Anarchy ain’t Free.
Communism does not work.
It never has worked.

What Is Wrong with Those People?

Antifa and BLM have gone insane in Seattle.

They have taken a seven block area of Seattle and declared it a separate state called the City Hall Autonomous Zone of the “country of CHAZ.

After a showdown between left-wing rioters and police on Sunday, Democratic Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan announced late Monday an effort to “de-escalate” the situation by ordering the police to pull out of the East Precinct.

“In an effort to proactively de-escalate interactions between protestors and law enforcement outside the East Precinct, Chief Best and [Seattle Police Department] officers have removed barricades surrounding the East Precinct while safely securing the facility. Keeping demonstrations peaceful must be a joint effort between our community members and law enforcement. I am hopeful that tonight, with these operational changes, our city can peacefully move forward together.”

So, essentially, the mayor ordered the police to pull out, something confirmed by the police chief, Carmen Best, who is a black woman. When asked, the governor, Jay Insley, didn’t even know what was going on. That was a lie. He just wanted to ignore it.

What Do These People Want?

So these people came out with a list of demands. I knew this would be good and it turns out to be better than I thought.

Here’s the list:

• Abolition of the police and court system.
• Abolition of youth jails and free all prisoners.
• Investigate past and current cases for police misconduct.
• Reparations for victims of police brutality.
• Doxing police officers who are accused of police brutality.
• Re-trials for all people of color who were already convicted of a crime.
• We demand that the City of Seattle and the State Government release any prisoner currently serving time for a marijuana-related offense and expunge the related conviction.
• We demand the City of Seattle and State Government release any prisoner currently serving time just for resisting arrest if there are no other related charges, and that those convictions should also be expunged.
• We demand that prisoners currently serving time be given the full and unrestricted right to vote, and for Washington State to pass legislation specifically breaking from Federal law that prevents felons from being able to vote.
• We demand in replacement of the current criminal justice system the creation of restorative/transformative accountability programs as a replacement for imprisonment.
• We demand that the Seattle Police Department, between now and the time of its abolition in the near future, empty its “lost and found” and return property owned by denizens of the city.
• Socialized Health and Medicine for the City of Seattle.
• Free public housing, because housing is a right, not a privilege.
• Public education, to decrease the average class size in city schools and increase teacher salary.
• Naturalization services for immigrants to the United States living here undocumented. (We demand they be called “undocumented” because no person is illegal.)
• Rent control
• Free college
• Abolition of “homeless sweeps”.
• Employ black doctors to treat black people.
• Employ implicit bias training.
• Removal of any statues that offend them.

What Do the Politicians and Media Say?

President Trump has said that if Seattle or the governor don’t do anything, he will take care of it. And it will happen fast.

The Mayor of Seattle doesn’t think anything of it. She doesn’t see it as anymore than a street festival. That’s crazy.

The media, at first, was all in on this. CNN and MSNBC made this seem like the greatest party on earth. But they have slowly switched their tune and now they are beginning to focus the Wuhan Flu again and how Trump is killing people.

Why? The optics are not as good as they thought they would be. Let’s talk about what is actually going on in CHAZ.

What is CHAZ Suppose to Be?

The People’s Republic of CHAZ is suppose to be what Karl Marx dreamed a communist Utopia is suppose to be.

It’s suppose to be a commune where people experience pure freedom. They work together in harmony. Grow their own food. Care for each other. Eliminate the nuclear family because it is patriarchal. Eliminate religion because it build walls around the freedom of the collective. All people are equal and all receive the same benefits.

There is no need for police because people are there for each other and love each other. Crime would be unheard of because the is nothing but communal love.

There is no need for economy because everyone works for everyone else. There’s no reason for money because one will be given the food they need, the housing they need and the healthcare they need.

There is no racism, sexism or bigotry. That’s because we are all equal and everyone will accept others for what they are or who they say they are.

So, What IS Happening?

So, things ain’t as grand as all that up there, no matter what the Seattle mayor is saying. In fact, instead of a Marxist Utopia, it is more like the disaster of Orwell’s Animal Farm.

Here’s what’s happening:

• They ran out of food…because the homeless people were stealing it. They sent out a message the day after asking for vegan meat substitutes and gatorade.
• They asked the city for pants and tents because they didn’t have any.
• They were provided port-a-potties because they had no where to relieve themselves.
• They started an agriculture spot in the middle of a park. They did this by throwing some dirt in the grass and putting, like, four types of plants on top of it. They didn’t even plant the plants, just threw them on the dirt.

Yeah, the co-op thing ain’t going too well. But what is worse is they are becoming exactly what they think they are fighting against.

Their leader is a rapper named Raz Simone. He has been accused of being more of a warlord than a leader. He has been accused of:

• Creating his own police force with members carrying semiautomatic weapons (open carry is legal in Washington). He threatened one protester, saying he was the police and would “blow his head off” if he didn’t cooperate.
• Setting up walls and fences to secure the “compound” and added armed security.
• Required ID to get into CHAZ.
• Extorting businesses for protection for money.
• Has been accused of bigotry against gays and transgenders in media posts.
• Will not negotiate with Black Lives Matter leadership for negotiation with the police.

Wow.

Because of his lack of direction, his power has waned. But the mess has continues.

• Businesses are suffering. They are being exhorted
  There is no food.
  There is no shelter.
• They have no expertise. They can’t grow or build anything.
• Crime is high including robbery, assault and rape.
• Police and medical services are still being requested but it takes three times the time for them to reach the victims.
• The homeless are stealing from them.
• The city is becoming a mess with trash and graffiti.

Though this whole thing was planned, its execution fell short. Or did it? Should we be surprised?

Nope, We Shouldn’t

There has never been a cooperative or commune that has ever been effective or long lasting. Because, in order to have a utopia, you need to have the perfect human beings. There are no human beings. We are petty, jealous, competitive, selfish and greedy. That works in capitalism, for the most part, because one does not have to depend on others.

But in a commune, it is imperative to reject all of the weaknesses of a human being. That’s just not going to happen.

Imagine if we tried to do this with a real country. Oh. that’s right. We have. In the USSR, North Korea, China, Germany, Italy and Venezuela. It’s called Communism and it has failed every time.

That’s what Black Live Matter’s crap is all about: Communism. They want to eliminate capitalism and implement socialism. They want all to be equal. They even use terms on the website like “collective” and “comrade”.

What Do I Think?

The mayor of Seattle and the governor of Washington don’t want to deal with this mess in CHAZ. They are Leftists and like their Marxist philosophy.

Funny thing: when this fails, the media will say that this is communism that wasn’t done right. But it was done just like the implementation in every country. The failure is only determined by population and land mass. There is no difference between the six blocks in Seattle and the millions of square miles in Russia.

Many people don’t know this but the Soviet Union was led by criminals. Lennin, Stalin, Khruschev, Beria and Putin were all involved with organized crime and most served prison time. These jerk-offs in Seattle are no different. They’re just thugs within a city that tries to appease them.

The city can’t appease them because they are criminals and thugs. Give a mouse a cookie…

I know Trump wants to take control of this situation and I know why. He is concerned for the businesses and the innocent citizens who don’t by the BS of the Left. They are victims and will get nothing when this whole thing is over. No one seems to care about them.

As  far as Durkan’s response that the President has no right under the Constitution to send troops into CHAZ, she needs to get herself some good attorneys who know something about the Constitution. We fought a civil war that killed 700,000 people because a part of the country wanted to succeed from the United States. If President Trump wants to storm CHAZ with a regiment of Green Berets, he can.

Of course, this isn’t serious. These are a bunch of uneducated children that have never accomplished anything in their lives throwing a temper tantrum.

So let them. Let them sit there for as long as they want and play communists. The leadership doesn’t seem to want to deal with it and are justifying it. The media is justifying it. Antifa and Black Life Matters is justifying it. Democrats are justifying it. So let it go. Let’s see how it turns out. Let’s see what communism has to offer. Let’s see success that only collectivism can create. Let’s see the Utopia!

Heck, we should disconnect the electricity, water and cell phone service so they can develop there own, more perfect technologies…together…as a collective.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/see-it-protesters-set-up-autonomous-zone-in-seattle-after-police-retreat-barricade-6-blocks-around-shuttered-precinct
https://www.dailywire.com/news/president-trump-warns-washington-governor-seattle-mayor-take-back-your-city-now-if-you-dont-do-it-i-will
https://www.foxnews.com/us/seattle-protests-armed-guards-local-businesses-extortion
https://medium.com/@seattleblmanon3/the-demands-of-the-collective-black-voices-at-free-capitol-hill-to-the-government-of-seattle-ddaee51d3e47
https://www.insider.com/what-is-seattle-autonomous-zone-george-floyd-protest-2020-6

https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-mayor-gives-govt-workers-40-hours-off-to-mourn-400-years-of-african-american-oppression-heres-the-email

A forgotten tale.
The Wuhan Flu is a lie.
It is ALL Trump’s fault.

Why IS This Not Important?

The dominoes have been lined up and the first one has been flicked by the finger of truth. Yeah, I know. The metaphor is kind of think but not by much.

Rod Rosenstein was called by the Senate to discuss the FISA warrants, the scope memos and the appointment of Robert Mueller for the Trump Russia investigation. It did not go well for him.

What is being investigated:

• What justification did anyone have to get a FISA warrant on Carter Page, an agent for the CIA?
• Why were certain, rather important information, left out of the FISA application such as the Trump dossier, who paid for the dossier and that Carter Page was an agent for the CIA?
• Why wasn’t Trump, who wasn’t investigated, not informed by the news?
• Who lied?
• Who leaked information to the press?
• Why did Rosenstein approve the FISA application and expand the scope on such flimsy evidence?

This is a very complicated case. Dan Bongino wrote two books about it and everything he wrote, thought to be a conspiracy theory, turns out to be true. I’m thinking of listening to the books again.

Senator Ted Cruz from Texas came up with the slam of the hearing (from Grabien). Listen:

Everyone talks about the corruption of Richard Nixon. And he was corrupt. But, for the most part, he was corrupt. He committed and encouraged the crimes. And he was bound to get caught.

This is far worse. This is corruption within the system. This involves corruption with the Central Intelligence Agency. This is corruption within the FBI. This is corruption within the Department of Justice. This is corruption within the Obama Administration.

This is serious and really bad.

But it’s worse. It shows corruption within the main stream media.

This is the biggest story of this generation. The Nixon scandal is nothing compared to this. But the media, who has been falling for this Russia narrative for three years, refuses to investigate how they got “duped” for the last three years. You’d think they would want to get to the bottom of it.

The media doesn’t want to get in on it because they are part of this corruption. Luckily, with a 20% trust rate and the lack of ratings, the main stream media has been called out and shown for what they are. People don’t trust them and have stopped listening to what they are saying.

Heck, if it wasn’t for Fox News, no one would know what Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo are saying.

But the cards are down. The Senate is preparing subpoenas for Andrew McCabe and Jim Comey. Someone is going to get caught in a lie here.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/mike-lee-rod-rosenstein-stunning-admission-fisa-russia-probe

Yeah, This is a Good Idea

As usual, the Left wants to destroy society in order to “fix” the problems with the police. Well, they came up with a doozy. If the police are a problem, let’s just get rid of them?

Ilhan Omar, who is an idiot, made this statement in Minneapolis over the weekend. Listen:

Yeah, that’s a great idea. Get rid of the police and then take everyone’s gun away so they can’t protect themselves. In a nutshell, Omar wants money taken away from the police and given to social programs that are meant to lower crime. Of course, how a social program is going to stop someone from breaking into your house hasn’t been answered but who cares? She doesn’t think it’s criminal to be a criminal either. She’s for no cash bail and prison reform (which means that every criminal should be freed).

This scary call to get rid of cops is be seconded by the worst mayor in the country. Gil Garcetti and Bill De Blasio also want to defund the police.

Here’s the thing: Ilhan Omar is not the leader of anything. She’s a Congressman. She has nothing to do with making decisions that will affect anyone. If the mayor of Minneapolis decides to defund the police and all Hell breaks loose (which is sure to happen), he will get blamed. Not her.

Need proof of that?

The mayor of Minneapolis was confronted with this question. He actually showed up in the middle of a protest and tried to appease these crazy people. And they are crazy people. He was asked, point blank, if he would defund the police. It didn’t work out for him. Listen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Suz_HC0XG00

I will give some credit to the girly-man, Jacob Frey. He showed up and did not cross that line. Why didn’t he? Because he knows things will screw more than half the population of Minneapolis. He will definitely lose the election then.

The only thing I would suggest to the mayor the next time he confronts a crowd is not to wear skinny jeans with rolled up cuffs and a skin-tight t-shirt. He looked like a little boy and did not command any respect. Looks matter.

On Monday, the Minneapolis city council voted, 9-5, that the police should be defunded. Again, a member in the city council does not have a leadership position. It is still Jacob Frey that is going to be held responsible. He will be blamed if he defunds the police and a home gets broken into and the family assaulted but there is no 9-1-1 to call.

The fight is not over. The council’s vote has a no-veto override. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/minneapolis-mayor-jacob-frey-rejects-city-council-push-to-defund-police

By the Way, Here is the Real Crime

I’m going to throw something out at you: Black Lives Matters cares about black lives about as much as Antifa cares about being against fascism. Both groups only care about changing our civilization. Nothing more.

This can be shown through the other tragedies throughout the country. Tragedies that are not part of the main stream media

Dave Dorn, a 77-year-old former police captain from Minneapolis, was shot and killed by looters while he was was checking out a pawn shop for a friend.

One person is in custody.

By the way, Dave Dorn is black. No one seems to care.

Last weekend in Chicago, 85 people were shot and 24 died. Of the 85, 74 were black and were shot by other blacks. No one seems to care.

We are still in the middle in the middle of an pandemic. And a virus does not care about race.

For months, public health experts have urged Americans to take every precaution to stop the spread of Covid-19—stay at home, steer clear of friends and extended family, and absolutely avoid large gatherings.

Now some of those experts are broadcasting a new message: It’s time to get out of the house and join the mass protests against racism.

Let me read from Jennifer Nuzzo, a John Hopkins epidemiologist:

“We should always evaluate the risks and benefits of efforts to control the virus. In this moment the public health risks of not protesting to demand an end to systemic racism greatly exceed the harms of the virus.”

Thhis is from Abraar Karan, a Brigham and Woman’s Hospital physician:

“The injustice that’s evident to everyone right now needs to be addressed. While I have voiced concerns that protests risk creating more outbreaks, the status quo wasn’t going to stop #covid19 either.”

In a letter from about 150 physicians addressing the Covid risk with protesting (sic Politico):

Those protests against stay-at-home orders “not only oppose public health interventions, but are also rooted in white nationalism and run contrary to respect for Black lives. Protests against systemic racism, which fosters the disproportionate burden of COVID-19 on Black communities and also perpetuates police violence, must be supported.

“Staying at home, social distancing, and public masking are effective at minimizing the spread of COVID-19. However, as public health advocates, we do not condemn these gatherings as risky for COVID-19 transmission.”

So which is it? Is the Wuhan Flu dangerous or not? Is it dangerous when people protest being stuck at home, unable to work and feed their families and not dangerous while protesting Black Lives Matter and rioting?

You can’t have it both ways. The virus is either dangerous or not. Unless one of these doctors has found that Black Lives Matters and rioting has suddenly cured COVID-19, the virus is going to be dangerous, no matter what.

Or, the virus isn’t dangerous. And the stay-at-home orders were exaggerated to screw with the economy so Trump wouldn’t get elected in November (OK, a little conspiracy theorist).

I think it’s a little bit of both. The three quotes I used are by Left wing organizations and doctors.

And the media keeps spreading this crap and failing, or ignoring, to see the hypocrisy.

Cause they don’t care. It’s only about the movement.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/04/public-health-protests-301534

And It’s All Trump’s Fault

According to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday, just 15% of voters think matters in the USA are under control and perceptions of the economy are at their worst since the end of President Barack Obama’s first term, when the country was still recovering from a recession.

The sense of chaos and economic pessimism did not have much effect on the job approval rating for President Donald Trump. At 45%, his approval rating remains within the range that NBC/Wall Street Journal polls and other surveys have found since he took office.

But that doesn’t mean the media isn’t blaming Trump. And it doesn’t mean Trump poll numbers are shining. As of now, some polls have Trump down to Biden by 14 points. Mind you, this is based on national polls and it is only June. The political climate changes with the flap of a butterfly’s wings. But it is still not good news for Trump.

Mitt Romney has decided to participate in a Black Lives Matter protest. This is a bit of a surprise who was accused of “putting blacks back in chains” if he won the election by Joe Biden. Mitt Romney is the definition of a RINO (Republican in Name Only).

Colin Powell said on CNN:

“We have a Constitution. And we have to follow that Constitution. And the President has drifted away from it.”

He’s talking about Trump threatening to use the Insurrection Act. Yeah, the same ACT that was used by John F. Kennedy (three times), Lyndon B. Johnson (four times) and George H.W. Bush (twice).

This Act allows the President to use the military to quell riots. It was enacted in 1807 and has been upheld by the Supreme Court.

Did Donald Trump implement it? No, he only threatened to use it. So what is Colin Powell’s problem? He’s a Democrat. He was nominated for Secretary of State by George W. Bush, who was also quite liberal and he supported Barrack Obama. He ain’t exactly a Conservative.

George W. Bush decided to chime in too. In a statement, Bush said:

 It remains a shocking failure that many African Americans, especially young African American men, are harassed and threatened in their own country. It is a strength when protesters, protected by responsible law enforcement, march for a better future. This tragedy — in a long series of similar tragedies — raises a long overdue question: How do we end systemic racism in our society? The only way to see ourselves in a true light is to listen to the voices of so many who are hurting and grieving. Those who set out to silence those voices do not understand the meaning of America — or how it becomes a better place.

Many took this to be that Bush doesn’t support Trump. According to a Bush official today, that is not so. But the fact that Bush says that there is systemic racism is telling. Here’s a news flash George: There is no systemic racism and you better hope we don’t have it. Because eight years of your  Presidency are also being accused of systemic racism.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/06/07/poll-eighty-percent-america-out-of-control/3169863001/
https://www.bushcenter.org/about-the-center/newsroom/press-releases/2020/06/statement-by-president-george-w-bush.html
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/07/politics/colin-powell-donald-trump-protests-cnntv/index.html

Final Words

Breath.

This isn’t as bad as it looks.

Virtue will forgive.
Proclaim your Guilt, hug your Sin!
Mercy is a Dream.

The Virtue Signaling Has Gotten Out of Control

Uber

Gene, Let me start by saying I wish I never had to send this email. I wish that the lives of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and countless others weren’t so violently cut short. I wish that institutional racism, and the police violence it gives rise to, didn’t cause their deaths. I wish that all members of our Black community felt safe enough to move around their cities without fear. I wish that I didn’t have to try to find the words to explain all of this to my two young sons. But I’ve been given hope this week by hundreds of thousands of peaceful protestors demanding change. I am committed to being part of that change. As a company, we believe that everyone has the right to move freely, no matter where they live or the color of their skin. We’re proud of how Uber has helped improve transportation equity over the last decade. But the reality remains that Black Americans often don’t feel safe to move freely in many places around our country. And they still face enormous barriers that others do not. This is a reality we should not perpetuate or accept. We must do better. We know there is no easy solution to the problems we have faced for centuries. We also know that we need to devote our time, energy and resources toward making a difference. That’s why we’re making a number of commitments that we will uphold not just this week, but for years to come: We are committed to driving lasting change through criminal justice reform. On Sunday, we announced a $1 million donation to the Equal Justice Initiative and Center for Policing Equity to support their important work in making racial justice in America more than just a promise. We are committed to creating a community that treats everyone equally and with dignity. We do not tolerate discrimination, harrassment or racism on our platform, as outlined in our Community Guidelines. We will hold everyone who uses Uber accountable to these standards of basic respect and human decency. I respectfully ask anyone not willing to abide by these rules to delete Uber. We are committed to supporting the Black community. As a starting point, we will use Uber Eats to promote Black-owned restaurants while making it easier for you to support them, with no delivery fees for the remainder of the year. And in the coming weeks, we will offer discounted rides to Black-owned small businesses, who have been hit hard by COVID-19, to help in their recovery. We are committed to making Uber a diverse and inclusive place for people of color to work and thrive. While we have more work to do, we have tied our senior executives’ pay to measurable progress on our diversity goals, and will continue to publish data on our workforce so the public can hold us accountable. We’re also committed to expanding opportunities for drivers and delivery people, including through education opportunities and skills training. We know this isn’t enough. It won’t be enough until we see true racial justice. But we plan to work day in and day out to improve, learn, and grow as a company. Lastly, let me speak clearly and unequivocally: Black Lives Matter. Dara Khosrowshahi CEO   Local School District Dear Oceanside Unified Families and Staff, The OUSD Board of Education stands in solidarity with all students, staff, and community members of color. Like many of you, we are overcome with anger, sadness, and grief as we grapple with the injustices of inequality and racism in all of its forms. All public institutions, including school districts, are responsible for dismantling the barriers of systemic racism in order for our community and nation to heal these deep wounds. That is why our district’s non-discrimination statement clearly states that we will not permit any “discrimination, harassment, intimidation and bullying in educational programs, activities, or employment on the basis of actual or perceived ancestry, age, color, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, immigration status, religious beliefs or customs, sexual orientation, parental, pregnancy, family or marital status, military status or association with a person or a group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics.” We’ve all seen the images of protests and unrest both peaceful and not, across our country in the wake of the terrible killing of yet another Black American. There is very real pain and anguish in our nation that is being felt here in Oceanside as well as in the hearts of your district leaders, teachers, and staff who are dedicated to creating learning environments where all students are safe. We know that education has the power to make an impact lasting generations. We are proud that with our direction, our district has upheld a commitment to diversity through our culturally proficient educator committee, board policies for Gender Identity & Access and Safe Haven designation, districtwide unconscious bias training, and most recently the approval of our Ethnic Studies course which will arm students with the knowledge and voice to create positive change in their community. But there is still work to be done. Please, partner with us as we work to ensure that all students and staff, including our students and colleagues of color, feel safe and supported by OUSD, where ALL MEANS ALL. Our students will be seeking understanding and looking for answers during this difficult time. Now is the time for us to lead by example and face the challenge of change together. Our community is one of diversity, compassion, and resilience. No matter your background, your race, your identity, know that you are seen, you are heard, and you are loved. Please do not hesitate to reach out to a principal, counselor, teacher, district administrator, or your board of education if we can answer questions or provide assistance. Additionally you can visit SDCOE’s equity page for resources for your family or classroom.   My Running Shoe Store Time to stick together. Looting our store doesn’t change where we stand I think the last thing many of you want to read or hear is another platitude regarding social justice and facing ingrained prejudice and racism in our country. In some weird way, the outpouring of support and words can seem placating and insincere when all coupled together in your inbox and FB page. However, it is my hope that you recognize that an important step towards adjudication and remediation is to hear from both citizens and businesses of all sizes, backgrounds, and experiences–and in particular–the experience of a business that took a shot to the chin during the protests.  As some of you may know, our Downtown store was broken into, looted, and damaged on three straight nights. Our experience is by no means isolated, but it has at times become a contentious subject on where concern and focus should be. It is my aim here to make it very clear where Foot Traffic stands: BLACK LIVES MATTER! No matter what happened to our downtown store and no matter how personal and damaging the looting and destruction is to our store and our community, NOTHING should distract us from what our focus should be on. We need reform. We need change. And we need it now. We can’t wait. Vote. Donate. Get involved. Speak out. Our store downtown was walloped by some gratuitous opportunist adrenaline junkies that, in my opinion, were NOT representative of what these protests are all about. In fact, they are distracting and antithetical to what 99% of people protesting are looking to do. Nobody should be OK with looting for that reason alone–not just because it sucks that our store was bashed in, but because it may be further entrenching a schism that exists in our country regarding the urgency of this matter. I personally spent three straight nights cleaning up and guarding our store and watching and learning about how things were transpiring. I was exhausted, scared and frustrated. But I know that those feelings of fear and anger don’t even hold a torch to what POC experience daily. Having something to lose and a platform for outreach makes me absurdly fortunate. I know that. And with that privilege, I want to leave you with this: We can be saddened by our own deeply personal obstacles facing our store, staff, and family…but we are OUTRAGED at what we have witnessed time and time again against people of color day after day. No more. #BLACKLIVESMATTER RUN ON surely means so much more than it did to start. Peace, love, and perseverance,

This has gotten stupid.

Legos has removed all advertising for Legos police characters. Really?

This is all virtue signaling. And it’s disgusting. Do these people believe in what they are doing? I don’t know. And I don’t care. They have lost my business because they are perpetuating what I reject.

That’s the awesomeness of capitalism.

\But this stuff is dangerous. It is normalizing hate of our country. It is normalizing hate for people who don’t agree. It is normalizing the elimination of debate.

I do not see these companies as being brave to face…whatever. I see them as cowardly. Afraid to face the mob. Afraid of confronting bad philosophy. It’s easier to submit.

Here’s the problem: These people are justifying violence against those who don’t believe against in the philosophies of Black Lives Matters and Antifa.

A German Lutheran pastor named Martin Niemöller said it best in 1946:

“They came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.”

This is not a conspiracy theory. This is a scary time.

Our Politicians Aren’t Helping

Leftist politicians are also sharing in the belief that these rioters are not actually violent (because shooting at cops and burning buildings is not violent) but are actually justified.

This has led Leftist mayors and governors to pull back the police, even from police stations, leaving them to be burned down by the rioters. Governors and mayors have also rejected the offer for National Guardsmen. They did not want to “set off” the rioters (like they needed anything to do that.

But the worst example of bowing down to criminals is that of Gil Garcetti, the mayor of Los Angeles. The first thing he did was, during a protest outside of his house, he walked out and got on his knees, per the demand, and started chanting his fealty to Black Lives Matter.

But, it gets worse. On Thursday he decided that he was going to cut the police the LAPD budget by between $100-150 million dollars, further following the need to bow down to Black Lives Matter, who wants to defund the police throughout the country.

Because, you know what. that’s what Los Angeles needs. Fewer police. That ought to quell the crime, solve the drug problem and ease them through the homeless crisis.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, City Officials Cutting $100 Million-$150 Million From LAPD Budget, Funds To Be Reinvested In Communities Of Color

The Left’s Attack on We Normals

One of the goals of Black Lives Matter is to get white people of today to admit that there is institutional racism, they have white privilege and blacks continue to be victimized today like they were during slavery and Jim Crow.

They also want to shame white people. One way BLM has been doing this is to ask white people to get on their knees and apologize for what has happened in the past and make them promise to teach other “racists” about the evils of their ways. Here’s an example of this:

If you watch the video, these protesters that are capitulating are all white protesters and probably quite liberal. But BLM has gotten others to bend the knee including police, National Guard, Garcetti and Justin Treadau.

This is stupid. And dangerous. And weird.

It is stupid because none of these people had anything to do with slavery or Jim Crow. None of the people they are bending the knee to had anything to do with slavery or Jim Crow. None of these people had anything to do with the death of George Floyd. What are they apologizing for? This is stupid.

It’s dangerous because when a group of people admits to victimizing another group, punishment is justified. That punishment could be through looting, violence of even killing. If that belief sinks into the system, like police, National Guard and politicians start bending the knee, then the punishment named above can become systemic.

Finally this is just weird. It is almost religious in practice. Ben Shapiro and Michael Knowles from the Daily Wire talk about this on their podcast. The Left is atheist in nature. They hate God and religion. Their religion has become environmentalism and racism. This crap of bending the knee and swearing fealty is the Left’s religious ceremony.

But this is not the only example of the Left’s twisted philosophy.

The Haiku for the day:

Twitter Ticks off Trump
So long Hong Kong, China’s pawn.
Off to Space we go

I have a feeling I might be writing other types of poetry in the future. This syllable thing is killing me..

Protest and Riot Update

The rioting throughout the country has gotten worse:

• In St. Louis, 4 police officers were shot.
• In New York City, 1 police officer was run over by and SUV while trying to control rioters.
• In Buffalo, 2 police officers were run over by an SUV.
• In Washington DC, 50 Secret Service officers protecting the White House were injured with bricks and Molotov cocktails.
• A police officer was fired for drawing his gun on a rioter. When the film was analyzed, the rioter had thrown a brick at his supervisor. There’s a lawsuit.
• New York City mayor, Bill de Blasio, set a curfew of 11:00 PM!
• Bill de Blasio’s daughter was arrested, Chiara, was arrested for unlawful assembly when a mob attacked police.
• In New York City, police found Molotov cocktails hidden in bushes. These were laid out by Antifa.
• President Trump is considering implementing the Insurrection Act. This will allow Trump to call in the military to quell the riots.

Trump held a speech on Monday proclaiming that the riots needed to end and law and order needs to be restored. If the mayors and governors don’t do it, he will. This is implementing the Insurrection Act.

Of course, if Trump implements it, he’s a dictator. Reality is the Insurrection Act has been implemented a bunch of times. John F. Kennedy implemented it twice. It was used during the Civil Rights march. It was implemented during the Los Angeles riots of 1992. I’m pretty sure

Trump had a little message for the governors on Monday:

Nothing he said was wrong. But the media only concentrate on the fact that Trump said the governors needed to “dominate”. Whatever. It doesn’t look like being cowardly, which is what the governors are doing,

This country seems to be celebrating the victim-hood of a class of people that have been regular citizens since the 60s. These people stealing Nike’s, alcohol and clothing have never been through slavery or Jim Crow? What happened to make these people so entitled?

Well, I have an idea. Dave and I will talk about it tomorrow. That’s right, Dave from the Dave rule! I’m looking forward to have him on.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/police-shootings-2019/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/fatal-police-shootings-of-unarmed-people-have-significantly-declined-experts-say/2018/05/03/d5eab374-4349-11e8-8569-26fda6b404c7_story.html

First, the Good News

For the first time in ten years, the United States sent astronauts into space. They lifted off Saturday morning and the launch was perfect.

SpaceX, the company run by Tesla’s Elon Musk, became the first private company to launch men into space. The company partnered with NASA.

They took off in the Dragon Spacecraft power by the Falcon 9 rocket.

Musk, who said he cannot take any credit for the success of the mission but would take all the blame if the mission failed was visibly relieved and emotional when the ship launched.

“I’m really quite overcome with emotion on this day, so it’s kind of hard to talk, frankly. It’s been 18 years working towards this goal, so it’s hard to believe that it’s happened,” Musk said after the launch.

It was a beautiful sight.

Everything looked modern. The ship was streamlined and looked like a spear unlike those bulky rockets of the sixties. The walkway into the ship looked like they were boarding an airplane with carpet and tinted windows. The outfits were sleek and the helmets were smaller and looked more comfortable. The control panel on the dragon was all touchscreen. There weren’t any buttons or switches like in the old command modules and the space shuttles.

Even the take off seemed more modern. instead of a big explosion and smoke filling the air, the rocket let out a quiet hiss and the flame from the engines were sharp and under control. The rocket quickly shot through the air. It was an amazing sight.

Ten minutes later, the falcon rocket separated from the Dragon space ship and landed perfectly on a platform in the middle of the Atlantic.

What I wonder about is why NASA didn’t work with a private company in the first place? There is no heights to the ingenuity of a private company. Their profits and reputation are at stake unlike some government agency. They will build something that works beyond the dreams of the government.

This also shows the power of capitalism. Companies are motivated to be successful and create an awesome product. Socialism is missing that. That’s why the Russians are still using the Soyuz rocket system that has been around since 1966 (it’s set to retire this year). Why would anyone build anything. They get nothing out of it.

https://www.space.com/elon-musk-emotional-spacex-astronaut-launch.html

Just Regulation or a Strike to Free Speech?

Twitter did something they have never done before. They fact-checked President Trump.

The fact-check involved one of Trumps claims about mail-in ballots. Trump sited the problems that California has with mail-in ballots and ballot harvesting (something we discussed last week).

There were a couple of problems with Twitter’s “fact-check”:

1. They have never fact-checked anyone before. Not the Chinese government, the radical Islamists or any far Left character like Louis Farrakhan.
2. Their fact check was just wrong. We need studies to find ballot fraud from ballot harvesting or mail-in ballots. People were actually arrested in California for it. California had a vote of 112% of the population.

President Trump had enough. He decided to go after the social media sites and their censorship. Here’s how:

Essentially, what he is doing is letting people sue Twitter.

He’s using the Decency Act, which is kind of a stretch. The Decency Act prevents profane or libelous speech. Newspapers and news outlets are held to this act. Social media avoid this because they are not considered a news outlet and can’t possibly be held responsible for what people say.

Problem is, these platforms are censoring stuff. I have been:

• Suspended from Twitter three times.
• My podcasts and vlogs on YouTube are impossible to find.
• I have had videos suspended on YouTube.

I think this is a good thing. Democrats do to, sort of. Well, they want Trump fact checked. But, now, everyone is going to be fact-checked, including those Democrats or risk a lawsuit.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/28/politics/trump-twitter-social-media-executive-order/index.html
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/500212-gop-deeply-divided-over-trumps-social-media-crackdown

The Hammer Drops on Hong Kong and China

On Wednesday, The United States opened the door to dropping the hammer on China and the Chinese-sympathetic Honk Kong government:

“Beijing’s disastrous decision is only the latest in a series of actions that fundamentally undermine Hong Kong’s autonomy and freedoms and China’s own promises to the Hong Kong people under the Sino-British Joint Declaration, a U.N.-filed international treaty.

“The State Department is required to assess the territory’s autonomy from China, and…on Wednesday Pompeo certified to Congress that Hong Kong ‘does not continue to warrant treatment under United States laws in the same manner as U.S. laws were applied to Hong Kong before July 1997.

“No reasonable person can assert today that Hong Kong maintains a high degree of autonomy from China, given facts on the ground. Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from China, given facts on the ground.”

The next day, and it wasn’t a secret, Trump made an announcement about China and Hong Kong.

It’s about time.

Students come to this country, earn advanced degrees then take the advanced technology back to China. This is a de facto way of stealing our technology. Let China teach their future professionals technology.

Putting the clamp on Chinese companies within the United States also makes sense. These companies are stealing technology and taking our money for Beijing. They don’t belong here. They do not have good intention and are still under the socialist thumb of China.

As much as I feel for the protesting Hong Kongers who do not want their city state under despot control, the sad truth is they are. Their government is extremely sympathetic to China. And the sprawling Hong Kong economy is a way for China to bypass the sanctions and tariffs placed on China by the United States.

This was bound to happen and needed to happen, especially since China has been put the clamps down on Hong Kong.

The question is going to be what will happen as the United States and other countries begin to pull themselves away from China?

https://www.dailywire.com/news/us-declares-hong-kong-no-longer-autonomous-accuses-china-of-violating-treaty-with-uk
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-to-expel-thousands-of-chinese-grad-students-in-u-s-who-have-ties-to-chinese-military-schools

Who’s Side Are These Guys On Anyway?

https://www.dailywire.com/news/f-trump-and-keep-going-teigen-carell-other-celebs-posting-bail-for-rioters
https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-campaign-staffers-donate-to-group-that-pays-bail-in-riot-torn-minneapolis-report-says
https://www.dailywire.com/news/de-blasio-blames-trump-for-riots-saying-president-helped-to-poison-the-atmosphere

Pelosi and Trump are having a spat…again. All because Trump’s doctor gave him an option.

Trump throw a temper tantrum until we find out it was actually Obama who threw the temper tantrum.

Susan Rice’s classified Email is released and the media screams “CONSPIRACY THEORY” again.

And Trump threw the WHO into a stew over the Wuhan flu. Yes, I do like Dr. Seuss.

The Non-Story of the Week

So, Trump made the following admission during his news conference on Tuesday and, for some reason, this was the biggest news of the week. Listen:

So what, you may say? Yeah pretty much. But do you hear the shock of the media?

He’s taking a drug along with zinc and an antibiotic (arith-ma-cy-a-cin – I can’t spell it) that was recommended by his doctor because there were several cases in the White House and several doctors believe that this drug cocktail is good at preventing the disease.

Now, the studies are mixed and there are side effects with the hydroxychloriquin on its own. But the cocktail of zinc and antibiotics relieve those symptoms.

But Dr. Nancy had a comment about it. And let’s say her bedside manner leaves a little bit to be desired. Listen:

Now, obese maybe. But morbidly obese? She can tell that by just looking at him? And when did body shaming become a thing with the Democratic party? Everyone was pointing at the fattest Democrats and calling them morbidly obese. It was kind of funny.

Typical of the media, Trump was asked about this. Here’s his answer:

I thought Trump took the high road in that comment. But I realized he just didn’t know what she had said. On Wednesday, he said she had a mental problem and she responded.

This is such a dumb story. Everyone seems to think that Trump decided to use this drug and started drinking fish bowl cleaner.

No. He has a White House doctor who thought it would help and Trump took it. Story done.

OK, This is the Dumbest Story of the Week

For 40 years, the former president has joined the current president for a portrait unveiling ceremony at the White House.

But it looks like that tradition is kaput in the hyper-partisan political climate of 2020.

MSNBC said:

Trump is unconcerned about shunning yet another presidential custom, and he has attacked Obama to an extent no other president has done to a predecessor. Most recently he’s made unfounded accusations that Obama committed an unspecified crime.

Obama, for his part, has no interest in participating in the post-presidency rite of passage so long as Trump is in office, the people familiar with the matter said.

And here we go with “fake news.”

Trump was going to allow the ceremony. He just wasn’t going to attend. And why should he? Why should Trump honor a President who worked so hard to ruin his fledgling presidency?

It was Obama who cancelled the ceremony. Trump had nothing to do with it.

More lies to make the Bad Orange Man look like the devil and Prince Obama look like a saint.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-interest-obama-wont-join-trump-for-unveiling-of-his-presidential-portrait?%3Futm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwtwitter

Maybe it’s Time to Broach this Subject

https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-threatens-to-withhold-michigan-funding-over-illegal-absentee-ballot-plan

The Conspiracy Theory is Looking a Lot Less Like a Conspiracy

On the day of Trump’s inauguration, Susan Rice, a defense advisor, decided to send an E-mail to herself about a meeting she had with several officials from Obama’s White House. Those people included President Obama, Joe Biden, James Comey and UN ambassador Sally Yates.

The E-mail says the following:,

462178659-01-20-2017-Email-From-Susan-Rice

What do you think when you read something like that? Is it me or does this sound like a “cover your ass” email? Kind of looks like it.

She mentions “by the book” three times. She sent the email to herself, not after the meeting, but two weeks later on the day of the Trump inauguration.

What is missing in this email is kind of important. There’s no mention of informing President Trump about the the investigation of suspicions.

Is it me or is she protecting herself from something? We already knows she lies like a demon after the Benghazi debacle.

I think this “conspiracy theory” is going to require some folks to be called in front of the Senate. Just saying.

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/498593-read-susan-rices-email-discussing-michael-flynn-and-russia

The Gloves Have Been Dropped

This is why I love Trump. He hates globalism. Because globalists bow to the tyrannical in hopes of control when the tyrannical take over.

Nothing screams the failings of globalism like the World Health Organization.

According to the BBC new agency:

“The letter outlines a 30-day deadline for the body to commit to “substantive improvements” or risk losing millions and US membership altogether.”

The letter is written to WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and attacks the failings of the organization since Decemeber.

President Trump called the UN’s health body a “puppet of China”.”

The letter accuses the WHO of having an “alarming lack of independence” from China.

Among his assertions, Mr Trump accuses the agency of having “consistently ignored” what he describes as “credible reports” of the virus spreading in Wuhan at the start of December or even earlier.

Also in the letter, Mr Trump:

• Cites reports that the WHO delayed an emergency declaration under pressure from President Xi Jinping
• Criticises the agency’s praise of China’s “transparency” amid its censorship and lack of international co-operation
• Accuses the WHO of failing to comment on virus-related discrimination against Africans within China
• Says Dr Tedros could have saved “many lives” if he had acted more like Dr Harlem Brundtland, the WHO chief during the Sars outbreak of 2003

President Trump suspended funding for the WHO back in April to the howls of the media. Just in case you forgot, here is the clip from Grabien:

Whatever. The WHO jacked this whole thing up and have cow-towed to China since day 1. They have 30 days to get their crap together which, probably, means replacing Tedros.

And all those Lefties yelling about us leaving the WHO in the middle of a pandemic, I would ask them what the WHO has done to help make this pandemic better? All I see is how mismanaged this whole thing was by the WHO.

It would be one thing if it was mismanaged because of incompetence but this was mismanaged because of the need to bow-the-knee to China. That’s just unacceptable and is not worth $500 million a year.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52718309

Sports is finally coming back. And things are awesome.

There hasn’t been a lot of news today so let’s see how the Left wants to change our way of life.

And Trump drops the hammer on the World Health Organization.

Merica!

Kevin Harvick won The Real Heroes 400 at Darlington Raceway, as NASCAR returned to the track after a 10-week hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. South Carolina.

UFC also took to the mat on a Saturday Fight Night.

What a shock that the most American sport, Nascar, was the first sport to take the track. The stadium was empty but I am sure the rating went through the roof. I hate the left-turn circuit so I didn’t see it.But I’m sure I’m in the minority.

I am a huge fan of the UFC. When I saw it on ESPN, I thought it was a rerun. Nope, it was a live fight. Again, the arena was empty and the match-ups weren’t the best. Heck, even the judges seemed to be a little off (some of the judgments were iffy).

But MMA is like fishing. The worst day of MMA is still better than the best Friends rerun.

Baseball has announced tentative plans to play games in July. Stadiums will be empty. Dugouts will be designed to allow for social distancing. And games will be played in regions (as I’ve said before) to limit traveling.

But the biggest change will be the ban on spitting. That’s right! The one thing baseball is known for is being banned. Well, let’s be honest: it’s an advisory. So we’ll see how that works.

States like New York, California and Texas have announced they are ready to open for sports (with measures). Florida, where the UFC hosted their fight on Saturday, has already opened up to sports.

Once sports begin to open, everything should start opening up and we can start getting back to normal.

https://www.foxnews.com/auto/kevin-harvick-nascars-darlington-speedway
https://www.espn.com/mma/story/_/id/29185583/ufc-dana-white-eyes-arizona-vegas-host-30-card

Be Aware

One of the things that scares me more than anything during this pandemic is not getting sick or dying, it’s the weakness that politicians try to make to make government bigger and increase their power.

One of the great things about today is that even democrats are saying it is time to open up the economy, albeit carefully. Of course, everyone wants the economy opened up carefully. Even those heartless republicans that want to kill grandma.

But, even though we are beginning to open the economy and the tyrants in certain states are now facing court challenges for their suffocating policies, the Left still is proclaiming changes need to be made.

Vox released an article that proclaimed that there are seven changes that need to be made to this country. How these changes are going to prevent a future pandemics. Here’s what they had to say:

Federal Paycheck Guarantee

The idea is a federal paycheck guarantee: As part of it, the federal government would give a direct subsidy to businesses to cover paycheck costs for employees who are furloughed or laid off.

Although these proposals have the potential to significantly reduce unemployment, there are a few reasons they’ve encountered resistance: For one, the cost is likely significant — as much as $600 billion over six months for Jayapal’s proposal — and though the benefits could well outweigh them, this issue has prompted pushback even from Democrats.

One of the more interesting ideas floating around in Congress comes from ideologically dissimilar members; versions have been offered by everyone from progressives like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) to moderate Democrats such as Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Doug Jones (D-AL). Republican Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) has put forth his take as well.

Recurring Stimulus Payments

Congress already authorized sending one-time $1,200 payment stimulus checks to many Americans. But now, some lawmakers are interested in making it more of a recurring effort.

A number of recurring payment plans have been floated so far. In the House, Reps. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Tim Ryan (D-OH) teamed up on a plan that would send $2,000 per month to every qualifying person over the age of 16. Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Jayapal released a similar bill that would put $2,000 monthly recurring payments on debit cards for qualifying Americans during the pandemic, and add $1,000 per month for a year after the pandemic ends.

This is a precursor to a Universal Basic Income.

The problem with this is two fold:

• Encourages unemployment.
• Is a huge burden on the government.

Right now, between unemployment and the “stimulus” checks, the unemployed are making more now  than they were when working. People on furlough do not want to go back to work because of this.

Now, I do believe Universal Basic Income may be a thing soon because technology is going to replace a lot of low paying jobs, I do not think this is a thing right now. The reality is: business want people and not machines, especially in the service industries like food services. But this is becoming uneconomical as the governemnt implements higher minimum wages, expensive regulations and benefit requirements.

Automatic Stablizers

“The significant challenge of getting legislation through Congress could also be reduced by implementing automatic stabilizers, which target relief toward unemployment insurance and other existing federal programs for low-income people.

“Automatic” is the operative word here; automatic stabilizers keep expanded unemployment insurance, food assistance like SNAP, and Medicaid assistance flowing to newly unemployed people who need it as long as America’s economy is weak due to the coronavirus. Rather than benefits being tied to an arbitrary end date on a calendar, as they are now, they would instead be tied to the economic conditions. When the economy improves and job numbers rise, the benefits shut off.

A group of Democrats in the House and Senate, Sens. Bennet and Jack Reed (RI) and Rep. Beyer, have released a plan to do this, ensuring assistance gets to those who need it without Congress having to approve more money.”

This is dangerous. Nothing should be automatic. Everything should be investigated.

We also need to be careful with using the Wuhan Flu as an excuse for a weaker economy. This gives people an excuse for not putting their big-boy pants on and working to be self sufficient.

Nothing should be automatic.

Mortgage and Rent Assistance

The first plan, from Waters, Rep. Denny Heck (WA), and Sen. Brown, creates a $100 billion Emergency Rental Assistance program that would help renters who can’t afford their monthly rent pay it, and also help property managers make repairs to their buildings. The money could be used to help renters with future rent payments or with rent or utility payments that are past due. This idea is included in House Democrats’ latest coronavirus bill.

A separate bill introduced by progressive Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN) and co-sponsored by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) and other members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus would go much further: a nationwide cancellation of rents and mortgages until the coronavirus crisis is over. Omar’s bill would establish a landlord relief fund through the Department of Housing and Urban Development to get financial assistance to residential landlords who would lose money due to canceled rents.

Right now, people are getting more being on furlough than they would be working. They are getting rent assistance. Why do they need more?

The idea of cancelling rents and mortgages is just insane. What do landlords do about their mortgages? This is just another way to have people controlled and dependent on the government.

Emergency Medicade and Medicare Coverage

Universal Healthcare has never gained any traction because of the $50 trillion price tag. But that doesn’t stop the Left from using the Wuhan flu as a reason for giving it new life.

The high cost of coronavirus treatment has become a major problem patients have had to deal with during this pandemic, and it’s an issue that multiple proposals, including one from Reps. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and Gil Cisneros (D-CA), aim to address head-on.

Their bill, the Emergency Medicaid for Coronavirus Treatment Act, would guarantee Medicaid insurance coverage for residents in any state who needed to seek treatment following a Covid-19 diagnosis. Specifically, it enables anyone who has needed this treatment since Trump declared a national emergency earlier this year to obtain Medicaid coverage.

As Vox’s Dylan Scott has written, this bill is significant. Under it, “the federal government would assume responsibility for medical care for every American under these particular circumstances.”

Another bill from Sen. Sanders and Rep. Jayapal, the Health Care Emergency Guarantee Act, would use Medicare to cover medical costs both for uninsured and insured patients during the coronavirus pandemic. Under their plan, Medicare would cover copays and deductibles for those who are insured, and the entirety of health care costs for anyone who’s uninsured.

Medicare for All failed during Comrade Bernie’s campaign, But that does not mean the Left is going to not use a crisis to sneak it in.

Extend expanded unemployment insurance, including to college students and recent graduates

“A major component of the CARES Act is an expansion of unemployment insurance, which, despite many flaws, is directly helping millions of people who have been laid off or furloughed during the pandemic. As part of this expansion, people receiving unemployment insurance get an additional $600 per week, a benefit set to end July 31.

House lawmakers are pushing for an extension of these benefits until the end of next January. Rep. Dan Kildee (D-MI) is also working on making sure more people are covered by these benefits — which were already made more accessible to independent contractors and self-employed people as part of the CARES Act.”

This is a bad idea. It is extending the motivation to remain unemployed. We need people to want to work. Continually giving them money, especially the latest generation getting out of college, is not going to be the way to do it.

Hazard Pay for Essential Workers

I’m up and down on this one.

• I hate the government defining what is and is not an essential worker.
• This bill is not aimed at doctors, nurses and medical staff but aimed at anyone who works. This is just an extension if giving low wage workers money. In other words, it’s raising the minimum wage.
• News people are considered essential workers. Does that mean that Chris Cuomo, who is already rich, gets hazard pay?
• It gives quite a bit of money to these people: $12 extra dollars an hour. It someone is earning minimum wage, that doubles their salary.
• Who’s going to pay for this? If businesses that remain open and are expected to pay for some or all of this, people will be laid off.
• I’m a little afraid of what the end goal of this. I do not trust politicians during a crisis. My guess is to raise the minimum wage.

What is wrong with all these ideas? They are encouraging dependence on the federal government.

Remember: nothing is free.

When one depends on the government for something, he/she gives up a freedom or strips a freedom from someone else.

Remember: Nothing is free.

Adolph Hitler said that freedom cannot be stripped all at once. It must be stripped a bit at a time. By the time people realize it, it will be too late.

Remember: Nothing is free.

Nikita Khrushchev said that a communist revolution does happen with war. It happens from within.

Remember: Nothing is free.

To say we should wake up is an understatement.

https://www.vox.com/2020/5/18/21246421/congress-stimulus-ideas

I used to love bowling. I would go help my grandfather tend to his apartment building and he, in appreciation, would take me bowling.

I remember, one day, a black kid stole my grandfather’s wallet. We chased him but he got away.

I guess white people are in danger every time they go bowling. At least that’s the logic the New York Times is using.

The Space Force Rises

You might be wondering where my awesome introductory song went. Well, today is special.

President Trump unveiled the military flag for the Space Force. The Space Force will be a subsidiary of the Air Force much as the Marines are a subsidiary of the Navy.

Trump said:

“Space is going to be the future, both in terms of defense and offense and so many other things. And already, from what I’m hearing and based on reports, we’re now the leader in space.”

The flag is dark blue with a delta wing, an elliptical orbit and three large stars that are intended to symbolize the Space Force’s purpose of organizing, training and equipping, according to the White House. It is the first new military flag to be unveiled in 72 years.

During Friday’s presentation of the flag, Trump alluded to the development of a new U.S. military asset.

“We have, I call it the super-duper missile,” Trump said, explaining that it could travel “17 times faster than what they have right now.”

He is probably talking about a hyper sonic missile. We have a ton of other military weapons that were mainly designed to be in space including anti-missile defense systems, lasers for offense and defense and a rail gun system that use electromagnetic energy to launch a projectile. The projectile can be standard ammunition or a casingless projectile such as plasma (which they are also testing).

This is the future. Time for us to grasp it.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/498021-trump-administration-unveils-space-force-flag

Here We Go

There is an opinion piece in the New York Times that is disgusting.

Born in lily-white Oregon, it’s a sport that’s long claimed to be for everyone — even as African-American joggers have been persistently subjected to harassment and worse. – Banner

“Free! Easy! Relaxing! That’s how jogging was marketed in the late 1960s, when the idea of heading out on a regular run was unfamiliar to most Americans. Unlike other physical fitness programs that required heavy, expensive gear, jogging was accessible to all, boosters claimed.

But history shows how untrue that is, and how long the sport of running has maintained this fiction.”

Running has been around for… forever. I can already see where this gal is going.

“When video surfaced of the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, the young black jogger gunned down in South Georgia, distance runners became a new voice among the usual chorus of social justice activists who grimly parse such tragedies. But among runners, reactions largely differed by one important factor: race.

Black runners recounted their own routines, intended to deflect the sort of suspicions that turned deadly for Mr. Arbery: steering clear of certain neighborhoods, going out only in daylight, wearing an Ivy League sweatshirt to broadcast respectability. Many white runners, by contrast, were aghast that the sense of peace they feel when hitting the open road reflected their racial privilege.”

Here’s a news flash: white people have to do that too when running. You know why? Because there is crime and there are jerks out there.

Now I want to point out: this article already assumes a lot. It assumes the guys which killed Arbery are racists and that’s the only reason they attacked him. It also assumes they killed him only because he was black. Reality is, though the video is ugly, we really don’t know why Arbery was targeted.

These guys could have been racists, they could have suspected Arbery of something, they could just be dumb murders. We don’t know. And the assumption here is dangerous.

“This disparity should come as no surprise: Running has been a pastime marketed primarily to white people ever since “the jogging craze” was born in the lily-white Oregon track and field world of the late 1960s. Black people have not only been excluded from the sport — one survey by Running USA found under 10 percent of frequent runners identify as African-American — they’ve also been relentlessly depicted as a threat to legitimate, white joggers.

The most apparently egalitarian exercise of all, running, is anything but — especially when it comes to race.”

She’s already invalidated her argument.

Running did not start in Oregon and it isn’t a United States sport. People have been running for thousands of years. Subsistence running still happens in Africa and South America. Africa has the best middle and long distance runner in the world.

And this isn’t recent in the United States either. Jessie Owens is black and he won the gold medal in the Olympics in 1936.

I also doubt she ever ran a marathon. Or at least she didn’t pay attention to the people around her. Road races are the most diverse events available. Any race, any age, any body type, any gender can be found. I have had running partners of all ages, races and genders. Why doesn’t she complain about basketball, which is mostly African American, or soccer, which is mostly Latin.

“Let’s start at the beginning, which is 1967: That’s the year a University of Oregon track coach named Bill Bowerman, together with cardiologist Waldo Harris, published a slim volume titled “Jogging,” which became a best seller.

Most Americans then thought of exercise as weight lifting or military-style calisthenics, but the book made a radical proposition: that a “steady, easy-paced run, alternating with breath-catching periods of walking,” was a suitable exercise for everyone, ages 7 to 70. Best of all, this simple activity required “no special skills,” no ”expensive clothing,” and no “health club membership.” All you needed, these running apostles promised, were rubber-soled shoes, a commitment to your health, and the will to head outdoors a few times a week.

Celebrity endorsements and new scientific research on “aerobics” made jogging a craze that spread far beyond the “jogging capital of the United States”: 99 percent white Eugene, Ore.”

There’s your history. Anything about race there?

“Yet the new national pastime never delivered on its promises of universalism. Women complained of being harassed by male passers-by. And at a time when a white middle class exodus to the suburbs had sapped big cities of a vital tax base, many black Americans who lived in these cities could not safely “just go outside” to jog in parks or on the street.””

This is soooo dumb.

• I’ve read a lot of running books. Probably over a hundred. None of them talked about universalism. You know what they talked about? Running. Same as what these guys did in the 60’s in Oregon.
• What does sexual harassment have to do with running? Also, you believe the sexual harassers were always white? Are you kidding me? A jerk is a jerk.
• Her last line blows her argument out of the water. If all the white people are leaving the urban areas because they are racists and don’t want to be around black people and black people are still getting attacked, who’s attacking them? Could it be other black people? Is that racism? Probably not. It’s probably just crime.

“Marketing and media didn’t help: From the cover of People magazine to ads for Nike, which Bill Bowerman co-founded, the joggers were almost uniformly depicted as white. Black Americans pushed back, eager to embrace an activity that would combat the heart disease prevalent in their communities. The black press recommended jogging as a free antidote to “the sedentary trap,” and in Ebony, one full-page color ad for a phone company featured a smiling middle-age couple playfully competing over their five-mile pace. Some took on the stereotype of the white jogger head on: in 1979, a headline in Jet magazine proclaimed, “Jogging Not Harmful to Black Women; It’s Dangerous to White Women, Says Expert.””

I think “marketing” and “virtue signalling” have gotten confused in this day and age.

Marketing is when a certain image runs parallel to a company’s product. An example of marketing is the Lincoln commercials. Matthew McConaughey is shown driving to a party in his Lincoln SUV. He’s blond, handsome, good body (don’t make anything from that), rich, popular and wise. He has an internal dialog about the wonders of the universe.

That’s marketing. Women want McConaughey and men want to be McConaughey. Getting a Lincoln is the easiest way to become or be with Matthew McConaughey.

Virtue-signaling is when a company tries to align itself with some politically correct issue. Benetton,  The Gap, Nike and Levi’s are notorious for virtue-signaling (which is why I don’t patronize those businesses).

This is what this gal is complaining about with Nike. Bowerman didn’t follow the need to worry about political correctness. He wanted to sell shoes. So he put on the most attractive people he could find and they happen to be white. I’m sure he didn’t put any fat people in his ads either.

Here’s the problem: Companies are trying to make money. They need to attract people. Would Nike really sell more shoes with a 400 pound transgender mail African American?

And one more thing, isn’t what Jet magazine racist? She refers to that horrible statement as “taking it head on.” What if People Magazine said that, “studies show jogging is healthy for white women and dangerous for black women?” Would that be considered racist?

“Black track athletes, by contrast, were familiar and even celebrated in the United States. But to some white Americans, cheering on an Olympic athlete on television was entirely different from embracing black participation in an activity that took place on the streets of their neighborhood. By the 1980s, jogging had become known as a “yuppie” affectation, like eating croissants, owning a fancy juicer, and working on Wall Street.”

The first paragraph basically is breaking jogging up into the category of the one-percenter. And where is her proof? I lived in Santa Monica and ran along Ocean Blvd and San Vicente Blvd. This was the hot spot to run because of the great paths around the busy streets. There was not race issue. White, black, Hispanic and Asian all ran together. And the neighborhood was white.

My coach was black. He drove an old VW Bug where my family was very well off. I was from a white, Catholic, private school. But the school still hired me. He had no trouble yelling at me when I put in a poor performance or was screwing off.

Does that sound like class

“Blacks were constantly defined in contrast to this “legitimate” white jogger. The consequences could be fatal: In 1980, a white supremacist trying to make a point about the danger of “race mixing” fatally shot two black men jogging with two white women in Salt Lake City.”

I was waiting for this. This is where the exception does not prove (or in this case, create) the rule. I can find bad behavior everywhere. What about the Wilding incident in New York’s Central Park where a group of black kids beat and raped a white woman while she was jogging back in the 80s? Does this proves that jogging is racist against white people?

Of course not. Because it is an exception. They weren’t attacking her because she was jogging or even because she was white. Same with the writer’s statement. The white supremacist did not do his dastardly deed because the black guy was jogging. He did it because he was black. It doesn’t matter what he was doing.

“The African-American periodical The Crisis wrote in 1985 of how blacks were viewed by white runners: “the homeless and downtrodden are most times a ‘disgusting’ irritation to the jogging, orange-juice drinking yuppie who must step over or past them on his or her way to the office.” Nothing solidified this notion of the black threat to white joggers as viscerally as the case of the “Central Park jogger,” when five men of color were wrongfully convicted of raping and attempting to murder a white runner.”

How can we question the intentions of such a non-partisan African American periodical called The Crisis. Does it sound like they are looking for anything racist?

And who did they interview to get that “white” opinion about black joggers? They didn’t ask me or anyone I have been running with for the last 35 years.

Finally, this gal invalidated her article saying that the Wilding incident was a “wrongful conviction.” Those kids did it. They admitted it. They described the incident in great detail. They got off because race was a big thing back then and the prosecutor did some things that might, and I emphasize might, have been unethical. The prosecutor, to this day, says she has done nothing wrong, those kids were guilty and they got off because of politics.

“This racist presumption proved durable: In 1994, when a black jogger foiled a rape attempt in Central Park, the survivor celebrated him as a “black Superman.” But the police and the press minimized him as a mere “do-gooder” and didn’t publish his race, a damning oversight given the rabid coverage of black male perpetrators.

Six years later, when police officers pulled a gun on the Rev. Sheldon Stoudemire while he was running through his Pittsburgh neighborhood with a tape recorder they mistook for a firearm, he lamented, “One wrong move and here we’ve got another dead black man on the street.”

But the most enduring legacy of the racialized experience of recreational running is the surveillance and suspicion to which black people have long been subjected. “If you’re driving, walking, or — God forbid — running (jogging), and you simply look like an African-American, you are subject to a stop-and-search,” reflected The Michigan Chronicle in 1997.”

Again, this minimizes the celebration of black accomplishment (the breaking up of a rape by a black man) which was celebrated. It compares it to nothing.

And let’s look at her examples of white people killing black joggers: one from 1980s by a real white supremacist and something bad that happened (not a killing) by a dumb cop in the 1990s. These do not prove anything. These are exceptions. A real reporter is not going to make a blanket statement over a news article and a couple of horrid events (though one really doesn’t mean anything).

“American distance running is still stubbornly white. The United States is only for the first time sending black female marathoners to the Olympics in 2021, while the competitive amateur and recreational levels of the sport remain overwhelmingly white.

Mr. Arbery’s death and the ensuing outcry is in some ways the latest data point in the sick mash-up of structural racism, gun violence and vigilantism that’s become a hallmark of American life. But it’s also an example of the glaring whiteness of recreational running — a hobby that 47 million Americans embrace in part because of its enticing illusion of universalism, but that has never been, and still is far from, an equal-opportunity endeavor.”

So, let me debunk this entire article with ten lines:

• 2009	Meb Keflezighi	United States	2:09:15
  2010	Gebregziabher Gebremariam	Ethiopia	2:08:14
  2011	Geoffrey Mutai	Kenya	2:05:06	Current course record
  2012	Canceled due to Hurricane Sandy
  2013	Geoffrey Mutai	Kenya	2:08:24	Second victory
  2014	Wilson Kipsang	Kenya	2:10:59
  2015	Stanley Biwott	Kenya	2:10:34
  2016	Ghirmay Ghebreslassie	Eritrea	2:07:51
  2017	Geoffrey Kamworor	Kenya	2:10:53
  2018	Lelisa Desisa	Ethiopia	2:05:59
  2019	Geoffrey Kamworor

All of these guys were the winners of the New York marathon in the last ten years. All are black and one is an American (Meb Keflezighi). I could go further back and the race does not change. I could also list hundreds of black, American runners. Heck, I can introduce to you many because I run with them.

Let’s not forget Michael Johnson, Carl Lewis, Justin Gatlin, Maurice Greene, Jesse Owens, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Tyson Gay, Tommie Smith, Edwin Moses and Donovan Baily, just to name a few. I have run with some of these people in Santa Monica (Carl Lewis and Edwin Moses). They didn’t seem scared or worried about race.

The running community does not care about race, creed, gender and religion. We do not care what language you speak, what you wear or what you practice. During a race, I have worns shorts, sweats, tights and a kilt. I have seen people run naked (ouch for the men). We belch, fart, dribble food and water on out clothes, vomit and sometime pee and poop on ourselves. We don’t care! We are runners!

This article is what it proclaims to fight against: racist. I know it is unpopular to say that racism can go against the white race but it can and does. Even if the racism is coming from an elitist, white woman (Natalia Mehlman Petrzela has a Ph. D. is political history and culture and has worked with Left wing outlets like Slate and HuffPo). The New York Times really needed to edit this trash a little more.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/ny-times-opinion-piece-reacts-to-arbery-case-jogging-has-always-excluded-black-people