When only some lives matter, then no lives matter

 The People's Cube

"BLM is only a gimmick. Just like all the other gimmicks in the recent past - like ozone holes or transgender bathrooms - it will soon be replaced by another gimmick, which the media will call a national emergency and an existential issue of the day.

"The gimmick is never the gimmick. The gimmick is always the revolution.

"On the first day of the 1917 Russian revolution, a few years before Stalin assumed the role of an absolute dictator, Leon Trotsky - who at the time was a much bigger figure than Stalin - already told those who disagreed with him: “’You are pitiful, isolated individuals! You are bankrupts. Your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on—into the dustbin of history!’”

"Most of those people were soon killed because their lives didn't matter. Trotsky didn't hesitate to kill because to a communist, some people's lives don't matter at all. Then Trotsky himself was killed by Stalin, along with many of his followers, especially those close to him, who remembered that Trotsky was once a bigger figure than Stalin. Remembering that was a death sentence.

"Among the millions of the Soviet citizens who were killed by their own leader, many were executed just in case - give or take a few hundred thousand - because no lives mattered anymore.

"I've always said that the degree to which a society is civilized is measured by the value it places on an individual human life. In this sense, those who like to call themselves "progressives" are, in fact, dragging us back to the dark times when some lives mattered but the majority didn't."

P.S.  The picture of Stalin holding a "No Lives Matter" sign was sent to me by a friend and I thought it would make a great meme if I added "When only some lives matter, then no lives matter. All Marxist gimmicks end up with mass graves." I'll gladly give credit the original author if he or she shows up.

California’s Illogical Reparations Bill, Covid Rules, (and, well, living your life generally)

 Victor Davis Hanson

Newsom and lawmakers virtue-signal while failing utterly to address the state’s current crises.

"California’s state legislature just passed, and Governor Gavin Newsom signed, Assembly Bill 3121 to explore providing reparations to California’s African-American population — 155 years after the abolition of slavery.

"Apparently, when California’s one-party government cannot find solutions to current existential crises, it turns to divisive issues that have little to do with the safety and well-being of its 40 million citizens.

"California has the highest gas taxes in the nation, even as its ossified state highways remain clogged and dangerous. Why, then, does Sacramento kept pouring billions of dollars into the now-calcified high-speed-rail project?

"When fires raged, killed dozens, polluted the air for months, consumed thousands of structures, and scorched 4 million acres of forest, the governor reacted by thundering about global warming. But Newsom was mostly mute about state and federal green policies that discouraged the removal of millions of dead and drought-stricken trees, which provided the kindling for the infernos.

"When gasoline, sales, and income taxes rose, and yet state schools became even worse, infrastructure remained decrepit, and deficits grew, California demanded that federal COVID-19 money bail out its own financial mismanagement." . . .

Gavin Newsom Issues Absurd Rules for ‘Gatherings’ in CA, Which Will Be Ignored "In a desperate attempt to remain relevant as Californians increasingly ignore his dictates, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-PlumpJack Wines) announced this week that outdoor gatherings are now allowed in the state, subject to a few mandatory requirements.

"Apparently, he missed all of the “gatherings” that have occurred daily in the state since late May.

"The California Department of Health prefaced the gatherings with a hilarious reminder:

All individuals living in the State of California are currently ordered to stay home or at their place of residence, except for permitted work, local shopping or other permitted errands, or as otherwise authorized (including in the Questions & Answers below).

"Hilarious. No one (even the SJW’s who continually complain about their maskless neighbors) has held to those guidelines since at least May." . . .

"Biden-Harris joint appearance in Arizona draws no spectators — as in ZERO attendees"

 That is, when pollsters call and ask a BLM household whether its votes will be for Biden or Trump, whoever answers the phone will say "Biden," because Biden is a figurehead for the BLM vote. "If that's the case, Trump-supporters had better not get cocky.  

Biden-Harris joint appearance in Arizona draws no spectators — as in ZERO attendees

Who are you going to believe — the polls or your lying eyes?  With apologies to Groucho Marx, we now have the answer to the question: "What if they held a Biden-Harris rally and nobody showed up?"  The answer is a shocked TV street reporter: . . .

"With nobody visible on the street outside, the reporter said, "Pretty much all the people we saw who pulled into the parking lot about 45 minutes ago were with the Biden-Harris campaign or the pool reporters."  And she noted that because both halves of the ticket were appearing, it was "technically, a big event."

"Not big enough to draw a crowd." . . .

In Arizona, Biden's supporters left something to be desired  . . . "The Miami car parade was unusual even by Trump standards, but the reality is that Trump-supporters all over America turn out on boats, in cars, and on foot to show their support for Trump.  And invariably, almost no one shows up for Biden.  That's the kind of thing that makes Trump-supporters pretty sure that the polls are lying.

"But stop and think for a minute about the times Biden's supporters were willing to show up.  They took to the streets in the tens of thousands for the Black Lives Matter marches.  That's where the enthusiasm on the left lies.  It's not there for Biden and Harris; it's there for hating America, the police, and white people.

"This raises the possibility that the mystifying support the polls show for Biden is also misdirection, in the same way that the Biden/Harris campaign's bus tour is a pretense.  The pro-Biden polls may be reflecting the Democrat energy that powered the protests and riots.  That is, when pollsters call and ask a BLM household whether its votes will be for Biden or Trump, whoever answers the phone will say "Biden," because Biden is a figurehead for the BLM vote.

"If that's the case, Trump-supporters had better not get cocky.  After all, while comparing Trump rallies to Biden rallies bodes well for Trump, comparing Trump rallies to Black Lives Matter rallies creates a different picture of voter enthusiasm.  It's possible that enough voters who hate America so much that they'll vote for the "not-Trump candidate."  That would be enough to put Biden in the White House and give Democrats control over Congress." . . .

‘Not A Lot Of Fanfare,’ ‘Kinda Boring’: Local News Covers Anemic Biden/Harris Event

Saudi Prince Bandar Denounces Palestinian Leadership: Is Saudi-Israel Peace Deal Next?

 PJ Media   "Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan, one of the most widely recognized and respected Saudi officials in the world, gave a three-part interview to the government-controlled Al Arabiya news network and proceeded to tear down 70 years of myths about the leadership of the Palestinian national movement. Bandar spent 22 years as a Saudi ambassador to the U.S. and is known to speak for the government."

"It was an extraordinary series of interviews — a brutal assessment of the numerous self-inflicted wounds by Palestinian leaders going all the way back to the 1930s. It was broadcast in Arabic with English subtitles on a news network that reaches every country in the region. And while Bandar is no longer in the government, a palace spokesman said he was speaking for Crown Prince Mohammed ben Salman.

"Bandar began by talking about the Mufti of Jerusalem, the very first Palestinian national leader, who made a deal with the Nazis back in the 1930s and got nothing to show for it.

Bandar goes on to mention a list of similar bad choices and decisions: The Arab rejection of the 1948 United Nations partition plan that would have given the Palestinians a state. The Arab League’s rejection of UN Resolution 242 after the 1967 War that called for an Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories; and the Palestinian Liberation Organization rejection of the Clinton Plan in 2000 that would have given the Palestinians a state in most of the West Bank and Gaza.

The most interesting rejection came in 1979, at Camp David. Israel offered Palestinians autonomy in the occupied territories. Yasir Arafat, turned it down flat. Sixteen years later, Arafat signed the Oslo Accord with Israel. Bandar asked him at the time to compare that deal with the terms he had turned down 16 years earlier. Arafat said that the autonomy offer was “10 times better” than Oslo.

"Prince Bandar is candid about the reasons for his monologue. First, he wants a record of how hard the Saudis have worked on behalf of the Palestinians over the decades. Second, he intends to reassure the UAE and Bahrain, which are being vilified by the Palestinians for recognizing Israel — and any other Arab country contemplating a similar step — that the Saudis have their back. Third, he is calling out the PLO and Hamas for making alliances with non-Arab countries Turkey and Iran, who the Saudis consider dangerous. He is signaling that the Saudis will deal only with a new generation of pragmatic, moderate and dependable Palestinian partners. About the current leaders, he is candid: “It is difficult to trust them and to d something for the Palestinian cause with them around.” . . .

If Biden Were a Republican

How will you prove to the American people that you are cognitively capable of handling the demands of the world’s most demanding office?

 National Review

"Mr. Biden, you have a history of cultivating disturbingly close relationships with white supremacists.

"As segregationists were dying off in the 1970s, you went out of your way to be pals with them, then bragged about it. You once called notorious segregationist Senator Strom Thurmond “one of my closest friends.” In 1988, when you were mounting a run for president that collapsed when your multiple acts of plagiarism came to light, you deployed a dog whistle when you bragged that the arch-racist former Alabama governor George Wallace had given you a leadership award in 1973. Also in 1988 you noted approvingly that the press would refer to you and Thurmond as the “marvelous marriage” and “the odd couple.” You later delivered a eulogy at Thurmond’s funeral in 2003.

"You once told Mississippi senator John Stennis, a racist opponent of school desegregation, that you viewed him as a “hero” and were honored to take over his office after he retired. In 2010 you gave a eulogy at the funeral of Senator Robert Byrd, a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan whom you called “a dear friend.” As recently as 2008 you were still bragging that you had “deep personal relationships” with segregationist senators James Eastland, Stennis, and Thurmond, and said, “All these men became my friends.” As recently as 2016 you fondly recalled that you welcomed the assistance of Stennis in one of your Senate reelection campaigns even though Stennis once said, “Those who would mix little children of both races in our schools are following an illegal, immoral, and sinful doctrine.” Isn’t your record of supporting these avowed white supremacists disturbing, disgusting, and disqualifying?

"Mr. Biden, President Obama said of you, “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f*** things up.” If the person you worked most closely with considers you a foul-up, why should the American people entrust you with the highest position in the republic?" . . .

New cosmetics company 'Biden Beauty' promotes voting for the Democratic candidate

Fox Business

Image by Genghis Gary, who was inspired by the Biden's Beauty cosmetic company.

. . . "With less than a month away from the U.S. presidential election, companies are getting creative in how they encourage American consumers to vote.

"This includes a new fashion and cosmetics brand known as “Biden Beauty.”

"The Democrat-leaning company made its social media debut towards the end of September and has been serving as a voter registration resource while encouraging U.S. adults to vote for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden." . . . . .

"Responses from social media users have alternated between disbelief and seeing value in Biden Beauty’s sense of humor. 

“ 'Beating my face to a bloody pulp with my Joe Biden beauty blender,” wrote one Twitter user by the name of Helen." .. .

Biden / Harris Hold Campaign Event In AZ NOBODY Showed Up

 FidoSysop Blog   Joe Biden and Kamala Harris held this campaign event in Arizona today and not a single person showed up. Talk about a big flop! The Biden-Harris campaign is disinformation, censorship by press and social-media, chaos, vote by mail fraud, violence BLM/Antifa, and back-room deals to steal the election. Nobody cares about corrupt Joe Biden and unlikable Kamala Harris! 

"The Last Refuge reports, As you watch this local media report of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris campaigning in Arizona most are focused on the complete absence of any support for the candidates; indeed, that is a rather weird fact. However, additionally watch in the video how the campaign staff has placed markers on the ground as visible cues for Biden, Harris and McCain to walk with social distancing; and pay particular attention to how Biden attempts to navigate his proximity responsibility therein. 

"Apparently this big push using Cindy McCain fell exceptionally flat. No-one cares… but the scale of the campaign being managed by poll-testers and control agents is really something; even beyond what we witnessed in 2016. To the Democrats all they care about is control. "Anyone getting in the way is collateral damage. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are spamming the air-waves with lie after lie – and nobody is calling them out for their blatant dishonesty. "Well I got news for demented and crooked Joe Biden. America is well aware of your do nothing years in congress. Your eight years as Barack Obama’s vice president, that you did not one thing to help American’s better their lives. And Kamala Harris identifying her heritage as Black! Geez according to African Globe, back in 2016 Harris identified herself as an INDIAN. She is conning black voters. Seems Harris is as big a fake as Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren!" . . .

1-26-2019: Why Black People Don't Trust Kamala Harris

Joe E. Collins III For Congress CA-43

 I have been getting emails (daily, it seems) from Congressional candidate Joe Collins, without really focusing on who he is. I should have paid more attention. Collins is running against Maxine Waters in South Los Angeles. Unlike Waters, Collins lives in the district. After 44 years in Congress, Waters lives in a $6 million mansion, somewhere else. Collins has released this dynamite ad, which reminds us of Kim Klasik’s campaign ads in Baltimore: . . .

"Can great candidates like Collins and Klasic win? I assume not. So, what is it going to take? Why do people keep voting for Maxine Waters, who has done nothing for her district and is, to be blunt, an idiot? I can’t explain it. There is something seriously wrong with our democracy when people like Maxine Waters and Joe Biden can stumble along ineffectually for decades, and continue being elected as though they had hereditary titles to their offices.

"Who is to blame? The voters. They deserve what they get. Unfortunately."

Joe E. Collins III For Congress CA-43 @joecollins43rd · Oct 10  Video

Do you know where I am? Maxine Waters’ $6 Million Mansion. Do you know where I’m NOT? Her District. Mansion Maxine Waters doesn’t live in her District — I do. My name is Joe Collins and I’m running for Congress against Maxine Waters. Help Me WIN: https://secure.winred.com/joe-collins-for-congress/mansionmaxine

READ: Amy Coney Barrett's Opening Statement

 Cortney O'Brien

"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett has released her opening statement ahead of her confirmation hearings this week. In it, she introduces her family, goes into detail about her law career, and previews how she would conduct herself as an associate justice of the Supreme Court.

"Democrats have already shown us that they fully intend to question Judge Barrett's Catholic faith and how it may affect her decision-making. She tries to put those fears to rest in her opening remarks."

. "When I write an opinion resolving a case, I read every word from the perspective of the losing party," she explains. "I ask myself how I would view the decision if one of my children were the party I was ruling against; Even though I would not like the result, would I understand that the decision was fairly reasoned and grounded in the law? That is the standard that I set for myself in every case, and it is the standard I will follow as long as I am a judge on any court."

"She later adds that Americans deserve a Supreme Court "that interprets our Constitution and laws as they are written."  "Read her entire opening statement below...

Biden made brownie points with Coon's daughter

Sen. Chris Coons Spews Litany Of Absurd Arguments Against Amy Coney Barrett’s Confirmation   "If Sen. Chris Coons’ (D-DE) recent remarks regarding the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett are any indication, the Democrats are using the “throw everything against the wall and see what sticks” strategy to stop her from replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The senator gave a myriad of reasons why he believes the judge should not be appointed to the highest court in the land. But it appears that his arguments are nothing more than desperate posturing." . . .

READ: Amy Coney Barrett's Opening Statement In Her Confirmation Hearing

ACB vs. ‘Know-Nothing’ Democrats; Republicans are almost certain to confirm an outstanding judge. But a simmering anti-Catholicism threatens to break through.  "The Democrats have essentially given up on blocking the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. This does not imply, however, that they will fail to turn her hearings into a nasty farce of smears of the nominee as an adherent to a voodoo-like religious devotion, and a passionate seeker of an America with no assisted healthcare and back-alley abortions. 

"The strategy mirrors the malicious fiction then-Senators Joe Biden and Teddy Kennedy threw at Robert Bork in 1987. Barrett, like Bork, is obviously a person of outstanding character and intelligence with impeccable credentials as a law professor and judge. " . . .

Poll: The Shy Trump Vote Is Bigger This Year...And Who Falls into This Category Should Terrify Democrats

Matt Vespa

"I’ll say it again, folks. The polling is screwed. It’s skewed. It’s a mess. Either we’re right to be highly skeptical and Trump wins an Electoral College landslide, or the pollsters are right and we’re heading for Armageddon come Election Day. Still, the oversampling of Democrats, college-educated voters, and suburban Republicans hostile to Trump should bring a ton of scrutiny. The reluctance from some of these clown firms to switch to likely voter samples is also suspect. We’re not going to have a 2008 or 2012 electorate. For starters, a new Hill-Harris poll noted that young Americans are not excited about this election at all. They’re not planning on voting. Gallup is reporting the youth interest in voting this cycle has hit its lowest levels since 2000. That’s in keeping with the results from Democracy Institute’s Patrick Basham, whose polling data, which has been mentioned in The Washington Times and Forbes, suggests there will be one million fewer young people voting this cycle." . . .

Frank Luntz: Undecideds in VP Debate Focus Group Found Kamala Harris ‘Abrasive and Condescending’

 Legal Insurrection

"If you watched the vice presidential debate this week, you may have noticed that Kamala Harris often seemed agitated and nervous. This presented itself physically in her facial expressions, nervous laughter, and attitude.

"According to pollster and analyst Frank Luntz, this did not go over well with the undecided voters in his focus group.

"To be fair, they weren’t exactly thrilled about Vice President Pence, but they saw him as more presidential, and Luntz has concluded that Pence won the night.

"Yael Halon reports at FOX News:

Undecided voters found Harris ‘abrasive, condescending’ in vice presidential debate: Frank Luntz

Voters found Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris to be “abrasive and condescending” at various points throughout Wednesday’s debate with Vice President Mike Pence, pollster Frank Luntz told the Fox News reaction panel.

“The complaint about Kamala Harris was that she was abrasive and condescending,” said Luntz, who monitored the reactions of 15 undecided voters from eight battleground states throughout the evening.

“The complaint about Mike Pence was that he was too tired, but [he was] vice presidential, or presidential,” added Luntz, who went on to say that “if this is a battle over style and substance — which is often the case with undecided voters because they simply do not choose on policy, they also choose on persona — this was Mike Pence’s night.”

Luntz clarified that “it’s not that Pence did so well, it’s that they [voters] felt both candidates were not answering the questions as well as they would have liked.”

Much more...

Fox News has a Chris Wallace problem

Tony Branco

 Israel National News

Some debate. Chris Wallace acting as moderator, but serving as Biden’s nurse and defensive shield while arguing with Trump. Op-ed.

"This is quite a pathetic fix we’re in when Fox News is all we’ve got so far as anything resembling “fair and balanced” news and commentary.

"As for the rest of Big Media, President Trump knows it, correctly, as Fake News. Nobody said it better except maybe Newton Minow, FCC chairman under JFK, who characterized it…notably television… “a vast wasteland” That was back in the early 1960s, and rather than getting better, it got worse.

"Then along came Fox News to save us from CNN and the rest of them that serve up daily portions of radical leftist pabulums.

"It was…and is…the only network to cover Israel without Hanan Ashrawi. So Israel gets half a chance, and so does Trump.

"In this book we wondered, and predicted, what would happen once Murdoch’s sons grew up and took over, and now we know.

"Now we know Juan Williams (he’s everywhere) and Marie Harf and even Donna Brazile who was too far left even for CNN.

Too hot to handle for them, but a perfect fit for Fox News, once Roger Ailes left the building.

It’s as if to tell us…Listen, if you love Trump Bashing, you don’t have to go to NBC, ABC, CBS or PBS…we can give it to you, too.

"Tune in, America, and let Jessica Tarlov ruin your day.

"Which brings us to Tuesday, and the debate that was supposed to be between Trump and Biden. But then Mike Wallace showed up." . . .

Chris Wallace Turns the Lack of Self-Awareness Up to Eleven in New Ridiculous Comments  . . . "As I pointed out at the time, one of the most egregious maneuvers by Wallace was not pressing Biden to answer whether he would support packing the Supreme Court, an idea that his party has embraced wholeheartedly at the highest levels. When Trump tried to push Biden for an answer, Wallace decided to jump in and forcefully go to the next question. He did that despite the fact that there was no hotter question to be answered that night.

. . . That Biden refuses to answer such a simple question provides all the context we need to ascertain what he really thinks.

"Wallace knows that and had a chance to make sure the voters got all the facts. Instead, he chastised Trump and moved on as if Biden were directing him. That’s why he’s a bad journalist. It’s also why his ratings are down some 30% over the last several months while other Fox News shows have continued to grow. People are sick and tired of rank, left-wing bias. Letting Biden off the hook was a huge show of bias on Wallace’s part. He has no leg to stand on complaining about it now."