Who Normalized Political Violence in America?

 Lee Smith - Tablet Magazine  "Democratic Party officials and media deny that there’s any connection between their inflammatory rhetoric labeling Donald Trump a fascist, would-be dictator, and even Adolf Hitler and the attempt on the 2024 Republican candidate. But media executives must believe Trump supporters have a point or MSNBC wouldn’t have given Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski a 24-hour timeout Monday to put some distance between the shooting and the fare that Morning Joe has been dishing out for nearly a decade. Same
with music industry executives who canceled Jack Black’s worldwide music tour after the funnyman’s bandmate told an Australian audience that his birthday wish was “Don’t miss Trump next time.” Politics aside, no concert promoter was going to pay the insurance premium required to host a band that celebrated attempted murder.  

"Republicans on Capitol Hill are angry at The New Republic after a recent issue put an image based on a Hitler campaign poster on its cover. The editors claim they weren’t entirely committed to the Trump=Hitler formula, but, as they wrote, “he’s damn close enough, and we’d better fight.”

"In a way, left-wing journalists who say it’s not their fault the 20-year-old man whose adolescence was saturated with murderously anti-Trump rhetoric tried to kill Trump have a point. The media is reactive, not creative. Democrat-aligned media didn’t invent the idea that the Democratic Party’s 2020 candidate was, despite massive video and audio evidence to the contrary, cognitively 100%. They just sang from the sheet they were handed.

"And when Joe Biden proved incapable of finishing a sentence without devolving into gibberish during his debate with Trump last month? It wasn’t the media that left him out there to melt like a Madame Tussauds simulation of a living person. In fact, the media was embarrassed by Biden’s performance—and in front of the people they hate most, Trump supporters, who have been saying for four years that Biden is in obvious decline. So, the media reacted—Joe must go! But that’s not their call. If media personalities had real power, no one would have dared muzzle Joe and Mika, not even for 24 hours.

"So, who created the climate of political violence?" . . .

Next, the left justifies the use of violence against Trump and anybody they oppose:

. . ." Thus, the left is laying down the predicate for future violence against Trump and the half of the country that supports him: It’s OK to target them because being “at both ends of the bullet’s trajectory,” they brought it upon themselves." . . .

Do Teachers Unions Actually Care about Kids?

 Heather Carson - Intellectual Takeout  

"So what then is to be done? In order for public education to be effectively transformed, the stranglehold of the unions must be demolished." . . . 

Toon added by TD

"The 1857 formation of teachers unions was intended to elevate the profession of teaching with the ultimate goal of benefiting the students. The basic idea was to professionalize teaching and standardize education for both teachers and students to ensure a good learning experience for all.

"Unions became a popular means of advocating for various groups in the mid-1800s. Teachers unions, primarily comprised of women, utilized momentum from the feminist movement to fight for higher pay, standardization of educational goals, and better conditions for students, including smaller class sizes, which teachers deemed essential for better learning.

"Despite these goals, the actions taken by teachers unions have not always benefited students. The problem lies not in the care and concern of individual teachers. I know many amazing teachers, truly gifted in their teaching methods and their ability to connect with their students. The problem lies with public education as a whole—its training of teachers and its submission to  unions which protect teachers from getting the necessary direct feedback from the children and families they supposedly serve.

"Nowhere was this more evident than during the pandemic where, in many districts, the unions actually prevented teachers and students from going back to in-person learning despite all the evidence that any serious danger of infection was past." . . .

. . ."Parents are opting out of public schools at great personal cost to themselves financially since they must pay local public school tax assessments regardless. This puts teachers unions in a very powerful position. The unions and teachers are effectively immune from the feedback that would be present in a free market situation. They get their tax money either way—even from parents who do not wish to use the public schools." . . .

The Biden 10-step plan for global chaos | VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

 Victor Davis Hanson | Opinion (reviewjournal.com)

Why is Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador bragging that millions of Mexicans have entered the United States, most of them illegally? And why is he interfering in U.S. elections by urging his expatriates to vote for Democrats? 

"Why is French President Emmanuel Macron cozying up to China while trashing his oldest ally, the United States?

"Why is there suddenly talk of discarding the dollar as the global currency?

"Why are Japan and India shrugging that they cannot follow the U.S. lead in boycotting Russian oil?

"Why is the president of Brazil traveling to China to pursue what he calls a “beautiful relationship”?

"Why is Israel suddenly facing attacks from its enemies in all directions?. . .

"The Pentagon refused to admit culpability and misled the country about Afghanistan and the Chinese spy balloon flight. The current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff called his Chinese communist counterpart and head of the People’s Liberation Army to advise him that the U.S. military would warn the Chinese if it determined an order from its commander in chief, former President Donald Trump, was inappropriate.

"This list of these self-inflicted disasters could be easily expanded.

"But the examples explain well enough why our emboldened enemies do not fear us, our triangulating allies judge us unreliable and calculating neutrals assume America is in descent and too dangerous to join.

"Yet without America, the result is a new Chinese order in which, to quote the historian Thucydides, “The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”

UPDATED: Israel and her questionable ally America

LATE UPDATE: Harris Says 'I Will Not Be Silent' About Dead Kids in Gaza War — Unless They're Israeli Kids – PJ Media   "Democrat presidential nominee-apparent Kamala Harris said last week she "will not be silent" about suffering children in Gaza, while practically ordering Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stand down in a one-sided ceasefire deal with Hamas terrorists.

"That was Thursday. On Saturday, in the north of Israel, a Hezbollah rocket launched from Lebanon struck a sports complex filled with children playing soccer, killing 11 children and wounding about 30 more. According to IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, it was the deadliest single attack on Israel since the Hamas terror invasion of Oct. 7 that left 1,200 dead and more than 200 kidnapped. 

"The silence from Kamala Harris is deafening." . . . 

Will you also not be silent about this, Kamala?  Tunnel Wall: Hamas announced the death of the youngest hostage Kfir Bibas (10 months old). The mom, brother, and dad are dead too.

Democrats are happy to abandon Israel - who simply want to live in peace with their homes and families - and support Hamas-Gaza whose men killed those Jewish families wherever they found them - and murdered them and their children with absolute glee! The Tunnel Dweller

 Anybody paying attention to what just happened in Israel? - Jack Hellner  

I thought the media would be embarrassed by now about all their lies about Russian collusion or covering up the laptop and Biden family corruption, but I was wrong. They are congenital liars, just like Biden, Obama, and Harris. 

 "I get news items in my email from the New York Times and the Washington Post every day, giving updates and headlines but I didn't see information about a mass killing yesterday in Israel. I also didn't see this information at the top of Drudge or Yahoo! News.

"Clearly, this kind of news didn't help them in their efforts to elect Kamala Harris and to continue the Biden-era world disasters. 

"Iranian terrorists targeted and killed several children yesterday.

 

"I guess they were disposable. I also haven't heard a word about those children from Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, or their spokesman, John Kirby, yet. 

 

"Trump kept the price of oil throughout his four years low, and that essentially kept Iran and Russia in check. Trump got the Abraham peace accords and Obama, Biden and their team of useful idiots let that go by the boards and essentially built up the finances of Iran, which pledges death to Israel and death to America. Europe also helps Iran. High oil prices also fund Russian killing in Ukraine." . . . 

Netanyahu’s historic speech; "The prime minister spoke truth to the powers of evil and received an overwhelmingly enthusiastic reception."

. . .The attempted demonization and public shaming of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by the Democrat Party in Congress and the barbarian demonstrators at the gates calling for Jewish blood remain upon us.

Vice-President Kamala Harris, the designated Democrat Party presidential candidate, chose to attend the gathering of a historically black sorority, Zeta Phi Beta, instead of presiding over Netanyahu’s speech to Congress. This is Harris’s first-ever foreign policy decision. . . .

. . ."Netanyahu dared to name America as the major impediment to stopping Iran. He is right. Only Israel is standing in Iran’s way. Israel is, in effect, protecting America. Iran has been attacking American soldiers for many years now. Only Israel has gone up against it." 

JNS poll: Israelis support Donald Trump over Joe Biden - CarolineGlick.com

Among young Israelis, the responses were even more dramatic. Seventy-four percent of respondents aged 18 to 29 said that Biden is not pro-Israel. Young Israelis support Trump over Biden 95%-5%.

Better-educated, I suppose. TD 

Much more at the Tunnel Wall

Biden announces huge Supreme Court overhaul

I fear the lack of regard for America's Constitution along with the ignorance of our founding fathers and their skill in creating this cherished experience in governing our nation. While these ill-educated youth devastate traces of America's cherished history, they follow Iran-led teachers in learning to chant programmed phrases such as "Death to America" and "Death to Israel". Now, with Kamala-ites holding our very principles under their control, I wonder if our nation has valiant defenders to protect all we have as a foundation. TD

 UK Daily Mail (msn.com)  "President Joe Biden has called for sweeping reforms to the Supreme Court, including term limits, a binding code of conduct for its nine justices and a constitutional amendment that would limit presidential immunity.

"Biden, citing 'recent ethics scandals' involving justices and high court rulings that 'overturned long-established legal precedents protecting fundamental rights', has called on Congress to pass three major reforms in a bid to 'restore trust and accountability' in America's democratic institutions.

"The White House on Monday detailed the contours of Biden's court proposal, noting how the Democrat believes 'no one - neither the President nor the Supreme Court - is above the law'.

"The President will officially propose the changes today during a speech in Austin, Texas, however, his proposals appear to have little chance of being approved by a deeply divided Congress with just 99 days to go before Election Day. 

"Regardless, Democrats hope Biden's proposal will help to focus voters as they consider their choices in the tight presidential election. 

"Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee, has sought to frame her race against Republican former President Donald Trump as 'a choice between freedom and chaos'." . . .

Our downhill slide became evident with Obama and accelerated with this maladroit man and his sinister vice President, "Madam I'm Speaking!"  TD

OPINION: Biden's Supreme Court 'Reform' Is a Lame Duck Fantasy by a Failed Little Man – RedState   "Joe Biden used the op-ed page of the Washington Post rather than an address to the nation to announce his anticipated "reform" plan for the US Supreme Court on Monday. This eleventh-hour grasp for power and relevance was brought on by the US Supreme Court ruling against Biden's attempt to use the Executive Branch as the only branch of government and manipulate it to punish his political opponents contrary to law and custom." . . .

No matter how poorly Biden's governing, he has the support of the press, media (including especially the talk-weasel Colbert), late-night TV shows, and most, it would seem, of academia.

Drag Queen Olympics Is What a Kamala Harris Presidency Would Look Like

 The Morning Briefing: Drag Queen Olympics Is What a Kamala Harris Presidency Would Look Like – PJ Media

"They will swear up and down that they're not really going after the right to worship (or your guns or your free speech), forever feigning surprise that anyone was offended. My RedState colleague Bob Hoge wrote about the non-apology apology  

Parody: A counterfeit Kamala Harris ad is comedy gold - American Thinker 

. . ."People who believe in things like moral codes and absolute truth are anathema to leftists, hence the constant assault on religion and people of faith." . . . 

The Paris Olympics had their opening ceremonies, and instead of being an opportunity to honor the best athletes around the world, they became a weapon in the war against Christianity. Instead of honoring athletes, the ceremonies were a tribute to drag queens and child grooming -- and, most importantly, a direct attack on everyone who accepts the Gospel.

Included in the opening ceremonies was a “parody” of The Last Supper. Jesus was portrayed by an obese woman showing her cleavage in a bustier, and all of the disciples were transvestites, along with one child. In front of them was a nearly naked French actor in blue body paint (and almost nothing else) moving sexually as the Greek god Dionysus.

Well, Jill liked the Olympic ceremony -Silvio Canto, Jr.

 . . . I still think Donald Trump is in a good position to return to the White House, but I'm now unnerved by the peppiness on the other side. Like you, I don't trust the Democrats, especially during an election year. The fewer variables, the better. The energy change is a variable. My mood is definitely not as good as it was when the Republican National Convention wrapped up. "

The Twilight Zone predicted this

 "California took a step closer to state-mandated tranny surgery by requiring schools not to tell parents about their children changing sex identity." D.S.

Don Surber (substack.com)  

"A reader pointing to the anti-Semitic riots in Washington by the spoiled brats of socialism last week made a reference to Billy Mumy and the Twilight Zone episode, It’s A Good Life.

"In it, Mumy plays an 8-year-old boy named Anthony whose telepathic powers terrorize his small town in Ohio.

"Anthony had not reached the age of reason, which is why he used his supernatural powers capriciously. He did not realize his actions had consequences. This led to death and destruction with the boy sending people who think a bad thought about him to the cornfield.

"The episode was set in his parent’s living room with him and a half-dozen or so adults. None dared confront him or challenge him. They were struck by fear.

"Finally, one man gotets drunk on brandy and does. Mumy’s character got mad and turned him into a jack-in-the-box. His head bobbing back and forth was more than his wife can handle and she begged that he be sent to the cornfield. Wish granted.

"The episode ended with the boy creating more havoc by having it snow, which would kill the crops they needed to eat. The adults did [nothing]. They pretended everything was fine.

"I always saw the episode as a cautionary tale about Baby Boomers who were an outsized group in 1959 that was changing culture and later downstream politics.

"The boy was not the villain. The cowardly adults were." . . .

‘What the Hell Have You Done?’: JD Vance Lambasts Kamala Harris for Questioning His Loyalty

 Anthony Gonzalez (resistthemainstream.com)

Kamala Harris questioned my loyalty to America. I enlisted in the Marines for this country. I went to Iraq for this country. I built a business for this country. And my running mate took a bullet for this country. What the hell has Kamala done to question our loyalty to America? pic.twitter.com/WykF5pRY4Y

— JD Vance (@JDVance) July 28, 2024

"Former President Donald Trump’s running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), issued a scathing rebuke of Vice President Kamala Harris for questioning his loyalty.

"While speaking in front of a packed crowd in St. Cloud, Minnesota, Vance criticized Harris for her remarks in a 45-second YouTube video, where she claimed that the Ohio senator would be “loyal only to Trump, not to our country.”

"Harris asserted that Vance would be a “rubber stamp for [Trump’s] extreme agenda.”

"In response, Vance pointed out that he served in the Marine Corps and fought in Iraq after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He also noted that he began a small business in the U.S." . . .

AfterMath - Home (terrellaftermath.com)

Al Gore Backs 'Climate Champion' Kamala Harris for White House

It's only a matter of time until she is photographed hugging the Keffiyeh-clad truant Greta Thunberg. TD