op ed review 10/18
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
“The evidence establishing a shocking pattern is now clear: Hunter Biden and his busines partners sold access to Joe Biden when he was the Obama administration’s point man on China and Ukraine…..Hunter earned many millions of dollars and funneled a share of that money to his father, in return for selling out American workers.”
On the China deal, Hunter was to receive an annual salary of $850,000, and Joe Biden, referred in emails as “the big guy”, was to get 10%.
Mainstream media working overtime to claim that Hunter laptop was planted by the Russians. Nice try, but Biden campaign doesn’t deny this was Hunter’s laptop, and person on email thread verifies veracity of the messages.
Mark Steyn: “If anybody is around to write history in a generation or two, October 14th 2020 will go down as the first day of a new Year Zero. Yesterday, with less than three weeks to go in a national election in a settled democratic society with an ostensibly free press, the woke billionaires of the social media cartel decided to freeze and/or cancel the Twitter/Facebook accounts of the President's press secretary, the Trump campaign, Republican Senate candidates and Republican House members. So America is now formally a one-party state, at least as far as fair access to media platforms is concerned.”
https://www.steynonline.com/10692/the-last-copier-in-the-woods-arrives-sooner-than
The censorship comes just weeks after executives from both Facebook and Twitter joined the Biden transition team.
“This is the moment when the event horizon is crossed. This is the moment when Big Tech goes all-in to influence the election…..Why? If they lose the 2020 election, the social media platforms will be regulated and dismantled…. they know it… and they are all-in….It should also be remembered that former FBI chief-legal-counsel James Baker is now the lead counsel for Facebook.”
NY Post editor: “This is what totalitarianism looks like in our century: not men in darkened cells driving screws under the fingernails of dissidents, but tech dweebs removing from vast swaths of the Internet a damaging exposé on their preferred candidate.”
https://mobile.twitter.com/SohrabAhmari/status/1316535954690146307
By banning Republican content while amplifying Democratic Party messaging this close to a election, Big Tech in essence is contributing potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in free advertisements to Democratic candidates, including their nominee for president. This is straight-up electioneering and could constitute egregious campaign finance violations since corporations are prohibited from directly donating to political candidates.
https://amgreatness.com/2020/10/15/bring-them-in/
ABC, CBS, and NBC join the blackout as well.
ABC spoke with Joe Biden for 90 minutes on Thursday night and didn’t ask a single question about the shocking emails published by the New York Post. That’s either journalistic malpractice or public-relations work…..What’s new about these documents is their avalanche of details, their list of additional companies and specific executives, and the scale of payments, some which were simply for Hunter making ‘introductions’.
https://spectator.us/behind-social-media-blackout-biden-family-corruption/
Why are we learning about the Hunter Biden laptop just now?? “The FBI tried to cover up the Hunter Biden emails last year by confiscating them from a computer repairman and stonewalling him afterwards, according to reports.”
https://www.infowars.com/posts/fbi-tried-to-cover-up-hunter-biden-emails-according-to-reports/
Buckle up: Hunter Biden laptop scandal may be about to get a whole lot worse
Trump’s NBC town hall turns into debate with moderator — and Trump wins.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-town-hall-dan-gainor
Newt: Trump's composure vs. Guthrie's almost maniacal hostility at NBC’s town hall
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-guthrie-nbc-town-hall-newt-gingrich
'NBC is an interrogation. ABC is a picnic': Conservatives erupt in anger after Savannah Guthrie grills Trump with a 'question every 12 seconds' - while ABC host 'forgets to ask Biden about his son Hunter's emails.
Roaring back after quick recovery from COVID, President Trump's Florida Rally: 16% of Attendees Were Democrats, 24% Didn't Vote in 2016.
President Trump announces deal with CVS, Walgreens: free coronavirus vaccines for seniors
https://www.foxbusiness.com/healthcare/trump-cvs-walgreens-deal-seniors-coronavirus-vaccine
Video: Joe Biden’s Miami ‘Car Parade’ Had 15 Cars While 30,000 Cars Participated In Anti-Communist, Latinos For Trump Caravan In South Florida According To Miami PD
Trump signs order backing 1 Trillion Trees effort
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/trump-to-sign-order-backing-1-trillion-trees-effort
Sen. Hirono (D-HI) seizes the title of dumbest US Senator from Patty Murray. She asks Amy Coney Barrett if she has ever committed sexual assault. Rabbi Fischer asks, “What is wrong with this sick, sick person who desecrates and demeans the United States Senate by her very presence? Is this the best that Hawaii…..can send to Washington? Can you imagine if Republican senators had treated Democrat SCOTUS nominees that way? Imagine exchanges like these:…..”(must read)
https://spectator.org/mazie-hirono-amy-coney-barrett/
Merriam-Webster quickly changes 'sexual preference' to an 'offensive' term immediately following Sen Hirono scolding ACB for using it. The term was not offensive until this week.
ACB: Judges Can’t ‘Walk in Like a Royal Queen’ and Impose Their Will on the World
New Poll on Amy Coney Barrett’s SCOTUS Nomination Is All Bad News For Democrats
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2020/10/14/poll-support-for-amy-coney-barrett-soars-n2578073
In NBC News' 10/8-10/9 2016 poll, Hillary Clinton was up +14 FOURTEEN POINTS Just like Biden today—a double digit lead…….the game is to tweak polls to sway independents & undecideds to "go with the crowd; the popular candidate" — Biden. Be not fooled.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ProfessorF/status/1314740699728764930
Campaign spokesman for Democrat Mark Kelly (Sen. McSally’s opponent) calls police 'worthless f—ing pigs'
https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/kelly-campaign-spox-calls-police-worthless-f-ing-pigs/
Arizona Senate Race Shaken Up
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/10/arizona-senate-race-shaken-up.php
Biden-Harris joint appearance in Arizona draws no spectators -- as in ZERO attendees. “What if they held a Biden-Harris rally and nobody showed up?” The answer is a shocked TV street reporter.
Former White House physician Dr. Ronny Jackson said Tuesday that Democratic nominee Joseph R. Biden “does not have the mental capacity” to handle the rigors of the presidency.
https://amp.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/oct/13/ronny-jackson-joe-biden-not-job-mentally/
Federal Prosecutors Allege Netflix Star Who Campaigned for Joe Biden Assaulted 15-Year Old Boy in Public Restroom, “exhibits all the signs of a serial child predator”
Joe Biden Quotes Chinese Communist Leader Mao Zedong — Again ??
Joe promises to repeal Trump tax cuts, overhaul 401(k) tax breaks. “Could force some companies to cut retirement benefits.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bidens-plan-overhaul-401-k-185735771.html?guccounter=1
Catholic bishop rebukes Biden for supporting ‘the ultimate child abuse’
Antifa and pro-police protestors clash in Seattle
https://thepostmillennial.com/watch-antifa-and-pro-police-protestors-clash-in-seattle
Portland Soros DA rejects over 540 riot-related cases in 'interest of justice'. Encouraged rioters promptly trash the Portland Art Museum, see the video.
Rioters toppled statues of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt in Portland, Oregon during an “Indigenous Day of Rage.”
Truck With Trump Flags Torched By Arsonists Near Portland
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/video-truck-trump-flags-torched-arsonists-near-portland/
Trump supporter murdered in Denver. Shooter railed against Trump on social media
https://nypost.com/2020/10/13/denver-patriot-rally-shooter-railed-against-trump-on-social-media/
At least 118 Seattle police officers left department in mass exodus
https://mynorthwest.com/2236407/rantz-seattle-police-exodus/
Minneapolis loses 175 police officers to disability claims
America Has Fewest Cops in a Quarter Century, Data Find
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/america-has-fewest-cops-in-a-quarter-century-data-find/
Police chief forced to resign because wife supported Trump.
Election Officials in Ohio County Say Nearly 50k Voters Received Wrong Ballot
Pennsylvania: Nearly 60,000 Mail Ballots Unaccounted for in Trump-Heavy County
South Carolina Elections Chairman Resigns After He Is Caught Defacing and Removing Trump Signs
Radical activists are accused of vandalizing the home of Republican congressional candidate Madison Cawthorn and a county GOP office in North Carolina early on Thursday. The crimes were reportedly carried out by Antifa members. You may remember Cawthorn at the RNC Convention who stood up out of his chair to pay tribute to the flag.
https://www.lawofficer.com/radical-vandals-attack-home-offices-of-north-carolina-gop-candidate/
Deep state, now deep military: Insubordination from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Democratic Senate candidate in Kansas comes out in support of Australian-style gun confiscation during a campaign event last weekend.
https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/kansas-dem-backs-gun-confiscation/
Theater of the absurd: China, Russia, Cuba elected to UN's Human Rights Council
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COLUMN(S) OF THE WEEK
Claremont Institute Chairman Thomas Klingenstein 10/1
Trump 2020: A Man vs. A Movement
I wish to make three points. First, Trump is the perfect man for these times, not all times, perhaps not most times, but these times. Second, Republicans are not doing a good job explaining the stakes in this election. They must explain, and this is my third point, that the Democratic Party, which has been taken by its radical wing, is leading a revolution. This makes the coming election the most important one since the election of 1860………like the election of 1860, this election is a contest between two competing regimes, or ways of life. Two ways of life that cannot exist peacefully together. One way of life, I’ll call it “the traditional American way of life,” is based on individual rights, the rule of law, and a shared understanding of the common good. This way of life values hard work, self-reliance, volunteerism, patriotism, and so on. In this way of life there are no hyphenated Americans. We are all just Americans. Colorblindness is our aspiration.
The other way of life I call multiculturalism. Others call it “identity politics” or “cultural Marxism” or “Intersectionality”. The multicultural movement, which has taken over the Democratic party, is a revolutionary movement. I do not mean a metaphorical revolution. It is not like a revolution; it is a revolution, an attempt to overthrow the American Founding as President Trump said in his excellent Mt. Rushmore speech. Republicans should say the same thing. Republicans everywhere, at every level, and at every opportunity………
I know President Trump has many faults…And yet, we are very lucky to have him. I am almost prepared to say that having him is Providential. How else to explain that we find ourselves with this most unusual, most unpresidential man who has just the attributes most needed for this moment. At any other time, he might well have been a bad president. But in these times—these revolutionary times—he is the best president we could have had……
https://amgreatness.com/2020/10/01/video-tom-klingenstein-on-trump-2020-a-man-vs-a-movement/
Derek Hunter 10/11
It’s Time To Get Real About November:
When it comes to politics and adults, there’s no reason to sugarcoat the vegetables of life, so I’m just going to say it: Donald Trump stands a chance of losing the election, and Republicans could be blown out of Congress. It’s not a foregone conclusion, not close to a certainty, but it’s foolish to pretend otherwise…..I’m not telling you this to ruin your day. I’m telling you this to put a burr under your saddle.
It’s easy to sit on the sidelines and wait. Rooting for an outcome isn’t enough this year. Posting to social media is nice, but it’s likely tuned out by people conservatives need to reach or, more likely, filtered out by left-wing social media billionaires and their millionaire army of flying monkeys hellbent on manipulating the public into a Democrat landslide. We’ve all got to do more, a lot more…..Complacency is the enemy of all that must be done to pull back from the precipice. A false sense of inevitable victory will breed complacency, which is why I’m critical of those spreading it.
There aren’t any days off between now and November 3rd. The Supreme Court nomination fight for Amy Coney Barrett starts today. And there are twenty trillion news cycles before all this is over. The crazy we’ve seen from the left in the last four years is going to look like a day in the park compared to the next three and a half weeks….
Have no delusions about what’s to come or how it will end, no one has any idea whatsoever how it will end. We’ll find out if there is a silent majority or not. And we’ll have to fight for every inch of ground. Don’t believe the people telling you they know what’s going to happen. It may make you feel good, but they have no idea. And they’re risking doing damage at a time when we can least afford it.
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2020/10/12/its-time-to-get-real-about-november-n2577860
Adam Yoshida 10/13
Court-Packing Is More of a Monstrosity than You Think:
The Biden-Harris court-packing plan is a plan to destroy the Constitution and replace it with a disguised dictatorship. Democratic court-packing is a plan to leave the forms of the Constitution intact while destroying its essence, much in the same way that Augustus dealt a death blow to the old Roman Republic. The Biden-Harris court-packing plan is a virtual enabling act, a law that would bypass all the normal lawmaking processes and turn national policy over to unelected far-left judges acting in response to the complaints of ultra-left lawyers and activists. If you think that sounds over-dramatic, let me take you to a federal courthouse in Eugene, Oregon, where a group of activists are seeking to have the Judiciary seize control over most of the nation's economic policy. In 2015 those activists filed a lawsuit known as Juliana v. United States. The gravamen of the plaintiffs' case is that the Constitution contains a right to a "stable climate system"…..Does anyone doubt how this case would come out if the Supreme Court and the rest of the federal Judiciary were filled with enough activist judges to give them a super-majority?
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BOOKS, VIDEO
This Book Lays Out, in Sobering Terms, the Stakes in November: “The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return.” By Michael Anton.
In this video Dr. Thomas Sowell quashes the legacy of slavery argument that liberals use to explain disparities between blacks and whites in the United States.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZB-v5WgN9c
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TUCKER
Important Analysis 10/15: “New emails reveal exactly what Burisma wanted from Joe Biden. Did Joe Biden subvert American foreign policy to enrich his own family?”
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-joe-biden-burisma-hunter-biden
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PROGRESSIVE WATCH
Soros Triples Election Spending, Pouring $70 Million Into 2020 Efforts
Why did Joe Biden Meet with George Soros at the White House the Day Before the Burisma Email to Hunter thanking him for arranging the meeting with Joe?
15 Crazy Things Joe Biden Said at the ABC Town Hall. Here’s a couple:…8-year-olds should be allowed to decide they are transgender…. Police should shoot criminals in the leg.
Cashill: “Even before anyone ever heard of Hunter Biden’s laptop, Democrats were facing a marketing challenge unknown in the era of moving images: selling a candidate that no one -- with the possible exception of Jill Biden -- could possibly be enthused about. By any standard, especially by progressive Democratic standards, Joe Biden is a flaming mess. No Democrat of any age will have ever pulled the lever for a less attractive candidate. Compared to Joe, Hillary Clinton was JFK. Hillary actually had fans.”
Left-wing Radicals Post Online Guide to 'Disrupting' the Country if Election is Close
Flood of Liberal Movies Coming, Will Attempt to Sway Election
But Amazon Prime cancels black conservative scholar Shelby Steele’s documentary “What Killed Michael Brown?” “Doesn’t meet quality expectations”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/amazon-prime-cancels-shelby-steele/
U. Minnesota Lecture Features 12-Step Recovery Program for Whiteness
“Oreo Dips Itself Into Social Change, Makes a Special Cookie Celebrating the Parents of Lesbians and Gays”
San Diego Unified School District Changes Grading System to ‘Combat Racism' “Teachers can no longer consider ‘non-material factors’ when grading…..like turning work in on time and classroom behavior.”
NYT Publishes an 1800-Word Story on Venezuela's Economic Collapse—and Never Mentions Socialism
Michael Moore: Overturning Roe v. Wade would be an 'Act of Violence'
New York Times' loathsome '1619 Project' Named to 'Top Ten Works of Journalism of the Decade'
CNN's Lemon: Court-Packing Questions Are 'Doing the Republicans Work' and Not 'Legitimate'
Critical Theory's War on Critical Thinking: “A Virginia school district has decided that critical questions about Critical Theory “will not be tolerated.” Free speech is great and all, they say, but it is “outweighed” by the importance of dealing with social injustice and systemic racism. In other words, if taxpayers don’t like spending thousands of their dollars on foolish and destructive indoctrination for their kids, that is just too bad.”
https://stream.org/critical-theorys-war-on-critical-thinking/
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COVID
“The Great Barrington Declaration Is A Spark of Sanity In A Mad World.”. Up to 540,000 signatures. You should sign it too.
Dr. Fauci calls it “total nonsense”.
Yale scientist: Fauci 'in Bed with Forces,' 'Decisions not Based on Science,' 'Killing Americans.' Why Is No One Investigating This Man?
Elon Musk on lockdowns: “Sweden was right”
https://fee.org/articles/elon-musk-on-lockdowns-sweden-was-right/
Surprising from NYT: “Experts Confident Pandemic To Be Over ‘Far Sooner’ Than Expected, Trump Efforts ‘Working With Remarkable Efficiency’”
Interesting data: Death rates from COVID-19 by state (per 100,000 people)
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covid19-death-rates-us-by-state/
The evidence is in. Schools do not, in fact, appear to be major spreaders of COVID-19.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/schools-arent-superspreaders/616669/
New Study Pegs COVID-19 Crisis Costs at $16 Trillion—So Far
https://fee.org/articles/new-study-pegs-covid-19-crisis-costs-at-16-trillion-so-far/
A tale of two COVID economies: Red state recovery, blue state recession
Gallup Poll: Republicans Dramatically Less Terrified Of Coronavirus Than Democrats. (Simple explanation: Republicans watch FOX, Dems watch CNN. NBC, CBS, ABC.)
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GLOBALONEY
The COVID Lockdown is a practice run for the big one — the Carbon Lockdown. If climate alarmists win the elections, our freedoms and prosperity will evaporate like CO2 from a warm beer.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3892911/posts
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ARTICLES
Polls showing Biden beating Trump don't add up
The “shy Trump” vote is very much alive and will be bigger this time. Suburban white women and urban black women are the two groups that are most likely to fall into the shy category for the 2020 cycle. That latter part should shake Democrats to their core. And as for Florida, a state that Biden must carry, it could already be out of his reach.
Zogby poll showing Trump has a 51% approval rating. That’s an important metric to hit, as Gallup has observed that historically, “all incumbents with an approval rating of 50% or higher have won reelection, and presidents with approval ratings much lower than 50% have lost.”
Will the Silent Trump Voters Roar on November 3rd?
Despite Media Poll Narrative, Trump Tracking Just Fine In Electoral College
Joe Biden and the Ku Klucker
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/10/joe-biden-and-ku-klucker-lloyd-billingsley/
Conrad Black: “Trump Is the Integrity Candidate”
https://amgreatness.com/2020/10/12/trump-is-the-integrity-candidate/
Beyond Court Packing: Here’s How Dems Plan To Create A One-Party State
Schlichter, always funny reading: “Among the threats of persecution and death we face for supporting President Trump are some that are frankly hilarious. It’s one thing for libs to try to leverage fear to intimidate their patriotic opponents; it’s another thing to try it when they think that Kevlar is a hip Indonesian spice you sprinkle over your kale, and that SIG Sauer is a happening non-binary Swedish stand-up comic who doesn’t tell jokes because laughter is racist.”
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CONSPIRACY CORNER
Why Some People Take Q-Anon's Pedophilia Allegations Seriously
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SATIRE
Democrats Hiss In Terror As ACB Pulls Out Crucifix
https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-hiss-in-terror-as-acb-pulls-out-crucifix
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OTHER STUFF
Must see: Kanye West releases remarkable presidential campaign ad, invokes God, prayer, family. Tucker asks, ‘why don’t we see more of this in politics?’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U-6nA2E26o
Hillary’s emails are now live online:
https://foia.state.gov/search/results.aspx?collection=Clinton_Email
Comedian Bill Burr on SNL: “Somehow, white women swung their Gucci-booted feet over the fence of oppression and stuck themselves at the front of the (Black Lives Matter) line..(I’ve) never heard so much complaining in my life from white women.”
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