Rittenhouse Trial: Big Wins for Defense on Jury Instructions, State Leads with Provocation; but the crowd seems to own the streets

Legal Insurrection

There's a rumor that the mob has affected the Kyle Rittenhouse jury   "Anybody objectively watching the Kyle Rittenhouse trial could see that he should never have been charged.  Witness testimony and video footage established clearly that Kyle acted in self-defense when he shot at three men, all of whom were vigorously engaged in trying to kill him.  My worry from the beginning, though, has been that the jury will be so intimidated by the gathering mobs that it will affect their verdict.  The facts seem to support my concern.

"Despite the clear evidence presented, which should have led to a verdict in an hour or two at most, the jury did not reach a verdict on Monday.  According to Jacek Posobiec, "Two jurors holding decision up, outright citing backlash, per US Marshall in Kenosha." 

Buck Sexton

: A manifestly innocent Rittenhouse still at this moment faces the prospect of life in prison because a jury knows he did nothing wrong but is terrified their lives could be ruined for finding him not guilty

Handbrake Poso

: This is the America that the Left wanted to create, and it’s here

Handbrake Poso: 

I see people tweeting they want to come after Kyle Rittenhouse if he walks and I can't help but think - wow - are you really just going to cross state lines?!

. . ."What is heartening is that only two of the twelve jurors seem to fear the mob.  That means ten out of the twelve people in that jury room believe that Kyle Rittenhouse is innocent and are willing to go back into the courtroom and say so.  I hope they can prevail on the other two jurors to do the right thing.  If they don't, we have ceased to be a country with the rule of law and, instead, become a country governed by mob rule on the ground and totalitarian diktats from on high.  Rather than being a free, first-world nation, we will be just another failed state." 

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The Joe & Kamala Show

Silvio Canto, Jr.  "Strange things are happening, and it does not get any stranger than The Joe and Kamala Show.  On Sunday night, CNN got everyone excited with a front-page website story about the knives out in the White House.  It must have hit the right spot because the press secretary put out a statement denying that Joe & Kamala were throwing dishes at each other.

"This is the story:

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki defended Vice President Kamala Harris' position in the Biden administration on Sunday amid her sinking poll numbers.

"For anyone who needs to hear it. @VP is not only a vital partner to @POTUS but a bold leader who has taken on key, important challenges facing the country -- from voting rights to addressing root causes of migration to expanding broadband," Psaki tweeted.

"I guess that's like passengers on a cross-Atlantic flight in the middle of a storm who hear that the pilot and the copilot are screaming at each other." . . .

Austria formally segregates unvaxxed from society, promises rigid enforcement and heavy fines

The selections begin: After taking effect Sunday at midnight, Austria’s new policy has put some 2 million people under lockdown, formally segregating unvaccinated Austrians from society. Antifa brought us Kristallnacht; Covid gave us ostracizing of the "undesirables".TD

Lifesite  "VIENNA, Austria (LifeSiteNews) — In a deliberately divisive lockdown strategy allegedly intended to reduce the spread of COVID-19, unvaccinated people aged 12 and up in Austria have been forbidden to leave their homes except to perform a handful of permitted activities, including grocery shopping and getting an experimental COVID-19 injection.

“ 'It’s our job as the government of Austria to protect the people,” Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said while speaking to reporters in Vienna on Sunday. “Therefore we decided that starting Monday … there will be a lockdown for the unvaccinated.”

"Contrary to Austrian government claims, Simon Fraser University economics professor Douglas Allen, in an April study, reviewed over 80 research papers on lockdowns across the world and concluded that lockdowns saved 22,333 years’ worth of lost life but caused 6.3 million years of lost life, making the policy’s long-term harm 282 times worse than its benefits.

"After taking effect at midnight, Austria’s new policy has put some 2 million of the nation’s 8.9 million residents under lockdown, the AP reported, formally segregating unvaccinated Austrians aged 12 and over from society." . . .

Knowledge in selections gained from their ancestors perhaps.

US Holocaust Memorial Museum

13-Year-Old Watches Father Die As Seattle Vaccine Mandate Staffing Crisis Delayed Emergency Response

When you hear youthful voices shouting memorized slogans with not a trace of original thought; This is what they create. TD

 Rick Moran

Ignorance made manifest

. . ."The mandate took 100 officers off the streets in Seattle in October, leaving the police department with less than 1,000 active-duty officers. Coupled with a cut in funding for emergency services as a result of the defund-the-police movement, the crisis has led to at least one preventable death.

"Last week, the Seattle fire department received a 911 call from a 13-year-old boy at 1:24 p.m. who said his father was experiencing a “medical emergency.”

"By 1:26, a unit was dispatched to the address — but not a medic. Two firefighters were sent to the address that had an outdated “cautionary note” for the apartment. A former occupant had made threats to first responders.

"The firefighters were instructed to wait for a police patrol to arrive because of the cautionary note. Vital minutes passed as the young man called 911 twice more worried that his father was getting worse.

"Finally, disobeying procedure, the firefighters entered the house at 1:39 p.m. They started CPR immediately. Four additional firefighters showed up a minute later. But it wasn’t until 1:45 p.m. that the police and medics arrived on the scene. They worked on the man for an hour but couldn’t save him."

KTTH:

One medic explained that “had it been addressed early, his chance of survival would have been 60%.”     Read more...

MSNBC anchor Joy Reid’s crying shame

 Miranda Devine  "Joy Reid is a racist sociopath. How else to explain her reaction to Kyle Rittenhouse breaking down in the witness box during his murder trial last week? 

"“White crocodile tears,” said the hate-mongering MSNBC prime-time anchor. 

"This is a woman on a seven-figure salary who went to Harvard and has more elite privilege in her little finger than the 17-year-old son of a single mother who was in Kenosha working as a lifeguard when all hell broke loose in the form of BLM-Antifa riots in August 2020. 

"Yet Reid continually plays the victim and makes her living punching down at white people less fortunate than she is. 

"Rittenhouse, now 18, lost his composure last week when he had to recount the moment he was cornered by two men, Joshua Ziminski, who was advancing on him with a pistol in his hand, and Joseph Rosenbaum, a deranged pedophile just out of a psych ward, who had already twice threatened to kill him." . . . 

Joy Reid accuses opponent pushing for debate of making ‘White Man Demands’  ..."Others, meanwhile, accused Reid of “hiding behind the protective mantel of racism” by dismissing Rufo’s request as “White Man Demands.' ”

Joy Reid, Nicolle Wallace Use Election Night To Audition for Rachel Maddow's Job... "If the goal was to make Maddow appear moderate, MSNBC was wise to place her near Reid, a known racist, and Wallace, a screeching elitist. As expected, both Reid and Wallace essentially recorded audition tapes last night. Could they be the future of MSNBC? Rivals of the network certainly hope so."...

MSNBC and CNN will not air the 1st black woman to serve as lieutenant gov. in VA because they don’t want people to see a black Republican & hear her message. Let’s make this go viral! pic.twitter.com/0HhhRb7u00

— Melissa Tate (@TheRightMelissa) November 3, 2021 

What Ails Kamala Harris

 

National Review  "On the menu today: CNN offers a blistering portrait of the perpetual dysfunction in Vice President Kamala Harris’s office and the growing tensions between her team and the rest of the administration. Also, the Biden team continues to insist that inflation is just “transitory,”

"A Blistering Portrait of Kamala Harris’s ‘Dysfunction’

"In an in-depth report published yesterday, CNN describes Kamala Harris’s time as vice president so far as marked by “entrenched dysfunction and a lack of focus,” and reports that Harris and her “frantic” supporters feel she’s been “sidelined,” “constrained,” “struggling with a rocky relationship,” “abandoned,” “annoyed,” and “hobbled,” and that “her staff failed her.”

"But other than that, things are going swimmingly!

"Five things to keep in mind based off CNN’s deep dive:

"One: Most of Kamala Harris’s Senate and campaign staffers aren’t with her in the vice presidency.

"Harris’s domestic-policy adviser, Rohini Kosoglu, is one of the few exceptions, but beyond that, the vice president is surrounded by newcomers and outsiders.

"Harris’s chief of staff, Hartina Flournoy, was previously chief of staff to former president Bill Clinton until joining Harris in December 2020. Harris’s deputy chief of staff, Michael Fuchs, was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and a foreign-policy adviser to Clinton before joining Harris in January. Harris’s chief spokesperson, Symone Sanders, was press secretary for Bernie Sanders in 2016 and switched over to Biden’s team in April 2019. Harris’s communications director, Ashley Etienne, was Nancy Pelosi’s communications director and senior adviser until she joined the Biden campaign in August 2020. Harris’s national-security adviser, Nancy McEldowney, is a career foreign-service official." . . .

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The Rittenhouse jury now carries the load

 

Tony Branco

Closing arguments begin at murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse  "Closing arguments at Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial began Monday with a prosecutor questioning whether Rittenhouse was really there to help the night he showed up in Kenosha with a rifle during a protest against racial injustice.

"Prosecutor Thomas Binger told the jury that Rittenhouse had no connection to the business he said he was going to protect, he ran around with an assault rifle, and he lied about being an emergency medical technician.

“Does that suggest to you that he genuinely is there to help?” Binger asked.

"Binger repeatedly showed a segment of drone video that he said shows Rittenhouse pointing the gun at protesters after setting down a fire extinguisher.

“ 'This is the provocation. This is what starts this incident,” the prosecutor said." . . .

Why Did Judge Dismiss Weapons Charges Against Kyle Rittenhouse?  "A Kenosha County judge handed a huge win to Kyle Rittenhouse's defense team before closing arguments when he dismissed a misdemeanor gun charge against the teen.

"Legal experts had considered the misdemeanor gun charge — which carries up to 12 months in jail — to be the easiest charge for the state to prove." . . .

Rittenhouse Trial Day 10: Closing Arguments  "Today the court will instruct the jury, explaining to them how to apply the law to the facts of the case as they determine those facts to have been proven or disproven.  This will be followed by the State’s closing argument, the defense closing argument, and the State rebuttal.  At that point, the jury will begin its deliberations. Once the jury goes into deliberations, we will go into VERDICT WATCH mode, so keep your eyes right here for breaking news and analysis of the final verdict(s) in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial."...

Rittenhouse Analysis: State’s Weak Provocation Argument Is Still The Major Threat to Acquittal   "Notable: ADA Binger mentioned “provocation” zero times in his opening statement"

Andrew C. McCarthy: The Rittenhouse Jury-Instruction Process Is a Mess 

. . ."I fear this pre-summations reading of the jury instructions will end up being a confusing waste of time. In the summations, the lawyers are certain to make arguments that skew the law, as advocates are wont to do. That will provoke objections and more legal arguments, and will result in the judge having to give more instructions to address or cure what the lawyers have said." . . .

Biden and Kamala's relationship is in crisis as their poll ratings crash just one year in: . . .

 . . ."Her staff feuds over why she is being sidelined with no-win migration task while President's team say they've given up on her already."

Image by The Slammer./

 UK Daily Mail  "On Sunday night, White House Press Secretary Jenn Psaki appeared to respond to the CNN report with a furious tweet insisting that Harris is a 'vital partner' and 'a bold leader who has taken on key, important challenges facing the country - from voting rights to addressing root causes of migration to expanding broadband.'

"But privately, Harris aides gripe that she's been set up to fail, and handed a portfolio that is not commensurate with her historic status as the first woman, and first woman of color, to hold the vice president's office. 

" 'They're consistently sending her out there on losing issues in the wrong situations for her skill set,' a former high-level Harris aide told CNN.

"Typically, the incumbent vice president is considered an automatic lock for the party's next open-field presidential primary.". . .  

Kamala Harris camp leaks to press about racism among the Bidenites

   "It had to happen.  You know it had to happen. "As poll numbers sink for Joe Biden and fall even lower for Kamala Harris, it was only a matter of time before the fast-sinking USS Kamala started firing "racism" projectiles against the slightly less swiftly sinking USS Brandon. happen.  You know it had to happen."

AF Branco 

The Long Knives Come out for Kamala Harris as Her Vice Presidency Continues to Collapse   . . ."There’s a lot to unpack here, but the general conclusion is simple for all sides involved: Harris is an ineffective, unlikable vice president who is languishing in the court of public opinion.

"But the disagreements emerge when it’s time to assign blame for that reality. Harris’ staffers, in typical fashion, blame Biden for not defending her forcefully enough instead of the fact that she’s an awful politician and incredibly inauthentic. Meanwhile, Biden’s staffers note that Harris is unfocused and shows no competency to handle the problems she’s been given to tackle. "Can we just agree that both sides are right?". . .

Trump vs Biden Set To Replay In 2024…

 Weasel Zippers

Via Washington Examiner:

"Republican primary voters are not backing away from their desire to have former President Donald Trump lead the GOP 2024 ticket, likely setting up a replay of the 2020 race.

Exclusive polling on the race from Zogby Analytics shows that Trump continues to outpace challengers by a wide margin. And while his popularity has popped, President Joe Biden also easily tops the 2024 Democratic primary choices.

Keep reading…

Chinese Dissident Warns: 'Wokeness' Has Turned America into an Authoritarian State

Ai Weiwei warns of removal of free speech

"Famed artist and Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei has warned Americans that they are now under the control of an oppressive authoritarian state which uses "woke" political correctness as a tool to stifle free speech.

"Weiwei said the wave of political correctness has more similarities with Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution than Donald Trump.

"PBS reporter Margaret Hoover asked Weiwei to comment on an excerpt from his book where he compared Trump’s “late-night tweets” with Mao  Zedong’s communication strategies

“ 'They served a function similar to Donald Trump’s late-night tweets while in office," wrote Weiwei.

" 'They were the direct communication of a leader’s thoughts to his devoted followers, enhancing the sanctity of his authority.' ". . .

Durham Closes in on Hillary, Trump Declares ‘Big Things Are Happening’

'Durham has come out with things that are absolutely amazing'

Neon Nettle

. . ." 'We all sort of knew that happened, and now we have facts, and I think they’re only going to get deeper and deeper — and it all leads back to the Democrats, Hillary, and the dirty lawyers."

"Trump said it was a "disgrace" Clinton lawyers are "always after Trump."

" 'What they did was so illegal, at a level that you’ve rarely seen before," Trump said.

" 'Now, in all fairness, it looks to me like this is just the early building blocks.' "

Biden Advisor Named in Durham Indictment

I guess that's what happens when no one is watching

  Silvio Canto, Jr.  "For some time, especially since President Trump left office, we've speculated about CNN.  How long can they keep losing viewers?  Well, the answer may be coming.  More correctly, a CNN shake-up may be around the corner. 

"This is from Jonathan Davis:     

Left-wing news network CNN is reportedly considering a major shake-up of programming and personalities amid tanking ratings that saw none of its regular shows averaging even a million viewers per episode in October.

 

While the network’s viewership has declined steadily since President Donald Trump left office, last month’s numbers were bad enough to trigger some major changes, according to a report.

 "The numbers are amazing, but in the wrong way:    

“CNN averaged a devastating 480,000 in total day viewership in October, a whopping 76% drop from January amid the chaotic transition from President Trump to President Biden. 

 

Fox News averaged 1.4 million and maintained its total day viewership from earlier this year while MSNBC averaged 657,000 viewers in October, resulting in a 61% drop from January. The network lost 14% of its viewers from September,” Fox News added. 

"In prime time, Fox News is still the cable news rating king, averaging 2.6 million viewers, or just a 14 percent decline from the weeks leading to Biden’s inauguration.

 

"What does it all mean?  What it tells me is that some people are watching cable news but they are not watching CNN.

 

"The rumor going around is that CNN will replace the Lemons and Cuomos of the world with people who just read news, sort of like the Headlines News format of the 1980s.  It may work given the hyper-partisan nature of CNN's current news coverage.  No matter what, watching news will be different in the near future."