It’s Wednesday, July 15th, Tax Day 2020…but before we begin, consider this snippet from Mark Levin’s recent interview with the great Thomas Sowell, courtesy of James Nichols, and you tell us:

Other than the elections of 1788-89, 1860 and 1864, has the future of the Founders’ Republic ever been more at risk than it will be November 3rd?   Sure, Hillary would have done significant damage, but, incredible as it seems, she didn’t hold a candle to the current crop of Communists controlling contemporary Progressives. 

Now, here’s The Gouge!

First up, we present a perfect example of the perverted propaganda Progressives presently pass off as history:

Though at its heart hardly humorous, we had to chuckle at this inaccurate portrayal of our past, as it reminded us of one of our favorite scenes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail…

…although Dennis’s description of the autonomous collective makes more sense than the video’s representation of the expedition abandoning U.S. law as it moved west, Sacajawea as its guide or Lewis placing decisions critical to its ultimate success to a vote.

It’s all part of the purposeful dumbing down of America’s public education system designed to limit dissent through ignorance.  As Tucker Carlson so rightly relates…

…it’s what keeps Socialists in power despite their records of wreaking havoc whenever and wherever they’ve ruled, be it a city (New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, San Francisco, St. Louis, Portland, Seattle, Baltimore, Washington D.C.), state (California, New Jersey, New York, Illinois, Michigan, Washington) or country (Venezuela, Red China, the Soviet Union, the entire Eastern Bloc, North Korea, Cambodia, Vietnam, Cuba).

The Left lies; it’s what they do, it’s all they do.  What concerns us more is the unwillingness of those on The Right to counter and combat those lies, as exemplified by this snippet from Secretary of the Navy Ken Braithwaite’s recent all-hands bulletin forwarded by Breeze Gould:

“During my recent visit to Naval Air Station Oceana, Our Shipmate Aviation Machinist’s Mate Airman Josiah Crosby asked me about racial disparities in the force. I applauded his courage and initiative in bringing up this important topic to address something that has plagued our nation since its birth. Thank you, Josiah! We need to talk about equality and justice if we are going to create the One Team approach we strive to attain. And we must act on those hard conversations, throughout the ranks and across the force, right up to the desk of the Secretary of the Navy.“

The way we see it, Secretary Braithwaite had two possible responses: (A) Simply and honestly assert, “Son, racial disparities were done away with in the United States Navy decades ago.”; or, (B) fire every senior officer in the Fleet, from the CNO on down to every unit commander, ’cause if racial disparities DO exist in the Navy, the responsibility is theirs, and their careers should be forfeit, along with the pensions of every retired Navy admiral and Marine general, as they were party to the problem.

Instead, he cowered in the face of someone spouting a meaningless narrative, a sailor possessed of neither expertise nor any real knowledge of the subject he raised.  

Here’s another example: Watch this, then ask yourself…

…where on earth is Missouri’s Republican governor, Mike Parson?!?

Here’s the juice: as Roger Kimball reminds us at American Greatness in a forward from Speed Mach…

It’s All About November 3

Seriously: they started advocating for his impeachment the day after he won the 2016 election…before he’d ever taken office!!!

In a related item, writing at The Washington Free Beacon, Matthew Continetti wonders, having sown the…

Winds of woke

Can Joe Biden withstand the storm of political correctness?

“Before Thursday morning I had not heard of Thomas Bosco, and I am willing to bet you haven’t heard of him either. He runs a café in Upper Manhattan. From the picture in the New York Times, the Indian Road Café is one of those Bobo-friendly brick-lined coffee shops with chalkboard menus affixed to the wall behind the counter and a small stage for down-on-their-luck musicians to warble a few bars of “Fast Car” as you sip on a no-foam latte while editing a diversity training manual. It looks pleasant enough. “Local writers, artists, musicians, and political activists are regulars,” writes metro columnist Azi Paybarah. “And for years, two drag queens have hosted a monthly charity bingo tournament there.” Drag queens! You can’t get more progressive than that. Bosco seems like a noble small businessman making his way in a turbulent world.

There’s a problem, though. He once expressed an opinion. Though Black Lives Matter signs are posted throughout the restaurant, and its owner identifies as “a liberal guy who supports almost every liberal cause I can think of,” in early June Bosco told MSNBC that he voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and expects to do so again. Omigod no. “The backlash was swift, as you might expect,” writes Paybarah. Neighbors denounced Bosco on Facebook. Some vowed not to patronize the café. Randi Weingarten, who as president of the American Federation of Teachers draws close to half a million dollars in salary and benefits, wrote online that it would be “hard to ever go back.” No more tips for the barista from her. As for the drag queens, they are taking their glitter elsewhere.

…Joe Biden better be paying close attention. The other day a member of his vice presidential shortlist, Senator Tammy Duckworth, expressed her willingness to “listen to the argument” of radicals who would tear down statues of George Washington. As I wrote this, Nancy Pelosi shrugged off the illegal desecration of the Columbus statue in Baltimore, saying, “People will do what they do.” You know how people are—they get angry and wild and destroy public property. So fuggedaboutit. Would she say the same if vandals tossed the sculpture of her dad into the Inner Harbor? (Or burned any of her multi-million dollar properties to the ground?!?)

There is only so much self-abasement a nation can take. And when the winds of woke start to blow, millions of Americans find that there is one way left for them to oppose political correctness: pulling the lever for the man in the White House.“

As opposed to the mumbling, bumbling serial groper and sexual assaulter cowering in his Delaware basement.

Next up, we continue our COVID-19 coverage with two video clips courtesy of Prager U:

Any question had The Donald never advocated hydroxychloroquine as an effective treatment against the Wuhan flu, there would be no controversy about doctors prescribing it?!?  Crazytown indeed!

Meanwhile, here’s an interesting graph:

Note the critical adjustment for population growth very few other sources are noting.

And this just in:

Dozens of world’s richest people demand higer taxes to pay for coronavirus economic recovery

‘Love Actually’ director, Disney heirs, Ben & Jerry’s co-founder among signatories

Here’s an idea: sell everything you have and give it all to the UN…then see how far it goes!

Alas, as Mark records in Chapter 10 of his Gospel, “At this the man’s face fell. He went away sad, because he had great wealth.”

Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:

Then there’s this dose of reality courtesy of Balls Cotton…

…along with these from the lovely Shannon…

…and Speed Mach:

Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with the Sports Section, as…

Washington’s NFL Team Officially Drops the Redskins Name

The team name, long criticized as derogatory to Native Americans, will be changed after pressure from fans and sponsors escalated. No new name has been announced

“Hallelujah” is right, for now, as Progressive advocates have promised, Washington’s NFL franchise changing its name will now…thankfully, blessedly, finally…usher in an era of utopian brotherhood and prosperity for Indian reservations…

…and urban ghettos…

…across the fruited plain!  Not to mention inspiring gangbangers to turn in their illegal weapons, start a fire…fueled by something other than a minority-owned small business or police vehicle…and commence to singing Kumbaya.

Not that we care, as the NFL lost us as a viewer the instant the knee of a has-been back-up QB touching the turf during The Star Spangled Banner was tolerated.

Magoo