"Never, ever, ever; American officials do not bow. It looks like she’s been summoned to the principal’s office, and that’s exactly the optics the Chinese love." - Bradley Blakeman on Janet Yellen's seeming subservience, which mimics Obama's gesture of abject subjection when meeting foreign leaders. Another noted, "They don’t reciprocate. He even backs away to give her more space to kowtow."
Video of the Day
Do a search on YouTube for "Mark Robinson on reparations" and see the truly lunatic responses to this speech by Progressives which only serve to confirm they have no sense of reality or knowledge of history. Hat tip to Mark Foster for the clip.
Tales of The Darkside
Tucker's take on Richard Levine, poster boy for Progressives' promotion of psychoses. Levine is so crazed he considers the genital mutilation of children to be "health care".
On the Lighter Side
Breeze forwarded this cautionary video on fireworks safety; Kids, don't try this at home!
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It’s Monday, July 10th, 2023…but before we begin, consider the following forward from Jeff Foutch which exposes the true nature of Progressivism and the Deep State as Ray DiLorenzo details…
“Just as conservative courts have found in Alabama, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Tennessee, I believe that there is no legitimate state interest and no rational basis that justifies harming this very small population of children, their families, and the healthcare who care for them or for the cruel and extreme consequences imposed on children through the overt denial of healthcare by this bill.”
He also claimed the law would be a violation of the 14th Amendment and lawmakers who believe in limited government should not support the bill, which he characterized as part of a “targeted assault on children.”
Think about it: this feckless fool terms preventing the permanent maiming of children too young to vote, drink or drive as harmful, cruel and extreme “targeted assault”. How could any human being honestly conflate the genital mutilation of minors with healthcare of any variety?!? Okay…
…any sane human being!!!
And puhlease don’t attempt to feed us the canard of increased child suicide: It ain’t happenin‘…ANYWHERE!!! At least not on this planet.
So how else to explain the sudden rush to promote the psychosis which is transgenderism and the seemingly insatiable urge to irrevocably disfigure the most vulnerable in our society other than the author’s premise of the existence of a Traitor Class?
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, since we’re on the subject of the Traitor Class, the great VDH weighs in on the latest concerning perhaps its most corrupt and hypocritical representative, as he expresses what we’d respectfully suggest is the overly-optimistic belief…
“President Joe Biden, the Biden grifting conglomerate, the Department of Justice, and the FBI—under its fourth consecutive weaponized director—are in danger of subverting the American system of law…the Bidens, along with Attorney General Merrick Garland and the FBI, are treading on dangerous ground in imperiling a hallowed American tradition—one vital to the very governance and operation of the United States.
The current president of the United States, despite his monotonous calls for the well-off to “pay their fair share,” likely has deliberately connived to avoid taxes on sizable amounts of unreported, taxable foreign income.
In the case of his son, “likely” is an unneeded adverb.
By Hunter Biden’s own recent admissions and corroborating evidence, he seems not only to have schemed to hide millions of dollars in foreign shakedown profiteering, but to have set up all sorts of paywalls, firewalls, and phony “loans” to ensure auditors would take years to unravel his illegal schemes—until well after the expiration of the statute of limitations. And his criminality succeeded so well that he has permanently gotten off not paying thousands of dollars in overdue taxes.
President Biden has serially lied that he did not know anything of his son’s business dealings. That assertion is contrary to photographic evidence of him with Hunter Biden’s business associates, sworn statements from at least one former business partner, clear evidence from Hunter’s own laptop, and now recent disclosures from FBI documents and IRS whistleblower testimonies. And yet the president continues to lie, and the media continues to shrug that dads often do such things.
It is almost beyond belief, but increasingly likely, that Hunter Biden in the past conducted his illicit business over the phone in the presence, and with the complicity, of the current president himself. And the full trove of evidence is still trickling in. This sordid scenario is part of the larger Biden criminal landscape. Joe and Hunter may well have received $10 million from Chinese consortia for doing nothing other than monetizing Joe Biden’s vice presidency and his apparent trajectory to the presidency at the time.
There is no longer any doubt that Hunter Biden received fabulous amounts of money from the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. That lucre, again, was based on nothing other than the willingness of his own father, now the president, to be directed to where and how to employ his own purchased influence. Accordingly, Joe Biden is on record boasting of his own power to fire a Ukrainian prosecutor—through personal threats of withholding congressionally approved U.S. foreign aid to Ukraine. Biden was furious that Ukrainian auditors were probing too deeply into matters that now are increasingly clear to have been central to his own family’s nefarious influence peddling.
Note well: The U.S. House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump on two grounds: one, an allegation that Trump used his office to threaten to delay (not to cancel) Ukrainian military aid; and, two, that Trump did so to harm a potential political rival in the next election. Joe Biden has now trumped Trump on both counts. One, Biden is involved in criminal enterprises with his entire family, whose shakedown payouts from Ukrainian moneyed interests depended on precisely the current president’s past willingness to use his office (then as vice president) to strong-arm Ukrainian officials.
Two, Biden did not so much seek only to uncover wrongdoing by Trump, his likely presidential rival, as to have Trump indicted by his own Justice Department for alleged violations of presidential records statutes. Yet unauthorized removal of classified government records is a crime that Biden himself by his own admission also has committed—and for far longer a time, and perhaps involving far greater volumes of archival material.
Critics of the Bidens long have been puzzled about the opulent spending habits and costly acquisitions of Joe and Jill Biden, Hunter Biden, presidential brother Jim Biden, and other lesser family satellites on the clan’s dole. Such wonderment about the abyss between lifestyles led and taxes reported apparently reached the highest echelons of the IRS. Its special investigating teams recommended numerous felony indictments of Hunter Biden for conspiratorial tax fraud. It requested in vain to extend the agency’s investigations to Joe Biden himself.
We now also have good reason to believe that Biden’s attorney general, Garland, both himself and through his subordinates, used power unlawfully to sidetrack Justice Department attorneys from legitimately and fully investigating Joe Biden, and/or to delay and obfuscate the full prosecution of Hunter Biden. The result is that Hunter Biden successfully used his family influence to escape taxes on hundreds of thousands of dollars of disguised income through manipulating statute-of-limitations laws. For years, the younger Biden also has escaped paying taxes, by phony claims of loans, on other known millions of dollars in income that were still likely only a portion of all his foreign, quid-pro-quo revenue schemes.
Note, however, the greatest damage the Bidens have done to this nation. Joe Biden’s own past lucrative financial dealings with suspect Chinese interests, with connections to the ruling Chinese Communist Party, cast a shadow over current American foreign policy itself. The American people are bewildered over why the Biden administration is appeasing the Chinese government. It keeps insisting, contrary to evidence, that bilateral relations are in great shape—after China’s successful and unapologetic overt espionage efforts by sending a spy balloon across sensitive areas of the United States.
China has defiantly stonewalled any request to explain how and why a porous Chinese virology lab incompetently let escape a gain-of-function virus, a virtual bioweapon, that killed over a million Americans and sickened over 300 million. China’s jets now play chicken with our own in the skies above the South China Sea. And its ships do the same with our vessels in the same environs. It threatens to escalate to nuclear weapons if the United States should protect its de facto ally Taiwan from envisioned Chinese aggression. All the above is in addition to years of Chinese copyright infringement, patent violations, manipulation of Chinese currency, trade dumping, and systematic espionage operations throughout sensitive areas of the U.S. military and general economy.
Again, Biden’s response increasingly is to downplay these mounting aggressions in direct proportion to their increased frequency.
The “why” of that bizarre exculpation raises the question of how exactly would it be possible so dramatically to influence, or “get to” a U.S. president. The answer may be buried in thousands of suppressed government documents and the data of now canceled investigations. Note again: America in vain recently spent $40 million and 22 months on a special prosecutor to pursue, on no evidence (but relying on plenty of disinformation, fraud, and criminality) the smear that Trump was a Russian puppet, and Trump’s (demonstrably tough) treatment of the Russians was supposed proof of his collusion with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In sum, every American now knows that Trump would have gone to prison for several years for even attempting, much less getting away with, the fraudulent tax-avoidance schemes of Hunter Biden, who likely never will spend a single day in jail. The IRS does not give passes for divots. The law treats the attempt or preempted scheme to violate it almost as severely as the actuality of successfully breaking tax laws.
Again, all this will not, cannot, must not stand. We no longer can have a United States if its president almost weekly demonstrably lies with impunity about his relationships with the Biden family’s nefarious foreign business interests. You no longer can have an American nation if the son of the president of the United States successfully connives to rake in millions for his extended family by selling his father’s influence to foreign governments—a gambit that may currently affect the foreign policy of the United States.
Adding insult to injury, Hunter Biden is now a White House fixture, as if the closer he clings to the nexus of American power and influence, the more likely he will continue to be exempted from American law. There is no such thing as the America we once knew if the Bidens and their surrogates with impunity used the levers of the FBI and the Justice Department to cover up, and escape prosecution for, crimes that otherwise would have sent any citizen under such liability to prison for several years.
This unfolding Biden melodrama has the potential to destroy the current presidency. It will tarnish for generations the Justice Department, the FBI, and the IRS. And yet the melodrama will not die because the U.S. itself will not die, and so the scandal eventually will convict Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and Jim Biden of serious felonies.
Finally, unless radical changes occur, the unapologetic Biden nefariousness will discredit permanently an obsequious and biased media that knowingly chose not to report on what they equally knew were historic transgressions against their United States.”
We certainly agree with VDH’s point, but again, while we most fervently agree such utter lawlessness should not stand, it’s our opinion it will, can and, in interest of the Deep State’s survival, must stand.
.@SenJohnKennedy: D.C. elites are “working harder than an ugly stripper to cover up whatever happened” with the Biden family and what is alleged to be criminal activity. pic.twitter.com/NjhOTHFzaz
“Last year Mayor Eric Adams claimed that for decades he had been carrying a photo of his police officer friend who died in the line of duty, but a new New York Times report found the mayor’s office actually created the photo only after he began mentioning it in media interviews and that aides went so far as to distress the print-out so it would look old and worn.
Adams first mentioned carrying the photo of Officer Robert Venable, who died in 1987, last year while talking about the slaying of two New York City police officers who were responding to a domestic disturbance in Harlem. “I still think about Robert,” Adams, a former police captain, said at a news conference last year. “I keep a picture of Robert in my wallet.” One week later, Adams produced the wallet-sized photo at the request of the New York Times and posed for a portrait with it in his office.
He mentioned the photo again in two television interviews last spring after the deaths of officers Wilbert Mora and Jason Rivera in Harlem. “I understand the pain,” Adams said on News 12 at the time. “I carry around a picture of Robert Venable, my close friend, that was shot several years ago during my early days of police, and I always have Robert’s picture. The pain never dissipates.” He also showed off the photo at a Medal Day ceremony at the Police Academy in June 2022, calling Venable “one of my closest friends.” “Robert died when he was shot in the head when responding to a job,” the mayor said. “We were going away that week and going on vacation together.”
But the new report reveals that aides in the mayor’s office were instructed to create a photo of Venable days after Adams first mentioned carrying it, using a picture of the officer that was found on Google. The aides printed the photo in black-and-white and poured coffee on it to make it look worn, a source told the New York Times. Two former City Hall aides reportedly confirmed the creation of the photo. A spokesman for the mayor did not deny that the photo Adams had shown reporters and at the police ceremony was created by a City Hall aide, but said that Adams had indeed carried a photo of the officer for decades.
…Venable’s niece, Meredith Venson, was a teenager when her uncle died and remembered Adams visiting with her family after her uncle’s death and that he was kind to her grandmother and had driven the family to events. She said she had not seen Adams in almost 30 years until this year. Januari Venable, the officer’s daughter who was 8 at the time of her father’s death, told the Times she did not recall ever meeting Adams until this year.
The report notes the photo is not the first time Adams has been caught in a lie as mayor: he told a story in a 2019 commencement address about intimidating a neighbor and later acknowledged the story was true but had not happened to him. Adams also claimed to have sold his stake in a one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn, though a financial disclosure form revealed he still retains ownership.
…Adams also previously claimed to be vegan though it was later revealed he eats fish.”
Which fairly screams the question, “WHY?!?” The guy’s a Democrat in a city dominated by Democrats, so why lie about things which, in the grand scheme of things, are essentially meaningless? We can only conclude it’s a genetic condition peculiar to politicians, Progressive politicians in particular; Still, having just watched The Donald attempt to convince America the materials at Mar-a-Lago were “papers”, not “documents”, it’s a phenomenon which knows no party boundaries.
“Michigan residents could soon face hefty prison sentences and fines for misgendering someone if a new bill passes the Democrat-controlled State Senate. Democrats in the state’s House of Representatives passed the bill, HB 4474, which would add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity or expression” as protected classes and criminalize causing a person to “feel terrorized, frightened, or threatened.”
The bill advanced to the State Senate, where Democrats are expected to send it to Democratic governor Gretchen Whitmer, who would likely sign the legislation. If a victim says he or she is intimidated by another person and is a member of one of the protected classes, the accused person could spend five years in prison or pay a $10,000 fine.
“Make no mistake about it. Those advocating for this legislation will wield these policies as a weapon capable of destroying conservative expression or viewpoints grounded in the sacred,” William Wagner, a former federal judge and legal counsel in the U.S. Senate, told the Daily Wire. “One merely needs to look at the scores of cases brought against schools, churches, businesses, and individuals around our country.” Wagner added that supporters of this law will use it to “silence and financially cripple” anyone who has a “different viewpoint.”
It’s the latest example of the left pushing its views on gender identity on the public through legislation…”
Gee, no chance for fraud and abuse resulting from this blatant violation of the 1st Amendment. More importantly, it’s the latest example of Progressives enacting policies they know to be patently unconstitutional, forcing Conservatives to overturn them through the courts.
“Ben & Jerry’s ice cream wants the United States to return the Black Hills to the Lakota. Which raises the question: Once this transfer takes place, will the Lakota turn around and give the Black Hills back to the tribes they took them from?
It’s never a good idea to get history lessons from an ice-cream maker with a hippy vibe that sold out to a multinational conglomerate long ago, but the Ben & Jerry’s July 4 condemnation of the United States as “founded on stolen Indigenous land” is a common enough hostile interpretation of our past that it’s worth dwelling on.
There is no doubt that our dealings with Native Americans were characterized by brutality, land-hunger, and duplicity, and constitute one of the nation’s foremost sins. The problem with the Ben & Jerry’s view, which is considered a truism on the left, is that it is immune to complexity and rests on an ahistorical, ultimately condescending belief in the inherent innocence and peaceableness of Native Americans.
Consider the Lakota. Like many other tribes we encountered on the Plains, they were relative newcomers to the area, getting pushed westward by intertribal warfare and establishing themselves there by force, as well. Counter to the saccharine romance of such depictions as the famous Kevin Costner movie, Dances with Wolves, Native American society was red in tooth and claw; Native Americans weren’t simplistic archetypes but real people prone to all the usual flaws of human nature including hatred, greed, and violence.
The Ben & Jerry’s July 4 message refers to the Lakota “fighting to keep colonizers off their land,” without any mention of the fact that, just a short time before, they were the colonizers.
As Elliott West notes in his new book Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion, the advent of a horse culture among various Native American tribes made the Great Plains and Southwest a killing field of warfare and disease. “Two great coalitions — Cheyennes, Arapahos, and Lakotas north of the Arkansas River and Comanches and Kiowas south of it — clashed bitterly until making peace in 1840, then both preyed on sedentary peoples on the fringes,” West writes.
Devastating smallpox epidemics, slaughters, and raids and counterraids were dismayingly routine features of these regions long before the United States was a contender for dominance.
According to West, one reason so much Mexican land was there for the taking during the Mexican–American War was it had been depopulated by constant Native American raiding. Is it too much for Ben & Jerry’s to spare a thought for the Mexicans killed, captured, or dispossessed by merciless Native American warriors?
As for the Lakota, they didn’t take control of territory to the west through gentle persuasion. They gained control of the Black Hills in the late 18th century by expelling the prior occupants. The history here doesn’t neatly line up with the Ben & Jerry’s call for “dismantling white supremacy and systems of oppression and ensuring that Indigenous people can again govern the land their communities called home for thousands of years.”
Which indigenous people? And which lands?
None of this is to minimize the double-dealing that saw the United States take the Black Hills after the discovery of gold, or the demographic catastrophe that befell Native peoples. Europeans unleashed terrible epidemics when they came to these shores, although that wasn’t something they foresaw or intended.
The potted version of the nation’s history favored by the likes of Ben & Jerry’s is meant to delegitimize the United States as such. Not only does it make the country’s expansion a tale of unadulterated malevolence, but it also can’t accommodate the reality of Native American peoples who practiced self-interested, ever-shifting diplomacy with one another and with Europeans, and who constantly warred with one another and Europeans — for land and hunting grounds, for honor and vengeance, and for captives to add to their numbers.
Suffice it to say that — no matter what their latter-day champions might wish — these peoples were not politically correct.”
In a related item, Don Stevens, Chief of the Nulhegan Band of The Coosuk Abenaki Nation, which once occupied the land on which Ben & Jerry’s offices now sit, tells Newsweek his tribe is “always interested in reclaiming the stewardship of our lands.” Ben & Jerry’s has yet to contact Stevens about ceding control of its corporate headquarters.
Moving on, here’s another sextet of special selections certain to sate the curiosity of inquiring Conservative minds:
…given that Tom Cotton was one of 16 Senate Republicans to vote in favor of the $1.7 TRILLION omnibus spending bill, indicating a lack of decency is a condition with which the Arkansas senator is all too familiar.
(5). Here’s a photo of just a few of a group of some 50 windmills we passed while driving I-390 on our way to and from our 50th high school reunion:
They weren’t turning traveling to, nor were they spinning on our way from, making them about as useful as tits on a boar. Though at least a boar’s tits didn’t costs taxpayers billions of dollars in subsidies to Progressive political donors.
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s these from Balls…
…Speed…
…the lovely Shannon…
…and the Great Geffoir…
…along with this photo of the new White House janitor courtesy of The Babylon Bee…
…and several more from The Patriot Post:
Though we must respectfully disagree with that last one:
Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with this video of a recent car fire in downtown Baltimore across the street from Camden Yards. We feature it because our eldest son and his fiancé were leaving the ballpark after an Orioles game when they heard a crash. Turning around, they saw a sedan had struck a median barrier, piercing the fuel tank and enveloping the automobile in flames. Jon, a full-time Frederick County, MD firefighter and Major, USAR, was first on the scene with Carly, an RN, BSN.
At significant risk to his life, limb and body hair, Jon went to the driver’s door, but the flames were too intense. Going around to the passenger side, he was able to open the door and grab the driver, the skin of whose arms peeled off in Jon’s hands as he pulled him out, after which he pulled out the passenger, who had somehow ended up in the rear seat. Meanwhile, Carly began administering what first aid she could until paramedics arrived. Jon thankfully suffered only minor burns to his wrists, along with some singed hair, while Carly was unharmed.
Hey, all in a days work for a first-responder and his fiancé, and just another night in Baltimore!
Magoo
P.S. On an administrative note, we’ll be starting an 8-week ground school course which will require our presence Tuesday and Thursday evenings starting this week and concluding the first week of September. So during that time, our publishing schedule will be subject to change.
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