"People say Rittenhouse never should have gone to Kenosha... the dead guys shouldn't have gone there either." - Greg Gutfeld

Megyn Kelly Exposes the Facts About the Kyle Rittenhouse Trial  "The law and the facts on Kyle Rittenhouse, and on the dishonest media who have disgraced themselves yet again."

Townhall:

Remember what the media thought of the riots in Kenosha last year. pic.twitter.com/qOnyfg9uqr

— Scott Walker (@ScottWalker) November 13, 2021

Kyle Rittenhouse's Call of Duty Habit and Post-Arrest Silence Aren't Evidence of His Guilt    . . . "But there was another courtroom fixture centerstage on Monday: Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger, who—no matter how you feel about Rittenhouse—should serve as a reminder of just how pitifully low prosecutors will stoop while in pursuit of a conviction.

"Binger's Rittenhouse cross-examination should have been a big moment, which it was, but not for the reasons Binger would have hoped. He began with a probe of Rittenhouse's interest in purchasing an AR-15, asserting that Rittenhouse must have declined a pistol or a shotgun because of his Call of Duty habit. There are a few problems here: Players use many different sorts of guns in simulation games, including pistols and shotguns. But more fraught is the implication that playing violent video games somehow makes you a murderer, or more likely to murder someone—a hysterical assumption that is not based on fact.

"The questioning was desperate, but it quickly moved from breathless to potentially unconstitutional as Binger faced off multiple times with Judge Bruce Schroeder after the former noted Rittenhouse's post-arrest silence with the insinuation that it somehow indicated his guilt.

" 'I was astonished when you began your examination by commenting on the defendant's post-arrest silence," the judge said. "That's basic law. It's been basic law in this country" for decades, adding, "I don't know what you're up to."

The Rittenhouse-Trial Judge Isn’t a Trumpist

National Review

"As the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse has progressed, Americans who hope for a successful conviction have begun to focus their attentions on the true villain of the piece: the 75- year-old presiding judge, Bruce Schroeder.  He’s a liberal. 

"Among the many accusations that have been leveled at Schroeder this week are wannabe member of the Klan, that he is the “worst judge in town,” and that he is attempting to parlay this trial into a “gig on FOX News or OAN, or whatever.” If, as seems eminently possible, Rittenhouse is acquitted of all the charges that have been brought against him by the state, one suspects that a lot of the resulting opprobrium will fall on Schroeder.

"Which would be ludicrous, because Bruce Schroeder is in fact none of the things that his critics have proposed. Instead, he’s a liberal. 

"I use that word favorably. As the Washington Post notes in a recent profile, Schroeder is “a jurist who believes trials can be too easily manipulated, particularly by the prosecution.” Or, as Slate’s Jeremy Stahl puts it, Schroeder has a reputation for being “generally more favorable to defendants than many other judges.” Why has Schroeder conducted the trial in the way that he has? Because that is how he always conducts trials. It has nothing to do with some preposterous wish to help Rittenhouse, or with some secret desire to defend the Second Amendment, or with some longshot play to replace Tucker Carlson in the 9 p.m. hour. Schroeder is a liberal on matters of criminal justice, and this is how liberals on matters of criminal justice tend to judge." . . .

Please Go, Brandon – Americans Want This President Out

 " . . ."it botched an election that should have been left to the voters. The sooner these people, including Biden, Harris, Pelosi, and all the aspiring tyrants of the Democratic Party, lose the power they’ve consolidated like a banana republic jefe, the better off this country will be.

patriotretort.com

 Issues & Insights  "A poll taken earlier this month shows that voters believe job No. 1 for President Joe Biden is to vacate his office. His replacement, of course, would be the vice president whose approval rating is so low it hardly registers. Take a bow, voters. This is the mess that America has become.

"When 1,000 voters were asked what is “the single most important goal for Biden over the next year,” the top answer at 20% was “resign/retire/quit.” That answer was almost twice as popular as the No. 2 response, “economy/jobs,” which logged in at 11%. These are the unsurprising-to-many findings of a Suffolk University-USA Today poll taken over three days last week. 

“ 'Nearly half of those surveyed, 46%, say Biden has done a worse job as president than they expected, including 16% of those who voted for him. Independents, by 7-1 (44%-6%), say he’s done worse, not better, than they expected,” says USA Today, which didn’t bother to include in its report that voters want Biden to leave, but did admit there’s a “gloomy landscape” ahead for Democrats in next year’s midterms. 

"No one should be puzzled by the poll’s results. Americans are weary of Biden’s inflation, his border crisis and unforced foreign policy errors, a supply chain and a COVID promise that have both been broken, his failed energy policies, his undermining of policing and law and order across the country, his divisiveness and hard-left swerve, his “woke” military, a shaky economy, and his vaccine mandate, to name but a handful of his more notable failures.

"Count us as being among those who wish to see Biden leave the White House as soon as possible. But his replacement would be no better. There’s a reason Vice President Kamala Harris has an approval rating of 28, 10 points lower than the approval rating of her boss, the man Americans want to be rid of." . . .

“​​She’s not good enough, she’s not smart enough, and gosh darn it, people just don’t like her,” says Instapundit Glenn Reynolds, summarizing how much of the country feels about Harris by paraphrasing a fictional “Saturday Night Live” (created by a comedian turned Democratic crank).

The US launches a new era of woke ship names

The United States Navy, on the other hand, is seeking undeniable supremacy in the use of proper pronouns while addressing non-binary sailors — and in "open and welcoming" bathroom and locker room usage.

 Eric Utter  "The USNS Harvey Milk was launched in San Diego recently in a ceremony attended by Navy secretary Carlos Del Toro and Milk's nephew Stuart.  The ship takes its name from the first openly gay elected official in California history.  Milk, who was murdered in 1978, served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.  The USS Harvey Milk is just one of six new ships to be named after U.S. "civil rights leaders.' ". . .

…"Who knows what ships of the future U.S. fleet will be named as it gets ever woker?  Perhaps there will soon be a USS Malcolm X, a USS Louis Farrakhan, a USS RuPaul, a USS Rachel Levine, and a USS Katie Hill." . . .

Babylon Bee satire:  Arms Race Heats Up: Just As China Reveals Space Nukes, America Responds With Trans Admiral

. . ."China, you've been warned," said Biden to a Chinese food delivery person he mistook for President Xi. "Our transgender admiral is fully armed and operational. If you cross us, we will unleash the full fire and fury of this deadly weapon upon you, make no mistake." 

"Military experts say that while a space nuke is somewhat impressive, it pales in comparison to the awesome power of diversity. "With Rachel Levine serving as admiral, nations around the world will bow before the terrifying might of our transgender empowerment," said General Milley. "We must pursue peace through strength. Strength of inclusivity." 

"Biden insisted that there is no weapon yet conceived that can top Admiral Levine and that he will gladly accept China's preemptive surrender. 

"Admiral Levine was not available for comment as she was getting her prostate examined." 

Remember Kamala Harris declared fervently that she supports BLM?

"The anti-American revolution they are advancing would destroy the most equitable, inclusive, tolerant, and free society that has ever existed." *

 BLM activist threatens 'bloodshed' if New York's new Mayor Eric Adams dares tackle crime    "New York City's voters, who elected black Democrat Eric Adams mayor on an anti-crime platform, have, to say the least, spoken.

"But that hasn't stopped a particularly crazy leader of the Black Lives Matter movement from threatening "bloodshed" if Adams dares carry out his anti-crime pledge to voters." . . .

. . .This shouldn't even be an issue.  A maniac has threatened an elected official and ought to be dealt with on those terms. 

*What Kind of Movement Is BLM? "If Black Lives Matter were a civil rights organization, one would reasonably expect its patron figure to be Martin Luther King, Jr., and its aspiration to be King’s vision of a race-free America where individuals are judged on their merits and not by their skin color. Instead, the revered figure and inspirational icon for Black Lives Matter activists is a designated terrorist and convicted cop killer: Assata Shakur. 

"In the 1970s Shakur was a member of the Black Liberation Army, a group that robbed banks and murdered police officers to achieve a Marxist revolution. Shakur is still wanted for the 1973 murder of Werner Foerster, a New Jersey state trooper who stopped her for a broken taillight on her car, whereupon she pulled out a gun and shot him. The 34-year-old officer and Vietnam vet was lying wounded on the pavement pleading for his life when Shakur walked over and finished him off, execution-style. Foerster left behind a wife and two young children. Shakur was convicted of the murder but escaped from prison in 1979 with the help of left-wing terrorists, including Susan Rosenberg. With the help of Rosenberg and others, Shakur fled to Communist Cuba, where she has lived as a fugitive for nearly 40 years. After being pardoned by Bill Clinton, Rosenberg went on to become board vice chair of Thousand Currents, the left-wing nonprofit organization that served as Black Lives Matter’s fiscal sponsor from 2016 to 2020." . . . 

. . ."If Black Lives Matter were a civil rights organization, one might reasonably expect its leaders to condemn or at least distance themselves from well-known race haters like Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton. But Black Lives Matter leaders embrace both of those demagogues. Black Lives Matter joined Farrakhan’s “Justice or Else” march in Washington on October 10, 2015, and chose Sharpton to give the eulogy at George Floyd’s memorial service, where he accused white America of having pressed its knee on black America’s neck for 401 years." 

Networks Ignore BLM Threatening to Bring 'Bloodshed' to NYC   . . ."While they were ignoring how the socialist-extremist organization was threatening to launch terrorist attacks on New York City, ABC’s World News Tonight, the CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News were busy touting snow in the Midwest. They also lamented how an appeals court temporarily blocked the January 6 committee from accessing former President Trump’s documents from the National Archives.

"And as we discussed on the NewsBusters Podcast earlier this week, their ability to manipulate the reach of local stories was especially true when they spring up from their backyards in New York City. ABC has literally covered traffic accidents and other incidental happens in the city as if they’re worth national attention.

"So, it was left up to Fox News Channel and their show America Reports to do the end-run around their filter. “The head of New York's Black Lives Matter movement promising ‘bloodshed,’ ‘riots,’ and ‘fire’ if the city's incoming mayor, Eric Adams follows through on his plan to crack down on a violent crime,” announced co-anchor John Roberts." . . .

The Ego Of Obama Revealed: "I, Me, Mine"

Eight years of "my military", "my Secretary of State", my, my, me, mine!

The Ego Of Obama Revealed  . . ."The biography claims that Obama, once confident that Crooked Hillary would win in a runaway, took it as a “personal insult” that she lost — claiming that Clinton truly screwed up by running a “scripted, soulless campaign.”

"But that’s not the worst part…

"The worst part is, Obama took the loss as a personal affront committed BY the American people, saying “this hurts,” and that the American people had “turned on” him.

"Apparently, Obama was both shocked and appalled that he’d be handing over control of the country to Trump, a man he dismissed as nothing more than a “cartoon.' ”. . .

Or maybe people were just tired of you making our nation look weak by kowtowing to despots and bowing to royalty.

Obama’s Ego and The Story of America He Told

. . .But if we are to examine Obama’s story we can’t ignore his ego. In doing so we would miss a defining characteristic of the American story. We would overlook an element of both genius and dysfunction that imprisons all of us.

Obama’s Outsized Ego  . . ." And here’s Time’s Mark Halperin: “With the exception of core Obama administration loyalists, most politically engaged elites have reached the same conclusion: The White House is in over its head, isolated, insular, arrogant and clueless about how to get along with or persuade members of Congress, the media, the business community or working-class voters.”

"Halperin’s diagnosis was inevitable, given Obama’s conviction that he represented a movement that was larger than politics or even the presidency. After all, this was the man who, as a candidate, descended on Berlin as the leader of a worldwide cause that transcended national borders." . . .

Ben Garrison Cartoon

Stephen Colbert Very Awkwardly Fawns Over Obama To His Face

Russia Security Council Secretary Patrushev: The Overconfident Americans Botched Up Everything In Afghanistan, American Allies Should Take Notice

 Meanwhile, Kiev subserviently obliges the interests of its overseas patrons, striving to join NATO. But did the fact that the pro-American regime in Kabul enjoyed the status of a major non-NATO ally avail it? A similar fate awaits the supporters of the Americans in Ukraine, where the neo-Nazis are capable of taking power; the state is heading to collapse, while the White House at some point won’t even remember its supporters in Kiev

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Middle East Media Research Institute  " 'According to the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russia Nikolai Patrushev, the situation in Afghanistan will be the main topic of discussion at one of the upcoming operational meetings of the Security Council; additional measures on maintaining the region's stability will be discussed. He emphasized that the priority task now is to control migrant flows from Afghanistan, protect the region from terrorists crossing the border in the guise of refugees as well as from contraband weapons and drug trafficking. The Security Council secretary stressed that after the withdrawal of the US contingent from the republic, only devastation was left for the common Afghans, the country was pushed back decades in its development. The fact that the dethroned pro-American regime in Kabul enjoyed the status of major non-NATO ally, didn’t help it [to keep the power]. According to Nikolai Patrushev’s  prognosis, a similar fate awaits the supporters of the Americans in Ukraine."

'Ordinary Afghans Pay For Washington’s Mistakes'

— Nikolai Platonovich [Patrushev], the situation in Afghanistan develops rapidly. A couple of weeks ago, almost no one in the world could believe that Kabul would fall as early as August and that the government would hurriedly flee the country. It seems that it was a shock mostly for the Americans and their NATO allies. Why did it happen so unexpectedly?

"— The confidence of the US military and political leadership and its allies that they were fully in control of events in Afghanistan is under their total control led to ignorance and underestimation of the actual situation.

"This is partly due to incompetence of the US, British and other NATO countries' intelligence services, which, as it seems, were insufficiently focused in their approach to information gathering and analysis, or did poor-quality work with it.

"Similar miscalculations were admitted in other parts of the world, including the Middle East (i.e. Syria, Iraq, and Libya.)

"But the most fundamental cause for what transpired is the typical Anglo-Saxon trust and conviction in the correctness of their decisions. Whereas, the failures and their consequences are written off to other parties. That’s what America is precisely doing now. It blames the of Ashraf Ghani government that the US itself brought to power for everything that occurred. There is also talk of the insufficient training of the Afghan army.

"Ordinary Afghans pay for Washington’s mistakes. Let’s note that the US and European countries are extricating their soldiers and citizens from country. The Afghans, who collaborated with them are left to fend for themselves.

"One might ask European human rights advocates, “How does this situation correlate with proverbial Western values?”

"— In your opinion, is America ignoring its failure because its image in the world has been badly damaged?" . . .

"Afghanistan As A 'Hot Potato' In Biden's Hands"  Chinese Communist Party Media outlets

"Commenting on the above cartoon, depicting Biden holding the
"Afghanistan Debacle" against a backdrop of portraits of
Presidents Bush, Obama, and Trump, the Global Times
 wrote: "Hot potato. It's yours now."

Group Biden Removed From Terror List Storms U.S. Embassy in Yemen, Takes Hostages

 Robert Spencer

"Isn’t great that America is back and the adults are back in charge? America is back, all right: all the way back to 1979, the last time we had a president so weak that enemies of the United States stormed one of our embassies and took hostages. On Thursday, the Yemeni media outlet Al-Masdar Online reported that Houthi jihadis in Yemen, which are backed by the Islamic Republic of Iran, stormed our embassy in Sana’a, seizing “large quantities of equipment and materials.” Just days before that, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), they “kidnapped three Yemeni nationals affiliated with the U.S. Embassy.” Biden’s team promised America would be back, but didn’t say anything about Jimmy Carter coming around again as well." . . .

 

                                           https://www.americanthinker.com/cartoons/

New Jersey Democracy Died in Darkness?

 But with this lament, they have told us all they can't imagine voters making a decision without heavy influence from the media, and the decision to dump a powerful Democrat is somehow a failure of local journalism.

Townhall  "At The Washington Post, when Democrats are kicked unceremoniously out of office, it can only mean one thing: Democracy died in darkness. 

"Take Sen. Stephen Sweeney, the powerful Democrat leader of the state Senate in New Jersey. Absolutely no one thought he would lose to a Republican who was a trucker and had a tiny campaign treasury.

" Paul Farhi, a veteran media reporter at the Post, diagnosed the problem in a story headlined, "How the media missed a New Jersey senate candidate's racist social media posts -- until he'd already won." A more accurate headline would be, "How the media failed to help a Democrat win (because no one thought he would lose)."

" Farhi insisted Ed Durr "had a history of posting bigoted, misogynistic and derogatory comments on social media." Like what? None of Durr's tweets were quoted in full by Farhi, and Durr quickly deleted his Twitter account, so a lot of context is missing.

" No. 1: "Mohammed was a pedophile!" he tweeted in 2019, and also described Islam as "a false religion" and "a cult of hate."

" Mohammed, according to Islamic writings, married a 6-year-old child bride. But the Post seems upset that Islam is being criticized at all. Is it "racist" or "bigoted" to say there's such a thing as a "false religion"? Muslims believe other faiths are false, to put it mildly. Christians believe other faiths are false. That's why they have their own faiths. "Cult of hate" is harsh, but it sounds pretty close to how the Post describes die-hard Trump fans. 

"No. 2: Durr called the coronavirus "the China virus." . . .

Scientists and journalists criticizing Aaron Rodgers for ‘spreading misinformation’ should look in the mirror

https://www.terrellaftermath.com/

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/11/scientists_and_journalists_criticizing_aaron_rodgers_for_spreading_misinformation_should_look_in_the_mirror.html

BLM leader threatens ‘riots, fire, bloodshed’ in NYC if Eric Adams gets tough on crime

NY Post  "A Black Lives Matter leader vowed there’ll be “riots,” “fire” and “bloodshed” if Mayor-elect Eric Adams follows through with his promise to bring back plainclothes anti-crime cops to battle New York’s surge in violent crimes.

"New York BLM co-founder Hawk Newsome debated the plan for a return to tougher policing with Adams during a contentious sit-down at Brooklyn Borough Hall Wednesday that was livestreamed on Instagram.

"Although Adams found common ground with the activists on plans to fight poverty in the black community, the former NYPD captain said he’ll be reinstating a revamped version of the undercover anti-crime unit that was disbanded at the height of widespread police protests last year.

" 'If they think they are going back to the old ways of policing then we’re going to take to the streets again,” New York BLM co-founder Hawk Newsome said outside Borough Hall after the meeting." . . .