“Nearly three months since the U.S. declared a national emergency over the new coronavirus, some states are reporting a rise in new cases as they lift restrictions meant to slow the virus’s spread.
California, Utah, Arizona, North Carolina, Florida, Arkansas and Texas, among others, have all logged rises in confirmed cases, according to a Johns Hopkins tabulation of a five-day moving average…”
Think about it: “meant to SLOW” the spread of the virus, NOT ELIMINATE it.
Thanks to the ChiComs, the Wuhan virus is out there.
Or until a vaccine is developed; and even then it’s not going anywhere. Like the Hong Kong Flu of ’68-’69 or any other coronavirus, COVID-19 is with usfor the duration. So please, America, come to grips with the fact as we come out of this ill-advised and unnecessary lockdown the number of new cases will inevitably increase. But not the rate of hospitalizations, and not with a commensurate increase in deaths.
More importantly, even were the opposite true, we simply cannot shelter in place forever.
Evidently the potential spread of the Wuhan virus isn’t a factor at mass protests, rioting, arson, looting and murder, but is of great concern at Trump rallies leading up to the election.
In all seriousness, any Conservative who continues to watch the NFL is like a grouper knowingly chasing on a lure.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
We lead off the mid-week edition with a must-view video from Tucker Carlson, as he relates how “Only SOME” Black Lives Matter isn’t just a movement (or, perhaps more appropriately, a bowel movement, ’cause they’re so full of sh*t!), but a political party:
UPDATE: Here’s Tucker’s follow-on to the above:
It’s ABSOLUTE INSANITY!!! P.S. Tucker’s wrong about one thing: since Adam and Eve, we’re ALL born into sin.
Consider the first part of our Quotes of the Day at the top of the page: Hoffer might well have been referencing the degeneration of the Dimocratic Party…or the perverted postscript to the civil rights movement which is Black Lives Matter.
“…Author Obianuju Ekeocha posted a video telling Democrats to stop “virtue signalling” by wearing African cloth in the Capitol.
“Excuse me, dear Democrats,” she said. “In your tokenism, you didn’t wait to find out that this thing that you’re hanging around your neck is not just some African uniform — it’s actually the kente material.The kente belongs to the Ghanaian people, mainly the Ashanti tribe.
“Don’t treat Africans like we’re children.These fabrics and these colorful things that we have within our culture and tradition, they all mean something to us.I know you look at us and you say, ‘Oh, Africans are so cute in all of your colorful dresses.’Well, some of those dresses and patterns and colors and fabrics actually do mean something to us.”
Ekeocha went on to ask why Democrats were using the cloth for their “own show of non-racism.”…”
Uhhh,…’cause they’re pandering Progressives…
…who’ll say or do anything to get your vote in November?!?
Wake up and sense the stroking, Ekeocha: Dimocrats have been treating Blacks like children ever since they passed the Great Society:
At some point, Black Americans need to come to grips with the truth Josey Wales conveyed to Ten Bears:
Conservatives aren’t offering a handout, we’re offering a hand, i.e., not anything unavailable to other Americans, but rather the means for them to make their lives, and the lives of their children, better.
And as Barry Latzer writes at NRO, what must be near the top of the list, behind only fatherless families and skyrocketing out-of-wedlock births, is…
“…Writing in 1899, none other than W. E. B. Du Bois, a great champion of African-American equality, was one of the first to note the “vast problem” of Negro crime, a problem that “since 1880…has been steadily growing.” Du Bois was prescient. Rates of black violent crime continued to grow — even before the Great Migration and the “ghettos” that developed in the North in the 1920s…”
Does anyone need Jeff Foutch’s reminder of what went down in Chicago a week ago last Sunday?!? If murdering a Black man is conclusive evidence of racism on the part of the killer, the facts confirm Black men are the biggest bigots in America.
“…American democracy, Kristol told his audience in April 1970, is based on two pillars. The first is the “new science of politics” described by Publius in The Federalist.It consists of a complex and delicate constitutional architecture of separate and enumerated powers, checks and balances, and other devices of representative government in an extended republic. The second pillar is more elusive. It has been called many things—republican morality, civic virtue, republican virtue—but in essence, the Founders believed that a “spiritual order” was a necessary precondition for their government to work. “What they had constantly in mind,” Kristol said, “was the willingness of the good democratic citizen, on critical occasions, to transcend the habitual pursuit of self-interest and devote himself directly and disinterestedly to the common good.”
Over time, Kristol argued, the agrarian ethos the Founders believed to be more conducive to republican virtue and to self-government gave way to an urban spirit of flux, experimentation, ambition, self-invention, self-interest, and, ultimately, self-seeking. The government that the Founders had intended to act as an instrument of restraint for the purpose of securing natural rights became a mechanism for the satisfaction of appetitive special interests. The “middle class” took its place as the largest special interest of all.
By the middle of the 20th century, Kristol said, in words that echo in the present, the American people were “behaving in a way that would have alarmed the founding fathers even as it would have astonished them. To put it bluntly, they are more and more behaving like a collection of mobs.”
…In the absence of institutions that cultivate republican virtue and leaders who model it, Americans, young ones in particular, have turned to the moral certitudes of the new progressivism. It is the failure of American elites to articulate a compelling justification for the state of our economy and society that has brought the nation to this perilous impasse. And until the defenders of the Founding are able to explain, in language persuasive to every American, why both constitutionalism and republican virtue are necessary for freedom and order and justice, they will continue to be on the defensive. If the advocates of a free society wish to shape the future in any way, they had better get started reaffirming and demonstrating the moral basis of American civilization. And soon.“
While we wish Matt had highlighted the lack of any factual basis for The Mob’s concerns (anthropogenic global warming, systemic racism, etc.), as well as its refusal to countenance any opposing opinion, his point is nonetheless valid. These mindless Millennials have been brainwashed by their parents, propagandizing professors, prevaricating political leaders and a misinformative MSM supposedly tasked with presenting unbiased facts. They don’t know what they don’t know, and everything they do knowain’t so!
Somehow, someway, they need to be exposed to the truth. Unfortunately, rather than The Gipper preaching truth from the bully pulpit, we’ve got Trump the Ripper tweeting at all hours of the night.
Since we’re on the subject of everything wrong with America, courtesy of Balls Cotton and the Daily Caller, Bob Barr reports how…
“…The FBI now has morphed into a pale reflection of its former self — almost a parody. Last week, in a scene I never dreamt I would see, a group of FBI personnel (“officials,” according to one account) were photographed kneeling before some of the protesters who had wreaked havoc on the streets of our nation’s capital city. The kneelers all wore protective vests with “FBI” emblazoned thereon and were equipped with holstered sidearms.
It is unclear whether these individuals knelt out of fear, were ordered by their superiors at the Bureau to assume such a submissive pose, or whether each was doing so because they personally supported the protesters and rioters. What is clear is that the display confirms that the Federal Bureau of Investigation in this 21st century has lost sight of its mission and purpose, and apparently no longer even acts on its own intelligence information.
This last point is especially relevant.
As Attorney General William Barr stated on May 31st, mixed in with the protesters, demonstrators, looters and violent thugs who smashed windows, burned churches and engaged in all manner of other violent acts in cities across the country were elements of antifa and other extremist organizations. The FBI is a component of the U.S. Department of Justice which is headed by the Attorney General, and if he states that antifa and other extremist groups are mixed in with the thousands of other riot participants, we can assume the FBI was aware of such evidence. The Attorney General also publicly declared firmly that it was time “to confront and stop [the violence].”
Either the kneeling FBI agents were not given a copy of the Attorney General’s order, or they chose to ignore it, as their response was not to “confront” the challenges posed by the rioters but to bow before them…”
Sorry, but with Chris Wray running the show, who knows?!? Either way, here’s the juice: even after the indisputable perfidy of Comey, Strzok, McCabe and the rest of the Bureau’s senior management, we were still willing to give the rank and file the benefit of the doubt. If those pictured above kowtowing to criminals actually are with the FBI, the fish is rotten from head to tail, and thus the organization must be replaced in its entirety.
Speaking of organizations which need to replaced in their entirety…or, better yet, nuked from orbit…Townhall.com‘s Matt Vespa reports on how…
“…Reuters sought to determine where Joe Biden stands on the growing issue.A Biden campaign spokesman declined to comment…”
Subsequent to ducking the issue, politics forced Biden to state he“does not believe that police should be defunded.” Yeah, that’s what he says today. Who knows WHAT the heck he’ll say tomorrow.
Is it any wonder Terry McAulffe, as slimy a creature as ever slithered through the The Swamp, recently suggested…
In the interest of fairness, we should note, as this video proves, Groper Joe isn’t the only Progressive against defunding the police…
…at least for now!
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s these three from Balls Cotton…
…one from Fielding Cocke…
…a string from Ed Hickey…
…and last, but certainly not least, one more from our sister-in-law Amy:
Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with another titillating tale torn from the pages of The Crime Blotter, and evidence police departments in certain parts of the country might could use a little defunding if they’ve the resources to send “several officers” to deal with this particular perp, as…
“…The 40-year-old, who was not identified but said to be an experienced drone pilot, was caught by an off-duty Orange County deputy who noticed the drone flying over the park, which is still closed due to the coronavirus pandemic…
Several police officers reported to the scene, where, along with Disney security, they confronted the pilot.
“I asked him why he was in a parking lot of an apartment complex he did not live in and standing behind trees out of view from Reams Road. He did not have a clear answer to the question,” the deputy said in the incident report, the Orlando Sentinel shared.
The visitor was forced to say he would delete the footage, but was not arrested for a crime. He was, however, issued a trespass warning, the report shared…”
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