The Third Obama Term in a COVID-Battered World

The Third Obama Term in a COVID-Battered World

BY RICHARD FERNANDEZ  

A man waits for the cremation of a relative who died of COVID-19, placed near bodies of other victims, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, April 20, 2021. (AP Photo)

Although it is nowhere stated on the official platform, the main goal of Joe Biden’s domestic policy — and perhaps the prime directive of his administration — seems to be to ensure that the populist rebellion of 2016 is truly buried. The admission of the District of Columbia as the 51st state, the opening of the southern border, limitations on gun ownership, the addition of seats to the U.S. Supreme Court — all are so many stakes to be driven through its heart to make certain it never rises again. A former director of the State Department’s Office of Counterterrorism Finance and Designations likened the potential threat to al-Qaeda:

The interaction between U.S. and global far-right figures and entities goes beyond propaganda and training-related activities. It also includes operational encouragement and financing. …

The international community’s efforts to curb al-Qaeda and the Islamic State’s actions provide an important guide as policymakers, the private sector and civil society actors consider steps to counter this ascendant far-right challenge.

The Washington Post even accused Senator Ted Cruz of stooging for “the True Texas Project, even as its nativist rhetoric and divisive tactics have alienated some other conservative elected officials.” Everything boils down to:

What happens after the rebellion is turned back depends on who you talk to. But the Great Reset, a big, broad-stroke vision of the progressive coalition, is often taken as its common goal.

COVID-19 lockdowns may be gradually easing, but anxiety about the world’s social and economic prospects is only intensifying. … To achieve a better outcome, the world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions. Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed. In short, we need a “Great Reset” of capitalism.

However Wikipedia says, “according to the New York Times, the BBC, The Guardian, Le Devoir and Radio Canada” it is a “‘baseless’ conspiracy [theory] spread by American far-right groups linked to QAnon [because] newly elected U.S. President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau incorporated ideas based on a ‘reset’ in their speeches.”

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For many in the elite, 2016 felt like a near-death experience (as the 2020 election might feel to the rebels) and there is nothing either would like better than to beat back the other. However, the ultimate result of this contest depends on two things not completely within Washington’s control: the state of the economy and foreign tranquility. Whoever gets the upper hand may depend on contingent events.

Bill Clinton was fond of saying that when it came to elections it was the economy, stupid.

Judging by his unusually large budget stimulus package so early in his Administration, it would seem that Joe Biden does not subscribe to Clinton’s view. While, to be sure, Biden’s budget stimulus promises to deliver this year the U.S. economy’s best growth performance in the past fifty years, it also risks being followed by a nasty economic hangover in the run-up to next year’s November midterm congressional elections. [grammatical error fixed]

Whom will fortune favor? One analysis of the 2020 election concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic doomed Donald Trump’s re-election. “Our study examining the effect of COVID-19 cases on county-level voting in the United States shows that the pandemic led to Trump’s defeat.” The explosive spread of Covid in India and a mutant viral threat in other poor countries or a slow recovery may be constitute an equivalent Black Swan threat to the Democrats.

“The Joe Biden administration has come under intense pressure from various quarters to ship AstraZeneca, other Covid-19 vaccines and several life-saving medical supplies to India, which is witnessing a deadly surge in coronavirus cases,” writes India Today.

The New York Times writes:

India’s coronavirus second wave is rapidly sliding into a devastating crisis, with hospitals unbearably full, oxygen supplies running low, desperate people dying in line waiting to see doctors — and mounting evidence that the actual death toll is far higher than officially reported.

Each day, the government reports more than 300,000 new infections, a world record, and India is now seeing more new infections than any other country by far, almost half of all new cases in a global surge.

Joe Biden is caught between the need to crush populism and unexpected challenges like India’s. It’s a daunting problem and indeed it is hard to see how the Great Reset with its expensive vision of green energy, welfare, and global rules can shortly rise from the economically-devastated, Great Power-conflicted, disease-haunted, every-man-for-himself world of 2021.

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Rather than being anachronisms, the populist stirrings of 2016 may have in fact been prophetic; in the world of Hillary’s lost victory, Obama’s third term may be gone forever like that of crowned kings and princes. At the very least, it will take some years to rebuild. The Restoration as I wrote in December 2020 “has nowhere to go” in a lockdown-starved age.

 The main problem with returning to the way things used to be is that institutions have been too badly damaged by the pandemic and its likely aftermath to afford former practices.

Yet Washington is partying like it’s October 2016. “Biden’s Intelligence Director Vows to Put Climate at ‘Center’ of Foreign Policy,” writes the New York Times. “President Biden committed the United States to cutting emissions by half by the end of the decade at a virtual Earth Day summit.” Climate Change. Earth Day. Really?

The hubris recalls Barbara Tuchman’s famous cavalcade of doomed royalty in her book The Guns of August. “Together they represented seventy nations in the greatest assemblage of royalty and rank ever gathered in one place and, of its kind, the last. The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history’s clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendor never to be seen again.”

No plan survives contact with the future. Will the plan to beat down the populist rebellion be upborne by the tide of coming events or hit it head on like a freight train?

https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2021/04/25/the-third-obama-term-in-a-covid-battered-world-n1442100?utm_source=pjmedia&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=333548a2571394d78f5984884e55069e&recip=28668535

Where life is normal

Where life is normal

Just outside of city centers the pandemic is hardly visible

Commonwealth Classics hosts a car swap in Marshall, Virginia (Amber Athey)

Left-wing magazine Slate took the stunning and brave step Saturday of publishing an article outlining the case for no longer wearing masks outside.

‘As we’ve come to know more about the virus, as vaccinations are ramping up, and as we’re trying to figure out how to live with some level of COVID in a sustainable way, masking up outside when you’re at most briefly crossing paths with people is starting to feel barely understandable,’ the author reasoned.

Mask enthusiasts melted down in response, insisting that Slate‘s article was ‘irresponsible‘, ‘going to get people killed‘ and ‘misleading‘. Others celebrated the article as ‘a good sign of progress‘. A Harvard infectious disease specialist asserted, ‘I am generally a hawk about maintaining rules with a clear benefit. Outdoor masking has notable costs and really no evidence of benefits.’

Meanwhile, the rest of us normal people thought, ‘wait a second, you guys were still wearing masks outside?’

Yes, outside of the Twitter bubble and large city centers where mask virtue-signaling reigns supreme, no sane person has been wearing a mask outdoors for months. The science doesn’t support it. As Slate noted in its late-to-the-party piece, the chances of catching COVID during a brief moment passing someone else on the sidewalk are lower than getting struck by lightning.

Venture just an hour outside of the city, however, and life is shockingly normal. On Saturday morning, I drove with friends to Marshall, Virginia for a classic car parts swap. Buyers and sellers mingled with one another in the lot, complimenting each other’s rigs, listening to classic rock, and just enjoying the bright, crisp day — all without masks. The only person who stayed consistently masked up outside was the crunchy coffee boy selling overpriced cups of joe and bagels.Still, leftists persisted because they didn’t dare upset their woke neighbors who believe a ‘culture of safety‘ is more important than a return to normalcy. In downtown Washington DC, bikers and runners double mask and veer into the middle of the street rather than risk passing another pedestrian in close quarters. In Arlington, Virginia, I still spot people wearing masks while driving in their cars or sitting alone in parks. Refusing to comply often means getting the stink eye from a still terrified traverser.

Parts for sale at an auto swap in Marshall, Virginia (Amber Athey)

The same was the case as we walked around Middleburg, Virginia ahead of brunch at a local restaurant or when we sat around a fire pit at a winery where large groups held bachelorette and birthday parties. Compliance with local health regulations existed insofar as restaurants and shops played along to avoid being snitched on to the authorities and subsequently shut down, but it was clear that it was merely a charade. I was never asked to put on a mask when walking to a table, getting up to use a restroom, or otherwise lingering indoors. Outdoors there was never even a question that we should be expected to wear a mask.

Mainstream and left-wing media journalists often express horror at the freedom being displayed in places like Florida and Texas as if they are foreign lands, even though there have been no accompanying spikes in COVID-related deaths. If only they knew that the same indifference to draconian lockdowns and mask mandates was occurring less than 50 miles outside their front door.

Written by:

Amber Athey

https://spectator.us/topic/life-normal-covid-virginia-dc-masks/

Don's Tuesday Column

    THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson Red Bluff Daily News   4/27/2021

   Enviros in error, never in doubt

Whether it’s Earth Day, May Day (“celebrating” Communism), or the day in 1619 when 20 or so slaves were sold from a Portuguese ship (one of a 36-ship fleet carrying many thousands of Ndongo slaves to Latin America), that was seized by pirates who landed in pre-United States North America—significant events in the leftist/progressive calendar are built on erroneous, but never doubted, foundations.

 Consider the verdict in ex-officer Derek Chauvin’s trial, wherein “reasonable doubt” is the standard for judgement. Reasonable people can, in fact, have doubts 1) that the legal standards for murder or manslaughter were met; 2) that the jury was sufficiently free of outside intimidation to dare give the “presumption of innocence” to Chauvin; or 3) that courts of appeal will ignore the certainty that rioting, looting, arson and loss of life will follow “protests” over any reversal of verdicts.

A fair-minded person could easily see that keeping the trial in Minneapolis denied Chauvin fairness, or that—as liberal constitutional lawyer Alan Dershowitz asserted—"Maxine Waters Used KKK Tactics to Intimidate Chauvin Jury” (pjmedia.com, 4/22). “The Klan would march outside of courthouses and threaten all kinds of reprisals if the jury ever dared convict a white person or acquit a black person.”

Remember that the Democrat Party was the party of slavery (the Republican Party was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery), and held all political power in the South. They enforced Jim Crow laws, the disenfranchisement, the segregation and the disarmament of “Negroes” (acceptable, legal term then; southern Dems used another n-word). Without large Republican support, African-Americans would not have seen Civil Rights laws enacted.

Before writing to lambaste and demonize me, do the honest thing and look up Mr. Dershowitz’s article by title. Also, read Joy Pullmann’s piece, “There’s No Way Americans Can Trust The Jury’s Chauvin Verdict; A fair trial might have come to the same conclusion. But we'll never know, and never be able to trust this outcome, because America's left purposefully made a fair trial impossible,” (Thefederalist.com, 4/21).

I am also sympathetic to conservative firebrand and lawyer, Kurt Schlichter’s conclusion: “This Trial Was A Disgrace.” If incisive, informed legal analysis is desired, see John Hinderaker’s “Thoughts on the Chauvin Trial and Verdict.”

Democrats have eagerly supported the violent, hateful “antifa-BLM” movement; in June, 2020, at the height of rioting, looting and arson, “House Dems Unanimously Block Resolution Condemning Violence and Rioting; Resolution also decried efforts to defund the police,” by Collin Anderson (6/25/2021, Freebeacon.com). Rep. Greg Steube’s (R.-Fla.) resolution condemned George Floyd’s killing, supported peaceful protesters and decried “the deliberate targeting of law enforcement officers.”

You may say Dems just want “police reform,” “reimagining law enforcement” and “equity” (all empty, hypocritical euphemisms). “Don't Forget: Democrats Crushed a Senate Police Reform Bill Because They Didn't Like the Black Man Proposing It,” by Kira Davis (4/20). Last June, Senator Tim Scott (R.-S.C.) proposed a reform bill designed to curb police brutality; it was not only voted down but also not even acknowledged by the media. The Dem/media cabal didn’t want a Black Republican to get any credit for a serious proposal to help solve the biggest complaint they had.

So without doubt are the levers of (Democrat-run) government agencies, that the Postal Service has tasked itself—with statutory authority, technical capability and police powers—to “quietly run a program that tracks and collects Americans’ social media posts, including those about planned protests, according to a document obtained by Yahoo News.

“The details of the surveillance effort, known as iCOP, or Internet Covert Operations Program, have not previously been made public. The work involves having analysts trawl through social media sites to look for what the document describes as ‘inflammatory’ postings and then sharing that information across government agencies.” See “Lee Smith Nails It Again, The US Postal Service Surveillance Scandal is Targeting Trump Supporters, Not All Americans,” (with 5-minute video, Sundance, 4/23, Theconservativetreehouse.com)

Erroneous mask mandates and lockdowns are also exempt from doubt and criticism; for another column.

“Enviros always in error, never in doubt” would describe Earth Day predictions over the decades. Before allowing your, or your children’s, anxiety—over new predictions of environmental doom—to lead to stress, consider the universal failure of “green” projections: “(15) Failed Earth Day predictions of 1970. The reason you shouldn’t believe Earth Day predictions of 2009,” (4/22/2009);

“Earth Day Turns 50; Half a century later, a look back at the forecasters who got the future wrong—and the one who got it right,” by Ronald Bailey (5/2020, reason.com); “History Confirms Democrat’s 1988 Senate Global Warming Hearing Got Everything Wrong from Start to Finish,” (Larry Hamlin, wattsupwiththat.com, 4/22/2021).

A 2017 Amazon bestseller, “Inconvenient Facts; The science that Al Gore doesn’t want you to know,” by Gregory Wrightstone, was updated for “Earth Day 2020—Celebrating 50 years of failed forecasts”:

“By 1985 city dwellers will need to wear gas masks; By 1989: 4 billion people will die. By 2000: England won’t exist; No crude oil; 75-80% of all species extinct; Entire nations gone; Civilization will end. 50 million climate refugees by 2010; another 50 million by 2020. Life expectancy decreases by 42 years.”

Reality: “Air pollution, deserts, wildfires, tornados, infant mortality, extreme weather-related deaths, temperature-linked deaths—all declined. Vegetation increased; polar bear population doubled; life expectancy increased 30% to 78.8 (U.S.).” Inconvenientfacts.xyz: “Wrightstone presents the science to assess the basis of the threatened Thermageddon.”

Not to be left out of the climate nuttery, Time’s cover: “Climate is Everything—How the Pandemic can lead us to a better, greener world.” Being a “Green lefty” means never having to admit errors, and never undoing government policies or power based on said errors.

A Surprising Number of Republicans Disapprove of Chauvin Verdict. This Is Probably Why

A Surprising Number of Republicans Disapprove of Chauvin Verdict. This Is Probably Why

Scott Morefield

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While Americans overwhelmingly approve of the guilty-on-all-counts verdict for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, to the tune of 77 percent, a new poll showed a surprising number of Republicans disagreeing with the majority consensus. 

A Morning Consult poll showed over three-quarters of all participants "strongly" or "somewhat" approving of the jury's Wednesday decision, which found Chauvin guilty of third-degree murder, second-degree unintentional murder, and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd, a tragedy that sparked months of demonstrations and violent riots all across America's major cities.

However, opinions differed somewhat along political and racial lines.

Mediaite reports:

The views of White (75% approve, 16% disapprove) and Hispanic (78% approve, 13% disapprove) tracked closely with the overall response, while 91 percent of Black respondents approve of the verdict, versus 6 percent who disapprove.

But disapproval of the verdict was highest among conservative political subgroups. A full 29 percent of Republicans disapprove of the verdict, twice that of respondents overall, and about six times as many as the 5 percent of Democrats who disapprove.

The mainstream media will doubtless play that 29 percent as 'evidence' that too many Republicans favor police getting away with the murder of black people, but as is always the case with such narratives, there's more to the story. From what I've seen, conservatives angry at the verdict aren't saying that Chauvin should have walked entirely, but are instead taking issue with the political nature of the trial, especially the sense that a not guilty verdict on any of the counts would have resulted in far more death and destruction than a potentially overcharged man spending the rest of his life in prison.

Townhall senior columnist Kurt Schlichter makes the case in this column:

What happened here? Well, they piled appellate issue on the appellate issue in a towering pile of errors that would, by all rights, lead a real court of appeals to toss this case back for a retrial.

The judge refused to change the venue. He made the case be tried in a city whose inhabitants set it aflame. Seems legit.

The judge refused to sequester the jury, making them pinkie swear to ignore the Class 5 hurricane of media attention. That’ll work.

The city council decided to settle the wrongful death case right during the trial. What a coinkydink.

Minneapolis’s goofy mayor demanded a conviction. Great.

Minnesota’s governor did too. Awesome

The loathsome Maxine Waters – as part of the Army, I had to help clean up the mess she made in 1992 in LA with her “No justice, no peace” incitement – decided to encourage violence if her preferred verdict didn’t come down. Spectacular.

The leftist scumbags did their part, splashing pig’s blood on the house of someone they thought had been a defense witness for the crime of giving testimony the mob disliked. Nothing to see here.

And the media did its part, ensuring that the jurors knew they’d be doxed if they got it “wrong” (and praised if they got it “right”). Oh, the media didn’t say it expressly – but the media still made it clear.

Daily Wire's Matt Walsh wasn't a fan of the verdict either.

Neither was Ann Coulter.

This exchange between Walsh and National Review's David French displays some of the difference in thinking here between those on the right (if you can call French 'right').

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Derek Hunter

I don't envy the jury. They were placed in an impossible situation by people who should have known better. But in watching the trial, it seemed like the defense raised more than enough reasonable doubt, especially on the most serious charge. Was the verdict a foregone conclusion? The fact that they came back so quickly with guilty on all counts will likely mean that, to at least some conservatives, Derek Chauvin is now a political prisoner.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scottmorefield/2021/04/24/a-surprising-number-of-republicans-disapprove-of-chauvin-verdict-this-is-probably-why-n2588488

This 2018 portrait released by the U.S. Department of Justice shows Connecticut's U.S. Attorney John Durham. (U.S. Department of Justice via AP)

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Reminder: The Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax Was a Political Dirty Tricks Operation

Brian Cates

 

April 22, 2021 Updated: April 22, 2021

 

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The Spygate scandal has been in the national news again recently, chiefly due to a sarcastic public statement by former President of the United States Donald J. Trump.

On March 26, Trump said, “Where’s Durham? Is he a living, breathing human being? Will there ever be a Durham report?”

Trump publicly mentioning Durham has apparently resulted in mainstream media journalists suddenly deciding that the Durham special counsel’s office is worth reporting on, even if only so they can spin the usual false narratives about it.

CNN went first, followed just a few days ago by the New York Times, which published a fascinating article about how Durham’s investigation of the origins of Christopher Steele’s fake Trump dossier has led him to the Brookings Institution, an influential Washington, D.C. think tank, and a Russian researcher who used to be employed there named Igor Danchenko.

These days when much of the mainstream news media bothers to mention the Spygate scandal, they refer to the investigation that the FBI began in late July 2016, code-named “Crossfire Hurricane,” as a “counterintelligence” probe.

Well, it wasn’t. Not really. You may notice I put quotation marks around the words “counterintelligence.”

The reason I do that whenever I’m writing about the FBI’s probe of the Trump 2016 presidential campaign is because there was no real intelligence basis for that investigation. Documentary evidence has proven this.

Real counterintelligence operations are based on valid intelligence from legitimate sources. Crossfire Hurricane was not. There were no valid intelligence sources since the people who supplied the fake Trump/Russia evidence to the federal agencies turned out to be political operatives working for Hillary Clinton.

Far from being a valid counterintelligence investigation, Crossfire Hurricane was a political opposition operation making use of federal investigative and surveillance powers to attempt to find crimes while they spied on Hillary Clinton’s political opponent in the 2016 election.

That’s what I believe prosecutor John Durham is going to establish once he’s finished with his special counsel’s investigation.

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) has been saying for going on four years now that the FBI’s spying on the Trump presidential campaign—and then on the Trump administration itself—had no valid intelligence predicate. Nunes has been vindicated on that claim by declassified evidence.

And then last October the further declassification of former CIA Director John Brennan’s notes from his briefing of then-President Barack Obama in July 2016 confirmed, yet again, that Nunes is correct. None of the U.S. or foreign intelligence services provided any real intelligence evidence for starting up Crossfire Hurricane.

A screenshot of the declassified Brennan notes.

Turns out it wasn’t any substantive intelligence regarding mysterious trips or meetings had in Russia by former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, or mysterious machinations in Ukraine by former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, or Michael Cohen traipsing around Prague paying off hackers, or some supposed affair that former Trump National Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn was having with a Russian academic named Svetlana Lokhova at Cambridge University that led to the Obama FBI spying on Trump and his associates via a federal surveillance warrant.

Brennan’s presidential briefing notes revealed the likely true origin of the hoax. And the origin was exactly what many Spygate researchers had long suspected.

Not only did Brennan’s briefing notes reveal the CIA had intelligence about Clinton’s campaign staff allegedly presenting her with a plan to launch a fake narrative accusing the Trump campaign of working for Russia, the intelligence also narrowed down the progenitor of the plan to one of Clinton’s foreign policy advisers. Further, the explosive notes also gave the exact date that Clinton approved going forward with this plan: July 26, 2016.

But wait! There was more: The intelligence garnered by the CIA also disclosed the alleged reason for launching the Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax: to provide a distraction that would pull the public’s attention away from Clinton’s growing email server scandal.

Brennan’s damning briefing notes—and the memo sent to both James Comey and Peter Strzok in September 2016—proves that before the FBI went ahead and got its surveillance warrant of Carter Page in late October 2o16, then-President Barack Obama had been fully briefed by Brennan that the Clinton campaign was allegedly launching a fake Russia scandal with Trump and his close associates as the targets. Associates like Carter Page. Gen. Michael Flynn. Michael Cohen. Paul Manafort.

Obama knew this. Brennan knew. Comey. Strzok. How much did Vice President Joe Biden know?

Long before the election was held on Nov. 3, 2016, we can now see that many of the major Spygate players inside the Obama administration knew the Clinton campaign was sending out well-funded political operatives to launch a fake Russian scandal targeting Trump and his campaign associates.

These operatives approached politicized federal officials with fake stories that were then used to place the selected targets under suspicion. Then both the federal officials and the well-paid political operatives seeded the news media with strategic leaks about the targets.

It’s not a conspiracy theory to say top Obama administration people played along with this when there’s documentary evidence to support the charge.

Instead of ignoring the Clinton operatives being sent to them to push these fake Trump-Russia stories to them, Comey and others seemingly decided to play along with the hoax.

After all, Trump was a maniac, a lunatic, he was going to blow up the entire world, starting with North Korea. (It helps to remember the atmosphere of hysteria that gripped the Washington political class at the prospect of a Trump victory back before the election was held.)

And by the time Trump won the 2016 presidential election, the die was cast. It was far too late to take any of this fake evidence back. They were forced to press onward as if the Clinton-approved Trump-Russia collusion hoax was real.

When Durham finishes his investigation and shows what he and his investigators have found, I don’t believe he’ll do anything to contradict all the already publicly available evidence on Spygate.

The evidence shows what it shows. The only question at this point—and Trump was right to ask about it—is what Durham will do with it.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/reminder-the-trump-russia-collusion-hoax-was-a-political-dirty-tricks-operation_3783637.html?utm_source=Morningbrief&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mb-2021-04-24&mktids=9ded67ee55db1679eda76bbea7334b41&est=NWKokquiJSSEFtXRQt82kW4PM%2BxKN3pR48iZFu9fwzRNevnt2EXYsGNxbvbP

Stop Lying About the Derek Chauvin Trial

Stop Lying About the Derek Chauvin Trial

Wayne Allyn Root

Stop lying. Stop insulting our intelligence. I may have been born yesterday, but I wasn't born in the past 15 minutes. I'm an adult. I know when I'm being conned. Here's what really happened at the Derek Chauvin trial: A guilty man was railroaded.

I'm no fan of that former police officer. He's clearly a bad guy, a bully. When he had his knee on George Floyd's neck, he passed the line no cop should ever pass.

On the other hand, George Floyd was no hero. He was a lifelong criminal. When he died, he had just committed a crime and resisted arrest, and his body was filled with fentanyl. I have no sympathy for criminals, or drug addicts. And I always support cops. I appreciate the courage it takes to do their job. I think cops are heroes. So, it pains me to say that Derek Chauvin went too far that day.

But stop lying. Stop saying, "justice was done." Stop calling it a fair trial. It was more like a Soviet show trial. There was nothing fair about it. The verdict was clearly determined by the Black Lives Matter movement and the liberal media before the trial ever started. It wasn't based on justice; it was based on mob justice.

That jury was always going to convict Derek Chauvin of all charges, because it was THEIR lives on the line. They knew that if were to acquit Chauvin or convict him of lesser charges, they might never make it home, or the courthouse may have burned down with them inside it, or they might have had to leave the courthouse wearing bulletproof vests and be escorted home by a SWAT team and the National Guard.

Had they not convicted Chauvin, by the time they made it home, their names and addresses would have been leaked. An outraged President Biden would have made it clear they were all evil people, racists and white supremacists. Black celebrities would have tweeted out their photos. Angry, violent mobs would have surrounded their homes.

And, of course, America would have burned. Minneapolis would look like Hiroshima right now. So would New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit and most major cities.

Their lives would effectively be over. Best-case scenario, none of them would ever work again. No company could afford to keep them employed. Their children's lives at school would be ruined. They would need police cars stationed outside their homes day and night. They'd never be safe again.

Sorry, but that's not a fair trial. Derek Chauvin, bully or not, bad guy or not, guilty or not, never had a fair shot.

If all of that wasn't enough to poison the well, Rep. Maxine Waters made sure everyone knew the country would be burned down with her approval. Then, President Biden all but announced he was praying for a guilty verdict. Not too much pressure on the jurors, huh?

No, folks, those jurors did not base the verdict on evidence or justice. They were fighting for their survival. They were trying to avoid the third rail and being tarred and feathered.

Chauvin should now have the best grounds in history for an appeal to overturn his conviction, but no judge would ever overturn it, for the exact same reasons.

This is America in 2021. Mob justice rules. Police officers can't do their jobs. They have to be paralyzed with fear. They're damned if they do, damned if they don't. They must be afraid to get out of their cars. It's no surprise they're retiring and quitting in record numbers. They know no police officer will be able to get a fair trial ever again.

The next time you call the police in an emergency, understand why the officers may not be coming: There may not be any left.

https://townhall.com/columnists/wayneallynroot/2021/04/25/stop-lying-about-the-derek-chauvin-trial-n2588479

BIDEN VS. AMERICAN HISTORY

BIDEN VS. AMERICAN HISTORY

BY JOHN HINDERAKER IN BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, EDUCATION, RACE

The Biden administration is seeking to institutionalize critical race theory in American education. Thus, on Monday Biden’s Education Department promulgated a proposed rule on American History and Civics Education. The rule “proposes two priorities for the American History and Civics Education programs, including the Presidential and Congressional Academies for American History and Civics (Academies) and National Activities programs….” More broadly, it shows the direction the administration will go as it influences primary and secondary education.

That direction is basically anti-American. It seeks to inculcate a distorted version of American history in our children:

The Department recognizes that COVID-19—with its disproportionate impact on communities of color—and the ongoing national reckoning with systemic racism have highlighted the urgency of improving racial equity throughout our society, including in our education system. As Executive Order 13985 states: “Our country faces converging economic, health, and climate crises that have exposed and exacerbated inequities, while a historic movement for justice has highlighted the unbearable human costs of systemic racism. Our Nation deserves an ambitious whole-of-government equity agenda that matches the scale of the opportunities and challenges that we face.”
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For example, there is growing acknowledgement of the importance of including, in the teaching and learning of our country’s history, both the consequences of slavery, and the significant contributions of Black Americans to our society. This acknowledgement is reflected, for example, in the New York Times’ landmark “1619 Project” and in the resources of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History.[2]

As history, the 1619 Project is a bad joke. As propaganda, it is working pretty well for the Democrats.

Accordingly, schools across the country are working to incorporate anti-racist practices into teaching and learning. As the scholar Ibram X. Kendi has expressed, “[a]n antiracist idea is any idea that suggests the racial groups are equals in all their apparent differences—that there is nothing right or wrong with any racial group. Antiracist ideas argue that racist policies are the cause of racial inequities.”

So racist policies re the reason why Asian Americans earn so much more money, on the average, than whites. I would like to see the Biden administration explain those racist policies to me.

In its application, an applicant addressing this priority must describe how its proposed project incorporates teaching and learning practices that—

(a) Take into account systemic marginalization, biases, inequities, and discriminatory policy and practice in American history;

(b) Incorporate racially, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse perspectives and perspectives on the experience of individuals with disabilities;

(c) Encourage students to critically analyze the diverse perspectives of historical and contemporary media and its impacts;

(d) Support the creation of learning environments that validate and reflect the diversity, identities, and experiences of all students; and

(e) Contribute to inclusive, supportive, and identity-safe learning environments.

There is much more, but you get the drift. The idea is to mis-educate America’s youth so that they grow up hating their country and its history. This will make it easier to bring about the radical changes that the Democrats have in mind for us.

Comments on the proposed rule are open until May 19. You can see how to submit comments at the link.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/04/biden-vs-american-history.php