We have previously discussed how some media organizations told their journalists not to call violence after the death of George Floyd “riots,” including the recently much mocked headline of CNN calling the looting and violence in Kenosha “fiery but mostly peaceful.” Now, Chris Cillizza, an editor-at-large for CNN, is under fire for criticizing President Donald Trump for labeling the violence in places like Kenoska as “riots.” Critics have noted that the picture posted by Cillizza with his tweet shows a building engulfed in flames. Lawyers notoriously parse terms in ways that often deny their obvious meaning but this effort by some in the media would make a Philadelphia lawyer blush.
Cillizza tweeted “Trump’s efforts to label what is happening in major cities as ‘riots’ speaks at least somewhat to his desperation, politically speaking, at the moment.”
I do not deny that both sides are using these riots for political purposes. Trump is using the violence to reinforce a law-and-order theme while Democratic politicians are blaming him for the violence and calling for the 2020 election to be a referendum on racial justice.
It is the parsing of the term that intrigues me. In Portland, the Portland police have reportedly declared 13 riots in 80 days. Newspapers in these cities have referred to rioting from Portland to Minneapolis to Kenosa. David Brown, the Chicago Police superintendent, said, “This was not an organized protest, rather, this was an incident of pure criminality.”
The coverage of recent looting and rioting has been uneven with networks like CNN spending comparatively limited time reporting on the violence while Fox is covering it exhaustively. Other outlets like NPR have run segments on how the word “rioting” has racist roots. Whether there are riots depends on what news outlet you use. It is the new reality of echo-journalism.
Of course, this dispute turns on a noun that is clearly defined as “public violence, tumult, or disorder.”
The law often turns on subtle distinctions as discussed by Blackstone in his famous account of a case where English court interpreted a 1547 statute criminalizing the stealing of “horses” to be inapplicable when a defendant stole just one horse. William M. Blackstone, 1 Commentaries * 88. The Parliament had to enact a new statute to cover one-horse thieves.
Such arguments often lead to frustrating moments in courts or depositions like this exchange:
D: When you say “photocopying machine,” what do you mean?
PL: Let me be clear. The term “photocopying machine” is so ambiguous that you can’t picture in your mind what a photocopying machine is in an office setting?
It would seem that rioting is equally difficult to picture in one’s mind even with a picture of a burning building in the background.
Courts often apply a plain meaning rule to such terms. Justice Antonin Scalia once opined in a dissenting opinion that “the acid test of whether a word can reasonably bear a particular meaning is whether you could use the word in that sense at a cocktail party without having people look at you funny.” He noted that in that case, “[t]he Court‘s assigned meaning would surely fail that test, even late in the evening.” Johnson v. United States, 529 U.S. 694, 718 (2000) (Scalia, J., dissenting). Since “no dictionary we have examined defines ‘device’ to encompass an animal,” the court concluded ruled out a DUI involving a “vehicle” that turned out to be a horse.
Nevertheless, courts continue to grapple over issues like whether a horse is a “device.” In one case, the court explored a DUI case on the basis of the definition of a vehicles as defined in Utah as “every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway.” State v. Blowers, 717 P.2d 1321 (Utah 1986).
Just as “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet” in Shakespeare, a riot by any other name would seem just as violent.
We have been discussing the concern by many that networks like CNN shape the news to fit a narrative. Fox and MSNBC have been accused of the same practice. Many in the public do not know where to turn for unbiased reporting on the left or the right, according to various polls. Even in acknowledging the importance of the media to our system, the majority of citizens believe that the media actively misrepresents facts. Roughly half view the media as biased.
This is why.
Of course, this is looting and rioting. Ironically, the effort to call its “fiery protesting” only undermines the majority of peaceful protesters. It is not that difficult. You acknowledge the looting and rioting while saying that the majority of protesters remain peaceful. While it does not fit any particular narrative, it has the added benefit of being true.
“Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris solicited donations to the Minnesota Freedom Fund to help pay bail for individuals arrested during police brutality protests or charged with violent crimes. One man freed by the group’s bail was charged last week in connection with a brutal assault that occurred after he was released.”
“The fund also paid $10,000 bail for Lionel Timms, who was charged for an alleged July 11 attack in Bloomington, Minn. on a bus passenger who had rebuffed Timms’s request for money.
After being bailed out, Timms was later arrested on a new third-degree assault charge for an alleged beating in an alley on Aug. 14 that left the victim with “traumatic brain injury”, a fractured skull and a brain bleed, according to WCCO-TV in Minneapolis. ”
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Allan,
It’s interesting that while Biden has had to come out of his bunker to do damage control, in an attempt to show he doesn’t support violent anarchists, his running mate is singing a different tune. Her interview with Colbert shows the true colors of the Left’s agenda. Her warning certainly undercuts Biden. As DSS likes to point out, this is today’s Democratic party.
Smiling and agreeing when Colbert mentioned that protests are still ongoing, Harris added:
“But they’re not gonna stop. They’re not gonna stop. And that’s – they’re not – this is a movement, I’m telling you. They’re not gonna stop.”
In an apparent warning, she continued:
“And everyone beware, because they’re not gonna stop….
“They’re not gonna stop before election day in November, and they’re not gonna stop after election day.
“And that should be – everyone should take note of that.”
Harris continued:
“They’re not gonna let up. And they should not. And we should not.”
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/kamala-harris-about-riots-theyre-not-gonna-stop-and-they-should-not/
They lie and prostitute themselves. Kamala took that type of behavior all the way and some have said she ‘slept her way to the top’. Willie Brown 90, Kamala 29
Correction, Willie Brown 60
https://www.kptv.com/law-enforcement-agencies-refuse-to-send-deputies-into-portland/article_9a2d9f14-ebf2-11ea-9b9c-9bf968851267.html
Law enforcement agencies refuse to send deputies into Portland
PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) – Law enforcement agencies around the state of Oregon say they will not be complying with a call from Governor Kate Brown to assist PPB with nightly protests in Portland.
Governor Brown released a statement Sunday, specifically calling on the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office, Washington County Sheriff’s Office and Gresham Police Department to help bring an end to nightly violence in Portland. She called it a plan for a unified law enforcement presence in the city.
“This is routine mutual aid agreements that have happened over the years, possibly decades in this region,” Brown said. “And we think that it’s really important at this point in time for the region to come together and help end the violence in the streets of Portland.”
She said it’s something her office had been working on for a while.
“We had been working on this plan for a number of days. I had reached out to a number of local elected officials, but this is a comprehensive, unified law enforcement approach,” she said.
Her plan also stated that the City of Portland would take on the cost of bringing in officers from other agencies and that Mayor Ted Wheeler would find a way to pay for it.
But, now those law enforcement agencies called on by the governor say they are not going.
Both the Washington County sheriff and Clackamas County sheriff said they were not notified of this plan before it was released by Governor Brown.
In a statement, Clackamas County Sheriff Craig Roberts wrote:
“Had Governor Brown discussed her plan with my office, I would have told her it’s about changing policy not adding resources. Increasing law enforcement resources in Portland will not solve the nightly violence and now, murder. The only way to make Portland safe again, is to support a policy that holds offenders accountable for their destruction and violence.”
He went on to say that for this to happen, the district attorney needs to prosecute arrested protesters.
Washington County Sheriff Pat Garrett released a similar statement, saying:
“As Washington County Sheriff, I commit to support PPB through indirect ways, like analyzing risks associated with social media, air support, assisting with a specific criminal investigation, etc. At this time, I do not plan to send deputies to work directly in Portland. PPB is a terrific partner and I am very sympathetic to what they are enduring. However, the lack of political support for public safety, the uncertain legal landscape, the current volatility combined with intense scrutiny on use of force presents an unacceptable risk if deputies were deployed directly.”
A joint statement was also released by the Oregon Association Chiefs of Police and the Oregon State Sheriff’s Association, saying they could not recommend sending officers from outside agencies into Portland. The groups cited a lack of resources, as well as a “lack of accountability for those arrested committing criminal acts” as their reasoning.
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Several republicans including the vice President, have now made the case that the riots and protests and violence happening in trump’s America wouldn’t be happening in trump’s America.
Ted Wheeler is a Republican? Who knew!
The riots combined with Defund the Police cost you the election, fishy.
You can thank Nancy and the DNC for that reality.
Rhodes whistles in the dark, confusing his imaginings about the future with a winning argument, and even known facts. Biden and Harris have not favored defunding the police and actually have a record of law enforcement accomplishments. Biden favors more spending on COPS, which was a major part of the 90’s crime bill he helped shepherd through Congress, while Harris has been a line prosecutor, DA, and state AG. They put people in jail.
“Biden and Harris have not favored defunding the police.”
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Like all good Marxists they hide their true plan. They want to “reimagine” policing which, of course, means less money. Bookie is intentionally obtuse but he’s so good at it, it just might be real.
Biden and Harris have not favored defunding the police and actually have a record of law enforcement accomplishments. Biden favors more spending on COPS, which was a major part of the 90’s crime bill he helped shepherd through Congress, while Harris has been a line prosecutor, DA, and state AG. They put people in jail.
Yes, well, let’s look into that Book.
Kamala Harris claims to want to legalize sex work, but as a prosecutor she worked hard to lock them up.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59xzj5/sex-workers-dont-trust-kamala-harris-backpage-fosta-sesta
Whatever good things may be said about Biden’s history, Biden’s NOW is more important. His NOW issue is: cognitive decline
We must pay far more attention to Kamala than usual for a VP slot. Because if Joe wins, and has to take early retirement, in she goes
Trump says he’s a religious pro-life conservative but as a NYC playboy he………….. you name it, he did it, including giving money to Democrats.
As to decline, Joe actually is not an ignorant liar without principles, like Trump, so he at least started on sound footing. Here’s Trump talking gibberish over and over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE9BXkQ-SRc
Got any more Kurtz?
Trump is a flawed human being, but his ACTIONS as President have been pro-life and his base acknowledges that what he has done as President is what he said he would do. The difference with Biden and Harris is they say one thing and do another. They lie to their voters. Trump has not. We know who he is, where he stands and what he will do. You cannot say the same about Joe Biden and certainly not Kamala. They both flip flop around.
Yeh, that’s why we have “perfect health care”, a wall the Mexicans paid for, a balanced budget, and the virus has just gone away.
When he has an obstructionist Congress with Pelosi and Schumer who refuse to work with him on ANYTHING that would benefit the American people, what do you expect?
Uh, he had 2 years with a GOP House and Senate. Try another excuse for why you forgive his BS promises.
First 2 years he had ‘Never Trumper’ Paul Ryan, et al. McConnell doesn’t always help things along either. Funny how the Democrats are always “lock step in line” with the agenda. No Dems dare step out of line from their Dear Leaders the way Repubs/RINOs regularly do. Which party is the totalitarian fascistic party again? Democrats.
Looks like Speaker Nancy Pelosi isn’t too worried about the virus. She’s still on vacation back home in San Francisco, instead of working hard for the American people who must wear a mask, cannot go to the gym, cannot go to the hair salon. But she’s important and you are not. Owner called it a ‘slap in the face.’ For shame Nancy ‘laws are for the little people’ Pelosi. For shame how you abuse the perks of your office.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-san-francisco-hair-salon-owner-calls-it-slap-in-the-face
Joe Biden is an enormous liar. Plagiarizer too. And now he is going senile on top of it. And he is corrupt as hell.
But hey, Joe is a nice guy. The American people don’t need a weak, nice guy, in the White House. They need a fighter like Trump.
Biden is a personable guy. That is how he gets away with plaigerism, lying, incompetence and selling America down the drain. One should never confuse personable with leadership.
Bookless:
Like he doesn’t favor a fracking ban. See video below.
“Biden and Harris have not favored defunding the police and actually have a record of law enforcement accomplishments.”
It is a wry irony that they cannot, given the current state of the democratic party, make their own record a campaign issue.
Nobody likes her
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qj4nxw/progressives-think-kamala-is-a-cop-but-cops-hated-harris-for-years
Except the Silicon Valley billionaires
Funny Kurtz. Everybody hates Trump’s guts
Who is everybody? Out here in the midwest a lot of regular folks love him. I had a 95 year old lady pledge to vote Trump to me today. She thought I was a Democrat and was trying to sell me on him anyways. I told her I had nothing against Joe besides the dementia but I was voting Trump for sure, as a matter of law and order. I had to leave it at that. you don’t want to get in too deep when you’re talking to nonagenarians. This old gal makes a lot more sense talking than Joe does. She’s got elderly issues but hasn’t lost her gift of gab.
Kurtz, pardon me, and I’m wrong. I shouldn’t have said “everybody hates Trump’s guts”. I should have said “Most Americans hate Trump’s guts and Kurtz and his friends like him.”.
My bad.
I should have said “Most Americans hate Trump’s guts and Kurtz and his friends like him.
They also hate their own body parts, skin color, personal responsibility, work, paying their own debt, law enforcement, bill of rights for others and national borders. They also can’t pass a civics exam. You’ve got your own great group of friends there.
Btb, I don’t even think most people would come close to saying they hate Trump’s guts. Everything you say is magnified to such an extent that you look foolish.
Yeah Olly, I do. Most Americans. Maybe you should leave?
Maybe you should leave?
Not happening. I and millions just like me took an oath and we will honor that commitment for life. We don’t hate those that are ignorant of our history and the principles this country was founded on. We do however believe those that made them this way are domestic enemies. If they truly do have the majority and are able to elect their candidates through fair elections, then that presents a different dynamic we will have to deal with. The constitution may be merely a parchment barrier for you, but the DoI is not. Those self-evident truths may be ignored by you and your friends, but they are still truths. We will always end up at the same point. Count on it.
Funny. Everybody is voting FOR Trump. Dems and their media are working overtime figuring out how to cheat and steal the election because they know they are losing. Shameful deceitful corrupt Dems are at it again. Disgusting.
I think they are planning to cheat too. Does anyone imagine that the people burning down cities would hesitate to tamper with voting?
That may be why they are going on [again] about accepting the election. They are afraid that if they are caught cheating Trump will not accept the result, and he should not.
With the way this country is so divided, I fear what the response will be if we do not know the outcome on November 3 or early Nov 4. but I fear there will be many places in this country that will screw up the mail in ballots, have many contested ballots by both sides and take many days to determine the outcome. If that happens, no matter which side wins, the country loses because 1/2 the people will accept the outcome and 1/2 will not. This will not be like Clinton ignoring a couple states and losing because of that. It will be due to the mismanagement of an election, far worse than 2000.
There is a new theory called “Red mist”. Trump win in the first weeks, but as re-counts, extra ballots are found, etc. Biden wins.
Does anyone imagine that the people burning down cities would hesitate to tamper with voting?
4 years ago a coup began. It failed. Despite a mountain of evidence proving what happened and who was involved, only 1 person has pled guilty in exchange for a 6 month sentence. Election fraud will happen. It will be rampant. Low level people will be prosecuted. And none of that will matter because the damage will have been done years earlier.
It is interesting how the times change so quickly. This election was one for Biden to lose because trump has a knack for saying and doing idiotic things that appeal to the fringes of his party, but really turn off those in the middle that like his policies, but can not stand the man. They go from saying they would not vote for him, but would to saying they would not vote for him and won’t. And the media makes Trump the goat on Covid-19, while making Fauci the hero of the administration, even though Fauci made many errors, told people information that was 100% incorrect, scared the crap out of them and then reversed comments to look like the hero. Trumps approval goes down considerably.
Biden, on the other hand was in the cat birds seat. Just don’t say anything stupid, make a few appearances, look presidential and he would be elected. 10-15% advantage in polling and anywhere from 5% to 10% advantage in swing states.
So what happens. Trump keeps mouthing off (I will find recent comments if so ask), but Biden stays in the basement, but doesn’t stay quite. He stumbles on stupid comments and does not look presidential. He looks old and feeble. And those that support him the most are doing everything in their power to give Trump the vote with the riots and demonstrations causing death and destruction. Trump jumps all over law and order as well as security, flash points for middle class suburban America,
So now the poll are within 5% or so, tied in some swing states and too close to call in a couple others. Trumps fortunes have changed for the good because of another mismanaged campaign by a democrat.
Not saying Biden won’t get elected, but his road to the white house is narrower than it was just a few weeks ago.
And with the tightening of the polls, any idea of not debating is out the window. This could be what kills his campaign or sends him to the White House.
I most likely will not see it in my lifetime again, but having an election like Bush 41 v Clinton where there was a choice between good and best (not considering Perot who was right on many things) instead of choosing between bad and worst would be nice. I can not say I am happy with either one, so will have to choose the one that offers the least negative impact to policies I support. and I suspect there will be many voting the same as I will, not happy with either one.
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Ron, though a bit caustic Trump has been a very good President while Biden has a 47 year history of banality along with being wrong most of the times. Bidens’s best feature is he is personable. One can be personable even when they and their family profit from selling America down the drain to our enemies such as the Chinese.
Allen, yes, as I said there are many who like his policies. I am one that even supports his “fair trade, not free trade” policies requiring free to be fair on both sides.
But he can go for 10 days doing everything right and then makes idiotic comments like police violence can be compared to golf puts in a Fox news interview recently. REALLY? Now I agree that there are pressures in both, but the media jumps all over this and those in the middle hears it and asked how can a situation where fear close to peeing your pants can be like a millionaire golfer putting for a win and an additional $500k when they are worth many times that.
So how many other stupid comments has he made costing him votes when he should let his policies do the talking for him.
Ron, I don’t disagree that Trump says things off the cuff and can be irritating. He says what he is thinking at the time instead of reading a written statement or memorizing one.You get the good with the bad but the bad is later explained. The good is in sound policy that has worked well for the country. I’ll take the sound policy as more important than Trump playing safe and maintaining the stutus quo.
That being said one has to recognize that a lot of things he said that caused me and likely you agita turned out to be correct. The media says nothing about what Trump does or what he wants to do. They won’t give him any press so he has to aggressively make it happen. When he wants to talk about something the media will not publish it but if he says it in a strange way they publish it as something he said that was wrong. It is now in the news and what he says on the subject gets published and makes sense. When he first took office he got bad press and did little about it or in some cases kept it going. The news media was focused on trivialities giving him the ability to focus on one of his most important agendas, getting rid of regulations. which he did.
Sometimes he says or does stupid things but that is true of all of us so I give him leeway because overall he has been able to at least partially break through the Washington bureaucracy and legislature. Remember, he is an outsider so insiders whether Democrat or Republican started out against him. He is taking away a lot of their bread.
The next time he says something you disagree with try and get the entire quote in context. Take note of the issue and the direction of the country is at that moment and then see how that statement plays out. Take note if the statement was nothing more than a ruse to change the topic of the day which is not favorable to him. That is the equivalent of taking a small loss in order to get rid of a bigger one.
Anti acids can relieve agita. There is no relief from a democrat takeover of America.
The widespread use of postal ballots is a conduit to massive fraud (not to mention delays given the trouble you have tabulating them). If 2000 is replicated, you’ll have trial judges trying to do their jobs while Democratic Party operatives in the appellate judiciary disregard clear statutory language in an effort to rig the game. You’ll have that all over the place, not just in one state.
It’s indicative of how worthless our politicians are that given the mess in Florida in 2000, they took steps (under the guidance of a useless federal commission) to exacerbate problems in elections administration. They did this contra the advice of academics working in computer science and IT who had studied the problems of technological applications in elections administration. Now, this year, when there was an emergency, they enacted measures to make the whole business a horror.
Aside from the usual inertia and stupidity (and an aspect of the latter is the onanistic reaction to information technology), the Democratic Party’s sub rosa vote fraud schemes would be threatened by clean elections, so we only get reform in states which are too red for them to steal it. Not that the Republicans have distinguished themselves in these matters.
Thanks Book. I appreciate you correcting your overbroad remark. Certainly, very few people know me and even less feel strongly one way or another. I do not aim for popularity, the best I can hope for is respect. But I am insignificant.
As to Trump, I can’t be sure. I think a significant minority of Americans do hate Trump. I think most are indifferent or positive. Polls are dubious and they change quickly. But certainly there are the haters. That’s ok. I applaud people embracing their strong feelings about matters of public concern.
The democratic party is basically a zombie at this point, primarily controlled by BLM and Antifa. That’s why moderates like me have been leaving in droves.
If you’re leaving the Democratic party you’re not a moderate so cut the BS Jay. Real moderate Democrats like me defeated the party left – again! – in the primaries and it wasn’t close – again.
I am so moderate that I have voted with the majority or plurality of Americans in 6 of the last 7 presidential elections. Did you?
“If you’re leaving the Democratic party you’re not a moderate so cut the BS Jay. ”
if you’re still in the party, you’re not as moderate as I am.
I am so moderate that I have voted with the majority or plurality of Americans in 6 of the last 7 presidential elections. Did you?
Well Jay, both have and Biden is proposing $300 million for COPS funding in his platform and in his speech yesterday.
Maybe you should check your news sources.
You don’t need one thin dime of federal funding and $300 million is sofa change.
Well, which is it absurd? Too much or not enough. Take your time.
Maybe the town or city where absurd lives has all the money they need for more police on the street, so hopefully they can pass and let it go where helps.
Biden and Harris have not favored defunding the police and actually have a record of law enforcement accomplishments
Harris’ talent for giving head landed her in the Frisco DA’s chair. See Glenn Reynolds assessment of her conduct there.
As for Biden, he ain’t never been Sheriff of anywhere. Long ago in a galaxy far away, he had a seat on a county council. He’s been in federal politics since 1972 and the federal government is responsible for only a sliver of law enforcement (and most of what it does do is interdict street drugs). It offers consultative services to local law enforcement (something state police can do outside of rarefied realms) and maintain some useful databases.
“Several republicans including the vice President, have now made the case that the riots and protests and violence happening in trump’s America wouldn’t be happening in trump’s America.”
Got a little more than that? Yes, because the useful idiots have been activated by their smarter and discreet overlords. It’s funny to think that they totally fail themselves in either outcome. Not the hallmark of a smart group. Are you a participating member?
Fishy – The Democrats ‘count on the stupidity’ of the American people. They even told us so. You are being lied to, propagandized, brainwashed, radicalized. Sad.
m o d e r n i t y 2
·https://banned.video/watch?id=5f4d2323838dfb0597dccbdd
“Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand… ” — This is CNN
CNN’s “mostly peaceful” protest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MWzDKE4zbY
All you need to do is go to Vidmax.com and you will she how not peaceful these protests are in fact.
https://vidmax.com/
Whoops, see*
“You acknowledge the looting and rioting while saying that the majority of protesters remain peaceful. While it does not fit any particular narrative, it has the added benefit of being true.”
Now, if only we could get you to take a look at the non-journalistic standards of fox news. I somehow think it’s not in your contract though. Oh well.
Now, if only we could get you to take a look at the non-journalistic standards of fox news.
It apparently hasn’t occurred to you that JT is an objective umpire of the news. And while FoxNews is throwing balls and strikes, the rest of the media is going all Nuke LaLoosh and consistently beaning the bull.
Spoken like a true believer Olly. No wonder you don’t know what’s going on.
JT is a social media influencer, Olly. That’s the purpose of this blog. He’s shaping opinion and trolling the gullible, of which you are one.
JT is trolling nobody. Lawyers are aware of his blog for many years. I found it via a “top law blogs” list I was studying one day years ago. Immediately liked his content.
I wonder how the rest of you got here. Some say you were assigned the duty. I would not know. Care to share?
You’re correct Kurtz. This is just bug and btb projecting.
i wondered how a bright guy like Turley, albeit one with shockingly little foresight, could sell out so hard. I came to see the wreckage.
So you do not want to share how you heard of this blog. “watching wreckage” does not answer the question. I didn’t really think it was all that intrusive and I shared how i found it, but if you don’t want to have a discussion, and just toss insults, ok
I typed “Jonathan Turley” in google. And I’d suggest seeking out information yourself on google before posting your half baked racist schlock on this blog, Kurtz. It’d help out a great deal.
My guess is you’re offended by the suggestion that Turley is a social media influencer because it would mean you’ve been bamboozled somehow. But the very stucture of this blog, and the schedule at which he posts, and the single pointed focus of his posts screams out that this blog is a vehicle ripe for influencing. It’s not hard to see if you’re able to put down your preconceptions…, but i can tell that’s an almost impossibly hard proposition for you to entertain boogaloo boi.
and the single pointed focus of his posts screams out that this blog is a vehicle ripe for influencing.
LOL! Imagine a prestigious law professor is focused on the law. And the fact you’ve aligned yourself with the anti-law ilk explains why his posts typically don’t favor your worldview. You should expect to continue your loser streak.
Bug, when I say monetization I mean something like pay per click. Obviously when one ejects interesting content into the internet and draws views, it will have an indirect effect of building a person’s profile in search engines for the relevant search terms. Of course Turley’s content elevates his profile
But you seem to be claiming there is a way to monetize without having followers or paid advertising panels. Can you explain that more fully? I am curious. I will like Turley’s content if I do, regardless, but I am always looking to learn more about digital media.
I am not sure if the remark at 735 was directed at me. I do not feel offended about you calling me racist, i probably won’t feel offended by you suggesting Turley is a social media influencer. I think to a degree he is a social media influencer. literally. But I do not put him in the same category of some 18 year old girl who sets about gaining a million followers on instagram by showing her boobs and then leveraging that into a monetized social media presence.
You did notice, of course, that this blog is not monetized, right? So, I don’t put him in that category. His jobs are professor and lawyer.
Also I am not an anarchist of any variety and that includes the strange birds they call boogaloo bois. I repudiate anarchy. I do not advocate violating any laws of the United States, full stop. And from what little i have seen of them online, they are gun nuts who advocate violence against law enforcement and breaking gun laws for the sake of some sort of anarchist inclinations. this disgusts me. I am for law, order, and the good of society. Work, family, patriotism. Stuff like that. Tangible human values, and not ideological bromides.
Of course, if a sporadic insurrection became an insurgency, I would know how to pick sides, and I would. But it would depend on how the situation unfolded of course. One can’t be too hidebound about the possibilities. Serves little purpose to elaborate. There’s nothing wrong with a person speculating about the future, how otherwise could we direct ourselves to a meaningful and purposeful live?
You guys who doubt Turley’s influencer realm aren’t sure how the internet is used for monetization these days. I look at this blog as an obvious push piece set up. Everything about the logistics of how Turley posts says influencer page. Not only do i suspect this to be true — I’d be shocked if it wasn’t.
Since what you say can be injurious to Turley’s reputation it sounds like libel. Truth is a defense, so let us hear your proof.
Tell us who is paying Turley. Without that ability along with the proof you are comitting libel not against an alias but against a real individual and you are not unidentifiable.
i said i suspect it, Allan. You know, reading comprehension and all that…
If i had to speculate who pays Turley by the click on this blog, ultimately it would probably track back to Koch and ALEC money although it would surely run through several shells to provide plausible deniability.
What you forget Bug is that this is not the first statement and only statement you have made libeling Turley. It is one of many.
“it would probably track back to Koch and ALEC ” That demonstrates how little you know.
was that after the testimony during the impeachment? just wondering. or how did you hear about turley at all?
also i am not sure what you mean by racist schlock. If you have specific things you want to discuss, I will be here a little longer yet tonight.
maybe you meant, Racist Shockley? You may have heard of him. he invented the transistor.
I’ve been a Turley watcher for years, Kurtz. I’ve always been fascinated by how a guy with so much potential just completely sold out to repub orthodoxy.
Bug, This comment demonstrates you do not understand the rule of law nor do you understand Turley. He has stated he supports the democrat party not the Republicans. He is trying his best to provide a legal opinion not a political one. You don’t support the rule of law. Right or wrong you stick with the party line.
It so happens recently legality lies with the right and illegality lies with the left based on your thinking process. Both right and left should be functioning within the law.
Yay for me.
Except there is no Republican orthodoxy. That is why Trump was able to reactivate so many disgruntled and lapsed Republicans like me. He offended free trade, military interventionism, and a tacit pro migration policy, all three of which were planks of Geo Bush Sr and Jr. an d shared to a large extent by Bill Clinton too.
I keep on coming back to policy issues because they are useful. I know they are not as interesting as things happening on the ground, by they offer a look into “Why”
I know it may be hard to believe ,but there are a lot of conservative Democrat households all across the midwest. Turley is from Chicago, and I have lived in parts in or nearby my whole life. I have had the pleasure of acquaintance and friendship with many many people over a lifetime who have formal associations with the Democrat party spanning generations but privately harbor very Trumpian viewpoints about trade and various social matters. I can sincerely report that while on the mass media level Trump is viewed as a divider, on the street face to face level, it’s very common from Detroit to Chicago to meet regular people across the spectrum who strongly support his trade & migration policies.
It may also be hard to believe that domestic manufacturing could unite so many households over generations against offshoring and socalled “free trade” in the midwest, and align both the managerial strata with the interests of organized labor, but in fact across the Rust belt there are many such households.
Out east, I suspect that “Republican” means something different than it does out here. And it always has. I suspect that out there , they are more of what I can “Financialists” ie free traders and Bushies and that sort. Not my kind. Call me plebian but I can relate more to a builder / casino & hotel operator than I can the Bush family type.
These social dynamics may be vague, but they are real
There was when Turley signed on in the ’90’s.
I only began following Turley about 4-8 years ago, can’t recall when. I was not tuned into him that far back. I never met Turley. I would be pleased to meet him but if I did I would not tell him I was such a pest in his comment area.
Ha ha whenever I think of Shockley I am reminded of that other famous Nobel prize winning white racist, James Watson
https://www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18182530/james-watson-racist
just imagine. One a Nobel prize winning physicist, a racist, and the other credited with co discovering DNA’s molecular form, a biologist. Racist, too! or so they say
These guys just should have looked it up on google, yes?
Of course we wouldn’t have google today, without Shockley, because no transistors, then, no microchips which replaced them.
And how are the comments section here not complete wreckage???
You could improve the quality by exiting under all three of the sock-puppets you use.
The people antifa and black lives matter have shot remain dead. No amount of pettifogging by Chris CIlliza and his consigliere at CNN can bring them back to life.
An event in which people are shot dead and afterward, the “mostly peaceful” speakers say things like ““I am not sad that a f—ing fascist died tonight” to a laughing and cheering crowd is a riot.
You can tell by the utter lack of remorse that people have died at the hands of “mostly peaceful protesters” by speakers at the event and a the cheering crowd.
The Far-Left And Far-Right Battle In Streets
Which Describes 1920’s Germany.. And America In The 2020’s
All last week, the Republican Convention kept repeating the message that America will ‘descend into chaos if Joe Biden is elected’. But the chaos we are witnessing is occurring under Donald Trump’s presidency.
Yet Trump would have us believe that ‘blue states’ and ‘Democratic cities’ are actually foreign lands outside his jurisdiction. This analogy illustrates precisely why this cycle of violence has taken hold: ‘Trump, is only president to his red state base’.
A president cannot go 3 1/2 years demonizing those parts of the country that failed to support him and then deny responsibility when cities degenerate into chaos. What’s more, it was Trump who tweeted, back in April, “Liberate” to Minnesota, Michigan and Virginia. Those tweets were not-so-subtle invitations encouraging rightwing militias to stage noisy anti-quarantine protests. That was weeks ‘before’ the George Floyd killing and the subsequent riots that followed.
One recalls, in fact, that shortly after the Floyd killing, Trump rashly tweeted: “When the looting starts, the shooting starts”. It is difficult to think that tweet was ‘not’ intended to trigger a backlash. Being ignorant and morally bankrupt, Trump calculates that only civil unrest can save his presidency.
The riots and despicable criminal activity, whether by anarchists or Ds or BLM or antifa, are taking place where D Party-elected officials are supposed to be “governing.” They are not! They have succumbed to mob rule and must pander to those involved in it; those are the kinds of people who elected them, so they owe them more allegiance. They are not protecting residents or businesses because to do so means they need to deal with their supporters: criminals of all sorts, people who can riot night after night and day after day because they do not work for a living.
Tenant, your very comment reinforces exactly the problem identified: “Trump only serves his red state base”.
In Trump we have a president who was born and raised in New York City. His entire career was based in New York City. But since becoming president, Trump has turned on New York City only because NYC failed to support his candidacy.
Never trust a president who turns against his hometown.
Biden is the perfect compromise candidate. He can easily be bought and can quickly change his mind because no thought process is involved.
Here he goes again. It’s become clear that Turley’s role is to attack media that aren’t pro-Trump, particularly CNN. I’d really like to know if you are on the payroll. Either way, Trump’s not worth it. You already no longer have any credibility, because your agenda is clear. It mystifies me how you can overlook the blatant lack of anything remotely resembling journalism on Fox. The lies told. the attacks on Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, repeating Trumpian name-calling, the Trump fear mongering (in 2016, it was fear of brown people from south of the border; this year, it’s fear of the “rioters” and public housing residents who are coming for suburban housewives), and the spinning of facts are staggering, and yet you devote a piece on whether it is wrong to equate protesting with “rioting”.
Oh, ha, Natch, news for ya.
THEY ARE COMING
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-30/black-lives-matter-in-small-town-pennsylvania
Show us the live “fact check” by the media of the lies Joe Biden just told in his Pittsburgh speech. You know, the same kind of live “fact check” they do of President Trump. Show us the fact check, live, on CNN, of the lies Joe Biden just told.
CNN continues to be a disgrace in the area of reporting, news, journalism, whatever. When I turn to that station to be acquainted with what it says about what is happening, I find the people on its payroll to be terribly afflicted with what I can only call “hatred.” It is hatred not only of USA President Trump, but of anyone and everyone who isn’t signed on to the social, political and economic agendas of the far left lefties who dominate and control the D Party – whether elected Rs, those who vote R, people who know what this “BLM” has become and what it stands for, etc. Its hatred is so apparent that it ignores the effect that anarchists are having on events in D-controlled cities and states; those subscribing to anarchy want to end the USA as we know it. Moreover, CNN FAILS to cover anything that casts an unfavorable light on the agendas of the hateful lefties in control of the D Party, BLM, antifa, etc.
Joe Biden Pittsburgh speech lie number one: “I am not banning fracking. Let me say that again: I am not banning fracking. No matter how many times Donald Trump lies about me.”
What Joe Biden has said: Yes, I will ban fracking.
“No more ability for the oil industry to continue to drill. PERIOD.”
“No new fracking!”
What Kamala Harris has said: Yes, I am absolutely in favor of banning fracking. On day one.
When will Joe Biden stand and actually answer media questions, on the fly, without having questions in advance, after giving a speech chock full of outrageous lies?
His latest was his speech in Pittsburgh today, from an undisclosed location (evidently Carnegie-Mellon hosted it; Democratic speakers don’t get disinvited). It runs on for 2,850 words (or shy of about 5 typed pages). About 20% of the verbiage concerns the rioting, and the bulk of that consists of blaming the president for it (and invoking mythical white supremicists).
Biden hasn’t any leadership qualities. The thrust of the speech aligns with the mental operations of partisan Democrats of my acquaintance. Whoever wrote the speech has his finger on the pulse of street-level Democrats, and it tells you something rather disagreeable about their hearts and minds.
Biden was a leader in the Senate – not an easy accomplishment – for most of his 40 years there. He was the Chairman or ranking member of 2 of the most powerful and prestigious committees – Foreign Policy and Judiciary – for much of that time and was the go to guy for negotiating bipartisan legislation.
His speech and positions are centrist and main stream Democratic, which also happens to align with the most popular positions of Americans on gun control, health care, comprehensive immigration, foreign policy, etc. The left wing agenda went down in the primaries.
Whatever his speaking abilities show, other than a long history, including at an early age of being a gaffe machine, he knows what he’s talking about, has been there, and has principles. The candidate TIA and most others here support often shows signs of losing it as his speech devolves into gibberish, and at his best he remains an ignorant liar who’s biggest applause lines aren’t aspirational, but put downs and insults aimed at other “elites” (other than himself) and who’s “principles” are an act – see upside down bible in Lafayette Park – which only thinly veils his true guiding light – seeking attention.
Joe Biden could have been the finest Senator in American history and that would not matter if he is in a significant cognitive decline
& There is plenty of good reason to suspect it.
And likewise even if Biden could make a good president- certainly he has many qualifications– his age and apparent mental infirmity cast a light on VP pick Kamala,
who would NOT make a good POTUS, is NOT well qualified, and lacks the Senatorial history and respect that Biden has earned in his own right, alone
Kamala showed no respect to Biden on in the primary. I lost respect for Joe for picking her just for that reason alone. How could he suffer that. He is not as strong as he once was.
One has to be incredibly cynical to think this lady has any business moving up in the political system at all.
I have respect for Biden as a Senator with a long tenure deserving the respect of his office and that institution and whatever else he has done as a leader to help our great nation.
I am not interested in beating up on Joe Biden at all. I never have been. I do have a sincere belief grounded in listening to him quite a bit over the past year, that he suffers from cognitive decline, which would be totally normal at his age.
I do not respect Kamala. I dislike her and she is not fit for POTUS. Her pick as VP after insulting Biden and suggesting that he was a racist– a totally false and scurrilous charge– is perplexing to me, and, it only enhances my suspicion that Joe is weak minded now, that he would let such a wretched woman be his VP. If he wanted a woman there were plenty of white women to chose from who could have been much more viable VP and potential POTUS backups than Kamala. But such is the Democrat party that a black candidate may now be required in one or the other slot from now one, one suspects.
Although Americans generally see Kamala as black, apparently she has Asian Indian ancestry. How ironic that Tulsi Gabbard is also of partly Asian Indian ancestry– her mother was white– but the Democrats carefully ignored Tulsi at their convention, even though she is a worthy candidate and earned herself at least one delegate. But the Democrats never worry about “Tradition” and just erased her from all mention. Sad!
The long term viability and authenticity of the Democrat party is important to our bipartisan system. Never has it looked so poorly as it does now, between the explicit endorsements of BLM, and the tacit endorsements of rioting, to the pick of Joe in spite of his difficulties, and the elevation of this bad lady to VP. This is actually a worse ticket than Hillary’s.
When Joe loses, and I expect that he probably will, I hope the Democrat party is able to reform itself
Biden is entirely dependent on the words someone typed into his teleprompter. He can NOT speak contemporaneously. When the prompter malfunctions he simply can not ad lib. Instead, he comes off as a lunatic who doesn’t know what planet he’s living on.
https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1300496859136430080
Joe lies that he will ban fracking. It’s not possible for him to ban fracking under an XO. Nore even EPA rulemaking. It would require an Act of Congress.
Joe lies.
It would also collapse what is teetering on the brink already, tens of thousands of oil jobs related to domestic oil production and probably another hundred companies at least
The concern over them going BK just due to slackening demand from the worldwide COVID economic downturn is already grave.
Joe is volunteering to be the grave-digger for American jobs.
They will all vote Trump. Not one guy from roughnecks to execs, who work in oil sector, will flip the switch for Joe now.
Biden does not favor banning fracking and his position has not changed. He favors no new fracking on federal lands.
nd his position has not changed.
ROTFL
“Biden does not favor banning fracking and his position has not changed. He favors no new fracking on federal lands.”
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Bookie must hate videotape for all the lies of biden/Harri sit exposes:
The Pittsburg Gazette elaborates on his own confusing and self contradictory remarks
https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/2020/09/01/Biden-s-confusing-stand-on-fracking/stories/202008260066
BTB…Are you sure.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2020/08/31/fact-check-joe-biden-claims-i-am-not-banning-fracking/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
“Biden does not favor banning fracking ”
Let me quote Biden and prove that btb lies and doesn’t know the truth.
“Kiddo, I want you to just take a look, OK, you don’t have to agree, I want you to look at my eyes. I guarantee you, I guarantee you we are going to end fossil fuel and I am not going to cooperate.”
video at: https://twitter.com/KimStrassel/status/1300631677350285314?s=20
This quiote says two contradictory things. Just like every single post you put up here, Allan.
Try to stay focused. We have noticed that your daily dosage of Adderall and cocaine aren’t carrying you anymore. Perhaps a quick, painless push of bleach in your vein will take you to the next level and rid Turley’s blog of witless bugs
Bug, it is true that the phrase contained more than one word but the point made by Biden was clear to any thinking person: “I guarantee you we are going to end fossil fuel”.
That demonstrates that btb lied.
Nothing contradictory but you say a lot of things without backing them up. You also don’t know the truth about most things on the blog so you make up lies.
Let’s just ask Joe if it’s true or not:
https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1300497053710192641?s=20
Bug, Did you review the Pittsburg Gazette’s account of Biden’s contradictory remarks about fracking?
Is there an authoritative source for what Biden’s position is today?
Kurtz, do you really want to nitpick comments of the presidential candidates? Biden made vague promise during a debate which his office quickly corrected within a day back to his position which he had previously and which he still has: No new fracking on federal lands but no effort to stop fracking on private lands anytime in the near future. He has promised to work to move away from fossil fuels with a date well passed his lifetime.
Now, can you deal with these please?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/
NO i dont care about Trumps trivial fibs. I do care about fracking because I have very small investments that are important to me in spite of how humble they may be
but thanks for the clarification. i wonder what % of fracking is happening on federal lands? A POTUS could ban that, seems to me, though it might be a matter for litigation depending on the terms of the concessions. I wonder what the impact of an XO like that would be, on upstream oil operations as a whole. I have no clue, If anybody knows, please inform. thank you
Approx 20% on federal lands
thanks book I just found this it says in 2018 it was about 10%….this article gives a deeper dive, I should quit fiddling here and go apply this to my pathetic little portfolio
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4311801-political-risk-rising-2020-presidential-candidates-fracking-and-federal-lands
maybe a fracking ban would help reduce production and exert an upward price pressure. might not matter of course. maybe the overall effect would be negligible on the industry as a whole. and whateve the other OPEC producers do could probably swamp this effect one way or another, and ya never know how that cookie will crumble.
It might be cool to look and compare the financially weaker shale oil producers to the ones which have more extensive public lands fracking ops. See who might get their wings clipped harder if Biden wins and delivers on this position. I feel like I can’t form any good hypotheses on the scanty information I have so far.
one thing you can bet on, is outside the financial press, the political operators will be spinning everything whichever way they want, with little or no hesitation to do so based on a thorough and even handed consideration of facts.
Biden’s statements were not vague. That is one of his problems. He likes to emphasize and reemphasize what he says. He knows that his views frequently change so he might be trying to convince himself when he tries to convince others.
Your constant posting of lies where examples have been debunked previously demonstrate your lack of knowledge and honesty. Instead of running away pick out the 5 (out of 20,055) strongest and most important lies Trump has made. You always seem to run away from debating what is or is not an important lie.
i hope it’s to put the country on a course to dramatically reduce fracking, bring in wind and solar on a super huge scale and get out of the fossil fuel industry’s pocket. The fact that Biden even expressed interest in curtailing fracking is a huge positive for me.
Bug, a science minded person like you surely appreciates the difficulties in storage excess electrical production for later use. How will a “super huge scale” of wind and solar solve the storage problem?
With oil and coal, the stuff just sits there in barrels or big heaps.
With wind and solar generated electricity, it’s use it or lose it. Battery storage does not really exist at that scale. Variations in demand make this problem a big one for wind and solar.
Feel free to give a serious answer, if there is one.
This article explores the problem and some possible partial remedies. I am not sure how feasible the proposals were when they were made in 2017 or now. Where’s Benson when he might make a worthy contribution? It’s up to you Bug
https://qz.com/1133123/batteries-cant-solve-the-worlds-biggest-energy-storage-problem-one-startup-has-a-solution/
Kurtz, any realistic plan now has to include nuclear power.
Some really good questions in that article, and overall it exhibits the type of thinking needed to address the storage problem…
One glaring short sighted abstraction though…
“The biggest problem with wind and solar energy is that they’re intermittent. There might be violent winds one day, and calm skies the next; broiling sunshine on Monday and 100% cloud cover on Tuesday. Some argue this problem is easily overcome by storing any excess energy in batteries until it’s needed at a later time. Further, battery advocates say, even though the bookcase-sized batteries required to store solar energy for a small home are expensive today, prices are falling and will continue to fall for some time.”
This only flies if one is not aware of the advance work done for sighting windmills for steady wind. Extremely in depth work that, and it belies the tossed off idea in this piece that it’s not the case.
Overall, it’s not a choice. Sustainable power is the future and hybridization is the answer.
Another problem with the thrust of this article is that it doesn’t address the compounding of systems, i.e.wind/solar/hydro hybrid systems. Indeed batteries are not the entire answer…, but if you venture outside the broad brushes of how this article treated the battery question you’ll find battery tech is ever improving.
See, basically the power ‘storage’ question isn’t one of efficacy so much as it is one functioning from the old profit model of ‘how do you sell’ what you’ve previously produced. This is the thinking that stifled the fossil fuel companies when they made a big push into sustainable in the ’80’s. They couldn’t see around not being to able to license and own the source of the power they treat as a commodity and made the active decision to not venture further until they sold off what they could license and profit off in the biggest way.
So the question is limited. How so? Well, the actual territory of energy production is shifting far beyond the ‘map’ of that limited profit model. What does that mean? In short, it means decentralization. The super storms we’re getting through climate change have shifted the power distribution models. When power is knocked out for upwards of a month at a time what becomes clear is that rather than having one central power generation source that branches out through the grid you’re always going to be susceptible to the catastrophic event. What works much better is a grid system with many mini generation sources along the way. That way you can’t get knocked out of the blocks so easily. Sustainable sources such as wind, solar and hydro — and the hybridization models arising from such diversification — are perfect for this new modeling. It’s basically the idea of having many generators built into the system.
There. I’ve tried to put that in moron proof terms specifically for you, Allan. Don’t get hurt trying to figure it out with your obtuse logic.
Bug, you are a moron and can’t even figure out who you are posting a response to. There are loads of problems with all sources of energy. The question becomes how do we choose what source of energy to use. Are we told from above like has happened in California or do the various sources have to compete. I don’t object to any particular energy source but I recognize all have their downsides.
Let’s take wind. The amount of fossil fuel necessary to build a wind turbine is huge and to get sufficient energy one has to destroy a significant area frequently forest or meadow. Those two things are major considerations. Add to that the destruction of habitat for animals and the fact that windfarms kill huge numbers of birds and one has to be very judicious as to where wind farms can be placed. The next consideration is the fact that windfarms aren’t really renewable energy for they end up having to be replaced at considerable cost in money and pollution. Then one has to recognize that the broken turbines add to the amounts of garbage we already have.
You are a moron because you don’t consider the actual costs and hazards of anything you suggest. That is because you know very little about the subject matter. Your thinking process is determined by soundbites pumped into your head because vacuumes need to be filled with something.
My bad. I thought Allan posted the above. I should’ve known he couldn’t venture to the depth of the post you put up, Kurtz. Disregard the standard insult I posted for Allan at the end.
“My bad. I thought Allan posted the above.”
Bug, your bad was in thinking you had anything worthwhile to say.
Allan, your responses not only show you don’t know the first bit about sustainable energy and energy production in general, They are too stupid to even address in the most basic of ways. Let me know if you need help finding the kitchen.
You are a moron because you don’t consider the actual costs and hazards of anything you suggest. Your empty replies demonstrate your lack of knowledge.
I agree nuclear power is integral to any serious national energy plan. We need more safe nuclear electricity production and it takes a while to build. One hopes somebody is minding the store on that account.
Nuclear, as well as fracking = extremely short term stop gaps until we’re 100% sustainable. The obvious problems with each make it obvious >> nuclear waste and ground water pollution. Water is the most valued commodity going forward. Both of these sources of power are direct threats to it.
“Water is the most valued commodity going forward.”
I know it is hard for a moron to be more specific but that is needed for an adult discussion. The earth is covered with more than 2/3rds being water and that doesn’t count water vapor. Everything to you is a crisis that can’t be solved until it is or until Joe Biden is president.I know according to you and your buddies by this time we should all be toast but that was just another of your ignorant fanstassies.
Yes, I’d sure agree with you that water exists on the planet, Allan. But once you get beyond the severe shortage of brain cells involved with your answer you’d realize that access to clean water is such a great force that it is literally driving policy in the military and multinational corporate world. But you wouldn’t know that since you’re stuck in the ’50’s and gullible enough to swallow everything dear leader vomits out.
Your retort telling me the specific that clean water is the problem was left out in your former statement to which I answered “I know it is hard for a moron to be more specific”
You are a moron but with pushing you got to specify clean water. You do realize that only a very tiny amount of water is reasonably clean today, don’t you? Do you realize that most communities today have to sanitize their water before drinking it. You probably didn’t know that before I told you so I guess I did a good deed.
What you have difficulty with is dealing with more than one idea at a time. You have to go soundbite by soundbite.in order to create an answer that doesn’t suffice but makes you feel that your IQ has reached double digit.
I worry about water as well, but not everyone is stupid. Look at Israel, mostly desert with an insufficient water supply but they manage to export water to Jordan. They can do that because they know how to think. You do not.
Allan, I’ll wait for you to talk yourself up into an intelligible standard before bothering to answer your gibberish.
“Allan, I’ll wait”
Bug, no need to wai. If you weren’t a moron you could ask the question.
Alternative fuels can make sense in the right places at the right time, but you are pushing them ahead of the technology.
California is having blackouts because of the alternative energy policy. Such blackouts can lead to deaths.
If someone tried to make a statement that contained more straight bulls&*t than this they’d fail miserably.
” If someone tried to make a statement that contained more straight bulls&*t than this they’d fail miserably.”
OK, you can continue to believe that windpower can supply all the energy for the nation.
Reading comprehension, Allan. I advocate for diversified sustainable energy. That’s solar. Wind. Hydro. And most of all: hybridized systems.
Moron, it has little to do with diversity. It has to do with what I said: “Alternative fuels can make sense in the right places at the right time, but you are pushing them ahead of the technology.
Alternative fuels can make sense in the right places at the right time, but you are pushing them ahead of the technology.
The keyword is alternative. It implies there is choice that we should make right now that would replace existing technology with an alternative that meets our current demands; more reliable, more efficient, safer, better for the environment and economical. If the alternative does not provide that, then it’s not a reasonable and rational alternative. If and when an alternative is developed that meets those requirements, then a rational implementation plan should be rolled out to transition us to that alternative. The Green New Deal activists seem to believe their dream is akin to Kennedy’s plan to put a man on the moon. However, when a rocket blew up, vital infrastructure, like electricity and water weren’t lost.
California is having blackouts because of the alternative energy policy. Such blackouts can lead to deaths.
Allan,
Check out this story. A state legislature that is this radical should never be the example for other states to follow.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/california-lgbt-adults-sex-teens?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20200902Trending-CaliforniaLGBTPedophiliaLaw&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Breaking%20News
Have you seen this other horrific story all over the news? Just another teenage, black life that doesn’t matter, because he was victimized and killed by another black man and not a cop.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12557181/pennsylvania-kyan-king-naked-teen-note-shot-dead/
Video of Antifa/BLM/Joe Biden supporters marching through Oakland chanting, “Death to America!” Are we in Iran?
Joe Biden just blamed all the violence on Trump. Joe Biden did not say ONE WORD condemning violence, anarchy, arson, rioting and destruction during the entire DNC. Not one word. Throughout the DNC it was referred to as “peaceful protesting.” Which had been going on for months at that point. Burning, looting, murder. That’s BLM. It has been happening nightly for MONTHS and not one word from the DNC about ANY of it.
NOW Joe Biden blames it ALL ON TRUMP?
Why now?
Because polls show Biden is losing ground, and fast, so the campaign scramble to put Joe out on the trail to deliver a speech. A speech full of lies, reading a teleprompter and refusing, yet again, to take a single press/reporter question before heading back to his bunker.
It is outrageous what they are doing to hide Joe Biden’s cognitive incapacites from the voting public. It is outrageous the outright lies the media allows Joe Biden, or any Democrat, to get away with. The media simply repeat it, as if true.
Today’s polling shows that a full 59% of Americans DO NOT SUPPORT TRUMP. His lies aren’t working, and neither are your lies about nonexistent “cognitive incapacities”. That is a lie that is repeated many times daily on Fox, as if it is an established fact. Why doesn’t Turley comment about that? Trump and Fox lie all of the time, hoping that maybe the lies will take hold, but Trump has moral incapacities. He also is no leader, having bankrupted several businesses. He foments dissent, he refuses to condemn violence or police brutality or to even address why so many Americans are protesting. When are we going to see those financials? Biden’s campaign wasn’t “scrambling” to do anything, and he isn’t in any “bunker”. That was your fat, lying hero.
Joe Biden just said: Does anyone believe there will be less violence in America if Donald Trump is reelected?
Biden just threatened that IF DONALD TRUMP gets re-elected, there will be MORE violence? Is that a threat to continue the Biden/Antifa/BLM riots if Trump wins? You will escalate the violence in our cities and towns?
Holy crap.
Calm down. It’ll be okay.
Trump foments dissent and violence, and even encourages dipsh*t losers to tote around automatic rifles and to attack protesters to look macho and powerful. He’s threatening to send in poll watchers, which he cannot do because elections and election security are matters under state and local jurisdiction, so he’s trying to get his dumbass followers to stand outside the polls wearing military fatigues, and toting automatic rifles to intimidate people. He had peaceful protesters in Lafayette Park tear-gassed to clear the way for his photo-op, holding a bible while standing in front of the church. (Don’t forget there were 35 armed Secret Service agents hiding in trees and behind bushes so the all-powerful manly man fueherer could look macho marching over to the church after cowering in his bunker because he is afraid of the protesters). All this for a coward who lied about nonexistent bone spurs to avoid military service. Did you forget the massive protest marches and rallies after Trump cheated to “win the victory?” Trump loves to look macho, threatening to send in the National Guard so he can look like he’s in charge, because he thinks it will help him politically. But he does nothing to even offer any words of comfort to victims of police shooting or their families. He refuses to condemn the racism that is causing the riots or even address what can be done to improve police-community relations. If he condemned racism, this would go against the White Supremacists he previously praised, and who support him (but, doesn’t he know they are also anti-Semitic?) In fact, he lies about it, claiming that more white people than black people are shot by police. In terms of raw numbers, that’s true, but it’s intentionally false when you consider the percentage of each group in relation to the total population and compare that percentage to the numbers shot and killed by police. Instead of trying to heal the nation, he tries to leverage the unrest, all while lying about Joe Biden, trying to blame him. On the topic of racism, Trump has never even offered any condolences to the family of John Lewis and refused to even visit his casket while it lay in state, much less attend his funeral. He loves churning up old grievances. He loves pandering to non college educated whites, especially men, who want to got out and kick asses because in their lives, they are not very accomplished and fear they are losing out to educated women and minorities. Trump appeals to them, and it is just plain wrong.
Yes, he will make things worse. He already is.
Trump foments dissent and violence, and even encourages dipsh*t losers to tote around automatic rifles
See Biden’s speech today. The bat signal’s gone out from the sorosphere that their minions are to push this nonsense. Find me a partisan Democrat who is neither lying to himself or lying to others. You cannot do it.
You know who else is now toting around rifles? Democrats whose lives and businesses were threatened and/or destroyed by the lawlessness and the rioting the Democrat mayors and governors allowed to happen as they vowed to “defund Police.” Gun sales are way up. Those same Democrats, who are now first time gun owners, will be voting Trump this time around.
Lewis did not attend Trump’s inauguration, so Trump decided to not attend Lewis’ funeral. I am sure Lewis did not mind.
Lewis didn’t attend the “inauguration” because it was a farce–the product of cheating by someone who constantly lies, and who stands for anti-American things like misogyny, racism, and xenophobia. To top it all off, Trump has claimed he did more for African-Americans than anyone, except “maybe” Abraham Lincoln. John Lewis got his skull cracked for marching for the right of all people to vote. Donald Trump is a braggadocious liar, a television performer who has always tried to sell himself as a self-made billionaire, despite the fact that he has been an abject failure at business, taking 5 bankruptcies, and who was supported by his father well into his forties. He is on his third marriage, and has made a mockery of everything this country stands for, including the presidency and even our White House, all of which, in his view, exist as a backdrop for his arrogant displays of grandiosity. You Trumpsters would do well to check out some of the historical photos documenting events that took place on the south lawn of the White House, including Lincoln addressing the troops during the Civil War, FDR speaking to U.S. soldiers during WWII, and then consider these events in context with the obscene display put on by Trump last Thursday, complete with fireworks spelling out his name. No American worthy of the title “patriot” could fail to be disturbed by this repulsive display of narcissism and abuse of one of the most-cherished symbols of democracy.
The point of paying respects to Lewis is that a POTUS is supposed to be a standard-bearer for all Americans and American values, so ignoring the passing of an icon of the civil rights struggle of African Americans is petty, immature and pathetic. Other countries did more to respect John Lewis than Trump, including Canada. At minimum, he should have paid his respects while John Lewis lay in state. Instead, he nursed his petty grudge because Lewis wouldn’t pretend that Trump is legitimate. Well, that’s how most Americans feel, too, but a POTUS is supposed to rise above personal grievances and serve as a role model.
Few things are more tedious than the song of the nuthatch.
“nuthatches advertise their territory using loud, simple songs.” — wikipedia article on the nuthatch.
More acid bile vomited forth from a big irresponsible maw. Nothing to contribute of any value or worth discussing, as usual.
I recall that you once claimed that the republicans were able to hang on to the Senate because of gerrymandering. I’m frankly amazed that you still continue to chime in under the same name after such a display of ignorance. Some people simply have no capacity for embarrassment, I guess. These things being true, I suppose that none of us should be surprised that it never occurred to you that Lewis might be considered equally petty to act as though the duly elected president was somehow “not legitimate.”
Speaking of pettiness. Look no further than Barack Obama and the funerals he chose not to attend. And those that he did.
I think he went to the funeral of both Bushes. He wasn’t at Nancy Reagan’s but the Reagans left public life entirely in 1994 – had they ever met? In re Antonin Scalia, again, had they ever met? Scores of people in metropolitan Washington die every day.
Natacha barfs out some more invective, spewing a stinking retch of hate upon the regular working people of our great American nation.
I told you that BLM is a racketeering operation. RICO prosecutions can be premised on pretty much any federal offense. But folks dont get what is racketeering. So let’s look at wiki
“A racket, according to the current common and most general definition, is an organized criminal act or activity in which the criminal act or activity is some form of substantial business, or a way to earn illegal money either regularly, or briefly but repeatedly. A racket is therefore generally a repeated or continuous organized criminal operation or enterprise. Conducting a racket is racketeering.[1]
However, according to the original and more specific definition, a racket or racketeering usually involves extortion or criminal coercion. Originally and often still specifically, a “racket” referred to a criminal act in which the perpetrator or perpetrators fraudulently offer a service that will not be put into effect, a service to solve a nonexistent problem, or to solve a problem that would not exist without the racket. Particularly, the potential problem may be caused by the same party that offers to solve it, but that fact may be concealed, with the specific intent to engender continual patronage for this party.
The traditional and most common example of a racket is the “protection racket”, which promises to protect the target business or person from dangerous individuals in the neighborhood and then either collects the money or causes damage to the business until the owner pays. The racket exists as both the problem and its solution, and it is used as a method of extortion.
However, the term “racket” has expanded in definition over time and may now be used less strictly to refer to any continuous or repeated illegal organized crime operation, including those that do not necessarily involve fraudulent practices or extortion. For example, “racket” may refer to the “numbers racket” or the “drug racket”, neither of which generally involve extortion, fraud, or deception with regard to the intended clientele.”
THEY SHAKE DOWN AMERICA FOR MONEY DONATIONS OR ELSE THEY WILL RIOT LOOT AND ARSON. CLASSIC PROTECTION RACKET
here, joe biden is implying that the racket will continue unless he’s elected. or sure seems like it! hard to believe, one could cut a geezer some slack for silly talk, but not if he’s running for POTUS and threatening america with sustained insurrection and organized criminal violence as an implied penalty for not voting for him
Mr K,
Somethings to check on is that the major cities being destroyed have a Fed Reserve bank in them & another thing is that the businesses that the progressive commie democratic’s Antipks.BLM are burning are in what’s called Enterprise Zone.
With those Enterprise Zone Builders/Developers can get special financing & tax breaks for replacing what Biden/Obama/Hillary & co had burnt down, that’s one of the racketeering theories anyway.
Why won’t Joe Biden take the same cognitive test Donald Trump took? Why isn’t the MSM calling for it? The media screamed for Trump to prove he wasn’t “losing it” and so he took a test and shared the results. Why are the media not calling for 78 year old Joe Biden to do the same? Why does Joe Biden refuse to take the test and put the issue to rest?
First of all, the Alzheimer’s/dementia test The Donald test is not a cognitive test It is nothing but a screening test for memory and general orientation to time, place and person. Did Trump release the actual form he filled out? No. Secondly, and importantly, why WOULD Joe Biden take it? There is NO evidence of any cognitive decline, and no matter how many times the liars on Fox and Trump repeat the lie that Biden is in cognitive decline, IT’S NOT TRUE. THERE IS NO ISSUE TO “PUT TO REST”.
Meanwhile, there are things most Americans would like to “put to rest”: TRUMP’S FINANCIALS. We want to see them. How much and who does he owe money to? Who does he do business with? Is he cheating on his taxes like Michael Cohen says?
There is an issue to put to rest. You do not run for POTUS at 78 years old and refuse to take a simple cognitive test that you can show to the voters, just as Trump did. There is plenty of evidence that Joe Biden has declined in mental sharpness – not that he was ever all that sharp, but now it is even more alarming.
Every voter should demand to see Joe Biden’s medical reports. The man has had two brain aneyurisms. Show us your medical records, Joe.
Here’s a question Sharyl Attkisson suggested reporters need to ask Joe Biden: Have you received any series of medical treatments at the hospital in the past 6-7 weeks?
Here’s a better one for you, one which is based on history and tradition: YOU DON’T RUN FOR PRESIDENT AND REFUSE TO SHOW YOUR TAX RETURNS LIKE EVERY OTHER CANDIDATE SINCE WATERGATE HAS DONE, ESPECIALLY IF YOU’VE TAKEN BANKRUPTCY 5 TIMES AND NO U.S. BANK WILL LOAN YOU ANY MONEY BECAUSE YOU ARE A BAD CREDIT RISK. So, who’s financing the Trump Companies? Someone is, and while the loans are processed through Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Bank is not actually loaning the money because the bank is accountable to the FDIC and its shareholders and depositors. Americans have a right to know. Why is he fighting so hard to try to stop us from finding out?
No other presidential candidate has ever been required to take any “cognitive test”, and Fox and Trump continuously trying to create an issue on Biden’s “competency” is failing. See, at this point, everyone, including you Trumpsters, know he is a pathological liar. No one believes anything he has to say about anything. The same is true for Fox.
Does Joe Biden know you can’t contract Covid by taking questions from the press? Hard to tell since he has yet to stay and answer reporter questions. He reads his teleprompter speech and quickly scoots away avoiding all press questions. Amazing if he thinks he and Kamala can get away with it much longer.
Oh and there is almost certain to be multiple indictments coming from the Durham investigation. Soon.
Anonymous, don’t get your hopes up about Durham. he’s late if he was going to do much besides what he’s done. not very impressive. nor barr, on that account.
Keep hearing before Labor Day he will bring forth his findings.
Calm before the storm. Dems and Repubs implicated.
Friday night before Labor Day. They’ll need the 3 day weekend to act like it all never happened.
Natch Natch this allegations are empty. the FBI turned over every leaf and came up with a lot of horse manure and not much else. If there was something there, they would have brought it out. Trump is clean
Joe Biden has served his nation for 47 years. Think of this. He is simply too old and not fit for office now. It’s as simple as that.
But we know you guys really like the idea of Kamala taking over for him so that’s what it’s all about.
Couldn’t get her to win the primary but ya got her in the backdoor way, if Biden wins that is.
So hey. Are there really any “codes” to use with the football? No way Joe will remember. Will Jill be his handler at every meeting? Poor woman wouldn’t have much time for “First lady” stuff if she has to govern in Joe’s place until they can sneak Kamala in.
Im going to pray for Jill Biden– all our lives may depend on her competence as a wife and person. If Joe wins. If.
The “nuclear codes” are in two groups. There are small groups of numbers or letters printed on a card (“the biscuit”).
To authenticate his identity and the validity of his orders, the President or his designated successor must, on being told (by the senior officer in the Pentagon war room) to recite today’s groups of numbers on two pre-specified places on the card/”biscuit” and have the Secretary of Defense or his designee confirm that the President has just authenticated the numbers corresponding to today’s challenge code.
The second group of numbers identify which strategic option of several the President has chosen from a folder contained in the “football” (a case one of the President’s military aides carries when travelling with the President).
The President or his designee must choose one specific option – generally speaking, a list of targets in enemy territory to be destroyed by US global strikes.
The option code is then entered into a special radio transceiver in the “football”
At this point, the president’s entered all the codes he needs to for a valid release of nuclear weapons to occur.
I will agree with you that candidates should provide tax info. But I will take it one step further. I dont think anyone, 1st or 2nd term, should take office as president or V.P. if he is over 70 on Jan 20th. I would like a constitutional amendment in this regard and included, a DOJ and IRS audit of that persons tax returns before becoming eligible. BUT, I also support privacy, especially with the lying journalist today, so the returns themself should be private, only a report by IRS that nothing illegal was found.
Joe Biden is 77 years old. Trump is 74, which is only 3 years younger. Stop lying.
Biden would be 78 entering office. Look at the two men side by side. Joe Biden has aged a lot in the past few years. Trump has been POTUS for going on four years, battling the Democrats and the fake news media and he is looking as energetic as he did the day he took office. It’s amazing, actually.
You know anonymous
Because Biden probably does have dementia and it would be scandalous should it be proven
scandalous these irresponsible cretins at the DNC would try and foist a senile old man into the most powerful office in the world
That’s the Democrat party folks. Pro Riot and fields an old man with dementia and thinks we’re too stupid to notice.
Somehow I think Trump, perhaps has a better chance than the mass media is telling us. But we know–they’re liars too!
Kurtz, you ignore Trump’s feeble physical condition and speech devolving regularly into gibberish and pass over the fact that at his best he’s an ignorant liar without any principles. Do you have dementia?
I am ok, thanks. My memory is not as good as when I was younger, but forgetting some things has been a comfort to me, I find.
Trump is very clever, cunning, not really book-smart per se, but ignorant is not a word I would ever use for him. He is a fibber, perhaps, a clever one like most Democrat politicians are. Great to have a guy like that in the GOP now. Finally!
As for principles, we might first have to define the term. The three salient issues for his presidency are fair trade over free trade, immigration restriction and reform, and an end to military interventionism, and military deconfliction with Russia. Domestically, he obviously favors law and order. At least from my point of view. These are nationalistic issues, which operate in a certain dialectic against the growing thrust of globalism. In my view as just one voter, he has delivered on these things to some small but significant degree.
Biden, I am not sure what issues he really represents. He is pragmatic. Just as Trump is. I consider that a strength in a national leader. Biden has been one of our top national leaders for a long time. We could have done worse than Joe Biden for whatever faults. But now I think he is too old for this and suffering from some sort of decline. This brings us necessarily to his VP pick. I am strongly opposed to Kamala. I do not want to beat up on Joe. I refuse to get nasty about Joe. Kamala should be getting the scrutiny now is my opinion. She is a shapeless mercenary. There is a difference between being pragmatic and being mercenary.
In all sincerity Hillary was a stronger candidate than Joe Biden by far. For all her many faults. And she was sharp as a tack, mentally, her whole adult life and even now I am sure.
We could have done worse than Joe Biden for whatever faults.
The following have been consequential presidential candidates working within the Democratic Party since Biden was first elected to public office:
Booty-gag
Princess Spreading Bull
Klobberherworkers
Comrade Bernie
Hellary
BO
John Edwards
Howard Dean
Wesley Clark
John Kerry
Al Gore
Bill Bradley
Bilge Clinton
Tom Harkin
Bob Kerrey
Paul Tsongas
Jerry Brown
Michael Dukakis
Paul Simon
Richard Gephardt
Jesse Jackson
Gary Hart
Walter Mondale
Ted Kennedy
Jimmy Carter
Frank Church
Morris Udall
Henry Jackson
George Wallace
Edmund Muskie
Shirley Chisolm
George McGovern
Hubert Humphrey
Quite a number of people on this list had some background in executive positions. Every last one of them is an improvement on Biden bar (perhaps) two – Hillary Clinton and George Wallace. These last two are people who had exceptional personal deficits. As for the career legislators, you’d be hard put to find one that didn’t have more ‘g’ than Biden. You have a few who for whom their deficit of experience in legislative bodies (in comparison with Biden) might be a problem – Chisolm, Edwards, BO, Princess Spreading Bull. And then you have Jesse Jackson. So that leaves you seven people who might be in the ‘could be worse’ category.
Jackson and Chisolm were attempting to rally a constituency (blacks in one case, feminists in another); it’s doubtful either expected or wanted to be in the President’s chair. Edwards has a different menu of ethical deficiencies than Biden; that’s an OTOHOTO judgment. They’re both gross. Bad as Elizabeth Warren is, she’s much smarter than he is and lies less insistently; also, her children are not a public order problem. As for BO, ain’t a whole lot of there there except the yammering and petty spite. What’s your thesis, that he treats his wife better than Edwards and Wallace did?
Biden didn’t leave one of his campaign aides to suffocate at the bottom of a creek, so there’s that.
Yet 😉
Precisely because it would not put the issue to rest at all.
They flew him 300 miles to Pittsburgh to give a 28 minute speech to about a half-dozen technicians who asked no questions. Absent any extraneous noise, he got confused anyway. That’s what you call a stagey wink.
He did not want to address this issue. Avoid the questions and control the message through controlled presentations.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=digRNl-tmKI
Polls from Wisconsin in support of BLM went from +25 to zero during the riots.
Now that the BLM/Antifa riots are out of control, and polling shows it is hurting Biden, we have Joe Biden finally condemning them and then blaming it all on Trump and Trump supporters!
If the riots are caused by Trump, why have Democrat political leaders allowed the rioting and destruction in their cities go on for months when they could have stopped it immediately? Because Biden and the Democrats believed the riots would hurt Trump and help them.
Do you know how many voters who voted for Hillary in 2016 have said they will vote for Trump in 2020? The polls are showing Biden is in trouble and momentum is with Trump. So now he must come out and campaign. His strategy had been to stay home and do as little as possible until the election where he hoped to win based on nostalgia for his time as Obama’s VP. But that’s not enough and that strategy is not working.
And yes, Joe Biden, you will actually have to answer questions on the fly instead of hiding only behind prepared speeches.
The Trump supporter murdered in Portland was gunned down on the street, in cold blood, for no reason other than being targeted as a Trump supporter because of the hate he was wearing. He was hunted and murdered by Antifa/BLM domestic terrorists.
Interesting typo. Because of the “hate he was wearing” was supposed to be “hat” he was wearing.
This is what the media propaganda, lying and the outrageous brainwashing being done to viewers and the voters has done. It is literally driving people crazy with hate. The public has literally been conditioned to see “red”….to see a “red hat,” or anything supporting Trump, as “hate.” And justification for assault and bodily harm.
This is being intentionally done for political gain. By the media. And the Democrat party. And Joe Biden. It is disgusting.
Biden will say anything to move the White House to the basement.
Shame on his wife and his family – and any “friends” who truly care for him – for permitting him to be in his cellar or outside somewhere reading a teleprompter as he seeks to live in the WhiteHouse. He is so clearly ill-equipped, physically but especially mentally, to even participate in a campaign. The D Party know that he wants to be president so badly he will say anything and do anything – this, the 3rd time trying. I guess his wife and family are supportive because they want to live in the WhiteHouse and share in all the perks he is able to arrange for them. Shame on all of them.
You are talking about Trump–right? Because the things you are saying apply more to him than Joe Biden. Well, then, again, no one truly cares about The Donald.
Here’s a question for you. Why did Joe Biden fly on a private jet to Pennsylvania today just to read a 12 minute speech from a Teleprompter- to no crowd – and take no questions?
“Well, then, again, no one truly cares about The Donald.”
You certainly seem to, nuthatch. You never, ever, talk about anything else.
Garry Wills once wrote an essay, “The Tyranny of Weakness”, (unrelated to the novel by Charles Neville Buck) about Nixon and Kissinger allegedly leveraging the rumors of Nixon’s mental instability to create apprehension in the minds of the Soviets. That was not have a moral move, but it might have worked to bring the Soviets to the nuclear arms control table when the Soviet military might otherwise have considered an American call for unilateral arms control a sign of weakness.
Our choices for President are narrow. We do know that President Trump works reasonably well with our national military (as Gen. Mattis’s resignation testifies, not as well as we might wish). But Trump’s not the only one to consider.
Trump’s willing to assert his own military policy at the cost of losing support among James Mattis’s supporters. How will Joe Biden handle fraught military questions? From strength, even disagreeable strength, or will he cave in to one sort of pressure or another, from his advisers, various groups in Congress, or foreign parties? I don’t know. I don’t consider Joe Biden’s response to one form of pressure or another to be predictable enough to consider him an acceptable candidate for President.
Harris’s responses are even less predictiable. Where Biden may show moral qualms about a course of military action, Harris, if she succeeds Biden, are unlikely to be grounded in moral considerations. Her alleged handling of the Jussie Smollett case, which left no political wire un-pulled in Chicago, showed her main talent is justifying illegal actions and calling in former Obama staffers to make it so.
I left the crux of my argument unstated. Successive disarmament deals and insane neglect of the national nuclear security infrastructure (we didn’t even plan well enough across four administrations to make sure we could enrich lithium (as an essential nuclear fuel for thermonuclear weapons) has made us critically weak in a crucial part of our national deterrent posture, if we must confront Russia and/or China (or both, they’re the linchpin allies of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the new version of the Cold War’s Warsaw Pact) we’ll be doing it in many ways from weakness.
Will Joe Biden have the strength, assuming his party keeps the House this year, to lobby the House Water and Energy Committee on Appropriation to repair the damage they’ve done to our first national line of defense? Will Harris? The very worst thing that could happen to this nation is not the election of one president or another, it’s leaving this House in charge of crucial matters they have seen fit to play political games with.
Wolfman, thank you for these interesting and informative posts!
LIberals, progressives, now Democrats, and the Press will literally lie to Americans every day. Time to call them the liars they are.
jay, wearer of “Patriot Prayer” hat, murdered in Portland by ANTIFA
SUSPECT IDENTIFIED– ANOTHER SKINNY WHITE PUNK. where do they find these freaks?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/4chan-users-appear-identified-portland-rioter-shot-killed-trump-supporter/
the government needs to wake up to the danger posed by anarchists and and suppress them and stop their terror, just as the United States suppressed them 100 years ago
“the government needs to wake up to the danger posed by anarchists and and suppress them and stop their terror, just as the United States suppressed them 100 years ago”
I think Trump is doing the right thing by offering, but not forcing, Federal assistance on these jurisdictions, and thus letting the woke dorks like that preening cretin Ted Wheeler bear all the responsibly for the Antifa/BLM mayhem.
Wheeler, of course, tries to blame Trump for it, anyway, because, you know, reasons. But no one but the most insane nuthatches are buying it at this point.
Wisconsin’s governor put a nail in the coffin of the Left’s argument that the violence and anarchy are due to President Trump. By inviting in federal assistance, he proved the model works.
So what’s the body count today of all those Mur.dered in the US by the Terrorist groups Antif/BLM azzholes?
You can add one more StL Police Office to the list.
If the govt won’t turn LEO’s do their job the turn those duties back over to Organized & Unorganized Militias to phlush those Antif/BLM turds.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/st-louis-police-officer-tamarris-bohannon-dies-gunshot-wound-head-responding-shooting-call-saturday-blackpolicelivesmatter/
Anything to brainwash the feeble minded that will believe that babble to vote Biden. There may be many definitions used to define riots and I may not know any of them, but I know a riot when I see it, and what is happening across liberal cities today are riots!
Jonathan: In your continuing crusade against CNN you criticize the news organization for not using “riot” in covering the continuing protests around the country. OK. Let’s use “riot” in reference to the protests last Tuesday night over the shooting 7 times of Jacob Blake, a black man, by a Kenosha white police officer. By most accounts the protests began peacefully. That is, until a white militia group appeared on the scene. Those in attendance describe a group of white men with assault weapons appearing in the street and on a roof top, sniper style, pointing their weapons at the protesters. At some point a young white 17 year old, Kyle Rittenhouse, shot and killed 2 protesters and severely wounded a third with his AR-15, He fled back to his home in Illinois where he is being sought on an extradition warrant charged with first degree intentional homicide. It appears Rittenhouse drove the 20 miles from his home to Kenosha after responding to an online message from a right-wing militia group, “Kenosha Guard”, who wanted to confront protesters and “hurt people”. High school classmates of Rittenhouse describe him as short-tempered, easily offended who worships the police , guns and Donald Trump. Protesters on Tuesday night also describe police cooperation with Rittenhouse’s white militia. Police were observed giving water bottles to militia members, including Rittenhouse. One police officer was overheard telling militia members: “We appreciate you guys”.
Now Rittenhouse has his defenders. A white Republican student group at Arizona State University is trying to raise money for Rittenhouse’s defense–as is a self-described Christian group. No doubt Rittenhouse will be the poster child for white supremacists everywhere. Even Donald Trump re-tweeted a message of support. Tomorrow Trump will fly to Kenosha to show his support for Rittenhouse and the police and reinforce his theme of “law and order” and solidify his support among white nationalist voters.
So “rioting” did occur in Kenosha–caused by Rittenhouse and his militia who wanted to provoke violence and were aided by the police. That’s the “truth” you choose to ignore. You prefer not to discuss this “truth” because it does not neatly fit into your definition of a “riot” as involving only peaceful protesters objecting to right-wing and police violence.
No Dennis your pretzel logic does not work. BLM and ANTIFA started the riots in Kenosha, Kyle was a citizen called to help protect law abiding citizens of Kenosha from anarchy, and he was feloniously attacked with a skateboard, molotov cocktail, and gun. He retreated and they gave chase. Then, he capably and effectively terminated their aggression with a competent use of lethal force to protect himself from grave bodily harm or death.
I’m on the side of Kyle, the right of self defense, and law and order.
YOU DENNIS are on the side of murderers, anarchists, and racketeers.
TRUMP is our leader who we will turn out for in legions and order WILL be re-established. It may take a while but it will happen.
Maybe soon enough before a riot squad comes to YOUR neck of the suburbs. One day you may be thanking us Dennis. Unless you’re an antifa freak too.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-30/black-lives-matter-in-small-town-pennsylvania
Dennis McIntyre, I’m new here. I know nothing of the dynamic shared by those who post commentary here. I must say I’m slack-jawed with amazement at your contributions!
I can’t believe you managed to stuff so many lies and distortions into your last comment! What is it, I wonder – what fly in your ointment is it that could cause such a disruption in your cognitive abilities?
The facts are rather different than the delusions you would have us believe…
Let’s see, Nice kid who went to Kenosha, (where he worked as a life guard), to scrub off graffiti from school walls, put out fires and provide medical aid to anyone who may have needed it VERSUS three adult felons who weren’t worth a bucket of spit between them – an illegally armed thief, shot in the arm when he pointed his gun at Kyle, a serial wife beater who slammed his skate board down on Kyle’s head and a convicted rapist of a 12 year old child who tried to grab Kyle’s rifle out of his hands just as one of his fellow terrorist shot at Kyle from some distance away – all three known for their violent pasts – all intent on his destruction – most of their crimes caught on film
Hmmm…tough choice…let me think about it some more…
“Trump is using the violence to reinforce a law-and-order theme…”
So all that democrat mayors need to do to thwart Trump’s plan is to back the police and allow them to defend and protect as they would like to do. Are democrat mayors in cahoots to get Trump being reelected by allowing this to go on?
Ridiculous to criticize Trump for wanting to end the riots.
This is exactly right. If the democratic mayors and governors were not comsymps themselves, they could steal this talking point from Trump any time they wanted to.
The next phase of BLM: taking the intimidation marches and crime that ALWAYS follows them into the small towns and suburbs.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-30/black-lives-matter-in-small-town-pennsylvania
We knew this was coming and we better be ready. Call your local police and ask them what anti-riot measures are planned if BLM and ANTIFA come to a neighborhood near you.
If your local sheriff has none, then YOU MUST VOTE THEM OUT.
Take the temperature of this NOW and makes notes and organize local political efforts accordingly. Get to work. God helps those who help themselves.
GOVERNMENT MUST PROSECUTE THE BLM AND ANTIFA RACKETEERING CRIMINALS! and their Financiers.
DEFEND VOTERS AND BUSINESS AGAINST INTIMIDATION CAMPAIGN OF RIOTS!
My sister and I talked just this morning about the need for voters to vote OUT the local elected Ds who have been permitting the riots, civil unrest, arson, violence, looting to go on unchecked. Just assume that any elected D is part of the problem with crime.
I can’t join in rejecting all local Democrats across the big nation. There are a lot of small town Democrats and various local leaders who are true public servants and genuinely good people. Perhaps some at the national level too. We have within living memory some very fine Democrats across America.
However, in places where they have endorsed BLM, they have endorsed a racketeering operation and rioting and this is totally unacceptable. The blue state tandems of governor plus mayor like Portland are just awful horrible messes now and quite frankly it is all their fault. Illinois plus Chicago is another awful mess at hand and getting worse. Vote these scoundrels out if you are misfortunate enough to live in these places. Or if there are no opposing choices– often the case in Chicago– you might as well note cast a ballot in the downballot specific races at all
But everybody should get out there and vote TRUMP for law and order to be restored!
Mr. K,
I used to be a democratic because there was no where else to go in Ok.
& I’m still pissed at a bunch of Rino american hatin Aholes.
But currently being a Dim is like say: Well, the Commies can’t be that bad. That won’t fix crap.
If they wish to fix things their only choice is to walk away from the Dim Party.
Trump’s not for law and order or he wouldn’t be encouraging vigilantes. He’s for getting reelected and this the only card he has, plus, if he loses before the statute of liitation runs out on some of his law breaking, he’s f…ked.
Who cares what the indecent enemies of law and order think? We only care because they will be planning more crimes.
The crimes they are planning to impose on us, in this instance are MORE RIOTS
so they say, “ah, you are RACISSSS if you complain!”
Because, they want us to bend over and grab the ankles as they send the next riot, right up into where the sun does not shine.
If you oppose this, you’re a RACISSSS
simple as that. These are insults from criminals. Those who say them like CNN are criminal apologists. which to me, makes them criminal co conspirators.
Trump is using the violence to reinforce a law-and-order theme…
That to secure these rights, governments are instituted…
So the President is using the primary purpose of government as a political weapon? Oh, the horror! And then he has the audacity to respect the constitution and our federalist system by offering federal support, instead of taking the opportunity to impose that force uninvited. Yeah, I’m certain the law-abiding citizens of this country are able to reconcile which political party represents their best interests and which party is using mob violence to stoke disunity and fear.