The Stunning Gullibility Of ‘Republicans For Biden’

Flake calling Trump not a conservative is particularly rich, given that Trump has done more to advance the conservative agenda – on economics, foreign policy, social issues – than any president, including Ronald Reagan.

I & I Editorial Board   "On the eve of the Republican convention, more than two dozen former GOP lawmakers endorsed Joe Biden for president. Trump Derangement Syndrome is spreading faster than COVID-19.

     "Retired Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake makes his case for supporting Biden by claiming Trump “is not conservative,” that Biden “will approach his constitutional role with the reverence and dignity it deserves” and “reach across the aisle.”

Jeff "Mitt" Flake

     "This is the same argument John Kasich, a former congressman and Ohio governor, made at the Democratic National Convention, when he reassured the public that Biden is “respectful” and won’t “turn sharp left” when he gets in office.
     "None of this makes any sense, yet a growing number of Republicans are buying into it.
     "First, how do these Republicans know Biden will “reach across the aisle”? They don’t. Their gullibility and naivete are a wonder to behold.
     "The truth is, there’s absolutely no reason whatsoever to believe Biden would stay in the center.
     "A Biden win will surely bring with it a Democratic-controlled House and Senate. We already know what will happen next, since it’s happened before. After Bill Clinton ran as a moderate, he immediately veered left upon taking office, raised taxes he’d promised to cut and tried to impose HillaryCare on the nation.
     "After Barack Obama wooed Republicans with his calm demeanor, his seemingly sensible positions, and the sharp crease in his pants, he spent the first two years imposing ObamaCare and the economy-crushing Dodd-Frank on the nation.
     "Heck, even Lyndon Johnson, who portrayed Barry Goldwater as a radical in 1964, enacted Medicare, Medicaid and the disaster known as the “Great Society” the first chance he got.
     "Worse, while Clinton and to a lesser extent Obama positioned themselves as moderates, Biden has swallowed the far left’s agenda hook, line and sinker. As we pointed out in this space more than a month ago: . . ."

Scorned Jeff the Flake’s irrelevant sideshow

The Trump campaign has announced the list of RNC speakers for the event next week.

Issues & Insights  "The Trump campaign has announced the list of RNC speakers for the event next week.
"Some surprise names include Georgia State Rep. Vernon Jones, who is a Democrat, and UFC executive Dana White.
"Per Tim Murtaugh
"The theme of @realDonaldTrump’s nominating convention is “Honoring the Great American Story.” Nightly themes:

Land of Promise
Land of Opportunity
Land of Heroes
Land of Greatness

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Nancy Pelosi Goes On Deranged Rant, Labels Republicans ‘Enemies of the State’

RedState  "Nancy Pelosi is not well. That’s the impression any normal person would get watching her over the last several months. As the possible re-election of Donald Trump has grown closer, she’s become more and more unhinged (see Nancy Pelosi Has a Mental Breakdown On Camera, Starts Yelling ‘No’ At Reporter Over and Over). And it’s not just the words she says. It’s also her mannerisms, her stumbling over her words, and the constant need to suck on her own teeth, as if they are always just seconds from exiting her mouth. This is not a woman who should still hold a position of power are the age of 80.

"Today, she once again upped the toxicity of the rhetoric in a wild rant where she labeled Republicans “enemies of the state” and “domestic enemies to our voting system.”

These are the flailings of a politician who knows their crazy conspiracy theory about the Post Office has crashed and burned. She desperately wants to keep the narrative going despite the fact that the Postmaster General has provided proof he took none of the actions he was accused of. In fact, he went so far as to reverse previously enacted policy under the Obama administration to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.

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'Disgusting': Lawmakers React to Pelosi's New Slur Against Republicans  . . . "While Pelosi's comment could have been mistaken for typical Nancy rhetoric that she is quite famous for, many fellow members of Congress didn't take too kindly to being called an enemy of their own country, simply for not believing her party's bonkers conspiracy about the post office. 

"House Minority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) harkened back to 2017 when he and three others were shot during practice for an annual charity baseball game. The shooter, James Hodgkinson, was a left-wing activist. Investigators described the shooting as "an act of terrorism...fueled by rage against Republican legislators.' " 

Democrats and their media: corrupt spinelessness on display

Cowardice is a trait wherein excessive fear prevents an individual from taking a risk or facing danger. It is the opposite of courage. As a label, "cowardice" indicates a failure of character in the face of a challenge. One who succumbs to cowardice is known as a coward.  Wikipedia

Democrats are pretending the cities aren’t burning   . . ."The Democrats put an accent on every disturbing development during the Trump years, but not on the disorder that has caused countless millions in property damage, killed and injured innocent people and contributed to rising lawlessness in cities around the country.
"About that, they maintained a discreet silence.
"Across four nights and eight hours of programming, no one mentioned it — not the community activists, not the mayors or governors, not the former presidents and first ladies, and emphatically not the party’s current nominees for president and vice president.
"As far as the Democrats were concerned, recent events that have had a profound effect on ­urban communities — places ­almost uniformly governed by Democratic mayors — simply never happened." . . .

MSNBC Cuts Away So Viewers Don’t Hear Kim Klacik’s Terrific Condemnation of Democratic Failure  . . . "But MSNBC apparently didn’t want to hear the speech or have Americans hear it. CNN has already showed their bias when they indicated they would cover the RNC differently than the DNC. While they gave the DNC a pass, they said they might cut away if they saw “disinformation” at the RNC. But MSNBC had actually been covering most of it.

"But apparently they didn’t want to cover the speech or injure the false narrative of what and who Republicans are?" .  . . The video MSNBC didn't want you to see.

CNN Cuts Off Trump Speech, John King Accuses President Of ‘Wrong, Misleading, Or Outright Lies’  . . . "Trump, a frequent critic of ballot harvesting and mail-in voting was speaking on the topic Monday when CNN anchor Anderson Cooper broke into the broadcast to accuse the president of going “negative” in the convention’s “first moments.”
“He started off falsely attacking mail-in voting,” Cooper said. “He’s continuing to attack mail-in voting as his postmaster general testifies that the attacks are ‘unhelpful.’ That’s his own postmaster general. He also criticized the media for airing the postmaster’s hearing instead of his roll call.”

“ 'He falsely accused Democrats of wanting to shut down the country to hurt the economy and somehow help them at the ballot box,” he continued. “Unclear how angering the entire country by shutting down would help them at the ballot box.”

Democrat Nightmare

Rich Terrell

"Rich Terrell is a retired high school teacher who taught many courses, but mainly math and economics. Upon retirement he took up creating cartoons – most of them political, some of them whimsical.  His wife, Lucy Gill, is a retired international management consultant and trainer, and author of “How to Work with Just about Anyone, a 3-Step Solution for Getting Difficult People to Change.”  They live in the Sierra foothills near Yosemite National Park and have spent many summers packing into the mountain wilderness areas on horseback."

RNC provides a glimpse into future of GOP after Trump  . . . "Liberals believe that their view of culture will lead to a society of more racial progress. But Scott put a different spin on it, warning that the left-wing vision of America would crush the American Dream. Whether or not Trump pulls off another upset in November, or gets trounced, his influence on the Republican Party is likely to be felt well after he leaves office."

The Mirror-Image Convention  "The first night of the 2020 Republican National Convention was a mirror image of last week's Democratic telethon. The issues that the Democrats ignored—violence in the cities and China—were mentioned again and again. Where the Democrats showcased elected officials and celebrities, some of the most effective speeches on night one of the RNC came from lesser-known individuals such as activist Andrew Pollack, Cuban immigrant Maximo Alvarez, and nurse Amy Ford. The phrase "systemic racism" wasn't heard. But paeans to American greatness and American exceptionalism limned each address.

A ragecat GOP convention with a fierce message of 'fight'  "The GOP is famous for its civility, its reasoned arguments, its uplifting messages, its thousand points of light, its doughty flag-waving.  Historically, it's always been a bit of an anti-climax to the more raucous version from the Democrats.
"Not this time.
"What stood out for me in this convention was not its uplift, which was there, but its ragecat fury, its fight.  As Eric Hoffer wrote in his 1979 memoirs: "People need to get angry," and earlier, "there is a lack of ability to get angry."
"The GOP is getting angry. " . . .

The history of the racist Democrat party in under 12 minutes

The history of the racist Democrat party in under 12 minutes by Billy Whittle  Religio-Political Talk

Ahead of RNC Kickoff, President Trump Releases His Second Term Agenda

Katie Pavlich

. . . "Take a look below, courtesy of the Trump campaign: " . . .

JOBS·Create 10 Million New Jobs in 10 Months·Create 1 Million New Small Businesses·Cut Taxes to Boost Take-Home Pay and Keep Jobs in America·Enact Fair Trade Deals that Protect American Jobs·"Made in America" Tax Credits·Expand Opportunity Zones·Continue Deregulatory Agenda for Energy Independence 

ERADICATE COVID-19·Develop a Vaccine by The End Of 2020·Return to Normal in 2021·Make All Critical Medicines and Supplies for Healthcare Workers in The United States·Refill Stockpiles and Prepare for Future Pandemics

END OUR RELIANCE ON CHINA·Bring Back 1 Million Manufacturing Jobs from China·Tax Credits for Companies that Bring Back Jobs from China·Allow 100% Expensing Deductions for Essential Industries like Pharmaceuticals and Robotics who Bring Back their Manufacturing to the United States·No Federal Contracts for Companies who Outsource to China·Hold China Fully Accountable for Allowing the Virus to Spread around the World 

HEALTHCARE·Cut Prescription Drug Prices·Put Patients and Doctors Back in Charge of our Healthcare System·Lower Healthcare Insurance Premiums·End Surprise Billing·Cover All Pre-Existing Conditions·Protect Social Security and Medicare·Protect Our Veterans and Provide World-Class Healthcare and Services 

EDUCATION·Provide School Choice to Every Child in America·Teach American ExceptionalismDRAIN THE SWAMP·Pass Congressional Term Limits·End Bureaucratic Government Bullying of U.S. Citizens and Small Businesses·Expose Washington’s Money Trail and Delegate Powers Back to People and States·Drain the Globalist Swamp by Taking on International Organizations That Hurt American Citizens 

DEFEND OUR POLICE·Fully Fund and Hire More Police and Law Enforcement Officers·Increase Criminal Penalties for Assaults on Law Enforcement Officers·Prosecute Drive-By Shootings as Acts of Domestic Terrorism·Bring Violent Extremist Groups Like ANTIFA to Justice·End Cashless Bail and Keep Dangerous Criminals Locked Up until Trial 

END ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND PROTECT AMERICAN WORKERS·Block Illegal Immigrants from Becoming Eligible for Taxpayer-Funded Welfare, Healthcare, and Free College Tuition·Mandatory Deportation for Non-Citizen Gang Members·Dismantle Human Trafficking Networks·End Sanctuary Cities to Restore our Neighborhoods and Protect our Families·Prohibit American Companies from Replacing United States Citizens with Lower-Cost Foreign Workers·Require New Immigrants to Be Able to Support Themselves Financially 

INNOVATE FOR THE FUTURE·Launch Space Force, Establish Permanent Manned Presence on The Moon and Send the First Manned Mission to Mars· Build the World’s Greatest Infrastructure System·Win the Race to 5G and Establish a National High-Speed Wireless Internet Network·Continue to Lead the World in Access to the Cleanest Drinking Water and Cleanest AirPartner with Other Nations to Clean Up our Planet’s Oceans

AMERICA FIRST FOREIGN POLICY·Stop Endless Wars and Bring Our Troops Home·Get Allies to Pay their Fair Share·Maintain and Expand America’s Unrivaled Military Strength·Wipe Out Global Terrorists Who Threaten to Harm Americans·Build a Great Cybersecurity Defense System and Missile Defense System . . .

WSJ: You Know, Joe Biden's COVID Plan Sounds Awfully Familiar

Biden and Democrats' entire strategy depends on our ignorance and shallowness. Biden names the list Trump has completed as his own plans and we are ready to admire his intelligence and thereby vote for him. TD

Joe who?

Townhall  "Picking up on a theme that the Trump campaign has been advancing for months, the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal noted over the weekend that for all of Joe Biden's complaints about the Trump administration's COVID response, the 'better' course of action the Democratic nominee is recommending actually hews rather closely to what the incumbent's team has already done -- and is currently doing.  We've already fact-checked some of the Biden-Harris ticket's claims and comparisons regarding Coronavirus. This editorial adds some additional color and context:

The Democratic nominee is promising a better virus strategy, which would be wonderful if he had one. But the virus plan he’s pushing is little different on the substance than what the Trump Administration is already doing...Mr. Trump’s virus policy in practice has been better than his critics claim, and Mr. Biden isn’t offering better ideas. Start with testing. Mr. Biden promises to “develop and deploy rapid tests with results available immediately.” Great—the Food and Drug Administration in the past week has approved two new rapid tests that can be scaled up quickly. The FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention botched the initial testing rollout. And earlier this summer, shortages of chemical reagents and lab equipment led to delays in processing tests amid a surge of infections. But supply-chain hiccups are gradually being worked out. The U.S. is now conducting 700,000 or so tests a day, up from about 400,000 in early June and 100,000 in late March...

Mr. Biden is also calling for “a coordinated, country-wide, future-facing national effort to acquire, produce, and distribute PPE, test kits and machines, lab supplies, and other critical supplies, including by fully utilizing the authorities” under the Defense Production Act. The Administration is already doing nearly all of this. The Pentagon this spring issued $259 million in contracts to 3M, Honeywell and Owens & Minor to produce tens of millions of N95 face masks for medical workers. U.S. companies like GM and New Balance have retrofitted plants to produce ventilators and PPE, and the Administration has used the Defense Production Act to allocate more tests and protective equipment to hot spots. Mr. Biden wants to hire 100,000 federal workers to track down contacts of people who get sick. States are already doing this, though public-health officials say contract tracing is of little use when the virus is widespread in communities.

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“The soft bigotry of Joe expectations.”

Power Line  The estimable James Lileks—the third greatest living Minnesotan after John and Scott—has come up with the perfect one sentence slogan about the hapless nominee of the Democratic Party: “The soft bigotry of Joe expectations.” File that one away and use it often.
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• I thought sure this headline was from The Babylon Bee, but no, it is a true news story:

Restaurant Servers in Maine Ordered to Wear Dog ‘Cones of Shame’ While Serving Food

"Please nobody tell Joe Biden. He’ll add this to his national mask mandate that he doesn’t have the constitutional power to impose, but what’s a little piece of paper when there’s a pandemic."

Biden is no more of a unifying figure than Obama or Bush (I’ll concede on Trump). There is no reason to believe he would do for unity what these two presidents didn’t.  . . ."In fact, there’s good reason to believe that America would be even more divided under Biden than it is now. Biden has tilted far to the left. If he were to govern that way, resistance would (and should) be fierce. If, instead, he were to move towards the center, he wouldn’t even be able to keep the Democratic Party united. Nor would (or should) Republicans unite behind a center-left presidency." . . .

Downright Dishonest Democrats Week at Legal Insurrection. Take the House and Senate away from Democrats!

Rep. Pressley fans the flames of violence. Democrat Rep. Ayanna Pressley Calls for “Unrest in the Streets”

Legal Insurrection

"Over the past week, Democrats and others on the left have lied and distorted the truth repeatedly.

• AP Fact Check: Michelle Obama’s DNC Swipe At Trump For Keeping Kids In “Cages” Was “Misleading” and “Distorted”
• Desperate Democrats Go All-In On Anti-Trump Post Office Hoax
• Flashback: Kamala Harris Tells Stephen Colbert ‘It Was a Debate!’ When Asked About Swipes Against Biden

"The list goes on and on.

• Elizabeth Warren Speaks at DNC Native American Caucus Meeting
• Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Blames Mississippi for Chicago Gun Violence
• “Michael from Rhode Island” Starring At DNC as “Longstanding Republican” Voting Biden, Is A Democrat

"The Democrat convention was weak.

• Biden 2020 DNC Speech Ratings Fell Short of Hillary 2016 by 21 Percent
• CNNs Van Jones: “As long as [Biden] didn’t embarrass himself, we were going to come out here and praise” his DNC speech
• Underwhelming: Kamala Harris virtual cheering section included duplicates

"What they didn’t show you.

• Tucker Carlson Exposes Extremist Side of Democratic National Convention

"Trump is in better shape than Democrats and the media will admit.

• New CNN Poll: Presidential Race Tightens, Biden Up By Only 4%
• Trump shines light on Democrats’ green energy schemes as blackouts roll through California
• Can Trump Flip Minnesota in November?

"Shut up.

• Rachel Maddow Was ‘Scared’ by Obama’s Warnings About Trump Ending Democracy

"The unhinged left rages on."

Too Much Green Power Worsening Blackouts

Tony Branco

California Political Review  "The wave of power outages in California during the heat wave of 2020 are mostly in the PG&E power grid area where 21 local green energy-buying cooperatives (called Community Choice Aggregators) are buying green power and green jobs for their communities. These co-ops buy power for 10 million customers in 170 cities and counties and their goal is 100 percent green power by the 2030’s.

"California depends on 25 percent imported power, mainly hydropower, from other states. However, the grid operator has been unable to buy much imported power during the regional heat wave. The only remedy for this problem is a diverse mix of power sources with green power no more than 20 to 30 percent of the mix. This heat wave shows the folly of shifting to 100 percent green power during hot spells.

"Even Gov. Gavin Newsom has been forced to admit green power falls short and blames planners. But the power grid has been deregulated and decentralized to allow local communities to buy their own power, resulting in a lack of diverse enough power sources during hot weather.

"Source of Power Outages Claim to be Unknown

"The New York Times of August 16 reports that “Rolling Blackouts in California Have Power Experts Stumped.” Bill Powers, a San Diego power engineer stated, “This should not have caused blackouts.”

"The technical reason for the rolling blackouts was the California Independent System Operator (Cal-ISO) could not find enough power reserves from out-of-state hydropower suppliers after three in-state power plants had to shut down and wind power dropped as it typically does during the daytime.

"The reason for the high demand for electricity is obviously the heat wave combined with humidity that spiked the temperature to 130-degrees in Death Valley. This resulted in a Stage 3 alert where mainline electric utilities had to ask customers to curtail use or they would start cutting power by rolling blackouts. The ISO asserted it was not grid congestion or downed power lines from wildfires, but a true lack of available power plants to come online when other plants failed, causing the shortage.

"Contributing to the blackouts was that California depends on 25 percent of imported power from other states, mainly hydropower to reduce smog in air basins. But the entire southwest was hot leaving little surplus power available.

"Blackouts Are Mainly a PG&E Thing . . .  Keep reading...

America's leading white supremacist announces his surprise endorsement

Andrea Widburg:  "One of the most revolting things about Joe Biden's candidacy is his dishonest insistence that Donald Trump called white supremacists "fine people."  Democrats have successfully used this hoax to brainwash large parts of the American public into believing that Trump and his supporters are racists and anti-Semites.  One wonders, therefore, how much consternation there is in Biden campaign headquarters now that Richard Spencer, one of America's best known neo-Nazis, is all in for Biden.

"To fully appreciate what should be one of the biggest stories in the presidential campaign, there are two things you need to know: (1) who Richard Spencer is and (2) what the "fine people hoax" is.

Richard Spencer

"Richard Spencer is an unapologetic neo-Nazi.  He's frequently seen giving Nazi salutes, quoting Nazi propaganda, and making openly anti-Semitic statements.  He thinks Haitians should be re-enslaved and that racial minorities should be removed from America.  Not surprisingly, his wife has accused him of verbal and physical abuse.  He is a terrible human being.

"Spencer organized and was a featured speaker in at an August 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.  That fact brings us to the...

Fine People Hoax

"Spencer was in Charlottesville in August 2017 for a Unite the Right rally that saw neo-Nazis parading through the streets shouting anti-black and anti-Semitic slogans.  The reason that the neo-Nazis descended on Charlottesville was that the town was contemplating pulling down a famous statue of Robert E. Lee.

"The debate over the statue meant that Charlottesville saw a convergence of Black Lives Matter–supporters, white supremacists, people who opposed the Confederacy but who also objected to willy-nilly tearing down signs of America's history, and people who were curious about the whole event. While the protest was at its height, James Alex Fields, one of the white supremacists, drove his car into a crowd, killing Heather Heyer.

"Because the media had already tarred Trump as a racist based upon his promise to enforce existing laws regarding America's southern border, they naturally asked him about the events in Charlottesville.  Trump expressed his concern about deconstructing America's past — comments that proved to be remarkably prescient when one looks at the Black Lives Matter and Antifa madness in June and July." . . .