It’s Wednesday, September 9th, 2020…but before we begin, you know our system of public education has gone totally off the rails when a…

12-year-old is suspended after teacher spots toy gun during virtual class

Authorities did a welfare check on the boy with learning disabilities without parental notification.

Speaking of those seeking to exercise extra-constitutional control over their fellow citizens, writing at The Washington Free Beacon, Josh Christenson informs us how Kamala…

Harris Reverses Herself on Fracking Ban

Meanwhile, forget about how, in their desperation to find something…anything…else to throw at The Donald,  Progressives attempted to revive a fable which was declared dead and buried when it went down over two years ago…

…the great Stilton Jarlsberg reminds us how the Obama-Biden Administration actually treated our Military:

For more on the subject of the Dimocrats growing desperation, we recommend the latest from VDH as forwarded by George Lawlor.

Now, here’s The Gouge!

First up, since we’re on the subject of those who’ve mistreated our Military, in an absolutely…and we MEAN “absolutely“…must-read commentary at NRO, Kyle Smith recounts the myriad misadventures of…

Wrong-Way Biden

The policy choice in the presidential election is clear

“Joe Biden is a proud retail politician, a man who believes the personal touch is how elected officials cement a connection with us. So I’ll share my personal story about how he cemented a connection with me, back when I and a few hundred thousand other troops were preparing for war, and Joe wafted in to warn us we were all to get our collective ass kicked.

In January of 1991, I was a second lieutenant in the 178th Personnel Service Company, an administrative appendix to the buffed body of the Second Armored Cavalry Regiment. My troops and I had landed in the Gulf town of Dhahran a week before Christmas and gradually made our way inland by long, grim, nearly silent convoys — creeping, 20-mph slogs across the one two-lane highway, then off the road and across the sands to set up camp.

In mid January, after maybe twelve hours of deliberate, dusty driving, I climbed out of a deuce-and-a-half and stretched my limbs as the soldiers began unloading, somewhere beneath the triangle where Iraq, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia meet. A radio was playing in someone’s truck. Radio options were limited in this landscape; occasionally you could find the signal for the Armed Forces Network, if there was a large enough base nearby, but sometimes you couldn’t. AFN, Stars and Stripes, and occasional copies of a surprisingly good English-language broadsheet called “Arab News” were our sole media diet apart from whatever magazines we subscribed to, which would arrive weeks late in the mail. All three of our main sources were, of course, pro-U.S., which was fine by me. I had no idea what we were in for. I wanted only the most optimistic spin on things.

Which is why it was so startling to hear an American voice raining hellfire warnings on us over the radio. At first I assumed I was hearing AFN, but AFN didn’t let speeches go on like this uninterrupted, except maybe presidential addresses, and was strongly averse to downbeat messages. It dawned on me that we were listening to a mischievous enemy radio station that was blasting out unnerving propaganda to sap our morale like Tokyo Rose. Except the speaker hitting Saddam’s talking points was not a foreigner. It was Senator Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. Tokyo Joe.

“What vital interest of the United States of America justifies sending young Americans to their death in the sands of the Arabian peninsula?” Biden asked, in his speech announcing his vote against the war resolution on January 12, 1991. “The appeasers of the past are now ready to vote to spill my son’s blood and his generation’s blood to satisfy and salve their consciences,” he declared. (I don’t know why he specified his son, as neither of his boys was in the military at the time; Beau eventually signed on, but that was twelve years later.) Biden gravely informed us that we did not enjoy America’s backing: “President Bush, . . . I implore you to understand that even if you win today, 46 to 54, you still lose. The Senate and the nation are divided on the issue. You have no mandate for war, Mr. President…The impatience you feel, the anger you feel are all justified, but none of them add up to vital interest and none of them — none of them — justify the death of our sons and daughters.”

He called the proposed attack “dangerous folly.” He predicted it “could cost tens or hundreds of thousands of lives,” meaning U.S. ones. He predicted “loss of American international support in the future.” He asked, “Who do we think we are? What do we think of our capabilities to do what has seldom been done in history without total occupation of the entire region?”

War, you may have heard, can be a bit stressful under the best of circumstances. It’s a real downer when your own leaders stand up and call you chumps who are going to get mown down by the thousands. Advice for politicians: Make whatever case you feel is morally correct, but try not to go so far that you wind up starring in enemy propaganda…”

Jane Fonda must have been so proud!  And that’s only for openers. 

Though Smith’s commentary deserves to read in full, covering as it does background on Biden even we didn’t know, here’s the Cliff Notes summary of his central assertion: when it comes to just about anything, Joseph Robinette Biden hasn’t simply been…

And as this photo proves, when Biden ain’t lyin’, the Press is promoting his Progressive propaganda for him:

Or does this not seem even vaguely…

…familiar?!?

Next up, in an equally-compelling commentary courtesy of Speed Mach, as the name suggests, Issues & Insights not only exposes the lies at the heart BLM, but also offers an accurate comparison between truth and MSM-authored fiction: the respective records of the Trump and Obama Administration regarding race relation, as it asks an answers…

Want More Racism? Black Lives Matter Is How You Get More Racism

“Rather than improve race relations, the Black Lives Matter movement has set them back a half-century. Nothing good will come of the bullying, violence and baseless accusations that are filling the news cycle.

Just before President Donald Trump was to start his fourth year in the White House, the state of race relations, according to Gallup, had increased 14 percentage points since he took office. It was an achievement “any president after three years would want to claim, particularly President Obama,” said a CBS reporter.

One would have thought that race relations would have been at their peak during the Obama years, given that the country elected and then reelected a half-black man. Instead, the 44th president’s “penchant for interjecting racial narrative, even in local cases, was, no doubt, a catalyst for racial tension in the United States,” the Daily Wire reported in January.

In January 2017, the BBC reported that race relations had “arguably become more polarized and tenser since 20 January 2009,” the date of Obama’s first inauguration. “Not long after he took office in 2009, a New York Times/CBS News poll suggested two-thirds of Americans regarded race relations as generally good,” the BBC reported. “In the midst of last summer’s racial turbulence (2016, the last Summer of Love!), that poll found there had been a complete reversal. Now 69% of Americans assessed race relations to be mostly bad.”

The Pew Research Center also reported in January 2017 that race relations over Obama’s presidency deteriorated. The percentage point difference between Americans saying race relations were “generally good” and those saying they were “generally bad” was a +44 a few months after his inauguration. Yet by May 2015 it had fallen to -27.

Rather than bring the nation together as the media inflamed the public, Obama racialized and politicized the deaths of Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, and Trayvon Martin. He didn’t wait for the facts, or the adjudications. He simply poured high-test gasoline on the fires rather than try to put them out…”

Thank Heaven for the 22nd Amendment!

Moving on, in what we assume is a rhetorical question, courtesy of the Washington Examiner via AEI, Michael Barone wonders…

Were the lockdowns a mistake?

“Were the lockdowns a mistake? To that nagging question, the answer increasingly seems to be yes.

Certainly, they were a novelty. As novelist Lionel Shriver writes, “We’ve never before responded to a contagion by closing down whole countries.” (Nor by quarantining the healthy along with the sick and vulnerable.) As I noted in May, the 1957-58 Asian flu killed between 75,000 and 116,000 people in the United States, between 0.04% and 0.07% of the nation’s population then. The 1968-69 Hong Kong flu killed about 100,000, 0.05% of the population.

The current death toll of 185,000 is 0.055% of the current population. It will go higher (as will the total resulting from every other form…

…of death), but it’s about the same magnitude as those two flu outbreaks and less deadly for those under 65. Yet, there were no statewide lockdowns, no massive school closings, no closed office buildings and factories, restaurants, and museums. No one even considered shutting down Woodstock.

Why are attitudes so different today?…”

Because we’re rapidly becoming a nation of friggin’…

…a condition to which, absent the direct intervention of the Good Lord Himself, The Donald offers only a temporary respite.

Here’s the juice: At the risk of seeming harsh, had everyone who attended Woodstock succumbed to the Hong Kong flu (so named, because it was identified as having originated in Hong Kong!!!), the world in general…and the United States in particular…would be a far better place.

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

Then there’s this from Brenda Barry…

…along with a couple from Ed Hickey…

…four from Balls Cotton…

…one from Speed Mach…

…and a final submission courtesy of Bad Billy Magruder:

Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with Brandon Tatum’s take on Daniel Prude’s death, which highlights how, in the pantheon of contemporary Progressivism, Black Lies are all that Matter:

Not since the myth of Michael Brown, the “gentle giant” of Ferguson fame…

…whose deserved demise birthed Black Lies Matter have we seen such a gross distortion of truth.  Then again, like LTJG Kaffee in A Few Good Men, when it comes to the feckless fools furthering this fable…

Now consider the moral bankruptcy of a “movement” built upon…”men”…of such character.

Magoo