Shooter at Trump rally in 2020 dressed as 'Where's Waldo'

What a gift to Pelosi, Schiff and Schumer.

UK Daily Mail  "The man suspected of killing six people and wounding more than a dozen others during a July 4 parade in Highland Park, Ill., is a Donald Trump-supporting rapper with a seemingly successful music career. 

"Robert 'Bobby' Crimo III, 22, who goes by 'Awake the Rapper,' has more than 16,000 listeners per month on Spotify. 

"Music videos posted by Crimo online last fall include a drawing of himself shooting people online, and a disturbing clip of himself throwing bullets on the floor of a classroom while wearing armor in what appears to be a joke about school shootings.

"Crimo also had a Discord server where he would chat with friends and fans, and his most recent post was a picture of Budd Dwyer, the Pennsylvania state treasurer who killed himself on live TV in the 1980s, which he captioned: 'I wish politicians still gave speeches like this.'

"He also made references to suicide and frequently posted on a message board discussing graphic depictions of murder and death, including a recent video he shared of a beheading.

"Crimo was 'known to law enforcement' but it is not yet known if this was due to the disturbing content he shared online, or if he committed other crimes. ". . .

‘Looks like Antifa, sir’: Randi Weingarten DRAGGED for claiming ‘people in Evanston’ told her Highland Park gunman is a white supremacist

Man in Custody After Hunt for Gunman -from people in Evanston, killer is avowed White supremacist.. Hate and guns create massacres that shatter people’s lives. #EndGunViolence https://t.co/nj7HxyPcPj

— Randi Weingarten ☮️🇺🇦 (@rweingarten) July 5, 2022

Bobby Crimo 'Antifa', pro-Trump Claims—What We Do Know, What We Don't (msn.com)

. . ."These patterns of half- or mistruths have become something of a trend in the aftermath of mass shootings, with online detectives attempting to piece together character profiles and, in some cases, manipulate or shape the narrative for political means.

"As Illinois grieves from Monday's tragedy, photos quickly spread suggesting that suspect Crimo was a Donald Trump or "MAGA" supporter, referencing photos which appear to show him at pro-Trump rallies and sporting Trump memorabilia.

"In one video, it appears Crimo may have attended a gathering to see a presidential convoy, although it's not clear from the footage whether Trump was inside the motorcade or when it was shot.

"These images would support the idea that Crimo sympathized with the former president and the political movements surrounding him. That said, there is no other verifiable information beyond these photos and videos that explain either the extent or intent of his admiration.

"Conversely, others have suggested he had left-leaning sympathies. A series of photos were published which included references to the left-wing Antifa cause, comparing black riot gear Crimo was said to have posed with and the attire used by some Antifa supporters.

"Other Twitter users claimed they had found Crimo's Instagram account with posts containing the Antifa flag. However, these Instagram accounts haven't been verified as authentic; searching Crimo's name on Instagram also shows what appears to be a number of copycat or fraudulent accounts set up following the shooting.". . .

President Biden led a moment of silence Monday for the victims of a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade near Chicago — two hours after he stunned listeners by hardly mentioning it in a speech on the White House lawn. 

Biden was harsher on the Supreme Court than on this murderer. Joe learned well from his old boss, Barack

POLITICS; Adam Kinzinger Can’t Handle It When Brit Hume Serves up Some Truth About the J6 Committee

Republican Daily

I’ve covered Washington for more than 50 years, including 11 years covering Congress specifically. I’ve never seen a committee all of whose members were chosen by one party, and where there is no cross-examination or any attempt to present both sides. https://t.co/7bjCm3O9Ez

— Brit Hume (@brithume) July 1, 2022

 Andrew C. McCarthy; Kinzinger Undermines the January 6 Committee

The anti-Trump Republican foolishly brands a Secret Service agent a liar on Twitter, amid the fracas over Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony.

"Amateur hour continues.

"My Friday column was about the pushback against former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony before the House January 6 committee. Hutchinson testified (among many other things) that Agent Tony Ornato of the Secret Service, who ran security at the Trump White House, told her that President Trump had gotten into a minor physical altercation with the head of his personal security detail, Agent Bobby Engel.

"As everyone by now has heard the story, Trump was said to be furious that the agents would not take him to the Capitol after his fiery Ellipse speech, and to have grabbed . . ."

Liz Cheney slammed as a 'RINO' during GOP Wyoming debate

"Why I pray that Michelle Obama runs in 2024"

We'll be helped because Michelle and the entire Dem left will seek to run Roe v. Wade up her battle standard. It's a given. It is truly in their DNA.

 James Mullin  "We all know that Barack Obama is having his third presidential term in the form of the senile presidency of Joe Biden.  Just ask Valerie Jarrett.  The transformation of America and its circling-the-bowl descent to Venezuela is proceeding apace.  But what is the left to do when its sock puppet president can no longer walk or talk or when his family's criminal dealings become too large for even the corrupt media to conceal?  How do you continue a shadow presidency then?

"Enter Michelle Obama.  It is true that her hatred for the America of the Founding Fathers or even the "Greatest Generation" is almost embarrassingly palpable.  Remember: "For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country," all because her husband was nominated to run for president?

"But I have every confidence that a servile, corrupt mainstream media will be able to airbrush that blemish away.  One can foresee the retchingly fawning "interviews" by Colbert and Kimmel even now.  We know well how that shtick plays out; we've seen it so many times (Hillary, Kamala, etc.).  For such reasons, conservatives deeply fear a Michelle candidacy.  They should instead rejoice in it.". . .

Michelle Obama Is Running for President in 2024  . . ."The audience failed to recognize that Michelle pulled the "world as it should be" quote from Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals and repeated it five times in her speech.  And Alinsky was the least worrisome of Michelle's radical affiliations.  It was she who pushed her husband into the arms of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.  And it was Michelle who worked with the Weather Underground terror group's Bernardine Dohrn at her law firm and got tight with her and hubby Bill Ayers.  Michelle, in fact, recruited Dohrn as the  first sponsor in her Public Allies program and recruited Ayers to speak at the University of Chicago.  Until Barack's Senate run in 2004, the two couples had dined together weekly for years.  And it was Bernardine Dohrn who schooled Michelle on "the politics of fear" that she recited almost verbatim on the 2008 campaign trail.". . .

Bill Ayers: Not Just Another Guy In The Neighborhood  . . ."Now, thanks to Jack Cashill, the literary mask has been removed. Obama is a literary pretender. Case closed. The evidence is overwhelming that Bill Ayers ghost-wrote Dreams from my Father, the book which established Obama’s pose as a brilliant writer (and therefore a fine mind, in the estimation of many). The stylistic resemblance between the Dreams and Ayers’ work is stunning. Now we know, thanks to Chris Andersen’s new book, that Obama hit a brick wall trying to fulfill his contract to produce a book, and shipped off his notes and tapes to Ayers.

"Obama’s dismissal of Ayers as “just a guy in the neighborhood” has been shown to be an outright lie.". . .

Democrats don't want anyone to succeed

 This upper crust that's made up of so many super-rich liberal Democrats, such as George Soros and John Kerry, are on occasion called members of a leisure class because they have so much money that they really don't need to work, . . .

https://www.terrellaftermath.com/

American Thinker    "Virtually every top Democrat these days is projecting onto everyone criticizing their elitism exactly who they are and what they've been doing for decades.

 

"Today's liberalism has moved further and further from its modern roots that began with JFK.

 

"John F. Kennedy would be totally unrecognizable as a Democrat today and most likely labeled a right-wing extremist. He was the first president to call for lower taxes in order to grow the economy, a strategy that became the Republican template starting with Ronald Reagan for improving everyone's financial well-being. The number one projection you hear from Democrats today is how Republicans are extremists who threaten democracy and individual rights.

 

"But if one takes a close look at Republicans and the Right, their positions have remained consistent over the years -- promoting small government, lower taxes, and individual responsibility.

 

"It's the Democrats who have become the extremists by calling for bigger and more government every election cycle, more spending and more regulation. And now calls for censorship by the Left continue to grow. It's the stuff of socialism that's morphing into a kind of soft communism, which would explain the Democrats' affinity for all things China. The final proof is the fact that the Biden presidency is really the Sanders/AOC presidency that totally controls the agenda primarily in the form of the Green New Deal. It is nothing but big government socialism disguised as planetary salvation. ". . .

For all of the Trump-haters of the world, there's no getting around the fact that Trump substantially increased virtually every citizen in the country's net worth regardless of race or sex while in office. He created the best economy in the modern era with historically low inflation and gasoline prices along with a record-setting stock market. With Biden, everyone's net worth from top to bottom has been slammed, although there are a lot of wealthy Democrats who have well-paid money managers to lessen the impact of this horrendous economy on their portfolio. If anyone says that money and their net worth isn't important to them and are cool with the super-high cost of filling up their car, their grocery cart, or taking a nice vacation via jet (or automobile), they need to get to church and repent pronto because they are total liars. 

 

Mallard Fillmore

 

JewishWorldReview.com

Three Ways to Combat Propaganda at Your Local Library

 Kate McColl; Intellectual Takeout

"We’re almost through Pride Month. While many aspects of this “celebration” come off as tasteless at best, what’s truly sickening about it is the indoctrination efforts this event directs toward young children.

"Public libraries, where drag queen story hours and pride displays are all too common, are one of the primary venues for this indoctrination. Many of the books on display in children’s areas present explicitly sexual material, like the one at a local library showing someone’s naked backside in a pride parade and informing children that some people prefer not to wear clothes.

"But these things aren’t just issues during the month of June; propaganda at the library is a year-round problem. Our family has found it increasingly difficult to check books out from the children’s section without accidentally taking home an LGBTQ propaganda piece. For example, my kids love books about animals, so they grabbed And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, the cover illustration showing two adult penguins with their cute, fuzzy chick. Turns out, the two penguins are a pair of bonded males at the zoo who just want a chick of their own. The zookeeper provides them with an egg so they can be dads together. Pretty subtle.

"The amount and intensity of the propaganda can feel overwhelming, but Pride Month also offers an opportunity to beat these progressive propagandists at their own game. I recently witnessed this in action from a local parenting group, whose efforts (we can only assume) prompted the library to remove its Pride display in favor of a Caribbean American Heritage Month display (that’s a thing?). The parent group didn’t picket or argue; instead, it used tactics that forced the library’s hand by working within the system.". . . Full article here

Kellyanne Conway Opens Up

 Elise Cooper

"I always tell people to be aware of biased words in the questions.  I think the worst questions are biased through insidiousness, such as "do you support or oppose protecting the environment?"  If a large number say they support protecting the environment, then the inference is that there is support for the Green New Deal.  No, that is not what the question asked."

"Here's the Deal by Kellyanne Conway is a memoir of her life.  Readers will take the journey from her life as a young child to a pollster, a mom, and the only woman to run a successful presidential campaign.  She shares her feelings about family, her marriage, reporters, and working with Donald Trump, first on his 2016 campaign and then as a consultant in the White House.

"In reading the book, people will see her honest and straightforward account.  They will understand why she was so vital to the Trump campaign as a smart, articulate, and talented woman.  It was a pleasure to interview her about the past, present, and future regarding the issues.

EC: Let's start by talking about the past — 2020.  Can you explain the book quote, "I think if we lose to this guy [Biden] we are pathetic"?

KAC: In my book, I have an entire chapter titled "A Tale of Two Outcomes."  I show the contrast between 2016 and 2020.

"In 2020, there was a whole lot more going in terms of resources, much more money, and staff members.  Yet, toward the end, they ran out of money and had to pull some ad buys in those critical swing states.  For example, can anyone even tell me what the Super Bowl ad was about sometime before the election?  Then the Tulsa rally publicized how a million people would be there, yet there were empty seats.

"I think the campaign never adapted and adjusted from the Trump economy as the core governing central premise for his election versus a once-in-a-century global pandemic.  COVID dominated, which was a benefit for Biden, who stayed in his basement bunker.  There was never such a gulf between exposure of the two presidential nominees.  President Trump was on TV two hours plus a day versus less than an hour of Joe Biden per week.  Biden benefited by it because people could make him whatever they wanted to make him.". . .

And this is what America got:

The sinister strategy of the progressives running the Democrat party

"As an ex-long time registered Democrat, I no longer recognize or support Democrat leaders or many of the members of the Democratic Party." George Duran

 American Thinker   "Biden, leftist progressive Democrats, legacy and social media news have all promoted a psychotic and psychopathological hatred of Trump, Republicans, conservatives, Christians, capitalism, our Constitution, and anyone that opposes or questions their policies.

"Election improprieties were ignored and are not covered, yet they oppose common sense election integrity law such as requiring an ID to vote, yet they call for “common sense gun laws.”

"Our legacy news media spreads Democrat talking points, propaganda, and lies.  For years they touted the Hillary Clinton paid for, fake, and salacious Steele Dossier as true. They have said “inflation will be transitory, high gas prices are not our fault, and our economy is much better under Biden”.  They have claimed “America does not have open borders”, as we see thousands freely crossing. They say “crime is down” while at the same time releasing violent criminals back into our neighborhoods.  They ignore and not report contrary FBI reports documenting the tremendous increase in violent crime in Democrat run cities. 

"Meanwhile our schools are indoctrinating 1st-3rd graders with hateful identity politics, promoting socialism as good and capitalism as bad, touting racist Critical Race Theory as anti-racist, preaching that Marxist “equity” theory needs to replace our foundation of “equality,” touting transgenderism and pedophilia as normal, and encouraging sex change surgery and puberty blockers on our children.   

"They attack our constitutional Rights and attempt to intimidate the Supreme Court to rule in their favor – not on the Constitution. ". . .

This is my country

 The words of patriotic songs and the Declaration of Independence served to convict us that to some groups of Americans, they were denied so many of America's promises. We spent decades righting those wrongs but now a new generation of masked, black-clad tools seek to persecute different groups of newly disenfranchised. TD

William Campenni  "Growing up in World War II in northeastern Pennsylvania, we had a local pride for a nearby popular singing group, Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians, working out of a resort at the Delaware Water Gap.

They were very popular on the radio and concert tours.  After America entered the war in late 1941 (you know, Pearl Harbor and all that, but who studies history anymore when wokeness is more important?), they recorded this song, written only a year earlier by lyricist Don Raye with music by Al Jacobs.  It became popular as America's Greatest Generation went off to war in faraway lands.  We wore out the grooves on the old '78s, playing it over and over on my cousin's record player.

"There are many patriotic songs, and each has its special place.  But this one for me was always extra-special, maybe because of my own memories, but also because of the message of both pride and gratitude.  It is a paean of appreciation by both those born in the USA (land of my birth) and those from other lands who chose to come here (land of my choice), like my wife, and my dad, who nearly lost his life fighting for it in the Argonne Forest, and whose second view of the Statue of Liberty was from a hospital ship cot.

"On this Fourth of July, more accurately Independence Day, take a moment to hear it, and pay special attention to its words, for they have so much meaning.  Probably a best version is that by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.". . .

William Campenni is a retired engineer and Air Force fighter pilot who is eternally grateful that he is an American

Perspectives on the Constitution: A Republic, If You Can Keep It

If there is a lesson in all of this it is that our Constitution is neither a self-actuating nor a self-correcting document. It requires the constant attention and devotion of all citizens. . . . democratic republics are not merely founded upon the consent of the people, they are also absolutely dependent upon the active and informed involvement of the people for their continued good health.

 Perspectives on the Constitution: A Republic, If You Can Keep It - National Constitution Center   "While today we marvel at the extraordinary accomplishment of our Founding Fathers, their own reaction to the US Constitution when it was presented to them for their signatures was considerably less enthusiastic. Benjamin Franklin, ever the optimist even at the age of 81, gave what was for him a remarkably restrained assessment in his final speech before the Constitutional Convention: "…when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views." He thought it impossible to expect a "perfect production" from such a gathering, but he believed that the Constitution they had just drafted, "with all its faults," was better than any alternative that was likely to emerge.

"Nearly all of the delegates harbored objections, but persuaded by Franklin's logic, they put aside their misgivings and affixed their signatures to it. Their over-riding concern was the tendency in nearly all parts of the young country toward disorder and disintegration. Americans had used the doctrine of popular sovereignty--"democracy"--as the rationale for their successful rebellion against English authority in 1776. But they had not yet worked out fully the question that has plagued all nations aspiring to democratic government ever since: how to implement principles of popular majority rule while at the same time preserving stable governments that protect the rights and liberties of all citizens.

"Few believed that a new federal constitution alone would be sufficient to create a unified nation out of a collection of independent republics spread out over a vast physical space, extraordinarily diverse in their economic interests, regional loyalties, and ethnic and religious attachments. And there would be new signs of disorder after 1787 that would remind Americans what an incomplete and unstable national structure they had created: settlers in western Pennsylvania rebelled in 1794 because of taxes on their locally distilled whiskey; in western North Carolina there were abortive attempts to create an independent republic of "Franklin" which would ally itself with Spain to insure its independence from the United States; there was continued conflict with Indians across the whole western frontier and increased fear of slave unrest, particularly when news of the slave-led revolution in Haiti reached American shores.

"But as fragile as America's federal edifice was at the time of the founding, there was much in the culture and environment that contributed to a national consensus and cohesion: a common language; a solid belief in the principles of English common law and constitutionalism; a widespread commitment (albeit in diverse forms) to the Protestant religion; a shared revolutionary experience; and, perhaps most important, an economic environment which promised most free, white Americans if not great wealth, at least an independent sufficiency.". . .

A word to all our mal-educated youth rampaging in the streets:

The Fourth of July may be the most patriotic day on the U.S. calendar. Independence Day celebrates the decision by the 13 original colonies to renounce British rule and form the United States. However, that decision did not happen on July 4.

Mapping the Fourth of July in the Civil War Era

 Virginia Center for Civil War Studies

Civil War history lives at Virginia Tech. From its home in Virginia Tech’s History Department, the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies promotes greater understanding of the Civil War era among academics and the public. Whether you’re a student or a professional historian, a serious history buff or someone who just likes to learn, we have something to offer you.

How did Americans celebrate Independence Day as their nation was falling apart? The answer lies in tens of thousands of Civil War-era sources, from newspaper articles and speeches to private letters and diaries. These documents reveal how a wide range of Americans — northern and southern, white and black, male and female, Democrat and Republican, immigrant and native born — all used the Fourth to articulate their deepest beliefs about American identity during the great crisis of the Civil War.

Did you know that many white southerners stopped celebrating the Fourth at the end of the Civil War? Frustrated by defeat and outraged by black commemorations of Independence Day, they did not fully resume their own celebrations for years. Northerners, meanwhile, used the holiday to celebrate Union victory while African Americans embraced the opportunity to claim their place in the national community. For everyone, the Fourth was a day to argue about who counted as an American and what that meant.

Fourth of July celebrations during the Civil War

Lincoln and Grant on July 4th  . . ."What to do as a blog post for a day like this?  I’ll begin with this really magnificent painting of Ulysses S. Grant on July 4, 1863, at Vicksburg.  Called Glorious Fourth, painted by renowned artist Mort Künstler, it captures the second of two great Union victories that signaled the turn of the Civil War.". . .   

. . ."This is essentially a People’s contest. On the side of the Union, it is a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form, and substance of government, whose leading object is, to elevate the condition of men—to lift artificial weights from all shoulders—to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all—to afford all, an unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life. Yielding to partial, and temporary departures, from necessity, this is the leading object of the government for whose existence we contend.

…"Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it, our people have already settled—the successful establishing, and the successful administering of it. One still remains—its successful maintenance against a formidable [internal] attempt to overthrow it. It is now for them to demonstrate to the world, that those who can fairly carry an election, can also suppress a rebellion—that ballots are the rightful, and peaceful, successors of bullets; and that when ballots have fairly, and constitutionally, decided, there can be no successful appeal, back to bullets; that there can be no successful appeal, except to ballots themselves, at succeeding elections. Such will be a great lesson of peace; teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by a war—teaching all, the folly of being the beginners of a war." . . .

OPINION: Why The Left Truly Is Evil, (Not Stupid!)

 Townhall

". . .Should conservatives any longer give the left the benefit of the doubt as to their policies? Should we innocently believe they are simply misinformed as opposed to radically devoted agents to an agenda that is not only anti-American but that in fact is… evil?"

"In America this minute leftists can no longer be given the benefit of the doubt. They are pushing an agenda that is evil. They are hellbent on accomplishing it and they are saying so publicly.

"The late Charles Krauthammer was the person credited for the intriguing binary observation that “conservatives view the left as stupid,” but that “liberals view conservatives as evil.”

"We see evidence of that second part constantly. The vehement hatred of those who support America First is proven every day. The hatred burns so deeply in fact that they seek out ways to create out of whole cloth imaginative conspiracies of Trump working with Russia and double impeachments based on literally no evidence.

"They justify the advancement of ludicrous stories of deranged presidents lurching at steering wheels—even when one or more secret service personnel were present and are able to testify to the opposite.

"They claim pro-lifers hate women. They claim that parents who don’t want drag queens in their kids’ schools are bigots. And they especially despise people who are faithful to God, family, and nation.". . .

And it’s not just energy, this group doesn’t care if babies have formula, your family has food, or if women bleed out from their monthly cycles.