October 8, 2020

ZOOM: SpaceX’s Starman and Elon Musk’s Tesla just made their 1st Mars flyby.

QUESTION ASKED AND (POSSIBLY) ANSWERED:

Shot: Are Americans Tired of Being Called ‘Racist’ Yet?

—Stacy McCain, the American Spectator, today.

Chaser:

David Bernstein at Instapundit, today. As Glenn added in his update to David’s post, “Really, don’t get cocky. You should be donating and working on this election, and putting out the max effort, because everything is up for grabs. And encourage your friends to turn out and vote too.”

IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROPHECY:

The DNC-MSM will of course let Biden get away with this. As Stephen Miller wrote last month in Spectator USA, “So why the tepid treatment of Biden by the media? It must go beyond simple bias or personal animosity for the current President. For almost four years now, journalists have shamed their colleagues and themselves over what I will call the ‘but her emails’ dilemma. Those who reported dutifully on the ill-timed federal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private server and spillage of classified information have been cast out and shunted away from the journalist cool kids’ table…The journalist who asks the question that makes Uncle Joe stroke out at the podium would be treated as a professional leper. No book deals. No CNN or MSNBC contributor contracts. No cocktail parties.”

Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and it all makes sense.

 

NORTH CAROLINA: MELTDOWN: Cal Cunningham Lashes Out in Bizarre Batman-Voiced Hostage Video.

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Riots of 2020 have given the Second Amendment a boost. “Even in normal times, gun owners joke that ‘when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.’ But, sometimes, they’re not coming at all. Sometimes they’re not even allowed to show up.”

AN OPTIMIST’S FORECAST: New York’s Dynamism Will Triumph. Yes, people are fleeing now, but when social-distancing is a distant memory, the city could bounce back: “While smaller cities may have charm and some unique offerings, larger, global cities can do things that smaller ones cannot, such as attracting the finest talent and providing a more diverse array of services. In this way, large cities are a kind of self-perpetuating machine.” Unless, of course, you have a mayor like Bill de Blasio — but he’ll be gone before the virus is.

ONE MORE REASON TO LEAVE CALIFORNIA: The Reparations Racket. California, which entered the Union as a free state, establishes a task force to explore paying reparations to descendants of slaves. What could go wrong?

ST. JOHN’S INVESTIGATING HISTORIAN FOR DOING HISTORY BECAUSE HISTORY HAS SLAVERY IN IT: Not exaggerating, sadly. (Nobody tell “St.” John’s about the history parts in the Bible, they are gonna freak out.) You can let St. John’s, which promises academic freedom, know how you feel at the link, too.

LABOR DEPARTMENT CONSIDERS NEW INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR DEFINITION, COULD BE USED TO FEDERALLY CHALLENGE AB 5. An interview with top Ed Driscoll.com legal advisor, Nina Yablok.

“MANSPLAINING” JUST MEANS WHATEVER THEY NEED IT TO MEAN AT A GIVEN MOMENT:

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Coronavirus Panics After Testing Positive For Trump.

JIM TREACHER: Fauci: ‘Reasonably Good Chance’ Regeneron Worked on Trump. “Okay, well, I guess I’m confused now. You see, Trump is bad and everything Trump says and does is bad. Whereas Dr. Fauci is good and everything Dr. Fauci says and does is good. That’s just science, as the Democrats keep reminding us. So if Trump says Regeneron is good, and Fauci says Regeneron is good, that means…What does it mean? They can’t both be right, because that’s scientifically impossible. It’s a paradox. Regeneron is both good and bad, and also neither good nor bad. It’s null. Science!”

LEARN ANOTHER PLAY: Colin Kaepernick Calls For Abolition Of Police, ‘Roots In White Supremacy.’

Flashback to 2016: Clown Kaepernick Now Wearing Socks Depicting Police As Pigs: “This ass**** is just begging to be cut, which he probably soon will be, so then he can cry racism,” JWF writes, linking to a CBS Sports article that notes, “It appears that over the past few weeks, Kaepernick has been wearing socks that show a pig in a cop’s hat. The quarterback has been wearing them since at least Aug. 10.”

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San Francisco 49ers quarterbacks Blaine Gabbert, left, and Colin Kaepernick (7) stretch during NFL football training camp, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016, at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Ben Margot.) Click to enlarge image.

Kaepernick also has a penchant for wearing pro-Castro t-shirts. Who does he think will enforce Castro-style socialist totalitarianism?

Related: From America’s Newspaper of Record: Man Who Agrees With The Media, Universities, Corporations, And Hollywood Thinks He’s Part Of The Resistance.

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Riots of 2020 have given the Second Amendment a boost. “Even in normal times, gun owners joke that ‘when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.’ But, sometimes, they’re not coming at all. Sometimes they’re not even allowed to show up.”

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Mike Lee Defends the Republic, Liberty, and Prosperity, Then the Left Goes Lunatic.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: Does Twitter attract angry, ignorant people or does it create them?

Answer: Seriously, we’d love to know.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

  • BLM comes after the suburbs.
  • Democrats repel COVID-19, except when there’s a Republican around.
  • Can Biden save the world? (Spoiler: No.)

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

GET WOKE… ESPN May Lay Off Hundreds of Employees as Part of Disney Cost-Cutting.

The report says that “ESPN employees who work behind the camera are expected to be hit hardest,” which is sad because they’re not the wokescolds preening for the camera.

THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: A Historical Epidemic Has Been Making a Scary Comeback Due to a Bacterial ‘Clone.’

CURIOUSLY, THIS HAS YET TO BE A DEBATE TOPIC. Loss of ICBMs: Biden will almost certainly abolish this indispensable deterrent.

BE PREPARED: 22% of Gun-Owning Households Have Added A Gun Since Anti-Police Protests Began.

SPIN UP THE MANNSCHENN DRIVE, HONEY, WE’RE GOING EXPLORING: Scientists find promising ‘superhabitable’ planets that may be ‘better’ than Earth.

2020, MAN: Feds say they thwarted militia plot to kidnap Whitmer.

The FBI thwarted what they described as a plot to violently overthrow the government and kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and federal prosecutors are expected to discuss the alleged conspiracy later Thursday.

The alleged plot involved reaching out to members of a Michigan militia, according to a federal affidavit filed Thursday.

“Several members talked about murdering ‘tyrants’ or ‘taking’ a sitting governor,” an FBI agent wrote in the affidavit. “The group decided they needed to increase their numbers and encouraged each other to talk to their neighbors and spread their message.”

The affidavit was filed hours after a team of FBI agents raided a Hartland Township home Wednesday and comes amid an ongoing investigation into the death of a Metro Detroit man killed during a shootout with FBI agents.

I doubt they will be given the same treatment as our “mostly peaceful” rioters: “Flora Westbrooks, owner of Flora’s Hair Designs, will be VP Pence’s guest at the debate tonight. Her salon was burned to the ground by rioters. Kamala Harris helped bail them out.”

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WELL, CNN: CNN’s Flash Poll After the VP Debate Is Pure Crap, And Here’s The Proof.

ADAM FORD: Mark Ruffalo illustrates how Neo-Marxism is a brain virus.

SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Study: Pot users may need more anesthesia, painkillers during, after surgery.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Colleges: Financial Toll Of Coronavirus Is Worse Than Expected.

You know, Jane Fonda said that Covid-19 is God’s gift to the left, but the way it’s financially wrecking woke institutions, from Hollywood, to journalism, to the NBA and NFL, to higher education, makes me wonder if that’s really the case.

FLASHBACK: “So, basically, my butt refuted The New York Times.”

BATTLESWARM BLOG: King Abbott Deems Some of His Subjects Might Be Permitted To Quaff A Flagon Of Ale. Sometime Next Week. Maybe. If The Local Baron Approves.

I was in the greater Austin area a few weeks ago, and my general impression was that Abbott has burned through a truly impressive amount of goodwill over the lockdowns.

*REALLY* DON’T GET COCKY: Trump is losing. Badly. That’s what the recent polls shows. That doesn’t mean he will lose. There’s almost a month left, and if he can turn around 2.5% of current Biden voters, and thus get within around 4% of Biden, plus pick up a few “shy Trump” voters, he can win the electoral college while losing the popular vote by several points. But right now he’s losing, and it’s not because the polls are biased, not because of any conspiracy by the media to cover up his success. He’s basically getting the vote of every voter who approves of his job performance, and no one else. He’s more popular than he was in 2016, but Biden is much more popular than Clinton was. Worse yet, a lot of people think the race is much closer than it is right now, and are sending in early ballots voting for Democratic Senate candidates to “check” Trump. I’m telling it like it is, and I’m sorry that’s bad news for most Instapundit readers. And note that I am totally not averse to calling things for Trump against the media consensus when I see things going his way.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Really, don’t get cocky. You should be donating and working on this election, and putting out the max effort, because everything is up for grabs. And encourage your friends to turn out and vote too.

ANOTHER UPDATE (FROM GLENN): A Facebook friend sends this:

Someone asked me what feedback I am getting with door knocking in Bristol/Levittown PA. I’ve been doing this 3 days/wk, for 3 wkends. Working class to upper middle neighborhoods, all registered voters, all ages, roughly equal by party.

1) if it’s Biden they usually say Biden, occasionally apologetically.
2) if they say I’m undecided but don’t close the door, if you ask what are your issues or how will you decide, they say Trump or give you clues it’ll be Trump (ex: “I’m pro life.”)
3) I always ask if anything in the debates changed their mind – so far always no, they already were going to vote for that person.
4) So far no mind changes at all, or they didn’t say.
5) sometimes they refuse to say, period, and close the door.
6) if Trump – they are going to vote in person.
7) if anti Trump – why? 2-3/day – emotional negative reaction to him (“he’s disgusting”) or media memes (“wants to be a dictator”)
8) I always get maybe 1 in 25 who are vociferously Democrat or pro-Biden and let me have it.
9) but most aren’t home or don’t answer the door.

10) this weekend I want to ask if Trump’s covid diagnosis and choices around that changed their minds.

Interesting.

TEXAS LULU CAUGHT VOTING ILLEGALLY: The Washington Free Beacon’s Alana Goodman did a little digging — remember when that was par for the course for journalists? — and discovered:

Helane ‘Lulu’ Sawsan Seikaly, who is challenging Republican incumbent Van Taylor in Texas’s Third Congressional District, worked in California until at least last year as an attorney for a Sacramento-based law firm and as a professor at the University of California Davis. Using an address linked to her parents, however, Seikaly voted in Texas in both 2016 and 2018, public records show.

You can perhaps guess what comes to my mind here:

HARVARD, STANFORD, OXFORD PROFS SAY END LOCKDOWNS: They said it earlier this week in The Great Barrington Statement. American Institute for Economic Research’s (AIER) Jenin Younes notes that:

“While these scientists are not the first to express such views, given the degree to which their stance conflicts with the prevailing wisdom that everyone has a moral obligation to participate in efforts to ‘stop the spread,’ it is not surprising that they have already encountered significant opposition. Among their primary detractors is Yale epidemiologist Gregg Gonsalves, who considers their proposal akin to a suggestion that society ‘cull[] the herd of the sick and disabled. It’s grotesque.’”

Seeking “herd immunity” has a bit of a Social Darwinist ring to it, but Younes points to some basic facts, namely, that “at 1.05 million deaths over the past nine or ten months, the coronavirus appears to be a problem along the lines of, for example, traffic accidents, which cause 1.35 million deaths per year, or tuberculosis, which results in 1.5 million deaths annually.”

ADDITCTED TO FAME: Naked Celebrities Encourage Mail-in Voting (and Our Gag Reflexes) in New Cringe Video.

PENCE TAKES HARRIS TO THE CLEANERS IN VP DEBATE:

Vice President Mike Pence emerged from the 2020 vice presidential debate Wednesday night with a sound victory over challenger Sen. Kamala Harris. The debate was, of course, calmer and more focused on policy than the presidential debate between Trump and Biden last week. Although it may seem surprising that such conditions would work in favor of the bombastic Trump administration, Pence’s unflappable demeanor and meticulous preparation proved to be his big advantages of the night.

Pence started the evening by mounting a much better defense of the administration’s COVID response than Trump ever could. It was not necessarily convincing, but all he really had to do was survive what was sure to be the most challenging segment of the night. From that point on, Pence coasted on Harris’s and Biden’s disagreements over moderate vs progressive policy and Harris’s own hypocritical record on criminal justice reform, the Green New Deal, fracking, and more.

Kamala’s fans can always turn to this for optimism:

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Riots of 2020 have given the Second Amendment a boost. “Even in normal times, gun owners joke that ‘when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.’ But, sometimes, they’re not coming at all. Sometimes they’re not even allowed to show up.”

MATT MARGOLIS: Here’s How We Know Pence Won the Debate.

ROGER SIMON: Kamala Harris Loses Debate by Smirking.

What was then the purpose of debating?

Actually, as I watched the vice-presidential debate, I came to the conclusion—very little.

But perhaps that is because I am so biased against Kamala Harris—who has seemed to me a total phony since I lived in California, an empty vessel, not even really a liberal or a progressive, but an opportunist interested in the main chance who would vote conservative if she represented Mississippi—that I am not in the slightest a neutral observer.

But I wonder if there are any neutral observers, certainly not in the media.

Once again the moderator—Susan Page of US Today—was biased, though not as much as Chris Wallace, which would be difficult. Indeed, the host of Fox News Sunday carried that attitude forward into Wednesday night’s post-debate spin, predictably looking to say something bad about Mike Pence who, all-in-all. had a good night.

Basically, Pence’s was a workman-like performance, while Kamala smirked at his responses unappealingly for the camera, close-up, in split screen. (Don’t debate prep coaches warn about this? It certainly makes the candidate the kind of person you’d want to run from at a cocktail party.)

I wasn’t surprised that pollster Frank Luntz’s focus group declared Pence the winner because of this smirking.

You know Pence killed it, when the House of Stephanopoulos has to resort to this cliché:

Or perhaps the talking points went out on the topic:

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Hyper-political Hollywood gives us little reason to return to theaters.

Ellen DeGeneres whined about being stuck in her mega mansion, the first of several news cycles that damaged her populist appeal.

Later, when ordinary Americans fought back against the lockdowns decimating their livelihoods, stars mocked them as hicks who didn’t understand science and wanted to kill grandma while their paychecks kept a-coming.

Not a nice look. It got worse from there.

The usual celebrity angst against President Trump ramped up, if one can believe that was possible. The ugly comments got uglier, with some directly targeting Trump voters.

You know, the folks who also like to unwind at the local cineplex.

Some stars took their activism in a ghastly direction, donating to the Minnesota Freedom Fund which bails out jailed protesters. Celebrities like Seth Rogen, Steve Carell and Janelle Monae didn’t care if their money sprang unfairly arrested protesters (unlikely) or folks who eagerly set the city on fire (or committed even worse crimes).

This reporter proved their lack of concern.

Other stars directly poured digital gasoline on the fires, including Trevor Noah, Ice Cube, John Cusack and Michael Moore.

More recently, stars reassembled their classic TV show casts, something that could have proved a fun diversion in our locked down world.

Instead, they turned these reunions into Democratic fundraising efforts.

Twitter isn’t real life, but chances are the cacophony of vile, divisive messages coming from Celebrity Nation seeped into the national consciousness.

It’s one thing to swallow hard and watch a new Samuel L. Jackson film at home. It’s another to snag a sitter and/or fork over $30-plus for a Jackson movie knowing he just insulted anyone voting Trump on “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”

Think that sentiment isn’t a factor in the anemic box office receipts we’re seeing these days?

Stars got hyper-political, and nasty, at the worst possible time. The theatrical model is on life support thanks to COVID, and media outlets which have scared us silly by downplaying hopeful news and exaggerating terrifying tidbits.

Will anyone be itching to pay $15 for an overhyped sequel coming Spring time, knowing they can watch it on their big-screen TV in a few weeks?

It’s been fascinating since the early days of our current unpleasantness, seeing the moral equivalent of war comparisons that used to be reserved for fighting global warming being transferred over to fighting the pandemic. (The latest bit of silliness: Boeing’s bête noire, Washington State Gov. Jay Inslee tweeted “What aircraft carriers were in World War II, masks are today” on Tuesday.) If you’re going to play that card, I expect to see Hollywood doing their part as well, the modern-day equivalent of when Hollywood Republicans like Bing Crosby committed themselves to supporting FDR’s war effort:

As Michael Jordan reportedly said, “Republicans buy sneakers, too.” They buy movie tickets as well – until after being hectored to death by Hollywood, they don’t.

THEY SAY VOTING’S NOT IMPORTANT. AND YOU SAY? It’s a dismal fact that nearly half of all voting-age Americans will stay home come Election Day. Colson Center’s Joseph Backholm offers three snappy and fact-based comebacks to the usual excuses.

SCOTT MCCAY: The Polls, or the Fundamentals?

We don’t really need to go back through all of the double-digit leads Hillary Clinton had on Trump, and the alleged mathematical certainties of a Hillary win and so on. Everybody knows the pollsters blew it then.

What’s different now? Anything?

Not really. Not fundamentally.

There were shy Trump voters in 2016 that pollsters couldn’t pick up. There are just as many now. Probably more — if anything the Left has been more oppressive and more fearsome in its attempts to shame and disparage Trump voters where it can. Deranged Democrats are recording themselves vandalizing Trump signs, some even on private property. Cars with Trump bumper stickers get keyed. People attack strangers for wearing MAGA hats.

What we found out in 2016 is those tactics don’t persuade people not to vote for Trump. Such tactics drive those votes underground, and they resurface in the secrecy of the voting booth. There is no penalty for straight-up lying to a pollster, at least not yet.

In 2016 it was Hillary Clinton calling those voters deplorables. This year it’s Antifa beating them up in the streets.

Do you not think Trump’s voters are even more shy than they were before?

Enthusiasm is if anything even greater than it was in 2016 among uncloseted Trump voters, but for quieter voters, genuine physical fear of being outed as a Trump voter must be greater than it was four years ago.

A STEP TOWARD GENDER EQUALITY: Public university stops banning males from federally funded program to resolve federal investigation.

TRIBUTE TO EDDIE VAN HALEN: Mark Hemingway thinks quite highly of the just-deceased guitar master. My tastes run more to Mark Knopfler, Chet Atkins and the Marshall Tucker Band’s Toy Caldwell/George McCorkle duo, but if Mark Hemingway approves EVH, well then, maybe I need to be a little more expansive in this realm.

HOW CONVENIENT (AS GLENN WOULD SAY): The FBI is stonewalling the Hunter Biden investigation. I’m sure it has nothing to do with anything happening in November.

OUT OF THE BATHTUB, AND INTO THE FLAMETHROWER: Keith Olbermann Quits ESPN to Bring ‘Flamethrower’ to Trump on Political YouTube Show.

(Classical reference in headline.)

HIGHER EDUCATION HAS CHOSEN SIDES: Berkeley law school dean: Democrats would be ‘justified’ in packing the Supreme Court.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Riots of 2020 have given the Second Amendment a boost. “Even in normal times, gun owners joke that ‘when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.’ But, sometimes, they’re not coming at all. Sometimes they’re not even allowed to show up.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Veep Debate Was a Painfully Boring Overcorrection. “So much for what I wrote yesterday about the 2020 vice-presidential debate being one to actually look forward to. You’d think after 2016 I would have learned to stop making any predictions about politics. It’s a good thing I’m not a gambler, I’d be eating dry ramen for every meal.”

REPUBLICANS SEIZE! “Republicans seized on romantic extramarital text messages sent by North Carolina Senate candidate Cal Cunningham, quickly airing an ad highlighting the scandal in an effort to upend one of the most competitive Senate races.”

As Jim Treacher likes to say, “When Republicans screw up, that’s the story. When Democrats screw up, the Republicans’ reaction is the story.”

OUCH:

BY ANY MEANS FAIR OR FOUL: Fake Hunting Group Tries To Bail Out Democrat Bullock In Montana.

#METOO’S DESCENT INTO SELF-PARODY CONTINUES APACE, AS HOLLYWOOD PLANS ADAPTATION OF KATIE HILL’S MEMOIRS. In response, Anonymous ‘former staff’ of Katie Hill slam film adaptation of ex-congresswoman’s book.

A forthcoming film adaptation of former California Rep. Katie Hill’s memoir was the target of online criticism Wednesday morning from anonymous members of “Katie’s former staff” posting from her old congressional Twitter account.

In the series of messages purportedly written by Hill’s former House aides, the posters reacted to the news that actress Elisabeth Moss would be playing Hill in a streaming film based on Hill’s book, “She Will Rise: Becoming a Warrior in the Battle for True Equality.”

“Disappointed in so many folks — including Elizabeth Moss, @Blumhouse, & @michaelseitzman — regarding today’s announcement,” the posters tweeted early Wednesday, referring to writer Michael Seitzman and producer Jason Blum, who are reportedly developing the project with Moss.

The posters went on to write in a 10-part Twitter thread that Hill’s story “is also one of workplace abuse and harassment.” Hill “can be both a victim and perpetrator,” they wrote, arguing that she “is not a hero for women.”

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Hill addressed the messages in a tweet sent from her personal account less than an hour later, claiming that her old government account had been hacked.

“Control of my account was immediately handed back to the House Clerk when I resigned, including password changes and access restrictions,” she wrote. “God knows who hacked it from there. Reported to @twitter.”

Screenshots, in case Twitter does clean-up work for the former Democratic congresswoman:

As Jim Treacher writes, “Harvey Weinstein’s mistake was not being a bisexual woman.”

JEFF JACOBY ON PROP 16:  On California’s ballot, an invitation to legalize discrimination.

NEVER LET A CRISIS GO TO WASTE: Biden Surrogate Jane Fonda Calls COVID ‘God’s Gift to the Left.’

QUIN HILLYER IN THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER:  Against Quotas?  Help Defeat California’s Prop 16.

WE SHOULD ALL VOTE BY MAIL, THEY SAID. YOU CAN TRUST THE POSTAL SERVICE, THEY SAID. Postal carrier charged for dumping mail, ballots in dumpsters.

NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: AOC rocks Black Panthers shirt, touts group’s free food program.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sported a Black Panther shirt in an Instagram post Wednesday touting the organization’s influential early 1970s free food program.

“Did you know: If you or anyone you know ever benefited from free & reduced school lunch, you’ve likely benefited from the work and legacy of the Black Panthers?” Ocasio-Cortez said in the post to her Instagram story.

The militant organization launched the “People’s Free Food Program” back in Oakland in 1969 as a way to both improve its image and feed students breakfast before school in marginalized communities of color.

Flashback: Bobby Seale’s Confession: David Horowitz Was Right On.

In the now famous 1998 60 Minutes program during which he admitted the pernicious ruthlessness of the Panthers, the former Panther leader discussed his change of heart. Cleaver stated,”If people had listened to Huey Newton and me in the 1960s, there would have been a holocaust in this country.”

Betty Van Patter was one of the tragic victims of that holocaust in its beginning stages –- and fortunately that potential holocaust did not animate itself into a larger force.

Betty had been recruited by Horowitz in the early 1970s to keep the books of a”Learning Center” in Oakland that he had created to run a school for the children of Black Panthers. A Leftist radical at the time, Horowitz had become affiliated with the Panthers after he met their infamous leader, Huey Newton, and became enchanted with him.

Horowitz didn’t have a clue that the”Learning Center” served as a cover for Panther criminal activity; it was a military training center that was also being used as a vehicle to embezzle millions of dollars in California state and local education funds.

After Newton killed a teenage prostitute and fled to Cuba in 1974, Elaine Brown took over as leader of the Panthers. She asked Horowitz to recommend an accountant to run the Party’s finances. Horowitz suggested Betty.

Extremely naïve about what she was dealing with, Betty found something wrong with the Panthers’ record books and went to inform Brown. She subsequently disappeared. In January 1975, Betty’s battered body — with her head caved in — was found floating in San Francisco Bay.

Horowitz was horrified by the murder of his friend. He felt a personal responsibility because he had brought Betty into the fold. He began to ask questions about her death, but he faced a disturbing lack of curiosity among his Leftwing associates.

AOC’s Black Panther T-Shirt is of a piece with her former chief of staff and Green Nude Eel ghostwriter Saikat Chakrabarti being photographed last year wearing a T-shirt with “Subhas Chandra Bose on it — the Indian nationalist whose plan for fighting British colonialism involved sucking up to, uh, Hitler.” That was around the same time that AOC praised Evita Peron. As one wag joked on Twitter at the time, “Look just because she’s favorably comparing herself to the lady that Franco liked a lot who sheltered Mengele doesn’t mean… OK, I forgot where I was doing with this.”

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CATCH & RELEASE & CATCH AGAIN: Ice Arrests 125+ Criminal Aliens In CA Who Were Freed By State’s Sanctuary Policy.

TYLER O’NEIL’S VP DEBATE RECAP: Mike Pence Eviscerates the Biden-Harris Campaign.

VIDEO: Survivor of Communism Warns Americans: ‘This Is the Beginning.’

SEEN ON FACEBOOK:

I almost wish Trump would tweet this out. . .

SOMETIMES THE PAPER OF RECORD CAPTURES THE ESSENCE OF OUR TIMES:  Man Who Agrees With The Media, Universities, Corporations, And Hollywood Thinks He’s Part Of The Resistance.

THAT’S NOT HOW THIS WORKS, THAT’S NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS:  Kerry Washington: Blacks ‘Seduced’ by Conservatism to Oppose Gay Marriage.

I DON’T KNOW…. THE LEFT WANTS TO IMPORT PEDOPHILES?  NY Times Columnist Wants UN Intervention, But The Result? 

Also, even if Tom is a personal friend, let me point out that his dyslexia gets the better of him in that article, when he says: “…they don’t seem to get the distrust many in this country have for the United Nations.”

Tom, d*mn it. L-O-A-T-H-I-N-G isn’t spelled “distrust.”

TO QUOTE A DIET THING IN THE NINETIES: STOP THE INSANITY:  A Failed Experiment. The lockdowns must end.

QUITE PROBABLY:  Is this where Black Lives Matter gets its money?

THE LEFTIST SHTICK IS TIRESOME AND TIRED:  Black Outreach Compared.

I WONDER HOW HISTORY WILL JUDGE THOSE WHO CURRENTLY CLIMB ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS AND P*SS DOWN:  The Founding Fathers.

BECAUSE OF COURSE THEY DID:  CIA in 2016 briefed Obama on Clinton campaign false Trump/Russian collusion claim.

THE CANARY IN THE COAL MINE:  Jews can demonstrate, too.

THEY CAN’T SILENCE EVERYONE:  Government takes down pro-Trump sign on private property, without permission.

GIVEN THE SHENANIGANS AFOOT, IT MIGHT BE TOO LITTLE TOO LATE:  The Supreme Court and appellate courts are drawing back from voting madness.

AND LOTS OF OTHER LEFTIST CULTS. LIKE “ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING”  AND “REFUGEES” AND–  I JUST WANT THESE PEOPLE TO REMEMBER WHAT THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE AND DO:  The Cult of Covidism Has Invaded the Church.

IF HE DID NOTHING ELSE OF VALUE (AND HE DOES) TRUMP WOULD STILL BE A TREASURE AS OUR NATIONAL TROLL IN CHIEF. THOSE WHO THINK THEY’RE ARISTOS NEED THEIR *SSES EXPOSED:  Trump Orders Declassification And Heads Explode.

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