It’s Monday, December 14th, 2020…but before we begin, we offer a few random thoughts on the passing scene occasioned by this recent cartoon from Day by Day‘s Chris Muir entitles Blue States Can Hiss Off

…along with Allen West’s recent veiled references to secession.

(1). There’s no doubt in our military mind this election was as fixed as the 1919 World Series, and the Journal‘s Kim Strassel had it right when she observed the fix was in as soon as states mailed ballots out to everyone, judges disregarded statutory deadlines for receipt of votes, absentee-ballot witness requirements were scrapped and states set up curbside voting and drop-off boxes, effectively enshrining ballot harvesting.  The proof is there for anyone with the faintest scintilla of intelligence and not blinded by politics, from the impact of Big Tech and the Dimocratic machine to the fact the ballot counting software was subject to amazingly easy manipulation.  Which begs the question why the subject software would be subject to any manipulation at all?!?

(2). We’ve had rigged elections before; LBJ was first elected to the Senate in 1948 courtesy of 202 ballots found 6 days after the polls closed, all of which went for him (Sound familiar?!?).  Mayor Richard J. Daley and his Chicago machine delivered Illinois to JFK via demonstrable fraud in 1960.  And while Lyndon Johnson would eventually go on to show in 1964-65 just how much havoc a political party with a decades-long monopoly on power could wreak, neither Johnson or Kennedy were looking to effectively overturn the Constitution and impose Socialism on the nation.  Both were, at heart, patriots who would never subvert the interests of America to outside influence, let alone leave their country to grovel at the feet of her greatest foreign foe.

(3). The United States of America was never guaranteed nor destined to survive in perpetuity.  The Union was based on disparate groups of people with disparate interests reaching a consensus for the mutual benefit of all parties concerned under the rule of laws which were equally-applied.  Unfortunately, exclusively owing to The Left, this is no longer the case.  And the complete and utter abdication of its proper role and responsibilities by the Fourth Estate has only served to make a bad situation worse.  Case in point is Jake Tapper’s recent reference to supporters of the failed Texas lawsuit as “un-democratic” and “un-American“.  Funny, we can’t recall Jake using similar terms to describe the cast of characters who pushed the three-year Russian collusion witch hunt, or the Trump impeachment farce. 

(4). Which brings us back to Chris Muir’s cartoon and Allen West’s comments about secession.  There is a common misunderstanding regarding the primary impact of the outcome of the War Between the States, namely that the North’s victory over the Confederacy didn’t determine secession to be unconstitutional, rather only the ability…and willingness…of the federal government at that time to preserve the Union through force of arms.   

Take for example this statement by Kaylee McGhee  in commentary at the Washington Examiner entitled Talk of Secession is Madness:

The Supreme Court was right to toss Texas’s lawsuit for several reasons, the most important being that Texas did not have legal standing to sue four other states over election laws that they passed when those election laws did not directly affect Texas’s government or its citizens. To put it plainly, Texas did not have the right to hold Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, or Wisconsin “accountable.” The Constitution affords those states the right to conduct their elections as they see fit, and any disputes that arise from this process must be settled at the political level where election laws are made.

This is the constitutional process at work. And to suggest that it should be abandoned, or that Texas should “bond together” with other Republican-led states — presumably, the 18 other states that joined Texas’s lawsuit — to form a different union is madness. This is one nation, made up of different states, which are made up of very different people. But no matter what, these states are united under one Constitution and bound to one set of rules.

It is highly unlikely any state or political party would act upon this nonsense. But even the mere suggestion that we should consider a move towards separation should be shut down, because this isn’t just about our political disagreements or differing values. Threatening to disband the union has serious implications for our national security, economic well-being, cultural stability, and constitutional order. And as such, it should not be taken lightly.

Who’s taking it lightly?!?  Seriously, it’s almost as if the likes of Kaylee McGhee haven’t actually read The unanimous Declaration of the [original] thirteen united States of America:

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,–That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies [States]; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain [Joe “Groper” Biden or Kamala “Ho” Harris] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world…”

We’re certainly not thereyet!  But Kaylee McGhee and others of her ilk will forgive us if we respectfully suggest, were the Dimocrats able to steal Georgia’s two senate seats…thus enabling Communist Kamala Harris to have the tie-breaking vote to inflict upon the country a long train of abuses and usurpations evincing a design to reduce America under absolute despotism, it would be our right, indeed our duty, to throw off such government and provide new safeguards for the future security of ourselves and our families.

And seeing how Texas and other Red States are self-sufficient in energy, manufacturing, food production and other essential economic elements, what’s to stop them?  After all, even in its deliberately debilitated form, we cannot imagine America’s Military obeying orders to attack Texas.  Sorry, ain’t happenin‘!  The senior Brass and the Air Farcemaybe; but not the rank-and-file ground pounders, let alone the Marines, Naval Aviators or SEALs.

Then consider, once those unwilling to work in Red State urban centers learn their sloth will no longer be rewarded with cash…when illegal aliens understand breaking immigration laws will no longer be greeted with free education and other services…when the mentally-ill realize they’ll be treated in hospitals rather than left free to roam the streets and defecate in public…when criminals comprehend their crimes will be met with swift and certain punishment…when businesses believe they’ve been freed from layers and layers of unnecessary bureaucratic red tape and regulations…and the Constitution is updated to address flaws the Founders never could have envisionedgood luck to the Blue States making it work with the FLOOD of freeloaders crossing their borders.

Again, we’re not thereyet!  But if The Left believes Americans such as we will willingly allow the likes of corruptacrats such Joe “I’m Proud of Hunter” Biden and Kamala “Sleeper” Harris, with the active assistance of a thoroughly compliant MSM, to infringe upon our rights to self-defense, limit our speech, surrender huge swaths of our cities to anarchist mobs, normalize the abnormal and otherwise overthrow the Constitution of the United States based on their say-so alone, they’ve got another think comin’!

Here’s the juice: as a last-ditch effort to preserve the Union, Trump needs to appoint two special counsels: one to investigate the Biden family, the other to uncover the truth behind the 2020 election.  In addition to likely being the only way to restore the faith of more than 50% of the electorate in “The System”, sure as shootin’…

Now, here’s The Gouge!

First up, taking a page from the combined playbook of Barack Hussein Obama and Jane Fonda, Townhall.com‘s Bronson Stocking reports…

Melinda Gates Is ‘Incredibly Disappointed’ That Americans Will Get the Vaccine First

 

“…“Everybody needs this vaccine,” complained Gates. “If we only get it to the high-income countries, this disease is going to bounce around. We’re going to see twice as many deaths. And our recovery of our economies is going to be much slower than if we get the vaccine out to everybody.” (Based…on what data?!?)

If Melinda ever flew commercial, she might be familiar with the advice of placing the oxygen mask on yourself before assisting other people. The Gates were skeptical that Operation Warp Speed would even produce a vaccine by year’s end, but now they worry about Americans getting it first. The only thing consistent with these globalists is they always want America to come last.

While the Gates were doubting the 2020 arrival of a vaccine, the Trump administration was sending millions to states and coordinating efforts to distribute the vaccine as soon as one receives approval from the FDA.

Melinda Gates, who warns about so-called “vaccine nationalism,” said President Trump’s executive order putting Americans first in line to receive the vaccine “is exactly what we were worried about.” Gates said Trump should invoke the Defense Production Act, for the umpteenth time, and scale up “lots and lots of manufacturing so that not just the U.S. gets vaccines but everybody gets vaccines.” (Like they won’t?!?)

“I just knew it was coming and I was just incredibly disappointed,” Gates said about Trump’s America First executive order. Gates said she was looking forward to Joe Biden becoming president and bringing his “global leadership” to the White House before warning of “dark months” to come while Trump remains in office.

We’d suggest if Melinda and Bill are so anxious for the Third World to receive the Wuhan vaccine in what they determine to be a timely fashion, how ’bout they use their billions to open their own factory under license from one of the pharmaceutical companies which has developed the vaccine and manufacture it solely for use as they see fit! 

In a related item, the WSJ‘s Dan Henninger highlights the nature of…

The New Covid Resistance

A population of deplorables is rising among people who aren’t in MAGA hats.

 

“…During the virus’s first phase, from March through the end of summer, resistance to the prescribed public-health policies of 6-foot social distancing and wearing masks occurred mostly on the political right, with Mr. Trump’s support. For that, eventually, he paid a political price.

The latest surge is producing a new and different wave of resistance, which is related to the unexpected Democratic election losses in the House. It took more than votes from “the right” to produce those Democratic defeats, notably in California and New York.

Just maybe, Covid is adding new members to the population of Democrat-frustrated deplorables…”

And just when you thought Progressives couldn’t get any more preachy, also courtesy of Townhall.com, Leah Barkoukis informs us the Old Dominion’s favorite former minstrel show star, Ralph “Blackface”…

Northam Tells Virginia Churchgoers: ‘You Don’t Have to Sit in the Church Pew for God to Hear Your Prayers

 

“But this year we need to think about what is truly the most important thing,” he continued. “Is it the worship or the building? For me, God is wherever you are. You don’t have to sit in the church pew for God to hear your prayers.

“So I strongly call on our faith leaders to lead the way and set an example for their members,” added Northam, who once defended leaving infants to die after birth…”

So much for the Gospel According to Governor Blackface, which undoubtedly relies on the same translation as of the Scriptures as Groper Joe’s Book of Palms.

Next, it’s our “Sh*t You Couldn’t Make Up” segment, courtesy today of two items contained in Keith Koffler’s White House Dossier: first, as the New York Post reports…

Ex-bin Laden henchman freed from NJ prison after judge deems him too fat for jail

 

A former Osama bin Laden henchman convicted in two deadly 1998 bombings is free and living in the UK this week after being released early — thanks to a Manhattan federal judge who agreed the terrorist was way too obese to survive the coronavirus behind bars. Adel Abdel Bary, 60, had spent 21 years in a New Jersey prison for his role in the 1998 al Qaeda bombings of two US embassies in Africa that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans.

“Defendant’s obesity and somewhat advanced age make COVID-19 significantly more risky to him than to the average person,” US District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan wrote in granting the release. Bary had been set to be freed on Oct. 28, but his attorneys asked that he be let out sooner, citing their ­client’s age, girth and asthma…”

As we said, you can’t make this sh*t up!  Three thoughts immediately come to mind: (i) How much were they feeding this guy in prison he could become so obese?!?; (ii) What,…New Jersey ran out of N95 masks?!?; and, (iii) the judge and defense attorneys should be forced to complete Bary’s sentence.

Second, the Daily Mail records Groper Joe isn’t the only friend Xi Jinping has on the continent, as it appears…

Justin Trudeau invited China’s People’s Liberation Army to train troops in Canada, according to top secret documents published by Canadian conservative news site which claims ‘they were sending spies not just soldiers to train

 

‘Top secret’ government documents have revealed that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invited China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to send its troops to Ontario for cold weather training and was unhappy when it was canceled, according to two Canadian media outlets.

The Canadian government’s bombshell secret 34-page file was obtained by Rebel News and The Globe and Mail. The two outlets published excerpts from the files Wednesday, revealing that members of the PLA were scheduled to attend a military exercise at a base in Ontario in 2019.

According to the memos, the training was then canceled by Chief of Defense Staff Jonathan Vance due to concerns that China could use the trip to obtain information from Canada. But Trudeau was displeased about the cancelation, because he thought it would look like retaliation over China’s detention of two Canadian nationals, and insisted Chinese officials be let down gently, the memos show. (After all, no true Socialist fellow traveler wants to offend the ChiComs!)

Ezra Levant, founder of conservative news site Rebel News, claimed Thursday the PLA was sending spies not just soldiers to Canada through the partnership…”

Ya think?!?

Levant told Tucker Carlson Thursday night that the cold weather training at Ontario is just one example of an expansive partnership between Canada and the PLA. The two nations were engaged in 18 different joint projects in 2019, he said, including troops being sent between the countries and Canada providing training to high-ranking Chinese generals

“Canada is training one and two-star Chinese generals in our war colleges, training lieutenants and majors, commanders.”…”

Proof positive Progressives of every nationality haven’t the sense God gave a goose…which is in an insult to geese the world over.

Since we’re on the subject of Beijing’s best buddies, Best of the Web‘s Jim Freeman describes the unnaturally cozy relationship between…

The Bidens and Beijing

Tax questions about Hunter’s income raise again the question of how he earned it.

 

Hunter Biden may have wanted to hold 10% for the “big guy,” but did he forget to set aside 37% for Uncle Sam? A tax investigation focused on the Biden family’s highly questionable sources of income may finally force them to answer precisely how such income is generated in the first place.

Looking at the roster of Biden associates, this column’s most celebrated alumnus might mischievously ask: Why do bad things keep happening to them? But where and with whom the Biden family chooses to do business has nothing to do with coincidence.

When your humble correspondent and Maria Bartiromo were interviewing the president last summer for a book, Mr. Trump mentioned that he used to wonder why his Beltway adversaries always use Russia when advancing conspiracy theories about him. He chuckled as he recounted the moment he understood why and said, “They never use China. You know why? ’Cause they’re all getting rich on China.”

Speaking of the godfather of a family criminal enterprise of proportions which would make even the Corleones and Clintons proud, Jesse Watters makes a very interesting point regarding Groper Joe’s recent call for Progressives to hide their real intentions regarding defunding the police until after the January 5th run-offs in Georgia:

As we often observed, if there are levels in Hell, the likes of Groper Joe will be occupying the hottest seats.  And yes, there but for the grace of God go we. 

Which brings us to The Lighter Side:

Then there’s this from Robert Mark…

…along with a string from Ed Hickey…

…and another from Balls Cotton:

Though after Navy’s underwhelming performance on Saturday, we couldn’t blame the Marines for wanting to disown us!

Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with another sordid story straight from the pages of The Crime Blotter, as FOX informs us…

Brandon Bernard was put to death Thursday night after Supreme Court denies stay of execution

 

“…Robert C. Owen, one of Bernard’s attorneys, said Thursday night that Bernard’s family and friends “are full of righteous anger and deep sadness at the actions of the federal government in taking his life.”

“Brandon’s execution is a stain on America’s criminal justice system,” Owen said in a statement. “But I pray that even in his death, Brandon will advance his commitment to helping others by moving us closer to a time when this country does not pointlessly and maliciously kill young Black men who pose no threat to anyone, when we hold prosecutors to the highest standards of integrity in every case, and when our leaders exercise their moral authority where it is needed.”

Bernard was 18 when he took part in the killing of married youth ministers Todd and Stacie Bagley, who were from Iowa.

Todd Bagley’s mother, Georgia, said Thursday that “without this process, my family and I would not have the closure needed to move on in life. This senseless act of unnecessary evil was premeditated and had many opportunities to be stopped at any time during a 9-hour period. This was torture, as they pleaded for their lives from the trunk of their own car,” she said in a statement. “Please remember that the lives of family and friends were shattered and we all have grieved for 21 years waiting for justice to be served.”…”

Two things are for certain: first, Brandon Bernard will never torture and kill again.  Second, he enjoyed 21 more years with his family

…than did his victims.

Anyone interested in the facts should read this account featured at Suburban ChicagolandSNOWFLAKE ALERT: as evidenced by this snippet, it’s not for the faint of heart.

Vialva, Bernard and three others tortured the couple for more than seven hours before murdering them in Killeeen, Texas on June 21, 1999. The killers were members of a local street gang in Texas and they sent a 15-year-old to stop Bagley’s car and beg for a ride. Once the Bagley’s stopped, four of the others jumped into the car at gunpoint.
They put Todd, a U.S. Veteran, and Stacie in the trunk of the car and drove around for seven hours as the couple pleaded to be released. Instead, the gang members emptied out their bank accounts and stripped the couple of their money and jewelry and clothing.
Vialva shot both Todd and Stacie in the face, killing Todd instantly. Stacie was shot in the mouth after watching her husband being killed by Vialva and Bernard. Bernard had helped Vialva put the Bagleys in the trunk. After Vialva shot them, leaving Stacie bleeding and seriously wounded, Bernard poured lighter fluid on the car and victims and set them on fire to destroy the “evidence.” Staci, bleeding from her face, was burned alive in the trunk of the car. They said she died from “smoke inhalation” as her skin burned.”

“According to Brown, Stacie’s last words were “Jesus loves you” and “Jesus, take care of us.

We hope, prior to his execution, Brandon Bernard came to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior.  If so, we look forward to making his acquaintance in Heaven…where he’ll have been enjoying a much better time than those of us he left behind.

One last note: While the article notes four more federal inmates are scheduled for execution prior to Biden’s inauguration, it neglects to mention that’s the point everyone else in the country will be effectively taking two behind the ear!

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