The Century Crammed Into a Year Mercifully Ends

 The American Spectator

2020 was mostly peaceful protests occurring within a mostly healthy year during which toilet paper remained mostly available.

. . . "Yes, the House of Representatives impeached Donald Trump (for daring to suggest wrongdoing by an upstanding citizen he confused with that other Hunter Biden who cheated on his dead brother’s widow with a stripper he impregnated before marrying a third woman 10 days after first meeting, cocained his way out of the Navy, and cajoled various foreigners into depositing large sums of money into his bag) this year even though a Mandela Effect causes everyone to remember it as occurring a long, long time ago.

"In a nutshell, 2020 was mostly peaceful protests occurring within a mostly healthy year during which toilet paper remained mostly available. We experienced a shortage of really all tissuey products, kettlebells, and coins, and a surplus of Karens sternly lecturing us to cover our faces walking down the street, hanging out in public parks, and hiking in the woods. Scolds speak fondly of 2020 for decades to come.

"Despite all the social distancing, social media, and social justice, 2020 struck its captives as a very antisocial year with little in the way of ice-cream socials or gatherings of any kind.

"Rights became crimes. Cops arrested a minister for preaching in Florida, protesters for walking on the sidewalk near the governor’s mansion in North Carolina, beauticians for performing appointment-only nail and eyelash services in Texas, and a solitary man for paddle-boarding on the water in California.

"Crimes became rights. Protesters exercised their First Amendment rights by looting stores, Talibanning public art, committing arson, and assaulting people who disagreed or advertised “punch me” on the back of their heads all in full view of policemen and television cameras. MSNBC’s Ali Velshi described the scene as “mostly a protest” and “not, generally speaking, unruly” as he reported in front of a police building engulfed in an arsonist’s flames in Minneapolis." . . .

. . . Nobody better represented an escape from 2020 than Nathan Apodaca. In a 22-second TikTok video watched by tens of millions, an always-look-on-the-bright-side-of-life commuter with a feather (one almost sees it blowing in the wind) tattoo on his head glides down a highway offramp sipping a big bottle of Ocean Spray Cran-Raspberry as he sings along to the chilled-out Fleetwood Mac song “Dreams.” We later learned that Apodaca’s truck logging 320,000 miles died, which caused the 37-year-old to skateboard from his camper to his job at a potato warehouse. If he can sing and smile through his troubles, the video suggested, then maybe Americans can sing and smile through our troubles, too.

 

Happy Kwanzaa! The Holiday Brought to You by the FBI

Folks, Kamala Harris’s parents met in a radical leftist activist study group on Berkeley’s campus in the early 1960s — the only surprising thing would be if Kamala *didn’t* celebrate Kwanzaa as a kid,” Dunleavy tweeted. Cameron Arcand 

                                                                 Ian Macfarlane                                           

“ 'Our Kwanzaa celebrations are one of my favorite childhood memories. The whole family would gather around across multiple generations and we’d tell stories and light the candles. Whether you’re celebrating this year with those you live with or over Zoom, happy Kwanzaa!”Ann Coulter   [Alleged] "Vice President-elect Kamala Harris recently tweeted:

"Post some pictures, Kamala! We’d love to see your Brahmin and Jamaican grandparents sitting around the Kwanzaa candles recalling celebrations way back when they were three or four years younger. (Would that The Washington Post’s “Fact Checker” would start counting Kamala’s lies!)

"Kwanzaa, celebrated exclusively by white liberals, is a fake holiday invented in 1966 (when Kamala was 2 years old) by black radical/FBI stooge Ron Karenga — aka Dr. Maulana Karenga, founder of United Slaves, the violent nationalist rival to the Black Panthers. Liberals have become so mesmerized by multicultural gibberish that they have forgotten the real history of Kwanzaa and Karenga’s United Slaves.

" 'In what was ultimately a foolish gambit, during the madness of the ’60s, the FBI encouraged the most extreme black nationalist organizations in order to discredit and split the left. The more preposterous the group, the better. (It’s the same function MSNBC serves today.)

"By that criterion, Karenga’s United Slaves was perfect.

"Despite modern perceptions that blend all the black activists of the ’60s, the Black Panthers did not hate whites. Although some of their most high-profile leaders were drug dealers and murderers, they did not seek armed revolution.

"Those were the precepts of Karenga’s United Slaves. The United Slaves were proto-fascists, walking around in dashikis, gunning down Black Panthers and adopting invented “African” names. (I will not be shooting any Black Panthers this week because I am Kwanzaa-reform, and we are not that observant.)

" 'It’s as if David Duke invented a holiday called “Anglika,” which he based on the philosophy of “Mein Kampf” — and clueless public school teachers began celebrating the made-up, racist holiday." . . . Full article here.

Kwanzaa emerged not from Africa, but from the FBI’s COINTELPRO. It is a holiday celebrated exclusively by idiot white liberals. Black people celebrate Christmas. A.C.

 

Iran says Trump’s life ‘will end,’ won’t stop until revenge on US for killing Soleimani in new statement

CNN, MSNBC, and Hollywood will cheer over this. Perhaps President Trump can ship Iran a pallet full of cash. TD

Ben Garrison

Rouhani has increasingly expressed optimism that a Biden presidency would see a U.S. return to the Iran nuclear deal, and an end to sanctions the Trump administration has imposed on Iran since leaving the agreement in 2018.

 American Military News  "On Wednesday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said U.S. President Donald Trump’s life “will end” and Iran would not rest until it gets revenge on the U.S. for the January airstrike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad, Iraq.

"In translated remarks posted on the Iranian president’s official website, Rouhani said in reference to Trump, “One of the effects of this stupid and disgraceful act was that Trumpism ended and in a few days, the life of this criminal will end and he will go to the dustbin of history, and we are very happy about this and we believe that the period after Trump will be a better condition for regional and global stability.”

"It’s unclear if Rouhani was unveiling a threat on Trump’s life, or remarking metaphorically on his waning presidency. The warning comes just days ahead of the January 3 anniversary of the strike against Soleimani ordered by Trump.

"Rouhani added that Iran “will not give up until they take revenge on [Soleimani’s] blood as its right.”

“ 'The martyrdom of Martyr Soleimani was revenge against the Islamic Republic of Iran, independence of regional countries and revenge against those great nations that stood against the conspiracies of the United States and Zionism and foiled that conspiracy,” Rouhani said. Iran frequently refers to Israel as the Zionist regime.

"Addressing the U.S. and Israel, Rouhani vowed to “cut off your leg from the region and we will continue the resistance until that day.” He also accused the two nations of forming the ISIS terrorist group and striking Soleimani because he “stood tactfully against their plots.' ” . . .

Charter for Compassion

Year-in-Review: The 2020 List of the 10 Worst Mayors in the Nation

  Jennifer Oliver O'Connell

"As one of our RedState diarists Dana Pico mused,

“There are times that I wonder if today’s Democrats see George Orwell’s 1984 not as a warning but a model of good government.”

Above: ...6. Jacob Frey (Minneapolis)  Now to the frozen tundra of the Upper Midwest. Had it not been for the death of George Floyd, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey could have fallen into woke obscurity as another pajama boy running a major city into the ground. ....

"In celebration of a 2020 that desperately needs to come to an end, here is a list of the Top 10 Worst Mayors in the nation. These mayors most definitely use Orwell’s 1984 as their policies and procedures manual, if not their Bible.

"It comes as no surprise that all 10 of the mayors on the list are Democrat (something about that political party), and that five of the 10 are mayors of West Coast cities (something about the Pacific Ocean).

"Several of the mayors have overseen a mass exodus of people from their cities, and even their state in a 10-month period. But most of all, every one of these mayors stand out as abject failures of governance, with constituents that literally despise them.

 "Without further adieu, here is the Top 10 Worst Mayor’s list for 2020: . . ."

No need to read all the way through; the top four are precisely who you expected. Of course, former Mayor Pothole Pete is no longer ruling over South Bend, Indiana, so he is not on this list. TD

Senate Investigation Finds Obama Admin Knowingly Funded al-Qaeda Affiliate

 On May 4, 2015, the Obama administration’s State Department recommended OFAC grant World Vision’s request for the license to transact. The next day, OFAC granted the license to pay ISRA $125,000 for services rendered, and later sent the non-profit a “cautionary letter” making it aware that its collaboration with ISRA appeared to have violated the Global Terrorism Sanction Regulations.

National Review  "Non-profit humanitarian agency World Vision United States improperly transacted with the Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA) in 2014 with approval from the Obama administration, sending government funds to an organization that had been sanctioned over its ties to terrorism, according to a new report.

"Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) recently released a report detailing the findings of an investigation his staff began in February 2019 into the relationship between World Vision and ISRA.

"The probe found that World Vision was not aware that ISRA had been sanctioned by the U.S. since 2004 after funneling roughly $5 million to Maktab al-Khidamat, the predecessor to Al-Qaeda controlled by Osama Bid Laden.

"However, that ignorance was born from insufficient vetting practices, the report said.

"“World Vision works to help people in need across the world, and that work is admirable,” Grassley said in a statement. “Though it may not have known that ISRA was on the sanctions list or that it was listed because of its affiliation with terrorism, it should have. Ignorance can’t suffice as an excuse. World Vision’s changes in vetting practices are a good first step, and I look forward to its continued progress.”

"The investigation was sparked by a July 2018 National Review article in which Sam Westrop, the director of the Middle East Forum’s Islamist Watch, detailed MEF’s findings that the Obama administration had approved a “$200,000 grant of taxpayer money to ISRA.”

Why Kamala Harris Is Being Accused of Lying Over Kwanzaa Post

Melissa Tate

@TheRightMelissa

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Dec 26 

As some one who was born & raised in Africa I can tell there is no such thing as Kwanza. Kamala knows nothing about it because she is an Indian Jamaican who grew up in Canada.

Leah Barkoukis   "Vice president-elect Kamala Harris was accused of lying after posting a Kwanzaa message claiming that she and her family celebrated the holiday growing up, despite the fact that she was born two years before it was invented by a violent, deranged felon. 

“ 'You know, my sister and I, we grew up celebrating Kwanzaa,” she said in a video message. “Every year, our family would – and our extended family, we would gather around, across multiple generations, and we’d tell stories. The kids would sit on the carpet and the elders would sit in chairs, and we would light the candles, and of course, afterwards have a beautiful meal. And, of course, there was always the discussion of the seven principles. And my favorite, I have to tell you, was always the one about self-determination, kujichagulia.”

"Harris continued: “And, you know, essentially it’s about be and do. Be the person you want to be, and do the things you want to do, and do the things that need to be done. It’s about not letting anyone write our future for us, but instead going out and writing it for ourselves. And that principle motivates me today, as we seek to confront the challenges facing our country and to build a brighter future for all Americans. So, to everyone who is celebrating, Happy Kwanzaa from our family to yours.”

"That message raised eyebrows on Twitter, given that it was invented after she was born and that she is of Jamaican and Indian descent." . . . 

Our Kwanzaa celebrations are one of my favorite childhood memories. The whole family would gather around across multiple generations and we’d tell stories and light the candles.

Whether you’re celebrating this year with those you live with or over Zoom, happy Kwanzaa! pic.twitter.com/21bzGHZpYe

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) December 26, 2020

Stacey Abrams’ Federal Judge Sister Blocks Voter Purge in Two Georgia Counties

 Legal Insurrection

The two counties sought to remove the voters “because their registrations appeared to match U.S. Postal Service change-of-address records.”

"U.S. District Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner, Stacey Abrams’ sister, ruled against a voter purge in two Georgia counties before the January 5th runoff.

Background

"Here is some background in order to fully understand the ruling.

"Muscogee County wanted to remove 4,000 voters. Ben Hill County wanted to purge 150 voters.

"The two counties sought to remove the voters “because their registrations appeared to match U.S. Postal Service change-of-address records.” From Politico:

The evidence to challenge the 4,000 registrations in Muscogee County was particularly sparse. The challenge was lodged Dec. 14 by a local voter named Ralph Russell who alleged that he had compared evidence from publicly accessible voter registration databases to prove that these voters had moved out of Georgia.

“I believe that each of the individuals named … as a result of registering their name and change of address to a location outside of Muscogee County, removed to another state with the intention of making the new state their residence,” Russell told the county board. “Thus, each individual has lost their residence in Muscogee County, and consequently, each individual is ineligible to vote in Muscogee County.”

The Muscogee board met Dec. 16 and backed Russell’s motion 3-1, even though he didn’t attend the meeting and provided no additional evidence to support his challenge. Voters on Russell’s list, per the board, would be required to vote by provisional ballot and present additional evidence of residency to vote.

"City Council member Tommy Roberts in Fitzgerald, GA, challenged the 150 voters in Ben Hill County. He “relied on change-of-address data.” The board in that county voted 2-1 in favor of Roberts.

"Politico reported that “the board backed him despite evidence that the data could not be verified and would be inadmissible in court.”

"The group Majority Forward sued because “postal data is not a reliable or conclusive indicator that a voter has given up their local residence.”

"National Democratic Party attorney Marc Elias represents Majority Forward." . . . More...

More links:   2020 LawNewz

Stacey Abrams' Sister, a Judge, Won't Recuse From Voter Fraud Case

Corruption Runs in the Family – Federal Judge Who is Stacey Abrams’ Sister Blocks Challenge to Voters That Live Outside of Registered District

"Absolutely Unprecedented": Sidney Powell Goes Off in Latest Interview, Lays Out Upcoming Election Fight

 Trending Politics  "During a radio interview with [Rush Limbaugh fill-in host] Todd Herman," pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell gave an update on her ongoing 2020 election fight. "Read Powell's rant below:" (Rant?)

“The very night of the election many people saw something that they had never seen before in the history of our elections. They saw votes being changed on the screen in front of them, going from President Donald Trump to Joe Biden. On top of that, the morning after the election, even that night, the voting stopped. They stopped counting in multiple districts at the same time before the vote got to 270 electors for President Trump. That’s never happened before. The only time votes have ever stopped being counted in this country on election night was when the Broward County problem developed over Hanging Chad’s in one county in FL. So for FIVE states to stop counting on election night is absolutely UNPRECEDENTED. And they did it because the vote count for the electoral college was about to hit [+ go over] 270 for President Donald Trump, because of the massive outpouring of votes for him that night. By the next morning, multiple mathematicians had contacted me and told me they knew the algorithm that had been run to change the votes. It was that obvious to people with mathematical expertise. It is a mathematical impossibility for 100’s of thousands of votes to show up for VP Biden alone and to have been injected into the system the way that they were. We have eye-witness testimony of countless people who saw votes coming in, in unsecured containers and improper means and looking different the night of the election. These people have come forward at great personal risk to themselves & their families to provide thousands of affidavits of voting abnormalities and actual crimes that they witnessed happen on election night. The very fact that the other side is working so hard to hide all of this. Federal law requires transparency in our electoral process and our elections.”

"There is a federal statute that requires all the documents pertaining to the election to be maintained for 22 months following an election, for the very reason that it has to be completely auditable. A Federal Judge in October [in ATL] found all kinds of problems w/ the Dominion system that GA bought and crammed down for everybody across the state to use. That’s where the most problems have been, is in GA. Witnesses have come forward, there was supposedly a water leak that they shut down voting for. That was an abject lie. We have video of witnesses pulling suspect ballots out from under a table after they ran off all the observers." . . .   Keep reading...

Tony Branco

UPDATED: WaPo Take on Kamala Harris' Marriage Gives Us a Cringey Look Into How Media Intends to Cover Biden/Harris

RedState

"We’re already seeing the difference in how the liberal media would treat a ‘Biden-Harris’ administration as opposed to that of President Donald Trump."

"First, there’s just that. Suddenly, instead of just Biden administration, you see a lot of ‘Biden-Harris’ almost as if they’re trying to will Harris into the position or declare it a co-position.

"We’ve heard about Biden having two dogs and how he likes to wear colorful socks. Not so much about all those connections and money from China and Ukraine, but hey, at least we know about the socks!

"But prepare, if you want to not gag, for the Washington Post article about Kamala Harris that conservatives just discovered." . . .

"Pence, bad. Kamala, good. Didn’t you get the propaganda memo?"

What Kamala Harris's big Kwanzaa lie reveals about the media  . . . "That brings us back to the introductory question comparing a supposed lie of crowd size to an outright pandering lie about a childhood celebration and why it is such an important question.  Without judging the truthfulness of either statement, if they are both lies, they are of equal severity.  Yet one granted the media the authority to treat Team Trump as a hostile witness for the next four years while the other was simply ignored or glossed over.  The media's complicity in Harris's lie is more important than a narcissist not backing down to a challenge on crowd size, or number of viewers, or whatever the initial fiasco was all about.  Perhaps the media are still in their "100 days of honeymoon" with the presumptive presidential ticket, but this comparison is strong evidence that scandal-free Obama's eight-year honeymoon will be granted to the Harris-Biden ticket as well — even if she wears a tan pantsuit."

REMINDER: Kwanzaa Was Concocted By A Deranged Felon Who Brutally Tortured Two Naked Women  "It’s Christmastime, America, and you know what that means: It’s the season when public schools across the fruited plain are teeming with lessons about Kwanzaa and a handful of other holidays which aren’t Christmas.

"As a public service, then, The Daily Caller is here to tell you the true — and truly bizarre — history of the violent, deranged and radical black nationalist who concocted the completely artificial holiday of Kwanzaa in 1966." . . .

The name change. At some point in the 1960s, Karenga decided he didn’t want to be Ron Everett any longer. Instead, he gave himself the name “Maulana,” which is Swahili for “master teacher.” Karenga means “keeper of tradition” in Swahili.

Citizen Blocks Los Angeles Health Inspector From Going To Work Over COVID Lockdown…

 Weasel Zippers

“If we can’t work, he can’t work.”

The owner of Breda & Barley restaurant in the Los Angeles suburb of Covina, CA blocked the health inspector’s car in with his truck in protest after the health inspector fined him for people eating outside.

pic.twitter.com/m9fsIKzCRF

— Courtney Holland 🇺🇸 (@hollandcourtney) December 28, 2020

More on this here:

California Official Tries to Shut Down Restaurant and Owner Confronts Him In Way All Americans Should See

. . . “ 'This guy needs to know how hard it is,” he says, pointing to the official.

"Roman walks past the cop to get closer to the official in order to confront him.

“ 'Did you get a paycheck on Friday?” he asks. “My people don’t! I bet you got a paycheck, didn’t you?”

“ 'You’re just doing your job, right? We’re all in this together.” continues Roman. “When I go to the bank, do I tell the bank the Health Department said it’s okay? The Health Department said I don’t have to pay you? The Health Department said I can’t make a living? I can’t make any money? Is that what I tell the bank?”

“ 'You don’t enforce a f**king rule without any consequences!” yells Roman. “There are consequences to everything in this world!  Do you know the consequences? They can’t pay their bills!' ” . . .

Jimmy Galligan's failed manhood

It's hard to feel bad for Mimi Groves, though. She jumped aboard the Black Lives Matter bandwagon, throwing in with a bunch notorious for doing to others what Jimmy Galligan, then the cheer squad, then U.T., did to her.

Richard Jack Rail  "A half-black, half-white 18-year-old boy named Jimmy Galligan got even with a 19-year-old white girl named Mimi Groves for having sent around a video, four years before, that she had gotten her learner's permit to drive.  In the three-second vid she said, "I can drive, n-----."  She later applied to the University of Tennessee for a scholarship on the cheer squad.  She got accepted, until Galligan sent around that four-year-old, three-second video.

"Scholarship forthwith withdrawn.

"This sorry tale sounds like a brutish male picking on a poor innocent defenseless girl.  That may be so.  It's just as likely a case of teenager revenge.  He's probably still smarting over her refusal to date him in high school.  She might have snickered once with several other girls as he sauntered by.  With some exceptions, the cheerleaders I knew in high school were the mean girls, the pacesetters, the in-crowd, the ones who sneered at the plain girls and jeered at the non-jock boys.

"Be that as it may, I was raised by the code that a man, or a boy trying to be a man, takes no notice of female slings and arrows, though they slash more deeply than those of other guys, because he can't fight back honorably — you don't hit girls.  This Galligan isn't even trying to be a man, but rather tries to get even for whatever bothers him in a female way, by ruining her reputation.

"No real man wants such a weenie for his daughter.

"Of course, Democrats see nothing wrong with what Galligan did.  When everyone is a coward, one's own cowardice isn't so obvious, can even somehow morph into a virtue.  You can be proud to be a weenie!

"It's hard to feel bad for Mimi Groves, though. She jumped aboard the Black Lives Matter bandwagon, throwing in with a bunch notorious for doing to others what Jimmy Galligan, then the cheer squad, then U.T., did to her.

"Live by BLM, so to speak, die by BLM.

"But for whatever reason he did what he did, Jimmy Galligan is a humiliation."

'Mimi was a kid when she did this,' Wu told Fox News. 'She's appalled, and having said that, she's not trying to excuse [her actions] in any way.

In the six months since Galligan posted the video online, Groves has enrolled in online classes at a local community college while Galligan is now a freshman at California’s Vanguard University.

‘I’ve learned how quickly social media can take something they know very little about, twist the truth and potentially ruin somebody’s life,’ Groves said.

Groves and Galligan were reportedly once friendly in high school but have never spoken about the incident directly.

One of her friends, who is black, said Groves apologized for the video long before in went viral last summer.

The friend, who wasn’t named, said she also defended Groves online, which led to her receiving critical messages from strangers online.

‘We’re supposed to educate people,’ she wrote in a post to Snapchat, according to the Times, ‘not ruin their lives because you want to feel a sense of empowerment.’

Groves, meanwhile, insists he has no regrets.

‘If I never posted that video, nothing would have ever happened,’ he said, adding the clip will always be available to watch online.

‘I’m going to remind myself, you started something,’ he said according to the Times. ‘You taught someone a lesson.’

Biden signals that he's planning to double down on climate madness

 

​Rich Terrell 

Biden signals that he's planning to double down on climate madness  "Joe Biden announced Monday that carbon emissions threaten "the very existence of our planet."  Biden does not mean that the space rock that is Earth will self-immolate; he means life will die.  No matter what he means, though, Biden is wrong (again).  This post introduces five pieces of evidence showing that the Earth and mankind will survive (although we can always be better stewards of our Earth) and that the green movement is invariably wrong because its focus is money, power, and the end of modern (and especially American) civilization.

"During a press conference today, Biden spoke about the need for America once more to subordinate herself to the rest of the world." . . .

. . . "4. The environmental movement has amassed vast amounts of money and power, and it does not have the interests of ordinary Americans — or any ordinary people around the globe — at heart:"