As students protest, they are missing out on the history lessons they need

It is certainly fine that children are protesting guns and mourning the loss of students.  But it is time for parents, teachers, the media, politicians, and other adults to teach some facts about history and why we have a Second Amendment so that these students know what they are protesting about.


Does taking away guns really make people safer?  The North Korean people are not safe because the tyrants don’t allow ordinary citizens to have guns.  Disarmed, they are in danger every day.



In the same way, the far-left Nazis took away the guns in Germany in the 1930s, and millions of Jews died, in some measure because they had no way to protect themselves.


The United States would not be free today if only Great Britain and the Tory loyalists had guns.  The reason for the Second Amendment was not because of hunting.  It was to protect the people from a tyrannical government, and there have been many tyrants willing to kill their own people if they dare get out of line.  Some of them exist today.


Shouldn’t the children and the public be told that the ten-year assault weapon ban from 1994 to 2004 didn’t reduce the “lethality and injuriousness of gun violence”?  Here is an account from the Washington Times:


The federal assault-weapons ban, scheduled to expire in September, is not responsible for the nation’s steady decline in gun-related violence and its renewal likely will achieve little, according to an independent study commissioned by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ).


“We cannot clearly credit the ban with any of the nation’s recent drop in gun violence. And, indeed, there has been no discernible reduction in the lethality and injuriousness of gun violence,” said the unreleased NIJ report, written by Christopher Koper, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. 


Tens of millions of law-abiding, stable people in the U.S. have guns, and they are used in a safe manner.  A small minority of people with guns are dangerous.  The problem is not the guns themselves or the National Rifle Association; it is basically the many policies in the U.S. to which I will refer as the non-sensible “look the other way” policies.


Here are some of them:


The PROMISE program, where schools don’t report bad children to the police so they don’t have a criminal record.


The intent of PROMISE is to safeguard the student from entering the judicial system.


Broward County schools got extra money from the federal government by pretending there weren’t as many bad children.  Here is a report on that:


Bombshell Report: Broward County Schools and Police Colluded to Shield Criminal Students


Clues about how Nikolas Cruz slipped through cracks are emerging


The Broward County School Board and District Superintendent, entered into a political agreement with Broward County Law enforcement officials to stop arresting students for crimes.”


“The motive was simple.  The school system administrators wanted to ‘improve their statistics’ and gain state and federal grant money for improvements therein.”


Just those two look-the-other-way policies are enough to ensure that guns get into the wrong hands, as they did in Florida, which is what the protests are all about.


But there are so many other such look-the-other-way policies, and like these, they lead to disasters:


Sanctuary cities and states just ignore federal immigration laws.


Deaths in U.S cities because of drug addiction were ignored because President Obama saw no political advantage for himself in it and was working on his legacy.


Deviant Catholic priests were allowed to sexually abuse thousands of adolescent boys.


Penn State looked the other way as a coach abused young athletes.


Michigan State and the Olympic committee looked the other way as hundreds of children were abused.


Hollywood, journalists, Democrats, and many others looked the other way as powerful people like Harvey Weinstein abused women.


It makes me sick when I read about:


A career criminal being out on the street to commit more crime.


An illegal alien who has been deported several times committing violent crimes, including murder.


When school officials, the FBI, and local law enforcement officials knew that Nikolas Cruz was dangerous, yet they did not protect society from him, and he killed seventeen. Similar dereliction happened at Fort Hood and in the Texas church massacre.


In all the above cases, the media, politicians, Hollywood, and community organizers (Alinsky disciples) know of the breakdowns in policy and the neglect of government, yet they all blame the guns and the NRA because that is the agenda.


Today, we have a president who is trying to restore the power, freedom, and the purse back to the people where it belongs, even as a dangerous media cabal seeks to destroy him every day.  This is what the young protesters get not the least teaching on as they go about their gun protest.  It’s a downright shame.


It is certainly fine that children are protesting guns and mourning the loss of students.  But it is time for parents, teachers, the media, politicians, and other adults to teach some facts about history and why we have a Second Amendment so that these students know what they are protesting about.


Does taking away guns really make people safer?  The North Korean people are not safe because the tyrants don’t allow ordinary citizens to have guns.  Disarmed, they are in danger every day.


In the same way, the far-left Nazis took away the guns in Germany in the 1930s, and millions of Jews died, in some measure because they had no way to protect themselves.


The United States would not be free today if only Great Britain and the Tory loyalists had guns.  The reason for the Second Amendment was not because of hunting.  It was to protect the people from a tyrannical government, and there have been many tyrants willing to kill their own people if they dare get out of line.  Some of them exist today.


Shouldn’t the children and the public be told that the ten-year assault weapon ban from 1994 to 2004 didn’t reduce the “lethality and injuriousness of gun violence”?  Here is an account from the Washington Times:


The federal assault-weapons ban, scheduled to expire in September, is not responsible for the nation’s steady decline in gun-related violence and its renewal likely will achieve little, according to an independent study commissioned by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ).


“We cannot clearly credit the ban with any of the nation’s recent drop in gun violence. And, indeed, there has been no discernible reduction in the lethality and injuriousness of gun violence,” said the unreleased NIJ report, written by Christopher Koper, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. 


Tens of millions of law-abiding, stable people in the U.S. have guns, and they are used in a safe manner.  A small minority of people with guns are dangerous.  The problem is not the guns themselves or the National Rifle Association; it is basically the many policies in the U.S. to which I will refer as the non-sensible “look the other way” policies.


Here are some of them:


The PROMISE program, where schools don’t report bad children to the police so they don’t have a criminal record.


The intent of PROMISE is to safeguard the student from entering the judicial system.


Broward County schools got extra money from the federal government by pretending there weren’t as many bad children.  Here is a report on that:


Bombshell Report: Broward County Schools and Police Colluded to Shield Criminal Students


Clues about how Nikolas Cruz slipped through cracks are emerging


The Broward County School Board and District Superintendent, entered into a political agreement with Broward County Law enforcement officials to stop arresting students for crimes.”


“The motive was simple.  The school system administrators wanted to ‘improve their statistics’ and gain state and federal grant money for improvements therein.”


Just those two look-the-other-way policies are enough to ensure that guns get into the wrong hands, as they did in Florida, which is what the protests are all about.


But there are so many other such look-the-other-way policies, and like these, they lead to disasters:


Sanctuary cities and states just ignore federal immigration laws.


Deaths in U.S cities because of drug addiction were ignored because President Obama saw no political advantage for himself in it and was working on his legacy.


Deviant Catholic priests were allowed to sexually abuse thousands of adolescent boys.


Penn State looked the other way as a coach abused young athletes.


Michigan State and the Olympic committee looked the other way as hundreds of children were abused.


Hollywood, journalists, Democrats, and many others looked the other way as powerful people like Harvey Weinstein abused women.


It makes me sick when I read about:


A career criminal being out on the street to commit more crime.


An illegal alien who has been deported several times committing violent crimes, including murder.


When school officials, the FBI, and local law enforcement officials knew that Nikolas Cruz was dangerous, yet they did not protect society from him, and he killed seventeen. Similar dereliction happened at Fort Hood and in the Texas church massacre.


In all the above cases, the media, politicians, Hollywood, and community organizers (Alinsky disciples) know of the breakdowns in policy and the neglect of government, yet they all blame the guns and the NRA because that is the agenda.


Today, we have a president who is trying to restore the power, freedom, and the purse back to the people where it belongs, even as a dangerous media cabal seeks to destroy him every day.  This is what the young protesters get not the least teaching on as they go about their gun protest.  It’s a downright shame.






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‘Seattle Gun Tax Revenue Falls, And Fails, Again’, Says SAF

‘Seattle Gun Tax Revenue Falls, And Fails, Again'
BELLEVUE, WA. – Seattle’s “gun violence tax” revenue has once again failed to meet predictions, demonstrating once again that this was really a thinly disguised gun control scheme that was sold to the public as an effort to reduce so-called “gun violence,” the Second Amendment Foundation said today.

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Oldest Democrat in Congress Passes Away at 88, Planned to Run for Reelection

Democrats and the political establishment elite are today mourning the death of Congresswoman Louise Slaughter who at the spry age of 88, was the oldest member in Congress.

Rep. Slaughter was planning on running for reelection this fall which would have kept her in office into her nineties but was injured when she fell at home last weekend and has now passed away.

A career politician who was a member of the House of Representatives since Ronald Reagan was president, Slaughter was like other aging Democrats and more than a few Republicans, as strong as an argument for term and age limits that exist.

She was one of the staunchest opponents of the Second Amendment in the caucus and this alone will qualify her for sainthood with Democrats and the activist media.

The news of her death was reported on Friday morning.

Via the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle “Congresswoman Louise Slaughter dies at 88”:

Rep. Louise Slaughter, a Democrat who represented the Rochester area in Congress since 1987, has died. She was 88.

Her office released a statement confirming her passing Friday morning. Slaughter fell at her Washington, DC residence last week and was taken to George Washington University Hospital to receive treatment and monitoring for a concussion.

Slaughter was recognized as a fierce legislature who blazed trails for other women to enter politics.

Her office issued the following official statement:

Sadly this is about the only way that many Democrats are ever going to be removed from office and in no way is this speaking ill of the dead nor failing to give Slaughter her due but it would greatly behoove the nation if those who are still mired in the fight for feminism and the civil rights movements were to step aside in favor of younger people with fresh ideas.

It isn’t too late to start lobbying for a constitutional amendment on age limits for members of Congress.

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What’s Left For The Left

What's Left For The Left
Has the Left any arrows remaining in their quiver? The ‘New’ Democrat Party, if it is new at all, is certainly not afraid to try anything to win favor or an election. It has become an unrecognizable freak show.

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Free Agent NFL Kneeler Whining That He Hasn’t Been Signed Yet

Now that the new league year has officially begun along with free agency, it was only a matter of time until the chronic malcontents who alienated millions of NFL fans with their national anthem protests started squawking again.

Messianic cult leader Colin Kaepernick has hopes of being signed and is conducting private workouts in Texas although whether any team risks further alienating its fanbase by taking the plunge remains to be seen.

Kaepernick’s buddy, San Francisco 49ers defensive back Eric Reid who joined the cop-hating Castro lover during his season of protest and continued to kneel once he was out of the league is not taking it well that he hasn’t been signed only two days into free agency.

Via The New York Daily News “Eric Reid: NFL teams won’t sign me because of national anthem protests with Colin Kaepernick”:

Eric Reid believes kneeling with Colin Kaepernick is the reason he is still a free agent.

The safety was the first 49er to protest inequality during the national anthem alongside Kaepernick and a few days into the signing period, he isn’t on a roster.

“The notion that I can be a great signing for your team for cheap, not because of my skill set but because I’ve protested systemic oppression, is ludicrous,” Reid tweeted Thursday. “If you think is, then your mindset is part of the problem too.”

He went on to clarify that general managers aren’t the ones alleged blackballing him — team owners are.

Just because teams didn’t beat a path to Reid’s door toting bags of money doesn’t necessarily mean that he won’t be signed even though teams may not want the baggage of the protesters. Reid may have kneeled, but he didn’t wear pig socks, gush over communist dictators or send out racist tweets unlike Kaepernick did.

Just protesting the anthem isn’t going to get players blackballed although it may limit the number of organizations willing to give them jobs. Look at Michael Bennett who was the loudest, most obnoxious and most in your racist white face player in the league last season.

He became too much of a pain in the ass for even the liberal Seattle Seahawks to tolerate but was traded to a team that was willing to ingest the poison into their locker room because he can still play.

Despite his whining, Reid will inevitably land another gig even if his ego makes him believe that he is worth more than he is.

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MALKIN: Look Homeward, ‘Change Agents’

Here is my homework assignment for all the fist-clenching, gun control-demanding teenagers walking out of classrooms this week (and next week and next month) to protest school shootings:

Ask not what the rest of the country can do for your local school’s safety; ask what your local school boards and superintendents have been failing to do for you.

Chances are, the adults closest to you — those most directly responsible for your security — have been shirking their primary duties, squandering scarce resources and deflecting blame.

Yes, it’s glamorous and exciting to appear on “The Ellen Show,” rub elbows with Eminem at the iHeartRadio Music Awards, pal around with Anderson Cooper, and soak up praise and donations from George Clooney and Oprah for shouting at the NRA, Republicans and President Trump.

Sure, it’s fun to ditch your homework, parade around in “March For Our Lives” swag, and watch your Twitter mentions explode like SpaceX launches every time you indignantly accuse gun-owning moms of hating their own children.

It’s lit like Bic to be the Democrats’ new junior lobbyists, fundraisers and voter registration captains.

But when the media whirlwind dies down and the Everytown buses ship you back home, mundane realities will set in.

Negligence, incompetence and inattention to the core mission of education and ensuring students’ safety don’t just spring out of nowhere. They are not alien invaders descending upon your neighborhoods from thousands of miles of away to impose chaos and misery upon your erstwhile Edenic existence.

Take Broward County, Florida. The current superintendent, Robert Runcie, was hired to clean up encrusted corruption in the district and school board that dates back to the early 1990s and resulted in three statewide grand jury investigations in 1997, 2002 and 2011. That last report blasted “malefeasance, misfeasance, and nonfeasance” on the Democrat-dominated school board and within top management at the district. In fact, the grand jury concluded after probing waste, fraud and favor-trading in capital construction projects:

“The culture of misfeasance and malfeasance at the school district is so deeply ingrained, so longstanding and so severe that we believe (employees who blow the whistle) will either be subsumed into the existing culture or drummed out of the District as soon as current attention is diverted from the Board and District.”

Indeed, one former building inspector who was fired in retaliation for warning about building code violations received a $45,000 settlement from the crooked school board. One board member was convicted on extortion, wire fraud and bribery charges involving school construction. Under Runcie, an $800 million renovation bond passed by voters in 2014 for school repairs on moldy, decaying buildings has been abjectly squandered; critics have alleged more bid-rigging, lax oversight and circumvention of graft reforms passed seven years ago.

The grand jury had issued a prophetic warning: “Bad habits and corrupt practices often return when the light of inquiry is turned off.”

Five years later, the district was entangled in yet another fiscal scandal after the state auditor general determined the schools had misallocated $23 million in federal Title 1 funds for low-income students; had “failed to correct safety violations at some schools;” and “paid health insurance premiums for former employees who were ineligible and in some cases dead,” according to the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel.

When public scrutiny is diverted to red herrings and politically expedient scapegoats, feckless educrats are all too happy to participate in accountability Kabuki theater. After the Parkland, Florida, shooting last month, Runcie immediately pounced: “If we really want to do something, spend money on adding more school resource officers and law enforcement.”

What bunk. Continued profligacy is no violence prevention strategy. If school leaders can’t exhibit basic fiscal discipline and stewardship, how can they be trusted to ensure classroom discipline and physical safety?

Is it any surprise that Runcie’s social justice pandering to dismantle the “school to jailhouse pipeline” won him Obama administration accolades — while endangering the lives of children used as political pawns?

The same set of corruptocrats who were in place while cronies rigged bids for personal gain stood by while book-cookers rigged crime statistics to appease racial bean counters.

There were no district-wide walkouts and nationwide protests when Broward County parents of special-needs students were laughed at during a school board meeting as they exposed how their children had been bullied, beaten and bitten by tormentors without consequences in 2016. Nor was there a massive uproar last fall when the district acknowledged a whopping 480 incidents of alleged sexual harassment and abuse in its schools.

As a famous Chicago community organizer once quipped, “Change is hard.” Selfies with gun control armbands is easy. Cleaning your own house, district and county is hard. Junkets to D.C. are easy. Digging through audits and public records is hard. Regurgitating Mad Libs-like talking points against the NRA and Second Amendment is easy.

Go back to class and look homeward, all you young “change agents.” The faultiest faults are near, not far.

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OUTRAGEOUS: Ohio High School Student Suspended For Staying In Class During Leftist Gun Walkout

I guess it’s not surprising given that we live in a country where it’s now a faux pas to NOT help illegal immigrants. But it’s still WRONG!

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An apolitical Ohio high school student received a suspension this week for remaining seated quietly in his classroom as about half of his peers participated in a leftist-choreographed march for gun control, and the other non-protesting half were “rounded up in the building” like cattle and marched to a “study hall,” according to The Independent (Massillon).

Stunningly, no other student received a suspension, including the indoctrinated ones who marched onto local streets Tuesday on behalf of the Democrat Party’s mission to enact draconian gun laws on all firearm owners.

The student, Jacob Shoemaker, told The Independent that he had simply sought to remain apolitical about the whole matter:

Jacob Shoemaker felt as though he would be making a political statement about guns by walking outside with those students, his father said, but he’d also be making one if he stayed in and allowed himself to be sent to wherever the non-protesters were being rounded up in the building. Being “middle of the road” politically, he didn’t want to make either statement, Shoemaker said.

Jacob told his father on Tuesday night that he felt like other students and, to some extent, school officials were pressuring him. Each side was judging the other.

″’The biggest problem, Dad, is that there shouldn’t be politics in the classroom… I may just sit in my seat. As far as I’m concerned, that’s the least intrusive of the choices I’ve been given,‴ Jacob said, according to his father. The boy also told him that he was far from the only student who felt that way.

For sticking to his principles, Shoemaker received an out-of-school suspension

“Student refused to follow instructions after being warned repeatedly by several administrators. Student not permitted on school property 24 hours,” his suspension notice reportedly read.

His father wasn’t exactly thrilled about this: “He stayed in the classroom, where he was supposed to be in the first place. It’s kind of ironic,” he said.

You think?!

To be clear, Shoemaker was not suspended for not participating in the march, as some have falsely reported. But this fact doesn’t make what happened to him any less just, as noted by Brandon Morse of RedState.

He pointed eout that the school’s desire “to relocate those who wouldn’t participate in the protest to a single location … exposes those who wouldn’t participate more easily. Remaining in class would have been the better option and the idea that the school punished a student for remaining in class where he would be considered outside of safe bounds is ridiculous.”

Agreed.

There used to be a time in America when students who walked out of class were punished. There likewise used to be a time when illegal immigrants, drug dealers and terrorists were viewed with disdain. Sadly, times have changed, and not for the better.

We now live in a twisted world where principles, facts and basic decency mean nothing. And maybe I’m just a jaded schmuck, but it feels to me like the downward spiral has only just begun.

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My question is this: If I were to start a Patreon account — which would let you pay a completely voluntary subscription fee to me monthly — would you be interested? If so, how much? $1? $5? Please let me know in the comments section. And if you’re NOT interested, it’s totally fine. I’m just trying to figure out a way to stay in the political commentary business. 

Ideally, I’d like to get picked up by a publisher like The Daily Wire (in which case I could afford to keep writing at Downtrend on the side) but Ben Shapiro is REALLY PICKY (rightly so) about who he hires, so I don’t think it’s going to happen.

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WILLIAMS: Trump’s Steel And Aluminum Tariffs

There are a couple of important economic lessons that the American people should learn. I’m going to title one “the seen and unseen” and the other “narrow well-defined large benefits versus widely dispersed small costs.” These lessons are applicable to a wide range of government behavior, but let’s look at just two examples.

Last week, President Donald Trump enacted high tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum. Why in the world would the U.S. steel and aluminum industries press the president to levy heavy tariffs? The answer is simple. Reducing the amounts of steel and aluminum that hit our shores enables American producers to charge higher prices. Thus, U.S. steel and aluminum producers will earn higher profits, hire more workers and pay them higher wages. They are the visible beneficiaries of Trump’s tariffs.

But when the government creates a benefit for one American, it is a virtual guarantee that it will come at the expense of another American — an unseen victim. The victims of steel and aluminum tariffs are the companies that use steel and aluminum. Faced with higher input costs, they become less competitive on the world market. For example, companies such as John Deere may respond to higher steel prices by purchasing their parts in the international market rather than in the U.S. To become more competitive in the world market, some firms may move their production facilities to foreign countries that do not have tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum. Studies by both the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Consuming Industries Trade Action Coalition show that steel-using industries — such as the U.S. auto industry, its suppliers and manufacturers of heavy construction equipment — were harmed by tariffs on steel enacted by George W. Bush.

Politicians love having seen beneficiaries and unseen victims. The reason is quite simple. In the cases of the steel and aluminum industries, company executives will know whom to give political campaign contributions. Workers in those industries will know for whom to cast their votes. The people in the steel- and aluminum-using industries may not know whom to blame for declining profits, lack of competitiveness and job loss. There’s no better scenario for politicians. It’s heads politicians win and tails somebody else loses.

Then there’s the phenomenon of narrow well-defined large benefits versus widely dispersed small costs. A good example can be found in the sugar industry. Sugar producers lobby Congress to place restrictions on the importation of foreign sugar through tariffs and quotas. Those import restrictions force Americans to pay up to three times the world price for sugar. A report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office estimated that Americans pay an extra $2 billion a year because of sugar tariffs and quotas. Plus, taxpayers will be forced to pay more than $2 billion over the next 10 years to buy and store excess sugar produced because of higher prices. Another way to look at the cost side is that tens of millions of American families are forced to pay a little bit more, maybe $20, for the sugar we use every year.

You might wonder how this consumer rip-off sustains itself. After all, the people in the sugar industry are only a tiny percentage of the U.S. population. Here’s how it works. It pays for workers and owners in the sugar industry to come up with millions of dollars to lobby congressmen to impose tariffs and quotas on foreign sugar. It means higher profits and higher wages. Also, it’s easy to organize the relatively small number of people in the sugar industry. The costs are borne by tens of millions of Americans forced to pay more for the sugar they use. Even if the people knew what the politicians are doing, it wouldn’t be worth the cost of trying to unseat a legislator whose vote cost them $20 a year. Politicians know that they won’t bear a cost from sugar consumers. But they would pay a political cost from the sugar industry if they didn’t vote for tariffs. So they put it to consumers — but what else is new?

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Rage-Democrats return: Eric Holder vows to knife the GOP

So much for the soft moderate blue wave of Democrats sweeping special elections these days.


The real Democrats – the dinosaurs, the elitists, the detesters of deplorables, the Chicago politics-types, and the arrogant – are back – none more obvious than Eric Holder, who offered this violent language for his political opponents. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports:



“We have to be ready to, you know, not do anything inappropriate, not do anything improper, certainly not do anything unlawful,” he said. “But to the extent that they want to have a fight, let’s do it. You want to rumble, let’s rumble. You want to have a knife fight, we’re gonna do it.”


Nice bloody language you got there, Eric. Would you like to elaborate? Will there be rust on the knife and will it be dull? Will you sever an artery and draw gushing blood and will bits of flesh fly and stick to the wall? Which artery do you want, pal? Will you leave your victims in the street or take them to the hospital emergency room? And while you are at it, will you throw in the use of a Fast and Furious scandal gun, which of course happened on your watch during the Obama administration?


Such irony. A statement like this, which is loaded with thuggishness and reflects the interior mindset of the speaker, is actually coming out of a former Democratic Attorney General, America’s top lawman. Which gives a recrudescent whiff of just how Democrats would govern if let into power again.


The vague opening disclaimer of not doing anything ‘inappropriate,’ of course, is Holder’s way of saying: ‘Nice house you got there, be a shame if anything happened to it…’ The rest of the language is sheer violence.


Nobody in the GOP is talking about knife fights against Democratic opponents. They are having a political competition instead of a knife fight.


Holder just wants the knife fight.


The whole statement calls to mind President Obama’s campaign statement about knife fights, one of the very few things he ever said that was memorable:


Obama also joked about rubbing out his opponents #TheChicagoWay:”If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” #Obama, Philly, 2008


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What’s going on here? Well, remember, Eric Holder is running for president as I argued here. Obviously, he is trying to whip up the vote, and it’s a given he’s trying to rouse the black base of the Democratic Party. Democrats know they can’t win elections without energizing nearly all black voters as they did with the election of President Obama. So Holder is pressing his advantage as a nominally black candidate (out in the Caribbean, where is family is from, he would not be considered black at all, given his light skin.) and it’s pretty disgusting that he considers that voter base responsive to a thuggish appeal. Obviously, he wants to show presumably them, and the rest of the rage-Democrats, still steaming at the election of President Trump, that he’s a fighter.


But it won’t fool all of them and the rest of us can only see an arrogant elitist who likes to thumb his nose at the law. What a gift he is for the Democrats, doing his part through his thugspeak to tamp down the Democrats’ blue wave and remind us all of how Democrats really govern.


So much for the soft moderate blue wave of Democrats sweeping special elections these days.


The real Democrats – the dinosaurs, the elitists, the detesters of deplorables, the Chicago politics-types, and the arrogant – are back – none more obvious than Eric Holder, who offered this violent language for his political opponents. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports:


“We have to be ready to, you know, not do anything inappropriate, not do anything improper, certainly not do anything unlawful,” he said. “But to the extent that they want to have a fight, let’s do it. You want to rumble, let’s rumble. You want to have a knife fight, we’re gonna do it.”


Nice bloody language you got there, Eric. Would you like to elaborate? Will there be rust on the knife and will it be dull? Will you sever an artery and draw gushing blood and will bits of flesh fly and stick to the wall? Which artery do you want, pal? Will you leave your victims in the street or take them to the hospital emergency room? And while you are at it, will you throw in the use of a Fast and Furious scandal gun, which of course happened on your watch during the Obama administration?


Such irony. A statement like this, which is loaded with thuggishness and reflects the interior mindset of the speaker, is actually coming out of a former Democratic Attorney General, America’s top lawman. Which gives a recrudescent whiff of just how Democrats would govern if let into power again.


The vague opening disclaimer of not doing anything ‘inappropriate,’ of course, is Holder’s way of saying: ‘Nice house you got there, be a shame if anything happened to it…’ The rest of the language is sheer violence.


Nobody in the GOP is talking about knife fights against Democratic opponents. They are having a political competition instead of a knife fight.


Holder just wants the knife fight.


The whole statement calls to mind President Obama’s campaign statement about knife fights, one of the very few things he ever said that was memorable:


Obama also joked about rubbing out his opponents #TheChicagoWay:”If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” #Obama, Philly, 2008


— John Kass (@John_Kass) August 10, 2016 “>http://




 


What’s going on here? Well, remember, Eric Holder is running for president as I argued here. Obviously, he is trying to whip up the vote, and it’s a given he’s trying to rouse the black base of the Democratic Party. Democrats know they can’t win elections without energizing nearly all black voters as they did with the election of President Obama. So Holder is pressing his advantage as a nominally black candidate (out in the Caribbean, where is family is from, he would not be considered black at all, given his light skin.) and it’s pretty disgusting that he considers that voter base responsive to a thuggish appeal. Obviously, he wants to show presumably them, and the rest of the rage-Democrats, still steaming at the election of President Trump, that he’s a fighter.


But it won’t fool all of them and the rest of us can only see an arrogant elitist who likes to thumb his nose at the law. What a gift he is for the Democrats, doing his part through his thugspeak to tamp down the Democrats’ blue wave and remind us all of how Democrats really govern.






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