It’s Friday, September 18th, 2020…but before we begin, remember all those who said Trump moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem would kill any chance for peace in the Middle East?

Yeah,…whatever!

Next, consider this 2015 scandal…

…then contemplate the parallels with Black Lies Matter: No hint of guilt or remorse whatsoever for the cheating and lies, righteous indignation at any possibility of a transgression, a total denial of the irrefutable facts in evidence and an immediate claim of racism to deflect from the particulars of the crime.  Not to mention the immersion of an innocent in the sins of his fathers…quite literally, considering there’s a priest in the picture!

Which just goes to prove, when it comes to Marxist movements, old tricks are the best tricks.

Now, here’s The Gouge!

First up, the WSJ‘s Kim Strassel recalls a refrain first orchestrated by Barack Hussein Obama:

From Russia (to Biden) With Love

Senate Democrats try to smear colleagues for investigating Hunter and Ukraine.

 

“…Since 2016, the left and their press cheerleaders have insisted there is no greater risk to this nation than foreign interference in our elections. Duly, Mr. Johnson and Senate Finance Committee Chair Chuck Grassley looked into reports that Democrats worked in the last election with Ukrainians on opposition research against the Trump campaign.

That probe naturally expanded late last year, when Democrats centered their Trump impeachment charges on Ukraine. This column warned at the time that this strategy posed risks to Mr. Biden, since Ukraine shone a klieg light on his own “glaring conflicts of interest during his vice presidency vis-à-vis his son Hunter’s business interests.”

The nation is about to be vividly reminded of Burisma, the young Mr. Biden’s Ukrainian employer. And Messrs. Johnson and Grassley have every right to provide America the facts about Mr. Biden’s official acts in 2014-15, no matter that he is today the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee. Some might even call it a duty. Mr. Biden is defining this election as a referendum on Mr. Trump’s judgment—and fair enough. But Americans also need to evaluate Mr. Biden’s judgment—to know whether he was too conflicted or too blind to deal with a son cashing in on the Biden name.

Which is why Democrats are terrified, and again playing the cracked and moldy Russia card…”

Meanwhile, as this video reveals, Ron Johnson’s report isn’t the only thing concerning Groper Joe that has Dimocrats waking up at night bathed in a cold sweat:

Speaking of disasters, according to a…

Top WHO scientist: Pre-coronavirus life won’t return till 2022

We don’t know how long these vaccines will protect for

 

A top scientist at the World Health Organization says it’s unlikely the world will return to some semblance of normal pre-coronavirus life before 2022. “The way that people are picturing it is that in January, you have vaccines for the whole world and things will start going back to normal,” the organization’s chief science officer, Soumya Swaminathan, told the South China Morning Post.

But, according to Swaminathan, that vision is a fantasy and “not how it works.” She pointed out that the most realistic timeline places a COVID-19 vaccine rollout during mid-2021 and that immunization wouldn’t happen overnight, and wearing face coverings and social distancing would still be necessary for a while afterward.

“We need 60% to 70% of the population to have immunity before you will start seeing a dramatic reduction in transmission of this virus,” Swaminathan explained at a virtual meeting hosted by the United Nations Foundation. “We also don’t know how long these vaccines will protect for — that’s the other big question mark: How long does immunity last? And, it’s possible that you will need a booster.”

This week, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates made a similar prediction. The billionaire is helping to fund a multitude of vaccine efforts…”

Since we’re on the subject, Politico invites you to…

Meet the world’s most powerful doctor: Bill Gates

The software mogul’s sway over the World Health Organization spurs criticism about misplaced priorities and undue influence.

 

Some billionaires are satisfied with buying themselves an island. Bill Gates got a United Nations health agency in Geneva.

Over the past decade, the world’s richest man has become the World Health Organization’s second biggest donor, second only to the United States and just above the United Kingdom. This largesse gives him outsized influence over its agenda, one that could grow as the U.S. and the U.K. threaten to cut funding if the agency doesn’t make a better investment case…”

Yet another reason to distrust any statement the WHO makes.

Here’s the juice: neither Dr. Soumya Swaminathan nor Bill Gates…who not only possesses no formal medical training, but dropped out of college…even begin to explain why everyone hasn’t always been wearing face coverings and practicing social distancing.  After all, the Wuhan strain isn’t the first virus, corona or otherwise, to plague humanity sans an effective vaccine, yet the world has somehow muddled through without the benefit of their wisdom.

Hint: It’s for the same reason speed limits aren’t 10 mph on America’s interstates or Germany’s Autobahn.

More importantly, neither one of them gives the slightest apparent consideration to the cost, both human and material, their opinions would incur.

It’s almost as if, like Dr. Faux-Chi, neither Swaminathan nor Gates actually works for a living.

In a related item, courtesy of Geoffrey Griffith, Zero Hedge‘s Tyler Durden details how a…

Rogue’ Chinese Virologist Joins Twitter, Publishes “Smoking Gun” Evidence COVID-19 Created In Lab

 

“…Cutting to the chase:

“The evidence shows that SARS-CoV-2 should be a laboratory product created by using bat coronaviruses ZC45 and/or ZXC21 as a template and/or backbone. Building upon the evidence, we further postulate a synthetic route for SARS-CoV-2, demonstrating that the laboratory-creation of this coronavirus is convenient and can be accomplished in approximately six months…”

For more on the subject, earlier this week Tucker Carlson welcomed Dr. Yan to his show.  Be prepared, though while certainly far superior to our Chinese, Dr. Yan’s English isn’t the best.

Still, she was understandable enough for Twitter to suspend her account, and the wrath of the Deep State and scientific establishment to descend upon her.  Any chance the scientific establishment’s wrath could be tied to the untold billions they collectively receive from the ChiComs?

Next up, three headlines which left us shaking our head.  First…

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee gives apples infested with apple maggot larvae to wildfire victims, regrets ‘mistake

 

The apples were from his own orchard, but he lives in a quarantine zone enacted to prevent the spread of the apple maggots.  Not that the governor should know his own state’s agricultural regulations.  Which…

But hey, he’s from the government…and he’s here to help!

Second, as the New York Post reports, the…

Minneapolis City Council is alarmed by crime surge after defunding police

 

Council members pressed Medaria Arradondo, another police-chief-of-color, about the uptick in crimes, which included daylight carjackings, robberies, assaults, shootings and street racing. “Residents are asking, ‘Where are the police?’” said Jamal Osman, claiming his constituents’ calls to the MPD weren’t returned.

Soooo…what happened to the social workers?!?

Third, again from FOX

19 Black families aim to find ‘safe haven,’ build ‘City of Freedom’ for Black people on 97 acres in Georgia

 

Yeah,…’cuz if you just take White people out of the picture, it would usher in a Black utopia.  Then again…

…maybe not.  As for the concept of tribalism, we know some 800,000 Rwandans who might disagree it’s a virtue…were they around to voice their opinion.

It’s also worth noting, given the relative crime rates in every single one of America’s urban centers versus, say…Vermont or Wyoming…White people, be they police or civilians, may not be the source of the problem these 97 families seek to escape.

Now imagine if 19 White families sought to build a safe haven on 97 acres in Montana.  But why deal in hypotheticals: imagine if only one White family sought their own private refuge on a mountain ridge in Idaho; say,…Ruby Ridge.  Any questions?!?

And in the Entertainment Section, as The Washington Free Beacon quotes…

Hollywood Director Judd Apatow: ‘China Has Bought Our Silence

 

“…“Instead of us doing business with China and that leading to China becoming more free, what has happened is a place like China has bought our silence with their money,” Apatow said. “They have just completely shut down critical content about human-rights abuses in China.”

Apatow works in an industry—filmmaking—that is one of the most infiltrated by the Chinese Communist Party. Last week, Disney’s new Mulan adaptation stirred controversy for thanking CCP authorities with ties to the ongoing Uighur genocide in Xinjiang in the credits.

In July, a Washington Free Beacon report detailed the extent to which Beijing has moved into Hollywood. The CCP has ties to multiple private enterprises working in the American film industry, and filmmakers have been so concerned about Chinese market entry that in movies such as Top Gun, any anti-CCP imagery or plot devices have been rooted out…”

These are the Capitalists Lenin had in mind…along with most of Wall Street.

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

Then there’s this instant classic from Brenda Barry…

…along with this string from Bad Billy Magruder:

Finally, we’ll call it a week with a cross between News You Can’t Use and another titillating tale torn from the pages of The Crime Blotter, as FOX News inaccurately trumpets…

New details in search for gunman, as ambushed LA deputy out of hospital

 

Yet one has to go almost to the end of the article to learn what FOX defines as “new details”:

“…Earlier Wednesday, the sheriff said investigators were following “multiple leads” and believed they were making progress in a massive manhunt for the gunman and a possible getaway driver. No suspects have been identified. Our detectives are confident they’re on the right path,” Villanueva told Bill Hemmer …”

Now we know why they didn’t interrupt their regularly scheduled programming for that late-breaking development.

And then there’s the concluding paragraph…

“…The sheriff’s department has faced criticism in recent months for its handling of a number of incidents, including leaked photos in May of the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant and seven other people. Bryant’s family is suing the department in connection with the incident.

…which fairly screams the question:

Seriously: the release of unauthorized photos of the Kobe Bryant crash is hardly on a par with the Rodney King video.

Magoo



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