Tens of Thousands of Christians Converged on DC

 Did you hear about the large Christian gatherings in Washington, DC this weekend? Did you see the news reports about the mayhem? The looting? The vandalism? The calls to “Burn it down!”? Did you hear the speakers calling for acts of violence and destruction? Oh, you didn’t? That’s because tens of thousands of Christians did gather in DC this weekend, but they came to pray for the nation and repent for their sins.

The two main events were The Return, which began Friday night and ended Saturday night, and Franklin Graham’s prayer march, which was held from noon to 2:00 p.m. Saturday afternoon.

Both events attracted tens of thousands, and The Return was watched by a reported global audience of tens of millions. But there were no angry voices. No calls for violence. No fistfights. Or brawls. Or looting. Or shooting at police.

In fact, at The Return, where I participated on Saturday, there was hardly any police presence at all. It was not needed. I didn’t even see any counter-protesters.

Worship prevailed. Prayer prevailed. Humility prevailed. Repentance prevailed.

And while a constant theme of the event was the broken condition of America and the urgent need for repentance, that repentance started with the participants, with each of us. We, the followers of Jesus, have sinned and fallen short. We who are called to be light of the world and the salt of the earth have not lived up to our high and lofty calling.

That’s why The Return began its Saturday morning program with pastors and leaders asking for God’s mercy and confessing their sin. Repentance starts with us.

Significantly, Saturday was also the day when President Trump announced his nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Who could have foreseen this? These events were planned months in advance, at which time no one had any idea that Justice Ginsburg would pass away, let alone pass away during this sacred season on the biblical calendar.

Even the timing of Trump’s announcement seemed propitious. As I tweeted, “So, Ruth Bader Ginsburg passes away at the beginning of the Jewish New Year, as the shofar blast is heard, & Amy Coney Barrett is announced as her replacement as shofars were being blasted at The Return event in DC, watched by 10s of millions globally. Coincidence?”

On this same day, Saturday, September 26, 2020, major prayer gatherings were held in the Philippines and other nations as well. (An Asian leader told me at The Return that three million Indonesian Christians participated in a prayer event just hours earlier).

But this is exactly what we must do. We are in the midst of a global pandemic, a global shutdown, a time of global shaking – and that means there nothing more important we can do than pray. All the more does this hold true in America, where deep divisions are literally tearing us apart.

But the goal of these gatherings is not to impress people. The goal is not to put on a performance and please the crowds. The goal is to get the attention of our Father in Heaven. Only He can turn the hearts of a nation. And only He can hold back His judgment and wrath.

In Jewish tradition, the constellation sign associated with Tishrei, the seventh (and current) month of the biblical calendar (but the first month of the traditional calendar), is a pair of scales, symbolizing the scales of justice.

As one Jewish website explains, “The symbol of the month of Tishrei is a pair of scales.  How fitting are the scales of justice to this month!  On the Day of Judgment, Rosh Hashanah, our good deeds and mitzvos (commandments) are weighed against our sins.  If we have more mitzvos than sins, we are inscribed for another year of life.  Obviously, this is not a quantitative evaluation, that is, the number of offenses verses the number of good deeds.  The judgment takes into account the quality of our deeds.”

Yet even with the very best quality of deeds, and even when we work our hardest, there is no way America could survive a test like this, weighing our good deeds against our bad deeds. How much weight does a single abortion carry, let alone tens of millions? How much weight does a single act of sex trafficking carry, let alone tens of thousands?

That’s why we plead for mercy. That’s why we repent so deeply. That’s why, in the synagogues, beginning Sunday night, Jewish prayers will focus on pleas for mercy and lengthy confessions of sin. There is no boasting of our own righteousness in the sight of a holy God.

That’s why these gatherings in DC, with minimal press coverage and without the drama of the protests and the riots, could well be the thing that saves the nation. And while the media may not have paid sufficient attention, we trust that God Himself did. That is what really matters.

All the Chips Are on the Table Now

 

When the Affordable Care Act—also known as ObamaCare—was being debated, we heard empty promises like “you can remain on your current plan” or “you can keep your doctor.” The promise-to-reality outcome was so off that “you can keep your doctor” became Politifact’s Lie of the Year in 2013. Despite the flashy ads and abundant promises, in reality, ObamaCare not only raised costs but took health care out of the hands of Americans and placed Medicaid on even worse financial footing through expansion to able-bodied adults. The already complex health care system became dominated by even more bureaucracy, even less transparency, and severe restrictions on patient choice. High premiums and government control became the new normal, putting bureaucrats—not patients—in the driver’s seat.

However, thanks to the hard work of the Trump administration and key decisions by Congress in the early years of his first term, control in health care decisions is beginning to find its way back into the hands of Americans rather than the government or special interests. 

First, President Trump expanded Association Health Plans (AHPs)—a powerful tool for small businesses to get on the same playing field as their large competitors when purchasing health coverage. AHPs help uninsured small business owners and their employees access affordable coverage by breaking down government-imposed barriers that large companies don’t have to abide by. In fact, the administration’s rule changes to expand AHPs have the opportunity to provide millions of Americans with coverage with far lower premiums.

 

The administration also extended short-term plans (STPs), which are excellent and affordable options for the millions of uninsured Americans. These plans are especially attractive for Americans in-between jobs or in need of affordable gap coverage. By expanding the duration of these plans, consumers now have access to yet another tool in the toolbox to achieve low-cost options without sacrificing quality.

After ObamaCare gave states the option to expand Medicaid to millions of able-bodied adults, enrollment exploded. It wasn’t the boon to hospitals that supporters of expansion predicted and promised. Instead, already stretched state budgets are stretched even thinner, and hospitals are being forced to close due to the lack of revenue. The Trump administration has offered states a path to walk back from the brink through commonsense Medicaid work requirements for able-bodied adults. 

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trump administration took decisive action by loosening telehealth rules, which has been critical for millions of older Americans on Medicare who were suddenly unable to access their providers in-person. And in August, the president signed an Executive Order to make many of these telehealth changes permanent—empowering Americans with disabilities, those with chronic conditions who require frequent medical consultations, and those without access to adequate transportation to continue receiving care from the comfort of their own home.

President Trump also took decisive action to take on big hospital executives by establishing a new rule to improve price transparency and provide Americans with the real cost of health care services beforehand. For far too long, health care prices have been about as clear as the swamp in Washington. This change represents a strong step towards empowering everyday Americans and improving competition in health care. Despite the protests of hospital executives wanting to conceal prices from consumers, this crucial rule was upheld by a federal court in June.

And finally, President Trump successfully repealed the individual mandate penalty under ObamaCare—a blunt mechanism that punished Americans for not purchasing health insurance or purchasing insurance that politicians simply didn’t like, such as short-term plans. Health insurance is a deeply personal choice, and no family should face steep fines because they chose incorrectly in the eyes of the government, especially when the approved options are far too expensive.

Together, these strong actions—expanding AHPs, extending short-term plans, loosening telehealth rules, improving price transparency, and quashing the individual mandate—have given Americans more control over health care once again. And unlike as we saw with ObamaCare, the current occupant of the White House actually kept his promises of expanding health care choice and freedom to millions.

This hard work should not go unnoticed—and we should be thankful that the pendulum is finally starting to swing away from the bureaucrats and towards patients and consumers.

A Dystopian ‘Biden Effect’ for the Southern Border?

 

AUSTIN, Texas – Almost immediately after President Donald Trump’s surprise 2016 election, illegal immigration fell so precipitously that, for the first time in memory, government detention centers along the Texas border remained nearly empty for months afterward. The phenomenon, characterized by a 70 percent decline in apprehensions, was called “the Trump Effect” because aspiring migrants who’d attentively heard Trump’s tough campaign rhetoric about coming border walls and immigration law enforcement figured the better choice was to just stay home.  

But an equal and opposite “Biden Effect” is in the offing, one where aspiring migrants south of the border have heard Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s campaign promises on illegal immigration and would feel profoundly incentivized to come in large numbers after a Trump loss.

There is good reason to predict that Biden’s election likely would instantly trigger a migrant caravan crisis such as when nearly a million Central Americans successfully crossed the southern border in 2018-2019 before Trump managed to end it with various temporary policies. If the Trump Effect proved anything, it was that economically distressed foreign populations closely monitor a social media communications grapevine about when and how American policy makes illegal immigration easier or harder, the chances of remaining in the country higher or lower.

Messages Heard Around the World

During a January 2020 reporting trip I took to the Mexico-Guatemala border, many U.S.-bound Central American migrants told me they planned to stay in Mexico, rather than to go home, on the gambit that a Democrat would win the White House in less than a year and reopen the pathways over the border, which they would promptly travel. At the time, Mexican military roadblocks had severely curtailed easy northward travel while the government was deporting any migrant that didn’t apply for Mexican asylum.

Many like an El Salvadoran woman with a young child trapped in Tapachula, Mexico, said they’d apply for Mexican asylum but will only use it until “Trump is defeated and the Democrats take over” because then, “things are going to get better.”

Migrants from El Salvador and Honduras indicate they plan to stay in Mexico until the outcome of the American election because, as one said, "I'll wait for that because it would make things easier to get in." 

Alma Delia Cruz, head of Mexico’s asylum office in the southern state of Chiapas, told me she knew the majority of 70,000 Mexican asylum applicants her office was then processing (up from 76 the year before) had no intention of staying in Mexico for long.

“This is just their first chance to get into the United States, of course,” she told me. “I don’t know what’s on the minds of these people exactly, but the threats from Trump can’t deter them from eventually getting into the U.S..”

In more recent months, the tide of Central Americans applying for Mexico asylum has continued to build as the American election draws near. Thousands of Haitians, Africans, Cubans, and Middle Eastern migrants also are applying for Mexican asylum, building pressure awaiting release northward on the chance that a Biden presidency will make that possible.

Hope Springs Eternal from American Political Promises

The Biden campaign’s messaging all through the Democratic primary season and after nomination is that a President Biden would all but guarantee migrants who cross the U.S. Southwest border will be able to enter without significant obstruction and then remain indefinitely with a possibility of permanent citizenship later, powerful incentive for mass migration.

Consider campaign promises heard throughout the Americas for many months now:

- A 100-day moratorium on deportations upon Biden entering office – to exempt even most criminal aliens, to be followed by a permanent extension for all but the most hardened criminal alien felons. “I don’t count drunk driving as a felony,” he said.

- Use of executive powers to immediately reverse all Trump immigration policies to include an end to border wall construction and the Remain in Mexico push-back policy that requires asylum seekers be sent to Mexico while their U.S. asylum claims are slowly adjudicated. The Biden plan also promises an end to federal prosecutions for illegal entry and to requirements that migrants apply for asylum in the first country they transit on their way to the U.S. border. 

- Access to American medical care. Biden was among the candidates who raised his hand during one primary debate when a moderator asked which of the candidates would favor providing illegal immigrants with free access to the nation’s medical care system.

- A “roadmap to citizenship” for millions of illegal immigrants in the United States.

The most pivotal of the Trump-era policies 

In June 2019, Trump threatened Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador with ruinous economic trade tariffs on all U.S.-bound exports if he did not halt the mass caravans pouring in through his country’s southern border with Guatemala. Obrador complied by deploying some 6,000 Mexican National Guard troops on more than 50 roadblocks throughout Mexico’s border states, severely thinning northbound migrant traffic.

Caravans have regularly battered themselves apart against the bulwark of Mexican troops, who rounded them up by their thousands and bused them back to Central American countries. But the caravans keep forming. They probe and test this one most effective perimeter, feeling for the slightest opportunity and weakness.

It is highly unlikely that President Biden would maintain Trump’s tariff threat against Mexico.

As a result, Mexico will almost certainly feel free of the obligation to keep the troops there and would redeploy them as soon as possible after the November election. Overnight, Mexico would return to its traditional role as a migrant-transit superhighway to the U.S. border. Caravans will just as certainly form to test the route and find it open.

The first caravan waves – importantly – would reach the U.S. border and find their way over it newly unimpeded too. Successive population waves, seeing the vanguards succeed unhindered would pour through the breach for as long as those too are unopposed.

Predicting migration flows isn’t the kind of bet on which to place real money, since trends can be notoriously unpredictable and susceptible to unforeseeable factors. The Trump Effect eventually wore off once migrant communities noticed that campaign promises were taking quite a long time to actually implement and then, when some of them were, caused a rush on the border in 2018 that Trump had to counter in ways no one could have envisioned at the time (such as threatening Mexico trade tariffs).

Likewise, a Biden administration, seeing an initial rush on the border in the wake of Democratic victory, might not follow through for quite some time with his policy ideas and, ultimately, if he decides mass migration must be stopped, be forced to leave some of Trump’s in place.

Reclaim American Drug Supply Chains to Counter Chinese Influence

 

China is threatening to cut off our supply of critical medicines even as we suffer in the midst of a pandemic. A shocking headline from the South China Morning Post on August 26 highlights just how real this threat truly is: “China Could Weaponise drug exports to retaliate against US chip restrictions, Beijing Advisor Says.” As I have highlighted in a previous op-ed, this threat must not be taken lightly.

The South China Morning Post is owned by Alibaba and believed by many to be a mouthpiece for the Chinese Communist Party. Li Daokui, the advisor quoted in the article, is a very influential professor of finance at Tsinghua University in Beijing. And according to Congressional testimony from Rosemary Gibson, author of China Rx, “If China shut the door on exports of medicines and their key ingredients and raw materials, U.S. hospitals and military hospitals and clinics would cease to function within months, if not days.”

Unfortunately, this is not the only medicine-related issue exposed by the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. According to Senior Trade Advisor Peter Navarro, “We have already witnessed over 80 countries impose some form of export restrictions on medicines or medical supplies, proving that no matter how strong our friendships or alliances may be, they mean nothing in a pandemic. It’s ‘Lord of the Flies.’” Examples of drugs that have been subject to these export restrictions include things as basic as acetaminophen, a common pain killer. 

Fortunately, there is some good news. President Trump has invoked the Defense Production Act (DPA) to help bring pharmaceutical and medical supply chains back to the United States. This is a powerful and important step to protecting our nation’s health and wellbeing. 

After deliberation with his team at the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy and Defense Production Act, Peter Navarro identified New York-based company Kodak as best equipped to manufacture key starting materials and active pharmaceutical ingredients (API). Yes, that Kodak. 

Their expertise in chemicals expands beyond traditional photography. The company even already has a smaller unit dedicated to the production of key starting materials, the building blocks for active pharmaceutical ingredients. It’s a match-made in heaven.

This iconic brand has existing expertise and capacity ready to help onshore one of our nation’s most critical industries. As a result, on July 28 there was an announcement that the government would loan Kodak $765 million “to help expedite domestic production of drugs that can treat a variety of medical conditions and loosen the U.S. reliance on foreign sources.” 

Wall Street loved the idea and the price of Kodak shares jumped from around $2 in late-July to $60 in a matter of days. All seemed well until early trading appeared to front-run the official announcement. The huge price gains drew serious scrutiny from the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as Democrat congressional committees, resulting in the DPA loan being placed on hold pending further review. 

To prove everything was above board Kodak initiated an independent investigation into the alleged offenses; this week, that investigation cleared Kodak of all accusations and the company released the full report.   

The investigators asserted, “Kodak, and its officers, directors, and senior management did not violate the securities regulations or other relevant laws, engage in a breach of fiduciary duty, or violate any of Kodak’s internal policies and procedures.”

While the investigations are important, it’s essential that we not miss the bigger issues of our national health and security. Eastman Kodak is an ideal partner for onshoring at least part of our critical medical supply. This innovative company accumulated over 20,000 patents in a century and even invented the digital camera. And, Kodak is ahead of the curve, already manufacturing these key starting materials.

The Defense Production Act has the funds necessary to help Kodak accelerate the API business. This would result in hundreds of new American jobs and enhanced health security for millions of Americans. We should move forward on this immediately. The risk and threat is too great to wait any longer; we should not deprive Americans of this important progress from the Defense Production Act. 

This loan should be approved so we can start the process of regaining control of America’s drug supply from China. And we should use this partnership as a model to secure other supplies critical to the health and wellbeing of Americans.

Why Is The Mainstream Media Signaling That A Much Larger Stock Market Crash Is Coming?

In recent weeks, the mainstream media has been overly indicating that a stock market crash is about to happen. There are many ongoing discussions about a potential dramatic fall in stock prices that will likely come by the end of the month. And even though a market crash can happen at any time, especially with such a massive overvaluation in prices, it is uncommon to see corporate-led media telling us what to expect about the next developments in the stock market, hinting to where it is headed next. For that reason, today, we rounded up some of the mainstream media statements that point to the imminent financial market downfall to investigate what is laying behind the curtains. Is this a new smokescreen? Or a widespread meltdown is much closer than we thought? That's what we are going to find out, so keep with us, and don't forget to give this video a thumbs up, share it with your friends, and subscribe to our channel not to miss out on the unfoldings of the economic collapse. Earlier this year, when the health crisis started to spread on American grounds, corporate media started to release one report after the other about an incoming crash in stock prices. Now, they're doing it again. This time around, the difference is that many media outlets are reasoning the same mantra: the downfall is near. They seem to have a virtual certainty that price evaluations won't be sustained for any longer and by the end of next week, the financial scenery can turn upside down. Not long ago, the news was focusing on praising the market rebound after the huge tech stock sell-off, and then suddenly, it decided to shift its focus, leaving us wondering why would the mainstream media want all of us to believe that a financial crash is at the door? It goes without saying that prices are dramatically overvalued. For the past three weeks stock prices either flatlined or taken the downward direction, and all of the major stock indexes have recorded sharp declines for three weeks in a row, and it seems this week will make it four. Up-to-date, the Dow Jones Industrial Average went down 4.5 percent this month, the S&P 500 went down over 6 percent, and the Nasdaq declined about 8.5 percent. Essentially, the market is experiencing the worst September in 18 years, but the corporate-led media is signaling that things are going to get even worse. Additionally, it reported that Deutsche Bank economists consider that a policy shift may arrive sooner than we thought, explaining that "financial crises have often been touched off in the past under such conditions by the inevitable shift from policy ease to policy tightening, which is likely still at least several years away, but could surprise sooner". Once again, we definitely agree that a global financial crisis could emerge at any time, but we don't typically see a corporate-controlled news outlet alerting for a "looming" stock market collapse.  All things considered, and with signals coming from many different sources, the financial abyss seems to be at the corner. As the remaining 90% are struggling to stay afloat and barely having conditions to properly evaluate the situation, they're probably going to be pushed to the edge without even noticing. In the meantime, the wealthy 1% has already managed to secure themselves and dump whatever stocks they don't feel confident about, leaving the consequences of the volatility of such stocks to be taken care of by the unsuspecting others.  The next stock price drop will be followed by a quick rebound to add some heat in the political narrative and then a sharp drop once again. So, during this whole process, the beaten economy will face yet another downturn. It's a never-ending cycle of inflating and bursting the debt bubble. How long will the system be able to sustain it? It's anyone's guess. But we can't say we haven't been warned.

China Is Killing The Dollar

 As a consequence of the Fed's pledge to keep printing money limitlessly to bailout the shaken US economy, China has decided to change its importing of industrial goods policy, setting a more aggressive and strategic approach, which is being evaluated by some economic experts as the final coup for the dollar's purchasing power. Even though there may be geopolitical reasons as well, the main reason behind China's move is to add pressure on the Fed's monetary policies and disturb the dollar's status in foreign exchanges. That is what we are going to show you today. In this video, we are going to take a closer look at the Chinese plan that is likely to kill the dollar. So stay with us and don't forget to give this video a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel to keep updated about the unfoldings of the economic collapse. Not long ago, China hinted to have intentions to dump all US Treasury and agency bonds it holds if the relationship with America deteriorates further in the face of the ongoing Trade War. This veiled threat was interpreted by economic analysts as a cover for China to reduce its dollar exposure more aggressively, impacting directly at the dollar's strength on the markets. Earlier this month, Chinese state-owned Global Times published a front-page article alerting that "China will gradually decrease its holdings of US debt to about $800billion under normal circumstances. But of course, China might sell all of its US bonds in an extreme case, like a military conflict," according to Xi Junyang, a professor at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics in an interview for the paper. Some may think that an independent professor wouldn't be an authority when it comes to point out China's intentions on the geostrategic game, but his statement wouldn't make the front page article if the Chinese government hasn't sanctioned it. Therefore, the announcement was perceived as a message that China is ready to collapse the US Treasury market. Previously, advocates of the US government have argued that no one would buy China's entire holdings, however, it is being suggested that China will put the Treasury holdings in trust for victims affected by the global sanitary outbreak. In that way, it would undermine foreign trust in the dollar and potentially bring its reserve role to a swift conclusion.  For the time being, the tide is calm, but if a storm sparks a financial war and China puts its entire holding on the market, Treasury yields would drastically climb, except if the Fed intervenes buying the whole lot. In such a scenario, China would have roughly a trillion dollars to sell, meaning it would drive the dollar down against whatever the Chinese buy. In fact, if the eastern superpower decided to dump its holding of US Treasuries, eventually, other foreign holders would follow the same move, and that would be the end for the dollar’s role as the world’s reserve currency, leaving the US and many other global economies in big trouble.

Disregard Their Previous Hysteria, Democrats Now Say In-Person Voting is Safe

 The Democrats' hopes of having the November election completely ballot harvested by mail are in tatters, following a string of court losses and a strategy that appears to have backfired. Democrats are now scrambling to reassure their worried base that voting in-person during the coronavirus is safe after all. Disregard their previous hysteria over the past six months.   

Democrats, ever confident in the media's ability to gaslight the American people, are now telling voters that it's completely safe to cast your ballot in-person come November. Democrats spent months accusing people of not caring about human life if they opposed Crazy Nancy's plan to mail 160 million ballots out and allow paid campaign operatives (harvesters) to go around collecting them. What could possibly go wrong with the Antifa mob showing up at your door to make sure your ballot is filled out correctly?

Of course, science has always suggested that voting in person poses little risk of spreading the Wuhan coronavirus. About 413,000 people voted in-person during the Wisconsin primary and a very small number, a few dozen, of coronavirus cases were linked to the election. There were no deaths. South Korea also held its elections and not a single coronavirus case was linked to in-person voting. Even Dr. Fauci has said there is no reason people can't safely vote in-person this November.

While there was no spike in COVID cases after the Wisconsin election, there was a spike in absentee ballots found lying around in the streets of Milwaukee. The same was true in Nevada, where ballots stacked up outside apartment complexes and other areas in and around Las Vegas.

Voter rolls are notoriously messy. People die, move out of state, and register to vote over and over again, which is why the rolls need to be cleaned in order to prevent voter fraud. Moving a national election just months away to vote-by-mail was never a tenable option, but Democrats insisted the ballot box should be secured by nothing more than the honor system.

Democrats never believed their own hysteria over voting in-person. In early May, Democrats added three polling centers in Democrat-rich cities in California in a last-minute effort to keep the state's 25th congressional district blue in a special election to replace disgraced former-Rep. Katie Hill (D). Democrats purposefully set up a polling center in the most diverse part of the district, even knowing the coronavirus disproportionately kills minorities. If they believed in-person voting would be a super-spreader event, why would Democrats risk the lives of their constituents? And let's not forget the media also greenlit the leftist riots for months.

Democrats never cared about the health of Americans one way or the other. All they care about is politicizing the pandemic to regain power in November.

So, How Do They Dump Biden?

 As the Democrat presidential campaign degenerates into “Weekend at Gropey’s,” a question arises: Assuming the Dems and their media minions somehow drag that rickety, basement-dwelling weirdo across the finish line, how do they get rid of him post-inauguration? Clearly, he would be a figurehead as Dr. Demento – sorry, Dr. Jill – and Kamala Harris joust for control before a backdrop of scheming pinko puppetmasters. But sooner or later, probably sooner, the Dem elite is going to try to put him out to pasture. How could they pull it off? And can they? Let’s see…

A few caveats: I think Donald Trump is going to win, so this is all hypothetical. The only bright spot for the Dems is the garbage polls his lying mainstream media allies keep pushing, and the liars are even having to concede that those are tightening, especially in states that matter. We’re days away from them pulling Grandpa Badfinger out of the debate. My money is still on the “I won’t normalize Trump’s racist cisgender sexism by appearing on stage with him” excuse, but “I fear the flu” is a close second. His recent catastrophic appearances outside his dungeon lair demonstrate that this guy couldn’t hack a debate if he was snorting rails of Namenda like Hunter hoovering blow on New Year’s Eve in Medellin. Trump holds an indisputable edge in other important areas, too, like enthusiasm, ground game, and continence.  

I also want to put aside the very serious issue of the Democrat transition disruption plans, a plot so staggeringly unwise that only our garbage elite could conceive of it and think it would work out all right for them. Their dual track strategy of stealing the election through legal and extra-legal shenanigans, followed by cementing their own power via attacks on the Supreme Court, the Electoral College, giving statehood to territories, defunding cops, and disarming the populace even as they attempt to limit free speech are a recipe for disaster. So, let’s put aside the second civil war these fools seem intent on provoking – our esteemed elite does not seem to remember that Democrats are already 0-1 – and assume the peaceful transition of power they would deny Trump (and you).

Let’s focus on how they try to get rid of Bad Touch Biden should they win, because it’s pretty obvious that he can’t function as president, and it’s pretty obvious that other people want that gig. They are sharpening their knives already.

There is one huge problem with getting rid of him: his wife. She wants to be president so bad she can taste it, and she’s more excited to be president – uh, I mean first lady – than Brian Stelter, who is a potato, is at the thought of visiting Golden Corral. She’s going to do everything she can to be a limo lib Edger Bergen to her husband’s less-animated Charlie McCarthy. Moreover, the Joe Junta of advisors wants its payoff. With Depends Boy as figurehead, they not only get jobs but they get a whole lot of lightly supervised power. So, there will be a potent Dem faction supporting the Presidency of the Living Dead.

But others in the Dem elite want Oldfinger out of the way. Of course, Kamala Harris is the grasping, striving avatar of this faction. She’s already talking about “a Harris Administration.” If I were Dr. Jill, which would be weird, I’d send some intern out to start Air Force One in the morning and hire a taster to clear Joe’s mornin’ mush. Now, am I saying that Kamala Harris would physically harm Joe Biden? Let’s just say that I’d rather gulp down Ruth Gordon’s smoothies in Rosemary’s Baby than roll those dice.

Regardless, she (and the Democrat establishment using the crusty crustacean as a Trojan Horse to retake power) will want be rid of him. The 25th Amendment is the most obvious play. And, frankly, it would be legit, since he is manifestly incompetent, not that stuff like facts and truth matter in modern politics.

The 25th Amendment, one of the rare parts of the Constitution that Democrats like, has been their fantasy Hail Mary play since Trump beat Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit. It is worth reviewing the entire process for replacing the president as outlined in Section 4, since, if America is dumb enough to elect the Dementiacrat in seven weeks, we’ll all be getting really familiar with it:

    Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

    Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

So, here is how it goes. President Biden gets inaugurated showing up for the ceremony in his untied bathrobe and confusing the oath with the Armour hot dogs jingle. Very quickly, Dr. Jill and the Biden Bunch start running things in his name while he spends his day upstairs in the Lincoln Bedroom, sitting on a stool, watchin’ his stories. The media gets busy covering for him because no contrary memo has circulated.

They ice out Kamala, who tries to assert control. Instead of wielding power, she’s sent off to do veep stuff, like appear at the bar mitzvah for the nephew of the High Poobah of Burkino Faso. This annoys her, and her allies – remember, due to her notorious flexibility, she is the candidate Obama and the establishment really wanted.

The trigger for the coup will be when Biden’s handlers are unable to push through the entire lefty agenda through Congress in the first 100 days. Banning guns, packing the Supreme Court, single-payer, Green New Scam. Assuming the worst case, that Schumer takes the Senate majority, they have to kill the filibuster and outmaneuver Cocaine Mitch to do all that. They need an active, potent president, and the one they are stuck with is busy slurping oatmeal.


The rush to the left bogs down because Biden can’t lead. The Democrat base starts getting restless, and it accurately assesses that the problem is that they nominated and elected a senile old weirdo. Dr. Jill gets a visit from a delegation of Dem bigwigs who tell her it’s time for him to resign. She refuses. She probably does not even let them see Joe, who is busy with a puzzle.

A decision is made: Kamala needs to take over.

The cabinet is full of folks like Pete Buttigieg, and with the aggressive action one would expect of the Audie Murphy of Kabul, he leads the other cabinet members (all of whom imagine they could be the next veep) to declare in writing that Joe is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Kamala takes over as acting president.

But the fight has only just started. Dr. Jill and the Biden Battalion send their own letter to the President pro tem and the Speaker of the House denying any disability. Within four days, Kamala and the cabinet send their response saying the opposite. Now Congress has to decide the issue. It assembles within 48 hours and has to vote within 21 days on whether Biden gets booted.

That’s when the snapping Murder Turtle bites hard. See, to remove Joe and permanently install Kamala, you need “two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.” McConnell now holds all the cards. There's no two-thirds without his GOP bloc. He goes to Dr. Jill and says, “You chill on the leftism, and we let President Magoo – and you – run out the clock until 2024.”

Of course, she agrees. She’s got no choice. It’s either run a center-left presidency without the insane leftist nonsense Diddles ran on, or pack her stuff and get the hell out. That’s an easy call. President Biden gets to stumble through the next four years while Kamala gets to spend her terms doing potlucks with el Presidente de Paraguay.

Think it can’t happen?

Dude, it’ll be 2021. After 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and now 2020, do you believe there is any insane scenario that can’t actually happen in 2021?

Is Cultural Marxism America's New Mainline Ideology?

 

Another name for the neo-Marxism of increasing popularity in the United States  is cultural Marxism.” This theory says that the driving force behind the socialist revolution is not the proletariat — but the intellectuals. While Marxism has largely disappeared from the workers' movement, Marxist theory flourishes today in cultural institutions, in the academic world, and in the mass media. This “cultural Marxism” goes back to Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) and the Frankfurt School. The theorists of Marxism recognized that the proletariat would not play the expected historical role as a “revolutionary subject.” Therefore, for the revolution to happen, the movement must depend on the cultural leaders to destroy the existing, mainly Christian, culture and morality and then drive the disoriented masses to Communism as their new creed. The goal of this movement is to establish a world government in which the Marxist intellectuals have the final say. In this sense, the cultural Marxists are the continuation of what started with the Russian revolution.

Lenin and the Soviets

Led by Lenin, the perpetrators of the revolution regarded their victory in Russia only as the first step to the world revolution. The Russian Revolution was neither Russian nor proletarian. In 1917, the industrial workers in Russia represented only a small part of the workforce, which mainly consisted of peasantry. The Russian Revolution was not the result of a labor movement but of a group of professional revolutionaries . A closer look at the composition of the Bolshevist party and of the first governments of the Soviet state and its repressive apparatus reveals the true character of the Soviet revolution as a project that did not aim at freeing the Russian people from the Tsarist yoke but was to serve as the launchpad for the world revolution.

The experience of World War I and its aftermath showed that the Marxist concept of the "proletariat" as a revolutionary force was an illusion. At the example of the Soviet Union, one could also see that socialism could not function without a dictatorship. These considerations brought the leading Marxist thinkers to the conclusion that a different strategy would be required to establish socialism. Communist authors spread the insight that the socialist dictatorship must come in disguise. Before socialism can succeed, the existing culture must change. Control of the culture must precede political control.

Cultural Control Rises in Tandem with Political Control

Helping the neo-Marxists was the fact many of their efforts in taking control of culture happened parallel to the encroachment of the state on individual liberties. Over the past decades, at the same time when so-called political correctness has been on the rise, the American government obtained a vast arsenal of repressive instruments. Few Americans seem to know that the U.S. is still under emergency law that has been in force since George W. Bush used the executive privilege to declare a state of national emergency in 2001. In the same year, 9/11 opened also the path to push through the Patriot Act . From a score of around 95 points, the Freedom House "Aggregate Index of Freedom" of the United States has fallen to 86 points in 2018.

Moral Corruption

The way toward the rule of the cultural Marxists is the moral corruption of the people. To accomplish this, the mass media and public education must not enlighten but confuse and mislead. The media and the educational establishment work to put one part of the society against the other part. While group identities get more specific, the catalog of victimization and history of oppression becomes more detailed. To turn into a recognized victim of suppression is the way to gain social status and to obtain the right to special assistance, of respect and social inclusion.

The demand for social justice creates an endless stream of expenditures deemed essential — for health, education, old age, and for all those people who are "needy," "persecuted" and "oppressed," be it real or imaginary. The flood of never-ending spending in these areas corrupts the state finances and produces fiscal crises. This helps the Neo-Marxists accuse "capitalism" of all evils when, in fact, it is the regulatory state that provokes the systemic failures and when it is the excess of public debt that causes the financial fragility.

Politics, the media, and the judiciary never pause at waging the new endless wars: the war on drugs or against high blood pressure or the campaigns that assert the endless struggle against fat and obesity. The list of the enemies grows every day whether racism, xenophobia, and anti-Islamism. The epitome of this movement is political correctness, the war against having one's own opinion. While the public tolerates disgusting expositions of behavior, particularly under the cult of the arts, the list of prohibited words and opinions grows daily. Public opinion must not go beyond the few accepted positions. Yet while the public debate impoverishes, the diversity of radical opinion flourishes in the hidden.

The cultural Marxists drive society morally into an identity crisis by the means of the false standards of a hypocritical ethics. The aim is no longer the "dictatorship of the proletariat," because this project has failed, but the "dictatorship of political correctness" whose supreme authority lies in the hands of the cultural Marxists. As a new class of priests, the guardians of the new orthodoxy rule the institutions whose power they try to extend over all parts of the society. The moral destruction of the individual is a necessary step to accomplish the final victory.

Opium of the Intellectuals

The believers of neo-Marxism are mainly intellectuals. Workers, after all, are a part of the economic reality of the production process and know that the socialist promises are rubbish. Nowhere was socialism established as the result of a labor movement. The workers have never been the perpetrators of socialism but always its victim. The leaders of the revolution have been intellectual party politicians and military men. It was up to the writers and artists to conceal the brutality of the socialist regimes through articles and books and by films, music, and paintings, and to give socialism a scientific-intellectual, aesthetic and moral appearance. In the socialist propaganda, the new system appears to be both fair and productive.

The cultural Marxists believe that someday they will be the sole holders of power and be able to dictate to the masses how to live and what to think. Yet the neo-Marxist intellectuals are in for a surprise. When socialism should come indeed, the "dictatorship of the intellectuals" will be anything but benign — and not much different from what happened after the Soviets took power. The intellectuals will be among the victims. This was, after all, the way as it had happened in the French Revolution, which was the first attempt of a revolution by intellectuals.  Many of the victims of the guillotine were prominent intellectuals who had earlier supported the revolution — Robespierre among them.

In his play about "Danton’s Death," the dramatist Georg Büchner famously had a person say: "Like Saturn, the revolution devours its own children." Yet more appropriately one should say that the revolution eats its spiritual fathers. The very same intellectuals who nowadays promote cultural Marxism will be the first in line if their project of conquest should succeed.

Conclusion

Contrary to what Marx believed, history is not pre-determined. The march through the institutions has gone far but there is not yet been a full take-over. There is still time to change course. To counteract the movement, one must note the inherent weakness of cultural Marxism. To the extent that the neo-Marxists altered classical Marxism and eliminated its basic tenets (deepening proletarianization, historical determinism, total collapse of capitalism), the movement has become even more utopian than previously socialism ever was.

As the successors of the New Left, the "democratic socialists" of the present time propagate a hodgepodge of contradictory positions. Because of the character of this movement as a promoter of group conflict, neo-Marxism is ineffectual to serve as an instrument of gaining coherent political power as it were necessary for a dictatorship. Yet this does not mean that the neo-Marxist movement has no impact. On the contrary: because of its inherent contradictions, the ideology of cultural Marxism is the main source of the profound confusion that has grabbed almost every segment of the modern Western societies and which is about to swell into even more dangerous proportions.

Trump Announces Military Will Help Administer Wuhan Coronavirus Vaccine

 

Speaking from the White House Wednesday afternoon, President Trump announced he has ordered the military to help administer a Wuhan coronavirus vaccine to the American public when it becomes available. The move comes as part of the newly released National Vaccine Distribution Plan, which was sent out to governors of all 50 states today. 

"Today my administration released our detailed National Vaccine Distribution Plan and that includes a plan to ensure that we swiftly deliver the vaccine directly to America's senior citizens in nursing homes and it's all set. We have our military lined up. Everybody is lined up and we think that's going to go nicely," Trump said. "We're fully mobilizing the awesome power of American industry and also our military."

"We're on track to deliver and distribute the vaccine in a very, very safe and effective manner," Trump continued, saying December will be the latest date 100,000 doses will be distributed with the possibility of an October start date. "We're ready to move and it will be a full distribution."

Today, the Trump Administration released its National Vaccine Distribution Plan! pic.twitter.com/9BfdQkieVi

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) September 16, 2020

When asked about a specific timeline for when anyone who wants a vaccine will be able to get one, President Trump said, "Very soon...the safety has to be 100 percent"

Dr. Scott Atlas, who is a member of the White House Wuhan coronavirus task force, also detailed plans for distribution and touted the 57-page plan developed by the Trump administration to get as many Americans as possible the vaccinated efficiently. 

"This is a very detailed plan that started months ago," Atlas said. 

During the briefing, President Trump also slammed Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden for questioning the vaccine's safety. 

"I'm calling on Biden to stop promoting his anti-vaccine theories because all they're doing is hurting the importance of what we're doing," Trump said.

The Devil and Karl Marx

 

Paul Kengor is a professor of political science at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania. He has just published "The Devil and Karl Marx," a careful look at the diabolical side of Karl Marx. The book has come out during an important time in our history since so many Americans, particularly our youth, have fallen for the seductive siren song of socialism taught to them by the academic elite.

"The Black Book of Communism," edited by Stephane Courtois, details the Marxist-Leninist death toll in the 20th century. Here is the breakdown: USSR, 20 million deaths; China, 65 million; Vietnam, 1 million; North Korea and Cambodia, 2 million each; Eastern Europe, 1 million; and about 3.5 million in Latin America, Africa and Afghanistan. These figures understate those detailed by Professor R.J. Rummel in "Death by Government." He finds that from 1917 until its collapse, the Soviet Union murdered or caused the death of 61 million people, mostly its own citizens. From 1949 to 1976, Communist China's Mao Zedong regime was responsible for the death of as many as 78 million of its own citizens.

The world's intellectual elite readily focus on Adolf Hitler's murderous atrocities but ignore those of the world's socialists. Mao Zedong has been long admired by academics and leftists across our country. They often marched around singing his praises and waving his little red book, "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung." President Barack Obama's communications director, Anita Dunn, in her June 2009 commencement address to St. Andrews Episcopal High School at Washington National Cathedral, said Mao was one of her heroes.

Whether it's the academic community, the media elite, stalwarts of the Democratic Party or organizations such as the NAACP, the National Council of La Raza, Green for All, the Sierra Club and the Children's Defense Fund, there is a great tolerance for the ideas of socialism -- a system that has caused more deaths and human misery than all other systems combined. Today's leftists, socialists and progressives would bristle at the suggestion that their agenda differs little from those of Nazi, Soviet and Maoist mass murderers. Keep in mind that one does not have to be in favor of death camps or wars of conquest to be a tyrant. The only requirement is that one must believe in the primacy of the state over individual rights.

Kengor highlights another feature of Marx ignored by his followers. This feature of Marxism should be disturbing to Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors, who said that she and her fellow organizers are "trained Marxists." I wonder whether she shares Marx's views on race. Marx's son-in-law, Paul Lafargue, was viewed as having Negro blood in his veins. Marx denigrated him as "Negillo" and "The Gorilla."

Marx had similar hate for Jews. He referred to his fellow socialist labor organizer Ferdinand Lasalle as a "greasy Jew," "the little kike," "water polack jew" and "Jewish n----r." In 1844, Marx wrote an essay titled "The Jewish Question" in which he asks, "What is the worldly cult of the Jew?" His answer: "Haggling. What is his worldly god? Money."

Down through the years, leftists made a moral equivalency between communist/socialist totalitarianism and democracy. W. E. B. Du Bois, writing in the National Guardian (1953) said, "Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature." Walter Duranty called Stalin "the greatest living statesman ... a quiet, unobtrusive man." George Bernard Shaw expressed admiration for Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin. Economist John Kenneth Galbraith visited Mao's China and praised Mao Zedong and the Chinese economic system. Michel Oksenberg, President Jimmy Carter's China expert, complained that "America is doomed to decay until radical, even revolutionary, change fundamentally alters the institutions and values," and urged us to "borrow ideas and solutions" from China.

Kengor does a yeoman's job of highlighting the evils of Marxism. The question is whether Americans will heed his lesson or fall prey to the false promises and live the horrors of socialism. By the way, while Sweden and Denmark have a large welfare system, they have market economies -- not socialist economies, as some leftists claim.

My 10 core beliefs on United States

 

Ten core beliefs.

1.) I believe America is a noble nation. I do not believe that any country should be held accountable for past injustices. Every nation on Earth have commited injustice in its past. Look at England, look at france, look at italy, look at Russia, look at China, the killing of natve americans is disturbing, but the slavery was hanius. You don’t hold modern day Americans accountable for what happened 100 years ago. That tears the fabric of our county apart. You can look at all the money spend freeing people around the world. No country on Earth is even close. Thats why we’re an exceptional county and remain so.

2.) Reforms are necessary. Police lethal force has to be standardized. It has to be clear to the American public. The FBI should be involved in this, and the training should be through the FBI standards. There should be a manual, but this time to train police. This is what you do in the FBI, this is what you do locally in the state. We need new drug laws, because they’re not being enforced. Barack Obama is telling us that heroine is a non-volient crime. To me that is insane, heroine kills people. Meth kills people. Its not a volient crime to sell it. What can we put up in this country as far as drugs. There needs to be better voting laws. If you’re going to send the ballets to everybody, you’re going to have massive fraud.

3. We need new abortion laws, we can’t abort fetuses 15 minutes before birth. You can’t do it and call yourself a country based on law. We need a definition of what is allowed and what isn’t.

4. Capitalism is good. Capitalism gives to most people the most opportunity. Why do you think 20 million people have snuck into this country. The United States invented the airplane and light bulb. We invented everything. Why? We’re rewarded economically when we do due to the patint system. You don’t have innovation coming out of Russia or China. Lets see if they did the vaccine. As soon as someone invents something there, the government takes it away from them so you don’t have innovation. So capitalism is a strength not an exploitative weakness.

5. Self protection, because the government and law enforcement can’t. So we must protect ourselves with firearms within reason. No bazookas. No mortar. No surface to air missile. Thats a public safety hazard. We have the right to protect ourselves. We can have a debate about clips.

6. The federal and state governments have to respect religious beliefs. If I believe abortion is wrong, you can’t give my money to other people under the US constitution. You can’t else you violate the Constitution. You can’t force someone to attend a gay wedding and that has to be respected.

7. We have to adopt the United Kingdom system of civil litigation. Fri-bilious lawsuits, you got to pay.

8.Law enforcement and judges must be protected from lawsuits. If you sue a police officer, you’re not going to have any police officers left, because they can’t afford to defend it. If you can sue judges for a outcome. Democrats want that. That’s how you destroy law enforcement. Nanci polisi is villian #1 in this. The federal government needs guidelines for the public school system. The public school system isn’t fair for the poor. Not running day to day classroom. There should be uniforms.

9. I believe in term limits for Congresspeople. Two terms for Senators. It should be bye after that.

10. Balanced budget. We have to stop the madness. United States owes 30 trillion dollars.

We were told the economy is growing and growing, but these are government census workers. Total claims is 13.385 million an increase of 93,000 previous. It’s complete milpiation in front of our very own eyes. Those educated people are using those same quota numbers. The continuing claims for unemployment insurance is setting at 13.4 million. The labor department said there was 884,000 Americans that filed jobless claims, but only 839,000 jobless claims were reported. Most people have a gig job and if they didn’t have a side hustle, the economy would be stagnate. New York City has seen 15,000 empty apartments in August. There is this small group of people who are better then ever before with this K shaped recovery. People don’t care if the JC Penny or Best Buy goes under, because its not going to affect them. There is a group of people with full time work and high salaries, but there is also other people affected growing in percentage. There are buying up on a tanker and letting it sit in the middle of the ocean. They’re running of room to put the oil, but the federal reserve can print more money and that will fix it. The shipments are 1296 on the baltic drive index and is declining. Fed Balance Sheet has been increasing. They’re retracing some of their steps. The federal reserve is buying bonds, because they want to help the little guy with the mainstreet lending program.

Wine Careers Are the Embodiment of the American Dream But the Left Is Trying to Destroy Them

A recent article from the San Francisco Chronicle cast wine professionals in a rather unflattering light and asserted that certain practices of sommeliers and wine journalists were actually racist. The author insisted that tasting terminology used by sommeliers and wine writers leaned too heavily on European influence and catered only to those of European heritage. 

The author Esther Mobley, who is credited as the San Francisco Chronicle's wine critic, explains how she came to the conclusion that wine tasting terminology is racist and sexist to boot. 

Wine language is so often absurd that it’s a punchline. Notes of smoldering tobacco or forest underbrush or underripe Jonagold apple — it sounds almost farcical in its specificity. Even worse is when the descriptor is inedible. How many people have actually tasted a wet river stone, anyway? 

But now, it’s becoming clearer than ever that the conventional language used to describe wine isn’t merely intimidating and opaque. It’s also inextricable from racism and sexism, excluding dimensions of flavor that are unfamiliar to the white, Western cultures that dominate the world of fine wine and reinforcing retrograde notions of gender.

For years, I worked in this industry as both a sommelier, certified by the famed Court of Master Sommeliers, and as a wine journalist. And from experience, I can say the learning curve to get to the summit of wine professionalism is staggering for anyone, regardless of their ethnicity or country of origin.

But far from racist or sexist, the wine industry is actually a bastion for inclusion and equal opportunity. Any person, from any background, can achieve the greatest success in the wine expert field as long as they are willing to put the work in. It is not limited only to those born into a wealthy family; it is not limited only to those with expensive graduate degrees and it certainly excludes no person based on their biological sex or race. 

It is not, however, easy, under any circumstances. I didn't grow up in a wine family or among the great vineyards of Europe. I fell in love with the idea of wine tasting in my twenties while working as a server in a restaurant, a job widely acknowledged to be one of the lowest skill requirement professions available. 

Despite my western European ancestry, as Mobley implied, I wasn't privy to most of the flavors and aromas more tenured wine pros were describing to me. Instead of slamming down my tasting glass and proclaiming the learning process "unfair," however, I went out and figured out what some of this stuff tasted and smelled like. It turned out, that wasn't particularly hard. And I learned to be a good cook in the process. 

It was a years-long venture that forced me to create new methods of learning and required me to stay constantly curious. It was anything but a smooth ride given to me on a platter; but if it had been easy, it wouldn't have been worth the effort. Despite having left the industry some years ago, receiving my Certified Sommelier pin after years of studying, tasting, failing, and repeating remains one of my proudest personal achievements. 

Former colleagues of mine from even more varied backgrounds, including one African American man who confided in me once the hellacious circumstances of his childhood, have become some of the most celebrated sommeliers in the world. It truly is a remarkable profession and achievement is only limited by the amount of God-given talent and hard work a person is willing to put in it, nothing else. 

But Mobley and others want us to believe the system is rigged against people based only on their sex or skin color. This is bigotry by the standard of lowered expectations: to insist that a person could only succeed in an industry if it is modified to suit them. 

Recently, the very same organization that acknowledged my hard work and that of many others, came under fire from Black Lives Matter activists for their use of the word "Master" in conjunction with the top title given out by the group. The term obviously appears in the very name of the organization, the Court of Master Sommeliers, and any assertion of racism for use of that title is obviously absurd. 

For a profession such as wine, sexism is very easily eradicated by simply saying that only those with the right qualifications can reach the summit. There are many parts to a sommelier certificate test: tasting ability, knowledge of vintages and regions, and service standards. But there is no test on whether the applicant is a man or a woman or whether they are white or black. The fact that there are more white, male Master Sommeliers than any other category points only toward the fact that the profession seems to have been more alluring to white men than any other group. 

Calling "Racism" and "Sexism" on any industry that doesn't have the right intersectional quota is outrageously unfair, particularly for an industry that has its door wide open to any person, regardless of wealth, race, sex, or any other factor. 

At a time where the restaurant industry and the wine profession is hurting more than they ever have in this country, attempting to create a strawman of bigotry and oppression instead of looking for real solutions for the hospitality industry is utterly shameful.

 

We're Not Stupid

 

Bob Woodward has a new book out. It’s supposedly bad for the sitting Republican president, released two months before the general election. It’s deemed “worse than Watergate.” Wash. Repeat. Are we seriously still doing this?  

Are we really going to treat this as some ordinary election cycle with some ordinary Republican in office? Does the media still think their ordinary reaction to a predictable, ordinary book will elicit an ordinary public reaction? Sincerely, I’m asking.  

When you’re really forced to think about the time in which we live, the men from which to choose as candidates, and the hellscape our once-great American cities have become – to even consider Bob Woodward’s book as something upon which your vote would hinge is perhaps the dumbest thing one could ponder.  

Everyone understands what this election is about. The old, tired guy who’s been a public official for nearly 50 years is now used as a prop to allow the radicals hiding behind him a seat at the table without having to actually campaign honestly and openly.  

Then there’s the sitting, bombastic president who’s way too open at times. He doesn’t need this gig another year, never mind his opponent’s 47 already logged. Nor does he care for the ways of Washington or levers of power. He wants a second term to complete an agenda on which he ran. Then, like career in real estate and development, he’ll move on to the next project. He’ll likely never set foot back in that cesspool called Washington D.C. where his opponent has made his home for half a century.

Everyone understands the people who cling to power and the trappings of political office and the media who make their livings sniffing thrones hate the president’s guts as much today as they did four years ago.  

We all understand America is still made up of two kinds of voters. Those who believe their voices should matter when it comes to sending our men and women into harm’s way, keeping more of our disposable income in our pockets, where our kids go to school, our right to defend ourselves and to speak freely, and honoring our cops and our flag. You know, “deplorables.”

The rest vote for the geriatric guy from Delaware and the screeching lady who ran before him who coughed and fell a lot. Seriously, their nominees aren’t well people.  

We all understand where we’ve been as a country. No one is unclear. A roaring economy that put more minorities and women to work than at any time in history. We watched a crushing defeat of international terrorism.  We watched the country become energy independent and awash in our own resources. Prison reform, tax reductions, school choice, celebrating and beefing up our military after it had been gutted. The conventions covered it well a couple of weeks ago.

We understand the other side wants to “build back better” even though no one knows what that means including the guy saying it. We understand the other side is furiously, deliriously angry every day their eyes open. They hate that guy in the White House, but most can’t personally tell you why in a specific way.

So, many of them took to the streets this summer and burned and looted American cities and businesses. The celebrity and athlete culture cheered the behavior and continued to remind their audiences America was largely comprised of rotten, racist, unjust devils, and that there could be no time for leisure, laughs, or love because “justice,” or something. 

Before our cities descended into chaos, a virus swept the globe. It came from China, a nation that lied and hid the severity of the outbreak with the help of the World Health Organization. It shut down our economy. It restricted our freedom of movement. Media worked overtime to scare the hell out of every American until they were paralyzed with fear or their personal lives were ruined socially, economically, or both. 

Today, many of the nation’s school kids are staring at screens from home instead of socializing with others, engaging in sports, and doing activities. Parents are literally in tears and desperation as they try to council the kids through the needless cyber void while trying to meet their own professional and personal obligations.  

Restaurants and bars and small businesses are only allowed to be open some of the time with partial customer volume while following strict “safety” protocols from their respective dictatorial local governments. Those who haven’t closed are hanging on for their financial lives. Meanwhile we catch governors, congressional leaders, and mayors flouting the same rules. 

Our urban city centers are sweeping up glass and charred remains of many minority-owned businesses and homes while indiscriminate gun violence kills dozens weekly in cities like Chicago. At the same time, a growing pop-culture movement makes it fashionable to attack and defund law enforcement officers while martyring criminals.  

The American public isn’t stupid. They see what’s going on and they’ve chosen a side. We’ll see what that looks like in a few weeks. But please shut up about Bob Woodward’s stupid

This Is Why America's Bankrupt Government Will Fail To Save The Economy From A Disaster

 he American economy is facing a complex dilemma - while it's drowning in debt it also needs to create more debt to avoid deeper damages in the already hurt Main Street economy. In simple terms, it needs at least another 3 trillion in fiscal stimulus to support American families and businesses to survive and prevent unemployment rates and business bankruptcies to continue soaring every week. However, the American debt is so high that it is forecasted to exceed the entire size of the economy and surpass the GDP growth for the next years, which indicates that at this point, the very least we can expect is half a decade in deep recession. That's why today we decided to scrutinize some recent studies to show you what are the forthcoming troubles in the next chapters of the US economic collapse. So stay with us and don't forget to hit the like and subscribe button to support our community. Yesterday, chief economist at Milken Institute, William Lee told CNBC the US needed at least $3 trillion in fiscal stimulus to support its economy, which has been highly affected by the global sanitary crisis, but it has been suffering for a long time before the current outbreak. While Congress and the White House remain in an impasse over what to comprise in the next relief package, the economist affirmed that these $3 trillion should be used to develop programs such as incentivizing businesses to increase remote working capabilities and helping the unemployed find jobs in companies with viable business models. So far, from the trillions of dollars printed and injected into the economy, most of it ended up on financial markets and were not effectively used in the benefit of the population nor with the intent to keep businesses safe. On the contrary, it has stimulated big businesses to file for bankruptcy, furloughing millions of workers, not to compromise CEOs' profits, most of which surely knew their companies would be bailed out by the Fed or the markets. The Fed's lack of planning in asset purchasing and strategics also stimulated such large corporations to lay-off their workers at a record pace so they wouldn't be responsible to provide for their workers anymore or compromise their wealth during the crisis because the government would be in charge of that. The government fell into the market's trap and had to be responsible not only for the workers, by granting stimulus checks, but also for the companies, by "saving" these large corporations, that weren't broke in the first place, and neglecting aid to small businesses that didn’t employ as many people. Otherwise, workers wouldn't be reinserted in the job market again and the economy would crash right there. As time passes by, more and more stimulus is required in the financial markets, since CEO's realized that they can demand whatever they want, because the government has to keep injecting money into the financial markets or face the threat of this designed economic collapse, which will affect the whole population, while the affluent 1% will continue to thrive.... In a nutshell, our entire analysis aimed to prove to you that our leaders are aware of a way out of this crisis but are preferring to take a different turn. They're not interested in fixing the problem, just band-aiding it for the time being and leaving this massive debt for the future generations to deal with. The economic collapse won't be a phasis or a chapter in US history. It will be a constant because that's how the system works. That's how money is made. Prepare to see taxes raising, prices soaring, little to no effort in governmental policies to keep people from starving, or living in the streets. Millions of jobs won't ever come back and several companies will never open their doors ever again. It is nauseating but is true. America is doomed, but you're not. We are not slaves to the system as they want us to believe we are. Choose to know. Choose to act. What are you waiting for?

China's Dark Turn

 "I'm more anti-China than you!"

That's a new theme of this election.

Joe Biden says, "We will never again be at the mercy of China!" Donald Trump replies, "China would own our country if Joe Biden got elected!"

It's strange to hear competition, because just a few administrations ago, presidents were eager to celebrate China. "A future of greater trade and growth and human dignity is possible!" said George W. Bush. Bill Clinton praised China's "positive change" and "great progress."

What changed? That's the subject of my new video.

Presidents Clinton and Bush were excited about China because its dictators had finally opened up China's economy. They got rid of price controls, broke up collective farms, allowed foreign investment and privatized state-run business. China, suddenly, prospered.

"People were so happy to finally see China being set on this path," says Melissa Chen, who reports on China for the Spectator. The reforms "lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty for the very first time."

Then, three years ago, Xi Jinping got himself named president for life.

He cracked down on speech, even jokes. After someone noted his resemblance to Winnie the Pooh, all mentions of the character were deleted from China's internet.

I had thought the internet couldn't be censored. Bill Clinton said it would be like "trying to nail Jell-O to the wall."
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"The Chinese figured out how to nail Jell-O to the wall," says Chen. "They built an almost perfectly walled-in internet."

China does this by employing a million censors. They block Google, Facebook, Twitter and most Western news media. A few computer-savvy Chinese citizens use forbidden apps to get around the censorship, but most don't get to see the same internet that we see.

People caught accessing banned sites are punished. Police may barge into your home, threaten your family or just restrict your choices.

"You can't make doctor's appointments," explains Chen. "You can't travel... they'll block you from buying a train ticket or a plane ticket."

Life is far worse for religious minorities such as the Muslim Uighurs. The government is waging cultural genocide against them.

About a million Uighurs are locked up in "reeducation" camps, "sometimes for years," says Chen. "Their family never hears back from them."

China won't allow reporters near the camps, but drone footage shows rows of blindfolded people with their heads shaved and their hands tied behind their backs.

Radio Free Asia adds that China's "reeducation" methods even include having Chinese men replace the Uighur men in families. They "come in and live with a family (and) sleep in the same bed as the wife," says Chen.

In short, today's China is, once again, a vicious communist dictatorship.

So, I'm amazed to watch American protesters and hear them say, "America is the world's biggest problem."

Even a recent New York Times editorial board member wrote that it was difficult to know whether the United States is "better, worse, or the same" as China.


That equivalence is "bonkers," replies Chen. "There should be no doubt about the moral equivalence between the two countries."

For one thing, we Americans are free to criticize our government.

"You can hold up a sign at a protest, saying, 'Screw Donald Trump; the United States sucks!'" explains Chen. "You cannot do anything remotely similar in China."

People in Hong Kong tried. Millions attended protests, often waving American flags. Chen says it shows they "have a hankering for American values. They crave this freedom that we take for granted."

Now they, too, have been silenced by China's government.

The American protesters who carry "democratic socialism" banners and wave Communist flags (Soviet Communists used to call people like them "useful idiots") should know what people in Hong Kong know: Socialism leads to real government oppression.

"Why would Americans want this?" asks Chen. "Why would they be waving these Communist flags, wanting socialism?"

Left-Wing Media Have Jumped the Shark

 

The Grandpa Badfinger Turgid Poll Lead Fact Check Test is this: Do you know anyone who has gone from supporting Donald Trump in 2016 to supporting that basement-dwelling commie puppet weirdo in 2020?

I know zero people.

I don’t mean “practically zero” or “a few.” I mean zero. Nil. None. That blank is emptier than the space between Gropey J’s ears.

Now is this scientific? Am I denying science again? You know, the science that has Trump ahead in the polls that tended to be more on-target in 2016 and a dozen points back in the mainstream media outlets’ polls that invariably support the mainstream media outlet’s political agendas? That science?

No, it’s not scientific. It’s anecdotal, but then when it comes to the mainstream media, I’d always believe an anecdote over what the media is telling me. Of course, I’d believe a guy trying to sell me magic beans if the New York Times ran a story trashing him.

Let’s take a moment to reflect on what utter garbage the mainstream media, how it is a bubbling cauldron of bovine processed pasture reeking of lies and liberalism. You won’t see any evidence of the migration away from the failed Democrat establishment there. You’ll barely see any coverage of that doddering, demented freak babbling his way through sparsely attended photo ops on the rare occasions he staggers out of his creepy sex dungeon to go visit a racist nut (BTW, Google tries really, really hard to ensure you can’t easily find stories chronicling this guy’s long history of pro-Farrakhan, anti-Semitic, anti-white, and anti-Christian idiocy).

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What you’ve seen are coordinated anonymous-sourced stories designed to distract from The Botox Bloweroutter’s staggering hypocrisy, the plunging unemployment numbers, and the aforementioned evidence that Oldfinger is a mush-guzzling Matlock junkie fit not for the Oval Office but for a room upstairs where he can watch his stories in peace whilst wearing a shawl.

If only someone would write a book on the defamation agenda of our trash elite and its media gimps titled, say, The 21 Biggest Lies about Donald Trump (and You!).

But the slander flex is no longer working. The “Trump hates the vets” lie lasted about 12 hours and then died. Gone. Kaput. No one bought it, not even its purveyors. No one switched sides because of this manifest bullSchiff, except maybe toward Trump. No one said “Yeah, the party that parties with Jane Fonda is the party us vets should back.” Particularly amusing was the Democrat’s new position on the Vietnam War. They are now for it again, which completes the circle since they started it and lost it. Also hilarious was the idea you were going to make conservatives like Trump less because he said mean things about John McCain. Put that right up there with “Trump nailed Playboy playmates!” on the “This is not going to work out how you think it will” shelf.

The fact is no one is moving to Biden. No one is saying “Sure, I love Trump’s leadership in foreign policy, his rebuild of the military, his ending endless wars, his tax cuts, the economy, the regulatory reform, the protection of speech, religious and gun rights, and the conservative judges, but, you know, then The Atlantic came along and assured us that four anonymous sources implied that Trump was insufficiently reverent toward some guys who were in World War I and now I have no choice but elect the Marxist marionette who can’t keep his fingers to himself.”

No one.

No one is falling for this. The only effect is that it makes us all eager to low-crawl over the shattered glass of a thousand of Biden’s Ensure bottles to pull the lever for President Trump.

This desperate lying is not proof of strength but of weakness. And the Democrats are desperate because the wheels have come off the rickety Rascal that is the Biden campaign. The evidence is clear. Blacks are refusing to fall into line behind the Democrats and significant numbers are abandoning his sinking ship. Hispanics are rejecting Democrats. Suburbanites are realizing that electing that desiccated plagiarist with a 47-year track record of DC failure means defunded cops, hi-fived crooks, and riots in their neighborhoods. Oh, and taxes going up as their 401(k)s go down, the latter not mattering much since the Democrat platform/manifesto promises to trash their retirement savings program.

Who are the people leaving Trump? Where are they? The media trots out the same pack of rejected ex-GOP losers every few weeks under some new banner – “Republicans for Decency,” “Decent Republicans Against Trump,” “Trump-Hating Republicans for Biden and Decency,’” or “Decent Decency People of Decency Who Were Republican But Aren’t Now Because of Trump, Who Is Not Decent.” These inflatable goofs all hated Trump in 2016 for derailing their gravy train. These were the cruise ship conservatives who spent decades conserving nothing except their own tacky sinecures – and they hate him still today. They are many things, all bad, but they are not recent converts to the Democrat cult.

No one is leaving Trump for Biden. I poll folks on Twitter and masculinity-challenged libs with pronouns in their bios solemnly inform me that their parents back in Kansas who were life-long Republicans have been compelled, sorrowful at their party having lost its way, to vote for the crusty crustacean because of his horrible horribleness. But it’s pretty clear that mom and dad back in Topeka only told young Kaden this because if they told him the truth – that ma and pa were all aboard the Trump Train – he would start crying and embarrass them all over again.

You can’t believe the polls. If the media will lie about everything else, lying about a poll to help their zombie get elected is hardly a lie too far – and there is literally no other evidence supporting the notion that the Democrats might win. Biden is buyin’ air time in states all the smart people of smartness informed us were in the bag. He’s emerged from his crypt and engaged in at least the simulacrum of a campaign. His signs are nowhere to be seen while Trump signs are popping up. I even saw one on a house here in Ted Lieu’s district. But most of all, no one’s abandoning Trump.

The Democrats are in a panic. You’re seeing it when they drop stale stories “supported” by mystery sources that even carbohydrate-curious losers like Brian Stelter, who is a potato, says ought to come out and speak their lies in public. They got nothing.

We got this. We’re winning. Now let’s run up the score. Let’s take back the House (If you live in a hell district like me, give money to a guy like Army vet Sean Parnell who is running in a district we can win). Let’s see those liberal tears flow on election night!

Minnesota Biography (Chapter 2)

I was in Minnesota before at least 3800 times. I drove to Woodbury to obtain education at Rasmussen College . I worked at Circuit City in Woodbury. 

 I was in Minneapolis, and (Como zoo) St. Paul many times. In was at Mall of America every year (Bloomington) of the 21st century (6 times in 1990s). I went to Calvin Academy in 7 - 8^thh grade and 9-10^th grade where I met city kids. I was the guthery theater. I was at the Minneapolis Institutes of Arts 4 times, Science Museum of Minnesota 10 times, and History Museum 3 times. Minnesota Zoo 3 times. I was in Forest Lake once. 

I was in Stillwater a couple of times looking at Gamestop and Hi Score games. I worked at PC Network Services in Stillwater.

 I was in Mankato eight times in 2010s at Minneopa State park and visiting family. On Areavibes, Mankato has a little lower score then Roberts, Wisconsin due to property theft. The opportunities are larger then just Laptop Chips. There was nepotism of family businesses and age 30+ ageism in Roberts, Wisconsin. 

My Google searching Minnesota vs. Wisconsin, Minnesotans are healthier overall over Wisconsin even though the booze / DWI is actually worst in Minnesota in one county. Wisconsin is better for sports, has more population / lower state GDP, and lower taxes. Wisconsin has Wisconsinsucks.com. 

The night life is better in Minnesota. 

Minnesota has more government programs even though the Governor Waltz slashed spending the 3^rd month I was a resident. I’m a millennial, and I don’t have the baby boomers decades long work history at one job with only an associate degree vs. kinda hard to get by for a millennial. Baby boomers had the GI Bill for college degrees and multi-decades long money market mutual funds. The baby boomers even purchased a house.