From David Mamet's
(paywalled) essay
in the August 10, 2020 issue of National Review.
Now, I don’t know what Systemic Racism is, but neither does anyone else. Like Social Justice, any communicable meaning is destroyed by the adjective. Both terms are indictments of Human Evil; its perpetrators are easily identifiable: They are those who request a definition.
The essay is titled "The Nazis Got Your Mom". I don't want to be a shill, but that's pretty tempting
clickbait.
In this week's Eye Candy, Michael
Ramirez
celebrates Wheezy Joe's Veep pick:
Our two-row table was looking pretty pathetic, so I tossed in the Libertarian
Party candidate, Jo Jorgenson, and the Green Party candidate, someone named
Howie Hawkins.
What our country needs: a president with a nine-year-old's name. (Didn't we learn from President Jimmy?)
President Bone Spurs closed his win-probability gap with Biden by another 2.8 net percentage points, Hm, with
11 weeks to go, and assuming he keeps closing at the same rate… nope, not going to do that.
Harris did rise further, winning election to the U.S. Senate. Winning a statewide Democratic primary in California is usually a matter of money, name recognition, and which competitor has the strongest preexisting base of support; Harris had already won statewide races, and Representative Loretta Sanchez had not. But Harris’s arrival in Washington coincided with the arrival of Donald Trump, an event that filled the Democrat Party with an endless rage that they could lose to a man like him. Democrats wanted anger during the Trump era, so Harris repositioned herself as the administration’s toughest foe in the Senate.
And she has the disquieting habit of laughing uproariously at something she's just said. It doesn't have to be
remotely funny. Sample:
Stephen Colbert asks Sen. Kamala Harris about her criticisms of former VP Joe Biden during the Democratic primary: "It was a debate." pic.twitter.com/am4tE08a7C
It's been six years since Michael Brown's life was taken in Ferguson — reigniting a movement. We must continue the work of tackling systemic racism and reforming policing.
Breitbart reacts: "Former Vice President Joe Biden tweeted Sunday that 'Michael Brown’s life was taken in Ferguson' — a reference to the founding myth of the Black Lives Matter movement, which claimed Brown was murdered by police in cold blood.... Left-wing activists popularized the slogan 'Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,' and claimed that Brown had been shot in the back with his hands raised in a gesture of surrender. Journalists and mainstream media pundits gave credence to the claim.... The Department of Justice under the Obama-Biden administration investigated Brown’s death and confirmed that there was no basis for charging Wilson under federal law. The investigation also suggested that Brown had attacked Wilson in his patrol car, reaching into the vehicle and attempting to seize the officer’s gun. In the ensuing struggle, part of Brown’s thumb was shot off. Brown ran away, and Officer Wilson pursued him. Wilson fired only when Brown charged at him...."
That's impressively phony pandering right there. Joe should say: "Under a Biden Administration, the Department
of Justice will railroad cops without regard to evidence or due process."
Democrats, who routinely complain about Donald Trump's power grabs when they do not like the results, quickly change their tune when they see presidential orders as the easiest way to impose a nationwide policy they favor. Trump, meanwhile, never hesitates to assert authority he does not have, except when it comes to policies he opposes.
That utterly unprincipled approach to executive power is vividly illustrated by the debate between Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden about face mask mandates, which yesterday led Trump to utter these words: "If the president has the unilateral power to order every single citizen to cover their face in nearly all instances, what other powers does he have?" This is the same man who last April asserted "total" authority over COVID-19 lockdowns, saying "the president of the United States calls the shots."
Probably both Biden and Trump are of the right age to have watched Woody Allen's
Bananas and thinking it was a documentary.
The Democratic National Convention’s Twitter account posted a video touting Biden’s Catholic background on Sunday, exactly one month after Biden vowed to strip a group of nuns of their right to refuse providing contraceptives that violate their Catholic beliefs.
Someone needs to give Joe a sharp rap on the knuckles with a ruler.
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