Who Is ‘Destroying Democracy in Darkness?’

 Victor Davis Hanson  

"The donor-politico class further decided that, like a challenged Biden in 2024, Harris could not be allowed to hold press conferences. She would do few, if any, live interviews; unscripted town halls; or any other venue, given fears her visible liabilities might endanger her candidacy."

In a town teeming with corruption and liars,
 Adam Schiff ranks first

"The 2023-2024 campaign season is not just the strangest on record, it’s also arguably the most anti-democratic.

" 'Ostensibly, the Democratic Party has claimed over the last decade that former President Donald Trump posed a continued and existential threat to the republic.

"That allegation subsequently justified a variety of anti-democratic means to neuter his first two presidential candidacies, his presidency, and now his third and final run for the White House.

"A near decade ago, we witnessed the 2015-2016 Hillary Clinton / Democratic National Committee / FBI-assisted effort to plant the false accusation of Trump-Russian collusion to warp the 2016 election.

"That gambit centered around the fraudulent Steele dossier and nearly fatally crippled the Trump 2016 campaign. That hoax would later sidetrack 22 months of his presidency before being proven a fantasy.

"On the eve of the 2020 election, the left next birthed the Russian laptop disinformation campaign. That hoax also warped a presidential debate with false charges that Hunter Biden’s own incriminating laptop was once again the work of Russians seeking to conspire with Trump.

"Those unusual efforts continued during the Biden administration.

"For the first time in election history, the allies of one campaign sought to persuade some 16 states to try to remove a major party’s likely nominee from their primary and general election ballots.

"The plan was to smother a Trump third presidential bid in its infancy, and thus once again not allow the people to accept or reject his candidacy.

"Nearly simultaneously, four federal, state, and local prosecutors filed dozens of felony charges against Trump." . . .

No, Trump Did Not Call Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists 'Very Fine People' UPDATED

‘Bizarre performance’: Douglas Murray analyses Biden’s DNC address   "Author Douglas Murray has analysed President Joe Biden’s “bizarre” performance at the Democratic National Convention. "“So angry, so sort of filled with fury which I just can't help thinking looks completely put on. I have to say, it just looks completely staged and fake to me, that performance,” Mr Murray told Sky News host Rita Panahi. " 'It is as if he's trying to show there's life in the old guy yet.' ”

From the comments to this video. "The guy has always been a mental case, the dead son AGAIN..... while screaming like a lunatic."

 Snopes  "However, the accuracy of what Trump did claim – that there were "very fine people on both sides" of the 2017 Unite the Right debacle – is in question."

"In a news conference after the rally protesting the planned removal of a Confederate statue, Trump did say there were "very fine people on both sides," referring to the protesters and the counterprotesters. He said in the same statement he wasn't talking about neo-Nazis and white nationalists, who he said should be "condemned totally.' " Emphases in the original. TD

. . ."Trump: Excuse me, they didn't put themselves down as neo-Nazis, and you had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. You had people in that group — excuse me, excuse me, I saw the same pictures as you did — you had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name. George Washington was a slave owner. Was George Washington a slave owner? So will George Washington now lose his status, are we gonna take down — excuse me — are we gonna take down statues of George Washington? How about Thomas Jefferson? What do you think of Thomas Jefferson? You like him? Okay good. Are we gonna take down the statue? Cause he was a major slaveowner. Now are we gonna take down his statue? So you know what? It's fine. You're changing history, you're changing culture, and you had people — and I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly. Now, in the other group also, you had some fine people, but you also had troublemakers, and you see them come with the black outfits, and with the helmets, and the baseball bats, you got a lot of bad people in the other group too.

Reporter: I'm sorry sir, I didn't understand what you were saying, you were saying the press has treated white nationalists unfairly? I don't understand what you're saying.

Trump: No, no. There were people in that rally — and I looked the night before — if you look, there were people protesting very quietly the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. I'm sure in that group there was some bad ones. The following day it looked like they had some rough, bad people. Neo-Nazis, white nationalists, whatever you wanna call them. But you had a lot of people in that group that were there to innocently protest — and very legally protest — because I don't know if you know, they had a permit. The other group didn't have a permit. So I only tell you this, there are two sides to a story. I thought what took place was a horrible moment for our country. A horrible moment. But there are two sides to the country." . . .

. . ."In sum, while Trump did say that there were "very fine people on both sides," he also specifically noted that he was not talking about neo-Nazis and white supremacists and said they should be "condemned totally." Therefore, we have rated this claim "False.' "

In this same vein: Trump Mic Drops Reporter’s “White Supremacist” Question

If you have noticed the ignorance of pro-Hamas, anti-Israel protestors in the streets and wondered how college students can be so unknowledgeable, a major reason is the source of information delivered to people by such sources. TD

The Media Marketed Candidates

 Issues & Insights  

Today’s journalists, with rare exception, are Democratic Party operatives, progressive and socialist activists, hard-left propagandists, and – maybe worst of all – children who operate in the shallows of emotion and intelligence.

"Until Thursday night, we did not know that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are truly supreme beings. They are the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful humans we’ve ever known. We realize this now because the media told us so.

"And the American media would never try to manipulate the voters, would it? It just tells the story straight. For instance:

• “Kamala Harris’ Speech Was Powerful and Heartfelt” — Variety
• “One little heartbeat of hope.” — Van Jones, CNN
• “If you didn’t think you knew Kamala Harris before, you may know her now. This was a powerful, strong speech.” — Norah O’Donnell, CBS
• “The emotion and the feeling down here is, I don’t know. Seven-year-old birthday part is how I would put it. There is joy and there’s not a lot of thinking. It’s a good time.” — Tony Dokoupil, CBS
• “Harris embraces patriotism, savages Trump in acceptance speech” — Politico
• “Harris prosecutes case against Trump and pitches herself as a middle-class champion” — National Public Radio
• “This is a new chapter, as she said, in the American story.” — Robert Costa, CBS
• “She is interested in not just doing what the left or the right says you should be on, in terms of the ideological sides, but what she thinks is the right thing to do.” — Abby Phillips, CNN
• “Kamala Harris Gave the Best Acceptance Speech I’ve Ever Seen” — New York Magazine
• “A-plus. The best since Bill Clinton’s ‘Man From Hope’ remarks in 1992.” — Washington Post . . .

. . . "The American media should be embarrassed by, and ashamed of, its naked, nauseating cheerleading for the Democratic candidates and its constant shilling for the party. They would never say anything remotely similar about Donald Trump, because he’s “dark,” a “fascist,” “extreme,” a truly bad man." . . .

Remember when MSNBC's "Morning Joe" called Biden ‘The best Biden ever’?

Joe Scarborough Says Biden Calls to Debate Him (politicalwire.com)   . . . "Said [this

MSNBC talking head] Scarborough: “Because I’ve said a few things about him on my show and I’ve written a couple of op-eds and he’ll wake me up when I’m gone, when I’m asleep at 8:30 at night, because Mika and I, of course, wake up 4:30 in the morning and I’ll just go. Hello? Yes, sir.”

"He added: “And about an hour later, he will give he will aggressively and very effectively give me point by point by point about how my op-ed was flawed.”

Harris-Biden administration official wants to 'queer' our nuclear arsenal

Eric Utter   

In 3 John 1:4, God says, “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.” The truth can’t be “queered.” But it can be trampled on, molested, and denied.

Sam Brinton; Democrat over Spent Nuclear Fuel, etc

"In early 2024, the Harris-Biden administration appointed Sneha Nair to be a special assistant at the National Nuclear Security Administration. Nair has used that position to help “eradicate white supremacy.” Moreover, she believes in “queering nuclear weapons,” and that this would somehow help protect nuclear energy facilities in the United States.

"In 2023, Nair wrote: “Finally, queer theory informs the struggle for nuclear justice and disarmament.”

"Alrighty then. What is it with this administration and its nuclear officials? (Remember, Sam Brinton, the former Biden-Harris administration deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste distribution, is a cross-dresser who was arrested for allegedly stealing a woman’s suitcase from a Minneapolis airport, and several other airports?)

“ 'Queering” nuclear weapons? We need to “queer” our nuclear arsenal?

"A small, yet militant, faction of homosexuals would like to queer everything. Pets, automobiles, groceries, whatever. They have even attempted to queer the Bible … and God himself. Sane people, by contrast, do not attempt to make, say, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) bisexual. Nor do they attempt to make our border fences, if we had any, transgender. Heterosexuals don’t try to “straight” non-living and inanimate objects. This is not tolerant. This is not inclusive. This is way beyond ”weird.” It is batsh*t crazy. And it is singularly disturbing that a significant number of Americans are willing to go along with the insanity." . . .

CNN: democrat men are weenies   . . ."And when they hear people like Bash, Tapper and [MSNBC's Joy] Reid identify Democrat men as “low-T,” they laugh, because they know it’s true and those low-T “men” would think it a badge of honor. And they know, if this is truly “21st century masculinity,” this century will be America’s last."

Tim Walz: Joe Biden 2.0   . . ."We’ve reached a crisis level again today on both a national and international level. Like then, these times call for strong, intelligent, and determined leadership that commands the respect and, yes, the fear of world leaders who seek to undermine and destroy the United States at home and abroad. Not cackling clowns and bouncing buffoons. Can anyone seriously envision Kamala Harris and Tim Walz standing up to these challenges, facing down America’s enemies with any kind of strength or resolve? The Biden-Harris administration has been an abysmal failure on every front. On the other hand, Donald Trump has an impeccable record of success, economically, socially, and internationally. He has stood up to our enemies and stood up for our allies. He doesn’t suffer fools, and he has made it clear to world leaders that if you try to impose your will on the United States, he will push back, and push back hard." . . .

TRANSCRIPT: Every Word of RFK Jr's Epic Anti-Establishment Speech

First this: This Is No Longer The Presidential Race You Think It Is  "Now this is about the deep state.".  Sadly this is behind a paywall, but you need to know things like this are now being written. TD

Chris Queen

"In the name of saving democracy, the Democratic Party set itself to dismantling it; lacking confidence... that its candidate could win in a fair election at the voting booth, the DNC waged continual legal warfare against both President Trump and myself." . . . 

"On Friday afternoon, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced that he is suspending his campaign and endorsing Donald Trump. In a speech that lasted over 45 minutes, he explained his rationale for dropping out, how he wants to help Trump, and what he hopes his legacy will be. 

"It was a powerful, epic speech, and even though conservatives have plenty to disagree with RFK over, his idea of a unity campaign with Trump, combined with his desire to make America healthy again, is admirable.

"Here's the speech in its entirety. Forgive me if there are errors; I tried to catch them all.

. . . "In the name of saving democracy, the Democratic Party set itself to dismantling it; lacking confidence... that its candidate could win in a fair election at the voting booth, the DNC waged continual legal warfare against both President Trump and myself.

Each time that our volunteers turned in those towering boxes of signatures needed to get on the ballot, the DNC dragged us into court, state after state, attempting to erase their work and to subvert the will of the voters who had signed those petitions. It deployed DNC-aligned judges to throw me and other candidates off the ballot and to throw President Trump in jail.

It ran a sham primary that was rigged to prevent any serious challenge to President Biden. Then, when a predictably bungled debate performance precipitated the palace coup against President Biden, the same shadowy DNC operatives appointed his successor, also without an election.

They installed a candidate who was so unpopular with voters that she dropped out in 2020 without winning a single delegate. My uncle and my father both relished debate. They prided themselves on their capacity to go toe to toe with any opponent in the battle over ideas.

They would be astonished to learn of a Democratic Party presidential nominee who, like Vice President Harris, has not appeared in a single interview or an unscripted encounter with voters for 35 days. This is profoundly undemocratic. How are people to choose when they don't know whom they are choosing, and how can this look to the rest of the world?

My father and my uncle were always conscious of America's image abroad because of our nation's role as the template for democracy, a role model for democratic processes, and the leader of the free world. Instead of showing us her substance and character, the DNC and its media organs engineered a surge of popularity for Vice President Harris based upon, well, nothing.

No policies, no interviews, no debates, only smoke and mirrors and balloons in a highly produced Chicago circus. There in Chicago, a string of Democratic speakers mentioned Donald Trump 147 times just on the first day." . . .

Read the entire far-ranging speech here to see why a man who is told by media to hate Donald Trump instead supports him. TD

Chris Queen is an Editor and Columnist at PJ Media, where he has written for over 10 years. He has also written for The Resurgent, NewsReal Blog, and Celebrations Magazine.

The Two Ironic Lines in Kamala's Address That Didn't Go Well for Her and Had Everyone Talking

Nick Arama

"Isn't this the same lady who helped to cover up Joe Biden's cognitive decline, who wasn't straight with the American people about it? And they know, as Downs noted." 

"Kamala Harris' speech on the last night of the DNC was long on lies, talking about her family, and attacks on former President Donald Trump, but short on policy plans for the future or laying out anything that she had achieved. 

"You knew it was likely to be bad when they had to pull a "bait and switch" to keep people in the seats to hear her, saying there was going to be a special guest appearing, with CNN and others suggesting it was Beyoncé. But then the special guest turned out to be Harris herself. What a letdown. But you know that they don't think much of what they have to present when they have to play games and gaslight people like that. 

"Bottom line? They're lying because they know what they really think/believe would never go over with the American people. 

"But she had a couple of lines that had a lot of people talking — just not for the reasons she would have liked. This was such a bunch of nonsense. 

          Kamala says that she stood up "for seniors facing elder abuse."

That's ironic! pic.twitter.com/WKlF3CzjGY

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 23, 2024

. . ."It's worth reminding that the results from a poll from YouGov/Times of London just after Biden ended up dropping out of the race are particularly damning to Harris. A whopping 92 percent believe Harris was at least a little bit involved, with 68 percent saying she was involved "a great deal," 17 percent saying "somewhat," and 7 percent saying "a little." Majorities of every demographic believe Harris was at least "a little" bit involved. ". . .

Anti-Israel National Union Has Taken Hold at College Campuses, UChicago Lawsuit Reveals

Legal Insurrection  Jewish graduate students must either support union antisemitism or forfeit their careers.

"And it doesn’t help that the university continues to signal weakness in the face of the protesters’ violence and aggression. There were reportedly no arrests after police dismantled the encampments. And the school just dropped the disciplinary charges against students involved in last year’s protests, caving on its threat to withhold their diplomas."

"When the anti-Israel campus protests broke out last year, they had the support of an ally whose role until recently has been largely overlooked: graduate student unions. These unions are a growing presence at both public and private universities. And now, they’re defendants in a University of Chicago lawsuit brought by the outraged students who are forced to fund them, whether they agree with their antisemitic rhetoric or not.

"Academic unions aren’t like traditional trade groups pushing for higher wages, shorter hours, and better working conditions. They’re a new breed—an affiliation of graduate student unions with a “parent,” frequently the national United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), a radical group known for its anti-Israel activism.

"At Legal Insurrection, we’ve been keeping tabs on UE since it first endorsed a “boycott, divest, and sanction” (BDS) campaign against Israel in 2015. More recently, when Cornell graduate students voted to federate under UE, Prof. Jacobson warned that the new alliance meant trouble: “On a campus wracked with anti-Israel activism and antisemitic invective, the connection to an anti-Israel national union raises concerns of a renewed BDS effort,” he wrote. In fact, UE has repeatedly called for the “union at all levels to become engaged in BDS.”

"Graduate students weren’t always unionized, of course, and it’s not obvious how they fit into the “labor” mold. True, they work as research assistants and teaching assistants, but that work is incidental to their academic pursuit.

"How did these doctoral candidates become UE labor union brothers?". . .

This only became a problem when residents of Gaza chose to kill and destroy Israelis and their villages, not only on Oct 7, but also with years of sending explosive rockets to kill Israelis who had not bothered the Arabs. Now Muslim activists appear on Western campuses, 
spawning riots and property destruction, teaching impressionable youths, wearing designer scarves to chant "Death to....!"

Lives shattered by Oct. 7 attack, some survivors return to Kibbutz Be’eri "A month after Hamas wrought some of its worst destruction at Kibbutz Be’eri, what was once a peaceful agricultural commune is now a makeshift military base. Special correspondent Leila Molana-Allen visits the community where Hamas terrorists kidnapped dozens of Israelis and slaughtered more than a hundred others and talks to survivors who have returned."

Link to video below.

When Gazans encounter Israeli children:  Video out of Israel shows room full of children massacred by Hamas  Hamas Gaza militant terrorists are roaming the streets and massacring people at random -men, women, and children ON SIGHT. They are also kidnapping/killing Israeli civilian thanks to Joe Biden’s $6 billion to Iran, not to mention restoration of the hundreds of million of US taxpayer dollars to the Palestinians that Donald Trump had cut off when he was in office."  Below is a copy of the above video for when it gets taken down by Leftist terrorist supporters.

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Bullet Wounds Found on Bodies of Recovered Israeli Hostages, Confirming Hamas Murdered Them

 Legal Insurrection   "Bullet wounds were found on the bodies of six hostages recovered by the Israeli military earlier this week. The grim finding confirms the fears that most of them had been murdered by Hamas terrorists during their 10-month-long captivity in Gaza.

“ 'The Israeli army confirmed on Thursday that signs of gunfire were found on the bodies of the six hostages who were recovered on Tuesday from Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip,” the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.

"The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Monday night extracted the bodies of six hostages from the southern Gaza town of Khan Yunis. The recovery operation in Hamas-infested territory was conducted after the terrorist group repeatedly rejected President Joe Biden’s latest ceasefire proposal, demanding more security concessions from Israel.". . .

Gazan man says it loud and clear:
“We are the ones who launched this war and we will end it (…) We are the conquerors (…) We will keep sacrificing until all of us are dead”
Ceasefire? pic.twitter.com/axxaUV61cS

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) August 22, 2024

 

Following The Script; Even Fawning Media Ridicules Harris’ Socialist Proposals

 Issues & Insights 

. . ."price controls are a recipe for shortages and black markets and the breakdown of rule of law, and at a minimum, never work the way they are supposed to work."

Even Fawning Media Ridicules Harris’ Socialist Proposals    "The media adulation for Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign may still be strong in general, but several major liberal outlets haven’t been able to stomach her latest economic policy proposal.

"Harris announced Wednesday that she would institute a “federal ban on price gouging on food and groceries” as president in an attempt to stop “big corporations” from taking advantage of consumers, and outlets like the Washington Post, CNN, and Newsweek published reports shredding the idea.

" 'Whether the Harris proposal wins over voters remains to be seen, but if sound economic analysis still matters, it won’t,” the liberal-leaning Washington Post editorial board wrote on Friday.

"If enacted, the Harris campaign’s proposal would give authority to the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general to impose harsh penalties on companies for setting excessively high prices.

" 'There’s a big difference between fair pricing in competitive markets and excessive prices unrelated to the costs of doing business,” the Harris campaign said in a statement. “Americans can see that difference in their grocery bills.”

"The Post’s editorial board took Harris to task on the idea, stating it’s not even clear what her plan is. “Ms. Harris says she’ll target companies that make ‘excessive’ profits, whatever that means.” It also expressed relief that the plan was getting pummeled out of the gate." . . .

Wall Street battens down hatches, warns investors about Kamala's price controls -report  . . ."Broadly speaking, it's always a disaster when a government overspends beyond its means, devalues its currency as a result, sees various financial institutions take hits, and then in some cases takes insane measures like capital controls to fix the mess they made, leading to shortages and the destruction of savings that would otherwise go into investment capital. In some cases the governments actually go down in flames, their capitols literally on fire.

They know Economics 101, that price controls are a recipe for shortages and black markets and the breakdown of rule of law, and at a minimum, never work the way they are supposed to work. Even the leftists on Wall Street know this basic fact, they would be embarrassed to say they didn't, which is why we see so much pushback against the idea even in the leftist media. Again, it's Economics 101 and only stupid people don't know Economics 101." . . .

RFK Makes Huge Move in Arizona, Could Permanently Shake Up Race in Trump’s Favor

 TFPP Wire  "Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign took an unexpected turn this week, as he withdrew his name from the Arizona ballot just as the Democratic National Convention wrapped up.

"This move has sparked speculation about Kennedy’s political future and his potential impact on the 2024 race.

"On social media, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes announced, “RFK Jr.’s campaign filed official paperwork with our office today withdrawing him from AZ’s 2024 election.” Fontes added that the official filing would be available on the state’s website soon.

"This development comes at a critical time in the election cycle.

"The Democratic Party just finished its convention, where Vice President Kamala Harris gave the keynote address.

"Meanwhile, rumors are swirling that Kennedy might drop out of the race entirely and throw his support behind former President Donald Trump.

"Adding fuel to the fire, Kennedy has scheduled an address for Friday, August 23, to update the public on his political plans." . . .  My father and my uncle were members of a Democratic Party that was at the forefront of making sure that every American could vote for the candidate they wanted to.

Today’s Democratic Party is doing the opposite. pic.twitter.com/6K3XZ7bXsj

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) August 21, 2024

. . .

RFK Jr. has announced he will “address the nation live” on Friday from Phoenix, AZ about his “path forward. The most interesting part? President Trump will ALSO be having an event in Phoenix on Friday" 

Fake News: Judy Woodruff does a Dan Rather

 Monica Showalter 

 The most damning element of Woodruff's statement, that Trump urged Netanyahu to reject the ceasefire because it would help Harris in the 2024 presidential campaign -- never happened at all in either report, not even by wink, hint, or suggestion, not in the corrected or uncorrected versions. Nothing. Zilch. Zero. Nada.

Here too.

"How does fake news get out there?

"Well, based on this latest event, it comes not from Russian bots and fringe websites that the censorship lobby keeps howling about, but from the mainstream media itself, allowing its political biases to run wild at the expense of the facts.

"According to the New York Post:

A PBS senior correspondent apologized Wednesday after falsely telling her audience that former President Donald Trump tried to talk Israel out of a cease-fire amid its ongoing war in Gaza.

Judy Woodruff passed off blame for the blunder by “clarifying” that she based the flimsy scoop on outside reporting she had read before broadcasting from the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago on Monday.

“The reporting is that former President Trump is on the phone with the prime minister of Israel, urging him not to cut a deal right now, because it’s believed that would help the Harris campaign,” Woodruff told a PBS roundtable.

"Her apology is here: 

NEWS
PBS’ Judy Woodruff has issued a clarification and an apology for her remarks in this clip which went viral.
“I want to clarify my remarks on the PBS News special on Monday night about the ongoing cease fire talks in the Middle East.
As I said, this was not based on my… pic.twitter.com/4nIhczmpj5

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) August 21, 2024

Not every Democrat feels the joy.

‘Squad’ Democrat rejects ‘false narrative’ of joy at Harris convention (msn.com)    "Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) accused her own party of presenting a “false narrative” of Democratic optimism amid a fight over the war in Gaza that has roiled the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

"The tension comes as the Uncommitted National Movement, a pro-Palestinian group that emerged during the Democratic primaries to vote against candidates unless they backed a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas, has requested a speaking slot at the four-day convention — a request it claims has been denied by the Democratic National Committee. Tlaib decried the decision not to allow a pro-Palestinian speaker to take the stage on the pretext it would disrupt the party’s picture of unity it wants to present to voters.

“ 'To hear what we’ve done to generations of families shatters the false narrative of hope and joy,” Tlaib wrote in a post on X." . . .

"The demand for a speaking slot comes after the parents of an Israeli American hostage, captured during Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, invasion, spoke on the third night of the convention, with the group calling for balance “to reject a hierarchy of human value by ensuring Palestinian voices are heard on the main stage.”