Who Is 'Destroying Democracy in Darkness?' - Victor Davis Hanson

The 2023-2024 campaign season is not just the strangest on record, it's also arguably the most anti-democratic. - Victor Davis Hanson 

Ostensibly, the Democratic Party has claimed over the last decade that former President Donald Trump posed a continued and existential threat to the republic.
That allegation subsequently justified a variety of anti-democratic means to neuter his first two presidential candidacies, his presidency, and now his third and final run for the White House.

• A near decade ago, we witnessed the 2015-2016 Hillary Clinton/Democratic National Committee/FBI-assisted effort to plant the false accusation of Trump-Russian collusion to warp the 2016 election...
• On the eve of the 2020 election, the left next birthed the Russian laptop disinformation campaign. That hoax also warped a presidential debate with false charges that Hunter Biden's own incriminating laptop was once again the work of Russians seeking to conspire with Trump.

Those unusual efforts continued during the Biden administration...

Undeniable!

 

Much here! -----Neurosis and the Curley Effect - by Glenn Harlan Reynolds

Neurosis and the Curley Effect - by Glenn Harlan Reynolds

As this Harvard paper notes, 

“James Michael Curley, a four-time mayor of Boston, used wasteful redistribution to his poor Irish constituents and incendiary rhetoric to encourage richer citizens to emigrate from Boston, thereby shaping the electorate in his favor.  As a consequence, Boston stagnated, but Curley kept winning elections. . . .  We call this strategy—increasing the relative size of one’s political base through distortionary, wealth-reducing policies—the Curley effect. But it is hardly unique to Curley.”

#1 This day 1950-----The Weavers Pete Seeger - Goodnight Irene

Shades of the early 1930s?-----China Has Built the Strongest Military in the Indo-Pacific | RealClearDefense

Too often, Chinese and U.S. military power is compared on a global scale, where the U.S. military, equipped and trained to project power across the planet, has the clear advantage. -  Mackenzie Eaglen

• China has increasingly demonstrated its ability to build modern military capabilities at size and scale, and the ability to project that power regionally.
• China now fields the largest army, navy and ground-based rocket force in the world. 
• Beijing has also been hard at work to build a sophisticated hypersonic missile arsenal and to triple its nuclear arsenal by 2030.
• By comparison, while China rapidly builds military capacity, the U.S. military is rapidly shrinking across the services...

They promised a better world!

 

Ford cancels electric SUV, cuts spending on fully electric vehicles to focus on hybrid cars after EV losses | Blaze Media

Ford cancels electric SUV, cuts spending on fully electric vehicles to focus on hybrid cars after EV losses | Blaze Media: 

Ford Motor Company announced that it is recalibrating its EV strategy over concerns about profitability, including scrapping an electric SUV.

Ford is canceling plans to manufacture a large, three-row electric SUV.

Ford chief executive officer Jim Farley said, "We loved our three-row crossover and I was so excited to show everyone the work we did. But there was just no way it would ever meet our criteria of being profitable.”

Be good to remember his "legacy".

 

AM Fruitcake

 

History for August 23

History for August 23 - On-This-Day.com 

Oliver Hazard Perry 1785

• 1902 - Fannie Merrit Farmer opened her cooking school, Miss Farmer’s School of Cookery, in Boston, MA.
• 1939 - Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty.
• 1947 - Margaret Truman, U.S. President Truman's daughter, gave her first public performance as a singer. The event was at the Hollywood Bowl and had an audience of 15,000.
• 1959 - In the Peanuts comic strip, Sally debuted as an infant.
• 1962 - The first live TV program was relayed between the U.S. and Europe through the U.S. Telstar satellite.
• 1990 - President Saddam Hussein appeared on Iraqi state television with a group of Western detainees that he referred to as "guests." He told the group that they were being held "to prevent the scourge of war."

Tim Walz Caught in Sinister Lie Regarding the Conception of His Children

Tim Walz Caught in Sinister Lie Regarding the Conception of His Children: 

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz seems to have a terrible habit of lying in the worst and most easily disproven way.

After becoming the VP pick for current-Vice President and Democrat nominee for November Kamala Harris, much of Walz’s previous record in the military and public service came to light in a less-than-flattering manner.

Whether it be lying about his DUI arrest or about his rank upon retirement from the military, Walz shares a common trait with his running mate in that both totally lack principle and will say or do whatever is necessary to obtain power.

The way we were-----RACIST PROGRESSIVE: Woodrow Wilson - Forgotten History

20 Years of Ocean Currents: What Climate Activists Got Wrong

But, but, but...the media hasn't commented on this!

 

10 Lies Leftists Tell You - American Thinker

As Steely Dan might say, the things that pass for knowledge today, I can’t understand. It’s all lies, falsehoods, and misdirection on tap, served fresh 24/7/365. - Pete McArdle

Lie #1: Joe Biden was a great president, a dedicated public servant who put country first and stepped aside so that Kamala Harris’s brilliance could save our democracy.

Well, that’s five lies all tied up in one bundle!  Joe Biden is easily the worst president in my lifetime, possibly ever.  He and his family got rich, not by serving anyone, but by grifting on his various political offices...

Lie #2: Man-made climate change will make the Earth unlivable for humans in (pick one) 5, 10, 39, or 5,000 years.

...Our most brilliant minds can’t predict tomorrow’s weather with precision..

Lie #3: Democrats love black people...

'Federal crime': Democrats accused of illegal action in pushing Biden out of race * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

'Federal crime': Democrats accused of illegal action in pushing Biden out of race * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

Jack Smith is the hand-picked "special counsel" the Democrats appointed to carry a large part of their lawfare war against President Donald Trump, and he's brought a number of cases that so far have been stalled because of his decision to ignore, while creating the charges, the fact confirmed by the Supreme Court that presidents have much immunity for their acts in office.

But if one is to accept his interpretation of the federal law, it is the Democrats now who have committed a federal crime –

Appeals Crt Says Police Can’t Keep Your Stuff Forever After Your Arrest

New Video Appears to Show DC Police Units Planting a J6 Pipe Bomb - The Last Refuge

One of the great mysteries about the January 6, 2021, events is the lack of curiosity by the FBI about who planted the pipe bombs at the DNC and RNC headquarters.

Amid all of the available CCTV video and surveillance technology exploited by the justice department, their transparent unwillingness to identify the pipe bomber has always been a dog that did not bark.

• The Occam’s Razor explanation for why DC and federal law enforcement have been incurious, points to law enforcement actually planting the bombs.
• New CCTV video seems to show exactly that...
  

Lunch video-----Milton Friedman - The Folly of Price Controls

Noon-toon

 

Four of the biggest lies Joe Biden told at the Democratic National Convention | Blaze Media

Four of the biggest lies Joe Biden told at the Democratic National Convention | Blaze Media: 

By no means a comprehensive list. President Joe Biden took to the stage in Chicago, Illinois, to thunderous applause from the audience at the Democratic National Convention, but his speech was filled with misleading statements and outright lies. Here are four of the biggest whoppers.

Meanwhile...

 

Scott Jennings Stuns Other CNN Hosts: 'Democrats Have Controlled White House for 12 of Last 16 Years But Everything is Trump's Fault?' (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Mike LaChance

and for all of the talk about division and the problems in the country, and people are hurting, Democrats have mostly controlled this country. Transcript via Real Clear Politics:

• Democrats have controlled the White House for 12 of the last 16 years, and for all of the talk about division and the problems in the country, and people are hurting, Democrats have mostly controlled this country.
• How do you explain all of the problems that will be solved by the person who is currently in there for the last 3.5 years and who is supposed to be already working on solving it?

If you’ve been watching the DNC, you know that Trump has been the most mentioned topic. Not the economy, the border or jobs, it’s just Trump, Trump, Trump.

Mentions at night one of the DNC:

TRUMP: 147 times

ECONOMY: 27 times

BORDER: 8 times

CRIME: 6 times

PRICES: 5 times

INFLATION: 3 times

Priorities! — Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 20, 2024

Great political ad!

 

MPox/Monkeypox: Summer 2024 Update

Documented Truth versus Disaster Cronyism. - Robert W Malone MD, MS

So here we go again.

• Having once again convened and received guidance from his hand-selected advisory board to advise him on risks and to recommend a WHO response, on August 14, 2024, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has declared a Mpox outbreak to be a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)” for the second time in two years...
• Please keep in mind that Tedros is not a physician or a virologist. He sort of just plays one on TV. He is most definitely a well-connected African political operator of the CCP/Marxist/Bill Gates crony caste. Tedros previously was a senior capo for the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF) gangster mafia that ruled Ethiopia from 1991 to 2018...

#1 This day 1979-----The Knack - My Sharona (1979)

EXCLUSIVE: Feds Are Helping Register AL Prisoners To Vote

Feds ‘deployed’ a ‘liberal’ org to help register Alabaman federal prisoners to vote, according to a statement from the secretary of state. - Logan Washburn

• The Federal Bureau of Prisons has been registering federal prisoners to vote in Alabama, according to Secretary of State Wes Allen, an effort he claims is “illegal.”...
• Allen said President Joe Biden’s “Executive Order on Promoting Access to Voting,” issued in March 2021, attempts to “mobilize and weaponize the entire federal government” to “register primarily Democrat leaning groups of voters.”...

"...to make room for..."

Confused crowds protest Kamala at heated DNC | Blaze Media

Confused crowds protest Kamala at heated DNC | Blaze Media: 

“I love the fact that they’ve got a Palestinian flag next to a Pride flag. It’s so perfect,” Matthew Marsden comments.

Though the protesters were yelling about “Christian fascists,” they were in Chicago to protest the DNC.

“I like that they can’t make up their minds, like, who is in their party?” Gonzales laughs. “

“This is the problem,” Marsden says. “The DNC have created this, right? They kind of fractured all these groups, and while they had one bad person to look at, which was obviously the right, anything on the right was bad.”

"This is the greatest interview with the BBC you'll see about Kamala Harris.

Ian Miles Cheong on X: "This is the greatest interview with the BBC you'll see about Kamala Harris. - Ian Miles Cheong@stillgray

• Is he wearing a mask around his neck?
• He’s either a complete idiot or a genius-level troll…