After watching most of the Trump-Biden debate on Fox YouTube, it seems to me that I might as well have watched Idiocracy again. Both Trump and Biden came across as morons.
Trump was painful to watch, because he didn’t seem capable of allowing his opponent to speak without interruption. I really think that the moderator should have a “Mute” button, which he can use when somebody continues to speak out of turn.
Biden was painful to watch, especially when he was talking about healthcare, because it’s obvious that he was lying. I kept having flashbacks of Obama saying, “if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.” We all saw how that turned out.
The moderator was painful to watch because he presented, as articles of faith, that a) there’s systematic racism against blacks, b) whites have no right to promote their own ethnic interests, and c) human activities are a major contributor to climate-change.
As an example of “white-supremacy,” the moderator cited Proud Boys. The ignorance is astounding.
Biden kept asking if he could get his _______ seconds back. I want to know if I can have my hour and a half back – because it was a waste of time, and psychologically torturous to watch.
In anticipation of a Proud Boys rally in Portland, Oregon governor Kate Brown issued an emergency executive order, and deputized 50 officers to keep the peace. From Newsweek:
About 50 Portland, Oregon, police officers will be deputized as federal marshals ahead of Saturday’s Proud Boys rally, enabling federal prosecutors to potentially bring federal charges upon those arrested.
Officers assigned to the specialized crowd control teams in the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) will be deputized early Saturday morning, Oregon State Police (OSP) Supt. Travis Hampton told The Oregonian/OregonLive. Governor Kate Brown tapped Hampton to lead police response with Multonmah County Sheriff Mike Reese under an emergency executive order, OregonLive reported.
Hampton asked the U.S. Marshals Service to grant the officers in the special squad federal powers. “Portland officers have been serving on the front lines of nightly protests for months, sustaining injuries and encountering unspeakable violence,” he said. “If I am to send them into harm’s way this weekend, on my authority, I’m going to ensure they have all the protections and authority of OSP troopers.”
The article makes it seem like the threat of violence is from the Proud Boys, and that they’re guilty of “unspeakable violence.” But it wasn’t Proud Boys who threw Molotov cocktails at the police, it wasn’t Proud Boys who set fire to the Justice Center, and it wasn’t Proud Boys who illegally blocked streets, destroyed businesses and defaced public property for over 100 nights straight. No, that sort of “unspeakable violence” was perpetrated by BLM activists.
I attended today’s rally at Delta Park, and it was a jolly, festive, atmosphere. There was no hate to be seen. Instead, I witnessed several hundred flag-waving patriots making speeches, supporting Trump, playing music, selling t-shirts and hats, and overall having a good time.
The absence of Antifa/BLM meant that peace reigned. Actually, there was one man with a BLM banner. He was surrounded by Proud Boys and other conservatives for a couple of hours. He wasn’t wearing armor or a helmet or a gas mask, and he didn’t bother carrying a shield. It’s almost like he somehow KNEW that he wasn’t going to be in any danger… except for the fact that some folks spoke to him, and (as we’re told) words can be “violence.” If the situation were reversed, and a conservative showed up at a BLM rally, things would likely end differently.
CNN made sure to remind us that the SPLC considers Proud Boys to be a “hate group”:
Proud Boys is far-right extremist organization that has been designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
… and, to emphasize this, CNN used the following photo to characterize the event:
Members of the Proud Boys and other right-wing demonstrators rally on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Yes, the “reporter” probably took hundreds of photos, and made sure to pick the one that seemed to depict the most hate. People who weren’t there, but saw this photo, might believe that the attendees were shrieking for the lynching of negroes and Jews. Perhaps they were getting ready to burn a cross.
Many reporters were in attendance, almost enough to make their own rally. I spoke with one of them. He worked for BBC, and was from Australia. Other reporters interviewed Proud Boys members, and it looked like they were sympathetic, and that they were absorbing the information they were given.
I’m skeptical. Perhaps some of them realize that conservatives aren’t the bad guys in the Portland scene – but this doesn’t mean they’re at liberty to write the truth in their respective papers; they don’t want to lose their jobs. It’s just as likely that they put on a friendly facade in order to gain more material.
As for the police, the only ones I saw were parked outside the rally, on the street. They seem to have known that, as long as BLM/Antifa was kept out, things would be peaceful.
CNN reported that there were about 1000 people at the Proud Boys rally. My impression was that it was a bit more than that; there were several concentrations of people, with several groups guarding the peripheries in case Antifa decided to attack.
Local TV channel KGW reported that “several thousand” were present. Reportedly, there was an assault during the rally. I know nothing about it, and I did arrive an hour late.
I’m still learning how to use my bodycam effectively. Otherwise I would include a video here. But, at least when I was there, nothing exciting happened.
Fourteen people are on trial in France over the deadly attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in 2015.Most of the alleged accomplices are in court in Paris, but three are being tried in absentia.They are accused of helping the militant Islamist attackers who shot dead 12 people in and around Charlie Hebdo’s Paris office in January 2015.In a related attack, a third gunman shot dead a policewoman, then attacked a Jewish store, killing four people.The 17 victims were killed over a period of three days. All three attackers were killed by police. The killings marked the beginning of a wave of jihadist attacks across France that left more than 250 people dead.
Currently, 14 suspects are on trial in France. Charlie Hebdo, in an act of courage and defiance, has republished the cartoons that triggered the massacre five years ago.
I won’t go so far as to say that ALL Muslims fly into a murderous rage when confronted with cartoons of their prophet, but they do in sufficient numbers to warrant safety concerns whenever infidels dare to publish such images.
If it were only a fringe group of Muslims who are deeply angered by such images, then the prime minister of Pakistan (officially known as “The Islamic Republic of Pakistan”) wouldn’t feel the need to condemn the republication of these cartoons. From France24:
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday condemned the fresh publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed by a French satirical weekly, urging UN efforts against what he called rising Islamophobia.
Addressing the UN General Assembly in a prerecorded message, Khan said that rising global nationalism has “accentuated Islamophobia” and said that Muslims “continue to be targeted with impunity in many countries.”
“Incidents in Europe including republication of blasphemous sketches by Charlie Hebdo are recent examples,” Khan said.
“We stress that willful provocations and incitement to hate and violence must be universally outlawed.
It’s likely that Prime Minister Imran Khan doesn’t personally care about such cartoons. Perhaps he felt politically pressured into issuing such a statement. Perhaps he even feared for his life, should he fail to condemn the cartoons. Either way, it doesn’t reflect well on Islam that the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is more concerned about the publication of some cartoons than the fact that Muslims are so easily provoked, and have murdered people, over such trivial matters as cartoons.
The very fact that such cartoons can incite Muslims to commit murder is evidence enough that the fear of Islam is not unreasonable – and that, therefore, it is not a “phobia.”
Also, it takes a lot of nerve for Khan to condemn cartoons in France as “Islamophobic” while Hindu girls continue to be abducted, and forcibly converted to Islam, in Pakistan:
Would he describe the parents of those poor girls as “Islamophobic” as well?
So I was busy studying for my exam in SDSU, when I got a message from one of my martial art classmates.
She is in 7th grade, and I dare say she’s my friend because we talk alot and i usualy help her. But anyway, she messaged me saying that she needed my help.
I said, sure. Tell me what do you need help on. I thought it would be like math or something.
She said she needed help…. because she needed to take a defund the police quiz.
When I read this, I was like
I was thinking she wasnt serious. How ridiculous can this be?
I actually thought she was joking. Then, she sent me these pictures.
Now, I may have gotten political, but I would never. EVER. try to force politics into a learning environment or on my friends or family.
What didnt disgust me was that the teacher sent the defund the police quiz. What disgusted me was that the teacher tried forcing politics, when the students are 7th graders.
Seventh graders should not be learning about politics. They should be enjoying their childhoods. They shouldnt be forced to learn politics.
When I was a seventh grader, I was busy playing with my cousins and reading spider man comics.
The problem with politics is that its ALWAYS going to be divisive. I literally got into politics during the summer, and I REGRETTED it. I wish I was ignorant and did not know about politics. Even though I am more informed about what goes on, I wished I did not get more political (which is ironic, considering I am writing a political answer)…
Satchuel Cole, leader in the fight for racial equality in Indianapolis, lied about own race
“Friends, I need to take accountability for my actions and the harm that I have done. My deception and lies have hurt those I care most about. I have taken up space as a Black person while knowing I am white. I have used Blackness when it was not mine to use. I have asked for support and energy as a Black person. I have caused harm to the city, friends and the work that I held so dear,” Cole posted on a Facebook page under the name Satch Paige.
And we read about yet another one, also a gender-confused female, at The Post Millennial:
White grad student pretending to be black apologizes and resigns from teaching position
As first reported by the Wisconsin State Journal, CV Vitolo-Haddad, whose non-binary pronouns are “they” and “them,” admitted to misrepresenting their race. The academic is Southern Italian and Sicilian, not black or Latino as they’ve previously purported.
As first reported by the Wisconsin State Journal, CV Vitolo-Haddad, whose non-binary pronouns are “they” and “them,” admitted to misrepresenting their race. The academic is Southern Italian and Sicilian, not black or Latino as they’ve previously purported.
“In trying to make sense of my experiences with race, I grossly misstepped,” Vitolo-Haddad wrote in a September 8 article on the blogging platform Medium. “I went along with however people saw me. I over-identified with unreliable and unproven family history and latched onto anything I remembered growing up.”
If you type “pretending to be black” into the Google search bar, you’ll get over 27 million results. If you type in “pretending to be white,” you’ll get 287 million results – except that almost all of those results (at least on the first few pages) are of white people pretending to be black; there’s not a single example, that I could find, of a black person pretending to be white.
If white-privilege is so pervasive, we’d expect the opposite. Also, if you read Cole’s quote above, you ‘ll see that she refers to “using blackness.” How can one “use” something that is only a liability?
These women, all of whom have psychological issues, are living proof that black privilege is real. White privilege is not.
That being said, I don’t blame them for this particular sin. How many Jews pretended to be gentile in Nazi Germany? If you could pass as white in apartheid South Africa, wouldn’t you do so? To be white in today’s America is to belong to the lowest caste, and yes, this can be offset with money or status.
I would encourage as many white people as possible to pretend to be black. Doing so might have the effect of eroding the unjust caste system we now have in place.
Police in northeast Ohio are searching for a gunman who walked into a home in the middle of the night and opened fire, killing a 4-year-old child and wounding four adults, authorities said.
The boy was in the living room just before 2 a.m. Monday when the shooter burst into the house and fired multiple rounds, according to police. Two women, including the child’s mother, were shot in the legs while two men who were also home sustained more serious gunshot wounds and were hospitalized in critical condition, police said.
Their exact relationship and a motive for the shooting remain under investigation. The victims told police they did not know the shooter.
The incident happened in Struthers, a small city near the Pennsylvania border.
He shot one man in the head and the other in the back, Roddy told reporters at a news conference Monday. The women were in stable condition and the boy died in his mother’s arms, the chief said…
The suspect was described as a young, thin and light-skinned black man, but it was not clear if he fled in a car, local news outlet WKBN reported.
This was the first homicide in Struthers since 2014, according to the station.
Here’s is the 4 year old white boy who was murdered by the black man:
Here are the four adult victims:
We don’t know much about the victims, except that it appears the young women went out of their way to date black men. What an original, and progressive, idea!
According to the most recent ACS, the racial composition of Struthers was:
White: 94.19%
Two or more races: 2.54%
Black or African American: 2.28%
Other race: 0.69%
Asian: 0.31%
Native American: 0.00%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander: 0.00%
Will the people of Struthers take note of the fact that they hadn’t had a murder since 2014, and that it was a black man who brought bloodshed to their doorsteps?
Hardly a day passes when we don’t read of a new atrocity committed against whites by blacks – and at the same time, we’re told that blacks are the true victims. If there’s one thing the BLM movement is right about, it’s that “Silence is Violence.” This is true, but the only crimes the corporate media is silent about is black-on-white crimes. It would be difficult to characterize the reactions, after black men are shot by police, as “silence.”
Even if it were only silence that the corporate media was guilty of, it should be held accountable. How much more so when it actively encourages violence against whites by cultivating hatred against us.
Thankfully, the smoke has finally cleared from our skies; it’s so nice to be able to breath again. Oxygen is important for bloggers. We need it in our brains to write effectively.
Now that things are back to “normal,” I ventured downtown to participate in a Back the Blue rally. My new bodycam works fine, but nothing exciting happened that I can share.
I did notice this piece of graffiti on a nearby wall though:
Now why would anybody want to kill Trump? I can’t figure it out…
Maybe it’s because, now that election time is quickly approaching, he’s (finally) addressing some serious issues, such as:
He’s ended Federal support for “Critical Race Theory” indoctrination
He’s facilitated a peace deal between Israel and United Arab Emirates
He’s facilitated a peace deal between Israel and Bahrain.
He’s pushed through an additional aid package for unemployed Americans
… and now he’s vowed to install a new Supreme Court justice to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Though it might seem inappropriate to do this so soon after her death, the future of our republic (or what’s left of it) is more important – and it’s not like the Democratic Party wouldn’t have done the same thing.
I’m still waiting for the wall.
Living in Oregon, it’s fairly certain that my vote won’t count. But I plan on voting anyway. Perhaps, if enough of us do this, Trump will carry Oregon. This would bring me much joy, even though healthcare costs would rise due to the uptick in ruptured blood vessels.
After the rally, we walked a few blocks to the site where Aaron J. Danielson (a conservative activist) was murdered late last month. I hadn’t realized it had been decorated in his honor:
I’m told that every couple of days, the decorations need to be replaced. My Christian colleagues held a prayer.
After that, we headed to a nearby family-owned restaurant for some lunch – and a fine lady paid for all of us – thus disproving the old adage TANSTAAFL (There Ain’t No Such Thing as a Free Lunch).
The view in my area is apocalyptic. A couple of days ago, when the smoke first rolled in, one could still see the Sun. It was possible to stare at it directly, with no harm to one’s eyes:
copyright Jewamongyou 2020
Today, the haze is so thick that it’s not possible to detect the Sun at all. Usually, it’s possible to escape to the coast, or the mountains, to escape poor air-quality – but not now; there is no place to escape to, short of hopping in an airplane and flying far away.
But we can take comfort in the fact that Microsoft News has helpful advice:
The MSN article actually come from the New York Times. In any event, if you read the article, it soon becomes apparent that it’s not about “protecting yourself from poor air quality at all.” That part of the article only comes at the very end, and provides little useful information: Stay indoors, and wear a mask if you must venture outside, and don’t smoke.
The real meat of the article comes in the middle:
The risks are greater for people of color, who tend to live in areas already exposed to high levels of particulate pollution. According to a 2017 study, older Black people are three times more likely to be hospitalized for respiratory conditions because of smoke.
Francesca Dominici, a professor of biostatistics at Harvard and an author of the study, said, “Underrepresented minorities are experiencing a much higher health burden from pollution and wildfire smoke and, now, Covid.”
The coronavirus pandemic, which has also hit people of color disproportionately, adds further problems. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned that “people with Covid-19 are at increased risk from wildfire smoke during the pandemic.”
Yes, the authors (Nicole Perlroth and John Schwartz) dedicate 3 paragraphs elaborating how “people of color” suffer more.
Naturally, they also used the opportunity to pontificate about Climate Change.
Yes, this is propaganda, but it’s also bait and switch.
I hope you’re not getting bored with my accounts of Back The Blue rallies; they’re fun, interesting and allow me to meet new people…
… like the hysterical woman who almost ran us over, and then coughed in my direction furiously.
I was holding the same sign I’d used the previous day, and as the woman turned the corner, and saw us, she focused on me and my sign. I guess she didn’t like it – because she suddenly swerved in our direction, opened her window, and coughed aggressively at me. It’s bizarre witnessing a grown woman behaving in such a manner. Luckily, I had my sign and face mask to protect me from her germs.
On a more positive note, two or three leftists had approached me earlier, and we had some very pleasant conversation. There is some common ground; I do happen to believe that there’s room for improvement with the police, that they can use better training and incentives to get rid of the bad apples. They agreed that it’s unacceptable to write “kill cops” as graffiti.
I’ve also decided to invest in a body camera; next time somebody assaults us, I hope to get in on camera. Oh, and I almost forgot. Here are some counter-protesters we encountered:
And a car that appeared to have been damaged from the previous night’s festivities:
