It’s Monday, September 21st, 2020…but before we begin, note how Kamala Harris is protected by the very same weapons she’d deny your loved ones and you:

Just another animal more equal than the others.

Now, here’s The Gouge!

First up, the WSJ‘s Dan Henninger details the mental and emotional disorder which increasingly characterizes…

Democrat Madness

Political insanity can be defined as refusing to admit the reality of destructive violence.

“How crazy does the violence have to get before it costs the Harris-Biden campaign the election? (Nomenclature update: On Monday, Kamala Harris referred in public to something she called the “Harris administration.” In a speech the next day, Mr. Biden himself referred to “a Harris-Biden administration.” If that’s how they want it, fine by me. From now on, it’s “the Harris-Biden campaign.”)

For weeks, analysts have been pondering whether the “law and order” issue elevated by President Trump and the Republican convention could have a material effect on voting this fall. Generally, they have minimized the issue. But like the hurricanes rolling in from the Atlantic Ocean, the waves of urban violence have apparently become impossible to ignore.

A Monmouth poll out this week finds 65% of respondents say “maintaining law and order” is a big problem. The poll’s self-identified party affiliations are 28% Republican, 41% independent and 31% Democratic. Here’s the election’s ticking time-bomb: Among “non-Republican” blacks and other minorities, more than 60% agree that civil disorder has become a big issue, while just 46% of white non-Republicans see it as a problem. Looks like where one lives explains a lot about the Democratic worldview.

There’s more bad news at the wrong moment for Harris-Biden: Conclusive evidence has emerged that the American left is certifiably insane.

After the shooting this week of two cops in Compton, south of Los Angeles, a small contingent of antipolice protesters stood outside a hospital chanting, “We hope they die!” Mr. Biden tweeted criticism of both incidents as “unacceptable” and “entirely counterproductive.”

We don’t make the left-is-insane charge lightly.

Up to now, the conventional liberal/media/Democratic story line has been that “most” of the protesters are peacefully objecting to racism and police practices. But it has become impossible not to see something else that falls between carrying signs and looting stores.

It is common practice for these protesters, men and women, to stand inches from the faces of cops, especially black cops, screaming insults and personal obscenities with no letup. This behavior is a phenomenon worth thinking about. It wasn’t long ago that everyone but the genuinely insane knew that if you did this to a cop, odds were you would be a) arrested and/or b) popped with a billy club.

But these protesters get up into the faces of the police, shrieking, because they know a) they will not be arrested, b) if they are arrested, they will be released quickly, and c) they will be released because the prosecutors in these cities probably won’t press charges. Instead, prosecutors are looking for reasons to cite the police for acts of violence.

This is new—a status quo in which there is no fear of the police by protesters or common street criminals. A line in the sand has been washed away. This condition didn’t happen in the past 100 days. Democratic politics has been building toward precisely this redefinition of law and order for at least 20 years…”

Progressives have sown the wind, and America is now reaping the whirlwind.  The die has been cast: from now on, violence will be the response to anything with which The Mob objects.

Case in point, courtesy of Walt Meisen, as Breitbart reports…

Blue Checks Vow Violence If McConnell Tries to Replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg: ‘Burn the Entire F**king Thing Down’

“Blue check leftists on Twitter vowed violence in America if Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) attempts to replace Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday night at age 87. Leftist writer Reza Aslan tweeted: “If they even TRY to replace RBG we burn the entire fucking thing down.”…”

Hey, why not?  After all, violence has proven to be a remarkably effective “negotiating” tool for The Mob thus far. 

Then there’s Plan “B”, as forwarded by Speed Mach:

Who knows what skeleton The Left will fabricate and attempt to place in Amy Barrett’s closet if she’s Trump’s next nominee: she sexually assaulted Kamala Harris during a threesome with Willie Brown?!?

As these headlines forwarded by Jeff Foutch suggest, just when you thought the stakes couldn’t get any…

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Allows Mail-in Ballots to Be Counted After Election Day Without Evidence of Postmark

Michigan Judge Extends Deadline 2 Weeks for Mail-In Ballots Postmarked by November 2

…Darth Bader’s long-expected demise managed to raise them.  However, her attempt to influence history from her deathbed notwithstanding, as Andy McCarthy relates at NRO, when it comes to…

Replacing Justice Ginsburg: It’s Politics, Not Precedent

The timing of Justice Ginsburg’s replacement is strictly a matter of political calculation.

“…It is an unseemly but by now commonplace sign of our times that, even though she passed away just as Rosh Hashanah had begun, the politics of a now-vacant Supreme Court seat could not be put on hold for a day, or even a few hours. On the other hand, Justice Ginsburg herself fanned the political flames. In her last days, she dictated a statement…

…made public after her death, expressing fervent desire that she “not be replaced until a new president is installed.”

Since Supreme Court justices usually choose their words with care, we have to assume this is a wish not only that the seat remain unfilled until after January 20, but that a new president be elected in the interim. It is understandable that Democrats are already exploiting the emotional power of a liberal giant’s dying wish.

Yet, while we honor Justice Ginsburg’s remarkable life, (an assessment we and tens of millions of unborn babies certainly don’t share!) we owe her no more deference on the timing of her replacement than on the outcome of the November election.

The timing of her replacement, instead, is strictly a matter of political calculation.

On this, I will say what I always find myself saying when a vacancy on the High Court opens: It is ridiculous for leading senators, administration officials, influential partisans, and pundits to enunciate the high-minded principles and precedents that supposedly control the propriety and timing of a nomination.

In reality, there are only two rules, both set forth in the Constitution: A president, for as long as he or she is president, has the power to nominate a person to fill a Supreme Court seat; and that nominee can fill the seat only with the advice and consent of the Senate. That’s it. Everything else is posturing. Everything else is politics…”

In the meantime, don’t believe…

…the hype!

Here’s the juice: politics, though always a full-contact sport, has, since the election of 2000, become a fight to the death, the demise in question involving first and foremost Progressives overturning the Founder’s Republic and the Constitution they bequeathed us, followed closely thereafter by the round up, imprisonment and liquidation of anyone who opposes their Marxist utopia.

Unfortunately, a number of nominal Republicans…

…who’ve grown wealthy off a combination of Capitalism, inherited wealth and sucking on the public teat, regard themselves as above such unpleasantness, preferring instead to participate in the basest of conflicts under the political version of the Marquis of Queensbury Rules.

These three, and many other RINOs like them, remind us of Mario Puzo’s description of the Florida Don in The Godfather:

“Emigrating from Sicily as a small boy, he had settled in Florida and grown to manhood there, employed by the American syndicate of Southern small-town politicians who controlled gambling. These were very tough men backed up by very tough police officials and they never suspected that they could be overthrown by such a greenhorn immigrant. They were unprepared for his ferocity and could not match it simply because the rewards being fought over were not, to their minds, worth so much bloodshed. Tramonti won over the police with bigger shares of the gross; he exterminated those redneck hooligans who ran their operation with such a complete lack of imagination.“

But trust us, the small-town politicians, like Romney, Collins, Murkowski and their ilk, still got their piece of the pie, albeit a much smaller slice.  Watch in the upcoming days as these modern-day Judases sell out their country and constituents for filthy lucre and, like John Roberts, the praise of mere men.

Meanwhile, reports Hillary was quick to put her hat in the ring as suggested by this meme courtesy of Balls Cotton…

…remain unconfirmed.

BTW, other than being the first sitting SCOTUS justice to criticize a candidate for the presidency…

…we’ve never considered Ginsburg’s life or Supreme Court tenure of any particular note…again, other than having aided and abetted in the slaughter of an untold number of innocents.  Okay,…as well as her thoughts on the Kavanaugh nomination:

Meanwhile, though Eric Holder confirmed the Dimocratic Socialists’ previously stated Plan “C“, and George Snuffleupagas voiced what was, though obviously a talking point pre-rehearsed with the spokewoman for self-indulgence and $90/gallon Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams…

…hardly a plan at all, leave it to the Babylon Bee via Speed Mach to suggest a truly can’t-miss response to Ginsburg finally shuffling off her mortal coil:

Genius Trump Nominates Joe Biden To Supreme Court Forcing Dems To Accuse Him Of Sexual Assault

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

Then there’s this Harris-centric series from our sister-in-law Amy…

…along with two more unrelated to the Harris-Biden campaign for good measure:

And last, but certainly not least, there’s this string of Wuhan reality from Balls Cotton…

…all of which is why…

Finally, since we’re on the subject of the Wuhan virus, we’ll call it a wrap with a recent edition of Prager U., as everyday Americans demonstrate their abysmal command of the facts regarding COVID-19’s actual impact:

Tell us again why we shutdown America’s economy, quarantined the healthy instead of just the sick and vulnerable and everyone has to wear these largely ineffective masks and maintain “social distancing”?!?

Though we must confess, their estimates are much closer to reality than the man who would hand Kamala Harris the White House:

In the interest of fairness, we’ll leave the last word to the Dishonorable gentleman from Delaware, courtesy of Balls Cotton:

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