t matter anymore.

He knows that. Honestly, everybody knows that. That’s not to say there wasn’t some world-class cheating involved. Everybody knows there was.

Still, he lost mostly because he couldn’t escape who he’s been all along. An outsider. This played well the first time he ran because he spoke to a feeling among many Americans that the political establishment and the media couldn’t care less about working men and women.

He was right about that then. It’s still true today.

He accomplished amazing things in his term. Especially when you consider how he was opposed and sandbagged by the career bureaucrats, our own intelligence agencies, Democrats and their pals in the media, and by establishment Republicans in his own party. Despite all that, he gave us the greatest economy, the greatest increase in household income, and the lowest unemployment numbers among all Americans, regardless of race or ethnicity, in our history.

The China virus and his handling of the ensuing pandemic will be cited by many for his loss. He wasn’t done in by the virus, however, but how the media and Democrats portrayed him. Years from now it will be clear that he performed extraordinarily well in lighting a fire under government bureaucrats and engaging big pharma, other companies, and the military to to attack the virus.

What he accomplished is nothing short of astonishing.

But enough of the voting public just flat-out couldn’t deal with four more years of him. The bragging. The chaos. The nasty spats with his own appointees. And the unrelenting hammering back and forth between Trump and the media. It’s incredible after all the nonstop vilification of Trump by the media – including comparisons to Hitler – and his impeachment, that he still managed to get in the area of 74 million votes. Yet that wasn’t enough.

A lot of the public were simply exhausted by Trump.

So if Trump didn't win, does that mean Biden did? If not Biden, who did?

The super-rich, the political establishment, government bureaucrats, Wall Street and big corporations were the real winners. They all got what they wanted: the removal of Trump, who was the first US President in decades to refuse to do their bidding. For all of Trump’s faults – which were many – he was never beholden to anyone but the American people. In short, he set a dangerous precedent. He got elected the first time in spite of them. He owed them nothing.

That’s why it’s clear that while Trump was defeated, he wasn’t actually defeated by Biden. Yes, Biden will be declared the winner, but he won’t ever be running the country. Nor will Kamala Harris. Nor will the far left. Nor will Pelosi, Schumer, or The Squad.

All of the above are simply figureheads. Useful idiots, if you like. Puppets to be precise. Whether they realize it or not, and I suspect cynical Party leaders do know it, they are just fronts for nakedly commercial interests they ostensibly and quite publicly claim to abhor.

As always, it’s useful to follow the money.

Who benefits from open borders, giving citizenship to millions of illegals, and expanding H-1B programs? Who benefits from ending tariffs on foreign goods? Who benefits from easing up on China? Who benefits from subsidizing student loans and wiping out student debt? Who benefits from Medicare for all, and government-run healthcare? Who benefits from subsidizing housing, subsidizing rich taxpayers in high-tax states, and bailing out select industries?

Think about that for a moment.

The real beneficiaries are big business. And the uber-rich.

The supposed foes of Democrats and the working class.

The party that claims to fight for the working class against the greedy rich is in reality, without a doubt, the party of the greedy rich. The party of career politicians who somehow become millionaires in office. The party of tech billionaires. The party of Wall Street. The party of top executives at multinational corporations. The party of millionaire sports stars, celebrities, and media moguls.

That’s exactly who funds Democrats, who pushes them, and who they ultimately work for.

Doubt that? Consider this:

Do more immigrants and expanded H-1B programs help our working class? Nope, they drive down labor costs on the low end and freeze out American citizens from many tech jobs on the high end. The idea of ending tariffs and easing up on China positively thrills multinationals and Wall Street. Colleges and universities who refuse to control costs are the real beneficiaries of the government subsidizing student loans; wiping out student debt mainly benefits the offspring of the already affluent.

Medicare for all and government-run healthcare will actually enrich the health insurance industry – remember, it and the pharma industry drafted the original Affordable Care Act. Other Democrat promoted subsidies allow slumlords to charge more, encourage poorly run high-tax states to keep spending like drunken sailors, and provide financial assistance to “favored” industries to survive even when they shouldn’t, or have far more than enough cash on hand already.

Does anyone truly believe these things were actually dreamed up to help ordinary citizens? Of course they weren’t. They were designed to help the rich and politically connected stay that way. But they were all sold to the public as benefitting everybody and absolutely essential.

When the US Chamber of Commerce, General Motors, Goldman Sachs, media conglomerates, and the heads of Facebook, Amazon, Google and Twitter are all on the same side as Bernie Sanders and AOC, you can’t possibly think this is sheer coincidence. When most of the big campaign contributions to Democrats came from Silicon Valley, trial lawyers, the teachers’ and public employee unions, and Wall Street, how does this comport with the Democrats “party of the working class” claim?

Democrats and Biden ran on a “return to normalcy” promise after all the years of chaos under Trump. But what does that really mean? I’ll let you in on a dirty little secret.

It means the real power will return to the same entities that held it before Trump; the same forces that fought Trump behind the scenes and worked diligently to delay and derail anything that didn’t fit their agenda at every turn.

Big business. Big money. Big unions. Big tech. The military-industrial complex. The poverty-industrial complex. The US Chamber of Commerce. Deep-pocketed lobbyists. Career government bureaucrats. Our intelligence community.

They’re all back.

Voting to overthrow the United States ...

Hard to believe, but this is actually what Democrats are promising if they win. 

 
Also, higher taxes, citizenship for over 11 million here illegally, full benefits for all illegals, taking away private insurance from more than 150 million Americans, packing the Supreme Court, and seizing guns from legal owners. Let’s not forget government paid abortions with no restrictions, the end of right-to-work laws, getting rid of fossil fuels, and an ever more intrusive government.   

I find this particularly stunning because in any other election supporting these policies would be the end of any campaign. The American public wouldn’t stand for it.  

But this isn’t any election.  That’s because Trump’s on the ballot.  

In reality, however, this election isn’t about Trump versus Biden, or Republicans versus Democrats. It’s about rage and vengeance because Trump was elected in 2016.  Still. 

 
Since then, Democrats and the media have completely lost any semblance of credibility. They openly lie.  They make up imaginary “sources.” They hide or refuse to report anything that doesn’t support their personal view.  They ignore the laws, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, common decency and anything else that stands in their way. 

They’ve also managed to make a significant segment of the population believe that it’s okay to destroy public and private property, physically attack law enforcement, burn and loot stores, put innocent lives in danger, and do whatever else they like – no matter how heinous or repulsive – because it’s all in the righteous cause of solving “racial injustice.”  When riots break out and cities burn, they call the rioters and looters “peaceful protestors.”

 
Reporters stand in front of whole city blocks in flames, police cruisers burning, rioters breaking store windows and carrying out flat screen TVs, and still describe this as “mostly peaceful” protests. Cable news contributors and Democrats have called the looting a form of “reparations.”

  
One Democrat activist has said the looting meant that some poor black family would have food tonight. I guess that would be while they’d be watching their new flat-screen TV.  Although I didn’t see any looters breaking into grocery stores to feed their families.  Liquor stores? Sure.  Target? Yep.  Walmart? Of course.  Footlocker? You bet.

 
Maybe they sold what they looted to buy food?

  
I don’t think so.  What about you?

      
One result of this selective reporting has been the death of any remaining trace of objective and honest journalism – not that journalism has ever been a pillar of integrity – but the media have stopped even pretending to be fair; in fact they actively promote and market their bias.

  
The tech giants – Google, Facebook, Twitter, and the other outlets they control – openly censor or impede access to information from people they don’t like, to views they don’t support, and to any criticism of views or people they do support. It’s blatant, it’s pervasive, it’s one-sided, and they really don’t give a damn if the public knows it.

  
They openly admit they alone make the decisions on who sees what. And what their audience is allowed to see.  They choose the priorities of which story leads, and what is never covered.  They also decide entirely on their own what’s true and what isn’t, and what’s to be trusted.

  
In short, they are censors.  They have also become Big Brother.  There’s no other way to describe what they are doing. 

They are completely controlling what the public is allowed to see. They have the ability to construct an alternate reality of their choosing, mainly because the majority of the mainstream media agree with what they’re doing. Especially since other media can use the tech giants’ “fact checkers” to justify their own censorship of views and stories they don’t like.

      
The tech giants’ “fact checkers” – like those at most other mainstream media outlets – are hardly independent and unbiased. Most only seem to “check” and nit-pick statements from sources and people they don’t approve of anyway. They never seem to be as diligent about politicians they prefer, or causes they support; they let even the most outrageously false claims from those slide as “mostly true.” Or they don’t see the need to fact check them at all.

  
Democrats are all-in on this censorship. 

One prominent Democrat has called for a “reconciliation” commission if Democrats win.  This commission would have the power to charge and punish Trump officials, members of his administration, and anyone else who carried out or supported his policies. 

 
Another, just as creepy, has proposed a bipartisan commission to regulate what is deemed factual and as such allowed to be broadcast on TV, cable, or the Internet. I suspect most Democrats and their allies in the media are okay with this for now. 

 
Like a lot of what Democrats and the media are proposing, George Orwell beat them to it.  He already came up with a great name for this commission: The Ministry of Truth.

Orwell also foreshadowed leaders’ attacks on critics as “enemies of the state.” Remember, that’s what Pelosi called Republicans. 

  
I’ll be completely candid. Today’s Democrats and the media scare the crap out of me. 

 
I’ve often said that of all the things that terrify me – and there really aren’t that many – censorship is at the top of that list. What we don’t know is always far more dangerous to our democracy and our way of life than what we do know.

Right behind censorship on my list is its political bedfellow – authoritarian government that controls every aspect of our personal lives, ends personal freedom, and alone decides who succeeds and who fails.  

It shouldn't surprise anyone that the powerful, the ultra rich like Bloomberg and Hollywood celebs, bankers and Wall Street types are spending their millions to help elect a proposed authoritarian regime under the Democrats. An authoritarian government would help them prosper even more; just ask Russian oligarchs. The rich and politically connected always get richer and even more powerful under authoritarian governments.   

Censorship and authoritarianism go hand in hand. One inevitably leads to another; it’s simply a matter of which comes first.

  
Sadly, censorship is helping the authoritarians in this election.  But if Democrats win everything, you can count on aggressive censorship to keep them in power.

        
That, and their Ministry of Truth.  They win; we all lose.  

Absolutely nothing to lose ...

Despite the threats from the Democrats about what they’ll do if Republicans try to fill the vacant seat on the Supreme Court before the election, Republicans should just go ahead and do it.  

Republicans really have nothing to lose. Even if they leave that seat open until after the election – a stupid and pointless move – it won’t change one damn thing.  Except to prove once again that Republicans don’t have the guts to stand up to bullies when they absolutely need to.  

Let me explain all the likely scenarios.  

Democrats threaten if they don’t get their way, if they take control of the Senate they’ll immediately move to expand the number of Justices on the Court to add more liberal Justices.  

If they take back the Senate they’ll move to do this anyway, regardless of whether that seat remains vacant until after the election, or Trump fills it now. They’ve been talking about this for years. It’s nothing new. They’ve wanted to do this since FDR.  

Next, they also say they’ll work to eliminate the Electoral College. 

Again, they’ve wanted to do this for a long time.  It’s also nothing new. They want to have the popular vote nationwide determine who becomes President.  That’s only because they’ve lost in the Electoral College while still winning the popular vote – mainly because of California and New York running up the numbers for Democrats.  However, to get rid of the Electoral College would require an amendment to the Constitution, which would take 10 years, minimum.  

Closely related, Democrats want to change the makeup of the Senate.  

They want to add Puerto Rico as a state, even though a lot of Puerto Ricans don’t want that. They also want to make DC a state, which goes against the original idea of government being in a neutral District of Columbia, not a state.  It’s not that they care about the people in either of these places, they simply want to pack the Senate with four more likely Democrat Senators. 

At the same time, they want to change how Senators are allocated.  Right now, per the Constitution, it’s two per state. Democrats (mainly those in more populous states like California and New York) say that isn’t fair. Why should sparsely populated states like Montana and Wyoming have the same number of Senators of, say, California? Shouldn’t Senators be allocated solely based on population? 

Of course not. That’s because, as much as Democrats hate it, we are a constitutional republic made up of states that each have equal representation in the Senate.  

All the threats from Democrats are a smokescreen. If they do – God forbid – keep the House and get control of the Senate and the White House, they plan to do all of the above anyway. 

Now, they won’t succeed because the American public doesn’t want any of this, any more than the public wants open borders and giving illegal immigrants full benefits including free healthcare.  Nor is the public in favor of public-funded abortion on demand with no restrictions. 

Democrats have devolved into the party of shitweasels willing to do and say anything to get and keep power. And to hide anything that might expose their duplicity.  

Their pals in the media help them every day with a hoax du jour, blatant lies, gross misrepresentations of facts, and omission of news that exposes Democrats as shameless amoral liars. Meanwhile, the media refuses to acknowledge anything positive from Trump or Republicans. Good news is all about Democrats; bad news, or barely covered news, is all about Trump and Republicans. 

So if a sitting Democrat decides to support Trump it’s a non-story.  

But if a deceased Republican’s spouse supports Biden it’s front-page news.        

Yet because the Democrats and media are so transparently dishonest, the public isn’t buying everything they’re being told which would probably surprise a lot in the media who live in their own world.  According to a recent public opinion poll 84% of those polled simply don’t trust the media, anymore.  You won’t see that covered in the mainstream media, however.  

Trump and Republicans need to do what they must, fill the open seat, and ignore the Democrat threats. If Republicans lose seats in the Senate because of this, as is possible, so what – most of those at risk were probably going to lose anyway. In some cases, the fight over the SCOTUS seat might help them more than they imagine especially if Democrats repeat their same antics during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.  

Plus, even if Trump and Republicans lose everything this time around it’s really only a short-term set back for a longer-term gain.  

Democrats won’t be able to do what they want: the public simply won’t stand for it. Packing the Court won’t happen. Puerto Rico and DC won’t become states.  They won’t be able to amend the Constitution to eliminate the Electoral College, or how Senators are apportioned. They won’t be able to execute the Green New Deal.  Nor will they be able to pull off a myriad of other progressive wish-list items. They may try, but the harder they try the worse it will get for them.

  
What they will do, however, is show their true stripes to the voting public.  Because of that, they will probably take a beating in the midterms two years later.  So at best, if Democrats win the House, Senate, and White House this time, they won’t hold all three for long.

  
Meanwhile, if Republicans hold the line and confirm a new Justice to Ginsburg’s seat, there should be another Trump-appointed Justice on SCOTUS. Someone conservative and young enough to serve for decades.  

We hope they die ...

To be precise: “We hope they fucking die.”

That’s what BLM supporters chanted as they blocked entrances to the emergency room trying to take in  two cops ambushed in their parked patrol car – one shot in the face, the other in the forehead, at point-blank range – in Los Angeles. This happened on Saturday.  

On Sunday, the NFL promoted and celebrated the same BLM. The NFL, the players, and the play-by-play announcers all groveled before this violent, racist, pack of cop haters and Marxists.  

Before every game, our national anthem was played followed by something that’s now the “black national anthem,” whatever that is.  Whole teams stayed in their locker rooms while these were played.  Others kneeled and locked arms in a show of “unity.” In acts of shameless and unwarranted ass-kissing, some players wore the names of blacks shot by police, including those of rapists, wife beaters, child abusers, violent gang members and drug dealers. The NFL allowed teams to paint end zones with messages supporting social injustice protests. 

Again, this is the same NFL that not long ago forbid players from kneeling in prayer, wearing eye strips with scripture, or displaying on the field anything else that might offend anyone. But supporting cop killers, rapists, and child abusers shot by police?  That’s just fine. 

As someone noted online, a woman who was raped had to watch professional athletes celebrate her rapist as a hero to black people by putting his name on their helmets. 

The NFL was actually late to this party for self-loathing whites. The NBA, MLS, and MLB, and who knows else, already beat them in the headlong rush to side with the real racists in all this. 

Why do I say that? Because if you think race is the ultimate determinant of everything, you are in fact a racist. Judging everything and everybody solely by race is the definition of a racist. It doesn’t  matter if you are white, black, Asian, or whatever, you’re a racist if you think race alone determines every outcome. 

Yet if you have the temerity to suggest that all lives matter, you’ll be targeted as a racist – which makes no sense at all, because saying all lives matter encompasses all races equally.  Only a hardened racist would believe only one race’s lives matter more than any others.

So if you claim black lives matter more than those of any other race, which is what BLM supporters say, then you are as much of a racist as the worst white supremacist. 

Which is the reason I’ve had so much of a problem with the whole “racial injustice” movement. 

And BLM in particular. 

They are racists.  They are bigots. They are everything I was raised to despise. 

They are also liars.  They lie about black deaths at the hands of police. They lie about rampant discrimination against blacks.  They lie about systemic racism.  But worst of all, they lie about how black lives matter when they disregard the astonishing rates of blacks killed by other blacks; they refuse to admit it, but only some black lives matter.

The lives of black cops don’t matter. The lives of black police chiefs don’t matter.  The lives of black business owners don’t matter.  The lives of black children shot by black gang bangers don’t matter.  The only black lives that matter are those when some black male is shot by police, usually as a result of trying to injure or kill that cop while resisting arrest. 

There’s nothing high and noble about BLM. There’s nothing altruistic about it either. It’s not helping blacks get a better education, get better jobs, live in safer neighborhoods or anything else.  If anything, it’s worsened every one of those things for those it claims to represent. 

BLM is more than happy to associate and encourage mostly white Antifa types – the black-clad brownshirts of their movement – to attack police and wreak havoc. Sure, they say they are a non-violent organization, the same way the Klan could call themselves a social club. 

But make no mistake: there are BLM members guiding every element of the destruction and harassment; they are clearly the ones with the bullhorns threatening white neighborhoods, accosting diners, directing the looting, demanding the defunding of police departments and, yes, calling for the murder of police.   

I have yet to understand why so many don’t seem to understand that BLM is a fraud.  It’s so obvious.  Their demands are ludicrous and perhaps intentionally unattainable.  If some brave soul were to broadcast their ridiculous demands – point by point – most people couldn’t believe what BLM supporters actually say it stands for. From eliminating police altogether, to breaking up the nuclear family, to abolishing bail, to emptying prisons – it’s all crazy stuff.    

BLM is nothing more than a grievance business designed to extort money and wield political power ultimately to destroy our culture, our history, our shared values, our economic system, and our way of life. Why? Because they are essentially Marxists. 

They know they can’t rebuild an entire society in their own twisted vision until they destroy the current one.  That requires the destruction of all critical institutions, such as religion, public education, law enforcement, the judicial system, government, the business community, and everything else on which the public traditionally relies on for stability. 

Not all blacks agree with BLM.  They want to see more police – not fewer – in their neighborhoods.  They want criminals to go to in jail, not released the next day.  They are ashamed to see BLM and Antifa types loot their local stores, burn down black-owned businesses, torch their neighborhoods, and beat or kill black business owners trying to defend their own property. They are appalled to see black criminals celebrated as heroes. 

A black female vlogger recently said she was going to piss off a lot of people by saying this, but if black people are tired of being stereotyped as criminals by whites, maybe blacks should stop feeding that perception and stop rioting, looting, and murdering each other. 

Or chanting they hope two police officers with serious wounds after being shot at close range “fucking die,” as they try to block them from getting to the emergency room.  Sickening.

These are the people the media, Democrats, professional athletes, and rich white liberals are praising as courageous social justice warriors fighting police brutality and racism?  

WTF is wrong with them?

We shouldn't have to put up with this much bullshit ...

Every now and then there’s just so much crazy going on that you have to wonder if we’ve all slipped through the looking glass into a completely alternate reality.

I’ve reached that point.  It’s time for a course correction.  Time to get back on track. 
 
There are just so many lies being told every day and too few people call these out as complete bullshit, which, frankly, is what they are. How they get away with this escapes me. Anybody with Internet access can easily find the facts that definitively contradict this crap, but for some reason, nobody is willing to stand up and call a spade a spade anymore. 
 
Supposed “fact checking” sites are among the worst offenders when it comes to lying. Snopes, Media Matters, WaPo, and PolitiFact – sources the media and Democrats say can be trusted and cite all the time – cannot be trusted at all. These left-leaning “fact checkers” are so biased it’s laughable.  Doesn’t anyone else find it strange that the only people they “fact check” are Republicans? I guess we’re all supposed to believe that only Republicans and Trump say things that aren’t true; no Democrat ever does – that’s why they never bother to fact check them.
 
Biden can say stuff that’s completely false – like 120 million Americans have died from Covid-19, how his proposed child tax credit would bring 720 million women back into the workforce, and how he was arrested trying to attend Mandela’s funeral, and the “fact checkers” are nowhere to be found. But let Trump exaggerate the size of a crowd and they leap on that like white on rice. 
 
So when Joe says he wants a real-time fact checker at any debate with Trump, well of course he would. He has nothing to fear because they’d let him slide and only “fact check” Trump.  They could be his very own Candy Crowley, who famously – and erroneously – “corrected” Romney in his debate with Obama, while letting Obama slide. 
 
Then there are the professional liars like Donna Brazile, Richard Goodman, Jessica Turlock, and Juan Williams. They are pettifoggers at best. Abject liars most of the time. They pick things out of context, conflate disparate things, and baldly lie to make their case.  That case always seems to be that Republicans and Trump in particular are racists, white supremacists, and evil. 
 
As a perfect example, they constantly misrepresent what Trump said about the incident at Charlottesville when protestors gathered to stand against tearing down historic statues of Confederate leaders and soldiers.  

A handful of Neo-Nazis and white supremacists mixed into the otherwise mostly peaceful protestors.  Counter protesters and Antifa types armed with shields, helmets, bats and other weapons, also showed up spoiling for a fight. Violence erupted when the much larger number of Antifa folks attacked the few Neo-Nazi clowns trying to leave.  It got very ugly fast; the Antifa people did a serious beat down of the Neo-Nazis and white nationalists there. Then a far-right loon ran over and killed one of the counter protestors in the chaos.   
 
That’s the true story of what happened that day.  There’s plenty of video.   
 
When Trump was asked to respond to what happened in Charlottesville, he never said there were fine people on both sides of the violence, which is what Biden and the professional media liars like Brazile, Goodman, Turlock, and Williams keep claiming. He said there were fine people on both sides of the debate over whether statues like that of Robert E. Lee should be taken down. He made it a point to publicly disavow any support for white nationalists or extremists of any kind, as a matter of fact. 
 
They all know this. Yet they lie about it every time.  
 
When they get called out on lies like this, which is often on Fox but nowhere else on broadcast or cable TV, they speak louder, interrupt, and talk over anyone who tries to get the facts straight. They try to bulldoze their lies over the facts.          
 
The morons spouting this nonsense know they are lying. They know they are distorting the truth. The lies are so obvious and transparently false. On the off chance they don’t know they are lying, they are stupid at best or delusional at worst.   They’ve clearly lost touch with reality altogether. Nobody should be giving them any credence – they’re either bald-faced liars or pathological liars. 
 
Either way, you can’t believe a word they say. I suspect most people don’t. Let me put it another way: I sincerely hope most people don’t believe a word they say.  I know I don’t. 
 
There’s more: I'd bet most people have heard that Democrats are the party of the working and middle class, while Republicans are the party of Wall Street, big corporations, and the rich. That's what Democrats and the media have been saying for years. 
 
That’s another big lie. 
 
The biggest donors to the Democrat Party are unions, Wall Street types and the super rich, not just the rich-rich. You know, Goldman Sachs partners, pop-culture celebrities, hedge fund and Silicon Valley tech billionaires, and the trial lawyers’ associations, to name but a few.  Not a pauper in the bunch.  When they nominate a long-time shill for the credit card industry in Joe Biden, and as running mate another Wall Street darling in Kamala Harris, the media still cheer them as fighters for the common man and woman, and foes of big business.  Unlike those evil rich Republicans.
 
The media know who these two are. They also know exactly who’s dumping in big bucks on their behalf; it’s all a matter of public record. But the lies just keep coming.
 
Joe's been running TV spots highlighting his humble beginning in Scranton, PA – a real working-class town. Growing up there, the implication is, made Joe the champion of ordinary working men and women.  The spot leaves out that Joe’s family moved to Delaware when he was seven. So he didn’t really grow up in Scranton, but Delaware.  But they try to make it seem he grew up there by showing a clip of a young Joe probably in his teens without disclosing where he was then. 

Spoiler alert: It was probably in Delaware.  
 
Did you know Joe led us out of the great recession and built a booming economy?  That’s what another of his TV spots claims. That’s laughable. Joe has always been the equivalent of teats on a bull.  He’s never accomplished a damn thing, seriously, not one damn thing – well except for the 1994 Crime Bill he authored and pushed which put thousands of blacks in prison. And now he tries to walk away from that at every opportunity. 
 
While he was in Pennsylvania recently, he said he was never in favor of banning fracking; an industry that’s created thousands of good jobs there. Of course, that was blatant lie. He agreed he’d “absolutely” ban all fracking and fossil fuels when Sanders cornered him in the Democrat debates.  There’s video. But now Biden claims he meant he’d oppose fracking and drilling on Federal lands only.    
 
While I’m at it in terms of willful misrepresentation, there’s Dr. Jill Biden. 
 
Not long after Joe’s first wife died in a car accident, he had an affair with his best friend’s wife that ended in a nasty divorce.  That best friend’s wife was the now Jill Biden. 
 
Next, do you know what Dr. Jill is a doctor of?  Like many people, you may have thought she might be a medical doctor of some kind, since the media keep referring to her as Dr. Jill Biden. Nope. She has her Ph.D. in Education; most people with a doctorate in Education find it ridiculously pretentious to call themselves “Dr.” outside of academia. My father had an MA in Far Eastern History and a Ph.D. in international studies – both significantly more difficult to attain than Dr. Jill’s credentials; even he didn’t refer to himself as “Dr.” (And he loved pretension.)  
 
What really got me going recently, though, were the lies related to the riots. 
 
Make no mistake, when you see people throwing rocks, fireworks, and Molotov cocktails at police and burning cop cars, looting stores and setting them ablaze, and beating up anyone standing in their way, that’s a riot.  I don’t care what bogus “cause” started the riot, a riot is a riot – a riot is never a “peaceful protest”; it may start that way but when property is destroyed, looting begins, and police are called in to quell the violence, that’s a riot.  No matter what the media and Democrats said for months. 
 
Suddenly, only because polling showed the chaos and violence Democrats and the media tacitly and sometimes overtly endorsed was starting to drag down Joe’s numbers, they’ve decided that maybe the destruction and looting has gone too far. Not that anyone engaged in burning, looting and attacking police is to blame, mind you, but that the rampant lawlessness – mainly in Democrat-run cities – that’s been obvious to most of America should be addressed. 
 
Which Joe and the Democrats, and the media have finally decided to do.
 
They’ve decided it’s all Trump’s fault.  Seriously. 
 
You have to admit, it takes big ones to blame Trump for the riots. 
 
Then again, they blame Trump for the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdowns that took the greatest economy in our history, and the lowest unemployment rates, and cratered both. 
 
I guess they believe if you’re going to lie, go big or go home.    

The inevitable post-election riots ...

There will be riots if Trump wins in November. The streets will be filled with angry, violent people burning buildings, destroying property, setting cars on fire, and looting. 

The common theme will be that Trump stole the election again. He’s not the legitimate winner.  He only won by cheating.  The real winner was Joe Biden.  And there will be no peace until the results are overturned and Joe and Kamala are declared the rightful winners.  They’ll probably even think about the 25^th Amendment again, or calling for a military coup “to restore democracy.”

That’s predictable. We’ve seen this preview for more than three and a half years so far. You’d have to be blind to see some other outcome from a Trump win. 

But what if Trump loses? 

Well, there will still be riots. The streets will be filled with the same angry, violent people burning buildings, destroying property, setting cars on fire, and looting. The same folks we’ve seen night after night attacking police, Federal buildings, and local businesses in Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Minneapolis, and everywhere else where those the media like to call “peaceful protestors” have laid waste.  

If anything, the violence and destruction will be even worse.  I wouldn’t be surprised to see them try to storm the White House to drag Trump outside for “revolutionary justice” by the mob. 

Wouldn’t they be happy that Trump lost?  Why would they riot? 

They’d riot because they’d now hold all the power.  That’s what they’ll think, anyway. And now there’s nothing, and nobody, to stop them.  Not the police. Not the National Guard.  Not Federal agents. Not those weak-kneed appeasers they already humiliated in state and local governments. Certainly not their Democrat apologists in Congress – they helped get them here, but as with useful idiots in past revolutions, they aren’t needed anymore. They are disposable.    

That includes Pelosi, Schumer, and Sanders. Nobody will be safe from a newly empowered mob. In short order, the mob’s purity tests will get more and more rigid. Even politicians who praised the mob and turned a blind eye to its violence and destruction will become suspect; especially if it’s discovered those politicians supported the cause just to protect themselves. 

The media who covered for them on their path to power may not be pure enough. Nor may the social media platforms owned by the tech giants.  The media and the tech giants really can’t be trusted not to backslide into old habits.  So, going forward, all media reports and social media posts will require prior approval by a revolutionary committee before publishing.

Goodbye Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press.   

Any dissent will be brutally crushed. Any splinter groups within the revolution arguing for moderation will be crushed as counterrevolutionaries.

Because the first rule of a revolution is to destroy any counterrevolutionaries.

Finally, some of the current leaders of organizations like BLM will come under the gun. Why did they accept money from corrupt capitalists?  Why did they take money from corporations who have oppressed minorities? Did they sell out for the bucks? 

And then we’ll see the second rule of revolutions come into play. 

The revolution always eats its own.  It’s inevitable. 

If Trump loses, does anyone with a smidgen of intelligence believe all the chaos will stop? That may be what the Democrats are promoting to win this election, but that’s not going to happen. Everybody knows it.  If the chaos continues, which it will, how would a newly elected President Biden and V.P. Harris, and the Democrats’ pals in the media, respond?

I suspect Biden would first appeal for an end to the violence because “it’s time we all came together as a nation.” When that fails, which it will because the rioters have shown absolutely no interest in ending the rampages, then what?  Can you see Biden calling out the National Guard? Can you see the Democrat mayors and governors finally putting their foot down?

After Democrats, the left, and progressive socialists like The Squad, have called all police racists and demanded defunding key police departments, and Biden has said he’s in favor of allowing more citizens to sue police, does anyone really believe the police are going to  rush to quell the violence? Why would they?  Would you? Would anyone?

What will the media do? Will they continue to hide the violence from their viewers and pretend it’s not real?  More likely, they and the Democrats will blame the violence on far-right extremists and white supremacists trying to discredit the movement and call for an extreme Federal and state crackdown on any group that espouses anti-socialist opinion.

Enemies of the revolution, in other words. The enemies list will continue to grow. 

Now, you may think there’s no basis from what I’ve written here.  But of course there is.  It’s called history, which sadly isn’t taught anymore.  Still skeptical? Just look at what happened in the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, or Fidel Castro’s revolution in Cuba.  Or for a more recent examples, try Daniel Ortega and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, or Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. 

Socialist revolutions lead to dictatorships. 

So, if Trump wins can he end the chaos? If the Democrats take the Senate and keep the House, we’ll have two more years of impeach-Trump hearings; nothing will get done. The chaos will continue in Congress and also on the streets. 

And then the reign of terror will end.  Probably in as few as two years, because Democrats in Congress will finally be held accountable by the voting public.  If they push through their radical agenda and are able to overcome a Presidential veto, the public will see what the Democrats, the left and progressives have been trying to hide for decades. 

Establishment Democrats, not Republicans, are the party of Wall Street, big banks, big insurance companies, big corporations, the defense industry, and the ultra-rich. Just see who their top donors are.  Everything Democrats do – from Obamacare, to pandering to public employee and teachers’ unions, promoting Federal funding for abortions, fighting against tort reform, to their sudden support for keeping us in meaningless foreign wars – is designed to reward their donors.

They don’t give a rat’s ass about Joe and Molly Sixpack in the working-class neighborhoods, or Paul and Muffy in the suburbs, or about Tyrone and Keisha in the inner city.  No do they really care about any of their kids.  Or women in general. Or about gay people.  All they care about is remaking America, keeping everybody divided, and if necessary, expanding the voting base with immigrants, to keep a perpetual hold on power.  That’s their dream.      

But two years after this Presidential Election, the House will again be up for grabs.

It may very well be nut-cutting time for Democrats if they happen to run the table yet the chaos in Congress and in the cities continues.  Especially if Trump is not longer there to blame.  

Who's "The Man" now?

How disappointing it must be to all right-thinking liberals and progressives to discover they themselves have become “The Man.” And that they and the people they support politically now embody just about everything they’ve fought against with such righteous indignation for years.   

That’s what’s happened in the U.S.

The same people who railed against invasive Big Brother overreach into peoples’ private lives and opposed censorship of any kind for decades have become what they detested.   

They’ve become The Establishment. “The Man,” in other words. 

You know, the shadowy entity we once believed controlled everything behind the scenes.  We felt its heavy hand everywhere – controlling what we were told by the media of the day, and even what we were allowed to think or say ourselves. “The Man” was always ready to crack down on anyone who challenged its authority. It didn’t hesitate to use outright lies, misinformation, propaganda, censorship, and, if necessary, threats of violence, to keep us under its thumb. 

You simply couldn’t trust “The Man.” And in the 1960s many of us didn’t. 

Back then, (when a lot of us were Democrats) we suspected “The Man” (mainly right wing Republicans) worked diligently to sow distrust and division among Americans solely on the basis of age, race, gender, education, class and income. Why? To keep us from uniting as one in opposition.  We had no doubt “The Man” covertly spied on and invaded the privacy of ordinary citizens as well as political opponents, used strong-arm tactics to crush opposition, used Federal agencies to harass and silence critics, and kangaroo courts to persecute political enemies.

“The Man” was authoritarian and tyrannical and wielded its power like a club to bludgeon its enemies and shut down dissent.  Only the truly brave had the guts to stand up to “The Man.”  They usually paid a high price – personally and professionally – for doing it. 

Sound familiar? 

Yeah, that’s who liberal Democrats, progressives, and the left have become.  It’s a mystery why they can’t see it because it’s just so damn obvious to many of us. 

Or perhaps they know what they’ve become. And they like it.  No, they love it.

They love having the power to get people fired for not agreeing with them. They love the power to decide what is and what isn’t acceptable to say or print; which words are forbidden and which are permitted.  They love the power to stop anyone from publicly challenging them.  They love having the power to force politicians and police chiefs to their knees, figuratively and literally.  They love using the courts and hand-picked judges to get what they want without the trouble and inconvenience of debating and passing laws.

They are fine with having their friends in government spy on people they don’t like, secretly fund their political allies, and punish their political enemies, even if that rides roughshod over the Constitution. They are fine with destroying the reputations and livelihoods of their critics, and even of celebrities who won’t grovel before them begging their forgiveness for some real or imagined slight. Most of all, they enjoy using their new-found power to silence free speech and opposing opinions.

They are the mob. And to a lot of Americans, they are terrifying.    

Is it any wonder that according to a recent survey almost 65% of all Americans are afraid of saying something politically incorrect or perhaps racially insensitive? The consequences are too awful to consider for most people, apparently.    

Think about that for a minute. 

People are just too afraid to speak out.  It could cost them their job. It could cost them their friends.  It could cost them everything near and dear to them.  Almost 65% of Americans have been intimidated into foregoing their own rights to free speech. That’s not an overstatement. 

No one is allowed to criticize or question the motives of those defacing public buildings and monuments with obscenities, burning the flag and Bibles. Or to ask why they are attacking police, private citizens and private property, and rioting and looting under the guise of “peaceful protests.”  Anyone who dares speak out against the obvious violence and destruction is called a fascist at best, but more often a racist, or perhaps a white supremacist. 

These ignorant barbarians have intimidated colleges and universities to ostracize and punish faculty who don't promote the "correct" narrative, and to cancel speakers with whom they don't agree. They’ve  intimidated comedians to the point that many will no longer perform on college campuses.  They’ve also managed to intimidate most of the media who refuse to report anything that exposes their intolerance of opposing views, much less their tendency toward violence. 

They've essentially created the same type of fascist state Antifa claims to be fighting to prevent. This is the same authoritarian regime that the Democrats, the left, and now the progressives claim Donald Trump is leading us toward.

Surprise. We’re already mostly there, thanks to all of the above. 

It’s not because of Donald Trump. If anything, it’s in spite what he’s tried to accomplish for the country, for the economy, and for our citizens of all races.        

So I have to ask Antifa, Democrats, the left, and the progressives a simple question. 

How does it feel to realize that you’ve become what you claim to hate? The bully. The censor.  The tyrant demanding control over every aspect of everyone’s private life, what they can say, what they can see or read, who they can associate with and more.  

Even what they can laugh at.  

How does it feel to be “The Man,” in other words?   

Enough of this crap ...

Haven’t we all had enough? 

It’s well past time, to start kicking ass and taking names. The only question now is why the hell it’s taking so long to do what was inevitable from the very start. 

The protests were never about Black Lives Matter.  We all know this.  We knew this when the protests started. Nor were they about George Floyd.  And while many initial protests were “peaceful” about 80% of the day, at night the other 20% was just about destroying things.

Tearing down statues was never about Confederates and pro-slavery politicians. Nor was pulling down statues of Jefferson, Lincoln, and Christopher Columbus.   It was about destroying things, plain and simple. It was about showing that mobs can destroy whatever they want, whenever they want, and spineless, gutless state and local politicians will do nothing to stop it; even to the point of throwing their own police under the bus, and making it impossible for them to keep order.

Portland, Seattle, DC, NYC, Minneapolis, Louisville, Chicago, and too many other American cities are standing aside and letting everything burn. The politicians in those cities are cowards, too frightened to put an end to this carnage. Some of these weasels have even gone out to join the protestors and call for all Federal agents to stop defending Federal property – which the Feds have an obligation to do under the law – and to leave their cities immediately. 

But before the Feds leave, these same politicians are demanding that the Feds clean up all the graffiti on Federal buildings placed there by the protestors. That’s chutzpah. 

The “peaceful protestors” have upped their game, knowing these nutless wonders running the cities are too afraid to do one damn thing to stop them. One of the latest tricks is deploying the Wall of Moms or the Wall of Vets.  This way, “Moms” or “Vets” act as a human shield behind which the protestors can throw frozen water bottles, rocks, fireworks and more serious explosive devices at the police and agents. It’s just a matter of time before they deploy the Wall of Kids.   

“Peaceful protestors” have lately wielded black umbrellas in their “peaceful” interactions with police and Federal agents.  One use is to hide behind while throwing things at the cops and agents.  Another is to fend off rubber bullets and other impact weapons used by law enforcement. Another is apparently to use as a sharpened-tip stabbing weapon against police and agents. 

Face it, it’s open season on cops everywhere. And nobody in power is doing squat. When the highest-ranking uniformed officer in the NYPD is attacked and bloodied by a “peaceful protestor” while other “protestors” record it on their phones, you know things are out of control.  Then when the culprit is caught and released the next day by NYC courts, it’s a complete shit show.   

To make matters worse, if that’s even possible, District Court judges, appointed mostly by Clinton or Obama, are now issuing rulings to prevent law enforcement from forcing anyone supposedly a “legal observer” or holding a press credential to follow their directions to disperse. 

Go ahead, guess the result:  violent protestors all in black wearing tactical gear, helmets, gas masks, and armed with weapons like rock hammers and electric saws suddenly have press credentials. Wow, is anyone surprised? 

But wait, there’s more. 

In the latest escalation, there are now heavily armed black militias forming in support of BLM. They call themselves the Not Fucking Around Coalition, or NFAC.  Unfortunately, their members are just as inept at handling firearms properly as the gangbangers in Chicago; in their first outing in Louisville, one of them accidently shot three of their own militia members. 

While they were proudly strutting their stuff, another militia appeared – clearly not on the side of BLM or Antifa like NFAC.  I didn’t see the other militia’s name, but I suspect it’s probably something along the line of Enough Of This Bullshit.  That would be my choice. 

Finally, is there any doubt by anyone with the good sense God gave a sweet potato that BLM, Antifa, the Democrats, and the left-leaning media are all in this together?

Anyone? Anyone? Speak up now …

Of course they are.  Nancy is so happy she can hardly keep her teeth from falling out. Chuck Schumer, doing his best impression of DC Comic’s Penguin, can hardly control himself. The media can’t get enough of showing heavily edited pieces of “peaceful protestors” set upon by police and Federal stormtroopers sent in by Dictator Trump. But, the same media have no time or interest in showing the protestors beating up police and other civilians, smashing windows and looting, setting cars and ambulances on fire, attacking Federal property and burning businesses. 

It's time for the inevitable finally to happen.

It’s time to say, in the immortal words Dick Cheney said to Patrick Leahy: Go fuck yourself. 

This needs to be said to every BLM member and supporter. To every Antifa asshole.  To all the lying Democrat politicians and media types. 

Three little words that convey so much. We’re not putting up with this crap anymore. 

Local and state politicians need to be told in no uncertain terms that if they won’t support the police and let the police do their job and keep order, then someone else will take over that task. You can be absolutely certain that someone won’t be social workers; more likely in the absence of police it will be ordinary folks and homegrown militias taking the law into their own hands.

Instantly, more crimes will automatically carry the death penalty. And all the big talk from Democrats and progressives about gun control and seizing guns from legal owners goes out the window immediately.  Try it and there will be a civil war.  Seriously, there will be.    

Next up, to BLM:  Take your ridiculous demands and shove them up your ass. There will be no reparations. Zero. We’re not getting rid of police departments (see above).  We’re not going to close down all our jails and prisons.  We’re not going to cancel everybody’s student loan debt. We’re not going to become a Marxist society. We’re not going to get rid of the nuclear family.  We’re not going to cower and worry you’ll be offended by something. 

We don’t care what you want anymore. Period. Any elected official who supports giving you any of those things doesn’t deserve to keep their job. And probably won’t.    

Your blatant hypocrisy about which black lives actually matter makes the name of your organization a sick joke. Be honest for a change:  black lives only matter if they are killed by cops and not by another black criminal.  Those black lives matter more to you than other black lives, including the lives of black cops, black business owners, and black children. 

You don’t have massive street protests, riots and looting for weeks when their lives are lost, most often at the hands of a black criminal.  You don’t have a gold coffin for each of them, do you?  Al Sharpton doesn’t deliver a eulogy at their funerals, does he?  You’ve tapped into the black grievance industry for all it’s worth, but only selectively.  So stop expecting any of us to still believe you think all black lives matter.  You clearly don’t. 

We know your organization’s a fraud; you know it, too. But the days of shaking down stupid gutless corporations and trying to cash in on manufactured white guilt are over.  Feds should file RICO Act charges against BLM for running a criminal enterprise across state lines.

Whatever sympathy we once might have had is gone.  We aren’t all racists; most Americans never were.  No American still alive ever owned slaves. We believe everyone – black, white, Asian, Hispanic, Aleut, or whatever – deserves impartial, equal justice under the law.  Equal justice for everyone is something everyone agrees on.  That should be enough. 

If it’s not enough for you, go fuck yourself. That’s all we’ve got.     

And if you come to our cities, towns and neighborhoods and threaten us, our families, our property, or our neighbors, to get more from us than that, you will regret it. That’s not a threat, that is a sincere and honest promise.   

And now, Antifa.  We’ve dealt with hooded clowns like you before; gutless bozos who hid under robes and hoods to terrorize and intimidate others.  Just like you’ve been doing.  That’s why there are ordinances on the books in at least 18 states that forbid masks and hoods to disguise yourself.  Originally designed to take on the KKK, these laws are applicable to you also.  

After all, the KKK and Antifa are pretty much the same type of domestic terrorists. 

That’s exactly what Antifa types are, and should be treated as such, under Federal law, not some woosie local ordinance.  If Feds start enforcing that, you could be facing from 10 years to life in a Federal prison.  There will be no black ninja outfits there, no Pop Tarts or Hot Pockets from your mom, and kneeling there may have much different consequences, depending on your cell mate.

Also, like BLM’s demands, we don’t care what you want anymore either. Assuming, for that matter, that you know what you want beyond destroying things.  Right now you appear to have the thought process and reasoning skills of zombies.

If you’ve seen the movies, you know what stops zombies. 

I suspect it works in real life, too.  It’s up to you if you want to test my theory. 

Nope? Then go fuck yourself.  I’m done. We’re all done with the lot of you.     

Back from BLM Re-Education Camp ...

It’s good to be home again.  And to be so enlightened.

I haven’t gotten my Participation Certificate yet, but I feel pretty good about the week I spent at BLM’s Re-Education Camp.  I learned so much. I’m certainly a better person now. 

Frankly, my first impression was that I had arrived in the wrong place.

I expected most people at a BLM camp to be black, or as the media have recently decided Black (with a capital B).  But most of the people there were White. (See, I learned.)

Like really White.  Blindingly White.  Whiter than me, by far.  Like so White they were almost a light blue. Unhealthy looking, too, like shoppers in a health-food store.

My first thought was they probably never spent much time outside.  They probably never did anything more strenuous than texting.  Or maybe walking up the stairs from their mom’s basement to get money from her purse to pay the Domino’s or Grub Hub delivery person.    

But here they were, in all their pale glory. In their black (Black?) T-shirt with the screen-printed Black Power Fist or Black Lives Matter text they bought online with mom’s credit card.  Ready to learn how to be taken seriously. Ready to discover how they could fit in with racial and economic groups that normally terrify them, and maybe routinely shook them down for their lunch money.  Ready to take on “The Man” to fight for racial justice, whatever that was.

And maybe, just maybe, get laid.  Because, honestly, that’s the hope of a lot of adolescent and socially awkward Whites marching in protests. If you’re an unattractive White string bean or a porker you may think a protest could be your best shot at getting laid without having to pay for it. Especially when you’re wearing a face mask that hides your zits.  

Anyway, I digress.  I only brought that up because most of the Whites, male or female or somewhere in between, in camp didn’t look like they’d ever had sex with a real person other than themselves, or were likely to anytime soon.   

But back to my studies.  My first course was Sloganeering.

It was taught by a self-described “radical Marxist transvestite self-loathing anti-Semite atheist” (born as Jane White to a bourgeois WASP family in New Jersey) now listed on the course outline as Patrice Lumumba Kanesha Rosenstein-Castro-Guevara-Rivera.

Or just “Pat” for short because that was an appropriately gender-fluid name.

Pat rejected such patriarchal pronouns as he/she, him/her, his/hers, and used only they/their to describe themselves (Pat).  Yeah, it got a little confusing at times. But most of us in their class eventually got the hang of it. We used first names a lot. 

I often wondered how this gender-neutral thing would work in countries with languages where ordinary inanimate items have a male or female gender and verbs to match. I never brought this up in class because Pat had a tendency to punish anyone who was overthinking. 

Anyway, about Sloganeering.  The theory behind it all is that the slogan must be offensive enough that media types won’t be able to resist it, even if they have to bleep out curse words.  Actually, the more bleeps the better. Listeners could then imagine the worst.   

Yet it also must be simple enough even a four-year-old, or a teen or adult with the intellect of a four-year-old, can easily remember it, even if they don’t understand it. 

That’s harder than it seems. Most great slogans are short and memorable, like “Pigs in a blanket; Fry ‘em like bacon.”  Easy to remember; hard to forget.  Hard to replicate, too. A classic.     

Next was Situational Protest Tactics, taught by an aging hipster named Moonbeam McDuster (probably a nom-de-guerre).  McDuster was a legend in the protest industry.  He’d managed some of the biggest protests:  fighting voter ID laws, school vouchers, Chick- fil-A store openings, racially insensitive dress codes, gender-specific school restrooms, and – lest we forget – his courageous stand against Subway’s five-dollar-foot-long ripoff.  (It wasn’t a full 12 inches long.)

From him we learned tips on how to prearrange events on social media.  How to blend in with ordinary protestors until the time was right and then working up everyone into a frenzy.

We also learned effective media manipulation techniques.  Like co-opting local politicians, creative taunting, distance spitting, faking an injury, inciting a riot and looting on cue, how to set up a “money shot” (i.e., cop cars on fire; smashing windows) for camera crews, and how to avoid harming media folks once a riot starts. 

Now, perhaps like many others, I’d always wondered why no CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, and CBS reporters or camera crews ever got hurt even in the most violent BLM protests. And why the cameras always seem to be at the right place at the right time, too.  The secret, it turns out, is wireless earpieces – you know, like the curly-wire jobs on Secret Service details – linking the media and protest organizers in real time. Who knew? 

In other courses, we also learned that while Black Lives Matter – probably the most – we still needed to convince more White people that everything bad is and has always been their fault. Black poverty. Black illiteracy.  Black unemployment. Black males in prison.   

Because everything is the fault of Whites.  And their legacy of enslaving Blacks.   

The public-school system saw the irrefutable truth in this early on. Lesson plans and textbooks had for decades reflected how slavery shaped American history from the beginning. 

Instead of a proud history as some claimed, America had in fact a shameful past. It included rapes of Black slaves by white masters, lynchings of innocent Blacks, secretly infecting Blacks with syphilis to study its effects, segregation, miscegenation laws, murders of civil rights activists, assassinations of Black leaders like MLK, Jr., and suppression of Black votes and racial discrimination even today. 

There wasn't much else in American history worth noting.   

If it weren't for slavery, America wouldn't be the racist nation it remains today. Nor as rich; that is, just for the Whites. Also because of slavery, Blacks never shared in that prosperity.  

The New York Times and its award-winning 1619 Project spelled it all out.    

Whites in the media and among Democrats in Congress, as well as all Blacks in the House and Senate (except one), agreed.  Blue-state governors and big-city mayors also concurred that Whites were ultimately responsible for everything bad in the country, and especially in their cities, even for Black on Black crime and the high number of Blacks killing other Blacks every day.

Blacks couldn’t be held to the same standards as Whites because Blacks never recovered from their enslavement by Whites.     

It was time for Whites to admit their guilt. And pay up. Not just with money – although that would be nice – but also with perpetual special treatment of Blacks.  Until reparations come through, Blacks should get everything for free – free college, free housing, free guaranteed minimum income, and whatever else they decide – and the right to discriminate as they wish on the basis of race, as just restitution for slavery at the hands of Whites.  Because it’s owed to them.       

That’s what the entire movement is really about.  And why convincing Whites is the struggle.  Many older White people remember reading books years ago that claimed a different view of history.  Not all Whites watch CNN or read The New York Times; some even watch Fox News.

On top of that, older Whites are notoriously stubborn and won’t easily give up the marks of their Whiteness.  Like that “Protestant work ethic” thing.  Their notion that children do better in two-parent households.  Their insistence on personal responsibility.  The high value Whites place on being on time, being polite, and speaking proper English.  Their belief in objective, rational linear thinking; cause and effect relationships; and their reliance on quantitative analysis.

It's so ingrained in Whites we may have to intimidate them until they accept the blame for everything and give up these foolish and oppressive notions of White culture.

Hence, the riots will continue and cities will continue to burn.    

Now, before anyone thinks BLM Re-Education Camp was nothing but hard work, it wasn’t.  There were a lot of games and contests to break up the workload.

The most challenging was the brick toss – especially difficult for a lot of the noodle-armed pasty White guys; frankly, the bigger, heftier White girls embarrassed them. 

The skateboard window smash game – my favorite – had competition between teams.  White team members smashed the windows so their handful of Black team members could race in and steal stuff. We got points for highest number of useless items stolen in a minute or less. 

My team won mainly because we were lucky enough to draw a Michaels craft store as our assigned target, which was, as always, crammed full of completely useless stuff. I’ll admit the teams that drew an ABC liquor store, or even the Dollar Store, got better stuff, but a win is a win. 

And it was about the only time we Whites had a chance to interact with Blacks. Which was nice.  The rest of the time the camp leaders kept us segregated.  

So anyway. It’s good to be back.  Mom and Dad said it’s good to see me again and have me back in their basement.  While I was away, they’d restocked my minifridge with all my favorite juice boxes. They also refilled my supply of my favorite Pop Tarts and bought me a new PlayStation.

Then they asked if I had fun at camp. If I made any new friends there.  And I just snapped. 

Fucking oppressive White people.  Always with the questions.  

How does all the chaos and violence end ...

This is a question many of us are asking …

Some think they know, even now. 

Democrats think it ends when they win the House, Senate, and Oval Office in 2020. 

They think the chaos will help them get there.  They are counting on the “energy” and anger of the protestors to help them win big across the nation. They’ve clearly publicly supported the demands of those protesting the shootings of black men and women by police. That’s supposed to help them hold the black vote and gain more young, white and Hispanic voters. 

That, along with the media’s cooperation in successfully – and erroneously – sticking the entire blame for the coronavirus pandemic and the economic shut down on Trump and Republicans, should be enough for a Democrat sweep at the Federal and state level in 2020. 

Democrats believe that when they win control, the chaos and destruction will stop. 

Even if they do win everything, things won’t get any better. The riots will continue. Statues will continue to come down.  Monuments will continue to be vandalized.  Cities will continue to burn. Businesses will continue to be looted. 

That’s because what’s driving the BLM and Antifa folks has little to do with police shootings of blacks, much less with party politics. They don’t like Democrats any more than Republicans, despite what Democrats want to believe.  For that matter, they don’t like the media, either. BLM blacks openly mock the white kids and aging white hippie lefties marching with them.

Candidly, BLM wants everyone to bow down before them and give them whatever they want, which will never happen because what they want is absurd.  BLM knows this, so they’ll settle for terrorizing and intimidating everyone until they are stopped, extorting millions in protection money from big companies until then.  Antifa is more straightforward: it just likes to destroy things. 

Any election is not going to stop them, either way.    

To their credit, Republicans are under no illusion that if they keep the White House, the Senate, and get a majority in the House, the protests will end.  Nobody on that side of the aisle expects the violence and destruction to end anytime soon.   So until the election most Republicans in Congress will do what they usually do in a crisis:  blame Democrats and continue to cower hoping that a show of submission and  ignoring a problem will make it go away.   

The simple truth is that the violence and destruction will not end until ordinary American citizens decide they’ve had enough and refuse to be intimidated by the mob anymore.  This will happen when the protestors do something so egregious, so reprehensible, that the public will no longer tolerate or have any sympathy for the protestors. Even the media will be appalled.

Then the public will demand police and the Feds step in and stop the madness. This will occasion a great deal of pearl clutching among the elites about the need for compromise and reason.

But that ship will have sailed. The line will have been crossed.  

I’m not certain what the dramatic trigger it will be. I am certain however it will happen soon, well before the 2020 election.  BLM and its supporters, and Antifa, keep stepping up the attacks on statues and memorials to people most Americans still believe deserve respect.  They are even attacking monuments to abolitionists like Frederick Douglass and those who fought to free the slaves such as Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant.  They’ve also vandalized the  monument to the all-black regiment that fought courageously on the Union side in the Civil War.  Why? 

It’s only a matter of time before someone within the BLM supporters or an Antifa thug goes too far and commits an act that galvanizes the public against both entities. 

The 1963 bombing of the South Baptist Church in Alabama that killed four innocent black girls, the murder of the black and white civil rights activists in Mississippi in 1964, and the actions of Bull Connor against civil rights protestors in Birmingham in  the 1960s, helped to change the opinions of millions of white citizens about recognizing and addressing racism against minorities. 

I’m hoping something as gruesome doesn’t happen by a BLM supporter or some black-clad Antifa wannabe. But it could.  There’s already been an videoed incident at a children’s hospital in Houston where the car of a father and his child was pelted with bricks and bottles by protestors as he and his screaming and clearly terrorized child tried to get out.  This is a very bad trend.   

I believe whatever the trigger is, it will happen well before the election. 

If local and state officials order their law enforcement agencies to continue to stand down after that, more police will resign or retire.  With fewer police around, crime will go up even more. With more crime, and unabated violence and destruction by the BLM and Antifa types, armed citizens will start confronting criminals and the mobs to protect their own property. 

Because no one else will, apparently. Not local officials. Not state officials. 

If you doubt people are already arming themselves because they're scared of how the chaos they see on the news might spread to their neighborhood, you’re not tracking the soaring rate of gun and ammunition sales and requests for concealed-carry permits over the past few months.

Ordinary citizens are already arming themselves to the teeth. They’re also stocking up on ammo. 

It’s a mistake to dismiss these buyers as merely far-right gun nuts and survivalists. The media would love to promote that narrative.  The facts on the ground say otherwise.   

A large number are first-time gun owners. Many live in liberal-run cities. Many live in the liberal-leaning suburbs; some may also be fervent supporters of bans on assault weapons.  They aren’t all right-wing loons, white supremacists, or fanatics preaching the end of days. Far from it.  

They are remarkably ordinary Americans. The one thing they have in common is they are increasingly scared that the chaos will reach them and their families. They are getting a firearm, just in case the very worst happens. They hope it never comes to that.  

But until then they want to be prepared. They'll discover a lot of their neighbors feel the same way. And a lot of them now have firearms, also.  Just in case.          

When they realize so many of their friends and neighbors are armed, they’ll start more confidently confronting criminals and any mob whenever these threaten to appear nearby.     

However, it's also a short hop from that to start taking justice into their own hands. As someone stated succinctly, if the police disappear more crimes will suddenly carry the death penalty. 

In Florida, where I live, people here have a lot of legal latitude to defend themselves and their families with the use of deadly force.  Google “stand your ground & Florida” and “castle doctrine & Florida” if you doubt me.  Along with our high level of gun ownership, and the large number of former cops and military who retire here, especially in Central Florida, Florida is an extraordinarily poor choice to see how far you can go with threatening anyone with violence.   

It's almost inevitable that someone or some group will eventually try. They'll be sorry.  

I also believe where police have been ordered to stand down, violence and destruction by the protestors will increasingly be met by the threat of violence from the public. It's already happened, when neighbors from largely Italian South Philly stood off protesters who wanted to loot their neighborhood Target; another group guarded a Christopher Columbus statue. 

There’s only so much reasonable people will take.  And reasonable people with guns who fear for their lives and property will take even less.  We are getting close to that point. 

If the attacks and destruction continue across the country, and if the police and Feds don’t intervene soon, I’m fairly certain the general public will. 

All it’s going to take is a trigger event.