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JULY 18,  2021

SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT:

NOTHING TO SEE, NOTHING TO SEE – FROM FOX:   At least seven people were killed and 48 others were injured in shootings across Chicago this weekend, according to reports.  On Saturday night, six people were shot outside a party in Austin, including four teenagers and a 12-year-old girl. They were standing with a group on the sidewalk when someone in an SUV opened fire, police said.  Five of the victims were females between the ages of 12 to 19. They were hospitalized in fair condition, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.   Anyone interested?  We're told that black lives matter, but, apparently, the only black lives that matter are those that enhance the image of some inner-city politician.

A SMALL STEP FORWARD – FROM FOX:   An official with the Virginia Parent-Teacher Association resigned after she was recorded on camera saying opponents of critical race theory can "die."  "Today, the Virginia PTA executive committee requested and received the resignation of Michelle Leete, who served as Vice President of Training," a Saturday statement from the association reads.  "The actions & rhetoric of Ms. Leete & all of the like-minded partisan supporters of the SB are deeply disappointing. It evinces a deep lack of concern for children & parents, particularly where the wellbeing of children & families clash with political considerations," a tweet accompanying the statement reads.  The resignation comes after Leete was recorded at a rally Thursday denouncing opponents of critical race theory and saying, "Let them die."  The real question is how nutcases like this are hired in the first place.

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CREEP OF THE YEAR – OVERNIGHT:  The truth about some of this country's left-wing stars is starting to come out.  And it is vile.  The question is whether the major media will even care.  From Fox: 

1619 Project writer

0Hannah-Jones said in a podcast that she believes Cuba is the most equal country in the Western hemisphere and could serve as a model for its integration agenda.

In a 2019 podcast with Ezra Klein of Vox and The New York Times, Hannah-Jones was asked whether there were candidates or places that she thought had a "viable and sufficiently ambitious integration agenda."

Hannah-Jones responded that while she is not an expert on race relations internationally, she believed the most "equal" and "multiracial" country in the Western hemisphere is Cuba, which she attributed to socialism.

"The most equal multi-racial country in our hemisphere, it would be Cuba," Hannah-Jones said, as reported by the publication. "Cuba has the least inequality between Black and white people anyplace really in the hemisphere. I mean, the Caribbean, most of the Caribbean it's hard to count because the White population in a lot of those countries is very, very small. A lot of those countries are run by Black folks. But in places that are truly at least biracial countries, Cuba actually has the least inequality. And that's largely due to socialism—which I'm sure no one wants to hear."

As reported by The National Pulse, Hannah-Jones also wrote an op-ed published by The Oregonian that was posted in 2008, in which she noted that there are many overlooked accomplishments in the country, including a very high literacy rate, a low HIV infection rate and a "model" universal health care system.

In the article, she also wrote that the Cuban revolution led to the "end of codified racism" and brought about universal education and access to jobs for Black Cubans.

COMMENT:  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has spouted much the same line this week, as has Missouri firebrand, Representative Cori Bush.  They are exposing themselves to the public as the Marxists that they are, and it's about time our "free press" started using that term to apply to them. 

Hannah-Jones uses a typical Marxist technique when she displays an honor roll of achievements of the Cuban regime.  Kind of like the old World War II-era slogan that Mussolini made the trains run on time.  Hannah-Jones is apparently indifferent to the fact that there are no real freedoms in Cuba and that the socialist economy is a failure.  But I guess the socialists will just tell us to move on.

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JULY 17,  2021

SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT: 

CHINA THREATENS AGAIN – FROM FRONTPAGEMAG.COM:  The Chinese are warning about an impending nuclear war if the United States does not cease its investigation into the origins of the COVID pandemic. They warn that the Americans must call off its probe into the sources of the disease, prompting many American analysts to conclude that the leaders in Beijing fear discovery of the truth: that they -- the Chinese Communists -- are the source of the pandemic.  The Chinese Communists have long experimented with bioweapons, and have apparently continued the nasty habit, both recruiting Western scientists and putting them to work on Chinese projects, and smuggling Westerners into projects within China itself. One of the world's top China experts, British citizen Roger Garside, foresees a mounting crisis, since Beijing will have to confront a triple whammy: a financial crisis, a moral vacuum, and widespread corruption. In an interview he gave recently about his new book, Garside summarized the situation grimly: China is outwardly strong but inwardly weak.  An angry country like China, that fears internal instability, might well strike out at an adversary like the United States simply to advance morale and unity, especially if we are seen as weak and rudderless.

THE BUSYBODIES ARE AT IT, AS USUAL – FROM BIZPACREVIEW.COM:   An online left-wing magazine in Canada is calling for the sale of pickup trucks to be banned unless the purchaser can prove that they really need one in their lives, and this has Americans worried that the United States could be next.  In a piece published this week, Passage magazine managing editor Davide Mastracci argued that the long-term goal is to “shift away from relying on private vehicles entirely,” but that for now, he’d like to start with the iconic, American-created pickup truck. Why? Because of the alleged threat posed by climate change.
“[D]rastically cutting emissions from the transportation sector is of the utmost importance for a successful climate strategy. One way to help do so is to ban the sale of pickup trucks to all consumers unless they’re able to meet strict requirements to prove it will be used primarily for work purposes,” he wrote.  Could this really happen, though? The truth is it already is, to an extent. The Canadian government has already declared that new gas- and diesel-engine cars, as well as light trucks, are to be entirely banned by 2035, according to Autoweek. Control, control, control.  I doubt that this has anything to do with "climate change."  More likely, the left simply wants to control the way we live, ratifying their sense of their own superiority.

July 17,   2021       Permalink

THE KAMIKAZES OF THE LEFT – OVERNIGHT:  You have to hand it to the far leftists.  They really are true believers.  Nothing, including facts, public opinion, or history, deters them.  The Japanese Navy would have wanted them in World War II.  From the New York Post: 

It’s their hill to defund on.

Progressive Democrats are irked by talk from President Biden and national Democrats looking to move the party away from the anti-police rhetoric of 2020.

“Since the last election the moderates have been moving away from it,” state Sen. Jabari Brisport told The Post. Brisport — a socialist — warned that embracing cops would bring consequences from his perennially restive comrades.

“I think hiring more cops after we just saw the largest protest our nation has ever seen against police violence is extremely tone deaf and does not build the base and will probably hurt us in the 2022 elections,” Brisport said.

During a summer of violence in 2020, defund the police became a battle cry for Democrats from coast to coast. In New York, the City Council passed a budget slashing a billion dollars from the NYPD. Its undercover anti-crime unit was disbanded. Lefty Minneapolis lawmakers moved to completely defund their department and (promptly backed down in the wake of a crime surge).

The Biden administration has asked states to invest COVID-19 relief funds into hiring more more police officers.

Biden has always personally expressed his reservation with defunding the police and in recent days his White House has moved aggressively to get the idea dead and buried before the 2022 midterms.

“It’s not a winning issue and Democrats are by and large not going to campaign on it,” a House Democratic insider told The Post. “There’s what the activists want us to do and what we’re actually doing and we’re going to run campaigns based on what we’re actually doing.”

COMMENT:   Possibly the most unpopular slogan in America today is "defund the police."  While moderate Dems may try to get away from it, the GOP will remind Americans, day after day, that it's been a Democratic Party position because of pressure from the far left.  The Democrats have the denials ready, the Republicans have the quotes. 

The "defund" cause will probably be a big issue in Democratic primary races, pitting the moderate wing against the zanies.  Don't try to predict who'll win. 

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