Month: June 2020

In a state of nature, it’s all against all, bloody in tooth and claw.  Governments are formed to protect their citizens from foreign threats, and from each other.  When governments fail in this duty, people resort to self-help, also known as vigilantism.  It’s no way for a civilized people to live.

We’ve seen it already, in New York City, with Italian-Americans, and in Chicago, with Latino Americans.  Defund the police and you’ll see it in Minneapolis, or wherever it’s tried.  People will defend their property, and their families, with force if necessary.

The American people are well armed, and many are proficient in the use of firearms.  We have a 2nd Amendment to the Constitution to provide our citizens with the means of self-defense.  And defend themselves they will.  Defund the police and people will take things in their own hands.

It’s astonishing to see what one would think are halfway intelligent people spout this nonsense.  They apparently have not thought of the real world consequences.  Or maybe they have, or one of them , at least.

I’m talking about George Soros, a sick and twisted man, the dedicated opponent of all American institutions,.  He is sometimes misidentified as a Jew.  He’s no more of a Jew than Benedict Arnold was an American.  As a young man in Hungary under German occupation in World War II, he collaborated with the Nazis, and betrayed his own people, to save his own skin.  Perhaps it’s a sense of self-loathing that leads him to hate our country, which liberated Europe, and saved the Jews who had survived.

But getting inside the head of George Soros would require the skills of a trained psychiatrist, and I’m not one of those. I just know it’s a dark and evil place.  He has no recognizable political philosophy.  It’s tempting to call him a nihilist, but that’s not quite accurate, since he does have one core belief:  hatred of the United States, and all it stands for.

To a man like George Soros, defund the police sounds like a great idea.  And his money is certainly behind much of the recent civil unrest in this country.  Here’s some evidence of his ties to Antifa.  I expect the Department of Justice is gathering more.  George Soros needs to face justice for his crimes against this country.

In the part of the country I live, rather than defund the police, we support our local sheriff.  And there are a lot of us.  Every time some Democrat talks about defunding the police, Trump’s chances of reelection go up a notch.

[Intoday’s American Thinker]

 

 

Joe Biden may be getting senile, but like all old pols he’s cunning.  He doesn’t want the call from Obama, the one telling him he’s got to step down.  The one replacement who works best is CA Gov. Gavin Newsom, a fresh, vigorous face, with none of Sleepy Joe’s baggage (or Cuomo’s) and the ability to excite the donors and the base.

If Harris is the VP pick, then she would have to go, along with Biden, if Newsom is the new pick for President.  Harris and Newsom are both from CA, and the Constitution prohibits such a ticket.  Harris will not want to go.  She’ll be the presumptive pick for Pres. in 2024 if she stays, and that’s what she really wants.

So Joe picks Harris, and she protects him from Newsom.

Could be.  Who knows?

He doesn’t want his name made public, he doesn’t want to be a hero.  But a full blood sheep dog In Ben Lomond saved lives a couple days ago.

This is the story.  Babbie and I have family and friends in this area, and we know it well.  We thought of moving there when we left Alaska 20 years ago.  You never know about people.  This is one of the most liberal parts of California.  But there are sheepdogs everywhere in this country, I guess.

If they succeed in defunding the police, there better be a whole lot of sheepdogs around.

Things don’t look too promising for President Trump’s reelection.  He’s down by eight points in the RCP poll average (41.6 to 49.6), 538.com has his approval rating at 41.3, and the betting odds have his chances at 45%, vs. Biden’s 50%.  Unemployment is somewhere between 13% and 16%, the Covid-19 pandemic remains a deadly threat, rioting has destroyed significant sections of urban America, and outrage over the death of George Floyd continues unabated.

This is all actually good news for Trump.  The only real threat to his reelection is from an articulate, young Democratic politician of substance and accomplishment taking Biden’s place at the head of the ticket.  Someone like California Governor Gavin Newsom.  If Biden is forced out, and replaced by someone like Newsom, Trump might have something to worry about.

Not so with Sleepy Joe Biden.  Early stage Alzheimer’s, or some other variation of senility, eliminates him as a serious presidential candidate.  He not only can’t hold his own in a debate, he can barely deliver a coherent speech from a prepared script.  His penchant for gaffes, inappropriate behavior with young girls and women, and short, nasty temper are all flaws that predate his mental decline.  He’s a walking disaster of a candidate.

His record in public office is abominable.  He’s been flat wrong on every major foreign policy debate in the last 30 years, was the champion of the predatory credit card companies headquartered in his home state of Delaware, and was an architect of the 1994 Crime Bill which black voters despise.

He and his family have grown rich at the public trough, using his political status to get money for the family out of corrupt deals in China and the Ukraine.  China has clearly emerged as our principal geopolitical foe, and his record on Sino-American relations is appalling.

‘But he’s leading in all the polls!’, his apologists cry, and how can you remove a duly nominated presidential candidate who seems to be on the road to victory?  You can’t, and that means Donald Trump will have the opportunity, once the campaign begins in earnest, to destroy Joe Biden.  This is the kind of politics Trump excels at, and it won’t be for the faint of heart.

There are, of course, any number of other factors that will help with Trump’s reelection.  He had some things going for him in 2016 as well, but the real reason he won was that Hillary Clinton was actually more disliked than he was.

In the 2020 election people won’t dislike Biden.  They’ll pity him, which is even worse.

[This is in today’s American Thinker]

 

(This appears in today’s American Thinker)

Not everyone in law enforcement is a good guy.  There are rogue cops, as every American now surely knows.  There are also rogue DA’s, rogue judges and rogue federal agents.  And sad to say we have to include lawless Attorneys General of the United States, lawless heads of the FBI, and traitorous CIA directors.  George Floyd died at the hands of a bad Minneapolis cop.  David Koresh and 75 Branch Davidians died at Waco in 1993 at the hands of the FBI and ATF.

The plot against Donald Trump is not horrific in the way brutal killings like George Floyd and Waco are.  In those cases, individual Americans were the victims.  In the plot to take down Trump we were all victims, because they were attacking the Constitution of the United States.

Justice will come to the killer of George Floyd, but the macho boys of the FBI and ATF never paid a price for Waco.  Are these agencies absolutely necessary?  Aren’t there ways to shift their assets to other parts of the federal government?  All the FBI really amounts to is investigators working for the Attorney General.  But with the arrival of the contemptible J. Edgar Hoover in 1924 the empire building began, and the FBI is now an institution in itself.

FBI heads seem to think they’re something special, and are independent of the President through whom they derive their only authority.  This confused, messianic thinking results in books like “A Higher Authority.” by James Comey.  Higher than what, the Constitution?  Higher than the duly elected President?

For his crimes against the law and the Constitution, James Comey should go to jail. He belongs there, right along with the killers of George Floyd and the Branch Davidians.