Category: US Politics

Polls show a fast-growing voter trend away from Joe Biden and towards President Trump’s reelection.

The ‘why’ of this is simple — and predicted by many knowing people.

Basically, it is that we have reached “wake-up time.” People, including those with at most a passing interest in politics, are now starting to seriously consider the choices in November’s election.

Simply put, how can anyone actually support what the Democrats have been offering? Crime and violence. Rioting and looting. Disintegration of the family. Rewarding irresponsibility. Punishing policemen and women who do what they have to do to defend themselves while arresting repeat criminals who have in some cases been preying on society for years. Outsourcing American jobs and making that profitable for a Democratic Party candidate’s family members. Keeping schools closed. Keeping businesses closed — with exceptions for, again, politicians and their own families. Endless nastiness. And the pitting of one American against another — against our own neighbors!

And along with all that, there is now the growingly obvious contradiction between what people see with their own eyes and what the media tells them is supposedly happening. There’s the realization that most of the “news” is a twisted lie. This, while real news, important and often uplifting stories (such as the winding down of foreign wars and entanglements and the start of true peace in the Middle East) are being ignored and buried.

America has worked for nearly two hundred and fifty years because most people are not only “smart,” but often way smarter in a practical way than those who pride themselves in their own elite “smartness.” And indeed, those supposedly “elite” people are often shown to be quite stupid.

Open eyes show all the above. And that the division that has already taken place shows a dividing line between failure, widespread poverty, devolving morality and broken communities — many of them large (our nation’s cities!) and other communities — those outside of the grip of the experts and the “woke” and the “now” — that are peaceful, prosperous, safe and, despite all the world’s problems, still relatively joy-filled.

You see this, don’t you? So do I. How can anyone not see it unless they simply refuse to?

And so it is happening.

And once again this leaves me to say it: Smile, people. Smile. And keep busy and open and frank about who is on America’s side, and who simply isn’t.

The latter these days sadly includes most of the Democratic Party.

And thus, we shall and must soon vote them out.

Image credit: FogCityMidge, via Twitter, screen shot

Polls show a fast-growing voter trend away from Joe Biden and towards President Trump’s reelection.

The ‘why’ of this is simple — and predicted by many knowing people.

Basically, it is that we have reached “wake-up time.” People, including those with at most a passing interest in politics, are now starting to seriously consider the choices in November’s election.

Simply put, how can anyone actually support what the Democrats have been offering? Crime and violence. Rioting and looting. Disintegration of the family. Rewarding irresponsibility. Punishing policemen and women who do what they have to do to defend themselves while arresting repeat criminals who have in some cases been preying on society for years. Outsourcing American jobs and making that profitable for a Democratic Party candidate’s family members. Keeping schools closed. Keeping businesses closed — with exceptions for, again, politicians and their own families. Endless nastiness. And the pitting of one American against another — against our own neighbors!

And along with all that, there is now the growingly obvious contradiction between what people see with their own eyes and what the media tells them is supposedly happening. There’s the realization that most of the “news” is a twisted lie. This, while real news, important and often uplifting stories (such as the winding down of foreign wars and entanglements and the start of true peace in the Middle East) are being ignored and buried.

America has worked for nearly two hundred and fifty years because most people are not only “smart,” but often way smarter in a practical way than those who pride themselves in their own elite “smartness.” And indeed, those supposedly “elite” people are often shown to be quite stupid.

Open eyes show all the above. And that the division that has already taken place shows a dividing line between failure, widespread poverty, devolving morality and broken communities — many of them large (our nation’s cities!) and other communities — those outside of the grip of the experts and the “woke” and the “now” — that are peaceful, prosperous, safe and, despite all the world’s problems, still relatively joy-filled.

You see this, don’t you? So do I. How can anyone not see it unless they simply refuse to?

And so it is happening.

And once again this leaves me to say it: Smile, people. Smile. And keep busy and open and frank about who is on America’s side, and who simply isn’t.

The latter these days sadly includes most of the Democratic Party.

And thus, we shall and must soon vote them out.

Image credit: FogCityMidge, via Twitter, screen shot

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death didn’t just leave a vacant seat on the Supreme Court. It left a court evenly divided Supreme Court between four leftist justices and four strict constructionist justices. With his usual acumen and clarity, Ted Cruz explains why an evenly divided court is a recipe for a civil breakdown.

We can all understand the reasonableness of having an uneven number of Supreme Court justices: It substantially diminishes the likelihood of a stalemate. However, Ginsburg’s death means that, as we head into the most contentious election process in American history, the Court has eight justices. Worse, the justices are split evenly along ideological lines.

On the one side are the so conservative justices. In this context, conservative means that they believe that the Constitution as written, and as its authors intended it to be understood, must be the single-most-important document in any judicial analysis. Next in order of importance for analysis are acts of Congress, again to be interpreted as Congress intended when it passed the documents.

Regarding that last analytical metric, Justice Gorsuch failed horribly when he imputed transgenderism to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. However, despite his monumental slip-up, Gorsuch has mostly been a reliably “strict constructionist.” The other strict constructionists on the Court are Justices Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh.

On the other side are the justices who, like Ginsburg herself, believe that their responsibility is to achieve certain political ends that align with “justice” and “equality,” as those terms are defined in the leftist rubric. They’re the judges who, when the Constitution proves unhelpful, will look to Europe or Africa for “norms” upon which they can rely. There’s always a lot of navel-gazing going on. Their decisions are often fraudulent and almost invariably turgidly written. The leftist justices are Kagan, Sotomayor, Breyer, and Roberts.

You may be wondering why Roberts is on the list, given that he was a George W. Bush nominee. It’s true that, in matters that are inconsequential to American governance, Roberts is a reasonably conservative justice. However, on any matter that is of great moment to the left, Roberts will invariably side with the leftist justices. Nobody knows why although there are a lot of theories ranging from his being a RINO to his being blackmailed.

We already know that the fecal matter will hit the fan after this election because the Democrats have told us that it will. Unless Biden wins on election day (which he won’t), Democrats will take the matter to the streets and the courts. They’re already laying the groundwork.

Leftist legislators and judges across the country are ensuring that votes can be cast by mail and counted after the election. The voting and counting will stop only after the late-mailed, late-discovered, and late-counted ballots have pushed Biden over the top. Meanwhile, the left’s BLM and Antifa foot soldiers will be escalating the domestic terrorism we’ve witnessed over the summer.

In that chaos, imagine a stalemated Supreme Court. That’s what Sen. Cruz warned against when he spoke to Sean Hannity immediately after the news broke that Ginsburg had died:

I believe that the president should, next week, nominate a successor to the court. And I think it is critical that the Senate takes up and confirms that successor before Election Day.

There’s going to be enormous pressure from the media. There’s going to be enormous pressure from Democrats to delay filling this vacancy. But this election, this nomination is why Donald Trump was elected. This confirmation is why the voters voted for a Republican majority in the Senate.

And I’ll tell you one reason in particular, Sean, why it is tremendously important that, not only does the nomination happen next week, but that the confirmation happen before election day. Because Democrats and Joe Biden have made clear they intend to challenge this election. They intend to fight the legitimacy of the election. As you know, Hillary Clinton has told Joe Biden, “under no circumstances should you concede, you should challenge this election.” and we cannot have election day come and go with a 4-4 court.

A 4-4 court that is equally divided cannot decide anything. And I think we risk a constitutional crisis if we do not have a nine-justice Supreme Court, particularly when there is such a risk of a contested litigation and a contested election.

Sen. Cruz is right. It is to be hoped that people like Lisa Murkowski and Lindsey Graham, who seem squeamish about voting before the election, or Mitt Romney, who’s petty enough to destroy America to feed his ego, understand that it’s up to them to stop what could be a total civil war.

The other reason, of course, to confirm a new justice instantly is that it removes the Supreme Court as a hot-button topic in the election. The Supreme Court should be the least political branch of our government because the justices are not elected, and they serve for life. By getting a new justice seated quickly, the Court will (one hopes) recede into the background where it belongs.

(One more thing: Contrary to what Cruz says in the video below, and others are saying, there’s nothing historic about being the second female justice on the Supreme Court. The only one who matters historically is Sandra Day O’Connor, a Republican.)

Image: Ted Cruz talks to Sean Hannity; Twitter screengrab

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death didn’t just leave a vacant seat on the Supreme Court. It left a court evenly divided Supreme Court between four leftist justices and four strict constructionist justices. With his usual acumen and clarity, Ted Cruz explains why an evenly divided court is a recipe for a civil breakdown.

We can all understand the reasonableness of having an uneven number of Supreme Court justices: It substantially diminishes the likelihood of a stalemate. However, Ginsburg’s death means that, as we head into the most contentious election process in American history, the Court has eight justices. Worse, the justices are split evenly along ideological lines.

On the one side are the so conservative justices. In this context, conservative means that they believe that the Constitution as written, and as its authors intended it to be understood, must be the single-most-important document in any judicial analysis. Next in order of importance for analysis are acts of Congress, again to be interpreted as Congress intended when it passed the documents.

Regarding that last analytical metric, Justice Gorsuch failed horribly when he imputed transgenderism to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. However, despite his monumental slip-up, Gorsuch has mostly been a reliably “strict constructionist.” The other strict constructionists on the Court are Justices Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh.

On the other side are the justices who, like Ginsburg herself, believe that their responsibility is to achieve certain political ends that align with “justice” and “equality,” as those terms are defined in the leftist rubric. They’re the judges who, when the Constitution proves unhelpful, will look to Europe or Africa for “norms” upon which they can rely. There’s always a lot of navel-gazing going on. Their decisions are often fraudulent and almost invariably turgidly written. The leftist justices are Kagan, Sotomayor, Breyer, and Roberts.

You may be wondering why Roberts is on the list, given that he was a George W. Bush nominee. It’s true that, in matters that are inconsequential to American governance, Roberts is a reasonably conservative justice. However, on any matter that is of great moment to the left, Roberts will invariably side with the leftist justices. Nobody knows why although there are a lot of theories ranging from his being a RINO to his being blackmailed.

We already know that the fecal matter will hit the fan after this election because the Democrats have told us that it will. Unless Biden wins on election day (which he won’t), Democrats will take the matter to the streets and the courts. They’re already laying the groundwork.

Leftist legislators and judges across the country are ensuring that votes can be cast by mail and counted after the election. The voting and counting will stop only after the late-mailed, late-discovered, and late-counted ballots have pushed Biden over the top. Meanwhile, the left’s BLM and Antifa foot soldiers will be escalating the domestic terrorism we’ve witnessed over the summer.

In that chaos, imagine a stalemated Supreme Court. That’s what Sen. Cruz warned against when he spoke to Sean Hannity immediately after the news broke that Ginsburg had died:

I believe that the president should, next week, nominate a successor to the court. And I think it is critical that the Senate takes up and confirms that successor before Election Day.

There’s going to be enormous pressure from the media. There’s going to be enormous pressure from Democrats to delay filling this vacancy. But this election, this nomination is why Donald Trump was elected. This confirmation is why the voters voted for a Republican majority in the Senate.

And I’ll tell you one reason in particular, Sean, why it is tremendously important that, not only does the nomination happen next week, but that the confirmation happen before election day. Because Democrats and Joe Biden have made clear they intend to challenge this election. They intend to fight the legitimacy of the election. As you know, Hillary Clinton has told Joe Biden, “under no circumstances should you concede, you should challenge this election.” and we cannot have election day come and go with a 4-4 court.

A 4-4 court that is equally divided cannot decide anything. And I think we risk a constitutional crisis if we do not have a nine-justice Supreme Court, particularly when there is such a risk of a contested litigation and a contested election.

Sen. Cruz is right. It is to be hoped that people like Lisa Murkowski and Lindsey Graham, who seem squeamish about voting before the election, or Mitt Romney, who’s petty enough to destroy America to feed his ego, understand that it’s up to them to stop what could be a total civil war.

The other reason, of course, to confirm a new justice instantly is that it removes the Supreme Court as a hot-button topic in the election. The Supreme Court should be the least political branch of our government because the justices are not elected, and they serve for life. By getting a new justice seated quickly, the Court will (one hopes) recede into the background where it belongs.

(One more thing: Contrary to what Cruz says in the video below, and others are saying, there’s nothing historic about being the second female justice on the Supreme Court. The only one who matters historically is Sandra Day O’Connor, a Republican.)

Image: Ted Cruz talks to Sean Hannity; Twitter screengrab

Police in Thessaloniki arrested 51 far-left Antifa anarchist extremists who attacked officers following a demonstration in the city on Wednesday night.

The arrests came after the anarchist extremists held a demonstration in the city and then caused damage at the White Tower, a former Byzantine fortification along the harbourfront that has since been converted into a museum.

Police attempted to get the anarchists under control and were met with force as the group attacked the officers with bats and other weapons, Greek newspaper Proto Thema reports.

Officers arrested 45 men and six women. Police also confiscated 28 stick weapons, 15 helmets, a Swiss Army knife, and a metal baton.

The arrests come after a wave of far-left Antifa activity in Thessaloniki in recent months and after the raiding of a squat occupied by anarchist activists last month. Officers seized weapons along with explosives after clearing out the squat, known as “Terra Incognita”.

It is believed that extremists were using Terra Incognita as a base of operations to plot attacks against both police and political opponents. Investigators were also able to seize a financial ledger containing information on those who had donated to the Antifa group.

In May, far-left extremists attempted to set off a bomb at the home of former minister of state Dimitris Stamatis in the Kalamariá area of Thessaloniki. A 27-year-old man was caught with improvised explosives hidden in his backpack before he could detonate the device.

His alleged partner, a 28-year-old woman, was also arrested after allegedly taking the role of a lookout for the suspected bomber. Police managed to seize a tear gas canister, four homemade explosive devices, plastic bottles full of flammable material, and electronic devices after raiding residences connected to the pair.

Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at @TomlinsonCJ or email at ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com

The child porn-loving media are doing two underhanded things to defend Netflix’s Cuties: 1) claim only conspiracy theorists are attacking the movie, and 2) refuse to accurately and completely describe the actual content in Cuties.

The conspiracy theory trope, which I addressed this week, is especially dumb and disingenuous. Apparently, the right-wing conspiracy works like this: America’s political, media, and Hollywood elites are all kid diddlers.

Now I don’t believe that any more than I believe all Catholic priests are kid diddlers. What’s more, my mind — what’s left of it — is an open book on these here Inter-Web-Dot-Nets, and you won’t find me anywhere furthering those conspiracies.

What I do know is that if I were worried about conspiracy theories attacking my elite tribe as a mob of child diddlers, I would maybe not have my elite tribe fire off countless hot takes defending a movie that will serve forevermore as yankity-yank material for every child diddler with access to the Internet.

But if you think about it, that’s really all part of the left’s plan…

Step 1: Produce indefensible soft-core child porn.

Step 2: Defend indefensible soft-core child porn.

Step 3: Attack TrumpTards opposed to soft-core child porn as conspiracy theorists.

See, we’re in a no-win situation. The trap set is so that we either say nothing and burn in Hell for eternity for enabling evil against children, or we’re attacked as conspiracy theorists.

Personally, I’d rather be smeared as a conspiracy theorist than defend child porn. But that’s just me and my bourgeois value system.

What’s so fascinating and revealing about this is how the media are forced to lie in order to defend Cuties. A lie of omission is still a lie, and almost all of these oh-so-sophisticated defenses of Cuties refuse to inform readers of just what these 11-yeard-old characters do and what the camera does to them.

Hey, if you’re going to defend Cuties, you not only have to detail and defend all the wide-open, 11-year-old crotch shots, you haveto  defend the motive for including those shots looooong after the point’s been made.

An honest person would say to their readers: here’s all the disturbing content; here’s how the director exploited a group of 12- and 13-year-old actresses; here are all the sophisticated reasons that make it okay to do that.

But no one’s willing to detail the truth because they know if they do, everyone will know they’re defending the indefensible.

Oh, sure, some allude to the content — how it’s “daring” and “provocative.” But that means nothing.

Let me give you a perfect example from far-left NBC News:

It is, annoyingly, important to state plainly that “Cuties” does not portray child abuse, it does not glorify or countenance pedophilia in any way, and it does not “sexualize” its characters[.]

[…]

The backlash to the film has, however, twisted the deliberately provocative choreography these girls perform into a problem[.]

Does not sexualize….

Deliberately provocative choreography…

That’s it… That’s all whoever’s dumb enough to get their news from NBC is allowed to know about what the little girls do in Cuties.

Why not lay out the facts?

I’ll tell you why not. Because the facts are this…

On countless occasions, the camera in Cuties lingers on 11-year-olds shaking their moneymakers in tighter-than-tight short shorts. On countless occasions, the camera in Cuties reveals 11-year-olds in short shorts spreading their legs wide open. On countless occasions, 11-years-olds dry hump the floor, put their fingers in their mouths, and pout while sticking their backsides all the way out in a pair of Daisy Dukes.

Why not inform your readers of that truth and then fire off your bullshit about how Cuties “does not sexualize,” how all of that only adds up to “deliberately provocative choreography.”

You can’t.

Which is why these liars won’t.

Get a load of the far-left Slate, which attacked little ol’ yours truly for reporting the facts:

[T]he diligence with which Nolte jotted down every purported crotch shot, at least until he “lost count after five,” speaks to its own kind of not-entirely-uncreepy obsession.

Sorry to offend. Just figured that if I were going to publicly report and criticize something, I had a responsibility to explain why.

Slate isn’t angry because I lied or exaggerated.

Slate is angry because I told the truth.

The far-left Washington Post, the same Washington Post that handed its religion coverage to an occultist without telling us, has defended Cuties more times than I can count. It’s like a cottage industry over there.

Here’s one WaPo description:

Critics of “Cuties” are zeroing in on images from the trailer and the poster, which show a group of 11-year-olds in blue costumes, shorts, dancing suggestively.

Here’s another, the closest I could find to the truth:

The dance routines become progressively more explicit and the camera filming them is unflinching. One minute-long sequence, set to upbeat music as the girls finalize their routine, includes a series of closeups on the girls’ gyrating thighs, butts and stomachs.

Weird how there’s no mention of at least a half-dozen open-wide crotch shots.

Here’s a third:

I can see how viewers might be turned off by the way Doucouré shoots the dance routines, using close-ups of her young actors’ bodies both to show us their abilities as dancers and to make us deliberately queasy.

Here’s the fourth but by no means last WaPo defense afraid to spill the details:

[D]irector Maïmouna Doucouré focuses her camera on the girls’ posteriors a bit too much for my taste as they learn their provocative dance moves.

That said, however, it requires a willful ignorance of the film itself to claim that these scenes sexualize the girls involved.

Oh yeah, cuz we rubes are totally missing the nuance found in more than a half-dozen wide-open crotch shots.

Here’s the far-left New Yorker, which doesn’t bother to offer readers any details, but there is plenty of this:

“Cuties” is a film of the center, and it’s aesthetically of the center—it depicts the unconsidered without advancing to the realm of the subjective, and it doesn’t allow its young protagonists much discourse, outer or inner. It’s not a movie of introspection and self-consideration; it’s more a story of the rule than of the exception, of what’s unduly extraordinary about the effort to live an ordinary life.

[…]

Its underlying subject is the connection of personal identity to public identity—and the urgency of transforming the very notion of French identity, of changing the idea of who’s considered the representative face of France.

My Pompous Ass Translator needs new batteries, so I have no idea what any of that means.

RogerEbert.com:

…watching the younger generation gyrate and twerk, biting their lips or their nail in a suggestive way.

I think you get the point, and my point is this…

If you’re going to defend Cuties, defend it.

Don’t water the truth down. Tell your readers the truth and defend it.

If you want to launch a defense of countless shots of barely-clothed 11-year-olds spreading their legs wide open, I’ll hear you out.

But when you hide the truth, when you refuse to acknowledge and directly address the facts and truth, it tells me you can’t defend the movie but still are — which makes me wonder why. 

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If it were up to the radical left Democrats that surround presidential candidate Joe Biden, criminals would be “running all over” Minnesota, President Donald Trump said Friday at his rally in Bemidji.

“Only by voting for me are you going to save — I hate to say this — I did it with your iron ore. I did it with some other things, and I’ll do it for you again. I’ll do it for you again, but if you vote for me. I’m the difference and I’m the wall,” Trump told the crowd.

“You know the wall that we’re building on the southern border? I’m your wall between the American dream and chaos,” he added.

If Biden is elected in November, he will turn Minnesota “into a refugee camp,” according to President Trump:

Think of it, 700 percent increase. So you’re not happy now … Seven hundred percent increase is what they have, in the manifesto. Now maybe they don’t honor it, but I would say they’ll go substantially higher than that number. Biden will overwhelm your children’s schools, overcrowd their classrooms, and inundate your hospitals.

“Biden has even pledged to terminate our travel ban of jihadist regions … jihadist regions. They’ve already been doing that to you, haven’t they? Opening the floodgates to radical Islamic terrorists,” he commented.

In July, President Trump said he directed his staff to draw up a list of over 40 disastrous things Biden proposed to do if he were elected in November.

“End all travel bans, including from jihadist regions,” was number 16 on the list, according to Breitbart News.

However, President Trump said Friday that his administration is “keeping terrorists, extremists, and criminals the hell out of our country.”

“Just today, we deported, as you know very well, dozens of Somali nationals charged or convicted with very grave crimes including rape, assault, robbery, terrorism, and murder of course,” the president noted.

“These hardened criminals are back in their country where they can do all the complaining they want. And your children are much safer as a result. Thank you, President Trump. Thank you,” he concluded.