Andrea Widburg  "All socialist countries wage war on God, who is always the state’s main competitor. Nevertheless, some people still manage to believe in God but side with a socialist candidate. The most recent example is the more than 350 self-labeled ‘faith leaders’ from multiple religions who endorsed Biden and Harris, claiming that they have the “moral clarity” that will “restore the soul of this nation.” It’s becoming sadly apparent that even religious people today want to farm out their obligations to the state.
. . .

. . . "Leftists, however, farm out moral action to the state the same way that you or I might hire a housekeeper or gardener. We want our home and garden to be lovely, but we’re unwilling to do the labor ourselves and pay others to do the hard work. However, because we’re neither leftists nor are we the government, complete with its police power, we don’t make our neighbor pay or force him to hire housekeepers and gardeners. 

"An example of this leftist belief that all redemption flows from the state also showed up in a letter that an anonymous leftist wrote:"

Guy Benson
@guypbenson
·Aug 29
A friend texts me this letter. It was left on their neighbor’s home because they have a Trump sign in their yard. The bad people here are those who wrote/approved this trash. The author(s) should look at themselves

. . . "And please, don’t counter what I just said with anti-Trump “whataboutism.” The Judeo-Christian faith supports repentance and redemption. Trump is not the man he was even ten years ago. Meanwhile, Biden and Harris unapologetically support unlimited abortion and have no remorse for their past immoral or corrupt acts." . . .

Is George Soros Funding The Riots Taking Place In America?

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Clover Chronicle  "The following information was taken from a lengthy online forum post (unknown date & time). The author describes a movement called ‘Democracy Spring’ which is supposedly a domestic version of a colour revolution. (Note: Some of the text has been altered for spelling, grammar and context to reflect current events).

As many of you have suspected, the current push for a “Democracy Spring” is funded directly by George Soros [1] in an extreme act of escalation against Trump and US democracy. The name sounds suspiciously close to “Arab Spring,” but let’s put that one to the side for a moment.

What the hell is a “Democracy Spring?” Well, their stated objective is to “take out dark money from the political process.” Surely that’s agreeable isn’t it? Isn’t that what Trump is doing by self-funding? Looks deceive of course. They themselves are funded by George Soros’ “dark money.” How can they possibly stand against it? Besides, when nominees are down to two viable people per party, why is this necessary at all? The answer is it isn’t necessary and they don’t really believe in what they demand, but by mirroring Trump, they achieve invulnerability against any attacks by Trump, or any other clever maneuver.

This is about two simple scenarios involving so-called “protests”:

1. Trump condemns the group for trying to disrupt US democracy.
2. Trump hails them for taking up such a worthy cause.

If Trump commits to action 1, the group will point to its fake objective and declare Trump the real target of it; his opposition proving that he is scared of whatever vague proposition they are putting forward. Furthermore, it would be the best case scenario because it would put them against Trump directly which is important for later. If Trump commits to action 2, he loses his main base for supporting what is obviously a leftist “protest” aimed to disrupt the democratic process, however flawed it is. In any case, they will still declare him the target of their protest and reject his praise, damaging his credibility.

In most likelihood, he will choose to ignore it and attack George Soros indirectly. But unfortunately, that’s not going to be enough because that’s not the worst case scenario. George Soros is a specialist in “colour revolutions” [2] and so it is instructive to briefly explain how they work in order to relate it to the most likely strategy that is going to be played out against Trump." . . .  Read more...

Welcome to ‘The Purge’: New GOP Ad Blows The Dems Out of the Water over BLM Violence

RedState    . . . "The ad shows a couple being stalked by an insane BLM person in a full hood. She screamed obscenities at them and threatened the man that she was going to “f**k him up.” It then shows a police officer being brained by a heavy trash can lid while BLM folks cheered. Finally it shows Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) being surrounded and the officer next to him being attacked by BLM people and being pushed into Paul.

The GOP just released this new ad and well... pic.twitter.com/vBk4fnMnQK

— Breanna Morello 🇺🇸 (@breannamorello) August 28, 2020

"The ad says that the protesters are trying to purge police from the streets and that Joe Biden and Democrats are letting them.

"Joe Biden has said that he doesn’t want to defund the police, despite saying he would reallocate some funding to other areas, which sounds an awful like “defunding” at least in part to me.

"But he certainly has been letting them, by not condemning the Democrats behind the defunding move and not condemning the failure of the Democrats to respond and to properly prosecute the people behind these crimes.

"Not only that, but he didn’t even mention the violence at his convention with everyone, including Barack Obama, terming people as “peaceful protesters” and attacking President Donald Trump for trying to deal with the violence. Months of riots and all they tried to do was attack Trump. They also completely embraced the BLM, even having an homage musical number to them with Billy Porter and Stephen Stills. So is it any wonder when officials are not condemning it and not adequately prosecuting it, that the behavior blossoms?" . . .

The Internal Numbers That Opened the Eyes of CNN To Suddenly Oppose Riots

Yeah, well boycott THIS!

Sports are such a great exit plan for gifted young people to escape the horrors of gang-infested areas where their families must live. Those looking to a future of safety and prosperity must shudder to think what these virtue-signaling dramas can do to their prospects. TD

Boycotting Themselves Out of Business?   "By skipping games for nebulous political demands, pro athletes threaten to alienate fans and crater their own industry." . . .
"With their boycott of games earlier this week to protest the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, athletes in the National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball have crossed a bridge that they may find difficult to return from. Though professional athletes have become increasingly politicized since former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began his “Star Spangled Banner” protests in 2016, the widespread cancellation of games, including NBA playoff contests, is unprecedented.
"The walkout in support of Blake, who was wanted on a sexual-assault charge and whose own girlfriend called the cops on him, hardly represents the kind of compelling case against police brutality one might build a mass movement around. If players, in the midst of a pandemic slowdown already costing professional sports billions of dollars, were willing to shut down their industry in this instance, how frequently will they feel compelled, or even pressured, to do the same in the future? Fans who were already watching less sports may react negatively to being lectured by wealthy athletes who regularly walk off the job." . . .

Empty virtue-signaling destroying sports, entertainment  "Sports leagues are now canceling and postponing games for every perceived injustice or slight.  Soon, players will boycott games if someone in the country refuses to admit there are an infinite number of genders, or if someone riding light rail in Minneapolis calls an obese person "chubby."

"In the future, "non-essential" businesses will be shut down with regularity whenever a perceived "major health threat" comes along.  Similarly, it appears sports leagues will shut down with any accusation of "injustice" — more accurately, with any accusation of injustice against the progressively protected members of society, such as non-white people and those in the LGBT community.  If a cis-gender white person in Indiana forgets to use a black American transgender person's preferred pronoun, the NBA will shut down for a month.  Because, after all, no one wants to be just a world-class athlete anymore.  Gotta be a social justice warrior.  The more ignorant you are, the more you feel the need to appear up on the issues, hip, and morally superior to the great unwashed in flyover country.

"But what if conservatives played this game, too . . ."

Soon romance novels, videogames, spas, resorts, and fishing shows will all have to toe the leftist line and aggressively push the progressive agenda or risk being boycotted, marginalized, canceled or abolished.

Stop Letting Children (aka Professional Athletes) Bully the World

Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Demands Hollywood Strike Over Shooting of Jacob Blake

Rights and Wrongs of Sports Boycotts  . . . "Over the last two days, NBA players have boycotted their league's playoff games in protest of police brutality and racism, and players in several other professional sports leagues have followed suit. NBA players have now agreed to resume playing in the near future, and I expect the same thing is likely to happen in other leagues. But the whole episode still raises the more general issue of when and if sports boycotts are justified. This situation is not the first time players or others have advocated boycotting a sports event, and it is unlikely to be the last." . . .

And Just Like That, Joe Biden and the Democrats Stopped Liking Riots

No matter how righteous and peaceful Democrat supporters may become going forward, they are forever the people who would willingly burn your home and business, who would murder any person -black, white, gay, unspecified- if they were led to do so by others and encouraged by corrupt, leftist press. The Tunnel Dweller

PJ Media  "For the better part of the past three months, neighborhoods of Portland, Oregon, Minnesota, Seattle, Atlanta, Chicago, Kenosha and other cities and states – all run by Democrats – have been on fire.
"The police killing of George Floyd started the fire, but, as an old Japanese saying goes, “Fire always makes room for itself.”
"The “fire” is spreading like a metastic cancer. It is intentionally set in places where it is allowed to flourish and spread. It runs wild and unabated under the Democrats who oversee those towns and cities.
"Seattle’s Jenny Durkan, Minneapolis’s Jacob Frey, Portland’s Ted Wheeler, Oregon’s Governor Kate Brown, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers, Lori Lightfoot of Chicago fan the flames. They make excuses for murder in St. Louis and the constant assault of local and federal officers in Portland. They hate the president so much they won’t take help from him as a point of pride, salving their own egos while their cities are looted “for reparations,” pillaged for “social justice” and set on fire to leave a sick mark of “accomplishment.”. . . 

Is AOC’s ‘Squad’ Running the Rioters? One Just Called for MORE ‘Unrest In the Streets’  

"Massachusetts Democratic Congresswoman Ayanna Presley called for more “unrest” (hint)." . . .

CNN's Lemon warns of Democratic 'blind spot' on 'riots': 'It shows up in the polling'

If only the looting and burning polled well we'd be OK!

"CNN's Don Lemon said Tuesday night that Democrats "ignoring" riots in some U.S. cities represents a "blind spot" for the party, and called on Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden to address the problem because it is "sticking" in polling and focus groups." . . .

The anti-Trump press

Newly pardoned Alice Johnson blasts media response to her speaking at RNC as 'a huge insult to me'  . . . "Johnson added that her mission is to enact criminal justice reform and the RNC was a perfect platform for her to spread the word. She went on to address the often-repeated claim that President Trump is a racist.
" 'The people who are saying this don't even know President Trump," she said. "I don't believe President Trump is a racist. My interactions with him and the things that he said and the things that I know touches his heart, those things would not come from a racist man.
" 'They are free to have their opinions, but in my personal opinion, I do not believe he's a racist." . . .

The media can and will lie and say whatever it wants about the Democrat and Republican conventions.  "The media are among the least trusted people in America, so take what they say for exactly what it’s worth." . . .

Journalistic Malpractice On The Riots  "The Democratic Party press has done its best to suppress news about the riots that have devastated cities across the country, but it is a hard secret to keep. Sometimes their efforts would be amusing, if the subject were not so serious. Here are a couple of minor cases in point from the Democrats’ flagship newspaper here in Minnesota, the Star Tribune.

"At 8:59 last night, the Strib’s top headline was an optimistic claim that rioting in downtown Minneapolis had subsided: . . . 

"In fact, the looting and arson had barely begun. Before long, that story went down the memory hole. This morning, the Strib attempted a lame coverup of last night’s lawlessness with this still photo of rioters looting the Saks store on Nicollet Mall. Note the caption:"

"Nothing to see here! Just a bunch of “people” “gathered around a window”! The woman in the foreground with her arms full of clothes? She must have brought them from home.

"The saddest thing about the Democratic Party press’s pathetic evasions is “journalists'” unwillingness to tell the real story of the lives that have been devastated by Democrat-allied, Democrat-supported rioters. This Facebook post by a man whose family’s Asian restaurant was destroyed by Black Lives Matter rioters is–as he says–heartbreaking: . . ."

"Pressttitutes"?    " ‘Mostly Peaceful’ Mob Of ‘Over 100’ People Attacks Senator Rand Paul" 

. . . "This isn’t the first, or even the second time that Senator Paul has been on the receiving end of political violence.
"You will remember that time he was attacked (blindsided) by his neighbor so savagely that he had to have part of his lung removed as one of the complications of his injuries.
"You may NOT have remembered that he was present at the ball diamond on that day when Scalise was very nearly assassinated."

The savage immaturity of the left and their proxies in the streets

Kamala Harris delivered a spiteful prebuttal speech that was an embarrassment.  She blamed the President for Covid, as though he himself created it.  She blamed him for all the deaths despite his very early grasp of the potential seriousness of the virus.  She blamed him for the shock to our economy rather than all the Democrat governors who locked down their states in the hope it would hurt Trump.  They destroyed the economies of their own states to take out a president they hate

Patricia McCarthy   "Everyone, even Democrats, can agree that the DNC convention was an embarrassing bust, a poorly produced concoction of vapidity, anger and wrath.  They overdid the “let’s make everyone afraid of covid” bit, no audiences, masks on everyone even when alone on a stage.  It was a joke perpetrated by people who, to the core of their beings, think the American people are really stupid.  

"This core belief, that they can stupefy and manipulate us all, is why they produced a ridiculous covid-fearful four-night convention so boring no one watched it… because it was unwatchable.  John Kerry? Bill Clinton?  John Kasich?  Bernie Sanders?   Who on this planet cares about anything these corruptocrats have to say?  No one, not even the current crop of apoplectic Trump haters, especially those among the media.  The entire endeavor was a joke born of the left’s contempt for middle America.  They actually think that by making common cause with Antifa and Black Lives Matter, they can win.  

"Now that we’ve seen and reveled in the joyous tone of the RNC convention, the abyss between the two parties is writ gloriously large.  The left is angry and rattled because they’ve lost their grip on the power that they’ve always taken for granted, even when there was a Republican in the White House.  

"They are not running the show, Trump is, and his attempt to drain the swamp is making inroads, despite all their treasonous efforts to destroy the man and his presidency.  The ferocity of their hate for Trump has led them to reveal their inner souls and it is not a pretty picture.  They are an ugly bunch. The termagant Nancy Pelosi charges that Trump and his supporters are “enemies of the state”!  How is that for projection? " . . . 

Feds Swarm Seattle “Antifa” Group “Riot Kitchen” on Streets of Kenosha, Smash Car Windows and Round Everyone Up

Wayne Dupree  "When you cross state lines to riot, you’re in big trouble and the feds will hunt you down and take you in…
"That’s exactly what happened to the Seattle-based Antifa group called “Riot Kitchen.”
"It’s an anarchist group that uses a vegan food-truck as a front to hide their violence and anarchy.
"They claim they’re just out “feeding people.' ”
"Well, that’s not what the Feds think, because they just swarmed their vehicle in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and rounded all of them up."
"You can watch the video"
  . . . 
"Antifa thinks they’re so clever using a “food truck” as a beard for their violence. This is a very common move by the left. They love using marketing and slogans to hide their true agenda." . . .
"That stuff may have worked for a while, but people are hip to the “word game” now.
"Riot Kitchen “HQ” just responded to the raid and asked for “bail money”:
"Riot Kitchen HQ just learned that our bus crew was arrested in broad daylight in #Kenosha today – kidnapped by feds in unmarked vans. We are currently trying to find our friends who were just there to feed people. Please share and donate for bail via Venmo riotkitchen206

"In truth, Riot Kitchen Headquarters is probably the basement bedroom of some 30-year-old jobless vegan guy with a man bun."

"In the current chaos, I’ve come to appreciate Marcus Aurelius’s maxim that 'The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.'"

One of the most devastating lines in president Trump’s convention speech last night was this: 'Tonight, I ask you a very simple question: How can the Democrat Party ask to lead our country when it spends so much time tearing down our country?' AA

Althouse  "And I have to say I’m horribly conflicted on some issues. I’m supportive of

attempts to interrogate the sins of the past, in particular the gruesome legacy of slavery and segregation, and their persistent impact on the present. And in that sense, I’m a supporter of the motives of the good folks involved with the Black Lives Matter movement. But I’m equally repelled by the insistent attempt by BLM and its ideological founders to malign and dismiss the huge progress we’ve made, to re-describe the American experiment in freedom as one utterly defined by racism, and to call the most tolerant country on the planet, with unprecedented demographic diversity, a form of 'white supremacy.' I’m tired of hearing Kamala Harris say, as she did yesterday: 'The reality is that the life of a black person in America has never been treated as fully human.' This is what Trump has long defended as 'truthful hyperbole' — which is a euphemism for a lie. But here’s one thing I have absolutely no conflict about. Rioting and lawlessness is evil. And any civil authority that permits, condones or dismisses violence, looting and mayhem in the streets disqualifies itself from any legitimacy. This comes first. If one party supports everything I believe in but doesn’t believe in maintaining law and order all the time and everywhere, I’ll back a party that does. In that sense, I’m a one-issue voter, because without order, there is no room for any other issue.... One of the most devastating lines in president Trump’s convention speech last night was this: 'Tonight, I ask you a very simple question: How can the Democrat Party ask to lead our country when it spends so much time tearing down our country?' A cheap shot, yes. But in the current context, a political bullseye.' " . . .

About Ann Althouse; Ann Althouse has been blogging since January 14, 2004, and her blog has been called “Althouse” since January 15, 2004. Born in Wilmington, Delaware, she’s been living in Madison, Wisconsin since 1984 when she began teaching at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she was a law professor for many years and is now a professor emerita. . . .

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Michelle Obama: White people treat me like 'I don't exist

WND

'And when we do exist, we exist as a threat'

A threat? You mean like this?

And this from back in 2013:

It isn't that I hate you Ms. Obama; it's that I assume you all hate me. I see your anger on display so often and how you have often described encounters with whites sometimes as charming and later as offensive. Your family of racial scolds has caused so much damage in white-black relations and in how police are treated; always assuming the most offensive. TD

On to the featured article here: :

. . . "Obama told her audience she had "a number of stories like that." 

She said "white people ... don't experience this in their lives."

On her podcast, Obama previously discussed her "low-grade depression," blaming it on President Trump's administration.

She said it's not "just because of the quarantine, but because of the racial strife, and just seeing this administration, watching the hypocrisy of it, day in and day out, is dispiriting."

Later she relates the story in two different forms: charming, fun, then later as racist and offensive.

“No one knew that was me. Because a woman actually walked up to me, right? I was in the detergent aisle, and she said — I kid you not — she said, ‘Excuse me, I just have to ask you something.’ And I thought, ‘Oh, cover’s blown.’ She said, ‘Can you reach on that shelf and hand me the detergent?’ I kid you not. And the only thing she said — I reached up, because she was short, and I reached up, pulled it down. She said, ‘Well, you didn’t have to make it look so easy.’ That was my interaction. I felt so good.”

Then again: Target Customer Asks Michelle Obama For Help; First Lady Believes Request Was Racially Motivated  . . . "A Target customer asked Michelle Obama to help her grab an item during a trip to the mega retailer back in 2011. In an interview with People Magazine, the First Lady talks about her own experiences as a black woman and why she believes the customer’s simple request may have been influenced by racial stereotypes. 

"In her highly publicized Target trip, Michelle Obama said that not a single customer approached her other than one woman who asked her to grab an item off the shelf for her. The First Lady believes that despite being the wife of the Commander-in-Chief, people will always see her first as a helping hand due to the color of her skin." . . .

Michelle Obama: Asking Me To Help You Get Something Off The Shelf At Target Might Be Racist   . . . "When did she decide that that encounter wasn’t a rare, heartwarming slice of normalcy outside the presidential bubble but a depressing reminder that even First Ladies aren’t immune from racism in America?

"What’s especially weird about this is that she and O obviously gave this interview to People mag to do damage control after the Michael Brown and Eric Garner grand jury decisions. Obama’s been knocked by black voters for not taking more of a stand so now he’s handing a lengthy chat on racism to a general interest publication, to try to reach beyond the political class and connect with the wider electorate. If you’re going to do that, though, logically you’d want to come to People armed with your most harrowing experiences of racism. Somehow, “she asked me to get detergent off the shelf” made the cut. Um, why? The only theory I can muster is that the Obamas wanted to make the point that, even as the most powerful people in the world, they still experience the same sort of casual racism that average black Americans experience every day. So they reached for an example, and the best they could come up with was repurposing an amusing old story from Letterman’s show for the occasion."

Read the entire Tunnel Wall here.

Biden: Soft on Criminals, Hard on the Police

Tony Branco

The Daily Reformer
                           In his America, criminals, not cops, would rule the streets.

"The Democrats have always been the party that coddled criminals. It is now the party that canonizes them. While Democrat-run cities burn across the country, Biden concerns himself with masks and Hatch Act violations. He strains at the gnat and swallows the camel.

Race relations only got worse under the Obama–Biden administration. Now Biden threatens to damage them even more by pushing the malicious lies of Black Lives Matter.

"A captive of the far Left, he couldn’t bring himself to condemn the looting and mayhem during his convention. He only now condemns it, half-heartedly, after pollsters inform him that the riots pose a political problem for him. CNN’s Don Lemon let this cat out of the bag, saying, “I think this is a blind spot for Democrats. I think Democrats are ignoring this problem or hoping that it will go away, and it’s not going to go away…. I think maybe Joe Biden may be afraid to do it … he’s got to address it. He’s got to come out and talk about it.”

"Mike Pence pounced on this weakness in his speech on Wednesday night, saying,

Joe Biden says that America is systemically racist, and that law enforcement in America has, and I quote, an “implicit bias” against minorities. When asked whether he’d support cutting funding to law enforcement, Joe Biden replied, “Yes, absolutely.” Joe Biden would double down on the very policies that are leading to violence in American cities. The hard truth is you won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America. Under President Trump, we will always stand with those who stand on the thin blue line, and we’re not going to defund the police — not now, not ever.

. . .