Which puts the chances of dying simply by matriculating at Syracuse immeasurably higher than the threat the Wuhan virus presently poses to students on every university and college campus across the country.
“The rudimentary questions that need to be decided are obvious. And I am not suggesting that the Court act illegitimately by issuing an advisory opinion; there are concrete cases that are ripe for resolution. It is imperative that the justices address them now, when the reality and the overwhelming public perception would be that the Court is simply deciding procedural issues attendant to voting.
If they wait until after November 3, and these issues are still pending, it will mean there is a raging controversy over who won the presidency. At that point, the Court would be perceived as deciding the election. No one should want that — not the Court, not the candidates, not the nation.
The main question that has to be decided is: What is Election Day?That determines when we must vote.
Living with the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic is infinitely challenging. In connection with the electoral process, COVID-19 raises the obvious problems of the potential for transmitting the virus in a physical polling place; the greater peril posed to the elderly and those with certain preexisting conditions; and the processing of an unprecedented deluge of mail-in ballots. Unavoidably, though, these difficulties present themselves because we must have an election.
November 3 is not an “arbitrary deadline,” as suggested by some (including some who wouldn’t mind gaming the system). It is the election. It is the date fixed by Congress for voting across the country to take place.
The Constitution gives the states a great deal of discretion regarding the manner in which elections are conducted. The states’ discretion, however, is not limitless. The election is November 3. Whatever time frame the states allow for early voting, whatever procedures they prescribe for authenticating legitimate mail-in ballots, the voting has to be concluded on November 3. The Constitution states that it is for Congress to determine “the Time of chusing the Electors” — in modern parlance, for conducting in each state the presidential election, which results in the selection of the slate of electors that casts the state’s votes in the Electoral College. The states have no authority to alter that date.
“Some incredible things have developed this week in the 2020 presidential race and the media’s coverage of it. What I’m about to lay out in the latest revelations regarding Hunter Biden’s alleged activities with foreign entities and how it might connect back to his father, the Democratic nominee for president, constitute an inescapable trap that Biden and his media handlers must, at some point, attempt to free themselves from.
Let’s be clear: The Hunter Biden issue is not going away. If Biden wins the election, it won’t go away. If Biden doesn’t win the election, it won’t go away. It may just be a tawdry scandal. It may rise to the level of criminal behavior (or impeachable offenses should Biden win). It may just be a snapshot of the legal, corrupt business-as-usual in Washington, DC, but it won’t go away.
At some point, Biden will have to address the questions swirling around his son’s money-making ventures, and, at some point, the media will have to raise the issue themselves.”(Bo Erickson of CBS was the first to try, eliciting the unbridled anger and personal attack which accompanies any hard question posed to the Don of the Biden Crime Family.)
At a televised “town hall event” Thursday night, George Stephanopolous refused to raise one question about the story that exploded on the scene Tuesday morning on the front page of the New York Post. We expected no less from George. After all, despite his title as the “Senior Anchor and Political Correspondent” of ABC News, we all know that he is a former Clinton Administration hack who has had a long and ongoing relationship with the Democratic Party, Joe Biden, and the Clinton family. We don’t expect anything resembling journalism from George.
But one interesting observation is that Joe Biden did not take the opportunity to address the issue himself. Think about that. This story has been in the news for the past two days and has been fully sourced and credibly documented. If it isn’t true, if the documents are forged, if the allegations are scurrilous opposition research meant to derail his campaign with an “October surprise,” this would have been the perfect opportunity for Biden, a skilled and seasoned politician, to go on the record and deny every single allegation as the trumped-up lies they are.
He didn’t. He said nothing.
And there’s a very real reason why he can’t.Let’s explore…”
Though Larry offers an interesting argument, we’d respectfully disagree with him on one point: if the Delaware double-dealer wins, we’ll never hear of the Biden family corruption scandal again…ever. Hells bells, given the The Left’s determined effort to obfuscate the facts, we’re lucky to know anything about it today.
In a related item courtesy of Speed Mach and RealClear Investigations, Paul Sperry details in great length (and we mean “in great length”!) how…
“Hunter Biden profited from his father’s political connections long before he struck questionable deals in countries where Joe Biden was undertaking diplomatic missions as vice president. In fact, virtually all the jobs listed on his resume going back to his first position out of college, which paid a six-figure salary, came courtesy of the former six-term senator’s donors, lobbyists and allies, a RealClearInvestigations examination has found…”
Sperry’s compilation of Hunter’s “business” career is incredibly comprehensive, and well worth perusing; but if you’re pressed for time, it boils down to this: every “job” Hunter’s had was solely as a result of his father’s influence. And yet we’re to believe Joe somehow remained ignorant of his son’s business dealings? Sorry, but wouldn’t any father with ason like Hunter at least wonder how the dirtbag druggie was making a living?!?
And we’re further to believe every single one of these donors and associates woke up one morning in succession and independently determined, “It’s time I got Hunter Biden a high-paying position for which he’s uniquely unqualified”? Seriously?!? At least Kamala did something to earn those two California state board seats.
A special hat tip to the lovely Shannon for that instant classic.
Meanwhile, Hunter’s senior partner in crime continues to have difficulty completing sentences when the words are right in front of him in letters so big even Mr. Magoo could read them:
Since we’re on the subject of the godfather of the Wilmington corruption cabal, in another item courtesy of Speed, RealClear Politics‘s Mark Mitchell relates what a Joe Biden presidency really represents, as he examines…
“In classical Greece, the sophists were practitioners of the art of rhetoric. They took pride in their ability to persuade audiences to embrace any position. They could, as one boasted, “make the weaker argument appear the stronger.” Ancient sophists employed their rhetorical skills to dominate others rather than lead them to truth.
Modern sophists, Hannah Arendt argued, take this a step further: “The most striking difference between ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satisfied with a passing victory of the argument at the expense of truth, whereas the moderns want a more lasting victory at the expense of reality.” In other words, modern sophists are revolutionaries and not merely manipulators of language. They are not primarily seeking to win an argument through deception; instead, they are true believers seeking to dismantle the world and replace it with an artificial creation of their own.
A case in point is Black Lives Matter. The name itself is a stroke of rhetorical genius, roughly akin to the question: Have you stopped beating your wife? To answer either “yes” or “no” is perilous. So, too, with BLM. Consider the minefield implied in the question: Do you support Black Lives Matter? Any decent person will agree with the literal meaning of the phrase itself, “black lives matter” — but it takes serious and thoughtful effort to affirm that, while of course black lives matter, the organization called Black Lives Matter is a neo-Marxist movement intent on the fundamental transformation of society. The rhetorical power of the name makes such parsing difficult. It also induces an element of fear, for tooppose Black Lives Matter opens one to the criticism that he denies the truth that black lives matter. The two are emphatically not the same, but the rhetorical conflation makes separating them difficult, potentially dangerous — and absolutely necessary…”
For those still ignorant or misinformed as to what the heart and soul of Joe Biden’s political party is all about…really all about…you can talk Mark Mitchells’s conclusions as gospel. More on this to follow.
We next offer two excellent commentaries on the state of the race from NRO: first, Charles C. W. Cooke offers his honest and, too a degree (but only a small degree), understandable trepidation about casting his vote for…
“This is not a trifling objection to his “manners” — although manners do, indeed, matter in a free republic. Rather, it is an understanding that Donald Trump has had a negative effect on our American institutions and that he will continue to do so. He will not say whether he intends to accept the results of our elections. He talks about judges as if they work for him and lambastes them when they show that they do not. His outward commitment to the Constitution is nil. He has done little to stall the rise of executive imperialism that was one of the most dangerous features of the Obama years. He has coarsened our culture and our politics.
…He has not learned what he does not know. As a political outsider he brought a different set of skills to the presidency, which, if combined with a willingness to adapt himself, could have been a virtue. But there has been no such adaptation. One part of the “art of the deal” is knowing your environment, and the environment in which a real-estate deal takes place is different from the environment in which one must negotiate with Congress or with the dictator of North Korea. Trump does not grasp this, so he ends up undermining his own position — or, worse, throwing away America’s moral capital on worldwide TV. He is exhausting, embarrassing, infuriating, and more.
So yes, I know what I think of Donald Trump. It’s just that I also know what I think of Joe Biden, and I know what I think of the contemporary Democratic Party, and it is by no means the case that the Democrats as presently constituted represent a better option…”
…while Conrad Black echoes our view of how the candidates likely stand:
“The American Federation of Trump-Haters and Never-Trumpers have arrived again at their quadrennial promised land: Trump is finished, a wounded monster lurching about, baited by his innumerable enemies, lashing out mindlessly in all directions. His COVID-19 experience is a gift from God; the diligent lackey Bill Barr is a whipping boy for the long-promised Durham indictments’ non-appearance; raving and interrupting good Joe Biden in their debate has backfired; all the self-serving blowhardism is just miring him deeper in the quicksand as he sinks inexorably out of sight. The Trump era will soon be just a bad dream as the Democrats and their look-alike Republican extras regain control and the 90 percent of the federal bureaucracy that is monolithically Democratic sees off another crusading yokel who came to drain their swamp. What a relief that this horrifying aberration is finished and can go back to being someone we laugh at and poke with sharp sticks, as we move the state slowly to the left, addicting more and more Americans to the munificence of America in its endless quest to be cleansed of its white superiority and capitalist avarice.
What is missing from this picture is the cautionary statement that it is an illusion. What we’re seeing is the media and parties and polls being pushed forward by the wall-to-wall Trump-hating assault team almost completely unattached from any serious canvass of public opinion…
…Nor should it be assumed that the country followed the Trump-hating networks in comparing his jaunty wave from the White House balcony after he returned from Walter Reed Hospital after an extraordinarily rapid recovery from the coronavirus to a uniformed, jut-jawed Mussolini responding with a straight-right-arm salute from the balcony of the Palazzo Venezia to thousands of black-shirted followers shouting up in unison “Duce, Duce!” The same commentator was reminded of “the Czar family,” presumably referring to the Romanovs (whose balcony appearances were seldom photographed), but more likely thinking of the British royal family, which appears on the balcony at Buckingham Palace on appropriate occasions…”
Here’s the juice: We’ve modified the meme above to include a critical detail omitted from our earlier analysis of the stakes for which we’re playing, the “more” we promised would follow:
This meme forwarded by Balls Cotton paraphrases what the great Stilton Jarlsberg stated in his column last Friday:
Leading us to the message conveyed in this second meme from Balls, with which we can find no fault…
…as once their Socialist snouts are allowed under the tent, these murderous Marxists will be…
…requiring untold amounts of blood, sweat, toil and tears…not to mention overwhelming firepower and unrelenting, dogged determination…to dislodge them. Which brings to mind one of our favorite scenes from The Outlaw Josey Wales:
We for one are at the point in our life where we’ll send TLJ to live with one of her sisters, hook up with Uncle Cliffy and our mutual acquaintances in Texas, and prepare to get…
“On Monday, local emergency officials received numerous calls about a creature in Broad Cove, near Wareham. Apparently, people thought it was an injured seal, a shark or a stranded fish, The New York Times reported. But it was really just an ocean sunfish.
Ocean sunfish are the heaviest bony fish, with the largest weighing almost 5,000 pounds, according to National Geographic. Sunfish are “clumsy swimmers,” according to the magazine, and often come near the surface to enjoy the sun. However, they have a huge dorsal fin that can get them mistaken for a shark — which is what happened in Wareham.
On Monday, after police received numerous calls about the sunfish in Broad Cove, the Wareham Department of Natural Resources posted on Facebook asking residents to stop reporting it…“We get it,” he said.“But 911 isn’t a good avenue to report fish that are swimming around.”“
Not that a state full of educated idiots who’ll undoubtedly prefer Uncle Joe over The Donald on Election Day would understand such nuances.
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